A/N: I really did try to keep on schedule but this ended up being in just as much of a hiatus as my other fanfics thanks to work and school. I finally have some free time to work on something not school related so I decided to update this story.

I stared in shock as I watched the huge orange thing turn back into the weirdo teenager I had just saved. He changed in a flash of green. Green. Out of instinct I immediately aimed the S.P.I.C.E.R. at the back of his head. Hearing the sound the weapon made the thing turned with his hands raised defensively in the air. He looked down at me with a scared expression. Then he blinked a few times and his expression was replaced with something… dark.

With narrowed eyes he asked, "Is there a reason you're pointing that at me?"

Unfazed by the expression I said, "You're a monster just like those things that made Numbuh Two disappear."

His dark expression disappeared and was immediately replaced with an irritated one, "What things, and why do you keep calling yourself a number!?"

Shouting back I said, "Don't play stupid! Numbuh Five knows you're connected to those green globs of goo! There's no other explanation!"

"Yes, there is!", He shouted as he grabbed the barrel of my S.P.I.C.E.R. and forced it to point at the ground and got far to close to my face, "I'm Ben Tennyson! You know, the guy who saved the universe a couple of dozen times."

Angrily I kicked him in the gut causing him to collapse with a grunt, "If you're some kind of hero then how come Numbuh Five ain't heard of you before?!"

Looking up at me as he clutched his stomach he said, "Hell if I know! For all I know you're some kind of shut in."

"Numbuh Five isn't a shut in!", I screamed as I pointed my weapon at him again.

"Again with the numbers! And why d'you keep speaking in third person? It's one thing when Rath does it but…", He trailed off as his eyes moved from me to something behind me.

Narrowing my eyes I said, "What are you-"

"Move!" He yelled as he tackled me to the side. As we rolled I noticed a green blur jumping towards where I was seconds before. He stood up quickly and whipped his head side to side looking at the monsters. "These the blobs you were talking about?"

"You're not connected to them?" I asked as I got up. Looking around I noticed some more of the blobs getting closer.

"If I was would I save you?" He asked me with an irritated look on his face.

"Good point." I admitted as I looked at the hord of blobs getting closer. The guy moved so that we were back to back.

"You fight these things already?" He asked as he looked over his shoulder.

"Yeah."

"Got a plan?"

"Keep attacking until there's room to escape?"

"Sounds good to me!", He said as he tinkered with his watch thingy for few seconds. When he seemed happy he slammed down on it with a rough slap. As soon as it reappeared the green light was gone again and standing in the teen's place was a man… made of rock and fire.

I jumped away from him in fear of getting burned. At the same time he sent several fireballs at the small hoard that was nearing us, disintegrating a few on the first hit. I just stood there staring. But really what else would you expect Numbuh Five to do in this kind of freaky situation, not stare at the human volcano-monster-thing standing in front of me?

Looking over at me the thing did something kind of similar to arching an eyebrow and asked, "Aren't you going to help?"

I looked at him for a moment and then charged forward so that the monster were within range. This went on for sometime, him throwing fireballs while I fired the S.P.I.C.E.R. at the blobs. We kept destroying them, and more kept coming. One down, one comes. Luckily he noticed too.

"I don't have much time before the Omnitrix times out! Any idea where these things are coming from?"

I jumped into the air and flipped over some of the globs that had tried to charge at me. When I landed I shouted, "The thing in the crater is what's making so many of them!" Then continued to shoot at the enemy.

He looked around for a bit until he focused on the still smoldering hole on the opposite side of the road. Without warning he leaped into the air. At the peak of the jump he let out a fury of flames from his hands sending him higher and higher. Then he stopped producing flames for just a mere moment, twirled his body around mid air, then reigniting his flames he dive bombed. Upon impact with the crater a wave of heat erupted sending any of the goo monsters nearby flying. Soon the monster started melting as they screamed in pain. Once they were nothing but puddles I ran towards the crater. Sitting there was the teen in his green jacket with equally green goo covering him, almost entirely from head to toe.

Standing up he rubbed his head in pain, "I really have to stop landing on my head when I do that." Moving his hand away from his head he looked in horror as the goo stretched from his hair in a web like fashion to follow his hand. He then started shaking like a dog as he shouted, "Gross!", over and over again as he tried to get the stuff off. I laughed.

Looking up at me he shouted, "And what's so funny exactly?!" I shook my head and started to walk away. Now that those things are gone I knew I could finally go look for Two.

"Hey, wait!", He shouted as he pulled himself out of the crater.

"I remember you said you were looking for a friend, do you need help?", He asked concerned.

"Are you offering?", I asked.

"Well, I have a mission and all but it would be pretty unheroic to leave a kid wandering around at a time like this, right?"

Neither of us had realized it at the time but this was when our rather interesting friendship began.