Sup folks, now we get to a chapter that honestly needed some adjustments from the original source, but also a chapter I have been waiting to get to for a while, return of a classic villain from Ben 10 with the twist of Steven universe lore, so behold the genius of this particular doctor in…
Chapter 6: Animo Mayhem
Just outside a four story building was a man in a black business suit and brown hair, red tie and grey shoes. He walked up the small stairs and started knocking on the door multiple times.
When no response came he tried knocking even harder. After waiting for several minutes, the man sighed and reached into his right pocket, pulling out a silver key and unlocking the door. Once unlocked, he opened the door and stepped into the building, closing the door behind him.
The inside of the building was a total wreck, cracks on the floors and walls and stains everywhere. But what the man noticed most of all were all the different types of animals in cages and tanks, there were the average snakes, birds and cats. But there were also odd animals like a giant snapping turtle, an albino tarantula and even a small crocodile with pale yellow scales. The place was like a zoo, it also smelt like one.
"Oh god, smells like a damn dump in here." groaned the man walking down the halls, the smell of the building was like corpses being rotten with crap all over them. The man decided to make this visit short, the longer he stayed here the more he was going to feel like puking his guts out.
The sounds of barking and chirping from the creatures were heard from the background, nothing too unbearable but still made it hard to hear anything. The man walked into the living room where there were cables attached to the ceiling and going down through the floor, electrical wires embedded into the walls and scrap metal scattered all over the floor. The man looked wide eyed at all of it, not really because of the damage but because of how weird it looked.
"What are you doing here?" asked an old and raspy voice from behind the businessman, startling him and making the guy turn around to see who was behind him. Standing there was a very old man with pale green skin, long white hair and dark red eyes. He was wearing a long lab coat with blood stains all around it, under that was a grey shirt that seemed to have something under it at the chest area. The old man was wearing a black pair of pants with a white belt, the belt buckle looked like the skull of a lizard. He wore black boots with metal plates on the toe section, the old man smelled like death itself.
"Dr. James A. Animo, my name is Steve Ragler and I am the landlord of this building. You're over two weeks late with the rent. I need to collect the money from you if you wish to continue living here." The man told the old tenant, who didn't seem to care much about his reasoning based on the blank expression on his face.
"My money goes to my work, but if it will get you to leave sooner then allow me to show you." Animo said as he turned around and began digging into a nearby box full of gadgets and wires, Steve watched with a raised eyebrow as Animo pulled out something from the metal container. The landlord had wide eyes when he saw what Animo was wearing now: it was a metal helmet with two rusty looking antennas attached to the sides. On the old man's chest was a metal panel with several red buttons, several glowing red wires connecting the helmet with the panel.
"Behold, The DNA Transmodulator! With this device I will bring this world to a new age of evolution! Allow me to demonstrate." The scientist said as he aimed the antenna towards a cage containing a black scorpion, the landlord watched with open eyes as the mad man flipped some switches on the panel and red static started to be generated from the helmet, suddenly red electricity shot right from the Transmodulator and struck the animal.
The scorpion was crashing around in the cage from complete agony, as its body glowed red and static was forming around it. Suddenly the scorpion began to grow larger and break out of the cage, the landlord backed away in complete shock and fear as the insect kept getting even larger and larger. growing to the size of a car. The pincers of the scorpion started growing spikes on the sides and jagged blades were being formed on the insides, the same type of spikes growing on its back, tail and legs. The fangs were growing larger and started looking like silver blades, the stinger on the tail changed to a more demonic appearance with a skull theme.
But that's not all. It then started twitching before glowing in an amber light and began breaking into atoms, spreading outward before merging back as one. The scorpion now gained anthropology, gaining battle armor and spawned twin swords from the palms. It grew huge busts and gained a Corrupted Amber on the belly, spreading red veins across the body.
After a few more seconds of its growth, Animo turned off the Transmodulator, stopping the mutation and the glowing coming from the process. The scorpion is revealed to now have a glowing dark red color scheme, while its eyes stayed jet black.
"Ahhh… I feel...so ANGRY!" She snarled in a vicious tone as she gripped her swords.
"What the hell is that thing!?" shouted the man falling down on his butt and trying to back away from the monster now in front of him. She glared at him and displayed drooling fangs. She marched forward and raised her sword.
Animo snapped his fingers and got the scorpion's attention, silently ordering the insect to crawl away from the landlord. She was perplexed but didn't question as she backed away.
"H..how did you do that, what is that thing?" the man asked with his back to the wall, trying to find a way out of this freak house alive.
"With the Transmodulator, I am able to mutate and evolve any species that is affected by it by combining them with the souls of the beasts slain by those Crystal Gems! I will bring the next animal kingdom to the world and lead it to an evolutionary breakthrough, the birth of Xeno Beasts!. Now I think it's time for you to leave Mr. Ragler, unless you wish to become my new creation's first feast after its rebirth." Animo warned the man as some green drool was coming down the scorpion's fangs, the landlord took his chance and ran out of the building as fast as he could.
"Hmmm. Why you look different?" asked the Scorpio Amber.
"Saw through it, I see." Animo took off his lab coat and revealed he's nothing but a living head attached on a robotic body with messy wires and the metal skeleton looking like something from an animatronic.
"This body served its purpose. Come, we must go." He ordered. Animo knew it was probably not a good idea to stay here after showing that fool his creation, the police would without a doubt be here very soon. Besides he was planning to leave anyway, he had a task to complete and it would be taken place to a little town called Beach City.
"Come my pet, our time of reckoning is here. After I complete this mission for my employer, I shall gain all I need for my experiments, turning this entire planet into the ultimate genetic creation!" Animo declared to his pet as he walked over to a curtain blocking off half the room, once removed a shadow silhouette is shown being the shape of a large and primal creature. The view focused on his face, where he made a psychotic and deranged smirk as the scene faded into.
The scene opens up to the Beach City shore at dusk, where we find multiple explosions occurring across the beach. Multiple purple blades slashes about with fire blasts bursting about. We moved in closer at two energy comets charging in and landing a powerful impact with each other, creating a powerful shockwave that formed a deep crater before the comets disburse apart and the figures jumped away to make some distance. It's then revealed to be Steven as Pyroburst and Amethyst.
The Crystal Gems had recently captured about 3 Corrupted Gems that day, but Steven and Trix still had the edge and energy for combat, which seems to happen more often lately.
Amethyst suggested having a sparring match to get their energy out and train a little, Steven and Trix both agreed while the other Gems went home to start making dinner.
"Raaghhh... Bring it on, Amethyst, I still got a lot more fire power!" smirked Pyroburst as he flares his fists then thrust his hands, discharging a series of fire spears.
"And I still got more skills!" smirked Amethyst as she swung her whips around, slicing the spears apart then she quickly jumped up to evade the fireballs that blew the sand apart before encasing it into glass.
Pyroburst began to move but noticed he cannot budge an inch, he looked down and saw his feet were now being trapped by glass.
"Oh shoot." He grumbled.
"I hate it when that happens! We have got to control Pyroburst's heat." stated Trix as he popped out of the dial hole to look at the ground. Pyroburst wasn't very good at places with a lot of sand, as extreme heat and sand would always cause the creation of glass that keeps getting the alien stuck to the ground.
"BANZAI!" cheered Amethyst as she jumped forward, pulled out another whip and started swinging them at Pyroburst, bashing him non-stop then held out her whips, spun them at high speed and grinned as Pyroburst remained stunned. "WHIP CRACKER!" she flicked her wrists forward and Pyroburst instantly caught the whip while he focused his gaze at his glassed feet.
"I'm stuck, Amethyst. Hold a sec." he said as he slammed her against the ground, sending a quake and wave of sand that fractured the glass. "Finally." He moved his feet and he glared at the sand wave before it suddenly heated into glass and shattered into pieces, soon after melting away by the Pyronite's aura. Amethyst stood up and cricks her neck before smirking and picks her nose with her pinkie.
"That was rough. Time for an all-out fight!" Amethyst spun her whips before bringing them together and linking them into a single whip, a bigger and longer whip then dropped in fighting stance. She was soon surrounded by purple Gem Energy, which greatly increased her psychical strength.
"Same here." said Pyroburst as he pumped his arms and his body erupted in a flaming pink aura mixed with his blue flames.
"Man, their powers are off the charts!" Trix thought out loud before he noticed things heating up, literally.
Pyroburst thrust his hands back, erupting a double burst of magma before rocketing toward Amethyst, who immediately lifted her foot and stopped his thrust punch. Which blasted the sand away on both sides and drove her across the beach, showing difficulty on halting his speed before she lifted her other foot and kicked Pyroburst's face, sending her in a backflip somersault but comically patted her shoes to clear the smokes before landing on her back. Pyroburst was stunned by the kick and shook it off, after which he thrust his fist forward and fired a flaming lance at her.
