Q&A
Romance Breeding: In Young Justice season 4, it's revealed how Batgirl really lost her ability to walk. Although that doesn't mean Ben won't save her from that fate.
Cman6465: Thank you, it's always great reading these comments.
Kevin06x: The wrong alien issue is what Azmuth was talking about to Paradox at the end. Here I had it so he put the wrong alien issue into the Omnitrix on purpose, for the original Ben but not for this Omnitrix since this Ben seems to be more worthy. I have big bad's in the future Ben can use Alien X, however, I'm slightly worried about an introduction to him might be boring since it will kind of be just like his introduction in Ben 10 AF. He does something super OP but then Ben gets stuck inside him for the rest of the ep until BEllicus and Serena agree to let him go. He doesn't have Master Control but still can change alien by pressing the dial. Thank you for the review!
CCSakuraforever: Gracias, siempre es genial leer estos comentarios.
Diabolos Aides: He's one of my favorite aliens, his death hit me hard as well. He's also kind of badass, he literally had an energy of a universe and contained it in his hands.
Guest: The Ultimate function does show up later, I'm not saying anymore than that. However, I will say, there is no reason for him to have the Ultimate function this early on in the Young Justice series the strongest threat they faced in season one was like Klarion, everyone else is like low tier villains, Ben really doesn't need the Master Control or the Ultimate function. That isn't to say he won't get around season 2's time or later but still.
Death Fury: Thank you!
DuckBoi: Yeah, he does seem like a Red Lantern type but Yellow is the most well-known.
arkon3321: Thank you, I'll try to put past events more in the text.
Jp721: Oh trust me we're just getting started! Thank you for the review!
Maximum Rhapsody: I'm not going to reveal anything big, but I will say more Ben villains will be coming, all that can actually stand a chance against him too. Are asking me specifically about those shows/anime because you saw my favorite stories lol. If you're asking if I'll ever make any crossovers with those, I don't know, maybe. But it would have to be later down the line.
I am vegito: Thank you! Hope you enjoy this chapter as well!
Mount Justice
September 8, 7:10
The past few days had been a roller coaster for Ben and his team. He walked down the halls of the mountain base, his hands in his pockets and his mind in a wander.
After Vilgax showed up things just seemed to spiral out of control. One mission after another. He was glad he had a chance to use his new Omnitrix, although the watch was started to get on his nerve whenever he bumped into a member of the league or the team that was an alien the Omnitrix would go into 'Capture Mode.' A mode that collects the DNA of that alien species.
Fortunately, this Omnitrix didn't come with some scanner that collects the DNA instead it just automatically collected the DNA when the alien species was close.
Unfortunately, that didn't stop it from being as loud as it possibly can be. Every time he walked by an alien it was as if the alarms in a store went off when someone is trying to shoplift. After the first couple of times of this happening, he had used his two smartest aliens, Brainstorm and Grey Matter, to find a mute button.
Thankfully it had one.
Ben sighed as he remembered what else had been happening the past few days. His team was sent on two missions since the whole Vilgax and Eon thing went down.
One in Gotham and another in Bialya. Both had gone pretty good considering most of their missions never really did. The team had even claimed that Ben was in 'the zone' -well Wally did at least, but that didn't stop Ben from reminiscing about the two missions
Gotham City
August 27, 06:17
In an abandoned factory in Gotham City, the Team was fighting, what could only be described as a giant pile of, what looked like, mud. Yet this pile of goo had a mouth and two eyes that didn't show any pupils. It also took a humanoid-like appearance. This thing was called Clayface.
One of Batman's rouges and a dangerous one at that. The walking pile of goo changed its shape into a bigger and stronger-looking build and morphed its two hands into giant maces.
The grin on its face was in-human, it brought back its large mace hand and clocked Superboy in the face sending him into a broken-down machine that spilt in half when it made contact with the Boy of Steel.
Artemis shot some trick arrows at the clay monster to try and slow it down by freezing its body. As the arrows made contact they slowly started to freeze the monster's body but Clayface broke free from the ice almost instantly.
Kid Flash and Robin were next both rushing towards the monster, Kid Flash being the first one to make it to him a plowed right through the clay monster's body, sending bits of clay all throughout the warehouse and completely covering the speedster.
As Kid Flash skidded off the floor to a stop he looked at himself in disgust. "Ew, I have… Clayface all over me."
"Don't lose focus he's not down yet!" Robin said throwing some of his batarangs at the pile of goo. Clayface, however, truly wasn't down as the goo that was splattered all over the warehouse formed into the monster once again. Clayface then grabbed the batarangs out of the air and crushed them in his palm.
Kid Flash braced himself a jumped into action getting ready to plow right through the walking pile of mud again. But this time Clayface was ready and hardened his body so he was as sturdy as steel. The speedster slammed into him and almost broke his arm in the process while bouncing off of the clay monster.
Ben jumped in soon after that turning into Diamondhead and incasing the mud pile giant shards of diamond that spiked up from the ground. 'We need a new plan of attack. Robin, you fight this guy a lot, any ideas?' Clayface slipped through the diamond shards easily and formed his hand into a solid hammer that crashed into Diamondhead's jaw and sent him propelling into the air and into the same machine Superboy crashed into.
