TRIGGER WARNING: This chapter contains a suicide as well as mentions of graphic rape. (It's kuroinu, what did you expect?) I Felt like I should warn you about the suicide scene that is in this chapter.
This chapter will also show Ben undergoing a mental breakdown and panic attack. So TRIGGER WARNING! Mental trauma, sexual violence and gore ahead!
Onto the story!
A full moon lit up a star studded sky like a Star on top of a Christmas Tree. The night sky above The Fortress city of Ken, unlike that above The Dark queen's Castle, glowed with a friendly and warm light even at night time. The white marble streets below were lit by the lights of dozens of torches and patrolled by dozens of female guards wearing bikini armor that exposed so much it could hardly be called even that.
If a certain shape shifter could see this city he would call it a medieval version of The Big Apple. And the crown jewel of this city, The Goddess Reborn's castle would have made said shapeshifter think of The White House if it had taken steroids. With its spotless white marble walls that extended like skyscrapers.
Inside that castle in a room filled with plush red and gold queen sized furniture lay a fair skinned woman with breasts the size of pumpkins, blonde hair that went down to her waist and white strap like clothing that left very little to the imagination. Her pointed ears gave away the fact that she was an elf.
She groaned and thrashed her arms in her sleep. "Stop… stop… why are you hurting these people?" She muttered fitfully.
In her dreamscape, Celestine Lucross, The Goddess Reborn, was witnessing horrible things.
She was on her knees, she could feel the dirt on her knees and smell the blood from the dying men as well as the scent of human flesh cooking over a fire.
She could see the Orcs skewering Human men and roasting them over open fires to feast on while the women had their clothes torn off to be raped.
But this time, the orcs had a new ally. Black mange ridden dogs the size of people.
Tears ran down the High Elf's eyes as she watched the black flea ridden dogs maul any male villager who tried to protect a woman and then go on to violate the women alongside the orcs.
She reached out her hand. "Why are you doing this?!" She shouted, addressing the large flea ridden dogs. "Why are you helping the Orcs? Why are you hurting these villagers?"
Celestine cowered, slamming her hands over her ears as the sounds of dozens of women crying for their husbands and sons reached a crescendo, as the women wailed for mercy, wailed for death to end their suffering.
" This doesn't make any sense! Orcs aren't known to domesticate animals! They've never done that in all the centuries I've been alive!"
Suddenly the High Elf had the wind knocked out of her as she felt the impact of calloused paws into her chest, sharp dirt covered claws digging into her tender flesh as she was pushed fourteen feet back through the dirt.
"Ouch ouch!" Groaned Celestine as she felt dirt, pebbles and grass scrape her back like sandpaper, she was sure that she now had a rash covering at least half her back.
"Rarf rarf rarf!" She was snapped back to her current situation when the dog on top of her snarled in her face thus sending five tablespoons of saliva and four fleas landing on her face.
Bile rose up Celestine's throat at the mess left on her face as disgust crawled down her spine like an army of marching ants. No sooner did that happen then the dog on top of her began to rip her garments off with its teeth.
Panic shot through her, her heart rate spiking as if she just drank a shot of gasoline. "Wh-what are you doing?!" She slapped the dog but only succeeded in getting its fleas to crawl onto her arm. "Get off, get off bad dog bad dog!"
Despite her frantic slapping she was soon naked as the day she was born, her arms now covered in fleas and the dog's pulsing veiny pink member twitching in front of her.
Celestine closed her eyes, clawing at her filthy arms and frantically pushing at the filthy dog on top of her. ' I'm in hell.' she thought. " NO NO NO. Someone help me. Claudia, Alicia, Maia, anyone please save me!"
As if summoned by her desperate cry a blade pierced the dog's torso causing it to let out a high pitch yelp that would be more fitting of a Chihuahua then a man eater of it's size.
The High Elf shivered as she was shone in a golden light, as she watched the dog that was about to violate her be lifted into the air by a tall being that looked like it was made out of Aqua green jewelry. Said being had a sharp pointed head and a bulging jaw with a pair of spikes coming out of its back.
Celestine watched as the crystalline (golem?) impaled the dog with one arm that was a blade before it turned its other arm into a series of sharp claws followed by performing a series of slashes.
Diamond claws sliced through bones and flesh like a sword through paper sending the dog's limbs flying and blood gushing in all directions thus painting the (golem?) red before the claws severed the canine's head from its shoulder and with a sound akin to a cleaver going through a pineapple, the blade arm split the torso in half.
Not able to take it anymore, the naked High Elf turned over and emptied her stomach, tasting the sour stinky remains of her last meal slime out her mouth onto the dirt.
"Are you alright?" A male human voice asked her.
Wiping her mouth, the Goddess Reborn turned to face the source of the voice. She felt her jaw drop at what she saw, her heart which was threatening to burst a minute ago now was slamming on the brakes as she couldn't believe what she saw.
