Ben 10 Ultimate Hero EP 1: Along came 10.
Attention everyone! In addition to Magical Alien Summer and a Spy's Life Reboot being revamped with Grammarly and having a few changes, my Ultimate Summer, now called Ultimate Hero story is getting the same treatment as well, including some classic episodes, in addition to the Reboot timeline!
Also, 4 alien designs are from Insane-Mane on DeviantArt's version of a reboot called "Ben 10: Hero Time!" I do not own those designs at all, they solely belong to Insane-Mane. Some modifications are made to them, so they will not be completely copied and stand out from his versions.
Here are the alien designs.
Four Arms: Insane-Mane's "Ben 10: Hero Time!" design, but he will have some elements from his canon design, and his voice actor will be the reboot.
Heatblast: Omniverse design and voice actor.
XLR8: Insane-Mane's "Ben 10: Hero Time!" design, but has a longer white collar, longer suit legs, and no tail spike. His voice actor will be the reboot one.
Diamondhead: Insane-Mane's "Ben 10: Hero Time!" design but no inverted pants and the dial badge is on the white belt like a buckle with a black line around it and the watch symbol. His voice actor will be the reboot one.
Cannonbolt: Omniverse 11-year-old design and voice actor.
Upgrade: Insane-Mane's "Ben 10: Hero Time!" design, but white instead of sliver clothing and Omniverse voice actor with robotic filter.
Grey Matter: Omniverse 11-year-old design and voice actor. But with different clothes that are like 16-year-old Grey Matter's clothes.
Water Hazard: I will do a unique take on Water Hazard, inspired by CyberEman2099's version of him and Greninja from Pokemon while combing a few elements from his UAF design so I won't be copying him, and he will have his Omniverse voice actor.
Wildvine: 11-year-old Omniverse design and voice actor.
Big Chill: Omniverse design and voice actor, but with a slimmer body and some clothing as well.
On to the story! I don't own anything, except my OCs. The cover art is made by me while the image of Ben's design is made by Jupago25 on Deviantart. Enjoy!
Intro:
A green glowing, steel pod was flying through space, hurtling towards Earth as it crashed, making a huge green flash.
The camera zooms out from the glowing symbol on the Ultimatrix as Ben looks up close at it.
He then activates it while smirking at the camera, raising his hand high and slapping it down on the core.
The background turns all green as Ben morphs into Four Arms, who pumps his upper fists while cracking his lower ones with a smirk.
A white number appears on the left side, starting at 1.
"Ben 10!"
2: Heatblast ignites 2 fireballs in his hands.
"Ben 10!"
3: XLR8 zooms to the right.
4: Diamondhead swaps his right arm across as it turns into a blade.
"Ben 10!"
5: Cannonbolt uncurls and poses.
"Ben 10!"
"Ben 10!"
6: Upgrade stretches out of his puddle form.
7: Grey Matter hops off the 7 and lands into a crouch, giving a thumbs up and a smile.
"Ben 10!"
8: Water Hazard slides in on his water blasts and raises his fists.
"Ben 10!"
9: Wildvine extends his legs and stretches out his right fingers while holding seeds in his left one, chucking them offscreen.
10: Big Chill phases through the number and floats briefly before zooming near the camera.
"Ben 10!"
Big Chill's head turns back into Ben's as it rotates.
The camera zooms out to reveal Max and Gwen by his side.
Ben gave a low-five to his grandfather as Gwen crossed her arms and shook her head playfully with a smile.
The 2 then ran off-screen, making Ben run toward the camera with a determined look.
He then froze as his aliens appeared in heroic poses on each of the kids' sides, 5 on each side. Just as the title appears on a black background with green rays appearing from the title.
Our story begins as dusk has fallen in a large forest, All is quiet and the only sounds are owls hooting, crickets chirping as the stars fill the night skies. Just as a small rabbit hop across the dirt road, it is startled by some headlights heading its way it quickly hops away, just as a camper RV pass by the critter. It is huge, blue and white with a red line in the between, and has 6 off-road tires. A white dish on top with multiple headlights. It has a towing hook on the metallic bumper. It finally has a Green UFO symbol with some rust on the bottom of it.
The RV kept driving until it stopped at a clearing, parked as the side door opened and a set of stairs extended. An elder, overweight man steps down and gazes around. The man looks to be about 58 years old and has brown eyes and grey and white hair and is wearing a black shirt with a red Hawaiian shirt with orange clovers on top and has a brown cargo vest on top of it all with a watch on his right wrist and a red and white trucker cap on his head. He is also wearing white pants with brown boots.
