I don't own Ben 10. I don't own it in a box, or with a fox.

Be ready to be confused. Names changed and whatnot to keep the characters from being confused for one another.

Opposing sides

Act 2

Chapter 20

"let me get this straight." Gwen said staring at her younger self. "You two are cousins." she said flatly.

The younger Gwen then pointed across the table at the older children. " and you two aren't" she said slightly confused. "so you don't come from the future." she said looking to the older Ben. Who simply shrugged at her.

"i guess not, we're certainly older than you but we cant be from the same time line, or we would be related. Gwen said that we come from another dimension." the older Ben said pointing back and forth in between himself and the Gwen sitting next to him.

The two older variants had explained everything they could about there situation. Mostly that there was an accident and they ended up in this dimension. After hearing the kids out Max and his grandkids decided that they could lend a hand, Max also called Tammy to let her know that the kids were alright, and told her he would be by one day to repay her. After the wedding reception they had started on the way to there next destination, taking the two sliders with them.

"Alright," the younger Gwen said. "From now on you two can be Benjamin and Gwendolyn." she waved her hand to indicate the older variants. "and we will just be Ben and Gwen." Gwen said looking at the older pair.

"Why do I have to be Benjamin." the older variant said as he slumped in his chair.

"Cuz your older, thats why." Ben said rolling his eyes at Benjamin. After a moment of staring at each other Ben spoke up again. "So if your not related, how do you two know each other." he said looking at them expectantly.

"yeah, how do you two know each other." Gwen chimed in. Benjamin looked like he was about to say something when Gwendolyn cut in.

"We met at a museum. I was with my stepsister, getting a souvenir when we happened to bump into each other." she said trying to avoid a certain conversation. However Benjamin wast going to let that happen.

"and she fails to mention that the souvenir was museum property." he said, looking over at the older girl. " and that by bumped into she means kicked me in the stomach." he was almost laughing now.

"WHAT!?" everyone else in the RV said suddenly turning to Gwendolyn. Even Max who was driving had to take a peek back at her.

"Jerk." the older witch said as she punched him in the arm. Not hard enough to bruise but enough to hurt. "why would you go and tell them that." she said incredulously.

"Well its not like your going to do it again, so I figured they ought to know. Gwendolyn." he said the last with a mocking tone.

"Fine you wanna play it like that, Benjamin its fine by me." The older girl turned to the younger children. "Did you know that Benjamin likes to pick out drapes, and knows what styles are fashionable for fall." She said deviously.

"Hey thats out of context. You have to tell them the whole truth. That makes me sound too weird." Benjamin defended himself.

"You brought it on yourself, doofus." she said glaring at the older boy.

"Well you omitted the truth first." he glared right back at her. They stayed like this for approximately two seconds. Before they both started laughing.

The two cousins sat transfixed. It was definitely the most weird thing they had ever experienced. Gwendolyn turned to look at them. She had a somewhat resigned look on her face, like she didn't want to say what she was about to.

"alright I robbed that museum, but I had a good reason...well a reason anyway." she said, sounding more melancholic with each word. "i wanted to see my parents again." she said taking a glance over at Benjamin, who looked back with both sympathy and empathy. She sometimes wondered if her thoughts still lurked inside his head. "They both died and I ended up living with Charmcaster and Hex....let me finish." both of the younger kids looked ready to yell so she had stopped them preemptively.

"Anyway. We were Taking these artifacts from museums to preform a ritual, it was supposed to give you enough power to do anything, even bring back lost loved ones. but if you know those two... well they don't like to share. So they decided to use me as a sacrifice for the ritual." Gwendolyn heard a subtle intake of breath from next to her. Benjamin had that look on his face again. The fear of losing someone. "anyway Ben...jamin." she corrected herself. " jumped in and saved me just in time. But he messed up the ritual and because of varying circumstances we are here." she said wrapping things up.

The two younger children, could only stare at her. They both looked as if they wanted to say something, but couldn't quite figure out what it was. After a moment they seemed to come to some silent agreement.

"So how do we get you guys back home." Gwen said trying to change the subject. It appeared that that wasn't the whole truth but it seemed like a touchy subject to the two of them.

Gwendolyn seemed happy to change subjects. "Well first we need to find The mirror of Bizel in this world, if it exists." she suddenly reached out and grabbed Benjamin's arm. "This guy here has resonated with the mirror in our world witch is one reason we were transported here. We need to find it since we come from another space time. If he can resonate with the mirror in this world then all we need is something with enough force to tear a hole in the dimensions." she said as if she was explaining how to prepare some recipe.

Ben sat completely confused. He looked at his older self to see if he had understood what was being said. Benjamin however didn't seem all that fazed by it. When the older boy noticed the younger boy's confused look he put everything in laymen terms for him.

"It means we find the mirror, get me close to it, and hit it with a big energy blast." He said very simply. His younger variant nodded excitedly.

"Well the mirror shouldn't be too hard, we can just check online for the location. But how are we going to get enough energy to make a tear in the dimensions, thats hardcore magic." Gwen said looking to her older variant. "it would take....well what you described earlier. A whole ritual and most likely a sacrifice."

"I'm not sure. Ive been thinking about it since Benjamin..heh... since he told me about his aliens, maybe one of them has enough power." she laughed slightly at his full first name, as she looked to him.

"no way. So far as I know the only thing that even comes close is Victors electromagnetic voltage, and even then I don't think its nearly enough." he said shrugging. "Graymatter might be able to come up with something, but I'd like to save that for a last...last resort." he said sounding uneasy. "usually when I make something as Graymatter It has a tendency to blow up in my face. I don't need something that can tear through dimensions blowing up in my face." he said with look that said he was imagining just what that would be like.

Gwendolyn giggled slightly at the look on his face, that and her own mental image of the tiny alien hero trying to do anything. Gwen however looked at her older counterpart strangely for a second before her grandfather interrupted, he turned his head slightly.

"I think I may know something that you could use." he said keeping his eyes on the road. Everyone looked at him expectantly.

"What!?" Everyone questioned at the same time. Then Max actually turned to look at the group of children.

"A Null Void Projector." he said with a smile.