Be ready everybody, this chapters got something different.
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Four Armed Bride
Chapter 13
The world was black and white as a nice house was seen and a voice that sounded like Rook spoke, "Ben 10 is filmed in front of a live studio audience."
The scene changed to inside the house as the front door opened and Ben walked in wearing a business suit, a hat and carrying a briefcase. "Honey I'm home!" The sound of people cheering and clapping was heard.
Looma walked out of the kitchen wearing a dress and an apron. "Hello beloved." Whistles and cheers could be heard. "How was your day?"
"It was weird." Ben took off his hat. "A bank robbery, giant robot attack, weapon smugglers, and a fire."
"That sounds like an average Wednesday to me." Looma said.
"Yeah that's the weird part, today's Tuesday." Ben said causing more laughter. "What about you?"
"Well those Vulpimancers got into the garbage again." She said.
"Really? I was sure that piece of Grandpa Max's cooking I put in there would scare em off." This brought more laughter.
Footsteps could be heard from upstairs, then two young Tetramands came running down the stairs. One was a boy in shorts and a sports jersey with the number ten on it. The other was a girl with her black hair in pigtails wearing a dress. "Dad!"
Ben smiled. "Max! Claymora!"
The two of them hugged Ben at each side, he gasped as the squeezed tighter.
"Kids, be careful of your fathers spine." Looma warned. "We don't want a repeat of last Halloween."
"I do." Max said as he and his sister let go. "I got like a ton of candy." More laughter.
"Well it helps when you can carry four bags at once." Ben said.
"Okay you two go outside and play." Looma said. "Your father and I need to talk."
"Uh oh." Claymora said. "Sounds like dads in trouble," they laughed as they ran outside.
Ben closed the door before turning to his wife. "So what is it?"
"I have big news!" Looma said excitedly. "Remember our trip to that beach house last week?"
"Of course," Ben smiled slyly. "How could I forget you in that gold bikini? That night reminded me of our wedding night, but with sand everywhere."
Looma blushed at the memory and looked away. "Actually it's about that night."
"Oh really?" he moved next to her, "We don't need the sand." He moved his hand behind her.
"Well, OOOH!" Looma gasped as her husband pinched her fanny. "Ben!" Her blush grew stronger. "Control yourself."
Ben smirked. "No promises. So what's this big news?"
She looked at Ben with a big smile on her face. "I'm pregnant!" She said happily and Bens face became surprised. "I was at the doctors this morning, its twins, again!"
Ben stared at his wife for a few moments before falling backwards onto the floor with a thump. This caused more laughter.
Looma put her hands on her sides and sighed before looking at the camera. "You'd think after last time I'd remember to have him sit down first." The invisible audience laughed and applauded even harder.
Ben's eyes popped open and he sat up, blinking he looked around and saw the world had colour and that he was in his and Looma's room. He saw the princess sleeping peacefully beside him.
"Just a dream." He let out sigh of relief. "It felt so real so real," he said to himself. "And so, nice." He placed his face in his hands. "Well I'm not getting back to sleep anytime soon. Now what? Wake Looma and ask if she wants to make out?" He chuckled. Then he looked at her and thought about it for a moment but shook his head. "No."
Getting out of the bed he decided to stretch his legs. Once he was dressed he was going to leave and check out the ship, but heard something beep. He looked to the nightstand next to the bed to see Looma's data pad. Curiosity got the better of him and he quickly grabbed it and opened it up. He saw a message had had come in, "I should not read this." He said to himself. "Then again if its something urgent, the only way she'd get it now is if I read it and wake her." He pointed out.
After thinking about it a little longer, he gave in and opened the message. It turned out to be an article, like the ones in a magazine. "Earth, What has it to Offer?" Ben blinked, "huh, shes been learning about Earth. That's pretty cool of her. Hmm, maybe I should have learned something about Khoros." He said to himself. He tapped the pad to close it up, but when the article went down, he spotted multiple other articles and their names caught his eye. "Study on human mating. How to seduce a human," Ben looking and found Earth articles. "Using your body to land a man, How to flirt with your bikini, Lingerie the ultimate weapon." Ben thought for a moment. "Well their not wrong." He kept reading, "Wait a minute, "100 steps to a human adjusting to life on a new planet. Human needs on a new world?"
"Beloved?" Ben turned to see Looma waking up. She saw him holding her data pad and her eyes widened. "What are you doing!?"
"Just a little late night reading. Luckily you had some material," he held up the device.
Looma gasped before jumping out of the bed and grabbing it out of his hand. "How could you read this? Its private!"
"I gathered from all your tips on seduction." Ben said. "And whats with all the ones on humans moving to over planets?"
"For after the wedding when we move to Khoros." Looma explained.
"What?" Ben was shocked. "You expect me to leave Earth?"
Looma crossed her arms. "When I reach ascension to rule the Kingdom of the Red Wind. We will be living in the palace by then."
"This is the first I've heard about it." Ben frowned.