All the flea ridden dogs and orcs were dead, in various states of mutilation from being impaled by dozens of crystal shards to being impaled on giant crystal pillars to being cut to pieces.
Yet the Golem that saved her and presumably killed all the orcs and dogs was nowhere to be found. Instead what stood in front of her was a human boy in his late teens.
Said boy had short brunette hair and acid green eyes and was wearing clothes that she had never seen anyone in Eostia wear.
He had a mild blush on his face as he looked at her and he bashfully looked away, taking off his jacket which was green with a number ten on it.
He held out the jacket to her. "Here, you need it more then I do."
Celestine shrieked as she quickly covered her chest and hurriedly accepted the jacket. Once she was wearing the jacket she sat back down and placed her hands in-between her legs to cover her genitals.
She could feel her face burning hotly as if she was roasting over a fire, she could feel her blood pumping into her pointed ears. She looked at the human who suddenly appeared and noticed that he wasn't ogling her and still politely looking away.
"Who-who are you?" Stuttered out The Goddess meekly.
The Human gave her a serious look. "My name is Ben Tennyson but in the form you just saw me as I am Diamond Head."
Celestine hugged herself as her eyes widened, shock shooting through like electricity through her system. "You were the golem? How? Are you a mage?"
The Human, no, Ben Tennyson shook his head. "No I'm not. You will learn more about me when Feoh is attacked. Until then beware of The Rabid Dogs. You need to let me put them down if women in Eostia are to have any future."
With that Ben Tennyson disappeared like smoke in a strong breeze and a mere two and a half seconds later the rest of her dreamscape began to blow away.
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In her bedchambers The High Elf awoke on her triple layered queen sized bed underneath the red and gold thick covers that did more to preserve her modesty than her clothing did.
She awoke to the dawn's early light, the first breath of the sun kissing her eyes through her castle window making her blink through the orange haze of the morning.
At first the fog of sleep was like a veil pulled over her mind, her consciousness was like a WW1 soldier struggling to walk through the muddy trenches.
But then the memory of her vision sent a shot of adrenaline through her veins, that shot of adrenaline tearing the veil off her consciousness like an Orc Chief tears off a maiden's clothes.
"I have to tell Claudia about my visi-aahh" while she was talking. The Goddess Reborn had thrown off her thick covers with no care for the disorganization they caused and jumped off her bed, running towards the door to her bedchambers. Only for her to trip on her hairbrush that she left on the floor the night before.
Rubbing her sore face where she landed on the floor cheek first and then rubbing her sore foot that stepped on her hairbrush Celestine sighed. "I should really keep my word and pick up after myself. A queen really needs to be able to keep her room clean."
Celestine soon stood back up, thinking about what she was about to do. ' According to my vision, Feoh will be attacked and it will possibly be saved by this boy named Ben Tennyson who can transform into a Golem. I need to find him as soon as possible. I don't know what those dogs in my vision represented but my vision states I'll need his help to fight them.'
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Two days later at Olga Discordia's castle…
It had been three weeks since he had been summoned to this world that he was steadily coming to the conclusion was twisted to the core.
The fallen hero Ben Tennyson had spent his time in this new world learning about the various creatures that inhabited it from either Olga Discordia, Chloe or the books in the castle library.
And he could only draw one conclusion.
"Why does everything with a penis want to rape everything with a pussy in this world?"
Ben in his Dark Elf Sorcerer form sighed as he casted a spell that made the wear rabbit charging him defecate a swarm of bees that proceeded to attack its eyes, ears, nose and mouth thus making the Wear Rabbit let out a high pitch howl of pain as it's mucus membranes were hit by a thousand stingers, not to mention that it's anus had been equally stung and shredded by defecating the bees.
Ben or as he was currently known as Malekith was on the training grounds of Queen Olga's castle. Said training grounds were placed on blood red soil that reeked of decay and sewage with brown wilted bushes that reeked of moldy cheese sprouting from said soil.
Surrounding the grounds was a fence made of the same obsidian knife-like material as the castle and in the grounds were racks containing swords, axes, and crossbows, and training dummies to practice the weapons on dotted the grounds like pepper.
As well as walls to climb like you would see at a boot camp and pits to climb over via a rope and finally various beasts such as were rabbits, large fanged rabbits the size of rhinos trapped in cages waiting to be released.
Malekith held up one of his bearpaw gauntlet clad hands and chanted. "Oh Badlands of my ancestors grant me your heat to scorch my enemies!" Thus shooting a purple fireball out of his hand to finish off the dying Were Rabbit.
Running over to one of the pits that had a tight rope as the only way to cross it, Malekith looked down into the pit to see it was filled with magma that lit up the pit like a night light. Clasping his hands together he chanted. "Oh Badlands, grant me your balance so I may not fall."
