Laziness made me not write a chapter and I have gotten my motivation back to write.
Enjoy!
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CHAPTER 2
"Ermmm... Yukari, right?" Max was the first to break the silence now that the blonde woman in front of him was no longer a threat. "You said there will be more of you, yes? Where is their location right now?"
"They are currently on standby, but I suggest we gather more of your Plumbers for a briefing so I do not have to repeat myself." Yukari replied with a smile. "The group I belong to kept our existence to the outside hidden for centuries until the Incurseans... forced my hand, shall we say?" She said with a playful tone despite the Incurseans are now causing mayhem around the globe right now.
"Then Tenshi and Suika are part of that group, right?" Max inquired.
"Correct." She said simply, "I assume you have another question you want me to answer?"
He stared at her for a few moments before nodding in confirmation, he kept observing Yukari from head to toe. The Magister couldn't help with his instincts, telling him that the woman in front of him was not a normal human or not really one at all. He had his fair share of encounters of Alien species that resembled humans and humans with superpowers over the years but he couldn't make sense out of Yukari at all. Yukari muses at his observation. "Ask away."
"I would normally pass you off as a human with magic or an Alien who can disguise herself as a human but there's something more to that." Max stated. "You are neither of those."
"Good observation." She praises before nodding. "I am a Youkai, beings such as myself from Japanese mythology."
"Let me tell you about Gensokyo; a land where fantasy thrives after humans have stopped believing in the supernatural..."
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Tenshi, Suika and Ben were inside Blukic and Driba's workstation as the two Galvans were fixing the Omnitrix the best they could. Suika was drinking sake from her gourd while Tenshi and Ben were having a conversation.
"So..." Tenshi began as her gaze landed on the Omnitrix. "That device on your wrist lets you transform into any creature of your choosing?"
"Aliens," Ben corrected but nodded anyway. "The Omnitrix lets me transform into all kinds of Aliens to save the day. I'm basically a superhero and a celebrity, even though I have to deal with a lot of stuff due to me being world famous. I've been doing this kind of stuff since I was ten."
"Since you were a child, you say?" Tenshi said with interest. "Must have been one interesting adventure you've had to go through."
"Calling it 'interesting' is one way to say it." Ben agreed, remembering all the fun times he had spent in his younger years. He gave a glance to the Oni in the room who continued drinking from her sake. "What's she drinking?"
"Sake." Suika and Tenshi chimed in together before Suika took another swing from her gourd.
Ben noticed her face being red and realized what she meant by that. "...isn't she too young to drink that kind of stuff? I mean, she looks like she could pass off as a ten year old given her appearance."
"I'm older than I look, kid." Suika said with a straight face despite being drunk. "We Onis can compose ourselves and can still be aware of our surroundings despite being drunk, so wave off those worries."
"Hate to interrupt your conversation, but we finally found the problem." Driba cuts in, Ben looked delighted with the news. "You've activated the Randomizer function."
Ben's smile dropped and gave the Galvan a deadpan. "Thanks. I could've guessed that when it said "Randomizer function activated"!"
"Then our work here is done." Blukic dismissed as he and Driba dust off their hands and were about to take their leave.
"Wait!" Ben called out, making both Galvans stop on their tracks and look at him. "Can you fix it?"
"Most definitely." Driba responded, Blukic grabbed a wrench nearby and smacked the Omnitrix only to earn a "Hey!" from Ben in response.
"I don't think that'll fix it." Tenshi only commented.
Both Galvans looked at each other before Driba looked at Ben. "I'm going to reverse my initial estimate slightly to
"most definitely not"."
Ben was about to say something before Tenshi beat him to it. "So you're saying Ben here will be switching randomly from any of these Aliens from time to time with no way of turning it off?"
"It's a
Randomizer function, but you are correct." Blukic corrected as he put away the wrench.
Driba scoffs, "The human attention span..."
"Hey!" Tenshi shouted, earning everyone present here their attention. "I'll have you know I'm a Celestial and not a human, a former human but still!"
