AYE, I'm back and better before!
Now, I have a few things I need to say first before I begin this chapter.
First, I want to apologize for not updating sooner, I kinda lost track of time by working on other projects that should be releasing sometime this august, so keep an eye out for that.
Also, since I haven't updated this story as frequently as I would have liked, I'm going to be releasing two whole chapters back to back within a span of a couple days.
I will say this, I WILL be skipping the Kraken episode, but I will be doing Permanent Retirement and Hunted.
Also, I want you guys to tell me what your favorite Episode or Arc of Ben 10 is, it can be from any Ben 10 series, so feel free to PM me your answer or just leave it the Review Box.
Ben 10:
It had been a few days since he had first found the Omnitrix and it's been hard. Ben knew the responsibility for having the Omnitrix and he loved the device itself… but he didn't really like all the attachments that came with It. He had a dead knot inside of his stomach every time he thought of someone coming for the Omnitrix. Ben knew it would happen eventually, so he tried to prepare for it. What a better to do that, then train with the Omnitrix. As a result, he had transformed into every one of his aliens at least once. So, he had at least a general idea on how to use each one.
Right now, they were at the store, because they needed to buy a few things before they hit the road once again.
"So, Ben, what're you doing." Gwen asked her cousin. Ben just shrugged silently as he kept turning the dial for the Omnitrix.
"I don't know. I guess you could say I'm bored." Ben told her with a yawn. She sighed silently as she dragged through the store, occasionally stopping to get a few things that she either wanted for needed. Ben also had gotten a few things, but nothing big, just a few bags of chips, a candy bar and some gum.
Just as they walked over the register, a three of them felt the ground rumble slightly, everyone just thought it was an earthquake… well, that was until a fifteen-foot tall toad came crashing through the supermarket wall, funny enough, there was a man riding it.
He was average height and had had pale green skin, yellowish eyes, and shoulder-length white hair. He also had some sort gadget resting on his head and had one red goggles. He then jumped down a calmly walked over to wall and grabbed something and stuffed into a brown bag and calmly walked back towards his toad like nothing ever happened.
"Okay, I don't know how you shop back where ever you came from, but that's not we shop here. So, how about this… put stuff back that you were going to steal and go back to the hole were came from. Or, I'm going to roast you… and I mean it very literally." The Omnitrix bearer warned was he walked forward to face the yellow skinned human.
Ben heard the man scoff and spoke his next words with so much arrogance that it practically wrecked off of him… either that or another horrific smell was coming off of him.
"Please, a child stopping, thee great Dr. Animo!" The now named Animo scoffed as he thought a child would stop his brilliance, before he hopped onto his toad and stared down at the child, who he thought was just playing hero.
"You chose wrong, Dr. Freak!" Ben spoke as activated the Omnitrix and didn't even both selecting his alien before his slammed down dial, causing a green flash of light erupt, blinding everyone in the store.
In Ben's place, was a blue and black skinned humanoid velociraptor with black wheels on his feet and he wore a helmet with a visor, leaving the other features of his head unknown. He wore the Omnitrix symbol on his chest. He also had five blue stripes on his black tail.
"Now, Animo, you've made a terrible mistake." The creature spoke in a sped up raspy voice from behind his helmet.
Animo had to do a double take at the creature that was in front of him. 'What in the bloody hell is that?' The mad scientist thought in surprise.
"I'll give you one more chance to give up, Animo." Ben spoke with a warning tone. The scientist just grinned savagely before he jumped straight onto his toad and he ordered it to attack.
"Fine, I'll play along. Grandpa, Gwen, I want you two get everyone out of here. This is about to get ugly." Ben spoke with a unflinching look towards the charging toad with a maddened doctor riding it. The two nodded their heads and started evacuating the left-over civilians that were still on the scene.
Just as the two left, Ben zipped off with a blue and black after image. He quickly started hitting all of the toad's blind spots and then sent a few hundred kicks to the stomach, which sent him flying into the store's shelves. Unfortunately for Ben, Animo was completely fine and he started configuring his helmet and a narrow red beam shot out and zapped a few animals, which shockingly, started enlarging them… no.
