1 New York in another world and a black cat

It happened one day while I was in my way home, my body ached like a thousand red hot needles were pierced into my skin. I held my head in pain as a splitting headache forced me to my knees. It was like there was a strange pressure forcing its way into my brain. I howled out in pain and started to black out as everything faded away.

"Ahhh."

After an unknown amount of time I woke up gasping for air, my body drenched in sweat. I took a moment to recover from the intense pain that was slowly fading from my body. Looking around I found myself in an unknown room, it was fairly large and with a queen sized bed a large screen T.V. and an expensive looking computer.

I got up and sat at the edge of the bed holding my head trying to figure out what was happening. My head was still throbbing and my body felt strange I stood up and walked to the door on my unstable legs. Outside there was a long dark hallway which was dimly lit by a small night light plugged into an outlet. I tiptoed down the hall afraid of alerting anyone before I knew what was going on.

Up ahead to my right was an open door it was a bathroom, I stepped inside and threw the faucet on and splashed it on my face to wash the sweat off. I stood there shaking above the sink gasping for air as the pain in my head started to flare up again. It grew more and more intense before a stream of memories flooded into my mind, the pain became almost unbearable and I had to grab into the sink to avoid falling.

The name Ben Tennyson appeared in my mind along with a lifetimes worth of experiences. I flicked on the light and looked into the mirror, I was greeted with a face that wasn't my own. I was Ben Tennyson a 16 year old teenager who just moved to New York with his mother for her new job. The revelation that I wasn't me anymore hit me like a ton of bricks.

I just stood their staring at my new face unable to come to terms with what had happened to me. How had this happened and why? Did I die and Reincarate or am I still lying on the ground in a coma after having a seizure.

I sighed pushing those question that I would never get any answers for out of my mind and looked up at my new face. I fairly handsome with shaggy brown hair and intense green eyes. I felt like I had seen this face before but, I couldn't remember exactly where.

I stayed in the bathroom for over an hour just letting everything sink in. As I tried to figure out what I was supposed to do now more and more memories started to appear. I remembered my life it was flashing before me like a movie. I saw myself growing up playing with my family, I saw my parents homeschooling me because I was bullied in school, I saw my father's funeral and my mother crying with me in her arms, and I saw myself standing before a crater with a mysterious green light washing over me.

Before I could understand what that last memory was I jumped as I felt a hand on my shoulder. I jumped before looking up and saw my mom Sandra Tennyson looking at me with worry in her eyes.

"Are you alright honey" she asked?

My mind spin as I wasn't sure how I was supposed to face her a knew I had never seen her before in my life. But, on the other hand I felt like I had grown up with her and loved her. " I'm fine mom just a little nervous" I eventually lied.

"It's going to be alright honey. I know it's stressful what with your father's death and restarting public school again after all these years. I know everything seems like shit now but, I know you'll do great at school tomorrow" She smiled while pulling me into a hug.

"Y-yeah I know It's just soo much to take in" I sighed hugging her back.

"Oh hunny" she held me tighter.

"Ok ok" I blushed pushing her away feeling embarrassed about hugging an unknown woman.

"What? Too good to hug your mother" she smirked.

"No it's just-"

"Haha, I'm just messing with you, your a big boy now and are too big for hugs right?"

I laughed thinking that my new mom seemed like she enjoyed messing with people.

"Alright, you should go back to sleep you have to start school in three hours" she lifted me up and directed me back towards my room

I nodded giving her a quick hug and went back to my room still in complete shock. I got into the sheets and just stared at the ceiling thinking about what I was supposed to do now. My thoughts naturally went back to that strange memory with the glowing green light.

I focused my mind against to try and remember what that was and the haunting light appeared in my mind once again. This time I saw where the light originated from, it was a small metal orb that was slowly opening up. As the orb slid open and I saw what was inside I jumped in shock.

"That's impossible" I screamed to myself!

The thing inside the orb I recognized it, it was the Omnitrix. An alien device from one of my favorite shows that I used to watch when I was a kid. I hurriedly lifted up my left arm and pulled back my sleeve and there It was in all its glory. It was exactly the same with its black and grey wristband, white tunes, and iconic hourglass design.

