Crazy trouble with love part 8

Cheerleaders and Ben

Series: Ben 10

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Ben was snoring in his bed while drooling on his pillow, tossing and turning a little to get comfy with a smile on his face.

"Hey doofus, wake up." called Gwen's voice before he felt someone shaking him which made him groan and turn away.

"Buzz off dweeb...just ten more minutes…"

"No, wake up!" She called as she smacked his head lightly.

'Ow!" he cried out sitting up and held the spot before glaring at his smirking cousin. "Hey! I was sleeping."

"Well now you're up." She said as she began to walk away. "Grandpa wants to see you, so put some pants on."

Ben grumbled as he pushed the blanket off and moved to get his pants off the floor. 'Stupid cousin, I was having a nice dream.'

Soon the pants were on and he made his way to the front of the rust bucket. "What do you need grandpa?"

"I just wanted to let you know we'll be stopping at some place a little bit different than the usual. I was thinking we'd stop by the local school and watch some football."

"Wait, really? Why?" Ben asked in confusion.

"I just thought it would be fun, plus it would give you kids a chance to socialize." He smiled while turning down the road. "I can only imagine how this trip might be a little smothering with just us three, so getting a chance to meet other kids your age might be something to look forward to."

"Yay, a chance to talk to people we'll never see again." Cheered Ben sarcastically.

"Oh lighten up dweeb, it beats staying in here and talking to you all day." Remarked Gwen sitting down. "Meeting other kids at some school we've never been to actually sounds like a good idea."

"I better watch out or you'll turn into a teacher's pet for them too." Snickered Ben.

"At least I'll be smart and have good connections instead of being a dumb dweeb like you!" she threw back making him glare with Ben sticking his tongue out.

"Calm down you two, we're here." Called Max as he pulled the rustbucket into a school parking lot. "Now you two be on your best behavior, alright?"

"Sure, I'll behave as long as the dweeb here doesn't go all alien on us."

"Same to you miss hocus pocus."

"Kids, behave." Max said as he parked the rustbucket and turned it off. "Come on, let's go."

The kids nodded and made their way off, but Gwen wound up tripping on a rock and face planting which made Ben burst out laughing.

"S-Shut up!" She cried as she picked herself up.

"Wow Gwen, nice trip." He chuckled while Gwen dusted herself off as they resumed heading to the school with the cheering crowds heard coming from the stadium.

"Come on you two, we got to hurry if we want to get good seats." Smiled Max as they moved over near the entrance to the stadium with someone at the ticket booth. "Excuse me, we're here to see the game."

"Are you related to any of the students and or faculty? If so, I'll need their name and yours."

"No, we're from out of town."

"Alright, then that'll be three dollars per person."

"Sure." Said Max as he paid the fee.

"Ok, have a nice day, and please enjoy the game."

"We plan on it." He accepted the tickets as the three of them went inside with Gwen and Ben looking at the packed stands.

'Wow there's a lot of people here, I guess they really like football.' Thought Ben as they sat down near the front and winced when he saw some of the players get dogpiled. "Glad I'm not those guys."

"So, what do you two think, is this fun?"

"Right now I'm hoping we don't get dragged into it." Spoke Gwen before her stomach growled. "I'm gonna grab something to eat."

"The vendors coming over here." Spoke Max seeing a man with hot dogs. "Hey! Can we get a couple over here?"

"Sure thing!" He called back before getting a few hotdogs ready and managed to throw them over with Max managing to catch two, but the third one with mustard wound up getting Gwen and splattered mustard on her shirt.

"Augh! Oh come on! I'll be right back guys, I have to take care of this." She grumbled getting up and walked away with Ben biting into his hotdog with a chuckle.

'First she falls now this? This must be my lucky day.' he thought while the players with green and black uniforms managed to reach the other end with the crowd going wild.

"And that's another touchdown for the home team!" Called the announcer. "They've been going at it without rest, they're fired up to keep their winning streak folks!"

