The gang were on the road again, but this time with a new passenger, Kevin. Kevin's car was hooked up to the Rv so he didn't have to drive behind the Rv. Speaking of Kevin, he was currently going through some of the tech Cayde brought with him. Mainly the wrist bands/Brackets."Wait, so these wrist band things protect people from being turned into super powered possessed puppets for some guy named hawkmoth?" Asked Kevin, wanting to make sure he got that right.
Cayde nodded a bit." Yeah. They block out his Kwamis powers and have a few other functions like a distress signal." Said Cayde as he took a bite out of a donut.
Kevin nodded a bit as he leans back." And kwami's are supposed to be these tiny magical god like beings?" Asked Kevin, not really believing this since he doesn't believe in magic.
From the other side of the Rv, Marinette spoke up, having heard this conversation." Yep." Said Marinette as she then goes back to reading her fashion magazine.
Kevin rolled his eyes a bit but didn't say a word about him not believing in magic." Uh huh, sure. Anyway, where we heading next Mrs Redgrave?" Asked Kevin, looking at the driver seat where Lily is.
Lily turned off the radio before answering Kevin."Our next stop is a nice camping spot in a forest park. There's gonna be a some shooting stars tonight and I was us all to watch them." Said Lily with a smile before turning her attention back to the road.
After a bit of Driving, the gang soon enough arrived at a campsite. However , just as they arrived, another Rv arrived at the exact same time." Uh oh, looks we got some competition mom." Joked Cayde a bit as he got up and heads for the door, as does everyone else.
Lily just rolled her eyes with a smile as she parked the Rv and heads out of the Rv with the teens.
Coming out of the other Rv was an old man in a red Hawaiian shirt, a teen girl with a skirt outfit on, and finally a teen boy with a green jacket with the number ten on it. The old man walked up to the group with the two teens." Seems like we both have a good eye for campsites. I'm Max Tennyson, and these two are my grandkids. Gwen and Ben." Said Max, placing a hand on the two teen's shoulders as Max introducing himself and his grandkids to Lily and her group.
"Lily Redgrave, and this is my son Cayde, his Girlfriend Marinette, and their friends Alya and Kevin." Lily introducing everyone to Max and his family, might as well since max did the same thing.
"So, you guys gonna leave or what?" Asked Kevin, being a bit rude and blunt with his question.
This of course earned himself an elbow to the gut courtesy of Alya, and a small glare from her." Kevin, be nice." Said Alya, warning Kevin a bit to not be a jerk.
"Ow! Hey I was just kidding." Said Kevin as he rubs the spot he got elbowed. Kevin wasn't kidding at all.
Ben decided to pull out a coin from his pocket." How about we flip for the spot? Loser leaves." Said Ben, ready to flip the coin.
Max shook his head a bit, not liking that idea one bit, plus Max has a better idea." Why don't we just share the spot? We're all out here to enjoy the shooting stars tonight right?" Said Max, thinking it would better to share than for one group to leave.
"I think I speak for everyone when I say that's a good idea." Said Cayde, trying to repair a bit of the peace and show that they're not all jerks like Kevin.
"Well that's good to hear. We better get things set up before the show starts." Said Max with a smile as he head back into his Rv to go and get some things.
Lily does the same, leaving all the teens by themselves." So, where are you all from? Me and my cousin are from a town called Bellwood." Said Gwen, think it would be interesting to learn about one and other, starting off with where they all came from.
"Oh we're all from Paris, well except Kevin, I have no idea where he's from." Said Marinette, being the one to reply to Gwen's question.
"And I'd like to keep it that way. Cmon Redgrave, let's go help your mom set up camp." Said Kevin, not wanting to be apart of these question sharing.
Cayde nodded a bit and then turns to Marinette and gives her a quick kiss before following Kevin.
Gwen thought that was sweet, but Ben just mentally gagged a bit." I think I'm gonna go and help grandpa set up the grill or whatever he's doing." Said Ben, leaving the girls behind so they can do whatever.