"Take our fire!" shouted Trix in excitement.
"Yipe!" she yelped as she dash away from the lances then swung her large whip and Pyroburst held up his arm, it wrapped around it. He grabbed and swung Amethyst across the beach and slammed her against the sand dome, sending more sand flying. She yelped and spat sand out before Pyroburst hoisted her up, swung her over and attempted to slam her down once more.
Amethyst immediately recovered and landed on both feet, used the momentum to turn the table to lift and slammed Pyroburst against the boulder, shattering it apart.
"Come on, I got more!" she said. Pyroburst stood up and gave a growl.
"That's it, time for the heavy fire!" shouted Trix as Pyroburst began to increase his body heat to the max.
"Meteor Erupter!" yelled Pyroburst as he held his arms out then the mini-volcanoes on his shoulders glowed brightly before discharging a barrage of magma spheres to the sky.
"Whoa, easy on the extreme!" said Amethyst as she began to somersault, her hair wrapped around her whole body until she's now a white spin ball with purple aura. She accelerated the rotation and rocketed towards the magma rocks, pin balling them to pieces and soar towards Pyroburst.
He inhaled deeply then vomited a stream of lava but Amethyst ceased spinning and swung her hair, which hardened into with a diamond-like durability and sliced the magma apart before she landed on the ground and split her whip back into two.
"What's wrong with extreme?" smirked Pyroburst as he cupped his hands, channel the density of the heat then yanked them apart, forging sabres on his hands.
"Can you take the heat?" asked Trix, crossing his arms. "Or will you get BURNED!" he added with a devious smirk, this was one of those times where the little Omnitrix loved to cause some destruction.
"Oh, can I take it?" Amethyst slapped her whips down and they ignited with purple fiery energy, the tips split into four and her hidden eye sparks with malice. "Block these!" She swung her whips at Pyroburst but the blue pyronite instantly started parrying all strikes with his saber blades, producing energy bursts that quake the ground as Amethyst kept whipping at Pyroburst, yet he kept parrying, displaying Steven's great reflexes. The whips then ensnared his arms. He grabbed them and reeled her in, only for her to spin dash into him and produced a powerful explosion of sand, followed by a green and pink light as Steven went back to normal, went flying and rolled like a ball before stopping in the sand.
"Whoa! I lost." said Steven, disappointed in his and Trix's loss, but still happy with the epic battle they all had. Trix and Steven really loved to fight.
"Man, I thought Pearl's the second strongest!?" asked Trix as he popped up and stretched his spine. Although he had a robotic body, he was able to feel around his body thanks to special sensors built into his body, which allows him to feel things like an organic species. This means Trix can feel cold and hot, pain and pleasure, making him more as an individual than a machine.
"Hey, I don't slack around doing nothing. Besides, you guys are a great sparring partner, Steven" Amethyst smiled and Trix clapped with glee as Amethyst discarded her weapons. "I'm hungry, how about you guys?" asked Amethyst, smiling and looking down at the two.
"Oh yes!" beamed Steven and Trix in unison.
At the Beach City's downtown section, Steven and Amethyst ran across the sidewalks and turned to find the Beach Citywalk Fries, a food stand that is famous for their French Fries variation. They approached the counter to find the owner.
"Hey Mr. Fryman, give me the bits!" said Steven, very eager for his favourite meal. The boy always loved the crunchy leftover fry bites that came off of the fries, he would order that almost every day.
"Steven!" Mr. Fryman began as he flipped the sign when approaching. "We're closed." he said, much to the dread of the group.
"Awww, what?" whined Steven in disappointment. Amethyst slammed her hand on the counter.
"It's only 10 minutes before closing hours!" whined Trix. "Come on man, we're starving!" Trix whined even more while slapping his pinchers on the counter. Technically he didn't really have a need for food, but after watching Steven and the others eat he gained a habit of consuming to feel like part of the group.
"Give 'em the bits! The bits, the bits..." Amethyst began chanting while continuously hitting the counter.
Before Steven joined the chant and Trix brace himself, a figure walked up and sat beside him. It's the man from before, Stranger as Steven always called him since he's never really said his name to anyone when they cross paths.
"Chili Fries. Double the cheese, and get them their bits while you're at it." He ordered the food.
"We're closed," said Mr. Fryman, trying to negotiate with the man.
"9 minutes before closing." He replied with a shrug as he placed $20 on the counter.
"Very well." sighed Mr. Fryman as he went to cook some Chili Fries as well as Fry Bits, It wasn't really that big of a deal to make them, he just wished Steven would try normal fries for once.
"YES!" beamed the trio as they exchanged high-fives.
"We're getting our bits! Thanks, Stranger!" beamed Steven.
"Stranger? Eh, guess that's fair, I haven't introduced myself to you guys huh?" Said the Stranger with a shrug.
"So what is your name?" Trix asked.
"Just call me Ben dude" said the Stranger, now going by Ben.
"Ok, Ben dude" Steven said jokingly as Ben gave a smirk to the hybrid.
"Well well little guys got jokes huh? Still though, Ben is fine, Ben Tennsyon to be exact" Ben said introducing himself to them.
"Nice to meet ya, Steven Quartz Universe" Steven said introducing himself to Ben, "And this is Trix" Steven said as he showed Trix to Ben.
"Sup!" Trix exclaimed while waving his claw.
'Huh, so this Omnitrix AI made the watch into its body, guess colour isn't the only difference in watches' Ben though to himself.
"Don't forget about me, the names Amethyst, the most awesome person to hang around" Amethyst said.
"Eh I don't know, I know some pretty rad people" Ben said.
"Wait, your last name is Tennyson, like the number 10?" Trix asked.
"Yep, and funny enough, 10 is my lucky number" Ben said as Fryman came back with the orders as Ben paid for the Chilli Fries and the Fry Bits, "Keep the change, see ya later Steven" Ben said as he walked away with his chilli fries.
"See ya Ben!" Steven said
"I can give you actual fries if you want." Fryman offered although he pretty much already knew the answer, seriously what's wrong with normal fries.
"Just the bits, please." Steven took the bag. "Thanks." he said as he walked away while Amethyst picked a handful of bits and Trix created a digitised version of bits and ate them.
They began to walk back to the temple when the ground started quaking violently.
"Whoa! Either I'm REALLY hungry or we're having an earthquake." said Amethyst as the ground kept moving, the sound of thrashing can be heard underneath their feet.
"Uh... I think it sounds more like crashing..." quivered Steven as another quake shook the ground and it does sound like something large is smashing through the concrete.
Suddenly the manhole lid just a few feet away from them blew up to the sky then the whole concrete around it fractured and pushed out of the street.
"WAAH!" exclaimed Steven.
"What's going on?" asked Trix as he looked around on the ground and was getting frightened. "Steven, maybe we should transform and…" before he could finish he heard a loud noise.
"Watch out!" Amethyst grabbed Steven and jumped away from the falling manhole, which impacted the ground hard. Amethyst set Steven down as he comically takes a mouthful of bits.
"Is that a shark?!" asked Amethyst as the source of the tremor is a giant anthropomorphic shark, with claw-like appendages on the flippers and a long tail with three blue crystal drills at the end of the tailfin. In Fact it had the same type of drills all over its body, on the shoulders, back, knees, head, being shaped kinda like a crown and on the wrists pointed like wrist blades, It has the physique of a bodybuilder woman and conjures a large drill like Gem Weapon which was used for tunnelling and combat. On the left eye is a large aquamarine gemstone.
"And is it wearing a bikini that's a little size too small?" Trix asked as the shark woman was indeed wearing a bikini which didn't exactly cover much.
"...Is it weird its kinda hot?" Amethyst asked.
"GRRRR AAAAGHH!" She roared as she struggled to pry free from under the ground. The size of the creature alone was enough to cause the concrete to shatter, and soon she would be free.
"Is it a Corrupted Gem like Centipeetle?" asked Steven as he dials the Omnitrix for a transformation, but still glancing at the shark as it tried biting the ground.
"I-I think so!" cringed Amethyst as she yanked out her whip then lassoed it around the mutant shark's neck, yanking her out of the hole and she slammed the creature against the ground.
"Hey, easy on the pavement. Can't have customers fall in the sinkhole." said Mr. Fryman as he cleaned the counter, Trix just stared at the man like he just lost his mind.
