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Rexfan1333

I hope so. At first, I thought it going to be boring fanfic.

Chad0615

Basically, yes but it not going to end easy like that 5555.

DJ Rodiguez

Thank you for your recommendation. I will do my best.

Ch 4

He informs his grandfather about Miami situation while they leave the hospital. At first, he really angry but Ben's explanation was satisfy. Therefore, DX Mark 10 had transport to Ben. He reminds
Ben, their safety come first. They allowed to abandon this mission. As we knew, Ben never gives up in his mission.

"So Helen, where should we go?" Ben asked while start his car.

"We should start with "Purgatory", it's their hideout and factory, properly." Helen hesitated

Ben asked her to guide. From her information, "Purgatory" is an old building near Miami Beach. They believe it is a drug factory. Ben access to Plumber's data, he found a blueprint of the building. He explained his plan to Helen who surprised how wisely.

When they reached, they saw a few guards who are human and aliens who look like Liam. Helen grabs her infrared binocular and count. There are fifteen people in the area by two guards on the front gate, one on the roof, and the rest is in the building, however no sign of Manny.

"Are you ready?" Ben asked

"Ready" Helen prepared her pistol.

"It's hero time" Ben slammed his omnitrix and turn to "Big chill"

He turns himself to intangible and flies to the roof. He sneaks to his back and frost him with his freezing breeze. Oh poor guard, he hasn't a chance to say a word. Ben looks around him. When he sure there are no one, he sent a signal to Helen for step two. She used her super speed to knock out guards at the main gate and she succeeds. Later, she joins Ben on the roof after hide guard's bodies.

"Good job Helen" Ben praised while Helen wore her gas mark.

This time Ben transforms to "Gutrot" and walk to ventilator. He started to mix some chemical gas and put his butt in ventilator and asked Helen "Pull my finger".

She giggled and embarrassed but still pulls his finger. "FARTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT", oh my god, he just fart in front of the girl. Fortunately, it was not a fart, it was an Anesthetic gas. Peoples in the building were knocking out in a few second. It because Ben calculated how much he needs to knock out people in the whole building already. Now time for step three, they knew destroy this place was an unnecessary. What they need is information such as master mind, distributor, and comprador. Helen used her speed to search the whole building. Luckily, they found a computer notebook in the room which looked like an office.

"Damn it, it locked. There is no time to hack it." Helen swore.

"I got your cover. You need "Upgrade"" Ben transformed to Galvanic Mechamorph.

He touched that computer and started to hack it. Helen hand him an USB flash drive. Ben transferred necessary information to it. It's all done in a few second.

"Now let's get out of here." Ben suggested

Suddenly, they heard someone clapping behind them. "Well well well, if it isn't my old partner with mister hero "Ben 10"." Manny laughed

They turned around and saw Manny point his guns to them. He smirked and walked closer to them.

"Manny, listen to me. What you are doing is wrong. I beg you, please stop doing…" He slapped her with his gun before she finished.

Helen flew and hit the wall. It knocked her out. Ben used this chance to fire his optical laser. He aimed for a gun that point at him and succeed. Manny exclaimed and dropped his gun. Ben tackled him with his whole body. It knocked him down to the floor. He started to punch Manny.

"What wrong with you, Manny?" Upgrade yelled. "How could you hurt Helen like that? She is your partner."

Manny managed to grab Upgrade's arms and threw him away. His head hit a desk. Manny walked to Ben while our hero tried to stand up.

"You want to know why." He said and kept punching Upgrade's face "I am sick of someone bossing me around. It should be me as team leader after Pierce's death. Not someone else. It should be me. ME!" he yelled

"STOP!" Helen yelled and punched his face.

She saved Ben before Manny knock him out. He still regains his conciseness. Now she needs to fight with her old partner and friend. She used her super speed as an advantage to hit him and dodge his attack. She aimed for his rip which she expected to knock him out. Unfortunately, he knew what she aiming, therefore he kept blocking her attack. He waited for a chance to strike back.

She started to exhaust. Her speed got slowly until Manny could grab one of her hand. He hit her stomach. She has colicky pain. She felt on her knees in front of Manny.

"Sorry Helen. You knew too much. I am going to kill you." He said heartless.

He grabbed Helen's neck and raised her up. He started to strangle her. She resisted him. She kicked him but it did not help. She started to loss her conscious. She's thinking about how could this happen to her. Also, she felt like she going to meet Pierce soon. She closed her eyes and gave up.

"Wham!" something hit Manny head.

It made her released. She tried to breath. What she saw before she unconscious was Ben in Four Arms. Ben carried her carefully and put her on the corner of the room. Then, he back to finish his business. He stood in front of Manny who still confused. His eye's showed a furry and anger. Right now, he is so piss off, he could killed someone right now.

Ben grabbed him and threw him out of the room. He did not want Helen to saw how cruel he could be.

"Alright mister, time for round two." Ben said

He started with three punch combo to the body and kept smashing him. Each punch, Ben put full strength in it. Manny tried to fight back but no chance. Ben knew there is no mercy for him anymore. He knew his is not a guy he knows anymore. The person he fights with is a drug dealer who could do anything to protect his own interest.

"Manny!" Ben called while Manny tried to look at him

"BE GONE!" Ben yelled and upper cut him.

He flew and hit with one of table which full with drug. Ben walked to see how bad Helen is. Thank god, she just unconscious. He grabbed his badge and contacted to the HQ. He needs a team to secure this place and medical team for Helen. Molly Gunther is on the communication duty. She informed the first team will be teleport in five minutes.

