//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: Along Came Ten // Story: Equestrian Omni-hero // by Blaze-saber //------------------------------// Space. They say it's the final frontier. In fact, there is so much of the universe that we don't know yet that we question whether or not there might be any other living beings out there. One day is all it will take for that question to finally be answered. Flying through space were two spaceships that are currently engaged in firing at each other. Neither one seemed to be letting up on the ammo. The smaller spaceship took a hit on its wing before it fired a blast back at the bigger one. Inside the bigger ship are a few robots that are black and orange while an alien with a tentacle squid head felt the rumbling as one of the robots checked the readings on the monitors. "Hall damage 20%, but Weapons Systems are still operational." The robot told the alien in the chair. "I've come too far to be denied!" The alien spoke in a deep voice that would send shivers down your spine. "The Omnitrix will be mine, and there's not a being in the universe that dares stand in my way!" He slammed his fist on the arm of his chair as his ship continued to chase down the smaller one for this 'Omnitrix'. In the magical land of Equestria on a train, a colt with a green coat, light green eyes, and a light brown mane and tail with a saddlebag sitting next to him on the seat was looking out the window and saw Ponyville coming into view. "So that's where cousin Flash was transferred?" The colt asked himself as the train was coming to Ponyville station. The ponies who wanted to come to Ponyville got off the train, including the colt who looked around for somepony. He soon spotted a yellow pegasus with dark blue mane, tail, and eyes. "Hey Helix Watch!" The pegasus called out to colt before he walked over and gave him a hug. "How's my favorite cousin doing?" "I'm your only cousin, Flash." Helix corrected. "So, how have you been since coming here?" "It's great here." Flash answered. "It's much more exciting here than in the Crystal Empire. Plus me and Twilight have been going out and she's awesome. She and her friends had started a school to help spread friendship around more. Speaking of which, six of their students signed up for this summer activity they came up with." "Cool, can't wait to meet them." Helix said before they started to walked to Twilight's Castle. As they did, Helix noticed a look on Flash's face that tells him he knows something. "I guess you know what happened after school?" "It was kind of you to do something like that, but you could have just gotten somepony instead of trying to fight them yourself." Flash told him. "I know it's been rough when your parents disappeared." "I know, but I was only trying to help." Helix explained. "JT and Cash were picking on somepony and I only told them to back off. I didn't expect them to tie up both of our tails and left us hanging upside down." "I get it, but if you want to play hero you got to make sure you back it up." Flash told him just as they arrived at the castle. Twilight and her friends had just walked out through the front door and saw the two. "Hey girls, hey Twilight." "Hey Flash." Twilight said before she saw Helix. "And this must be your cousin you told us about." "Nice to meet you, your highness." Helix said just as the Young Six came over. "Are those the students you told me about?" "Yeah." Flash told him. "Helix, meet Gallus, Sandbar, Ocellus, Yona, Smolder, and Sliverstream." "Sup?" Gallus said as he shook Helix's hoof. "So, are you all almost ready for our road trip?" Twilight asked. "Almost." Sliverstream told her. "This is so exciting to travel around Equestria and everything!" "Okay, y'all finish packing and tomorrow we'll head out." Applejack told before she turn to Helix. "And you're more than welcome to join us." "I was going to ask if I could anyway." Helix said. "Hope this will more exciting than summer school." Back in space, as the two spaceships were coming close to planet where Equestria is, the larger ship managed to destroy the back part of the smaller ship. "The repulsion systems have been destroyed." The robot told the alien. "Prepare to board!" The alien commanded. "I want the Omnitrix now." The smaller ship had given one last blast towards the bridge of the ship and severely injured the alien. The larger ship then gave a powerful blast that destroyed the entire scholarship as the head of it was launched forward. Something from the ship then came out and it looked like a missile before it broke apart and a round pod was heading straight towards Equestria. It has already became night as each of the Young Six were almost done packing for their road trip across Equestria with the Mane Six, Flash, and his cousin Helix. Helix was feeling a bit uneasy as each of the Young Six had asked about his parents and he told them that the disappeared when he was young and his grandfather was looking after him. Helix used to spend his time with Flash when ever they