Big Love
Chapter 8 Flames
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I don't own Ben Ten this is just a story just for fun.
Talley told Lucy and the rest of the team about the tour. Talley's teammates listened with great interest as Talley told them everything. They were all impressed with how Talley and Ben had teamed up to beat Suemungousaur, Liam, and Solid Plugg.
"Sounds like my kind of date. A nice little fight then desert!" Said Ember.
Talley blushed.
"It wasn't a date! We...were just hanging out." Said Talley.
"Whatever you say." Said Gaz.
"So...did anything happen here?" Asked Talley.
"Oh we helped Rook stop a small team of villains. It was no biggie." Said Lucy.
"Neat." Said Talley.
"So you going to see Ben tomorrow?" Asked Ember.
"Maybe. Do you want to check out Undertown?" Said Talley.
"Sure. Might as well. It sounds like an interesting place." Said Gaz.
"Cool. It'll be fun." Said Talley.
The team decided to call it a night and headed to bed.
It was a bright morning the next day. Ester awoke in her village and was going about her rounds making sure all her people her were taken care of. She had just finished her rounds and was fixing to head into Undertown, when Seebik suddenly stepped out in front of her.
"Hello Ester." Said Seebik.
"Seebik I haven't seen you around lately. What are you up to?" Asked Ester as she eyed Seebik with suspicious.
"Oh I've been around and I've been thinking that it's time to expand our tribes territory." Said Seebik with a grin.
"There will be no expanding the territory! The release of lava will destroy Undertown and Bellwood!" Said Ester as she glared at Seebik.
"I do not care. Your compassion for the outsiders has made you a weak ruler for the Kraaho. I'm will make our people strong again." Said Seebik.
"I'll stop you." Said Ester as she got into a fighting stance.
"Oh you will not. You see I brought some new friends along with me." Said Seebik with a smirk.
The enormous figure of Vulkanus stepped out of the shadows chuckling evilly as several pickaxe aliens surrounded Ester.
"From this day forth I will be the leader of the Kraaho." Said Seebik.
"I have to warn Ben." Thought Ester.
Ester ran forward stretching her arm out and grabbing a nearby hut roof swinging over the heads of the pickaxe aliens and ran out of of the village.
"After her!" Ordered Vulkanus.
The pickaxe aliens chased after Ester. Seebik and Vulkanus watched them.
"Ready your drilling machines." Said Seebik.
Vulkanus nodded and walked away.
At the Plumber base Lucy, Ember, Rook, and Gaz were viewing the video footage of the tour in the cafeteria on Gaz's laptop. After several minutes they stopped watching.
"Man, Ben and Talley clobbered those guys!" Exclaimed Gaz.
"I must admit they make a very impressive team." Said Rook.
Ember saw that Talley was making her way to their table.
"Talley is coming." Whispered Ember.
Gaz quickly closed the video file as Talley reached the table.
"What are you looking at?" Asked Talley.
"Oh...just some criminal files." Said Lucy.
"Cool. You ready to head into Undertown?" Said Talley.
"Yep were ready." Said Gaz.
The group headed to the motor pool. Ben was already there with his Tenn-Speed.
"You ready to see Undertown?" Asked Ben.
"Ready." Said Ember.
Talley hopped onto the back of the Tenn-Speed, as Rook got into his Proto-Truck, and Lucy and the rest of the team got into their Plumber Tank. They soon took off and headed towards Undertown.
At the Kraaho village several drilling machines were getting ready to drill. Vulkanus and Seebik stood near by watching.
"We should drill north and head towards the Plumber base. The lava will destroy them and keep them from interfering with our plan." Said Vulkanus.
"An excellent move." Said Seebik before he turned to some of his men. "You lot go and help get rid of Ester." He ordered.
The Kraaho nodded and ran out of the village.
In another tunnel Ester was running from several pickaxe aliens. Some of the the pickaxe aliens had a modified pickaxe capable of firing lasers. One of the pickaxe aliens fired a laser that grazed Ester's shoulder! Ester gritted her teeth in pain as she ran forward. Ester saw a bright light ahead and realized she was close to Undertown. Ester reached the edge of the tunnel as a laser blast hit her leg causing her to fall and tumble out into the streets of Undertown. Several aliens turned to look at Ester, then they saw the pickaxe aliens coming running out of the tunnel and ran screaming.
In another part of Undertown Ben, Talley, Rook, and Lucy's team were walking the streets looking at all the stands when they heard a bunch of screaming. They all turned to see a crowd of aliens running by them.
"Hardly a dull moment around here." Said Ben.
"We better go investigate." Said Rook as he readied his Proto-Tool.
The group took off towards the direction they saw the crowd fleeing and saw Ester lying on the ground with several pickaxe aliens surrounding her.
"Ester!" Cried Ben as he quickly hit the Omintrix and transformed into Heatblast. "You guys are toast!" He shouted as he sent several of the pickaxe aliens flying away with a fire blast.
"His hot." Thought Ember before she quickly shook the thought from her head and joined in on the blasting.
The rest of the team joined in. After a couple of minutes later the pickaxe aliens were retreating back into the tunnel. Heat Blast changed back into Ben as he went over to Ester.
"Ester are you alright?" Asked Ben.
"Ben...Seebik and some other guy...are trying to increase the Kraaho territory!" Gasped Ester as she looked up at Ben.
