LegendaryMob: He didn't have any experience as a leader in AF either, and neither did Aqualad when he first started. It was not about who had the most experience it was about who could use the Team more creatively. In this case, Ben was just the 'louder' voice than Aqualad was in canon. No matter what it's not that hard to see Ben would use the team even more creatively since his experience with using his aliens in such creative ways, like Cannonbolt and Terraspin.

Monkey D. Conan: Thank you! I'm glad you enjoy this story!

Bromega2477: Kevin 11k is going to be a definite problem for sure. Also, I like the name.

gwb620: It was more like Kevin and Ben saw a 'what if' moment, it wasn't really but both wondered what it would have been like if they became friends.

DJ Rodriguez: Thank you so much! I try to make sure this story and everything about the characters try to stay true to canon and follow canon rules. I feel like more authors of fanfics should do this than have Ben or some other character lose or have the characters make a dumb call for 'the plot'. Especially for Young Justice, a show that prided itself in making sure the characters were smart and made good decisions that made sense. I almost pull my hair out every time I read a Ben 10 fic where Ben is losing because of a plot. Don't get me wrong Ben can lose, however, making the character dumber put him in a worse situation or making the villain slightly more OP to make him on par with Ben is, in my opinion, not a good call.

Spedyalarm: Ben does have a Kryptonian form that he hasn't got the chance to use yet. Also, Alien X will appear… soon.

Mount Justice

November 3rd, 9:40

October had been an eventful month for the Team.

First, they had to deal with the Injustice League plus Vilgax, an eventful battle that led to their defeat and Ben calling Artemis and M'gann his 'girls'.

They then went out to find Red Tornado, only to run into his family, mainly Red Elemento which was a combination of Tornado's entire family minus him. Plus side Red Tornado was brought back and Zatanna joined the team thanks to Kent Nelson's strong-arming Zatara.

Then after that, they had to deal with an alien invasion and his former enemy Kevin Levin, the future version. They somehow survived that and got Starfire and Batgirl on the Team.

After that was the mini adventures of him and Superboy learning more about the sphere and the 'forever people'. He also got to scan their species, the New Gods. He couldn't wait to try out that transformation.

And, finally, on Halloween night he had to deal with an asshole guy named Harm who killed his sister to gain power. That one partially stuck with Ben. He was still thinking about the guy's cruel and proud smirk at what he had done, thankfully Ben easily took him down since besides his magic sword the guy wasn't really that tough.

Now it was the beginning of November and Ben was ready to relax for a few days and enjoy life. Making new inventions for the Team and relaxing with his friends.

All he could do now was home nothing could go wrong.

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Ben suddenly sat up as he realized where his thoughts had just gone. That wouldn't count, right? It's not like he said… right?

"Oh no…"

Unknown Location

November 3rd, 10:00

Eon was walking in the metal base where the members of the Light held their meetings. He walked into a laboratory and walked over to the table that was currently occupied by someone working.

Eon grabbed two things out of his pocket and threw them onto the table roughly. One was a dial closely resembling that of the Omnitrix dial but instead of its circle shape it was more now shaped like a hexagon and the design of the dial was a red and silver open mouth with sharp teeth. The other was a simply black flash drive. "There, the Nemetrix and a flash drive containing Azmuth and Albedo's work with Ultimate transformations."

"You seem upset, Eon. Surely, it wasn't that much trouble to get these items?" The man working had said stepping away from the table showing he was a humanoid-like crab creature resembling Brainstorm although the alien was mostly purple and pink. His left arm was also triple the size of his right.

"These 'items' had been acquired by me going through a plumber base filled with those, Red Spots! If that wasn't trouble enough Ben Tennyson appeared to try and stop me, thankfully I got out of there in time. But that flash drive information had to come from an entirely different dimension one in which Albedo didn't turn evil and wasn't a prick, instead Azmuth and he worked together to make the Ultimatrix even if they didn't finish it. I had to fight over a hundred of those frogs before getting the information! Dodged lasers and other death traps I don't even want to talk about all without my time powers because they didn't work while I was in the base!" Eon yelled frustratedly at the Cerebrocrustacean, if he didn't think Azmuth was a threat before he definitely did now. How the mini frog found a way to turn off his time powers while he was in the base he had no idea. But it was honestly frightening to know that he could.

"Oh, is that so? I had no idea it would be that difficult for a powerful time traveler like yourself, and I use the term loosely." Dr. Psychobos chuckled to himself looking over his new playthings.

