Hello again ! Sorry for being out for so long, been busy with a lot of stuff. And got a few bad news, relatives in the hospital, but everything is okay.
Here is a new story that I hope can satisfy you.

Taking inspiration from a few other stories, and borrowing a similar formula. Hopefully I can make this as good as I can within my power.
Anyway, enjoy!

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Bellwood, a normally peaceful city on the North American continent, though that's ultimately debatable. It's actually a hub of various extraterrestrial activity, and by that I mean it's inhabited by various aliens. All interstellar immigrants who walk side by side with humans like brothers and old friends.
This drove lots of people wild, most being various theorist and science fiction fanatics who were glad that some, and emphasis on the word "some" of their crackpot theories were proven true. Others had actually taken it pretty well, like for instance, a rather young looking blonde haired woman shopping at a grocery store was looking through some produce when she heard someone speak. "Hey Sandra" a young female Kineceleran greeted her, "oh hey AL-X" Sandra greeted seeing her.

"So what's up, haven't seen that son of yours here in a while" she said, "w-well, let's just say he isn't in the best of spirits" Sandra replied looking a bit depressed. "What's wrong? Last time we talked he said he was excited about a date he was goin on with his girlfriend" the hypersonic woman inquired remembering how excited Sandra's son was. That's what made her expression turn from depressed to silent fury, "oh he was excited alright, only it was before that no good harlot decided to dump him the moment he told her about it, especially after he literally worked two straight months with no breaks in order to make that trip possible!" She added.

"She what?!" Said not only AL-X, but almost every other female patron in the store as they had been in close enough ear shot. "That complete and total (redacted)!" "if it was my son I'd tell her what for!" "Tell her? I'mma mess that brat up if he was my kid!" came the responses. "Thanks for you input, (sigh) my little Ben hasn't been the same since." Sandra added.

Meanwhile

We go to the headquarters of the Plumbers, intergalactic police force not toilet and pipe repair, where a brown haired young man in a light green jacket, white shirt, brown jeans and black combat boots, with a familiar watch on his wrist, had just tossed a missile aged man with a glass dome over his explosed brain into a prison cell. "Curse you Ben Tennyson! And before I could even start my plans?! Who does that?!" The man, also known as Dr. Animo complained. "Can't stand the time, better to avoid the crime" the young man said, revealing himself to be the legendary Ben Tennyson. Hero of the universe.

Who at the moment looked like a zombie with the bags under his eyes, which had oddly concerned Dr. Animo, "yeesh, he's normally in a more gloating mood whenever he beats me. That's making me concerned, and I hate him" he said. We now see Ben walk into the motor pool before going to his car, a few parking spots away was a van with "Max's Plumbing" on the side, with three individuals inside. Five if you count the dog like alien with them.
One being a tall blue cat like humanoid alien, another being a muscular young man around 19 or so with long black hair, wearing predominantly dark clothes like black and grey. The next person being an orange haired girl wearing a blue college cardigan over a white button up, a black pants, and the final one was an elderly man with grey hair wearing a red Hawaiian shirt and white pants. These four were Max, Gwen, Kevin,and Rook, Ben's grandfather, cousin and friends, who have been trying to comfort him after the incident with his ex Kai Green. "This is a lot worse that we thought it'd be" Gwen said seeing her cousin walk off, "I have to agree with Ms. Tennyson, at first I was not as concerned due to thinking that Ben can walk it off as he normally does. But clearly, he is in great pain" Rook said, "tell me about it, not even I get this sad, and I was bummed when you and me split for a bit " Kevin said.

"Kevin, we never split up, I went on a field trip to Europe for a week, also you were sitting in my room in our apartment, crying and singing Adele songs until I came back." Gwen deadpanned "yeah, I was fine" Kevin said. "Either way, I think it's time we helped Ben out a little" Max said, "that we can agree on Grandpa" she replied, once a Ben had drove out they went after him.

After arriving at his destination, being his grandpa Max's secret fishing spot, he sat on his car before sighing and looked at the orange sky with the setting sun on the horizon. Ben had just wanted to be alone, as needing some time for yourself was necessary after a break up, especially when you were the one who was brutally dumped. However Ben had already been doing this for months already, so it was definitely time to let people back in to help him. But being the stubborn hero he is, the wielder of the Omnitrix would prefer to work it out himself rather than be a burden on others.