'Wow, these guys aren't half bad.' Ben thought as he watched the players begin to walk off the field.

"Ok folks, it's time for the halftime show!"

"I'll be back Ben, gotta go get a soda." Spoke Max getting up. "You want one?"

"Nah, I'm good for now." He said with a shrug. He saw his grandpa walk away and bit into his hotdog while looking to the other side of the stadium where the cheerleaders were coming out, only to nearly choke and coughed while hitting his chest from surprise before it went down and he got his breath. "No..way." He said as he stared at the green and black uniform clad girls. 'They're the same from that one dream I had, how is this possible?'

And it was true, all of them that came out were spitting images of the girls. There being one with orange hair with bangs, one with reddish brown that had two strands going down the sides, a third with blondish-orangish hair done up in a bun, one with slightly spiky red hair, a blond with a ponytail, and a dark skinned one with brown hair going down her back.

'Ok, there's only two possible explanations, either I'm psychic and knew they were real and materialized them in my dreams last time… or I'm stuck in another dream.' Thought Ben as he saw them line up with the orange haired girls standing in front of the others and face them.

"Alright girls, let's show them what we've got!"

"Yeah, let's rock this crowd!"

The girls began to go through a cheer routine that got the crowd pumped up while Ben tried pinching himself, hard.

'Ok, this time around I know it's a dream, it has to be, which means that something bad is going down in the real world, right?' Thought Ben rubbing his arm and saw the Omnitrix wasn't acting weird. 'But it's like with Enoch, why isn't the watch acting weird?' He pondered as the cheerleaders kept doing their routine. 'Maybe… this is just a normal dream.'

The girls started to move together with the leader in the center and began to lift her up before throwing her up, with her doing several twists in the air with ease before she came back down and landed on her feet with all of them catching her with ease which made the crowd stand up and applaud. "Thank you, thank you all, you've been great!" The redhead called out with a smile.

"Than again, maybe I'm thinking too much. Probably just a coincidence." Ben muttered while clapping with the crowd. 'I mean there's a lot of high schools and a lot of cheerleaders, maybe my memory is just a bit fuzzy?'

While the girls soaked in the applause, a black van came barreling onto the field and made the crowd stop before it skidded near the girls as men with black masks and rifles came out and aimed at the crowd with people screaming before one of them walked out with a megaphone.

"Alright everyone, nobody moves and nobody dies, you all fucking got that?" He called out making the crowd feel nervous and Ben get serious. "Listen to us or we start taking lives, and don't even try to sneak out, we've got enough ammo to paint this whole field red."

"W-What are your demands?" Asked one of the referees nervously.

"You're gonna hand over all the cash you made or we start shooting." He frowned while one man held a rifle to the cheerleaders who huddled together in fear. "And we'll start with the girlies."

"Whoa whoa whoa, just give me a second to get the money, no need to shoot anyone." The referee said as he began to inch towards the ticket booth. "No one needs to get hurt here."

'Except for them.' Thought Ben who turned the dial while being discreet about it. 'Let's see them shoot what they can't see.'

"Look, I have the money, here it is." Said the ref as he held up a metal cash box.

"Good." Smirked the leader before seeing a green flash and turned, but didn't see anything. "Who did that?!"

"I-I don't know, look, just take the money and go!" The ref said as the man narrowed his eyes.

"Someone tried something, and I wanna know-" He was cut off as one of his men grunted and held his head. "Hey, what's going on?"

"N-Nothing." He spoke standing up straight. "Just a headache."

"Well keep your head in the game, and get ready to kill one of the girls, something's up and we need to show these idiots that we're serious."

"Right." He nodded before walking to the cheerleaders who whimpered in fear before grabbing the blond one by the arm. "Sorry blondie, but it's time to go to that big football stadium in the sky."

"No, no no no, please!"

