This story follows the storyline, but with some changes. The Omnitrix will have a mixture of classic and future aliens at the start. Some chapters might also be crossovers. I don't know how the story will turn out so enjoy.

Chapter 1: And Then There Were 10

In space, a small spacecraft is being blasted by a much larger ship, piloted by a green alien with tentacles, called Vilgax.

"What's the command, Lord Vilgax," asked one of the drones.

"Destroy that ship," said the all–powerful Vilgax. "I want the Omnitrix and there's no being in the Universe that can stand in my way."

The only force in the Universe that could stand in the way of Vilgax was a bored 10–year–old boy who saw fit to spend time in making paper airplanes during class.

Ben Tennison was a lot of things, including lazy and selfish. At least he could make awesome paper airplanes. Ben folded the last crease of his latest "masterpiece", checked around to see if nobody was watching him, and then let it fly across the classroom. The paper aircraft landed its target in the back of his teacher's head. The teacher glared over her shoulder and Ben hid himself behind his textbook, even though Ben rarely read anything that didn't have colorful pictures of heroes.

(Theme Song:

It started when an alien device did what it did,

And stuck itself upon his wrist with secrets that it hid,

Now he's got super powers, he's no ordinary kid,

He's Ben 10!… (Ben 10! Ben 10!)

So if you see him, you might be for a big surprise,

He'll turn into an alien before your very eyes,

He's slimy, creepy, fast and shiny; he's every shape and size,

He's Ben 10!… (Ben 10!)

Armed with the power, he's on the case,

Fighting off evil from Earth or space,

He'll never stop 'till he makes them pay,

'Cause he's the baddest kid to ever save the day!

Ben 10! (Ben 10! Ben 10! Ben 10!)

Thirty more unbearable minutes learning about boring dead guys before the clock slowly ticked away to the last second until summer vacation started. Ben was getting the feeling that time was moving backwards just to keep him in school for as long as possible. One minute left…

"Come on, come on," groaned Ben impatiently.

" - and I just want to remind you all that I'll be teaching summer school this year and it's not too late to sign up," announced the teacher.

"Yeah, right," Ben scoffed under his breath. And then, finally, the single greatest sound in the history of school: the final bell signaling the end of the day. "Yes! I'm outta here!"

"Have a good vacation, everyone," said the teacher pleasantly as her students filed out of class. That is, until Ben was about to take his last steps towards freedom. "Benjamin!"

Ben stopped in his tracks and turned back to his teacher, grimacing as she held up his paper airplane with a look of disapproval.

"Could I have a word with you before you go," asked the teacher, leaving no room for argument.

Ben walked back in, groaning. Will his suffering ever end?

Meanwhile, just outside on the school ground, the playground bullies, Cash and J.T., had cornered another one of their unfortunate victims, a student named Jamie. It was common to see these two picking on weaker kids to steal their money or just bully them out of some twisted sense of amusement.

"Normally, we'd take your money and beat you up," said Cash. "But since it's the last day of school, we're gonna give you a break." He leaned over his helpless victim, holding his hand out. "Now fork over the cash so we can get out of here!"

"Leave him alone," demanded Ben, appearing on the scene.

"Get lost, Tennison," said J.T. irritably.

"I said, leave him alone," repeated Ben.

"Looks like we've got ourselves a hero," said Cash tauntingly. He and J.T. walked over to Ben, looking down to him. "Suppose we don't wanna leave him alone."

"What are ya gonna do about it, Tennison," asked J.T.

The three boys faced off in a classic stare down before Ben decided to get physical and rushed at the bullies.

Five minutes later, he and Jamie were both hanging from a tree next to the road by their underwear. Both boys had visibly annoyed expressions.

"Thanks a lot," said Jamie with a glare.

"I was just trying to help," said Ben sullenly.

"Next time you wanna play hero, make sure you can back it up," said Jamie, crossing his arms and huffing.

Ben bowed his head and groaned to himself. He hated feeling so helpless, especially when all he did was try to do the right thing.

That's when the most beat up vehicle in the history of the world pulled up in front of the school. Ben knew this RV well enough to affectionately call it the Rust Bucket and knew the man in the Hawaiian shirt sitting behind the wheel.

"Come on Ben, we're burning daylight," said his grandpa Max. "I wanna make it to the campsite by nightfall!"

