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Author's Notes 

This story is in the same world as "Realm Of Worlds A New" 

The fandoms in this work belongs to there own creators and owners.

If you find a work similar chances are eather I don't know about it or I read it once (not that my work is anything like theres if that was the case) hence the apology in advance. 

And now? Enjoy! 

Chapter 1: Welcome To Hell! 

It was a peaceful and normal Day in the city of Bellwood, cars driving in the roads, citizens walking on the side walks, each walking to their desired destination, Kids of all ages playing with each other or alone, and some criminals in an alien van are speeding and firing from/at their Pursuers, people wearing whiteht armors with red-spots in the center and shoulder pads, (The reason? The thugs stole high tech level illegal technology, go figure) as they dodge their blasters, with some explosions going off every now and then.

All in all? A normal Day in the head-planet of the inter-galactic law enforcers the Plumbers.

"HAH! I told you this would be easy 'boid! Those red-spots never saw us coming!" cackling one of the thugs, he seems to be a humanoid being with pale-gray skin and black hair, his body is a slender frame and an average hight, he wears red overalls, yellow hate, jacket and gloves.

"You are right Octagon! It is just as you said! Thanks to these last events the plumbers are way too busy to monitor their shipments! We did not explode! And no Ben Tennyson!" shouted the other thug, another humanoid with the same skin and hair color, he wears an orange shirt with red overalls with yellow hate and gloves with a comically large body.

Those are the Vreedle brothers due, one of the most (and worst) infamous criminals in the galaxy.

The first criminal (now named Octagon)'s eyes went big in panic and fear as he looked at his brother in horror " 'Boid what have you DONE! Did you forget here on earth if you ever say something bad and be happy it did not happen, that that thing wi-!" however, and before he could continue his rant, the two brothers felt that their vehicle being lifted from the roads and staring to float in the air by a seemingly no reason "-ll happen right after you finish. Oh celectialsdamit!" shouted the older as he slapped his face, groaning in dismay, with the younger one making an 'oh' voice, realizing his mistake.

And sure enough the alien van came face to face with a giant rock creature that looks like a planet, the unknown entity has a mouth on its face, which is about the entirety of it body with cracks, its arms are connected to its head, wile the torso is connected immediately to the head with no neck in sight, the legs are connected to the torso, and the stomach has a visible magma core like that of planet's, its clothing is black and whiteht. But the most notable thing about this being is, ironically, a relatively small disc on its forehead, that desk has a strange whiteht hourglass shape on it with the sides being black in a (> <) shape.

"End of the line guys, please don't make this harder for all those involved and surrender peacefully, please, I am tired and barely capable if holding your car!" spoke the giant

meteor like monster in a deep and calm, yet tired voice.

"UUUGGGG TENNYSON! What are you doing here! Aren't you supposed to be, I don't know, in some kind of school or something?" shouted/wined Octagon at the being, CLEARLY annoyed with the outcome wile folding his arms on his chest in a childish display, but not really resisting as the gianto Lowered the van to the ground slowly until it touched the roads.

"Yeah I do, but I had to leave after an emergency happened, I was just on my home tell I stumbled on you guys running away from the plumbers." answered the creature.

As the plumbers reached the trio, and the 2 inside came out (with Rhomboid lost in his mind AT how the forbidden statement happened) and cuffed the 2 criminals, it was also this moment that Rhomboid shock his head and saw Ben, a smile on his face "Hey Ben! How is it going!?" he greeted wile waving his arm (or whatever it is called with both of his hands being cuffed).

"Will hello to you too Rhomboid, i see that you two managed to escape again, and no explosions this time on top of that! But what attempt this would be this month?"

"I Believe that this would be attempt number 5, but thank you for your kind words, and about escaping? You know how easy it is for us to do so, with us being clones and all." now it was Octagon that answered, his frown is replaced with a smile.

"You are Welcome! But please, can you guys take it easy for now? You know, no escape plans or heists? I am really exhausted and any and every reason to not fight would be greatly appreciated, oh! How about this? For a month if you don't escape I will take you to Mr. Smoothy? My treat!"

"Hmmmm Will, normally we would never agree to such terms, but just cause you asked nicely we will! Plus a free Smoothy? That's just a bonus! A VERY big bonus!"

"Good! Great! Grand! We have a deal! See you guys later! AND thanks again!" and with that and a final goodbye the 2 criminals were escorted to an enforced van.

It was Also this moment that a big pink/violet gorilla with visors on its eyes approached the biggest alien in the area.

Said alien went for the disc on his forehead, and with a sigh he pressed it causing a blinding green light to erupt from it, forced all those that ware around to cover their eyes.

When the light dimmed down the alien disappeared, as instead of an over 10ft (3.05m) tall creature there is a human child, no more than 13, with toxic green eyes and brown hair, wearing a black and white shirt with a black jacket with white outlines and a big black 10 on the back and a smaller one on the front in a slight stripe going up to down, the 10 is right above his heart, with forest-green cargo pants.

is notable the most however is a watch with the whiteht-turned-green symbol from before on his left wrist.

This is Benjamin Tennyson, the hero of earth and the universe and his prized possession and favorite thing in the world, the greatest device in the universe, possibly existence, the Omnitrix.

Said kid however looked tired, with black bags under his eyes and disheveled hair (more so then it normally is) as he looked up at the approaching plumber, who saluted at him when he reached him "Reporting Sir!"

Ben seeing no reason to ignore the bigger man/alien he nods at him "What is the situation Morty?"

Morty immediately brought up a tablet "Sir! The Vreedel brothers ware found dead in their cells this morning when a patrol found them laying motionless, not long after we figured they escaped, then we received a report about 4:45 p.-" the gorilla toke this moment to tear his gaze from the tablet and looking down on his superior only to cut himself off, only now noticing that said kid looked worse fore wear "Um sir? Pardon my rudeness, but are you alright? You look..tired for the lack of a better word."

Now normally Ben is stubborn, even if he is too weak to left a finger he would still keep going, but now? "If by tired you mean a decayed zombie looks more alive than me, then Yes I AM tired."

Morty, feeling awkward tried to salvage the situation "Ah sir I think it is for the best that you go home and have some rest-"

"Thank you, but I still need to report to my grandpa about the mission and-" "I believe there is no need Ben" interrupted a New voice.

Both Ben and Morty looked at the new comer, he looks to be an elderly slightly over-wight with red Hawaiian shirt with white flowers decorating it, at seeing him Ben's faces who was almost devoted of all life now regained some of his old cheerfulness.

"Grandpa! What are you doing here? Not that I am complaining!" said Ben as he went to his grandfather and gave him a hug.

'Heh, he really is just a kid, it is very hard to remember that sometimes' thought the old man with a sad smile, however he quickly masked it with a facade of joy "Hahaha what can I say? I heard a Galilean has been spotted not long after you reported your mission being a success as will as no other Galilean on earth other than a certain one so I thought 'why don't I go investigate?' and sure enough, they turned out to be my favorite 13 years old grandson!" Max answered, wile ruffling Ben's hair.

Ben for his part was not complaining, just rolling his eyes from the last part "Grandpa please! I am your ONLY 13 yo grandson!"

"I know, and that is the reason why you are my favorite hahaha!"

Rolling his eyes a again Ben stopped the hug and get a little distance between him and his grandpa, but his faces morph again to seriousness "Thank grandpa, really, but why are you here? Wile i love spending time with you the last few months are takeing it's tool on you, this morning alone you were drowning in paper work!"

Sighing, Max makes an eye contact with the Plumbers nearby, all nodded, saluted, and left to continue their tasks, which leads to Max and Ben being alone.

"I did not lie to you Ben, I really did want to come and check on you, it just (sigh) it just I, that we are worried about you, your mother called this morning, and she told me how bad you are doing lately, not beating will nor sleeping, not to mention how you are always on the looks out of any danger." he then put his hand on the kid's shoulder who is looking at the ground, now all that can be seen on the older man's faces is regret, pure and utter sadness that very few saw.

"Then what should I do, villains and criminals alike are coming in hordes! And if I DID remove the Omnitrix two years ago chances are either I would wear it almost immediately or it would have been stolen already, all of that and I am not touching how scummy I would be! MANY dreams of becoming super heroes, MANY wishes they were me and MANY are hating me simply 'cause the Omnitrix picked me, I would be shitting on not only their dreams but Also mine as someone who become a hero, but if I Just quite duo any reason wile I have the means to be a hero i Just..."

Rising his faces up Max saw an expression he is too familiar with, only on a different face, a face that is way too young for achievements the like of his should ever be associated with one so young.

"I Just don't know what do grandpa." Max was glad he does not hear this voice often, it is always when the loud once go quiet would fear and discomfort take place, but for Max? Hearing it from Ben?

Kneeling in front of the depressed child wile resting his other hand on the free shoulder did Max spoke in one of his calmest speeches ever "Ben, there is NOTHING you need to do, the responsibility you have, being the wielder of the Omnitrix for the sake of using it to do good and not personal gain is something not even trained warriors 10 times your age (Ben chuckled a little at the 10 joke, his favorite) would accept, hack even then they would go to abuse its power for their very own and selfish whims! So all that you need to know is that you are already doing way too much for anyone your age and even older should every do! AND that is why you have me, family and you friends, so that we can help you" now Max was smiling, nothing but a proud aura can be sensed from him, Which leads to Ben smiling brightly too.

Standing up Max push Ben slightly in the direction of his house "Why don't you go home and fresh up? Get some smoothies and play some sumo slammers? I belive they have a New game out you could not try out yet.

All tracks of depression (but tiredness) are gone from the little Hero's faces and only excitement exist there "OOHHH YEAH! That sounds AWESOME ! I will do just that after I call my friends and go walking with Zed and Ship then I wil-"

Sadly for Ben tho, not even that moment of happiness could go on as a purple light suddenly erupted from behind him.

A light that he is too familiar with.

And when he spun around, sure enough a portal can be seen, coming from it a man with purple advanced armory and a helmet that does not show the face behind its visor.

In his side an old man floating with a staff, on its top a strange bird skull, he has a skull tattoo on his faces and red/Black clothing and rob is with other tattoos covering his body.

Already knowing who they are Ben activated the omnitrix, not transforming tho.

"Ben Tennyson, we meet again!-" spoke the first figure, unknown old energy is seeping out of him "-and this time, there won't be another!"

Going in front of his grandpa, wile mentally unprepared to deal with any of his major enemies as of now, yet he forced the panic down, putting on a strong smile and doing the one thing he does better than anything else:

Meaning pissing everyone off to the point of madness.

"Oh if they are not my old friend Eon!" said Ben with a shit eating grin, even if his insides are turning in to knots "AND Hex too! I did't know we were that close to the retirement home! Or is it a get together of old people? If so I don't see Animo with you."

By now the old duo of super villains are seethine with rage, what every patient they possessed went dry from the many humiliating defeats and insults they received from the hands of the kind in front of the "Why you little!"

Enraged (go figure) the archmage charged his staff, eyes glowing in a bloody light, at least that was until he was stopped by Eon "Enough! We are here to defeat him once and for all! Not falling for his Petty provoking!"

Taking a breath Hex cancel his spell, the rage is still there "You are right, but we should start now"

Nodding Eon faced the young hero, faces unseen but you could feel the anger "Ben Tennyson, for far too long you have been a throne to our side, always middling in our affairs, but that will be no more for as of today you will be history!" at that the villain in purple brought a strange device, it is an eight pointed star, with 4 bigger then the others, what did bring concern to Ben was what was in the center, a dark Omnitrix.

I a swift motion Eon activated the device, it started to Levitate in the earth and spinning, in the air, immediately Ben slammed the Omnitrix.

Felling the power surge through him, changing his very DNA, and in his place a mechanical being with golden armor, his mid section is covered by green glass, his faces is black, with 2 green dots for eyes and line for mouth, on its head a key, the Omnitrix is in the middle of his chest, right in the center of the green glass.

"CLOCKWORK! Ha? Perfect! I don't care what you are planning to do you two, but you are going DOWN!" shouted the chronosapien in German accent, firing two time ray blasts for each villain.

Eon for his part counter attacked with his own time attacks, causing the two to collide, surprisingly nullifying their effect, what did surprise Ben however is Eon Defending Hex who for his part was in a meditating pose, his staff in front of him, yet his red aura is going crazy with his tattoos glowing.

Suddenly Ben felt strange, like something VERY wrong is about to happen, and he knows to trust those fellings so he stopped his attack and rolled out of the way from Eon's, Which turned to street in under Ben to dust.

"OKAY you two what are you planning, why is Hex not attacking?! And aren't you supposed to say 'We will give you hell ' or something of the like?"

At that Hex's eyes opened in dark glee, red energy surrendering him "That, you annoying brat, is because we are taking you there !"

"Wha-?"

Not long after, the strange star-like Omnitrix stopped spinning, and from it a lighting-like volt struck Ben right on the Omnitrix, too surprised to dodge it, making it glow in both purple and green, as if it was glitched.

'An unknown virus has been detected, initiate forced lock-down mod' came a voice from the omnitrix. '

To Ben's horror, he de-transformed and now stood in his normal forms "WHAT DID YOU DO?!"

Eon start laughing in joyous victory "All we did was messing a little with your watch, it would be annoying if you transform i to something fast and dodge our next attack HAHAHA!"

Ben, felling his chest closing he asked "And what make you think I won't dodge as me? I did so countless times before!"

"OH you will take the next hit, Tennyson, unless you want your dear grandfather to suffer!"

Ben's eyes widened as he saw Hex change the direction of his staff (charging) from him to another, and when he saw to where it was directed he sprinted to it.

"GRANDPA! WATCH OUT!" Max, for a second stopped his fight with the giant golem he was engaged with (the plumbers too were there, fighting their own foes), as he turned to the voice "Ben?"

Only then did Hex fire the staff at Max, the oblivious man too fixed on his own fight and grandson to pay attention to his kid's arch-enemies.

A fetal mistake.

As when he did, it already too late as the magical blast was too near for him to get out of the way.

Then Ben jumped in front of him.

"BEN! " In horror Max went to his grandson.

Ben for his part had a went blank from the pain, not noticing he is glowing.

And then suddenly, he disappeared.

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"HAHAHA! FINALLY! AFTER ALL THESE YEARS !" laughed the two mad men.

In disbelief, and still shocked to seeing his grand son gone, he faced the villains with anger "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE! "

It was Hex who answered, "We did nothing, we just stopped the Omnitrix from working, and sent him to a warm place called HELL HAHAHA"

Eon the looked at Hex and spoke "We did our objective, now we must retreat" receiving a nod, Eon then went for the star, only for a blue blur to swoop in, snatching it in the process "wha-?"

The blur then went in a blue and white explosions of light with the figure in the middle screaming "GO TURBO! STRENGTH!" and from the light a giant bulky man in white, blue and blake came, his faces and chest has the same strange light blue M symbol, in his hand is the strange Omnitrix.

"MAX-STEEL! How happy I am to see you!" said Max in relief.

"GIVE THAT BACK YOU BRAT!" screamed Eon, with He now panting, his energy low from the spell.

Sadly for them both however a blue and white portal opened, and from it a middle-aged man wearing a white lab coat over a white shirt with a brown vest and black tie, black pants, and black shoes. He also has goggles with green lenses around his neck, the Chrononavigator disguised as a metal gauntlet on his right hand and a finger-less glove on his left.

On his should er a short frog-like man, even for a short being it is clearly old.

"Paradox! So you finally came! heh, toke you long enough!" taunted Eon.

However, a purple portal opened behind him as he took Hex and was crossing it "Wile I would love to chat some more, I have much more important matters to attend to." and with that, they left.

Paradox for his part has a frown as he went to Max, who Max-Steel helped up "Greetings gentlemen, I normally would come to warn you about some issue related to the time-space balance, I find myself blank as I was following Eon for some time now, I really would not be here if Azmuth did not call me for the sudden disappearance of one Benjamin Tennyson"

At that Max's face fell "Ben, he-" but no more words came out

It was Azmuth who spoke next, as he saw the strange object in the hand of Max-Steel "You, what is it in your hand?"

Maxf-Steel brought the strange object to the 1st thinker "I really don't know, I saw it near the creepy dudes when I was landing, as I was nearby when I and the rest got the X-Single"

And when Azmuth saw it, he looked pained "No, this can't be"

And when all those that are around looked at him in question did he answer "This is one of the contingency plane I had if the Omnitrix every fell in the hands of the wrong one, and seeing it in the hands of Eon he must have taken it from another time line, but the question is why? It is easy to fix as will as I can fix any and every damage done by it?"

"Unless you can't reach it!"

"What do you mean Max?" asked Paradox.

"Hex and Eon said they sent him somewhere, far away so that you won't fix the watch!"

"But the question is where? My Chrononavigator would find him easily, but I can't since him at all"

"I don't get it, If you can't find him then where did he go? The only hint they gave is-no, oh my god No!"

"What is the matter Max?" asked the Galvan?

"They said that they sent him to Hell, could it be that-"

Now all those present have a fearful look "Max?" asked the Galvan.

"They said that they sent him to Hell, could it be that-"

Now all those present have a terrified expression on their faces and it was Paradox who finished "-He is really in Hell, oh my Celestialsapiens."

"And without the Omnitrix he is defenseless and won't be able to protect himself! Can't you do something time-walker?" asked Azmuth, only a getting a negative from said man "Sadly I can not, the Laws of Heaven and Hell are outside the realm of my capabilities. I can work as a time anchor for Clockwork to know the time in the dimention and realm that are connected , as he may open a connection, one that is too far ahead or behind, and then there is Portaler, who is able to open portals between the realms, and the Naljians alongside the Celestialsapiens has no issue as those are far above their powers, but with the omnitrix not working-"

"-He is stuck there with no way of returning or defending himself from the horrors!"

Seeing that Azmuth spoke "I would not go that far, I did put a fail safe that if anything that May affect the Omnitrix and would not work, but seeing as it was mad by a Me, lets all hope for the best."

"Ben, I know you must be panicking now, just hold up a little long and we will find a way to saved you, even if it took us hundreds if years, we will get you out of there!"

And with that the elders+kid (who returned to his base mod, too scared to get in between 3 scary men) went to the house of the Tennysons to plane.

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Ben was falling,

He was falling down and fast, the pain from that spell still lingering in his head, after what felt like forever he felt his body hitting the ground, the crash WAS painful Yes, but, surprisingly it was not that much, will nothing he was not used to already.

After sometime he regained himself 'okay, I am Fine, first thing first I must know where, possible even when, I am' and so he stood, and the place did surprise him, quiet abet.

It was a hellscape, red and lava all over the place, spikes everywhere, boulder, and strangely enough in the shape of cubes, and the place was HOT which mad Ben come to a certain conclusion "Would it really Be? I mean they did say they are taking me to Hell, but I did not think they would do it literally!

Pacing around he started to panic "Okay Tennyson calm down, sure the Omnitrix is not working, but I have some training on me, so it should be Fine, best case scenario? I am on earth in some weird cave system or in a very hot planet, worst case scenario? , I am in a real Hell with demon roaming this place and all.....And considering my track record, I bet my Omnitrix it is the later!"

Sighing Ben then looks ahead of him and mouth in his most sarcastic voice yet "Will, welcome to Hell Ben10 .... Yay me" hanging his head low he then started to walk forward.

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Chapter 2: Big-Boy/little-girl.

Walking the Hellscape was not as hard as Ben had thought it would be, without a danger in sight he started to organize his thoughts. "Okay, so far so good," looking around, seeing the way is safe he proceeds, "now I must find a safe place to stay in, and then check on the watch, but one wrong move or not playing attention would lead to my death."

Nodding to himself he started to make his way through the barren lands.

After some time he found a small cave, entering it he found it to be while not big it was not small either, just enough that it fits his needs.

Finding a good place, he sat down and started to work on the watch.

And sure enough it was not working, giving off '-Error-'s when he tried to activate it.

That went on for sometime, seeing no improvements he stopped.

"Okay that could have gone better, now what should I do?"

Thinking hard, he thought of his interactions with Azmuth, as the creator of the watch and the one to know all there is to be known about the watch, then remembered something happened in his 13th birthday, in which Azmuth gave him a code to the Omnitrix, at the times it sounded useless, seeing at the time he thought nothing could affect the watch (for some reason forgetting

all the times his villains messing up/with the watch, now that he is thinking about it).

"Hem, he told me it is to override outside commands that were applied(?) to the watch."

Seeing no reason as to not use it he started putting in the code.

"Left, Right, Right, Right, Left, Right, Left, Left Right and finally Left"

When he was done a voice came from the Omnitrix. '-Override code accepted, ERROR, an unknown error is detected, staring fixing the error, Omnitrix unable to fix the error, activating the emergency protection protocols, unable to activate the DNA samples, Success in obtaining 12 DNA samples-'

Letting a breath he did not know he was holding, as a felling relief washed over him, "OH that's great! I thought I would be, will, me but 12 is just great!" laughing to himself he activated his watch.

"Will, without any delays let's see who I have now, I would be happy with anyone of my guys, tho If I got Way Big or Armodrillo Won't mind~!"

Pressing the bottom on the side of the watch caused the faceplate of the Omnitrix to pop up, and in holograms he started to circle the forms he currently has, those Being his Original 10 Aliens, as will as the 2 first unlocked, those are Cannonbolt and Wildvine.

"Hmm not bad, this is good even, wile I don't know how would Hell affect Wildvine, Stinkfly, Grey Matter as those need wet air, or Upgrade cause there is nothing to upgrade, or god forbid, Ripjaws (at that he shudders). But the rest would do just great, hack I am partially in heaven with Heatblast!" standing, popping his back he started his way to the outside.

"Will, it seems I DO have a chance to return after all! HAH! ON YOUR UGLY FACES EON AND HEX! But I must test them all out first, just to make sure!"

Once outside, Ben picked a form, Wildvine, then he pressed the faceplate down "OH Yeah! It Is Hero Time!"

Engulfed in an emerald light, Ben started felling the change that are happening is his biology, from how his body changing, organs appearing and disappears, to how his senses are sharping. And when the light faded away, as fast as it came, what was in his place was a 7ft (2.13 m) tall planet-like being with 4 roots for legs and 2 long arms with long and pointy claws for fingers, his back is full of eggplant like seeds, he has one eye that is green-blue, on the side of his head are two parts of a big fly-trap plant, the Omnitrix is on his chest, he has some sort of black and white belt on his wist.

"WILDVINE! Will lets see, there is no plant life nearby or whatsoever, so there is none for me to control or use, makes me wonder how I can breathe, anyway, let's see if I can dig down!"

Extending his roots to the ground, not long however he took them out fast. "Ooookkaaayyy that could have gone better, that Hurts! So the earth's too hot for my vines to go wild (snickering) so my diving is a no-no, tho what about my seeds?"

Taking 4 of the seeds from his back he throws them at a boulder that was some distance away, and when they connected with it they exploded, covering his eye from the flying derbies and smock. And when he opened them he saw the giant rock in pieces! "Will, so Wildy here is good if I need explosions to either make my way through a hard surface, finish a job or to make an escape!"

Nodding to himself, he pressed the surface of the watch again, transforming once more.

What was a tall but thin plant is now a slightly shorter but fuller creature with white skin and yellow pill bug-like shell, it has no head but rather a face in the place of the chest, it has four clawed fingers, the mouth is massive, almost from shoulder to shoulder, with 2 yellow eyes, the Omnitrix is on his forehead.

"CANNONBOLT! Ooh! Yeah! Let's roll!" In a Deep voice, rolling to a ball he started going in circles, slowly gaining momentum. Going fast he then crashed at another bolder, breaking it.

Rolling away the humanoid roly-poly opened up, checking his handiwork. "Will, Cannonbolt is still as capable as every, and I am still able to detect magnetic fields! So going through Hell shouldn't be much of a challenge."

Going for the Omnitrix he taped it again.

And in place of Cannonbolt now was a spectre monster, its skin was white with black lines going all over the body, he has no legs but rather a tail, he has one eye that is green, the exact color to that of the Omnitrix, said watch is now where would his heart be as human but covered a little by the skin.

"GHOSTFREAK! Hmm, no issues so fare," spoke the ghost alien in a husky and raspy voice as he started to remove his skin, now his skin is DARK blue, with black and white with tentacles in the place of his tail, the faces is a skull that is upside-down, with two eye sockets, one with the eye while the other is closed with a moth on the top of his head. "I am not effected by the lighting of the place while out of the cover skin, good."

Going to the destroyed rubble, he used his tentacles to lift some of the broken rocks, "Hmm, not as heavy as I thought, eh works fine with me," letting the once he is carrying fall, making his hands glow in a toxic green he started levitating two boulders. Seeing no issues he throws them away, he then went intangible phasing through some walls before returning to normal. "Heh, I guess monsters truly belong in Hell, I am as good if not even better than I normally am! Oh well."

Shrugging, he pressed the Omnitrix.

"UPGRADE! Mmmm, nothing much change, tho I think I will overheat if stayed long." And this time from the emerald light emerged a slime like being, its front is white wile the back is green, the black side has A LOT of green electronic-lines all over his body, he has one eye that is a circle the glows when he talks. The Omnitrix is on his chest.

"Lets see," Transforming both of his arms, one a blade and the other a blaster, trying them on the nearby rocks, said rocks were either slicked clean or had a fresh hole in them, "Glade to see my toys are still as good as ever~" happy his eye turned to an up arrow (^) shape.

Touching the Omnitrix, the transformation occurred, and this time it is...

"RIP-GAH-JAWS-GAH ! That gasp was gasp a gasp dump gasp Idea!" A fish Alien, will almost as it looked like a fusion of 5 earthen aquatic lifeforms, as his fingers are webbed, sharp fins, and two two-t(w)oed legs that can turn to a tail, and a phosphorescent light on his head. The Omnitrix is on a belt just above his black tail that has green tips on it.

his most promoting feature however, is his name sake as he has big mouth, Ripjaws's jaw is full of huge jagged teeth that could truly rip. But being a fish alien, he was literally breathless, as he was So out of his element that he was panting for breath on all fours the second he transformed, it was so bad to the point of without any hesitation he slammed the Omnitrix.

"STINKFLY! My god it is still bad! Not as bad tho. " this time it was a very big bug, but unlike most bugs its 1st pair of legs are arms with a 3 clawed hand and the other 2 are crab-like, the wings are like that of a dragonfly but point, with a tail that has a giant scyth-like shield stinger on its tail, he wears a black and white jumpsuit.

The strangest part is the head as he has his eyes on 4 prehensile stalks, each of them can be controlled separately, the skull/head is black with the Omnitrix in the center of it.

"Man I really need water, my slime is too dry to use, my eyes are burning, my wings are about to fall of, so note to self, 'NO FLYING WITH STINKFLY!' "

Transforming Again, Ben started to feel better.

"FOUR ARMS! OOHHHH YEAH! I DON'T FELL SO HOT ANYMORE! WOHO! But I am still HOT tho, HAH! That was a good one." What came out this time was an over 8ft (2.44 m) tall humanoid with red skin, Four arms, Four eyes, Four toes and Four brain cells, he wears the Omnitrix on a shoulder pad on his left arm. His clothing is a jumpsuit with the same pattern on his normal clothes.

"While I would love to witle (wit-le) the whole Day, I have a home to go to and pets to walk."

Sighing he went to yet another boulder, punching it using one arm from his upper pair, the thing broke in half. Nodding to himself he went to two boulders that are nearby, using each side to lift each one of them, he then throws them as far as he could.

They Flied 100yards (91.44 m)away at the least.

Whistling to himself, smirking at the display, "Wow, those things really are light! A normal man can kick them all day Hahaha!" then laughing at the non existing pun.

With the laughing gas exhausted he crouches down preparing to jump, then in a single bound he reached up to 8 stories in Height, then landing as gracefully as he jumped, meaning non.

"Few, glad there is no gravity field or anything here hahaha," laughing, but this time it was short as he started to groan, "There is still five more to go, my god what am I doing with my life and why I am doing this in the first place!?........ Right, so I would not go Grey Matter thinking it is good to climb a wall in Hell only for whatever very little water I have to be evaporated..... Shit now that I think about it. The last time I drank water was before lunch yesterday, with barely anything to eat before going to that nuclear factory today, man I really need to take care of myself more....... God not even an hour in and I am already talking my almost not existing ears off and re-thinking my life choices! I wish Skurd or Rook were here! Hack even Animo would be a fine company right about now!"

With his rant coming to a stop he let final sigh, walking to a nearby rock from earlier before going to his should to transform.

After the light what was a tall buffed man is now a short 5 inches (12.7 cm) frog man, with a comically large head and hands compared to his torso and body, with 2 big green eyes and gills on his face. The Omnitrix is the size of his body on his back.

"GREY MATTER!" screamed the tiny man, spitting on his hands then rubbing them together. "Alright you big ugly! Time to show you who is Boss!"

Then he put his hands on the rock, preparing to climb.

Only to fall back as pain went through him, ironic seeing what he thought earlier. "OUCH! WHAT THE HELL!? REALLY?? HOT WALLS?! WHY THEY DID NOT HURT ME WHEN I Was a ghost that does not feel, a plasma blade and a Four armed alien that lives in deserts. (Sigh) I hate my life! At least I was right when I thought of that...... God I hate thinking......(snickering) anyway time to think!"

After blowing of some steam he started to walk in circles, hands behind his back. Deep in thoughts, "Okay think Grey Matter think! You must come up with a plane! The Omnitrix is not working right. I don't know what is happening, how long the time goes, can transform freely or if each is just a one time! But it is good that trying the aliens did help, I need to find away home. If Eon believed I would be gone for good then Professor Paradox must be unable to help me, and seeing how Hell is magic 'I think', so Azmuth won't be able to help-" At that Grey Matter frowns, not liking where his train of thoughts is going,"Which leaves only grandma and Gwen as the only People who can help."

Sitting down, he rubs his eyes, felling tired from the whole ideal.

Then he slapped himself with the biggest, hardest Slap is his weak hands could give "Pull yourself together Tennyson! THIS is what they want you to do! For you to go mad and staying mad! Just remember that they wanted you fully defenseless, but they field and you have some of your best forms PERIOD! So get your together!" giving himself a double Slap on both cheeks he fist-slames the omnitrix.

"XLR8!" what stood now can only be called a dinosaur, a Velociraptor to be exact, his height is that of a normal human teen, he has 3 claws that can only open and close, he is 2 toed that has two orbs under his feet, his tail is blue with black strips, his head is covered with a corn like helmet, with a blue face, green eyes and black lines going through his face. Thee Omnitrix is on his chest.

"Gottagofast!" and with words as fast as wind the mask in his helmet Slid down, and in a swift motion he was gone in a black and blue blur. He was going up and down, in circles and even jumping, other than felling kind of dizzy from the constant Hell heat he was doing Fine.

Returning to his staring place, he stood there for few seconds, taking a deep breath, and with a nod he tapped the watch.

"DIAMONDHEAD!" from the emerald light emerged an emerald man. The new form is a walking crystal golem, all of his body is that of an emerald crystal, his eyes are yellow, with two big spikes on his back with two lower down, the sound of glass on glass is heard whenever he moves, he wears a jump suit similar to Four arm's but the white is black and the other way around, the omnitrix is above his heart if he was human.

Taking his stance he started throwing his shards at rocks, he then slammed his hand to the ground, and a giant tower of crystal rose up, however wile it was of a greenish colored it was Also part red, that mad the walking gem confused.

"Okay, that never happened before," Touching it he found it to be smoother then normal but Also warmer. "Hmm, must be duo to the nature of Hell, chances are If I could make plants with Wildvine they would be reddish too. Or should I say Hellish too, heh."

With a soft smile he transforms.

"ROOOAAAAARRRR (WILDMUTT)!" and from it a mighty roar is heard, the source being, like most of Ben's aliens, a fusion of many things, this being of a Gorilla, a Lion and Wolf. It has no eyes or nose, but gills on the side of the neck to smell-seeing, his fur is orange with some strange ones that stand out, those he hears with. The Omnitrix is on a shoulder pad atop his left arm.

"(Oh, the advanced universal translator is not working, eh not that it matters either way. Anyway to the matter at hand, the place smells kind of strange, I can, will, see but not by much, so I should need to use hearing more)."

Nodding the beast then pressed the Omnitrix.

"HEATBLAST!" Came the voice of the First alien, and the last one he currently has, with red volcanic rocks for body, with cracks all over his body, in those there is yellow-white magma, said magma makes the Fiery demon's hands and legs, with the neck being that of a volcano mouth, his head is a fire, his faces is that of a skull. Some rocks are black.

The Omnitrix is on his chest.

"Huh, that is wired I feel-" All the aliens up to now reacted to the environment of Hell in various degrees, from unable to take it, a hindrance, a nuisance to indifference. But Heatblast is different, as he is feeling "- so great! It feels like I am at home! HAHAHA Woho!"

Absorbing the heat he then charges a big fire ball, then immediately he blasts it at the biggest rock around, twice as big as the other boulders, with that blasts it just got hotter. Heatblast then made a bigger, MUCH bigger fire ball, and blasts it to the rock, this time it started to melt.

Grinning to himself he then absorbed some heat, then readied his arms to take of, "Alright! With all the guys out I must find a local to chat with, I am sure a fiery alien won't be alien here." snickering at the pun he fired his arms, removing a chunk of the Hellish land, resulting in him fly on a mini meteor.

"ALRIGHT HELL! HERE I COME TO TAKE YOU DOWN!"

And with that he is off.

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The living/over world.

Tennyson resident.

In a normal house of Bellwood, a group of children and animals(?) were waiting in the living room, the oldest no more than 14.

While they seem like a group of relatively young kids. But they are anything but normal.

Among them are two girls, one of them have short red hair with a small blue clip and green eyes, she wears a blue shirt with a cat face print on it with white pants. This is Gwen Tennyson, the magician and vice leader to the group. She is sitting on the floor close to the window.

Near her are two pets, one of them looks like a seal (tho he acts like a puppy), but without the head, he is colored the same way as upgrade even how the head looks like mines the white color, he wears a black and green collar with a disc like the Omnitrix, but instead of an hourglass it is a green Gear with the whole background being black. This is Ship, a male Galvanic Mechamorph symbiote/dog. With the collar being called the Technotrix.

