Aliens and Fairies are real?!

It was now the next morning and spirits were high or at least our little group's spirits were high as now they were all eating breakfast courtesy of Bloom's mother

"I can't believe we're letting her go what if she gets hurt" Mike says as Ben just responds by holding up the omnitrix like it was the answer to everything while stuffing his face with pancakes

"Be serious Ben I'm a parent I have to worry about this kind of stuff" Mike replies sounding more serious as Ben just laughs nearly choking but he's eventually able to get some words out

"So? I have 14 kids, and you don't see me worrying about them all the time" Ben says casually as every single person in the room just pauses and then looks over at Ben who's still happily eating his pancakes until he notices everyone staring

"What...did I say something?" He asks innocently he looks around the table acting like he didn't just drop a bombshell on them

"Y-you ARE joking...right?" Bloom asks as Ben just swallows what he was eating before responding

"No, I actually do have 14 Necrofriggian children it's a whole thing where one of my alien's instincts took over, I'll skip over a few details but in the end, I ended up with 14 kids who I love dearly" he says before everyone begins to look around the table to see if the others think this is just Ben making things up

"S-So where are they now" Vanessa asks as Ben looks up in thought for a bit wondering if they'd possible left the planet he left them on

"Well, if Amy's in charge, then they're probably still on that ice covered planet I discovered before I found my way to earth…...If I remember correctly, we found a sign in outer space that said the planet was called Domino" he says as he briefly stops as he tries to remember something only to be interrupted by his train of thought by Stella

"Domino? but I thought that place was a frozen wasteland" Stella says in quite a bit of disbelief since who would leave their kids in such a place, so he quickly activates the Omnitrix as he begins scrolling through his aliens

"One second I just need to find something" he says as he finds the alien he needs and before anyone can question him, he slams down on the core transforming into his Necrofriggian transformation Big Chill

The air suddenly goes cold making some of them shiver but not Big Chill "Necrofriggian's thrive on extremely cold weather plus the huge amount of heated material and lack of predators around the planet makes it the perfect place to raise necrofriggian children" he says before he de-transforms turning back into his human form as he stands up and stretches

"Now, are there any more questions or are we done here?" Ben asks and once everyone shakes their head, he nods quite happy he doesn't have to keep answering questions

"Anyways Bloom are you ready to go?" Stella asks as she sees Bloom is finally done eating as she stands up summoning her staff as Bloom does stand up with her being a bit nervous as she nods

"Promise to call once the school's day is done" her mother says sounding a bit nervous herself

"I promise Mom" Bloom says as the three of them are then teleported away by Stella as her parents are then quiet for a bit just looking at the spot of where their daughter was

"20 bucks she ends up with Ben" Vanessa says trying to lighten the mood as her husband just gives her a look saying, 'really you're making jokes at this time?!'

Eventually the three teens arrive at this large clearing on a cliff overlooking Alfea as other fairies could be seen in the distance also walking towards Alfea

"Welcome to Magix everyone" Stella says as she looks at the two with Bloom just mesmerized at how Alfea looks while Ben is already looking through his Omnitrix playlist trying to find the specific alien he and Stella agreed would be perfect for him to sneak in

"Ben, it looks amazing right" Bloom says as she looks at Ben only for her to get temporary blinded by a green flash of light as Ben transforms

"Huh?! Ben, why did you transform?" Bloom asks as she removes her hand from in front of her eyes only to see this giant dog-like alien that doesn't have eyes….or ears….or a tail...or even a nose he has gills instead HOW did Ben and Stella think this was going to work who knows honestly

"Meet Wildmutt our foolproof plan to sneak Ben in" Stella says sounding very proud of herself

"But Stella....Ben still looks like an alien" Bloom says having a hard time believing this was going to work

"Trust the process now c'mon we're going to be late" Stella says as she turns and begins walking to Alfea with Wildmutt walking beside her

"This is going to be a disaster" Bloom says as she can almost see them being discovered and expelled before the school year can even begin but she has no choice as she follows the two to their likely doom

It takes a bit of walking but eventually they arrive at the front gates of Alfea as Stella stops since she can see a woman in the distance letting people in

"Ok so I was actually supposed to be bringing in a fellow princess but she wasn't able to make it so you can take her place" Stella says as she takes a letter out of her pockets and puts it up to Wildmutt's mouth with him quickly tearing it apart

"But Stella what if they find out I'm not the princess" Bloom asks worriedly as she looks around and surprisingly not a lot of people are paying attention to Wildmutt as they walk past them maybe the occasional glance

