Chapter 179 Chapter 179 is a higher intensity strength party! ...
"It seems there are indeed many misunderstandings among us."
After a long, long silence, Benjamin let out a sound as heavy as a sigh. He raised his left arm, turned the Omnitrix, and pressed the dial in front of Damian.
Bright green light surged like a tide, and a black and blue cloaked figure appeared in Benjamin's place. As he rose, the "cloak" smoothly unfurled, transforming into a pair of black and blue wings, the same color as the Ice Ghost cubs.
That was a fully grown version of the Ice Ghost cub, or in other words—
"Ice Ghost."
Cold white steam emerged from the creature's mouth like summer ice cream, and its words were as cold and eerie as its breath.
"I am Swampfire, I am Ice Ghost, I am Benjamin Kirby Tennyson, I am Ben 10."
"The Nakfuji are hermaphrodites, producing their own eggs every eighty years. The Nakfuji babies you see are precious treasures I conceived and gave birth to. I am their parent."
So please, put your imagination aside! There really isn't any clichéd 8 o'clock drama plot here!
Damian: “…”
Damian: ""
ah? ? ?
Faced with the heavy blow of social death and the truth beyond common sense, Damian's eyes once again became as clear and confused as those of an ordinary child. He turned his gaze for confirmation to his father, the person he trusted most among all people.
His noble father met his gaze and murmured helplessly, "Nakfuji Ecology, son."
Damian wanted to say: This isn't just a Nakfuji ecological issue anymore, is it? He's changed species! This guy not only transformed into a moth, but also into grass!
Damian, who originally wanted to discover his magical boy transformation and gain new powers, fell into deep thinking about strength and integrity.
Is this the power of the magic boy's transformation? It's okay to be able to transform into an alien, but how can he get pregnant by himself?
No wonder his father told Drake not to rush into exploring his transformation potential; it turns out there is such a risk.
My father is indeed a father, he always considers everything he does.
During the brainstorming session, Damian's respect for Bruce increased again.
Although the Aug family has always emphasized that "if you must have a partner, you must have a strong one, and if you must have a child, you must have the strongest one", his mother also taught him this way. Damian is not opposed to "giving birth to a powerful child"... but not in this way!
Even for the Assassin's League, he's too young to be considering the next generation! His mother, Talia, only considered it after she was hundreds of years old!
But... aside from the mundane formalities, the power gained from the transformation is truly formidable, and the offspring is also powerful, which truly aligns with the creed passed down by the Augu family...
Should I wait until I'm an adult before considering it?
"Your brother looks like he has stopped thinking. Didn't you tell him that Ben can transform?" Li Hua asked Jason in a low voice when he saw Damian staying there for a long time without moving.
Damian had seen Ben's two forms before, and Ben also revealed that he was Swampfire. There was no reason for Jason to hide it from him.
Jason said he was truly innocent in this incident: "I told you! I told you Ben would transform, and I told you that you would transform too. How could I have known he would think that?"
Dick said the only fair thing Damian had heard that day: "I don't think this is Damian's problem. Anyone else would have the same thought process as him if they heard the keywords '15-year-old boy,' 'unexpected pregnancy,' 'giving birth alone,' 'the biological father is alive but missing, and has to raise the child with her roommates.'"
Tim: "It's a good thing Bruce didn't give Damian a computer or phone before. Otherwise, if he searched for Ice Ghost online and saw the gossip section..."
He would see Ice Ghost, Nightwing, Spider Monkey and a bunch of other people entangled and flying around, and let an innocent Dick Grayson be dragged into the center of the storm of today's social death Shura.
Normally, Damian would have argued with Tim. But facing social turmoil, he had lost most of his strength. "So you're not weak after giving birth, are you?"
Benjamin shook his head. “I’m in good health, but thank you for your concern for me and my children.”
Damian was completely dejected.
As the saying goes, everything has its limits. Damian's extreme arrogance made his social death even more thorough at this moment. The key is that he couldn't blame anyone.
"I'm going to take the Ice Ghost cubs. Come with me."
Seeing the child dejected, Tim finally softened his heart. He squatted down and placed the ice ghost cub in his arms in Damian's arms, pulling his youngest brother out of this socially deadly environment that was hurting both him and Benjamin.
Maybe it was Tim who saved the situation, or maybe it was Damian's quick adaptation. An hour later, when Benjamin quietly went to the backyard, he found that Damian had lost his previous depressed look, and he even got along with Tim in a harmonious way.
Judging from the scoop net set up next to them, Tim must have been leading the children in catching moths.
"See? I told you that people of the same age can play together." Benjamin's eyes were furry. "Look how much fun they are having."
Li Hua felt horrified: "You've lost your mind as a mother, haven't you? Tim is only one year younger than you!"