"I thought it was obvious." The princess said.
"No, smoothies are awesome, that's obvious." Ben said. "You just expecting me to leave my world forever is crazy!"
"Do not speak down to me Ben Tennyson!" Looma snapped. "I hold the responsibility of ruling an kingdom and upholding its strength."
"And I hold the responsibility of protecting my planet." Ben countered. "Not to mention the rest of the universe. Unlike at dinner yesterday, I think I've got more on my plate."
"You can still protect the universe," the princess pointed out. "You'd just being doing it from Khoros."
"When were you gonna tell me this?" Ben asked. "When we cut the wedding cake? And all those articles on seducing humans" Then it hits him, "wait, the way you've been acting, its all been an act to seduce me so I'd leave Earth and move to Khoros?"
"There was no act." Looma said. "And while we're speaking of honesty, why is everyone I've spoken to on your planet so surprised when I introduced myself as your fiancé?"
"What?" Ben blinked, "hearing someones getting married is usually surprising."
"I think its because you haven't told anyone we're engaged ." Looma accused.
"Well," Ben tried to come up with an excuse but the princess cut him off.
"Well what Ben? Yesterday my data pad searched your planets Internet for information of celebrities until it found you. It searched through all available information but found nothing about you being engaged." Looma explained. "Why are you hiding our engagement? Are you embarrassed of me? Are you trying to keep your options?" Ben opened his mouth, but Looma snapped at him. "Don't lie to me!"
"You want honesty? Fine!" Ben glared at her. "I never knew about the whole Tetramand, engagement through combat thing."
Looma's eyes widened, "what?"
"I was just trying to help Kevin get out of it without your dad destroying the Earth." Ben confessed. "I had no idea it meant I'd end up stuck with you."
"Stuck with me?" Tears started to form in Looma's eyes. Her expression then turned angry. "Well you wont be stuck with me any longer." She grabbed him by the shirt and lifted him off the ground. Looma opened the door and threw him down the hall. Due to her strength, Ben slid along the floor all the way to the end of the hallway.
"That might have been a mistake," he groaned.
Later Ben was down in another part of the ship, in a bar stayed open all night. At the moment it was just him and the bartender.
"I'll have another." Ben said.
"I think you've had enough," the Sylonnoid bartender said.
"I'll tell you when I've had enough!" Ben snapped.
The bartender quickly handed him another glass with a straw. "Smoothies on a space ship, the one that I didn't bring." He chuckled to himself, but quickly sighed sadly. "I'm in serious trouble."
"Trouble seems to find you, doesn't it?" Came the voice of Azmuth, standing on the counter next to him.
"Azmuth?" That was the second time Azmuth seemed to appear out of nowhere.
"Red Comet, and leave the bottle." Azmuth said and the bartender lifted a large bottle of black liquid, that seemed to have red glow worms floating in it. He put a straw in it and handed the other end to Azmuth.
"That's a big bottle," Ben observed. In fact it was twice the Galvans size.
"After a day of speaking to diplomats, politicians and royalty, who wouldn't be driven to drink?" Azmuth sipped his drink. "So, you and the princess are have pre-marital problems?"
Ben sighed, "That obvious huh?"
"Your sitting alone at a bar instead of being with her." He pointed out. "You don't need to be the smartest being in three, arguably five galaxies, to figure it out."
Ben gave Azmuth the rundown on his situation, "and now I don't know what to do."
Azmuth to a sip of his drink, swallowing a glow worm in the process. "How do you feel about Looma?"
"I don't know," Ben hung his head. "Back when we first met the first thing I felt was pain, mainly because she was beating me up." He lifted his head, "but now shes, amazing. Shes beautiful, tough, cool and likes smoothies. But she wanted to get married so bad and wants me to move to Khoros with her."
"Did you try talking to her?" The Galvan asked.
"It, didn't end well." Ben sighed.
"Shocking," Azmuth rolled his eyes.
Ben glared at him. "Look I know I'm not ready to get married yet, but I really like Looma and I think I wanna be with her. Anyway she lied two, acting the way she did."
"Acting differently to impress someone you like, how completely unheard of." The Sarcasm in is voice was heavy.
He placed his hands on his head. "Argh! Trying to figure this out is wrecking my brain!"
Azmuth took a long sip of his drink. "Listen to your heart."
Ben turned to him in surprise, "What?"
"Using your brain has never been your strong suit." Azmuth finally turned to look at him. "But you when to make decisions with your heart, the result ends to be for the better." He looked at his reflection in the half empty bottle." If I had done that many years ago instead of following my minds relentless quest for knowledge and control, my life would have been, much different."
Ben knew what he was talking about. "Do you ever think about Zennith?"
Azmuth said nothing. He pressed something on his wrist and a holo image was projected. It was of a much younger Azmuth, holding hands with Zennith. They were smiling and lovingly looking into each others eye's. "More than you know."