"Don't worry about that no one here knows how the princess of Callisto" Stella says as she begins to push Bloom in the direction of the woman

"Hello Ms. Griselda" Stella says innocently like she doesn't have a giant alien dog next to her with Bloom just standing next to her a bit nervous

"Ah Stella of Solaria I'm surprised you came back after last year and let me tell you this now" Griselda says as her tone of voice suddenly goes serious and Bloom fears for the worst at what she's going to say next "All dogs need to be leashed when outside the apartments on school grounds but I guess you get a pass as you didn't have them last year" Griselda says as she looks at Wildmutt like he wasn't missing most features a dog would have

'That worked?!' Bloom thinks in utter disbelief as she looks at the 6-foot-tall alien canine who notices her staring with him just gives her the rock and roll sign while giving her this goofy smile

"And this is?" Griselda asks as her gaze goes from Wildmutt over to Bloom who takes a small nervous look at Stella who just winks at her letting her know she's got this

"This is Varanda the princess of Callisto" Stella says with Griselda just squinting as he looks her up and down before nodding

"Ok go in but Stella remember to put your dog on a leash" Griselda says letting the trio walk in before she attends to the next group of students

"I can't believe that actually work" Bloom whispers to Stella still not quite believing that they were able to sneak Ben in especially how he currently looks

"I told you to trust the process girl" Stella replies sounding quite proud of herself though as they walk past this girl with Magenta colored hair she narrows her eyes at the omnitrix symbol on Wildmutt's collar

'Now why would someone put a high-tech collar on a dog...a tracker maybe?' Tecna thinks to herself before shaking her head since one could just chip a dog and it would do literally the same thing 'No that can't be it...maybe a little magic will help me sort this out" She says as she positions her bag in such a way that it'll hide her hand as she points her finger the symbol as she then opens the palm of her hand as then a holographic version of the omnitrix is displayed on her hand

'So I was right, it wasn't a collar it's a transformation device.....so that isn't a dog it's just some guy' She thinks as she has which is something she's going to have to check on later since she can already see Griselda coming their way

"Attention everyone" Griselda says catching everyone's attention as she then goes on for a few minutes talking about rules which honestly just bores Ben as he just has to sit there having to endure her little speech

"Oh, I hope Ms. Griselda haven't scared you all too much" The headmistress Faragonda says as she walks up with their teachers behind her as she then goes on to warn them about the witches of Cloud Tower which was a warning he was definitely going to ignore since this curiosity was already getting the better of him

"You are all dismissed till dinner time" Faragonda says eventually ending her own speech as Wildmutt lets out a small sigh finally happy to be done with speeches for the day

"Finally, now with that over let's go and check out our apartments" Stella says sounding a bit excited when though she knows she's probably going to be in the same room as last year as the three of them walk into Alfea itself as they walk for a bit until they get to a large double doors that had a small list of the people who were going to stay in the apartment

Stella of Solaria

Musa

Tecna

Flora

Varanda of Callisto

"And we're here" She says as she opens the apartment's front door as Bloom walks in while looking around as she lets out a small 'wow' as they then hear the sharp de-transformation sound and flash of light from ben turning back into human

"Finally, I get to stretch" he says just happy to be able to finally stop being wildmutt as he begins stretching before Stella panics grabbing his arm

"You dummy what if there's someone else here?!" She whispers loudly at him as she pulls him as fast as she can towards her room before pushing him in and closing the door

And almost as if on cue the sound of a door opening is heard from the other side of their apartment as Flora Bloom's new roommate steps out looking around to see what could've made the noise

"Did you girls hear that?" Flora asks sounding a bit confused since there was nothing obvious that could've caused the noise as Stella and Bloom shake their heads while looking at each other nervously

"What noise are you talking about?" Tecna asks while walking into the apartment, who was now decently pleased that she got put in the same apartment as Stella since that would mean she's now got a chance to further investigate what she found out earlier

"What sound there was no sound at all" Stella says nervously getting some weird looks from Flora and Tecna as a click from Stella's room door opening is heard as Ben now having transformed back into Wildmutt slowly comes out sniffing the air before slowly walking over

"Oh, hey there boy" Stella says as she awkwardly pats Wildmutt's head as he just stands there not really sure what to do as then the sound of the front door clicking open is heard

"That's.....a weird looking dog" A voice suddenly says as the 5 of them look over to see Musa just standing there looking at the 5 of them