"Dude, get out of here!" yelled Trix as he helped Steven find a transformation. "It's not safe, that thing could rip you apart!" added the Omnitrix, continuing to dial for a form.
The Shark woman shook her head before she glared at Amethyst, "GRRROW! That...hurt!" The mutant shark recovered and whipped Amethyst aside with her tail.
"It talked!?" yelped Amethyst as she hit the pavement.
"My sensors show that the creature is indeed a Corrupted Gem, but genetically fused with a bull shark!" said Trix, shocked from the reveal, it blew his mind of the idea of a hybrid like this.
"A...A fusion between a Gem and an animal?" asked Steven, surprised, also thinking of how it reminded him of the situation he's in.
"I wish I could say this is awesome, but she's way too dangerous!" Steven slapped the Omnitrix and transformed back into Pyroburst.
"Bring it, Fish Fry!" Pyroburst charged in and landed a cross-punch, knocking the shark but she didn't phase a bit.
"Fish Fry... Sounds like a nice new variation." said Mr. Fryman as he made a note of that, maybe some local fish fries would bring in some business.
"Seriously man!?" asked Trix, shocked by Mr. Fryman's calmness. "Get the heck out of here already!" shouted Trix at the fry-cook from inside the Omnitrix core.
"Is that it? It tickles, kid." smirked the bull shark as she showed off her large teeth in an evil smile.
"Ugh, you can't be this strong! Pyroburst's one of the best aliens I got!" baffled Pyroburst.
"Oh but I am." she said as she brought up her drill weapon while all the drills on her body spun, "And it's not Fish Fry, baby face! I'm DRILL JAWS!" Drill Jaws swing her drill at Pyroburst. He ducked and blasted her back with his shoulders, knocking back.
Pyroburst then grabbed the shark's tail, rotated around and attempted to hammer-toss her, but Drill Jaws acted quick and slammed her drill weapon down which in turn made Pyroburst lose control of his momentum and throw himself away from her instead.
"WWW WHOOOO AAAAAAAA!" screamed Pyroburst as himself all the way into the beach, striking the water with a huge splash. Pyroburst surfaced and gasped but Drill Shark jumped up high and landed in the water before suddenly becoming much faster in the water before bursting out, chomped on his shoulder and dragged Pyroburst underwater, which began extinguishing his flames.
"L-Let go, Let go!" he tried to fire his attack but barely made a fizzle.
"You're in my elements, baby face!" grinned Drill Jaws.
"Try channeling the heat to your finger." said Trix. Pyroburst held up his finger, channeling as much heat as he could, then it lit up like a welding torch, he quickly stabbed it on the tail of Drill Jaws.
"GRRRYYAAI!" She screeched as the tail got cut off with blood coming from the freshly cut wound.
Pyroburst got free and started swimming his way up until he surfaced and coughed heavily before whips lassoed around him, yanking him out of the water and sending him flying.
"AAAAAAAAAAA!" he screamed and landed on the sand hard creating a dust cloud, soon after it glowed with green and pink energy and Pyroburst morphed back into Steven as he lifted his head up and spit some sand out of his mouth. Amethyst lifted the boy up, with a worried expression on her face.
"You okay, Steven?" asked Amethyst, worried about the little guy. "How about you Trix, still in one piece?" she added, seeing the little boy turn into his robotic form covered in sand.
"Dizzy and a little sand in my joints, but I'll live" said Trix as he then started cleaning the sand off of him and Steven with some tractor beams, one of the many features he had besides the main ability to transform the user.
"I-I'm fine Amethyst, alive at least." replied Steven spitting out both sand and water. "I almost drowned as Pyroburst through, fire and water don't mix... If only I could switch to one of my aquatic aliens..." panted Steven as he stroked his wet hair. Steven and Trix always needed to be careful of which form to chose, as they would be stuck in that transformation for a whole 10 minutes. Sure, they can switch back early with Quick Change but that leaves them vulnerable.
"Come on, we gotta check on the gang and tell them what happened." said Amethyst as she gave Steven and Trix a ride on her back. She knew they were too tired to walk, so she was happy to give the boys a ride back home.
As she ran though, she and the boys failed to see Drill Jaws watching them with a glare from the water before sinking into the water.
At the Crystal Temple, Amethyst and the boys arrived to find Pearl battling against another monstrous Xeno Beast.
It is a large orange hamster with multiple red eyes and sharp teeth. She donned the similar armors as the Scorpion but gained various shells as shields with a black and orange bodysuit that looked to be made of spandex. She's shorter than others, standing about 5'8 but has an athletic physique and she has an amber gemstone on her forehead, constructing a solid crystal horn.
"Face the skills of Spinball!" She proudly cheers as she curls up into a sphere and charges at them with wild speed.
Pearl gracefully evades the hamster's savage charge and takes aim with her spear and discharges a powerful sphere of energy, which collides and blows it away as Spinball crashed against the hill attached to the temple, knocked out with comical swirls in her eyes.
They heard a jaguar roar and looked up to find Cat's Eye battling a giant green mutated snail.
This one lacks much anthropology besides the upper body replacing the snails entire head section, which had a metal breastplate and red hair covering one side of her face, she has Gem gauntlets and turrets for defence. she has a red shell formed into a cannon, with a Sunstone gemstone on the side. Cat's eye seems very angry as she swiftly evades its slime gunk at amazing speed then vanished. The snail tried to search for her but got bashed several times by a blur, then instantly got slashed on her body that wasn't protected by the breastplate. She screeched in pain as she slithers back then hides into her shell.
"Please! Mercy!" She pleaded. Cat's Eye appeared before it looking confused before the Snail came out and blasted her with slime, "Psyche!".
Cats Eye growled at being deceived as she did several backflips before stopping, pulled out her Cat Claw and overcharged it with magic, jumped forward at full speed and thrust her claw. She punched at the shell and cracked it whilst pushing the mutant snail down as they fell towards the beach head. Cat's Eye somersaulted back then thrust her hand backward to discharge a burst of magic, propelling her towards the strange beast.
"Psyche this!" she screamed as she rammed her claws and they collided on the ground, sending a huge geyser of sand to the sky, nearly blinding the gang. Steven and Trix were speechless, neither have seen their feline friend be so ferocious and vicious to an opponent before, the dust cleared to show the snail woman also defeated as she laid on her side with slime leaking from her shell.
At the beach head, Garnet was evading the tongue strike of a huge green mutant frog Xeno Beast. She's tubby with less armour and has a lime-green gemstone on the forehead and four horns on her head with orange bumps on her back and arms. She lashed out her tongue and Garnet quickly caught it, she fortified her footing and pulled the tongue, yanking the frog towards her.
"RIBBIT!" She croaked in fear.
Then Garnet jumped up and landed a direct downward punch against its head, producing a powerful explosion of energy. Garnet landed and found the Frog woman unconscious while staring at the mutants green gemstone with a raised brow.
"Hey guys, we were attacked by a Gem Shark!" announced Amethyst, running over to everyone with Steven and Trix still on her back.
"Well as you can see, we were attacked as well." stated Pearl placing her spear back inside her gemstone. "Where were you Amethyst, we coulda used your help?!" asked Pearl with a frown and arms crossed.
"Uh...eating fry bits?" answered Amethyst sheepishly as she set Steven down. Pearl slapped her face and sighed in annoyance. Garnet and Cat's Eye approached the group and they dragged the mutant animal women.
"Look at them, I'm surprised they're still alive." said Trix as he scanned the strange hybrids to double check the injuries on them. "No broken bones or tissue damage, these girls can take a beating" Trix commented but still felt this was wrong, who could do this to animals.
Even though the Gems primarily protected humans, they also protect animals as well as they see all life as important. Especially Cat's Eye, as she cared extremely for the animal kingdom.
"I think they're barely alive, this is some sick joke, I'm supposed to be the animal kingdoms protector!" Cats Eye said with a growl, finding the situation to be terrible to her.
"These are no Corrupted Gems. Somehow the Corrupted Gems got embedded on these Earth creatures and mutated them, like a twisted version of Gem Fusion." said Garnet with a serious tone. However, the term she used caught Steven's attention, so he had to ask her about it.
"Gem Fusion?" asked Steven, confused by the notion.
"You'll know more once you're older." Said Cat's Eye as she gave her two little cubs a wink.
"But how, we never saw the Centipeetle or any other Corrupted Gem embedded themselves on earth animals?" baffled Pearl, not understanding how this was possible, the very notion was unthinkable.
"Do you really want to know?" asked a mysterious voice.
