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Apologizes once again that this took so long. Alien Swarm is a bit of a strange one to work with, and I was trying to figuring out what to keep, what to change, how how to fit it into the series. I decided to have this take place between Alien Force, and Ultimate Alien, as that just worked best for me. I’ve also been working on a few other things, and quite tired recently, lol. So It’s hard to keep up with everything. But, here the rewrite arc is! And I’ll be putting up voting soon for the next one. As always, feel free to ask questions, and let me know what you think! I really do hope people are enjoying my take on Ben 10 and the arcs I’ve rewritten so far!

-Elena’s History-

Elena’s mother died when she was rather young, at the age of four. Her father, Victor Valadis, did his best to both raise his daughter, and work his job at the Plumbers as a scientist/researcher. Because of her father working a lot, Elena became rather independent while growing up, and as she got older started putting in hard work herself to help her and her father.

Around 13-14 years old, she started to work under her father and became his apprentice for the plumbers. Thankfully, because of the omnitrix, Ben and villains like Vilgax’s events on earth during that one summer, earth has been making official full fledge plumber bases. This meant that not only could Victor finally work closer to home, but so could Elena.

However, because of how hard her father worked during her childhood, no mother figure in her life, and becoming independent and pull so much of her own weight as a kid, Elena deep down is depressed and unsure with her life. She hasn’t really put herself first, and didn’t get to do a lot of things that she could of as a child. Her dreams, desires and wishes nothing more than a thought in the back of her head. Her even becoming a Plumber was more so for her father, to help him and ease his own work, and because it made him happy to see his daughter following in his footsteps. And while Elena never said anything, deep down she’s not happy with her life.

During the Highbreed war, when she’s around 15-16 years old now, she finally meets Ben Tennyson. Working with the Plumbers to figure out the Highbreeds’ plans, Ben noticed Elena during her work hours, catching his attention when seeing a human teen like him working for the Plumbers. Bridging a connection, Ben started to chat with Elena, and while she was unsure at first, she slowly opened up to Ben, eventually meeting Kevin, Gwen and the whole Plumber squad.

During the Highbreed arc, Elena helps the gang out from the sidelines, though isn’t an official member of the alien force squad. She provides them research and knowledge on things they request help from her, and she’s happy to help, especially since them being around makes her a little less lonely.

She starts getting particularly close with Ben, who hangs out with her the most, helping her unwind and feel like a normal teenager finally. However, because of this, and her lack of socializing she’s had for years, she starts to develop a sort of crush on Ben. But it’s hard to tell if this is because she genuinely loves him, or loves the fact that he was the first person to make her feel young, free and alive for once. Because of her conflicting feelings, and knowing Ben has a girlfriend that he’s mentioned, she keeps it to herself.

She does still stay friends with him, and the others, helping out with both the Highbreed stuff, and eventually the return of Vilgax. But despite her trust in them, and her father doing his best to make it clear he wants her to be happy, she still hides a lot of her true feelings. Thinking it will eventually go away.

-Alien Swarm Movie-

After the Vilgax Return Arc is over, Ben is now left with a new watch, the ultimatrix, and is spending some time testing it out. The Plumber Kids are also now off world for a while, being sent by Max to do some more specialised training elsewhere.

Meanwhile, across the galaxy, some Plumbers are checking out a plant that they received an S.O.S from a few days ago, but when they arrive the inhabitants seem to be fine, though acting a little off, urging the Plumbers to leave rather quickly. Unknown to them, the planet has already been infested with the nanochips, controlling everyone, though whoever is pulling the strings is unknown.

Not seeing anything wrong though, the Plumber squad leaves, not realising a nanochip queen is planted on them. Though it doesn’t activate right away, seeming to wait until they reach a new planet.

This Plumber squad is sent to earth afterwards, as they’ve been wanting to tighten the security of the planet a little more after both the Highbreed and Vilgax tried invading it. Once they land, they are scanned to make sure nothing on them will cause problems, but the queen is detected and taken away to be looked over. Victor ends up being the one put in charge to figure out what this thing is.