'No, he's not enlarging them… he's evolving them!' Ben thought in pure shock as a small parrot grew to about eighteen-feet tall and had sideways slanted, red eyes. The next animal was a small hamster, it quickly started evolving as well and grew to be about six-feet tall, but danm that thing looked mean. It grew multiple red eyes and also grew horn-like tusks for teeth that curved upwards.
Ben snapped out his thoughts when the evolved hamster charged wildly at Max and Gwen. Ben quickly sped off and slammed into he hamsters side, causing it to slam into a shelve.
Ben's visor quickly retracted back into his helmet and his face became visible. He had a blue face, green eyes, black lips, and stripes above and on the right side of his eyes. "Look, I might need help. I can take the toad and the hamster. Think you can handle the bird?" Ben asked with a much clearer voice.
Both of them nodded their heads before Max dragged his granddaughter back into another isle. Thought as soon as he turned back around, he was back handed into the back of a wall back by the toads long tongue.
Ben groggily retracted his visor back down and narrowly dodged another tongue swipe, courtesy of the giant toad. Though, Ben quickly grabbed the long tongue with both his claws and pulled hard, but instead of pulled it like he thought, he was pulled instead. Ben thought quickly started rapidly punching the toad as he got close, but it barley did any damage.
Just then, he hamster charged from his side, which Ben easily dodged with his enhanced speed, causing it zoom right past Ben. He zoomed forward and started running in a circle around the toad. But what Animo didn't see, was that Ben was rapid striking the toad in every blind spot or weak spot it had. The toad suddenly roared in pain and it accidentally shook Animo right off his back, making him fall straight on his back. Ben then zipped right on in front of the toad and whipped his tail, striking him straight on the face, sending the toad flying back.
'Gotta love speed momentum.' Ben thought with a small smirk on his blue face which was hidden because of the visor.
'Now for… Animo…' Ben trailed off in thought as Animo was currently gone from were he was before. Just then the glass from above him broke, Ben quickly stared up and saw… Animo on his bird, flying straight through the sky light.
"You may have beaten me, today! But I swear I will get my vengeance and I WILL complete my goal AND I'LL TURN WASHINGTON D.C INTO WASHINGTON B.C! " He shouted in a crazed fashion. Ben started Longley at the, now broken skylight as Animo flew off into the distance.
"Sorry, we were blindsided with that… rabid hamster." Max apologized with a disappointed sigh, he should have never gotten taken surprise. Gwen on the other hand looked at Ben angerly.
"I thought you had the hamster covered?!" Gwen shouted at him with a furious expression on her face. Ben continued to stare at the skylight before he slapped the Omnitrix symbol on his chest and in a flash of green, he was back to normal.
"I made a mistake. That all, if your going to count all of the mistakes I'll make with this watch on, then you should get a book or a long piece of paper, because that wasn't first time and certainly wont be the last." Ben told her with a serious voice, causing her frown to become deeper. She was about comment once again but was blinded by another green flash. Ben once again transformed back into the speed alien which he became a few minutes ago and quickly zipped off.
"Wait, Ben!" Gwen shouted, but was stopped when large hand was placed on her shoulder. She looked up and saw Max with a disappointed look on his face and he shook his head.
"I'm disappointed with you, Gwen. You know Ben never meant that to happen. Do you really think Ben would let us get hurt on purpose?" Max asked rhetorically, causing Gwen took stare down at her feet in shame. After a few minutes, the decided to get back to the Rust Bucket and to try to find Ben.
They looked around and saw that Animo's animals had also gotten away. They quietly cursed and ran back to the Rust Bucket. They had to find Ben, ASAP.
Ben 10:
Ben quietly zipped through the streets at maximum speed, he was currently trying to find Animo. But after about thirty minutes and multiple transformations, he had no such luck. It was like Animo had dropped off the map after he had gotten out of the Market.
He reared a corner and wall ran up a fifteen-story tall building. Within a few seconds, Ben was already on top of it, he visor retracted up into his helmet and he stared at the city streets, Ben's eyes quickly moving back and forth as he visually scanned everywhere that was in his line of sight. He stayed there for a few more minutes before he retracted his visor back down and sped off to find the Rust Bucket.
Ben had easily found it within only a few minutes of searching before he de-transformed in flash of red. He lightly knocked on the side door for the Rust Bucket before he slid it open and walked in and he immediately drew the attention to himself. Ben walked up to his grandfather and sat in the front seat wordlessly.
