The Key To Our Hearts. (Celebration)

Ben smiled as Capricious gave him a kiss and then they walked away from the media while holding Ben by the arm, showing they were together. Many snap photos were taken as they trodded about and then Julie was approached by Wonder Woman while Ben left her for a sec to look for a certain someone. After a good look he thought he saw her, but in some different attire.

"Kara?"

Spoiler:

"I think you mean, Powergirl, in public and nope sorry I'm Superwoman, but I could see your confusion since were virtually the same person. She's off on league business right now, but I'm sure if she could've been here for you guys she would've."

Ben looked disappointed, Kara was like a super big sister to him...A really, really, smoking hot big sister, who he sort of had a crush on towards the end of her run with the Titans, but when he was younger he only rememebred her being like a rolemodel to him.

"Oh ya, sorry when is Powergirl going to comeback to visit us then and if you're the same person, does that mean you're a clone or something?"

"Not exactly, it's multiverse thing and when Supergirl upgraded to my mantle I had to upgrade to, so now I'm Superwoman, but I used to be the original Powergirl. Sorry kiddo, but whatever you two had going on, just let it go, you're with a pretty good one already."

"Hey, I never said anything about--how did you know---I mean, what makes you think---"

"You obviously didn't get what I meant by same person. Trust me, I know, and I also know if I was her, I would want you to move on and forget about me."

Ben drooped his head as Superwoman placed her palm upon his shoulder. He didn't want to forget about kara, but maybe she was right, it was probably for the best. Suddenly, something really weird happened, upon touching him the Omnitrix began going absolutely haywire as it went into capture mode. Ben didn't realize it until now...This place was crawling with aliens and the Omnitrix was a device programmed to register any foreighn alien DNA.

"Uh oh, shut down, code 10!"

"Erm, is there something wrong with your watch thingy because it looks like it's going to blow up?"

The watch ignored Ben's command since it was too busy trying to compute all of the DNA samples near by and in resposne did something that shocked Ben Tennyson greatly; suddenly little yellow beames shot from the device all over and began to scan up and down every alien or different species of creature in attendance. It regestered Martian DNA, Thanagarian DNA, Atlantean DNA, Tamaranian DNA, and of course Kryptonian DNA, plus anyone else in the JLA that wasn't exactly human or native to Earth. After it finished, everyone scanned looked at Ben with a sort of oddly placed expression that said; what did you just do to me!? Meanwhile, he just scratched the back of his head and laughed...Boy, that was rather random and embarrasing, not to mention an invasion of privacy. How was he going to explain that...However, out of all the aliens and people scanned the one that approached him was the most human of all of them, but also seemed to be the most paranoid about the Omnitrix's actions and curious.

"What...just..happened."

As Batman approached Ben and spoke, he asked in a very serious dark manner that made Ben gulp as he said it. This was going to be a conversation he probably would remember regretting to have for the rest of his life.

Ben's mouth was gaping open, and he really didn't know what to say, but if the Titans were animated cartoon characters ( :p ) A chibi version of Ben could definitely be seen cowering in Batman's wake, who was then joined by a chibi version of Liev, who stood in between the two and addressed the Dark Knight for him, but kind of jumbled his words a bit and ended the awkward explanation by asking Batman for his autograph. Batman simply responding by looking at him with a stone cold expression and then back to Ben.

"I asked, you, a question."

Batman was a man of just a few words, but with those few words he said so much. For example; he thought Honest was wasting his time and didn't feel like wasting more by giving him a response. He dealed with wackos, psychos, the insane. Gittering fanboy like heroes, didn't even get words from the Caped Crusader. He considered what happened with the Omnitrix right now an anomaly he didn't understand and he wanted answers. Liev hadn't really provided him with any and Ben hadn't said anything, so he asked again. This time Ben took a deep breath and spoke up...

"Uhh, it's kind of like what Honest was trying to say. This device is called the Omnitrix, to put it simply it automatically records alien DNA and since there's a lot of them here and I'm not originally from this Universe or Earth it took all of their samples at once. Sorry about that, I'm not exactly a pro on working it yet."

Batman then contorted his face from stone cold to concerned; a weapon that powerful could be an issue in the future. If anyone could possibly read his mind, they probably would've saw a contingency plan already formulating on how to counter such a weapon, but of course Batman wasn't fully aware of how it worked, so he quietly speculated. Suddenly a hand would grab Batman by the shoulder and then from behind him approached Superman; possibly the greatest of all heroes and was definitely famed to be here in America.



"I'm sorry son, Batman isn't exactly known for his manners."

As Superman spoke, he referred to Honest and then looked to Ben. He had heard everything via super-hearing of course.

"He means well though. That device seems mighty powerful and the fact that you don't know how to fully handle it is...Concerning. Maybe you could let us help you with that."

Oh my gosh, Superman was talking to Ben! This world's greatest champion was speaking to him. Then again, Ben considering himself a star and world's greatest hero, never really got star struck anymore. However, with Batman he had just gotten the creeps. Ben shook Superman's hand and smiled politely as Batman still stood silently in the background letting Superman play good cop in the discussion with the watch.

