Anti Ben 10 ch7: The Alliance
High above earth a now fixed ship of the Galactic Allience slowly orbited the planet, in the medical bay Commander Vilgax remained in the healing tube and though his life wasn't in danger he had a plan, a way to ensure that if need be he would retrieve the Omnitrix himself with little difficulty.
"Probs launched," a robot said as it approached the tube "with the improved tracking system they should be able to find and retreave the Omnitrix"
"They may find it" Vilgax's voice rasped out from inside the tube, a speaker somewhere in the room so he could be heard with no difficulties "but retrieving it will not be easy, whomever holds the Omnitrix continues to be an opponent of extreme danger and inspiring brilliance"
"47...48...49...50" Ben panted as he finished his daily sit up, picking himself up off the R.V's floor her grabbed a towel and wiped what little sweat he'd built up. Gwen currently sat at the table painting her nails while Max filled up the gas tank and checked the engine, talking to it as he did so.
"Does it worry you that grandpa talks to the R.V?" Gwen asked as Ben put his t-shirt on and grabbed a soda from the fridge "I mean I know people get senile when they get old but should I be worried?"
"Don't worry about it, grandpa's says this things been in his family longer than we have. Plus it's probably the only thing he has to talk to when we're not around" chugging down the soda Ben belched loudly and threw the can in the trash, that was when he noticed the armoured van on the otherside of the street "tell grandpa I'm gonna get us some quick change"
Dashing out of the R.V Ben ran past Max while activating the Omnitrix, turning the screen until he found the shape he wanted.
"Where's Ben going?" Max asked Gwen as she emerged from the Rust Bucket and continued to clean the windows
"Said something about getting some quick change" Gwen blew gently on her nails as she leant against the R.V, out of nowhere Four-Arms landed in front of the truck.
Ripping off the hood with ease Ben grabbed the engine and ripped it out, looking at the scared guard inside the truck Ben simple said, "Leave" before dropping the engine.
Walking around to the back of the truck Ben grabbed the doors and yanked them off their hingers to be met with a small hail of gunfire, the bullets bouncing uselessly off his thick skin. Looking inside Ben saw a guard holding a small pistol shakily in his hands.
"You think that peashooter is going to do anything against me?" Ben threw the doors over his head and grabbed the guard, pulling him out and throwing him aside. Reaching in Ben grabbed a bag of money with each hand, turning Ben was surprised to see three people standing there dressed head to foot in biker gear their faces covered with biker helmets, and all three were carrying big guns.
Without saying anything all three fired blasting Ben square in the chest and driving him backwards into the truck, which crumpled and bent under the weight.
"Stay down big guy and just wait for the police, this is over" the leader shouted through their helmet, cocking the gun as Ben pushed and bent the metal away from him as iff it were paper.
"Finished? But I haven't even warmed up yet" Ben lept from the destroyed truck and slammed his fists into the ground, cracking it and sending a shotwave to his masked attackers knocking them into the sky and crashing onto the group. Rubbing his chest Ben turned and saw the destroyed truck and the burning money "great, this was a waste of time"
As he walked back to the R.V he heard someone cock a gun behind him, before he could turn he felt himself get blasted sending him flying forwards into one of the supports of the gas station.
"You're not going anywhere creep" the leader of the small gang shouted as she fired again, Ben just dodging in time by twisting but the laser hit a fuel pump causing it to explode and engulf Ben in the flame. As the other two masked gunmen stood up Max shouted out Ben's name but the sound of the fire blocking him out, leaping out of the black smoke Ben landed infront of his assailents, grabbing two he threw them at the damaged truck and swatted the third away from him.
"You three are pissing me off," Ben growled as he picked up the two by the truck and pinned them against it, using his free hands he yanked their helmets off and was surprised at what he saw. "Girls? Aw man this just got boring" Ben groaned, before either of the two women could say anything Ben threw them over his head, a beam just missing his head and hitting the truck.
"What's the matter? Don't hit girls?" The leaders helmet had been removered to reveal another woman, spikey dark red head and several piercings in her ears with a slightly pale complexion.
