Chapter 1: Not in Bellwood
*5 Days Later*
(East Forest)
Y/N's eyes began to slowly flutter open as he groaned in discomfort. Whatever had just happened had certainly put his innards through the wringer, that's for sure.
He placed his hand on his forehead.
Y/N: Ugh... I feel like my stomach just switched places with my liver.
After a brief moment, Y/N's eyes finally adjusted and allowed him to open them completely. Once he did, he struggled to sit up straight, as he had been lying on his back, and began to take in his surroundings. He saw that he was now in a lush, green forest, as opposed to a pale, white laboratory.
Y/N: What...? A forest...?
Y/N continued to look around, confused by this turn of events. Where was he?
Y/N: But how? I was in the lab just a second ago, right?
The Omnitrix wielder then placed his hand on the ground and used it to help himself stand up. He dusted himself off and took another good look at where he was, still just as confused as before.
However, it was then that Y/N remembered what Professor Hamilton had said to him. He told the Omnitrix bearer that his device, the QDG, was designed to travel to other universes. Y/N's eyes widened from realization.
Y/N: (shocked) No... no. No way...! Don't tell me that thing sent me into another-!
He was beginning to panic until he turned around and saw the QDG sitting a few meters behind where he once lay. Unwilling to believe the realization he had just come to, Y/N whipped out his cellphone and checked for the reception.
Nothing.
Those two things were all the proof Y/N needed. His cellphone had been upgraded by Kevin to be able to connect to the Plumber intergalactic network, providing him reception from nearly anywhere across the Galaxy – save for some deadzones here and there. With that said, his hypothesis was right on the money; much to his dismay.
Y/N then turned back to the QDG with an angry expression plastered on his face.
Y/N: Oh, no, you DID NOT!
Without a second's hesitation, Y/N reached for the Omnitrix and activated it. After finding the icon he wanted, he tapped the faceplate and slammed down the core. In a flash of emerald light, he was replaced by tall, black and green, a blob-like humanoid that appeared to be made of circuitry, which was further emphasized by the green and black, circuitry-like patterns all over its body. On its head was a green circle, and on its white chest was the Omnitrix dial.
Upgrade wasted no time in marching over to the machine, an angry aura about his visually emotionless features.
Upgrade: (points at the machine) You and Upgrade are gonna have a serious-
Before Upgrade could even finish his sentence, the machine began to emit another powerful, white light, blinding Upgrade completely. Just like before, after a moment, the light abruptly disappeared. When Upgrade regained his optical awareness, he was flabbergasted to see that the QDG was now gone.
Upgrade: ...chat...
Upgrade's finger twitched as he stammered incoherently to himself, the circle on his face flashing whenever he emitted a sound. This continued for a brief while, until...
Upgrade's finger twitched as he stammered incoherently to himself, the circle on his face flashing whenever he emitted a sound. This continued for a brief while, until...
Upgrade: ...You...have got to be KIDDING ME!!!
Upgrade grabbed his head out of frustration and fell to the ground on his back. He looked up through the trees of the forest that he was now stuck in, still trying to process what just happened.
Upgrade: I just had to ask for something, didn't I? I just had to do it...
The Galvanic Mecamorph removed his hands from his head and laid them on the grass as he continued to speak aloud to himself.
Upgrade: What am I supposed to do now?
???: I'll tell yah what you can do.
Before Y/N could come to any kind of resolution in his mind, he noticed a rather large shadow looming over his laid-back form. When he tilted his head back, he saw something extremely bizarre.
It was an incredibly large, gorilla-like creature. It had a lavender chest and face, with a similarly lavender cone sticking out from the top of its head, and noticeably long ears and chin to match. It had green fur all over its body, save for its legs and tail, which were a darker shade of green, and the pink, heart-shaped symbols on its shoulders and arms in a line pattern.
Gorilla: You can get off my turf before I smash your blobby little face in.
Upgrade: Giant talking monkey? Yep, it's official. Crazy alternate universe.
Gorilla: Hey, what'd you call me, you little punk!
Upgrade sat up straight, stood up, and turned around to get a good look at the creature addressing him. He had seen many bizarre-looking creatures in his hero tenure, mostly Dr. Animo's mutant creations, but this creature was certainly up there.
Upgrade: I hope you're not tryin' to pick a fight with me, monkey...
