Chapter 7 yaaaay! I do not own Ben 10, only my characters such as Shea. ;) Now it's time for our little Shea to get that evil glint in her eye! DON'T LIKE DON'T READ! :D

Chapter 7

"This would be a good time to take back that thing you said about Shea being good..." Ben hissed to Gwen as she too turned to Shea. Her blonde hair flopped in front of her face as she blew it from her eyes continuously to get a good look at her playmates. "Let me see if I remember..." she said, her voice lower, shallower... and some unknown quality that left it sounding dark and evil. Her sharpened finger nail pointed to Ben through her cuffs, "Ben Tennyson? Ah yes, holder of the Ultimatrix am I right?" Shea didn't wait for an answer, instead her finger lay on Kevin who narrowed his eyes and balled his fists becoming tenser just by her gaze meeting his. "Kevin, a large hunk of muscle who just doesn't understand emotion very well. Used to be bad as well I see, looks like you and I have a lot in common, that is until your friends changed you." She spoke the word 'changed' in a sickened fashion, her face scrunching up in the process.

Finally, her gaze set upon Gwen who was unable to give Shea the same look of disgust her friends did. "Ah Gweny Gwen, Gwen!" Shea cackled, her fangs dancing in the light that shone from the ceiling. "You thought I could change? Little old me, the evil one. The dark one. Oh Gwen what a disappointment I am." She said with faked tears. "Oh boo hoo." She said snidely before struggling under the cuffs. "Oh Magister, this is a surprise!" she smiled cockily.

"No more talk from you Shea or we sedate you and put you straight back into the Null Void." The Magister growled, dark eyes narrowing.

Shea rolled her eyes, "Oh Magister you hardly know me at all, but I do know these kids, and dearest Gwendolyn wants to know what species I am and to put some good in my heart." Shea was sarcastic now; her pupils ripping open with a new sense of humour.

Shea's eyes momentarily became a brighter gold as she stared at her three previous friends, "Now that's nice, Gwendolyn still believes I can change, Kevin wants to kill me and little Ben there is just itching to change into Echo Echo to disrupt the brain wave patterns to give me a headache, smart boy." Shea snarled, her fingers curling under their shackles, "one thing you did underestimate though..." she said slowly, her tail sliding out from the cuff that previously held it in place. Ben went to put his hand to his Ultimatrix, but Shea was fast. Her tail took the bolt that held the cuff for her right arm and threw it at Ben's hand, knocking it away from the Ultimatrix as he yelped in pain.

"That's it!" Kevin cried, grabbing the metal walls and absorbing them. His hand became a long sword-like spike as he charged at Shea who'd managed to free her limbs fully. She slid from the metal table and carefully moved ever so slightly to her right to counter act the attack. Her body shifted around Kevin as she shimmered and disappeared from sight.

"How do we find her now?" Kevin snarled.

"Echo Echo!" was Ben's only answer as he transformed into the small robotic creature.

"I know how to get her to show herself!" he croaked as three duplicates ran from the original and took each corner of the sealed room. "Wall of sound!" they cried as waves of nauseating high pitched tones rang through the room. Gwen, Kevin and the Magister who seemed to be taking the pain the worst with his large dog-like ears grabbed their heads and groaned. The Magister howled in pain which mixed with Shea's screams as her body shimmered back into place just by the door.

"No!" Ben as Echo Echo cried as he pressed the Ultimatrix showing clearly on his chest. His body was engulfed in a green light as he was transformed into Echo Echo's ultimate form, a tall navy robot with deadly high pitched bombs attached to his arms.

Shea's nails dag into the mainstream robotics of the pad that detected a Plumber's hand as sparks flew everywhere. The door slid lazily open as Shea skidded underneath it before it had even gone up halfway. "See ya losers!" she cried, her tail waving goodbye from underneath the door.

"No!" Ultimate Echo Echo's voice came out distressed as his body hovered in the air flying through the door and chasing after Shea at full speed. The Magister, finally getting control of his hearing chased after the two on a victory snarl as he ran full throttle with his Plasma pistol.

Kevin's arms morphed back into blades as he readied himself to follow, but was stopped when he noticed that Gwen hadn't moved since Shea had freed herself from her shackles.

Gwen's head dropped as silent tears seeped down her face, "I-I really did believe she was g-good." She hiccupped on her words as she felt her salty tears claim her.

