Hello everyone!
Thanks to the first successful chapter, I decided to write a new one! And thanks to RexFan1333 and TheFire928 for the nice reviews! The development of the twosome's relationship will thicken! I assure you that!
But enough chitchat! Let's get on with the story!
Chapter 2: And then there were 10…alternative version? The Meeting of Alternative 10!
"She should've been out by now."
Glen Tennyson was worried about a ton of things. He worried about his next school assignments, worried about his headstrong cousin, and he worried about his ex-conmen girlfriend constantly.
But he was super worried about his cousin's missing Omnitrix.
"I'm sure Jenny is fine. The girl won't go down so easily." Kylie Levin said to her worrying boyfriend. She knew Jen since they were kids, but they used to be more like enemies. Since her time in the Space Chamber, Kylie was a reformed good guy. Now she worked with the Tennysons on their most trivial missions.
"That's what I'm worried about. She's always charging in on things and doing the most reckless tasks. Maybe we-"
"Glen Tennyson don't you dare walk in that factory!"
"But Kylie…she might be in trouble."
"Don't you have faint in your cousin? I mean, she was the one who found the device in the first place."
Glen paused at Kylie's words. It was true, that faithful summer six years ago did change their lives forever. He could remember that day like it was yesterday.
*Cue Original Ben 10 theme song!*
It started when an alien device did what it did
And stuck itself upon her wrist with secrets that it hid
Now she's got super powers, she's no ordinary kid
She's Jen 10.
So if you see her you might be in for a big surprise,
She'll turn into an alien before your very eyes
She's slimy, freaky, fast and strong
she's every shape and size
She's Jen 10
Armed with powers, she's on the case
Fighting off evil from Earth or space
She'll never stop till he makes them pay
'Cause she's the baddest girl to ever save the day
Jen 10
JEN 10!
*End Theme Song!*
*Flashback Six Years ago…*
Ten year old Jen Tennyson could hardly contain herself.
Today was the day, the last day of school for the year. She laughed to herself, soon she would be with her favorite relative in the whole world; Grandma Maxine. The woman was a spunky lady in her late 50's and a kindhearted soul. Jen had acquired her adventurous spirit, however, and tended to get in trouble a lot.
But that doesn't matter. She thought. Because school will be over in three…two…one!
RING! RING!
"Okay class, have a good summer! And my door is open is anyone wants to take summer school." Her teacher said as the students ran out of the classroom. Jen grinned as she pushed out of her chair and ran towards her freedom.
"Hold it right there Miss Tennyson."
"And I was so close." She muttered, turning around to face her punishment.
Grandma Maxine waited patiently for her granddaughter to come out of her school. She was wearing her usual attire: a white shirt, covered by a red button up Hawaiian shirt with a floral design, blue pants, as well as black shoes. Her gray hair was put in a loose ponytail.
She smiled as she saw the happy figure of Jen coming out of the school. Jen was wearing the outfit her parents had let her pick out for the summer. Her brown hair was down her back, she wore a black-striped, white shirt with short sleeves, evergreen shorts, and black and white sneakers with black stripes. Jen did a happy leap before smashing into her grandma.
"Oh Gran I missed you so much! I'm so excited to finally spend the summer with you." She said in a singsong voice.
"I'm so glad dearest, now why don't you get in the Bucket Rust and we can get this show on the road."
Jen pumped her fist and opened the door to the green and white RV. She couldn't wait! This summer was just going to be her and-
"I didn't know this was the Dweeb on Wheels summer event."
Jen gritted her teeth as the sweetness of the summer drained from her body. Sitting by the table built into the van was her dorky cousin Glen. His orange hair was neat and tidy, he wore a blue shirt with a dog logo on her chest and white capris, and his green eyes were behind thick red glasses.
"Hey why did you invite the Lord of the Dorks?" Jen asked her Grandma who was rolling her eyes.
"I didn't want to come dweeb, I rather be in science camp. But someone's grandmother volunteered me to come on "the once-in-a-lifetime experience" that might change my life."
"Grandma please tell me you didn't…" Jen said with pleading eyes.
Maxine chuckled at her granddaughter's flustered face. "I thought it would be a good idea to invite your cousin on the trip. You two hardly see each other anymore. Will that be a problem?" She eyed the two, who just glared at each other.
The RV drove off without another word. Both Jen and Glen sat on either side of the table, both not wanting to talk to the other.
