1st Transformation [Action // Open]

[omnitrixter]

I swear you have the worst timing for a watch.

[Ben points accusingly at the green-and-black watch on his wrist whose face is currently red. As much as he'd like to help with the search for the transmitter Dr. Devious announced, right now getting a handle on his new alien powers ranks a little higher. He's not going to be very effective if he can't control his transformations.]

[Too bad the stupid alien watch likes trolling him.]

[So here he is on the roof of a building, the rooftop access door locked, and he's waiting for the watch to recharge to see if it'll be kind enough to give him something that can fly off of this thing.]

[With nothing to do but wait, he sits on the parapet, chin in his hand and thoroughly annoyed with the world.]

Comments

[omnitrixter]

Oh come on. You're...what? Teenager-equivalent for a lion?

And, dude, B movies are awesome. If nothing else, they're entertaining with the cheesiness.

[stalksindarkness]

Uh huh. But I age like a human, so I'm thirteen.

Not all of em' are. There's a real guy like Space Lasher. He's got the mouth tongue and everything!

That stuff is way too freaky!

[omnitrixter]

Sweet. Guessing you get home-schooled since I haven't seen you around the high school.

...That's a pretty good reason not to like that movie. I mean, Venture City's known for weirdness but ew.

[stalksindarkness]

If I have it my way I'll never go to school. [He wrinkles his nose, ears pinning back. A very strong indication in his voice that he has no intention of ever stepping foot in an educational complex.]

Yuh huh. And then there's a whole species of man-spiders on some islands I grew up in out east.

[omnitrixter]

Lucky you. [Though you probably wouldn't have even half of Ben's bully problems.]

Okay, I take back what I said earlier. With those kinda memories to fall back on, B movies must be a little too close for comfort to that stuff.

[stalksindarkness]

[Oh pft. From his perspective he'd probably get hell from idiot man apes trying to point out their inherent superiority or something.]

I don't even think I should learn all that stuff anyway. I'm always told that you never use that stuff they teach you in real life anyway.

[Sounds like he talked to a cynical older kid recently.]

Weeeelll.... Sharknado was cool.

[omnitrixter]

[Dude, you have teeth and claws. That means people automatically will give you wide berth.]

Allegedly some of it's useful. Allegedly.

[And perks up at the movie name.] Yeah, Sharknado was pretty awesome in how terrible it was.

[stalksindarkness]

[He will concede the point. But then again he is only about the size of a large labrador. Is he out of the cute and cuddley stage already?]

Hmgh. You're right about both those things.

Man, next time you binge on bad movies invite me over, okay?

[omnitrixter]

[Teeth and claws, big kitty. The size of a large Labrador with those teeth and claws? You're out of "cute and cuddly" territory.]

Sounds cool to me but not sure how my parents will like that idea.

[stalksindarkness]

I'm not exactly family friendly.

The people I live with wouldn't mind though.

[omnitrixter]

Then you'll have to invite me over instead, huh?

[stalksindarkness]

Unless I can figure out a secret identity? Yeah.

There's only me and some other people who rent the rooms up stairs and Remmy.

[omnitrixter]

...No offense, dude, but secret identities look like they'd be hard when you're a talking lion and those aren't exactly common.

[stalksindarkness]

Not if I had a holographic projector thingy.

Or a--

Oh. [He looks as though he's got an idea.]

Hmmm... Magic could work too.

[omnitrixter]

What would you try and look like? [Because human seems a bit out of the question.]

[Also, they should probably start heading down to street level.]

[stalksindarkness]

A dog, I guess.

I'd prefer not to have to do it at all.

[And he starts down the stairs, he's getting that feeling as well. ]

It's kinda degrading, have to hide yourself.

[omnitrixter]

I don't know. Superheroes do it all the time, right? It's so they can have some privacy.