AHOY TATERS, Before we begin this chapter I'm going to answer a few questions.

Sci-fi freak, no I don't know about The Ink Tank's ultimate aliens though now I might check them out.

Saga1213, I don't know kuroinu 2 so I think it'll be unlikely that this story will have anything from kuroinu 2. Sorry.

Onto the chapter!

LOCATION: FEOH'S CASTLE, THE DINING HALL.

Ben took note that the dining hall in the castle belonging to Alicia Arcturus was much more… cheerful looking than the one in his summoner's castle. For one thing the chairs were made of ivory and gold that formed curly hoops in beautiful patterns to create a comfortable backrest unlike the spiky backrest of the chairs in Olga's castle.

Another thing was that the dining table was round like a circle and covered in a large blue cloth with a pair of golden stripes on the side. The walls of the dining room had blue and gold banners hanging off the walls.

Overall Alicia's dining room was bright and cheerful as opposed to Olga's which was dark and gloomy.

' Honestly the change in colors kind of hurts my eyes.' thought Ben as he rubbed his acid green eyes before looking at Alicia who sat at a chair on the other side of the table.

The princess Knight sat beside her cousin Prim while Olga and Chloe sat close to Ben. The Half Elf kept her hand close to her sword and looked ready to pounce at any moment while Olga just smirked.

The pink haired princess Prim looked back and forth between Ben and his two dark elf companions and her cousin with trepidation clear in her eyes and frown. ' No one has touched their food, Alicia hasn't been too happy with my prince ever since she found out he was working for the Dark queen.'

Finally Alicia slammed her fist into the table making the glasses of wine and juice on the table shake. "So Ben Tennyson, will you care to explain to me how you wound up in the service of The Dark Queen? Was she the one who granted you your ability to transform into monsters?"

Her voice reeked of accusations like a skunk expelling its stench.

Ben raised his arm, and was about to pull his sleeve to show his Omnitrix but before he could he heard a chuckle come from Olga. The chuckle was of amusement as if a prisoner just saw a prison guard fall on a wet floor.

Alicia turned her glare towards The Dark Queen. "This is no laughing matter!" She scolded. "Do you have any idea how terrified the people of the seven kingdoms will be if you can grant such power to your subjects?!"

Olga gave the blonde princess Knight a look of contempt as if she was dust on an old treasured book. "Leave it to a human to be so idiotic. It should be obvious that I didn't grant Ben his powers. If I could grant such power the war between our kingdoms would have ended before your father was born, you foolish child."

Alicia bristled and shoved herself away from the table so she could stand up. "How dare you disrespect me in my own castle? Remember I can have you and your handmaid thrown out of Feoh anytime I want."

Olga opened her mouth to retort but Ben laid a hand on both her and Chloe's shoulders. "Olga, Chloe, please let me handle this. I would like for us to at least try to work together with your former enemies."

Ben turned to face Alicia and he gave what he hoped was a respectful bow. "Alicia-sama, Thank you for allowing my friends into your castle. I am aware of the colorful history between you." He then lowered his sleeve to show her the Omnitrix.

"Olga has told me that the educated nobility of this world are aware of a few alternate worlds such as The Realm Of The Gods. Well I'm from an alternate world that your ancient scholars haven't discovered. And Olga summoned me to your world when Vault and his Black Dogs conquered her castle."

Ben then activated his Omnitrix but didn't transform, merely showing Alicia the green circular hologram that was the catalog of aliens. "This is The Omnitrix, it is a powerful device that allows me to transform into monsters called aliens."

Ben suppressed the urge to groan and scowl in annoyance at having to once again dumb down the explanation for his Omnitrix in a way that the inhabitants of a Medieval world could understand. He also felt irritation biting at his heart like a swarm of fire ants as he forced himself to be polite to the blonde princess Knight who he could tell was afraid and distrustful of him.

' I have to prove that she can trust me if there is to be any hope for an alliance. She thinks I'm a rabid animal and if I try to brute force trust out of her I'll be proving her right.' thought Ben as he mentally rolled his eyes.

After Ben finished explaining the source of his powers Alicia crossed her arms over her well endowed chest while Prim stared at him with even more admiration in her eyes than before.

' My Prince possesses an artifact of so much power. I don't think even a dragon could compare to how powerful he is, he might be close to Celestine in her prime!' The pink haired princess then frowned and looked down.

' But it sounds like my poor prince went through something horrible, he lost his parents, his grandpa, his girlfriend, his whole family to bad men whose lives he was kind enough to spare. And when he rightfully killed them, his remaining friends branded him a criminal.'

The princess Knight gripped her dress tightly as she wondered what she would do if she lost Alicia, or how she would react if she was forced to watch Alicia be raped by Beardsley like Vault was planning on making her do.

Prim's eyes watered as she thought about the differences between her and Ben's fates. ' He saved my family, but I can't save his. I-I can't replace Julie, or Gwen or anyone else but I'll be there for him when he needs me, like he was for me and Alicia when we needed him.'

