Chapter 86 - 2

Chapter 2: The World of Magic… Meet Ben 10

The World of Earth Land

Most of the known part of Earth Land is occupied by a very large peninsula, with some isles of different sizes being scattered in the sea surrounding it, and the peninsula itself being linked to the mainland, whose geography is mainly unknown.

The territory seems to be split into several countries: The Kingdom of Fiore being one of them. Fiore was occupied by a smaller, secondary peninsula sprouting from the main land, to the west. The Principality of Veronica, a small country located in the Mountains north to Fiore. The country of Seven, occupied a peninsula northeast of Fiore. The country of Bosco, located east of Fiore. The Country of Iceberg, located to the east of Seven, northeast of Bosco, north of Joya, northwest of Bellum, and west of the Pergrande Kingdom. And so on which expanded the boundaries of Earth Land.

But there was one thing about this world more than just the kingdoms. It was a world of Magic.

Magic had been around for centuries in Earth Land and Fiore. Every type of Magic came from The One Magic, the original source of all types of Magic. Magic was once oppressed and feared, but gradually became an everyday phenomenon. Magic was bought and sold in this world every day, but only about 10 percent of the populace was able to be born to use it naturally, like it was a part of them. It became an integral part of people's lives.

And there were those who used magic in life as their occupation. They were referred to as wizards, or more commonly known as Mages. The wizards belonged to various guilds, and performed jobs on commission. There were a number of large guilds within the country. And within one city laid a very particular guild, known to be the most powerful. A guild were various legends were born… or rather, would continue to be born long into the future.

It was called Fairy Tail.

Fiore

Fiore was one of the countries located on the Earth Land. Fiore was located on the westernmost peninsula. It was surrounded on three sides by ocean, and had land borders with Bosco and Seven. A neutral country of roughly 17 million people. Additionally, Caelum and Fiore combine their sea trade routes. It is a state in which the current regime is a monarchy and is ruled by a King, who is the head of the government. Next to the King is the power exercised by the government. The part of the government responsible for the supervision of the Magic and the guilds is the Magic Council. It supervises guilds, including outlawing their activities, has the ability to appoint Wizard Saints, gives official orders and sends complaints to the Guild Masters.

The capital was Crocus, and the monetary unit in Fiore Kingdom is a type of currency called Jewels. Not the actual gemstones but a form of coins called Jewels.

City of Hargeon

The City of Hargeon was a large port town located in the southern part of Fiore, near Magnolia Town. Hargeon was one of the Fiore's ports and also one of its most beautiful old towns. The town was more prosperous and renowned in fishing rather than Magic, because only 10% of the people in the town have the ability to use Magic. Like any port city, it had its own large marina, located in the southern part of town. In the town, there was also a train station and a public park.

But at the moment, most of the activity was going on within Hargeon Restaurant. It was a large two-story building with tan walls. There were at least seven windows on the front side of the building. The windows all had blue shutters and the windows on the top floor were covered by a fish net that hung down from the roof. The roof of the building had purple shingles. A sign could be seen above the restaurant's entrance. On the sign, a purple fork and a blue knife were crossing and the word Restaurant was written above them. There were several sea themed items lining the fronts of the buildings. Those included: Several floaties, an anchor, etc. There were also several barrels lined across the front.

But the real action was starting at a table outside, with four… or rather five, individuals sitting together.

The five of them sat together at a table, taking their lunch for the day before the journey onward home. Well, actually four of the members sat at the table, while the fifth member sat on top of the table.

The first one was a lean, muscular young Caucasian man of average height with a slightly tan skin tone, black eyes, and spiky pink-colored hair; he also had a red guild mark located just below his right shoulder. His outfit consisted of a sleeveless, gold trimmed, black waistcoat, often left open and untucked, exposing his bare chest, white knee-length trousers, a thick black wristband on his left wrist, black open-toed sandals and the scale-patterned scarf. He was Natsu Dragneel, a Fire Dragon Slayer Mage, and one of the most powerful members of the guild, Fairy Tail. At least that's what he believed when the fact was he only in the top ten rather than the elite five.

The second companion was trying calmly to sip on a cup of tea, but she was too ashamed about something. She was a young Caucasian maiden with brown eyes and shoulder length blonde hair that was usually tied by ribbons in a variety of colors in a small ponytail to the right side of her head with the rest of the hair loose. She had large breasts, and a curvaceous body. On the back of her right hand was a pink guild mark of the same make as her companion. She wore a sleeveless blue and white shirt, a black mini skirt, and black leather high heeled boots. Strapped to a belt around her waist was a whip with a heart-shaped end. And on the right side, was a pouch holding golden keys. Her name was Lucy Heartfilia, a Celestial Mage, and the newest member of the guild, Fairy Tail.

The third companion was a small blue cat-like creature with a white underbelly. He had a rectangular head, with pink ears, big black eyes with small, thin eyebrows, and light blue cheek marks near to his tiny whiskers (two on each side of his face). He had a triangular nose that leads to semi-round upper lips on the sides. The creature's body was rectangular too, and seemed to be able to walk on his own two feet, but right now was sitting down. Despite having no thumbs, he was able to hold things, like the big fish he was gnawing at. He had a long, white-tipped tail; and the other parts of his tail are blue. Additionally, the creature was able to use his tail to hold onto objects, like a second fish. The creature was seen carrying around a green backpack, where he kept food and items that could be used in battle. This backpack also covered his green Guild Mark that was on his back. His name was Happy, Natsu's best friend and partner, as well as the little comic relief of the group.

The fourth member of the group was a Caucasian fellow of eighteen, with spiky black-colored hair. He had dark blue eyes, and his body was toned and muscular. He wore a necklace with resembled a sword with a stone in it, a metal bracelet and a chain which was attached to the belt loops on the right side of his blue pants, which he wore alongside a pair of black boots. He had a dark blue guild mark below his collarbone on his right pectoral muscle. His name was Gray Filibuster, an Ice Mage of Fairy Tail, and had a sort of friend/rival relationship with Natsu.

And finally, the fifth member was a Caucasian female beauty who was nineteen years of age, with long scarlet colored hair, and brown eyes. She had a slender figure that would be described as amazing and like Lucy had large breasts. Her attire appeared to be a custom made armor by the Heart Kreuz smiths, a blue skirt, and black boots. Her guild stamp was blue and located on the middle of her left upper arm. Her name was Erza Scarlet, a Mage that specialized in Requip Magic, allowing her to requip not only armor but different outfits as well, allowing her to change her attire at any given time. She was known as Titania and was one of her guilds very strongest Mages which was backed up by how she was ranked in the top 5 of Fairy Tail's members with her Guild Master in first place, their ace mage in second as for who came in third that was currently debatable given how their guild masters grandson Laxus and the mysterious Mystogan haven't fought each other to see who's the best of the three, which was just fine with her.

And right now, aside from enjoying a piece of cake, she was silently furious.

"You do realize the significant dangers you've gotten yourselves into," she asked, as she set her plate down, and looked at them sternly. "You do realize you'll be punished."

At that moment, both Natsu and Gray paled at this, as they freaked out, as Natsu shouted, "DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS!"

Even Lucy freaked out as she nearly screamed, "Wh-wh-what kind of punishment are we talking about here? I mean, I know we shouldn't have taken the S-Class mission, but what would happen?"

Even Happy stopped nibbling from his fish, as he reassured Lucy, "Oh, don't worry. Erza may be harsh, but she's actually a lot nicer when she gets to know you, or when you get to know her better."

Lucy sighed in relief, as she heard that, "Oh, that's comforting…"

"It's the Head Master of the Guild you should fear," Happy finished, as a dark aura fell over the cat, as he still smiled. "Once word gets out to what we did… he'll do that to us."

Lucy paled again, as she whimpered, "That? What's That?"

"Who cares," Gray managed to calm down, as he sighed defeated. "That whole mission, and all we got was a Celestial Key. To which you have, Luc."

Lucy managed to forget her fear a little, as she pulled a key out, and mused to look at it: the Celestial Key of Sagittarius. From what Lucy had learned, Sagittarius was a horse constellation, as well as the Spirit took the form of a man dressed in an anthropomorphic horseman dressed as an archer. Lucy had already made the contract and the details of it, so she was fine with it.

But then Happy flew in and whispered, "Punishment…"

Lucy then returned down in the dumps, as she groaned, "Well, at least things can't get any worse."

