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Welcome to my wicked awesome Ben 10: Alien Force fanfic!! Woo-Hoo!! This has been swimming through my head for awhile, so let's hope I live up to the standards.
This is set in the Alien Swarm universe (mainly because of the big-green-super-secret-hideout under the garage). If you haven't watched the movie, that's all fine & dandy, it's just the way I imagine the fic. Also, Kevin is back to normal (for those of you who know about Season 3), so don't worry about that.
Italics is when someone is thinking to themselves or is talking on the phone.
Also, because I completly phail at naming chapters, I'm just going to name them off of random songs.... yeah. Welp!! Let's get started.
This is obviously a Gwevin fic, & (BE WARNED) it's gonna get pretty angsty.
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"Nothing compares to a quiet evening alone.
Just the one, two I was just counting on.
That never happens.
I guess I'm dreaming again.
Let's be more than this."
~Paramore~
The small warehouse was almost silent. The only inhabitants were empty cardboard boxes & the occasional mouse running around, looking for its next meal. Other than the small skittering of their feet, only a low voice could be heard through the night. The moon light pouring in through the high open windows did nothing to help illuminate the building. Then the voice was heard again. Then silence.
"Oompf!," could be heard, bouncing off the walls, followed, not a second later, by a small tower of boxes falling on top of a young man who has saved the entire universe more times than he can count. Under the mountain of boxes, he muttered the same thing that he has been muttering for the past twenty minutes, "I hate Kevin."
Ben crawled out from under the boxes to stare at the moon light. Not really much else to do, he thought. He brought himself to a standing position only to walk head-on into another tower of boxes.
While lying on the floor, feeling his newly acquired bruises forming, he thought of what got him into this mess. Some strange occurrences had been happening in the area and it was, of course, their job to check it out. Gwen thought it would be a good idea to split up and Kevin thought it would be a hilarious idea for Ben to check out the dark, spooky warehouses. Kevin also conveniently 'forgot' to lend Ben his flashlight. "I hate Kevin," he muttered again.
Low footsteps could be heard in the dark background. Ben drew himself up. "Who's there!?," he called out. No answer. "Don't play with me, I know you're there. Come out!," he said again.
Three small (about three-foot tall), heavily armored creatures walked out into the moon light.
"Who are you?," Ben asked. Then he realized some were standing behind him, and to his left... and right. He was surrounded. Great.
They each pulled out small blasters and aimed them at Ben. He just smirked, "Well if that's how you wanna play." There was a flash of green light.
From the light came a huge, green, slimy mass only weighted with a tiny UFO above his head. Ben took his 'hero pose' and loudly exclaimed, "GGOOOO-- hey! What!?"
One had already jumped above him and stolen the UFO. Another took it and smashed it against the ground. The green puddle started wobbling as much as a green puddle of goo can wobble. "No! Wait! That wasn't supposed to happen!!"
The little things looked at each other, and they all skittered away into the night.
"No! Wait! This isn't over!!," said the puddle, still wobbling. "Alright, Ben, calm down. Just gotta change back." More wobbling. "If I could just reach the omnitrix... then..." The wobbles mellowed out as Ben gave up. "This sucks.... Gwen!!... Dare I say... KEVIN!!!" There was no answer to be heard. "I HATE YOU, KEVIN!!!"
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The most obnoxious muscle car in the world stayed not four feet out of Kevin's line of sight. He might have been on the job, but that didn't mean he couldn't try to take care of his car... try being the key word. He was just thankful Ben wasn't around. It's like he tries to come up with ways to wreck it.
Gwen was standing a few feet ahead of him, trying to get a lead onto what these things were doing here, where were they going, where did they come from, etc. Lucky for her, Gwen's powers hadn't been at 'top-notch' quality lately. She was probably just stressing out again. Of course, she didn't tell anyone; it was her problem to deal with. On her fifth failure of picking up nothing, she started getting frustrated, "Ugh!"
"What is it?," Kevin asked, turning to her. Then he got distracted--which seemed to happen a lot when he looked at her. It was just the way the moon light looked in her hair. It bounced off at just the right angle for it to look like she glowed. This wasn't the first time he had noticed that, but at least he was at a distance those times. He barely managed to catch what she was saying.
"I can't pick up anything. This is really starting to get annoying," Gwen said, looking around the abandoned parking lot the old-fashioned way. She knew Kevin was staring at her, but she was just too frustrated with herself to acknowledge it right now. Was it too much to ask for one night, just one night, of nothing but a hot shower and as much sleep as possible? Was it really too much??
Kevin knew what was bothering her; he was smart that way. Her powers would sort-of short out every now and then, usually when she couldn't get something off her mind. He could feel it, too. There was something odd about that feeling. The feeling that something horrible is going to happen. He looked back to Gwen, she always seemed to calm him down.... Had she been talking this whole time??
"Sorry, what."