The other is a female dark blue creatures that looks like a cross between a dinosaur and a dig with slender frame, she has 3 claws on her paws, her mouth is that of a crocodile, she has a gray spike-like hair on her back from her head to the tail with black lines going all over her body, she is wearing a black and white collar with a small disc on the front like Ship's that is black and green, but unlike him, hers is an open mouth with sharp teeth, those are black wile the rest is green. This is Zed, a female Anubian Baskurr, with the collar being called the Companiotrix

What is strange is a slime like thing on her collar, Which is now resting on her head, the thing looks like a squid-like green blob with small straight eyes and little points that are referred to as "tentacles". This is Skurd, a male Slime-Biot, he is also older than the universe, resulting in him not caring at all about any life form he is connected with or which side, good or bad they are at. Until he mat Ben that is. And on his forehead is the symbol of the Companiotrix.

Next to her is a young girl, she has long blonde hair and violate eyes, she wears a black sleeveless shirt with a white star in the middle with a red skirt. This is Lucy Man, a Distance cousin to the Tennyson cousins, however she is the youngest among the group as she is 8 years old. She lies on the ground cross-legged, petting Zed who is on her lap. While ship is held in Gwen's.

Across the room are the boys, either standing or sitting on the ground or chairs.

The tallest of them, a 14 years old with raven hair, black top with white shirt underneath it, a lock with the number 11 written on it is hanging around his neck is standing the side of the room, leg resting on the wall.

Near him sitting on a love chair is a black hired, tan skinned kid that is the same age as Gwen, he is wearing a black shirt with an orange and red jacket, on his head is a set of orange goggles on a spiky hair style. There i

Above him is a purple monkey with a pirate eye-patch.

On the sofa are 2 Kids, one of them is a younger than the rest with blonde hair and wearing a purple short, the number 3 on it.

The other is an alien that looks like a humanoid blue Cat with white face and black outlines, he wears a blue armor with a strange weapon on his left shoulder.

A 12 years old wearing a white shirt with red outlines, blue pants and blue eyes is pacing on the floor.

The last member was on ground too, a kid that wears orange with a strange dragon symbol in the shape of an S, his hair is black but white in the front, his eyes are orange.

Around him stands 3 animals(?) one is a bigfoot-like, or a gorilla-Cat, with tawny hair and being 8-feet tall, a green komodo dragon and a pteranodone with a crested snout.

The room was deathly silent, until the raven headed broke it. "THAT'S IT! I am not waiting anymore! I am going out!"

"Kevin stop. We must wait before my grandpa arrives." said Gwen, a look of utter seriousness on her face, "I know the waiting is getting to you, but you are not alone, all of us are worried so don't act as if you are alone in this." With her peace said she gets Lucy and hugs her, the little girl is trembling like a leaf.

"(sigh) I am Sorry, it is just that I-" Suddenly the door cuts Kevin mid speech "FINALLY!"

Marching to the door, the other residents in the room share a look of unease among themselves.

It was the orange jacket wearer, Rex Slazer, who broke the silence, "Will? Let's see who is it? It may even be-" "OH COME ON! YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!" now they are scared, so they got to the door. Lucy holds the hand of Gwen tightly.

There they just saw Kevin Levin leave through the door and to the courtyard.

On the door is a kid of 13 with brown hair and blue eyes, how every what he wears is an armor of blue, black and white, with the strange blue M symbol from before, indicating him to be Max-Steel.

Beside him is a floating robot with an eye for body and two arms that he has on the sides. This is steel, an Ultra-Link that together with Max (Mcgrath) they make the hero Max-Steel.

"OH Max you are back" , said white shirt wearing boy (Danny Fenton) there fellow hero.

"OH hey guys." "Uuh Max? You Okay buddy?" that was Rex.

From the tone the other occupiers of the house paid notice to their friend, only now seeing the hunted look on his face.

"Hey what happened?" asked the purple shirt the human mutant Cooper

But a voice from behind answered for him "Ben is what happened."

Looking around, they found the voice source to be grandpa Max, behind him are Paradox, Azmuth and a confused Kevin.

"GRANDPA MAX!" cheered the 2 Girls, as they dashed to give the bigger man a hug.

A hug that felt more like a chore as the normal cheerfulness in his hugs is absent.

Something that didn't go unnoticed by Gwen.

"Grandpa? What is the matter? WHY did you call an emergency, canceled it then asks for a meeting? Why are you looking tired? And most of all where is Ben?" now the girl was close to hysteria, looking up at him with pure fear, after 3 years of fighting the most dangerous people in the galaxy made her paranoid whenever a little detail is off.

Almost every time she is right.

Sighing the older man stood up, petting his girls' head with a sad smile, he normally looks old, but now? He looks ancient. "Sweeties, we need to talk."

The last 2 members of the group, the orange kid (Zak Saturday) and the blue alien Cat (Rook Blonko) gulped when they saw the expression, one they saw way too many times on their respective father's face.

And with his hands on the backs of the Girls, and few soft pushes to lead them to the living room, the others followed them. With both Azmuth and Paradox going last.

There was single thought going on the 7 male members of the X-Force team 'This will go horribly '.

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In Hell

Ben was tired.

He was flying none stop for the past 10 minutes, add that with the exhaustion from earlier and now he was about to collapse midair.

Realizing he won't be able to go on like this he started looking for a safe and good place to rest. "I need to keep going, but anymore and I would be as tired as Terraspin while being XLR8!" shuddering at the image of his hyperactive form bring as sleepy as the wind Andromeda alien.

While looking his eyes fell on a Valley, at first he was going to ignore it, but then he saw a couple of Strange beings, some small, others tall, they have mess watched limbs, some have horns While others have wings, they looked like nothing He has every seen walking in it 'Most likely demons ', While he saw nothing much of it. It was the way they walked, as if surrendering something 'Or someone! '. At that thought he landed a good distance ahead on the top of the Valley. It was high enough for him to both have a good look and stay hidden.

His suspensions increased ten folds when they started moving the Boulders in the valley, as if cutting the escape route of their victim.

At that red alarms went off in his head, taking off he started running in the direction they were moving to, glad the surface is flat and easy to run straight ahead.

After less than 100 yards (91.44 m) away he found himself at a dead end, "Who ever they are following must be down here somewhere." crouching down he started looking for the maybe victim, "It shouldn't be that hard to find them, there is no place to h-!"

Suddenly the magma in Heatblast decreased in temperature.

There, huddling behind the last boulder, the one right in front of the dead end, right under him

Was a trembling, terrified little girl, it was hard with the red and black clothing of hers, but the bright white hair is a dead give away! The Worst part? The rock she was behind was alone, with no other rocks, making it obvious.

A thing the demons smirked at. Especially the biggest one of them, who seemed to be their leader.

"Will will will! looks like the lil' Missy is behind that lone rock~ ho ho we will have fun! Right boys!?" cheers came behind him.

Getting closer he shouted "ALRIGHT YOU LITTLE BITCH! YOU BETTER COME OUT NOW OR WE WILL TEAR YOU APART! COME OUT RIGHT THIS FUCKING MOMENT AND WE WILL SHOW YOU MERCY!"

Heatblast's fire dimmed, not from the threat to a child! Not the way he spoke.

No it was the little girl, as she flinched, crying silently. He did not hear it, impossible from the distance, but he did any way, a soft, desperate cry:

"please help"

In 10 split seconds, hell was a forest. The Demons of flesh were of mud, and little girl was replaced with Lucy, 3 years ago in the wedding, and how terrified she was of her MONSTERS that were named her parents, all alone and afraid, wanting a hero to save her. The one responsible for him killing.

Now they were at least 50 Demons, and Ben did not know when will the cursed sound will occur, not counting the longer he stayed the fewer chances of survival he has.

Any sane guy would go away, this is hell, awful things happen all the time.

It is a good thing Ben is insane, and if he can help he will.

And so, with a rage he felt few times in all of his life he transformed to Cannonbolt, charging with his full power he dashed, roaring with all of his might "WHY DON'T YOU FIGHT SOMEONE YOUR OWN SIZE?! " As he falls on them, cutting there way.

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Krampus was scared, she doesn't understand where or why she was here! She was with her Aunt/Mother when they were on there way to the Queen, but the portal mulonted, malfunted, whatever it is the portal did not work, and she found herself with A LOT of mean looking Demons, they were nothing like the other demons she saw ever! Either skeletons or not!

So she started running, she was a good distance ahead of them before they noticed her, immediately chasing her, they were very close to a valley, thinking there might be a place to hide she ran there.

It turned out to be a bad idea as she was very tired, running this distance was very hard on her small body, but when she found a dead end, the demons closing the entrance she went behind the farthest rock, the one nearest to the wall, as there was no other one.

So she did the only thing a scared child would do, hugging herself, her teary eyes are running like a small waterfall, calling 'mommy' and 'please save me'.

She almost wetted herself when the boss demon shouted, she was too scared to understand the words fully, but she got the meaning.

So as she flinched from the tune, tears flowing her checks, she thought of how her aunt, no, mother as she tried to make her smile, the chef that did his damn best to satisfy her childish whims. All the demons she annoyed who did nothing to her.

All so to be alone, to not be thrown away by those she thought loved her, not wanting to trust again.

But now, that she was alone and away she thought of how her mom made the best effort to be nice to her, always smiling even if she should be angry!

But she will never see her again, most likely forgotten in few days at most, even if she thought that she wanted to belive that her disappearance would hurt her, that she truly cared.

So in the hole of a chance to see her mom again, even with despair eating her, she made one last.

"please help"

Of course she knew nothing will happen, so when a roar that would terrify most demons (but she felt safe somehow) of "WHY DON'T YOU FIGHT SOMEONE YOUR OWN SIZE?! " and a thundering BOMB right in front if where the demons are going, in front of her, protecting her?

Collecting the courage, slowly she crawled from her place, and she found a big, no, A Giant! With yellow armor all over his body, with white parts in the arms and legs.

For the first time in a long time, she truly felt safe with someone else.

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The roar did get there attention, and so when the demons looked up they were shocked as a meteor was falling on them, getting away, as the thing hit the ground hard, resulting in a crater the size of a big car with dust going everywhere, and when it settled down all they saw was a big ball in the middle of the hole.

That ball uncurled itself, revealing a very pissed of Cannonbolt.

The form of Cannonbolt normally makes everyone laughs there asses of, until they get a good ol' bounding from him.

So the fact non cracked a joke speaks of how much of a killing intent he is making, with his faces going black and all colors being replaced with darker once.

It was the leader, a winged demon with a crazed bull face who got the courage to ask, "H-Hey! Who are you?" the question was as original as anything china made, meaning non.

That would be the response Ben will use, normally, but he is angry, so he says one word : "Leave."

"What did you say?!" asked one of the goons. Being brave enough to go to the front.

With that Cannonbolt's gaze zeroed on them, resulting in the demons feeling that he was glaring at them individually. He sensed the girl crawling a out a little, speaking up at him.

With his patient lost he screamed "Leave The Girl Alone And Get Lost!"

So it surprised him when the leader laughed "HAHAHA You should have said so from the start man! Of course you can have the first turn!"

Ben was thankful as he felt the girl has retreated when she heard the laugh. "What?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN!?"

"WE mean that you can have the first turn of the lil' bitch' hole! Don't worry we are open-minded so we don't mind sharing at all!"

"Do You Mean You Were Going To Violate Her?!" he questioned in disbelief, what was white is now ghostly.

At that the Demons laughed, all the fear vanished "OF COURSE We are going to rape her! Them' holes are the BEST! Why do you think we are down here in the first place?!" at that the demons cheered.

It was then that Ben noted there pants, or lack of for the matter, as most were bare naked, there things out and proud. The leader himself was rubbing himself, a disgusting look on his face, some doing the same.

So without a word, without a thought Cannonbolt jumped, curled on himself and started SPINNING at his full power, his muscle felt pain, and charged, all on his mind is simply one thing : Kill Them.

"What the Fuck!?" The leader seeing him coming prepared to punch him, so when he did punch, his arm broke like mud hitting a speeding car, then followed his body, as he was thrown across the Valley, his dick smashed. Some Demons going down with him.

And that was when the demons charged at him. Still as a ball he spun, then started to Ground Shredding them. And begone using all sorts of attacks, like the Suction Blasts Meteor Bolt on them. But not at full power.

And so that went on for a little while, hitting breaking and crushing the Demons, and when he was done he uncurled himself, covered in blood and gore, and saw the mascara.

Demons and there blood and remains splashed all over the place, but the cruel thing is that all of them are alive.

Turning into Ghostfreak he collected the bodies in one big pile, under them are the rocks and sand, colored with there blood.

After making sure no part of them remained he turned to Diamondhead, ignoring the cries and plees of mercy, one of them seemed to know him as he kept calling 'it is him! It is Ben10! ' Not that he cared, and so he made a dome, then turned into Heatblast. And all of the demons are Terrified, as he mercilessly castrated and maimed them While as Cannonbolt, so they paled at what he will do as an actual Demon from Hell. The fact he can transform was ignored.

"I Would Normally Say 'You May BURN and Suffer In Hell'. But That CLEARLY Did Not Work for you, So I will Do It Myself."

And with that he charged his biggest fire ball. The blood and guts that are stuck on him Burned to nothingness. And blasted the evil beings at full power.

The screams and howls of pain would give any creator nightmares, but he did not stop, not until nothing, not even ash, remained.

Seeing all of the Demons are exterminated he let out a sigh, the felling of exhaustion returning.

Solidifying himself he turned again to Ghostfreak as he got out of his prison and went to the girl. Not before turning back to Cannonbolt tho.

And so he went to the girl, crushing down as he spoke in a soft voice, his big-brother/future-father voice.

"You can come out now, it is safe, all the bad guys are not here anymore" the sight would be funny, a big alien, one that those who knows him knows how truly powerful he is, yet he is speaking like someone third his size, with the Deep voice.

"go-go away! (sniff) l-l-leave me al-lone! (Sniff)". Came the voice, the screams CLEARLY reached her as fear is as clear as invisible Ghostfreak.

And there it was again, the resemblance of her and Lucy.

Thinking fast, an idea came to his mind, turning back to a human, going for one of his many pockets, getting out a strangely fresh cookie, a clean napkin, a cool water bottle and a strange green box, "I will never question mom ever again, plus I must thank both Blukic and Driba for these New clothes! I can store so many things safely! " and as fast he changed he transforms back to Cannonbolt.

Taking the treat in an over sized hand he spoke to the scared girl, in his mind he was his 10 years old self as a human, the Valley was a forest, the boulder a big tree and the girl was Lucy. The voices and images cutting each other, a second is the present and the next is the past in his head.

-But don't you want a cookie?-

"But don't you want a cookie?"

{She gets her head out a little, tears running}

[She gets her head out a little, tears running]

-It's very tasty and has lots if chocolate in it!-

"It's very tasty and has lots if chocolate in it!"

{Now her head is all the way out}

[Now her head is all the way out]

The voices in his head and the images overlapped with one another as he, in his mind, was hearing his younger self speaking out of his current form.

-"Do you want it? It is very delicious! AND chocolate! Do you like chocolate?"-

{[She nodded her head, a small amount of hope in her pink/red eyes]}

-"Then you can come and have it is all yours."-

Still standing in her place, Ben put the small treat on the green box, extending his hand to her, smiling his sweetest and kindest smile, relaxing his body. All of that to show that he was not a threat.

-"It is alright, it is safe now, no one is going to hurt you, no one is after you. I Promise ."-

{[Slowly she stood, walking a step at a time, the tears are quicking. She then reached him, and when she touched his extended hand

She dove in his chest, letting herself cry as hard as she can, wailing all the way without a single inelegant word]}

Engulfing her with his body in a hug, he late her cry her eyes out, whispering sweat nothingness, rubbing her back as she cried to the world, without Ben knowing, for the first time of her life.

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It took The girl 10 minuets to calm down, eyes red with a running nose.

Getting the napkin he cleaned her face, then mad her blow her nose in it.

Putting the napkin down he gave her the bottle, the poor thing was so thirsty she drained the whole thing in seconds, and with a satisfied "Uhhh!" she gave him the bottle.

That was when he noticed her features. She wore black and red, strangely sharp, clothes, a back pack on her back and the white hair, what was New was the 2 bolt-like horns on her head, a long black tail that ends with a triangle and the red wide eyes with two cute and fluffy white goat ears, what did shock him was her appearance !

She looked human! Like a 6-7 years old girl cosplaying as a goat girl from Japan, a stark contrast to the Demons he fought just bit ago. The little Gray Matter and Brainstorm in his head told him something was off, there WAS a difference between the once he killed, but he could feel them being the same kind. But the girl? She was like from another world, or rather they were from another world as he felt like the girl was right, that she Belongs here.

Putting those thoughts in the back of his mind for later he smiles at the girl "Felling better now?".

The girl for her part went red in the faces, hiding her face under her bangs as she looked down, not without nodding tho.

"Hahaha that's great! NOW do you want the cookie or not?"

At the reminder he her eyes brightened with stars, like a small sunset, with lots of red, Blood red to be exact but still a sunset! "Cookie!?"

Laughing more he brought the cookie to her, she Took it and devoured it in a swift motion! No trace of tears or whatsoever "heh Kids, so easy to change there emotions." the irony that he, a kid, said that went over his head.

Using the clean side of the napkin he cleaned her face from the crumbs he asked "Will, did you like it?"

Nodding her head, he contentious "That is good, now this May be a bit late but introductions are in order! My name (as of now) is Cannonbolt!"

Titling her head she asked, "Your name is Ka-Naune-Ball?" laughing at the name.

At that Ben, had no response, Cannonbolt does spell like that, so he goes for simple "You know what? You can just call me Mr. Ball! How does that sound?" receiving a nod he asked her "Oww aren't you just adorable?! What is your name you lil' cute demon?" he said that While pinching her cheeks, he will never say it out loud, but he can understand why great Aunt Vera loves removeing the flesh from their cheeks, the reactions are too good to pass on!

And sure enough she puffs her red cheeks, not deciding either she should remove his hand or keeping her arms crosses While glaring (*cough cough* pouting cutely *cough cough*) at him in the face "I am NOT cute! Or little! And my name is Krampus!"

Cannonbolt, removing his hands in mock surrender, laughed a little at this "Hahaha sorry sorry. Anyway nice to meat you Krampus! Now what a nice big girl like you is doing here?"

That made the little demon's eyes water right away "I-I-I was e-with my mo-auntie whe-when suddenly-"

Without a single thought he hugged her, cutting her from her thoughts "Shh it is Okay, it is Okay, I will take you back to your mom Okay?"

At that she looked at him in hop "R-Really? You promise?"

Ben smiling he brought his hand to her, closing it except for his 'pinky' "I don't just promise you, I pinky promise you! So not even if all of Hell came at me to stop me? They will fail at stopping me!"

Eyes glowing she brought her own pinky, warping it around the claw, on the very top of his finger. And they shook.

Still seeing sadness he decided to give her one more thing, "Hey, do you know why my name is Cannonbolt?"

"No I don't, why?" she asks in childish curiosity.

Pretending he is looking around making sure no one is near then he spoke "That is because I can transform to other things!"

"Really!?" she shouted in excitement, stars literally manifesting around her.

"YUP! Do you want to see me transform?" She nodes, so he hugged her, curling himself and started spinning a bit, Krampus crying from joy.

Uncurling himself, now standing with Krampus in his arms, he let her down, "Did you like that?" nodes the girl, a happy aura around her, "Great! NOW close your eyes because when I transform there is a very big light Okay?" "Okay!".

Closing her Eyes, covering them with her hands, and facing the other way. Ben chuckles from the act as he went for the Omnitrix, and from the light came Upgrade.

"TADA! It is done!" said the new form with the mechanical voice, that shocked Krampus as she was awe struck. "WOW! That is awesome! Can I do that to!? Can you turn to more?"

Rubbing her head he answered "Sorry but you can't, BUT! I have more awesome things to turn to and I will show them to you but later Okay?" "Okay!"

Nodding Ben Took the cube from the ground, turned his right arm to a strange gun, loading it with the cube, "What are you doing?" "OH you will see alright! But tell me first, what is your favorite flavor?" "It is chocolate but why?"

Not answering her Ben fired the gun.

What looked like the bullet chamber that is outside the gun extended with mechanical arms and snapped close on the barrel.

10 seconds later Ben opened his gun-arm and Took the cube out, now that the gun is facing down the walls of the chamber Slid open, revealing one of Ben's favorite things in the Omniverse.

A smoothy.

Taking it out, returning his hand to normal he gave the cup to the girl, who looked confused by the whole ordeal.

"What is that?" "That would be a smoothy, want to try it? It is chocolate flavored!"

Not sure she took the offered drink.

And she took a sip from it.

~!GLORIOUS SUCCESS!~

Her eyes went wide, and she drank the whole thing in one go "It is a good thing I did not add a lot of ice, but who knew I could store so much in a mobile store the size of a rubic cube? "

He saw Krampus finishing, smiling he asked her "Did you like it? (Nodding) that is great, now I have another trick!"

Collecting the trash, the ruined napkin, bottle and the cup he put them on a rock far away, making sure Krampus is safe he charged his eye and blasted them, turning them to ash.

Krampus is clapping like crazy.

Seeing she is no longer down he decided to Four-times it up "Now don't lose this energy yet! We are not done, so close your eyes sweety!"

When she did so Ben turned to his tetramand form "FOU RARMS!" This time she opened her eyes alone, and was taken back by the giant red thing. "WOW! MR. BALL! HOW DO YOU DO THIS! NO ONE CAN DO THAT IN HERE!" Laughing he answered "It is thanks to the thing on my shoulder," showing the Omnitrix "It makes me able to turn to many things when I touch it! Cool huh? (nodding again) good 'cause the fun is not over yet! But before that can you keep this cube safe for me?"

"YES! My back pack can store many things!" opening it, a mouth on the top, seeing why not he put the cube in the mouth. "Ooh I Almost forgot!" she took out what appeares to be a compass in the shape of a skull "This should help us go 'north' as mo-aunt said! 'We should always go north because the Queen's castle is there'. Is what she said."

Ben was glad he now can have a clear way "Huh? Do all Demons use these?" "No but my Aunt gave it to me in case I was lost" "That was very thoughtful of her. Will, can you keep it for now? We need to go up first, Okey?" nodding she returned it to the pack and wore it.

Smearking he swooped the girl up he and put her around his shoulder, laughing all the way, "Okay now! Grap on my head as tight as your arms can hold sweety! We will jump Okay? Don't be afraid it will be fun!"

Nodding to him, Four arms used his upper arms to Hold her around his head.

"One Two Three Four! Jumping UP Here We GO!

And with that Ben jumped about two stories up on the wall, not wanting the girl to get scared, then again to the other one 'til he reached the top, the girl Laughing like mad.

Putting her down he checked her, nodding to himself when he found nothing wrong. "Please take the Compass out Okay? I will need the directions now." going for his shoulder, she got the cue and covered her Eyes, and he transformed.

"XLR8!" taking the Compass from her hands he saw the directions, going for it he returned the little trinker to its little owner.

Carrying Krampus in his arms he looked at her "Okay Krampus this form can run veeeerrry fast, so If you don't feel alright tap me Alright? I will not be able to hear you otherwise Okay?"

"Okay, but, umm, Mr. Ball?" "Yes?" "Can you tell me about your forms? I want to see them and know about them all!" "Haha of caurse, just not now Okay?"

Getting a nod his mask slid down from his helmet, and for the last time he spoke "Hold Tight! Here We GO!"

And in a blue and black blur he was gun. Krampus enjoying her time.

Ben never noticed his dome was gone, the remains of the burn on the ground are expused, and never noticed the purple portal opening, or the big strange owl thing that came from it.

The figure looked at the burns, then glared up at where XLR8 was seconds ago. He went back to the portal, after Collecting the ashes, or what remained from them, and the portal closes after he interred it.

Chapter Text

 Chapter 3: The Pranking, The Tired, The Monster, The Sadist.

The living/over world.

Tennyson Resident.

After entering the living room the Kids took there original positions, as max gave the two girls one last hug before telling them to wait for him as he needs to make a call.

Even tho Gwen wanted to protest she stayed silent, knowing whatever bad news regarding Ben are taking their tole on the older man. So she just nods.

Smiling a sad smile he left the room with Azmuth and Professor Paradox.

The only different one out was the new arrival, Max, who is setting between Cooper and Rook, an uneasy look on his face.

Even tho he was asked what is going on he only answered with a 'It is better if the General returned and explained everything himself '.

No one asked anything after that.

That was 20 minutes ago.

In the waiting Lucy fell asleep on Gwen's lap, who is stroking her head. Even tho she reverted to her mud form.

Zak took his animals/adopted siblings out to the front lawn, as Komodo the komodo dragon will get aggressive (or more than he normally is) if stayed in a closed proximity

in an anxious atmosphere, and Zon the pteranodone is a flying crypted, it is kind of in the name. And fiskerton, the Cat-gorilla, or Lemurian, was out just to be with his family, the poor thing is as much of a scared Cat as a vicious one.

Kevin left shortly after, still mad he did not get answers, and so he opted to walks both Zed and Ship, with Skurd now setting on Gwen's shoulder, the Companiotrix's symbol disappeared.

The others are just. Silent. Each doing their own thing. Rook is maintaining his Proto-Tool. Rex drawing possible future builds, his monkey friend, Bobo Haha, being as lazy as ever. Cooper is fixing one of his tools that he came with. Danny is walking on the selling in circles as a ghost.

The that was doing nothing was Max who just, sat there, Deep in thoughts, Steel doing the same, hovering near him with his arms crossed.

"How are you felling, dear girl?" spoke the Slim-Biot for the first time since earlier in a Spanish accent.

Gwen did not face him, but she sighed then relaxed her back, looking up at the selling. Not once stopping from patting the sleeping mud alien. "I. I am just worried. You more than anyone else knows how bad of a shape Ben is in. From what we know something bad happened and grandpa is unable to help. I tried contacting him in his phone, one mad with his smartest aliens AND is Upgrade upgraded. So being unable to reach him means he is either too far away, be it from earth, galaxy or in another Dimension! Possible Reality even! I Just want answers-"

"And answers you will get young Gwendolyn, but I think you must collect your team first." came an England accent voice.

Turning to door all the kids saw Professor Paradox inters the door, behind him is grandpa Max and on his shoulder is Azmuth.

What surprised Gwen was who came after her grandpa.

"GRANDMA!?" exclaimed Gwen, thankfully not startling Lucy.

And sure enough it was Verdona, and elderly woman, wearing a dark blue cloak and dark blue eyes. Her normally soft smile is replaced with a scowl as she is so angry, to the point of pink flames flying from her eyes.

Wait,

"Grandma?" at that Verdona looked over Gwen, a sweet, fake smile adoring her aged face "Hello sweety, I know you want to know what is going on so can you wake up Lucy please?" looking back at Her husband, the anger returning .

Nodding Gwen did just that.

Sighing for the ten thousandth time that day, Max Tennyson looked up at the ghost hybrid. "Danny, can you please go and call Zak and Kevin? There is a lot of things to explain."

Nodding, the Phantom hero phased through the wall. Few seconds later he returned. "I called them!"

Sure enough the door opened, from it Zak and his siblings(?) interred, shortly after Zed came running with Ship on her back, Kevin behind them.

Taking there places, with Lucy waking up, seeing Grandpa she tried to jump up and start asking him , but was stopped by Gwen who shaken her head. Even Bobo is on alert and is wide awake ans with a serious face.

Seeing the attention is on him The old plumber straightened his poster. All emotions disappearing. His face is blank, only seriousness remained. His business face. That was the case with the other old people in the room too.

Seeing that the same happened to the Kids and there companions (with Lucy huddling closer to with her cousin), now they are not Kids with powers, but solders and fighters for good and justice. The X-Force.

"Less than three hours ago, Ben was called for an emergency. The Northern Nuclear Energy Reactor was damaged," at that the kids gasped. "And due to the urgency of the matter Ben was called. As his Jetray form Is the only thing fast enough to reach there in time. And that is exactly what happened as he stabilized the Reactor long enough for specialists to arrived."

When he finished Gwen raised her hand," But grandpa, isn't that the biggest Nuclear energy source in the country?"

"That is right Gwen, it is unknown what was the cause as plumber investigations are still going, but it is theorized it is due to someone messing with alien tech."

It was the Max-Steel due who spoke next "This is strange, I too for the last few weeks was dealing with Nuclear and toxins related accidents, with the Biggest one being last week's as a wast trains was about to collide with a passenger one." "But if one of the biggest nuclear energy generators being damaged means that it was intentional, our old ones possibly Being part of this, but the Question is who is behind them?"

After that there eyes widened in realization "TOXON!" "How did we mess it!? It was obvious."

Before Steel could answer he was stopped by the older Max "It is a good theory, one that is highly possible. However, your villain is not strong enough to pull all these events in such short time, so either he got help or someone else did it."

Nodding to that the duo acknowledged his point.

"Back to topic, after ensuring everything is okay Ben returned to Bellwood, hearing about the escaping Vreedles he went after them. I was close by when he caught them as Gravattack."

"The problem is after that, as both Eon and Hex came together, it was then that I gave the single, as Ben at the time was in shape to fight them both. Both of them came prepared however, and that was when the problems started, as Eon had a device damaged the Omnitrix, and in Hex took advantage from his weakend state and fired a... Teleportation spell on me to make sure Ben would stop it." the earlier sorrow returned ten folds now that the Cat is out of the bag. Both Gwen and Lucy bolted to hug him, and he happily accepted it.

It was the that something kind of clicked in Gwen's head as she got some distance to look at her grandpa (he was still much talker than her) and asked the dreaded question "Grandpa? What kind of teleportation spell? And it took Ben to where exactly?"

He sighed again at that, a small, still sad smile on his face 'she really is smart ' "It would be a-" "-Dark spell, of the forbidden type. one that is self-trace removing and could break the magical barriers between dimantions and realms, and before you ask how I know, When I was informed I went straight there, and then came here, that is why we were late." now everyone looked at the older woman, sorrow in her eyes.

"As your grandmother said, as of where to where we don't know, only taking to believe what the two of them said."

"And that would be?"

Taking a big breath he answered "Hell."

Everyone of the kids and the animals that understood paled, except of Max and Steel as they flinched. Both Azmuth and Paradox looked pained and Verdona is on the verge of tears.

"In HELL!? But how? And why?"

"That, my dear Gwendolyn, because of the nature of the Realm, as even I, someone who can step to the world of Celestialsapiens are unable to reach it as will as Heaven, any sort of power I have In the time stream are useless regarding them."

"But-But then should not grandma be able to open one too?"

"Sadly sweaty I can't, DARK magic requires big amounts of Dark energy and mana, if I was still at my full power it is no issue sure, but as I am now I am unable to do so. Plus even if Hex is weak now, in his younger years he was strong enough that Anodites thought twice before getting near him, not counting he was practicing the Dark arts for almost all of his life. That was why he could open a portal in the first place."

"THEN BEN IS IN GREAT DANGER! Without the watch he is completely-"

"Don't worry about that," the small frog's voice snapped Gwen from her panic "I gave him a code that will allow him to reboot the watch if needed and accessing the master control energy. The only problem is The virus is effecting the manual DNA samples access codes specially, as will as blocking the secondary features such as scanning. So we will have to hope he will have at least one or two transformations for him to survive."

"Still, He is-" "GOING TO BE FINE!" Lucy's shout made everyone in the room silent and eyes wide, looking at the youngest person in the room (Skurd is on her head) in shock. "I don't know what this 'Hell' is, but it sounds stupid! And Ben is awesome! So he will be Fine!"

Skurd meanwhile is board "I hope this little display of worry is over with, as much as I love drama like anyone, this is just sad. I know you are worried and all, but have some faith in the kid! He is more than capable of holding his own in some hot place! So instead of mopping about how he will die, go and do something about it!" "YEAH! What he said!" encouraged his little host.

At that everyone cheered, there morals raised.

Smiling softly max patted his grandniece in the head, but away from Skurd.

"You know what Lucy? You are right!"

Facing the others, with Magister Max is back all Stood up "This is what we will do, while Azmuth is resulting the Omnitrix problems we will split in 2 groups. Gwen you will go with your grandmother to where Ben was sent from. , Professor Paradox will help you if he sensed Ben. Danny, Zak, Cooper, Lucy with Zed and ship will go with you for protection, in case you needed to do something and you are under attack.

Max-Steel, you will go with N-tech to the Reactor, Steel will be greatly helpful in uncovering what is going on. Meanwhile Kevin, Rook and Rex will be patrolling the city incas the information of Ben being gone is exposed. Any question?"

Receiving non he ordered them" Alright then, it is time to go!" and with that all left, with him being the last. But he went to another direction, until Gwen stopped him "Hay grandpa? Where are you going?" "There is a call I have to do" "Can I ask why?"

Smileing he answered kindly, his old age apparent on his face "To do what I do best, fixing the mess I make."

And with that he was gone, and Gwen went to Verdona to go their own destination.

.......... 

In Hell

Ben, as XLR8, was running for about 10 minutes now.

In this short time he discovered 3 things:

1-Hell was staring, like the place is full of rooms that are puzzles? He did not wast time on them as he could just jump over them, something Krampus found delight in.

2-The place is hard to run fast in, in high speeds the lands blend in together, resulting in running being a torture.

3-Finally and most importantly, he is getting tired and fast ! He spent more time as XLR8 running faster than he is now without breaking a sweat, but now? He feels like he is about to collapse!

Slowing to a stop over a small cliff, he put Krampus down softly before falling on his setting down, panting loudly.

That got Krampus to worry, as XLR8's mask with the sound of wind made his panting while running inaudible.

"Mr. Ball? Are you okay?"

Not wanting the small demon to worry he forced a smile even tho he can barely breath "I-am-Fine!-You-don't-have to-worry."

That was a complete lie and he knows it. Even Krampus isn't believing him with how worried she looked.

Deciding he gotta go-slow for a change he went for the Omnitrix, after the glow what was a blue dinosaur is now a white ghost, even tho he does not need to breath, yet he was panting softly, that was how tired he is.

"GHOSTFREAK!"

The worry from the demon girl was replaced with awe at the new form "Ooo another one! What can it do?!"

Eye smiling at her (no way will he ever uncover his true face to her or anyone) he indulged in her antics "Will you see, this one is a Ghost! And he can-" he suddenly stiffened, in the corner of his eye he saw something strange, making the eye move to the direction in the black lines. Ignoring the 'eewww gross!' from his tiny companion.

Turning his body to direction his eye is facing (still staring in the same point, but moving in the Black lines) and flying closer to the edge he looked down.

