3 Chapter 3

Batman came to when he heard all the mummuring around him but remained still trying to assess his situation and relaxed when he heard the familiar voices of the leaguers. Opening his eyes he saw he was in the watchtowers infirmary with his chest bandaged up. "He's awake" flash said getting the others attention.

"Situation report" came his monotone voice. "We're dealing with it, you need to rest" came Johnns reply after batman started getting out of the bed. "I've gotten enough rest, now tell me what happened." After being given a run down on everything that happened and the clean up he went to the monitor room and began typing.

"Cyborg already tried that..nothing worked" came Hal's voice. Bruce stopped working and sat down with a thoughtful face. "Why did you let them get away!?"he half shouted demanded. "We were all pretty out of it, the green guy took us by surprise," responded superman with a shrug. "They couldn't have gotten far without something or someone noticing a huge green guy"

"Actually we tracked his long range jumps to a point then they dissappeared" came Wonderwoman. Batman was becoming more and more agitated by every answer he got and that only generated more chest pain and a headache for him. "We were hacked," he said looking to cyborg for answers. "Well technically speaking nothing was accessed so no ha…they found a back door to the system. I've already sent patches and added the required source code to secure it." Cyborg stated after noticing Batmans glare. Getting up he walked to the monitors and activated the monitor powering up the teleporter. "Where're you going batman!? You NEED to be resting now!" Diana demanded. Bruce stopped just shy of the teleporter and looked over his shoulder, " home" was all he said before teleporting away. "Oh" Diana exclaimed turning a crimson red from embarrassing herself by her outburst at Bruce.

"What was that all about?" "Am I missing something?" Wondered Hal aloud while the others scattering about to continue their tasks.

Two days later…

Ben flew in the city in his jet ray form and landed on top of a giant globe on top of a sky scraper building. In a brief flash of green light he turned into ghost freak and went invisible incase anyone noticed him flying in or the green light from his changing. He was on high alert and didn't know what kind of earth this was and whether or not he had a doppelgänger there. Think Tennyson, what would grandpa max do if he was in my situation He flew down between the two buildings and changed in a flash of green when suddenly loud growls erupted from his stomach indicating him being hungry since he hadn't eaten for two days. Being in alien form makes me forget eating at times grandpa max had once chastised him for that.

It had taken him a lot longer to reach civilization because after getting out of the forest which he found out that it was The Amazon forest, his earth had it too he had flown towards USA using jetray since he was faster than most his flying aliens and to some degree XLR8. He had stopped to foil a crime or two along the way thus delaying him further not that he complained since he too didn't know what he was looking for. Getting out the alley, he made his way to a hot dog vendor at the street corner who seems like was getting work done with the long line of people in suits and notebooks buying take away. Probably going to eat in the office he concluded and proceeded to queue like the rest of them.

UNCATALOGUED ALIEN DNA DETECTED preparing to scan… flashed in computerized form in front of eyes. "SHIT!" He exclaimed suddenly then lowered his hood hiding from the stares directed at him for his colorful language. He had forgotten the Omnitrix activated that function when Trixx was formed. His eyes could act as Trixx HUD and still allow him to see without discomfort. It was merely a necessity to help him understand the Omnitrix better and also use the Omnitrix quantum computer processing power when dealing with modernized problems. He had Trixx disable the function since Kevin and Gwen were all the company he needed at that time and Trixx analyzing anything he saw wasn't exactly helping either.

It seems some functions In the Omnitrix like DNA sampling could override any command in the watch till the required sample was identified, retrieved, catalogued and stored in their digitized forms. Having being activated, his eyes looked around him trying to identify the alien. If Trixx says there's an alien here then there surely is one any person his eyes landed on Trixx proceeded to scan the said person with Ben watching his eyes suddenly operating like a computer screen giving Trixx mental commands which she immediately followed by displaying the said person gender, age, physical attributes and some more minor information that could be analyzed at a moments notice then cleared each by writing SPECIE : HUMAN. All this was done and organized simply that Ben could follow what was happening.

A person walking away from him with a woman in his arms was identified by Trixx in bold letters SPECIE : UNKNOWN then the earlier words of UNCATALOGUED ALIEN DNA DETECTED kept flashing as if a danger alert was being issued. Knowing the watch wouldn't do anything until the DNA was retrieved, he forego food for some minutes longer and started following the two people. Noting how everything was somehow similar yet so different to his own world, he mentally commanded Trixx to tap into the networks available and find out everything she could about this new world. In a brief minute he saw millions of lines of code pass through his vision before a small rectangular bar with a writing processing 2%... appeared while increasing rapidly by the second, then was pushed to the bottom of his vision to finish processing.

