In the orbit of Earth, within Vilgax's ship, Vilgax watched the monitor from his stasis tank. In the training room, there are three aliens: one is a yellow humanoid robot with one giant claw-like pincer on his left arm and four spider-like legs, the second is an armored humanoid with a backpack-like device, multiple slots on his body and has violet visor; and the last but not least is black-armored humanoid with bulked body, carried a hand cannon on his gun pocket and has a small green, diamond-shaped visor.
"Begin the demonstration." ordered Vilgax in a raspy voice due to his still healing injuries. Multiple drones appeared and start shooting at the yellow robot. He grabbed the drone with his claw-like pincer and crushed it, spilling its oil on the floor. Then flawlessly pull out his sword and slice the approaching drone in half, which exploded. More drones approaches them and the purple and black armored alien pull out his guns and blasted the drones within seconds. Now it came a large drone from the beginning.
The black and grey warrior tossed a disk and it transformed into a hoverboard. He rode it and flew toward the robot. The robot fired powerful laser cannon and blasted the black warrior, releasing a powerful explosion. The dust faded and emerged the warrior but he seemly suffered no damages. He jumped toward the robot, swung his fist and bored through the robot easily. The robot exploded into pieces after he land on the floor.
"Your abilities are very impression. You're all hired. Here is your mission: You must retrieve the Omnitrix and bring it to me. The one who succeed will be rewarded." said Vilgax as the alien bounty hunters obliged by nodding their heads. They soon were jettison from the ship and headed for Earth below
In the middle of the wasteland, Max had constructed a small target practice structure of strung up tires and soda cans, Gwen was sitting by in a chair taking in a sun tan
"You ready?" Max asked his grandson, who was already inside the structure, as Heatblast smirks with his arms crossed.
"Oh yeah" Heatblast said as he gave a thumbs up
"Remember to think out there, Ben. Don't just try to muscle it. Might isn't always right!" Max gave him some advice to keep in mind for this, since Ben couldn't choose when he turned into a different transformation, Ben had to be ready to evaluate the situation as soon as he changed forms. Know that some fights are better left to other forms, that not every problem can be won with brute force
"I know, but it's more fun that way! Plus, thinking is what Grey matter is good for" Heatblast said before he formed a fireball on his hand and motions for his grandpa to start. Max pulls a lever, sending six cans flying in the air. Heatblast spins around and fires six small fire projectiles, piercing each one into a crisp. Max pulls another lever and makes target boards lower behind Ben, who spins around and shoots them. Heatblast has restless fingers and excitedly shoots cans from behind his back and a target cactus in front. He somersaults and nails some pull-up targets a fair distance away. He puts a smug face and blows the smoke out of his "hot" finger
"Show-off..." Gwen said as she observed him train from a lounge chair while applying sunscreen into her hand and started rubbing it in
"Focus, Ben. Think!" Max said as he pushed another lever of the contraption, strings moving throughout the place
"Don't worry, Grandpa." Heatblast said as some cans come flying at him from behind. He bobs out of the way and shoots them behind his back, but doesn't notice a tire swinging towards him. It beans Ben in the face, knocking him back and causing him to shoot flames everywhere accidentally. Max takes cover. Gwen screams and hides as the fire hits her chair and sunscreen bottle. As she starts crawling out from under a table, the melting sunscreen lands close to her foot.
"Urrgh!" Gwen angrily groaned as she looked at her cousin.
"Oops, my bad" Heatblast said while getting up, laughing relieved at Gwen being fine despite her expression. As they wrap things up and leave the structure behind, the Tennyson trio begins to drive away in the Rust Bucket,
"You charcoal-head, you almost turned me into a burned crisp!" Gwen complained as her cousin couldn't stop being careless with his transformations, he was too confident in himself because if he had paid attention, they wouldn't even be discussing this right now.
"I said I was sorry. What else do you want?" Ben shrugged as he did feel sorry for the thing, but it was an honest mistake what else does she want?