visit each other, but now Flash is spending most of his time with Twilight. He told Flash that he is going out for a walk to help clear his mind and let out some steam. He was so deep and lost in his own thoughts that he wandered into the Everfree Forest. Helix kicked a pebble depressed. "This was supposed to be me and Flash, but instead if was everyone else." He said. He had nothing against other species, but he was hoping it would just be him and Flash. As he found a spot to sit he noticed something coming at him from the sky. He then looked up and saw something enter the atmosphere. "Whoa, a shooting star." Helix said when he saw it. The the object then made a sharp right turn and coming straight towards him. He looked at the object with wide eyes before he ran away before the object could crush him as said object crashed into the ground. Helix gave out a cough from the smoke before he got up and walked over to the crater where he saw something inside of it. "What is that, a meteorite or something?" He said as the object stop glowing from falling from the atmosphere and revealed to be the pod that was coming down. The ground beneath Helix then fell apart, causing him to fall into the crater. Once he got up and dusted himself off, but then split open and something inside glowed green. And look to be a green watch with a square black faceplate and two glowing buns in the shape of arrows causing it to look like an hourglass symbol. "A watch? What's a watch doing it outer space?" He asked before he thought that the watch looked kind of cool before he reached in with his left hoof to grab it. The center of the watch then opened up before it became liquid and jumped right onto his hoof and latched on to his hoof which freaked him out. "Get off me! Get off, get off!" Helix shouted as he was waving his hoof around to get the watch off before he started to pull on it with little to no effect. He then climbed out of the crater and ran off to find something to pry the watch off him. "Helix been gone awhile." Flash said with a worried look on his face. "I wonder what's taking him so long." "I'm sure he can't get into too much trouble around here." Twilight assured him. "And if he's not back for another hour, we'll go out and look for him." Helix had a stick in his mouth as he was trying to pry the watch off his hoof, only for it to break in half. He spit out the stick and groan in annoyance as he couldn't get it off. He then looked at the watch again and wondered if the two buttons on the watch will make it come off. He pressed the two buttons and instead of making the watch come off, a hologram ring popped up and surprised him. The top of the ring split open and it showed a few faces of unfamiliar creatures while one was in the center of a highlighted square where it looked to be a flaming head. "Cool." Helix commented before pressing the buttons again and the faceplate of the watch moved back and a ring with an hourglass symbol popped up. He then placed a hook on top of the ring before slowly pushing it down. A bright green light then covered his body as he watched in horror as the watch sank into jis forehoof, which was being coated in dark red rocks which quickly spread across his entire body. The rocks on his forehooves shifted into what seemed to be claws, or possibly fingers. His hind legs shifted as well, becoming longer legs and feet which had two pointy ends on the front. His mane and tail were engulfed in flames, magma flowing between the cracks of the rocks that covered his body. His muzzle caved in, nose seemingly vanishing, before his eyes were filled with fire. The green light surrounding Helix vanished, leaving the formally colt to look at what had happened to his body. He quickly noticed a rather interesting factor which caused him to scream. "AAAHH!! I'M ON FIRE!! I'M ON FIRE!!" He shouted in completely different voice as he stopped, drop, and rolled to try and put himself out, only to leave scorch marks on the ground. Helix quickly got up and looked himself over again before realizing he didn't feel any pain from the fire all over him. "Hey, I'm on fire and I'm okay." He said to himself. "Check it out. I'm totally hot." He gave a chuckle at his own joke before he turned his attention to a tree behind him. "Okay. Alright, here it goes." He pointed his newly finger at the tree in a small fireball shot out and destroyed a piece of it. "Now that's what I'm talking about." He said as he was amazed by what he just did. He then put his hands together and created a larger fireball in the palms of them. "Liking it." Helix Unleashed a huge fire that struck a tree and flames started to spread. "Wait, stop!" He shouted as it started to become a forest fire. He started to Stomp the ground with his foot as a means to put out the flames, only to make them grow bigger. "Oh no, I'm going to be in so much trouble for this." Meanwhile, the Young Six had meet the Mane Six and Flash to help go look for Helix before they saw smoke coming from the Everfree Forest. "What's going on