Kevin didn't hesitate in putting his arm around the grieving girl. He held her close allowing her to rest her head against his chest suddenly unable to care less if his shirt got wet with tears.

When Gwen mustered the courage to look at Kevin through her bleary eyes she gave a weak attempt at a smile, "we need to stop her." She stated, shoulders bracing as she calmly walked out from Kevin's arms.

"You sure?" Kevin asked, still concerned for her.

Gwen nodded, "Shea told me that if this was to happen, I had to stop her. That's what we're going to do." She muttered, folding her arms and walking out the door. Kevin easily caught up to her with three large strides and took her hand in his, "You really want it to go like that?"

Gwen groaned and looked at the floor, "No Kevin I wanted her to be able to see the good side, and I still haven't given up on her, like I never gave up on you. She just needs our help to see herself for who she is, somewhere inside her is good... but for any of that to happen we need to secure her so she can't escape." Gwen said firmly before allowing her hands to light up once more as she sprung into a light jog down the hallway.

It wasn't hard to find Shea, not with the constant gun shots and large crashes from various items before thrown two and thro. "Sonic DOOM!" Ultimate Echo Echo yelled as he finally got Shea cornered against the wall of the large circular auditorium-like room. Large windows circled the two showing nothing but the bleakness of space in its wake. Ben was determined to rid of Shea, but not kill her. He knew Gwen wouldn't approve of that and he had to force himself to think back to what had happened with Kevin, he had to allow himself to give her a second chance, after all she wasn't hurting anybody yet.

"Oh Ben Tennyson you wouldn't hurt me, not after the kiss we shared." Shea giggled mischievously, winking at the robot before her.

Ben halted in his attack, the floating deadly sonic devices still encasing her in case she were to escape. "That's not gonna work, I have a girlfriend." Ben answered snidely, letting the sonic devices release their deadly sound.

Shea rolled her eyes and leapt into the air, cautiously avoiding the blow from the sonic devices. She landed gracefully behind Ben, her slender arms reaching around his metal torso in a gentle, delicate hug. "Now, now Ben. Don't act like you didn't love it. I can read your mind silly boy; this hasn't been the first time you've made a mistake in your love life..."

That was enough that Ben could take, his cold rectangular fingers grabbed Shea's slender wrist as he threw her at the window, her body colliding with the thick glass as a loud thump filled the tense atmosphere around them.

"Ben!" Gwen cried, reaching the destruction a little too late, "we need to give her time to explain."

Ben turned to her, as he did so returning back to Echo Echo and then finally his human form. "I just did, she's got to be knocked out from that blow." He grinned, turning around and walking over to meet the damage he had done.

To their horror, Shea leapt to her feet, nails extended to extremely dangerous talons as she smiled in victory, "I'm afraid I can't stick around I have a few friends waiting for me!" she grinned, pointing over to the only accessible entrance and exit that had now slammed shut. By it, the two yellow and black vipers appeared, fangs outstretched as they carried stolen weaponry in their six hands.

"Come!" they commanded, smiles stretching along their scaly features.

"Not if I can help it," Kevin snarled, running forward as he absorbed the metal around him, hands mutated into thin deathly swords.

Gwen turned around, her magic lifting one of the snakes into the air, wrapped in pink binding. Ben slammed down his Ultimatrix turning into a four armed blue monkey, with spider-like eyes, "Spider monkey!" he cried, chirping in a simian-like manner as he leapt onto the remaining guard as Gwen snatched his weapons with a pink arm. Ben squirted a large spider web over both guards, securing them to the ceiling.

The two were just in time to see Shea shift from her position, grab Kevin's arm and throw him over her shoulder planting him straight on the ground in a force that could shatter the Richter scale.

Her body then shifted from colour to colour as she darted across the room, Spider Monkey hot on her tail. Shea rolled her eyes as she witnessed Ben attempt to hit her with spider web only to have his still in motion body entwined in her own thin flexible tail. Shea then pulled her tail aggressively from Ben's screeching body as he face planted on the ground.

Shea ran, skidding to a halt beside the yellow and black snake goons. "Come on idiots, bright ideas, we need to save Feroso!" she demanded, snapping her long talon like finger nails as her eyes darted from person to person. Gwen had retreated to Kevin as she helped him up and Ben was still struggling on the floor, Spider Monkey caught in one of his own spider webs.

"We need to stall them and fast!" she hissed.