"I couldn't find Animo. I circled the entire city with XLR8 and found nothing. It's like he dropped off the map entirely." Ben told Max with a sigh. The older man nodded his head in understanding.
"Did you find anything though?" He asked Ben, who nodded.
"I found some feathers of the exact same bird he flew off on scattered across numerous streets, but I couldn't trace it. But I do know he's still in D.C." Ben confirmed, causing his grandfather smile and ruffled his hair, making him lightly chuckle.
"Then it wasn't a total waste. I mean if you didn't find that clue then we would have never know he was still in D.C." Max told him with a proud smile on his aged face.
Ben grinned a small bit and shook his head. "Don't worry about. So, did you guys find anything?" Ben asked him. Max nodded.
"Yea, we found the Dr.'s motives. He's basically having a twenty-year-old hissy fit about not winning a competition that was set long ago. He's doing this for revenge." Max explained to his grandson, causing his grin to instantly vanish and was replaced with a small frown.
"So, he's planning on killing thousands of innocent people just because he lost the science convention?" Ben asked angerly. Max solemnly nodded, definitely agreeing with Ben's statement. This whole thing was childish beyond belief.
"Grandpa! I think I know were Animo is at!" Gwen shouted from behind, surprising both of them.
"Where is that, Gwen?" Max asked seriously.
"It's the museum!" She shouted once more, causing Ben to face vault upon hearing her answer.
Of course! Why didn't he think of that!
"Well… what are we waiting for?" Ben asked. Max smirked as he started to drive. He dodged and weaved through traffic. They needed to get to Animo, and fast.
"Why cant you go as XLR8?" Gwen asked from behind. Ben just shook his head.
"I don't want to waste the time for transformations. We don't know what we're getting into, I don't know if I'm going to have to make multiple transformations or not. At the moment, it's safer to play it slow." Ben explained to her, causing her blink in surprise before she nodded at his reasoning.
After a few minutes of speeding through traffic at speeds that Ben and Gwen didn't know were possible for the old RV.
Once they got there, they quickly hopped out the RV and Max had a Plumber riffle with him and Gwen carried a Bo staff that was made out of pure solid wood and had metal tips. It was primarily dark brown in color.
Ben was just in his human form and his face was completely serious.
"Remember kids, we don't know what were getting into, so be on alert at all times." Max told them seriously, Gwen nodded back, but Ben just started calmly walking forward, his face emotionless as always. Just as they got to the entrance, Ben plucked a feather that lightly flying in the wind and eyed it for a few minutes before he lightly chucked it over his shoulder.
When they walked in they were greeted by Animo, who appeared to be working on something. Suddenly mad laughter was heard and was originated by the yellow skinned human.
"You really picked a bad time for trying to stop me. Now that I've completed my work, I can finally move my plans into faze TWO!" Animo shouted crazily as he readjusted something on his chest. It looked like switch of some kind that was attached to a dark brown vest.
"Please, you're the coward that hid. If you had any amount of honor, then you would have fought your battle head on. But I guess, the strongest do not always win and it's smartest that win sometimes. But… I'm afraid that today, that wont be happening." Ben told the scientist with a smirk on his face and his green eyes gleamed with amusement at how confident the Dr. was acting.
"Oh, my dear boy, you are so wrong that, you don't even know it! But allow me to show you how wrong you truly are! Behold the brilliance of Dr. Animo. The only man alive to be able to reanimate dormant cells!" The yellow skinned doctor yelled, completely shocking Ben to core.
"Wait… you cant mean?!" Ben asked incredulously, Max had a deep frown on his face and Gwen looked confused.
"You mean you are able to bring certain things or animals back to life?" Max questioned to make sure. He was familiar with such things. There were many ways to be able to do that, with level eight Plumber Tech, it was easy. But earth wasn't even ready level three Plumber Tech.
"I will say this Animo. That's amazing and very brilliant." Ben complimented, making the Dr. shoot a surprised look at the teen.
"But I cannot let you harm or kill innocent people. I will stop you, here today." Ben stated with absolute confidence and resolve in eyes and tone. Max smiled proudly, he could have said it better himself. Gwen nodded her head in agreement.