The man leaned down and whispered. "When I say go, you and your friends hit the ground, don't ask why, just do it, alright?"

"W-Wha?"

"Now!" He called before quickly swerving the gun towards the other men.

"Girls duck!" Cried the blond before they hit the ground as the man started shooting at the others, but either shot at their guns with pinpoint accuracy, or hit them in the legs making them fall down before the leader turned.

"What the-GAH!" He cried out getting one in the shoulder making him fall down and hold it with a hiss of pain.

"Gotcha." Smirked the man before Ghostfreak's form floated out of him, letting the man regain his senses and look shocked at seeing the state the others were in.

"Hey! What's going on?"

"Pardon me." Spoke Ghostfreak tapping him on the shoulder making him turn and go wide eyed seeing him right in front of him. "Boo."

"AAAAAAH! Ghost! Fuck this shit, get back into the truck!"

"Fuck fuck fuck fuck, what the hell just happened?!" Cursed the leader as the lone man NOT injured wound up getting thrown on top of him thanks to Ghostfreak who floated over making the leader pale.

"You just got a taste of your own medicine. Didn't your mother ever teach you it's impolite to aim guns at little girls?"

"Who do you think taught me?" He groaned as Ghostfreak just shook his head.

"Either way you are all going away for a very long time." He spoke before turning to the surprised ref. "I'd call the police before they try to get away." Ghostfreak turned and floated away while going invisible and went through the ground. 'Another job well done, I wonder where grandpa and Gwen were for all of that though?'

(Later)

Ben sighed while leaning against a wall as the police came and took the injured men and their weapons away with SWAT called in and he hadn't found where his grandpa and cousin were. "Some game, I couldn't even enjoy the rest because of those guys. Guess it's back on the road, if grandpa ever comes around." He muttered, unaware of the cheerleaders finishing talking to the police behind him.

"That was so scary, I was gonna die!"

"I know, I thought this was gonna be the last game we'd ever cheer at again!"

"Yeah, thank god for that ghost guy, I wonder where he came from?"

"I don't know, but he seemed kinda cute, in a dark and spooky kinda way."

"Girl, please tell me you aren't thinking what I think you are about that ghost guy, yes he saved us, but I wouldn't touch it with a twenty nine and a half foot pole."

"Hey, I'm just being real."

"Really weird." Muttered one with Ben sighing and put his hands in his pockets.

"Better go and find them, knowing the dweeb she'd try and leave me here for a laugh." He muttered as he began to walk away, right as one of the girls turned and spotted his watch briefly.

"Wow, fancy watch." She muttered loud enough for the others to hear.

"Huh? What did you say about a watch?"

"I just saw a guy with some weird watch I've never seen before. Looked like one of those high tech ones you hear about in Japan."

"Huh, neat, which guy was it?"

"Him." She pointed to Ben currently leaving the stadium.

"Huh...is it just me or does he seem familiar?"

"I say we go over and talk to him instead of just staring."

"Sure, my parents aren't picking me up for awhile, beats just standing around."

With that the girls followed Ben who was looking around the parking lot, but didn't see the rustbucket. 'Huh? What's going on, did they leave without me already?'

"Hey, you, wait a second!"

Ben turned his head and saw the cheerleaders walking over, confusing him. "Uh, yeah?"

"Do we know you, I feel like we've seen you somewhere before."

Ben was surprised and caught off guard while shaking his head. "I don't think so, we've never met." 'At least in person, but if I am awake then this got even more confusing.'

"Really? Weird… hey, where did you get your watch?"

"Oh, this?" He looked at the Omnitrix and tried to keep it hidden near his side. "It's...uh...foreign, I got it for my birthday."

"I knew it was japanese!" Said one girl with a grin.

"Yeah! Yeah it is, real big over there, but not really poplar here, that's why you don't see many of them." He fibbed while trying to stay on his toes. 'Alright, they'll buy that.'

