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Chapter 14 - Back to Extintion.

Yes, where the fuck are the guys from the JL? Well, since they operate globally, except maybe Batman since he prefers Gotham most of the time, they have lots of shit to do!

But this is just one of the lazy loopholes many have. If I have to list what everyone's doing, I'll do it.

Joker's loose so Batman's tracking him down.

Wonder Woman is conducting some repairs to her weapons in Themyscira.

Superman is stopping Metallo from stealing a large supply of Kryptonite from one of Luthor's storages.

Flash is trapped in the mirror dimension by Mirror Master and Cyborg is helping him get out.

Green Lantern has a cold.

Green Arrow is investigating a trace of the League of Assassins in his city.

Shazam is sleeping after pulling an all-nighter after playing videogames.

Hawkman and Zatara are tracking down Gentleman Ghost.

Martian Manhunter is off planet.

Aquaman is doing some Sim City shit in Atlantis.

(Section to insert the "ain't that convenient" memes. Go nuts to spam that meme here.)

With that out of the way, we go back to Ben.

[Back with Ben]

Running from rooftop to rooftop, Ben followed the dinosaur's trails he was also smacking the Omnitrix over and over to see if it would recharge faster.

"This is bullcrap, I wanted some dumb sumo cards and somehow I encounter the last doctor I wanted to see, fail to stop him at the supermarket and now I have to deal with lots of dinosaurs at the same time! Also, this mask is starting to stink, like really stink." Ben.

He didn't disliked helping people, he actually liked, it. But doing such job can indeed be bothersome when you're not looking to work for the day. Still, he'd do it.

"Well, at least I'm finally living that "dream life" younger me always wanted. Fricking consciousness." Ben muttered the last part.

*BEEP*

Aa he said that the Omnitrix charged up.

"Fricking Omnitrix, charged up once the bad guy's ahead." Ben complained.

*BOOP*

The Omnitrix went off again.

"NONONONO!!!!!" Ben started to smack the Omnitrix once again.

"Ok, ok! Sorry! Just please give me something that'll help me get there fast AND also will help me defeat the dinosaurs!" Ben.

*BEEP*

The Omnitrix charged up and Ben smacked it.

From the flash of light, Upgrade appeared and stopped moving. He looked over the side and saw some crashed vehicles consequence of the dinosaur stampede.

"Well, you know what they say: A man's trash is another man's treasure!" Upgrade.

He jumped from the building and merged himself with a car before starting to gather all the wrecked parts. The amalgam shifted itself into a powerful 3-meter-tall vehicle with a lot of spikes and weapons, basically a Mad Max Vehicle.

"This is gonna piss off the naturalists, but it's time for another mass extinction." Upgrade started the engine and drove towards Kelly Industries.

[Kelly Industries.]

The good Dr. is now showing off his achievements to a bunch of tourists.

I seriously don't get that, like, why show your workplace to a bunch of random strangers? For money? But he's a fricking renowned scientist owner of (what I assume is) a millionaire company, what gives him more money: Whatever shit he's working on, or acting like a tour guide to his own company? And why do it himself, he can literally pay some guy to do it for him, shit gets really mundane when the rich guy's doing it.

Anyway, the doc and his guests were having a nice time checking the awards Kelly has earned, until a stampede of dinosaurs burst through with Animo riding his apex T-Rex.

Screams echoed as the guests begin to leave the building, Kelly was about to escape as well but the T-Rex cornered him near the awards.

"Kelly! I believe you have something of mine." Dr. Animo states as Kelly looks at him surprised.

"Animo?! What are you doing here!?" Kelly.

"That's Doctor Animo to you, Kelly! I'm here for the award that I deserve!" Animo.

"The committee took their decision that day Animo! Your project had, and accounting the appearance of these Dinosauria, still has flaws." Kelly stated after seeing some of the dinosaurs missing some parts.

"Regardless of what the committee and you think, the reality is that I've reanimated back life! And therefore this award is mine!" Animo jumps off his T-Rex and pushes Kelly away as he grabs the Verities Award.

"Yes...YES!!! My precious…!" Animo said as he hugged the award.

"You're insane Animo! I knew that the moment I met you but I truly thought your investigation had potential to helping humanity." Kelly stated as he got back up.

"Well, as they say, winners make history and you Kelly will be forgotten into the stone age!!!" Animo smirked as Kelly looked frustrated.

(Ready To Die from Andrew WK starts playing.)

Everyone, even the dinosaurs, look at the direction the song was coming from and they see Upgrade in the van speeding towards the building.

Upgrade activates a jump function like that car from Speed Racer. He flies over the dinosaurs and land right besides Animo's T-Rex and in front of Doctor Kelly.

(Music stops here.)

"Well, well, well, a humanitarian being chased down by zombie dinosaurs. There's an irony there but for the love of God, I just can't see it." Upgrade.

"Who dares to meddle!?" Animo asks as the T-Rex repositions himself.

"Oh, well, my fiery friend told me that some jackass was reviving some dinos and asked me for help." Upgrade.

"So, you're allies with that piece of charcoal. No matter, my powerful prehistoric army will destroy both you and Kelly Industries in no time." Animo declared as he rode his T-Rex once again.

"Look Dr. A, I know you feel like hot shit right now but to be honest, this is lazy. I mean, reviving the dead? You DO realized that there's like a billion dumbasses that have tried the same? And don't claim that you've accomplished that, look at all these rip-off zombies here." Upgrade.