His gaze turned to a cold glare.

Down there were Demons just like the one he annihilated half an hour ago, not as much tho, about 20 to 30 at best. Cornering a demon woman like Krampus

However unlike those he killed these appeared to be quiet maimed, with few bodies lying around motionlessly ahead.

While they looked bad, the one they are trying to take down looked abet better than those still alive, as she was covered in blood, both hers and that of the downed/damaged Demons, but her movements are shabby, like an injured limb. Not counting her tired poster, like she is about to fall any second now.

Krampus being curious tried to get a peak, however Ghostfreak's clawed hand blocked her way, "Hey, I have to go down there," facing her with his body but the eye in its place. "I want you to go and hide, don't come out until I return is that clear?"

Feeling a little fear from his eerie voice she nodded.

"Good, now go."

Krampus did not know why, but she did just that, a feeling of dread washing over her. And so she went to the furthest rock from the edge and hides behind it.

When Ghostfreak saw the fear on her he felt a little guilt. But he did not let that stop him as he had more urgent MATTERS, and so he started to scan the area. Spotting a small clearing, his mouth smirked with an evil smile. "Will. Who wants to play peekaboo? "

With that he went invincible and Flow down to the Demons below.

He waited for when the woman pressed her back against the wall. And with the Demons snarling at her did he make his presence known.

And from the wall he got a hold of the female demon, still invincible and intangible, and brought her to the wall after she too became ghost-like, enjoying her frightened cry as he released her at the clearing, 'MAN! Ghostfreak really makes me like scaring people. Tho it IS fun, not gonna lie.'

With the little prank done with he went to the demons bellow.

Said demons looked on the verge of shitting their pants.

With his aura spreed the feel of dread is present, resulting in them Freaking out and being paranoid. And after basking in their fear he decided to make himself known. And so he Stood in front of them, the demons having an eerie felling from the place where he Stood.

And they readied themselves, and waited.... but nothing came, and when they felt the aura disappearing did they relax, and to start searching they turned around.

"BOOOOO!"

But the sudden appearance of a green eye with a white ghostly body terrified them, making them jump back, hitting each other, resulting in them falling down.

The sight made the ghost alien hold his stomach as he wheezed from laughter.

Wiping an imaginary tear from his eye, he stopped laughing and straightening himself, his gaze hardened as he addressed them. "Okay you guys. That was a good laugh, but I want someone to explain to me what is going on here."

That knocked them out of their super as outrage took over them as they began to stand up. "Who the FUCK are you ya freak!?" the one in the front spoke, TRYING to act threatening with 2 spikes extending from his shoulders and few in his back and tail, his size increased a bit, his snarl and blood-red eyes are menacing, he has 2 pairs of eyes on the sides, with the right side being blind as there was a new scare covering them. Even he could tell these Demons are stronger than those he slayed earlier, most will freeze in terror from such a sight.

But Ghostfreak was not impressed, not in the slightest as he stared at them with indifference 'Who thought these guys to be threatening? That was so bad it is not funny! ' "Who or What I am doesn't matter. What does however is Who are you ? You don't look like you are from around here."

The demons are now uneasy, each of them grimacing, the one that spoke first, apparently the leader started sweating heavily "That is none of your business! And it must be you who took that whore aren't you!?"

They suddenly felt like gravity increased 10 times as they felt a big killing intent, the weaker demons fell to their knees while the leaser ones outright pissed themselves.

There is a reason why you don't anger Ben's second most feared Alien.

Said alien has his eye glowing a Deep toxic light, a Dark aura around him as he glared at the beings in front of him "Didn't anyone teach you to not call a woman like that? But if by a 'whore ' you mean the lady that is clearly not will and yet humiliated you lot single handedly Even tho you ganged on her then yes, I am the one that took her. Nice going by the way." he could not help chuckling at the end.

"Okay, fun time is over. I don't really care who you guys are. And I am in a very bad mode right now, I killed few demons that are like you just about an hour ago, so I advise you to stop chasing her and walk away from here before I lose my temper and paint the walls with your guts and blood."

Most of them took the threat to heart, the desire to get (run) away as clear as the surrounding Hell.

Sadly the keyword is most as the bigger demons Stood up, snarls hiding the fear they have. "W-We are not afraid if you! So what if you killed those weaklings! They are nothing compared to us!" the leader's small pip talk made most of them gain a bit more courage.

Taking the lead was a scorpion demon, he has purple-red skin, a scorpion tail and head with 2 yellow eyes and red iris(?) spoke "Yeah! We are not afraid of some knock-off Halloween decoration so you better tell us where the bitch is right this moment!"

"Ooohh scary! Why don't you come here and force me big guy? Or are you so dumb that you stab yourself in the face with that tail of yours?"

The taunt worked as the demon, and few others charged at him. Evading them was very easy.

"Wops you messed! Close but not close enough! Come on my baby sister can do better than that!"

That went in till the biggest demon, a gray rhino demon charges at him "I am Rhino! And I will crush you!".

That made Ghostfreak deadpan "..... Really now? Your name is Rhino? Really ? It is a good thing non of my friends or villains are this uncreative, otherwise I will sue them!"

(somewhere in the endless existence of all there is, men in gray rhino themed suits felt a chill going down their spines.)

Rating even more Rhino speed up, his targets is a cross armed Ghostfreak, the Demons smirking in victory as their comrade closed on the ghost, and he was about to hit him, Sadly for him his opponent is a literal ghost. And so Ben went intangible, resulting in the rhino demon impaling the wall behind him.

"I am Sorry for ghosting you buddy, but next time use your brain... or what you have left of it." snickering as his eye smirked at the demon behind him.

Moving his eye to stare at each of the Demons, he is now tired a bit and his temper is fried. Chances if a second mascara are high. "I will ask you again to leave, you can't beat me, and any longer of this and I will use violence, so be good and FUCK OFF! ".

Not picking on his threat one on his far left bluffed "And what if we don't?"

It was not a second later that a whoosh and boom sounds to come at the demon's right.

Looking there he found a rock stuck on the wall, not any size, one the size of his whole torso. Needless to say they lost their colors.

"O-Okay we got it! We are leaving! We promise!" with the leader the rest nodded eagerly.

Nodding, the Ghost then walked (floated) to the side as he watched them go. He then turned to the direction of the mountain.

Just as he was about to go there an object, the tail of the scorpion, went through him, surprised as he took a hold of it, moving his eye to the back of his head.

There he saw that they all turned back, all with evil smirks, even the leaser Demons cheered.

"HAHAHAHA YOU FOOL! Did you seriously believe we will leave? Just like that? HAHAHA! Even if we did we would have returned for that slut or went for another! HAHAHA!"

Ben's one eye moved slowly, looking at them one last time as a sane ectonurite before closing it. Sighed. And immediately he opened it looking at them with nothing but malice glee. "mhaha HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I see. So you have chosen, death. And I would love to grant you your foolish wish!" when he said that his whole body turned on the stunned demon, and he put his hand on his head.

And crushed it like it was a mud ball.

"HAHAHA! HAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Laughing like mad he floated up, looking at the terrified Demons with evil glee, he then tore the outer skin, showing his true body's horror.

Some of the demons in the back regained their senses as they tried to run, their attempt was met with a rock in the head, splashing their brain out. "Where do you think you are going? Leaving the party so fast? This early? HAHAHA!"

And just like that he dove on them, splashing, strangling and maiming them like mad. Even taking over Rhino, only to crush the rest of them under him, after that he snapped his possessed body's neck, leaving the dead body to fall.

After unAliving each and every one of them he returned his outer skin, hand on his side and a proud smile on his face as he is foundly watching his work.

Moving his eye he saw the lady he saved staring at him, blushing? And without a thought he winked at her, and he turned invincible.

.......... 

Pendemonica was having a bad day, as Hell's customer service main employ her workload was more than most, not counting her, special, condtion, making her always tired.

But today was significantly worse than it normally is, from strange sightings to the sky changing colored, but what really sealed the deal was how portals don't work!

And so she was asked to uncover the problem, and between that or dealing with angry demons you can't reason with she took the later.

And due some sick joke the portal she and few others worked, as they used things like rocks and the undeads to test it.

Seeing no issue she mad one herself for testing further.

The second she put one foot in it the portal exploded.

When she regained her senses she found herself out of the building, even the city, "..... *Sigh* Of course something wrong must happen when I want to test something!"

Deciding that staying put won't solve anything she took a look at her surroundings.

She was at the base of a small mountain with a clearing ahead of her. "Hmm, it seems I am at the outskirts of the ring. *Sigh* I must start walking, the feaster I return the less piled up paperwork to deal with."

However, and before she took 10 steps she dodged a fist that went for her head from behind.

Looking at the attacker, or rather, the attackers, a group of mismatched creatures, each of them has some sort of animalistic parts.

Frowning at them as she studied them, she readied herself. 'Strange, I have never seen those things before, yet they feel like demons. Whatever, right now I must get away and fast! '

Infront of her was a big demon with horns and spike all over him, apparently being the leader. "Will Will Will! What do we have here? A lone lady in this harsh place? Don't worry ma'am, we will take good care of you!"

Glaring at the laughing things the tired demon prepared for a fight "I am sorry, but I would rather go back to my work than spend my time with some weaklings. So if you could be so kind and leave me be."

"Now Now lady, there is no need to act all stuck up! Just let me and my guys have some rounds with you and everyone will walk away happy! You will even enjoy it-"

Getting closer he tried to intimidate her with his size, Sadly for him she did not care as she slashed him on his face, (forcing him to falls back a good distance away her) making half of his face useless.

"RRRAAAAAHHHHH YOU FUCKING BITCH! YOU WILL PAY! EVERYONE ON HER!" at their leader's command the creatures charged at her, all with glares.

Taking distance from the demon holding his face. Focusing on the coming horde. Closing her eyes and opening them, what was wide tired eyes are now slits that are full if blood lust and her mouth is menacing glare, her small horns grown to more lightning bolt like shape, her hands changes to be pointy claws.

What followed was a mix of Pendemonica punching, slashing, dodging and even killing few Demons.

Focused at the scorpion she did not notice the rhino demon charging at her, and when she did it was too late as he slammed at her, throwing her to a far away wall.

Not losing time she Stood up, only to find her leg bruised as she limped. Retreating to the wall behind her, arms extended threateningly as she looked at the demons surrendering her. While she has no issue with those numbers, but her exhaustion combiner with the fact she did not fight in a long time saw to her current possession.

Glaring at them she did not close her eyes. Not showing a bit of fear.

Then suddenly she felt herself falling back in the wall behind her.

Seconds later she emerged with a scream. Opening her eyes she found herself in a small clearing, limping to the edge she looked down she felt a little funny at the terrified look they gave as they turned away.

Then a ghost appeared out if thin air.

Their reaction was comical as they fell over, and the ghost agreed as it laughed at them.

After some talking she unable to hear, they attacked the phantom, and failed miserably as they harmed themselves only.

Then the big rhino charged. And the ghost just looked at it with a bored expression. Then it turned black? Just as the demon was about to collide with it he went through the ghost, impaling his head into the wall.

Then the ghost throwed a rock at very high speed, that one impressed the sadistic demon, tho it disappointed her that the horde of Demons(?) just walked away, with the ghost making its way to the mountain wall.

She was so focused at the ghost that she messed the sudden turn the demons toke and how the scorpion was the last of them, so it scared her how he impaled it!

But before fear could take over her or jump at the laughing back stabbers he started laughing, the kind that would give the worst of Demons a pause, then he turned to the scorpion, and crushed his head like it was nothing.

Floating up it tore its body, or the skin covering, revealing a body of the depths of horrors.

What happened next mad Pendemonica blush as he turned them to a bloodied pile of corpses, 'That is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen~!'

And as there eyes/eye met it winced at her as she disappeared after.

Confused she looked around, trying to find her savior, "Hello!" "AAAAHHH!" and she jumping back, straining her leg even more so, as said savior appeared out of no where right in front of her. Falling back the injured demon hissed as she held her leg in pain.

.......... 

"Hello!" Sometime Ben would forget his aliens' powers are unknown to most and only he and few others memorize them all, more so if said alien is among those he likes to prank with. And so when he appeared in front of the demoness it went over his head that, in fact, it is startling if a ghost popped out of the void.

"AAAAHHH!" and it does not come as a surprise as said demoness hurt her leg even more than it already is.

"OH my God I am so sorry! Are you alright miss?" the second he said that he slapped himself on the face 'Of course she is not alright you idiot! What kind of question was that!?' shaking his head he floated near the injured woman, who by now was glaring degrees enough to make Heatblast sweat, said glares were aimed at Ben who rubbed his head awkwardly.

"Who, or What, May you be? I have never seen a demon like you before."

"Err, will, you see I am- WAIT! That doesn't matter now! You are injured! We must get you to a doctor or something!" panicked Ben started to inspect her, messing a small smile from the demon.

"*Sigh* It is fine, it will heal on its own, so don't worry about it. Anyway thank you for the saving me down there, I would not have survived them if you did not intervene."

That made Ben rub his head (OR more likely the back of his moth) from embarrassment "Oh, you are Welcome! That was nothing, but I thought you would dislike how I-" worried, he gestured to the over 2 dozens of Demon corpses below them.

Liking his awkward nature the female demon laughed (darkly) behind her hand "slaughtered them like lambs attacked by wolfs? No,not at all. I even enjoyed it~"

That in return resulted in the Ghost alien to blush a bit and rubbing his head in a shy manner (even If Zs'skayr no longer a part of Ghostfreak, some of his original attitudes are still there, such as finding no issue in using extreme and deadly methods and even enjoying it.)

And only then did he notice her appearance, and now how it was changing, her horns are like that of a sheep's yet in a bolt shape, now turning to little nubs like an extra cute sheep in a kids show or book. Her hair is as white as Krampus's but in a sheep's wool-like wavy hair style, with a ponytail on the back if her head. With her eyes now being big with a soft look with black bags underneath them, unlike their previously stat as slit pupils and full of blood Lust. And of course an arrow-tipped tail.

Finally she is dressed in a professional black and red secretary clothing with dark pencil skirt and glasses with black knee-high boots and gloves. And somehow an ID that was not damaged.

Before Ghostfreak could say a thing the demoness beat him to the punch "This May be a little late but please let me introduce myself. My name is Penamonica and I am from Hell's customer service, how can I help you?" with that she smiled a tired, forced, and pained smile at him.

Ben was shocked by the fact Hell has customers as a whole, but he closed his unseen open mouth and coughed in his fist and intrduced himself "Nice to meet you! My name is, will, I go by many names, but as of now you can call me Ghostfreak! And rather than you helping me, how can I help you?"

"Thank you, but I am Fine, really." to proven her point Penamonica tried to stand up, which failed as when she applied the smallest of pressure on her injured leg she hissed in both pain and anger, as her features turned to her angry face.

Seeing the worried look at the ghost she sighed in defeat as she relaxed and sat, her face turned to her calm one. "Okay, I do need help, but I don't think you can, unless you carry me all the way to the capital and I will not subjugated you to that."

"Now you mad a mistake! You NEVER tell a Tennyson you can't!"

Surprised by his sudden mode change Penamonica did not register the 'tennyson' part as suddenly she was engulfed by green energy and was floating in the air.

Once they were up on the peak did Ghostfreak lay her down gently on one of the rocks, turning around he called his small companion, "Krampus! I am back! You can come out now!" but there was no track of the little devil! "Just wait for a second, I will be with you in just a moment."

Looking around he was a able to locate his little monster, then suddenly he felt something was creeping on him from behind.

"RAAAAAHHHHH!" then suddenly that something was a someone !

"AAAAAHHHHH!" Faking fright Ghostfreak jumped ahead a bit, hand over his Omnitrix as he 'breathed' from the scare (A/N Who can find the reference?) as he looked at Krampus in pretend fear, the little monster not the wiser believing her prank worked as she (cutely) glared at the bigger monster (puffed cheeks and all).

"Krampus! What was that for!?" crossing his arms in mock disapproval as he looked at the small demon.

"Because you were mean! And you left me alone here! And I was bored!"

Looking as if he was ashamed Ben looked at the floor with sadness, then got closer to Krampus "I am sorry, but I had to help someone! Would you forgive if I give you another smoothy?"

immediately her face changed to pure happiness as she looked up at him with starts around her "Okay!" and without a second thought she took his hand and dragged him to where Pandemonica was sitting. Ben for his part was smiling "Heh, works every time."

Once Krampus saw the injured demon however she disappeared behind Ghostfreak, who in turn looked apologetic at Pandemonica "I am sorry I took too long, I had to leave her up here before I went to down to help you."

To her credit Pandemonica nodded in acceptance, even if she winced from the pain but there was a small smile in her face "It is alright, really. But I didn't think you were a father."

A notable blush covered Ghostfreak's white face at that (will his covered face Anyway)even Krampus was holding him tighter with her face a Deep red (he checked(?) with his eye) an tried to solve the dire misunderstanding "I am not her father! Or a father at all! I was just passing by and found her being chased by some demons and saved her! I didn't know her before that!"

"Oo is that so? Then I am sorry for the misjudgment, it is just, you seem to be old enough to be a father, even tho you are a strange demon." that made the already pale alien even paler as he covered his eye in shame! "Thank the Celestials Gwen is not here! She won't live it down till I have great grandkids! Or god forbes Kiven!" and with a shudder he forced the humiliating thoughts out of his head as he focused back at the two Demons in front of him as he got closer to the sitting demoness "This may be a little late but Pandemonica, this is Krampus." nudging at the little demon, she peeked at the older woman "Krampus, this is Pandemonica. Now she is injured and I need to help her, can you assist me in doing so?"

With a slow nod she walked out from her hiding place with Ben patting her head as she shyly waved at the customer service worker "H-Hello, I am Krampus." "Will hello Krampus, I am Pandemonica, it is nice to meet you." waving back, but it was short-lived as she hissed at pain, that made Krampus worry as she looked up at the ghost. She was getting worse and worse by the second.

For his part Ben was looking seriously at the injured limb, then looked at Krampus "Do you have a pencil and a white paper Krampus? (she nodded) Good, then get them out while I take care of miss Pandemonica. Also, take out my cube okay?" with a nod she put her back pack down and began to rampage through it.

Looking at the center of his worries he began to take out some of his tentacles "Look miss, I need to tear some of you pants okay? And please tell me where are you hurt exactly."

"Okay, you can go ahead. The damage is on my right leg only, lucky, but it hurts, a lot."

Without wasting any time he tore the pants covering her right leg, but gently, and it looked pretty bad.

Knowing his current form would be useless he looked at her calmly "Do you know why I told you earlier why I am 'currently called Ghostfreak' ? (she shook her head) That's because I can transform to other forms, so don't panic okay? And please covered your eye."

Receiving an okay to proceed he went for the Omnitrix, and in his place was a short frog man.

"GREY MATTER! Before you ask anything, you have to wait a bit, I can explain everything later. Right now your injury is top priority." not even waiting for her he started to examine the damage, ignoring the "You are so tiny!" from Krampus.

"Hmm, that is not good, but it is not too bad either, there is the dislocated knee and bruises, but otherwise it seems the leg is staring to heal itself."

Nodding to himself he went for the pencil (one with a strange demon skill with an open mouth and roses inside of it) and the paper and wrote down on it.

Curios Pandemonica asked him" What are you writing?" "Simply put, this is my smartest form, with him I can think way above my normal capicty. With that in mind I am writing instructions for myself as I need to transform to other forms to actually heal you."

Finishing his writing process he walked a small distance far from her and pressed the Omnitrix.

"STINKFLY!" both Demons gagged at the stinky insect, the smell being way too bad.

"Sorry." sheepishly he apologized, then started to chew on something in his mouth. After a short period of time he took out a big pile of goo that is, suprissingly both without a smell and is slimy but closer to liquid.

Collecting the goo together he started rolling it between his hands. When he was done the pile was in a shape similar to that of a ball.

With Stinkfly's purpose done he went for the Omnitrix. And from the green light came a green plant.

"WILDVINE!" taking 7 of the eggplant-like seeds from his back and started opening them in half.

Removing their black insides, he put them all in a pile and started mixing them 'till they had a muddy structure to it. nodding to himself he then looked at Pandemonica with little pain. "This would help reducing the pain and cleaning the wounds, as will as closing the as will. Buuuutt it would hurt quiet a bit. Also, and this is the important part, I will need to fix your leg back in place."

At that the tired demon nodded, agreeing to the idea. "That is alright by me, you can go ahead."

Grimacing he went to her side. Two of his root legs covering the injured leg, with most foucus on the knee, the other 2 are holding her in place, with his forearm inside the mouth for her to bite at, looking at Krampus he gave her a small order "Krampus, please give me the paper, Turn around and cover your ears."

Once she did those he looked at the instructions he wrote. After knowing exactly what to do he warned the tired "I will start now, are you ready?"

Receiving a nod he counted "Okay then, at three! One..Two..THREE! " and he pulled the thigh and shin then immediately flexed his legs around the knee, returning it to its place.

The action was both fast and effective. But Also extremely painful as Pandemonica (who turned angry from the pain) BITES down at his arm to the point it was torn of, her tail going through his body, her horns would have stabbed him if he was close to her head and her claws tearing his plant flesh as she grabbed at him with her might. Thankfully the Floraunas don't feel that much pain (as one of them can get their head eaten and would be mildly annoyed at best) so Ben was not harmed.

The shocking thing was that Pandemonica did not make a sound! Just a small muffled scream.

Unwrapping her leg (simultaneously regrowing his parts) he began applying his antidote/cream on the full length of the leg. That caused the demoness to grit her teeth as the black mud made small acidic burns on her injuries, like medical alcohol, cleaning the wounds as will as healing the bruises as the seed-mud was cold.

After finishing covering the legs he took the somewhat solid goo ball, shaping it to be like that of a pipe he thin turned it to a plate as he used it like a cast, covering the leg again he used his riot-legs again on it, as he softly closed the Stinkfly-cast on the leg. And after making sure it is all in place put the leg down.

By now he released the demoness and was inspecting her New cast. The goo was a bit wet from the inside, perfect for the healing mud to be active, but was slowly hardening from the outside due the heat.

"Wow, it feels better now, thank you." for the 3rd time Ben blushed. The demoness was smiling at him a brilliant, genuine smile, something that he is still getting embarrassed about, "Haha it is no problem! Glad I was of help!" coughing in his hand he then Stood at his full height. "Anyway we should start moving, I don't know if more of those dudes will appear again and I don't want to gamble my luck on this place being safe. KRAMPUS! IT IS OKAY NOW! YOU CAN COME HERE!"

Shortly after the little demon appeared, and was both fascinated and disgusted with cast, yet she kept picking it with her fingers.

Nodding Pandemonica put her hands on the ground as she was about to push herself up, but Wildvine's big hands stopped her. "Ah Ah Ah! You can't move! Doctor's orders!" looking up at him with confusion she asked "But then how will I move? I mean you are not going to carry me all the way, are you?"

There was no hummer in Ben's voice as he spoke "This is prissily what I will do, and there is nothing that you can say that can stop me." having no energy to argue she just accepted his idea.

But just as he was about to transform a little hand pulled at his legs, looking down he was met with a slightly pouting Krampus holding to him his Quantron box (the box that contain his food stuff).

Understanding, he looked at Pandemonica as he asked "Hey, that May seem random but what is your favorite drink?"

Fixing her brocken glasses then putting them on place on her face and answered "Will, I Love coffee, the only thing that helps me stay a wake, but sadly no one but very few can make a good cup of it, do I am normally stuck with normal stuff. Why do you ask?"

"OH you will see~!" smirking he grabbed the Omnitrix.

And instead of the green plant in his place was a green man.

"UPGRADE! Alright ladies, I hope you are exited for the best drink you will ever taste in your lives!" and with that he took the cube from Krampus, as will as turning his right arm to the smoothy gun, loading the cube, then firing it, and as the chamber closed he made the cool drink, a chocolate smoothy, taking it out he then did the process a second time.

And he took the cube out, then turned his gun arm to some kind of a drill that has a small chamber below it, reloading the cube he then fired it. And as he took the drink out it was different, it was a thinner cup that was open with steam coming out.

Satisfied he took the cube out and gave it to its current holder and turned his arm to normal. "This is yours and the other is mine okay?" "OKAY!"

He then gave the two cool once to Krampus and the hot one to Pandemonica, and before they knew it he transformed again.

"Four Arms! Alright ladies time to go!" not wasting time he picked Krampus up and put her on his shoulder, she was so small compared to him she was pretty much hugging his whole head, with one of his upper arms behind her to keep her in place he went for the still startled demoness, he gently put his lower pair under her, supporting the cast, and the last arm behind her midsection (with his hand being far enough for him to use) and gently Stood up, by now she was blushing deep red, with her not used to being treated like that.

"I see you still did not taste your drink, come on! I promise you that you will like it!"

Looking up at him she saw Krampus slurping on her drink with a wide smile, he himself took the second one and was holding it with a wide smile.

Reluctant she took a small sip from her drink,

~!GLORIOUS SUCCESS!~

Her eyes widened at the taste, her features are that of when she is angry, yet her eyes are wide with a soft and surprised expression. "Woow, this is the best coffee I had ever had! Thank you."

"You are Welcome!" smiling back, he then took a sip of his own drink, his two passengers enjoying theirs "Mmm grasp flavor, my favorite."

And with that the trio went in the diraction Ben was runing to earlier.

.......... 

A few hours after Ben left with the other 2. a portal that is exactly the same as the one in the vally opened up near the base, from it the same owl from earlier walked out.

And when he saw the state the Demons that he sent were in he released one of the most terrifing screatches to ever be heared in anger.

Chapter Text

Chapter 4: Strong Lust. 

In Hell.

It had been about quarter of an hour since Ben started walking again, in that period he kind of just, enjoyed the company. Which even if it was short it served as a little rest.

As for his companions, will Krampus just sat on his shoulders, loving the felling of being the tallest one around, kicking her legs up and down while humming a song. Her smoothy long since been drained and was disposed of, the same for his.

Pandemonica, for her part, was just enjoy ride. The alien-made cast helping her in the healing process. Sipping her drink ever so slowly, savoring the great taste of the Black drink.

But the issue from before he met both girls, the exhaustion, has returned. While unlike when he Flew as meteor with Heatblast or ran faster than speeding trains with XLR8. Now he feels like the spicks surrounding him would be the greatest resting place ever.

OH! Right, did he mention there were giant bone spicks everywhere?

While still pondering about the whys and hows of such things, Pandemonica finished her drink and did with it what she did with the smoothy ones. Namely, burning them with a small fireball.

Sighing in contentment, a small smile on her face as she looked at the red alien, speaking for the first time from when they started their journey again. "That was the best cup of coffee I have ever had, thank you."

Looking down at her he answered with a tired smirk "No problem at all! Glad you enjoyed it!"

Before he could get his eyes on the road, the Demoness in his arms asked him. "So, Mr. Ball, are going to you going to tell us about those 'transformations' of yours or what?"

Krampus, who was mostly silent the whole time started jumping and thrashing over him in excitement "YES! YES! YES! PLEASE!"

That mad Ben stop in his track as he looked down in shock. "OH Shit! I totally forgot about that!" laughing nervously as he answered "Ha-ha-ha, you remember, I thought you forget about that." "OH no, I was merely savoring that sweet drink of yours, however I must admit I am getting more curious by the minute. And I am sure little Krampus is just as eager, isn't that right?" Unable to contain herself, the demon in question burst out a loud. "YES!" "See? We both want to know about that. But I have a hunch it has something to do with that disc you keep on touching, am I right?"

Walking again he decided to answer, he did promise them answers, "Yeah you are right, that device, the disc, is called the Omnitrix. I can't get into details now, but basically? it turns me into other beings."

"What kind of beings are we talking about here?"

"Will, you can say other worldly beings. Places you can't reach it normally unless you have advanced, aah, methods of travel." "Like what exactly?"

Now Ben was sweating profanely (figuratively, not literally.) at how forward his passenger is, he can't explain those creatures are aliens people with alien planets that needs high-tech vehicles or the like to reach, that would only open a can of worms on his origins, and with him trying to stay non-human as much as possible. And so he needs to improvise.

(He doesn't want to hide his identity, not really. Buuut he just ran into two groups if hostile Demons. And he is in Hell, he can't really trust the demonesses he carries with him as they are still, will, demons. Or at leasst this is what Gwen would tell him and what he SHOULD be doing, but this is Ben, if he helps someone, then that means he trusts that one, even if he doesn't. Plus, even then, if that was the case, it doesn't mean he won't help out!)

"Like a portal opened by an Arch-mage that mastered the Dark arts over the course of his whole life or a demon king that rules over the kingdom of monsters!" now Ben would never acknowledge this ever again, much less to his friends. But he was glad Hex is one of his villains as he answered in panic.

But before he was safe and could even take a breath, Pandemonica frowned her eydbrows as she glared down at him, staring at his very soul. Even Krampus was frozen still, and she was not the target!

Thankfully after making him stow in his fear she relaxed her face, resting her body at the back of her arm-chair. "Good enough, oh and by the way you should work more on your acting skill, it is obvious that you are hiding something, but don't worry I won't prey more on this subject. Now, are you going to tell us about those creatures of yours or what?"

"Okay! Okay! I will talk! *Ehem* So I can, with the Omnitrix, turn to about twelve different awesome dudes with different shapes and sizes."

"Starting with Heatblast, he is like a man made of fire, and can use fire powers, you know, shooting fireballs and all. He can also break a chunk of lands and use it as a meteor, or go up by releasing fire from his arms and legs." Right of the hook they were interested, with Krampus tilted her head over to look at him and sparkels and Pandemonica shamelessly staring at him with curioucty.

"Then, there is Cannonbolt, a big al- err being with white body and yellow hard shell, can curl into himself then start spinning while rolling, can can go very fast and be wreaking ball." Pandemonica raised her eyebrow and asked "But how do you know where you are going or what to hit?" thinking about what to say.

What he came up with was. "It is a bit complicated, you see there is this thing called 'magnetic fields' I don't know how they work exactly but I, as Cannonbolt, can form a mental map of my surroundings to navigate my way and revealing my targets. That is all I know, sorry."

Nodding, she waves her hand "Don't be. But is that why she is calling you Mr. Ball?

He laughed awkwardly as he began to evade the spike that are on the way. "Haha yeah, but to be fair it DOES sound like 'Cannonball'." then he began to snicker softly, which mad Pandemonica Rise an eyebrow "What's so funny?" "Sorry, it is just that, this is the first time someone questioned others about one of my names being called wrong."

Pandemonica hummed in acknowledgement. "Is that so." To which he nodded.

"Anyway. Next is XLR8, he is dinosaur-like with black and white colors, he runs very, very fast. The coolest thing about him is that he has a helmet that is a part of his head! With its own mask! How much cooler can you get more than that!?" he said with a glee of a child.

Even Krampus was exited by the mention of the fast Alien as she used her hands to imitate his speed. "YEAH! He was SUPER cool! He was like fwosh! Fwoosh!"

Smiling softly Pandemonica looked up at her "I see, so I take it that you enjoyed yourself?" "YEAH!" "Good, I think there is someone who would like to meet him." that last part was aimed at Four Arms.

"Oh really? Who is it may I ask?"

Looking at him she shook her head. "That is not important right now, we will meet her later , I am sure of it."

That mad Ben confused "Her?" before shaking his head and continued.

"Okay, so after him comes Ghostfreak, who is, will, a ghost. He can do what normal ghosts do, from flying to turning invisible and intangible and possessing people, and he has that white skin on him, that when removed, he becomes endangered by strong light. He is also the one I saved you with."

Krampus chimed in at that one. "OH! Is that the scary one?! The one you used before going down? And what are intanipality and invisebaliti? And does 'Ghost' mean!?"

Ben smiled a little at her "Easy there Krampus, one question at a time. Yup! That's him! Also They are called intangibility and invisibility."

"Intangibility is when you can pass throu things while invisibility is when others can't see you. But that is not all as he can cover others with his intangibility and invisibility alongside him."

"Tho they must be in direct contact with him. And ghosts are people that, after they pass on, instead of going where souls go, they get stuck in the living world. That happens to many reasons, like a curse or when you deal with the dead. "

Krampus 'OOHHH!'ed in excitement at his words, only for her to understand the last part and shout in fear. "WAIT! Mr. Ball you are dead!?" that got a chuckle from the red man. "No Krampus, I am not dead. There are people, beings, out there that are ghost because they are, and not for them being dead." "Aaaah!"

After indulging Krampus and her curiosity, he looked at Pandemonica, who was a bit more on the confused side. "Then why you acted the way you did? As much as I love carnage and bloodshed more than anyone else you seem to be on the nice side."

"You like Violence?" A look from the older woman mad him shut up. "Why I acted that way. Will you see, this would be because of his nature and origins. All of my transformations has some sort of a personality trait that carries over when I turn to one of them."

"For an example XLR8, who is super hyper active, resulting in me speaking too fast and getting tired too quickly if I stayed as him for long periods of time. The effects follow to when I turn back. As for Ghostfreak, will, he makes me more, aggressive, so to speak. Tho only to those who I truly despise."

Receiving a nod of understanding he continued. "Next is Grey Matter, the little frog-man, he is smart, like really, Really, REALLY smart. Nothing much of notice in terms of battle prowess however, but I don't need him for such things."

Pandemonica surpassed a laugh at this. "The small guy? Please, he looks like he would fail at catching flies even tho he is a frog, let alone having high levels of intelligence."

"OH he IS smart alright, so smart in fact, he can guess correctly the number of candies in a jar. By a single look! Not only that! But the one who created the Omnitrix is from his kind."

"Hahaha you are kidding right?" She got no answer other than an even larger smirk. "You are kidding, right?" with no answer yet again she lowered her head with a wide eyes and the new understanding of life.

"Who else, who else? Oh right! Stinkfly, the big fly, can shot goo from his mouth as will as Four eyes, Yes those 4 things sticking out of his head are eyes, and his tail is very strong and sharp, so I use it to open things. But Sadly I can't fly with him as the place is too hot for him to fly."

He waited for a moment to see if they wanted to ask something, there was nothing.

"After him is Wildvine, a living plant, he can control plant, dig in rocks and there are bombs on his back that looks like seed, and he can extend his limbs to big distances. But Sadly I can't use his plant powers here as there is no plant life to begin with."

He was not prepared for the pinch the injured demoness gave him. "OUCH! HAY! What was that for!"

