Hey guys. :3 So I've decided to take a break from drabbles to actually write a full-length fanfic. (gasp) Yes, I know, it's a miracle.

This is basically my own "episode" of B10:AF. I'm not really sure how many chapters it'll be...I mean, I know what's going to happen, I just don't how long it'll take me to write it all in. XD

Anyway, being the rabid Gwevin fangirl I am, this story will be VERY Kevin x Gwen.

"…remind me why I'm here."

"Gwen asked us you to come."

"Right."

Ben chewed on his churro, his eyes going back and forth across the court as the basketball game went on. Ben knew little to nothing about basketball, but Gwen had asked both him and Kevin to come and watch her friend play in the semi-finals. The girl's varsity basketball team at Gwen's school was consistently good, but this was the first year in awhile that they were so close to the championship and Gwen had insisted on coming to watch the play-offs.

"I'm bored out of my mind," Kevin sighed, looking down at where Gwen sat. Gwen had found herself a space near the front, watching the game intently and cheering on her friend. "And why the heck are you even here? You don't even go to this school."

"What else do I have to do?" Ben shrugged, biting off another piece of his churro. "And why do you care if I'm here?" he smiled and looked at Kevin, a smug expression on his face. "Awww, did you want a little alone time with Gwen?"

"Do you want that churro shoved up your nose?!" Kevin asked, grabbing the collar of Ben's jacket.

"Hey, hey, sorry!" Ben smiled. He used to be scared of Kevin's threats, but he knew that the teen had more bark than bite. "You're right, I shouldn't have come. If I wasn't here, you could've stared at Gwen some more, thinking about how pretty she is and how you really should ask her out but won't."

"Okay – I'd get your freaky watch ready cause I'm about to kick some Tennyson butt!"

Kevin and Ben were interrupted by the buzzing sound that told the crowd it was the end of the quarter. The teams retreated to their benches for a short meeting with their coach, and the cheerleaders all got ready to do a cheer. Gwen took this as a prime opportunity to walk up towards Ben and Kevin who were sitting up higher on the bleachers. "Isn't this exciting?!" she asked. "Katie's doing great out there!"

"Yeah, your school's team's pretty good," Ben agreed, Kevin releasing him.

"Goooo Cougars!"

Gwen, Ben, and Kevin all looked down to see the cheerleaders doing a rather impressive routine. They had made three different tiers, with three different flyers on the top, kicking their legs straight up and waving their pom-poms. Gwen's eyes rested on the cheerleader in the center, a pretty girl with straight honey colored hair that fell to her shoulders. The girl had a confident smirk on her face, and wore a lavender headband that matched her white and purple uniform. Gwen and the girl's eyes met, and the girl's smirk only got wider. Gwen sighed and looked away, disgusted. "Woah, there was like a novel between the lines there," Kevin joked, smirking at Gwen. "You got a beef with that cheerleader?"

"Cassie Redwood," Gwen spat out. "Only the most selfish, self-absorbed, arrogant brat in the school. She just loves to make fun of me."

"Make fun of you?" Ben asked, raising an eyebrow. "What's there to make fun of?"

"Oh, just that I'm a suck-up and a know-it-all and a dweeb," she sighed, and then turned to Ben. "Everything you used to make fun of me for."

"She's just jealous," Ben assured her.

"Yeah, you may be a know-it-all, but some people like that sorta thing," Kevin said, and Gwen turned to him, frowning. He looked back at her. "Yeah, just kidding."

"You were not!" Gwen said, folding her arms in front of her. "Is that what you think? I'm a know-it-all?"

"No, I was just joking!" Kevin said, his defensive side rearing his ugly head. "Can't you take a joke?"

"Well sorry I'm so insufferable!" Gwen frowned. "Or should I should small words so I don't sound so smart?"

"Hey, are you saying I'm dumb?" Kevin asked, and Ben could tell that tensions were beginning to rise.

"Now guys," Ben said, trying to get between them, to no avail.

