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Prologue
Ben Tennyson's POV
Darkness. That's all that I could see as I was dragged away from my parents, screaming and yelling for their help as they were held at gunpoint by men in red and black uniforms.
"Mom, Dad!",I shouted as I tried to get free of the men holding me,"Don't hurt them! Please!"
A woman in all red walked out of a nearby helicopter, before speaking,"Child, you will soon learn they are nothing but a weakness to you."
Pulling out a gun, she shot both of my parents in the chest, with their limp bodies dropping to the ground.
"Ben Tennyson is no more.",says the woman,"You will be referred to as Experiment X from this point on."
I fell to the ground, kneeling as I cried and watched my parents bleed, feeling helpless as I looked at my wrist.
Immediately reaching for the Omnitrix, I dialed in Way Big, not caring what I received otherwise.
Slamming down the watch, I waited for the Omnitrix to activate, but nothing happened. My parents were dead, and there was nothing I could do to help or avenge them.
The woman stood behind me as she smirked,"You didn't think we'd capture our biggest weapon without disarming you first did you? We are certainly not idiots."
Realizing I was outgunned, outmaneuvered, and outmatched, the men simply picked me up and dragged me to the helicopter.
"The rest of you,"said the woman,"Remove any trace of our presence, then return to base."
She smiled to herself as she looked at me.
"We have a lot of work to do."
Chapter 1
"Doctor, how is he?",asks the woman,"I would like to see some progress this time."
"Yes, Madame Sin…",said the doctor,"The patient's vitals are perfectly stable, even in this condition, his Omnimatrix is integral in keeping him from flatlining."
"Then you are nothing but a loose end, is that what you're saying?",asks Sin, putting a blade in the doctor's face.
"No, of course not!",says the doctor,"I still need to erase any memory of his past life. If you want your weapon, then he'll need to be an empty vessel."
Sin moved the blade as she smiled,"Good. I am returning to my quarters, alert me when his training is ready to begin, Albedo, and you will have your freedom."
Albedo smiled as he looked up at Patient X, floating in red liquids while an oxygen mask covered his face,"While it may not be what I imagined, my revenge against you will be swift, Ben Tennyson. Making you a weapon against the world will not only benefit me, but getting you from our dimension to another was child's play. Consider your heroics done, boy."
Unbeknownst to Albedo, the 12 year old was partially awake to hear the entire conversation. They couldn't afford to lose him entirely, and he could slowly take advantage of that.
He'd just have to be very patient.
5 Years Later…
Agent X had just returned from his newest mission, uncaring and unemotional as he threw his target on the ground.
"Killer Frost, as ordered, Waller.",spoke the 17 year old.
As the blue skinned woman had a metal collar put on her neck, and her hair was currently brown with white streaks in it. She was also an absolute mess, bloody and battered while panting on the ground and sending a glare at Agent X.
"My name is not Killer Frost! It's Caitlyn Snow! I am not a monster anymore!",yelled the woman, panting and lunging at her captor, before immediately getting shocked and her to her core.
Immediately feeling a pain in her head, Caitlyn dropped to her knees, turning around and looking at Waller, who had an unemotional look on her face.
"Regardless of your little assists to both the Bat and the Blur, you are under my jurisdiction now.",said Waller, looking down at the other woman,"Welcome to Task Force X, Killer Frost."
Agent X grabbed her by her arm, and dragging her to a specially made cell, threw her inside before locking it.
"Enjoy your free periods, scum. Because it's the only freedom you're going to get again."
Walking away, Agent X refused to turn around as the woman in the cell began to cry.
Removing his visor and uniform, Agent X sighed. He'd avoided killing anyone, that was always something he made sure he'd never do. Something deep inside him told him that killing would turn him into something he never wanted to become.
"Tennyson."
Agent X, or rather, Ben Tennyson, turned his head to look at his brother, Albedo, and sighed. They looked so much alike that it was unnatural. The only difference between them was their hair, his was black and Albedo's was silver.
"What do you want? I just got back and I need to recharge my batteries, man."
Albedo simply chuckled, he'd grown to be fond of this version of his archenemy, his brother, and his revenge towards Azmuth for taking credit for all his hard work.
"I simply wanted to request your input on a few updates to your Omnitrix. It is one of the few things I am superior to you at."
Ben simply shrugged, and pressing a few buttons, had his Omnitrix remove his nanotech made combat suit. Holding his arm out as he laid down, the black haired boy sighed.