The man took a big sniff and sighs out. "Smell that fresh air! Look at this amazing sunset! We sure picked a great place to start our trip, kids!" He glances back at a 10-year-old girl, who comes out and down the steps as well. She has green eyes and red hair that goes down to her upper back, some of it is tied into a spikey high ponytail so the hair shortens to her lower neck as she has a small blue headband to keep her bangs out. She has white snowflake earrings. She is wearing a light blue/dark blue short-sleeved shirt that has a black cat head on it. She is also wearing a wolf charm bracelet on her left wrist and has blue jean shorts that stop above her knees and blue and white running shoes with short white socks.
"Wow! It's beautiful!" Gwendolyn "Gwen" Tennyson breathes out as she gazes around in awe, only to get a bit of an annoyed look as another person steps out of the RV, all while playing on his phone. The person is a 10-year-old boy that looks somewhat like the girl. He has green eyes, brown shaggy hair with a cowlick on top of his hair, and is 2 inches shorter than the girl.
The boy is wearing a green shirt with a black stripe that goes down the center and sleeves to black rings on his sleeve ends and neck. The stripes have a white outline and has a white '10' in a small black circle on his left chest. He has green cargo shorts and is wearing black shoes with white laces, toe tips, bottoms and has a green line on both sides that goes across and then down at the heel and white socks with black stripes. He is wearing a green, emerald necklace.
"If only someone can look up to see it, right, Ben?" Benjamin "Ben" Tennyson responds to his twin cousin. "Yeah, sure! Whatever. Swipe left... Fireball! Fireball!" But just then, Max grabs the phone as the boy exclaims. "Hey!" "Ben, this summer is about seeing the world and exploring the country. Not playing your games, all the time. Now, Gwen, help me set up the tents. Ben, how about you go get us some firewood? We'll need a campfire if we want to make S'mores." "Okay, Grandpa!" Gwen replies as she goes and helps her grandfather and Ben sighs out. "Fine..."
The young boy is walking through the woods as he is carrying some sticks under his arm as it is almost nighttime. "Man! I can't believe this! Here I am, lucky enough to get off school a week before Summer Vacation started, thanks to Grandpa, but instead of having fun, I'm lugging around a bunch of sticks through some forest and I'm going to be stuck with my cousin for the next 3 months!" Ben complains about being stuck with Gwen for the rest of the trip. Although the 2 do get along with each other somewhat, there has been some rivalry and arguments, now and then, ever since they have been sharing the same birthday.
"How my mom and dad convinced Aunt Lily and Uncle Frank to let Gwen come along is beyond me!" Ben sighs as he mumbles out. "Could things get any worse?" But just then, the boy hears a faint boom from above he gazes up and is shocked to see a green glowing meteor crashing nearby the kid drops his firewood in surprise and awe. "WHOA! What was that? Grandpa Max won't mind if I go check it out."
Rushing as fast as his legs can carry, Ben follows the smoke from the impact as he speeds through the woods. He came across the crater, sliding down to the rock as it cooled, only to find some sort of steel sphere that looked like an armadillo when curled up. "What is this? A pod of some sort?" The sphere then opens as a green glow comes from the insides. The boy stares in awe and his eyes adjust to the glow, he sees it is some sort of glove.
It looks like half of a gauntlet that goes up to one's wrist with a band that can go around the hand. It has 4 black squares on the end. It is colored green with 4 white tubes connected to a silver dial with a green hourglass on a black background as the dial has 4 small, green buttons on it. Below the dial is a single black and green button. "It... looks kind of like a glove watch? But what is a watch doing in space, at all?"
As Ben stares at it, he can't help but reach out to it with his left hand, just to touch it, only for it to spring to life and attach to the outstretched limb. The device fastened itself on the boy's hand with the black squares on the wrist, making the boy scream! "AAHHHHHHH!" He starts shaking and pulling it off, but to his dismay, it would not budge! "Get off me! Let go!" He stumbles down and gets out of the crater, running as fast as he can! "Grandpa! Help!"
After running for a bit, Ben tried to get the watch off his hand, but it was like it was attached to his skin! He tried pulling, banging a rock, prying it off with a stick, and even chewing it, but it did nothing as he groaned and looked at the device. "Great! How am I supposed to get this...?"
