It was like any other normal day: 5AM run, helping the parents out, Help Ben out, going to school, forgetting lunch, helping Ben and Kevin fight aliens, hanging out with Ben and Kevin, hanging out with Kevin then hopefully home by at least 3am in time for bed so the whole process can repeat itself. However to start off with the whole day was going pretty downhill.
'BEEP, BEEP, BEEP'
"AH" Gwen stared across at her alarm clock to see it spiralling out of control. She lifted her head up instantly. It was 10 o' clock. "I over slept" Gwen raced out of her bed and grabbed her bag before rushing down the stairs to see her dad reading a newspaper. "Can you give me a lift?" The redhead bursted out.
Frank raised an eyebrow before standing up. "okay" He placed the paper down and walked over to the front door to collect his keys. Slowly. "Wait aren't you suppose to be at work?" Gwen stared at him. He smiled.
"Your mother and I are taking the day of to spend some quality time with each other. Your grandpa's stopping over a little later too" He told her smiling. Gwen was smiling back to but it didn't last long.
Gwen was hoping on one foot at a time. "Hey, wait. Arent you suppose to be at school?" He asked before opening the door. "I over slept and I have a test second period" She looked up to the clock then palmed her. "Oh, I'm gonna miss it" She cringed her eyes close. "Nevermind about the lift" Gwen told him pulling out her spellbook. "I'll see you tonight" She told him. "Okay," Frank told her. "Just be-" He was cut off by the light shrouding his daughter. "Careful" He sighed as she disappeared into thin air.
"Oof" Gwen held her head as she opened her eyes to find herself in the girls bathroom. Perfect. She smiled running out into the hallways and rushing towards her Maths class. "I'm gonna make it" She told herself.
'BANG'
A door came swinging wide open causing the girl to sceared and crash straight into it.
'Oof' she fell to the ground wincing her eyes.
"Gwendolyn Tennyson!"
"Present" She slowly told him her eyes not fully fixated on anything. She was grabbed gently by the arm and helped up. "Thanks" She told them shaking her head. "It's alright" He placed a hand on her shoulder. Gwen looked up to the large man missing a few blotches of hair. "Why are you late Miss Tennyson?" He asked still using his strict tone with her. "I-I overslept" She held her head. "I'm sorry it wont happen again" She told him beggingly. "It's alright" He gently told her. "But err one thing?" He began. "Yes?" Gwen asked arching her eyebrow. "Do you think it would have been a good idea to change first?" He suggested. Gwen's eyes widened. She looked down at herself to see a grey shirt with black pants.
"Oh man" She brought her hand towards her face in embarrassment.
"I'll give you a note to go get changed" He sighed walking back in the class and sitting at his desk allowing Gwen in the mean time to get a quick glimpse of her classmates. Everyone was there quietly doing their test without getting distracted except from one; a blonde haired girl in a wheel chair smiling at the red head. Gwen smiled back giving her a quick wave before the Maths teacher came back over to her and passed her a note. "Don't let it happen again," He told her. "It wont I promise" Gwen told him running off.
15 minutes later.
Emily thought for a moment letting the pencil hit her face before looking up at the roof. "Ah" She softly said to herself before scribbling down the answer on the paper. A squeak beside her brought her back to reality as she noticed her red headed friend sitting down next to her with an actual school uniform on. She was shuffling through her bag trying to find something. Emily smiled shaking her head. 'Same old Gwen' She thought to herself gently placing a piece of paper and a pencil on her desk. Gwen sighed closing her eyes. She forgot her stationary. She raised her hand.
"Sir I don't-….. Huh….Oh" She smiled looking down at her desk. She looked over to Emily. "Thankyou" She mimed. Emily lifted hand up giving her the thumbs up then returning back to her work. "Copy the work down on the board, Miss Tennyson" The teacher told her as he began scribbling things down on a worksheet in front of him. Gwen arched her eyebrow. Although Gwen had reasonable eye sight sitting at the back didn't seem to do her much good with it.
She looked down at her bag hopingly. She unzipped it trying to stay quietly but it didn't help. It felt like the sound echoed through the whole place and when she did open the bag; nothing. Not even her glasses were there. "Psss… Gwen" Emily called out to her passing her a page of notes. "Thanks" She told her back before attempting to scribble down some of the questions. "Cheating Miss Tennyson?" Her eyes widened. "What no" Gwen dropped her pencil and looked up at the teacher now pretty mad at her. "I couldn't see the board" She tried to explain but he just shook his head. "Tut, Tut, Tut" He removed the notes of her. "I'll see you after class in detention, Miss Tennyson" The teacher told her before dropping a red slip down on her desk. 'Great' Gwen thought to herself resting an elbow on the table and letting her head relax in her hand.
