In Charms Way
I don't own Digimon or Ben 10
Two kids were hitting the volleyball towards each other, the girl passed it to the boy who hit it hard and it flew into the air and it hit Ben in the face and he frowned as the kids ran up. "Hey, can we have our ball back?" the boy asked him.
"Sure kid," Ben said as he grabbed the ball and burst it. "Here ya go," he then tossed the ball towards the boy who frowned and walked off while the girl poked her tongue out at him before walking off.
"Nice work Tennyson, what's next kicking puppies?" Kevin asked as he sat beside Gwen under an umbrella.
"This whole little outing was your idea rock head, so you just sit there and shut up," Ben replied
"Okay, I'll shut up while you lighten up," Kevin told him.
"No one is the boss of me Levin, remember that," Ben said.
"Lighten up Ben," Daisuke who was wearing an ice blue bikini told him with a smile.
"Okay Dai," he said and Kevin chuckled. "What?! What're you thinking?" he asked.
"Nothing," Kevin answered.
"I can vouch for that," Gwen said looking at them. "Does anybody want to get me a bottle of water?" she asked.
"Rock, paper, scissors?" Kevin asked and both he and Ben shook their hands and Ben held out scissors and Kevin held out paper. "Darn," he said as the four of them heard people screaming and running from the water as a large rock monster with pink lines all over it emerged from the water and it roared.
"Rock!" Daisuke shouted, the rock monster roared as it walked towards Gwen, Ben, Kevin and Daisuke. Gwen held her hands out and a wall of mana appeared but the monster simply walked through the wall as if it wasn't there.
"That's new," Gwen said, she threw mana discs towards the rock monster but they had no effect, the rock monster then swatted one disc and it flew and hit Ben's ID mask which broke and turned him back into his mutated form.
"Terrific," he growled.
"Sorry," Gwen replied as Daisuke was enveloped in a gold flash of light and she turned into Spitter who spat acidic slime at the rock monster making it back up and roared as some of it was dissolved by the acid, Ben ran up and he punched the rock monster in the face and delivered an uppercut when the rock monster grabbed him and slammed him into the ground.
"Ben!" Spitter shouted spitting more slime at the rock monster making it skid backwards as a vortex appeared behind it and sucked it inside.
"Magic vortex? Nice work Gwen," Kevin said as Spitter turned back into Daisuke in a flash of light and she ran up to Ben.
"It wasn't me," Gwen replied as the boy from before walked up to Ben who coughed and spat out some sand.
"What are you looking at kid?" he asked.
"It's okay. I get why you busted my beach ball. You're a superhero who is really a monster. Guys like you are always mean," the boy answered before running off.
"Why you!" Ben growled as he lifted his Diamondhead arm up but Daisuke placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Ben it's okay. It's okay," she told him.
"No it's not!" he replied angrily.
"I don't know how I can help you!" Daisuke shouted back as Ben stood up.
"Why is that a surprise? You don't know how to do much of anything," he said softly.
"What was that!?" Daisuke asked him infuriated.
"I said I don't need your help! I'm going to fix my ID mask," Ben answered walking off angrily; unknown to the team an old foe called Charmcaster was watching them through a magic portal. Her appearance had changed. She now wore a purple dress with a pink ribbon around her waist and a black crown on her head; she also wore black fingerless gloves. At the top of the dress she had a cerise pink gem with a golden border and she also wore long dark purple tights. She now wore her long silver hair laid out that went down to her thighs; she had orchid eyes and very dark purple lipstick.
"Well well, look at this my pets. Daisuke Motomiya has a boyfriend but he's not happy. Perhaps sending you to destroy them was too simple a revenge. After all Ben Tennyson stole my spell book, maybe I should steal him," Charmcaster said as she found Ben behind the Burger Shack fixing his ID mask and she turned into a beautiful blonde haired women with blue eyes, a red shirt and white shorts and she held a tennis ball in her hand. Ben slipped on his ID mask and was about to bite into his burger when the tennis ball hit his head and he dropped his burger onto the ground.
