Hello Everybody! Btr100 over here with the 23th chapter of my story, Ben 10: The Faction Returns...

This is Jake's second idea that he gave to me through PM. After this, it's PROBABLY going to be serious all over again...hmm...let's see...

Peace!-Btr100


"Really? I mean, really!?" Ben grumbled as he pushed his shopping cart after taking out a can of beans and putting it in the cart. He then proceeded to the fast food section where he collected a lot of food and putted it in the shopping cart.

"Great! For this day, I have to do the weekly grocery shopping for them and I also have to do the dishes tonight!" Ben grumbled as he took out one last bag of chips from the shelf and put it on his shopping bag. He then grabbed the shopping list from his pocket, before crossing out beans and chips from the list.

"Hmmm...let's see...Well that's about everything. Luckily Starfire didn't ask for zorka berries, since I have to go all the way to Tamaran and I'm believing that it's not going to be a grand welcome entrance." Ben said as he made his way to the counter.

After paying a whole bunch of money, he grabbed his shopping bags and walked out the grocery store. He grumbled all the way as he walked all the way to his newly made car and put the bags in the trunk.

(A/N: Ben's new car looks similar to the T-Car and his car combined, with the wheel having a T symbol on it and an Omnitrix symbol in the middle, signifying the membership of Ben to the Teen Titans. Once again, he made it using Jury Rigg, Grey Matter, Frankenstrike and Brainstorm)

As Ben got inside the car, a man was spying on them, on top of a building.

Not just one dude, but five guys were spying on Ben, watching as he got into the car. The group consists of a teenager resembling Batman due to his clothes, a teenager wearing a red one-piece unitard with a division symbol on the middle and black eye masks, a boy with a green helmet and one eye and a white and green suit. There's also a large, hulking man who seems to have a size comparable to Four Arms and a short, bald little boy with green goggles.

"Hey! There's that new recruit of the Teen Titans!" the short boy said.

"Where's the part with the smashing?" the large man asked, pounding his fists together.

"Okay Mammoth. Since you're so excited on the part with the smashing, how about you go be the first to crush that foul-smelling dirt ball!?" the short, bald kid said. Mammoth only smirked and he pounded his fists again.

"Okay Gizmo! Mammoth's gonna make this one a heavy one!" he shouted, before jumping out of their hiding place and landing straight in front of Ben's car, causing the car to go backwards and Ben to jump out of his seat, clearly surprised, he then went out of the car in anger.

"Hey! What do you want!?" Ben shouted.

"Mammoth's gonna make you extinct!" Mammoth shouted, before slamming both of his fists into the ground, creating a shockwave which sent Ben and his car car was sent toppling all over the parking lot, while Ben was sent flying into another car. Luckily, he managed to survive the blow and he looked at Mammoth in anger.

"Mammoth huh? Well in this case, it's Mammoth versus:" Ben said, before slapping the Omnitrix symbol, covering his body in green light, and his body form changing, altering his DNA and transforming him into:

"Humungousaur!" Humungousaur shouted, before both the Vaxasaurian and Mammoth charged towards each other, before Mammoth punched Humungousaur, but Humungousaur easily took it and punched Mammoth in the face twice, before grabbing him by the arms and throwing him over his head, sending him flying towards a lamp post.

As Mammoth stood up, he grew angrier and he charged at Humungousaur again, but Humungousaur grabbed his left arm, and he smirked, obviously seeing Mammoth's disadvantage in terms of both brawn and brains.

"You know, in fighting, there's more than just brawns." Humungousaur said as he caught Mammoth's right arm.

"And that's called brains." he said, before he spun him around like a Merry Go Round before throwing him at the sky, and Mammoth was then plummeting down a couple of feet in the air, before crashing down the ground hard, sending rocks, dust and smoke flying. Humungousaur then ran over the scene, just as the smoke was about to clear.

When the smoke cleared, Mammoth was in a deep crater, half unconscious. When he was about to stand up again, Humungousaur stopped him by putting his large feet on top of his face, preventing him from moving.

"Had enough!?" Humungousaur asked, as he sunk his foot into his face even deeper.

"Woah. That guy is good." the one eyed teenager said.