While the teen girls chatted, everyone else managed to get the camp all set up. The grill was all set up as well. But when Max brought out some of the food he planned to cook for everyone, people were reconsidering on eating. Lily saw this looked at Max." Uh Max, no offense or anything but are you really gonna cook that stuff?" Asked Lily, her stomach getting a bit sick from staring at the bugs and the smell of whatever the meat was.
Max just smiled at her as he got ready to place the mystery meat patty's on the grill." Sure do, and don't worry, I got plenty to share with everyone." Said Max, thinking she was worried about not getting a piece.
Lily was not worried at all about that." Before you cool that stuff, could I use your grill to cook some of the food I brought?" Asked Lily, wanting to cook first so Maxs stuff doesn't infect the regular meat she brought.
Max, being the kind old man that he is, nodded a bit." Sure, I don't see the harm in that." Said Max as he grabs his food and moved it onto a table for it to sit.
Chilling near Kevin's car was Cayde, Marinette, Ben and Gwen. Cayde was helping Kevin by handing him the tools he asks for.
Ben and Gwen were relieved when they saw Lily starting to cook, finally some normal food for a change with their grandpa." Dude, your mom is our savior." Said Ben, being serious and a tad funny.
Cayde just chuckled a bit." Yeah, my mom's pretty great." Said Cayde as he hands Kevin a specific sized Wrench.
Coming out of the Redgrave Rv with some marshmallows, crackers, and chocolate bars was Alya." I don't know about all of you, but I have been waiting to eat some S'mores since we got here." Alya said as she sets down all the stuff on a table near the fire pit that has no wood in it.
"Well we're not gonna be able to enjoy them without a fire going, and we can't have a fire without firewood." Said Gwen, in the mood to have some of those yummy gooey treats as well.
Ben saw this as his chance to be on his own for a while. Plus he might find something cool out in the woods." I'll go get some, try to save me a couple of burgers or hotdogs." Said Ben as he walked away and heads into the woods, unaware his world is about to change.
Up in space, on Vilgaxs cloaked ship. The warlord squid had his minions working on repairs of the ships while Psyphon was working on the computers. As the second in command was working on the computer, he suddenly picked something up, it was...a second Omnitrix signal?!" Lord Vilgax! I just picked up a secondary Omnitrix! It would seem this universe has its own Azmuth." Said Psyphon, alerting his master of this potential opportunity.
Vilgax wanted the same Omnitrix he's been trying to get this whole time, but perhaps if he captures this one, not only could Vilgax use it to heal his body, but use it to take the other device." Fire at the vessel and then send out the Titan drones immediately to collect the Omnitrix from the crash!" Ordered Vilgax, wanting what should be rightfully his.
This felt like déjà vu to the pale second in command, but pysphon held his tongue out of fear of his master's infinite wrath." Yes lord Vilgax." He said as he then activated the weapons of the ship and fired at the Vessel.
It hit the unexpected ship, causing it to start crashing down towards earth. The ship fires off two pods, the two going off in different directions as the ship then blows up.
After this happens, drones are fired from the warship, going after one of the pods that just so happen to be heading down towards a certain location.
Back down on earth, Ben managed to gather a bunch of sticks and a couple of big ones as well." This should be enough, man I hope the foods still warm when I get back." Said Ben, his stomach growling a bit at the thought of some burgers and hot dogs.
Just as Ben was about to head on back to the camp, he spotted what he first thought to be a shooting star." Looks like the show's starting already. I better head back quickly." Said Ben, about to book it back to camp, but then the thing he thought was a star, suddenly changed directions and came right at Ben.
This of course freaked out Ben, dropping the wood he's gathered and tried to run away and avoid getting hit. The pod came right for Ben, landing close to him, creating a small crater, barely missing Ben. Once Ben regained himself, he got up and walked over to investigate." What the hell is this? Some kind of space ball?" Asked Ben to himself as he started to walk down towards the metal sphere.
The sphere opened up and revealed to contain a green watch with hour glass symbol on the top of it." Huh, kinda looks like Caydes watch, but round." Said Ben as he slowly reached towards it.
