Chapter 01: One Strange Night

Jaune Arc was your typical seventeen year old guy with blonde hair and blue eyes who just wanted to carry on his family's legacy of being heroes. To NOT be a disappointment to them.

Was that too much to ask?

Apparently it was as he sat by himself on a bus to anywhere, he didn't know where, wearing nothing more than plain blue jeans and a black hoodie with the inside being red.

You see… He ran away from home.

At first it was in order to forge fake documents to allow himself to get into Beacon whose new year would start in a month, but he dropped that plan when he held his Great-Great Grandfather's sword, Crocea Mars and thought it over.

He just couldn't do it.

Not only was his Arc family honor making him rethink the idea in the first place, but doing so would prevent someone else who truly deserves to get in from doing so.

He couldn't force himself to be that selfish.

So he just left without a word that night, leaving the sword and shield there as well.

Jaune knew in the back of his mind that running away wasn't the answer at all, but with everyone in his family are heroes, including his seven older sisters who were Huntresses as well while he couldn't swing a sword or shoot a gun to save his life, how could he face being the disappointment.

His parents did care, but being the youngest of eight children, all of them extremely successful, put high expectations on him and no matter what he did, his sisters did them first not making it matter much.

So now he was just on the bus, not knowing what to do with his life as all he wanted to be was a Huntsmen, but that was out of the question.

Hearing the bus coming to a stop, Jaune looked out the window to see that it was near a campground just on the outskirts of Vale, the last stop for the night and the bus driver was giving him a look that said 'time to get off', so he grabbed his gym bag and got off, the bus driver not paying him any mind as he drove off, kicking dust into the air causing Jaune to cough.

It was almost midnight anyways and he could head to Vale the next morning to hopefully find a job that he could do.

But unknown to Jaune Arc, he would have a bigger problem than finding a job soon enough.

A problem that would come from the stars.

A blue and green ship shot through the depths of space, dodging red laser fire from an even bigger ship.

As it drove on, one of the shots from the big black and red ship slammed into the back of the smaller ship causing smoke to pour out of the back.

"Their propulsion systems have been destroyed." A synthetic voice spoke up as inside of the bigger ship a red robot with black armor spoke up, turning to a being who sat on the command chair.

"Prepare to board." The creature spoke as it was in black armor with spikes protruding from his shoulderblades and hanging down his face like a beard were green tentacles.

This being was known to many in the Universe as Vilgax, a galactic warlord that was appropriately named 'The most dangerous being in the Universe' who commands his own synthetic army to do his bidding.

But all of that mattered little compared to what is on that ship, something that he was willing to chase this ship until the ends of the Universe for

And when he has it, no one would be able to stand against him.

"I want the Omnitrix, now." Vilgax snarled impatiently.

However, the smaller ship had time to fire a blast right at the control room, the explosion blasting Vilgax back as he was damaged badly.

In retaliation, Vilgax's warship returned fire, causing the smaller ship to explode, but not before firing a small metallic orb to the nearest planet.

Remnant.

Jaune gave a small groan as he was walking through the woods with his hood pulled up, a part that has been cleansed of Grimm recently for the people camping for the summer.

Grimm were the creatures of destruction on Remnant, as creatures without a soul they are ruthless and drawn to negative emotions.

Every year, this area is cleansed out by Huntsman and Huntresses to allow people to camp out, it's not entirely safe as maybe one or two Grimm are left unaccounted for even the civilians have weapons in order to defend themselves from a couple.

Giving a sigh, Jaune kicked a stray pebble as he watched it skip a bit before looking up at the night sky, seeing all the stars shining while the fractured moon was pretty bright that night.

That was when he saw a streak going across the sky. "Is that a shooting star?" Jaune asked as he smiled and decided to make a wish for the hell of it. "I wish I could somehow become a Huntsman."

As he said that, Jaune began to chuckle at the absurd wish.

As if that would happen-.

Jaune blinked as the shooting star seemed to veer off course of the direction it was going-.

Oh dust, it was heading right for him.

Eyes widening, Jaune turned around and began running as he could see that the streak was glowing orange, showing that it wasn't a shooting star at all.

-Frakaboom-

The result of the falling object hitting the ground created an explosion as the shockwave knocked Jaune off of his feet, causing his hood to fall off his head as he was sent rolling on the ground.

"Ugh." Jaune muttered his back aching from the hit as he pushed himself up before he saw the size of the crater.

Now feeling curious, Jaune began to approach the crater, stopping at the very edge as he saw that it was a round metal object.

