Chapter 8

After the kids went to bed I was sitting at the kitchen table. I was trying to replay the events of the last two weeks over and over and over again. Harmione loves me, but she loves her kids so much more. She wasn't sick. I always knew when she was sick. She hurt Bryan. Harmione would have cut her own hand off for doing that. I ignored the signs because I was on my new medication. It's taken myself a bit to adjust to life with only one working kidney. I was on bed rest for a week. I didn't get the chance to see everything that went on here at the house.

"Charlie..." I heard her call. I sighed and entered our bedroom. I decided to do something I'd never ever do to Harmione. My Harmione. It was a side to me I never wanted her to see.

The supposed Harmione was lying in bed.

"Hey Char...listen about the last few days...I'm sorry..."

"Uh-huh." I put my hands in my pockets.

"You know...we really do have beautiful kids...it just hurt my heart to see little Bry scream like that, but it had to be done...I can't be made the bad guy because he needs his medicine..."

"That's true he does." I replied.

"I just...I've been so worked up around here you know...like I can't catch a break..."

"You never really complained about it before...Har."

"I...I wasn't this run down before. Ahh...but this will make it right." She said with a smile. She stood up and wrapped me in a hug. She started to kiss me. I knew the kiss wouldn't be like Harmione. I grabbed her by the shoulders.

She screamed and I covered her mouth with my other hand.

"Where's Harmione LeMay?!" I shouted.

"Charlie! Charlie! What are you doing!?

I shook her violently.

"Where is she?!"

What are you talking about?! It is me, and you're hurting me!"

She whimpered and I pulled my hands away.

"Babe...I don't understand why you're bring so rough with me." She panted.

"Why?! Were you gentle with me or Bryan, who are you?!"

"Charlie, it's me!"

I grabbed her by the shoulders once more forcefully.

"You tell me that one more time I'm gonna make you bleed...for the last time tell me where she is...and who you are!"

She sobbed loudly.

"Please...let me go and I'll show you, I'll show you..." She cried.

I slowly let go of her. She was wearing some sort of suit. It was Blossom. Vulkans' adoptive daughter.

"Blossom..." I breathed. "Where is my wife, where is Harmione?"

"She's in the Null Void...I was sent to help capture the kids...and he said that if I distracted you long enough he could take them."

"Who?!"

"Vilgax... Psyphon gave me this suit...its called the WAA-2. It's named that to stand for Wear and Assist. Unlike his android it matches the size of any human, robot, and creature...you can be anyone you want...and I really did start to like you Charlie."

"Shut up."

I started to leave.

"You can't stop him now...and you won't be able to get her back."

"You don't know the LeMay's and you certainly don't know the Tennyson's...and Blossom I'm sorry I had to do that to you...it was the only way I could get you to talk."

"Char..."

I turned toward her.

"Harmione's a lucky woman...to have someone like you that cares about her so much."

"I don't just care about her Blossom...I love her...and I can't live without her...I told her once I'd kill for her if I had too and I meant it...consider yourself lucky this time...pull something like this again, and I won't hesitate."

I quickly ran into the kids room. Bryan was awake and standing at the door.

"Bry, son what are you doing at the door?"

"I heard...did you get rid of that mpluseter?"

"Imposter, and yes I did Bry, the Plumbers are coming to get her...and whatever you heard let's not tell your mother okay?

"Okay Daddy, I kept sissys safe while you were gone."

"You're so much like your mother."

I wrapped him in a hug.

"But now listen, we can't stay here. We have to go to Grampa Ben's and Grandma Hope's house. I can't lift your sisters...so I want you to stay right here with them while I call your grandpa.

"I'm on it!"

"I know..."

Ben and Hope came right over along with Justice and Jesse. We detained Blossom and the Plumbers came to arrest her soon after.

"Wait stop!" Ben called out to the Plumbers. He removed a small circular piece from Blossom's suit.

"Vilgax wants the girls. I saw we give them to him." He said aloud.

Kevin flew us to visit Azmuth. It was the first time me or the kids had ever been outside Earth. It was the first time I ever saw Azmuth. I thought he'd be taller.

"Ben Tennyson for years you protected the Earth and its people. Now you have grown and protected your family. I will do whatever I can do help the sitution. You don't even have to ask."

"Azmuth...Psyphon's technology,... can you recreate it multiple times?" Ben asked.

"The device is made up of many individual parts. At its core is a mechanism that like the Omintrix can tap into the DNA of almost any human."

"Almost?" Hope questioned.

"It seems Psyphon was only able to add in the DNA from the blood bank at Bellwood Hospital. Only people of Bellwood and perhaps cities within a 15 mile radius are calculated inside its depths."

"How far back did he collect it?" Ben replied after.

"It also seems that it only goes back 3 years ago. So any baby born today would not be apart of the transformations. Why do you ask these questions of me?"

"I have a plan that just might get Vilgax off our backs...but first thing is first Azmuth...I need you to recreate three of those WAA suits. And I need you to figure out a new way of holding both Vilgax and Psyphon inside the Null Void."

"I'll get to work immediately."

"Ben...what's the plan?" Gwen finally asked.

"Well first...I'm getting my baby girl out of the Null Void."

"I'll go with you!" I blurted out.

"Charlie...I can't thank you enough for all you have already done...but it'll be safer if you stayed here."

"So when you said you no longer had to worry about Harmione, cause she was in my hands was just some meaningless fairytale."

"Charlie...you got out of surgery two weeks ago...you're not supposed to be lifting anything...you're not even supposed to be up. You should be home...resting...Besides, it scares me to think about, but if something's happened to her...Charlie those four kids need you. I need you to stay. Harmione would want you to stay. Please try to understand."

"Yes sir..."

"Okay...Jesse, Justice you stay here and help Charlie look after your nieces and nephew. Gwen, Kevin, Hope...you're with me."

And just like that, they were off to save Harmione.

"Daddy?"

"Yeah?"

"I hope they find Mommy."

"Me too son...me too."

Again, although I wasn't supposed too; I picked him up. He hugged me around the neck. Mira was holding Justice's hand. Isa was holding Jesse's. Anna had her hand on my pants leg. Harmione would kill me if she knew what I did to get her back. Though I'd rather she kill me than for me to die without her.

"Hurry back Ben..." I said to myself. I felt Bryan rub the back of my head. Just like he knew everything else; he knew I was crying.