"Uh… Grandpa, a little help here," shouted Ben, pondering how his grandfather couldn't see the situation he was in.

A couple of minutes later after Grandpa Max pulled him down and his underwear was safely tucked back in his pants, Ben stepped into the Rust Bucket bursting with excitement.

"I've so been looking forward to this," said Ben. His excitement quickly died down when he saw his red–headed cousin sitting near the window with an annoyed expression. "Gwen? What are you doing here? What is she doing here?" He turned to his grandpa in horror.

"Take it easy, dweeb," said Gwen. "This wasn't my idea. Somebody convinced my mom that going camping for the summer would be a good experience for me."

"Grandpa, please," Ben whined. "Tell me you didn't do this."

"I thought it would be fun if your cousin came along with us this summer," said Max kindly before furrowing his brow at them. "Is that a problem?"

Neither of them said anything, mostly because they didn't to upset or disappoint their grandfather. After about twenty minutes, the trio headed straight towards Yosemite Park which Grandpa Max had told them would be the first stop on their summer adventure. Ben and Gwen sat across from each other, trying to look anywhere except at their annoying cousin.

"I can't believe this," complained Ben. "I wait all school year for this trip and now the Queen of Cooties is along for the ride."

"Hey, I already had my whole vacation planned out too, you know," Gwen argued back, pulling out a colorful sheet of paper from underneath the table. "Each activity is color–coded so I never did the same thing two days in a row. Now I'm stuck going camping with my geekoid cousin for three months."

"Geek," hissed Ben.

"Jerk," retorted Gwen.

"Something tells me this will be a long summer," said Max, suddenly regretting this entire trip.

After hours, the Tennisons finally reached their destination in Yosemite Park and Max parked the RV near the campsite. Ben and Gwen went out and it didn't take long for Grandpa Max to come out with the dinner.

"Chow time," said Max in a good mood.

He set the bowl between Ben and Gwen, both of whom stood up and stared into the bowl…and the slimy, wormy white things that were crawling inside it. The two cousins disagree on many things, but their grandpa's cooking is one of the few things they agree on. Suddenly, neither of them felt hungry.

"OK, I give up," said Ben, feeling a little squeamish. "What is that?"

"Marinated meal worms," said Max. "Hard to find them fresh in the States. They're considered a delicacy in some countries."

"And totally gross in others," said Gwen, grimacing as one of the white things fell out of the bowl and started crawling alongside the table.

"If these don't sound good, I've got some smoked sheep's tongue in the fridge," said Max.

"Ugh," groaned Ben. "Couldn't we just have a burger or something?"

"Nonsense," said Max. "This summer's going to be an adventure for your taste buds. I'll grab the tongue."

As Max walked back inside the RV, Ben sidled over to Gwen and whispered:

"OK, I've got a half–eaten bag of corn chips and a candy bar in my backpack. What do you got?"

"Some rise balls and hard candy," answered Gwen desperately.

"Think we can make them last the whole summer," asked Ben despairingly.

The two cousins stared at the meal worms with a renewed sense of dread. This was gonna be the worst summer ever…

Meanwhile, the battle in outer space continued to rage. Vilgax's massive warship fired relentlessly onto the smaller transporter until one shot successfully hit its tail, effectively stopping the ship in its place.

"Their propulsion systems have been destroyed," one of the droids informed.

"Prepare to board," said Vilgax. "Bring me the Omnitrix!"

But before he could celebrate his conquest, the ship's alarms suddenly blared and the command center was washed in a flare of flashing red lights.

"What's happening, asked Vilgax.

"The ship's shields have been destroyed," said one of the droids worriedly. "The bridge is exposed."

"How is this possible," shouted Vilgax.

Using the moment, the small transporter took notice of the warship's lowered defenses and took one last desperate shot at the giant ship. The green bolt of energy successfully smashed through the warship's walls and hit the bridge with a mighty explosion that consumed Vilgax and nearly half of the drones working inside the command center. Then suddenly from outta nowhere the warlord ship fired a single shot from its central cannon which blasted the transport spaceship to pieces so that only the front remained. After that, a silvery capsule was catapulted from the side of the ship which made its way to the planet below, Earth.

As the war raged on in the starry skies above their heads, Ben and Gwen were still on the edge as usual. In an added effort not to talk to one another, each one occupied themselves with their own activity. Ben put all his attention in beating the newest level on his Sumo Slammers game and Gwen was typing her latest diary entry in her laptop. That's when Grandpa Max walked out carrying a bag full of marshmallows – he wanted to give the cousins something since they rejected the meal worms he so graciously offered.

