"What? Why?" Ben said when he got over the shock. They were in the RustBucket trying to follow Dr. Animo.
"Because what you did was reckless and dangerous Ben. You should leave the heroing to your cousin." Grandpa Max responded
"Oh yah. Miss Perfect was just about to be squashed by a giant frog monster when I swooped in and saved her. And by the way your welcome." Ben said directly at his cousin.
"I had every thing under control, I was just about to hit him with some mana of my own." Gwen responded.
"Wow. For someone who supposed to be so smart you can be really dumb." Ben said to his cousin.
"Ben do not call your cousin dumb." Grandpa Max said from the driver seat.
"But she can't even see that she can't use her anodite powers in her alien forms."
"That's not true." Gwen said in a shrill voice, "I can use my power when ever I want to, dweeb." That is when she shoved ben, knocking him off his feet and onto the floor.
"Grandpa." Ben said in shock.
"Gwen don't shove your cousin." Max responded half heartedly.
"Seriously," Ben said as anger welled up in him, "I save a Mega Mart full of people from becoming hamster chow and get grounded and Gwen pushes me and just get a "don't do that Gwen"."
"Now Ben, Gwen will get her punishment later, after she stops Dr. Animo." said Grandpa Max but Ben had a feeling that her punishment would never come.
Then there was a big bang and the camper skidded to a halt. "What was that Grandpa?" Gwen asked.
"Must have been one of the tires." Grandpa Max responded.
Both Grandpa Max and Gwen looked over at Ben, before they when out side to look at the tires "Will talk about this later young man," said Grandpa Max, "and don't leave this camper."
Ben wanted to scream. It just wasn't fair, Gwen could do no wrong and he did everything wrong. Well maybe the right thing was to do the wrong thing. Ben decide to look up Dr. Animo on his phone. What he found was that apparently that he lost some award to another doctor, named Kelly, because of the unethical nature of Dr. Animo's research. Ben decided to think like Animo and what he would do.
Ben snuck out of the camper and flew off on a mana tile to go find Dr. Kelly. He used the gps on his phone to find Dr. Kelly lab in the Smithsonian and just hoped that he would find Animo also there. When he got there luck was on his side because he found both Dr. Animo and Dr. Kelly.
When he was fighting Animo he crashed and land into a case in the Italian Renaissance exhibit. He looked up and saw a beautiful deck of tarot, he could feel the mana coming off them. That's when Grandpa and Gwen showed up. Gwen turned into Four Arms and started to take on Animo's newest monsters. While Grandpa rushed over to Ben to see if he was okay and then to yell at him for try to play hero again.
Once the fight between Gwen and Animo was over Grandpa grab Ben and took him back to the RustBucket to give him a lecture and officially start his grounding. That's when Ben decided he didn't want to be a hero any more but an anti-hero like Robin Hood.
That night Ben snuck out to the Smithsonian museum to steal the deck of cards he saw earlier.. Personal they were in better hand with him where they would be used. He walked up to the case and used his mana to cause the glass to explode. Then he went back to the RustBucket and snuck into bed with out earthier Grandpa or Gwen noticing.