Chapter 19: Inheritance
{14 years ago. Location - Plumbers Space HQ}
"Happy 18th birthday Ben!" A crowd of plumbers cheered around Ben.
He had on a black and green t-shirt and jeans. His hair was relatively short whilst a beard was slowly taking shape. His physique was starting to lean to the muscular side as he had just started regularly working out around a month ago. He was not currently wearing the omnitrix.
He was standing in the middle of the crowd, laughing and smiling just before Azmuth, the smartest Galvin alive, appeared on the screens of the base.
"Sorry to interrupt the party but I wanted to notify Benjamin that his custom birthday present is ready," he said in an almost monotone voice.
"Really?!" Ben almost shouted, "Awesome. I'll be right there," he said as the feed cut out.
"Ahem," Gwen coughed next to him.
"Oh...sorry," Ben scratched his neck and said to Max, who still had both arms.
"Haha," Max replied, "Don't worry. Go. We have to get back to work here anyway."
"Thank you Grandpa," Ben quickly hugged him before turning to Gwen and Kevin, "Do you guys want to come?"
"Nah. You go crazy over there," Kevin replied, "Gwen and I are going to the new movie theatre near your place that opens tonight."
"The one with the Mr. Smoothie inside?" Ben's eyes gleamed, "I'll be back as fast as I can."
"Oh stop," Gwen sighed, "Just enjoy your new upgrade. What's it supposed to be anyway?"
"There were glitches with the watch that popped up not too long ago and normally, I would just use Upgrade or Greymatter to fix it but the problems seem to be in the DNA containment sequence which I haven't studied enough to fix it properly. I asked him to fix it and to help me with a side project pertaining to it."
"Side project?" Kevin raised a brow.
"Just another feature I thought of that would be useful. It's a surprise."
"Hm, ok. After this, you should start giving him space. You know how stressed Azmuth gets when dealing with you," Gwen smirked.
"Haha, don't worry about it. I'll give him plenty of space afterwards," Ben responded, starting to walk towards the teleport chambers.
Gwen and Kevin waved goodbye as Ben got into a chamber and plugged in Azmuth's coordinates. A yellow, green light washed over him as he disappeared.
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{Location - Galvan Prime - Azmuth's lab}
Azmuth was crouching over Ben's original omnitrix, the black and white banded one with a green faceplate, his body barely being able to hover over it. The new, square, green and white watch was also next to him. Ben appeared in a chamber in the labs and walked out. Noticing Azmuth fidgeting with his original watch, he asked a question.
"Why are you messing with that old thing?"
Azmuth turned around and just said a brief sentence.
"Turn Galvan and get down here," he said, tossing the square watch at Ben before returning to the old watch.
Knowing how stubborn the old man is, Ben just shrugged and turned into Greymatter after putting on the new omnitrix. He then made his way next to Azmuth. When Ben stood in front of the watch, he noticed a green grid running through it and that the dial was in a constant spin.
"What are you doing?" He asked.
"I'm recalibrating this old prototype to take over as the final omnitrix I'll ever make," The Galvan said.
"I thought my current one was the final model and that was just a prototype," Ben said, a look of surprise on his bug-like face.
"Even though I knew this first prototype wouldn't be the final version, it still was made with that in mind," Azmuth's eyes unfocused for a second but not for long, "Anyway, just because you never stop improving doesn't mean whatever you're improving can't retain the same look. Call it nostalgia if you will."
"I can understand that," Ben said after mulling over the Galvan's words.
"Now," Azmuth said, "let me show you the secret inner works of this so that I can enjoy the rest of my life in peace, not having to save you all the time."
"What?" Ben exclaimed, "You're going to run me through its entire system and mechanics?"
"Is that not what I just said?"
"Not in the exact words but thank you so much!"
Azmuth just responded with a grunt before he started pointing things out for Ben to start focusing on.
Ben's attention was immediately rapped and his mind eagerly devoured the information.
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{One week later}
"Phew, that was exhausting," Ben sighed, currently back in human form, "What should we do with this now?" He gestured with the green and white omnitrix on his wrist.
"You can either keep it as a back-up, not that it's really needed, or destroy it," Azmuth said, not really facing Ben.
"You don't want to keep it, even as a memento?" Ben asked, surprised by his answer.
"No," Azmuth grabbed the finished omnitrix and tossed it to Ben, "I'm done with this project. I started it in hopes to regain the attention of my former partner but she hasn't reached out at all. Even though this started out of selfishness, I'm glad to completely pass my knowledge to you. I'm proud of your progress and I hope you do well in your future ventures."
"Are you leaving?" Ben asked, feeling his eyes starting to mist.
"Yes," The Galvan replied, "I'm going to seek her out and try to reconcile our relationship. I may be gone from this place for many decades, if not centuries."
"What about this lab?" Ben looked around the silver lab with many gadgets and other important looking things.
"This will be in your possession and the plumbers until I return...or if in case I don't. No need to stay to clean or anything. It takes care of itself. You have full access in case you're in need of anything. I also have files pertaining to the omnitrix in the computers in case you need it."
"A-Azmuth," Ben stammered, "This is a lot to take in so suddenly."
"I know but it's time for me to move on in life," he replied, "Now, enough with this sappy crap. Put the final model on now so we can make sure it's working properly."
Still a bit wrapped in his thoughts, Ben nodded as he took off the previous 'final' model and then he slid on the actual one. It looked the same as it latched itself onto his wrist. The dial shot up and started to spin as the watch re-registered Ben as the sole wearer. The face glowed green as the band slightly increased in length. Thin metal plates sprouted and creeped halfway up his forearm.
"Well, we already knew it would grow with you and develop into a gauntlet over time," Azmuth said, "It must be catching up on the years you had it off."
The omnitrix finally stopped its calibration and the dial lowered itself back into the faceplate. The glow died down, leaving the green hourglass symbol.
"It feels great," Ben commented, flexing his arm and twirling his wrist.
"Great, now leave," Azmuth said, pushing a button that opened a teleport chamber near Ben.
"What? Don't you want to see if it works?" Ben asked as the chamber started to power up.
"That's your problem now. Send my goodbyes to the rest of the family," the Galvan said with a grin.
"Wai-" Ben was cut off as his body was pulled into the chamber and he disappeared.
Azmuth chuckled and walked over to a wall of windows that overlooked Galvan Prime and took a deep breath.
He started towards the exit when the ground started to shake. He looked outside to see a meteor-like object hurtling straight towards him.
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Ignatius_Artist Just a simple (exposition?) chapter. This is going to lead into what causes Ben to experiance what he is, back in the future. This chapter also shows that Azmuth is mostly out of the picture in the future.
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