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Gamelover41592 – Yeah that tends to happen…more than you'd think.

Reaperofages – yeah, I figured Charmcaster would be a good pairing for Naruto. I have a few other girls picked up, but that's for later.

Frankieu – If you are okay with spoilers, this Vilgax will be a mix of original series and alien force/ultimate alien, that being having drained 10 powerful aliens, his full weapons, and the strength to smash open Mount Rushmore as opposed to the joke of Omniverse.

Sage of the Azure Phoenix – training will come later.

CCSakuraforever – Don't worry they'll be back to Transyl as soon as Ben is gone. And Vilgax is still alive. He has survived worse after all.

AtlasKP – glad you like it.

DepressedNinja75 – Well, I couldn't think of another reason why Naruto couldn't be summoned back to Gaia. It was the only thing I could think off.

DepressedNinja75 – I didn't know much about the technique just that it could mess with minds. You could argue that this could be an effect of Orochimaru's experimentations on Danzo…because let's face it Orochimaru probably did something to enhance Danzo to make that happen.

DepressedNinja75 – give it time.

Spark681 – glad you like it.

Linkiepie2214 – yeah, that could probably be considered propaganda.

Otsutsuki no Yami – As opposed to the transformation technique, the kind I'm thinking of won't be dismissed with a strong enough blow and won't rely on chakra. As for the weapons, I intended for Naruto co me up with a style that mixes his martial arts with jutsu skills with use the weapon, like the fighting style used by Leon from Resident Evil, Sistema. Imagine, Naruto charging in with a dozen or so clones covering him with a barrage of gun/laserfire. It could be useful. And I also thought of a crazy tactic Naruto could use. Thank you for that. Plus…lets be honest…how many ninja in the Naruto series actually use stealth as opposed to flashy techniques and distractions.

Gible – as do I.

Demonzone2571 – thank you for the suggestions, but the couple is already taken care of.

Linkiepie2214 – no more weapons, Naruto has enough.

Reaver216 – I've looked, and I haven't seen those kinds of errors. At least I don't think I have seen them. Could you be a bit more specific where?

Dracul666 – she is part of the pairing. Having a girl try to kill you can be a bit of a turn off.

Guest – that is true, however they still have a plethora of destructive jutsu at their command, so don't count them out just yet.

Guest – well, this was mainly to get Naruto back. Only Sakura cared for Sasuke and that was due to fangirl syndrome, which she is now cured off by the way. As for the others, it was mainly to bring back Naruto to see justice through due to Danzo's brainwashing technique.

Guest – when you're at the top you tend to get a little dizzy from lack of oxygen.

Guest – I have

Draegoon – ask and you shall receive.

Chapter 16: Of monsters and magic

Ben, having turned back to his human form, watched the alien waterfowl going absolutely nuts waving his arms around and letting out loud quacking noises, imaging the duck with white feathers and a blue outfit or a completely black duck. The only thing missing a dog with a stupid expression on his face and a smiling mouse, or a grey and white rabbit smirking while munching on a carrot and a bald hunter stood by looking confused.

After a few moments, the duck calmed down enough to finally stop yelling.

Naruto then turned towards Charmcaster and said, "You said that he stole something from you. What did he steal?"

Charmcaster sighed and said, "He stole the Alpha Rune."

Ben groaned and said, "Oh, that is going to be all kinds of problematic."

Naruto said, "Could someone explain to me what the hell is going on here?"

Ben answered, "Long story short, Zs'Skayr is an alien I used dubbed Ghostfreak, but he broke out of the omnitrix and tried to take over, but it looks like that's the alien the DNA sample came from. As for the alpha rune, it is an ancient rune used by Charmcaster's people for incredible power, but the problem is that it tends to make people go mad with power when it is used."

Naruto nodded and said, "Okay, that makes sense…so what does creepy want with the rune?"

Ben said, "I don't know, but given our history with the guy, it can't be good."

Charmcaster said, "I'm coming with you. I want it back, and damn it, I'm going to get it back."

Rad said, "You know that I'm getting involved. Nobody messes with my ship and gets away with it. I'll kick their asses, and I'll do it free of charge."

