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"The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character." (Isabelle Eberhardt)
Chapter 2 – Nightmares
The two teenagers ran to the backstage, stopping when they saw their friend talking to the others competitors, receiving many praises and congratulation for the beautiful, melodic and sweet voice. She felt very pleased to see that many people liked the way she did on the stage, somehow the red-headed girl felt like the missing pieces of being herself were being put on the right place.
"Gwen!" Ben was the first to speak and walk towards the girl. She looked his way.
"Ben… Did you like the song?" her lips twitched, almost smiling.
"Yeah, you were beautiful…" then remembered that was his cousin he was talking to, for God's sake! "I mean…" the boy cleaned his throat and continued. "The SONG was beautiful."
The redheaded blushed a little after hearing his comment about her performance, her heart started to beat fast. Did he really say that she was beautiful or just confused himself with the words? She hoped that he really meant that, a smile appeared on her pretty face.
"I didn't know that you can sing so well." Kevin quickly said.
The Omnitrix started beeping loudly and twinkling a red bright. Something was wrong, very wrong. Only one thing our heroes could think at that moment: the attack of the DNA aliens or worse… The Highbreed attack.
"C'mon guys, we need to hurry!" the black headed boy shouted, running to the exit and towards his green car, parked in front of the library.
Ben watched him go and looked to his cousin stepping back. Baffled, he almost questioned her, but she started talking.
"Go, I'll change my clothes. You don't really think that I'm going to fight disgusting and freaky aliens with this dress, do you? "She grinned and entered the dressing room in a hurry, leaving her cousin alone.
He looked to the door and whispered: "women, who understands?" and ran in the direction of the parking lot, where Kevin was waiting impatiently for him inside the car. Benjamin entered it, closed the door and put on his seat belt speedily. The black-haired guy smoothly stepped on the clutch with one foot, releasing it after stepping on the accelerator and controlling the speed when entered the principal road.
"Where is he, Tennyson?" asked the driver, paying attention to the road, whereas another boy was looking to a 3-D map that appeared on his watch.
"With these green points, we can see where he is…" The brunet boy pointed to the dot. He was dumbfounded. "The thing is above us, but… How?"
The creature jumped on the car, making Kevin lose the vision of the road and step briskly on the break, sending the creature few foot away with an enormous impact on the ground, making a big hole where it had fallen.
"Man, I hope it didn't break any part of my baby…" Kevin revolted seeing a scratch on his car.
"God, Kevin, there are many other things that we need to worry right now." Ben was incredulous to see his friend examining the car while there was a big monster to fight.
The eldest boy straightened up to see a huge alien with red dots and lines all over its torso, it looked like a High Breed, but much bigger, it was eerily to face it. The black-haired rapidly punched the road with his fists to transform his body into concrete, he moved fast to the creature ready to sock it.
"He is fast!" The ex-villain said trying hard to hit it.
"The help is coming!" Ben pushed the button of the Omnitrix, chose the form and pressed another hand on the watch.
All his molecules changed during the transformation and the result was an alien with two large blue wings: Big Chill. The battle soon began; the teenagers had an advantage of being in two, they had faced many UFOs during their journey to find Max so they learnt how to act and think like a team, always helping each other.
"Kevin, look! Whom that alien reminds you?" questioned Big Chill trying to freeze his new 'friend'.
"Tell me something that I don't know…" he groused when the alien sent him flying with one sock.
The ex-villain wasn't going to lose the battle, neither the war, so he put his hand on the car and absorbed the metal entirely. He whisked towards the 'Highbreed' while his mate flight in the direction of the creature, freezing it completely. Finally they won the fight.
"That was easy, very easy if you let me say that…" Ben commented and saw that his clock was beeping, soon he returned to be human again. "I guess that this is not the end."
The hero was absolutely correct, because a strong purple light had emanated from the frozen UFO, making them protect their eyes. The ice, that prevented it from attacking them, went off in billions of little sharp pieces like billions of knifes flying towards the Alien Force team. They were ready to the impact, but it never came.
When the boys looked, there was a barrier of energy destroying the fragments. A girl with red hair was in front of them, with her little and delicate hands surrounded by a pink bright, in her eyes you could saw determination; her lips twitched to a smile.
"Honestly, what will you do without me?" Gwen asked, undoing her block after the last piece of ice was destroyed.
"I really don't want to know." Her cousin whispered, choosing another alien form, ready to be transformed again.
The creature stared to Gwen and laugh meanly. The rest of the group was attacking, while the girl stood immovable. That thing… Her mind was trying to remember… Then, it came…
"You." She uttered, her voice showed a mix of surprise, fear and anger, she felt like the earth was moving below her foot. Her mind desperately tried to focus on something concrete, to not let her eyes close.
Suddenly, the redheaded heard someone calling out her name, and then everything went black, lifeless.
"Gwen…?" Someone was calling her name. Ben?
Her eyelids started to move, her eyes slowly opened, the light of the Sun blurred a little her vision of her cousin. Seconds later, she saw everything entirely: she was lied down on the backseat of Kevin's car and both boys were looking at her; Benjamin was the most worried, he was so close to her.
