Rise Of G-Morph And The Amazing Spider-Man by Amit Barabi: Here is a summary for those who read this story on their phone's browser:

Eunice chooses Gwen Stacy to become the successor of the Hero Of Heroes, Ben Tennyson. Please read and enjoy her origin as the heroine, G-Morph, and her ever-growing adventure with her arachnoid boyfriend, Spider-Man. The story is mainly based on the movies of The Amazing Spider-Man and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it also has some original ideas. Peter and Gwen are pairing. I was inspired by The Incredible Muffin's My Alien Academia and Ben 10: Unlimited. This story was originally titled "Wristed Heroes". This is the first story of my big planned series, Amit's Cinematic Universe, or ACU for short.

Ben 10 does not belong to me. Spider-Man and the rest of Marvel do not belong to me. Ben 10 belongs to Cartoon Network and was made by Man Of Action and both Spider-Man and Marvel belong to Disney and were made by Stan Lee.

Welcome to chapter 7 of "Rise Of G-Morph And The Amazing Spider-Man". I can't believe I have made it this far along with everything else that is going on with my life. Back when this story was called "Wristed Heroes", I did not plan for it to have more than 20k words by the time Peter met the Lizard for the first time, but as I went on and improved the story, I can see how much progress I have made as a writer.

You guys can help me publish chapters more frequently by supporting me on P-atreon. I currently work many hours every day, but by giving me a secondary source of income, you can help me hire people to help me with this story and make it grow even further. All of my supporters get a shout-out by the end of the chapters I publish after their subscription.

Before we start, there is an announcement that I need to make (feel free to skip it. It is pretty long): If you have read Heroes And Elements and noticed that it is gone, it is because I did not like that story and hate that some people like it more than "G-Morph and TASM". I had a plan for Heroes And Elements that involved Ben acting like a big brother figure to Aang and as an acting leader to Team Avatar, but I lost the drive to continue that story a long time ago and it is annoying to see people telling me how much they shipped Ben and Azula for no reason when I had no desire to redeem Azula other than making her slightly more relatable. Maybe I will revive that story in the future, but it won't happen any time soon.

With all of that being said, I did learn from my mistakes thanks to that story, and I know that this is why the Amit Cinematic Universe is better now. Heck, back when this story was called "Wristed Heroes" (Thank you, Incredible Muffin, for telling me that it was a bad name), I was not going to let Gwen use the Omnitrix more than 4 times before the final battle against the Lizard, but as I tried to fix as many grammar errors in the first 3 chapters (thanks to that reviewer from "Heroes And Elements" for telling me that my grammar needed some work), I have realized that I should not limit myself that way, and now, after rewriting those 3 chapters, I can let Gwen have an actual arc with the Omnitrix and explore what it is like for her to turn into an alien, accepting the burden of a hero, dealing with it, and learning other stuff that I will not spoil here.

So, in conclusion, "Heroes And Elements" was a bad story, but it was a necessary stepping stone for me to make "Rise Of G-Morph And The Amazing Spider-Man" a story that I can be proud of. Speaking of pride, I just looked, and chapter 2 is the longest so far in this story, which means a lot to me, considering that it was originally only 2,000 words long when I initially published my story.

End of the announcement.

If you want to make your own version of "Heroes and Elements", please let me know in advance so I can help.

So, where were we last time?

Oh, yeah. Peter fought the mysterious man who goes by "Alien V" and lost without landing a single hit. In contrast, Gwen fought the evil Citrakayah (Fasttrack's species) assassin Ratz Maher and barely won only to face Alien V.

Fun fact: Did you know that Ratz Maher is Hebrew for running fast? I thought it would fit an alien who runs fast.

Now, without further ado, let's start this chapter.


Chapter 7: Recovery.

Multiverse-M, Earth-616, New York

'What happened?' Peter asked himself. He remembered kissing Gwen, daring too much, watching her leave, hearing an oddly quiet gunshot, and then... he could not recall what had happened then.

The next thing he knew, he was outside, laying on a familiar sidewalk with a massive headache and a tremendous burning pain in his chest as his throat and all of his limbs felt incredibly numb and had fading pressure wounds all around them. When Peter looked down, he saw an extended cut on his shirt and chest. He was not bleeding, nor did the gush feel deep, but it looked burned.

He tried to concentrate but could not fill the gap in his memory, no matter how hard he tried. How did he make it out here, and what had just hurt him? Looking at his watch, Peter realized that his memory gap was about twelve minutes long. But what happened during that time, and why could he not remember?

Come to think about it, even though Peter had no solid memories of what had happened during those missing 12 minutes, he had a strange and unexplainable desire to reach out to things from a distance and improve his mobility.

He has heard about this symptom of amnesia before; people can lose the visual memory of an experience, but they would still learn from said experience subconsciously. An example of this would be if you solved a puzzle multiple times and forgot about it every time, and even though you would think that every time was your first, you would get better and solve it faster every time. That kind of memory loss could happen if your hippocampus were damaged or removed. Said part of the brain is responsible for accepting and coding new visual memories, but not for the skills that one could develop from the experiences that make the visual.

The teen checked for scars on his head and sighed in relief when he could not find any.

'Whoever did this to me, they must have surprised me from close range and drugged me with something to mess with my hippocampus, and that is why I wish to develop ways to reach farther away,' Peter thought as he walked near a close alleyway, 'Maybe I should work on those web shooters that thought abo-'

His train of thought got cut off as Gwen bumped into him and caused them both to fall back.

The two teens looked at each other with mirrored emotions. Gwen looked shocked, and if the ruined makeup over her face and her ripped jacket and shirt were anything to go by, she was assaulted by someone and tried to flee. Peter, on the other hand, looked as if he had just woken up from one nightmare to another when he saw his girlfriend in front of him, and if the giant gush on his chest was any indication, he must have had a run with Alien V mere moments before the evil mastermind killed his cat-looking alien goon.

Peter got up first and helped Gwen up to her feet, "Are you okay, Gwen?!" Peter asked, barely capable of hiding the hysteric tone of his voice, "What happened?"

Still terrified by nearly timing out during her battle against Ratz Maher and being incapable of protecting herself when the assassin's boss, Alien V, had her at his mercy and declared his wish to destroy her, only to be spared for no apparent reason, and now finding her new boyfriend with a gush on his chest, Gwen hugged Peter's side without any vocal reply.

She tried her best not to touch his nasty burned injury but still heard him wincing in pain, 'What on Earth happened to him?!' Gwen thought in horror, 'Did Alien V do it to him? Did it happen because of me?' It had to be the case. This neighborhood was practically empty of any of its residences, and Alien V came from that general direction. Her Boyfriend got her, and it was because of the target on her wrist.

"I will walk you home," Peter said through the slowly fading pain as they walked away from the nightmary alleyway. He tried to act normal for her sake even though he was in pain, "Do you need me to call your parents?"

Gwen shook her head. Normally, she would have jumped on the opportunity to tell her father what had happened and hope that he could bring the scum who attacked her to justice, but Ratz Maher alone was too dangerous, and Alien V was probably even worse, and even if the police were not outgunned and could arrest the latter, and her father believed her and accepted her having the Omnitrix and the responsibilities and burdens that come with it, she could not risk him dealing with someone like those monsters.

