Chapter 6 - Red is the color of bros
Prologue
A dimly lit bar is sitting empty and quietly somewhere. The bar is full of colorful bottles. The bar's wall are made from bricks, and hanging from one of the wall, is a torn All Might poster. Next to the poster, is a large monitor on a table. The only sound in the bar, is the buzzing of the lights. Until a cloud of mist begins to form in the middle of the room, as the cloud grows large.
The mist reforms into a humanoid, and two yellow eyes form. Kurogiri stands tall, as two other people fall out of his misty body. Shigaraki curls up into a fetal position, as he lies in a pool of his own blood. Rojo follows suit, as she lies weakly in her bulky armor. Her thumb and Index finger begin to shift, as cables and thin rods of metall extends the length of them, forming small hook on both ends. She plunges her fingers into the wound in her elbow, and extracts the bullet lodged in her flesh.
"That f*ckin sucked..." She whines, as Shigaraki looks up at the monitor above him.
"Master... we failed... I'm sorry..." Shigaraki says weakly to the one watching them through the screen.
"It's fine, my dear prodogy!" The voice says with a calm voice. "As long as you learned something from this..."
Shigaraki looks up at the monitor. "I did learn something... that U.A. studens are overpowered!" Shigaraki says spitefully. "One brat had a quirk that seemed like All Might's... and another one had some bullshit transformation quirk! I don't know what kind of cheat code he had to get that kind of power!" He roars in fury, as he limps over to a bar stool.
"Hmm... what was so special about it?" The monitor asks with intrigue.
"He had multiple forms! One was some weird tech manipulator, while another one had the ability to generate and manipulate some weird crystal! And then there was that disgusting bug!" Shigaraki growls, as he gets onto his stool.
"Oh, he has way more than that..." Rojo says as she sits down next to Shigaraki. "Hey, whisper! Get me shot of whisky, will ya'?!" She says to Kurogiri, who picks up a bottle of whisky and pours a shot for her.
Shigaraki turns to her with suspicion. "Didn't you say you knew the brat earlier?" Rojo puts her glass to her mouth as she chugs its contents. She sighs.
"Well... it's a long story... bring me the bottle, grape-vape!" Kurogiri narrows his eyes in response to the nickname, but brings her the bottle anyway. "I hope you've got something to eat, monitor-man, cuz this is gonna take a while!" She says as she fills up another shot.
Chapter 6
Red is the color of bros
Ben opens his eyes weakly. As he gets up, he's blinded by the sun's bright rays. He rubs his eyes and sees a large window, letting light into the room. He looks around and finds that the room is familiar. The front of the room seems like a car, with a steering wheel and chairs. Infront of him is a table, with two sofas. The floor is carpeted with red colors. The walls are yellowish, with a bunk bed in the back of the room. Along the walls are wardrobes, cabinets, and kitchen furniture...
"Is this... the rust bucket?" The RV that Ben traveled the country in during summer vacation. The summer when... "I got the Omnitrix..." Ben opens the door to RV, and steps outside. The car is parked infront of a large building, with a large sign on top, with blinking lights saying: 'The Biggie Box'
Ben looks around, and sees a large parking lot, with many cars parked around him. "Seems popular." He looks back at the store, and sees something that catches his attention. "No way..." He sees a trio of people walking towards the store. One of them is an orange-haired girl, with a blue shirt, while another one is an elderly man with a red hawaiian shirt, and the last one is a male brunette, with green eyes, with an odd device strapped to his wrist. "Don't tell me I'm in the past!"
Before he can reflect on it further, someone passes through him. A person just walked through him somehow. Ben pats his body hysterically. "Or... is this some kind of dream, flashback, magic thing?" Ben looks around, as he follows the person, and tries to touch them, but his hand just passes through them. "Definitely some kind of dream flashback..." Ben walks through the person, and sees his past self, along with Max and Gwen, enter the building. "I'm guessing I should keep up with them!" Ben runs forwards, as he follows his past family into the building.
As he enters, he sees somethign incredible. The building is some kind of mega store, with a seemigly endless size, with thousands of aisles spanning into the distance. "Hey... I remember this place! We came back here pretty often. The biggest store in America." He looks back at the trio, who seem to have split up. "Max went for the exotic food aisle, while Gwen went for the anime aisle... and I went for the-"
"SUMO SLAMMERS!" Past Ben shout as he rushes through the aisles.
"Slow down mini me!" Ben runs after his 10-year old self, who's exceptionally fast for his size. The little guy glides to a stop, as he leaps into an aisle. Ben slows down as well, and follows himself. He looks around, and sees that the whole aisle is devoted to displaying Sumo Slammers, which is a franchise about a team of super powered sumo fighters, who live in a steampunk-styled japanese world, fighting the evil shapeshifter: Kenko, and his army of evil sumo bots. Action figures, plushies, video games, shirts, toy sets, collectibles, trading cards, magazines, cereals, snacks and comics.
Suma Slammers was Ben's favourite thing as a kid, only rivaled by Chilly Fries. Hell, he still loves Sumo SLammers. An aisle like this, was bringing tears to Ben's eyes. Lil' Ben immediately grabs a video game box. On the front, is a graphic of a mighty Sumo fighter, cocking his arm back to punch a large samurai, wearing a japanese kasa, with an eye on it. Above them is the text: 'SUMO SLAMMERS IV: Revived'
"Heh, I remember that. Finished it within like a week!" Ben reminisces, as his little self jumps around happily. Little Ben immediately runs out of the aisle. Our U.A. students follows, as he looks at the kid rush towards the checkout. As he follows, something catches his attention. He looks to his left, and sees a trio of women putting on some bizarre gear. All of them have some kind of biker uniforms, with black leather jackets. They also have large golf bags hanging from their shoulders, and they're wearing gray jeans and biker helmets, with some odd tech attached to their clothes. One of them has blue hair and dark skin, while another is caucasian, with yellow hair. And the last one, has maroon hair, pale skin and black lips.
"Rojo..." Ben says. He walks into the aisle, and watches them press a button on an exposed circuit-board, atteched to their jackets, as their biker helmet's visors go black, masking their identities.
"Alright, there we are." Rojo says, her voice now being warped using a voice filter. "Let's do this." She says as she walks out of the aisle. She reaches behind her back, and pulls out a large weapon from her golf bag. It's bulky, and long, like a rifal, but bulky and rectangular. It's made out of some shiny metal. The front has a toothy grin drawn onto it, resembling that of a shark's maw. She turns to the blue-haired one, who we'll refer to as Azul from now on, and nods. Azul pulls out a syringe from their jacket, and throws it over to Rojo.
Rojo plunges it into their neck. The syringe's contents enter her bloodstream. She puts a hand to her neck, as her blood vesels begin to bloat. She reaches her hand into the air. Suddenly, the buildings lights begin to flicker and die out. She then points her palm towards the exit, as a loud clanking noice is heard in the distance. The exit to the store is blocked, as large metal shutters lower themselves, closing off the exit.
People look around worriedly, as people gather around the exit. Suddenly, the speaker system activates, as everyone is deafened by the acoustic feedback. As the squeal quiets down, a mighty voice echoes through the building. "Step away from the exit now! You are all now my hostages! If you don't step away from the exit, I'll kill you!" She screams hysterically. Everyone backs away from the exit hastily. Rojo walks towards the exit, as she lifts her large rifal, followed by her compadres.
