Ben walked towards the summon slammers card sets and quickly realized a big problem with his wish of buying them, an earlier problem he forgot along the way.
"I have no money." Ben remembered.
He sighed like the idiot he is and started to think about his sudden change in behavior, I mean, he died as a teen in his past life, his mind is of a guy in his twenties, why the hell would he be interested in such game.
Specially given that he's both broke and on the run at the moment. Ben brainstormed for a while and reached a conclusion: Ben's original soul is influencing him.
He took over the body of a dead kid with all its memories, perhaps the merging of both souls would be the result of the current Ben Tennyson.
With that in mind, it isn't too farfetched to believe that the childish side of Ben was amazed by the cards for some reason. Either way, Ben decided to keep strolling around the store since he didn't have anything better to do and lost interest in the casino.
He was still going to enter it but not for now.
However, as soon as Ben was about to leave the store…
*CRASH*
A mother fricking giant mutated hamster bashed the store doors open and pushed Ben aside like a twig. Ben fortunately fell on the toilet paper and napkins section, which mitigated the fall damage.
"Fuck! That hurts!" Ben yelled as he then began to calm down a little over the initial impact.
Ben saw that someone was riding the mutated hamster and he immediately recognized him, Doctor Aloysius James Animo a madman of DNA mutation and also a guy whose appearance did a whole 180 from OS to AF-UA and changed back in OV.
Animo didn't waste time and began to browse through the store looking for whatever he needed for his latest invention.
"Freeze!" A guard yelled while aiming his gun at Animo.
Animo didn't say a word but his mutant frog immediately ate the guard.
"So rude, and when I'm shopping no less." Animo.
Ben hid himself below one of the food stands and prepared his Omnitrix.
"Original Ben wasn't charged due to him fooling around, let's see whom will I choose." Ben.
After some quick thinking, he made his choice.
*SHING*
Heatblast came out and blasted the frog with his fire.
"Sorry Kermit, no more guard eating for you." Heatblast.
"Who dares to stand in my way?! A piece of burnt rocks?" Animo.
"Can burnt rocks do this?" Heatblast.
He threw a shot of fire towards the frog, pushing it back as Animo stumbled back and fell.
"No? They can't? Allow me to burn that dumb hat off your head." Heatblast.
He charged a fireball to just knock and burn the headpiece off of Animo.
Animo noticed some pet animals trapped in their cages behind Heatblast and smirked. He quickly shot a beam from his Transmodulator and Heatblast avoided it, only to realize the mistake he made.
The animals behind him, a hamster, parrot and ferret, began to mutate and grew larger in size. Heatblast blasted them before their transformation was completed but he only managed to throw them outside the store.
As the animas began to rampage in the parking lot, Heatblast shot out off the store and began to subdue them, all while leaving Animo alone in the store.
If you wonder why, there are civilians in the parking lot since human beings are shortsighted when danger is involved.
Heatblast began to contain the mutant hamster and ferret with fire circles around them but the parrot was flying and that made it somewhat difficult for Heatblast to shoot it down.
Heatblast aimed his arm in a finger pistol position and began charging a fire blast towards the mutant parrot.
"Steady… steady… steady..." Heatblast.
*CRASH*
Just as he was about to shoot, Animo tackled him with his mutant frog and sends him crashing towards a concrete wall. Heatblast looked back at him as Animo carries his components.
"Wretched burnt rock! You cannot stop me! I will turn Washington D.C. into "Washington B.C."!" Animo.
Animo call for his mutant parrot and jumps unto it then, he flies off with him through a sky light, the frog following after.
Heatblast didn't wanted to let Animo escape with another mutated animal so he immediately went for the frog since the parrot was out of reach. He began to bombard the frog with various fire shots until the frog began to spit mucus from its mouth.
Heatblast then gets an idea and dashes towards the frog, the mucus barrage didn't stop but Heatblast evaded the shots rapidly. As the frog prepared for another big shot of mucus, Heatblast jumped towards the frog while spinning and using his head flames.
The mutated frog shot the mucus towards Heatblast but he had already increased his flames' temperatures. With the increase, Heatblast evaporated the mucus and entered the frog's mouth.
1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds, the frog began to bloat a little until it deflated with smoke coming out of his mouth and then fainted, Heatblast came out of its mouth shortly after.
""Defeat a giant monster from the inside I said", "it will be cool" I said, well, I smell like rotten water and a certain white-yellowish substance, which I'm not allowed to say, eww." Heatblast.
He raised his flames again, destroying the mucus and the smell.
"E-excuse me."
The store clerk walked towards Heatblast.
"I don't have a bank account so, don't ask me to pay for any of it, if something take it from that guy from earlier." Heatblast.
"N-no! I just wanted to say, thank you for saving the store! If there's anything I can do to repay you...anything you want!" The store clerk said eagerly.
"Nah, something tells me you're gonna need that money to remodel the store anyway." Heatblast pointed at the store's entrance.
*BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP*
Heatblast's chest began to sparkle red.
"Opps, gotta go, bye!" Heatblast.
He jumped with a fiery impulse and flew upwards towards Animo's direction.
(Moments later.)
After landing in a rooftop and sneaking his way out of sight, Ben returns to the Rustbucket with no money whatsoever.
"Well, shit. I could've asked for some free stuff but I just had to be the better man. Whatever, it's not like there's people judging my every move and action, right?" Ben.
(Right, Readers?)
Ben sighed and immediately took off towards the Natural History Museum.
Once he arrived, he immediately transformed into Heatblast and entered the museum. He saw various boxes from the supermarket empty on the floor and soon after, saw Animo standing on the second floor looking down on Ben.
