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Chapter 20: It Begins
After Pablo was all better and so was John they were all resting back in the Rustbucket. Max was tying to fix the connection to the encoded Plumber frequencies. The one in the RV was damaged from the shock waves from the fight.
While Max was trying to fix the transmitter while Pablo helped him. Gwen, Grace, and John were talking about what happened trying to keep calm.
"So how was fighting Vilgax without powers?" Gwen asked him trying to keep from worrying over Ben.
"It wasn't bad but What difference does it make whether or not I have powers like you or Ben?"
"Well If me or Ben didn't have our powers we would never have been able to protect ourselves."
"Ah, I understand."
"How were you and Pablo able to keep Vilgax at bay?"
"It was nothing special, the fighting style that Pablo learned and then improved to fight aliens actually balanced the playing field."
"So wait does that mean if you and Pablo were to fight Wivden could you guys win?" Gwen said hopefully.
"I'm not sure Gwen, by the way that you have described him it might be possible but I'm not sure since neither me or lolo Pablo have seen him so were not sure how to size him up." Gwen looked crestfallen. "Look Gwen if we meet him again we might be able to hold him back but I doubt that we can beat him."
Gwen still looked down, Grace said to her. "Don't worry Gwen, the alien that took Ben might actually be good."
Gwen looked up at her. "No I doubt it, if he was why didn't he bring Ben back to us instead of taking him away?"
Grace found that she had nothing to say about that. Her small hope that Ben was fine was now crumbling with Gwen's statement. She looked down at the table her hair covering her face.
"Look Gwen, lolo Max and Pablo are both trying to get help form the Plumbers, so until they come we have to wait."
"I can't just sit here and wait while Ben might be captured and the Omnitrix is being forcefully removed from his arm. What if they do it like Vilgax tried to do before, just cut it off so that the Omnitrix will be free for the taking. Ben could loose his arm! He could be in a cell or even worse a lab table torturing him to tell them how to take it off."
"Gwen I think you are imagining the absolute worst case scenario for Ben." John was back with his calm self now that Gwen had healed his injuries. "Look you might just be overreacting because you are worried about Ben. We have to sit here wait and hope for the best that he is okay."
"But-"
"Gwen no buts. Besides it's not like we have a way of tracking him. We don't have the technology to track the Omnitrix, that's why we need to wait for the Plumbers."Gwen looks right at John. She looked like she just had an epiphany. "Gwen. . . Why do you look like that?"
"We do have a way of tracking him!" She said excitedly. "Not with the Omnitrix but with magic!"
"Magic? How is magic supposed to help us track Ben?" Grace asked her.
"With my magic I can track Ben using his aura and I can locate where he is kept!" She said excitedly
"Bet Gwen are you sure that it will work?" Grace asked her.
"Im sure, I used it to track down a lost dog before so finding Ben is going to be simple."
"Yeah but dogs are different than people." John pointed out.
"Not really, actually it would be easier to track Ben since he would have a more powerful aura around him and it will be easier for me to track it since his aura is pretty familiar."
"But do you have a plan once you find him?"
"Yes I do now listen. . ." She told them her plan and what they were going to do.
John shouted at her after he heard her tell them her plan. "ARE YOU INSANE!"
"Are you insane?" Ben asked Runok
Runok looked back at Ben. "What makes you think that?"
"Well for one you are totally weird and two you kinda freak me out."
Runok laughed the sound of it echoing down the empty hallways of the old base. "Well that depends on your definition of weird but i get where you're going at."
They entered into the main area of the Plumber facility and strangely everything was well kept, no dust or spider webs like Ben was expecting an abandoned base to be like.
"So are you or not?"
"To be honest and from a professional angle, yes."
"Really?"
"In the many years that I have been alive i had to pretend to die then go under a new name and so on. I also had to change my personality hundreds of times in case someone who I knew would be able to recognize me."
"And that makes you crazy how?"
