AN: Ok, can I just say two things? First, thank you to everyone who reviewed! It makes me so happy to know that people enjoy reading my story and will take the time to give me advice on how to improve it. And second, 'The Enemy of My Enemy' was fantastic! Sad, but fantastic none the less. So anyway, onward to the chapter! :)
Gwen's POV:
"Ben, we can't just try to search out Kevin and then kill him! He was our friend! Besides, it's not his fault. Absorbing energy makes Osmosians loose control." It's been a week since we tried to hide Argit at the Plumber's academy. Ben was insistent on "eliminating" Kevin, but I won't let him do it.
"Gwen, we've been through this a million times. It doesn't matter if it was his fault or not. Not to mention, he chose to absorb the energy from the Ultimatrix. No one made him do it." Ben replied.
"Yeah, that's right Ben. He chose to save the universe. No one made him do it. He saved your life, he saved my life, and he saved everyone else's life. And this is how you want to repay him? By murdering him?" I retorted.
Ben just stared at me, shocked. I'd never called it murdering before. I had always said eliminating him, or getting rid of him. I knew that he didn't want to think of it as murdering, but that's basically what it is.
"Gwen, he wouldn't want to live the rest of his life like this. He'd want us to take him down. He wouldn't want to become what he used to be again." Ben said calmly.
"No Ben. Just let me try to reason with him. One more time. If it doesn't work, then we'll take him out." I reasoned.
"Fine. But just once. If it doesn't work, then we're going to take him down. No more arguing, no more reasoning." Ben agreed. "So where do you think he would be anyway?" Ben asked.
"Well, I'm not for sure, but I think I know where we should start looking." I replied.
15 minutes later:
"The old mannequin factory Gwen? Why would he be here?" Ben asked.
"Don't question it. I know Kevin. And this is where I think he would be." I answered him.
"Ok, whatever you say Gwen." He said as we opened the rusted metallic door. As we walked in, I thought I saw a shadow move, but I couldn't be sure.
"Kevin, are you here?" I called aloud. As we approached the back of the building, I saw a person that I never expected to see here. My nervousness instantly turned to hatred and fear.
"Oh lovely Gwen. I'm afraid I'm not your precious Kevin. But don't fret, he's here as well." Darkstar said as he emerged from the shadows. Not far behind, Kevin came out too.
"Well, I know how I usually have an elaborate speech describing to you exactly what I plan to do and how I'm going to do it. But since I always end up loosing, I think I'll try it differently for a change." Darkstar said as he came forward to attack me.
I looked quickly to my right and I saw Kevin and Ben prepare with their own fight too. I turned my attention back to Darkstar and waited for him to make his move. We were both landing decent hits and deflecting each others attacks fairly well. Suddenly, Darkstar stopped and moved over to Ben's and Kevin's fight without a word.
I realized two things in that moment. First, Ben was winning their fight. Second, Darkstar was going to make sure that he didn't. I could only watch in horror as Darkstar approached Ben and Kevin. I was paralyzed with fear. I couldn't move, only hope that Darkstar would be defeated and that Ben and Kevin would both make it out OK.
Suddenly, I saw Ben strike out against Darkstar. He knocked him into a pile of old, heavy machinery. Quickly, I took a closer look and saw that he was unconscious. I turned my attention back to Ben and Kevin. Ben was currently Big Chill and was trying to freeze Kevin. But Kevin was faster and was able to hit him. The hit was so hard that even I could tell that Ben wasn't going to get up anytime soon.
I looked up at Kevin again and saw that he was coming up to me. I figured that this would happen sooner or later. I was prepared with my mana and was ready for him to make the first move. But instead of trying to hit me or blast me, he shot out a black ray.
When it made contact with me, it was agonizing. Vaguely, I was able to comprehend that somehow Darkstar had loaned Kevin some of his abilities. I could feel myself loosing my life energy. Suddenly, I heard myself shouting.
"No Kevin! Stop, your hurting me!" I yelled. My voice sounded broken, the pain was obvious in my voice, even to my own ears.
I looked up to see Kevin's face. He looked confused. And if I looked hard enough, I thought I saw sadness. I think that the obvious pain he was causing me was getting to him. And I knew in that moment, that our Kevin was still in there. We still had a chance of getting him back. He wasn't completely gone yet. I started to yell some more, to see if I could get more of a reaction out of him.
"Kevin! You don't have to do this! It's hurting me!" I screamed. I looked up at his face again. There wasn't much of a change but I thought I felt his blast getting weaker. Then, the blast stopped all together. I thought I saw regret on his face as he turned away from me and flew out of the building.
I quickly ran over to Ben to wake him up. After a bit of shaking and a slap, he finally came to.
