Authors note: I don't own crap
This is in omniverse art style since I kind of like it. If I find one person shitting on FastTrack then piss off I changed GhostFreaks name to Phright since it does sound cooler Designs are from CreatureFeature GonnaCatcha.
It Heroes Time CH1: 1010
The vastness of space – an endless ocean of nothingness filled in with only small dots of rock and gas. With the sheer scale of the universe (and everything that existed beyond it), most sentient beings that existed in this tiny solar system could not be bothered to go out looking for intelligent life….So instead, they decided to come to us.
The rings of Saturn were alight with explosions as a sleek black-and-green space ship swerved skillfully through the asteroid field, firing back at the massive cruiser that was plowing through the rocks behind it. The ship was many times larger than the one it perused, its appearance closer to the shape of a laser rifle with red electric beams running between its two pincers and the glowing red orbs that dotted its surface. The larger ship shot a single beam of red energy at the underside of its target, seemingly able to slow it down before it was flying alongside the transport and fired their turrets at its side.
The smaller ship endured the damage and swerved away from its pursuer, returning laser fire at the neck of the ship.er a few laser shots the orange ship started to get closer to the smaller one. Inside of the orange shop control center, humanoid drones in armor of red and black with multiple diodes were buzzing between the multiple computer systems with extreme haste.
One of the droids. "It seems we have taken out their propulsion system! With our cells taking damage at twenty percent," a Drone reported in a mechanized voice, speaking to the bridge commander. "Weapon systems are still operational. What is your command, lord Vilgax!?"
The bridge commander towered over the meager drones; their are tall being that resembles
They wore a black and red-brownish armored suit and gloves. His armor was spiked at the shoulder and arm pads. He had green sacs on the sides of his head. His mouth was attached to the sacs by a respirator.
Vilgax squinted his eyes at the smaller ship. "Connect the bridge with the shuttle, NOW!" The droids followed their programming. "Soon the universe's greatest weapons will be mine," As soon as those were made the cacophony of explosions went off.
From the smaller ship, something flew down to the planet in break neck speed.
XXX
Meanwhile back on the planet Earth, a ten year old boy who has unkempt brown hair, green eyes, pale skin, and he is quite skinny for his age, though he shows a lot of muscle definition due to being athletic.
His usual clothes consisted of a black-striped, white hooded jacket with the wrists, hood and zipper being black, black pants with side pockets with a black belt hidden under his shirt, and black and white sneakers with black stripes. Under the jacket he wore a white-striped, black shirt with short sleeves.
This is one half of our unlikely due: Benjamin Kirby Tennyson or just Ben for short.
And what he was doing was folding up a paper airplane, with a mischievous smile, set up his book for a cover and threw the plane, hitting the teachers hair. Ms. Reolf glared at the giggling students, observing who threw…who was she kidding it was obviously the one who was whistling.
Ben, who just thought it was a good idea to whistle.
"For whomever through this waste of dead trees? Just made a big mistake by giving the class an assignment for the whole summer. Every single one of you have to write what you did the entire summer!" Que enraged glances at Ben who nonchalantly looked up from his book with a poker face.
He nervously chuckled. "Good thing, I know what I'm going to be doing this summer?" He was buying time for the bell to ring faster.
The student and teacher were not letting up. "And what are you going to do mister Tennyson? Playing video games?" She raised a brow.
He had a grin plastered on. "If you mean traveling around the country as playing video games then yeah I'm gonna play video games in a cross country road trip." Ben 1, teacher 0
XXX
Soon the internal feud of time for the end of the school day ended, as the long awaited summer vacation began, and with no hesitation at all the little rugrats of ten year olds rushed out of their prison. With one of them being as he was so hyped for the trip he was planning with his grandfather and nothing is going to ruin it. He grinned and began humming, but as he wanted to wait for his gramps to arrive he saw the school's bullies Cash and JT picking on a smaller kid.
"Normally, we'd take your money and beat you up," Cash, glee in his eyes, "But since it's the last day of school, we're gonna give you a break," he held out his hand, "now for it over!"
Cash was the bully and J.T was more of a henchman. It was a common to see these two pozers picking on a weaker kids to steal their money or just bully them out of for their own amusement by and none of the student even didn't even think of fought backing,
"Do you guys really have to belittle other people because of your low self-esteem or are you guys naturally born jackasses?" Except for Ben who valiantly stood between the bullies and their victim.
"Get lost, Tennyson!" J.T, pointed at Ben
Ben didn't budge except for his narrow eyes narrowing. "Dude, this is the part where you run?" Ben looked at the kid that was being bullied, who wisely ran, not batting an eye back. "Hey, not even a thank you!?" He looked at Cash and JT who cracked their knuckles.
Cash glared at him. "You just made a big mistake Tennyson!" Ben raised his hands, having a nervous smile.
"What's so funny? Scare that your parents won't recognize your ugly mug!" They got closer to Ben
"Funny that you said that because I'm pretty sure that's the same reaction your moms made seeing you two for the first time?" Ben cracked before a brawl went out.
Two minutes later, he and the bully victim were both hanging from the tree next to the road by their underwear. Both boys had visibly annoyed expressions; Ben because he got beat up so easily, and the victim because Ben had gotten him into trouble when he didn't need it.
