Ben 10: Fallen Valentine's
Important notes: I do not own Ben 10 or any portion of the franchise. I give all credit to Man of Action and Cartoon Network. Except the OC characters I have in my Profile. This story is part of the continuity I have previously written, but Fade will not be the narrator in this story.
This story takes place eight years ahead from Omniverse, Ben and Gwen are twenty three and Kevin is twenty four
One Shot
It was Valentine's Day in Bellwood. Everyone had their own valentine's, parents, couples...even Pakmar and he doesn't celebrate it (but he does make a killing selling valentine's merchandise to the public) along with Mr Baumann who had closed his shop early to spend time with his now wife Sheelane. But not everyone was happy, Fade had travelled to see what was going on in his absence...not that anyone noticed he was gone, but he was taking a break since his hangover that lasted from early November to late January. "Ugh...that's the last time I do a double Irish Rover, mixed with a fiesta and a fairytale of New York...I've still got ringing in my ears from New Years...now let's see...this is the...man I gotta sit down..." Fade rubbed his temple as he sat down on a park bench. "I wonder if Max's is still open..." Fade teleported to Max's plumber service and opened the door.
"Welcome to Max's Plumber service...oh you must be Fade." Max welcomed the still hung-over hero
"Thanks...hey, how'd you know who I was?" Fade asked
"Professor Paradox said you'd be coming. He's quite cryptic you know." Max explained
"Tell me about it." Fade groaned "I gotta ask...where's: Ben, Gwen and Kevin? It seems everyone is about eight years older or something."
"That's...quite a delicate subject Fade." Max said lifting then closing the board to give him access to the store.
"Why's that?" Fade asked now regretting the question
"Because Kevin is gone." Max solemnly spoke.
"Ah shit...not another Kevin bashing universe..." Fade groaned "Okay maybe the kid was rough around the edges but that doesn't mean this moron who made this universe should kill him!" calling out to the universe
When no answer came Gwen walked in...And man, was she down in the dumps...she looked like Ben when his long time favourite TV show got cancelled: At Home with Sumo Slammers. "Hey sweetheart; you okay?" Max asked kindly
"You know grandpa...it's just..." Gwen answered flatly
"I know..." Max gave her a hug ignoring the fact Fade had disappeared from the store to give them some space.
Fade found himself inside plumber Headquarters, looking for anything on what happened to Kevin. And he did: a Memorial star for honour in line of service, protection of thousands and even a hero's burial...the works. "That ought to wipe the slate clean." Looking at the records Fade noticed something unusual "No body recovered...presumed atomised...maybe..." Fade observed the picture where Kevin's presumed death was. Fade teleported to the site and felt an unusual force being there "Damn...dimensional disruption...unmistakable, untraceable through the mana field, no wonder Gwen couldn't find him." Fade spoke to himself, before transporting into the Dimensional Field.
The Dimensional Field: the hallway of the Omniverse; the never ending hall and doors containing other universes within. The pathway that Fade and Professor Paradox uses to access the worlds they travel. Each door ends up into a different world and timelines within.
"Okay...which door?" Fade wondered as he began to follow Kevin's "scent" through the Dimensional Field "Antrhopomorphic animal Universe, no. Gwen is a lesbian universe...no. Reverse gender universe...definitely not!" Fade opened the universe doors one at a time. "Okay...apocalypse-verse...cheerful." as he opened the door to the universe, he observed the destruction that was wrought around him "Kevin..." he saw the now gangly and tattered Kevin Levin who was muttering something
"G...G..." Kevin muttered
"Hold on buddy...you're going home." Fade said carrying Kevin with his arm over his shoulders to his home universe. In the universe Fade travelled to Plumber HQ medical bay where Gwen was getting ready for her Valentine's Day Dance at college.
"Fade who is...? Kevin?!" Max asked before seeing the slumped Kevin on the bed in the medical bay.
"No crap Sherlock!" Fade shouted then hooked Kevin to a Galvan healing pod.
Two hours later Kevin awoke groaning in pain "Where...where am I?"
