Reckless By Nature


The Alienated Heart is based on the Ben 10: Alien Swarm movie.

Disclaimer: I own no part of Ben 10. All rights belong to the people who created Ben 10 and the Alien Swarm live-action movie. I only own the character Kade Roman and her plot and dialogue.


The wheels of her bike screeched loudly, the rubber wheels losing contact on the road as she sent the bike flying over a ramp. The rider in the dark blue jacket was way ahead of the one in the red. As per usual, Kade thought as she looked behind her, seeing Elena just turning the corner Kade turned three minutes ago. Elena was a good rider, but Kade was a great rider and she proved it without trying. She could leave anyone, Elena included, in the dust after a minute on her bike. She landed with barely a bump and skidding low to the ground, Kade turned into a large warehouse. With the shriek of rubber on concrete, the bike pulled itself upwards and both rider and bike were completely unharmed. Kade swung her leg over the bike, standing beside it in her tell-tale blue jacket and tight leather pants. She waited, patiently, leaning gently on her bike. There were two young men standing outside a green, black striped car. The lean boy in black was the buyer, the other was merely the man who told him of the product. Kade knew of the man in black standing beside the car.

Kevin Ethan Levin.

Osmosian.

Unstable, however, stable at the moment.

Dangerous.

And…one of my closest friends.

Kade ran through these facts in her head like she was reading a dossier. It was his information, condensed. If Kevin's here, I bet Gwen and Ben are going to show. Kade knew the two young Tennyson's personally. They were friends when they were children. Hopefully they wouldn't remember her. Her hands were planted on her hips, helmet still firmly placed on her head. Three riders pulled into the warehouse after a minute and Kade let out a slight sigh of relief. Never realised they were that slow, Kade thought and she stretched, cracking her back.

Helio got off his bike, removed his helmet and grabbed the briefcase, "Are you the buyer?"

Kevin shrugged as Kade moved over to stand by the still helmeted, Elena who sat on her bike.

"It depends. What are you selling?"

"Alien technology...the good stuff."

Helio placed the briefcase on the hood of Kevin's car and Kevin made a face, "Watch the paint." Kevin grabs a canister from the case, staring at the small chips inside, "What is it?"

The lead biker raised a brow, "You don't know?"

Kevin glared and stepped forward, "You don't know, do you? Is it a weapon? Does it fire? Can it blow stuff up? See, this is important information for a prospective buyer."

Helio shrugged, "It's alien technology, man. It's gotta be worth some money. Are you interested or not?"

"Just chill." Kevin commented and hitched a thumb over his shoulder, "Let me talk to my partners."

"Partners?" Fitz, the 'middle-man,' questioned, "You didn't say anything about partners."

Kevin raised a dark eyebrow, "Neither did you."

Ben and Gwen came into sight and the guy beside Kevin laughed nervously, "You're working with him?"

Elena stiffened beside Kade and Kade looked to her quickly. Hopefully they could help; hopefully hanging out with two idiots was worth the trouble of getting the Plumbers' help.

"Actually, I'm working with her." Ben said casually, nodding towards Gwen, "Kevin doesn't really work, he just stands around flexing his muscles."

"Yeah, how about l flex 'em in your face?" Kevin asked sarcastically.

You can smell the testosterone in here, Kade mused and grinned beneath her visor.

"Who are these jokers, man?" The man beside Helio asked and the Fitz shook his head.

"I can't tell you. I'm just the middle man."

Gwen crossed her arms, her lips pursed in annoyance, "We're just some regular old folks who are beginning to think this is a big, fat waste of our time."

Ben nodded slightly and turned to Kevin, "What do we got?"

"I've never seen anything like 'em, Ben. They're complex. Must be grade 9 tech at least."

The nano-tech began to whir in their canisters and Kade noticed. Worried, she grabbed her necklace, a nervous habit of hers. Kade inconspicuously flicked her fingers, blue energy sliding to the ground and tightening the lids on the canisters holding the nano-chips.

Ben moved the Omnitrix, the alien watch merely giving a buzz and flickering erratically, "Whatever they are; they're screwing up the Omnitrix."

"What's with you guys? I've never met buyers like you before."

Kade let out an irritated sigh and flipped up the visor on her helmet, eyebrow raised in annoyance, "You've never met anyone like them before because they're not just black market lowlifes like you. They're Plumbers."

All eyes turned to her and Kade mock-bowed as if she was welcoming the attention. The superhero trio stared at the two in leather – one in blue leather, the other in red – and both looked as if they were completely at ease and discussing the weather, not at a black market meet-up.

Helio laughed, "You mean they're gonna pay for this stuff by fixing my toilet?"

Kade could hear the sarcasm in Elena's voice and basically feel the annoyance radiating off her, "The Plumbers are a secret interplanetary security force, saving the world so we don't have to."

Kade half-growled, cocked out a hip and placed her hand on it, "Basically, one Plumber is worth ten of you."

Kevin scoffed, "Oh, right, of course. We're cops from outer space. Or maybe, we're firemen from Atlantis."

Kade grinned behind her helmet, absolutely adoring Kevin's attitude. Elena flipped up her visor as Ben asked, "How did you learn about these Plumbers you think we are?"

"Everything we know about the Plumbers, l learned the same way you did..." Elena said as she walked over to Ben and removed her helmet, "…Ben."

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Chapter 1 up, not even sure if anyone will read it, but whatever.

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~ Raven