A/N: My update has arrived… YAY! I'm sitting here eating an Easter egg while I write this :)

I think this chapter turns the story from a T to an M.

My apologies if this displeases you.

Chapter 6

Ben lay on his front, on the floor of his dark cell. The torturer had been gone a while, but Ben couldn't stand, even if he wanted to. He was covered in a thick, sticky, crimson liquid, which he could only assume was his own blood.

His torture had consisted of mostly sharp knives digging into his skin, forming cut after cut after cut across his body. One of the knives had come dangerously close to slitting his throat.

Towards the end of his torture, the pain Ben had been subjected to, finally took it's toll on him. His body went numb and he completely collapsed. His voice was hoarse from screaming in pain. He could no longer feel the sharp implements that were thrust into his body, nor the poison that flowed through his veins and was still flowing now.

After hearing no more cries escape his captives mouth, the alien lizard (who, because it is easier, we will call a Lacertanian) became bored with torturing a being who would not make a sound.

He and his drone turned and left the cell without a sound.

Ben had to control his breathing, to keep himself from passing out. They had gassed him part way through the torture. The Lacertanian was unaffected, so Ben assumed it was a natural gas from his home planet.

Ben would have welcomed passing out, it would give him the rest he desperately needed. But he was afraid. Afraid that if he lost consciousness, he would never regain it.

So he stared at the ray shield, his eye lids drooping. Guards were still running back and forth, which caught Ben's attention.

That means Gwen and Kevin are still on their way he thought to himself.

His vision went blurry just as he saw a magenta disk take out one of the guards standing outside his cell.

A girl, with beautiful auburn hair, came into view on the other side of the ray shield.

Ben tried calling for her, but it just came out as a croak, before he lost consciousness.

The Rustbucket III was docking with Vilgax's ship. Grandpa Max had already blasted Vilgax's engines, so they weren't going anywhere for a while.

As soon as they had docked Gwen burst through the airlock and onto the goliath of a ship, Kevin following closely behind, immediately taking out the first wave of guards that had come to stop them.

"Well that was easy." Kevin commented, giving himself a proud smile.

The clattering of feet running down the metallic corridor wiped the smug look off his face as another wave of silver and red armored soldiers came round the corner, laser rifles in hand.

"Let's take 'em out." Gwen said calmly, before unleashing her Anodite powers at the incoming guards.

More than half of them were easily thrown aside by Gwen. Seeing their allies fall beside them, the remaining troops opened fire at Gwen and Kevin.

Kevin absorbed the metallic armor of a fallen soldier, and then ran directly at the rest of his enemies.

While Kevin was having a brawl with some of the guards, Gwen put up shield in front of herself and leant round it every few seconds to throw energy disks at her opponents.

Finally they had finished off the last of the guards.

"We should start moving if we want to get anywhere!" Kevin called over to Gwen.

"Going somewhere…?" a loud, booming voice asked sarcastically from behind them "Perhaps I could point you in the right direction!"

Gwen and Kevin turned round to see Vilgax standing tall and proud, with a malicious grin on his face.

"Where is he?" Gwen Growled, standing up tall and straight.

"You don't intimidate me CHILD!" Vilgax spat, before removing the large sword from his back.

"I'm going to enjoy this, just as I am currently enjoying torturing Tennyson!" Vilgax laughed.

Gwen didn't even wait for Vilgax to finish his sentence. The thought of that monster torturing her cousin, the boy she had recently fallen in love with, made her burn with rage.

Her eyes turned bright pink, whilst her skin lost all it's detail and turned a very dark purple, borderline black. Each individual strand of her hair became one flowing, white mass with a pink glow around the edges.

Her facial features, though practically gone, formed a look of intense anger.

"NOBODY HURTS MY COUSIN AND GETS AWAY WITH IT!" She screamed, a deep echo following her words.

She shot a beam of white hot mana at Vilgax.

Vilgax was caught off guard by Gwen's sudden burst of rage. He didn't even have time to put up any sort of defense.

The beam hit him, smack in the middle of the chest, sending him flying backwards through several walls of the ship.

Kevin grabbed Gwen's arm, trying to calm her down, but the intense heat just scorched his hand.

Suddenly, a bright flash of white light erupted from Gwen and she was back to normal. She had clamed down slightly, but was still extremely angered by what Vilgax had done.

She then started to walk in the direction from which Vilgax had come. Kevin carefully followed her, a few paces behind, still a bit unsure whether she was still angry or not.

Eventually they came across a long corridor with prison cells lining the walls. Each one covered by it's own ray shield. The majority of the cells had dead or dying creatures in them. The odd few were empty.

She saw some guards outside a cell a little further down the corridor. When they saw her, they immediately opened fire. She dodged the lasers with ease, throwing disks at her attackers.

She came to stand outside of the cell that they were guarding. She heard a noise from within the cell. She looked inside to see a teenage boy lying in a pool of blood. She instantly recognized it as Ben.

She smashed the control panel that controlled the cell's shield and ran inside, kneeling down beside her broken cousin. She held his upper half in her arms, tears rolling down her cheeks.

Ben awoke to the sound of sobbing and water dripping on his face. Her slowly opened his eyes to see Gwen's tear-filled ones staring back at him.

Ben knew that his cousin was pretty. But even now, even when she was crying, he still thought she looked beautiful.

Her big green eyes, her flawless skin and her long flowing auburn hair. Everything about her was beautiful. She had also come and rescued him from this hell-hole he was in. There was nothing about her that he didn't like.

He reached up and stroked her hair, looking deep into her eyes. At that moment… he knew he loved her.

Gwen looked down at Ben's face and saw the horrible cuts they had given him. And yet he was still smiling. He was happy to see her.

They leant towards each other, their lips meeting in the middle. They shared a passionate, galaxy shattering kiss.

It wasn't making out, there were no tongues involved. It was just a kiss of pure love.

A/N: Woooooooo! End of the chapter. I have problems showing my own emotions (like pain, anger, love, that sort of thing) so writing about other people doing it is hard. Hope you liked it though. :)