Ever since she was two years old, Gwen watched every morning as her father left home for work with his badge, gun, and vest, and she was never certain if he would make it back home by the end of the day, and if she involved him in what just happened to her and her boyfriend, she knew for sure that he would go to a war that would kill him. There would be no way around it. She will have to keep it to herself.

Ever since the Omnitrix attached itself to her wrist and bonded with her DNA, she had debated with herself about whether or not to tell anyone about her situation, but now, there was no way around the end of the debate; she would have to keep everything about the Omnitrix a secret and deal with Alien V herself once he or his enforcers come back for another attempt to take her watch. However, that was not the end of the decision, because even if she didn't tell her parents, that still left one person who is already involved and probably deserves to know.

She wished she could ask Eunice about it, but she had to decide whether to tell him before making it home, and Peter could start asking questions at any moment.

Almost as if it was on cue, Peter noticed her doubts and fear and rubbed her shoulder, "Are you sure you don't want to tell your parents what happened to you?" Peter asked, trying to make her feel comfortable, "Whoever hurt you, you might need to go to a hospital. You could have rusty cuts or-"

"I'm fine!" Gwen declared with tears in her eyes. She was no longer hurt physically, but she knew that the assault would leave a mental scar for a long time. It is not that Peter did not have a point from his limited perspective, but she was physically unharmed thanks to Diamondhead's regeneration.

Seeing that his girlfriend was not going to open up, and fearing for her doing something that she could regret later, Peter spoke, "I have a memory gap."

"W-Wh-What?" Gwen looked up into Peter's brown eyes before taking a better look at the injury on his chest. It was evident that Alien V did it, but that only raised more questions in her mind. Most of them involved the capabilities of both Peter and Alien V, but others focused on the latter's motivation and choices of actions.

"I remember having a... feeling... that you were in danger," Peter explained as they kept walking. Since he did not bring his jacket with him, he had to place his arm over his chest in an uncomfortable position to hide his slowly healing injury from people that he and Gwen came across while using the other arm to hug Gwen's back from behind and covering the damage to her outfit's shoulder, "But I blacked out when I tried to figure out what happened and woke up more or less twelve minutes later on the street with this. I am glad that you are not injured, but I know that something happened to you out there, and I can't let it go when I know I could have done something to help you. After everything that happened with my parents and hearing about Doctor Connors's son, I don't want to lose you too or watch you making a terrible decision."

Gwen was silent for a moment. She thought that maybe she could push him away to keep him safe, but he had already faced Alien V and slowed him down enough for her to beat Ratz Maher, and he was not going to give up even if it meant going through it again. He deserved to know the whole story, or at least, what she knew.

"You have done more than enough out there, Peter." Gwen wiped the tears from her eyes, "I think you stopped the other guy from helping the one who attacked me. They didn't hurt me..." She looked at his injured chest again, "But you... You have got hurt for me... Are you sure you are okay?"

Peter already felt the cut closing ever-so-slowly, but still felt the pain, "I will be fine. It is not as bad as it looks. Trust me, you don't need to worry about me more than I do you."

"You are sweet." Gwen gave him another soft hug, but this time she succeeded in not touching the damaged tissue.

It was at this moment that the Omnitrix's faceplate turned green with a beep and Eunice appeared in front of the young couple.

"What did I miss?! Where is the Citrakayah?!" Eunice shouted in alarm, but Gwen ignored her. The holographic woman looked at them and realized what might have happened, "Oh... I will leave you two alone for now, but I will catch up with you later." She said politely before disappearing, but she did not drop her curiosity about what had happened.


"AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Ratz Maher screamed as his crystal-encased body crashed through the portal onto the vaguely familiar rocky ground. It must have been his boss's intention for him to crash at this angle, otherwise, the dumpster he was encased to would have crushed him.

The Null Void was an infinite space of dark-purple mist filled with multiple organ-looking asteroids that made any criminal fear for their lives. There was next to no order in that part of the Void and you could get killed by anyone at any moment. However, it was still better than the Red Zone, where there was nowhere to hide and there were fewer resources, or the Armageddon System, where the very nature of the Void's environment could kill you if you had no shelter.

When Ratz Maher realized that he was back in this dreadful place, he wished Alien V merely killed him after his failure. He was one of those who considered the Null Void worse than dying, and seeing that he was still encased to a smelly dumpster inside a crystal cacoon made his situation even more threatening since he could not run away from upcoming danger or defend himself.

"You Had One Job! I told you to wait and avoid any public commotion!" Alien V shouted as he appeared in front of his failed employee, "Consider yourself lucky that I kidnapped the target's boss's son to keep her in that neighborhood and evacuated all of the civilians from the area to keep your mess out of the attention of the local authorities!"

"I-I-I-" Ratz Maher tried to explain himself, "T-Th-There w-was no other choice! P-p-pl-please! I won't fail you again! I promise!"

Alien V pulled the pen-looking device from his belt and pressed the button, turning the small device into a spear with a winged-shaped blade on the end that had a glowing red aura around it.

That was an Elite Force Osmosian Spear; a weapon that could copy the property of any material it or its current Osmosian owner had ever touched. According to some stories that Ratz had heard, this weapon could be sharp enough to cut even through a block of Taydenite without replicating its properties first. Said stories also claimed that this kind of spear could only be fully utilized by either the most powerful Osmosians or hyper-intelligent life forms, and at least one of those requirements applied to Alien V.

"I believe you..." The spearman said as he aimed the blade of his weapon at his former employee's face and was about to execute him.

"Wait! I know something that you don't!" Ratz Maher shouted, pleading for his life.

The statement was intriguing enough to make Alien V delay the execution, but not enough to retract his Osmosian Spear to its pen-looking form, "Go on..."

"The girl has some fighting experience and a master! She knows some form of a stance that allows her to dodge and kick in one motion! She will not fall as easily as you promised!"

"It is called dancing, you idiot." Alien V said in a threatening voice, "Do you have anything else of value? What master does she have?"

"Y-yes! Yes, she's got help!" Ratz replied, "I don't know how, but the Omnimaster's secretory, Unitrix, is helping her somehow. I think she has a hideout somewhere and she contacted the girl via the Omnitrix. She had probably told her how to beat me! One moment I had the edge of the battle and the next, she talked to someone and knew how to defeat me. It must have been Unitrix!"

Alien V thought about this statement for a moment, but then, he raised his Osmosian Spear with an evil smirk and aimed it at Ratz's heart, "You have proven yourself more valuable than I initially thought, Citrakayah, but your service is no longer required."

"I can still serve you! I can still-"

Ratz Maher wanted to further plead for his life, but Alien V gave him no chance, "Knowing about Unitrix is not the only thing you have learned, isn't it?" The villain asked as he turned off his voice modifier, took off his mask, and put his hood down, "You knew who I was long before you saw the target!" Catching no surprise in the humanoid cat's eyes, Alien V continued, "I can't let you expose me. Thanks for your service."

Alien V raised his Osmosian Spear overhead and spun it continually. The motion turned the red aura around the blade into a red vortex of energy that got the attention of all of the Null Guardians in the area before he struck his target with a fluid motion.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Ratz Maher cried as blood sprayed all over the nearby rocks.

Alien V cleaned the blade of his Osmosian Spear before retracting it to its pen-looking form and placing it back in his belt. He then picked up the Omni-jammer from the rocky floor, drew his personal gun-looking Null Void projector, and traveled back to Gwen's universe, on top of a nearby building, where he watched Gwen and Peter parting next to her apartment's building.

