I began to sweat and I began to go over the plans in my head. There were Capes coming here...
WHY?!? It's way too early for Capes to be out at this time! And considering the way Camryn was looking out towards the ocean, they were
flying Movers! I looked around me only to find that Camryn, Riley and Maria had scattered. THEY
LEFT ME! THE
BASTARDS! I ran over to the nearest wrecked ship with the biggest and easiest hole to get into. The ship was, of course, covered in rust and moss. I ducked into the shadows and just stopped moving for a second.
Let's go over my options here. I could possibly sneak out without the flyers noticing me. I could use the Omnitrix to get out of here, but it was recharging right now. I could try to find the others or wait for them to find me. Or I could reveal myself to the incoming Capes and feign ignorance about the situation... yeah... that sure as fuck won't work! And finally, I could just wait things out and wait for the newcomers to leave. And I don't know if their Heroes or Villains! I am
NOT being strong-armed nor am I joining the
damn Wards or any of the
gangs!
Okay, I guess I'm waiting then! Why didn't I bring a
MASK?! Or just take a damn metal bat with me like Riley?!?! Why didn't I consider that there would be someone who might see the steam!?!
STUPID STUPID STUPID! My breath hitched when I heard voices talking outside. They were here now and were probably looking around. I can only hope they don't check the shipwreck! A few very uncomfortable minutes passed and nothing happened.
I suddenly felt a cold hand on my shoulder and went to scream like a little girl, but another hand clamped over my mouth! I was pulled back a little and I started panicking even harder! Just as I was about try to scream, I heard a harsh
'shhhh' and I stopped. "Be quiet. They might hear us." Oh, thank
Jesus! It was just Camryn! He let me go and we waited for a few seconds.
"Alright, we're safe for now." He told me. How could he tell that we were safe? "How can you tell?" "Just trust me, okay?" I didn't really have a choice. "Why didn't we bring masks?" I questioned him. "Because we're idiots." He deadpanned. He's not wrong.
Oh my god, where are Maria and Riley?! Did they get caught?! Camryn looked at me and placed his hands on my shoulders. "Calm down," he said, "we won't get caught." "How can you be so sure?" This was way too stressful!
"I have hyper-awareness. I can tell where the Capes are. I can talk to the other two through telepathy, remember?" His was barely above a whisper. Good thing no one else was nearby because otherwise people would think something weird going on between us.
A few more minutes passed and he grabbed my wrist and pulled me out into the light with him. I squinted at him pulling on me, but there didn't seem to be anyone around right now. But while he probably knew where the Capes were, I didn't and I hated it! "Where are the damn Capes?!" I whisper-shouted. "They aren't around us but be
quieter. They might be able to hear you."
Shit!
BEEP BEEP BEEP
I heard a happy thrilling trio of beeps and I looked down at the Omnitrix. It was green again! YES! I was just about to tell Camryn this but he was already looking at me. "What was that?" He demanded. "The watch
recharged! I think I could get us out of here!" This was great! "You didn't think to do that before?" He queried. I looked at him, slightly annoyed. "No, it was recharging. I've got ten minutes of transformation time and ten minutes of recharge time." The little Vampire just glared at my wrist. "Well, that's dumb as hell. Why would this thing have such a short time limit?" I shook my head, "This is not the time to discuss this."
"We need to find Mom and Riley. Now. Save your watch's time." I nodded. We started creep around the wrecked ships as slowly as possible, keeping an eye out for anything and anyone. It was then we finally found Riley and Maria! "Oh finally! Where were you two?" Riley asked us. I looked back at the way we came from and pointed. We were in the bigger, rusty, mossy ship." They both nodded their heads. Maria then put her hand on my shoulder. "Kids, I need you each to hold onto me and don't let go. I'm going to teleport us back to the car." She then did exactly what she planned on doing. Within moments, all four of us blinked away from our hiding place and into the car.
Maria sighed when we got settled down then cranked up the car. It was damn cold in here! "I'm sorry everyone, I should've thought about the steam!" They all looked back at me. Riley was the first to speak up. "Well, we should've brought masks with us too. So you're not the only one who made a stupid decision here." Well, that's true. "I... think we should head out to that desert, anyways. We
probably should have done that before." I just glared at them. "Are you
serious? Why didn't we go out to this desert before? Why didn't anyone
mention it?" Maria sighed again. "I just thought it was a good idea to go to the Boat Graveyard so early in the morning, but
apparently God decided to flip us off and throw a wrench into our plans." Well,
fuck us then! It took us about an hour to get out of Brockton Bay and into this desert that was
conveniently close.