"Thanks a lot," said the bully victim, glaring.
"I was just trying to help," said Ben sullenly.
"Next time you wanna play hero, make sure you can back it up," said the bully victim, crossing his arms and huffing.
Ben bowed his head and groaned to himself. He hated feeling so helpless, especially when all he did was try to do the right thing. His grandpa always told him that when you did the right thing, good things would happen – something about karma or whatever.
But whenever Ben tried to help anyone, it usually backfired and he ended up in worse trouble than before. This embarrassing moment was only the latest in a long line of good deeds gone wrong. Sometimes – just sometimes – Ben wondered if maybe he should just stop trying to be the hero.
That's when the most beat-up recreational vehicle in the history of the world pulled up in front of the school. The RV is blue and white with red lines. On the side of the Rustbucket, there is a green UFO symbol with the words 'Max's plumbing'. Its bumper is metallic, and has rust on it.
Known as the Rust Bucket by the Driver, grandpa Max who stood at the door waiting for Ben. Max wore a white shirt, covered by a red buttoned-up Hawaiian shirt with a floral design. He has mostly gray hair with streaks of fading brown, tied in a ponytail, and blue pants, as well as brown shoes.
"Come on, Ben, we're burning daylight!" called dear old Grandpa Max. "I wanna make it to the campsite by nightfall!"
"Uh…Grandpa, a little help here!" shouted Ben, pondering how his grandfather could not see the precarious situation he was in.
A couple minutes later after Grandpa Max pulled him down and his underwear was safely tucked back in his pants, Ben stepped into the Rust Bucket bursting with excitement.
"Me to kiddo…," Max, forgetting about something, slightly coughed. "So mind telling me how you got that black eye?" Ben gave a nervous smile and gave him a quick summary.
Max sighed. "Good. I usually don't like you getting into fights but I'm glad you had a reason to knock some respect to their thick skulls, plus it was self defense." He ruffles his hair, confusing Ben.
"You always taught me to never to start a fight but if I get into one, I gotta be the one to finish it." He had a mischievous smile. "Plus I gave IT a bloody nose and Cash a black, way worse than mine. Just please don't tell me mom and dad 'bout this?" He didn't want to get grounded just when the summer just started.
Max nervously chuckled. "My lips are sealed, just promise me that you won't get into any fights during the entire trip?" Ben did not know why he asked that but he just nodded as they stood on the side of the RV, Max traveled in.
Ben rubbed his hands together as if he was hungry. "Oh, the good ol' Rust Bucket, and it has a new paint job?" This can't be the same RV his grandpa uses because it looks brand new,... "Uh grandpa what's with the new paint job?" He opened the door, not yet entering it, looking at his grandfather.
The elder nervously scratched his head. "Now, uh, Ben?" Where should he begin? "I need to tell you something," Ben raised a brow, "Well you see, your…" Ben stepped into the Rust Bucket bursting with excitement.
"No,"
"cousin-" He didn't get to finish that sentence as Ben fell to his knees.
"NNNOOO!" He yelled out to the heaven's ," THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING, WHY ME, WHY!? WHY ARE THEY DOING HERE!?" He saw his paternal cousin Gwen.
XXX
Gwen sweat dropped at his antics. "I should say good to see you too doofus but with that black eye, makes it impossible to say it?" Ben glared at her.
She was the same age as him, being a few minutes older than him. Gwen has green eyes, freckles and short red hair tied in a ponytail like Max's, held by a blue hairclip and wore sapphire earrings. She wore a dark blue shirt with the edges being light blue and a cat logo on the center of the shirt with the latter's coloration, a purplish blue short sleeved hooded jacket, black pants, blue socks, baseball hat and blue sneakers with white layses, souls and trim.
Her name is Gwendolyn "Gwen" Tennyson, Ben's first annoying cousin.
The RV began driving away from the school. "The feelings are mutual unfortunately, see you too dingus!" Ben slowly turned his head, glass was soon shattering.
Max stepped in, going to the driver's seat. "Now kids are nice." Sensing that Ben wanted (to scream out for) answers. "Yes, Ben?" The latter took in a comical intake of air as the Rv drove off.
"Grandpa, please," Ben whined. "Tell me you didn't do this." He pointed at his cousin
Gwen rolled her eyes. "First of all doofus," she rose a finger to make a point, "This wasn't my idea. Our parents thought it was a good idea for us to go camping for the entire summer as a good exp, which I thought wasn't bad at first until your name popped up." He turned to her.
"Then explain why are you here instead of going to some nerd planet or apocalypse!? Since you didn't want to even go with me?"
She had a mischievous thoughtful look. "Well if you must know, the new Unalivers movie is currently being filmed in Miami and this could be my one and only opportunities to meet Michael Morningstar…" Ben turned her out until she finished explaining her reason, "So I changed my mind and decided that it would be kind of cool to travel around the country." Finished.
Ben slumped to the couch. " There's a hundred and four days of summer vacation And school comes along just to end it. Now I'm stuck going camping with my geekoid cousin for three months."
"You do know that there's only 74 days in summer not 104.?"
