A/N: okay, im slowly working on this. again, ur gunna hafta wait until I can transform this into Dev, Eli, and Kenny bugging the crap outta the Force (btw, mite b callin them that from now on cuz it's easier than typing out all the names cuz that takes absolutely FOREVER!!!) and I need sumthin shorter than typin out the future crew's names too. Suggestions are definitely welcomed!!!!!
Disclaimer: don't own anyone but Eliza. and Devlin's truck.
"Great way to be anticlimactic," Devlin hissed to his sister. His nostrils flared and he glared at her for less than a second before his gaze softened, knowing that they all needed each other now more than ever. "You know, you are a real pain sometimes."
Eliza just gave a little grin, which vanished quickly.
"So are you guys siblings?" Gwen had the voice to ask, sounding young to their ears since they'd hear her yell at them for most of their lives.
"No," Devlin replied blandly as Eliza said, "Nope," at the same time. Kenny made the mistake of saying, "I'd have to shoot myself!" with a weak laugh. And standing between the Levin siblings to get his fair share of double sided punches.
He regretted saying almost everything that came out of his mouth around them.
Ben took a quick step back. None of them had even seen him get up. "So your…"
"Yeah." Devlin knew this would get complicated to the point where only he understood it. "Kenny is Ben's son. Me and Eliza… not so much." Now explaining the point of Gwen and Kevin's future… it could alter the future, causing them to not even exist.
"I still wonder why I hang out with them," Ken said. "I really do."
Yes, he got another slight punch from them both.
"So who are your parents?" Gwen asked, eyeing them both and seeing their resemblance to Kevin. Pointed features on Devlin's face along with his dark eyes and silent but strong attitude on everything. With Eliza, her face was stone cold, but she was simpler. Her features were more slight and easy, her skin a few shades darker than her brother's. Wearing a royal blue jacket with bits of silver glitter everywhere and a red and black tank underneath gave off that 'mess with me, you die' vibe. Gwen wasn't a big fan of that.
"Um…" the dark haired girl stared but got an elbow in the side from her brother with a tiny static shock that he tended to give off every now and then. "Can't say." She finished that with an irritated huff which sent her red hair that hung over her eyes flying in every direction.
Kevin's face twisted in anger. "So you don't know, or you won't tell?" If he had abandoned them, he'd never be able to forgive himself. With the last name of Levin, it was hard to say it could be anyone else. He was tempted to rip off the ID mask.
"Won't tell," Eli said.
"Might change the future," added Devlin.
Ken just nodded and smiled, pretending he knew what was going on. It usually worked.
Ben did the exact same thing. Like father, like son.
Gwen analyzed the two siblings again while Ben and Ken inadvertently had a staring contest. A couple of idiots with eyes. Devlin looked so much like Kevin it couldn't be a coincidence. She kind of liked it, really. Smart, funny, charming. He didn't act like it though. Then it hit. "Oh my god, it's me, isn't it?" she asked.
She got a sort of sympathetic face from Devlin and a chuckling grin from his sister. "Yup," the latter of the two said, her emerald eyes twinkling.
Kevin was oblivious this, the words blowing right over his dark haired head. "What am I missing here?" he asked slowly to be sure he didn't overlook anything. Too bad he was clueless to all of it.
"Let him go?" Eliza asked, wondering if Kevin would even be capable of understanding it in the first place. Gwen's eyes also met her son's. "I mean, Dev, he's going to figure it out eventually."
"Figure what out?!" whined Kevin impatiently.
Devlin just gave a tiny nod. "Let him go."
Eli smiled. She liked being smarter than the one con artist who had beaten her out of so many deals in the past. Or in the future. Or whatever. She shook her head just thinking about it.
"So what happened?" Ben asked, regaining a bit of his brain that he had left. "Why are you guys here? Something you need me to help with because I-"
"Saved the whole entire universe," chanted the other five teenagers in the garage, making it echo louder than normal in the room of concrete and metal. "We know, Ben."
