GREETINGS, BEFORE WE BEGIN THIS CHAPTER I WANTED TO ADDRESS SOME QUESTIONS.
Yes this WILL be a harem story but it won't happen all at once. This Ben is kind of a brooding asshole due to his trauma so it'll take time.
With that said onto the chapter!
The transformation was instantaneous, once again the orcs and the monsters in human skin in the room were blinded albeit by a green light this time instead of a purple light. When it cleared, the Orcs and Men after blinking no longer saw a human boy with the madness of a monster in his posture and eyes. They now saw a creature that was truly a monster in body too.
It was tall, just only a foot shorter than an orc and at the same time in better shape with no jiggling muffin top, instead an eight pack of abs with two chrome bolts sticking out of it. It's flesh was pale gray like an embalmed corpse and it had scars and sutures across its body as if it was sewn together. It's head had dark hair done in a mullet hairstyle with thick pointed sideburns and finally out of its back stuck out a pair of dull gray metal towers.
The Orcs who had only managed to make it six steps towards Ben before they saw his transformation and they stopped in their tracks, as indecision and fear gripped their hearts.
"That's not a human it can't be!" Cried out one orc as its hand trembled while clutching its oversized battle ax.
Chloe from her position on the floor smiled, her smile reflecting her relief and joy. "My queen." She breathed out while wiping a tear of emotion at how close she came to reliving her horrible past. "You did it. You saved me again."
Olga smiled, her smile reflecting her exhaustion and struggle to stay awake. "I did it. Give those creeps hell whoever you are."
Vault yelled. "Stupid fat orcs! Don't just stand there! He's obviously some kind of changeling! Attack before he-"
Too late, Ben now in the form known as Frankenstrike effortlessly closed the distance between him and the Orcs. Grabbing a hold of the first orc by the throat he gazed at the orc like it was an ant in his smoothie.
"I've met many different aliens and life forms throughout my life but your kind is the most disgusting I've ever encountered. Your sole reason for existing is to kill and rape. Every breath you take is a waste of oxygen."
During his speech the choking orc gagged and swung his ax down onto Frankenstrike's head only for it to shatter into a hundred pieces, the shards raining down on Frankenstrike like sand. Narrowing his eyes the Pseudo transylian spit in the orc's face. "Filthy orc don't interrupt me when I'm talking."
"LET GO OF MY BROTHER UNDEAD THING!" shouted another Orc as it got the courage to intervene. Said orc swinging its own axe down towards the Pseudo Transylian.
In response Frankenstrike threw the first orc to the ground before turning to face the orc who squared up to him, in only a matter of seconds the fallen hero had caught the second Orc's ax as he swung it THEN used it to chop off the orcs legs at the knees before burying his fist into the second Orc's chest.
With a sound akin to a wrestler ripping open a thanksgiving ham, Frankenstrike's fist emerged from the second Orc's chest and splattered blood across the throne room floors like a sprinkler sprays water. Now in his hand the second Orc's heart still twitched and beated while the second orc gasped for air and stared in horror, his amputated legs still gushing blood.
Then with a sound akin to an old man chugging a gallon of gravy, Frankenstrike shoved the still beating heart into the second Orc's mouth.
As the sounds of retching and choking and dying followed that Frankenstrike turned his attention back to the first Orc only to see that he had urinated and defecated himself.
"Pathetic. Like all other bullies." Mused the Pseudo Transylian before he buried the ax into the first orc's groin and just as said orc began to squeal like a pig, the Pseudo Transylian lit up with green electricity flowing from his conductor coils into the ax.
The orc was fried from the inside out genitals first.
Three more orcs, now consumed with terror at the sight of their compatriots' brutal deaths, threw themselves towards the fallen hero. There was no rage or coordination in their attack only blind terror as they swung their axes wildly hoping to hit a weak spot by chance.
If they had any sense of self awareness they would have realized that this was how their victims in the past felt when they raided human villages. They would have felt some level of shame at making men, women and children feel the level of terror they were experiencing now.
Alas they did not have such self awareness, they only wanted to kill the undead/ changeling/ greater demon in front of them so they could relieve their frustrations on the women in the room.
Frankenstrike on the other hand felt no fear. These orcs were among the most vile and disgusting creatures he had ever encountered. But compared to the many aliens he fought over the years such as The Incurseans, The Dnaliens, High Breed, Vilgax, The Dagon. These orcs were water balloons waiting to be popped.
Frankenstrike quickly restrained an orc grabbing both its arms before with a simple tug snapped both its arms like twigs as said orc began to bellow in pain Frankenstrike began pumping his electricity into the orc's body making its obese body spasm and crackle as it cooked under the power of the electricity.
