mechazard: what's up everybody, I'm back!
Ben: and so are we
Takato: good to be here
Guilmon: don't forget to tell them about the poll Takatomon
Takato: thanks for reminding me boy, the poll for whether or not mechazard puts more hero's is still up and he still needs more votes
Dan: the poll is open until 10/20
Charmcaster: so don't forget to vote
Amber: what the heck are you doing here?!
Charmcaster: I'm in this chapter too
Mechazard: can we just get on with the disclaimer please!
Drago: mechazard01 does not own any of the characters used in this story except for Mike and his Digimon hybrid form TerraWolfmon and the ShiningRenamon known as Amber
Mechazard: thank you Drago, now on with the story!
A week has passed since the incident with Ben's evil twin Albedo, and one of the main concerns was Mike's newfound ability TerraWolfmon savage mode, after he awoke from being shocked by Ash's Pikachu, he was asked why he was about to kill one of the Panuncian copies "I don't know what you're talking about, the last thing I remember is seeing Amber get knocked out by one of those tiger rejects then everything went black" he explained as they arrived back at plumber HQ. during the rest of the week the human/Digimon hybrid trained his body with Ben and Ash and his mind with Rook and Hinata, while training with Rook and Hinata he quickly found his center and soon saw a wave of colors all around him, the colors then surrounded his two friends and turned a light shade of blue "okay, either I'm crazy or I can actually SEE their aura's, cool, wonder what else I can do with this" he thought trying to expand his newfound aura vision not realizing in the process that he was also discovering some of their secrets "wait, what's this? So Hinata has feelings for Naruto? Maybe I could help her with that" he thought. Soon enough he, Amber, Takato, Guilmon, Dan and Ben were called away on a mission to a place near the Anur system with Rad Dudesman, during the mission the ship had technical difficulties and had to make an emergency landing on Anur Transyl, after finding out they needed a replacement part Mike decided to call Rook, luckily there was a plumber stationed on the planet, a Loboan named Scout and apparently a good friend of his, Ben and the others decided to go out and find him, as soon as Ben saw the inhabitants of the planet he immediately went into 'fanboy mode' while every creature he came close to ran away screaming 'monsters' eventually the group found Scout and got the part unfortunately while Ben was bragging he dropped it and it broke, to say Rad was mad is an understatement "hold me back" is what he said to the others and they all quickly complied.
*1 day later Anur Transyl*
"Ahhh!" Ben Screams in an almost perfect high C as he looks into the bathroom mirror aboard Rad Dudesman's ship the lovely duck and sees what all teenage boys fear… a zit! "aw man" the Omnitrix bearer groans before a bright pink flash engulfs the room as a teenage girl with silver hair with light purple frosted bangs appears right behind him as he screams yet again.
*insert Ben 10 Omniverse theme music*
Ben transforms into Swampfire "what are you doing out of Ledgerdomain Charmcaster?" he asks ready to fight but Charmcaster suddenly starts talking with her bag. Swampfire is weirded out by her talking and transforms back into Ben. Dan Kuso suddenly enters the bathroom "dude you alright, I heard you scream like a little girl!" the Bakugan battle brawler said with a chuckle "I'm fine Dan, just surprised by a girl suddenly appearing while I was in the bathroom" Ben retorts as he points at Charmcaster "uh lady, he does bring up a good point, what are you doing here and where did you come from?" he asks as the sorceress concludes the sentence to her bag before she turns to the two boys "Zs'Skayr warped me here" Charmcaster explained bluntly as she continues talking with her bag and Dan is horrified by the sight of Ben's face "Dude, that is one monster zit!" Dan said before he breaks down in laughter "don't I know it" Ben deadpanned just as Dan got some air into his lungs and tells Charmcaster that she has to go with them and Charmcaster happily leaves the room. Ben doesn't trust Charmcaster, "don't worry Korra told me all about Charmcaster" the Pyrus brawler says "How does Korra know about Charmcaster?" Ben asks "She and Rook talk to Gwen all the time dude" he responds. The group make it to the main room with the others "any luck with the ship?" Ben asks the blue feathered Avian Rad Dudesman, but he ignores the Omnitrix bearer "you're not still mad at me for accidentally breaking that part we needed are you?" he asked "do not talk" the captain states simply "you know we should work together to stop Zs'Skayr" Charmcaster tells Ben "yeah right, not gonna happen, besides I couldn't even if I wanted to" he says before he goes to the open door of the cargo bay and the inhabitants begin to throw things at him, he walks back over to the team before Charmcaster says an