Thats why my new name and face seemed familiar I was Ben 10 and now that I think about it even my mom from a moment ago seemed like the same one from the show. This didn't make any sense though if I was reborn as Ben 10 why were my memories completely different from what I saw in the show? I didn't have a grandpa or any cousins it was just me and my mom.

My breathing sped up again but, maybe because of everything that happened to me today was a bit too much I went into shock and became extremely calm. My right hand shook as I slowly reached towards the Omnitrix, I pinched the small white buttons on the side and the dial spring up casting the whole room in the glowing green light.

A blacked out silhouette appeared on its face and stream of information entered my brain. It was an instruction manual and it explained everything I needed to know about the Omnitrix. I carefully sorted through the information in my mind, I spent the next couple hours trying to understand how to use the Omnitrix.

After making sure I understood everything I lifted it up to see what aliens I had unlocked. In the instructions it said that at first I would only be able to use 10 aliens and would slowly unlock more as I was deemed "worthy" whatever that meant.

I looked at the silhouette and instantly recognized it as Heatblast I turned the face and scrolled through the aliens. As I was scrolling through I howled in awe at each of the aliens that appeared on the screen. It was all of the original ten Heatblast, Wildmutt, Diamondhead, XLR8, Grey Matter, Four Arms, Stinkfly, Ripjaws, Upgrade, and Ghostfreak.

Holding in my excitment I started inputting the master code which would disable the 15 minute timelimit, as well as let him transform again while he was already transformed just by thinking of the new alien and tapping the Omnitrix symbol.

After that was done I check my clock and saw that I still had over two hours until school starts and decided to take the Omnitrix out for a spin.vI turned to XLR8 and slammed my hand down and a bright light blinded me as I felt my body changing. My arms and legs elongated, a tail sprouted behind me, and my skin turned blue.

It was over in a moment and there I stood a seven foot tall alien speedster. Now that I was an alien and I felt so different and had a strange sense of power but, it didn't feel unnatural like this was always my body. Even the my new tail was completely in my control.

My excitement was maxed out and I couldn't stop myself from opening up the window and jumping outside. As soon as my feet hit the ground I was off. It was amazing I was running hundreds of miles an hour and could easily move around obstacles and see where I was going. My mind felt like it was running on turbo and everything seemed to slow down.

I zoomed around Queens dodging in between traffic and enjoying the cool night air. I left a blast of wind in my wake as I quickly sped into downtown Manhattan. I left everyone I passed by in shock and several people even fell to the ground as I passed I had to slow down a bit so I didn't hurt anyone. While I was running I heard a strange sound and stopped my face mask slid up and I cocked my head straining to see if I imagined it.

"Help"

It was a scream someone was in trouble it came from an alley a couple blocks behind me. Being high on adrenaline and feeling invincible I didn't hesitate to help in the alley was a young woman surrounded a gang of thugs. she was crouching in the fetal position as one of the men was kicking her repeatedly.

"You think you can just steal from my boss and get away with it" a tall burly man sneered as he kicked her again.

"HEY" I called out in my reptilian voice "Let her go!"

As they turned towards me I could see the fear on their faces as they saw me.

"What the fuck is that" one of them screamed as they drew their weapons!

"M-must be some kind of alien" a thug stuttered!

I sneered at them "What I am doesn't matter. What does matter is that you get away from that woman before I make you get away."

"You think I'm afraid of you freak? This isn't the first time I've seen a monster like you." The man who seemed to be their leader stepped forward brandishing his gun.

I was stunned I thought my appearance alone would be enough to send them running I didn't think there would actually be anyone brave enough to stand their ground. What the he'll was wrong with this city that someone could see an alien and the most they would feel was a little surprise?

I was relieved though when I looked at the rest of the thugs. Even while brandishing their weapons most of them were shaking and looked like they wanted to run. So it was only The boss who was a weirdo.

"Last chance" I said "leave now or end up in the hospital with broken bones" I threatened not being completely sure if I could take them.

"Tch, yeah right" the leader raised his gun to fire.

