Author's Note: This chapter took me forever to write... Sadly work ate so much of my time that it was hard to sit down and just write. That aside heres thee long awaited continuation of Time Alone... I hope you find it enjoyable!

Chapter Three

Ben sat on his bedroom floor, tears streaming down the curves of his face. The first chance he had to see Kevin and he turned it into an argument all because he couldn't tell him the truth. What kind of a friend was he? A horrible one, he hurt Kevin, he hurt the one person who made the endless plight with aliens worthwhile.

The brunet pulled his legs up to his chest, his foot wrapped up in the cords of his gaming console, pulling them all from the unit. The imagery on his television screen turned to static causing the light in his room to flicker uncontrollably. The lights blinding him as he grabbed the cardboard box that held the chilli fries from beside himself and threw it angrily at his television, the red sauce slowly oozing down the smooth glass surface, barely making a difference to the accursed lighting.

Trying to escape the flashing of his television, Ben covered his eyes with his forearm and turned himself around, unbalancing himself, making his body fall to the ground. He slowly rested his head on his other arm and cried himself to sleep.

Five hours passed and Ben woke suddenly to an irritating buzzing in his ear. He wiped some sleep from his eyes as he dazedly opened them to see what was making the terrible racquet. "Om..ni..trix... errgh..."

Ben quickly got up and rushed around his bedroom, taking off his filthy clothes and discarding them on the floor before grabbing clean items to replace those he removed.

He was still half asleep when he ran outside, taken back by sight of Kevin sleeping in the gutter beside his car, completely wet from the rain that poured down all night long. Ben ran up to him, grabbed his shoulder and gently shook him till he woke up.

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Kevin ran his hand through his sopping hair, as he slowly realised who had woken him and where he was. "B.. Ben? I... I'm sorry.. I couldn' get in my car."

"There's no time for apologies or excuses Kevin. The Omnitrix won't stop beeping. Something big is happening!"

The dark haired teen looked down at his soaked clothes, he knew he didn't have enough time to change; he was going to have to battle some kind of alien force wearing wet clothing. The most he could do was take off his shirts, at least then his chest wouldn't be cold. He removed his shirts, and looked over at Ben who was noticeably trying not to look at him, he was probably still pissed at him because of last night; either way now wasn't the time to bring it up.

He quickly unlocked his car and climbed into the drivers seat, he leant back over the seat and grabbed a black jacket off of the back seat and put it on. He zipped it up half way, so that it wouldn't flap around when he was wailing on some beastie.

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Ben looked over at Kevin, noticing that he could still see his teammates chiselled chest. He felt himself blushing when he realised his raven haired ally was looking right at him. This was no time for anything so confusing.

Kevin smirked at him. "Which way Tennyson?"

Ben stared at his watch and moved his arm around in various directions before pointing in the direction that seemed most probable. Kevin revved his precious Camaro and they were off in search of battle.

It wasn't long before they both could see smoke rising from a building, which was now in ruins. Kevin parked the car as close as possible to the destroyed structure, yet far enough away that it should be safe from any chunks of metal or bodies that may soon fly from the encounter ahead of the two boys.

Innocent people were running around everywhere trying to escape the destruction. Kevin leapt on Ben and forced him down to the ground just in time for a large mass of concrete to fly over them, Ben watched as the clump downed a light post not far behind them. They were going to have to act fast whatever it was that was causing this devastation had to be just as powerful as a Highbreed and most likely just as ugly.

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A high-pitched screech rang in Kevin's ear as they turned around the wall, which blocked the alien from sight. It was a grotesque beast, he had never had the displeasure of encountering before. Slimy grey green scales covered its body apart from its black reptilian feet, which glistened like diamonds lodged in a rock wall, in the light of the fire that was everywhere inside what once was a fast food outlet.

It had its head in a tub of hot oil that was used to cook chips, drinking down the disgusting liquid as it shook its long scaly tail around the room forcing tables and chairs to be sent flying across the place. The beast looked like a regular lizard, apart from its massive size and the slits, one would assume to be something similar to fishes gills, which lined the creature's spine.

