I won't do the hustle, nor do I own Ben 10

Opposing Sides

Act 2

Chapter 28

"Alright. Everything looks set." Max said as he turned to the children. The four of them gathered around the older man as he positioned the mirror in the center of the room. " How long do we have until the guards wakeup." he said turning to Gwendolyn.

"About two or three hours. Plenty of time... I think." the older witch said mostly confident about her statement.

"So what do we do next." Ben and Benjamin said as they began to take a closer look at the mirror. Gwendolyn walked over and grabbed the older boy by the hand and walked him over in front of the artifact. Where she motioned for him to sit down.

"I have to start a resonance between Ben and the mirror. The original traces of his resonance from our world will act like a mineral trace. Its just like how you can tell where a diamond is from if you run it through a spectral analysis. It should allow us to open the gateway to our world instead of just another random one." Gwendolyn explained something very mystical with some scientific terminology.

"so what should we do while you try and create a resonance." Max said motioning to his grandchildren.

"i need you to make sure that your Projector is set so that it doesn't just open up a hole into that Null Void. That doesn't sound like a place I want to go." she said as she sat down in front of Benjamin. "Ben, Gwen you two keep an eye out. If the guards wake up or something happens I need to be able to concentrate." she said handing them there tasks. The two children just nodded there affirmation.

Gwendolyn and Benjamin sat cross legged with there knees touching. As the young boy was about to say something, Gwen took his face in her hands and brought there foreheads together. Both of them began to blush slightly as the sorceress began to channel her energies into Benjamin's head. Not feeling anything, Ben started to say something.

"So whats supposed..."


"to happen." as he finished his sentence, he noticed he was no longer in the museum with everyone else. He was standing on a black expanse. "Whoa. Creepy." he said trying to see if he could make out anything.

"I know your mind is a little weird." he heard Gwendolyn say from next to him. However when he turned he didn't see anything that he had expected. What stood there was a...Bizzaro Gwen. She had pure white eyes and her hair was both too long and off color.

"your not Gwen." he used the name Gwendolyn usually went by.

"I know....isn't it weird." the Bizzaro Gwen said smiling at him strangely. "Thats the first thing everyone says to me." it tilted its head to look at him without a muscle moving on its face. "its good to officially meet you." She held out her hand enthusiastically for him to shake. He hesitantly took her hand as she began to shake vigorously. "I am Bizzaro Gwen." she said sounding pleased.

"thats the name I thought up a second ago." Benjamin said pulling his hand out of her grasp.. she didn't seem to realize your supposed to let go at some point.

"I know. My original name was mirror thought. But you changed it to Bizzaro Gwen." she said sounding ecstatic.

"oh your that...thing...resonance or whatever." he said finally understanding what he was looking at. "have you been talking to me sometimes. Because every now and again I think I can hear you." he said accusingly.

"YES" she said pleased as peach to answer his question. "Every so often I use some of the power I can store up to send you a thought or two. Like when you were FRANKENSTEIN." she said making a pantomime of the green monster. "i was trying to tell you that Gwen didn't mean what she said. But you were to upset to listen....you never listen." she didn't sound sad about it, just stating a fact.

"well I'm not going to call you Bizzaro Gwen forever, that just sounds weird....how about....Nancy." he decided this because of a small play on words.

"Oh oh... if my nick name is Nancy does that mean my full name is Resonancy." the strange thought amalgamation suddenly started laughing at the joke. "I like it." she said giving him a salute.

"So where is Gwendolyn...er Gwen. I thought she followed me in here." he said waiving his hand to show the vast nothingness.

"Sorry about that Nancy just wanted a chance to talk to you for a little while. Gwen is all business when it comes to these kinds of things." the slightly eccentric thought pattern said making a mockingly serious face, while waving her finger. "ill go get her." she said suddenly. However instead of vanishing it appeared that Gwendolyn was coming to them. At first she was a dot on what Benjamin assumed was the horizon as she hastily flew toward them. Coming to a stop right in front of the other two.

"that was weird....oh its you." Gwendolyn said spotting Nancy, who was far more exited to see Gwendolyn than the sorceress was to see her.

"GWEN, long time no see... ill introduce myself, I'm Nancy." she said holding her hand out to the young girl. Who lightly took her hand and shook it once before pulling her hand back.

"So its Nancy now, is it." she said looking at her strange doppleganger.

"Yes Ben gave me this name, its a good name." the rogue thought pattern said proudly.

"in any case.. Ben we need to start soon." she said turning to the young boy, then back to Nancy. "i need you to try and resonate with the Mirror of Bizel in this world." Gwendolyn said asking her doppleganger politely.

"I can most certainly try." she said giving Gwendolyn a thumbs up. However she leaned over to Benjamin afterwards. " see I told you, all business." the young hero chuckled slightly at her remark but fell silent as Nancy's eyes started to glow brightly, and she became still.

"alright, Ben I need you to focus on home, as hard as you can. Just put all of your focus on that one thought." Gwendolyn said standing off to the side somewhat.

"what are you going to do?" Benjamin asked, as he moved next to Nancy.

"im going to use my magic to find a tear back to our dimension. Hopefully I can find it and open it some so that we can use the Null Void Projector to open the hole wide enough for us to travel through." she said as she grabbed a hold of one of Nancy's hands and offered her free hand to Benjamin, who instantly accepted it. "alright now take Nancy's other hand, and remember think hard." She said emphasizing how important this was.