"Wha-Where's Kevin?" He choked out
"He flew off. Darkstar is in the corner over there," I pointed briefly to the machinery. "We should probably take care of Darkstar before we do anything else.
After about ten minutes, some plumbers arrived to take Darkstar to the Null Void. We quickly thanked them and left.
"So where do you want to start looking?" I asked Ben when we were finally in his car.
"Well, considering the fact that I put a tracking devise on him, we shouldn't have to look very much." Ben said with a smirk He pulled out my plumber's badge from the center console and brought up a map with a red dot on it. I assumed that the dot was Kevin.
"Well, looks like he's in Los Soladad. I guess that's where we're going then.
Within five minutes, we were in Los Soladad. We quickly exited the car and entered the building that Kevin was supposedly in. As soon as we walked in, Kevin was standing in front of us, waiting for us.
"So you think I didn't notice the tracking devise you put on me Tennyson?" Kevin snarled. "Well I did. The only thing you did was make it easier on me to have to find you and take care of you. Once and for all. And that includes you too, Gwen. I'm not going to wuss out like I did earlier." Kevin said as he looked at me.
Normally, I should be afraid of what Kevin said. But because of earlier, I know that some of the old Kevin is there. And I planned on getting him back.
Ben didn't even bother to reply as he charged at Kevin. At the last second he turned into Echo Echo and blasted Kevin out of the building with his voice. He jumped out of the hole in the wall and followed Kevin. I quickly ran after them.
"Ben! You said that we would try this my way!" I yelled at him.
"Yeah, I lied." He replied. He charged at Kevin again but this time I jumped in front of him before he could do anything.
"Ben! We're going to do this my way first, whether you like it or not." I yelled with rage.
"Fine." He said simply, but I could see the slight fear in his eyes. I knew that he didn't underestimate me, so he knew that I would attack him if it came down to it.
I turned around to face Kevin. I looked up at his face and tried to use as much caring and love in my voice as I could muster.
"Kevin," I said softly. "Please. This isn't you. Just release all of the power that's built up in you. I know that you can do it. You've done it before. Remember what Quil taught you. Release the energy." I said.
I could tell that our Kevin was trying to take control again. I decided that he needed a little bit more of a push.
"Come back to me Kevin, I can't loose you." I said with tears in my eyes. The same words that he had spoken to me when I was turning into my anodite form. I knew that it would strike a cord with him.
Slowly, ever so slowly, I saw the energy coming off of him. Then his distorted figure began to turn human again. With a moan, he passed out on the ground. I was able to catch his upper half before it fell on the floor.
I silently looked back at Ben, and he went to wait in the car. He knew that Kevin and I would need some alone time when he woke up. Although he tried to hide it, I saw the smile that was growing on his face as he realized that we were going to have Kevin back before he turned to leave.
After a bit of shaking, Kevin woke up. He looked confused, but that was understandable. Then his eyes locked with mine and a smile began to slip its way onto his face. Suddenly, the smile was gone though. I figured that he must be remembering what had happened fully.
"Oh my god Gwen! I'm so sorry!" He apologized. I was confused. I knew that he would be unhappy with what had happened, but why was he apologizing to me?
"Why are you apologizing to me?" I voiced my question.
"Why wouldn't I? After I tried to attack you multiple times! After what I said to you at the Plumber's academy! That the only reason I didn't kill you was because of what you used to mean to me! After I started working with Darkstar, the guy who tried to kill you and take your powers multiple times! After I tried to take your powers for myself! Oh speaking of which, are you OK? You're not hurt to badly are you?" He rambled as he quickly looked over my body for extreme damage.
I tried to assure him that I was fine, but to no avail.
"Kevin, It's alright. You weren't yourself when you did that stuff. And for the last time, I'm fine." I added the last part since I noticed he kept glancing at a bruise on my arm.
"Yeah OK sure." He replied, unconvinced.
"Well, why don't we get home and take care of you," he snorted, " and then we can talk about what happened a little more." I said as I helped him up.
"OK, but you need to be taken care of too." He said.
"Sure I do Kevin, sure I do." I replied.
"If you don't let someone check over you, then I'm not gonna let anybody check over me." Kevin said.
"Don't worry Kevin, I'm fine. But if it will make you happy, I'll get checked over." I agreed.
"That's all I ask" Kevin replied.
"Alright, we should probably get going, its been a long day."
"Yeah, it has." Kevin agreed as he pulled me closer to him as we walked.
AN: Well, I saw the preview for 'Ultimate Power' during 'The Enemy of My Enemy'. So this chapter is based on what little information I know about 'Ultimate Power'. I know this chapter has a bad ending but next chapter will have Kevin and Gwen's little chat about what happened. I hoped you enjoyed and please review to tell me what you think! :)
