Quick trivia You'll need for the chapter,
Siltmire Terrene: Home world of Lenopan race, I'll tell you at the bottom where I got the name from,
Also for those here to see what's changed this is not a true re-write of the Original Muddy Princess chapter, rather it's more of a revamped or since this is Ben 10 it's a recalibrated chapter?
Things that haven't changed, Lucy being Princess of Siltmire Terrene(A now at least me named planet(which considering I made her princess in the Og chapter I really should've named it,)
Things that have changed, the seriousness of the wedding as it relates to the Universe, and Siltmire Terrene's Monarchy is now a character I've thought of beyond what spawned Lucy's adorable hyperactive ass, and the Monarch being in attendance, Gordon and Betty Jeane getting a more 'ptsd' style re-work, these aren't people who can be brought out of years of racism by our adorable whiskered blonde making excited speeches, and the wedding in general will have more people there, including Gwen and Ben's parent's, there's more, but I can't spoil everything now can I?
Let's begin,
Ben sat in the rust bucket as he stared at the Omnitrix a device that allowed him to change from a ten year old kid to a multitude of forms each with their own special abilities that suited different situations, a device that had along with it brought not only fun and a chance to be a hero but also great danger,
His grandfather Max and cousin Gwen were in the front seats Gwen was no doubt thinking about what Grandpa Max just told them about the Plumbers and the Lenopans,
"So we're at a wedding between Cousin Joel and a- what again?"
"A Lenopan War- er, Ex-warrior Camille Mann," Max explained,
"Mann?" Ben asked, "Really?"
Max sighed, "The idea of surnames are hard enough for them, so they chose a simple word and just added another letter to it since Both Camille and Joel wanted a Human wedding, which means Camille needed a last name," He explained,
"So do Lenopans have a wedding Grandpa?"
"Not as far as I know," he said, "but most of Lenopan culture is unknown to us, they like fighting, and that's as much as any of the Plumbers know,"
"And what about that term you used before? Sludgepuppy?"
"That?" a voice asked from behind shocking the two kids, they turned to see a cheerful red haired woman behind them, "Sludgepuppy is what the Plumbers called us because the sects of our warriors that first encountered them were under an oath of silence, and after that nobody cared to say, ''Hi our race are the Lenopans, we would very much like to smash you to paste," she said, "Hi I'm Camille," she said, "Happy to answer any questions about Lenopans you have, But... could I borrow your grandpa for a second?"
Max sighed, "Gordon and Betty?" he asked, already getting up,
"Sorry Max, but they're at it again," She said,
Max rubbed his brow as he walked towards the exit of the Rustbucket, "Where are they?" he asked,
"The main hall,"
Max stepped outside and Camille took his spot on the seat, "So Ben and Gwen right?" she asked, "I've seen pictures of you both so I know who you are," Then her eyes lit up, "Oh and as further development on the whole ''Sludgepuppy'' term, Lenopans don't really get offended by it, the most anyone has ever felt from the term are the Lenopans who learn what a Puppy is, and even that's just confusion, because we don't look much like dogs, honestly when I decided to move to Earth I was so confused when Joel showed me what a ''puppy'' was,"
After a few seconds Camille stood up, "Well I should go make sure there still is a wedding with how Mr and Mrs Tennyson are," she sighed, "It's great to actually talk to someone other then Lucy who's not at my throat for falling for a human,"
"Wait Joel's parents are against the wedding?" Gwen asked,
"Them and every other plumber in the system," Camille groaned, "So glad Joel Invited his Uncle Max, at first I was scared he'd give Joel that same speech, but I was surprised when he shook my hand,"
"Makes sense," Ben said, "With Xy-, ow!" he cried as Gwen kicked his leg, he glared at her when she tried to subtly tell him to shut it,
But Camille heard, "Xy?..." she asked, quickly a smile broke out on her face and she sat down again, "Wait... did Max also... prefer Aliens to Humans?"
Neither Ben Nor Gwen seemed to want to answer her, but Camille smirked, "I knew there was something about that man I liked, wonder if Joel knew?"
The door opened and an exhausted Max walked back in, "Knew about what?" he asked,
Camille put her hands on the table, "About a certain someone here having 'weird' taste in women,"
Max looked down at Gwen and Ben, "To be fair she figured it out from Xy," Ben sheepishly admitted,
Max sighed, "Her name was Xylene," he said, "But she's not the one I had kids with,"
"The one?" Gwen asked, "Wait wait are we-,"
"I'll tell you both later," He said pulling Both Gwen and Ben from their seats, "Go play outside," he lightly ordered pushing them towards the door,
"B-but,"
"Outside Ben," Max said pushing them outside,
"It was nice meeting you two," Camille said before Max shut the door,
He turned to Camille, "I take it nobody knows?"
"No one, but them," he gestured to the door, "and you,"
"You should tell Joel at least," she said, "It might help him with all this,"
"Honestly after what I just went through I've been considering it," he stated,
"Maybe you could invite her?" Camille suggested,
Max smirked, "Which one? Xylene or Verdona?" he asked,
Camille's form shifted slightly, "Twice?" she asked,
"One of them I had kids with," he stated, "But she found childrearing boring and we just... grew apart after-," he stopped and looked at a corner of the room,
Camille turned, "What?" she asked, "Is someone there?"
Max smiled warmly at the spot, "C'mon, let's go find Joel," he said as he got up and left the RV,
Camille stared at the spot after him, "Okay?" she said as she left,
Shortly after she had a twinge of pink was seen,
Outside Ben and Gwen had ran into their older Cousin Joel, and with him were two people trying to cheer him up, a greying older man wearing glasses, and a dour slim brunette woman, standing nearby was a short brown haired man already in his suit, he looked around as if he expected something to happen,
"I'm sorry you all have to deal with this," he said,
"Easy son," The man in glasses said, "I get where your parents are coming from in a weird sort of way," he chuckled, "They're just trying to keep you safe,"
"Honestly we went through something similar when Camille told us about you," Mrs Mann stated evenly,
"And we were wrong for that," Mr Mann stated,
"We were," Mrs Mann stated with a nod,
"At least you two are supportive of this," Joel groaned, "If it weren't for you two and Uncle Max I think I'd go crazy, thanks Mr and-"
"We've been over this Joel," Mrs Mann stated, "I'm Voris he's Oche,"
"Of course soon you'll be able to call us, Mum and Pa Mann," Oche stated,
"Sorry, I'll try to remember," Joel said,
"Be sure that you do," Voris said, "Liahm, we're going back now," she said,
The man in the suit turned and nodded, as they left Joel took a breath,
"So they're Camille's parents?" Gwen asked,
"Who was the guy with them?" Ben wondered,
"One of our fiercest warriors," Came another voice from behind them, and both kids turned and saw a whiskered grinning girl in a large pirates coat and hat, "He's Liahm, one of our warriors from home, his sect of warriors are basically the royal guard of our home, tempered by an Oath of Silence," she explained, "there's no direct translation for what they're called, so just go with The Silent Ones,"
"R-right," Ben said, "And you're?"
"Lucy," she said simply, "I'm on the lookout for bad guys,"
"And you're dressed like a pirate because?" Gwen asked,
"Big Sis Camille said I could wear whatever I wanted until the wedding starts," She said,
"Lucy, Gwen, Ben," Joel called, "You all getting along?" he asked as he walked over,
"Well enough... I guess," Gwen said,
"Hi Joel, are they supposed to know we're Aliens?" Lucy asked, "Also when are the Plumbers getting here?" she looked around, "We've gotta keep this wedding safe,"
"Lucy the plumbers aren't coming," he said,
"But... Oh, oooooh," she smiled, "I see," she winked, "I get you," she winked again, "They're ''not coming''," she winked again, "I get you,"
Joel, "Right," he said, turning to Ben and Gwen, "You're parents are carpooling here together, they're not here yet,"
"They're coming?" Ben asked,
"Course they are," Joel chuckled, "It's a Tennyson/Mann wedding isn't it?" then he looked at Lucy, "By the way, Uncle Max said it was fine to tell these two you and Camille are aliens, but their parents don't know," he said, "Which is good for me," he muttered to himself quietly,
"It'll be nice to know some humans that don't judge us," Camille said as she wrapped her arms around Joel,
"It'll all be worth it," Joel stated putting his hand on hers, "Mom and Dad will get over it eventually, but in the meantime we'll move to Florida, Dad's scared of Alligators so we'll just get one as a pet, I think that's legal there as long as we keep it on a leash when we walk it,"
"Sounds lovely, though what's an Alligator again?" Camille asked,
Joel smiled, "Long mouthed scaly dogs"
"Oh those things," She said, "I love the idea of having one as a pet, they're so cute,"
"Well I'd better get back to protecting the wedding," Lucy said with a smile, then she narrowed her eyes, "You never know what could go wrong," then the blonde girl skipped away,
"Hey Gwen," Joel said, "Uncle Max says you're pretty responsible,"
"I try to be," she said happily,
"I... hate to ask this but could you..." he gestured to Lucy with his head, "She's hasn't done anything yet, but..."