"What we want is for you to take that thing on you more seriously, Ben. It's not a toy. You've got to think when you use it." Max spoke as the device was unpredictable, there was still a lot they didn't know so Ben shouldn't be acting like he is a expert on it.
"I know, but come oooon! You guys have seen me in action. I'm the baddest Ben in town! I've kicked so many alien butt, my feet hurt!" Ben says as he puts his feet on the table, annoying Gwen that pushes them off
"Yeah, well, one of these days, you're gonna screw around and get your own butt kicked, and I hope I'm there to see it!" Gwen angrily said, getting sick of his attitude by now
"Dream on, geek face!" Ben responds, the Rust Bucket starts sputtering and slowing down on the road.
"Uh oh, that doesn't sound good." Max said it wouldn't be good for the R.V to break down while they are in the middle of nowhere. Meanwhile, the hoverboard bounty hunter monitors a tracker that has led him to Max's Rust Bucket
"So this is what the Omnitrix wielder uses to move around." He said in a cold and serious tone, as he observed it move along the highway. The two other hunters, SixSix and Kraab, watch him from a cliff. SixSixbegins speaking to Kraab in an alien language that sounds unintelligable to human ears, then flies after the Rust Bucket with his jetpack.
"You can say that again. A piece of junk like that is better off as space dust!" Kraab exclaimed as he looked at the wasteland in front of him, wondering how in the celestial sapiens name would the Omnitrix end up in such a low end planet, where the best mode of transportation was a broken down vehicle that couldn't lift off the ground. Kraab leaps up and spins his four legs very fast, acting like a drill and burrowing into the ground
"When is the next stop? It's nothing but desert here" asked Ripjaws as he was already getting irritated with the heat, squeezing a water bottle onto himself to cool down
"Not for a while. My IntelliMap program says that the closest town is Slaterville. Incorporated in 1857 after the discovery of silver. Went bust in the late '50s when the mine ran out, now it is pretty much a ghost town." Gwen responded as she read her laptop screen, which her cousin thought was the most boring thing ever
"Why does everything out of your mouth sound like a book report?" The alien fish rolled his eyes as he laid his head on the table, waiting for this portion of the trip to have some fun in it, unfortunately, Ben would get what he wanted as a small buzzing sound came in closer
"Hey are you guys hearing that?" He commented as the sound of something heavy was approaching, sounded like a jet engine which didn't make sense. Until SixSix crashed through the roof of the R.V and before Ben or any of them could properly react, the bounty hunter tackled Ripjaws through the side window of the Rust Bucket as he took of in a elevating arch
"Ben!" Both Gwen and Max screamed as they looked over his abduction, the Rust Bucket stopping dead in it's tracks.
"Who... Are you?" Ripjaws struggles to talk as the grip on his throat was strong, SixSix didn't respond in anyway that made sense to Ben as the bounty hunter actives within his other arm a electrical knife coming out of his wrist, Ripjaws doesn't waste anytime and opens his jaws as large as he could before taking a bite of the bounty hunter's armor. SixSix infuriatingly let's go of his grip as he observed the armor damage, all the while Ben fell hundreds of feet in the air
"Now would be a great time to get Stinkfly, please!" He said while having both hands in a prayer as his fish eyes couldn't quite compel the terror he was feeling over becoming splat, however something swooped in to grab him by the leg and cancel his fall, it was the hoverboard bounty.
"You're coming with me" the hoverboard bounty hunter said as he was soaring through the air as fast as he could, wanting to make as much distance between himself and the other hunters to make his take off with the Omnitrix easier and not to be interrupted with
"As if!" Ripjaws exclaimed as he tried to fight back at the bounty hunter, going as far as biting him in the arm only to feel pain in his mouth from the action of biting something so incredibly hard, something that never happened before. "Ouch, you're as hard as Diamondhead!"