"Who wants to roast marshmallows," asked Max. Despite his offer, both Ben and Gwen refused to even turn around, much to Max's charging. "OK…um…how about we tell scary stories?"

"Scarier than having to spend a summer with your freak of a cousin," said Ben tauntingly.

Gwen glared over her shoulder and said, "I'd like to, grandpa, but I'm busy looking for cures for extreme doofusness. Nothing yet, Ben, but let's not give up hope."

"Aw, come on, you two," said Max. "We're all in this together. Either you can mope around like this the whole summer or we can have some fun. Now what do you say?"

"I vote for moping," answered Gwen automatically.

"I'm gonna go take a walk," said Ben, standing up, stowing his game and leaving for the nearby forest.

"I think they're starting grow to one another," muttered Max.

In the forest, Ben complains to himself how his entire summer vacation is ruined when he sees a "shooting star" which suddenly changes course and heads towards Ben. The 10–year–old boy runs and barely manages to escape the "star's" path of destruction. Then, he decides to check it out only to fall in the crater and to see a pod, which contained the Omnitrix.

"A watch," Ben asked himself. "What's a watch doing in outer space?" Ben then smirked and reached out for the watch when suddenly the watch launched itself onto Ben's left wrist. "Ahhh!" shouted Ben as he tried to shake the watch of off him and climbed up the crater and ran, but suddenly heard someone crying and went towards its source.

When the crying became louder, Ben stopped and saw a crying girl sitting beside one of the trees. She was wearing a light pink T-shirt, red trowsers and white shoes.

"Hey, are you OK," asked Ben as he slowly approached the girl who stopped crying and looked at the young boy standing in front of her.

"Don't hurt me," begged the girl thinking the boy was gonna do something bad to her.

"Hey, it's OK," said Ben. "I'm not gonna hurt you." Ben kneeled in front of the girl and put a hand on her shoulder, surprising the girl. "What's wrong?"

The girl looked at Ben and was sure that the way he acted, he wasn't going to harm her. She stayed silent for a few seconds before answering, "I came to camp with my parents. One day, they said they were gonna chop down some wood for campfire, but they never came back." The girl couldn't hold anymore and started crying again.

"Hey, hey, hey," said Ben. "There's no need to cry. You don't want to attract the attention of a bear or another wild animal." Ben tried his best to calm her down, but with no avail when he came up with an idea. "You know, it'll be easier if you tell me your name and I'll tell you mine. How does that sound?"

Once again, the girl stopped crying and looked at Ben. "I'm Angel."

"Hi, Angel. My name is Ben," Ben introduced himself to Angel. When she didn't start crying, Ben said, "OK, you didn't cry so we have an improvement. Now, tell me for how have you been alone in this forest."

"I'm not sure," answered Angel. "Three or four days."

"You've been alone for such a long time," asked Ben shocked to which Angel nodded. "It must've been hard."

"It is, especially if you're afraid of the dark," said Angel.

"You're scared of the dark," asked Ben.

"Yeah," answered Angel. "But I saw a shooting star 5 minutes ago and hope my wish comes true."

"Now that's a small problem," said Ben sadly. "Look, Angel. I don't want you to lose hope, but that "shooting star" was everything but a shooting star. It was actually a pod which held this weird watch that doesn't want to get off," said Ben as he showed her the Omnitrix on his wrist.

"I haven't seen a watch like this one before," said Angel when she saw a strange green button. "What does that button do?"

"I haven't tried it yet," said Ben as he saw the button and pressed it which caused the watch's hourglass to pop–up and a strange silhouette appeared. "OK, now that's cool," said Ben as he pressed the hourglass and was surrounded in green light, causing Angel to cover her eyes.

When the light died down, in Ben's place was a monster that looked like it was made from living magma. The visible innards were made from yellow lava while the surface was covered in red rocks, and the creature's hands and head were made out of fire. Above everything else was the watch's symbol appearing on his chest.

Angel couldn't believe what she was seeing. The watch on Ben's wrist turned him into some kind of an alien. For a moment, Ben was quiet, until he screamed, "Ahh! I'm on fire," shouted the monster and started to run around in circles. "I'm on fire! I'm on fire," continued the monster until he realized something obvious: "Hey, I'm on fire… and I'm OK. Angel, can you believe this?"