The Crystal Gems were startled and become defensive by the voice then Steven look up and saw a large figure on top of the Crystal Temple head, however the rising moon blocked the details with its full moon light, only showing the silhouette, before it jumped off and landing on the ground, shattering the surface and the Crystal Gems backed away to evade the debris while getting ready with their Gem Weapons minus Steven.
It was a giant albino gorilla but had a green cybernetic module on where the head used to be, with a dome of water containing the head of Dr. Animo. His left eye gained one big red optic with a scar running down on it. The albino gorilla body has purple skin with giant claws on his feet.
The module contained the Transmodulator, with the system integrated on both sides of the dome, a red powercore in the front of it, and the module has two giant tubes of red energy connecting it to the gorilla's back.
"Whoa, a g-giant monkey!" stuttered Steven, amazed with what he saw, wondering how fighting this guy would be like.
"That's DOCTOR Giant Monkey to you, boy. I am Dr. Animo!" announced the insane man, "I am a geneticist and the most brilliant scientist in the world, no one matches my intellect!" Animo declared, slamming his fist to the ground with excitement.
"Animo? Aren't you the scientist who got kicked out of the Science Convention!?" asked Pearl, remembering watching the whole situation on the news a couple weeks ago. Apparently this scientist was so out of line, he was banned from any and all scientific research facilities, "I don't understand, you were destroyed for experimenting on Corrupted Gems despite the world law against that, how are you alive?! And what are you doing here?!" demanded Pearl as she readies her spear, this madman back from the dead could be up to anything.
"Isn't it obvious, I am here to reclaim my samples!" stated Dr. Animo with a smirk, finding amusement with how much the Gems didn't know. "I have no interest in your temple of a home, even though it is important," he added, crossing his large gorilla arms. That shocked the Gems and made them get ready to attack at any moment, all their weapons pointed at the deranged scientist.
"Your samples? What do you mean your samples?" asked Trix growing more suspicious and ticked off at the same time, this weirdo was really starting to get on his nerves.
"The Corrupted Gems embedded in my fallen Xeno Beasts belong to me!" He answered, enjoying how oblivious they were.
"Xeno Beasts?" They asked in confusion.
"The name of the new race born from the genetic fusion between Corrupted Gems and Fauna, a race in which I plan to replace and dominate Humanity, with me as their King!" Animo gloats proudly.
"Cooool!" beamed Steven and Trix.
"NOT Cool! That's enslavement!" argued Pearl. Seriously, why did all the dangerous stuff amaze the boys?
"Mother Nature will never allow her children to be tortured!" snarled Cat's Eye, her blood boiled over the man's insanity.
"The Mistress would be pleased I root out the cancer that is Humanity. And before you ask, I hunted down each of these Corrupted gems myself after I recovered, Now give them back to me or feel my wrath!" demanded Animo with a grin.
"Over our dead bodies!" hissed Pearl, as the very idea of giving Animo Corrupted Gems for his horrible experiments was out of the question.
"Wrong choice of words." said Cat's Eye, knowing how Animo would probably respond to the statement.
"Very well, girls, come!" Animo announced as he snapped his fingers, the Xeno Beasts awoke before rushing past the gems and to Animo's side as if nothing happened to them, "But I will be more than happy to crush your gemstones to cease your existence, ending your interference once and for all!" he added as he began to charge towards the Beach House in a gorilla manner.
"GET AWAY!" yelled Garnet as she jumped in and threw a power punch but Animo caught her with a psychokinetic aura. "What?!" she gasped.
"Like my new telekinetic pulse capability?" asked the madman, looking up at the Gem. "The Corrupted Gems may have destroyed my original body, but I got the best prize for heightened mental abilities, So worth it!" smirked Animo as he grabbed Garnet's head with his large gorilla hand and then slammed her against the ground, lifted her up and threw her down hard. Then he clubbed her down twice before grabbing her with his telekinesis. "Feel the raw power of nature's beast!" Animo landed a power punch and sent Garnet flying until she smashed through the stone wall.
"GARNET!" exclaimed Steven then lifted his shirt and closed his eyes. "Come on Shield, please Shield on!" plead Steven, trying to activate his Gem Weapon.
"You sick monster!" yelled Cat's Eye at the insane scientist, getting ready to tear him apart.
"I'm not fully recharged either." said Trix as the interface on his face glowed red.
"I got this!" said Amethyst as she curls up into a ball and spin-dash towards Animo, who effortlessly caught her, spun around and threw her into the ocean.
"RARAWR!" snarled Cat's Eye as she charged at Animo, he swung his massive arm down and struck the sand. She nearly evaded by stopping her charge then jumped over and swung her Cat Claw, slashing his arm.
"Smarts, does it not?" smirked Animo, not even flinching in pain. Cat's Eye then did a somersault axe kick, he crossed his arms and blocked it then gave a menacing grin and discharged a powerful psychokinetic pulse smacking Cat's Eye away and she impacted the sand.
"Steven, stay back!" Pearl spun her spear then took aim and fired an energy bomb at Animo but he caught it with his bare hands and got dragged across the sand before he fortified his footing and crushed it, spilling out embers. "M-My Magic?!" gasped Pearl.
"Magic? I, the brilliant scientist Dr. Animo, don't believe in magic!" said the madman, "But your Gem possesses infinite amounts of energy, however that energy is still no match for the albino gorilla's powerful durability!" grinned Animo as he discharged a telepathic pulse and struck Pearl, smacking her off the sand and landing hard behind Steven.
"Pearl!" exclaimed Steven. He heard stomping and turned to see Animo towering over him. The old man staring down at him and Trix with an evil grin, causing them to back away a little.
"Now for you, hatchling!" shouted the scientist taking a few steps forward. "My source tells me that male Gems are the ultimate battle warriors of the universe, they have the absolute thrill in battle! And being a Hybrid, you must be even stronger than Lady Garnet!" grinned Animo. Trix became confused by this statement, how did he know so much about the Gems.
"And just who is your source anyway Banana Breath? How do you know some much about the Gems?!" asked Trix while holding his pincers out for defence.
"My source is none of your concern, as for my knowledge on the Crystal Gems, they have been around this planet for Centuries, they have made their mark on history more than once, besides you have bigger things to worry about!" answered Animo taking another few steps closer, making Steven wish the Omnitrix would recharge already as the Xeno Beasts watched with sick glee.
'Just need to keep him talking a little longer, enough for the Omnitrix to power up' thought Steven, keeping eye contact with Animo.
Steven remains afraid and he's powerless at the moment, but soon Animo displays computer sensors within his dome and he gives a disappointed look. "Tch, Strength is 40% above normal while your spirit is 5%, and your power is only scraping above generic Gem energy levels… That's hardly above standard Human!" baffled Animo, generally confused and frustrated about this outcome.
"After years of growing up with these female Gems, you're nowhere near their power levels! Such disappointment..." he added, causing Steven and Trix to feel bad but also Trix caught what Animo said, specifically Female Gems.
'Why is the Gems gender a factor in our strength?' Trix thought to himself.
"I could spare you but then again, I could just kill you and take the Omnitrix to prevent any setbacks." grinned the gorilla as he grabbed Steven and lifted him up into the air.
"Waaah, Guys help me!" panicked Steven in fright.
"Let us go, you overgrown Mojo Jojo wannabe!" yelled Trix trying to stab Animo's arm with his pinchers. It was no use, the flesh of the albino gorilla was too tough for even Cat's Eye's claws to scratch.
"A little experiment for your talent, boy: can you fly?" asked Animo with a mad grin.
"Wha?!" gasped Steven before Animo threw Steven 50 feet high in the sky, then descended down toward the town. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" he screamed.
"Yyyooouuu jjjeeerrrkk!" shouted Trix while rising in the air at great speed, he tried to transform himself and Steven into an alien form, but the Omnitrix was still in Recharge Mode.
"Mwah ha ha! Mwah ha ha ah ha ha! Surprise me if you survive, boy!" laughed Animo as he stomped his way to the beach house with his Xeno Beasts following him.
"AAAAAAAAHHHH!" Steven continued falling down and struggled to activate the Omnitrix but it kept beeping in decline.
Steven closed his eyes and desperately wished for someone to save him and Trix. Suddenly the gemstone on his naval started glowing and immediately projected his shield. Steven landed on the sand and the shield saved him as he slid across the ground and impacted Greg's van on the side, which set off the alarm.
"Oof! Ow... I'm alive?" asked Steven as he patted his body and the shield vanished.
"That was too close..." panted Trix. Suddenly the door swung open and stepped out Greg with a waffle iron again.
"Who's there?" asked Greg waving the iron around, trying to look intimidating. "I have a waffle iron!" he exclaimed.
"Cool, can we have some waffles?" asked Trix as a joke.
