Author note: yes i'm back from the grave and finally uploading another story which happens to be my very first Ben 10 story so please be kind, this story takes place between the original Ben 10 series and Alien Force, i'd also like to point out that there will be some gory scenes in future chapters and there's one in this chapter as well, so with all of that aside i hope you enjoy my story ^_^

Feedback was currently in a junkyard blowing up old car batteries, using his antennae and tail he stole electricity from another car battery and charged a lightning ball in his right hand, he then threw the car battery high up in the air "Pull!" he shouted and shot electricity at the battery, causing it to explode; Feedback then repeated his actions with a different car battery, but as he got ready to shoot electricity again the Omnitrix beeped and he changed back to his human form while the battery was in the air "Man" he groaned out before the battery landed in front of him, with a sigh he headed back to the Rust Bucket. When he entered the Rust Bucket he was greeted by his Grandpa, Gwen and... "Azmuth, what are you doing here?" he asked

"we need to talk to you about Feedback. It's not healthy to grow too dependent on any one alien form" Max stated

"if you keep overusing the conductoid DNA, it will have a detrimental effect on your ability to control other forms" Azmuth explained

"what, so don't use Feedback anymore? Forget that!" Ben snapped before storming out of the Rust Bucket.

Once outside Ben began to run "Ben, wait!" Gwen called out from the Rust Bucket making Ben stop to which Gwen rushed over to him

"you made them say that, didn't you, Gwen: 'cause you're jealous you can't turn into aliens like me?" Ben snapped

"you honestly think Azmuth would listen to me or anyone else? You did this to yourself Ben" she snapped back

"I'm the one wearing the Omnitrix. I can turn into whichever alien I want, and no one can stop me!" Ben stated

"I beg to differ" another voice said they both turned and saw their enemy Malware aiming his blaster at them they both dived to the sides before a powerful laser shot past them and struck the Rust Bucket, causing it to fall down sideways "I am here for Azmuth" Malware stated, Ben stood up while Gwen used her mana to grab the Rust Bucket.

"You picked the wrong hero to mess with again" Ben said

"so you pick the right hero Ben! Remember, the only time you ever beat him as Diamondhead!" Gwen stated as the Rust Bucket started to tilt up.

Ben activated the Omnitrix and slammed his hand down on it, transforming him into Feedback "Yeah!" Feedback said

"This is no time to try to make a point!" Gwen said as the Rust Bucket tilted more, Malware blasted another powerful laser which Feedback absorbed effortlessly

"relax Gwen, see? What goes around comes around!" Feedback said before he was struck in the side by another laser which made him release the electricity and shoot it into the side of the now upturned Rust Bucket. Malware leapt up in the air and came down on the downed Feedback thrusting his laser into Feedback's stomach hard before firing sending Feedback down into the ground.

Malware looked down into the deep hole before turning to Gwen whose hands were now glowing brightly with mana "I would highly suggest you don't attack me unless you want to suffer the same fate as he did" Malware said before turning his attention to the Rust Bucket he had only taken three steps before something leapt onto his back

"hey ugly don't count me out just yet" Feedback said before he flipped over Malware and kicked him in the head making him stumble back.

"you brat, this ends now!" Malware said as he charged up his laser to the max and fired it at Feedback.

"you read my mind big guy" Feedback said as he cupped his hands out in front of him and fired a large beam of pure electricity at Malware, the two beams collided and were now trying to force the other back "not bad Mally but try this out" Feedback said before his antenna's and tail joined in forcing Malware's blast back.

As Feedback's beam got closer and closer to Malware, Malware began thinking 'no I can't go out like this, beaten by a child again, I refuse to accept such a fate I don't care what it takes I refuse to let this brat win!' Malware then summoned every scrap of energy he had and put it all into his attack his beam trippled in size and forced Feedback's attack back like it was nothing

"what the!" Feedback shouted before he was engulfed by Malware's attack, the beam tore through the forest disintegrating nearly everything in its path until it finally exploded.