"No," Gwen lowered her voice, once again imitating Kevin. "I was just joking! Can't you take a joke?"

"Whatever!" Kevin stood up and walked past Gwen and Ben down the stairs of the bleachers. "I'll wait for you two in the car. This whole thing is stupid anyway! This is the last time I bring you anywhere – I'm tired of playing chauffeur to you anyway!"

"Kevin, wait—" Ben began to say, but was suddenly interrupted by a huge smashing noise that came from the other end of the gymnasium. Suddenly, a bright light and an explosion sounded throughout the gym, knocking back a few people in the opposite stands. When the dust cleared, Ben, Kevin, and Gwen gasped to see a huge hole had been blown in the side of the gymnasium. And standing in front of the hole were three gigantic alien creatures that they had never seen before.

All three were tall – at least nine feet – and resembled muscular red and orange salamanders that walked on their hind legs and had four yellow eyes and sharp teeth. From their pale gray lips, golden drool dripped to the ground, and long yellow tongues darted in and out between their sharp teeth. The most defining feature of these alien monsters was that each had four extremely muscular, gigantic tails.

The crowd screamed and ran as the salamanders began to blast more energy from their tails, causing more and more explosions. "What the heck are those things?!" Kevin shouted.

"Like I would know!" Gwen shouted back.

"That's funny, I thought you knew everything!"

"Guys, now is not the time to fight!" Ben assured them, stepping between the two of them. "They look like giant Salamanders or something. I never even knew an alien like that existed. And how'd it get here?" Ben turned to his two companions. "Look, Gwen, Kevin, you two help get everyone out!"

"No way, we're going to help you kick out those reptile-rejects!" Kevin announced.

"Actually, salamanders are amphibians," Gwen remarked as she walked by Kevin, who shot her a nasty glare. "And Ben's right. This is my school -- I can't exactly use my powers here. And we don't want everyone knowing about you either. Let's focus on getting people out. Ben can go alien and take care of those three."

"Fine," Kevin sighed. "But the second you look like you're having trouble Tennyson, I'm over there!" With that, Gwen and Kevin ran down the bleachers to help rescue those in need. Ben knew he had little time. He ran down the bleachers and ran behind them, fiddling with the omnitrix as he did. Looking around to make sure no one was watching him, Ben slammed down his hand on the face-plate and began to transform.

Ben felt himself shrinking, and the familiar feeling of turning into Echo Echo overcame his body. His head began to expand, and he felt his ears becoming super sensitive. The next thing he knew, he was the tiny white alien, and was ready to take on the Salamander foes.

"Hey there!" Echo Echo called out to the Salamanders, and they looked around, looking for the speaker. When they finally found who was addressing them, all they could see was a tiny alien in the bleachers, pointing at them. "How about you take on me?! After all, it's three on one!"

The aliens turned towards Echo Echo, growling loudly. They poised their tails and fired up their energy to shoot beams at him. Echo Echo smirked and immediately split apart until all the rows of bleachers were full of Echo Echos. The salamanders' eyes widened. "Okay, so I lied about three on one," Echo Echo joked, and the aliens released the energy from their tails.

The Echo Echos in the center used their wall of sound to deflect the beams, while the ones on the sides ran towards the aliens, ready to fight them off with their sound powers. A good group took on each alien, grabbing onto it while the others emitted damaging sound waves.

"Get the tails!" Echo Echo shouted to his fellows. The Echo Echos clamped onto the alien's tails, trying to control them, but the Salamander tails were the strongest part of the alien's bodies, and the Echo Echos had trouble holding on.

While Echo Echo was holding off the aliens, Gwen and Kevin were having their own problems getting everyone out. "Everyone, don't run! Get to the exits!" Gwen shouted as she helped people who were injured.

"Gwen!" a girl with a brown ponytail ran up to Gwen, looking exasperated.

"Katie, what's wrong?"

