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Chapter 4: Crisis
On the faraway planet of Mecka outside of the Milky Way, inside a barren, dark and dirty basement, the eight members of 'The Futha' who had visited planet earth were gasping and screaming for their lives as they had been subjected to electrical whippings for the last few hours. "Now for your last punishment, 'PICK A HAND!" commanded one of the officials. The eight of them including Igazi and Revenna were approached by other members of their gang carrying pliers. "Say goodbye to your fingernails" said the official. Their screaming echoed through the basement of people who laughed and cheered until the creature in the shadows raised his palm to tell the other thugs to stop.
"I'm disappointed in you Revenna as first unit captain, you didn't get what I asked and we're going to war with our rivals 'The homicidal kids' any day now, do you know what will happen if we lose this planet to them?". He said calmly.
Revenna and the rest of the gang struggled to get up after their torture. Their fingers were bleeding and they were in excruciating pain. "What the hell were you thinking shooting Ben Ten? You could have attracted attention to us if the whole universe found out!"
"Sorry, 'Sir' bu—but we neeed—ed to distract him and… his friends like K—Kevin Eleven" she said stuttering as she curled up on the floor in pain.
The man stopped at this and said "Kevin Eleven? I forgot about him… I haven't seen him since he tried to kill me… Here's what you're gonna do, you're going to get the rodent fixed, then bring Kevin Eleven to me, I have a job for him to do" he said evilly.
"Sir please were in pain, can't we have some dust (drugs) first?" asked Igazi
"No this is your punishment, you need to feel the pain of failure" now get going!
GWENS' SCHOOL
"Gwen, Gwen?" Gwendolyn Tennyson?
"Gwen turned her head towards the front of the classroom only to see her History teacher Mr Hertzog standing at her desk staring at her disapprovingly. "Please stop staring out of the window and pay attention!"
"Sorry sir" she said.
"Now for the third time, may you please hand in your 'Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism assignment'" he said impatiently. Gwen froze, she had been working on that assignment for the whole of last week and had decided to finish it yesterday but she forgot on account of what happened to Ben and The Futhas.
"I… I don't have it here sir" she said timidly.
Everyone in the classroom stopped and stared at her including Mr Hertzog. They all whispered in surprised that the star pupil of their entire peer group did not, for the first time do her homework. Even Mr Hertzog looked dumbfounded.
"Well unfortunately Gwen I have to be fair and give you the same punishment as everyone else would. Here's your first ever detention slip".
"Oooohhhh" jeered the students.
"Everyone be quiet! now Gwen be sure to attend after school".
"After school, but I can't make it after school, I…" she trailed off thinking of Ben who would be waiting for her after school in Bellwood hospital after being transferred from Prosperity Academic hospital.
"Sorry Gwen fair's fair."
After class ended as Gwen was about to leave but Mr Hertzog called to see her. "Yes sir?"
"Give me that detention slip". He placed it back in his desk drawer. "I do this for all my students who get their first detention slips, let this serve as a warning and don't let it happen again." "Yes Sir." she said
As she left for the door ,a faint glow emitting from her bag caught her attention. She looked inside her satchel and found her plumbers badge and its familiar green light. "It's on again, but why would they turn our badges on again?"
KEVINS' HOUSE
"Bye mom"
Kevin waved to his mother as she sped off to work. This left him the best opportunity to finally call some people and ask for advice on what to do about 'The Futha'. He was about to run upstairs and get his phone but before he could do that there was a knock on the door that he just closed. He exclaimed in frustration and opened the front door just to see that there was no one there.
Suddenly something whooshed past him into the house, something that looked shiny, and small. He froze in surprise as it was too fast to for him to see what it was or where it landed. He closed the door and searched frantically about the entrance of the house to try and spot anything unfamiliar until…
He saw it… a shiny silver circle that looked like a bracelet attached to the kitchen wall by a hologrammed pin. Kevin knew better than to touch it, he knew it was a trap. He stepped closer to the bracelet and saw some writing on it which read "Say uncle?" he said out loud.
The bracelet acted too quickly for him to realise what was happening; the bracelet actually broke into two halves and both attached themselves to his wrists locking themselves on him. Kevin tried to break them off but couldn't, he tried absorbing the stainless steel of the fridge but also couldn't, as he tried to absorb the material but all it did was make him weaker. His worst fear was again realised when he heard from behind him: "My cuffs are suppressing your Osmosian powers, that's why you can't absorb anything, baby" said Revenna in her usual sickly sweet voice but this time unsmiling, although she seemed different somehow, she had more scars and injuries than the last time they met and he noticed she was shivering slightly.