"Maybe when he is fighting one to one. But when he is fighting a team, he isn't. HIVE Five! Move Out!" Gizmo shouted, and all of them jumped into action, with Kid Wykkyd covering himself with his cape and teleporting into the action.

When Humungousaur sunk his foot in Mammoth's face even deeper, several missiles hit him and caused an explosion, before being hit by a large laser blast which sent him backwards, before being attacked by hundreds of Billy Numerous which climbed all over him and caused him to fall down.

"Hey...get off me!" Humungousaur shouted, as he easily shook off all of the Billy Numerous, all of the clones shouting random words that I don't even wanna write here because I'm too lazy. (Okay fine.)

"AHH! HELP!"
"GOODBYE WORLD! I LOVED YOU!"
"I STILL HAVEN'T STOLE A MUSEUM WITH MY FRIENDS YET!"
said each clone as they were sent flying into cars, lamp post or were just sent skidding or tumbling into the streets.

"Hey! You big guy! You may have outsized us, but your outnumbered! What'ya think about that huh?" the main Billy taunted as Humungousaur looked at his left and right, the HIVE Five in front of him and thousands of Billy Numerous surrounding him, greatly outnumbering him.

"You may have defeated me in numbers. But I can defeat you in terms of matches!" Humungousaur said, before slamming both of his fists into the ground as hard as he could, creating a strong and large shockwave, which sent the members of the HIVE Five and all of the Billy Numerous clones to be sent flying.

"Woah, are ya good!" a Billy Numerous said as he got up, rubbing his head.

"Doesn't matter if he's good! HIVE Five! Take him out!" Gizmo shouted, and all of them started to charge towards Humungousaur, with the large Vaxasaurian moving backwards, trying to get far away, but he already knew it was no use.

Gizmo then quickly built large missile launchers on both of his shoulders and hands, before firing all of the missiles, all of them managing to hit Humungousaur easily because of his large size and he was sent stumbling backwards, but despite that, he felt minimal to no pain at all. His skin is used to missile exposures.

"Hard skin genius boy!" Humungousaur said, before slamming his fists into the ground, creating a rock slide which managed to hit Gizmo and sent him flying, but his harness built mechanical bat-like wings to keep his balance in the air.

Humungousaur then slammed his fists into the ground again, this time, even harder, sending a large wave of rock flying at all directions, which sent Mammoth and all of the Billy Numerous flying and forcing Seemore to fly away, using his eye as a giant eye balloon with Kid Wykkyd teleporting away.

All of the Billy Numerous then charged at Humungousaur, but Humungousaur, with unexpected agility, jumped high in the air, before his body glowed green once again while in mid-air, changing his body form and transforming him into:

"Swampfire!" the Methanosian shouted, before firing a stream of flames into the ground, creating a wall of flames between the part of the HIVE Five and the part of an empty parking lot. He then landed on the empty parking lot side, looking at the large wall of flames he made.

He then looked at his side, to see Kid Wykkyd unexpectedly standing there and in surprise, he screamed.

"AAAAHH! Where did you come from?" Swampfire asked, before he soon found himself dodging Kid Wykkyd's cape blows, the teleporting mystery being too fast to counter, but soon later, Kid Wykkyd managed to hit Swampfire's arm and managed to cut it off.

"Ow! Meh, whatever. I'm used to this kind of stuff." Swampfire merely said as he regenerated his arm and he fired a stream of flames at the teleporting mystery, but once again, he quickly disappeared.

"Really?" Swampfire asked, before a laser blast managed to hit him from behind, but it just went right through his plant-like body. Swampfire then turned around to see Seemore, his eye turned into a laser. The one-eyed man then fired his laser again, but it had the same effect: merely going right through Swampfire's plant body.

"Seriously?" Swampfire said, before transforming himself into:

"Eye Guy! Can do way better than that!" the Opticoid shouted.

"Well! Can he fire large lasers like this!?" Seemore shouted, before firing a large laser blast from his eye, while Eye Guy closed all of his eyes and his chest eye appeared, before firing a giant green laser blast from his center eye. Both lasers then collided, but Eye Guy's laser easily overpowered Seemore's and he was hit, quickly knocking him out.