But before the talking blue bipedal cat could answer her, the ground beneath them began to shake. It started as a light shake, but then grew even more, as the streets shook like crazy. Knocking over carts, causing cars to crash, and causing mass hysteria. And even worse, it knocked the table over to where Natsu and the others were sitting at, knocking Happy down on his butt… and Erza's slice of cake to spill on his head. Then all of a sudden, without warning, the skies roared out like a lion for food, or endless thunder echoing through the air. The skies turned darkened purple as well, glowing eerie and dark; it was almost as if the atmosphere was becoming distorted from outside forces, as everyone looked up at this strange event. And then without warning, a rip within the sky slowly started to tear open, sending mass hysteria to the populace below. It slowly began to open until finally, the tear ripped open as fast as someone tearing a piece of paper in half, opening a black rip with lightning shooting out of it, nearly frightening everyone in the process. People thought that the tear was Dark Magic, and that Dark Mages were invading the area.

But as everyone panicked, only the Fairy Tail Mages could see that something slowly started to make its way out of the tear. A strange iron ship began to slowly make its way out of there. Once that happened, it suddenly rocketed out of the area, disappearing over the horizon, but not before two objects broke from it. One larger object heading straight into Hargeon Park, and a smaller spherical object falling outside the city walls. A tremendous quake from the larger object erupted as it made impact into the park, shaking the town once again to its core. Once that happened, the tear in the sky sealed itself up, and once again a clear blue sky was shown again, as if nothing had happened at all.

Once things had settled down, the townspeople were all confused as to what had transpired. But they were all gossiping on the object that had crashed into their own park. And so, they all raced to see what it was, while the Fairy Tail members looked to each other for questions and answers.

"Okay, what the heck was that" was all that Lucy could ask aloud.

Happy flew up as he stated, "A falling star!"

"FALLING STARS DON'T CAUSE THE SKY TO RIP OPEN!" Lucy shot back.

Natsu got back up, looking fired up at the moment, "Well, whatever it was, let's check it out." And dashed for the park like a crazy man, completely unaware of what dangers that lied ahead.

"Natsu, wait up," Gray reminded him, as he ran off…. In his underwear.

Happy grabbed the clothing and flew off after him, "Gray, wait! You forgot your clothes!"

Lucy just sighed, as she chuckled nervously, "Well, maybe we should at least see what that bigger one was. I mean, that little one was probably just a…" But then she gulped, as she saw Erza fuming with rage; a dark aura seething behind her. "Eh, Erza…" she gulped.

"That falling star made me drop my cake," then suddenly, two swords materialized at her side, as she grabbed them, and roared, "I'LL KILL IT FOR THAT DISGRACE TO DESSERTS!" and raced after the others, screaming bloody murder, " STAY OUT OF MY WAY WHILE I KILL THAT FALLING CHUNK OF SPACE ROCK!"

Lucy gulped at that, as she slowly followed behind.

Era

Home City of the Fiore Magic Council

Era was a large town that served as the headquarters for the Magic Council. The location of this town was currently unknown. Era is a large town, built around a high, rocky mountain. The mountain nested the headquarters of the highest authority in the world of Magic, the Magic Council. The rocky mountain is located in the heart of the city, and it features a jagged pathway that encircles the circumference of the mountain as an entrance into the Council headquarters. The town is surrounded by forestry and snow-peaked mountains, which could be seen from the Magic Council headquarters' meeting room. The Magic Council was the ruling body of the world of Magic.

As the main ruling body of the entire Magic world, the Council possesses almost utmost control over it, acting as a leading government of sort. The Council ruled all of the legal Guilds scattered throughout Earth Land, overseeing them and keeping them in check, and they are responsible for the events caused by Mages, also possessing the right to punish Mages who break the law and to confiscate Magical artifacts which could potentially cause large-scale damage (as shown from the Lullaby being in their hands after the Eisenwald incident). Among the things prohibited by the Magic Council is the use of Magic for assassination, something which, if perpetrated, could lead the Council to oust the offender's guild (as shown with "Shinigami" Erigor and the Eisenwald guild). The Council also had the right to apprehend Mages charged with crimes anytime, with their messengers being highly respected. Some people went on to say that "Even if something is white, once a Council member says it's black, then it becomes black", showing that the Council's authority was extremely large in the Magic world.[1] However, despite this, the Council was known for sometimes displaying its power as a mere formality, finding scapegoat Mages and trying them of recent, calamitous happenings just too subsequently release them without any punishment, something which happened once with the Fairy Tail Mage, Erza Scarlet.

But now, things were looking to a different direction. A few of the more prominent members were gathered together, as they were discussing a certain incident that had happened only minutes ago. One of them, a short old man, with thick light-brown eyebrows and a small toothbrush mustache that reached halfway to his mouth, and wore a brown long sleeve shirt with black vertical stripes and a black three-spiked hat. His name was Yajima, one of the eldest members of the Magic Council, and a friend to the Guild Master of Fairy Tail.

"I think we all know why this meeting was called here in private, before it made public," Yajima spoke up to everyone. "The strange occurrence that had happened moments ago."

"It was almost as if the Gods had torn a hole through the fabric of space and time," A frog man stated, looking rather concerned.

An elderly woman stated, "We need to investigate on this. Where is Siegrain and Ultear? They're supposed to be here."

"They're dealing with matters elsewhere," Yajima answered. "I think we can come to a conclusion that we should at least send a team down in Hargeon to investigate this matter, all in favor?"

"Aye," they all said in unison, and the decision was made for an investigation of the events over Hargeon. However, no one was aware that from the shadows, they were spied upon.

In another location of the building the two members that were missing from the meeting were conversing with one another on the subject. One of the two was an exotic female; a pale-skinned woman with dark purple hair and brown eyes. She had a rather voluptuous figure, and she wore a long revealing dress, sporting a striped pattern. She was Ultear, the female member of the Magic Council, and possibly one of the youngest members.

The other one was a young Caucasian man whose most prominent features were his blue hair and a red tattoo under and above his right eye, which he has had since his childhood. He was dressed in elegant yet simple robes; consisting of a long white tunic with black stripes across the edges and on the upper part of the arms, a decorated collar, large straps connected to decorated buckles closing the inducement on the front over a dark shirt, and matching pants and shoes. He was also sporting a ring on his right middle finger, and usually had the medallion attesting his status as one of the Ten Wizard Saints around his neck, hidden by his jacket's collar. He was Siegrain, one of the members of the Magic Council.

Once they heard about the decision, they conversed with one another on this important subject. "Very interesting," Siegrain mused, as he stroked his chin, "The sky ripping open, and objects falling from the stars."

"Do you think this could be the work of Dark Mages," Ultear questioned.

"Not really certain about that. Dark Magic is capable of many unnatural things, but nothing as unnatural as this," he deduced. "Whatever's going on, we need to start our own little investigation without the council knowing too much of this. We need to know who or what caused all this." Ultear nodded to this, and walked off back into the shadows to start their private investigation. Although Siegrain smirked in the dark, as he thought to himself, 'This Dark Power could tear a hole through space and time, it might aid in the Tower of Heaven. Either if it'll help or interfere, it will keep the Council blind to the true intentions.

Back in Hargeon

Hargeon Park

All the citizens had raced over to the park, just to find out what the fallen star or whatever it was, to know whatever it was that crashed in the park. The strange object was in a deep crater, smoking off steam from the impact of the fall. The members of Fairy Tail squeezed through to get a good look at it, and once they did, they didn't understand what they were looking at. From what they saw, it was a giant black and red ball, curled up and red hot from the heat of the impact. They all just blinked, and whispered to each other, trying to figure out what on earth, or if this thing was Earth, it was.

Natsu sniffed the air, as his face scrunched in confusion, "Hmmm. It doesn't smell like molten rock…or even space rock."

Lucy blinked as she asked, "How can you even smell it? You've eaten space rock before?"

"No, but he did eat magma once," Happy stated, smiling at that.

Gray grimaced at that memory, "I remember that. That was pretty stupid of you to eat hot molten lava like that."

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING STUPID!?" Natsu roared out, forgetting about the mysterious object.

"I have to agree with him on that." Lucy sweat dropped. "Who in their right mind would eat lava?"

However, Erza was looking at the fallen object; her gaze never leaving it at all. Something was rather… otherworldly… about this thing. Suddenly, the red spots on it began to light up, showing strange rectangular patterns inside them. It hummed to life, first as a slow and steady hum and it build up to a loud roar. Her eyes wide opened with surprise, as she called out to everyone, "EVERYONE GET BACK!"

