Ethan controlled his body, broke free from Earth's gravity, and flew up toward the five small robots in the sky!
The five small robots instantly aimed their turrets at him, locking him in as their attack target!
Bang bang bang!
Deep crimson laser blasts tore through the night, carrying a shocking amount of heat, and blasted toward Ethan!
Ethan's bulky body had no way to nimbly dodge so many attacks.
"Try this!"
He spread both arms, tore the hole in his chest open even wider, and one by one the blood-red tentacles expanded outward!
Countless blood-red tentacles swung wildly, striking hard against the laser blasts one after another!
Every single laser blast was smashed to pieces by the tentacles!
"Those tentacles are tougher than steel? You have to be kidding." Max stood below, his face full of disbelief.
"Wait, how is this one even scarier than the last one?"
Ben's mouth dropped open as he stared at Ethan with a horrified expression.
'Please don't tell me.'
'The alien that scared me unconscious.'
'Was actually the cutest one in your watch, Ethan!'
Ethan kept flying upward. His control over the tentacles gradually improved. He stopped flailing them wildly, and instead organized them neatly into a solid formation to block the attacks!
Because of this.
Not even the smoke from the laser blasts could reach Ethan.
Everything was blocked outside by his blood-red shield!
After both sides reached the same height.
Ethan acted as if completely exhausted, spread the tentacles apart, and even retracted most of them.
The small robots immediately pressed their advantage, releasing the remaining laser energy at Ethan!
"You can't touch me anymore."
Ethan slowly raised his head, his expression cold and eerie.
Whoosh!
His body suddenly became intangible, turning almost transparent, letting the laser blasts pass right through his body and explode far in the distance!
"Target, gone?"
The small robots even stopped firing.
They could no longer detect Ethan's energy signature!
"Playtime is over."
Ethan moved at a leisurely pace and slowly drifted in front of the robots.
Whoosh!
As his figure flickered and the intangibility dropped, the moment every small robot locked onto him at once.
Splat!
Ethan ripped his chest open in one move, and his tentacles burst out like flyswatters, violently hammering the small robots with wild and relentless force!
The fearsome military robots, like flies.
Were directly swatted away by the tentacles, slamming hard into the ground, into trees, and exploding into pieces!
The worst part was.
One small robot exploded right in front of Ben, and nearly blasted him away with it!
"Hey hey, Ethan, you almost took me out too!"
Ben was startled and called out to Ethan in warning.
"Oh!"
Ethan's terrifying ghost face turned toward Ben, and he said apologetically, "Sorry."
"..."
Ben's body shuddered, and he lowered his head. "Sorry."
Hm? Why are you apologizing too?
"Alright, let me finish off the rest. Huh? They're all done?"
Ethan looked around. The area was completely silent, unusually quiet, and there was no sign of any small robots left.
He had only taken a single moment.
And wiped out every single small robot?
Damn, even swatting five flies didn't go that fast!
"The rest of them are all right here."
Ben's mouth twitched as he looked down at the robot head shells scattered at his feet.
He had a strange feeling.
That if he kept running his mouth.
His own head would go flying too.
"Ding. The host defeated five small robots, and caused Vilgax to feel wariness. Progress +1 gained!"
"Template progress reached 3/100. Major enhancement of body functions unlocked!"
Major enhancement of body functions?
Ethan was stunned and asked in surprise, "Sounds great, but I don't feel anything different in my body."
"Ding. This reward requires the host to cancel the transformation first before it can be received."
Ethan nodded in sudden understanding. "Got it."
He did not plan to waste the remaining time. He slowly looked toward XLR8, and put on as gentle a smile as he could manage.
Watching that demonic grin stretch all the way to his ears.
Ben snapped to attention. Full attention.
"Ben, let's stay here and practice getting familiar with the alien abilities, so we are not caught off guard in a real fight."
Ethan said helpfully.
"Sure." Ben immediately turned and sprinted away.
After the two of them spent some time getting used to their alien bodies and ran out their transformation time.
Ethan returned to the ground, red light flickering across his body.
The moment he changed back into a human.
Strength gradually built up in his limbs and body, and his steps felt noticeably lighter by a huge amount.
Even his muscles had developed slightly, with a faint but visible definition forming.
"So this is the direct enhancement to the host's own body from the template? This is amazing!"
Ethan clenched his fist in excitement, then walked over beside Max and helped steady him. He actually managed to shift half of Max's weight with that one hand!
"Grandpa, it's okay. Don't worry."
Max looked at Ethan with a sense of satisfaction, and then said with praise, "Your strength is growing really fast. This is almost getting close to what Grandpa was like in his younger days."
"That strong?"
Ethan immediately thought to himself, 'System, open the template!'
[Host: Ethan Shaw] [Age: 11] [Template: Error Watch. Transformation Duration: 10 minutes. Cooldown Duration: 10 minutes.] [Progress: 3/100] [Skills: None] [Items: None] [Aliens: Initial Ten Aliens] [Physical Condition: Strong Adult Level]
Holy crap.
Ethan's physical condition had shot straight up to strong adult level!
And on top of that, since his base form had gotten stronger, his Error Watch alien transformations would be stronger too!
This was a full across-the-board upgrade. Absolutely great.
'But what is this thing about Vilgax feeling wariness? What kind of tricks is this octopus-head going to pull?'
Ethan narrowed his eyes, quietly becoming alert inside.
"Hey, why is Bookworm still passed out?"
"She was, scared by the fight scene from before."
Ben asked with some concern. Max, afraid of hurting Ethan's feelings, changed the subject.
"I'll wake her up."
Ethan snapped back to attention, walked with large strides toward Gwen, and put on a determined expression.
"Let's use."
"Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation!"
...
On a massive spaceship.
Inside a growth tank, the broken and incomplete Vilgax stared hard at the electronic screen in the main hall, his face green with rage.
The electronic screen played back the defeat record of the small robots, over and over again.
Five small robots had been slaughtered by Ethan!
"Just what, what kind of monster is this!"
Vilgax took a long and deep cold breath, looked at Ethan's terrifying ghost face, and could not help but say it.
He truly had not expected there would be two Omnitrixes!
And on top of that, this Omnitrix that had never appeared before was so terrifyingly powerful!
Even a monster like Vilgax was calling someone else a monster!
"Keep sending more forces to Earth. We must test the true combat power of this creature!" At this point, Vilgax was not only holding onto his goal of retrieving the Omnitrix.
He had gained a new goal as well, which was to find out the true combat power of the Error Aliens!
"Azmuth is really sneaky. He secretly built a weapon like this."
"Exactly. And he calls himself a lover of peace."
"Azmuth, I really can't believe this guy."
As for Vilgax's subordinates, they went on one after another cursing Azmuth for being a hypocrite.