Chapter 231: Ben 10 (3)

Chapter 231: Ben 10 (3)

~Third POV~

[New Orleans, Earth]

Mash spent most of his time searching around the place before the fated time where the Tennysons would be till he found the iconic vehicle. The Rustbucket knowing this waited till it was time for him to get charms of bezel first before doing anything else.

It was in the later night of New Orleans as the Tennysons just entered the of witchcraft soon followed by Mash acting interested in the scene before him. He then put his [Presence Concealment] to the max making him look as normal as possible.

He was hiding his true intent for later when Hex shows up as he begins to prepare himself away from the spot in the show he remembers as best as he could to get ready for the upcoming problem ahead.

Ben is looking through a tribal mask, while Gwen and Grandpa Max are with an elderly female tour guide. The guide describes a book in a display case called the Archamada Book of Spells, said to contain exceedingly strong ancient spells, rituals, witchcraft, and incantations, dating back to the sixteenth century.

Remembering the book Mash looks calmly at the book as he raises his Moon Cell bracelet scanning the contents of the book as he thinks in a curious tone, 'Hmm… I think I'll take the book when no one is looking. I mean it is a powerful magical artifact so why not?'

Ignoring the book, he continues to listen to the guide explaining the Archamada Book, as Gwen repeats her words perfectly. The guide says that Gwen should work at the museum.

After she walks off, Ben makes Gwen feel better by saying that she's probably older than the book itself and makes a face to illustrate that fact whispering to her, "Don't let mummy-face get to you, she's probably older than that spellbook."

*Shiii*

Gwen laughs at this considering the situation as suddenly, everyone is suddenly lifted off the ground and pinned to the ceiling. Max makes the obvious observation that this isn't part of the tour reaching for his kids.

Mash for his part felt mild annoyance from it but came prepared just for the occasion just waiting for itself to happen as he looked out he thought to himself happily, 'Ahh… finally. I was wondering when the mean old wizard of the magic land would come out to play.'

From a window, a stream of red smoke passes through and materializes into a man who is wearing a red-and-black-colored robe. He carries a wooden staff with a bird's head, and a necklace with dozens of magical and mystical charms on it.

The man in question is named Hex a magician.

*Crack*

As he breaks the bookcase with a verbal spell, the man calls the book to him, he then begins to speak as if he already won in an arrogant tone, "The Archamada book of Spells... All of its power shall soon be mine!"

With the magician focused on the book, Ben prepares to activate the Omnitrix. Before he can do so, however, the man stops whatever is pinning them to the ceiling, causing them to plummet.

Mash seeing this prepares to fall on the ground by crouching his legs into position as he begins to land down as he does so rolls on the ground commenting in a whisper under his breath in a neutral tone, "And I stick the landing. I should get a 10 out of 10 for my landing that way."

*Shiiii*

Not needing to look further or get ready he sees a flash of green light behind his body a smirk appears on his face as he thinks to himself excitedly, 'About time the kid finally gets into the business of things. It's so cool seeing him transform as a kid but seeing is believing as they say.'

*Blink*

Luckily, Ben transforms into XLR8 and gets ahead of everyone. He ties off a large hanging banner to act as the slide, catching everyone before they fall on the ground. He orders them all to go outside, "Everyone gets, out!!"

Luckily though Mash made sure to move away from them as he closely followed the action and ignored what Ben said shaking his head as he began to mutter to himself quietly in a whisper, "Yeah… no way I'm missing this chance. This will be my only chance before I get going on my plans. Everything needs to work just on time."

Max warns him to be careful since he does not know what the man Hex is capable of in a concerned voice said in a concerned tone, "Ben, be careful. You don't know what tricks he's got up his sleeve."

Hearing the voice of concern Ben as XLR8 began to move Hex stands facing Ben, as his 2nd Charm activates. He holds up his staff and recites an incantation, causing flames to erupt from the staff, setting the tapestry alight.

As XLR8 runs up walls to avoid the flames, shards of red crystals fire out from the staff, which also shoots a blinding light at Ben. But it was all in vain not landing any direct blows in the process.

*Pew*

*Bam*

*Crash*

The attack lands when XLR8 tries to face Hex head-on, he's met with a bright light from Hex's staff, causing him to slide by and slam into some cases on the wall. As Hex turns to finish him off, he's hit with a couple of trash cans thrown by Gwen and Max.

Hex growls annoyed as Gwen responds in an awkward tone, "I guess we got his attention…"

Max then replies next to her seeing Hex begin to get their attention in regret, "Kind of wish we hadn't now."