Both vipers looked at each other before the one closest to the wall grinned largely across his scaly features as his three fingered hand drove straight into the metal plated wall pulling out several important looking wires and cables.

The room dove into deep red as alarms rang from every corner. Ben, Gwen and Kevin looked around disorientated until they each fixed their gaze on Shea who applauded the vipers before grabbing each of their arms and exiting the room.

Spider Monkey finally ripped the web from his furry body, bounding towards the door only to be halted by the sound of gun fire and The Magisters dog-like howl as he leapt into the room, gun at the ready. "Feroso escaped! I was chasing him down the hall when I came across Shea and his viper goons, they teleported to an unknown zone, I fail to know how long it will take to find their exact position!"

Gwen and Kevin soon stood behind Ben, eyes glaring at the Carnine. "We take it from here." Gwen demanded.

"It's too dangerous!" the Magister barked.

"Shea was my responsibility and I am going to change her no matter what it TAKES!" Gwen stabbed her fingers into the Magister's suit as she screamed out her words at the top of her lungs. Ben and Kevin stood wide-eyed at what they were witnessing. Gwen, always the adult was losing it with a Plumber official. The Magister's eyes narrowed, "I am in charge of this sector, if I catch any of you near those dangerous criminals I will take your badges!" he growled, eyes a blaze as he pressed a button on the sleeve of his suit.

"Wait, what are you-" but before Ben could ask, the team were engulfed in a blue light, leaving them in the fresh aroma of cut grass and maple trees.

"NO!" Gwen cried.

Gwen fell to her knees, grabbing tufts of grass on her way down in anger and agony, "NO!" She repeated, twice as loud as before, staring out into the musky orange sky. "They can't do this! SHEA IS OUR FRIEND!" She cried, body curling in on itself as she allowed her auburn locks to dangly freely in front of her face.

"She's dangerous, you saw what she was capable of and that was just on her own." Ben defended, folding his arms in finality.

"She has good in her though!" Gwen spat, standing on her feet and storming towards her cousin. Ben didn't back down as he narrowed his eyes at her, "I know you're upset Gwen, but this is when we have to step down and rely on the Plumbers to do their jobs, we can't always be the heroes!"

Gwen was shocked with Ben's authority over the situation; her fingers that had been previously dancing with pink light vanished as she looked down at her feet in horror. "I'm so sorry." She muttered, stroking her arm idly as she scuffed the grass with her shoe. Kevin hesitantly approached her, taking her hand and stroking her palm smoothly, "You tried Gwen, but Shea's bad news, we just have to let them deal with her and-"

Gwen grabbed hard against Kevin's hand ferociously, "Take her to the Null Void? No way!" She spat, wriggling from Kevin's grip and walking back over to Ben. "We have tried, now it's time for us to succeed. We understand Shea, we know her and I think together we can get her to reveal the goodness in her heart. She's got a mother that's no doubt worried about her; we need to think of it like that."

Gwen spent a long set of moments staring pleadingly into Ben's eyes until he finally let out a sight of defeat and nodded rigidly, "fine." He barely whispered.

"What? No way, she's a monster!" Kevin snarled.

Gwen turned on her heals, eyes wide and filled with purpose, "And what if it was you? You were a monster, and we didn't kill you! We didn't put you in the Null Void, we tried to help you and we succeeded."

"To be fair Ben tried to kill-" But Kevin stopped dead in his sentence as he looked into his girlfriend's steady gaze. With one quick eye roll he took Gwen's shoulder and smiled. "Okay."

Gwen smiled in victory as she leapt at Kevin and brought him into a secure huge. "I knew you'd do it!" she grinned.

"Well we still need a plan." Ben said, cutting into the moment. "Let's not forget what the Magister just said to us."

"So we take the rust bucket." Gwen countered.

"What about finding her?"Kevin inquired.

Gwen smiled devilishly, "she's still wearing my clothes, she's too far away to find her exactly, but with Grandpa's help I'm sure we can do this!" she beamed, "plus, we've got the last piece of the puzzle."

Both boys raised their eyebrows in silent confusion.

Gwen rolled her eyes, "she's strong, agile and can read minds, that's got to be enough information to find out which of the two aliens she is. We can do a lot more than just find her"

In the next chapter I have high hopes for the gang to find our what species Shea really is, it'll be a good'n. :) R&R pwetty pwease.