"Oh, this is Wildmutt...my Solarian dog" Stella says clearing her throat trying to at least sound partially convincing but before anyone can ask any more questions, they then all hear a yell from Flora and Bloom's room as Wildmutt immediately takes off running as he bursts through the door letting out a threatening growl though he stops when he sees a plant holding Kiko upside down

'God dammit Kiko' He thinks while putting his one of his paws over his non-existent eyes while sighing as the girls rush over to see Kiko still yelling with Wildmutt just sitting there like nothings wrong

"Bad plant let go of him now" Flora says causing the plant to let go of Kiko as he lands on Wildmutt's head with him letting out an annoyed grunt

"Don't scold the plant Flora I'm sure it was just defending itself" Bloom says as she gently pets Kiko while looking at the obvious bite mark on one of the plant's leaves

"Hmm….you know how about we go out for dinner tonight as a way to celebrate the new school year" Stella says as she looks around the room as it takes a bit but eventually, they all agree to go

"Yeah, is anyone down for some pizza?" Bloom asks as the other girls look at each other a bit confused

"What's a pizza?" Musa asks a bit curious as Bloom then panics a bit forgetting that there probably isn't pizza in space

"Uh the national dish of Callisto....more or less" Bloom says before all the girls leave the room but not before Stella is able to tell Wildmutt to follow them secretly if he can as then Ben transforms back to being human as he stretches

"Kiko, I leave you in charge of the fort" Ben says as then Kiko salutes him ready to do his duty of protecting the apartment with Ben then activating the omnitrix and transforming into the ghost-like Ectonurite Ghostfreak "see you later" he says in a ghostly voice as he then turns intangible flying through the ceiling in order to follow the girls

It takes a bit, but Ghostfreak is able to follow the bus they got on following them all the way to Magix City where he is able to find an isolated alleyway as he de-transforms returning to being human as he then goes onto the sidewalk before going to go on to look for the girls

"You look disappointed" A voice he quickly recognizes as Musa says in the distance as he speeds up his walking turning the corner to see the 5 girls standing next to the bus stop

"Kinda, I thought this place would have gnomes, dragons, stores with wands" Bloom says while looking around at the futuristic looking city

"Well, Varanda this isn't exactly Diagon Alley" Ben says as he walks up with his hands in his pockets as Tecna immediately spots the omnitrix on his wrist but doesn't say anything

"Ben?! What are you doing here?" she asks sounding surprised while walks up to him since she thought he'd be staying back at Alfea with Kiko

"Huh you know this guy?" Musa asks wondering if maybe he's her boyfriend or something similar since the two seem close

The question makes Bloom panic, so she responds without thinking "oh uh this is my boyfriend Ben" she says as her face immediately after turns red realizing what she just said as Ben just looks stupefied unable to think as the two now look like two tomatoes

"Aww that's sweet you two look like a great couple" Flora says with a smile on her face while Stella just stands there unsure of her feelings as she feels a bit conflicted though she's not sure why since she thinks of Ben only as a friend…..right?

"Then maybe you'd like to join us for dinner" Tecna says since if he accepts then this could be her chance to ask him about the device on his wrist

The question snaps him out of it as he quickly nods "Yeah I'd love to, is that ok Varanda?" Ben asks while looking down at Bloom who looks up at him surprised before looking away

"I….sure you can join us" She says unable to make eye contact him as they all then begin walking away but unfortunately someone else sees them

"Wait, was that who I think it was?" Knut the ogre says as he tries to get a better look as the group walks past the shop, he's in as he's able to get a clear look at the omnitrix despite his bad his bad eyesight "Oh no I better call her highness they'll be able to take care of it themselves this time" he says as he quickly pulls out his phone and calls her

Meanwhile back at Cloud Tower, Icy and the rest of the witches are hanging around their apartment until Icy's phone begins ringing "What is it Knut?" Icy says already sounding bitter since she had already been informed about what happened back on Earth and unfortunately, she couldn't exactly blame Knut too much since it was basically guaranteed he'd lose against Tennyson and the others

"What?...are you sure?" Icy asks as she sits up from her bed as he then looks down contemplating something before speaking up "Stay out of sight, if Tennyson even gets a single glance at you it's likely he'll track you down in order to interrogate you whatever you do don't underestimate him" She says before hanging up and beginning to walk around the room while cursing out Ben since he was already trouble when he was off planet but now that he was in Magix things will only get worse from here

"What's up with you?" Darcy asks as she looks up from her phone as she notices Icy pacing around

"What do you fucking think it's Tennyson again he's here on Magix, Knut called me just a few moments ago to tell me he saw him with Stella and a bunch of other Alfea fairies" she says at this point sounding beyond angry since it's like she originally thought their plans are basically doomed just by Ben's existence