"Oh I've got no problems hitting girls it's just you tend to bitch about it later, all the equality crap but as soon as someone turns around and hits you I never hear the end of it" Ben watched as she cocked the gun and aimed at him, he was about to charge at her when two new lasers shot at him from the sky.
Looking up Ben saw two drones flying towards him, dodging another laser blast as they flew past him
"Hey this is my arrest," the female leader shouted at the drones
"You can have it Rojo, we didn't sign on for this"
Turning around Rojo saw her partners running away, leaving their ditched guns on the road. While Ben was distracted with the flying drones she dived for them, grabbing one and aiming it Ben along with her own gun. She was about to fire when something hit her in the back hard sending her forwards and the guns falling out of her hands, looking over her shoulder she saw a tire rolling away and Max standing out in the open.
"These guys are getting annoying" Ben growled as he dodged the lasers and swung for the drones as they passed him. As one probes shot a continues beam that cut through the road Ben dodged and watched as it cut through the gas station, forcing Max to dodge it but as it cut through the roof a large block of stone fell and only noticing at the last second Max didn't have enough time to dodge.
"Grandpa" Gwen screamed as she ran out from the cover of thr R.V and tried her best to move the heavy stone off Max
Seeing what happened Ben growled angrily, bracing him and covering himself with his arms as the drones flew towards him again he felt the laser hit him full on and even with the thick skin of Four-Arms Ben could feel the heat burning him. Once the drones were close enough he grabbed them roaring as he smashed them together, then on the ground then he blindly threw them accidentally hitting Rojo as she stood up.
Racing over to Max he easily through the stone off him and he was slightly releaved to see no bones sticking out anywhere but he was still worried, he might have internal bleeding.
"I'm calling 911" Gwen pulled her phone out with shaky hands but was stopped by Ben who placed her on his shoulder and held her steady with one of his arms as he picked up Max as gently as he could
"No time, there's a hospital up the street" Ben growled as he started to run, then leap in bigger and bigger strides.
Rojo groaned as she picked herself up, she was sure nothing was broken but she felt like one large bruise. Looking next to her she saw the probes that now represented scrap metal.
"Who were you freaks?" She asked as she grabed the head of one of the probes and easily pulled it off, as she checked it for any kind of hint of where it came from one of the eyes started to flash when suddenly some of the cables shot forwards and pierced her neck.
Rojo screamed in pain as she felt something get injected to her neck, she could feel it moving quickly through her body as it felt like insides were on fire. But as quickly as it came the feeling disapeared, dropping the probes head she looked at ther body and could barely comprehend what had just happened. Her hands had become long metalic claws her skin had become dark red with sections of circetry showing and her eyesight had become weird, anything she looked out she somehow scanned and locked onto.
Hearing the sirens behind her Rojo turned and saw two cop cars screach to a halt and several officers get out and aim the guns at her.
"Freeze" one shouted as she clicked the safety off, whatever he was pointing at seemed familiar somehow, the jacket and the hair made it look like someone he knew "Rojo?" He hazard a guess
"Well this'll take some explaining" Rojo sighed as she raised her hands.
*Break*
"Your grandfather has suffered a secere concusion, he'll be out for several more hours," the doctor told Ben and Gwen, Max resting in the bed next to them "he also has several laserations and a broken leg"
"But he is going to be ok right? Ben asked keeping his arms behind his back, when he'd turned back to normal he saw his arms were red like he had bad friction burn. He didn't want anyone asking questions so he'd been keeping them out of site as much as possible.
"For a man his age he's remarkebly strong, he'll be find after some rest. Now it says here on his admittense form that he was hit by a bumper, did someone back into him?"
"Yeah sure, let's go with that" Ben mumbled to himself as he turned away from the doctor, who shrugged and decided to leave them alone.
*Break*
"The drones were destroyed" the robot informed Vilgax "they had found the wearer of the Omnitrix and were unable to retreave it"
"Send out more, we know the area he is in and I will not let him escape again" Vilgax's raspy voice ordered. He wasn't surprised the drones were destroyed; the wearer had beaten not only drones but also some of the Alliences best offices in the past and seemed to be getting more and more skilled with the Omnitrix everyday.
"We may not need to sir, it seems the drones have somehow merged with a local life from. I am receiving a combined signal and it is on the move" the robot checked its pad the pad to mke sure what it was seeing was correct.
