Hello all ye loyal Bwen fans, Barbossa and chazzy here!

xxchazywooxx: HEY!!! *slaps Barbossa by accident* O_o Oops...

Barbossa: ... I'll... be fergettin' that ever happened... anyway...

Barbossa and xxchazywooxx: Neither of us own Ben 10 or Naruto, just the story line and the OCs that pop up, such as the aliens that invaded in the previous chapter!

Ben and Gwen: *hugging each other* And now: ON WITH THE NEXT CHAPTER!!!!

Ben's victory was short lived when another explosion shook the entire ship to it's foundations. The next thing he knew, Gwen, Tetrax, and Glutto were running right at him while fending off their chasers. "Ben!! Gwen!! Get to the escape pod before it's too late! We'll cover you!" Tetrax orderd.

"No way, Tetrax!" Ben rudely declined.

"Yeah, we're in this until the bitter end!" Gwen, miraculously agreed. "Wait, did I just agree with Ben? AGAIN???" Gwen thought. "Sorry, but the Omnitrix and it's bearer, as well as any relatives, are top priority! Get inside that escape pod, NOW!!!" Tetrax argued. "*bleep glob blub* I'll take you to there, just stay behind me!" Glutto stated as he grabbed Ben and Gwen by their arms with his tentacle, despite their arguing. Tetrax saw that they were out of harms way for now and decided to go all out against their invaders.

The trio found themselves standing outside the large door to lead them to sactuary. Ben glanced back at the now fiery hall way.

"But Te-" his sentence was cut off as he was pushed along with his cousin into the pod. Running to the door the blob presses the button allowing the door to close into the boys face.

"No!" The ten year old hit the door frantically, but soon found himself flown back by the force of the take off. Looking at his cousin with worried eyes, they found themselves floating in space watching the ship before them go ablaze.

The Tennyson cousins just stared out of the square of transparent glass that separated them from the vacuum of space with looks of shocked horror on their faces. Gwen succumbed to her grief and began mourning the loss of her first crush, Glutto, tears falling freely down her pale cheecks while Ben's own tears fell down his face as he slammed his fist onto the door, his head following suite as he mourned the loss of the first alien he ever met first hand. Though Ben was silent with only a few quiet sobs, his cousin was in a worse shape than he'd ever seen.

Her tears began to blind her eyes, which were turning red, her sobs and hiccoughs (AN that's actually how you spell hiccups)became louder with each passing second. Ten minutes had passed and Gwen's crying had reached it's peak, but showed no signs of slowing down. Ben knew that, for her, this was unhealthy and needed to stop. His own tear stained face turned to his cousin's own, and all Ben saw was sorrow: pure, heartbreaking, soul shattering sorrow. Sorrow that could turn even the tyranic Vilgax's crusty green heart... if he even has a heart.

"C'mon, dobe, think." Ben thought. As if to do the thinking for his brain, Ben's body acted on it's own, gently pushing off the door with his feet so as to gently glide to his cousin, who continued to cry and didn't notice this. When the distance between the two finally closed, Ben put his arms tenderly around Gwen's slender frame, embracing her with as much serenity as he could muster. His left hand made it's way to the back of Gwen's head while his right began to rub her back softly and slowly, as if he was holding a glass statue of her that would break at the slightest amount of pressure.

Gwen still had not noticed and probably wouldn't have had it not been for Ben whispering in her ear, "It's ok, Gwen... I'm here... There's no need to be by yourself anymore... I'll protect you..." Normally, she would have thought it was the corniest thing Ben had said in his entire life, but she wasn't her usual self. She had found solace in his words and embraced him, holding her head onto his shoulder, crying what few tears were left in her onto his shirt.

"B-ben?"

"Yeah gwen?"

"... Never let go..."

Ben paused for a mere second before replying.

"I won't."

As things were calming down, something hit the pod.