"This is perfect! I wait all school year for the trip and now the King of Cooties is along for the trip." Jen growled, looking out the window.
"Hey I had my whole summer planned out too! Everything was colored coded so I never did the same things twice." He shoved the schedule in her face. "And now I'm stuck with my geekazoid cousin going camping for three months."
"Geek!"
"Jerk!"
"Something tells me this is going to be a long summer." Maxine said, shaking her head.
Back to the present with Jen…
"Wow so you and Glen had to spend the whole summer together? Bummer…" Ben said, Jen laughing at his remark.
"Hey hanging out all summer with you wasn't any better! At least my counterpart didn't have to suffer with you on a road trip." Gwen pointed out. Ben pouted and Kevin started to chuckle.
"Man I forget you two used to be at each others throats."
"Like you're one to talk Mr. I'll Absorb The Omnitrix's Energy."
"I was young!"
"Anyway…" Jen interrupted. "Then we had a weird dinner courtesy of Grandma Maxine." She made a face. "It was gross."
"Trust me, Grandpa used to make the weirdest dishes on our road trip." Ben said, making an equally grossed out face.
"Why don't you skip to the part when you actually got the Omnitrix. After hearing how Ben got it, maybe you weren't as reckless as when he touched it." Kevin joked, getting a fist to the arm. "OW! I was joking!"
"Continue the story please Jen." Gwen asked politely.
"Okay so I decided to get away from Freakazoid and took a walk in the woods when suddenly…"
Back to the Past…
"Man this has got to be the worst summer vacation ever!" Jen kicked a rock. "I knew I should've just stayed home."
She stopped, noticing something glowing in the sky, and looked up. To her surprise, a red streak of light lit up the sky.
"Oh wow! A shooting star! I gotta make a wish!" She closed her eyes really hard.
I wish something interesting would happen, something that'll change this summer vacation!
She opened her eyes to see the streak of red light flying right towards her!
"I didn't mean it like that! I wished I didn't make that stupid wish!" She screamed as she jumped from out of the red light's path. It came in contact with the ground and exploded, sending debris everywhere. Jen looked up from behind a rock and gasped.
"What was that thing, a satellite or something?" She walked towards the crater and peered down at it. The rocks beneath her feet gave away and she yelped, falling into the hole. Landing on her butt, she winced as she rubbed her bottom.
"That was so uncool! But at least I'm safe." She crawled over to the part where the steam was coming from and her eyes glowed green briefly. It was a strange pod of some sort. Hesitantly, she poked her finger on it.
"Weird…this is so weird!" She shrieked as the pod opened. Inside it, a gauntlet-like device resided. It was black and grey with a grey dial in the middle (like a watch face) which had a green hourglass shape. Jen stared at it before reaching out her hand to touch it. Suddenly, the thing jumped up and clamped itself on her wrist.
"Hey what the-get off of me!" Jen yelled, trying to shake off the strange watch. But it held firm and she started to panic. "This is not good! I need to find Grandma!" She climbed out of the crater and started running back to the campsite.
Back to the present…
"Come to think of it, I was kinda scared the first time I received it. I guess it was something so strange and new to me." Jen confessed, blushing slightly and covering her face.
"Hey I was startled too the first time I found mine." Ben assured her. She smiled a bit at him before sighing.
"Yeah but-woah!" She almost fell over the fallen equipment from the fight earlier. The ground was coming fast towards her, but a strong hand grabbed her shirt before she fell even further. "Thanks Ben."
"No problem, be careful okay?" Ben replied.
"Um…sure I'll do that." Jen shyly said, her face reddening deeper.
Kevin leaned over to Gwen, who was still engrossed with her story, and whispered. "I think Mirror Ben has the hots for our world Ben."
"No kidding, but isn't that a bit…odd to you?" She whispered back.
"Nah…I think two goofy Bens can fall for each other." He clasped his hands on his chest. "It's a match made from heaven."
Jen, overhearing the two's conversation, only blushed deeper.
"Are you okay, you look a bit red?" Ben asked the poor girl.
Oh no, I can't let him know I'm crushing on him! Oh wait…Jen scrunched up her face. I'm Jen 10! I'm not afraid of anything! But…why does talking to Ben make me nervous? She shook her head. I won't make myself fall for myself in another universe!
"No I'm fine! No need to worry about your friendly neighborhood Jen Tennyson!" She flashed him a brave smile. "Never fear because I still need to finish my tale!"