Alicia on the other hand felt a mixture of awe, fear and trepidation. ' Why would Celestine's vision tell her to trust someone summoned to our world by Olga?'

Whatever else Alicia was going to think was cut off by Olga's smirk, it was a smirk that reeked of a dozen "I told you so's" before The Dark Queen gloated. "It must sting your human ego to know that I brought Eostia's savior to your doorstep. If I hadn't summoned Ben then you and your cousin would be getting fucked raw by The Black Dogs at this very moment."

Alicia grit her teeth at being reminded of her loss, feeling shame sting away at her heart like a swarm of bees. Her blue eyes glared daggers at the Dark elves across from her as she shouted. "You and your precious handmaid would also be getting fucked raw! Hell you two might be pregnant by now considering Vault attacked your castle weeks ago!"

Chloe drew her sword and hissed. "How dare you underestimate Olga-sama?! She would have found a way to free us without Ben's help if necessary! Apologize now!"

In response Alicia drew her sword and gave a vicious smile. "Go ahead, give me a reason to call the guards and dog pile you two, I've been waiting my whole life for this."

There was a sudden green flash of light that made Alicia shield her eyes, when it cleared Ben was now a monkey-like creature that had four arms and four spider-like eyes. As well as dark blue fur and three fingers per hand.

Letting out a shriek that would have sounded right at home on his Earth's rainforest's Spider Monkey reacted. "Ooh ooh don't kill each other doofuses! Remember The Black Dogs eeh eeh!"

He shot a net of webbing out of his tail at both Chloe and Alicia's swords, pinning their swords to the walls of the dining room with a sound akin to flarp being thrown against a wall. This didn't deter the blonde princess Knight who thought quickly grabbed one of the torches off the walls and shouted at Ben.

"So you show your true colors siding with Dark Elves over your own kind get ready-" as Alicia leapt onto the table preparing to leap towards Spider Monkey and slam her torch down on him, she was startled when her cousin clumsily tackled her onto the table.

"Alicia, stop!" Shouted Prim as her tackling the Princess of Feoh made her drop the torch and set the table and the food on fire.

Spider Monkey hit the Omnitrix Symbol on his chest and after he transformed put out the flames as Water Hazard. Too bad the food and table cloth were already blackened though.

Alicia, now on the floor with Prim on top of her, raised her elbow to shove her cousin before gasping as she realized she was about to hit her "sister". "Prim, why are you helping him? Why are you helping Olga Discordia of all people?"

The blonde princess Knight's voice was soaked with disbelief like a dog taking a bath in tomato juice after being sprayed by a skunk. She couldn't believe that her "sister" had stopped her from attacking their long time enemies.

There was another green flash of light and Water Hazard was gone, Ben was human again and he leaned over grabbing a hand from both Alicia and Prim and pulling them up, upon which Prim spoke.

"Sister, he just helped both of us up. If he actually intended to kill us he would have pummeled us or shot us with webs while we were on the floor." Prim cupped her taller cousin's chin and made her look her in the eye.

"Why are you so distrustful of my prince? He saved your kingdom. If it wasn't for him, Beardsley would have raped you and I would have been raped as well. Because of him we both still have our purity."

Alicia gestured to Ben frantically as he was talking to Chloe. "Because he's a psychopath. The way he mutilated Beardsley was completely unnecessary, a simple stab through the chest would have been enough to finish the traitor off but instead he castrated him, sexually assaulted him, force fed him his own internal organs and was only after Beardsley lost consciousness did he put the traitor out of their misery!"

Prim furrowed her brows and brought Alicia into a huddle and began to whisper furiously so Ben didn't hear. "Does it matter how Ben saved us as long as he saved us? And his reasoning makes sense, why should the good guys adhere to a code of honor when The Bad guys don't?"

The pink haired princess Knight gazed into her older cousin's eyes with a look that Alicia had never seen in them before, making Alicia gulp.

' Her eyes are usually like that of a child's but now… she's like a veteran member of the city guard, maybe like three of them who've lost family with how hard her eyes are.'

Prim continued. "Remember Celestine's vision? That Celestine would learn more about Ben Tennyson when your city was attacked? And that she needed to let him "put the black dogs down" if women in Eostia were to have a future? I think that vision meant we should let him put down The Black Dogs and monsters anyway according to his prerogative. Celestine's visions have never steered us wrong before so why now? Why would they have us trust someone who would kill us?"

Alicia could feel Prim's trust and affection for Ben shooting like a laser from Prim's eyes into her own the longer they made eye contact. Frowning, Alicia nodded. "Alright I'll give him a chance."

When the two princess knights broke their huddle, Alicia shouted in a stiff tone. "Ben Tennyson I apologize for attacking you, I'll take into account your past heroic actions and make sure it doesn't happen again."

Ben Tennyson Shrugged. "It's not like you were a threat to me anyway. And maybe it was partially my fault, maybe I should have just focused on restraining Chloe instead."