"For using an explosive material to coat my leg." she was looking ahead, not sparing him a glance.

"Aaaaaaahhhhhhh. Sorry? " Finding no good excuse to give back, as it was on him, he went on with his Aliens' powers. (Someone can argue he had no other choice. But to be fair anyone would be angry if they find out they have TNT covering their leg.)

He was sweating bullets and an uncomfortable smile on his face. Even Krampus pretended she never saw him. He shoved a bolder that was on the way with his leg as he thought on whom to call next.

"Mmm, there is Upgrade, who is pretty much a robot that can turn to any machine as will as a upgrading normal one if he merged with them. He looks like a slimy black and white blob with green lines covering his body with a circle for an eye. Said eye can act like a mouth to show his expressions."

"Isn't that the same one you used to make the drinks?"

"Yeah that is the one, tho he can change to more things such as cars and weapons, but Sadly there is a big chances I will overheat as him, a thing I would to evade."

By now he paseed a good distance from the mountain, but to his annoyance and exhaustion he has to move around more rocks and evade even more spikes as they are everywhere around and are standing randomly. With and then some he kept on moving.

"RRRRRrrrr. Ehem. Up nest is. Four Arms, this guy I am as right now, he is the, muscle of the team, will used to be at least, he can jump great distances in small leaps, can lift and throw tons with ease, as will as being a great fighter in general, as I count on him the most as most of my fights are that of strength, in conclusion he is a brute but skilled fighters. With great stamina to boost." Tho his hazy steps shows otherwise.

"That leaves Wildmut, who is pretty much a blind Giant Dog, even tho he has no eyes for sight he both has a great smelling and hearing, senses so unless you are capable of masking them then you, are always visible, to him."

Now Pandemonica was getting annoyed (and slightly worried) as he kept on wobbling from side to side, not by much, but notable.

"Before the end is Diamondhead, a golem made out of crystals that are almost impossible to destroy, tho the ways, to break him are increasing, as of late. Makes you wonder how solid he really is. Anyway, he can, control, them, throwing them, like projectiles, growing them, from the ground, as will as, fixing, his body. His worst enemy are high, frequency, sounds." as he keeps on moving he feels his energy is being drained, and fast. As keeping his eyes open is dangerously getting closer to being as hard as fighting Vilgax.

"And last, but not the least, is, Ripjaws, a walking fish, at least not fully, he looks like a mix, of Shark, Crocodiles, Eels and Anglerfish,-"

Suddenly Krampus Screamed a loud 'EEEEEWWW!'. Resulting in Ben waking up a bit.

Startled, Ben mad a hard stop that almost had him dropping Pandemonica, who in return glared up at him, returning a tired, sheepish smile. Then he (tried to) looked at Krampus and asked "Krampus what is the matter?".

Said Demon looked at him with disgust and horror "You Have An Angel Thing! We Must Destroy It!" with that she began to attack him by biting him. Sure she is stronger than an average human, but compared to the likes of Vilgax her attempts were just cute more than anything else.

"HaHaHaHa There is no need to worry, it is not Angel, it is Angler, not that different from Angels yes, but not the same." That mad her stop her assult and look at him with confusion "It is not?" "No they are not. They are a type of fish that has a small, bright light coming from their foreheads. They live in very Deep and dark places in water and use the light as a lure for other fishes to come to it. That is why they are called Anglerfish."

That took care of her small outburst as she is babbling about how cool the fish was "OH! OH!OH! Can you turn to him now, pretty please!?"

"Sorry sweety, he needs water, A LOT of water, to be able to breath. That is why it is impossible to turn to him, not here (in Hell) at leasst as he would dry out waaayy too fast." that last bit mad Krampus close her mouth and scowl with a pout.

Now Ben is felling sick in the head, as if he was running rigged for days none stop without an anus of sleep as he began to move his head left and right to stay conscious.

Unable to take it anymore Pandemonica asked the tired Alien "Are you okay?"

That made Ben (force a) laugh, as he was about to say his famous "I am Fine.", but it died in his throat as she gave him the mom 'I know something is wrong you can't hide Shit from me!' look, which mad him crack."*Sigh.* No, No I am not. I feel like fallingover any second now. As if a vacuum is sucking me my energy off of me."

That made Pandemonica think for a bit, before her eyes widened in realization and turned her head so fast that Ben cringed. "You said you are New to here, right? (he nodded) you don't know how Hell here works, do you?" "Huh? What do you mean?" Now he was curious.

"In Hell here you need Will to move or act sertain actions. For us Demons it varies, as some gets sleepy or bored. But the vast majority gets moody, angry, or down right enraged. But for outsiders like morals? They die. Makes me wonder where you came from?" when she looked at him she was shocked to see his face pale with Four big wide yellow eyes.

"If I run out of Will, I will die?" The realization both horrified and was logical to him. Why he felt like crap most of his stay down here. His stubborn Ass almost coasted him for real this time.

Somehow the tired demon understood what was going on in his head as she tried to calm him down, snaping her finger in front of his face. "HAY! HAY! Stay with me! It is okay! You are fine!" But there was no reaction from him.

Something like that wouldn't be able to effect him like this as his mental barriers normally, as they are way stronger than that. Made from his Many life and death situations. But the combination of him being on the verge of unconscious, as will as the sudden information mad him lost in his head, as that did affect his (addimetly weakend) mentality.

What brought him back was a slap from the demon on his hands. Blinking he looked down in cnnfusion. "Good, you are back." before he could even open his mouth she cut him off. "You die if you run out of will, yes, but some rest as will as not pushing your limits would keep it up. You did not stop moving from the moment you came to this Realm, that is what you said. Correct?"

"Yeah, this is the case. So what you are suggesting is me taking some rest?"

"Yes. And this is PRECISELY what we will be doing once we find a suitable place to rest. Am I clear?"

"But-"

"No buts. If you keep ongoing like this you will die. So unless you value your life you better listen to me. Is that clear?"

They interred a cave that was on their way, too focused on the argument on hand he did not think of searching for another way. It was a good thing it was lighted and the ceiling was very high.

Ben wanted to protest. He really did. Not only does he need to return Krampus to her home. But also while he is down here stuck, his friends and family are alone up there. He doesn't know If the news about his disappearance have been exposed already or not. But what he knows is that trouble will soon come looking for him.

But the way she looked at him, it reminds him of how his mother would look when he pushed himself when ever he was heroing.

Had he listened to her on how he needs to rest, he would have dodged this whole ordeal. He could have saved his grandfather without being hit by that spell, stopped that strange Omnitrix-thing from firing off, or straight up beating both Hex and Eon before things went south.

His feelings about his friends fighting without him ware strong. But there was, a thought, he was not used to. That it was okay for him to take it slow for now. That his friends and family could handle themselves while he rested for a bit.

Sighing, he nodded at the older woman in defeat "Okay, we will rest once we find a good cover with a clearing to lay down. This cave is too damp for sleep." He immediately looked ahead, not seeing the nod that was aimed at him or the relif that came from Krampus. "Don't worry guys. I will find my way back to you!"

"That is good. Oh, and one more thing," This was his turn to Rise an eyebrow at her "Those spike, you better take keep your distance from them, as they take more than double the will to even stand on them compared to punching those big rocks around. Not to mention how painful that would be." What was strange is the way she concentrated on the way ahead.

"I see, thank you, I appreciat this. Really I do."

Said demoness waved her hand in dismissal. "Don't worry about it, I am only doing my job as a customer serves. *sigh*" I can't Believe that I am doing this." pulling her clipboard and pen she put on one of the most strained smiles Ben has ever seen and asked him. "Thank you for relaying on Hell's customer service. On a scale from 1 to 10 how would you rate your overall satisfaction with the provided help?"

His answer took her by surprise. "10 out of 10 easy!" that made her uneasy as she tried to fix her glasses and looked, awkward? "Whoa, never got a ten before."

He raised a non-existent eyebrow and asked. "Really? That is strange, this is, quiet literally, the most help I ever got from a customer service Ever!"

Blushing slightly at the compliments and averted her eyes. "What can I say? We are here to serves."

Smiling he then continued his walks, not paying attention to his surroundings. That was until Pandemonica raised her hand to get his attention. "Look ahead."

With a surprised face he turned and looked around him, he noticed that he was in a tunnel, ignoring how he did not focus on where he was going. But at the end of it was a tight passage that can fit 2 people at most.

What really shocked him was the end of the passage. It was full of those spikes. The exit seems to be fully covered. There were so many of them that not even running would be of help. The worst part is that they are as tall as him.

Ben thought of jumping over them, but thought against that, as the cave is too low in this place. and so he stopped.

The two girls were confused. The fact he put them down softly did not help.

"What are you doing?" asked the little demon, curious about his actions. Tho Pandemonica has an idea.

"Tell me Krampus, did you listen to what Miss Pandemonica say about those spikes?" he asked thinking of a good form to turn to.

"Uh-Huh, she said they hurt a lot and would make you even more tired!" Was the answer of the tinny Demon.

"That is right, and for that reason I can't walk over them, as that would take too much effort not counting you guys' protection. And for that reason-" In a swift motion he put his hand in the Omnitrix.

After the light died down and the 2 females uncovered their eyes what they found was, "GHOSTFREAK! Alright! Who wants to fly!?" and with an eye smirk he snatched Pandemonica with an "EEEPPP!" and carried her bridal style, while using magic to put Krampus on his back and securing her with invisible tantickals.

"Ready or no here I go!" In panic Pandemonica SCREAMED at him. "WAIT!WAIT! WAIIIIIIIITTTT!" Turning intangible, he flew fast through the spikes, while Pandemonica held on him for dear life Krampus was cheering in delight.

Just as fast as he began he went to the other side of the passage and exited the cave. Immediately after he put Krampus on his shoulders and held Pandemonica with 2 of his tantickals. He used one of his extra limbs to press the Omnitrix, reverting back.

"FOUR ARMS! So, how was the ride? Ladies?" The red Alien was holding the m the same way as before and had a smirk on his face. One that fell off as soon as he saw the oldest of the group glaring at him, promising a very painful and slow death to him.

Not a second later she took the side of his face with two clawed fingers and pinched him Hard. "Sotp. Doing. Things. Like. This!"

"OW!OW!OW! I AM SORRY! THIS IS THE LAST TIME I SWEAR! PLEASE STOP!" It hurt, A LOT, but it was on him.

Ben would have rubbed his swollen check if he could after she let his face, thankfully Krampus was there for the rescue as she patted him there. "There. There. All pain will go away. Do you feel better now?"

Sighing he decided it was better than nothing "Yes Krampus, this much better, thank you." That got her brightened up and kept on patting him with a wide and bright smile. While Pandemonica relaxed her head on his chest, she mouthed a small "Sorry." that he barely picked on.

And so the small party resumed their walk in a comfortable silence. "This is not so bad after all. I can finally look for a place to rest. All of this walking/running/flying is killing me! Now I can relax at last!"

Ben should have known better than this, as when he just thought of that he had to jump back, tightening his hold on the girls for them to not fall as they screamed from the sudden move.

Thankfully for Ben just as he jumped a big, dark Sledgehammer!? smashed where he stood not even a second ago.

When he landed he took a breath he did not know he was holding, why? Because Pandemonica was not aiming her stingiest Evil-eye on him! (for some reason, he felt a big phantom pain coming from his fingers, that mad him shudder) And instead she was looking at where the hammer struck the ground, looking at the figure holding it among the clouds of dirt.

And when the dust cleared out the owners of the offending tool was, a woman?

"Let them go you pervert!" the fact she said that with an embarrassed expression while covered in blood and guts unnerved him.

.......... 

It was a normal day in Hell, the weather is the same, never changing from the last millennia, the screams of the damned were as soul chilling as ever, and every demon were doing their tasks.

Overall, a normal Day for the local tormentors of the sinful.

One such is a demoness with (like all other Demons) white hair that is unruly, with some strings going down to eyebrow level, with 2 segments on the side of her face reaching her chest that ends in a zig-zag manner. A red turtleneck sweater and a black blazer over it. boots and a split pencil dress, with red leggings underneath it. Her black horns are small and simple pointing up. Her tail is normal with it being black tri-tipped.

She Also has a body that of a super model, with wide hips. Thin waist. And a big bust of which she has her hands on most of the time.

What is strange about her is her eyes. While similar with the rest as she has red irises, she has white pupils that are heart shaped instead of black dots or slits. With red hearts surrendering her head, forming a semicircle. With an ever present blush.

All in all, she is what people would call 'Criminally Beautiful', not too much, nor too little.

The Demoness, Modeus the Lustful demon, was returning to her home after a job will done at the pit of desire.

While she was walking by the cave of bones, Few skeletons, about 30, where standing by.

Only for a portal to suddenly open about half a mile away from her. Despite the great distance, the portal was big enough it was clear even from fare away. Its colors were a strange mix of black blood-red, toxic greenish-purple and lastly pale yellowish-gray that were swirling between each other, strangely enough, without actually fusing together.

This peaked the love demon's interest as she went over it, abandoning her original path. The skeletons too went after her.

While walking strange creators started flying and walking out of it, they were all with different sizes and shapes. Most of them have some sort of animalistic traits, such as bull skulls, bird/bug wings, lizard skin. Etc...

But among them were things unnatural even among these monsters. Walking/Flying piles if flesh and bones and teeth, most of them are deformed and have limbs in places that should never be. And others that are tall and thin, covered in a bloody armor, with horns and bones everywhere.

Yet despite all of that she kept on walking towards them. Not phased by the numbers spawning.

Only when she crossed half the distance did the demons take notice of the approaching demoness, as they started moving towards her in cautious, the warnings of their masters clear as day. And when the last of the bigger monsters crossed the portal it was closed.

When they did meet in the middle, Modeus sprang something at them, so much so that most of them were taken back.

"You and me, now." She said it to the one leading them so casually any sane person would run as fast as they can. The skeletons ready to fight.

But not these guys. Even tho they are stronger than the other waves they are still as dumb, courtesy of the leader, a Manticore/Dog hybrid. "Will, we are in a hurry, and we should kill you. But I can't say no to a free fuck, and I don't see why we can't keep you around until we get board of you then dispose of you, so why not."

Turned out this was the wrong thing to say to her. Yes even tho most of the demons now are effected by Modeus's charm, but some are trying (and failing) to stop ogling her and close their watering mouths.

So they didn't focus on her pulling a big black sledgehammer with a white skull in the middle out of nowhere. "They always say that, then they try and run away, I can't let that happen again. So I will have to break your knees, just in case."

And so with a swift motion she swung her hammer at the monster in front of her and towards his legs. Breaking them off from the knees. But that was not enough as she smashed his forearms in 2 quick crashes. Leaving him immobile.

The action was too sudden as the manticore found himself on his back, with his legs in another place and arms unmoving. Only when he saw his destroyed and bleeding limbs did he scream. That knocked some since to the other demons, and out from their trans. But just slightly.

That did not bother most of the others, however, as they are Still enchanted by her powerful scent.

"That is much better, now we can-" out of nowhere a demon Cat jumped at her, claws and fangs out with a Lusting snerl. Sadly for him, his target crushed his head with her weapon with a swing. "This is just rude, don't you know about turns?" But no reply came from the headless corps.

That gave the downed Dog an idea. Using his subordinates' lust for his advantage he screamed. "ANYONE WHO DEFEATS HER WILL TAKE HER!!"

That got a reaction from the near-mindless demons, as now they were all charging at her, sadly for him, the plane back-fired as now the stronger Demons are walking over and killing the weaker ones and most are attacking each other.

As one United, the skeletons went to action as they went to the sides of the horde, surrendering them. And in doing so those that were away from Modeus to be affected by her chose them as the targets, causing further casualties and disturbance for the monsters.

Those that reached her did not have it better as when they attacked they were met with a strong but swift swing from the smaller demon. Resulting in broken arms, legs, torsos and even smashed heads.

"YOU ARE MINE NOW!" shouted a hammerhead shark demon as he got a hold of her, opening his giant mow to tear her head off. Only for her to stab him in the heart with her tail. Then pulling it off, killing the monster in its place. When the corps fell it landed in the amputated manticore-fog, sharp teeth on the head, inceasing his torment even further. Until he too was killed off by some random demon smashing his head by accident.

Then there was a giant elephant, about 150ft (46m) tall walking towards her, crushing his fellow abominations underneath him.

That did not phase her whatsoever as she hammered the chest of one of the flesh monsters. Yanking her weapon she rank to him, leaving trials of torn flesh on broken bones as she tore through their lines.

When she reached her targets she jumped at him, sinking her now razor sharp black claws and tail in his leg, her trusty sledgehammer safely tugged at her back, slowly changing appearance, then began running to his head, all while opening a wound of enormous size as she went up from her tail and claws.

With her great agility and speed she was able the many attempts the giant tried to shake her off of him. Only for him to be met with failure each time.

Not long after the demons started climbing on the behemoth to reach the demoness. With the flying once damaging him even more as they fail to hit Modeus and are striking him instead.

By now Modeus's features are changing, as her horns are growing in size, claws getting sharper and taller by the second and her tail is becoming more heart like.

Of course all of this happened in the spam of few seconds. And when she reached the head the monster, for a moment, was take over by fear, as the Lusting demon's face changed to a monstrous snare, face turned black with shark like teeth. That was the last thing he saw as she stabbed him in the eyes.

Jumping from him just in time for him to slam his hands on his eyes as he screamed in pain, taking more of his comrades down in his rampage.

Modeus, now flying, was slashing and tearing at the flying Demons, by now she was not caring who she was maiming as she was taken over by bloodlust. The skeletons were doing will amidst all the chaos, as the weak once are easy to deal with while the stronger beings went after the demoness.

After shrinking the number of the flyers she went for the injured giant, whom by now toke about 30% of the remaining monsters alone. With the whole army being less than 70% of its original size.

Instead of endings its life she began attacking it even more! Slashing, Stabbing, Hammering at him from all directions. Resulting on him taking even more of the remaining demons by either smashing the flying monsters like bugs or crushing the demons below him by stepping on them.

When she was done with him she finished him of by using a magical enhanced slash at the neck, both head and body tumbled down crushing what ever remained of the demons under them.

Having enough of them the Lust demoness started using the same attack many times over, killing everything that was alive (excluding the skeletons).

When all was will and done she landed on the cleanest looking corps, the ground is even redder than it normally is, and reverted back to her normal self although covered in blood.

"Ooowww, and her I thought I would have a normal orgy for once, oh will, it was fun. But the blood will be impossible to remove! I wish I learned the cleaning spell."

Saddened she went for her original path, crossing by the skeletons cleaning the mascara, the sight mad her smile as it was rarely for her to inter her demonuc form and be in a fight.

But when she got closer to the internace (or exit) she found a strange demon with Four arms and red skin. Thinking it was one that escaped her she took her hammer out. But did not attack as she felt no malice inter from him.

That went out of the window as she saw him bridle style carrying a demoness and a child on his shoulders.

At the sight of such an immortal and perverted sight she dashed at him, and in seconds she attacked him, steam coming out of her head at how embarrassed she was felling from what she was seeing with her face and whole body going completely red.

She did not care that he dodge her.

..........

Four Arms stood still with wide eyes, hands firmly on the girls to keep them safe.

The demoness did not wast time as she charged at him again. Reading himself to jump again as he could not fight in his current circumstances.

Thankfully for him Pandemonica came (shouted) to his rescue. "MODEUS! STOP WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING!?"

That stopped the blood covered girl on her track as she looked at injured girl. "P-P-Pandemonica!?"

"Yes, that is me. Can you please explain to me why you are covered in blood? And why are you attacking us?"

Not up to challenge the Secretary of all Demons in Hell, she let her weapon disappear and straightened her pose. "W-Will, you see, there was a portal that opened not that far away from here, and from it strange creators started coming out. The blood on me is theirs, as I had to fight them, and I May or May not gave became bloodlusted back there."

Pandemonica had a series but felt worry as she looked at Ben. But before either of them say a thing Modeus asked them first. "Ummmm, Pandemonica? WHY you did not tell us that you were m-m-m-married and had a kid already!?"

It took both Ben and Pandemonica 10 seconds to process the question, before slowly looking at each other. Then they screamed. Face as red as Four Arms' skin (for Pandemonica at least, Ben was just even more red).

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!" unbeknown to them, Krampus smiled at this.

Frantically Pandemonica answered her "NO! WE ARE NOT MARRIED! NOR DO WE HAVE A KID! HOW DID YOU GET THIS IDEA!?"

Ben was not fair ring any better "OH COME ON! Why does everyone think that I am a father!?"

Modeus for her part started poking her fingers at each other and answered. "W-will, the way he is carrying you, as will as the little child. The there of you look like a m-married couple." If she was not hot before now she was at the temperature of an oven.

As for the couple, will, Pandemonica was massaging her temple to sebdue the headache she is feeling, while Ben was just standing with his mouth open like a dead fish (if only he was as Ripjaws now).

"*Sigh* Look Modeus, we are not married. Mr. Ball her saved both me and little Krampus from trouble. He is carrying me duo my injury as I am too tired to use a proper healing spell.

That mad the embarrassed demoness relax a bit, still as red tho. "O-Oh, is that so?" "Yes, so there is no need for you to worry." "O-Okay. WAIT! You are injured!? Where?!"

Pandemonica winced at that, but shows her cast leg Anyway. "Here, if it was not for him (pointing at Four Arms) I would have been dead by now."

Now Modeus was confused. "But how? You are one of the strongest Demons I know of! Hack you are stronger than me and I have pretty much single handedly destroyed an entier army!"

Now it was Pandemonica'turn to go beat red "I, was kind of tired, TOO tired to defend myself efficiently."

The glare she got from the heart-eyes girl was deserved. "Pandemonica! How many times did we tell you to stop working too much! That's it! From now on you will Not work as much anymore! Is that clear?"

Pandemonica was too tired (and relaxed) to fight back, so she let out a sigh before nodding. "Okay, I will reduce some of my workload from my schedule."

The answer made Modeus nod strictly. "This is better. But what about your leg? It must hurt right?" Pandemonica denied that with a shaken of her head. "Not really, no. After Mr. Ball worked at my leg it started to feel better, originally we thought of heading to the castle for me to heal there, but now that you are here maybe you can help me instead?"

She feared the head of the other girl would fall of at how fast she was nodding. "Yes of course!"

Walking to the trio she put one of her arms over the injured limb (from Ben lowering himself) while the other over Pandemonica's chest, and chanted a spell, with a small magical circle in red appearing under her hands. Then it was illuminated by a bright light.

Few seconds later she was done and removed her hands. "All done. I also charged you with some power from mine."

Nodding, Pandemonica then cast a spell of her own, and sure enough the alien cast was removed and her tattered clothing were fixed. Smiling she looked up at Ben. "Can you please let me down? I would like to test it."

Reluctantly he nodded, and slowly put her down.

And Pandemonica took her first step, and she was fine. "Mmmmmm, much better, thank you Modeus, here, let me repay the favor." With that she cast a cleaning spell on the blood covered demoness. In seconds the players of blood and gore were gone, restoring Modeus clothes. "Oh MY Satan! Thank you so much 'Monica!" The now happy Modeus jumped at the now recovered Pandemonica, happily hugging her, who hugged her back with a soft smile. "You are Welcome."

While Krampus was amazed at the magic used by the older girls, she noticed something weird about Four Arms. "Umm, Mr. Ball? You okay?" that took the attention of the other 2 Demons, and so they turned to see what is the matter.

Immediately Pandemonica went to the side if the red Alien.

He was pale, his skin was slowly turning to small but notable specks of pink. With the adrenalin that kept him going, from Modeus ambush, the fights he had to deal with from the moment he interred Hell, the distances he crossed while in bad condition, has finally gave out, not to mention his worry of both Krampus and Pandemonica that kept him going (funnily enough, like a father/husband) and how Hell is literally sucking the life out of him, and now Ben was not will, far from it in his current state, it won't be surprising if he interred a coma.

Yet he was still standing, wanting to keep going, And Pandemonica knew that, so she took one of his free hands and lead him to the most comfort able looking place to rest "Four Arms, that is enough we can rest now." "...but..we nee..d.. to.." "Yes but now it is okay to rest, you gave done so much for us, more than enough as is in fact, so please? For me?"

The sight affected Modeus too much, to the point of going all red.

~!GLORIOUS SUCCESS!~

To her, this was one of the most perverted acts she ever saw! Acting like a couple, that got her to shudder in excitement. His big and muscular frame did not help her case, at all.

She does not want to think about them holding hands. She is too, watery, as is.

Back to the trio, Ben could not fight anymore, Hack his conscious is barely active, giving a small nod. "yes...... mom..." Before Pandemonica even could even think of response, Ben gently removed his hand from hers, turning around as he put Krampus on the ground, with his back to the wall, and his last action before slipping to a dreamless sleep was him going for the Omnitrix. And from the light came Cannonbolt.

While Modeus was shell shocked at what she witnessed, both Krampus and Pandemonica were worried about him, but where put at ease when they heard him snoring, yet they felt something was wrong, or rather messing, after Ben transformed. Then they knew what was it, nodding at each other they softly and in low voice roared his name.

"cannonbolt!" that mad them laugh, before Krampus yawned, being tired herself. "Do you want to sleep Krampus?" running her eyes she nodded, Pandemonica the tired demon herself was, will, tired. "Me too, so why don't you lay next to Mr. Ball?"

She was met with another small YAWN and nod, before the little demon sat next to Cannonbolt's left side, resting her head at his body.

Even unconscious Ben's protective instincts from his aliens still kicked in, as he swapped Krampus and put her on his body, right under his mouth.

The action startled the little girl, but was replaced with comfort as the inner (white) body of Cannonbolt is soft and comfortable, making him the ultimate bed.

The sight made Pandemonica smile softly. How Krampus was nuzzling to Cannonbolt like a big Teddy bear, looking at the other girl she said. "You know, I can't fault you for mistaking us as family, he does look like a dad. Will, as much as the information from my books and sinners gave me, anyway. So do you want to sleep with us or not?"

Modeus, taken of guard, looked at the Tired demoness in question. "What?"

Pandemonica for her part went to the sleeping duo. "I don't feel like cleaning a war zone or walk on a blood drenched lands, that is why we will wait until it was cleaned up, so I may as will sleep, after all They are not the only once that are tired, I didn't have a good sleep in a very, very long time, and they look So inviting with the both of them looking like that. So if you want to join in you can come too."

And with that she went to his right side, putting her head next to his face, and immediately felt her head emptied from the noise that always clouds her head and makes sleep a luxury she can't have, something happened everytime he held her. With the addition of how soft his skin is she was out like a candle, with her tail waring around his leg. Ben's arm holding her close to him was just a bonus to her.

A little envious, with how relaxed Pandemonica become and the need to not be left out, Modeus went closer to the trio, then went on all 4s as she crawled to Ben's free side, her tail moving like a Cat's and her hips moving from left to right seductively.

She stopped after reaching the trio. Doupt creeped-in in her head as the sight of them cuddling made her go beet red and panting heavily. But before she inevitably changes her mind she dove right to his free side, and just like Pandemonica, Ben used his arm to hold her, all of that was too much of the Lust demoness to handle, and yet she pressed on and put her hand near his face, just like what she saw in her books and put her head on him, right on the shoulder, mirroring Pandemonica, with her tail warped around his arm in vise grep. Even though her possession was that of a degenerate, she was still holding him.

After a short while, and a yawn, sleep started to seep into her being, relaxing herself, her tail loseing up and softly holding Cannonbolt's has, until she, too, succumbed into a comfortable slumber.

And with that we put this Chapter to rest.

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Chapter 5: The Mutt And The Puppies!

The Living/Over World.

Bellwood, The location of the incident:

Zak Saturday has lost count on how long it had been since he and his group reached the place where Ben was last seen, his adopted siblings are near him, with Komodo sleeping, Fiskerton standing on alert while Zon is flying to keep an eye for them from the sky. His trusty claw in his hand, ready to be used at a moment's notice. He himself was sitting as they were at the place for quiet sometime.

His ghostly friend is sitting on a tree branch on the opposite side of the street, calling his friends and family.

Under the tree is Cooper, who is busying himself with a small super computer, helping the rest of the team by monitoring the areas near them, making sure to alert the rest if help was needed from any side.

Looking up, Zak watched his sister ascending down to the tree they are resting under, tired from all the flying, as he was sighing to himself, looking at the other members of their group.

Gwen and Verdona were in their Anodite forms, with Verdona's being bigger and a bet paler than Gwen's. With hair made of violate energy floating as they both were in a small circle, eyes glowing like an inferno with power and hands engulfed with spheres of pure mana, all while chanting in a language non but them can understand.

To their side, about 50 fits away are both Professor Paradox and Lucy, with the former standing with his watch ever present in his hand, eyes never leaving it. As for Lucy? Will...

She is currently in her mud form, eyes narrowed, preparing to jump if anything dangerous approached, that was normal, what was not however is that behind her are Ben's pets and parasite/partner. At least to those that knows them, as Zed is in her Tyrannopede form, a T-Rex/Spider animal, with Ship being an arsenal of weapons on her back empowered by fulmini Tech, gray rocks with blue energy in it, and to top it off Skurd has coated them both with Crystalsapien armor.

And to top all of this, the whole street was closed off by Plumbers lining up, stopping all incoming cars from going any further.

All in all they were a big enough WARNING that this area was off limits, which was a good thing as some news helicopters wanted to get a close eye as of to why there was a rock/crystal armored and weaponized alien T-rex in the middle of a closed street. To which Danny was kind enough to sho them away or said T-rex (and Ship, mostly Ship) would barrage them with fire.

Needless to say, there were no reporters that will screw things up by revealing things. Not that it was stopping William Harangue from screaming his head off about the watch hero being up to something that will endanger the world.

After the long silence, it was finally broken by Fiskerton as he asked "(Garbled) Do you think they will succeed?"

That mad Zak sigh yet again as he looked at his friend, brother and guardian. "I don't know Fisk, I really don't know. But we have to wait for Gwen and lady Verdona to do their thing, for all we know Ben can be imprisoned as we speak and is unable to free himself, not counting the dangers that could come out if they were successful at opening a portal, so we should be prepared." to which the Lemurian nodded.

Board, the cryptid hybrid hero stood up, looking at his siblings before pointing at the other tree, he received a thumbs up, a low growl and a squawk of affirmatives.

Seeing no issue at his part he walked to other side of the street. "Hay, Cooper, any news?" Cooper looked up at the approaching teen And shock his head and returned to his screen.

"Sadly no. Max & Steel are still inspecting the reactor while the others did not find anything major, just small thieves and the like, which normally is a good thing, but seeing the circumstances that we are in, it won't take long before some villains connect the dots to why we are heavily guarding this area and why Ben did not show up yet, as this seems to big enough trouble for him to not show up. So chances someone is planing a big hist as we speak are significantly high."

That got Zak to nod, "Will if that was not ominous." looked up at Danny, who just finished his call, he called to him. "Yo, Danny! Everything good at your end?"

Looking down the phantom hero nodded. "Yeah they are pretty good, so fare there isn't any major Ghost escape and only the (box ghost), which was easy to deal with by my family."

"Will, that is good to hear." "What about you? Any news from your family?" Shrugging Zak he answered. "Nothing much really, my family's team is tracking down a strange energy singles that are coming from a mountain. For what reason I can't tell, but apparently this one mountain is of great importance." That made Danny Laugh a bit. "What? They are hiding monsters under it or something?"

While a joke, that made Zak think hard with a hand under his chines. "I mean, probably? We are dealing with monsters, cryptid, aliens and ghosts pretty much all the time on a daily basics, not counting how bizarre our team really is. Monsters, or anything really, that is being sealed under a mountain is not that off of the table." That made the half ghost's eyes widen. "(his cursed) now that I think of it you are right!-"

The friendly talk was suddenly cut shirt by an explosion to their side.

Gwen was breathing heavily, she and her Grandmother had returned to their human forms, the circle was in ruin. Lucy was running to them, Zed too was moving but slowly, with both Ship and Skurd showing their heads in their respective armor.

Verdona knelt down and put a hand on Gwen's shoulder "Okay dear, this is enough for now."

That made Gwen jump and scream at her Grandma. "NO! We can't stop now! We are so close I can feel it! Please, one last time."

Before Verdona could respond to her pleadings Professor Paradox intervened. "I am Sorry to say this, young Gwendolyn, but your grandmother is right, this is the 4th time that you both have tried. Opening a gate to other worlds and realms, specially one of such Dark nature, is extremely risky and anymore attempts and your life May be put in danger."

That made Gwen despaired. "But Ben."

Professor Paradox smiled a little as he fetched his watch from his coat. "Don't worry, your efforts were not in vain, as I was able to get few glimpses of his state. While nothing major, I was able to know that he is, for all intentions and purposes, alive and doing will."

That sparked a light in her eye, with Lucy smiling widely at the information. "Really!?" "Yes, Really. So for now rest for a bit, recover your energy, and we will continue this later, is that okay with you?" he smiled at the young girl.

She thought for few seconds before nodding, then Gwen singled for the worried Zed and Ship to reverse back. With Danny informing the Plumber captain that they were leaving for a short time.

Only when they were a small distance away did Both Verdona and Professor Paradox stiffen up and look at the place of the circle.

"Aaahh, Grandma? Professor? What is going on here."

But before either could speak an explosion happened, and after the flash of light in the place of the circle was a Dark blood portal.

Verdona entered her Anodite form again, while warning without looking back. "Kids! Prepare for battle! NOW! "

Not wanting to anger the elderly lady any further they obeyed. Danny with (his energy) at the ready, Zak activated his claw while his siblings interred their battle stances, Cooper used the nearby Plumber trucks and mad a battle robot from them with his personal mechsuit out, Lucy made weapons out of her hands, Gwen is ready with offensive spells, and lastly Zed is in her Dualer form, Four Arm's predator with Ship taking the form if Pyronite Cannons on her shoulders.

Skurd however was not feeling will as he was holding his head, which was noticed by Lucy, "Skurd? You okay?" Shacking his head he answered. "No. This Aura, I know It from somewhere a long, Long, time ago, what, or who! ever comes out of this portal is not good news, at all."

That interaction was not heard by the rest of the team, however, as they were all focusing solely on the Hellish portal. "Um, lady Verdona, what are we waiting for exactly-" Just as Danny asked, a hand came out of the portal, shortly after came the whole body.

The thing was hideous, while humanoid, it was clear the Creature was not human, with bones and horns sticking out everywhere, not counting the head that looks like that of a demon, a slender but tall frame with big Metalikc claws.

