The mercenaries frozen in place stopped fidgeting about and could only stare at the sight before them. In the kids place was an orange like creature resembling a human dog but was the size of a horse. It stood on all fours with various spines found around its body. The creatures bottom jaw stack out of its mouth housing very defined teeth on it. There were gill like appendages on both sides of its neck and it had no eyes!
Everyone in the room looked at the odd creature searching for its eyes on any part of its face or body.
Wanda unconsciously took a step back when the mutt turned its head in her direction and growled as if conversing to her then started smelling around the room before dispoearing in a tunnel clearly meant for an emergency exit. That was one weird dog.
Some of the missionaries had tears streaming down their faces clearly grasping the situation they were in. Bringing guns to a powers fight. The unknown gas hadn't affected them as it couldn't penetrate the force fields.
"You're not the one I was expecting."
Wanda turned to see a tall man wearing a tattered straw hat and a ridiculously long gas mask with sharp metallic claws extended from his black gloves, a dirty black jeans and layers of what looked like brown dirty sisal sheets for his upper body. She could smell the fear and chaos radiating from him.
"I was aiming higher on the food chain but I guess you will have to do. I can have lots of fun with that shapeshifting friend of yours and they wouldn't mind." His evil smirk apparent under his modified gas mask.
"What are you talking about? What did you do!?" Wanda demanded. The chaos magic flowing through her veins warning of the impending danger. The guy was powerful enough that the mercenaries started freaking out indicating the gas was now penetrating her force field.
"What anyone who was in my position would do." The guy was intentionally amplifying whatever he was doing since everyone in the force fields started screaming.
"The human mind is too feeble to handle fear and chaos at the any level. You're my first test subjects and can practically taste the breakthroughs and results I will have when I study your brains" he gleamed thinking of what combining the two would do. "I will have to find out how and why you are immune to me."
Everyone fears something and without the proper gear, his fear toxin affects everyone. He could clearly remember the batman succumb to it at one time. He was the only one immune to fear having evolved to produce his own fear toxin more powerful than his gases when he became the scare beast.
Wanda sent a wave of her magic at him sending him flying out the reinforced steel door and an angry Wildmutt in toe.
Wildmutt followed his senses to a ventilation system pumping out that unknown gas. His powerful sense of smell could clearly distinguish it from the others. After chewing down the machine he ran back to find Wanda throw someone who was stinking of that same gas out of the door. He followed to attack having identified the source.
The Scare crow was surprised by her strength but the chaos granted to him enraged him and he started transforming when the shapeshifter attacked him.
"The moment I sensed you I knew I had to see you." Ares appeared out of nowhere in the room and proceeded to examine the force field encasing the mercenaries.
"Chaos" he muttered intrigued running his hands through the magic. "It's beautiful" he declared looking at her. "Art."
"You have a rare gift." He was walking closer to her. "Not many people have the rare chance to represent chaos in the form that you do." He had seen magicians using dark magic and every other form of magic but he had never seen anyone practicing chaos magic.
Wanda's senses identified this guy as powerful judging by his aura with waves of chaos and fear energy radiating off of him. The other guy couldn't compare to him. She reinforced green arrows team force fields watching him.
Wildmut and a transformed scare crow tumbled into the room rolling around using their claws and teeth to tear at each other. The increased out put level of the toxins and the hideous creature he turned into, made the soldiers faint as it was too much for them.
"Forgive my pawn. His abilities seemed adequate enough to attract someone worthy of my time." Ares dismissed the fight happening before extending his hand and with a wave separated the two by sending them against opposite walls.
"We should get going. I'm nolonger interested in this." He gestured to all around them. "You would do just fine in serving me." He told Wanda.
"I'm not going anywhere with you. I'm here to help my friends." She took a defensive stand ready to attack.
"It wasn't a request." Ares turned to her. "You may be the wielder of chaos magic but I AM CHAOS" and to prove his point he snapped his fingers and every force field Wanda created dissipated with everyone landing on their back waking up screaming.
"It's only a matter of time before your friends lose their minds completely." The human mind was not made to perceive this much fear.
"I think she told you No." Ben had changed back to normal when he had recovered from hitting the wall and his watch turned yellow.
Wildmutt wasn't of much help so he decided to change and understood what was happening. According to trixx they had the power to project fear into anyone's mind. Good thing the omnitrix shields his mind from those kinds of telepathic attack.
Not now! He looked at the watch.
Scare crow was still a monster and was getting up.
