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Opposing sides

Act 2

Chapter 18

"i cant believe that actually worked." Gwen said turning in her seat to face her friend. "you must have been thinking of that plan since you saw the newspaper the day before."the young girl was amazed, she knew Ben could think on his feet...sometimes, but it seems that when given enough time he could even formulate brilliant plans. Too bad it took him nearly two days to do it. "And what was that thing you turned into, the metallic goo puddle" she said genuinely interested.

"That was Upgrade, the Galvan technomorph, I told you about him the other day. He melds with technology, and can make it better." Ben's voice held no triumph. Instead he could only feel guilty for tricking their savior, and caretaker. He looked out the window of the bus to watch the scenery go by.

They had stayed at Tammy's house for a couple more days, enjoying a mostly normal life. If it hadn't been for the strange temporal difference that they were painfully aware of, it would have been perfect. However they needed to find a way back to there time.

When the day of there departure arrived the matronly lady had given both of them a bag full of treats to enjoy on the ride to Fort Worth.

Ben had felt like a complete deadbeat. He had put on a winning smile and waved goodbye to the lady who had taken care of them. But he really just wanted to tell her the truth, but that would just cause more problems.

"Ben, we'll pay her back, we just have to find your grandfather first." Gwen said poking him in the arm. "we also have to start thinking of ways to get back to our own time. I'm not well versed in temporal spells. However I do have a limited knowledge of inter-planer travel." she continued to look at the back of his head, willing him to turn around.

"your right, the first thing I'm gonna do is ask grandpa to call Ms. Tammy and pay her back." Ben said with determination as he turned to face Gwen. "So whats all this talk of inter-something-or-other travel and tempura spells." he said with a completely serious look on his face.

"Its inter-planer travel and temporal spells." Gwen huffed, thought she had no reason to be upset about it. Most people would blanch if such words were slung there way. " it means time travel and travel between dimensions." she explained. "In other words I'm not good at time travel. But I know a little bit about dimensional travel." the young witch looked to see if anything had sunken in. however when he just stared at her with a blank face she sighed heavily. "I cant believe you don't..." her sentence was cut off by laughter from Ben. "What?"

"I knew what you were talking about the first time." he said laughing slightly. "remember I had your thoughts in my head for a while. I learned a little, I'm not a complete moron." he continued to chuckle. "but I know how you villains just love to hear yourselves speak." he said almost bursting with laughter.

Gwen's eyes narrowed. however instead of yelling at him like Ben had expected her to, she only smiled slightly. This began to make him nervous. As the young hero waited for her response to his teasing he suddenly hiccuped. When he did so Gwen's smile became more devious. Ben's eyes widened with surprise when he hiccuped again.

"Gwen.. hic...thats....hic...not fair...hic.." he began to hiccup uncontrollably.

"well maybe next time, someone will think before they speak." she said as she huffed and turned away.

For the next half hour or so Ben tried every remedy to the hiccups he knew. Holding his breath, scaring himself. Drinking water, he even tried pinching his arm as hard as he could...he couldn't remember if that was actually for the hiccups or not, but it didn't work anyway. As he was about to beg Gwen to reverse the spell. It slowly came to a halt. As his breathing steadied he turned to his friend and was about to say something when he noticed that she had fallen asleep.

Not wanting to take revenge on someone not prepared to defend themselves he decided to take in the local scenery. Which for where they were wasn't much. Dry dusty terrain as far as the eye could see. He counted as the telephone poles went by, it was almost hypnotic to watch.

As his eyelids began to close he suddenly felt a slight pressure on his shoulder, which woke him up. He turned his head to find that Gwen was leaning on him in her sleep. He was torn between waking her, moving her, and just letting her stay there. In the end he just let her be. For some reason he felt at ease... he also felt something akin to fear, it made his heartbeat faster.

"if she wakes up like this she's gonna kill me." he said silently.

Needless to say he didn't get any sleep on there trip.

the forest was dark and silent around them. From there position they could see the well lit mansion at the edge of the lake. Ben moved closer to the tree line and beckoned for Gwen to follow. As the two of them moved forward Ben could see there objective. On the other side of the main building, there was a small rusted old RV.

"Ben this is suicide, those plumber guys are on guard mode maximum." Gwen whispered into his ear, causing the hair on the back of his neck to stand on end. He shivered slightly.

"i know, someone crashed the wedding earlier. All we have to do is make it to the trailer and then I can explain the situation to grandpa... or myself. I think I'd believe me." he said a little unsure of "himself"

after they had departed from the bus, Ben had to get his bearings. They had walked around for a while until he had seen a store that they had stopped into on the way into town, when he had first visited. He entered and asked about the hotel and the wedding party. The clerk had looked at him strangely but answered his questions honestly. The young boy figured the guy was starring at him was because he had been in there only hours before...but two years younger.

When they had gotten there answer it had still taken them a couple hours to make it there on foot. The two of them silently thanked Tammy for their snacks.

As they approached their destination, they had noticed that something was up, unlabeled black cars were coming and going down the street every so often. It was then that Ben had remembered the unusual incident that had occurred during the wedding, and that the wedding itself was a little unusual. The two people getting married were not both human. The bride was an alien species that the plumbers usually referred to as "sludge-puppies." most of which were evil, malicious and many other incriminating words. However if memory served, the bride was a nice person. Her parents however..not so much. As they continued on Ben had explained the whole situation to Gwen. Who only had one thing to say.

"You forgot to mention that both sides of the wedding are packing heat with an itchy trigger finger." to witch the young hero could only shrug.

As they stealthily made there way to the RV Ben knew so well, he could hear music coming from within. And that meant he knew exactly what was going on inside,He suddenly turned to Gwen.

"you cant look inside there." he said deadly serious.

"why not?" the witch asked him with questioning eyes.

"just don't look until I say so...please." he begged. For her part Gwen just shrugged and nodded.

As they made it to the vehicle they pressed there backs up against the side, careful not to make any noise. Ben motioned to Gwen to stay put, as he pulled himself up to the window. He had expected to see what he had experienced two years before. He expected to see himself trying to learn to dance miserably, which would ruin the next evening when he would dance all over the flower girls feet. However something startled him, and he shot back down to where Gwen was crouched.

"What are you doing?" Ben said in a whisper-yell. Gwen could only look at him confusedly.

"I didn't do anything." She defended in the same way. Ben suddenly reached out and grabbed her arm. She was a little alarmed at first. However she realized her companion wanted her to see something. As her head cleared the bottom of the window her eyes nearly popped out of her head.

"No, what are you doing...HERE?" Ben said accusingly. the scene before them was almost as Ben had remembered it. Accept he wasn't alone, inside the RV helping to teach him to dance... was Gwen.