"Asshole." Hissed the mentioned half Elf before Ben Nudged her shoulder with his elbow, thus making The Half Elf groan. "I'm sorry for drawing my sword on you Alicia. I won't be so quick to do so again."

It was obvious to everyone in the room that Chloe was being forced to give the apology, for the apology sounded like a pair of bratty children groaning about their parents making them eat vegetables.

Olga spoke next, a frown chilly as a frozen lake on her face. "Ben is right, our past before Vault's betrayal doesn't matter anymore. Now we have a common enemy, The Black Dogs want to turn all women in Eostia into their slaves. Me, you, your goddess. As Ben so eloquently put it "United we stand, divided we fall." We can't be enemies anymore."

Olga slammed her scepter into the floor to punctuate her statement. ' Ben really is different, to speak such words about how Dark Elves and Humans should come together. I've only heard such language from Celestine and she's a high elf.'

Alicia pursed her lip and nodded. "Wise words, I-I didn't expect such words to come from a brute like you. I've only heard Celestine say them before but had never seen any sign of it being possible."

The blonde princess Knight batted away the stench of her burnt table and food from her nose, wincing before she gave a small smile. "Until now, the fact that you got Olga Discordia to echo Celestine's words…

There may be hope for you yet, Ben Tennyson."

' He may be a psychopath but there is something interesting about him.' thought Alicia.

The Dark Queen allowed her own small smile to form as her heart began to pick up. Her face flushed and she quickly used her raven hair to hide her face. ' It feels good, my chest feels warm knowing that I can make other people like Ben.'

Ben then spoke, faking a cough to draw everyone's attention back to him. "So Alicia you seem to be the Princess Knight in charge here. What do you want to do next? Do you want to take me to meet your Goddess Reborn in Ken?"

The Fallen Hero furrowed his brunette brows. "Be warned I won't allow your goddess to imprison Olga and Chloe, they've both been good to me even though Chloe can be a little bratty."

Alicia almost snapped back with a retort about how he didn't get a say in whether or not The Dark Queen was imprisoned but she caught herself. ' Right, we can't imprison our own allies and Celestine is more likely to forgive Olga.'

"Celestine is not eager to imprison Olga Discordia, if there is a chance she can reconcile with her then she will take it. Her highness made several attempts at outreach throughout the previous war but Olga rebuffed all of them."

Olga nodded and placed a hand on Ben's shoulder, her cheeks heating up even more as she felt his jacket brush up against her fingers. "The princess Knight is right, Ben. As long as Celestine is breathing and I'm not hurting anyone, I won't be thrown into a dungeon in Ken."

Ben shot Olga a smile that made her give him a smile back before he turned his attention back to Alicia. The Princess Knight felt her mouth part slightly as she wondered. ' Since when is Olga Discordia so friendly with a human? Especially a Human man?'

Prim bit her lip, as she could feel her heart turning green with envy. ' How did Olga get My Prince to smile at her like that? What do I have to do so I can hold him in my arms again? So he can smile at me? I bet you haven't kissed him yet Olga!'

Jealousy was raining off of Prim like Lima beans. Alicia with her will power from her noble upbringing ignored what she could sense from her sister and continued. "Anyways it's going to be a few days before we can head to Ken. We have to clean up Feoh, give our fallen a proper burial and burn the corpses of the invaders."

Ben frowned though this one was not angry but a little sad and concerned. "Can I help with The Clean up? I'm responsible for a lot of the corpses after all. The bad guys' corpses I mean."

Alicia blinked, as a surge of shock ran through her brain like static electricity. ' He has all this power and he's asking if he can help clean up as if he's some sort of commoner?'

Unable to stop herself, the blonde princess Knight asked. "Why would you want to help? Isn't that work supposed to be left for commoners?"

This time Ben did give an angry frown as if he had been insulted, he held up a finger. "For one I am a commoner."

Alicia winced as she remembered that the very powerful being in front of her wasn't born of nobility like her before Ben continued. "Second, I may have saved this city but I caused a huge mess while doing so and since your world is a medieval world I don't want your people to die of disease because of me. So it would be selfish of me not to help with the clean up."

The Fallen Hero held up a third finger. "Third, I have the power to help your people again so why shouldn't I? Why shouldn't I use my powers to help? Even if I was nobility and I didn't help, that would make me even more selfish. I may not be royalty or whatever but aren't leaders supposed to care for their people?"

Alicia's blue eyes widened and she took a step back, as her mind briefly ground to a halt. 'Maybe Prim is right. There is more to him than a bloodthirsty psychopath.'

Prim placed a hand over her chest as she could feel her heart beating like a drum being played by a monkey, her eyes sparkled like diamonds and her face was becoming the same color as her hair. 'Ben, not only are you the most powerful man I've ever met. But the fact that you want to use that power for things besides fighting, to help the common people… I've never seen Sister use her power to help the commoners before. I can feel it, you don't look down on those weaker than you, you respect Feoh's defenders even though they can't compare to a princess knight or you in power.'