When Malware's attack finished all if his red lines faded and he fell forward with a loud thud "ha ha ha I did it I finally killed that little brat" he said now completely unable to move due to having no energy left. Gwen looked at the now downed Malware in complete shock at what he had just done she was so shocked that she didn't even hear her Grandpa calling out to her

"Gwen come on let's go!" he called out to her

"we don't have time for this Max, Malware isn't going anywhere anytime soon, Ben is more important right now" Azmuth reasoned, knowing not to question someone like Azmuth Max started up the Rust Bucket and drove off as fast as he could along the path of destruction.

Meanwhile

At the end of the path of destruction Ben was lying on his back looking up at the sky, he had sustained horrific injuries and technically shouldn't even be alive he was missing ¾ of his right arm, his waist down, and 1/3 of his head while the rest of his body was burned and he had a few gashes here and there, but despite all of these injuries he couldn't feel a thing. "hmm so this is what dying is like, I thought it would be more sad and painful" he said in a content tone he could now start to feel himself get weaker while at the same time his favourite song from a few years ago began playing in his head even though he hadn't heard it in quite a few years the lyrics were clear in his head "well 'cough' seeing as how I'm going to die anyway I might as well sing my favourite song to keep my spirits up till the end" he said before he began singing it:

Shiver My Timbers, shiver My Soul
Yo Ho He Ho
There are men whose hearts as black as coal

Yo Ho He Ho

And they sailed there ship across the ocean blue
A Blood thirsty captain and a cut throat crew.
Its a darker tale as was ever told
Of a lust for treasure and a love of gold...

Shiver My Timbers, Shiver my sides
Yo ho he ho
There are hungers as strong as the winds and tides
Yo ho he ho

And those buccaneers drowned there sins in rum,
The devil himself would have to call them scum!
Every man on board would have killed his mate for a bag of
ginnys or a piece of eight, a piece of eight, a piece of eight
5 6 7 8

(Max and Azmuth were now were now searching furiously for any sign of Ben as they drove down the path of destruction)

HULA WOKA HULA WOKA SOMETHING NOT RIGHT
MANY WICKY ICKY THINGS GONNA HAPPEN TONIGHT
HULA WOKA HULA WOKA SAILOR MAN BEWARE

When the money in the ground there's murder in the air,
Murder in the air.

(Ben now, despite being so weak that he couldn't keep his eyes open anymore, had a huge smile on his face as he kept singing)

ONE MORE TIME NOW

(As Max and Azmuth neared the end of the path of destruction they saw something on the ground at the end lying in a large dark puddle)

Shiver my timbers, Shiver my bones
Yo ho he ho
There are secrets that sleep with old davey jones
Yo ho he ho

When the main sails set and the anchor is weighed
There's no turning back from any course that's laid

(Max brought the Rust Bucket to a screeching halt before he and Azmuth got out saw the shredded remains of Ben singing...badly)

And when greed and felony sail the sea,
you can bet your boots there'll be treachery HA HA HA...

The rest of Ben's song was cut off as Azmuth zapped him with a device encasing Ben in a light blue dome "that was a close one" Azmuth said

"my god" Max said now white as a sheet as he looked at his grandson

"don't worry Max, he's safe for now as long as he stays in that Pacific Bubble" Azmuth said before he spotted the now jet black Omnitrix that had the charred remains of Ben's arm left inside it picking it up he examined it "it's more durable than even I expected" he said before turning back to Ben "but more important matters first" he then pressed another button and Ben and the Pacific Bubble disappeared in a flash, Max turned to Azmuth "relax, I've sent Ben to Galvan Prime, the doctors there can do more for him than any of the doctors on this planet" Azmuth explained "now let's collect your granddaughter before..." Azmuth didn't even get to finish his sentence as a huge explosion rocked the whole forest just as badly as Malware's attack had been, Max and Azmuth were both knocked off of their feet and sent tumbling from the aftershock of the explosion.

