I know that my recent chapters have been short, and I hope to rectify that in this chpter. If you guys have any constructive criticism please send me some! Reviews are always welcome. So here we are, enjoy.
Ben and Gwen were sitting at a table in the food quart. Ben had gotten a smoothie and Gwen was drinking soda.
"Ben are you excited?" asked Gwen. Ben smiled at his cousin.
"Well yeah, I've wanted to see them since they hatched Gwen." Ben giggled, Gwen's phone went off, it was Kevin, and she answered it.
"Hi Kevin. Huh? Well that's good. Wait, what?" Gwen turned her head and glanced at Ben. "What do you mean?! Kevin!" Gwen furrowed her brow in obvious anger and distress. This got Ben worried; he had a sinking feeling in his gut. "How did-? WHAT?!" Gwen stood up abruptly, and then Ben saw it, an explosion, an escape pod being shot and a floating Pisccis Volanns in a space helmet. His heart sank he knew his children were in the escape pod, but who attacked them and why? Ben looked up at his cousin his eyes wide and filled with worry, Gwen hung up the phone and dragged Ben outside teleporting to the Rustbucket III. Kevin was there, so was Grandpa Max, both looking sadly at Ben. Ben dropped his things as he fell to the floor, gripping his heart, tears flowed down his face, Kevin and Gwen both rushed to him brining him into an embrace.
"We will get them Ben they aren't that far away. I've got a trace on them." Kevin said reassuringly as he rubbed Ben's back. Ben nodded and let Gwen take him to the deck as Max and Kevin followed. Once all strapped in they took off to find the children and plumber in need. Ben kept his gaze forward in the copilot seat, Gwen and max looked at him worriedly. Ben closed his eyes, feeling out for his kids he found them; they were a good three day travel away. Ben frowned again his hands gripping the edge of the chair until his knuckles turned white. Gwen was busy accessing the mana channel trying to reach out for her grandmother, hoping she could get to the children before they could. As Gwen focused on her task she had yet to realize her own cousins mana surging slightly. They all sat in silence for hours until Gwen decided to break it.
"Ben?" Gwen called out to her cousin. Ben twitched a bit his eyes glanced to the side. Gwen continued "They're fine Ben, I contacted Grandma Verdona. She already found them and is bringing them to us ok?" Not even a minute later did the Anodite appear in the control center with the escape pod in her tendrils of hair and the magister in her arms. Kevin put the ship on auto pilot heading to earth; he turned around to face the others. Ben leapt up jumping into his grandmother's arms after she put the magister and the pod down, Verdona returned the hug smiling.
"Hello to you too kiddo" she let go of her grandson to open the pod she had set down next to her. Ben rushed to look inside, the children were sleeping soundly inside, and Ben smiled. Gwen brought out a blow up mattress, and placed it in the center of the room. Ben brought out the children one by one, as Max and Kevin tried to wake up the magister. Verdona began to talk to Gwen. "Why hello Gwen, how have you been dear?" Gwen began to talk to her grandmother as Ben kneeled down next to his children. There were seven in all, four boys and three girls, each had either blue or red hair except one boy had purple hair, from Big Chill no doubt. Ben closed his eyes as he felt their energies, the one on the far right, he had long shoulder length red hair and he was bigger than the rest, Rage, that's his name. Ben thought to himself as he opened his eyes brushing his hair from his eyes as he leaned over to kiss his son on the forehead, the one next to him was a girl with blue hair flowing down to her waist, Renee, that's her name. Ben smiled down kissing her as well. The next two girls were holding hands facing together, the one on the left had sky blue hair that ended mid-back, Snow, and the one on the right had dark blue shoulder length hair and Winter, Ben kissed them both and scooted over. The next boy had orange-red short hair that stuck up in odd directions, Levi. To his right was a boy with purple shaggy short hair (styled similar to Ben's when he was 10) Nio. Last on the far right was a smaller boy with sky blue hair swept over one of his eyes, Sky, he was the one that wanted to stay, and I told him to go. He's still the smallest. Ben smiled as he kissed the rest of them one by one then got up to walk over to Kevin and Max where a now awake magister was trying to gather his wits.