BANG his gun rang out causing the woman lying on the ground to flinch. Luckily I was watching his gun the entire time and the instant I saw his finger move I had already dodged out of the way.

"That's it" I hissed he had actually tried to kill me and I was pissed off.

I charged at him and slapped the gun out of his hand with my tail while I threw my foot behind his legs causing him to fall. After I knocked him down I put my foot on his throat to stop him from getting up and picked the gun up and threw it up on a nearby roof.

All the thugs were staring at me in shock unable to believe how fast I was they didn't even see me move to them it was like I teleported.

"Get Out Of Here" I threatened again.

They hesitated a moment before the man beneath my feet manage to choke out some words.

"Run away and the Big Man will hunt you down an-ack" that was as far as he got before I pressed down harded and choked him out.

I looked back up at the thugs and they all had a strained expression on their faces as they raised their weapons and charged me. I was shocked their fear of this Big Man was actually bigger than their fear of me the scary alien monster!

Clenching my teeth I thanked my lucky stars that only the leader seemed to have a gun and they were only armed with guns and knives. I sped into the crown at full speed knocking several of them over. While they were stunned I used my claws to disarm the remaining one and then use one of the bats I stole to smash all of their legs leaving them crippled on the ground.

"Are you alright" I went over and asked the woman placing my hand on her shoulder.

"No" she replied clutching her leg.

I took a closer look and noticed that she had a bullet wound on her leg and was losing a decent amount of blood.

"You need to get to a hospital" I panicked!

"No no hospital" she screamed at me.

"What" I was shocked "You'll blead to death if you don't get help."

"No" she grunted out "The bullet went clean through it didn't hit the bone and missed the artery. Right now all I need to do is cauterize the wound and I'll be fine."

I stared at the woman in shock and really looked at her for the first time. She was wearing a skin tight black costume with white fur accents around her forearms and collar. What caught my attention the most though was her beautiful hair it was snow white and flowed all the way down to her waist.

"B-black Cat" I stuttered out. How could it be her wasn't she imaginary?

"How do you know who I am" she asked with putting up her guard

Her question snapped me out of my stupor "Um ah, thats not important. You need help right now!"

She looked agitated but, eventually closed her eyes and sighed "Please don't take me to a hospital I have a safe house a little ways from here. If you can take me I'll split half my take with you" she motioned to the small bag she had hanging from her waist.

"Fine" I spoke where's you safe house.

"It's in an abandoned appartment complex in the old district of the Bronx" she spoke while keeping pressure on her leg.

"Right" I scooped her up into my arms and bolted off into the streets.

Once I started running she held onto my chest as hard as she could and stared at me in shock. After running for a moment I stopped and looked around lost.

"Why did you stop" she looked at me confused?

"I-I'm actually new to New York and might not know where the Bronx is" I looked away from her as my face was beet red.

"Of course you are" she held her face and sighed "Alright head down that street 20 blocks turn left and keep going straight until you cross the bridge."

"Right" I sped off once again this time a little slower so that she wouldn't be too uncomfortable. After I crossed the bridge I stopped again and she gave me more directions and that continued until we were standing in front of a run down old appartment building.

"Top floor last door on the right here's the key" she handed me a key she took from who knows where and in an instant we were in her apartment.

"Put me down on the couch" she gasped starting to look a little pale.

I carfully set her down being mindfull not to upset her injury "Now what" I asked.

"Go get the First-Aid kit from my bathroom"

I got it from the bathroom at quickest speed trying my hardest not to stare at the silky black bra and panties that were laying on the floor.

As soon as I got back she glared at me "what took so long?"

"Nothing" I scratched my nose trying to look innocent.

"Gah, whatever just open that thing up and give me that shot of painkillers and start suturing the wound"

I injected her with the morphine and took out the needle and thread "I'm not an expert and have never done this before but, don't we have to stop the bleeding before I sew you up?"

"Crap" she smacked her head "the pain is making me sloppy! You need to cauterize the wound I have a knife and a lighter in a drawer in the kitchen."

"No need" I tapped the Omnitrix and changed into Heatblast.