'Our best bet is to keep trying the freezing tactic. I say we try to take advantage every time he tries to attack us as a liquid by countering with water which will make the attacks useless then weaken him a bit more with electricity and then freeze him.' Robin suggested throwing out 10 more baterrangs but his face was immediately grabbed his body was pulled into Clayface's.
Miss Martian then flew in using her telekinesis to force the clay apart and get Robin out of the monster. Miss Martian quickly went to check on him finding it worrying he didn't seem to be moving until a few seconds after she landed next to him he started to cough out and breathe heavily which made her sigh in relief. The fight wasn't over though as Clayface reformed in front of the two, Harding his hand and forming a giant hammer.
As he brought the hammer down his attack was countered by a diamond sword. Diamondhead, grinned as Clayface's attention was brought to him while Miss Martain took Robin away. Diamondhead was much stronger than Clayface so he was easily able to overpower him and lift Clayface's hand that was still a solid hammer, up higher.
'Now Artemis!' Ben ordered in his mind. The blond archer nodded as she, with one eye, aimed her arrow right for the clay monster's shoulder and released the arrow hitting the Clayface in the shoulder and freezing his entire arm. Diamondhead took advantage of this instantly and brought down his sword shattering the monster's arm. 'Aqualad were you now paying attention or something?! We need water stat!' When Ben received no response he raised a brow and looked back at the entrance of the warehouse were Aqualad stood, in a daze.
'Aqualad! Snap out of it!' Artemis mentally screamed which made Aqualad come back to his senses and take in his environment.
'W-What is it?' He asked looking towards the battle. Shacking his head wildly he started running towards the battle without even hearing a response to his question.
'Don't just rush in! We need you providing cover-' Ben mentally scolded but was slammed into another machine by Clayface's enlarged fist. The monster then did the same to Aqualad who had tried to attack him from behind but failed.
'Ok, that's it!' Ben thinks scrolling through the Omnitrix's playlist and stopping at a new alien, and slamming the dial down. It seemed to be a creature surrounded by red armor. It appeared as a mollusk-like alien with green eyes, and a grey mouth. Behind its legs and on the top of its arms were small spikes that were grey, black spots on its shoulders and legs, and on its hands, there are portholes. It also has four fingers with claws on them and on each of his feet, there is a grey spike. His lower torso is grey, with two spikes on the side of it.
"Water Hazard!" The newly named alien called Water Hazard held up its palms that held portholes and shot loads of water from them that crashed into Clayface. "Robin now!" Ben called out as Robin, still be flown away by Miss Martain, threw a couple of his batarangs at the large puddle of water that let out an electric shock, the warehouse was filled by a burning smell of clay before the large puddle of goo that was once Clayface slowly started to reform into himself again. "Artemis!"
Artemis shot 5 arrows at the monster, all landing on its target's chest and freezing its body completely.
Flashback End
Safe to say Batman wasn't too pleased with what he heard Auqalad did or didn't do.
It seemed like he was dozing off lately and Ben couldn't understand why. Although he would like to.
After that Ben had a talk with Aqualad he admitted his head wasn't in the game and he was feeling, as Ben put it, 'home sick'. And so for a few days, he went back to Atlantis. After that, he came back the same day they got a new mission… to Bialya.
Bialya
September 4
The Team arrived in Bialya and immediately set up shop about two clicks away from a Biaylan soldiers campsite. They were to maintain radio silence and everything was going fine until Ben started to get worried. Whenever things went good usually meant they were about to go bad.
"We'll be up and running in no time."
"Jackpot! The site's lousing with Zeta-Beam radiation."
"The non-terrestrial elements are coming from the tent."
Ben decided to step forward and slap the dial to his Omnitrix down changing into Big Chill. "I'll check it out. If I don't alert you guys within 10 minutes assume I need backup." his ghostly voice called out as he sank into the ground leaving behind a patch of ice of the ground.
He soon arrived in the tent, completely invisible, the moth-like alien narrowed his eyes as he watched Bialiyan scientists test on some sort of device. It was shaped like one giant, metallic, ball. Almost like how Cannonbolt looked when he wrapped himself up into a ball but it also had some sort of panel on its side, that flashed an orange color whenever the scientists shocked it. It was almost like it was alive.
'What the-' Ben questioned as the sudden sound of the metal balls' cries of pain horrified him. Ben was about to step in a freeze the scientists solid but his head suddenly started to pound. Big Chill fell out of the air and slammed into the ground, him clutching his head in pain as Big Chill slowly looked up to see a pale man wearing a dark brown hood. As the man pulled back his hood Ben felt bile come up from his throat as he saw the man's brain just sticking out.
'Ben are you there?!'
'Ben can you hear us?!'
'BEN!'
The voices of Aqualad, Superboy, and Artemis screamed in his head but Ben was too disoriented to respond. The scientist, who turned their heads from the sound of the bang, look horrified at the sight of the alien, however, the pale man looked… almost amused.
"Mmm, how strange I can't read your mind. What weird freak of nature you are… eh doesn't matter, I can still sense you," The pale man then lifted some crates that were next to him and sent them hurdling at Big Chill's form. The crates crashed right into him sending him rolling out of the tent.
