Well, here's the next chapter. Thank you to everyone who reviewed and I have loved all of the support so far!

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I woke up the next morning at about 9-ish AM. Yes, 'ish' is a time phrase to me. I'd been in the forest with Heatblast quite late last night, until about 11-ish. Another ish. I'm not completely sure on the time because I didn't check the time before I went to bed. Speaking of bed, it'd be best if I got out of mine.

Yawning, I sat up, pulling the covers off and revealing my red shorts, black knee high socks and dark blue long sleeved sleeping shirt. I slowly slid out of bed and left the room, remembering to grab the bottle of weird spray grandpa told me to spray the aliens with. I didn't have to walk for long before I came across Heatblast as well at the top of the stairs. Obviously he came from the left west wing of the mansion where he'd chosen his room to be.

"Hey, you hungry?" I asked him as I started my trek down the stairs and into the kitchen. I hadn't actually been in the kitchen before so I needed to find it first. I was stupid enough to bring the spray bottle but forget the map to the entire place! No way was I going back upstairs to get it – too much work. We both made our way around the ground floor until one of us found the kitchen. It wasn't me I was disappointed to say. I found a swimming pool though!

When I went into the kitchen, it looked like one you'd find in a catalogue. Like this -

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"So, what do you like to eat?" I asked Heatblast as he sat on one of the stools on the island.

"I don't know." he replied like a little boy who was just told to give the answer to an impossible math question.

"Well… what did you eat out in the forest?" I asked him again, trying to get something to work with. While I spoke, I was browsing the surprisingly stocked cupboards. The plumbers must have stocked the place when they knew of my arrival.

"These weird orange things. Uh… those round things there." he told me, pointing to a plate of… oranges.

"Those would be oranges." I told him, going over to them and throwing him one.

"Well duh, of course they're orange." he said, catching it. "But what are they called?" he asked me.

"They're called oranges!" I laughed, having to lean on the counter so I wouldn't fall over from laughter.

"Very creative name." Heatblast commented sarcastically.

"From the species that brought you blueberry, blackberry and green bean." I added before finding a jar of nutella. Jackpot. I then checked the bread bin and got out two slices of white bread and sandwiched them together, cementing them with nutella and digging in.

"So what do you normally do for fun?" Heatblast asked me as he ate a piece of his orange.

"Well, I was on a camping trip with my two cousins and grandpa. But you already know that. Other things I like to do are cooking, reading and archery. I'm quite good with a bow and arrow, if I do say so myself." I said, not afraid to be something other than modest for a second. "Aw crap! I left my bow and quiver in grandpa Max's RV. I'm an idiot." I scolded myself, going so far as to hit myself over the head. It was a thing I tended to do when I knew I'd been stupid. Turns out hitting myself does do wonders for the mind because it was then that I remembered something. "And before I'm an idiot and fogrget anything else, I've remembered I need to spray you with this." I told Heatblast, holding up the bottle of de-irradiating agent.

"Um, you do know that too much water, sand or foam can kill me, right?" he asked me, suddenly seeming very wary of the bottle in my hand.

"Chill, Ben got blasted with an entire fire extinguisher last month when he was a Pyronite as well and he's still alive. And besides, it's just one little spritz." I tried convincing him. "If I don't, you'll still be radiating traceable energy which bad guys could use to track you." I added.

"Fine. Just one spray?" he asked me. I squired the liquid on him.

"Yeppers." I replied. "I'll check the tablet later to see if you're still on the map or not. Until then, consider yourself spritz free." I told him, unable to hide the smile from my face. "I was thinking, why don't we go find another alien?"

"We?" he asked me, surprised.

"Well yeah, I won't leave you here by yourself. And besides, if they're hostile, I'll need someone with a little fire power. Quite literally." I explained to him.

"Sure then. Hard to say no to you anyways." he replied with a shrug.

"Is it now? And why is it so hard?" I asked him, smiling.

"It's like saying no to a little sister. Absolutely impossible." he answered. It took me a second to register and understand what it was he was implying.