"Oh, Dad! It's us!" said Steven with happiness as he stood up and dust the sand off. "I was just thrown over here by some whacko named Dr. Animo." he said.
"That lunatic almost killed us!" yelled Trix in rage.
"Wait wait, some crazy Doctor threw you and is trying to kill you, Why and how?!" Greg asked, very confused and concerned for his boys.
"Well, he has an albino gorilla for a body, as for why we're not sure, but we need to get back to the Crystal Temple ASAP!" panicked Trix.
"Take it easy kiddo, you look like you could use a break." said Greg as he rubbed Trix's head gently. Greg was always a father figure to Trix, and he even treated Trix as a second son.
"Thanks for your concern Mr. Universe, but we don't have time for breaks! Who knows what Animo is doing now!" said Trix as he began to make the Omnitrix speed up the recharge, he could only do that sort of thing once a week.
"Uh...okay, get in the van!" said Greg as he jumped back inside with Steven and Trix climbing into the passenger's seat. Greg started up the van then hit the accelerator, drove across the beach and returned to the Crystal Temple, just to find Beach House's frontal entrance was destroyed, and the Gems were recovering while Amethyst finally returned to shore. Steven opens the power window and pokes out.
"Guys, you're alive!" exclaimed Steven with joy.
"We were careless..." said Garnet as she picked up her shade and concealed her eyes before lifting her head to Steven's view. He never really saw her without her glasses.
"He didn't even cry for a booboo…" moaned Cat's Eye as she was still dazed by the blast.
"Oh, I won't lose to that monkey again!" complained Amethyst as she squeezed the water out of her hair. Pearl sprints out of Beach House with fear.
"Animo stole a lot of the Corrupted Gems!" shouted Pearl from the doorway. "We gotta stop him!" panicked Pearl.
"Wait, how did he even get in the temple?! I thought only you guys could enter it!" Trix questioned with great confusion as multiple question marks appeared on his dial.
"I don't know! But the door is greatly damaged!" Pearl exclaimed.
"Get in the van!" said Greg. The Gems agreed and climbed aboard in the van. Cat's Eye seemed more excited about getting in the van more than the others.
"Yeee!" Cat's Eye bounced on the bed in the van and curled up to make herself comfortable. "I missed this old thing, purrr!" purred Cat's Eye, she truly loved being in Greg's van, it made her feel calm. Before Steven was born, Greg would drive Cat's Eye around when she got upset or angry about something, and it would always make her feel better. The van has a lot of sentimental value.
"Still haven't changed much here?" asked Amethyst as she sat on the seat, she also had a few good memories of the old van. Garnet just climbed on the top of the van and Pearl climbs in, where she and Greg exchange uneasy glances. Pearl and Greg never really bonded with each other as well as the others did, Greg wanted to bond with Pearl but with Rose gone, it wasn't easy.
"Ready?" asked Greg, uneasy.
"Just please get us to Beach City quickly!" Pearl said sternly as Greg just grew more uneasy, knowing his talks with Pearl were always uncomfortable for both of them
"…" Greg glanced at Steven, who gave a shrugged look.
"Hero time as always, right Dad?" he asked with a smile. Greg then smiled and nodded, hit the accelerator and drove all the way to Beach City.
The gang enters the centre plaza, just to find a horde of giant red Xeno Squirrels with ruby gemstones on their noses and equipped with red crystal claws on their hands, each wearing exotic looking leotards and large green Xeno Bats with brilliant cut emeralds on their arms, each armed with pickaxes on the wings, some of the Xeno Bats wearing torn up clothes that acted like dresses while others just wore various womens underwear, bras and panties and all.
"Yeesh, these chicks are uh…unique in their choice of outfits" Greg said with a blush as he tried to not look directly at the Xeno Beasts outfits.
"...Those Squirrels are kinda hot" Cats Eye said peeking from the back.
"CATS EYE! Don't say that around Steven! Be serious!" Pearl exclaimed.
"Hey don't blame me! Blame the ones dressing like that!" Cats Eye argued.
"I mean, they are hot, totally agree with Cat" Amethyst said as she got a glare from Pearl, "What?! Like you don't think so too!" she argued as Pearl looked back out the van, while Amethyst secretly took a picture of the Xeno Beasts with her phone.
"SCREECH!" the bats let out a sonic shrill and plowed the street apart.
"WHOA!" exclaimed Greg as he hit the brake and turned sideways to evade it before halting near the parking space.
"For the Xeno Race!" The Xeno Squirrels exclaimed and jumped at them but Garnet fired her gauntlets and punched the two away while she Sparta-Kicked the third back.
"Crystal Gems!" yelled Garnet as she called back her gauntlets and re-equipped herself. "We're on the attack!" she shouted.
"On it!" said Amethyst as she jumped out with Cat's Eye in her hands, carried her and then threw her with her might.
"Whirlwind Claws!" Cat's Eye equipped her hands with two Cat Claws then spun like a tornado, creating a spiral gale that slashed the Xeno Bats around her.
The wind faded and they crashed on the ground before each one fell to the ground knocked out. She landed on the floor and Pearl stepped out with her spear pointed at the Xeno Squirrels, discharged a bolt of lightning and shocked them to submission.
"Where is Animo?" asked Pearl. Cat's Eye began to sniff around and scanned the area before her nose perked up and caught a scent.
"Over there!" she pointed at the direction where they saw Dr. Animo approaching a building with Spinball, the frog and snail Xeno Beasts following him as his guards.
"W-What's he doing?" asked Steven as Dr. Animo smashed his arms through the pet store, bringing down the wall and making a clear path for him.
"Rise, ladies! Take Earth away from Men!" grinned Animo as the twin antennae started glowing, priming the crystal energy then discharged a crimson-red beam that struck the animals and embedded Corrupted gemstones on their bodies, resulting in a rapid mutation into fierce Xeno Beasts, which destroyed the store due to their collective size.
"Graaaaaagh!" they all screech and spread out as Dr. Animo beat his chest and let out an evil laughter.
"Mwah ha ha! Mwah ha ha ha ha ha!" laughed Dr. Animo.
"Animo!" Dr. Animo ceased beating his chest and turned to see the Crystal Gems battle-ready.
"You monster!" snarled Cat's Eye, her party animal side voided by her primal behaviour. "I'll tear you to pieces!" she yelled at the top of her lungs.
"Back for more?" Dr. Animo gave a smirk as a Xeno Squirrel ran to the newly created Xeno Beasts with a large garbage bag as she randomly handed out clothes to the new beasts, Animo then held up his hand. "My pets, destroy the Crystal Gems!" ordered Dr. Animo as the Xeno Beasts, now clothed, charged towards them.
"Gems, These Xeno Beasts are not like Corrupted Gems, they can't poof and are still organic creatures, until we figure out how to cure them, knock them out only, no lethal attacks" Commanded Garnet
"You got it Garnet, nothing lethal" Steven said as he looked around, seeing many Xeno Beasts surround them as he tried to choose a target
"Now we know what to do!" smirked Amethyst readying her whips for combat.
"I am….ready to go wild and kick some creepy ass!" hissed Cat's Eye as she tried to calm down with her claws being covered in their scabbards, taking the precaution of no lethal injuries.
"You handle the animals, I got Animo." frowned Garnet as she punched her knuckles and cracked them while cracking her neck. It was payback time for her.
"Are you sure?" asked Pearl, worried about what happened last time.
"This time, I'm prepared." Garnet instantly gave a sprint dash, sped through the Xeno Beasts and jumped up towards Dr. Animo. "Round 2, Kong!" she grinned as she threw a power punch and Animo counters it, creating a rippling shockwave.
"Doctor Kong, my dear!" grinned Animo as he grabbed her waist and threw her across the street, stumbling over and crashing through the mini-market.
"RAAGH!" snarled Cat's Eye as she tackled a large Xeno Cat that was wearing a sports bra and shorts, she then slashed her Cat Claws against the amber coloured Xeno Beast as it was blown back from the attack, then two more Xeno Cats that wore similar outfits as the first one lunged at her flank but she took a deep breath and her cheek puffed up with a glow coming from her chest and rising up her neck.
"Fire Magic: Flaming Feline Bola!" She swung her head and belched a wave of flaming hairball-like spheres, striking their bodies, remains attached on their fur as she jumped up, causing them to crashed into each other and the spheres detonated at minimum force, making multiple small burst of fire as the three Xeno Cats were knocked out with comical swirls in their eyes and their fur singed.
