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"Alright kids have fun," Grandpa Max waved to them leaving them to do whatever they wanted to at the Whimsical Land Theme park. They had gotten free admittance for the day by preventing Charm Caster and her insane uncle Hex from destroying the park on some hunch that a magical item had been here. After, Four Arms and Luck Girl made quick work of them the park head was more than grateful enough to give them free admittance for the day.
"We will!" The two cousins answered watching their grandfather slowly disappear into the crowd.
"And….he is gone! Let's go Ben!" Gwen shouted excitedly as she grabbed Ben's hand and pulled him through the crowd.
"Hey! Wait! Where are we going? And we can slow down you know! Gwen!" He called but she ignored his cries. She hasn't going to let anyone ruin their date, not even Ben. In the little time after defeating the two magicians she had already made a schedule in her head of what they should do. First they would start it off slow with merry-go-round followed by the usual games they had around here. Then finally, hit the high speed death trap people called the roller coaster then finishing it off with a romantic ride on the Ferris wheel. Gwen squealed as she gripped Ben's hand tighter and pulled him through the crowd.
"Well?"
"What?" Gwen asked waiting on the line for the Merry-Go-Round.
"What's your big plan for today? By the way you dragged me half way across the park I thought you might have something planned out…like always."
"Well this is technically our first date you know," Gwen wasn't looking at Ben but how many people were in front of them "I want it to be special." Ben slowly absorbed the current situation; Gwen always had a tendency to overexert herself when it came to things like this. She was a perfectionist in every sense of the word. Ben could only make one thing out of all this, trouble.
Ben relaxed on the line, although he was getting extremely annoyed at how ridiculously long this line was he could help but lean out on the railing and looked over to the other attractions. Gwen on the other hand looked like she could explode at any time. Ben could see the large vein on her forehead as she tapped her foot on the ground impatiently.
When the final group went onto the ride Gwen's face lit up like a Christmas decoration. Ben was relived he didn't have to deal with her rage after all of this. Just then, a pink surge of energy cackled out of nowhere and suddenly the Merry-Go-Round began spinning faster and faster until it was going completely out of control. The riders screamed as they held on to the metallic poles for their lives. There was no time to think, Ben grabbed Gwen's wrist and jumped out of the line into a nearby bush. And no sooner had they arrived that the bush emitted a green flash of light and two figures emerged from it, Lucky girl and XLR8.
The riders couldn't hang on any longer, their grips loosened as they were catapulted out of the swirling death trap. XLR8 rushed to catch every rider with the magical assistance from Lucky girl as she slowed some of the passenger's descent so that XLR8 could keep up. Once the they were safe, XLR8 began running in the opposite direction of the ride slowing it down just enough that Lucky girl could shoot a blue energy bolt at the control room at the center of the machine.
Slowly but surely the ride came to a stop. The two heroes turned to the screams and shouts of the many fans the two had. Ben or XLR8 waved both his hands at the crowd enjoying the moment he so well deserved before Lucky girl grabbed his ear and pulled him away.
"Looks like the Merry-Go-Rounds' busted now," Ben said sipping away on his over sized drink.
"Ugh! Why did it have to go nuts now of all times?" Gwen groaned, the first part of her plan failed miserably but she was not going to give up so easily "Come on!" Ben's drink fell to the floor, unfinished as he was dragged across the park once again.
Gwen had come across a hallway of trademark games. All of them seemed like fun and she was more than ecstatic to try them all. She moved from game to game until something finally caught her eye. She came across a large white bear with the words 'I'll love you forever' etched across its stomach.
"Ben, that bear is so cute! Win it for me?" She asked in a pleading voice.
"Huh? Why can't you win it yourself? All you have to do is hit the moving target," Ben answered flatly. He still had a lot to learn about women, and about being a better boyfriend.
"You're the boyfriend, you're supposed to win stuff like this for me," Gwen sighed "It's what you do."
"Well that's dumb," Ben cocked his head, only to receive an angered gaze "Alright alright!" Ben gave the game master one dollar, and he pressed a button and all the targets began to move. All Ben had to do was hit the alien and avoid the space shuttles. He took his arm and released the small plastic ball hitting the Alien straight on.
"Yes! I got it!"
"Not quite kid, you're suppose to knock over the alien not just hit it," the game master grinned "You'll have to try again for the bear."
"What? But I hit it straight on!" Ben argued.
"You see this?" He pointed at the alien "Is it knocked over? No. Try again."
"Why you-" Before Ben could realize his hand was already over the Omnitrix. Gwen grabbed his hand and shook her head slowly; Ben sighed and produced another dollar "Fine. I'll try again."
After more failed attempts at knocking the alien over, despite that he hit it every single time Gwen pulled Ben away not wanting him to spend any more money on it and breaking everything in a blind rage. They tried other games, like test of strength. Ben lifted the hammer and slammed it down so hard that the board beneath broke. He also tried the shooting range where all his shots ricocheted off the target hitting the owner in the middle of his head; he didn't enjoy that. Gwen was pretty much broken up, but at least she had two things on the list left at least one would have to go right?
