A Day Unlike Any Other (Ben 10/Multicross)

"Well, I'll admit that this form isn't as ugly as flame head, but what use is it?" You scowl for a moment, even though it is a very good question.

You take a few moments to slowly rub your hands across your face. Everything... feels mostly the same. The gloves that your new form is wearing feels like they are made of that like... Microfiber cloth stuff that your dad uses to wipe off his glasses. You've got a mouth, which is filled with what feels like regular human teeth. Your nose is a bit smaller than it used to be, and it's more... upturned than your nose is. Two eyes as well, set right where they should normally be, though they do feel like they might be a little bit bigger than they are for your human self.

There's also a really hard thing sticking out the center of your forehead - it's round and just about the same size as the faceplate of the watch. What is a bit weirder is that you don't feel any hair? Instead, it almost feels like your head has some kind of ridges on it instead.

"I dunno..." You admit, looking a little sheepish, even as you pause to lick your lips. This isn't like with the fiery guy, where you could see colors that you didn't have words for, and there were sounds that you couldn't pick up when you were human. Then there was the whole... sense heat thing. You didn't feel the heat, it was a whole new kind of sense, unlike anything that you had ever experienced as a human. "I bet that it'll be awesome though!" You loudly, boast, thumbing your chest with a huge grin before popping over into the RV. Seriously, you are suddenly really thirsty.

Heading into the kitchen, you open up the fridge and grab a water bottle. You take a deep drink, before pausing to look at your gloved hands again.

This alien wasn't like the fiery guy, everything about this new alien just felt... normal.

Then again, as you had just told Gwen outside, you had felt just as normal while you were the fiery guy. None of the things that you had done while you were that alien had felt out of the ordinary in any way. You had just... done whatever came naturally. The fact that what had come naturally was setting the forest on fire was really kind of besides the point.

You guess that's the funny thing about trying to do what comes naturally though - whatever comes naturally to you, comes naturally. It's something that you simply do, with barely a thought. You've no idea how you would intentionally do that - and so you stand there for a moment, continuing to stare at your hand and the water bottle you're holding as if they might have the answers hidden within them. Unsurprisingly, your hands don't seem to have the secrets of the universe hidden within them, they are just hands after all.

However, since you're already in the RV, you might as well take the time to go and check out the mirror in the bathroom and see what this weird new alien looks like. It was a little less obvious when you were standing in the kitchen, given how long it's been since the last time you spent time in the RV, but it is still just distinctly strange to see everything and have it all be bigger and taller than you feel that it should normally be.

Regardless, you head into the bathroom, and you find yourself soon staring at the figure in the mirror.



The fact that the first thing that you noticed was the fact that you were blue makes you feel a little stupid. Rather... The fact that you looked at this little blue guy and instinctively recognized him as yourself, despite the fact that you look nothing like that is strange. You don't have any of the features that you who you are, but that doesn't seem to matter to your mind.

Your reflection is you. A moment of thought makes you realize that this is probably related to the whole thing that the watch was doing that made it so that you didn't feel strange when you were transformed like this. Though... the realization that your new watch might be doing more to affect your mind than just making it easy to use the different aliens you had discovered does worry you a little.

This new version of you has blue skin, with these really odd white markings on your face. Slowly, you trace a gloved finger over one, but you don't feel any difference from the rest of the skin around it.

Maybe it's the fact that you finally have a mirror to use to look around and see yourself, or perhaps it's the fact that this alien is a lot more human-like than the fiery guy...

But it's really starting to hit you just how strange this evening has turned out for you. How much different everything seems to be even from how they were less than an hour ago.

Here you are though, having been transformed into a blue-skinned alien. You've got like, fact tattoos or something and your head has tentacle ridges. This should be the weirdest thing that you've ever had happened to you. Not that it isn't, but it distinctly doesn't feel that way, and that is the part that is really weirding you out now.

Returning to the fire outside, you slide back onto the rock that you had been sitting on before. "Done freaking out over being an alien?" Gwen asked, sitting across the fire from you, still munching on marshmallows. "There's no reason to be so blue, at least you aren't another walking natural disaster." It takes you a moment to realize the horrible stupid joke she said, and with a groan, you reach down to the bundle of sugars that she threw at you earlier. "Ben!" She sounds almost scandalized, "That's been on the ground! Don't ea-" You don't even let her finish before flicking your wrist and tossing the marshmallow straight at her. It flies straight and true, bouncing right off your cousin's nose. "Eww! Ben! Gross!" She cries out, grabbing a marshmallow from the bag and throwing it back.

With a surprising amount of ease, you feel your eyes follow the little candy as it spins through the air, and you catch it with ease. "Nice!" You cheer with a laugh. Then, naturally, you throw it back at your cousin again. She sputters and throws one back.

Before you can grab the marshmallow that she threw at you this time, you pause. You hear something, a deep thrumming noise, and it's clear that Gwen heard it too.

You turn, as something comes barreling out the trees.