"Whoa whoa whoa, wait! So you can each turn into 10 different aliens?! Aliens?!" With the Tennyson and Saturday family, along with Alistair, sitting beside the Rust Bucket a little while after the battle with the Krakken, Zak said with excitement :"That's sick!"
And opposite of their moods, everybody else was packing quickly and leaving the place. Staying in a place where a monster shows up wasn't something the sanest of people did. Except superheroes, of course.
"#$$#&!" Fisk nodded rapidly, equally excited and interested. Just the thought of it was pure excitement for the boy. He had sci-fi sitting right in front of him. Two of them. Alistair smirked :"Not exactly. Ben can transform into 10 aliens, while I initially had 10 aliens and predators. But predators are more my thing than aliens. If I can help it, I leave aliens to Ben most of the time."
(A/N: I felt bad for the best character after Drew not having any dialogues, so just deal with that lol.)
"Whoaaa." Zak and Fisk wowed. Drew gazed at Alistair curiously :"Wait, so those watches just came crashing from space suddenly? And you were in one of them, Alistair?" The boy nodded :"Uh huh. Without any memories though."
"Interesting." She pinched her chin, eying him up and down. Trying to spot any difference between the boy that supposedly came from outer space and a normal preteen human. Alistair did feel a bit shy and fidgety under her focused eyes, but didn't do anything to stop her.
Being stared at so hard and intensely by a gorgeous milf like her wasn't bad at all after all. Doc hummed thoughtfully :"Max, is this what you talked about when you asked us about keeping a secret?"
"That's right." Max nodded seriously, before getting up :"But Doc, can we talk in private for a moment." Drew spoke up :"Should I come too?" But Max shook his head, smiling :"No, I would appreciate it if you kept watch on the children. As you would expect, they're very prone to mischief."
"That's not true." The two boys said in unison, before Alistair himself and Gwen gave Ben the boombastic side eye. Causing him to cough awkwardly and turn away. The adult men walked away, and when far enough, Max turned to Doc :"Listen, I know myself that you guys are good people.
I've worked with you in the past, and know that myself. But just your family doesn't represent the entire Secret Scientists. And I've seen it myself, and you know yourself, that there are quite a few shady people in your organization. No organization is pure. I know that, because I've nearly lost my life because of people like this.
Your face didn't exactly keep the fact that you were curious about Alistair and the watches a secret. But even then, you held back since these were just simple children who were involved involuntarily. But do you think everybody in the Secret Scientists is the same?"
"... Huuuh, I understand, Max." Doc sighed in defeat :"After all, I know quite a few people personally who would jump at the chance to study the boy. And especially the watches. And if they can't be taken off, who knows what those guys will do to forcibly take them off."
He nodded at the old man with a smile :"Alright, I promise I will keep all of these a secret. I won't let the Secret Scientists know anything either." Relieved, Max patted Doc's shoulder :"I knew I could count on you."
With what was worrying Max finished, they returned to the group. "So what did I miss?" Doc asked, smiling :"I don't suppose you exactly waited for me to ask the boys about some interesting things."
"Would you?" Drew raised a pretty eyebrow, causing him to chuckle :"Alright, fair enough. Especially not since these devices are just simply fascinating works of science. And as a scientist myself, I have to admit, I can barely hold myself back from bombarding the kids with questions."
Amused, Drew folded her arms under her ample bust :"So you don't think transforming into aliens has even a tiny bit of magic in it?" Causing Doc to smirk :"Not in the slightest." Zak groaned :"Oh, please, can't you two stop your bantering of science and magic for one day?! These two can literally turn into aliens!"
"And predators." Alistair clarified, making Zak smirk at his parents :"And predators. I think that's a lot more interesting than your debate!" Shrugging at each other, Doc asked :"So, really, what did I miss?"
Drew, smirking :"Oh, nothing. We just found out how Alistair has a better naming sense than Ben."
Ben :"Hey, that's not true!"
Drew :"Sweetie, you named an alien Fourarms, because apparently, he has four arms. I think between Fourarms and Hecatoncheires, I know which one is cooler."
Ben :"Well... that's an exception..."
Drew, raising an amused eyebrow :"What about Diamondhead?"
Ben :"Okay, so those two are like that! But the names for my other aliens are pretty clever. Like the alien from before, who I've named XLR8! And besides, how am I supposed to know the names of giants and such from Greek mythologies?!"
Doc, curious :"Is that another alien of yours?"
Ben, smug :"Uh huh! And he's super strong! Picking up cars and trucks is basically nothing for me when I'm Fourarms!"
Doc :"Ooh, so he has super strength. Then I assume each alien has different capabilities, huh?"
Ben :"That's right. For example, I have an alien that can shoot super hot fire, an alien that's made out of diamonds, and that alien that you saw before, which can run super fast! And that's just a few of them."
Alistair :"And for me, I've got an alien that's super huge and can increase its size to 60 feet tall, an alien that can clone itself and scream sonic screams, and an alien that can turn invisible, intangible and can breathe ice."
Drew, surprised :"Ooh, that's amazing."
Zak :"Wait, but I thought you said you had different aliens? What's this about naming the same alien then?"