Not wanting to argue with a Mage, everyone backed away, as did her fellow guild members. Once Team Natsu had backed up more, along with the crowd, they saw the sphere began to stretch and fold out, taking a different shape. The shape was obscured by the major dust clouds that were forming around the hole. The shape was growing to gigantic proportions, and soon sprouted massive arms, and a curved head with a stocked skull dome. Once the dust settled, the creature was shown to the whole city, as well as to the five members of Fairy Tail.

The gigantic being was roughly 40 feet tall, with more humanoid features of its torso, and had three insectoid legs. Its arms were large and powerful, with silver clawed hands that flexed about, feeling their first chance at freedom. Its chest, pelvic region, forearms, and head were all armored in red metal, while the exo and endo-skeleton metal armor. its two front legs and back leg were insectoid, carefully balancing the body as it climbed out of the hole. And its head was curvy and domed, with two insect red eyes blazing with light, showing that it was wide awake.

It looked around, as Happy was able to speak out, "Maybe it's friendly."

The Giant Drone continued to look around and about, causing the citizens to become scared and wary at this gigantic figure. What no one knew of this being, was that it was looking for one subject in particular: Ben Tennyson. Which was what the second object was when the Hammer had disappeared. But as it intended to search for the unique energy signature that the Omnitrix gave off, it was picking up something else. All it could scan was massive unknown energy spikes all across the area.

It was then that the A.I. realized that it came from the humans down below its feet. Nobody could have known that Magic energy was also a lot like mana, which was common from its dimension of origin. So it only made sense that the scanners would detect such massive spikes of it in one area. Realizing that it was surrounded all over the area, it now knew that before it found the Omnitrix, there was one thing to do first now.

"ENERGY INFUSED LIFEFORMS DETECTED," the Drone called out, sounding out a horn-like echo, much like the Tripods from War of the Worlds. Cannons then popped out of the palms of its hands, as well as the back of its arms, as it aimed for all the citizens, "MUST DESTROY MAXIMUM THREATS… WITH EQUAL PREJUDICE."

Then Lucy screamed out, "Or maybe it's not!"

Not Far

Not far from the town, was the other smoking crater of the secondary object. Out of the dust, Cannon Bolt wobbled out like a penguin out of the arctic. "Gugh, man. I never wanna do that again. Cannonbolt or not." he groaned and in a flash, changed back into Ben.

Even though his transformation saved him, his clothes were still not as good. His shirt was halfway torn, exposing his toned chest, and his pants looked worse for wear. Although his sneakers looked like they survived the blast. Once he steadied himself again, he looked around his surroundings, and realized he must have landed back on Earth.

"Huh, must've been a dud on that Dimensional Gateway thing," Ben surmised, and called on Rook. "Rook, can you hear me? Rook are you there? Do you read me Rook," he tried to call, but all he seemed to get was static, as he finally shouted, "ROOK! GRANDPA!" the static continued, until he finally gave up, as he sighed, but was confused, "Why isn't anyone answering?" He then got a good look around the area, as he wondered where he landed, "Where the heck am I? Eastern Europe? Western country? This place doesn't even look familiar… maybe the dimensional gateway really was a success and he was now on what his enemies called Earth Prime?"

But then his thoughts were pushed elsewhere, as he heard an explosion not too far. There, he saw a town, being under attack, by what appeared to be a Giant Hammer Drone. "It must've fallen down with me when the Hammer crashed," he concluded, as he switched on the Omnitrix, and changed into XLR8. "I'll have to put the search on Squidbeard on hold for now," he told himself, "Right now… it's Hero Time!"

And sped off towards the city of Hargeon, unaware of what surprises were in store for him.

Meanwhile

Back in Town

Back in the town, the drone was making a mess of everything, as it tried to kill everyone. All citizens panicked and ran for cover or to escape from the town, but the drone shot at the walls, blowing up the gates. The drone entered through the destroyed gates and held out its massive clawed arms where two large red circles lay in its metallic palms. Its eyes and the circles in its palms glowed and a loud humming echoed through the air.

It fired.

Four terrifying beams of crimson slammed into the ground and sent concrete and cobblestone flying everywhere. A massive trench was torn through the city before the four beams melded at a single point before causing a massive explosion. A dome of crimson created a massive crater in the ground and a few of the houses in the area had been reduced to rubble. The ground then began to quake as the drone continued on its march, firing haphazardly at anything that moved in front of its vision.

"We have to get that thing back out of the walls!" Erza exclaimed. "Too many civilians are being put in danger!"

"I think we've already lost some too." Gray gritted his teeth as he spotted an arm poking through the wooden remains of what was once a market stand.

"Lucy, Happy and I will do what we can and form a perimeter for the civilians to evacuate! Gray, hold off that...what ever it is...with an ice wall to halt its movement. Natsu, you work with Gray after that and get it outside the walls!" Erza's orders were absolute and though they didn't like doing it, Gray and Natsu knew when it was time to put their differences aside and work together.

"AYE SIR!" The blue furred feline saluted with a paw before he began swooping down and picking up people, putting them down as far away as possible from all the chaos. Lucy helped with crowd control while Erza deflected the stray laser fire from the drone. The Titania of Fairy Tail then smirked as she felt the air begin to become affected by a sudden cold front.

"ICE MAKE: WALL!" In a flash of blue magic, a massive arched wall erupted from the magic seal that appeared when Gray slammed his hands down on the ground. A gargantuan wall of ice appeared and was easily able to climb to a height that would obstruct the robotic monstrosity. The drone releasing a whirring noise before a massive buzz saw came out of a slit in its chest, trying to slice through the thick structure, however, that was put to a halt when two pillars of ice shot forth from the ice wall, hitting the drone in the chest, freezing the buzz saw and sending it skidding backwards.

"ICE MAKE: FROST GIANT!" A massive pair of fists made entirely out of ice formed in midair and rocketed towards the drone only for it to fire off laser bullets from its eyes, shattering the fists.

"FIRE DRAGON'S ROAR!" A blazing stream of fire then rocketed towards it from the side. The drone raised its arm and the tongue of yellow-orange flame washed over the limb. However, the alien technology of Vilgax the Conqueror was not to be taken lightly as it withstood the high temperatures of the Fire Dragon Slayer's attack before swiping its arm and released an arc of crimson.

"What the...?!" Natsu quickly crossed his arms in a feeble effort to defend himself as the arc of energy crashed into the ground in front of him as he tried to leap out of the way. He flew through the air, but quickly flipped in midair to right himself before planting his feet against the side of a building. His knees were bent as much as they could before he pushed off. The son of Igneeel rocketed through the air as a pair of flames ejected out of the bottom of his feet, increasing his speed due to the thrust.

The drone picked up on the high speed object that was the Fire Dragon Slayer and slashed its claws at him.

"ICE MAKE: FROST GIANT!" A massive fist of ice slammed against the arm and diverted it away from Natsu as he soared over both limbs and neared the head of the giant drone. His fists and feet them burst into flame before he attacked.

"FIRE DRAGON'S IRON FIST!" His right fist launched forward and slammed against the drone's head with a great deal of force. Due to his speed, the momentum was carried forward and Natsu's immense strength made the drone backpedal from the force.

"FIRE DRAGON'S TALON!" He rotated his body and crashed a powerful roundhouse kick that created a fiery explosion against the drone's head before going with the momentum of his strike to go into a front flip and bring down his fire encased left hand which had fire in the shape of claws.

"FIRE DRAGON'S CLAWS!" Another fiery explosion had the drone backpedaling once more.

"FIRE DRAGON'S FLAMING ELBOW!" Natsu then switched to his flaming elbow after the claw strike. The drone then went to swipe at Natsu, but the Dragon Slayer's swift reflexes saved his life as he twisted his body and grabbed onto the claw of the robot's hand and swung him himself into the air, holding out both hands as he rose higher and higher.

"Fire in right hand...fire in my left...bring them together and..." He clasped his flame encased hands together before spreading them apart to reveal the massive fireball his now held, resembling a miniature sun in some manner. "FIRE DRAGON'S BRILLIANT FLAME!" The raging fireball raced through the air and a breakneck speed and collided with the drone's chest and sent it skidding backwards before Natsu ejected flames from the bottom of his feet once more. He then performed a series of front flips to build up the necessary momentum, his arms wrapped in flames that then took on the image of wings.

"FIRE DRAGON'S WING ATTACK!" The wings slammed down on the head, sending it stumbling backwards. Gray then saw his chance and slammed his hands down on the ground while unleashing a burst of icy magic.

"ICE MAKE: FREEZE!" The basic Ice Make spell cast ice across the ground, before freezing the ground beneath the drone's spider-like limbs. The lack of friction made it slip and fall to the ground with a resounding crash before the ice continued to spread over its body. In a matter of seconds, the large drone was completely encased in ice.

