Hey, I'm back again with the second chapter of Questionable Alliance. Hope you enjoy! Please Review! There have been some changes from the original chapter 2 so watching out for them would be wise. :) –I Own Nothing

–Lioness002

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I smiled to myself in relief and relaxed slightly, part of the obstacle had been overcome, and convincing Michael to listen to me had to be the hardest part. "Good," I thought, "this was going by smoother than I thought it would. He is actually going to listen to me." I took a deep breath and pulled over what looked like an empty orange box and sat down. I looked over to Michael on the other side of the room to see he was waiting impatiently for me to tell him my plan.

"Well? Are you going to tell me this plan of yours?" Michael pestered. I sighed to myself and prepared for the long explanation ahead.

"Alright," I said leaning forward, "the way I see it is you can turn back to normal by absorbing a large quantity of energy. Right?" Michael nodded and kept quiet. "To save the universe, Kevin absorbed part of Ben's Ultimatrix, one of the most powerful energies in the universe."

"Yeah, I heard that through the grapevine, but what does that have to do with me?" Michael said fiercely. I knew if he said yes it was only so he could look normal again, he could care less about Kevin's well-being. But without Michael, there would be no other way to cure Kevin.

"This has everything to do with you." I responded eagerly. "You see, the last time you absorbed Kevin's excess energy, you cured him of his mutation and in the process it cured you."

"I remember, that was also when I was almost able to absorb all of your delicious energy and your Cousin Ben's power." I gulped down the rising bile at the memory and shook away the accursed thoughts.

"That's nice, but back to the topic at hand." Michael gave a spin chilling cackle and stood up from his seat. My eyes narrowed and I stood as well ready for anything to happen. Michael began pacing back and forth mumbling something to him self in thought.

"But you forget Gwendolyn," he finally said to me, "the last time to cure Kevin and me, we used an ancient power transferor called the Dominus Librium, if you remember correctly, Kevin destroyed it." Michael almost hissed in annoyance.

"I don't forget that he destroyed it to save Ben and me." Michael scoffed and crossed his arms.

"Idiot." He mumbled to himself. I let out a loud breath and calmed myself and continued in my explanation.

"The truth is that you don't need it. You'd just need to focus intently on absorbing." I said. Michael looked at me with his dark and menacing eyes piercing into mine. It took all of my willpower to not flinch away.

"Kevin would never let me get close enough to even try and absorb any of his energy." Michael said. "He hates my guts."

"I wonder why." I mumbled under my breath. "Anyway, Ben and I would distract Kevin so the plan could work. You could sneak up from behind him try to absorb."

"Why haven't you just asked him to stop?" Michael asked suddenly. I blinked slowly and then exhaled a deep breath. "Why did he have to ask the toughest questions for me to answer?" I thought in annoyance.

"In Kevin's state of mind he wouldn't be willing to give up all of his power." I said sadly. "He's to busy with his own insanity and absolute freedom to care about the consequences." I rubbed my arm sadly and touched the gold chain around my neck that held the locket Kevin gave me so long ago. It was all I had left of him that proved he ever really cared about me. "He's to busy to care about his friends and family and how they're feeling." I whispered to almost myself. I heard footsteps again as Michael was moving closer. "Stop." I said raising a hand when he got within ten feet of me.

"You should be a little nicer to me considering I might help you to save your god forsaken boyfriend." He hissed. I glared at him in defiance.

"I'm asking you as a friend, please Michael." I whispered sincerely. The truth of the matter was that I was dying without Kevin and Ben was planning on taking him down and I had to stop it. I couldn't let Ben hurt Kevin.

"Alright, lets just say that I agree to this plan of yours, and Kevin is cured and I'm not, what would happen?" I flinched and sighed, I was hoping I wouldn't have to go there.

"If that happened, we'd figure something out." I said cautiously wanting Michael to let it go and trust us. Michael shook his head and slowly unscrewed his helmet. I pulled away in fear and stepped a few more feet back.

"What are you doing?" I stuttered. Michael ignored me and pulled away his metal helmet exposing his hideously shriveled and dead looking face. My eyes widened in disgust and repulsion, he looked even worse than the last time I saw him without his helmet.

"Do you see me? I look disgusting and ugly, when I ask you what would you do if I didn't look completely normal, you better answer!" He yelled in rage and aggravation. I nodded quickly and put my hands up in defense.