"Look, I don't know who did it. But I did get a glimpse of him. He looked a lot like the one you described that worked for Vilgax. I'm not entirely sure it was him but there were similarities." The magister said as he shook his head looking down. Max put his hand on the Pisccis Volanns' shoulder reassuringly. Ben closed his eyes, somehow Vilgax had found out he had kids and try to attack them. His brow furrowed as he tightened his fists, his shoulders shaking in anger, tears began to run down his face. Kevin saw and rushed over to him, put a hand on his shoulder to try and calm him down. Gwen saw what was happening, she too rushed over and Ben collapsed in her arms, clinging to her as he cried. Verdona walked over to the magister and teleported him away, disappearing then reappearing next to Max as she looked sadly at her grandchildren.
"Ben let's get everyone back to Earth, we'll focus on Vilgax after that ok?" Max said, Verdona put a hand on her love's shoulder and smiled towards the teens. Ben nodded, wiping his eyes as he stood up.
"Mommy?" Everyone turned to look at the mattress to see the kids waking up, Sky, the smallest one was up and looked at Ben with wide pale blue eyes, the rest were yawning and rubbing the sleep from their eyes. Sky got up and ran, jumping onto Ben who caught him smiling hugging the boy. The rest of the kids soon got up and walked over to Ben, who put Sky down and kneeled down opening his arms as his children ran into them hugging their mother.
"I'm so happy your all safe" Ben said to them, which earned him a jumbled bunch of words, each one of them trying to talk to him at the same time, this caused the Omnitrix bearer to laugh. "Okay okay, one at a time please" this caused the children to calm down; they all looked at each other almost as if trying to decide who would go first. Everyone looked at Rage, the red haired and eyed boy, who seemed to be the leader at the time. He looked up at Ben innocently with wide eyes then smiled softly.
"We're happy to meet you finally Mom." After rage finished everyone began talking again. Ben smiled as he got up and held up one finger bringing it to his lips, making a 'shh' noise. They all quieted, this caused Verdona, Max and Gwen to laugh, and Kevin smiled at the scene. They are all beautiful; they come from Ben, so of course they'd be. Kevin thought as he gazed at Ben longingly. Ben smiled down at his children, trying to decipher the jumble of words each tried to convey at the same time. They are so excited. I'm glad that they are so happy to see me. He thought gladly.
It was quite a funny site to see, seven children, all resembling their father in some way jumping up at him, talking at him with wide smiles, eyes sparkling with glee. Verdona was giggling slightly, Max watched amused and Gwen had a dreamy expression on her face. Kevin smiled and turned to take back the controls and guide them to earth. Nio jumped up higher than the rest, his large purple wings (necrofriggian) showed themselves and he flew face to face with Ben.
"Mom?" everyone got quite as Nio talked, his brothers and sisters looking at him. "Can we go home with you now?" Ben's face broke out into a huge grin.
"Yes! Yes of course, if that's what you all want?" Ben looked down at the other children, they all smiled widely nodding. Ben just pulled them all into a hug laughing. Max had walked away to tell his son and daughter-in-law that the children would be arriving much sooner than expected so they could get the two guest rooms in order for them. Ben brought out the many bags of clothes he had letting his kids pick out what they wanted to wear. They went through the bags throwing clothes on the floor, they soon began stripping Verdona laughed as Ben lead them to a separate room to change, soon they all came out one by one. Rage was wearing a black jean jacket with a dark blue shirt that had a band logo on it along with dark blue baggy jeans and black converse. Renee wore a purple half-sleeved shirt and a black flowing knee-length skirt and black flats. Winter wore a white dress with a forest green sweater and matching flats. Snow wore a similar outfit but her dress was dark green and her sweater was white. Levi wore a long sleeve black shirt with blue stripes and dark green khaki shorts and Nike shoes. Nio wore a plain blue shirt and light blue jeans with converse. Sky had picked out a white shirt, a yellow button down shirt which wasn't buttoned and blue jeans. Gwen cooed over Winter and Snow, for they had chosen outfits she herself had picked. Ben smiled as his hybrid children ran towards him jumping onto him, all trying to hug him at once. Max walked back in.
"Sandra and Carl are getting their rooms ready. The boys will have to share a room and the girls will have to share their own as well" Ben nodded at his grandfather, the kids jumping off of him and onto Max. The now great-grandfather laughed as he fell to the floor from the weight. Ben and Gwen smiled at the scene.
"Well that's my queue to leave" Verdona spoke up smiling. Gwen smiled as Ben got up hugging his grandmother once again before letting go and looking at her in the eye. "See you later Kiddo" Verdona said looking down at him before she disappeared, teleporting home.
Ok so that's it for part 3! In the next part I'm hoping to do a fighting scene, beware though, angst is coming up soon. It's going to be sad, but it's what I have in my head. Hopefully I can update my other stories too during winter break.