"Hhm, perhaps sending another of its species is the answer to retrieving the Omnitrix, with some enhancements" Vilgax pondered.
*Break*
Back down on Earth Rojo was staying out of sight, after explaining as best she could to the police she knew they'd want to take her in for questioning but to her it wasn't an option. she wasn't proud of it but as they approached she ran away, or more accurately, flew away as they fired at her. She didn't know what had happened to her or for how long it would last but this was probably her best chance to stop that alien monster from doing any more harm to her town.
Keeping to the allys Rojo made her way slowly to the hospital, she didn't know why but the alien seemed to be worried about the old man he'd taken so that meant taking him some place to get fixed up. She wasn't sure what she was going to do when she got to the hospital but how hard would it be to notice a large foru armed creature?
Rojo had just gotten to the ally behind a jewelry store when she felt a sudden headache, which kept growing and growing, dropping her her knees
"Listen to me, whoever you are" a voice rasped in her head
"Where are you? Who are you?" Rojo groaned looking around but seeing no one, she forced herself back onto her feet but the headache was still growing "how did you get in my head?"
"I am the commander of the Galactic Allience, and you have our technology running through your body, therefore you now belong to the Alliance"
"Sorry but I don't, belong, to anyone or anything" Rojo groaned painfully as a sudden burst of pain rang in her head as the voice shouted even louder
"Listen to me human, you now possess power you could have never imagined but unless you can find a cause to use it for, it will be useless"
Rojo felt herself slide inside her head, in front of her a giant squid-like face appeared
"Complete the task I am giving you, and I will teach you to use it to its maximum potential"
"What is it you want?" Rojo asked, the pain was gone be she couldn't move it was like an out of body experienc inside her own head
"Only one thing, a dangerous piece of technology that could send not only your planet but the whole universe into choas and distruction. Luckily you are already programmed to find it"
Rojo felt her body begin to move again as the face disapeared, once it was completly gone so was the headache.
*Break*
"Ben you heard the doctor he's gonna be fine" Gwen said as much to herself as to Ben "he's Grandpa"
Saying nothing Ben stood up and kicked his chair sending it backwards into the wall before leaving the room and leaving Gwen a little surprised
"Great" Gwen sighed as she stood up a followed Ben "I'm going to have to nice to the doofus"
As she left the room she saw Ben leaning against the window obviously having just headbutted it "it wasn't your fault grandpa got hurt, you know that right"
"Yeah right, I saw what grandpa did. If he'd stayed behind the R.V he wouldn't have got hurt, all because of this stupid watch, maybe I shouldn't of found it" Ben sighed looking at the Omnitrix
"Ben if you hadn't found that thing we'd be stuck with each other all summer with nothing to do, no way of stealing cool stuff and stuck with grandpa's cooking. Plus you'd be dead 'cause I'd have killed you a dozen times over, so stop being a little bitch and grow some balls" Gwen forced Ben to stand up straight before turning around, slapping him across the face and pushing him back against the window.
"Nice pep-talk" Ben grumbled as he rubbed his cheek "maybe I can use this thing to help grandpa, go Upgrade on the machines he's hooked up to and make them better"
"Ben that won't work" Gwen stopped Ben from pressing the button by grabbing his hand
"Alright, maybe Ghostfreak and I can meld with him or something, or Grey Matter will be able think of something" pulling his hand free Ben pressed the button and started to turn the screen
*Break*
Rojo froze as something told her that what she was looking for had been activated, without realising it and no control of it she started to fly upwards, as she looked in the direction of the hostpital her eye sight zoomed in so she could look through the windows and see clearly through them.
Inside she saw what looked like a watch on the wrist of a kid who was arguing with a red haired girl, who kept slapping his hand away from it.
"Who knows when we'll need that thing" Gwen argued "you can't control how long you stay as an alien or how long you'll time out, what if more robots show up?"
"Alright already" Ben shouted kicking over a trashcan, as it rolled away Ben heard something a weird sound that he heard somewhere before.