Ben walks past the villains, and towards the exit. "There I am." Ben looks at the crowd, as he sees a small boy mess with his watch. He looks around, as he sneaks away from the crowd, and hides behins a counter. Rojo looks at the crowd, as her yellow haired partner, who we'll called Amarillo, hands Rojo a bizarre device, which resembles a high-tech phone. She puts the device to her ear as she speaks up.
"Police? Good. I'm currently located in the Biggie Box. I have locked up the entire building. Every person in here is now my hostage, and if I don't have 3 million dollars in 2 hours, I'll kill each and every one of them! I won't hesitate to blast their heads off." She immediately hangs up, and drops the device to the ground, before crushing it under her steel-toe boot.
She walks towards the exit, and aims her weapon at the crows. "Get on the ground!" She shouts, as her partners, retrieve their own weapons. Everyone crouches down, hoping she won't shoot them. Before Rojo can do or say anything else, something jumps out from behind the counter, and bites down on her weapon, pulling it away from her. The thing throws his head to the side, spitting out the weapon, letting it glide out of the villain's reach. The other two villains try to shoot the thing, but it jumps into the air, and as it lands, it grabs the villains, slamming their heads into the ground.
Rojo jumps onto the beast's back, grabbing it in a chokehold. The thing is beast-like, with orange fur, no eyes, gill-like sensors on its neck and the omnitrix symbol imbedded on its body. It's Wildmutt! Wildmutt begins to jump around, trying to throw her off his back. He jumps onto a shelf filled with napkins and other paper-product, and climbs to the top. He flings his body back and fourth, still gripping onto the shelf. Rojo holds on, having wrapped her legs around his weist, refusing to fall.
Wildmutt roars, as he jumps from the shelf, aiming his back towards the ground, planning to crush Rojo under his weight. She realizes, and jumps from his back, landing on the ground with a somersault. She gets up quickly, as the beast lands on the ground. It whines as it strokes its back. It gets back on its four feet, and growls at Rojo. She backs away from him, as she looks around. She sees her weapon, as she reaches her arm forwards. The weapon gravitates towards her, but Wildmutt pins the rifal to the ground by putting his paw onto it.
Wildmutt pucks up the machine, holding onto it with his hand-like paw. He crushes the weapon with his mighty hand, as he growls, drool running from his mouth. Rojo looks aroud. She looks up, and spots the many deactivated lights hanging from the ceiling. She pulls the lamps towards the ground, as ceiling lights begins to fall towards the ground. Wildmutt growls, as he jumps around to avoid the shower of glass and plastic.
Rojo turns around, and begins runs off. Wildmutt tries to follow, but a light crashes into his head, stunning him momentarily. Rojo runs through the aisles, looking around. She passes many confused, worried and crying patrons. As she runs, she hears a loud banging sound. The sound of stuff hiting the ground, screaming and roaring. She turns around, and sees Wildmutt jump from shelf to shelf, trying to catch up. She continues to run, with a scowl on her face. She narrows her eyes, and sees something that brings a smile to her face. The fire exit!
Suddenly, Wildmutt tackles her, pinning her to a wall. She looks at the beast, as his large tusk-like teeth poke at her face. His chunky, porage-like drool drips down his lip, as she recoils from his horrid breath. He growls at the villain, as he grabs Rojo's helmet, ripping it off her head, as he crushes it in his maw. He spits it out as he holds her up by the collar, as he jumps onto another shelf. He begins jumping from them again, hoping from shelf to shelf. After more then a minute of running, he finds what he was looking for.
He grabs a long metal chain, and wraps it around her torso and arms, restraining her. He jumps down from the shelf and puts her down on the ground in a sitting position, as he ties another chain to her, which he wraps around a nearby pipe. Teenage Ben looks on from the side. "Okay... she was just tied up... so that means in... three... two... one..." Suddenly, a powerful explosion rocks the building, as a large hole is blasted through the ceiling.
Everyone in the building scream, as large disk-like robots fly in through the ceiling. They're orange in color, with a red core on the bottom. They kind of look like fun-sized UFOs, or a metallic frisbee. There are three of them, each of them slowing to a stop nearby Wildmutt. Suddenly, parts of their bodies pop out, revealing their red insides and shiny circuitry. Now, it more resembles a spinning top. The machines spin their visors around, until they spot Wildmutt.
'Omnitrix located... Engage!' Suddenly, from their insides, matallic, pinsir-like and insectoid arms pop out, and takes aim at the mutt. Wildmutt immediately responds by jumping into the air. The bot's arms glow and jerk, as a jolt of red energy blasts apart a nearby shelf, sending burnt wood and groceries in all directions. Wildmutt climbs up a non-damaged shelf, and jumps into the air, reaching for one of the robots. It responds by blasting Wildmutt in the face with a laser, making the beast flinch. Instead of shreading the bot infront of it, he lands on another drone underneath him.
He shakes off his pain, and immediately gets to work. He grabs at one of the drone's arms, and rips it clean up. He then digs his large teeth into the bot, making it spark and jerk, as it crashes to the ground, but before that, Wildmutt jumps into the air, crashing into a shelf, making it topple over. Wildmutt digs his claws into it to not fall off of it. As the shelf crashes into the ground, it is smashed to pieces.
Another laser is shot at him, but he jumps backwards, letting the beam blast apart the pile of damaged wood. Wildmutt runs towards the wall where Rojo is stuck, as he jumps onto it, climbing upwards, using the pipes as a sort of ladder. As another drone prepares to shoot the alien, he jumps off of the wall, tackling one of the bots out of the air, as it crashes into the ground. Wildmutt slides to a stop, as he cleans out the ash in his fur. He looks up at the last drone.
It jerks, as its body closses up again, regaining its disk-like appearance. Suddenly, energy-based blades pop out of the drone's sides. It begins to spin, spin and spin, speeding up, creating a barely visible vortex, sucking in dust, stones, ash, smoke and much more into its windy pull. The thing shoots out, flying at Wildmutt, planning to slice apart the dog, who doesn't move. Instead, he stands still, just as the thing is about to cut open his skull. Wildmutt side-steps in the literal last second, slamming his fist into the top of the drone, slamming it into the ground.'
The machine jerks, trying to take off once more, but Wildmutt stomps a hole through the machine. The beast smiles, as he barks happily. He turns away from the pile of orange scrap, as he begins tearing away and kicking apart the remains of the beast with his back-legs, like a normal dog digging up dirt after peeing.
*Beep* *Beep* *Beep*
A bright flash of red light absorbs Wildmutt's body, reverting him into his human form. "Just in time!" Ben says, as he puts his fists to his waist.
"A KID?!" Ben turns around, seeing a furious Rojo. "I was beaten... BY A KID?!"
Ben suddenly jerks. "A girl?! I attacked... A GIRL?!" Rojo frowns at the boys remark.
Suddenly, a pair of footsteps are heard, as Max and Gwen arrive, Max carrying Rojo's, Amarillo's and Azul's weapons under his arms. Max looks at the chained up woman. "So you took care of it Ben?"
Ben nods. "Yeah... but I feel kinda bad for hitting a girl..." Bens says as he rubs his arm. Gwen raises an eyebrow at this.
"What about me?" She asks, which makes Ben grin.
"You're not a girl... you're a dweeb!" Ben says snarkily.
"Well, you're a doofus!"
"Book worm!"
"Freak!"