incantation which creates fireworks to distract the mob outside the ship "alright, let's go" she says, Ben doesn't agree to this and asks Rad Dudesman how long it will take to get off of Anur Transyl. However, Rad doesn't answer Ben "alright, anyone want to come along and help us out?" Ben asks Takato, Dan, Mike, Amber, Scout the Loboan and Guilmon, Scout puts up his paw but soon puts it back down after Rad stared angrily at him. Takato doesn't seem up to the task either, but sees, and gets a goofy smile plastered on his face before regaining his composure and going up to Charmcaster "hi, my names Takato, and you are?" introduces himself to her "the name she goes by is Charmcaster, but her true name is Hope" the hybrid said as Charmcaster ignores Takato and faces Mike with a look of complete shock "how did you know that?! Nobody should know that but me!" she asks/yells, the sorceress now beginning to panic "I used my aura vision, that's how" the hybrid answered simply "don't worry Ben, we'll go with you" Mike said as he, Amber, Takato, Guilmon and Dan follow Ben and Charmcaster downtown when they get there Ben and the group all sneak around, trying to avoid attention. Ben is spotted by three citizens "sup" one says, they do not seem angry or scared of him and walk off, thinking he's one of them. Ben looks at the water and screams after seeing more pimples on his face. Dan takes out a bunch of items given to him by Gwen and Ben walks off before running into Viktoria a little girl of the same species as Frankenstrike. Ben and the others then walk down the street and Dan uses some of the items on Ben's face, trying to get rid of the pimples much to Ben's annoyance. They finally reach Zs'Skayr's castle, but suddenly, the 'scarecrows' come alive. Revealing themselves as Mutant Pumpkins. Ben transforms into Swampfire again "whoa, what is up with Swampfire?" the transformed teen asks before he launches fireballs at the Mutant Pumpkins "pyro sphere!" Guilmon shouts as he launches his signature attack but they have no effect, Takato pulls out his Digivice and a new card "Digi-modify summon Digi-gauntlets!" the tamer shouts as he slashes the card before two gauntlets appear on his forearms the left having a blade coming out over the back of his hand and the right having a circular shield and he rushes forward slashing a few of the pumpkins. "Okay, that's pretty cool, and he is kinda cute" Charmcaster thought to herself before she fires spells at the scarecrows and destroys them without a problem. "Onyx rain!" "Diamond storm!" the Digimon hybrid and his partner shout in unison as they use their signature attacks, while the brawler sends out his Lucario to take some out as well. Soon, more Mutant Pumpkins emerge surrounding the group.
The Mutant Pumpkins move in closer and Charmcaster destroys some using her spells. She creates a path for Ben, Takato, Guilmon, Mike, Amber and Dan to follow, but Dan gets caught by one of the Mutant Pumpkins. Takato frees the brawler using his bladed gauntlet while Swampfire, in vain, tries to destroy some Mutant Pumpkins. "Uh, guys it's magic vs. magical creatures meaning the Mutant Pumpkins can only be harmed by magic" Charmcaster explains before getting worn out from using magic spells "Ben I thought Swampfire could control plants" Dan comments, "I can't even control myself right now!" Swampfire says as he uses his fire powers to create a path to the castle along with Guilmon's Pyro sphere. The group manages to make it into the castle, avoiding capture by the Mutant Pumpkins. Swampfire transforms back into Ben and he, with even more bigger pimples, turns around to see Viktoria who asks what his favorite color and food is. Ben walks back to the others and they explain how to get into Zs'Skayr's room. Charmcaster leads Ben and the others into a room with multiple stairways. "Everybody, back. Away. Very. Slowly." Ben orders. They move on and look down a hallway, with two Ectonurite Twins telling them to come play with them. "Yeah, we are so NOT going that way!" Dan shouts automatically knowing that is a bad idea. The group head down a hall with a large trick mirror, showing everyone but Ben as a monster "man, even Mike, Amber and Guilmon get cool monsters, and they practically are monsters" the Omnitrix bearer complains to no one in particular as they don't see anything wrong. They turn around, only for the mirror reflections to come alive and attack them. Ben transforms into Swampfire, again, who is even more different in appearance and fights Mirror Ben. Mirror Ben uses his pimple to stun Swampfire and transforms into a mirror Swampfire, starting a fight. Everybody fights their mirror copies. Swampfire gets bitten by Mirror Swampfire, but throws his mirrored clone into the wall, destroying him. "They're mirrors, break 'em" Swampfire orders as do the same to their mirrored selves and the large mirror breaks, revealing the way to Zs'Skayr's room. Zs'Skayr welcomes his intruders, saying that he has expected them.