"Cool, hey, any chance I could buy it off you?" Asked the dark skinned one curiously.

"Sorry, it's not for sell, plus if I sold it, my...aunt would get real mad."

"Oh, well that sucks." She sighed in defeat.

"Hey, you don't really go to our school do you?" Asked the red head.

"Huh? Oh, no, my grandpa, me and my cousin are on a road trip and he stopped here so me and my cousin could socialize a bit."

"In that case, we can help." Smiled the blondish-orangish haired one. "Why don't we go out for a bite to eat since the game's cancelled?"

"Sure, that sounds like fun, I think my grandpa and cousin went somewhere so I got some time to kill." Smiled Ben. 'If they're gone, might as well enjoy myself a little.'

"Great, there's a burger place just a block away, lets go."

(Later)

"Wow, the stuff here is pretty good!" Ben said as he sat in a booth with the girls. "Best burgers I've had since summer started."

"Glad to hear, this place has the best food in town hands down." Smiled the red head munching on some fries while looking at him. "So, where you from?"

"Oh, just a small town in the middle of nowhere." He said with a shrug. "So, are you all from here?"

"Well yeah, otherwise we wouldn't be going to the same school." Giggled the blond making the others do the same and Ben blush in embarrassment.

"Right, dumb question." He chuckled as he rubbed the back of his head. "So uh…. I don't really know what to talk about."

"Well why don't you tell us about yourself?" Suggested the reddish brown haired girl with a smile. "Like do you play sports? You look like you do."

"Well I am a fan of baseball." He admitted. "Before this road trip I was kinda hoping to end up on my school's little league, but I didn't really make the cut."

"Really? Why not?"

"Well lets just say I wasn't very popular and the bullies had enough control over the coach to make sure I didn't make the team." He spoke looking away with a frown with the girls looking at him in sympathy. "If I could go back and show them what I had I'd rub it in their face."

"Well if you went to our school I'm sure you would make the team."

"Yeah, well, here's to dreaming." He chuckled as he ate another fry. 'You know, if this is a dream this isn't so bad, much better than the last one. It also might not be one, I did see these girls last time before I was knocked out, so maybe it's just a coincidence?'

"Still, if you tried, I'll bet you'd do great, especially with your own cheer squad."

"Wait, what?" He asked with a blush as the others chuckled. He assumed they were joking and chuckled with them. "Yeah, but where am I gonna get one of those?" He joked.

"Hey, what are we, chopped liver?" Said one with a fake pout.

"Wait, are you serious?"

"Well yeah, do you see any other cheerleaders around here?"

"No, but I just didn't expect that you would cheer for me, I mean you just met me." He pointed out. "I mean I don't even go to your school, would that work or be allowed?"

"Sure it would be, the school doesn't control us." Said the dark skinned one with a smile.

"Besides, I think cheering for a cutie like you would be all worth it." Winked the redhead making Ben look away bashfully while smiling.

"Heh, aw shucks." He said as he rubbed the back of his head. 'This is the best day ever!' He thought, unaware of the whole world around him flicker a bit, like a tv that was getting a bad signal. He also didn't notice the icons on the Omnitrix cycling around, but he did see the girls each give him flirtatious grins. 'If this is a dream I never wanna wake up!'

"In fact, why don't we give you a special cheer right now?"

"Really? Ok, sure." He said with a smile as they got up and out of the booth. He saw them stand in line and swore their body skin colors seemed to change a little bit, but he didn't pay it any mind. 'I wonder what cheer they're gonna show me?'

"You ready girls?"

"Ready!"

"Ok, let's go!" Called the redhead as music suddenly began to play around them as they started. "Give me an O!"

"O!" They called as the one with spiky red hair began to smoke a little before her head suddenly burst into flames.

"Give me an M!"

"M!" They called as the brownish red head began to turn slightly green before gaining a flytrap mouth around her head.

"Give me an N!"