"This will be best if you stay-" the watch starts beeping, signalling a form change as a flash of light momentarily blinds the hoverboard bounty hunter, afterwards he sees that Ben had turned into Ghostfreak who easily escapes his grip
"See ya" he disappeared from sight using his invisibility, the bounty hunter stops in the air and uses the Omnitrix tracker to see the direction he went, but it would seem that he is... Right below him, before he can properly react Ben grabs his device and smashes it "Sorry, was that important?"
"Not as much as this" Tetrax shoots a gun at the ghost, creating a form of net around Ghostfreak that be couldn't phase out off nor turn invisible, so all he could do was try to distance himself from the bounty hunter.
Meanwhile Gwen and Max are racing along the road to catch up with Ben, who they could barely see in the air high above.
"Who was that?" Gwen asked since that purple alien just came in out of nowhere to break though the Rust Bucket to grab Ben, it was something completely unexpected if she could be honest but now she was worried with what her cousin was doing up there
"Nothing good, that's for sure" Max stepped up on the gas as he saw the two figures in the sky moving somewhat to where the road is leading up to, as Ben was doing his best to escape the hoverboard alien, facilitate a little bit when the other bounty hunter with a jetpack came in. He could try to get both of them to collide, the jetpack one being more reckless in his chase compared to the hoverboard, but once coordinated Sixsix is able to grab Ben by the Omnitrix symbol at one point while Tetrax begins speaking.
"This isn't a game, you will come with-" the Omnitrix started beeping as a yellow light flashes in the device, catching all of their attentions
"Already? Hasn't been 10 minutes yet" however Ben failed to notice the yellow energy building up in the watch as it exploded in a spherical blast, sending both of the bounty hunters flying as Ben plummeted towards the ground now transformed into Diamond Head, so the Tennyson has to think quickly and makes a ramp of diamonds to carry his momento into another direction, allowing him to land safely.
"That was odd, but now I can get some distance from-" he can't finish his sentence as Kraab emerges from the ground and starts to wrestle with Diamond Head, who tries to take the surprisingly strong grub of the robotic crustacean out of him.
"This is going to hurt you, much more than me" the bounty hunter said as he aimed his smaller arm at Ben's abdomen, with a small device releasing a sonic vibration that runs through his entire body, causing the jewel alien great pain as he begins to shatter.
"AAARGH!!" Diamond Head screamed as he could feel the cracks forming in his body, in a moment of desperation he created a bunch of spikes around his body which successfully hurt the Kraab, causing him to release his grip since one of his legs got damaged. Breathing heavily, Diamond Head begins to run away as best as he could
"Where do you think you're going?" Kraab asked as he took aim with his large pincer, preparing a blast shot clean to diamond head when a large horn came from behind him, turning his head backwards to see the Rust Bucket come in hot. Kraab took notice of the one driving it, he looked older but there was no mistaking it
"Is that Max Tennys-" the mercenary gets run over before he could finish, Gwen looked through the back window to see just how badly he got beaten up, although his head quickly lifts up to stare at the vehicle, causing her to gulp. They briefly stop to pick Ben up, before going as fast as possible to the nearest town to hide, meanwhile the other bounty hunters converge in Kraab's position
"Can you move?" The hoverboard bounty hunter asks the robotic crustacean as the latter tries to get up, almost tripping due to one of his broken legs but is able to stabilize himself.
"Hardly, but that won't stop me from getting that reward." Kraab responds as with that much money, he could practically buy himself a small moon and that type of opportunity is hard to dismiss. SixSix begins revving up his jetpack to give chase, but the hoverboard stops him as the other alien insults him in an unspeakable form.
"Let's wait a bit, pick him up when he is transformed into something that can't fight back" he ordered the others while flying away in his hoverboard, the two other bounty hunters look at each other, knowing full well that the hoverboard bounty hunter was wanting to cash in by himself. They let him go 'wait' while Kraab tries to adjust his systems and SixSix ready his weapons in preparation, meanwhile the Tennyson trio tried to move as fast as possible without the engine giving out
"They came out of nowhere, who are these people?" Diamond Head asked while holding his head with a hand, still hearing a faint buzzing from the Sonic attack of before.