Ben sighed and said, "given we're in enemy territory, we'll need all the help we can get."

Charmcaster held up her bag and said, "I know he has gotten smarter since the last time we saw him. No, I am not going to betray him. I'm not you! I don't betray every person I meet!"

Everyone blinked in confusion. Rook simply took a few steps away from the apparently insane woman. Naruto however focused on her bag and aimed his gaze at the bag. He reached out with his sensor abilities and could feel condense energy in her bag. Discreetly, he pointed at the bag and then held up two fingers.

Ben looked at the man user and asked, "Charmcaster…are you holding hostage in that bag of yours?"

Charmcaster sighed and unzipped her bag pulling out a pair of small runic stones. The first resembled a turtle head with glowing pink eyes, and the other looked somewhat like a face."

"That is a little scary," Rook said, shocked at the sight of the two stones.

"Wait…" Ben said, briefly recognizing them, "Are they…Adwaita and Darkstar?"

The magical woan smiled and said, "Yep. What better way to make sure Adwaita can't take over the Ledgerdomain again? As for Darkstar…he tried to betray me and use me for my energy, so I locked him up."

Ben looked at her and asked, "And how do I know you won't use the alpha rune when we get it back?"

Charmcaster said, "Hey, I've seen what that thing can do. I have no intention of going mad with power."

Ben looked her over and said, "Fine, but if I even think you'll betray us. It is not going to end well."

Naruto said, "Okay, so who is going to the creepy castle?"

Ben said, "If Charmcaster is going, I'm going. Naruto come with. If you really are a stealthy as you make yourself out to be, you can help us sneak in."

Rad said, "I'm going too. Nobody messes with my property and gets away with it."

Ben nodded and messed with the omnitrix. He switched to the label with Eye Guy, believing having eyes on every corner would be a good idea, especially if we have a ghost on their tail. In a flash of green light Ben was replaced with…Swampfire…again.

"Oh, damn it!" he yelled in frustration, "Is this thing broken again?"

With that the group set out to find Charmcaster's rune and stop whatever plan that Zs'Skayr had planned. Charmcaster putting on a stone mask that resembled her old summons to hide her pretty face and gave one similar to Rook. Pretty soon the group had arrived at the town. Naruto immediately saw that Rad wasn't kidding when he said that the town was filled with monster aliens. He saw men and women with patchwork skin and large electric bolts and turbines on their backs, werewolves, who, now that he thought about it, would probably get along with the Inuzuka clan, mummies, all various shapes and sizes.

"Dang," Swampfire said with a raised eyebrow, "if it weren't for the lack of sun and the inhabitants being a little xenophobic, this place would make a great destination for Halloween, don't you think?"

Naruto nodded and said, "Yeah, it would. It makes you wonder if they would have planets that emulate other holidays."

Charmcaster said, "If you two are done swapping stories, the rune is close. It should be somewhere in there."

Everyone looked to see a decrepit looking castle with dark pink lighting shooting out from it into the sky.

"That could be a problem," Naruto said, "There's no telling what kind of traps and other things might be in there."

Swampfire said, "This form isn't good for sensing things. Naruto you got some sensor skills. See if you can pick up any trap along the way."

Naruto nodded and prepared to pull out one of his weapons if necessary. He sent out small pulses of chakra as they approached the front of the castle, decorated with multiple pumpkins. Everyone was on edge, even Rad.

Naruto didn't detect anything at first, but he realized that mana was being fed into the pumpkins.

"Everyone," he said, "mana is flowing through the ground and into the plants. Keep your guards up."

The group walked through the gate and nothing happened. However, they were still on edge, all of them knowing that if something appeared too easy, then it was going to get much harder shortly.

This was proved right when the pumpkins erupted from the ground, revealing green bodies beneath them.

"Saw that coming," Rad said, "Anyone up for pumpkin pie!?"

Naruto pulled out his plasma sword and started swinging hard. Slicing through the pumpkins with ease. The smell of burning plants filled the air as he swung. When a pumpkin head tried to get him from the side, Naruto performed a substitution with another pumpkin head before slicing them both down.

A loud quacking sound was heard as Rad leapt from pumpkin head to pumpkin head, slicing through with a glowing knife in each hand. He tackled one and threw it into the air, which was then blasted by Rook.

