Chapter 79: Alien Guy No More: Part Four

I Don't Own Ben 10 Or Any Of The Characters

Author's Note:

* Hello and welcome to Chapter Four, technically Chapter Seventy Nine in the current chapter run, but whatever.

* So, this chapter contains a few more shocks, just saying. I'm not saying anything else, my lips are sealed. Let's get right down into it!

Now

The Next Morning

Ben

Ben's House

I woke up the next morning, with Gwen's naked form resting on top of me. My sudden movement woke her up. She looked up at me and smiled lovingly at me.

"Hey, you." She said, as she kissed me.

I eagerly accepted the kiss and pulled her close to me, so our bodies pressed against each other, but harder. Eventually she pulled away to catch her breath.

"Did you enjoy last night?" she whispered to me, as she touched noses with me.

"Maybe." I responded, as I stared into her eyes.

She just chuckled.

"I thought that you would." She said to me.

I could have stared into those magnificent eyes forever, but just then, we were interrupted. There was a knock at the door.

"Okay children, time to get up!" Mom called from the other side of the door. "We have a busy day today!"

Gwen and I looked at each other with worry and surprise, as we rushed to get out of bed.

"And hurry up, we're not paying you by the hour!" she joked from the other side of the door. "Dad set up the cover out in the backyard, so that he could make scrambled eggs, bacon and sausage on the skillet! Hurry it up, breakfast is piping hot!"

Once I heard the footsteps fading away from the door, I turned to Gwen.

"No need for sausages, I think you had a sausage last night!" I whispered to her.

She blushed a bright red.

"Don't say that!" she whispered to me.

"What? It's funny!" I said back.

"No, it's not!" she said. "Now take that thing off!"

I looked down and blushed myself.

"Oh, right." I said, as I removed the uh, you know.

I pulled on my boxers and the pajama pants that I was going to wear last night. Gwen put her underwear back on, much to my disappointment. Out of nowhere, she pressed herself against me and kissed me.

"Now, come on. Let's hurry up." She said, after pulling away. "They won't wait for us forever and if we take too long, they may get a little suspicious."

I nodded, as she pulled away and we continued to get dressed.

Then

Early August

Ben's House

As I sat in the living room, I heard a knock on the door. I got up from the couch and walked over to the door.

"I'll get it." I said, as I unlocked the door.

I opened it and I saw Director Steel of S.E.C.T. standing outside. My eyes widened upon seeing him, before I stepped outside with him and closed the front door.

"What are you doing here?" I asked in an angry tone.

"I just want to check in with you." He said in a calm tone. "I've received word that you've given up the Omnitrix. Can I ask you why?"

"Seriously? This is why you're here?" I asked. "To ask me why I've given up the Omnitrix? We're not talking. I'm going back inside."

I turned around, but I felt his hand touch my shoulder.

"Look kid, for whatever reason you quit, you just can't." he said. "The Omnitrix is a powerful weapon and it can't be allowed to fall in the wrong hands."

I stopped in my tracks. I eventually turned to face him.

"My best friend just died." I said. "That's why I quit."

"But you can't just quit!" he said. "You have a responsibility to use the Omnitrix!"

"I don't care! I don't want to do it anymore!" I exclaimed. "I never asked for this! I didn't want this! I just came along for the ride!"

"Look Ben, I know that losing your best friend must be difficult, but-"

"You don't get to mention that. You have no idea what it was like." I said. "But you know what? I'm going to let you in on a secret."

He just looked at me with a confused expression.

"He was your son! He was your fucking son and you didn't do a thing to want to help him!" I yelled at him with anger, as tears rolled down my cheeks. "You could have given him a serum or something to save him from his addiction, and you chose not to!"

Director Steel just looked at me with shock. He didn't even say anything. Well, at least not at first.

"Ben, I… I don't have a son." He said in a calm tone.

Just then, I heard Mom's voice from inside the house.

"Ben honey, are you okay out there?" she called.

I turned around and opened the door, poking my head in.

"Yes, I'm fine." I said, as I walked in and closed the door behind me.

"Do you want to invite your guest in?" Mom said.

I shook my head no, before changing my mind soon after.

"Actually, you know what?" I asked. "Yes, I do want to invite him in. Come on in, Director Steel!"