They look at each other with narrowed eyes, before breaking into laughter, making Max snicker, and making Rojo roll her eyes. Max looks at the kids. "Now then, shall we go?" Max says, as he walks towards the fire exit. Ben and Gwen look at each other confused.
"Where are you going Grandpa?" Ben and Gwen follow close behind.
"I'm leaving these babies out back, so we can pick them up later." Ben and Gwen are even more confused now. "These things are... a bit much... I need to study them..."
"Damn gramps... you were real good at hiding your secret." Teenage Ben says sarcastically. He turns to Rojo, who's trying to free herself from her chains, but failing miserably. She lowers her head in defeat. Suddenly, she hears an odd whirring. She looks up, and sees one of the destroyed bots moving. It's shaking and whirring. An odd tendril with three claw-like potrutions, slides out of its damaged carapace. It begins using it to pull itself forwards. It crawls towards Rojo, as a damaged sensor is pointed at her.
'Enacting Project Bio-Mech' The thing draws closer to Rojo, who begins to panic, kicking her feet in the bot's direction, hoping to get it away from her or scare it, but it doesn't show any signs of slowing down. It finally gets withing kicking distance, as she tries to crush it under her boot, but it catches her leg with its tendril. The thing snakes along her leg, restraining it. She tries to crush it with her opposite leg, but anither tendril shoots out and grabs it too. Suddenly, a third tendril shoots out, stabbing into her neck.
She gasps for air, as its three spindly claws stabs into her neck, drawing blood. She cries out in pain. The machine jerks, as its carapace begins to deteriorate and rust away. The machine's whirring dies down, as its insides begin to rot away as well. The machine jerks and shakes. Rojo screams, as her skin around the tendril moves and blisters, becoming red. The infection spreads to her head, then her torso. Her skin turns a lightish red, as her body grows mildly.
Her arms begin to turn red as well, as metallic blades tear though her flesh, sticking out of her elbows. Her fingers jerk, as the bones crack, and her nails break off, as long metallic claws grow out of her fingertips. Her leather jacket is torn apart, as the chains tied around her torso is shattered, freeing the villain. She stands tall. Her top is still intact, thankfully, along with her pants, but her shoes have been torn apart, revealing a bulky pair of feet, with sharp, metallic nails in place of toes.
Her shoulders and eyes are replaced with glowing, red, bubble-like protrusions, with its contents resembling the liquids in a lavalamp. She looks down at her disformed, robotic body. The robot that was once connected to her body, is now only a pile of dust and rust. She grins maniacally. "Looks like I got an upgrade." She turns to look at the fire exit. "Finally! It's payday!"
A thin, small figure stands before a massive, cylindrical, pipe, filled with a yellow liquid, and long cables, leading downwards, out of view. The cables are littered with tick-like robots, crawling along the cables, to reach whatever they're connected to. The figure before the pipe has white skin. His eyes a pitch-black eyes, with glowing red pupils. His face is covered with black markings, giving his face a skeleton-like appearence. On the top of his head, is a large fin-like protrusion.
He wears a black, skin-tight, sleeveless robe, with gray marking resembling ribs on it. On his chest is an odd control panel covered with red buttons. He also wears a pair of long, fingerless gloves, also having their own pair of control panels on them. "Master Vilgax..." As he speaks, a mighty clanking sound is heard from the pipe, as the cables move upwards, lifting something into view.
"Report." A raspy and harsh voice echoes from the pipe. The one connected to the cables is an odd creature. His appearence is odd, like if two different creatures were sewn together. He has the head of an octopus, with a beard made from tentacles, but he also seems to have a humanoid body, but it is very damaged. His left arm is torn to shreads, with everything under the elbow missing. He doesn't have anything under the waist besides shreads of flesh. And his eyes are blood red. His body is covered with those lice things, as their mostly cluster around his wounds, spitting up some weaird gunk, while blowtorching it, burning the gunk into his flesh. And finally, he wears a respirator over his mouth.
"Well... master... It seems thet the drones were destroyed by a Vulpimancer..." The skeletal man says. "But, it seems that one of the drones has succesfully performed Project Bio-Mech!" The squid-guy responds by raising an eyebrow.
"Really now?" The squid, or Vilgax, strokes his beard-like tentacles. "Hmm..." He narrows his eyes. "What drone was it?"
The skeletal fellow presses a button on his glove, as a red hologram is generated from it. "A mecha droid... #69..."
"I see..." He scratches the side of his face. "Leave me!"
"Of cource, master..." He turns around and wanders into the darkness, and out of the room. Vilgax closes his eyes, and concentrates, as he activates his power.
The Rust Bucket drives along the highway, with Gwen and Ben sitting by the table, while Max takes care of the driving. Teenage Ben looks through the fridge, until he finds an ice cream tub. "Good thing I can touch everything besides people, cuz I'm starving." He digs up a spoon, as he cracks open the tub of Mr. Smoothies: Ben and Jerry Ice Cream. Little Ben and Gwen are inpecting Rojo and her partner's weapons.
"Have you figured out who that criminal is?" Gwen asks, as a small monitor, hanging from above the windshield, displays some kind of code.
"Eh... yeah! I think I got something." He presses a button, and a picture of Rojo appears. "She's a low-level thug, called Rojo. She has a technopathic quirk, called Techno. It allows her to warp and controll machinery, as long as she's making direct contact with it."
"Then how come she was capable of making lights crash from the ceiling, and mess with the lights and other stuff?" Lil' Ben asks.
"She probably used Trigger."
"What?"
"It's a drug, that can power up someones quirk. Sadly, it has negativ effects on people's psyche and health."
"Hmm... sooo... why did we take these things with us?" Ben asks Max.
"Those devices are way too advanced to be left behind. I've been a pro longer then I can remember, and I've never seen anything like that before..." 'At least not on earth...'
"So what are we going to do with 'em?" Gwen asks Max.
"We are going to track down whoever produced and, or, sold them." He says.
Ben lifts up Rojo's gun, and spins it around, trying to find something of interest. Suddenly he finds something. "Hey, do you think this can help?" Ben says as he points at an odd mark placed on the weapon's lower side. The symbol resembles an exaggerated skull, with a thick red outline.
Max looks at it, as he scratches his chin. "That looks familiar..." Suddenly, Max realizes something, as he taps a few buttons on the monitor. Suddenly, a large page of information appears. "That is Fistrick's calling card..." Before the kids have a time to ask, he continues. "He's a villain I faced a few years back. He has a very powerful quirk, that gives him enhanced regeneration, durability and strength. It's called Bro Fist. Stupid, I know..."
"That's an incredible quirk!" Gwen says dumbfounded.
Ben grins confidently. "Not as incredible as mine!" Ben says as he points a thumb towards himself.
"Your quirk is a watch!" Gwen says snarkily.
Ben frowns, as Max shakes his head tiredly. "I think we should head over there, and check things out."
Ben and Gwen nod, as the invisible teenager continues to scavenge through their fridge. "Oh! pickles!"
Rojo kicks the banker to the ground. "Where is the vault!" She screams with an inhuman, robotic voice. The man points towards the door behind her, making her grin. The red blobs on her shoulders pop out, and take aim towards the door, blasting it apart, along a large chunk of the wall. She walks through the destroyed doorway, finding a large hallway. She blasts apart a chunk of another wall. She runs through the wall, finding a final room, with a nearby wall being decorated by a vault door.
