Since to keep this gravy train going, here is the next chapter for this adventures with Ben and co. I would like to thank the help of the people who helped me so far: Brave-King-Shishio, Kevfilms, Zigwolf, Darinas, Story's Blade, Holycrap1992 and newer folks like Qale and others. Ben 10 Is owned by Man of Action and Cartoon Network, and I only own my own OCs. Any others belong to their respective creators.
Out of Duck
(Bellwood. August 8th, 07:45)
It was early morning at Plumber HQ, with Rook sitting in his room in casual attire of a simple gray and white gi and black pants, grunting as he was currently punching a dummy. Sitting near him was a strange alien box as he panted, Rayona walking into the training room with his breakfast.
"I hope you did not mind that I brought those with me when I came to Earth, beloved," Rayona hummed, hugging her fiancee as he looked over at the box, chuckling a bit.
"I had honestly forgotten them the first time because of the confusion with Fistrick. Though I am curious if I should have this stored in the Proto-Truk just in case, or if I should start training with them on again," Rook muttered, walking over to it. He opens the top of the box, revealing a beaded necklace similar to Kundo's.
"I think it would be good, especially with these Incurseans going on. Maybe put it on your ship?" Rayona suggested as Rook nodded at this, taking the box and putting it in his bag before going to get ready for work as Rayona went to rest after a shift in the hospital.
Rook exited the room as he heard the sound of an alarm. He quickly pressed a button on his belt as his proto-tech armor shifted from the nanochips in his belt, which glowed as it gained the hourglass shape on it as he ran into the main computer room.
"Right on time, as usual," Max said with a nod as Ben and Julie arrived with the other squads as they heard the sound on the radio feed.
"This is Magister Arnux…crash landed… signal short…No Plumber is safe… Incursean space…" was the message as the sound of a faint buzz was heard as the image of a man dressed in Magiester-level Plumber armor and an oval-shaped helmet with a stylized visor came on screen.
"Magister Arnux, one of the aides we had during the Highbreed Invasion on the space front," Max explained as he looks at everyone else, "He helped save a lot of lives during the period before the Earth Base was firmly established, even helped build the base we stand in now."
"Arnux is a decently skilled warrior, where is he? Surely he should be able to survive for a period," Adolherd asked as Sunny typed on the computer to see where the signal was and cringed.
"Ooooo… may want to save that praise, Addie. According to the satellite feed, he's on Terminus III." that got many to be concerned, but Julie and Ben exchanged confused looks with Max's squad.
"Uh… Terminus what?" Alan asked, raising his hand at this as Max just looked over at them and showed the image of a large gas planet.
"This planet is known as one of the most hostile environments in Incursean-led space. As well as having a very toxic atmosphere that very few species can survive for long," Rook said with a frown, stroking his chin a bit.
"So what exactly do we need to help them?" Ben asked as they heard the door open with a calm walk over.
"The only thing that can heal them is a Gracklflint," they all turned to see Rad walking over, his arms crossed. "And even to get that deep in Incursean space, you'd need to up the pay I have. No way I am pulling a stunt like this for chump change."
"Whoa, wait, wha?" Ben asked as he walked over to the duck-like humanoid with a glare, "What do you mean we have to up your pay? We're paying you like 300 taydens a month!"
"That's to help you 'ere on Earth, chimp boy. And to help get you guys through tougher spaces of the galaxy easier; this is Incursean space. I am the only one here who has the gizzards to even fly in frog infested parts of the galaxy. If you want me to fly cargo through that, I need to up the pay to 900 taydens for as long as we are flying through that system. I am a compromising Rapterian, so we can put it back down to 400 when we get back."
"Okay look here you little-" Ben began but was quickly stopped by a fast-moving Rook, who covered his protesting mouth as he gave a very wide smile, showing a hint of nervousness.
"That is very generous of you, Captain. I shall further negotiate this with the rest of the team," Rook dragged Ben away as Skurd flowed out of the Omnitrix, giving his host a flat look of annoyance. Rad just went to another part of the room and leaned against a wall to wait.
"You know, I would think you would want to die at the very least in a blaze of glory and not for angering a trigger happy avian," Skurd said with his tentacles crossed.
"Oh come on, I can't be the only one annoyed with this guy's ego!" Ben exclaimed as Julie gave a raised eyebrow at that lack of self awareness, which he caught. "You know what I mean, Julie."