We were finally alone, without anyone near here. It was time to show off my other transformations. I jumped out of the car... and into cold desert air! "OH MY LORD, IT'S SO COLD OUT HERE!" AGH, WHY?!? Camryn then stepped out of the car. "Well, the desert is cold at night and it's still early in the morning, what exactly did you expect?" Ugh, yes, that makes sense... anyways, I put my wrist up to sternum height and pressed the green button again on the Omnitrix. The core popped up and good
god that was a
satisfying sound. I put my thumb on one side of the faceplate and my finger on the opposite side. I dialed up the next alien I wanted and looked back towards everyone else.
"Come on, Cam. We're all waiting." Maria encouraged. I smiled back at her warmly. "Just making sure you're each ready for the next form."
I pressed down on the faceplate and once again time slowed down around me as I started to change into a new form. Blue and black fur spread across my entire body. My ears traveled up to a higher point on my head but not fully to the top and elongated before tapering at the end. My clothes changed into a black and white skin-tight jumpsuit that covered everything but my head, hands, and feet. Or rather paws now. I also noticed that I had a tail behind me with black spots on it. Speaking of black spots, they were dotted all over me, not a single one perfectly matched the others. My height shot up to 6'0" and here comes the memories.
I was suddenly was in what looked like a race against the form's friends, possibly family. They were all cat slash cheetah like aliens and they appeared to be running up to
supersonic speeds. The memories jumped forwards to a battle between the creatures and some sort of beetle things. Said beetle things were
far too slow to keep up with the Citrakayah's sheer speed and what appeared to be
electricity shooting from their hands. The feline ran up to a wall and actually seemed to go through the wall like it wasn't there. And I don't mean as in they charged through it, I mean it as if they
phased through it!
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The memories finally faded and I just stood there, taking in my surroundings and scanning them with my newly gained vision. Everything was much clearer than it was before and I just wanted to
run. The want...
no... the
need to move, the
need... for speed!
I smiled with my feline-like face and spoke. "
Fasttrack! Man, do I feel much better now!" Everyone just looked at me with wide eyes. I tilted my head and laughed, "What's the matter, cat got your tongue?" They all just glared at me then. Riley then said, "You know, I was gonna call you cute until you made that terrible pun." My ears drooped at that jab. She giggled at me, "Aw, now you're cute again!"
Camryn just kept looking at me and of course had something to say. "
Congratulations," he spoke dryly, "you're a furry now." I growled/hissed/purred at him softly. I turned around and began to stretch my legs in preparation for my first run of the test. Finally, I rushed forward, making my first usage of Fasttrack's super speed.
I
moved for a lack of a better term. Well, not just moved but I bet if I had passed a jogger or a leaf falling right now, then they would look like they were completely still as if they were frozen in time. Obviously they wouldn't
actually be frozen in time as if DIO used
The World (or
ZA WARUDO). It was because I was
moving and
thinking so incredibly
fast that everything just appeared to be
slow. It was truly
incredible to do this.
I raced around the desert. I wasn't sure if they could see me running like this, but I just don't care right now. My feline body completely ignored the cactus I ran through while I was looking out to the others. I wasn't sure if XLR8 could have gone through that with no issue, but once again I didn't care. I just kept going without actually increasing my speed. I'm not going to even
try to phase through things right now. I feel like I'd end up embedded into a wall if I tried.
I ran all the way to the nearest rock formation and ran back, all within the span of a few seconds. I looked towards the others when I stopped and was simply amused by the bug-eyed expressions they had. "Holy... shit," Maria stated, dumfounded, "how fast can you
go?" A smirk crossed my fuzzy face. "I'm not sure about the upper limits to my speed, but I'm thinking at least
300 miles per hour."
And then everything was quiet for a few moments. No one said a word, until other Camryn broke the silence with an incredibly flat
what. I laughed and decided to show them some more of my abilities. I thought back to the memories of the apparent
electrokinesis that the Citrakayah
apparently possessed. And I tried to will the electricity out of me. Light blue sparks appeared from my arms and hands. My fur began to stand up on end. I pushed the energy down towards the ground, leaving scorch marks along the hardened sand and rocks.
A few more show-offs later and I was back into human form, once again nearly blinding Maria, Camryn, and Riley. I laughed while they rubbed their poor eyes. As I side note, I've got to try to learn how to phase through things as Fasttrack.
Riley was the first to actually look at me without blinking several times. "So how many more forms do you have?" She queried innocently. "Well, I have eight more forms, so we'll be here for a while." I stated plainly. Her jaw dropped at my reveal. Maria then stepped towards me and put her hands on my shoulders.
