He Tries To Use It

Waving his arm around like a madman, Ben tried shaking off the black, grey, and green watch-thing that had latched onto his wrist while he ran in a panic.

“Getitoffgetitoffgetitoffgetitoff-!” Ben was cut off as he finally hit a tree, slamming into it and bouncing back to the grass underneath it.

“Ughh… Not my best moment…”

Picking himself up, and now able to start thinking rationally, Ben looked around and saw he was actually in the forest across from the park, and deep in it too, far away from where the sphere-satellite-container-thing had crashed. He could hear a couple sirens in the distance over in the direction he assumed that the park was in, but it might as well have been from the other parts of the city limits.

Looking back down to his left wrist, Ben looked over the watch thing more closely than what he’d seen earlier.

Unlike other watches, it was pretty bulky, taking up a good bit of his fore-arm, and the face of it just had a green hourglass displayed there, no type of clock or anything.

“What kind of watch is this?” He muttered to himself, “Oh god, I hope it doesn’t eat my face…”

Twisting his arm around, down, over and under, he looked for the buttons, and managed to get a click when he pressed one of the green bulb things next to the face, which caused the green glow to turn into a bright yellow.

He jumped a bit as a female voice sounded out from the watch. “Scanning environment: Level two world: Implementing camouflage:”

“Camouflage? Level Two???”

Ben could only stare and watch on as the green glow came back, covering the whole watch and causing it to slim down to a thin white band like a regular watch might have, and the face to change to a black square with green lines making an hourglass shape on it, the changes finishing there and the glow dying out.

Needless to say, Ben was more than a little shocked.

“I… What, how, WHAT?!” He looked at it incredulously, “This has gotta be some space alien thing, right?!”

In disbelief, he tried messing with it again, grabbing the face only for a green hologram to pop up above it, showcasing a bunch of flat green silhouettes of strange creatures, though most of them looked pretty humanoid. He tried touching it, but it seemed to make the image move to the next one, lighting it up with a thick border.

“What are these?” They all looked pretty alien to him… He hoped he didn’t have to meet them, though. He was not ready for an encounter of the close kind.

After looking through the images, going back and forth between them, his hand slipped back down to the face, which caused it to stop the hologram and slip the face off to the side, a cylinder of some kind with a green and black hourglass on the top end popping out of the opening and making Ben flinch from the speed it did so.

“What- Wait, what’s it doing now?!” He looked all over the watch, but couldn’t find any new buttons, or anything else that had changed, “Well… Maybe nothing bad will happen?”

As casually as he could, Ben gently pressed the cylinder back down into the square hole of the face…