"Was about to say you aren't always the most humble of people, Ben. Plus remember, he's been a big help since we hired him," Julie reminded as Ben just grunts in annoyance, crossing his arms.
"Still could cool it with the attitude. Anyway, where are we gonna that gaggle-thing?" Ben asked as Blukic checked something on a log.
"Huh; the classifieds say there's one in Undertown. Being sold by someone who is trying to get a relocation set up," Blukic said as he showed the file. The team nodded as they took the ad and went out, Rad following.
Once in town, they ride around in the Proto-Truk before finding a short humanoid with six limbs, an oval shaped head with a spiked mouth and large purple eyes. He looks at them as Ben squints a bit, confused. "Huh… you look like one of those tick worshipers?"
"Aaah yes… I had heard word that one of my people was a follower of the Great One Cult. Apologies, but I was able to find and retain the creature. I had just gotten a call from the Plumbers asking for it for a mission?" the alien asked as he motions them inside, unaware of a figure watching them.
Inside of a cage in the building, they saw a rather emaciated spider-like creature. It gave a soft growl before coming up, the eight skinny legs clashing on the metal ground with each limb having three razor sharp talons. Its body was a shriveled up hook-shape and the head round with thick mandibles and eight yellow eyes, hissing with the two main fangs in its top jaw dripping a purple liquid.
"It looks hungry…" Julie said in sympathy as it hissed at her, getting near the energy cage and trying to growl and snarl at them, using its weight to try and break out of the binds.
"I would not be too kind right away, Julie. Gracklflints are highly hostile creatures that kill anything that is not of its own race, and are highly dangerous omnivores. They will maim anything as long as its food… though even I do not condone this kind of treatment," Skurd advised, looking at the creature with a hint of trepidation.
Rad looks at Ben and says, "Turn into something big and durable so we can carry dis to Pyxi." Ben just rolled his eyes at the order, still annoyed as he slams down on the Omnitrix, changing into Quartzmaine, the adaptive stone creature grabbing the cables and dragging it along, his body naturally gaining more muscle to add to his personal strength as he did.
"Smart to use Quartsmain, since he can adapt to anything this overgrown spider can throw at us," Julie said with a nod as she armored up as well with Ship going into her default armor, taking another cable and helping him drag it along as they got to the Lovely Duck.
Pyxi then forms a holographic head display as she sees the creature being brought in, "What in the world…?"
"Sorry Pyxi, but we need to get this to Terminus III," Rook explained as the holographic head nodded, letting them put the cage in the cargo bay. "And then we are taking it to the Gracklflint homeworld to let it go back to the wild, yes?"
"Since that is on the bracket, yes," Rad commented with a nod as they inside, unaware of something slithering in. The Graklflint however did notice and saw some strange pods being dropped in. It softly hummed as it started to eat the seed-like plants that were dropped.
Rad got into the seat up on the bridge and typed the coordinates in, as Ben looked at this as Ship went onto the small bridge so that the ship can use the chip to allow for travel through Incursean Space. The Heart drive glowed light pink before the ship flew off into space, going into deep space. "Looks like we are having a good timeframe to get to those Plumbers," Ben commented as Rad just scoffed a bit.
However they heard the sound of something hitting a part of the ship, making them all turn. "What was that?" Julie asked in confusion as Rook got the Proto-Tool blaster out.
"A stowaway perhaps?" At that comment, Rad scowled as he put on some odd-looking cufflinks and they formed his gauntlets as it fused into his blasters, making them into larger guns.
"Not on my ship…" Rad growled as they all got up. Julie unsheaths her sword since Ship has to act as the deterrent for any Incursean satellites while Ben slams down on the Omnitrix, turning into Ampfibian and slinking below.
The other three fanned out, taking different halls before another sound was heard, Rook frowning as he inhaled and then exhaled, his body giving off a faint glow for a moment. "It is to our right!" Rook shouts as he goes down the right hall, with Julie and Rad going in that direction too.
Just as the figure went around a corner, blue and white tentacles went around them and gave a powerful shock. "Surprise, Stowa-PAX?!" Amfibian asked in shock at the sight of the plant alien.
"The leader of the animal rights group?" Skurd asked after getting a good look at the Florauna in the tentacles.
"Hey! Don't go shocking someone!" Pax said with an annoyed look, his single eye narrowed behind his dual-colored monocle. He then saw the others arrive, "Hey what gives with the weapons, guys?!"