"Ow! Figures. Did someone paint a target on my head?" he asked himself as he picked up the ball and the blonde girl ran up to him with a tennis racket in her hand.
"I'm sorry. It just slipped out of my hand, I'm such a goof," the girl said.
"No. No it's okay," he told her.
"I'm Caroline, let me buy you another burger," she told Ben who handed her the ball.
"Ben and no thanks. I wasn't that hungry," he replied walking off towards Kevin's car which he borrowed, Caroline frowned at him before she walked after him.
"Small block V8, three hundred horsepower and what nitrous tanks for afterburners?" she asked him.
"I guess so. You into cars or something?" Ben asked her.
"I could be in yours if you ask me nicely," Caroline told him with a flirty smile and Ben smiled back and soon he was driving Kevin's car when he turned a corner fast. "Corners like a dream. Is there anything this baby can't do?' she asked him.
"It's not submersible," Ben answered.
"Okay..." Caroline replied as the car stopped and both saw a boy walking across the street with a truck barrelling towards him and Ben gasped and the kid looked at the truck and he gasped as well when he was suddenly lifted into the air as the truck sped past and he was lowered back down and Ben saw Caroline's hand glowing. "We should talk,"
"Gee, ya think?" Ben asked and soon both he and Caroline were walking on a cliff overlooking the sea as the moon shone down on them.
"I've been doing magic all my life, I've always had a knack for it," Caroline explained as she took Ben's hand. "Ben, promise you won't tell anyone. If people found out I could do magic they would see me as a monster,"
"I can relate," Ben replied.
"I'm sure you do," Caroline said pulling Ben's ID mask off his face turning him back to normal.
"How did you?" he asked her.
"I know things. Like I know the real you, it's not that mask and it's not even this," Caroline told him placing her hand on his chest. "It's what's inside you that matters," she then pulled Ben's face down to kiss her but he pulled back.
"I'm seeing someone," he told her.
"She'll never know," she replied.
"But I would and she would find out somehow. And you think you know magic, my cousin Gwen and I are made of the stuff," Ben told her.
"Made of magic?" Caroline asked and Ben nodded.
"And my girlfriend has this really powerful watch she uses to turn into dozens of butt kicking aliens," he explained and Caroline smirked.
"If your girlfriend has such a powerful device then how come she hasn't found a way to turn you back to normal?" she asked him.
"I don't know. But I know she cares about me," Ben answered.
"Maybe she thinks that if you stay a monster no other girl would want you. If I were your girlfriend I would be working day and night to cure you," Caroline told Ben who looked at her.
"So how I look is important?" he asked.
"Not to me," Caroline answered kissing Ben on the lips and when she pulled away Ben's eyes glowed magenta before they stopped and Caroline smirked. Meanwhile Daisuke, Kevin and Gwen were outside Gwen's house.
"I can't believe I let you talk me into this, I should be helping Ben cope with what's happened to him," Daisuke said.
"Cope, shmope," Kevin replied.
"Wow, can't argue with that logic," Daisuke replied. "Ever since the accident I've been trying to figure out how to reverse it using the Omnitrix, I've asked Azmuth for advice, I've cycled through all my aliens trying to figure out which could help, but nothing," she said sadly.
"Well, Ben should stop whining about how tough he has it," Kevin said.
"He's not whining Kevin. He's got a lot on his mind," Daisuke told him. Meanwhile Caroline turned back into Charmcaster with a rock monster behind her.
"Your mind is a blank," she said.
"Totally," Ben said hypnotised.
"You will bring Gwen Tennyson to the planetarium at midnight," Charmcaster said and Ben nodded. "There I will use the full power of concentrated moonlight siphoned through a mystical field, to steal her very essence! By the time I am done, there'll be nothing left of her,"
"She won't show up when I tell her that," Ben said.
"Don't tell her your simpleton!" Charmcaster shouted at him.
"Hey, give me a break. My mind is blank," Ben replied.