Zs'Skayr taunts Charmcaster, saying she cannot handle a simple teleportation spell and Charmcaster regains the Alpha Rune. However, "I no longer need that little trinket as I have already drained all of its power" the ghost-like alien says and uses another teleportation spell to warp Charmcaster, Swampfire and the others out of his castle. The Mutant Pumpkins soon arise once more, wanting another fight. Swampfire asks Charmcaster for help, but Charmcaster suddenly uses the Alpha Rune on herself, releasing her creatures. They form around her and she is given rock-like armor, much to Swampfire's amazement and excitement. Charmcaster attacks the creatures Swampfire ready's his fireballs.
"Alright boy, ready for round two?" Takato asks his red scaled friend as he takes out his Digivice and another card which for a second glows turning blue "I'm just waiting on you" the dinosaur responds "Digi-modify matrix digivolution activate!" he shouts slashing the card "Guilmon matrix digivolve to… WarGrowlmon!" the Digimon yells as he finishes his transformation.
Dan turns to the Bakugan sitting on his shoulder "well I guess it's our turn huh buddy?" he asks "about time too, I've been waiting the stretch out my wings" the Dragonoid says before forming himself into a sphere and jumping into the humans palm "Bakugan brawl, Baku-sky raider jump!" Dan shouts as he throws the sphere, when the Bakugan hits the ground it immediately opens up and jumps into the sky taking its true form.
"our turn babe" TerraWolfmon says to his girlfriend before taking out his Digivice and cards "ready when you are dear" she replies "Digi-modify, zero unit activate!" he shouts slashing the card "ShiningRenamon matrix digivolve to…SacredTaomon!" the ultimate level Digimon shouts as she transforms, "my turn" the hybrid says before taking another card "Digi-modify, summon Data Blade!" he shouts as his weapon appears in front of him, the human/Digimon hybrid takes the weapon in hand before shifting to his 'battle mode'.
The team attacks the pumpkin solders sending them backwards. Takato slashes a few but doesn't see one right behind him luckily Charmcaster does and blasts it, the tamer turns around to see the silver haired girl wink at him, causing the dino tamer to blush. The Mutant Pumpkins surround Swampfire, who turns back into Ben. However, Ben is soon turned back into Swampfire, who has drastically changed in appearance and the Mutant Pumpkins suddenly start attacking him. Now regaining his power over plantlife, Swampfire orders the Mutant Pumpkins to stop. "Atomic blaster!" "Onyx Rain!" "Diamond storm!" the Digimon shout as they use their attacks to wipe out the remaining solders just as Swampfire transforms back into Ben and notices that his face doesn't have pimples on it anymore "looks like one of Gwen's cures worked" Ben says relieved "it might be because of Swampfire slowly turning into his new form" Dan informs his team leader. Ben turns around and acts friendly toward Viktoria and she dislikes him asking "What did I ever see in you?" before walking away in a huff.
Meanwhile Takato walks up to Charmcaster the ladder of whom sees this "oh he's coming over to me" Hope nervously thought "hey, uh Hope, I was wondering if you wanted to go out sometime?" the tamer asks sheepishly much to her delight "sure I'd love to go out with you Takato" she said before kissing him on the cheek before writing down something on his hand and disappearing in a flash of pink light leaving the tamer frozen in shock "dude, you totally just scored!" the brawler exclaimed snapping Takato out of his stunned state "very well done my friend" Mike tells his best friend giving him a pat on the back "congrats Takato, I'm so happy for you" Amber exclaimed happily "just be careful dude, remember she's still a villain" Ben warns him before WarGrowlmon walks over to the group before reverting back to Guilmon "Takatomon where did that magic girl go?" the dinosaur Digimon asked innocently "I don't know boy" he said before he paused to look at what the sorceress wrote on his hand "but I know when I'm gonna see her again" he said after he read the writing, it said 'see you on Friday at 7pm, love Hope'
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