Hey, so this Chapter is going to have a lot of talking. Mainly Ben explaining the Game system as he knows it. I had Ben do this because he's the only one I can think of who would have played games growing up don't you think? Kevin, Gwen and Kelly don't strike me as the type. Unless it's like a Strategy game or something like that. Well Enjoy.
When Kelly woke up she was in a room that looked exactly like the one she'd had when she was a little kid. One of her screens was in front of her.
Blades of Life- 1
She blinked at it so she'd gotten a skill using it for it for the first time this Game Power was confusing her. She got up and went for the mirror in the corner of her room the moment she saw herself she screamed. She was a small little girl with black hair hanging to her chin with no bangs. She was wearing black sleeping shorts and a black tanktop.
Her door burst open and Kevin came running to her.
"What's wrong?" he declared. She pointed to the mirror and he looked his jaw dropped he was a mini version of himself too. "What's up I look 6."
"Kelly, what's wrong?" Mrs. Levin came into the room with a smile on her face. Devin Levin followed.
"She stubbed her toe, mom." Kevin said, instantly, hugging her. "I've got her. It don't look broke."
Mrs. Levin smiled at them.
"Okay, then, get ready for Kindergarten you two." She said, "Do you want help?"
"We can do it." Kevin insisted though it sounded a bit whiney.
Devin messed up Kevin's hair.
"That's my boy always looking after his little sister. Good job, Kev."
Kevin blushed a bit he'd never had anyone praise him like that before it felt nice. Their parents left.
"Did my power do this?" Kelly asked.
"No idea." Kevin frowned. "But we'd better go along with this for now. I'll go get dressed you do the same."
Kelly nodded as Kevin left her room shutting the door all but a little so she could get out seeing as she couldn't reach the doorknob because she was too small. If Kevin was 6 that made her 5 so how was he going to Kindergarten and not first grade. That didn't make sense to her. She got on a pair of black panties and black jean shorts then looked through what else she had to wear. She found a black spaghetti strap shirt, black socks, black tennis shoes, a black cloth scarf for around her neck and black leather fingerless gloves. She put all of it on.
This will be your default outfit you may add to it as the story progresses.
'Weird.' Kelly thought to herself.
She went for the door and let herself out only to see Kevin standing against the fall wall waiting for her. He had blue jeans, a black short sleeve shirt, and sneakers.
"Not fair you get to dress the same and I gotta dress like this." she accused.
"Boys have it easier when it comes to clothes." Kevin shrugged.
Together they went downstairs and got breakfast. Then they were both given a black pack and taken to school by two obviously loving parents.
When they arrived they were checked in and were glad to see Ben and Gwen were in the same class. Hand and hand they ran over to them.
Ben was wearing green overalls with a 1 on the front and a light green long sleeve shirt under it. His sneakers were light green as well.
Gwen wore a pink short sleeve dress. The collar was yellow as was the skirt of the dress. She wore white leggings with pink shoes.
"Hi." Kevin said, looking over Gwen. "You look cute."
Gwen glared at him as they put their backpacks in cubbies. Ben grinned at Kelly.
"You're cute." he declared and Kevin's fist for his trouble.
"KEVIN!" Devin scolded walking over.
"I'm okay." Ben told Sandra and Carl Tennyson his parents.
"He said, Kelly was cute!" Kevin told Devin. "He stays away from my sister!"
Devin chuckled and messed up Kevin's hair.
"He was just being nice, Kevin." Devin said, softly.
"So you can call my cousin cute but I can't call your sister cute?" Ben argued getting up he didn't even have a bruise. "That's not fair."
"Yes it is!" Kevin argued.
Gwen sighed and let Kelly cling to her arm while patting her shoulder.
"Boys are idiots."
Kelly nodded in agreement earning a few laughs from the adults around them.
Finally, so as to not to raise confusion Gwen did introductions.
"I'm Gwen Tennyson and this idiot is my cousin Ben Tennyson." Gwen told Kelly.
"I'm Kelly Levin and that's my big brother Kevin Levin." Kelly said, in a shy voice.
Kevin and Ben exchanged hi's and they all went to sit at the same table. Ben with Kelly on one side and Kevin with Gwen on the other.
"Looks like they're friends already." Carl laughed.
"yes, it does." Devin nodded with a smile. A beeping came from his pocket and he turned pulling out a Plumbers badge. He cursed under his breath and pushed it back into his pocket but the Tennysons and Mrs. Levin saw. "Kevin, Kelly Daddy has to go to work now you two be good." He kissed both on top of their heads. Then kissed his wife's cheek when they reached the parking lot a van was waiting for him. "I'll be home for dinner."
