Underground Omniverse
Gammatron: Hey guys. I own no one in this story nor the series of Sonic Underground, Transformers, Ben 10 Series, or the BlazBlue series.
Rebel 6: Towards the North: Articguana's Blizzard
"Okay, Ben, can you tell me how you felt as Grimlock?" the lion Mobian asked as he clicked a pen and held it to a clipboard's paper.
"Well…It was different. Everything just felt completely different than I normally was as an alien," Ben admitted a few bandages seen just above the neck part of his shirt, "I couldn't think straight at all in that form and it was hard for me to speak, too."
"You sounded just fine when you were mad and glowing all red," Manic pointed out, shuddering, as he recalled the events that happened almost a week and a half ago.
"Rage?" Cyrus pondered with a raised brow, "Is it really that problematic?"
"Yeah. He couldn't change at all when the aura left," Manic pointed out, "And it only appeared when he started to get mad. And when he finally snapped, the whole place was engulfed in it and turned the place orange for a few seconds."
"I…I got fuzzy after that," Ben admitted, "I mean…I…" he took a shaky breath, "It just reminded me of something I'd rather not remember."
Sonic frowned. It appeared that Kokonoe was right about the two. They both had something unfortunate. For Makoto, it was racism and all the problems she had during her time working as a NOL spy for Sector Seven. For Ben…it appeared to be complicated. He said he was just a kid around 10 when his life had a drastic change. He tapped his chin as he began to think of ailments he knew related to big changes.
"So rage triggers the transformation and when you go from Grimlock back to Ben, you're injured," Cyrus jotted down, "Hm…Tell me, Ben, when you turn into an alien, you get hurt, right?"
"Yeah. One time when I was Way Big, I tried to lift up this gateway and got electrocuted," Ben pointed out.
"Well…" Cyrus began before a Mobian muskrat ran in, panting.
"Trouble…in the…north…" the Mobian panted, his hands on his knees, "Team Underground…specifically requested…Oi…"
The muskrat collapsed onto his face. Cyrus barely blinked and the Sonic Underground with Makoto and Ben were gone.
"But…my theory…" Cyrus slumped.
"I can't believe you did that!" Sonia barked at Ben, who was using Manic as a body-shield.
"I don't like talking about the past, okay?" Ben frowned.
"Honestly…" Sonia sighed, "I should've guessed since you didn't give much detail on half of the things you told us about your adventures."
Ben turned over to Sonic and sat beside him, "So where are we going?"
"The north. We're going to be meeting the Winter Freedom Fighters. Out of all the Freedom Fighter Factions, they're the best when it comes to keeping Robotnik away from the northern places," Sonic informed, "Their leader is the toughest fighter you'll ever see."
"Do you know the leader's name?"
"No. The leader just sends the second-in-command to the meetings and he swears to secrecy to not reveal anything about their leader," Sonic informed.
"So we're dealing with some shady leader who's probably actually part of Robotnik's group," Makoto noted nearby, looking up from her hand of cards.
"That has happened before," Sonia admitted.
"Really?" Ben asked, 'Why am I not surprised? There have been rogue Plumbers before…and I've met roughly four.'
"Yep. One was saying he was going to build a De-Roboticizer, but that turned out to be a flop," Manic scowled.
"To get there, we'll need to cross the ocean. Luckily, Moby Deep can help us," Sonic noted as the bus stopped before a beach.
"Moby Deep?" Makoto repeated.
"A big friend of ours," Sonic explained as they got out.
"Time to try out the new feature," Manic beamed.
Sonic rolled his eyes as he pulled out a set of keys. He pressed a button attached to it and the entire bus opened up and shifted, shrinking down into a suitcase. Makoto walked over and picked it up, looking it over.
"Wow-wee! That's so cool!" Makoto exclaimed.
"It's thought-sorted, so think about some of your clothes and then open it," Sonic offered before patting Sonia's back, "Sis here was the genius behind the idea."
"Oh, Sonic…" Sonia blushed with a giggle, "That's my brother. Always a flatterer with girls."