"Silence! My geniality won't be denied!" Animo ordered the T-Rex to attack Upgrade.

"Let's hit it." Upgrade resumes "Ready to Die" and unleashes his weapons.

He first shot 4 disks that latched around Dr. Kelly and created a forcefield to protect him.

With Kelly secured Upgrade can finally let loose and "kill" all the dinos around. He started with a sick drift that run over various dinos and splattered their pieces everywhere as Ben was being chased down by Animo.

He then started to shoot out various bullets and explosives that tore apart the dinos one after another, Animo watched in fury as his so-called "army" was being dealt with easily by a rip-off of The Blob.

"Die you abomination!" Animo.

"Nah, Imma keep drifting and killin' your dinos, k? K." Upgrade retorted as he ran over another dinosaur with his spiked wheels.

Meanwhile, Kelly was watching in amusement and concern how much damage the battle was causing, good thing his building wasn't that big, or else it would've been an even greater mess.

'Man, I'm having a blast killing these dinos. Is like a videogame but with a lot more kickass! That being said, Animo spamming the same move over and over again isn't fun, I'm gonna end this soon.' Ben thought as Animo's T-Rex stepped on the vehicle.

"Yes! With that pesky blob out of the way, it's time for you to pay, Kelly." Animo cheered as his T-Rex walks towards the protected Kelly.

"Don't hurt me, you already have the award!" Kelly covered himself as Animo's T-Rex got closer.

"Unfortunately for you Kelly, I stomp away my competition! Attack!" Animo ordered his T-Rex.

The oversized reptile prepared itself to devour the awarded scientist, until he came to a stop just a few inches away from him.

"What?! I order you to kill him, so, KILL HIM!!" Animo ordered once again but the T-Rex didn't responded.

{Sorry, the number you've dialed is disconnected, please leave a message after the beep. BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE….} Upgrade's voice was heard from Animo's Transmodulator.

"Huh?!" Surprised, Animo takes off his Transmodulator and is shocked at its changed appearance.

Instead of looking like a pile of junk it now has a more technological appearance in black and green colors. He also noticed the mark (Omnitrix Symbol) that was in Heatblast when he fought him.

"You…! Release my invention!!!" Animo.

{EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE} Upgrade.

"I'm not kidding fool! Do you have any idea who you're messing with?!" Animo threatened again.

{EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE} Upgrade beeped again.

Animo, in his rage, started to smack the Transmodulator over and over again.

The lenses on the Transmodulator are now acting as a screen and a paperclip with eyes and eyebrows can be seen.

{Hi, looks like you're trying to resurrect the dinosaurs. Would you like my help?} The paperclip asked with a raised eyebrow as the screen shows a "yes" option and a "no" option.

That seemed to have hit a nerve since Animo immediately threw the Transmodulator away in a fit of rage. Upgrade emerged from it as Animo had thrown it and delivered a powerful uppercut right at Animo's chin.

The mad Dr. was sent flying and crashed unto several of his army's corpses. Meanwhile, the Transmodulator crashed against the ground and with it no longer working the dormant cells within each "revived" dinosaur started to decay and they went back into being fossils.

"Well, that was fun and all but I should bail. But before that…" Upgrade.

He went towards the Transmodulator and repaired it before storing it inside his body. He then went towards Dr. Kelly and deactivated the force field.

"Before you even say anything, no. I am not paying for property damage. Goodbye." Upgrade waved and entered his vehicle, not before tying Animo with a net of course.

Dr. Kelly looked around his destroyed home and sighed in defeat before the police finally arrive.

While Kelly was rethinking about what to do with his tax paying money, Upgrade drove all the way under a bridge and finally stopped, not because he wanted, but because…

*BEEP* *BEEP* *BOOP* *BOOP*

That fricking watch has a terrible timing.

*BEEP* *BOOP* *BOOOP* BOOP* *BOOOOOOOOOOP*

Ben returned to his human form and left the vehicle since it was Upgrade-powered and he returned it into scrap to prevents others from using it.

"Well, was nice while it lasted. And I got myself a cool souvenir." Ben proudly wore Dr. Animo's Transmodulator.

"Gotta hand it to the doc, he managed to make this out of trashy items. If he wasn't such a douchebag I might help him… nah! He needs his character development." Ben talked to himself.

He continued to walk through the city, searching for his camper and finally shut the eyes for the night.

Ben then started to think about his future once again.

Animo appearing has confirmed that this is no ordinary DC universe. Which means that there's a Maxwel Tennyson and Gwendolin Tennyson out there. Will he search out for them?

Hell naw!

He's been struggling ever since he's been reincarnated and is "living the dream" of not having any responsibilities. Helping people is more of a side-gig he does because he doesn't want to see bad shit getting worse but it wasn't like he was actively searching for bad guys to stop.

Whichever the case, Ben doesn't feel like handling all that family drama anyway. He has other plans for his life. Like getting some sweet sumo slammers cards and make a top deck for the current meta.

Speaking of priorities, Ben also has to change his "hero" outfit. Especially that clown mask he has. Also, his physical prowess is average at best and so he has to get some fit into himself so, he'll start working some fighting styles.

The last but definitely not least is what he can do about the heroes and villains that are keeping an eye for him. The answer to that? Nothing. Ben doesn't have any means to take care of these situations so, he'll just roll with it until something he definitely can't ignore happens.

"Welp, it seems that today's another Grey-All-Nighter." Ben says as he finally arrived at his parked camper.

He enters it, cooks some eggs with toast and started studying once again.

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