Talk About Food on the RUN.

Battle Theme Music: Run Around
Open To: Kinzey
Characters Appearing: Ben 10, Dea, Velocity, The Flash
Summary: Ben & Dea while at the mall one day, run into a speedy dilemma, but are aided by an old ally in solving it.
Time: 2:40 PM
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Ben Tennyson now free of Ghostfreak and having just finished helping Primarch defeat a horde of zombie creatures, desperately needed to get away again. He decided to head to the mall; there he went shopping for new clothes, seeing as the only ones he had were the shirt and pants he was wearing when he first got here. It is also where he purchased a new green jacket to prepare for the winter months. Afterwards, he headed to the food court and ordered a burger and some fries with the money Kara had lent him. He liked the food in this dimension, it tasted different to him, but then again maybe it was all in his mind. As he dipped a few of his fries in ketchup, he would notice a girl with fiery red hair amongst the people. She kind of stood out, mainly because she was a bit younger than him.

"Odd, I wonder where her parents are? She looks like she's a little kid about six or seven years old."

Suddenly as Ben went to take a bite of his burger, he would chomp down onto thin air!?! Huh, where his food go? He didn't drop it, but it was no where to be found. Then as he looked around the food court, many of the trays that on people's table would have the meals dissappear in the blink of an eye. Not to mention, while all this was transpiring the crowd that was walking by the food court seemed to be slowing down, which was odd for the mall. In this dimension and his, it would usually keep a steady flow of pedestrians walking about; but these people seemed to be walking and talking as slow as an old lady with a fake hip...

"Ok, something seriously weird is going on here?"

Ben could see the little red haired girl was staring right at him now...Maybe she was the one behind this? It wouldn't be the first time a girl had pulled mind tricks on him or seemed innocent, but turned out to be a super villain. Well this time things would be different; Ben would approach the little girl, after hopping over the table he was sitting at in a rather rudementary way. Then cautiously, yet angrily walked towards the little red haired child wanting answers.

"Alright you, what's your game here? Are you causing all these people to move in slomo?"

As Ben said this to Dea, his eyes would gesture to the woman across the food court trying to pull her husband; who was also being effected by the slowness. She was complaining about how slow he was moving, like a snail, but the man wouldn't respond. He seemed to be about 5 seconds behind her and it would be a little while until he could fully respond to her accusation with a denial.

"ME!?! If I was the one causing the problem I obviously wouldn't be assking you, DURR!!"

Ben make a childish remark at the little girl, who oddly reminded him of girls from his school. They would huh and puff as they got mad, but unlike them, she didn't try to chase Ben or sit on him; which was nice. No more big bertha's to deal with in this universe or better yet, his dweeb cousin Gwen.

"But, I don't think it's you either. No offense but, you don't look like you could do anything this cool in a million years. So now that, thats cleared up; go find your mommy or something while I try to find out who's REALLY behind this."

Ben would dimiss the little girl with his last sentence, considering her to be what most thought of him...An ordinary kid with no special poweres or anything, but little did he know of Dea's true nature. Meanwhile, as they spoke a girl wearing all green would appear in a blur sitting in a chair right behind Ben. Her outfit was superheroin in nature, her skin all white and her hair was a burning sunburst orange. She also had a lightning symbol visibly showing to all in attendence, as well as a full stomach from all the food she just ate. Thus, solving the mystery of the missing burgers, pizza slices, and hotdogs. Now the real question was, who was she and what was she doing to these people?

"BUUUUURRRRRP!!! Awww, that hit the spot...Hmm, oh wow; looks like I forgot two little ones. Meh, not that it matters, children are always so slow. They're not even worth the milliseconds it would take for me to take their energy."

Velocity would raise an eyebrow at the little girl, did those words really come out of her mouth? Well, well, a little advanced for a girl of 7 years old. She must be some kind of teachers pet or over achieving genius, that makes her parents proud at spelling bees or whatever. Just the kind of person Talia always HATED! She could never best those who were better than her, no matter how hard she tried and that's why she always had to cheat to win. Well maybe it worked out for the best, because without that skewed philosophy, she'd still just be some Star Labs clerk. Trying to get ahead by fiddling away at her mentor's creations and wishes.

"Eh, someone has a mouth on them. How old are you girly, 7 or 8? Live a little longer kid and you'll find out THE WORLD is rude and foul in manner. Though, if you talk to me like that again, you won't be living much longer than another minute or so."

Velocity would then zip past Ben, staggering him over as the blur of green and red brushed past him. In an instant, the villainess stood infront of Dea peering down with her hands placed upon her hips in the same mocking fashion.

"Maybe even sooner, if you catch my drift."

Ben was dazed twice during this transaction. Once when he heard the phrases come from Dea's mouth. He'd been around a lot of little girls and NONE of them talked like that. Maybe there was something special about this kid afterall.