As the glass window exploded inwards he and Gwen dived out the way of the flying glass, landing roughly Ben looked over his shoulder saw Rojo standing there
"The Omnitrix, hand it over kid" she demanded as she held out her hand for it, looking over her shoulder Ben glanced at Max's room before leaping to his feat and shouting
"You want it? Come and get it"
As he and Gwen ran away as fast as they could Rojo watched as one of the orbs extended from her shoulder and fired a laser at them, missing Ben and Gwen and blowing a small hole in the wall as they turned a corner
"Waoh" Rojo cried out, grabbing the thing and forcing it back into her shoulder "don't need to hurt anyone else here"
"Who is that?" Gwen asked as she looked over her shoulder and saw Rojo turning the corner
"It's the biker chick and she pulled a Terminator" Ben yelled as they turned another corner and he skidded to a halt, grabbing Gwen and pulling her through a door marked 'Stairs'. "How she got like that I got no clue"
"She must have merged with those robot drones somehow, now she's some sort of unstoppable robot-girl-thing" Gwen panted as she the stairs two at a time.
Above them the heard the door ger ripped off its hingers, looking up the saw Rojo looking down at them then jump over the side, falling between the gap of the stairs and slamming into the ground floor as Ben and Gwen ran through the door.
"I'll see if she's unstoppable" Ben activated the Omnitrix as they ran through the hospital, turning the screen till he found Four-Arms "with a little help from Four-Arms"
As they ran out of the hospital Ben ducked behind an ambulance and slammed down the Omnitrix, the sensation he felt as he changed was different from when he transformed earlier.
"Heatblast? Stupid watch" Ben grumbled "I suppose burning her like a marshmallow will have to do"
As Rojo ran out the hospital she didn't see either Ben or Gwen in site, but she was getting a weird sence again, something was telling her the boy was hiding behind one of the ambulances. The laser exended from her shoulder again and fire at the embulance several times, Gwen and Ben just having enough time to dodge as it exploded.
"Get out of here" Ben told Gwen as he stood up, running from behind the ambulance and throwing a fireball at Rojo, who blocked it but was blown backwards as it exploded. "You want me? I'm right her robo-bitch"
Leaping forwards Rojo flew through the air, tackling Ben and flying upwards away from the hospital. Both lasers from her shoulder extended and tried to fire at Ben as she held onto him, Ben grabbing hold of the laser and doing his best to keep them from shooting him.
"Give up kid" Rojo grunted as she tried to keep a tight grip on Ben's hot body "just hand over the Omnitrix"
"Try and take it" Ben focused, lighting up like a flare as his flames got hotter and bigger, forcing Rojo to let him go and cover her eyes
As Ben fell he tried to keep himself steady, firing flames from his hands to try and slow his fall, below him contruction workers watched the spectical until they realised it was falling towards them where they then ran out the way, giving the falling fire creature plenty of room as it fell into a truck full of sand.
Above him Rojo hovered inplace the two lasers automatically aiming and fire on Ben's position, kicking up sand and dirty, and as the trucks exploded, thick black smoke. Once the lasers stopped firing and the area cleared a little Rojo saw the distruction she'd caused; the trucks were scrapped, the road had large holes in it and a fuel tanker was leaking onto the road.
"That the best you got? I didn't even feel it" Ben shouted as he walked out a smoking crater, he watched as Rojo dived and flew straight for him, dodging at the last second as she flew past him and into the fuel tanker.
Shooting a stream of fire at the tanker Ben watched as Rojo was engulfed in flame, and as the tanker blew, was thrown into the sky and out of site "see ya bitch" Ben smiled as he stuck up both middle fingers
*Break*
Back at the hospital Max had woken up, and listened as Gwen and Ben explained what had happened from when he was knocked out till when Ben blew Rojo several blocks away.
"I bet it was when I was playing with the watch, I must have led her straight here" Ben sighed, he was happy Max was awake and ok but he still felt guilty about getting him hurt not to mention leading the roboto-girl to outside his room
"I bet those robot drones have some sort of tracker in them than can find the watch, they only seem to find you when you turn it on" Gwen pointed out
"Well since they changed my room and Ben hasn't gone alien since we're safe" Max smiled as he patted Ben's shoulder "has anyone seen my cigars?"
"Grandpa you're in a hospital trying to get better" Gwen knew where his cigars were but she wasn't telling, he might have been smoking them for years but she wasn't going to go against doctors orders.