As Ben starts fiddling with it, he accidentally pushes the bottom button, making the dial pop up with a beep as he looks around and back at it, as the hourglass changes into a diamond shape. In it is a bulky, humanoid icon with 2 spikes sticking out of his back and a pointed head. "Whoa... Cool..." But as Ben touches it with his finger, he notices it can be pushed back in as he does that, only for his eyes to winded in shock as the device starts glowing green and starts spreading crystals from it as it travels up his arm as he screams in terror! "AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" FLASH
"Ohh..." Ben groans as he feels weird and dizzy, stumbling a bit as he tries to righten himself. "That felt... Weird. Wait! What's with my voice?" But as he looks at his hands, he is shocked to find them all bigger, blocky, and made of crystals and have 4 fingers instead of 5 as he panics. "What the?! What's happened to me?!" He looked at his reflection in a nearby pond and saw that he was not human anymore!
He is now a tall and strong-built humanoid that is a silicon-based lifeform that is made of highly durable pale green crystals. He has a crest on the back of his head and his jaw is big and pointed and looks a bit like a mouth guard, although his mouth is visible when he is talking as he sports 2 large sharp crystal shards on his back with 2 smaller ones above and below the larger shards. He now wears a sleeveless jumpsuit. The uniform has a white collar with a black line around it. He also has a white belt with a black line and knee pads, along with white on his boot bottoms. His top part consists of black on the left side and green on the right. His bottom part has the same colors on the same sides. He lastly has the symbol for the watch on his white belt like a buckle as it is in a black circle patch.
"Whoa! This is freaky! I turned into some sort of crystal guy or something! How did this even happen?" But as he examines himself, he then hears a noise. "What was that?" He looks back and is surprised to see some strange robots floating down towards him. "Uhh...? Hi?" But he cries out in surprise as they fire lasers as he ducks. "Hey! What's the deal? I didn't do anything to you guys! Gah!"
But he kept dodging and running from the beams as the robots kept attacking him, not bothering to listen to him. He quickly blocks one laser with his arms, only to be surprised to see it bouncing off and into the air as he notices. 'Wha?" As he examines his body, he sees more beams bouncing off as he realizes that his crystal skin makes him indestructible! "Sweet!" He grins out.
He then decides enough is enough. "All right! Time to send these pests to the junkyard!" He charges as the lasers keep bouncing off him and tries to punch them, only for them to fly away as Ben growls, pointing a finger at them. "Hey! Get down here and fight like a-"
Only to be surprised as his arm morphs into a bunch of spikes and fires the crystals like darts, nailing a few as they crash down into the ground and break apart. As Ben is surprised, he glances at his arm as his other one changes into a sharp blade, making him realize he can morph his arms into weapons. "Cool!" As a couple tries tackling him, Ben pulls back and swings his blade arm, slicing them in half. But as he raised his arms to block the laser, the beams just bounced off his arms and reflected on one robot, blowing up. Ben looked at his arms as they shined a bit.
Getting an idea, he runs forward and stops, calling out as he points at himself. "Come on, you oversized toasters! Give it your best shot!" In response to the taunt, the reaming robots all aim and fire their lasers as Ben holds out his hands and catches them, grunting as he absorbs the beams. "Let's see how like getting zapped, you techno-freaks!" Using his hands, he redirects the beams back and obliterates the robots, leaving nothing but small pieces of burning junk and scrap all around as Ben notices he has won! "AWESOME!"
Back at the campsite, Gwen and Max had just set up the campsite as they waited for Ben. "What's taking Ben, so long? I'm getting hungry!" "Yeah... He's been gone for a while. Maybe we should go check on him?" The elder suggested, only to hear some bushes rustle as they whipped their heads in the direction it came from. "Who's there?!" Max demands as Gwen asks. "Ben? Is that you?" "Grandpa! Gwen! You 2 are never going to believe what happened out there!" But the 2 humans were confused at the voice. "Ben? What's with your voice?" Gwen asked.
Ben, still in his crystal man form, emerges with a smile. "Yeah! It's me! Anyway, I was-" "AHHHHHH!" Ben is surprised at Gwen's scream as she hides behind Max, who glares at him as he protects the girl. "Monster!" "What did you do with my grandson?! Answer me!" "What?! No! No! No! Guys, it's me, Ben!" Ben waves his hands in response with a worried expression. "Likely story!" Max scoffs out as Ben pleas to the 2. "Really! I'm telling you, guys! I am Ben and I can prove it!"