"And pray tell us what a Celestial is?"
"Former humans that have ascended and become residents of Heaven." The Celestial answered with a cocky smirk.
"Heaven?" Ben asked in shock. "As in those pearly gates and clouds?
That heaven?"
"The very same!"
"Does that mean you're━"
"Attention all Plumber personnel, gather at the hangar for briefing. I repeat, gather at the hangar for a briefing by Magister Tennyson."
"Nevermind, we can't have Grandpa waiting." Ben dismissed what he's about to confirm to Tenshi and looked at his Omnitrix in annoyance. "Stupid Randomizer function..."
"Welp, that's gotta suck for ya, huh?" Suika walked towards Ben and patted him in the back in assurance, the pat was strong enough for him to be knocked off of the chair and face planted on the floor. "Oops, sorry about that!"
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Ben, Tenshi and Suika were just in time as they arrived at the hangar alongside a large number of Plumbers were gathered. The Omnitrix wielder noticed a woman with blonde hair in a purple dress was beside Max, the woman noticed him staring at her and waved a hand towards Ben, he shifted his focus to his grandfather.
"Before we begin, I would like you all to meet our new ally; Yukari Yakumo." He gestured to the woman beside her. "She and her group will be deployed to help us against this invasion once the briefing is done."
"Magister Tennyson here is correct, we originally kept our existence in secrecy but this Incursean Empire as you all call them has forced my hand, that's all." She stated.
"Regardless, we have a common enemy. With our limited resources, our only hope is to mount an all-out assault on Emperor Milleous' flagship." Max explained as his eyes narrowed. "If we can cut off the Incurseans' communications, we stand a chance of neutralizing the entire armada in the confusion.
"I'll be joining." Ben began.
"You're gonna sit this one out, Ben."
"Wait, what?"
"We don't even know if your Omnitrix will recharge. And if it does, it'll likely go random again." Max explained, before he turned his attention to Suika and Tenshi, who stared back at him. "You two, Yukari gave me a brief explanation of your abilities and I need you two to go with Beta team to help fight off any Incurseans on ground, while me and Alpha team charge towards the flagship."
"Suika here will be useful on ground to fight off any ground vehicles the Incurseans have deployed with her ability to grow big. Can you do that?" Max asked the Oni, she gave him a huge smile.
"No problem!" She cheered.
"Heh," Tenshi brought her sword. "Leave it to us, they won't know what's coming to them."
"I'm glad to hear that." Max smiled before shifting his focus on the Plumbers. "The operation begins now, I want our ships fueled and systems on top order for this mission! Defend Earth at all cost!"
"SIR, YES SIR!" The Plumbers in the room saluted.
"Alpha and Beta teams, move out!"
All Ben could do was watch as everyone left the hangar with the exception of Yukari. "Uhhhh, are you gonna help them out?"
Yukari only gave Ben a sly smirk. Ben was getting uncomfortable with her smile until he tripped and accidentally fell into a portal which was full of eyes.
Yukari stared at the gap she created before it disappeared, her sly smirk never leaving her face. "You are quite an interesting individual, Benjamin Tennyson..."
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China, Shanghai
One of the largest cities in China was currently getting rained upon by Incursean ships as they fired down lasers on the city, causing as much destruction as possible and Incursean soldiers were flooding the streets on every corner of the city as the civilians ran away in fear.
"Freeze!" One Incursean soldier spotted two out of place individuals standing in front of them. The two didn't run away like ordinary humans. The two figures that were standing in front of them were both human women. One has long scarlet hair and aqua-blue eyes, she was wearing green clothing that resembles traditional Chinese clothing, white pants and a green beret with a gold star on the front. She glared at the Incurseans soldiers and took up a fighting stance akin to that of a martial artist.
The second one has silver hair worn in long braids on both sides of her face with green bows at the ends and a white maid headband. She wears a traditional frilly maid dress colored blue and white, she is holding several knives that was held in her fingers.
