Welcome, Ultras to The Ultra 10 Chronicles: Volume 3: Storms Gathering! This is an alternate universe of the Ben 10 story, and a continuation of the series, The Ultra 10 Chronicles. As an alternate universe, you won't need to be a diehard fan of the tv series to know what's happening, though it will help! The story is different enough, and doesn't follow the canon of the series, that casual fans, or new fans, can understand what is happening just as well! It follows both Volume 1: The Beginning of Ultra 10 and Volume 2: A Hero Earth Needs, as well as Neb & Newg: The Heroes That Fell. For the Full story, I'd recommend you read those three stories first, or at least the two mainline Ultra 10 Chronicles volumes. However, if you didn't, or if it's been a while, a short summery of the two volumes will be below the page break. (Though you really should go and read it for yourself!)
Prologue/summery of Volume 1: The Beginning of Ultra 10:
Ben, a normal ten-year-old boy returns from spending all summer with his Grandpa Max and cousin Gwen. Upon returning home, he finds an alien watch, which allows him to change his form into one of 10 aliens, which he uses to fight crime under the alias Ultra 10. His friends Lukas, Julie, Cooper and Sam eventually join him as he fights his battles as Team Ultra. He also fights alongside Lucky Girl, who is Gwen, unknown to either of them.
Ben goes up against the villainous sorcerer Hex, the mad scientist Doctor Animo, the vampire Vlad Sclzensk and his lakkie Jason, and his most dangerous villain yet, Alex Animal, a villain of his own making. Meanwhile, Lucky Girl discovers her magical abilities, battles her nemesis, a fellow sorcerer named Charmcaster, and builds her own team. All the while, a secretive government organization, known as the PLUMMERs, tasked with protecting the Earth from alien and magical threats, appear and occasionally help Ben, occasionally being a nuisance.
Prologue/summery of Volume 2: A Hero Earth Needs:
Ben struggles with being a hero after Alex Animal's attacks, and Team Ultra is forced to go on without him for a time. However, he soon realizes that he cannot just leave the crimefighting, and expect his enemies to leave him alone. Battling Alex Animal, Vilgax and a wicked trio of himself, Gwen and Grandpa Max, Team Ultra must defeat their enemies, before the whole world falls apart.
Ben learns the identity of Agent 10, who in turn learns of Ben and Gwen's extracurricular crimefighting. Battling such enemies as Vilgax, Alex Animal, and even the PLUMMERs themselves, this volume also introduces villains such as Neb, Newg and Xam. As well allies such as the Galactic Enforcers, Lucy Mann, Professor Paradox and more.
Prologue/summery of Neb & Newg: The Heroes That Fell
At first, staying fairly similar to the tv show, Neb goes on a summer trip with his grandfather Xam and cousin Newg. He happens upon an alien watch, granting him access to ten alien forms, which he begins to use for selfish reasons. Newg, discovering her own magical abilities begin fighting crime and settling scores, until Newg is affected negativly by Chaotic Magic. Blowing up a Plumber base, the trio are confronted by the Time Walker, with a possible opportunity to not only correct their timeline, but to cure Newg's chaos poisoning.
That's the summary of Volume 1: The Beginning of Ultra 10, Volume 2: A Hero Earth Needs and Neb& Newg: The Heroes That Fell! Chapter 2 of this volume (Chapter 66 in the story) is going to jump right in where Volume 2 left off. Be sure to favorite, follow and leave a review with everything you like, and everything you didn't! Your reviews help me be able to write the story better! And each one is much appreciated!
The Ultra 10 Chronicles: Volume 3: Storms Gathering is rated M for language, violence and scary scenes. Being somewhat new to the world of FanFiction, I do not entirely know if it is deserving of the M rating, but the way I see it, better to play it safe, than to be sorry I didn't!
Interesting fact, for anyone that cares: This volume ends where I had originally finished the plot, when Ben is twenty, with an epilogue of two years in the future. (It was originally to be only one volume, and about half the size Volume 1 came to be as well.) However, that was three years ago, and I've added a lot, and expanded a lot to the story, even before writing chapter 1, so currently, this volume marks the halfway point to these chronicles.
Thanks for your interest in reading The Ultra 10 Chronicles: Volume 3: Storms Gathering! Enjoy the story!
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