Ahoy Taters! Welcome to chapter thirteen of Wrath Of A Fallen Hero!
I am very sorry for the wait, but this story is back and this is the first chapter of The Ben10 retrieval arc!
I know that reception to last chapter was mixed, to that I say that even Ben can't win all the time.
For a story to progress, a hero must suffer some obstacles including a few defeats. I'm sorry that a few of my readers didn't agree with me there but it HAD to be done.
I assure you that Ben WILL be rescued, he will suffer before then but he will be reunited with The Princess Knights.
Now, onto the chapter! First a trigger warning, this chapter contains scenes of torture and gore.
Viewer discretion is advised.
LOCATION:Claudia's castle dungeon. Geofu.
Hurricane Force winds accompanied by a clicking sound akin to thirty five roller skates breezed past the naked bloody women in the spider web covered emerald barred cells of The Geofu Dungeon.
The naked bloody women in the cells whimpered as the wind whipped their hair around violently and aggravated their wounds from their captors' frequent assault's.
The women hugged each other for comfort.
Dr Dhanvantari the Alien surgeon let out a series of chuckles that sounded like the clucks of a rooster as in three seconds he had descended from the first three floors of the dungeon to his brand new lab on the fourth floor.
His stolen kineceleran legs which had replaced his birth legs stopped on a dime and left a trail of tennis ball sized potholes behind him.
"Bokbokbokbokbok, those women smell so delicious. Their fear is intoxicating, I shiver just imagining the art I could make out of their organs."
His second head, that used to belong to a circunian (Trumbipulor's race) facepalmed itself with its trunk as it sighed while his main head growled. "Vault is so wasteful, thinking with his "little vault" instead of how he can imitate and surpass the artists of his world."
The mad scientist held up his right pyronite arm as both his heads broke out into a smile, his flaming hand resting on the glass of a tank that contained one of his experiments.
"Experiment 1196, you're angry…"
Behind the glass of the tank, hundreds upon hundreds of ghost-like elves made of blue energy exploded futilely against the glass as they roared like tigers gargling salt water.
"Good, my child, use that anger to make your papa proud."
Withdrawing his hand, The mad scientist smirked to himself. Not flinching as whatever was in the tank let out a roar that was a combination between ten records being scratched, a kitten meowing, a dozen frogs croaking, four lions and four German shepherds barking.
He walked over to a pristine ivory table with three emerald orbs in each of its legs and a lion head carved into each of its corners.
With one of his planchakule hands he picked up a blood soaked brown box the size of a small ketchup bottle, with a flick of his thumb the box slid open thus revealing three severed human fingers and a severed human ear inside.
Dr Dhanvantari smirked as he remembered the owner of the amputated ear and Fingers screams…
"Monsters! Monsters! I'll kill you! I'll kill you!"
"You can't hold me here forever! I'll escape and when I do, I'll make you all suffer!"
As The Fallen Hero's words echoed in his mind, Dr Dhanvantari clucked. "Well this partnership certainly has its upsides."
He leisurely walked to a statue made of organs and body parts, the organs and body parts belonging to the monsters of this world.
The statue resembled a nineteen foot tall version of America's Mount Rushmore, made out of organs ranging from Orc intestines, to goblin testicles, to Minotaur bladders, to orc arms.
The top half of George Washington's head for instance was made out of a severed orc arm followed by a pair of Minotaur bladders wrapped in Goblin intestines.
Thomas Jefferson's head was made out of twenty two Goblin testicles wrapped like a mummy in flayed Orc liver.
"Decisions decisions where should I put your fingers and ear Ben? Ahh I know, on Abraham Lincoln!"
Abraham Lincoln's face was made out of cubed Orc testicles wrapped in Goblin ass skin.
Dr Dhanvantari proceeded to place the three fingers where Lincoln's beard would be while he placed the ear where Lincoln's right eye would be.
"Ahh, I am an artist, a suffering Artist who no one understands like Earth's Van Gogh. I'm sure he would see the beauty in my art. What should I call this masterpiece? Hmmm?"
With his right pyronite hand, Dr Dhanvantari cupped his second head's chin as he pondered. "Ahh, I'll call this Mount Rushviscera! When I get back to my home universe I'll bomb a museum and place this masterpiece there!"