Alicia spoke, slapping her closed fist to her chest. "Alright let me show you where we're taking the bodies!"

{BREAK}

Ben stood in front of Feoh's church, a two story tall egg shell colored brick building with red roofs and spires. The church has a medium sized cemetery behind it and a barf green tent house set up on its left where the bodies of Feoh's defenders were being laid to rest on cots.

The Fallen Hero observed the bodies of the male city guards, of how they were filled with arrows, of how they had been stabbed, of how some had been mauled and torn apart by Orcs.

The Fallen Hero bowed his head in solemnity. "Rest in Peace, you gave your lives to protect the women of this city. You are good men, you died holding up the example a man should be."

Besides Ben was Prim and Alicia, the latter had confined Olga and Chloe to the castle for fear of how Feoh's people would react if they found out their savior was in league with The Dark Queen.

Alicia gazed at the bodies with solemnity that almost matched Ben's. "They did their duty until the end." Guilt went through her heart like a nail through wood. ' And their sacrifices would have been for nothing because of my surrender. These men who weren't even princess knights were able to do more than me.'

Without realizing it, her eyes began to water. Ben saw this out of the corner of his eye and frowned. ' Poor girl, she's been through a lot. Most of this is because of that Beardsley bastard, someone who was like a grandfather betraying her and destroying the city so he could rape her.'

Trying to empathize with the princess Knight's pain Ben tried to imagine how he would feel if Grandpa Max wanted to rape him. The thought made his stomach do cartwheels and he couldn't stop himself from gagging.

Prim noticed both her companion's states and grew a concerned frown. "Sister, Prince are you alright?"

Alicia angrily wiped her face. "Yeah, yeah, just thinking about how I'm going to make The Black Dogs pay."

Ben forced himself to give a thumbs up and a shaky smile. "I'm okay Prim, it must have been something I ate." The Fallen Hero didn't want to focus on talking about his feelings and quickly activated his Omnitrix, selecting a classic alien.

A green flash of light followed and standing in Ben's place was a familiar lizard man. "XLR8!" shouted the Pseudo Kineceleran before he took off, sending forth hurricane force winds that sent Alicia and Prim's hair flapping in the breeze.

XLR8 decided to focus on the bodies of Feoh's defenders first. ' They fought against the worst monsters of their world, giving their lives to show what a man should be so Alicia and Prim would be safe. They died gruesome deaths that only their killers should experience. They deserve a proper burial as soon as possible.'

The Pseudo Kineceleran couldn't use his full speed in the city limits, not without causing sonic booms that would deafen its inhabitants, shatter windows and cause his feet to shatter the streets.

But he could still travel pretty fast, he found a trio of City guard corpses, their bodies showed signs of death by a thousand bites and cuts courtesy of goblins.

The three corpse's legs, arms, chest and stomach looked as if they were attacked by piranhas and monkeys due to how badly chewed up and clawed apart they were.

Dried tears remained as their dead faces were frozen in pain and horror.

XLR8 paused and closed their eyes, wiping the dried tears away. "You made a difference, you mattered." He assured the corpses before he slung all three of them over his shoulders. It was mere seconds later that he deposited each corpse on a cot underneath the tent besides the church.

Prim and Alicia didn't even have time to see XLR8, for their human eyes it was as if the corpses teleported onto the cot before there was another blast of hurricane force wind.

Throughout the city XLR8 found the corpses of Feoh's fallen, most of them appeared to have died painfully with looks of sadness and regret on their faces. Although they couldn't hear him, The Fallen Hero tried to comfort them and assure them that they did the right thing, that their deaths weren't in vain.

XLR8 picked up a ripped off arm as well as the corpse it belonged to, the corpse has its chest caved in all the ribs on its left broken like dried spaghetti, their jaw was broken, and three arrows in its right thigh and an arrow in its right hand.

"You didn't give up until your body quit on you. You wanted nothing more than to protect your people. You did good, you held out long enough for me to get here. You won."

Overall it took nine minutes for XLR8 to retrieve all the corpses of Feoh's fallen and bring them to the tent besides the church, ready to be buried.

{BREAK}

By the time Ben finished cleaning up the much gorier remains of the corpses of The Black Dogs and monsters. and had put them in one big pile outside the city which he burnt to ash as Heat Blast, he came back to Feoh to find Alicia and Prim standing in front of a three story gingerbread and ivory colored mansion the size of a football field.

Said mansion had a garden of blue flowers in the front which had been trampled by its doors which had been torn off its hinges. In and out of the mansion marched the surviving Knights of Feoh, working together to haul out valuables ranging from plush green couches, maple chairs, maple tables, gold chalices and bags upon bags of gold coins.

Alicia with her hands on her hips barked. "Cut the walls open! Rip apart the floors! I'll be damned if that old prune manages to hide any of his wealth from me!"

XLR8 slapped his Omnitrix dial and in a flash of green light became human again thus alerting Alicia and Prim, the latter immediately running up to him.