The Pseudo Transylian didn't miss a beat, tossing his victim's corpse aside and headbutting the next orc in the face so hard that it's face caved in as if it got hit by a wrecking ball.
He then slapped another orc with his open hand so hard that the orc's head splattered like a fly hit by a fly swatter the sound accompanying it was like that of a tomato being stepped on by a boot as skull shards, brain matter that now looked like blended ground hamburger, eye balls and other meat went flying.
Vault clenched both his fists and muttered. "The dark elf bitch managed to summon a monster this powerful? She was supposed to be weak!" Anger and frustration pumped like molten metal through Vault's veins at how helpless his monsters seemed to be.
Suddenly an idea came to mind and he grinned in a way that the corners of his lips seemed to glow with evil. "Men attack the half elf! The Dark elf slut will be forced to call off her pet when we hurt her favorite handmaiden!"
The human men in the room briefly shared a look with each other not wanting to kill someone as beautiful as Chloe. Not for moral reasons but because they wanted to have their turns to stick their dicks in her.
Albeit that was only briefly as they feared Ben more. One man let out a shout of "Die!" And raising his sword charged the downed half elf. That was all that was needed to inspire the rest of the men.
Frankenstrike punched a hole through the chest of an orc that was in his way and declared. "You humans are just as bad as these orcs." His hand which had emerged out of the orc's back, glowed with green electricity which shot forward and washed like a tidal wave over eight of the Black dogs who screamed and urinated themselves as their limbs spasmed with the sounds of broken bones as Frankenstrike's electricity forced their limbs to contort in unnatural shapes.
"It's shameful, how human men can think exactly like monsters whose sole purpose is to kill and rape to the point that you can ally with them against your fellow humans. You deserve nothing but suffering."
Olga shivered as she observed her summon's actions. ' When he was human he seemed overflowing with rage to the point that his blood vessels were about to pop from the stress. Now in his undead form he seems calmer yet he's still extremely brutal. His brutality when transformed must be an outlet for his rage and madness.'
As Olga analyzed Frankenstrike, the Pseudo Transylian took down another pair of Orcs, ripping one orc's arm off before grabbing another orc by the head and shoving its head inside the first orc's stump.
This generated a sound akin to a pear being squeezed and crushed into a smaller and too tight space as one orc's head imploded with the sound of a skull breaking into a thousand bloody pieces and their brain matter exploding inside the other orc's body as if a hose was shooting the Orc's brain matter into the other orc's stump.
The Orc's brain matter and skull chunks shot into his compatriots body with enough force that they shredded his compatriots heart and lungs.
As that pair collapsed to the floor Vault realized that Frankenstrike was going to kill all of the Orcs soon, he pointed at seven of his men. "You you you and you go and assist the orcs they obviously need help!"
The men who were ordered paled as they shook like they were shirtless in a blizzard but still had sweat going down their brow. "You can't be serious, Vault Sama?" one protested. "We'll get slaughtered!"
In response Vault kicked the man in the stomach knocking the wind out of him. "If you want to see any pussy in my new empire you will attack that monster! Now man up and go!"
Frankenstrike confiscated another Orc's axe and disemboweled them with it before he grabbed their spilled intestines and electrocuted them. He then heard the battle cries of seven human men and soon spotted seven scarred tanned men charging him with swords.
The men would have scared any civilian with their muscular thuggish bodies that bore numerous battle scars and vicious dog tattoos but for Ben all he saw was cannon fodder. That and the fact that their eyes were welling up with tears as they charged him and their battle cries cracked like a teenager at the end.
Frankenstrike grabbed a handful of his recent victim's cooked intestines. And trust me when I say a handful for a Transylian was a lot. Before he tackled the first human shoving what amounted to two and a half shovels worth of scorched Orc intestines down the gullet of a human man.
Said man was strangled by the weight of the scorched organs shoved down his glob, it triggered his gag reflex and he vomited but the vomit got stuck in his chest not even able to reach his throat which had tripled in size from what he had been force fed. Tears ran down his face as he turned blue and collapsed.
Before the choking man even finished dying, Frankenstrike had already ripped off another man's sword arm and used it to behead him before shoving the sword into his neck stump.
While Frankenstrike was distracted an Orc bellowed. "Die Demon!" As it slammed its ax down onto Frankenstrike's back. As usual the ax shattered with a sound akin to a vase shattering.
In response the Pseudo Transylian grabbed one of the Black dogs by the torso and after picking him up slammed him down on top of the latest orc butt first.
The black dog let out a girlish scream as his ass was impaled on the orc's head. The orc's head being a thick skull parted the black dog's butt cheeks with a sound of tearing flesh and blood and shit spilling out around the orc's shoulders.
Frankenstrike finished off both victims with a blast of electricity that fried them both.
