A/N: This is really killing me. For now, subtle Gwevin. Later, real plot. It's taking longer than I had hoped to get to the main point of this. So sorry, Crushed Hale.x! I just like them in the Null Void and all. You've gotten me addicted to this story! Kevin's POV.

Disclaimer: Characters- MOA. Plot- Crushed Hale.x. Writing- moi.

So going outside got a lot harder. I didn't know how Gwen did it. It was all blindingly bright. And it hurt my eyes. Gwen walked out like she did everyday. "Okay," I said, wincing away from the world of red, "this is hard."

"And you lectured me on how to live here," she snorted with a wry smile. She looked up at me as she walked right on by. "Don't worry. You'll get used to it pretty fast." Gwen's flaming red hair fluttered behind her as she kept walking. I quietly struggled to catch up, not wanting to show any weakness to her.

"We'll probably run info something," I reminded her. "Think that you could-"

"Don't start bringing up that stupid power thing again," she said, words huffed and irritated. This topic had come up a ton of times and I could tell she was just getting sick of it now. "Come on, Kevin, it's over, it's not going to happen. What happened that once won't happen again, got that?"

I rolled my eyes, walking up alongside of her. She was ridiculously hot. She could've passed as a supermodel if she put some work into it. Her hair was long and the vibrant shade of red just kept getting more scarlet every day. Her emerald eyes dragged me in and made me want to stare into them forever.

Yes, Gwen was beautiful. And I really, really wanted her. So badly I could taste it.

"Watch out!"

I dropped to the ground at Gwen's warning. I watched as a Necrofriggin swooped overhead with dark blue wings spread wide. A screech erupted from it.

Gwen was lying beside her, her face turned to look at me. "Now what do we do?" she hissed under her breath furiously. "You're useless and I'm useless so we're a team of freaking useless!"

"Ha," I said, running one hand through my hair. I still hadn't gotten used to how long it was. And how real it felt. To be human. "Yeah, I got nothin'." I shot her a sheepish smile and she groaned.

The Necrofriggin swept over our heads once more. Gwen rolled out of the way of it's hooked toes and closer to me. She was staring up at the sky and her side was pressed to mine. We were close enough to feel each other's warmth. I liked it. He emerald orbs glistened lightly with faint fear that she kept out of her features, but those eyes were the portals to her soul. We were in some serious shizz now and we both knew it. "Kev..."

"Tryin'." I got up and watched it circling, waiting for one of us to make a move. I dug my bare feet into the red stone and dust that were warm beneath my toes. I could only pray that the mutation didn't affect my other powers. The beast caught sight of me and began a low dive like an eagle through the crimson sky.

I let out a vicious war cry and let the red stone cover my body with the familiar feel of energy surging through my veins. The talons of the blue creature were within my reach and I snatched it out of the sky, ripping it from the air and pulling it to the ground. My muscles tore as I slammed it into the hard red earth. I hadn't used the human ones in a long time. It thrashed for a long time before an explosion of blue came out of nowhere, blasting it from my hands and out of the way. It lay motionless a few yards away.

As the remnants of the blue power vanished, I looked to where it had come from.

Gwen stood there staring at her hands.

I just opened my mouth and-

"Don't. Say. A single. Word." A biting edge clung to her voice and I just grinned to myself. I had been right all along. She had powers. At this point, it was too hard to tell what race she was, but there was something in her. Something good, too.

"Grab it and let's go." She moved towards it as my armor melted away. We both tracked our way over to the lifeless body of the Necrofriggin and began to maneuver it back to our camp in silence. When we got it down into the hole, she sat across the room and I sat on my usual log. The body lay off to one side.

"So you were right," she breathed after a long moment of absolute quiet. "Now what? You care to explain how I did that, Mr. Smart-Ass?"

I smirked and she stuck her tongue out at me like we were a couple of seven-year-olds on a playground. "Well, what were you thinkin' about when you did that?" I asked, leaning forwards and putting my elbows on my knees to hear this. I had been right so I deserved to hear what I was right about in the first place.

"Protecting you." Her eyes glittered with panic for a moment before it subsided in her emerald orbs. "I just imagined wrenching the life from it-" One finger pointed to the creature that had been alive only an hour or so ago. "-and that happened."

I took this in, staring at the empty ring of stones that lay between us. We didn't make eye contact and we didn't even acknowledge each other for a while. I was taking in all this information.

At last, she rose and began to build the basis of our daily fire. I let her work while I ran through the database of all alien life forms in my head, trying to find the one that matched Gwen's powers. I finally came to my weak conclusion. I wasn't even sure of myself, but it was the best I had. "Anodite."

She froze and gave me a long hard stare that seemed to be piercing my soul. "What?"

"You're an Anodite. Powers come from other life forms. Energy is called mana." I watched her react to all this that I was throwing out there at her. "You dish it out but only as it comes. Powers are weaker here obviously 'cause of the lack of-"

"Life and energy." Her eyes sparkled as she realized that we were actually getting somewhere with all this. "What else?"

I remembered as much as I could and recited it to her from memory, but there wasn't much. "Basically, you're made of the stuff. You need it to fuel your powers. More life forms nearby, more power. It's a simple concept, really." It occurred to me that my nerd level was probably off the charts at that point. "The gist of it is that your powers won't work too well here."

She nodded, sitting back down across from me. "Gotcha."

Another stony silence resumed. I eventually got a fire started and began cooking the meat off of our freshest catch. And she asked me, "Do you think I could make a portal out of the Null Void and back to Earth?"

I gave her a soft, half-hearted smile. "Let's hope."

A/N: Ready for this? Ready? Uh-huh. No hormones here. But there are little things that you could notice. Next chapter will be up when I get more reviews. Bring it on.

~Sky