"It's the cheerleaders!" Katie pointed to the cheerleaders, who were all trying to let down their fliers without hurting them, while still trying to avoid the alien blasts. "They need help!"

"Can't they just get down and run?!"

"They don't want to hurt the girls in the air!"

"Ahhhh!" Cassie, the cheerleader that Gwen disliked so, let out a bloodcurdling scream as another alien tail blast nearly hit her and her group. "Get me down you idiots!"

"We're trying!" they said. "Okay, on three! One…two…"

The cheerleaders didn't finish. An alien let out yet another tail blast, and the girls screamed and ran, letting go of Cassie in the process. Cassie screamed as she began to fall to the ground, and Gwen and Katie gasped. Gwen's hands began to glow purple – she didn't like Cassie Redwood – but she wasn't about to let her fall to her death.

But Gwen wouldn't have to use her powers. In the blink of an eye, Kevin had dived down from bleacher he was standing on and had grabbed Cassie out of the air. He rolled on the ground, still clutching Cassie in his arms. "You okay?" he asked when the two finally stopped rolling. Cassie looked up at him, shocked, and yet obviously smitten.

"Y-Yeah…I'm fine now," she smiled, and Kevin got up. "Oh, ouch!" Cassie cried out. She clutched her ankle rather dramatically, and Kevin looked down at her. "I-it's my ankle," she said. "I think I hurt it when I fell!"

"Here!" Kevin went down and scooped Cassie up in his arms. She immediately wrapped her arms around his neck and wasted no time pressing her head to his chest. He was a little awkward at that, but remembering her "injured" ankle, thought nothing of it. "C'mon, let's get you out of here!"

He ran by Gwen and Katie, Gwen looking at him rather disapprovingly. Katie turned to her, "Well…seems Cassie's sunk her claws into another victim."

Gwen frowned at that as she watched Kevin run out of the gym with Cassie still clutching him tightly.

Meanwhile, Echo Echo was still having trouble with the aliens. Even with his huge numbers, the Salamanders' height and energy blasts were making it difficult for Echo Echo to cope.

"Why aren't our sound waves affecting them?"

"Salamanders don't have external or middle ears!" Gwen shouted. "Echo Echo's sound waves might not be able to reach them!"

"Wow – you being a know-it-all came in handy!" Echo Echo tried to make a joke, but Gwen only frowned at him. "Sorry…"

"Ben, watch out!" Gwen shouted, but it was too late. A salamander had gobbled up one Echo Echo in its mouth, and Echo Echo was struggling not to be swallowed.

"Oh, this is gross," Echo Echo said, and then looked to his right to see a red blinking device lodged inside the creature's mouth. He frowned and reached out to grab it. He took it off and held it in his palm. "What's this thing?"

Suddenly, the creature began to spasm, and spat Echo Echo out, much to its dismay. Echo Echo was covered in golden drool. "Can we just once not fight aliens that spit gross stuff?"

But the alien's spasms continued, and Echo Echo's eyes widened as he saw the creature shrink rapidly. Where once stood a huge creature was now only a tiny normal salamander running across the ground. "What the heck?" Echo Echo asked, but realized, when he looked at the blinking red device in his hand, what he had just done. "Go for the mouth! Get this thing out!" he told his fellows, and they all nodded, jumping onto the salamander's faces and forcing open their mouths.

With some difficulty, they were able to rip the blinking devices from the inside of the creatures' mouths, and soon, they too were reduced to tiny amphibians as well. The Echo Echos placed all the blinking red devices together and then, with a flash of green light, transformed back into Ben.

Gwen joined Ben in the center of the court. The gym had been empty long ago, so their voices echoed off the now nearly destroyed gymnasium. "They weren't aliens at all," Ben said, reaching down and collecting the tiny devices. "They were just normal animals transformed with these." He held up one device and looked at it closely.

"Meddling with animal DNA," Gwen muttered, looking at the thing in Ben's hand with a dark glare. "That sounds too familiar for my liking."