Finally getting far enough away from the man Ben called out mentally. "Being- attacked- back up!'
As he finished he could already feel the vibration in the sand from the shockwave that probably occurred from Superboy jumping off the ground with all his might.
"Now, now, don't be so down. It will end shortly." The pale man says with a sick grin as he steps towards the boy. "Psimon says… die!" Psimon lifted a couple of stray guns with his telekinesis and clenched his fist as they pulled their triggers and fired.
Ben luckily had picked one of the few aliens he had that could phase through matter and instantly went right through the sand.
"Density Shifting? A martian?" Psimon asked himself curiously.
"He's not," Psimon quickly looked back at what seemed to be a teen girl's voice and saw Miss Martain hovering above him. "But I am!"
Superboy quickly rammed himself through a couple of tents and plowed right through trucks filled with ammo and ammunition. Kid Flash quickly appeared as well slamming into multiple men and knocking them down, until he slams into one so hard his helmet gets knocked off which he then catches.
"Souvenir." He comments with a giddy grin on his face as he runs towards the next group of the rest of the team shows up and deals with the other men around the camp.
Meanwhile, Miss Martian and Psimon booth appeared to be struggling as they had their own psychic deathmatch. The wind started to swarm around them close to making a tornado, almost as if the two were somehow making their own gravitational field with their psychic energy.
Miss Martian seemed to be losing her footing a bit to which Psimon laughs.
"Give it up girl! You can't beat me! My mind's power is far greater than even the Martian Manhunters!" Psimon laughs, Miss Martian, wanting to respond opened her mouth but found that it would only distract her so she kept her mouth closed and stayed focused. "Haha! Psimon says forge- Huh," Psimon comments as M'gann widens her eyes to see Psimon's feet suddenly start to be covered in ice. "No! What's this! Psimon says stop! Psimon says STOP! STOP!"
The ghostly form of Big Chill rose out from under Psimon's frozen body became tangible right when he landed on the ground.
Flashback end
After that they had brought the metallic ball thing home with the Team officially naming the ball 'Sphere'... sure it was a little on the nose but so were most of his alien's names.
With that, he had finally made it to the mission room to see Aqualad hard at work on the hologram computer, "Yo!" Ben calls out to Aqualad who greets him a 'hi'. "Hard at work huh?"
"Yes, although, it seems that monitor duty can be quite… boring," Aqualad comments with a sigh.
"I'll take it from here if you want. I've got nothing else." Ben says stepping up to the holographic screens and checking each one.
"Much appreciated." Aqualad states as he leaves to go back home. As the Zeta-beam finished teleporting Aqualad Ben got to work, deciding to go through some villain records to help him out in the future.
He had to admit, some of these villains seemed pretty powerful. Like, Parasite or Black Adam. And then some were just sad like- Polkadot man. Ben had to stifle a laugh at that one. Ben raised a brow as he saw Joker on some of the most dangerous people on the list… how?!
He had to admit he had a fear of clowns, but yet even he wasn't that terrified of that guy. Probably because the anger of seeing the other guy get shot pulsed through him but still. He was a clown, a Zombozo rip-off. As dangerous as it would be the best course of action would probably be to antagonize him. He saw how Joker reacted to everyone questioning his methods.
Questioning his big 'joke', of course, that got Calander man killed but it could make the prince of crime mess up or show weakness. Of course, that type of method wouldn't work for Batman since he doesn't talk too much but he would have to remember that himself just in case he ever saw the clown again.
Just as he finished his thought a sudden ring from the holographic monitor came in. "Red Arrow to Mount Justice." Ben rolled his eyes slightly. He recognized that voice, he had only met Red Arrow once but could tell that they probably wouldn't get along.
"Omni speaking, do you copy?" Ben asked, he knew if Red was calling it was probably important but he couldn't help himself.
'Do I- what?' Roy Harper voiced mentally rolling his eyes before another question popped into his head. "Who," He said, not remembering anyone called 'Omni'.
Ben deflated slightly, that hurt a bit more than it should have. He knew they only met once but he thought he made a bit more of an impression than that!
"Is anyone else there like Aqualad, Robin, or… Kid Flash." Roy paused slightly with the last name knowing that his ginger-headed friend might spend more time talking than giving him information, however, he wasn't very trusting, not these days and he was NOT about to ask help from his… ex-mentor.
Again, that hurt more than it should have. "Listen, like it or not I'm here, plus I just took monitor duty off Aqualad's hands and sent him home so all your getting is me."
Red Arrow scoffed slightly but sighed in defeat. "I need access to the Justice League database."
"Why?"
"I need the exact height and weight of the League of Shadows Assassin known as Dark Archer."
'League of Shadows, huh.' Ben mused he remembered the last member he fought, Cheshire, did a number on the team. They were barely able to take her down and she was just one person luckily he saved the doctor by using Brainstorm. He hummed as his fingers tapped on the holographic keyboard. "Checking…" Ben said and not a moment later he got back some results. "He's 1.77 meters tall and… weighs 98.8 kilograms."
"Umm…" The line went dead silent and Ben had to put and hand to his mouth to cover a laugh.