"Watch Lucy?" she asked, "Sure,"
"Thanks," he said breathing a sigh of relief, "She's not used to how things are done on earth, and she might actually try to do something if she thinks she knows someone is messing with the wedding,"
"I can keep an eye on her, I'm used to it," she said passing a look at Ben as she walked away to follow Lucy,
"Oh Ben, I just remembered, you might want to follow them too, since you're the ring bearer and Lucy's the Flower girl you'll have to dance with her, better to practice with her now rather then later right?" Joel stated,
Ben's eyes went wide, "D-dance?" he asked, "I don't know how to dance,"
Joel smiled, "You better learn quickly then, unless you wanna look like a huge doofus in front of everyone,"
"Not that he'll have any trouble doing that!" Gwen called from where she was,
Ben groaned "Ow man~" as he followed Gwen, who followed Lucy,
"Oh by the way Uncle Max," Joel said, turning serious, "The decision was unanimous," he said and Camille let go of him so he could stand tall, "You've been chosen to represent the Plumbers Sir," he said saluting,
Max frowned, "Really?" he asked, "Shouldn't someone else be-,"
Joel's eyes widened as a large shadow fell over the group, Camille's skin bristled as she tried to remain straight,
Max turned just as the shadow receded, behind him stood a two headed and heavily scarred woman with purple hair,
"Maxwell," the heads spoke together, yet a chorus of many voices echoed from only the two mouths, "We are disappointed in your... humility,"
Max's eyes were wide, "Y-you!?" he gasped,
His shock drew a smirk from the women, "He's surprised," one head stated, "This wedding marks the end of the war that has raged for years, yet you expect us to send a proxy?," the other admonished,
"The Conglomerate," Max stated, "I never expected to see you in persons again,"
"We initially planned to have the one you call Joel skinned," The heads stated together, "Then we heard of the last name and suddenly we were more open to the idea," The Conglomerate raised a hand to Max's head and rubbed it gently, "For our Camille to fall for a relative of a fine warrior such as Max Tennyson, conqueror of even the mighty Vilgax, if we believed in such a concept, we'd call it an odd stroke of fate,"
"I'm no mighty warri-,"
"LIES!" the voices echoed, more eyes opened on the women's body, and their form shifted unstably, Joel reached for a weapon he'd made certain not to bring, Camille's human disguise bubbled away and vanished as she instinctively took her true form, Max stood firm, but even he seemed rattled, "Few leave such wounds on a Lenopan, and a Chimera Sui Genris, few face both numerous times and walk away," they stated, "Fewer still remain... so..." they stroked Max's shoulder's, "Resolute against us,"
Quickly a laser was fired into the air, Betty Jeane and Gordon had rifles aimed at The Conglomerate,
"Away from my brother Sludgepuppy!" Gordan ordered,
But the Conglomerate didn't turn in the slightest, in fact they seemed not to even notice the weapons aimed at their backs, seemingly so captivated by Max they kept their eyes on him , "We chose this form for your benefit, it feels odd to us having so few heads, but we hope you find it..." they drew closer to Max, and whispered, "Fetching," softly into his ears,
Then they backed away from Max, "We do hope you'll enjoy our company these next few days Max," and walked away, Gordon ran over, "Max you alright?" he asked checking him over,
"Fine," Max said, "But you're lucky,"
"Lucky?"
"If they'd have reacted in anyway," Joel took Camille's hand,
"We'd be forced apart," Camille stated,
Gordon shook his head, "You saw what that thing was doing to your Uncle," he stated, "Sides that thing creeps me out,"
"What kind of royalty twists themselves together?" Betty Jeane asked,
But Max stepped forward, "Do you two want a war?" he asked, "One on our doorstep?"
"What's this Max?" Gordon asked, "The Sludgepuppies are some of the biggest and meanest sentient creatures in the Galaxy, and you feel sympathy for them? they're murder machines made of mud, only thing they want is war," he stated,
"Take the head and the rest will follow," Betty Jeane stated, "If You, Me, Joel, and Gordon tried we could take her prisoner, end this war right,"
"Or ignite a worse war," Joel stated, "One where the Lenopans are throwing themselves at the Plumbers trying to free their leader, how long till the Incursions take advantage of the chaos and try to destroy both the Plumbers and Lenopans?"
"Do you know how many bodies I dragged outta those trenches Joel?!" Gordon asked,
"Do you know how many friends I lost to the Plumbers Gordan?" Camille asked,
Betty Jeane glared at Camille, "This doesn't concern you slu-,"
"Don't you dare talk to her like that!" Joel snapped to his mum, "I don't care if she isn't offended by it, I don't want those words uttered at all!" he stated, "And as she's my future wife, and this is our wedding, everything here concerns her,"
"She's just deceiv-" Gordon started,
"Enough!" Max cried, "Gordon go cool off!" he ordered,
"Cool off?" Gordon asked, "And what makes you think I'll-,"
"Because I'm not telling you," Max said, "I'm ordering you, and as right now I outrank you as the Plumber's representative,"
"That's outta line Max," Betty Jean stated as Gordon fumbled with his response,
"What's out of line is you two ganging up on these kids," Max stated crossing his arms, "It's their life now give them some space to make it how they want to,"
Gordon looked like he wanted to respond, but Betty Jeane grabbed his arm, "Fine," she said, "We're done... for now,"
As she pulled Gordon away he glared at Max, "This ain't over," were Gordon's parting words,
Lucy led Ben and Gwen to a shed, "Since you two are here to keep me out of trouble I might as well bring you into the fold," she said morphing her finger into a key and unlocking the shed door,
"This is the groundskeeper's shed, but he's been relieved of his duties because of the wedding," she explained pushing the door open, "I've repurposed it as a secret hideout I can use to figure out who's messing with the wedding,"
She said showing them the interior of the shed, while typically packed with gardening tools, and also some papers and crayons littering the ground, some drawings were hung up,
As Ben and Gwen entered and looked around Lucy pulled them both over to her, "Listen," she said with a grin, "Bad things have been happening for the longest time around here," she stated, "And I'm certain it's because someone is trying to sabotage the wedding,"
"Why would anyone want to stop the wedding though?" Gwen asked, "Is there anyone who'd benefit from the war continuing?"
"Incurseans would, but stealing dresses and messing up flowers aren't very Incursean tactics, so I doubt this is their doing," Lucy said, she stretched her arm over to a piece of paper, "here's a list of things that have gone missing during the wedding," she said handing it to Gwen, "You'll just have to trust me that the Incurseans aren't the type to take small things like that,"
"Not them then," Ben said as Gwen read the paper, "Anyone else?"
Gwen frowned, "Ben It's a mystery, anyone could be behind it, even Lucy," she gestured to the... now pirate coat and hatless girl, now she stood in a black sleeveless shirt with a white star on it and a red skirt, she struck a cute pose and grinned,
Ben rolled his eyes at Gwen, "No duh,"
"Back onto the topic," Lucy said, "They have no real benefit for the war continuing but Voris and Oche did come around to the wedding idea really quick,"
Both Tennyson's raised their eyes at that, "Is that suspicions? they seem like nice people," Gwen said,
Lucy smiled at her, "Don't let the disguises fool you," she stated as her body dissolved into a puddle and then what rose from it was a weird mud mole with a snake like neck, a rounded head with two mobile whiskers on either cheek and another two above her eyes large pink eyes, "This is what we really look like," She said, "And we're not too friendly,"
"So them being nice is weird?" Ben asked,
"It could be nothing," Lucy admitted as she retook her human disguise, "Maybe they're just sick of fighting and they see the wedding as the way for that, but it's an odd near instant flip, best to keep an eye on them anyway,"
"What about Gordon and Betty Jeane?" Gwen asked, "being so vocal about this wedding being a bad idea it'd be weird to think they haven't done anything about it,"
Lucy nodded, "That's what I figured too, but if they have they're being very sneaky about it," she said, "Which is why I've been watching Betty more then Gordon," she said, "I checked their records, she's better with guerrilla tactics while Gordon is more of a frontal assault soldier,"
"Gorilla tactics?" Ben asked giving Gwen a questioning look,
"G. u. e. r. r. i. l. l. a. not G. o. r. i. l. l. a." Gwen said spelling the words out for him, "It means she's better at a type of warfare using smaller troops, one of the main tactics of which is sabotage,"
Ben nodded understanding what she was saying, "Meaning she could be so good at sabotage that we might not even know she's doing it,"
"And considering how grandstanding Great-Uncle Gordon is being about the wedding they could be planning this together," Gwen added,
Ben nodded, "So he riles everyone up and she sneaks off to hurt the wedding?"
"You two see why I need help with this?" Lucy asked, "even splitting myself apart I can't keep up with everyone, and there are probably suspects I haven't even considered," she said,
"But if we all work together then we could follow every lead at the same time," Gwen said,
"So... we split up?" Ben asked,
Lucy nodded, "We have to protect the wedding, I'll try to look into the waitstaff,"
"I'll take the Gordon and Betty Jeane then," Gwen said,
"So I've got the mud monsters then?" Ben asked, "Sweet,"
"But are you sure anyone here would want to crash the wedding?" Gwen asked worry evident in her voice, "I mean wouldn't that bring the wrath of the Plumbers or the Lenopans down on who ever was responsible?" To her surprise Lucy nodded,
"It would, but if either the Plumbers or the Lenopans are the ones trying to mess it up they would just see it as a return to norm and fight back, they're already on earth and trust me when I say one sludge puppy can do a lot of damage,"
The ten year old smirked and said "Yeah? well I'd bet Fourarms could handle a few mud monsters" as he changed the dial to select his chosen form Lucy spoke again,
"Four arms? like a Tetramand? sorry but a Tetramand has no chance against several Lenopans, got anything that makes cold or heat? could solidify one of us, anything that makes water could make us less stable,"
Ben nodded his head and punched his hand, "All right team, let's split and find the crashers, and take them down,"
"Be careful Ben," Gwen said, "If you attack anyone without proof, the war might restart,"
"What about you two?" Ben asked, "What are you gonna do if you get caught?"
Gwen raised her spell book, "Spells,"
Nodding at her answer Ben turned to. . . another Gwen?
''Gwen'' stroked a red ringmaster moustache, "I just happen to be, a master of disguise," she pointed over to a washing machine hidden in a corner, "I'm actually that washing machine," Shortly after she said that, the machine turned to mud and pooled under her feet and re-joined her, as it slid into her body she shifted into an older Lucy wearing the uniform of the catering staff, "Wait," she shook her head rapidly and her hair shrunk and changed colour, when she opened her eyes they were brown,
"Ta-dah!" she smiled striking a pose,
But her face was still childlike, "Eh, I'll work on it," she muttered as her body changed back to normal,
Ben activated the Omnitrix, "Okay then, I know who's great at sneaking around in grassy areas," he said turning the dial until he saw Wildvine's silhouette, "Going green,"
As the watch sunk into Ben's wrist his body got very thin and pale almost to the point of a being a skeleton, his now thin body seemed to shift into wrappings as his head turned black and his neck grew, his eyes flashed green as his headdress formed and clothes formed, and the Omnitrix symbol formed out of his left shoulder,
Ben looked at his wrap like hands, "Okay, not Wildvine," He clenched his hands, "But I can work with..." he scrunched his eyes, "Never did think of a name for this guy,"
"Come up with one later," Gwen urged, "We're on the clock,"
Ben's eyes narrowed, "I know, just trying to remember what the mummy did," he looked down at his hands, "Besides the bandage stuff," he said flexing his fingers,
"Let's split up gang, Lucy said,
OCTOPUS-Little later-OCTOPUS
Gwen snuck up on Gordon and Betty Jeane, they were in the dining room, it was easy to find them since they were still talking about the wedding was a bad idea,
"I can't believe Max wouldn't take our side," Gordon stated, "We were all on tours on Siltmire Terrene," Gordon sat down, "He knows what those sludge monsters did,"
"Not sure," Betty Jeane stated, "he could be playing an angle, trying to gain he's good at that," she suggested,
Gordon shook his head, "It sounds like Max, but it ain't right," he said, "It stinks rotten,"
Betty Jeane nodded, "So, what if he doesn't agree with us?" she asked, "Are we finally ready to consider the other option?"
