Hi everybody, welcome to chapter three. Theres a Doctor Who reference somewhere in this chapter, see if you can spot it.
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Four Armed Bride
Chapter 4
Bens sleep was disturbed by the sound of his alarm clock going off making him let out let out a groan, after several attempts he finally hit the snooze button. Sitting up in his bed Ben stretched out both his arms before standing up, the first thing he noticed was the golden buckle of his new belt hanging on the chair. "Oh right, that wasn't a dream." he sighed remember the events of the previous day. Suddenly his communicator went off. "You've reached the universe greatest hero, how may I help you?"
"We are needed at Plumber headquarters." came the voice of Rook. "Magister Tennysen says it is urgent."
"Okay partner, I'll grab some breakfast and head out." Something then occurred to Ben. "Hey Rook you didn't mention yesterdays incident, did you?"
"I did not." came Rooks reply and Ben let out a sigh of relief. "Pakmar will no doubt come to complain about his damaged store himself, as he normally does."
Ben face palmed. "Not about Pakmar, I mean about Looma!"
"No I have not told anyone of that, as you requested." the Revonnahgander answered.
"Good, I'll meet you at the base." with that he hung up. He got dressed and was about to leave the bedroom when he stopped and looked back at the belt on the chair. "Why not?" Ben shrugged and put on the belt, grabbing a quick breakfast he drove into the town and after stopping for a smoothy he parked just outside of a store that's sign read, "MAXS PLUMBING."
The inside seemed like an average plumbing store, Ben walked into the bathroom and pulled the chain. A moment later a circle formed beneath his feet he was lowered down a green tube straight down to Earths Plumbers headquarters, a huge underground base where the intergalactic police force monitored the planet and the surrounding sector of space. Ben headed to the main command room where he saw Rook and Patelliday speaking and at a computer console was his grandpa Max, the Leader of Plumbers on Earth. "Hey grandpa, so whats going on?" he asked taking a sip of his smoothy.
Max didn't turn away from the computer. "We need to talk about your fiancé Ben."
Bens eyes nearly popped out of his head in shock as he nearly choked on his own smoothy, once he regained his composer he glared at Rook. "You said you hadn't told anyone!"
"That is because I did not tell anyone." the Revonnahgander said.
"I already knew." Max said turning away from the computer. "I've known about your accidental engagement to Looma Red Wind since the day it happened."
Ben looked at his grandfather in shock, "How?"
Max put his hands on his sides. "A star ship chase through Bellwood, a fight that tore through undertown, even if we there was some way we could have missed that, did you really think no one noticed her fathers personal fleet that appeared within Earth's atmosphere?"
Ben stood there for a moment before scratching the back of his head, "I guess that would be kinda hard to miss." he laughed awkwardly.
Max pinched the bridge of his nose. "I don't see why you didn't just come to me after it happened."
With all eyes on Ben he said the only thing he could think of. "It was Kevins fault."
Max let out a sigh, "We'll deal with the engagement later right now you need to deal with the warship hovering outside earths atmosphere." he looked to Patelliday. "Where are Blukic and Driba?"
Before he could answer they were approached by a hovercycle with two small Galvans on it, one was thin and wore grey overalls and a cap while the other was fatter and wore a plumber suit. Blukic and Driba, the tech support for Earths Plumber base. "Did you two finish repairing the energy regulator modules?" Patelliday asked.
"We did" Blukic answered. "And it'll be working better than ever." A moment later there was an explosion from where the corner they had just come from.
"Better than ever huh?" Ben said bluntly.
"I don't understand." Driba said. "We decupled the power cables, I reversed the polarity-"
"You didn't reverse the polarity." Blukic cut in. "I did."
Dribas eyes widened. "Blukic I reversed the polarity, you reversed it back!"
"No I didn't!" Blukic said.
"Yes you did!" Driba argued.
"No I didn't!" Blukic countered.
"Yes you-" Driba was cut off.