"Don't worry dude, I'm bad at math too. He's… 5'10 and 218 pounds." Ben commented. "So why did you need to know Dark Archer's height and weight?"
Red Arrow sighed, "You know that press conference in Taipei the one between the Northern and Southern Rhelasian. Well, I've heard the Shadows want the peacekeeper dead." Red Arrow tapped the frame of his glasses, the glass scanned everyone in the crowd around him looking for the exact height and weight.
"Wait, Dark Archer is supposed to be seriously dangerous like not to be messed with assassin, and you going in alone?!" Ben comments as he heard a growl from Roy.
"I don't need any backup if that's what you're implying, and I definitely don't need backup from a rookie,"
Neither of them talked for a few seconds and Roy was about to hang up before he heard the words, "I'll be there in a few minutes." Roy jumped and gritted his teeth.
"I don't need- *beep* did he hang up on me!" The red archer grunted before going back to scanning the crowd. Finally, he got a match. A tall dark-haired man was wearing a hoodie, most of his face was covered and he seemed to be hiding something behind him.
Roy turned back and opened his briefcase as it mechanically transformed itself into a crimson bow leaving the casing behind; the bow extended in his hands as the crowd began to scream as white cars and police vehicles escorted the black limousine.
Roy looked back at wear he saw Dark Archer and noticed he no longer stood where he was him, he gritted his teeth and looked at where he could be until he saw the man in his full Dark Archer uniform, that looked like a black version of Green Arrows, standing on a fruit stand with an RPG pointed at the black limousine.
He aimed at the car and didn't resist for a second to pull the trigger but just as he was about to an arrow flew from the distance and knocked his gun upwards firing the explosive into the sky.
Everyone spotted the rocket as bodyguards pulled their guns out and protected the two political figures moving them inside as the crowd scattered in a panic. Dark Archer grunted, "Damn it! Who the hell-" Just as was about to finish that sentence an arrow came flying at him which he managed to dodge by just tilting his head. The arrow whooshed past his head as he readily pulled out his own quiver and fired in the direction the arrow came from.
Red Arrow narrowly avoided the arrow standing behind the stone column with the arrow grazing by his cheek. The bodyguards got ready to shoot the assassin but Dark Archer was able to flip off the fruit stand without a scratch on him and fire 5 arrows from his bow all of which hit their target and stuck right into their chests.
"Give it up Malcolm!" Dark Archer looked up, his identity suddenly being spoken took him off guard and he was just barely able to jump out of the way another arrow. Malcolm looked at the column and could see who had been shooting at him and narrowed his eyes.
'I know that hair…' Malcolm mused with a smirk. "What kid, you ditch the old Robin Hood and now you think you can play hero?" Malcolm quickly stood up and shot an arrow at Roy which barely missed him.
"I don't need him, the League, or anyone…"
Malcolm smirked again as he knew his plan to get Roy amped up was working. "Please who you trying to fool no matter what you'll always be a sideki-"
Roy roared with anger as he jumped away from the column and pulled his quiver back and got ready to shoot at the archer only to see and realize why Malcolm suddenly stopped.
He was knocked out, clean. Roy looked around, he didn't even see anything, but Roy got his answer when a humanoid, velociraptor type of monster appeared in front of him.
"What the hell are you?!" Red said aiming his arrow at XLR8.
"Whoa, whoa it's me Omni!"
Roy widened his eyes and then let out a fierce breath. It all made sense now, this 'Omni' guy was that shapeshifter everyone had been talking about.
"I told you I don't need help!"
"Sure, cause you had that completely handled."
"I did you-" They both stopped as the gun started to be pointed at them.
"We have just witnessed an assassination attempt," Cat said, "No one seems to be hurt including our mystery arbitrator…" the man stepped out of his limo and straightened his suit, "Lex Luthor?" she questioned.
Ben raised a brow, 'Isn't Lex Luthor one of Superman's enemies, what's he doing at a peace summit?'
A gun clicking brought him out of his thoughts as most guns started to be pointed at the shapeshifter. Red Arrow looked to be being hand-cuffed while it seemed like the men were contemplating on just shooting XLR8 on the spot.
Luthor rushed over to them with his assistant, a young attractive woman in a suit, and put his hand up motioning for the men to stop. "This one is Green Arrow's sidekick, Speedy. He's of no threat," Luthor said. Red Arrow seemed to bite his tongue for the time being and not correct the man.
The men looked at each other seemingly deep in thought, they would have to question him, but the archer wasn't their main concern right now.
"What of the creature?" Luthor looked at XLR8 and frowned. His appearance seemed to be unexpected. Luthor quickly gave the alien a once-over but stopped when he saw the dial on his chest. He smiled slightly and held up his hand again
"Lex Luthor vouches… for both of them." Ben narrowed his eyes and he looked between the bald man and the archer. The bald man in question holding out a hand. "It's pleasure to meet Mr…"
"XLR8, I would shake your hand but," Ben decided to hold any snarky remark, curse, or rude gesture inside. The men around him were still holding up their guns. Dodging them all was no problem, especially in this form, however, it was best he made a good first impression, this was not only the first time he was being caught on camera but also the people weren't used to too many friendly/heroic aliens beside a select few. So instead he held up his clawed hand and waved it. "These aren't best for shaking."
