Ben 10: Guild Mage

Chapter 23: Allies and Enemies

Argistix was in even more disarray as Kagura dodged the barrage of missiles Julie fired from her shoulders.

"Hey ladies watch the destruction, I just painted the place." Argit called out. "Ben, tell your lady friend to stop wrecking my place of employment."

"Dude you are so on your own." Diamondhead smirked, slashing at one Techadon. Two fired an assortment of missiles at Diamondhead. "Diamond hard skin morons." Ben smirked throwing a few shards at them. Strangely however, Ben noticed Leander made no attempt at getting up at all. The half NRG rooter essentially just waited.

"What's your deal Leander?" Diamondhead thought as he was harmlessly blasted by some lasers. However one nearly hit Kagura.

"Hey." She said slightly infuriated.

"Sorry, this should help." Ben slapped the Omnitrix disk, becoming Slamtail. "I was hoping for Dizzcharge, but this will do." Slamtail wrapped his tail around two Techadons and crushed them with his might alone.

"Oh yeah, I rule!" Slam Tail cheered, only to be wrapped up in Simian's webbing.

"Yeah, not so much Ben, sorry it's just business." The Arachnachimp insisted, however it was clear he wasn't sorry.

"Don't worry, I feel bad about doing this too!" Ben used his tail to wrap it around Simian and throw him into one of Argit's paintings. "Huh, I guess I don't."

"So not cool Ben." Argit whined. "That was one of my favorites."

"You literally have five hundred of them and you know it." Slam Tail pointed out.

"Ok true, but that was one of my best." Argit admitted reluctantly.

Kagura jumped over a barrage of missiles, just as Julie ran over for a powerful punch. The shockwave ended up collapsing the building behind Kagura, and pushed her back several feet.

"Flying form!" While spinning at incredible speeds, Kagura jumped into the air, slashing at Julie. The attack only cracked the armor, but Julie didn't hesitate, she only smirked. A powerful blast of lightning shot out of the crack, just barely missing Kagura.

"You really need to work on your aim." Kagura smirked, then paused hearing what she said. "Huh, Ben's right, don't force it and the jokes come to you."

"You actually like his stupid jokes, he wouldn't know a good joke if it smacked him in the face." Julie sneered.

"So if you smacked Ben, he wouldn't know?" Kagura smirked victoriously, not resisting.

"You bitch!" Julie snarled, enraged at that statement.

"You walked right into that one and you know it." Kagura laughed, jumping over one of Julie's missiles. Said stray missile shot all the way through Undertown.

Meanwhile, the small alien Pakmar was opening up his new firework emporium, happy. Happy because Ben Tennyson wasn't around to once again destroy his store. Just then, the missile hit, right as Pakmar changed the closed sign to open. The explosion set off every single firework at once, covering Pakmar in soot.

"Oh no, Ben Tennyson is back." He groaned, coughing up a puff of smoke.

Kagura and Julie charged, where the two met, locking at the arms.

"I'm going to enjoy this." Julie sneered, then got a little uncomfortable as the armor momentarily turned green.

It was here Kagura got an idea on what was wrong. "Ship's fighting back." She quickly pumped on some gravity magic then pushed Julie away. "Ben, I need Megahurtz, quickly."

"I get it." Ben slapped the core, becoming the armored alien. He fired a concentrated sonic blast, and seemed to dislodge the device on Ship's forehead. The small alien quickly jumped off of Julie, and into Ben's arms.

"Ship!" The creature happily cried out.

"I missed you too little buddy." Megahurtz said with a smile. Then the alien jumped into Kagura's and began to nuzzle her face.

"Ok, I like you too." Kagura admitted, giggling a bit.

"You bastard!" Julie roared angered.

"Well, now do you want to tell us what Servantis has been up too over the years, or do we have to beat it out of you?" Kagura demanded, pointed her blade at Julie.

"How about, controlling Ship wasn't his only thing he did for me?" Julie asked both rhetorically and darkly. Her skin then took on a familiar shade of red as her body bulked up. A second pair of arms then pushed out from under her original as an additional pair of eyes was revealed.

"Of course, she's part Fourarms now." Ben said bitterly.

"And I'm really going to enjoy this." Julie sneered in a deeper tone, as she charged. She slammed her fist into Megahurtz, pushing the alien form into the wall behind him.