"Is that a satellite?" Jaune asked curiously before the ground beneath him crumbled and he tumbled down before he was right next to it.

That was when it opened up to show-.

"A watch?" Jaune didn't know whether to look surprised or disappointed at what it was. "What's a watch doing in outer space?"

It was a very big black and grey wristwatch with a grey dial that had green buttons and a green hourglass symbol on the face, the symbol lit up for some odd reason.

"But it's still pretty cool." Jaune reached out to get a closer look when something unexpected happened.

The watch leaped out and clamped onto his left wrist, freaking Jaune out as he stumbled backwards, waving his wrist trying to get the watch off as it wouldn't budge.

"Get off me! Get off, get off!" Jaune was now tugging on the watch as it seemed to be stuck to his skin.

He couldn't get the damn thing off.

Running away from the crater, Jaune kept his hand on the watch as he tried to yank it off before he grabbed a stick and tried to jam it under the top of the watch to separate it from his wrist only for the stick to break.

"Great, I ran away from home and now I'm stuck in the woods with a watch from outer space stuck to my wrist!" Jaune cried out as he threw down the broken stick in frustration. "And I can't believe I just said that with a straight face!"

Leaning against the tree as he barely kept himself from banging his head against it, Jaune just looked at the watch before shrugging.

"Might as well see if I can check the time." Jaune muttered as he began to mess with it, but when he pressed one of the buttons, the face shot up, changing from an hourglass to a diamond symbol, as a silhouette was shown on it causing him to blink. "What the?"

The silhouette looked like it had a flame on the head as Jaune looked around.

"Weird." Jaune muttered looking it over.

That was when he lightly pushed the face to make it go back down.

If anyone else was watching they would've seen a flash of blinding green light, but for Jaune he saw molten magma erupt from the watch covering him and in a second he was gone.

In his place stood a being composed of a bright inner magma body covered by a dark red or brown rocks with the hourglass symbol, now white, on his chest.

But what caught this creatures very attention was one fact.

"AH I'M ON FIRE!" Jaune screamed out his voice different as he began to move quickly, running. "I'M ON FIR-."

Jaune stopped his freak-out mid rant as he realized that he wasn't feeling any of the pain.

"I'm on fire… But I'm okay?" Jaune snapped his fingers as a small flame appeared. "In fact, I'm smoking hot."

Jaune snickered at the, admittedly horrible, pun but it worked in calming him down.

"Okay, so watch from outer space set me on fire… Fire that I can control." He made an orb of fire, ready to throw it before remembering that he was in a forest. "Right, shouldn't mess around, I might cause a forest fire near the campgrounds-."

That was when his eyes widened as he remembered that he was close to the camp and the impact from the watch combined with his screams could cause people to investigate.

He had to get out of there before anyone saw him.

With that in mind, Jaune began to run farther away from the campgrounds as he was being extra careful not to set anything on fire.

"What do you mean it's not there?" The pained voice of Vilgax could be heard as he was in a tube with wires around him. "This battle nearly cost me my life and you say that the Omnitrix is no longer on board when it was sent to transport it?!"

The explosion that injured him took quite a bit of damage as the Galactic Warlord was missing one of his arms and both of his legs as well as a chunk taken out of the elbow on his remaining arm.

"Sensors indicate that a probe was jettisoned from the ship just before boarding, it landed on the planet below." The robot commander relayed.

"Go." Vilgax snarled in a pained whisper. "Bring it to me."

A few minutes into the woods, Jaune paused as he heard a snarl and turned to see a wolf with pitch black fur and red eyes wearing a bone like mask with red markings as it snarled at him.

'Beowolf.' Jaune thought taking a subconscious step back before realizing that the creature was wary around him. 'Right, I'm on fire.'

That was when he remembered his wish and smirked. "Come at me fuzzbutt." He mocked as the Beowolf circled around him, most likely attempting to find a weakness.

Considering it was taking its time, Jaune took the initiative and pointed a finger. "Bang." He joked as fire blasted from the finger, covering the Grimm as it yelped for a few seconds before falling over dead. "Oh yeah, can't take the heat?"

'This is awesome, I just killed a Grimm-.' Jaune paused as he thought about something very important.

"Wait… Am I going to be like this forever?" He asked looking at his smoking hands while the Beowolf began to disappear.

A sudden beeping caught Jaune's attention as he looked around before noticing the symbol on his chest flashing red a few times.

"What the-?" A flash of red light erupted and a second later, Jaune was back to normal. "Okay, that answers that question."