"What the" this time it was her turn to be shocked! She had been in town all summer and had seen some crazy thing which is why she wasn't very suprised to see a giant blue superfast lizard but, it was beyond her expectations to see that lizard transform into a fire monster. "Don't burn the place down" she screamed!

"Relax I'm just going to cauterize your wound then I'll change back" I didn't try to use any powers because I remember what happened the first time Ben tried that without any practice he burned an entire forest down. All I was planning on doing was pressing my finger into her wound to completely seal it. "This is going to hurt" I looked at her in pity.

"Just do it" she clenched her fists and braced herself.

"I'll get it over with as quickly as possible" I told her as I pressed my finger into her wound. It felt fleshy and gross and I almost threw up as I inserted my finger. As I went deeper she screamed out I paniked and quickly pulled it out.

"Now do the other side" She grunted.

"You are one badass lady" I mindlessly spoke.

"Damn Right" she screamed!

Not wanting to prolong this I quickly burned the otherside of her gunshot wound and motioned to wipe the sweat from my forehead before I realized I was made of fire. I noticed it was strangly quiet and looked back at Black Cat and noticed that she had passed out from the pain. Not waiting for her wake up I quickly transformed back into my human form. Which I transformed into because I didn't want to mess this part up and my human body had the best dexterity when it came to delicate taskes like this.

I grabbed her leg and tore away the cloth around her wound to get a better view of it and began gently sew her wounds shut. I had never done this before but, in my old life I used to make my own costumes for halloween and conventions so I did know how to sew.

After finishing up I placed the First-Aid kit on the ground and transformed back into XLR8. I was about to head out the door but, I couldn't help but turn around and take a second to turn around and take one last look at her.

I walked up to and was awestruck by just how beautiful she really was, it took a bit of will power not to do anything untowarth and I eventually turned away. I sighed to myself I really am in the Marvel world aren't I.

Before I left I had fun idea I searched threw her appartment and found a paper and pen and make another quick transformation before leaving her a note and a small gift.

Half an hour later Black Cat slowly woke up she moved to stand up and winched in pain remembering her wound. She groaned and lead back before thinking about the strange creature that carried her here looking around there was no sign of him. Black Cat was a bit conflicted about that she was glad he was gone because he was definitely a pervert with how he took his time in the bathroom staring at her unmentionables but, he also saved her life.

While she was considering her next move something on the coffe table cuaght her attention it was a small note and something wrapped in newspapaer. She strained herself reaching out towards the note.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Dear, Black Cat

Sorry to save and run but, I've had busy day and need to head home. I left whatever was in that bag untouched I don't need to be payed to save a pretty girl, and even though I want to be a superhero I won't turn you in because chasing sexy bad girls around is literally half the fun.

Sincerly, New Yorks newest superhero name TBD

P.S. I left you a little gift to be a reminder of our first meeting.

P.P.S. I am human by the way it's just that I can turn into a bunch of crazy aliens.

P.P.P.S. I had to wrap my gift in news paper because I wanted you to read this note first.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Black Cat smiled to herself wondering what kind of idiot would leave a note like that. She carefully folded the note in half and placed it to her side and turned her attention to whatever was wrapped in the newspaper. Grabbing it she felt that it was way heavier than she imagined and that whatever was inside was extremely hard.

Ripping the newspaper away she was shocked by what she saw it was a clear green diamond the size of her fist. She was mesmerized by it and stared at it watching who the light played off it. It was the biggest diamond she had ever seen and was flawlessly cut she couldn't imagine how he got something like this.

"Name to be determined, huh" she laughed and put the diamond back on the table. "I home we meet again."

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Hours later I was walking through the doors of my new school and I was surprisingly calm even after everything that happened. I easily accepted my new life as Ben 10 in Marvel and couldn't wait to see what new adventures I would be able to go on. I'm my old life even though I was kind of a loser I was 20 when I disappeared and had never even been on a date with a girl or have done anything remotely interesting.

After saving Black Cat last night and realizing I was living in a fictional world I felt incredible and decided that I want to be a hero.