"Only with my sis and ones I prefer," Sonic noted, "Manic, though…Anything with a thin waist and large assets, and he'll be all over them."
"Hey! That's not completely true. I'm more of a shelf lover," Manic argued as Makoto pulled out a large acorn-colored jacket.
"Perfect!" Makoto beamed, "I've got my outfit for the winter."
"You should really put that back in. We still need to get there first, Makoto," Sonia informed.
"Phooey," Makoto pouted as she packed it back back into the suitcase.
"So where is Moby Deep?" Ben asked.
"He'll be here," Sonic replied.
The water of the ocean began to rumble. A large figure emerged from them, close to shore to let them walk/wade over to it, but not too close to get stuck on land. It was a massive gray whale, a few barnacles grown on various parts of its body.
"Yo! Moby!" Sonic waved with a grin.
"Well, hey there, Sonic," the whale greeted with a friendly chuckle.
"It…It talks…" Makoto gawked, "It's so big, too!"
"I'm a male," Moby Deep noted.
"Oops. Sorry!" Makoto bopped her head sheepishly, her tongue stuck out a bit cutely.
"You certainly travel with interesting company, Sonic," Moby Deep noted.
"True, oh so very true," Sonic agreed, "You remember Bro and Sis, right?"
"Ah, but of course. A pleasure to see you both once more, Sonia, Manic."
"Sup, Dude?"
"It's nice to see you again, Mr. Deep."
"And who are you two?" Moby Deep asked.
"Ben Tennyson, sir," Ben replied.
"I'm Makoto Nanaya! Nice ta meet ya!"
"…I like them both. The boy has good manners and the girl is quite peppy," Moby Deep chuckled, "So where to?"
"We need to go up to the northern part of the planet, big guy," Sonic informed.
"Well climb aboard," Moby Deep offered.
"It's kinda weird how you didn't freak out, Ben," Sonic noted.
"Not really. Think about it; I've transformed into bigger guys than Moby Deep," Ben reminded.
"Oh, yeah…Way Big," Sonic sweatdropped.
"So why didn't you turn into him to walk us over there?" Sonia asked.
"I have a time limit on the Ultimatrix before it times out. It's so I don't have to be afraid of the personality of that alien trying to possess me," Ben admitted sheepishly.
"Has that ever happened?" Sonia asked.
"…A few times," Ben admitted after a moment, "So! Moby Deep, how did you meet up with these three?"
'And there he goes changing the subject…' Sonic thought.
"Well, it's quite a story," Moby Deep noted.
"I'm good with that. Makoto?" Ben asked, looking over at Makoto as she was looking ahead through a telescope.
"Hm? A story?" Makoto pondered, putting the telescope down, "Okay then!"
"Well, you see, it all started when…hm…Sonic, why did you come to the cove?" Moby Deep asked.
"Me, Bro, and Sis all got a letter, telling us to head there. We met up with a captain of a vessel known as the 'Queen Aleena,' named after our mom. We were hoping to find a clue about her whereabouts," Sonic recalled.
"…And the submarine blew up," Moby Deep chuckled, "I have to admit that music is something you need to be careful with. It's a magic of its own blend."
"I…I see…" Makoto awed, wearing her jacket.
Music being used as a weapon? If Hazama had learned of a way to do that… Makoto gave a shudder just thinking about it.
"You have to admit that's pretty cool," Ben noted while adjusting his winter gloves.
"My, how time flies when you reminisce," Moby Deep noted as he swam by a glacier, "We're coming up to the shore."
"Thanks again for this, big guy," Sonic smiled.
"No problem. I have a cousin up here that told me about the best krill bar he knows," Moby Deep noted, a smile forming on his large mouth.
"I can't believe we got her so fast," Makoto awed, watching another glacier float by.
"Moby here is one of the fastest aquatics you'll ever meet," Sonic smirked.
"Oh, I'm not that fast…" Moby bashfully chuckled.
