I HAVE COMPLETED SEASON A! Now, you can find any posts relating to this story on Tumblr (of-sentience-and-predator-stuff) and at BuzzlyArt (OSAP-Stuff)! The first post should being go out sometime soon, so enjoy!
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Also, there was a question on the Ao3 version of the story (yes, there's an Ao3 version, there's also now a Wattpad version) and this is what I clarified: Each season is labeled with a letter (ie OS season is A, AF season 1 is H, etc) and there will be at max five different time travel shenanigans in the entire series.
"Where are we going and why again?" Kevin asked, looking over to Afri.
Gwen answered, "Dragua wants us to train more, but he wants us to do it where we won't cause any major damage, so that's why we're heading out to the Dragoon Outpost in Sparksville."
"We won't get there very soon, so we'll have to stop at a different outpost for a night," EightEight added.
"How far is Sparksville from New York, anyways?" Ben asked.
"We're traveling nearly half of the United States," EightEight answered. "Where we're stopping, however, should be a fine place to train with your water-based forms."
"Cool," Ben replied. EightEight looked at a device in her hand, the other adjusting the African Wild Dog mask a bit.
"We're coming to the first outpost," EightEight stated, causing Ben to nod.
"Mind repeating?" Kevin deadpanned.
"We're stopping soon," Ben answered.
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A stingray with a curved stinger and colored like it was cut out from a piece of the night sky swam through the water, being followed by Tiamat. Tiamat's legs were now a fishtail, the tail beating to keep up with the stingray. "Please slow down, Starray!" Tiamat asked, trying to catch up.
Starray's sun-like eyes looked behind him before refocusing on where he was heading. "You speed up," Starray suggested before suddenly making a sharp turn. The stinger nearly dodged Tiamat, causing her to screech a bit and stop.
A mutated blue tinted Piscciss Volann pushed her aside before speeding after Starray, causing Tiamat to yell, "Kevin!"
"Catch up, slowpoke!" Kevin yelled back in reply, tail beating to catch up with Starray. Tiamat growled and followed after them.
The two followed Starray until the Piscciss Nebula stopped near a pier. Tiamat and Kevin brought their heads above the water, Tiamat panting as they came closer to the dock.
EightEight looked at the two, then looked down to see Starray floating closer to the surface. Tiamat swam up to the dock and said, "Please say that Starray's species is always that fast."
EightEight signed, 'They developed to be faster than what you are to be able to catch your current species.' Tiamat frowned but nodded.
Kevin shook his head, water droplets falling off of his hair, before he asked, "So what now?"
"Starray, I want you to use your stinger against some of the animals here until you timeout," EightEight said. When she saw Starray swim away, she signed, 'Cobra, you and Crow hunt as well. Bring back anything you two or Rat kill.'
"Ok, Sister EightEight," Tiamat nodded. She turned to Kevin and said, "She wants us to hunt and bring back our kills."
Kevin gave a massive, toothy grin and dove back into the water. Tiamat followed, just to see Starray's stinger pierce completely through an unlucky bass.
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"Yea, I'm not doing it with that thing," Kevin said, looking at the bright orange furred dog-like. The dog-like whined, the gills on its neck expanding a bit. The bright blue feathered vulture-tiger thing squawked at him, but it wasn't like they could understand its reply.
EightEight observed them before gurgling, "Vulpimancers and Radioscavigers are not known for their ability to speak. Ben, if you can hear me, are you able to write down what you two call these forms?"
The Radioscaviger nodded before the satellite disk-shaped back feather and the two antenna-like feathers twitched, as if looking around. He walked over to a flat piece of dirt before dragging his beak in it. EightEight walked over to him as he squawked and finished.
"You are Radiowave?" EightEight asked. There was a squawk in confirmation. Radiowave went back to scratching the ground with his beak, writing out something else. "Artemis… your cousin's Vulpimancer form is called Artemis?"
Another squawk in agreement.
"Who is who?" Kevin asked, looking at the two names. EightEight pointed at Radiowave's name, then as the bird, doing the same with Artemis.
The Vulpimancer's gills moved before she growled at Radiowave. Radiowave tilted his head at Artemis, but there wasn't a reply.
"Radiowave, can you write down what I want the three of you to do for the next… eight minutes?" EightEight asked. Radiowave squawked before jumping (not flying) over to a new spot. "Kevin will attack with non-lethal bolts with Artemis and Radiowave dodging. It ends when one of you timeout." Radiowave scratched at the dirt.