Ben stiffened when he felt Prim hug him and bury her face into his chest. "Welcome back my Prince, thank you for your hard work." The pink haired girls' purple eyes glittered like diamonds as they stared up at Ben as if he was an angel. "You treated our dead with so much care, even though they were weaker you cared about them like how a true noble should."

Ben frowned his mouth agape and his acid green eyes became distant as an image of Prim covered in blood with her entrails on the ground with Albedo and Will Harangue standing over her entered his mind.

"NO!" blurted out Ben as he quickly embraced Prim in a tight constricting hold. The pink haired princess Knight wheezed. "Prince I like being hugged but this is too tight."

"What are you doing to Prim?!" Barked Alicia as she stomped over towards The Fallen Hero who had her "sister" in a boa constrictor grip.

Briefly, The Fallen Hero looked like a lost and confused alcoholic and he hastily let go of Prim, taking a few steps back. "Sorry… sorry Prim. I was having some… flashbacks. I just- I just didn't want you to get hurt like some people I loved."

The Fallen Hero looked down at the ground with the force of a downpour in the rainforest and suddenly both princess Knight's felt a weight like a boulder in their hearts.

Alicia's frown lost its sharp edge and became sympathetic. ' Maybe I should judge him less harshly, he's the reason why my family is still whole. I shudder to think what kind of enemies he faced if they were able to kill his family, it's better off that his enemies are dead, they can never threaten Eostia that way.'

Prim's eyes watered. "Oh my poor Prince." She whimpered before she initiated yet another hug. "Pay no attention to my meanie sister! You did nothing wrong! Everything will be ok, I promise, I'm here for you and even if Sister is a meanie sometimes. She's here for you too."

"Pr-pr-Prim!!' sputtered Alicia flabbergasted.

Ben Tennyson felt his heart rate pick up as if he was on a treadmill, slowly and delicately as if he was holding a rabbit he took Prim back into his arms with his face becoming pink as her hair and his head steaming.

"Th-thank you Prim."

After a moment the two parted with both their faces flushed and hearts beating rapidly and The Fallen Hero addressed Alicia. "So Alicia, I assume this mansion belongs to the old fart I killed?"

Alicia shook off her surprise at her sister's odd behavior and nodded. "That is correct, I'm confiscating Beardsley's wealth and possessions. He only got to live a life of luxury because he was paid by my family, with his betrayal and death it makes sense that everything we've given him goes back to us."

The blonde princess Knight crossed her arms over her ample bosom and gave Ben a small smile. "As a reward for what you've done for Feoh I'm giving you half of Beardsley's wealth. You'll be wealthy as a noble even though you aren't one. Know that I don't give this privilege to just anyone."

Prim gave Ben a smile so sweet The Fallen Hero for a moment considered scheduling an appointment at Feoh's nearest dentist. "It's the least we can do, if The Black Dogs took Feoh they would have a stage to invade the other fortresses." Prim pecked Ben on the cheek thus producing a squeaking sound as her lips graced his flesh. "It would be a blow to The Alliance's morale to lose one of our kingdoms to our former heroes. Words cannot express how much Feoh's people owe you."

Ben stepped back his head spinning, his heart skipping beats and his cheek tingling like it was being shocked by static. "Prim, you are really really nice and I'm not so sure I deserve your praise…" The Fallen Hero looked at the ground and when he next looked up his blush was gone as if it had taken a bus to New Jersey and his face was set in stone.

"Take half my portion and divide it among the people of Feoh. Specifically the women who were raped because of Beardsley. I know the gold won't buy back what those monsters took from them but maybe they can rebuild their homes or buy something special for themselves…"

The brunette clenched his right fist. "Or at least remain in good financial health for the rest of their lives." The Fallen Hero looked Alicia in the eye. " I want them taken care of."

Alicia visibly did a double take, her blue eyes widening like a balloon while Prim's eyes glowed like a light show. When Alicia spoke her voice was in disbelief like a man who just saw pigs fly. "Why… you're a commoner. You don't have half as much as the nobility do…"

The Blonde Princess knight pinched the flesh on her right arm three times as if she was trying to wake herself from a dream. "Why would a commoner upon being given a Noble's money willingly part with it?" The Arcturus Heir visibly pinched herself harder and she flinched. "Ow fuck!" She yelled before she shook her self inflicted pain off.

"It just doesn't make sense."

Prim smiled and brought Alicia into a hug. "Don't you see Sister? There is more to him than being a bloodthirsty brute. There is good in him."

Ben shuffled awkwardly while rubbing the back of his neck. "Well I think it's common courtesy, I'll still have plenty of wealth with half of it left and The Black Dog's victims need all the help they can get. To me it's just being a basic kind person."

Ben then slammed his fist into his open palm as the awkwardness from his face vanished like a curtain falling over a failing elementary school play. "But never mind that, I want to know what you're going to do with that old fuck's mansion. Does he have any family who are going to inherit it? Or are you going to burn it to the ground?"

