Once again I’m sorry for the late update. I don’t know why but I am just having a hard time getting what I am thinking onto paper. Thank you for your patience.

Chapter 19: The End

Well, for Alex there was still much work to be done and there was no time to morn over something as appalling as this sight was. Even without a drop of emotion to his name his body couldn’t help but feel disgusted from such a sight in the depths of his stomach. “Members of the Secret Intelligence Division, out in the front yard and at Sphinx Academy, stand down.” His voice boomed with the power the new position of Head gave him. “You and the Sins bring the wounded in for medical treatment. Virus, release the S.I.D. agents ships and plot the coordinates for the location to where they can contain the battles and save the people with in-tact Basic Programming.”

“Yes, Head of the Noble House!” They all, both the members of the House as well as the Sins responded to Alexander’s orders; each side recognizing this teen as the leader of the House without a second thought.

There, he calmly moved to his desk; stepping onto that hunk of flesh that was no longer in his way before taking his seat. Alexander could only wonder if he had emotions if he would be annoyed at this mess that body over there had to make all over his desk. But there was no time to consider that now, as from the data he just received on the screen there was less than five minutes to stop that plan from happening.

Alex instructed his good friend Spec to take his clearly traumatized Keikei out of the room, no need for her eyes to look at such a disgusting sight. As soon as they left, Alex communicated with the only one in the position to protect this world. “Benjamin. I do believe the situation calls for a hero. Are you up for the position?”

Ben couldn’t believe it. After all this madman has put him through he was talking to him like if it was a year ago and was just that creepy guy who was dating his cousin. This guy was completely insane. “And from the data I have been able to collect you and Gwendolyn are the only two that can stop that missile from ending all life as we know it. I do believe we can hold off our insignificant little squabble till after this incident is behind us.”

With how much he didn’t want to admit it, Pharaoh was right. It was time for him to save the world before his own mission. “Just open the doors and I will get right on it, but don’t think I will forget anything that you have done!”

“I wouldn’t have it any other way. But instead of the door, the ceiling is a much faster way.” Alex replied, watching as the countdown just went below four minutes. “Virus, please release the Taskforce and open the ceiling. Not a second can be wasted.”

Ben hated to even consider taking orders from that madman, but he couldn’t let his own emotions cloud the fact that Pharaoh was right. He was just going to have to hold back the urge to slug that nutcase in white till all of this was over. Not to mention have a truce with his cousin. Thinking of the only way to get her attention was to act like the dork he was last year. “Come on Gwen,” adding his smug cocky tone, forgetting how much fun he used to have egging her on, “are you going to let me take all the glory for saving the world?”

Where on Gwen’s scowling face, she couldn’t help but add a smirk too it. After all, there was no way she was going to let him have something new to boost about to her. “Like you could even pull it off without me saving your butt.”

The large roof slowly opened for the teenage heroes, getting a chance to finally save their planet once and for all. With Gwen using her powers and Ben turning into the alien he dubbed as Jetray, they flew straight up and out.

As they flew out, Will turned his attention back towards the one they viewed as their enemy not even two minutes ago. A situation that seemed impossible by any other means, but one is to expect the unexpected when it came to Alex. “So, do you really believe the Tennyson’s can save us all Phar…? I mean, Head of the House?”

“Statistically speaking from the readings I just got from the time limit still left, their percentage of succeeding is below ten percent.” Alex replied as calmly as if he was speaking of an everyday occurrence. “However it is not that if I believe in them, it is the fact that they are the only ones at this time that can stop it.”

“So the Slacker is who we are betting on to save us?” Fredi asked in his freezing cold tone, something that never seemed to change no matter what the situation he was in, being helped by Kristen as he walked. “From that alone it’s a safe bet we are all doomed.”

“It is good to see that you are up Fredi Heat, I must apologize for I did instruct to use any means necessary to slow your group down.” Even Fredi would have never guessed that Alex would be sitting in that chair, but he had to admit he would prefer him over that previous Head any day. If asked he would have been more than willing to have been the one to have kill her. “But I do believe that you think too little of the boy. After all, those Tennysons have so much potential. Now, if we all do survive please inform them William to meet us at the Sphinx Academy Hospital, the one Michael and Ren are currently resting at. After all there is still so much to do before everything is finished. Also I do know Benjamin would be glad to hear that Ren has just gotten out of surgery and out of critical condition. It would have been disappointing to not have been able to thank her for all the work she has helped me with, even if she was unaware.”

Flying as fast as they could, Ben still couldn’t believe after everything they have gone through they are now taking orders from the guy. However he had to remember this is something he would have done without anyone’s orders. To protect everyone he cares for: his family, his friends, and Ren. He was going to stop this missile with everything he’s got.

“So please don’t tell me your running at it heads on Ben!” His orange haired cousin shouted at him, they always did find the best way to cool off would be for them to have their small squabbles. “Just make sure your plan doesn’t end up with destroying the missile!”

And sometimes those squabbles can actually be useful. That was kind of what he had planned to do; forgetting that blowing it up would cause that virus to escape. “Well we got to stop it some how!”

For what seemed to be miles above the ground, Ben and Gwen could clearly see the missile as it quickly grew bigger and bigger in their sights. That seemed to be answer when Will contacted them over their Thoths. “Alright Ben and Gwen, from the past two hundred pages out of the one thousand and thirty-five pages that I have gotten on this missile’s data. The missile is quite large. I am not expecting you to be able to stop it, just slow it down for a few minutes for reinforcements to come assist you.”

“How larg…” Ben question, only for another one to shoot out of his mouth, “hold on, you already read two hundred pages in the thirty seconds we left?”

“Actually I got the info ten seconds after you left the room, a combination of speed reading photographic memory thanks to this suit of mine. Anyway, you should be able to see for yourself soon from your location but its size equivalent to a school bus in length. That woman always had to do things the hard way. But from the data the virus will multiply six million times every minute, infecting everyone on this planet in a matter of hours and extinct the species itself in less than a week.”