"N!" They called as the blondish-orange head began to gain a lot of orange fur all around her as her eyes were hidden by the new fur.

"Give me an I!"

"I!" They called as the blonde with the ponytails skin suddenly turned into that of a green diamonds, making her look like a living statue.

"Give me a T!"

"T!" They called as the dark skinned one began to gain an extra set up arms under her first set along with eyes.

"Give me an R!"

"R!" They called as the one with her hair in a bun's skin turned bright blue as a tail grew out of her back.

"Give me an I!" They called as Ben's eyes widened in shock.

"No way." He muttered.

"I!" They called as they got into a pose.

"Give me an X!"

"X!"

"What does that spell?"

"OMNITRIX!" They spoke together, all of them now looking like hybrids of his aliens with Ben rubbing his eyes.

"Ok, now I KNOW this is a dream." He muttered as he shook his head.

"Well what do you think Ben, how was that~?" Asked the leader with a wink making Ben blush.

"Well...it sure sounded...catchy."

"Glad to hear, say, how about we just come with you on our trip, it makes more sense for us to cheer on the hero of the universe then some stupid football team~"

Ben opened his mouth to deny, but stopped himself. 'Wait a sec, if it's a dream then I can get away with anything.' He thought it over and smiled before standing up. "You know what? That doesn't sound half bad. Consider it done girls."

"Yes! We're going up in life girls, whoo-hoooo!"

"Yeah, let's go! If I'm right then the rustbucket should be a giant luxury limo!" Grinned Ben before they walked over to the doors and headed outside where waiting for them was a large limousine that had the Omnitrix symbol on the side. 'Ok, this confirms it, definitely a dream.'

"Alright, a limo! Dibs on sitting next to Ben~" Called the orange furred one with a grin.

"Nuh uh, I wanted to!" Pouted the burning headed one.

"Well there's two sides, and as the leader I will be taking the other spot."

"Then who gets the other spot?"

"Me, I called dibs!"

"Well then I call super dibs on sitting on his lap~"

"Ladies ladies, no need to fight over me, there's plenty of Ben to go around." He chuckled as he got into the limo. 'Best. Dream. Ever.'

Right as the girls surrounded him though, he started to close his eyes as his vision blurred, and when he opened them again, he found himself sitting down at the same spot in the football field, and saw the same men before giving orders to the crowd.

'Huh? What the heck, what's going on, bring back the cheerleaders!' he thought in annoyance while shaking his head. "What just happened?"

"Quiet kid, you wanna get us killed?" Whispered one guy next to him in fear.

'What just happened, am I still in a dream?!' He thought as he rubbed his chin. 'I don't remember falling asleep to this, and it doesn't feel like reality. Which means I might be redoing the same dream twice.' He thought as he began to grin. 'In that case, I can do whatever I want! It's hero time!' He stood up and started to walk towards the men without flinching as some of them saw him and aimed their guns at him.

"Kid if you want to keep living without a bullet in your shoulder stand the fuck down!"

"Nice try, but you guys don't scare me." He said as he began to reach for his watch. "It's hero ti-"

BANG!

"AUGH!" He cried out when a bullet hit his arm, but just managed to burn a mark across it making him grab at it.

"Go sit down kid, there's a reason heroes die young." Growled the man who shot him.

'Ok, augh...this isn't a dream.' Thought Ben whose hand moved down on autopilot and dialed in an alien before slamming down and transformed into Cannonbolt, making the men go wide eyed.

"W-What the hell?! Shoot it! Kill it!"

"You guys are gonna pay for that, it's hero time!" Spoke the alien before rolling into a ball and steamrolled at them with the bullets bouncing off.

Soon the thugs were easily dispatched and Ben was quickly rolling away. 'Damn it, I was sloppy and I got shot because of it!' He headed behind one of the buildings and unrolled before transforming back and touched the spot. "At least it just burns a little."

"BEN! What the hell was that?!" Max called as he and Gwen raced towards him.

