Disclaimer: Ben 10 and The Boys do not belong to me. Ben 10 is owned by Cartoon Network and Man of Action and The Boys is owned by Amazon Studios, Dynamite Entertainment and Wildstorm.
AN: Hello everyone in fanfiction land! Quite the year huh? Are you ready to read fanfiction this summer? Ready for the hot sun to read for this amazing fic lol. I know I am! I am finally ready to get out of the woods and into the civilized men where we all hug each other, smash each other's arms in front of our faces and draw happy faces on them!
Yes, this is normal. This is America. This is normal! We all like to hug each other's arms and draw happy faces on them with a Sharpie marker lol,
Weirdness aside! This story is based on the fanfiction story called, "A True Hero" by DoctorEd17. Thank him for lending me this story so I can finally write my first Boy's crossover! Yayy!
Anyway, I hope you all enjoy this fic as much as I had writing it! Please always leave reviews, they are always appreciated! :)
BEN 10: A TRUE HERO
Written by
Mr. Raleigh D.
CHAPTER 1: HELLO WORLD.
A sudden blinding white light flashed in a cluttered, damp alleyway. The light imploded into what looked like a vertical, swirling vortex of reds and blues, swirling into a depth center like water down a drain. A sprinkle of electricity added to the sudden alien event. Watching this spectacle was a homeless elderly man, possibly in his late 70s, watching the whole thing go by as air blew on his overgrown, dirty Santa Claus beard.
"What in blazes?" the old man asked as he continued to look at the portal swirling around him. However, this day was about to get even more interesting when he heard voices coming out of the portal.
"Are you ready for the adventure of a lifetime?" asked a man in the portal with a distinct British accent.
"Professor, my life has been an adventure ever since I was 10 years old. It never stops," he hears another man through the portal.
"Oh poppycock, not in the way in where you are going, besides, how fun would it be if I told you the whole story? You already got a synopsis," the Professor replied.
"Right, so remind me again...who am I facing?" asked the man again.
Walking out of the portal was a man who wore a white lab coat over a white shirt with a brown vest and black tie, black pants, and black shoes. He also wore goggles with green lenses around his neck. He had silver hair streaks on each side, showing partially his age. He had a cool collective smile on his face and carried a cane with him, even though he looked young enough to not need one.
Coming out with him was a tall man with a thick and muscular build who sported a full beard. His hair was combed left-sided; his customized skin tight outfit consisted of a round neck short-sleeved bicep-length graphite t-shirt tucked in his tight green slim fit pants pulled up to his waist. The white fill color on his shirt forms the hourglass symbol. He also wore black calf-high boots with brown straps on them. On his right arm was a mechanical, gauntlet-like device that had the dial that had a glowing green, hourglass symbol on it.
The old man froze in place, witnessing the amount of weirdness all in one day. He crawled further back deep besides the dumpster as he continued to watch cautiously.
"Think of it like this, Benjamin; a world of superheroes. A world where if you have superpowers you can get a job or at least a well-paying career as a superhero," the Professor said.
"Ok I got that. What's the catch? There has to be some sort of a catch to this kind of thing, right?" Ben asked.
"Everything in every situation in every universe that you or I have been in always has a catch to them. Try to think of Captain Nemesis, and then apply that to this world-except bigger," the Professor's voice sounded dark for a minute there, one to which caught Ben off guard.
"Um…"
"But that's nothing you should worry about. You got this covered, anyway, I best be going. I will check on you to see if you need any help,"
"Sure, if I can catch you that is," Ben winked.
"Ha! Now you're catching on! Good luck, Ben," the Professor said his farewells as he entered the portal.
"Farewell old friend," Ben said as the portal closed behind him. He pulled out a small note in his pocket, penned from his cousin. He unfolded it and it revealed itself to be a map. He took the time to skim through it until he heard a voice-the voice from the old man mentioned earlier.
"Are you an alien?" the old man asked.