A purple sparkling skin tight force field surrounded Malekith and with the confidence of a circus acrobat he walked on the right rope without hesitation.
With balance he couldn't hope to replicate in his human form, Malekith not only walked across the tightrope he did so faster than the most professional human acrobats could. Albeit he only made it a third of the way across before the walls which surrounded either side of the pit opened fire on him.
A trio of poison tipped arrows shot out of both walls heading towards his left and right side. If he was in most of his alien forms such as Four arms, Water Hazard, NRG, Humungasoar, or even Brainstorm he would have no need to dodge and could just let the arrows hit him.
Alas his Dark Elf Sorcerer form wasn't even half as durable as those aliens, so putting a combination of strength, balance and mana into his very tip toes he leapt off the rope and shot twelve feet into the air to dodge the arrows letting them fwip by where he used to be.
He flipped through the air like a squirrel swinging from tree to tree before he landed at the three quarters of the way point on his right index finger using said finger alone to hold his entire body up. Both walls surrounding the pit once again fired arrows upon them sensing his landing, and he used his index finger to flip himself up six feet into the air and do a roll off of the rope and onto the putrid soil.
No sooner did he land on the soil did the cages unleash a trio of Were Rabbits to confront him. In response Malekith held out both his hands. "Oh Badlands I beseech you to break my enemies necks!"
Instantly two of the Were rabbits died as their heads were twisted backwards with a sound akin to a chiropractor using a hammer to do their job. The third however was undeterred and snarled as it hopped towards Malekith.
In response the Pseudo Dark Elf flexed his clawed bear paw gauntlets. " I obviously have these for a reason." He leapt forward and thrusted his right hand in a twisted grip-like form. "I'll be damned if these gauntlets can't be used as weapons!"
Metal claws pierced giant rabbit flesh and bone with a sound akin to a knife piercing a frozen steak, the claws sinking into the were rabbit's chest and staining it's black and brown fur red. Without hesitation Malekith twisted his fingers in the wound and ripped his claws out sideways thus tearing off a chunk of meat from the were rabbit's chest.
The beast screeched in pain and slammed its paw downward which Malekith blocked with his other gauntlet. The impact made his bones rattle as the beast's muscles threatened to make his arm buckle.
"Yep definitely not as strong as my aliens." Grit out Malekith through a strained breath. Before he backpedaled to allow the were rabbit to slam its paw into the ground making a pothole in the soil.
Not wasting time, Malekith leapt forward and with his bloodied gauntlet impaled the were rabbit in the throat, producing a sound akin to jelly in a jar being stabbed as it's carotid artery was torn out and blood gushed out like a waterfall over Ben's arm.
At the base of the spire castle on what could constitute a porch, the Queen of The Dark Elves sat on one of her signature spire chairs, observing Ben train. She had an icey frown on her face that did nothing to betray her thoughts that hid within.
In reality the queen could feel her heart racing, pumping blood rapidly into her cheeks and pointed ears making them heat up like a campfire. ' Before I summoned Ben here I never would have thought that a Human could be as… different as him.'
Olga rubbed her burning cheeks as she felt steam coming out of her ears. ' Never once has he tried to rape or even grope me or Chloe. Sure he spares the occasional glance at our boobs and butts but even that is rare. And frankly I would be concerned if he checked us out less than he already does.'
Olga tucked some of her raven black hair behind her left ear as she began to mutter. " Ben, you don't hate me for what I've done. You have stayed in my castle for three weeks now and have given me a chance to prove myself as your ally. To teach you about my world."
She covered her mouth quickly. ' I hope he didn't hear me.' The Dark queen squeaked in her head, feeling her cheeks going nuclear at the idea of Ben hearing her monologue about him. She decided to keep her hand over her mouth as she continued her thoughts.
' Then there's the fact that you can do what no other Human can. Transform into several different monsters all with powers that can rival or even surpass the greatest mages.' The Dark queen thought of the many monsters called "Aliens" that Ben had shown her during his stay here.
A fire alien called Heatblast who's flames made the greatest fire spells look like a campfire in comparison.
Big Chill an insect that somehow had ice powers that could counteract any fire spells she could think of.
Echo Echo, a monster that despite being small like a goblin possessed strength greater than an Orc as well as the ability to scream louder than a banshee and make itself into an army.
Olga smiled as with her free hand she clutched her chest to rub it in an attempt to slow her beating heart. ' And on top of all that you can now transform into my extinct order of sorcerers. I know that my old order can't compare to your monsters in a one on one but I appreciate you taking the time to train with your new form and for asking me for lessons.'