"Just some guys trying to rob the school is all."

"He means what were you thinking walking up to them and getting shot dweeb!"

"It's not my fault doofus!" He frowned. "I thought I was still in a dream."

"What are you talking about Ben?" Max asked with a frown.

"Well, I was dreaming that everything was fake, and that the exact same thing had already happened, so I thought I was just repeating the dream."

Gwen raised an eyebrow and shook her head. "That's ridiculous."

"Well I've been stuck in dreams before, it's not that crazy!" He frowned. "What happened to you two anyway?"

"Grandpa went to go get you some smelling salts after you passed out and I went back to the rustbucket to get my magic book."

"Well I'm just fine." He spoke crossing his arms before hearing people running and turned his head to see the cheerleaders round the corner and looking around. "Hey, I saw them in my dream, I saved them before! Hey!" He called as he began to run towards them.

"Ben, wait!"

"Where is it? Did you girls see where it went?"

"No, but it has to be around here somewhere!"

"Hey girls!"

"Huh? Wait, do we know you?"

"Yeah, It's me, Ben, is this a dream or is it real?"

The girls looked at each other confused while the dark skinned girl stepped forward.

"What do you mean is it a dream?"

"I was having a dream, you were there, you all turned into aliens, am I just repeating the dream or am I crazy?"

"We've never seen you before, until today when you tried to save us, which was really cool." Smiled the blond.

"Yeah, until you got shot and then that alien thing came out of nowhere."

"Speaking of which, did you see it leaving?"

"Um… no, sorry, didn't see it." He lied quickly. 'Damn, I guess this isn't a dream… and I made myself sound like a maniac too.'

"Shame, we were gonna thank him in person."

"Um...really?" He asked curiously.

"Yeah, oh well, I guess we can't now, huh?"

"I guess we'll just have to thank you instead~"

"R-Really, me?" He asked in surprise as they began to approach him. 'Wow, I guess this is my lucky day!'

"Yeah, you DID risk your life after all."

"Yeah, in fact I know just how to reward you~" Grinned the leader before cupping Ben's face and leaned in making his face turn red.

'O-Oh man, is she about to kiss me?!' He thought with a smile seeing the lips come within an inch of his, only to see her stop and everything around him go black. "Huh? Wait, what's going on?!"

He looked around and saw he was in some dark void before it began to clear up and he found himself right back at the stands. "What the heck? I thought that wasn't a dream?"

"Give us the money, now!" Called the man while Ben shook his head.

"Ok, something tells me I need to keep at this." He muttered as he began to dial through his aliens. "I have to wake up eventually, right?"

"Anyone who tries something will get a-gah!" The man let out before finding himself knocked back by a football to the chest with the other sturning to see Four Arms walking to the field holding an armful of footballs.

"Alright, let' get this over with you punks." He smirked before he started to hurl several footballs at them with amazing strength, which felt like cannonballs when they made contact. Soon they were all knocked out and the crowd was cheering. "Yeah, that's right, I am awesome!"

He flexed his muscles and soaked it all in while the cheerleaders ran over.

"That was awesome!"

"You're so cool!"

"Go Ben!"

"Thanks girls." He said with a grin. 'Ok, definitely a dream, they already know my name, which means there's no consequences!'

"Can we feel your muscles?"

"Go right ahead." He said as he flexed all four of them. 'Oh yeah, this is gonna be fun~'

And thus this is how it went. Each time Ben would beat the bad guys, using different aliens to change things up, different endings happened that were unique in their own way.

Sometimes he caught the robbers by encasing them in Diamondhead's diamonds, sometimes he outsmarted them with Greymatter. Sometimes he even made a game of it by letting them think they got away, only to easily get them using XLR8's speed.

And every single time the cheerleaders fawned over him, even the one time he let the crooks get away just to see what would happen. Of course him being him he was free to put the moves on them without worrying about making a fool of himself. And make a fool of himself he did, he made the cheesiest one liners, loud declarations of love, anything and everything he could think of.