"How is that possible," asked Angel, finally finding her voice.

"I'm not sure, but it looks awesome," said Ben and with a flick of his wrist he shot a small fire ball at a dead tree, completely destroying one of its branches. "That's what I'm talking about."

"Be careful, Ben," said Angel. "I've got a bad feeling about this."

"Don't worry, Angel," said Ben. "Everything's gonna be fine." He then cupped his hands together and produced a much larger fireball. "Check this out."

Ben shot the fireball through a series of trees like they were made out of paper. He started to feel very proud of himself… until he realized that his fireball exploded and spread to the other trees faster than expected. In no time at all, Ben and Angel were facing off against a massive forest fire that was jumping from tree to tree every second. Ben yelped and flailed his arms in panic.

"No, wait, stop," shouted Ben at the fire, as if expecting it to obey him.

"We're going to die," screamed Angel as she started to cry.

"No one is dying, Angel," said Ben as he attempted to stomp out the smaller flames on the ground, but that only made them stronger. "I'm gonna get so busted for this."

"I'm scared to death," said Angel fearfully. "I don't want to die. Isn't there a way to stop these flames?"

"I'm not sure," said Ben as he continued to stomp on the flames. "This would be so cool, if weren't so… not cool."

Without neither Ben, nor Angel noticing, not too far from them was Gwen with a fire extinguisher, putting out the flames. The 10–year–old girl was doing a pretty good job, until she hit something, or someone with her back and thinking it was a tree, Gwen turned around a sprayed it with the extinguisher, but then the "tree" faced her and what she saw caused her to scream when the fire monster talked.

"OK, I know this looks bad, but -," the fire monster started to explain, but Gwen hit him with the extinguisher, sending him crash into a tree and sprayed him once again.

"I don't know who you are, but you better stay down if you know what's good for you," threatened Gwen, but then the fire monster set her shoe on fire, causing her to panic and sprayed the fire away. "I warned you."

"Don't even think about it, freak," said the fire monster. The last word took Gwen by surprise. Only one person called her "freak".

"Ben, is that you," asked Gwen, now knowing it was her cousin. "What happened?"

"Well, while I was walking I saw a shooting star, only it wasn't a star, but some sort of a meteorite with that weird watch which launched itself and got stuck on my wrist and then I heard a cry from a girl -," started Ben, but stopped when he remembered about Angel. "Oh, no! Angel! She's still in the forest! Angel, where are you?"

"Angel," asked Gwen with a raised eyebrow. "Ben, what are you talking about?"

"I met with a girl, named Angel after that watch stuck itself on my wrist and before I turned into this," explained Ben. "She's still around. I know it. We've got to find her."

"Gwen," a voice got their attention a saw none other than their grandpa. "What in the blazes," asked Max when he saw a fire guy next to his granddaughter.

"Hey, grandpa," said Gwen and pointed at her cousin. "Guess who."

"It's me, grandpa," said the fire guy.

"Ben," asked Max. "What happened to you?"

"Well, while I was walking -," started Ben, but was interrupted by Gwen.

"Excuse me, but there's a major forest fire we have to deal with," said Gwen.

"And we have to find Angel," said Ben when they heard a scream.

"What was that," asked Max.

"It's Angel," said Ben. "She's in trouble!" As he said that, Ben ran towards Angel's scream, followed by Gwen and Max, only to find her surrounded by flames. "Angel, hang in there. I'm gonna get you out of there."

"And how are you going to do that without burning her," asked Gwen.

"Ben, can't you control these flames," asked Max.

"I don't know, but I'm gonna try," said Ben as he stepped forward and inhaled and after a few seconds, the flames got absorbed, leaving burnt trees everywhere around the group. "I didn't know I can do that."

"Let's get out of here before the forest ranger comes," said Max as he went to pick Angel up.

"Yeah, it'll difficult to explain how Ben turned into a fire creature and started a forest fire," said Gwen as she, Ben and Max, with Angel in his arms, got back to their campsite. When they got there, Ben, Gwen and Angel sat near the campfire while Max went to get some marshmallows and after he returned, he saw that Angel was sitting closer to Ben then before.

"How's everyone," asked Max as he brought Gwen's attention.

"I'm worried about Ben," said Gwen.

