Chapter 5 Hawk takes flight

Back in the Cafeteria

The boys are sitting at their table with the new addition of Carter Hall,

"Well it's good to me you Carter," Ben states as he holds his hand out, Carter then shook his hand.

"So I didn't catch your names?" Carter inquires,

"He's Ben, that's Oliver, and I'm Garth" Garth states as he points to Ben and Oliver. The group proceeds to have their lunch.

Meanwhile Downtown

There is a copy of the Daily Planetoid is being blown by the wind, it flies through the streets and then lands on a rooftop. There a dinosaur/dog-like creature goes up to it and picks it up with its jaw. The creature brings it over to a large figure in a cloak, he grabs it and sees the picture of Omnium, Green Arrow, and Aqualad. He begins to form a smile on his face,

"Looks like our prey has finally put himself in the open" The figure states, then he makes a high pitch whistling sound. As he does that the creature begins to change

Back to Ben

The bell rings and the group goes back to their houses, Ben walks his path home but he suddenly stops in place. He sees three people with a duck, panda, and horse mask robbing the bank. Ben looks at his phone for a moment and thinks "Should I call the others?". He shakes his head no,

"It's Hero Time!" Ben utters then his suit forms around his and he becomes Omnium. Omnium then enters the building and the robbers are alerted then point their blasters at him.

"Hey robbers, hate to break it to you but you're going down" Omnium announces,

"Wait, who's this?" Robber in the duck mask asks the other robbers, Omnium stands there in awe.

"The name's Omnium, I'm part of the Invinci Bros, any of this ringing a bell" Omnium rambles, the robbers nod their heads no in response. Omnium rolls his eyes and presses down on the Omnitrix and the green light surrounds his body, his whole body rapidly begins to grow orange fur except for his chest that grows white fur, a black blade appears on each of his of wrists, black stripes emerge around his shoulders, the green light fades revealing Ben becoming Rath. Rath rushes over to the guy in the panda mask and grabs him by his collar,

"Let me tell you something, you panda robber, Rath is gonna turn you from black and white to black and blue!" Rath exclaims, then the panda masked robber points his blaster at Ben with his finger on the trigger. As he is about to fire, Rath uppercuts the blaster into the air and then strikes the robber to the floor. The other thugs begin to rapid-fire at Rath, but he evades their blasts that end up hitting the wall. Then Rath goes on the offensive by plugging their blasters with his blades on his wrist. They try to shoot but end up causing the blaster to explode on them. With the thugs stunned, Rath sweep kicks them to the floor. All the hostages start applauding Rath on heroics which makes him smile. He then notices the Omnitrix emblem begin to flash red,

"Rath must now make his exit" Rath exclaims as exits the building in a hasty manner. Rath makes his way to an alleyway and then transforms back into Ben in his normal clothes. Suddenly Ben realizes something,

"Wait duh, I have a costume I didn't need to leave" Ben states to himself before he face-palms. Ben leaves to go home, but unaware to him, behind was Carter standing there in awe.

"Ben is Omnium, then that makes" Carter states before having a shocking realization, then he lets out a smile.

The next day

Ben is casually walking in the hallway until he feels someone tap on his shoulder, he turns around and sees Carter.

"Hey Ben, could you do me a favor?" Carter asks, then Ben nods his yes. "Could you, Garth and Oliver meet me on the roof of the school at the end of the day?" Ben becomes a bit confused

"Okay sure, I'll let the others know" Ben hesitantly states, then Carter goes off to his next class also leaving Ben still trying to comprehend his reasoning. Ben proceeds to his next period class.

In the Cafeteria

It's the last period of the day and Ben heads over to his table where fortunately Garth and Oliver are sitting.

"Garth, Oliver" Ben gets their attention, "Carter asked us to do him a favor"

"So what is Carter's request?" Oliver asks.

"He wants us to meet him on the roof of the school after the ninth period" Ben states, Garth and Oliver, sit there stunned in confusion.

"Why on the roof of all places?" Garth inquires, Ben shrugs his shoulders in response. Suddenly, an alert appears on the group's phones that read, "Monster attack, get to safety".

"Carter will have to wait, we have to go" Ben states, Oliver and Garth, nod their heads in agreement. The group head out the door and goes into their costumes.