The watch suddenly became gooey and then leaped onto Ben's wrist, harden once properly attached to Ben's wrist." What the hell?!" Ben tried to remove the watch by hand, but it just wouldn't budge, not even a bit.
While attempting to remove the watch, Ben accidentally made it pop up, showing off a hologram of an Alien." Woah, that's unexpected." Said Ben, staring at the image of the alien. Curiosity gets the better of Ben as he started to scroll through the watch.
After scrolling through all ten images, Ben stops on one of them and then decided to push down on the watch, Ben then began to transform. His whole body became fire and magma rocks. The hour glass symbol on his chest. Once the transformation was complete, Ben looked at himself and saw what he had become." Woah! I'm on fire and I'm not dying!" Ben thought this was awesome and a bit nuts at the same time.
/ Ben's Heatblast-AF version
The thought about messing around like this crossed his mind, but then Ben thought it would be better to head back to camp and try to get some help with this whole situation." Maybe that Cayde guy can help me out with this." Said Ben as he started walking back to camp, unaware that with each step, Ben was creating a trail of fire.
It took Ben a minute or two to notice the forest fire he's started." Oh crap." Said Ben, realizing how bad this is. So Ben tries to put out the fires, but his attempts were only making things worse.
The forest fire grew more and more, and Ben was failing at trying to stop it. But not to worry, someone more qualified will step in and save the day.
Back at the campsite, everyone was waiting around for Ben to return with the fire wood so they can get started on the S'mores. Everyone has mostly eaten the food Lily prepared, but left some left overs for Ben." Does your cousin always take forever to come back with firewood?" Asked Kevin, starting to get bored from just sitting around and Waiting for Ben.
Gwen shakes her head a bit." Not usually, but I'm sure he has a good reason for taking this long." Said Gwen, looking up from her book.
Cayde yawned and stretched a bit, feeling a bit tired. But when he yawned, Cayde noticed a bunch of smoke."Uh guys, maybe he's late because of the forest fire." Said Cayde as he quickly gets up from his chair.
This caught everyone's attention immediately. Everyone looked over and saw a whole lotta smoke coming from the forest." Ben!" Max was worried for his grandson's safety. Grandpa max runs to the Rustbucket to find the fire extinguishers, Gwen joins max to help find them faster.
With them gone, Cayde quickly looked over at Kevin." Kevin, we gotta go find Ben and stop this fire." Said Cayde as he ran into the forest, getting ready to transform.
Kevin didn't say a word, but instead just ran over to large rock and then absorbs it, completely covering himself in stone. After that he looked over at trio of ladies." Tell the old man and the girl that Redgrave and I ran in looking for Ben." Said Kevin before booking it after Cayde, leaving the three behind to explain.
Once deep enough in the forest, Cayde pushed down on his Omnitrix and then began to transform. This transformation was humanoid, covered in a red armor, and some barnacles on the armor." Waterhazard!" Shouted waterhazard as he then shoots jets of water out from his hands, dowsing the flames and making a path for him and Kevin.
/Waterhazard- Omniverse version
"Hey Ben! Where are you!" Yelled out Kevin, trying to find him as quick as possible so they can get Ben out and then take care of the fires.
As the two continued to search around, they soon enough spotted Ben, but didn't know it was Ben." A pyronite? What's a pyronite doing on ear-wait, is that what I think it is?" Waterhazard spotted an Omnitrix on the pyronites chest.
Ben spotted the two and recognized Kevin but not the other guy in armor." Kevin! It's me, Ben! I somehow been tur-wait, are you made stone now?" Asked Ben, confirming who he is and asking about Levins look.
Waterhazard wanted to ask some questions about how Ben found an Omnitrix, but questions are gonna have to wait." Ben, it's me Cayde, I know you got some questions like I do, but let's take care of the fire first." Said Waterhazard as he goes back to putting out some of the fire, firing water at it.
"How? All I can do is make more fire." Said Ben as he stared at his hands a bit.
"Ben, you can absorb the flames, it's one of things this form can do." Explained Waterhazard, not looking back at Ben as he continued to dowse the flames.
Ben wasn't very confident in himself, but tried either way. At first it didn't work, but after the second try, Ben was successful and started to observe the flames.
