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Okay hi everyone here's another chapter. This one was done by me as fun little game I wanted to try out. Well have fun with this episode.
Recap: Ben quickly began to ask several questions about the Omnitrix, but Azmuth stopped him. "Benjamin you have made the Omnitrix your tool to save the lives of the universe, so I will allow you to devise a way to use it." With that the alien inventor faded in a shimmer of lights.
Once everything was said and done, Kevin looked at Ben and said, "Well now that I know you're my Benji how bout I take you home." Ben nodded his head and leaned on Kevin to help him to the car.
Gwen watched the cute scene and took a picture of it and sent it to Julie. 'I know my fan girl side chose a terrible time to show up, but I think Ben will like this picture later,' Gwen thought as she hit the send button on her cell.
Shifting Times
Chapter 9: Saving Private Tennyson
Ben and Kevin were enjoying the years that passed by them, never knowing that the lives of the sons hung in the balance.
Shino was pacing around the containment room, still waiting for Paradox to show up but he mind was focused on a back plan if Paradox didn't get there soon. After counting Shino's 248th circle around the room, Devlin yelled from his chair. "Sit down will you; all you're pacing is giving me a headache!" Shino turned to him with a nervous smile.
"Sorry it's what I do when I'm nervous. I forgot to make it possible for your birth when I changed history and now I'm afraid things may not work out."
Kenny looked to Shino and looked as if he was ready to cry. "Y-you don't think we'll d-die do you?" Tears appeared in the young boys eyes, and Shino couldn't help but walk over and hug the boy.
"Don't worry, Kenny. I'll make sure everything turns out alright okay," the young Timeshima said in a comforting voice.
"Hello there. What is it that you want," a voice from behind them.
Shino turned around and saw Dr. Paradox. Relief washed over Shino, but still asking the doctor for help was something Shino wasn't ready to do.
Taking a deep breath Shino started out, "Mr. Paradox I need your help for my mistake..."
Dr Paradox lifted an eyebrow at the Timeshima, remembering that this one in particular hated asking for help and really wasn't a fan of the doctor for having the ability of his people.
"First I know and second Mr. Paradox was my father, and lastly would anyone like a piece of bubble gum," the time walker said holding up a bag of bubble gum. Shino's left eye began to twitch at the doctor but held back any comments that came to mind.
"Yeah well okay. Paradox will you help me?" asked Shino.
"Of course I will. Kenneth and Devlin are important parts of the future as you well know. I have a plan but there is two possible outcomes" said Paradox.
Shino looked at Paradox and said, "Alright what are they?"
Paradox looked at Shino oddly knowing that the Timeshima didn't like him. "Well to be honest, what I was thinking that if we can get Kenny born to Ben and Kevin, we may have to use one of their enemies to create Devlin
Shino gives the elder time traveler a strange look as if he was mad. "You know Paradox, that just crazy enough to work!" Shino said excitedly and ran up to the doctor and hugged him.
Everyone in the room was thrown off by Shino's last move. The Timeshima pulled way quickly with a blush on his face and coughed. "Sorry I guess I was more stressed out over these two than I thought." Shino said hiding the blush from the good doctor.
Paradox looked to the two boys and said, "Yes well...let's get to work I believe you should do the same thing you did to Ben so that they will retain as much of their original personalities as possible."
Ken and Devlin snickered at Shino sense they saw him blush. Devlin recovered first and asked, "Why do that?"
Shino then turned around and explained this portion sense he knew more about it. "Well this will actually make it so you two act, think and feel as the two of you do now. It's more like if we don't put your souls into the bodies of the two of you in the timeline your dads are in now, you may be different from the person you are now. Kenny may look the same, but may not love you Devlin and you may end up as you are now. Can you really say that you want to live in a world where Kenny doesn't love you as much as you do him?"
Devlin and Kenny shook their heads, and agreed that couldn't happen. "Good then," said Shino.
"Okay guys...I'm going to have to manipulate time a little and turn you into your soul forms and send you through time and be placed there." said Shino.
"Okay...is this going to hurt?" ask Devlin. "Yeah is it?" ask Kenny.