Could it be that the saying "one pregnancy makes one stupid for three years" also applies to the occasional Nakfuji people?!
...Wait, that's not right. The Nakfuji people who get pregnant regularly may not have the saying "one pregnancy makes you stupid for three years", but Benjamin is a human being!
The shy ones are still thinking, while the brave ones have already started to speak.
Jason grabbed Benjamin by the back of his collar and pulled him back, shaking him violently by the shoulders. “Benjamin, wake up! Didn’t that damn old frog say they were going to patch the Omnitrix? Why are you now being affected by it and turning into a baby brain?!”
Not to mention that Benjamin was talking about pickles all the time when he was pregnant, the most terrifying thing is that this idiot started asking about the social environment of Planet 666 Kelmis and the child’s future schooling before even having a baby.
Then he started to worry about whether his dog back home had gotten lost. After being persuaded that it wouldn't get lost, he started to feel bad again, thinking that his dog was old and might pass away at any time, and fell into another round of anxiety...
Jason didn't want to go through the same sentimental pregnancy test again! Damn it, he was really not good at comforting people.
"I'm talking about Damian and my children!" Benjamin slapped Jason's hand away. "Are you two getting stupid too?"
Well, maybe it was partly because he had just transformed into an ice ghost.
Every time Benjamin transforms into an ice ghost, he will be more likely to think of his children uncontrollably, and more than once he would say "My babies can easily win this victory" after beating up the enemy in battle.
.......Perhaps he does have to bear some responsibility for the Ice Ghost's parent-child gossip.
"Let the kids play," Dick said. "Get some rest tonight. We'll help look after them during tomorrow's exam... Is that a knife in Damian's hand?"
Bruce poked his head out from behind the children and took a closer look. "That's Lei Xiaogu's knife. It was originally placed in the trophy area of the Batcave."
I don't know when and how it was found by Damian.
.......
On the other side, Tim turned around and saw Damian holding a katana that could cut through iron like mud. He was so scared that he threw the Ice Ghost Cub behind him. "Damian, what are you doing with a knife?"
"Didn't you say that?" Damian waved his knife, then sheathed it as a curious ice ghost cub flew over. "Let children better navigate the social imitation stage through self-centered symbolic play. It was you who asked me to find the game props."
If Tim wasn't so confident in his memory, he would really suspect that what he just said was not "playing house" but a social science research project.
Tim: "Then why did you bring a knife?"
Damian asked, "They have to imitate someone to imitate the headquarters, so why can't they imitate me?"
...Good question. Before this, Tim didn't know that the Assassin's League not only trains assassins, but also debaters.
Tim: “But they don’t know you.”
Damian: "I didn't know them before. But they showed extremely high intelligence, and you also said that they have a good memory. So after I showed them superb and deadly sword skills, they remembered me."
That is the fighting technique passed down by the Augu family. Few people have the honor of being able to see the whole set alive.
Tim: "Compared to human babies of the same age, ice ghost cubs are very smart, but there are limits. You haven't had much contact with them. Most children start playing house by impersonating their most familiar parents. How about we start with something simple and work our way up step by step?"
"If you want me to be Tennyson, Todd, or Lee, why don't I just go to the house and call them over?"
"At least change to a wooden sword..."
Tim was about to say something, but was interrupted by Damian impatiently drawing his knife.
"Don't use your nonsense to erode my hard-earned respect for you, Drake."
Tim closed his mouth.
Seeing that no one would stop him, Damian swung the knife that was too big for him as he wished and showed off his skills in front of the ice ghost cub.
Then he was delighted to find that, just as he expected, as he finished his knife attack, several ice ghost cubs surrounded him in admiration.
To avoid the sharp blade from stabbing the cub, Damian pointed the tip of the knife to the ground and said to the cub: "Be my Robin. You can do the same when you are my age..."
Damian's handsome recruitment session ended with the ice ghost cub biting the sharp blade, and was buried when he found that the sword made by his grandfather had a clear tooth mark left by the two-month-old baby.
"The Nakfuji people eat metal, so I advised you to switch to a wooden sword a long time ago."
Only then did Tim step forward with a scoop net and scoop away all the moths that were eager to try, thus sparing the rest of Damian's grandfather's knife.
Otherwise, by then, the "Seven Kids on One Vine" situation will become Gotham's local version of the "Seven Kids on One Knife" situation.
"You're not mad at me, are you? I warned you long ago that it was you who stopped me from speaking."
Tim was just thinking about admiring Damian's angry expression when his coolness was interrupted, but he saw Damian looking at the notch on the knife and handed it over again with appreciation.
"It's amazing that he can possess such power at such a young age!"
"You have good taste. My grandfather's knives are all made of the highest quality materials."
Tim was shocked, and so were the people watching in the dark.
Damn, this is the real strength party!
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