"BEHOLD!" Animo shouted a turned the switch and activated his DNA Transmodulator and shot out a red laser that was shaped like a lightning bolt and it struck the mammoth that was right beside him. Their vison was obscured by a bright red and orange light. One there vison was clear, they saw a moving mammoth with deep, soulless red eyes.
Seeing that his work was done, Dr. Animo then beelined it to another room. Ben caught and turned towards everyone else.
"Listen I'll take big guy over here. You guys take the Mad Freak." Ben told them as he readied his Omnitrix and activated it. Transforming into a diamond humanoid.
His lower body, torso, and the top of his head consisted of indigo crystals which has black lines and dots over it. There were six crystal shards on his back instead of four, and he also sported two more on the front of his chest. His eyes were green, and he wore the Omnitrix symbol on his chest. (Alien Force Diamondhead).
"Diamondhead? Okay I can roll with this." Ben spoke in a mature voice as he shaped his arms in crystal lances and charged forward. He slammed his crystal lance in the beast's horn, then Ben's reared back his other arm and reformed the lance into diamond like shield. He then slammed it against the mammoth repeatedly, until the mammoth had enough, and it used it's tusks to send Diamondhead straight into the air. Diamondhead didn't panic though, he flipped through the air and started firing crystals out of his hand, stabbing straight into the beast's flesh, causing it roar in pain. Diamondhead flipped once more before he landed on the ground with two feet.
"Okay that isn't normal. Those diamonds should gone straight through its body. But all it did was pierce it's skin. So, it's even stronger then it was when It was previously alive. Not going to lie Animo… this thing is wicked." Ben stated with a smirk on his face as he slammed his straight on the floor, causing valley of sharpened diamonds to erupt from the ground and they headed for the angered mammoth. It tried to stop Diamondhead's attack with its strengthened tusks, but it was easily overwhelmed, and it was sent into the wall forcibly.
It slouched over before it got up on shaky legs. It glared at Diamondhead with it's pure red eyes.
"Please, just stay down. I don't feel like killing you." Diamondhead pleaded. The mammoth completely ignored his plead and charged forward. Diamondhead just stayed motionless, just as it got close enough for attack, Diamondhead fell straight to his back and morphed his crystal hands into lances once again and lunged forward, stabbing right through the beast's under belly.
It's screamed in absolute pain as it tried to wiggle free, but Diamondhead morphed his lances and caused them crow spikes of many sizes from the lance while it was still inside its body. Blood spurted right on his diamond face and he made a disgusted face, but he kept his arms in the beast's stomach. It screamed in even more pain before it hunched over, once again dead.
Diamondhead rapidly retracted the spikes on his bloody lance and morphed his lances into hand once more. He quickly shook his head, like a dog shaking off water, but only in this case it was a diamond humanoid shaking off fresh blood.
"BEN!" Diamondhead heard Max call, he quickly ran towards were he heard the voice and saw Max staring at a large whole in the wall that leaded outside.
"What's wrong… where's Gwen?" Ben asked calmly before he had on a panicked face as he realized that Gwen wasn't next to his grandfather.
"The bird Animo evolved has her. And also, Animo reanimated a T-Rex. So be careful. I'll meet you whenever." Max informed him.
Diamondhead slapped the Omnitrix's silver, white and black insignia and transformed into a red, humanoid, manta ray like alien with two black lightning bolt-like stripes coming down from his shoulders to his Omnitrix symbol, which laid on his chest.
"Good. I got what I wanted. Don't worry about Gwen, nobody is faster than Jetray!" The now named Jetray spoke with confidence as flew up into the air at sonic speeds.
As Jetray flew the sky at she rapid speeds, he zoomed in on the hyper evolved flying bird, the mana ray's eyes shined green before two narrow beams shot out of his eyes, which hit the bird, causing it to screech loudly in pain before it flew straight up and gained altitude.
Jetray smirked before he picked up speed with a loud sonic boom. Just as he was gaining on to the bird, it dropped Gwen who screamed for dear life.
Jetray reacted quickly as he flew right after her and he immediately snatched her out of the air, causing her to jump in fright and surprise.
"Gwen, I need you to hold on tight." Jetray warned her in serious tone, causing her to meekly nod in acceptance before Jetray picked up speed once more in left in another sonic boom. He flew up and tackled the bird before he punched the bird in the side of the head, before he flew off and shot out a fast neuroshock blast straight out of the tip of his tail, effectively piercing it's wing, causing it to squawk in pain and surprise.
