Promises: What Will It Take?

By: ParamoreXO

KEVIN'S POV

"Whatever attacked them corrupted their DNA patterns. We don't know what did it, though."

"Unidentified," Gwen muttered from my right, her gaze never straying from Max's position on the stretcher the Plumber officers had provided. Multiple chords were hooked to him, a scanner hanging over his pale gray body.

"That's impossible," I grasped the edge of the stretcher to ease myself, the room suddenly taking a little spin. "The plumber's DNA database has samples of practically every single alien from every system!"

"Yes…but not everything," An officer turned towards me, his helmet with built in shades obscuring his identity. Whatever he was, he definitely didn't sound human…or part human for that matter.

The second officer turned to Gwen, hid scanner tightly held in his hand, "Anodites can trace things, do you think you'll be able to trace him?"

I watched as she bit her lip, wincing as she probably tasted the dry blood on it. When she had been healing the other before they left with Sandra, Julie, and Lili, she'd forgotten to heal herself. Placing a hand on her slumped shoulder, Gwen looked up, emerald eyes connecting with mine, "Do you think you can handle it?"

She nodded, "For Grandpa."

As she stood up, manna began to radiate around her bruised body, licking flames of pink in her eyes. As I let my hand slip off of her shoulder, she began to hover with her legs crossed as if she were in a meditative state. Then Max began to glow that same shade of manna, leaving the two officers in awe. Yup, that's my Gwen. A true charmer.

GWEN's POV

I didn't want to go back to those terrible feelings I'd felt in my father and Uncle. Grandpa Max's were more intense than the other's. The instant I dared to travel into his past feelings, a terrible burning churned in the pit of my stomach. It didn't stop there. Bursting and raging, the crashing waves of pure hatred sloshed throughout my shaking body. It was like scorching lava was circulating through my veins, the heat past boiling in my blood…it was my blood. Rage, fury, rampancy…I wanted blood to spill for what they were doing to me.

I saw Kevin and me before my very eyes which I knew were the possessed pair of my Grandpa's. We were standing before him, challenging, prepared to fight. There was sweat dripping down my forehead, blood running out of my lip like a red river. Kevin's shoulder was oozing crimson, his features filled to the brim with angst. It split my heart in two to see him like that.

Fools… An overwhelming surge of energy crashed against me with such force, it felt like I'd slammed head on into a brick wall. I needed power. These lower life forms could fulfill my craving for a while…they had traces of alien blood in them. Even if they were the slightest trace at all, it could help me withstand for a while. The Tennyson boy…the device on his wrist had been a main course was most appetizing of all so far, if I had to say so myself. But the Anodite… her powers were rich… and the Osmosian…oh this was just too easy.

"NO!" As I snapped back to reality I felt the manna surging from my Grandpa slam into me, seeping into my skin. It was too powerful with the sudden break I'd created and I found myself soaring through the air, hurtling for the wall of the boarding hangar in the spacecraft.

"Ugh," With a thump, I hit the wall full force, sliding down with pain ripping through my whole body.

"GWEN!"

Moaning, I opened my eyes carefully to see manna crackling all around me like electrical surges of lightning. A thin bolt struck Kevin as he tried to kneel down next to me. "Ow!" He howled, reflectively pulling his leg back.

"Sorry," I breathed, thankful those sickeningly twisted feelings of wanting to do those…horrid things to Kevin and I was disappearing. My heart was beating fast, pounding crazily in my chest.

"Are you okay?" Kevin's hands were soothing over my cheeks, running in circles on my cold flesh.

Unable to spit the words out, I nodded fiercely to show that I was okay. Before I knew it I could feel solid ground beneath me, Kevin's muscular arms around me tight.

"What did you see?" One of the masked officers asked, voice distorted as most alien's were.

"I didn't really see anything…I just felt it…I could feel its thoughts in my mind," my jaw was clenched as I tried to forget.

"Does not compute," the other stated, its voice soaked in concern. My eyes fluttered open, Kevin's anguished face focusing before me.

"It feeds off of alien blood," I told him, feeling my eyes catch burning tears. "Whenever it was in control of Grandpa it wanted us so badly…it thought about Ben…it wants to kill off all half breeds."

"Gwen, you're Grandpa and Ben will be—"

"No!" I yelled, not allowing his lies tell me what I truly wanted to hear, "They won't be alright! Once it takes all of the alien blood it needs, we won't be able to live anymore! It's in our blood, Kevin! It is our blood! It tried to kill Ben but he managed to keep it from doing that, he's still alive, I can feel it."

"Then how do we destroy it?"

I shook my head at an officer who was leaning against a wall, obviously not the leader of his squadron, "I managed to weaken it enough that it went away in search for someone more vulnerable...at least that's what I'm guessing. It couldn't fight us off. It—"

"Ben's the only one," Kevin whispered so low and quietly that I barely heard it.

"What?"

He gripped my icy hands tightly, wrapping around them like a comforting fleece blanket, "Ben's the only one who can stop it and here's why. I bet he was able to sample its DNA and program it into his Ultimatrix with his scanner. So if he managed to keep it from killing him, he can probably kill it himself."

I wanted so badly to bury my face in his shoulder and cry out the tears that were threatening to leak from my eyes. The amused look on one of the officer's pale green faces told me not to by the way he was eying our laced hands with curiosity. Even though Kevin and I were together, it would look so unprofessional in front of an intergalactic officer if we went any farther with our affection.

With one last squeeze, I slid my hands out of Kevin's, "Maybe. We just have to find him first."

"Right," Another officer stated, his helmet still on, messing around with a device on his suit. "We have him on radar. I believe he managed to transform because he's moving fast."

"What?" Kevin asked, totally shocked.

Heart rate climbing down to its regular scale, I pulled out my plumber's badge with a shaky sigh. Sure enough, Ben's blimp was en route to where our ship and the Rustbucket were stationed. Hopefully he was ready to fight…unless the possessive alien had gotten to him first…

The officer that seemed to be the leader of his squadron turned on Kevin, "Should we prepare for battle? Just in case the enemy got to him first?"

He didn't even look at me, "Ready for open fire. Don't shoot unless I give you the signal," he turned towards the hatch door to exit the spacecraft, "Wait here, Gwen. I don't want to risk anything."

"But—"

"Stay here."

With that, he left me in a scramble of intergalactic officers on the verge of tears. I knew he was only trying to protect me and I was not about to argue with the stern icy sharp edge in his voice. I was just scared…for who, Kevin or Ben, I didn't know.

A/N: Wow, this took an interesting twist, didn't it? Review please! I want to know if this whole action/suspense plot twist is any good! :)