"AAHHHH," Everyone's attention turned to the window. "Oh my gosh it's Ben Tennyson"
"Ben 10"
The whispers could be heard all around. Gwen tried to edge over to it but she found glaring eyes staring at her restraining her from getting out of seat and seeing what her cousin was up to. "GWEN" She heard her name being shouted by her cousin sounding a little like JetRay. "GWEN!" He called again flying up to the window. "The Robots from Dimension 12 have escaped again. I need your help" Ben zapped one of them. The teacher crossed his arms and stared down at the redhead daring her to even try. She gulped shakingly getting out of her seat and walking to the window where the rest of her classmates resided except from Emily. Gwen placed her hand out of window letting it ignite it to a purple bliss of power and firing it towards one of the robots heads. In an instance it began to lit on fire as the explosion brought the robot to it's knees.
"Thanks Cuz" Ben shouted flying away. Gwen closed the window before turning back around to see her classmates staring at her in awe. She turned away rubbing her arm before coming to sit back to her normal spot. The teacher had had it with her though. His knuckled were clenched turning white. "You know Miss Tennyson have you of lived 200 years ago, you would've been burned at the stake" He told her slyly. Her eyes widened. So did Emily's.
"I'm not a witch" Gwen mumbled looking him in the eye. "Then what are you?" He asked leaning forward. Gwen was about to say something but was cut off. "She's my friend" Emily butted in trying to help out her power fuelled friend. It didn't seem to work too much though. Gwen stared in shock for a bit. "Well maybe you would like to join your 'friend' in detention" He slid the note onto her desk before turning his back to the girls.
'sorry' Gwen mimed. Emily just shook her head letting the slip slide.
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BELLWOOD STREETS
5 left to go and Ben was still struggling. He had been fighting them for hours now and only managed to take down a few but they were getting stronger and much more powerful. Very powerful actually. "BOOM" Their lazer went spitting right through a house. JetRay stared across at the massive hole in the centre of the house. "Hey" Ben shot at one of them. "Someone lives there" He hissed sending waves of lazers towards them. The robots stared at each other getting an idea. They turned back and began destroying the houses. "Oh common" Ben palmed his face.
He flew up the street a little more and noticed Gwen's house. He smiled. "Maybe Gwen's got something to bring them to a holt. He thought to himself flying to Gwen's room and opening the unlocked window searching her draws. "uh, Huh" He found a talesment inside her draw. "This has to do something" He told himself.
"BANG"
"What the?" Ben looked outside to see the robots had followed him and were. Their eyes glowed red charging themselves ready to fire.
"Uh, Oh" JetRay lept out of the house as waves of lazers hit it setting it alit. JetRay began firing lazers towards them ready as they finally decided to blow up. He landed down just in time for his Ultimatrix to time out before taking a look round him to find nothing but blown up machinery and a pretty much destroyed house. "Oh, man Uncle Franks gonna kill me" Ben face palmed his forehead.
*Coughing*
"Huh" Ben stared at the family home as the front door bursted open and their grandpa max sat coughing his lungs out and chocking. "Grandpa!" Ben ran over to him helping him up and away from the roaring flames. "B-Ben" He weezed still continuing to cough. "Hold on grandpa, I'm gonna get you to a hospital" Ben told him dialing up an alien.
"No Ben" He coughed. "Found ya" Ben slammed down the Ultimatrix and transformed into BigChill. That's when Max gripped him. "Frank and Lilly…..still trapped" He weezed. "WHAT?" Ben looked over to the practically destroyed house. Instantly, he dropped grandpa and flew straight into the building. "UNCLE FRANK?" He shouted in the main room.
"Ow" One of the flames neared him.
"Getting….Cozy" Ben turned intangible as the smoke became more dense. He flew through to the kitchen and that's when he saw it. Two live-less bodies of his aunt and uncle laying there. Ben collapsed to his knees as the fire engulfed one of them. He took a deep breath and tried to remove the flames then grabbed both of them and threw them over his shoulders taking them away from the mess.
outside the paramedics awaited the return of the beloved Ben 10 with the two people safely in his arms. Their faces dropped when he came out though. Even Max's dropped when he saw the charcoaled bodies.
He brought his hand up to his mouth as his grandson came over with a slumped face and placed the bodies gently on the ground.
Paramedics rushed over to them beginning CPA but I think they all knew it was useless; heck even Ben knew that. He slammed down the centre of the alien and returned to his normal human form. Max came over to the boy wrapping a towel round him and checking to make sure he was alright.
"I better go give your cousin a quick call, we'll meet her outside the school" He told him gently before Ben passed him his phone and pressed 5 speeddialing the girl.