"Now Natsu, finish it!" Gray yelled to the son of Igneel. The pink haired mage nodded to the student of Ur before he fell towards it, his entire body wrapped in flames.

"FIRE DRAGON'S SWORD HO-!" Natsu didn't get time to complete his attack, and both his and Gray's eyes widened when the drone's ice prison began to release a red glow. Intense heat broke through the intense cold of the ice and twin beams shot through the air as the drone speared through the ice with its eye beams. The ice shuddered and shook. Cracks spread rapidly across the ice before it was completely shattered. The red eyes beams from the drone's eyes had easily torn through the prison before it grabbed Natsu out of the air. The drone pushed itself to its feet before giving itself a little boost by unleashing some flames from the thrusters located on its underside. It reared back the hand holding Natsu before slamming the pink haired Fairy Tail mage into the ground with devastating force, cratering the ground as a result.

The robotic arm then extended, dragging Natsu painfully through the ground before he was slammed into the ice wall.

"Damn...thing...is tough." Natsu grunted in pain. "Gray, get your frozen ass...in gear and do...something!"

"I'm on it, matchstick!" Gray responded as he slammed his right fist into his left palm, frost flowing from the point of contact. "Ice Make: Bifrost!" A massive burst of ice washed over both Natsu and the robotic hand which froze the joint areas of it, preventing from squeezing Natsu any tighter. Natsu's eyes shone with red light as he called upon the magic of his dragon parent.

"BURN!" Natsu roared and soon a massive burst of yellow-orange fire raced out of his body and over the hand. The ice in the joints melted, but as a result of the rapid cooling and heating, it made the hand brittle and so the metal alloy which made up the robot drone's hand was now covered in a spider web of cracks. Natsu then adjusted his feet and gripped the hand which held him before unleashing another torrent of flames from it.

Three fingers snapped off when Natsu lashed out with a devastating flame covered fist, freeing himself from his position. The robot drone retracted its arm and stared at the area where its fingers were lost. Its eyes seemed to glow more menacingly before it began to send out a flurry of laser blasts from the blasters on its palms. Natsu quickly jumped, twisted, spun and rolled, performing every acrobatic trick in the book and then some in order to prevent himself from being hit by the attacks. Explosions occurred all around him and a blast slammed into his body making release a gasp of pain as he was sent soaring through the air and another blast followed afterwards, shrouding his body in a dust cloud from where he landed.

The drone then sensed incoming from its left and raised its arms and blocked the barrage of ice arrows from Gray as he held a bow of ice as well. The drone aimed its palms at Gray and fired bursts of energy at him. Gray quickly channeled his magic and took off.

"ICE MAKE: ROAD!" With each step Gray took, ice formed in front of him and soon the black haired teen was skating along the battleground as crimson projectiles followed after him.

"Ice Make: Cannon!" He activated his Ice Make magic again and a large handheld cannon formed in his arms. He gripped the weapon and pulled on the trigger, firing round after round of cannonballs made of ice that were twice the size of a basketball. The icy projectiles crashed against the robot's durable armour, shattering in some parts, but Gray had to quickly discard his weapon when the drone extended its limbs in hopes to grab him. An explosion of dust and rock formed behind Gray as he picked up speed.

Gray slammed his hands together once more. A ring of blades formed in the air around the drone, causing it to cease fire as it processed the sudden appearance of the ice swords.

"Ice Make: Sword Storm!" The blades reared themselves back a bit before shooting forward at a breakneck pace. However, the mage gritted his teeth as the drone suddenly rotated its upper body as its arms were outstretched. The swords shattered like glass as the high speed rotation of the drone absorbed the force of the impacts and destroyed the ice blades. Once they were all destroyed, Gray circled around the drone once more on his ice road, looking for an opening.

His eyes widened when the drone turned away from him and looked to where Natsu had landed. The pink haired Dragon Slayer rose from his personal crater where his entire shirt and one pant leg had been completely lost from the laser fire. However, being the Fire Dragon Slayer made him impervious to any forms of heat, even if it was from concentrated plasma cannons, so he was only covered in a a few cuts rather than being burned heavily.

Natsu inhaled deeply and fire and magic energy swirled within his open jaws, collecting in his lungs. His body swelled to a large size before he reared his head back. "FIRE DRAGON'S ROAR!" The rosette unleashed a massive tongue of flame that scorched the earth, leaving a massive trench of blackened and molten rock behind it. The attack slammed against the drone's legs, making it stumble a bit, before Natsu adjusted the angle of his head and raised the fire stream. The drone continued to skid backwards as Natsu's tongue of flame pushed against its chest and finally its head.

However, two orbs of crimson shone through the brightly coloured flames and twin beams of energy tore through the Dragon Slayer's attack from the drone's eyes. Natsu quickly leaped to the side as the twin blasts left a crater where he was once standing, rolling with the momentum of his jump and sent out a massive fireball.

"FIRE DRAGON'S BRILLIANT FLAME!" The fireball barreled towards the drone, but it countered with its own attack. Crimson plasma and yellow-orange flame collided and resulted in powerful dome of energy that tore the earth asunder, but luckily it was contained within the battleground due to Gray's dense ice wall. Natsu then went into a dance of acrobatic motions as the drone began to fire smaller, yet quicker, bolts of energy from the plasma cannons in its palms. As he did so, Natsu continued to fire barrage of fire balls with each leap as the robot.

Explosions rocked seemed to rock heaven and earth itself and shockwaves occurred with each collision of fire and plasma.

During the exchange of attacks, Gray saw his chance. He built up speed by skating around the drone once more before breaking off the circular path and made a ramp of ice, shooting him high into the air at an angle.

"Ice Make: Hammer!" He then raised his hands as if he were holding something and in a flash of blue, a massive sledgehammer. He made a swinging motion with his arms and the robot drone was smashed across the side of its head sending it tumbling backwards. Its internal mechanisms fixed its body and it rolled with the fall, climbing back onto its spider-like limbs, but another swing of the hammer crashed against its chest. A loud creaking sound was heard and the drone skidded backwards.

Gray then landed on the ground and Natsu raced up beside him.

"Remember that combo when we were ten?" Gray asked as he kept his telekinetic grip of his hammer.

"Don't I?" Natsu replied with a toothy grin. "We nearly beat Mira with that thing before she retired. Don't mess it up, snowman." Natsu said as he formed a massive fireball between his hands.

"I should be telling you that, firebrand." Gray swung his hammer one last time in an upward strike. The hammer knocked against the base of the drone's head, the place where a human's chin would have been. The red eyes flickered for a bit as the blow served to temporarily short circuit the drone. Ice accumulated in Gray's own hands as Natsu was building up his fire. Once they felt their magic energies were at the same level, the two Fairy Tail mages then extended their arms and unleashed massive bursts of their respective elements at the drone as it was recovering from Gray's hammer swing.

A massive blast of flame and ice shot forth from their hands, the two attacks swirling around each other to create a double helix of somesort. The drone's mechanics whirred loudly as it regained its senses, but it was just in time to see the massive attack heading towards it. Fire and ice clashed against its chest and the drone was sent flying through the air, smashing through the already broken walls of Hargeon Town. The drone landed and skidded across the dirt, tearing a massive trench in the earth and knocking over a row of trees as it came to a stop in the forested area outside Hargeon's walls.

Gray and Natsu smirked as they saw the drone laying still on its back, fire and ice coating its body in relatively small amounts as a result of their combined attack.

"Hell yeah!" Natsu whooped. "We totally kicked ass!"

"Damn right we did!" Gray grinned back. However, as the two were celebrating, their eyes widened when the earth beneath them rumbled.

"Woah!" They cried out. They quickly jumped into the air as the already destroyed streets of the sectioned off portion of Hargeon, burst apart to reveal the clawed hands of the drone. However, the jumping did nothing to stop the extendable limbs of Vilgax's giant war drone before it grabbed them and pulled them under. Gray and Natsu were dragged through the tunnels dug by the hands before they saw the light of the outside world, and the glowing red eyes of the drone.

The drone released a high pitched whir, as if it were angered, before throwing Gray and Natsu into the ground to its left. The two formed their own personal craters from the impact, and their eyes widened when they saw the drone aim both eyes and its palms at them. High pitched whining echoed through the air as the energy cannons charged.

"REQUIP: GIANT'S ARMOUR!" The moment was cut off as they saw a streak of gold slam into the side of the drone's head. Its energy charging was brought to a swift end before the streak of gold gripped the drone by its head and with a roar of effort, was swung overhead and slammed into the ground with terrific force, creating a massive crater as a result.

