Chapter 29: Lucky Girl: Part 4
I Don't Own Ben 10 Or Any Of The Characters
A/N: Hello and chapter twenty nine! So, this may or may not be the final part of the Lucky Girl arc, I haven't really decided yet. In this chapter, Lucky Girl is going to push the budding romance between her and Ben a little too far. You'll see how she does that. On top of that, there will be some more action in this chapter, seeing as the last chapter was filled with drama. I will say that this chapter is going to be a little more mature than the last chapters. Well, the story is rated M for a reason. So, without anything else to be said, here is the chapter!
Ben
Lucky Girl continued to kiss me. She continued to kiss me for at least an additional ten more seconds. She eventually pulled away to catch her breath. She just looked at me, gasping for air, as a small smile crossed her face.
"Wow." she said, as her gasps lessened. "That was nice."
I felt my lips as she said this. I don't know what it was, but there was something about this lady's lips. It felt like I had kissed those lips before! I just couldn't put my finger on why I felt that way. I let my hand fall back down to my side.
"Why?" I asked.
She stepped closer to me.
"Do you need to know why?" she asked, as she looked a little offended. "Why can't you enjoy a good kiss?"
Before I could even answer, she kissed me again! And she didn't just kiss me. She practically jumped on me! She walked really fast closer to me and wrapped her arms around me, the momentum sending us down to the floor of the roof.
Once we were down there, she didn't even help me get back up. She just laid on top of me as she continued to kiss me. It took me even longer to return the kiss this time, because it surprised me so much.
Thing was, I wanted to respond to the kiss. So, I did. I eventually kissed her back and began to run my hands through her hair. After maybe ten or fifteen more seconds she pulled away and sat up, looking at me the whole way up. She didn't get all the way off of me, just sat on my chest for a while, that eventually made it a tad difficult to breath.
She eventually got off of me and helped me up. Once I was up, I reached for my mask to pull it back down again.
I'm going to have to wipe my lips off before bed tonight. If Gwen sees the lipstick on my lips tomorrow, she'll know that I snuck out.
"Don't do that." Lucky Girl said, as she firmly gripped my wrist, preventing me from pulling my mask down.
I looked at her, confused.
"Why?" I asked.
"Because, I'm not done yet." she said, in a timid tone.
"What do you mean?" I asked, even more confused.
Instead of answering, Lucky Girl just let out what can only be described as a nervous whimper. Then, she reached for the zipper to her leather costume and began to slowly pull it downwards.
Underneath my mask, my eyes widened to the size of dinner plates. Before I could see anything, I turned around and crossed my arms over my chest.
"No." I said, in a stern tone.
"What?" she asked, as I continued to hear her pulling on her zipper.
I turned my head, so I could just see her out of the corner of my eye.
"Did you honestly think that I would be okay with having a one night stand on a rooftop?" I asked. "That's what the idea was, wasn't it?"
She didn't speak.
"Lucky Girl, speak when your spoken to." I said in a stern voice.
"Yes, that was the idea." she said.
"Why?" I asked.
I felt her hand on my shoulder a few seconds later.
"Because I find myself to be very attracted to you." she said. "Alien Guy, I think that I might be in love with you!"
I turned around and looked at her, confused.
Great. First Gwen is in love with Alien Guy, now Lucky Girl is in love with me! Jesus, how many women have a lady boner for me?! Wait, did I just say "lady boner"? Jesus, I am pathetic! No wonder Gwen does love me the way I love her! Alien Guy is awesome, so no wonder she'd rather be with him! If I wasn't Alien Guy, I'd just be Benjamin Tennyson. A wallflower. Madison High School's professional wallflower, to be exact. That's who I am under this mask.
"No." I said.
"No, what?" Lucky Girl asked.
I turned around to face her.
"I'm saying no to your idea about doing what you want to do on this rooftop." I said.
"Alien Guy, I didn't want it to be a one night stand." she said, cringing when she said it. "I want to build not only a partnership with you, but a romantic relationship as well. Please."