"Don't worry, we'll find a solution to this," said Max as he joined the children and sat down.

"Hey, I don't wanna be a fire guy for the rest of my life," said Ben. "How am I going to play I the Young League if I charcoal the ball every time I touch it."

"Is he gonna stay a fire monster forever," asked Gwen worried.

"He's not a monster, he's an alien," said Max, causing Ben, Gwen and Angel to look at his strangely. "I… I mean, look at him. What else could he be?"

"Just when I thought this summer was going to be normal," said Ben.

"Let's hope it's only temporary," said Angel.

"We'll try to figure out what's wrong, Ben," said Max as he tried to encourage his grandson. "Don't worry."

Just as Max said that, the hourglass on Ben's chest beeped and blinked red and after a few seconds, Ben was surrounded in a bright red light, causing Angel, Max and Gwen to cover their eyes. When the light died down, everyone saw Ben back in human form.

"I'm me again," said Ben happily.

"It looks like Angel was right," said Max as Ben continued his struggle to get the Omnitrix off of him. "I better go check out the area where the watch crashed. You guys stay here ad don't mess with this thing until we figure out what exactly it is," said Max as he stood up and went into the forest.

Back in space, Vilgax was placed in a recovery tank and was very angry when one of his droids told him that the Omnitrix wasn't on the transporter.

"What do you mean it's not there," asked Vilgax the droid.

"Apparently, the ship has fired the Omnitrix to this planet," said the droid as it showed Vilgax an image of Earth.

"At least we know where it is," said Vilgax as he turned to one of his much larger robots. "Go! Retrieve it for me."

The robot nodded and was fired from the ship towards Earth where it crashed and quickly found the Omnitrix's capsule, the only problem was that it was empty. The robot destroyed the capsule with its laser and released two drones from its shoulders to search for the watch.

Back at the campsite, Ben and Angel were behind the RV, with Ben trying to figure out how to use the watch.

"Why don't you push the green button," asked Angel which caused Ben to face palm.

"How did I not think of that before," Ben asked himself.

"Catcha," shouted Gwen as she laughed, causing Angel to hide behind Ben in fear. "You're so busted."

"Haha, real funny, like your face," said Ben as he went back to the campfire, followed by Angel and Gwen and continued to mess with the watch.

"Didn't grandpa tell you not to mess with this thing," Gwen asked worried that Ben might do something crazy.

"Yeah, but think about. If I manage to figure out how to use it, I can use it to help people. I mean really help them, not to make things worse," said Ben as he pressed the green button down.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you," said Gwen as she crossed her arms.

"Of course you wouldn't," said Ben as he cycled through the alien forms and making his choice, he slammed the hourglass down and was surrounded in bright green light. When the light died down, in Ben's place now stood a large alien with yellow and black fur, along with grey fingers and toes. It also had two bolts on the side of his wrists. It had green eyes with black pupils and yellow lightning bolt shaped horns. It wore a green belt where the Omnitrix's symbol was located.

"And what can this one do," asked Gwen.

"I don't know, but a sure did not expect a sasquatch to be in this thing," said Ben.

"I bet it's something really cool," said Angel.

"Ya think," asked Ben as he saw a tree to practice and managed to fire a lightning bolt, completely destroying the tree. "It can shoot electricity? Now that's awesome."

"A sasquatch with electrical powers," asked Gwen.

"More like Shocksquatch if you ask me," said Shocksquatch as he prepared to run. "See ya later." With that, Ben, now as Shocksquatch, ran towards the forest and started jumping from tree to tree.

"Ben, get back here," shouted Gwen. "Ben, I'm gonna tell grandpa that you turned into some kind of an electrical sasquatch and ran in the forest." Gwen paused for a moment and realized that this day was everything but normal.

"I think this alien is cool," said Angel as she came up to Gwen. "At least he won't cause another forest fire."

In the forest, Shocksquatch was jumping from tree to tree, using his improved agility. He stopped to take e breath for a second when he heard a laser being shot and turned around only to instinctively jump out of the way of the laser.

"Hey, who shot that," asked Shocksquatch when he saw a droid in mid–air with a laser gun pointed at him. "I guess you're the one, eh. OK, show me what you've got."