Erza landed on the ground before running up to her friends glad in her Giant's Armour.

This armour featured a barbaric appearance and was adorned with numerous fur trimmings around the armor's joints. The armor was also complimented with blue ornamental stripes over each piece of armour and golden animal-like ears with a blue stripe across each ear. The breastplate featured a medallion similar in shape to a four-leaf clover over the armor's collar and displayed a blue ornamented cross over her abdomen area. The pauldrons were massive in size and featured a unique design where the shouldered-sections were pointed upwards. The edges were decorated with the blue ornamental stripes and the armor's sleeves were lined with fur. The armor's skirt was composed of intricately designed golden plates that donned a fur-lined edge around the skirt and covered the upper part of Erza's thighs. The skirt was embellished with a brown leather belt that grasped the skirt around her hips.

The armour's gauntlets were shown to be different from each other as the left gauntlet covered her forearm and has a fur lining around the wrist, whereas the right gauntlet, which lacked fur, was noticeably larger and rounder as it extends down to her hand. The right gauntlet also featured a round red gem over the wrist-section of the gauntlet.

The knee guards sported protruding metal ornaments reminiscent of Dragon's wings, and the plates that partially covered Erza's thighs were held up by straps tied behind her legs. The greaves had fur sprouting from both the knee and the ankle areas. The armour was completed with Erza's footwear composed of plain blue plate armour.

"Are you two okay?" Erza asked with obvious concern in her expression. Natsu and Gray nodded as they climbed to their feet, wiping the blood that leaked from their lips.

"Where's Lucy?" Gray asked.

"She and Happy are with the civilians to give them reassurance. Plus, Lucy has no magic power left so she can't help us in the fight." Erza replied. Gray and Natsu nodded and then focused back on the drone. "You two, I'll hold it off for a while as you recuperate."

"Erza that thing doesn't go down!" Natsu exclaimed. "You need us to fight with you against it!"

"Natsu's right! Don't try to be a hero!"

"I'm not being a hero!" Erza snapped. "I'm being a mage who prevents her comrades from fighting in exhausted states! Now shut up and sit down while you recover!" As she said this, she quickly crossed her arms in front of her body as the drone fired of its palm cannons. The force of the blast sent her flying through the air, but her thick armour prevented her from being damaged.

In midair, Erza performed her Requip once more.

"REQUIP: BLACK WING ARMOUR!" This armour was black in color, sporting some silver trimming. A distinctive feature of the armour was its pair of wings, which were reminiscent of those of a Dragon or a bat. Around Erza's neck ws a neck guard decorated by several gems. Her long scarlet hair was tied up in a high ponytail, with two bangs framing her face. Her large shoulderpads, each composed of two silver-edged plates one over the other, sported silver crosses on them too, and flanked the high collar, whose shape was reminiscent of that of a dress. The silver-edged breastplate revealed a fair amount of Erza's cleavage and belly, with plates flanking her hips and reaching down to her very large waistguard, composed of very long, silver-edged plates shaped like feathers and decorated by silver crosses. The waistguard left the front of Erza's body exposed, with her groin being covered by a dark indument. The slim gauntlets came equipped with prominent protection for her hands, each sporting silver patterns. The plates guarding her legs were sliver-edged on her thighs and knees, but pitch black dark on her metal greaves.

A silver blade appeared in her hands as she flew towards the drone. The massive robot released a loud whirring once more before holding out its hands, palm cannons charging rapidly once more. A barrage of red bolts of plasma streaked towards her, but Erza barrel rolled and loop-de-looped out of the way of the attacks before attacking with her sword. The silver blade clashed against the robot's armoured plating, but her brown eyes widened when she saw not even a scratch had formed on the robot.

Her surprise left her unguarded and so Erza was batted through the air by the back of the drone's hand which Natsu and Gray had removed three fingers from. Erza tumbled through the air and quickly held up her sword as a punch from the robot smashed against it. Another punch followed afterwards and she was raised into the air as it tore through her guard. The robot then clasped its hands above Erza and slammed them down on the Titania of Fairy Tail. The hammer strike sent Erza rocketing to the ground where she tore a trench in the earth as the robot fired off its energy beams from its eyes once more.

Erza lay at the end of her trench and crater covered in a few burns as her sword protected her from the brunt of the attack. She then climbed to her feet and flew into the air once more. She avoided more energy blasts and then her sword glowed with silver light. She spun around and slashed the air, unleashing a powerful arc of silver magic energy.

"MOON FLASH!" The attack tore through the plasma bolts and crashed against the drone's body with a devastating amount of force that sent it skidding backwards. She then zoomed towards the drone, aiming to take out an eye as she stabbed her sword forwards, but the drone raised the hand which was missing its fingers, but now the hand was missing its plasma weapon as Erza's blade stabbed through the sensitive focusing mechanism. A loud humming was heard and Erza quickly retreated before a massive explosion occurred, taking the robot's hand with it.

The one handed giant war drone then fired two blasts from its eyes, but Erza avoided them and began to counter with Moon Flash attacks.

Unknown to the three Fairy Tail mages and the giant war drone, XLR8 had zoomed towards the city, and stopped as he saw the main gate destroyed. He looked to the side, and raced up the wall, with little struggle or difficulty in such an action. Once he got up to the edge, he stood and looked at the drone's towering form as it seemed to be firing at absolutely nothing. However, his green eyes narrowed and then widened as he caught sight of what looked like a flying woman, slashing at the war machine.

He blinked at this, as he asked himself, "Who are these guys?" He then sped off to go and see what was going on.

Back in the Battle

The battle wasn't going so well, as the drone couldn't be stopped. Knowing fully well that her sword couldn't do damage, Erza couldn't stand back, "This thing has to be taken down now! REQUIP: ONE HUNDRED BLADES!" With this, a hundred swords materialized in the air, hovering all around her, as she charged with them, telekinetically following with her, as she attempted to stab at the drone's chest.

However, the drone detected her presence, and swatted the swords away, along with her, as she was thrown through the air and slammed into the ground near Gray and Natsu. However, Erza rolled with the fall and soon had her hundred swords ready to use. They circled around the body of the giant robot like electrons around an atom's nucleus. Erza held out her hands and focused, keeping the swords in motion while also placing them back into their positions when the war machine fired off energy bolts to knock away the swords.

Erza then clenched them tightly into fists. Her swords responded and all one hundred blades raced towards the war drone. But her attack was for naught, and with wide eyes, Erza could only watch as the drone spun its torso around and used the centripetal force to repel her one hundred swords. Her blades stabbed themselves into the ground and trees, and she, Natsu and Gray were forced to avoid some as they were sent right towards them.

The drone then stopped spinning and immediately targeted the three Fairy Tail mages. One shot from the remaining cannon in its remaining hand towards Erza, while two others fired from its eyes and zoomed towards Natsu and Gray. The red light cloaked their bodies, and the heat was felt on their skin as the attacks grew closer and closer. The three Fairy Tail mages clenched their eyes tightly and prepared for the impact...

Five seconds passed and still no pain was felt.

"Huh?" The three of them had their eyes wide open and they looked around before finding themselves being set down on the ground, away from the war drone. Their eyes widened even further as they saw their savior was a reptilian creature.

"You guys alright?" XLR8 asked. The three mages nodded their heads, their faces still etched in shock and confusion. The speedy alien nodded his head before turning to the war drone as it zeroed in on their positions.

"Stay right there. I'll be right back." In a blur of speed, XLR8 raced towards the war drone. Erza, Natsu and Gray's eyes then widened as they saw XLR8 slam its clawed hand down on the odd looking circle on its chest. It was brief, but the three Fairy Tail mages saw a brown haired teenager replace their reptilian savior.

Ben adjusted the dial on his Omnitrix before slamming his hand down on Azmuth's greatest creation. In a green flash, he transformed into the alien he picked.

The alien was about nine feet tall and resembled an orange and white bipedal tiger with one massive black claw coming out of each wrist and no tail. He was also very muscular and had green eyes. He wore a green and vest with an armored shoulder guard and white fur trim, Black armbands with white fur trim on the ends. He wore black pants with a black and green belt, with white bands wrapped around his calves and ankles. He bore the Omnitrix symbol on the belt buckle.

