I hope you like this chapter. After a *checks calender* longish HIATUS I am back and Ok I guess. So please enjoy!
Gwen was glad she thought of wearing a seatbelt. The two boys however, had trouble hanging on; the car hit a big tree. Ben and Kevin would have flown out through the windshield if Gwen hadn't got them in time with her magic.
"Too close." The boys agreed.
The three got out of the car, Gwen and Ben went exploring to see how far they were from town and Kevin inspected the car.
The cousins found a sign by the road nearby; it was maybe an hour's journey to the nearest town, give or take.
They went back to the car to tell Kevin of the news.
"Car's busted, I don't have the equipment to fix it. It looks like our transportation with have to be our feet." Kevin said when he saw the Tennysons coming.
"There's a town not too far away from here, an hour's journey maybe." Ben sighed.
"It'll have to do, let's go. We could rent a room or something." Kevin closed the boot of the wreck.
"You brought cash?" Ben shook his head disbelievingly. "There was some in the car." Kevin shrugged; he didn't mention the money he grabbed from the store Gwen would have been on his case the whole time they were there.
"But that's stealing!" Gwen's predictability: punctual as always.
"It's endorsement." Kevin answered; he walked towards the road "You coming with? We still have to find a room with showers and beds you know."
That shut Gwen up effectively; she did not want to sleep under the stars.
Kevin winced and clutched his chest. Ever since he had been jolted midway through his maneuver in the car, every fifteen minutes or so his chest would feel like it was on fire.
"What's wrong?" the inevitable question, now he had to tell them and Gwen would fuss over him like a mother hen, not that there was anything bad with that but they were really running out of time.
"Nothing, it's nothing. I'm just tired that's all." Kevin answered. Gwen didn't look like she believed him but she just walked on. Nothing happened for some time, he thought it had passed.
Ben was fiddling with his watch, why wasn't it working?!
"Hey Kevin, think you can fix this?" Ben called behind him.
"Let me see," Kevin walked over "I don't think its broken, maybe the time traveling mixed it up."
"I hate time traveling you know that?" Ben huffed, ever since that certain incident there'd been one problem after another.
"Tell me something I don't know" Kevin sighed, he wasn't very happy either about the power shortage.
They continued walking towards the town; they'd been traveling for about half an hour when Kevin felt the pain again.
He strayed to the back of the group, hoping it would past before either of them noticed.
"Are you alright?" Gwen asked for the second time that day, she wasn't going to take 'yes' for an answer.
"I'm fine, just peachy." Kevin said before he started coughing, blood.
"Kevin!"
"Dude, something is definitely wrong with you."
Kevin wiped his mouth with the back of his hand "It's nothing." He waved them off.
"You were coughing blood, how is it nothing?" Gwen demanded.
"Shush!" Kevin motioned them to be quiet.
"Don't you shush me I-"
"No, Gwen. Shush, I hear something too." Ben said, they were near the road now, by the sides of the road were trees and bushes so hiding places were not an issue.
The RV came to a stop just a few feet from where they were hiding, Max climbed out and stretched followed by the Ben and Gwen from the past.
"Ah, don't you think being away from civilization and breathing nature's air will do wonders for all of us?" Max grinned at his grandchildren who blinked in response.
"Uh huh, going away from the smell of smoke to the smell of poop. Wonderful." Ben One sighed. He didn't notice the three, Gwen was thankful for her cousin's dweebness.
Ben One (the one from the past (which was the present now, headache much?!)) was punched in the arm by Gwen One. They bickered for awhile then went off to explore.
Ben, Gwen and Kevin saw their chance and slipped away. The brunette was grateful for the interruption for he had no wish to explain himself to his team.
Max grinned at his grandchildren, they reminded him of himself when he was their age. He turned around, drinking in the calmness of the forest. His sharp eyes roved around picking up everything. He spotted something red on the ground and went to check it out. It was blood!
He scraped some up to analyze it. He ran some test on it with some rustbucket tech.
The information popped up on the wall screen:
Blood type: A
Gender: Male
DNA similar to known Plumber: Steve Levin
DNA matches no human DNA recorded
Blood has traces of alien DNA
There was no doubting whose blood it was now. Max swore to get to the bottom of this.
"Did not!"
"Shut up doofus, you did too!"
He quickly pressed a button and the screen turned back into the RV wall, if Ben were to know of this there wouldn't be any knowing what he would do. The two cousins opened the door and tried to get in at the same time, both were covered in sweat and grime.
"I get the shower first." Gwen squeezed past Ben into the RV.
"No way, I'm dirtier than you." He answered tackling her to the ground.
"And whose fault was that Mister I-pushed-my-cousin-into-the-mud."
"Oh yeah? You just can't have fun can you?"
"Stop it, Gwen gets the shower first, Gwen don't use up all the hot water." Max put his hands on his hips and gave then the look which they promptly said their 'sorrys' and stuck out their tongues at each other.
No, Kevin would not hurt his grandchildren again. Not while Max Tennyson was alive, Plumber's son or not.
This chapter over. See you in the next one!