"It must be Vulkanus." Thought Ben before he spoke. "Don't worry Ester will deal with them." He sad.
"I'm...coming with you." Said Ester as she tried to stand up.
Ben put a hand on her shoulder and stopped her.
"Your in no condition to fight. Don't worry I'll stop them." Said Ben.
"Alright." Said Ester.
Ben stood up and turned to Ember.
"Ember your with me. The rest of you tend to Ester and protect her." Said Ben before he hit the Omintrix and transformed into NRG.
"You can count on use." Said Lucy.
NRG and Ember headed into the tunnel and headed towards the Kraaho village. Rook and Talley went to tending Ester's wounds.
"There goes Ben off to save the day." Joked Ester.
"Yep that's him alright. He actually rescued me you know." Said Talley.
"How that happen?" Asked Ester.
Talley told Ester the story about how she and Ben met and how they worked together to stop the Incurseans Empire's plan. Rook had gotten up to stretch his legs and give the girls a little private time to talk.
"That's a pretty good story. So Ben inspired you to become a Plumber?" Said Ester.
"He did." Said Talley.
"Do you like Ben?" Asked Ester.
"I do. Were good friends...and comrades." Said Talley.
"You have a crush on Ben don't you?" Asked Ester.
Talley blushed and rubbed the back of her head.
"Uh...sort of. It's nothing serious." Said Talley.
"Relax...I kind of have a crush on Ben to." Said Ester.
Both girls stared at one another for a while.
"So...are we enemies now since we both like the same guy?" Asked Talley.
"No. I like you Talley, you seem like a nice person. We can still be friends. Will just have to let Ben decide who he likes more." Said Ester.
"Sounds good to me." Said Talley with a smile.
At that moment Seebik's troops marched out of a nearby tunnel and saw Ester and Talley. They immediately pointed their weapons at them and began to fire. Talley stepped in front of Ester and grew to twenty feet. The laser blast hit Talley, but they only stung her. Talley charged forward swing her fist and hit all of the Kraaho knocking them to the ground in an unconscious heap. Rook ran forward and started handcuffing the unconscious Kraaho.
"You ok Ester?" Asked Talley as she shrunk down to her human size.
"Yeah I'm ok thanks to you." Said Ester.
"I'm a Plumber it's what we do." Said Talley.
"I hope Ben and Ember are doing ok." Said Gaz.
At the Kraaho village one of Vulkanus's drilling machines was fixing to drill though a nearby wall, when suddenly a red blast of energy flew in from the side and destroyed the machine.
"Who did that?" Demanded Vulkanus.
"That would be us." Said NRG as he and Ember appeared next to the destroyed machine.
"How dare you interfere with our plan! We will destroy you!" Snarled Seebik.
"Well that's original. I'll deal with Vulkanus. You deal with Seebik." Said NRG.
"Sounds good to me." Said Ember as she flew forward throwing fireballs.
Seebik pulled out a blaster and started firing at Ember forcing her to dodge around. NRG and Vulkanus charged at one another locking hands as they pushed against one another.
Ember flew at Seebik who stretched his arms out and wrapped them around Ember. Ember tried to make Seebik let go by shooting her flames out of her body, but they had no affect on him.
"Your puny flames can not harm me!" Laughed Seebik.
"Ok time to change strategy." Said Ember as she pointed her palms to the ground.
Ember took off into the air like a rocket dragging Seebik along with her. Ember flew low to the ground dragging Seebik across it. Ember flew over a hut and made Seebik crash into it. Seebik lost consciousness and let go of Ember.
"Thanking you for flying air Ember." Joked Ember.
NRG and Vulkanus were still wrestling against one another. Vulkanus shot his knee up and hit NRG in the chest knocking him to the ground. Vulkanus activated the drill function in his arm and he raised it up over NRG.
"Time to crack this tin can!" Said Vulkanus as he stabbed the drill into the suit and began to rip it open.
"Nnnooooo!" Cried NRG.
Vulkanus laughed in triumph, until a glowing red creature exited the armor.
"Got you!" Laughed NRG as he charged forward releasing a blast of nuclear energy that sent Vulkanus crashing into the ground several yards away.
Vulkanus staggered to his feet as NRG charged forward, his entire body glowing with energy.
"Oh crud..." Said Vulkanus as NRG crashed into him and his mechanical body exploded!
Vulkanus's real body crashed to the ground moaning.
"Mission accomplished." Said NRG as he went back into his containment suit.
Some time latter NRG and Ember walked into Undertown dragging Vulkanus and Seebik with them. NRG turned back into Ben and greeted his teammates. Ester walked up to him and threw her arms around him.
"Thank you Ben!" She said.
"Hey no problem. It's what heroes do." Said Ben with a smile.
"Anything happen while we were gone?" Asked Ember.
"Some of Seebik's men appeared and attempted to eliminate Ester, but Talley took them down." Said Rook.
"Nice job Talley." Said Ben.
"Thank you." Said Talley as she blushed slightly.
"Well I better head to my village and make sure everyone is alright. Thank you all for helping me." Said Ester as she headed towards one of the tunnels.
"Your welcome." Said Ben as he watched her go. "Whose up for Mr. Smoothies?" Asked Ben.
The group headed towards their vehicles, dropped off Vulkanus, Seebik, and his gang at the Plumber base, before heading up to Bellwood to celebrate their victory. It had been an interesting day for everyone.
To be continued.