It didn't take long for the moth like humanoid to escape the college grounds. Everyone was in the mess hall as instructed, and security wasn't all that secure. But they were supposed to make sure no one got in, not to make sure someone got out.
The transformed teen flew through the air, looking down at the ground to the best of his abilities to find nothing. "Mom...where are you?..." he asked himself. His attention was then turned to an explosion not far from him. Something was definitely wrong. He flew as fast as he could to the source of smoke in the distance.
When he arrived, he landed being covered in green and yellow light before changing back to his human form. He ran as fast as could, until he finally reached his destination: Bellwood Memorial Park. There he had seen something of true aw. A dinosaur like creature was facing off against an octopus like monster in armor, and the monster was winning.
The dinosaur had slammed the tentacle covered...thing, into the ground, leaving a huge crater, growing as it had slammed its fists into him. Once it had finished, the creature had grabbed a truck from the sidewalk, raising it into the air.
"I...will destroy everything, and everyone you love...Tennyson!" the monster shouted, struggling to get up.
"Could you do it...QUIETLY!" the Dino creature replied in rage, smashing the vehicle down several times, before stopping weakly. Breathing heavily as it was covered in the same green and yellow light as Colby. A teen with brown hair and a black and green T-shirt had fallen in the place of the creature, coughing up blood.
"Ben!" a woman shouted, running to the boy. She had ginger colored hair, neatly cut, with glasses and a blue shirt. She had picked up the ten's head, pressing against the right side of his stomach, as blood was leaking from it. "Ben, hold on. The ambulance is coming."
"Gwen..." the bleeding teen muttered, a smile across his face.
"Kevin!" she yelled, as a crowd began to form around them. A man in a black and grey shirt with black tame hair had run over. "We need to stop the bleeding!" she told the man, who pressed his hand where she had.
The ginger then stood, her hands glowing purple, aimed at the wound. She was trying to seal it, but was stopped by an utter of words.
"Don't..." the laying boy demanded. His voice was weak in that sentence, but it carried enough volume for everyone to hear, in shock.
"What do you mean don't?" Kevin asked, staring at him as he started to smile.
"I've tried, time and time again, to save the people of this planet. Human or not." the bleeding teen stated. "But everytime I do that, people pay...I've tried so hard, but I end up killing more people than I save..."
"No you don't! You're a hero, Ben!" Gwen stated, a tear streaming down her face.
"I'm sorry...but...this world needs a new hero..." he continued, grabbing her hand with his eyes struggling to stay open. "I couldn't save those people...but...I saved you, and Kevin, and...Julie...I'm at least glad for that..."
"Snap out of it Tennyson! We're gonna get you better, okay?" Kevin stated, trying to convince him.
"But don't you see...I did it...I saved you...I...did..." his hand fell to the ground and his body went limp. Tears were in his eyes, but a smile upon his face as he closed his eyes permanently.
"Ben...Ben! Ben, wake up! We don't want to lose you!" Gwen shook the limp body, to find no response, causing tears to flood down her cheeks as Kevin grabbed her. She only struggled trying to reach for the body.
A girl had broke out the crowd, running to the teen corpse, trying to make eye contact with it. Tears started flowing down her face as she held him in her arms, letting out sobs of despair. Gwen had turned to hug Kevin, who only turned away from the sight.
Colby walked over kneeling down to the girl, trying to comfort her. "He meant a lot to you, didn't he?" he asked, making her look up and nod.
"He was the best thing that ever happened to me, and Earth..." she only continued to bawl.
The blonde looked over to the boy in her arms, a look of guilt as he stared down his watch. He could have saved him, but he didn't.
Colby laid in his bed back at Bellwood Academy, with a clear look of stress over his face. It didn't exactly bother his roommate very much. It was just silence in 20A.
"Okay then, tell me. What is the matter?" Bragen asked in his roommate, rather emotionless, which wasn't uncommon for him.
"Nothing, just...stressed..." Colby replied, looking at his watch, angry at not it, but himself at the loss of a hero, and him not stopping it. He picked himself up from the bed, sitting on it and looking down.
"Well, since you won't let me know, I'll just have to wish you good luck." Mitchell ended the conversation laying into his bed and pulling up the covers.
The young blonde sighed, getting up from the bed and walking to the door, opening it and walking out. He turned his attention to the door right in front of him. Room 20B. He heard crying through the wall. Weird. He didn't take Ashley for much of a crier. So it had to be someone else. It was none of business, but he had decided to knock on the entrance anyway.
Ashley had opened the door, eyeballing at the young adult. "Hey." she greeted him in an annoyed tone.
"Hey," he responded quickly, getting to the point of why he was there. "Is someone crying in there, or am I hearing things?"
"Yeah, it's my roommate. She's a little torn up, one of her family members just died." she replied looking down at her sneakers. "He was killed by a gunshot wound..."
"Oh that's bad, huh..." he looked at his wrist watch, then sighed.
"Yeah. Someone outta pay mind to the human criminals too, instead of the alien ones. Most of the police are only focused on the people that breathe fire or have gills for lungs."
"Yeah...there should be..." he smiled. He had gained an idea. A way to use his transformation watch. It was too good to pass up.
It was 10 days after the death of the hero Ben Tennyson. The city was still torn up about it. Especially today of all days. It was his funeral.
The entire city gathered around the church, paying their respects to their fallen protector. From the cars to the entrance.
Colby had stood there, with a look of guilt instead of mourn, like everyone else. As the Tennyson family members and friends walked down the aisle, a girl turned her eyes to look at him. It was the same one as before, with black hair resembling that of Gwen. She walked over and asked, "It's you..."
Colby looked up, surprised that she would even recognize him. "Yeah, it's me..." he replied, he mouth open slightly after he finished his sentence.
"About your question...yes, he was." she said, with a hint of sorrow in her voice. "He was the best thing to happen to this planet. He used his powers to save people, and in the end...that's all he could do..."
Colby only looked down, shoving his hands into his pocket and sighing. Before he felt it was his fault that someone died, that was it. Now, he could feel guilty on a whole new level. Ben Tennyson died before his time. He was taken away from his family, and deserved to live so much longer. To get married, to have kids, to grow old. All that was taken from him, and now he'll never get to experience any of that.
Sirens could be heard in the distance, making the young adult turn, his face showing anger. He began to push through the crowd behind him out to the street, running to an alley and leaving the girl to walk into the building.
Colby continued to run, activating the hologram, changing it as he spins the wheel. He looked at the hologram in curiosity of the transformation. He accepted it and let the top of the watch move aside, letting the cylinder pop up, with him slamming on it, and being covered in green and yellow lights.