Now there was only one orc and five black dogs left, and Vault upon seeing this ordered. "Kin get me out of here!"
The addressed man flipped through the pages of his book and began to chant out a spell, causing a red rune circle to appear around him, Vault and the remaining Black Dogs.
Frankenstrike, who had just fried the last orc and three more men, narrowed his eyes and lost his composure upon seeing this. "COWARDS!" He bellowed. "SO SO FUCKING TYPICAL OF VILLAINS! YOU'RE ALWAYS COWARDS PICKING ON THE WEAK!"
Frankenstrike snatched a sword away from one of the remaining two black dogs still fighting him and after beheading them threw the sword towards Vault like it was a disc.
Vault's eyes widened, he opened up his mouth to shout to order his mage to hurry up and finish the teleportation spell.
"And guide all those loyal to the black dog king away from the pretender's castle." Finished Kin. Upon doing so red electricity shot out of the rune circle surrounding Vault, kin and their men forming a cage.
It was too late though as the sword that Frankenstrike threw already made it through. Vault dodged to the right but not fast enough as metal speared through flesh and bone with a sound akin to a lumberjack chopping wood and soon a severed limb fell to the floor.
The Black Dog's leader had just began to scream in pain when he and his men disappeared in a red flash of light
"GOD DAMN IT!" Frankenstrike roared as he kicked the corpse of the fried orc that had a man impaled ass first on its head, thus splitting the corpse in half and showering gore and viscera across the throne room. Frankenstrike clenched his fist and seethed as he glared at the corpses of his victims.
"Fuck you. Fuck you incels who are such losers you can't get a girl to sleep with you without raping them. Sex empire." Frankenstrike shook his head and spit on the corpse of the human who he forced fed orc intestines before he scowled.
"If I wanted to be generous I could excuse the Orcs actions by saying they can't help themselves because they're monsters and it's in their nature. But I'm not generous not anymore. And even if I was I couldn't apply that to you because you're human and should know better. Didn't your parents raise you right? Don't you care about what happens to your mothers, your sisters under the rule of a sex empire?"
At the end of his monologue Frankenstrike raised his left foot and stomped down on the leg of the corpse of the man who he force fed orc intestines. With a sound akin to a pumpkin being hit by a sledgehammer the corpse's left leg was blasted off in a shower of blood and meat.
It was then that the Omnitrix symbol on his chest glowed yellow and in a synthesized version of his human form's voice announced. "Uncatalogued DNA detected. Initializing Scan."
Frankenstrike's eyes widened realizing what this meant. "Omnitrix no no it's not worth it!"
The Omnitrix didn't listen and shot out a yellow beam which ran itself over one of the corpses of one of the orc's he killed.
Frankenstrike sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Great, I can now turn into a hentai monster. Just what I needed."
"Orc DNA acquired. One more Uncatalogued DNA sample within Omnitrix user's vicinity. Initializing Scan." Upon the Omnitrix announcing this Frankenstrike realized that the one who summoned him here was right behind him.
He turned around just in time for the yellow light to run itself over Olga Discordia.
Olga's eyes widened as she felt herself become more awake, as her muscles felt like Chloe had been massaging them for four hours. ' What's this? Why do I feel like I just drank five mana potions? Did that light restore me?'
"Dark Elf DNA acquired. All new DNA cataloged." Announced the Omnitrix as it retracted it's light.
Just as Olga stood up to her full height now no longer needing to use her scepter as a crutch, Chloe shouted "What did you do to Olga Sama?!" as she jumped on top of Frankenstrike.
The Pseudo Transylian caught the half elf with one hand and held her in mid-air while she kicked and struggled as if she was nothing more than an annoying kitten.
"I just saved you and your queen who KIDNAPPED me from a fate worse than death. So show some fucking gratitude by not attacking me at the bear minimum. That's all I ask."
"Tell me what that yellow light did to Olga Sama damn it! You better not have stolen her soul!" Seethed Chloe as she kicked over and over as if she was drowning in water.
Frankenstrike sighed and gave an exasperated look at Olga. "Olga your summoning spell gave me a brief summary of who you are and your world. Do you know anything about me or the world I come from?"
Olga's mouth opened and closed as her eyes went back and forth between her struggling handmaiden and Ben. ' Why didn't it kill Chloe for attacking it? I didn't have time to put any binding charms on it to stop it from attacking in self defense. So it should be just as hostile towards us after it took down the targets I gave it.'
Frankenstrike growled. "By your lack of answers I guess you know nothing about me or where I come from. Tell me what you think I am?"
Olga shook her head. "Aren't you a greater demon or maybe an undead?"
The fallen hero shook his head. "I'm neither, we have much to discuss but first get control of your handmaiden before I knock her out."