"Just get it over with. You've been giving me updates ever since I turned 14, I'm used to it by now."
Albedo nodded, sitting down on a seat next to the bed while he began tinkering with the Omnitrix. He'd been able to travel between his original dimension and his current one, as well as a few others thanks to a few favors his favorite speedster owed him.
So naturally, it was fairly easy to acquire not only the Perfected Omnitrix that Azmuth finished four years after Ben had been taken, but also remove Max and Gwen from the equation.
All in all, it'd been a successful few years, and with Paradox having not been seen, it made it fairly obvious that he had been busy elsewhere.
Ben's transformations were both powerful and unpredictable, so Albedo had arranged for Waller to give him the necessary tools to prevent the boy from accessing the more…cosmic level aliens.
Celestialsapians of course were locked and buried at the bottom of all the DNA samples. If he managed to transform into that, it'd be impossible to control him any longer.
The same rules had applied to Chronosapian and Prypiatosian-A DNA, an atomic bomb and a time manipulator were too powerful for the boy just yet.
Of course, while his aliens all had names according to Ben, he eventually stopped shouting them out once he turned 15. It had been rather annoying, so everyone was fairly thankful for that.
"You done yet?",asked Ben, waking up and looking at Albedo,"I've got training with Slade, and I have a few things to do in Metropolis too. Plus…I kinda owe Red Hood a favor."
Albedo nodded, finally putting the finishing touches on the Omnitrix. It immediately became a full gauntlet, with a glove wrapping over Ben's hand and forearm. The glove also had a thick, red line around the center of it, with gray lines around the center while the Omnitrix, now having a red hourglass instead of green, was in the center with three vents on each side of it.
"Nice upgrade.",said Ben, raising his arm and looking at it carefully,"What does it do besides look better?"
"Well for starters you no longer have to worry about mistransforming during combat, no matter how much you adapt to it.",began Albedo, putting his tools away,"You don't have Master Control yet, but I've altered it just enough to allow you to use your thoughts to transform into aliens that are unlocked from this point forward.
I have also added the Ultimate feature to activate automatically if deemed necessary, and along with the fact that you will be heading to Metropolis, I've changed the DNA acquiring process. You will not only copy and paste all of the samples' abilities, but you will become a peak version of them at your respective age. It's sufficient considering how many aliens are in that insufferable city."
Ben simply shrugged, before pressing a few buttons on the Omnitrix so it reverted to his casual clothes he'd kept in the storage unit.
"If that's all, I'm gonna head out.",waved Ben, sighing and walking away as he grabbed his shoes and put them on.
"Time to go see what Jason needs, maybe check out whatever Slade keeps bothering me about."
Walking past Waller, his commander, he smiled a bit. She couldn't afford to lose him, that's why she hadn't even bothered putting a bomb in his head. He knew it wouldn't work, just like how he knew the Omnitrix wouldn't let him die.
He was irreplaceable. And she'd do anything to keep him on her side.
Once he'd exited Belle Revve, it wasn't that difficult to get to Gotham, especially when he turned into Big Chill. Jason had a kill streak, and he was effective despite everything that happened.
The boy that had been forced into being a man had his life changed by Joker, all cause of his idiotic mentor who refused to do one thing that would save millions of lives.
Therefore, when Joker was almost shot and killed, Ben immediately headed to Gotham so he could see what the fuss was about and ended up assisting the former Robin fight his mentor while keeping Joker contained for Jason to do as he saw fit. The clown was a madman, and to be honest, Harley could have done better than the psychopathic murderer.
"Tennyson."
He chuckled as the voice came from his Omnitrix,"Speak of the Devil. What's up?"
"I got a lot of gang members here, not too much for me but it wouldn't hurt to have some backup. Meet me at Ace Chemicals?"
"Consider it done, Jaybird."
Big Chill flew over the dark city, how it was always dark made no sense to him, but that wasn't the issue right now.
Switching back to human, Ben grappled up to a vantage point and put on his uniform, visor and all.
"So how many we got here? 50?"
"Pretty much, X.",said Red Hood, not even turning his red, helmet-covered head,"Two-Face and Penguin have Grundy and Killer Croc though, so it shouldn't be too easy. Just don't break the building again, I really don't want another headache."
"No promises, Hoodie Two Shoes."
Jason sighed, his best friend was strange but that's what made them a great duo. He jumped down, landing on top of a thug as he held a gun in another one's face.