"It could or it don't or maybe a little...I can't say I never experience it," said Shino.
"Don't look at me...I never either." said the paradox
The two boys swallowed thickly and looked at each other with worried looks.
"Don't worry if you feel anything, you won't for long. Trust me, okay here we...." before Shino could use his powers, Paradox stopped him.
"Hold on a moment Shino. How about if we each take their souls back ourselves and manipulate time as we go. This way we can make sure the souls get there exactly when we need them to."
Shino thought about it and looked at the time traveler. "Okay but here's some of my energy your gonna need more than what your use to too pull this stunt of."
Shino pointed his finger at the doctor and released an intense beam of concentrated mana for the doctor to absorb.
As the beam of light hit his body, Paradox's eyes began to glow with an eerie white look.
As the light faded he looked at Shino and said, "Young man that was dangerous. How do you know if my body could take that much mystical energy?"
Shino smirked as he said, "It's simple doc, time travel is for immortals and fools and you've proved yourself no fool."
The doc blushed at the Timeshima's compliment and coughed and said he could go ahead, but Devlin asked for a moment
"Wait....hold on..." said Devlin while grabbing Kenny.
"What is it?" asks Kenny.
"If this doesn't work or something goes wrong...I just want you to know that I still love you." said Devlin and then he kiss Kenny.
Then it hit Kenny this could be the end and tears started to come to his eyes. "Oh I'll still love you too Devlin." said Kenny while hugging Devlin.
Shino looks at the two of them and his heartaches for the two boys. He knew that changing history would affect them, but he was so caught up with wanting Kevin's happiness, he'd forgotten about the happiness of the loved ones that existed in this timeline. Shino let a tear roll down his face, but he smiled and cleared his throat. "Sorry guys I don't want to break you guys up, but we're going to need every second to make this work so…" was all Shino could say.
The two boy nodded and separated. Paradox walked over to Devlin and quickly stated, "Sense Devlin maybe a bit harder to get born, why don't you take care of Kenneth?"
Shino nodded and took Kenny's hand. With a smile, Shino took Kenny a good distance from Devlin. "Okay Kenny, here we go, and once we get this right, Devlin will be back and you two will be as happy as ever," the young Timeshima stated with a smile. Kenny's reply was half hearted one.
Shino stepped back and let the mana take him over. His eyes turned white once more as his voice boomed when he spoke. "Kenneth Tennyson, you are going to be removed from this timeline and sent to another to be reborn and live your life with your father. Do you consent to this?" Kenny nodded yes still not used to the alien booming voice. Shino lifted his hand and pointed at Kenny. With the release of the huge mana burst, Kenny's body began to fade until a white orb remained floating in the air. Shino walked to the orb and took hold of it.
Waving good bye to the other two, Shino opened a portal to the Dimensional Corridor. Once inside Shino looked to see how old Kevin and Ben were at this point. He spotted the two boys and to his surprise Ben was 25 while Kevin was 26. The part that truly surprised him was that the couple was now married. He floated above them carrying Kenny's soul, but he didn't want them to see him so he made himself intangible and followed the happy couple.
However there peaceful day out was interrupted as an explosion went out at a jewelry store. Kevin sighed knowing duty was calling them into battle. Grabbing a piece steel from his pocket, he absorbed the metal and started running in for battle. Ben was getting ready to do the same, when he heard a scream. He turned around and saw one of the alien robbers took a little girl captive. This cowardly action got up under Ben's skin so he quickly changed into Big Chill and took off after the crooked alien. Using his intangible ability, he caught up with the rogue alien and appeared in front of him.
The rogue looked at Ben nervously and took out a blaster and pointed it at the little girl. "L-listen Ben 10,000 i-if you get a-any closer the girls gets it," the rogue stuttered. Ben then changed back to his normal self and said, "Okay buddy just calm down. I won't attack if you let the girl go." The alien still had the blaster pointed at the girl, who was now crying for her mother. The alien rogue was already scared from doing the robbery in the first place but facing Ben10,000 and having to list to the crying of his captive became too much. He quickly threw the girl away and fired at Ben.