Omnitrix Encyclopedia

Appoplexian A.K.A Rath

Appoplexians are a species from the planet Appoplexia. Appoplexians value emotional openness: if an Appoplexian has a feeling, they express it. Generally, the feeling is a blind rage. Appoplexians take great pride in their fighting skills. Appoplexians love to fight and have great appreciation for the best fighter. Instead of shaking hands when they meet, they engage in a wrestling match until one is established as dominant. Appoplexians believe any problem can be solved by hitting it. An Appoplexian's addiction to violence leads them to be quite dim, forgetting things and being easily distracted. Appoplexians are prone to referring to people by their full title, as well as beginning a conversation with "Let me tell ya somethin'!" Appoplexians have animistic tendencies, such as growling, roaring and relentlessly seeking food when hungry. Appoplexians are prone to mixing up metaphors. Appoplexians can always remember things relating to fights or battle techniques learned. Appoplexians have immense strength, as well as being durable enough to withstand a powerful laser or missile at point-blank range without a single scratch. Lasers don't scratch. They burn. The claws on their wrists can extend and by stabbing the ground, they can create a powerful shock wave.

The Appoplexian's brains are hardwired for aggression and as such, Rath's only known weakness is his lack of intelligence and highly aggressive temperament. This causes Rath to become easily distracted and difficult to stop once he starts fighting. In the past, Rath was naked but partially due to an error from the Omnitrix. Luckily, Azmuth fixed that, which was good considering Appoplexians have a sense of shame.

As the Drone was about to swipe at the ice shield, a very aggressive voice cried out, "APPOPLEXIAN CORK SCREW!" Rath cried out, as he put his claws in front, spinning around like a top. He looked like a striped torpedo, as he slammed into the drone, sending it skidding away.

The three Fairy Tail Mages blinked at this, as Rath landed on the ground, and looked to the Drone, pointing out, "LEMME' TELL YOU SOMETHING, GIANT VILGAX DRONE WHO WANTS TO PUMMEL ME AND TAKE THE OMNITRIX! YOU MAY BE BIG BUT RATH…IS EVEN BIGGER!"

The Drone stalked over to Rath showing he was bigger than Rath. Rath cocked an eyebrow, as he ranted yet again, "EXCEPT FOR THE PART WHERE YOU'RE TALLER AND HEAVIER THAN ME..." but shook it off, as he shouted, pointing his claw at the Drone, who was readying himself to attack the Appoplexian. "BUT THAT DOESN'T MATTER! 'CAUSE THE BIGGER THEY ARE, THE HARDER…" the Drone then suddenly, side-chopped Rath, sending him skidding on the ground.

The Fairy Tail members blinked at this, as Lucy asked, "Okay… just who was that?"

"Beats the heck out of me," Gray shrugged, "But it looks like he's on our side."

Erza finally got strength back, as she equipped herself with two massive buster swords. "I don't know who he is," she exclaimed, and charged at the drone, "But any enemy of this giant is an ally of mine! HEYAAAAAH!"

As he got up, Rath groaned, "Ugh, Rath doesn't remember how the rest of that went." But he shook his head, clearing it, as he shouted, "THE BIGGER THEY ARE, THE HARDER THEY FALL! THAT'S WHAT RATH WAS GONNA SAY! BY THAT LOGIC, YOU'VE GOT NO CHANCE!"

As Erza charged for the drone that was getting back up on its feet, Rath ran at it too. Soon the two charged at it at full force, sending the drone back down. Rath jumped up in the air, and roared, "URSA MAJOR BODY SLAM!" and smashed at the drone's chest and made it backpedal as Rath's claw had torn a small gash in the robot's chest.

Erza saw the gash and attacked. She stabbed her sword through the gash, severing a few components, but it didn't appear as if those weren't very important to keeping it active as the drone swatted her back. Rath saw that and roared, "LEMME TELL YA SOMETHING, DRONE! NOBODY SWATS A SEXY SEXY LADY LIKE THAT, WHILE RATH'S DELIVERING PAIN AND PUNISHMENT!" He then battle smashed at the chest, denting it further and further. However, the drone grabbed Rath and slammed the bipedal tiger into the ground and fired off a laser from the blaster on its single hand. Rath quickly went into a backwards roll and pushed himself into the air and avoided the attack.

The drone then swiped at Rath with its hand-less arm as he landed, but the Appoplexian grabbed the arm tightly and with a bestial roar, tore the arm off entirely. The drone attacked with its other arm, hoping to stab through Rath's body with its sharp claws, but Rath sliced the hand off entirely with his own before grabbing the arm and ripping it off as well.

The drone's processing unit grew desperate and then began to charge the plasma cannons that were its eyes. Rath snarled as it watched the giant robot.

"LEMME TELL YA SOMETHIN', GIANT ROBOT WHO JUST HAD ITS ARMS RIPPED OFF BY RATH! YOU WANNA PIECE OF RATH!? YOU GOT A PIECE! BUT YOU JUST BIT OFF AN EYE BIGGER THAN YOUR STOMACH CAN CHEW!"

A small wind blew in from that awkward metaphor, as everyone minus Rath looked a stupor on that. Natsu just cocked an eyebrow. "That made no sense."

Rath roared out angrily, having heard the Dragon Slayer's words. "I KNOOOOW!"

The drone then fired its blast, but Rath immediately reacted and slammed his hand down on the Omnitrix symbol.

His entire body started to grow tall and fill out with muscles while at the same time green crystals began to cover his entire body. His eyes turned yellow. When the change was complete, a green crystal skinned humanoid now took Ben's place. The Omnitrix symbol was on the right side of his chest. This alien had two massive crystal spikes on his back and his head had a spike behind it. He wore a black sleeveless shirt, with one large green stripe down the middle up to his belt, and wore black pants, as well as black shoes with green on the bottom. He had a green belt with white stripes on which he wore the Omnitrix symbol as a belt buckle.

"I'm going Diamondhead on this drone!" Diamondhead changed his hands into flat blades and held them up, blocking the laser beams and held them off. However, he was skidding backwards as the momentum of the attack pushed against him.

Omnitrix Encyclopedia

Petrosapien A.K.A. Diamondhead

These people once hailed from the crystal planet of Petropia. Unfortunately, it was destroyed by the warlord Vilgax. Only two known Petro Sapiens remain. One is the bounty hunter Tetrax, a loyal friend and mentor to Ben and the other is Ben's form of Diamondhead. These people are able to control the growth of their crystal, creating formations and weapons for themselves as well as creating crystals on other objects or from underground, creating shields and barriers. It is also theorized that they have Crystalkenisis, the ability to levitate crystal as well. A drawback to these people is that their crystal shatters with certain frequencies of sonics. While these people are durable, even in the vacuum of space, and can regenerate limbs, there is only so much damage they can take.

Once the change was done, Erza finally managed to scream out, "What the…? WHAT KIND OF GUY ARE YOU?!"

Diamondhead glanced back at her, and replied, "One of a kind." Diamondhead then turned his eyes back to the drone and smirked. "You know, your model of drone was the first one I ever fought with as Diamondhead. Allow me to have some nostalgia while showing you how I destroyed it!"

Diamondhead then shifted the bladed arms and the laser beam began to refract, tearing a trench in the ground until it began to move upwards. In the end, the laser beam tore diagonally through the torso of the war drone, destroying its CPU when it was bisected and exploded. The drone's eyes lost their intimidating glow before the upper haf of the war robot was partially engulfed in fire from the large internal explosions, and then fell away.

Diamondhead dusted his hands as if he had just taken out the trash, a confident smirk on his face. The Petrosapien tapped the Omnitrix symbol and turned back to Ben in a flash of green. "Okay, can someone please tell where the heck I am?!"

Erza, Natsu and Gray ran up to Ben with disbelief on their face. They would have gone on a spree of asking questions, but were interrupted before they could.

"OI, GUYS!" The four former combatants turned to see Lucy descending towards them as Happy carried her. As they landed, Happy gasped with obvious exaggeration.

"Sheesh Lucy, why are you so heavy?!" Happy asked.

"I'M NOT FAT!" Lucy tried to swipe at the cat and choke the life out of it, but Happy quickly hid behind Natsu. Lucy and Happy then stopped their bickering as they took note of the the scene around them. "What happened here?"

Natsu, Gray and Erza turned to Ben and pointed at him. "That's what we want to know." They replied simultaneously.

"What happened is that I saved your butts so can someone please tell me where the heck I am?" Ben questioned impatiently.

The others blinked as Lucy answered "You're in Hargeon. It's one of the cities that occupy Fiore."

Ben blinked, "Fiore?"

"Yeah, it's located as the capitol of Earth Land," Lucy answered.