"Well no i have multiple personalities!" He said like a excited child. "I think that is why you get the odd felling around me." Now in a bored tone.
"Okay now I'm getting freaked out."
"Sometimes I end up being so into my changed personality that I sometimes forget who I really am, although now that i think about it maybe this isn't me real personality at all and i may actually be a different person than what i seem." Now with a british accent.
"Okay. . ."
"But you never ever want to see me what i used to be a crime lord." Now again childish and immature.
"You were a crime lord?" asked Ben thinking that this talk was gonna take a while so he took a seat next to one of the controls.
"Yeah but that was back when i lived in Spain so. . . Yeah."
"Wait a minute." Ben asked looking over the conversation. "You said that you needed to pretend to die and change your personality. Just how old are you?"
"Actually I am older than the existence of everything not just this universe or dimensions or anything to be perfectly honest." Again with the british accent.
"That's impossible! There is no way that you can be older than anything there has to be something that is older than you."
"Nope, I am the oldest existing or not, thing in the entire everything." Back again to childish
"Could you stop that it's getting annoying."
"Stop what?" back to british
"That, switching personalities."
"Oh I'm sorry." He said going back to normal tones. "i've never talked this long or cassually to anyone for a long time so Im kinda messed up as to what personality i should be."
"It's alright just don't keep changing."
"You know In all the years of my existence this planet really is interesting."
"Why?"
"Well you see, this isn't the first universe. There were several others that I lived in then moved on."
"Older universes?"
"They are universes that existed before this one, unlike parallel universes that are just affected by time and events. The older universes exist on a entirely different level from time and space."
"Okay. . . try and explain that again."
"Basically it's like this. Before this universe existed there was another one similar but different like a alternate universe except that events and people are completely different and in one case the physics were different. When one universe gets destroyed not even the inter-dimensional beings can escape it unable to survive the event horizon no matter what dimension the hide in."
"Except you." Ben pointed out
Runok nodded. "Except me. When a universe and all it's parallels get destroyed a seed that will form another universe will take over recreating the big bang and etcetera etcetera creates the galaxies and planets and so on."
Ben didn't understand a thing that Runok just explained so he just nodded and pretended to get it.
"Alright, now that we have that settled I will need to use some of the equipment here to track the aliens that are trying to look for you and the Omnitrix and try to hide it's signals making it harder to find you. But i have my doubts that it will stop Feviren though."
"Why what makes Feviren so special." Ben asked him
"I'll tell you later, now just sit still and be quiet I need to concentrate."
Ben waited for a long while as the hours pass and Runok tries to hide their location and search for the ones after the Omnitrix so that he could get rid of them. After a while Ben gets bored and looks over at a map of the facility. He saw as what looked like a shooting range right next to the main room. He glanced in Runok's direction and thinking that he wouldn't mind that he were to shoot some blasters at targets while he waited for him to finish. Ben quietly went towards the door that led to the shooting range, he took a look inside. It was a fully stocked shooting range with assortments of ammo and blasters. They were the older versions of the ones that he saw in the plumber facility that he visited with grandpa Max. He picked up one of the blasters, loaded it and aimed at one of the targets down the range. He missed the target completely, the first several shots but once he got used to the recoil of the blaster he was able to start hitting the target. he kept at it for a while, time going quickly with the practice he was getting.
"BEN!" yelled Runok from the main room. "Come over here!"
Ben put down the blaster he was using and headed to the main room.
"What is it?"
"I found Riture, he is in the the middle of Manila and is using a tracker to try and find the Omnitrix."
"Alright so what am I supposed to do?"
"You are supposed to wait here while I go and take care of Riture." Ben hated the feeling that he needed to be protected but remembering the fear that he felt when Wevdin headed towards him. Ben just nodded. "Good now the monitor will show what is happening while I fight him so if you get bored you can watch me fight." He said with a grin.
"Alright Runok, good luck."
"Thanks Ben." He said smiling and he walked towards the exit
Talking to himself he said. "And so it begins."
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