Gordon sighed, "Askin' me when this is your forte?" he questioned, "Now that's plain weird,"
"So I'm in charge on this one?" Betty Jeane asked, "Okay, then in that case we need to figure out Max's angle before we consider anything else,"
"Right... and any idea's on how to do that?" Gordon asked,
"We talk to his grandkids," Betty Jeane said, "They were raised by his kids and are so close to him he's been driving them around in what's basically a plumber assault vehicle all summer, and they'll likely be raised by his values," Betty Jeane took off her glasses and started cleaning them, "We'll have to be careful though, if Max thinks we're trying to sway them he could switch sides in an instant regardless of what he actually believes,"
"Could the mudpuppy know anything about what her family is planning?" Gordon asked linking his fingers,
As she took in the words Betty's fingers tensed and cracked her glasses, "Gordon, she's the spawn of The Conglomerate, she's a little weird, but no doubt powerful, and likely well trained," Betty said as she wrapped her now glasses up in a napkin from her pocket, and then tossed them into a nearby bin, then she took another set of glasses out of her pocket, "We don't move on her till we're sure the Conglomerate won't tear us limb from limb," she said placing them on her face,
Gordon scoffed, "This coming from the woman who suggested taking the Conglomerate out when it first showed it's heads,"
"When I thought it was coming relatively alone," Betty stressed, "but notice that Joel's keeper doesn't have a guard, possibly because it plans to use our boy as a shield, then there's her parent's that do have a guard, but the Mudpuppy doesn't and she's allowed to roam wherever and whenever she wants,"
Gordon froze, "D-does that mean?"
Betty Jeane nodded, "Until further notice we have to assume so," she stated, "There's at least got to be one reason she doesn't have a guard,"
"She could be trying to Sabotage the Wedding?" Gordon suggested,
"It's possible," Betty Jeane nodded, "But we've got work to do beyond speculation," she said, "C'mon, you got my back?" she asked,
Gordon sighed but stood up, "Always." he said smiling at her,
As they left Gwen pondered on what she'd learned on the conversation, most of all with Betty and Gordon's ''other option'', and what they said about Lucy, "This could be bad, I'd better go tell Grandpa Max," Gwen said standing up, and bumping into one of the Waitstaff,
"Sorry little lady," The woman said, "Didn't see you down there,"
Suddenly someone started screaming, "H-HEEEEELP! MONSTERS!"
"M-my fault," Gwen said as she backed away and dashed past the tall woman who seemed to watch her leave,
OCTOPUS-With Ben-OCTOPUS
Ben snuck through the vent shafts Looking for the mud family stopping as a sweet scent passed by his nose? he scrunched his eyes, 'Do I even still have one?' he wondered, 'I have to if I can smell things,' he figured as he turned toward the smell, though the vent shaft he saw one of the waitstaff who seemed to be carrying thing from a van, Ben watched as the man was wrapped by mud, "Hero time" he said with a glare slipping through the bars, "Let him go!" he demanded while his bandage fingers tried to grab the man struggling inside the Lenopan,
"An Alien? here?" It asked as Ben tore the man out of it's body,
"You okay?" Ben asked the man who was quick to shove the bandages off him,
"H-HEEEEELP!" The man cried, "MONSTERS!"
"You're welcome dude!" Ben called after him and turned back to see that the Lenopan had vanished, "Where'd he g-," And was then caught in the back by a laser blast, "Oof," Ben groaned as he hit the ground,
When he looked up, both Betty Jeane and Gordon had rifles aimed at his face,
"A Thep Khufan?" Betty Jeane asked,
"You're a long way from Anur Khufos son!" Gordon stated, "What are you doing here?!" he demanded,
"I was just-,"
"What's going on he-," Camille asked as she rose out of the ground before Betty turned her rifle on her,
"Sorry," Betty said without an ounce of sincerity, "reflex," she said turning her rife back to Ben,
"What's going on?" Joel asked as he and Max came out of the exit, Max's eyes went wide as he saw Gordon and Betty aiming rifles at a green eyed mummy, 'Ben' he thought,
"I-I wasn't doing anything," Ben said, "I was just passing by when this regular human got swarmed by mud, I was just trying to help out,"
"Sure you were" Betty said, "just happened to be in the area of a high profile wedding?" she asked,
"I'm being honest," Ben said,
"Oh I'm sure you are," Were the words Gordon spoke as Gwen snuck outside and saw the scene, "Just one of them Good Samaritan aliens?"
"We should find the guy the alien helped?" Max suggested, "Maybe he could shed some light on what happened here,"
"I've a better idea," Gordon said as he pulled the trigger,
It was as if time slowed down for Gwen, she watched as the laser slowly approached Ben, Gwen ran forward thrusting her hand toward Ben, Max charged forward and tried knocking Gordon over, Ben shut his eyes,
And then the young boy was encased in a glowing pink shield which easily stopped the laser, "What in tarnation?" Gordon asked before Max shoulder into him knocking him over,
Then as the shield dropped he breathed a sigh of relief,
"Max what has gotten int-," Max glared and covered his now stood up brother's mouth and pointed at the Alien,
*Beep beep beep* then after he flashed red Ben was where the alien laid,
"You okay Ben?" Max asked,
"I'm okay grandpa," He said, "But what was that shield?" he asked, "One of your Plumber gadgets?"
"It wasn't mine, or a gadget Ben" Max sighed, he looked around, stopping on a tree, "You can come out Verdona,"
In a pink flash a blue hooded figure appeared behind Max, "Wrong spot again love," She said taking her hood off revealing an older woman with shoulder length grey hair, "You were close earlier though,"
"Another Alien?" Betty asked,
"Please don't even bother with the guns, I'd hate to hurt either of you tearing them away," Verdona said,
Gordon put a hand on Max gripping his shoulder tightly, "Verdona eh?" he asked, turning Max around, "That's the name of-,"
"Carl and Frank's Mum," Max stated crossing his arm,
"So all this time you were,"
Max stomped forward, "Your nephews and grand Nephews and Niece are all part Alien," Max stated,
Verdona raised her hand and pink glow encased the weapons, she smiled at Max, "And here I thought you'd never tell them, I certainly thought I'd never meet your family," she said as the weapons were torn out of their hands, She walked forward, "Hello, yes I'm an alien, and-" she wrapped an arm around Max, "Let's just say this whole Xenophillia fetish, runs in the family,"
Then she turned to Joel, "Nice to meet you, I'm..." she turned to Max, "Granny?"
"Aunty Verdona, you're their Grandma," he said pointing to Gwen and Ben,
"Right, Right," she said waving Max off, "Auntie Verdona," she said, "Glad to see you're also a fan of interesting women," she said, "It makes the-," and then Max covered her mouth, "Kids," he stated,
"Right, humans mature slower then Anodites," Verdona stated, "By the way, how's Xylene?"
Gordan glared at Max, "Xy-," but his mouth was quickly covered by pink energy,
"Hush you, the adults are speaking," Verdona said with a smirk, before turning back to Max, "I know you've seen her recently, I thought we agreed next time one of us saw her we'd try-"
Max cleared his throat,
"Mmm?" Verdona looked around, "Right, private time talk," she said with a smile, "Really Max you're so fussy sometimes," she turned to Ben and Gwen, "So which one is mine?" she asked,
"B-," Joel started but Verdona cut him off,
"I'm only kidding dear, I know my grandkids already, I've been watching over them for quite a while, specially you Gwen,"
"M-me?" Gwen asked,
"Oh yes," Verdona said, "Love the hair colour by the way,"
"Th-thanks I grew it myself," Gwen stated,
"You've increased your mana over the summer, good job dear,"
"Um thanks?" Gwen said,
"What about me?" Ben asked,
"Well I'm kinda disappointed kiddo," Verdona said messing up his hair, "You and I are so alike yet, not a spark of Mana in you," she said with a shrug, "But you've got a lot of your Grandfather's best traits, and you've done amazingly with the watch," she said with a wink, "Better then I even think Max himself could've done,"
"R-really?" Ben asked,
"But don't get a big head about it Ben," Verdona flicked him in the nose as she floated by, "Would you rather be like Max? Or Gordon?" she asked as she floated by the older Tennyson brother,
Then she spun around, "Never been to a wedding before," she said landing, "I'm gonna go check it out," and then in a pink flash she was gone,
After she left the energy keeping Gordon's mouth shut dissipated, he rubbed his chin, "Well I think you have some explaining to do Maxwell," he stated walking over to try staring his brother down,
"Actually I do," Max stated, "How long until aliens join the Plumbers?" he asked crossing his arms, "Months? weeks? maybe days?" he asked, "We've already got bases in deep space Gordon, how long till a Tetramand, a Galvin, a Pyronite or even a Lenopan," he looked at Camille who's eyes grew wide, "Want to join what's been turning into a Galactic Peacekeeping corps for years now?"
"Ain't no Sludgepuppy ever becoming a Plumber while I'm-,"
"Then we cut your service, give you a medal for your years of service and heroics and ship you back to Earth," Max stated evenly, "Cause at the point where you're tossing away possible recruits is the plumbers problem,"
"Name one Max," Gordon demanded, "One single Lenopan who wants the job,"
"Lucy Mann," Max stated,
"You know?" Joel asked, "How?"
"I know lots of things," Max stated, "Like the importance of changing with the times," he said focusing his glare onto his brother,
"We've known of aliens wanting to join for years Gordon, we're not even in service these days," Max stated, "our word as Plumbers doesn't mean much anymore, and that's a good thing," he stated, "we're products of our time, Joel's the future of the plumbers, Camille's the future of the Lenopans, and together this'll be the future of weddings, the first Plumber and Lenopan wedding, but we forget it's also the first Legal Human and Alien wedding on Earth,"
Gordon glared back at Max, "Over my dead-,"
Max stomped forward, "Then make a move."