When everything had died down Max stood up "Azmuth are you okay?" he asked as he saw the tiny alien dust himself off

"a scrape or two but I'm fine, now as I was saying let's collect your granddaughter before we head to Galvan Prime" he said before Max picked him and the Omnitrix up and quickly got back inside the Rust Bucket which had only rolled forward "oh and you don't have to worry about her by all accounts she's the one who did that anyway" Azmuth said which only relaxed Max a fraction.

Slightly Earlier

After Max had drove off Malware turned his head towards Gwen "you can begin thanking me now" he said which left Gwen almost speechless

"w-why would I t-thank you" she managed to say

"why isn't it obvious, you hated him and thanks to me he will never be a bother to you again"

"I may not have gotten along THAT well with Ben but I'd never ever want to see him hurt"

"oh please, spare me that sickeningly sweet sentimental rubbish, I've observed you two for a while now and I've seen the looks of hate you constantly give each other, admit it you've wanted him out of your life permanently for ages" Gwen's hands began to glow pink again as her rage towards Malware rose "all of the insults, all of the fights, when has he ever done anything nice for you in the slightest" the glowing began spreading from Gwen's hands to all over her entire body while tears started to flow down her face "and now you'll never have to worry about that stuff anymore because he's dead thanks to me!"

BOOM!

An explosion of light erupted from Gwen temporarily blinding Malware, when he could see again he saw that in Gwen's place was a humanoid that was a deep-dark purple colour all over with long flowing tendrils of 'hair,' which were a bright pinkish purple glowing colour "by Galvan Prime" he whispered out

"Ben and I may not get along well" the humanoid raised her hands above her head where a light blue ball of light appeared which slowly got bigger "and sure we may fight and bicker" the ball continued growing as she slowly rose into the air "but we're still family and I love him" for the first time in his existence Malware was starting to get scared "and if he's still alive I'm going to do everything I can to change our relationship to that of a brother and sister" she then moved the ball and aimed it straight at Malware "NOW DIE!" and she fired the ball at Malware resulting in a massive explosion that completely obliterated the area turning the clearing into a smoking crater. once most of the smoke cleared the humanoid floated back down to the bottom of the crater. As soon as her feet touched the ground there was a flash and she turned back into Gwen who fell to her knees panting heavily "I...can't believe...I...just did...that" she panted out, she felt like she just ran a mile.

"GWEN!" she looked up and saw her Grandpa coming down the side of the crater "Gwen what happened here!" Max asked

"you...wouldn't...believe me...even...if...I told...you" she panted out

"I take it Malware was on the receiving end of all of this" Azmuth asked from Max's shoulder

"yes" Gwen replied

"well that takes care of one problem, now off to Galvan Prime" Azmuth said before he pressed a button on the same device he had used to transport Ben and the next thing they knew they were in a hallway "Ben is currently in that room as we speak getting fixed up there's a waiting room straight down the hall I'll come down once I get a full report on Ben's status" he said before he walked into the room with the door closing behind him, seeing that Gwen was too tired to stand up Max picked her up and carried her to the waiting room

"thanks...Grandpa" she panted out

"it's alright Gwen but once you catch your breath I want you to tell me what happened" he said

"sure" Gwen replied.

Once she had caught her breath Gwen told her grandpa what happened, when she was done Max was quite surprised "I was wondering if someone was going to inherit that" he said

"inherit what Grandpa?" Gwen asked

"I'll tell you when you're a bit older but for now let's just say that your grandmother was not all she appeared" he said cryptically making Gwen give him a questioning look, another question came to her mind

"do, do you think Ben's going to be okay?" she asked

"I don't know Gwen" he said in a slightly grim tone "in all my years as a plumber I have never seen anything that bad" he replied before a small smile "I don't know if Guardian Angels exist or not but if they do one must have at least partly watching over Ben" his smile got even bigger "it's funny when Azmuth and I found him he was singing that silly pirate song from that kids movie he used to watch over and over years ago" he said as tears came to his eyes, Gwen hugged her Grandpa while hoping that Ben would be alright.