The droid fired more lasers at Shocksquatch, but he easily dodged them and climbed one of the trees, causing the droid to lose its trace of the electric alien when suddenly Shocksquatch came out of nowhere and jumped on the droid. The droid tried to shake the alien of and went straight for a rocky wall. Shocksquatch, however, saw that and destroyed the droid's head with an electrical punch and jumped off of the droid, which crashed in the rocky wall, exploding.

"Take that, robot jerk," celebrated Shocksquatch, but his excitement didn't last long as he saw another droid. "Oh, come on. How many of you freaks are out there?" And things got worse when the watch timed out and Ben was back to his human form. "Not good." Ben closed his eyes, preparing for the worst.

The droid pointed its laser at the 10–year–old and was about to fire when a shovel was smashed into it. Ben opened his eyes and saw Gwen smashing the droid with the shovel.

"Nobody tries to hurt my cousin, but me," shouted Gwen as she continued to smash the droid.

"Ben, are you OK," asked a worried Angel, who came up to him.

"Yeah," answered Ben as he turned to Gwen. "I never thought I would say this, but I'm glad to see you."

"Someone had to come after you," said Gwen when the droid burned. "Let's get out of here." Gwen grabbed Ben's wrist and, along with Angel, quickly made their way back to their campsite where they saw their grandpa with a stern expression and the four of them got into the RV.

"I thought I told not to mess with that watch until we figure out what exactly is," said Max.

"I know, grandpa," said Ben. "But I think I figured out how it works. Just press this button and bam. You're one of the 10 super cool alien dudes!"

"Well, after it can't come off, I suggest we start practicing how to use it," said Max which made Ben happy. However, his happy state was interrupted by a voice coming from the radio.

"Mayday! Mayday! We need help," said the voice. "I don't know how to say this, but we're attacked by a…robot!"

"It sounds like it's one of those things that attacked me," said Ben as he stood up from the couch with determination. "Maybe I can help them."

"You? What are you gonna do about it, Tennison," asked Gwen and she the answer when Ben looked at the watch with smirk.

Ben, Gwen, Max and Angel made their way to the area where the robot was attacking innocent people when they stopped in a safe place where Ben could transform. Ben looked at his grandpa who nodded and Ben pressed the green button, cycled through several aliens before making his choice and slammed the hourglass down and was surrounded in green light. When the light died down, in Ben's place stood an alien whose body was composed of durable pale green crystals. He sported four crystal shards on his back and has a sharp head. It wore a uniform which was black on the right half and white on the left with a black patch on the left shoulder where the Omnitrix symbol was.

"And what can this one do," asked Angel, worried for her friend.

"I don't know, but I bet it's gonna be cool," said Ben.

After Ben transformed, the group continued their way towards the attacking robot and when they got there, Ben saw it wasn't like those from before.

"Looks like papa robot this time," said Ben and turned to Gwen, Max and Angel. "You guys get everyone out of here. I'll deal with that thing."

"You got it," said Max as he and Gwen went to help the campers, but Angel stayed and placed a hand on Ben's left crystal wrist which caught his attention.

"What is it, Angel," asked Ben in concern.

"Nothing, it's just I'm scared," said Angel as her eyes began to tear up.

"Everything is going to be OK," said Ben as he placed a hand on her right shoulder. "No one is going to hurt you. I promise. Now go with grandpa ad Gwen."

"Thanks, Ben," said Angel as she gave Ben a hug before running of to find Max and Gwen.

Meanwhile, the robot grabbed the forest ranger when a voice shouted at it, which brought its attention.

"You looking for me," shouted Ben. The robot threw the ranger and fired its laser at Ben which sent crashing into a nearby building which exploded after a second shot. Ben survives the blast unharmed and attacks back, but the robot jumps and pins Ben to the ground. "Uh oh! Looks like I'm in trouble." The robot gets up from Ben and grabs him and throws him into the ranger's car. The robot fired more lasers, but Ben dodged them. However, one of the lasers hit a tree which was knocked towards Gwen, but Ben manages to slice it and the tree passed over Gwen harmlessly. "So, are we even?"

"Even," nodded Gwen. The robot then grabs Ben from behind and tries to remove his arm, but Ben destroys its hand and the robot sends Ben flying into a building which explodes from the collision. Ben stands up and the robot fires another laser, but Ben redirects it with his hands which were formed like swords. The robot fires one more laser, which Ben managed to stop.

"What comes around goes around," said Ben as he redirected the laser. "Let's see how you like it, techno freak." The laser hit the robot, destroying it.