"I would if I could; the watch is bonded to my DNA specifically though. So there's not much anyone can do. On my world it's level 12 tech, meaning beyond anyone without the same level intellect's comprehension, but don't worry, so far I've done pretty good with using it to help people."

"Well, I think a lot of us would still feel better if we could get a closer look at it, but if you're sure it's not dangerous and you've got it under control. I'm going to trust your judgement and leave the Omnitrix in your hands."

Batman then shot Superman a glare that spelled idiotic, but that was probably due to him being cynical of nearly everything and thus did not think a 16 year old who had a slightly older teammate for a babysitter could handle such a device without the proper training. However, it wasn't Batman's place to say this at a ceremony in the boy's honor, so he just walked away without another word. He would just have to be ready for when things went south, like they always did.

"Umm, what's his problem?"

"I think he likes you guys."

Superman said with a smile, probably not wanting to alert them of what Batman really thought about a team that wasn't lead or at least watched by him or anyone he had mentored.

Brianna was doing her best to be as discreet as possible, practically hiding behind Toji for the ceremony. She couldn't help giving him a look at his posturing, though. He didn't have to encourage the screaming fangirls. The glare dropped as Flash came up, and Brianna didn't know whether to be happy for Toji or terrified of the media, who were closing in vulture-like now that everyone from the immediate vicinity was gone. Brianna's deer-in-the-headlights look must have inspired someone to take pity on her, because a voice from behind the girl made her turn around and the rabid reporters take a few collective steps back. The Titan could have kissed her saviour, until she saw who it was.

'Not used to the spotlight?'

Black Canary. Brianna was suddenly stuck for words, which had never really been a problem before. But with a sharp mental slap from Callum, she managed to carry on some kind of coherent conversation with the Justice League member who she most admired.

'U-Um, yeah. I was never really the attention-loving type.'

'I don't blame you. I'm Black Canary, by the way. It's great to meet you.'

'Brianna. It's an honour.'

***

Shadow was perched in a tree with a decent view, not really wanting to descend into the mushpit of citizens surrounding the Titans. She had felt Batman eyeing her before the ceremony started, but she hadn't been hit by a Batarang or beaten to a pulp, so he'd probably seen the Titan communicator on her belt. Batman wasn't really occupying the forefront of Shadow's mind, though. The guy in the black hoodie was.

There was something way too familiar about him, otherwise Shadow would have just written him off as a drunk bum or something, the way he was falling over. Shadow only glanced a second time as his hair and face were revealed, and she realized that she did know him. He was meant to be dead. He'd been at the tower the day the mirrors had attacked, and she was fairly sure he had been dead. He didn't look very dead now.

Shadow slipped down, not sure what, exactly, she was going to do. Go up to him and ask him why he wasn't in his grave? She didn't think so. And the girl knew from experience that people didn't necessarily stay down once you killed them. So Shadow settled on just watching from a distance as Fenrisúlfr walked up to Ben 10 and Superman.

Conversation continued after Ben's watch had that random mishap and Starfire momentarily departed from them to check and see why she had been scanned by a yellow light. JaK looked back as Scope and Will approached him and his teammate tried to console him. Right afterwards two blurs darted past them, which JaK could only assume was the Flash and Toji. Although, right after they passed him by he was approached by Static and looked across the way to see Ben talking to...What, there's no way!?

....

Meanwhile, Ben's attention was momentarily pulled away from Superman and Honest to some guy. The man said he knew him, but Ben had never seen this guy before in his life and if he had, he didn't recognize him now.

"Uhh, sorry buddy, but I don't recognize the face. What about you Cap, you know him?"

"No, but I Do!"

Suddenly from behind Ben, JaK would shove his way through the crowd and grab Fenrir by the shoulders in an intimidating fashion.

"So tell me, how is it that you're still alive Fen?! Unless of course you're an impostor!"

Then JaK suddenly found himself and the man separated from each other at a blinding pace by Superwoman and Superman. Superman standing in between them, while Superwoman held JaK in a grip that he would never escape via normal means.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa lets not start drama in front of the cameras. Trust me, it's publicity you don't need at an event in your honor."

"Superwoman is right, now lets calm down and talk this out. JaK Sage, what do you mean?"

JaK by all means had never met Superman before, guy was always too busy. However, he knew JaK and Sage knew him by hersay and documentation of deeds, which was good enough an introduction at the moment until a proper one could be had later.

"This guy used to be a member of the Titans East, but was killed in a battle with inverse versions of ourselves from the multiverse."

"Oh ya, that fight I had with the Albedo from that parallel world. I heard a member of Titans East was killed from psychosis later on, but I never knew them personally. But, hey wasn't he an angel or something? Maybe he was revived by some all divine power?"

"If the real Fensuir was revived, trust me, you could tell. He had a certain glow about him, litterally. This is a fail comparison to the real thing. If I had to guess; an assassin posing as one of us to get in close for a kill."

JaK was always cynical, but on days like today, you never knew who could walk into a ceremony with mini-nukes strapped to their chest.