It's wednesday at 8pm, not exactly the best time to update, but the sooner it's out the better, I guess, and my phone line has been screwing up and not working on and off recently, I don't know how long my connection will last, so I guess I might need to put this up while I still can.

I haven't updated in a while have I? I'm sorry. I don't have an excuse, but I truly am sorry. I haven't wrote anything except an English essay since I last updated, and my writing skills have probably suffered because of it. I hope this chapter was worth the wait. If it isn't, then I'm very, very sorry.

What Happend Last...

"Get some sleep, Ben, it's almost morning. I'll stay down here and watch Sam if you want me to." Stacy said.

"I don't want you to get caught... Let's both go to sleep, I'll get up as early as I can, she should be fine until then." Ben said.

"Ok. Let's go." Stacy said.

"Night, Sam." They both said before they left the room.

They went up the stairs and went to their rooms to sleep.

Benjamin Masters

Chapter 10

Battling

Ben woke to the sunlight on his face, and groaned as he turned over.

Then he remembered about Sam.

He gasped as he sat up as fast as he could. He jumped out of bed and got dressed as fast as his body would alow, then ran towards Vlad's private study.

Stacy yawned as she watched Sam sleeping.

"Is Ben ever going to wake up?" She asked no one in particular.

The she heard the door open widely.

"Why didn't you wake me up!" Ben nearly shouted.

Stacy turned and smiled at Ben.

He was in a plain white tee-shirt and light blue jeans. He still wore his golden ring and his green eyes were shining brightly.

"You looked so tired. Anyway, Sam's fine. See?" She said turning to the sleeping girl for a moment before looking at Ben again.

"You should have woke me, Stacy, something could have happened to you while I was asleep." Ben said. Stacy noticed the glow in his eyes had grown dimmer and as he spoke the shine almost disappeared completely.

Ben walked over to the window and leaned against it.

"Do you want me to stay?" Stacy asked.

Ben just grunted then sighed and banged his head on the glass.

"I'll check up on you later, ok?" Stacy said quietly

Ben sighed again.

"What am I going to do, Sam." He asked.

"I can't even tell her I'm here, damn it!" He shouted punching the wall.

Ben leaned his back against the wall beside the window and pushed back, begging his body to go intangible.

Around five minutes later he gave up, there were tears in his eyes.

He went back to the window and looked to see how Sam was doing.

She had waken up and she was messing with her hair, it looked as if she was trying to braid it in the dark cell.

Then Ben heard the door open. He thought it was Stacy so he didn't move or say anything.

"...Well, well, well." He heard a voice say.

His eyes went wide as he realized who had spoken.

As he turned his eyes filled with rage.

"Skulker!" He said through his teeth as he glared.

Skulker laughed.

"Masters was right, you do look ridiculous." He remarked.

"Are you saying I'm weak?" Ben asked.

"Of course, look at those tears in your eyes, so childish."

"You bastard."

"Is that all you have to say?" Skulker asked smugly.

"You've got the key, and I'm going to get it from you, you damned trash can." Ben said.

"Bring it on." Skulker smirked.

Ben thought it through, he knew he could beat Skulker, but he didn't know exactly how. Skulker had most likely gotten much stronger in the past few years, and he could be full of gadgets that Ben had no idea about. Ben noticed that Skulkers arm didn't wield Tucker's PDA or any other similar type of device.

These thoughts took about a second.

Ben had a flash of a plan, but couldn't understand what he was thinking, so he just ran forward.

Skulker defiantly could do something about that, and he did, he pulled out some sort of gun/laser type thing and shot it at Ben.

Ben dodged it, and Skulker kept shooting, and Ben kept dodging.

Ben got hit once in the shoulder.

It burned like Hell, but he just ignored it and kept on dodging as best as he could in the small room.

Skulker finally ran out of ammo and had to throw his gun and pull out a new one.

Ben took advantage of the break in fire, and pulled his own gun out of his jeans pocket.

Ben shot at the weapon Skulker had uncovered before it had a chance to be shot. Then he shot at skulkers right arm multiple times as fast as the gun would shoot.