"There you are." She aims both of her shoulder blobs, blasting the door off its hinges. She wanders into the vault, as she inspects her prize. Hundreds of hatches, each and every one of them being full of valuables. She wanders up to a shelf, and rips open one of the hatches, finding a bunch of stacked money. She's practically drooling at the sight. Just as she's about to grab the cash, she drops the hatch, as she falls to her knees. "AGGHHH-" She screams as she's struck with a powerful migraine.
Her vision blurs, but quickly returns. But now, she's no longer in the vault. She's now floating in a yellow void, with an odd red and green pattern surrounding her. She looks around trying to figure out what the hell is happening. "Human!" She turns around to the sound of a booming voice. What she sees terrifies her. It's that Vilgax fellow, but his destroyed bidy is not... well... destroyed. He is thin, but his shoulder are wide, giving him a mighty form. His mouth is wide, connected to large, green bubbles connected to his cheeks, reaching along the back of his head, his glowing red eyes are invigorated, thanks to being freed from his physical body, now being in this ghostly form.
"What the hell are you?!" Rojo screams. Vilgax narrows his eyes at her remark.
"I am a god, compared to you... You pathetic earthling!" Vilgax answers with distain in his voice. "Your life is now in the palm of my hand. I can kill you with a mere thought... but I won't... Not yet."
"W-wha... what do you want?!" Rojo screams with terror.
"I want you to retrieve something for me!" A ball of green energy forms before her, which reforms into the Omnitrix. "This is the Omnitrix. The drone that merged with you was already programed to retrieve it, so you should be as well. And since you are a human, with a far more tactical mind, you should be able to succeed where it failed."
"What do I get out of it?" Rojo asks, sceptically.
"You get to keep the drone's weaponry and abilities, along with even more powers. Enough to make you unstoppable..." 'Compared to other humans at least...'
Rojo grins. "I like this dea-"
"BUT!" Rojo is interupter by Vilgax's mighty voice. "If you fail more then once... I will not hesitate to tear you apart from the inside, and make the procedure as slow... and painful... as possible!"
Rojo gulps... "F-fine..." Vilgax grins. "I-i-it's a deal..."
"Good luck... human..." Another surge of pain fills her head, as she returns to the real world.
"Ugh... this is gonna be a pain, isn't it..."
The RV parks in an alleyway, opposite of a massive, metal warehouse. It's gray and dark, surrounded by trash, scraps and broken electronics. The entrance to the warehouse is closed off by a garage door. Above it, is Fistrick's calling card, spray painted onto a blank sign. Infront of the warehouse is a large semi truck, with Fistrick's calling card spray painted onto it as well.
Max, Gwen and the two Bens exit the Rust Bucket, as they walk towards the warehouse. "So... this Fistrick dude... how strong is he?" The little Ben asks Max.
"Strong enough to bench press that truck." Max says as he points at the semi truck.
"Guess we'll need some Four Arms for this!" Ben says as he activates the Omnitrix.
Max shakes his head. "Not yet Ben! Wait until we actually get inside, so we can assess the situation."
Ben considers it, before shrugging, and deactivating the watch. As they close in on the warehouse, they run around the side of it, planning to find a secret entrance. As they turn the corner, they spot an exterior staircase, made out of metal. "Nice!" Ben says as he runs up the stairs.
"Slow down, Kirby!" Gwen shouts after him, as she follows close behind.
"Ugh..." Max groans tiredly as he follows.
As they reach the top of the stairs, they find a metallic door. Ben opens the door, entering walking into the building finding himself on a metallic catwalk, placed far up from the ground. The warehouse is full of wooden crates, barrels, cardboard boxes, metal crates, metal shelfs and much more. "This place is huge." Ben whispers as he leans over the catwalk's railing. He looks around, trying to find a human down among the labyrinth of boxes and shelves. "Doesn't seem to be anyone here though." Ben whispers as Gwen and Max enters the warehouse.
"Should we get down there?" Gwen asks.
"Well..." Before Max can give an answer, Ben jumps over the railing, landing on a stack of crates.
"Ben, what are you doing?!" Gwen hisses.
"I'm going to find that Fistrick-guy and teach him a lesson or two!" Ben says confidently, as he runs off.
"BEN-" Gwen hisses, as she and Max jump off of the catwalk, and climb down the crates.
The warehouse's door jerks, and slides open, letting light into the dark warehouse. A trio of people enter the building. One of them is skinny and small. He has a light tan, and he's wearing a black t-shirt, with Fistrick's symbol on its chest. His hair black, with an orange stripe in it. It's comed to the side, covering his right eye.
The dude next to him is much taller and bulkier. He wears a black, torn tank top, with a graphic of two orange, melting spheres on it. He has a white mohawk.
And the dude next to him is not very different, except his skin is much lighter, and his mohawk is orange. And finally, his tank top has two gray stars on it. This one is carrying a metal case, with a sticker of Fistrick's symbol on it.
As they enter, the skinny one walks up to a breaker box attached to a nearby wall. He punches it, opening it, and revealing the switch panel. He flips one of them, as the lights above the entrance flicker to life. He flips a few more switches, making the rest of the buildings lights come to life, illuminating the once dark warehouse. The white haired one closes the door, as the orange haired one wanders over to a nearby table, nailed to the floor haphazardly. He places the case on the table, and opens it.
He nods as he inspects the case's contents. It's full of random pieces of alien items, ranging from explosives, weapons and valuables. "It's payday, bros!" He shouts as his comrades walk towards him.
"What even is that stuff?" The skinny one asks.
"No clue. But the boss said that some aliens will pay billions for it!" He says as he grins.
Suddenly, a loud slam is heard, deeper into the wearhouse. The trio turn to look, and sees that a large stack of crates has collapsed. The orange haired one runs over to one of the crates, as the white haired one hands him a crowbar. He breaks open the crate, and inspects its contents.
"Nice going Ben!" Gwen says to Ben, who's lying a few feet from the collapsed crate tower.
"I'm sorry! I tripped!" He says as he points at the crowbar that resulted in his little f*ck up.
"Sorry isn't going to stop the villains from finding us!" She hisses.
"Stop fighting you two!" Max says sternly. "We need to hide before the villains get here!"
"No way! I'm going to punch them out of orbit!" Ben says as he activates the Omnitrix and dials in Four Arms, but before he can do anything-
"There you are!" They look up, and see the skinny thug stand on a stack of barrels above them. He's holding some weird alien gun, with an orange color scheme. Besides that, it looks like an average pistol, but its cylinder is replaced by a glass sphere, full of some red goop. He points the gun at them, as an energy blast is shot at them. They duck out of the way, as the blast burns a hole through the ground. Ben rolls to a stop, as he dials in his four-armed friend, while Gwen and Max run to get cover.
"Going hero!" Ben shouts as he slams down the faceplate. A flash of light absorbs his body, as he grows an extra pair of arms and eyes. His skin grows thicker and redder. As the light dims, Four Arms stands tall, while flexing his muscles.
"Get ready for a beatdown, pipsqueak!" He shouts as he punches one of the stacked barrels, making them all collaps, sending the skinny dude into the ground. Before Four Arms can engage further, the white haired villain jumps out, with a pair of gauntlets resembling gun barrels. He aims them at Four Arms, as it begins firing what resembles cannon balls at the alien, who responds by punching them all out of the air. He grabs one of the balls, and throws it back at the thug, who dodges by rolling out of the way.