Where Ben couldn’t believe how calm this guy was while speaking about the complete destruction of our species, this alone could make one mistake him for that white jerk. “So stop the missile, wait until reinforcements help move it, and make sure not to spill a drop. Yeah, this is going to be a piece of cake.” Commenting sarcastically, only to remember how he said those words when he first arrived at that school.

But sure enough, with that missile getting closer he wondered how he was going to slow it down, let alone stop it; only for his cousin to go on ahead, and try to use her powers on the weapon.

However, she tried to grab a hold of the weapon, yet it seemed to break through her ability with ease, leaving Ben to assume one possible reason as to why. “Hey Will, I think this missile is made from that jerk’s annoying metal.”

The teen in the tin can suit looked over the design specks, concluding with the young Tennyson about this important detail. “Your powers of observation are very good Ben. I believe that might be an earlier prototype of the compound, no where near as strong but it is immunized to Gwen’s abilities. The prototype was supposed to be destroyed but it seems as if someone at Naxos sold to it that woman instead.”

Now what was this alien hero to do? There was only a few minutes left as that missile rushed to Sphinx Academy. It was too big to lift in any of his flying forms and Gwen’s abilities were completely useless on it. However, her powers weren’t useless on him. “Gwen! Can you form a platform for me?”

His cousin appeared to understand what he was thinking. Without asking a single question she formed a large thick platform for him to stand on. Where once he landed on it, he transformed into an old friend and strongest that he knew of, Fourarms.

She rose him up as fast as she could to collide with that rocket, easily noticing his cousin had gotten a lot stronger with her ability as she rose him up pretty fast. Catching up with that missile, he put all four of his enhanced muscled hands up and grabbed it.

The problem wasn’t with the platform. Though he could see his cousin struggling to keep it together it stayed strong. It was the fact that he didn’t think the missile would be as hot as it was. He always did find it a great time to nap during his astrology class, all he needed to know was the nine… eight planets in this galaxy to get a passing grade, something that was really easy after traveling through the universe.

However, he would sometimes forget the fact that something entering there atmosphere would get very hot. Burning his hands, but was able to change into his indestructible Diamondhead form just before he lost his grip on it.

Yet now with his lack of strength that came from Fourarms, he could feel his body starting to break along with the platform. He knew Gwen could hold out but no where near the next few minutes that where left for, watching how she was putting all of her effort just to keep that and her platform stable.

“Benjamin, I have just read over the file and I have come across something that could be useful for you.”

“Well spill it!” Not in the mood for any idle talk, his body was going to shatter any moment if he kept holding onto this missile for much longer.

“The virus is not organic, rather it is nanotechnology.”

“Still taking basic chem. Will! Get to the point!”

“Ah yes, well instead of it being that of an organic virus, this one is made up of trillions of machines that one million would fit on the tip of a needle. So instead of high radiation needed to destroy it, all you will need is a high concentration of acid to eradicate the virus.” The first time anything Ben has heard this guy spout anything that was good news, knowing of a few aliens alone that could produce acid. “Just make sure not a single nano-virus escapes.”

But before the alien hero could think of an alien to change into, his arms shattered. Watching as the missile fell straight towards the earth and without anytime to think, the brown haired teen jumped off the platform right for it; leaving his cousin to rest.

Changing into Jetray once again, he chased that missile with only less than a minute to think before that thing explodes. Though always being quick to think on his feet, he had to think hard on which alien would best help him save the world. Was he going to be able to beat it?

However, with that thought he couldn’t help but snap his fingers… or claws. If he couldn’t beat it, than why not eat it?

With that thought, he changed into an alien that could be best described as a green cartoon gopher he called Upchuck. A strange alien indeed but the best part about it was its ability to eat metal and dissolve it in its stomach acid. He will have to remember to thank Gwen on making him study his alien forms when all of this was over.

Shooting the three tentacles tongues out of his mouth to latch himself onto the missile. There, it was all or nothing as bite for bite, making sure to keep his cartoon-stretched mouth over the rims as he stuffed that entire missile inside of his body. He would swear he grew to a size that made his body look like one of those low budget characters on Cartoon Network.

Still falling to the ground at speeds too fast for him to figure out, he could feel it melting down as his body shrunk back to its normal size. Then, like his name states, he up-chucked that fiery ball straight into the sky; where it lit it up like an explosion from a firework on the Fourth of July.

Making sure to change into his old favorite flying insect Stinkfly, Ben hovered in the air as he confirmed with Will. “Will, did the acid destroy them all?!”

Will along with his sister Jenny, better known as the infamous Virus, held off their bickering to check and recheck the data that lay out before them. Not wanted to miss even a single nano machine, knowing with even one left out there the human race could be doomed.

With all of their scans giving the green signal, Will replied with a smug on his face with a tone to match. “Well how does it feel Ben? You just saved the world.”

“Yahoo!” The four eyed green insect did a few backwards loop-de-loops in the big blue sky.

But even with that completed, he knew there was still some things to get done. Flying back up he grabbed a hold of his out-of-breathe cousin; only to reply to his gratitude by gripping her nose tightly. “Ugh, I forgot how badly this alien of yours smelled.”

“Well excuuuuuuuse me, Princess!” Ben replied sarcastically, with all of this feeling a bit nostalgic.

“Oh yeah by the way Ben,” Will announced, “Alex wanted me to inform you if you didn’t die out there, that Ren just got out of surgery and…”

“Really!” That had to be the best news Ben has heard all day; rushing back as fast as he could to that place known as Sphinx Academy.

Only to snarl when he saw who stood between him and the room Ren is in in that hallway of the hospital. That jerk who wouldn’t stop with that creepy smile of his plastid on his pasty white face. None other than Pharaoh himself, along with those Sins.

Along with that, two people who would have never expected to see stand beside him, Spec and the noble woman Lady Karen, whom he saw hugging onto his right arm. Ben would have never guessed that this woman before him, who appeared to uphold herself with the pride of her family when they first met, was holding onto Pharaoh like a normal little sister who wants to be spoiled by her older brother.

Watching as that jerk would rub his own shoulders, just to comment. “I do apologize for my appearance Benjamin, however going back and forth across this great country can give anyone a bit of jet lag.”