Lex seemed to chuckle slightly as he dropped his hand. "Fair point, Mr. Accelerate. Fitting name by the way."
Ben had the feeling he didn't pick up on how he spelled XLR8's name but didn't bother correcting him.
Just then the reporter named Cat had tried to get past the cops and guards surrounding the 3 but was blocked instantly. But that didn't stop her from holding out her microphone and asking a question. "Mr. Alien, Cat Grant, are you with the Justice League?"
XLR8 looked at her and seemed to begin to respond when Luthor jumped in, which, in his honest opinion, was probably for the best. "Please, I would like a word with my two saviors for a minute Ms. Grant," Lex says as he slightly pushed XLR8 and Red Arrow along his assistant following close behind.
Once they were out of earshot, Red Arrow pushed Lex's handoff. "I don't need any favors from you."
"I'm sorry, I didn't realize you wanted to join Dark Archer behind bars?"
XLR8 just looked between the two, he was slowly starting to regret coming here. "Um maybe…
Roy interrupted him not even paying him any mind, "You may have everyone here fooled but, I know what you are."
Lex cracked a smirk, "Oh, I don't pretend to be an angle; it just so happens that this time I'm on the side of the angles," Lex walked away. Roy grumbled slightly as he followed close behind leaving only Mercy, Luthor's assistant, and Ben.
Ben looked at the girl, she was pretty, yet she had this serious face that just didn't seem to fade. "So what's your deal?" Mercy seemed to look at him for a brief moment before turning in the direction of Roy and Lex and walking away. 'Ok, fine don't answer.' Ben sighed, he wanted to find out what was going on in there, but…
"Don't move!" The cops and guards shouted from behind him, still, their guns pointed at him.
He didn't feel like he was wanted. Although his evening plan wasn't to end up in a cell then area 51 operating table so he ignored the commands and shot off in a random direction away from the Peace Summit.
A little bit later
Roy started to make his way to the Taipei Police Department. He stood before the build dressed in his costume and sighed before he started to walk in… but he was immediately grabbed and then suddenly appeared on the roof of the building in a blink of an eye.
Roy was in a daze for a few seconds before he looked around a saw a familiar speedster alien sitting on the ground.
"I don't need your-"
"Help?" Ben cut him off "Look whether you need it or not, I'm helping you with this mission."
"Why-"
"Would I? Because I'm a hero, it's my job to help people. Not to mention with both of us around there's more of a chance of us succeeding than failing."
"Are you-"
"Going to keep finishing your sentences? Yes. Until you accept my help." XLR8 finished holding out his clawed hand.
"I thought those weren't 'best for shaking'?" Roy commented with a deadpanned expression as XLR8 grinned. Roy scoffed, "Fine, you can help, the rundown is Luthor's profiting off this Peace Summit, which is the only reason he's helping. And the Shadows want him dead so there won't be any peace, but the shadows were most likely hired so the information we want is who hired them."
"Gotcha, and if he's about to escape I can transform into, Brainstorm. Seems to be the Shadow's weakness."
"Want do you mean?"
"Oh, Brainstorm is the form I used to beat Cheshire, back when you assigned us that mission a while back."
"Hmm," He hummed. "Well, at least you beat her, although the League could have done a better job keeping her locked up." Ben raised an eyebrow at this.
"What do you mean?"
"You didn't hear, she escaped not long after she was imprisoned." Ben's eyes shot open as he groaned loudly.
"Damn it."
Roy quickly offered a short pat on his shoulder before he walked away. "Welcome to the hero world kid."
Taipei Police Department;
September 8th; 9:05 AM
"Well, kid looks like you did it. You finally got out of the Robin Hood's shadow, now all you need to do is get that stick out of your ass and you'll be all set." Commented Malcolm to Roy as they stood on opposite sides of the bars in the room.
Ben had his arms crossed outside of the room where no one would see him. They made sure the camera was off and all the guards weren't around which allowed him to change back, he wanted to charge up the Omnitrix power to make sure there wouldn't be a timeout anytime soon. Just in case a fight broke out.
The two archers went back and forth in conversation as Ben kind of tuned them out as he kept fiddling with his new watch.
As the conversation carried on Ben slowly started listening in on them.
"So why do all this? Was it just for Luthor or was it to stop the Peace Summit?" Roy asked Dark Archer as he slowly walked forward against the bars.
"Kid, I only got one thing to say to you," Malcolm said as Roy narrowed his eyes until the Dark Archer did something unexpected, he smiled. "Boom!"
With that, he ducked as Roy slowly walked back with the word 'shi-' barley audible as the wall behind Malcolm exploded. Ben turned into the doorway only to have dirt and ruble blow into his face that made him quickly take his jacket's sleeve and wipe his eyes.
Malcolm's laugh was heard by both heroes even though most of what they heard was slightly muffed by the sound of a helicopter. Ben finally wiped his eyes clean and spirited back to the stairway that would take him to the roof.
Once up there he kicked down the door and slapped the Omnitrix dial down. He then turned into a large, green, turtle-like alien with large flipper-like arms, and stumpy legs. The tips of its arms had three holes each, with its body being circular.
