A/N: wow. Have to keep myself busy somehow! VENDETTA IS TONIGHT AND I CANNOT WAIT! Although I already know what's going to happen…
Disclaimer: don't own anything. But you already knew that, didn't you?
"So now what?" Ben asked, throwing his hands up in surrender. "We've got nowhere to go. No car, no light, no nothing." He ran his fingers through his short brown hair, giving a little laugh. "This is totally hopeless. We're screwed."
"That's my line," came a growl from the older of the two. Kevin got down to the ground again, running his fingers over the tracks. "And besides, we can't just leave Gwen alone out here. Who knows what moron decided to kidnap her this time? Could be anyone. Charmy. Darkboy. We have a lot of enemies if you think about it. They'll either ransom her or drag us in and we don't want to be either, so I vote we find the captor's headquarters and storm 'em. Then they won't expect anything at all. We'll be invisible until necessary." Kevin had surprisingly good tactics when it came down to straight out attacking.
This was a side of Kevin he'd seen many, many times before. This time was only a bit different. He was more determined, not just vengeful as usual. A quiet fire was blazing. Anger at himself? Maybe. Anger at the world? That was normal. Flat out anger? Of course. Ben was only surprised at this because it wasn't like Kevin to come up with all the plans. The brunette boy always saw that as his job, not his friend's. But it was so good to know that he didn't have to be in charge all the time.
Reaching out to trace the marks again, he got his fingers over every detail of the ragged tire marks until it ended abruptly. Kevin's obsidian eyes looked up to his friend. "Any ideas from you?"
Ben only shook his head. Kevin's plan sounded good enough. He wasn't about to argue with Kevin when he was committed to this. "Nope. But one flaw in the whole idea." He dropped on hand from his hair to his side. "We got nowhere to go from here."
There was a soft chuckle from Kevin and he rose to his feet, towering over Ben by a whole head. "That's the biggest lie I've ever heard."
Rolling his green eyes, Ben stared up at the cold gray coated clouds, which had opened up to reveal a bit of light from the sliver of moon that hung in the black as night sky. They could see a few feet in front of them now. That had to be a good sign. Yet there were no new clues to where the car or Gwen had disappeared to. Both were just gone. "So where are we heading now?" he asked.
A finger flicked towards the road again. Kevin gave a tiny smirk, his raven colored hair flipped over his eyes. "All the way up."
"From there?"
There was a bit of silence from Kevin. "Still workin' that part out, okay, Benji?" He started the long trek up the steep slope, rocks tumbling out from beneath his feet after each step dislodged them. "Let's just start with this for now."
"Dude?" Ben started, following quickly behind Kevin.
"What?" He stumbled, catching himself on a few stray weeds that stuck out of the gravel covered ground.
"Wanna play a game? We got a long ways to walk." The ridge the loomed above him was at least a hundred yards up. With them stumbling every few feet, it would be slow going and it'd take hours just to get back to Bellwood. This cliff/hill, as Ben saw it, would take them long enough.
He sighed deeply. "Sure. Knock yourself out."
"But then you'd have to carry me."
Without even thinking, Kevin replied, "Actually, I'd leave your skinny little butt here until the Omnitrix recharged again so you could fly your freaking self home."
"Harsh, much?"
"Horror movie, much?" he retorted, the comment directed at their current situation. It was like a horror movie.
"Okay. So there's a game called a 'Story With A Hole'."
"So you're going to tell me a story with a hole in it?"
"Exactly." Ben was amazed Kevin could catch on like that. He was smart when he decided to be.
He had his days. Kevin sighed. "Alright. So start before I get bored."
"Who said you'd get bored?" Ben raised an eyebrow.
"Just being with you is boring as it is." He flashed a devilish smirk. Gwen always blushed at that grin. If only she was with them...
"Two men were kidnapped and thrown into the trunk of a car." Ben smirked as Kevin nearly tripped again, this time over a rock the size of his head. He caught himself yet again on a tuft of weeds. "One survived. One didn't. How?"
"Aren't you supposed to tell me?"
"No… That's the point. Remember the part where I told you there was a 'hole' in the story?"
"Oh. Right. Um… One killed the other one?"
"No."
"I give up."
Kevin was such a wuss when it came to thinking. "Dude, you can't give up. We just started," Ben said, annoyed with his friend. This wasn't impossibly hard, was it?
A scream echoed through the trees beneath them now as they had just gotten up to the road. The scream of a terrified girl.
"GWEN!" Kevin yelled back into the ravine. He spun on his heels to look out over the trees.
Only silence came back in the form of an echo. There was no movement but the leaves of trees moving with the wind. The rustled back and forth, back and forth like waves crashing on the edge of a sand covered beach.
"We can't leave her," he said, looking to Ben desperately. Gwen was in danger. Kevin was ready to do anything for her. Anything. Smash in Charmy's head. Cut off Darkboy's legs. Anything for Gwen. And, he wasn't too fond of either villan, so torturing them sounded good any day. "Go hero or something. We need to find her."
"Come on. Let's just get home for now. We can track her badge from Max's or something. We'll get Gwen back. Don't worry." He patted his friend's shoulder only to be swatted nice and hard, skin stinging at the blow.
A/N: next chapter will definitely be Gwen. And there may be bacon in that. And chainsaws… I know the classic horror movie torture, but this is supposed to be humor, so that's why this chapter wasn't that good. Did you like it? Probably not. Review anyways! They brighten my day!
~Sky
P.S. NEXT WILL DEFINITELY BE GWEN! i just wanted to write some Kevin and Ben. the guys are FUNNY!
