CH 16: Master Control (E3)

(A/N: E.N.D won't show after this episode for a while, by the way. But when they do, you're going to love why they're around.)

"You may be the cocky part," N glared at E :"And arguably the evil part, but don't you freaking dare mess up the damn watch. Just Ben doing it is enough to raise my blood pressure, I don't need to see another person doing it."

Seeing that even D was giving a disapproving look, shaking his head in disappointment, his wild smirk turned apologetic :"Alright, sorry, I got excited there for a second." Letting go with a serious, all three of them transformed into the needed alien. Brainiac the Galvan.

"This one's lame." Said Zak, unimpressed and bored :"It's so tiny! What can it even do?" And Null felt veins popping on his little forehead. His separated personality had been separated accordingly: bad and evilness to E, positiveness and goodness to D.

So what was left for E? Simple, Alistair's passion and dreams. His emotions had been left for E and D, while his logic and interests had been left for N. So hearing Zak diss the alien that was one of his favorites, because it was the best at getting the job done when it came to his passion, technology, annoyed him to the point where he barely held himself back from jumping on him and crawling down his throat to rip apart all his organs.

'No, no, calm down, N.' He took a deep breath :'You're supposed to be the logical one. You can't kill someone just because they're so utterly fucking retarded that would be disowned if they're parents didn't have so much patience. Just take a deep breath, and ignore the retard who's going to get his mom spit roasted later on.'

Beside him, E chuckled. Knowing exactly why he looked like he was ready to kill someone. It was amusing. "Alright, let's start. D?" N rubbed his head, habitually trying to push his hair back whenever he felt annoyed when he realized he didn't have any at the moment.

Nodding, Devotion turned around, showing them the Nemetrix symbol on his back. E and N didn't waste time. They poked the Nemetrix, causing its lid to open. And in the shocked eyes of the Tennysons, they started messing around with the internal structure of the alien device.

"We do this."

"Then this."

"Press that?"

"Press that."

"Turn this."

"What about this one?"

"Hmm, that's... oh, do this."

After working on the Nemetrix for a minute or so, careful in messing with it, they finally dusted off their hands and closed the lids :"Alright, that should do it. D, would you, please?" He nodded, before E and N felt like they were hit by the full force of a flash bang.

Without even touching the Nemetrix, the place suddenly lit up in red and D appeared in his human form. Looking down at his hands and checking his body, he smiled brightly at his two counterparts :"It worked!"

"It worked!" The two raised their hands excitedly. "Whoa, what did you do?!" Ben asked in shock. A shock he shared with his grandpa and cousin. But D cut him off :"Sorry, Ben, we'll answer in a bit, alright? Just give us a moment."

"Can you transform a few times?" N asked after rubbing his eyes, and D nodded excitedly. Once again, without even looking at the Nemetrix, much less touching it, the red light appeared and disappeared to show Wynter :"It works!" And without even transforming back, turned into MantAstral :"It actually works!" And again, for Remix to make an entrance :"It seriously works!"

"..." Looking at each other, they raised their arms to the sky :"Huzzah! My intelligence triumphs once again!" E turned to D with a giant smirk, hiding numerous mischievous plans behind it :"Come on, transform back into Brainiac so we can unlock it too!"

He didn't hesitate. Transforming straight from Remix to Brainiac, N taught him what to do on E's Nemetrix. And knowing what to do already, they were finished even faster. After E also did a bit of testing in front of the flabbergasted Tennysons, they did the same with N.

Once they checked that everything had gone according to the plan, they smiled meaningfully at each other. Transforming back into Remix, —the feeling of doing so without even touching the Nemetrix, just with thoughts, being amazingly satisfying— they fused into one.

With just one Remix remaining, —his smirk gigantic— he turned back with but a thought. "Huzzah, baby, it worked! As expected of me! I'm a freaking genius!" But Ben had to ruin his moment :"Seriously, what did you do?!"

He huffed through his teeth, frowning at Ben :"Seriously, Ben, you couldn't let me enjoy my achievement for a second?" Pushing his black hair back, satisfied with not being bald anymore, he smirked at his friend :"Simple, I just unlocked what I'd like to call Master Control. Use Brainiac's brain to hack the watch and remove the limiter. Basically, no limits anymore. As you just saw, I can do whatever I want now. Transform by just thinking it, transform between transformations, and best of all, I no longer have a time limit! Pretty cool, right?"

"Wait, seriously?!" Ben's mouth fell right open, cartoonishly shocked before his eyes lighted up :"Do mine next?! Please, Al, please?! You promised to help me with mine too, right?!"

"Hmm, I don't remember promising anything." Folding his arms, he smiled teasingly :"And besides, helping doesn't exactly mean unlocking your watch's full power." Ben already knew he was planning to help him. It was obvious with his little smirk.

And besides, as wild and messed up he was in a fight, Ben knew Alistair was a huge softie to his friends. With a big and impatient smile, he stood behind him, rubbing his shoulders :"Come on, Al! You're really going to leave me hanging and now unlock that function for me after showing me how awesome it is? Will you really be such a jerk to your best friend?"

"Alright, alright." Alistair chuckled, rolling his eyes in amusement :"Come sit down." And Ben obeyed with such speed and impatience that pulled a laughter from the others. With a red flash, Alistair turned into Brainiac.

