Things really seemed to have calmed down once Vilgax and Kevin Eleven were back in the null void. They didn't have to worry about being attacked in the middle of the night so they were able to sleep peacefully. But once morning came, they realize that they had another problem. Charmcaster.

"Something wrong kids?" Max asked walking up too his two future grandkids and Kevin. He found them all sitting on the picnic table with serious looks.

Ben was the first to answer him. "Sort of."

Gwen answered next. "We're a little worried about something, grandpa." She told him moving some hair out of her face.

Finally Kevin spoke. "Yeah, we're trying to figure out how to stop this…witchcaster girl from our time.

"Charmcaster." Both Gwen and Ben corrected him.

"What's that about Charmcaster?" They all turned to see the ten year old Gwen walking up to them. The ten year Ben was not far behind her. "Are we going to fight her next?"

"We are, but you're not." Gwen told her past self.

"What do you mean?" The past Ben asked.

Ben answered that question. "Well it was because of Charmcaster that we even got sent to the past, but the whole time that we were here we haven't seen her once." He explained to them. "So we're not sure what we should do right now. For all we know she could be in the future waiting for us, or hiding here in the past waiting for us to leave so that she can attack you guys."

The younger Ben just scoffed at the idea. "So what. We've fought and beat the snot out of Charmcaster before. We can so do it again." He said getting the Omnitrix ready. "Besides we don't need to worry. Not when Ben 10 is around!"

Everyone gave him annoyed looked and sighed. "Gwen was I really like that?" Ben asked his cousin.

"Trust me you were a lot worse." She told her cousin remembering just how annoying he use to be.

Kevin chuckled at this. "Trust me Ben, even I remember just how annoying to use to be, and let's just say that old habits die hard for you." He ruffled Ben's hair just to annoy him.

Ben moved Kevin's hand away and fixed his hair. "Anyway we're trying to decide what we should do. I mean we do have to get home soon."

"Aww! Do you really have too?" The younger Ben whined. "I was hoping we could have a battle to see whose Omnitrix was better."

Gwen giggled at her cousin's old self. "Sorry Ben, but we need to get home. If we stay to long it could really affect our future and yours." She told him gently.

Ben got up from his seat and stood in front of his past self. "But don't worry you'll see just how much better the Omnitrix gets in my time period."

The younger Ben smiled at this. "Ok." Then he got a little smirk on his face. "But there's no way that you're Omnitrix is nicer then mine."

"What? You have got to be kidding me. I'm not going to fight my past about who's Omnitrix is cooler." Ben said crossing his arm.

Gwen smiled at her cousin. "That's really mature of you Ben."

Ben nodded his head thanking her for the compliment. "Besides it's so obvious that mine is way cooler and better." He grinned.

"What no way. My Omnitrix is way better." The younger Ben argued.

"Please, I remember those guys and I know for a fact that all my new guys could take them." Ben argued back.

"Yeah right. I bet Heatblast could kick the snot out of all your guys." The ten year old argued again.

"Please. Did you not see Swamfire? Heatblast wouldn't stand a chance." The fifteen year old argued right back.

While they argued everyone just gave them weird looks.

"What I'd tell you? Old habits die hard for Ben." Kevin said pointing towards the two Ben's that were still fighting.

Gwen sighed at her two cousins. "Sometimes I really hate it when you're right." She continued to watch the two fight for a few more minutes before sighing again.

"So…how long to you think they'll keep that up?" Kevin asked after a few moments.

"Knowing Ben, it'll be a while before they stop." Gwen answered turning her head to face Kevin. They looked in each others eyes and remembered the kiss they shared last night.

"So…" Kevin spoke again but couldn't think of what else to say.

"So…" Gwen couldn't think of anything else to say either. All she could do was smile.

They stared at each other for a few more minutes completely forgetting that they had an audience watching them.

"Uh…excuse me?" A voice broke them from their thoughts. "Do you guys like 'Like' each other?" The old Gwen asked crossing her arms, staring up at the two teenagers.

Both teens blushed a bright crimson. "Well…uh…we….I…um…." They didn't know what to say at this moment. By now both Ben's stopped fighting and all eyes were turned on them.

"Well I…" Gwen tried to think of what to say but couldn't. "Uh…um…uh…..!"

Kevin watched her try and speak and couldn't help but gulp. Sure she kissed him last night and was always nagging him to ask her out, but he never really knew if she liked him or 'liked' him.

"Well…we…I mean I…." She looked everyone and gulped. "I…I…" She looked at Kevin and saw her watching him with a look in his eyes. She had never seen that look before and somehow that one look helped her find her voice.

"I…like him."

Time seem to freeze for a moment for everyone.

"You…what?" Kevin asked her hoping hat he heard her right.

"I said…"Gwen put her hand over his. "I like you, Kevin."

Kevin couldn't help but smile at hearing her words. "Thanks." He intertwined their fingers. "I…Like you too." He looked her in the eyes as he spoke.