While doing so, many of Victor’s coworkers simply believe the nanochip to be some piece of tech that isn’t online, not seeing the harm in it. However, one night while alone, Victor realises that the chip is indeed alive in a way, awaking up suddenly before striking, hopping right into Victor before he can call for help. The queen takes control of his mind, latching on as it starts its plans.

Victor returns home that night, Elena noticing something off with her father, but when she goes to check on him in the morning, he’s gone. Worried, she tries to figure out what happened, even checking out his lab in the Plumber base, only finding his research notes on the chip and nothing more. She tells the Plumbers, who send out search parties, but there is very little they can do. Elena tries to argue that it must be the chips, but with very little evidence no one believes her.

After two days and finding nothing, Elena feels hurt and upset that the Plumbers aren’t listening to her, so she runs off to find Ben. She locates him in the middle of one of his normal hero time moments with Gwen, Kevin, and even Julie. After doing their thing, they sit down and listen to Elena, and are quick to agree in helping her find her father.

On the way back to the Plumber base, Elena and Julie officially meet. Julie is friendly, though Elena isn’t sure how to feel, jealous deep down as she watches Ben and Julie interact with one another. But she puts on a smile, knowing its dumb to feel that way towards Julie.

Once they’ve arrived they meet up with Max, explaining to him the situation. Feeling bad for Elena, and agreeing that something is up, Max agrees to pull some of his own strings with the Plumbers to help find her father, and make them listen to her concerns. Finally feeling like she is being listened, Elena is grateful, thanking everyone, especially Ben quite a bit.

Gwen ends up suggesting that she uses a tracking spell to find her father, so Elena goes off with her and Kevin to find something of Victor’s to use. Ben and Julie talk for a bit, but when Ship wants to check out the place, and Max wants to talk to Ben alone, the two split for a short while to deal with their own things.

Max talked to Ben about Elena, having noticed her strange behavior towards Ben, and while he doesn’t want to claim any truth, he explains to Ben he suspects Elena might have feelings towards him. Ben, who was pretty oblivious to this, isn’t sure how to feel. Max encourages him to talk to Elena about this before anything bad could happen, though Ben is unsure how to approach such a situation.

Meanwhile, Gwen, Kevin and Elena make it to Victor’s lab, quick to find something for Gwen to use as tracking. As she’s getting the spell up and running, Elena chats with the two, the conversation almost leaning towards Ben, when Gwen speaks up in confusion suddenly, stating that Victor is in the base right this second. Confused, the three rush out to go find him.

Julie and Ship end up being the first to run into him, as Ship detected something strange, following it to a docking station. They see Victor and a few other plumbers, but all acting strange, rather stiff and fake in their mannerisms. Julie tries to leave, but realising she’s caught on to something being strange, Victor suddenly sends a wave of nanochips at her, wanting to control her like he seems to have done with the plumbers with him. However, Ship morphs around her in a suit mode, and protects her from the nanochips, as they can’t seem to damage or control Ship due to his biology. Victor and the controlled Plumbers then open a bunch of containers which were holding many nanochips, that start infesting the base.

Rushing out, Julie calls Ben for help, before bumping into Gwen, Elena and Kevin. She quickly explains what just happened, the team seeing the nanochips approaching, as they run back to the main hub, trying to warn everyone. Alarms start going off, but due to the nanochip’s powers and small size, they can’t seem to be stopped, infecting every Plumber one by one. The team eventually meet up with Ben and Max, but get cornered by the little bots and mind controlled Plumbers.

As they fight, they sadly lose Max to the nanochips, but no one else thankfully. It appears that Kevin and Gwen can not be infected, most likely due to their Anodite and Osmosian biology (which is too strange and complicated for the chips to infest), Julie is protected by ship, the Ultimatrix deflects the nanochips as it sees them as a danger, though it also seems to be partly glitching due to the nanochips, and Elena seems to be safe as her father is somehow fighting the nanochip just enough to keep her protected, for now anyway.

The group manages to narrowly escape, heading to Kevin’s garage to keep safe. Taking a moment to catch their breath, they debate on what to do next. They realise it won’t take long for the nanochips to start taking control over Bellwood, or the other cities around them, and based on what Julie saw, they realise that they’re using Plumber ships to infect other places around the world. When they try using their Plumber badges, or other forms of communication, it appears that the nanochips have found a way to block out most signals on the planet, meaning they can’t even call for help outside or inside of earth.