Eyes turned from the two brothers,
"This is gonna go up in smoke Max" Gordon warned, "First they join us, then they erase our history-,"
"What about our history is so important beyond we're here to keep the peace?"
"The president-,"
"Like us was a man of his time, limited by the ideals and ideas of the age he lived in," Max stated,
"We've protected these systems for over thirty years, why do they need to come in and take that from us?" Gordon asked,
Max put a hand on his brother's shoulder, "You know why," he said calmly,
And in realisation Gordon's eyes widened, "D-don't-,"
"Cause... soon, we won't be here to keep the universe safe," Max stated sadly, "That's why these changes are important Gordon,"
Gordon pulled his hat over his eyes, "I-,"
"We have to make the universe safer then we found it," Max said,
Gordon raised his hat's brim, "B-but we've done that Max, how much more do we have to change?"
Max smiled at him, "A wise man once told me, we Plumbers don't stop, till everywhere and everyone is safe,"
Gordon shook his head, "I... I need a minute," he said as he started walking away,
After he and Betty Jeane left Max sighed, "It's not just about the Lenopans, the Aliens, or even the fear of what comes next," he stated sadly, "Gordon's always been a fighter, it's part of the reason the 'Cowboy up' Plumber has helped so many, but he's stubborn, he can't accept that it's time to stop fighting and relax," he turned, "But give him time, he'll come around, just need some sense knocked into him first,"
"Dad never told me about-,"
"The fear?" Max asked, "Of being replaced? not even being a footnote in Plumber history? of death?" Max asked, "Of course he didn't," Max stated, "It's one of the reasons why you're the new gen, you'll tell your wife about your fears, hopes, dreams, and she'll try to help as much as she can, but Gordon wasn't raised that way, he was brought up to believe that if a Man is a Man he powers through his problems, and if he keeps going like he has been, It'll destroy him, just like dad,"
"You two never talk about what happened to Grandpa," Joel said,
"Cause we swore we'd take it to our graves son," Max said, "Now if you'd all excuse me I need to lie down, come get me when everyone's here,"
The group watched as Max walked off,
"Grandpa?" Gwen asked as she walked after him,
Ben followed as well trying to be as nonchalant about being an alien a few seconds ago,
A figure from above watched as Camille and Joel left themselves,
OCTOPUS-With Lucy-OCTOPUS
Lucy wasn't where she was supposed to be, she hoped that it wouldn't be bad, but she'd found a strange case hidden in the surrounding woods awhile ago and wanted to look inside, now that she had allies she felt she could take the chance to finally look inside, thus she brought it back to her hideout,
When she entered she dropped the case in shock, The Conglomerate was waiting for her,
"There you are daughter," The heads spoke "We've been looking for you,"
"Y-you have?" Lucy asked,
The Conglomerate passed a glance at the case Lucy had brought with her, "A Plumber's supply cache?" she asked, "where did you find that?"
"Woods," Lucy stated,
"Mmm, how long has it been there?"
"No idea, just found it today," Lucy lied,
"Shame, if it was here longer then I could've gotten what I wanted already," The conglomerate stated as they stretched their arms over and opened the case, they looked inside and frowned, they took a large pistol out and then shut the case,
Lucy looked at the weapon, "Is that a cryo gun?"
"Designed to keep cold provisions from melting, Plumbers repurposed these during the War due to our weakness," The Conglomerate explained, "put the case back where you found it after We leave, We'll keep everyone busy enough to check it the spot,"
"But I kinda had this thing where I-,"
"Do as I instruct Lu'Cyne," The Conglomerate commanded,
Lucy put her head down, "I prefer Lucy," she muttered,
"If you want something you must be strong enough to take it our dear Spawn," Lucy's sire stated, "If you wish your Mothers to call you something, perhaps you must defeat them first?"
"I can't win, you're all to powerful," Lucy whined,
"Fool, you are the spawn of all thirteen of us, you are each of our best traits concentrated into the most powerful spawn our entire race ever had, and will ever have,"
"If I'm so strong why don't you all just have another if I'm such a disappointment!" Lucy stated, she turned and tried to leave only for the door to be covered in mud,
"We never said you were a disappointment," The Conglomerate stated,
"You don't need to," Lucy said, "I know what you think,"
"Clearly not if such flights of fancy have spawned inside you,"
"Then what am I to you? why have you never taught me how to fight? why did you bring me to the wedding without a guard?"
"I haven't instructed you how to fight because you will learn on your own," The Conglomerate gestured to Lucy's body, "You've been in that form since Camille showed you how to take it,"
"I feel... better like this," Lucy said, "Like it's normal for me,"
"You're attached to a form that is not your own?"
"It IS my own!" Lucy stated, "Everything about this body I chose!" Lucy stated, "Hair, hair colour, face, eyes, eye colour, eye lashes, nose, mouth, teeth, tongue, chin, everything I chose!" Lucy stated, "From the top of my head to the tips of my toes, this is the body I want-," Lucy's purple eyes went wide as she took in her own statement, "N-never mind, what do you want?"
"We simply whished to see if you were having fun," The Conglomerate passed by Lucy, "Since if all goes as planned this will be..." They stopped talking, "never mind,"
"What?" Lucy asked, "And you have something planned?"
"We do," They stated easily,
Lucy gave them a look as they removed the mud off the walls, "Are you trying to stop the wedding?"
Both heads did a 180 degree turn and looked back at Lucy, "And if we are?"
Lucy eyes went wide, "A-are you?"
The Conglomerate drew closer to Lucy, towering over her, eyes opened all over the body in front of her, each staring at her, unnerving their Spawn, "What. if. we. are?"
Lucy's body trembled slowly losing her human colours as her body changed back into her usual colours, but the shape stayed the same,
"Interesting," The Conglomerate stated, "Camille fully reverted earlier, but you haven't,"
Lucy looked at her fingers, "W-what does that mean?" she asked,
"Either you're right and that form is simply what you prefer," Lucy smiled at that, "Or you're simply not scared enough to revert back fully,"
And with that The Conglomerate returned to it's full human disguise and left Lucy in her hideout with the supply cache,
Lucy looked at her hand again, then she checked for her head and cheek whiskers but they weren't there, sometime after she was alone she managed to get her colour back and returned the cache to where she'd found it, but when she went to go finally start looking in at the waitstaff they'd all packed into the dinner room for the rehearsal dinner that would be happening soon,
Thus the Wedding venue was more empty then usual,
Lucy couldn't find anyone anywhere, until she went to the carpark and saw everyone except The Conglomerate and Joel's parent's standing around greeting people,
"It's so good to see you've finally settled down Joel," A long brown haired man said, "And with a nice lady like Camille,"
"Thanks Carl," Joel said with a smile, "I'm so glad you could make it, things have been so weird around here,"
A short brown haired man with glasses standing next to a short redhaired woman frowned, "Weird?" He asked, "Not, Dad and Uncle Gordon weird I hope?"
"Just kinda awkward really," Camille said with a strained smile,
"Don't worry Camille, it's just wedding day jitters, trust me, yours can't get any worse," the red haired woman stated evenly,
"It's true" A voice echoed before in a pink flash a figure appeared leaning on Lucy, "Heya kiddo, I'm Verdona, I'm some of these kid's mother," she explained before she started walking over,
"I just had to say something," the red haired woman complained,
"H-hey mum," Carl said, "Surprised to see you back,"
"Back?" Verdona asked, "I've actually been back for a while, must've forgotten to pop in every so often,"
"Please don't, last time you were around the flowers started dancing," The red head said,
"Natalie please do try to have some fun," Verdona said, "Frank I have no idea what you see in her," she said,
The shorter haired man with glasses frowned, "She keeps me grounded mum,"
"Ooh who's this?" A blond haired woman asked as she walked over, Max, Gwen, Ben, and an older red haired kid in tow,
"Sandra this is our mum," Carl explained, "Mum this is Sandra," then he leaned into to his mum, "Please no weirdness she doesn't know about this stuff,"
Verdona rolled her eyes, "Yes yes dear I know, that's why I came before she brought Max and the kids,"
"And... who are you?" Natalie asked Lucy,
"I'm Lucy Mann," She said with a big smile, "Camille's cousin,"
"So Verdona didn't bring you?" Natalie asked,
"No, I just met her right now," Lucy said,
"So Grandma," Gwen asked, "Where have you been?"
"Out of town," Verdona answered casually, "Other then that I can't really say, I've been all over,"
"Wait you're Grandma Verdona?" The red haired older kid asked, "Where's your motorbike and leather jacket?"
Verdona giggled, "My motorbike and leather jacket?" she asked, then she smirked, "Oh well they're behind the venue, I'll go get them," she said walking by Lucy and vanishing behind the buiding, she re-appeared riding a Harely full biker gear, from the leather jacket to the jeans, gloves and boots, even sporting a slick pair of shades, "Want a ride Kenny?" she asked,
Kenny turned to Natalie with a pleading look in his eyes, she leaned toward Frank, "Is she safe?" she whispered,
"Well she did use to have a motorbike," Frank said, "Can't remember what happened to it though,"
"I sold it when she left," Max said, "Sure you can kiddo, she used to ride with your parents when they were babies, she can handle you,"
"Awesome," Ken said and ran over to his grandma who put a pink helmet on his head, and then one on her own,
"Hold onto the bars Kenny," she instructed before driving off down the road,
Natalie turned to Max, "She's not gonna endanger him is she Max?"
"Trust me, he's safe," Max said, "Totally protected, so what did you tell him?"
"That she's a crosstown biker who realised she loved the open road more then she loved being a grandma,"
"Bit... angry at the end," Max noted,
Carl crossed his arms, "She can visit whenever she wants dad and chooses not too,"
Sandra walked over, "Well it's nice to finally meet her, or will be when we she gets back," then she turned to Ben, "Well Ben how've you been? being nice to your cousin?"
