Day 3
Ben, Gwen and Kevin were huddled out behind Mr. Smoothie, all staring at the Omnitrix. The dial was popped up and ready to go, it was just a matter of choice. Ben gingerly put his fingers on the dial, and began to twist.
''Eeeny, meeny, miney, moe!'' he shouted, and he pressed down on the dial. FLASSHH! The green light lit up the whole alleyway as Ben transformed. When Kevin and Gwen unshielded their eyes, they were amazed, and slightly scared at what they saw.
Ben was now tall, spindly, and jet black. His limbs were long and tapered, ending in razor sharp digits. Large boney spines grew along his back, stretching down onto his bony tail. His head was long and tubular, with no features expect a mouth full of sharp, grinding teeth.
''Okay, doofus,'' Gwen said cheerfully, trying to mask how much that thing scared her, ''what's the verdict?''
Ben opened his mouth, but instead of talking, he screeched, and a long tube thing stretched out of his mouth. Gwen couldn't help but scream. Attached to the tube was a small set of teeth that gnashed the air in front of her face.
Kevin stared. ''Now that is cool. Whatever it is.''
Max came around the corner holding a tray of smoothies. He yelped when he saw Ben, dropping the tray and spilling multicolored liquid all over the ground. Ben started to make a strange growling noise; he was laughing.
Max composed himself. ''Xenomorph'' he breathed. ''Always hated those things.''
Gwen was studying her cousin's new body. ''These things are trouble makers, Grandpa?''
Max shook his head. ''Animals, Gwen. The galaxy's ultimate predator. Plumber's dealt with an infestation back in…1964, I think. Transport ship crashed in the desert, and let a Queen loose. She infected an entire town; it was a mess. I think we had to bomb the town in the end.''
Kevin was studying Ben too. ''Whaddaya mean infected, Tennyson?''
Max kept to basic details; no need to gross them out. ''A Queen lays eggs, the eggs hatch into Face Huggers, meaning they latch onto your noggin and lay one of these things in your stomach. It grows and grows until it leaves your body. Forcibly.''
Gwen and Kevin shuddered, not wanting to know what 'forcibly' entitled.
Suddenly, Ben stood up in his full height, and jumped. He clambered up the wall of Mr. Smoothie, and went up over the lip of the roof. The rest of the gang ran out of the alley, to see Ben go running across the roof and jump to the next adjacent building. He skittered down that building's front wall, and charged out into the park.
Ben was feeling practically euphoric, even though he probably didn't know what the word meant. Grandpa was right; this alien was an apex predator, completely fearless and totally ruthless. Sheer, raw power ran through his veins. He was the king of the-
Ben didn't see the birdbath. He really didn't.
When Max, Gwen, and Kevin finally caught up with him, he was lying face first in the dirt, blood trickling from a small gnash in his head. The birdbath was overturned, and was slowly decomposing. Gwen noticed that Ben's weird alien blood was dissolving the stone.
Kevin snorted. "Acid blood? Really?"
Max shrugged. "Don't look at me. I don't control evolution. Now come on, help me get this little fool out of here before someone shows up for a picnic and ends up sitting on an alien."
(I don't own anything from 'Alien'.)