disclaimer:i do not own Ben 10 and any of it;s characters..if i did, well..it would be different.

words in bold and centered are part of ben's private journal...

One summer

21st June 2006; 10:03pm

"No matter what lifestyle we lead, there is no escape from age. We will at some point in our life, wake up and realize that we are no longer young, we will have to accept that our health is more fragile, our strength is less strong and our beauty is fading we will have to accept the natural process of aging, and nothing in the world can stop that but being in love keeps us young at heart, makes us age gracefully, keeps us healthier and that is also a fact. I like to say that Love sugarcoats age. Compare an old lonely woman to a woman of the same age surrounded by her children and the ones she loves, you will definitely see a huge difference, in physical as well as emotional well being. So I agree that being surrounded by love will surround us by positive energy and will keep age to some extent away. But does age keep love away? No. Love has no age. You can fall in love and keep on loving those around you and life even if you live more than 200 years!"

She told me that sometime this morning. Gwen I mean. I don't really know what it means but I'm pretty sure it's something important and it has something to do with love and life. Now why would she talk to me about that? And how the heck did I remember what she said. Ben Tennyson! What has happened to you?!

So here I am in the middle of the night… well it's not really the middle of the night. But it is for grandpa and Gwen. They're asleep! Now how do they do that? It's like 10 o'clock!

Ben lay down on his bed waiting for sleep to embrace him. Suddenly he heard footsteps outside the RV. Inquisitiveness surrounded him and he went outside to take a look. The RV stopped near some forest area and there were trees everywhere. "Duh," thought Ben. Suddenly he heard a loud 'boom'! Something landed on the ground and what ever it was it's really big.

How I wished I had no lack of curiosity because whatever it was, it changed my life forever…then again, it's kinda great.

Ben walked on, desperate to find out what had happened. Then he saw glowing. Some kind of green alien- like glow. Excited, Ben ran towards the glowing light. Then he saw some kind of watch in a really cool parcel- like package. (Ben's thought). Reaching out his hand to touch it, the watch jumped up and landed on Ben's wrist. Surprised, he screamed.

"What is that thing?" Still full of curiosity, Ben started playing around with the watch. Amazed that it did not seem like an average kind of watch, he pressed it down as the circular part of it lifted up.

As he did that, he felt a tingling sensation through his skin. Closing his eyes, something happened. When he opened them back, he stared down at himself. He was surprised to see that he wasn't looking like Ben anymore. In fact, he looked like an alien- like candle.

"Woah! This is so cool!!"

That was really awesome. The way I struck fire balls everywhere. I'm not gonna tell you about it. It's a feeling where you do something, but you just can't explain it. That's how I felt like. Suddenly I heard this beeping sound. It sounded like it came from a circular thing that was on my watch's face. Only thing time, it was on my chest. Oh yeah, before that, I ran into Gwen. She probably just woke up and saw me missing so she decided to look for me. Or maybe she heard my scream…well it doesn't really matter because I turned into Ben right before her. I think she didn't know that I was the alien at first because she was surprised when she saw me standing at the spot that alien was in. I named him heatblast! Cool huh? Haha…yeah…

"Ben?" said Gwen, awestricken.

Yeah that's what she said. Of course then grandpa came…and I was tired so I went to sleep. By that time it was like 11 something…who cares anyways…so my summer started out like that… kinda great. You know…aliens, proving Gwen was wrong about aliens, it was great…I know it was fun and all, but I couldn't help feeling that grandpa was worried or something…

Well whatever that thing on my wrist is, I know we'll figure it out. And by we I mean grandpa and Gwen…(: AAAHHHH!! can't believe I'm using smilies…creepy.

-Ben

sorry it's short..well you already know what happened on the first episod...why should i tell you