"Terraspin." The alien said quite lazily. Ben instantly looked up at the helicopter flying in the air a passager just barely seeing him. A passenger with a white Cheshire cat mask- 'Oh boy…'
"Yoo hoo~ Mr. Shapeshifter!" Cheshire called out while she held a rocket launcher in hand and shot at the rooftop.
Time seemed to slow down for Ben, the basic instincts of this alien he called Terraspin had been uploaded into his brain like any new alien he could turn into. And he wasn't quite impressed, it seemed all the species could do was travel by using themselves as propellers, not to mention this form isn't very durable nor had super strong since this species wasn't much of the fighter type.
'Alright, time to get creative…' He thought as he slightly began to levitate off the ground, his two stubby legs formed into one flipper-like his two arms, all of which extended out. His head tucked into its a shell and his flipper limbs started to spin around at a high speed.
As the rocket got closer Ben increased the speed of the flippers. The force of the wind slowly started to slow the rocket down before it completely tilted to the side and blew up right before it hit the building.
Ben then tilted his body to be facing and started to run towards the vehicle. Red Arrow, just arriving from being knocked out on the floor, jumped on top of Terraspin pulling out his bow and an arrow.
Terraspin's head popped up from out of his shell. "Hey, I'm not a taxi!" He called out in a lazy tone but couldn't complain any longer since Red Arrow decided to stand up on the giant turtle and step on his head while aiming an arrow at the helicopter.
"Keep it steady." He said firing an arrow at the vehicle and hitting it on its bottom.
Dark Archer poked his head out and caught the two heroes. "You have got to be kidding me!" Malcolm yelled, he left his bow and arrows back at the police station. He decided to improvise, seeing Sportsmaster as the driver he knew the guy had a bunch of sport-related weapons and dug through his pocket before he pulled out a metal stick that then formed into a metal frisbee.
The archer grinned as he held it and tossed it out the open door to Red Arrow and Ben. Roy not missing a beat shot an arrow at the frisbee, both of them collided which resulted in a large explosion thanks to the C4 packed into the object.
Ben had to give Roy credit. Even with the wind resistance working against him, he still was a pro at shooting his bow. If only he had gotten off of the shapeshifters head then he mightve actually congratulated him.
"Annoying brat," Malcolm commented with a scoff.
"I don't know I kind of like him," Cheshire spoke grabbing her sai and spinning it in her hand. "As much as I admire persistence, you're coming off a bit needy!" Cheshire spoke chucking her sai, like it was one of her shurikens, with Dark Archer immediately after fishing out another metal frisbee throwing that as well.
Roy parried the sai with his bow and brought another arrow to his quiver and shot at the frisbee, while it exploded on the impact it had gotten too close and knocked Red Arrow off the turtle-like alien. Terraspin immediately noticed the lessened weight and looked down to see Roy falling, fast.
Ben dove down, making sure his flippers were spinning way faster than they were before, he made it under Roy in less than a second as the wind started to swirl around him a form a green miniature tornado that slowly lessened Roy's descent before Terraspin plucked him from the air.
The alien immediately made a b-line for the helicopter but was suddenly alerted by a beeping sound. Terraspin, in a bright green light, changed back into Ben with both him and Roy falling and skidding on a building's rooftop.
Thankfully said the building was much closer than it was when they were higher up in the air.
Both groaned as Ben gave a frustrated look to the Omnitrix. "Oh, come on I gave you a 20-minute window to recharge and I was XLR8 for like 30 minutes. That's was barely 9!"
Ben shouted at his watch, he knew he must have looked crazy but he didn't care. It seemed the Omnitrix was becoming a little inconsistent on its timing.
Before the recalibration, it was always 10 minutes but a different alien he wanted. Then it was even longer after recalibration and he got every alien he wanted. Now though it seemed like it could be 1 second to an hour. Kind of seemed like a downgrade to him.
Ben turned to Roy who he suspected would be even angrier than him. Apparently not as Roy just stared off in the direction of the helicopter.
"What's the plan now?" Ben asked.
"We don't know who hired the shadows… and we don't have any leads, best we group up later at the Peace Summit."
"You think they'll show then?"
"Only time they can. Luthor's probably doubled his protection by now. Best we go in then." Ben sighed then shrugged.
"Fine. See you later…" Ben said walking to the other side of the building trying to see if the Omnitrix recharged yet, he failed to notice Red Arrow hiding a tracker, which was on his first arrow he shot that latched onto the helicopter, behind his back.
Mount Justice
Ben spun his Omnitrix multiple times trying to figure some sort of communicator command or something. But no matter his efforts they all seemed to be for not.
"Damn it!" Ben groaned. "I wish I could just say 'Azmuth, I need to talk to you then it just-" He was cut off by the beeping sound his watch made and gave a curious look to it before it displayed a holographic, green, image of Azmuth. "Wait, that worked?!"
"Benjamin, what is it? I'm very busy." The old frog alien huffed.
"Yeah, when are you not. Mind telling me why you forgot to mention there was a communicator on this thing. May I remind you I was stuck in the Null Void for 5 years, contacting you would have been helpful information."