"Geek," hissed Ben.
"Jerk," retorted Gwen.
"Nerd."
"Loser."
"Dweeb."
"Freak."
"You're just mad that I'm Grandma Verdona's favorite!"
"Well at least I get more presents from Grandma Xylene!"
"Something tells me this is gonna be a loooong summer," said Max, suddenly starting to regret this entire trip.
"Man, why did July have to go to summer camp for the French dude!?" He later sobbed in anguish.
XXX Time Skip.
The time Night had fallen, the Tennyson reached their destination as they stepped out of the RV and took in the spectacular sight of the scenery. Max soon went to the RV to start dinner while the younger Tennysons sat on the picnic table not saying anything to each other due to the two not on friendly terms.
Gwen on her laptop and Ben playing on his Nintendo Switch, what game was he playing? You ask? Smash because they have put Ishiyama on the roster and there was like no way he was not going to play this game.
Gwen glanced at Ben. "So, Ben?" She began. "How's school?" Ben's focus was on the game .
"Like I would tell you anything dingus for brains...wait a second you don't have one."
If there was one thing Gwen could agree with was that she wanted to knock some sense into Ben.
"This is coming from the guy who sucks at chemistry and physics."
Ben was going to retort but he flinched when saw Kirby using his vacuum attack on him. "I don't think so, you pink gumball!" laser focus. "Oof! " He cracked, nearly getting by the second Kirby that wasn't him.
Gwen smirked. "Benjamin Kirby Tennyson vs the loveable Kirby, who would win? Probably the one that doesn't have cooties!" Ben was not listening to her because.
"NNNOOO, I lost again to Kirby of all people!" He glared at the red-haired Tennyson. "Yo what gives!" She glared back as they bickering with each other.
And on Que. "Hope everyone is hungry, because it's chow time!" Max with a bowl in hand stepped out of the RV and set it between Ben and Gwen.
All three stood up and saw what's in the bowl…and the slimy, wormy, white and crawling in the China ornamental bowl.
Ben cringed at the smell. "Okay, I give up! What in the Hawaiian shirt is that?" He asked.
Max took a handful. "Marinated mealworms," said Max. "Hard to find them fresh in the States. You know, they're considered a delicacy in some countries." It was then when Ben and Gwen knew they gotta get out of here.
"And totally gross in others," said Gwen, grimacing as one of the white things fell out of the bowl and started crawling along the table. Ben, don't even think about it!" Ben placed the worm back in the bowl instead of putting it in Gwen's hair.
"What? I was just wondering if they would taste good with some hash browns and some buns?" Max hummed.
"You know what Ben, you are right." that surprised the two
"He is?" Max had a look of reminiscent
"Yeah, it's been a while since I had made a breakfast meal like that since Xylene we-Uh, I mean was called back to service for another tour." he got up. Ben and Gwen's faces turned green. "I think I still have some leftover uncooked sheep's tongue? Let me go check for real to see if we can start this summer with a good old barbecue?" He went to the Rust Bucket Ben and Gwen saying.
Ben "Take your time!"
As Max walked back into the Rust Bucket, Ben sidled over to Gwen and whispered:
"Okay, I've got a half-eaten bag of corn chips and a candy bar in my backpack. What do you get?"
"Some rice cakes and hard candy," answered Gwen desperately.
"Think we can make them last the whole summer?" asked Ben despairingly.
The Tennyson cousins stared down at the mealworms with a renewed sense of dread. This was gonna be the worst summer ever.
XXX
Meanwhile, the battle out in space continued to rage as the transporter ship passed by the red planet of Mars and flew towards the blue planet of Earth. But not too far behind was Vilgax's flagship, the Chimerian Hammer, dangerously close behind it. The massive warship fired relentlessly onto the smaller transporter until one shot successfully hit its tail, effectively stopping the ship in its place.
"Their propulsion systems have been destroyed," reported one of the Drones.
"Prepare to Board!" commanded the squid man . "Retrieve the Omnitrix for my at once!" This is where the monologuing begins. "Yes," Vilgax hissed in delight. "After so long, the most powerful weapon in the universe will finally be within my grasp."
But before the Cthulhian conqueror could celebrate his victory, the ship's alarms suddenly blared and the command center was washed in a flare of flashing red lights. Vilgax jumped out of his seat and Cetanu flinched in momentary panic. The masked daughter of Vilgax turned to address the Drones, who were running around the bridge in a flurry.
"What is happening?" shouted Vilgax.
"The ship's shields have been disabled!" one of the Drones announced worriedly. "The bridge is completely exposed!"
"What?" roared Vilgax. "How is this possible?"
While the crew of the Chimerian Hammer was practically losing their heads trying to fix the situation, the transport ship took notice of their lowered defenses and took one last desperate shot at the larger ship. The green bolt of energy successfully smashed through the warship's walls and hit the bridge with a mighty explosion that consumed Vilgax and nearly half the Drones working inside the command center. Vilgax, who barely didn't , managed to avoid getting caught in the blast with critical injuries, but fell against one of the control panels, bleeding everywhere. That particular control panel, Vilgax barely noticed, just happened to be the
weapon systems, which was surprisingly undamaged from the blast. He weakly raised his fist and slammed it down on the firing mechanism.
