Chapter 3: A New Chronian And The Omnitrix
A week later, Izuku was eating breakfast with the others and started seeing the parallels between their quirks and the aliens in the show. Uraraka and Kurose were similar to Gravitack, Asui was practically an Incursion without the war obsession (which part of him wanted to laugh remembering what she jokingly told them she was convicted for), Hagakure was Comalien, Shinsho reminded him a bit of Zs'Skayr, and Pony was a lot like Ultimate Humungasaur. He also saw similarities between Aizawa and the Omnitrix, making him think that there might have been DNA for the Omnitrix itself. 'I wonder if anyone else has similar abilities to the Omnitrix,' Izuku thought to himself.
Over the past week, Izuku did in fact have his room in a time bubble to watch the entirety of Ben 10, and was also helping his peers with their quirks as best he could (which wasn't much). They trained with Gran on fighting styles, All Might (and Dead Arms from time to time) for weight training, Aizawa for parkour, Thirteen for rescue, and the man helped cultivate their minds… by drilling any and all knowledge he could into their heads that day. All in all, the teens were wondering if this was a good idea.
"Hey guys, what if Aliens gave us quirks through radiation?" Hagakure asked suddenly. The subject of aliens was nearly constant after they learned about what the Plumbers were really for, but it was the first time they discussed aliens in the same context as quirks, which made Izuku and Kurose choke on their food.
"Wh-where did you get an idea like that?" asked Izuku.
"Well, there's no way that things like guns and such are natural evolutions. Our ancestors must've been experimented on by aliens, infusing our DNA with radiation that helped us advance and adapt!"
"... Yeah, no. I'm sorry Toru, but that's too insane," Ochako told her.
"Maybe alien DNA?" Pony suggested.
"How would that work? Some sort of explosion?" the rescue hero questioned.
"I don't think it really matters," Shinsho said, "The only thing that matters is that we have them now and we should use them for good." Everyone agreed and went to start training.
The group are in the training room again with Snipe as a special guest. Holding up what Izuku recognized as a Prototool, and told them, "This beauty here is called a Prototool, it will be used as your blasters for today." He walked a bit away from them and aimed at a cutout of a green gelatinous alien with a UFO looking device above it, and shot the device. "Your task is to shoot at them as you run around the area."
"So, we're basically playing advanced laser tag?" Shinsho asked.
"No. If this was an advanced game of laser tag, I would bring in other officials such as military and actual cops to help teach you." The group looked at him, waiting for any sign that he was joking, but didn't see any as he continued. "Now, pick up a Prototool and start blasting."
"I'm starting to question UA's teaching methods," Uraraka stated while grabbing a Prototool. The group started running, glad that it was an easy exercise until the lasers on the columns started firing at them, making it seem as if the cutouts on them were shooting back.
Hiding behind one of the columns, Shinsho shouted, "How is this different from laser tag!?"
"Your opponents aren't Moving as well!," Snipe shouted back. Izuku fired at one of the cutouts and hit every mark near the edge, shocking himself.
'How did that hit!?' he thought to himself, 'I've never used something like this before! The closest thing was the Karf wars… at… school. Why did we have those Karf wars?' Thinking about the strange events at Aldera, it seemed as if they were preparing the kids to go to multiple fields instead of just becoming heroes. The only person that didn't join these events was Bakugou. 'Did he know?'
With Hagakure, she found out a while ago that they had heat sensors, making invisibility impossible. Hiding behind a column, she tried firing, only to miss by a few centimeters. "Dang it! I was so close!" she shouted. Pony and Asui were just as good as Izuku, if not better, hitting the targets dead center. Uraraka and Kurose were hitting the lines circling the weak points. Shinsho was the one having the most trouble, not even hitting the columns.
"This sucks," the tired looking teen muttered to himself, "Why couldn't we just set aside some time for sleeping?" The group kept going until all the targets were destroyed, and went to the next lessons for the day in smoking clothes with holes burnt into them.
When they arrived at the room, the mystery man told them, "Let's start the lesson with a simple brain teaser. Who created the original Plumbers!" The group banged their heads against the desks wishing this would end.
Halfway through a lesson about how apparently George Washington and the founding fathers created the original group due to zombies appearing, the intruder alarm went off. "Class over! Get to your rooms!" the man shouted, teleporting out.