"Aw! I've always wanted a big brother!" I cooed, hugging him around his upper torso as he was still quite a bit taller than me and I would've had to have jumped to get my arms around his neck. "Although, technically I am older than you, y'know?" I joked, making him laugh.

"Alright-y then. So how are we meant to find any of them?" he asked me.

"With the map I told you about, remember?" I reminded him, starting to head to my room to get the tablet, Heatblast following a few paces behind me. "Each alien who I haven't sprayed with the thing I sprayed on you give on some sort of radiation that can be traced by a plumber's satellite and it then shown on the map on my tablet." I explained to him, opening my door and quickly grabbing said item and hurrying back out. "See?" I showed him the map and the numerous pulsing red dots. "Your dot is gone now so you can't be traced anymore." I continued.

"That's weird: there are three all in the same place. They're in the place called 'Ger-many'" Heatblast read off the map.

"You mean Germany."

"That's what I said."

"But-, never mind. You're right it is weird. We should go get them. Means we'll be able to bring back more family." I rambled.

"That's great and all, but I'm not gonna be able to get there." Heatblast stated.

"What? Why not?" I asked, confused and disappointed.

"You do see the massive body of water between us and them, right?" he asked me, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Uh, we're not swimming. We're flying." I replied. "Grandpa Max said there was a jet that we can use. I said, pointing ot the key rack by the front door. "Just let me go change and we'll be good to go." I told him, slipping back into my room. "Give me five minutes!" I called through the door.

"Wait, change what?"

"My clothes!"

"What are clothes?"

"The cloth I use to wrap around and hide my body." I explained briefly.

"Ah, your wrappings. Got it." he replied before I heard his footsteps dying away and heading down the stairs. Now I knew he was gone, I opened up my drawer and picked out some random clothes. I would have to shower once I got back because I don't really have time to right now. I threw these on -

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. and then left the room with a skip in my step. I slid down the banister and landed in front of the door, grabbing the jet keys, then saw Heatblast waiting for me.

"You know how to fly a jet?" I asked him.

"Uh, I didn't even know what clothes were. What on Pyros makes you think I know how to fly a jet?" he asked me incredously.

"Well then. Let's hope it has autopilot." I prayed. With that, we both made our way slowly to the jet which was apparantly just outside the woodland according to the map. However, as it was me reading the map, we were going to take a while to get there. I failed Geography pretty badly. Finally, I'd managed to get us to the jet without blowing something up, it's been known to happen, and opened up the bay doors to let us in.

"Well, that was easier thani though it was going to be." I claimed.

"It took us ten minutes to travel about 300 meters because you can't read a map." Heatblast shot back, albeit with a smile on his face, letting me know he didn't mean it harshly. "So do we just type in the co-ordinates or…?" he asked me.

"I uh, think so?" I replied unsurely. I looked over to the console and it looked like there was a GPS thing there so I thought 'Why the hell not?' and typed in the co-ordinates that the tablet was saying the aliens were at. Once I pressed enter on the touch screen and started the engine, the doors closed and we were starting to fly.

"Looks like this thing does have auto pilot." I mused thankfully.

It was a good nine hours before we were starting to land in Germany. It was pretty funny during the flight when Heatblast kept freaking out because he could see the ocean clearly beneath us. He looked like he was about to start having a panic attack! Although I react the same when I go to the reptile sanctuary in the zoo and put my head through one of those glass bowls. I hate snakes. After all those movies and documentaries I've seen, how can people have them as pets, I'll never know. We'd landed near the entrance to some mining caves which looked like they'd been abandoned only a few months ago. Yet, some of the boards people had boarded the mine with had already been torn down. And when I say torn down, I mean they were torn apart. The edges were still nailed to the entrance but the centre of them looked like something had forced their way through them.

"Looks like someone or something really wanted to get into this cave." Heatblast observed.

"Or out?" I asked fearfully. I pulled out the tablet and opened up the map to close range.

"Knowing my luck, the three aliens are inside the cave. And the answer is…!?" I announced sarcastically as I checked the map. "...Inside the cave." I finished miserably, making Heatblast chuckle at my misery.