"See? Now why can't you be more like that?" Sonia asked.
"Because there are some things you just know," Sonic smirked as Moby Deep stopped by a shoreline.
"Thanks!" Makoto grinned as she jumped onto shore.
"Hup!" Manic grunted as he jumped followed by Ben, who hissed a bit from a small wave of pain, "Dude, you okay?"
"F-Fine," Ben replied with a strained grin as Sonia and Sonic got off Moby.
"Thanks!" Sonic waved as Moby swam off.
"So now all we have to do is find them, right?" Sonia asked.
"Easier said than done, Sis," Sonic informed, "You've never visited these guys before, have you?"
"Well, um, no," Sonia admitted.
"Me neither," Manic added.
"I have with uncle Chuck. These guys are really crafty, hiding within the snow. Their bodies are adapted to the cold here and can somehow avoid detection from heat sensors," Sonic explained, "Uncle Chuck met the leader and when I saw him later, his entire face was starting to regain its normal color."
"So how do we find them?" Ben asked.
"We don't find them; they find us."
"I don't like the sound of that," Ben frowned.
"Snow Angel!" Makoto declared as she jumped into the snow and began to make a snow angel.
"…You sure do like the snow," Ben noted with a chuckle.
"Are you kidding me? I love the stuff!" Makoto beamed as she jumped up and looked at her snow angel with a squirrel tail, "Perfect!"
"Wow! What is all this stuff?" Makoto awed, wearing a lightning blue schoolgirl uniform with a hole made in it so her tail could stick out, as she looked out at the fields of snow.
"It's snow. You've never seen it before?"
Makoto turned to four girls and one boy. The one that pointed it out to her was a young woman with pink eyes and blue hair, tied into a waist-length pony tail by a yellow ribbon; she also had twin ahoge. She had a fairly above-average large bust. The smallest of the girls had an A-Cup/near-B-Cup bust with her natural blond hair ending at her shoulders awed at the snowfall.
"It's really amazing, isn't it?" she asked.
"It's kinda cold, though, Noel," Makoto replied.
"Aw, cheer up! We just need to put on some jackets and snow gloves and we'll be set!" the bluenette beamed.
"Mai…" a young woman with lavender eyes and shoulder-length hair sighed.
Her butterfly headband was slightly darker than her hair color. She wore a different version of the Military Academy's uniform, which was modified like an overcoat, black pantyhose and a pair of high heels. There was also a black butterfly crest on the tails of her coat.
"Something wrong with the plan, Cajun?" Mai asked.
"Yes. We also need snow pants," Cajun informed, "Is that not right, Tsubaki?"
"Of course," the last member of the five agreed, "We don't want to get any colds here, do we?"
Tsubaki was the third-largest girl in terms of breast size, holding a high-C/low-D-Cup. She had hip-length scarlet hair and soft, azure eyes. Along with her academy uniform, she wore a blue headband with her standard uniform, except that she wore a longer skirt, black tights, and brown boots.
"I second that agreement. We wouldn't want to suffer colds or, worse, hypothermia," the youngest, and only male, of them noted.
Soon, the group was outside in snow attire. Makoto giggled as she walked about, enjoying the soft 'crunch' that accompanied her steps through the fields of white. Mai waved her over with Noel.
"What's up?" Makoto asked.
"I managed to convince Tsubaki and Cajun to let us have a snowball fight!" Mai beamed.
"What's a snowball fight?" Makoto asked, "It sounds cool!"
"We make snowballs and throw them at one another, but you can't make them with anything but the snow."
"Okay!" Makoto pumped her fist, "Let's get going, then!"
"B-But..." Noel whimpered.
"It's fine. We're all just having fun, right?" Makoto pressed on, hugging the blond.
"Um...W-Well if you're sure..."
"Then let's get going! Come on! Onwards to Victory!" Mai declared, "Us against Tsubaki, Cajun, and little Carl!"
"Yeah!" Makoto pumped her fist.
"Makoto!" Sonia shouted.