Where Ben only to look at Will to demand. “Why didn’t you tell me he would be here?”

“Hey I tried. But you left in such a rush I couldn’t get a word in edge-wise.”

Groaning as he faced that lunatic before him. “Give me one reason as to why I shouldn’t restart our fight Pharaoh?”

Alex could feel his dear Keikei squeeze his arm tighter from that little outburst from Benjamin. True he wished he could spend more time with Keikei with all they have been through, but there was still much to be done before he could even consider such things like a vacation. “Because Benjamin, more important matters than our insignificant squabbling is needed to be addressed first.”

“Like what?”

But without so much as a word, Alexander addressed his good friend Spec with a simple nod. Where the servant to the House gently opened the door next to the group, Ben’s eyes grew wide at the sight of Ren sleeping on that hospital bed.

Rushing as fast as he could, Ben stopped as he looked over her. Her face and arms might have several cuts all over, but she was still as beautiful in his eyes as she has ever been.

Cupping his hand in hers, a shock of realization shot through his spine. Her body was freezing cold; remembering the last thing that happened before she got like this was her seeing him with Julie. Why did he have to be such an idiot?

“Ren, Ren are you awake?” He gentle shook her as all he could hear was the beeping from all of the machines that were hooked into her; he hated feeling so helpless while she was in such a condition.

“Benjamin,” Alexander’s words broke Ben’s focus, “though I had her in the best of hands and doctors who specialized in Bucerusian medical care. The doctors have informed me that she is in a very deep coma from all of the trauma. There is a very slim chance she will ever wake up.”

The alien hero could feel his warm tears falling down his cheek from this news, but in such a state he didn’t want to accept this news. “No, there has to be something. Some treatment, some alien with the right abilities…” Slamming his fist on the table nearby, startling the onlookers to this heart breaking sight. “Come on Ren. You’re stronger than this I know it! Wake up, Ren!”

Resting his head on Ren’s bed, letting the mattress soak up his tears. It was all his fault she was like this, why was there nothing he could do to fix it?

“Actually Benjamin,” Pharaoh stated to him, he still swore this guy had the power to read his mind, “there is an alien that might be able to help her, one that you have in your possession as we speak.”

Though Ben wanted to yell at him for having such a smug emotionless tone while his girlfriend was in such a critical state, wishing he would at least fake those emotions like he used to when he was that creepy kid he once knew. However, that didn’t matter to him, if it meant listening to that psychopath Vilgax or the Forever Knights to heal Ren he would take it. “Which alien?”

“The one you seem to hold with such hostility Benjamin. The one you have nicknamed, Alien X.”

His hand squeezed Ren’s gently with that name, could he really trust that alien. “How can you be so sure? Last time I used that alien I couldn’t get it to do anything I wanted.”

“Well from the months I have had that particular one-of-a-kind alien studied; I believe I can help you. However, I will also need the help of Gwen and your full cooperation. After all I didn’t have just those two plans to fix the Basic Program, but with the help of Alien X, it will be fixed without a single life having to be spared. Killing two birds with one stone as one could say with finally fixing the problem and saving your beloved Ren. But with it I doubt anyone else has been able to save the world twice in the same day.”

“As long as it can save Ren.” Ben replied coldly, standing up and slowly walked over until he met face-to-face with Pharaoh. “But I do have one condition.”

“Anything.”

With that, the brown haired Tennyson pulled back his right arm, and with all of his strength slugged that jerk right in the stomach.

However, from that the Sins, Spec and Karen were the only ones that didn’t gasped in shocked from this action. This was because the ones who knew Alex knew he could have dodged that and snapped Ben’s arm in the blink of an eye, only allowing that so they could get on with this.

Coughing, once again he underestimated how much stronger this Tennyson has gotten. Yet none the less stood back up, and addressed, though struggling. “Did that settle… your condition, Benjamin?”

Cracking his knuckles, Ben groaned. “Let’s get this over with.”

(AN: Though it is stated that Alien X is an alien species, it never made since to me that there is a planet filled with this alien. With how they bickered I don’t know how this alien would get anything done. So I changed it a bit for this story, enjoy.)

With some help from William and Virus, all of the preparations were set up for this insane plan Pharaoh had come up with. But by now with all Ben has been put through nothing that guy would do would surprise him anymore. Though he had to admit this hospital room was very large for a single room.

However, the alien hero had to ask one more time how this was all supposed to work. “Ok, run it by me one more time, Pharaoh.”

“It is not that difficult to comprehend Benjamin. Once you turn into Alien X, Gwendolyn will then use her powers to act as a link, sending my conscious into Alien X with you. Hopefully with its reality altering ability we will be able to fix the problem and have Ren back on her feet. Just remember Benjamin, I can not promise anything as I do not know much of anything about this species.”

Groaning under his breath, feeling in the pit of his stomach that this was a bad idea, but if it meant it could bring back Ren he was willing to give it a try. “Then are you ready?”

“I am all set. As you teenagers state, let it rip.”

Thanks to the master control being unlocked, in a bright green flash Ben changed into that humanoid alien with a body that looked like a starry night sky and three horns coming out of his head.

There he stood as stiff as a statue just like before, where at that moment the Head of the House turned his attention to the young Bless. “Now Gwendolyn, please do the honors.”

Nodding to Al…Pharaoh, she extended her arm and enveloped Ben’s Alien X in her pink energy. Once fully around that statue of an alien, she extended her other arm, encircling him in the pink energy.

There, Ben and Alexander stood, well floated, in that large empty starry space. Where on his snow white face, he couldn’t help but grin at the sight. “Just as I expected, it worked.”

“Well Pharaoh,” Ben grunted to get the man in white’s attention to the two large floating faces, one he was pondering how he missed them when he first came in. “here they are, the two that make Alien X work.”

“Good evening young man, my name is Serena: The Voice of Love and Compassion.” The female of the two faces greeted with a polite and warm tone.

“I’m Bellicus,” the male counterpart of the two gruffed at Alexander, “Voice of Rage and Aggression. Now how did you get in here?”