"Wouldn't it be nice to have one of those flashy sticks, Agent J likes to showcase to us," Ben mused; "On a peace mission, here…" Ben cautiously walked towards the man, aware of his fear. The man was about to turn and run away until he pulled out a wad of cash.
"Spend something nice while you're at it," Ben winked at the man, adding with a smile. The old man took the money and locked his eyes on the friendly man who gave him the money. He then took his eyes back on the cash and then back at the man who was no longer in his sight.
"The hell is this man?" the old man asked.
000
Even though it was not wise for Ben to toy with his watch in public, he was told that no one on this Earth had ever heard of him. In fact from what he has been told, the Ben Tennyson version in this universe is just some ordinary sci-fi comic book writer in Wyoming. Bellwood didn't exist here, as to which was very obvious. Mr. Smoothies did exist to some capacity, but it was mostly called Smoothie King. Ben looked around the town and saw that there wasn't anything different around him-aside from there were no aliens walking about.
"I gotta put this in my notes for my cousin to add to her Universe Handbook. She's into these kinds of stuff...well save for Paradox that is," he said.
"First let me check where I am first." Ben toyed the notch of the Ultimatrix, set it to Voice Command, "Ultimatrix. Set Location: Time and Date."
After hearing static the gauntlet said in a computerized version of Ben''s voice, "Seeking Universal Search Engine: Google. Tracking: …; Location: New York City; Date: July 26, 2019."
"New York huh? Makes sense. Ultimatrix: Track nearest Diner. Feeling for a cup of coffee."
000
Later, Johnny sat at the window as he sipped on his hot coffee. Luckily for him, the place took his 20 dollar bill despite the fact that it was from another universe in the year 2031. As he drank a large coffee he looked online with his smart phone at the basic history of this Earth.
He skimmed through a lot of news articles and discovered there were an unusual amount of Meta humans, most of them stationed in the US. What was shocking to him was that most of them, if not all of them were knockoffs of classic superheroes from both Marvel and DC Comics respectively: Homelander, for example, was a Superman/Captain America knockoff; Queen Maeve was a Wonder Woman knockoff; and Popclaw was a Wolverine knockoff.
What was strange was that, in a world full of superheroes, there would also be a cataclave of supervillains. The villains these heroes fought were just normal, everyday people.
Speaking of which, to which he was told by Gwen, before his departure to this universe, was that actual comic book creators and publishers, such as Marvel and DC do not exist. Especially legends like Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Good thing he kept some copies of some issues of them on him in a comic book library in a pocket dimension.
And then there was Vought. A multibillion dollar, pharmaceutical conglomerate who sponsored these heroes. To what ends? That remained to be seen for the Changeling.
He looked to the TV and saw a young, beautiful blonde woman sporting a white and gold leotard showing off her cleavage, gold boots and glove, posing for the camera with the wind blowing at her hair with her name fading into the bottom right-and the product she was promoting which was some form of skin lotion.
Ben chuckled for a bit as he finished his coffee. A mild-mannered young man with short brown hair, with a goofy enough smile cleared his throat as he walked with his girlfriend.
"I know how you feel," he said, "How can a girl like that humiliate herself for a product as mundane as skin lotion."
"If it pays well, I'm not knocking her hustle," Ben said as he continued to drink his coffee.
…
Later, Ben was in his thoughts reflecting on what he learned, far more than the brief meeting he had with Paradox.
"Yeah right… They're used to fighting non super powered bad guys. None of them would stand a chance against someone like Vilgax, The High Override, Forever Knight, those rouge Chronian's. Basically, anyone from my universe who is just as if not more powerful then them and isn't afraid to hold back. If they were to come here to this universe…" Ben thought.
"Let's say, they would get a rude wake-up call." Doing good deeds and heroic work. At first it was just for the thrill of being a hero. Now it was that and it was the right thing to do.