His jaw dropped again and he lapsed into silence once more.
Devlin resumed his place as leader. "You tell us." He reached into the backseat of his black truck and fished out the piece of equipment that wasn't covered in rust. "This was in the engine and Eliza… Yeah, I'm guessing she broke it or something." He followed up with an "Ow" as his sister hit him. That seemed to happen a lot. They both got the violent genes, but it seemed to come out more from Eliza.
Kevin reached out to catch it and Devlin tossed the technology. Gently landing in Kevin's palm, he held it close to his face, onyx eyes following every line and wire in the system. "I-"
"Can fix it?" Eliza offered the words nicely. She got the back of her head thumped from Devlin.
"Nope." Kevin looked it over. A tiny orb the size of a half dollar was resting in his hand. Purple metals and lights raced along inside it through the conductors and pausing at certain intervals to pick up more information before transferring it further through the machine. Silver lined the outside, glittering, sparkling. "But I can take it apart and see what makes it tick. From there, we'll see what I can do."
"Can you fix it?"
"Didn't she just-"
"Eliza, shut up!"
"Dev-"
"Cut it out!"
"I wanna go home!"
Letting out a quiet sigh, Devlin reached past Ken to grab his sister and pull her close to him, giving her the satisfaction of a rare hug. The kind that really meant something. "We'll get back eventually," he muttered to her.
"Yeah, but will it still be the same?" she asked.
His eyes skimmed the other three teens on the other side of the garage. "I don't know, Eli," he said.
Tears were threatening to fall. That was part of the reason she buried her face in her brother's chest. The other part was because she was scared. He was consolation. He was safety. He was piece of mind. He was everything she needed to keep on living. He was her heart, mind, and spirit, her other half. His uncertainty only fueled her fears.
They were all silent for a moment.
"So where are you guys going to stay while Kevin works on sending you back?" Gwen asked. She was thinking everything over. The idea of her and Kevin. The future. After the past. This was their past. This was their future. Her mind spun, hard and fast. "You guys can't live here forever. That truck won't fit all three of you."
"It does," Devlin said. "Since someone doesn't like buying their son a new car in the future…" His glare fell on Kevin. Bad blood existed between them in the future. Mostly over cars. Mostly.
Ben spoke up again, regaining thought. "I could keep Devlin and Ken at my-"
Gwen was the first to argue. "Your parents would notice the similarities between you and Ken. He'd have to stay here if anyone. Eliza could-"
"Too similar," Kevin cut in. "And obviously, I couldn't take Devlin."
"But you could take Ken-" Ben started.
"And Ben could take Devlin." Gwen finished. "Simple."
"Yeah, that's what Ben says about war too. We all know how that turned out…" Kevin just shook his head for a second, still wanting to go deeper into the idea of this equipment he'd never seen before. "So how are we going to work this out?"
"Eliza could sneak in through my window," Gwen offered. "It's not like Kevin doesn't already do that enough." Shooting him a silent glare, her gaze met his and she instantly looked away. Knowing the future made things harder to live through in the present. "That good?"
Devlin rolled his eyes. "I have a car. I have a little money. There's this thing called a hotel. Ever heard of it?"
Kevin grinned. "I think I want that one instead. He's funny."
Feeling the need to bang his head into a wall, Devlin dug his nails into his palm. Restrain.
"No. Current plan is good enough." Gwen looked out the garage. Night was already beginning to fall. "We've only got a little time left before we've got to get back."
Silently, Kevin folded his arms across his chest. "So how about you guys show us what you can do?"
Ken just held up his wrist, the Omnitrix perched there perfectly. "I'm guessing you already know mine."
"Tell me everything!" Ben urged, running to Ken and grabbing at the other Omnitrix. It had a new style to it. Thinner band around the wrist and a lighter green coloring. The hourglass shape was backwards. Black creating the symbol and the green bordering it.
Silently, Ken held it up. He began to explain.