"Enough! That can wait, bring up the image of the warship." Max said, the two Galvans jumped onto the console and brought up an image of a huge warship on the screen.
"That's a big ship!" Ben said.
"And an extremely well armed one at that." Rook added.
Patelliday stepped forward with a tablet in his hand and began reading the information. "This is the next generation Tetramand warship that was completed less than a month ago, its bigger, faster, and more powerful than then previous models and has more fire power than most armies."
"And its under Looma's command." Max said before looking back at Ben.
"Okay I get it this is bad, I should have dealt with this sooner and not left it until now." Ben admitted. "But I'm gonna handle it."
"That may make things worse Ben." Max said. "A life lesson, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."
"Or a supper strong Tetramand woman with a next generation warship." Patelliday added.
"Hey I beat Looma before and I could do it again." Ben stated.
"The princess is a fierce worrier Ben." Rook said. "She could beat you and take her anger out on the planet."
Bens eyes widened. "Would she do that?"
Patelliday scratched his chin. "Well it wouldn't be the first time we've seen mass destruction caused be a female was broken up with." he looked to Max. "Remember what happened on Tublex 5?" Everyone but Ben shuddered at the mention of that.
"That got out of control fast." Max shook his head.
Bean raised an eyebrow. "What happened on Tublex 5?"
Max and Patelliday looked at each other before Max said. "I'll tell you when your older. The point is you can't break up with her or call off the engagement, at least not yet."
"So what am I supposed to do?" Ben asked.
"Loomas only going to be here for a few days, take her out and show her a good time. Once she leaves we'll work on cancelling the engagement." Max explained.
"Yeah that should be easy." Ben said sarcastically.
"If you wish I can give you advice for your date." Rook offered.
Ben raised an eyebrow. "Since when are you are you the girl expert?"
"Since I have a girlfriend," the Revonnahgander smirked before adding. "And I got her intentionally."
The five of them had a laugh at Bens expense as he glared at Rook. "Ha ha." he laughed sarcastically. "And while I'm entertaining the space amazon what will the rest of you be doing?"
"Aside from our usual Plumber duties we'll be monitoring the warship." Max said. "Any questions?"
Blukic raised his hand. "When were we gonna get our invitations to the wedding?"
Ben nearly face palmed. "Theres not going to be a wedding! And even if there was it wouldn't be for three years."
"We may have plans set for the day." Driba said.
Ben blinked. "You guys have plans set for three years from now?"
"No." Blukic said. "But we could've had."
"We are part of the most intelligent race in the universe after all." Driba said proudly.
Another explosion was heard and this one was even louder than the first one. "Perhaps you should use that intelligence to fix that." Rook suggested.
Blukic and Driba hopped on their hover cycle and headed back the way they came. "This time let me handle reversing the polarity." Driba said.
"I can reverse the polarity just fine." Blukic said.
"You confused the polarity." Driba
"No I didn't!" Blukic said
"Yes you did!" Driba said.
"No I didn't!" Blukic said.
"Yes you did!" the two of them kept arguing even after they were out of earshot.
"Smartest race in the universe, could have fooled me." Ben said.
"Moving on," Max got them back on topic. "Its time you make a date." he said to Ben.
Patelliday went up to the console and typed in a few commands. "All set," he turned and looked to Ben. "Just press the communications button and it will patch you through to Loomas ship."
"Great." Ben groaned taking a big sip of his smoothie before walking up to the console, he took a deep breath he pushed the button.
A moment Looma's face appeared on the screen, she instantly smiled seeing who was calling. "Beloved!"
"Hey Looma." Ben said awkwardly. "Hows it going?"
"Oh just training, warship maintenance oh and I hung up the trophy of our first battle in my personal quarters. It looks glorious." she said happily.
"Cool." Ben scratched the back of his neck, he noticed his grandpa at the side signalling him to get on with it. "So I was wondering if you, maybe wanted to go out again today. You know see the sights, have a few smoothies maybe beat up some more bags guys. Only if your free of course, if you've already got plans I totally understand-" the princess cut him off.
