Team Bananafishstickers' "Grudge Match Redux" Post #18 by Minty Chinchilla
Fuck studying for my near eastern art exam. Not like I can tell the difference between one temple floor plan from another. They all look the same!
Pan2dapan requested fluff. And fluff you shall receive. Sort of. It's more angsty, actually. Gah. That's what happens when I try to write fluff. Angst comes out. It gets kind of sappy near the end though.
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Silla limped down the corridor, cradling her broken right arms. Her wings had healed quickly, so the holes were gone, but they were still too weak to carry her weight. Her left eye was too burnt to save, so she had resorted to wearing an eye patch.
She knew her brother wanted her to see the knife they had used to cut up the human boy, but she could hardly care why. All she wanted was to keep her business going, to keep earning the money that she needed to keep the hunk of junk that was the Mega Cruiser running. But if she couldn't work like she used to because of her appearance, she was going to take it out on Sagark. It was his fault the Earthlings got away. Maybe it was the eye patch, but Silla was feeling pirate-y.
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"We are going to return you back to your normal form, THEN we'll talk tactics."
"There's no way in hell I'm going to let you stay like that," Ben's voice rose as he continued to speak. "You hated being like this when you were a kid. I don't believe you would want to stay like this now!" He was nearly yelling and would have continued if his back hadn't chose that moment to give a particularly nasty throb. He started to slide down the doorframe, but Kevin's Vulpimancer arms caught him before he could reach the floor.
"Dammit, Ben. Take care of yourself before you worry about me." Kevin pulled Ben closer to his body, as though to protect the still-human boy from the big bad doorframe.
"I could say the same about you." Ben still glared at Kevin, but it was softer.
"Too bad. You're not going to," Kevin lifted Ben up and carried him over to the table where Gwen was still sitting. "You're gonna eat instead." Kevin propped Ben up in a chair, careful not to jostle his back. Gwen shook herself out of her shock to get Ben a plate of pancakes and scrambled eggs.
"Kevin's right, Ben. I couldn't fully heal your back, so you need to focus on yourself right now. You won't be able to fight when those aliens come back for you."
Kevin spun around, his tail barely missing the wall behind him. "We don't want those bastards to come back for him, at all. And I'm better suited like this to stop them anyway."
"Just because you can fight better doesn't mean you should stay this way!" Ben nearly choked on his pancake. "What if you can't change back?" Kevin froze. Ben had just voiced the one thing he was worried about last night. Well, the one thing other than Ben, anyway.
"Fuck, Ben, don't you think I've tried changing back yet? I can't. The way I changed back when I was a kid doesn't work now! It's like I can't concentrate properly or something! I'm too fucking damn worried about you!" Kevin's four arms flailed around him as the panic from the night before started to come back.
Gwen was starting to feel a little bit awkward. She wasn't on the Mega Cruiser with the boys so she had no idea what really happened, particularly to Ben since Kevin probably didn't even know himself. She didn't know what to do to break the tension that had risen out of Kevin and Ben's argument. What happened to the boys who used to be so selfish? Honestly, could they be even more worried about each other? They're acting like they're in love or something! Gwen was broken away from her ponderings when Ben stood up and walked towards Kevin.
"Kev, c'mon. We're going to turn you back. No matter what. This isn't you. It's just the DNA from the Omnitrix overwhelming your human DNA. You're still you inside, I can tell when I look in your eyes."
That seals it. Head-over-heels for each other, aren't they? Gwen was positive they were. Even if they didn't know it themselves.
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Notes:
How's that for fluff? Muahaha. I apologize for the "You're still you inside, I can tell when I look in your eyes." They're not cheesy love song lyrics. I swear. Dear goodness gracious, it's like I was channeling Cascada or something. But I wasn't! I was listening to blink-182 for cripes' sake! IT JUST CAME OUT! NOOOOO! And yet… I love it. **facepalm**
OK OK OK OK OK, so I recently rewatched Race Against Time, right? I totes stole Eon's explanation of the Omnitrix for Ben's line about the DNA overwhelming Kevin. Eon said that the Omnitrix times out after ten minutes as a fail-safe, in order to keep the alien DNA from overwhelming Ben's own human DNA, then he noodled with the thing, added his own DNA, and ka-zap! You get mini-Eon. Gwen had to give her colored-socks-coloring-feet speech to bring Ben back.
This is why Kevin mutated in the first place!!!!! He absorbed the energy and DNA from the Omnitrix, but he didn't absorb the Omnitrix. He didn't have that fail-safe to keep his own DNA from being taken over by the alien DNA. Again, he had no Omnitrix to keep the different aliens themselves separated from each other; so all ten aliens were jumbled up inside of his body. Thus, when he was doing all that transforming for such long periods of time, the alien DNA took over his body and the mish-mash of aliens inside him became a physical monster mash! Kevin was able to come back, but now he can't turn back into a human because, like I said above, he's too worried about Ben to concentrate properly on himself. He's going to need something akin to the colored socks speech to bring him back.
Oh, and that thing about the dangler/angler-lure thing-a-ma-jig always disappearing and reappearing and never staying consistent? Try this: Kevin was trying to turn back into his old self the whole time. The dangly thing was probably the easiest thing to absorb back into himself, but when he loses control, it comes back! IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!
Going around town, or at least back to Goddess-of-da-Cheeseburgers.