Seeing that the two women won't back down without a fight, several Incursean soldiers began firing with their blasters aimed at them but they were swiftly dodged by the two women,
They were about to aim their blasters at the two before their weapons seemingly disappeared out of nowhere, they were caught off guard and didn't get to register as they were punched, kicked, thrown by the martial artist. The next batch of Incurseans soldiers came to aid their comrades before a wall of knives appeared out of thin air and began raining down on them as many of them were taken out easily.
"G-Glor-ry... to th-he Incursean... E-Empire...!" One soldier rasped out before falling unconscious. On que, Incursean space fighters began descending and showring the two women in pink lasers.
"Above!" The scarlet-haired woman yelled out, they narrowly dodged it as more and more lasers continued on showering them. They responded by sending out countless energy bullets towards the incoming ships, any ship that was unfortunate to be hit and sent crashing down to the streets now empty of fleeing civilians.
"Tsk, there are more of these humanoid frogs than I thought." She cursed as more Incurseans kept flooding the city. "Meiling, get ready."
The one called Meiling nodded as took up a fighting stance once again and the maid summoned more knives.
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Bucharest, Romania.
"Hey, look at the sky!" An Incursean soldier pointed at the sky, the sky was suddenly turned night but it looked so unnatural as it seemed the sky was covered in unnatural scarlet mist enough to block the sun causing the city to become dark and cold with the only source of lights were the street lights and buildings.
The blocked sun resembled a blood moon now and there was a looming figure that was floating in the sky which made her presence known to the Incurseans. They got a better look at the figure and it was a small girl with wings on her back.
She has wavy light-blue hair, blood-red eyes, and a pale pink mop cap with a large ribbon pinned on atop her head. She wore a pink dress, a red ribbon tied in the collar, in the short puffy sleeves, in the hem of the skirt, and around her waist.
In her hand was a large blood-red spear and held it firmly.
"How interesting," She spoke with an arrogant tone as she observed the Incurseans. "I wonder what Alien blood such as yours taste like?"
The Scarlet Devil; Remilia Scarlet, lunged down towards the Incursean soldiers with her spear in hand, followed by laughter in another part of the city.
"Looks like she's having the time of her life." She smiled before shifting her focus on the soldiers.
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Tokyo, Japan.
"Love Sign: Master Spark!" A blonde-haired girl in a witch outfit chanted as she aimed a device to a nearby Incursean ship, several space fighters were engulfed in a multicolored beam of light alongside the ship that was targeted in. She floated in the air riding her broom as she avoided several lasers from the soldiers on the ground firing at her with ease.
"More of them." A girl in a red and white shrine maiden uniform cursed as she sent out a barrage of energy bullets to any Incursean ships that were able to dodge the witch's attack.
Both girls were engaging a lot of Incurseans ships as most of the fights were taking place in the air. "Yukari did say that the incident is on a planetary scale. She pretty much gathered everyone who is willing to participate to defend our world from these invaders."
"I am getting a lot of vibes on the incident on the Lunar Capital." She commented.
"Less talking, more shooting!" The witch shouted with confidence, as she charged with the shrine maiden following her from behind.
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Detroit, USA.
A lone Incursean soldier was in a state of panic as he ran across the barren streets of Detroit, he kept running and never bothered looking back as he passed by his comrades that were somehow frozen solid. He looked up and saw a bunch of child-like figures flying around and shooting out balls of energy towards any Incursean ships they could hit with their attacks as another child-like figure wearing clothes that of a jester holding a torch guided.
He heard laughter to his left and saw a girl like one of those humans with wings on her back but hers is shaped like an icicle, he could only stare as she dodge incoming lasers that were shooting towards and began freezing more of his comrades with no hint of mercy.
"This is more fun than freezing normal frogs back home!" She said with joy as she continued freezing more of his teammates solid, she turned her gaze to the lone Incursean soldier that was staring at her, slowly backed away and made a run towards the alley. "Hey, get back he━!"