"SHIP!" Ship declared angry. He then covered Kagura in his ooze form. Ship had become a brand new Galvanic Mechamorph Armor for Kagura. It was a little bigger than her own height, but modelled after a Samurai Shogun. Her right arm had a rounded off shield that covered the length of her arm. Archenemy now had doubled in length, but kept its weight. Ship's eye was placed between the V shaped crest on her helmet.

"Damn, this is cool." Kagura said with rising excitement. She leapt up, and slashed in front of Julie, releasing an energy shockwave. The attack slammed into Julie, and pushed her back a few feet. Kagura's right arm rose, indicating Ship was partially taking control and the shield expanded into a bow. With a wicked grin she pulled the line back, and fired a trio of energy arrows.

"Loving this even more!" Kagura said, her grin essentially never ending.

Ben finally pulled himself out of the rubble, when Leander walked over. "Don't even." Megahurtz began, before Leander tapped his fingers to the Omnitrix. In a flash of light, Megahurtz was replaced with a large humanoid frog with a black and green wetsuit on. His eyes were covered by pointed green shades. The Omnitrix disk was in the valve of a rebreather set, while a swamp green Fairy Tail guild mark was sown onto his upper left shoulder.

"Bullfrag, how in the hell did you," The alien began only to get a wicked grin. "No way." Leander nodded. Bullfrag shot his tongue out at Julie, then launched himself at the alien girl.

"Wow, cool alien." Kagura admitted.

"You ain't too bad looking yourself gorgeous." Bullfrag said with a smile. Kagura blushed at that.

"Didn't you once hit on Attea in that form?" Julie demanded angered.

"Uh, that was a combination of an act, and hormones." Bullfrag said nervously with a shrug.

"Oh of course, that makes sense." Kagura admitted with a shrug. "Look at Rath and Tech-Support."

"Never mind, now you die." Julie sneered, charging once again.

"Shall we?" Bullfrag asked with a smile.

"Do lets," Kagura lifted her left arm, which thanks to Ship, became a battering ram like knuckle. Both Ben and Kagura slammed their fists into Julie's face, knocking her out.

At that moment, Leander raised his arm, and a ray shot out at Julie, changing her back to human.

"Um, what now?" Argit asked confused, having put Simian to sleep with one of his quills, then stole the monkey's wallet discreetly.

"Simply put, it's good to see you again, Azmuth." Ben said with a smile as he turned back to normal.

"Azmuth, the incredibly intelligent alien that created the Omnitrix?" Kagura asked confused, as Ship turned back to normal, now residing in her arms.

Leander's head, then shifted backwards, revealing the Aged Galvan in question. "I prefer smartest being in at least five galaxies, but yes, yes I am."

"You, you were Leander the whole time?" Argit asked confused.

"Not the whole time, just recently." Azmuth explained, recalling his tale. "Paradox had informed me of Ben's travel to this Earthland Dimension, and due to a sensor I installed, I knew of the Omnitrix's reboot and sent help when I could, knowing your present playlist wasn't enough for certain situations."

"So it was you who was giving me my old aliens back." Ben said happily.

"Wait, so what happened with the DNA surge thing where we all turned into various forms on the Omnitrix?" Kagura asked confused.

"Oh, so is that what happened, fascinating." Azmuth said intrigued, stroking his whiskers. "That was when Servantis and his enforcers showed up to arrest me for those made up charges, they destroyed my main terminal when I was attempting to give you back the form you called Upgrade back."

"That really would have helped." Ben pointed out.

"Anyways, because of my work with the Prypiatosian-B species, I easily subdued the real Leander and took his place with this mechanical double in order to learn what Servantis was really planning with that Chamber of his." Azmuth explained.

"I thought, he just wanted to destroy the Omnitrix?" Ben admitted confused. "That's what the whole thing was about, right?"

"My initial thoughts too, but then I discovered the chamber would have only destroyed you Ben," Azmuth explained, getting slightly angered. "The Omnitrix would have survived, but placed in a secret compartment for later use."

"What for, make more goons?" Argit gulped confused.

"No, worse, to add Celestialsapien DNA to his own body, and make himself a god." Azmuth explained grimly.

"Celestial, what now?" Kagura asked confused.

"I call it Alien X, it can literally do anything you can think of." Ben explained, getting nervous.