He points his gauntlets at Four Arms again, but he doesn't get a shot at shooting, as he's surprised by a large wooden crate flying at him. "BATTER UP!" Four Arms shouts, as his opponent his slammed into a wall by the force of the crate. "This is too easy!" Four Arms shouts pridefully.
"IS IT NOW?!" Four Arms turns around, to see the orange haired thug wearing some weird armor covering most of his body, besides the head. "THIS IS A POWER SUIT DESIGNED TO DEFEAT EVEN THE MOST POWERFUL OF ALIENS! I WILL CRUSH YOU INTO PASTE!" He shouts manicalally, his steps crushing the ground underneath him. He rushes at the alien, making the entire building shake. Every step he takes is risking making all of the wares in the building falling apart. His might is enough to make even the most mighty of heroes to piss themselves. He reels his arm back, ready to punch the alien, and just as his fist is about to make contact, Four Arms sidesteps, as the villain trips over the crowbar from earlier, and bashes his skull in.
"Huh... that was anticlimactic..." Four Arms says nonchalantly as he puts his fists to his waist.
"True that, bro!" A voice calls out from above. Four Arms looks up, as a weat towel lands on his face.
"EW! What the-" Four Arms pulls the towel off his face, and realizes that it also has Fistrick's symbol on it. "Okay, this is getting ridiculous, what here doesn't have that symbol on it?"
"You disrespectin' my symbol, bro?" The voice calls out again, as someone jumps down from the catwalk, landing on the ground in a crouched position. "Cuz' I can't deal with disrespectin' bros, bro..." The voice's origin is a muscular man, with a black tank top, it too having that damned symbol on it. He wears orange sweat pants, with a brown buckle belt. He wears grey kneepads, and black shoes covered in grey spikes. He has bandaged hands, and his hair is styled into three orange spikes, with most of his scalp being hair-free. But his most noticeable feature is the skull-themed face paint covering his face, and his red pupils.
"So I assume you're Fistrick!" Four Arms says as he gets in a fighting stance.
"You heard of me, bro?" Fistrick asks as he raises an eyebrow. "Who's the leak, bro?"
"My grandpa!" Four Arms says as he goes in for a punch. Fistrick sidesteps, as Four Arms fist passes him. Fistrick grabs the alien's arm, and proceeds to do a shoulder throw, making the ground crack as Four Arms is slammed into it. "How did you-"
"You Tetramand bros aren't as heavy as you are strong!" Fistrick says, as he lifts his foot up, ready to slam it into the vigilante's face, but Four Arms stops the foot by grabbing it. He then pushes it away with enough force to send Fistrick flying. "Wooh bro... that was pretty sick, I must admit. But there's no honor among bros!" Fistrick shouts as he charges at Four Arms.
"I'm not your bro!" He shouts as he charges as well. Fistrick and Four Arms jump into the air, both cocking their arms back, ready to punch. They slam their fists together, creating a powerful surge of force. Four Arms and Fistrick plant their feet in the ground, both of them struggling to get the upper hand. Fistrick kicks Four Arms in the knee, giving Fistrick the upper hand. He leans over the kid, putting more and more power into his push, trying to crush his hands, and his body.
Four Arms puts more strength into his legs, trying to push Fistrick off of him, but the villain doesn't relent. Four Arms grits his teeth. "This has been fun bro, but now I gotta end this, bro!" Before he can do anything, something hard hits him in the back of the head. "What the-" He turns around, seeing a little orange haired girl, with blue aura eminating from her hands.
"Get away from my cousin!" Gwen shouts, as she begins throwing disk-like aura spheres at Fistrick, who flinches in response.
"Stop with that, bro!" Fistrick shout annyedly.
"How about you get off of my grandson... bro!" Fistrick looks up, to see Max, with his left arm resembling a worm-like tendril.
"Facade?!" Fistrick looks at the pro dumbfounded, as he is slapped across the face with a slimy worm-arm. "You're the bro who locked me up in the first place! I'm not the kind of bro to hold a grudge, but it's kinda annoying that your little bros are heroes in training, bro." Fistrick scowls at Max, or Facade, if you will. Four Arms rushes at him, as Fistrick gets ready to throw him again, but this time, something wraps around his leg. A blue tendril is holding his right leg in place, as it streches from Gwen's arm.
Four Arms punches Fistrick across the jaw, as he coughs up a tooth or two. Facade follows, as he rams his arm into Fistrick's gut, making him retch. Finally, Gwen throws a large blue sphere, that slams into his back. Finally Four Arms grabs him by the collar and pulls him in close. "We win... bro!" Four Arms whispers to the villain, as he throws him into the air, and he crashes into the ceiling, creating a large dent in the concrete ceiling.
Fistrick grunts, as he falls from the ceiling, and slams into the ground. "Ugh... bro... that was sick... bro..."
"Ugh! You. Are so. Obnoxious!" Four Arms shouts as he stomps Fistrick in the face. He sighs as the villain is finally knocked out. "So... what were we doing here in the first place?" Before Max can explain, a powerful explosion rocks the building, as a large hole is blasted through the ceiling. The trio looks up to see Rojo, in all her cyborg-y glory!
"There you are!" She shouts as she locks onto Four Arms' Omnitrix symbol. She reaches her hand forwards, as if ready to receive something. "The Omnitrix... NOW!"
The trio scowl, as they all get into their fighting stances, ready to fight. "Sorry, but I'm kinda attached to it. Literally!" Four Arms shouts, as he jumps at her, his four arms splayed. As he closes in on her, he slams his hands together, creating a powerful shock wave, throwing Rojo into a nearby wall. Four Arms grin as he lands on a metallic shelf.
"Ugh..." Rojo scowls, as the orbs on her shoulders pop out, taking aim, as she blasts a surge of red energy at the alien, who jumps into the air to dodge it. The blast hits the shelf, destroying it, and sending alien weapons and items in all directions. She flies into the air again, as her opposite shoulder-blob pops out as well, it also aiming at the red alien. She continues sending laser blasts at Four Arms, as he jumps and climbs along the shelves.
As he reaches the top, he jumps into the air, and aims his elbow at Rojo, as he performs a diving elbow drop, as he slams her into the ground with his mighty body "Four Armed Elbow Crusher!" Four Arms calls out as she's slammed into the ground. Teenage Ben snickers as he looks on from the side.
"My first special move, or atleast the first one I named. I need to do more stuff like that!" Ben mutters as he cups his chin.
Another explosion rocks the building, as Four Arms is blasted off of the villain, and he slams into a stack of crates, as the collapse onto him. "I got you now!" She screams as she lands on top of the pile of crates, as she smashes her way through the wood and other crap. The wood shifts and moves. "There!" She plunges her arm into the pile, but she doesn't find an alien, but a little human boy. She looks at him in confusion, until she realizes something. "You're that dog kid! How many powers do you have?!" She screams as she lifts him up by the neck.
"Uh... 10?" Ben says, as he shrugs. She scowls, as she throws him aside.
"Well... you have the Omnitrix... and I want revenge! So now, I can kill two birds, with one laser blast!" She grins as one of her shoulder orbs pop out, and takes aim. Suddenly, a blue bubble forms around her shoulder orb, as her laser blast hits the side of the small bubble, the resulting explosion destroying her orb. "What the hell?!"