Eventually Skulker reacted to what had happened and started shooting with another weapon.

Ben dodged the other weapon as he continued shooting at the right arm. Then what he expected would happen, finally happened.

Skulkers right arm fell to the ground.

By this time, Ben had forgotten is fastly thrown together plan, and he just ignored it.

Then Ben shot at the weapon Skulker had on his left shoulder.

Skulker kept on pulling out gadgets, Ben kept on shooting them.

Then Ben realized he was running out of ammo, and Skulker seemed to have an unlimited supply.

Ben ran towards Skulker, and before Skulker could react, he jumped into the air and kicked off his helmet.

The helmet and the tiny green blob of goo that Skulker truly was flew in different directions.

Ben jogged over to Skulker before he could slink away, and shot him.

The blob exploded as the bullet hit it and green goo flew everywhere.

Then he jogged over to the armor that was left and reached into the neck part where the head used to be.

He smiled as he confirmed that his thoughts where correct.

There were little buttons that seemed to control everything in the suit in the neck area.

He pushed every button as fast as his fingers would let him until a key shot out of the suit and landed on the floor.

Ben grinned widely as he snatched it up and ran to the cell door.

He put the key into it's slot beside the door, and pushed it open.

...Then the most horrible sight he had ever seen smacked him right in the face.

Vlad Masters was on his knees on the bed, he had Sam in his arms.

She was sitting on the edge of the bed, Vlad's right hand was holding up her chin, and the left held a knife to her neck.

Sam looked at him with horror in her eyes.

"Hello, Benjamin." Vlad smirked.

'How in the Hell did he get in here! Did he sneak in while I was fighting Skulker?' Ben thought.

"You dirty bastard." Ben spat.

Vlad just smiled.

"I bet your wondering why I did all of this?" Vlad asked smugly.

"Well, yeah, I wouldn't mind knowing."

"Well, I don't think I'm going to tell you." Vlad teased.

"If your beef is with me, then leave Sam out of this." Ben said.

"I thought you wouldn't care. After all, you didn't seem to. Deleting her emails, lying to her, treating her like a piece of trash you just want out of your life..." Vlad said.

Ben looked at Sam, she was looking at him, he saw that underneath her fear, sadness and maybe even hatred towards him was in her eyes. He stopped looking and looked up at Vlad.

"You've split my family into two, you've married my mother, you've turned my friends against me... Every time that my life becomes a living Hell, you're the one behind the curtain causing it all." Ben said.

Vlad laughed.

"Now you've kidnaped the girl I love..." Ben added.

Vlad laughed again.

"Why are you doing all of this, damn it!" Ben asked. He realized he didn't have much time left, but he still had to figure out how to get to Sam without Vlad hurting her.

"Daniel... Daniel, Daniel, Daniel... I want you out of the way, of course. As simple as that. I've been trying to break you since day one. I want you out of my way. I want you to lose your powers, I want you to give up. I want you to die. I want to be able to do anything I want without you screwing it up. And I was so SO close... Then this girl shows up, and some how changes you and ruins the entire thing." Vlad said barely slicing into Sam's neck at the end.

Ben looked in horror. A few drops of Sam's blood fell, then Vlad stopped.

"Stop hiding behind that knife and face me like a man, you bastard." Ben spat his eyes glowing.

"Why, Daniel, you'd just lose." Vlad taunted.

"I'll kill you, old man." Ben glared with his fists clenched.

Vlad smirked. Then he dropped the knife to the floor and threw Sam to the side.

He smiled his trademark smile, and stood up.

"Bring it on."

End Chapter Ten

I had a lot of fun writing this chapter. I read over it and realized that I skipped around a bit and didn't describe somethings as well as I should have, I tried to fix some parts, but I don't think I succeeded. I hope you enjoyed it, nevertheless, if not, sorry again. TTTT

Thanks to my reviewers. TTTT Again, I'm sorry that it took me SO LONG to update.

There's going to most likly just be one chapter left, and I promise that it will be up MUCH faster than this one was.

Thanks for reading!

MattsLittleSister