"I said," as Gwen took a deep breath to steady herself, "Don't you think we should have heard from Ben by now?"
Kevin chuckled. "Nah, I'm sure he's fine. He'd call us if he found anything."
Gwen stared at him for a minute, then said, "What did you do?"
"Huh?"
"You laughed when I mentioned Ben... what did you do?"
"Oh," he hadn't really meant to tell Gwen about that, "just thought he would be freaking out in those warehouses by now. Get's pretty dark in a building like that." His smile was a dead giveaway.
"You did give him a flashlight, right?"
Kevin stared at her. He knew if he opened his mouth, he would just double over laughing. It was better she found out this way.
"Kevin Ethan--!!"
"Well, now we got a spare flashlight just in case ours go out."
"We each have one!"
He looked away. "Just thinking about your safety, geez."
"Right."
"C'mon. You know it's hilarious. He probably zapped eighty, hostile boxes by now." That was it. He doubled over.
Her lips twitched upwards a little, "Alright, yes, it was funny."
Footsteps. Gwen swung around, Kevin quickly moved to a fighting stance and there they were. A small army of small armored creatures. They all looked at Gwen and Kevin with curiosity in their eyes.
Kevin, always the 'fight first' guy, said, "Looks like their ready for a fight."
Gwen ignored him. "Who are you?"
One stepped a little closer to look at them, then turned to others and told them something in a different language. The army looked up at them again.
Kevin was busy trying to figure out how they snuck up on them. Then it hit him. "Ah, Ben! They came from the warehouses."
She looked towards him. "Do you think he just didn't see them?"
The army pulled out their laser guns. Kevin absorbed the pavement, "I doubt it."
They fired. Gwen had just enough time to put up a shield. "I'll hold them off," she said, "go find Ben."
"What!?"
"Just hurry!"
It was always a waste of time arguing with Gwen. So, he ran off. Find Ben, the idiot. Come back to Gwen as fast as worldly possible. Everything will be fine. Just gotta be fast, that's all.
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Ben, being completely useless for the time being, had dozed off. That is until he felt a sort of twinge on his right side. He opened an eye to see if the evil people that destroyed his little UFO had come back to poke him with a stick. Then he heard a little girl's scream and a crash to his right. He realized someone must have slipped on him.
"Gwen!?," he said, finally sounding hopeful that night.
Kevin, lying down against a wall with boxes scattered around him, looked at his boot only to notice the all-to-familiar green goop. "Ben!? That you?"
"Oh, Thank Goodness!! Someone has found me! I thought I'd be lying here for-- wait, that was you that made that scream?"
".... I swear, I'll leave you here."
"I hate you, Kevin. Phew, I've been wanting to say that all night."
Kevin looked down at the green puddle with eyes. "What happened?"
The puddle wobbled angrily as Ben began. "It was horrible, Kevin! Some evil little people attacked me, so I turned into Goop! Before, I could do anything, they... they... *sniffle* Just look for yourself!!"
Kevin looked around to find a few pieces of metal. "They got you good."
"Did you see them?"
"Hmm? Yeah, Gwen's... Oh God, Gwen!! She's fighting those things by herself, I gotta--"
"KEVIN!! Change me back right now! I can't deal with staring at the ceiling anymore! It's driving me crazy! I've been here for hours!!"
"It's been like 15 minu--"
"CHANGE ME BACK!!!!!"
"Right! Sorry!"
Kevin pressed his hand against the Omnitrix and, in a green light, Ben changed back to normal. He was swept up by Kevin.
"Hurry! We gotta help Gwen!"
Ben got incredibly dizzy and just leaned against Kevin for support. "I think I'm gonna throw up."
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Gwen had managed to trap the little army in her shield awhile ago when Kevin turned the corner, lugging a very green looking Ben on his right arm.
As soon as Kevin got in earshot he asked, "You alright?"
"Yeah," she said, looking towards her prisoners, "they didn't really put up much of a fight--"
"What!?," Ben had suddenly been revived. "Why did they beat me then?"
Kevin couldn't resist. "Cause it's so easy? Or just really funny?"
Ben looked towards him, "I'm still not talking to you."
"Alright," Kevin let him go and Ben fell to the ground.
Ben's low voice came up from ground, "Help me... Please... Someone...."
Kevin folded his arms, "I thought you weren't talking to me."
".... Gwen... help..."
She just rolled her eyes and ignored him to talk to Kevin. "They keep talking in a different language. Do you have some sort of translator or something?"
He looked towards her captives, "Yeah, back at the garage."
A low voice came drifted up from the ground, "... Hello...?"
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Yay!! This chapter is kinda shortish. I'll make them longer if I feel like it later on.
They should have had Goop in the movie, that would have been awesome... & kinda gross.
^.^ Read & Review! Critics are welcome, but PLEASE no flaming, I hate that.
Beta-ed by Darienella!!