While the two dealt with the fire, Kevin thought about running back to the camp to tell the others that everything is being taken cared of, but lucky and unlucky for him and Cayde, everyone came running over." Oh dame it." Muttered Kevin, looks like there's gonna have to be a whole lot of questions after this is over.
Max and Gwen were shocked and Confused by what they were seeing, they then looked at Lily and the others who all smiled a bit." Look, We'll explain everything later, but for the time being, that's Kevin and Cayde, but we have no idea who the other guy is." Said Marinette as she used her extinguisher.
Once the fires were eventually dealt with and the forest saved, Ben turned around to face everyone." It's me, Ben." Said Ben, shocking everyone who hadn't know it was Ben.
"Ben?! How did this happen?" Asked Max, confused by what happened to his grandson.
Waterhazard walked over to the group." Let's head to camp first, we don't wanna be here when people start to show up." Said Waterhazard, leading everyone back to the campsite.
Once there, everyone sat around on benches, except for Kevin, Lily, alya, and Ben.Ben had to sit on a rock to not burn anything, Kevin was working on his car, Lily and Alya were in the Rv looking for a telescope for the shooting stars later.
Once mostly everyone was Comfortable, Waterhazard tapped his Omnitrix, turning back into Cayde." What I have is called the Omnitrix, it allows me to become all sorts of creatures from this and other universes. Ben here has an Omnitrix now as well, but his is different from mine a bit." Cayde said to the group, Showing his Omnitrix to them as he walked over to Ben.
"Wait, why is mine different from yours?" Asked Ben, staring at his Omnitrix on his chest.
Cayde doesn't answer Ben at first but instead taps Ben's Omnitrix, turning Ben back to being his human self." My guess is because yours came from this universe and was most likely made by one Azmuth, mine came from a different one and was put together by a couple of Azmuths." Cayde explained his theory to Ben as he walked over to a bench and sat down.
After that, Cayde then began to explain mostly everything. Cayde explained the function of the Omnitrix, one of the reasons behind it, the creator, and then a bit about Vilgax. But when Cayde mentioned Vilgax, Max stiffens a bit and it did not go unnoticed by Cayde, but he didn't say a word about it." And that should be it, so Any questions?" Asked Cayde, getting up from the bench.
"Can you remove Ben's Omnitrix?" Asked Max, wanting to know if that's a possibility. Max doesn't want Ben to be in harms way and that watch is a beacon for harm.
Cayde could remove it probably, but he wasn't gonna." Sorry max, I don't know how. I myself am still learning everything about my Omnitrix." Said Cayde, casually lying to the old man because max is hiding something.
Max sighs a bit at this, seems like this wasn't the news he wanted to hear, But it was the news Ben wanted to hear." Cool, does this mean you're gonna train me how to use my Omnitrix?" Asked Ben with an eager smile, hoping Cayde says yes.
Cayde of course nodded a bit." Sure, but not right now, first some S'mores." Said Cayde with a small grin as he walked over to some trees and started to collect some sticks and large sticks for the fire pit since Ben didn't.
Max thought about arguing with Cayde about this decision to train Ben, but it's better than letting Ben keep his Omnitrix and be untrained." I'm heading to bed." Said Max, tired after the day he's had.
While Max went to Bed, everyone kinda just sat around, doing their own thing. Marinette went over to Cayde,who was putting some wood in the fire pit." Hey Cayde, why did you lie to max?" Marinette whispered to Cayde, wanting to know why her boyfriend did that.
"Max is hiding something, I can feel it. Plus the moment I mentioned squid faces name, he reacted slightly." Cayde whispered back as he then pulled out a light and then used it to light the fire.
This was a bit surprising to hear." Really? I never would have guessed. But what do you think he's hiding and why?" Asked Marinette, curious to hear if Cayde has a theory about what might max be hiding.
Once the fire was lit, Cayde looked back At Marinette." I'm not entirely sure cause there's no way he should know about Vilgax cause squid face came from a different universe and he doesn't exist in this one." Said Cayde, trying to piece it together but is unable to.
