Chapter 3

Making his way to the stadium, after convincing the curator to let him take one of the crystals and to take the other. Ben ran as fast as he could, trying to make it before it was too late. 'I know Gwen's gonna yell at me, I just hope I can talk Julie into not being angry and dumping me.' he thought, as the stadium came into view. Coming to a stop in front of the ticket booth, he transformed back to normal.

"Hey!" said the man inside the booth, "You're Ben Tennyson, could I have your autograph?"

"Sure, but It will have to wait. There's a ticket here reserved in my name and I need to get inside a soon as possible." he responded.

"Oh, Okay." the man responded, sounding disappointed. He searched for his ticket and, once he found it handed it over after.

"Do you have pen?" Ben asked.

"Uh, yeah." the man said handing over the pen. Signing the ticket stub, Ben ripped it off and handed it to the man, along with the pen.

"Thanks man!" he called after Ben, as he made his way inside.

Walking to the tennis court Julie, took her place before, looking at the stands where her friends and her boyfriend are supposed to be. Sitting on the reserved seats, where Gwen and Kevin, the former waved at her and wished her luck. The latter was looking unhappy and uninterested, 'Where is he? He promised he'd be here!' Julie thought, as she waved at Gwen.

Turning to her opponent, Julie put it out of her mind, as her opponent served the ball. Running to right, she caught up to the ball and, used a forehand swing to hit it back.

Gwen sat, every couple of minutes looking between the door and the match. She knew that Ben took being a hero as seriously as he takes anything, but breaking a promise to Julie was going to far.

'Ever since his identity was revealed to the world, he's been acting so different. Now he's breaking his promise to Julie, just to deal with minor threat like the forever knights.' she thought as she was focusing on the match.

"Peanuts?" a voiced said to her to her left.

"No thanks I-" turning in her seat, she saw Ben, holding out a bag towards her. "When did you get here?"

"A minute ago, but you were busy concentrating on the match. Hand me some of those peanuts." Kevin answered, as he reached for the bag.

"Sorry I'm late. When I checked the museum I found what the forever knights were after, and it took so time to convince the curator to let me take this." Ben responded, giving the bag to Kevin, before pulling out a red crystal from his pocket.

"That's great and all, but you should have been here for the beginning of Julie's match." Gwen said, as she crossed her arms and glared at him.

Putting the crystal away, Ben took the peanuts back from Kevin.

"Hey!"

"I know, and I'm sorry. But I couldn't let toltech battle armor be taken by the forever knights." Ben responded, taking some of the peanuts before handing the bag back to Kevin.

Taking the bag back, Kevin whistled, "Good thing you did. With that power in their hands, it would make anyone of those guys a threat."

"Okay, fine. So you had a good reason, though how did you get in here anyway? I figured your entrance would have drawn crowd." Gwen said, turning to the match.

"It did!" Kevin answered. "He just ran all the way over to avoid being stopped."

At the museum, a sudden light rose from the floor of the Aztec exhibit; leaving a wide whole on the floor. From the hole a group of forever knights, led by King Urian step out. Walking up to the wall with Aztec designs, Urian mashed the case with a red crystal, being propped up in front of wall.

"Finally! the incredible power of this ancient battle armor, will be mine." he said, as he picked up the crystal and walked to the wall. Moving to place the crystal in its rightful place, he stopped. "What? Where is the other crystal?" he asked, before turning to his men. "Search the area, that crystal's around here somewhere."

After thoroughly searching the museum. His men came up empty, he had order the security camera's be checked. In the footage he saw an alien run up to the wall and, take the crystal from the armor.

"Ben Tennyson!" he screamed, and order his men to prepare for an attack.

The match ended, with Julie getting her first win as professional tennis player. As she looked at the crowded she caught a glimpse of Ben, Gwen and Kevin, as they cheered for her. 'He made it' she thought, running over to her friends.

"Ben! You made it." she called out, as she reached them. Stopping in front of she smacked his arm, "Where were you? When I didn't see you with Gwen and Kevin I thought that you weren't gonna make it."

"Sorry about that, There was a police report about the forever knights, so Kevin and I went to take care of it." He responded, smiling down at Julie.

"Oh, I guess understand. Though why did Kevin arrive here before you did?" she asked crossing her arms.

"Not gonna make it easy on me huh?" he asked trying to lighted the mood. Julie shook of her head. "I'll explain on the way, I have a feeling the forever knights coming for me."

"Now you're talking!" Kevin said, "I've been sitting here, bored to tears watching this game. Getting in a fight with the forever knights, should get my blood pumping."

"Kevin! that's just rude!" Gwen said, seeing her friends face fall a little. "Julie you did great out there. The other girl didn't stand chance, right Ben?"

"Definitely! At this rate you could win a couple of titles in no time."

"Thanks you two, I appreciate your support, and Kevin while I think you're a pretty cool guy. You could really be a jerk when you need to." this caused Kevin to shrug and smirk. Turning Julie moved to collect her belongings. "You guys go a head, I'll catch up as soon I have everything."

Outside, the trio of Ben, Gwen, and Kevin made their way to Kevin's car to wait for Julie. Suddenly Gwen grabbed Ben's arm and, brought them to a stop. "Kevin, do me favor and go ahead without us. I have something to talk to Ben about."

"Finally gonna let him have it huh!" Kevin said, as he kept walking. "I'm glad you're doing it now, instead of waiting till his ego got to big for the planet."

"Hey!" Ben called out, sounding offended. Turning to Gwen he was about to defend himself, when he saw the look on her face. "So, a little more serious than my ego huh?"

"Ben I can tolerate your ego because I know that you really care. What I want to know is what's going on with today?" she asked, concern slipping into her voice. " You're wearing the same thing that you wore when you ten, you're not wearing the jacket I gave you and, you didn't even try to take advantage of your celebrity status while we were at the stadium." she said as she counted each thing on her hands. "Kevin even told me you asked him how his day was! So either there is something wrong you're not telling us or you're not Ben?"

"Here I was hoping to fool you until I could talk to grandpa!" he responded. Gwen's hands suddenly began to glow with pink energy, as she gathered her mana to attack. "Whoa! Take it easy." Ben said holding his hands up, "I'm still Ben! I promise I'll explain everything once we get in contact with Grandpa."

Glaring at him, Gwen asked, "How do I know this isn't some sort of trap?"

"Do you remember traveling to the future and meeting and alternate version of your self?" he asked her, making sure to keep his hands up.

"What does that have to do with- Look Out!" she screamed suddenly, bringing her hands forward and; creating a shield around them.

Turning, Ben see's King Urian. Holding an energy sword in one hand and shield on the other, around him thirty of his knights all equipped with their usual laser lances, and four high-tech tanks."Ben Tennyson! Return what rightfully belongs to me." Urian called out anger in his voice.

"Let's take these guys out first. Then we'll talk, and I'm expecting a really good explanation." Gwen said, as they got ready for a fight.