*Swoosh*

Though they regret doing so in hindsight Hex uses his power to throw them across the room as Mash carefully avoids the fight beginning to get closer to where when one of the charms falls off from the ground patiently thinking, 'Now come on! I just must wait this fight for them to be done and I will be good as gone but not before dealing Hex a fatal blow. No need for an angry psychopath mage ruining my hopes and dreams.'

*Swoosh*

Luckily, for Mash XLR8 gets back up and surprises Hex, encircling in a blur of motion and hitting him until he loses consciousness.

*Bam***Bam**Bam*

*Bam**Bam**Bam*

During the fight, one of the charms is knocked away and Mash takes this chance to get the charms as Hex was getting the shit beaten out of him as he collected one of the charms and grins happily but makes sure to keep his hoodie hide his face.

But he quickly moved away from the scene as he got, fortunately, thanks to charm increasing his luck to stupid levels. His eyes widened in disbelief at its capabilities reading the description.

*Thud*

A large thud sound resonated from the attack as Hex was sent flying to where luckily it was next to Mash. XLR8 began to gloat about his win in an arrogant tone, "Just doing what I need to do and keeping it low-key kicking bad guys but."

At that moment by pure chance of luck, XLR8 was distracted long enough to see a crowd of people begin to come back inside. Mash took the rest of the Charms of Bezel inside his pocket as he held one for Telekinesis and activated it by the charm glowing.

He grinned as he immediately took the chance taking all the Charms from Hex and the book taking the chance. Even ensuring tapping his face as he licked his hand activating the Authority of Gluttony, [Gluttony] eliminating any memory of him gaining the skills and wisdom needed.

Upon taking them he did a quick inspection of the items he achieved. He was gladly happy when he used [TOOS] to see their descriptions for each item.

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Item: Archamada Book of Magic

Rarity Item: S

Type: Book

Description: The Archamada Book of Magic, also known as the Archamada Book of Spells, is a spell book. It dates to the 16th century and contains powerful magic spells, rituals, incantations, and witchcraft that, when wielded by someone holding the Charms of Bezel, grants the wielder unlimited power.

Item: Charm of Luck

Rarity Item: S

Type: Charm

Description: The Charm of Luck grants the wielder supernaturally good luck. This causes anything and everything to go their way, but only if there is a possibility of it going their way in the first place. It makes all of the possessor's endeavors succeed in a good way. However, any opponents that may happen to be nearby suffer from increased misfortune. (+100 LUCK)

Item: Charm of Reincarnation

Rarity Item: S

Type: Charm

Description: The Charm of Reincarnation returns its host to life or makes them recover from physical wounds and injuries and regain consciousness if the user is unconscious (after a short amount of time).

Item: Charm of Fire

Rarity Item: S

Type: Charm

Description: The Charm of Fire grants its host the ability to magically generate, blast, and telekinetically manipulate fire.

Item: Charm of Telekinesis

Rarity Item: S

Type: Charm

Description: The Charm of Telekinesis (also known as the Charm of Levitation) allows the wielder to fly at incredible speeds and also have great telekinetic control and manipulation over multiple objects or people all at once.

Item: Charm of Electricity

Rarity Item: S

Type: Charm

Description: Much like the Charm of Fire, the Charm of Electricity grants the wielder the ability to create, generate, control, and manipulate all forms of electrical energy at will.

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Mash smirked seeing this as the crowd where they originated from began to get closer acting all happy taking out his flip phone as he took photos of XLR8 and boasted to the crowd in an arrogant tone, "Who's your hero, everyone!"

Seeing this chance Mash immediately revealed he openly stole the book in an arrogant tone getting XLR8 attention with a slow clapping, "Well done wielder of the Omnitrix. You have done my job perfectly well hindering Hex."

XLR8 blinked seeing another villain appear as he raised his raptor-like claws announcing in a confident tone, "Oh? Didn't you see what happened when I dealt with that wizard wanna-be? Want to go around with me didn't you see what I did to the last guy? If you know what's good for you return the stolen nerd book or get your butt kicked by me."

Mash simply smirked levitating using the Charm of Telekinesis as he did a mock bow in an arrogant tone, "You stop me? If that's the case… come get me big boy."

*Swoooosh*

Leaving the scene flying away and igniting Ben's hero spirit and cocky attitude. Without a second thought Ben as XLR8 dashed outside of town to capture him, "Heh. This will be easy peasy lemon squeezy for a hero like me. It's hero time!"