The gorilla-like beast then leaned into Upgrade and got right in the Galvanic Mechamorph's face, all the while having an overconfident air about him.
Gorilla: Oh yeah? And what if I am? What're you gonna do about it?!
The circle on Upgrade's face began to glow green, with the light growing brighter by the second.
Upgrade: This.
With that one word, a green laser fired from Upgrade's face, directly into the gorilla beast's face, causing the creature to stumble back and grasp its face in pain with its giant, lavender hand.
Gorilla: OW!!! That hurt!
It pulled its hand away from its face and glared at Upgrade.
Gorilla: You little runt!
Upgrade: If that's what hurt you, then you're not gonna like this.
The gorilla-like creature reared back its right arm and sent a powerful punch directly at Upgrade. However, the Galvanic Mechamorph simply used his gelatinous body to his advantage and created a large hole in the left side of his body where the beast's fist would've struck him.
Gorilla: What the-?!
Upgrade: (reformed his body) Well, since you're so eager to go around starting fights, I might as well oblige you and let out some of this pent-up frustration I've got!
The Galvanic Mechamorph then wrapped himself around the gorilla creature's left leg, much to the latter's confusion and dismay, and oozed his way up to the beast's left arm. The giant ape grabbed onto Upgrade and tried to pull him off, but to no avail. The technorganic alien's grip was simply too strong for that.
Gorilla: Get off me!
Upgrade: Nah, I think I'll stick around.
Upgrade proceeded to blast another optic laser at the beast's chest, causing it to yell out in pain. The Galvanic Mechamorph then blasted him with another one on his left arm, and another on his right. He continued blasting the ape with multiple lasers all over its body.
The ape creature continued pulling on Upgrade's blob-like body, despite the barrage of lasers. Eventually, with a tremendous display of strength, the beast finally yanked Upgrade off of him and threw him to the ground before him, but Y/N easily caught himself.
Upgrade: Y'know what? I think I should actually thank you. I feel way better now!
Gorilla: Why you...!
The gorilla then lifted its humongous arms above its head and prepared to slam them down on Upgrade. However, before the beast could do so, Upgrade slapped the Omnitrix dial and turned into a twelve-foot-tall, humanoid dinosaur with brown, reptilian skin, and a tan underbelly and underarms. Its hands had no claws, nor did its feet. It also had spikes on its shoulders, back and tail while it wears Aztec armor with black pants.
The gorilla creature could only stare up at his new, gigantic adversary, confused and dumbstruck, with his arms still frozen above his head from pure shock.
Humungousaur: Humungousaur! (glares back at his opponent) Picking a fight with me was a humongous mistake...!
Humungousaur then reared back his giant left fist, and sent it flying straight for the still-dumbstruck monkey's face and sent it spiraling into the sky, and far away into a deeper section of the forest.
Humungousaur: (sighs) Man, what a joke...
The Vaxasaurian simply let out a deep sigh, staring at the grassy ground below him as he thought aloud to himself.
Humungousaur's Thoughts: What am I supposed to do now?' My only way out of whatever crazy world this is just disappeared.
Humungousaur looked to the sky, still in deep thought. He was right. He was now, without a doubt, in another universe, and the only immediate method he knew of to get back to his own world had vanished right before his eyes. He was essentially stranded.
Humungousaur: At least last time I ended up in a city, not some forest. I can't make heads or tails of anything around here.
It was then that Humungousaur let out another sigh, and slumped his shoulders. A second later, he lifted his head and began to look around intently. The way he saw it, he wasn't getting anywhere standing around wondering what to do. He then covered his eyes with his right hand and raised his left hand.
He scanned his pointer finger over the one hundred eighty degrees in front of him, and stopped abruptly, pointing to a random direction in the forest as he uncovered his eyes.
Humungousaur: Guess I might as well go this way. Nowhere better to go.
With that, Humungousaur headed off into the depths of the forest. He had no idea which way to go, so this direction was as good as any other. He decided to remain in his current form for the time being. If that monkey came back, or something else dangerous found him, he wanted to be ready for it.
As the Omnitrix bearer continued to trek through the forest, he had plenty of time to think. He had to admit, as annoyed as he was that his only means of getting home had disappeared and that he had been attacked almost immediately by some arrogant gorilla, he was a small bit curious to see what exactly this world he had ended up in was like.