"How are you feeling?" he asked watching her straightening up to a more comfortable position and putting her hand on the head.
"I'm fine. I've just blacked out." She said. "For how long have I…"
"For just one hour, don't worry." The brunet with mysterious green eyes said before hearing the whole question.
Gwen looked to him deeply and observed that his eyes were showing care and love. It was everything that he was feeling at that moment? She has kept thinking about her cousin, they used to argue so much… How they went to an understanding?
"Guys, I was looking for the creature that went away and I discovered that there is nothing in our database." Said Kevin, showing them the mysterious DNA on the screen of the digital TV inside the car.
"It's not possible! How can't an alien be there, on a complete database? Search again!" said Gwen huffily, she wasn't crazy; she had already saw it… Somewhere…
"Why are you so…you know… agitated?" questioned Ben putting his hand on her shoulder. "Is there something that you want to tell us?" he was suspicious.
"I'm not agitated and… I don't have anything to tell you. Why do you think I have?" the girl asked, trying to hide her emotions, but deep inside she knew: when her cousin was suspicious of something, nothing could stop him to find out the truth, sooner or later.
"Are you trying to remember the old days fighting this way?" The ex-villain asked enjoying the scene.
"Shut up, Kevin!" The relatives shouted in unison.
"Ok, ok, I'm sorry…" said, lifting up his hands to the air, trying not to laugh.
"After all, what happened to that creature?" The Anodyte questioned, looking to the boy using the Omnitrix.
"When you fainted, it went away. I don't know why…" the black-haired shrugged.
The redhead looked to her friends keep thinking in what could happen if attacks like that keep occurring? Was it possible to that alien be a mix of superpower UFO's with the goal to destroy or rule the Earth? She knew that Ben was using the most powerful tool of the whole Universe, but even knowing this… The girl was scared because she had already seen it before… In her worst nightmare…
"Gwen, can you track it?" Ben entreated delicately when the idea pops up.
"If I have something that can helps me to track him, maybe." She said, getting his thought.
"So… When I froze that creature, the clock had collected one sample of it. It was odd, you know, but it'll help us to find him and understand better what is happening." Benjamin explained, pressed the button of the Omnitrix and a green hologram popped out illuminating the car. He took the piece that had materialized in front of their eyes and handed it in to his cousin.
When the miss stretched out to receive the unknown object and touched it, she felt a stinging pain on her head, flashes passed through her mind in an untidy way. It was not something that she had already lived; the girl could only see Benjamin acting strange, like he was not himself. There were many people near, she could not distinguish who they were, in her head it was just a blur, blots. Gwendolyn came back abruptly to reality, realizing that her little 'journey' lasted just seconds. She thanked that the green-eyed teenager didn't realize it.
"So… Did you feel something? " Kevin interrogated, sitting on the driver's seat with his hands on the steering wheel, ready to drive.
"Yes…" The young lady breathed deeply totaling forgetting that.
"To where?"
The half-Anodyta concentrated on the piece and it started to levitate from her hand. Her eyes glowed pink, her hair started to flow like if the wind was passing through it, she had to control the pain. The heart of the alien could be heard by her, it was strong and fierce. Tum Tum Tum, it looked like a human one. The presence was strong and that meant that he was close, closer than they could ever imagine.
"You can start the engineer now. I will give you the coordinates." She said, still concentrating.
The ex-villain nodded slowly, put the keys on the keyhole, pushed the gear shift and stepped on the clutch and then the gas pedal. Okay, now they hit the road. Ben sit on the backseat with the girl, he was observing the blurry landscape as the car was running with much velocity, the boy was trying to figure out the meaning of why his cousin had fainted that way and why she was speaking like she was hiding something very serious from him.
Like I said, Gwendolyn indicated where the older teenager had to go: turn right, left or go straight ahead. The heartbeat started to be stronger as well as her pain, they were closer… Much closer…
"Kevin, stop." She said with a dead serious tone.
"Did you go insane? We are in the middle of nowhere!" He complained not stopping the car.
"It's here, behind that mountain." The flying object has fallen on her lap and her eyes was returning to the normal.
"Are you sure?" The boy using the Ominitrix questioned.
"Absolutely." Gwen answered.
"Can't I continue to drive till that place?"
"Only if you want to be alien barbecue." One eyebrow lifted up. "They have a powerful protection everywhere near 5 kilometers, but there is an entrance after the mountain. And that's how we are going to enter the fortress." She asserted whereas he pressed the brake. When the car stopped completely, the girl opened the door quickly and quit.
"Hey Gwen, wait for us!" Ben shouted and quitted too, he was by her side.
In less than one minute, the Alien Force was on their way to the hidden UFO's headquarters and for what she felt, it had friends. They walked a lot, lost the track of time and the half-Anodyte was leading the path, as they were approaching the place, she could feel more and more aliens there, maybe thousands of them. Her head was almost exploding with the headache, the team was almost there. Gwen stopped. The boys stopped behind her, confused.