"That's it? You're not goinng to say it's my fault you got hurt or I shouldn't so stupid as to play with the watch?" Ben jumped out of his seat and shouted, surprising Max and Gwen
"Ben it's not your fault, I'm your grandfather and it's my job to protect you even if you can turn into a large alien. I wasn't going let some punk girl shoot my grandson in the back while he was fighting off two drones. So stop the pity act and chin up, you're a Tennyson and we're tougher than you think" putting his hand on his shoulder Max got Ben to sit back down. "Now what are we going to do about that girl? She'll keep coming as long as we have the watch ad she has those robot parts"
"We could lead her into a trap, get her to come to us" Gwen suggested "then Ben can use one of his aliens to kick her fat ass"
"Well getting her to come to us won't be a problem, the question is how do we take her down? What can you tell us about her Ben?" Max asked as he gave up looking for his cigars and leant back into his bed
"She's fast and tough, the only thing I could do as Heatblast was to blind her, my flame didn't hurt her at all. Not to mention she can fly and shoot lasers at me" Ben ticked off what he remembered from the chase and the fight, he doubted the explosion even hurt her but it at least gave him enough time to turn back to normal and get back to the hospital.
"Diamondhead would be good against the lasers, but Four-arms is best against her strength" Gwen thought outloud thinking of the selection of aliens she'd seen Ben use up till now "maybe Ghostfreak would be best, merge with her and get the machine parts to reject her somehow, plus you could go intangible so she couldn't hit you"
"Goog idea Gwen, now we just needs a plan to make it work"
*Break*
"You sure this is a good spot?" Ben asked as he and Gwen snook through the towns Police Academy, they had waited until it was night before putting their plans into effect as this way there would be less people to get involved and complicate their plans
"I told you this is part of the plan" during the hours they waited Gwen grabbed her laptop and dug up some information on their mysterious attacker, after searching through the town records she'd found out her name and that she had been kicked out of the police academy
Since then she'd been playing vigalante but since she knew the system she could avoid getting arrested; the correct permit for weapons, always in public and it was always when someone was in the middle of breaking the law she interfeared like with Ben when he broke into the armoured truck.
"We draw her here, you attack and she holds back so not to destroy the place, its called being smart, something you've never done in a day of your life" Gwen smiled as she checked around the corner, not seeing anyone she nodded to Ben who activated the watch and turned it to Ghostfreak. "Wait till she gets here, you'll need all the time you can get out of that thing"
Not saying anything Ben walked out into the middle of the obsticle course, not having to wait long before Rojo landed in front of him slamming into the ground as she landed.
"What is this kid? You finally giving up?" Rojo asked as she held her hand as if Ben was going to hand over the Omnitrix
"Actually this is what I like to call Round 3: Final Round" slamming the screen down the Omnitrix let off a bright green light as Ben transformed, now standing in Ben's place was XLR8 "stupid watch" Ben thought to himself as the visor closed and he dashed forwards and leapt into the air, kicking Rojo over a dozen times before she realised what was happening.
As Rojo stumbled backwards Ben landed and dashed forwards again, extending his fingers/claws and thrust them forwards aiming to stab her and rip the robot parts out. His idea was cut short as Rojo grabbed his arm, her grip stronger than he thought possible and was unbreakable.
"Kid you're really starting to annoy me" Rojo growled as she lifted Ben off the ground stopping him from running off, clenching her fist she hit Ben in the stomach driving the air out of his lungs and threw hiim hard enough against the ground he bounced slightly. "Now hand over the Omnitrix or else"
"Or else what? You'll bore me to death" Ben gasped as his body ached all over, it was a good thing this aliens bones had evolved to to survived fast and hard impacts or else Ben knew he wouldnt be moving right now. "You keep asking for the watch but you'll never get it from me, you're not good enough"
Leaping backwards out of Rojo's reach Ben ran circled around her, hitting and scratching while dodging her attempted grabs and punches but none of them effecting her as he knew her skin was too tough, she barely even felt them.
Hearing a familiar beeping sound Ben tried a desprete play, slashing through Rojo's shirt until there was only a few strips left on the front, as she covered herself Ben took the oppotunity to run over to and grab Gwen before charging into the nearest door which turned out to be the police academy's gym just as he turned back to normal.