The Chimerian Hammer charged its central cannon and fired a single shot on the transporter, successfully blasting the spaceship to pieces so that only the front remained. As the smoldering remains of the transporter careened towards the Earth, a silvery capsule was catapulted from the side of the ship, its presence masked by the debris, and hurtled toward the surface of the planet below.
XXX Earth
As the battle raged on in the starry skies above their heads, the Tennyson cousins were still on edge as usual. When Max started making hash browns flavored mealworms, which was Ben's fault and Gwen was never ever going to forgive him. But fortunately for them max didn't have any potatoes in the Rustbucket, so he walked out carrying a bag full of marshmallows – he wanted to give them something since they rejected the meal worms he so gracious offered.
"Who wants to roast marshmallows and make some smores?" asked Max. Despite his offer, both cousins refused to even turn around, much to Max's charging. "Okay…how about we tell scary stories?"
"Scarier than having to spend a summer with your lamo cousin?" said Ben tauntingly.
Gwen glared over shoulder and said, "I'd like to, grandpa, but I'm busy looking up cures for extreme stupidity. Nothing yet, Ben, but let's not give up hope."
"Aw, come on, you two," said Max. "We're all in this together, one for all and All for One. Either you can mope around like this all summer or we can have some fun. Now what do you say?"
"I vote for moping," Gwen answered automatically.
"I'm gonna go take a walk," said Ben, standing up and stowing his game.
Okay was this how his grandparents felt when he and his siblings fought. "Great idea, Ben," said Max cheerfully. "Gwen, why don't you go with him? You both could use the fresh air." What did he say, doesn't he know that his grandkids can't stand each other?
"But Grandpa!" Gwen whined.
"No way!" Ben complained.
"That's enough, you two," said Max, finally having enough with their attitudes and putting his foot down. "Now you two are gonna be spending the summer together, so you might as well
learn to get along. If you two can't learn to be nice, then we'll just go back and cancel the whole trip, with future trips."
Ben and Gwen looked at one another and internally groaned. Ben had waited all summer to go on a trip with his grandpa and he didn't want it to end on their first night – plus, if he went back to Bellwood, his parents would no doubt send him to summer school. Gwen, personally, had no objects with going back home; she could complete her summer schedule like she planned.
But, of course, she loved her grandpa and she hated to think she might disappoint him, especially since they don't get to spend as much time as they would like to. So with a reluctant sigh, Gwen closed her laptop, grabbed her backpack off the picnic table.
"You have to always be prepared for emergencies," Said Gwen, and started walking along with her doofus cousin.
"Have fun, kids," Max waved them off. "I think those two are starting to grow on each other."
But what Grandpa Max didn't know was that the moment they were out of sight and hearing range, the Tennyson cousin immediately broke into another bout of complaints.
"Oh man, this is the worst vacation ever!" groaned Ben. "I might as well have gone to summer school!"
"This is no picnic for me either, you know!" snapped Gwen, glaring at her shorter cousin. "I could be hanging out with my friends at my karate club, but noooo, I gotta spend the whole summer with my cousin."
"Yeah right, like you have friends," Ben mocked her.
"Remind me who was the one hanging by his underwear this morning," said Gwen, immediately shutting him up. "Oh, that's right, it was you, wasn't it?
Ben grumbled, unable to come up with a witty comeback, when both Tennyson cousins heard a sharp whistling from the sky. Both of them looked up and saw a streak of fire shooting through the stars.
"Cool a shooting star!" said Ben.
Gwen then cupped her hands and made a wish.
But then, the 'shooting star' changed trajectory and started heading straight at them.
"Oh, no!" Gwen screamed, this is not what she wished for, "Run!"
Without even thinking about what he was doing, Ben grabbed his cousin's wrist and started pulling her in the direction opposite of the incoming meteor. Despite what he may say, he did care about Gwen enough to not want to see her get squished by a freaky shooting star. But no matter how fast they ran, the shooting star was much faster and crashed into the ground behind them, sending both cousins flying into the dirt side-by-side.
Thankfully, neither one of them was seriously hurt when they landed, only coming away from the crash with a few scratches.
"Gwen, are you okay?" asked Ben worriedly.
"I'm fine," said Gwen, panting heavily; she thought she saw her life flash before her eyes. "What was that thing?"
The Tennyson cousins stood up and walked to the edge of the crater that had cut a crude path through the forest, cutting down a lot of trees in its way. Both of them looked down over the edge as the heat of the object's surface finally started to cool down from orbital entry, revealing its polished silver surface. The capsule was large – big enough to fit one of them comfortably inside.
"Whoa, what the heck is that?" asked Ben in awe.
"It looks like a satellite or something," said Gwen.
As Ben leaned forward for a better look, the ground beneath their feet suddenly gave way and sent the both of them tumbling into the crater. While Ben fell flat on his face, Gwen rolled a little closer to the space pod and accidentally slapped her hand on the extraterrestrial object. The moment her skin came into contact with the pod, a series of green circuits drew themselves on the surface and traced the pattern of Gwen's hand.