Suddenly a masculine scream of rage, akin to a pitbull being tortured on hot coals echoed into Dhanvantari's lab.
"FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU INCEL TRASH! I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU DO TO ME! LEAVE THOSE WOMEN ALONE!"
The multiple layers of the dungeon seemed to shake from the rabid yelling of its most powerful captive.
"FOR EVERY WOMAN YOU HURT HERE I'LL MAKE YOU SUFFER TWICE AS MUCH!"
Dr Dhanvantari clucked. "It seems Tennyson is having another one of his tantrums. I look forward to his eventual escape, to seeing how he'll descend further into madness."
Dr Dhanvantari's heads looked up into the ceiling with wide bloodshot eyes as he bent over backwards. "Ben Tennyson you will become the ultimate test subject to pit my Magnus opus against!"
Out in the corner of the lab, was a gauntlet-like device that was made out of flesh that resembled a combination between mustard, bubble wrap and vomit with tongue like tentacles that surrounded an hourglass faceplate in the middle of it.
The hourglass symbol of the device glowed an ominous purple as the screen faded to black.
{BREAK}
LOCATION: KEN
The sounds of fires grinding against metal and hammers hitting metal echoed throughout the marble white walls of Luu-luu's workshop on the fourth floor of Celestine's castle.
A forge that glowed as bright as a dozen campfires lit up the windowless room as the hot air in it made the red and gold angel and dragon patterned flags on the room's walls flutter like leaves.
Olga Discordia wiped four beads of sweat off her brow as her clammy hand raised her scepter pointing it at what looked like a shotgun-
If it had spent five years taking steroids and pumping iron at the gym before donning Medieval knight armor and then wrapped in barbed wire.
Her scepter glowed purple as a purple mist leaked from her scepter into the alien weapon.
The Dark Elf Queen huffed and called out. "Luu-Luu, I've enchanted another Tetramand 12 gauge shotgun with the steel skin enchantment. You know what to do."
Despite her child-like body, The halfling princess knights lifted up the gigantic shotgun with a single hand, placing it in the fires of her forge as she readied her blacksmith tools.
A duo of sweat beads ran down The Halfling's face as she muttered. "The Black Dogs think they've won because they captured our lover."
The Halfling gave a tired grin to Olga, one which Olga returned as both spoke in unison.
"But taking away our lover has only made us a thousand times more determined to crush them!"
Olga could feel her drained mana reserves eating away at her muscles and organs like termites. But the Dark Elf Queen would not rest!
No matter how much her heart felt like it was wearing armor underwater and drowning with every pulse.
'I'm not going to give up! Even if I become an emaciated skeleton, I'll help the shields build the most powerful army needed to rescue the first good Human I've met!'
At the back of her mind, the ancient dark Elf Queen realized the irony of her helping her former enemies who she had been at war with for centuries, build the most powerful army in Eostia.
The buxom Dark Elf however crushed those intrusive thoughts like a jackhammer crushing a roach. 'My past war with the shields doesn't matter. All that matters is reaching my king!'
Luu-luu wiped sweat off her face as her hammer hit the Alien shotgun with a high pitch clang.
'This war has made it very clear, our grudges against Olga mean nothing in the face of the Ultimate traitor, Vault.'
The halfling whispered. "My jury rigg, I promise you will be rescued soon!"
{MEANWHILE}
The training yard was surrounded by a seventy foot tall white grated fence made of marble and coated in barbed wire made of gold.
The training yard of Ken had obstacles such as hidden pits full of poisonous snakes, golden barbed wire that the knights in training had to crawl under.
And finally were rabbits.
Prim could feel her sweat coating her almost like a second layer of skin as she jumped over a pile of leaves which she had learned the hard way was a pit trap.
No sooner did she reach the other side was she attacked by a red eyed, foaming mouthed rabbit the size of a donkey.
The were-rabbit crawled over the field of gold barbed wire and leaping towards her with its claws and teeth ready to tear her asunder.
Prim felt fear shoot through her throat like a needle, but this time she didn't hesitate.
She aimed her weapon, one of the Tetramand 12 gauge that Olga and Luu-Luu upgraded and squeezed the trigger.