"Um, Cam, we don't exactly want to wait for hours waiting for you to just show us your powers." I coughed and scratched the back of my head. "Well, just tell me when we need to go back home and I'll stop." Maria grinned and nodded.
I just remembered I need to tell them about my time limit and recharge time, well at least the two girls.
"Um, I nearly forgot to mention this but when I transform, I have a time limit of
ten minutes. When those ten minutes end, that red flash happens and I change back. Then I have to wait ten minutes or less for the watch to recharge." The girls looked at me, confused. Riley then asked me, "Why is that
necessary? Why would such a clearly powerful device have such a short time limit?"
I actually had to ponder the reasoning for a second there. "Well, I don't know the actual specifics behind that, but I know that without the recharge the transformations could actually
damage my genetic code."
Everyone just stared at me with a look that conveyed
'What the hell did you just say' perfectly. "Well, that and the fact that I
think that the time limit is also a sort of training wheels protocol. I know for a fact that I'll eventually gain unlimited transformation time with no recharge necessary." That got their attention. "How long will that take?" Maria asked me.
"I have no clue."
Another several minutes passed with me having to deal with this annoying recharge time. If I run out of time during a fight, then I'm going to need training and gear
very quickly. If not, then things will one hundred percent go pear shaped for me. I also noticed that after Fasttrack I was really hungry and thirsty, thankfully we had brought snacks and water!
BEEP BEEP BEEP
The watch had recharged once again! Hooray! I dialed up the next transformation and pressed down on the watch and once again my world was engulfed by green light and time slowed for me again. My skin began to turn black, darker than the night sky. Icy blue patches of chitin spread across my arms and legs. A darker blue spread across underneath the icy chitin. My fingers turned into serrated claws on four fingered hands. My toes merged and formed two long, sharp toes. And four large, dark blue, bat-like wings spread out from my back.
The memories of an alien lifeform that lived on a distant, lonely, and dark planet covered in blizzards that could freeze practically
anything came to me. The lifeform was of a species that preferred the
darkness,
freezing temperatures, and
solitude. The mono-gendered creature was definitely interesting because the others usually had friends and family with them. This one, the
creepy Necrofriggian, had only spent the beginning of their life with their family before heading off alone. I saw the moth-like alien battling their natural predator, the Psycholeopterran, the creature managed to evade their predator after
far too many close calls with the damn thing.
The memories ended finally as I opened my eyes, now completely immune to the cold air and could see clearly in the morning dark. My breaths were long and strong, but at the same time I felt like they were
completely unnecessary. My mouth didn't move at all when I whispered my moniker out. "
Big Chill." A small amount of chilly air came out of my mouth as I said my name.
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I turned around and stared at the others. Riley seemed to be in awe, Camryn seemed to be impressed and was scanning me with his eyes, and dear Maria was nodding, also impressed by my new form. "
Wow, I think I like Big Chill the most out of the forms you've shown us so far." Maria told me.
Power Testing Part 3
I looked down at my four fingered hands. They were a deep black color, darker than the
midnight sky. I looked up towards the others and gave them a thumbs up. I spread out my wings, which were wrapped around my body and created a sort of poncho/cloak look, and began to
fly. It was amazing being able to just be free from having to just walk and run. I turned my head and gave a quick glance at the others.
Camryn and Riley were actually in staring at me with their eyes wide. Riley wasn't surprising at all, but Camryn seemed to be rather
unflappable and
stoic. It was nice seeing him actually have a legitimate reaction rather than staying so
deadpan. Maria was looking up at me and merely smiling. I wonder if she's actually
seen a Necrofriggian before because she reacted with surprise at Heatblast and Fasttrack. Maybe I should ask her at another point...
I cruised through the air, not having a worry
whatsoever. I remembered that I needed to show off more powers for them other then just
flight! I took in a
huge breath of air and I shot a blast of frigid, pressurized
gas out of my mouth. The gas ended up hitting a rock that was about the size of a large tortoise shell and the rock
froze. Along with a random cactus that had the unfortunate luck of growing right beside the rock. Sorry cactus!
I turned around and flew back to the others. It appeared that Big Chill preferred to fly relatively slowly, despite being able to keep up with a speeding car. I landed in front of them and wrapped my wings around me once again. I kneeled down and touched the ground with my long, serrated claws. The surface of the hardened sand was then covered with a sheet of ice within mere
seconds. When the ice stopped spreading, long spears of icy energy rose out of the ground and struck the large rock formation that was closest to us. The spears froze solid when they sank into the rocks.