He was however pulled out of his musings when he saw the others arrive and park next to him, "hey sport" Max greeted as they walked out. "Oh hey Grandpa, Gwen, Kevin, Rook... what's up?" Ben asked sitting up, "just wanted to see if you were alright" Kevin replied, "I'm fine..." Ben replied back, making Gwen frown.
"Ben, we all know you're lying, you're eyebrow is twitching" she said as her cousin shot her an annoyed look. But also mentally cursing himself out as he hadn't figured out how to stop his eyebrow twitch, "a little too blunt Gwen" Rook comments. "I'm not wrong" she simply says, "look Tennyson, we get it. Being dumped isn't fun, but you shouldn't just mope around" The osmosian said, "I'm not moping around" Ben retorted, "besides we all know if I was I'd be just gorging myself on chili fries and smoothies at Mr. Smoothies until I was somehow drunk from them" he adds.

This surprised everyone as they knew Ben wouldn't joke if he was in pain, so they took it as a sign he was getting better. But still wanted to help him, "true, but we're just looking out for you Ben. We don't enjoy seeing you hurt like this" Gwen said putting a hand on her cousin's shoulder, "while I thank you for wanting to help... it's just not something easy to get over..." He said looking at the water, then skipped a stone on it until it hit a tree on the other side of the lake. They looked to it and saw beneath the heart Max and Grandma Verdona carved in it long ago, they saw another beneath it.

This was just having "Ben x " but nothing after that.

"When we were still together, I was gonna carve our names into there like you and Grandma did a long time ago" he said down cast. They all looked at it, then Kevin spoke up "listen Ben, I can assume it's hard on you. But you can't let this go on forever" he said, "nearing the world record" Ben said as he had been keeping track of the days, "but how about we take you out in order to feel better" everyone looked at Kevin surprised. As he normally preferred to tease Ben rather than help him out socially, "besides, this cool new club opened up and it sounds like it could be up your alley."

"I-I don't know dude" Ben said, "Ben, it's been three and a half months already. You deserve to have some fun and be happy" again the absorbing teen said surprising everyone "for once I am on board with Kevin on this" Rook said, "agreed, not only do you deserve to have happiness in your life for once, but I haven't been to a decent club in months" Gwen adds a bit excited.

"Count me in to, haven't partied much since your fathers moved out" Max says with a smile, "well... if you think it'll help" Ben said, admittedly wanting to do something besides contemplate. "Great, we can start tomorrow, because... you need to get some rest, no offense but you look like a zombie" Kevin suggests. "Kinda smell like one too cousin" Gwen teased holding her nose, all while Ben gave them an annoyed eye roll.

The next day

The team had just arrived at a rather nice mural done on a wall near the center of town, "so is this the place Kevin?" Ben asked, now looking a bit more lively wearing a nice black jacket, a green button up shirt, and dark jeans. "Because it's just a mural" he added, "I'm confused too here babe" Gwen comments, "hold on, I just need to get out my skeleton key" the mechanic said. Then took out an odd high tech looking key, he then pointed it towards the door in the mural, then fired a red laser at it, making it larger and caused it to open.

"Woah" they all said impressed, "I know, hard to believe Paradox actually gave it to me" everyone looked at him surprised. "I know right!"

They then drove in and found themselves in a large parking lot, as for what it was for, they found themselves outside of a large black and orange building with illuminated windows, in what looked like a perpetually night time dimension. "Wow, what is this place?" Ben asked as Kevin parked, when they exited the ProtoTRUK they were greeted by a friendly looking male humanoid being with a tar black body, yellow stripes, eyes and hair and a tail.

With an odd M like insignia on his chest "greetings, welcome to the infinity club" he says "the name's Metamatrix, pleasure to make your acquaintance. Are you a first time patron or have you been before?" The guy asked smiling, "oh uh first time" Rook answered, "ooh then I hope you enjoy your first visit. Would you like a life time membership? If you get one, you get your own skeleton key which lets you access this dimension using any door or image of a door around you. And you'll have advanced access to all the facilities we have here" Meta said leading them to their club, and marking it for them to find later while handing them their parking tracker.

"Tempting, but maybe I'll make a decision about that after our first visit" Ben said, "sure thing" Meta replied before scanning them "oh Ben Tennyson, always a pleasure to have you in my dad's establishments" he says. "Your dad?" "Yeah, my father Humatrix, the very first of us Matrixians, owns this dimension as well as several others. He mainly uses them as recreational sites for other denizens of the multiverse, in fact other versions of you come by here. Even your version of Professor Paradox" Meta says surprising them.

And as proof Ben had seen another version of him with a very pretty red haired woman and three kids walking out of the building with smiling faces. "You don't say" Ben said as they entered, and were astonished to see the inside which was one giant never ending party. With maybe a thousand, maybe a million people inside having all sorts of fun, whether playing video games in an arcade, gambling, though not much, watching movies, all sorts of stuff. "Woah... this place is insane... and amazing" Kevin said, then was bumped into by a tall anthropomorphic Blue Jay and a short brown anthropomorphic Raccoon.