When the red-headed girl realized what was happening, she took her hand off and scooted back with Ben just as the green hand print faded. A moment later, the space pod clicked open with a soft hiss and steam billowed out. Ben and Gwen looked at each other nervously, possibly wondering if they should leave well enough alone, but natural curiosity drew them closer. Ben and Gwen walked around the edges of the capsule and leaned inside where they found….
"A girl?" said Ben surprisingly.
Yes, that's right, a girl. As strange as it may seem, there was a human girl sleeping in the capsule using her hands as a pillow, naked as the day she was born. She looked to be around their age and there wasn't anything familiar about her face that Ben couldn't put his finger on, if he knew her, but she had a head of long hair that was a mixture of white and black that was thankfully long enough to conceal her intimate parts.
Ben leaned in closer to the girl when Gwen suddenly slapped him across the face without warning.
"Ow, what was that for?" yelped Ben.
"Stop looking at her, you big perv!" Gwen shouted indignantly. She took off her backpack and started ruffling around it until she pulled out a large green blanket. "Honestly, you boys are all the same! You're disgusting little creeps, all of you!"
"Like I would wanna see some dumb naked girl!" said Ben, crossing his arms and huffing. "I don't wanna catch any cooties from you Karens."
Gwen rolled her eyes. "You're no idiot, you know that." Cooties didn't exit.
While Gwen covered the strange girl from outer space and awkwardly dragged her out of the pod, Ben saw something that had been hidden underneath the girl's hair before, more like two things. They were two watches with different designs, one big and the other small.
The first watch looked like a big metallic black and gray wristwatch with a strange dial that didn't tell time, but had a green hourglass symbol on the face. The ring of the faceplate had four symmetrical lights that would glow with the hourglass symbol. Finally, the band had two rings of white tubing.
The second watch resembles a digital wristwatch that also couldn't tell time. Its faceplate is now square rather than round and has a gray, green, and black color scheme. The edges of the watch were green, while the strap was white. It has black faceplate with two green stripes forming an outline for the hourglass, with two gray buttons on each side of the watch.
"Whoa, cool two watches," said Ben gleefully as he reached for the digital watch instead.
"Ben, don't!" Gwen warned, she moved closer to him.
But her warning came too late as Ben's hand slipped inside the pod, the two watches' hourglass symbol glowed green, which scanned them.
"DNA signature confirmed. Omnitrix commencing attachment!" The digital watch spoke in a robotic voice.
Before he knew it, The supposed watches' suddenly jumped to life, splitting down the middle like it was made of clay, jumped up towards Ben's wrist, but in some form of Cosmic intervention Gwen pushed Ben out of the way of the digital while the bulky watch went towards Ben and clamped themselves shut. Ben and Gwen jumped back in terror, shaking their arms like it would somehow cause the watch to slip off.
"WHA! GET OFF ME! GET OFF! GET OFF!" Ben screamed.
"Ben, calm down, you might be making it worse!" yelled Gwen, though she was equally terrified. Those two weird watches from space just jumped on to her and the idiot's wrist.
Ben paid no heed to Gwen and tried to pry the watch off with his other hand, but the strange device wouldn't be moved; it was like the thing was sown directly into his skin. Ben didn't know what else to do. He climbed out of the crater and started making a dash for the forest, shouting:
"GRANDPA!"
"Hey, don't leave me here, doofus!" shouted Gwen.
The red-headed girl chased after her cousin, completely forgetting the strange white-haired girl she left lying on the ground.
When Gwen found her cousin's dumbass doing something stupid, she saw him trying to pry the space watch from his arm using a stick for a lever. There were so many ways that Gwen could explain why that wouldn't work, but he found out the hard way when the stick snapped in two and the broken piece smacked him between the eyes, which she find halurauis and wished that she had a camera to record that.
"Ow!" Ben yelped. He glared at the stick like it offended him and threw it on the ground. "Aw man, this day just can't get any worse."
"There has to be something we can do," said Gwen, trying to be supportive. "Maybe we can go ask grandpa if there's a way to get it off."
"Yeah, because a retired plumber knows everything about weird watches from outer space," said Ben sarcastically.
He let out a heavy sigh and started touching the face plate, thinking there might be some mechanism that would get it off. When he tapped the two buttons on the side, the dial suddenly popped up.
"Whoa! Check it out!"
Gwen leaned in closer as the hourglass symbol crossed edges, transforming into a diamond shape. A silhouette appeared afterwards with the shape of some strange creature that looked like it was on fire.
"Cool!" Ben said excitedly.
"Ben, what did you do?" she asked, not asking the question how something like that was in his arm.
He shrugged. "I don't know? I just pressed this button facing my way and this thing just popped up from my wrist, like it was always there?" he said, completely freaked out while Gwen looked thoughtful for a second.
"If pressing the button caused that thing to pop up from, this omni-whatchamacallit," she looks at her watch, "Maybe the same thing is possible for mine?" she nervously gripping the two grey buttons.
"Would you hurry up and press them already!" rude much..
Gwen pressed the green buttons at the same time causing the faceplate to split into two (vertically) and revealed the Omnitrix core. Which was similar to Ben's core but smaller and with a gray dial that has three green glowing lines on each side. Gwen jumped back when the lines around the dial made a green holographic circle with two different shades of green, with the top half being a darker shade having 5 faces that were outlined in white, with varying facial features.