Olga hugged herself. And once again accidentally muttered aloud. "A human from my world wouldn't have asked me for lessons, they would have been too proud, too arrogant to ask a Dark Elf for help." At this point The Dark Elf Queen's blush became a visible scarlet. "Ben you truly are different from other humans from other men. Maybe even…" she paused and breathed out. "Special among your people."
It was then that a familiar Half Elf parted the tall matted and clawed up wooden doors that led to the training grounds. Out walked Chloe who paused upon seeing Olga's blush.
The Half Elf pursed her lip. ' Is she thinking about Ben? She seems to be blushing Everytime she thinks about that shapeshifter.' Chloe frowned as her amber eyes glared at the putrid ground, both her fists clenched.
' I want to be angry at him, taking Olga-Sama's favor away from me. But at the same time, I know he deserves it. He saved Olga-sama and her purity when I couldn't. He-' Chloe squeezed her eyes shut.
' He did my job for me and better than I did. And I attacked him…
Yet he didn't hurt me in return. Sure he's kind of an asshole but at least he doesn't think with his dick like other human men do. He has not even once tried to rape Olga-sama or me or even touch us inappropriately.'
Chloe KNEW that if Ben Tennyson wanted to he could force himself on both her and Queen Olga or at the very least assault them and there would be nothing they could do in retaliation.
' He even was polite when he asked Olga-Sama to teach him magic so he can use his Dark Elf form effectively. Other humans would have arrogantly turned down help or outright demanded it thinking they were owed it.'
{FLASHBACK FOUR DAYS AFTER BEN ARRIVED IN EOSTIA}
We see Ben as Malekith on the training grounds but he is doing poorly unlike his present self. When a were rabbit is unleashed from its cage the Pseudo Dark Elf's strikes are like an angry house cats and only serve to enrage the giant rabbit who sinks its teeth through Malekith's left bicep and shakes him like a stuff toy sending meat and blood squirting from the wound.
Off to the side, Chloe smirked and crossed her arms over her chest as Ben/ Malekith shouted and cursed in pain. "I guess the saying you can't fix stupid is true especially when it comes to humans. Him becoming a Dark Elf won't fix that."
Olga facepalmed. "I can't bear to watch anymore of this." She held up her scepter and chanted. "Oh Badlands of my ancestors, grant me your heat to scorch my enemies!" A purple fireball was launched towards the Were rabbit who shrieked in pain and threw Malekith away with a sickening SNAP as the giant rabbit's fur burnt away in ash and smoke.
For five seconds the Were Rabbit rolled trying to put out the flames before with a final squeak went still.
Malekith clutched his left arm which was gushing blood like a shower gushed water, all the meat was chewed off thus exposing the bone which was chewed halfway through. "Fuck shit cock balls this hurts." Hissed Malekith.
Olga shook her head as she and Chloe approached the bleeding Pseudo Dark Elf Sorcerer. "It's no use Ben. You just can't figure out how to use your Dark Elf form. This is the second time you got mauled by a were rabbit."
Malekith grit his teeth as the pain from his arm was like a thousand hamster bites. But it was also the smell of failure troubling him too. ' I've never had this much trouble mastering a form before. Why can't I use magic?!'
Using his still working arm, Malekith hit the omnitrix symbol on his hood and in a green flash of light became a bipedal plant-like being made of thick stump-like vines that smelled like farts.
"Swampfire!" Cried out Ben as his arm regenerated he pushed himself up.
Chloe wrinkled her nose in disgust. "You smell almost as bad as an Orc's bathroom."
Swampfire replied in a voice that sounded like a nasally gym teacher. "I'll take the fact that an Orc's bathroom smells worst as a compliment."
Before he hit the omnitrix symbol again and after another green flash of light was human again.
Once he was human, Ben looked at Olga and with hesitation spoke. "Olga, I'm going to need your help. And I hope you won't be offended by what I'm about to ask you."
Chloe tensed, her shoulders tightening and squaring up as if for a fight. While Olga seemed to be intrigued, her icy expression gave way to a tilt of her head and a raised eyebrow.
Ben continued. "I want you to teach me how to use my Dark Elf form."
"Outrageous!" Shouted Chloe, looking like she was ready to leap on top of Ben and tear him apart. "The audacity! Your kind have done nothing but kill and kill and rape and rape our people! Yet you expect our queen to tell you our secrets?!"
Olga opened her mouth to reply, her amber eyes indecipherable but whatever she was going to say was cut off by Ben.
"I've been spending my nights in your castle library, reading about your people's history. I am Human but that doesn't mean I condone what my people have been doing to yours. Rape is wrong, killing innocent people is wrong and I intend to punish everyone who hurts the innocent whether they be monster or man."
Ben held up a clenched fist as his acid green eyes shook with rage. "I lost everything and everyone I loved because I failed to treat the guilty like they deserved. To be cut down and buried in a mass grave. Now that I have a second chance I promise I won't treat the evil of this world with kid gloves."