Marinette hugs her boyfriend tightly." Well I'm sure whatever it is, it won't put anyone in harm's way." Said Mari before pecking Cayde on the cheek before heading over to a bench to sit down on.
After Marinette left Caydes side, Ben walked over." So, now can we start on my training?" Asked Ben with a small grin, didn't even wait for Cayde to make a single S'more before asking.
This of course caused Cayde to sigh a bit." You're gonna keep asking till I say yes, aren't you ?" Asked Cayde as he looked at Ben with a bit of an annoyed look.
Ben just smiled and nodded a bit, which made Cayde groan slightly." Alright fine! Let's do some training. First , let me see your Omnitrix." Said Cayde, doing the bring it over hand motion.
"What are you gonna do? Unlock some transformations for me?" Asked Ben, wondering what Cayde is planning to do.
Obviously Cayde didn't plan on unlocking any new aliens for Ben anytime soon." Nope, I'm just seeing what I'm working with here." Said Cayde as he grabs the watch and scrolled through the ten transformations that Ben has.
After going through all ten, Cayde scrolled all the way to a specific transformation and then lets go of Ben's Omnitrix." Okay, let's start off with this one. You won't be able to start any fires with this one thankfully." Said Cayde as he then scrolled through his own Omnitrix, selecting a transformation.
Ben stares at the transformation Cayde selected for him and slams down on the watch, transforming into Fourarms, well a slightly smaller and slightly thinner version of Caydes version of Fourarms, plus Ben's had a strange gold outfit." Whoa! I got four arms, this is freaky but cool." Said Ben as he stared down at himself a bit.
/ Ben's Fourarms-AF version
Cayde smiled slightly at this." You know, that's the name of that transformation, well when I turn into a tetramand. You can use the same names I use for my transformations if you want." Said Cayde as he pushed down on his Omnitrix and began to transform.
This transformation was tall, reptile but also aquatic like, wore Hawaiian shorts with a Hawaiian shirt, and was mostly blue. The omnitrix on his center chest." Preyas!" Shouted Preyas as he struck a Dramatic pose.
/Aquas Preyas-Bakugan
Ben, or now Fourarms thought that was cool." You shout your forms name when you transform? That's cool! I'm gonna start to doing that as well!" Said Fourarms, can't wait to try that.
Preyas grins a bit." Oh yeah, it's one of the best parts of the shapeshifting gig in my opinion. We can go more into the flair and presence stuff later. But for now my pupil, it's time to pour some experience into that head of yours." Said Preyas, squatting a bit and pats Fourarms on the back.
Fourarms noticed the slightly changed personality with his mentor, but he figures that some forms might have a change in personality.
Before the two could head off, Max came out of the Rustbucket." We got some trouble. A couple of giant robots have been spotted and they're terrorizing some folks down near the ranger station." Said Max, alerting mostly everyone.
Kevin didn't stop working on his car, everyone else can handle some robots without him.
"Well people do say that learning on the job is quicker, come on Ben, it's hero time!" Said Preyas with a grin as he started to run off, heading towards the sound of people screaming and big explosions.
Fourarms quickly followed after Preyas, leaving everyone else behind at the campsite. Marinette thought about joining them, but then thought about that Cayde might wanna do this with just Ben as a teaching moment. Plus it's just some titan drones so it should be nothing new." Stay safe Cayde..." Marinette said as she watched the two shapeshifters book it before heading into the Rv to help Lily and Alya find the telescope.
It didn't take long for the two shapeshifters to arrive, when they got there they saw about three Titan drones." Woah, they're uh bigger than I thought." Said Fourarms, staring up at the three robots that were destroying everything in their path.
Preyas laughed a bit as the Drones soon enough spotted Him and Fourarms." It's alright, this is when the party starts! I'll take the two on the right and you can take the other one." Said Preyas as he then runs right at one of the Titan drones.
Fourarms just copies what Preyas does and runs right at his Titan drone. The drones all fired at the two, trying to destroy them.
Preyas dodged the fire with ease, making it to one of the drones. Fourarms on the other hands, got hit and sent back a bit, forcing Fourarms on the defensive for a bit.