Azmuth gave Ben a very blank look, "First of all, I didn't forget anything, I didn't tell you there was a communicator because I was sure you would use it for the simplest problems that wouldn't require my help. Second of all, may I remind YOU that I was told by Paradox himself to leave you in the Null Void for 5 years until you ended up in that universe, for some reason he thinks you need to be there? Now if that's all-"
"No, it not!" Azmuth's annoyed grunt was acknowledged by Ben but he didn't care. "What's up with the time-outs being so inconsistent? It's like I'm in an alien for 10 minutes then I'm in for 30 then only 5 seconds."
Azmuth glared at the teen. "Well, that's because of your habit of slamming down on the Omnitrix."
"Wait what!" Ben asked with a very shocked face.
"The impact of your oversized hand set's the time-out function to random. You want to stay as an alien as long as possible press it down." He said and Ben's jaw dropped.
"Wait! So that why- hold on my hand isn't oversized? Not for a human anyway…"
"Oh, so then you have no excuse for slamming down on MY Omnitrix as if it's some child's toy." Ben got a chill up his spine at the look Azmuth gave him.
"Uhhhh, got a go bye!" Ben quickly fiddled with the Omnitrix dial until the hologram disappeared. Ben walked to the holo-ring and got ready for some training before the big fight at the Peace Summit but then a sudden beep alerted him of someone calling the cave.
Ben walked to the monitor where a holo-screen appeared. "Red Arrow to Cave..."
"Omni here, what's up?"
Heavy breathing and the sound of rushing water came through the comms for about a minute before he spoke, "It may be possible that- I'm a little- in over my head."
Ben sighed before giving his response. "What the fuck did you do?"
Later
"The unification is unthinkable!" the Prime Minister shouted, Lex Luther stood between both stands with the Prime Minister on one end and General Sing on the other, the Peace Meeting didn't seem to be going well. "Our nations no longer have anything in common!"
Roy stood behind Lex, with his assistant, in his Red Arrow suit. He kept his eyes peeled on the audience and didn't pay much attention to the Summit. He now knew that even Ra's al Ghul, leader of the shadows, wanted Lex dead instead of them being haired in the first place. He had taken on Dark Archer, Cheshire, and Sportsmaster on his own but didn't last long.
He was an idiot for going in alone, he would admit to that but he wasn't going to make the same mistake again. As he scanned the audience again, he saw a woman dressed in ceremonial garbs, she the way she was holding herself and the way looked down to ensure of hiding her face seemed suspicious to him. She pushed a large, metal cart. Which he only assumed held the Minister and Generals drinks and treats that were probably laced with poison.
"Gentlemen," Luthor smiled and leaned forward blocking each of their views of each other. "Spite your differences you still share an appreciation for many things; such as the exquisite art of the Rhelasian Tea Ceremony," He motioned to the woman but immediately narrowed his eyes at who was pushing the cart and looked back at Roy.
'Seems he noticed too…' Red Arrow then put two fingers to his ear and whispered the word, "Now."
"Oh no, you don't assassin, Lady!" The small green form of Upchuck landed on the ground as he had just jumped off the roof into the beautifully decorated Summit.
Upchuck opened his jaw and launched out its 3 tongues and latched onto the crate everyone quickly turned their attention onto the creature before creaming in horror as everyone seemed to have just barely seen the alien swallow the metal crate whole. A couple of people fainted and others ran away.
Red Arrow took action grabbing his bow and shooting at the woman before she grabbed a sai she had hidden away and sliced the arrow in two. The woman then turned her attention back to the alien and seemed to be… grossed out at its expanding belly.
Upchuck, with a very loud belch, launched a green energy orb. The woman dodged out of the way as it was sent plummeting into the wall of the building. Almost everyone was knocked off their feet when they felt the explosion hit the wall, the shockwave fiercely shook the room as if an earthquake was taking place.
Cheshire fell on her face being knocked forward by the explosion while Upchuck was flown back, his tiny body landing on the ground harshly.
Red Arrow ran up to the shapeshifter checking if he was ok. He sighed in relief when Ben gave out a light gruff of pain but opened his eyes. Roy then readied his weapon aiming assassins but stopped as he suddenly heard an all too familiar sound tonight of a helicopter.
He looked off into the broken wall to see attack-helicopters hovering in front of the building and letting several League of Shadows members into the galley.
Upchuck sat up and looked at the army of men dressed in black suits and huffed in annoyance. "Well, this will be fun."
"Got something that can help us here?"
Upchuck quickly fiddled with the dial on his chest then, lightly, tapped the Omnitrix symbol changing him into Lodestar.
"Yeah," Lodestar says holding out his clawed hands. "A magnetic personality."
A large number of assassins started firing multiple bullets at the two heroes. Ben quickly put the alien's power into use, projecting multiple magnetic fields that stopped the bullets in their place.
"Alright, if you can't use those toys reasonably," Ben paused as he shifted his claws upwards, all the ninjas felt their metallic weapons get lifted into the air, some of the assassins weren't able to let go in time and started to be levitated with them until every piece of metal that was on each of the assassin's body was on the ceiling sticking there and not moving, even Cheshire's sai wasn't safe.