"If you decided to help us and you cured Kevin and you didn't look normal I would do one and only one thing for you."

"And what would that be?" Michael asked in curiosity as he screwed his helmet back on. I took a deep breath and looked him straight in the face.

"I would let you absorb my energy, Michael. I would cure you myself."

There was a deafening silence as Michael stared at me calmly as if he hadn't heard correctly. "Is that so?" He asked skeptically in my direction. I nodded slowly in a grave and final way.

"Yes." I whispered pulling my eyes away from his and looking around the grungy room. I would do anything for Kevin, even if it included helping Darkstar in the long run. As I looked around the room one thing was for sure from my deduction of the shabby room; Michael didn't know how to clean up a room at all. I finally looked back to Darkstar with a bold and unwavering gaze. "You in?" I challenged. Darkstar gave a skin crawling chuckle and grabbed a few items from around the room.

"Alright." He said to me quietly. "I will help you take care of, Kevin." I sighed and smiled toward Darkstar, he was actually going to help us fight Kevin. In retrospect that probably didn't take much convincing, the snag area was probably more in the curing area, Darkstar didn't want to be cheated out of his reward.

"Thank you." I breathed in relief. "Be warned, this won't be easy." I said as Michael walked over to me. Michael snickered and walked quickly past me and out of the building.

"I'm counting on it." He called over his shoulder as he disappeared from view. I shook away my moment of happiness and pushed my way around boxes and followed Michael out of the dilapidated building and toward my car. This was going to be a long and hard road to curing Kevin.

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"You did what!" Ben practically screamed at me after I walked into the Plumbers Headquarters followed closely by Michael/Darkstar. "How could you betray me like this? How could you trust Michael? He will always stab you in the back! What were you thinking Gwen?" Ben asked in disbelief.

"I was thinking he could help Kevin." I hissed in annoyance. "That's more than I can say about you, all you can think about is taking him out for good. It's ridiculous." I said throwing my arms up in the air in aggravation. Ben frowned and rubbed his temples.

"Kevin isn't sane; we have to do it, Gwen." He said placing a hand on my shoulder. I jerked away and stepped back from Ben.

"You are too blinded by your own personal grief and betrayal to listen to reason. Our Kevin is still in there, we just need to get through to him." I pleaded to Ben. "We have to try." I deadpanned. Ben closed his eyes and let out a very loud and angry sigh.

"No." He said sounding very monotone. I clenched my fists and took a swing at his head. Ben ducked at the last second just missing my outstretched hand.

"What the Hell is your problem!" Ben yelled at me in frustration.

"My problem is you. You won't even listen to my plan of saving Kevin, I know it will work!"

"Kevin is far beyond saving, it's not going to happen, Gwen. I'm sorry but nothing you say is going to change that. You need to realize your boyfriend isn't in there, he is gone forever-"

"But-"

"KEVIN IS GONE! Get that through your head!" Ben screamed. I set my lips in a tight line and pivoted on my heel and headed out of them room.

"I can't Ben, I love him!' Ben's eyes widened and he stayed silent. "I'll save him without your help. I will save him!" I yelled exciting the room and spotting Michael. "Come on." I hissed harshly storming out of the room.

"Gwen! GWEN!" Ben finally called after me as I briskly walked away. I could hear him running after me as I grabbed Michaels arm and practically dragged him from the building.

"Nice yelling match." Michael stated boldly. I turned toward him with a hiss and small glare.

"Shut up." I said entering the main lobby. Seconds later Ben caught up to me and spun me around quickly and gave me a big hug. I was taken way back at his major mood swing and I pulled away in confusion. "Wha-?"

"Gwen." He cut me off. "I never knew-"

"Well now you know."

"Let me finish, I never knew he meant so much to you. I don't fully agree with this but…I guess I'll help." Ben finally finished. My eyes widened in surprise before I smiled brightly. "Oh my god, I convinced him!" I thought in amazement.

"Thank you Ben!" I said giving him a huge hug. Ben gave a chocked laugh at me and then turned toward Michael with a small frown forming. Ben and Darkstar had a silent staring war for a few seconds before Ben twitched slightly in my direction.

"So what's this plan of yours?"

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There we go, the edited chapter 2. I hope you enjoyed and if so let me know what you think, good or bad. I am open to suggestions. So do me a favor all of you readers out there and please leave a review or comment at the end. Thanks! :)

–Lioness002