The last alternate universe he visited was certainly interesting, to say the least. Perhaps this one would be as well. There was no use in worrying about what was outside of his control. The only thing he could do now was press on, and hopefully, find someone hospitable in this world.
After walking for a while, and no signs of any intelligent life, Humungousaur was beginning to wonder if he had perhaps picked the wrong way to go until suddenly, he heard something off in the distance. It sounded like someone yelling, but other than the direction it was coming from, he couldn't make out anything more than that.
Humungousaur: Huh. Guess I picked right after all.
Humungousaur made his way toward the sound of the yelling, and it grew louder as he approached it. After a couple of minutes of following the sound, Humungousaur spotted a clearing up ahead in the trees. However, that wasn't all he spotted.
In the clearing, there were at least thirty-or-so men, all of whom wearing brown and tan garbs with hoods, wearing leather armor, and holding various medieval weapons, such as swords, axes, maces. It was pretty clear that these men were thugs, simply by the way they presented themselves.
Humungousaur thought it was a bit odd for people to use such outdated weapons, but then again, he had just recently come from fighting people using the same kind of weaponry, albeit energy-based. Judging by the way the men held them, it looked like they knew how to use them too, unlike the Forever Knights.
Even still, that wasn't all he saw through the clearing. In between a gap in the group of hooded men, were three individuals. They were the truly strange thing about this whole scene, without a doubt.
One was a young girl around his age with blonde hair with her right side being wrapped in a ponytail. She was wearing a sleeveless blue and white shirt with a blue skirt. She also had a black whip and a set of keys for accessories.
The second one was a male with pink spiky hair. He wore an open and sleeveless black vest along with white pants and had a scarf wrapped around his neck. He was smiling at the band of thugs with a raging flame in his fists.
The final and the most strangest one was a humanoid looking blue cat with a set of white wings on its back which he was using to fly.
Humungousaur hid behind a heap of bushes and trees, large enough to hide a twenty-foot-tall alien dinosaur, surprisingly. As he looked out into the clearing, he could only blink at the strange sight before him.
Natsu: Hahaha! Hope you're all ready, ya hooded punks! Cause you're gonna get smoked like some smoked fish!
Happy: Come on, Natsu. Everyone knows you're supposed to cook smoked fish with smoke, not flames.
Natsu: Jeez, don't cramp my style, Happy!
Humungousaur's Thoughts: A flying, blue cat that can talk? Not really sure if I've seen much weirder than that.
Lucy: Now's really not the time for this, you guys.
Thug 1: Don't think we're gonna lose to some brats and a talking cat!
With that, the pink-haired boy whipped his head back around to the hooded man who had just spoken up, his eyes filled with anger.
Natsu: WHAT'D YOU SAY, YOU PUNK?!
Humungousaur couldn't help but notice that when the pink-haired reacted angrily to the hooded man, the flames around his fist grew slightly larger and brighter.
Lucy: I guess jerks like you are used to robbing from innocent travelers. If you didn't then you wouldn't go and threaten two wizards, now would you?
The blond girl then pulled a golden key off of her key ring. The key was odd, in that its blade was shaped like a battle axe.
Lucy: Otherwise you'd know that threatening wizards is a stupid mistake! We get paid to bring you in whether you surrender or not, so why don't you just do yourselves a big favor and give up?!
Humungousaur's Thoughts: Wizards? What the-? Well, I guess that explains the whole fire-hand thing...
One of the thugs stepped out from the group and pointed at the trio angrily, holding his mace in his opposite hand.
Thug 2: Come on, boys! Let's take 'em down!
With that one order, the shouting man and three more hooded goons began to charge the pink-haired boy. Not that he was concerned. In fact, if anything, he looked even more excited than before.
Natsu: Oh yeah! I'M ALL FIRED UP!!!
As the group of thugs began to charge at them, Natsu jumped very high into the air in his vast excitement. Much farther than Humungousaur thought a human was capable of and wreathed both of his arms in intense flames.
Natsu: Fire Dragon... WING ATTACK!!!!
Natsu swung his arms as his flames grew in strength charging at four of them, sending the thugs flying with burn marks. After that, several more began charging at him as he puffed his cheeks out.