"My best guess is that they came after your device, but the question still stands" Max came to the best conclusion he could with the current data, but the Rust Bucket begins to make some not so great sounds as smoke comes out from the engine
"That can't be good" Gwen comments as hitting that bounty hunter probably damaged the vehicle more than initially thought.
"Hopefully I get Upgrade before any of those guys catch up, we can't break down in the middle of the road" Diamond Head said as they were entering the ghost town Gwen had commented on before this whole ordeal started, upon stopping Max goes to check the engine, finding some pieces of metal from that Kraab's armor had gone through a few components.
"I can fix this in fifteen minutes, let's hope we get more than just that" the elder Tennyson commented as he slammed down the hood, rushing in to grab his tools. Suddenly the hoverboard bounty hunter flew over to Diamond Head, picking him up by his back spike and carrying him out of the ground. Spinning around to throw him against a building, worrying the other Tennysons watching this "Ben!"
"Billions of beings on this planet and the Omnitrix winds up on the wrist of a foolhardy youth." The bounty hunter grumbled as he approached the fallen Tennyson, clearly disappointed and even angry that something like a child would be wielding the device.
"Well, this thing doesn't come off. I've tried." Diamond Head told him while getting up, this guy was starting to get on his nerves.
"Of COURSE it doesn't. Its power utilizes alien DNA, which binds to the host's own genetic structure. It cannot simply be removed like - taking off a hat..." Tetrax explained and as he spoke, Diamond Head sneakily readied a blade and rushed to attack him. Hoverboard, with his back turned, expertly dodged and counterattacked with an uppercut that sent Diamond Head flying.
"I would say your choice of warriors is based solely on brute strength, but clearly you don't choose any of them." Hoverboard said, clearly the Omnitrix wielder was more concerned with physical might, but considering how he can't even control the transformations, he was a liability in combat to himself.
"You talk like I SHOULD be able to choose which alien to transform, but ever since this thing became attached to me, I have been changing non-stop!" Ben questioned the mysterious attacker
"Somehow you locked yourself into a transformation loop, I am surprised you even activated such a function by accident" the bounty hunter comments, as Ben rushed in with both arms transformed into spikes. However, the bounty hunter easily stepped to the side while pushing down Ben's right arm attempting to stab him with his left arm, which he then used to backhand him, knocking him back a few steps.
"You were moments away from losing your life," He told the boy, using his left arm again to deflect Diamondhead's left arm stab "- and the Omnitrix." He added, raising his left arm again and deflecting the Petrosapien's right arm stab, pushing his left arm aside when he attempted another stab, finally shoving his face to knock him back.
"Victory should've been swift and effortless." He continued to lecture, deflecting yet another simple left hand stab with his right hand, uppercutting Diamondhead with his left hand, knocking him back. He came in for another right hand stab, but a one-inch punch from the bounty hunter's left hand sent him to the ground. "The Omnitrix is not some toy for your amusement. It's the most powerful weapon in the galaxy. The key to an epic battle between good and evil." The masked mercenary told him.
"Then whose side are you on?" Diamond Head asked.
"...You're still alive, aren't you?" The bounty hunter said simply, which made Ben blink for a moment.
"You're a good guy?!" The crystalline creature questioned in disbelief, then why would this guy be fighting him if he's with the heroes?
"My mission is to retrieve the Omnitrix at all costs. Since it is attached to you, I will bring you back for its removal." The hoverboard bounty hunter told him, planning on finding the Omnitrix's creator to ensure it would be in safe hands, having the watch for himself was tempting, but Tetrax didn't trust himself with such responsibility after what he has done...
"Oh, no. I'm not going anywhere with you." Ben refused as he raised his fist together into a boxing position.
"It's not your choice." The Petrosapien told him, not even reading himself in a combat position as he didn't think the kid had it in him.