"Besides… Those heroes will need me if any of my powerful enemies appear. Especially Vilgax…" Ben said.
Suddenly, a blur bumped into him like a man hurrying for work.
"There's a thing called breaks! Dork," Ben growled. As Ben turned his attention back to the front, a man was seen robbing a small store along with three others.
"On your knees! This is a stick up! On your fucking knees!" he heard a man cry in anger.
"Classic. An armed robbery. Looks like crime is the same no matter which universe I poop into, right?" Ben said with a smirk, he crossed his arms.
"Well, I don't want to make the wrong impression of doing nothing!" Ben slid his right sleeve up revealing the Ultimatrix. He ran towards the action; with a wide grin on his face he screamed his beloved catchphrase.
"It's hero time!" Ben exclaimed.
Inside of the store, a large, broly-looking man wearing a worn-out jean jacket over a gray tee, black pants, and some dress shoes, along with three others dominated the store. The customers inside were on their knees with their hands tied behind their heads.
As the robbers asserted dominance to the employees, their guns drawn to the tellers as they reach over to their stock to throw as much money in the bag as possible, a brave young girl who was tied with her mom around her arms spoke up.
"You will be in big trouble when Homelander gets here!" she said.
The Leader of the gang chuckled at the young girl. He cocked his gun and approached her and her mother. The rest of his gang joined in.
"Well let's make this entertaining by testing to see if he's fast enough to catch a bullet," he said.
The mother pleaded for the man to spare her. The man ripped the girl from the Mother's hands and it took the strength of two men to hold her back-the men from his gang. The little girl was held around the man's arms and shoved his gun on the girl's head as she struggled.
"Now say 'ah'!" the leader told.
"So, how many criminals would it take to fill in a jail cell?" Ben asked jovially as he entered the store.
The robbers laughed before the leader said, "Come again?"
"Oh wait, you're Low IQ. My bad! Let me dumb it down for you. You...the sick criminal...that's you...let the girl go, return the cash-money to the tellers...and then...with a chance...without me pulling punches...like the good little boys and girls like you are...turn yourselves in," he said.
"Are you trying to be funny?" the leader screamed in anger.
"Trying to be?"
Before anyone could do anything, there was a sudden, blinding green the light faded the robbers, customers and the little girl's eyes widened upon what they saw.
Standing where the man was some sort of creature, he had crab-like claws for hands and his body was mainly brownish-black with yellow feet, hands, shoulders, and chest. His silver head with green eyes floated in between his shoulders. A green hourglass symbol was on his chest.
"LODESTAR!" Lodestar yelled.
Lodestar pointed his claws at the men; a magnetic pulse emitted from it. It pulled the guns to him and he crushed them into a metallic ball. .He quickly ran in and punched the leader in the face knocking him out. Two of them fled.
The last one however had a knife and held it close to the woman's neck.
"Stay back, whatever you are!" he said
Another flash of green light emitted from Lodestar and replaced him with a ghost-like alien. He had gray skin with black cracks around, one green eye, green chains around his body and shackles on his arms, neck and tail area. The Hourglass symbol is on his chest.
"GHOSTFREAK!" The ghost yelled before black and white stripes emerged from his chest.
They quickly grabbed onto the man's arms which made him drop the knife in shock. Ghostfreak then threw the man into an ice cream freezer and that made the man go unconscious upon impact.
There was another green flash, this time Ben stood. He went over to the guy and checked his pulse. He sighed in relief upon feeling one.
"That would have been a bad day," he mused.
He turned to the people who had smartphones out. Ben, well being Ben, laughed it off and waved at the audience. "You might want to call the police before they wake up." He jerked his thumb to the criminals before he walked out of the scene.
The mother of the little girl who stood up to the leader approached the young man, "Who are you?"
Ben extended his hand, "Ben 10,000! At your service!"
The little girl he saved gave him a hug. Ben knelt down, "You were a brave little girl huh? Tell you what?" Ben pulled out a comic book of Spiderman #1 from the early 60s, "My grandpa gave me this. It's rare."