Ben knew Trixx was probably hacking the whole internet itself to get the information needed since she well had the processing and storage power to back up the fact. Galvan tech and programming was superior to most if not all computer programming. He was suddenly grabbed into the alley way he had changed from, how ironic he thought.

After grabbing lunch with his girlfriend Lois Lane in form of take away at their daily vendor, they proceeded to head back to the planet to finish up a story they were working on about the incident that happened at the port. Luckily for them no footage regarding the incident was available to the public and it was up to Lois to come up with something to tell the public since it was well known she dealt with any news regarding the Justice League.

They had agreed to blame the whole thing on miscommunication between the two groups that day but had bent a little truth to favour both sides since from Batmans side of the whole story they didn't seem like bad people and only fought to defend themselves. That's when he noticed they were being followed by the same person for a few blocks now. His heightened senses always aware of everything around him at all times lest even he loose control and hurt someone. Having signaled Lois by writing we're being followed on a newspaper he carried with him. Slowing his pace down till the tail was closer to him, he moved at the speed of light and dragged him to the alley while Lois stayed back to check if anyone saw anything. (She had found out about his secret a long time ago)

"Who are you and what do you want!" Superman said demanding answers.

"Well that explains the alien part" was all he said before lifting his left arm that housed his watch which was now rotating with a yellow light replacing the green that was on the hour glass symbol and parts of the watch. Having heard the word Alien he let go of the guy as if burned just as Lois was joining him with her mouth agape as she also heard him.

Ben taking this opportunity to give the Omnitrix what it wants fast incase there would be trouble and he needed to transform, raised his left hand and the face plate of the watch sliding up then a yellow beam of light shot up to Superman and scanned him twice from head to toe then retracted back into position and the green color of the Omnitrix returned to it.

SAMPLE ACQUIRED…PROCESSING… flashed briefly in Bens eyes and then was minimized then looked a head only to be forced up the wall again by the now recovered alien. Looking at them, Trixx briefly scanned their face and displayed their information to him in his eyes as if she already had a file on each of them. "I mean you no harm Lois Lane and Clark Kent or as they call you Superman." Ben said then chocked out when superman knocked him n the wall again.

It took all his self restrain not t" go HERO because by what he read and was told by Trixx was that he was a hero of this world so it was just miscommunication. (Yes Trixx could communicate to him telepathically since she computerized his brain and having an AI as a subconscious could come in handy at times. "How do you know who we are?!" Superman demanded of the stranger. "Are you working for Lex Luthor?" At the mention of his name Trixx displayed the relevant information on Lex Luthor which made him speak out in a hurry.. "No no no no no no, I don't even know the dude, no I was merely curious," Lois didn't know if it was her reporters instincts but she placed her hand on Clarks shoulders and he seemed to relax then let go of the guy. Landing on his feet he looked thankfully at Lois and slightly glared at Clark.

"Is that how you people deal with visitors in this place? Sheeesh!" He joked while rubbing his sore throat Dude got strength he thought. "Who are you and what did you just do to me?" Clark asked while gritting his teeth already impatient for an answer.

"I'm Ben 10" was all he said as if it was enough to answer anything. Ben didn't see any recognition on their faces when he said his name making a mental note that he didn't exist in this universe. "I'm sorry, Ben Tennyson" he replied again extending his hands for a shake then continued, "Nothing to worry about, my watch collects Alien DNA from time to time, no harm to it" said while raising both arms showing he didn't have any ill will towards them. "How do you know who I am and our identities if you've never seen any of us before?" Superman asked wanting to decide if he should be restrained.

"Well my watch being a DNA hub for sentient life form it can detect an alien when in close proximity to it and in knowing who you are I just do, after all glasses don't conceal anything that well." Looking to Lois for confirmation on what he was thinking and seeing her nod her head he called it In. "Superman to watchtower, requesting for teleportation, over." Grabbing Ben they both teleported out of there leaving Lois to walk back to the office alone. The moment Ben read about their base in space he wanted to go there and superman calling it in just made things easier. It didn't disappoint either, it was very modernized and huge with various superheroes running about. Ever since the incident in the port everyone was on duty till the group was either located or arrested.