"These two better get ready and stay close," Alien V whispered as he thought about the next part of his plan coming to motion and smirked, "You know what they say: keep your friends close, and keep your enemies even closer."

However, before he could attempt to get closer, a yellow spark started to form on the ground in front of his feet. Alien V put his mask and hood back on as the spark started to spin around him and form a circle of orange and golden runes that turned into a half sphere of light.

The next thing he knew, he was inside a building that he would later know as New York's Sanctum Sanctorum where a bald woman in golden robes stood in front of him.

"It took me some time to sense your presence, but I have finally found you. You are invading my universe," The woman said as she formed in her hand a fan made out of energy similar to the one that fueled the portal, "Tell me what your intentions are, and no one will have to get hurt."

"Is that so? Well, you know what they say," Alien V looked entertained as he drew out both his sword and his spear before entering a fighting stance, "Don't make promises that you can't keep."


A few minutes earlier.

Peter and Gwen continued walking toward Gwen's place as the two teenagers felt a mutual urge to open up about their secrets.

"Listen, Peter, there is something I need to..."

"Gwen, I wanna tell you something..."

There was a short and awkward silence, but Gwen broke it, "Oh... Okay."

It took Peter a moment, and during that moment, his expression had changed several times in a manner that made his internal conflict and his hesitation as clear as day to his blonde girlfriend, but then he spoke, "I have been bitten."

"Excuse me," Peter did not get to continue as an extremely old man with receding grey hair and a matching grey mustache approached the couple. He wore a green sweater, brown pants, and a pair of big, rounded, and transparent sunglasses, "I am the new janitor of Midtown Science, but I forgot where it is. Can you tell me in which direction to go?"

Both teens exchanged looks before pointing at where they came from. Their school was remarkably close to Peter's neighborhood. It was kind of weird that none of them saw anyone there after their encounter in Peter's room.

"Thanks, you two," The old man said with a genuine smile, "You two just became my favorite."

'What a nice guy,' Peter thought while looking back at the smiling old man, 'I hope many people are going to love and respect him.'

Unlike Peter, Gwen focused far more on what her boyfriend tried to say a moment ago, "I have been bitten." 'Bitten by what? By a dog? A cat? A snake? A spider? Does it have anything to do with his mutation? It must be a spider. Alien V referred to Peter as my arachnoid boyfriend.'

She would have pressed on to learn more about her boyfriend's recent experiences and then told him about hers, but ever since they left Peter's neighborhood, the streets looked more and more populated, and she did not wish to talk about these subjects with unwanted audiences. It was a shame that a big majority of these random people showed up after that nice old man approached them, and the closer they got to her address, the smaller the chance of them opening up got.

When they finally arrived at the building, Gwen spoke, "There is a lot I need to tell you and listen to, but I think it can wait until after I explain to my family why I am not at work and what happened to my jacket. Are you okay with that?"

Peter nodded, "Yes, I can live with that. Just give me a call or talk to me at school tomorrow."

"Are you sure you can go to school tomorrow?" Gwen asked with worry in her voice, "That beating from Flash yesterday is nothing next to what Alie- all those injuries you've got."

Gwen's slip of a tongue did not go unnoticed by Peter, but instead of pushing on, he decided to give Gwen her space. She had already promised to tell him everything by tomorrow, and the last thing he wanted was to scare her away from her promise. He wanted to kiss her to make her feel better, but after what happened in his bedroom, he chose to hug her instead in case she did not feel comfortable kissing him in public yet. The gush in his chest already looked better when Peter looked down, but there was a small chance that it would leave a scar.

...

Going past the doorman was not a big deal for Gwen, but once she entered the elevator, she released a breath that she did not know she held and allowed herself to express the remaining frustration she felt from her battle with Ratz Maher and her encounter with Alien V. Being with Peter after these two events had helped her significantly, but the emotional baggage was still there.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Eunice asked from inside the Omnitrix before appearing next to Gwen. She knew far too well what Gwen could be going through.

"No."

"Do you think it would be a smart idea to keep it in?" Eunice pressed.

"No," Gwen replied, "How do you deal with stuff like this?"

"For starters, you don't let your trauma define who you are," Eunice supplied, "Otherwise, you can carry it with you for too many years and turn yourself into a tutorial hologram as a desperate attempt to redeem yourself."

It earned a smile from Gwen, so Eunice continued, "We both know that you won your first battle and with just a little bit more training, I am sure you can push back any threat that may come for the Omnitrix until none would come from my universe for you. You are already trained enough with Greymatter, Upgrade, Amphibian, Stinkfly, and Diamondhead, so that only leaves you with Wildmutt, XLR8, Ripjaws, Fourarms, and Heatblast. Once you master all of your aliens, I can teach you how to switch between them without turning back into yourself first, and then we can start working on Omni-Combos. If that can't push them back, then Ben would solve this problem for both of us by then. Ben is the only one who can counter Omni-Combos."

Gwen looked at Eunice questionably, "How do you know I can learn how to use all of these forms before Alien V tries to attack me again or send another assassin from your universe? What if the next time he attacks me I am around people and can't use the watch? What if he tries to kill me in my sleep? How can I beat that monster when I see him again?!"

"Wait!" Eunice finally realized something, "You say that you met whoever sent that Citrakayah?"

The elevator reached its destination before the two blondes could continue their conversation.

Realizing that there was no way for her to sneak into her room and change out of her torn outfit without being noticed by anyone from her family who could be at home, Gwen decided to take this opportunity to improve her performance as one of her aliens to sneak into her room.

She entered the dark and unoccupied stairs room and activated the Omnitrix. She pressed the two opposing buttons and watched the holographic ring appearing in front of her and spinning to her mental command until it stopped on the alien she wanted to turn into. The hologram turned green, and Gwen pressed down the squared core with a bright flash of green light.

A Blue substance engulfed her flesh and merged with it while her bones and organs disappeared and turned her into a pile of blue jelly before she grew two green eyes, four tentacles for arms, and two tentacles for legs, and the rounded Omnitrix dial grew on the center of what would have been her chest.

When the light faded, Gwen was replaced by the familiar form of Amphibian, and despite having two of her six tentacles acting as legs, she floated rather than stood.

"Alright, Gwen," The jellyfish-looking alien mumbled to herself. It was a wonder that she could speak without a mouth, and her voice sounded like she articulated underwater, "Don't be too attached to one alien. You are now Amphibian, so think Amphibian."

She breathed slowly, placed the "palm" of one of her four upper tentacles on the nearest light switch, and concentrated on her intended move. She felt the electricity flowing through the walls, light balls, and switches in the room. She had tried to practice this move several times before, but since she was too obsessed with Greymatter and Upgrade, the Data Dub was tempered. It prevented her from connecting appropriately to her form's innate instincts, but during her battle against Ratz Maher, she had learned how to let go of her obsession with those two aliens, and now she could feel it. She could visualize and execute the move as if she had watched others doing it her whole life and just waited for her turn.

Her body had brightened and became gradually more translucent with the tiniest bolts of lightning passing through her as she became intangible and phased through the switch as living electricity. She moved through the wired system, turning on and off some lights on her way. Still, she eventually found herself in her bedroom, where she materialized and turned back to human via mental command seven minutes before reaching her time limit.