"We thought it was a dangerous stowaway. But it's just you, Pax," Julie said as she sheathed her sword before patting Rad, "Don't mind him. He's a bit confused, but means well."
Rad gave Pax a look before holstering his gun, "Why are you on my ship?" Pad wiggled out of Ben's grip as he turned back to normal.
"I'm here for the Gracklflint's well-being, duck man. Someone has to make sure the poor thing is safe," Pax explained as he crossed his arms.
"That 'poor thing' would be more than happy to tear us limb from limb if we just let it do as it pleases," Rook countered as Pax rolled his eye.
"Pax, do you want another Screegit fiasco?" Ben asked as Skurd did a double take.
"Screegit?! On Earth?! Who let a nitrogen empowered monster to go out on Earth?" Skurd asked in annoyance… as both Ben and Julie awkwardly looked away.
"Anyway, I get your concerns Pax, but we are trying to get it to a place that we need the venom for. After that, we planned on bringing it to it's natural habitat. So just… bear with us, please?" Julie requested, her hands together as Pax just growled a bit, annoyed but then sighed in relention.
"Fiiiiiiine," He said in a slightly whiny tone as Rook just narrowed his eyes, annoyed with the plant man as they started to head back to the bridge… when a shaking sound is heard.
"...What was that?" Skurd asked with trepidation as the group turned and ran towards the cargo area… where they saw the cage had a large hole in it and a busted out looking shell and claw marks on the walls.
"What the-?! Where's the Gracklflint?!" Ben asked in shock as Pyxi's hologram head appeared, a panicked look on her face.
"The creature is wandering the ship! It's trying to get out of holding! I got defenses up, but I don't know how long I can keep it from wrecking my systems!" Pyxi explained as Rad growled in annoyance as he quickly ran to a part in the cargo area, pressing some buttons.
"Get the rest of my armor, Pyxi. I know the rule is to keep it alive, but I need enough firepower to catch that bug," Rad said as a display case came out, showing segmented armor. He then ditches his coat, revealing his sleeves of his undershirt were made of similar material to the armor as he stepped in, the armor clicking into place around the sleeves, his goggles/hat fusing to tech on the collar.
"Hey wait, you're not gonna hurt it, are you?!" Pax asked in a panic as Ben looked up at him, annoyed.
"Somehow it got out, and it's going to attack everyone else on the ship. We need to detain it so that way we don't end up crash landing," Ben explained before looking over at Rook, "Rook, you keep an eye on him."
"Understood. Julie, you may need to help Pyxi keep an eye out, so that would leave Ben and Rad to deal with the Gracklflint," Rook said as Julie nodded, heading back to the bridge as both Ben and Rad looked at each other with a frown. Rook then bent to Ben's level as he says, "Try and at least get along with him so we don't need to explain why we need to either up his pay again or get a new captain who knows Incursean space."
"Okay… fine," Ben said with a groan as Skurd looked at Rook with a look that said, 'this is only going to end badly.'
Rad then picked back up his pistols as he placed them on a set of devices that were on the hips of his new armor, causing them to shift and grow out to a large cannon as the two walked into the hall, Ben slamming down on the Omnitrix and turning into Eye-Guy.
"Heh, Eye-Guy should let us keep track of any creature-features," Eye Guy smirked as his various eyes extended out, looking around before they heard the sound of movements and got down a hall… only to look shocked at the sight of the creature.
Before them now was a much healthier Gracklflint, trying to scuttle around before turning, it's large eyes narrowing as it's now larger, more razor sharp mandibles were out with dripping pink liquid before roaring out, it's front claws now the size of machete blades and much longer, it's thorax now much larger and bulbous.
"What the heck-?! What did you feed this thing!?" Eye Guy asked in shock, all of his eyes the size of large serving trays as Rad did a double take.
"Me?! I didn't feed dis thing, I thought that the one we got it from did!" Rad exclaimed back as he aimed his gun, shifting it on the bottom before firing a sonic burst. The creature jumped up and around as EYe Guy's palms glowed with icy-blue aura before firing out an ice beam. The large arachnid hisses as they kept moving around it.
Rad growled in annoyance as they went to chase after it, while on the deck Julie saw the movement had stopped. "Hey Pyxi, what's up?" Julie asked as the hologram came out, a look of concern on the screen.
"I got a few wires damaged during that thing's escape. I am currently having my repairs being done, but I had to stop the ship," Pyxi explained as Julie looked outside with concern.