He looked Chloe in the eye and then Olga Discordia in the eye, both Half elf and Dark Elf lightly gasped and felt their breath falter upon seeing what was in those eyes.
Chloe whispered. " There's no lust, no desire for our bodies, he's not looking down on us. He's bearing his heart and soul."
Olga's thoughts raced. ' He is asking for my help, not demanding it. He sees my help to master his Dark Elf form as a crucial part to protecting the new world he's found himself in. The world I dragged him too.'
"I want to help you. I want to help you get revenge on Vault and his black dogs and on every rapist and slaver who has ever targeted your people. I want to cull the evil of Eostia and make it into the paradise my world could have been."
At this Ben did something that shocked them both, something that they never expected a human to do. He got on his knees and planted his face and hands to the floor, bowing to Olga Discordia.
"Queen Olga Discordia of The Dark Elves, will you help me make my dream of an Eostian paradise a reality?"
Olga took a step back, her mouth agape. She couldn't believe it. A human was bowing to her, humbling himself before her of his own free will and asking for her help!
Emotions swirled like a tornado in the centuries old Dark Elf's head. Hatred for humans, realization that Ben was no ordinary human, awe, amazement, and happiness.
Gripping her scepter there was only one answer the queen could give.
{END OF FLASHBACK}
In the present Chloe opened her eyes, determined that although she couldn't compete with Ben's power and versatility she would still faithfully serve her queen and be the best handmaiden she could be. Even if that meant having to tolerate a "special" human's presence. Besides, she had a report to give.
Marching up to Queen Olga, Chloe soon stood in front of her queen who lost her blush and for a brief moment gained a pout like one would see on a kid who had their juice taken away.
Chloe grimaced. ' Did Olga-sama just pout upon seeing me? No no I must have imagined it.' The Half Elf convinced herself that was indeed the case as her queen was now gazing at her with her usual ice cold stare.
But unknown to Chloe, Olga was annoyed. ' I hope Chloe has something useful to report. For some reason I like watching Ben train. It's… entertaining. Watching a human appreciate the power and nobility of a Dark Elf Sorcerer.'
Chloe banged her closed fist against her chest thus making her well-endowed caramel breasts jiggle in their lingerie-like prison. "Olga-sama! Your scouts have returned, they headed all the way out to the human villages at the borders between your kingdom and Celestine's."
Chloe bowed her head, the darkness obscuring her eyes as if the darkness was trying to convey her apologies. "I regret to inform you that Vault and his dogs weren't found but the scouts did find the villages had been ransacked with the flag of The Black Dogs raised over the remains of each village. Every man had been killed, some of them roasted over a fire probably cooked by Orcs. While the women were found in cages. Most of the women are at this very moment pregnant with monster offspring."
Chloe raised her head up to look the Dark Elf Queen in the eye. "That's all we know so far."
Olga clenched her scepter. "Of course, I should have known." The Dark Elf Queen pinched the bridge of her nose and sighed. "Now that that filthy horny brute has control of my monster's he can breed his own army whenever he wants. Any losses he takes can be replenished in a week as long as he has a supply of women."
And it was true, her former minions have the magical ability to impregnate a woman with an offspring that would be born in a week and would reach adulthood in a week.
Olga stood up and said. "Looks like we have Ben's first mission to save Eostia."
Just as Olga said that, she and her handmaiden were showered in a green flash of light as Malekith reverted back to his human form. Ben Tennyson stretched his arms behind him and arched his back with a small smile on his face.
He shot a grin at Olga. "Olga, thank you. It's nice not getting mauled by a giant rabbit, or shot by an arrow or getting third degree burns from falling into lava. You're a good teacher. Much better than most of my teachers I had at school."
Olga felt her heart rate speed up again and her cheeks turned pink as her blood rushed to them. Olga's amber eyes locked onto Ben's grin for a few seconds before she quickly avoided looking at his face and found the ground an interesting distraction. Hugging her arms to her voluptuous chest.
' That smile!' The Dark Queen squeaked internally. ' It's nothing like Vault's smile. It's gratitude and care for-for me! He's grateful and not looking at me like I'm a trophy! And he said that I'm better than all his previous teachers!'
Ben's concerned voice broke her out of her thoughts. "Olga are you alright? Is it too hot out here?"
The Dark queen gasped, her cheeks turning pinker and she shook her head as she regained her usual composure. "I'm okay, it's just the humidity and heat from the pits making me feel ill. I assure you I'm fine."
The blushing girl that was there a few minutes ago was gone and in her place was the ice cold queen, and with her voice smooth as a frozen lake she announced. "Ben, I have a possible lead on The Black Dogs location. My scouts have found several human villages that show signs of having been raped and pillaged by monsters."