"Thank you, mister," said the little girl. Ben smiled.
The people cheered on him as they recorded him on their phones. Ben activated his Ultimatrix and programmed Jetray as he took off.
000
Later that night at an abandoned warehouse Ben was at an office room looking at the news on the internet through his smartphone.
There was a female reporting recapturing the whole event that transpired a few hours ago: "Earlier today a locally owned convenience store was in the middle of a robbery when someone swooped in and saved the day! According to witnesses and camera footage it appeared they were saved by a brand new hero! One like no other as he changed into a creature that appears to have magnetic properties and then changed into a ghost with tentacles! Here is what people have to say…
'He called himself Ben 10,000… he can change into monsters...aliens...whatever! That man;s a hero!' said a man.
'He was so cool! He changed in a flash of light into a thing with a floating head before changing into a ghost! I can't wait to see what else he can do!' a boy said
'He dressed weirdly... He looked like a normal guy.' a teenage girl said
'He already got me and my wife's respect! He just entered, took them down and left. Only stopping to say his name… His hero name.' said the owners of the store.
'He doesn't dress like a superhero. I like that… Adds a layer to his secret of surprise and he looks cool!' a woman said.
' Some people have started to believe that this Ben 10,000 could be even more powerful than Homelander and could have more powers than any known Supe on Earth!" the Reporter said.
Ben closed the video after that as it started to move to another news report.
…
As everyone that day was thankful for Ben 10,000 saving their necks, others, like any other situation like this had their doubts...and fears. Nothing more than a multimillion dollar company like Vought Industries. In a conference room filled with men and women in ties, they were all looking at the reports that were plaguing the news waves all day. It was in print; YouTube podcasts, commentary, news channels; comedy shows; anywhere that had media in it, they were covering it like it was the last day of World War II.
"I'm sorry to report, but we don't have anything on him. We don't have any reports with Compound V giving people the ability to do anything like this Ben 10,000 guy did." A man said, "It's like he just popped out of nowhere!"
"He is something else… Nothing made by us?" A woman asked.
Walking around the meeting, a tall, gray haired man, Stan Edger, President and CEO of the company asked, "Any good news?"
"No. Just bad… The lawyers told us we can't make any kind of profit off of him. He is unlicensed and unknown. We don't even know where he came from." the first man said.
"He could be a threat," Another woman said
"OK… Here's the plan, find out who this Ben 100,000 guy, or whatever he is called, is. When we do we will either recruit him or if necessary… kill him." Stan said.
000
The next day, Ben was walking around in the middle of the crowd patrolling. He was on entered an empty street and noticed a man and woman near an electronic store. The same man and woman he met earlier yesterday. Suddenly, the next moment, he saw an explosion of red gunk and mush splattered towards the van along with a few other members of...well of this person's personhood. Blood splattered and entered the young man's mouth as the rest of the woman's body splattered on the road like pudding.
Ben gasped and looked around for an alley; he had to fix this. He looked around for any witnesses. He unsleeved his jacket revealing the Ultimatrix.
"Never thought I would be using him again," before a flash of green light covered him.
When it faded, standing at his place was a creature who wore a silver helmet with a purple visor that blocked all view of his face, leaving only two glowing purple eyes visible. He retained the black bodysuit, but had silver boots, gauntlets, and a chestplate instead; a purple cape to replace his coat.
"EON!" he screamed..
Eon stepped out of the alleyway.
Using his hands in a Dr. Strange like manner. He activated his time powers and reversed time. The speedster reversed back in the exact same way, this time in reverse. The gunk and bones that sprayed on the street like figgy pudding suddenly melded back into a human being as the speedster continued to reverse. At this time, once the speedster was at a far enough distance from the girl, he stopped time. However, just out of spite, got a pipe and struck his legs...multiple times, and once in the head for good measure. Not to kill, but really, really hurt the bastard. And, because comedy, put a fresh banana pill in his way and turned his body slightly left towards a brick wall and taped, "I killed a person because I was drunken stupid" on his back.