"Done…bleh that hurt like hell" Cats Eye said as she rubbed her chest and neck, as effective as it was, her special hairball attacks hurt her more than she wanted to admit, "Now to the next—MRREEOW!" yelped Cat's Eye as a Xeno Bat rammed her claws against her and dragged her across the street, ramming her into the wall but Cat's Eye held it back with her Cat Claws. "Dirty sneaky! Sneak attacks are no fair" she snarled as she slowly pushed the talon back.
"Now it's payback time!" Cat yelled as she started glowing before her body shapeshifted, the glow died dowd to show she had transformed into a Jaguar, the Xeno Bat was surprised before Cat gave a smirk and slashed at the Xeno Bat with her Cat Claws that adjusted to her new form as the bat screeched from the hit.
"Steven, use the Omnitrix!" said Pearl as she spun her spear and smacked the Xeno Squirrel's aside then blasted lightning at Spinball and shocked her until she fell due to the electrical shock.
"Back, kittens!" Amethyst swung her whips and slapped the Xeno Cats, these ones having mix of black and green fur while wearing spandex with green gemstones on their hips, which they curl up into spheres, merged together and charged as a rotating drill. "Whoa!" she yelped as she whipped at the roof and yanked herself up to evade the attack.
"Time to put these animals in time out!" Steven said as he activated the Omnitrix and slapped the core, engulfing his body in bright green and pink light, the light died down to reveal he had transformed into his Roboloex form.
"StaticBot? I guess this guy can work." said the alien as he glanced at his robotic hands before a red Xeno Snake with a Topaz Helmet on forehead with the topaz Gem right on top of her head, wearing a black sports bra and skirt around her waist since she lacked legs, tackled him and slammed him against the Beach Citywalk Fry's wall then started biting him.
"Owowowow! That hurts! Get off!" he panicked as he grabbed her mouth then threw her aside. He sluggishly stood up as his armor was pierced and started sparking electricity.
"GRAAAAGH! For Mother Nature!" The Xeno Snake jumped up by using her tail like a spring, StaticBot quickly tried to run but saw he couldn't run as fast as he used to, then the snake head-stomp him into the ground then started biting his head. As her fangs glowed with energy.
"Ow... Get...off...ME!" yelled StaticBot as his coils surged and produced an EMP blast, which blew the Snake back and she crashed into a wall, knocking her out as her gem helmet disappeareed. Staticbot stood up and gazed at his hands as it surged electricity.
"Whoa, didn't know I could use the electricity in my hands…" StaticBot said as he then noticed his injuries are healing at surprising speed, "And healing factor! SWEET!" beamed StaticBot as he looked at his Omnitrix, "How come you didn't tell me about this Trix?" he asked.
"Well to be fair since the Together Breakfast incident, we haven't used StaticBot as much, though I didn't know he could heal like this" Trix said, the Xeno Frog took this chance at this distraction as she jumped forward as Amethyst struggled to hold her back with her whip.
"Little help!" Amethyst called out, getting the boys attention before StaticBot gave a grin as his conductors charged up with energy..
"TAKE THIS!" StaticBot charged his fist into a flashing bright green electrical energy and land a powerful punch that sent the Xeno frog crashing through the building, the Frog woman now unconscious as her tongue hangs out of her mouth.
"We got a weather forecast! It'll be a very SHOCKING season!" StaticBot discharged lightning bolts to the sky, causing the clouds to gather and grow dark as lightning bounces about within before multiple lightning bolts struck the Xeno Snakes, Xeno Cats and Xeno Hamsters, stunning them.
"Cat's Eye, combo!" ordered Pearl.
"On it!" said Cat's Eye as she shapeshifted back to her normal form as she stood beside Pearl, then grabbed her arm. "CHAAAAA!" she yelled as she started spinning like a cyclone. Pearl, maintaining her eyes closed to avoid dizziness, stabbed her spear into the pavement and gripped it with full force, redirecting the rotation and Cat's Eye released her grip on her wrist, launch forward as a raging top and slashed across the stunned Xeno Beasts and Knocked each one back as they all fell due to the combo attack and the thunderstorm attack, before Pearl crashed into the market. "I'm okay." She called out. Pearl sighed as she stood up from her crash.
At the centre plaza, Garnet charged in and threw multiple punches at great speed, Animo blocked them by keeping his arms up as he was being push back but he swung his arms and let out a telekinetic pulse, which pushed Garnet back, he grabbed her leg and start slamming her around on the ground before he threw her up, caught her with his telekinesis and reeled her in.
Garnet's visor flashes then she swung her arms out and it enlarged twice than normal.
"YYAAAAH!" she threw her giant fist and rammed Animo into the pavement, fracturing and lifting over huge platform-like debris. The debris got lifted by his telekinetic force and slammed them against the ground as Animo jumped up and landed on the sidewalk.
"Mwah ha ha ha! Is that all?" smirked Animo. Garnet sluggishly lifts the debris and shoves them aside as her visor is broken and her clothes are ruined. She was covered in cuts but no blood was shown.
"Oh, I got lots more." smirked Garnet as she thrust her fists, her garnet gemstones moved to her forearms as she fired her gauntlets. Animo grabbed them and crushed them before exploding. "AAAAAHH!" she yelled as she charged in, re-create her gauntlets and kept firing them.
Animo grinned and caught them via telekinetic aura and sent them back, producing multiple explosions by impact but Garnet jumped out and fired another rocket gauntlet, which grabbed his dome and discharged a high voltage of electricity.
"GRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" exclaimed Animo before he grabbed and ripped the gauntlets apart. Garnet lands a headbutt and smashed him into the ground. She stood up, re-form the gauntlets and started punching him without stopping, landing deep strikes then grabbed his dome and started pulling it apart.
"GET OFF!" he grabbed her arms, rolled over and slammed her against the pavement, grabbed her head and slammed her against a fire hydrant, cracking her visor more but it still held together. Animo lifted her up, slammed her against the ground then psychically threw her against the wall, bore her up and swung her over before slamming her against the ground then reeled her in and he wrapped his gorilla arms, bear-hugged her and started crushing her.
"Gyaah... Urgh...AAAH!" screamed Garnet as her body was getting crushed.
"One final experiment, Garnet: can your holoprojected body feel the higher capacity of severe pain?" asked Animo as he crushed her even harder.
"AAAAAAAAAA ARRRRRRRGH!" screamed Garnet in pain then slammed her head against the dome but it failed as she didn't really hit Animo himself, just his dome.
"Garnet!" gasped Greg as he hid in his van, seeing Garnet being crushed by the mad doctor.
Amethyst had tied up the Xeno Frog in one of her whips and looked up to see Garnet getting crushed.
"Garnet!" gasped Amethyst before the Frog woke back up and ripped the whip apart before she shot out her tongue and swung it at the shortstack, it wrapped around Amehtyst before reeling her towards the Frog as the Xeno beasts mouth expanded as she tried to bite her, forcing the purple Crystal Gem to grab the lips and hold it back.
"I'm coming, Ga—YAAH!" Cat's Eye got tackled by a Xeno Bat and slammed her against the fire hydrant, snapping it off and splashed her with water. "MEEEEEEEEOWW!" she shrieks before glowing brownish-light and becomes an embodiment of magic, retreating into her gemstone and rolled across the sidewalk. The Xeno Bat lost sight of her and started searching, not realising Cats Eye retreated to her gem.
"Garnet, I'm comi—EEK!" yelped Pearl as a green Xeno Snake wearing a torn dress lunged at her and bit her spear, pinning her down. "S-Steven, save Garnet, quickly!" warned Pearl.
"Garnet, Oh no!" gasped StaticBot.
"We won't make it in time!" stated Trix to StaticBot as he began running towards Garnet to help. "A Roboloex is too slow!" he added in dread.
"Darn, if only I could fly and save her!" groaned StaticBot. Suddenly a hypersonic blur zoomed pass StaticBot and ran around in a circle, creating a vortex around Animo.
"What's this?!" wondered Animo before he got repeatedly bashed by an unknown attacker until he was forced to release Garnet. The blur grabbed and dragged her to StaticBot before erupting in green light.
StaticBot looked up to see a Tetramand. This Tetramand looks a lot older than Fist Thrash and is completely different, as he has a perfect balance of muscular and athletic physique, and has a hint of Caucasian aspect.
He has black hair tied into a ponytail, his canine fangs began to poke slightly from his lower lips and has longer barbs. The uniform is more gladiator, with a colour scheme based on black and green with golden shoulder pads, anklets and wrist braces. He has a tank top, fingerless gloves with green cuffs and has a green/white belt. To Trix's shock, there's a badge on the buckle similar to his interface, only green and black.
"Whoooa!" StaticBot said in awe.
