2nd Transformation - So behind the cool aliens, Ben's actually a huge dork...

[omnitrixter]

[A - Rumblr Post]

Score! Sumo Slammers Hero Generation the Video Game's coming out in six months! Heading to GameGo when it opens to reserve a copy!

[B - Action - GameGo]

[Ben's browsing a bit before reserving his copy of the game. All sorts of cool stuff, but being a superhero, he probably won't find the time to play much of them. Still, he's available for all sorts of geekery until the next disaster strikes.]

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[stalksindarkness]

You wanna borrow an older game, since you let me borrow those dvds.

[omnitrixter]

You don't mind? I'll try not to save over your game.

[stalksindarkness]

Well, I guess if I gave you the game for keeps we could battle. And you can repay me with lunch.

[Sounds fair to him!]

[omnitrixter]

Really? [A game to play and someone to play it with all for the cost of lunch? If he'd had a tail, it'd be wagging right now.]

[stalksindarkness]

It's an older one. But it's in the same series level so you got all the same guys I can get.

[omnitrixter]

Hey, I don't mind playing an older one.

[stalksindarkness]

How old? It's been around for a long time, you know. Back when it was all black and white.

[omnitrixter]

...Okay, how about the one you have that lines up with the one you're getting?

[Since black and white? Talk about old school!]

[stalksindarkness]

That's what I was thinking.

[He maneuvers the box to show Ben the cool new features. Lookit! An awesome, yet cute looking t-rex made of grass and vines, a bear made of fire, and a blue lizard with water jets on it's back.]

[omnitrixter]

Huh. They're kinda like those aliens you see running around from time-to-time.

[stalksindarkness]

I guesso. This one could be one of those dinosaur people.

And by the way, I was totally right on guessing dinosaur aliens. Remember when that transmission got through? I called it.

But what other aliens? They're not going around abducting people, are they?

[omnitrixter]

Oh yeah? You want a sticker? [All the teasing.]

Y'know, the alien heroes that keep popping up that aren't part of the Omegafriends. Like I heard the fire guy showed up in the fight against Slade. Plus someone at the paper managed to get a picture of Grey Matter, that little grey frog alien.

[stalksindarkness]

[At the mention of sticker, he deadpans.] Yes.

[He even plucks one of the Kakoimon sticker/cardgame packs off the wall and hands it to Ben. You offered!

As for the Fire-Guy...]

How'd you know about that? The thing at Slade's lair I mean?

[omnitrixter]

I asked for that, I guess.

[Oh crap. Oh crap oh crap oh crap.]

Read it somewhere on rumblr. Not sure where though.

[stalksindarkness]

Yes you did. Don't make promises you can't keep now... [Hahaha.]

But who would post any of that on a blog? I don't think Superman even knows how to use rumbler.

Or maybe he does but why would he?

[He's skeptical, but now he's just worried about who's posting stuff like that on the internet. There were secret identities of other people potentially at stake.]

[omnitrixter]

Yeah, yeah, I'll get you your stickers.

[And Ben only offers a shrug.] I'll keep an eye out to see if I can't find the post again.

[stalksindarkness]

Ooh! Thanks!

[But back to the blog post---]

I think that post needs to be taken down.

[omnitrixter]

If I see it again, I'll report it to get it taken down. Scouts honor. Well even though I've never been in Scouts...

[His eye is twitching a bit due to the lying. Hopefully Shadow won't pick up on that.]

You're getting stickers and lunch out of me. This game better be worth it.

[stalksindarkness]

[It's not the eye twitching he notices, he's not even looking at his face, his attention is turned briefly to the price tags. What he does pick up on is the smell. Humans tend to smell funny when they're under stress, or when they're lying. He turns his head back towards Ben, his emerald eyes judging him silently. He says nothing but his expressions says it all.

He doesn't like to be lied to.

Those eyes are like daggers, Ben. And he's on to you. He isn't even sure what he's on to.]

[omnitrixter]

[Okay, having a lion stare you down? Maaaaaaajor league uncomfortable.]

So, um, what were you thinking about for lunch?

[stalksindarkness]

[And you saved yourself, Ben. He diverts his attention towards Ben and grins.]

Any place that serves meat!

[He heads right over over to the counter and drops a few twenties to pay for his game.]

[omnitrixter]

[Ben waits for the cashier to ring up Shadow before he sets his own stuff down.]

Well, there's Burger Shack, Nasty Burger, and Mr. Smoothy's. Plus there's that pizza place whose name I can never remember.

[stalksindarkness]

What's Mr. Smoothies? Let's just go to the burger place. I'm more of a milk shake kinda cat anyway.

[omnitrixter]

What's Mister...? Okay, just for that, that's where we're going. It's a crime that you don't know about Mr. Smoothy's.

[stalksindarkness]

Wha...What? Seriously Ben, you're going to try to make me sick. Lions eat meat, not rabbit food!