"Woah boy?! Uh sorry dude, didn't see you there" the blue Jay said, "yeah sorry, kinda busy, by the way if you see a short really enthusiastic girl in a sweater come by here asking for Mordecai and Rigby, tell him we went to the bathroom" the Raccoon added. "Oh no, Dude! Rigby she's coming this way!" The blue Jay, also known as Mordecai, said "Run Man Run!!"

The two bolted to the game arcade before Ben saw a short girl with long brown hair in a pink shooting star sweater running in their direction, "excuse me!" She said panting, "did you see a bird and raccoon come by here, they're names are Mordecai and Rigby" she asked. And was holding what looked like a bedazzle gun, "yeah they uh, went over to the movie area" Ben said, "thanks! Dipper they went to the movies!" The girl said, "wait for me Mable!" A short boy with short brown hair wearing a pine tree hat said as he followed Mable. "Wow, it really is lively here" Gwen commented, "glad you think so, if you're in for laughs and puns, Club Comedy is over there. We have a new comedy act we think you'll enjoy, if not we also have the bar just past there if you just need a stiff one. Off limits to minors of course" Meta said, "thanks Meta" Gwen said, "so where to first?" Max asked, then noticed Ben was gone.

"Gwen where did you cousin go?" He asked, "oh I think I saw Ben going into Club Comedy" the yellow Matrixian said pointing to Ben who had just walked into there.

As he entered he saw several tables and people waiting for the show, in the mean time they had been either eating, talking or just doing something to pass the time. "Hello sir" a voice of a waitress greeted, "u-uh oh hey" he replied, "if you want I can take your to a vacant table, or maybe an open seat at an occupied one" she offered. "I'm good with either really, just want some cheering up" Ben said. She nodded and brought him to a table, which already had two rather attractive women sitting there, one blonde wearing a super hero like outfit with a red cape, and the other with red hair and wore a white blouse with a blue skirt and black boots "oh uh pardon me, is this seat taken?" He asked pulling on his collar a bit.

"Oh this seat's free" the blonde girl answered smiling at him, "yes feel free, it'll be nice to have another person to talk to before the show starts out" the red head added. Cracking a small smile Ben sat next to them, "thanks, I'm Ben, Ben Tennyson" he greeted, the red head shook first "hello Ben, pleasure to meet you. My name's Erza Scarlet" she greeted, then it was the other's turn "hiya, name's Kara Kent, but I'm also Kara Zor El, or you can call me Super Girl" she said sending him a sidewards smile.

"So what brings you by here?" Erza asked, Ben looked a bit down, "w-well it's kinda personal really" he explained, noticing his demeanor she spoke again "well if you're not comfortable talking about it you don't have to" Erza said. "Yeah, but if it makes you feel more comfortable me and Erza here can tell you why we're here" Kara offered.

The two had actually been here for the same reason as him, they were a bit bummed and wanted some cheering up, Kara's an alien and her homeworld had unfortunately went up in smoke after a cataclysmic event. So her cousin Clark suggested this place since it was so popular, since then she's been a returning patron. Recently it was the anniversary of her planet's death so she came here to get her spirits back up.

As for Erza, she was a magic using warrior of a guild called Fairy Tail, recently one of her old friends had to be arrested due to crimes he did when he was possessed by a spirit. And little to say she's been a bit bummed since, then she found a skeleton key for this dimension and had been a frequent patient for a while. Then it was Ben's turn, first sharing his past with his history with the Omnitrix, then about the adventures he had. As well as... the reason he was here in the first place, "what?!" Both girls shouted "she dumped you?!" Kara said, "even after hearing all the work you put into making plans for the trip!" Erza adds, equally angry.

"I guess I didn't try hard enough" Ben said, sighing "I call Bull on that, and regardless it's still wrong" Erza said honestly. "Yeah, what right did she have to dump you, from the sound of it you're the one who actually puts any real effort into your relationship" Kara added, "you think so?" Ben asked pushing a plate he had with a burger on it. "Duh, and plus you're a hero in your world, you have lots of responsibilities. I know how it feels, Of course you'd have to put off a lot of time to make sure your world is safe." She adds, "same goes for me to, I may not be a super hero like Kara, but I know what it means to have such responsibilities" Erza adds.