What was baffling the most was how said being had been armored with advanced tech fare better than most of tge Galaxy.

The shock did not last for long before being dabbled as what was 1 Creature became 2, then 7, then a dozen. In a short while the place was swarmed by them.

Then Hell broke lose.

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In Hell.

Ben had the best sleep in a long while. While relaxing he felt strange wights on his chest and sides. Confused and paranoid, he opened his eyes in panic, and what he saw threw him off.

He was Cannonbolt, with a child using him as a bed and 2 women taking refuge on both of his sides, what was even more confusing was the Hellish landscape surrendering them.

That was when his brain fully Rebooted and the memories of the last few hours rushed in, remembering where he was and who the girls were.

Not having the heart to disturb their peaceful sleeping he decided to stay down and maybe. Get some more sleep.

Not that it mattered as when he just closed his, " Good morning Mr. Ball, or is it afternoon?" as Pandemonica was wide awake, startling him.

"AAAAAHHHHH!!! " Absolutely terrified, Cannonbolt pulled the girls towards him in reflex and curled into himself, and immediately bounced away. It was about 150 ft (45.72 meters) when he finally stopped and opened up.

Pandemonica was dizzy as she was trying to regain her balance. Her hair is a mess and glasses are off.

What worried him however was the now awake Krampus and Modeus.

With both of them startled out of sleep they were disoriented, as Modeus was wide-eyed and heart beating at miles a mint and her tail crushing his hand.

But Krampus was not that different as she was shaking, as will as clutching at him with all of her might.

Feeling terrible Ben tried to sooth the surprised girls, "Oh my, I am So sorry! You girls are okay?"

Lifting their heads the girls were met with a worried Cannonbolt, wile Pandemonica was pretty much fine the other 2 are not. As Modeus stared at him a little before exhaling and relaxing her body on his soft inner skin.

But it was Krampus who hugged him even tighter to the point few bruises formed and tiny scratch es were left by her small talons.

He stayed like that, letting the girls hug him until Pandemonica fixed herself up.

With her glasses and hair in their proper place she turned to the other 2 demons and asked, "Are you two okay now?"

Both of them turned to her when she asked, and they nodded slowly.

"That is good because I, apologize, for what I did to the three of you." That shocked the rest. With Modeus being the most dumbfounded as a 'But she has never apologized before!' thought was swimming in her head, and was shacking a bit.

Ben opened his mouth and was about to argue, only to be silenced with a sharp look from the sadistic Demoness. "You say one word and I will break your fingers. I was the one who startled you and for that it is my mistake, and as such it is no one's fault but mine."

Again Ben tried to get a word out to her, but he was beat again as this time Modeus was the one to cut him off as she shock her head clear. "I-It is okay Pandemonica! No one was hurt and it was an honest mistake so there is no issue, isn't that right Krampus?"

The little was still a bit shaken but non the less she nodded. "Y-Yeah! Everything is f-fine!"

That made Pandemonica smile a little. "Thank you." That Freaked Modeus even more. So her nodding her head like crazy as her and Pandemonica'eyes met, with the later shushing her with her Sadistic smile without Cannonbolt's notice.

While Ben found the sight to be cute, he knew it was time to move, not that the ever blood-red sky was of hell was a bad view, who told you that? And with a small cough he got the demonesses' attention, and when he got them he clreaed his throat "*Ehem*, I don't know how long we were sleeping, but I believe it is time for us to start moving again."

A nod from Pandemonica was all it tokes to get the other 2 to agree. And so he freed them from his hold, so they could straighten up their clothes (with Pandemonica helping Krampus with hers).

For his part Cannonbolt was very stiff, and so he opted to troll a bit and when he uncurled himself he popped his back and stretched his body, and when he was done he went for the Omnitrix.

"FOUR ARMS!" Now in a more fitting form for long group travel, he was about to start walking again, but a tug(?) from his leg directed his attention down to a pouting glare from Krampus with her arms raised up for the universal 'Pick me up!'

Chuckling softly to himself he did just that, picking her up and put her in her previous place over his shoulders.

With no further issues he was just about to move again, only for a loud "*Ehem!*" to come from behind him, and one that sent chills down his spine.

Turning around, he was met with an unimpressed and crossed arms Tired demon with a raised eyebrow.

Four Arms was sweating buckets as he chuckled awkwardly towards her, "Ha, ha. Yes Pandemonica?" and the answer came too quickly.

"And where exactly do you think you are going?" That alone would make Big Chill and Articguana feel like a war fireplace, or makes Heatblast and NRG feel cold.

Rubbing his head he answered. "Uuuhhh to the Castle?"

That was apparently the wrong thing to say as her eyes narrowed even more. "Exactly, why are you going alone? "

Ben wanted to point out that he was not going alone AND Krampus was literally on his shoulders, but the Grey Matter and Brainstorm in his head told him that this was the wrong thing to say and it will coast him a finger, or ten, depending on how angry Pandemonica will get. Then began running a quick analyze to proceed the best course of action with the least number of fingers lost (0 would be the most optimal).

With his experience with older girls, or girls in general really, being limited, he started to recall things that are similar with his family.

Cycling through them, he remembered something like that usually happens with his parents, when his father forgets something of importance to his mother. Resulting in her sulking and even ignoring him for the better part of the day. That would go on until Ben's dad bring flowers as an apology while promising something extra special.

But the question is, what did he do wrong? "Okay think Ben, Think! What did you mess up this time for her to be angry with you? Maybe coffee? No it can't be it, she was in a good mod just now. So then what? Now that I think about it what did I even do? I only picked Krampus and was-" Just then it all clicked in place.

He remembers how he was forced to make for ALL females in his family coffee when he gave them a test of it in one time, some would even get out of their way to taste it. One of 10 worst Decisions he ever made.

It is not his fault Brainstorm is the perfect chef!

With a groan aimed at himself he reluctantly put Krampus down, who had a look of pure betrayal. "Don't worry I will pick you up again." all he got was a small nod, not able to see her down he tried to cheer her up "Krampus? (she looked up at him) can you please bring my box from your back pack? I need it now." that did the tricky as she jumped right into it. Sighing his hand went to the Omnitrix.

"UPGRADE!" "Here it is Mr. Ball!" Looking down, the Mechamorph was met with a very exited little demon. "Thaaaank you!~" Taking the objects with an eye smile he then pat her on the head, and it was clear she was enjoying it.

With the cube in his hand, he turned his arm to the coffee gun and loaded the cube.

One firing later and the hot drink was ready.

Walking over the two older demonesses with Krampus holding his hand he presented Pandemonica with her coffee, who took it without hesitation.

It was clear she liked the gesture as she smiled a little at him, "Hm~, trying to appease me now, are we? Not that I am complaining or anything." taking the cup she took a small sip from it. And sure enough her expressions relaxed, even small flowers started to appear around her. "Mmm~, Chocolate and Coffee, now you are just spoiling(?) me, that is so sweet of you."

Before he could even take a breath (not really, he is a robot) a small tug came from his hand, looking down, he was met with an expecting look from Krampus.

Knowing he can't say no, he succumbed to his fate and sighed for the 10000th time and took the cube out from its place. Changing it to the smoothy gun and inserted the cube back.

After a quick shot the smoothy was ready, but unlike the previous cubs this one is a healthy fruit mix.

"There you go, but this one is not chocolate but fruit, as too much chocolate not good for you, okay?" While not happy, Krampus still accepted the presented drink.

Not that it lasted, as one sip later was all it took and she was hooked to it.

Smiling at his handy work, he then remembered someone was missing. And for that he mad another cup.

Modeus stayed silent while watching the other 2 demons (even Pandemonica!) enjoying their drinks. And so when Upgrade approached her with a drink she got confused, and went beat red when said drink was gifted to her!

"W-What is this!?" "OH nothing much, just a smoothy." That only added to her confusion, "A, smoothy?" "Mm-hmm! Smoothies are like drinks, but they are cold and are made in many different ways, and there are many flavours for them, with this being a strawberry."

Somehow Modeus became even redder, "S-STRAWBERRY?! L-Like in dates!?"

Ben did not understand her outburst, and before he could say anything the cup was snatched from his hand by the demoness in front of him.

Picking on his distress, Pandemonica gave him the explanation "Modeus is known as the 'Lustful demon', and as you can guess she is related to the sin of Lust, as each demon has a sin that they are associated with, and example is me relating to the sin of sloth, even if I don't act like it.

Anyway, about Modeus, you see most things that are considered to be 'romantic' are treated as strange to many demons, but she (pointing at the panting demoness) sees them as the most sexual and degenerate thing ever. A common thing among those that lives in the Lust ring."

By the end of her speech Upgrade's optic became literally as big as dinner plates, then turned to a dot as the realization sank in "O-Oh, that, makes complete since now actually."

Looking at the love obsessing girl, he found her JUST began drinking, and saw shivers going down her spine and as her legs buckled underneath her.

Worried, Ben was about to go to her, but was stopped by Pandemonica, a serious expression adores her face "It is better if you leave her in her current state for now. For if you were to approach her now will be your undoing, as even just standing near her, let alone touching her with a finger, she will jump at and ride you like there is no tomorrow, or so morals like to say."

With an audible "*GULP*" he took few steps away from the said demon "Oooookaaaay." And with a slow nod his hand pressed the Omnitrix. Pandemonica, who does not knowing she said that to a 13 years old, just raised and eyebrow at his reaction, before shrugging it of and returned to her drink.

"FOUR ARMS!" just as he transformed Krampus came running, jumping and rising her arms while shouting "Pick me! Pick me!"

Smiling and with a shack of his head he complied and picked up the little monster and returned her to his shoulders. Who in return smiled and bugged his head.

Just as he turned Pandemonica made another "*Ehem*" with this one being less cold than the other.

Seeing no reason why she may be displeased while having her drink. Seeing her looking at Krampus the Tetramand put 1 and 1 together and asked. "Err, you, want me to carry you, 'Monica?"

With wide eyes he realized his error, thankfully for him, he got a simple smile and a nod from the tired demon. "That would be lovely."

And just like that he picked her up as like when she was injured.

When she settled on his arms, her eyes widened and took a sharp breath before she visibly relaxed, few seconds later she asked him. "Why did you call me 'Monica, Mr. Ball?"

Ben chuckled a little as he scratched his check. "I am so Sorry! You see, will, your name is kinda long. So I thought of using a nickname. Don't worry tho as that will happen again!"

That proven to be no issue as Pandemonica just shock her head. "There is no need to apology, it had been quiet the while since the last time anyone gave me a nickname, and it feels, nice." she flashed him a small but sincere smile at the end, and Ben could not help put give a big one of his own. "No problem at all! 'Monica!" and for reasons unknown to her, she found that funny and chuckled softly to herself.

That was not the end of it however as Modeus was yet again staring at them.

Seeing no way out of it he asked her, "Do you want me to carry you too, Modeus?" to which she became even more red and began stuttering and fidgeting with her fingers, but eventually she nodded.

But he was met with another problem, as his arms are full, with 1 holding Krampus in place and the rest are carrying Pandemonica. Not wanting to upset her.

When few seconds passed Pandemonica gave him the solution "You know that you can leave my legs hanging right? They are healed after all."

While that sounded good, Four Arms was still skeptical about it, "But I will need two arms to do that and still need to carry Krampus-"

With a flick of her finger Pandemonica cast a spell that resulted in Krampus glowing to his shoulders. "There. This spell will keep her in place regardless of what you do. Now you don't need to worry yourself about her will being, and can be removed only by you."

True to her word Ben left his hand from the little demon, and he felt her holding onto him, as if glued.

With the problem solved, Four Arms adjusted his arms so his right arms pair are holding Pandemonica as if she was seated, and his left arms pair was empty.

Now free he looked to Modeus and asked with a smirk. "Will? You still want to get on the ride?"

Nodding aggressively, Modeus opened her arms. "Yes, take me!" Ben ignoring her creepy response.

He then swooped her of her feet, carrying her like a hero holding his woman after beating all of his enemies in combat. Taking them to their love nest so he could take his reward and what is rightfully his as He SHOVES HIS BIG MASSIVE FATE D-

That was all on her head. In reality, he lifted her slowly, his arms mirroring each other. And the girls are enjoying their seat. Then looked at her, and saw literal smoke coming from her head. He opted to ignore it.

As Pandemonica is relaxing as if on a soft sofa. And Modeus, who had recovered from her fantasy, is looking intensely at him as her hands are on his chest, her glowing red and white eyes as bright as stars, her hearts are swarming around her head, and pushing her, glory, as close as possible to him (to the point of him sweating). And finally Krampus who is just kicking her legs from excitement.

With everyone ready Ben prepared himself. "Hold tight! We will go fast and high."

Making sure his Hold on them was as tight as possible, he then jumped. With cries of glee coming from the girls, which mean only Krampus, they went to the next destination.

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It was not long before they reached the blood drenched land.

The sight was disturbing to say the least, with bodies still lying around and blood of different colors, and what was red became even redder.

Even going around it is a no go as the place is surrendered with a huge wall of pillars with the space between them is completely full of spicks that are intervened together with what seems to be pits all over the area.

Thankfully, 'Monica, when the place just came to sight and before Krampus took notice of it, and did an illusion spell that covered the area. At least that was her plane, until she saw certain pillars reaching high up to the sky. So she the next best thing, covering Krampus's eyes with a makeshift blindfold. It would have been impossible of it was not for Ben however.

Sadly though the smell became very prominent to simply ignore.

Which was the 1st thing Krampus complained about as she covered her face, "EW! What Is This Smell!?"

Ben didn't voice it, but he agreed with the smell being bad, the rest of the girls seemed less affected by it, however.

Ignoring the smell, he looked to his right, Pandemonica, and asked with a sheepish smile (feeling that asking Modeus will be a mistake), "Uh 'Monica?" "Hmm?" With her attention on him he pushed on. "Can you, uh, fly us over here? (pointing to the 'rocks' in front of them) I don't think either of us would appreciate that."

A sniff from the air made Pandemonica to look a little more miserable, "*Sigh* I agree with you. But Sadly I can't. You see those pillars that are around us? They are not just for show, they have magic and flight suppressing runes on them."

That got the red alien to sigh and ask. "So that means we need to go through this by foot, but why? And how, uh, That works if those things stop magic?"

Even Pandemonica was not any better as her shoulders slumped ever so little "It happened a long, LONG time ago, Hell was under an invasion from an unnaturally mighty sorcerer of abilities unknown to all but few, and a never seen before power, he used portals to send his rock minions to attack, but they always fail to go fare, always countered by the forces of Queen herself, and were defeated accordingly."

"That kept on going for sometime, him attacking and us defending, but before long, and one time, he opened a big portal that sent many of his strongest creatures, it was not the first time, and so we were prepared, and after we beat them and closed the portal we thought it was the end of it, it was not, and instead he used the previous portal, that weakened the barrier between dimensions to launch an even bigger all out attack at our moment of vulnerability, it was so big and bloody that even with the help of the 1st queen we would have lost."

"Thankfully, or not depending on your perspective, we got help from Heaven, as they too were under great pressure, so that was the first and only alliance between Hell and Heaven in the history of existent. And to make sure such a thing like this will never happen again, our ruler made planes to prevent the incident from repeating, hence the pillars. We call that The Barrion Protocol, used only to stop any similar cases from repeating by cutting their abilities to use magic and flight."

"Sadly, even in our victory we lost many demonic forces that kept hell in check, and even more so we lost the 1st queen. Which resulted in......." in her silence he eyed her and saw how her expressions changed to that of sorrow and pain, even if she masked them so will.

Feeling the gloomy mood, he needed to change the subject "Thanks for the brief lesson in history. But what are we going to do now?"

Recovering, 'Monica answered with a sigh, but a small, grateful smile adoring her face "Unless we get an elemental that can carry us, I don't think we can do anything about it but walk, as their power is not connected to magic. Regardless of what the common belief otherwise."

That gave Ben an idea. "An elemental you say, huh?" And with a smirk he (gently) put the girls down in a fast move, and before any of them said a word he went for the Omnitrix.

"DIAMONDHEAD! Alright ladies! Be prepared to be surprised!" in front of them appeared an emerald humanoid golem.

Walking a safe distance in front of them, he slams the ground with both of his palms.

What came next was nothing short of breath taking as gigantic Pillars of red crystals rose to the Sky.

While the results were great, and it was his own doing, he was still shocked by the shear amount, the lines of scarlet constructs was so long it seems to go over the gruesome ground. "Okay, what!? What just happened? It is impossible for Diamondhead to make that many crystals in SECONDS! Maybe it has something to do with Hell? But again how?! I hate it when this happens, but no matter. For now I won't look a gift's horse in the mouth.

That may even happen to my other aliens!"

With a strong swing from his hand he made a bridge that is wide enough to allow an enlarged Humungousaur and sent it over the un-decaying bodies of the dead Demons, connecting each and every pillar in the mid section.

Looking back to the girls, he was pleasantly surprised by the looks of disbelief on their faces.

Smirking he asked in a voice like breaking glass. "Will? What do you think?"

The answers were:

"That was so COOL!" From Krampus.

"This is so hot." From Modeus.

"That is, interesting, to say the least" From Pandemonica.

Happy with the results he pressed the Omnitrix, and from the light came:

"ROOOAAAAR! (WILDMUTT!)" just as he transformed, his three gill-like nostrils opened and closed, taking in his surroundings by using his hearing and smelling senses, to which it was not that bad for the later compared to things he was used to already (aka Stinkfly).

At the same time the demonesses were a little taken back, will not for Krampus as she was a little too exited at the sight of his animalistic form, as she kept on jumping and chanting "A Big Doggy! A Big Doggy!" his thoughts of the bad smell long forgotten.

To prove that, Pandemonica approached him, albeit hesitate, "So this (pointing to him) Creature, is the one that you named Wildmutt correct?" To which he nodded. "But isn't it-errr. Aren't you sensitive to powerful smells and sounds?"

Ben nodded as he gave her a thumbs up.

But for his part he laughed inwardly to himself, as it always amused him how everyone walks on egg shells whenever he turns to his more animal-like transformations.

Facing them he pointed to his back.

Pandemonica raised an eyebrow at him "You want us to ride you?" That got her a nod from the beast.

Modeus, who was silent this whole time exploded in red as she covered her face in embarrassment "How lewd. You want us to ride you from behind?"

That made Wildmutt disgusted beyond belief, and it showed on his face, and for that Pandemonica being near was a good thing as she fixed her glasses on her face and corrected the Lustful one. "No Modeus, we are Not riding him that way, we will just set on his back as he walks over his bridge."

To concrete her point, she pointed to his back, which has a passenger already.

When 'Monica said to ride him Krampus jumped on him, taking her rightful place just over his head.

Seeing no other choice Pandemonica climbed on his right side, with Modeus following shortly. And when they were ready Wildmutt began running.

Diamondhead's construction proven to be very sturdy, as he kept on running without any issues.

He crossed about half the distance before he felt something.

And he was proven right when he jumped to the right as a black, red and white blur dashes just under, where he stood, leaving a big slash on the crystal ground. Not a second later he ducked and jumped in sequence to dodge 2 similar blurs.

He took an offensive stance and was focusing his senses, then waited before locating the offenders charging at him again.

Already used to such methods he leaped on the attackers and trapped them, one imprisoned in each of his changed arms and the last is held by the other bodies above it, trapping the thing.

It wasn't much of a shock to him when he discovered the offenders were actually 3, 100% identical bodies, or how they had Dog ears over their heads. Even when he felt them overpower him for he managed to take them only by surprise.

What surprised him is Pandemonica on his back becoming furious as she shouted at them "CERBERUS!".

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Throughout all of Hell, portals were opening randomly, with unknown creatures coming from them in hordes.

Most of its residents were in high alert, with all the high ranked demons going in patrols to deal with any potential tear.

Will, almost all the high ranked demons, as 3 identical girls are piled on each other, they are wearing the same outfit that is consists of a red button-up long-sleeve shirts underneath black-striped suit vests, and black slim fit suit pants, black cuffs over their red shirts just below the shoulder, and black gloves and a black ties tucked underneath their vests. Their tails emerge from underneath their vests and over their pants. The hair is tied at the ends via a hair tie that forms a short tail.

They Also has the normal demons features like the red eyes, which are wider than other demons, white dog-like ears and the pointy tails, and if someone focused hard enough, they would noteic tiny black points on the tips of their ears, with those being the horns, but normally they are unseen.

This is Cerberus the Triple demon, the guardian of the gates of hell, whom is one being in separate bodies, and now? She is/They are dragging her/there bodies as they are sulking after standing from endless boredom.

"I am bored! " Said the middle body, Cerb 1.

"These things were supposed to be strong! But them being this weak!?" Responded the one to her wright, Cerb 2.

"And now we are back to have nothing fun to do!" Whined the last one, Cerb 3.

"I hope there is something fun where we are going!" said Cerb 2.

"If I was not wrong, I believe where we are heading is near Modeus' place! We can play with her after dealing with those weaklings!" Exclaimed Cerb 1.

"Then What are we waiting for!? Let's go!" shouted Cerb 3.

With the new-found excitement, the Triple Demon began running on all Fours words their target.

While the distance was large, their superior speed aloud them to cross it in minutes.

When they Arrived, however, they stopped on their tracks, with eyes as wide as dinner plates in shock.

They were told by their 'Mistress' that the Barrion Protocol has been initiated, so they were expecting the land to be covered in gore and spikes, but not a gigantic crimson bridge that goes on and on forever that is made of crystals.

Unsure of what to make of the thing they looked at each other, "Soooo, what is going on here? And (she pointed at the bridge's direction) what are we going to do about this, what ever that is?" asked Cerb 3.

"Maybe it is a new part of the Protocol? You know, with how the prosecutors and high prosecutor are yaping about improving it, the least something or another happened?" Said Cerb 1.

"Possible, but we should have been told, I think."

The 3 parts agreed on that last one, only for their combined mind(s) to come to one conclusion.

"""WHAT IF THE ATTACKERS DISABLED IT!?"""

Sensing a threat, they charged ahead, they let their demonic energy lose as they run to the construct, which by the second seemed to become bigger and bigger.

Despite how smooth the surface is, climbing up the bridge was easy, as their footing was sturdy and without wobbling.

And as they ran, they sensed 4 energy signals, 2 of which are familiar but the other 2 are unknown, one was not even demonic so they targted them.

And as the single became stronger and stronger, they got faster, and when they saw a big orange thing, that matched what they were after, and so they charged at them.

In their feral state, they did not care that he was able to escape 1, or how he dodged 2 and 3.

Preparing for another attack, they lunched at him. Which backfired as the thing got hold of 3 and 2 and used them to restrain 1 down.

Before they could even take in their captor, their ears fall flat on their heads as they heard the unmistakable sound of an enraged Pandemonica "CERBERUS!"

Focusing at the source of the sound, and right above them, on the beast's back, was a furious Pandemonica that was GLARING at them! There was even Modeus too, with a child they have never seen before.

The Guardian(s) of the Gate of Hell wimperad at the sight of the Sadist Demon. Suddenly they vanished behind for the strange beast to cover them up even more.

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Jumping down from Ben's Back, the tired demoness ordered for him to move a little while not taking her eyes from the terrified Demons, which he complied.

And as he walked to a little distance, the Triple demon bugged her(them)self(selves) with their eyes becomes white and tears on them.

Both Krampus and Modeus went behind Wildmutt to cover themselves or else they get the enraged demon's rage directed at them. Ben for his part just sat on his hind legs like a Dog watching (hearing) the 6 Demons, not fearing Monica's anger as he knows he will not be targeted, and amused by the 2 hiding behind him's comical panic.

"Tell me, Cerberus? What, exactly, are you doing here? I belive my commands were CLEAR when I told you to NOT leave your spot last, was I not!?" Demanded the now not Tired Pandemonica as she yalled at the 3 bodies, who know are kneeling with their hands on their knees with their heads facing down.

"W-We sensed a big portal spell, so we came to see what is g-going on! And on the way we saw some strange demons that we had never seen before, and dealt with them quickly when we realized that they are attacking..." answered Cerb3, looking yo the side as if she was a child that was caught with their hand in the cookie jar and was coming up with an excuse to explain to their parent why they were doing it.

And that May be true, as Pandemonica just rose an eyebrow in question. She believes the Dog demon, but knows she is hiding things, as lying to her is a death wish.

"Yes, and?"

Cerd 1 coughed a little, finding a rock to the side to be very interesting this exact moment "...And we were kinda, sorts, maaaaaybe Just a little bit bored, so we walked a longer distance?.. "

"... And we perhaps didn't want to either return to the gate or go on a patrol, so we came to play with Modeus! And found this big thing made of red and thought something happened!" completed Cerb 2.

Then 3 bodies bowed their heads, begging "We Are Sooo Sorry Please Forgave Us!"

Pandemonica was not a little less angry, but still enraged as she crossed her arms, "What should I do with you? You know what happens when you disobey orders, don't you? Even more so NOW that we are being attacked And You Leaving THE VERY GATE IF HELL and came here to Play! But you know what? Because I feel very nice today, I think 10 years without food and extra duties should be enough. Hopefully that would teach you a lesson and to do your job right."

Cerberus flinched and whimpered, but didn't do anything against it, nor say a word back, as they sank in their places. Accepting their fates with shame.

Ben, being an ex-troublemaker himself and is still one at heart, felt bad for the new demon(s?)'s punishment, so he stood up and interfered, trying to lessen her (there?) punishment, "Wrooaaar! RrrrWAAAAARRRRrrrrrr! (Monica wait! They attacked me thinking I was a danger! And they are just Kids! Don't you think this is a bit much? Can't you forgave them? Or at the very least lessen it for them?)"

The Dog Demons, apparently, understood what he said as all 3 bodies looked at him with hope in their big red eyes.

Though Pandemonica knew he was talking to her, yet she understood nothing of what he said, as she looked at him with a raised eyebrow, "What was that? (he opened his mouth, only to remember they can't understand him) Oh, right, you can't speak." she sighed, before she had an idea "I think I have the solution, but hope this work or else you will be plugged with pain in your head for the rest of your life."

Before Ben could do anything, it was already too late. For what she did next was making a magical circle with strange symbols inside and outside of it, with said circle floated over Wildmutt when it was done with a red trial. And he was terrified from the start, worst he couldn't see it to attempt evading it, and the circle stuck itself on his forehead, then it glowed faintly only to disappear.

He Stood there for a second, then he shock his head, trying to remove the felling from the weird sensation, "What was that for!?" he asked/growled, anger clear in his voice.

The eyes of the demonesses behind him widened at hearing him speak! a deep voice with a growl-like layer to it, like a real beast, while Pandemonica just smirked, "That? That was nothing, just a simple translation spell."

Wildmutt's gills widened at that, "Wait, so you can, like, understand what I am saying?"

Pandemonica's smirked got bigger, "Yes, loud and clear. Anyway, what was it that you said?"

Getting over the mild surprise he repeated what he said "Errr, you see, can't you just forgave them? I don't see any harm being done, plus they took care of some Demons that would have been a problem for us or others later, so pretending nothing happened this one time should not be an issue. After, of course, that they promise to not do something like this again..... For a while."

Monica closed her eyes, took a deep breath to think about his proposal over, and looked at him, "While I see your point, what makes it guaranteed that they will not do this again? It is nit exactly a rare sight to behold."

Cerberus, seeing a chance to get out of trouble, nodded their heads and fast """We Promise! We Promise! We Are Sorry!!!""" cried the three heads at the same time with fear.

Monica's eyes focused on them, "Oh? Is that so? (they nodded at her, frantically) Will, If that was the case then I don't see why not. Now say thank you to mister over here. And remember that, if this ever happened again, it will become a full century, am I clear?"

To that Cerberus nodded even faster, smiling fearful smiles, which satisfied the older(?) demoness, returning to her normal state.

And the second she took a step back they lunched themselves on Wildmutt, who was not prepared in the slightest, resulting in him "OOOfff" , as they kept on chanting "Thank You So much!", "ThankYouThankYouThankuou! " and finally "You Saved Us!" all while rubbing their heads on him with their tails wagging like a puppy.

"Cute!" was all what he thought.

Unable to restrain himself, he used his right paw (more like a hand) to pet the one nearest to it (Cerb3), which made her melt, and while the other 2 did feel it (not that he knows of it) and sighed ns bless, it did not stop them from being jealous as they eyed the 3rd one in betrayal. And he did feel a killing intent from his side from Krampus, which made him snicker to himself "Heh, Kids."

A second later said demon dashed to his side, removed the paw and placed it on her head, while glaring at the trio "THOSE ARE MY HEAD PATS! GO FIND YOUR OWN!"

It was a good thing he was just about to pat the next one (Cerb 2) by his other hand before Krampus kidnapped his arm, otherwise he wouldn't survive their looks.

He can already feel how his future daughters (if any) would warp him around their tiny fingers. He just knows it.

Thinking of a better thing, he removed his hand from Cerb 2's head, which made her look at him in the most heart broken stare he had ever seen, and for some reason, the other 2 bodies did the same.

Before guilt could take over him, he ordered them to cover their eyes, Krampus understanding the memo. And when he pressed the omnitrix, resulting in a blinding light. With a New Creature in Wildmutt's place.

"FOUR ARMS!"

"Wuu---?" before Cerberus could fathom what just happened, Four arms started to pet all 3 of them, and Krampus, in one go.

~!GLORIOUS SUCCESS!~

The three bodies shuddered at the felling, which was more prominent by the wagging tails at extreme speeds, heads pretty much glued to the Alien's hands.

While the killing intent was reduced greatly, Cerberus was literally reduced to happy moaning pile.

The sight was amusing to Pandemonica, and she made sure her thoughts were known, "You are pretty good at this, you know that?"

Four arms just smirked at her and shrugged his shoulders "What can I say? It is not really that big if a deal, they are just like an over sized cute puppy!" suddenly he had an idea and smiled at her "Check this out. (he looked at the happy guardian) Who is the good girl? Who is the good girl?!" he asked, a playful tone to his heavy voice.

At hearing this, Cerberus's instincts of being a Dog kicked in, as they looked at him with big bright smiles """WE! WE! WE!!!!"""

The Alien just smiled even more, and began scratching under their chins, which they loved even more "Yes you are! Yes you are! You are a very good girl~" which got him an even more happy "Woof!" from the 3 bodies.

Pandemonica rolled her eyes as she Stood to the side, seeing no issue in indulging the Guardian of Hell's gates rather touchy moment. While Krampus enjoyed her pats, and Modeus just staring at them, a shadow cast over her, hiding her face but the glowing eyes, with her seething off of jealousy.

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Chapter Text

Chapter 6: An Update to the Game

After the chance encounter with the guardian of the gates of hell, the group decided that the single male would decide how to deal with said guardian. The two adults learned that it was a terrible call, for it turned out to be a very bad idea to let Four Arms calls when to stop himself from “handling Cerberus,” as Modeus likes to put it, for he just kept on, playing with the triple demon and Krampus for no less than 10 minutes, non-stop. From patting their heads to rubbing the guardians’ bellies (they asked) before Pandemonica (forcefully) stopped him.

The young hero could not bear the looks of sadness on their faces when he stopped; he tried to resist, he really did, but he failed, and so he started playing with them again, this time while they walked, games like fetch, using Diamondhead’s crystals as throwing sticks after he transformed (their meows were strong enough to scratch and break little shards of the crystal's surface, and they were barely biting on it. Yikes.) as they walked on the bridge. After some time, catch the ball after turning into Upgrade, using his arm as a ball launcher machine, with Krampus skipping steps to his side while holding his normal hand.

Both Pandemonica and Modeus were on each of his sides, with a cup of coffee for the tired demoness and strawberry juice for Modeus, so they too could enjoy the walk.

All of that, and the triplet demons were cycling the things in their what-to-do list, each one of them rotated from talking to him about how he changes and his forms, which Krampus was more than happy to answer, climbing up his back as Diamondhead, just playing around with the other dog demons, to simply doing nothing and just walking in front of them. The last one only once, however.

While the bridge’s end was quite far away, that did not bother the young hero, as the walk was relaxing and he could think. The fact that his forms took long periods of time to get tired helped a lot. Him not reverting back yet was a blessing on its own, so he opted to simply enjoy the quiet.

When they crossed the bridge, Ben turned to Diamondhead again and undid his structure. The demons were in awe from the action, Cerberus being the most, while Pandemonica covered hers with the unending tiredness hers.

Then a great idea struck him.

Thanks to his massive size, he took the girls one by one and put them on him: Krampus on his shoulders, both Modeus and Monica in each arm, and the triplet demons on his back, with crystals to keep them fixed in place.

Then he began to run slowly. “What are you planning on doing?” asked the tired one. All she got as a response was a smirk from the alien.

Gaining speed, he held the girls tighter, and when he was fast enough, he jumped. “I am warning you—!” and when he landed, he slid on the ground. Then he used his powers.

This resulted in a platform rising under him of scarlet crystals, but he didn’t stop as the platform moved, forming a path of crystals, carrying him over it like a skateboard.

That seemed to excite the younger girls, while Pandemonica just sighed.

Modeus kept staring at him.

Deciding to increase the fun, he began doing some moves—like doing full circles, snake-like movements to the sides, even backflipping as he flew from one end of the rocks to the next like when he was younger. The slides that were not connected to him directly broke to nothingness.

In all of this, Krampus was laughing like there is no tomorrow, Cerberus letting their tongues out, filling their mouths with air. With each time he did a move, Pandemonica would give him an annoyed glare. As for Modeus, she squeals at him, hugging him tigjterwhen everytime he jumped.

And he went on like that for some time, but as the saying goes, 'All good things must come to an end.'

Right in front of them, when they reached the peak of one of the mountains, they found a clearing, and at the furthest end was a large group of skeletons,

fending off an invading demon force, bigger than even Modeus’s. But this time all of them were the fleshy ones, with many being the size of a small titan at a height of 30 ft at the least. Some even exceeded that number. But then there were the titans—massive beasts, each just as, or at least little more than half the size of Way Big, who is reaching the heights of 300 feet, which made them easy to spot even from far away.

Glaring at them, the Petrosapian came to a complete halt and released his companions at the top.

At the sight and smell of blood, Cerberus went feral, going down on all fours, eyes becoming black-red slits, revealing her three sets of razor-sharp fangs with her mouth in a mix of snarling and twisted glee, claws extended with her body ready to leap on their weakling prey, ready to start tearing and breaking all that was in her way—only to be stopped by a command from Diamondhead.

