Hello all. This is just the first chapter of a three-parter fic I'm trying to do. Its supposed to play out like an actual episode of the show, y'know? If anyone here exspresses interest in this, I'll continue working on it. I really hope you guys do...

Ben 10 © Man of Action & Cartoon Network.

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Stigmata

Chaptire I

"The blood shall flow throw sacred wounds,

and great pain shall be followed by an ever greater causallity."

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Night and the chirps of crickets were the only sounds heard for miles around the old labratory. It had orignally been constructed in the 1940s', as a missle testing facility for the military. But over time its purpose took on a more secretive purpose. A purpose that was always taken off the record in official Pentagon meetings.

But tonight, that purpose was going to be unearthed.

Dr. Animo carefully pushed open the old and rusty door to the lab, cautious of any security measures. When nothing happened, he stepped inside. Clicking on the flashlight, Animo made his way around the old, broken down lab. Depsite the decay, he knew they're still had to be a plethora of data and information he could use to his advatange. In the main part of the lab, Animo groped around for the light switch, hoping the independant power sourse was still operational. And he was proven right as the lights came on for the first time since this place had been abandoned.

In the light, Animo could see the exact exstent of the damage. He nonchalantly stepped over the bones of animals and the scientists that had perished in the accident that left this place in ruin. He pushed a skeleton off the main computer consule, and called up the information he was seeking. The good doctors eyes almost bugged out of their sockets as he read the name of the last known surviving test subject this labs secret exsperiments ever produced.

"Well, well, well... I do love how irony works at times." he said.

Punching up another file, he read its contents. Following its instrustions, he activated a large satilite on the roof of the building. It emited a pulse that was invisible and inaudable to the human scences. Dr. Animo let out a loud, dememented laugh the would shake the paint off the walls.

"Now... its only a matter of time before he comes to me..."

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Miles away, in a very familiar looking RV, Max Tennyson tossed and turned in his sleep.

Nightmares plauged his mind. Dark and firey visions of destrustion and pain. He saw people screaming and being consumed fire and white light. And at the center of it all, a monsterours creature spread its gigantic, white wings.

Max shot up in his bed, covering his mouth to keep from crying out. Once he knew that Ben and Gwen were still sound asleep in the back, he got up and got himself a glass of water. His head was starting to hurt, so Max took a few asprin and lay back down to bed.

But Maxs back tensed up, the space between his shoulders hurting bad. Max just ignored it, hoping the asprin would kick in soon.