It turned out to be the right call when she sensed her brother's neurons moments before turning back into Gwen, and there was no way she could hide her minor battle damage from her brother had she walked to her room the normal way. The youngest member of the Stacy family's great attention to detail could rival their father at times, and unlike the Captain, Howard was at home far more often.

Shortly after throwing away her torn jacket and shirt and cleaning up, Gwen locked herself in her room and turned into Greymatter. The Omnitrix was still on her left wrist in that form, but unlike in her human form, it was rounded like a small disk, and as she examined it in past transformations, she had learned that the Omnitrix had a dial of some sort.

Gwen had initially turned into her Galvan form to continue their previous discussion with the necessary intelligence boost that could help her better analyze her recent experience, but now as she thought about it, Alien V had studied her, and probably knew about the Omnitrix more than she did, so she tried to study her device while speaking with Eunice. Maybe she could figure out some of the features that she was not familiar with.

"I need you to tell me what happened after you timed out," Eunice said while standing in front of Greymatter with her arms crossed under her busty chest. Greymatter sat on her bed while twisting the dial of the Omnitrix left and right and touching the rounded screen whenever she saw something that grabbed her attention. Most people would consider the action disrespectful and think that Greymatter did not pay attention to her instructor, but as the daughter of Azmuth, Eunice knew that Galvans had two brains inside their tiny skulls, and therefore, they were highly capable of efficiently multitasking.

She had adapted quickly to the concept of letting herself be the alien. The Omnitrix may have chosen her by default as the first worthy person it came across, but her intelligence, adaptability, and skills made Eunice trust the watch with this girl even more than before. It almost made her wish that she came here 7 years ago to prove a point. It sure would have been interesting to watch Gwen's development over time with the proper instructions that Ben lacked when he started.

"Let's get back to the topic," Eunice said with a small smile as she thought about Gwen's dedication and adaptability to the crazy changes in her life, "You said earlier that after you ran out of time, the guy who hired Ratz Maher appeared."

"He did," Greymatter confirmed. She did not take her eyes off the Omnitrix dial as she kept inspecting it, "He used some coin-looking technology to create invisible stairs to walk down the roof, sucket Ratz Maher into a to a scary place, and then he said that I can neither run nor hide from him and that I should be afraid."

"It sounds familiar from somewhere, but I can't pin it down," Eunice said quietly. She may have a good memory by human standards, but she is not as good as Ben when it comes to memorizing moments in small detail like her favorite hero, "But there is something that I don't get. You were timed out and weary from your battle against Ratz Maher. Why didn't he attack you at your weakest state?"

"He said something about security against direct attacks set by Ben Tennyson, but I don't see anything in the failsafe list that could prevent him from at least trying something, they are all enabled, and I know that he trusted Ratz Maher to capture me for him, so maybe there is a factor that prevents him specifically from attacking me," Greymatter said confusingly before looking up at Eunice with slight enlightenment, "Maybe we are looking at it the wrong way. It is possible for him to have a certain weakness that I don't know of. Do you know of any criminal who goes by 'Alien V'?"

"No," Eunice shook her head, "It must be an alias of some sort. Do you remember any details about him that could help me narrow down his identity?"

"Other than being as terrifying as a nightmare?"

"I know that it was scary," Eunice kneeled down to be at eye level with Greymatter. It felt like what happened at school before the incident with the false accusation of Peter taking pictures of Gwen, but reversed, "But I need you to describe what he looked like so I could find a match."

"He had glowing red eyes. That was the only part of his body I could see," Greymatter recalled, "Oh, and he wore black, and his voice was modified to sound scarier. Does it narrow things down?"

"Yes, but not by much."

'What does that suppose to mean?' Greymatter thought to herself before her eyes went wide upon realizing what Eunice's statement implied.

"WHAT?!" Greymatter shouted. It was a wonder that her brother did not hear her squicky voice, "How many criminals in your universe have glowing red eyes?! Is it a requirement for bad guys or something?"

Eunice sighed, "I thought the same thing when Sunder tried to kidnap me when I first met Ben. You would be surprised how easy it is to believe that red eyes and evil go hand in hand, but it is not always the case. We are losing track here. Is there anything else to describe Alien V? Powers? Weapons? Anything?"

Greymatter was about to shake her head, but then she remembered two items that she saw Alien V using. Unfortunately, that information did not help much either.

It turned out that those coin-looking devices are an advanced version of a common Plumber gear from the time Ben was 15, and Null Void projectors are about as common for Plumbers as rifles are for police officers. It means that whoever Alien V is, he must have stolen this common gear from a Plumber. Greymatter argued that Alien V could be a Plumber, and due to some recent information leaks among the Plumbers, Eunice could see why the transformed teenager would think that, but there was one hole in this theory: Multiversal travel was rare among the Plumbers and only highly ranked members whom Ben trusts could use it without great levels of bureaucracy. It was far more possible for a crimelord with many connections to steal this technology and set everything, and if that is the case, it means that Alien V can't bring any more bad guys from Eunice's universe without being noticed.

After the Omniverse War, the Plumbers formed an alliance with the Chronians, Chronosapiens, and Celestialsapiens to reduce unauthorized multiversal travel and time travel, but if one could use an authorized travel to mask their unauthorized one, there could be a breach that only a Celestialsapien could notice, and even then, they may not stop the invaders if they considered them harmless. However, the Plumbers would have to be notified within a week.

Sighing in relief, Greymatter turned back into Gwen Stacy and sat more comfortably on the bed.

"So, if he can't bring more people to hunt me, it means that I only have to worry about him coming directly after me when bypassing that security that he had mentioned," Gwen tried to wrap her head around the situation in the most rational manner she could muster, "And he only has a few days to do it, right?"

"It seems so," Eunice comforted Gwen before sitting next to her on the bed, "And even if he already has some extra goons here, which I find unlikely, or if he has the resources to hire people from this world, you are not going to fight them alone. Peter had already proven himself willing to help you if you decide to tell him, and I am here too, and until Ben comes here to take me back home, I am going to help you with everything you can't handle alone. I am here for you Gwen, and until Ben says otherwise, I am not going anywhere."

"Thanks, Eunice," Gwen smiled, "You are a good friend, and I am glad you are here. Do you really think that I and the people around me are going to be safe once I unlock those Omni-Combos?"

"No doubt," Eunice replied, "With your intelligence and my guidance, you may not even need those, but I still can't wait to see you perform your first Omni-Combo."

The Daughter of Azmuth tried to hug Gwen but almost fell off the bed when she phased right through her.


The next day finally arrived, and Peter went back to school.

His wounds had already fully healed, but since it was winter, he could easily cover them if they left any scars. He did not feel at ease with the source of his injuries coming from close range despite his strength, so before going to bed, Peter started working on something that would make it easier for him to overpower people with hidden small overheated knives. It would suck that with all of his power, his greatest weakness was a small knife. At least, he assumed that that is what happened to him when he fell from that roof, but it did not explain what the other person who went after Gwen did on that roof. His memory was still blurry, but with Gwen's input, he could get a vague picture of what had happened to him yesterday.

Peter and Gwen did not have any mutually scheduled classes or breaks, so they could not find a moment to speak about yesterday. Making up for his day off was barely an inconvenience, and even the makeup test was relatively easy to get an A, but that was not the most challenging part of that day.

When Peter entered the men's room, he was surprised to meet Flash there.

"Yo, Parker," Flash said after making sure they had no audience, "You got a minute?"