When Ben spoke his voice was cold and hard as stone that had been in the freezer for three hours.

Prim frowned sadly at Ben returning to a cold callous demeanor. ' My poor prince, this is how you deal with your pain isn't it?'

Alicia on the other hand grinned, her grin like that of a cat playing with a mouse. "You read my mind. I am going to make sure Beardsley loses everything even if he's already dead."

Ben's lips twitched, as he felt a kinship with Alicia's vindictive nature as if her vindictive nature was embracing his own vindictive nature in a hug. The fallen hero held up his watch and grinned a Cheshire-like grin. "I have an alien in here who's a master at wrecking shit. Although fair warning he kind of looks like a goblin. Are you ok with me using him to build something to blow this mansion to kingdom come?"

Alicia paused looking first at her assembly of knights then at Ben then back at her assembly of knights. The blonde princess nodded. "My knights have had a rough day, I guess they can go home early if you're the one to destroy that wretched mansion."

{BREAK}

Prim had her hands on her hips, her mouth set in a frown sharp as a sword and eyes burning as hot as coals. In front of her cowered a dozen male knights, frozen in place by fear. Besides shivering as if they were in their underwear on a snow day the knights were otherwise glued to their spot.

Alicia watching this display facepalmed and sighed. "It's like she's trying to cast a flame spell on them with her disapproval alone. She's been like that since Ben transformed into that goblin alien and they attacked him."

The Blonde Princess Knight spared a glance at The Fallen Hero, and she had to admit that if she didn't know better she really would have thought he was a goblin. With his child-like stature, bright red skin and pointed ears. But that's where the similarities ended.

Ben called this form "Jury Rigg" and unlike goblins it had a tail, also its eyes were green and wore a lot more clothing. Jury Rigg was currently cackling, a sound that reminded Alicia of buzzing bees as he became a blur hooking up the last of what looked like a pile of junk to the mansion.

Finally Jury Rigg shot forward and was in front of Alicia. He gave three hasty military salutes. "Hello Hello Pretty lady! The lightning dance a ma bob 9000 is ready for deployment! Hehehehe!"

Alicia's face became flat as soda that was left in a hot car for a week, as she spared a glance at what looked like a junkyard pile of four carriages, twenty seven saddles, twenty seven glowing blue swords impaling the saddles, and a whole bunch of wires covered in candles that connected the swords and saddles together.

"You built a junkyard." Her voice was exasperated and disappointed as if she was kicking herself for daring to trust a creature that looked like a goblin.

Jury Rigg hopped up and down excitedly. "Nononono!! Not junkyard! Not junkyard! Lightning dance a ma bob 9000! Greatest bomb of all time! You'll see! You'll see!"

The goblin-like aliens head went from left to right so many times in such a short time Alicia wondered how his neck didn't break. "Where Nuns? Where Nuns? Where Nuns? I want them to pull the trigger!"

Alicia pursed her lip as she considered her options. ' This form Ben has taken seems to have altered his personality. He's a lot more excited. Like a dozen noble kids on a field trip. And he is more bold, complimenting me and Prim several times. Combine that with how he screams about breaking and fixing stuff…

Overall he seems like a trickster. Should I trust him in this form?'

Alicia facepalmed as she realized. "Ben, can you please turn back to your human form? Then I'll give you my answer."

In response the Pseudo Planchaküle gave another trio of rapid military salutes. "Right away! Right Away! Anything to please the pretty blonde lady!" He slapped the Omnitrix symbol on his belt and one green flash of light later Ben Tennyson in his human form stood in front of a dead pan Alicia and a blushing Prim.

Prim's face was almost as pink as her hair and she had steam coming out of her ears as her thoughts were beating like a hummingbird's wings. ' All Jury Rigg did was call me pretty pink lady and salute me several times… so why am I having these shameful fantasies of him chaining me up and taking my virginity?!'

Ben Tennyson had his own blush on his face though his was much lighter than Prim's, he rubbed the back of his neck nervously. "Alicia, Prim. I'm sorry about how I acted as Jury Rigg. He is… very hyper. Like a dozen Chihuahuas that just drank coffee."

Prim still steaming sputtered out. "It's… it's… ok Ben."

' I am still imagining him coating me in his seed as Jury Rigg! Maybe I should lay off the Smut novels!'

Alicia let out a fake cough as she had a serious narrow eyed look on her face. "That's alright Ben. Now as Jury Rigg you said you wanted the nuns who were…"

Alicia clenched her fists and clenched her eyes shut casting her face down at the ground. "Violated, to pull the trigger." The Blonde princess Knight made eye contact with Ben again. "Why is that? Jury Rigg didn't put anything nefarious in there did he? He seems like a trickster."

Ben frowned as his acid green eyes hardened. "Oh he is, but he wouldn't trick a rape victim. Like me he wants to help the nuns who suffered because of Beardsley and what better way to help them get closure than to give them the opportunity to destroy that traitor's home?"