"Don't give Olga Sama orders, she's the one who summoned you!" Snarled Chloe.
Olga Discordia felt dread fill her chest. As she realized this wasn't a being under her control, who would talk back to her and could defy her.
"Chloe calm down, give my summon a chance to explain itself. It saved both you and me from Vault so it deserves a chance to explain itself."
Olga rubbed her forehead where her headache was now gone. "I think its light healed me. I feel even better than I did before Vault's arrival."
Chloe's struggles died down and Frankenstrike unceremoniously dropped her.
"OOF, asshole." Muttered Chloe rubbing her rear end.
Frankenstrike slapped his omnitrix dial and in a flash of green light he was human again. With a stern frown on his face Ben Tennyson walked up to Olga and held out his hand. "First off I'm not an it. I'm a Human being. My name is Ben. Ben Tennyson."
Olga and Chloe stared at Ben with wide eyes, both of them shocked that the monster who massacred so many orcs and Black dogs with ease was a human.
Chloe grit her teeth as she muttered. " So he's not a demon?" She punched the floor. "Damn it that means I was saved by a human!"
When Olga didn't shake his hand Ben glared at her and retracted his hand. "I thought a queen would have more manners."
His scoff snapped Olga back to her senses. "You're Human? Are you some kind of Mage? Is that how you're able to transform into some kind of undead?"
Ben shook his head. "No, I'm not a mage." He flinched as if struck, as a memory of a particular red headed family member fluttered through his mind. "I would appreciate it if you could take me somewhere less…" he wrinkled his nose. " Bloody, somewhere I can eat as I recently dealt with my own traitors who ruined my meal."
Olga Discordia didn't know why, but she felt herself being drawn to this human as if he was a magnet and her soul was metal. His anger, his madness seemed to pull her towards him as if they were tentacles that had ensnared her.
Her amber eyes became glued and then lost in his acid green eyes and her heartbeat quickened.
Ba-dumo ba-dump ba-dump dumpdumpdumpdump* The Dark Elf clenched her rocking chest. ' This Human, who is he to command such authority even over me? I-I feel strange around him.'
She took a breath. "Alright, I'll personally lead you to the dining hall. Chloe I want you to fetch the servants and have them clean this place up then join me and Ben in the Dining hall."
Chloe who was watching this with a pursed lip had her thoughts racing. ' I've never seen Olga Sama behave this way around anyone. Not around other Dark elves or especially around Humans. But I can feel it too. This human is mad with pain and anger and it is starting to ensnare my soul just from me being near him. Yet I don't feel threatened. I feel… safe? Like I know he won't hurt me, only the black dogs.'
Upon hearing her queen's orders Chloe gave a one armed bow. "As you wish my queen I'll fetch the servants from their shelters."
...
Ben sat down on a plush purple and black round chair that had a backside composed of spikes layered on top of each other. ' The seat is comfy but the backrest leaves more to be desired. It's as if the design places looking evil over comfort.'
Olga frowned as she noticed that Ben's seat at the long purple rectangular table just happened to be next to hers at the head of the table.
' I can't remember the last time that someone sat by my side without my permission that I didn't punish them harshly for their presumptuousness. But for this human I KNOW that's not it.'
The dark elf queen took her seat at the table and immediately felt the pain and madness from Ben drawing her in again, causing her to shiver.
"Are you alright?" Asked the human she summoned. His query startled Olga making her flinch in her seat for she didn't expect a human who had pain and madness crawling out of his very pores like snakes to speak in a tone of genuine concern, especially for a Dark Elf like her.
'Get ahold of yourself.' She gave herself two mental slaps on the cheeks. ' You're the queen of the Dark elves, one of the oldest beings in Eostia. A human shouldn't be making you act this way.'
" I'm quite alright." She answered, her voice chilling as ice. " I just haven't entertained non Dark elf guests in so long."
Ben paused and observed her with eyes like a hawk making the Dark queen sweat before he gave her a sympathetic frown and looked down at the floor, looking almost like a kid who had been scolded by their mother.
"I'm sorry. I haven't been the same since I-'" He began to tremble.
"Since I lost-" He trembled again and his hands latched onto the purple table cloth of the large rectangular table in front of him, his nails twisting the table cloth into knots.
He sucked in a breath as the veins in his eyes bulged. "Since those bastards killed my family."
During this Olga could feel the tentacles of madness that surrounded Ben, getting more violent. Cracking the air like whips.
Olga instinctively backed her chair further to the right away from Ben. ' He said some bastards killed his family. I saw how brutal he was to the orcs. Oh Celestine I hope his family wasn't killed by my monsters under my orders or I could be next!'
She gripped her scepter so tightly that her knuckles turned red.