I looked at the others and said, "
So how was that display ?" My voice, despite my attempts to talk normally, still sounded like I was whispering. Yet
somehow I was still loud and clear.
Camryn was the first to speak up this time. "That was pretty damn impressive. You can fly and you have cryokinetic abilities. On top of Heatblast and Fasttrack, you're more versatile than most Capes with only three forms that we've seen."
Finally, some actual
praise that wasn't backhanded from him!
Maria was the second one to speak up. "I agree with Camryn's observation. You could take on most Capes with those three forms
alone! And that doesn't even get into the other
seven!"
Riley was the last and the most enthusiastic. "That was
awesome!"
My mouth doesn't move when I offer them my thanks for their compliments, but they still get the message. I then flew up about two feet and dove into the ground by phasing into it. I wonder how the actual intangibility power works for Necrofriggians. Putting the thought in the back of my head for now, I glided around underground before coming up from behind the others and landing right beside them.
BEEP BEEP BEEP BWOOOOO
And just like that, I was back to normal. I simply smile at the others. "Man, I wish I could share this with you guys, but I can't." I frowned. Riley tilted her head, "Why can't you?" I sighed and responded. "My watch doesn't come off. Or at least it doesn't come off with just mere
brute force and a few
tools." Maria just looked at me. "Well, can
you take it off?" I... wasn't sure. I knew that there was a decoupling code but not only did I not remember it right now, I couldn't even use voice command yet!
"Um, yes and no." I explained my thoughts to them. "Well, that
sucks. Is there any other way to remove it?" Camryn asked me. I decided to not to lie. "Yes, but I'm not even sure if it actually is
possible on the fly or at all. You'd have to cut my arm off and I've only ever heard rumors and I've never seen it actually
done. So removing it might be
impossible for right now."
******
A few more minutes passed and we just simply talked about things that were happening with them. I had learned that they owned a restaurant on the peer and that Camryn and Riley will be going to Arcadia in January. I wonder why they weren't in school currently...
BEEP BEEP BEEP
I quickly shoved that thought into the back of my head. The Omnitrix was fully recharged again! I popped up the core and I pressed it down. As always, the bright green light consumed me and everything went into slow motion again. My body was suddenly flooded with
water and it actually
exploded out of me without causing any pain. The water was swiftly contained by a red, heavy, super durable armor that I was
pretty certain was
robotic. Two grey, metallic tubes that ended then turned into glass after a point formed around my chest to a device on my back. The tubes were connected to a respirator that was where my mouth would be. The grey tubes encompassed my water-turned arms and they formed gauntlet-like jet-containers at my wrists. The suits hands were black, though not as black as Big Chill's hands, and they only had three sharp fingers. My legs did pretty much the same thing, but replace the gauntlets with semi-boot-like feet that ended in two sharp toes. And finally a black mask went over my eyes to finish the transformation.
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I was suddenly deep underwater. Like I was
super deep down. The creature I had become was fighting alongside others of their species against all sorts of deep sea creatures. There were weird alien squid, awkward looking angler fish, big, toothy eels, and plenty more interesting and
really creepy creatures of the deep. The next memory flashed to me and I saw the Cascan interacting with others of their species. In this memory, they were in a type of weird lab and seemed to be building... a type of
submarine? And it looked like they had helmets, gauntlet-jets, swords, spears, and even harpoons decorating the walls behind them. The memories jumped forwards to them simply playing with their un-armored children. The kids looked so
weird. Not in a
bad way, but they didn't seem to have organs of any kind at all. They only had eyes. No mouth, ears, or
anything like that. They were made of water
entirely! If they had kids, then how did they
reproduce? I wouldn't be getting any form of answer anytime soon though.
The transformation and memories ended completely and I was suddenly in the present once again. My voice was muffled as if I was a speaking underwater. "
Overflow!" I yelled out and I looked at my chest. Since it was daylight now, I saw that the Omnitrix symbol on my chest was white and black. I looked up at the others and I was amused. They had the funniest looks on their faces. Maria was confused, Camryn was skeptical, and Riley was gobsmacked.
"What the
fuck is that?" Maria dumbfoundedly asked. "Are you some sort of
magically animated armor?"
"No, I'm actually living water inside of a containment suit, I think."
"And that answers my question how?"
"It doesn't at all. I'm not even sure as to what the hell I am, but that doesn't matter right now! What does matter is power testing!" I then pointed my gauntlets to the ground and
extremely powerful, high pressure streams of water blasted out of the holes on the wrists of my gauntlets. I found myself flying forwards into the pseudo-ice sculpture I made earlier and crashed into it head first.