"Eeemph." The Pinkette whimpered in pain from the sound of the alien shotgun going off as a metal slug the size of a baseball exited it's barrel.
She dug her heel into the ground with enough force to create a four inch deep crater in an attempt to steady herself as the gun's recoil pushed her back five inches.
Meanwhile the baseball sized slug impacted the Were-rabbits throat.
If Prim could see in slow motion, she would have witnessed the gigantic bullet she fired penetrating the Were-Rabbit's throat and exiting out it's back as if it was made of Styrofoam while it's entire body rippled like a lake that had a boulder dropped in it.
GUUUUUSH! The were-rabbit exploded into bloody chunks, blood rained like a storm accompanied by chopped up intestines and shredded lungs which stained Prim's dress red.
While the bullet continued on, impacting the wall and shattering it like a sledgehammer taken to a vase.
That entire section of wall crumbled down like Lincoln logs as Prim shuddered before she suppressed her disgust at being coated in the now deceased Were-Rabbit's insides.
Prim shrugged off the instinctual disgust she felt at creating such gore and dropped to her knees so that she could crawl under the golden barbed wire.
The dirt further stained Prim's once beautiful dress as she crawled under the fifteen feet of golden barbed wire, while arrows started to rain down upon her.
"Eep!" Squeaked The Pinkette as she retracted her left hand just in time to avoid an arrow which slipped through the wall of barbed wire above her.
Using her upgraded alien shotgun like a paddle, the Pinkette pulled her way through the course, quickly using her shotgun as a helmet to protect her head from a pair of arrows that slipped through, before just five seconds later she scooted to the right to avoid a trio of arrows that slipped through.
Luckily she avoided them, as the three arrows would have impacted her heart, lungs and liver had she not dodged.
A short time later, The Pinkette emerged from the end of the course, her body soaked with bloody dirt and sweat. She unceremoniously dropped her shotgun to the ground as if it was a bowling ball, before placing her hands on her knees and bending over as she took in deep breaths.
'My body is filthy and it hurts… but I must continue training. For Ben.'
It was a mere six seconds later that her "sister" emerged from the obstacle course.
Alicia was filthy just like Prim, the Arcturus heir's white, blue and gold bikini armor had been transformed into a red, black and brown grimey mess through her journey on the course.
Alicia's blue eyes looked at Prim with concern and sympathy. The Arcturus heir took a pair of breaths as she still carried her upgraded alien shotgun with one arm.
"Prim…" Her addressing of her younger sister was like a brief gentle breeze. "You're more worn out then I am. You need to take a break, you've been doing the obstacle course since you woke up this morning."
The Princess of Ur furrowed her brows in a glare. "How can you-" She took a trio of short breaths before continuing.
"Suggest that I am doing too much when you started the obstacle course five minutes before me?" The Pinkette clenched her fists. "How can you suggest that I ever take a break when my prince is being held captive and most likely tortured?!"
A certain blonde and well endowed Elf Queen decided to intervene before her princess knight exhausted herself beyond recovery.
"Prim." Celestine addressed the Pinkette, causing the latter to turn to face the goddess.
The ancient Elf ruler of Eostia was coated in sweat, which made her silky smoothe angelic skin glow as she continued. "I'm about to take a break and I strongly suggest you join me. I've been practicing my magic for as long as you've been running the course."
The Goddess held up a finger to silence Prim's incoming protests. "I know we are all doing this for Ben, but think of it this way. If you work yourself to exhaustion or even to the point where you're injured, how do you think you'll be able to help Ben then?"
The Elf Queen then continued. "Alicia I'm ordering you to join me on my break too, you're powerful but you will frankly be useless if you're too tired to fight."
Celestine's words hit Prim like a slap in the face, the Pinkette shuddering as an awful scenario of failing to rescue Ben because she was too tired came to her mind.
'My Prince… if I failed to rescue him because I'm too tired… it would be my fault for what The Black Dogs do to him afterwards. If I failed him… then I don't deserve his love!'
Prim's eyes watered as her lips quivered. "My Prince… I'm sorry. I'm weak " Her voice came out like a choke, and the Blonde Arcturus heir moved to comfort her sister.
Alicia wrapped Prim in her arms and ran a hand through Prim's pink hair. "It's ok Prim, you didn't fail Ben, and I can assure you that if he saw what you were doing right now, he would be proud of how hard you trained."