"That's sounds wonderful!" her voice showed her excitement. "I'll grab my ship and meet you for more of those smoothies first." with that the call ended.
"Great." Ben let out a sigh, he had to be the only teenager on the planet to be disappointed to get a date.
Rook placed a hand on his shoulder. "Well done Ben, that was very," he paused thinking of the earth term. "smooth."
"Thanks." Ben knew that was in no way smooth but took the compliment anyway.
"You better get going." Patelliday said. "Take it from me you shouldn't keep a lady Tettramand waiting."
Ben remembered Patellidays story and gulped. "Maybe I should bring some back up, like a few Plumber tanks."
"Come on Ben." Max waved that off. "Your always bragging about how you saved the universe so many times, how hard could a date be?"
"Right." Ben said nervously before turning and quickly heading towards the exit.
Once he was out of earshot Rook looked to Max. "Does Ben have much experience when comes to females?"
Max thought about it for a moment. "Maybe you should go and keep an eye on them."
Rook raised an eyebrow "Would that not that make me, the third circle?"
"Its third wheel and no, just keep watch from a distance and be ready to lend a hand if needed." Max explained.
"Very well." Rook said before going after him.
Ben was standing outside Mr Smoothies with a smoothy in each hand. "Just relax Ben." he told himself. "Its just a date, nothing you can't handle." he spotted Loomas ship land in the parking lot beside his own car. "Here goes nothing."
Looma stepped out of her ship and saw Ben coming over. "Beloved!" she said happily.
"Call me Ben." he hopped that would make this a little less awkward. "Here," he handed her the smoothy.
The princess gladly accepted it. "Thank you, Ben." The two of them sat down at one of the tables. "So tell me, what battles and adventures have you had since our engagement?"
"Well," Ben went to tell her about his many adventure including going to another dimension and meeting his alternate self, saving Galvan Prime from Malware, freeing Earth from the Incurseans even when Eon switched his mind with his younger self.
"I still don't understand, how you can switch bodies yourself from 5 years ago?" Looma asked.
"I try not to think about it." Ben shrugged. "Time travels confusing enough without trying to understand it." Ben was no longer feeling nervous, in fact he was kind of enjoying himself. "How about you, what have you been up to?"
"Just before I left for Earth I crushed a rebellion that was stirred within my father territory." Looma said.
"Oh." Ben suddenly felt his nervousness returning. "Sounds like fun."
"Not really, they barely put up a fight at all." she finishing off her smoothy.
Ben gulped. "Let me get you another smoothy.".
"Thank you Ben." Looma handed him the empty cup and he headed to the counter.
After getting a few more smoothies he headed back to the table. "Time to change the subject." he thought to himself. Ben placed a tray of different flavour smoothies on the table. "One of many great things about smoothies, they come in many flavours."
Looma grabbed one and took a sip. "Mmm, they are delicious!"
Ben grabbed a smoothie feeling proud of himself and took a sip, "Subject changed." he thought to himself.
"We should definitely serve these at the wedding." Looma said.
This caused Ben to nearly spit out his smoothy, "The wedding?"
"Yes we have so many things to plan." Looma pulled out a small device and pulled it open revealing it to be a data pad. "And theres no time like the present."
Ben gulped at the sight of the data pad, it was all in a different language so he couldn't understand any of it, but the sheer amount of things displayed on it. "Should have stuck with rebellion story." he said mentally.
"The first thing we need is the location, where should we have it Earth or Khoros?" Looma asked.
"Ah, Earth." Ben managed to say.
Looma put a hand under her chin in thought. "It is where we met, where our engagement was made and where we had our first battle." the princess smiled widely "Its settled!" She pressed something on the data pad and looked through other items. "We still have to arrange our parents battle," Looma stopped when she realised something. "I haven't even met your parents yet."