A few seconds later, the door opened and Director Steel walked in. My Mom and Dad looked shocked to see him. Eventually, Director Steel spoke.

"Hello, Agent Deadeye." He said. "Hello, Agent Speedster."

Neither my Mom nor my Dad spoke. Eventually, Dad worked up the courage to speak.

"Agent Steel?" he asked. "Is that you?"

Director Steel nodded.

"Well actually, it's Director Steel now." He said. "I took over leadership of S.E.C.T."

"This is impossible." Mom said. "You're supposed to be dead!"

"Don't sound so alarmed. I was dead." He said. "But however, it is a long story. Perhaps you'll let me tell you over a cup of tea, for old time's sake?"

They both looked at him with confusion. Finally, Mom looked at me.

"Ben, go set the table please." She said.

Now

Mid-November

Ben's House

I walked into the kitchen with Gwen, both of us fully clothed now. I let out a groan.

"Dude, are you alright?" Albedo asked from the kitchen table, which had a lit candle on it. "You look tired!"

"Dude, I am dead-ass tired." I said in response, as Gwen and I sat down at the table. "I was up late last night."

"What were you doing?" Albedo asked me.

I looked over to Gwen, who was shaking her head at me. I looked back at Albedo.

"Something fun." I said, in a smug tone.

I looked back at Gwen, who blushed a light pink. I looked back at Albedo, who gave me a confused look. He didn't suspect a thing. Just then, Dad walked in through the back door, with a skillet full of scrambled eggs, bacon and sausages.

"Alright, kiddos!" he said. "Breakfast is on!"

He sat down the skillet on the stove and opened a cabinet, and began to pull out plates. He began to pile the plates with scrambled eggs, bacon and sausages. Mom got the most, since she was eating for two now. Dad sat all four of our plates down onto the table and went off into the living room.

"You guys can start eating. Your mother and I are going to eat in our bedroom." He said.

"Thanks, Dad." I said, as the other three thanked him as well.

"You're welcome." He said.

I began to shovel the food into my mouth, pretty hungry after my last meal was about twelve hours ago. Albedo was eating too, until his phone vibrated. He took it out and opened it up, and looked at it for a minute or two.

"Oh my God." He finally said with shock.

"What?" I asked, looking up at him as I continued to eat.

He looked up at me, with a look of shock in his eyes.

"Tracy Flanagan was killed last night!" he said.

I looked back at him with shock, as did Gwen and Sunny.

Tracy Flanagan? Tracy Flanagan was one of our classmates at school! We weren't close, but we were acquaintances. But she had been killed?

"What did you say?" Gwen asked.

"Tracy Flanagan was killed last night!" he said, as he looked at her.

Unfortunately, I saw the opportunity to make a joke.

"I didn't do it!" I said.

"We didn't do it!" Sunny and Albedo said in unison.

Afterwards, Albedo chuckled.

"That's a pretty good Scream reference." I said.

"Guys, all joking aside, this isn't something to be joking about!" Gwen said. "How did you find out?"

"It's all over the news!" Albedo said. "J.T. sent me a link to the news website, where they're discussing it."

"Do I dare ask how she died?" I asked. "And you seriously have Wi-Fi right now? Why don't I?"

Sunny took Albedo's phone from him and looked at it.

"I don't know why you don't have Wi-Fi!" he said as she took his phone from him.

"She wasn't just killed. She was murdered." She said.

Albedo took his phone back from her.

"They found her early this morning, naked and stuffed into a trash can." He said. "She was stabbed several dozen times and it looked like she had been in a struggle."

"Jesus, it sounds like Jack the Ripper." I said, as I stopped eating.

"Here, look at this." Albedo said, as he passed his phone back to Sunny.

After a few seconds, she spoke.

"Jesus, the killer even left a twisted nursery rhyme at the crime scene, written in her own blood!" she said.

"Oh, God." I said, as I placed my fork down.

Gwen turned to look at me.

"Ben, are you okay?" she asked. "You're turning a little green!"

"I'll be fine. Let's just talk about something else!" I said.

"Here." Albedo said, as he took his phone from Sunny and passed it to me, ignoring my request.

I tried not to look at the pictures of the crime scene, but it was too late. I was already reading the nursery rhyme that Sunny had spoke of:

One is done,

Two was fun,

Three tried to run,

Four called Mom,

Five's not alive,

Six is nix,

Seven's in heaven,

Eight won't wait

"Oh, God!" I exclaimed, as I got up from the kitchen table and ran over to the trash can.