there?" Smolder asked when they the smoke. "A forest fire!" Flash exclaim before he looked towards Rainbow Dash. "Rainbow, go and find a rain cloud while the rest of us heads in there with fire extinguishers." "On it!" Rainbow shouted before she flew off to find one while the others grabbed a few fire extinguishers and headed off to put out as much of the flames as they can. They had to split up as to cover more ground as Ocellus and Smolder were working together to put out a few of the flames. So far was going great before they heard someone talk when Smolder used her fire extinguisher around. "Hey!" They saw will look to be a creature mean a fire turn and looked at them before they both let out a scream of terror. "Look I know I look weird, but there's no reason for you to scream--" Smolder then swung her fire extinguisher in the face of the fire creature and knocked him back a few feet. Ocellus then sprayed the creature with her fire extinguisher as its flings on its head died down before it lit up again. "Whatever you are, we suggest you stay down." She told the fire creature as she and smolder pointed their fire extinguishers at it. "I bet that thing is what did this!" Smolder said as the fire creature stood up. "Hey, I didn't mean to cause this!" The creature told the two. "Besides, I don't think my cousin Flash would appreciate you hitting me with those things." When he mentioned Flash as his cousin, the two realized who this fire creature really is. "Helix, is that you?" Ocellus asked in shock. "What the heck happened to you?" Smolder added. "Well, when I was walking a meteor fell from the sky and almost crushed me." Helix started to explain. "Only it wasn't a meteor, more like a strange pod thing. But this cool watch thing jumped onto my hoof, and when I trying to get it off, I was suddenly on fire! Only didn't hurt and I accidentally started this forest fire!" "Smolder! Ocellus!" Twilight called out as she and the others ran to them. "We heard you both screaming!" "Are you two alrigh--" Flash was going to ask before he noticed the fiery creature in front of them. "What in Equestria?" "What is that thing?!" Gallus asked when they saw it. "Not thing, somepony." Ocellus corrected. "It's me Flash!" Helix told him. "Helix?!" Flash asked in shock. "What happened to you?!" "Well, when I was walking a meteor--" "Hey to cut this short, but y'all remember there's a forest fire burning out of control?!" Applejack reminded them. "What do we do?" Sandbar asked as Twilight looked around and an idea came to her before she looked at Helix. "Backfire." She said. "Start a new fire and let it burn into the old fire. They'll snuff each other out. Think you can do it Helix?" "Shooting flames? I can definitely do." Helix said with a smile on his face before he went off deeper into the forest while the others ran out. Once he was far enough from the old fire, he concentrated and unleashed another wave of flames to start a new fire just as Twilight told him to. After some time, both flames snuff each other out and the Everfree Forest was saved from the wildfire. Back in outer space as the larger ship orbits the planet, a droid stood in front of a large cylinder before the alien that was severely injured was pulled up into it and most of his body have been destroyed. Both his legs and his left arm were completely gone while a breathing mask was on his face. "What do you mean it's not there?!" The alien wheezed out to the droid. "This battle nearly cost me my life... and you say the Omnitrix is no longer on both a transport?!" "Sensors indicate that a probe was just lunched from the transport just before boarding." The droid told him. "Landed on the planet below." "No one will have the Omnitrix but me..." The alien wheezed before he looked at a large shadowy figure. "Go... retrieve it for me..." Meanwhile, the group decided to set up little camp outside of town as to not draw attention to Helix the way he is now. "So after this watch fell from the sky, you decided to put it on?" Twilight asked as Gallus tossed him a marshmallow. "No, it jumped onto my hoof." Helix corrected her as he was roasting the marshmallow just by holding it. "I swear, I didn't mean to do any of this." He said before eating the marshmallow. "It's okay, I believe you Helix." Flash told him as Rainbow was hovering above them with the cloud she brought to put out the fire. "So do you think his going stay a monster forever?" Rainbow asked. "I don't he's monster." Twilight remarked. "To be honest, I have no idea what he is right now. I never seen anything like this any of the books I've read." "Well whatever I am, I don't want to be like this forever." Helix told them. "How am I supposed to play little league this fall if I charcoal the ball and they catch a pop fly?" "Don't worry Helix, we'll figure something out." Flash assured him before they all heard beeping coming from Helix. Helix stood up and looked down at his chest where the hourglass symbol sits and sees it beeping and it turned from green to red. The