Natsu: Fire Dragon... ROAAARRRR!!!!
He unleashed a massive torrent of flames at the bandits, burning them as they were all sent flying.
Humungousaur's Thoughts: (eyes widen) Whoa... That was awesome! He's strong alright.
Lucy: We'll make you regret running into us! There's a huge bounty on all of your heads, and we're gonna collect! Open, Gate of the Golden Bull: Taurus!
In a large puff of smoke, a large humanoid cow creature with an axe on it's back appeared, ready to fight.
Taurus: MoooooOOOOOOOO!!!!
Lucy: Alright, Taurus! Go and kick some bandit butt!
Taurus: You got it, Ms. Luuuuucy!!
The giant cowman known as Taurus then charged at the bandits with his axe in hand.
Taurus: Hey boys, do me a favor and give the lady's smokin' hot body some ROOOOOOMMM!!
He smacked his axe down on the ground, sending more of the bandits flying as they land on the ground, knocked out.
Lucy: Nice work, Taurus!
Taurus: Well, this ain't my first rodeo.
Humungousaur's Thoughts: Did that cow just talk?!
As Lucy and Taurus prepared to face off against more bandits, the pink-haired boy and the blue cat were doing the same. In fact, much to Humungousaur's surprise, the blue cat actually managed to knock out a bandit that was trying to sneak up on his pink-haired companion.
Natsu: Heh, nice work, Happy.
Happy: Aye, sir!
As the fight played out, Humungousaur couldn't help but be in awe of the situation. He had seen some pretty crazy things during his career as a hero, but never had he seen anything like this! A fire-breathing boy, a cow-man-summoning girl, and a flying blue cat fighting against a band of at least thirty deadly criminals all by themselves!
They kind of reminded Y/N of Ben and himself in a way. They were fighting, but they seemed to be enjoying themselves at the same time. It went without saying that Y/N was thoroughly enjoying the show. In fact, he was enjoying it so much that he almost missed something: a man, identical to his hooded comrades, wielding a dagger in his hand.
Humungousaur's eyes went wide from shock when he realized that the man was steadily creeping up on the blond girl, Lucy. And what was worse, was that none of her companions noticed what was happening.
Humungousaur: Come on... Someone just turn around and see him...!
Humungousaur's silent plead went unheard as everyone was busy fighting their own opponents. It would appear that the only option was for Y/N to get involved. He was slightly reluctant at first, but now that someone's life was in danger, he couldn't sit on the sidelines and watch anymore.
Humungousaur: Well... I guess it's best to leave a good impression.
Humungousaur crouched low behind the bushes, and a second later, he leaped into the air, through the trees, and into the midst of the battle with a gigantic roar that shook the entire area and drew every last person's attention toward him, including the would-be assassin, which is exactly what the Vaxasaurian wanted. Humungousaur landed right next to the assassin and Lucy and grabbed the former in his massive hand.
The man struggled in the dinosaur-like alien's grip but to no avail. He then tried to stab the gigantic creature with his dagger, but the blade merely shattered against Humungousaur's tough, reptilian hide. Humungousaur simply lifted the man up close to his face, and let out another roar that shook the surrounding area, directly into the man's face. The combination of the deafening noise of Humungousaur's roar, and intense fear of being eaten alive by a giant lizard was more than enough to send the man into unconsciousness.
Humungousaur then turned to face the remaining bandits and took a stance similar to that of a pitcher on the mound about to throw a baseball. He then hurled the wannabe-assassin directly toward his comrades and took them all out at once, with all of them flying in various directions from the impact.
All of the bandits were now defeated and unconscious, much to Humungousaur's relief. However, there was still some present who weren't exactly as relieved as Y/N was about this current situation. Lucy, Taurus, Natsu, and Happy were still cautiously wide-eyed as they all stared up at the reptilian beast in front of them. None of them had ever seen anything like a Vaxasaurian before, clearly.
The brown-skinned dinosaur simply placed his hands in his hips and let out a sigh, with the minor motion being enough to trigger a flinch reaction from the group of wizards.
Taurus: (readied his axe) Listen here, ugly! Make one more moooove and-
Humungousaur: Relax, cow-man. No need to get your udder in a twist...
The group of wizards, save for Taurus, all jumped when Humungousaur spoke. It would appear they weren't expecting that.