I opened it up and bent over it, as I began to throw up into it. Once I was done, I closed the trash can and returned to my seat, where Albedo's phone still sat in front of my plate. I tried not to look at the pictures, as I picked it up and threw it back to him. Just then, my Mom came rushing into the room.

"What happened?" she asked. "Why did I hear someone get sick in here?"

"Because you did." I said. "I threw up."

Mom looked at me and was probably about to ask me why, when Gwen spoke.

"Aunt Sandra, Tracy Flanagan, one of our classmates from school was murdered last night!" she exclaimed.

"What?!" Mom exclaimed with surprise.

Albedo handed her his phone, which she took from him and began to look at it. After a few seconds, she looked up.

"Carl!" she called out.

A few seconds later, my Dad came walking around the corner of the wall that separated the kitchen from the living room. Mom handed the phone to him and he took it, and began to read the report and look at the pictures.

"Jesus, is this for real?" he asked.

"Does it look real, Carl?" Albedo asked.

"Jesus." Dad repeated.

"Well, I don't think I'm eating the rest of my breakfast," I said, as I got up from the table, grabbing my plate as I did.

"Well, you better get your jackets, boots, hats and gloves on, kids." Dad said. "We need to get that driveway shoveled."

"But Dad, one of our classmate's mangled body was just found!" I protested. "Doesn't that mean something to you?!"

"As much as it does, this is no time for mourning. If we have to get somewhere, that driveway has to be shoveled." He said. "Once that's done, we're all back inside. No one goes outside, no one comes inside."

I just stood there, saying nothing.

"Seriously, kids. Time to get dressed!" he said again. "Let's move!"

I walked around the corner of the wall and began to walk down the hallway, but stopped with shock when I saw something. I saw Kevin, standing in the hallway, staring at me. But this Kevin had long, unkempt black hair, as well as pale skin and sunken back eyes that were bloodshot.

"You know what it is." He said to me.

After that, he was silent, staring at me with the same blank expression.

"Ben?" I heard Albedo's voice behind me. "Why are you just standing in the hallway?"

I slowly turned to face him and he looked at me with confusion.

"Ben? You look like you've just seen a ghost!" he said.

I turned back, to see that Kevin was now gone. I turned back to Albedo.

"I think I just did!" I said.

Then

Early August

Ben's House

"So as you know, I used the prototype of Azmuth's Omnitrix to fight Enoch's security." Director Steel said, as the four of us sat at the kitchen table.

"Azmuth?" I asked with confusion.

"Azmuth is the creator of the Omnitrix," Director Steel said as he looked at me. "Back in the day, S.E.C.T. teamed up with him to make a weapon, which would be the Omnitrix. Well, he didn't want it to be a weapon. Once he realized that we wanted to make it a weapon, he severed his ties to us and went off on his own, leaving us with the prototype Omnitrix. However, we couldn't replicate his Omnitrix without his notes, which he had taken with him. That's why the prototype of the Omnitrix was a failure. We couldn't make it the same without his notes."

I was silent now. Director Steel turned back to my parents.

"And like I said, I used the prototype Omnitrix to combat Enoch's security force." He said. "However, because the prototype hadn't been tested yet, it mutated me into a giant monstrosity, similar to what Ben's friend mutated into."

Ben's friend? He was your son, you twat.

"Make no mistake, when I was caught in that explosion I did die." He said. "S.E.C.T. recovered by body later on and using the advanced technology that they had at their disposal, they brought me back from the dead."

"They just brought you back?" Dad asked. "Just like that?"

"No, it wasn't just like that." Director Steel said. "At first, I was comatose. It took a while for me to wake up in a bed, hooked up to all kinds of machines, which pumped some kind of substance into my body. It's probably what brought me back."

"What were they pumping into you?" Mom asked. "You said that it's probably what brought you back?"

Director Steel nodded.

"Sadly, I can't tell you what they were pumping into my body, because they never told me themselves." He said. "But I am pretty sure it's what brought me back to life."

Mom looked stunned.

"This… This is just so much to take in all at once." She said.

"I know it is, Sandra." Director Steel said. "But I assure you, that it's the truth."