"No. I'm sorry. I was honestly thinking about a partnership, but you're far from that." I said.
"Are you saying that I'll never be your partner, because of this?" she asked.
"No, that's not what I'm saying. What I am saying is that you're a long way from being my partner. If we're going to be partners, we need to trust one another." I said. "And you haven't even earned my trust."
"Can you at least tell me why we can't be in a romantic relationship?" she asked.
"We can't do that, because it's too dangerous. If I knew who you were and if you knew who I was, we'd want to risk our lives for each other. And if we did that, one of us might get hurt or even die because of what we do." I said. "And as professional heroes, we can't put our emotions into the mix. Showing love for the other could endanger us in a bad situation. We just have to remain partners, when that time comes. No more, no less."
"I-I understand." she stammered, a bright red blush coming onto her cheeks.
"And besides, I can't put anyone else's lives at risk." I said. "There's already another person in this world that I've put at risk more times than I can count."
Before Lucky Girl could respond, our serious conversation was interrupted.
"Well, well, well." I heard a familiar voice. "Do my eyes deceive me? Am I actually walking in on a superhero couple's attempt to get intimate? Because it sure as hell looks like it!"
I looked to my right, to see Sixsix levitating just a few feet from us. As I turned to face him, I barely noticed Lucky Girl covering herself with her arm. How modest of her.
"Oh, you have better be joking!" I exclaimed.
"Nope. Not joking friend. Just here to remind you about my deal." Sixsix said.
"Lucky Girl, zip up your costume!" I whispered to her.
"What?" she asked.
"Zip! Costume! Los Rapido!" I said.
"Um, I don't speak Spanish." she said.
I turned to face her, but didn't once I looked at her.
"What?" she asked in a quizzical tone.
"Jesus!" I exclaimed. "I didn't realize how far down you'd unzipped your costume!"
Lucky Girl blushed furiously, as she covered herself with both arms.
"Oh, so now you want to see?!" she exclaimed, in a very angry tone.
"No!" I exclaimed. "What I want, is for you to zip up your damn costume!"
"Oh, right!" Lucky Girl exclaimed, before turned around and zipping it back up, as if she had forgotten her anger.
"Jesus, women are all the same!" I hissed under my breath.
"Hey, I take offense to that!" Lucky Girl exclaimed. "You hear me?"
"Yeah, your voice carries." I said, as I let out a sigh of embarrassment. "You can file a complaint."
I heard Sixsix chuckling behind me. I turned to look at him, as I pulled my mask back down all the way, to ask him a question. But he beat me to it, he began speaking first.
"You know, I would tell you that after this, you two should get a room and settle all of your fighting there," he said, still chuckling. "but there isn't going to be an 'after this'."
I was blushing from the embarrassment underneath my mask so bad, that I was glad Lucky Girl couldn't see it.
"Shut the hell up!" I exclaimed.
Sixsix was silent now and that made me afraid. But he eventually spoke.
"Excuse the shit out of my God damn French," Sixsix said. "but did you just fucking threaten me?"
I looked back at Lucky Girl, who shook her head at me, as if to tell me not to antagonize him any more than I already had.
I turned back to look at him.
"Yes, I did threaten you." I said. "But now I realized I messed up. Look, I told you that my ward and I aren't interested in your deal. We're not doing it."
"And I told you that my deal is the only deal that works." Sixsix said. "I know that is a tough thing to accept, but you have to. My boss told me to tell you, that you get one more chance to come quietly."
"Who's your boss?" I asked.
"You'll find out soon enough. Now come with me." Sixsix said, doing the "come here" gesture with his finger.
I looked back at Lucky Girl. She didn't do or say anything.
I turned back to look at Sixsix.
"No. Lucky Girl and I are leaving. Again." I said, as I turned around.
"No. You're not." Sixsix said, in a threatening voice.
I turned around, to see Sixsix taking off those dual wield plasma rifles or pistols, whatever they were, off of his back.