Rook was taking down one monster after another, mainly keeping them at distance with his proto-tool. However, he quickly saw that it was a little dangerous as they unleashed blasts of flames at him. The cat-like alien dodged to the right, just narrowly avoiding getting his fur singed. He did, however, launch several grenade-like devices which exploded and took some of them down.

Meanwhile, Ben was getting swarmed by the pumpkin head, he unleashed large blast of methane blasts to take them out, and it proved effective. Unfortunately, it was a monkey see monkey do, situation as they fired their own flames right back at him. When the plant-like alien was forced back from the flames, they pounced, dogpiling on him.

"Hey, hands off the plant man," Charmcaster said as she launched pink blasts of energy at the pumpkin heads dogpiling Ben.

"Ben!" Naruto yelled, as he launched a wind blade from his hands, slicing through the pumpkin heads with ease. Rook and Rad both moved to get to their swampy friend, but there was a bright flash of green light, a loud yell, and a blast of fire. When the smoke cleared the three stared in shock at the sight of Swampfire…but different. Rook, Naruto, Rad, Charmcaster, and even the pumpkin heads stared in shock.

He was now more muscular with no black lines on his chest, a different shade of green with two large, red and yellow thorns on each of his arms and one on each shoulder, and black hands with long orange and yellow fingers. His neck was now decorated with a high collar and his head was yellow and orange with glowing green eyes, almost like a blossomed flower. The omnimatrix symbol had been moved to his waist.

The newly changed Swampfire whistled as he examined his new hands and said, "Whoa…what just happened? Am I in season or something?"

Naruto blinked as he said, "Is it just me or does it look like Swampfire here just bloomed."

Rad said, "Hey, I don't' know everything about aliens…by my guess he went through puberty. My guess is that means he just got a power boost."

Hearing that, Swampfire took aim and fired a powerful blast of fire, showing his fire powers had grown as a result of this new form.

"Oh, I am going to enjoy this," Swampfire said throwing out hand and causing large vines to wrap around the pumpkin heads. Familiar looking flowers opened on the vines and began to release a foul smell. The pumpkin heads, not being very bright, did not recognize the smell and the insides of their heads began to glow.

"Everyone back!" Naruto yelled, recognizing the flowers from his and Ben's fight as he and other moved away.

It proved to be a smart decision as the flames ignited the methane that was rising out of the plants. The explosion reduced the pumpkin heads were burned to a crisp and left a rather nicely sized rater in the ground.

Swampfire blinked as he looked at the destruction he had caused and said, "Wow…note to self, do not use that combination in a crowded or populated area."

Charmcaster said, "Yeah…you also might want to not use that if we are trying to sneak in somewhere. Everyone is going to know that we are here now, probably most of the town too."

Naruto said, "Then we better be quick. This place is starting to give me the heebie-jeebies."

Ben said, "Oh come on. It's not that bad."

A few minutes later…

"It is that bad!"

Naruto was currently grappling with a demonic version of himself that looked like it had been overloaded with the fox's charka. Charmcaster was fighting a witch version of herself, Rook's was like a mummy, and Rad's was a were-duck."

Naruto pushed his opponent back and unleashed a brutal haymaker to its jaw, sending it crashing against a wall.

Naruto then said, "I hope guys don't mind bad luck."

Naruto threw out an arm unleashing a wind blade that slice through Rad's duplicate, who then smashed his limbs down on it, and then launched away knocking Charmcaster's away, who then launched bright pink beams of energy which wrapped around their remaining mirror clones and then slammed them into the wall ground shattering them.

Ben said, "Well that was…a little annoying."

Naruto said, "Ben…that was beyond annoying. So far, we've dealt with those pumpkin heads, giant spiders and centipedes, those two ghost twin girls, who were freaky as hell, by the way, and now a bunch of mirror clones. I have seen enough horror movie shit to last me a lifetime. Even with my sensor abilities this place is like a goddamn maze!"

Rad said, "I'm with whiskers over there. I'm getting sick of being given the run around."

