Barbossa: OKAY!!! Another chapter up!
xxchazywooxx: Whew... this one was a pain, my comp was goofing up and I couldn't pst fast enough...
Barbossa: *stares at chazy with confusion* ... Who said anything about a deadline?
Ben: I did.
xxchazywooxx: Yup, he did! And what Ben wants, Ben gets! *stands triumphantly and laughs like Action Bastard from Shin-Chan*
Barbossa and Gwen: Oh god...
Sasuke: Neither Lyoko nor woo own Ben 10 nor Naruto... There, I said it, now can I PLEASE go now...?
A large sound rocked the pod. Gwen held tighter to Benjamin. Ben grimaced at the tight embrace but found himself looking at the attacker. The attacker's face appeared to be a cross between a lizard, a wasp, and a pterodactyl, with reptilian scales going across it's head, multifaceted eyes shaped like two sideways D's, a pincer like mouth, and a single horn-like protrusion on the top of it's head. Ben's eyes widened in fear. Looking down at the girl holding tightly onto his form he covered her with his own body to shield her from the impact.
As the invader pulled it's arm back to slam it onto the window, a much larger object knocked it off, barely scraping the pod. Both cousins looked out to see that nothing was there anymore, and stared out the window with confused faces. After a few moments of silence, Ben decided to break the ice... Badly...
"Heh heh, um... I think, uh... that was it's mom telling it to not play with it's food?"
At this, Gwen was tempted to bat her dim-witted cousin upside the head, but instead deciding on slapping the palm of her hand on her face. "Doofus..." she mentally stated. They both released the embrace they had on each other and began to look around. Neither of them had been able to figure out how to operative anything other than the holo-deck of Tetrax's ship (in Ben's case, it was this and his ex-hover board). Even though they had to, neither of the two were brave enough to figure out how to operate their current temporary transporter.
Glaring at the control's Benjamin hit the corner of the console in a fury.
"How could this happen!"
"Ben calm down, It's gonna be OK.." The cousin stated placing a hand among the younger's shoulder. Looking at her, he felt the anger building inside of him flow out of him in waves. Looking off to his side he stated coldly,
"We could have helped them. Instead were stuck in the pod floating aimlessly in an asteroid field! " The ten year old held a shaky finger at the glass window on the side of the pod. Large dark boulder like rocks floated past them. Some even grazing the pod.
Gwen's face turned white in recognition. "A-ast-teroid f-field?" she stuttered. Ben turned to realize what he had said, might mean the end of both of there lives.
"Yeah.." He said with a knot tightening his throat.
Both cousins stared out at the asteroids when another, much harder, collision hit the tiny space craft. This collision caused the alarm to go off, which incidentally was a good thing as it directed them to the console that controlled the pod. Ben immediately kicked off the wall, floating into the control console in order to find out how it works, while Gwen was still shell-shocked from the impact.
"Gwen! I need you're help! If we can't figure out how to work this thing, we'll be squashed like pancakes!"
This pulled Gwen out of her shocked state. Even though she knew that the vaccume of space would kill them first, he still had a point. Both cousins began to push buttons on the console, all the while asteroids were zipping past them. Gwen had hit a button that looked like an arrow which pointed to the right and the pod's thrusters ejected from the left side of the space craft, causing the pod to move out of the way of an incoming asteroid.
"Alright, Gwen, ya did it!" Ben shouted in victory, but he had spoken too soon. Another, albeit smaller, asteroid hit the rear of the pod, causing pressure build-up in one of the nearby pipes. The pressure blew the pipe up, sending a shard of metal the size of a butcher knife into Gwen's left calf. Gwen yowled in pain and held her leg tightly, trying to cancel out the pain and prevent blood loss.
Ben's eyes widen. Quickly he goes to pull his shirt of when a shaky hand grabs his.
"B-ben what are you doing!?!"
"Saving yer life dweeb! don't ask me why..." He muttered. Removing his shirt he placed it around her wound. Tightening it to keep the blood from pouring out of it. Looking up at the still shaky figure he gave a small smile and quickly said,
"Your not gonna tell Grandpa are you?"
The older cousin just rolled her eyes at the unneeded question as she began to tend to her own wound. Ben took this opportunity to begin steering the pod from the asteroids battering the sides of the pod. Occasionally looking over his shoulder at his wounded cousin he continued the attempt of steering the pod.
Gwen grabbed hold of a pole on the wall to steady herself from the constant floating. Accidentally she found her self being pulled upward by Benjamen's misunderstanding of the controls.
"BEN!"
"Sorry.." Ben looked over to his cousin who by now was blushing trying to keep her shirt from floating upward. In the awkward moment, Ben felt heat rise to his cheeks as he pressed another button steadying the ship.
"O-ok i think i got it now..."
After near flawlessly avoiding the asteroids one by one, Ben decided to check back up on Gwen, who was doing slightly better, but was still in immense pain.
"How're you doin', Gwen?" Ben asked. She looked at him face-to-face and glared at him before replying "Do you even need to ASK?" Ben, only slightly hurt, let out a silent laugh as he helped her to adjust the shirt-gone-bandage on her leg. Though he didn't know alot about medical care, he knew enough that if the leg remained unattended, she could at best lose her leg and at worse... lose her life. For the next what felt like eight hours, Ben continued to check up on Gwen while trying to figure out how to prevent her problem from getting worse. Even though she visibly felt annoyed at him watching her like a hawk, deep down Gwen felt happy having all of his attention on her, even if it's just because of her leg.
Another three hours passed before both cousins felt exhausted and decided to sleep as much as they could... after all, surviving an invasion of a spaceship and avoiding asteroids as well as trying to keep the infection down without any medical supplies can be VERRRRRRRY tiring. Two hours after they went to sleep, Ben was awakened by a very TO'd fox. "I'M BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORED!!! Can we PLEASE do SOMETHING fun before I DIE of boredom!?" "Hey, ya damn fox, do ya MIND? I'm trying to get some sleep... I'm exhausted..." was the fox's answer, though the demon lord was NOT going to take "no" for an answer. "Oh c'mon, kit. At least make it to wear you're mind isn't a sewer so that I can frolic arou-" but Kyuubi was interrupted when the two heard a soft groan coming from Gwen's sleeping form.
Ben turned to figure out what was going on, only to see that she began lashing about; twisting and turning while muttering in her sleep. "... no........ don't...... I won....... don't leave me..." That was all he needed to hear to realize Gwen was having a nightmare. He slowly floated to his cousin and wrapped his arms around her slender frame in an attempt to calm her, but this only made him able to hear exactly what she was saying.
"Tetrax... Glutto... Don't die on us... I won't let you... No, BEN... not you, two... please... don't leave me..."
Ben began to feel burning tears forming in his eyes as they started up the waterworks, but Gwen's nightmare was not done yet.
"Ben... please, don't leave... you were the only one in the family who ever truely understood me... heck... you were the only 'person' who ever truely understood me... You stood by me in the best and worst of times, comforted me, and gave me a shoulder to cry on... I can't lose you, Ben... Please... don't leave me..."
At this, Ben's tears fell freely down his face as he rubbed the back of Gwen's head with her face buried in his chest.
"Shhhhhhhhh... it's alright, Gwen... it's just a dream... I'm -- I'm not gonna leave ya..." That's where Ben decides to say one of his oldest catchphrases from his old life, "... Dattebayo." He leaned in and kissed the top of her head before he, too, fell to the power of sleep. He didn't know that Gwen let a small smile tug at her face before she let her dreams claim her.
Barbossa: lol Wow... Longest chapter so far... Now I have to work on a filler chapter...