Meanwhile sitting on a trio of chairs behind the obstacle course was the group of Plumbers known as Rocket Squad.
Revonnahgander (The Revonnahgander member of Rocket Squad) clenched his furry fist, his fingers cracking the armrest of his chair. "They aren't afraid of him. Ben Tennyson is a brutal murderer and they aren't afraid of him."
James ran a hand through his dark blue hair. "In fact, he's their motivation to train harder then anyone we've ever seen back in our universe."
Jessie smacked a mosquito that was on her knee. "Their extensive loyalty to Ben Tennyson could prove to be troublesome. They are blind to his true nature."
Revonnahgander spoke up, laying a hand on Jessie's knee. "I-I-" He stumbled and hesitated. "I think we should reconsider our opinion on Ben…"
"What?!" Yelled Jessie thus making both James and Revonnahgander flinch. James grumbled. "Space damn it Jessie, cut down on the volume lest they hear us."
The Nitroanderthal then turned to stare down Revonnahgander. "But my wife has a point, why should we reconsider the fact that Ben Tennyson is a brutal murderer when we have undeniable proof that he's tortured and killed sentient beings. Both in our home universe and this one?"
Revonnahgander bit and licked his lip, trying to school his nerves. "I'm not denying that Ben is brutal, sometimes unnecessarily so. But I don't think he's a danger to people who aren't criminals"
Jessie's incensed glare made the Revonnahgander flinch and stare at the floor. "Was Manny a criminal?" Her voice was like tossing rocks into a blender.
Revonnahgander took a breath. "I think that could be argued as self defense, atleast from Ben's point of view. He didn't see himself in the wrong, he saw our colleagues' attempts to arrest him as a punishment he didn't deserve. I don't think he would have hurt them if they left him alone."
Jessie growled. "Every villain thinks they don't deserve to be arrested. Are you suggesting we just not arrest villains so we don't get hurt?"
James placed a hand on her shoulder. "My love, I don't think that's what Revonnahgander is saying."
"Enlighten me then." Her voice was curt like a grandmother getting fed up with their grandson.
James continued. "I think Revonnahgander is saying we should leave Ben alone as long as he continues killing only criminals. If he kills an innocent person then yes we should arrest him, but if he targets only murderers and rapists, then we should leave him be."
Jessie shook her head, The Vaxasaurian hybrid's red hair being tossed back and forth. "Criminals are still people too. Allowing Ben to kill them will encourage vigilantism and his homeworld is rife with vigilantes that have committed unforgivable acts upon their fellow humans just because they had the wrong skin color."
Revonnahgander fell silent, casting a worried glance from Jessie to James before he looked at the floor.
{MEANWHILE}
Cold weather that would put Alaska to shame, showered a red and jade Asian-like temple with snow that piled a third of the way up the cherry blossom trees that surrounded it.
In a rectangular room lit by eight paper lanterns on each side, was Kaguya, head priestess of the Insect cult. The head priestess was on her knees, her head bowed and hands clasped in prayer, in front of a statue that resembled an amalgamation of insects.
"Insect God, your humble servant strongly implores you to protect your herald. Your humble servant asks for nothing more than the chance to be reunited with your herald again and to bear your herald's offspring. Please Insect God, give your humble servant the strength needed to reunite with your herald."
At the entrance to the shrine, stood a skimpily dressed Shrine maiden, her caramel toned features set in a mixture of concern and pity. "Kaguya-sama has been praying at the Shrine for twelve hours. She hasn't eaten or gone to the bathroom. Prayer is good, it cleanses the soul but this… may be too much."
After speaking to herself, the shrine maiden walked into the room until she was behind Kaguya. The shrine maiden got on one knee to bow to the head priestess. "Kaguya-sama please, take a break from prayer. Prayer is a wonderful thing, but even too much of a good thing can be a bad thing."
Kaguya opened a single eye in response. "I can't, what if The Insect God sees me taking a break as a lack of loyalty and decides to abandon Ben?"
The shrine maiden laid a hand on Kaguya's shoulder, a sympathetic look on her face. "Kaguya-sama you were the one who taught me that our Lord is merciful and caring of his worshippers…" She paused as Kaguya didn't respond before she withdrew her hand.