"Hold up, don't Alien X have two extra voices in the back of your head controlling your actions?" Argit asked, getting confused. "That's why that Agregor guy tried nabbing the baby one." Argit summarized what Kevin told him.

"No, not anymore, due to that court case, Belicus and Serena are subdued, they couldn't stop Servantis." Ben realized horrified.

"Exactly, Servantis created Aggregor from DNA he had of Kevin while in captivity and attempted to use him as a Guinea pig of sorts." Azmuth explained, grateful he wasn't the only one explaining this.

"Let's get back to the others, they need to hear this too," Kagura insisted.

"Ship, if you'd please." Ben said with a smile. Ship switched over to his battle cruiser mode and flew off towards Plumber's HQ.

As they were flying over, Pakmar noticed them from the destroyed remains of his newest shop. "You come back here and clean this mess up Tennyson!"

"Wait," Kagura began confused. "How did you subdue the real Leander?" She asked Azmuth who was still in his suit in the passenger seat.

"Energy manipulation comes in many forms my dear, let's just leave it at that." Azmuth said with a smirk.

"Wait just a sec, it's time, we have to make a stop first." Ben said, noticing how quickly time had gone by.

"Our five hours are up." Kagura said, getting excited. Azmuth would have asked what they were talking about, had his scanners in the Leander suit not picked up a dimensional anomaly.

Meanwhile back at the Plumber's base, the resistance was in full charge against Servantis's forces. Natsu and the others ended up joining them when the route to the prisons were cut off.

"I am having way the hell too much fun!" Natsu declared, firing a barrage of fireballs at a tank.

"Natsu please, keep some of the equipment in one piece." Gwen begged to deaf ears. She fired an assortment of pink energy disks at one techadon.

"He's like this always, trust me, this is paradise for him." Gray said, his back to Gwen's. "Now together."

"Tempestus Erectum/ ICE MAKE: BLIZZARD!" Gwen's spell boosted the ferocity of Gray's attack.

The results froze everything solid in the surrounding area, including 50 robots and a dozen Plumbers who followed Servantis.

"She has a boyfriend, she has a boyfriend, she has a boyfriend." Juvia was quietly whispering to herself. Meanwhile, in the corner of the base, the Vreedle brothers Octagon and Rhomboid were watching in awe of Natsu's display of power.

"Octagon, are you certain that pink haired fella ain't related to us in anyway?" The larger of the two asked confused.

"Boid, while initially confused as you, I could clearly tell that boy is by no means, a member of the Vreedle clan." Octagon admitted.

"On account of the fact he human?" Rhomboid asked confused.

"Nah, on account of he clearly has more intelligence that half the Vreedle family put together, not including Ma." Octagon explained truthfully.

One nameless rogue plumber was then tossed at a gas line pipe, which exploded from excess flames.

"Now that there's what you might call a controlled explosion." Octagon admitted.

"That man has a way with fire we cannot even begin to comprehend." Rhomboid took his hat off in respect.

"Let's git before he notices us." Octagon said, finished admiring the view.

"Right behind you," Rhomboid agreed, seeking to steal a shuttle.

"I love this dimension." Natsu declared happily.

"And this dimension would love it if you could leave it in one piece." Lucy shouted from afar. She narrowly dodge blaster fire from one goon.

"Time for some back up Lucy." Yukino said, getting a key out. The blond nodded in agreement.

"Open, Gate of the Paired Fish: Pisces." Yukino swung the key and summoned the mother son duo in their humanoid forms.

"Now let's get it on." The son said, as he spun his trident, knocking several goons away. The mother half delivered a powerful kick, shattering a techadon.

"Open, Gate of the Ram, Aries!" Lucy summoned the overly timid sheep girl.

"I'm sorry ma'am, did you call me?" She asked worried.

"Yeah, do you mind?" Lucy pointed to the squad running up.

"Of course, Wool bomb!" Aries tossed a fluffy pink wool bomb at the squad, ensnaring them.

"Marvelous job." Erza complimented, now in her Heaven's Wheel armor. Using several dozen swords, she slashed away at several techadon robots.

"Kind of seems weird we haven't seen the man of the hour yet." Sting admitted, dodging blaster fire.

"If he's as strategic as Ben suggested, then that means he has something planned." Rogue explained, firing a shadow roar.

"Happy, stay here with Gwen and the others," Natsu ordered. "We're going for the prison cells."

