The Parenthood Series
Disclaimer: I don't own Ben 10 and/or Ben 10: Alien Force and/or any and/or all concepts and/or characters. They are copyrighted to Man of Action and Cartoon Network Studios. Or the song later in the stories, it's by Voltaire. I am a mere Fanfiction author. With far too much time on her hands and no social life.
Author's Notes: Okay, this is a sequel/companion story to both 'The Art Series' and 'The Magic Series'. And just like with 'The Magic Series' you don't really have to read the preceding stories to understand this one. Once again; I do not speak or know Classical Latin and my school does not offer a class. So I am only armed with a Classical Latin Dictionary, examples from Harry Potter, and very vague ideas about Classical Latin grammical rules so please understand that I politely request that when you come across mistakes to either PM me to correct me and/or grit your teeth and bear with me.
Summary: It's time for Devlin to enter the picture, permanently.
Rated: K+-T
Part One: "Previously On…"
Rated: K+
As she walked from the employee parking lot onto the campus of Bellwood Elementary, Gwen Tennyson was fairly amused by how much had changed in a little over a year. Bellwood had become an alien metropolis. The masquerade had been lifted, humanity now knew of alien life-forms. And there hadn't been much of a problem about the whole thing really; you would always get religious nutjobs protesting and be suspicious of anything not in their preferred religious scripture but aside from that minority the humans as a whole had been very accepting of their space neighbors and the humans that loved them. She briefly surveyed the children on the playground. Human children and alien children played together without any issues, well any issues you wouldn't also see in a purely human school; there were of course cliques and bullies but even those tended to be comprised of integrated beings of human and nonhuman races.
She slid the key into the door of her classroom and unlocked it, entering swiftly, reaching out to turn on the lights. Even the classes were integrated and most ran fairly smoothly. And there were alien teachers working on campuses across the world. Most found the human curriculum rather tedious but understood that the children under their care would need these skills to survive on earth, in human societies.
The Plumbers had a headquarters on earth, every alien visiting or taking up residence on earth had to check in and out, giving details on their intentions. Kevin Levin and Ben Tennyson worked in the Bellwood branch. Gwen however found she was more useful as a teacher.
She wrote the agenda on the board, listing what had to get done by the ending bell of school so her students could be forewarned and on task. The second graders were very bright but they still had the boundless that was seemingly built into kids and as such often had very short attention spans. Besides the agenda was to help her keep things moving at the correct pace too.
She updated the classroom helper chart and checked to make sure none of her students had a birthday that day. She secured her weapons, a dagger, a staff and a bullwhip, into the wall safe and put the only way to get into said wall safe into her belt.
The bell rung and her students flooded in, flying, running, and slithering all while talking, laughing, grunting, squeaking, and hissing.
She smiled; the day had begun.