"No, you're not leaving. See, you're coming with me now. And if you don't, I'll kill your woman." he said, his voice still as threatening. "That isn't what my boss wants, but he'll still get what he wants. He'll just have to get over it."
He pointed his weapons at us.
"Now, let's go. Let's not draw this out. Come on." he said.
I said nothing and did nothing. I didn't move, I just stood there.
"Are you seriously going to make me count?" he asked.
I still did nothing.
"Okay, Alien Guy. I'm counting!" he exclaimed.
I turned around to look at Lucky Girl, who looked scared.
"Run!" I hissed at her.
"One!"
"No! Not without you!" she exclaimed.
"What did I tell you about your emotions?" I exclaimed.
"Two!"
I looked at Sixsix, pointing his weapons at us and then looked back at Lucky Girl. I realized she wasn't going anywhere. I let out a growl of frustration and ran to her. Once I got to her, I put my arm around her shoulder and my other arm underneath her legs, picking her up, bridal style.
"What the hell are you doing?!" she exclaimed, as I ran with her in my arms.
"Saving our asses!" I exclaimed, as I lept from the rooftop we were on.
I fired the grapple on my wrist gauntlet to the ground of the rooftop below us, and zipped us down there faster.
"Three!"
"You can put me down now! I get the idea!" Lucky Girl exclaimed.
"No way! I can't slow down! I have to keep my speed!" I said, as I ignored her request.
"You've made a big mistake Alien Guy!" Sixsix exclaimed from behind us, as I heard his plasma fire hit the ground just behind us. "My boss will peel the flesh from your bones!"
"Holy shit! Holy shit!" I exclaimed.
After another minute of jumping, Lucky Girl spoke.
"We're running out of roof!" she exclaimed.
"I can see that!" I exclaimed, as I continued running.
I picked up my speed for the jump I was about to make.
"What are you doing?!" she exclaimed.
"Don't worry! I know what I'm doing!" I exclaimed, as I stepped up onto the edge of the roof.
"No, don't! This isn-" Lucky Girl trying to convince me not to go through with my plan, but it was too late.
I used my legs to push myself, us rather, off of the roof, into a jump. The only thing I didn't expect was there to be a giant skylight below us. I tried to fire my grapple hook to the wall that was on the other side of the roof.
The grapple hook only slowed us down a little bit, though. Once we began to slow, we fell. Surprisingly, our impact with the glass skylight didn't break it. But it did cause multiple cracks in it, however.
"Don't. Move. A. Muscle." I whispered.
"Okay." she whispered back.
I heard the glass began to crack more.
"Okay, listen. The glass is going to break. And when it does, we'll both use our wrist gauntlets to grapple somewhere." I said. "Once we get to the ground, we'll leave together and see if we can't loose Sixsix. Okay?"
"Sounds like a plan." she said.
And then the glass broke. Lucky Girl was the first to fall and was the one who grappled something first. I began to fall, but out of panic, I fired my grapple through what was left of the glass skylight.
Somehow, the hook caught onto something, leaving me dangling in midair.
Okay, now all I have to do is press the other trigger on the gauntlet, which will slowly lower me to the ground. Don't even ask me how I knew to think ahead about situations like this!
I slowly lowered myself to the ground. But halfway through the process, mistakes were made. The grapple hook detached itself from whatever it was caught on to, sending me several feet to the ground.
"Agh!" I let out a loud grunt of pain, as I met face first with the floor below.
"Alien Guy!" Lucky Girl yelled with concern.
I slowly pushed myself off of the ground and pulled my mask up to my nose. I spit out the blood that had welled up into my mouth, as well as wiped the blood from my nose away with my jacket sleeve.
I got back up into a standing position and spit more blood out of my mouth.
"Come on!" Lucky Girl exclaimed, running over to me and grabbing my arm. "We have to go!"
I nodded.
"Okay." I said, as I spit out more of my blood. "Jesus, I am really bleeding!"