"Please and thank you." Gwen said with a smile.

Rook, Cooper, Devlin, and Juvia went to join him. The five ran off at full speeds, intent on saving Grandpa Max. The four ran down the corridor to save the others, as Natsu sniffed the air again.

"That scent again." Natsu whispered, "It's up ahead."

The four paused a moment, seeing Agent Swift blocking the last door to the prison cells.

Juvia got ready to cast a spell, while Rook aimed the Proto-Tool at her. Just then, Swift turned, and opened the door to the holding block.

"You, you've been helping us the whole time, but why?" Cooper asked confused.

With a sigh, Swift began her tale. "Given the circumstances, Ben might not be aware, but I was there when Ben was sent to that other dimension. I saw how he selfishly went to save Servantis when that monster attacked."

"So, you started questioning everything Servantis told you." Cooper realized. Swift nodded.

"I never thought he was just using us like this." Swift admitted, trying to hold back her tears.

"Kid, there's a time and a place, but not now." Devlin assured her. Swift nodded, as the six went in, only to be greeted by Phil.

"Well, well, the reject returns, I should have known." Phil sneered, shifting to his monster form. "But you Swift, now that I didn't see coming."

"What can I say, I like to use facts." Swift said, revealing her wings.

"Let's kick this guy's ass." Natsu said, a pair of fireballs covered his fists.

"I couldn't agree more." Cooper said with a smile, as a new red battle suit formed around him.

"It's Hero Time!" Juvia declared, firing an assortment of water slicers. Phil ran forward, and dodged the attack. Rook was alongside her, firing an assortment of missiles at Phil. The attack connected, pushing him back a bit. Devlin followed up with his own assortment of energy blasts. Cooper joined in rushing him.

"ENOUGH!" Phil roared, releasing a discharge of red electricity from his body.

"Any last words before I fry you for good?" Phil demanded.

"Just two: Water Lock!" Juvia threw her hands forward, incasing Phil in a large water sphere. The lock then began to fluctuate with energy.

"HIT THE DECK!" Cooper declared, reformatting the suit into barricade. Everyone quickly dashed behind the shield as the water lock exploded releasing a massive energy blast. The blast had also shut down the power grid for the area.

When the smoke cleared, everyone looked over to see Phil had been returned to normal and was unconscious.

"Damn, remind me not to get on her bad side." Cooper admitted fearfully.

"You have no idea." Natsu gulped.

"So, now that this mess is settled," Max said, coming out from his cell. "Would somebody mind telling me why you have Ragnarok with you?"

"He's the real Devlin Levin." Natsu said bluntly.

"Just when you think a man of my age has seen it all." Max admitted after a moment of silence to process this. The other captured Plumbers soon rallied, and grabbed whatever weapons they could find. Everyone ran off to join the main battle, only to find it over.

"You took your sweet time getting here." Erza said, standing on top of the newly defeated Branigan.

"Well, when Ben calls in the cavalry, the cavalry knocks down hard." Max smiled happily.

"You think this is over don't you?" Servantis sneered, coming down from a ceiling panel, revealing several hundred more Techadon. Much to their surprise, Kevin was right at his side.

"Damn, Ben wasn't kidding, you can buy these things in bulk." Gray admitted, somewhat impressed.

"Your time ends here children." Servantis cackled villainously. Just then, a large explosion burst open the elevator.

"Yeah, it does, our five hours." Ben said, arriving with Azmuth, Kagura, and a few dozen extra friends.

"FAIRY TAIL'S COME KNOCKING CRAB CAKES!" Makarov declared arriving with the majority of Fairy Tail, as well as the remaining members of teams Sabertooth and Mermaid Heel.

"And to think, you bastards would have had all the fun without us?" Gajeel said rudely.

"I'm shocked and appalled." Orga said with mock hurt.

"Well, now this just got fun." Max laughed, knowing this would be the final battle against Servantis.

AN: Now I apologize for a short chapter and a late delay, but it is Christmas time, and I wanted to do something nice for you all.

Now before we go, I have an honest question to you all about the Ben 10 Reboot: What do you think about Shock Rock and the Omni-Enhanced forms? Personally, I'm on the fence about the idea, although I like the changes made in the Ultimate forms. Please be honest in the reviews and hopefully I'll get updates done sooner.