When he was finished, he pecked Kevin's cloak. The electricity manipulator stepped back before Radiowave motioned towards what he wrote. Kevin glared at the tiger-vulture thing before going over.
After a few seconds, Kevin asked, "Can Gwen read this?" The three of them turned towards Artemis, whose gills were flapping between open and closed. She trotted up to it, but ended up shaking her head after a few seconds. Kevin smiled. "You dodge, I shoot."
Artemis suddenly leapt back as Kevin released a bolt onto the ground. Radiowave took into the air as Kevin launched another one at Artemis. The Vulpimancer bolted to the side, Radiowave beginning to circle above them.
Kevin looked at the Radioscaviger and threw a bolt towards him, but Radiowave stopped his flight path to let the bolt fly by. From there, the electricity manipulator alternated between shooting at Artemis and Radiowave.
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"Ben, transform into your Stonebreak Batcracker form," EightEight stated before turning to Gwen and signing, 'Cobra, transform into your teal goddess form.' There wasn't a sign word for Petrosapien or the name of said transformation, so they just used a general description mixed between appearance and name.
"Got it!" Ben nodded as Gwen nodded. They both activated their watches. After a few turns, the silhouette was of Kleodora and the hologram was of the bat with buff legs. They both pressed down.
In a red light, rocky purple fur formed on his body, face distorting to look like one of a bat. His arms mutated to appear like those of a bat, the wing skin forming between the long supports.
"Batcrazy!" the transformed Ben screeched.
"Selket? Why did I transform into Selket?" a bug the size of an average human asked in an icky, lispy voice. Her wings flickered in annoyance.
Batcrazy looked at Selket and suggested, "Mistransformation?"
Kevin touched one of her legs as Selket replied, "Maybe? I'm not too sure." Kevin absorbed some of the energy from the Omnitrix, mutating his body. His cloak turned the same white color that was on Selket, some of it moving to create a makeshift stinger. His hands turned to the same claws she had and his skin turned an odd navy blue color. Sea blue wings flickered into existence from his back, seemingly going through the tightened cloak.
"We're all fliers now. Now what?" Kevin asked, his own wings flickering a bit.
EightEight observed the trio before responding, "I am unsure if Lepidopterrans are faster than Stonebreak Batcrackers. We would have to see before hand."
"Hey, since Sister EightEight doesn't know if Batcrazy is faster than Selket, wanna have a race to see who is?" Ben suggested.
"That is not a bad idea," EightEight gurgled before signing the same thing.
"I'm down," Kevin answered. After a few seconds, Selket nodded.
EightEight looked back briefly at Crocodile, Alligator, and Seagull maneuvering the fish they caught before turning back to the three. While signing the same thing, she said, "Circle the lake. Do so until it is established which one is faster."
Batcrazy and Selket nodded before they both promptly bolted into the sky. Kevin sputtered before getting into the air and following after the two. EightEight didn't give an outright reaction, just standing there and observing the trio.
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Tetrax knelt behind one of the rocks next to SixSix, observing the two aliens, the mutant, and the human. They had been for a good while now, watching the two aliens transform from one alien to another. The two and the mutant now seemed to be racing, the human watching, and they have been for a good bit. Kraab stood behind them, robotic parts clicking. After a few moments, Kraab said, "I am most concerned about the Stonebreak Batcracker. They are known to be the natural predator of Petrosapiens, being able to shatter them with a single kick and cause cracks with a shriek."
"This one looks to be on the younger side," Tetrax commented. "Roughly no more than twelve colorshards old. It probably hasn't fully developed its legs or vocal cords yet."
"What of the Lepidopterran?" SixSix gurgled.
"If we knock it into the lake, it'll be unable to fly," Kraab answered. "Same most likely goes for the mutant."
"And the human?" SixSix added.
"I say the most we have to worry about with the humans is them thinking they can take us on," Tetrax replied, his hand forming a fist. "He wants the Omnitrix more than the Predatrix, so I say one of us distracts the Batcracker while the other two capture the Lepidopterran."
"The mutant will most likely need to be distracted as well," Kraab added. He then stated, "SixSix, you attack the Batcracker. Tetrax, you go after the mutant. I'll get the Omnitrix user."
"Long as we split the bounty three ways," SixSix gurgled in reply. Kraab nodded. The Sotoraggian flicked up a gun and looked out.