It was then that Chloe entered the dining hall. Giving a one armed bow the half elf announced. "Olga-sama the servants are cleaning up the mess as we speak. Though some of them couldn't keep their lunch down unfortunately. But they'll clean that up too. I also gave them orders to make a trophy out of Vault's severed arm for you to hang up on your wall."
Chloe's entrance snapped the Dark Queen out of her panic and she shot a smile towards her handmaiden. "Thank you very much Chloe. I shall enjoy my new trophy very much."
It was then Olga Discordia realized. ' No, I can't be responsible for his family's deaths. If I was, he would have already killed me by now, he wouldn't have asked me to take him here to speak to me.'
Olga put on her most polite and charismatic "queen face" before she addressed Ben. "And Ben Tennyson I must thank you for my new trophy as well. Also I realized how rude my previous behavior was. You saved me and my handmaiden from becoming the toys of those fat filthy beasts and repugnant men. You saved my purity and I didn't even give you a thank you."
The Dark Elf queen slammed her scepter into the ground. "So thank you Ben Tennyson and let me state that I am in your debt."
Ben looked at the Dark queen with calm calculating eyes. ' On one hand she kidnapped me but on the other she really had no other choice if she didn't want to be raped.'
Making a decision Ben responded cooly. "I accept your debt, first I ask you to tell me more about your world. Any information you think is important as I'll probably be here for the foreseeable future and be fighting those Black dogs and monsters again. Second, I ask for a place to stay since I got nowhere else to go. Third, I ask that you help me in anyway you can when I need it."
Chloe stomped forward. "You ask too much hu-" she was cut off when Ben sent a glare her way thus making her gulp.
Turning his attention back to Olga, the fallen hero asked. "Are those acceptable?"
Olga's jaw gaped in confusion. "What do you mean my world? Are you saying you're from another world? Like the realm of the gods?"
Ben sighed. "And this is where it gets complicated. Yes I'm from another world. No it's not a world of gods and no, not everyone in my world can do what I can do." He pulled up his jacket sleeve to show the pair of dark elves the white and green watch on his wrist.
"This right here is the Omnitrix. It's a device that allows me to transform into dozens of different aliens from dozens of different worlds. Each alien has its own unique set of powers that allow me to do extraordinary things. The alien you saw me become in your throne room was Frankenstrike which was The Omnitrix's DNA sample of a Transylian."
Ben pinched the bridge of his nose as he mentally lamented how difficult it was going to be to explain the concept of aliens and what his omnitrix can do to inhabitants of a medieval world. "Do you understand what I've said so far? Please feel free to ask questions if you need clarification."
Olga and Chloe felt confusion swirling inside their heads like a tornado. They could comprehend alternate worlds as it was theorized that greater demons created their own alternate worlds to reside in when they weren't terrorizing the mortal realm. And ancient scholars had proven that the gods of old resided in their own godly realm.
But they never heard of DNA or aliens before this day.
Olga forced a calm expression that did not betray her confusion and in a chilly tone asked. "Ben, I must confess I do not know what DNA or aliens are. I would appreciate it if you could explain it to me. Is aliens another word for monster?"
Ben shrugged his shoulders noncommittally. "Sure let's go with that. As for DNA, it's the building blocks of life. All life forms from animals to people to plants have DNA. It's how we reproduce. When a man and a woman have sex, they are combining their DNA together to produce a baby. DNA determines what you look like and the combined DNA of the parents determines what your offspring looks like."
He nodded at Chloe. "Hence why you have traits of both human and Dark Elf. Because you inherited a set of Human DNA from one parent and a set of Dark Elf DNA from another."
Chloe grit her teeth and clenched both her fist. ' Does he have to rub it in that I'm a mongrel?'
Ben continued. "The Omnitrix works by acquiring samples of DNA from various life forms so it's user can transform into the lifeform. That's what it did in The Throne room. It acquired a sample of Orc DNA and then it acquired a sample of your DNA. So now I can transform into an Orc and a Dark Elf."
Chloe slammed her fist on the table, her fist producing an audible thud upon impact. "This is outrageous! You're saying you stole a part of Olga-sama so you can become a Dark Elf?! You are making a mockery of our people, no loyal Dark Elf will stand for this-" Chloe was interrupted when her queen flicked her on the forehead.
"Ow." Yelped the Half elf rubbing the spot where Olga flicked her. "Olga-Sama what was that for?"
Olga Discordia stared at Chloe with an icy expression. "Chloe, I more than anyone know how your past with humans has colored your view of them. And I will admit that my own views about humans are pretty blatant as well. Which is why I'll say that Ben Tennyson is different from any Human we have ever met and we should give him a chance."
Olga got up from her chair and laid a hand on Chloe's shoulder, giving her handmaiden a warm smile. "Please Chloe trust me. I am the one who summoned Ben Tennyson here. He did what I summoned him to do and that is enough for us to give him a chance."