I stood up from the table and moved towards the hallway to the basement stairs.

"I'll be right back." I said, as I walked through the doorway.

"Where are you going?" Mom asked.

I didn't answer. I walked down the basement stairs and into the basement, and was greeted by the sight of Albedo and Sunny making out on the couch. Sunny noticed me first and pulled away from their make out session.

"Um, a little privacy please?" she asked, as I walked towards the hole in the back wall, where the secret room was.

I walked inside the secret room and pulled the draw string, turning on the light. I grabbed the hefty folder of files that Enoch had given me that night and opened it. I pulled out the letter that my dad had written to me before I was born, as well as Kevin's birth certificate.

I then closed the folder and shut off the light, before leaving the secret room. I walked past Sunny and Albedo on the couch without a second thought and headed back for the basement stairs. I walked up the basement stairs, back through the hallway and back into the kitchen, where the three of them waited.

"When were you going to tell me about this?" I asked, as I placed Dad's letter in front of him.

He looked down at the paper for a second and then realized what it was, as his eyes widened with shock. He looked back up at me.

"When did you… Where did you?" he asked me.

"Gwen and I accidentally busted down a wall while you guys were gone and we found your little secret room." I said. "Along with that in the room, there were several newspaper clippings, transcripts, file folders and detailed schematics on a device called the "Omnitrix"."

Dad looked up at me with shock, as I placed Kevin's birth certificate on the table in front of Director Steel.

"And my friend Kevin, he was your son." I said in an angered voice.

Director Steel looked at the paper and then at me with confusion.

"Kevin Ethan Levin, Sr." I said. "Is that or is that not your name?!"

Director Steel continued to look at me, before he looked down at the floor.

"Yes. Yes, it is my name." he said. "It's my birth name."

I looked at him with anger.

"What the fuck is the matter with you?!" I shouted with anger at him.

"Benjamin Tennyson!" Mom exclaimed with a scolding tone.

Director Steel looked up at me. I ignored Mom.

"He was your son! He was your son and you knew!" I exclaimed. "It's your fault that he's dead! You could have done something to save him and you chose not to!"

"I… I never knew that I had a son." He whispered. "I never knew that he even existed."

"Bullshit! I think you're lying to me!" I exclaimed. "I think that you knew he existed and you just chose not to attempt to find him!"

"Benjamin, you need to calm down!" Mom said. "Director Steel doesn't even know what you're talking about! He doesn't even have a son!"

"Oh, really?" I asked, as I picked up Kevin's birth certificate and slammed it down in front of them. "Then what is this?!"

Mom looked down at the birth certificate and then back up at Director Steel.

"But I don't get it, I thought you never had a son." She said.

Director Steel said nothing.

"And yet, you're listed as Kevin's father." She said. "How can that be?"

"I don't know." He said. "My wife never told me that she was pregnant."

"And yet she was pregnant anyway." I said. "And you never knew?"

Director Steel looked up at me with anger.

"I never knew? How was I supposed to know, kid?" he asked.

"I don't know how you were supposed to know! But seriously, you didn't know that you had a son?!" I exclaimed. "Where have you been the last seventeen years?!"

Director Steel looked down as if he was angry at me for speaking to him like that, but I didn't care. He eventually looked back up at us.

"When S.E.C.T. brought me back from the dead, they said that I owed them. Bringing someone back from the dead, that wasn't just a simple little favor. They told me that I owed them for the rest of my life and that I wasn't going anywhere." He said. "Hell, I haven't been outside of HQ more than four or five times over the last few years. I haven't been able to see my son, let alone knowing about his existence."

"Okay, well if you owe S.E.C.T. and that they wouldn't let you go, then how can you be here?" I asked.

"I worked my way up through the ranks of S.E.C.T., until I became Director." He said. "It was at this time, that I found it appropriate to come speak with you."

"But that doesn't really explain how they let you come here!" I said.

"I'm the Director of S.E.C.T." he said. "I can do whatever I want and I don't have to take orders from anyone anymore."

I just stared at him, unsure of what to say. Eventually, I spoke beating Mom and Dad to whatever they may have wanted to say.

"Director Steel, what did you really come here for?" I asked.

He looked up at me, before sighing.