Ow. The ice
shattered, the rock formation now had a huge hole in the side of it, and I was deep in that hole... not in a
sexual way.
I climbed out of my impact hole and stared towards the others. They were laughing at me once
again! I raised my arms above my head and let out some much weaker but still powerful water streams that merged together. The new water spout climbed into the air and came down onto the others, soaking them.
"HEY!" They all yelled at me, sending me glares. Glares so
powerful that if looks could kill, then they could've killed a
healthy, adult elephant instantly. I began to laugh my ass off. Serves them
right!
Anyways, the next eight or so minutes were spent mostly breaking large rocks with water blades, wetting sand, and creating thin sheets of ice. Oh yeah, and numerous attempts at trying to master Overflow's hydrokinetic flight. None of those attempts were all that successful and there
maaayyybeee be several holes littering the area we were in, but
shhhh, we don't talk about that!
BEEP BEEP BEEP BWOOOOO
And once again, I was back to regular old Camryn. With a sigh, I made my way over to the others, not looking forward to whatever happens to me. "Uh, hey guys... sorry for soaking you all back there... heh heh heh..." I laughed awkwardly,
dreading what was coming my way. The next thing I knew Camryn had his arm around my neck and holding me tightly, driving his fist and rubbing it around in my curly, messy dark hair. A
noogie... I shall have
extremely petty revenge later, you little
shit.
Maria walked over to us and pulled us apart. "Now, you kids
done?" Camryn smirked at her smugly. "
Yes,
Mom." I sighed, half-way between amused and annoyed. "
Yes. We are." Riley giggled and walked over to us.
"So, Cam, I have one question for you?" What are those? "What was that form? That was definitely one of the odder forms you have." Thank god she didn't say
'What are thoooose!?!'. "That I
really don't have an answer to. I'm still just figuring things out." Maria then spoke up. "Was that form weird for you, because it didn't look like you were gonna run out of water any time soon?" I looked up at her and smiled. "Yeah, I'm
pretty darn sure Overflow is
literally living, sentient, and sapient water."
Camryn looked at me. "You said that
already. How did you not run out of water?" I was so tempted to recite a modified version of the
Bee Movie script but I held the want to meme at him in. "I have no idea, but I just wouldn't question it. It might make your head hurt." He grumbled at my
'Bellisario's Maxim' hand wave, but didn't press any further.
******
BEEP BEEP BEEP
After another ten minutes, the Omnitrix was back online. This form... I wasn't looking forward to this one. I was just
praying that it was safe to use. I activated the watch and began the transformation sequence. My blood evaporated beneath my skin, causing my skin to turn grey-purple. My finger bones tore out of my finger tips and sharpened into bendable and extremely sharp claws. My arms grew longer and my legs and feet combined into a long ghost-like tail with vertical black and white stripes going down it in a pattern. My body grew larger and my back hunched due to my changing bone structure. And my skull deformed and flipped upside down with one of my eye sockets vanishing along with my eyeball. And finally my new
utterly pants shittingly terrifying form was completely covered by a light green and very thick but smooth skin. My wrists were shackled and green chains sprouted out from the Omnitrix that was peeking through the second skin that I grew.
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My memories were...
interesting and completely
horrific. The genetic donor, Z'Skayr, was an absolutely brutal, terrifying, and incredibly
intelligent being. He was the most powerful Ectonurite that had ever existed in the scary as
fuck Anur System. He was the one who led them alongside their greatest generals and strategists using their ghost-like abilities and powers to slowly but surely take over the Anur System. He sat at the top after killing and subsuming most of said generals and strategists in either combat or subterfuge. He lived for a
very long time during his tyrannical reign as High-Ecto Lord of Anur Transyl. He had clashed with freaking
Vilgax and it appeared he even fought
Thanos and managed to
live. More memories passed with me getting glimpses of fights with the previous user of my Omnitrix. I couldn't tell if it was Ben or someone else. And I saw other fights with the natives of the Anur system which looked like and possibly could have
inspired classic horror media creatures. And if you're wondering about his family, he had some rather fond memories of his parents, sibling, and nieces. Which was
very surprising to me.
The world returned to normal and my perception changed again. I shouted my name in a raspy and deep voice. "
Ghostfreak!" My voice sounded like I just gargled
sand. My singular eye squinted at the bright light from the morning sun. I allowed my eye to go along the black track on my second layer of skin that suppressed my true form. I stared at the others without blinking. "What do you make of
this form?" I smiled wickedly beneath my layer of protective skin.