“It is very nice to be able to meet you two,” Alexander bowed to the two before him, “I am Alexander Tempus: Voice of a Sovereign. And how I am able to greet you today is because my theory was correct.”

“Could you now explain this theory to me?” Ben declared.

“Yes Benjamin. I came to the belief that through these extraordinary abilities that this alien species possessed, its species must have been none other than that of the Creators.”

“The Creators?” The Alien Hero gasped, looking at the two who couldn’t agree on a pizza topping could have been the alien species that created most of the alien species to date. “But I thought you said that they all just vanished without a trace?”

“Yes I did Benjamin,” where the Head of the House’s ocean blue eyes looked over at the two floating heads, “however, I’m guessing from that event these two, instead of vanishing, evolved into the being that we see before us. Their abilities far beyond what their species used to be to the point where they can alter the very fabric of reality itself. What you see before you Benjamin is the closes thing to a God you will ever see.”

“Ah, so an earthling that knows of our work. What a pleasant discovery.” The Voice of Love and Compassion stated.

“Big deal.” The Voice of Rage and Aggression gruffed once more.

“But now it’s time to get down to business.” Ben announced, wanting to get this all over with and have Ren back to normal as soon as possible.

“Ah yes Benjamin,” where if Benjamin described how this alien works properly to him, what he has planned should work, “for the first act before the meeting is to truly get started. I am to act as Benjamin’s representative throughout this meeting. I will be speaking on his behalf and at anytime Benjamin is allowed to revoke my power.”

“That sounds agreeable,” Serena spoke with kind words.

“I don’t care as long as we can finally get some work done,” Bellicus gruffed once again, seemingly unable to speak in another tone. Something Ben has gotten used to being around Fredi.

“Then it’s agreed,” Alexander said, “motion carried.”

“Now unlike last time,” Bellicus glared over at Ben, “we are going to complete old business before we attend to any of that new business.”

“I agree,” Alexander declared, shocking the brown haired Tennyson, “this way there will be nothing to get in the way when we speak of new business.”

“Wait hold-on,” Ben interrupted, “we don’t have time for th…”

Only for Alexander to interrupt him by extending out his hand. “Do not worry Benjamin; I know what I am doing.”

The young teen couldn’t help but be suspicious, still nowhere near close to trusting this guy before him. However, for now if it meant the safety of earth and for Ren, he would allow it. “Go on.”

“Motion carried!” Serena cheerfully stated. “A good vote.”

“Then please start with old business Bellicus.” The Voice of a Sovereign acknowledged Bellicus to take the floor.

“Then we will start with motion eight million and three. I vote against the extinction of the dinosaurs.”

Ben couldn’t help but rub his eyes as a massive headache started to grow, knowing relying on this alien would be a bad idea. Where at this rate nothing will get done.

However, when he looked up, he noticed how that lunatic was actually thinking about that ridiculous statement of Bellicus. Wanting to stop all of this right now until Ben heard Pharaoh speak.

“I will have disagreed with that motion Bellicus. As to stop the extinction of the dinosaur species will cause nothing but serious consequences for the human species, not to mention affect the timeline in unpredictable ways. That's why I would like to attach a motion to this one to the disagreement of this one to the agreement of any motion that requires a colossal scale of sever time alteration.”

“I second the motion,” Serena added.

Bellicus groaned. “Motion carried.”

“Now, could you please inform me of how many motions are left?” Alexander inquired.

“Forty,” Serena announced cheerfully, leaving Ben completely speechless. With one motion Pharaoh got the motions down from eight million to only forty. That Voice of a Sovereign ability was the real deal, “no wait, thirty-eight.”

“How in the world did you do that Pharaoh?” Ben couldn’t help it, he had to ask.

“What do you think I do all day Benjamin? I run a multi-billion dollar corporation. I go through countless motions on a daily basis with just to get this Sphinx Academy up and running I needed to go to meetings back-to-back for three months straight.” Pharaoh explained to the fifth teen year old hero, whom he always believed he just came up with evil plots, twisted plans, and counted money all day long. “One needs to be able to separate them and eliminate the motions that are a waste of time. If one was to go through all of them one by one it would take a lifetime to get through a day’s worth of work.”

Turning his attention back to the beings that made up Alien X, Alexander stated. “Now, let’s get back to business.”

Ben couldn’t believe his eyes. In less than, what he was guessing ten minutes, that white lunatic was able to sort through over eight million motions that those two opposites couldn’t agree on if the faith of the world depended on it; which at one time not too long ago it did.

Where Alexander knew full well if he had his emotions he would have been overwhelmed with this newfound power he now possessed. As only an hour before this he gained the power to rule the world, but with Alien X he now had the power to become a god. It seemed like it was a good thing he did not possess emotions after all.

“Now, with old business once and for all completed,” the Voice of a Sovereign declared to both Voice of Love and the Voice of Rage, “we can finally get to new business. In New Business I have two motions to put before judgment. The first would be to finally have the problem that has been eroding the human race for centuries; to once and for all fix the Basic Programming so what you started can finally get back on the right path of evolution.”

“For this motion,” Alexander commanded, “I vote for this grand motion to pass.”

“I second the motion,” the gruff Bellicus surprisingly agreed. What Pharaoh was able to do with his words alone continued to flabbergast this young hero.

“Motion passes!” Serena cheerfully announced.

As on the outside, the statue known as Alien X rose its right hand. Where with the sounds of Bellicus, Serena, and Ben’s voices spoke simultaneously. “Motion carried! Repairing of the Basic Program commencing!”

Alien X then circled its hand in a clock wards motion, forming the outline of a circle. Where once completed, he pushed the center outwards; this circle grew as it moved forward till it encircled the entire planet of Earth.

At long last, what the Noble House of Tempus was striving to fix for centuries was finally accomplished thanks to the help of the Tennyson family. How Alexander could ever hope to repay them he couldn’t begin to imagine. But he knew what was about to happen next, will once again cause Benjamin to hate every fiber of his being.

Ben was glad that all of this mess was finally fixed, yet now it was time for Pharaoh to hold up his end of the bargain.

