Ben 10: Ultimate Alien Novels & Stories

Tony asked in almost a whisper. “Like I said about the legends of the Ultima Alpha. The mother lost her life alongside her child, her child’s power and strength transferring to the mother. What you didn’t let me finish saying before you ran off was that the mother was resurrected by that power, becoming the first and only Ultima Alpha wolf in existence. Rain is destined to become the next.”Beta James said softly. Tony walked up to Rain, her eyes opening slowly. Her eyes glowed a golden color, the same color as the aura that had surrounded their son. All Tony could do was smile, Rain smiling back at him.

The air crackled with static electricity as the ship's weapons charged. "Jack, I've got the Arcadia inventory!" Dr. Miller's voice echoed in Jack's earpiece. "Your grandfather left hundreds of relics, but we don't have time to calibrate a weapon. The Warden's energy shield is absolute. It's a closed-loop cosmic circuit. Nothing physical or magical can penetrate it." Ben burst onto the roof, his nose bleeding again as he pushed his new vampiric financial truth-sight to its absolute limits. He was staring directly at the blinding white light of the alien ship.

Not fire, pure magical energy tearing reality apart for a split second before collapsing back in on itself. When the light fades, there's nothing left. No cottage. No Elara. Just scorched earth and silence. "Is she dead?" I whisper. "I don't know." Kael stares at the destruction. "With ancient beings, death isn't always permanent." We stand in the clearing where the cottage was, processing what just happened. The witch who's been manipulating Arden Alphas for two centuries is gone. But what does that mean for me? For the curse? "The medicine she was giving me," I say slowly. "She called it transformative inhibitors. What happens now that I'm not taking it?"

He finally panicked and yelled at the werewolves around him, "Get the healer right now!" The healer performed a brief examination before instantly dropping to his knees. "Aria is beyond saving, Alpha Carl." Carl exploded in fury, snapping, "You'd better not give me that utter nonsense! Get every healer in the infirmary here right now! If you collectively fail to save Aria, I'll have all of you executed and buried alongside her!" There were ten healers in the infirmary, and once they completed their examination, they all fell to their knees. "A-Aria is truly beyond saving, Alpha Carl."

I'm burning out. "No. You can't die now." *Everyone dies eventually. Even foundations.* "How long?" *Hours. Maybe less. I'm sorry, Sera. Sorry I couldn't give you forever.* "Don't apologize. You fight. You hold on—" "There's another way." The voice came from nowhere. Not the Structure. Something else. A presence I'd never felt. Ancient. Powerful. "Who are you?" "I am the Alternative. The path not taken. And I'm offering you one final option."

The Black Citadel. Shield Headquarters. Sub-Level 5: Advanced R&D Forge. The heat in the underground forge was suffocating, but nobody was complaining. Kenji stood behind a blast-proof glass wall, his single eye wide with manic, scientific obsession. In the center of the testing chamber, suspended in a high-voltage magnetic field, was the prize Jack had dragged out of the Sahara Desert: the block of alien Nanolaminate Alloy. "Bring the Zero-Point Core online," Kenji ordered over the intercom. "Let's see what this liquid starlight can really do."

Those eyes held a thousand years of sadness. "The aliens are not here to talk June " Mother said. Her voice was calm even as the world ended. "They are here to take the Core. If they take it every human connected to the Benson network will die. Their brains will simply stop working." "Then we fight!" June yelled. She gripped the metal stethoscope in her hand. It was a tool against giant space aliens but it was all she had. "You cannot fight a vacuum with a needle, doctor " Mother whispered.

“You let this little rebellion continue. You betray me. And you die. Not just you, Rhydian. Every single person you have ever crossed paths with, every name in every forgotten file my intelligence team has collected over the last ten years. I will erase your entire history from the dirt.” The threat sat on the blanket like a corpse. The words tasted like poison on my tongue, but I forced them out smoothly, keeping my voice dead and level. I met Zevren’s eyes directly, letting the Alpha believe he’d just broken the last piece of my spine. Letting him believe he’d won. Zevren’s smile widened, “I knew you were pragmatic, Rhydian. A man with your history doesn't throw his life away for an Omega.

Marcus opened his mouth, but no words came out. Suddenly, a deafening engine roar came from outside. The headlights of three black armored SUVs sliced through the dead of night like swords. The whole warehouse shook. An SUV with the Council's Alpha Pack plates braked brutally at the lab entrance. The High Council's wolf crest gleamed under the streetlights. Blinding. The doors burst open before the cars even fully stopped. Hector stepped out. Perfect black overcoat. Crisp white collar. Radiating that overwhelming Alpha aura.

Tell DIANA Command 55 energize! Trevor: DIANA, Command 55, energize! DIANA: Orders accepted, executing captain emergency retrieve. Trevor notices a beam of light hits him... he slowly floats. He grabs Rerillion's arm with both of his hands, exerting all his strength to hold on. Trevor: What... no... DIANA; cancel my last command... Rerillion: Escape this world, Trevor, live for the both of us...