"Kaguya-sama please think of it like this. If Ben Tennyson is truly the herald of our God, do you think our Lord will let his herald die? Our scriptures said the herald must sire the insect messiah with a member of our order. Ben Tennyson hasn't impregnated a member of our order, so he won't be allowed to die."
This time both of Kaguya's eyes opened, the head priestess biting her lip as she cast a glance at your subordinate. "I-I- suppose you have a point. But I feel like I need to do something!"
The shrine maiden allowed a barely perceptible smile to cross her face as she saw that she was making progress. "I think you've done enough, and I think Ben would agree with me. I don't think he would like to see you neglecting yourself for his sake."
Kaguya's face fell but she nodded as she stood up. "You're right, arigato for your advice." She smiled. "I guess sometimes even masters need to be helped by their students."
The shrine maiden nodded. "You're welcome Kaguya-Sama, now let's get you something to eat."
{BREAK}
{THREE DAYS LATER}
In a dining room with red and gold carpet that had Angel and Dragon patterns on it, was the Goddess and three of her princess knights sitting at a round table that was coated in a golden table cloth with a red lion's face on it.
At the front of the table, the High Elf Queen raised her gavel and banged it on the table twice. "As The Goddess I call this meeting of The Princess Knights to order."
Celestine's green eyes surveyed the three Princess Knights at the table, taking in details from their features. 'I can sense that Prim's blessing has gotten a lot more powerful, I can sense the Mana pumping through her iron muscles like caffeine.'
Indeed although Prim still was the same height and had no visible changes from before her training, people with magical senses could look closely and see the magical energy strengthening her already existing muscles.
'She's grown more Mana wise then both Alicia and Luu-Luu. Although they've grown a noticeable amount too.'
Celestine was snapped out of her thoughts when Prim slammed her fist onto the table. "Your Grace I mean no disrespect but how much longer am I going to have to wait before we can launch the rescue mission?"
Alicia rubbed Prim's left shoulder. "Prim!" The Arcturus Heir's voice was scolding yet compassionate. "I've told you multiple times that we're not ready to retake Geofu, but I promise you that as soon as we are, Celestine won't hesitate."
Prim took a couple of shuddering breaths. "It…" She choked. "It hurts my heart that I don't know how my Prince is doing. I know that knowing whatever horrible things the Black Dogs are doing to him will still make me upset…" A tear ran down Prim's right eye. "But not knowing anything makes it so much worse! My Prince could be dead for all I know!"
Luu Luu's face twisted into a mix of concern and sympathy, she proceded to get off her chair and crawl into Prim's lap, The Halfling wrapping the Pinkette in a hug. "I understand Prim, I love him too. He is my Jury Rigg, my mate who I've waited centuries to find."
Prim reciprocated Luu Luu's hug. "Thank you Luu Luu, I'm glad you can understand my pain."
Luu Luu gave a sad smile. "So I want you to trust me when I say that we have to trust Celestine's planning and wait until the right moment to strike. Otherwise our attempt to rescue our mate will be in vain."
The Goddess decided to take back control of the meeting, her silky smoothe manicured hand gently landing on a crystal ball at the center of the table. "And we start our plan with a report from Kaguya. I've ordered her to send some of her insects to scout Geofu, to map out our enemies defenses and capabilities."
The crystal ball swirled with gold and pink energy inside it, before the energy evaporated like a dying flame to show the Head Priestess of The Insect Cult sitting at a table in her castle.
"I am honored to speak in this meeting, your Grace." Kaguya addressed Celestine in her usual polite tone. "Should I give my report now?"
Celestine with a firm look on her face nodded. "Yes, give us your report on the state of The Black Dogs in Geofu."
Kaguya suppressed a shudder as best as she could, her eyes taking on a disturbed far off countenance. "I feel like I should warn you, what's going on in Geofu…" She paused. "And what's happened to Ben is beyond horrific. I feel like I should caution you, especially Prim, to not look at what I'm about to show."
Prim's eyes now had a couple more tears flowing from them as she shook her head fiercely, her pink hair flying back and forth. "I NEED to know what has happened to my Prince. If he is getting tortured, I need to be a big girl and not look away from what he's endured. Because he needs me!"