"Dr. Animo," Ben frowned, clutching the devices in his hand. "But I thought we took care of him awhile ago!"

"He always had a way of coming back when we least wanted him to," Gwen sighed, and then turned to see Kevin walking towards. "Speaking of which…"

"So where did the 'amphibians' go?" Kevin said, imitating Gwen on the word "amphibians".

"You're looking at 'em," Ben said, pointing to the salamanders scuttling on the ground.

"Huh? They were a lot bigger before."

"They weren't aliens," Ben said, holding up one of the blinking red devices. "They were transformed with these. We're pretty sure a guy named Dr. Animo's behind it. Another villain from my past."

"You got a lot of friends from way back when, don't you?" Kevin asked bitterly.

"Yeah, I'm looking at one of those 'friends'," Ben reminded him, and Kevin looked away. "Anyway, we'd better find Dr. Animo and fast. This definitely isn't the last we've seen of these creatures. If he's mass-produced these guys, he could make an entire army."

"I can track him with these," Gwen said, holding up one of the devices. Her eyes glowed that same purple, and the device levitated in front of her. But when she tried to pinpoint the location of the owner, her signal was split, and she frowned. The device dropped in her hand. "That's weird…I'm not getting a clear location. It's like it's split." Gwen frowned, obviously frustrated.

"Oh, you don't know everything for once! Call the Bellwood Times! They'll want this on the front page!" Kevin said, throwing his hands in the air. Ben frowned at him, and Gwen simply walked by him, obviously hurt and angry. He called after her, "I can see it now: "Gwen Tennyson, Big Fat Know-It-All, Actually Doesn't Know Something For Once! Could it be the influence of that big dumb lunk she hangs out with?!""

"Dude, what's your deal?!" Ben snapped, drawing Kevin's attention away from Gwen. "You won't leave Gwen alone!"

"I'm not an idiot!" Kevin snapped back. "Sure, I may not go to school like you two do, but I'm not dumb either!"

"Well you're acting dumb right now!" Ben crossed his arms in front of him. "Just apologize already!"

"I don't take orders from nobody!"

"Anybody," Ben corrected him, and Kevin stormed away, obviously very frustrated. Ben sighed and followed him out of the gym.

"Oh, there he is!"

Kevin, Ben, and Gwen were met with photographers snapping pictures and TV cameras all around the school, giving Breaking News reports on what had occurred at the game that night. Before Kevin knew what had happened, Cassie Redwood had burst from the crowd and had grabbed his arm. He noticed that her ankle had healed rather quickly. "Here's the hero that saved me! I would've been killed if it wasn't for him!"

Cameras began to take pictures of Cassie holding onto Kevin's arm, and Gwen merely narrowed her eyes in disgust. Ben was a little miffed that nobody was paying attention to him, considering he had been the one to take down the monsters in the first place. All Kevin had done was save some cheerleader. "I'm Cassie, what's your name?"

"Kevin Levin," Kevin said to her, and Cassie sighed.

"Kevin's my hero!" she told the reporters. "He was so charming when he saved me! Like a prince!"

Gwen snorted at that. Kevin? A Prince? Yeah right. "Prince" was not the word she would use to describe the young man that had a glove box full of speeding tickets and slept at tennis matches.

"Well, yeah, I gotta go," Kevin mumbled, and Cassie frowned.

"I'll see you again, won't I?"

"Uhh…I dunno," Kevin said, sounding very awkward with the whole situation. He looked over at Gwen, who caught his eye and frowned before immediately looking away in a huff. "You know, yeah you will." Cassie squealed and Kevin shot Gwen a smirk. "I'll come back around another time and maybe you and I can hang sometime."

"Oh, I'll just call you sometime! What's your number?"

"Oh, funny thing," Gwen said, finally stepping forward. "He actually doesn't have a cell phone. Or a phone for that matter."

"Oh, hi Gwen," Cassie said, her face dropping. "You know Kevin?"

