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40 Reconciled

Sandra and Carl had to borrow a rowboat to get out to the cargo ship Jen would be on. By the time they got there all the alarms on the ship were going off. Carl was a crack shot with the gun he'd pulled from the attic, Sandra wasn't quite as good, but she kept up with her husband, covering his back with a smaller laser blaster. Both of them were from Max's Plumber days. They'd been quite dusty when Carl had pulled them out of the attic. They followed the sounds of fighting down into the hold. They found a boy covered in dented metal first, blasting the DNAliens away from him. He panted and the metal dropped from around him, he was slightly bruised but otherwise unharmed.

"Hi? Thanks for the assist." Then he actually looked them over. "You must be Jen's parents." They nodded.

"We are. And you must be one of the ruffians she's been hanging around with." Kevin flinched slightly.

"Plumber's actually." He pulled a badge from his pocket and showed them. Carl rolled his eyes looking Kevin over.

"How old are you?"

"Sixteen sir, almost seventeen. Nice piece!" He said as Carl shot a few DNAliens rushing their way. "Can I see that for a minute?" Carl raised an eyebrow but nodded handing Kevin the gun. In moments he was covered head to toe in the same metal as the gun. "Much better than an old filing cabinet." He handed Carl back the gun then turned and took off down the hall as the ship rocked slightly. Carl nodded to Sandra and they took off after him, hoping that he would lead them to their daughter.

He did but they didn't much like what they found. Jen had explained to them that it was easy to tell her aliens from others due to the pure green eyes and the Omnitrix symbol that always appeared on her somewhere. So it was easy to spot that their little girl was now a gigantic dinosaur alien wrestling with the same creature that had given her the spectacular black eye she'd come home with yesterday. What was worse about it was that Jen appeared to be losing. Carl took aim and fired, the shot slamming into the tall white creature and sending it spinning off of Jen. It hissed as Jen leaped back to her feet, shaking the whole ship.

"Filthy human! I will see your kind destroyed and revel in my part in your extinction!" It roared and lunged again. Jen spoke as she grappled with the thing.

"Kevin! Take out the supply of the isotope!" They were processing the guano on the ship. Kevin took off at a run towards the equipment but was stymied by a swarm of DNAliens. Jen didn't seem to have noticed her parents and her father fired into the crowd of DNAliens blocking Kevin's way. Kevin nodded his way as he set about smashing controls with metal fists. Sandra fired into the oncoming horde and the giant creature came sailing over their heads onto the majority of the crowd.

"Mom! Dad! Get out of here! It's dangerous!" Jen called to them as she spun, her tail knocking down a large swath of DNAliens. The Highbreed laughed.

"So all the Tennyson spawn are obnoxious insects bent on pestering me." It aimed a hand at Jen's parents. Jen's roar shook the ship. Carl only got in one shot at the creature before she was on it with a vengeance.

"You. Will. Never. Touch. My. Family. Again!" She slammed the things head into the side of the ship so hard the metal creaked and split, water beginning to pour into the hold. She wasn't finished though as she grabbed the thing by its feet and spun once before letting it go, sending it flying into the container of perfected isotope which shattered. It groaned but did not rise. Water was pouring from the hole she'd made. She grabbed Kevin, who she was closest to then raced to her parents picking them up too and tossing all three of them up to a higher catwalk near the exit. Kevin caught on to what she was doing, when she nodded at him and turned back to the hole she'd put in the ship.

"Time to go, come on."

"What about Jen?" Carl and Sandra tried to stay behind but Kevin was much stronger than them as he grabbed both of their arms and dragged them bodily out onto the deck. He had to practically toss them off the ship too, as neither of them wanted to leave their little girl behind. But they did swim for shore once they were off the boat. By the time they reached the docks and managed to get up on the ladder the boat was listing dangerously, seemingly cracked from the inside. Sandra's hands flew to her mouth. Kevin shook his head.

"Give it a minute." He spotted the tell tale flash of green light about a foot from the docks. "There!" In a moment Jen's brown hair broke the surface, she took a deep gulp of air and dove back under the water, swimming for the ladder. Kevin pulled her up the last few feet and she shook the water from her short hair.

"You have no idea how dangerous that was guys! He could have killed you!" Carl pulled his daughter into a hug as she began to rant, cutting her off. She tensed then sobbed grabbing hold of her father with one arm and reaching out to her mother with the other. She seemed to get the message though as she joined Jen and her husband in the hug. Kevin turned away from them and grinned as he spotted pink stairs heading their way through the sky. Gwen had listened to them, and he wasn't sure that she was alone. It didn't look like it.

"I'm sorry, I didn't want you guys to get hurt." Jen's words broke into sobs. Her parents held on tighter.

"We're sorry too. We should have listened." Kevin stepped away to let the family have their moment. Gwen arrived moments later, her own parents in tow, both holding blasters as well. Gwen hugged Kevin who blushed bright red as Gwen's father smiled at them. Gwen grinned at the scene happening behind Kevin. She smiled at him.

"You knew it would pan out like this didn't you?" Kevin shrugged.

"If she got any of her stubbornness from her parents yes. Either you were going to beat her into submission and drag her home by her jacket or they were going to track her down. I was not expecting them to show up packing weapons though." Frank smiled slightly and nodded to Kevin.

"Just because we never became Plumber's doesn't mean Dad didn't teach us anything." Frank said it with a bittersweet smile as he stepped over to Kevin and Gwen. "Thought you said he wasn't your boyfriend." Both teens went bright red.

"Circumstances change." Gwen said shortly, trying to brush off her father's teasing. Jen laughed from behind them. She and her parents stepped into the group, each had a hand on their daughter, though their grip remained light as if they were more making sure she was still there than keeping her from running off. Jen pulled her cousin into a hug Kevin grinned then froze as Gwen pulled him into the hug. Jen wiggled out of the hug after a moment.

"The DNAlien truck on the docks?" Gwen nodded.

"Taken care of."

"You really are out there actively saving the world aren't you?" Carl said stepping up to the group.

"Saved the whole universe a few times actually." Jen said as she rubbed the back of her neck. Her parents hugged her again.

"Well then we can't in good conscience stop you. We love you, promise you'll be as safe as you can." Jen nodded and hugged her parents as Gwen's parents nodded.