"What do you want?" Peter asked before sighing in annoyance.

"I know that I am not why you didn't come to school yesterday," Flash replied, "So tell your girlfriend to stop blaming me."

"Why?" Peter glared at his former friend, "Can't you study without Gwen telling you what to do?"

Flash smiled victoriously, "I knew it! You two are together!" He laughed for a moment, "So much for people thinking I'm stupid."

Peter rolled his eyes, "Fine, you figured it out. What do you want?"

"What I want, is for you to stop giving me a reason to punch you," All humor disappeared from the bully's tone and expression, "Why couldn't you just take the picture?"

"And be like you?" Peter asked with venom in his voice, "I am not going to bully kids just because I can."

"Oh, so this is what I get for trying to make us friends again?" Flash asked in disbelief, "And then people see me as the bad guy."

"Is this what you call being a friend?!" Peter shouted back, "I don't know how your twisted brain works, but I will never be your friend after everything you have done! And if you can't handle your life on your own, then you deserve everything it throws at you!"

Peter left the men's room before Flash could reply and shut the wooden door so hard that a few small cracks appeared all over it.


After failing to talk with Gwen about yesterday, both during and after school, Peter returned home with one stop on his way. It turned out that Connors's son's kidnapping earned her yesterday as a day off, but the doctor's superiors did not allow him and his intern off the hook for today. There is no way it was legal, but after his discovery two days ago, Peter could not say that he was surprised. The thing that managed to surprise him was that Gwen did not say that she was going to drive to work, but rather, "run to work". Between that strange watch she started wearing and the people who attacked them yesterday and erased his memories, there were many secrets under the surface when it came to his girlfriend, and he hoped to get some answers today. It was not like he wanted to keep his secret from her either, as strange as it is for a paranoid guy like him, but something told him that Gwen was not going to betray him once he opened up to her.

Upon Karen's upgrade, Peter did not have to worry about maintaining his AI Server. It allowed him to use the full capacity of his personal AI to solve potential problems such as finding casual ways to reduce his aunt and uncle's expenses and help them organize their time better.

However, Karen's most recent purpose was to help Peter design and analyze the requirements for his newest project. When Peter arrived at Stark's weapon factory, he was glad most of the old computers were back in great shape. It allowed him to gather all of the components he required for the new device. He only wished his backpack was larger. If it fails, he would probably have to come back for more stuff.

After searching for what he wanted there was no way home, Peter finally returned home, ate the meat lobe his uncle secretly refused to touch, and rushed to his room to build the prototype for his two new projects. The first was a pair of web shooters and the second was the key to his plan to get justice for his parents.


Author's Notes:

When I only started working on this chapter, I planned that Peter's injuries be fully healed by the time he woke up and met Gwen, but that would not make sense with everything else that I planned for the rest of this arc. It forced me to rewrite the first scene several times and work on the first chapter of Ben's Old Records.

I hope you are not going to miss Ratz Maher because this is the last time you will ever see him. And while I don't own Ben 10, Ratz Maher is my original character, so I own him until Disney will try to take him from me in their evil quest to take over the world.

I am sure you all know where the scene with Peter and Flash is leading, and I have to say that whoever designed that basket is an idiot. I am not sure if I mentioned it before, but one of the biggest issues that I had with The Amazing Spider-Man is that the plot seemed to take place over 8 to 10 days, and I want to stretch it a little by giving the characters some down time that can help me explore their lives.

As for how the Null Void works, I like how it worked both in the Original Series and Ultimate Alien Force and I wanted to find a way to make them coexist in a way, and the best I could think of is that there are different zones in the Null Void that work differently and have their respective benefits and horrors. I hope it is a solution that you can all agree with.


Before I start this flashback I only have three notes:

1. I plan to write separate stories for Arrow and The Flash in this continuity, but I don't know when I will start working on them. What I do know is that they will be published exclusively on my P-atreon. I won't charge much for it, but if I am going to write a story that is not about an Omnitrix user, I will charge people for that.

2. Some of you spammed my review section with long reviews about a story called Dial that had nothing to do with my narrative. Unless you want to compare my tale to another, do not bring up other stories in your review. You will confuse other readers by misleading them into wrong impressions about my anecdote. Rest assured, I have erased those spam reviews, and I hope none of you is going to repeat that unacceptable action.

3. Please check out My Alien Academia by The Incredible Muffin. He just finished his version of Crisis on Infinite Earths, and I love it.

I don't own Ben 10 or the Arrowverse.

With that being said, let's read the chapter.


Ben's Old Records: Part 2.

"That is not good..." Barry mumbled as he approached the security monitor to look at Ben. He partially blocked the view unintentionally, "How is he here?"

"Barry, Do you know that kid?" Cisco Ramon asked as he stood next to Barry, "Should I call security?"

Francisco Baracus Ramon, better known as Cisco, was the mechanical engineer of S.T.A.R Labs. He came from a Puerto Rican family and provided much-needed comic relief around his stiff workplace. Cisco is also a founding member of Team Flash. He was also friends with Harrison Wells before learning his true identity as Eobard Thawne, though Eobard looked at Cisco as a surrogate son before and after his reveal.

Cisco had shoulder-length black hair and tan skin. He wore a red shirt under a black jacket and wore black pants.

Barry turned to Cisco, "No, he is not a bad guy. I was just about to tell you guys that I-"

"Wait, where did he go?" Caitlin asked While pushing Barry and Cisco aside to get a better look at the monitor. The two men turned back to the monitor and saw the lack of their new visitor, "Did he run away?"

Caitlin Snow was the bio-engineer of S.T.A.R Labs. She worked there during the particle accelerator disaster and tended to Barry Allen during his coma with Cisco Ramon until he woke up. After he began his crusade as The Flash, Caitlin became his teammate with Cisco and Doctor "Harrison Wells" before discovering the latter's true identity as Eobard Thawne and providing medical support for the team.

She had curly brown hair almost twice as long as Cisco's and wore a knee-length, blue sleeveless dress.

"No, I am right here," The three members of Team Flash turned around to see a transparent figure in a blue cloak phasing up the floor and floating less than 10 meters in front of them, "Sorry for being so rude, but I am not supposed to be here, and I recall Barry mentioning that you need to open a portal. It means our goals go hand in hand."

Both Caitlin and Cisco looked at Big Chill with wide eyes full of shock as the lowering temperature in the room brought literal chills down their spines as soon as his ghostly voice and appearance brought figural ones.

Before they could react, Big Chill turned fully visible and placed his alien feet on the floor, "You must be Caitlin Snow and Cisco Ramon," Big Chill looked at the scientists respectively, "Barry told me about you two, but I'm sure you have some questions."

"W-Who are you?" Caitlin asked first. Her voice shaking, "What are you?"

"How do you know Barry?" Cisco asked before turning to Barry, "Is he on Oliver's team? We only learned about Jay two weeks ago. When did you even meet him?"

Ignoring the curiosity about whoever Oliver is, Big Chill was surprised this interaction did not start with Barry's team trying to attack or restrain him, but come to think about it, Barry was the only fighter in this team, and the Flash knew that he was not a threat... by choice. It sure would make things easier. It would probably be preferable to show his cards before this static interaction could worsen.

Big Chill warned the two scientists to cover their eyes, gave the Omnitrix a mental command, and transformed into Ben Tennyson.