“Now, for the last motion before we are to be released from this alien form, is for the young alien Ren. If there is a way to alter the situation to a way she I not injured in the chaos of that battle, I vote that it should be done.”

The two large heads that made up the being known as Alien X looked at each other for a few moments. Ben put all of his hope up for this decision, with Pharaoh putting his vote in all one of those indecisive two need to do is to vote yes.

They turn to face Pharaoh with both of them giving their answer simultaneously. “No.”

Ben couldn’t believe his ears. How could they have both voted no in saving her? Wondering if that jerk had anything to do with it. “What did you do Pharaoh, we had a deal!”

“I expected this would happen,” so he did do something, how could this jerk be so low? “You have to remember Benjamin this alien alters the fabric of time and space, it isn’t a genie that is capable of granting your every wish. To do what you suggest it would have to alter the moment in which Ren protected you from Elizabeth Stream’s attack, which would ultimately result in you being the one hit from that attack.”

“So? I don’t care about that.” Ben stated honestly, whatever it took he had to save Ren.

“You might not Benjamin, however Alien X does. That attack would mean it would be injured as well. There is no possible way you will be able to change its mind to where it will put itself in harm’s way.”

“But that's so petty and selfish.”

“Well yes Benjamin, this is a petty and selfish being. It will most likely have sent its own child to take on the abuse and torture then itself.” He hated how calm this jerk spoke from all this. Unable to control his rage any longer, Ben lunged himself at the man in white.

However, with only a cold gaze from those cold ocean blue eyes. Ben felt himself fly up, up, down, down, left, right, left, then right again, Feeling like a character from a video game being thrown around while the guy before him was invincible. He was completely shaken up as he stood before Pharaoh, who looked down upon the alien teen. “W-What did you do?”

“Remember Benjamin, the ability from my FREAK process is the control and manipulation of gravity. Since there is no gravity in this dimension, I used my powers to control your center of gravity. Every object has a center of gravity, where I can make it seem as if every bullet missed me.” Only for Alexander’s tone to get much darker for the net part of his speech, this boy still had a lot to go through if he wished to continue his life as a ‘hero’. “However, I think I forgot to mention something to you Benjamin the last time we had our little ‘squabble’. True knowledge is the most powerful weapon one can possess, but the second most powerful weapon is one’s words. As words will always retain their power, words are for the means to meaning, and to those who will listen, the annunciation of truth.”

“And the truth is Benjamin, there are some, if not most battles, that cannot be won with mere fists, fear or fire arms. With the combination of knowledge and words one day you might be able to prevent an intergalactic war without the loss of a single life. So calm yourself Benjamin, as after all this is a war. Dear loved ones die in wars every day no matter how much a person wishes they could stop it.”

Turning to face the two beings that made up the creature known as Alien X, Alexander said. “We will be taking our leave now.”

“Please, come again soon.” The caring tone of Serena spoke. “Don’t you agree Bellicus?”

“Yeah sure, whatever.” He gruffed in response.

Moments later, Pharaoh regained consciousness as Ben transformed back into him teenage self, still cursing under his breath that he left Ren how she was. “You said you could get Alien X to heal Ren!”

“You need to calm down Benjamin, as I clearly stated to you before you activated Alien X I could not promise anything.” Alexander tried to peacefully resolve this, but even he knew that one’s words could only go so far to one who was as angry as Benjamin was.

But before Benjamin was to explode, his dear Keikei stood between them. “You need to settle down Ben,” her warm calm words spoke; Alex swore the voice of his dear Keikei could stop a raging volcano in its tracks as he watched as Benjamin’s body relaxed to just her voice, “my bro… Alexander has done all he could through this method to save Ren.”

However, this time she turned her attention towards her beloved brother, the seriousness in her eyes hadn’t changed. “But I know you very well Alexander,” addressing him by his name, as being raised to be the next Head of the Noble House she had to learn to keep her composter in the most strenuous of circumstances, even towards a person whom is one of the people she cared about the most, “you never have just one method to solving a problem.”

“You are correct Keikei; I do have another plan that would to help Ren.”

Ben was starting to get ticked off again, hating that calm tone of his in such a situation. “Why didn’t you tell me this before Pharaoh?”

“I never said there wasn’t another way, but I withheld that information so I would have your full cooperation to use Alien X. With that the Basic Program was finally fixed. As well as one should never rely completely on a divine being you believe to be all powerful. Most, if not all the time, you shouldn’t waste your time with praying or hoping, rather you should get your hands dirty and make this world a better place with your own two hands if you ever hope to be the hero you wish to be.”

Pharaoh said to the alien hero in an unusually cold tone for that smug jerk. It was getting harder to tell if this guy was trying be a foe or a friend to him every time he opened up that trap of his. “I… see, but what is this other method of yours.”

Without a word, that teenaged warlord simply extended his hand to direct the attention of everyone to the young girl with light green skin. Yet she looked around frantically left to right until she pointed at herself. “What? You mean me?”

“Yes Nicole, I do mean you.”

“And why should I help a two-faced, scum sucking loser like you?!” She yelled loud enough that the neighbors must be thinking that someone was getting killed in here right to Pharaoh’s face, which caused Ben to wonder how in the world she would help in anyway then add more insults to his dictionary. “I’m serious! You were the psycho who kidnapped Bobby, put us through all of these ridicules tasks, and worse of all acted like an innocent little prick when you visited us that night! So give me one reason as to why in your lifetime should I help you then try to reduce you to dust, flush your dust down the toilet, and send the septic tank into the core of the sun?!”

But Pharaoh didn’t seemed to be affected by a single word she lashed at him, not that Ben didn’t love to watch this sight but more importantly he was still wondering how she could help Ren. There, that nutcase replied to the anger driven girl in a calm tone. “Because this is not to help me Nicole, but to help the Tennysons. I know you wouldn’t help me but I do believe you don’t have anything against them.”

She hated him, but she hated more that he was right. Though she didn’t really much care for the dweeb but overall they were good people. Moving her short emerald green hair out of face in frustration before letting out a breath in contempt. “Fine, but what can I do? The last thing I remember was I turn people into dust, and that was just that one time when I was a kid.”

