A Certain Scientific Omnitrix: Tokiwadai (book 1)

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After the next week, Ben grew more popular than he cared to like or admit.  Frankly, after the situation with Kongou, Ben found half the girls in the school population was enthralled with him, while the other half wanted to break his bones for humiliating one of their best school representatives.

In fact, Ben felt a lot more eyes on him every time he had class now, plenty more than being the only boy there warranted.

Mikoto, who was used to attention, was skilled at ignoring it all. However, Ben, found himself sweating more and more..

He never knew girls could be like a pack of ferocious tigers, waiting to pounce on an unsuspecting victim. 

Well, he had suspected ever since he met Kuroko, but he never expected to have his suspicions confirmed so brutally.

Pierce seemed still seemed to think that Ben was in heaven. And maybe if Ben wasn't so madly in love with Mikoto, he would be. Most of the girls in Tokiwadai were incredibly good looking (Owing to the school's very respectable athletics program).  But Ben right now figured the only good side to this was being close to his girlfriend. 

Of course, it also meant being near Kuroko longer than his usual Judgement Office duties.. which could end up with his severed head on a stake somewhere.

This thought set Ben on edge, and he found himself very jumpy, even going as far as to turn into Swampfire and obliterate a few desks when one of his new classmates tapped him on the shoulder.

However, things got a little more hectic around the 3rd week.

"A Harry Potter Club?" Ben muttered, looking at the bulletin board in the hallway. "Really? That doesn't sound really academic."

"Why does it need to be academic?" Mikoto said. 

"Well, back in my old Bellwood school, we had to prove something was academically related before forming a club."

Mikoto chuckled. "In Academy City, you can form a club for anything at any time for any reason. For instance, if somebody acquired a mech suit from Academy City's abandoned military site, they can keep it in a hanger here and form a club solely for maintaining the device."

"You're kidding! Really!?" said Ben.

"It's all about having a large enough influence to make sure people support your club." said Mikoto. "I have it easy since I'm the Ace of Tokiwadai and all that, and so does Misaki whose got an entire club made of her personal groupies that follow her. With your current influence as the guy who beat Impulser.. I think you might be able to make something."

Ben grinned. "Wow! My own club! Hmm! I'll make something awesome! Something everybody here could get into!"

2 hours later, Ben was standing in a small club room filled with posters of Mr. Smoothie ads, laughing. "WELCOME TO THE DAWN OF THE MR. SMOOTHIE CLUB!!!"

"Neh.." Mikoto's eye twitched as a bead of seat trailed down her forehead. "I was.. expecting something different when you made that speech earlier.. then again, I guess I shouldn't have been surprised.

"Smoothies.. SMOOTHIES!!" Ben exclaimed. "Finally, after years of Mr. Chadwick telling me 'No Ben, Smoothies have nothing to do with academics' I can call him up and laugh in his face!!"

Ben took out his cellphone and dialed a number. "Hey! yeah? Mr. Chadwick, it's Ben Tennyson.. yeah remember when you told me that I'd never get a Mr. Smoothie Club? Well guess where I'm calling from...  A CLUB ROOM SUCKER!!!!! HAAAAAHAAAAHAAAA!!!"

Ben closed his phone and started doing a little dance as Mikoto began to laugh. 

"Alright, that's enough rejoicing, you still only have 2 members." said Mikoto. "Which is pretty much me and you. If you want to get the word out before the club dies of underfunding, you'd better start posting notices on the bulletin boards and school website."