When the Batcracker got close, SixSix leapt towards it and let out a shot towards it. The action caused the three humans off to the side- strangely in what seemed like reptilian and avian customs- to freak, along with the Batcracker letting out a shriek of pain and the Lepidopterran screeching in panic.
"Excuse me?!" the mutant yelled, coming to a stop in the air. Tetrax used that as his opportunity to jump out and launch a wave of shards towards it. The mutant managed to dodge, but started back towards the human dressed like some sort of canine.
"What is going on?!" the Lepidopterran screeched. He noticed that it wasn't said in the Lepidopterran native language, so whoever wielded it most likely didn't have much experience with aliens. At least, he hoped so. It was around what he assumed to be a transformation of the Predatrix.
The canine dressed human turned to face the other three humans and did something with its hands. The avian dressed one promptly bolted when the motions were finished, followed by the other two. The Batcracker turned towards SixSix and screeched, the Sotoraggian grunting as his hearing was hit with the screech.
Kraab finally jumped out, launching a small missile towards the Lepidopterran. The Lepidopterran tried to flee, but it got caught in the missile's blast. The pieces of the missile tore through the Lepidopterran's wings, causing it to fall out of the air and crash into the water. It screeched, thrashing in the water and trying to get out.
As Kraab jumped towards the distressed Lepidopterran, the mutant yelled, "Gw- Selket!"
SixSix barely dodged out of the way of the Batcracker, its strike cracking the ground where he once stood. "Young, the pups, this thing cracked the ground!" SixSix yelled at Tetrax.
The Batcracker seemed to look at him funny as Tetrax countered, "Earth ground is weaker than most materials!" The Petrosapien launched more crystals at the mutant, but it was able to dodge and flew towards Kraab and Selket.
He felt something poke his side. Tetrax looked behind him, seeing the canine dressed human holding two large talons. It seemed to be holding them like daggers and he blinked at the fact that he didn't see the human come over to him. Tetrax turned his arm into a blade and attempted to strike the human, but it easily dodged the attack.
"What are you doing, human?" Tetrax asked.
"Screw you," the human said in the Sotoraggian language.
Tetrax stuttered, stepping back slightly and forming both hands into blades. He heard the Lepidopterran and the mutant both screech, followed by a shriek from the Batcracker. Tetrax stared down the human, who held the talons close to their neck. Reminded him of a Sotoraggian, but he wasn't too surprised considering the human also spoke the language.
The human eventually dashed towards him, leaping up and attempting to slash at him with the talons. Tetrax lifted up a bladed arm to block, but he didn't expect the human to be so quick on their feet. After being blocked, they striked his leg with both talons. He backed away from the human, who went back to a defensive position.
Kraab smacked the mutant to the side, looking over to Tetrax. He turned back to the mutant, who was pulling Selket out of the water. The cyborg lunged towards them, but the mutant managed to drag them out of the way of his claw.
SixSix hissed at the Batcracker as it attempted to grab him again and again, keeping him from activating his blaster again. The shrieking didn't help. He eventually allowed the Batcracker to grab it to try and blast its face. It didn't seem to like that, gripping his head with its other foot and flying into the air. The Sotoraggian kicked at the Batcracker, but he was reminded of how tough Batcracker skin was.
Tetrax kept throwing crystals at the human, but it kept dodging with surprising speed. It wasn't extremely fast, more comparable to a Tetramand or Sotoraggian. The human had also put one of the talons away on one of the loose belts it wore while still gripping the other one. It seemed to notice something and bolted to the side. Tetrax turned to attack the human, but was suddenly crashed into.
Kraab turned towards his teammates, seeing the Batcracker slam the two into the side of a large rock. The cyborg looked back at the mutant and the Lepidopterran, but they had disappeared. He growled and got himself out of the water.
Tetrax pushed SixSix off of him, causing the Sotoraggian to squeak. The Batcracker stared at them, standing in front of the human. Why wasn't it attacking them?
"What does the human have?" SixSix asked.
"A TALON!" the human randomly screamed in the Sotoraggian language.
SixSix promptly rushed towards the human as the Batcracker began to laugh. It shrieked at SixSix, causing him to stop and back away from the human.
"That was cool!" the Batcracker grinned, traces of a laugh in its voice.
SixSix and Tetrax froze, staring at the Batcracker. Kraab noticed the action from his teammates and began to get closer.
"Are… Are Batcrackers sapient?" SixSix muttered to Tetrax.