She did not get the chance to go after him as she was blasted away by a passing Incursean fighter ship.
He couldn't believe his luck when he got away from that crazy girl, he hid behind a dumpster as he finally took a breather. He held his blaster tight for any signs of enemies that might appear, his sign of easing up made him fail to notice a figure looking at him until it was too late for him to register the figure's presence.
Looming over him was someone holding a purple umbrella with an eye and a tongue protruding from it, the tongue was long and it looked like it was ready to eat him whole. He aimed his blaster at the figure but he noticed but he was only nothing but air, sweat began pouring from his forehead as he was now currently defenseless as he backed away from the figure. The figure with the umbrella noticed the fear that was in his eyes began approaching him slowly as the Incursean soldier was currently leaning on the wall behind, he was now cornered with no way of fighting this threat in front of him.
His eardrums picked off something and he heard... singing? The singing continued until his vision became dark, he still didn't felt anyway but the darkness didn't help him brace what's gonna happen to him. He began rubbing eyes as the singing stopped, he opened his eyes and saw blue and red eyes staring to his very soul as the figure's face was so close to his.
"Boo!"
The Incursean soldier screamed and the last thing he saw from his view before blacking out was a head of a human girl with short red hair and eyes with a blue ribbon tied to her back with a manic grin printed on her face as the Incursean soldier was headbutted
hard.
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Bellwood, USA.
The Plumbers quickly exited their tanks as they were able to escape as their tanks were crushed by a giant wheel-like Incursean vehicle that is armed with cannons, they began moving to take cover as they engaged with the soldiers on the streets.
The squad leader of Beta team picked up his Plumber badge. "Ibuki! Take that thing down that is bulldozing anything on its path, we are currently engaging the soldiers on ground!"
"Leave it to me!" Suika's voice could be heard from the badge.
"Sir!" Another voice could be heard from the badge.
"We have successfully evacuated the civilians, we are currently on our way to your location."
"Get your squad here quickly before we get overrun, we won't be holding them much longer!" The squad leader shouted through the badge, he ended the communication and then began firing back at the Incurseans.
Another part of the city, Tenshi is currently dispatching any soldiers and fighter ships that could get close to her as she floats around the area with her Keystone.
"Get her!" She turned around and saw more soldiers coming in and began firing at her, she sliced an Incursean tank before it could fire and began showering soldiers with danmaku and ignoring the rules of leaving no opening.
One soldier tried to her from behind but she was punched away earning a cry of pain from the Incursean as he came crashing down to a building, Tenshi turned around saw Suika landed beside her as she just finished up sending any Incursean soldier flying and crushing any tanks or ships that was in her way.
Suika looked up and took a large leap from the ground and landed on the rooftop of a building, and saw a giant vehicle with a big wheel on it.
"That must be the thing he's talking about." The Oni noted, she jumped from building to building until she finally reached the vehicle. She lunged at the vehicle, the cannons attached to it aimed at her as she began enlarging herself until she was as tall as the Incursean wheeled vehicle. She brought her leg and sent a diving kick towards the vehicle, it attempted to drive away to avoid her attack but to no avail as she made a large dent on it halting it from causing more destruction even further.
She landed on the ground with a thud, she looked down and saw several Incursean soldiers just stopped what they were doing and just stared at her in awe and fear. She brought her hand up and formed a fist, they cried out of fear as they began running away like headless chickens.
Teshi floated beside her as she just finished cutting several Incursean ships in half, she looked up and saw a larger ship come down from orbit and crash down outside of Bellwood.
Both looked at each other before nodding their eyes, Tenshi flew towards the crash site and Suika, still in her giant form, began jogging her way as well.
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"Surrender now!" Max and Attea demanded in unison, pointing their weapons at each other as their respective ships landed near Milleous' flagship.
"I'm afraid we have you outnumbered," Max stated as some Plumbers ships flew above them.
"Look a little higher, old man." Attea smirked as some Incursean ships flew above them. "Now who's outnumbered?"