Ben while watching this frowned and cupped his chin in his hand lazily. ' Chloe and Olga must've both had plenty of bad experiences with Humans before meeting Vault and those mercenaries who were planning to rape them. There's obviously a lot of bad blood between Humans and Dark Elves in this world. Just what did I get dragged into?'
He cleared his throat. "I'm still here, you know. Please don't ignore me and talk like I'm just a pet."
Olga and Chloe both paused, both thinking that they could never recall when they let a Human get away with talking to them like that.
Olga thought. ' Well Ben Tennyson is no ordinary human that's for sure.' She sat back down at her chair and gestured for Chloe to sit down at the chair opposite of Ben.
"So Ben, would you mind showing me what your Dark Elf form looks like?" Asked Olga as she seductively leaned forward placing both her hands flat on the table, nearly causing her dark boobs to spill out of her lingerie- like top.
Accentuating her dark cleavage in an attempt to persuade Ben.
For a few seconds Ben's acid green eyes glanced at Olga's soft bouncing flesh and a blush appeared on his face. Before his eyes shot straight back to her face and his face was like that of an angry war veteran again.
Olga of course noticed this despite how brief it was and smirked. ' You may be consumed by pain and madness Ben Tennyson but you're still a man and I have yet to meet a man who doesn't want my body.'
' Stupid obsession with boobs.' thought Ben in his head before he shrugged. "Yeah I guess now is as good a time as any to test out my Dark Elf Form."
He pushed himself away from the table, the legs of his chair screeching as they dragged against the floor. Standing up Ben placed his hand above the faceplate of the Omnitrix 2.0 thus causing a green circular holographic interface with various alien faces to appear.
Olga became intrigued as she watched Ben scroll through the various alien faces on the green wheel of light. ' He has so many choices. So many of these "aliens" he can become. Ben said that this Omnitrix got samples from real creatures so all these aliens are out there somewhere but I never got a chance to meet them? Or even hear of them? What else am I unaware of?'
While Olga was intrigued Chloe felt her heartbeat spike as she became apprehensive. ' So many different monsters and if he's telling the truth they all have different powers. If they're anywhere near as powerful as the one he used in the throne room how am I supposed to stand up to him?'
Finally Ben found a face that looked like a human with pointed ears and Emo hair that covered its left eye. Ben rolled his eyes. "Emo hair for the Dark Elf really." He audibly muttered thus confusing the two dark elves in the room though they chose to wait until he transformed before commenting.
Ben pressed the icon, causing the omnitrix symbol to pop out and he slammed down on it. Green light flooded the dining hall.
Chloe rubbing her eyes cursed. "Damn you. Are you trying to blind us?"
When Olga and Chloe blinked the stars out of their eyes they became shocked at what stood before them. With Chloe dropping her jaw and Olga although she was more composed still had her jaw clenched and set in a frown.
Ben was now six feet and one and a half inches tall, he now had chocolate-like skin with raven black hair done in a spiky messy hairstyle that obscured his left eye. His right eye which was still visible was an acid green just like his human form and he had pointed ears which were obscured by the midnight purple hood he wore while his mouth was obscured by a midnight purple scarf.
He was clothed in a midnight purple robe that trailed past his feet with a hood that went over his head and black metal chest armor that had an open eye carved onto it and two pairs of bull horns coming out of each shoulder.
He also had black metal gauntlets that ended in bear claw-like fingers which crackled with purple electricity.
Ben looked himself over, turning his gauntleted hands back and forth in front of his face and looking at his armor and robe. He didn't audibly comment but he did think. ' I look like I came from a Dungeons and Dragons game.'
Olga breathed. "Incredible. You're incredible." She stood up from her chair once again and reached out a hand towards Ben cupping his cheek.
The Human turned Dark Elf shifted uncomfortably at her touch and glared at her with his lone eye. "Care to explain why I'm incredible?" His tone made it clear that it wasn't so much a question as it was a demand.
Olga, realizing what she was doing, blushed and retracted her hand. "S-s-sorry. It's just that…" She bit her lip thinking how she was going to explain this. "You just transformed into a type of Dark Elf that has been extinct for over two centuries. You're a Sorcerer of The Order of The Dark Eye."
Chloe breathed. "No way! I've only read about them in history books detailing the first fifty years of The war between your kingdom and Celestine's."
Ben looked at his hands again and blinked, for a moment he saw a network of veins throughout his own body. But these veins didn't carry blood, they carried a purple energy that pulsed with enough power to fuel three New York Cities.
'Mana, so much Mana is pumping through my body. Just like Gwen used to have. Maybe even more.' He realized.
