Omni-matrix

This is another attempt to write a story hope you enjoy it. Reviews greatly appreciated. I've been drawing the aliens that Ben is currently using, links in my profile. There is also a link to a challenge for new Aliens.

This chapter strays from canon slightly, since the omnitrix is untraceable to all but Azmuth.

Chapter 6

Ben's stomach growled in protest. She was hungry, breakfast was less than satisfactory. Who has enough strength for tentacles in the morning? Luckily they were at a market and Ben could stock up on alternative food, but first she needed something sugary.

Ben got a few packs of M&M's along with a host of other goods. She didn't really care for Gwen still in the shop. Once outside she stopped to admire her 'Wash Me' scribble on the window Grandpa Max was washing, but before Ben could comment an armored truck got destroyed by laser weapons.

Since the bandits were on bikes Ben decided she needed a fast alien to counter them. Ben's hair grew and changed to a light violet as her nose flattened out. The hair got tucked behind her growing pointed ears. Ben's feet grew forming two toes in the front and one in the back. A hard, wheel-like appendage formed between her front toes as her tail grew out. Her hands fused into three fingers with strong, sharp nails and a spike grew from her elbow. Her clothes changed, her tank-top turned into a tube-top and her board-shorts into bicycle shorts. Lastly a pair of goggles appeared around her neck and a band with the omnitrix symbol on her arm.

F8 smiled as she lifted the goggles to her eyes and speeded towards the bandits. She disarmed them rather quickly before dodging the various blows and beams. Two of the bandits scrammed once F8 stopped to boast, screaming about not signing up to fight blue, speedy demons. The last bandit's helmet cracked and fell off revealing a teen with short spiky hair.

"Cowards, it's just a little blue girl." Rojo shouted after them before turning to F8 and aiming her weapon. "I guess I should thank you, more money for me."

F8's world warped as she sped from her position, she could see the beam of the laser move at a snail's pace. F8 ran to find something to reflect the beam away without harming someone she got a mirror from the truck that came of when it was blasted. Positioning it between where she stood and the laser. And then she saw her, a younger girl, maybe 8-years-old with the same blue skin, violet hair and wheeled feet wearing a green vest and long spandex pants. It was clear she was also running in this warped world. F8 smiled at her and she smiled back, but since F8 was stopping the girl warped out of few.

Once the laser went into orbit F8 sped up again and just as she hit Rojo from the one side she saw the girl hit her from the other side. Rojo was out cold and the girls stopped to thank one another.

"I'm Ben or F8 when I'm like this." F8 said as she lowered her goggles and offered the girl a pack of M&M's.

"I'm Helen," Helen said with a smile taking the gift. "I always thought I was the only one. The only one here I mean. My mom used to say I took after my dad, I'm guessing he was one of us too, whatever we are. Say since you and me are alike do you think I can come with you, my mom is gone now and I really don't want to go back to the orphanage, I can't keep my human form that long anymore, mom used to give me warm milk to keep me human for longer and…" Helen stopped when Grandpa Max walked up to them and hit behind F8.

"Grandpa," F8 started, the old man's features softened.

"Sandra always wanted another child, but after the accident…" Grandpa Max trailed of as he dialed his daughter-in-law. Ben changed back to normal.

"I'm not exactly like you," She smiled. "Before this summer I used to be a boy, but since this thing," Ben gestured to the omnitrix, "attached unto me I changed into a girl."

"Cool, so were you a cute boy?" Helen started again. "I once met this cute boy that turned out not to be that cute in the end, his name is Pierce. His father was something else too, I saw the pictures he had a lot of spikes all over his body. Who's this?"

"Hi I'm Gwen, I'm Ben's cousin." Gwen answered.

"Oh, cool." Helen smiled, "If you didn't say you were cousins I would've sworn you were sisters, or if I met Ben when she was a boy I guess I would've sworn you were brother and sister. Say Ben do you have a photo of you as a boy?"

"Ah…." Ben stammered she had never met someone who talked as fast as Helen did. "There is a picture of us in the RV in the glove-box." Helen zipped into the RV and back before Ben could complete the word glove-box.

"Good news Ben," Grandpa Max smiled, "Sandra said they'd be happy to adopt Helen.

"That's great." Helen said then noticed something in Ben's eye. "What's that in your eye? Is it part of the omnitrix? Weird word, omnitrix, is it like some kind of super matrix like that other movie with all the robots. Wouldn't be cool if that was real, well not the robots, maybe aliens. I think that orange girl with the laser sword could be a cool alien to meet what do you think?"

Ben changed into F8 and rushed to get a class of milk, which she super heated with friction with her finger and handed it to Helen. Helen smiled and took the class and downed the milk. Helen's features became more human-like. Her tail shrunk rapidly but didn't disappear completely. The wheel-like appendage on her feet however did as her feet shrunk to human sized feet. The spikes on her elbows retreated and her hands sprouted two more fingers. Her ears got smaller, but were still pointed and her nose became more pronounced. As her skin changed color, the lines in her face disappeared.