Power Testing Part 4
For a brief moment, nobody said a word. It was just pure, deafening
silence. The silence was finally broken by Camryn. "Hm,
another ghost form? Well, at least this one actually
is a ghost." He said dryly. "How do you feel about that?"
I stopped for a moment to consider how I actually felt about it. After a few seconds of silence, I spoke up again. "It feels
wonderful. The sensation of complete freedom... I can barely contain my excitement!" They couldn't see my smile while I was underneath my second skin, but this smile was more genuine and less
wicked than my last one. Though I doubt they would've been able to tell the difference between the two
anyway.
I didn't feel Z'Skayr's presence in me right at this moment. I... don't know if I should be happy or if I should be wary. Based on the memories I've experienced so far, Z'Skayr was a
slippery bastard. He's definitely savvy enough to hide his presence in the Omnitrix for now until he can get out of it once again.
Anyways, I finally started to use my powers for the others to see. I focused on the pieces of the rock that I accidently
might have destroyed earlier. I felt a very... um,
unique and purple energy in my hands. That same energy surrounded many different sized fragments of broken rock. I raised my hands into the air and all of the fragments followed my hand movements. This was
fascinating. I stopped waving my arms around and focused on slamming the rocks all together at once.
The pieces all flew together into one point and
shattered on impact, causing even smaller rocks and rock dust to scatter through the air. I began to fly through the air as fast as I could. Big Chill was one hundred percent
faster than Ghostfreak, though it's not like Ghostfreak is super slow. I'd say his flight speed was about as fast, possibly faster, than a person sprinting in a hurry.
I turned on my intangibility and dove through the ground like I did earlier with Big Chill. But rather than simply coming up through the ground, I turned invisible as well. I still came up through the ground afterwards and merely floated right behind the others.
"Um, where did he
go?" Riley questioned. Camryn spoke up like nothing had even happened. "He's either still in the ground or he's somehow right behind us. Actually no, he's definitely right behind us because I heard him phase through the ground." How did he
know? The others didn't pick up on it. Maria spoke next. "Okay, so I wasn't crazy. I just didn't want to seem crazy if you two didn't hear him." Riley added her own thoughts next. "So
that's what that weird sound was?" Well
screw me then. Annoyed, I floated in front of them, crossed my arms, and phased back into reality and made myself visible again.
"Well, it looks like I
underestimated how good your senses were..." My tone was laced with annoyance and a hint of interest. I could show them the
real Ghostfreak. Them being vampires, I'd figured that they could probably handle seeing the ghastly
monstrosity that was underneath my skin. But unfortunately, the morning light was already here and I couldn't show it off for them. I considered what power to show them next before remembering one of the most often used attributes an Ectonurite used in combat.
I couldn't open up the chest of the second skin, but I could phase the tentacles in my chest out though. Black and white tendrils shot out of the skin like diseased snakes and wrapped around the others all at once. Riley was grabbed around the waist, Camryn was grabbed around his chest, Maria was grabbed around her arms. I lifted them off the ground and brought them closer to me. Riley screamed, Camryn just glared at me, and Maria just had this annoyed expression on her face.
"Camryn or Ghostfreak, put us down,
now." She demanded. Well she didn't seem too pleased with me now did she? I did as I was told in order to not get my throat slit. "Sorry, I simply couldn't
resist doing that." I said with amusement.
BEEP BEEP BEEP BWOOOO
And I was back to normal once again. I looked up and I rubbed the back of my head again. I really liked doing that didn't I?
"So, how did you like Ghostfreak?" I asked them, curious about their reactions. Their reactions were as I expected: Both girls were pissed and Camryn was annoyed. But what really got me interested was that he actually appeared to be somewhat disturbed.
Well
shit...
The next thing I knew I was on the ground, face down in the hardened sand, clutching my groin, and wheezing badly.
OW OW OW OW OW OW OOOWWWW! Note to self:
Never do that again!
"Never do that
again, mister." Riley said angrily. Yeah, I think I understood that
after you
murdered my testicles! "Or the next time you do it, the punishment won't involve me
kicking you in the balls, but it will involve
electricity and
jumper cables."
The next twenty minutes passed and they got over me picking them up like that. I don't understand what pissed them off so much. Anyways, I finally got up after the pain in my groin faded away. I looked down at the Omnitrix and dialed up the next form. I quickly pressed the core down and I transformed into the next alien.