"Well that was pointless" Ben panted, his body aching even more now but he was glad he didn't have any broken bones "stupid watch can't even get a transformation right"
"Now what? How long until you can go alien again?" Gwen asked as she looked around the room noting how little cover there was for them to hide
"I don't know it changes everytime, it's like it's got a mind of its own" Ben despretly pushed the button to try and get the screen to pop up but it remained red and did nothing
"Great so now we've got to fight an unstoppable robot-girl as your useless normal when your aliens couldn't even dent her, not to mention she wants the watch AND you pissed her off by showing the world her tits" Gwen tried to open a few lockers, hoping to find anything that could help them but none of the lockers even opened.
"To be fair I don't think she's got anything there since she became part robot" Ben tried biting the watch trying to pull it up but instead felt like he was going to rip his own teeth out.
"You think she's gonna care about that? I won't be surprised if she rips your arm off to get the Omnitrix" Gwen slumped against a locker and slid to the floor, there wasn't anywhere for her to hide and there wasn't anyrhing in the room that would hurt Rojo.
"Yes" Ben cried out as the omnitrix turned from red to green "I knew something in this universe loves me" pressing the button he turned the screen and slammed it down.
Zipping up her leather jacket Rojo felt the Omnitrix activate, turning she ran to where the signal was coming from. Kicking open the doors she saw it was the gym but didn't see an alien or the kid in sight, only the the girl sitting at a weight machine
"Where is the little pervert?" Rojo asked as she walked angrily towards Gwen who held a knowing, smug look on her face
"Who? Him?" Gwen pointed to an exercise machine behind Rojo, who turned in time to see something peel itself off the machine and leap towards her, wrapping itself around her
"Intermissions over bitch" Ben said as her blanketed Rojo's body, connecting with her machine parts and messing them up as much as he could. Suddenly he felt weird he could feel some kind of signal being sent to the robot parts that was sucking his mind in no matter how hard he tried to resist it.
"Listen to my everyword" a loud rasping voice said as a squid face appeared in front of Ben "I will retrieve the Omnitrix, no matter where you go or what you do, I will fulfil my duty and remove it from dangerous hands such as yours. Should you choose to resist me be afraid, I will be ever vigalent in my task and know that while you rest, I step ever closer"
The face disappeared and Ben's mind returned to normal as he felt Rojo try to pull him off, redoubling his effort Ben forced himself back onto her body
"This won't hurt a bit" Ben said as he continued to mess with the machinary making Rojo scream out in pain and collapse to the floor "alright I lied, I made it as painful as I could"
Sliding off Rojo Ben took Up-grade's usual form and watched as parts of the robot fell off Rojo's body, her skin returning to its previous pale colour, the claws, eyes and lasers falling off onto the floor
"Well that problem's been taken care of" Gwen sighed as she stood up, she and Ben walking towards the doors and leaving the unconcious Rojo where she was "least we won't see her again"
Max sucked in a lung full of fresh air as he, Ben and Gwen left the hospital and using a crutch to help him walk with his broken leg
"It's good to get out of here and get back on the road" Max smiled happily as he pulled one of his endless cigars from his shirt pocket "I think this towns had its fill of us for now"
"So Ben what happened to you back in the gym, it was like you were possesed or something" Gwen asked as they walked to the Rust Bucket, she hadn't said anything all night so as not to worry Max but since he'd been given a clean bill of health she wanted answers
"I have no clue, when I went Up-grade I felt something force itself into my head. I saw this alien with tentacles, like he was an octopus and he talked to me saying it was his duty to retrieve the Omnitrix. He said if I go against him, I should be afraid"
As Max opened the door he froze as he listened to Ben describe the alien, memories from his past surfaced and he could feel himself tense up
"It's fine Ben" Max smiled as he turned to face Ben and Gwen "and you'll be fine. As long as we Tennyson's stick together that squid guy should be afraid"
"You're right Grandpa" Ben smiled as he entered the R.V "with us working together nothing can stop us"
Before Max followed them he took a quick glance to the sky and one thought came to his mind as he lit his cigar. "Rushmore"