Before I could do anything about it, we were interrupted. There were explosions that were hitting the bookshelves in the place, as well as the balcony. It was now dawning on me that we were in the downtown public library.
The explosions caused the bookshelves to catch fire. I looked up at the shattered skylight, to see Sixsix standing at the edge of the hole, his guns now on his back again.
"You should go. The firefighters and the police will probably be here soon." Sixsix said. "Don't worry. You'll get to where you're going."
I reached for the alien watch, but Lucky Girl stopped me.
"No, don't. You can't fight him." she said.
"No, I'm not going to fight him." I said, as I spit out more blood. "There has to be an alien in here that can put out the fire."
"You can't. Not in your weakened state. We need to get out of here like he said." Lucky Girl said, tugging on my arm.
She was right. I lifted up my arm and stuck my middle finger up, so Sixsix could see it.
"So long, you prick!" I exclaimed.
Sixsix said nothing, so I looked in his direction. He was gone. I let out a sigh, as I lowered my arm back to my side.
"Come on, let's go!" she exclaimed, as she ran to the front doors of the library.
"Yeah, okay." I said, following a few seconds later, wondering how fast Sixsix could have gotten away.
After escaping the library, we met in alley not too far away. We didn't stay there for long. After promising each other we'd never speak about what happened before Sixsix found us, we parted ways for the night.
I took the long way home, just thinking to myself.
God, what does Sixsix and his boss want with me? Jesus, and who is Lucky Girl? This city is getting crazier and crazier with each passing day.
Gwen
Close To 10:30
I walked into the bathroom, for some reason still in my Lucky Girl costume. I looked into the mirror, and a beautiful young lady with black hair and blue eyes stared back at me.
I frowned at the reflection and took off my utility belt. In just a few seconds, the black hair and blue eyes changed back to my natural fiery red color and my natural green color, respectively.
I shut off the light in the bathroom and returned to my room. Once back in there, I was too tired to change out of the costume and into pajamas, so I just put on my aqua blue robe on over it. I put my slippers on as well, as I reflected back onto the events of the night.
Jesus, looking back on it now, I can't believe that I actually tried to seduce him.
I shuddered as I thought about it. I held up my utility belt and stared at the bright violet gem in the middle of it.
Maybe this gem did more than change my voice and appearance. Is it possible that it changes my personality, as well?
I opened the small container in which I kept my costume when I wasn't wearing it and placed the belt in there. I was considering actually changing into pajamas, when I could have sworn I heard grunts, followed by coughing.
I opened by bedroom door and listened for a few seconds.
There it was again!
I walked out into the hallway, still wearing my robe and walked in the direction of the noises. I followed the noises into the kitchen, where I saw Ben, wearing pajama pants and a T-shirt, bent over the sink coughing and spitting into the sink.
After a few more seconds of doing that, he reached for a cup that was near him. He turned on the sink faucet and filled up the cup with the water. He drank down the water, or at least that's what it looked like at first.
Then he started gargling the water for at least ten seconds, then spit it back out into the sink. I finally broke the silence by speaking his name.
"Ben?" I asked.
He turned around to look at me, and I covered my mouth from gasping in shock. There were small streams of blood coming from his nostrils and his mouth was bloody as well.
"What?" Ben asked, with a bit of an offended tone.
"What happened to you?" I asked.
"I couldn't sleep, so I was going downstairs to watch T.V. for a while," he said. "and my dumb ass didn't see where I was going in the dark. I missed the first step and fell down the stairs."
"Well are you okay? Can I get you anything?" I asked.
He shook his head.
"No, I think it's done bleeding now." he said. "You need to go to bed."
"So do you!" I said, as he walked back to the hallway that led to the basement stairs.
"I'm sleeping downstairs tonight." he said, as he slowly walked down the stairs. "I'll be back up to get my pillow and a blanket. Go to bed!"
I eyed the sink curiously. I noticed there were still a few small puddles of water in the sink, laced with his blood. I let out a sigh of disapproval, seeing that Ben hadn't cleaned up after himself.