"That symbol…is that…but it can't be" Trix muttered in shock at seeing the symbol.
"Keep an eye on your friend here. I got a word with the Doctor." said the Tetramand in a raspy voice as he turned and glared at Animo.
"Ugh… Oh? You're the one who ruined my victory!?" growled Animo.
"You never changed. No matter the Universe…" muttered the Tetramand.
"Hey, how did you move so fast?!" ask Trix.
"Let us help you!" beamed StaticBot.
"As much as I'd like to, You need to help the others, I'll handle Whackimo!" The Tetramand charged forward, the ground quakes by his mass. Animo pounds his chest then charges forward. They collided, exchanging powerful punches.
"Ugh… what happened?" moaned Garnet as she recovered.
"That Fist Thrash guy saved you!" StaticBot said as he transformed back and Garnet glanced at him.
"Another Tetramand? Why is he here?" Garnet asked as she turned to see the battle.
"I dunno but he and Animo are equal in strength!" beamed Steven.
"Hey! Who's the four armed guy?" asked Amethyst as she whipped the Frog's eyes, blinding her while still trying not to get eaten.
"A Tetramand?! Here!?" baffled Pearl as she held the Xeno Snake's bite with her spear.
The Tetramand and Animo were indeed equally matched as they kept trading blows after blows. Animo then pounced on him and tried to strangle him, only for him to explode in green energy of DNA and morphed into a pufferfish lizard hybrid with bulked arms, barbs on the large head, long tail and chubby body with short legs. He has green eyes with black pupils and has large mouth with big fangs. The badge was moved to the belly. He puffed up like a balloon then spewed a huge blast of greenish water like substance, strong enough to push Animo off him and stumbled on the pavement.
"No way! / IMPOSSIBLE!" exclaimed the boys.
"Whoa, he changed into a different alien!?" gasped Amethyst as she jumped away and whipped the Xeno Frog in the face as the frog woman backed away, holding her face due to pain from the whip attacks.
"WHAAAAAAAAAAT!?" exclaimed Pearl before she threw the Xeno Snake far away with her amazing strength. "Another Omnitrix?!" asked Pearl in confusion.
Answering her bewilderment, the pufferfish lizard morphed into a different alien, now a crystalline lifeform. He's 7 ft tall and is composed of unknown cyan crystalline matter, with spikes on the back and head. He has green eyes, wears a black uniform with green upside down triangle, white pants with green soled boots and wears the same belt with the badge. Each movement he made produced a crystalline metallic creaking sound.
He raised his fist and punched the ground, sending out crystal fields and encasing Animo before building up into a tower. Animo swiftly broke out of the prison, grabbed and ripped the electrical sign of a gas station and jumped toward the alien. He quickly shielded himself with a crystal shield but got crushed by the sign.
"No!" cried the Gem Hybrid and Animo sneered but quickly vanished when the sign started surging with electricity.
A bolt of green lightning materialised from the sign as a 3 inches tall alien resembling a dry cell battery with bolts on the stubby arms and head. He has the badge on his back and is wearing a green and white shut that covered his entire being below his head. Emitting high pitch chirping sound, he channels all electricity into himself before blasting Animo with a full voltage.
"Now he's a Megawatt like the Shockers!" Steven exclaimed as Pearl looked frightened and held her clothes tight on her body just in case.
Animo grunted in pain then dart away and try to recover but a bright light shines over, he turn and gasped as something rammed at him and smacked Animo with a powerful blow and green shockwave and sending him flying and smashed against the wall, dropped on his knees and the dome rotated in clockwise and Animo detached from the Cybernetic Head Module.
Landing on the ground was a being that looked reptillian in nature, it had purple scale-like skin and wore a suit that covered a majority of its body, the suit had green on the underside while black along its back, the suit even covered the creatures large tail, with green dorsal plates along the suits back, the creatures head was covered in a helmet with a large green round horn attached to where its nose should be with flat teeth poking from its upper lip, it wore black boots with green soles with its muscled legs exposed, the omnitrix-looking badge on its left wrist.
He then morphed again, now as a Human but he was completely concealed in a uniform that was colored black and green, the uniform had green leg braces, arm braces, a grey, white and green shirt with black lines in the same shape as the Omnitrix hour-glass symbol, green cargo pants with a white utility belt and a helmet that was black with green lines, had a green visor and two antenna on the sides, but nothing covering his brown shaggy hair, he looked around his 20's with scrawny yet well built physique. He then turned to the Crystal Gems, with Steven having a starstruck look in his eyes.
"Incredible. He swiftly switched forms to completely overwhelm Animo." said Garnet as she stood up.
"That was wicked cool!" beamed Amethyst.
"This is amazing! Another hero with the Omnitrix! Trix, you're not alone!" cheered Steven.
"I highly doubt that. It could be a knockoff." scoffed Trix. The man then showed his left arm brace which was revealed to actually be an Omnitrix, which it's part of his gloves and has white cords around it. The interface glowed.
"Knockoff?! Big talk from Prototype Model V1.5!" pouted the female AI.
"W-What!? Prototype!? Me!?" Trix reacted offended.
"Don't take it personally, she gets offended when people call her a knock off, especially other wielders" said the man which Steven recognised his voiced but didn't wanna say anything until he was sure.
"Who are you?" asked Pearl.
"Questions later, We need to deal with Animo first" the man said as he got in a battle stance.
Animo began to regain conscious and noticed his condition.
"Oh no..." gasped Animo as he tried to stand up using the tentacles beneath his neck but the man stood before him.
"Aloysius James Animo, You're under arrest!" frowned the man as he cracked his knuckles.
"SKREEEEEEEE!" screeched a bat. They turned to see a Xeno Bat fly out and dive towards them. The Gems retreated, the man jumped out of the way as the bat grabbed the head of Animo and the gorilla body before flying across the sky.
"CURSE YOU CRYSTAL GEMS, CURSE YOU AND YOUR MEDDLING WAYS!" he shouted, soon following was many of the still awake Xeno Beasts as they dragged the ones knocked out with them.
"He's gone..." said Amethyst, placing her whip back into her Gemstone.
"He'll turn up again." The man said as he walked over to the Gems. He stops as he stood infront of Steven, "Hey Steven, told ya I'd see ya later" The man said as Steven definitely knew who this was now.
"Ben?" Steven asked as the helmet started to break down in tiny pieces as it reconfigured into his suit, showing his face as the man gave a smile to the Gem Hybrid.
"Steven, you know this stranger?" Pearl asked, still cautious about the man after he had just defeated Animo for them.
"Yeah, his name is Ben, though we called him Stranger before cause we didn't know his name but we officially met him earlier".
"Wait, this alien shapeshifting hero guy is the same guy we saw at Frymans earlier?!" Amethyst asked
"B-But how?!" Trix asked.
"Well, it's a long story, I'll be glad to share it, though maybe after we sort things out here, can't exactly leave all this damage to the city to fix right?" Ben asked as the Gems saw the destruction left after the battle.
"Guess your right, it's a Hero's job to help no matter what" Steven said proudly.
"Yout got that right, Maybe you can turn into that Vulpinmancer form of yours to help with moving some debris, I'll use Four Arms to lift some of the heavier stuff" Ben said as he planned out.
"Wait" Steven said as he looked around, "Wheres Cat?!" he asked with confusion and panic.
Trix scanned the area until he saw Cats Eye's gem on the ground near the broken hydrant, "There!" he said as Steven ran over and picked the gem up.
"W-What happened?!" Steven asked.
"Don't worry Steven, she's fine, her body just poofed is all" Amethyst said.
"But I thought only corrupted Gems poof?" Trix asked.
"Trust us Steven, Cats Eye will be fine" Garnet said to reassure the boys.
The gemstone of Cats Eye then glowed as it floated in the air, her body then reconstructed, she is shown to have gained a new look. She is now wearing a white and brown version of her bodysuit, her boots are replaced with yellow sandals and she now has a feline tail with a star at the tip, her body was also curvier as if to match the curvy bodies of the Xeno Beasts. She waved her fist in annoyance as she finally reformed.
"RAAOW! I'm back and ready to throw down and-Wait…is it over?" Cats Eye asked as she noticed the lack of Xeno Beasts in the area.
"Cat's Eye, why do you look different?" asked Steven, confused with the new outfit, he liked it but wondered where she got it.
"Where did you get the new outfits and that tail?" asked Trix, mostly interested in the new feline limb she got.
"When Gem's bodies begin to fall apart or are heavily damaged, they retreat back into their true form." Garnet said, opening her hands and showing her gemstones. "The gemstones, in response, regenerate a new body stronger and more durable than the one before, along with alternate designs. Of course, it only works on full blooded Gems. You don't have this ability." smiled Garnet as she petted Steven's head.
