Rex POV
Danny nudged me and motioned for me to leave the kitchen to give them privacy. Danny led me into the living room and we sat next to each other on the sofa.
"So how did you find out where Cas used to live?"
"I called your brother and he gave me Gwen and Kevin's number. Then I called Gwen and she gave me the address for here."
"Oh. Did you invite them to come along?"
"Yeah, but they said that they were going to bring someone along. They said that Cas knew her really well."
"Do you think we can trust her?"
"Yeah, its Gwen and Kevin, they wouldn't do anything stupid that would risk us. Especially Cas, they would want to keep him safe. "
"Yeah, that's true."
As we finished our conversation, Ben walked in with his parents at his side. Ben looked to be extremely happy. Me and Danny stood up to introduce ourselves. Ben ran to Danny and hugged him before anything.
"Thanks Igris."
"Anything for you Cas."
They separated and Ben went back with his parents to introduce us.
"Mom, Dad, this is Igris and Neo, they helped me escape from where we were for the past three years."
Me and Danny offered our hands to shake theirs, but both of them grabbed us into a group hug instead.
"I cannot thank you two enough for bringing Ben back to us."
"It was no problem Mr. and Mrs. Tennyson, it's not like we could just leave him in there."
They let go of us and looked at Ben again.
And it was in that moment they noticed the scar on his face and his white hair.
"Ben!? What happened to your hair?! And your face?!"
"Oh, uh, um, aw man how do I explain this."
At that moment, the doorbell went off, interrupting the conversation. Mrs. Tennyson went to the door and opened it up. From the living room we heard her talking.
"Oh, Gwen, Kevin, Julie, how nice it is to see you guys. Come on in."
Me and Danny saw Ben's head shoot up when we heard Mrs. Tennyson say that Julie was here. Whoever Julie was.
Mrs. Tennyson walked back in with Kevin, Gwen and a girl in a pink jacket who I assumed to be Julie trailing in behind her. Ben ran towards the four of them and hugged Julie.
Julie looked surprised and pushed Ben away. I could see the hurt look in Ben's eyes from where I was standing. I was just about to step forward to grab Ben. But then Julie quickly hugged him again and started crying. We heard the door open again and this time saw an overweight old man with a gray hair and a Hawaiian shirt walk into the house and slam the door behind him.
Ben let go of Julie to look who just walked in.
"Grandpa Max!"
Ben let go of Julie and ran to hug his grandpa. Me and Danny exchanged a look. We were happy that Ben was able to see his family again. But we didn't mean for to turn into a cry fest where everyone was crying.
Ben's grandpa grabbed him like his life depended on it.
"Ben!? Where have you been?!"
"Heh, it's a long story grandpa, I'll explain it to you later."
Ben let go of his grandpa and walked back over to his parents. We kinda just stood awkwardly in the living room until Danny started to talk.
"Hey, we were wondering if there's any places to eat breakfast around here, it's the reason why we came here. Aside from letting Cassius see his family again."
"Why don't we go get some food from burger shack? Then Cas can get some chili fries."
Ben seemed to light up at the very moment Gwen mentioned chili fries.
"Chili fries, oh it's been forever since I've last had some, Gris, Neo, we definitely have to have some, come on."
Ben ran forward and started to pull us to the front door.
"Whoa, hang on Cas, let us put on our masks."
"Oh yeah, sorry about that Gris, I forgot."
Ben let us go and we put on our masks. We simply turned into our female counter parts. We looked almost exactly the same. Just with our hair a solid color, shorter and no scars on our faces. And our faces became more feminine. Everyone stared at us after we changed.
"Hey, they're going to be looking for a group of boys, not a group of girls."
"Fair point Tennyson."
Kevin backed us up and we started to go outside to the cars. Me, Ben and Danny went with Ben's parents while everyone else carpooled. After a little bit of being on the road. We pulled up to a fast food place. Everyone got out of their cars and me and Danny sat down while they ordered.
We looked at the big digital clock they had on the wall and it was 3 in the afternoon. Well no wonder they took us here instead of a breakfast place. Ben walked up with 3 baskets of fries and gave it to us.
It looked questionable to say the least. We looked at Ben who was digging in so we tried it. It was really good.
We had small talk and joked around. Ben's parents embarrassed him and Gwen by telling us hilarious childhood stories about them.
"Shit."
I turned to look at Danny, who cussed for some reason. But he wasn't there.
"Igris?"
"Shhhh, pretend I'm not here."
I looked around and realized why. There was a woman with red hair and turquoise eyes with a tall man with black hair and dark eyes, they both were wearing white suits and they were walking towards our group.
"Hi, we are wondering if you have seen this man. He is extremely dangerous and he disappeared from a government facility. His name is Danny Phantom. He also goes by Danny Fenton."
They held up a picture of Danny when he was younger. He looked to be around 17, it was probably taken before getting kidnapped.
