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"𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘁𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗹, 𝗵𝘂𝗵?"

He didn't get tired of those reactions. Seeing how people reacted to him transforming was always funny.

"𝗦𝗼, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻?"

The alien put his hands on his hips, ready to see. What powers did those cards had?

"Uh, yeah. Sure."

Snapping back to reality, he tooka smoothie and sip it down in one go.

"Oh, dude. The pumpkin with orange flavour is not bad at all."

That's... What kind of combination was that...?

The simple action of remember that caused Ben to grimance.

"They were even worst than the previous ones. The war of worlds against the Highbreed took a lot off Grandpa, so I covered for him. But I don't think I'm ready for that yet.

I... Have still a lot to learn."

We had our fights... They screwed my life for a long time, until an alien species called the Highbreed invaded the Earth. We had to join forces to made a resistance, and in the end, most of them perished in battle or quitted. That was when the Sacred Knights took over them."

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This time, he sighed remembering what happened.

"My grandpa was the right hand of someone named Sir George, a noble knight who created the Order of Forever Knights. One day, after an event we called The Calamity, he dissapeared and the Forever Knights became corrupt. Basically, the bad guys.

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"Hmn."

Leaving the smoothies besides, the hero actually stroke a pose to think carefully about such important question.

... Oh god, he's seriously doing it. Doesn't seem like he's going to answer soon if this keeps up.

My Grandpa Max was the founder and leader, and since I form part of the 12 important figures there, we each have a codename. Mine's Galahad, and my Grandpa was Arthur... King Arthur. He named me as his replacement for a while, but I'm not cut for those kind of things."

"Long story short..."

As such a good new-friend he was, he proceeded to explain.

"Back home, we have an organization of... Call them space knights, that protect the universe. On Earth, people know us as the Knights of the Round Table, but the rest of the universe knows us as The Plumbers.

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"Funny you mention that. I was king once."

Ben chuckled again a bit. Relaxing like this was nice.

"But not for dorks, that's my cousin. Don't let her find out I said that, though."

Addiction to smoothies? Sounds like him and every Ben in the multiverse.

"Not at all. Dude, every time I find a Sir Smoothies carriage in the market, it always had a new brewing flavour.

Of course I had to try them all! Though, I can say some are better than others."

"Already in the dork stage? Woah, Pokégirl, you go fast!"

He didn't mind the comment, laying on the grass with arms crossed behind his head.

"It's part of my charm, so I can live with that."

And as well the jokes, Ben would show that confident part of his everytime he could.

"Oh, so you're a summoner! Man, you should have started with that."

Many sorcerers back home were quite the specialists in that kind of magic.

"If the public wants to see, who am I to say no?"

Activating the watch, a flame green tornado covered him, turning him into...

"𝗦𝘄𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲!"

Trying to drink everything as fast he could, a big glup was heard as he did.

"Really, man?"

He had no idea what he just did, but he had an idea with Yuji's words.

"I can't have a favorite. They're smoothies! Though Sir Smoothie back home was better."

With a small fiery green tornado, Ben sat on the ground besides her, as the plants made by Wildvine's powers went back under the grass.

"As long you don't mind a little medieval flavour in our friendship, sure thing, Liko."

He chuckled slighty at his own joke. What a doofus.

The scene Yuji could stare at was... Something.

Ben froze in his tracks, holding at least eight different smoothies and sipping from every single one's straws at the same time.

His cheeks were full like he was a squirrel.

The teenager raised an eyebrow. Duel disk? Dueling?

"You duel with... A disk?"

What a weird way of battling...

"It's a magical technologic device that can turn me into multiple aliens. I use to... Well. Transform."

His only eye blinked, having to clear his throat out of the embarassment he felt. You could even seen some greenish blush on his face!

"𝐎𝐡 𝐦𝐚𝐧, 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐡..."

// A quick reminder that, if you all have any doubt about the abilities of this AU's aliens, you can check their strengths and weaknesess here as well their full designs!

And there they went, running for food a smoothies.

At least for Ben, it was the smoothies. Past or present, he was sure the drinks were the best.

Then, the alien chuckle as he looked down at the dial on his belt.

"𝐈 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈'𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞. 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐠𝐮𝐲𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩, 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞.

𝐒𝐨, 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐡. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐰𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞."

The memories of his first encounter of Vilgax practically marked the start of his huge reach in the universe.

"𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞. 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞... 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝."

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At the question, Ben took a few moments of silence, thinking of his answer.

"𝐀𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐰𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞. 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚 𝐤𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞, 𝐈 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐱 𝐡𝐚𝐝."

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"You're speaking my language!"

Getting up with a little jump, Ben grinned.

"We can get some smoothie brewings too!"

Since it was only to thrown him out of his reach, he didn't applied that much strength, only enough.

Seeing him roll made him grin wider, provocating the other with a clear gesture of his hands which translated to 'come on'.

"𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫-𝐌𝐚𝐧? 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐭?"

Seeing the new colors made Ben pause for a moment before a possible explanation ocurred on his mind.

"𝐖𝐚𝐢𝐭, 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰? 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲... 𝐀𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬, 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧?!"

That said, he started to move.

Having stopped in the air, Stinkfly heared those thiwps around. Yet, he didn't expect at all for someone to basically land on his back, making the alien stumble in his flight.

"𝐆𝐚𝐡...! 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝-?!"

His eyes turn around, staring at the spider superhero before squinting at him.

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Staring at her blankly, he softly let the smoothie on the table, offering her an eyes closed smile which... Wasn't really giving happy vibes.

"Spidermonkey flavour. Wanna see?"

// Me reading the whole roast

"You all are being mean to Supergirl. Come on, guys!

She's not dumb, she's just... Silly."

And soon, both were sitted enjoying the smoothies.

With a loud slurp, he stopped and looked at the girl.

"Which flavour do you got?"