The mirror that had spawned the creations shattered, revealing a large lab behind it. Zs'Skayr and his minions stood around the center with the lab looking at the alpha rune which was being use to send energy into a…severed hand.

"Anybody else getting some bad vibes from this thing?" Naruto asked.

Rad said, "If it involves bringing something back from the dead it is always bad."

Charmcaster said, "At least now, I know what he's using to alpha run for."

Thankfully, the alien monsters were all transfixed by the goings on. However, they quickly noticed that Viktor had noticed them. Instead of raising an alarm, he discreetly pointed at the hand that was being zapped and made a smash motion with his hand.

"Viktor," Zs'Skayr growled, "What are you doing?"

Viktor said, "We have intruders."

Everyone spun and faced the group of fighters who had chased them.

"Tennyson and his little friends," the ghost-like alien spat, "I should have guessed you would come to stink your noses in my business."

Ben said, "Hey, when a bad guy starts trampling all over the laws of nature. You know you have to get involved. Now what are you planning?"

Zs'Skayr mentally smirked. He just had to keep Tennyson busy until the Vladat lord was revived. All he needed was a little monologue.

The ectonurite started, "Well, after stealing the alpha rune and tricking that stupid fowl into bring me here…"

Rad interrupted, "Hey!"

Zs'Skayr continued, "I was ready to take my place as high ecto-lord of this planet. But to do that I would need…"

Before he could finish his monologue, Naruto pulled out a punch launching his tether which grabbed the alpha rune and ripped it out of the device they were using to hold it in place. Naruto caught it with a smirk under his mask.

There was a moment of stunned silence before Rad said, "Oh, did we just fall for the evil villain monologuing and winding down the clock trick?"

Ben asked, "That is a thing?"

Rook said, "Well…other than being arrogant enough to think that we could not stop him, it makes sense as to why eh would tell us his full plan."

Ben groaned and said, "Oh man, rookie mistake."

Zs'Skayr yelled, "Stop them. Retrieve the alpha run. Lord Transyl shall be revived."

The aliens charged forward at their targets, Zs'Skayr charging at Naruto.

Ben slammed down on the omnimatrix dial and in a flash of light was replaced by a humanoid tiger. The appoplexian Rath.

"Let me tell you something Viktor, Rath is going to smash you into paste!" he roared before actually letting out a predatory roar and charging at his opponent.

The large alien grappled, the ground beneath them cracking under their combined strength.

Viktor said, "You know I really am going to have to thank you after this if you succeed."

Rath growled, "What is this mind game that Viktor wants to use to trick Rath?"

Viktor explained, "The Vladats used my people as beats of burden and as food for centuries. I was actually glad when they went extinct. However, with the plan to revive a Lord Transyl, I am more than a little…nervous. However, I still must defeat you. Can't have my master turn against me and all."

Viktor unleashed massive amount of electricity, shocking Rath who powered through the pain and tackled him, sending the two through a wall.

Charmcaster was swarmed by bandages as Kuphulu attempted to slam into her.

"I'll swallow your soul, girl," Kuphulu said dramatically as he attempted to capture the woman. Charmcaster simply held out her hands forming a sphere-shaped shield around her, and stopping the bandages, focusing her powers a spike pierced and pinned the bandages in place before it began to rotate wildly. In a few moments, the mummy was reducing to looking like a giant ball of bandages with his head sticking out of it, groaning in discomfort.

Charmcaster appeared in flash of pink light and said, "Yeah, I don't think so."

She then charged off to held Rad and Rook, who were both double teaming Crujo and winning. The spellcaster launched a large beam at the bear-like loboan and joined in the fight.

"Give me that rune!" Zs'Skayr roared as he swung his scythe at Naruto's head. The blond ninja ducked under the swing and threw an uppercut, only for the ectonurite to turn intangible. The alien took advantage of the moment, and lashed out with his hand, grabbing onto the boy's wrist and attempted to pry his fingers open, but Naruto responded by slamming his knee into the ectonurite's stomach and sending him upwards.

Naruto then leapt up after him to follow up with another blow, but Zs'Skayr turned intangible again, causing Naruto to punch the ceiling. Using chakra Naruto stuck to the ceiling to pry out his fist, and then performed a backflip to avoid another scythe swing.