Eon gritted his teeth and growled at the doctor, he grabbed the Cerebrocrustacean's face before smashing it against the edge of the table. "Watch it, Psychobos. Or I'll put your ass back into that cell I found you in." Eon said glaring at the crab humanoid as he, with a groan, picked himself back up. "Now put your brilliant mind, and I use the term loosely, to work."

"Good thinking, Eon," A man who wore a black suit covering his upper body with a red stripe in the middle and grey pants. He had bones as ornamentation over his clothes, which consisted of a ribcage on his chest, a tailbone on his right shoulder, a horned animal skull on his left shoulder, ribs covering the back of his black suit and boots, and claws on his shoes. His face was fully exposed, which was turquoise with a large lower jaw which has teeth fused with his lips. He had dark red sunken eyes, as well as gills under his cheeks. "I know from experience, after working with him for a while, you can't let the worm get too big of a head." Eon and Psychobos turned to the man and Psychobos glared at him.

"Khyber, always lurking." Dr. Psychobos growled before turning back to the flash drive and Nemetrix.

"Of course, I am the greatest huntsman after all," Khyber said with a grin as he cleaned his blade with a white cloth.

At his statement, Psychobos laughed. "Were, is a better word," Khyber glared at the alien crab. "After your little 'bonding moment' with my Nemetrix, it's obvious you have lost a lot of your skills, you were a fool to try and use it on yourself."

The huntsmen growled before throwing his blade at the humanoid crab which blacked it by shooting an electrical blast from his brain.

"I'm still able to hunt you, you pest!"

"Enough!" Eon yelled, making both Khyber and Psychobos back down before they were blasted to ashes. "No killing the other until I'm sure this Tennyson is dead, after that feel free to annihilate each other."

Psychobos clicked his tongue before turning back to his Nemetrix. "It does make me wonder why you have recruited us for this job when you had Vilgax and an evil version of that Osmosian brat. Also what's so important about this Tennyson that you need him dead so badly?"

"This specific Tennyson is much more cable than the other Tennyson, his knowledge of surviving in the Null Void and his new transformation he has and can get from this new universe are too dangerous to let him roam free, also the Time Walker has free access in the Multiverse. If I ever try anything with the timeline again he will most likely recruit this Ben to stop me. And if that's the case I can consider my future plans history." Eon explained that it was the simplest thing in the world. "As for why I recruited both of you… Vilgax was more trouble than he was worth, and Kevin is… over there." He said pointing to the corner of the room where there was a deformed creature missing its leg half of its torso, his left arm, and his right hand. Its body was covered with burn marks and parts of his organs were exposed from holes around his body.

"He's healing, but it will take time. I needed more people, and I'll bring even more here. I don't care how many people I have to bring that hate, Tennyson." Eon stated before turning around a walking out of the room leaving Khyber and Psychobos alone.

Eon once again walked the halls of the base before he ran into a certain immortal man. "Vandal." He commented stopping in front of the leader of the Light.

"Eon. How is your new project coming along?" Vandal Savage asked with a raised brow.

"Good so far." He stated simply.

"Your friend, Dr. Psychobos was a good substitute for Brain since he is no longer… with us," Savage said recalling the events of when the Team had captured the Brain, Ben Tennyson had deactivated the robot functions, including the one keeping his brain alive. It was an honest mistake that anyone could have made so he wasn't really blamed for it by his teammates… but still… "It does concern me that this, Ben Tennyson, had no feeling of guilt towards his accidental killing of the Brain. Not to mention he still has suspicions that there is another secret society controlling the villains. He's becoming too much of a pest to ignore."

"Agreed, once I get more villains and my new project running with go for an all-out assault on him. Even Tennyson won't be able to survive."

"Good, then I have no complaints-"

"I do!"

Eon and Savage both looked to their left to see Sportsmaster leaning against the wall, his eyes filled with anger.

Mount Justice

November 3rd, 15:30

Ben walked into the kitchen and saw both M'gann and Starfire cooking what looked like cookies.

"Hey guys," Ben said alerting them of his presence. At that, both girls smiled at him.

"Good morning!" They said at the same time pleasantly.

Ben deadpanned at them before chuckling. 'They like the same person.'

"We are baking cookies," Starfire said excited to try out something.

M'gann giggled, "She has been a real help in the kitchen, she has even shown me a couple of recipes from her own world."

At that Ben smiled slightly, he was glad to see Starfire getting along with everyone.

