Tech 10: Ultimatrix Unleashed/Letter Saboteur Arc

Introduction
Hello, internet journal! My name is Tek No Logical, (well, okay, it's actually Isaac Matthew Logical, but I prefer my code name.) but you can just call me Tech for short! I've started to keep this journal in case something...bad happens to me, so people can review my life and see where I went wrong. You may be wondering what some eleven-year-old kid like me is doing worrying about life and junk, which, yeah, is a pretty fair question.

See, it all started while I was out on one of my daily walks. For a while, it was just a normal stroll, but before I knew it, some sort of pod thing fell out of the sky, almost snapping my neck! Talk about being blindsided by your own mortality!

Anyways, after a few seconds I totally did not spend in the fetal position, I went over to the pod and checked it out. As I approached it, the pod hissed open, revealing a weird green gauntlet. I picked it up, and after looking it over for a bit, realized that it was that Ultimatrix thing that the 'Ben 10' guy on the news had been wearing.

I put it on, and after a few seconds of beeping and clicking, the dial popped up with a hologram of a short, round-ish alien. I tried twisting the dial, but the hologram didn’t change. I hesitated for a bit, but eventually decided to press down on the dial, transforming into the alien.

I turned into something I decided to nickname ‘Psikick’, given his speed and psychic powers. I ran around for a bit, testing out the form, but eventually stopped to actually think about what the heck had just happened. By all accounts none of it made any sense, and i really still haven’t figured any of it out.

Oh, well. Problems for another day, I guess.

Alien 2
Ugh... fighting criminals is harder than I thought.

Probably not my smartest statement, but whatever.

I've stopped a few robberies, caught a few crooks. But the hardest thing I did was stop a kidnapping. These two street punks grabbed a man and threw him into a truck. Seemed like some kind of gang thing.

Fortunately for the kidnapped guy, I was just across the street, getting groceries from the local farmers market, and spotted the incident. I quickly dropped the groceries so they wouldn't be caught in the DNA field when I transformed, (How would I explain telepathic broccoli to my mom?) turning into Psikick and racing across the street after them.

After a couple of minutes of chasing the van, one of the punks noticed me from a side mirror. The punk sitting in the passenger seat leaned out of the window, pulling out a gun and beginning to shoot at me. Most of the shots missed me entirely, and the ones that didn't were caught in a psychic field I had put up in front of me. After the punk ran out of ammo, I used my telekinesis to throw the bullets back at high speed, destroying one of their back tires.

Their van screeched to a halt, the passenger quickly leaping out onto the street, brandishing an inordinately large knife. I ran straight at him, rushing in without a plan, like usual.

This ended about as well as you would expect.

You ever been shanked? It hurts like crap, I can tell you that much right now.

Anyways, I stumbled backwards, reeling from the pain in my shoulder. The punk advanced, and since I wasn't able to concentrate, I wasn't able to do anything about it except realize how much of an idiot I was. This was real life, after all, and things tended not to turn out like in your average ‘hero fantasy’.

Suddenly, the Ultimatrix symbol began to glow, popping outwards and displaying a new hologram! I didn’t really have any idea what was going on, but it wasn't like my situation could get much worse. I slammed down on the dial, transforming from Psikick into a large, cream and maroon alien with a giant mouth on its torso.

The punk approaching me with the knife froze for a moment in surprise, giving me enough time to deck him in the mouth before he could react. He reeled backwards a few feet, then got a hold of himself and rushed me again, knife first. I quickly snapped forward, catching the knife in my teeth and biting down, breaking it in half. As soon as I swallowed the metal, my body flashed momentarily, before taking on a silver, metallic hue.

The punk tried to hit me with what was left of his knife, but his blow ended up bouncing off my metal skin. I took the opportunity to open-hand slap him across the face, knocking him off the road and into the trunk of a nearby tree. The other punk, who had been watching all this with the van’s side mirror, promptly exited the vehicle and tried making a run for it.

“And just where do you think you’re going, sucker?” I said.

Note to self: work on witty commentary,

I quickly opened my torso’s massive maw and began inhaling, creating a vortex of air. The whirlwind quickly swept the running punk off the ground and sent him flying towards me. Once within striking distance, I raised my right hand in a clenched fist and slammed it downwards, knocking him headfirst into the ground.

I cut off the vortex, upon which I could hear the wailing of police sirens getting closer. Deciding that I did not want to be the cause of an intergalactic incident, I quickly transformed into Psikick and ran off, grabbing the groceries I had dropped before returning home.

I have to say, as much as I appreciated the extra firepower, I’m still not sure what made the Ultimatrix unlock another alien. Oh well, questions for later, I guess.

Alien 3
So, I just met my first alien. He tried to kill me and take the Ultimatrix.

I hope this isn’t indicative of any patterns.

Anyways, here's what happened. I was walking around in the gorge near our house, looking at an old power plant that had been abandoned when we got a proper modern power company in the area. Suddenly, some kind of crab-thing wearing a black harness jumped out of the river and shot at me with an electrical blast from its brain. Thinking fast, I turned into Psikick and dodged the blast.

"So, I guess I'm fighting a sparky seafood platter now.” I joked. “Tasty."

Note to self: keep working on witty commentary.

"You won't be so joke-laden when I kill you and take your transformation matrix!” The crab alien snapped.

“Well, that’s direct.” I replied with snark.

There were a few moments of awkward silence.

“See, it’s funny because direct is a type of-”

I think that pun must have annoyed him, because it shot another bolt of electricity straight at me. I tried to evade it again, but the electricity homed in on me this time, blasting me into the rocky walls of the gorge. I dizzily started to get up, only to see the crab alien charging up another electric blast. Before I could get up, the Ultimatrix dial beeped and popped outwards, showing another new hologram. Without much time to question it, I slammed down on the dial, transforming into a watery alien with a single, triangle-shaped eye.

At this point, the crab alien fired his electricity again, but to no avail. This time, the electricity was trapped inside my watery structure, without any sort of normal biology to fry.

“All right crabby,” I said, getting to my feet. “ready for round two?”

“Just to clear up one thing, I am not a 'crab'” The alien protested. “I am a Cerebrocrustacean.”

“In what universe do you think I would care?”

The Cerebrocrustacean opened the shell around his brain again and fired another blast of electricity. I quickly countered with a blast of water, absorbing more electricity.

“Cursed Hydruoxgens!” The Cerebrocrustacean snapped. “Always Hydruoxgening things up!”

“I have no idea what that means,” I said, pulling back my right arm. “but I’m like ninety-percent sure it’s racist.”

I lunged forward, slamming my electrified fist straight into his head, electrocuting him and launching him into the air with another blast of water. He hit the ground with a nasty crack, but scrambled to his feet surprisingly quickly.

“I know when I’m outmatched!” He snapped, rubbing his head. “But don’t think this is over!”

With that, he pressed a button on his harness and teleported away. I just sort of stood there dumbfounded for a few seconds, not really sure about what had just happened.

I really hope this isn’t indicative of any patterns.