But all they thought was that is was funny, sweet, like they literally couldn't find any fault in it. After a hundred redos or so he began to get both bored and worried, what if he never woke up again?

Right now he was currently with the girls again, but as Way Big who held them in his hand and was out walking while they took in the sights.

"Wow, this is amazing! We're so high up!"

"Yeah, I wish I was big too!"

"Don't fall girls." He said for the...twelfth time? He had lost track.

"You know, I wanna be big like you!" Said one as she began to glow green and start to grow.

'Huh, so they're turning into aliens this time, they haven't done that for at least eight redos.' He thought before stopping as the others glowed. "Well if you all wanna be big, go nuts."

"Yeah! Hey, wanna make out on top of the school~?"

"Hmm, yeah sure, sounds fun." He grinned. 'Alright, don't get much of a chance to make out, usually the dream ends before we get to that point.'

"Hey, come on, I wanna make out with him!" Pouted one of them.

"No way, I do!" Spoke another as Way Big reached the high school and set them on the ground with each of them glowing brighter before they started to grow.

'Wait, are they going to fight? Huh, this hasn't happened before.' He thought as each girl began to gain similar traits to Way Big and let out angry growls at each other. 'Maybe I should stay out of this one, last few times I got in the way HURT.'

"It's my turn to make out with him damn it!"

"No, you got to last time!"

"I'll kick both your butts if it means getting a turn!"

'What are they talking about, turns? I haven't made out with any of them...right?' Wondered Way Big as they started shoving each other. 'It's been so long I can't remember.'

"Shove off you bitch, it's my turn with Ben, end of story!"

"That's it!" One of them tackled another leading to the others doing the same.

'Wow this is really getting heated up, maybe I should back off for now.' He thought stepping back while they clawed and bit at each other. 'But why do I feel like watching it the whole time?'

"That's it! I won't bother fighting you idiots, I'm taking him now!" Growled the one with orange hair before running to Way Big and tackled him before straddling him with a grin. "Give me some sugar Benny boy."

"What?" He cried out with a blush. 'K, things are way different now than the other dreams!' He found his face grabbed by her before seeing her leaning down with her lips puckered.

"Pucker up big boy~"

"NO! I want to be his first kiss!"

"No me!"

The other girls moved over and tried pulling her off, but she held on to Way Big who groaned from her grip.

"Buzz off! You'll get a turn AFTER me!"

"Oh I want more than that, I want to be with him in the next dream alone!"

Way Big blushed hearing that before finding the girl pressing her lips against his making his eyes widen feeling how soft they were and feeling fireworks go off in his head. 'Holy crap, this is amazing! Wait, what did she mean by next dream… do they know this is all a dream?'

"Mmmm~" Moaned the girl as the others seethed angrily.

Way Big smiled and tried kissing back, but found the girl yanked back and his lips claimed by another one with more vigor.

'He's mine, all mine damn it, mine mine mine mine!'

This kept going with Way Big kissing each of them with him also noticing the area around them going dark, but also glitchy. 'Huh? What is that, what's going on?' He thought in confusion as the area kept getting glitchier and glitchier, but the girls never noticed.

"Hey Ben, wanna learn about french kissing?"

"Maybe later, but I think something's wrong." he looked around. "Notice anything weird?"

"Huh? Oh… shit." Muttered one.

"Crap." Muttered another.

"I think we should hold off on that, something's not right here." Spoke Way Big with a serious tone.

"Um, it's nothing, just close your eyes and it will all be ok, I promise."

"No way." He spoke with his hands on his hips. "There's something wrong here, and you girls know what it is."

"Huh? Us? Know something? What are you talking about?" One stammered nervously.

"The place is glitching like a video game, and you mentioned something about the next dream. Almost like you KNOW all this is a dream." He crossed his arms. "If you were part of my dream, there's no way you'd be that self aware unless I made you like that, but throughout all this, I haven't once."