Minutes later, many exasperated yawns came from Kevin, signaling his immense boredom. That got Ken and Ben to shut up about the Omnitrix. It was the exact same thing with a few older aliens and one or two that he had already seen before from his future self.
"Now what can you two do?" Gwen asked, looking at the other two teens.
Eliza raised a hand, putting up the shield she had used earlier. "Mana, of course," she stated with a proud smile and a flip of her hair. "Then this." She pressed her hand to the hood of Devlin's car and shot the voltage out just right so that it was keyed to hit the engine perfectly to that it began with a lurch and then began to hum as the horsepower kicked in. "I can do that."
It wasn't Ben this time. Kevin's jaw dropped. "You can…?" he half asked, half said, and half spoke in shock.
"Mhm." Eliza also pressed her fingers harder to the metal. "And my personal favorite." With that, she focused on the metal and imagined it covering her with the black and rusty armor. It happened, her features coming out with more detail than before.
Oh yeah, Kevin went into shock. "You…"
"Yes, me," she said. "Who else? The muffin man?" The armor faded away the second she took her hand off the hood. "It's weak though. I have to stay in constant contact with it to keep covered or else it doesn't work."
Finding that he wanted to ask another question, Kevin had to regain his composure. "So what can he do?" He pointed a finger at Devlin.
"Oh, him?" Eliza asked. She looked at her brother who was still standing arms folded across his chest, leaning on the truck. "He's pretty scary when he wants to be. I call him my Angel of Death. He doesn't like being mean and everything, but when he is, you do not want to be in the way. At all."
"Angel of Death?" Gwen asked.
Devlin rolled his eyes. "I'm not scary."
"You're right. You're terrifying," Eliza corrected herself.
He snorted with disgust. "Alright, want to see what I can do? I'll show you." He grabbed a wrench off the nearest table. "Right now, everyone in this room is wondering why I picked this up. And now they're wondering how I know except for Eliza and Ken. And now only Gwen, Eliza and Ken understand any of it."
Kevin and Ben were totally oblivious.
"Mind probe," Devlin muttered, chucking the wrench over his shoulder and hearing it hit something. "Don't worry. I can fix that. And it's different than a mind reader. Those guys are just weird."
"What else?" Ben asked, interested in the Angel of Death thing.
He shrugged. "One thing you all know and hate. I only use it sparingly because I'm afraid that I might not… change back."
Eliza shuttered at that. "Yeah. Angel of Death."
"The same one you guys saw. A while ago. Give or take five years." His gaze down casted to the concrete floor, searching for that familiar crack. "The Angel of Death."
"Wait…" Kevin started. "Do you mean the-"
"Yeah." Devlin stated calmly, able to clearly see what Kevin was thinking. "That."
All six of them fell into a silence.
"That it?" Gwen asked, having a feeling there was more.
"Nope." Devlin pressed his hand to the truck's roaring engine and shocked it quickly, his lightning invisible. The humming died off immediately. "I've got the same thing. But I can't use any mana. It's a bit of a disappointment, but whatever."
Eyes flitting to the garage entrance, Gwen found the sun below the horizon. It'd be hard to take care of Devlin, Eliza, and Ken. They still had to get them home yet. Kevin had to problem with that obviously. "Guys, we should get going," she said. "We've still got to get them to our houses. Plus getting our parents to trust us…"
"I can take care of it," Devlin muttered.
They all stared at him.
"I can also tell people what to think. It keeps them distracted long enough to zap 'em to the Null Void." He settled back into a stoic expression.
"Let's get going," Ben said, reaching for the green car but Kevin stopped him.
"There's not enough room in mine," he mentioned quietly.
They were all quiet, trying to solve this. Then Eliza said, "Ken's got dibs on the floor."
A/N: I know it's been awhile since one of these has been up!!! But I got it finished finally! It only took a week or so. Not bad by my standards. Review and love Ken being on the floor!
~Sky
P.S. Devlin likes throwing things...