Eon walked over to the group, picked up the young woman and put her further into the sidewalk. He rotated the man's body towards her. Eon walked into the electronic store and smirked.
"OK… Time in!" Eon said, snapping his fingers. Time played like it was. The young couple was pushed back a bit, not remembering how in the world they got this far in the sidewalk as they suddenly saw the Speedster soaring like an eagle, skipping in the road like a pebble to a lake and then crashing to a brick wall.
The couple noticed their new position on the sidewalk… and Eon who was laughing at the man.
The man quickly recovered and glared at Eon. He returned the glare back, "If you are gonna run carelessly, be careful next time, jerk!"
The speeder known as A-Train looked at Eon confused. He wasn't running toward a brick wall as far as he could remember and how did this man know and make him run into the wall? Let alone all the other stunts? He was A-Train, The Fastest Fucking Man alive! He then remembered what he was doing and decided to leave Eon for another day.
Eon scoffed; a sudden green flash blinded the couple, revealing the man who stopped a robbery the day before. The couple instantly recognized him.
"Hey, how you're the man that stopped that robbery!" the man said.
"Ben 10,000, at your service. You kids best be careful on the sidewalk. Crazy people, and...whatever the hell that guy was...are on the road.
"You were in the cafe yesterday. You're a Supe?" the woman said.
"I'm a soup? Like Chicken Noodle Soup? Help me, I don't understand," Ben said.
"A superhero. That's what we call them. And based on your actions you are one, right?" the man asked.
"You can say that," he said, "Be careful with her, had I not been there…"
"Wait...what was A-Train gonna do?" the man asked.
"Let's say, he was gonna make your girlfriend into human pudding," he said, "You guys be safe."
"We will," the couple said.
000
At a small bank, a court of gangsters wearing tactical gear dominated the bank, commanding everyone in the bank to get down on the ground. Their Leader, a chubby midget holding a 12-gauge, took a couple shots at the ceiling.
"Alright everyone! We only have one demand and one goal, and that demand is for you all to shut the fuck up so we can meet our goal to take the money from the bank!"
The Leader told his subordinates to go to each teller and get the money from each of them...every single cent.
"Hurry up!" A robber said as his goons put the money in bags
Outside, Ben met with the police. He was prepared to go alien and slide right by, but the police just let him right in, which was a strange change of pace. Ben didn't react but just took the welcoming rug and waltzed right in. "I won't hurt them too bad," Ben reassured.
He entered the bank immediately capturing the ire of the robbers.
"Oh shit… It's that Ben 10,000 guy!" another robber said
A flash of green light emitted from Ben and when it faded we see a humanoid, plant-like alien that had an overall green and black colored body, mostly with a red flame-patterned head and root-like feet, seemingly holding black rocks. His eyes were oval-shaped with points at each end with pupils copying the shape but are smaller. His shoulders and head had red petals and his elbows and legs had green frills sticking out. The Ultimatrix symbol is on his chest.
"SWAMPFIRE!" the alien cried.
The robbers and the hostages cringed there noses at the smell of Swampfire methane producing palms. However, that did not matter to the robbers. They started firing their guns at Swampfire instead at the hostages. To their surprise, Swampfire did not move a muscle. In fact he was left unmoved by the bullets piecing his skin. Once their ammo went, so went their false bravado.
"My turn," Swampfire said.
Swampfire quickly pulled out some seeds and threw them with precision at the robbers; the seeds hit the floor near them.
The robbers were confused at first and were about to shrug it off when Swampfire raised a hand and the seeds quickly grew into thick vines which tangled and trapped them in their grip.
Swampfire asked a female teller, "Is that all of them?"
She nodded.