group was then blinded by a bright red light that covered Helix and when it died down, he was back to his normal self. "Ah, I'm me again!" Helix said when he looked at himself. "I kinda like him cooking our marshmallows to perfection." Pinkie whisper to Rarity as Helix tried to get the watch off his hoof again. "I still can't get this thing off." He grunted before Flash stopped him. "Best not to fool around it until you know what it is." He told Helix. "He's right. Right me, Flash, and the girls will check out that crash site." Twilight told her students and Helix. "The rest of you stay at the school and wait for us to come back." As they waited for them to get back, Helix was in the library and was checking out the watch on his hook. "I wonder what this does." He said to himself before he looked around to see if anyone was there before Smolder grab him by the shoulder from behind and startled him. "Caught you!" Smolder exclaim as the others came in. "Don't sneak up on me like that." Helix told her before he went back to pressing the buttons on the watch. "Didn't Flash tell you not to mess with that thing?" Ocellus asked him. "I'm just curious about what else this thing can do." Helix told them. "Still, isn't green pony worry about turning back into that fire monster?" Yona asked. "Well, maybe a little." Helix admitted as he continued to fool around with the watch. "But I'm curious as to what it felt like while you were that thing." Sandbar spoke up. "It freaked me out at first." Helix told them. "It was like I was still me, but it was also like I was someone else at the same time." He pressed the two buttons on the faceplate again before the hologram ring popped up again. "Hey I think I figured out how I did it before." He then placed his hoof on the faceplate and started to swipe it to make the dial move to a different face after a couple of swipes. "Wait, you're not gonna--" Gallus was going to ask before Helix pressed the two buttons again and as the hourglass symbol popped up when the faceplate went back, he quickly slammed it down and he was covered in a bright green light. The watch seemed to go into his hoof as it mutated before it traveled up his arm and went up to his eyes as three fingers formed on the tips of his hooves. He closed them before he quickly opened them and they glowed green before another set of eyes formed underneath the first pair. His green coat turned dark blue as his pony tail turned into a monkey tail while his face turned into a monkey face with the hourglass symbol on his chest. Once the light died down, the young six got a good look at Helix as what he is now. "You're...a monkey with four eyes and arms?" Sandbar asked as Helix started to make some monkey sounds. "I know....eek...eek...I know. It's cool!" Helix said in a bit of a high-pitched voice before he started to jump on the bookshelves. "And it looks like I some spring in my steps!" "Better Change back before your cousin and the others return." Gallus said. ''Why so worried?" Asked Sandbar. ''Cause not only will he get busted but chances are we will too for letting it happen.'' Smolder pointed out. ''Good point.'' Sandbar comment. "Oh come on!" Helix shouted as he flipped over to another bookshelf. "I'm just starting to have fun with this! And besides, I don't even know how to change back." As he leaned forward on the bookshelf, it started to tip over. He quickly jumped off it and stick to the wall before shooting a string of web towards the bookshelf keeping it from falling. "Whoa, you just shoot webs from your tail and you're sticking to the wall!" Silverstream pointing it out in amazement. "Yeah! Ah! Ah! I'm like a Spidermonkey!" Helix exclaimed before he jumped to a window and open it up. "I want to see what else I can do!" "Wait!" Ocellus called out as Helix already was on his way to the Everfree Forest. "Okay, this is officially the weirdest day of our lives." Helix was swing through the trees of the forest as he was having fun with this form and everything. He grabbed hold of a branch of a tree and flipped over to land on top of it. "This is awesome!" He exclaimed. "I bet this watch can turn me into something--" His sentence was cut off when a blast nearly hit him and destroyed the branch. He looked to see a drone in the shape of a flying disc like towards him shooting lasers from its arms. "Whoa, what is that?!" He asked as he continued to swing through the trees and dodged the laser blast coming at him. Helix then managed to shoot a web from his tail and block the drone's vision and get on top of it to make it fly out of control. He then spotted a large boulder nearby and got an idea as he shot another string a web towards the boulder and made the drone fly into it before he jumped off and the drone was destroyed. "Ha! Not so tough!" He said before the hourglass symbol on his chest started beeping and turned red before his body was enveloped in a bright red light and he transformed back. "Huh, guess I will just walk back then." Just when he was about to leave, another