'The Omnitrix!' Izuku thought, quickly running towards the danger. When he got to the room, there was a man in black and purple with a pale face, standing over a rusted depowered suit.
The man in black and purple turned to the Omnitrix, readying a sphere of purple rippling energy, saying, "Finally, I will be rid of the bane of my existence before it can find its host."
As he's getting ready to fire, he hears a familiar (to him) voice shouting, "Not so fast Eon!" The rippling energy dissipates as the man turns to look at Izuku.
"Deken, I think you have me confused with someone else. My name is not Eon. My name is Cronus!" the man shouted as he fired a blast at the teen who dodged.
"I think it's you who's confused. My name's Midoriya Izuku." Izuku grabbed a Prototool off the ground and fired at the man, blasting a hole in his cloak.
"Names don't matter, I won't let you get in my way!" Dodging another blast, Izuku turned the Prototool into bow mode and shot three energy arrows at him.
"And I won't let you take over the multiverse!" Jumping over the arrows, Cronus created an energy blade and dove towards Izuku.
"Take over, no. I wish to destroy it!" Izuku quickly turned the Prototool into sword mode and blocked the attack.
Separating, Cronus fired a blast of rippling energy towards the prototool, turning it to dust and making Izuku shout, "No!"
"Lucky for you, I don't need to kill you. I just need to destroy that infernal watch of yours," Cronus told him, generating the purple energy again, "But it will feel just as satisfying if I did." As he launched the attack, a blur of black green and blue rushed Izuku out of danger.
"Nice try, Eon!" Cronus turned to look at the person speaking, only to find a Kineceleran with the Omnitrix symbol on his chest, "Picking on people from other universes now?"
"So you followed me to the past, little hero."
"Ben?" Izuku whispered.
The Kineceleran looked at him and told him, "Yes and no. Get the Omnitrix, I'll deal with this guy."
" Wait, but-" Izuku didn't get to finish as Ben turned into Diamondhead and kept fighting Cronus. Izuku looked between the Omnitrix and the rusted suit and went towards the suit. He knocked on the hourglass symbol and asked, "Are you alright in there?"
"I'm fine, just do me a favor and set the Omnitrix to self destruct and get out of here," a high pitched voice told him.
"What!? But you made the Omnitrix for the specific purpose of dealing with guys like him, didn't you?"
"So you were snooping. Yes that's what the Omnitrix was recreated for, but without a proper host, destroying it and everything in this room is the only way to win this fight."
"And what happens if he escapes? We'll have no protection against him or anyone else like him."
"I'm not giving you the key to ultimate power. Knowing you, you'll activate the failsafe that keeps you from dying within a few minutes, or worse you end up destroying the entire universe!"
"I don't even want the Omnitrix!"
"... You don't want the Omnitrix?"
"It's not for me. You're right that I'll probably pull some self sacrificing move once I have, or mess up terribly with one of the transformations, but that's not important right now. We need to get you out of here safely."
*Beep beep boop bwoo* A flash of red engulfs the room as Ben is transformed back, "It sounds like it's too late. Quickly, you need to get to the Omnitrix."
Ben was tapping his Omnitrix muttering, "No no no! Stupid watch, why'd you have to time out now?"
"Another wielder of that blasted device!? I'll kill you too!" He went to blast Ben when crystals came out of the floor.
"Sorry I'm late. I would've been here sooner, but I took a wrong turn at Albuquerque," a petrosapien in a green and white bodysuit with the Omnitrix symbol on the left pectoral, told them.
"So the real Deken has followed me to the past."
"Check again." Izuku as Diamondhead pointed at the now empty energy beam.
"So you obtained the Omnitrix. No matter, I'll just go further back in time and destroy any chance of you ruining my plans." A purple portal opened above him and moved down, teleporting him away.
Ben turned to Diamondhead and snarked, "You couldn't have made it before Ben's Omnitrix timed out?"
"I thought you were Ben."
"I'm the Ben without an Omnitrix."
"Oh, you're that Ben."
"Excuse me! Could you please get me out of here now!?" the one in the suit exclaimed. The 2 with Omnitricies went over and Daimondhead carved out the hourglass symbol, showing who was inside it. "What, did you think I was taller?"