Just as he jumped on Ben's wrist, Max called out to him :"Wait, Alistair!" Getting his attention, Max continued :"Are you sure this is a good idea? You've said it yourself, the time limit might be there for a reason. Nothing bad will happen to you two, right?"

"Nothing to worry about as long as we've got self control. And Ben, I'm serious about having self control, alright?" Brainiac smiled, before narrowing his eyes at Ben :"If I'm going to unlock Master Control for you, I need you to promise me something. You will not be in your alien forms 24/7, alright? Just like, you'll only do it for a few minutes whenever you transform."

"Aww, but why?" Ben whined, causing him to glare :"Because of reasons that you wouldn't understand even if I told you. If you're in a transformed state for far too long, your own DNA will start to change gradually. Would you like to be stuck as a human/alien hybrid freak?

What would you do if you turned into a human/Wildmutt hybrid, huh? Would you like it if you lost your sight? What about turning into a human/Stinkfly hybrid? Would you like it if sticky, slimy spit constantly oozed out of your eyes?"

"Ugh..." Everybody groaned. Especially the Saturdays, who hadn't seen Stinkfly yet. Drew nearly gagged :"I really don't think I want to see this Stinkfly alien."

"Ugh, ew. You had to give the worst possible examples, huh?" Ben cringed before sighing :"Alright, I promise. You're right, out of everything that I'd take my chances with, turning into a freak is not one of them. Especially not one as disgusting as the one you just mentioned. Ugh..."

"Attaboy. Oh, but I'm not doing it for free." He smirked, making Ben frown :"Not for free? Then what do you want me to do?!" Arms folded, the Galvan smirked :"Simple, you need to do all of my chores from now on. Be it when it's my turn to wash the dishes and whatnot, you'll do it for me."

"Deal!" The brunet didn't even think before agreeing. Sure, cleaning everybody's dishes on two people's turns was annoying, but it was nothing compared to being able to transform freely. Ben was honestly afraid of what Alistair was going to ask of him for a moment. They shook hands with smiles.

"Good, now let's transform you." Activating his Omnitrix, Brainiac jumped on when it showed Grey Matter. With a green flash, Grey Matter showed up under Brainiac. Groaning, he glared up :"Can you please get off me for goodness sake?!"

"Sorry, sorry." Brainiac stepped aside, helping Grey Matter up :"Why did you make me transform? Couldn't you do it just like that?" Brainiac shook his head :"No, the watches don't open up like that normally. Only while transformed."

"Oh, well, I'm not complaining." Grey Matter shrugged, before turning around with a smile :"Now come on, partner! Do your magic!" Chuckling, Brainiac got to it. But unlocking the Omnitrix, he noticed something interesting.

'Hmm, his Omnitrix... how can I say it... is less advanced than my Nemetrix? No, should I say less complicated? Well, mine can scan other DNAs, and has an extra Predator Mode, so I guess it's not much of a surprise. But if that's the case, then it's guaranteed that the creator of the Nemetrix is also Azmuth. After all, he's the only one who could make such a complicated device. But why? Something, something in my guts tells me that it wasn't just because of my wish... Oh, well, whatever!'

"Keep still." He slapped Grey Matter's neck when he was being too fidgety. After a little while, Brainiac was done and closed the Omnitrix :"Alright, there you go. Now, just like me, you can transform limitlessly with just a thought."

Ben didn't even say anything. Simply transformed with a giant smile into Diamondhead :"Oh, yeah!" Before turning into XLR8 :"Ooh, yeah!" Then turning into Fourarms :"Oooh, hell yeah! Thanks a lot, Al! Now I REALLY owe you one!"

"You're welcome, partner." Brainiac on his shoulder gave a thumbs up, happy that Ben was excited. He transformed back into Alistair, crossing his legs on the giant's shoulder :"Just don't forget your promise."

"You got it!" Fourarms gave a thumbs up.

"Whoaaa, awesome!" Zak wowed, walking around the Tetramand with stars in his eyes :"This is so cool! Is this the one you called your favorite alien, Ben?!" Smirking smugly, especially when seeing Drew's eyes on him, Fourarms folded his four arms :"Yeah, that's right! And believe me, this dude is awesome!"

"Yeah, I can see why!" He said, Fisk nodding with him as they checked him out. Zak looked at Alistair :"By the way, you didn't say what your favorite alien is, Alistair? Can you transform into it now that you can transform freely?!"

"Hmm, my favorite, huh?" Alistair hummed thoughtfully before smirking :"Sorry, but my favorite transformation is way too huge for me to turn into. It's like my big boss."

"Whoa, even bigger than Ben?" He pointed at Fourarms, causing the noiret to burst into laughter :"Hahahaha! Oh, please! Ben's Fourarms is probably just the size of Flightmare's talon! —Bigger than Ben— man, you can be really funny, Zak."

"Alright, geez, no need to show off so much." Fourarms rolled his eyes, making the noiret snicker :"Why? So it's alright if you're showing off, but I can't?"

Alistair smirked at Zak :"I can't show you my favorite predator, but I can show you my second favorite." Without even asking the Nemetrix to switch Modes, he directly transformed into Predator.

As he growled lightly, Fourarms groaned at the feeling of his claws digging into him :"Aw aw aw, don't transform into something so spikey while on top of me, dude!" Snickering to himself, he jumped off of him, landing beside Drew.