Looking from the decaying Beowolf to the watch on his wrist, the same one that changed him into a fire starting… whatever he was and Jaune grinned as he chuckled before it turned into full-blown laughter.

"What else can this do?" Jaune went to mess with it again only to see that the symbol was now red and wouldn't respond. "Is it recharging or something?"

'So I have a time limit as fire-... I need to think of a name for him.' Jaune thought randomly as the gears in his brain began to turn. 'But anyways a time limit and it changes me back before having this watch recharge?'

That was good to know.

Back at the crash site, another object from space crashed right next to it, the dust clearing to showcase a giant 40 ft tall robot with a humanoid features and three crab legs as its eyes scanned the area before seeing the empty case where the Omnitrix used to be.

In response to that it fired a laser, obliterating it before two discs shot off its shoulders to show two UFO shaped drones as they took off into the forest, most likely searching for whoever found the Omnitrix.

Jaune gave a small yawn as he was messing with the watch again once it began to glow green.

He hasn't moved at all from the area where he killed the Beowolf and it took the watch up to five minutes to recharge.

Instead of pressing down to become the fire guy again, Jaune actually decided to call that form 'Heatblast' to make it easier to remember, he turned the dial as he could see nine other silhouettes when he did that.

"So I change the dial and boom, ten forms?" Jaune couldn't keep the grin off his face as this watch was pretty cool. "Maybe I can become a real Huntsman with this on."

But first he needs to figure out what all of these forms can do and see what else this watch is capable of.

Knowing the limits of this could save him a lot of trouble.

Jaune paused as he heard something.

Turning he saw an orange UFO like thing as it hovered near him scanning the area before it's scanners zoomed in on his new watch.

Seeing something pop out of the shoulder, Jaune decided not to take any chances and dove to the side as a laser beam shot out of it and hit the ground, knocking him off of his feet.

Rolling around, Jaune slammed his hand on the watch, not caring what it was on as his veins began to bulge from the watch before orange fur covered him.

In a second a giant eyeless orange dog like creature snarled as slobbered dripped from its huge canines, the symbol on the shoulder blade as it looked in the direction of the robot.

Sniffing the air, the gill like nostrils on the side of its neck stiffened up as Jaune could see through other senses, it was built like a thermograph as the robot fired again.

Instinct took over for Jaune as he dodged the rapid fire jumping onto a tree branch as the hands and feet of this form had thumbs so he was able to use them to grasp the branch and jump from one to another before landing on the top of the robot, using his sharp teeth to tear it apart.

Landing on the ground sniffing it, Jaune almost didn't see the second one coming as the senses went overboard.

Ducking another shot, Jaune snarled at the robot as he circled it, his senses honed before running and using the sharp claws to slice the shoulder mounted gun off as he did a backflip, his back feet slicing the robot in half.

Landing, Jaune let out a roar of triumph before sitting down as he began to scratch his neck like a dog.

Shaking his head as dog slobber flew everywhere, Jaune sniffed around the area hoping that he wouldn't run into anymore of those things.

The beeping caught him off guard again as he wasn't in this form for as long as Heatblast before he was back to normal on all fours.

Jaune shook his head as he stood up. "I really hope I don't get fleas from that one." He said rubbing his neck.

He couldn't even speak in that form either, but it had its uses.

… He should probably focus on why two robots just tried to kill him.

"Are these from Atlas?" Jaune muttered as there were rumors about them experimenting on robotics flying around.

Placing a hand on them, Jaune idly wondered if he should look into this or get out while his good luck remained.

Right now, option 2 seemed to be winning him over.

Standing up as he wiped the dirt from his jeans, Jaune paused as he heard explosions coming from the campsite that he was trying to get away from and before he knew it, he was heading right for there.

It didn't take long to reach the camp as his eyes widened to see it as a warzone with fire burning everywhere and a-... A GIANT ROBOT?! That's what was attacking.

Jaune noticed that it looked briefly like the two that attacked him before he saw people still running away from the camp, some of them were firing their weapons reserved for Grimm, but nothing was working.

"Hey." He stopped a random person. "Where are the Huntsmen and Huntresses?!"

"We barely just got the call out, but they won't make it for awhile." The person shouted as he ran by Jaune. "Get out now!"

A laser seared a tree, as it landed between Jaune and the man fleeing before he turned to see that the robot didn't notice him yet, it was firing blind-.

Like it was drawing something out.