Igazi walked in with a member that Kevin knew as Choppa who, also looked like they had more injuries. Kevin cursed under his breath; he didn't think The Futha' would find him so quickly. "How did you know where I live"?
"I borrowed this piece of alien tech from a rookie plumber working outside the plumbers academy, which helped me get into the plumbers academy database then I followed your plumbers badge coordinates". Kevin mentally kicked himself; he hadn't checked when the badges were back online, his was still upstairs in his drawer.
"What do you want with me?" asked Kevin his patience wearing thin.
"What do we want with you? What do we want with you?" asked Igazi showing Kevin the dry blood on his fingernails. "You did this to us when you decided to destroy our priceless weapons we were meant to give to our 'Sir'. You know better than to interfere in this kind of business Kev and since you've forgotten, we here to remind you".
"You can't hurt me, I know where you dirty bastards' home turf is and I can inform the plumbers"
"A lot has changed Kevin since you were in this group with us, so you don't know shit! Get him so we can leave this shit place".
The tiny yet strong guy named Choppa started walking up to Kevin who in a swift move, opened the nearest kitchen drawer and took out a kitchen knife. When Choppa ran at him, Kevin tried to stab the little guy in the shoulder but he was so quick and evasive, that he dodged the knife and took out a steel pipe from his back pocket and hit Kevin in the back of his head. Kevin fell to the ground on impact.
"Give him the 'piss blood' instructed Igazi.
"NO, why are you doing this to me, I used to be your best friend!"
Igazi ignored him and snapped his fingers at Choppa who went behind Kevin and kicked him so hard; he felt it where his kidneys lie. He exclaimed in sheer pain. Choppa kicked him again… and again… and again… and Kevin howled, screamed, exclaimed in pain until he was scratching the floor with his short fingernails in pain, then Revenna said "that's enough, we need to get him to planet Mecka now before 'Sir' gets back, anyway I think he'll be pissing blood for a few days now". She then pulled out a whip and wrapped it around Kevin's neck and it electrocuted him into unconsciousness. "We need to have him asleep so he doesn't see the route we're taking and tell his friends" she said. She dragged Kevin by the whip around his neck and placed him into their spaceship hovering quietly above the house with Igazi and Choppa following her and they were off into the distance.
GWEN AFTER SCHOOL
"So, are you coming with me to get tickets for Vampire Summer VI, I still can't believe they replaced Jennifer Nocturne after she 'allegedly' had a breakdown and tried running away with some older man". "Gwen, hey Gwen?"
"Yeah?"
"Look, you did it again, what's wrong with you today? Why are you so distracted?"
"Sorry Em, what were you saying.
"Are you coming to get tickets for Vampire Summer Six"? Gwen was waiting in the visitors parking area of the school for Kevin to pick her up after school and take her to see Ben at the hospital when her best friend Emily approached her.
"No I have to go somewhere after school before my six o' clock curfew".
"Don't you have karate after school?"
"I'm ditching for today, if I don't then I won't make it home before my curfew"
"Why do you even have a curfew so early?"
"I'm grounded, I came home past midnight last night and didn't tell my parents where I was and didn't answer my phone at all when they tried calling me a hundred times.
"What's with you Gwen?"
"What do you mean?"
"First you don't do your history assignment which is unheard of for you, then you're ditching karate to go to some mysterious place, now you're grounded with your parents, you didn't answer my phone calls yesterday as well, is something up with you?".
Gwen would more than love to confide in her best friend about 'The Futha' gang but she knew it would be best not to tell her or she would go into total meltdown.
"No" she said simply
"Well I guess then I'll call you tonight, is that okay?"
"Sure"
"And you'll answer?"
"Oh yeah of course" she said distantly. Emily looked at her worryingly before she left.
Gwen looked down at her watch, she had been waiting for over an hour for Kevin and she couldn't reach him on his cell phone. "Kevin Levin, you are so dead!" she said out loud walking to the bus stop around the corner. "Bellwood hospital? She asked the driver of which he nodded his head and was about to climb in when she heard someone yelling her name…."Gwen, wait!"