"It is now...!" Diamondhead declared, before tackling him, causing him to drop his folded-up hoverboard. He grabbed Diamondhead by the face and threw him off, getting back up.
"It's disturbing how little you know of this alien's strengths and weaknesses. You barely scratched the surface of its potential!" The hoverboard bounty hunter continued to lecture.
"Yeah? So what makes you such an expert?" Diamondhead asked, slowly getting back to his feet.
The bounty hunter's helmet slid open and revealed a face almost identical to Diamondhead's, although his crystals have a more bluish hue and he had green eyes. It was another Petrosapien.
"You're... Me!" Diamondhead was shocked, this was the first time he met someone else of the same species as one of his transformations.
"Wrong. I am a noble warrior, you are an impulsive annoyance!" Tetrax told him, thinking little of the kid. Suddenly, the Omnitrix timed out his transformation as Ben transformed into a different one, but this was a new face compared to normal... It seemed like he transformed into SixSix's species!
Ben's transformation and SixSix looked exactly the same except his jumpsuit is now a white color, the black highlights are now darker, and the silver armor plating has a lighter tint to them too. Most of his pouches are smaller and the ones on his shoulders are more angular. The pikes on his shoulders became shorter and wider. The chest of his jumpsuit, jet pack, and claws are a silver color. His helmet had the Omnitrix hourglass symbol instead of the same pattern as SixSix visor, being of green in color instead of pink, the Omnitrix symbol was in his belt buckle
Ben looked at the form momentarily in surprise, this was a first, the kid thought the ten transformations he already had would be the only ones, but it seems he got a gift from that jetpack bounty hunter. Clinching his fist Ben pounces at Tetrax once again, dodging better as the transformation gave him enhanced agility, but that wouldn't compensate for all the experience Tetrax had over him.
"We have wasted enough time." The Petrosapien said, delivering a clean punch to the stomach that takes the air out of the Sotoraggian, lifting Ben up by the front of his armor's collar.
Tetrax looked for the dropped hoverboard, but it had disappeared. Kraab suddenly walked out from behind a building, hoverboard in hand.
"Looking for THIS?! You're not getting off this planet with the Omnitrix. And just to be sure..." The Piscciss Premann declared, looking off to the side, where SixSix then appeared, holding Gwen and Max.
"Hands off!" Max snapped
"Let me go!" Gwen cried out.
"See, we've decided to work together! And split the reward - and you, in half!" Kraab declared,clamping his claw while Ben was left slack-jawed under his mask.
The two groups were left in a standoff in the setting sun. Tetrax continued to hold Ben who was trying to get off his grip and save his family, while SixSix held weapons to Max and Gwen's faces, briefly tilting his head upon seeing Ben's transformation into the same species as the bounty hunter.
Kraab made the first move, shooting beams at Tetrax. However, the Petrosapien blocked them with his back, shielding Ben. He then fled into a house and dropped Ben inside, who looked up to see Tetrax shielding against Kraab's heavy fire by simply standing.
SixSix snapped at Kraab in his alien language, likely berating him for risking damage to the Omnitrix. "Don't blow a gasket, 'metal-mouth', I know what I'm doing!" The Piscciss Premann snapped back.
Inside, Ben turned frantically to Tetrax. Speaking in the same language as SixSix, but a robotic voice filter translates it to "What are we waiting for? We've gotta save them!"
"Don't be foolish. Keeping the Omnitrix secure is the only priority here."Tetrax told the boy, holding him by the collar again.
"Not to me. That's my family!" He declared while pointing to himself with his thumb, despite the emotionless mask, determination could be seen from his eyes.
"You cannot save them. You would soon be overpowered and captured, right now you're transformed into a species you barely know while another more experienced member of that race is on the offensive. The obvious choice is for me to retrieve my hoverboard, so that we may leave the planet." Tetrax tried to reason with the child, showing why saving his family was too much of a risk for him to take, with how he never even saw a Sotoraggian before today, what hope did the kid have to battle another? It was best to retrieve themselves into a safer location, lose the track of those other bounty hunters.