But she could tell that it was focused on a face that consists of only a face and a fiery mane around it. What also made it different from Ben's watch was the fact that it made a green 3-dimensional hologram of the face that looks similar to the silhouette on Ben's watch. She grabbed the dial and turned it, the face and hologram being replaced by a jellyfish-like creature, and towards a creature that has four arms.
"Cool!" she said as Ben leaned closer with a hint of slight jealousy. She smirked, one upping him. "Jealous, that's mine better because it shows holograms!" she smugly smiles.
He childishly stuck out his tongue at her. "Huh, me, jealous of you!? Never in a million years dweeb!" He looked at his watch, not going to admit that it needs a major makeover. "Mh, I wonder what would happen if I pressed it in?" Gwen did not like that.
"Ben, I really don't think you should– "
But as usual, Ben would never listen to his cousin and pressed down on the faceplate. Suddenly, Gwen was blinded by a flash of green light and felt hotter all of a sudden.
When her vision started to clear, "Ben," Gwen looked up and her mouth fell open in shock.
Instead of her doofus cousin, the red-headed girl looked up into the face of a tall and imposing, human-shaped monster that looked like it was made from living magma. But in actuality this was Ben.
The monster was tall humanoid entity whose body is composed of a bright yellow inner magma body covered by reddish burnt black volcanic rocks. His feet have a slight oval-like design with only two toes and one back toe, he has bulky forearms and four fingers. His tongue is also made of fire while his collarbone resembles a volcano which generates a fiery "hair" that covers his head, with a V shaped opening at the front leaving his mask-like face visible with no nose or ears. As the fire on his head takes the form of a dome, which leaves his face visible with no ears, nose or neck.
His shoulder plates are slightly tilted up with peaks, his plasma body glows brighter, and emits movement, similar to the Sun. The rocks show small but noticeable cracks around him, much like other minera. He has a rectangular plating on his hands, he has 3 spikes on his calves. The one thing that stood out above everything else, other than him not wearing clothes, was a circular badge on his left pectoral similar to the watches faceplate.
Gwen and the magma monster stared at one another for a quick second before they both erupted into panicked screams.
"AHH! I'm on fire!" The magma monster screamed, which immediately made it seem less intimidating in Gwen's opinion, especially when it started running around in circles. "I'm on fire! I'm on fire!" The magma monster started running around some more until it realized the obvious: "Hey…I'm on fire…and I'm okay. Hey, Gwen, check it out. I'm totally hot, right?"
"Ben, is that you?" asked Gwen after finally finding her voice. "What happened to you? And why are you a Charcoal Man?"
"I dunno," said Ben honestly, looking at his hands .
Gwen looked at the badge on his left pectoral, until her eyes widened. "That omni-whatchamacallit thingy must have turned you into this…whatever you are now?!" she looked at her watch, with slight fear and curiosity. "And if yours turned you into that, then it also means mine can do the same thing!"
Ben scratches his head. "You know, it kinda makes sense when you put it like that but it is also cool. Look at me, I'm the hottest man alive." he chuckles to himself, finding that funny.
But Gwen never thought he was funny. "Keep telling yourself doofus." he rolled his eyes.
"I wonder what I could do with this." He looked over his shoulder towards a dead tree and held his hand out at the tree, a ball of yellow flames appearing, he grinned. "Oh, yeah I'm Pyrokinetic!" He rolled his arm back ready to fire.
"Ben, don't go messing around with that thing," Gwen warned.
If you haven't figured it out by now, Ben has a natural talent for ignoring his cousin's reasonable warnings for his own personal amusement. Gwen knew that this won't end well for both of them.
"Oh yeah, here it goes!" said Ben. With a flick of his wrist, the magma monster flung a small fireball at the tree and completely destroyed one of the branches. "That's what I'm talking about! I'm like some sort of a Heatblast! Hey, Heatblast, like the sound of that. For this day and onward whenever am this fire dude call me; Heatblast!" he posed heroecily while Gwen started laughing.
"Bahahaha, Heatblast, hahaha, Ben that might be the most funniest thing I've heard from you." She continues laughing, was he really serious about naming them. "You can't be really serious about naming that monster you are; Heatblast! Hahaha!"
Ben did not find her. "Of cause I'm, dweeb and not just Heatblast but probably all the of the guys in this watch." wait he was actually serious.
Gwen stopped laughing. "Wait, you are actually serious about naming all of this monsters in this weird watches of ours?"
He smiled smuggly. "Oh, yeah I'm. And I'm naming that four arm chick of yours," he pointed at the hologram, "Um…um oh I got it! 4 Arms! Pretty cool," she made the universal sign for crazy at him.
"Really out of all of the names in the universe you chose '4 Arms'?" he looked at her blankly, with a serious look.
"Yes!" he answers.
"Did you fry whatever form of brain cells you have into ash or something because that is the dumbest name I have ever heard!" He stuck out his tongue at her.