"Sirius Butt Kicking!"

There was a loud boom Viktor was slammed through a wall and then grabbed by Rath, who caught him by his head.

"Fornacis Face Slam!"

Rath smashed Viktor's head into the wall and dragged it down the wall, leaving a deep furrow in it before they slammed into the ground creating a huge blast of smoke and debris.

"Polaris Piledriver!"

Rath wrapped up Viktor in a bear hug and leapt into the air and brought him down with a piledriver throwing up more debris and causing more damage. Seeing the smoke cover Naruto got an idea, and pretended to lose his balance from the shaking and falling into the smoke, his hand in a familiar cross sign.

Rath then lifted Viktor above his head with both of his arms and declared one final move.

"Bellatrix Back Breaker!"

Rath then slammed Viktor over his knee with a loud crack. Viktor roared in agony before passing out from the pain.

Rath dropped Viktor before roaring in victory and disappeared in a flash of light, replaced by Ben.

Zs'Skayr growled and said, "You will not ruin my plans again, Tennyson!"

He charged at the vulnerable Ben, turning intangible when the others tried to blast him, only for Naruto to appear in front of him, hardening his armor. Zs'Skayr's scythe shattered on impact and Naruto drew his arm back unleashing a brutal haymaker that knocked Zs'Skayr backwards. He then pulled out his rail gun and unleashed a swarm of bullets.

The ectonurite laughed as he turned intangible the bullets flying through him with no effect whatsoever.

"Foolish human," he sneered, "Did you truly believe that your bullets would harm me?"

Unseen by Zs'Skayr the bullets burst into smoke revealing that they had been transformed clones. The clones all lashed out with their tethers pulled Zs'Skayr back who let out a shocked, "What?".

The clones all pulled back and unleashed a brutal punch as hard as they could. The original Naruto jumped up above Zs'Skayr and brought both his fists down with as much strength he dared put in. The ghost-like alien slammed into the ground right next to the severed limb, destroying the device, creating a crater, and launching it through the air.

"Whoohoo!" Ben said, "Way to go whiskers."

There was a dry sound as the severed limb smacked against the omnimatrix. Ben immediately began freaking out and pushed away the severed body part. In his panic, he didn't notice that the omnimatrix was now glowing yellow.

Rad smirked and said, "Now that is what I call payback. Do you think any of these guys know where the treasure room is? I intend to steal all that I can carry."

Naruto handed the alpha rune to Charmcaster and said, "You really want to get back at this guy, huh? We already smashed up his place and ruined his plans here."

Rad said, "Hey, nobody tries to rip off Rad Profit Danger Trouble Dudesman and gets away with it."

Ben blinked and asked, "That's your full name?"

Rook said, "Yes…or are you referring to in Earth media where someone says something is his middle name and they are only trying to sound tough?"

Ben blinked and said, "I don't think I'm ever going to fully understand aliens."

Ben then saw Charmcaster put the alpha run in a small bag.

"You aren't putting that with your other runes?" Ben asked.

Charmcaster answered, "I have Adwaita and Dark Star in my bag already. You really think that I'm going to put something as powerful as the alpha rune in there with them."

Ben blinked as he remembered the power-mad duo and said, "Good point."

Charmcaster said, "Anyway, I've got what I wanted so, I'm out of here. Oh…and before I go."

She walked up to Naruto who had deactivated his helmet and proceeded to plant a quick kiss on his cheek and slipped a piece of paper into his hand.

"Look me up some time, handsome," she said flirtatiously as he turned around and walked through a bright pink portal.

Naruto blinked once, twice, a third time, and then looked at the paper which had a phone number, an address, and a little kiss mark on it.

"Where was this luck with girls when I was back on my planet?"

A brief time later…

Rad sighed as he thought back on his crazy day. His ship got smashed, and he was lied to and used by some alien ghost. However, he was glad that he made a killing, briefly looking back at the gems that they had found horded by Zs'Skayr. They had also found Scout, who was now waiting in the shuttle for Ben and the other to finish his work.

Speaking of which.

"Fix, fix, fix, fix, fix!"

Rad watched as a black and green circuit pattern covered the lovely duck, and a small gremlin went to work on the part that had been smashed during the fight earlier.