After catching up with Barry, introducing himself to Caitlin and Cisco, and repeating the process in an abridged manner when Harry Wells entered the room, Ben decided to stay at S.T.A.R Labs and help two of the three scientists find a way to bridge Earth-1 and Earth-2 while Barry went home. Ben showed them his usefulness in the matter transforming into Brainstorm and got to know them better between sessions while the Omnitrix recharged. Harry Wells did not stick around due to his search for his missing daughter, but Ben noticed that the Earth-2 scientist eyed him oddly.

During that time, Ben learned that other than work, these people did not have much of a social life outside of one another. It was understandable to the teen. After all, ever since Kevin promised to help him and Gwen save the world... their world, he could count on one hand the times he socialized with anyone other than Gwen, Kevin, or Julie. After giving Ben the full context of the Zoom situation, or at least, whatever they knew, Ben understood why Caitlin was so ruined by the reveal of Zoom's identity, but he also suspected that Caitlin had romantic feelings toward Barry when she told him about the time they sang together at a Karaoke night and that Cisco wanted to study the Omnitrix after seeing Brainstorm and Big Chill.

Ben had to admit that he could see why Barry valued these two so much. They were practically Barry's family, and that was before Ben even met Barry's real adopting family. The speedster only said good stuff about his family, but his sister Iris sounded needy and effortlessly more annoying than Ben was before he found the Omnitrix 5 years ago.

Ben noticed that the Omnitrix flashed yellow when Cisco touched it, but when he looked through his available aliens, he could not find a new one. He asked Cisco and Caitlin if they had any mutation, and to confirm his suspicion, Cisco was a meta-human like Barry, but with different powers. He wondered if letting Barry touch the watch would activate the DNA Capture Mode and if a glitch prevented him from getting new forms from this world's meta-humans, but the latter would have to wait until he finds a way home and a way to contact Azmuth.

As for now, Ben asked Cisco about his powers, and after getting familiar with them, Ben face-palmed.

"Are you serious?" Ben asked in annoyance, "We were trying to find ways to safely open a portal through the dimensional barrier for hours, and you could just open one by yourself. Are you kidding me?"

Before Cisco could reply, Barry returned.

"Hey, guys. How is it going?" Barry asked.

"Oh, I'll tell you how it is going," Ben growled, "We spent hours looking for safe ways to open a damn portal to Earth-2 without you burning your new Tachyon Device's battery, and only after suggesting launch a nuclear warhead at a city's prime electric grid for 40% chance, Cisco revealed that he can see through dimensions, fire blasts that can stop a speedster, and most importantly for this mission, open portals!"

"Oh, you learned about that..." Barry mumbled, "I was just about to suggest-"

"Don't give me that crap!" Ben pointed at Barry, "You knew for months, and you never even thought about utilizing this option!"

"Leave us alone, okay, kid?" Cisco tried to calm Ben down and judging by Ben's glare, it barely worked, "I knew of that option ever since I met the other me from Earth-2, but I didn't try to master these powers because I... I did not want to become like him."

Ben stared at the mechanical engineer briefly and sighed, "Does this power affect the user's mind?"

"I think so," Cisco replied, "I literally see through other dimensions when I use it, and the only other person with that power was a serial killer and a madman. I don't want to risk it and become him."

It was an understandable struggle. While some of Ben's aliens influenced his mind at times, he always had great control over his behavior. He always thought that if someone shoots you, you have to blame the shooter rather than the gun, but in Cisco's case, his power could lead to his downfall if it messed with his morals.

"I understand," Ben said more calmly, "But if we want to save the people on Zoom's Earth, we have to risk it. If you feel any aggression after we deal with Zoom, then don't use that power again. Sorry for yelling earlier. None of my aliens ever turned me evil, and Barry seems fine, so I assumed that it would apply to you, too."

"Before we do that, we need to know as much as we can about your powers," Barry added, "We need to talk to Wells."

...

Barry, Ben, Cisco, and Caitlin found Harry modifying Barry's Tachyon Device in one of the labs.

"Hey, dude," Ben approached Wells first. The older trio noticed that he looked a lot calmer. Ben would have to figure out later why Team Flash makes him so angry at times, "We have some questions."

"Oh, it's you," Harry barely turned. It kind of reminded Ben of Azmuth, "Forgive me if I don't show interest in speaking with another brunette self-proclaimed hero who is stuck on this Earth."

"Oh, it's okay," Ben said sarcastically, "They can ask the questions."

Barry spoke before Wells could protest, "Tell me everything that you know about Cisco's doppelganger."

"Reverb?" Wells did not sound very interested, but since he paused his work and turned around briefly, Ben guessed that Wells's tone was an act. It was probably a coping mechanism like the one Ben used before his grandfather disappeared.

"What were Reverb's powers on your Earth?" Barry clarified.

"Well," Wells returned to his work, "According to my research through meta-human assessment and monitoring, Reverb could tap into the multi-dimensional energies between universes."

He gave them a look that would be perfect for a reaction to cluelessness before continuing, "He could see through dimensions and find the breaches between them like Ramon."

"We knew that part already," Ben said with his arms crossed, "We came to you because we needed to know if he went bananas because of his powers."

"No, I don't think so," Harry replied, "He was 'bananas' before he got his powers. Why do you ask?"

"The point is that if Cisco's power is linked to the energy that ties the multiverse together, it won't drive him insane..." Barry started putting it together with a wide smile on his face.

"Then he can open a breach to any Earth he wants." Caitlin finished his sentence.

"And if I can do it without a risk for myself," Cisco concluded, "I could do it tonight, and even send Ben home when we are done."

...

Cisco tried to reopen the last portal or breach they closed, but for some reason, he got no results. Ben claimed that maybe they should take advantage of that setback; Barry wore neither his suit nor his new Tachyon Device, Caitlin was right behind Cisco, who had no combative chance against Zoom, Ben was still in his human form, they had no plan for the fight yet, and they did not know what size the portal would be.

Come to think of it, none of them had any sleep since Barry's first Tachyon Device was tested, Barry still needed to catch up on some calories from his time in Ben's universe, and Ben preferred not to come blind to the battle.

Cisco offered Ben to sleep on his couch while the others went to their respective homes.

...

Cisco woke up the next day to the sound of Ben performing a casual morning training routine. Ben apologized but explained that his physical condition stacks to all of his transformations, whether it was an illness, injuries, or body build, his transformations would be affected by it. It also helped him to be in good shape if he ever had to do anything in his human form for one reason or the other.

Ben expected his host to be annoyed, but he found it inspiring and joined him after brushing his teeth.

When they arrived at S.T.A.R Labs, Ben spread a bunch of nails and broken shard glass all over the floor under the location of the would-be portal. He reasoned that when they reopen it, they have to make sure Zoom won't have an easy start if he tries to rush into this world and terrorize it as soon as he gets the chance. For all they knew, Zoom could have a base in Earth-2's S.T.A.R Lab just for the slim chance the last breach would reopen.

Caitlin arrived moments before Ben finished explaining his action, and she was not happy about it.

Caitlin wore a purple loose shirt with a V-shaped neckline and sleeves that reached her elbows, a black necklace that most people would miss, and black pants. Was it common for people in this world to wear different-looking outfits every day? Ben usually wore identical sets of the same clothes in his world, and it was not rare for others back home to do the same.