Sportsmaster was the last to step out of the helicopter and narrowed his eyes at Red Arrow and Ben. The ladder doing the same.
"I'll take Cheshire, you take Sportsmaster!" Roy ordered as Ben nodded, he wasn't about to complain, he let the guy go once, he wasn't making that mistake again.
Ben tapped the Omnitrix dial on his chest the move blinding everyone around him, Swampfire now standing where the living magnet Lodestar once did. Swampfire grinned as he rushed towards the man Roy doing the same towards Cheshire. Both took down any League member that got in their way. While all the metal weapons that were once held by the assassins that were lifted into the air started to fall to the ground.
Sportsmaster ran towards the plaint-like alien throwing and fist forward that Swampfire easily dodged, Ben punched the assassin's face cracking his mask slightly, he then kneed the man in his stomach then took both of his hands, gripped the Sportsmaster's head, and then headbutted him.
Sportsmaster stuttered back dodging a kick from Swampfire, he kicked off the ground throwing a kick in the plaint-aliens direction. Swampfire dodged it quickly but missed Sportsmanster pulling out a metal javelin and stabbing it into the alien's chest it plunged right through the alien. Onlookers screamed at the sight of the alien starting to back away from the assassin.
Cheshire and Red Arrow's fight had been held off as both looked at the sight of Swampfire being stabbed. A small beeping noise was heard from the javelin as Swampfire got ready to pull the javelin out of himself but before he could the javelin detonated and the alien blew up, chunks of itself splattering all over the room.
"Omni!" Roy shouted out before being kicked in the head by Cheshire. Reporters filmed and took photos of the sight trying their hardest not to puke as they saw the chunks of Swampfire still moving.
"So much for that," Sportsmaster said then turned to Red Arrow as Cheshire had him pinned to the floor the rest of the League of Shadow members got their weapons back off the ground and started to fight back a few of the guards and police.
As Sportsmaster turned he failed to notice Swampfire start to piece himself back together, in just a few short seconds Swampfire was back together a smirk plastered on his face. He lightly tapped on Sportsmasters shoulder making the man turn around and widen his eye before being punched in the face sending him flying back.
Swampfire then shot a fireball at Cheshire which knocked her off Roy, he then sent multiple more into the remaining shadows knocking them away from the police and guards.
Sportsmaster picked himself off the floor and ran towards Swampfire with a fist cocked back, Swampfire turned towards him right as Sportsmasters fist crashed through Swampfires chest. The attack didn't seem the hurt the plaint alien and he found his arm had gotten stuck through the alien's chest.
Swampfire grinned and punched Sportsmaster a couple of times before he was knocked out of the alien.
As Sportsmaster shook his head and dodged another punch from the alien he scoffed. "Wow, got to say I'm impressed between today, Santa Prisca, Bialya. Your really a pain in the ass Shapeshifter."
Ben narrowed his eyes at the word 'Bialya'. How could Sportsmaster have known he and the team were in Bialya? "How-"
"Let's just say I have an inside source- very inside," Sportsmaster said while getting another metal javelin and threw it at Swampfire who blasted it with a fireball. The explosion blinded Swampfire from seeing the man as Cheshire threw a smoke bomb on the ground that exploded, causing Red Arrow to fire a projectile through the smoke hitting nothing.
As the smoke cleared they could all see all of the assassins had left including Cheshire and Sportsmaster. The General and Minister both walked up to Swampfire, reluctantly, and stood before him.
"Mr. Alien, thank you so much."
"We are greatly in your debt."
"Uh, no problem at all. Just doing my, hero, thing." He says then walking away towards Roy, awkwardly. The two then walked to Lex Luthor saying their 'thanks' to him as well.
"Well this could have been worse," Arrow sighed and stepped away towards the exit with Ben not too far behind.
"We took down the Shadows and helped in solving peace between two nations. Problem solved.
"Is it? I heard what Sportsmaster said, do you really think there's a mole on your team feeding him intel?" He crossed his arms Ben looked at him, still in Swampfire, and laughed.
"Haha, you mean the same assassin bad guy that tried to blow me up not twelve seconds before conveniently telling me something that would normally be considered a big secret. The guy was trying to make me slip up or he's trying to drive a wedge between the team, Justice League, whatever. I'll them all about this when I get back to the cave."
"You not worried about tipping her off?"
"How do you know it's a 'her'?" Ben said narrowing his eyes, it was more of a rhetorical question, he knew what he was insinuating, he knew WHO he was insinuating. "Listen I know you and Artemis have bad blood, but I'm confident that no one on the Team is moles. Plus even if someone was the mole they would already know Sportsmaster tipped me off about them already, in my opinion, there's no use hiding it."
Roy gave a scoff "Good luck with that."
"Hold on a second," Red Arrow stopped and turned back to plant-like alien, "Why the hell did you ditch me? And try to fight the Shadows alone?!"
Roy sighed slightly looking down. "Even though it's been so long since I left GA, I'm still getting used to this solo thing, I've been trying to go at this alone, all of it. But I kind of got a wake-up call after I was defeated so easily when I faced off against the shadows. You- The Team, has my respect. If you need me, I'll help however I can." Red Arrow stuck his hand out for Ben to shake which he accepted and shook.
"Good to know."