"Then let's just ambush and eliminate him as soon as possible" Stormy says as she walks up to the two of them already tired of Ben being mentioned by Icy every few minutes and how he's a threat to their plans

"Oh, sure yeah I'm sure he won't just turn into a god and erase us from existence what wonderful plan" Icy says sarcastically not knowing that Ben will only use Alien X on extremely rare occasions

"Ugh you're impossible when you're like this let's just meet up with Knut later and ask him what he saw, he might be wrong for all we know" Stormy says which Icy reluctantly agrees as that's probably the best thing to do for now 

Meanwhile with the Winx and Ben they've already had dinner with Flora consistently saying that the two make a cute couple which does nothing to help Stella's conflicted feelings on how she feels about Ben and Tecna does try to ask Ben about the device she never really ended getting the chance

"No luck?" Ben asks as he watches Bloom once again try calling her parents but to no avail since she doesn't seem to be getting any kind of cell service

"Maybe regular phones from back....at Callisto don't work here" he says which does intrigue Tecna as she gives Bloom's phone a quick glance

"Where'd you get that thing it's prehistoric" Tecna asks while pointing to Bloom's phone as she ends getting a bit embarrassed since back on Earth it's actually the latest model "Oh I….I'm sorry" Tecna says once she notices Bloom's embarrassment

"Hey c'mon I'm sure we can find some sort of payphone where we can call your parents" Ben says as he grabs Bloom's hand pulling her up from her seat before leading her away

"W-wait Ben!" Bloom says as she can feel her face once again heating up while she's being pulled away as Flora just waves them goodbye

"They make a cute couple" Flora says as she looks around the others who are now looking at Stella who seems distracted as then Tecna puts her hand in front of her face and begins snapping her fingers trying to get her attention

"Huh what?!" Stella says as her eyes widen and looks around panicked but calms down when she realizes where she is

"Are you ok you kind of zoned out?" Musa asks as Stella just sighs before laying her head on the table as her conflicted feelings were getting the best of her

"You like Ben don't you" Tecna asks as she glances in the direction of where Ben and Bloom left before, she gives Stella her full attention once again

She stays quiet for a while "I don't know it's too early to say" she says still sounding conflicted but maybe some time is what she truly needs to get her feelings straight

"Speaking of Ben, they've been gone for a long time maybe we should look for them" Flora suggests while standing up since she was a bit worried about them as the 4 girls then go off to find them

While the 4 girls where having that conversation Bloom and Ben had spotted Knut while Bloom was calling her parents so now the two where following Knut from a distance

"Do you see him?" Bloom asks as she's behind Ben who's peeking around the corner as he then makes a quick motion for her to follow him as they follow Knut into a dark alleyway with them hiding behind some boxes

"He must be meeting up with the people who hired him to go after Stella" he says as his hand goes down as he activates the omnitrix as he scrolls through his alien playlist ready in case something bad happens

Knut stands there for a bit until Ben feels an odd presence behind him as he then without thinking slams down on the core as the alleyway is filled with green light before he grabs at what he expects to be air only for his hand to wrap around the throat of an invisible person as he then throws them down the alleyway crashing into Knut

"Darcy!" Icy yells surprised as she looks down the alleyway only to see the conductoid Feedback standing there while making his tail occasionally strike the ground creating small sparks "Tennyson" she says quietly before she fires a couple of ice shards at him only for him fire electricity at them obliterating the shards

"I can see why you were so panicked about him!" Stormy says firing lighting at him only for Feedback to take in that electricity and fire it back at Stormy sending her flying against the wall behind her making a few cracks appear on the wall

As Ben's busy fighting the witches Bloom really doesn't have much choice but to stay back at least that is until one of them manages to surprise him as he's sent sliding back crashing into a wall behind him as he drops down on one knee de-transforming

"Ben!" She says as she runs over to check up on him as they then hear a bunch of footsteps heading their direction and as she turns to look and she sees Stella along with the others

"Ben, Bloom are you two alright?" Stella asks worriedly as she and the others get to them with her checking over Ben and thankfully, he's not bleeding just winded

"So that's the great Ben Tennyson honestly I thought he'd be more difficult to deal with" Darcy says like she wasn't thrown like a ragdoll a few moments earlier

"Yeah, you keep on talking" Ben says as he gets back up cracking his knuckles as he then activates the omnitrix and scrolls until he finds wildmutt "I just hope you're ready for an Ultimate beatdown!" He says as he slams down on the core transforming into Wildmutt as he lets out a roar in the direction of the witches