"Yeah, we hang around all the time," Gwen said, her voice dripping with sweet vengeance. "In fact, Kevin's going to drive me and Ben home right now."

"Actually, I could use a ride home too!" Cassie gasped, looking up at Kevin. "Would you be a sweetie and drive me home Kevin?"

"Absolutely no—" Gwen began, only to be cut off by Kevin.

"Sure," he smiled, and Cassie gave an "I win" smirk to Gwen, who frowned bitterly.

"Hey Kevin!" Gwen began. "Are you just going to give rides away to any girl that asks?"

"It's my car," he said defensively. "I can give rides to who I want. Oh, and Carrie gets shot-gun."

"Cassie," she reminded him, still pleased at the fact that she'd be riding in the front.

"I always ride in the front," Gwen said, staring him down.

"Not tonight you don't," he said, taking the keys out of his pocket and twirling them around his finger. "C'mon kiddos, let's get going."

Gwen looked after Kevin and Cassie, hands clenched into fists. Ben walked up beside her and put a hand on her shoulder. "Hey watch it – don't want you blowing up the whole school with that mana of yours."

"GARRR, HE IS SUCH AN IDIOT!"

"I know, I know," Ben sighed as he listened to Gwen yell at him over the phone. Nearly the minute Kevin had dropped Ben at home, he had gotten a call from Gwen complaining about Kevin. "But hey, I don't think he really likes Cassie you know—"

"Wh-why should I care if Kevin likes Cassie?!" her voice said testily, obviously annoyed. "I'm tired of waiting for him to ask me out! He obviously doesn't like me as much as I thought he did!"

"He's just being nice to her to get you mad," Ben told her. "And don't we have more important things to worry about? Like Dr. Animo?"

Gwen sighed. "You're right. I'll try to track him again in the morning, when I'm more rested. Maybe I was just tired tonight."

"Get a good night's sleep," Ben told her, smiling. "And don't let Kevin get you down. You know…he cares about you a lot."

There was a small silence over the phone, and then Gwen's voice came back. "G'night Ben."

"Night cuz."

"Still nothing," Gwen sighed, the device falling once again into her hand. It was nearly seven o'clock, and the three were out once again, sitting near a local gas station, trying to track Animo. "No matter what I do, I can't track him properly."

"We're going to have to find another way to track him," Ben decided, stepping forward. "There haven't been any news reports of any other incidents like this though…"

"Well he had to get the salamanders from somewhere," Kevin said suddenly. "We should check around pet stores and stuff to see if anyone bought three of 'em."

"Great idea!" Gwen said suddenly, and Kevin looked at her, frowning. She looked away, hurt by his cold gaze.

"Everything's closed by now," Ben sighed. "But we can go after school tomorrow. It's only a matter of time before we find out if Dr. Animo's still around and where he might be.

"And if we don't find him," Ben said, looking down at the pavement. "He'll find us."

Gwen looked at the tiny device in her hand, and clenched her fist around it. "I still don't get it – why is this signal so mixed?"

At the edge of Bellwood was an abandoned laboratory that had been defunct nearly thirty years earlier. Once used to produce cleaning liquids, the factory was now a collection of crumbling walls and an unsteady foundation.

However, inside, the factory was far more alive.

"Sis?"

A voice from the shadows of the factory called out, its voice low and lumbering, with a childish tone and deep throated voice. "Sis, I got more of the lizards!"

"For the last time, Mito!" another voice, female and shrill, called out, obviously annoyed. "They're not lizards – they're salamanders! How many times do I have to say that before it gets through your thick skull?!"