"YOU CAN'T!" Ben nearly shouted startling Looma. "I mean, its too soon in Earths culture." He thought quickly. "You go out with someone for a while before you introduce them to your family, I mean we this is just our first date." it was actually true, satisfied Ben took a sip of his smoothy.
"Oh is that three date rule I've heard of on your planet?" Looma asked.
That did cause Ben to spit out his smoothy. "Cough, cough, no no, that not it!" Ben said as his face started to turn red.
Looma blinked in confusion of Bens sudden spit take, but found his bright red face cute. "We'll deal with that later then."
Ben decided to change the subject again. "How about we work on that stuff later, I mean we've got 3 years to prepare for the wedding. For now lets just enjoy our date." he said.
Looma smiled at that and closed the data pad before putting it away. "So, what shall we do next?"
That wiped the smile off Bens face, he hadn't thought that far ahead. "Um," he scratched the back of his head. "we could-" he was cut off by his phone ringing. He answered it. "Hello."
"Perhaps you should take her to a movie." came a familiar voice.
Ben blinked. "Rook?"
"Yes Ben, it is me." the Revonnahgander answered.
Ben turned back to Looma. "I gotta take this, be right back." he moved away from the table so Looma wouldn't hear him before speaking again. "Rook why are you calling me?"
"I'm am helping you on your date." he replied.
"Helping me" Ben stopped and began looking around. "Are you spying on me?"
"Magister Tennysen suggested that I follow you and help you when you needed it." Rook explained.
"Help? I've been saving the world since I was ten years old, I don't need help on a date." Ben stated.
"The look of panic on your face, the spitting of your smoothy and inability to think of where to take the princess say otherwise." Rook countered.
Ben let out an irritated sigh as he couldn't think of an argument. "Okay fine, maybe I could use a little help." he admitted. "You said the movies?"
"Yes, I understand that is a very common place for earth dates to go." Rook said.
"That does sound good, its been a while since I took in a movie." and it would keep them from wedding plans which was good news for Ben. "Thanks partner."
"No thanks nessacery, saving you comes with the job." Rook said casually.
"Okay I take it from-, Wait a minute!" Ben realised what Rook had said. "This is not a save and I never need saving!"
"Our past missions and Kevin's stories disagree." the Revonnahgander countered.
Ben raised an eyebrow, "When were you talking to Kevin?"
"Kevin and I share an interest in high performance vehicle modification." Rook explained. "He usually shares stories of embarrassing events that happen to you during your time working together."
"That's another one I owe Kevin." Ben said think about how to get him back. "Well at least he doesn't know about the stuff when I was a kid."
"Indeed, those stories come from Gwen." Rook said.
"Wait WHAT?" Ben nearly shouted.
"No time, the princess appears to be finishing off the last of the smoothies. Good luck at the movies partner." With that Rook hung up.
Ben let out sigh before walking back to the table, he saw that Looma had indeed finished the remaining smoothies. "Okay Looma we're going to the movies."
It didn't take them long to reach the movie theatre. "So what do you think?" Ben asked as the entered the theatre.
"It does sound entertaining." Looma said as she looked around the theatre. "Which of these movies should we see?"
Ben looked at the movie listings and wondered which would Looma enjoy "How about, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief?"
"Very well." Looma agreed.
They approached the counter where a girl had her back to them as she worked the popcorn machine. "Excuse me?" The girl turned around with a small box of popcorn in her hands, when she saw Looma gasped in surprise accidentally throwing the popcorn in the air and it rained down on the counter. "Um two tickets for Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief please." Ben asked politely ignoring the spilled popcorn.
The girl gave a nervous smile and quickly gave them their tickets "Your in screen 3." Ben paid for them "Do you want some drinks or popcorn?" she asked.
"Whats popcorn?" Looma asked.
Ben picked up a few pieces off the counter "Try some." he offered.
Looma took the popcorn and ate it. "Ooohhh this is good." she looked at the girl and the small box the popcorn was in. "How big do those boxes come?"