(Near by)
In the distance, a large black and green ship was floating around as Raff was pacing around as he heard someone calling out for him. "Oh joy… What is it?" Raff asked flatly as the Incursean agent ran up, going into a bow.
"Sir, I have a status report. We have started to finish up the repairs on the AI on this ship that General Attea had gotten from the Emperor, and we have discovered a ship near by when doing something on the radar. We are heading towards it, sir," the Incursean said as Raff sighed, rubbing his head.
"I would say to just vaporize it, but I rather not have Attea give me a vocal full or have that over grown feline use me as a chew toy for not giving the full report, and they are currently on a near by world…" Raff muttered to himself, with a sigh. "So I say we capture it."
"Yes Commander Raff!" The Incursean agent shouted, bowing a bit as they went to work to capturing it.
(Back on the Lucky Duck)
Rad was running down a hall as he said, "Get back here, you pipsqueak!" He started shooting at it, as Ben was chasing after him in the form of Hotstretch, using the extendable arms to get around the area before finding the large spider.
"Gotcha!" Hotstretch said as he stretched out his arms but hte creature just grabs the Kraaho's hands. "OW!OWOWOWOWOWOWOOWW!" He shouts in pain as he was starting to be flailed around the hallway, his tungsten-rubber body allowing him to bounce around before he was thrown back.
"Nice job, Tennyson," Rad said as he fired at the large insect as he fired at it, but the large spider-like monster sent a kick at him. "Ugh… guess it's time for you meet Tammy!" He then got his belt off and adjusted it straight as it took the form of a large cannon and started to fire at it, but the large creature jumped around and spat out blasts of goo at the duck.
"Of all the starship captains we could have gotten, and we got the one with the death wish…" Skurd muttered as Hotstretch rubbed his arms. "Benjamin, I have an idea on how to secure it, but you need to trust me. Lets see if we can find something that can withstrain it without it moving away."
"Okay, got it," Ben said as he turned back to normal as Skurd quickly moved the dial before revealing it. With that cue, he slammed down as a green glow came out, making the Gracklflint turn and raise a brow as he saw Ben take the form of a large, 7 foot tall rounded bear creature with rounded bear-like ears, a rounded snout with two tusks coming out of it with a rather smooth looking nose, really long arms with rounded paws at the end and rather short limbs. "...What is this?"
"This, my dear boy, is something we got from that rapscallion. Now allow me…" Skurd then whistled at the large creature, "yoo-hoo! Mr. Gracklflint! How about you come here, good boy?"
"What are you, calling a golden retriever?!" Ben asked in annoyance as the large creature growled and charged forward, making Ben yell out in surprise.
"NOW, TENNYSON! WRAP YOUR ARMS AROUND IT!" Skurd shouted as the large bear alien nodded as he got his arms wide open before the creature charged him, but then Ben's arms started to coil around it and then the paws came together, hook-like claws connecting after getting on.
"Whoa! I actually got it!" Ben said in shock as the creature was having trouble trying to get out, and actually started to groan as it was calming down. "What did I do, hug it down?"
"That, my boy, is the hunting technique of Ursine Majorus Constrictor. As long as you don't squeeze too tight, this hold will automatically calm down anything within your tight grasp due to the oddly calming effect your strong arms have on the prey's muscle," Skurd explained as Ben nods.
"Heh… Bear Hug would be useful when I need to give the squeeze on some bad guys then," Bear Hug smirked as Rad came over, nodding a bit.
"Hmph, not a bad job kid. Actually impressed you thought of somethin' that crazy," Rad said as Bear Hug raised a brow.
"I'll… take that as a compliment?" The ursine creature said, tilting the large rounded headed. They then heard arguing before Ben felt the large spider starting to squirm again. "H-Hey!" The Gracklflint screeched as it charged down a hall. The two quickly ran after it as Rook was trying to keep Pax still.
"I have asked nicely for you to stay still!" Rook called out when the two heard the screeching heading their way. Both shouted out as the beast grabbed Pax.
"h-Hey, i'm on your side-!" Pax shouted out before his upper body was bitten off. It then dropped the lower body as it ate, everyone staring in shock before Pax regrew his body. "Yeesh big guy, could have just asked." He said with a chuckle.
"Asked for what…?" Rook inquired with a raised brow before Pax removed some of his seeds, the cover being taken off before revealing black grape-like fruits the size of softballs.