"Just bring her. Talk her into it, make an excuse. Force her if you have to," Charmcaster said frustrated with Ben. "Here," she said snapping her fingers and a necklace appeared around Ben's neck.
"And if Kevin and Daisuke try to stop me?" he asked.
"Destroy them," Charmcaster answered.
"Kay," Ben said before he walked off.
"I'm telling you Dai, just give Ben some time and he'll come around," Kevin told her.
"I guess you're right," Daisuke told him as Ben pulled up in Kevin's car and he climbed out.
"You couldn't fix the ID mask?" Gwen asked him.
"I don't need it," Ben replied.
"There you go," Kevin said.
"Gwen you need to come with me," Ben told her.
"Why?" Gwen asked.
"We can go and watch a Sumo Slammers marathon and my house," Ben answered.
"I don't like Sumo Slammers," Gwen said.
"Maybe we can go on patrol together," Ben suggested.
"Cool. We could go out and look for crims to stop, bank robberies, and train robberies...robberies! We should totally go on patrol," Kevin said and Daisuke facepalmed as Ben grabbed Gwen.
"We're going to the planetarium. Have to be there by midnight," he said hosting his cousin over his shoulder.
"Tennyson! Leave my girl alone!" Kevin shouted as his metal arm turned into a blade and his rock arm turned into a hammer and he ran at Ben who swatted him away sending him into a trash can and a banana peel fell onto his head.
"Ben, what's going on with you?" Daisuke asked as Ben fired Diamondhead shards at her and she rolled to the side and she was enveloped in a gold flash of light and she turned into Diamondhead and Ben dropped Gwen and his Diamondhead arm turned onto a sword and Diamondhead's left arm turned into a shield, Gwen held her hand up and made a shield in front of Ben but he ran through it.
"Now he's running through my shields?" Gwen asked confused as Ben swung his Diamondhead arm at Diamondhead who blocked it and she kicked Ben back and fired shards at him but he released a Blitzwolfer sonic howl and the shards shattered and Diamondhead was thrown back and she rolled across the ground. Kevin ran up and he punched Ben sending him flying back but he landed on his feet and sped up and punched Kevin in the guy taking the wind out of him, Diamondhead held her hand out and Ben's body except for his head and neck was encased in crystal.
"That should hold you," she told Ben as the necklace around Ben's neck glowed and he broke free from the crystal and he roared. "Or not,"
"Dai, that charm he's wearing around his neck, get it off him," Gwen told her and she nodded and she was enveloped in a gold flash of light and she turned into XLR8 and she sped up to Ben and ripped the necklace off his neck and Gwen's hands glowed and she sent Ben flying back and trapped him against a tree and he shook his head and looked around.
"Does someone want to explain why I'm pinned to a tree?" he asked as XLR8 turned back into Daisuke and Gwen let Ben go and a few minutes later Ben had finished explaining.
"Her name was Caroline?" Kevin asked.
"Silver hair and she had magical powers," Ben answered before his eyes widened and he facepalmed. "Oh man, Charmcaster. I knew she looked familiar,"
"We haven't seen her since we were kids," Daisuke said. "Now, she's looking for payback,"
"Is she cute," Kevin asked.
"Kevin!" Gwen shouted.
"More than cute she is hot!" Ben answered.
"Ben!" Daisuke shouted.
"I remember talking to her," Ben said.
"About what?" Daisuke asked him.
"You know stuff, it's blurry after she kissed me," Ben answered.
"You kissed her!?" Daisuke asked outraged.
"That was a dumb thing to say Tennyson," Kevin told him.
"I know that. And besides it was more like she kissed me," Ben answered. "She said something about Gwen being at the Planetarium by midnight,"
"It's a trap obviously," Kevin said.
"Then bring it on," Gwen said and soon the four of them were outside the Planetarium when the door was kicked down and two rock monsters roared as they approached and Gwen threw mana discs at the rock monsters but they had no effect. "She's got them charmed against me. My power is the substance of magic, she's ready anything I've got," she said before jumping over a rock monster and Kevin punched it and Gwen ran off on platforms of mana the second rock monster ran towards Daisuke but Ben jumped and punched it sending it skidding back. Gwen ran through the broken doors and she saw Charmcaster in front of her.