Juryrigg examined the part in detail and walked up to the avian alien.

"This little patch should work until you get to the next galaxy, but I recommend getting a replacement for this as soon as possible, "he explained as he handed the part to Rad.

The black and green circuitry receded from the ship revealing Upgrade who said, "The ship AI should be fully functional, and I patched up the hole in your ship. You should be free to fly."

Rad smirked as he held out a wing and said, "Thanks kid. I owe you. The next time you need my help…I'll give you a discount. And Naruto…that trip we talked about still stands."

Rad entered his ship with his riches and took off.

Rook looked at Naruto and asked, "Trip?"

Naruto answered, "I kept beating him at poker, so he wanted me to go with him to some casino."

With that, the two entered their shuttle and took off rejoining the plumber ship and heading back to Earth, glad to leave this planet behind.

Meanwhile…

"Fools! Idiots!" Zs'Skayr growled.

Many of the alien minions of Zs'Skayr wondered why Tennyson and the Plumbers didn't arrest them. Now they knew why. He had left them to face their master in the rage of their failure. It also helped that the low plumber presence resulted in the low plumber presence here meant they didn't have a facility to lock them up in.

"I know. It is so hard to find good help."

Everyone turned towards the unrecognizable voice. Out of the darkness, walked Aggregor.

"Who are you?" Viktor growled, electricity sparking to life on his body.

"I am Aggregor, and I have some business to attend to with your master."

Zs'Skayr scoffed and said, "I have no time to waste with a fool like you. Get rid of him."

Viktor smirked and fired a blast of lighting at Aggregor. The osmosion lazily brought up his staff and spun it, absorbing the energy. The then fired it back at the Frankenstein-like alien, creating a smoking wound on his body. The mad osmosian then charged forward and grabbed him by his neck. A loud roar rang out as a sonic blast blew Aggregor off Viktor an into a wall with enough force to shatter it.

Zs'Skayr smirked evilly only for it to fall when Aggregor got up with only some scuffs and dents in his armor.

He locked eyes with Crujo and launched at him, only for bandages to wrap tightly around him and pulling away his weapon.

"Let us see how well you fair without your pathetic spear, mortal," Kuphulu said dramatically.

Aggregor simply gripped a bandage that was near his hand.

Suddenly, Kuphulu screamed in agony as his body began to go limp. His bandages lost their white color, becoming rotted and old as the glow of his eyes faded from his head. In less than a minute his body was reduced to a pile of clothes and old bandages.

The remaining members looked at each other in shock, and Zs'Skayr looked interested in this. Aggregor then pulled up his wrist gauntlet and examined it. It beeped and he saw the phrase "Thep Khufan bio-energy locked and ready".

Aggregor held out his arm and it morphed almost like a proto-tool into bandages which lashed out and wrapped around Crujo, who snarled and howled in anger. It turned to a yelp and a scream of pain as he felt his body be draining of energy, his lost muscle and his fur lost its sheen and he fell to the ground dead.

Examining his gauntlet again he saw the phrase "Loboan bio-energy locked and ready".

Feeling horrified at the deaths of his comrade, Viktor unleashed a loud roar as he blasted as much power as he could at Aggregor, only for the enhanced Osmosian to duck under the blast and fire a concentrated electric beam at Viktor's leg nearly blowing it off. The Osmosian then gained wolf-like eyes and fangs before he let out a loud how, releasing a concentrated sonic blast that slammed into Viktor and knocking him to the ground. Aggregor didn't give him a chance to recover as he was immediately on him. He grabbed Viktor's throat and drained his energy, causing his body to shrivel up and then fall apart.

Aggregor then check his gauntlet and saw the phrase "Transylian bio-energy locked and ready".

Aggregor then turned to Zs'Skayr and asked. "Do I have your attention now?"

Zs'Skayr looked at the deceased forms of his henman and nodded his head.

Cut! Okay that last part got a little dark. Now we see what Albedo has done to Aggregor and that it is not good for the rest of the universe. What plans do you think he has for them and what part with the High Ecto-Lord play in it?

Let me know what you think. Constructive criticism is welcome. Flames will be ignored.