"Here ya go, bro," Pax offered as the beast ripped his hand off to eat the seedlings. Bear Hug then got an idea before slamming on the Omnitrix, turning into Wildvine.
"What are you-" Rad began as Wildvine clamped his beak shut with one of his vines.
"Just trust me, I got a plan, okay?" Wildvine asked as Rad just nodded, his face showing morbid curiosity.
"This is going to be painful and humiliating, isn't it?" Skurd flatly asked before Wildvine whistled loudly, doing a flailing dance.
"Heeeey Gracky~! All ya can eat, right over here!" Wildvine shouted, showing off his back to the creature. It roared out as Rook used a net on Pax as it chased after Wildvine. Rad quickly followed, using his key card to close up the halls behind them.
Wildvine grabbed support beams and slid into an air vent big enough for the creature to fit. He then activated his communicator, "Julie, open up the vent up to Cargo!"
"Ben, what are you-?"
"Just do it!" Wildvine exclaimed, ducking from a claw swipe as he made seeds on his back. They slunk down the cargo vent as he looks at Skurd. "Skurd, toss the seeds into the cage!"
"On it!" Skurd extended his limbs behind the back, growing out Goop's tendril hands to grab the black spheres into the box, the large beast following before going in. Wildvine then stretched a limb and slammed the door shut and upped the strength of the energy field.
"Not cool, man! Using our kind's natural essence to cage a poor defenseless creature!" Pax said as he was dragged into cargo by Rook.
As if on cue, Pyxi appeared with an angry look. "That creature damaged my engine and our radio! And I just got a message."
"What is it?" Ben asked as they saw Raff appear on the screens.
"This is Commander Raff of the Deathless Incursean Empire, high aide of Lady Attea of the Glorious Calaveras Legion. Your vessel is in Incursean Space. Prepare to be boarded."
"Pyxi, a visual!" Rad shouts as the screens shifted to an image of the warship they saw on Peptos XI, but at a better angle. Rad scowled at this, eyes narrowed under his visor.
"Hey… why does that ship look like a monochrome version of the Lucky Duck?" Ben asked, squinting a bit as Pyxi gasped in realization.
"Coregon…?" She asked before she vanished in fear, making everyone more puzzled before they got to the bridge, where Julie was trying to get a signal.
"Ugh…! I can't get a signal to any Plumber bases in any nearby star systems and Pyxi can't use the thrusters. We're dead in the water!" Julie groaned as she hit the back of her head on her seat in frustration.
"Man… the worm has turned here…" Pax muttered to himself, only to get grabbed by Rook so they could see eye to eye, and to the others' surprise, they actually saw Rook's eyes were glowing a bright orange.
"We are in the middle of very negative territory, our speakers are unable to be used, and we were almost killed by a wild animal. Why did you unleash that creature on the ship of all places?! Why is that creature's own worth more than our own?"
Pax growled at that as his flytrap grew sharper and his chest gained thorns, "Hey man, it ain't about the animals having more rights, it's about being treated equally. I don't know how it is on your farm planet, Revonnahgander, but on my planet? It's literally equal rights of life or death."
"Huh?" Ben asked, tilting his head at this. "You mean on that… giant forest planet you're from, right? Flors Verdance?" Pax looked down at Ben before sighing a bit, crossing his vines.
"Flors Verdance ain't just a big forest, it's a lot of biomes for different kinds of plant life and other creatures. It's eat or be eaten on both sides of the aisle; if ya don't get the hunt, the hunt gets you. You either eat the Sicklocust with the tribe, or you're a tossed salad for a giant bug or some sort of giant omnivore." Pax explained as he crossed his arms, "I just wanted to try and give any creature a fair shake. That's all my plan was anyway."
"Great philosophy, but that ain't gonna save us from these frogs," Rad said as he was adjusting his cannons. "We'll need to fight our way through them."
"Agreed," Rook said with a nod as Pyxi appeared again, shaking her holographic head.
"A fire fight here would just tear me up more, I'm at 79% functionality right now. Anything lower than fifty and we are dead in the water," the AI explained as Ben started to pace, trying to think. He then looks at Skurd.
"Skurd, Playlist of my smarter aliens? Anything with super intelligence so I Can think of something." Ben said as Skurd nodded, doing a playlist. Julie looked at Ship with concern as they watched Ben go into a thinking pose as he transformed from Grey Matter, Brainstorm, Frankenstrike, Ceremander, Jury Rigg, Gravattack, Clockwork and then back to Ben as he snaps his fingers.