"50 if you guys and a bulky idiot? Seems like fair odds."
"Guess you miscounted, there's two of us, bird brain."
A red flash of light was seen as a muscular, four armed, humanoid being landed in front of Croc and smirked.
"Seems you need to get your eyes checked.", said Four Arms,"Now how about we have some fun?"
Croc growled, charging at Four Arms, who smirked and punched him in the gut, before grabbing him and putting him in a headlock while wrapping two arms around his waist from behind.
"I'm just the help. You guys are the muscle, but you have absolutely no brain."
Croc growled and thrashed, unable to get out of the Tetramand's grip while doing his best to not turn his head, out of fear of getting his neck snapped.
Red Hood had already taken care of a majority of the thugs, it was only about 20 of them left, and Grundy as well.
"Hood, keep the zombie off you!"
"What does it look like I'm doing here? Kinda busy right now, X!"
Sighing, Four Arms body slammed Croc into the ground, and tearing off his tail, jumped onto Grundy, knocking him away while keeping the massive zombie from attacking with his hands.
"Dude, you seriously need to relax!"
As Red Hood continued shooting the thugs, knocking a few out for further interrogation, Four Arms just kept Grundy pinned on the ground, occasionally punching him in case he managed to get up while being pinned by his other three limbs.
Croc groaned and got up from being suplexed into the ground, smacking a few of Joker's henchmen away as he charged at Four Arms.
In a flash of red, Four Arms had transformed into a humanoid figure with a metal disc above his head, with his body being entirely made of red goop.
Jumping onto Croc, and stretching himself to wrap around both him and Grundy, Goop began dissolving the areas around their eyes just enough to blind them both, while sticking them both to the reactor, keeping them pinned even after Goop transformed back into Ben.
"Well now that those idiots are taken care of, wanna handle the bosses? It's not like they'll even be an issue, they're kinda lame as far as villains go."
Red Hood shrugged before opening a vent, climbing into it while Ben turned into a grey, furry chimp with six red eyes, two skinny, fur covered arms also sprouting on the sides of his torso as he grew two tails and his uniform formed around his chest with gloves on his hands.
Jumping up onto the ceiling, Arachnochimp began climbing to the next room, looking at Penguin and grinning as he shot a web at some nearby guns, effectively keeping them out of the mob bosses' reach.
Two-Face immediately noticed this and glared at Penguin, holding his gun at him,"You setting me up, Cobblepot? I don't take it lightly when agreements aren't honored."
"Oh shut your mug, Dent!",yelled the short, older man,"Your men are just incompetent! It's probably just the fuckin Bat!"
"Oh you'll be wishing it was him."
Oswald Cobblepot turned his head around to see a bat- literally, a vampiric, humanoid being with fangs and red horns and a fuzzy black coat of fur around its neck.
"Damn it, it is the Bat!",yelled The Penguin,"Forget the money, kill the rodent!"
Bullets began flying through the dark room as the bat-man lunged at Penguin, growling and ignoring the bullets that were sinking into his wings and tearing them.
"Enough of this.",spat the bat, literally spitting at Penguin as a small projectile stuck itself to his forehead, and he began shooting bullets at Two-Face.
"The hell, Cobblepot?",yelled the scarred man, before being punched in the face by Red Hood
"I'll never get tired of this.",smirked the vigilante, before pulling his guns out and shooting both crime bosses, both of them going limp.
In a flash of red, the vampire revealed itself to be Ben, smirking as he nodded,"Don't forget, no vital areas, but make it hurt like hell."
"Yeah, yeah.",chuckled Jason, grappling up a vent as sirens were heard,"Might not be as effective as my own methods, but yours are still fun, X."
The two men left the crime scene right as an older man crashed through the window, picking the bat shaped object off of The Penguin's forehead.
"This is the fifth time this month.",grunted the man, putting it into his utility belt as he looked around further,"Whoever this was knew what they were doing. And they weren't human either."
Heading into the other room, the man put the red slime in a vial, as well as some gray fur, he eyed it carefully as he turned around and made sure everyone was alive before pressing a button in his ear.
"Cave, it's Nightwing.",said the man,"Emergency Team Meeting tonight."
He hung up as he stepped into the light, revealing an older man in a fully black combat suit with a small, blue bird on the chest and a domino mask, while two escrima sticks were in their holsters on his back.
Grappling up and out of the building, Nightwing jumped onto an invisible platform that opened, and climbed into it as he disappeared into the night.
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