Barry walked in several hours later due to his job with the police, and when he did, the plan was clear. The only issue was Cisco's struggle to open the portal, but Wells fixed that problem almost too conveniently by giving Cisco a pair of goggles that according to him, would help Cisco sense the planet's electromagnetic frequency and boost his connection to the multiverse. Ben did not believe that Wells had a secret motive, but he felt like he missed something about the guy's will to help instead of doing his own thing.

After an hour of preparations, Barry and Cisco, both equipped with their necessary technology stood in front of the would-be breach. Barry made sure his Tachyon Device and suit were fully operational and Cisco had his goggles on.

The moment Cisco opened the breach, Zoom jumped through the blue portal, and his feet were impaled by some nails. Cisco turned around to run away, and before Zoom could get the nails out of his feet, he saw a white creature falling from Cisco's backside. Echo-Echo shouted at Zoom and knocked him against the opposite wall. Zoom tried to get up, but then several clones of the white creature stepped out of their hideouts and shouted at him in a unity that formed an Echo Chamber.

It looked like the fight was already won when Barry started to charge up a bolt of lightning, but then Zoom vibrated his body, turned intangible, and fell through the floor in time to avoid the final hit.

...

Hunter Zolomon fell into the room below the breach on his shoulder and nearly broke it.

'What is happening?!' Hunter cursed in his mind as he pulled out the nails and glass shards off his feet and pushed his shoulder back into its place too quickly, 'How did he get a cloning Meta-Human with Black Siren's powers?! The only screamer in this world is Laurel's doppelganger, and she is using a damn mechanical chocker!'

He got up with major pain all over his body, but more intensively in his relocated shoulder, ringing ears, and bleeding feet. It was obvious to him that his degeneration overcame his regeneration years ago, but since he never got that hurt, he grew more desperate, 'It doesn't matter. Once I steal Barry's speed, I will kill everyone in this world whom I can't enslave!'

Remembering every inch of the building, Zoom ran as quickly as his bleeding feet could carry him toward his new enemy.

...

A moment later, Zoom entered the room from behind the first loud alien and impaled it with his clawed glove. Zoom got slower and lost some balance due to his injuries and pain, but he managed to kill every visible Echo-Echo clone before facing Barry.

"I don't know what allies you have made since our last encounter," Zoom said in his intimidating voice, "But they won't stop me from taking your speed!"

"You will pay for that!" Barry exclaimed before running away with Zoom on his tail.

Several seconds after the two speedsters left, the original Echo-Echo finally left his hideout with a sigh of relief, "That was a close one. I am glad I always have one spare. Well, it is time for plan B."

Echo-Echo twisted the dial on his chest and slammed it before being engulfed by a flash of green light.

...

The Flash and Zoom ran all over the place, both inside and outside the building, but Barry kept the speed advantage thanks to the boost from his Tachyon device. Once they reached the desired room, Barry engaged in close-range combat. It was not easy, but Barry managed to land some good hits on his false friend and dodge his counters before activating some traps that fired Cold Gun blasts, flashbangs, and an electric restraint that pinned Zoom to the ground. It would have not been possible for Barry to perform like it before he met Ben, but the shape-shifting hero taught him how to manipulate the battle to match his terms and beat powerful enemies without solely overpowering them.

He ripped Zoom's mask off and punched him one more time in his beautiful face, "How could you do all of this, Jay?! Don't you care how many people you killed?!"

"You learned a lot about me," 'Jay' said weakly, "How did you figure out that I was Zoom?"

"Velocity-Nine" Barry replied while kneeling to eye level with Zoom. He was certain that he got the guy, "When you run fast enough, it turns the Speedster's lightning blue."

Zoom smiled, "Caitlin is a smart girl..."

"She is," Barry smiled, "And she deserves much better than you. We would have done anything we could to save your life."

"Not everything," Zoom shook his head. He had learned the hard way that Velocity Nine could grant a non-speedster temporary artificial access to the Speed Force, but the consumption of inferior versions of the drug severs the normal connection of regular speedsters to their speed and ruins their bodies, "Caitlin's cure was a temporary one! I'm dying, Barry! There is only one thing that can get me what I need! To answer your question, no, I don't care. That feeling was taken from me a long time ago."

Jay's statement sounded so absurd to Barry that he turned around in disbelief. Zoom took advantage of that by charging up and vibrating his hand. He was about to break the restraint that pinned him to the floor, but before he could do that, Big Chill appeared and froze him from neck to toe.

"Seriously, Barry?" Big Chill glared at the Flash, "You promised you wouldn't do that!"

"W-what ar-are you?" Zoom asked. His voice shook from the cold.

"I am the guy who puts an end to your bull crap," Big Chil turned to Zoom and placed a hand on each of his shoulders, "Now, freeze."

Before Zoom could ask anything else, Big Chill's cloak unfolded into the form of multiple wings and the green hourglass on his chest glowed brightly.

After a few seconds of brightness, Ben turned back to his human form and the ice that encased Zoom shattered. Zoom did not waste a moment and tried to impale Ben, but to everyone's surprise, Ben grabbed Zoom's wrist and punched him in the face.

Barry's jaw dropped.

Caitlin, Cisco, and Harry had an identical reaction when they watched from a hidden room.

Zoom struggled to get up, "I can't use my speed. What did you do to me?"

"What I did FOR you," Ben corrected him, "I healed you by removing the infected meta-human gene from your DNA. You are now a normal and healthy human. You will never have to worry about your cells falling like flies, and you will never use your power to hurt anyone, and when we drop you back in your world, you will pay for your crimes."

Zoomed glared at Ben, but with Barry in the same room, he knew there was no point in attacking again, "I don't know who you think you are, but I own my Earth, and as soon as my followers here hear that I returned, this world will be mine for the taking!"

Ben smirked, "You don't seem to understand where you are standing. My name is Ben Tennyson, wielder of the most powerful piece-making tool in the universe. I stopped alien warlords since I was 10, saved my universe from the Highbreed invasion last month, and have beaten the speedster that beat you in hand-to-hand combat more times than any of us could count. Here is what is going to happen: You are going to tell us who the other invaders from your world are and how to find them, you will surrender any influence you have over your followers, and you will not harm anyone else outside of self-defense."

"And why should I follow any of your demands?" Zoom asked though everyone present could guess what would come next.

"Because if you don't," Ben's smirk turned into a death glare, "I promise, you will regret it for the rest of your very. short. life!"

Zoom could have sworn he had his speed back when it took him less than a second to reply, "I surrender."

Barry looked at Ben and the beaten Zoom in shock. He knew that Ben was powerful, but he had never seen him in such a terrifying light before. Caitlin and Cisco looked at the exchange via monitor and felt the same level of intensity. Doctor Harrison Wells learned not to disrespect that kid and hoped he could get his help to locate his missing daughter and fix his world.

...

After Zoom's defeat, Ben and Team Flash gathered in the main control room.

"I can't believe it is over," Barry said with a smile, "It's amazing."

"It may be over for you guys," Wells ruined the fun, "But I still need to find Jessie, help rebuild my world's society, and return Zoom's sleeping agents in this world for their trials."

"Maybe Ben can help find Jessie?" Caitlin looked at Ben with puppy eyes.