"Really? What kind of food do her people eat?" Ben asked wondering if it was similar to Earth food.

"Spicy," M'gann commented

"Spicy?"

"Spicy."

"Ok… I like spicy food, do have any I could try?" Ben asked realizing that he was pretty hungry right now.

At that, M'gann's eyes widened. "No, Ben you don't understand-"

"Here you go!" Starfire said putting down a bowl of what looked like lava in front of him. "This would be my planet's equivalent to… what's that food you like… chills?"

"Chili? Wow, you made?" He said taking a spoon of the red sauce and bringing it to his lips.

"Wait! Ben!" M'gann said but her screaming fell on deaf ears as Ben had already eaten some of the chili.

Ben blinked once, then twice, before giving a hum of approval. "It tastes good." He commented he had no idea why M'gann was acting so weird, it tasted great, and he would definitely try this later with some fries and- "*Cough**cough*" Ben started to cough slightly. His face turned slightly. "Oooh, that has a good kick to it *cough**cough*! Oh man, that's a big kick! *Cough**cough*" His face became as red as a tomato while he started to cough more and more.

Starfire hummed thoughtfully, "Unfotantly your planet's spices foods are some peppers which are still not as spicy as Tamaranean's food but *thud* I believe the Earth's expression is made due with-"

"Starfire…"

"Yes?"

"I think Ben is unconscious," M'gann said looking down at the ground Ben stared up to the ceiling with wide eyes and mouth open, drool escaping from his mouth.

"Oh…"

It only took a few more seconds before the girls started running around frequently trying to find a cure for the poison the poor boy just ate.

Poor Tennyson suffered for an hour before more of their Team came in a gave him milk.

Meanwhile,

Khyber and Sportsmaster stood across from each other in fighting positions. While Eon and Savage observed from afar.

It seemed like Sportsmaster was unhappy because Khyber, thanks to his hunting skills was put as an enforcer for the Light. Sportsmaster had claimed that he rathered worked alone and there could only be one true enforcer.

While Savage was ready to tell his 'old friend' to see the reason, Eon let it happen for some reason. Savage stared at Eon for a second, wondering what he was planning. It didn't matter as he watched the match between Khyber and Sportsmaster begin.

The rules? There weren't any, both could use any weapon they had on them or around them. Khyber grinned as he knew that compared to a normal human he would easily defeat him but Sportsmaster was also confident in his skills.

The match started with Sportsmaster pulling out a small metal stick that slowly extended into a javelin, he then threw it at Khyber who easily dodged out of the way of it. As it passed him, Khyber slowly started to run towards Sportsmaster but he was caught off guard by the beep sound he heard behind him. And then, before he could react the javelin exploded and sent the huntsmen hiring towards Sportsmaster.

Once his momentum slowed down, Khyber tried to balance himself in the air but was caught by a punch to the jaw by Sportsmaster.

The blond man didn't stop there and ran towards the alien to try and finish the battle. But as soon as he got close to the huntsmen the man surprised him by kicking his legs out from under him making him land his back on the ground.

"Die!" Khyber quickly jumped in the air with his knife in his hand, he was aiming for the blonde man's throat but his arm was stopped by Sportsmaster kicking his arm back. Sportsmaster then flipped to his feet before launching three metal discs at the Huntsmen which all exploded on impact.

Khyber dodged the blasts before pulling out another knife, now with a blade in each hand, Khyber slashed at his prey but only managed to cut him three to four times out of the man attacks he sent. Seeing an opening Sportsmaster quickly used Khyber's own body like a springboard and kicked his jaw.

Khyber's head shot back, some of his blood flying in the air. As he looked at the laughing Sportsmaster he growled in anger.

"You're pretty sloppy for a huntsman." He commented with a smirk behind his mask.

Khyber ran at Sportsmaster with a yell while Sportsmaser brought out a heavy metal ball attached to a cord and handle which he grabbed onto and swung around.

Happy Harbor

November 3rd, 17:30

The boys of the Team, Ben, Conner, Wally, Dick, and Kaldur all were in an arcade located in Happy Harbor.

All of them were wearing civilian clothes as they decided to have a 'boy's night out'. Robin and Kid Flash suggested the arcade and everyone quickly agreed.

Both Dick and Wally were trying out a shooting game that they seem extremely good at. Ben wasn't too surprised since Robin's accuracy and perception were just slightly below or on par with Artemis, not to mention his sharp eye and predicting movements from his opponents. As for Wally… it was clear he was cheating. He was using his superspeed to quickly shoot any zombie that even appeared on screen.