She notices a long blue snare connecting to the bubble, which is connected to Gwen. "Not gonna happen!" She shouts as the bubble shifts into a longer tendril, which wraps around her arm, and she swings the tendril upwards, pulling Rojo along with it, slamming her into a shelf. Gwen lets the tendril dissipate, as she runs over to Ben. "You okay cuz?" She asks, as she helps him up.
"I'm fine!" Ben snickers. "And I thought you said your quirk is useless!" Ben says mockingly, as Gwen rolls her eyes.
"Are you two okay?" Max says as he runs over, still having that weird worm arm.
"Yeah, we're fine." Ben and Gwen say simultaneously.
"YOU WON'T BE FOR LONG!" Rojo calls out with fury, as she rises into the air again. She aims her palm at them, exposing an odd socket on it. The socket begins glowing, as heat radiates from her hand. Gwen forms a blue shield, just as an orange laser shoots out, creating an explosion as it makes contact with Gwen's shield.
"Any time now Ben..." Gwen says, while Ben is fiddling with the watch.
"It's charging!" Ben says as he looks at the red Omnitrix core. He looks around, as he spots something of interest. Ben spots an alien explosive that was freed from one of the destroyed crates. He picks it up, and realizes it resembles a grey grenade, with a fairly small hole on its top. Ben spins it around, trying to find a fuse or a safety pin. He down, and sees a thin, red, glowing cylinder, that fits in the palm of his hand. He picks it up and he spins it around as well. He looks at the hole on its top, before he tries to stick the cylinder into the grenade's hole it. Suddenly, it begins beeping. "Uh... guys?"
Max and Gwen turn around. Suddenly, Max panics. "BEN, THROW IT!" Ben begins panicking as well, almost dropping it, as he throws it into the air, and it lands under Rojo.
Rojo looks down on it in confusion. "Huh? What's-" A powerful red explosion erupts, sending her crashing into the ceiling, creating a large dent, right next to Fistrick's dent.
Max breathes a sigh of relief. "That was too close for comfort." Max says, as he turns to Ben. "That was an Organic Annihilator. It slices through flesh like it's paper! Luckily for you, Rojo is a Bio-Mech..." The final statement makes Ben and Gwen blink in confusion, and Max to sigh. "A Bio-Mech is a sort of cyborg, but the machinery is merged with a creatures biology, like one of those symbiotes from those comics you like. One of the drones we left in the Biggie Box must have merged with Rojo." Max says as he cups his chin.
"So... do you think we can undo the merge with a little Upgrade?" Gwen asks, as she looks at Ben, who immediately understands.
"Hmm... possibly..." Max mutters.
"But first we need to let the watch recharge. Can't upgrade anything if it isn't online..." Ben says.
"Hey, how did she know that watch is named the Omnitrix?" Gwen asks, making the other two ponder.
"It's because that's what the squid guy called it!" Rojo shouts as he frees herself from the dent.
"Who?" Ben and Gwen ask simultaneously.
"A dude with a squid for a face... said he would kill me if I didn't give it to him. So be a nice kid, and hand it over!" Rojo says as she scowls.
"I couldn't, even if I wanted to! It's literally attached to me!" Rojo scowls, thinking that Ben is just being cheeky.
"Stop lying, brat!" She flies at them, as she points both her hands towards the trio. Gwen creates a blue whip, which she attacks the villain with, throwing Rojo off cource, as she crashes into a stack of metallic barrels. As they smash apart, orange liquid splahes in all directions.
"Ben..." Gwen hisses.
"Watch..." Ben hisses back, as he points to the Omnitrix spitefully.
Max looks around. "We need to hide, atleast until the Omnitrix is back in commission." Max says as he pulls his grandkids with him, running off to hide. Just as they get out of sight, Rojo rises from the pile of broken barrels and bent metal. "What the..." She smells it. "Hmm... not bad." She tastes the liquid, and licks her lips. "Hmm! What is thi-" She shakes her head, trying to get back into focus, as she wipes off as much of the juice from her body as she can. "Where are you?!" She shouts, as she takes off into the air.
She floats as high as she can, trying to find them from above. She looks, but they're too well hidden. She flies down, looking around skeptically. She hears a clanking sound in the distance. She immediately sends a blast of energy in the sounds general direction, blasting apart a shelf. "Come out, come out, wherever you are..." She mutters menacingly. Suddenly, she hears a loud sound. It sounds like surging energy, grunting and morphing. She turns around, and once more sends a blast of energy in the sounds direction, but this time, she spots something of interest.
The blast of red energy explodes on contact with a greenenergy blast. "What the-" Out of the smoke, jumps a Ben, now transformed into the techno blob himself, Upgrade.
"Surprise, Rojo!" Upgrade shouts as he tackles her to the ground. He grabs her by the neck. Her still functioning shoulder orb pops out, and begins to glow, as a surge or red energy blasts Upgrade off of here. She jumps into the air after him, as she grabs him by the leg, and throws him into the ground. She reels her arm back, ready slice through the alien with her mighty claws. Upgrade collapses into a liquid from, as he slides out of the way.
Her claws stab into the ground, as Upgrade reforms behind her. He kicks her in the back, throwing her forwards. "And here I thought you didn't fight girls!" She shouts mockingly.
"I got over it" He says as he turns liquidy, absorbing her body into himself. She struggles against him, as she throws herself into nearby shelf, making Upgrade flinch. Rojo grabs Upgrade's slimy body, and tears him off of her, and throws him aside, as he sticks onto some odd piece of tech. Maybe it was some weird work-out equipment?
Either way, he uses it to form a larger body, his right hand looking like a bicycle-seat, and his left looking like a hammer. The rest of his body is long anf bulky. He rushes at her, and tackles her into a damaged shelf, making her flinch, but she grabs him by the collar, and throws him into anoher shelf. He falls onto the floor, as points his bike arm at Rojo, as the seat is blasted at Rojo, hitting her in the stomach, making her wretch. He reels the seat back into its socket, as it's connected to it with a wire.
Upgrade gets up, and his one eye begins to glow and flicker, as a large blast of green energy is shot at Rojo, as she is thrown into a metal crate. She groans, as Upgrade jumps into the air, crashing down on her. She shouts in pain, as he slams his hammer hand into her skull. As she struggles, Upgrade dumps the workout machine, as he begins merging with her instead. She screams in pain as Upgrade completes the merge. She struggles against it, as another migraine strucks her.
Her skin feels like it's going to peel off and her shoulder crack and malform. Her eyes split open and her claw-like fingers crack apart. She falls to her knees as she screams. "Sorry Rojo. This hurts you more than it hurts me!" Suddenly, Upgrade is struck by his own migraine as he too screams out in pain.
Upgrade opens his eyes. He is seemingly trapped in some odd, yellow void, with red and yellow tendril-like pattern surrounding him. "Where... am I..."
"You're in hell, pathetic human." Upgrade turns around, spotting the massive form of Vilgax. He stares at him with hateful eyes.
"Who... w-who are you?!" He screams. Vilgax scowls.
"I am Vilgax... the one who will vanquish you!" He hisses. "Fear me... human... FEAR ME!"
Upgrade is thrown out of the void, as he wakes up, still merged with Rojo, who's reeling in pain. Suddenly, Upgrade falls apart, freeing her... but... "I'm human again?" She looks at her hands and body. Her skin is pale once more, and her eyes are no longer mechanical. The sharp blades covering his body are gone, and her clothes are still torn. She looks at Upgrade who struggles to get back on his feet.