"Well, I guess..." Ben said sitting up a little, "also while we're on the topic. From what you told me, You did everything she wanted since you two got together, from dates to outings and even... well what happens in bed" Kara said as he blushed. "And not once had she ever done anything for you, and more over that thing she has about the loboan form you got... just wrong, a lot wrong" the alien girl adds. "I have to agree with that, and not once as yourself. That certainly says something" Erza says, "well, I won't argue... Kai never really did anything for me... plus she always had been a little bossy" Ben said thinking about his relationship, "and now that I think about it, why is it that she usually never answers back when I call her? And when she does answer back, why do I sometimes hear something in the background?" He asked.

The last part both girls seemed to wince at, then scowl 'oh if I ever see this chick she is going to get it' they thought. That's when they noticed the light dimming "oh the shows about to start, we can talk about that later. Besides we all came here to have fun, no need to bring up anything bad" Ben smiled. They smiled back and nodded and paid attention to the show, with another Matrixian like Meta walking on stage "hello everybody! Hope you're ready because our newest comedy act will now take the stage, let's give a big multi dimensional welcome to the high energy duo Golden Squirrel!"

The curtain rose to reveal two girls, at sight they made Ben blush, one happened to be a rather nicely developed blonde girl around his age with violet colored eyes. And the other was an equally developed girl with short brown hair who had squirrel like ears and a tail. Both wearing very nice suits, "hello everyone, my name's Yang Xiao Long" the blonde girl said, "and I'm Makoto Nanaya!" The squirrel like girl introduced.

"Hope you're ready to laugh cuz we got a heck of an act canned" Makoto said, "Makoto I think you mean heck of a night planned" Yang said, "no I mean canned. Some of these jokes are a bit fishy" Makoto said before showing both Yang and the audience an empty can of sardines with a list of jokes inside. Which earned a snort out of a few members of the audience, and an amused chuckle from Ben. "And there it is first joke of the evening, so here's a funny thing. Earlier today me and my sister Ruby were walking down the street and we meet a decent looking guy in a uniform from the local zoo. I say "he was nice" And Ruby replies with "I think he's a keeper"." This got a laugh out of the audience.

Makoto pats her friend's shoulder "very good my blonde friend, though if you want to know something really funny, here's a rather adult joke," she said. A couple kids who were there had already covered their ears... but had kept listening, "anyway my friend Tsubaki doesn't like my jokes, I always ask her why to see what was wrong with them. Finally she cracks and answers saying 'they're a bit too fresh, at least give them time to mature'" Ben had gave a small laugh in response. As did the rest of the audience, "ha ha, it's funny cause it's actually true" Makoto's friend Noel, who was sitting at a table with the aforementioned Tsubaki, alongside Mai and Kajun said giggling a bit. With her other friends having amused smiles.
"Boo!" Rang a disgruntled voice which came from a angry looking teenager with spiky blonde hair, who looked to have a constipation issue "this stinks" "Hey! Knock it off!" Makoto shouted chucking her mic at him. And had it bounce back "yeah that's just rude!" Yang added, "ahh?! Well I'm just telling you how I see it to save yah from the embarrassment" he said obviously not learning his lesson. "Uh we're not with him" the other people at his table said, those being other teenagers, a few of which were a young man with green hair, a girl with brown hair, and a young man with blue hair. He was about to retort when someone threw a slab of crystal at him, said person being Ben who was now in the form of Diamond Head.

"If yah ain't got anything to say then keep your trap shut, if that wasn't crystal clear to you already" Ben scowled, while also intentionally making a joke. Which caused Makoto and Yang to snicker, "okay that was pretty good rock man" the squirrel said, "yeah, you could say you really Shattered him" Yang added. "Eh I try, though I'll say his jewels may be in more danger" just as he said that the slab fell off of the teenager's face and right onto his groin. Earning a really high pitched shriek.

"Oh Ho! You we like? Want to join us on stage?" Yang asked, "well, so long as-" Ben then turns into Spider Monkey and hops on stage. "You don't mind a little monkeying around" he said, earning a laugh. Then turned back, "so what's your name? Surely though it's gotta be Ben because there are quite a few here" Yang says as she points to several versions of Ben who are coincidentally in the audience. A few even with their own versions of Ben, Yang, Makoto, Kara and Erza, "well you're right, name's Ben Tennyson" he introduced, "great to have you, so ever heard about the guy who flew a kite in a storm?" Makoto asked. "Oh yeah, said the experience was" Ben then turns into Shocksquatch "Quite 'Shocking' Eh." He replied before letting off some electricity.