Pandemonica didn’t think much of that, knowing fully well how Cerberus does whatever she pleases without any care for the commands or authority of others but that of very few. And apparently, Diamondhead was one of those, as to her surprise, she obeyed him but was still ready to attack.

Ignoring the looks of hurt coming his way, the young hero ran a short distance before catapulting himself to the demons by launching himself up using a small crystal tower, then flew ahead with another that came from behind him, sending him to the middle of the attack. His already high position gave him a boost.

He simultaneously landed and punched the ground beneath him, killing many demons that were there upon impact and causing the earth to break apart, with waves of red crystals rising up in four directions, piercing monsters of sizes that varied.

At the end of each wave stood a massive obelisk of crystals. Ben then opened and closed his fists with commanding power behind his actions, and the obelisks answered accordingly, with shards covering them, then firing them at high velocities in the same order.

Those that were closest to them were annihilated, with many of the titans being impaled by the towers. And the shards shredded dozens more.

But the attack, while not that effective due to the massive numbers, did what was intended of them—serving as a distraction to get them to him, as most of the invaders started either advancing or falling back towards him, with the bigger attackers, surprisingly, not crushing those that were smaller, which disappointed him.

With the skeletal soldiers clearing the weaker but most numerous of the army that were not fast enough to come after him, Ben whistled sharply. Cerberus received the signal, and when she looked his way from above, he shouted, “CERBERUS! GO TO THE REMAINING THREE SIDES!” in a voice so deep and loud it reached them.

The guardian demons, who were sulking/watching the bloodshed in longing, perked up at his order, wore their widest smirks yet, and launched themselves down to where they were told, creating a cloud of smoke on impact, and immediately went into action, slaughtering every creature that came their way.

While the duo fought, Pandemonica and Modeus kept Krampus away from the massacre, while simultaneously keeping anything from getting close to them with the many spells they had mastered over their existence, as many were trying to go to the top.

Pandemonica then shortly flew up the mountain range to a higher point, following the horde's direction and where they were moving from, which was from the eastern side, a valley, and at the distance ahead she saw what appeared to be a portal—this one being a mix of technological and blood in dark red. It was hidden by the massive monsters that barely fit in said valley, with minions pouring from the portals. Then she returned down, a plan forming in her head.

Back in the clearing, sliding up to reach the titans, Diamondhead used his forming constructs to stab or cut his way to the top through as many monsters as possible that were on it or flying. “Take this, Uglies!” he shouted.

And once he was above one of them, that appeared to be the strongest, he jumped at it and immediately punched the thing with long talon blades, crushing the skull when hit.

“HAAAAAAAH!!” His blade went down, and half of his forearm was what remained. He repeated the action with his second arm.

The monster howled in agony, shaking its head and body to get the alien off, destroying many of its friendly units and damaging the nearby titans in its rampage.

“RAAAAORGGGHH!!” it tried to punch Diamondhead to crush him. All that did was push him even further, like a hammer to a nail.

Enraged with even more pain, it killed a titan in a fit of agony before the rest attacked it, killing it with its body falling; many of them suffered the same fate, with untold numbers of the smaller forms destroyed in the process.

Ben then jumped from the downed beast to another and did a quick calculation on their numbers, finding about 25 alive—totaling at 28 with the dead ones.

“I wish I had Way Big,” was what he thought as he crashed into the head of a triple-horned titan, with the biggest one splitting the head into two sides in the middle moved to the left on the front.

He swiftly killed it, punching its head, then clenching his fist, the head exploded with spikes from the inside.

Jumping again, this time, however, he was swatted from the sky by one of the faster titans, but he planted his spiked fists and pads on the monster's hand just as it hit him.

The thing screamed in anger at feeling him, closed its fist in an attempt to crush the alien shifter, only to roar in pain as he covered his body in spikes that erupted from the inside of its fist.

Taking advantage of the monster's rampage, he transformed into Ghostfreak and escaped his short confinement.

The Living Phantom then flew down, and using his kind’s natural magical powers, with the inclusion of the ectoplasmic energy that Ghostfreak has access to, despite his inexperienced usages of it to fully utilize, cast a spell that split the earth to create a small canyon that trapped the bigger demons and made the smaller ones fall.

Yet, just like Diamondhead, the effect was much greater than what should be possible, as the hole was so wide a titan would be buried completely in it.

And that was exactly what happened, with many of the titans collapsing on each other as the pit was not big enough for them to adjust to, and the small monsters being swallowed in the crater. “.....Woow.” was all he said, but quickly shock his head.

It got worse for the monsters when the rampaging titans, as well as the downed ones disturbed any inkling of order or formation among their ranks, attacking each other instead of focusing on their enemies due to anger and rage, resulting in them not only falling into an easily exploitable situation for Ben but also taking large portions of the attacking force down with them—either pushing others to the opened abyss or crushing the smaller creatures under their weight.

He then slammed his palms down on one of the titans, blasting it with dark magic to make it fall, that shook his surroundings even further. Then he floated up and did a quick look over the battlefield.

The skeletal soldiers were holding off the horde now that they were not overwhelmed and outnumbered, even advancing little by little at the north opening. Cerberus was having a blast; everyone would smile at how cheerful and happy she was as long as the blood and gore that covered them and the fact that they were enjoying killing were ignored. And she was doing a great job, holding three sides at once and ensuring the tide of the attackers didn’t overflow to the openings.

Lastly were Pandemonica and Modeus, both of whom were doing more than just protecting a hidden Krampus, as they were beating any fleeing demons escaping their way, reducing the already dwindling numbers.

Satisfied with the state of the battle, he cast a follow-up spell on the canyon, creating spikes on the walls of the pit. And a final one where the hole closed, rumbling the earth as the screams of agony echoed, crushing all that was within it when a titan attempted to escape.

With an unseen grin, he floated to the ground and transformed.

“HEATBLAST!” The explosion of light gave the uncoordinated monsters a target to go after. The young Pyronite squinted his eyes and studied his situation.

The numbers of invaders were less than before, but their numbers did not decrease by much.

Kneeling down, he collected his inner fire and channeled it to the ground beneath him, the demonic forces closing in on him, “Time to flane up up the hell!” and in a massive explosion of flames, he took off to the bloody sky, burning those that were too close to him to nothingness.

While on top of a burning meteor, he unleashed devastating streams of hellish flames of emerald red and dark gold that evaporated whatever they touched, with all that remained being hellish molten plasma where the targets stood.

Those flames went unnoticed by him, however, as he was too focused on ending the battle to pay attention to something that should have been normal—that the different colors of his flames were different. Not only that, but even his appearance changed, with the volcanic rocks becoming darker and the plasma turning to blacker and more golden shades. The skull that makes his head and face turned ever so slightky more demonic, and his plasma hands changed to sharp claws.

High up in the sky, Heatblast got a perfect view of what was going on. But most importantly, he was looking for where the hordes kept coming from.

The clearing was big but was surrounded by mountain ranges from almost all directions, being almost fully covered by the mountains but few tunnels—a valley in the west that goes down, making attacking from there semi-impossible. The north, where the skeletons and monsters clashed, had a big opening allowing the monsters to easily spread and cover big grounds, with the mountains being too small for big forces to get there, and even if there was a possibility to reach them, the titans would counter it with ease, as they were tall enough to either attack directly or throw boulders at them. That at least is what his quick analysis came up with.

But the important passage was the eastern one, he found. ”Uh-oh, this is not good,“

It was small enough and well hidden entrance among the highlands that noticing it became a challenge, more so if the titans were close to each other, covering it. And from the passage, endless swarms kept on pushing forward, replacing the losses in no time.

There were so many of them now that Cerberus asked another one for help, with the two clearing the west side well and fast. Their smiles began to falll as each one they killed was replaced by two much more powerful.

Glaring at the direction, he dove at max speed towards one of the remaining titans, destroying its head on impact.

He then generated a gigantic sphere of pure plasma using his full power over the melting head and threw it at those that remained.

The effect was immediate, with the sphere expanding then exploding, annihilating them all and countless others of the smaller ones. Of course, each of the Cerberuses were far away from the fire zone.

Heaving with exhaustion, he transformed once more.

“UPGRADED!” With the immediate threats dealt with, the Galvanic Mechamorph transformed into a super jet mid-air and flew to where the rest of his friends were, firing laser blasts from his glass cannons all the while.

He transformed into another vehicle, a tank, just as he reached them to keep firing at the hordes, materializing his face to the side to speak, “Hello ladies! How are you doing this fine evening~?” he joked, winking his single eye to further the effect.

Modeus was high in the air when she heard him, blushing from the remark with a shudder going through her body. But the same can't be said for Pandemonica, who was just mildly annoyed but wanted to question why he didn't use this form's capabilities from the start, but refrained from doing so, knowing he had his own reasons to hide things—not mentioning how the timing was not good to interrogate.

With that being said, she looked at him when the spell she was casting was completed. “We are okay for now. However, we should stop this invasion and do this as fast as possible; the newer demons are becoming faster and stronger, and Cerberus is beginning to struggle against them. If this keeps going on, we may need to.....” But suddenly she stopped as she finally took a good look at him, eyes wide.

The alien waited for her for a few seconds before asking and saw the worry on her face, as bidden as it was. He saw enough to know when someone was reluctant or had no confidence about something they wanted to share. His grandfather is the greatest example. So he did what he does best—asking things. “Need to do what? Come on! You know you can trust me; at least I hope so.”

The demoness just stared at his singular smiling optic before sighing and shaking her head. “Not important. But we have to destroy the portal they keep coming from; not even burying them would be of use as that would only open more space for more to come. Thus it must be destroyed in one swift move, as the portal seems to be expanding in size. Calling any more forces may hinder other locations defenseless.” She then looked away from him; he chalked that up to her focusing on attacking.

Looking down, he saw that, thankfully, no more titans had appeared yet, so he took this chance.

He turned to a jet again and was firing rockets at many points on the ground, then sped to the east, laying waste to all that was there, greatly damaging and killing a good number of them until he reached the portal.

And it was even bigger up close, more organic than metal, with a size allowing even four titans to emerge at once. With many yellow eyes that disturbed him. “Talking about ugly,”

Suddenly he lost control of his body, making him go off his airways, almost colliding with a flying demon, but he got control quickly and dodged it. “My energy, it is depleting quickly.”

With that thought, he circled back and turned to the portal, opening all of the weapons he could use without burning out, and began destroying it.

Only for the damage to repair itself; the source was a creature that was similar to the demons but different, as they were more feminine and wore more light than black and had a helmet covering its eyes. Said creature had its hand up, a sphere of blackish-red covering it, and any damage he inflicted on the portal was immediately fixed.

He then tried to kill the thing, but the many guards and demons either took the hit from it or forced him to miss the target. And those that did hit were met with a blackish forcefield.

“I can't hit that thing, dammit! But if they want this to get personal, they will get personal!”

At that, he flew up and away to the north, and the demonesses saw that, but before any of the girls questioned it, they saw a light spark, and Upgrade came with it, in a slick form that was all speed.

Then in an explosion of light from the north, he turned into Four Arms, who was bigger, bulkier, his red skin turned harsher, and his mouth extended two sharp, albeit small, fangs, punching and crushing with massive momentum all those who stood in his path. He balanced his body down before transforming into XLR8, whose body changed to be more arrow-like but being a little bigger, a little red overlapping with his blue, with the two fins on his back increased in size, his claws got sharper with spines emerging from his fins down his tail, which had a tiny blade going upwards at the tip.

Using the speed he generated, he positioned himself to go even faster, and in seconds, like a red arrow of death, he went right through the hordes, cutting or punching at speeds impossible for normal beings. And when he was just at the entrance of the east valley, he tripped himself on purpose and at the same time transformed again, but this time into Cannonbolt, and the speed he built up made his power even more devastating as he was jumping from impact to impact, destroying demon after demon until he reached the portal, now rolling on the ground.

The guards tried to block him but were crushed the second he reached them. But the shield on the figure was more powerful, as when he hit it, his body bounced back, only for him to bounce back again from the walls, hitting the shield. That went on for all seven seconds before the figure used its powers to support the shields, only for them to collapse ten seconds later with a final hit, breaking the shield and the creature before hitting the base of the portal, destroying it and hitting a wall, only to go back until it fell, which he was already far away to be hit by. The impact sent him away, boosting his speed and destroying the now resurrecting demons that apparently seemed to come to stop him.

Once out of the valley, he unrolled himself and saw how very few demons remained. So few, in fact, that the skeletal soldiers were 1 to 70 compared to the earlier 1 to over 170. And the gap was decreasing as most of those that remained were the lesser demons.

Relaxing, he smiled to himself in satisfaction, only to yelp as Cerberus tackled him to the ground, licking his face, which tickled him, making him laugh.

That was cut short when a soldier that seemed to be a captain of sorts came to him, interrupting Cerberus's fun, who made her displeasure clear with a glare.

Ben tried to roll himself up, but the captain did not care as he just bowed and spoke. “Thank you for your help; without it, we would have lost this battle, but everything is fine now, and we can handle it from here. Lady Pandemonica is waiting for you behind our lines with Lady Modeus and Lady Krampus. She told me to tell you to go to her immediately.”

Was all he said as he returned to what he was doing. If looks could kill, the captain would turn to a pile of ash from Cerberus's glares, but they softened, then outright smiled when Cannonbolt began patting them.

“Well, it seems our work here is over! Let's go and meet the others before Monica gets angry.” Cerberus shuddered.

Smirking, he moved and began rolling as he shouted, “Whoever reaches there last is a spoiled cheese!”

Cerberus was taken aback before they began running too, complaining, “THAT IS NOT FAIR!” “YOU ARE CHEATING!” “WHAT DOES SPOILED CHEESE EVEN MEAN?!”

It was not long before they reached him, then surpassed him in bursts of speed, running by soldiers and mages alike, before spotting the rest, which Cerberus reached first.

Once they stopped, they jumped and hugged each other in joy, just as Cannonbolt came to a halt. “WE WON! WE WON! WE ARE NOT SPOILED CHEESE!”

Uncurling himself, the big alien laughed at their antics, and when he saw them looking at him expectantly, clearly wanting a reward, he shook his face/upper body before patting them again.

Just then, Modeus and Pandemonica came to them, with Krampus hiding behind the latter for some reason, and they smiled at them. “Good job back there. Here, let me clean you up.” smiled Monica, activating a spell that removed all the blood and filth that was on them, with Modeus nodding with her in agreement, “Yeah, you were so hot fighting those things~.”

Cannonbolt just laughed awkwardly as he rubbed the back of his upper body. “Oh, it was nothing.”

Feeling something was off, he noticed how Krampus, who would be the first to run up to him, was still hiding behind Monica. “Krampus?”

His voice died in his throat as he saw her flinch at his voice, even shaking now. His mind raced through many ideas, all terrible. “Maybe she saw me fighting and now is scared of me? That would explain it, but I thought I was careful! Oh, who am I kidding! Even a deaf blind man can see me fight against even a normal thug! Oh my god, she must have seen all the monsters I killed—”

Ben's thoughts came to a halt as he heard Pandemonica speak. “Krampus. It's okay, Mr. Ball is fine; you don't need to worry about him.”

At the older woman's words, the little girl slowly left her hiding place and came forward; then she looked at him. His eyes widened at what he saw—tears forming in her eyes, threatening to fall, mouth forming a small whimper, but what truly got him was the scared look she gave him.

That immediately made him reach her as he fell to one knee. “Krampus! Are you okay? Are you hurt? Please talk to me!” Normally he would have joked about how cheesy the line was, but he was panicing and m did not care.

The little demon sniffled softly as she wiped a tear, looking at him with worry. “Mr. Ball, are you okay?” was all she said.

The question was so simple yet so heavy, how she meant that question in an innocent kind of serious. And that took him off guard; of all the things that went in his mind about himself, that was not one of them.

“Hahaha, of course I am silly! Why wouldn't I be?”

That was the wrong thing to say, as the child stomped the ground while glaring at him—tears falling on her cheeks. “N-No, you are not! You look different and mean and si-sick!”

The Arburian Pelarota raised his eyebrow at the young demoness, puzzled by her accusation. “Huh? What do you mean, Kramp—” he stopped mid-sentence once he looked at himself, his arms, and he understood why she was worried for the first time.

He was different; his arms were wrong, his normally sharp claws were now sharper and longer, his white skin was a light shade of gray, his vibrant yellow armor plates had taken on a dark ashen shade, with obsidian-black outlines on the sides, small spikes extending backward from the plates.

Pandemonica, being the thoughtful demon that she was, created a mirror of sorts without being asked. Cannonbolt smiled thankfully at her, or at least he hoped he did.

Standing in front of the magical mirror, the alien was surprised, to say the least. Never horrified.

He was fit—not the over-muscled sort, but just the right amount; the protective fat that helps absorb shocks and impacts was reduced but at the same time had been densified to the point of being a second skin. His body was bigger, and his shoulders were broader. His armor plates were harder with small extensions for more cover without limiting his movements. His mouth usually contained a few pointed teeth, but now it was full of, while not sharp, big fangs. His eyes got a red shade to them, with spikes pointing up, with them getting bigger the closer they were to the top, all while bending backward ever so slightly on the plates, just like the ones on his arms.

But what truly was strange was the Omnitrix itself, as instead of the black and white he was used to, the white was now black while the black was red.

Calling him speechless would be an understatement; he moved his arms around a little, rotating his shoulders and wiggling his fingers. Now that he was paying attention, he felt how steady he was, the weight of his body, and his senses.

“M-Mr. Ball?” The small voice of Krampus shook him from his trance. Shaking his head, the hero looked down at the poor thing, ready to start crying any second.

He turned to her fully and bent down to her level, extending his arms—

“AAAAAHHHH! HAHAHA M-MR. BALL!” and swiped her from the ground, taking her by the arms as he turned on himself and rolled.

After a few seconds, he fell on his back, holding up a laughing Krampus. “W-What was that for!? Hahaha!” asked the child, only to get a shrug from her guardian. “Well, I don't know! You tell me who is the one that was acting silly and being worried for nothing!”

When her laughter ceased, the little demon looked down at him in worry. “But you are being corrupted! I have seen this happen many times with my Aunt! They always end badly for whoever this happens to, so—so—”

Feeling her acting up again, he hugged her, then rolled into a seated position with the child on his lap. “Deja vu, huh?” “Listen here, Krampus. There is nothing for you to worry about. HOWEVER! I want you to tell me when this started or at least how much you know, okay?”

That seemed to calm her down as she steadied herself. “O-Okay!”

The rest of the girls made a semi-circle around them, each with their own reasoning: Pandemonica to get an understanding of the situation; Cerberus to enjoy a story (that is what she thought), while Modeus, being Modeus, was ogling his abs that looked like they were sculpted, undressing him even though he was naked, yet giving attention to the little demon.

“S-So my Aunt,” began the child, “goes normally to the human world for business. Every now and then she takes me with her. There we meet some extremely weird people wearing black robes while covering their heads with hoods, then start babbling to my Aunt.” “Seems like a cult,” thought Ben. “B-But this is not important; what is, however, is how some of them look different. I know how a human should look normally; even I have a human form!” (She puffed her chest in pride, getting a pat from Cannonbolt at how proud he was, resulting in Cerberus getting needy, making him pat her as well.) “But they don't look human, at least not completely; they have red eyes, pale gray skin, and act like crazy people!” she emphasized with actions.

“And when I asked my mom—Aunt!—why, she told me, ‘They were stupid! They don't use protection spells to stop the bad effects hell has on humans! Demons are weak in the human world without the proper spells too; that is why the summoning circles exist: so demons can go there safely! And there are many spells to keep the humans safe, but they don't use them!”

She took a breath and started again. “She also said non-demonic beings being exposed to blood from demons, or if they were sent down here to hell without the right spells, would hurt them! As if their lack of well power did not end them, the aura here will corrupt them, turning them to mindless monsters that seek only blood! That is why she said to always stay close to her when out! Then Miss Pandemonica told me how you were fighting mean monsters, and you fought alone! When I saw you for the first time, Cannonbolt looked funny, but now you are all gloomy and scary and black, and I don't like it!” she sniffled but fought back the tears. “That made me super worried; I am afraid I will lose you.”

Ben hugged her then and there, now understanding her worries. “That makes sense; even Grandma lectures Gwen about the use of the right spells, for half of them are more protection than the spell itself. And when I think about it, that explains why I am feeling horrible on the inside, as well as my unnaturally violent fighting. Heck, I am literally soaked in their blood every fight! This is bad; this is really, really bad! If I stay here much longer, I—”

Feeling his panic getting out of hand, he put Krampus down, who looked puzzled as he transformed, even scared.

He did not bother shouting his Galvanic form's name, as he was busy keeping his mind calm. He looked up at Pandemonica, who looked back at him questioningly. “Please, tell me if you have noticed anything strange in all of this time we have spent together and if you took notice of anything out of place. Any detail, no matter how insignificant it may appear, may hold the answer.”

Pandemonica kept staring at him for a second before nodding. “Very well; however, there isn't much to tell you, for I don't know most of your aliens and just thought that was how they normally looked.” She closed her eyes to think and suddenly remembered an event from earlier. “But I did notice something off in the last fight. Your form, 'Upgrade,' is the one I know the most as I saw it/him many times—even though I prefer the ghost one—he was normal earlier, but after turning to the fiery one, he changed. The green lines had gotten redder, and instead of them being, how to say this, square, they looked more like tree branches. I didn't want to worry you in the middle of the fight, but I am honestly ashamed that the corruption did not cross my mind.”

Grey Matter just gave her a weak thankful smile, then began walking in circles while the girls stared at him curiously as he muttered to himself. “So Heatblast, huh? That makes sense; he is the most compatible with the unique properties of hell. The spell Hex used must have been a brute one with zero protections, of course, but does that mean the only reason I am not mad as of yet is due to my mentality, as well as a the small connection I have with anodite spark, and that somehiw work as some sort of barrier? Or maybe it is the aliens themselves? Heatblast was the breaking point after all, as all changes happened after him, so it must affect them differently when I turn to each of them. And if the events were to be put together, that would be the only reason why I am not going full on Vilgax mad levels of rampage, due to true me being shielded. As for the changes, maybe they have been absorbing the negative energy slowly, thus changing at a lower rate, both mentally and physically? But with Heatblast, the changes are the fastest compared to them all with. Then there is the troubling rise of carnage tolerance, bloodlust, and m all-consuming rage regardless if I had a choice or not. So maybe the absorbed energy is distributed to all of the others; thus affecting them all at the same time? That would explain why the likes of Cannonbolt didn't change but when turned to Heatblast, he changed with him. Adding Heatblast's affinity to this realm makes him the one to be affected by it the fastest. So even if I didn't turn into him, he may still get the energy, and once I turned into him, the absorption rate accelerated greatly for him and by default the others as well. And if he just absorbs it the fastest compared to the other forms maybe if I stayed out of him, the speed would decrease or maybe even come to a near stop? But would that even matter now that all of them are fundamentally different? I thought Diamondhead's constructs were different, but now this would put his powers and all others to a whole new level of strong, for better or worse. That would be good enough for a good number of explanations to many questions, but I am not satisfied yet. And all of that while leaving the Omnitrix out of the whole situation. Once added to the equation, things would go to a whole other layer of complexity! Would it change only in hell or even out of it? And if so, how would that affect me? And how would that affect the others? Too many questions with zero answers, as of now at least. It is very likely that Grandma knows how to deal with the corruption and even cure it, but until then I need to be careful or else I would succumb to pure madness.”

For a few seconds, he thought on that and more, theorizing reasons and solutions and thinking of any situation that may have increased the rate of his changes and if he remembered something about dark magic. All that while the girls were lost after merely a few words due to how fast he was muttering, and they have super hearing.

Krampus, who was getting worried again, tried snapping him out of his bubble. “Mr. Ball? Mr. Ball?! MR. BALL!!”

She was the closest one to him and he was lost in his mind, so when she called him while shouting, he almost jumped out of his skin. “GAAAH! Krampus! You almost gave me a heart attack!”

The other girls found this funny, with Pandemonica enjoying his discomfort, but Krampus just looked apologetic. “I am sorry! It is just, you have been walking and talking weirdly, and when I was calling you, you did not respond.”

The young Galvan took a deep breath to calm his cold but feeling it becoming warm blood and looked at his hands. He saw his skin darkening, and his normally flat fingertips were getting pointier with him feeling his whiskers becoming sharper. As he took a deep breath, he looked at her with a strained smile. “I am quite flattered that you are worried, sweetie, but there is nothing for you to fear, for I am simply thinking about stuff, that, and I am just a little tired.”

He half expected her to whine, but he was surprised by a serious look that was out of place with her young face; otherwise, she would be pouting cutely.

Then she took him in her arms and put him above her head. He was taken aback by the action that he offered no resistance against her when she held him and placed him, raising an eyebrow as he questioned her. “.... Krampus? What are you doing?”

The little girl huffed and puffed her chest. “I am going to carry you, of course! You held me all this time even when you were not feeling okay, so I am going to do the same for you!”

The girl spoke with great pride and enthusiasm and was so sure of herself Ben was at a loss for words.

“.....pppfffttt”

Failing to stop a badly hidden laugh. The action deflated the girl, who looked at him in concern. “Why are you laughing? Did I say something wrong?” she asked in such a small voice and looked at him (read: tried) that Grey Matter had to bite down on his tongue to stop.

“I-It is nothing, Krampus; I am not laughing at you, but did you know that when I carry you, I am using big strong and fast guys, right? That makes me go big distances in a short time without danger! So if you were to hold me, then who is going to carry you, or are you going to walk a big distance on your own? If I remember, you were a little tired back on the bridge when we all walked.”

There was no malice in his voice when he spoke, just amusement, and Krampus thought for a short time before realizing that was true, resulting in her face turning red from embarrassment as she covered her face. Ben just chuckled softly as he patted her. “Awww, don't make that face; I am really thankful! But again, you don't need to worry about me! That is my job as the older one here!”

Pandemonica narrowed her eyes at the last part, feeling something was wrong about the wording, but did not comment.

Ben, however, forgot he was dealing with a kid, for in a true display of childish stubbornness, she doubled down, clenching her fists and stomping her leg on the ground with her face turned to one of rage, eyes completely white, face still red, and shouted: “I don't care! And I will do it anyway even if I have to go all the way to the living world alone!”

The little outburst made all of the adults look at her, yet she refused to back down.

Pandemonica was having a lot of fun, if her long horns were any indication, and even though she greatly enjoyed the discomfort of the squirming child and her frustration under the combined gazes, hers in particular, they wasted enough time as is and it was time to move. “It is okay, Krampus, you can carry him.”

That got her a wide smile from the girl and looks of clear misunderstanding of her words from the rest, especially the alien in question, who opened his mouth only for her to cut him off. “Just let her; there is no harm. Besides,” she kneeled in front of Krampus, who tilted her head at her in confusion, and softly patted her, then took her in her arms, making the girl squeal in surprise. “One of us will need to carry her, for she will tire anyway. And that someone is not you, as you need rest after your earlier performance.”

She got an even bigger and brighter smile from Krampus. And while her reasoning was valid, Grey Matter still wanted to butt in.

Only to back down after receiving a 'Say a word, I dare you' mom look from Pandemonica, making him sweat and look away while whistling.

“That’s everything; let's go.” Cerberus took off the second she finished, she herself taking after the guardian, with Modeus walking last, sulking to herself.

Suddenly the ground started shaking violently beneath them, barely holding themselves up. “WHAT'S GOING ON!?” “THIS IS NOT NORMAL!” “LOOK!”

Everyone looked back to where Cerberus was pointing, and most were in awe save for Pandemonica and Modeus.

Far on the horizon, where the battle happened, obelisks made of bones of massive sizes rose to the sky, the space around them glowing green with ancient enchantments carved on them. Pillars that were very familiar to the group.

The Barrier Protocol had been initiated.

The view was awe-inspiring to the youngest of the group even in the dark nature of the obelisks, and they watched in amazement until the process was complete.

“Wow, that was something alright.”

Looking up, he saw a very grim look on Pandemonica. “Monica?”

Without looking away, she answered immediately, “Two Barrier Protocol activations in one day; this spells bad news. Very, very bad news.”

Was all she said as she began walking, the black circles under her eyes that she was starting to lose returned full force as she carried the child.

No word was spoken.

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The group walked in total silence, not knowing how to break the ice without disturbing the tired demoness.

She turned down coffee when Grey Matter asked if she wanted any; that is how bad she felt.

Krampus, bless her essence, tried to help and lighten the mode, but afyer few tries she gave up just staied still. Felling tired she yawned a little! loud enough to get the attention of the others, that managed to release some of the tension from the older demon, who subsecuently started caring for the child.

Pandemonica is a sadist, not a monster, after all......kinda.

“Do you want to sleep, Krampus?” she asked, and all she got was a nod.

Modeus, feeling an opportunity to lessen the stress on the other demoness, walked up to her. “I, uh, can take her off of you if you want~?”

Pandemonica wanted to say its okay, but she knows her state of mind is not at its sharpest as of now, so she just smiled a little and nodded in agreement. “That would be phenomenal, thank you.”

Taking the kid, Modeus adjusted her to sleep with her head resting in the crook of her shoulder, but there was one issue.

Namely the gray alien, who she hugged, that would not be an issue was she able to hold onto him while being carried.

“Krampus, you must let me go. You can't sleep if you keep hugging me like this,” said the alien, imprisoned by the child.

“Mmmm, don't wanna,” she murmured back grumpily.

Modeus who wanted to get the shapeshifter's attention found this to be a chance and spoke to the child. “Krampus, if you hold him while you sleep, he might fall off and hurt himself. You don't want that, right~?”

The little demon grumbled more, but the previous events left her drained, making sleep's hold on her strong, and finally, she gave in, handing the gray alien to Modeus before dozing off.

Grey Matter sighed in relief and was about to thank her, but the gratitude did not last long as Modeus shoved him between her two big mounds.

Ben turned beet red and was unable to even think; his eyes dialed, and his body became stiff. The mix of his supreme brain and teen mind was a terrible one, making him imagine many things—everything that he should not think about in fine details. Was it not for the fabric that keeps her covered he would have had a gill bleed to the point of blood lose.

Modeus smiled in satisfaction, poking him slightly as she found the reaction cute. Not that he reacted.

Pandemonica saw the reaction, and she smiled widely at his dismay; her horns rose, and she chuckled darkly at him. Though not as much as she did previously.

Grey Matter began thinking of something, anything really, to get the felling out of his head. Then he noticed something, or rather someone, and a question he wanted to ask. “Hey, Cerberus!-” and all three of them snapped their necks to look at him in a single motion with enough force to kill anything else. “Yes!?” “What do you want!?” “I want to play!”

He chuckled at third's worda, and asked them in as calm of a voice as possible for him. “I forgot to ask you something important, but what are your names?” That got him raised eyebrows and confused tilted heads from the various women. Seeing that he elaborated further, “I always refer to you three as Cerberus as in a group or simply Cerb1/2/3, not knowing what your names are. So I want to know the names by which to call you.” He hoped that was a good enough explanation for them.

It was not.

The demon in question looked even more lost. “What do you mean? Our name IS Cerberus. That is what everyone calls us!” answered Cerb3.

It was Grey Matter's turn to be confused. “Wait, so you are telling me that you three don't have a name?”

The trio growled in frustration as they looked at him in annoyance. “We told you we have a name, and it is Cerberus!” this time all three shouted.

Ben was unsure how to think about what they said until he thought how “The way they talked is very familiar, like....” suddenly an image of one of his aliens, Ditto, popped in his head and that gave him an idea.

Looking at them again, he said, “Wait a second, when you said 'a name', do you mean, are you guys one being, by chance?”

All three bodies looked at him with anger. “YES!” a 'duh' look on their faces.

Pandemonica looked at him unimpressed. “You didn't know that?” He shook his head. “I thought it was obvious with a name like Cerberus, the triple demon. And the fact that Cerberus is always known as one single being.”

He thought for a second about that and nodded in agreement before simply shrugging sheepishly at her. “Well, to be fair, I neither knew of her title nor that Cerberus was a shared name, like a team group. Plus I thought they were a triplet of sisters.”

She stared at him for three more seconds before nodding. “Fair enough.”

Then he switched his attention to Cerberus, who was still sulking and looking away from him, thinking of a way to make it up to them. He came up with the perfect solution. “Cerberus!” They pretended to ignore him, but their ears twitched slightly in his direction. “ I asked you something, so it is only fair to return the favor. Is there anything you want to ask of me?”

That immediately got him wide smiles as they ran up to him and stared at Modeus' chest, his location.

He got red again. “YES!” “WE HAVE SO MUCH TO ASK YOU!” “I WANT TO PLAY MORE NOW!”

Grey Matter sweat-dropped while trying to calm her down before Krampus woke up.

From there, they would ask all kinds of things, from his favorite color and food to transformations and the powers of said forms.

Of course, he answered as best as he could without giving out too much info that might hint he is human.

The tension in the group lessened the longer the talk went on. “—and that’s why you never go swimming with Cannonbolt after eating!”

Pandemonica smiled in front of him while Cerberus began laughing at that, before catching something in the air that made her focus, running ahead of the group. Not that he paid any mind to that.

However, he heard a soft sad moan coming from above him. Looking there, he found a pouting Modeus.

Confused, he asked her what was wrong, to which she answered with, “You are so cruel!Paying attention to other women while you are between my breasts~.”

That reminded him of where he was as realization dawned on him. He smiled at his successful plan but turned red as he was before and coughed to hide his embarrassment at her straightforwardness. Taking a very shaky breath, he asked, “What, uh, what can I do to make it up to you, Modeus?”

Modeus pretended to think before she looked at him with her white heart eyes becoming brighter. “For starters, you can give me a taste of your Big Thick D-~”

Grey Matter did not hear the rest, suddenly feeling his skin dry, and his head turned red with a ringing in his ears. With sudden action, he tried to pull himself up without pushing too much on the soft flesh. That distracted Modeus momentarily as she moaned softly.

Out of his containment, he climbed to her shoulders; no way he could go down, only to be caught by the demoness. She lifted him until he was at the same eye level as her, and he saw her eyes begin turning pink, licking her lips. The message was clear.

Thinking fast before his hips shattered and became a man, he found a small loophole that might just be his ticket to safety, and jumped at it.

He kissed her,

On the cheek.