From inside the crystal ball, Kaguya looked at Prim with sadness and worry. Alicia quickly joined the hug between Luu-Luu and her cousin. Both Halfling and Arcturus heir embracing Prim to comfort her.
Celestine clenched her fists on the table, her fingers digging into the golden table cloth. "Prim, I promise you that you will be reunited with your prince. And that the Black Dogs will pay for what they've done."
Celestine then made eye contact with Kaguya. "Show us." It was a simple but firm and unyielding command.
Kaguya nodded. "Yes, your Grace." Before she slammed her fist into her palm, gold and pink energy once again erupted inside the crystal ball as it changed its view.
The crystal ball changed to a scene of vandalized halls, portraits of The Alliance's deceased heroes having been desecrated either with swords and torches or having been… ejaculated on if the portraits were of a female hero.
The Princess Knights at the table could feel their blood boil at the sight of so many important portraits being ruined. Their anger doubled when the crystal ball changed again and again and again. Showing over a dozen guest rooms in Claudia's Castle having been converted into whore houses, with the female citizens of Geofu bruised and bleeding as they were continuously violated by an endless line of men without mercy.
Kaguya's voice narrated the scene. "To my great regret I have to report that Claudia's Castle is in ruins. The savage traitors have soiled all the beds and the walls themselves with their seed. Not even the Castle's wine cellar was spared."
The crystal ball switched to a scene that made Alicia gag, for it was of Black Dog mercenaries opening up vintage bottles of wine only to masturbate and ejaculate inside them before force feeding the ruined wine to unwilling women.
A tear ran down Prim's porcelain face before she shouted. "Show me my Prince already!" Upon her fellow Princess Knights looking at her in surprise from her outburst, the Pinkette blushed and trembled. "I do care about what's happening to Geofu's citizens, but… if those savages are doing awful things like that to the wine and portraits…"
The Princess Of Ur shuddered. "I need to know about my Prince's condition."
Kaguya's voice came through the crystal ball. "It's ugly, you might wish I didn't show you." Nonetheless the head priestess knew her fellow Princess Knight wouldn't take no for an answer and switched the scene in the crystal ball again.
The scene that followed made Prim gasps as she longingly reached out a hand. "My Prince…" She whispered sadly. She wasn't the only one effected, Luu-Luu's hands tore through the table cloth and the table due to her stress induced grip. Alicia's ground her teeth together as her face turned red from anger and a blood vessel pulsated on both her throat and forehead.
The crystal ball showed what had become of Ben. The Fallen Hero was nailed by his hands and feet to a chair soaked with his blood. Dried blood mixed with pus formed a cake over where Ben's left ear used to be. To make things worse, flies hovered around his mutilated hand, nibbling where three of his fingers were amputated.
He was shirtless and his chest was black as a blackberry and swollen from innumerable punches, finally his face had swollen to the point both his eyes were swollen shut as if someone had pumped blackberry jam inside his face.
"My-my-My pr-prince." The Pinkette began to openly cry as her fingers caressed the crystal ball like it was as fragile as a child. "What have those monsters done to you?"
Luu-Luu growled. "I'm going to enjoy butchering those savages."
"As will I." Affirmed Alicia before she kissed Prim's hair. "We'll get him back." A bloodthirsty smile grew on the Arcturus Heir's face. "And I'm sure Ben will be able to think of a dozen creative ways to punish the scum."
Prim's sad face morphed into a sadistic grin that didn't match the tears flowing from her eyes. "No one can mutilate rapists better then my Prince after all."
{BREAK}
The meeting had wrapped up twenty seconds ago and The Princess Knights had just risen from their chairs, when they heard a deep THUD of a knock on the door that lead to their meeting room.
Celestine raised a brow and eyed the door curiously. "Who is it?"
A Hulk Hogan-like voice with a German accent came from behind the door. "It's James, Of Rocket Squad. I humbly ask you to let me have a few minutes with you, your majesty."
Prim narrowed her eyes. "Great, it's one of those assholes who want to arrest My Prince."
Luu-Luu then shouted. "No matter what you offer us, we're not turning our backs on my Jury Rigg!"
Celestine held up a hand to forestall any more arguing. "I'll give him a chance." Before her angelic voice called out. "You may enter James."