Jetray flew ahead of the injured bird once more before he used his superior speed and stopped midair while the bird flew straight at him. Jetray waiting until the bird was in range before he smacked the bird clean across the beak with his strong tail, sending it straight down into a vacant building, causing a small dust cloud to erupt over the point of impact. Ben focused before used his tail and his eyes to shoot three simultaneous neuroshock blasts straight into the building, effectively blowing it to kingdom-come.
Jetray slowly floated over the now destroyed building with flames burning bright, he stared down at the burning building for a few moments with a slight longing look before he turned around and blasted straight off in a sonic boom.
Just as Jetray had gotten to Rust Bucket, the Omnitrix started beeping before in a flash of red, Ben was back in his human form with Gwen still tightly wrapped in his arms.
Gwen's eyes fluttered open and saw the side of Ben's scowling face as he walked in the RV, she blushed lightly when she noticed she was in his… strong arms and slightly squeaked in surprise as well, causing Ben stare at her in surprise before his face lit up in a tiny blush as well, most likely realizing what she was squeaking about.
"Umm… yea… I'm going to put you down now." Ben slightly shuddered first before his face was set back into a scowl as he laid her down on her bunk in the RV. The orange haired teenager said nothing as she avoid Ben's eyes as her blush got a slightly bigger.
Seeing as his job was done, he walked over to passenger's seat and sat besides his grandfather who had a worried look on his face.
"How's Gwen and where's the bird?" Max questioned worriedly as he set the RV in gear before he drove off once more. Ben buckled himself before he answered his question.
"Physically, Gwen's fine. She's just a little shaken up, give her a few minutes for her to calm down, as she did fly around D.C at five hundred miles an hour." Ben told him calmly, his undertone held a little relief that everything turned out just fine.
Max sighed in relief as well, "That's good…"
"And the bird is dead." Was all Ben said and Max decided to drop it there.
"Though, what are we going to do about Animo? I mean who knows where he's at now." Ben muttered. Max looked over for a quick second before smiling.
"Animo dropped a clue at where he was going before he rode of on the R-rex. He said, 'he was going to claim the reward that he so rightfully reserves.'" Max quoted. "So, my guess is that he's going to pick up his reward from Dr. Kelly." He told him, causing Ben to nod in agreement before Max slammed on the gas pedal to go even faster.
Ben 10:
Just as Ben, Max and Gwen were nearing, they saw a giant T-rex run straight through a glass building with an intimidating roar. Though, it stopped and everyone in the Rust bucket saw Animo jump down from his seat on the T-rex before a grabbed the award from the shelf as he held it up and stared proclaiming himself as a victor and how 'humbled' he was as he 'accepted' the reward from the committee.
Ben just chuckled in amusement, the dude was making a clear fool of himself. Though, Ben had enough when he heard Animo order the T-rex to charge and kill Kelly and his friends.
Ben ran out of the RV without a warning before he activated the Omnitrix while running straight towards the attacking T-rex before he turned the dial a few times as he tried to find the select alien he wanted before he clasped the popped up dial before a bright green erupted from behind Animo and the T-rex.
Animo turned around before he growled in frustration and annoyance as he saw that infamous green flash of light that he'd come to hate in such a short amount time.
In Ben's was Four Arm's tall form as he grinned maliciously before he cracked his neck and knuckles before crouched down lightly before he hopped forward and tackled the T-rex the through the other side of the building, making a huge hole in the wall as they exited.
The Tetramand stood up, then he grabbed the T-rex's tail he started spinning, after a few seconds of high-speed spinning, Four Arms threw the T-rex three-hundred feet into the air effortlessly with a growl.
As the T-rex was in the air, it roared in defiance as it started trashing around. Four Arms stood still for a second before he crouched down before he was launched himself into the air. As Four Arms was nearing the T-rex he smirked, "Down you GO!" The Tetramand shouted he balled up all four of his hands together before he violently spiked the T-rex straight down to the ground in a sonic boom.
In the next second, the T-rex slammed straight into the ground, making a good sized crater and a small shockwave, that shattered most of the windows in a two-hundred foot radius.