"There! Did you SEE what I did there?" Eye Guy said, before his shoulder eyes looked to see Gizmo firing lasers at him. Eye Guy quickly dodged all of them, and behind him, he saw Kid Wykkyd once again. The mystery then attempted to strike him, but Eye Guy managed to dodge and quickly followed with a punch to the face, knocking the mysterious teleporter out.

"Dude! I have eyes in my back!" Eye Guy said, before looking to see the fire extinguished by Gizmo and all of the Billy Numerous clones and Mammoth were charging towards him, Gizmo leading with multiple missile launchers on his shoulders.

Eye Guy then charged up a fire blast, before firing a large, green fireball which then exploded and sent all of the Numerous clones, Gizmo and Mammoth flying everywhere, with smoke, dust and dirt bellowing in the air. Eye Guy then transformed himself into:

"XLR8!" the Kinecelerean shouted, before running quickly towards the Titans Tower.

Soon after, it was revealed that Gizmo, Mammoth and Billy along with his clones all managed to survive Eye Guy's giant assault blast, although seriously injured, but can still manage. Seemore and Kid Wykkyd then stood up and gained consciousness and looked at the path XLR8 just ran to.

"Dude...I told you that guy was too good." Seemore said to Gizmo.

"This is getting ridiculous! We need Jinx back!" Gizmo said.

Meanwhile...

XLR8 arrived at the Titans Tower in a matter of mere seconds. Once he got into the Main Operations Room, he reverted back to Ben and while panting heavily, he ran quickly to the fridge and got a cold water bottle to drink with. He drank all of the water and threw the battle in the trash can, before making his way to the sofa next to Terra, Starfire, Beast Boy and Cyborg, taking a huge sigh.

"Friend Ben. What is the matter?" Starfire asked as she walked into the room, holding Silkie in her hand and Zed following her.

"Would you believe that I got ambushed by a guy wearing a red unitard that can clone himself into thousands, a one-eyed dude, a kid who seriously NEEDS to have a bell on his head, a guy who's just as tall as Humungousaur, and a brainy midget?" Ben asked.

Terra tried to hold her laugh after Ben said 'brainy midget'.

"Them? Oh...they're just the HIVE Five. They are old enemies and they have been ever since. Their effectiveness as a villainous group has seriously dwindled after their leader, Jinx defected and became an Honorary Titan, thanks to his boyfriend Kid Flash." Starfire said, just as Robin walked into the room.

"Hey Ben! You're just in time for lunch!" Robin said happily, walking beside Starfire.

"I got attacked by the HIVE Five. I beat them easily, but they were a good match." Ben said.

"HIVE Five? We haven't fought them for a while..." Beast Boy said. (He wasn't listening to Starfire's explanation to Ben earlier, since he and Cyborg were playing video games)

"Maybe they're planning something big..." Cyborg thought.

"And it probably has something in getting their old leader, Jinx back." Robin concluded.

Meanwhile...

Billy Numerous, Seemore, Kid Wykkyd, Mammoth and Gizmo were all hiding in a bush at the park. They then looked out to see Jinx and Kid Flash having a picnic in the park, talking to each other as they ate their food. After a few seconds, they passionately kissed each other, which made Gizmo and Seemore hold their barf. The other 3 shown no emotion, Billy Numerous' clone stealing a picture for him and another Billy taking the camera and taking some pictures.

"I think I'm going to be sick.." Seemore said, holding his aching stomach and his mouth.

"And I'm sick with this! This ends now!" Gizmo shouted, before his harness built his techno-spider legs, mechanical, extendable arms with spikes for its knuckles and he also built laser launchers on his shoulders, before walking angrily towards the couple. The couple then easily heard Gizmo and they turned around to see him face-to-face.

"Gizmo! What kind of nonsense are you doing right now!?" Jinx angrily shouted to the small, geeky boy.

"We are about to get you back to the HIVE Five, you crud snot! No matter what we do! No matter what it takes! No matter if this is nonsense or not, we WILL GET YOU BACK!" Gizmo angrily replied, before shooting all of the missiles in his launchers.

Jinx then raised her glowing hand in the air, causing all of the missiles to swerve and change direction, instead hitting a couple of trees and benches, with one missile even hitting a trash can. Kid Flash then carried Jinx bridal style, before running out of the scene as fast as he can, but then his way was blocked by numerous Billy Numerous clones.

