A/N: I got lazy and decided not to write "Author's note" anymore. Me, Ben 10, and owning something? They have nothing to do with each other.

Chapter 3: The Most Embarrassing Father in the World

Nothing.

A week of looking up the name "Benjamin Notredame Victor Snakescin", a week of looking for any signature that matched the note, a week of inspecting the box my mom (Sandra) found me in, and this is what we have to show for all our hard work:

Nothing.

No lead whatsoever. Everything we found just leads us back to square one.

I might have sounded hopeful, looked hopeful, but I wasn't. I was in despair- and yes, I know what it means!

I knew nothingabout my parents, minus the fact that my mother and/or father were under certain "circumstances" that kept them from raising me. I didn't know if one of them died, if they were both dead, if they had me when they were really young, heck- I didn't even know if they were human. They could've been aliens that knew Grandpa Max was a plumber, and his family wouldn't mind raising a child that had weird powers. For all I know, my family could've been Popcorn People from Mars.

I was thinking this while I was lying down in my bedroom on my bed, but the doorbell interrupted me.

Gwen, I thought. She's here to tell me to go back to her house. I didn't feel like answering the door, but something told me to get up.

When I opened the door, I found a note on the doormat. I picked it up and read:

Benjamin Notredame Victor Snakescin,

I heard you want to learn more about your family. Well, I'm no stalker, but I know all about your family. Your father is actually quite famous, you know. Well, at least in our world. I'll be happy to tell you all about him. Just meet me at the nearest forest, and we can have a nice little chat. You can go anywhere in the forest. Trust me, I'll find you. Meet me at 9:00PM sharp. See you there.

-VES

I was so excited that someone knew my parents; I completely ignored any suspicious feelings. I dialed Gwen's number.

~Shan VES~Shan VES~Shan VES~

"Are you surethis is the place, Ben?" Gwen asked.

"No. But really, you try to name a better place." Ben replied.

"Plus, how do you know this guy is for real?" Kevin added. " 'I'm no stalker, but I know everything about your family. Your dad's famous inourworld. Just meet me at nine in anywhere in a forest near you! I mean, really?"

"Look, it's the only lead we have! If it's not enough for you-"

"Hello?" A girl said.

"Huh?" Ben asked. They all turned around to see a girl, maybe thirteen years old, wearing a faded violet dress with her cherry cola hair and braids.

"Are you Benjamin? The one who seeks his parents?" the girl asked.

"Yes. Who are you?" Ben replied.

Instead of replying, she turned around and said: "Ne coo! Ne coo!"

Two women and a man fell from the tree the girl was facing. They fell on their feet like cats.

"Benjamin," the man said simply. He had dark red hair and chestnut eyes, and his skin was a caramel-golden color. "I have been waiting to see you."

"So... do you know who my parents are or not?" Ben pressed.

"Yes..." the man replied, "I know him. Everyone should know him."

"Okay... so who is he?"

"He is an evil man," the man said vaguely.

"Evil? How is he evil?" Ben asked, astonished.

The man narrowed his eyes. "You will never find out."

Before Ben knew what was happening, a pink shield flashed before him, and then shattered on impact from a long, thin silver sword.

"Come, now," the man said as the two women pulled out blue swords. "You want to know what your father's like? Well, he doesn't care about your friends. He's killed more people than you can ever imagine. Once you die, your father will be broken."

"That's insane!" Ben yelled.

"You want to kill Ben?" Kevin asked. "Get in line. A lot of people tried to kill Ben, and he hardly came out with a scratch."

"Well, those people are nothing like us," the man responded.

"Well, no duh," Kevin said as he absorbed a nearby oak tree. "The people we fought weren't human!"

"What a coincidence. Neither are we," the man then jumped up to what could possibly be over a hundred feet in the air, then nearly sliced Ben's arm off in one swift move. The sword ended up half submerged in dirt.

"What are you guys?" Gwen asked.

"Conzites," he replied, pulling out the sword.

Ben transformed. "Wrath-" He tried to yell, but the man took advantage of his pause and kicked him in the gut so hard, Ben went flying. Gwen lit her hands up with pink energy, but it dissolved. Gwen fell on her butt as if she were punched, then looked up to see the two women holding their hands up, palms toward her.

"Hey!" Kevin yelled. He turned his hand into a mallet and swung it at the two women, but the mallet shattered on impact, and the women hardly budged.

"Is that all?" One of them asked. She was a ginger, and had yellow eyes and a Russian accent.

"You are weak," the other woman agreed. She had bronze-colored hair and red eyes. She, too, had a Russian accent.

"...W-what are you?" Was all Kevin managed to say.

"Did you not hear Nedisel?" The first woman asked, moving her head toward the man. "We are Conzites."

"Yeah, well, I've never heard of Conzites before. What planet are you from?"

"Earth," the second woman replied.

"Earth?" Kevin repeated.

"We Conzites like to keep to ourselves," the first woman said.

"But what exactly are you?" Kevin pressed.

"We are older than humans-far older- but most of us are humanoid."

"Alright, but, who's Ben's dad?"

The first woman looked at Nedisel kicking Ben's butt, and then at the second woman, who left from their little chat to deal with Gwen, and they were both doing well in the fight. The first woman turned back to Kevin. "Very well. Since you are not the one I need to kill, I shall tell you certain things about him. First, his short name is Pan. He is a Conzit, which in English means 'Haggon'. Haggons are older and more powerful than Conzites, or Haggins, in your language."

"Well, what did Pan do that was so bad?"

"I cannot tell you that."

"Why not?"

"Because it is dangerous to speak of it. It causes bad luck."

"Okay, well what does VES stand for?"

"We were pretending to be Benjamin's twin brother, Victor."

Kevin blinked. "...Ben has a twin brother?"

Their conversation was cut short when they heard a loud explosion.

"Kevin! A little help here!" Gwen yelled. She had a shield around her and the now unconscious hero, and from the looks of it, she couldn't hold on much longer.

"Why do you have to kill Ben, anyway?"

"Pan favors Benjamin over Victor."

"No I mean, why do you have to kill him? He doesn't even know what his dad did wrong. Besides, you shouldn't kill someone just because their father's evil."

"...Perhaps you are right." She faced the other four. "Nedisel! Changela!" She yelled.

Nedisel, Changela and Gwen all faced the woman as Ben slowly lifted his head.

"We can kill Pan the day we find him, but for now, we cannot unleash our anger on this child. We must leave now."

The two hesitantly followed her orders.

"Thanks, uh, what was your name?" Kevin asked.

"Volibia." She replied, and then quickly vanished into the woods. Changela followed, then finally Nedisel.

"Well, that was a waste of time," Ben said as he slowly got up.

"Not really," Kevin replied. I found out your dad's name, Pan. Also, you have a twin brother named Victor."

"Really?" Gwen asked.

"Yeah. Also, your dad's not human. He's something called a Haggon, which are apparently way worse than Conzites, which are actually called Haggins."

"So... I'm half alien?" Ben asked.

"They said they were from Earth, but I don't know if that's true."

"Okay, well, at least we have some sort of lead."

"Yeah, but the question is, where to next?" Gwen asked.

A/N: And to Think wasn't a very long chapter. It just felt long. Also, I got embarrassed when you didn't review chapter 8 of 10-10 so REVIEW OR YOU'LL HURT MY FEELINGS!