The elder and his granddaughter look at each other and frown at the being with crossed arms. "Prove it." In response to Max's statement, Ben spoke out. "Last Christmas, you got Gwen a bunch of ugly clothes and she said she loved them, but what she did was sell them to buy a new anime DVD." "What?!" Max cries out in shock as Gwen gets a worried look at being busted, smiling sheepishly at her upset grandfather as he glances down at her. "You said they were nice, and you gave them to a charity drive! You lied to me, young lady?!" "Well, maybe a little? Besides, I'm sure someone else is enjoying them! And the only one who knows about it is..."
Gwen stops as she realizes who the crystal being is! "Ben?! Is that you!? What happened?!" "Told you guys it was me!" "How did you become this?" Max asked Ben, who then explained everything to the 2 that happened in the woods: From finding the strange metal pod that crashed, to encountering the strange alien device now fused to his hand and turned him into a crystal guy, to encountering and battling with the strange robots. "And after I won, I went to come and find you guys!" "Well, that's quite a story, kiddo..." Max spoke to his grandson as Gwen asked the elder. "Is my cousin going to stay a monster forever, Grandpa?" "He's not a monster. He's an alien."
Both kids look at him in confusion as the elder gestures to Ben. "Look at him! What else could he be?" "I don't want to be crystal guy for the rest of my life! I mean, the powers are awesome, but how am I going to ride my bike if it breaks from my weight? Or even get in the Rust Bucket without my back spikes getting stuck in the doorway?" "Don't worry, sport. We'll figure something out." The elder calms his transformed grandson down.
Just then, the dial on his belt starts beeping and blinking between green and red, just to make a huge flash of red light that blinds the other 2, only for it to die down to reveal Ben, back to his human self as he looks at himself in glee. "I'm myself again!" "Looks like you were on some sort of time limit. And here I thought you were going to be a walking chandelier for the rest of your life." Gwen comments. Ben tries to pull the device off, only to find it's still stuck. "Still won't come off."
He then twists the dial by mistake, only to find the diamond guy icon again. As Ben notices and twists the dial, the icon is replaced with a new one. "Another one?" He kept rotating and counting the icons until he was back to the crystal guy. "Looks like I can turn into 10 different alien guys, judging from the looks of things." "What do you think, Grandpa?" The elder put some thought into what Gwen said and smiled as he gave his answers. "With that device as powerful as that watch stuck on your arm with no way to get it off and seeing you managed to stop those robots from possibly hurting anyone that could be hiking through those woods, I say, we better help you learn, and fast!"
Ben gasps out in glee as he realizes that he can become a real superhero! Like the ones he saw in comics and the movies! "All right!" Just then, a radio transmission can be heard in the Rust Bucket as the family goes as Max clears it up. "Mayday, mayday! Can anyone hear this?! We're under attack by some sort of, this is going to sound crazy but giant robot! We need help, ASAP!" "Sounds just like the robots I told you, guys, about! The ones that attacked me before! Must be looking for the watch. I got to help those people!" Ben exclaims as he dashed down the steps. His cousin cries out and stops him. "You? How are you going to stop them, Ben?" Ben glances at the glove and smirks.
The Tennysons stop in a clearing as the device beeps. Ben got a nod from his grandfather, pushing the button as the dial popped up. "Yeah!" He starts dialing, passing the crystal guy. "Eenie." A humanoid that looks like he is wearing a cloak. "Meenie." A velociraptor with wheels on its feet. "Miney.' He stops on an icon that looks like it has a flame for a head and oversized hands. "Here goes!" Ben grins as he slaps down on the device. FLASH
The device starts emitting energy and hot, red rocks start growing out of it and forming the kid's arm as it spreads to the rest of his body. he shuts his eyes as fire dances around his head and his skull changes into rock. His feet and hands morph as he throws his arms out and poses.
"So, what can this alien do?" Gwen asks as Ben is now a tall plasma-based, humanoid alien that has a body made entirely out of super-hot plasma that was covered by dark red/black rocks and has a rock-like faceplate with a flaming head, slightly tilted shoulder pads, large oversized hands/forearms, a muscular built, the watch symbol planted on his chest, his feet have a slight oval-like design with only two toes and one back toe, and his whole body was radiating with extreme heat.