"Oh, yeah," cheered Gwen and Max.

"Way to go, Be– uh Diamond-headed guy," said Angel loudly.

"Hm, Diamondhead," muttered Ben. "Not a bad name." Ben turned his attention to Gwen, Max and Angel and saw them pointing at some campers. "Well, I guess my work here is done." And with that, Ben, now also known as Diamondhead, made a quick escape, followed closely by Angel, Max and Gwen.

Back in space, Vilgax was angry when he was told that his robots had failed and swears to destroy whoever kept the Omnitrix away from him.

It was now morning, and Gwen and Max were packing up, with a little help from Angel, when Gwen saw that Ben was missing.

"Where's Ben," asked Gwen which made Angel worry a bit.

"Haven't seen him since breakfast," answered Max when they saw a huge cloud of dust coming their way, which appeared to be none other than Ben as new alien which resembled a semi-armored Velociraptor. It had black wheels on his feet. It had a blue face, green eyes, black lips, and stripes above and on the right side of his eyes. It wore the Omnitrix symbol on his chest. It had five blue stripes on his tail.

"Ben," wondered Max.

"Yup," answered Ben. "Hey, check this out." A visor came down his face and with incredible speed he put everything in the RV. "XLR8 is pretty fast don't you think." Just then the watch timed out and Ben was back to human. "I think this is going to be the best summer ever."

"It would appear so," said Max.

"I have one question though," said Gwen and pointed at Angel. "What are we gonna do with her?"

"Let me talk to her," said Ben as he made his way towards the young girl. "Angel, I was wondering if you know the way back to your home so we could drive you."

"I can't remember," said Angel in a sad voice as Gwen and Max got closer to hear what she had to say. "I'm only 8 and like I told you last night, I was alone in that forest for a few days."

"What do you mean 'alone for a few days'", asked Max concerned.

"My parents told me they were going to chop some wood, but they never came back," answered Angel as she hugged Ben tightly for comfort. "I would still be alone if Ben hadn't found me. He's my hero."

"Why do I get the feeling that your parents didn't go to 'chop some wood'", asked Gwen suspiciously.

"Are you serious," asked Ben shocked by Gwen. "What kind of parents would abandon their own daughter in the middle of the forest?"

"Let's not rush into things just like that," said Max as he thought of an idea. "I know. Why don't we make some leaflets about a lost girl and we'll stick them on around the city?"

"No way," shouted Angel which caught the Tennisons by surprise. "I don't want to go back to them. I remember that mom and dad seemed nice, but it was a nightmare for me. Whenever I did something bad by accident, even the least bad thing, they always shouted at me and… hit me!"

"They hit you," asked Ben, completely shocked by what Angel said.

"And that's when I accidently broke something," said Angel with teary eyes. "When I did something worse, they… tortured me!" With that, she broke into tears and hugged Ben tighter who hugged her back.

"I can't believe that such people are capable of doing such a thing to their own daughter," said Max angrily.

"So what are we going to do now," asked Gwen concerned about Angel.

"I think there's only one thing we can do," said Ben with Angel still hugging him. "We take Angel with us on the road trip."

"I can't think of anything else," said Max.

"You'd really allow me to join you," asked Angel hopefully.

"We won't force you to go somewhere you don't want to," said Gwen softly.

"Thank you so much," said Angel happily.

"So it's time for the summer trip to officially start," said Max.

"By the way, where were you Ben this early," asked Gwen suspiciously.

"I just had to take care a few things before the trip," answered Ben innocently.

Meanwhile, back in Bellwood, JT and Cash were hanging from a tree by their underwear.

"Dude, how did we get up here," asked Cash.

"I don't know. It all happened so fast," said JT.

"Hey, somebody. Anybody, a little help up here, please," shouted Cash, trying to bring the attention of the passing by cars.

To be continued…

Here's the first chapter of the story. I tried to make as similar to the canon as possible. If by any chance you haven't figured it out, Angel is my OC. She had a pretty bad childhood before she met Ben, didn't she? Anyway, like I said earlier, the Omnitrix will have a mixture of classic and future aliens and here's a list of the aliens:

Heatblast

Stinkfly

XLR8

Shocksquatch

Ripjaws

Ghostfreak

Kickin Hawk

Diamondhead

Goop

Grey Matter

Tell me what you think and I'll see you next time.

R&R