"But-" Ben tried to argue, but was interrupted when the crystal alien brought him closer to look eye to eye.
"Stay here." Tetrax ordered,putting Ben down and running out the door. The kid is irritated, but then notices the pockets in his armor and decides to see what type of 'heat' he was carrying
Tetrax leapt through the smoke of Kraab's fire and launched a volley of crystals that flew past Kraab, pelting SixSix's body, only bouncing off his armor, but still packing enough punch to knock him to the ground.Kraab saw this and turned around, seeing Tetrax rushing in, leaping right towards him. He swung his claw at the Petrosapien, but Tetrax leaned forward and extending his legs to be in a diving position, passing over the claw harmlessly and snatching his hoverboard out of Kraab's hand.
He opened the board and flew away to avoid blasts from the now-recovered SixSix. He circled back and leapt off the board, his heavy crystalline body rapidly plummeting towards the ground. Max, Gwen and Kraab wisely chose to run away, but Sixsix decided to continue shooting at the Petrosapien, right up to the point where he landed on the armored bounty hunter.
The cybernetic crab and the non-powered Tennysons took cover from the sizeable dust cloud created by the impact, while Tetrax grabbed Sixsix by the throat and lifted him out of the small crater created by his impact, knocking him back with a powerful right underhand punch to the stomach and left hook, sending him skidding across the ground. The Sotoraggian sat up and fired a rocket from his wrist, but Tetrax formed a large diamond construct to shield himself. Kraab dropped down behind the crystalline mercenary, swinging his claw at him, but the Petrosapien caught the large limb, using the momentum of the strike and his lowered position in the crater to pull the Piscciss Premann off balance and throw him over his shoulder.
Kraab ends up through the building Ben is hiding, getting up to see the kid taking out a pocket extension to his gun turning it into a laser rifle as he shoots, it was amusing how the kid tried to aim his shot, but when it did hit, Kraab could feel great pain from the gun's blast.
"You're mine!" The robotic crustacean jumped to smash Ben with his claw, the alien hero rolls out of the way as he takes out another smaller gun throwing it up in the air, an extra hand comes out from his shoulder to hold it. Ben tries to keep his distance from Kraab while shooting him down, this transformation gave him enhanced physical traits but he still felt that a good hit would make it over for him.
"You're not even on Sixsix's level, just an amateur pretending to know what those things do" Kraab fired his arm cannon as Ben did his best to dodge, trying to activate the jetpack by slamming his fist on the side of it, instead various metallic tentacles with plugs come out. Kraab was moving much faster than Ben could think a guy in so much armor could move, he stumbled his way out of a claw attack while putting the metallic tentacles away.
The fight goes outside as Kraab continues to get the advantage, Ben pulls out a brass knuckle with a electrical and hits in one of Kraab's exposed wires from his previous battle damage, this caused him to start stumbling around in pain as his arm joints spinning
Seeing that it worked, moved in to hit him again but the crustacean won't let that happen, with a big swing he laughs Ben away. The kid recovers rather well thanks to the armor, picking out a taser gun from his pocket and shooting right at the bounty hunter's chest. That caused Kraab's entire head to spin around, until he came to a stop... And fell to the ground, completely out of commission. "One down!" The alien hero declared proudly, storing his weapons back.
Tetrax and SixSix continued brawling, SixSix swiping his claw-like hands at Tetrax, who dodged and hit Sixsix with a left hook to the side, swinging a right haymaker to the Sotoraggian's head, but he dodged and grabbed Tetrax from behind, using his jetpack to fly him up in the air and suplex him into the ground.
Ben gasped as he noticed the Petrosapien's defeat, which allowed SixSix to spot him and aim his wrist-rockets at him.
However, Max quickly jumped on SixSix's back to throw his aim off. " Ben! Run!" He told his grandson, but SixSix threw Max to the ground and started menacingly spinning his circular saw close to his face.