The Fallen Hero slammed his closed fist against his chest. "I promise you Alicia Arcturus that even as Jury Rigg I have the Nuns and by extension the people of Feoh's best interest at heart."

Alicia gazed at Ben scrutinizing his every movement and body language from the creases in his frown to the coldness in his eyes to how he held his iron hard fist against his chest. Eventually Alicia smiled. "You really are a special man, Ben Tennyson. Alright I'll allow you to give the Nuns this opportunity."

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The six nuns now cleaned up and given new clothing stood in front of Beardsley's mansion, the looks on their faces ranged from red and wet with tears to that of a vacant veteran to that of a child frightened of the dark.

A nun with long flowing dark hair and glasses threw herself at Alicia's feet, hugging the princess Knight's feet and sobbed. "Lady Arcturus forgive us! Please! We're sorry! We're sorry you had to surrender because of us!"

Alicia visibly recoiled as if the sobbing bun struck her. "What-what? Why are you-" The Blonde princess Knight's brain crashed like an old computer and it was only going to get worse as next a pink haired nun threw herself at Alicia's feet, her tears joining the tears of the black haired nun's.

"I'm sorry! I'm filthy! I'm no longer worthy of being called a Nun! I'm disgusting! Please punish me!"

Once again Alicia recoiled as if she was struck. "No-n-n-no y-you didn't do-" words failed her as her heart felt like it was being hugged by a bear, the blonde princess Knight choked as guilt constricted her throat like a noose.

'These nuns who dedicated their lives to serve Celestine now hate themselves because I was stupid enough to trust Beardsley without question.' Alicia began to shiver as if she was in a blizzard. 'They are begging me for forgiveness when I'm the one who wronged them. I-I can't stand it.'

"SHUT UP!" bellowed Alicia, making the two nuns squeak in fear. The Blonde princess Knight immediately got on her knees and brought the pair into a hug, cradling them in her arms as she addressed them in a voice a mother would use to address a crying child. "Please stop. You did nothing wrong."

Tear tracks began to flow down Alicia's face as she casted her gaze from the nuns in her arms to the four other Nuns. "You hear me? None of you did anything wrong! If anyone did something wrong it was ME! Because I trusted Beardsley you all suffered. Because I trusted Beardsley Prim almost suffered too. I surrendered because I was a fool! Don't be angry at yourselves!"

The blonde princess Knight placed a motherly kiss on the foreheads of the Nuns in her arms. "If you want to be angry at anyone, please be angry at me!"

"Princess…" muttered one of The Nuns in shock.

Ben decided to step in, crossing his arms over his chest and announcing. "Alicia is partially right. You did nothing wrong. But you shouldn't be angry at her either, she's been manipulated by Beardsley probably for years. All your suffering all the suffering of everyone in Feoh rests squarely on that old fucker's shoulders."

The nuns turned to look at Ben with wet curious eyes which soon flashed with recognition.

"You're the shapeshifter that killed Beardsley!" Gasped the black haired nun in Alicia's arms.

A blonde nun experienced a series of flashbacks as she recalled a crystal golem tearing apart the goblins who violated her. Her lips twitched into a smile as tears began to leak down her face and she collapsed onto her knees, bowing to Ben.

"Thank you." She breathed. "Thank you, they can't hurt me again because of you. Thank you!"

Another Nun, this one with long ash blonde hair, also threw herself into a bow. "You saved the Princess. You made sure Beardsley didn't make her filthy like us. Thank you!"

Ben became visibly uncomfortable as if he was being hugged by three John cena's as the Nuns began to thank him for saving Feoh and Alicia. ' I said that being a hero is bullshit but I'm still getting praised like a hero. I guess old habits die hard.'

The Fallen Hero soon felt anger erupt out of his heart like a volcano. 'What is wrong with the men of this world to do this to women?! The pain and suffering they caused the women of this world is something not even Vilgax would do! I'm glad I'm not a hero anymore because my old heroic self would be too much of a pussy to do what needs to be done, to give the monsters of this world what they deserve.'

The Fallen Hero held up his hand so fast that it almost cracked the air like a whip. "STOP." he commanded like a rottweiler warning off a home invader. The nuns gulped as their praises slammed on the brakes in their throats, and they wondered if they upset their savior.

Ben continued. "Don't call yourselves filthy or disgusting. And it's not your fault Alicia surrendered. Know this, everything that happened here today…" Ben's green eyes hard as a hundred pounds of diamonds swept across the frozen nuns. "Is because of a perverted treasonous old man who manipulated your kingdom's princess for probably her entire life and was willing to burn the kingdom he swore to protect to the ground so he could rape her. You are all mere Nuns, none of you were trained for battle or espionage. None of you could have seen this coming."

Ben stomped his foot to emphasize his point. "You shouldn't wallow in self hatred. No, direct that hatred towards Beardsley and The Black Dogs he allied with. Dedicate your lives to taking away everything they have, for example you can heal other victims. Be their counselors and guides and free them from the chains that the Black Dogs imposed upon them."