"Yes?" Rook asked as Ben gave a smirk to the others, his arms crossed as the ship was started to be brought into the Incursean ship.
"I got an idea. But we'll need to play to our strengths on this one. Julie, have Ship act as a connector to anything broken on the ship. We'll need to use him to keep the ship in one piece. When I give the signal, floor it." Julie gives a nod as Ben then points at Rook, "Rook, we'll need a coupling disengaged and maybe some disabling on the actual ship. I'll help Rad get rid of the frogs that come onto the ship. And Pax… you go to the cargo hold and play to your strengths."
Everyone looked at each other and nodded, going out as Julie went to Ben and kissed him on the cheek, "For good luck." she gave a smile before helping Ship get to one of the cracks on the ship as he slinked in. Pyxi gave a shivering sound, feeling a little unsettled but didn't complain.
AT the cargo bay, a few Incurseans soldiers came in. The leader, an Incursean with a slightly more muscular build and a white suit walked ahead of the mooks before they heard a sound. They all pointed their weapons up as they saw Pax sitting on it. "Hey, how ya doing?"
An Incursean looked at the larger male and asked, "Commander Glorff? What do we do with him?"
Glorff grunts as he commands, "Take the weed and the cargo to Raff. I'll take a squad further in," the others nodded before moving out.
Pax lets them cuff him as he says, "Lucky I'm a pacifist, froggy." He follows as they take the covered cage as Glorff leads a squad inside.
On the bridge, Julie was checking the stats of the ship. "Okay Heart Drive is at full, the cufflinks are back intact, recalibrating power…" she typed as she put in coordinates. "Okay, we got our destination."
"Good. I am currently outside of the ship. I am unclinking the Lovely Duck now," Rook advised her from the communicator.
Deeper still in the ship, Glorff and the Incurseans found a weapons vault where they shined a light… seeing Rad. "What the-?!" One exclaimed in shock.
"This is Dudesman's ship?!"
"Fire!" Glorff exclaimed as they fired at him, but a metallic shield came down and took the fire. They looked up and saw Ben smirking down at them with Skurd extending out the slime to make the metal protector.
"Peek a boo!" He shouts as he jumps down, slamming down and becoming Toepick, making many exclaim in disgust at his stink. He then fired out his slimy goo out of his finger nails before Rad jumped over him, drop-kicking one of the mooks before glaring at Glorff.
Glorff pressed on his helmet and shouted, "Commander. This was a hostile ship! I repeat, hostile!" He just got screaming as he heard the roaring of the Gracklflint. He grunts as he shouts, "Retreat!" The group started to get up and tried to run as Toepick and Rad chased after them, the duck using the ogre-like alien to jump off ahead and fired his guns at them to scare them more.
"Try and return fire!" One of them shouts as they fired at them before Rad slams down his fists, creating a shockwave at them that got them to be knocked on their backs before Toepick walked up.
"Okay, time to really get you guys off of our ship," Toepick said as his helmet was opened, making all of them go white in the face from the disgusting image they saw and all ran out, some trying to keep their lunch in as they ran away.
"Not bad, kid," Rad said with a nod as he looked up towards the ceiling, "Pyxi, get us out of here!"
"You got it, Rad!" Pyxi powered up the engines as she empowered it with the Heart Drive's aide, Rook getting back on with Pax as the Lovely Duck flew out of the Incursean Ship, much to the plant alien's shock.
"Whoa, hey-! What about the Grackleflint?! Didn't you say you need him?!" Pax shouted as Ben ignored him, going by a comlink. "Hey, don't ignore me, man!"
"Shhh…" Ben said as he counted down from five with his fingers before hearing the com ring and turned it on, giving a small smirk as he saw the robotic man's face. "Heeeey Raff, long time no see."
"Tennyson! I should have guessed this was your doing! Take this creature off of this ship!" Raff shouted in a panic, ducking as one of the Incurseans was thrown over his head as he hung onto the computer. "I will listen to any demand you want!"
"Give us back the creature without a scratch, let us go to a neutral planet to pick up some plumbers who ended up in your space and some tech to fix our ship. Then I'll let you guys get out of here without Attea having to find out," Ben said with a firm tone, smirking a bit. Raff looked at this and growled a bit.
"Very well…" Raff growled as the communication went out as Ben saw an energy field go around a spot with the transport active, the Grackleflint arriving back as Pyxi quickly put a collar on it made with Ship's energy cable.