Team 10 gave her a confused look, making her chuckle nervously.
"Okay so I started to fool around with my Omnitrix when I came across a peculiar sight…"
Back to the past….
"Woah…what in the world are these things?"
Jen was turning the dial on the device stuck to her arm. When she did, an array of different figures popped up on the screen. There was a ghost, a dog-like creature, a diamond creature, a fish, a thing with four arms…
"Check it out! A fire creature!" She exclaimed in awe. The disc popped up and she pressed it down. Her body was covered with red hot rocks and grew leaner, her chest larger, and her face is longer and more curve, and fire started coming from her hair. Her long arms were bursting with yellow flames and her eyes with white fire.
"AAAHHH! I'M ON FIRE! I'M ON FIRE! YAAAAGGHHHH!" Her voice was even more feminine. She jumped around, trying to fan out her flames. "Hey. I'm on fire and I'm OK. Check it out. I'm totally hot!" Striking a pose, she grinned at her new body.
"This is unreal, sweet! I'm a burning star, or maybe…" She grinned brightly. "I'm FireStar, the awesome fire based super heroine!"
Back to the present..
Team 10 and Jen had finally made it out of the factory. The blasts of wind blew on their faces as Jen finished her tale.
"FireStar? That sounds a lot cooler than HeatBlast." Kevin remarked. Ben threw him a glare.
"I was ten, and HeatBlast is a very good name for my Pyronite form!"
"Still I guess the rest of the story is probably how you saved people from a campsite in your Tetramand form from Vilgax's drones." Gwen guessed, seeing the look on Jen's face.
"You mean Vilora, conqueror of ten worlds, the most feared alien in the galaxy?" Jen couldn't go on for she was laughing. "I whooped her butt so many times that I've lost count!"
"Vilgax having a female form sounds scary. I wouldn't want to run into that ugly image." Kevin shivered. "Not pleasant at all."
"Believe me she isn't but someone has to stop her. One time she-" Jen stopped, seeing familiar faces. "It's my cousin and Kylie!"
"Kylie Levin? Now this I have to see." Ben ran towards the two and took a moment to see their faces.
Glen looked exactly like a male version of Gwen. He wore a red shirt paired with a black vest, gray pants, and black sneakers. His orange hair was short and cut, and his blue eyes were behind red rimmed glasses. Ben also noticed that instead of pink mana, he had blue.
Kylie, on the other hand, looked like a spitting image of Kevin as a female. Her pale skin complexed her black hair, which were in two ponytails. She wore a tight black T-shirt over a grey long sleeve shirt, blue jean skirt, and black combat boots. Her dark brown eyes glared at him and a noticeable black streak went across her right eye.
"Is this some kind of joke? You look like a male version of Jen." Kylie stated, looking around him. "Not bad, you're like an exact copy of her."
Glen's hands lit up with his blue mana. "Okay buddy, where's my cousin?"
Ben waved his hands in front of his face. "You don't understand, she's perfectly safe with my team."
"Hmph…sure she is. How do we know you aren't lying?"
"Hey Glen, he has an Omntrix!" Kylie pointed at the device. "You must've taken her device."
That was enough for Glen as he threw a blast of blue mana at his stomach. Ben flew backwards into one of the walls and groaned.
"It's official; I really dislike this version of Gwen." He muttered, feeling himself get picked up by a blue tendril.
"Surrender now or things will get ugly." He threatened him.
"Release my cousin, you lookalike!" A pink tendril of energy snapped the blue one's connection as Gwen, Kevin, and Jen ran into the fray. Ben yelled as he fell towards the ground, only to fall on Jen.
"We've got to stop falling for each other Mr. Tennyson." She joked, prompting Ben to laugh.
"Jen you're alive!" Glen gawked at what he saw. "And there are two of you."
"Yeah see about that…guess who found a mirror to an alternate world?" She said, sheepishly.
"Oh Tennyson you've done it this time." Kylie snickered, winking at Kevin. Kevin waved back, making both Gwen and Glen glare at them.
"Jen….please tell me you didn't bring our other universe counterparts to help search for your Omnitrix." Glen pleaded.
Jen rubbed the back of her head. "Uh…oops."
That's scene! Sorry about the whole flashback thing, it was something I came up with at the last minute. Should I do more genderbent flashbacks? Make sure you review, favorite, or follow for more. Also next time: Welcome to WoodBell! The Dynamic Duo that is Ben & Jen!
See ya later!