robot drone was in front of him and was ready to shoot him. "Oh no, not good." Just before the drone could even shoot him, Smolder shot flames at the robot as Yona through a large boulder at it and crushed it. "Are you okay?" Ocellus asked as she and the others went up to him. "Yeah, luckily you guys showed up before that thing could do anything to me." He told them. They soon came back to the school where Flash was a little disappointed he disobeyed him. Plus all they could find of the pod from the crash site was a small shard of it, like something destroyed it. "I was worried he might get popular with that thing on your hoof." Flash told Helix. "That's why I told you not to mess with that thing until we know what the heck it is." "I'm sorry Flash, but I think I finally figured out how to make it work." Helix told them. "All you do is press the two buttons on the top and when the hologram ring pops up, just scroll through the different faces of the guy you want to be. Push the buttons again to make the faceplate go back and when the ring underneath pops up, you slam it down and you transform into ten different powerful aliens." "How do you know they're even aliens you turn into?" Fluttershy asked. "It was a feeling I had." Helix answered. "I mean, have any of you seen a walking fire guy and a literal spider monkey around here. And I just wanted to figure out how it works so I can help others, I mean really help them." "Well, if powerful device like that is stuck on your hoof, I guess we have no choice to help you learn how to use those alien powers." Twilight suggested just as Spike came in with a worried look on his face. "Guys, we got trouble!" Spike shouted. "The whole town is being attacked by some sort of giant robot! Starlight and Trixie are already evacuating everypony, but that thing is destroying everything!" "That sounds just like those things that attacked me in the forest." Helix spoke up before he looked at the watch. "They must be after this. Everypony is in trouble because of me! But maybe I can help them." "What are you going to do?" Smolder asked before he gestured to the watch. "Oh right." Helix then pressed the two buttons on the faceplate and the hologram ring popped up again. "Okay." He said as he started to scroll through the different forms. "Eenie, meenie, miney..." He then stopped when he spotted the alien he wanted to turn into. After he pressed the two buttons again and the faceplate went back and the ring popped up, he slammed it down and he was enveloped in a bright green light. Diamonds started to form from the watch and treble up his hoof as his hoof transformed into a claw. The diamonds then formed on his head and his eyes turned yellow while he stood on two legs and he is wearing a black suit with a yellow V stripe in the center and the hourglass symbol on his chest. Once the light died down, they all saw his new alien form he transformed into. "Uh... if Ponyville isn't being attacked by a giant robot, I say that was the weirdest thing I've ever seen." Spike commented. "I must say, after you stop that thing outside, you must let me look you over." Rarity said as she was bedazzled by this alien form. "But what exactly can this guy do?" Rainbow asked. "I don't know." Helix said when he looked at his new form. "But whatever it is, I bet it's going to be cool." He then clenched his fist before they all headed outside to see how big this robot is. Outside, everypony in town was running for their lives from a giant 40-ft tall robot with red eyes, sharp claws with blasters on the end, and three legs. When the group saw the giant robot wrecking the place, they were shocked to see how big it is. "Wow Spike, when you giant robot, you meant it." Smolder commented. "Yeah, it looks like mama robot is here to play." Helix said. "I'll get gearheads attention, the rest of you helped Starlight and Trixie get everypony to safety." "You be careful, Helix." Flash told him before he and the others went to go help everypony in town. The robot noticed Mr.Rich getting his family out of danger before it picked him up. "Put him down!" Helix shouted to get the robot's attention. "You want someone to pick on, try me on." In its eyes, it scanned him and highlighted the hourglass symbol on his chest. The robot dropped Mr.Rich as Rainbow quickly caught him before he could hit the ground and the robot blasted Helix back. Helix crashed into a construction site and the robot blasted again. From underneath the wreckage, a diamond might blade pierced through and Helix without unscathed. "Cool." He said when he saw his right arm turned into a blade. He then charged at the robot and try to swipe at its legs, only for it to jump high in the air and dodge the attack before coming down and landing on top of them. "Uh oh, I think I'm in trouble." The robot picked him up after getting off him before throwing him into a fruit cart. He got up and saw the robot coming towards him. "Hey back up buddy!" He shouted as he thrusted his fist forward and projectile diamonds shot out and