Kid Flash ignored them and bashed through the wall of clones, sending all of the clones flying. The next one is Seemore, who fired another laser beam from his eye, but Kid Flash easily dodged the beam and tackled the one eyed teenager, sending him flying and skidding into the grass.

As Kid Flash ran, he looked forward to see Kid Wykkyd teleporting in front of him out of nowhere and punching his face, sending Kid Flash and Jinx flying. Kid Flash was the first to land on the grassy ground, so he quickly caught Jinx before she landed on the grass.

Kid Wykkyd then teleported away.

"Thanks Wally." Jinx said.

"You know I'll always be there for you girl." Kid Flash said, before laying Jinx down and they stood up, only to see Kid Wykkyd and Seemore charging towards him. Kid Flash then quickly ran towards the duo and tackled them hard, sending them flying. Jinx then heard large stomps and she turned around to see Mammoth behind her.

"Jinx! To make this easy. Why don't you just go back with the HIVE?" Mammoth asked.

"What if I don't want to?" Jinx said.

"Okay then! Prepare to get crushed by Mammoth!" Mammoth shouted as he prepared to slam his fists into the ground, but Jinx fired an energy wave which sent Mammoth flying into several trees, but despite that, he managed to survive the punishment his former leader gave him and he stood up again. Mammoth then charged towards Jinx, but Kid Flash quickly ran around him, creating a tornado which sent him flying up in the air.

Kid Flash then stopped, sending Mammoth falling down and crashing into the ground hard, causing dust and rocks flying. When the dust cleared, Mammoth was lying face first in a rather deep crate.

Kid Flash then looked to see Jinx battling former teammate Kid Wykkyd, with the mysterious teleporter quickly giving punches and cape blows to his former leader, but Jinx gracefully dodged all of the blows, before she fired a pink energy wave which send Kid Wykkyd flying. Kid Wykkyd then teleported while in mid-air.

Then, getting her to surprise, a mechanical hand grabbed her and lifted her into the air and Jinx looked to see Gizmo, his left mechanical hand holding her and his right mechanical hand holding Kid-Flash. Kid Flash attempted to create friction hot enough to melt the hand, but to his and Jinx's surprise, it was no use.

"HAHAHA! I came prepared you nitwit! I knew you were going to create friction which will melt my mechanical arms, so I programmed these babies to absorb the heat instead and make my technology much more powerful!" Gizmo said, before laughing like a maniac.

"Oh yeah? I hope your stupid tech can take this!" a voice said, before a red, blue and yellow hand made out of lego blocks punched Gizmo, sending Gizmo backwards, but that did not made him let go of Jinx and Kid Flash. Gizmo, Jinx and Kid Flash then looked to see Bloxx, jumping in mid-air, turning his left hand into a sword.

Bloxx then used his sword arm to cut off Gizmo's mechanical arms and freed Jinx and Kid Flash, the couple landing safely in the ground and watched Bloxx punched Gizmo several times, but Gizmo regenerated his mechanical arms and punched Bloxx hard, sending the Segmentasapien flying into the park statue.

Then, moments later, a blue energy beam, multiple explosive discs, green starbolts, a tree and a large rock struck Gizmo at the same time, causing the little genius to be sent flying and dust and smoke to bellow. Kid Flash and Jinx then looked to see the Teen Titans and Terra running towards the scene.

"You guys okay?" Robin asked the couple.

"We are now. Thanks to you guys. Who's the blonde?" Kid Flash said, the last part causing Jinx to be a little angry at Kid Flash.

"This is Terra. She's once our teammate, but she then lost her memory until Ben managed to restore it." Robin explained.

"Who's Ben? That alien dude made out of lego blocks?" Kid Flash asked.

"Yep. But he can turn into many more alien forms, other than a Segmentasapien." Robin replied.

The Teen Titans then looked around to see the HIVE Five preparing for another attack. Billy Numerous cloned himself into thousands, Seemore's eye glowed red in anger, Kid Wykkyd suddenly appeared out of nowhere, Mammoth slammed his fists together, preparing for smashing, and Gizmo stood up once again, this time his mechanical hands growing a wrist claw and he also a gained a suit of mechanical armor which covered almost every part of his body except his eyes and nose.