"Sorry sis," Mito said. But he was interrupted by a bright light turning on over him, providing a sort-of spotlight for him to stand in. Mito was tall and lumbering, with very dirty blond hair that was cut very short on the back and the sides with a sort of mop of hair on the crown of his head. He had two gray eyes that blinked rather sporadically, and his shoulders were abnormally wide. In his very muscular arms was a cage filled with red and orange salamanders, and he carried them carefully as he lumbered forward, his feet sticking out at obtuse angles, creating a rather duck-footed appearance. He wore a very ruddy long sleeved white shirt with a ripped collar and a brown vest, along with matching long shorts. On his back was a heavy brown burlap backpack. Although he had a wide jaw and a broad chest, Mito was only fourteen years old. "But I got 'em, whatever they are."

"Took you long enough," the shrill voice snapped nastily, and its owner walked into the shadows, adjusting her eye-piece. The voice belonged to a young girl, also around fourteen, with long frizzy dirty blonde hair that matched her brother's, along with the same gray eyes. She had an eye glass over her right eye that strapped around her head. In comparison to Mito, she was very small, barely coming up to his shoulder, and had a thin and frail frame that was covered by her off-white turtleneck and long khaki coat, along with a pair of baggy pants and shin-guards. She also had on a pair of brown leather gloves that were currently covered in red slime – she had obviously been working on something. "Did you retrieve the other three from the last attack?"

"Huh?" Mito asked, and the girl rolled her eyes, her right one being significantly magnified by her eyepiece.

"Mito, can't you do anything right?!" she snapped, snatching the cage of salamanders from her brother. "As genius as I am, I've yet to figure out how in the world I got stuck with such an idiot for a twin brother!"

"Chondria…" Mito began, but Chondria cut him off.

"No time for talk Mito! If they have the subjects, that means they have the Cell Re-Writers!" Chondria clicked on another light, and her work station became illuminated, revealing a vat of red swirling static goop along with a variety of mechanical parts. "Ben Tennyson has been a thorn in Uncle's side for too long," she said, making her way up a ladder to her work-station, pulling at her gloves. "If it wasn't for him, Uncle would be known as the genius scientist that he is, instead of a crazy, evil crack-pot!"

"Yeah, Chondria," Mito sighed. "I know, I know…"

"That's why I've chosen to continue his work!" Chondria continued, obviously not minding Mito's disinterest. She held up one of the mechanical nodes and grabbed a giant syringe filled with the red liquid. She injected the liquid into the node, and it began to blink with electricity. "Uncle never got these past the prototype stage…but with my genius, I can continue the great work of Dr. Animo!" She smiled at her creation as though it were her newborn child, and then spun to face her brother. "Mito! Get the shock collars ready, idiot! Can't you see I'm about to enhance our latest subjects?"

"R-right!" Mito nodded, lumbering off towards a box in the corner of the room. He opened it up and took out three shock collars that were rather tiny, obviously sized for the salamanders. He ran up and handed them to his sister, who immediately grabbed the wriggling salamanders from their cages and slid the collars on them. She then forced one of the amphibian's mouths open and shoved the device inside its mouth. It was a little too big for the salamander's mouth, but she shoved it in far enough until she felt it clutch onto the inner cheek of the creature.

She threw the now thrashing salamander to her side, and Mito looked over to see it fall into a tall plexi-glass case. The tiny amphibian wriggled back and forth as static electricity pulsed throughout its body, but soon, it began to grow rapidly.

In a manner of minutes, the huge, four-tailed beast that Ben and company had fought earlier at the gymnasium sat in the tank, vicious and growling. Mito looked on with wide eyes, while Chondria smirked and began to work on the next salamander. "Yes…" she smiled to herself. "Ben Tennyson is getting what he deserves this time."

DUN DUN DUN. Okay, lame ending for the first chapter. But I hope you like it so far. :3

So, I was very biased and used Echo Echo as the first alien in the story, as Echo Echo is my favorite. D: The others didn't even stand a chance of getting the first spot. But as the other two aliens that Ben will be using...they are yet unknown. Any suggestions?

Mito and Chondria are going to be a lot of fun to play with. Dr. Animo was one of my favorite villains from the original show, so I really wanted to write something related to him. :)

Errr...review? I dunno. XD