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Ben sighed as he walked through the dark streets of Bellwood. He was hunched over and seemed to drown in his white and green hoodie, his face hidden by the hood. People who walked by him didn't even recognise him, after all, why on earth would the savior of the universe walk around in the dark all alone if it's not for hero business.

The building around him seemed a boring gray and nothing looked happy or bright. Well, to him at least. These days time seemed to drag itself by. Rook was sent on a solo mission involving some diplomats and a small economic crisis. Apparently loads of alien chocolate was involved and a group of necrofriggian toddlers. So for once Ben was happy to not be involved.

Gwen and Kevin were still in college in the next town over so they wouldn't be stopping by anytime soon. Especially not since exams were looming over Gwen's head in the horizon. So they were out.

But still, why on earth was Ben acting so depressed? Wait no, he isn't acting depressed. Just very sad. And distracted. Maybe a little disturbed. He isn't in the phase of thinking that he-is-so-worthless-that-he-should-just-go-die stage yet, just the ugh-I'm-so-hopeless-why-am-I-so-sad? which is pretty bad but not depression like bad.

Well the truth is, even Ben himself doesn't really know why. Even without his friends he would have just felt bored because he knows that they would come around eventually, they were just busy and he just had to amuse himself in the meantime.

But a few days ago he had suddenly woken up in the middle of the night. And since that night he hasn't been the same. He suspects the omnitrix has something to do with it but he hadn't used it in a while as the past few weeks had been quiet.

Ben sighed again as he thought back to that night a few days ago. He had this nagging feeling that he was missing something. He knew somewhere in the back of his head what it was but it continued to slip his mind. It had been driving him up the walls, hence why he was out late instead of at home playing video games waiting for dinner.

Ben shot up in his bed, sweating bullets and breathing hard. His green eyes were filled with a dazed kind of panic as he looked around his room in pure and total confusion. It was still dark outside and a quick glance at his alarm showed that is was 2 in the morning. Why the hell did he wake up this early?

His eyes roamed about his room as he tried to find anything out of the ordinary. Nothing. The empty pizza box was still there on the floor next to his old sock, his clothes still covered every inch of the floor. His DVD's, movies and game disc's were all still in their chaotically organized places. What was different?

Suddenly something catched his attention. The disc's seened to be reflecting some kind of green light, but only slightly. He immediately looked at his wrist and noticed that the omnitrix was on the menu with aliens. He facepalmed at his stupidity and vowed to himself to never mention this to any of his friends, Kevin already had enough thing to pick on him about.

Ben realised that he must have accidentally activated it when he had woken up. After all, the omnitrix was his greatest weapon and he thought of it as an extension of himself so of course he would have activated it without noticing.

But as he closed the omnitrix he still felt something nagging at him. He layed back down on his bed and turned to lay on his side, facing the mirror in his room.

His mom had put it there in an effort to make him care more for his appearance so that he wouldn't look like a hobo when he went out. Without any of his friends to scold him or any hero business he always seemed to stop caring about his appearance. It just wasn't that important. Though the mirror did help somewhat in making him a little self conscious.

But as he lay there contemplating what just happened, he never noticed as he stared at his eyes that they-

"They glowed!" Ben suddenly screeched as he stood up from the dinner table. His parents flinched at his sudden outburst but ignored it. They continued their meal, chatting about their day and other adult stuff. They had long since learned to ignore these kinds of things with their son. Ben was eternally grateful for this as it cleared up a lot of headaches and explaining as he just told them everything after they happen.

Ben excused himself and ran to his room. Ever since he had gotten back from his walk he had known that the answer was closer than ever, so very close but to his frustrations he just couldn't say it or think it. And during dinner with his parents it had suddenly hit him like a spaceship traveling at speeds faster than light.

Standing in front of his mirror he looked at himself thoughtfully. He wasn't ugly he knew that, but he wasn't very hot either. He did hear a lot of girls say that he looked cute but a little too young. His brown hair was even more unruly than when he was ten and his face still hadn't lost all his baby fat. He was at an average height though seemed shorter than most other guys his age. But he did seem tiny and especially when standing next to Rook or Kevin. Hell even Gwen seemed taller and Ben hated the fact that he looked so young when compared to them. So annoying.