Modeus' eyes widened! She squealed in both surprise, shock, and embarrassment, her face burning red with even smoke rising from her head, while Krampus grumbled at the noise. Grey Matter would have felt bad, had he not been thrown at mock 2 speed by Modeus; had it not been for Cerberus catching him in her mouth mid-air, he would have been splashed against a wall and turned to stain oon it, and he did not want to know what fail-safe the Omnitrix still has activate to keep him safe.

Modeus tried to speak, but all that came out was a series of “W-W-W-W-W-~”

Ben got worried as he snapped his fingers in front of her. “Aaah, hello, hello to Modeus, can you hear me?”

Pandemonica looked at him, then at Modeus; an uncontained dark chuckle escaped her with a sadistic smile. “My my~, I did not think you had it in you, you pervert~. Look at what you did to the poor thing. You broke her~.”

Ben did not understand her in the least. “What do you mean? All I did was give a small kiss on the cheek!”

Pandemonica just chuckled even more. “Did you forget how lust demons react to romance? You have practically violated her in the eye of the lust ring, and if it were any other demon, you would have just gotten a very powerful slap. And that would have been preferable compared to what you will get.”

He gulped, then looked at Modeus again. The lustful demoness stopped stuttering and was looking at him with wide red eyes and white hearts; her face masked with shadows, and all that could be heard were deep pants.

Before he could think of escaping further, she dashed and snatched him from the guardian, hardened her grasp around him, choking him and almost crushing his bones, a finger pressing at his greymatter, and brought him near her face, opening her mouth—reasoning was gone from her, replaced with nothing but savage, primal lust.

Ben was scared and begged Pandemonica for help with his eyes, but all he got was an even wider smile; with no hope, in a small, scared voice, he said, “I need an adult,” and Pandemonica very cruelly replied, “I am an adult~.”

But thankfully for him, and as if hearing his plea before he lost his innocence, Cerberus came running, shouting in an extremely high voice, “““MASTER! MASTER! WE FOUND SOMETHING!!!”””

At mere 10 millimeters, Modeus stopped; her head looked at Cerberus, her first two words got her attention, and unintentionally, she released her grip on the Galvan, letting him fall on her blossoms.

He took advantage of this by climbing down her body, the feeling lost in his panic. Once down and after he walked a safe distance, he transformed.

“WILDVINE!”

Modeus stopped and blinked rapidly; her senses returned to her, and she saw her captive gone. Looking back, she found the green plant alien.

Was the green plant alien, as just like his other forms he changed, the vines that made his body thicker, the green was replaced with darker shades, thorns covering the outside of his forearms, shoulders surrounding his eyes and leg roots; the cannibal plant that surrounded his mouth got sharper, the spikes got bigger and longer with a few more on his back, the explosive seeds got bigger and darker with mouths now, and his eyes turning a tad bit red with a slit on those on his shoulders.

Modeus, now free of her lust-filled trance, pouted sadly at him. “You did it again. Are you trying to get away from me even though I have your child~? Do you dislike me that much?” She asked the last part with genuine sadness in her voice.

Ben paled at the poor choice of words; thankfully, Pandemonica was walking towards Cerberus, not paying attention to them.

Having an idea, he smirked at the demoness. “I would never abandon 'my child'. I am sorry that you got the wrong idea. So let me compensate you with another kiss~!”

It was a gamble on his part, one that thankfully paid off, as Modeus eeped and shielded Krampus away from him. “Y-You degenerate! How could you say that in front of your baby~!” said baby mumbled and then hugged said child.

Ben wanted to correct her again, but he knew it would not matter and so decided otherwise and chose to take the victory. “Alright, you lose!” He would have left it as is, but he could not as he acted like a jerk towards the demoness and saw the sadness. “Hay, ah, Modeus? Look I am sorry; it was not cool of me to do that to you.”

Modeus looked at him in surprise at his words; her ever-present blush changed from that of lust to embarrassment as she looked to her side. No one apologies to her. “I-It's okay. B-But you owe me one now!” Once she said that, her blush deepened. “Why did I say that?! These words exist only in humans' books of debauchery!!”

Wildvine raised half an eyebrow before smiling. “Sure thing! Anything you say!”

The glint in Modeus's eyes made him regret his wording. “*gulp* Ha ha, I am still in danger.”

“OOOOoooffffff!” Just then, the bodies of Cerberus crashed into him from behind, trampling the plant alien to the ground and sliding a good 10 yards while on top of him.

Though they were unbothered, for they talked at the same time, their words overlapping, making their speech incoherent to most, with the words 'master' being the only audible one.

“Cerberus, slow down! I can't understand you—STOP!” The guardian of the gates ceased her mad talking as she looked at him with bright red eyes and a wide smile, one where a child thinks they did a good job.

At least two bodies did as the third began licking him like a dog, “Master! Master! We found a scent!”

Wildvine, now standing after the successful conquest against the licking Cerberus by giving scratches behind the ears, looked at the other two expectant bodies. “What kind of smell?”

“Orange, berries, and vodka! There is only one girl with that kind of smell, and it is Malina! Oh, you will love her! She normally acts hard to get, but we are sure you will figure her out! And with your funny, tasty liquid thingies, you will win her heart right away, and she will be pouty in your hands, and then you can add her to your harem!!” said the three bodies in unison happily.

After the explanation, Ben just stared at their happy faces before taking a step back, shocked beyond belief, to say the least. “I am sorry, but adding her to my WHAT!?” His scream was met with shushing from Modeus.

Cerberus was not phased in the least. “Your harem!” “Where you collect others so you can indulge your deepest desires with their bodies, Master!” “How can you not know about such simple things?”

Wildvine's brain shut down; in his head, he saw Cerberus, Modeus, and Pandemonica huddled together, each in extremely inappropriate clothing, all either holding each other or extending their arms toward what can only be described as himself from his point of view over a king-sized bed with black, white, red, and green mattress.

He was like that for 10 seconds, staring with a face of utter disbelief before violently shaking his head and sweeping the air, then shot a wide panicked glare at the guardian. “What are you girls are even talking about!? I am NOT making a harem, nor am I collecting girls! And please stop calling me Master! That's disturbing!”

Yet again, Cerberus was unfazed; in fact, she looked proud. “Oh, our poor, poor Master, but believe it or not, it is!” “After all, you added us, Modeus, and even Pandemonica to your pack! That is impossible to do, as much as to even talk to them without them destroying you!” “Unless, of course, it is a harem, and they willingly wish to follow you! Plus, we call you Master because you are our Master,” “and we like you, Master!”

Ben looked at the big smiles of the trio in front of him, sighed in defeat, knowing when a battle is unsalvageable, so he just shook his head, giving each of them a rub.

He looked to the other members of the group, and he wished he did not.

Krampus was sleeping soundly, but Modeus and Pandemonica? They were eyeing him like a juicy piece of meat. The former with an evil smirk whike the later with great interest. “You know, now that I think about it, this sure does feel like a 'harem', so I wish you treat us well, darling~.” “Oh, all the potential orgies~! With all of these forms, they will be like nothing ever seen before in Hell~!”

He deleted both comments from his mind, carried the three bodies of Cerberus, each of his fingers extended to pat all three of them, using her like an emotional support pet for the truma he sure will have, and began walking away in the direction she provided without looking back, his face an even darker yet paler green, with Pandemonica and Modeus following soon after.

So they walked in silence, and after some time, he let the bodies down.

They reached a strange area, to say the least. It was like any other part he saw thus far—big red cub-like rocks, strange terrain, and surrounded by small rock formations. What was strange, however, was that there were trees around.

Well, trees is pushing it, as they looked like dead husks, black, and with a lot of pointy ends. Yet Wildvine could feel them to be alive.

A look at the area showed it to be a big mess, clearly after a battle. Rocks scattered around, holes everywhere, and lots of dead bodies. Sure, a small battle, but it still was devastating.

Then an idea popped into his head, and with a smirk, he slammed his talon hands in the ground, connecting him with the demonic plant life.

He then began manipulating their forms and started using them as extended enormous hands to carry and move the bodies and rocks aside to test his powers.

Unbeknownst to him, the girls were wary the whole time, going ahead of the alien. When they saw the soul-reaping trees move, Cerberus and Pandemonica became defensive while Modeus was terrified, hugging Krampus tighter, as none of them was capable of dealing with them.

Yet to their great confusion, none touched them! And looking around, they saw them cleaning the area instead. Confused, they looked back only to see Wildvine's hands on the ground and looking around as if he was controlling them.

They looked in awe at the display. When he was done, he turned them back to normal and pulled his arms back.

“““THAT WAS AMAZING!!!””” “GAAAAAHHHH!”

Suddenly, Cerberus teleported right in front of his face, point-blank, and screamed at the top of her lungs, and Ben lost some of his darker colors as he fell. “CERBERUS! *gasp* DON'T! *gasp* EVER! *gasp* DO THAT AGAIN!” he huffed between ragged breaths.

“Well, that was an interesting display, to say the least,” said Pandemonica above him; the amazed tone of her voice and a little sparkle in her eyes betrayed her uncaring behavior.

Regaining his breath, the young hero asked her, “What do you mean by that?”

“Controlling the soul-reaping trees,” answered Pandemonica. “They are plants native only here in Hell, of course. But just as the name suggests, they feed on the souls, spirits, and essence of anything that they touch. What you did is almost impossible, as they are uncontrollable, for they can break other kinds of energy such as mana and, especialy that exist here, the energy emanated from plant control and turn it to an essence to feed on. That is why we were taken back, as almost every attempt to control them ended up with the trees draining their victims and then their souls via the control link.”

Ben nodded slowly with his eyes wide open and slowly looked around him to see the seemingly innocent trees standing around, thinking how close he was to a stupid death.

“O-Okay, l-let's just go,” he said in a hurry as he stood and began walking; the rest of the girls followed him.

However, to his dismay, he began feeling new changes, a terrible one was the calling of the reaping trees, as he felt the need to reconnect with them again and the want to eat someone's soul.

Feeling terrible, he transformed to Upgrade, and his arm changed to the smoothie gun for an emergency smoothie.

Before he could even remember the cube, his head was smashed with an empty vodka bottle dead center in his eye and comically sticking out, followed by what he would come to describe as the grumpiest woman he had ever seen shouting, “Who the hell are you, you brain-dead idiot, and what are you doing here?!” marking the start of a great relationship.

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Malina likes to think of herself as a simple demon. She has few things that she likes, those being her alcohol and video games, especially the turn-based strategy games, most importantly Heroes 3, the most perfect and greatest game that was or will ever be made. Give her those, and you will get a very happy demoness.

Then there are the things that she dislikes, those being her annoying sister, interrupting her gaming sessions, her annoying sister, working more than she has to, her annoying sister, her almost meaningless tasks that she is forced to do for no end, and finally, her annoying sister.

Did she mention her annoying sister?

Anyway, as all can see, she is a very simple demon; even her appearance is normal.

She, like any other girl demon, has fair skin, red, somewhat baggy eyes (if almost always surrounded by black bags when annoyed), and the too common white hair among the female population, styled into a messy bob haircut that she likes. And to top it all off, a pair of short black horns emerge from her hair that are easy to mess with, and a forked tail from near her waist. The one thing that makes her different from others is the ever-present frown fixed on her face, the cause of her title's sake.

Her attire is a standard red button-up shirt with sleeves, hers folded just below her elbows, with a black buttoned sleeveless vest over it, and a black pencil skirt over a set of black pantyhose. An addition she made, however, was a set of three thin black bangles on her wrists.

All of that makes her an easy-to-please girl. So when she gets angry, it is almost always justifiable.

Such a moment is now.

She was doing her job like always and had just completed it, which was good as she wanted to return home to play her favorite games—nothing uncommon. What was, though, was just as she wiped sweat from her head with a rare, tired smile, a group of obnoxious idiots dropped down from nowhere and began trashing all of her hard work.

She stood there, dumbfounded, before almost bursting into unholy flames from rage as she screamed at them. But they did not get the memo, and then got the very smart idea of 'attacking' her.

Needless to say, she beat them with rage and bloodlust that would be fitting for a wrathful demon such as herself, and fed some of them to the trees. When she was done, she began inhaling deeply to subdue her anger.

Only to look at her place, or what was left of it, as it was a mess from the crashdown with far too many bodies, blood, and destroyed terrain to clean up in ten days or years.

So, with an emotionless face, she put her tools to the side, put a 'BRB' sign on them, and walked home.

Once sure the place was empty and her annoying sister was nowhere to be found, she went to her room. There, she opened the mouth of a demon head's statue, which is a (ثلاجة), and in there were various kinds of liqueurs and alcoholic drinks. She began taking some out and started mixing them.

When she made the desired drink, she went to her desk, removing her black tie and throwing it towards a nearby cabin as she sat.

Taking a sip from her drink, she started her somewhat moderen gaming PC and took out many TBS games and began playing one.

Only to switch it immediately out of boredom; that happened each time she played for a few minutes. “For fuck's sake, not this again!” she muttered.

In dismay, she began playing Heroes 3; it was good, as expected, but for a little while, 'til it too was dropped as she just sat.

She exhaled as she stared at the ceiling while resting her head back on the back the chair. “*sigh* This is happening more and more lately, damn it,” she cursed.

Her eyes fell on a certain icon in the menu, two people facing each other—“No, wait...oh no...NOT THESE THOUGHTS AGAIN!” she screamed, slamming her hands down as she stood.

But her eyes did not leave the icon. “.....GOD DAMMIT!!”

Sighing in defeat, she grumpily looked at the icon that was taunting her and just stared. “I'll need more alcohol... scratch that, a lot more alcohol.”

She walked out of her room and walked by a door. She opened it, then closed it fast. “Still out, huh?” she said in a rare voice, sadness covering her face, but she buried the feeling down fast and shook her head.

Once out of the house with a full stash of vodka, she made her way to her station, her mind occupied with the prior dilemma. “Where would I even find someone, anyone really, to play with me?” she thought aloud between sips. “It's not like we're getting internet any time soon, and the only one who knows the basics of Heroes 3 is my annoying sister, and there is no way I will ever be asking that bitch again!”

With an even sourer mood, she chugged the whole bottle in one big gulp, clenching her fist, almost breaking it as she reached her workplace. And just as she thought she could finish her tasks and be done with it, instead, she found the trees surrounding the area seemingly began to move on their own, picking up bodies and rocks alike. And she didn’t like what she was seeing one bit. “OH FOR GOD'S SAKE! IT IS A MESS AS IS! WHO IS DOING THIS!!!?”

Then she saw the trees putting the rocks in places neatly while the corpses were collected in big piles, and when the place was clean enough, in a rather shocking speed, the trees returned to normal as if nothing had happened.

Malina is not stupid; she knows this is not normal, as she has worked around the soul-reaping trees for a long time, so she knows something is up.

Noises ahead got her attention, followed by a bright flash of green light, which alerted her to the intruder's direction, as the place is not exactly a maze, though she loves them—with her favorite being Meno's, even if most of the Greek gods are jerks.

At least Hades is treating Medusa nicely. “Maybe I should visit them? It HAD been a while,”

Shaking her head of the thoughts while putting them aside for later, she cracked open a bottle and drank it all in one go. Just in time too, as she saw in the distance a strange black object with green-red lines akin to those of her dear electronics. “Oh, it better be into Heroes 3, or I swear he is as dead as an idiot that annoyed Lucifer.”

So she wiped her mouth with the back of her hand and, like any normal demon would do when annoyed, threw what she was holding at the first moving thing she saw.

It hit the circular shape on the being's head, which appeared to be its face, and she shouted, “Who the hell are you, you brain-dead idiot, and what are you doing here?”

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Ben felt no pain from the projectile, he both is a robot and took fare worse hits as a ten year old; but he sure as heck was annoyed.

After easily removing the bottle and reforming his eye, he saw his attacker.

Few words came to his mind immediately. “Well hot damn, this is one really grumpy girl!”

The girl just stared at him with a raised eyebrow, hands on her hips with one holding a vodka bottle, waiting for him to speak.

Just as Upgrade opened his (now existing) mouth to speak, Cerberus beat him to the punch, dashing toward the newcomer and jumped at her.

The demoness was startled when she saw Cerberus, uttering a single “Shit!” and began running for her life.

The corrupted galvanic mechamorhp just stood there watching the scene.

“Don't worry about it, Cerberus is quite fond of Malina and every time she sees her, she would jump to 'greet' her. That includes a lot of clinging, something Malina does not like very much.” She looked at him with a predatory smile and said, “But perhaps you can change that, Mr. Casanova~? What do you say? Recruiting her as an additional harem member~?”

She laughed both evilly abd softly somehow. His circuits heated up at hearing those words, and if he was still green, he would have changed colors by now to his current one by now.

“Let's get Cerberus before she hurts someone.” he said calmly, but the unease was not hard to trace, if the widened smile of the sadistic demoness was anything to go by.

Pandemonica said nothing to his words, letting him stew in his emotions, but he could feel her eyes on him, his detectors working very well. As for Modeus, she was just looking around; ever since Cerberus's weird comment, she began behaving strangely.

He would never think that he basically violated her in her eyes.

Putting a point to see what's bothering her later when he is free and has some alone time, so he focused on the task at his robotic hand for now.

Thankfully, locating Cerberus was not a hurdle as he had never heard of subtlety as she cornered Malina to a wall, advancing slowly like a predator to its prey with high voices.

Then at once they jumped at her. Malina eeked and closed her eyes, preparing for the inevitable assault of hugs.

But it never came, and when she opened her eyes, she saw the strange being stretching his arm, stopping the three-that-are-one in their tracks, then pulled them to himself.

No, she was not shocked that Cerberus began acting like a human pet as he held them.

“Cerberus, why don't you go and run around? I will call you when we are going, okay?”

“OKAY!” came the combined response, and gone they were in a second.

It was then that he noticed the still wide-eyed girl.

Awkwardly, he waved his hand. “Uuuhh, Hey?..... Nice weather?”

The girl just eyed him, then snorted at him as she smiled with mirth. “Seriously? Asking about the weather? What is this? Some crappy dating sim?”

Upgrade laughed at the joke. “HaHa yeah, not my smartest line ever. But hey! You can never go wrong with asking about the weather!”

Malina laughed as she extended her hand. “By the way, I'm sure you already know this, but the name is Malina. And uh, sorry about the bottle earlier.”

Ben shook her hand in his. “Naaah, don't mention it; had much worse. As for my name, you can call me Upgrade, for now.”

Ending the shake, she raised her eyebrow at him. “For now? What? Do you have more names? Like forms you can turn to?” she laughed.

She said that as a joke, and was not expecting hitting the bullseye. “11 more, to be exact, for now at least.” ben said the last part barly above a wisper, not that the girl carred.

Her eyes widened. “No way, you must be pulling my leg now!”

With a sly smirk, he touched the Omnitrix and transformed to his crystallized form.

“As a matter of fact, yes way.”

Her eyes hurt from the light, but not as much as the wide smirk that formed on her face as she heard the deep voice with the glass like sound. “Well, I am already damned, but damn this is cool.”

He smirked, and behind him came Pandemonica and Modeus. “Hello, Malina.” “Hi~.”

The girl looked at them weirdly, then at the crystal demon. “Hey. But, uh. Why are the Secretary of the Queen and the lustful with you?”

He just shrugged. “Long story, but the short version is: weird portals, weird demons, beat them, help girls, repeat 2, 3, and 4, and get to the castle. Which reminds me, we should be-”

Before he could say a thing, Pandemonica shoved him to the side, with enough force to leave a crater in his shape upon hitting a wall. “Hey! That doesn't hurt, but someone may get hit!”

“Actually, Malina, we request resting at your place, the way ahead is still long and we are worn out from the long journey and extended battles.”

Said demon looked hesitantly at her superior, but when she saw the strange thing getting out of the wall without as much as a scratch, she thought, “Pandemonica didn't order me to do it, so she is either in a good mood or wants to play nice. I could refuse with the chance of it biting my ass later. But on the other hand, he may want to play, and the chance of this happening again is basically zero.”

“Fine, but if anything breaks, you will be fixing it!”

The tired demoness nodded. “Fair enough,” and walked ahead of them, followed by Modeus, not before looking back at Malina then at the male of the group, which made her blush go harder.

Malina looked at Diamondhead in question; said boy shrugged as he turned back to Upgrade and changed his hand to a megaphone. “You may want to cover your ears. And take a step back, or ten, just for good measure.”

She already did, and without a word, the megaphone came to life. “CERBERUS! COME HERE, GIRL!”

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Just as the count hat 5 he trio came crashing into him, turning him into a puddle. “Yes, Master!?” “Did You Seduce Her!?” “I Want Head Pats!”

He formed his head first, then lifted up, his body taking shape as he looked at each body in order. “Girls, we are moving. No, I neither did nor will. Sure.”

He began scratching Cerb 3's head, making her and her rest woofing in appreciation.

He gestured at Malina to lead, him following suit.

Cerberus, being Cerberus, had to break the little silence that had begun to emerge. “Soooooooo, Master, did you add her to your harem?”

He malfunctioned, with an electric charge going around his body.

A second later, he rebooted (again) as he looked at her expecting faces. He was actually getting pretty annoied with her for this. “Cerb, I said it once and I will say it again:” Malina normally would not care about others' business, but now she was curious, “I am not doing a harem; I am not going around collecting girls to screw with. The only reason why you girls follow is either helping each other reach the castle or wanting to go alongside us.”

Yet Cerberus was not convinced. “Why not!? Think of all of the fun we can have! Just look at us.”

She then did something inappropriate with herself that he had to blur it out.

He thought to himself on what to say, then spoke, “Tell me, Cerberus, which one would you choose: Me giving you as many pats and scratches as you want, or me going to you whenever I want to do something to you only?”

The guardian of the gate looked confused more than anything else. “The first one, of course!” “Duh!” “That was never a question!”

“Then why are you focused on this harem thing? In a harem, I would only do 'nice' things to you as a reward in exchange for you pretty much selling yourself.”

Cerberus seems to finally grasp the concept of her suggestion as she looked down, slowing down ever so slightly, the bodies on the sides whimpering. “But....”

They stopped in their tracks, making Upgrade do the same. “Cerberus?”

They looked at him the same way if he kicked a puppy. “Because you would get bored with us.” Ben... He just stared.

“... Pardon?”

“We don't want you to feel..... Forget it.”

“Cerbe, me feeling what?” They didn't want to answer, but it was clear he wanted an answer, so an answer they would give. “You would feel,” “annoyed with us,” “as with other girls around” “you are going to spend less time with us, and in the end, you would be fed up with us and then.....”

She looked down, ears flat on top of her head, and did not finish; neither did she need to as the meaning was clear, “I would throw them away.”

Ben released a sound akin to a sigh as he bent lower to be at her eyes level (thanks to the increased size of the corrupted forms) and put his hand on her (Cerb 1) shoulder, forcing her to look at him. “Cerberus, look at me.” she did “I am not going to forget about you simply 'cause others are tagging along; heck, you are the only one I brought with me. Krampus was attacked, and I saved her and now I am bringing her to her aunt-mom. Same with Pandemonica, but I will get her to the castle, and Modeus is following along for, well, Modeus stuff. So in other words, no, I am not going to replace you or get rid of you. Never.”

Her ears straightened as she looked at him hopefully with bright eyes. “Do you really mean it?”

He stood up, divided his arm into 3, and patted all three of them at once. “I promise you this as long as I am here in Hell. Even if a promise here means nothing, I will keep my word. After all, there is no reason to doubt me, right? So why don't you drop those masyer and harem gunk and simply call me by name....whichever one that was.”

She jumped at him, showering him with kisses, licks, and head rubs like an overjoyed puppy.

He saw that coming from ten miles away.

After they made sure their gratitude was very clear, they jumped off of him and ran around in joy with even more energy than before.

He stood over them with a happy eye smile on his face.

“That was corny as fuck, but it was nice.”

“GHHAAAAAAHHH!!!”

If he was not a Machine, Ben would have had a heart attack. He looked to his side and was glaring at Malina, almost firing a laser beam made of evil-eye energy. Said demoness just smirked, “What's the matter? Already forgetting about 'lil ol' me?”

“Insert eye rolling with killing intent.”

She snorted and followed after him. “Yeah, yeah, Mr. Scaredy Cat. But I really mean it.”

With a raised half eyebrow, he asked, “Mean what?”

“What you said to Cerberus, I mean, that was one of the nicest things I have ever heard.”

He just shrugged. “It really was nothing; I just did what everyone with half a heart would do. I have seen truly heartless beings.”

Malina gave him a very nasty glare. “I will stop you right there; you just sound like those humans that downplay anything they do. The only reason I know you are not one is how retarded humans are! They could never make something to turn you into different forms with their ape brains that are located in their nether regions. So shut up and take a compliment for hell's sake.” She did not see him flinch away.

“S-Still, why though? It is not like she is hated or anything........... She is, isn't she?”

“Mhmm, you have no idea. Most would just come to her if they wanted something, then ditch her the second they know they are safe, ordered around by those stronger higher ranked than her, or being treated like a dog by the likes of the Queen, in other words she is too used to being treated like a lesser being than others, more so with her almost nit having horns. You saw how affectionate she gote with you, apparent with how fast she came to like you, that does not happen however. I will take a shot in the dark and say you are very new here. The first she ever came to like, like really like (as a friend) is Modeus, and she could not breathe the same air as her for 4 centuries before opening up to her.”

Guilt ate at the hero from the inside; he would like to explain his situation. He hates to keep secrets from those close to him, but did not. Instead, he quieted the traitorous voices in his head. “Oh, is that so.” “Mhm. Oh, and by the way, we are there.”

He looked ahead and saw a normal house, kind of? It was made of red stones and was full of skulls from top to bottom, but otherwise, it looked normal; the other girls were just reaching it. “..... Whoever reaches it last is spoiled eggs!”

“Oh, come on!”

When reunited with the girls, Malina opened the door while Upgrade lectured Cerberus on what to do. “DON'T run, DON'T break things, DON'T run, and DON'T run, okay?”

“But-” “Well, only good girls get head pets, and good girls listen, so if you are not good-”

“Okay!” “We won't run!” “We are good!”

Three pats later and they entered the room; what he saw from the outside could be called the same from the inside.

“Just let me fetch something from my room and you can sleep there.”

A few moments later, she exited the room with, a computer? Then Pandemonica, Modeus, and Cerberus entered it. Upgrade would have gone there too, but Malina clenched his arm and pulled him; they looked down at the idea of no cuddles, but a promise to carry them later solved it.

“I hope you like Heroes 3; otherwise, you are in a whole world of pain.”

“Heroes 3? Isn't that like a very old game?”

She stopped in her tracks, her face turned red, and looked at him. “Shut up! You have no idea what you are talking about! What are you!? Human game expert!?”

He realized he was on the edge of getting exposed, so he tried to fix this. “No, but, uh, you see, you know about aliens, right?” “Yeah? Kinda hard not to when most sci-fi BS is about aliens or space.”

“Soooo, it turned out aliens are real and I am one, and Earth is a planet that invites many other species due to its unique weather that can house almost all races, those are called hotpot planets, and belive they are few of those, and its inhabitants' low IQ; they get annoying very fast and boring very quickly.” He did not feel bad when he said this to his own kin, what with humans and killing each other.

Malina snorted at his jab. “You and me both!..... But if so, what good games are there? I can't exactly be up-to-date with games down here,”

He rubbed his chin and got an idea. “Sadly I don't have games with me so I can't help with that, but what I can do however is this:”

He extended his hands toward the small laptop and merged partly with it. “HEY! What do you think you are-!” Her words died down as she saw her PC.

It turned from one that is a new model that can support her games to one that can only be described as futuristic, with red lines going around it with the same patren as Upgrade's, spawning decorated horns, a speaker, headphones, and two consoles.

She looked at it then at him in astonishment, mouth opening and closing like a fish in hell. “Go on, try it.”

She did, and she almost cried from the blinding high quality and brightness. “Wuh-!”

“As you can see, I named this form 'Upgrade' because he can turn anything remotely technological into the most advanced form possible. A kitchen knife? Boom, it is a laser sword. A light gun toy? Boom, now it is a plasma cannon. What I did to your laptop is advance its insides, giving it a powerful Artificial Intelligence, or A.I. for short, that can make any game better by developing its assets, graphics, and creating new content whenever you want based on your taste and preference, all with great quality.”

She did not believe him, and with a glare, she took the controllers in rage. “If you lie to me, I will fucking kill you.” and opened her favorite game.

Malina has very high standards for what she can call a goid game, let alone a great, and she was more than enchanted by what she saw. She already thought the old game was beyond perfect, but now? It felt like she was playing with a shitty rip-off!.

Her eyes widened from her scrolling through the new things done to the old stuff, models redesign, characters background and stories expansions, upgraded lore. Everything from the game's graphics, the art, and music was beyond her wildest and wettest dreams.

And when she began playing? She found her progress, which reached 100% for a long time, was now at a mere 10%.

Her face flushed as she loosened her collar, she eyed the 'Alien' beside her, not knowing whether she should bed him or play. In the end, she could not stop herself and pressed 'start'.

~!GLORIOUS SUCCESS!~

Her already red face went crimson, looking at Upgrade like he was the best thing to ever happen to her, then looked at the field in front of her, not daring to touch a thing from amazement.

Ben laughed at her reaction, finding her nervousness in contrast to her sour expressions earlier rather cute. “You can play, you know? I am pretty tired, so I need to sleep. I do want to play, but for now, I believe there is more for you to try than to play together.”

She nodded slowly and began playing; a few moments later, she almost forgot he was even near her. Almost, as she stole glances from time to time.

Ben, for his part, just sat there waiting for sleep to come over; he can shut his systems, but that never felt good after a time.

Suddenly, someone grabbed at his lower half and pulled at it. That jerked him out of his stupor; looking down, he saw the little demoness yawning and rubbing her eyes, looking up at him, “Krampus, what are you doing up? I thought you were asleep.”

She raised her arms, and Ben complied, picking her up. “Just woke up in a room, heard you, so I came.”

It was clear she still wanted to sleep, so with a soft smile, he laid her on her lap while rubbing her head; his sides covered her like a blanket, both light and at a good temperature, and stroked her head.

This action, with the addition of Malina's playing in the background, created a peaceful atmosphere for the boy, and before long, Ben was asleep.

Neither of the two noticed the strange item in Krampus's pocket.

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Chapter 7: Of Fish and Smoking

Living/Overworld

Enraged would be the understatement of the century to describe how Kevin Ethan Levin is feeling.

When he woke up that morning, he had high expectations for the day, and everything was looking up as his buddies Max, Rook, and Rex were helping him build their dream team car.

No powers. No super intelligence. No nothing—just plain old hard work and their own understanding of cars. They’re not the best, but they’re fine with that as long as they do it.

Things began falling apart, however, when their team signal went off. Whenever that happened, it always meant very bad news. From there on, he knew it would only get worse.

That became clear after he and the others received the news of Ben's disappearance, prompting him and Rex to patrol the city in case anything happened.

Currently, he is riding in the back of Rex's Rex ride, glaring at everything and nothing, both wearing helmets of their personal symbol.

“Come on dude, nothing will happen if you keep glaring, you know?” asked the Mexican kid. The older teen huffed at him.

“Yeah, well, I got my day ruined by Tennyson for the 11,000th time, so I can brood as much as I want and no one can stop me!” he declared, folding his arms in defiance.

Rex rolled his eyes at his friend. “Come on now buddy, this is getting ridiculous—”

Suddenly, their comms went off. The image of Cooper appeared, and he was panicking.

“Everyone, we have a big situation! Unknown entities have appeared in our location and they are attacking! Patrols reported other such cases all around the city! The—GAAHHHH!”

An explosion went off nearby, throwing the 12-year-old off his device and shutting it.

Panic sat on the shoulders of the two older heroes. “Cooper!? COOPER! Goddammit!” cursed Kevin, his mode shifting into overdrive.

“I’ll try to re-establish a connection to him again!” shouted Rex, his device’s screen glowing.

It took seconds before their friend reappeared. “Cooper, what happened?!”

“A fight is what happened! A bomb detonated not far from my place—but that’s not important! To your north and west are two areas under attack, but we couldn’t reach them! You must go there now—I sent you the locations! I called back Max & Steel with reinforcements and we’re holding here for now, but I don’t know for how long! Lethal force must be used! I repeat—lethal force must be used!”

The duo’s eyes widened, knowing full well what that meant.

Kill or be killed.

“Roger that! We’ll be there ASAP. Over and out.”

Looking at the digital map, the closest location was the western area, about 7 miles away.

“Rex, drop me here—I can take it!”

“Already on it!” Rex leaned over and pulled the handles of his build. The vehicle became sleeker and more engines appeared. They sped up immediately. Once they reached the destination, Kevin said goodbye to his friend and jumped.

Coating himself in Tidonite, he watched the creatures Cooper had warned them about.

And they were disgustingly ugly, and he hates using that word for he knows ugly all too well.

He slammed down on one that leaped to attack a petrified policeman, turning it into a torn mess. He would’ve been horrified by what he did, but just like Ben, he and the others had to learn to kill from an early time when they started heroing. Then there was his time in the Null Void.

“What are you waiting for!? Go!” The man didn’t waste a second as he stood and began running, all the while Kevin eyed the now-standing demons (that’s the closest thing he could describe them as, other than ugly monsters). They looked down at him, sizing him up to see if he was a prey or a threat.

He cracked his knuckles and smirked. “Okay guys, let me lay it out on ya: I am pissed and angry, I have no energy to deal with you lot. So if you don’t scram right this second, I will turn you into smoothie and red stains on the walls. But if you crawl back to whatever rock you live under, you just might survive. Your choice.”

They howled and charged at him, weapons raised and blasts fired from weapons. The teen, for his part, just shrugged. “Your funeral then,” he said, turning his arms into morningstars.

The first monster was met with a spiked wrecking ball to the face, destroying it and launching it into its kind, who didn’t care in the least. Another came at his side—this time hitting him in the chest—but it didn’t do much damage.

Kevin’s eyes narrowed at that, and immediately he turned his other arm into a blade, slicing the head off the demon.

“You guys didn’t come cheap, I see. Not many things are strong enough to resist my Tidonite. This is gonna be fun.” And with that, he charged at them, a crazed smirk on his face.

Back with Rex, the nanite host looked down in sadness at the city of Bellwood. It was in chaos—armored entities appearing out of red and black portals all around, in small manageable numbers for now—but for how long, he didn’t know, yet destroying everything in their patg.

