Iceman of Earth
Chapter Six: Kevin 11
Akio, Gwen, Ben and Grandpa Max stand outside the comfortable heaven which is an actually a hotel in New York but they were denied entrance into the hotel thanks to Ben using his watch for himself which once more started an argument between Ben and Grandpa Max result in Grandpa Max trying to get his money back from the hotel and Ben walking out, Gwen turns to Akio; "We should follow him before he does something else."
Akio nods; "True, if he does something, we are the only ones equip to stop him."
Swiftly, Akio got up from his seat grabbing a dark grey long coat with white wool circling the collar and slides it over his black t-shirt and dark grey trousers, Gwen and Akio walks into the arcade searching for Ben in the dark arcade.
When Akio and Gwen turn around the corner finding Ben with a black-haired kid who makes one of the machines empty all its coins, Gwen was the first to walk over to Ben saying; "You can't just take those. They're not your's."
"Now they are," says Ben picking up a pile in his hands.
However, Akio stared dagger into the mysterious boy, Ben smiles before looking at the boy: "Thanks, I'm Ben."
"Kevin," replies the boy calling himself Kevin.
"Wanna play some air-hockey?" asks Ben.
"Nah. I got to bail," he says walking away.
"He's total trouble," says Gwen with a displeased look.
"He seems alright to me," responds Ben as two taller boys push through all three of them.
"Now that's trouble," states Akio walking forwards.
Ben follows suit standing by Akio; "Need help?"
"He's gonna need more than you," says one boy pushing Ben backwards; "Now beat it."
Ben quickly runs off as Akio steps forward; "You're taking a person captive and pushed a friend of mine. I can't let you carry on."
Suddenly, one of the boys tries to kick Akio's chest but Akio pushes the boy's leg to the side landing a blow to the boy's right side and bearly grazing his liver which forces him to the floor in an instant. As a second boy comes swing a blue blur rushes by making the boys disappear in only a few seconds leaving Kevin and Akio free, Akio turns around to leave and find Ben with Gwen quickly following him, Akio shoves his hands in his pockets and produces a sigh, thinking to himself; 'This is going bite us right back.'
Gwen and Akio stand behind Ben with Gwen standing right behind Ben while Akio leans against the wall, Ben and Kevin talk before Gwen interjected before walking away as Kevin turns to Akio saying; "What about you? You jumped in to help me."
However, Akio pushes himself off the wall before looking over at Kevin; "I don't trust your type," and with that Akio follows Gwen back to the RV leaving the others to disappear down the street.
As soon as Akio gets back to the RV, he finds that Grandpa Max is these than happy about Ben disappearing with a random kid, Grandpa Max begins to dive around the city looking for Ben, leaving Gwen and Akio to sit at the table, with the day passing Max doesn't stop driving.
However, As the radio talks of a fire in the subway which leads them to the train tracks where Ben stands atop on the carriage, quickly Grandpa Max opens the extendable piece of cloth to catch Ben as he jumps into it catching him effortlessly.
Quickly, Grandpa Max pulls over, letting Ben get off and inside to explain himself to Grandpa Max; "I know where he is."
With that being said, Grandpa Max turns the RV around and towards their destination but they are quickly meet with traffic, as Ben tries and fails to transform into an alien but instead of stink fly it's four arms.
Ben breaks from the RV and begins making his own way to the destination, leaving everyone behind, Akio sighs looking towards Gwen; "I'll see you guys later. I'm gonna take my bike."
Akio pops out of the RV grabbing his motorbike off the back and quickly speeding off towards his destination where Kevin is missing using his powers, Akio finds a scene that troubles him to no end, A Kevin in Fourarms form slamming Ben around.
Knowing that Ben will get beaten senseless if he tries to help that boys trapped, Akio spins his back around letting it slam into Kevin forcing him to leave Ben and turns his attention to him; "Oh look, isn't it you. I guess you really don't like this type of motorbike since you crashed it into me."