I began to shrink down to about a foot-and-a-half tall. My body became hollow and my skin was replaced by white silicon. My eyes became small but thick green lines and they were surrounded by thick, black lines. Green, circle-shaped indents pushed their way out of the back of my hands. And once again I only had four fingers on each hand. A pair of headphones went over my ears, which were also now the same kind of indents that were on my hands. A weird little thing appeared on my back. My head became wider and my mouth also grew wider. The inside of my mouth became green with very thin black lines in it. And the Omnitrix symbol was on my chest.
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My memories for this one were a lot more "normal" for than the others. The alien lifeform didn't seem to be much of a fighter since a huge amount of memories seemed to be them spending their days with their family and friends. The planet the being lived on was
very beautiful. It was filled with
gigantic multi-colored canyons that would've made the Earth's Grand Canyon jealous. There were massive gorges and enormous mountains. It seemed like the Sonorosian used the landscape to communicate with other races and their friends that lived far away.
The memories ended and I was back in the present. I was of course much lower to the ground now because of my diminished height. I could
feel sound though. I could
see vibrations. Imagine not having a sense for your whole life and then gaining that sense all of a sudden. This was how that felt. Though it wasn't overwhelming, just really
weird.
"So cute!"
Riley yelled. She ran over to me and picked me up, holding me against her tightly.
"Hey, put me down! I don't consent to this!" I tried to yell, but it came out rather quietly. I tried to push her away from me put she was too
strong. After ten seconds or so she stopped and I fell onto the sand.
"I hope you aren't hurt..." she said concernedly.
"No... I mean yes..." I stammered out before I could stop myself. "Why did you do that?" Note to self, don't turn into cute things around Riley...
"I did it because you're just so cute! You're like a big doll!" And that proves my point. Camryn and Maria both walked over, both clearly amused at Riley's unauthorized cuddles. Camryn, of course, was the first to snark. "
Gee, I didn't know you were into
dolls, Riley."
Douchebag. Maria simply chuckled.
"I'm glad that you're having fun, but what can this little cutie do?"
I thought for a second and decided to be completely honest about Echo Echo's frankly
bullshit powers. "Well, I can detect vibrations. I can see sound. If I were to scream, then I can blast things with
hypersonic screams that I can use in several different ways. I can self-duplicate with no limit-" "Wait, wait, wait," Maria stopped me, "You can do all of that with just one form?" I laughed. "Yeah, I guess I should show you... but to be on the safe side, let's move away from the car." And so we went several hundred meters away from the car.
"Is this good?"
"Yeah."
I took in a breath and I
shouted. Unlike in
Alien Force and every show afterwards, I
doubt that the others would've been able to see my sonic screams unless I were to get enough clones out and screamed. Powerful sonic waves ripped through the air, though since I aimed at the sky, nothing was hurt,
yet. Afterwards, I created a team of clones and we each ran over to a fairly large rock formation. Then we each synched up and let out a mighty echo chamber. The rock didn't stand a chance and crumbled within
seconds. The level of decibel force was easily controlled because of our
precise audiokinesis or sonokinesis if you prefer. I looked back at the other and noticed that they were each clutching at their heads. Camryn was wriggling on the ground in
extra pain just to bring some extra attention to their situation.
Whoops! With a cringe from each of my clones, we all merged back together into one Echo Echo.
"
Sorry, you guys. I guess we
underestimated our strength..." I once
again rubbed the back of my head sheepishly.
Maria sighed. "
Please, just
warn us the next time you do that." She had blood on the side of her head, coming out of her ears, and on her hands. Riley wasn't any better. Camryn was just now recovering from the pain.
The rest of my time spent as Echo Echo was less sonic-related and more focusing on our movement. We figured out that he was
super agile and he could levitate but not outright
fly.
BEEP BEEP BEEP BWOOOOO
And just like that I was back to normal. Nothing really happened in between the time it took us to walk back to the car... and to let Camryn recover. At this point, we decided it
might be for the best to go back home and test the other four forms later on in the day. Besides, the others needed to go to work at the restaurant that Maria owned at the pier. I couldn't go since I
technically didn't exist in the system so I ended having to stay at the house by myself.
******
There wasn't all that much for me to do other than simply watch TV, play video games, clean up, and other things like that.
Hold on a second, I popped up the core for the Omnitrix and scrolled, or dialed, over to my sixth and seventh aliens. I was just about to press down before I stopped. Instead of jumping at the opportunity to change into one of my
technologically inclined transformations, I decided that it would be better to simply call the others and ask if I could go into the basement. The reason being that they cleaned it out, or made it safe for me to go in there alone. Which kind of worried me as to what exactly made it unsafe for me in the first place.
