My Universe 1: Ben kidnapped
Chapter 12: The Jinxer
Disclaimer: I don't own Ben 10; however, I do own Sir Markus Leroy and Jinxer.
A.N.: Look at that! It's Wednesday and I managed to get it out! :) Enjoy!
Rated: T (violence and violence reference…bad word in this chapter…)
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Gwen sighed as Kevin began taking the Rust Bucket 3 downward slowly for landing. "Somethin' bothering you?" Kevin asks, but Gwen didn't look over at him, instead keeping her gaze downward. "Uh, okay, can I guess? It's about Cooper, right?" Kevin asks and Gwen felt his eyes on her. She nods after a moment, feeling disappointment and sadness washing over her again. 'How could Cooper do this?' Gwen wonders, repeating the conversation on the phone over again in her mind.
"Look, you can't worry about Ben and Cooper right now. One or the other, and you know who I'm choosing to focus on for now. We'll deal with Cooper later. Maybe Albedo tricked him or somethin'." Kevin says, shrugging a bit. Gwen frowned, thinking that it probably wasn't so simple. Gwen turned quickly when she heard a thud from the back where the landing platform and Kevin's car was. She looked over to Kevin, and he glanced over his shoulder too, his face looking like a mix of concern, curiosity, and fear.
Gwen stood slowly before creeping past the doorway to the back area. Everything looked clear. She opened a cabinet, then she saw a black suited person, but suddenly her body wasn't her own. She could still see what was happening, but she couldn't do anything, she could only watch…. She walked back to the front after shutting the cabinet door back, and then she sat down. "What was the sound from?" Kevin asks, raising an eyebrow. She noticed Julie was also watching her from the back seat.
"It was a roach." She answers simply, but the weird thing is that Gwen couldn't control her words either. The words came from her mouth, but she hadn't chosen them, nor had she meant to move her mouth. It was like she was floating around in her body…not really herself at all. "Wow, must have been pretty big." Kevin says, watching her. "Yep, but I got rid of the roach, so don't worry." Gwen says, nodding her head…well, it was sort of her anyways.
"Why would I worry? Eh…Gwen, you're acting odd." Kevin says, biting his lower lip with concern. "I'm fine! You're just angry that I love Cooper still." She says, turning her head away in anger, but Gwen wasn't angry…what was this? Who was that black suited person, and why is that person controlling her? "What? You don't love him." Kevin says, looking at her with frustration. "Yes, I do! I just never told you because I don't want you to leave. If you did leave, then what would I ride in?" Gwen says. No…it wasn't her….
"What…?" Kevin asks in disbelief, looking angry and sad. "You seriously thought I loved you?" No! It wasn't her! She wasn't…she would never hurt him like that! "Gwen…you don't…" Kevin began, but fell silent as he watched her. "You know the truth already." She told him…someone told him. She couldn't believe that she was watching herself hurt Kevin. She couldn't do anything, no matter how much she struggled. "Well, I've landed, so go find your boyfriend." Kevin grumbles now, turning the machine off. Julie stayed quiet, glancing between the two.
'No! Kevin…' Gwen thought desperately. What was worse than watching as your body tell your boyfriend that you didn't love him? Well, your boyfriend excepting the lie, that's what. Gwen's body stood and walked out of this room to the back, and then down the ramp and to the Plumbers' base. This wasn't fair. It was torture. "Hello, there Gwen." Max says, greeting her as she walks into the front area of the base.
"Hello, grandpa. I have something important to tell you, come with me." Gwen says, and then walks over to the hanger bay again to a Plumbers' ship, followed by Max. "Something wrong, Gwen?" Max asks, raising an eyebrow. "No! I'm fine! Come here." She says, rushing up the ramp of the empty Plumbers' ship. Max soon came up, and then Gwen hit the button to pull the ramp back up. "Are we going somewhere?" Max asks, putting his hand at his side where his blaster was.
"No, we are not, but you are." With that being said, Gwen reached up and called out a spell, putting him asleep. Max hit the floor with a soft thud, and then she turned as the black suited person came out of a nearby cabinet. 'He gets around.' Gwen thought angrily, wanting to punch him. "Hello, Gwen." He says before taking off his black helmet and revealing his light skin colored face with dark almost black hair and bangs and his light purple-gray eyes.