"On no," says Akio realising what about to happen.
Suddenly, Kevin lifts the bike over his head effortlessly and throws it at Akio who bearly manages to escape the bike before it smashes into the floor with parts flying off; "This better be worth it Ben!"
As Akio tries to block a massive punch from Kevin's giant red fist by forming an ice shield when a spark of electric shots from the Akio's watch sending Kevin staggering back, Akio looks over to his wrist thinking; 'Weird time for a new alien but I'm not complaining.'
Akio slams down on his watch and he explodes into the familiar green light as he becomes a blue jellyfish-like alien with six long tentacles that function as two pairs of arms and a pair of legs.
Taking a second to look at himself he says; "This isn't gonna help."
However, as Kevin throws another fist to collide with Akio it passes through him leaving him to say; "Nevermind, this is very helpful."
Akio floats in the air with an invisible smirk on his face, begins to fire off electrical blasts sending Kevin backwards where Ben lands a solid blow into Kevin's side, sending him crashing into a pillar making a pile of rubble with Kevin in the middle.
Both Ben and Akio transform back into their normal forms when approaching Kevin the rumble with Kevin trying to get himself out while talking; "Come on, I give, I give! Sorry. Please lighten up."
"I did. By about three hundred pounds," says Ben with a smile.
Kevin looks down as he talks getting Akio's attention; "I guess I went to mad with power. I never had anyone like you to help me out."
"We can still be partners, we can be kicking butts for good instead of ourselves."
"What's in it for me?" asks Kevin as Ben walking towards him.
"Well for starters people with like you," says Ben.
In a single instant, Akio spots the smirk on Kevin's face grow slowly, he forces his legs into action jump to push Ben aside but Ben is quickly picked up and soon after so is Akio, the two struggle to get themselves free as Kevin tries his best to tear the watches off of their wrist.
Akio was about to freeze Kevin before both the watches explode a green light sending everyone backwards, Akio and Ben smash into one wall of the bridge while Kevin smashes into one wall on the other side which knocks his powers out from him with a loud roar he screams "No!" and vanishes into the sewer system as Akio and Ben are quickly grabbed by Gwen and Grandpa Max to save them from the rumble about to crush them into dust.
Akio finds himself lying in one of the beds with Ben underneath him also with the bandages covering both of them. As Grandpa Max gives his speech to Ben, Akio manages to say; "Someone owns me a new motorbike!"
In a few days, Akio was able to move but still had bandages covering the left side of his face, Akio sits at a park bench as Grandpa Max and Gwen grabs ice cream for everyone but Ben remains inside of the RV unable to move just yet.
Gwen walks up to Akio with his ice cream in both hands, she passes Akio's chocolate sundae and oreo ice cream, he starts licking away before a small grunt of pain passes through his lips.
"It was stupid of you," says Gwen sitting next to Akio.
Akio looks at Gwen through his one available eye; "Tsk."
"You do have to admit it, you have abilities that could have stopped that guy with no sweat. Yet you struggled," says Gwen with a smile.
"Do you have a point? Then get to it," says Akio licking at his ice cream.
Gwen licks her strawberry ice cream before taking in a deep breath before turning to Akio; "When I saw you in the bandages, it scared me."
"Makes sense," says Akio focusing on his ice cream; "Since both me and your cousin are wrapped in bandages."
"Not that," says Gwen; "Not like that at all."
"What do you mean?" asks Akio turning to the blushing girl by his side gaining his attention.
"I'd was s-sacred since I l-lo-" says Gwen before her blushing fully takes over her face.
Akio soon get the point which makes him blush; "I see."
The two spend a quiet moment together with only the wind gracefully blowing by them, Gwen quickly turns to Akio trying to explain but Akio was faster and leaned in to kiss Gwen on the lips. It was sweet. Sweet but short as Gwen quickly ran off leaving Akio to the cool breeze and his ice cream which left Akio to think; 'I'm pretty sure it tasted like strawberry.'
End of Chapter Six