"They aren't supposed to be," Tetrax whispered. He started to shift his hand to throw crystals at the Batcracker, but the beast screeched at him.
The symbol on the Batcracker's collar began to flash. Its eyes widened before it grabbed the human and bolted. He watched them as they went the way the other humans ran, getting to a building before a massive green light blinded them.
"… didn't know Batcrackers were so fast," SixSix scoffed once Kraab reached them and they recovered from the green light.
"If I were to guess, they'll most likely use different forms," Kraab stated. "The Piscciss Nebula most likely won't be chosen due to its lack of movement out of water. It just used the Batcracker, and I believe the Predatrix user doesn't have the Sotoricity DNA unlocked."
"The human knew Sotoraggian, so don't count the wolf lizard things out," Tetrax replied.
"… I'm sorry, what?" Kraab questioned.
"They had talons! Talons!" SixSix hissed. "Only the strongest hunters or family of said hunters have elder Sotoricity talons! How does that puny human have two of them?!"
"You're really upset about that, huh?" Tetrax smiled. SixSix turned towards him and seemingly glared.
"I doubt the Omnitrix has the same unlocking system as the Predatrix. We know the Omnitrix user has a Piscciss Volann, Vulpimancer, and Lepidopterran form, and it would be best to assume the wielder also has a Petrosapien form," Kraab stated.
"And we know where they are," Tetrax nodded, pointing towards the building.
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"Bounty hunters. Of course," EightEight sighed, putting her clothed forehead on the wall. Kevin used some of his electricity to get both watches to not be in recharge before the trio turned to her.
"Do you know who those were?" Gwen asked.
'I am purely going to speak, so sorry' she signed before saying, "I am aware of who the Piscciss Premann is, that is Kraab, a bounty hunter from Piscciss whose body was nearly destroyed in a war between Piscciss and Pyros."
"That's… kinda sad," Ben commented. He then repeated, "The Piscciss Premann, whatever that is, is Kraab."
"As for the Petrosapien and Sotoraggian, I am unsure. I haven't heard of any Petrosapien bounty hunters before I came to Earth and the Sotoraggian hunter could be literally any Sotoraggian. It's very common for us to become bounty hunters or something of the like," EightEight added.
"The Petrosapien was the one that looked like Kleodora, and the Sotoraggian is the one that spoke the same language as you, right?" Ben asked. EightEight nodded.
"So the big, robotic crab was Kraab?" Gwen finished. The disguised Sotoraggian nodded. "Huh, weird name… are crabs called crabs on other planets?" To that, EightEight shrugged.
"Those idiots are bound to come back, so what are we doing?" Kevin asked.
"I don't think I can do much as Batcrazy, he didn't even get to crack anything of that Petrosapien dude," Ben said.
"We need to choose forms that can take them on," Gwen nodded.
"Ben," EightEight started, getting said child to look at her. "Your Sotoricity form. Sotoricities of most sizes are able to take down Sotoraggians with ease due to our extreme weakness to electricity. Hopefully, that form will be big enough to scare off the Sotoraggian."
"But I haven't even used that… Sotoricity form yet, Sister EightEight," Ben responded.
"Hey, now's your chance," Kevin shrugged.
"Electricity, huh?" Ben muttered.
"EightEight, didn't you imply that Kraab is a cyborg?" Gwen asked. The disguised Sotoraggian tilted her head slightly but nodded. "Can't Theia just combine with him and get him to shut down or stop?"
"I never thought of that…" EightEight muttered. She signed, 'If you believe that can work, then you can try.'
"So we have a solution for crabby and Toto. What about crystalman?" Kevin asked.
There was a bit of silence.
"I guess you two just need to distract him until we can help," Ben suggested, motioning between Kevin and EightEight.
"Agreed," gurgled the Sotoraggian.
Kevin was silent before muttering, "Ok then."
"When do we transform?" Gwen asked.
"Let's give ourselves as much time as possible, so just before we get to battle them," Ben suggested. Gwen nodded.
EightEight shifted the talon still in her hand as the children ran back out. She followed them, but couldn't help but have a bad feeling in her chest.
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The trio came just before the building before they saw four humans come out. The two groups quickly saw each other, the watch welders activating their watches as the other two humans became defensive. Kraab clicked a missile ready and pointed it at the four, SixSix staring at the human with the talon and Tetrax observing the watch users. They couldn't see what the Omnitrix wielder was choosing, but they sure knew what the Predatrix was choosing.
