Ch. 3

Ben stares at his now bruised cousin as she recovers on his bed. "I can't believe that this happened to

her." he thought in regret. He felt so much rage building, if his cousin wasn't there he'd probably

would've been ready to punch a hole in the wall. While his emotions subside, Ben checks her arms to

check bruises, figuring he should have her check her injuries to her chest rather than be a perv. There

were small cuts on her forearms and black and blue bruises on her hands and wrists. Nothing too

serious he thought. He took the chair from his nearby wooden desk and decided to watch over her in

case she needed anything or if anything took a turn for the worse. Two hours later, it was just about

midnight and Gwen was still out cold and had no improvement. Ben's insomnia for his cousin finally

caught up with him, his eyes were starting to give on him. Each blink his eyes took more energy to a

actually stay awake. Until after one more blink and he saw Gwen turn over and his eyes met the insides of his eyelids.

At a sudden gasp for breath, Ben opened his eyes to find himself on top of his bed which he thought

that Gwen was in. He looked around his room, Gwen was no where to be found. As he got up from his

bed, he heard the faint sound of a girl humming down the hall. He peered his eyes out the archway of his door and Gwen was heading to his room. "Gwen, are you okay?" he asked with great concern.

"Yeah, I'm feeling much better". With that she hugged him, "Thank you" she whispered while her head

was nestled into his muscular chest. Their piercing green eyes met as each of them tried to look at each

others faces. "What happened to you? Who did this to you?" Ben looked at her straight into her green

eyes with one of his hands holding hers. Quickly, she reacted by taking her hand away and replying

with tears "I don't know" as she tried hard not to recall the horrific event. He tried to look at her face,

"Gwen I want to try to remember, Please" he pleaded. "This can help me to take this creep out." She

replied with a nod, then her eyes glowed with pink and purple mixed as she tried to search through her

mind to figure out what had happened after she hit the ground and blacked out. An extra power of the

Anodites is that even though there functions might be normally out, they can look into their mind and

recover memories they can't recall.

(Gwen's Flashback)

As Gwen realized the dream she still needed an outlet for her anger, as a result she formed 2 4ft. Long

mana tentacles and shot them at the water in front of her. Shooting at least 10 gallons of water onto the

area below in the form of rain. "If things were this easy I should have picked somebody by now!"She

finally realized that all of the words that she had been trying to use to cover her feelings had withered

away along with the water now back in the pond. "I DO LIKE BEN!" she said in the atmosphere with

realization. In the background stood Kevin with an angry expression upon hearing her proclamation.

She was so happy that she had her head clear, Gwen decided that she was ready to leave. As she turned

around Kevin absorbed some of the stone and hit her in the spine. Once he sent her to her knees in pain,

he noticed that she was K., and decided to keep hitting her. He gave her some hits to her hands and

wrists and adding some cuts as well from turning them to blades. Finally, he hit her in the chest. Kevin

was greatly satisfied with his actions. What he didn't notice was the fact that Gwen came to for about 5

minutes, unable to move, only observe. Then, Kevin released the stone armor that he had used to batter

Gwen. (End of Flashback)

Once Gwen's eyes were reopened and the mana dissipated, she shot her face straight down to the floor in her disappointment.

"It was Kevin, he did this." with sadness as those fateful words were in the open.

Ben only stood up clenching one of his fists, questioning which alien to become to give Kevin Levin the pounding of a lifetime. "You know that I'm going to hurt him right?"

"I know and I can see that I can't stop you. But please, just promise me one thing."

"What's that?" he said while the anger was fueling his next action.

"Don't kill him." he turned away and opened a window as the omnitrix flashed the picture of the Red bat alien known as Jetray.

"He'll live. I might not like it but I am still the hero and I spare lives not destroy them." he said with

one flash as his DNA was rewritten into the DNA of an Aerophibian.(Jetray's race, idk I don't make the

names.) There she saw her cousin that she loved fly out to the sky to search for Kevin and question his actions. Ben searched the old abandoned auto shop outside Bellwood then the Mr. Smoothie. At last, he came to his location, his mother's house near the edge of Bellwood. Ben no doubt was going to confront Kevin for his destructive deeds but if his mother was there he would need to get her out first.

Once he landed a green light from the omnitrix bathed Ben's alien as he transformed back to human. "I've been waiting for you Tennyson" he heard from Kevin as he turned around. "Well you didn't really give me that much choice...LEVIN"