Trixx brought forth the building plans for the watchtower and scanned it and the digital manual available thus making Ben know around it as if he had been a member from the very first day. How do you keep doing that? Mentally asking Trixx while superman led him to what he now knew would be the interrogating room. I do approximately one million tasks per second and that's barely using 1% of my processor speed she half bragged. You know what I mean…all these new information about this world he thought with a roll of his eyes. You instructed me to retrieve information about this earth and that's what I did she explained to him what she did while superman had left him in the interrogation room. She had hacked every known database known to this earth, copied every single file on then while syncing herself to them to retrieve any new information added to them, then analysed all the information and categorized them as well as she could including the database in the watchtower. How did you manage to do that in this short time, and how did you know the guy was superman he asked as all the information processed was showed to him by Trixx. This earths tech is still far from being at per with even the lowest sentient life forms so with my quantum processor developed by Azmuth himself this was child's play to me and I also found databases of some social media platforms among others then analysed and synced every profile with as most information as possible I could get thus creating a facial recognition database of my own, this including this earths criminals too came Trixx voice.

Pondering all this he didn't notice people looking at him from the other double sided mirror glass. Superman, batman and Johnn were watching the guy who from their estimate was about 22 years of age, well built (obviously partaked in exercise routines just like them and also looked to be deep in thought staring blankly in front of him) "what do you think?" Superman asked them. Johnn looked interested at the oversized green watch, "you said it scanned you?" For the hundredth time "Yes" "and yes I feel perfectly fine" he added looking at batman who was about to say something but stopped.

"What did he want?" Batman asked tensely, a person who could identify superman in a crowd in his civilian clothes could be a potentially powerful friend or enemy, first the group then this guy what game are they playing Bruce thought while watching the guy. "Ummmmm… I don't want anything actually..well I just wanted something to eat." Came the reply from the speaker attached to the wall between the two rooms.

"You didn't say anything about his superhearing," retorted Batman to superman. "I didn't think.." Clark started defending himself before being interrupted again. "Actually I don't have superhearing, I'm able to see you through the camera in your room and I switched on the microphone," Ben smirked when he saw Bruce frown for a moment then mask it. Superman turned to batman, "I think a system upgrade is In order" while thinking of how they were hacked again earlier but cyborg having said he fixed the problem they didn't dwell on that because he was CYBORG after all.

While staring at the files displayed for him by Trixx he tapped into the security feed and proceeded to look through the rooms avoiding the accommodation department since well, he didn't want a repeat of the plumber base incident. He saw Clark looking through the glass at him with who he now knew as batman and the Martian. The door opened with them stepping inside.

No sooner had The Martian entered the room than all the programs running in his peripheral vision halted and the words UNCATALOGUED ALIEN DNA DETECTED preparing to scan.. flashed and the watched turned yellow again while the face plate slid up rotating as it did so earlier. As if expecting it to do that from supermans description, Johnn went intangible as soon as a beam of yellow light shot towards him from the watch. He was surprised to find out it scanned him twice from head to toe then retracting back to the watch which then returned to normal regardless of him intangible, the other two in shock too from the expressions on their face.

SAMPLE ACQUIRED…processing flashed briefly before disappearing. "Intangibility…cool" Ben quipped actually impressed by this alien. This seemed to break them out of their shock then batman ordered, "EXPLAIN!" Looking at him for a moment, "only because you asked so nicely Bruce" smirking at his widened eyes at the mention of his name. "It's been programmed like that..the Omnitrix can scan any sentient life form whether it is tangible or not now can I atleast have a soda?" Came the short reply. Nodding batman gave instructions to his earpiece then focused on Ben again.

"How do you know who I am?!" Came the demand. "Facial recognition software or is that not a thing here?" Replied shrugging. "Try again, I know for a fact no F.R.S can link Bruce and batman together, I made sure of that for every leagers identity. "Let's just say mine is more advanced" just the a red blur rushed into the room, placed a soda and burger infront of him then stood beside superman with his arms crossed.

"Just like I know that's Barry Allen, works forensics for the police and is currently dating Iris West as of thirty minutes ago according to her Facebook page," Ben surmised as he began eating letting them process that information first.

"WHAT! OFFICIALLY DATING?!" Screamed the flash pulling his phone out for confirmation and just as he did he was out of there in a flash screaming Hal's name. "That's what he got from all that?" Johnn mused as flash disappeared. "Our scanners didn't pick up any electronic device on you apart from that watch, where is your database stored and where is the computer you are currently using to hack us with?"added superman before being side tracked again. "My mind" tapping the side of his head. Ben saw Clark focus for a minute then frown a bit. "There's no mechanical enhancements to your brain to back up your statement."accused superman. Ben just shrugged,"Doesn't mean it's not the truth." Just then cyborg came into the room hoping to speak to batman.