I went into the kitchen and dialed up Riley's phone number. It took me about two tries to get her on the phone. She said that the basement was indeed safe but told me to be
very careful and that I could only touch non-organic technology. So that confirmed that she was likely the
scary-as-shit Bio-Tinker that she was canonically.
I said goodbye, hung up, and jogged my way to the stairs leading to the basement. I slowly walked down the stairs, making sure I don't break my neck falling down. I opened the door and quickly closed it behind me. There was a pile of dusty electronics and a few boxes of tools beside them.
Perfect. I activated the Omnitrix and scrolled over to my seventh form and pressed down.
I began to shrink down like I did with Echo Echo, but this time I shrunk much lower much faster. I was now six inches tall. My hands got bigger and my skin turned grey. My head became heart shaped and grew bigger. My eyes filled my heart-shaped head and turned green. My clothes became a white jumpsuit with a black line going down the middle. My feet became flat and my toes flattened out and merged into three squared ones. And the Omnitrix symbol was on my back like I expected.
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Memories flooded my much greater mind. Specifically, memories of my genetic donor working in a lab alongside the creators of the Omnitrix, Azmuth and what appeared to be some sort of yellow-orange cat-like alien. My form was a brilliant inventor, but not as intelligent as Azmuth or his feline assistant. He worked
tirelessly throughout his long-lived life as a Galvan. He had a wife and three children. He also ended up helping innovate what appeared to be teleportation devices that ended up being commonly used throughout the universe. There was so much
more to his life but it all flashed forward too quickly for me to keep up with it all.
I looked around the fairly dark room. Everything was
significantly larger than it was before. I took everything in and fixed my gaze on the table where the electronics were. I
leaped over to the table and landed
perfectly next to my targets. I smiled to myself and prepared to start building some
tech! While I probably won't have the time to make a lot of technology at this moment, I could certainly try to build a damn decent computer out of all these parts. I went to the boxes of tools next to the discarded, slightly dusty tech and began to dig through it all. There were flathead screwdrivers, Phillip's, wrenches of all different sizes, hammers, and power tools. These tools, while definitely not the
best, would work
just fine.
I made my way over to the box of scraps and fairly intact electronics. My eyes scanned over the electronics and I saw that there were a few laptops, some old, out-of-shape toasters, old-as-dirt brick phones, and what looked like a sleeping
robotic spider?!
I decided that it would be rather important for my health to not poke that thing with a glorified stick. I went over to one of the laptops and I tore off the casing with just enough of my Galvan strength, or what little I had. I looked at the wiring, the motherboard, the fan, and everything that was inside of it. I could make something twenty five times better than this
easily, but I just didn't have the time to complete the coding and rewiring processes. I
needed to figure out how to extend my transformation time. Then I realized that I could
actually do that!
I didn't know exactly know how to activate the life-form lock just yet, but I'll figure out how to do so later! I started to work on quickly putting together a new, much stronger, and much better laptop out of these old electronics. I guess I should've told the others about my plans
before I did this...
nuts. Oh well, can't cry over spilled milk and all those similar metaphors. I just barely got done with building the damn thing when I ran out of transformation time. Thankfully the windows and curtains were designed to block out and keep in light. They probably got them done like that for Riley's tinkering. When I transformed back to normal, I didn't experience any sort of sense dysphoria. I guess that confirms that I won't get anything like that, at least with organic aliens...
I marveled at my new, almost ready computer. It wasn't super
flashy, but really, you shouldn't go big or go home with the first thing you create as a super genius. It will work just fine for now. I waited out the recharge time by running back up the stairs and pouring myself a glass of iced sweet tea. It was
delicious! When the watch recharged I didn't instantly turn back into Grey Matter. Instead, I went up to our room and sat down to experiment with the dial.
I wasn't stupid enough to take a
screwdriver to the faceplate and try to pry it off. Instead, I put my hand on the dial, twisted it about ninety degrees, and pulled on it. The watch's hour glass symbol vanished and a green light flashed out of the... screen or whatever you could call it. Suddenly, a lime green screen popped up before my very eyes and I was welcomed by a rather strange voice.
<
Greetings, new user, I am the Omnimatrix's Artificial Intelligence. You have figured out how to do more than just press a button and slam down on the core, I offer you my congratulations for doing what most other users failed at.>
What. <
You have been designated user Zero-Zero-Six-Nine. You have activated the User Settings screen for the Omnimatrix. Would you like to register a name and pseudonym for yourself?>
...
Well, this just got very
interesting. I wasn't trying to do that. I was trying to see if I could cheat and unlock some new forms without having to wait.