"Whoa, you sound pretty smart. Where'd you learn how to spea---"

However, before Ben could reply he was interupted by the fast talking Velocity, who then zoomed past him in the blink of an eye. Thus, dazing him for the second time and confirming the suspicion he had from when he first turned around and saw her...She has super speed. Ben had fought fast guys before, but those were aliens mostly. This was a compeltely differnt realm of villain for him, so he'd need to choose his alien form wisely. Soon after falling over, he would hastily rotate the dial on the Omnitrix in preperation, yet while doing so tried to be discrete as possible. Since she was fast, she could stop him from pressing down on the faceplate within miliseconds. So instead of loudly exclaiming his dislike at being pushed over and then transforming infront of her. He just stayed down, hoping not to be noticed by either Dea or Velocity during their argument.

Velocity would watch the girl's eyes change color, while in her own span of time she agonizingly slowly walked in between her and the squirt she had just shoved out oft he way. He was oddly still on the floor, maybe the kid was crying; eh, Talia didn't care. Besides, the little girl was was doing something odd. As she suddenly lifted off the floor and then had the nerve to mock Velocity once again. So short stuff had some abilites too, great. She wasn't just a regular old over achiever, she could fly as well. What next, was she going to cure world hunger? The more this girl showed off, the more pissed Velocity became. Hearing the second insult and then deciding to fire back with one of her own.

"OooOOOooo Scary!! Look kid, if you're trying to impress me with a bit of superpowers, save it. I've fought the Flash, I've fought the JLA and trust me compared to them; your the baby turtle, their the tortoise, and I'm the always allusive hare. One step ahead the whole time."

Suddenly a green flash would go off from behind Dea as Ben pressed down on the watch's faceplate and his transformation begun. His body would seem to melt away and then reform itself around the Omnitrix symbol, forming OVERFLOW!

"And what am I!?!"

Ben would exclaim with a different tone of voice from before, like he was talking from underwater or something. As Overflow rose from behind Dea and took the form of a humanoid body, although he was still pretty much a walking large puddle of water.

"Ohhh, so I see you're both special. Well gosh, if I had know they were growing kids like this nowadays I would've settled down years ago with my own bundle of joy...Ah, who am I kidding? I could never settle down; life in the fast lane's just to much fun."

"Well sorry to say, but when your behind bars the only time you'll need to be first is when it's lunch time at the cafeteria."

The aquatic alien having heard enough, decided to shut the quick tongued speedster up, by lashing out at her with a long water whip like appendage. Not really caring about what she has to say anymore. All Ben wanted was for her to turn these people back to normal and he had a feeling saying please and thank you wouldn't help much with her. Although, as he attempted to strike the woman, she was gone way before his whip would smash into one of the lunch tables like a wave; snapping it in half.

"Too slow Raindrop, and prison food's not my style really. I do like the burgers and fries here, however, you guys should try some!"

As Velocity re-appeared behind the counter of a burger stand. She would move aside the slow moving cashier and begin to toss patties, fries, buns & other condiments at Ben and Dea with fastball like speed. The rain of food wouldn't cause damage of course, but the annoyance of having food splattered all over them is what Talia was going for.

As the the food came zipping towards both Overflow and Dea, it would all be fried into little charred tid bits by the little girl. Ben was actually fairly impressed by this feet. Such a big power for a small girl, then again he was one to talk. Meanwhile, the flames would continue to head towards Velocity. As they neared the pupils of her eyes would widen as the expresion on her face read signs of panic. In fact if one looked close enough you could almost see her quick moving lips forming the words 'uh,oh' before she instantly ducking beneath the cash register. The blazing heat engulfing the entire register and counter shortly after. Setting it a blaze along with all the dollar bills and near melting the coins that all resided within the machine. Not to mention scorching all the remaining food a chracoal black crispy color and texture. Immediately after Dea's attack slightly subsided, Ben would wash his way over towards the counter like a human shaped moving wave. Coming up and then crashing down over the still smoldering area only to find Velocity was gone! It would seem she had used her super speed again to get away just in time, but where was she now?

"Crud, she's gone? I think you scared her off."

"Guess again squirt."

Talia could then be seen speeding out from the concession stand over from the one Ben was standing in. She must've jumped ship just after ducking the flames. Jeez, she moved so fast that amongst the dancing fire neither of them even saw her run over there. What was that in her hand? It would appear to be some sort of metal chain that connected to the top of the burger stand. As she yanked on it, a steel wall like that of a garage door would slam shut in front of Ben that surrounded the entire burger stand. It was one of those gates that owners used to close up their shops at night. As it closed the quick moving speedster dashed over and locked the door shut so Overflow couldn't escape his metal tomb, for the moment at least. On the inside, however, the aquatic alien would pound away trying to get free of his makeshift cell. Outside of it, Velocity would turn to see Dea's expression. She wa still mad and Talia loved she was getting under this little girl's skin.