Preyas saw this and gave a thumbs up." You're doing great man! But maybe try fighting back?!" Suggested Preyas as he dodged the fist of a Titan drone that was trying to squish him.
After dodging the fist, Preyas grins and then goes invisible." Now you see me, now you don't!" After going invisible, Preyas quickly climbed up onto the head of one of the titans. Once there, Preyas turns visible again and then waved at the second titan." Hey bolt brain! Over here! Bet you can't hit me!" Said Preyas, taunting the titan to strike him.
The titan, stupidly try's to attack Preyas, but ends up punching the head off of its fellow Titan drone, Preyas easily leaping from it before the fist even connected to the other's head.
Now with one down, only two remained. The other one that was busy with Fourarms, fell to the ground. The reason why was because Fourarms had managed to go back on the attack and attack one of the legs." Woah, I am seriously strong!" Said Fourarms with a grin.
The Titan tried to get up, but before it could, Fourarms quickly rushed over and grabbed its arm, pulling on it till he tore it right off." No you don't." Said Fourarms as he walked towards the head.
As Fourarms did this, the second last Titan drone spotted him and decided to switch targets. It aimed its hand at Fourarms, about to fire.
Preyas saw this and decided to change form. Preyas taps his Omnitrix and began to transform. This transformation was almost completely black except for the bit of white on it. It had a single blue eye, two antenna things with plugs on the end of them, the same with its tail." Feedback!"
/ Feedback-Omniverse, current version
The drone fired at Fourarms just as he grabbed onto the downed drones head to try and tear it off.
Feedback got in front of the beam and then pointed his antennas at the beam, absorbing it with ease." I think you lost something bolt brains, now how about I return it to you!" Said Feedback with grin as he used the energy from the attack he just absorbed and fired it right back at the Titan drones head, destroying it.
Just as Feedback destroyed his last drone, Fourarms tore the head off his drone and then crushed it. Now with all drones taken cared of, people came out from their hiding spots and cheered for two hero's who saved them all. Fourarms smiled and waved at the people." I can get used to this." Said Fourarms, loving the cheers and applause.
Feedback rolled his eye a bit at this with a small smile." Let's get going, the others will wanna know what we did, plus the shooting stars should be happening any moment now." Said Feedback as he then started to walk away, going in the direction of the campsite.
Fourarms jogged after him, returning to the camp site with him. Once far enough and away from all the people, Feedback taps his Omnitrix, turning back into Cayde.
Fourarms saw this and did the same, surprisingly it worked and he turned back into Ben." Sweet, first try!" Said Ben, happy he's learning some tricks quickly.
When the two made it back to the campsite, they saw that almost everyone was set up to watch the stars. They all had chairs and they were just sitting around." There you boys are, how did it go?" Asked Lily with a smile as she dowses the fire before sitting back down.
Cayde and Ben walk over to the group, Cayde sits in the empty chair next to Marinette while Ben sits between his Grandpa and Gwen." It went alright, Ben here did okay, but still has a long way to mastering his Omnitrix." Said Cayde as he holds Marinettes hand, who gladly does the same to her boo.
After a minute or two goes by, the shooting star show began and everyone watched it. Turns out they didn't need a telescope to watch the shooting star show. Everyone was enjoying this, even Kevin who finally stopped working on his car for now.
Everyone was enjoying this, but, meanwhile on Vilgax ship. The warlord was furious as he was shown the footage of the battle with the two shapeshifters and three of his Titan drones." Now the secondary Omnitrix is in the clutches of those humans! I have underestimated this human for to long! Pysphon!" Vilgax called out to his cowardly second in command.
Pysphone flinched a bit as he walked up to his masters tank." Y-Yes my lord?" Asked Pysphon, wanting to know what his master wishes from him.
"Move ten percent focus of the ships repairs onto my restoration, at once! I will have to go down there and retrieve the Omnitrix myself!" Said Vilgax. If you want something done right, then do it yourself…
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Hope you readers enjoy this chapter. I was 50/50 on bringing in Ben, but decided to bring him in for a bit cause why not lol.