"Perhaps we can try a different game?" Kaldur suggested to both Ben and Conner.

"Sure, I don't even want to attempt to try and beat that high score," Ben said pointing at the teen heroes' score in the shooting game and how they both had exceeded way past the previous score of other players.

Conner was looking around before his eye landed on a particular machine and grinned. But his moments were stopped as both Ben and Kaldur gripped his arms.

"You're not trying out the punching machine," Ben said with a deadpan noticing how Conner was eyeballing the machine.

The clone rolled his eyes before huffing a agreement. "Ok, then what else should we try out?"

Ben hummed in thought. "I haven't played a fighting game in a while, not since I was a kid. We could try one of them."

Suddenly, Robin appeared next to me with a big grin plastered on his face. "That's a great idea! We could have a tournament!"

"I'm game!" Wally said running up to them.

Ben grinned slightly, "You two done cheating then?"

Wally gave a playful scoff at his statement. "Cheating?! Us?! We would never."

"I think we should make a bet. Whoever loses has to do something."

Kaldur hummed in thought. "I'm fine with it so long as it's nothing too bad."

Robin laughed, "Oh, come on, I'll just be the loser and have to do something stupid like-"

"Oh! I know! The losers have to eat a spoonful of Starfire's chili that Ben had earlier." Wally smirked slightly, he was confident with his superspeed he would win so he wasn't too worried.

The rest of the boys paled, even Superboy, who wasn't even sure he would be affected by the 'lava chili' as the Team was not calling it.

"NO WAY! I ate that chili and almost died the first time I'm not doing it again!" Ben yelled.

Wally smirked, "Oh, is our great alien transforming hero scared of some chili."

Ben glared at him, "You want to do this? You're going to have to promise no powers."

Wally's eyes widened slightly but before he could speak Conner spoke up next. "All in favor, if you use your powers you are immediately a loser say 'I'."

"I!"

"I!"

"I!"

"Wait, hold on-" Wally tried to reason to them so he could back out but he was immediately given a death glare by all of them. He sighed before saying, "...I"

"So It's settled," Ben said, as he looked around the room before seeing one arcade game in particular that had some characters dressed as ninjas with flames in the background on the screen. He smiled seeing the two joysticks and motioned for them all to come over.

And so it began. They played a game of rock, paper, and scissors to determine who sat out for the first round. Kaldur was the lucky one to win while getting a few jealous glares he sighed in relief at being safe… for now.

The first two to start were Dick and Wally, Wally tried his hardest but Dick easily won the match in just a couple of seconds. Without his powers, he had no hope. Wally slowly crawled into a ball in the corner as he accepted his fate.

The next match was between Ben and Superboy, Superboy had chosen a bulky character compared to Ben's slim ninja man who seemed to be the male character of the game since he was the same character that was printed on the game's side.

It was a hard match, but thankfully Conner's character lacked range attacks, but Ben's character had tons, of shurikens to kunai. They didn't do too much damage but after getting enough hits Conner's character went down. Ben jumped up in victory as Conner scowled at the fact he was going to have to eat that 'chili'.

Another game of rock, paper, scissors, and Dick was the lucky one this time around. Ben chose the same character as before since he was already used to the buttons for the character.

Thankfully since Kaldur had no experience with arcade games and this was his 'first round' Ben won pretty easily, while Kaldur sulked slightly but made sure to congratulate Ben on his victory.

Finally, it was Ben and Dick left. They both chose the characters they were used to and immediately started.

Dodge, block, attack, special, dodge, block, attack, special. This pattern continued as the two started to mash the buttons of the arcade game. This wasn't just a bet to them. It was survival.

Dick's reflexes might have been faster than Ben's, but Ben was too determined. He couldn't eat that chili again. He wouldn't!

With both of them in low health, they both went for one final attack… and finally Ben won.

"Yes!" Ben screamed as he saw Player 1 win on the screen.

"NOOOO!" Dick cried out as he dreaded what was to come.

"Yes! This is the best day ever! Nothing could go wrong-" He stopped himself, no he did not just. SHIT! "Oh no…"

Back with Sportsmaster and Khyber

Both the man and the alien were breathing heavily and bleeding from their fists and heads. Their bodies had several cuts and bruises.