Ben then held out a hand towards the junkyard-like device he built. "And you can start your revenge with this right here. All six of you need to press all six buttons at once and Beardsley's mansion will be destroyed by your hands."

The black haired nun with glasses cautiously raised a hand. "B-B-but I was raised not to seek revenge." She stuttered. "I was taught that revenge and hatred of others was wrong."

Ben gave the nun a flat stare, his green eyes dead and emotionless, that made her flinch and avoid eye contact, staring at the ground. "I used to think that too, however I had that delusion shattered in the harshest way possible. The path of revenge is very fulfilling although it doesn't have to be a violent revenge in your case. In my opinion it's better to hate other people, especially your enemies than yourself."

Ben sighed. "I know what self hatred feels like, it fucking sucks and from personal experience I can say it feels a whole lot better to hate your enemies than it does yourself. And that it can feel good to dedicate yourself to destroying your enemies, that's how I cope."

The six nuns paused in their crying and stared at Ben with a mixture of shock and introspection, as if they were both surprised by his words and trying to analyze him for any ulterior motives. Finally the short blonde haired Nun spoke first as she timidly raised her hand up. "He." She cleared her throat. "He has a point, I want revenge. My heart hurts like it has been flogged and it's crying out for revenge! I want to do SOMETHING to the Black Dogs, or my heart will be torn asunder."

The short haired blonde nun swept her gaze across her fellow nuns as she swept her hand out around them. "Surely your hearts are in agony too? I implore you to join me in heeding the shapeshifter's words!"

Silence reigned for six seconds, a silence so powerful that one could hear the wind fart but then as if they were a marching band of soldiers the once sobbing Nuns stood straight and declared…

"I stand with you Sister."

"I won't let Beardsley win."

"I won't let the sinners break my spirit, if I need to focus on revenge to stay strong then so be it."

Alicia smiled and stood up with the nuns as she wiped the tears tracks off her face. The Princess Knight muttered quietly. "Thank you Ben." She sniffled twice and murmured, "You may be a brute but you're a brute with a heart and a way with words."

Prim laid her head on Alicia's shoulder and subconsciously, Alicia pulled her surrogate sister into a one arm embrace. Prim smiled and whispered, "See sister? Ben really does possess the qualities of a prince. He's our prince charming who rescued us just in time. Just like the fairy tales we used to read as kids!"

With guidance from Ben, the Nuns now resolute in their path of vengeance each grabbed a hold of a trigger connected to a wire, their faces once covered in tears and eyes puffy from crying were now hard and cold as stone frozen in ice their frowns sharp as kitchen knives.

"When you are ready." Spoke The Fallen Hero.

The Nuns with the short blonde hair nodded while keeping her eyes locked onto the mansion like a missile, her eyes transformed into jewels of hatred. "On the count of three ladies."

"1."

"2."

"3!!!"

As one the six nuns pressed their triggers creating a staccato of clicks. As a result the dusks of the day was darkened by a stampede of thunder clouds as if they were a swarm of locusts and with a sound akin to a dozen thunder bolts humping a tree, countless bolts of lightning shot out of the sky and swirled together into a vortex on the ground.

Alicia and Prim's hair blew wildly in the hurricane force winds and the Nuns squinted their eyes as they felt the wind battering their faces. Only for their eyes to widen as the vortex of lightning gave birth to a forty foot tall orc made of lightning, the giant orc made of blue electricity which crackled and sparked like a hundred blown up transformers, stomped towards Beardsley's mansion.

Each step made the Earth shake and shatter before it began to…

Do an Irish jig that made the mansion crumble like a cardboard fort that had also been set on fire. The mansion became consumed by flames as it crumbled to cinders.

Alicia's jaw had dropped, she had forgotten to breathe she was so shocked. ' A goblin- a a a goblin did this?!' she screeched in her head

The Six Nuns were almost as shocked as Alicia, but at the same time, tears of joy began to grow from their eyes which began to glow like the early morning sun.

The Nun wearing glasses sniffled and chuckled. "That old fart would be so furious right now." She giggled.

And that broke the dam, the other nuns joining her in teary eyed laughter.

The Fallen Hero felt his heart become light as a feather as he could feel his hate and anger for a moment float away like balloons. ' I helped victims get their revenge today. If I can't save people I can avenge them, that's all I can do sometimes.'

As the dark clouds began to clear Ben Tennyson looked towards the horizon. ' I know Vault is out there scheming, and I will inflict more suffering on him. That I promise to you.'

Images flashed through Ben's mind, images of Olga, Chloe, and now Prim and Alicia. ' And I promise you Olga, Chloe, Prim, Alicia. Vault will never hurt you again.'

AND END SCENE.

AUTHORS NOTES.

So I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I intended to show the growth of Alicia, Prim and Ben's relationship.

As well as Ben giving respect to the knights who gave their lives to defend Feoh during The Black Dog's invasion.

So anyways until next time, later taters!