He wasn't very muscular either, something he was pretty grateful for actually. He was built like a swimmer or acrobat. Built for agility and movement unlike Kevin. He was like Rook in that department. Fortunately like his alien partner he was a lot stronger than he looked.

But as Ben looked at himself in the mirror, he turned to what he considered was his best feature. Sure Gwen had them too and they were pretty stunning. Nonetheless everyone admitted that no one could make the green colour work like him. His clothes only complimented them instead of drawing attention away from them. Other aliens complimented him on them. The deep emerald green eyes that ran in the family.

But as he looked at them, he concentrated on them. Trying to draw energy to them as he did in so many times before in his alien forms. And instead of his emerald green HUMAN eyes, glowing lantern green eyes looked at him. Green light came out of his eye sockets.

His hair seemed to be moving in the background, floating on and filled with the energy that came off of him. 'It looks like they're floating in water' he thought absentmindedly. He was far too busy with trying to comprehend what he was seeing. He went through his mental list of all aliens he had encountered in his life and tried to find a match for what he was seeing. After all, this was not normal even for him.

But as he came to realise what it could be he instantly denied it. He had only seen it on some others before but surely he wasn't one of them. But as he thought about, the more he knew he couldn't deny it. He sighed again as he summoned energy to his hands and they began to grow green. 'Seems like Gwen isn't the only Anodite in the family. Joy.' He thought sarcastically. 'Aren't Anodites pink or purple?"

He curiously tried to make a shape like he saw Gwen do when she was training when they were still 10. Suddenly a energy ray shot off from his hand and it hit one of his trophies, leaving a scorch mark on the place it used to be and knocking over the trophy, making a ruckus in his room. "Fiddlesticks" he whispered with wide eyes as he looked at the even bigger mess he made.

"BEN?!" His mom called for him worriedly. "NOTHING HAPPENED! ONE OF MY TROPHIES JUST FELL!" He called back to ease her worries. Not lying but not telling the full truth either. "I TOLD YOU TO CLEAN UP YOUR ROOM, DIDN'T I?" She screeched back. Ben winced as he felt her motherly anger all the way from upstairs. "I'LL DO IT NOW. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO ANYWAY!" He told her, hoping to appease her. When nothing happened and the anger disappeared he breathed in relief. He would need to clean up anyway, it was getting too cluttered, even for him.

'Hmmmmm, what to do with these anodite powers?' He thought to himself as he kneeled down to clean up his clothes from the floor. 'I'm not telling anyone, that's for sure' he decided as he threw his clothes on his bed to put away later. He would learn in his free time when he wasn't fighting or being swarmed by people. He wasn't going to be forced to learn from some stuck up teacher the plumbers would assign him and he didn't want to distract Gwen.

'I wonder when Grandma Verdona will come by again. I would like to see Anodyne sometime.' He thought humming the sumo slammer theme song to himself. He didn't even notice as a thought flashed by in the back of his mind. 'After all, Anodites live longer than humans. I'd rather leave than see them all die anyway.~'

Hey this is my first Ben 10 fanfic! I posted this on my Amino app and Wattpad first so don't be surprised if you find it there. *small smile* I decided to write my own Anodite!Ben fic because they good ones aren't updated nor do they update. How tragic. I really need some. *looks like a zombie as she sits behind her screen, searching* Anyway I'm horrible at writing stories and I wrote this on the fly so no Spelling checks. Or grammar ones for that matter. *sighs* I hate my writing style to be honest and somehow what I hate the most managed to worm itself into my story. Poor character description and too much talk about appearances. It's like I'm making this a poorly written overpowered godlike Ben fanfic like it's some bad Naruto fanfic ripoff. *shudder* I'm actually triggered by what I've written. Not too badly of course as it isn't as if I gave him a new outfit or something but it's just so overused. *sigh* I'm a horrible writer what am I doing? *gross sobbing noises* *turns to readers* Hey you guys! Yeah, I mean you. I know there are some good writers with you guys, so why the hell aren't you guys using this theme to write a fanfic and do it?