'BUZZ, BUZZ'
Gwen's eyes widened at the vibration going off in her pocket which alarmed Emily too. 'Silence it' Emily mimed to her. 'I'm trying' Gwen told her taking her phone out and attempting to unlock it first. In their constant distraction it caught the teachers attention. Instantly he got out of his seat and walked over to her placing his hand out and awaiting the phone. Gwen just tucked it between her legs and pretended to be clueless. "Miss Tennyson, it really does feel like you don't want to go to University?" He more of less asked before wiggling his fingers asking for the phone. Gwen looked down at it before looking back up at him. "It's my cousin" Gwen told him. "It might be important" She begged. He just shook his head. Gwen slumped and gave him the phone before answering it. "Mr. Tennyson you are interrupting my detention time and-…oh" the teacher. "Oh My" He ran his hands through his hair. "I'll give her a note…Alright goodbye" He clicked off the phone and stared at her with hurt and worried eyes. "So, was it important?" Gwen asked beginning to worry. "I-I…" He shook his head and ignored her taking a piece of paper and scribbling something down on it before walking over to her. "Your Grandpa and cousin are going to meet you outside the school" He passed her the note. Gwen looked down at it. "You're excused for the rest of the day" He told her before turning around. "And however long you need" He mumbled. Emily and Gwen both looked at it each other worried.
She passed the pen back to her thanking her before collecting her phone off the teacher. "If there's anything you need don't be afraid to give me a call" The teacher escorted her to the door and passing her a small ripped note. She nodded idly and confused before walking down the halls and down the road to find her grandpa's RV parked outside. "Hello?" She knocked on the door waiting for someone to answer. She heard harsh whispering before the RV moved indicating something heavy moving around. "Gwendolyn" He smiled bringing her into a tight bear hug. Really tight.
"Grandpa" She breathed in. "You're squishing me" She told him. Instantly, he released her and stared into her green orbs. More confusion spread to her face. "Why are you covered in dirt" Gwen stared at the two of them covered in charcoal from the flames. "Gwen, why don't you take a seat" He grandpa told her. "I'm okay" She smiled.
"If there's some aliens attacking we should probably get a move on" She told them jokingly. Max sighed and placed a hand on her back. "Unfortunately kiddo, this is a serious matter" He told her. She looked over to Ben who avoided eye contact. He looked devastated. "What's going on?" Gwen asked freaking out a little. "Gwen your house kind of burned down" Max placed a hand on her shoulder. "What? No" Gwen shook her head. But then she gulped. "Are my folks okay?" Gwen asked. She looked between both of them sighing and looking away from her.
"Gwen, I'm sorry" He shook his head. "T-They didn't make it" Max told her. "No, I put shields and protection spells around my house" Gwen told them. "Gwen, they only work if it's living" Max told her trying to suppress the hope. Gwen shook her head in disbelief. She swat Max's arm off and made a run for it. "GWEN!" Max called out to her.
She ran though. Heck, she sprinted the whole entire way to the smoke. Her eyes watered as tears fell behind her washing her cheeks in painful serenity. Her mind raced with questions, emotions and blame. She stopped and looked up. It was ruined. From three story to one story. It was nothing but rumble. Gwen collapsed to her knees gripping the grass beneath her and letting the tears hit the ground. She wanted to scream.
To hit something but she was too weak.
Too small.
"Gwen?" Someone called out to her. It was Ben. "I'm sorry" He told her. She felt a hesitant hand come around her back and rub it soothingly. "It's not fair" Gwen winced her eyes closed. "It's not FAIR" She hit the ground hard. Ben grabbed her hand soothingly and held it in his as he tried to wipe the dirt and muck off. He looked over to his grandpa with sorrowful eyes. He stood outside the RustBucket with a large soft blanket in his hands.
He slowly walked over to the two. "Common Gwen" Max gently told her draping the blanket around her figure and placing his hands either side of her ribs trying to pick her up. "No" She told them. He grabbed onto her and lifted her up as she squirmed and tried to wriggle away.
"JUST LEAVE ME ALONE" She fell to the ground with eyes lit up.
Max placed his hands in the air and backed away. Her eyes returned to their normal colour although they were mixed with an array of emotions; hurt, fear, angst, rage, confusion, solitude. She hugged her knees and kept her eyes closed. Max and Ben just gulped. "It'll be alright, Gwen" Ben stood up grabbing the blanket gently in his arms and walking over to her. He could hear her crying. He draped the blanket gently around her shoulders rubbing her arm and letting her head drop onto his chest.
"Lets go inside" He whispered to her helping her up and walking over to the RV. He helped her sit down on the lower bunk bed and caressed her. Max walked in to see the two devastated kids. He could see the tears swelling in Ben's eyes as he avoided watching his cousin. He blamed himself for what happened to her and Ken. He brought Gwen closer to him making sure she had some security around her. Max came over and sat down beside them. He could hear Gwen mumbling 'where am I gonna go? What am I gonna do?'
He couldn't tell if she was conscious or not. He placed a large paw down on the side of her head trying to calm her down.
"Don't worry Gwen, We're here for you" he told her softly. It seemed to make her stop mumbling things. She breathed out removing her head off Ben's shirt and moving it to the side so she was more comfortable. Ben continued to keep a tight hold on her until he felt like she was asleep.
"What are we going to do?" Ben asked.
So yeah, long prologue chapter but i hope you guys enjoyed the read. Also if you guys could review to tell me whatcha think, that would be great.