"Ugh... you're welcome." Upgrade mumbles weakly. She backs away from him, but steps on something cold and hard. She grins, as she activates her quirk, taking over the machine Upgrade possessed earlier. The machine jerks, as a piece of metal is thrown at Upgrade, but he catches it, and beats Rojo across the skull with it, knocking her out. "Villains... they're never thankful." Upgrade says with an annoyed tone. "She's out guys!"
Gwen and Max walk out from behind a stack of metal crates. "Nice job Ben." Max says. Upgrade nods, as he drops the machine to the ground.
Teenage Ben looks on from the side. "Hmm... my first encounter with Vil... good memories." Just as Ben says this, his body begins to drip away. His hands become green, as they turn into some floaty liquid. "Huh, guess the dream's over." Ben says as the rest of his body becomes liquidy. Slowly, the effect spreads to his face, as he's blinded by a green light.
He wakes up, back in the weird green void. With the many islands. He's still on the Upgrade island, with the green pond and fountain. "Ah, so I guess the dream's a bit longer then i thought." He looks up, but now, there's something new. A large, glowing green circle. It's like a portal. "I'm guessing that is my gateway out of here." Ben cups his chin. He crouches down, and jumps high into the air, as weightlessness begins to set in, and he floats upwards.
He floats high into the air, as he closes in on another island with a fountain, whis one covered in what seems like orange fur. He lands on it, crouches, and jumps again, floating far up into the air. He spots another island with a fountain, this one covered in crummy bandages. He jumps and lands on a third island, but this one doesn't have a fountain, or a pond. It seems to be made from some kind of scaly material, like a lizard's skin. It's cold, with snow and ice covering most of it.
Ben doesn't stay on it for long, as he quickly jumps from it. But, he doesn't notice, that just as he jumps away, the island jerks, as it begins to crack open, as a fountain, identical to the ones on the other island, grows out, tearing up earth and ice, as it rises. Around it, a large amount of earth has been dug up, forming a crater. Green liquid begins poring from it, as the crater becomes a green pond.
Ben continues to float towards the portal. As he closes in, it grows brighter, and begins to blind him.
He opens his eyes weakly. He is met with the sight of a white ceiling, and someone's sad voice. A familiar voice...
"I'm sorry All Might... I didn't mean to tell him... it just slipped out..." The voice of Midoriya echoes in in the room.
"It's fine young Midoriya... as long as it doesn't happen again." A failry deep yet tired voice responds. Ben turns his head weakly and sees that the skinny All Might and Midoriya lie next to him, both in their own hospital beds. Ben struggles to sit up, catching the attention of Midoriya and All Might. "Ah, young Tennyson. You're finally awake." The skinny All Might says.
"Ugh... I feel like I was hit by twelve semi trucks, all of them being shaped like big fists belonging to a weird brain guy..." Ben groans as he sits up.
"Probably just my quirk, deary." Recovery Girl says, as she sits on a stool one the other side of the room.
"Hi Recovery Girl..." Ben mutters. He looks down at his body. Only a few scars here and there, mostly around his torso and face. "So... All Might?" Ben turns to the man. "I've been waiting for your explanation." Ben says as he wipes his eyes.
All Might nods. As he turns to look out a nearby window. "Five years ago, I got in a fight with a powerful villain." All Might turns back to Ben as he pulls up his gown, revealing a massive wound in the left side of his stomach. "He punched a hole through my stomach, destroying half of my respiratory system and my entire stomach..." He says as he puts his hand to the massive gash. "The damage forced me into this weakened form, limiting the time I can use my muscle form and my quirk to three hours a day, but I'm fairly sure todays battle has shortened it further."
Ben looks at him, stunned. "Woah... so, if this ever got out..." Ben begins.
"The world would change for the worse... drastically." All Might finishes. "Without a Symbol of Peace, villains would grow stronger and braver, and fear would fill the streets."
Ben looks at All Might, who's looking towards ceiling. Ben turns to Midoriya. "How did you find out about this, then?" Ben asks.
"I saved him from a villain about a year ago, but I accidently reverted before him. Since then I've been helping him with his quirk, since ours are so similar." All Might says, as he lies down again.
"Hmm..." Ben looks out the window, as he sighs. "Well... since I got to hear your secret, I guess it's only fair that I share my own... But only id you promise to keep it to yourself!" Ben says, as All Might and Midoriya nod. "I used to be a vigilante..." Ben says as he rubs the back of his head.
Midoriya looks at Ben with surprise and confusion, while All Might nods lightly. "I suspected it. You were very skilled and brave all things considered. Even without your quirk, you put your safety in danger, and your determination was inspiring. I would be surprised if you weren't one." All Might turns to him. "Your secret is safe with us."
Ben smiles. "And yours is safe with me." He says, making All Might and Midoriya smile as well. Ben's smile drops, as he lies down. "So... how is this going to affect classes? Hell, even U.A. in its entirety?" Ben asks.
All Might settles down as well, lying down. "Obviously, we'll have to up security, and let you guys have a few days off, but besides that... I'm not sure." All Might says. Ben and Midrioya look at him. "But one thing's for sure... this event will stick with all of your classmates. Everyone from class 1-a were forced to become heroes today. Now they know how it feels. And they have all become stronger from it." All Might says, making Ben and Midoriya smile again.
Rojo chugs down her last shot, as she sighs. Shigaraki looks at her sceptically. "Aliens? Really? I'm having a hard time believing that... seems a bit far-fetched" Shigaraki says.
Rojo shakes her head. "Oh Shigi... you can turn anything you touch into dust and he can teleport miles away using his grape flavoured mist. Far-fetched went out the window the second the first quirk manifested. Nothing makes sence."
"And what was that Omnitrix thingy?" Shigaraki asks.
Rojo chugs another shot, and wipes her mouth. "Not sure... but appearently it's what allows Tennyson to transform."
"Hmm... how... interesting..." The monitor's voice says quietly. "Do you have any more info on it?" Rojo shakes her head.
"No. She doesn't..." A new, raspy voice fills the room, making the three in the room look around, trying to locate the voice's source. "But I do..." An orange drone fades into their vision, exiting some kind of camouflage.
Epilogue
Ben exits the hospital tiredly, as he chews on a couple gummy bears, handed to him by Recovery Girl. He looks around. The sky is a dark blue, as the stars begin to fade into view. The horizon is redish, making the clouds a nice purple. It's enthralling... Ben looks around, and realizes that no one else is nearby. Ben raises the Omnitrix to his face, as he begins pressing down on certain points on the watch's faceplate, until a chirping sound is heard.
"Who is it?" A monotone voice, with a southern accent responds.
Ben rolls his eyes as he responds. "It's me, Ben!" Ben says, making the voice on the other end hmm sceptically.
"What's the secret password?" The voice asks.
"We don't have a secret password." Another voice calls out from the watch, this one being less monotone and lacking the southern accent.
"Yes we do."
"No we don't!"
"Yes we do-"
"Stop fighting and beam me up already!" Ben shouts tiredly. "I didn't put my life on the line today to not get a pieceful nights rest!" Ben growls.
"Alright, fine." The monotone voice responds, as another chirp is heard from the watch, signaling that the call has been ended.
Suddenly, Ben vanishes in a flash of green light.
Chapter 6.5
Welcome to the base
As the green light fades, Ben finds himself in a large, light-blue, metallic room, with green panels lining the walls. Before him, is a bulky device, with a thin, long, muzzle. In one of the device's sides has a control panel built into it, with two small creatures manning it. They both have grey skin, both barely being tall enough to reach up a toddler's knee. They have fairly large heads for their size, and their green eyes are mildly bulbous. Actually, they kinda look like Grey Matter.
