Idleness (Open)

[bears-omnitrix.livejournal.com]

Lately Ben had been kind of restless, and thus had been buzzing around the city. It was way too quiet with everything going on, and as much as he hated being idle, there was really no helping it at times.

He had gotten a RideVendor remote from Philip and had taken out one of the cycles for a spin. A few false starts and he was roaring around the city at a breakneck pace before pulling up to the park. Removing his helmet, he brushed his hair of sweat. "I really like motorcycles," he declared to no one as he got off and began to do a few warm ups.

While training in the sensoriums was always fun, he was often finding himself preferring the city more and more, and he selected an alien from his watch, an old standby favorite.

"CANNONBOLT!" yelled Ben as he began to roll and bounce all over the place.

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[gi-ant-man.livejournal.com]

Hank was still out exploring the city, and was walking towards the park when he heard a rumbling.

"What's that noise?" Hank turns around to see a giant ball hurtling towards him. Hank give a gasp, and pushes the button on his belt just in time to become Giant-Man. He catches the bouncing ball which an "Oof!" and it pushes him back a bit.

Hank inspects the strange sphere in his hands. "It resembles a pill bug..."

[bears-omnitrix.livejournal.com]

"Whoa man sorry about that," said Cannonbolt, still rolled up. "Mind putting me down so I can unfurl?"

[gi-ant-man.livejournal.com]

"Ah, it talks. Why am I not surprised." Hank sets Cannonbolt down on the ground.

"Seems like every minute I find something new."

[bears-omnitrix.livejournal.com]

Unfurling, Cannonbolt looked p at Hank, arching what would be a forehead crest or eyebrow. "Man you're tall. You have a superpower I take it?"

[gi-ant-man.livejournal.com]

"Sort of." Hank pushes his belt and shrinks back down to normal. "It's all in the belt. You have some interesting abilities as well."

[bears-omnitrix.livejournal.com]

In a flash of green light, Ben's normal again. Or as normal as he gets anyhow. "Yeah it's all in the watch for me. I'm Ben Tennyson."

[gi-ant-man.livejournal.com]

"Fascinating. I'm Doctor Hank Pym." Hank says and extends his hand to shake. "So, the watch is able to rapidly cause a metamorphosis, and apparently displace mass. How does it work?"

[bears-omnitrix.livejournal.com]

Ben shook and made a shrugging motion. "I'm not entirely sure, but I got the gist of it. It's linked up to an artificial world called Primus, embedded in my watch via some kind of technology created by the Galvans. From here, this is sort of the remote, and allows me to change my entire biological structure into an alien race."

[gi-ant-man.livejournal.com]

"I see. One more thing I'll have to study." Hank takes out a little notepad and makes a little note. "What is it called? I've only ever been able to study alien technology a few times. Before now, of course."

[8wings.livejournal.com]

There was a giant yellow and black sphere rolling down the city street. Noisily. Sentiently?

Anwei (who was only looking for more pens to put in Howard's desk) swiftly side-stepped into the doorway of a nearby building, mentally preparing a message for Security. This reminded her a bit too much of Kain.

"Who are you?" she said, a little challengingly.

[bears-omnitrix.livejournal.com]

Said sphere paused in his rolling and unfurled into the sort of pill-bug like Cannonbolt. "Er, I come in peace?" inquired Cannonbolt. "Don't call security or anything, I'm just having some fun. I'm a crewmate, for reals."

[8wings.livejournal.com]

"Ah, did you just arrive in the last podpop? I don't recognize you." That might make sense; a sentient this large might have been directed into the ship via a different channel.

If so, Anwei wanted to go point a video camera at that channel, if not simply seal it up.

[bears-omnitrix.livejournal.com]

"Naw, I've been here for a long time now," replied Cannonbolt, touching the device on his forehead and in a flash of light, changed back into Ben. "Ben Tennyson. I've been here for a long while."

[8wings.livejournal.com]

Anwei heard a distant cry in the back of her mind, as though the laws of physics had cried out in pain but were suddenly silenced. She ignored the cry; she was hearing it too often, here.

"I'm Anwei Ayles. I've only been here a few months." She blinked at him, mentally comparing the green-eyed young man to the rolling ball to the black-and-white bipedal giant. "You have quite the talent, there."

[bears-omnitrix.livejournal.com]

"Ah that's really not me, it's the Ultimatrix here." He held up his wrist to show it off. "With it, someone can become an alien, and assume their biological powers. Level 20 Alien Tech, the only one in existence."

[8wings.livejournal.com]

She touched two fingers to her lips, rather alarmed. "Do you also take on their biological vulnerabilities? Could you catch an alien disease and be harmed by it?"

She was picturing going among, say, a pack of lopench'n and changing into one of them, giving them all some sickness, and then changing back. A time bomb, just waiting to be used.

Of course, she didn't like lopench'n. Really, who did?

[bears-omnitrix.livejournal.com]

"As far as I can tell, I'm protected from disease when I'm in any form." Not to pregnancy, he added silently, remembering the Big Chill incident. "And I can head into space too. The only disease I've known to catch are earth-borne ones. Like a cold or flu, but that's normal for me."

[hatngartersnake.livejournal.com]

"Grife!"

Jeka dodged out of the way of the giant ricocheting thing as it flew past her. She didn't sense any hostility, from it or in the surrounding area, and she also didn't feel any fear. It didn't seem like an attack...

"Hey, watch it!"

[bears-omnitrix.livejournal.com]

Skidding around and unfurling, Cannonbolt waved at Jeka. "Sorry bout that. I've been running into so many people lately."

[hatngartersnake.livejournal.com]

"Probably because you're bouncing around in an area where people like to hang out," Jeka pointed out irritably, crossing her arms over her chest. "At least put up some sprocking signs or rope or something so you don't crush anyone while you're playing or training or whatever it is you're doing."

[bears-omnitrix.livejournal.com]

"... Excuse me but did you just say sprocking? You learn that from Nura?" inquired Cannonbolt, completely refocusing on something else.

[hatngartersnake.livejournal.com]

Jeka doesn't roll her eyes, but only because she's had a lot of training in etiquette and that would be very rude. "No, it's a swear word in Interlac that Stacy can't translate properly. The Nura who was running around is from a different timeline than I'm from, we just speak the same language because Interlac is the common language of the late thirtieth- and early thirty-first centuries. And you're changing the subject."

[bears-omnitrix.livejournal.com]

"Yeah I do that sometimes," replied Cannonbolt, transforming back into Ben. "I get distracted really easily at times. But in any case sorry for almost running you over and all."

[hatngartersnake.livejournal.com]

Well, that explained why she hadn't seen that particular species on board before. She'd been worried she was losing her touch at gathering intelligence.

"Thank you," she said. "Signs or rope or something would still be a better idea though, I would imagine that you'd hate to accidentally hurt someone because they didn't know you were training in the area."

[bears-omnitrix.livejournal.com]

"That's true. I usually haven;t done this in a while too so I don't pay attention at times." said Ben.