"R-Really? How do you know you didn't?"

"I just do, now tell me the truth, what is going on?!"

All of them became silent before sighing as they all began to shrink back to normal while Way Big timed out and became Ben again with the redhead looking at him.

"Look, it's kind of...a weird story really."

"Well go ahead, I'm listening."

"Well, in all honesty we're… a virus of sorts."

"Virus?" Blinked Ben with confusion. "You mean like in computers?"

"Kind of, you see we are kind of a mix of an alien virus that was used on you and your memories."

"Memories of real girls you saw briefly, but then later dreamed about, so we took their appearance in order to interact with you."

"But...why? And when did I get a virus?"

"Well in the real world, you and your family ran into an alien who is known to stay underground, but you frightened him and got caught in a deep sleep. That's why you've been having the same dreams over and over with differences."

"In the real world only about twenty four hours or so has passed."

"A whole day?" Ben gawked. "But..it feels longer in here!"

"Dreams and the real world flow by on different time. To some a dream can be very brief, but hours have passed in the real world. But it can also be very long, but short when compared to when you're awake."

"So… you guys have been keeping me asleep to do what exactly?"

"Entertain you of course." Smiled the brownish orange haired girl. "It'd be boring if all you did was sleep all this time away when you could spend it having fun."

"So you've been keeping me here to have fun? Not steal the omnitrix?"

"Of course not. We're not Enoch, and have no need for it. We are a virus, and therefore have no reason to try and steal it. Besides, we couldn't if we tried. No bodies to really use it."

"So… what now, if I wake up do you go away?"

"Well yes and no. You see we were made by the alien's natural powers, and therefore rely on them to survive. Now if we were to latch on to a new host to keep ourselves from dying, then there's a chance we could keep living after the dream is finished."

"Ok… and what would happen if you latch on to me?"

"Think of us as your personal dream squad." One of them winked as the others giggled.

"O-Ok, and is there any side effects that I should worry about?"

They shared a look and giggled with blushes. "Let's just say if you get REAL creative when you get older, there's a lot more cool stuff we can show you."

"Ok, then you can latch onto me I guess." He said with a blush as they cheered.

"Yes! We knew you'd do that!" Beamed one while the rest moved over and hugged him before she held her hand up. "Brace yourself, your body might feel a little stiff."

"Ok, let's do this." He said with a nod. When he saw her snap he saw the world around him growing dark and closed his eyes and expected to wake up in the stands, but he felt like he was laying in a bed which was moving. "Ugh… where am I?"

"Ben? Ben!" Came Gwen's voice as he started to see her over him and turning to the side. "Grandpa! Ben's awake!"

"Really? That's great!"

"Guys, I'm fine, what's going on?" he asked trying to sit up, but his body locked up with Gwen easing him back.

"Take it easy doofus, you've been asleep for a whole day. Your body needs time to get itself moving before you try to get up."

"I'm fine, I'm fine, really, I'm just….really thirsty." He said as he coughed a bit. "Can you get me some water?"

"Sure." She moved to the sink while Max walked over with a smile.

"Glad to see you're up sleeping beauty."

"Heh, good to be back." Smiled Ben while Max crouched down. "I miss anything?"

"No, we were pretty lucky, after the whole incident the alien apologized profusely and said that it wasn't permanent."

"Yeah, I kinda got the story already." He remarked as Gwen came back and moved the cup of water near his face.

"Drink up."

"Thanks dork." He said with a smile. He let the water go down his throat and felt relief before guzzling it all down and gasped. "Oh man...that hit the spot."

"The downside is I won't have any peace and quiet now." Joked Gwen with a smirk.

"Heh, that's for sure dweeb."

"So Ben, have any good dreams?" Asked Max making Ben blush and look at the ceiling.

"You could say that." He said with a small smile.