"Huh? Wh-What's going on? You say something, Sonia?"
"Makoto, I just said 'Come on, you two, we're trying to find them,'" Sonia frowned.
"Sis, listen to Bro's advice and just chillax," Manic smirked as he leaned against a hill of snow before being picked up by a SWATBot arm, colored white, and a swarm of them emerged from the snow, "And forget the chillax…"
"These guys?" Sonic groaned before one SWABot, still emerging, grasped Makoto's tail, causing her to freeze up.
"Did you just…touch my tail…?" Makoto demanded slowly, an aura of anger appearing on her as she looked down and glared at the robot.
"Uh oh…" Manic gulped as Makoto began to spin her left arm.
"Atashi no ōgi (My secret technique)!" Makoto roared as she performed an uppercut that sent the robot a few feet over Makoto, "Hissatsu (Certain kill)!" she unleashed a second uppercut that sent the robot high into the air, "Tekken, seisai (Iron Fist, punishment)…" Makoto jumped high over the robot as an energy fist twice her size formed before she slammed it and her own left fist into the robot, slamming it into the ground and exploding it, "Particle Flare!"
"Holy…" Sonic gawked.
"Wow," Sonia gulped.
"Only my friends are allowed to touch my tail. Now shoo! Shoo I tell you!" Makoto scolded the destroyed robot.
"…Note to self: Don't touch the tail," Manic noted as three of the SWATBots nodded in agreement before Sonia and Sonic blasted their heads off.
"Time for you guys to meet a guy I like to call 'Humongasaur!'" Ben declared as he activated his Ultimatrix.
Ben slapped down on the Ultimatrix. He felt time slow down around him as his body began to transform once more. Ben could feel his body grow colder than he ever felt as a human. He could feel his head grow large and his mouth wider, the teeth changing into fangs. He felt his hands losing two fingers while what remained grew a bit bulkier. Winter-blue scales raced along his body before three dorsal fins raced along his back. Black lines formed on his face, going over his mouth. wears white pants and a black open-front shirt with white cuffs. Under the open-front shirt was another white shirt with black scale designs to it, yet with holes on the sides to expose cyan gills.
"Articguana!" the Alien declared, vapor emerging from his mouth, before looking at his hands, "Aw yeah. I've so been wanting to try this guy out!"
"You've never used this form before?" Sonic asked.
"Nope. But a me from the future did," Articguana replied with a sly smirk.
With that Articguana took a deep inhale of the cold air. Makoto and Sonic saw it and moved away from the SWATBots. Articguana exhaled and unleashed a massive blizzard from his mouth, instantly freezing the robots. Makoto, Sonic, Sonia, and Manic proceeded to strike the frozen robots, shattering them. Ben changed back to conserve power before his face was shoved into Makoto's zipped-up jacket, inadvertently having his face somewhat nestle into her covered breasts.
"Now that was awesome!" Makoto exclaimed as he tail went nuts, "You let out a ton of freezing winds! I don't think Big Chill or even Ultimate Big Chill could contend with his powers of ice!"
"Impressive!"
Everyone-Makoto having released a red-faced Ben-turned to the voice and the males, minus Manic, turned away with heavy blushes. Before them was a Mobian nine-tailed fox with cream-colored fur with white fur covering her muzzle and inner part of her figure. She was a few inches taller than Makoto with breasts just as large as hers held back by a string bikini top designed to resemble the flag of Japan, her rather developed and shapely legs exposed while the shapely, toned rear of hers was hidden away in a pair of white short-shorts with a red dot on the crotch the extended red stripes, akin to a rising sun. She kept her winter-blue eyes upon the four as Manic's nose began to bleed.
"Dude…" Manic gawked.
"Manic," Sonic stated.
"She's got huge boobs," Manic continued.
"Manic," Sonia frowned.
"And she's wearing nothing but a bikini top and short-shorts…"
"Manic…" Makoto warned.
"…in the snow. And she's not feeling cold at all? Hell yeah!" Manic grinned before the Mobian fox snapped her left hand and Manic was suddenly encased in a block of ice, letting only his nose and eyes stay visible.
