Please note that I start referring to Ben, as just Prime because typing Ben Prime over and over again was getting on my nerves.

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Third Person's P.O.V.

"I hope this isn't what I think it is," Ben said as he skidded to a stop as XLR8.

He'd been called to check out a disturbance on the outskirts of Bellwood. There were reports of a huge shockwave that shook the ground for a couple miles alongside a bright flash of light. Initially, Ben thought it was your standard crash landing. But if that were the case, whatever it was would've been picked up by the plumber scanners dotted around the earth. So there was no telling what this could be. Whether it was friendly or hostile, no one had a clue.

Why can't anything ever be easy?

In a flash of green light Ben detransformed. He coughed a couple times as the dirt he kicked up from speeding over here settled. Once it was clear enough, Ben glanced around the area. Aside from the massive crater a few feet in front of him, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. As such, Ben walked up to the crater's edge. His eyes widened when he saw what- or rather who was laying unconscious in its center.

It was another Ben. One he didn't recognize.

"Please don't be evil," Ben muttered as he slowly made his way down to his counterpart from another timeline.

Despite his best effort, Ben lost his footing and tumbled the rest of the way down the crater. He nearly collided with his counterpart but managed to stop just short of barreling them over. Ben held his breath as he waited for the resulting dust cloud to dissipate. Somehow, the alternate Ben wasn't disturbed by this at all.

"Phew," Ben finally exhaled.

As soon as he said that, his alternate self shot upwards. Their green eyes darting around frantically as they clambered to their feet. They were just about to slam the dial of the omnitrix down to transform when their eyes landed on Ben. They halted their course of action immediately.

The two Bens stared at each other. Neither daring to make the first move as they didn't know how the other would react. Soon, the Ben from another timeline broke eye contact in favour of glancing around more carefully. Once done, they returned their gaze to Ben Prime. Fear and confusion clouding their eyes as they finally opened their mouth to speak.

"I'm not in my world, am I?"

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"So you're telling me that I'm stuck here until either Professor Paradox shows up to escort me back to my timeline, you locate some guy named Mr. Hokestar or when the technicians can get your dimension-hopping devices back online?"

"Yeah pretty much," Ben Prime confirmed.

"I'm gonna be here forever," the other Ben, who was now being referred to simply as 'B' to lessen confusion until he got home, groaned as he flopped back on the couch he was sitting on.

"You won't be here forever," Ben Prime assured.

B propped himself up on his elbows and gave Ben Prime an incredulous look.

"I've dealt with this kind of thing before," Prime said.

"Wait- You've met other Ben's before?" B asked, his tone one of curiosity.

"More than you think," Prime answered.

"Have any of them been very similar to you?"

"In some ways yes," Prime began, "but most of them have been radically different due to their circumstances."

B hummed in acknowledgement. Pursing his lips in thought for a few moments. He sat up straight as soon as an idea popped up in his head. B then shuffled until he was sitting on one end of the couch and gestured for Prime to sit in the empty space beside him.

"How about we compare our lives and adventures to see how similar we are?" he suggested.

Prime stayed silent for a moment before shrugging and plopping himself down next to his variant.

"Why not?"

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Rook made his way to the break room Ben and the other Ben were supposed to stay. He'd managed to locate Mr. Hokestar and luckily it didn't take much to convince the salesman to let them borrow his universe travelling store.

"I come with good new-"

"How could you?!?!" B screeched as he threw cushion after cushion at Prime.

"Hey!" Prime yelled as he dodged the projectiles, "You can't blame me for that."

"I can and I will," B stated, throwing a chair this time before going to select an alien to transform into.

"Oh it's on," Prime said as he hurriedly scrolled through his roster of aliens on the omnitrix.

"Stop this both of you!" Rook yelled, causing both omnitrix wielders to halt mid-action. Their hands just about ready to slam down their watches.

"What happened?"

A beat of silence passed before Prime and B started talking at the same time. Their explanation for why they were about to brawl in the break room quickly devolved into a shouting match between the two. Rook could barely understand what they were saying before and now the two Bens were at each other's throats again. Why did he leave them alone?

"Calm down!" Rook shouted above the arguing pair, "You need to speak one at a time otherwise this will never be resolved."

Both Bens exchanged a guilty look before muttering,  "Sorry."

"Apology accepted," Rook said, "Now please tell me why you two were fighting."

"We were passing the time by talking about how similar our lives and adventures have been," B started, "and as it turns out there's a lot more similarities than we first thought."

"And how does that translate into a fight?" Rook asked.

"He's getting there," Prime answered.

"Before you interrupted us we were talking about the time we had babies as Big Chill," B continued, "and well..."

B trailed off and glared at Prime as he yelled, "You didn't name them?!?!"

"I wasn't aware of what was happening until they'd already left!" Prime shouted.

"But it's been years since then!" B argued, "You're telling me you haven't so much as thought about your alien children since you had them?"

Prime stayed silent at that. The corner of his lip forming the smallest of an angry scowl while his hands twitched. Just itching to activate the omnitrix and fight this out. Rook looked to B and saw similar things.

"What did you name Big Chill's babies then?" Rook asked, in an attempt to diffuse the situation.

"Huh?" B asked, turning his attention to the revonnahgander.

"What did you name Big Chill's babies," Rook repeated.

"Oh!" B exclaimed, "I gave all fourteen of them cute names related to ice, snow and the cold since that's Big Chill's whole thing. From oldest to youngest their names are Popsicle, Antarctica, Frostbite, Blizzard, Cryosphere, Rime, Slushie, Avalanche, Hail, Flurry, Winter Solstice, Glacier, Polaris and Little Chill."

"Those are excellent names," Rook complimented.

"Thank you," B beamed, smiling wide, "Now did you have something to tell us?"

"Indeed I do," Rook said.

The revonnahgander then went on to explain that they had the means to get B home. B expressed his thanks and left with Rook to meet up with Mr. Hokestar down on earth. Ben now stood alone in the disheveled break room. He sighed and started putting everything back where they belonged.

"I don't want to meet another me for at least five to seven business days," he muttered to himself.

Just as he said that, he received a call via his omnitrix. Turns out that B wasn't the only other Ben who had made it into the Prime timeline. There were at least two more Bens and one of them was already wreaking havoc in Canada.

"Oh c'mon!"

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Yes, I'm still pissed that Big Chill's babies didn't get named after all this time. The little cuties at least deserved that since Necrofriggian's don't exactly need to parent them once they're born.

Have a good rest of your day/night!