"Well, forget about where you were, what kind of Take Over Magic was that," Natsu butted in, as he smirked, with sparkles of admiration in his eyes, "Those were way better than what Elfman's able to do, and he can only morph his arms!"

Ben blinked in confusion at what he heard. "Take Over? What did I take over?"

"Huh? You don't use Take Over Magic?" Lucy questioned in surprise since she thought that's the magic the strange young man used.

"Then it's probably a special type of transformation magic." Erza easily summarized.

"That's awesome!" Natsu shouted giddily.

Ben however sweatdropped. "Okay so clearly I've landed in some kind of magic filled world like Ledger Domain. Although this place is definitely more accommodating and has better hospitality, it's still nothing like my world." He thought to himself. "Umm sorry but you've got it all wrong."

The Fairy Tail wizards all raised their eyebrows in curiosity. "What do you mean?" asked a shirtless Gray who somehow stripped his shirt yet again.

"What I mean is that I'm not a wizard and I don't use magic." Ben asked getting stunned looks from the others.

"Say what! What do you mean you don't use magic! You had to have been using it to turn into those fierce creatures" A frantic Lucy said rapidly in disbelief.

"If you're not a wizard then how on earth could you do the things you did?" Erza questioned with a hand on her sword now pointed at Ben looking like she wanted answers immediately.

Ben held his hands up in mock surrender. "Hey now let's not get violent here. As for how I can do what I do, it's thanks to this baby." He said before showing his Omnitrix which made the mages look deadpanned at him.

"A watch?" Happy said simply and unimpressed.

"What the heck does a dumb watch have to do with your abilities?" Natsu said while looking unimpressed by the watch. Although he did think it looked quite cool in it's design.

Ben now had a frown as he took some offense to that. Sure it looked like a watch but it wasn't stupid. Quite the contrary, it was the coolest thing he had the privilege to use as a hero.

"It's not just a watch, it's the most powerful weapon in the world" Ben said profoundly. (He would've said universe but he got the feeling these people haven't seen any signs of intelligent life beyond space.)

Erza raised her eyebrows in curiosity. "That little thing is a weapon. I find it hard to believe a little wrist watch can be a weapon let alone the most powerful." She said skeptically.

"Well you better believe it because this baby is what allows me to transform into those butt kicking guys."

Now they all had slightly widened eyes.

"Cool can I try it on!?" Natsu asked eagerly wondering what he could turn into with that watch.

Instantly Ben pulled his arm back as if Vilgax had just tried to grab his hand. "Sorry but this belongs to me and I don't trust anyone else to use it. Besides this thing and I are like flesh and bone. We're not going to be separated from eachother."

The Fairy Tail members were surprised by his reaction.

"So then what do you call that thing?" Natsu asked wondering if the watch had a name.

"It's called the Omnitrix." Ben replied.

"Omnitrix? Weird name if you ask me. So that thing really let's you transform into those guys?" Gray asked.

Ben nodded "Heck yeah and it does more than that, in fact you be surprised how many functions it has."

"So where are you from?" Lucy asked wondering if he's from a far away town.

Ben now lost his smile as he contemplated how he was going to explain this. "Umm…well truth be told, I'm not from here."

Lucy tilted her hear slightly "Then are you from a far away town?"

Ben laughed a little at that "Uhh not exactly. In fact you could say I'm not even from this world." He said earning confused looks from everyone.

"Huh?" They all simple said.

Ben grumbled a bit and decided to just say it. "I'm not from this world. In fact I come from another one that's far away from here in another dimension."

The Lucy, Natsu and Happy looked in awe but Erza and Gray however didn't look convinced about his tale.

"I don't believe you." Gray said simply as he found the story too farfetched to believe despite seeing the odd sight in the sky and ship that came from it.

"Hey it's the truth!" Ben said feeling offended at being called a liar.

"Well then forgive us but you have to admit it's a story that seems pretty fictional." Erza said with her arms crossed looking skeptical.

"I came from a portal in the sky, how does that not tell you that it was otherworldly?" Ben questioned back.

"We don't even know what that tear in the sky was in the first place. For all we know it could have been a type of teleportation magic." Erza countered.

"Then what about that giant ship that came through the portal? Have you honestly ever seen anything like that before!?" Ben remarked back believing the topic on Vilgax's ship would get them to believe him.

"I've never seen a ship like that before but there are flying ships in existence so it could've just been a new type that was created by someone." Erza easily shot back as she still wasn't seeing anything to prove her wrong.

"Not to mention that for someone who claims to be from another world you don't exactly look like one. You seem like any other guy to me." Gray added his piece.

Ben was now grasping at his hair trying to keep himself from losing it. What the heck did he have to do to prove to these people that he was from another world? They just weren't believing anything he told them. He turned to look at the girl called Lucy who seemed to have a conflicted look on her face for some reason.

"What about you?" he asked referring to her. "Do you believe me?"

Erza and Gray turned to Lucy who looked uncomfortable with everyone looking at her expectantly. "Ohh I don't know if I believe you either."

Ben sighed in disappointment as he tried to think of another way to prove himself. "Do any of you even believe that other worlds exist?"

The new question didn't have anyone nod in agreement but that all changed when Lucy suddenly remembered something and she spoke up. "Oh wait a minute, yes I do."

"Say what!?" The other fairy tail members said.

Lucy puffed her cheeks angrily as she couldn't believe she forgot about her Celestial Spirits. "Don't you guys remember? I'm a celestial spirit wizard."

The other members now had dumbfounded expression as they couldn't believe how they forgot about that. Ben however was totally confused. "You're a what?"

Lucy turned back to him as she showed him her keys and explained. "A Celestial Spirit wizard. I have the ability to use these keys to summon magical spirits from another world they live in to fight against enemies."

Now Ben was more cheered seeing that these people did have some experience with otherworldly places. "Aha so you do know something's about other worlds!?"

Lucy nodded sheepishly for having forgotten about them. "Well I do anyway. The others don't know much about the celestial spirits" She said before her cheery smile turned back into a neutral one. "But even so I've seen them and they all look plenty different from humans so I'm not sure if I do believe you still. Plus I've never seen the Celestial Spirit world itself so I really haven't seen other worlds."

Ben frowned at being shot down again. He was starting to see how this world was different. Now only was it less technologically advanced but these people seemed to live in a world that hasn't encountered alien life. It certainly explained their skepticism, it was like trying to convince a none believer from his world that aliens exist when there was no proof at all.

"Okay then what about that robot we just fought, you can't possible tell me you've ever seen something like that before? Plus I bet it's made of metals you've never seen before and it's weapons were unlike anything in this world?" Ben gave his last thought before he would call it quits.

This time Erza's form faltered a bit as it seemed he finally mentioned something she didn't have a response too.

"Umm…well…" Erza began trying to find an explanation for that one but was having some trouble. When she fought against that mechanical menace she had seen it fire beams but the strange part was that she didn't sense any magic from it. Not from it's body or it's fired weapons, it was as if it didn't have any and was using something else for power. "Well I admit that I don't have a dismissal for that one but I'm still not convinced that your from another world."

"Garrrhh!" Ben yelled as he gave up right then. "You know what, I quit. I'm done trying to convince you guys about where I come…" he suddenly stopped his speech as a thought returned to his mind. "Hey did you guys see which way that giant ship went?" Ben asked urgently surprising the mages even further at the sudden change in his demeanor.

"Well we saw the ship shaped like a pitchfork fly over the horizon and we think it crashed somewhere far away, why do you ask?" Erza answered in slight concern from hearing Ben's worried tone.

"Which way did it go exactly?" The Omnitrix bearer asked.

Before they could answer they heard whistles being blown. At that moment, a group of Magic Guild soldiers were rushing towards the scene. Once they saw them questioning the citizens, Erza groaned, "Oh great. It's them."

Ben blinked, "Them? Them who?"

"The Magic Guild Military," Erza groaned. "They must have heard about what was going on around here, and sent an investigation team."

"Oh good," Lucy smiled.

"Oh heck no! I need to get out of here now!" Ben said getting looks from them.

"Why?" Lucy asked.

"Cause if I get questioned them I'm going to cause quite a stir with my being from another world story. You guys don't believe but the military might be more open about it and I have to explain everything from my world then they'd probably keep me prisoner for interrogation and who knows what else!" Ben said frantically as memories of Colonel Rozum flashed through his mind.

He still remembered what he did to the 775 aliens he took prisoner when most were practically innocent of any aggression towards earth. One in particular was the alien from ChamAliens species who desired revenge on the Colonol for being unjustly imprisoned for over a decade which caused him to loss his family and home planet. After that Ben started to gain a better manner of understanding on knowing when to talk and when to run from authorities.