Outside

The trio arrives at the scene in their superhero costumes. Smoke surrounds the domain while people are screaming while escaping the area. The three move into the smoke to find the threat, then they stop when they the monster. The monster has a body that looks like a mixture of a crab and rhino with a rocky exterior, it has six legs, it also has sharp red eyes, and around its neck, there is a spiky red collar with red fang-like emblem. The heroes look at the monster in awe, then the monster roars like a dinosaur and uses one of its legs to smash into a building. The building begins to crumble with people still inside in fear.

"Aqualad, Arrow, you two save civilians and I'll stop the creature" Omnium states, then the group splits to accomplish their jobs. Upon the building, a girl begins to lose her balance then falls off the building, then in the last second, she grabs onto a railing with one arm and is left screaming for help. Green Arrow fires an arrow, it hits the building and acts like a grappling hook and propels his upwards on the building. The girl's grip gets weaker and she tips more to falling off, Green Arrow swoops in and grabs then lets her safely on the ground level. After placing the girl safely on the ground, Green Arrow turns his head to see Aqualad near a fire hydrant.

"Hey Arrow, do you mind helping me out I need some more water?" Aqualad asks. Green Arrow takes one of his arrows from his quiver and aims it the hydrant, he shoots it and the arrow causes the hydrant to crack releasing water. Aqualad utilizes his power to create a solid staircase of water. The people make their way carefully down the staircase to ground level.

Back with the monster

The creature lets out a ferocious roar, Omnium presses down on the Omnitrix and the green light surrounds him. His arm begins to sprout volcanic rocks that wrap around his entire body, a lava-like substance fills in the gaps between the rocks, suddenly his head spontaneously ignites, the Omnitrix emblem appears on his chest, then the green light fades revealing Omnium transforming into Heatblast.

"Okay Rocky, let's see how you deal with some heat" Heatblast states confidently. Heatblast discharges a roaring fire similar to a flamethrower from his hand, the fire surrounds the monster. The fire clears and the monster appears unscathed. "Seriously, he's fireproof! This might be harder than I thought" Heatblast exclaims. Heatblast builds up some heat then levitates off the ground then circles around the creature. While circling, Heatblast points his arm at the enemy and releases fireballs. Heatblast looks over and it appears that the monster didn't take a scratch. The monster holds out one of its legs which without looking Heatblast rams into making him fall right in front of the monster. With Heatblast on the ground, the monster grabs Heatblast with his jaw. Heatblast is left restricting the monster's jaw from closing with his arms and legs. With Heatblast confined within its jaw, the monster turns around and attempts to make his exit. Just as it's leaving the monster is hit from behind by a small projectile that pierces its rocky skin then explodes. The monster u-turns and views Green Arrow and Aqualad glaring at him.

"Put down our ally!" Green Arrow demands but the monster doesn't listen and charges over to the heroes. The duo dodges the monsters charge and prepares to attack, Aqualad levitates some water into a fist and hurled it at the monster. The attack hits and the monster back up a few steps. Green Arrow draws an arrow from his quiver and aims his bow at the monster, he releases his grip of the arrow and fires the arrow. The arrow makes contact with the monster but the creature is unaffected.

"Okay, that did nothing" Green Arrow stated disappointedly. This makes the monster agitated which puts the two heroes into a small shade of fear. The monster swings one of its arms at them sending the duo flying straight into heaps of rubble.

"Guys!" Heatblast yells in concern for his teammates. With the heroes out the monster's way, it once again attempts to take its leave with Heatblast left struggling in its jaw. Suddenly the monster stops in its place, Heatblast looks up to see a large shadow of a bird. The shadow disappears and the monster dealt a heavy blow by an unknown source, this gives Heatblast a window of opportunity so he uses it and escapes the monster's mouth.

"Eww, I'm covered monster drool" Heatblast exclaims in disgust as he shakes off the gross monster slobber. Then Heatblast bumps into a large figure, he turns to see who it is and he in amazement when he sees a muscular upper bodied man with olive skin with gray wings sprouted out of his back, he is mostly shirtless except from four gold straps that are connected by a circular emblem that has a bird logo surrounded by red and wearing a gilded belt, green pants, golden boots, and a gold aviary mask that covers the top half of his face. He is also holding a skillfully crafted mace with a golden spike ball.