Had it not been for the patrolling Plumber units, due to the emergency protocol following Ben's disappearance, the situation would’ve been impossible to control, with casualties would be rising to devastating levels.

Citizens were running from the advancing monsters everywhere, while Plumbers, military, and even the police were holding off hordes of human-like monsters that looked and acted like zombies.

They had already dealt with two zombie apocalypses. There is no need for a third.

Thanks to his speed, Rex was upon the coordinates. Ready to fight, he replaced his build with boogie pack and 2 B.F.S. and dove like a falcon.

Down on the streets, a woman held a newborn and a little girl in her arms as they ran. The two kids were crying as the toddler held her mother. In her panic, the mother didn’t notice a piece of debris in her path, causing her to fall.

In tears, the mother shielded her children, accepting her demise as demons reached them.

FWOOSH “HAAAAAAAH!”

Only for Rex to swoop in, slicing off the arm of the demonic being with his sword.

He made a quick U-turn and impaled it. Before he could relax, another roar—this time from a pig/T-Rex-like monster—got his attention as it charged him. In a swift move, he changed to Slam Cannon and fired a rock projectile.

It hit the thing, but in its place five more came.

“Try to get away!” was all the young hero said as he changed to smack hands. He spiked them and took a defensive stance.

He noticed a man dashing to the woman, scooping her and the kids in his arms then making a run for it, he smiled as punched an incoming monster. “This is gonna suck for you guys.” and charged at them.

With Zak and Danny, the situation was quite bad.

“HAAAAAH!” Using his ecto-energy blasts, the ghost hero tried to put an end to their numbers—but to no avail. The portal was expanding by the second, spawning more and more demons of different kinds. Humanoids, elementals, floating blobs of flesh—to name a few.

Zak had the worst of it, working to put down the weaker monsters. Those beings were too mindless for him to control—he never thought that was possible. All that existed in their heads was kill. Just that—kill.

So, only using his martial arts skills, he, Lucy, and his adopted siblings were protecting Cooper and/or helping civili, who was working overtime as the team's computer man.

While Gwen and Verdona were trying to close the portals—but with one too tired and inexperienced, and the other too weak—the task was next to impossible. At least they managed to slow its growth.

As for Ben’s pets?

“ROOOOOAAAAAAAARRRRR!!”

In her Crabdozer form, Zed was aiming for the biggest monsters, while Ship was in jet form, shooting either ground or air units.

“We need reinforcement and getting evacuations started! I can’t use my Ghost Scream in this area!”

“I’m trying, Dan! But the whole city is in shambles! There are too few forces, and units from N-Tech and Providence aren’t due for another 13 minutes!”

“That’s 13 too long! Unless we group them up, we’re just stalling—and that won’t work unless we want to blow people up!”

Typing at double speed, Cooper sent as many commands, requests, and calls as he possibly could. And then—he got a ping. He immediately called all if his teammates.

“GUYS! HOLD ON FOR 4 MINUTES! A PLUMBER SHIP IS COMING!”

This being the best news they could get, the heroes supercharged their attacks.

Kevin used his Antitrix and began turning into battle-based mutated forms of Ben’s aliens—a dangerous but necessary move.

Rex held his line long enough for the Plumbers to cover him as he dove into the core of the horde.

Danny unleashed the full might of his ecto-energy, releasing his ghost screams in small but powerful blasts while evadung buildings to the best of his abilities.

Zak, for his part, began using his powers not on the demons—but on the civilians trapped. And like a single entity connected by a hive mind, they exited through the safest routes possible.

Finally, Cooper, who was commanding his friends and allies to the places that needed the most intervention.

Their current objective: Hold and survive.

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In Hell

Ben was enjoying a dreamless sleep when he felt something wrong. He tried to ignore it, but the more he fought it, the stronger it became to the point of waking up. “This feeling... something bad is happening, and whatever it is, it's big.”

He shook his head as he lifted it. “I gotta leave. My friends must be struggling without me,” he sighed, then his attention went to the cursing that broke through his thoughts.

Wildmutt—who he had transformed into when Cerberus wanted to sleep with him—opened and closed his gills, using them to 'see'. He sensed the sour demoness' frustration.

“A level you are stuck at?” asked the Vulpimancer with words the others understood, either from the spell Pandemonica cast on him or due to the changes he underwent he does not know.

Wildmutt, like the other aliens, mutated. He became twice his normal size, spines growing from his head to the tail that had emerged. Two back-fin-like spikes appeared on his shoulders and hind legs. His colors were more reddish with stripes like that of a tiger, akin to those from the adults of said species. With sharper claws and fangs—two tusk-like canines and three lines going up from his lower jaw: two from the corners of his mouth, making him look like a crocodile, and the third from the center of his lower jaw extending to the end of his neck.

The most notable change, however, was his head. He had double the number of gill slits, the ability to ‘see’ energy, and his hearing hairs had become longer and pointier, granting him and even greater degree of enhanced hearing His lower jaw was bigger than the upper one, making them have a 2:1 ratio.

But most importantly, his lower jaw could open apart like Blitzwolfer’s mouth, extending deeper into his neck through the new lines.

Malina glared at the screen as she drowned another bottle of alcohol. “No, but these new systems are going to be the death of me! How the hell am I supposed to play if EVERYTHING is against me!? Lower stats based on hunger and sleep!? Cooperation levels based on relationships and time spent in battle?! Those are bad enough—but then the bosses remember my moves and strategize if I retreat or redo the whole campaign!? What the heck!!?”

The nightmarish beast looked sheepishly at her.

If it were someone else, they might have thought he was threatening their very soul. “Well, what can I say? I'm good at what I do. Besides, you can just optimize the settings and difficulty if you want. You know—the thing you cranked up to 10.”

The game-obsessed demon glared at him. “No fucking way! I’ve played the same games over 66 times each! I mastered every trick in all of them, and their hardest levels are cakewalks to me. But I got bored. So I'm not gonna half-ass it now that there's actual skill involved and not just mindless grinding! That doesn’t mean you didn’t overdo it!”

The beast just shrugged. “Sorry not sorry, but you do you, I suppose. But please try to keep it down don’t curse every 6 seconds and shout after 10. Unless you want Cerberus bugging you for a turn. ”

The girl huffed but complied. With that done, he rested his hands on his front legs, deep in thought.

That turned out to be impossible when he sensed an approaching presence and faced it.

Pandemonica yawned tiredly as she sat in the space at the other end of the sofa. “Good... whatever time it is Monica. Did you sleep well?” he asked, lifting his head to face her.

“Not as well as I would’ve liked, but it wasn’t too bad. Better than nothing, at least. Though I would’ve liked to cuddle with you more~,” she smiled, a small grin on her face that barly hid the black bags.

If he had eyes, Ben would have rolled them. “Geez, glad to see you ladies like to use me as a pillow,” he growled.

Malina perked up and paused her game. “You guys slept together? When did that happen?”

“Just after meeting Modeus. Mr. Alien here—yes, I heard you, you’re not as quiet as you think— (he became a little paler) had just arrived down here, so we took a little detour and, well, he turned out to be the perfect body pillow.”

He shook then rolled his head. “Please, that was Cannonbolt. His insides are soft due to his rolling powers, and I wanted lil' Krampus to sleep. In case you didn’t notice, my other forms aren’t sleep-appropriate—and you were the one who climbed on me.”

She smirked an evil smile. “But I’m sure you enjoyed being sandwiched between me and Modeus~.”

“Not really. I was too tired to notice it,” came his immediate response. Malina unpaused her game as she snickered. The tired demon scoffed at him, only to wince from a wave of pain.

‘Seeing’ this, the demonic alien grew worried. “What’s the matter, Monica? Are you hurt?”

She removed her glasses and rubbed her eyes. “Nothing to worry about. It happens from time to time.”

The boy frowned, then got an idea.

He changed into Upgrade, gently removing the Cerberus atop him and Krampus that is between his arms as he sat up. She with Cerberus and her other bodies were annoyed, but making them hug eachother and a few pats solved it.

Pandemonica grimaced at the pain but raised her hand to stop the alien, knowing what he is planing. “I appreciate it, but I don’t require coffee at the moment.”

The hero shook his head as his arm reached for the living bag, which immediately spat out the storage cube. A quick “thank you,” and he faced her. “It’s not coffee. It’s something for the headache.”

While Malina watched in surprise, he changed his arm to a gun. Pandemonica was confused. “What is this for?”

He didn’t reply—he placed the cube inside and fired.

Like the two others, this one was like a futuristic grenade launcher, but the front was modified to be cup-sized that is closed.

The hatch opened, and a steaming cup emerged.

He picked it up and presented it to her. “This is a special mint tea that a friend of mine sells. It’s pretty popular for soothing headaches and relieving stress. Go on, try it.”

She took the cup and inspected it. She knew what tea was but never bothered with it. She looked at him, and he gave her two thumbs up, the cube setting on his lap. Sighing, she took a sip.

And her head tightened. Had she not been careful, she might have crushed her cup. But by the second sip, the tension lessened, and by the fourth, she was feeling better. “I must say... this is one of the best things I’ve ever tasted. I already feel myself getting better. Thank you.” She drank a little more, and a pleased moan escaped her.

He just smiled. “Oh, it’s nothin—Hey!” he shouted, seeing Malina snatch the cube and examine it. “What is this thing?”

He grumbled and crossed his arms. “You could’ve asked, you know. But to put it simply, it’s a storage unit used to keep food and other necessities and items in good condition over long and varied periods.”

Malina’s eyes widened. “In other words, your very own inventory. Neat.” She tossed him the device, and he caught it with a grumble. “If that bitch saw it, you better believe she’d take it. So a piece of advice—don’t show it to her. I’d rather she DOESN’T meet you. But knowing her, she’ll find you anyway. She has a thing for ruining what I have, after all.”

He tilted his head. “Who are you talking about?”

She sighed, cracking open a vodka bottle and downing it in one go. “My bitch of a sister, Zdrada. She’s a disgusting, disappointing, annoying, hateful slut who only does what she wants, disregards everything and everyone, and cares for no one but herself. What do you get from living with such a thing—being related to her, no less? Becoming her favorite torment victim! That’s what! She spares no expense in annoying, humiliating, and making life a chore for me—as if I don’t already have it bad enough!” Her face turned dark red at the end of her rant.

Upgrade whistled at that. “Sheesh, that’s one nasty list to have for someone. But from your words, it’s safe to say she’d be trouble.”

“That’s the nicest thing that could ever be said about her—to put it mildly.”

He looked to the side unsure “Well, damn.”

The room fell silent. No one knew how to break the awkward atmosphere (or, in Pandemonica’s case, didn’t want to).

Malina scratched her head as she eyed her game, then looked at the alien. “Soo, you up for a game? You still owe me one, you know.”

He didn’t, and they both knew it—but he also needed to leave. “I appreciate the offer, but we really need to get going,” he said with a frown.

“Oh,” Malina muttered, looking down at the controller in her hands. “Right, they’re just crashing for a little rest, and then they’ll be gone. And he did more for me than I asked for. But... what is this feeling, and why am I disappointed?”

Pandemonica eyed her fellow demon. It took her a second before she figured out what was bothering her. “You can have a round with her, you know. I don’t know what’s got you this worried, nor can I help you much other than to guide you to the castle, something you are of no need to may I add. But what I can tell you is that time here and in other realms differs. Some go faster, some slower. And if you’re talking about the Overworld, then time here moves roughly 20 times faster.”

The circle on his face increased in size a little, and the red light from it brightened. “That means…”

“Not much time has passed, yes. However, that doesn’t mean we should waste too much. This is only an exception. There’s a chance of you going mad due to the unknown nature of your corrupted forms. You may not require as much willpower as before, but we don’t know how long that’ll hold. Being safe is better than being sorry, after all.” He nodded, but wasn’t fully convinced.

Just then, Modeus made her presence known by hugging the living machine from behind, pushing her head into his... personalities. “Everyone woke up except me, and no one wanted to call me—not even you~,” she pouted.

The action snapped the hero out of his worried state. “H-Hey Modeus, how was your sleep?” he asked, his electrical lines dimming.

“Other than you constantly slipping away, it was fine, I suppose~,” she peered at him through narrowed eyes.

If he could sweat, he would’ve been soaked. His optic darted between the other two, silently begging for help—only to find Pandemonica sipping her tea with her horns slightly longer and her smile even more pleased than usual, while Malina frowned to herself while looking for a game to share.

With no escape, he met Modeus’ gaze, wincing at her eyes, which glowed brighter than normal. “Is there, uh, something I can help you with then? I’m not that busy now.” He shot Malina a pleading look. The demoness just rolled her eyes and kept searching.

“Well, for a start, we can go to the bedroom, and you can show me your big Hard—” she began panting, steam rising from her mouth.

The hero ducked his head and gulped not ready to face his fate, but was saved by the sour demon. “Oh, HELL no you will! There are only three bedrooms, and I am NOT letting you use any of them!”

Modeus faced her “Then we can do it in the kitchen!”

“No!”

“The bathroom?”

“Absolutely not!”

“The storage room?”

“I keep my vodka there, and I don’t need to smell your juices all over them!”

Modeus slamed her hands on tje table. “Then the attic? Surely you don’t need that!?”

“No, but that’s Zdrada’s favorite place—which is worse than all of the others combined! And please stop trying to sleep with the guy in my house, so give it up already!”

The demoness crossed her arms and pouted. “Oh, come on! This is unfair! You two keep him around you and his attention is always on Krampus and Cerberus! And whenever I talk to him, he looks away!” she pointed at him and he was looking at a very interesting spot on the opposite wall of het

Upgrade’s body shrank into a bundle at this, his eye becoming a dot and his mouth a straight line as she forced him to face her. His processor overheated. Monica was having the time of her life.

Malina thought about what her friend said. She knew the nature of those who dwelled in the Second Circle—especially Modeus, who was always lustful even compared to the resy of the lust demons, but also the most backwardy. “You know, he can do to you what that guy did in that one game we played a while ago right?”

Modeus frowned in thought. “Which one was that?”

“You know, that degenerate game.”

Modeus’ face burned, turning a red deeper than the circle of hearts surrendering her head as the span. She jumped away from Upgrade as if he were made of Hell’s hottest flames. “EEEEEEE! YOU DEGENERATE! HOW COULD YOU SUGGEST THAT!? YOU JUST MET HIM, AND HE’S ALREADY A PERVERT!!”

The girl covered her face in shame and embarrassment.

Meanwhile, Malina rubbed her ears at the outburst. “Sheesh! What the hell was that!? She’s not usually like this!”

Pandemonica, who had cast a silencing spell on herself, remained unfazed and sipped her drink. “Let’s just say he was quite bold and kissed her on the cheek. By the way, what action you were talking about?”

Malina whistled. “Just holding hands. But Wooow, dude. You either have balls of steel or incredibly dumb—and I bet my game it's the latter. Damn, to kiss Modeus like that... Man, I wish I was there!”

Upgrade shook his head and glared at her. “Will you please do me a favor and shut up!?”

“Hey now, it wasn’t me who kissed a succubus that’s as backward as her on the cheek,” she snickered.

The young hero grumbled. Then an idea hit him. “That’s it!”

The girls looked at him like he was crazy. He took the cube and created a printer, and in a few seconds, he produced a book titled The Animal Kingdom Breeding Seasons in bold letters.

He stood and walked over to Modeus. The girl went even redder while the other two watched in curiosity.

“Hey Modeus, about earlier... I want to apologize and give you this.” He handed her the book.

She looked conflicted but opened it anyway. And after reading the introduction...

“Interesting... very interesting. How do you know about these creatures~?”

“Let’s just say I like adventuring a bit. With that, you get to see all sorts of weird and amazing things. What do you say? You think you can forgive me?”

“Mmmmmmmm... fine~, but only on the condition that you get me more of these~.”

“Deal!”

With that settled, he went back to his place—and Modeus followed, sitting on his lap.

“Uuuuuhhhh Modeus, what are you doing?”

“Reading, you silly~.”

“Yes, but... why on my lap?”

“Because there’s nowhere else to sit and the floor’s uncomfortable. Is there an issue?”

“Yes, there is—” he wanted to say, but something in her eyes told him he’d regret it if he did.

“*Sigh* No, no, there’s nothing.” she smiled and went back to her book

Rubbing his head he looked at the sour demoness “Anyway, Malina, about that game—”

The girl, amused by his situation, picked one and inserted it into the demonic game station. “I found one, but I’m not sure if you can handle it, you big softy.”

He picked up a controller as the loading screen ended. He used the nanites in the Omnitrix’s storage to extend his body just enough to play without disturbing Modeus, while also moving his eyes to see better. “You’re on! But don’t cry when you lose!”

“Pffffft! Please! You’d better use that tin-can brain of yours just to be worth the effort!”

“Says the drunkard who can’t beat a basic boss out of a cereal box! I won’t even need my superior mind—it’d be overkill against someone with more alcohol than blood in her veins!”

“Oh, you are ON, bitch!”

And so, they began playing a simple fighting game.

That simple game, however, turned into a bloodbath. Both players played perfectly.

Blocks, specials, basics, ultimates—the whole game. It was a back-and-forth uphill battle for both of them.

Round after round. A win here, a loss there. But they didn’t stop until the final round.

K.O.

At the very last second, Malina managed to parry an incoming attack, with just enough energy left for one counterattack. She didn’t hesitate, sending her final strike at her opponent.

“YES! I WON!” she shouted, adrenaline surging through her.

She facepalmed when she heard the groans below her.

Cerberus’ three bodies sat up and cracked their backs. A groggy Krampus followed, rubbing her eyes, annoyed. “Grrrr... too loud!”

“You’re very lively, I see,” said Pandemonica as she fixed the little demoness' hair.“

Next to them, Cerberus began rubbing her eyes. “Yawn” “What’s this noise?” “I’m hungry.”

Upgrade sighed—then laughed, louder and louder—before raising his hand toward Malina. “GG.”

She shook his hand in return, a barely hidden smile and a faint blush on her face.

“*thud thud* MALINKA! OPEN UP!” came a shout as the front door was slammed.

Malina’s smile fell, and her face paled. “Oh no.”

She jumped up and quickly ushered her guests toward her room.

“Hey! What’s the deal!?” shouted Ben.

“The bitch is here!!”

Once there, she opened her closet and shoved them all inside. “DON’T you dare make a sound until I deal with her, do you hear me!?”

“But I-”

SLAM!

“-could have changed to Graymatter or Ghostfreak. Sheesh, what’s up with her all of a sudden?”

In the cramped space, Ben shrank his body as much as possible, a hand hovering over his chest to transform again if needed.

Suddenly, shouting echoed through the house. The voices got louder and louder the closer they gote. “-TELLING you, there is NO ONE in here but ME, you bitch! Are you deaf on top of being a goddamn whore, or what!?”

“Oh really now, Malinka?” said a new voice, full of venom. The footsteps approached the closet. “If that’s the case, then what’s in here?”

“Wait—!”

Just as she began opening the door, Cerberus let out an “Eeeep!!”, pushing everyone back deeper into the closet. That made Ben think certain thoughts and muttered to himself.

“Man, this feels like a sardine can,”

But his hand accidentally tapped the Omnitrix.

Click.

Just as the door swung open—he transformed.

“GAAAH! WHAT THE FUCK!? MY EYES!!”

“WAAAAATER!!!!”

From the closet burst Ripjaws, who immediately flopped onto the floor, thrashing around like a fish out of water. His powerful tail smacked into the floor and furniture, sending stuff flying.

The girls inside stumbled out, barely able to balance themselves. Krampus was firmly held by Monica as they scrambled away from the aquatic chaos.

“WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS!?” screamed the new girl—Zdrada, unmistakably. She stared at the flailing, razor-toothed fish alien soaking the room in wet slaps.

She didn't get an answer. Ripjaws was too busy gasping dramatically for water to notic her, while Malina buried her face in her hands and groaned.

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In the middle of nowhere, countless corpses littered the ground. At the center of it all was a small pile of dead demons, and sitting atop it was a woman with the appearance like all other female demons. Only her hair was shorter than most, with half of it covering her left eye, both eyes shadowed in black. One notable feature was the many piercings on her face.

The demoness snapped her fingers to create a small flame and lit a cigarette. “Man, what a waste of time. And here I thought you guys were a challenge.”

She looked down at her clothes: an arm brace on her right hand and a wrist cuff on her left, a white eight-pointed star necklace and a black choker, a red short-sleeved dress shirt, black leather pants held up with a belt, and black knee-length heeled boots—now drenched in blood. “And this was my favorite too.”

With a sigh, Zdrada jumped down and gave the pile a kick for good measure before beginning her walk home, using a spell to clean herself.

She had been out and about when she was suddenly ambushed by the now-dead demons. She thought they’d be a challenge but was left disappointed.

When she reached her place, she stopped and sniffed the air. Her sense of smell wasn’t as good as a hellhound’s—let alone Cerberus’—but it was pretty damn good.

She caught five different scents, now fadednfrom when their owners passed through. “Hmm, maybe they wanted something from Malinka?” she shrugged and began slamming the door. “*thud thud* MALINKA, OPEN UP!”

She raised an eyebrow at the sounds from inside but ignored them and slammed again. “I’M COMING, I’M COMING, YOU FUCKING BITCH!” Malina opened the door and gave her sister a death glare. “DO YOU WANT TO DESTROY THE DOOR OR WHAT!?”

Zdrada was unfazed as she walked in. “Not really, but I forgot my key.”

The younger sister snorted. “Of course you did. At least you didn’t forget the pea-sized brain of yours.”

“Awwwee~ I love you too—wait.”

She sniffed around and found the scents stronger in the main room, particularly around the couch. She smirked. “My my, Malinka, look at you~! Bringing strangers hom—” she stopped and took a stronger sniff.

She smelled coffee, arousal, and blood that is tripled yet the same as if from one being. She knew who that was. But the other two were unfamilia

“Hey Malinka, why are Pandemonica, Modeus and Cerberus here? And who are the two others with them?”

Malina paled “Fuck I forgot she can smell!” She pretended ignorance, but she was a terrible liar. “I-I have n-no idea what you’re talking about. I was alone all day. Until you came that's it! M”

The jab went over Zdrada’s head as her grin widened. “Oh really? Then why do the scents lead to your room?” she started walking.

“Shit!” cursed the sour demon.

She tried to stop her sister, but Zdrada was faster. “I’M TELLING you, there is NO ONE in here but ME, you bitch! Are you deaf on top of being a goddamn whore, or what!?”

“Oh really now, Malinka?” she taunted, walking to the closet

“If that’s the case, then what’s in here?”

“Wait!”

She walked to the door and slammed it open, only for a bright green flash to blind her

“GAAH! WHAT THE FUCK!? MY EYES!!” she screamed, covering her face—just before something burst past her, shouting, “WAAAAATER!!!!” along with several girls.

When she opened her eyes, she was met with a giant gray fish thrashing around. “WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS!?”

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The girls looked in shock at the demonic sea monster. He looked like a bony, mummified croc with gray skin. Said alien began slowing down as he pleaded, “Please. I. Need. Water!”

Zdrada looked at him, then snickered. “PFFFFFTTT GAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” She laughed so hard her stomach hurt.

“MR. BALL!” “MASTER!” both Krampus and Cerberus kneeled at his side, shaking him.

Pandemonica snapped out of her shock and began giving orders. “Malina! Zdrada! Is there any water here!?”

“I-In the back—t-there's a river!” said Zdrada, her laughter intensifying.

The triple demon took the body and destroyed the wall. But Malina tried to stop them. “Wait! That's the River of Souls!”

The girls looked in disbelief and ran to try and stop her. Zdrada was laughing even harder.

Krampus, however, stopped suddenly as something shiny caught her eye. Her eyes dulled as she walked to the rubble. On it sat a strange piece. Without thinking, she took it and put it, along with the other piece, in her backpack.

With that done, and as if a spell had been lifted from her, she regained herself. She felt dizzy, but panicked and ran to where the others were. “MR. BALL!”

The triple demon reached the body of water. Beneath them, souls swam in an endless tide. The others reached her. “CERBERUS, WAIT!”

But it was too late as they threw him in. “NO!!” they screamed.

Malina fell to her knees as she watched in horror how the body disappeared, covered by the many moving souls.

Cerberus, too late to understand what she did, whimpered. But before any of them could dwell in their sadness or attack Zdrada, a bubble floated to the surface, something that does not happen.

Zdrada saw that and whistled. “Well, that was-” but she was cut off as the bubbles didn’t stop.

Then another, and another, and another. “What is this?” asked Pandemonica. The girls, with a little hope, looked at the now many bubbles.

And the surface broke. “GAAAAAAAH HUH! Now that's better!” From it rose Ripjaws. His scales now radiated every observable color, with six blood-red eyes and larger claws and fangs.

The girls backed off and looked with wide slack-jawed mouths at the aquatic demonic alien.

“MR. BALL!” Krampus jumped at him.

“W-Be careful!”

The girl clutched at him for dear life. He just sighed and patted her. The rest, however, just stared with wide eyes.

“Ooohhh shiny!” said Cerberus, breaking the silence. The rest shook their heads out of their mesmerization.

“So pretty~,” said Modeus, to which Pandemonica nodded. “I agree. This is quite the sight.”

“Wait the fuck up now! What the fuck is this thing and what is it doing in my house!?” said Zdrada, wanting answers after she had her fun. Malina groaned, “That's of no concern to you, bitch!”

The older sister glared at her. “It sure the fuck is! So you either tell me or I will turn it into fucking sushi!”

“Oh really now? I didn’t see you care earlier when you dropped laughing like a clown!”

“As if that matters when something surviving a dip into the fucking River of Souls!”

“Um, girls? Please stop, I am sure-”

“Besides! How did you meet it? Last time I checked, there’s no demon that is gray and can turn into a fucking light show!”

“Oh no, you will not! Who I spend my time with doesn’t concern you! Besides, when did you stay for more than an hour, huh?!”

“Girls?”

“Well At least I don’t stay inside all the time with games and other bullshit!”

“Beats whoring around like you do!”

“Girls!?”

The argument of the two began to escalate. The others were either watching with interest, worry, or arousal. Ben tried to calm them, but he was fed up. “GIRLS!!”

“WHAT-!!”

All of the present demons looked at him, only to stop as they laid eyes on his lure—the lure that bloomed a fiery eye with a dark slit iris.

The young hero didn’t notice the shift as he continued. “Can you guys please stop? You look like oversized kids bickering!”

“Yes,” came the collective answer.

Ripjaws was confused by the answer. Not only the sisters but also the others too.

When he focused his many eyes, he noticed how they stood still, barely moving—even Krampus in his arms acted like a doll with her strings cut. When he looked at their eyes, they looked... blurry, like something was covering their minds. And they were looking at his lure.

His eyes widened as realization hit him. “No way, can it be?” He thought for a second and put Krampus down before ordering them. “Girls, do an air flip—except Krampus.” They did.

His eyes widened. “Make a pyramid with Krampus at the top.” They did.

He smiled a little and gave a very impossible command. “Kiss each other.” They moved towards each other—except Krampus and Cerberus, who gave each other a peck on the cheeks/a lick. This is what he had in mind—not mouths open and making out like the duos of Pandemonica/Modeus and Zdrada/Malina.

His iris shrank as he shouted, “STOP! STOP! TAKE IT BACK!” They stopped and broke apart, then looked at him with the same blank expressions.

The young hero covered his face in shame. “Damn it! What was I thinking?! Why did you girls do that?!”

“You told us,” was their answer.

He groaned again. “I meant a normal one! On the cheeks!”

“Didn’t think you wanted that.”

He slammed his hand on his face and muttered, “Of course they’ll take things literally.”

After calming down, he addressed them. “sigh Okay guys, let’s get you back-but how?”

He dove down for a few seconds, but nothing changed. He ordered them to go a distance, then return with him doing the same. Even after making over a mile of distance, thanks to Ripjaws' enhanced speed, it didn’t work.

He hummed to himself, “Maybe if I ask them? Nothing to lose, am I right?” He faced them and spoke. “I want you guys to snap out of this trance. Can you do it?”

Like a broken spell, their eyes turned to normal. They looked confused and disoriented for a second.

Then the memories returned.

“YOU ASSHOLE!” screamed Malina as she threw a rock at him that he barely dodged, face red with embarrassed tears.

Zdrada looked at him with disgust.

Modeus covered her mouth with a low “oh my~.”

Pandemonica fixed her glasses back with a straight back and unreadable face, her lenses reflecting light completely.

Krampus and Cerberus looked around, not understanding what had happened.

Ripjaws, semi-submerged in the water, eyed them with worry. “Ha. Ha. Ha. Hey girls.”

Pandemonica smiled at him with the sweetest smile she had ever made, a dark aura surrounding her. “Ripjaws, would you please be a dear and close that light of yours?”

Afraid, Ben did. With some effort, he got the lure to close, hiding the controlling light.

“Much better. Now can you please explain how come you can control demons with such effectiveness? We are extremely resistant to most types of magic—mind-based spells included. Especially not with this creature of yours, from what you described.”

He gave them a crooked smile that showed a lot of sharp teeth. “I, uh, think it’s Ripjaws' mutation? The lure is used to bring prey—so this is the same? But magic?”

Pandemonica stared into his eyes before nodding. “Fair enough. But can you please change from him? I’d rather not kiss another one under a spell.”

He paled and threw his arms up. “I’m sorry! I didn’t know you’d do it like that—I swear I didn’t mean to!”

She kept staring for a second before nodding. “I believe and forgive you.”

He exhaled in relief, only to see Malina glaring at him. “I said sorry!”

She huffed and crossed her arms. “Yeah right, as if! It’ll take more than a sorry for what you made me do!”

“How about playing a round?”

“Like that’ll cut it!”

“Four?”

“Nope!”

“Six?”

“Not even close!”

“Ten games!?”

“That’s!... Acceptable.”

He sighed in relief. Only for Modeus to raise her hand. “But don’t we need to go~?”

He slapped his face and Malina's fell.

Pandemonica saw this and got an idea. “You know you can tag along, right?”

That made Ripjaws confused. “What?”

But for Malina, she was hopeful. “Huh? For real?”

“Yes,” came the tired answer.

Malina’s smile was barely contained. “Are you guys, like, sure about this?”

Ben looked at her for a second and just shrugged. “Honestly? You’re welcome to join us. Though I warn you—it will get messy. In the gruesome, bloody kind of way.”

Malina blushed a shade of red almost equal to Modeus and just snapped her head. “W-Whatever.”

Pandemonica hummed. “Alright then, let’s get the house fixed and we’re good to go.”

“Now hold your horses the fuck up!”

Everyone looked at Zdrada, remembering she existed.

Malina growled as she glared at her sister. “Oh for fuck’s sake! Do you need to insert yourself into everything!?”

“SHUT IT, MALINA! I WAS NOT TALKING TO YOU! AND YOU! FREAK FACE! YOU BETTER START EXPLAINING YOURSELF OR I’LL TURN YOU INTO SEAFOOD BAIT! WHY WERE YOU IN OUR HOUSE AND WHAT WERE YOU DOING IN HER ROOM!?”

Malina and the rest were taken aback. Krampus hid behind Pandemonica. From their reaction, Ben could tell this reaction was not too common...

He opened his mouth to speak, to explain things. “You have no right to know anything!”

But Malina cut him off. He looked at her with pleading eyes, but she didn't so much as glance at him.

“You are never around! You barely ever talk to me without turning me into the butt of your jokes! And now you pretend to care? No way, BITCH! You can fuck off to oblivion! 'Sides, when did you start caring so much, huh!?”

Ben got out of the water and changed into Diamondhead.

“When you bring abominations that can fucking mind-control you!”

“Girls, please, can't we solve this calmly?”

Zdrada glared at him, her eyes widening at the sight of the crystal golem.

“W-Wha—Who are you!? And where did that ugly thing go!?”

Diamondhead grumbled. “Please, lady, take a look at an unbroken mirror before you call Ripjaws ugly. And for the record, I am that ugly thing. Name’s Diamondhead, by the way.”

Zdrada looked at the other girls, who all nodded.

“Wait, so you’re some type of shapeshifter?

The hero huffed. ”Yes, yes I am. Now can we please calm down and talk like adults?“ “Ironic coming from me.”

Zdrada focused on him. “Alright then, shiny head, what were you doing with my sisters and why are they-” she pointed at the girls “-with you?”

All too happy to clear things up, he spoke. “You see, it all began when…”

And by the time he finished his (half-true) story, Zdrada had the biggest shit-eating grin on anyone.

“Well fuck me! If that’s not interesting!”

Pandemonica, who was covering Krampus’ ears, gave her a side-eye.

“We would appreciate the reduced use of swears, thank you very much.”

Zdrada, on her part, just blew her off. “Please, this is Hell. Swearing comes naturally here. But you didn’t tell me—why are they following you if you’re only helping these two?”

“They just wanted to tag along?” he shruged.

She gave him a doubtful look. “That’s it?”

“Of course not~!” cut in Modeus, drawing the group’s attention to her.

“He’s collecting us for his harem, duh~!”

Ben covered his eyes. “I forgot I didn’t tell her.”

Hearing this, Zdrada’s smile widened. “Now that is more like it! Hey big guy! Hit me!”

He looked at her for a second. “.......You’re joking, right?”

Zdrada was not joking. “Here’s the deal—hit me or I’ll hit you. Which one do you prefer? I want to see how strong is guy that sedused my sister.”

“Iwould like neither-”

He ducked out of the way of a massive rock and shot her a wide look.

“Me hitting you it is, then.”

She threw a second one at him. This time he sliced it in half. “Come on, stop this!”

He punched the third, only to be slammed with another.

“Not happening! Come on, big guy! Can’t you even hit a little girl like me?”

That went on for a few seconds before he was fed up.

“Enough!”

He punched his fist in her direction. From the ground, a crystal rose like a wave and slammed into her.

She stopped only when it hit a rock wall, hard enough to leave a crater in it. His eyes widened—he’d used more power than he meant to. He recalled his crystals and ran to check on her, the other girls too.

~!GLORIOUS SUCCESS!~

Only to stop as they saw her covered in pure ecstasy, making Malina growl, “Fucking masochist,” and walk away. The others followed her for different reasons.

The young hero, even though he was weirded out, looked down at her in worry— but getting only a “B-best thing ever! Bitch, I am in this harem stitch of yours. Owww~”

He took several steps back and followed the rest. A smart move.

End.