A few minutes later they entered screen three. Ben carried a large soda, a large bucket of popcorn and a box of candy while Looma carried two large buckets of popcorn, an extra large soda and four boxes of candy. The two of them took their seats which luckily were able to accommodate the Tetramand princess, just as the movie began. They both were enjoying the movie, at least until a loud voice yelled "HEY GIGANTO DOWN IN FRONT!" Ben turned around to see a man in his twenties sitting right behind them. "Hey kid tell your friend to take off that stupid hat!."
"What did you say!" Looma said standing up out of her seat.
"You heard me, lose the stu…" he didn't finish that sentence as Looma stood to her full height, with the lights off and her back turned he didn't realise who he was yelling at.
Looma put all four hands on her hips, "You have something to say?" she narrowed her eyes at him.
"No sir, I mean mam, no mam!" he said quickly having lost his tough guy attitude. "Enjoy the movie!" With that he scurried out of his seat towards the door, tripping and falling on his face before finally leaving the room.
"Hmph! Coward." Looma sat down in her seat again.
"Yeah, he wasn't so tough when someone stood up to him." Ben laughed. "But when your in a movie theatre you are supposed to take your hat, or helmet."
"Really?" Looma asked.
"Yeah they usually block the view of the people behind you." Ben looked around and suddenly realised it was just the two of them in the screening room. "Guess you don't need to worry about that now." he turned back to Looma.
The Princess didn't seem to hear as she was removing her helmet when Ben looked at her. As the helmet came off, Looma's long raven black hair fell down gracefully reaching the middle of her back and the light from the screen made it look like her hair was shining. Ben found himself unable to stop staring at the princess and he realised something, Looma was beautiful. She looked at him "Is this better?"
"Yeah that's beautiful." Ben then realised what he said. "BETTER! Yeah that better, much better." he looked back at the screen as he started blushing, hoping Looma wouldn't notice.
But Looma could easily see Bens face turn red and she knew what meant with humans, which put a big smile on her face.
The movie went on with out any problems, that is until Ben ran out of popcorn. "Hey Looma, can I have some of your popcorn?"
"Of course," the princess offered the bucket.
Not wanting to look away from the Hydra battle that was taking place on screen, Ben reached out for the popcorn. But instead missed it and grabbed something big and round, making the princess gasp and drop her popcorn.
"SORRY!" Ben pulled his back not believing what he had just done.
Looma's cheeks turned a shade of pink as she looked away. "Ben, I didn't know your were so forward." Ben could have sworn he heard her giggle. "But I am a princess, we must wait until we properly married." Ben just sat in shock that she thought he did it on purpose and was making a pass at her. Looma looked down, "Seems we've run out of popcorn."
Ben blinked. "What about your second bucket?"
"That was my second bucket." Looma said "I finished the first one a while ago." She got up. "I will get us some more." With that she left the screening room.
Ben didn't say anything, he hung his head. "At least no one was here to see that." Then he felt a hand land on his shoulder. "GAH!" Ben pulled away ready to activate his Omnitrix.
"Easy Ben!" came a familiar voice. "Its me!"
"Rook?" Ben asked.
"Yes." Rook was wearing the same brown cloak and red cap he wore when he first met him.
"When did you get here?" he asked.
"I entered just after you and the princess did, then purchased a ticket to this movie to keep an eye on you two." Rook explained.
"But I looked around and never saw you." Ben said.
"Plumber stealth training." Rook said simply.
"Oh." Ben raised an eyebrow. "And why are you wearing that?"
"To blend in and not draw attention to myself." the Revonnahgander answered. "Though the woman who sold me the ticket also gave me her phone number." he pulled out a piece of paper with a phone number written on it and the name Katey next to a little heart.
"You dog." Ben smiled raising his fist for a fist bump.
"Actually, I am cat like." Rook said.
Ben stopped smiling, "Its an expression."
"Oh." Rook said before returning the fist bump, he still found most Earth expressions confusing. "I would say that your date is going well, except for your being so forward."