"Good, I'll let the police handle this," Swampfire said before he left the building.
000
A series of rescues and savings were all done by Ben. And each hour he acted, the public started to pay attention to him more than the heroes they got used to seeing. Some had opinions that he was more independently run, which was true; others thought that he was a secret Vaught superhero that just went out to save people so that way they make more money, which was in the majority of everyone's mind.
However, they all speculated that of all the heroes they knew, none of them had the power to transform into strange creatures as fast and be proficient at them as swiftly as Ben could. This was not lost on the executives.
"Another sighting of the hero only known as Ben 10,000 was seen today…" an anchorman said
Clips of Swampfire from a few moments ago were shown throwing seeds at the robbers.
"And that's not all… He's also been seen going around the city doing what seems to be good deeds…"
A clip of Ben as an apelike creature made out of red, blue and yellow Lego blocks helping some construction workers by stretching up to bring their tools up to them.
Another clip showed a broken down minivan with a family containing a mom and three kids inside. Ultimate shows up as a black creature with purple circuitry lines arrived, merged with the van and took it to a nearby mechanic.
Another clip showed Ben as a 10 foot tall humanoid brown dinosaur with a tan hide and a black mace at the end of the tail. This dinosaur just scared some bullies off from some little kids by roaring.
"Ben 10,000 is an unusual superhero. Sources say he is not a licensed hero from Vought! He's not endorsing products or anything and in addition he's been helping people by just for the fun and satisfaction of being a hero! Who is Ben 10,000?"
The TV was switched off. In this brightly lit conference room with the table, unironically looking more like a glass-textured "7" and a "V" crossbreeding each other was the trademarked superhero team, "The Seven'' consisting of only six members: Homelander, a burly,blonde-haired man who wore a blue one-piece suit with some red lace on the top. He wore gold shoulderpads, long gold wrist bands, red gloves, and red boots.
A-Train was the second member; he was a young man wearing a blue tinted suit for his superspeed, had on sunglasses and long, fingerless gloves.
Queen Maeve was the third member; she wore what looked more Spartan than Amazonian. She sported long brown hair, had on an armored outfit that, well once again, was a mixture of Spartan and somewhat ancient Roman attire.
Black Noir was the fourth; he wore all black and was very mysterious. He didn't really say much. The Deep was fifth, he was cut-leaning, sported a beard and wore a tight, yellow and green aqua suit; and finally their newest member Starlight. She was a blonde woman who sported a gold and white latex suit that showed her cleavage. She had on golden gloves and boots.
Madelyn Stillwell paused the news video.
"So we got a self-published tool. A weird, self-published tool," the Deep admitted.
"Got anything on him?" Queen Maeve asked.
"He made his first appearance at a convenient store where he changed into that creature they call Lodestar," Stillwell said as she showed them the picture of the alien on the TV, "Then he changed into another one called Ghostfreak."
"So he can shapeshift?" Homelander asked.
"Yes. Each creature this Ben 10,000 turns into have their own unique abilities and skills. So far they seem to be just small-damagers at best. However, we cannot take any chances of him roaming around freely." Stillwell admitted
"I say fuck him," A-Train said, "The guy was responsible for me being admitted to the hospital to get my legs fixed. Fuck this guy."
"Hey, it's not his fault you ran drunk," Deep said.
A-Train shot a glare at him.
"Enough," Homelander began. "It seems here that Ben 10,000 here may be a bit of an interest in other...questionable characters. It's better he joins now than never. Is that right?"
"Yes. Find him and bring him in. I want to have a word with this...Ben 10,000 character," Stillwell said.
AN: Hello there fanfiction world! How are ya? This is Mr. Raleigh D returning to the site. I am still writing an outline for the new chapter for Ultimate ga Kill so be on the watch for that. Anyway, what do you guys think of this story? Sounds good right? Anyway, I hope you all enjoy this fic as much as I had writing it. Please always leave reviews, they are always appreciated!
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