"NO!" Gwen cried out in horror.
Thankfully, he was distracted when Ben took his shot. SixSix dodged it effortlessly, but wasn't fast enough for the follow up hook, the two begin exchanging fists for a moment before grappling where Ben hold a somewhat notable advantage even if small. Sixsix began revealing his small shoulder arms when the Omnitrix began beeping "Four arms would be great here"
Sixsix takes this moment to swing Ben off his feet and into the ground, aiming his laser gun at him before the explosion of energy blinds him, shooting as it happens... Only to find no corpse once the light dies down, he looked around from his sides and upwards, but not below his own feet as Ben had become Grey Matters
Ben begins climbing the bounty hunter's leg to get on his torso, but is noticed by the enemy "Hey there!" Grey Matter spoke as he did his best to dodge Sixsix's attempt to grab him.
Tetrax got up and saw SixSix fumbling with Grey Matter on him. " I told you to stay out of my way!" He snapped at the amphibian alien.
"Wonder what would happen if I did this!" Grey Matter declared, ripping wires in SixSix's armor. This caused Sixsix's jetpack to go haywire, making him take off and fly uncontrollably in several directions, before slamming into the supports of a water tower. The armored bounty hunter eventually dove to the ground, the thrust of the jetpack dragging him across it. He finally came to a stop right in front of Kraab, who was still on the floor.
Grey Matter then noticed the water tower's supports failing and the tower starting to teeter... right towards them. "I hate this planet..." Kraab grumbled as Grey Matter ran over him, before the tower came crashing down on the bounty hunters and burst open with water.
"Only one way to beat the desert heat, don't you think...?" Grey Matter said to Tetrax, who gave a small chuckle.
"Pretty smart... for a human." Tetrax rather backhandedly praised the boy, to which Grey Matter nodded.
Tetrax then used a device to deploy a small flying cube. It traveled to where Kraab and SixSix were laying, growing to engulf them, then shrinking back to its original size, shrinking them along with it.
Max and Gwen come closer to Grey Matter as he stays in his grandfather's shoulder until the next transformation, Tetrax placed the cube in his pocket. " I'll return as soon as I am able!" The Petrosapien told the boy.
"What about this?" Ben asked, turning around and pointing at the Omnitrix.
"It's in good hands until then." Tetrax assured him, prompting the small Galvan to smile, it seemed he earned the respect of the alien warrior.
"This may be of some use in the meantime." The Petrosapien offered as he handed his hoverboard to Ben.
"Oho, man! Are you serious?!" The boy asked in excitement, Grey Matter could barely hold the thing due to his size but it was surprisingly light to carry over his head. But he soon lowered the excitement when he remembered something. "Hold on... You said you needed this to get off the planet." He pointed out.
"Selective disinformation." Tetrax said simply.
"I see..." Grey Matters comments as Tetrax then took a few steps forward and pulled out a device from his belt, bringing his helmet back over his face and pressing the device, teleporting him away.
"How come you get all the cool alien stuff?" Gwen complained as she looked at the hoverboard.
"Fits my style." Ben said proudly, holding the hover board in his front now as he almost dropped it.
"Riiight... I have something for you too!" She said, before pouring sunscreen all over his head, getting back at him for when it happened to her earlier.
Back on the Chimeran Hammer, the Warlord and a android lieutenant watch a feed of Earth, a spec of light exiting the planet and shooting off into space. The Warlord realized in anger "Betrayed..."
"Sensors indicate the Omnitrix is not with the mercenaries." The android informed its master.
"It would appear the creature who possesses the Omnitrix - is as clever as it is fierce. But I shall not be denied." The Warlord declared through labored breathing.
[Author's notes]
Ben has unlocked his first new alien! I decided to go with Sixsix's species since they are one of my favorites, gave him armor and a few weapons for the sake of him being useful in combat, otherwise the transformation wouldn't have a lot going for it. Might add one more transformation in the Megawatt episode, which should be the next one.