One of them is wearing a pair of blue-grey overalls, with a white belt with a red buckle. This one is the taller and skinnier of the two. The other one is is wearing some odd, white, armor-like suit, with a similar belt and a red circle on its chest.
"Hey Blukic. Driba." Ben says as he waves at the two. "You guys are getting pretty good with that teleporter."
"We sure are!" The short one, or Driba, says.
"No we aren't." The tall one, Blukic, responds blankly.
Driba turns to him angrily. "Yes we are!"
"No we aren't." Blukic restates, still rather emotionless.
"Can you guys agree on anything?" Ben asks, mildly annoyed.
"No, we can't!" Driba shouts angrily.
"Yes we... uh, I mean... No we can't!" Blukic says, making Ben roll his eyes.
"I'm out of here." Ben says as he exits the room through an elevator door, that leads to a long hallway, full of doors lining the walls. The walls are also full of pipes and cables, connected to odd power panels. Ben reaches the end of the hallway, as he presses a button next to another elevator door. This time, it opens to an actual elevator, illuminated with green light, with the bottom having the Omnitrix's symbol ingraved in it. Ben steps inside, as he presses another button. The elevator jerks, and suddenly zooms upwards.
Lights flash through the door's seams. Above the door, is a small screen showing what level the elevetor passes. The elevator slows down, as the door opens. Ben exits into a large room, it too being illuminated in green lights. The elevator is placed in the center of the room. Ben stands on a large platform, with massive monitor-systems lining the edges. The platform is connects to the ground and other platforms via staircases and ramps. Many holographic screens fill the room. Many aliens and humans man the monitors, one of them catching Ben's attention.
"Magister Patelliday!" Ben shouts as he runs up to one of the aliens. He resembles a humanoid angler fish... he looks like Ripjaws, actually, but with wrinkly skin and a lanky stature. He wears a pair of glasses, and he wears a similar suit to what the small alien from earlier wore. He's holding onto a large, green, tablet-like device. Patelliday turns to Ben, and smiles.
"How are ya' sonny?" The fish-alien asks as Ben goes in for a high five, which is politely rejected.
"I'm good... mostly." Ben says as he points at his wounds.
"What happened?" The alien asks as he checks on the damages.
Ben waves him away. "Check the news... Where's grandpa." Ben asks, as he looks around.
"Oh, he's out running a few errands." Patelliday says as he taps a few buttons on his tablet.
"What are you doing?" Ben asks as he points at the tablet.
"Eh, we just found some odd energy surge near earth's atmosphere. Nothing to worry about... probably." Patelliday says ominously.
Ben notices, but feels there is something more important to discuss. "Yeah, well. I've got something to report." Ben says, making Patelliday turn to him. "A Vilgax drone attacked U.A. during a lecture... along with a bunch of villains..." The tablet falls to the ground, smashing to pieces. Bne looks at his face. It's stuck in a mix of astonishment, confusion, worry and terror. "Eh... you good?" Ben snaps his fingers, making Patelliday snap out of his stunned state.
"Eh... well... I think we now know what that energy surge is." Ben immediately knows what he means.
"Vilgax's ship." Ben says, as Patelliday nods. "I thought I destroyed it. We need to stop him!"
Patelliday shakes his head. "We'll have to deal with him later. You need to go get some rest!" Ben tries to object, but doesn't bother. He sighs.
"Fine..." Ben says as he walks towards a ramp leading to the room's floor. "Cya Patelliday." Ben says as he waves his arm around wearily.
Patelliday shakes his head. "That boy is gonna' get himself killed."
Ben wanders through a long, grey, hallway, covered in doors, all having scanners and keypads, instead of doorhandles or locks, with screens displaying numbers above them. Ben stops at a door with the number 10 above it. He puts the omnitrix to the scanner, and it beeps, as the door slides open. Ben enters the room tiredly. The door closes behind him, as the lights in the room flicker to life.
He seems to have entered a sort of living room/kitchen combo, with metallic, cyan walls. To his left is a green couch pointed at a television, built into the wall. To his left is the kitchen part, which includes a kitchen counter, multiple cabinets and a refrigerator, all being made out of the same material as the walls. Near the kitchen stuff, is a square table, with one chair being placed before it, both of them being made out of the rest of the room's material.
Ben walks up to the fridge, opening it and pulling out a stained, cardboard, takeout box, with a logo printed onto it, resembling a blue house, with yellow text saying 'Burger Shack' over it. Ben opens it hastily, and pulls out a handful of fries, covered in chili sauce, cheese and a disturbing amount of onions. Ben shows it into his maw. He then grabs a sode cup, with a goofy, cartoon face on it, and takes a huge sip from the straw. He puts both items back into the fridge and closes it.
Ben walks towards another door in the room, this one having neither a doorhandel or a panel. Instead, it just opens automatically as Ben nears it. Behind the door, is a bedroom, with a few drawer built into the wall, a bed sticking out of the wall, and another door nearby, which presumably leads to the bathroom. Ben immediately goes for the bed, and collapses into it, not caring to change out of his casual clothes. Almost immediately, he's drifts off to sleep.
Epilogue
"And who may you be?" The voice from the monitor asks, as Shigaraki plants his foot on the bot, pinning it to the ground.
"I am Vilgax." The drone responds in a staticy voice.
"You don't really look like a squid!" Shigaraki says snarkily, thinking back to the creature Rojo described.
"The thing planted under your puny, human foot is a mere drone." The voice answers back. The drone jerks, as Shigaraki is thrown off of it, and it rises into the air.
"I'll kill you!" Shigaraki hisses, as he jumps to his feet.
"I'm not here to cause conflict, fool..." Vilgax responds angrily. "I'm here to make an agreement."
Shigaraki gets ready to decline the offer and destroy the drone, but the monitor man has different plans. "Go on..."
"I wish to kill the Tennyson boy... and you want this All Might dead, and I've learned many times that it's easier to accomplish your goals with alliances. You assist me in my goal to annialate the boy, and I assist you in your goal to exterminate this... Symbol of Peace..." The monitor man seems invested, but Shigaraki isn't having any of it.
"You think you can just trespass on my turf without consequences, and then try to reqruit us to kill some brat?!" Shigaraki narrows his eyes. "I'm not someone's tool." Shigaraki flexes his fingers.
"Hmm... maybe I've made a miscalculation. I thought this group was supposed to be full of criminals and villains... not man-children." Vilgax's comment makes Shigaraki snap, as he flies forwards, grapping the drone with both of his hands, as it begins to rust and crack. He slams it into the ground, as it explodes into dust and rusty pieces of metal.
"Nice job Shigi. You just made the most dangerous man in the galaxy your enemy!" Rojo hisses to Shigaraki, who is dusting off his shirt.
"If he's so dangerous, why was his little microphone so easy to destroy?"
"Because it was a mere scout drone." Everyone in the room looks around for the new source of Vilgax's voice. "I doubt you could deal with any of my combat drones as easily." Suddenly, even more entities materialize in the room, all of them resembling two-legged, human-sized versions of the robot that crashed into the USJ. "Let's see if these will be as weak..."
"You had to f*ckin say something, didn't you?" Rojo asks blankly, as Shigaraki begins to sweat.