"Fine if you don't like the name then I just take it, while you come up with a dumber for that four-armed chick." She had a sly smile
"So, you do admit that 4 Arms is stupid name and FYI, I ain't going to name this monsters until we figure out how to them off." She tries pulling off hers without pressing in the core.
He made a fireball in his left hand. "Are you crazy, who in the right mind would want to give a watch that turns into superpowered monsters." he tossed between his hands, making it bigger with each pass. "Watch!" he threw it a tree.
"Ben, seriously, you need to stop before someone gets hurt!" yelled Gwen; now she was starting to get worried.
Again he ignored her. "Sorry, the listening to Gwen loser Tennosyn has left the station and won't be returning." he outstretched his arms making two basketball sized fireballs each hand.
Gwen's eyes widened. "Benjamin Kirby Tennosyn don't do-"
"Relax, nerd, no one's gonna get hurt," said Ben assuring. He then cupped his hands together and produced a much large fireball. "Hey, check this out! Blazing Final Flash!"
He brought his arms in front of him combining the orbs that released a combined consitriated beam of fire that split into five individual heat rays that (barely) prosecily danced through the sky and dirt. The beams of flames tore it's way through the dirt, scorching it with black ash, charcoaling whatever they struck into ash, which were thankfully trees…
"Oh yeah that's what I'm torching about!" In no time at all, Ben and Gwen were now facing off against a massive forest fire that was jumping from tree to tree every second. Ben yelped and flailed his arms in panic. "No, wait, stop!" Ben shouted at the fire, as if expecting it to obey him.
"BENJAMIN KIRBY TENNOSYN, I TOLD YOU THIS HAPPENED!" she yelled at him.
"Hey, how was I supposed to now that this would-"
He tried to defend himself. "Ben, are you really that stupid!? You literally walking, talking pile of burning rocks that can make fire out of your hands, surrounded by a bunch of trees. What did you think would happen? Dwayne the Rock Johnson asking you to be in his next movie?" he sheepishly rubbed his head.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Ben yelped as he attempted to stomp out the smaller flames on the ground. His new form only seemed to make the flames stronger. "Oh man, I'm gonna get so busted for this."
It was officially, she was going to kill Ben if they survive this and go back home instead of continuing the trip with this idiot she unfortunately has for a cousin.
"You're worried about getting grounded?" yelled Gwen, shaking her fist at him and making Ben flinch. "We're gonna get burned alive because of you, doofus! Ben I'm to kill you!"
"Uh, Gwen you do know that I'm literally on fire?"...
"Okay, that did not sound smart when I said it put loud. Do you think that grampa will not notice it?"
XXX
Yup, Max did notice the fire. "What in blazes? Is that a forest fire." definitely noticed it. "Probably some darn fool out there, messing with something he shouldn't." Like your grandson Maxwell. Then it clicked for the older Tennosyn. "BEN!" Arthur laughing his but out.
Max then reached into a chest and got out two fire extinguisher.
He had a determined look. "After, I found Gwen and Ben,Ben is going to be in so much trouble after I'm done with him."
XXX
Back with Ben and Gwen, the fire was starting to spread further and consuming everything within seconds, and Ben futility attempting to stomp out the flames weren't helping anything. Gwen considered searching through her bag, hoping maybe she could use another blanket to snuff out the fires, but then she realized that she had left her backpack near the space pod with the green-haired girl. The flames started to pull inward and naturally formed a wall of fire that pinned Ben and Gwen against one of the large oak trees.
Sparks flew out and hit Gwen's shoes, nearly lighting them on fire until she kicked them out on the ground. The red-headed girl felt like crying; she never imagined this was how she was gonna go out.
"Ben, if we don't make it, I just wanna say I'm sorry for calling you a doofus," said Gwen, fearing starting to well up in her voice.
Ben looks around for something or anything that can help with this mess he made. His eyes landed on Gwen's watch that had turned into inactive phase, his eyes widened.
"That's it!" He walked closer to Gwen. "Gwen, I know that you are going to call me an idiot but I need you to trust me for once because I got a plan and I need you help me out here, please!?!" He begged, Gwen slowly whipping away her tears.
"As long as we survive not getting burning alive, then I'm in!"
"Okay, you just agreed way to quickly on that…ah forget it. Okay I know that you are going to say it's crazy but I nead you to turn into your version of heatblast." She was going to say no, because one heatblast was bad enough the world didn't need two of them. "Listen, if my watch allows me to turn into Heatblast then yours can do it to, because if I'm right then yours might have a function that let's you instantly know what we can fully do and if that fails you can use your book smarts to figure out how to stop this….I'm going to regret saying this. But you're way smarter!!" Gwen snickers.
"You had me at I'm smarter than you dweeb." She got up and turned on her watch. "Okay, omni-whatchamacallit, I don't know if you can hear or understand what I'm saying but I need
your help with this forest fire." She found the Heatblast hologram. "So please give me a sign to stop all of this!?" she raised her hand ready to slap in the core.
But before she could do that both her and Heatblast's eyes widened when the dail began moving away from the Heatblast icon and towards an icon of a reptilian creature with shark-like fins on its back and gills on the side of its neck.
"Wow, it's alive!" she shook her head and confusion. Bringing her hand closer to the dial. "Here goes nothing!" She pressed in the core, her body going numb but instead of a green explosion of light that covered her entire body, it was instead a blue light.