There was silence for a few seconds before he deactivated it. He pressed another button and his hover pad floated up to the counter. Azmuth took one last sip and jumped on. "Where are you going?" Ben asked.
Azmuth gave him a look. "I just drank half a bottle of Red Comet, where do you think I'm going?" With that he hovered away.
Ben looked at the half empty bottle and was curious. "I wonder what that stuff tastes like?"
"Don't even think about drinking that!" Azmuth called back. "In addition to being under your species drinking age, it'll cause severe organ failure."
Ben blinked before looking at the bartender, who simply moved the bottle out of his reach.
Ben didn't sleep for the rest of the night, he only returned to his room as Big Chill to see if Looma was still there, but she had left for breakfast.
Not long after that, all the guests had gathered in the ball room for the final day of the Intergalactic Royal Ball. Ben entered, thankfully without an introduction this time and went towards the buffet table. He spotted those green shrimp he liked, but at the moment he didn't feel hungry.
Suddenly he felt a hand on his shoulder, "You okay Ben?" His grandfather asked. "You look a little down."
"Oh, hey Grandpa," Ben said. "I'm okay its just, Looma and I had a fight."
"I see," Max nodded, "Do you have any serious injuries?"
"What?" Ben blinked in confusion before her realised what he meant. "No not that kind of fight. An argument."
"Oh, what about?" He asked.
Ben filled his grandfather in on what happened, "and then she threw me out, literally."
"This isn't good." Max said.
"I know," Ben agreed. "I really hurt her feelings."
Max was talking about he possible reproductions for the Earth, but he didn't say it. "Ben?"
"I know this all started as a way to keep her happy until she went home but," Ben paused.
Max raised an eyebrow. "But?"
"I, actually like Looma. I like her a lot." Ben admitted. "Shes cool, tough, super hot, loves smoothies and is actually really sweet. I don't think it was all an act." A sad expression appeared on his face as he hung his head. "I really messed up here."
Max placed a hand on his grandsons shoulder. "Let your old Grandpa give you some relationship advice. The first step in setting things right, is apologising." He pointed into the crowd.
Ben looked and spotted Looma, now in her dress and chatting with other guests, though she didn't seem to be having a good time.
"Go on Ben," Max encouraged him.
"Thanks Grandpa." Ben said,
Max smiled, "Anytime."
Ben took a deep breath and stepped forward, but then stopped. He turned around and grabbed a few of those green shrimp. As he ate, he notice his Grandfather staring at him. "What?" He said with a mouth full, "Can't do this on an empty stomach." With that he walked away while Max chuckled.
Looma sighed as the Dracosian she was speaking to left. "Looma?" Her eyes widened and she turned to see Ben. "Hey."
"Ben," she said in surprise.
"Listen, can we talk?" Ben asked.
Before the princess could respond, an announcement cut her off. "Esteemed guests," Countess Madora addressed the crowd. "It has been a true pleasure to have you all here on the Nebula. And now on the final day of the Intergalactic Royal Ball, we shall celebrate!" The crowd gave applause. "Music!" A moment later music was being played. "Let the dancing begin!"
The crowd began to pair up and begin dancing. Leaving only Ben and Looma. The two of them looked at each other for a moment before stepping towards each other. Ben held Looma's upper right hand in his left one and placed his right hand on her hip. The princess placed her lower right hand on Ben's left shoulder and her left arms on his right shoulder and arm. They both gave each other a nervous look before the music started and they began dancing.
They danced in silence for a few minutes before Ben broke it. "I'm sorry Looma. For what I said and for lying to you."
"It seems we are both guilty of deception." Looma said.
"Yeah." Ben sighed. "Okay heres the truth. When this engagement happened I freaked out and when you came back to Earth, I freaked out again. But when we started spending time together, I really enjoyed being out with you."
The princess smiled at hearing this. "I'd heard of your acts of heroism and found myself attracted to you for more than just your skill as a warrior. As I said before battle is a way of life for Tetramands, but Humans are very different. I began to fear that we were too different to be together. After some research on human males I thought I could use my body to make you fall in love with me."
"You didn't have to that." Ben said. "But honestly, I'm really glad you did." They both blushed at the memories.
"Looma, what I'm trying to say is-" he was cut off when something hit the ship.
"What was that?" Looma asked.
Suddenly there was a explosion at the side of the hall. Out of the smoke stepped aliens of different species, all armed with blasters and energy weapons. Then out stepped a green skinned alien with a long black beard, a power hook replacing his left hand and a power peg leg. "Ladies and gentlemen of all species! My apologies for crashing the party. Allow me to introduce myself, Captain Kork. And this ship now belongs to me."
Bet you didn't see that last part coming. I know this chapters shorter than previous ones but its got feeling. Their first fight, well first emotional fight. I know Ben seemed harsh, when couples fight, feelings get hurt. I guarantee the next chapter will have plenty of action, including a long awaited return. Of what you ask? Well, you'll just have to wait and see.