Earning a laugh out of everyone, "but in relation to others, a guy I know happens to be a wood carver, and he has a job in carpentry. His specialty happens to be entrances and exits in buildings, and let me tell yah" Yang then finishes his joke. "He A-Doors his job?" This got a few more laughs, "if we are talking about carpentry, what did one 2by4 say to the other?" Makoto asked?

"What?" Yang asked, "I'm board" Ben said, with the audience laughing harder. "Moving topics, what does a spoon and a shield have in common?" Yang asked the two "easy, not the sharpest things to use for a steak dinner" both of them said.

"By the way anyone else hungry, I'm in the mood for pizza" Makoto said rubbing her stomach, "agreed, I'm hoping for a Gouda taste" Yang replied earning a few groans, "hey it might've been cheesy but it's certainly a cut above the rest" Ben adds, earning a groaned laughed. With Yang's Friends and sister looking scared, along with Makoto's friends. "Oh dear oum what have we just created?" Her white haired friend Weiss asked realizing the mistake she made. "Shall we go on?" Makoto asked smirking, "well we could feed the fire, but it may end up in smoke" Ben said, with his group they had been doing their own thing. As Gwen and Kevin were ordering something at the bar they suddenly had a shiver go up their spines. "There's a disturbance" Kevin said, "oh you feel it to?" Asked a pale blonde man with a cybernetic right hand.

Later on

Ben, Yang, Makoto, Erza and Kara had walked out of Club Comedy and were now in better moods, "man you're hilarious Ben!" Makoto said "I could say the same for you two. I haven't had that much fun in a long time" he replied, "while I'm not one for puns, I will admit you are quite witty" Erza praises "heck yah, you I wouldn't mind meeting up again" Kara said. "Actually, if you'd like Ben me and Makoto would like it a lot if you joined our act" Yang suggested. "Hey yeah! With you no one can stop our comedy power" the Squirrel like girl said, "well, I guess if you guys don't mind I can join. You two are a laugh riot, and gotta agree with you Kara, maybe we can all meet up. Doesn't have to be here either" Ben said.

"That sounds quite enjoyable" Erza said, "I'm down for it" Kara said, they then saw Meta walk up to them. "Ah hello Ben, I see you're in better spirits" he greeted, "hey Meta, say any chance I can get in on that lifetime membership?" He asked, "certainly, with it you get your own personal skeleton key to come and go as you please" the Matrixian replied giving Ben his skeleton key. "And I see you've made some new friends, if you want I can give all of you a very special plan that allows you to visit each other's worlds if you want to hang out" Meta offered "yeah we're down for that" Yang said as everyone else followed.

They then went to a few other parts of the club, one part being a fighting area with Ben facing off against all four of his new friends. To say it was difficult is an understatement, they were al a lot tougher than they let on, especially Makoto as she nearly sent him to the moon almost three times, thank god for the arena's recall function. Though they did admit Ben's talent with multiple fighting styles and ability to fight and think on his feet was rather impressive. Heck at the end of their night they decided to take a picture in a photo booth nearby, with Ben being in the center, Kara cradled in his arms, Erza leaning on his right, Yang on his left and Makoto's chin planted firmly on his head.

Finally all the patrons had left for the time being, with Ben saying farewell to his new female friends before meeting back up at the ProtoTRUK. "Hey guys" he greeted as they noticed him "oh there you are sport, my you're actually looking a lot chipper now" Max said glad that his grandson was in higher spirits. "Yeah well, joining a comedy act and meeting some cool girls'll do that to you" he said before hopping into the vehicle. "A few cool girls Eh?" Gwen said smirking, "what, I just met a few girls when we were in the club and they were cool. Nothing more nothing less" Ben said looking away, "were they hot?" Kev asked wanting to tease his friend. He got his answer after the Omnitrix wielder blushed after thinking about them, "oh my god they are" he then received an elbow to the stomach by Gwen as they drove back home through the portal.
"Watch it Kevin, and in regards, glad to see you're meeting new people Ben. But seriously, tell us about them, and why you were so fond of hanging out with them?" Gwen said, now in the mood to tease her cousin, "you guys are evil you know that" Ben grunted as they kept pressuring him to spill the beans.

Later that night Ben had arrived back in his apartment, after getting to his bedroom he changed into some night clothes and laid on his bed. Then had noticed a picture frame on the desk next to his bed that was now empty with the original it had now disposed of, Ben decided to use it for something else. After falling asleep peacefully smiling, with the frame now holding the picture he and the girls took at the club, unbeknownst to him the frame's design changed a bit to better suit the new picture.

Here's a funny challenge, for the characters who hadn't got their names dropped try to figure out who they were.

And another challenge, guess the number of crossover shows used and what the references were used. As well as name the TV shows referenced.