It doesn’t take them long to realise that this is their plan, to infect the earth, control everyone, and make it seem like to the galaxy that everything is fine once they are in total control. Though they don’t quite know who is pulling the string, believing it to be the queen inside Victor, based on the notes they got from his lab.

Thanks to Ship, they actually caught one of the nanochips, and use some of Kevin’s stuff to get a better look at it. They learn that they are a hybrid of organic and technological components, though all but the queen are drones, and merely do as she tells them. With that in mind, they realise they have to destory the queen in order to stop this whole thing. But how, they do not know, as they do not want to kill Victor.

While this is happening, Ben takes a look over the watch, which is still partly glitching, but is calming down now that they are clear of any nanochips. Though he does take notice that it is still scanning something, perhaps DNA, but that confuses him as he hasn’t been around any new aliens yet. Thinking that the Ultimatrix is just busted, compared to the original watch, Ben doesn’t think about it too hard at the time.

Noticing Elena’s distress over her father, and all that just happened, Julie sits and talks with her, trying to help her stay calm and briefly take her mind off of things. Elena does appreciate it, though does make a passing comment saying she can see why Ben picked her, which slightly confuses Julie, but she doesn’t say anything.

Knowing they can’t sit around for long, they start to form a plan. Kevin and Gwen plan to stay behind and study the chip they have, to see if there is a means they can stop the Queen without harming Victor. Elena originally wanted to stay and help, but the group decided it would be best for her to go with Julie and Ben to help capture Victor and bring him back here, as her connection to her father might help give them the edge they need to stop him.

Though without Kevin to help them drive around, he decides to reveal to Ben a gift he’s been making for a few months now, which is a brand new car. After some joking around, Julie, Ben and Elena head off back to the Plumber base to find Victor. Leaving Gwen and Kevin to go back into researching the nanochips.

Arriving back at the Plumber base, which is now guarded by all the mind controlled Plumbers, Julie, Elena and Ben uses a combined effort to sneak in, without being detected. They eventually track down Victor, who appears to be producing more and more nanochips, that are being shipped out by the Plumbers. Deciding to take a risk, by Elena’s suggestion, Julie and Ben start a commotion as Elena sneaks up to her dad, and tries to knock him out herself (using a knock out chemical she got from her own lab).

Julie and Ben are doing their best to fight all that are mind controlled, though not wanting to harm or kill anyone due to the fact they are still innocent people. Things get tricky though when Max comes in, the nanochip in him trying to convince Ben to stop, making Ben hesitate. Julie snaps him out of it though, and he goes ultimate to help in the fight, but knows he has a limited amount of time before the ultimate power wears off.

Elena manages to get to her dad, stunning him briefly as he’s clearly fighting the queen’s control to protect his daughter. But unlike Ben, no one can stop her from hesitating, and is knocked back by her father. He manages to call to Elena, telling her to the run, and that he can’t hold it back much longer. Seeing the plan failed, Ben and Julie reach Elena, grabbing her, before they narrowly make it out, failing their side of the mission.

Meanwhile with Kevin and Gwen, they think they’ve found a way to destory a nanochip and not have it damage the host, though it’s rather precise, and they don’t know if it works the same on the queen, nor how to reach it when it’s inside the person. But before they can learn more, the garage is suddenly attacked by random people from the street, no doubt now controlled by the nanochips. Having no choice back to flee, Gwen and Kevin rush to the car and escape, still doing their best not to kill again by mistake.

On the car ride, they realise that a good chunk of earth may already be under control, with how fast the nanochips are working, and looking out on the streets of Bellwood, seeing people mindlessly controlled by the nanochips, its a eerie thing to feel and see. But the two comfort and reassure each other, and are confidence they can do something to save the day.

They eventually run into Ben and the others by chance on the street, cars coming to a halt, before having to keep driving before stopping and dealing with some nanochip controlled plumbers who followed, bringing some tools and weapons with them. They fight them off, and escape somewhere hidden, regrouping to figure out their next step.