"Welcome back Kevin; it's: February fourteenth, you've been in another dimension for eight years and according to Max things have been pretty quiet." Fade answered the question
"February...eight years...Gwen..." Kevin groaned in sadness "Gwen I'm sorry."
"Kevin, I know it's hard to hear right now...but I've got an idea..." Fade grinned
It was now seven PM; Gwen was dressed in a beautiful silver dress that she purchased for the occasion "Don't worry Gwen, you look beautiful." Gwen's mother Lillian smiled stroking her cheek lovingly
"I know mum...it's just..." Gwen sighed sadly
"You wanted Kevin to be here with you. I understand, I may not have been accepting of him at first, but I saw that he made you happy." Lillian reassured her "Just enjoy yourself."
"Thanks mum...have you seen Ben around?" Gwen asked
"No not really...hi heard from Sandra he was sleeping in after playing thirty nine straight hours of Sumo Slammer's five." Lillian rolled her eyes thinking of her nephew
Gwen smiled "He'll never change...I'll be home soon."
Inside everyone was dancing and having fun but there was a neatly dressed man in a mask that covered the top half of his face. He was approached by Gwen and was asked if this was his scene, he replied "Not really...but seeing an angel like you here...I think it's worth it." he smiled as he offered his hand "Care to dance?"
Gwen felt flattered as she accepted. The two of them danced until the end and were nominated for King and Queen of the dance. They didn't win but they enjoyed each other's company. As they left Gwen and the stranger remained "So did you two have a good time?" Fade asked the two
"I did. What about you?" the stranger answered
"I've had more fun now than I've had in a long time...I just wish Kevin was here..." Gwen sighed
"You know babe...you may just get that wish." The stranger smiled
Pondering the word "babe" she asked "Babe...no-one has called me that since..." she turned to the stranger as she lifted his mask off "Kevin."
"Hey Gwendolyn." Kevin smiled
Gwen took a small time to stare at Kevin before attack hugging him to the floor "You're alive! You're back!" among several other kind words
"Yeah...but I won't be if you continue to strangle me Gwen!" Kevin chocked through
Two weeks had passed; Kevin had explained where and how he survived all those years and not gone insane, Fade also added the information on how the doorway that sent Kevin there was untraceable to anyone but Him and other dimension travellers. But during this time Kevin and Gwen had a lot of catching up to do. "Kevin, it must've been torture...being on your own." Gwen said cuddling up to her now returned boyfriend.
"Yeah...it was...but thinking of you babe...it kept me going. Not Argit, or the taydenite car...you. You've stuck by me all this time and let's face it I haven't been the perfect boyfriend...but you're perfect; always have been always will." Kevin smiled
Gwen snuggled up to him asking "Did Grandpa Max teach you that one?"
Kevin was caught out "No...it was that Fade guy. He knows what to say...weird right?"
"Definitely..." Gwen moved up and kissed Kevin on his cheek.
*at Plumber HQ*
On the main screen monitor Ben, Rook Max and Fade observed the long lost happiness and romance Kevin and Gwen wanted for each other, bringing held back tears to their eyes. "This must be how people on sitcom television must feel."
Ben answered "Rook, sitcoms are fiction on TV. This is real life."
Fade looked away thinking 'Only if they knew...' "Well, it looks like I can't do any more damage around this popsicle stand...I'm outta here." Smiling "Say: goodbye; to the two crazy lovebirds for me will ya?"
"We will goodbye Fade." Max bid Fade farewell
"Oh Max, one thing: separate your cooking into: Human's and Aliens. Being honest last time I had one of your meals it had dung beetles and rattlesnakes in it." Fade commented on Max's culinary prowess before vanishing.
In the Dimensional Field, Fade observed on them a few years from the time Fade had intervened. Ben had become: Ben Ten Thousand, hero of earth (titles, titles. Etc, etc.) Gwen and Kevin had gotten back together in a more permanent way...
*Awkward silence*
"They got hitched okay, they got married...sheesh." the writer commented laughing
And they were sleeping with their four year old son Devlin and their two year old Lilly...let's face it those two deserve each other. Fade smiled and let them alone and went back to another universe to rest again.
To be continued
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