hit the robot's chest. "Awesome!" He continued to fire diamond projectiles at the robot until it fired a laser beam at him and he tuck and roll to dodge it. After he dodged another blast from the robot, a third blast hit a tree and it was coming down and looked to be like it was going to fall on Smolder and Yona. He saw it coming down on them before he ran over and grew a sharp diamond that sliced the tree in the middle and saved them both. "So, we even?" He asked the two. "Even." They both said in unison before the robot picked up Helix and grabbed his left arm. Helix could feel the robot trying to rip off his arm, so he decided to destroy the robots arm by slicing and dicing it. After having its claw destroyed, it hold out the one it is holding Helix in and blasted him towards another building. Helix got up from that blast and turned his arms into diamond blades and charged at the robot. The robot fired a laser beam at him before he quickly put up his arms and the laser beam got reflected off of it for a bit before he got pushed back. After what just happened, it gave him an idea of how to beat it. He stood back up and glared up at the giant robot. "Come on big guy, give me everything you got!" He demanded as he pointed to his chest while the robot powered up for another blast. "Get out of there!!" Flash called out before the robot fired a laser beam right at Helix. Helix quickly put up his hands and hold his ground as the laser beam was being hold by him. "What comes around, goes around." Helix commented as he started to move his arms a bit. "Let's see if you like the taste of your own medicine, you oversized tin can!" The beam was then reflected off his diamond-like hands and he reflected it back at the robot which destroyed the top half before the bottom half fell down and exploded. Everypony cheered for their savior and the destruction of the giant robot. "Way to go Hel--" Flash was about to praise before Twilight quickly covered his mouth as to not blow his secret. "He was going to say...uh..." Twilight said as she tried to think of a name for what Helix is now. "Diamondhead!!" Pinkie quickly shouted. "Yeah, that's me! Diamondhead!" Helix called himself. "Now, I think I should be on my way." He quickly run somewhere so no one can seem transform back when the watch times out. Back in outer space, as many robot drones were fixing the outside of the ship the Inland inside the tube heard about his 40 ft tall robot being defeated and destroyed. "Failure?! Unbelievable!" The alien wheezed out. "Whoever is possessing the Omnitrix and keeping me from my destiny...will soon hang on my trophy what." The next morning thanks to Diamondhead, Ponyville will be able to rebuild anything that was destroyed when the giant robot attacked. Twilight, her friends, the Young Six, and Flash had all their things packed and ready to head out as they gathered around a special wagon Twilight made herself. She enchanted so that it may look small on the outside, but it's bigger on the inside so if it all of them and they can sleep in it. It's even able to move on its own by Twilight's command. They were all helping one another get everything on board until Flash notices Helix wasn't around. "Hey, has anyone seen Helix?" He asked the others. "I haven't seen him since breakfast." Spike told him before they heard a boom from the distance and they saw something coming their way. It soon came to a halt and when the dust cleared they saw it has black orbs on his feet, a black tail with five blue stripes, and bulky claws on his three fingers that can only open and close. He wears a black cone-like helmet with a protective visor over its face and has a green hourglass symbol on his chest. "Helix?" Flash asked before the visor is lifted and they can see his blue face, green eyes, black lips, and stripes running under and in between his eyes. "Yup." He answered. "Check this out you guys." The visor went back down before move so fast that he vanished before reappearing to grabbing one of the suitcases and and bring it into the wagon. They also how fast he was going as he was putting all their things inside the wagon in no time flat, it even impressed Rainbow Dash. "Pretty fast, huh?" He asked when he stopped right in front of them before the hourglass symbol beeped and turned red before he was enveloped in a red light and transformed back into Helix. "I think this is going to be one awesome summer." "It's definitely going to be interesting." Twilight remarked as the others agreed as well. "So, where did you go anyway?" Gallus asked him. "I just had to take care of a couple of things before our road trip really got rolling." Helix told them before they wagon. Flash stopped Helix before raising a brow with a smirk. "You went back to your own town and hang the two bullies upside down by their tails the way they did to you, didn't you?" Flash asked. "Maybe." Helix remarked before Flash gave him a small noogie on the head and the two headed inside with the others to begin their road trip across Equestria.