Ben began blushing again. "It was an accident! I was reaching for the popcorn but I was still looking at the screen!"
"I see." Rook said, his voice and expression made it hard to tell if he believed him or not. "Either way once the movie is over, I suggest you walk her back to her ship and end the date."
"Okay, that's sounds good." Ben nodded, then something occurred to him. "Wait a minute Looma went to get more popcorn, how is she gonna pay for it?"
"With money." Rook said causally.
"But she wont have earth money!" Ben argued. "I doubt the movie theatre accept Taydenite."
"No, I mean with American dollars." Rook corrects him.
Ben blinked "She has those?"
"Yes, this morning she contacted the Plumbers and exchanged a very large amount of currency into earth dollars." the Revonnahgander explained.
"Oh." Ben looked back at the screen. "Looks like shes full of surprises."
"Who are you taking to Ben?" he turned his head to see Looma walking towards him with two more buckets of popcorn and two sodas.
"Oh it just-" Ben turned his head back to Rook but he was gone, looking around the screening room there was no sign of him. "Wow, he is good." Ben then noticed Looma looking at him confused. "Ah don't worry about it, lets just enjoy the rest of the movie."
Looma smiled and took her seat, she handed him a soda, "Here I noticed your drink was running low." she handed him the soda.
"Thanks." Ben said sincerely, she noticed his soda was gone before he did. The two of them enjoyed the rest of the movie and when it was over Ben walked her back to Mr Smoothy where both their vehicles were parked.
"I had a lovely time Ben." Looma said as her ship opened up.
"Me to." Ben had to admit it was fun. "I'd call this a great first date." he said looking away and scratching the back of his head.
He didn't notice Looma smile and kneel down on one knee, lean in and kiss Ben on the cheek. His eyes widened in surprise and his cheeks turned red, he looked back at Looma as she got back into her ship. "See you tomorrow Beloved." The hatch closed and her ship rose into the air before jetting off out of sight.
Ben stood there looking up at the sky and placed a hand on his cheek where Looma had kissed him, a smile formed on his face. "It would seem your date was a success."
Ben jumped in surprise at the voice and saw Rook standing beside him. "Don't sneak up on me like that!" he snapped.
"I was not sneaking, I walked up next to you but you did not notice." Rook said casually.
Ben let out a sigh. "Yeah it went pretty well." Ben said turning around. "I'm gonna grab a couple of smoothies, wanna join me?"
"Very well." Rook walked with him. "I was hoping you could clarify something for me."
Ben raised an eyebrow. "Okay what?"
"On Earth it is normal for friends to engage in good natured 'Ribbing' of each other correct?" the Revonnahgander asked.
"Well, yeah." Ben shrugged. "Its no big deal."
"Good, then I can do this." Rook said before smirking. "Ben and Looma sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G." Rook laughed.
Ben blushed in embarrassment and surprise that Rook had got him with that old one. "Okay well played." he admitted composing himself.
But Rook wasn't done. "First come battle, then come marriage, then comes a ba-" Ben cut him off.
"Sing one more part and I'm gonna turn into Humungousaur and step on you!" he threatened.
"That is assuming you get Humungousaur." Rook brought up the Omnitrixs history of turning him into the wrong alien.
"Oh yeah?" Ben activated the Omnitrixs and selected Humungousaur, he then slapped his hand down and he was covered in green energy. When it passed Ben was now a very small grey skinned frog like creature with large green eyes wearing a black and green jump suit with the Omnitrix on his back "Grey Matter? Aw man!" Ben sighed in disappointment.
Rook looked down at him, "Smoothies?" he offered.
"Sure." Grey Matter shrugged his small shoulders and they both headed for the counter.
And that was Ben and Looma's first date. I hope you all enjoyed it. Check out the new poll on my profile. The results of the last poll were: 1st Deapool VS Deathstroke. 2nd Iron Man VS Lex Luthor. 3rd Wolverine VS Raiden