Olga brushed a few strands of hair out of her eye. "I want you to go to the villages and interrogate any survivors about The Black Dogs whereabouts, see if the survivors know where they went."
Ben crossed his arms and gave the queen a stern look. "Of course but if any of them need medical attention I expect you to give it to them."
Chloe seethed but bit her tongue. ' There he goes giving Olga-sama orders again!'
Olga frowned, hesitating for three seconds before answering. "Very well. I'll have my doctor's provide aid to any human who needs it."
' Although I would rather not, why am I agreeing to this? It's like I don't want to disappoint him or let him down.' wondered the Dark Queen in her head. As the very idea of Ben being disappointed in her made her heart twist in pain.
'And she agreed to his demands! Again!' shouted Chloe in her head. The blonde's confusion was interrupted by her queen addressing her. "Chloe get Ben a map of the border between our kingdom and Celestine's. Ben will need it to find the villages."
Chloe shoved her confusion and irritation aside, thumping her fist into her chest (once again making her caramel cleavage jiggle). "As you wish Olga-Sama." The Half Elf turned around and sprinted through the clawed/chewed up wooden doors, eager to retrieve the map and prove she was still a good handmaiden for her queen.
Once Chloe was gone, Olga placed her free hand on her hip and raised a brow. "I trust you don't need any transportation from me?"
Ben shook his head with a small amused grin on his face, he held up his green and white wrist band-like watch. "Nope." He answered popping the P. "I got not just one but several aliens that are all the transportation I need."
' The Omnitrix, a powerful artifact. Ben has told me multiple times that it's not magic. But then how does it work if it's not magic? I'm curious about it, but I don't think he would let me examine it.'
The Dark Queen briefly thought of a certain Halfling princess Knight who would also like to examine The Omnitrix, but unlike her would probably be more pushy when Ben said no.
The Dark Elf Queen's lip twitched as a chuckle escaped, as she imagined Ben as Frankenstrike kicking the child-like Princess knight into the distance like a ball.
'Well, maybe someday he will let me examine it.' thought Olga as she recalled that there was so much she still didn't know about Ben. She knew he was from another world and that his family had been killed but not the specifics. And she was curious, yearning to learn more about her mysterious savior and the world he came from.
It was then that Chloe, now carrying a large piece of parchment, burst through the doors and reentered the training grounds.
The half Elf panted as she stood in front of her Dark Queen and did her usual salute. "I have retrieved the map Olga-Sama!" She declared loudly and proudly. Before Olga could respond, Chloe shoved the parchment into Ben's chest.
"Take it take it! Find out where Vault and his dogs went so Olga-Sama can have her revenge!"
Ben grunted and placed a hand on Chloe's shoulder. "Don't worry Chloe, they will all suffer. That's a promise I intend to keep."
Chloe gazed at Ben's sideways smirk. ' He's so confident and again he's not looking down on me. Damn it, why do you have to be so likable for a Human, Ben Tennyson?'
Chloe glared off to the side and crossed her arms over her ample chest. "Tch, whatever."
Ben just shook his head with amusement.
' She reminds me of Kevin.' he thought with joy and a touch of longing as with one hand he held the map and with the other he activated the Omnitrix, in moments he selected his preferred alien. This time Chloe and Olga were ready for the green flash, squeezing their eyes shut before they could be blinded.
When they opened them, standing in Ben's place was a lean blue lizard man with a conical head and a black bodysuit.
"XLR8!" Shouted the Pseudo Kineceleran before he took off with his map in hand, leaving a gust of hurricane force wind that sent Olga and Chloe's hair thrashing in the breeze.
Olga held her hair out of her eyes and maintained her ice cold expression. "So fast, not even a speed spell could compare." Muttered the queen in a monotone voice that hid her amazement.
{BREAK}
With his speed which made the sound barrier a suggestion and help from the map it was only a matter of minutes before the blood red sky, putrid soil and knife sharp corpse-like trees were behind him.
But even with his speed, he smelled the horror before he saw it. XLR8 being a kineceleran had more powerful senses than a human. Which meant that despite having his visor down, he was bombarded by a mixture of blood, urine, feces, cooking flesh, smoke, ashes and other bodily fluids just a mere minute before he stumbled upon the village.
The village being outside The Badlands had lush green trees and flowers that were the color of the rainbow, alas that paled in comparison to how The Black Dogs and their monsters had desecrated it. The primitive huts of the village had their straw roofs set ablaze and their stone walls broken down.
Some of the houses had burnt down altogether and blood was splattered on the ground and walls of the houses. Over the village on its flagpole, waved a greenish gray banner with a rabid black dog's face on it.
There were half a dozen campfires over which roasted cooked and partially eaten human remains.
And finally the most obvious clue that The Black Dogs were here? The two dozen naked women in one giant pen, all bearing injuries and mutilations ranging from bite marks that pierced the skin to scratches, to their genitals being stretched past their breaking point while a river of blood and semen flowed out.