"Wait Wildmutt?!" The others minus Tecna yell as they look at Bloom and Stella who look away trying to find an explanation but finding none that would actually be believable

"I swear to you girls we will explain everything later" Stella says as they then see ben lift up his paw and just as he's going to slam it onto the omnitrix symbol on his collar trying to activate something his paw is suddenly stopped at the last second by Flora

"Ben stops whatever your about to do, please there's no need to fight anymore" Flora says as Wildmutt stops for a few moments contemplating on what he should do as a few moments later he lets out a small grunt agreeing with her before he de-transforms returning to his human form while looking at Stella

"Stella gets us out of here before those witches try anything" he says as immediately after he says that Stella summons her scepter and then slams it into the ground teleporting everyone away

A few moments later everyone re-appears on the other side of the city as it takes a moment for everyone to regain their bearings after being teleported

"Great now that we're done with that….would you three care to start explaining?" Tecna asks she looks at the three of them who look at each other nervously before Stella sighs deciding to take the lead

"I might've stretched the truth...just a tiny bit I'll explain on the way back to Alfea" Stella says as all 6 of them begin making their way back to Alfea all the while Stella is explaining who Ben and Bloom really are

It takes them a good hour or two to make it back to Alfea and they're now beyond late past curfew by as Ben who had once again transformed into Wildmutt sniffs the air before letting out a grunt to let them know the coast is clear but before they even make it halfway to the front door from the gate a voice suddenly speaks up and light is shined on them

"Where were you? Do you know what time it is?" Griselda says as she and Faragonda walk up to them with Wildmutt nervously taking a step back

"Ladies we were worried sick now all of you off to bed" Faragonda says and as they begin to walk back to their apartment Wildmutt and Bloom are stopped

"Not so fast the two of you…...Princess Varanda isn't there something you need to explain and that goes for you two mister" Griselda says as Wildmutt and Bloom look at each other before a green flash of light is seen as he de-transform

"Alright my real name's Bloom and this is Ben" Bloom says as Ben just awkwardly waves at them really unsure what to do

"I hope you two know what this means lying to us and sneaking a boy in" Griselda begins saying only to be stopped by Faragonda

"Oh I'm sure we can work something out and Ben can stay here but Ben please come by my office tomorrow I need to speak to you about something" Faragonda says as she just laughs at Ben and Bloom's surprised expressions as they expected Bloom to have been expelled immediately "now all of you to bed tomorrow's a new day after all" she continues letting the 6 of them walk away as they begin to talk rapidly at how in the world Bloom and Ben got away with it

"Why did you let them stay? I understand Bloom as she's a fairy from earth but the boy?" Griselda asks a bit curious as to why she let him stay

"Let's just say a man called Paradox told me he would come one day" Faragonda says as she just watches the group eventually disappear inside of the school building before she turns and begins walking in the direction of her office to contact this so-called Paradox

"I still can't believe they let you two stay" Tecna says as they're all in Stella's room with Ben just lying on the bed lazily with Bloom sitting next to him

"I know right I honestly I thought it was over for us" Bloom says she looks at Ben who's messing around with the omnitrix with it making occasional beeps as he messes with the buttons since the first time, he did so he unlocked master control when he did the same with the prototype

"What are you doing?" Tecna asks curiously as she notices Ben randomly switching functions without even letting them pop up and the reason, she knew this was because of her scanning the omnitrix earlier

"Oh, before I got the complete Omnitrix I wore the prototype which after messing with it allowed me to use master control so I could switch aliens with just a thought and currently I'm trying to do the same" He says and Tecna wonders to herself how he could mess with a device that for all he knows could have a self-destruct feature but then again he seems to be familiar with it

Well, I'm going to sleep night girls" Musa says letting out a yawn and walking out as the rest talk for a bit before going to bed themselves with Ben ending up sleeping on the couch they have in their apartment since he didn't want to sleep on the same bed as Stella since it would be just plain awkward

Even as Ben lays there he can't seem to catch any sleep as minutes turn into hours with at least 2 passing before he just sight as he lifts up his left arm looking at the omnitrix before he taps it making the alien playlist pop up and then he gets to thinking with his face being illuminated by the soft green glow of the watch like device

'Wait if Bloom's a fairy and fairies are considered to be a separate species from humans...I wonder' He thinks as he looks away from the omnitrix over to Bloom and Flora's room door and he wonders if maybe by scanning one of them...he would also become.... a fairy