It was Ben's girlfriend Julie Yamamoto, she was panting. "I'm sorry, but I needed to ask you, do you know where Ben is? He didn't come to school today and I can't reach him on his phone".
Gwen gulped, keeping Ben's condition a secret was proving to be harder than expected. "Don't worry about it Julie, he's spending time with my grandfather. He should be here tomorrow, as for not answering his phone, it's a camping trip so he probably left it at home, anyway I'll see you later." She said feeling guilty about quickly ditching Julie and climbing onto the bus, leaving an unsure Julie behind.
AT THE BELLWOOD HOSPITAL
"Hello I'm Ashley Sampson and I'm here to see my cousin erm, John Smith" she said to the receptionist. Using a pseudonym was weird enough without having to pretend that Ben could actually pass as a John Smith.
"Oh yes, he's in room 201" "thanks"
As Gwen got to room 201, she slowly opened the door and found Ben sitting up, watching Sumo slammers on the TV in his room. "What's up cuz? He said cheerfully.
"Ben how did you heal so fast?"
"I transformed into Swampfire earlier today when my ultimatrix was switched on again by those goons, so I can heal faster of course, as Swampfire has regenerative powers.
"So what are you still doing in here?"
"I couldn't let the nurses get suspicious, anyway, where's Kevin to cry over my poor mangled body". He said dramatically
That's just it, he's not here and I can't phone him either, I can't believe after all this he doesn't even bother to show up or answer my calls! I swear I'm gonna kill him!
"Don't be so hard on him Gwen; I'm pretty sure he feels guilty enough as it is". "I…"
Before she could respond the jingle on her plumbers badge caught her attention. "Gwen, Ben, Kevin are you there?" asked Magister Ghalil appearing as a hologram on Gwen's badge.
"Yes Ben and I are here".
"Great, I need the two of you to come to the plumber's academy A.S.A.P."
"Why?
We have a crisis on our hands here and we need the two of you as senior plumbers to be here for an investigation.
"Should we go I mean with you still in hospital and all?" she asked Ben
"Of course we should, Ben Ten is back, let's go!"
"How are we going to get out of here?"
Leave it to me".
Gwen and Ben as a tiny nanomic snuck out of the hospital and took another bus to the area near the junk yard to get to the Rust Bucket II spaceship and headed out to the near stationed Plumbers academy outside earths' orbit. When they arrived there was nothing but chaos as the place was in shambles. The entire control room centre looked like it had been blasted away by a huge explosion, the walls were blackened by a fire and the computer screens were cracked, broken, offline and static. Plumber trainees were barricaded in their rooms and some who were walking through the corridors of the station were seen crying and holding each other. They met the Magister in his office.
"Magister what happened?" asked Ben surprised.
"It's not easy to explain this to you but we were broken into earlier today"
"What! that's impossible; the plumber's academy has one of the tightest securities of any security station in the Galaxy, second only to Incarcetron maximum prison" said Gwen.
"Not to mention that this facility is crowded with police" said Ben.
"I know, that's why we have our suspicions that it was an inside job, or…"
"Or?"
"Or the intruder stole an encrypted gate key from one of our rookie officers, which brings me to the other problem".
"What is it?" It looked difficult for him to speak. "Go on we can handle it".
"We found the body of one of our trainees in the control room today after the break in".
"Who was it?" she asked her heart racing.
"We believe that it's the body of Pierce, he'd been missing for several hours now just outside the academy and the body was found at the same place as well".
"Oh my goodness" said Gwen feeling dizzy
"Wait, what do you mean you believe its Pierce, why haven't you identified the body yet". asked Ben
"Because… the body was burnt beyond recognition, we couldn't extract any DNA to identify him".
Gwen and Ben gasped at the same time as this information left them reeling, their world was spinning out of control.
"Can't you use the DNA of his sister Helen for a close match" whispered Ben still disturbed.
"They're adopted siblings, it wouldn't work".
"Poor Helen, she's probably in so much grief right now" said Gwen sadly
"She's gone back to earth now and I don't think she'll be back for more training"
"What are you guys gonna do now?"
"We're launching an investigation with our top officials in conjunction with you guys, hopefully we find the scum who did this to us"
Gwen had a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach, she was left reeling by the death of Pierce and now Kevin was also missing. She coulldn't reach him in anyway. She had a feeling that this was the beginning of a huge disaster.