"Ben, when I look at the track record that your mother and father had while they worked for S.E.C.T., I see that you have potential to follow in their footsteps." He said. "Ben, I want you to train under me to become a S.E.C.T. agent. Consider it an internship, that is, if your parents are okay with it."

"I'm fine with it." Dad said.

"Oh, I don't know Carl. Don't you remember all of the horrible things that we endured in our time as S.E.C.T. agents?" Mom asked. "Do you really want our son to be in that line of business?"

"Sandra, S.E.C.T. is the family business!" Dad exclaimed. "Someone has to carry on the family legacy. If it's not Ben, who would do it?"

Mom just looked at Director Steel and then at my Dad.

"I suppose you're right." She said in a hesitant tone. "Besides, it could teach Ben the importance of holding a job and that you have to earn what you take. Nothing is handed to you for free."

I couldn't believe it.

They actually wanted me to join S.E.C.T.?!

"So, he can join then?" Director Steel asked.

"Yes." Mom and Dad said in unison.

Director Steel turned to look at me.

"Well, how about it Ben? Do you-"

"No." I said, interrupting him.

"No what?" he asked. "You didn't even let me finish!"

"No. Just no." I said. "That's my answer. I don't anything to do with S.E.C.T."

"How could you say no to an invitation to join?" Director Steel asked. "S.E.C.T. is-"

"Director Steel, I want to you to know that I'm really being quite clear with you. Listen closely, because here I go." I said. "I hate you. I hate you, I hate S.E.C.T., I hate everything about you guys. I want nothing to do with you or S.E.C.T."

He just looked at me with shock, before he looked down at the table.

"It's your fault that Kevin's dead. You could have done something to help him and you chose not to." I said.

He said nothing, as he continued to stare at the table.

"I want nothing to do with you or S.E.C.T." I said, as I looked at him. "You are dead to me Director Steel. I never want to see you again, we're done here."

I left the kitchen and walked down the hall to my room, which would eventually be my little sister's room. I walked into the room and slammed the door shut behind me.

Now

Mid-November

Ben's House

We stood outside now, shoveling the driveway. As I shoveled, I looked up at Gwen, who was shoveling the other side of the driveway, just a few feet away from me. She caught my eye as she was shoveling and turned to look at me. She just smiled at me and said nothing, and I smiled back.

We didn't say anything; we just smiled at one another. Out of nowhere, Albedo came into my field of view, with a quizzical look on his face.

"What?" I asked him, as I went back to shoveling snow.

By the way, I wasn't even sure why we were shoveling snow, as it was still snowing. But I guess I missed something somewhere.

"Can we talk?" he asked.

"Can it wait?" I asked him in return.

"No." he said. "I think we need to talk now."

I looked up at him, as I stopped shoveling. He looked back at me with a worried look on his face.

"Okay, let's go talk in private." I said, as I picked up my shovel from the ground and walked off towards the side of the house.

We walked around to the side of the house, where no one would see us or hear us. That's when I noticed something. I looked over to the to window at which I had seen the figure last night. And there were four scratches running down the glass. They looked as though they had been made by fingernails. I stared at the window with shock.

Does that mean I wasn't seeing things last night?

"What is it?" I heard Albedo ask.

"Nothing." I said, as I shook my head and turned to look at him.

"Okay, so what's on your mind?" I asked him, as I placed my shovel up against the house.

"Look, I know that Tracy was just one of our acquaintances." He said. "But her murder could have been prevented. I think you could have done something about it."

"Are you suggesting that I suit up again?" I asked.

"Yes." He said.

"No." I said. "I thought I told you that I left that life behind."

"You did, but it doesn't make sense to me." He said. "We all understand that you're grieving, but you can't just quit because of a depression."

I looked at him.

"Albedo, look. I can do whatever I damn well please." I said. "And I decided to quit. And if I were to start again, Steel and S.E.C.T. would take notice and could possibly think that I'm interested in joining them. Which I'm not. I hate everything about them and have no interest in joining them. It's their fault that Kevin's dead."

"You're just pushing the blame onto other people now." He said.

I stiffened up with anger.

"The answer is no, Albedo." I said.

"But dude, I'm telling you-"

"Get it through your skull, Albedo! Alien Guy is dead! He's in the past!" I exclaimed. "And he's never coming back!"

I grabbed my shovel, walked away from him and returned to shovel the driveway.