XLR8 knew his old self would have puked and broken down upon seeing this. But now all he felt was rage. The Pseudo Kineceleran clenched his fists so tightly yellow blood began to drip between his fingers.
' Those women are crammed into a pen like pigs in a slaughterhouse. They're forced to roll around in their own blood and filth able to do nothing but wait for their tormentors to come rape them again.'
Veins bulge on the Pseudo Kineceleran's head and in his eyes. "Their genitals look like they've been put through a meat grinder and beaten with a baseball bat. Nine of them are still pregnant too."
XLR8 before he knew it had taken three steps forward before stopping himself. " Who are you going to slaughter? Olga's scouts said Vault and his men were gone. I'm unlikely to find them just by running around."
In a bout of frustration, XLR8 raked his claws against his left arm thus drawing more yellow blood. Gritting his teeth he seethed. "This isn't fair! Someone should suffer for this atrocity! Yet there's no one here to punish."
Suddenly a scream broke him out of his ever growing rage. It was a high pitched scream like a Chihuahua being gutted. "IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN! IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN! KILL ME KILL ME KILLLLLL MEEEEEE!!"
Hearing that tormented scream followed by the sound of flesh tearing, the Pseudo Kineceleran rushed to the pen without a second thought.
To his horror he saw that one of the pregnant women had fallen on her back and was spasming as if she was suffering a seizure as blood gushed out of her mutilated genitals like a hose.
The girls in the pen didn't react well to seeing him. More screams joined the first.
" Another monster!"
"He's going to rape us too!"
"We're going to be made to give birth again!!"
The naked women huddled at the back of the pen, closing their eyes and hugging each other while the first woman continued to spasm, scream and gush blood from her genitals.
"THE MONSTER GET IT OUT!!!" she shouted as she punched her swollen belly thrice.
The Pseudo Kineceleran felt his multiple hearts twist in pain upon seeing how terrified the women were of him. Regret and sorrow invaded his head like a headache from the common cold.
' Idiot! You should have realized they wouldn't react well to one of your aliens!' The Fallen Hero scolded himself, as the feeling of being a shameful idiot put him in a metaphorical headlock.
"Wait, I'm not a monster!" He blurted out, hoping to keep the traumatized women from doing anything rash. He hit the Omnitrix symbol and in a green flash of light was human again.
"My name is Ben Tennyson and I'm- I'm a mage." He lied, deciding that explaining the Omnitrix would be too complicated for this situation.
Most of the women still looked scared of him, and they began to mutter amongst themselves. Their muttering became a screech as their fear and trauma took over.
" He's a man, he's a member of The Black Dogs!"
"B-b-but he didn't r-rape us?" Spoke a timid woman with green hair.
"Foolish bitch." Snarled a woman with purple hair before slapping the green haired woman in the face. "He's playing another one of their sick twisted mind games with us. You should know better. Our hope and happiness died with our husbands, brothers, father's and sons."
Before they could argue any further they heard the sound of metal clinking and hitting the ground. The women looked up to see Ben clutching a sword in one hand which he had used to cut off their pen's lock.
"You're all free now. Please let me help you." He dropped the sword and held the door open for them.
"I'LL NEVER BE FREE, JUST KILL ME ALREADY!" Once again the first pregnant woman started screaming again, before with a sudden burst of strength she dashed forward like a tiger, grabbing the dropped sword and aiming it downwards towards her chest.
Ben felt his eyes widen and his breath choke in his throat. "What are you doing?!" He shouted before he grabbed the woman's arms and tried to wrestle the sword from her.
In response the woman kicked the brunette in-between his legs with the ferocity of a Soccer player on crack, causing a pain that only a man can know to shoot up like a bullet from his crotch up his spinal cord.
The fallen hero fell to the ground, clutching his family jewels, as he emptied the contents of his stomach beside himself.
The first pregnant woman could barely stand, blood gushed like a sprinkler between her knees which shook like a toddler learning to walk. Tears rained down her face as she held the sword firmly.
"You just don't get it." She snarled before spitting on Ben. "I have nothing, NOTHING left to live for." Snot began to run down her nose as if a dam was broken inside. She frantically wiped the tears away only for new tracks to begin half a second later.
"I watched as those fat filthy fuckers ripped my husband and my son apart as if they were nothing more than dolls!" A snot bubble grew up from her nose as she continued sobbing.
" Isaac, he was-he was so brave. He fought to the end to protect his mother and father and he was only ten years old! And- Ezekiel, my husband, a loving father, begged Isaac not to fight and did his best to protect us both despite having lost both his legs in the war five years ago."
Some of her tears landed on Ben's face, tear after tear landed on Ben's face like raindrops. The fallen hero still clutching his family jewels could only gaze in horror and sadness at the broken state of the woman before him.