The light dimmed down revealing Gwen in a new state. She was a 4,3 feet tall quadrupedal reptilian alien that resembles an iguana-like creature with fish-like traits with blue sacks on both sides of her cheeks. She has light blue scales, three dorsal fins reaching down her back, small spikes on her face, black lips, three gills on the sides of her head and upper torso, instead of two eyes she has four small, squinted eyes white eyes.
She has three digits on the front legs and two on the hind legs and a large tail. She has black stripes on her face, around her eyes going down to her chin. She wore a blue and white uniform, the right side was black with a white cuff and the left side was white with a black cuff. Her badge was located on her forehead with a black stripe going down to the bridge of her nose.
"Wow, that felt really weird!" Kathleen Turner. Gwen looks at herself, a small icy mist escaping her lips every time she breathes and talks. "What the heck am I, an iguana?" she heard Heatblast teeth click together.
He increased his temperature. "I don't know what you are but you just made me almost get a cold." Gwen felt a weird sensation go through her head. "Do you even know what you can do?"
She smiles, creeping Ben out. "Yeah, I think I know what I can do!"
She took in a deep breath, and exhaled a concentrated stream of icy frost from her mouth and fired a long-range freeze ray that rapidly dropped the temperature of the area around them. Whatever she was doing turned the red flames around them into a winter wonderland, she did not stop there as she continued flash freezing the fire around them until the fire was all gone.
Heatblast whistles, in astonishment (Gwen yet again, cleaning up his mess). "Wow, cryogenic freeze breath!" Gwen said with a smile
"Talk about this Disney on ice!" She looks at him with a blank expression for a few seconds before she covers his entire body except for his head in a block of ice. "Yeah, I think I that I totally deserve that?"
"You, think!?" she huffed, still mad at him. "You totally deserve that for the fire and stupid pun, you blazing doofus!" she yelled at him, the ice block slowly starting to melt.
Before he can admit it they both heard an unfamiliar voice. "Hello, is anybody there!?" From the crater the white haired girl walked out of it with shaky legs as if it was her first time walking, still covered by Gwen's blanket. "Hello," she fell face first to the ground, "Ow!" she tries getting up but it seems that she didn't have the muscle strength to do it.
Gwen ran to her with Ben calling out to her. "Wait a second Gwen!" she ignored him just like how he ignored her multiple times earlier.
She held out her hand to the white-haired girl. "Here, grab my hand," the girl grabbed it, first feeling even colder then that scorching temperature that cooled till her body temperature stabilized.
She was not aware of what she grabbed onto. "Thank you very much-" she looks at Gwen, her eyes widening, while Ben had finally melted the ice Block began counting.
'In, three two, one!' He heard scream out to the heavens.
She jumped back from the Polar Manzadill and saw Heatblast too. "AAAGH! MONSTERS, STAY AWAY FROM ME!" Gwen felt insulted.
"Hey, that's not nice." She pouted.
"Uh, Gwen you are literally a talking inguana that breaths out ice beam below sub zero and I'm a talking matchstick that set this place on fire…again…do really that she-"
"Ben not helping! Listen girl-" the Polar Manzadill got a kick to the face that had enough force to send her ten feet from the girl. "Ow, that hurts!" She rubbed her cheek and glared at the girl. "Not cool!" she hissed at her, making the girl even scared of them
The girl tried to run away from the Manzadill. "SOMEONE ANYBODY PLEASE HELP ME!" She cried out with Ben noticing that her voice sounded similar to his but more feminine, which was weird.
At that moment the cousins heard. "Ben, are you okay!"
The Tennyson cousins turned back as Grandpa Max came running out of the forest. Ben wondering why Max thought that girl was him. "I saw the fire from the campsite!" And it was not just the transformed cousins but also the girl who ran behind Max. "Hey kid are you okay, are you all –"
She pointed at Pyronite and Manzadill. "Monsters!" he looks at where she was pointing acting like any protective grandpa. "What in blazes?" the transformed cousins waved at their grandfather. 'What's a Pyronite and a Polar Manzadill doing here on earth!?' the older thought, now on high alert.
"Hey, grandpa, guess who," said Gwen awkwardly, "It's me Gwen and," tilting her head at the molten man.
"It's me, grandpa," said Ben, waving his hand comically. "Ben!"
"Ben, Gwen?" said Max, staring at his flaming grandson and repetilain granddaughter in shock. "What happened to you two?" Huh that didn't take to long for him to know that it was them.
Gwen sighed in relief, making the area even colder. "Long story short, BEN STARTED A FOREST ON PURPOSE!"
"Wait, what!? I didn't do it…okay I did do it but it was an accident like-"
"Benjamin Kirby Tennosyn," Max spoke up interrupting the molten man, "You are grounded for 2 two weeks with no TV!"
"Ow man!" the Pyronite cried out.
To be continued.
Arthur's not.
Heatblasts design is from Creature Feature Gonnagetcha
Gwen's Articguana design is from MiskaLovesYou with clothing inspired from TheHawkDown with some added features to make the design feel more alien than just a blue scaled inguana with clothes.