However, before they could get a good look, both pressed down on the watches. Light blinded them for a moment. "Theia!" an auto-tuned, female voice called out from the light. Looking, he saw a Galvanic Mechamorph where the Omnitrix user once was.
A howl came from the Predatrix user, revealing them to have transformed into a Sotoricity.
"You jinxed it, Kraab," Tetrax deadpanned, looking at the cyborg.
The Sotoricity immediately bolted towards SixSix, who barely managed to dodge the wolf-like's attack. Tetrax moved to help the Sotoraggian, but froze as Theia jumped onto Kraab, melting into the cyborg. Did Kraab's body have defenses against Galvanic Mechamorph? He was sure. He continued towards SixSix.
Then he got tackled by the canine dressed human. Tetrax swung a bladed arm at the human, but they managed to block it with the talon. He saw the black avian dressed human run up to them and throw a bolt of lightning at him. The Petrosapien jumped back, dodging the bolt. He looked towards SixSix.
Even with the helmet on, he could tell the Sotoraggian was furious. SixSix had taken out a blade made of Conductoid leather and a large talon to try and stab the Sotoricity with. The Sotoricity kept on dodging and trying to attack SixSix with electric-infused bites, but the Sotoraggian was able to dodge.
He felt the canine dressed human stab his arm again. Right, the two he was fighting. Tetrax decided to focus on them, ignoring SixSix and Kraab.
SixSix felt his emotions build up as the Sotoricity, this Celestialsapien danged Sotoricity, kept not getting hit. He wanted to slay it, to have its blood on his sword. He wanted to kill it, to have its talons in his hands. He wanted it gone, to have its pelt as a reminder.
"You…" SixSix hissed out, his voice cracking. He was still fighting it, but it seemed intrigued at what he said. "Your kind has slain three of my siblings… Your kind has caused two of them to go missing… Your kind has slain our parents and nearly caused my youngest sibling's death! For NineNine, FourFour, and ThreeThree!" He screeched and tried to slash at the beast in a blind rage.
He felt electricity course through him.
Tetrax froze when he saw the Sotoricity bite SixSix's neck, seeing the electricity jump from the wolf-like onto the emotionally destroyed Sotoraggian. He hadn't realized that SixSix missing five of his siblings could cause him to self-destruct like that.
"Kraab!" Tetrax yelled, noticing the cyborg thrash against the Galvanic Mechamorph.
He slashed at the black avian dressed human as Kraab finally threw off the Galvanic Mechamorph and looked towards them. "SixSix!" Kraab yelled out.
"Kraab, we have to go!" Tetrax yelled. He could see the cyborg hesitate, but eventually nodded. The Petrosapien turned and began to run, followed by Kraab.
Kraab could tell Tetrax didn't see it, but he sure did. The Sotoricity had stopped biting SixSix, face filled with worry. The canine dressed human had put its hands on its face and took off its mask, revealing one of the Sotoraggian's missing siblings. He was barely able to take note of how the Sotoricity pressed up against the black avian dressed one in sadness before they disappeared from view.
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"I'm sorry…" Ben, currently a Sotoricity, whined, ears pinned to his head and pressed up against Kevin.
"SixSix… brother, please be alive…" EightEight whispered, mask on the ground and hand on her brother's body.
If he didn't wake up, she couldn't help but imagine how distraught the wielder of the Predatrix would be to know that he killed one of her siblings. She knew she wouldn't be in the right state of mind to finish taking them to Sparksville.
Through her hand, she felt a heartbeat. EightEight released a sigh before whispering, "He's alive… he's alive… SixSix, brother…" She wrapped her arms around him, lifting up SixSix's helmeted face to her own.
"Are… Are you ok, Sister EightEight?" Theia asked.
EightEight nodded before saying, "I want to do something, first."
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SixSix groaned, feeling his body wake up. He suddenly bolted up, his memories of what happened re-playing to him. Why didn't the Sotoricity kill him? SixSix saw something next to him and picked it up. It looked like some sort of holopad and pressed on it. He cried as the image of EightEight came up on the hologram. It was a recorded message, but he didn't care. His sister was alive, here. He will find her.
Ushindi: If Kevin did absorb energy from the Predatrix, he would lose control. I don't address this in writing like... at all, so... Anyways, as for my thoughts on the alternate Ben's in OV, my favorite is Nega Ben, Mad Ben is cool, 23... is weird, and the others exist.