The brown haired Tennyson was still a bit surprised how Pharaoh was able to get people that hated his guts more than anything to cooperate with him, but how would a girl that would turn his girlfriend to ashes help her?

“William.” Pharaoh directed his attention to this time to that guy in a tin can suit. This made Ben wondered how much planning he had put into trying to get his girlfriend healed. Even if he had as much emotion as a black hole did this psycho actually care about them in his own twisted way? Or was this just another front? “I’m guessing ever since Nicole and Dawn introduced themselves to the Taskforce, you must have been doing some severe background information on them. Did you come up with anything leading to Nicole’s past?”

Ben now knew he had to be giving this guy too much credit. Did he have those two come to the Taskforce because he knew the House would do research on them to find out about their pasts and not as ways to stop them if they got to close to him. The young teen felt as if his head was spinning like back when he first told of his Grand War plan back in Bellwood.

“Ah yes, and thanks for reminding me Alex. Through all of this I completely forgot about that.” The guy who could be mistaken as a robot replied as he walked over to a defensive green skin girl. Only to extend his arm in front of him, and out from his arm plate printed out a picture that he calmly handed over to her. “This is for you, Nicole.”

She looked at the picture, wondering what she was looking at in this picture filled with about twenty dorks in silver-grey jumpsuits. “What am I looking at here?”

“They are the Plummer Division 3 unit 53,” where Ben has noticed that bad habit of Will’s, where he seems to do something and forgets to explain what it is till after one asks, wondering if he was aware of that, “and the two in the front row on the right side are your parents.”

Nicole’s body seemed to froze after being told this detail, her jade eyes just studying that part of the picture for what seemed like a full minute without so much as a single word escaping her lips. Ben wouldn’t be surprised if she didn’t breathe as well.

She couldn’t believe it. Though she would never say it she has always wondered what her parents looked like, how they were together, or just who their were in general. Her father looked quite young, in his mid twenties at least, with short red hair and blue eyes. Holding back the giggle that nearly slipped her lips when the thought she was glad that she didn’t get his hair color.

And right next to him was her mother, and like mother like daughter she had light green skin, emerald hair, but hers went down to her back, and such bright jade eyes. She was so beautiful Nicole nearly teared up from the sight alone, but she trained herself to never do such a girly thing.

But she broke her silence to ask, her tone quivering slightly. “But what does this have to do with how I can save the dweeb’s girlfriend?”

“That has to do with your mother, Nicole. Your mother is actually a very rare alien species called a Vigoratus Espirita (Made up, Latin for Heal Sprite as that was how I originally designed her character to be). They have the rare ability to heal any and all injuries and illnesses.”

“Hey wait a minute!” Ben called out. “I bet I have that species in my Omnitrix. Why couldn’t you have just told me that species Pharaoh?”

“Because of two reasons Benjamin,” Alex calmly explained, “I was only assuming that she was, as they are a very rare species that only the House has the full data to. And the second reason is: only the female of that species has that ability, you can only change into the male of that species.”

“Anyway!” Will stated to get the attention of the rest, as it was quite rude to just interrupt him as Ben did. “Just as they are able to heal they are able to reverse that, and age someone to dust. If you are able to use your abilities you might be able to cure Ren.”

“Tell me more,” Nicole whispered, clutching that picture tightly in her grip. She wanted to know a little more, just a little more, “does your files state how they were with each other?”

“Actually yes,” Will told, chuckling a little bit as he brought up those virtual files, “according to the information I was able to pull up they appeared to be a comedy duo in the group, arguing so much over some of the most ridiculous things the rest of the team couldn’t help but find it a riot. Here is a video of one of them.”

From the virtual projection on his arm, the group watched as the parents of Nicole argued. But how they fought one couldn’t help but laugh a little as Nicole’s mom was starting one just because Nicole’s father used a lot of hot sauce on his food. Only for him to make her eat some where she hurriedly drunk an entire cup of water then yelled at him again while he laughed. “All of the members also wondered how much longer till they just admitted they liked each other. Which they did and a year since this video was made they got married where another year later they had you Nicole.”

She couldn’t believe it, all of the questions she has had for so long were being answered so easily right before her. But she still had one question left, one she knew she was going to hate to find out yet it was still one she needed to ask. “Then why did they put me up for adoption?!” Barely able to keep her composer when she asked that, hating how hard it was to hold back those girly tears. “Why did they just leave me?!”

Bobby and Dawn went up to her, trying to comfort her anyway they could. Such a strange feeling it was to them as well, as she was the one that was usually so strong.

Though the suit covered every inch of his body, his body language seemed to suggest a depressing answer was brewing. Slowly he looked down at the ground before facing the emotional girl before her, showing a virtual document that read Death Certificate. “During a classified alien battle, your father was one of the many good men and woman that was killed in the line of duty. Your mother was safe and sound in a hospital on the other side of the world still recovering after giving birth to you.”

“Unlike earthlings, to an alien losing a mate it is a pain that can only be rivaled by death as they bonded to share their lives together. She had to be sent to a psyche ward where she was deemed unqualified to take care of herself, let alone a child. So you were put up for adoption.”

“You mean my mom is still out there?” Nicole’s jade eyes nearly jumped out of her sockets to this info. So they just didn’t get rid of her because of her skin, it wasn’t her fault at all. It wasn’t her fault at all.

“She is listed to still be at the Wharton Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles.” Where Nicole couldn’t believe it, all this time she was so close by; an hour away by plane alone.

“And I will be more than willing to lend you one of my private company jets so you can go see her right after helping Ren here.” That two-faced psycho offered, still not trusting him but she didn’t have the emotional energy to put up her usual wall to fight back.

“Sure,” she whispered. Barely audible to the people around her, “but I’m not sure I can help as I’m not sure how to use my power.”

“Your ability relies on your emotions Nicole,” that walking tin can answered her, still wondering if there was anyone actually inside that suit of his, “to use your healing ability all you need to do is focus on something that makes you happier than anything else, where focusing on something severally traumatizing will do the opposite.”