"I hate perverts," she snorted.
"Mistress Miyuki-sa-Waaaaagh!"
A snowball the size of Ben hit Ben, crumbling upon impact. Laying on him was a Mobian hedgehog with snow-white quills. He wore an orange jacket zipped up with various pockets. Over his left eye was an eyepatch. He shook his head and got off Ben. He noticed the fox and ran over to her, pulling out a white and scarlet kimono with snowflake designs going up a side.
"Mistress Miyuki-sama, you forgot your kimono again!" the hedgehog informed.
"Oh, I give you my thanks, White-kun," the fox giggled, pecking his cheek and took the kimono before slipping it on, "I do apologize for that. My name is Miyuki Prower. This is my good friend, White Rose."
"Sorry about hitting you," White bowed to the rising Ben, "I'm a bit clumsy."
"It's…It's fine…" Ben coughed a bit.
"You forgot to wear snowshoes again," Miyuki informed.
"I…I know," White slumped.
"Hey, White," Sonic greeted.
"Oh! The Princes and Princess!" White gasped before bowing.
"I am humbled to meet you," Miyuki bowed.
"Likewise!" Makoto beamed.
"…It's amazing to see a Beastkin from the outside world," Miyuki noted.
'These guys know about Beastkin?' Makoto thought.
"That is the name we give to the human-Mobian hybrids here," Miyuki explained, noting the perplexed look the Squirrel Beastkin had on her face, "Please, allow us to escort you to our town. Fenrir, Hati Hróðvitnisson, Sköll."
The nearby snow erupted, revealing two wolf Mobians and a wolf Beastkin, all female and wearing bikini tops, shoulder armor, and Hawaiian skirts in design, yet colored as either the snow, the day, or the night respectively. Fenrir's hair was a soft bark-color with E-Cup breasts, and a tail and ears. Hati's fur was colored in the colors of night while Sköll's fur was that of the day, both with a pair of D-Cups. Ben kept his eyes covered the entire time, his face completely red, while Manic had to be carried by White and Sonic since he had passed out with a nose bleed.
"Wh-Why are you all wearing those out here?!" Sonia gawked.
"It is a custom of our town," Miyuki explained, "The men of the tribe are our hunters, gatherers, and security detail while the women are the warriors of the tribe."
"Wow. That's pretty cool," Ben noted, "But the clothes are still unexplained."
"It is a traditional greeting garb and our casual clothes. It is Friday, after all," Miyuki giggled.
"…I like these girls," Makoto giggled.
"Aw, thank you!" Sköll giggled before hugging the Squirrel Beastkin.
"You seem to be a bit troubled," White noted.
"Just not used to girls like them," Ben replied, keeping his eyes covered.
"You mean the missing clothes in a winter environment?" White asked, "I got used to it after a few months here. Especially since all baths are co-ed here and that there's a ratio of one man to three women here."
"…" Ben's face just grew redder.
"Ah. We're here," Hati informed calmly.
The group stopped. Before them was a massive wall of ice. Miyuki stood at the front of them. She took a gentle intake of air as she began to assume a stance. She drew a three quarters-circle with her right foot's tip. Slowly, almost as if she were performing a difficult, careful task, she began to perform various katas akin to a dance. She finished with bringing her hands together before slowly spreading them out, exhaling slowly. The wall before them rumbled before opening up at the base, revealing a pathway.
"Please come this way," White bowed to the five before the five leading them went in.
"Do you think it's a trap?" Sonia whispered.
"We have to be ready for anything," Sonic informed, "Ben, got anything to counter ice?"
"Yeah. His name's Heatblast," Ben smirked.
"Good. Makoto, how strong are you?"
"I can punch a guy into a moon-shaped asteroid and then that asteroid will blow up," Makoto replied.
"…Wow. I am so glad you're on our side," Manic gulped before he and Ben began to follow them.
"…Can you really do that?" Sonia asked.