Gwen could feel her smile get even bigger.

"Uh…guys?" Gwen and Kevin both turned their heads to look and see that Ben and everyone else was watching them. "Maybe we should continue this later?" Ben suggested with a weak smile. This felt a little awkward to him, he knew that the two of them liked each other, but he had never seen them acted like it.

Quickly, as if nothing had ever happened, they moved away from each other and looked at everyone but the other. They didn't know whether to be embarrassed that everyone was watching them, or mad because Ben didn't warn them that they had an audience. Either way both of their faces were bright red.

"Ha! I knew it. You totally like Kevin in the future!" The younger Ben said taunting his cousin. He kept laughing in her face before it finally dawned on him. "Ew! You like Kevin! That is so wrong." He faked puking.

Gwen annoyed with her cousin hit him right on the whatever. "Shut up, dweeb! Besides this Kevin and the one we just fought are like two totally different people. This Kevin is good and the other one was evil, so it like totally doesn't matter." She told him crossing her arms. She wouldn't admit it to her cousin, but she actually agreed with him, it seemed totally wrong for her to like Kevin, but didn't person and different timeline. Looks like things change a lot in the future.

Ben rubbing his head stuck his tongue out. "Whatever. You're just upset because we sent your boyfriend away and now you can't kiss him." He teases her laughing again.

Gwen finally had it with her cousin and kicked him in the stomach. He fell over in pain and Gwen smiled at her accomplishment. She finally shut her cousin up.

Max finally had it with the two of them and separated them. "That's enough fighting you two. Now we need to figure our how we're going to send your future self's back home." He told the two of them.

"But how?" Ben asked no longer holding his stomach in pain. "We don't know where Charmcaster is, and none of us know any magic." He said.

"Maybe not, but I think I have something that could help." Max smiled before going inside the rust bucket for a couple of minutes, before coming out with a ray gun.

"What's that grandpa?" Ben asked coming up to look at the gun.

"Wow! No way." Kevin smiled and looked at the gun in aw. "It's an interstellar transporter ray gun. They don't even make them anymore." He was amazed at what he was seeing.

Max looked at Kevin and smiled. "Seems like you know a lot about plumber's tech. well you're right, these bad boys haven't been made in last thirty years, a lot of plumbers thought that they were too dangerous if they ever fell into enemy hands so all plumbers were suppose to hand them in so they could be destroyed." He explained powering up the gun.

"And you didn't feel like it?" Gwen asked smiling at her grandfather. She knew that he had his reasons, he always did.

He smiled at his granddaughter. "Oh I did, but they asked for all plumbers to hand in their one transported gun, they didn't say anything about the second." He told them with a sneaky wink. "Besides I always figured that I would need this one day, and wouldn't you know it, I was right."

"What do you mean? Just what does this thing do anyways?" Ben asked looking cautiously at the gun.

"It's a transported gun. It can transport you anyway in the whole galaxy." Kevin explained to them.

"And you know this because…" Ben asked him with a raised eye brow.

"Same way I know everything else." Kevin explained simply.

Ben opened his mouth to speak again but Gwen stopped him. "So what are we supposed to do with it anyways?" She asked him.

"Well in theory, this should help you all get home." He answered her looking at the ray and then them.

"How's it supposed to do that?" Kevin asked. "This can only transport us anywhere in the galaxy, I'm pretty sure it can't transport us to the future." He said looking at the ray gun. Maybe Max was sending them to a planet that could help them get to the future?

"Actually with the help of this and Gwen, I should be able to send you guys back." Max told them.

Gwen looked confused now. "Me?" She asked looking at her grandfather. "What am I suppose to do?" she asked him.

"Your powers should be able to make that this ray can transport you all back to your time." He said. "Ben told me about Charmcaster and how you fought her. I think if we can combine your powers with this device, it should send you all back."

"Should send us back?" Ben asked his grandfather.

"I've never done this before, so I can't be sure of what will happen." Max explained to them. He looked at the three teenagers and then looked at the two ten year olds, who were looking up at him. "But before we do that, there's something else that we need to do first." He added with a very serious look. "You need to erase our memories of everything that happened today and put in the ones that we're suppose to have."

All gasped and looked up at Max, they didn't know what to say or think at this point. What he said was so unexpected, it really caught them off guard.

"Grandpa, what are you saying?" The past Ben finally spoke up?

"Yeah Grandpa, why would you want us to erase your memories?" The future Ben asked him next.

"Because knowing too much about the future is never good. You can change it a lot and not always for the best. For all we know, some parts of your time period could have already be altered." He said to them.

"So? What's wrong with that?" Ben asked him. This way we'll be ready for everything that comes our way." He added not seeing the problem at the problem that Max was talking about.