Looking at Olga he asked. "Please tell me more about this war between your kingdom and the kingdom of Celestine. And tell me all you know about The Order Of The Dark Eye."
If he truly transformed into a sorcerer of an extinct order, then he needed to learn as much as possible about said order if he was going to be able to use the form right.
Olga nodded eagerly as she restrained how excited she was. She held up a finger. "First The Order of The Dark Eye, were the second most powerful sorcerers among The Dark Elves. Second only to me in my prime. They are why during the first fifty years of the war between my kingdom and Celestine's, we won eight out of ten engagements unless Celestine herself personally intervened.
And that brings us to why there is no more order. Celestine with the backing of her strongest blessed knights wiped them out and burned their temple to the ground leaving nothing left to salvage."
It was then that from the nearby kitchen emerged a whole squad of Dark Elf servants carrying trays of meat, cheese and vegetables. Although they were in a hurry they all stopped and crashed into each other upon spotting Ben in his Dark Elf form.
"Order Of The Dark Eye!" Shouted one servant who spilled several cheeses and wines on the floor.
"How? They-" The second servant didn't get a chance to finish before Olga shouted. "You fools! Can I not count on you to do your job!"
She pinched the bridge of her nose as her servants cowered in fear before giving them a dead stare. "Clean up your mess and prepare your queen and her guests a new meal!"
"Yes your majesty/ We're very sorry your majesty." The servants rushed to obey her and appease her anger.
Ben's stomach growled and the Pseudo Dark Elf Sorcerer let out a sigh, rolling his one visible eye. "Damn the Plumbers for ruining my Smoothies." He ran a gauntlet through his emo hair over his left eye. "So can you please tell me how this war started and why it has been going on for so long?"
Olga nodded. "I apologize for my servants' incompetence. I shall punish them accordingly. My savior shouldn't go hungry."
Ben shook his head and slapped the Omnitrix symbol which was on his hood turning back into a human in a flash of light. He looked tired and exhausted as if all his madness had burnt itself out like a Forrest fire that ran out of fuel. "No, no don't punish them. It was my fault I was the one who startled them. Anyways-" Ben slumped back into his seat and laid his head on his crossed arms.
"To pass the time, tell me about the war."
Olga nodded. "For centuries my people have suffered mistreatment at the hands of humans. Our men would be ganged up on and killed by human men while their wives and daughters would be sold into sex slavery to human nobles.
Humans only saw my kind either as brutes to be exterminated or as exotic merchandise to be captured and sold to brothels.
I admit I'm the one who started the war over three centuries ago, I was in my prime and used my magic to coerce the various tribes of monsters to serve me. I ordered them to raize human villages to commit their atrocities exclusively against human villages."
Olga paused to wait for Ben's reaction. She held her breath, recalling Ben's brutal slaughter of the Orcs and Black dogs. And wondered if Ben was about to lash out at her for confessing to her crimes against his people.
Ben's thoughts raced. ' She just admitted to unleashing those filthy beasts onto human villages to pillage and rape them. That makes her a villain which means I should kill her. But at the same time she did it to protect her own people, not out of sadism or a desire for conquest like Vilgax or Aggregor did. She was doing what she could to protect her people with the tools she had available.'
When Ben spoke he did so with hesitation. "I admit I am uncertain about how to feel about this. You just admitted to committing war crimes that would make the worst regimes of my world proud. But you did it because you care about your people. My past heroic self would have arrested you without a second thought…"
Ben breathed and shook as he stared at the floor. "But now I myself am a brutal killer who tortures and kills people to protect the innocent. Are we really that different? I now realize that all worlds wherever they are, are in shades of gray. So many shades of gray. There is no black and white."
Ben cleared his throat looking abashed and rubbed the back of his neck. "Anyways please continue."
Olga suppressed the sigh of relief she wanted to let out, glad she didn't have to worry about being the target of her savior's wrath. With that she continued.
"The Human kingdom is led by Celestine. She is a High Elf and the reincarnation of The Goddess Laurentia in mortal form. We…" Olga hesitated, looking guilty. "We were friends before the war, she tried to convince me to give humanity a second chance to help her change humanity from the inside. I spit in her face."
As Olga explained the centuries long war to the changeling she summoned, and her and Celestine's roles in it. Out on the borders of The Badlands Vault still with the taste of failure in his mouth raged.
"THAT SLUT!" Vault was so mad that when he shouted, spit shot out of his mouth and landed on the faces of two of his subordinates. The strongest mercenary in existence laid on a straw filled cot soaked with his blood inside a green tent amidst a field of green tents set up in the middle of a Forrest of coal black leafless necrotic trees that looked like they could cut you with their branches.