'Me, it was drawing me out.' Jaune realized clenching a fist as he remembered how he destroyed the other two. 'If I just left that pod alone, maybe this wouldn't have happened.'

Shaking his head, Jaune began to mess with the watch, the face popping up.

Give him something, anything to take this thing down.

Stopping at one that looked big, Jaune slammed the palm of his hand on the watch before green crystals began to cover him as his eyes turned yellow.

What Jaune noticed when he finished transforming was the fact that his hoodie transformed with him this time, as four green spikes erupted from his back through it and he glared at the robot who turned at the flash, the sensors zeroing in on the watch's symbol on the upper left chest area.

"I don't know what this form does, but I'm going to kick your tin ass." Jaune said his voice a bit deeper as he went to run at the robot before it backhanded him right through a few trees.

People stopped running as Jaune pushed himself up, nothing but his pride hurt, staring in fear at the new person in the field as he shook his head.

"Okay is that all you got?!" Jaune asked making a motion to throw his hand to the side in a mocking motion, causing diamond shards to shoot outwards towards the Giant Robot, piercing the armor. 'Diamond Projectiles?'

Raising both hands, Jaune kept up the fire before the Robot shot a beam at him and Jaune winced as he was blasted back, but not before seeing the energy rebound and hit a nearby boulder while he crashed into a camper that exploded.

A second later, a diamond blade pierced through the camper as Jaune cut himself out with his arm being the sword.

"T-That should've killed me." Jaune muttered as he looked at his arm, a plan forming in his mind as the robot came at him again.

Running to the side, he began firing projectiles to piss it off and he was rewarded when it fired another beam.

But this time, Jaune stood his ground as he put both hands up, the impact making him slide back a few feet as he struggled with the beam rebounding a bit, hitting a tree like a light reflecting off a mirror.

"Something tells me you should've seen this coming." Jaune managed to get out as he shifted his hands enough to where the beam sliced through the robot causing it to explode before he fell to one knee, his hands giving off smoke.

Jaune looked back up as he could hear clapping and he turned to see the people who were running away earlier were cheering him on.

"Way to go you-you… Diamondheaded guy." A random person called out, obviously wondering who the heck he was.

'Diamondhead?' Jaune thought as he smirked. 'That name could work for this form.'

"Well my work here is done." Jaune said standing up as he gave a nod before running through the flames to prevent people from following him.

"Failure?!" Vilgax snarled as he was being told what happened while nanomachines were working overboard to repair the damage done to him. "Unbelievable. The puny Remnant being who is keeping the Omnitrix from me will soon hang from my trophy wall."

It was a quiet day in Vale as people were going on their daily business.

"Extra, Extra, hear all about it, Giant Robot attacks campsite." A Paper boy was shouting before a sonic boom could be heard as a blue and black streak ran by him, taking the paper and leaving Lien in his hands with dust flying by the guy who blinked in complete confusion.

The blur kept moving before running up the side of a building as it came in through a hotel room to show what looked like a blue velociraptor that was obviously Jaune as the symbol was on the chest where his hoodie was now practically armor, the blue and black striped tail swishing behind him as the hood was practically a motorcycle helmet with a red visor.

The helmet opened up to show a blue face with blue eyes and black lips.

"Nice." Jaune said in a hyperactive tone as he held the paper.

'Robot attacking civilians? New Hero on the rise?'

The beeping came soon and the form disappeared to show Jaune who looked at the watch.

"How did I live without you?" Jaune asked with a smile as the hotel room he was in was only provided because he made a lot of lien by breaking off some of the diamonds from when he was Diamondhead.

The idea came to him as he was running as diamonds were pretty valuable, so he broke them off and rented a hotel room for the next few days.

But as he put the paper down, Jaune frowned in thought.

He still didn't know who sent those robots, that meant that more may come as he was pretty sure someone wouldn't go to all that trouble to just give up.

Who was it and what do they want with this watch-?

Jaune winced at the stupid question about why anyone would want the watch… The real question would be who wouldn't?

Well, he'll cross that bridge when he comes to it.

And until then he'll see what else he could do, master what he can and help people when they needed it.

To Be Continued…

Right… So this kind of happened.

I've seen stories where Ben always ends up in Remnant through one way or another, but only one story where Jaune gets the watch instead.

After all, the watch could've ended up anywhere on any planet, in this case Remnant.

Now there are quite a few differences despite the stuff from the first Ben 10 episode happening, one of them being no forest fire.

I figured Jaune would be smart enough not to do that.

Anyways tell me what you think and if I should continue this.