"Heh, not bad, kid. Those brainy aliens can give a decent idea after all," Rad said with a chuckle as he pointed upward and then did a little pose, "Pyxi, take us to the planet nearest to Terminus III outside of the border so we can pick up dem Red Spots."
After some time, the ship took landfall to a planet where some Incursean pods were left with supplies at their demand, with Ship flowing out of the broken Lovely Duck as they went outside. Pyxi then asked, "Hey Rad… can I go into my rest mode so I can heal a bit easier?"
"Yeah, go ahead, kiddo," Rad said with a nod as they saw a pink glow flow around the inside of the ship before it started to go into a compact size, turning to a robotic, heart-shaped pod about the size of a large loaf of bread before they saw something more shocking; it started to redo itself, turning into an humanoid shaped body around it.
They watched as a pink skinned humanoid with dark purple armor with a heart shaped mark and a metallic hair with a silver-pink sheen to it, her eyes blinking out with a pink corena with black pupils. "Uuuuh, wha?" Pax asked in shock as the woman gave a wave.
"Hello, you guys know me as Pyxi. But my real name is Xalia, it is nice to meet you all formally. I apologize, but I am gonna need time to recover all of that insanity with that thing," She motions with the Grackleflint.
"Fair… I guess," Ben stroked the back of his head as he looked at Ship, "Hey buddy, think you can pick those Plumbers up?" Ship gave a beep in agreement before forming into his spaceship form and flew off.
"Well, let us get the medical area set up then," Skurd suggested as they nodded, going out to use the supplies to get everything set up. Rad set up a tent as he heard the sound of a whirling ship flying through the air.
"Uh, we got a funny-flying pod headin' dis way!" Rad exclaimed a Ben looked up and slammed down on the Omnitrix on instinct, glowing as he grew in size too Gravvattack.
"I got it!" Gravattack raised his hands up as a green glow came out of his hand as the gravity around the ship became lighter, turning off for a moment as he eased it over to Gravattack's personal gravity, letting it float around his orbit before he set it down safely.
"Hey, you okay?" Julie exclaimed as she used her sheathed Contemelia sword for leverage to open the ship's pod, everyone looking inside before they all looked in shock at the pilot.
"Young one?!" Rook exclaimed as he pushed Rad and Pax aside to pull out the injured child. Gravattack quickly slammed down on the Omnitrix to turn into Angelhands and ran over, using the healing aura on him.
"Come on, fanboy… don't go out yet, you are still young," Skurd soothed as Young One groaned as he felt his roughed up body healing up, looking up at Rook with a smile.
"Hello Brother," Young One said as Rook gave his youngest sibling a big hug that he was safe. "Listen, there is no time to waste. We need to get to Revonnah, fast!"
"After you and the injured Plumbers are back to 100%, kid. You ain't gonna get too far if you're dis banged up," Rad said with his arms crossed. "Come on, lets get him to the tent. Even with that healing aura, your stamina is gonna be shot. And Revonnahganders need all the energy dey need."
"But if we waste too much time, Revonnah is gonna be in more danger!" Young One exclaimed as he looked over at Rook, Ben and Julie, "The Incurseans are on Revonnah! Wat-Senn gave me this to try and find a Plumber ship!" He then gets something out of his pocket; A star-styled Plumber's Badge.
Rook looked in shock at this before a growl escaped his lips, setting his brother down softly onto a bed before looking at the bag they had taken off the ship. He opened it up, revealing the beaded necklace before putting it on. He inhaled and then exhaled, his eyes opening as a faint glow came to them as he looked over at Ben and Julie.
"When we are ready, we are getting my home freed from the frogs," Ben and Julie gave a nod in agreement at this request, ready for the battle ahead as they looked up at the sky, preparing for battle.
End of Chapter 12
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Name: Bear Hug
Species Name: Ursine Majorus Constrictor
Powers/Abilities: It has very thick fur which makes its pelt as hard and impenetrable as a rhino's hide. It is also very strong and has sharp claws but they are often misinterpreted as how it attacks. Its true way of attacking is that it grabs its prey and squeezes it until they stop breathing or with non organic beings like robots til they break.
Weakness: Short legs make it easy to topple over if it's not grounded, anything liquid can slip out of the grasp.
Additional Info: Constrictor cubs will practice constricting trees til they are mature enough to break them. After this is done they are ready to hunt.