As the three began there own small ritual Ben thought hard. He envisioned his house, and his parents. He pictured his grandfather, and there trips together. His school, his desk, his enemies, his friends, his room, and finally he thought of himself and Gwen back in there own world. As his focus reached that of a meditating monk he went to open his eyes and...


was surprised to find himself back inside the museum. He was also surprised to find that the mirror not a meter away was glowing furiously.

"looks like you guys are back." Ben said as he helped his other self up. As he was doing this Gwen was doing the same with her counterpart. "i was getting worried its been almost an hour." the young boy continued.

"I have the projector set up to fire a neutral beam. It shouldn't be able to open any holes itself but it should be able to expand an existing one." Max said as he positioned the Projector on top of a tripod. "this should be it." he said making some final adjustments.

The four children looked at each other sullenly. As they exchanged goodbyes.

"Remember Gwen you have to live for the present... you never know what might happen." Gwendolyn said hugging her younger self.

"alright I will, if you promise to stay with Benjamin." she said remembering what the older boy had said to her about enjoying having someone to talk to.

"I'll try my hardest." the older girl said pulling away from Gwen.

The boys were being a little less mushy about it. They grasped the others hand like they were arm wrestling and simply shook once.

"Remember...Waybig...Awesome, also pre-order Sumo Slammers 5, it comes with extra content." Benjamin said to his younger self.

"Will do." the younger boy said enthusiastically. "ill be ya later." he said trying to make a joke. Which the older boy laughed at a little, as he turned to Gwen.

"Well keep an eye out for Ben for me." he said extending his hand for her to shake, but was surprised when she hugged him.

"Will do, as long as you watch out for Gwendolyn for me." she said squeezing him once before letting go.

"i can do that." he said smiling at her. It made her blush a little once more. She shook her head to clear those thoughts and looked to her older self.

"You may be annoying, but you got moxie." Gwendolyn said ruffling the younger boys hair. She leaned down slightly and looked at him with a smile. "i hate moxie." she said as they both laughed.

The two older children then walked over to Max, and gave him a hug at the same time.

"thank you Mr. Tennyson." Gwendolyn said her voice full of gratitude. "I don't know what we would have done without you."

"Yeah, its been a blast hanging out with you on our first summer trip again." Benjamin said hugging his grandfather tightly.

"Is been fun, I never dreamed in a million years that I would get to meet my grandchildren from another dimension." Max chuckled a little. " alright you two get ready." he said as he aimed the Null Void Projector at the Mirror and turned it on. Instead of the Yellow beam that usually fired from such a device, it was a light blue.

As the beam hit the mirror there was a sudden brilliant light. For a moment no one could see anything. When the light died down there was a big difference in the mirror. Instead of showing a reflection of the museum that they were in it looked like a small room with multiple storage racks against each wall. As Benjamin and Gwendolyn turned back to wave before entering the portal, there was a sudden explosion behind them.

The room suddenly filled with a legion of the Forever Knights. The last to enter was their leader, Driscoll, the Forever King.

"I don't know what your planning to do with this little setup but I don't intend for you to attain your goals." he said waving his hand. Which brought all the Knights in the room to attention. The Tennyson family took up a defensive posture. However as the two sliders were about to do so as well they were suddenly grabbed by there benefactor, Maxwell Tennyson.

"Sorry you two... but its time for you to go. There are other worlds than these, and you may not get a second chance." he said as he pushed them back into the mirror. They never had a chance to react as they fell through the portal. The last thing either of them saw was the blinding green light of Ben transforming.


As the two exited the portal they hit the ground hard, and slid into one of the storage racks on the side of the wall. Ben immediately scrambled back for the mirror... only to find the Frame was broken beyond repair, and only small fragments of the actual mirror were left.

"it was a one way trip to this side." Gwen said as she caressed the side of the mirror. "its been destroyed on this side remember. We only showed up where this mirrors spatial coordinates are." she said sullenly. "theres nothing we can do."

"But we cant just leave them there." Ben said shaking the frame of the mirror violently. "there were like a hundred Forever Knights. They need our help." he said as he began to shake, not the mirror but he himself was shaking... "Why did he do that." he was almost in tears. "what if they don't make it." he began to hyperventilate. "what if something happens to them. It's our fault....we asked them for help." he fell to his knees and clutched at his chest, as Gwen ran over to him and put her arm around him.

"They wanted to help us no matter the cost...we have to accept there kindness." she said gently rocking him back and forth. She knew that his fear of not being able to save someone was a powerful force. "Besides they are tough, they handle things like this all the time...nothings going to happen to them." she cooed as she continued to rock him. After a few more minuets he began to calm down. "thats better. What we need to do right now is figure out where we are." as she was finishing her sentence they could hear someone outside the door to the room.

"I told you I heard it from inside the room." the first voice said.

"Then why didn't you just check it out yourself instead of dragging me here in the middle of the night." a second more gruff voice said.

"i would but I'm the new guy, I don't have a key yet." the first voice said explaining itself. There was the sound of a key going into the doors lock. As Ben and Gwen backed away slightly not sure who they were dealing with.

When the door opened there were two men sanding in the entryway. One was a young man in his twenties, while the other appeared to be somewhere in his forties. The two men blanched at the children sitting in the middle of the room. As the men approached Gwen got a good look on the sign on the other side of the door. In thick black letters it read "EVIDENCE"

End of part 2