"THAT HAG THAT THAT THAT CRONE!" Vault had bandages wrapped around the stump of his amputated arm and pounded his one remaining arm onto the cot again and again which creaked under his blows.
Kin and a red eyed man shared a worried look. The latter man had slicked back brown hair and a bare lean chest with only a Forrest green vest on his back, besides that he wore a blue pair of pants and a pair of daggers strapped to his belt.
The latter man addressed Kin, his voice betraying his fear and concern. "Hey four eyes don't you have a spell that can calm Vault Sama down? If he thrashes around too much he might reopen his wounds!"
Kin seethed, his eyes narrowing behind his glasses. "Hicks you simpleton! Mages aren't gods, we can only perform a certain amount of spells per day before we run out of Mana. And if we perform a spell that's too powerful our mana can be drained instantly. Teleporting Vault, you and I as well as all our men away from that demon drained every ounce of Mana I had."
Kin pushed his glasses harshly up against his nose when they began to fall down. "The earliest I can expect to use magic again is late tomorrow afternoon."
Vault then shouted. "When I get my hands on that crone I'm going to fuck her pussy until it pisses blood then I'm going to make her beg me to fuck her some more then I'm going to crucify her and burn her alive!"
Kin gulped, feeling sweat drip down his brow as if he was in the rain and dread slither down and coil around his spine like a boa constrictor. ' This is bad, he already wants to kill one of our prized sex slaves. I better salvage the situation quickly.'
Kin approached his leader as if he was approaching a dangerous animal. Which he kind of was since Vault had broken the arm of one medic who treated him and killed another.
"V-V-Vault-Sama I-I have a proposition on how we can continue building The Sex Empire."
With spit dripping from his lip, one could be forgiven for mistaking the Black Dogs Leader for having rabies. "Spit it out before I break your bones." Growled out Vault, his voice like a Rottweiler gargling salt water.
Kin gulped and nodded so fast that his glasses almost slid off his face and he hurriedly pushed them back up again. "Right away Vault-Sama. You remember that we passed a handful of backwater villages on our way here? Why don't we head back to them and conquer them? We can let the monsters breed with the village women to replenish our numbers. And we can divide up the village women between the monsters and us."
Kin let out a shaky breath as his leader stared at him like a hawk that was in the middle of a roid rage. "S-s-so the women of-of one village go to the monsters and the women of another village go to us. And then once the monsters have replenished their numbers we attack Feoh."
Kin avoided eye contact with Vault and pretended to find his spell book interesting. "I know it's not the original great founding of The Sex Empire you planned, Vault-sama but us conquering Feoh and enslaving Alicia Arcturus should still make for a spectacular proclamation of our plans for Eostia."
By this point Vault had stopped pounding his fist and he slowly laid back down on his cot as the veins died down on his face and his sharp frown smoothed over.
With hesitation Kin spared a glance at The Black Dogs Leader to see that he appeared to be in deep thought.
Finally a grin appeared on Vault's face and he let out a dark chuckle. "You know how to cheer me up Kin. Alright as soon as you get your magic back we set out for the villages. I can't wait to see the looks on those backwater bitches faces when we tear their clothes off and throw them into cages."
Vault's grin grew more toothy as he clenched his one remaining fist on his chest. "And I can't wait to see the look of despair on that brat's face when I take her cousin's virginity in front of her!"
As Vault devolved into laughter at his plans to inflict rape and suffering on the village women and then the women of Feoh, Kin let out a sigh of relief as he wiped his glasses clean.
"The Dark Elf Queen shouldn't send her pet demon to stop us this time. Given her track record she hates humans and will leave The Princess knights to their fates while she selfishly uses the demon as her own personal bodyguard."
Kin placed his glasses back on and continued muttering his monologue. " Then after we've conquered all the fortresses and have bred the largest army of monsters to have ever walked Eostia we can retake The Dark Castle and kill the demon with overwhelming numbers."
Kin felt relief drop down into his stomach like an anchor as he muttered his monologue. Glad that Vault wasn't going to cut him down like their mercenary band's namesake.
Little did Kin or Vault know that their plans were going to be derailed again.
AND END SCENE!
SO IN THIS CHAPTER YOU GOT TO SEE BEN CUT LOOSE ON A HORDE OF ORCS AND BLACK DOGS.
NEXT YOU GOT TO SEE HIM MAIM VAULT AND NOW OLGA CAN MAKE A TROPHY OUT OF VAULT'S SEVERED ARM.
VAULT HAS GONE A LITTLE CUCKOO FROM HIS LOSS BUT IS STILL SCHEMING TO ENSLAVE ALICIA ARCTURUS AND PRIM.
ALSO NEXT CHAPTER WILL BE AFTER A WEEK OR TWO WEEK TIMESKIP IN UNIVERSE.
LATER TATERS!