The thick door parted open with a groan and into the room stepped the blue haired Nitroanderthal member of Rocket Squad.
Prim narrowed her eyes. ' It's hard not to think of him and his wife as monsters. I mean they look like the average monster in Eostia. But I know that they are like the aliens in my Prince's Omnitrix which my Prince has often told me are different from monsters.'
Still she didn't like any member of this "Rocket Squad" and if she was able to, would kick them to the curb rather then work with them.
James bumped his fist to his chest and bowed as he saluted Celestine. "Thank you your majesty for granting me this audience."
"Why are you here?" Demanded both Alicia and Prim at the same time. This caused the high elf goddess to send them a reproachful look. "Alicia, Prim let me handle this."
The High Elf goddess then addressed James. "Why are you here James? If this is another attempt by Rocket Squad to convince us that Eostia's greatest hero is a criminal then let me be frank and tell you to stop wasting your breath. Thousands of people from across Eostia owe their lives to Ben Tennyson."
The blue haired Nitroanderthal flinched. "No, I'm here on behalf of my son Revonnahgander. My sweet spongey Jessie won't allow Revonnahgander anywhere within eyesight of you and your princess knights. So I'm here to ask on his behalf."
The Nitroanderthal plumber paused for a moment as if he was hesitating. "Can you please tell me about your experiences with Ben Tennyson since he arrived in your world? Has he hurt any innocent people, had he ever abused you?"
Prim grit her teeth and interrupted before Celestine could say anything. "My Prince would never lay a hand on me! Or Luu-Luu or any of us! How dare you-"
Celestine's voice was angelic and stern. "Prim, I said let me handle this."
Prim clamped her mouth shut with an annoyed look in her eyes, Celestine waited a few moments before she continued. "Prim speaks the truth though. During his entire time in Eostia Ben has never laid a hand on anyone of us. I do acknowledge that he has a powerful temper BUT-" Celestine held up a finger. "He only directs it to creatures who deserve it. Such as the monsters in Vault's army and the monsters in human skin that pretend to be decent human men."
James nodded. "That's a welcome development. Plumber intelligence had declared Ben Tennyson as a grave threat to civilian welfare. He was deemed a threat equal to or greater then Vilgax."
Celestine shook her head. "Apparently your Plumber intelligence doesn't know Ben as well as we do. Even though he's been working for them for years." The Goddess crossed her arms under her ample diamond-like bosom. "Is there anything else you wish to know Mr James?"
The blue haired Nitroanderthal nodded. "Yes, I want to hear the stories of how Ben saved each of you. Maybe with the full details of Ben's actions in this world, I can convince my lovely wife to have a better view of him."
Celestine shared a look with each of her Princess knights before she nodded. "Very well, I'll allow Prim and Alicia to go first."
Prim and Alicia saluted Celestine with the Arcturus heir speaking. "I am grateful, your Grace." Before she turned to James. "I was a fool who surrendered her kingdom to a band of rapists and thieves. If Ben hadn't swooped in when he did…"
Alicia shuddered as a haunted look came in her eyes. "I would be a sex slave to Beardsley right now. A man I thought of as a grandfather and he was planning to rape me all this time." The Arcturus Heir's eyes grew moist and she angrily wiped them with the back of her left hand.
"And Prim, my sweet Prim, the sweetest sister anyone could ask for. Would have been a sex slave to those- those pigs! Who pretended to be her friends!"
Alicia stared down James. "So he killed a hundred or a thousand rapists, so what? Why should their lives matter more then the freedom of the women they were planning to sexually enslave?"
James shuddered as a feeling of guilt and shame crawled up his spine like a centipede. 'Ben Tennyson is this world's last hope against The Black Dogs. If we arrest him… a tide of degeneracy that no planet has seen will engulf this world.'
Indeed, as each of the girls told him more and more about Ben's actions in Eostia. The more he doubted his mission.
AUTHORS NOTES
I Hope you enjoyed this chapter. Yes Ben is suffering but he will get his revenge in typical Fallen Hero faction
What is Dr Dhanvantari up to? What kind of monsters is he creating? What is up with that watch he's creating?
Tune in to find out, for the next chapter The Princess Knights and their armies invade Geofu!
Later Taters!