"Alright then tough guy – you're leading." I told him.

"You have the map though." he replied.

"I'll tell you when you're going the wrong way." I shot back dryly. "Now start moving." And with that, we entered the cave.

We walked for about two minutes with me guiding from behind before my tablet started going static-y.

"Damn it. The map's shorting out, I can't get a signal if we go any deeper into the mine." I explained in annoyance.

"It must be the mineral deposits that are blocking the signal. But if there are mineral deposits still here, why did the people close the mine down?" Heatblast asked, as if expecting me to know the answer.

"I honestly don't know. Maybe the place was deemed unsafe? There was a lot of danger and 'keep away' signs warning us." I theorised. "It must have been. A load of their stuff is still here. The miners wouldn't leave all of their machines and tools here if they had the time to get out." I observed as I went over to some of the tools leaning against what I recognised as a generator. Don't ask me how I know what it is, I just do. Okay, I watch a lot of western movies, actually, movies in general. I tried pressing a load of buttons but the thing seemed out of action. I wiped some of the dust away with the bottom of my shirt, shivering as I did so. It wasn't exactly warm in a cave let me tell you now. Next time, I'm bringing a coat.

Once the dust was gone, I saw a lever labelled 'light' so eagerly I pulled it, only for a whir to happen, they started glowing before a pop and we were engulfed in darkness once more. Well not complete darkness because Heatblast was like a walking nightlight.

"I'm gonna back up a bit so I have a signal then we'll head off in the general direction of where the aliens are." I explained what I was doing as I walked back out the cave for a few seconds until my signal came back. "They look like they're on the left side a bit!" I called down to the Pyrnite as I ran back down to him and his illuminating light.

"Then let's head that way then." he said, pointing to where the cave branched off into two. We had to go left.

"'Kay, but I saw these by the generator." I said as I held up a sack.

"What's in those?" he asked me.

"Lights!" I exclaimed happily as I put on a headband with a light on and turned the light on. "I'm gonna put these on the floor every now and again so we can follow the trail out." I explained happily, beaming at my genius plan.

"From the brilliant mind that tried flying a jet before knowing if there was autopilot." he congratulated me sarcastically.

"Sarcasm's a little stale there." I retorted as we started walking, the tablet once more turning to static.

Our plan was working well for a while until we came across another fork in the path. We had no choice but to split up and cover more ground.

"Uh, I'll take the one on the left you take the one on the right?" I asked, looking at him with uncertainty.

"We'll find them faster this way." Heatblast added. "If you need me to come rescue you, just scream." he joked.

"Oh, it was so funny I forgot to laugh." I said before dropping a light and heading down the left tunnel. Little did she know, there was someone following her on the ceiling.

"Scream? Ha! If 'Flame-Boy' thinks I'm gonna scream then he's dead wrong." I spoke to myself as I put down another light on the floor. "But I'm still wondering why the German's shut this tunnel down. It doesn't look very unsafe. Can't be because of a gas exposure because you're required to completely insulate the place so the gas wouldn't escape. So what is it?" I was asking myself, trying to find out what happened to the mine.

Suddenly, I had a feeling that there was something behind me. Quickly, I turned around, sending my light all over the cavern's walls. But there was nothing there apart from wiring from the supposed lights and glittering crystals and shiny substances.

"I must be going blinking mad. It's just nerves." I told myself as I put down yet another light. However as I looked back, I couldn't see any of the lights. They'd all turned off. "Pieces of crap." I muttered. I then turned around, only for something furry to jump at me, releasing a rawr in the process. The only thing anyone within a mile's radius could hear was the shrill scream that tore through my throat and as my headlight fell to the ground, fizzling out, I could no longer see.

Hope you all enjoyed it. let me know what you though! Love it? Hate it? Wish Whampire would show up already? Well sorry, but we need to get through all of Ben 10, Alien Force AND Ultimate Alien before we even get to Omniverse! Let alone Whampire! So there will be quite a while before he shows up and romance starts to fill the air! For Abi at least anyway. *wink wink*

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