I turned on the sink faucet and washed the small puddles down the drain. Once it was gone, I turned off the faucet and walked towards my room, not giving the fact that Alien Guy had also been bleeding in that spot a second thought.
Epilogue
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Elsewhere
"Come on then, keep digging!" I exclaimed, in my cold, menacing voice.
"Why am I doing this?" Animo asked, as he dug through the dirt with his talons. "Why can't Vilgax or Sixsix do this?"
"Vilgax is out busting our last recruit out of prison. Sixsix is out trying to scare Alien Guy and his newest companion, Lucky Girl." I said. "You and I here, right now. And you are digging up our last recruit."
"Who is this guy again?" Animo asked.
Before I could answer, his question, I heard a sound similar to the roar of a jet engine. I turned, to see Sixsix flying through the hole in the crypt's ceiling. I turned to meet him, as he came to a stop in front of me.
"Well? Let's have it. Progress report?" I asked.
"He's running scared. I got to witness him break his nose, at least it looked like it." he said. "It was quite the trip to get here. How far underneath City Hall are we? A few hundred feet?"
"Three hundred fifty feet to be exact." I said, as I turned back to look at Animo digging through the dirt, still. "It's good that you have him running scared. He'll be pissing his pants when I reveal myself."
I began to see the gray color of the stone casket beneath the dirt.
"Animo, get the cover of the casket off." I said. "You asked who this guy was. Famous evil sorcerer. Dead for several hundred years."
Animo tore the casket cover from it's place, and threw it, causing it to break into several pieces against a wall. Inside of the casket was a skeleton, any flesh and muscle were long gone.
"Animo! Get out your machine that can regenerate long dead tissue!" I exclaimed.
"There's no need, sire. Look!" Animo said, pointing at the open casket.
I looked at the casket, to see that the skeleton in said casket was slowly regenerating all of it's lost tissue. It began slowly, but eventually got faster and faster. Eventually, the once dead sorcerer's flesh had completely regrown. And then, dark maroon robes formed out of nowhere over his body.
And then he opened his eyes, and I saw they were dark red. It wasn't the eyes of a human. They were the eyes of a demon.
"Who dares disturb my slumber?" he asked, in a cold, emotionless voice.
"My name doesn't matter, great one." I said, as I slowly moved closer to the sorcerer. "What matters is that you have the opportunity to serve in a noble cause. Um, Hex, isn't it?"
"Yes. Greatest sorcerer who ever lived." he said, as he rose from his casket. "Tell me about this opportunity."
"I want revenge on a person who should never have messed with me." I said. "And with your help, as well as me and five others, we can accomplish it. And once it's all said and done, we can all do whatever with this city!"
Hex raised his arm up and the staff that was with him in his grave flew into his hand.
"This city must be turned into an old memory. I will help you." he said. "Where do we start?"
I turned around, as I rubbed my hands together.
"The preparation for the attack starts at dawn!" I announced. "The day has begun."
A/N: And so, that is the chapter for today! So, I did decide to release this chapter today. I don't know when the weekly releases will be back. There is going to be one last part for the Lucky Girl arc, which will be next chapter. Speaking of Lucky Girl, what did everything think about what she tried on the rooftop? Was it too much? I wanted Ben to have another reason to tell Lucky Girl that they shouldn't be romantically involved, besides her kissing him multiple times. Ben will finally figure out who Lucky Girl is next chapter, so I hope that is something to look forward to. What did you think of how Sixsix caught them and then chased them?
The relationship between Ben and Gwen will be a tad awkward, but not for long. The Insidious Seven story arc will also began in two chapters, and it will grow in intensity as the arc progresses. And as well as Lucky Girl, Albedo will have a bigger role in the coming arc. So, I can't really think of anything else that I should say. Um, thank you to all of those who have favorited and followed the story in the past weeks. Please keep doing that if you enjoy the story. So, I'm going to go, so have great day and bye.
