A Sentient Watch's Adventures

Disclaimer: I do not in anyway shape or form own Ben 10 nor am I associated with those that do, because if I was I would be a millionaire. This is a non-profit fanwork written solely for the purpose of entertainment. This is in no way canon in any shape or form.

Response to questions or statements:

-NewGuest123: Yeah! This pale blue dot and Alpha Centauri belongs to Mankind and Mankind only! If aliens say we can't do that, than they're just jealous.

-That's pretty much the MC's main traits. A troll, but will do anything for you if she considers you a friend.

-Not for long. Gwen's going to forget it again and again...

-Omni's making allies all over the world. The Secretary of Defense is just one of them and the most prominent one in the United States.

-Yup, Omni has once again become a victim of peer pressure.

-Guest0508: Yeah, loved that quote. Glad you approve of the running gag.

-Glad you liked the chapter. Yeah, I agree depends on what food is at stake. And you bet I would take the risk to get infinite pizza.

-TK0421: Like I said, never really focused on her. Much preferred when Lennox and Simmons was no screen. Lennox should have been the main character, the Scorponok fight is one of my favorite scenes in the whole trilogy. In fact, my favorite scenes were Operation Firestorm in ROTF and the wingsuit scene in DOTM. I pretty much liked any scene that showed humans vs cybertronians.

-Glad you approve of my decisions and me including the Coast Guard. Again, Omni makes decisions based on logic since she's an AI.

-Chronosign: Glad you liked it.

-Dbzfan45: No problem, hope you enjoy this update.

-ultima-owner: Probably.

-mlangenirobin: While she's not denying we can capable of war, considering that there are things like Vilgax out in the galaxy, a powerful warlord himself. She finds that we aren't that warlike compared to what's in the galaxy. Besides, humanity first.

Chapter 13: The Krakken

It took roughly fifty minutes before the group managed to reach the cannery that Omni pointed them to that Jonah and his guys were holed up in, using a spare boat that they had "requisitioned" from the docks that may or may not have belonged to Captain Shaw, During their approach they could see Jonah being pulled out of the water via a crane and in some kind of prototype advanced mini-sub exoskeleton that also had two arms for interacting with objects underwater. Through her research, she knew he was able to acquire it through some well connected and wealthy backers of his, that mainly being the congressman and the Russian oligarch. He lowered the Krakken egg into a large containment pod that housed the other egg before exiting the exoskeleton, taking some time to stare at the eggs as he was no doubt imaging the hefty fortune the two of them would bring him.

Turning off the rowboat and paddling the rest of the way as to not alert Jonah and his crew, they made their way underneath the building and started to steer themselves towards a ladder that took them up into the structure above.

"You better hurry, guys." The AI warned as the boat stopped. "The Coast Guard is going to be here any minute now." She told them as she continued to monitor their radio channels and flight speed to determine when they were arriving.

"Can you give a time frame?" Max requested as he quickly looked over the ladder to make sure it was still structurally stable.

"I give you about two to seven minutes." She informed. With Max and Gwen wasting no time as they climbed up into the cannery.

"See if you can find the eggs." Ben whispered as Max and his cousin climbed up.

"What are you going to do?" Gwen quietly asked as she looked down.

"Don't tell me you're becoming a hippy." Omni groaned in despair as she did not want her host to one of those types of people.

"Still... it's better than him being a furry." She admitted to herself

"No." Ben hissed. Seeing his cousin's confused look, he elaborated. "I'm going to kick some Friends of Fish tail."

"Okay, we got to work on your catchphrases. 'Cause right now, they leave a lot to be desired."

"You know, you don't have to question and make fun of everything that I do." Ben hissed as he pressed the dial and began selecting the alien he desired. Before slamming on the dial, he remembered Omni's request that he didn't. So, instead he pushed it gently as he was engulfed in a flash of green light before finding himself as Rip Jaws once more.

"It's just so fun. But I suppose you have a point." The alien watch conceded. "Also, thanks for remembering not to hit my face."

"You're welcome." Ben said. However, just before he could jump into the water, he was knocked off the boat by the Krakken as it rose and tore a hole in the dock. Causing Jonah and his guys to instantly turn around at the sudden arrival as they were transporting the eggs.