"Then we need to get out of here and fast. I don't intend to wait around for them to question us too. That would cause unwanted attention to our guild and we get into enough trouble with them as it is." Erza said.

Happy flew over to them, as he admitted, "I can fly Natsu out of here, but I can't carry everyone." He then looked to Ben, "And since you told us you've got more than one alien form on that watch…"

"None of my flyers can carry three to four people. Maybe one or two, but not four," Ben replied. The situation felt hopeless with no way out. But then Ben looked at the drone's remains, and then smirked as he got an idea. "But maybe I can make a way out."

Gray blinked at that, as he asked, "How?"

Ben activated his Omnitrix, and looked through the selection, and smirked, "Here we go." And then pressed down on the dial, as he transformed yet again in front of them all.

He was a small, red, devil-like alien who bore a close resemblance to a Gremlin/imp, with yellow eyes and black pupils, with spikes on his chin, his ears spiked, and a long nose. He was very small, as when he was next to anyone, he was almost as big as her head, excluding the tail. He also seems to be about Happy's height. He wore a black aviator's outfit, which came with a white ascot, green bands on his legs, green fingerless gloves that went up to his elbows, and a green aviator's cap. The Omnitrix symbol was on his green belt and acted as a buckle.

Omnitrix Encyclopedia

Gremlinite A.K.A Jury Rigg

The Gremlinites are a race of small engineer aliens that hail from an unknown part of the galaxy. They are described with three words: Smart, Stubborn, and crazy. They have a strong desire to break and remake machines, making them slightly difficult to work with others. Jury Rigg has a mischievous (and twisted) sense of humor.

Jury Rigg's species have the ability to completely disassemble any kind of machinery in mere seconds, fitting to his Gremlin appearance. Despite it being harder for him to do due to his craving to destroy things, Jury Rigg can also construct complex machinery from scratch at a similar rate. Jury Rigg has a form of enhanced strength for his size, able to break apart a metal car brake in half. He has shown to be strong enough to break apart metal bars that even an Appoplexian could not break. Jury Rigg also has a degree of enhanced agility. 

Being small makes Jury Rigg unsuitable for hand-to-hand combat against larger foes, unless they happen to be machines. In which case, he can dismantle them in seconds. Jury Rigg also has an uncontrollable habit of breaking machinery.

Natsu blinked at the alien, as he asked, "What the heck? How's this gonna get us out of here?"

Jury Rigg chuckled, "One thing about Jury Rigg's species, Natsu, is that our abilities are summed up into two words: Smart and Stubborn. A perfect combo." He then blew a raspberry out, and hopped at the remains, as he shouted, "DISASSEMBLE!" And in a sheer blink of their eyes, the little red imp-like alien took apart the arm and head that weren't affected by the crystal. Once the pieces were scattered and about, he shouted, "And now… REASSEMBLE! FIX, FIX, FIX, FIX FIX!'

And in a matter of forty-five seconds, Jury Rigg had assembled in front of them, a motorcycle that resembled his Tenn Speed bike back home. Jury Rigg leaned on it, and smirked, "TADA! I made a Tenn-Speed Bike Mark II."

The others blinked at that amazing sight, as Lucy smirked, "That was amazing!"

Even Erza walked over to the bike and examined it, admiring the excellent detail and design, "Impressive craftsmanship, even if it took only a minute."

"Oh, this is nothing," Jury Rigg confessed. "You should see me when I really got enough parts to spare." And then changed back into Ben, as he hopped on the bike, "Come on, hop on everyone!"

They all rushed over and dog piled aboard, as Gray looked around and asked, "Where's the coupling?"

"Coupling?" Ben asked in confusion.

"Yeah, the hookup," Gray explained. "Everything in our world's powered by magic. Appliances, housing, even vehicles."

Ben smirked, "Not this puppy. She's powered by a Chimerian power cell. Thing lasts for about 200 years."

It was then that the Magic Guard spotted the Fairy Tail Mages, "Those people! They're from Fairy Tail!"

"Time to punch it," Ben shouted, as he activated the engine and sped off with everyone, as the guards tried to catch up. It left a light trail that faded, as they sped off towards the now cleared gate. They zoomed past the other military guards, as they got out of Hargeon, and sped off on the road, passing many startled people passing by or coming back into town. Ben smirked, "Talk about your close shaves, eh?" But then he started hearing heaving and weaving, as he looked through the rear view mirror, and noticed Natsu on the verge of puking his brains out. "What's wrong with him," Ben asked.

Happy cheerfully explained, "Oh, it's just his motion sickness. It's so extreme; he can't even ride a motorcycle, let alone a raft or tube in a small river."

"He gets sick that easily," The Omnitrix wielder credulously asked completely surprised by that. The others nodded to that, as Ben groaned, as he stated, "Just make sure he doesn't hurl on the bike, okay? I just built it. As soon as we get far enough, we can figure out what to do next."

Lucy smirked, "I got an idea." Ben was all ears as she suggested, "Why not join Fairy Tail?"

Ben blinked at that, "Join your guild?"

Elsewhere

The Frontier Lands

The frontier was volcanic and ash-filled landscape of a wasteland nearly a hundred miles far from Fiore. Filled with volcanos, craters, and very little water, the landscape barely could manage any life at all out there. It was sometimes known as the "desert of death", but to others, it was a living breathing version of Hell itself. Nothing could survive out on such an environment. Nothing weak that is.

In this land there were a species of fierce creatures called Magnapedes. They were a ferocious species of insects with large long bodies like gigantic snakes or sea serpents. Their bodies were made of strong rock, had four eyes, round mouths full of 3 rows of sharp teeth and had antennas that where like whips. All in all they were feared creature that even Dark Mages thought twice about messing with.

But not today, for in one specific part of the desert, lay over a dozen Magnapedes that were slain and reduced to a messy pile of rubble stained in blood. The most noticeable thing was the Chimerian Hammer ship perched on top of one of the mountain right in the middle of the massacre. Somehow it survived the crash without breaking apart too much. And down on the ground was none other than Vilgax who was flying back to his ship. His hands covered in blood and dust from what had clearly been the Magnapedes stone flesh, and looking like he wasn't injured in the slightest other than being covered in dirt.

He reached his ship in no time and saw Albedo as a Negative red version of Upgrade, repairing the ship's systems, who turned towards him and morphed back into his Ben look-alike form, and gave the conqueror an amused smirk.

"Well, I see you enjoyed greeting our guests. I take it they said their goodbyes," Albedo said humorously knowing that Vilgax had taken out some frustration out on the poor foolish creatures that dared to attack them.

"Do not start with me, Albedo! What world have we landed in, because I know this couldn't be Earth Prime!?" The angry Chimera Sui said with no humor in his voice. But then again he never was one for it.

Dropping his smirk, Albedo turned to a holographic display screen, which showed their surround coordinates. "Well according to my data, we've landed on an alternate dimension of Earth that seems to be filled with a type of unknown power. My scanners show this power seems to be similar to the energy called Mana. Although their energy signatures are much different."

"So we've landed on some Earth version of Ledger Domain," Vilgax deduced, more as a statement rather than a question.

"Indeed we have. Although it seems we're considerably far away from any civilization," Albedo mentioned, while showing that the nearest town was quite far away.

"And what of Tennyson?" Vilgax asked, bringing the topic back to their enemy.

Albedo typed in a few things before the map display extended to show a green dot with the Omnitrix symbol slowly moving. "It seems Tennyson survived the collision and is on the move. Although for some reason he seems to be moving further away from us. Quite strange since I expected to him to come find us immediately."

"Then he's likely being smart for once. Since he's in a world that he doesn't know he's gathering info and keeping a low profile to avoid unwanted attention," Vilgax said while smirking at his enemy's smart decision.

"So then what will we do then? The Tachyon generator was destroyed and it's pieces blown out the ship to who knows where. We have no way of escaping this world," Albedo said with a surprisingly calm voice, despite basically saying they were stranded.

"We'll be smart and deceptive. For now, you and Psyphon repair as much of our equipment as possible. We'll need everything available for when we go after Tennyson and to retrieve the Omnitrix," The conqueror of ten worlds said almost eagerly.

"And what of Death? What will you have him do?" The Galvan asked.

"I'll have him scout the nearest town for supplies and record everything he sees and learns. Once we know all there is to know about this world, we will find Tennyson, eliminate him and then return to our original dimension to seize control of Earth and then the entire Universe!" Vilgax said darkly as he intended to carry out with his plans regardless of their new dilemma.