"I guess I was going too fast, huh? That sometimes happens when I'm in that form." Helen blushed. "So we're going to be sisters? What's your surname?"

"Tennyson," Grandpa Max smiled. "So you're a Kineceleran?"

"Helen Tennyson, I kinda like that." Helen blushed again, "Sorry, but I don't know what a Kineceleran is."

"Well, I guess I can explain that." Ben tapped the omnitrix which added a new feature the previous night, presentation mode. A holo image sprung up between Ben and Helen displaying a Kineceleran on the omnitrix symbol. The writing looked gibberish but somehow Ben understood it.

"Let's see the Kineceleran is a race from the planet Kinet. They are elfin in appearance with long hair, pointed ears and prehensile tail. Their skin is usually varied shades of blue, depending on the atmosphere of the planet they are on."

"So I'm a half-alien?" Helen asked realization in her green eyes. "That's kinda cool."

Ben turned to dismiss the holo image not realizing Gwen was standing there. The Kineceleran shifted into an Anodite. Ben swallowed hard, she didn't want Gwen to freak out finding out she's part alien.

"What's that?" Gwen asked in surprise, Ben glanced at Grandpa Max for support he nodded.

"It's an Anodite." Ben said slowly but before she could continue Grandpa Max took over.

"Verdona was an Anodite." He smiled, "making both you and Ben part Anodite."

"Wait, I thought Ben was a Kineceleran, like me." Helen said confused.

"The omnitrix actually makes me part of every alien." Ben blushed.

"So…" Helen started the gears turning in her head. "If Ben was already part Anodite and part human does that mean that the omnitrix made doubles of those aliens?"

A valid question, but no one really had an answer to that. Not that anyone would've had the chance. For at that very moment both Ben and Helen were engulfed in a white light being transported to another world.

Upon arrival they were met by an alien barely 6inches tall. Ben recognized him as the alien she saw in the omnitrix dreams and the one on the screen when she spied on Grandpa Max, not that she would reveal the last part.

"I think I know you." Ben said with a smirk.

"I doubt it, my name is Azmuth." Azmuth said, "Ah, I see you engaged the master control of my omni-matrix, cleaver. However I am going to temporary disengage it, for you see this is the Planet Kinet."

"The Kineceleran home planet?" Helen asked confused.

"Why yes, you are a hybrid, are you not?" Azmuth asked in a bored tone. "Fortunately for you that you were so close to young Ben when I brought her here. You see, since Ben is so young the Kineceleran in the omnitrix didn't receive a helmet yet. Meaning Ben has to undergo the ritual. And since you are here you can do it with her."

"Get a move on Azmuth. I know you move slowly, but this is ridicules." A Kineceleran male said from around a corner.

"It seems like they are anxious to start. I wish you luck." Azmuth said. "Omnitrix form lock, Kineceleran, code 1010, two hours."

F8 and Helen went around the corner where the Kineceleran male stood. They were awed by what they saw. After regaining some composure Helen ate the packet of M&M's Ben gave her earlier, the sugar turned her back into a Kineceleran.

"Your task is simple," The Kineceleran male said. "On the other side of the planet there is a cave. Inside the cave there is a Nano-machine emitter. The emitter will latch some nanites onto you. The nanites will form a helmet based on your personality. Watch out for the electrical storms, you have two hours."

The girls were given a tracking device locked onto the position of the Nano-machine emitter. They started to run F8 was in front with Helen close on her tail. With the ever changing environment the simple task of reaching the other side of the planet wasn't an easy feat.

The journey took just over half an hour with a short stop when F8 pulled Helen out of a hole that suddenly appeared. The cave itself was a maze, one that you couldn't speed through. It took about 15 minutes to reach the Nano-machine emitter. Not sure what to do next, F8 placed her tracking device on the machine. It whirled alive and a hive of nanites spun around F8. Seconds later F8's goggles sported a new color theme.

"Throw something at my head." F8 asked Helen the younger girl hesitantly obliged. The rock hit an invisible barrier making both F8 and Helen smile.

Helen placed her tracking device on the machine and just like with F8 the nanites swarmed her. Only instead of an invisible barrier, Helen sported a dark, almost black, green helmet with an elongated upper part, to store her hair and a visor over her eyes.

The girls took their tracking devises and saw a new location at the other side of the planet. Navigating outside the cave they found the path they took blocked by a chasm so they ran the other way around returning seconds before the two hour deadline.

"Not bad for a hybrid and an after image." The male Kineceleran said with a shrug. "Azmuth get them home."

Before they could say anything the light engulfed them again and they were back in the RV. Grandpa Max told them that Azmuth stopped by and told them where they were. F8 changed back into Ben and made Helen a glass of hot milk to cool her down to 'human-mode'.

Unknown to the occupants of the RV a sinister force was busy plotting to take the omnitrix from Ben. The Alien had send out probes around the globe for any signs of the omnitrix and it was closing in on that very RV.

"Soon the omnitrix will be mine." Vilgax said from his recovery tank. "Soon."