"Sometimes being too prepared isn't good. Human being need to be able to make mistakes and learn from them, if not then we're not really living our lives." He said to them. "Besides that, there are a few things in your time period that I know you don't want to change." He looked at Gwen and Kevin and they understood what he meant. If their past lives kept their memories then Kevin may not join up with them in the future and the team will never form, and neither will the love between Gwen and Kevin.

Gwen took in a deep breath and sighed. "We understand grandpa." She walked up to hers and Ben's past selves and put one hand on each of their heads. Her hands began to glow and soon enough both ten year olds started to close their eyes and they fell asleep. Their memories replaced with a different story of what happened these past two days.

Max smiled at his two sleeping grandkids and took them inside and laid them on their beds. He then turned to Gwen and nodded his head, telling her to do it.

Gwen moved to her grandfather, put her hands on his head and the same thing that happened to Ben and Gwen, happened to Max. They put him in his own bed and headed back outside to start up the ray gun that would send them home.

"Got any idea of how to work this thing?" Ben asked Kevin who was making a few adjustments to the gun.

"Not really. This is my first time every using this time of plumber tech, but what could really happen?" Ben opened his mouth but Gwen stopped him. "Don't even answer that." She warned him.

After a minute Kevin was ready. "Ok, now Gwen when I say so fire at the ray and I'll do the same. The blasts should be almost the same as when we fought Charmcaster and it should be able to send us home." He told them. Neither of them knew what would happen, but hoped that whatever did it would send them home.

Taking a few steps back, Gwen readied herself and so did Kevin. His charged up the gun and aimed it at Gwen; she did the same with her powers. They held each others eyes and you could see that they were hesitant to fire at the other. But they knew that they had to do it.

"Now!" Kevin fired the ray gun and Gwen shot her powers, both attacks hit the other right on and the wind around them was starting to pick up. Suddenly the sky turned black and the ground started to shake, then a giant vortex opened up beneath the three teens and sucked them in.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" They were spinning all around the vortex and could only wonder where it was taking them.

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The breeze blew by and slowly it began to wake her up. Her body felt heavy and she felt really exhausted for some reason, and her head really hurt. Opening her eyes Gwen saw that she was lying on the ground at the park.

"Oh! What happened?" She got up and held her head.

"Yeah, that's what I like to know." Ben replied sitting up next to his cousin. He too was holding his head.

"Oh man." Kevin was up next. "It feels like my brain was spinning around a tornado." He held his head and looked all around him. "Does anyone remember what we were doing here exactly?" He asked his two teammates. They shook their heads no; neither of them could remember what they were doing here.

"Were we fighting an alien?" Ben asked thinking that might be the reason why.

"Well look who finally decided to show their faces again." The three teens heard a voice from above and looked up. Charmcaster was floating above them and she looked ready to fight. "It's about time you all came back."

"Came back? What she talking about?" Kevin asked them.

"Who knows and who cares." Gwen replied getting ready to fight her old enemy.

"Gwen's right." Ben got the Omnitrix ready. "It's hero time!" He slammed down on the watch and transformed into one of his ten aliens. "Jetray!" He transformed and looked up at Charmcaster, he was about to fight when he had a weird feeling in his head. "Whoa. Déjà vu." He shrugged it off and went to attack; Gwen and Kevin were right behind him.

They beat Charmcaster with ease and sent her to the null void with the help of Kevin's car. It was dark already by the time they finished and Kevin drove Ben and Gwen home. He dropped Ben off first and then headed to Gwen house.

"Thanks Kevin." Gwen thanked him as she got out. She walked over to the drivers side and bent down a little to look in the open window at him. "I'll see you tomorrow." She said.

"Yeah, I…"Kevin stopped and looked at his car. "That's weird."

"What?" Gwen asked wondering what was wrong.

"My null void projector scan. It says that I've already sent three things into the null void." He told her trying to fix his scanner.

"But didn't you just put this in today?" Gwen asked him. Maybe the scanner was just reading it wrong or was on the frits.

"Yeah, I did. Maybe when I put in the scanner I didn't set it right?" He said figuring that must have been it.

"Guess so." Gwen said looking at the scanner and then Kevin. "Kevin." She called him.

"Yeah?" Kevin looked up at her and his eyes widened.

Gwen moved her head a little and kissed him. She didn't know what came over her but she felt the sudden need to kiss him. Kevin shocked by this didn't move at first but closed his eyes soon enough and kissed her back. They stayed like that for a while longer before they both pulled back. They each had a smile on their face and didn't know why but had a strange feeling inside their hearts.

"So…I guess I'll see you tomorrow?" Gwen asked him still smiling.

"Yeah, definitely." Kevin smiled back at her.

Happy with what had just happened. Gwen waved goodbye and headed into her house, but not before turning around and blowing Kevin a goodbye kiss.

He watched her go in and blew him the kiss, he never thought he would ever say this, but he was happy with his life and the way things turned out. He was finally glad to be alive. He looked at Gwen's house one more time before he started his car and headed home. The whole way he thought about Gwen and how amazing it felt to kiss her.

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