"Oh uh yeah, she's great," Ben said,
"Good, I know you two wouldn't have been thrilled to spend so much time together," Sandra said,
"Which is why we had Gwen come home early when summer started," Natalie said, "We wanted you two to start getting along,"
"Figured the best way to skip the arguing was just to get you both in the R.V," Sandra said,
"Is this So?" Said a very familiar voice to Lucy,
Everyone turned to stare in awe at The Conglomerate,
"Hello," the two headed alien said taking care to speak only once with one head, "I'm Ana, this is my sister Bev," The left head spoke, "Heeeey~, Like what's up?" ''Bev'' said, before two hands found Lucy's shoulders, "This is like our girl Lucy," Bev said, "Please try to be patient with her, having her mothers be sisters and an absent father has not done much for her," Ana said,
Sandra frowned, not realising how alien that simple exchange even was, "Aw poor girl,"
"Th-thanks Miss Tennyson?"
"No dear I'm Sandra," She said,
"Sandra how is your time at this wedding?" ''Ana'' asked,
"Well enough I suppose," Sandra said, "Though we did just get here,"
"We have like been here the whole time," ''Bev'' stated,
"And how are you er, three enjoying it?" Carl asked wandering over,
"It's great," "I Like love it,"
"I'm having fun," Lucy said,
Soon Camille clapped, as she saw Verdona coming in with Ken, "Alright everyone, can we all move to the interior, the staff is finally ready for the rehearsal dinner,"
OCTOPUS-Transition-OCTOPUS
Now they were all inside the building the rehearsal was being held, the adults were sitting on one table, but the four kids were sat (except Lucy who had too much energy to sit) on another, "So I know Aunty Sandra and mum asked already but how are you two getting on really?" Ken asked,
"Fine enough," Gwen said,
"Better then I expected," Ben stated,
"Really?" Ken asked, "I figured you two would've hated this trip,"
"Why didn't you come Ken?" Ben asked,
"Mum said if I went you two wouldn't have gotten on better, since one of you would've just hung out with me, also lack of room," he crossed his arms, "Sides I've been on road trips with Grandpa Max for three summers in a row, It's kinda nice to spend it at home for once,"
"I wish you had come Ken," Gwen said, 'because there's so much you don't know about us now,'
"Yeah, summer would've been way cooler if you had," Ben agreed,
Ken smiled, "I mean, I could've shown you the landmarks I guess, but then Grampa would've been a little left out," Then Ken noticed the blonde, "Oh sorry, you're Lucy right?" he asked, "Camille's cousin?"
"Yeah, and you're Ken?"
Ken smiled "Guilty as charged," he raised a hand to her, "Ken Tennyson,"
"Lucy Mann," Lucy responded happily,
"Who's your folks?" Ken asked turning to see the Adults table,
"They'd be the two headed woman sat near your Grandpa,"
"Oh, Uh sorry," he said stiffly trying not to stare at the two headed woman,
"It's cool, for better or worse they're my mums," Lucy said,
"Right... Uh anyone know what's up with Great Uncle Gordon and Great Aunt Betty?" Ken asked "they and Joel don't look all that happy,"
"It's really awkward Ken, just don't pay attention and hope it blows over," Gwen advised, "That... sucks," Ken said,
"I can't believe how much fun weddings are!" Lucy cheered trying to distract everyone at the table, while Gwen nodded in agreement, 'Even if I couldn't find any clues to what's going on, at least it as fun'
Gwen did have a few thousand for the energetic alien girl, but with Ken here she decided to alter them, "so what is your home like Lucy?,"
"Kinda boring actually, all there is to do is ether fight for no reason or eat, but this place is amazing!" she exclaimed, "there's music well more then we have, dancing, cartoons, the occult, and so much more, I wanna do as much as possible before I have to go home." the word home was spoken bitterly,
Gwen noticed it and without thinking asked, "Lucy... are you...?"
"LU'CYNE," a voice shouted and both kids and adults turned to see a member of the waitstaff glaring at kids, "STAND AWAY FROM THE HUMANS BEFORE THEY CONTAMINATE YOU" the man then turned to Camille and said "SEE?, SEE WHAT YOUR PROMISCUOUS NATURE HAS DONE TO PRINCESS LU'CYNE?"
Camille looked shocked at the man and asked "How do you know about Lucy?"
He smirked "What don't recognise me what abo-" before he could finish a large mud fist grabbed him and lifted him into the air before slamming him hard into a table below, everyone's heads turned to see the owner of said appendage,
Lucy was mad, not with the two plumbers who had instinctively aimed guns at her, no she was mad that this guy dared to call her cousin promiscuous, "NOW YOU LISTEN HERE JERK, THIS IS MY SIS- er C-COUSIN'S WEDDING AND YOU WALK IN CALL HER PROMISCUS," she blinked that didn't sound right, "PROMCUIS?," she asked shaking her head, As her fists doubled in size, "WHATEVER YOU CALLED HER AND ACT LIKE IT'S MY BENEFIT, THEN I'M PERFECTLY HAPPY TO GIVE YOU A BEATING YOU WON'T FORGET."
As the guy was about to get up Lucy wrapped a mud tentacle around a table and pulled it over to herself, then threw it at him before turning her left hand into a crude hammer shape before diving forward so as soon as he stopped the table, she'd smashed him with it, her hand hammer shaped into a mud axe, she raised her leg and stomped hard down, "and by the way I prefer Lucy,"
The debris was slowly pushed away by the man who put his hand up as he saw Lucy swing at him "I'm sorry miss Lucy, I wasn't in control of my body, a parasite took my body and used it against my will, please forgive me!" She had stopped her literal hand axe a few inches away from his face,
She began looking around for the alleged parasite and said "Then it must have jumped out- OW!" The second her back was turned the man's hand turned to mud and grew to a large size, then it sliced through the table and grabbed Lucy before slamming her into the ground,
"SEE? FIRST YOUR ATTRACTION FOR THESE PATHETIC CREATURES RUBBED OFF ON HER, AND NOW YOUR WEAKNESS, THE MONARCHY OF OUR HOME WILL BE DISGUSTED TO KNOW THEIR SPAWN WOULN'T EVEN FINISH HER ENEMY" the rest of his body turned into something resembling a cross between a mole and a snake made from mud,
Camille gasped "My ex boyfriend?" Then remembering her cousin shouted, "LET HER GO OR ELSE!"
The creature's twisted lips curled in a manner similar to a smirk and said "Or else what?"
"THIS." a voice shouted and the alien turned to face whoever said that only for another table to hit his face,
"OUCH, OKAY NO MORE TABLES, I'M SERIOUS!" He shouted and turned to face Ben in his diamond head form, "A Petrosaipien? What are you doing here?" The monster asked curiously,
The ten year old kid in a near indestructible body seemed to start sweating "Uh," from his vision he saw Joel and Camille and on sheer instinct said "Friend of the groom?,"
The blobs eyes narrowed dangerously and said "Then you're no friend of mine"
But before he could even think of doing anything Lucy smirked and changed her voice to match the thing holding her, "Because I'm a jerk who has no friends, wah, wah, wah, man I wish Camille-" she stopped and in her normal voice said "who by the way is totally out of your league," then resumed her mocking voice "-would take me back but she won't cause I'm a tool"
"I AM NOT A TOOL!" The creature roared,
Ben smirked "But no comment on being out of Camille's league huh?" In frustration the alien unwittingly tossed Lucy at Ben who caught her and set her down,
"My hero" Lucy fake swooned,
Then Ben jumped at the creature who tried to catch him and if not for Lucy hitting him in the stomach with a giant mud fist he probably would've, then Ben knocked the creature back into another table pulled by Lucy but before he could react Lucy and Ben both punched him knocking him through the wall Lucy turned to Ben and said "Follow my lead, after I attack knock him into the pool," he nodded and as the wedding crasher began to reform Lucy turned her hand into a mallet and knocked him to the left where she knew the pool was, then Ben rushed forward and dropkicked the idiot into the pool where his mass became to diluted to reform again,
Ben turned to her and asked "How did you know where the pool was?,"
She grinned sheepishly and began scratching the back of her head, "Well I'm kind of a klutz so my cousins showed me where the pool was so I wouldn't slip into it,"
Ben sweat dropped 'She can fight better then most people, but she's dumb enough to slip into a pool?' Seeing the look on his face she blushed
"Hey! I see that 'she's-a-good-fighter-but-dumb-enough-to-trip-into-her-greatest-weakness' look on your face," she said pointing at him and glaring
'How'd she know?' Ben thought,
"Perhaps using magic?" Hex suggested,
Ben shocked by the voice turned to see the magic wielding villain who quickly dropped a smoke bomb and was gone when it cleared, "Okay?" Ben said not even trying to wonder why hex was here, cause footsteps alerted him to others coming and then the Omnitrix started beeping, seeing no other options, Ben jumped out a window,
When everyone rushed inside and Lucy told them what happened,
"So you're... what?" Sandra asked, "Some kind of sentient mud-,"
"She's..." Carl sighed, aiming a glare at Max, "She's an Alien,"
Sandra turned to Carl, "An Alien?" She asked with a chuckle,
Lucy frowned, she rubbed the back of her neck "W-well-"
Natalie frowned and gave her a look, "So what do you really look like?"
"I-" Lucy frowned, but took a few steps back, "Okay," she melted into mud and emerged as her true form, "this is what I really look like,"
"And you knew?" Frank asked turning to Max,
"He did," The Conglomerate stated together, "Because he had no choice," Thus they began to explain the story behind the wedding,
"Wait wait," Sandra said, she turned to Joel, "You're a Plumber?"
"Yeah," he nodded,
"Who are intergalactic peacekeepers who deal with Ali-," she turned to look at Lucy then Camille, "Bad aliens?"
"Yes," Joel said,
Sandra nodded, "I see,"
"We're sorry you had to find out like this Sandra," Gordon stated putting a hand on her shoulder, "We're trying to fix this,"
"Fix this?" Sandra asked,
"The wedding," Betty said, "So the aliens can go home,"
Sandra blinked, "What do you mean?"
"We're against the wedding obviously," Gordon stated,
"Oh," Sandra said, She looked at Joel and Camille, "Sorry for that," she said, then she turned Betty and Gordon round and started to push them,
"Wh-what are you doing?" Betty Jean asked,
"Pushing you two out of the wedding," Sandra stated, then she stopped, "Lucy could you help Aunty Sandra?"