"W-who are you?" Heatblast asks still in awe of this man. The winged man smiled,

"Call me, Hawkman" Hawkman states with determination in his voice. Hawkman begins to levitate and then zooms over to the monster and swings his golden mace. The monster takes some more damage. Meanwhile, Heatblast makes his way over to his friends over by the piles of wreckage and debris to help them back on their feet. Green Arrow and Aqualad arise and take a glance at Hawkman and become confused.

"Who's the bird?" Aqualad asks still trying to piece everything together.

"He goes by Hawkman and I think he's on our side" Heatblast states. Back with Hawkman and the monster, Hawkman is using his wings to dodge the monster swinging its arms at him. He then flies up some to then strike him from above with an ariel attack. The monster took a massive hit and now seems a bit dazed. Hawkman takes the opportunity to finish this fight so he takes a stance like a baseball player except for he's using his mace instead of a bat. Hawkman swings his mace and sends the monster flying. Hawkman releases a grin from his face and raises his mace victoriously, from behind the trio runs over to Hawkman.

"Dude, that was awesome!" Aqualad exclaims with excitement as he holds out his hand for a high five. Carter looks at Aqualad with a hint of confusion and then high fives.

"I do have to admit, you save our lives," Green Arrow says thankfully. The heroes' attention is alerted when Heatblast's Omnitrix emblem begins to flash red and Heatblast reverts back into Omnium, Hawkman glances at Omnium with surprise.

"Thanks for the help Hawk, hopefully we could do this again sometime" Omnium states, Hawkman nods yes and takes flight to leave. After he leaves Omnium comes to a realization,

"Guys we have to go!" Omnium exclaims

"Why?" Green Arrow asks

"Carter, he asked us to meet him on the roof of the school" Omnium explains and then Green Arrow and Aqualad recognize the cause for alarm. The three quickly head back to the school.

On the School's Rooftop

The open the door to the school's roof and appears in their civilian attire. The three of them turn to see carter waiting.

"Carter, sorry we took so long we were ..." Ben explains but hesitates for a moment.

"-practicing with the drama club" Oliver interrupts. Carter nods yes.

"So not trying to be rude or anything but why did you need us to meet you on the roof for?" Garth asks, Carter goes close to the edge which raises the concern

"Carter, what are you doing?" Ben inquires as Carter goes closer and closer to the edge. Carter smiles at them before he jumps off the edge. This completely shocks the three of them.

"Carter!" The three yell as they scurry to try and help him, but before they make it halfway a figure bolts up in the sky in the spot Carter jumped. The figure lands in front of them and creates a dust cloud. The trio is left in awe of the entire situation. The dust cloud disperses and Hawkman is revealed.

"Hawkman? What are you doing here?" Ben asks. Hawkman smiles and looks around for a few seconds before he removes his golden bird mask revealing Carter. The trio's jaws drop.

"No," Oliver says

"Freaking," Garth says

"Way" Ben says as all three are left in completely in awe and amazement.

"Sorry for the scare but isn't Oliver into theatrics?" Carter questions, in response all four them begin laughing.

"Hey Carter, I got a proposition for you," Ben states which pique Carter's interest. "How would you like to join the Invinci Bros?" Ben proposes. Carter thinks for a moment before he excitedly nods yes.

"From this point on, you are now a member of the Invinci Bros!" Oliver happily states. The four fist-bump and begin to celebrate.

Meanwhile Downtown

The monster lands back on the rooftop wounded next to the cloaked figure. The jagged monster reverted to its canine-like form.

"So it seems like our prey is building a strong pack, I guess we'll have more than just one trophy" The cloaked figure states before he begins wickedly laughing.

The Next Day

The school bell rings and the group heads off to the lunchroom but before that each of them grabs a paper of the Daily Planetoid. They head to their table and put their belonging down beside them. They open the newspaper and sees a picture of Superman and a statue of himself with the caption "Superman unveiling the statue of the century" The four look at the article with disappointment.

"I'm starting to believe there is no chance of getting noticed" Oliver proclaims. Garth begins scrolls through the entire newspaper.

"We are not even mentioned this time" Garth brings up.

"Weird, we saved a building full of people and stopped a monster yet nobody knows us. Ben makes a point.

"Unless you're Superman Metropolis doesn't care" Carter states. All four of them sigh in defeat.

End of Chapter 5