The rush I got while beating up those thugs was indescribable I know that being a hero for the thrills was a bad idea but, what does it matter as long as I help people. I wasn't sure if I would be able to put myself on the line for other people when the time came and I kew I would only be able to find out what kind of person I really was when the time came.

To be a superhero I would need to do a few things first I would need to learn how to fight even if I had all those awesome forms I still needed to figure out how to use them right. Second I would need a costume that I could wear in human form so my identity wouldn't be revealed if I ever changed back in the middle of a fight. And finaly I would need a name and a good one too after all I couldn't go around calling myself Ben 10 if I wanted a secret identity.

While I was lost in my thoughts I accidentally bumped into a person in front of me knocking them down.

"Hey watch it" the blonde boy on the ground looked up and glared at me!

"Oh, sorry" I reached out a hand to help him up.

"I don't need your help" he smacked my hand away and stood up.

"Right? Well sorry again" I waved and started off to class again.

"Nuh uh" he grabbed my shirt and pulled me back you think you can knock me down like that and just run off without paying the consequences?"

"What, I apologized though? Plus it was an accident."

"You, think that matters loser? I'm the big dog around here and no one embarrasses me and gets away with it!"

Feeling that this was going wrong I tried to get out of his grap and run away but, my human body was too weak and I was stuck. The boy laughed as I struggled to get free and he dragged me down the hall.

"Hey Kong, Hobie come help me with this" he shouted

"Sure thing QB."

"No problem Flash."

The two others came to my side and lifted my legs up as I continued to struggle.

"In the trashcan" the blonde boy ordered them.

Before I could put up any more resistance I found myself face down in the trash. Thankfully it was the beggining of the day there wasn't much in it yet but, it was still disgusting. They let go of my legs and the trashcan toppled over with me inside of it. I staggered to my feet and stood up in anger.

When I got up I noticed I was already surronded by a crowd of students were pointing and laughing at me some of them even had their phones out taking pictures and videos. It took everything I had not to use my Omnitrix and teach all of them a lesson but, I knew I couldn't do that.

I wanted to say something but, the one minute bell rangs and everyone disspersed not wanting to be late for first period.

"See you later loser" the blonde kid ran off with his two thugs leaving me alone in the hall.

In my old life I was bullied a bit in school but, it was never anything more than a few mean words I had never been humiliated like that before. If this is what school was like in Marvel then I was seriously considering going back home right now.

"Hey" I felt a hand placed on my shoulder. Turning around I saw a nerdy brown haired kid looking at me in pity. "Sorry about Flash he's kind of the local asshole you get used to him though" the kid shrugged and then waved at me "Come on you should get to class don't want to be late on the first day after all?"

"And you are" I managed to ask him before he got too far?

"Oh, right I didn't introduce myself did I? You can call me Peter."

Peter huh, I mused to myself "My names Ben" I called back to him.

"Well, Ben I'll see you around" he waved before running off.

I shook my head getting rid of all my negative emotions and took a deep breath. "WAIT Peter, Flash, Midtown High! Did I just meet Spider-Man! I laughed out loud feeling alot better because who cares if I'm bullied a little by some jocks there's a whole new world out there for me to explore and nothing was going to stop me.

"Ding Ding Ding" the bell rang.

"Crap" I screamed.

As I walked in late to my first class I noticed that every one was giving me odd looks and laughing under their breath. I ignored them and took a seat, from the looks of things I had already been type cast as a loser on my first day of school but, it didn't bother me because I had, had a small epiphany. The school and the people in it were only ever destined to be a small part of my life.

My real life was going to be out in New York saving the world with the Avengers and Spider-Man. And really instead of being angry at Flash I was actually a little grateful to him pointed an important weakness I had. No matter how strong I am as an alien as a human I'm no better than anyone else.

I needed to learn how to protect myself even while in human form mabye learn a martial art?

"Mr.Tennyson."

I could also try and get an armored costume to protect me.

"Mr.Tennyson."

Speaking of costumes I wonder how mine should look?

"Mr.Tennyson!"

The shout snapped me out of it and I looked up to see the whole class staring at me and the teacher standing above me with an angry expression.

"Ah, finaly with us Mr.Tennyson" he said.