"What do you do?" Gwen's father Frank asked.
"I'm a Plumber." Devin said, "I actually work with your father Max Tennyson."
Frank frowned hard his wife, Natalie, squeezed his arm.
"I was told this was my default outfit." Gwen said, when the parents were around them anymore. "I am not happy."
"You?" Ben scoffed. "Look what I'm wearing." he motioned to his clothes. "What was I thinking dressing like this?"
Kelly giggled and Ben grinned at her.
"Did none of you notice my dad's Plumber badge going off?" Kevin hissed.
"We noticed." Ben said, suddenly serious. "But what can we do? We don't even know if we have our powers. I mean have the Omnitrix." He showed them the watch on his left wrist it looked the same small, square and white. "But it's locked into Heatblast only."
"Say Skills." Kelly instructed.
"Skills." They chorused.
"Okay, So I can only use Heatblast." Ben muttered to himself. "and only Fireball. I can't fly or anything."
"I have Mana Ball that's it." Gwen informed and looked pissed.
"I can still absorb energy and metals." Kevin said, "Though it says I have an attack called Energy Burst. I didn't know I could use energy as a weapon." He frowned. "I'm not sure I want to."
"You have access to my powers." Kelly cried in a small whisper. "Say Inventory." They did sure enough it worked. "Okay, Status." They did and again it worked. "I don't believe it. So when I create a team whoever I ask to join that team gets access to my Gamer Power. Do you have cards?"
They shook their heads.
"That must be unique to me then." She hummed in thought. "So we have our powers but at really weak stages which is nothing new for me but for you guys..."
"We're starting over." Ben finished. "But at least this should give us a chance to learn to control our powers better right?'
"I agree." Gwen nodded. " It would appear that this Gamer System uses a numerical system from 1 being weakest to probably 100 being the strongest. "
"So when we reach level 100 in any skill we max it out?" Kevin asked. "And Master it making it as powerful as it can get." he looked over his status screen. "Looks like everything starts at 5. It's killing me."
"Yeah, I know." Gwen huffed. "5 INT and 5 WIS."
"See, Kelly it's rather simple." Ben said, showing her his green screen. "STR is Strength how strong you are. This determines how much damage you do in hand to hand combat, or with weapons and stuff it also determines how much you can lift." Kevin and Gwen blinked at him and Kelly nodded. "DEX is Dexterity. This is how fast and flexible you are. VIT is Vitality. This determines how much HP you get, how many hits you can take stuff like that. If you train it hard enough you can boosts that raise your HP or Health Points. INT is Intelligence this determines how smart you are of course but it also determines how much MP or Mana Points you have get this high enough and you can get massive boosts in Mana. WIS is Wisdom and this is your ability to think things through and make good decisions this also effects how fast you can recover your mana the higher it is the faster you recover your mana. LUK is Luck and this determines everything in a game setting from stubbing your toe when you get out of bed in the morning to the awesome drops you get from defeating an enemy . These are your six base sats."
"Oh, I see." Kelly said nodding. "But how do I know which to raise?"
"Well, that all depends on what type of character you want to be." Ben said, thinking hard with a frown. "For Gwen with her Anodite powers she should probably invest her points in to INT and WIS because she's going to need a lot of mana and to recover mana quickly. Kevin, is kind of like a fighter type so he'll need to put his points into STR, VIT and DEX. For me it's a toss up really." Ben frowned harder. "I would need to find out if I have different stats as each of my Aliens if so then I have no idea what invest in stat wise. Your attacks use Mana too right?"
"Er...yes, Blades of Life and Healing use mana but to wield my sword I would need STR..."
"It gets confusing." Ben agreed.
"Now there are ways to gain stat points without just leveling up." Ben told his friends and cousin. "For STR, VIT, and DEX you can work out like running, or taking Karate and stuff like that." They nodded. "For INT...in games you have to read books to raise this but I bet if we read books, and study hard we can get it up here in real life. For WIS like I said, think a lot, work out hard problems, make good decisions and as for LUK there is actually no clear way of leveling that up in any game well, not that I know of. It's all up to chance."
"thank you, Ben that was informative." Gwen said, "You're time playing games really pays off here."
Ben grinned.
"But, back to the issue at hand." Kelly said, "Daddy got called away on Plumber business."
The others were silent.
"I guess we wait." Ben decided. "Yeah, we got through school, boring as it's going to be, and wait to see if the trouble comes to us. If it does we reveal our powers if not we sit on them for now."
The others agreed that this was the best option. So they spent the day doing what normal Kindergarten students do. Terrorizing their teachers, making messes, running around, and still managing to learn.