" The bigger the Krakken, the bigger the payday." Jonah smirked as he rushed back and entered the prototype underwater traversing exoskeleton, as the blonde-hair poacher whose name was James opened fired on the creature with his MP5K. While the African-American name, Michael, rushed back inside the cannery.

A swipe from the Krakken further destroyed the docks as James managed to dodge the attack and run inside the structure. While Jonah remotely piloted the crane to put some distance between him and the beast and engaged with with the M60 he had managed to attached to one of the suits arms. Ben didn't waste any time as he jumped out of the water and leapt onto the prototype mini-sub.

"You want to mess with a monster?" Ben growled as he bared his teeth. "Try me on for size." He challenged as Jonah moved to aim his mounted M60 at him as Ben ripped it off with his talons and grabbed the cannister of eggs. Before he could get off, he was punched hard in the face by Jonah via the mechanical arm as he fell to the wooden floor below with the container breaking. As the eggs rolled to the edge, the Krakken grabbed the two eggs before moving to jump into the water.

"My eggs!" Jonah yelled as he detached himself from the crane and attempted to take grab them. Only to be interrupted by Ben throwing his aim and and jumping on the ocean creature, grabbing the eggs.

"They're not yours!" Ben yelled as he jumped into the water with Jonah in hot pursuit. With the two battling in the water before Jonah was able to grab them and climb to the surface with the beast in hot pursuit. However, as soon as he reached the surface He was almost blinded as massive spotlights were almost immediately placed on him. A Jonah adjusted his vision, he was greeted to the slight of a flight of white and orange Jayhawk helicopters, signifying the arrival of the Coast Guard.

"Attention!" A voice on a loudspeaker blared out from the lead chopper. "This is the United States Coast Guard! Exit the vehicle and place your hands on top of your head!" Jonah did not infact comply as he attempted to dive back underwater, only for his suit to de damage by a round of .50 BMG which resulted in the cockpit being flooded in water. Forcing him to exit, as he attempted to swim way, with his priority now attempting to get away instead of his payday. The Krakken bursting out of the water to grab her eggs worked to take the attention off of him as the coasties focused their attention on the massive creature.

The Coast Guard choppers hovered and maintained a healthy distance from the sea beast as they turned to all the HITRON snipers on board clear lines of sight. Who immediately began opening fire with the M82 snipers and M2 browning's as they unleashed rounds of .50 BMG into the beast. The high-caliber rounds breaching the sea creatures armor as it began roaring in pain from the wounds it was sustaining.

The Coast Guard HITRON snipers continued opening fire even as the four HH-60 Jayhawk touched down and deployed their MSRT teams, who began forming a perimeter and moving inside the cannery while the helicopters shown spotlights on the Krakken as it roared at the massive lights shining down on it.

But before Ben could attempt to stop them, Omni once again spoke in his head.

"Sorry, Ben." She apologized. "But we need to get to the cannery and we need to get back there now."

"Why?" Ben questioned.

"Because right now, the Coast Guard is closing on your grandpa and cousin. And if they're caught, there's a chance that people could start to piece together the fact that recent alien sightings across the country are somehow connected to them." She explained.

While she was certain she had erased all footage of Max and Gwen been near the locations when Ben had transformed, there wasn't much she could do at the moment if enough eye witnesses said that the elderly man and girl were near every time an alien popped up in America. Which in turn could lead to them being visited by the feds and could potentially expose Ben's identity.

"But we just can't let them kill it!" Ben protested as he continued looking on at the helicopters engaging the sea beast before it dove underneath the water with the search helicopters scanning the water as they hunted it.

"It looks like it managed to get away." Omni said. "But there's nothing else we can do. We have to get yourself, your grandpa, and cousin out of here before they're found."

Ben found he didn't have any argument for that. So with reluctance, he took off back towards the cannery. Once he managed to make his way inside, he was guided to where his grandpa and cousin were currently hiding from the two Maritime Security Response team operators that were sweeping the room, with one closing in on their position with his M4A1 at the ready. Having already found and detained the two remaining members of Jonah's crew that Max and Gwen, but mainly Max, had managed to neutralized via stealth. But now had to hide and evade they weren't facing poorly trained and equipped poachers, now highly trained tactical operatives on high alert searching for hostiles.