Khyber growled angrily, 'If I was in my prime I would have easily finished off this fool.' He hated to admit it but Psychobos was right. The Nemetrix really had made him a far cry from what he used to be, he almost was afraid of going up against this world Tennyson.

"Let's end this!" Sportsmaster said running towards Khyber while reaching for a weapon.

Khyber growled in agreement as he also ran towards the blonde-haired man, hoping to put off his best huntsmen trick. His Hephaestan Neuro Grip. A grip on the nerves that stunned them for a moment allowing him the perfect opportunity to kill them.

It was the ultimate tactic for huntsmen. It was capable of subduing all manners of prey, this would be no different.

Sportsmaster surprised the huntsmen though with a new weapon, a bolus. A metal chain connected to two metal balls on each side of it. Sportsmaster threw it perfectly so it would be aimed at Khyber's legs so he would fall face-first into his next attack.

Khyber quickly adapted though and jumped over the swinging chain, the chain barely missed the huntsmen but that didn't stop the assassin as he kept charging forward. Before Khyber could fully reach the ground Sportsmaster sent an elbow into his jaw knocking the alien away.

He didn't let up and kicked the huntsmen's face before throwing punch after punch until Khyber was completely unable to move.

Sportsmaster then brought out a javelin and planned to slam it into the huntsmen's chest but was stopped by a sudden yell.

"Wait!" Eon yelled, Khyber looked up slightly seeing Savage and Eon both walking towards the bloody men. As the alien slowly faded in and out of consciousness. He was glad they stepped in, he didn't want to die yet, not until he hunted his prey. Ben Tennyson.

Unknown Location

November 4th, 8:30

Khyber awoke slowly, his eyes shutting and closing. He tried to move but felt his hands and feet were bound completely.

The huntsmen's eyes widened as he looked around for anything in the room.

"What happened?! Why am I here?" Khyber asked looking around him trying to see anyone, he was just barely able to see Eon standing in the back of the room with his arms crossed over his chest and a grin on his face.

"Khyber, I had high hopes for you. But when I learned your brain was affected by the Nemetrix I knew you had to be weaker than you were before but I didn't know how much… now I do. Losing to a human? Well-trained or not, you shouldn't have lost, and yet… you did." Eon said with a cruel smile on his face as he walked closer and closer to the table Khyber was strapped to. "If you lose to him, how could I possibly trust you with killing Ben Tennyson?"

Khyber desperately tried to pull his arms free from his binds but found he couldn't do anything how he was. He hadn't even noticed his the skeleton armor on his chest had now been replaced with red armor with a hexagon-shaped hole in the middle of it.

"Wait! You still need me! You still need an animal. A dog to obey your commands so the Nemetrix will work! I'm the only one who can-" Khyber started to say desperately but was cut off by Eon laughing.

"Yes, you are right. Congratulations, Khyber. You have discovered your true purpose here." Eon says and then looks up at Psychobos who had the Nemetrix in his giant claw hand. "Do it."

"Hehehehee, as you wish!" Psychobos laughed maniacally as he slammed the Nemetrix dial onto the chest piece and watched as red electricity flew around Khyber the huntsmen screamed in agony as he could feel his mind slipping away.

Eon smirked as Khyber transformed into the many predators on the Nemetrix. Now he had the perfect pet to use against Tennyson.

It was war now. And he was losing battle after battle, it was time to build up resources. One final assault ought to do it.

Ben Tennyson was finished!

OK! OK! I know I haven't updated this story in a while and I'm sorry for that… however, in my defense, I have college, a job, and a family to take care of. All of this gives me 1 day. 1 DAY! Where I'm off. That one day to relax is the only day I can really make chapters for this story, and I'm not always feeling inspired to write a new chapter every week. Does this mean updates will take this long again? Hopefully not, I don't plan on them ever being THIS late. This time took much longer because of not only the reasons I gave above but also because this is just a 'filler' chapter so nothing too exciting happened (The next one is just straight-up madness) I also had a bunch of new ideas for a Ben 10/ Marvel/Dc story. Every time I got more ideas for that It took away my attention from this story as well. Maybe I'll make that story in the future (Would any of you be interested in reading it?) either way sorry it took so long for this chapter to come out. And for anyone that is worried I don't plan on abandoning this story anytime soon (or ever) so don't worry that just because I didn't update in a while that means I'm abandoning this story. I'M NOT!

I think after such a long time the least I can do is give you guys a sneak peek of what's to come next chapter. I'm only giving you two words though…

First is: Ultimate

The second is:...

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