Ben chuckled while fiddling with his watch in a futile attempt to gain Master Control, "Don't count on it," Everyone looked at him with surprise, so he clarified "If she is smart and does not want to be found, then she is not going to show up, but she probably has a way to monitor your progress in this search. The best you can do is let her know that Zoom is no longer a threat and wait for her to show up. This is what my grandfather did when he tried to foil the Highbreed's plans."

A short silence occurred When Ben said the name of his last bad guys until Cisco broke it with a different subject, "I still have many questions about your world. Can I visit one day?"

Before Ben could reply, he saw a pair of black people entering the room. One of them was an older man with a police badge that carried a feeling of safety and comfort while the other was a woman the same age as Barry who seemed to try too hard to look beautiful.

The black woman wore a long-sleeved tight black shirt that showed some cleavage and a black short skirt with yellow flowers printed on it that showed her black thighs. She wore more makeup than she needed and carried herself in a way that begged for attention. Whoever that woman was, she seemed to make an effort to be the prettiest in the room and was dressed just similar enough to Caitlin for Ben to suspect that it was on purpose, but that theory could only work if that woman knew what Caitlin put on this morning and dressed accordingly to make the Doctor feel inferior or something.

"Hey," Barry waved at the two of them. That guaranteed their status as friends or allies.

"Hey," The woman replied in higher volume. She unmistakably wanted to be at the center of everyone's attention. She reminded Ben of that girl he used to like, Kai Green. Beautiful on the outside but not so nice when they don't get what they want. Ben hoped she was not someone he had to spend time with before returning home, "We just came by to see if you guys needed some help opening a bridge and beating Zoom."

"Eh," Barry shrugged. He wanted his sister and former crush to help, but even if Zoom was still a threat, Iris was not an official member of Team Flash, and she would not have anything of value to contribute.

"Uh, sure..." Caitlin tried not to make the situation look awkward, "About that..." She looked at Barry for an out.

"We just beat him," Barry stated.

"What?" The black woman asked in surprise, "How? You could not even open the door to his world. Why didn't you tell me sooner?"

'And there it is,' Ben thought as he rolled his eyes and sighed in annoyance, 'She is probably not even a member of this team, and she makes this world-ending threat all about herself when she seems to have no personal stakes in it. Also, why can't she say "portal" or "breach"? I better get away from her and avoid direct conversations with her unless I have to.'

"Hey, dude," Ben whispered to Cisco, "Can you help me get back home?"

Iris noticed him and looked between him and Caitlin, "Is he your nephew or something?"

"No relation," Ben answered.

"Does he know about...?" Iris whispered before pointing at Barry and running in place like an idiot.

"It's okay, I am leaving," Ben said as kindly as he could, "You guys can talk about... whatever way you like running... freely."

...

"What was that all about?" Cisco asked when he and Ben arrived at his workshop, "Don't you want to meet Iris and let her know that you know?"

"Wait," Ben paused, "THAT was Iris? Barry's sister?"

"Adopting sister," Cisco corrected him, "But they prefer friends anyway. It makes his old crush on her less embarrassing."

"Gross!" Ben tried to shake the thought out of his head. "It's like if Summo Slammer's main character had a crush on his rat-mage cousin! What kind of sick person has a crush on their relatives? What is this? Sword Art Online?!"

"He moved on," The engineer tried to cop it while ignoring the two references that he did not understand, "He dated that nice girl, Patty, and I always thought that Caitlin had a crush on Barry."

"You saw that, too, huh?" Ben was never a matchmaker guy, but between the nature of their relationship and the bad vibe he got from Iris, Ben would prefer shipping Barry and Caitlin or that Patty girl if it means not thinking of the gross alternative.

"So, why do you not like Iris?"

"She reminds me of a girl who liked me only because of my powers," Ben quickly changed the subject, "But enough about that. Can you get me back home? I've got friends, a family, and a girlfriend to return to."

"Honestly, I don't know if I can," Cisco admitted, "I have only opened that one breach, and as much as we know, breaches can only be opened between shared locations between this Earth and Jay's. Maybe I could send you there after we find Jessie, and she and Harry could help you from there."

Ben thought about it, but that sounded like the wrong approach. He turned into Brainstorm, grabbed one of the nearby tablets with his electrokinesis, listed all of the available possibilities, and turned back into his human form. It did not seem like there was a certain way for him to get home other than using an alien that he swore never to use, but he did not earn the right to use the watch for giving up, and he would not use that alien unless there is no other choice. He could not just magically solve this pro-

"That's it!" Ben exclaimed, "Magic!"

"Magic?" Cisco asked, "Like the stuff that you said your cousin does?"

"Yeah, the mechanics are different, but you and Gwen can sense things and open portals. If I could send her a beacon or something, the two of you could probably open the bridge between our worlds," Ben said excitedly "Where did you store the golden egg?"

...

Ben ran to the infirmary in time to see Caitlin staring at Iris as if the latter told her that water made things dry.

As it turned out, the Bio-Engineer had offered Iris a chance to be useful by helping her organize some medical equipment, and Iris took that time to tell Caitlin that she started to believe that she and Barry were meant to be together because she heard that they were together in another universe, in which they grew up differently, had different careers, and different personalities. Their counterparts from Earth-2 were essentially a pair of different people who just looked like them, and that somehow made Iris reach her absurd conclusion.

Ben joined Caitlin when he heard Iris's logic, but he chose to avoid giving the incest a piece of his mind when he spotted the egg behind her.

"I found a way home!" Ben gave Caitlin a light hug, waved at Iris, and ran back to Cisco's workshop.

...

"Vibe it," Ben half-ordered as he handed the golden egg to Cisco, "It is imbued by my cousin's mana and guided me and Barry here. If it can't help you make a portal for me, then it should establish a connection between you and Gwen."

"Alright," Cisco held the egg, "Let's go. It will take a while, so could you remove our prisoners' powers until I'm done?"

"Sure," Ben said as he activated the Omnitrix, turned into Cannonbolt, and rolled to the chambers.

When Cisco's mind felt the vibe, he did not expect what he saw.

It felt like his mind zoomed out of the universe. He saw Earth-1's timeline with a tiny mark that showed him his exact spot in space and time. Zooming out further, he saw Earth-2 and 50 more universes he had never seen before, all coming from the same big bang and spreading away from one another like branches of a tree.

Zooming out even beyond that showed him countless similar trees in different shapes and sizes. Then, he felt himself being zoomed into another tree with more branches than he could count, where he spotted a redheaded girl meditating in a school uniform who shared a few facial similarities to Ben.

He tried to call her, but something blocked him. He was back on his Earth, but not in S.T.A.R Labs, and ten minutes into the future, when he saw a black statue being used by the criminal known as Damian Dhark to kill Laurel Lance in what looked like Star City's prison.


Author's Notes:

Ben is more capable than all of Team Flash, and thanks to him, Zoom was taken down a lot sooner.

I promised that Barry would show some growth in my story, and as promised, he beat Zoom by using Ben's methods.

It looks like Ben is going to fight Damian Dhark in the next flashback chapter before he can go home. That wizard deserves the beating just as much as Zoom did.

Iris is terrible. If you don't like how I treat her, then you have a long show that worshiped her for 9 seasons.

Anyway, if you like this story and want to support it, you can do it on my P-atreon. You can see there some earlier drafts of existing chapters, and some drawings I made, and soon, I will add to all of the tiers exclusive chapters of Arrow and the Flash from this continuity.

The next chapter will be about Peter and Gwen. Have a great day, everyone.