Everyone else watched in awe as they watched a twelve foot, four armed monster throw a T-rex three-hundred feet into the air before he sent it straight down and made a crater that was over twenty feet deep and over thirty feet wide.
Gwen herself was shocked, she knew Four Arms was strong, but to make a crater of that size… it just sounded a little impossible, even with Four Arm's strength. She couldn't help but a little awed at the display.
Max just blinked in surprise. Ben's Tetramand form was exceptionally quick and it looks like he didn't sacrifice speed for strength either, it looked like an almost perfect balance of speed and power. Though, he couldn't help but feel a disappointed that he didn't have anything to do. Max expected something like a challenge, but it's like he would be walking out without one, unfortunately.
Four Arms walked back inside before he picked up a long piece of metal shrapnel and then he grabbed Animo by the back of his shirt, before he walked over to the outside in which the T-rex first came through.
"Let me down, you big danm brute! I swear I'll have your head for this and then I'll shove all FOUR OF YOUR ARMS UP YOUR RED ASS!" Animo yelled crazily.
"Shut up." Four Arms growled in a deep, raspy voice. He didn't give Animo enough time to answer before he grabbed the back of his head and slammed into the ground, effectively knocking him into the realm of unconsciousness.
He sat Animo down before he easily tied the piece of shrapnel around the green skinned scientist in he shape of a pretzel.
Four Arms tapped the white, silver and black Omnitrix symbol down before another green flash blinded the area.
In a second later, the sound of something 'zooming' across the building. Once the some of the bystanders the big red monster was, and the old man and the orange haired girl was gone as well.
Ben 10:
From inside the RV, Ben and Gwen sat across from each other and Max was in the drivers seat as he drove the RV.
They all sat in silence for a few minutes, before Gwen decided to break it.
"I-I want to thank you for saving me from the mutant bird… and I'm sorry for yelling at you in the Super Market." She said with a gentle smile.
Ben either looked like he didn't hear her, or he just ignored her, either or. He just stared at the passing landscapes with his normal emotionless face. He stayed like for a while, and Gwen frowned as she was ignored.
"I'm not mad." He told her in his normal raspy tone, surprising her. "I'm just… confused." Ben admitted with a very small frown stretching on his face.
She didn't say anything immediately, but she did speak. "What are you confused about?" Gwen asked with her expression unchanging.
Ben ran a hand through his spiky hair that hung over his left eye before he started absently playing with it. "I don't understand about what I'm going to do… I don't know if I want the Omnitrix, or if I actually do." Ben admitted with half idled eyes. "There is just so many things that can go wrong… to be honest… I'm not even worried about my own heath, I'm worried about someone coming for the watch and they end hurting you, or grandpa or my mother."
Gwen frowned even more before he reach across the table clasped one his hands, causing him to look at her with his singular green eye that was exposed. "Don't worry, I'm sure you'll make the right decision, and everything will be fine. I'm not saying that we wont people wont be hurt, but what I'm saying is, is that I have faith that you'll make the right decision, with what ever you decide to do." Gwen told him with one of the warmest smiles that Ben had ever seen.
Ben's eye widened briefly before it went back to it's previous state and a small blush marred his features and he avoided eye contact from her.
"I… appreciate it… really. It feels nice for someone to have that much faith in me." Ben muttered with a small smile tugging on his lips.
Gwen smiled even brighter, but she didn't let go of his hand, not that she really noticed, she just kept staring at his face as a small blush lit up on her face as well, but again, not that she noticed.
From the drivers seat, Max silently watched the conversation and the bonding moment between the two with a small on his aged face. It looked like they actually were getting along. He only hoped it stayed that way.
END
So, who'd you guys like it? Good, bad, meh? Well, I kind of enjoyed writing that chapter. I had gotten to introduce another one of Ben's aliens, I had gotten write a few fight scenes, which I absolutely love doing.
I also, liked writing the short bonding moment between Ben and Gwen.
While some of you might be on the fence about them getting together to quick, don't worry, I wont be until later in the story. But remember, they aren't Ten year old's, no their Fourteen years old, so it's quite normal to get a boyfriend or a girlfriend during this age.
Also, as I said, I'm going to be skipping some episodes, as some I deem necessary for the story to progress. The Kraken Episode is one of those. But don't worry, I don't think I'll skip too many episodes.