The beast clawed at the ground beneath it sending yet another shrill screech through the rubble. Kevin quickly found a large metal support and absorbed its properties before looking over at Ben for some sort of signal to start wailing on the creature.

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Ben furrowed his brow and took in the damage to the place before him; the alien obviously wasn't here to be peaceful. It seemed to be here just to gorge itself on overused cooking fat. Though whatever the beast's purpose was, this kind of destruction could not be left unpunished.

He turned his gaze to the now metallic silver teen before him, he wondered why someone like Kevin would wait for him to tell him to destroy the alien invader. It wasn't like him to ask for guidance, maybe the raven haired rogue wanted to make sure that he was fine with senselessly wailing on the creature, whatever his reason Ben decided to answer his team mates plea with an attack of his own.

The brunet quickly raised his hand to the peculiar watch on his arm and turned the dial to Jetray, he looked down at the holographic image of the alien and quickly slammed down the button, instantly his anatomy changed from human to that of the alien.

The red and yellow manta ray like alien quickly took flight; from his tail he shot a projectile beam at the alien, however the blast was refracted off of the invading aliens scaly hide.

The lizard-like alien being lifted its head from the oil tub, its three large eyes glared up at the flying pest, which had disturbed its feast. The creature lunged at Jetray only to be blocked by Kevin with his metallic form. The beast rapidly laid siege upon his sparkling silver chest, with its massive claws it tore right through the iron plating and into Kevin's squishy flesh.

Ben watched as Kevin yowled in pain, before beating hard on the symbol of the Omnitrix, which was located in the centre of his chest. Spidermonkey hastily flung its webbing over the aliens large claws, in hopes of disarming it, only to enrage the beast further.

A blow from the reptilian beasts tail sent Ben through a partially crumbled brick wall, the rubble crashed down on top of his tiny form, tiny in comparison to the creature, which chased the flying blue furred alien through the wall. The beast took him, as well as half of the wall, into its mouth, piercing him with its blade like fangs.

Kevin climbed to his feet, the metal plating which once covered him, torn back and quickly losing its stability, it fell suddenly as the dark haired teen staggered and fell to his knees. He clambered back to his feet once more, not eager to let Ben become lizard food. The jacket he wore now torn open, revealing his blood covered and deeply scored chest. His hair fell over his face still wet and now coated with his blood, a look of pure, uncontrollable anger on his face. He lifted a rock from the rubble around him and prepared to whack the lizard on the back.

There was a bright flash of light across the room followed by six consecutive red flashes; Ben had just changed into Swampfire and begun blasting the reptile's insides with fiery goodness. The creature writhed in agony as its body was dissolved by the flames from the inside out. Five fireballs scorched the body all the way through, with the final blast breaking through the beasts back and hitting an unsuspecting Kevin right in the chest sending him across the devastated area and out into the open streets, which was now completely deserted.

Ben had returned to his normal human state when the mouth that held him liquefied and left him to fall to the floor. He wearily got up out of the pool of lizard goo, and stumbled over to where Kevin now lay.

"KEVIN!" he yelled at the sight of his wounded friend. "Oh fuck... he's knocked out... What should I..." he began to question what his motives should be before deciding on a safe destination to return to.

Ben fumbled round inside the unconscious teens jacket pocket until he found his car keys. He rushed up to the green Camaro and unlocked its doors; he then grabbed his large friend under the arms and began to drag him into the back seat of the car, before closing the door and climbing into the drivers seat and driving back to Kevin's apartment.

It wasn't until Ben had settled his large wounded friend down on the couch that the pain of his own injuries began to kick in. He had deep gashes all over his body from when the reptile had gnawed on him, bleeding profusely. He raked his hand through his hair before the light-headedness from the loss of blood took effect, causing him to pass out on the couch with his head resting on Kevin's lap.

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End of Chapter Three

I am not quite sure if battle scenes are something I'm good at writing... so your thoughts and such would be muchly appreciated.

Also I do hope to get the next chapter up and going really soon.

Thank you,

Val.