"Okay see…" It's Manny who choked Ben from behind. He knew he busted. Therefore, he wants to bring Ben to hell with him. Not this time, Four Arms threw him judo style and hit the wall. His mind wants to fight but his body, it's just gives up.

"Why? Why I couldn't be like you, Ben? Be famous and beloved." Manny muse upon himself while Ben walk closer to him.

"I do not know, Manny. You have a plenty of time to think in Null Void. Goodbye." "BAAM!"Ben delivered his final bowl which definitely knocks him out.

Finally, Plumber team and Max has arrived, Ben leave the rest to them while he's going to hospital with Helen.

After the examination, doctor said she will be fine. She need to rest but it ok for Ben to stay with her. Instead, the doctor encourages him to stay close to her because he believed Ben is her boyfriend. Ben did not reject, he just smiled back.

***time skip***

When Helen opened her eye, Ben is the first one she saw. Ben help her sat up straight. Ben said everything is ok. The information in flash drive, it's so useful now they knew who they needed to arrest. She asked about Manny. Ben said he is going straight to null void without any excuse. It's because Manny was the person who brought Night Blinding to Earth.

She started crying. This is so much for her, she lost her brother and now partner and team.

"What should I do Ben? My brother's going to disappoint at me. I am alone. I am a failure. I does not deserve for the badge" Before she's going to throw her Plumber badge, Ben stopped and embraced her.

"No Helen, you are not and I believed your bother is thinking the same as I." He said while hugged her. "If you thinking about losing a team, think again. From now on, you will be mine secretary. You are in my team now."

"What are you talking about, Ben?" She asked without pushed Ben away.

"You were one of my candidates. I selected you. I want you to be by my side." Ben said while theirs's eyes met each other.

At that moment, Helen's heart rhythm moving faster, she never felt something like this before. Since she became a plumber, there are only seriously stuffs such as training and team meeting. The men in her life also never said something like this. Pierce kept talking about mission and rules. Manny made a problem only.

"Ben, what do you mean "by your side"?. Are you serious?" Helen looked at him.

"I…I mean…" Ben couldn't find a word to say.

"It's okay Ben. I knew you just want to make me happy. You are so nice." She pushed him away.

Ben noticed she was going to cry again. Without second thought, Ben kisses her.

***Warning a little lemon***

Helen surprised in his move. She tried to push him away. Not because of she hated him, she just embarrassed. Ben's not allow. He pushed her down on the bed and kept kissing her deeper. She hit his back but it made him kiss her harder. This time, Ben started to play with Helen's cute tongue. His tongue tried to entwine but she resisted. She even bit his tongue but missed. When theirs tongue entwined, she felt electric shock while Ben kept sucking her. It's so sweet and sour at the same time. Her body felt numb. She stopped to hit him and clenched him instead.

"Is this serious enough?" Ben asked

Helen did not say a word just nodded. Ben continues to kiss her but this time is her neck. It made her tickle and moan. Unfortunately, their little activity must stop because Max's cough.

***Lemon end***

"Grandpa!" Ben exclaimed. They separated. Ben walked to him while Helen tried to fix her mess. Max did not say a word, just smiled. Right now, Helen's so embarrassed, she did not expect someone to see her and Ben doing it, especially Max.

Max said there is something to discuss with Ben privately. They leave her to rest after "little activity".

At the park near the hospital, they're sitting on the bench and talking about Manny and his subordinate.

"Are you sure, grandpa?" Ben asked

"Yea, according to your information, Night Blinding has a same ingredient as mind control juice but it's stronger ten times. We need to research more. We're not sure how could it affect to people and alien." Max explained while drank a black coffee.

"But that mean…" Ben yelled

"Yeah, Attea could be the mastermind in this incident but we have no evident." Max sighed

"What's about flash drive?" Ben asked

"Sorry, it did not lead to her or any Incursean. It just told us a dealer, distributor, and store on earth." Max complained

"Damn" Ben exclaimed

"The best to do now is prepare ourselves. We do not want another war, right Ben?" Max looked at his grandson.

"What about treaty?" Ben questioned

"Ben, they are Incursean. They want to dominate the universe. Even we have a treaty, I believe they have another plan in their mind." Max explained

"Whoa! That's sound crazy." Ben said and laughed "They coming or not, I will be there and ready."

"That's my grandson." Max chuckled "Now Ben, could you tell me what's happening here?"

Ben stunned even he knew his grandfather going to ask him.

"I mean you never talk about Helen before. Then you come to help her after be a magister" Max doubted.

"I selected her as my secretary, grandpa." Ben nervous

"That does not explain anything what I just saw in the room. I mean, I knew you must be desperate after break up with Ester but it does not mean you could use your power to force her into your lover" Max used louder voice.

"NO!" Ben yelled "I am serious about her. Grandpa, can you trust me? I swear, I am not going to take any advantage from her. I have my own reason but could not tell you yet."

"Ok, I trust you" Max said calmly "If anything happen, you need to take a responsibility."

Ben agreed and shook his hand

After their talking, they came back to check Helen. The doctor said she could go home now. They take a plumber's plane to Bellwood. During the flight, Ben sat with Helen. He took care of her the whole time on flight. Max just watched and hoped Ben knew what he is doing.

Note from the author

"Manny be gone" I refer to catch pharse from transformer when Optimus said "Megatron be gone".