"HIVE Five! Move out!" Gizmo shouted.

"Titans! GO!" Robin shouted.

The Titans and the HIVE Five then charged at each other. Starfire then tackled Mammoth and sent him flying into a bunch of trees. Raven then battled Kid Wykkyd and she was about to kick him, but Kid Wykkyd quickly teleported away, but Raven's eye glowed white and she ducked, dodging Kid Wykkyd's kick from behind, before he was suddenly lifted in the air, black aura covering him. Raven then sent him flying and he landed in the park fountain.

Cyborg and Beast Boy battled Billy Numerous. Billy and his clones then surrounded the duo, but Cyborg merely turned his hand into his sonic cannon and fired his sonic blast which then hit many of the clones, sending them flying. Beast Boy then transformed into a T-Rex, before slamming his head into many Billy clones, sending them all flying in one hit. Beast Boy roared, which scared majority of the remaining Billy clones.

The real Billy then attempted to run away from the duo, but then she bumped into Terra, whose hands and eyes are glowing yellow, rocks around her.

"Oh...hey pretty lady. What brings you to a fine place like this?" Billy asked, flirting with Terra. The blonde then merely fired the stones at Billy, knocking the boy unconscious.

Meanwhile, Robin was battling Seemore, using his metal bo staff in an attempt to hit him, but Seemore dodged all of the strikes, before he fired an eyeball missile, but Robin used his staff as a bat and he hit the eyeball, sending it flying back towards Seemore and it sent him backwards. Suddenly, Seemore was frozen in place, leaving Robin confused.

Then appearing from underground, Big Chill appeared, arms crossed.

"Did you really think you would leave out all the fun?" Big Chill asked.

"Um..no?" Robin said.

Meanwhile, Jinx and Kid Flash were battling an angry Gizmo. Gizmo fired another set of missiles, but just like before, Jinx raised her glowing hand in the air, which caused all of the missiles to miss, before she fired an energy wave at Gizmo, sending the baldhead genius backwards. This only made him angrier and his harness built mechanical tentacles, one of them attempting to grab Jinx, but Kid Flash took it and with enough strength, ripped it apart, before throwing it away.

But then, another tentacle swatted Kid Flash away and Gizmo looked at Jinx, snarling at him.

"You traitor! (attempts to hit Jinx with one of his tentacles, but misses.) You were having a fantastic time with us! (shoots missiles, but Jinx dodges) Wreaking havoc and destruction! (attempts to hit with his mechanical arms, but Jinx jumps and dodges) And what do you do? (attempts to hit Jinx with wrist blade, but Jinx dodges once again) You leave us to join the Titans!" Gizmo shouted, before firing all of his missiles.

Jinx, having enough, redirected all of the missiles towards Gizmo, which then hit the brainy midget and the missiles destroyed his harness, which made him lose all of the technological weapons he had and he crashed down towards the ground, defeated.

"I don't regret any, and I mean ANY, of my decisions Gizmo." Jinx angrily said, as Kid Flash walks towards her, the sorceress hugging him, with Kid Flash returning it.

...

The HIVE Five were then put in the police van, wearing power-neutralizing hand-cuffs and collars. The Police Van then drove away, leaving the Teen Titans and the couple behind.

"So Ben...you from around here?" Jinx asked.

"Um no...I came from another dimension..where most of my villains are monsters instead of meta-humans..." Ben said.

"That's a bit interesting..how did you get here?" Jinx said, moving closer to him, causing Kid Flash to go a little angry.

"Um...I got here when one of my villains shot me with a dimensional gun or something..and...why are you so close to me?" Ben said, watching as Jinx got closer and closer to him. He then saw Kid Flash going redder and redder in anger, and he decided that he valued his life and he needs to run.

"Um..." Ben said as he transformed himself into XLR8.

"See you back at the Tower guys!" XLR8 said to the Teen Titans, before quickly running towards the Titans Tower, running away from a girl trying to flirt with him and her angry boyfriend.


That's it for this chapter!

I hope you liked it! Please forgive me, but I am so pathetic in love stories. But you know I'll try, I'll try, I'll try, I'll try, I'll try...

Peace!-Btr100