"Gwen Tennyson, I've been waiting five years to say this. I love what you've done with your hair," she told her before firing a blast of magic at her and Gwen ducked and she threw two mana discs at Charmcaster who ducked under them and she sent a beam of magic towards Gwen who fired a beam of mana back and both of them battled for dominance and Gwen pushed Charmcaster back.
"You're losing Charmcaster," Gwen said and Charmcaster looked at her and symbols appeared around Gwen and encircled her and she couldn't move.
"Overconfident much? You figured with no runes on the floor and no access to moonlight, I couldn't possible trap you," Charmcaster said as the roof opened and the full moon shone down on Gwen who groaned and she fell to her knees. "Well you were wrong and the fun is just beginning," she told Gwen.
"Dai little help!" Kevin shouted as he was punched by one of the rock monsters and he went flying back.
"Hold on!" Daisuke shouted as she was enveloped in a gold flash of light and she turned into Four Arms and she charged towards the rock monster and she tackled it sending it to the ground and she grabbed it by the leg and she spun it around and threw it into the other rock monster before she saw the Planetarium begin to glow. "That doesn't look good," she said to herself. Meanwhile with Charmcaster and Gwen, Charmcaster lifted her arm and Gwen lifted into the air and she began to scream as her magic was sucked out of her and into Charmcaster who smirked.
"Ben wasn't kidding you are filled with magic. It's so unfair, I worked my butt off for my power and you were born made of magic. Well I can control magic so I can control you. And what nature gives I can take away," she said as Gwen fell to the ground and she vanished in a flash of light, she then reappeared outside. "Leave them you useless piles of rock. They no longer matter," she told the rock monsters who walked towards her.
"Where's Gwen!" Ben shouted.
"She's all yours. No you all share a thing in common, you are powerfulness to stop me," Charmcaster said laughing evilly as she and the two rock monsters teleported away and Kevin, Ben and Four Arms who turned back into Daisuke ran into the Planetarium to see Gwen pulling herself up.
"Are you alright?" Kevin asked her.
"She stole all my power, how do you think I am?" Gwen asked him.
"Uh...weak?" he asked.
"I am so angry," Daisuke said.
"She'll do that to you," Ben said.
"I was angry with you!" Daisuke shouted at him.
"Wait- Me!?" Ben asked her and Daisuke's eyes widened.
"No! Okay, yes, a little! I mean, why were you even hanging out with her?" she asked Ben.
"Because I thought she liked me," Ben answered.
"And I don't!?" Daisuke asked.
"If you liked me so much, how come you haven't bothered to find a way to change me back?" Ben shouted.
"Dude!" Kevin warned him and Daisuke glared at Ben.
"After all as long as I'm a monster, no other girl would want me right?" he asked her
"We are not having this conversation right now Benjamin Kirby Tennyson," she told him.
"Then when will we? When it suits you!?" Ben shouted angrily.
"No! When we've dealt with Charmcaster, come on!" Daisuke replied walking off.
"No. Not this time," Ben said before he flew off and soon he was standing on a rooftop when Charmcaster appeared behind him. "See? No tricks like I said," he told her.
"You can't trick me Ben, I see everything you do. Now what do you want?" Charmcaster asked him.
"I get that you were using me to get at Gwen, but the stuff you said made sense so I was hoping that..." Ben answered.
"You're asking me out?" Charmcaster asked. "I don't date the good guys," she told him.
"I'm not a good guy, well not exactly. I just hang out with my doofus cousin and Kevin so I can hang out with Dai, but if she doesn't like me then what's the point staying with them. Even if Gwen has some power left," Ben said.
"Wait. She still has power, I thought I drained her dry," Charmcaster said.
"She's only got a small amount, not enough to pose any real threat," Ben told her.