The teacher tore into me as the rest of class laughed which did not help out my reputation. After being yelled at the rest of class passed quickly and I was soon onto second period and I realized that me being trashed was already known by everyone in school. I sighed knowing I would never be popular.

By the end of the day I was ready to head home and take a rest. I wanted to see if I could hang out with Peter but, just before the lunch period began a loud police siren blared across the school and Peter dissapeared. So I knew I would be on my own for lunch.

After getting home I threw my backpack to the side and collapsed on the couch. I was getting the feeling that Highschool was going to be more stressful than being a hero was. I only rested for a moment before I opened up my laptop and started searching for the abandoned railyard.

Since Spirer-Man existed in this world then there was a good chance that the railyard existed to since it was where he went to train in his early days. Not long later I found it, it was only a couple miles away and alot larger than I thought it would be.

Besides looking up the railyard I also decided to do research on superhero's to see if I could figure out if Iwas living in any specific story line. And I found something suprising there was barely any information on superheroes at all I could only find stuff about Spider-Man, Ironman, Captain America, and the Hulk.

When I saw the pictures of Tony Stark and Steve Rogers I managed to get a general idea of the world I was living in. It was similar to the Marvel Cinematic Universe where Ironman and Cap looked exactly like their movie counterparts. From what I could tell I was in a pre Avengers time before Loki started working with Thanos.

Another thing I noticed was that even though it was similar it wasn't exactly the same as the MCU for one I existed and for another there was all ready a Spider-Man in this world. In the movies he didn't appear until phase 3 and the Peter I met looked nothing like Tom Holland.

The next couple weeks passed in a flash. I didn't do any superheroing but, I went out and trained every day and not just practicing with my aliens either. I went out jogging everymorning and kept myself on a decent diet and was starting to get a little cut, even though I was still skinny as hell.

I managed to convince my mom to sign me up for an MMA class and went there twice a week. Even after being here for weeks I still felt weird around my mom. I didn't get to see her alot because of her job she worked long hours and sometimes didn't come home at all. When I asked heer about her job all she would say was that it was confidential.

I guess she felt sorry for not being able to spend alot of time with me so she gave me a fairly large allowance each week and I used that to make my first costume. I went online and designed a couple custom shirts that looked like the ones Ben wore in the Omniverse show along with a black leather jacket and motorcycle helmet.

When I put all of it on together it looked really good made me look like a badass superhero. The only problem was that it was a bit awkward to wear that helmet all the time but, that was only a problem in human form when I was an alien it would disappear with the rest of my clothes.

While my superhero life was going well my school life was the exact opposite. First impressions are extremely important and mine was a bad one. I was made fun of alot the first couple weeks it eventually died down a did as people got bored of me, and people just started ignoring me like they did with Peter.

On that note Peter was the only really good thing at school we ate lunch together everyday and sometimes studied together which was really fun because as I found out I was a genius. Apperently the original owner of my body was a super genius with an I.Q. of 170 just a bit below Peter's. We geeked out all the time about all sorts of cutting edge technology and different idea's we were having. All of that was super fun but, it only further cemented my status as a nerd and a loser.

With everything in my life you would think even it my life wasn't perfect I would still be decently happy but, I wasn't no matter what I did and who I talked to there was always this strange feeling of disconnect between me and the world like I was alone even though I was in a city of millions.

I think I was having that feeling because I had no one to I could talk to. I had no friends aside from Peter who I could only hang out with occasionaly because of his job and superheroing and my mom was never home and even if she was I didn't feel safe talking to her.

I mean what would I say? Hi I need to talk to you I stole your son's body and feel really lonely can I have a hug? No I was completely alone and I hated it.

The only times when I was truly happy were when I was an alien it made me forget my troubles and get lost in how amazing it was.

Before I knew it, it was already mid October and I was ready to make my debut as a hero. I even managed to pick a name I knew it was already taken but, that was in the DC universe not the Marvel one. I chose to call myself Impulse it had absolutely nothing to do with my powers but, I wasn't going to call myself something stupid like The Alien or Omniman so I just picked a cool sounding name.

Look out World Impusle is here!