After learning Ben’s team could not capture Victor, and Gwen and Kevin stating their findings, the team is stuck, knowing they are running out of time. Until Ben hears the watch go off, stating it has a new alien form. Ben finally realises that his watch has scanned the nanochips this entire time, the process awkward as the watch had to fill in some DNA with his own, as the nanochips have strange biology. Knowing they can use this to reach the queen, the team decide that they will go for a straight fight this time, all together, while Ben strikes the queen directly.

While getting prepared, Ben and Elena talk alone for a bit. She opens up to Ben that she’s scared, but also reveals more about her childhood to him, and her general feelings of being alone and not doing what she’s wanted to do. After today, seeing how much can go wrong so fast, she realises that if this is how it ends, then she’s thrown her entire life away. Ben connects with her, stating how his childhood had many negative aspects, due to not really having friends as kids, his jealosuly towards Gwen, and even when the watch came, things just got complicated. But he made the best of it, and is still trying, and suggests that once this is all done, she finally starts making choices for herself, and living a life she wants. Ben also goes to bring up the apparent crush she has on him, but drops it quickly, not thinking this is the right time or place to speak about it.

When everyone is ready, they get back in the cars and start driving. Having a feeling, Gwen uses her tracking spell and learns that Victor had moved, no doubt to try and trick the group into thinking he was still at the Plumber base. Instead, he is now at the edge of Bellwood, in an abandoned warehouse, producing the nanochips there.

Arriving, the team ready themselves before diving in, Elena, Gwen, Kevin and Julie causing a distraction as Ben turn into his new alien form, Nanomech. Become small in size, Nanomech flies into Victor to hunt down the queen.

While looking for her, his mind is suddenly assaulted by the queen’s voice, trying to control him due to his nanochip DNA. There’s also something else strange about the connection that Nanomech doesn’t understand just yet, instead fighting the control as best as he can.

He finds the queen, who looks different to the nanochips, but does have a similar spot Nanomech is suppose to target if he wishes to save Victor too. A fight breaks out between the two, the queen still trying to control Nanomech through the whole thing, with the others outside behind swarmed by all the controlled Plumbers.

But Nanomech finally gets the strike in, destroying the queen. Excited, he rushes out of Victor and turns back, seeing everyone suddenly stop, and awaking from their control. Even Max, who Gwen and Kevin find, and Elena rushes over towards Ben to see her father.

But victory is cut short when it’s revealed…killing the queen did leave some damage to Victor. His mind seems to have taken damage, his memories gone, and his behaviour and mannerism shaky and broken. Elena pleads with her father, but he reveals that he doesn’t even know who she is. Breaking down in tears, Elena can only watch as the Plumbers escort Victor out to get help, before being taken away herself. Ben is about to comfort her, but stops, blaming himself for what happened, even if the others try and reassure he did the best he could.

After a couple of weeks, the Plumbers fixing things the best they can, Ben finally checks in on Elena in her lab. Its clear she’s not doing alright, throwing herself into her job, but reassures Ben she’s getting help. She also explains to him that she doesn’t fault him for what happened to her dad, though something in her seems to be conflicted on that. Ben comforts her, letting her know he’ll be here for her, and to take it easy.

After he leaves, she briefly goes to check on her dad, who is being taken care by the Plumbers. His condition hasn’t changed, which Elena is struggling to handle. She goes back to the lab after doing so, looking over the seemingly dead nanochips, including the queen, hoping to find a way to cure her father. However, as she fails to pay attention, some of the nanochips comes to life, infecting her…but start calling her queen, telling her they’ll do whatever she wants. The effect they have on her is fast, her deepest desires quickly coming to the front of her mind.

Meanwhile, Ben meets up with Gwen, Kevin and Julie, explaining his how his check up on Elena went. They tell him to give her some time and space, and that she’ll be fine eventually. Ben agrees, though is still worried. He also explains to them about something he’s been thinking about. Back when the queen tried controlling him, he now realises the reason her mind control felt weird was because it wasn’t her pulling the strings, but rather another voice, someone not on earth, and that this queen was actually a false queen. Whoever is truly behind all this, is still out there.

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