Of Sentience and Predator

C1: The Prey Hunts

Hi uh there's a tumblr for this and I'm doing something weird for this "season" where there's art representing the next chapter. Didn't mention it last time because I basically copy-paste this from FanFic who doesn't like links and I forgot. so here link: https://of-sentience-and-predator-stuff.tumblr.com/

Compared to the near desert that was Sparksville, the forest was so freaking refreshing. The wonderful noise of songbirds, the wind ruffling the trees, and the general atmosphere was amazing. At least, that was what EightEight thought, but looking at the Wyrmlings casually laying in the grass and not saying much, they seemed to agree. It was really peaceful considering what happened with the back-to-back nature surrounding the Ectonurite escape- the bin was down the river now-, Vilgax again, and the Plumber popping up.

EightEight looked at one of the trees, seeing a bird perched on a branch. The bird was a beautiful red with a black face, tail tips, legs, and beak. It flew away and she looked back at the Wyrmlings. They really did ne-

The area and everything around it suddenly gained a grey tint with the exception of Gwen and Ben. Ben reacted first, sitting up and questioning, "Huh? What happened?" Gwen realized soon after and sat up as Ben stood up from the ground.

Ben started to glance around as Gwen stood up and asked, "What caused this?" Ben turned to her and shrugged.

Just then, in a magenta light, something popped into the area in front of them. The creature appeared to be a human with purple skin, elf-like ears, and wearing mostly black clothes with a forearm brace with a similar symbol on it.

The creature quickly noticed them and stared at them. Ben quickly activated the Predatrix as Gwen went up next to him.

"Why do they have the Predatrix symbol on their wrist?" Gwen muttered to Ben. The creature seemed to smile at that as Ben gave a small shrug in reply.

The creature walked up to the grey tinted EightEight and dropped a piece of what seemed like paper in her lap. It then promptly turned to the two, seemingly teleported next to them, then disappeared from the area with the two in toe.

-ed this. EightEight suddenly froze. Wait, when the hell did Ben and Gwen disappear? She stood up before looking towards the ground, seeing a piece of paper that definitely wasn't there before now there. Kevin finally seemed to notice something was wrong as she picked up the paper and read it.

"I am going to fucking have a word with this Chronian when he gets back," EightEight growled, crossing her arms and crunching the paper in a fist.

-()-

Ben and Gwen squawked as they dropped onto the ground. The weird looking human floated behind them before landing. Ben quickly went for the still active Predatrix before the creature said, "Sorry about that, didn't want to mess that up."

Ben quickly snapped his attention towards the creature, as did Gwen when it spoke. The creature laughed before a red light surrounded it and suddenly-

"Wait, you're me?!" Ben yelled, pointing at the other. Gwen shook her head and looked between the two.

The older Ben (future Ben?) was much taller and more muscular than his younger self. His hair was longer than his younger self's, along with having what looked like a braid tucked into it. His clothes seemed similar for a lack of a better term, but clearly different. The older Ben wore a dress robe that was mostly white with black designs on it. From how it looked, the robe was designed to look like a simplified black and white version of the space.

"Not exactly," the older Ben replied. "The name's Ben 10K. And welcome to Omnitrix City." When he lifted his hands to motion to the area in front them, they looked.