### Chapter 7: Hero Transformation
Central City, S.T.A.R. Labs.
Dr. Silas Stone was trying to find a way to save his son.
While studying the Mother Box sent by The Flash, his son burst into the laboratory because of a conflict between them.
Affected by the explosion caused when the Mother Box was activated, his child was now on the verge of death.
Temporarily moved to a secure laboratory, the sealed door was currently under attack by Parademons.
"The door won't hold for long. There's an endless stream of monsters outside. The Flash is on his way."
Hearing the report from his subordinate researcher, Silas Stone sent his dying son into the experimental chamber.
He had been studying high-tech products collected from all over the world at S.T.A.R. Labs. He believed that his research would definitely be able to save his son's life.
"He's alive, but unknown energy is eroding his body from the inside. He's about to stop breathing."
The researcher checking the real-time data reported his child's condition to Silas Stone. They could hear the painful cries of the child in the experimental chamber.
"I once swore to the child's mother that I would protect him. I will definitely be able to do it!"
Silas Stone regarded his research as the last straw to save his son. Even though many experiments had never been tested, he had to give it a try.
"His body is producing a strong rejection reaction. If this continues, he will only die more painfully!"
Hearing the reports from colleagues in his ears, Silas Stone felt like his heart was being cut by a knife. As the instrument showed his son's heart stopping, he began to regret not spending more time with his family.
Suddenly, the experimental chamber in front of him underwent a strange change, turning into a shape similar to a cocoon. A large amount of data became disordered, and the few people in the laboratory panicked a little as they checked the source of the anomaly.
"The energy eroding him fused with the experimental chamber. The experiment is out of control..."
Before they could rejoice over the turn of events, the laboratory door protecting them was smashed through by teleported Parademons.
A large mechanical hand extended from the experimental chamber, and Victor Stone, now half-human and half-machine, launched an attack on the incoming Parademons.
His mechanical body transformed into weapons, and the roar of gunpowder destroyed the incoming Parademons one after another.
But even more Parademons were surging in. Just as a Parademon was about to bypass Victor and grab the only remaining researchers, a red blur flashed by and moved the group aside.
"I think I'm not too late."
Having moved the researchers to a safe location nearby, The Flash looked at Victor, who was slaughtering enemies in all directions inside the laboratory, with some surprise.
"What happened here?"
...
Metropolis, inside a construction site.
According to Ben's plan, the Parademons flying out of the channel in front of them were queuing up to run into Superman's fist.
Although Ben successfully used the Omnitrix to repair the genes of the severely injured Parademons, everyone present noticed that the Parademons invading this time were modified from various kinds of aliens.
Perhaps because their previous actions provoked Darkseid, Apokolips began a full-scale invasion directly.
Because these Parademons emerging from Apokolips had been modified and brainwashed for too long, even if the Omnitrix repaired the genetic modifications on them, most were left with only one breath.
"More Parademons are emerging from other channels, and some are attacking us. We must speed up."
Batman learned about the disasters happening around the world through his own satellite monitoring.
An endless stream of enemies was causing destruction everywhere.
Continuing to save them one by one like this was absolutely not a solution.
"The President is under attack, I must go help!"
Through super hearing, Superman heard the distress signal from the White House.
Relying on the power of Green Lantern and Batman, they could stably suppress the Parademons from the two channels. He needed to go help more people.
"The big guy is gone. Any worse news?"
Hal tried hard to control the channel from which Parademons were emerging. At this time, Batman got into the Batwing and relied on the weapons on the fighter jet to take over Superman's work.
Ben was trying to touch the fallen Parademons with the Omnitrix to correct their DNA.
He didn't have voice command authority, so he could only try hard to manually activate the Omnitrix's gene correction function, attempting to correct the DNA of all Parademons at once.
Hearing Hal's complaint, he noticed that the Mother Box Boom Tube seemed to have undergone a new mutation.
"Hal, I hope you don't jinx it! The Boom Tube is starting to expand. My previous operations are gradually failing!"
On the Apokolips side, they seemed to have noticed the anomaly of the two Mother Boxes and were remotely seizing control permissions of the Mother Boxes.
Since Ben had changed back from Grey Matter to a normal human, his current ability was insufficient for him to participate in the struggle for Mother Box permissions.
"What do we do now? I can't hold it much longer!"
Using Green Lantern energy to try hard to suppress the expansion of the Boom Tube, Hal was giving it his all at this moment.
At this time, Ben was trying hard to control the Omnitrix, but his operation, comparable to a monkey typing on a keyboard, couldn't be said to be completely useless, only producing very little effect.
"It would be great if I could turn on the Omnitrix master control mode. Why didn't Azmuth build a user manual into the Omnitrix?"
The expansion of the Boom Tube could not be suppressed, and more and more Parademons rushed out from the Boom Tube.
Boom Tubes also opened in other places in the city, and a large number of Parademons were surging toward their location.
To avoid the Parademons emerging from other parts of the city, Hal could no longer concentrate on suppressing the initial two Boom Tubes.
"Focus your will and attack the Parademons emerging from the channel below with full force. I'll deal with those flying from other directions!"
Although everyone had expected that there would be more than two Mother Boxes, the number of Parademons attacking from all directions still exceeded their imagination.
Since enemies could continuously emerge from other channels, there was no point in them continuing to suppress the channels near them.
Directing Hal to maintain the attack, Batman also aimed the weapons on the Batwing at the enemies attacking from a distance.
"Green Lantern, attack!"
Accompanying Batman's words, and accompanying Hal Jordan's shout, an incomparably dazzling green light turned into a tall mecha and began to attack the Parademons emerging from the channel with full force.
At this time, Ben also understood that now was not the time for him to continue trying to correct the genetic defects of the Parademons.
Facing the incoming Parademons in front of him, the Omnitrix core popped up automatically.
When the user's hiding place was dangerous, the Omnitrix's autonomous defense mechanism would activate, lifting the cooldown restriction in advance.
Looking at the Parademons rushing in front of him, Ben couldn't care less about checking which alien hero the Omnitrix had selected at this time, and slapped down on the watch core hard.
"It's Hero Time!"