A/N: Decided to get working on this fic a little harder. Yeah, I'm actually trying. Crazy, right? Kevin's POV.

Disclaimer: I do not own Ben 10, but I do own all of my OCs. You are not allowed to use them without my permission. And I don't own lyrics at the beginning of the chapters. Just so ya know.

'Bank robbers and killers
Drunks and drug dealers
Only crazy people
Fall in love with me'
~'Crazy People', The Wreckers

Some Serious Stuff

"I'm not sure if we fight better together or not," I said to Melody as she put her chin in her palm, "but let's just hope Gwen doesn't get wind of this or you'll probably be dead within the hour."

Mel, being the totally unreceptive girl she was, shrugged and blew off the comment like it was a fly in her face. "I'm pretty sure I can take down your girlfriend, Kev." Her other hand played with a few strands of her ivory hair. "As long as she treats you right, I'll be fine with you picking her over me."

Yeah, I felt guilty. Melody still wasn't exactly over everything. She was always the one to seek out vengeance when I had known her before. And she had been trying to find me this whole time. So… I was kind of worried. It was Melody. I loved the girl but not in the same way as I did before. She was more like a sister than before. Or an annoying ex-girlfriend that had decided to stay friends. Yeah, that's probably it.

"Mel, we are not having this conversation."

Her eyes didn't find mine like I was hoping they would. Because I was kind of wanting to talk about this, actually. Which is really not me. I would never want to talk about gushy emotions and all that shit. It's not my style. I like talking, yes, but I like smack talk and bad mouthing. Not feelings and "Oh em gee, did you see Becky's butt?" Yeah, that's not me. Don't even think about it.

And I listened to my words in my head. Sounded a lot like Gwen after our little Charmcaster trouble… Damn, that girl grew on me. I probably should've called her. Like, two hours ago. I figured she'd kill me when I did get ahold of her. Fair enough, right?

"Kevin, we have company."

Melody's slightly panicked voice drew me out of my thoughts and memories of all those times I had with Gwen. Because she was on my brain and when she was on my brain, she was hard to get off. Especially when I was away from her. I missed my spunky little redhead. What I did not miss was her punk cous-

"Kevin, seriously, they have lasers."

"Damn, okay, um…" I checked the mirrors and saw Carson's large, dark blue SUV right behind us, lasers coming out of the now rolled down windows and pointed right at the back window. One of them was pointed at my head, the other at Melody's. "You have a plan?" I asked, the words spluttering out as I floored the pedal, putting a few car lengths between us and the Knights that had decided to play cat and mouse.

Her stunned black orbs found me, her face clearly fearful now. "You're supposed to have the plan! You're the plan guy, not me! I do what you say, remember? That's how it works!" Her voice was a little higher pitched than usual and her eyes were blazing with a scared glow of fire behind them. "I don't do plans, Kevin! You do plans!"

Ben. That bastard. Stopped me from making plans. Totally screwed over my plan-forming abilities… "Okay, let's think: what arsenal do we have?"

"ARSENAL?" squealed Melody as she watched the lasers poke out of the windows once again, the distance closing between us on the less crowded back streets of the city. "Kevin, we need to run if you can't come up with anything and we need to run fast!"

Stupid plan-forming abilities… Always being repressed… Stupid Benji… I actually missed the guy. Just a little bit. A really, really little bit. Only a smidgen.

"KEVIN!"

A laser took a massive chunk out of the blacktop on Melody's side of the road and I had barely swerved enough to avoid it. "Okay, just stick your head out the window-"

"I'm not a dog, Kevin!" she insisted, hair fluttering as I rolled down the window for her, wind whipping at her hair and getting it to stream past her heart-shaped face and into her dark eyes and between those thin lips of hers. "I am not sticking my head out a window just so you can laugh at me again!"

Don't ask about the "again" part.

"Melody, stick your freaking head out that freaking window and scream, got that?" I commanded, fiercely trying to avoid the red-hot beams that shot past my car, trying to rip the metal and kill me and Mel. Because what could be better than getting rid of my car, me, and Mel all in one shot? Absolutely nothing for those dumbass Knights.

She stared at me like she was confused for a second, slight puzzlement splaying across her innocent features as her brows knit together. Then she blinked a few times, realization dawning on her mind like a new day. Then she stuck her head out the window, hair flying in her face as she looked back at the SUV that was tailing us. And she screamed bloody murder.

I watched in my rearview mirror as the windshield of the SUV shattered into millions and billions of pieces as the sound that passed from Melody's lips hit it. All those shattering pieces, still in motion, flew into the passenger compartment of the car, splattering the passengers, Knights, with the sharp shards of glass. I could see flecks of blood and a few dribbles of crimson on their skin but that was all I could look at before I had to put my eyes back on the road.

Melody ducked back in the window. "Keep going. I got them good enough so that they can't tail us." She ran a delicate hand through her ivory and ebony locks, straightening out the worst of the sudden tangles that had formed with all the wind whirling through her hair.

With a quick tug, I led the car around a corner, still keeping up my speed. The SUV kept going at a strange angle before smashing into a light pole, going right through the metal and then smashing into the building that was behind that light pole. I could hear the sickening crunches of metal and the screams of mutilated bodies before the final kiss of death took them. "Have you ever noticed how merciless we can be sometimes?"

Her gaze found me for a brief moment as she glanced in my direction a bit of wariness planted upon her features. "Kevin, you know it's this way for a reason. The game we play is for life or death." Melody finished putting the last of the stray white strands of her beautiful hair back into place. "It's either us or them, Kev. We both know that when it comes down to it, we're all crooks in this world, but they're killers. We kill them or they kill us and everyone else. Take your pick."

I let the car cruise the rest of the way to the hideout we had made our home. Because she was right. Us or them. "This is some serious stuff."

"Some serious shit," she corrected with a sly smile as she got out of the car once I pulled into the hideaway, taking the files Bethany and Amanda had given us. "We've gotten ourselves into some serious shit, Kev." The door slammed and she pranced off to the opening in the ground, dropping into the darkness like Alice down the rabbit hole.

A/N: There's another chapter. Reviews are much appreciated!

~Sky