Nicole nodded, still squeezing that picture tightly in her light green hands. “I’ll try.”

Slowly she walked over to the bed with her brother and sister by her side. They supporting her along the way as she heard the squeaks her sneakers would make till she stopped at the edge of the bed, opposite side to the dweeb.

She still wasn’t sure if she would be able to help in anyway, always in away being afraid of her powers since the first and only time she ever used them. She couldn’t believe she felt so nervous, she has never been so nervous about anything and has taken on anything thrown at her head-on. She hated feeling like such a girl.

Gently, she placed her hands just above the blue haired alien girl’s chest, watching as they wouldn’t stop shaking. Twitching no matter how much she tried to get them to stop, wondering how she was going to pull this off

However, she then felt the warmth of her sister’s hand over her left hand along with the warmth of Bobby’s hand over her right. There was no reason for her to be afraid with them by her side.

So she focused on those good memories she has had with them; feeling a strange, yet pleasant warmth coming from her hands. No special flashes or sparks of light came out of them or any fruity thing like that, but she could tell it was doing something. Feeling all the eyes of the room on her as she focused harder, trying to use this ability of hers to the best she could.

She didn’t know why, but all of a sudden she felt like she just worked out all day long, nearly collapsing if her siblings didn’t catch her. It appeared to her that just using her powers after all these years must have really tired her out.

Yet what she did must have done the trick, watching as that dweeb’s girl starting to move her head. At least there was a good purpose to this power of hers.

Ben watched as Ren’s eyes slowly opened, revealing her red ruby eyes he believed got more beautiful than before, only to barely hear her voice say. “B-Ben?”

He didn’t know what came over him, but just hearing her voice he couldn’t help but hug her; latch onto her tightly and not wanting to let her go. “Ren, you’re awake!”

“B-Ben, you’re hurting me.” Releasing his hold, completely forgetting for a moment that she just got out of surgery.

However, the alien hero Tennyson realized there was something strange about her voice. Where when he sat back he couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw that small smile on her face. “R-Ren your smiling, how is that possible?”

She didn’t realize she was till her potential mate pointed that detail to her, gently touching her face to feel that the muscles didn’t feel like stone any longer. The same for her throat till her hand reached her chest. She winced in pain when she touched there, however at the same time she could feel some of her ribs were missing. “What happened to me? I do not remember much after that attack.”

“You were brought here to this hospital, Miss. Ren,” she was a little startled to see the one that was supposed to be their target enemy standing so calmly among both allies and rivals, making her wonder how long she has been in that state of profound unconsciousness, “you suffered many broken ribs from that attack which were removed so they would not pierce your organs. With them removed, the doctors also introduced to your inactive muscles a dose of Hathor 1653-6. You will be sore for quite some time but you will eventually heal.”

She was glad she was going to be alright, along with her body feeling unusually a bit lighter and warmer than it has been recently. Wondering if it had anything to do with that warm hug her potential mate just gave her. It has been such a long time since he has given her one, warmly smiling when she thought how she would enjoy another one.

However, Ben stood up and calmly faced the villain through all of this. There was still the matter of what he came here to do he still needed to accomplish. “Alexander Sovereign, aka Pharaoh, you are to be arrested for crimes against the earth.”

Ben watched as the Sins were already readying themselves for a fight, knowing this was probably not the best place to bring this up but knowing the man before him he would disappear the moment they left this room.

But to this alien hero’s surprise, Pharaoh calmly waved them down. “Now now there will be none of that here my dear friends, this is a place of healing and not for a battle.” As that nut case directed his attention back towards him, always getting a bad feeling when he pulls something like this. “However Benjamin, would you please state the illegal actions I am being accused of?”

“Where do I start?” Ben nearly yelled at him, how could he have such a cocky tone for not having a drop of emotion. “You nearly started a world war, you had countless amount of people killed, and planned to kill a lot more.”

“Ah that,” ok now Ben knew he was trying to annoy him, how could he brush off such accusations like they were nothing, “well with the take-down of that terrorist cell there was clear evidence found there of the killing and destruction of the adult industries. One would be amazed what one can blame on terrorist these days. The Vatican incident is blamed on an ‘act of god’ status with no evidence to change that. And last with your help Benjamin I no longer need my Grand War plan, with that I have liberated fourteen countries from Warlord Dictatorships and now those countries are, at this moment, should have their civil wars calmed down thanks to the help of the military of this great country. With your help Benjamin those countries will most likely become a part of Alexandra, to overall rebuild their countries to far greater to the people there could have ever dreamed.”

“So Benjamin, though morally I have done some atrocious and unspeakable things, legally I have done nothing wrong. So at this moment you are unable to accomplish your mission.”

There, Alexander signaled for everyone in that room besides the Tennyson family to leave, where as they left, he approached the young teen standing before him.

“What do you want?” He asked the man in white before him, hating how even though he was able to help save this world twice, he couldn’t do anything to stop the nutcase that caused all of this chaos the past year of his life.

“It is true Benjamin that I am a villain, but I took that roll on myself knowing full well what it will bring. Now you have seen firsthand what I was willing to do to protect my dear Keikei and fix this world of the problem it has been suffering for countless centuries. However Benjamin, if anything I would like for you to look at me as a necessary evil.”

“What do you mean a necessary evil?” Feeling like this guy was trying to pull something on him.

“Benjamin, in this universe there are evils far greater and more horrifying than I am that I hope you will never have to see, even with the Basic Program finally fixed. You haven’t even dented the armor that it hides behind. However, I am already on that side of the armor, I have seen things that I know will make you physically ill. So let me help you from that side.”

“So you want to become a double agent?” Ben couldn’t help but be a bit surprised from this, wondering if Pharaoh was trying to be a good guy or was he using that ability of his.

“Not exactly Benjamin,” he knew it was too good to be true, “I will contain, control, and even eliminate some of the more horrendous of evils and inform you of others that you and your accomplices will be able to take down the other evil. I myself will still be a villain though; I have to be to be able to face that brand of evil.”