"It's only happened once," Makoto admitted, "Damn racist bastard…"
Sonic just blinked as Makoto and Sonia followed. So…Makoto had problems with racism? Guess where she was from, not a lot of the residents could accept something different. He followed after them. The group traversed through a dark tunnel, only a light before them guiding their way. The five visitors slowly lowered their arms from their eyes and awed. To Ben, the place before them resembled Tokyo the last time he visited it blended with ancient Tokyo from photos and paintings he had seen on the internet, yet the writing was in English to his relief. The top of the structure had a strange jewel resembling a crystallized sun. One interesting thing to note was the populace. There was only one male for every three females, just as White said. Makoto saw a few humans with animal traits, the majority consisting of those involving carnivores. Miyuki giggled as she turned to them.
"Welcome to the Winter Freedom Fighter base; The Town of the Winged Ice Dragons: Ryūgū-jō!" Miyuki declared.
Tutor Me! Azmuth! Done in BlazBlue Chibi Style
Azmuth: Welcome once again to 'Tutor Me! Azmuth!' With me are my assistants Ms. Litchi Feng-Yeng and Bang Shishigami.
Litchi: Hello. *bows*
Bang: A pleasure as usual!
Azmuth: And our two students Taokaka and Carl Clover.
Taokaka: Meow! Tao's gonna get it right this time!
Carl: *blushes a bit while sheepishly bowing*
Nirvana: *puts Carl's notebook on Carl's desk, opening it to a fresh page*
Azmuth: Now then, let's begin today's lesson.
Taokaka: Already, meow?
Azmuth: I have a headache from the last session still, so yes.
Bang: *brings in a chalkboard and quickly draws a diagram of Articguana*
Lithi: *brings up a video file of Articguana*
Azmuth: This is Articguana. He is a Polar Manzardill from the multi-terrain planet X'Nelli.
Carl: Multiple terrains? So that means that there's more than one kind of Manzardill?
Azmuth: But of course. One kind for each terrain. Each one is alike in design, but with various differences. Compare a Polar Manzardill to a Cave Manzardill.
Bang: *draws a Cave Manzardill*
Azmuth: They have the same body structure, but the eyes are where it is key. The Cave Manzardill has no eyes since they live in darkness while the Polar Manzardill's eyes are narrowed like they are in order to allow them to see through blizzards and snowstorms. The 'gills' that are on a Polar Manzardill are not just for show, mind you.
Litchi: *brings up video footage of a Polar Manzardill in its natural environment*
Azmuth: The 'gills' allow them to breath both air and their winter environment. Their evolution has gotten to the point that their bodies can naturally produce frozen water vapor within their lungs. With it, they can unleash powerful blizzards from the mouths. But, there's a negative effect to this. If they use their power too much, they will have five minutes of vulnerability as they recover.
Tao: So Icy Frog should find out how to get that to not happen, right?
Azmuth: True. But that's how evolution goes. Now then…
Bang: *flips the board around, revealing a drawing of the Polar Manzardill's left hand*
Azmuth: At the ends of each finger and toe are miniscule hairs, not unlike a Spider's. With it, they can climb their frozen environments with ease. They're quite useful for when you need to go on an expedition through snow. Though, I would advise against it.
Carl and Tao: Why?
Azmuth: The Polar Manzardill are loners by nature. They hate being with others and will do whatever they can to not be around company. Took me years to get a sample from one since they kept freezing and/or destroying my machines!
Litchi: *shows video footage from one of the collecting machines where it didn't see anything in a blizzard until a blue hand in a fist slammed into it, cutting the connection*
Azmuth: Okay. Let's see your notes. *looks at Taokaka's first to see drawings of Articguana in different fighting poses, one of him making Taokaka a sno-cone, and one of Tao sitting on top of a defeated Articguana* …Of course she'd think about food… *looks at Carl's to see a detailed drawing of Articguana and various drawing of ideas of adaptations Manzardills could have* Excellent notes. And you're right on a few of these adaptations.