"I don't know," Ben spoke as he looked at his hand, only to be surprised and smile as it generated a small fireball. "But I think I got an idea of what he can do and it's going to be pretty awesome!" The family kept running and spotted a giant, 3-legged, humanoid robot with mantis-like eyes and 2 human-like arms with sharps claws that also had laser cannons in its palms, it kept blasting cars as the people screamed as they ran away as fast as they could. "Looks like the boss bot. I'll get the scrap heap's attention! You guys get the campers to safety!" Max nods at his transformed grandson and makes Gwen follow him as they run off as Ben charges at the robot.
As the robot grabs a park ranger, Ben cries out. "Leave him alone! Try picking on me for size!" The robot notices the fire alien and scans it, noticing the badge on his chest. The machine drops the man and fires at Ben, knocking him into a car as it blows into pieces. Ben then punches his way out of the wreckage and notices a flame coming out of his hand and decides to point at the robot, firing a stream of flames that pushes the robot back. "Smoking!" Ben grins out as he starts flinging fireball after fireball at the robot as he dodges the lasers and claws.
But just then, after Heatblast notices and tackles a couple away from a laser blast and makes sure they run toward safety, only for the robot grabs Ben! "Uh, oh!" The machine then lifts the alien and tries to pull off one of his arms. But Ben focuses his power and flames up, blowing up both hands from the intense heat as he falls and rolls on the ground, glancing back to see the robot glance at the smoking remains of its hands. Ben then narrows his eye sockets. "Time to wrap this up!" He charges at the robot as Max and Gwen watch in worriment. "Ben!" Max spoke out in concern as the machine noticed and tried to crush Ben with one of its legs, but the alien hero leaped on it and jumped off it, climbing up its chest to its head and leaping up high as some people watched.
The fiery alien then conjures up and holds up a huge fireball above his head as he cries out. "GUESS WHAT, TECHNO-FREAK?! YOU'RE FIRED!" He throws the massive flame meteor down on the robot, blasting through the head and crashing into the center of it and the massive machine explodes into millions of burnt and twisted scrap parts. Ben lands, posing with a grin. "ALL RIGHT!" Max and Gwen cry out in joy. "WHY TO GO B-" They stop as they notice the other campers looking at them. Max quickly corrects himself. "U... HEATBLAST GUY!" "AW, YEAH! WHO'S BAD!?" The newly named Heatblast grins as he stomps and shoots some flames above in victory, only to notice Gwen and Max shaking and facepalming as they gesture to the people. "Well... My work here is done!" The alien hero said as he quickly took off to the woods as his family sneaked away. "Who was that guy?" One man asks as he gets shrugs from the others as an answer.
The next morning, Gwen and Max were packing up for the road as the elder Ben was not around. "Where's Ben?" "Beats me! I haven't seen him since breakfast." Gwen replies, only for the both of them to hear a sonic boom as they something speeding toward them. Only for it to slide to a stop as the dust settles down. "Ben?" Max asks as his grandson answers, now a different alien! "Yep! And just call me, XLR8, Grandpa!"
Ben is now a blue-skinned semi-armored Velociraptor alien that has a nimble yet well-built body. He is wearing a black with a white-collar bone and turtleneck, sleeveless bodysuit that has green shoulder pads with white lines on the end, just like the white leg helms. The suit has a black chest area to which the symbol is as well as a small, V-shaped black line on the stomach area of the large green stripe on the front of the suit. He also has a long whip-like tail that has 4 black stripes and 3 blue ones on it that end at a long black tip. He has black wristbands and has 3 black claws in a scissor-like fashion. He has 2 sharp toes with the roller ball between them and a 3rd toe sticking out of his heel and raised.
"Hey! Check this out!" Closing his black and green visor, he speeds around, packing up everything into the RV in a mere second! "Pretty fast, huh?" Just then, the badge blinks red as it changes Ben back. "This is going to be the best summer ever!" The boy grins as Max nods out. "Yep! It sure will be!" "Things are going to be way more interesting." Gwen points out. The Tennyons then went into the RV as Gwen asked. "So, where did you run off to?" "I just had to take care of something before the road trip started." "You ran back to Bellwood and hung your bullies by their underwear in a tree, did you?" Gwen gets a sly smirk with half-lidded eyes as the answer, and she responds with a small smile. "Of course." Ben chuckles out as the RV hits the road as the Tennysons are off on their summer road trip! One that they will never forget!