But before Ben could give him an answer, Pharaoh already started to walk out. Yet said as he left. “I will give you a few days to think about it Benjamin, but for now relax and spend time with your love ones as I have to fly Nicole, Dawn and Bobby to Los Angeles. As after all one who breaks their word is no better than scum.”

With that, Pharaoh walked out of the room, slowly closing the door behind him. Where Ben turned to see Gwen standing by Ren’s bed. For a cold emotionless jerk Ben had to admit Pharaoh did make a point. He could save the world one-hundred times over, but he doubted it wouldn’t have matter as much to him if the ones cared about were in trouble. He really needed to become a much better leader and user of his Omnitrix; if he wanted to become the ‘hero’ he hopes to be.

As Alexander, Lady Karen and Spec rode on that jet back to their home in Washington, D.C., as Alexander wanted to take the long way as he has had enough of that teleportation pad for one day; not to mention to spend time with his dear Keikei, something he has not gotten to do for three whole years.

In that spacious jet, Spec took his nap in the small bedroom near the back of the plane as Alex and his dear Keikei relaxed up front, finding the sight of the television the best way to do so as they watched the news report on the ending of many civil wars thanks to the acts of the troops sent from Alexandra.

But as they watched, a question has bothering the Next Head’s mind, finding this to be the perfect time to ask. “Beloved Brother,” she couldn’t help but feel her face grow red from that, as she missed calling him that to his face for so long, “I understand that you left the House to protect me, but how did you know that I was in danger after?”

He looked at her, that smile of his making the red in her face deepen. She has missed her dear Beloved Brother so much these last three years. “Do you still have my pocket watch?”

She moved back her head, pondering what that would have to do with anything. But she reached down into her secret pocket with her small slender hands and pulled it out by its white gold chain. “Here it is Beloved Brother.”

He took it softly from her. “I gave it to Spec to give it to you for a reason so it would bypass that woman’s sweep,” gently taking apart the back to show her the device, “I put a listening device in it to make sure that woman kept her end of the bargain.”

However, to this news she couldn’t help but feel her pure snow white face grow the deepest shade of red she believed it has ever gotten, along with being a bit dizzy from all of the blood that went to her face. Her Beloved Brother has heard everything she has said for the past three years.

“A new rule!” Lady Karen couldn’t keep her voice down. Able to keep a straight face to speaking in public to thousands of people yet not after this information. “A man should always respect a woman’s privacy!” She announced while she continued to hit him with one of the white couch pillows.

A week has passed since that incident and much has happen within just those short seven days. One that Ben was happiest about most of all was that Ren was cleared from the hospital. Though some of the scars were still clear on her face she never looked more beautiful to him, especially while they are on their date.

He was able to clear up any misunderstanding she might have had with him and Julie, and to make up for it to celebrate their one year anniversary he gave her a silver chain necklace with a single red jewel in the shape of a small heart. It matched the color of her eyes. How he was so glad to see her smile.

And Julie for that matter, it seemed like she started seeing that quote ‘hopeless flirt extrordinar’. He is still at the hospital recovering from that attack but if memory serves him right she has gone to see him every day since then. Who would have thought he would finally get a girl, let alone Julie?

Nicole, Dawn and Bobby went to visit that mental asylum to where Nicole’s mother was stated to have been. Expecting the worse only to find she was completely cured and volunteering at the hospital. Though a bit of an awkward reunion, Nicole giving her mother an earful, her mother revealed that she never felt she deserved the right to take care of her daughter. Only after Bobby was able to calm Nicole down they were able to settle her issue, with her mother promising to be more of a part in her daughter’s life.

Pharaoh, after one day of being Head of the House, turned down his new position and gave it over to his sister. His reason for doing so was, quote ‘He already ran Sphinx Corp and half of Alexandra, his hands were already full’. That and something about knowing that his sister would be more suited to being the Head, which she accepted honorably.

The only bad thing that seemed to come from this was he accidently reset his Omnitrix… again. Man he hated how just one wrong turn and it would return to only a group of ten, not to mention it was the ten he had before. If Will wasn’t so busy with that other project that required him to be at a top secret location he would get him to teach him how to get this rubix cube of alien DNA to work for him.

Ben just couldn’t believe it as he drank his smoothie with his beautiful date that this was all over with, for a while it almost seemed like it would have never finished. But he was glad it was finally over with, the world was safe, the Basic Program was fixed, and most of all they could finally relax.

Or so he thought…

Where just after that thought, he and his date were called up on their Thoths to the Noble Head of the House, he really didn’t think he would hear from them so soon.

So they activated it to see none other than Lady Karen herself, sitting behind a brand new desk in her new Head office. Hello Tennysons, I’m sorry to call you up so soon after all that I have asked of you before, but this does consist of the up most importance.”

“What’s the problem, Lady Karen?” Ben asked, knowing that she wouldn’t have called so soon if it wasn’t really important.

“There have been strange occurrences of people disappearing along with odd sudden drops in temperature in pockets around your hometown of Bellwood. Our scientists have come to the conclusion that alien activity might be the reason behind these incidences.”

“What about the Taskforce?” Ren asked, befuddled as to why they would be called up where their members would clearly be better equipped for such a mission.

“They are on other planets investigating other similar incidences to this one. If we wish to get this planet opened up to the universe we need to make sure there isn’t some kind of intergalactic conspiracy going on.” The Head of the Noble House of Tempus explained. “So, can I expect your help for this?”

“I’m in,” Ben and Ren could hear Gwen’s voice on the other end, “if there is something happening in my home town I want to stop it.”

With that statement, Ben and Ren could only smile as they both answered. “We’re in.”

The End

I DID IT! I FINALLY FINISHED THIS Story!!! (Sings Celebrate Good Times). Yes this series has finally come to an end and I hope all the questions were answered. I linked it up to where the Ben 10: Alien Force series begins. Yahoo I’m still so psyched that I finally finished this series I only planned to be one book.

Well I am glad that you have continued to read up to this story, I hope you have enjoyed it.

Fun Fact: Chapter 13-this chapter (right before the end) has been one day.