Gwen

Minutes Earlier

Upon hearing Ben and Albedo talking to each other and then seeing them walk away towards the side of the house, I got curious. So, I dropped my shovel and began to silently follow them. I stopped at the corner that they just rounded and pressed my back up against the wall and listened to what they were saying.

"Okay, so what's on your mind?" I heard Ben ask.

"Look, I know that Tracy was just one of our acquaintances." Albedo replied. "But her murder could have been prevented. I think you could have done something about it."

"Are you suggesting that I suit up again?" Ben asked.

"Yes." Albedo said.

"No." Ben said. "I thought I told you that I left that life behind."

"You did, but it doesn't make sense to me." Albedo said. "We all understand that you're grieving, but you can't just quit because of a depression."

"Albedo, look. I can do whatever I damn well please." I said. "And I decided to quit. And if I were to start again, Steel and S.E.C.T. would take notice and could possibly think that I'm interested in joining them. Which I'm not. I hate everything about them and have no interest in joining them. It's their fault that Kevin's dead."

"You're just pushing the blame onto other people now." He said.

"The answer is no, Albedo." I said.

"But dude, I'm telling you-"

"Get it through your skull, Albedo! Alien Guy is dead! He's in the past!" I exclaimed. "And he's never coming back!"

I heard footsteps begin moving in my direction and I shimmied over to the right a little bit, so I wouldn't be as noticeable. Ben walked back into the area of the yard that I was in, with a shovel in his hand and he began walking back to the driveway, not even noticing me.

I let out a sigh of relief, knowing that he hadn't seen me. I narrowed my eyes at him as he walked back to the driveway.

Albedo is right. He shouldn't have quit. Could there be a way to get him back into that suit?

Epilogue

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I slipped through the window of the abandoned tenement building and just stood there for a second. Eventually, I smiled and began to laugh as I walked over to my table and picked up a throwing knife.

"Our name does not matter; because you already know us." I said, as I turned around to face the wall.

The wall had eight pictures of different people's faces on them.

"But that doesn't matter, because we'll be seeing you very, very-"

I threw the knife at a picture of a teen named Gwen Tennyson and the knife embedded itself into the picture's forehead.

"-Soon!"

Author's Note:

* And that's it for another chapter! What did you guys think? Sorry that I haven't updated in while. I've been busy with classes starting and my inactivity will only worsen the farther we get into the second half of the year.

* So Bellwood has seen a dark turn, as there seems to be a serial killer on the loose. Can Ben do something about it? It seems like there's someone after Gwen. Who do you think this person in? Also, about the killer's twisted nursery rhyme, that's a direct reference to Grand Theft Auto V, as well as the nursery rhyme found within the game, which is the exact same.

* Also, before I forget, what do you guys think of the fact that Ben is having hallucinations of Kevin?

* That's going to do it for me today, so I'm going to go though, have a Bwen-tastic day and bye.

Review Responses:

zaidhadden5: Awesome… Keep the story coming.

Thank you, I'm glad you are enjoying the story. I can't promise that the story will come quickly though, as I stated above.

jasongd: And another great chapter congrats And You had to stop at that moment Ehhh, not cool man not cool I hope that in the next chapter we'll see what happened at night in Ben and Gwen's room

BWEN Forever

Thank you jasongd, glad you enjoyed the chapter. And sorry about that man, but it's out of character for me to write those scenes. I will hint that a scene like that is going to happen, but I will probably never write one myself, sorry.

If I wrote a scene like that it wouldn't be anything special and it'd probably be nothing different from a scene that you'd get from an average writer. But who knows? Maybe one day I'll write a scene like that jasongd, maybe one day.

org 13 is best: another good chapter with some foreshadowing and apparent sexy times that you CLIFHANGED US ON…come on man at least a flash forward to the morning would have been nice

Org? I'm just going to call you org, I hope that's okay. I'm glad you enjoyed the chapter, org. I mean, a flash forward to the morning is basically what you got at the beginning of this chapter. And about the cliffhanger, I hate to do it, but I'll just refer you to my response to jasongd's review.

I don't feel like typing out my explanation again nor do I want to just copy and past it. Thank you for the review though.

Next Chapter: The murders continue and one of Ben's friends is hurt. Ben gets a package in the mail.