"I know we've been hacked again." "How?!" Batman looked at him. Thinking better he rephrased his question, " who?" "Him" pointing to Ben. Looking between the two cyborg asked gain exasperated. "How?!" Ben didn't look like a capable hacker to him. "It's what we're trying to figure out." Ben had since stopped eating and was looking at cyborg whom Trixx was already analyzing and coming to a conclusion he was a human who was enhanced by mechanical parts that seemed too advance to be found on this earth. Cyborg also analyzed Ben and his watch getting an error message each time in his mechanical's eye HUD to what the device and Ben were but he did detect a large power source in the device. It almost looked like it was a clean self sufficient energy power source.

"Why do you have a self sufficient energy reactor in your watch and how is it not imploding on itself?" Cyborg asked. Batman gritt his teeth making a mental note to really analyse that watch of his. "Oh,it powers the Omnitrix and because this is the most powerful device in many galaxies."

"No it's not kid, this is," Hal pointed at the ring in his finger while walking into the interrogation room and scanning Bens watch with his ring which inturn read error when he conjured a screen to view the results. "Huh! So they don't know everything," he said meaning the guardians vast knowledge which in turn extended to them. Trixx scanned the ring the minute Hal stepped into the room displaying the results to Bens eyes. It named it Unknown weapon. And some description on how the ring was physically made but only showed that it stored a large amount of energy at given periods of time and it is rechargeable. "It's not powerful if it has to be recharged every now and then," replied Ben comply while Hal looked like ready to throw out curse words.

"Okay, who the hell told him?!" "Damn this place has no secrets" was all he murmured before exiting the room. "I can't read him!.." Johnn said suddenly. He'd been trying to read his mind from the moment he saw him but could only get a read on the thoughts he was thinking presently and nothing further. "How is that possible!?" Asked an astonished superman. "I..I…I don't know." All eyes turning to Ben for an explanation.

Meanwhile in a now very modernized cave in the Amazon jungle sat a group of people who were monitoring and researching about the people they encountered and what type of problem they were in now. With the occasional one of them going back to USA to gather more information and the supplies they needed in their safe zone.

Ben had explained to the league members whom by now he had met almost all the founding members how his watch worked and about Trixxie and about his home world and how he ended up in their universe and also how the Omnitrix safeguarded him from psychic attacks and ghost possessions. "They may not be criminals," was all he said since according to the footage he dug up in Luthors servers showed that they were just as confused as any time traveler would be and that if superman hadn't made the first move none of that violence would have taken place. He was really intrigued by the green raging monster. "And why does Luthor have a footage that not even us have?" Superman asked. "He's Luthor." Came Batmans reply to which everyone just nodded.

"You have a really powerful device…" Batman started "I know" "Good so don't lose it" "I won't". Turning to superman he said, "we need to find those people and bring them in" then looked at the remaining members of the league including Wonder Woman who was still processing everything Ben told them. Hera! Was all she thought.

"I can help with that." Before commanding Trixxie to search for them. Calculating probabilities with the evidence and information provided with the Justice league she narrowed a possible area the size of a city in the Amazon jungle. "I've found them, I'll go convince them to come and meet you guys properly and NO I will not tell you where they are" "how powerful is Trixxie?" Batman was curious. "She's quantum" and that statement alone made batman choke on his saliva and cyborg to just stare at Ben blankly because that kind of processing power was still light years ahead of them.

They were still at super computers, now he really needed to examine everything on that watch and now coming to think of it he knew that only a processing power that powerful could manage the calculations needed to help Ben transform safely and also handle the complex calibrations of the Omnitrix. "Okay, head out". As soon as he saw superman fighting he knew he was powerful and definitely wanted to try it out so he mentally commanded Trixxie to activate the first foreign sample found and with a flash of green he transformed into his own kryptonian. Everyone covered their eyes for a brief moment due to the bright green light then stared awed by what they were seeing while Wonder Woman had a light shade of pink coloring her cheeks.