"Sounds cool, though." said Steven.
"Huh, and here I thought you guys just had your own walk in closets or something" Ben commented as Steven and Trix laughed at a mental image of the gems having literal walk in closets inside their gems.
"Aw man, don't tell me I missed the action" Cats Eye said as her cat ears folded down before she noticed Ben in the group, "Uh, who are you?" she asked.
Before Ben could speak, the group heard something moving as some debris moved, crawling out of the debris was a Xeno Beast cat, her fur was light red with black highlights as she had a ruby gem on her forehead, she was wearing a one piece swimsuit with some tears at the hips, her arm was broken, evident by it bending in a way it shouldn't as she held it in pain, the group walked over as Ben readied his Omnitrix, Steven blushing as the felines cleavage was exposed while Pearl quickly covered his eyes while the gems prepared to summon their weapons, only for the Xeno cat to scuttle back in fear.
"P-Please don't hurt me! Please!" she cried out as she held her back with tears forming in her eyes
Confused by this Xeno Beasts words they each stood down as Cats Eye, one of the only gems to have more cat like tendencies, slowly approached as the Xeno cat tried to crawl back more only to push against some debris as tears fell down her face in fear, she closed her eyes, waiting for her end, only to feel her tears being wiped away, she opened her eyes to see Cats Eye give a sympathetic look to her.
"Don't worry, I'm not gonna hurt you" she said to comfort her.
"Y…Your not?" the Xeno cat asked in disbelief.
"We're not?" Amethyst asked before Garnet elbowed her, "Ow!".
"No, we wont" Garnet said
"W-Why?" The Xeno cat asked.
"For one, your injured, two, your scared beyond belief, and three, well, I think you deserve better than this, right?" Cats Eye said as she held her hand out to her, the Xeno Cat looked nervous as she slowly reached her good arm out to her while Cats Eye helped her up.
"Wait, your not gonna bring her back to the temple are you?!" Pearl questioned.
"Come on Pearl, she's hurt" Cats Eye said as she helped the Xeno Cat up, "Besides she's not gonna hurt anyone like this".
"I-I don't know" Pearl said, "These Xeno Beasts were just trying to kill us and now you want to bring one back to the temple?! They aren't pets Cats Eye"
"Come on Pearl, it could be fun!" Steven said.
"Yeah, plus with her around we could figure out how to cure them easier" Trix said as both he and Steven proceeded to use the one thing the gems could not resist, puppy dog eyes, "Pleeeaaaasssee?!" the two of them asked as Pearl, Garnet and Amethyst each couldn't handle the power of puppy eyes.
"Aw man not the eyes! Not the puppy dog eyes!" Amethyst exclaimed
"Must, stay strong!" Pearl said as she tried not to look but was failing, the cuteness of the puppy dog eyes was too much, "Garnet! Please stay strong for us".
Garnet looked like she wasn't reacting but on the inside she was very much struggling, the boys puppy dog eyes was the one thing that made her feel weak.
Later the gems were back at the beach house as the Xeno cat was placed on the couch as Cats Eye helped wrap bandages around the Xeno cats injuries while Ben scanned the broken arm with his Omnitrix, the other 3 gems standing by as Garnet spoke in a ashamed tone, "I was too weak" she said.
"Great, now we're gonna have to deal with a giant cat woman staying with us" Pearl said.
"I mean, we technically already did with Cats Eye, now this makes two" Amethyst pointed out but Pearl gave a glare to the purple shortstack, "What?"
"So, what do we call you?" Steven asked the Xeno cat.
"I, Don't have a name" she answered.
"Oh! Oh! Lets give you a name then!" Trix said as the boys pondered.
"Why not Ruby? She has the gemstone after all" Ben pointed out.
"Nah, too easy" Trix said.
"Kitty?" Steven suggested.
"Too simple" Trix denied.
"Hmmm, what about Fireball?" Steven suggested.
"Oooh thats a good one, what do you think?" Trix said, asking the Xeno cat who though on the name.
"Fireball…Fireball, I like it" she said, giving a kind smile to the boys as Steven and Trix gave eachother a high five.
Meanwhile, in an unknown location, Dr. Animo entered a high tech laboratory as he adjusted his head dome and re-tighten the joint back on his gorilla body.
"Meddlesome Gems. At least I managed to collect a decent amount of Corrupted Gems with me." he smirked as he opened one of the pods on his arms and it contained countless Corrupted Gems inside.
Suddenly the large monitor next to him lit up and displayed the message URGENT CALL. He stomped over and pressed the blinking button, which displayed a mysterious female gem that was almost identical to Pearl in shape but a bright glowing light made it hard to see her details besides her gem glowing and being on her naval.
"Good evening doctor." she began with a buffered voice.
"Ah, it's you." said Animo, a little surprised, but still had his serious face on and simply walked closer to the screen and sat on a giant chair in front of it.
"Did you attain it?" she asked.
"If you meant the watch, the answer is no. The boy surprised me but he's practically useless without the Omnitrix, no different from any regular human child. Ten whole years with the rebels and he didn't even surpass the Amethyst nor the Pearl, let alone the Cat's Eye and Garnet." scoffed Animo. "Although, he is young and could only possibly have been trained when he first became 10 years old, I guess I shouldn't expect much from him." He informed his visitor, giving her all the details. "However…" He began.
"However?" She questions.
"You didn't tell me there's a secondary Omnitrix. And that Bearer is many times more skilled and powerful than the boy!" Exclaimed Animo. "Not only that, he's capable of switching forms by mere thought alone." He added the details of the Mysterious Man. He can't tell his contact's reaction to this info but her reply shows there's no reaction.
"I have a vast amount of patience, good doctor, but I do not accept too much failure. I hope your little protege can make up for your loss?" she asked.
"The boy has a talented gift but an unhealthy mind. He is observing the target as we speak." Animo said, "But you better keep your word, madam! I do not tolerate backstabbers, even if you are from the High Authority of the Galaxy! I want my slice of the pie, get it?" frowned Animo.
"I can assure you this, Human, you will have your prize and I will have both Omnitrices. I'll be in touch soon, be ready to act when I send the word." she said before ending the message, leaving Animo alone with the damaged gorilla body. He would need to find a stronger version to handle those meddlesome Gems and that Mysterious Man, as well as fixing the Xeno Beasts' flaws. Next time he would have his revenge.
"You better not get carried away boy, a mind is as precious as it is powerful." grinned Animo as his Xeno Beasts were shown recovering behind him, all while smiling evilly with their master.
BADA BING BADA BOOM! Another Steven 10 chapter is finished and this is where things get spicy! Dr. Animo in Steven 10 is honestly one of my favourite versions of Animo cause unlike his other versions, this version is a genuine threat and achieved artificial fusion between gem and non-gem in his own way! Plus him having his Gorilla body is an awesome feature.
Now another thing, the Xeno Beasts are gonna be heavily edited to fit better, as in giving them uniforms, weapons, names and such and even making sure they are not forgettable.
In this chapter we had a look at one of the more powerful Xeno Beast Soldiers, Drill Jaws, she acts as the water/marine commander for the Xeno Beasts.
Spinball is the Xeno Beast version of the mutant hamster from the Ben 10 classic series and while not the strongest, is however the fastest Xeno Beast so far.
More will be brought into detail later.
Now as for new things, BEN IS ACTUALLY A GOOD GUY
In the previous Steven 10 version, Ben was a Massive jerk and cruel and angry for all the wrong reasons, so with this version he acts more alike the 5YL version, aloof and still the same Ben we all know and love.
Also speaking of 5YL, I'll be using 5YL aliens and designs for this story for Bens aliens so be on the lookout for those as we saw his versions of…
Four Arms [Tetramand]
Spitter [Sphereoid]
Diamondhead[Petrosapien]
Buzzshock [Nosedeenian]
And a new alien, Slampeed [Pulsaor]
So yeah, those are the aliens revealed here so more will come soon.
Also another change, Blackskull requested that Cats Eye not become a mother so soon in the series, but since I wanted her to bring in atleast 1 gem hybrid from the experience, she helps a Xeno Beast cat who seems more calm than her sisters.
This is another new OC we named Fireball, a Xeno Beast Cat who'll be living in Cats Eyes room for the time being.
Anyways, NEXT TIME ON STEVEN 10 THE CRYSTAL KNIGHT REWRITE.
Steven and the Gems try to get an explanation out of Ben, but when Steven finds a strange being enter Beach City, lets just say this encounter will have some strings attached, tune in for…
"Puppet Strings"