The Mud alien nodded and lifted both Betty and Gordon,
"Good girl," Sandra said, "this way," she said taking the two parents through the venue, then having Lucy dump them at the door,
"What Are you do-," Sandra kneeled and hushed both Gordon and Betty Jeane,
"Weddings are hard," She said, "And stressful, and my god are those two in love,"
"No they ain't!" Gordon spat, "He's just confused and she's-,"
"Oh come off it" Sandra said, "I'm done hearing you both," she pointed at the car park, "Go home until you two can either accept this, or at least put up with it cause it's what your kids want,"
She turned to the now human appearing Lucy, who she smiled at, "You don't have to look like that if you don't want to,"
"This is actually how I prefer to look," Lucy said nervously,
"Then let's go back in there and try to cheer everyone up," Sandra said,
"But what about-," Lucy gestured at the two plumbers now standing up,
"Lucy, Is there a word they kept calling you? I've heard them refer to a sludgepuppy or a mudpuppy before," Sandra asked,
"They call me mudpuppy," Lucy said, "But it doesn't bother me,"
"Call them Meat sacks then," Sandra said, "Because if they can't respect you enough to call you Lucy, you don't have to respect them,"
"But it doesn't bother me," Lucy said following her Aunty,
"It doesn't have to," Sandra stated closing the doors on the Gordon and Betty,
When they came back Sandra told the kids to go somewhere else and started consoling both Camille and Joel,
The kids left and talked, "So these two knew your were a uh mud monster?" Ken asked Lucy,
"Y-yeah,"
"S-so what are you exactly?" He asked,
"I'm a Lenopan, from the planet Siltmire Terrene,"
"And your body, how do you change it?"
"Like this?" Lucy asked making her hand bigger and the knuckles spikes,
"Yeah, that's so weird," he said, "Do you like control it?"
"I guess, it's weird I don't get how you guys don't I mean your hair grows right?"
"Yeah but we can't control our hair, or make it grow longer," Ken said, "How do you do it?"
"I... it's hard to explain," Lucy said,
"Aw man, stuff like that's cool," Ken sighed, "Wonder what that Diamond Guy is doing now?"
"The Petrosapien? me too," Lucy said,
After a while the parents came and took their kids away, the wedding was tomorrow and they all wanted time to work over what they now knew,
And with that everyone slept, except a certain group, "Can you believe it? the old fools are gone,"
"Makes our job easier, tomorrow this wedding ends,"
If the speakers had been paying more attention then they would realise they were being watched, but the young blonde had finally found the culprits trying to crash the wedding, and only one thought went through her mind 'who to tell first?, can't tell Camille it might break her heart, big bro's out too if she found out he was hiding something from her she might get sad, Ben it is!'
And then with her master plan in motion she snuck over to the R.V Ben's family was inside and slipped through the keyhole but just before she could do anything she realised everyone else was asleep, 'they'll need their sleep if they're gonna help me,' after thinking that she yawned, 'oh right guess I'll need sleep too,' she saw a place to sleep across from Ben and Gwen's bunk bed and using a magic marker a piece of paper and some tape she found, she wrote ''got something super important to tell you all, please wake me up after breakfast'' then she taped it over where she would be sleeping and laid down to rest
OCTOPUS-In the morning after breakfast-OCTOPUS
The four of them sat around the table eating (or looking away while Max and Lucy ate, in Gwen and Ben's case) considering what they were just told, "uhgg Lucy how can you eat that?" Gwen asked looking at the massive eggs the girl devoured whole,
Lucy stopped consuming eggs and chewed for about a minute, then she said "Back home Rachnobster eggs are a delicacy,"
"Onto other matters, Lucy are you sure it was Mr and Mrs Mann you saw?"
Lucy nodded so fast it looked like her head would fly off, "Yep, I'm sure of it, if I wasn't I wouldn't have risked sleeping here would I?, now onto the question what are we gonna do? I can use my sludge-shifting, Ben's got the Omnitrix, what's Grandpa Max got?," She asked,
"Plumber gear, but the real question is how do you know Ben has the Omnitrix?," he answered and asked in the same breath,
"I transformed in front of her," Ben admitted,
"Gwen tell us what you got up your sleeves?" Lucy said as she devoured another egg,
Gwen smiled and waved her hands, "Magic," she said pointing a finger at the note Lucy wrote and it turned into a bird which flew around before perching on the blondes head, "cool isn't it?"
Lucy and the paper bird nodded, "That's amazing!, Man all you guys are so cool, " then an alarm rang out,
"Lucy Time for your dress fitting, go and we'll come up with a plan here" Max said the whiskered girl nodded and said,
"Thanks everyone for the food and the help, I'll see you all later," the blonde skipped away the paper bird following her,
"So what is the plan?" Gwen asked
"Simple" Ben said "we know who the culprits are, now we go get 'em"
Max put a hand on his grandson's shoulder, "If we do that without any proof they'd just claim self defence, as much as I hate to admit it we have to let them make the first move, everyone get dressed,"
At the service (unless you want me to write a scene where the characters talk about a boring wedding)
Gwen sat next her grandpa Max subtly reading her spell book, Max had relayed what was going to happen to Joel who relayed it to Camille, they had already told Lucy the plan via her paper bird, she was standing next to her big sister and was trying her hardest not to jump with joy, Ben was on the other side next to the groom with the pillow with the ring on it, each had been waiting for the key point in the plan, At which point the Reverend said
"Now if there is one among us who believes you two young people should not be wed then may they say objections or forever hold their peace?"
A little girl in a blue magicians outfit turned to a boy in a red suit next to her "Now Polly don't shout objection," She chided,
He blushed "I w-wasn't gonna," HE LIED, 'damnit how did Trucy know what I was thinking?,'
"It's written all over your face" she grinned,
But before any could say anything else two doors (that had been magically summoned for this one joke) had been kicked open standing there was Hex, "Ben Tennyson!," he called," I am here to claim vengeance upon you, surrender now or-," Hex looked around and realised that he had interrupted a wedding, "I am SO sorry I had no idea this was a wedding I'm going to go now, you all enjoy the services, once again really sorry," he once again dropped a smoke bomb and was gone, (as were the doors)
Then Mrs Mann raised her hand and asked "Are we still on the any objections part?,"
The Reverend nodded, "Yes we are,"
She gave a sigh of relief, "Okay good," she and her mate stood up,
"Ladies and Gentlemen," Oche said his smile evaporating, "You might want to run," he said aiming his arm at Joel,
Then as the two turned into their true forms, "Now it's time for-," Mr Mann's head was split by a beam,
"You to stand down," Max ordered training two different blasters onto both the Alien wedding crashers,
Liahm stood in front of him, a stony glare aimed at Max before he started walking toward him, Max dove backwards firing shot after shot at the still human appearing Lenopan, but the warrior simply walked through the shots as he continued his approach,
Mrs Mann smiled and turned to her daughter's Groom, "A large difference between the regular Lenopans and our warriors isn't there dear?"
"Voris? Ocre?" Joel asked turning from his Mother in Law and to his regenerating Father in Law, "You two set this all up? why?"
"Because while The Conglomerate allows this I don't," Voris stated, "You are not worthy of Camille!" she stated, "We were supposed to test you, but we never intended to, you were always going to-," A green blast tore through Voris' head,
Ocre turned and glared at Joel, but his eyes widened, "What?" He asked, as the laser came not from Joel, but Camille who had the rifle in her arm,
"Camille?" Joel asked as she looked down at the blaster,
"Sorry I took this Love, but it hurt me so I figured after my Ex showed up it might come in handy," she said, then she tossed it to him, "Here you're better with it then I am,"
Joel caught the rifle, but his eyes flashed to her, "Are you sure?" he asked, "These are your parents,"
She turned and glared at the two, "Do you all know what I've put up with for these past few months?," she asked venomously, "Friends, Plumbers, everyone coming over to Me and Joel doubting what we have, criticizing us for what? falling in love?" she asked as her skin changed to purple,
"I don't know how Joel does it, but every time I've had to fight off the instincts that have been ingrained into me," she stated, "I wanted to believe that unlike your parent's they accepted us," she said,
"Now they're dead to me," she said as her skin tone changed to purple,
"Actually we changed our minds about being okay with this," The Conglomerate stated as it crept up behind Max,
Suddenly the large shadow from earlier fell over him,
Everyone almost froze as thirteen heads far towered above them all, "If you want this wedding to succeed and the war to end, then that path lies past us"
"WHAT?!" Ben cried,
"HOW DO WE FIGHT THAT?!" Gwen asked,
The Conglomerate's true form was a Lenopan of thirteen heads all attached to a large puddle, each much bigger then this area meaning it swarmed past everyone,
Max grabbed Gwen and tossed off his suit jacket and then took off into the air,
Ben quickly transformed into Heatblast and grabbed Joel and Reverend, "Sorry about this," he said quickly getting onto the roof,
Camille grabbed Lucy and jumped onto the roof as well,
OCTOPUS-Versus The Conglomerate, ''Sole'' Monarch of Siltmire Terrene-OCTOPUS
"She's made of Mud" Gwen said as she landed, "How do we fight her?"
"You don't!" Voris stated as she dropped onto the roof, "Against our monarch you can only die,"
Oche dropped on the other side, "Time to die Tennyson" He laughed at Max who aimed twin blasters at the two Lenopans, Then Liahm dropped in front of him and glared at him,
Suddenly with A pink flash Verdona appeared, "Mmm?" she rubbed her chin, "Don't like this match up," she said, then she snapped her fingers, Voris and Oche vanished, Suddenly they appeared on the roof where Joel and Camille were,
"W-wait where's Ben and Lucy?"