Alistair :"Not exactly. Remember, I said I initially had 10 aliens and predators. And yes, my aliens were different from Ben's. But you see, my watch can scan other species' DNAs and add them to my collection of transformations. It has already scanned all of Ben's aliens, so even though I didn't have them at first, now I have them as well."
Ben, grumpy :"Which is totally unfair."
Alien :"Hey, don't blame me, blame these things' creator. It's not my fault mine has extra functions."
Drew :"Wait, species? Not just aliens?"
"Aliens have their own species, Drew. I thought that was obvious." Doc said, chuckling awkwardly and in fear when his wife glared :"But that does make me curious too. Since you said it scans other species' DNAs, does that mean that even animals and cryptids aren't exceptions?"
Smirking, Alistair stood up :"Switch to Cryptid Mode." The symbol of the Nemetrix morphed into a backwood C with a line connecting it to a smaller circle under it :"[Switching from Alien Mode to Cryptid Mode.]"
With the settings changed, the hologram of his available transformations appeared in red before he gently slapped it. As they covered their eyes from the blinding light, Alistair appeared in a different form entirely.
"¥¢%£." He said something that the Tennysons couldn't understand, but understood with his smug and proud mannerism. With the familiar tawny fur and primate-feline appearance, he looked nearly the same as Fiskerton.
But thanks to being the prime of his species, some differences were inevitable. Like the bulging muscles that made Fisk look skinny, the jawline gifted by Lemurian Jesus himself, and the overall facial differences that interestingly enough, showed the handsomeness.
"Ah." Cat-Ape swung his head to the side, gently, dramatically, in slow motion, causing his beautiful fur to move with the air, looking photogenic as fuck. And as the Saturdays watched in pure shock, Fisk folded his arms, looking grumpy and saying something along the lines of "show off".
The shock of the Saturdays was justified. Sure, they were extremely shocked at hearing how the two could change into aliens, but seeing Alistair turn into what they were most familiar with, cryptids, shocked them a lot more.
"Whoa!" They said, looking at him in wonder. Ben, matching Fisk's expression, looked up at him :"So is that a new Mode you've unlocked?" Nodding, he lightly slapped his Nemetrix, returning to normal and sitting down :"Yeah, unlocked it when the watch scanned Fiskerton's DNA. Pretty cool, right?"
"Pretty unfair, if you ask me." He mumbled, rolling his eyes. Chuckling, Alistair ruffled his hair, causing him to pout. Realizing something, Drew's eyes widened :"Wait, so if you can scan cryptids' DNAs too, does that mean that the Krakken..."
"Was also scanned?" The noiret finished her sentence for her, smirking smugly as he activated the watch to display the red hologram of the beast they had confronted a while ago. They wowed in wonder, before Zak spoke up in excitement :"Guys, can you transform so we can see your other forms?! Please?!"
"Well, there's a little problem with that." Ben scratched his cheek :"The watches have time limits of around 10 minutes. And unlike Alistair, I'm stuck in my transformation for that 10 minutes when I transform. And since it takes a few minutes for the watches to recharge and be usable again, it will take a while for you to see all of them.
That can be avoided if Alistair here is willing to put up a show though, considering he can apparently switch between transformations. Actually, on that subject, weren't you going to help me with seeing if my watch has that function too or not, Al?"
"Actually, on that note," the noiret snapped his fingers, grinning at remembering something :"I have an awesome idea!" Getting up again, he held up his watch :"Switch to Alien Mode!" And so did the Nemetrix :"[Switching from Cryptid Mode to Alien Mode.]" Before lightly slapping it.
"Remix!" When the light faded, a short alien in a white suit with black lines and a headphone appeared. Ben raised an eyebrow :"How exactly is that going to help with what I asked? Did you finally transform into what you didn't want to, like how it happens to me so many times?"
"Unlike you, Ben, I don't abuse my highly advanced alien device." Remix said dryly :"So, no, that didn't happen, and just doesn't happen as you've seen for yourself until now. And no, I didn't mis-transform. I just wanted to try this."
With a beeping sound and a light shielding him for a moment, Remix duplicated into three. Max and Ben looked confused, and even Gwen looked up from her laptop to see what he was trying to do. While the Saturdays were just surprised at how the new alien could self duplicate.
The Sonorosians nodded at each other, smirking nervously and excitedly, as they lifted their hands and lightly slapped the Nemetrix symbol on their chests at the same time. The good old red light flashed, but this time, there were three of them. After shielding their eyes from the light, the group turned to Alistair blinking his eyes.
Their eyes.
(A/N: I just noticed red (Ben) and yellow (Alistair) are for when the watches timeout, so since Alistair transforms back instead of timing out, it just flashes red. It was my mistake previously.)
As the noiret blinked his eyes, feeling an unfamiliar sensation of internally missing something, he looked to his sides for confirmation. And as he did, he clarified his succession. He had succeeded in what he had considered one of the biggest, if not THE biggest wasted potential of the entire Ben 10. Echo Echo's ability to turn Ben into several people.
But now, as he looked into his own eyes beside him, which he definitely noticed more wildness, arrogance and crave for violence inside of, and his other eyes on his left, which held more compassion, kindness and gentleness than his normal eyes, he knew that he had succeeded.
(A/N: If you met your own clone and got along with each other, would you suck his dick or let him suck your dick 🤔? Or would you go even beyond that? It's these kinds of questions that keep me up at night, goddamn it!)