"You - are very persistent. I HATE persistent." Animo.
"Is that what your Ex Girlfriend told you?" Heatblast.
Animo lets out a small angry grunt.
"Anyway, doing this just for a fricking trophy is pretty dumb, give up now and I promise I won't punch you." Heatblast.
"Give up? But my experiment has only just begun...! See, I only needed a few components to push my work into phase two: the reanimation of dormant cells." Animo.
'Man, I don't get how OG Ben didn't understand this dialog, it was pretty self-explanatory.' Ben thought.
He shot a fireball towards Animo but he pressed a switch on his belt. A fireproof glass appeared in front of him and protected him.
"An eager one, aren't you?" Animo.
"I tend to skip over known dialog." Heatblast.
"Regardless! Now's the time to bring the breathing life back into that which has been long since lifeless. Observe!" Animo.
Animo turns the dial twice, his Transmodulator shoots beams into the skeleton of a mammoth. The skeleton begins to shake as muscle tissue and blood vessels begin to grow on the bones, bringing the mammoth back to "life". It lets out an angry trumpet as it stomps down from its pedestal and rushes towards Heatblast.
"Behold the genius that is Dr. Animo!" Animo declares as he escapes the scene.
Heatblast looks at the humungous reanimated animal and sighs.
"Its moments like this when a groupie is handy. Speaking of "handy."" Ben.
He pressed the Omnitrix on his chest and changed form. His body grew larger as crystal shards began to cover him, the crystals break, revealing a much shinier entity from within, Heatblast changed into Diamondhead.
"Ok… I wanted Four Arms but, I think this'll be easier." Diamondhead.
The mammoth charges towards Diamondhead and he crouches while touching the floor, a large crystal emerges from below Diamondhead and throws him upwards, helping him evade the mammoth's rush.
Diamondhead begins to shoot various crystals with his arm but notices that not many manage to harm the mammoth at all.
'Hmm… only a handful stuck to it, and it weren't even that many. Guess I'll do this the hard way.' Diamondhead changed his left arm into a thin pointy needle.
The mammoth charged once again towards Diamondhead, trying to smash him with its trunk. Diamondhead prepared himself to dodge at the last moment and just as the mammoth was about to smack him with his trunk, Diamondhead dodged left and pierced the Mammoth's kneecap with his needle arm.
The mammoth shrieks in pain but Diamondhead doesn't stop there, he presses his hand against the floor, guiding crystals to the injured leg and traps it. the mammoth struggles to destroy the crystals but Diamondhead strikes another knee with his needle arm.
The process repeats itself for the remaining knees and Diamondhead watches the mammoth failing to get up again.
"The destruction of the collateral ligaments can be fatal for the motor functions in human's knees. Since you have four of them, I wondered if it would work." Diamondhead.
The mammoth tries to swat him away with its trunk but Diamondhead is out of reach.
"Yeah, it's a bit cruel, but you are a zombie, and no one gives a fuck about them, except the weirdos who WANT to fuck them. But that's a separate problem." Diamondhead.
He touches the ground once again and pushes a large number of crystals into a single spot, the mammoths' soft belly. As the underground crystals emerged, the entire middle section of the mammoth gets pierced and leaves it split apart, slowly losing its reanimated "life".
Diamondhead stood there for a second before changing into XLR8 and dashed out of the museum.
'Wow, Ben 10's aliens are more OP than I thought, the show really downgrades them.' XLR8 thought.
He looked up and saw Animo on top of his mutated parrot flying through the air. Animo heard an unusual swishing sound and looked back, his eyes narrowed at XLR8's figure running through the streets.
"Why you…! Thankfully I took the necessary precautions for a situation like this." Animo.
He took small bombs from his bag and began to throw them towards the streets. As the first one exploded, XLR8 immediately rushed towards the others to prevent a catastrophe. He parried each bomb and threw them upwards, mitigating the damage to the streets.
Just as XLR8 was about to resume his dash…
*BEEP* *BEEP* *BOOP* *BOOP*
'Aww… God FUCKING DAMMIT!!!' XLR8 cursed as he made its way to an alley.
*BOOOOOOOP*
With a flash of red, XLR8 returned to being Ben. He does some parkour in the alley to reach the rooftop of a building and manages to see Animo flying in the distance.
With no more options left, Ben takes his mask out of his jacket and wears it to hide his face, he then begins making his way towards Animo on foot through the roofs.
'Not to self: Make one of those devices that make the car drive itself towards my location.' Ben.
Just as Ben began hopping from one building to another, he hears yells from the streets. When he looks back, he sees a stampede of dinosaurs running and rampaging through the streets but still running towards the direction Animo left.
This surprised Ben since Animo was supposed to leave with his Tyrannosaurus Rex and the parrot attacked Max and Gwen, however, since Ben was alone, no one was pressing Animo's shoes, giving him time to accomplish his follow-up.
He made small timed devices that would link themselves with the Transmodulator in Animo's head, allowing him to remotely reanimate any living organism. But Ben didn't know that, since he couldn't do much, he decided to keep following the trail left from the dinosaurs.
'Where in the fuck are this world's heroes?!' Ben.
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So, yeah.
I managed to move my ass off since many said this was being dropped, WHICH ISN'T!!!
I just felt pretty uninspired after all my shit dissapeared thanks to this bitch of a computer. Anyway, I'll update this when I want since my inspiration cycle is currently shifting between Pokémon, Beyblade, One Piece and Naruto.
Hope you enjoy and don't Voodoo me too hard, it's been a bad year for me.