"It's just you and me now doll, so what do you want to play? Oh I know, how bout tag!?! I never lose at that one."

Dea didn't seem to have repsonded the way Velocity had hoped. Instead of enabling her verbal banter the tiny girl instead unleashed a hell mary of fire towards the speedster. Velocity immediately avoiding it and then coming in for the charge, but then slowed down for out of the corner of her eye she could see what Dea's real intent was. She wanted to free the other kid that had morphed into that water being.

"Hey twerp, you're cheating! No asking for help during the game."

That being sad Talia would close in on the red haired child, but before she could reach her the red hot scolding flames would melt away the metal encasing Overflow inside and as soon as a viable means of esscape was made the aquatic being would flow out freed at last. Veloity on the other hand had almost reached Dea, but was haulted when her necklace attacked like a moition censor, firing a barrage of flames in Velocity's direction. This caused Talia to have to avoid multiple blasts from the Phoenix resembling figure. A feat that she did with ease as she dashed around in between slow moving citizens if she needed to while chuckling madly. All of this was a game to her, a form of excitement in an otherwise slow moving and boring livelyhood. As she dashed past citizens she would suck their remaining speed from them causing the pedestirans to not move at all now, while she only increased in speed.

"You know brat, tag's really just not your thing. Maybe you should stick to spellingbees, since you like using grown up words so much."

Ben seeing the difficulty Dea was having had a brilliant idea. While Velocity taunted and avoided his allies attacks Overflow would spread his liquid body across the cafeteria flooring making the surface nice and slippery. Then as the villains ran over one of the spots she would slip and lose her footing, causing Talia to stumble and fall. This could leave Dea the opening she needed to take down the speedster once and for all.

After slipping on the wet surface, Velocity would sit up and rub her head in a distressed feamle type manner. Just long enough in fact to see Dea's outfit change clothes at the child becoming intesifyingly angry and then lashed out at her with...What, were those FIREWHIPS!?! Things were definitely starting to get to hot in here for Talia, she needed to get out of this place for a breath of fresh air. To avoid the first whip attack, the speedstress quickly kipped to her feet and then rolled forward. The movement and tumble in itself happening much faster than that of the average gymnast could hope to strive for, it was probably in fact faster than a pouncing tiger or Cheetah could attack it's unsuspecting prey.

"Whelp, looks like it's time to bail. Seeya kiddies!"

However, as Velocity tried to sprint out of the mall she was starting to slow down. Constantly running at high speeds, while not continually absorbing more of it was draining her. The speedster now at speeds of 80 mph or less. Ya she definitely needed to call it quits, sadly she also couldn't seem to get any type of traction on the floor thanks to Ben. Who was spreading his aqautic body pretty thin as so he could soak the entire area. The plan worked too, causing the delay in Talia's movements and her sudden decrease in speed gave the little girl enough time to lash her with her own flaming whips in the back. The fingernail shaped flames clawing at Velocity's back and leaving three gashes or burn marks in the villain's body that caussed her to scream out.

"AHHHh, I don't like being hit you little B*tch! And now, you're going to pay for being such an annoying little nerdlet."

As she fell to the floor, Velocity would feel where she had been hit with her hand. The skin was steaming from the intense heat and the costume that had once covered her now seared flesh was vaporized instantly on contact. Then as it would appear the Phoenix whips were coming in on Talia again, but she didn't attempt to run. No, now she would show this little girl some true power. Using the speed force, the speedster began to rotate her arms fast, and then faster, faster, fasterfasterfaster still. Until 88 mph winds would seem to blow across the food court back towards Dea and her flames, keeping the whips at bay as she did so. The winds were going to keep building until she blew this little pest away, which in Dea's weakining condition would be soon and then Velocity could get out of dodge...FAST.

"Gotcha, right where I want you!"

It would seem Velocity had made a gross mistake in standing still and trying to blow out the girl's flames. For a chance at her being stationary was all Overflow needed to take her down once and for all. Soon a large bubble of water would rise and surround Talia from the floor like like a hidden flay trap; capturing her in a human sized basketball shape of water that began suffocating her. Usually the speedstress would be able to esscape by evaporating the water. This being achieved by roatating at high speeds to cause enough frition to burn up the liquid. However, right now she definitely couldn't do this near fast enough to achieve the desired result and instead frantically flailed until she could no longer hold her breath and seemingly knocked out to lack of oxygen. It would also be at this time that a loud beeping would occur from the water bubble itself. Alerting Ben that this transformation would time out soon. Then in a flash of red light, Velocity was freed, although she was still unconcsious and wet laying on the mall floor and the boy himelf was standing next to fallen woman. A smile on his face as he now seemed completely normal. His wrist watch was now a red faded color instead of green, which signaled that it was recharging.

"Phew, with just enough time to spare."