Verdona just grinned as the ground started shaking Ayxl dropped into the ground Then twin pink platforms appeared in mid-air and Ben and Lucy appeared on one,
"You two can handle Liahm right?" Verdona asked, and before anyone answered she vanished over to where Ben and Lucy were,
OCTOPUS-Meanwhile Camille and Joel turned To Oche and Voris,-OCTOPUS
"So guess it's us versus our ''accepting'' parents?" Joel
"Curb your tongue fleshsack, you killed enough of ours and now want our daughter? you think we'd allow that?" Voris asked,
"You think I'd allow you to take me from the man I love?" Camille asked,
"Quiet Spawn, you're still ignorant of such concepts as lo-,"
Oche was cut off as Joel fire a blast through his chest, "So we have to fight for our love?" he asked, "I'm good with that,"
Camille smiled at him as her hands shaped into blades, "As am I,"
The two adult Lenopans start twisting together Camille flicked her blade arms out while Joel took aim and started backing up,
With the First shot fired by Joel, Camille shot forward slashing at her parents with her arm blades,
And the two Lenopans saw just how In sync the two were, every slash Camille made was quickly fired upon by Joel, making the two unable to attack while Camille made another cut and used them as foot holds as she moved her way up her parents body, her blades and the blasts were a blur as she moved her way up,
"Don't know why you tried," Camille stated, "You two were never warriors I'm and Ex-Warrior,"
As their eyes went wide Camille's blades crossed both parent's grinned and moved out of the way of the blades that were originally going to take off their heads, As Camille flipped the twin heads neared her husband who hefted the rifle onto his shoulder and jumped just as the heads were about to chomp on him, he landed on the heads and ran as the two made spikes on their skin behind him, he fired upon both the heads as he leapt from one neck to the other,
Camille stabbed her blades into the two headed Alien and started groaning as she started to lift her parents,
As they cried in pain from blade and laser fire, Joel ran over the neck as he continued firing, leapt over the Lenopan body, and landed next to Camille, who lifted the two slightly before slamming them down into the roof cracking it,
"What are you doing?" Joel asked,
"Sending these two wedding crashers into the mud below," Camille spat,
"Wha-," Camille lifted them again and slammed them down again, "Stop," Joel said, "If they go into The Conglomerate's body they'll lose themselves right?"
"They did it to themselves!" Camille lifting them again,
"Camille, it hurts," he said putting his hand on her shoulder, "I know it hurts being betrayed like this but you can't kill them,"
"On Siltmire Terrene murder is how we'd-,"
"This isn't Siltmire Terrene is it?" Joel asked,
Camille froze for a second, but after it passed she lifted her parent's again,
Joel shook his head, and then stepped onto the edge of the roof,
"What are you-?"
Joel stuck out his arms as he stood on the edge of the roof, "If you slam them again then I'll fall off, right into the body below us, there's so much I'll be crushed to death,"
"Why are you-?"
"I love you Camille" Joel stated, "I can't imagine my life without you, and I know you feel the same way,"
"So by killing them I lose you?" Camille asked, "why?"
"Because if you kill them like this I have to take you in," Joel said, "I can't do that,"
Camille turned to him, "Why?" she asked hitting the roof below her, "Why does this have to be so hard?!" Camille asked,
Joel walked over to her and put a hand on her shoulder, "Cause all things in life that are worth doing aren't easy to do,"
Camille snorted, "So I'm not easy to do? and therefore worth doing?"
"Grow up Camille," Joel said rolling his eyes,
"You married me,"
"Not yet I haven't," Joel stated as he wrapped his arms around her, "But soon you're gonna be my wife, and I'm gonna be your husband,"
"We'll move to Florida, and get a Alligator to keep your father away," she smiled poking his nose,
"And best of all-"
"We'll be together-"
"Free to love-"
"For the rest of our lives,"
They smiled at each other and kissed,
"I n-now pronounce you, Man and Wife?"
Both Joel and Camille turned seeing The reverend and everyone else who couldn't fight safely in a large pink bubble in the air,
"What is going on?" Joel asked,
"Verdona put us here," Natalie stated, "But we can't find Ben or Gwen, just that she moved them"
"Just wanted these two to get a little peace in their lives," Verdona's voice echoed, "Be ready to reappear,"
OCTOPUS-Meanwhile as Max and Gwen fought Liahm-OCTOPUS
Max blasted the silent warrior who seemed to absorb the blasts and walk towards him, his hand changed into a Skull Mace he raised it and dashed forward just barely missing Max's head by a hair with his swipe,
As Max dodged back he saw the smirk on Liahm's face, Liahm's leg quickly formed out of his ribs and kicked Max over,
As Max hit the ground Liahm spun around raising his mace arm to strike,
"Terbo!" Gwen cried sending a small localised tornado At Liahm which sent the silent warrior skidding back slightly,
Liahm turned to look at Gwen who's eyes went wide, but the warrior turned back to Max, who'd risen to his feet and taken aim at him with a blaster in one hand, and a grenade in the other,
Liahm's skull mace was turned into a bladed hook as he again slowly advanced on Max the silent warrior was again hit by bolt after bolt of heavy pistol fire yet walked through the volley of gunfire as if it was little more then a slight gust of wind,
When Liahm drew closer to Max he raised his hook arm, and as Max sought to block Liahm's arm stretched down trying to catch Max where his guard was weaker but Max brought his gun down and just managed to block the strike then he activated his jetpack and charged into the sludge warrior knocking him back while Gwen finished flipping through her book, "Um Sinnyu Invisibus!" a blue glow enveloped her hands and she spread them wide and twin rocks rose up bathed in the glow of her mana,
Which she then sent flying towards the silent warrior, as the rocks hit Liahm's body they tore through the mud that made his form but otherwise he seemed not to even notice them as his mud started reforming back into his human disguise, but Gwen continued flipping, "Reanima Verdanica!" she said thrusting her hand toward him and as she did flowers grew out of the roof creating a line towards him and then they grew on the muddy warrior slowing his movement,
"That worked?" Gwen asked, "Rocks can't phase this guy but flowers slow him?"
"Works for me," Max stated before kicking Liahm back into a volley of blaster fire while the silent warrior attempted to continue fighting his hook disappeared into his skin and both his forearms sprouted blades he took a stance as Max pulled the pin off his grenade and charged forward,
Liahm's first strike was a diagonal slash that Max slid under, the second was a horizontal strike "Terbo!" that Gwen blew away, Max sprang to his feet and shouldered Into Liahm's face, while the strike hit Liahm used it to dodge away from Max's attempt to plant the grenade on him, knowing it was close to blowing anyway Max tossed it to Liahm's left away from Gwen while Max fired upon it,
One of his shots hit it and exploded in a hot blast baking Liahm's entire left side of his body, solidifying it,
He tore himself from the now solid part of his body and started reforming,
"D-does anything stop this guy?" Gwen asked,
"He's basically one of their royal guard," Max said breathing heavily, "We're fighting the equivalent of a man trained from birth to ignore pain and fight,"
Liahm shook his head, "What?" Max asked "I'm wrong?" Liahm nodded as he started to reform his disguise,
"That's right Max," Camille stated as she and Joel appeared and a pink flash, "We simple warriors were trained to ignore pain, The Louchmahda like Liahm were taught to enjoy pain,"
"He hasn't even taken his true form?" Joel asked aiming his rifle at the Mud warrior, "Is that normal?"
Camille frowned, "It means he's laughing at you, he views you both as little more then an exercise,"
Liahm smirked and took a stance, then he stopped, and slowly kneeled then shut his eyes, A few confused glances as Camille approached him, she lowered her blade to his shoulder and tapped it, "Gi'takh-a" Liahm nodded, Camille raised an eye at his sudden surrender, "He's surrendered,"
"H-he does?" Gwen asked,
"Why?" Joel asked,
"Are you without Honour?" Max asked the kneeling warrior,
Liahm looked up at Max, and shook his head, "Then by conquest remain here until the battle is won," Camille ordered, Liahm nodded,
Then a pink dome appeared around the Silent warrior and then Max, Gwen, Joel, and Camille vanished,
OCTOPUS-Meanwhile Ben, Lucy, and Verdona, Versus The Conglomerate-OCTOPUS
"Wooooah," Ben said taking a step back as despite how high up they were The thirteen heads still towered over them, each of the thirteen heads grinned down at him and Lucy maliciously,
"We can take this guy, right Lucy?" Ben turned but rather then the chipper face of his confidant cousin, he saw her staring up at The Conglomerate's many faces with a look of a deer watching as a speeding car headed right towards it,
"Lucy?" He asked lightly shaking her, "You alright?"
She turned to him, her eyes filled with tears, "We're going to die Ben," she stated, "there's no winning this,"
"What?" Ben asked, "Its just a big mud monster,"
"No Ben," she said, "It's thirteen of our strongest warriors merged into one terrifying body, miles higher then any Lenopan, there's no winning here, she's overwhelmed Tokustah's in this form, Pyronite armies have fallen before them,"
"So you cower?" A Single head asked lowering to Lucy, "You who were the most invested in protecting your big sister's wedding?" The mass of heads glared at her, "You are my spawn!" The head stated, "Steel your will," Lucy's eyes widened, "Focus on your sister's happiness" A rush of memories of Camille and Joel together just being happy, "Plant yourself," Lucy gritted her teeth as her skin turned into mud and her whiskers reappeared, "and FIIIIIGHT ME!"
Lucy ripped a steel case out of her body, tore it open, grabbed something and shoved it into her mouth before she tossed the case at the lone head,
It bounced off and Lucy's whiskers whipped around wildly, "ALRIGHT!" she punched her hand, "Let's dethrone this muddy monarch!"