The pain of being kicked in the balls was rivaled by the horror and sadness he was feeling engulfing his heart making it race.
The woman continued. "We thought The Black Dogs were our heroes. That they would save us from The Dark Queen. But on that day-" she grit her teeth so hard one of them visibly cracked.
"I witnessed eight of those filthy traitors stroking themselves while the Orc who killed Ezekiel and Isaac split my womanhood in half. As I screamed and begged the orc to stop, as I begged for death, those disgusting animals cheered and taunted me about how I was going to be a mother to a monster baby."
The woman doubled over and let out a sound that was a combination between a squirrel choking and a scream, she collapsed onto her knees as more blood erupted out of her. The look in her eyes became far-away, like a veteran who had seen too much.
"The laughter, the cheering, the mocking as I gave birth to the offspring of my family's killer not once but twice." The woman held the sword up and pointed it at her chest again.
"And now I'm about to give birth to yet another child grown from the seed of my Husband and Son's killer. I'm giving birth right now. I won't suffer the humiliation and agony of bringing another one of that fat filthy fucker's children into the world!"
Her eyes gained a look similar to that of a feral starving animal. "I WON'T!!!"
By this point, the pain between his legs was starting to fade away. The fallen hero with his mouth agape, with wide eyes reached out a hand.
To take the sword away, to comfort the woman, to tell her everything was going to get better.
But he never got the chance.
With a sound akin to a cleaver splitting a pumpkin in half, the sword emerged out the woman's back. She choked and coughed as she collapsed onto her side, her eyes blinking slowly.
A sad smile appeared on her face. "Isaac my baby, Ezekiel I'll be joining you soon." With that she took her last breath, as air left her mouth in a gurgling rattle.
Standing up, Ben felt his lungs grind to a screeching halt. His world also seemed to grind to a screeching halt. Like parents arguing in another room he could hear the women shouting, bickering amongst themselves.
'She killed herself, I failed.' Thought Ben. ' She lost her child and husband.'
Ben stared at his hands which from his POV began to flicker like a light switch, blood appearing on his hands one moment and gone the next and then back again.
' It's your fault, it's your fault, it's your fault.' chanted a voice in his head.
' You didn't get here in time. You didn't kill Vault and his entire organization when you should have. And now this woman lost her family and was forced to give birth to monsters.'
The sound of metal piercing flesh and bone shrieked through the air like a military siren, Ben's head snapped back up and to his growing horror he saw that all the other pregnant women were now dead too. They had taken the sword from the first woman's corpse and passed it around, using it to put themselves out of their misery.
His entire world flickered and then right before him appeared Gwen, his cousin with her caved in skull still leaking brains like runny eggs. One of her eyes popped out of its socket, but both gave him a look of betrayal that she had lost faith in him.
"You think these women are the only innocent blood you have on your hands? That they are the first people you failed? You failed me, you failed Kevin, Grandpa, Julie, everyone!"
Ben collapsed to his knees and slammed his hands over his ears. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm a failure. Please let me atone." His voice was a whimper like that of a kicked puppy.
The reanimated corpse of his cousin cupped his chin and lifted his face up until his living eyes met her glazed over dead ones. "You want to atone?" She asked her voice a drowning echo. "Then avenge us! Avenge them! Avenge avenge until there's nothing left to Avenge!"
A tear leaked from Ben's eye and he frowned harshly. "You're right, Gwen. I couldn't save you or them but I'll damn well avenge them!"
Gwen faded away like smoke in a breeze and the fallen hero stood up facing the remaining fifteen women who weren't pregnant. Most of them were looking at him with a mixture of pity, fear, concern and anger.
"He's not a member of The Black Dogs. He's taking this pretty damn hard."
"He's talking to people who aren't there, he's obviously not right in the head regardless."
Ben ignored their whispers of doubt and clenched his fist. "Tell me where your captors went. And I'll make them suffer just like they made you suffer. I'll avenge you, I'll avenge your husband's, your brothers, your son's and your father's."
A few more tears leaked down from Ben's eyes as he snarled like an animal. "I failed you, but I will avenge you."
Ten minutes later Ben Tennyson was on his way back To Olga's castle as XLR8.
For he needed to find a way to Feoh, and have a reunion with The Black Dogs.
AUTHORS NOTES!
Yes this was a pretty dark chapter. Ben goes to one of the villages conquered by The Black Dogs after he sent them packing from Olga's castle and bears witness to the pain and suffering of the women left behind.
This causes Ben to have a mental breakdown, hallucinating his dead cousin before he finds out where The Black dogs will be attacking next.
Next chapter is The Battle Of Feoh.
Also for the surviving women, Ben has already arranged with Olga for them to be reached and given medical attention.
Later taters!