Ben looked to be around 28 years old, was more buff than superman while he had short hair, sparkling blue eyes and a well chiseled face of a model with a white fitting shirt with a green stripe showing his muscles and a green with a white spot leather jacket with number 10 written in white on the back and the Omnitrix on his left hand. Black jeans and sports shoes. In overall if Wonder Woman thought superman was hot, then Ben was like the sun. "Cool." Was all he said looking at himself and feeling the power in his muscles. "I think I'll keep this one for a while," grinned Ben still flexing his muscles. "Yeah…I forgot to mention that the omnitrix aliens are the prime example aliens of those species," no one doubted him still looking at him.

"So you have all my powers?" "Yes and don't worry,I'm experienced enough to use them with the restraint required" and also Trixx could still be seen in his eyes displaying information as always. Concentrating a little he floated in air till he reached the ceiling then came down. Using the kryptonian form made Ben feel very powerful, maybe it had something to do with absorbing the yellow sun radiation. He only ever felt this powerful when he used the ultimate aliens so he just imagined what a kryptonians ultimate form could be capable of doing.

"Does that mean you can now turn into a Martian too?"asked a worried Johnn. "Yes I can..Oh! I can also stay in any form as long as I want without changing back to the normal me." The Justice league just kept getting surprises every time ever since meeting Ben. "And just to confirm, you can also turn by only thinking about it?" "Yes I can."replied Ben while landing on the floor again. "Okay…I guess we have a tie at the most powerful weapon.." Hal joked to ease the tension. "That's an understatement." Wonder woman murmured to herself but with the amount of eyes looking at her they heard her. "Well I better get going," Bens voice brought them out of their stupor. "Yes,the sooner we deal with this the sooner we find out what is happening,"came Batmans reply. "You can survive in space right?" Ben had to be sure even though Trixx had listed it among the aliens powers. "Of Course," came supermans smug voice. "I like kryptonians more and more." Ben smirked before taking off towards the hanger where it was already being opened. Flying out,he shot towards the Amazon jungle quickly disappearing from their radar.

"Now he's just showing off," came Barry's voice. "I just hope he's one of the good guys because just think about all the alien hero and villains he could scan using his watch…" Shazam who had been quiet till now commented. He'd been busy thinking about how he would take him down if he was to be evil, still angry from losing to the hulk and the hammer guy. "How do you even restrain someone with that kind of power? Not to mention how many people will want it for themselves once they hear of it." Hal commented already planning to go to Oa to discuss this with the guardians. "Let's just hope it doesn't come to that." Were the last words said before them disbanding to various directions.

Somewhere in the Jungle

"So they have a base of operations in space!?"asked Tony in wonderment.

"Yeah,I wonder why you never thought of that Tony" answered Natasha who was scrolling through footages of the Justice league. "Yeah, well..the towers still sweet" Tony defended angrily while Natasha merely smirked. Hawkeye who had gone for a supply run with Wanda came back in that exact time. "I think they are the heroes of this place and thought that we were the villains, a case of miscommunication." Wanda gave her opinion. The cave they had turned into their base of operations was one which Bruce Banner used as a safe house when the government was hunting him. They then tricked it out to allow accommodation too, a perfect hideout deep inside the harshest forest in the world. Tony had set up a lab with the devices they managed to acquire in their runs and they were linked up using solar panels supplemented by Tony's arc reactor as power sources.

"I think we should send one person to go and explain this unfortunate misunderstanding to them,"voiced Cap. Nodding their heads agreeing he continued.."I will go tomorrow and contact them so that we can come to an understanding." Said with a finality in his voice which intoned there was no room for arguing. "The blue guy is very strong," commented Banner. "He punches stronger than Abomination and Thor..the big guy had to boost his power each time they came to a stale mate." "But it's a good thing he knocked him out because we wouldn't have escaped otherwise."commented a grateful Natasha.

"Yeah, although he's strong he's no much for the hulk." "The one I fought with had powers similar to myself." Thor finally spoke up. "We had to start pounding each other because neither could hurt each other with lightning." "They do have unique powers, since they have a shapeshifter and mind reader" commented Wanda. "Not forgetting the gorgeous Warrior woman who kicked the crap out of Cap" commented a chuckling Tony. "Oh yeah? What about the costume guy who beat you plus Jarvis, and he's just human by what reports say." Nat smirked towards Tony. "Jeez! What did I do to deserve this!?"lamented Tony. "If it weren't for me you wouldn't have known satellite blindspots while escaping thus making us untraceable."he retorted back, "Yeah..well.."

"Not necessarily" Nat was cut off by the unfamiliar voice followed by a bright green flash that blinded everyone for some seconds then came another unfamiliar deep base voice.

"Hey, I'm Ben."