Me, Gwen, Kevin and Ben were the first ones to start talking. But Ben's grandpa beat us to it
"I'm afraid we haven't seen him. Not around here at least. You should try getting in touch with the Plumbers, they'll have the tech to try and find him."
"Ah I see, that's unfortunate, we will try to get into contact with the Plumbers."
The lady noticed the basket of fries next to me.
"Is someone else with you?"
"What? Oh no. She was here but she had an emergency, so she had to go."
"I see, well, if you do see this man, contact us through this number. Have a nice day."
She handed us a card and they walked off. I looked at the card and read it out loud.
"Agent Madalyn Fenton and Agent Jack Fenton."
"Wait a minute, Neo, isn't that..."
Danny reappeared and grabbed the card and looked at it. He threw it back to Gwen and Kevin so they could look at it.
"Tch, yeah, those are my parents, figures, they still hate me. I'm not hungry anymore, I'm going to go and wait in the car. Thanks for the food."
Danny slid his fries over to Ben and stood up to and walked to the car.
"Um, Ben's grandpa, with all due respect, why did you tell them how to find Igris?"
Ben's grandpa winked at me
"Well, I happen to be what you would call the captain of the Plumbers, I'll try my best to throw them off your trail but I suggest you try to avoid being in public without those masks of yours."
"Thanks grandpa, I better go and talk to him."
Ben stood up and walked to the car. Ben's mom was worried and started to talk.
"Why are they looking for him?"
"They probably want us back to be their test su-."
I sighed and cut myself off before I continued.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't say anymore, not without their permission. Thank you for the food. But I better go and check on them."
I stood up and walked to the car. Danny and Ben weren't inside the car but were leaning on the back of the car. They were both quiet and just stood next to each other. I stood next to Danny and we just stayed there for a while. Looking at the road, watching the cars pass by. It was a nice moment until a car pulls up by the side walk that was in front of us. The car window rolled down and we could see three men looking at us.
"Hey, what are pretty things like you doing looking so down?"
Danny was the first one to start talking, and by the tone of his voice. He wasn't in the mood to put up with anyone's shit today.
"We're looking down so we can avoid looking at those ugly ass faces of yours."
The driver was mad for a second and then his friend started talking."
"Come on baby, we're just trying to show you lovely ladies a good time."
This time it was Ben who talked back to them."
"You guys look like pretty good friends. So much in fact, why don't you guys go somewhere private, and show each other a good time. But then again, length does matter and it looks like neither of you can deliver in that department."
This time it was the third friend who was sitting in the back who started talking, trying to defend his friends.
"There no need to be a bunch of bitches."
"Why don't you go home to your mom so you can see what a real bitch looks like?"
Ben and Danny looked at me in surprise. I guess they weren't expecting me to say anything. But I'm not in the best mood right now. And man, they were pissed. The driver turned off the car and the three of them started to get out of the car.
"Is there a problem here?"
We turned to see Kevin was walking towards the men. And considering the fact that Kevin was taller and had more muscle than them, they quickly got back into the car and left.
"Are you guys ok?"
"Yeah, we're fine Kevin, thanks for that. I think the three of us are ready to go home now."
"Ok, everyone just finished eating anyway, go ahead and get in the cars already, we packed the food you guys didn't finish so here you go."
Kevin gave Danny the bag and we got into the car to wait. A couple of seconds after we put the seat belts on, Bens parents came in and took us back to their house in silence. We walked in and took off our masks. Danny started to make a portal so we can go back home when Bens parents stopped him.
"Why don't you guys stay here tonight? You guys can stay in Ben's room, we have a couple of pajamas we could give you?"
Ben looked at Danny with a hopeful look on his face.
"Sure, let's stay the night, Cas looks like he wants to anyway."
Ben jumped with joy and grabbed our arms to take us to his room. He dragged us down the hall into his room. It was clean and neat. Nothing was dusty. His mom must have been cleaning it for the past 3 years. Ben gave us spare shorts and shirts from his drawers. Ben left the room for a short while and came back with pajama pants in his hands.
"The bathroom is down the hall if you want to change."
Danny said thanks and walked out first. I wanted to ask Ben why didn't he just wear shorts but I think I know the reason. I'm pretty sure he has plenty of scars on his legs that he doesn't want us to see.
I understand exactly how he feels. I don't want Ben or Danny to see all the scars I have from the experiments.
Danny came back and it was my turn to change. I left the room and walked down the hall and into the bathroom. I closed the door behind me and took off my shirt. I looked myself in the mirror. I could see every scar that Brown gave me. At first, he only examined my organs. Then, he started to examine how my muscles and tendons worked. I should stop thinking about that
I put my shirt on and my pants. I gathered my clothes in the bag they gave us and went back Ben's room. When I got there, there was already 2 air mattresses there on the ground. Danny was already asleep on one, and Ben was already on his bed. The two of them were already asleep so I just laid down on the bed and got comfortable.
"Goodnight guys."
It was silent for a little bit.
"Goodnight Rex."
"Sweet dreams Rex."