Lucy: That thing can talk?!
Humungousaur looked at Lucy for a moment, slightly confused as to why she would ask such a question, but it didn't take long for him to remember that he was in another universe. Of course they wouldn't be used to a giant dinosaur-like creature walking up and talking to them.
Then again, if there were talking monkeys in this world, and talking cats, you'd think they wouldn't find it all that surprising.
The blue cat shook his paw angrily at the Vaxasaurian.
Happy: Hey! I'm the only talkin' animal around here! You tryin' to copy me?!
Humungousaur: (tilt his head) Uhhh...
Lucy: Shut up yah stupid cat! (turns to Humungousaur) Okay, big guy, just who are you?! You better have an answer or I'll have Taurus take you out to pasture!
Taurus nodded and folded his arms over his chest.
Taurus: Mooooo...
Humungousaur: Relax. I was just helping you guys out.
Humungousaur then points to the unconscious man that had attempted to assassinate Lucy, leading the others to follow his finger.
Humungousaur: That guy was about to stab you in the back.
Lucy jumped slightly as her eyes widened in shock. Still retaining her surprised mien, she thought about it for a moment. If this lizard-man was telling the truth, then it did make sense that it had landed right next to her and grabbed a bandit that was behind her, beneath her notice.
Lucy: Oh...
Taurus: Is that truuuue...?
Humungousaur: (nods) Yeah, it is.
Taurus's expression grew slightly downcast upon hearing that, though Humungousaur couldn't place his finger on why. He'd have thought everyone would be happy he'd saved their friend.
Lucy: It's okay, Taurus. You did your best. Why do you go and take a break, okay? Will that make you feel better?
Taurus: Well, do you know what would really make me feel better...?
Lucy: What's that? Wait... NO WAY, YA BIG PERV!!!
Taurus: (clasped his hands together) Oh come on, not even a little smoooooch?
Lucy: Now many times do I have to say no?! Now go back home!
With that, Lucy waved the golden key she had used to summon Taurus, and in another puff of smoke, and a faint flash of white light, the humanoid cow disappeared, wagging his tail with hearts in his eyes all the while.
Humungousaur's eye was twitching from the sheer absurdity of what he had just seen. He didn't even want to think about it, so instead, he shook it off and once again focused on the matter at hand.
Natsu and Happy both looked relieved upon hearing that this new reptilian creature they had stumbled across was apparently friendly, and not only that, but it had just saved one of their friends from certain death!
Natsu: Phew! That's a relief. Thanks a million, big guy! Lucy's one of our friends, and you just saved her life! That means you're alright by me! Ain't that right, Happy?
Happy: Aye, sir!
Natsu: Oh that's right, my name! The names Natsu, and I'm what you call a Dragon Slayer! What's your name?
Humungousaur: Well...it kinda depends. (gestures to himself) This is Humungousaur.
Humungousaur then reached up to the Omnitrix dial on his chest and tapped it. The resulting green flash forced the trio of wizards to shield their eyes, and when they uncovered them their jaws dropped halfway to the ground from what they saw.
A young man, wearing dark blue jeans, a black t-shirt, and a green jacket with the number ten emblazoned in white inside a black circle on the left pectoral, with a white, vertical stripe crossing under it. It also had two horizontal white stripes on the right sleeve.
Y/N: But, my real name is Y/N. Y/N Tennyson.
Lucy had a blush on her face as her heart starts beating fast.
Lucy's Thoughts: (blush) Woah. No way, this guy is cute! His adorable face is making my heart pound!
Y/N could only lightly chuckle to himself at the expressions of the three wizards in front of him. He wasn't used to this kind of reaction anymore. In his world, everyone knew who he was and what he could do. Obviously, that was not the case here.
Y/N took a look around at their surroundings a little, but he was still just as lost as before. He then turned to the trio, a small, slightly nervous smile on his face. These three seemed friendly enough now that they knew Humungousaur was only helping them. Now was as good a time as any for Y/N to ask them the question that had been on his mind since he arrived here...
Y/N: So... (rubbed his neck sheepishly) I don't suppose any of you could tell me where I am exactly?
Chapter 1 ended.
I hope this chapter is good, cause will be coming here as we speak. Let me know what you guys think at the comments below, peace out and enjoy!
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