UNKNOWN CATALOGUE ALIEN DNA DETECTED…preparing to scan… his HUD flashed.
The level of fear gas in the air is at a critical Trixx alerted him. Prolonged exposure to this environment would lead to permanent insanity
"Ah…the shapeshifter!" Ares turned towards the source of the bright green light and voice.
"I believe you're coming with me too. I'll get the rest later." He continued eyeing his watch which had changed color.
"Leave them alone." Ben ordered looking at the guy who appeared out of nowhere.
He must be an alien He thought.
The omnitrix faceplate slid up rotated and a yellow beam shot out covering the distance between him and the guy before scanning him twice in rapid succession.
Ares thought it was an attack and put his arms up in a defensive position but no attack came. The beams retracted back to the watch and he stood confused for a moment.
"What did you do!" He demanded moving forward at the same time scare crow was advancing.
Wanda watched it all unfold as she reactivated her magic and made force fields around everyone again. Most of them passed out. Others mumbled in low tones.
"Nothing. You talk a big game about fear yet you haven't seen fear!" Ben threatened looking down at his now green watch.
"I fear nothing simpleton!" Ares bellowed already tired of this encounter. The scare crow roared clearly backing up his masters statement. Them being conscious or unconcious does not matter he thought summoning his strength.
"We'll see." Ben had a knowing smirk before perusing his watch for a certain alien.
Ares stopped scare crow from attacking curious as to what the shapeshifter was going on about.
Maybe his powers lie in the watch. He watched holograms of various creatures pass slide along indicating he was looking for something.
Ben disappeared in a bright green flash that illuminated the entire underground structure but Ares and Scare crow didn't flinch.
Ares was transfixed in his spot realisation dawning on him as he stared at the creature that replaced the human. That watch was the source of it all. The massive contained energy released from him changing confirmed his theory.
They were staring at a yellow skinned ogre wearing a pair of black briefs with a metal dark green waistline with white bolts on it. It had long mis shapen arms that had spikes protruding from them, a visible belly button and claws for fingers. Glowing green eyes were visible through the bars of a green metal cage helmet worn on his head. The helmet had two horns protruding from the sides of it. The omnitrix symbol was on the helmets extension covering its chest.
"Close your eyes" Ben shouted instructing Wanda who had stopped checking over the others to staring at him in disgust no doubt revolted by Toepicks appearance. She gladly looked away.
"I believe you were holding out on me" Ares signalled scare crow to attack. He wanted that watch. If it did what he thought it did then he had to have it.
Ben had no choice but to use Toepick. An alien he swore never to use unless necessary much like alien X.
They think they know fear…I'll show them fear
There was a reason why the alien was named unknown by Trixx. No one lived to name them after encountering.
Toepicks helmet released small amount of high pressured green gas before opening.
Scare crow stopped advancing shocked at whatever the helmet housed.
He reverted back to his normal form from being a monster and his mind failing to process the creatures face. His face mask fell and his shocked expression turned to terror unable to look away no matter how much he wanted too. Scare crow's supernatural ability to be immune to fear cracked making his knees give out and collapse to the floor.
This was the first time the god of war actually took a step back in fear without his father being the cause. He was staring at the most hideous and horrifying face he had ever seen or much anything he had ever seen.
A god of war, chaos and fear getting slightly terrified and uncomfortable looking at this creature showed how powerful it was.
His brother was a model compared to this creature.
He found his back against the wall after subconsciously retreating away from the monster whose appearance tapped into his primordial fear making him to sweat in fear. Something that has never happened to him.
He sweats during combat with a worthy foe, he sweats when he has sex with Aphrodite, the goddes of love but he never sweats because of fear. He had no fear! Was his thought.
He didn't even know he had primordial fears till now.
At that time he forgot about his plans, his brain struggling to comprehend anything as he stared ahead.
Scare crow on the other hand sat up on the ground trembling; hugging his knees shaking his head and murmuring to himself like a mad man.
Lex Luthor was viewing the whole thing go down via the cameras Ares managed to plant undetected inside the underground lair. He was expecting superman but was equally excited when the shapeshifter and the telepath arrived. It seemed Ares was intrigued by her too because he had vanished from his office to go appear in the layer talking to her.
I have to get to her first! She was powerful enough to gain the personal attention of the god of war.
What had him confused was the way the screen became blurred and he could only make out Ares and scare crow because the shapeshifter was green in colour and the rest had a maroon aura around them.
"Is it me or do they look scared" his eyes squinting to make out images in the distorted video feed.