Chapter 1

Gwen sighed heavily as she flopped back on her bed. Today had been a slow day. After school was over, her, Ben, and Kevin rode to Mr. Smoothies and grabbed some smoothies and some fries and talked about some of the past battles they shared. When it started to turn 9:00, they figured that they wouldn't be called in for duty and decided to call it a night.

Gwen stared up at the ceiling, hoping that some excitement would come soon. Come to think of it, there hadn't been any trouble for almost two weeks now. Gwen rolled over and stared at her Plumber's badge. She loved what she did, but did it have to get this boring?! She looked to the left at her clock and saw that it was almost 11:00. As she yawned, she figured she might as well go to sleep. Maybe her dreams would be more exciting than her day had been.

And they were.

She tossed in the bed; her brows were knitted in frustration as her dream progressed. She was battling Charmcaster, and she was winning. Her dream was pretty silent, except for Charmcaster's occasional laugh when she hit Gwen with her dark manna. Gwen was running fast, and she watched as Charmcaster pulled out a spell book and started chanting some words that she couldn't understand. But the weird thing was, she heard the words.

Dream Gwen stopped in confusion as she pondered this. Everything was silent so far, so how could she hear Charmcaster's voice. Shrugging her shoulders, she started running towards Charmcaster, preparing to hit her full force with her manna, but she was stopped short when she saw a huge dark purple ball of manna being formed by Charmcaster's chant.

Dream Gwen instinctively made a manna shield to protect herself. Charmcaster just grinned as she forced the manna towards Gwen. Gwen just smiled back, knowing that the attack was useless and would be blocked. Gwen watched as the purple manna was stopped by her shield, but her triumphant smile quickly faded as her arms began to burn.

Dream Gwen looked down at her arms, and saw nothing. Puzzled she looked back up at Charmcaster, and watched as she disappeared while laughing. Dream Gwen glanced back down at her arms as the burning got more intense. Then the pain doubled, and soon it felt like there were knives scraping the skin off her arms.

Gwen's eyes popped open, her dream waking her up. She quickly realized that the burning sensation wasn't a dream though, it was real!

She started yanking her arms, but something was keeping them behind her back. The pain was getting real intense, and she couldn't stop herself from screaming, but it only came out as a muffled cry. She hadn't felt the cloth tied around her mouth. As panic filled her eyes, a familiar laugh came from the corner of her room.

Charmcaster slowly walked out of the darkest corner of Gwen's room. As soon as Gwen saw her, fear filled her mind, but she would never show that fear to Charmcaster. Fear for her was like fuel to a car. Gwen lowered her brow in anger instead and tried yelling at her, but all that came out was a bunch of mumbled gibberish.

Charmcaster laughed at Gwen's futile attempts of talking and shook her head. "Well, well, well, we meet again Gwen. What's that you say? Sorry, I don't speak moron!" And with that, Charmcaster threw a manna disc at Gwen that hit her in the chest and sent her backwards. Charmcaster laughed again as Gwen toppled off the bed.

"I've waited for this moment for a long time Gwen. Plans, timing, power, control, everything was perfected. I pondered for weeks on how to capture you, and it was as simple as waiting until 1 in the morning! You are so weak!" Charmcaster threw another manna disc at Gwen, this time hitting her in the legs. Charmcaster watched as Gwen's body jolted from the impact of her power.

"Oh Gwen, if only you knew how much I am enjoying myself! Well, we must be going. Although I haven't felt this wonderful in a long time, I did make plans for us. No, please, don't bother, I'll help you out."

Charmcaster make a purple orb that contained both her and Gwen, and while she laughed, the orb floated them out the window and to Charmcaster's destination.

Ben sat up in bed panting.

What a nightmare! Man! Oh well, now that I'm up I might as well get a snack!

Ben yanked off his covers and headed to the kitchen. He opened the fridge. A frown soon covered his features when all he saw was carrots and yogurt. He grabbed his stomach as it growled.

Oh man, I got some serious hunger pains, and all we have is junk!

Ben patted his stomach lovingly as he talked to it, "Don't worry, Ben will fill you up with some good stuff."

He looked around in the cabinets, nothing. He was about to settle for the yogurt when he got a brilliant idea.

Kevin! He'll have some good food!

Ben yanked on his shoes and sneaked out his window, careful not to wake anyone up. He then proceeded to Kevin's house, hoping to find something to fill up his stomach with.

Kevin slowly awakened to some noise coming from the garage. As he full awakened, his eyes were glowing with anger.

No one goes in my garage! And no one, repeat, NO ONE, touches my car!!

With an angry snarl, he rolled off the bed and quickly made his way to the garage. He stopped for just a second when he saw some alien tech in his floor so he could absorb the metal. He clinched his fist as he approached the garage, prepared to kill whoever was messing in his things, but when he set foot in the garage, a new anger possessed him with the sight before his eyes.

Ben was sitting in the front seat of his car, eating his potato chips. He looked like he was pretending to drive the car, and he was getting crumbs everywhere!

"Tennyson!"

Been looked over at Kevin with a huge grin on his face, "Hey Kevin, you're up! How about getting me a refill." Ben then threw his empty cup at Kevin and continued to munch on the chips.

Kevin caught the cup in his hand and crushed it. With a growl he proceeded to Ben. "Get out of my car!"

When Ben saw that Kevin was getting real mad, he scrambled over to the passenger seat to try and make a quick getaway, but Kevin was too quick. Right as Ben reached for the door Kevin grabbed his foot and yanked him back over into the driver's seat.

"Ben you are dead! No, correction, you are cleaning my car, and THEN you're dead! And don't even THINK about changing into some monster because you're STILL IN MY CAR!!!"

Ben was hanging onto the passenger seat for dear life. He looked back at Kevin with a weak smile, "Kevin, can't we talk about this? You know, with my foot back in my possession."

Kevin was getting ready to jump in the car and pull Ben out forcefully when he heard a noise. He froze, straining his ears to find out what that noise was. He walked over to the door of the garage, glancing towards Gwen's house. Ben walked up beside him nervously saying, "I knew we could settle this-" but was cut off short when Kevin placed his hand over his mouth.

"Shhhh! Listen! It sound like someone's in Gwen's room!"

Kevin slowly removed his hand from Ben's mouth and took a few more steps towards Gwen's house. Laughing, someone laughing. He looked back at Ben, and saw an astonished look come on his face. He watched as Ben stuttered, "No, it can't be. Ben started fidgeting with his omnitrix, but it was too late.

Kevin and Ben watched in horror as Charmcaster floated out of Gwen's room, in a purple orb, with Gwen! Kevin watched as they orb went invisible, and then there was no trace of Charmcaster. Or Gwen.

Kevin roughly grabbed Ben's shirt and lifted him until he was on his tiptoes.

"Why didn't you do anything?! You've got that stupid watch, and all you did was stare like an idiot as that witch took Gwen!"

Ben felt his anger rising also. "I couldn't do anything Kevin! If I would have attacked Charmcaster, it would have affected Gwen too!"

Kevin released Ben as he tried not to freak out. "First of all, who was that? And what does she want Gwen for?"

Ben looked Kevin in the eyes as he answered, "That's Charmcaster, and she wants Gwen's powers."

This is my first story, andI haven't watched that many episodes, so if I get something wrong just bear with me! Please read and review! It makes the story come out faster!