Using all the flexibility he had gained over the years, Ben dodged laser fire and got up closer to the alien rogue. He quickly disarmed the rogue and used the Null Void egg to capture him. Once he finished, he walked over to the little girl and picked her up. "Hey there sweetheart, the bad guys gone now, how about I help you find your mom," Ben offered with a reassuring smile. The little girl sniffled a few more time, but said okay in the meantime. Walking back in the direction that he came from, Ben started talking to the little girl and found out her name was Lisa.
Once they arrived back in the area were the jewelry store, Ben noticed Kevin was already finished and then heard the yelling of a woman calling out for Lisa. Said little girl started bouncing in Ben's arms yelling out, "Mommy, mommy I'm over here!" Ben placed the little girl down as a raven haired woman came running up to them and quickly snatched Lisa into her arms with tears rolling down her face. The woman looked at Ben and said, "Thank Ben 10,000, you don't know how much it means to me to see Lisa safe." Ben scratched the back of his head sheepishly and told the woman it was fine, but she kissed him on the cheek and gave her thanks again. With that she and Lisa, who was waving good bye to Ben left headed for home.
Ben smiled at the mother and kid and felt a small pain in his chest. He looked at the woman with envy, and headed to a nearby bench.
After a moment or two, Ben heard the bench squeak letting him know someone sat down as well. When Ben looked up he gave a small smile to the love of his life. Kevin smiled back and asked, "Okay Benji what's wrong?"
Ben sighed and replied, "Nothing I just saved a little girl from one of the aliens that robbed the jewelry store and handed her back to her mom."
Kevin gave Ben a puzzled look and said, "Okay, and that's a bad thing?"
Ben looked back at Kevin and explained himself, "Yeh it is but when they walked away I thought what it would be like to have a kid of my own?"
Kevin's eye saddened a little, but he said, "Well why not have one then? I'm sure we're ready for that now."
Ben gave Kevin a hug and said that may Azimuth could help them. Shino watched and smiled thinking how thing were already working in his favor. However much to Ben's and Kevin's disappointment, Azimuth told them that the process of having a child between two human males was still under investigation. It was almost a week later before Ben came to Kevin with another idea.
Ben thought maybe they could find some to be the surrogate mother for their child. Kevin thought about and agreed, but wondered who they could get. Ben quickly replied that Julie would probably do it as long as they took care of everything. Kevin wanted to protest, but seeing how Ben really wanted to have a child he reluctantly agreed.
It didn't take much convincing to Jules, Julie, to agree remembering how Ben said he wanted to have a lot of kids. After doing a lot of research, Ben, Julie, and Kevin went to a sperm bank and had everything done. It was decided that Ben's little soldiers to find Julie's eggs, and after about an hour or so everything was set up.
Two months passed and it found out that Julie was pregnant. Ben was the giddiest person in the room when they found out, which Julie and Kevin found very funny. It was in the middle of the night that Shino crept through the Tennyson compound to find Julie's room. The white orb he held started to get very hot telling him he had very little time left to place Kenny's soul or it would fade away. Upon finding the girl's room, Shino phased through the door and floated over the sleeping woman. Shino hovered over her and looked at the orb. He gives it a kiss for luck and let go of it. The white orb began to drift downward and attached itself to Julie's body. As he sank into her body, Shino watched as Julie's face contorted in displeasure but went back to a normal resting state once Kenny's soul was bounded with the growing child.
Once his work was done, Shino slipped through back into the Corridor of Time and looked for Paradox. It took a moment to find him, but the thing that bothered him was that the normal chipper doctor had a glum and gloomy look on his face.
"Hey doc, what's wrong can't think of a way to save Devlin," Shino asked sense he hadn't been able to think a way to do that either.
Much to Shino's relief the doctor shook his head no. "I've found a way to make sure the boy is born but I'm not sure if he'll be the same even with Devlin's soul as a part of him."
"What do you mean by that doc," Shino asked nervous to hear the doctor's answer.
TBC…
Okay I know you all probably hate me for that, but I can't give you everything in one chapter. Guess you'll find out more next time. Please review this story shall end soon and it'll be another complete story for me so please review. Well TTFN…