Max only flashed a smirk back at her which confuses her, he pointed his left hand up in the air and saw the giant figure of Suika towering the Incursean ships alongside Tenshi who floated besides her with her arms crossed as large boulders levitated from the ground.
"Call off your ships, Attea" The Incursean Princess looked over to see Ben standing near the flagship, Rook keeping his Proto-Tool ready as he stood behind a handcuffed Milleous. "Or say goodbye to daddy."
"Go ahead. I dare you!" Attea challenged, earning a raised brow from Milleous.
"Daddy, please. It's not like he has the guts to do it." She explained as Psychobos exited Attea's ship, a remote control in his claw.
"Here's what's gonna happen, kid…" Milleous began as he looked at Ben looking smug about something. "You're gonna let me go, you're gonna leave this planet... and never come back."
"And why would I do that?" Ben asked with a frown.
"Do the honor of showing him, Dr. Psychobos." The Incursean ruler ordered the Cerebrocrustacean.
"With pleasure." Psychobos said as he pressed the button, a large pink pillar or light appeared where Plumber Headquarters is located.
"You have wondered what happened to that mind control juice I grabbed on Revonnah." She asked with a smirk.
"No. Maybe." Ben responded before a massive shadow loomed over him, he looked up. "What?"
A massive figure landed near them with a thud, it was a To'kustar but felt corrupted and mutated. It has a gothic feel when it comes to its appearance, its skin color is gray and purple with black markings on their lower arms. Its eyes bore no pupils and were completely red. It let out a roar as it made its presence known only its face to be punched by Suika, the Oni grabbed the mutated To'kustar and sent her flying with a throw. It didn't get the chance to fight back as Suika began beating it down.
Ben let out a laugh. "One Way Big. Look, Suika over here is beating her up like it's nothing."
"You nincompoop!" Psychobos taunted. "It's mutated and feral, one might be down but can she━"
"Shh!" Attea shushed him. "I want to see his face."
"Anyone can hear me?" Tenshi pulled out her own Plumber badge as the communicator function continued to speak.
"This is Magister Arnux, the Incurseans are raining down To'kustars under their control around the globe. I repeat, the Incurseans are raining down To'kustars under their control around the globe!"
As on que, more mutated To'kustars were released from Incursean ships that were on standby above the sky as they dropped to the ground, Suika had to stop beating down the down female mutated To'kustar just to stare at the sky as it was raining down more of its kind around the world.
Ben's jaws dropped as several To'kustars began wandering around, he hung his head and let out a sigh. Milleous smirked. "I see you anywhere near this system... and I mean
anywhere, my mutated To'kustar pets destroy everyone and everything you care about!"
Ben was shocked, everyone already used up all their resources and everything their got to defend Earth from the Incurseans. But now? They got them cornered.
"No." Ben denied, he clenched his fist as he glared at the Incursean ruler. "I'm not leaving Earth."
Max walked over Ben and placed a hand to his shoulder, looking sad for some reason. "Ben, you have to go."
"Grandpa, no. I can't let them win!" The Omnitrix wielder argued.
"Earth is theirs now, there is no way we're winning this in our current situation." Max admitted.
"There has to be a way!" Ben shot back. "I never let Vilgax win or Aggregor, or━"
"Ben." Max sighed.
"I've never backed down, and I'm not about to back down now!"
"Ben!" The elderly Tennyson raised his voice, "I already thought I'd lost you once today. At least this way, I'll know you're alive."
Ben knew his grandpa was right, anything he could try to argue back only made his throat sore as he couldn't think of anything to counter back. He turned around and glared towards Milleous, Milleous only gave him a smug look. "Fine."
"You win."
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My apologies if the fight scenes looks lackluster, I am still new to writing one and felt a bit lacking more whenever I try to write fight scenes in general.
Anyway, this is where I'm gonna left off with the Incurseans winning... or do they?
All comments and criticisms are welcome!
Bye-bye!