"Alright," Ben grinned as his hands glowed brighter, Then both Lucy and Ben thrusted their hands forward making a hail of mud and flames that started to struck the lowered head,
The head his it's smile and glared down at them, "Good, now finally we FIIIIIIGHT!" It roared,
First it reared this head back and covered it in spikes, then it brought it towards,
Verdona appeared in between Ben and Lucy and raised her hand, a pink energy shield was placed between the three of them and the approaching head,
And then the head splattered against the shield,
"Sorry for the wait kiddos," Verdona said, "You wouldn't believe how chatty some people can be when you need to do stuff,"
Verdona snapped her fingers and pink energy bound the head and started pulling it towards them,
Ben let loose on the approaching head launching ball after ball of flame, though due to the size of the head they barely seemed to solidify it,
Then as the head drew close enough Lucy launched herself toward it and stretched her arms toward the binding, she gripped them and used her arms to swing a large boot into the held head, she used the point of contact to spring off into the air as Ben baked the head with high heat flames straight from his mouth while he himself started condensing a ball of throttling flames,
As part of The head's mud started solidifying Lucy's eyes began glowing and she her mud started writhing as many glowing purple eyes opened on her body, she thrusted her hands to the side and from her body many Lucy's started spawning out of her, "Muddy Clones!" Lucy cried as she and five other Lucy's grinned down at the head, One made her hands gigantic, another made her legs into a curved blade, the third stretched her both of her arms up in a bladed crisscrossing zig zag shape, next the forth pulled a large hammer out of her body, The Fifth aimed a finger at the solid neck like a gun while her pointer finger started swirling around, then the real Lucy turned her entire arm into a blade that seemed to have lit Christmas lights inside it,
The six dropped onto the neck, one struck saw like blade first and then planted her feet as she rocked the blade back and forth trying to saw through the neck,
One landed giant fist first while another just held onto her hammer as she dropped and after their impacts they ran around striking whatever they could,
The leg bladed Lucy grabbed onto the neck and swung herself half way around it digging her blade into the other side of the neck and started pulling her blade towards her hands slowly tearing through the neck,
The one aiming the finger gun at the eyes and just as they fired into one of the exposed eyes and then was slashed through and absorbed back into the real Lucy, who then quickly slashed through the other eye,
"Almost ready!" Ben tried calling to the Lucy's but none of them seemed to hear him,
"Just let it go when you're ready Ben," Verdona said, "I'll protect her,"
Ben nodded and as soon as the ball was ready he sent it flying at the head,
As the Lucy's realised the ball was heading toward them they stopped their attacks and then vanished in a pink flash as the ball hit the underside of the head, entirely turning the head into stone,
As the head broke off and started falling several figures stood on top of the head, "What?" Ben asked as six of The Conglomerate's human disguise(only one had three heads) stood on the head,
As it fell they leapt off of it and landed onto the platform Ben, Verdona, and the Lucy's were on,
"Seems the form was too cumbersome for this battle," They stated in unison,
"Was it?" Verdona asked, "Seemed you weren't trying to me,"
"You question the motives of many warriors while you yourself are not one?" One of the heads asked,
"Not a warrior, we do have one thing in common however," Verdona said gesturing to one the Lucy's,
"Quiet," One of them bellowed,
"Just noting something dear," Verdona smiled,
"Take this!" The zigzag arm bladed Lucy cried as she swung the blade toward the many bodies of the creature that spawned her,
Each of which split themselves before the blade could even touch them, As Ben charged forward they each aimed an arm at him and each fired a stream of mud onto Ben hoping to snuff his fire out,
Verdona raised her hand and made an energy shield protecting his charge, seeing it he glowed brighter as he drew closer to them,
When the shield dropped Ben roared and seemed to detonate in a large explosion, while Verdona protected herself and the Lucy's,
And as the explosion died away the shield dropped the big hands Lucy grabbed the bladed leg Lucy and charged towards the The Conglomerate as A tired Ben fell onto her knees,
The real Lucy dashed forward along with the others,
The Giant hands Lucy swung the sickle leg Lucy at the Conglomerate who drew closer to Ben, "Good My Spawn," She said as she dodged the blade, "Finally you're in touch with your ferocity,"
"I just have to fight," Lucy said, "Ben or Verdona can-,"
"Neither will ever defeat me," The Conglomerate stated together, "Notice how Verdona hasn't struck me once?"
Lucy slid to a stop as she started to consider her mother's words, "S-so what's the point of this?"
"Yes I believe it's time to cease now," The Conglomerate stated as each started moulding together,
As Verdona brought the others to the platform they all took aim at the now solo Conglomerate,
"There," Slowly They walked past Lucy and over to Joel,
"What are you-?"
The Conglomerate opened their arms and pulled Joel into an embrace, "Y'Valo es Keer, Wynna pesterreia mall, Joel Tennyson." then they stared into his eyes, and raised a finger, "Es udo laveera malaka," They said as they marked his forehead with mud,
"Or in your words, We have seen your resolve, and judged you thoroughly Joel Tennyson, Let It be known you are worthy,"
"What?" he asked,
"Truly I never cared for this wedding, but upon that name Tennyson I had started considering it, You're love for one another was never doubted by ourselves," The Conglomerate stated,
"Then what was all this?" Max asked,
"Maxwell Tennyson, Joel is marked as worthy by ourselves, none of our race would be foolish enough to contest this union, now only one loose end remains untied,"
The Two headed alien that was in truth an alien of many heads turned to their daughter, "Never before have we wished a plan would fail Spawn," They stated, "and yet it still came almost exactly as we planned it,"
"What do you mean?" Lucy asked,
"We are delegates who have attacked a wedding, our actions could have ignited a war, therefore our cooperation must be guarantied," The Conglomerate stated sadly, They turned to Max who stood stiffly,
"We truly do love our Spawn Maxwell," They said at once, "And we will be sad to leave her, but if it's in your care then we can trust this,"
"You planned this?" Max asked, "Why?"
"We attempted to raise her as we assumed you had been raised, we failed, and now we've lit that spark inside her, she will return to us a better warrior," Then they lowered their gaze, "Yet it seems as though you knew her better then us,"
"What do you mean?"
"When Joel's parents were about to shoot the Omnitrix wielder we took Camille's form as we felt they'd attack her in a stressful situation, they did not, thus it was there revealed to us that our own spawn wished to be a Plumber, and she never told us," The Conglomerate stated,
"Then and there we wished to crush the wedding crashers ourselves, but your spawn's mate opened our eyes when she ejected Joel's sires from the venue," They said, "It made us realise that perhaps those in fake support should out themselves and then be bolstered by ourselves, though our fight was simply to force our Sp-... Daughter, to finally stand against us,"
"Why?" Lucy asked, "Why do all of this?"
"Because we love you dearest," They stated as they drew closer to Lucy, "And though we leave you now it is of great sorrow to ourselves, we may never once see you again," The Conglomerate's form shifted into a near identical copy of Lucy's own, the only difference was the amount of eyes and mouths everywhere,
"There," They said mimicking Lucy's voice, "This is your preferred form and voice, when we return home we shall keep this form eternally until we again lay eyes upon you dearest," They brought Lucy into a tight hug, "Be safe our darling Lu'Cyne, no... our darling Lucy,"
The Plumbers had arrived to take the wedding crashers away, her double just smiled at her as Lucy stared unsure of what to even feel, the only one not needing shackles nor struggled was Liahm while Mr and Mrs Mann screamed about how unworthy Joel was, how this was a mistake, Begging their Lucy lookalike leader to do something,
But as the ship took off and her double sat down, their mask of joy vanished as it devolved into tears, comforted only by their reflection, and the silent warrior near them who gently patted the monarch's back,
OCTOPUS-THE END-OCTOPUS
(Young Our hero's notes) I liked the idea of Lucy as a character in this show, though when I first saw this episode I thought she was Camille's younger sister(don't ask why I don't remember anymore)
So when alien force aired and I found out about Ben's mission I thought Lucy would be someone he recruited, but we never saw Lucy again until Omniverse(or as it's better known as wasted potential)
Seriously though Omniverse, try harder next time,
But I love the idea of Lucy as a character, and seeing as there aren't many Lucy fanfics i decided to write this, the original ending had her stay on earth for the remainder of the summer, but I couldn't write the other chapters due to lack of inspiration,
I had ideas for a part dragon part human kid being chased by the forever knights, of Ben taking the Omnitrix's faceplate off and using different combinations of aliens, like ditto-chuck, Snare-R8, franken-vine or mutt-vine or franken-mutt, I wasn't sure on that last one but eh what can ya do,
So this became a one shot until I get the drive to make more,
(Current Our hero's thoughts)
Fuck, a lot of this story I felt actually still held up, though a lot of it was still changed anyway due to the new story I had,
So next chapter might not actually need Lizzie as I only made her to be a sort of diet Vilgax for the story, (Incredibly powerful, has a past with Max, spurs the heroes into action, main big bad of the story,)
But also shit has changed, reading Gordon's speech still gives me the warm fuzzies, but he and Betty don't really do anything to warrant getting that redemption in the episode or my original story, thus with the addition of the other Tennyson's I figured Joel and Camille have enough people to support their love even knowing that Camille isn't human, so I booted them, cause in this day and age a wedding is a very stressful place, and if one family is being fucking impossible to deal with, then the only option is to 86 them,
If anyone actually wants to write a similar story I'd actually say that you could make it different by having Gordon and Betty Jeane not supporting the wedding, yet they only keep mouthing off about it to try and catch the Mann family in a lie, realise they're making shit worse and apologise,
Which brings us to our next point, Joel's side of the family never gets seen again, not even in Omniverse better known as, way too into jokes that sometimes don't land, (the Ben can't say Anihalarg bit is fucking annoying,)
But it's still a good, if not great series, It's highs are amazingly high, but it's lows are really low, (But I think that's cause the problem with bad comedy is there's only so many times you can say ''that's not funny'' before you just groan into your chair at the terrible attempt at humour,) again great series love A lot of it, thanks for bringing Lucy back a few times before tossing her into the void, the mutated Kevin stuff was great, Cervantes top tier Ben 10 Villain wanted more with him, (By the by he was supposed to have another minion with... Jetray-girl and trashcan-head who was a Lenopan hybrid, and how dare they not give us that?)
And that's my review of Ben 10 Omniverse, hope you enjoyed my ted talk,
Siltmire Terrene: Silt's pretty easy, I got it and Mire by searching ''Other words for Mud'' Terrene is the basis for the word Terrenus which is the basis for the word Terra, which mean's Earth, (Look I wanted another word for planet but Terrene sounded cool and at the time I've writing this I've stayed up all night to try finishing this, as of writing this it's 08:15 cause I regularly make poor life choices)
It's not that time as of writing this It's two days later at 4:03 pm yet I still stand by Siltmire Terrene sounding cool,
And now it time I reveal something important, my plans for Muddy Princess going forward, 'Ahem' what if Lucy had a bigger role in, Not just Classic, not just UAF, Not just Omniverse, but the entire goddamn series, (Not the reboot though,)
Also what spawned this rewrite was actually me finally finishing Chapter three of this story, but upon re-reading this chapter I couldn't get through it thus I decided to rewrite it,
Special thanks for this series are The Ink Tank's Ben 10 episode breakdowns, and Angry9guy who tried to help me at April 13th last year, was flabbergasted when he realised I actually had a ton planned, dropped asking me, and then was surprised when I sent him the completed chapter three On Jan 7th,
Then was again surprised when on Jan 9th when I told him I wasn't releasing it cause I wanted to change the first chapter, That's Angry9guy, he's writing a crossover from one of his stories and this one/the last one which he has had more chances to read,
Either way, hope you all enjoyed the story, I have a link here, /OurheroFanWriterHaverOfDumbIdeas, if you want to vote on dumb stuff or laugh at my terrible photoshop drop on by,
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