'I can't say anything, stupid.' She thought, wanting to glare and yell and trash out at him, but all she did was stand there. It wasn't fair. Suddenly she fell down on the ground with a thud, and though she couldn't do anything, she sure could feel the pain in her legs and knees. "You may not be able to, but I advise you keep your snide thoughts out of your mind." The young man says, walking over to the control panel. 'So I can't think "mean" things about you, but you can read my mind and control me like I'm some puppet?' Gwen thought angrily, and she was happy that she could still think, if nothing else.
"Be quiet." He says simply before making her stand and walk over to sit on the copilot's chair. He clicked a button then, opening the communication channels. "Max and I need to take this ship, it's important." Gwen says, though once again not at her command. "Okay, go ahead then, ma'am." A Plumber told her…him. The young man reached over and turned it back off, then began taking the ship upward. Gwen began buckling up, and then she sat there, doing nothing. She couldn't even think anything mean enough...
"You're being very distracting." The young man says after a moment of silence. 'You must be kidding. Stop controlling me, and you won't hear me. Simply, isn't it?' She thought bitterly, wanting to reach over and slap him. "Not that simply. You'd escape, and I can't let that happen." He replies, glancing over at with a stern look in his purple gray eyes. 'Right, now let me guess, you have no choice?' Gwen thinks. It would be nice if she could at least glare….
"I have a choice, but this is what I chose. Your life or your family's, you know?" He says, checking the radar. 'Oh, so you have a family member who's in trouble?' Gwen thought, still sounding icy, but she couldn't keep the similarities of their problems out of her mind. "Yes, they've got my cousin…. What similarity?" He asks after answering her. Gwen's jaw would have dropped if it could. His cousin…? Who was he talking about?
'My cousin's captured too! His name's Ben Tennyson, everyone knows him….' Gwen thought, her mind whirling with thoughts. "Ben…? Right, Charm mentioned him…." The young man says while seeming lost in thought as he spoke. 'Lost in my thoughts…' Gwen thought quietly, mentally frowning. Suddenly she realized where "Charm" sounded familiar from though, 'Charmcaster is your cousin?!' She nearly mentally screamed. How in the hell…?
"Yes, she is. How else would I know you so well? Charm told me about all of you and your friends." He says, nodding. 'Look, my cousin is captured, your cousin is captured, let's just rescue them together!' Gwen thought, trying to work up a plan for how they'd rescue them. "You'll act like I'm still controlling you, and then when we get the chance we'll break them free." He tells her, apparently coming up with a plan faster.
Gwen felt different now, and then she moved her hand to push some of her hair aside, a habit of hers, when she realized that she was free from his control. 'Finally…' She thought, still somewhat angry. "What do I call you?" She asks, her throat feeling odd from not speaking. "I'm the Jinxer, but you don't have to call me anything." He answers simply. 'The Jinxer…? They all have to have names like that?' Gwen thought, humored slightly.
"Should we call the others and let them know?" Gwen asks after another moment. "…Yeah, probably…good luck talking to Kevin..." Jinxer answers her with a nod. "Ha, good luck from you? Thanks…jerk…." She murmurs, getting up and heading to the back. So among calling some others, she'll also have to call Kevin…how was this going to work? Jinxer was right though, he had had a choice. There is always a choice. Kevin was about to have the choice to believe her.
She crouched down to look at her grandpa. "Sorry…" She murmurs before standing back up. She pulled out her phone now, thinking about what she was going to say. What do you say to your boyfriend after telling him that you guys aren't together? Gosh…there isn't much to say. So it's a good thing that that wasn't her. Really though, what was Jinxer thinking? She could still bang his head into something with anger…. She'd deal with him later though, for now she had to deal with her…"ex-boyfriend"…. Great….
Wow, didn't mean to bring in an OC, but anyways, he's mine…. BTW, vampirehunter555 gave me the idea about Gwen getting controlled. Thanks again 555! And thank you all for your continued support! :) Next chapter we'll head over to Kevin and Julie's side.