Suddenly, before the two guardsmen could look behind the box the two Tennyson's were hiding behind, the MSRT operator noticed something out of the corner of his eye as he quickly turned and pressed the pressure pad on his surefire weaponlight which turned it on, and was met with the sight of Rip Jaws illuminated in his rifles whitelight making a beeline right for him. Swerving his rifle to aim at the alien, he was too slow as Ben grabbed the barrel and forced it to aim at the floor, with him accidently firing a single shot and creating a new hole in the floor. Ben pushed the costal guardsmen and knocked him into his partner into the nearby wall with an oomph But the coastie managed to use his momentum to his advantage and reverse their positions so that he had Ben against the wall with him holding the carbine to his throat and using to keep him pressed against the wooden structure. Fortunately, Gwen and Max managed to get the hint and used the opportunity to beginning sneaking out unscathed.

Kneeing him in the side, with caused Ben some pain in the rips, he then attempted to put some distance between him and Piscciss Volann and aimed his muzzle right at his head. Without even thinking, Ben placed his foot against the wall behind him and launched himself forward, tackling the MSRT operator into his battle buddy once again just as he was getting up. With Ben holding him down as he used his claws to cut his weapon strap and throw the rifle across the room.

However, doing that left him momentarily distracted as he the guardsmen drew his K-BAR combat knife and sliced it across Ben's arm as he got off and hissed in pain before before forced to dive into cover as the operator drew his Glock 19 and fired, along with his teammate who fired his MK18 CQBR and turned on his weaponlight as he fired before turning it off.

"All teams, Beowulf 1-3, engaging s-some kind of humanoid fish." The coastie wielding the MK18 Mod 0 radioed in. "Respond to my pos! Storage room 4!"

"Ben, they're clear. Get out now." Omni ordered as he dove into the water via the massive hole in the floor. Just before a MK 3 concussion grenade was tossed right where he was and detonated before the two coasties moved in just as the rest of the Deployable Specialized Forces entered the room. With them picking up where Ben went pretty fast as they activated their weaponlights and began sweeping the water for him. Unfortunately, Ben was already gone.

Soon, as the ten-year old made it to dry land where his grandpa and cousin were waiting and hiding behind some thick trees as Omni turned him back into human. He walked over to see what Max and Gwen were staring at. Turning his gaze to where they were looking, his shoulders fell slumped as he looked on in despair.

Floating on the water was the Krakken, lying dead and bleeding from a dozen wounds and floating on top of the water, cradling her two eggs that were cracked open and were no doubt very well dead. Having been destroyed in the confrontation with the Coast Guard, with several helicopters remaining focused on it while the rest were combing the lake. Having been informed by their ground forces of the humanoid fish they had a confrontation with in the cannery and were no doubt looking for it.

Funnily enough, Omni zoomed in to see Captain Shaw's fishing trawler with him talking with a MSRT operator with a victorious smile. Looking like he was the one who finished off the Krakken judging by the harpoon embedded in the creatures head. Despite the situation, Omni couldn't help but feel slightly happy for him. Knowing that he was ridiculed and shunned for many years for saying that the Krakken was real and that he would have the satisfaction of being the one to put it down. Thus ensuring he would have bragging rights for the rest of his life. With Jonah also caught as he was detained in handcuffs and was being escorted to a chopper by two guardsmen.

"Well, at least we took down some bad rubbish." Max commented. Trying to remain optimistic.

"We should get moving before anyone sees us." Omni said.

None of the Tennyson's responded to her as they began moving back to their RV. A melancholy mood falling on them as they walked back which stayed with them for the rest of the night. Except for Omni, she really didn't see what the problem was. Sure, it was sad that the Krakken was dead but it wasn't like she was going to lose sleep over it. Besides, if that thing managed to hatch more of its kind they no doubt would have been a massive danger to anyone that visited the lake.

Maybe that was her logical processors talking, but it was the truth. She just hoped it was corrupting her too much.

Author's note: That's it for now Hope you all enjoyed this update and thanks again to all of you for taking the time to check my story out.

Take care, guys, and remember... stay frosty, gents