"Any power she has belongs to me," Charmcaster said. Meanwhile at the Mr Smoothy, Daisuke sighed sadly.
"Enough with the sad sighing, it's getting annoying," Kevin told her as he sipped his smoothie and burped.
"How can you keep all those smoothies down?" Gwen asked him.
"Lots of practice," he answered.
"Enjoy it Kevin, because it's your last," Charmcaster said as she the two rock monsters and Ben appeared and Charmcaster's eyes glowed before she gasped. "She doesn't have any power left!" she shouted at Ben.
"Yeah about that. I lied; people tend to do that," he replied with a smirk.
"Well I was telling the truth, I am going to destroy you all. Ocktoon!" she shouted firing a beam of magic at a nearby car which came to life and sped towards Ben who was pushed back by the car.
"Ben!" Kevin shouted.
"And that's not all Ocktoon Eradiko!" Charmcaster chanted firing a beam at the Mr Smoothy sign which jumped down.
"I got just the guy," Daisuke said as she was enveloped in a flash of light and she turned into Upchuck. "This is the fight I was born for," she said as the Mr Smoothy sign shot smoothie at her and she opened her mouth and swallowed it, she then spat an energy ball and hit the sign making it bend over and Upchuck jumped onto the top and she began to drink from the straw on the sign. Gwen jumped over the rock monsters that came towards her and Kevin and she rolled away as they chased her and tripped over each other.
"Stop please! I'm half empty!" the Mr Smoothy sign shouted to Upchuck.
"Bad attitude, you're half full," Upchuck replied as she continued to drink the Mr Smoothy.
"Come on Charmcaster, let's settle this. No powers just you and me," Gwen told Charmcaster.
"Oh and is this the part where I get angry and slug it out with you and you knock me out cold? Nice try, but how about I just shut you up. Permanently," she replied firing a beam of magic at Gwen who was hit.
"Reverto Meus Ops Mihi!" Gwen chanted as she held her hands out and fired a beam of mana at Charmcaster who was hit and she began to be drained by Gwen. "I still read your old spell book," she told her.
"You can't take the power back, it's impossible. I crushed you!" she shouted at Gwen.
"For you the magic is the only thing you're about. But for me, magic is only one aspect of who I am," Gwen said and her hands glowed with mana and Charmcaster panted.
"Get her you useless piles of rock!" she ordered the two rock monsters that lumbered towards Gwen who held her hand to the side and she opened up a vortex.
"And you're not the only one who can create dimensional vortexes," Gwen told Charmcaster as the two rocks monsters were sucked towards the vortex as was Charmcaster, one of the rock monsters grabbed a lamppost and Charmcaster held onto its leg.
"Don't let go you useless lump!" she shouted and the rock monster looked at her and let go. "You did that on purpose!" she shouted as she and the rock monster were sucked into the vortex as it closed.
"Nice job with the vortex, that car was giving me problems. It was getting embarrassing," Ben said as Upchuck threw up on him covering him in smoothie. "Of course that gave way to this humiliation," he mumbled looking at Upchuck who turned back to Daisuke and she burped loudly.
"Sorry," she said with a grin. Soon Ben was washing himself in the ocean at the beach and he walked towards Kevin and Gwen.
"Nice idea Levin," he told Kevin.
"Fastest way I know. I get into some spills," he said with a shrug of his shoulders.
"Where's Dai?" Ben asked.
"She's gone home. You hurt her pretty bad," Gwen answered.
"I hurt her? I'm the one that looks like this, and she hasn't doesn't a thing about it!" Ben said.
"You are a giant four armed jerk!" Kevin said getting angry.
"Whatever," Ben said turning away from him and Gwen.
"Not whatever. Daisuke's been spending every spare moment she's has searching through the Omnitrix and talking with Azmuth for a way to help you. She's been doing it since the accident," Gwen told him and Ben's eyes widened and he looked at them.
"She...she's never told me," he said.
"Should she have had to?" Kevin asked him and Ben looked away full of deep regret.
The end of the chapter
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