Gwen couldn't say that she didn't anticipate this turn of events. She should have realized what could have happened before she got on the roller coaster but no she had to give it a try. By now she was fed up with today's turnabout. With her hand under her chin she looked down at the dark green roller coaster. Ben or Upgrade had taken control of the roller coaster because for some reason the wheels just happened to detach themselves from the track whilst they were in an upside down loop. The reason she wanted to come on the roller coaster in the first place was to see Ben's face when he rode it together with her, not driving her. When the roller coaster made its stop Upgrade slipped out and disappeared into the park.
Gwen made her way to an empty bench and waited for Ben. When he did show up, he gave her an ice-cream cone to chow down on. Maybe that would cool her down. Much to Ben's surprise they had the opposite effect. She stood up looking fired up, she wouldn't give up she still had one thing left. Gwen grabbed Ben's hand and the two were off.
Ben and Gwen made their way to the Ferris wheel their final destination. This was Gwen's last chance to make up for the total blunder that was her first date. Nothing had gone right for the day and she refused to let anything else happen. Much to her surprise the line wasn't very long and nothing seemed wrong with the machinery. On the way up, Ben and Gwen could see the entire park and the falling sun as it began to set.
"Isn't this romantic Ben?" Gwen asked slipping her fingers into Ben's.
"Yeah," Ben agreed he didn't know anything about being romantic but the colors and the sun looked nice right now. Gwen inched herself to Ben and rested her head against his shoulder. Ben rested his head against hers and just stared into the sun. Everything seemed to be going right for once, that was until Gwen heard a loud clang.
"…No…" Another two clangs "No no no…" then a series of clangs followed by a loud metallic noise, like someone had been grinding a giant nail on a metal sheet "Noooooo!" Gwen screamed. The Ferris wheel's spoke bent back and forth rocking the passengers along with it. The same pink lightning that had distorted and changed the other rides was present running up and down the spokes of the wheel until it suddenly stopped and faded away.
Ben instinctively turned the dial and slammed it down as the green light consumed him once more. He had become Diamond Head; he looked at Gwen momentarily who had seemed to have given up on all hope. He jumped to the top of the Ferris wheel and thinking quickly he created crystals around the spokes as well as the axel of the wheel reinforcing them. He then created a tree branch-like structure that spread out to the other sphere's that contained the passengers. He demonstrated the function of the branches as he jumped down and rode the branch as a slide that extended down to the ground landing them safely in a small bounce house. Gwen was the last one to get off.
By now Gwen had pretty much given up after the Ferris wheel. This date had been a total disaster and no one was to blame. It had to be her bad lucky catching up to her or something. She just sat with Ben on a wooden bench sulking the rest of the night away.
It hadn't mattered to Ben why Gwen did all this. He knew she was trying to make this date perfect, but she didn't have to go through all the trouble. It didn't matter where he and Gwen were; as long as they were together he was fine. He didn't need all that sugar coated 'Romantic moments' to be happy with her. He was happy to be with her when they wrestled, yeah he rather do that right now with her than be on some romantic date. But since it meant so much to Gwen he should definitely try right?
"Wait here," Ben whispered "I'll be right back." Ben got up and ran through the crowd. Gwen was a little confused at Ben's words, she sighed and thought how perfectly her date could have gone if she didn't have so much bad luck. Ben returned in no less than ten minutes, hiding a large fluffy object behind his back.
"Ben…?"
"Here," Ben offered the same giant bear that Gwen wanted earlier "I knew how much you wanted this date to be perfect and all. But you don't have to try so hard, I can have fun with you anywhere anytime. And this little guy here is just a little thank you for trying so hard tod-" Ben didn't finished his sentence, he couldn't for Gwen had lunged herself on the bear sandwiching it as she wrapped her arms around Ben
"Gwen. Can't. Breathe. Crushing…" Gwen released Ben and hugged her new bear tightly.
"Thank you Ben, Thank you, Thank you!" Ben just smiled, who knew she be so excited over a bear "But how did you get it? We couldn't win anything before."
"Hey, you forget who I am," Ben flashed a smile "I'm the legendary Ben 10 I can do anything!" Gwen shook her head from side to side before punching Ben lightly in the arm. Ben didn't have the heart to tell Gwen that he had bought it from the Game Master.
Gwen snuggled up to his shoulder as the two walked through the park to look for their grandfather. Maybe this date wasn't so bad?
On a highly guarded Prisoner escort unit was now on its way to a highly guarded and almost impossible to escape correctional facility.
"Charm Caster what spell did you use on the Tennysons?" Hex asked.
"Oh I just hit them with one of my bad luck spells," Charm Caster grinned "It will last the entire week, it's not exactly what I call revenge but it will bug the little bugger."
So that explains it all…Charm Caster just gave the couple a level on the relationship meter o.o Way to go!
