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Ben was not having a good day.
He just got back to his home which cost him a pretty good chunk of PLUMBER salary to buy, just to be dropped smack dab of a white sand and pitch black sky desert.
ROOAARRRR
Oh yeah, there's monsters too.
Weird white masked monsters which all looked different from each other, but monsters none the less. Which was reason for him running for his life in the seemingly never ending desert. His head start against the monsters was waning, he glanced to his left wrist the omnitrix most powerful device in the universe was recalibrating.
The hourglass atop the watch-like device was a deep blue instead of a vibrant green. When he turned eighteen he was granted master control by the watch's maker, that was a year ago new forms where unlocked and he grew at a rapid rate thanks to his unrestrained command-
Before now anyway.
So he ran with all the strength in his legs, he contemplated about just letting the monsters eat him in that case his very stylish black jeans, which paired perfectly with his black shirt with a white line down the centre and green hoodie. Now that Ben thought about it his current style aligned pretty well with his first future self pretty well.
Well except that his hair is a bit longer, hero work barely gives him any time personal maintenance.
BAAM
POWW
Scorpion tail strike to the right, claw strike to the left. A dust cloud was formed in front of him, shielding his eyes Ben used the cover to make his escape. He increased the gap but came to a realization.
'Why am I able to increase the gap like this?'
Ben was no slouch when it came to his fitness nearly a decade of heroism puts some on you. However, he was still a human he had limits, ok maybe his limits were above the average, but being ¼, Anodite will do that to you.
Still he should not be outpacing monster which were as big as cars now!
He turned and saw the monsters dispersing, as if they were afraid to come any closer. That filled Ben with dread, mindless monsters never ran, unless-
"Who dares to approach Las Noches?!"
There's a bigger one around the corner.
The sand beneath the green eyed hero shifted, which made Ben do the only logical thing he could think of-
Run past the thing before it could form. The alien watch bearing hero was experienced in these types of situations, big monster trying to form? Beat it up before it does! And if you can't run like the which was what he was doing at that the moment.
Which oddly enough made him notice the castle in the distance, which seemed to have a dome and pillars, odd. Well not the dome or pillars being odd just the existence of actual buildings in the desert like environment.
"No! None shall approach Las Noches!" The voice that sounded like sand paper rubbing against one another rang out again. The sand the young man treaded on rose into tentacles and grabbed his legs, hoisting him up high.
Ben finally saw who had been shouting at him, it was a living sand castle!
Well it would be more accurate to say it was a giant humanoid made out of sand who had a sand castle for a face, a gaping hole in his chest. But still a sand castle though.
So ben found himself now hanging upside down by the legs face to sand castle face to a giant sand man.
"A human!? Here in Hueco Mundo, attempting to approach lord Aizen's castle! The hubris!" The giant shouted directly in front of Ben who hung like a carcass at a butchery.
"Yeah I understood like one of those words. So care to explain sand man." Ben tried to sound polite, but blame the blood rushing to his head, he came of as cocky and insulting.
"Sand man? You dare to address me Runuganga, guard of Las Noches as sand man?! Die for your impudence!" The best roared as it wined back it's right arm that held Ben in order to slam him on the ground in order to reduce him to paste. Instinct took over as Ben slammed the omnitrix's faceplate over and over as it spoke.
Recalibrating...Recalibrating
BAAAM
The giant slammed down with monstrous strength, creating another dust cloud.
"Wh..what is this!" The sand beast stammered as it felt a cloud chill run through his body. Its 'hand' dissipated reduced to mud, it stared down at sand cloud that shone with emerald light with fear.
"Cutting it close but I should be used to it at this point. Oh let's get rid of this cloud." After hearing those words, the giant saw pillar of water rise before him. The water scattered and forced the giant to create distance to preserve itself.
After gaining some distance and allowing the cloud to disperse the giant if it had one his jaw would drop, because in front of him in place of a supposed to be dead human was a humanoid creature in a reddish barnacle caked exo-skeleton with a domed helmet-like structure covering his head. It had what appeared to be white and black pants on with a grey hourglass badge as a belt buckle.
"So uh..Runuganga was it? First, sorry for the hand, second can we not like fight I just want some directions." The reddish humanoid spoke to a mound of sand in the distance he had to squint his blue eyes to notice at first.
"Talk? Talk! You invade my lord's territory injure me his appointed guard and you want to talk?! Fine, we can..when your dead!" The rose up, raised it's arms into the air and slammed down into the sand before him. And like an army taking up arms in the name of their king the sand became a death trap.
Spears of sand shout towards the red crustacean with wild speed, and a surge of killing intent. Ben thought before taking action.
'Maybe I could have avoided this by going for Terraspin instead of Waterhazard?'
The alien moved his arms behind himself, on his hands were barnacles, or jets to be more precise they gathered the ambient hydrogen and oxygen in the air and shot the alien forward in to the sand spikes with insane speed.
It seemed like the alien wanted to die in the giants 'eyes' as his opponent was going to ram head first into his attack. Then-
BOOM
A massive shock wave broke out as hardened exoskeleton met supernatural sand construct, the wall of sand spears collapsed as a result. The giant thought that was the end.
Then a portion of his would be chest was blasted off by a high pressured water blast.
"Pro tip don't count your chickens before they hatch!" His opponent was still alive and from the looks of it, unscathed! Waterhazard did not give the sand giant the chance to regenerate before launching two more water blasts at his 'shoulders'. The alien didn't let the water fly off into the distance this time instead he concentrated drew the long whips of water back towards himself.
He surrounded himself in a sphere of water before transforming again.
This time it was into Ripjaws in his bipedal state, the alien looked like a 7-meter grey walking angler fish his omnitrix badge was one his left pectoral. The alien worked fast in the span of ten seconds he executed a variety of martial art moves which caused the water to take on a blue glow, and come alive!
The glowing water shot forward towards the sand creature's torso, before reaching it's mark the water turned into what appeared to be a leviathan in the giant's eyes. However, to Ben it was just a water construct version of the sea monster he met when he was ten.
The construct was smaller but had all the same features, it struck the giants torso before dissipating. The giants head fell onto the sand.
"L..Lord Aizen forgive me I was too weak." The head closed it's 'eyes' it remained intact and seemed to draw in the nearby sand.
That was both a relief and disappointment to Ben. Relief because the giant wasn't dead, disappointment because he passed out so Ben was back to square one in terms of information.
"Urhh, nothing I can do about that, however- "Ripjaws looked towards the castle in the distance excitement was evident in his orange eyes.
A flash of emerald light later and the feline like alien speedster Fasttrack took to the scene, he wore a white and black suit with the glass symbol on his jest, with green shades and a face mask. His omnitrix badge was placed on his left shoulder.
Fasttrack visualised a straight line in front of him as he got into his running stance, light blue sparks rose up over his body. And then he ran!
The sound barrier was broken over a dozen times as he made his way to Las Noches.
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