"We can't enter there…" murmured, seeing and feeling the place.
"So you made us walk here to tell that?" Kevin asked angrily, he was about to punch anyone that cross his way.
"What happened, Gwen?" questioned the brunet serenely, ignoring his friend completely. Hearing no answer from her, he tried again. "Gwen?"
It was not a simple team of aliens like the girl supposed. She could only see that when they arrived there. It was not like that group of DNAalien that had kidnapped her grandpa, neither the headquarters looked like. The headquarter that they destroyed for a high price: the life of Max Tennyson. Big was not the correct word, it was far from it. The place was bigger than anything they had confronted before, even the Highbreeds; it was not possible to win the fight. They needed to call back up.
"They are too many, we cannot handle it." She said, looking into the tenebrous future the Alien Force was going to enter.
"What are you talking about?" It was the last straw, the ex-criminal walked a few more steps towards the valley. "They're not so many as you…" he stopped to see that the girl was totally right. Ben did the same as Kevin, he was flabbergasted.
The headquarter was so large that their eyes could not see the end of it. Down there the aliens, looking like the ones they fight , were working on a project to destroy the Earth or… Who cares? The UFO's were planning something in great scale and didn't look it was a good thing. What the team were going to do? The world was done? The only choice was call the other plumbers, with a bigger group, they could make it.
"We can try." The owner of the Omnitrix said, high enough to be heard by his friends. He pressed the button on the clock and a hologram with different tipes of aliens appeared, the boy was trying to choose the most convenient form to attack.
"No, Ben. Don't do it! We don't know what they are up to!" his cousin begged for him to not do such a stupid idea.
Benjamin knew that she was right, she always was. But if he couldn't do it, who could? Who had his courage? Before he could put his hand on the clock again, they saw lights. Very strong lights coming from the sky, near the place where Kevin's car was. As the many beaming of lights intensified their gleaming, Gwendolyn couldn't help to take her warm cousin hands in her shaking ones. He noticed, looked to it and finally to the girl's eyes that were focused to the sky. The brunet smiled and turned his look to the lights once again, couldn't help to feel his heartbeat beating in a crazy way in his chest, it was a strong feeling.
The impact of what they saw on the earth caused a little earthquake. The motorcar started to beep the shrill alarm, the teenagers run to the place as fast as their legs could carry them. Kevin tried to stop the alarm and the other two walked towards the crater, they somehow seemed hypnotized. The light began to fade away. They looked around and saw many rows with the same deep crater.
From which one, the two cousins could see pieces of metal opening simultaneously, in a total synch. The smoke didn't let them see exactly who or what they were, they just saw shadows moving, some big and some little. They were not human, the teenagers were sure.
When the creatures left the craters, the shadows were transformed in alien forms, But not any kind of form, not strangers nor enemies. Alien Force had already met all them in other quests of the team: Alan, Paradox, Helen, Manny, Piecer, Rainrassic III, Myaxx. What they were doing there? At the same time, the seven walked towards Gwen, Ben and Kevin; Rainrassic somehow guide the others.
"I cannot believe it!" the girl with green eyes exclaimed, putting one of her hands on her mouth, astonished.
"Greetings Ben Tennyson. We are here to help you in your mission." The alien bent before him and this fellows did the same.
With the defeat of Vilgax and the Highbreed, Benjamin and his friends turned into celebrities in the whole Universe, any planet they went, they couldn't leave without a medal or something like this.
"You don't need to talk this way with me, you know, we know each other." He said, smiling.
"I can say that the little Kevin's girlfriend isn't in love with him anymore…" Manny said in a jolly way when he saw Gwen and Ben with their hands intertwined.
Both blushed by his comment and separated their hands, looking for a place to put them.
"We don't have time for this." Helen argued, hitting Manny.
"She is right…" Started Myaxx, the alien they didn't know that well. "Azmuth knew that you need help to defeat the Eletrarbreed and sent us here."
"Eletrarbreed? Now we know the name of those disgusting aliens." Ben said in a playful tone.
"They received that name because they are made of pure energy and mana." Myaxx explained to them.
"Mana?" Asked Gwen to herself, the curiosity was taking control.
Maybe that was the reason why she felt so small, scared and fragile near that type of alien? That was the reason that she had that… Nightmare? Many questions without answers popped out in her intelligent mind. Even having such a major knowledge, she hadn't found the explanation to that fact.
"Now are we going to work as a team?" Kevin interrogated a little suspicious.
"Sure!" Alan answered transforming back to a human. The green-eyed boy offered his hand to the others put theirs at the top of his.
They understood and together, they putted their hands there. The half-Anodite didn't have a reason to fear anymore, right? Now in a big team, there was nothing that could stop them. The Alien Force was more powerful than before to defeat the Eletrarbreed.
Hey folks!
I'm sooooo sorry that I make you wait guys! Really!
I had some difficulties last year trying to enter collegue, you know, but now I entered it! I'm studying to be an Engineer. Cool, isn't it?
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