A.N. Thanks to those who reviewed. Disclaimer: I own nothing except Arianna.
Ben, Gwen, and Kevin got out of the car and walked forward. As they did, Kevin ran his hand along the car and absorbed the metal. Then one of the Forever Knights spoke out," Ben 10 come quietly with us, or else." Ben sighed and said to himself more than anyone, "Why do the bad guys always say that? Do they really think I'm gonna do what they say just because they say or else?" HE then spoke so everyone could hear, "Yeah right do you really think I'll do what you say?" He then used the omnitrix and in a flash of green light he was, "Swamfire!" The various Knights drew blasters and other weapons. Then the fight began, Gwen threw manna disks and created shields but was soon distracted by a massive knight that was coming at her. She began to fight him and couldn't help Ben or Kevin. As she was fighting Kevin saw her and started to run over and help but was distracted by a group of knights, all of them similar to the one Gwen was fighting. As they closed in Kevin just felt the need to say, "Are you all pumping' steroids or something 'cause that's not legal or safe." This just seemed to anger them because they all started throwing punches and kicks at Kevin. He couldn't get away to help Gwen, he had to fight his way out and he was having trouble as well. Meanwhile Ben was throwing flames and kicking butt, but for every knight he took down another one took their place. In his frustration he said, "How many of you are there?" he had been fighting for what felt like forever and the knights just kept coming. He had tried to help Gwen or Kevin but every time he tried the knights just attacked harder and he couldn't help.
They had been fighting for an hour when it seemed like they were going to lose. All of a sudden they heard the roar of an engine coming closer, they all saw the car in the corner of their eye as it pulled to a stop and recognized it as the car of the girl that had helped them earlier. Gwen slowly worked her way towards the car incase the girl got out. She did indeed get out and just as Gwen was about to place a shield around her she shouted something and the Forever Knights started shaking. When they stopped they weren't the bug bulky men from before, they were teens barely older than them. This didn't stop them though, they kept on fighting, but now it was clear who was going to win. Soon one of the knights shouted. "Retreat!" and they all left. "Come on lets go get them the COWARDS!" Kevin said the last part so loudly that anyone near could hear. Then a voice with a slight British accent said, "Kevin let them go you'll have another fight with them some time." Kevin just turned around slowly, in shock at the girl who had just saved them. After hearing the voice he realized who the girl was, but he was surprised. He just stood there and stuttered, "NO way, but I thought, Europe, not coming back, wanted out, needed a break?" The girl just laughed and said, "Kevin your catching flies. Also complete sentences help." Ben and Gwen just stood there confused. Gwen then spoke, "So Kevin want to introduce us to your friend?" Kevin shook his head and said, "This is Adrianna-" he was cut off as she said, "correction, my name is actually Arianna, there was a translation mishap when I was brought here. Continue." Kevin just shook his head again, "Same as always. Any ways, she's the person that got me out of the Null Void. She's also like a little sister to me. I haven't seen her in a few years though and we lost contact." "HE also forgot to mention a billion other things like I'm the one who taught him all he knows about cars, but we can talk later. WE might want to leave before the Forever Knights return." With that she got into her car, she rolled down the window and said, "I'll follow you guys wherever you want to go." Kevin, Gwen, and Ben all got in the car and after lots of debating and some whining on Ben's part, the decided to go to Kevin's apartment. Ben was sitting in the back pouting because they weren't going to Mr. Smoothie's until he remembered Arianna saying she taught Kevin what he knows about cars. HE was cheered up at the thought of learning more embarrassing stuff about Kevin.
When they finally reached Kevin's apartment they all headed to the living room. Gwen asked, "So how did you meet Kevin?" Arianna replied, "It's a longish story so I hope you don't have anything important going on." "Well I already had soccer practice so I'm good." Ben said as he walked into the kitchen area. Kevin shouted from the couch, "Don't mess with anything in there!" Ben then walked out dejectedly and sat down.
"Well as far as I know I have been on Earth since I was six months old. I was adopted by the people I consider my family when I arrived. My biological parents came from a planet similar to Earth; I don't know its name. My biological father was a plumber stationed there; my biological mother was a local. Her race is similar to Anodites, but they can die if injured badly or they get a deadly sickness. They live forever otherwise and have access to a power they call magic. It allows them to do more things but it takes the energy that would be required to do whatever it is physically, they also have heightened senses. Since my father was human I will die I'll just have a really long life, my senses an only slightly better than any normal person, but I can access the magic. I have never met my biological parents. My family here is like any other normal family, but they do know about my heritage. I found out on my 8th birthday that I wasn't just a regular kid. My parents made me go to a Plumber shrink just in case, I'm glad they did because I learned more about my biological mother's people. It was my 11th birthday when I started having dreams. On my birthday I had a dream where I was in a strange world made up of asteroids and an orange sky." Gwen and Ben whispered at the same time "The Null Void." "Yeah, but I didn't' know at the time. As I looked around I was suddenly attacked by a giant grotesque creature." At this point she just stopped and looked at Kevin. "Yeah bout that, I've told you, I was sorry!" "Sure Kevin, sure, anyway, I was so freaked out I pulled a dear in the headlights and froze. I didn't get hurt though, he just ran straight through me. I guess it was more like a projection than me actually being there. For the first week or so this continued until he realized I wasn't gonna do anything to him and he couldn't do anything to me. When he finally realized that he started talking, he told me about him and how he was really a 12 year old boy, and I guess you could say I became his own personal shrink, probably a really bad one though." Kevin shrugged and said, "Eh, you weren't the best but talking to somebody made sure I didn't go crazy." "Well, guess I'll never be a psychiatrist. After a while I began to wonder if I could help him with his problem." Calling it a problem was a nice way of referring to when Kevin was that freaky combination of the ten original aliens. "I thought maybe it could be like an internal injury and just needed fixing. I suggested the idea to him and he agreed. I planned to only pull out one or two species at a time so I wouldn't over exert my self and possibly die. I stored up a lot of energy for a month just in case. When I finally felt ready I told Kevin that it might hurt some." "Hurt some! It hurt like a-"Kevin shouted until he was interrupted, "Kevin watch your language!" Gwen said shocked. "Yeah Kevin, listen to Gwen. Well I delved into Kevin's mind to find the area that dealt with the body and found the injury. I summoned the stored energy and slowly began to peel of the alien parts. I had completely got off one species and had some energy left so I decided to pull off the smallest amount of alien. It probably wasn't the smartest thing to do though. I pulled out of his mind and just barely had time to say bye when I disappeared and sunk into something like a come. I woke up the next day but was very tired. This process continued but there were no more of the comas. I was finally done around Christmas time. I don't know why but I had been getting really tired lately and one day, I basically slept all day. Then I wake up the next morning to find Kevin on my floor, knocked out. I don't know how it happened but there he was. And I being the nice person I was woke him up." "YEAH, by kicking me! My back hurt for a week." Kevin said heatedly. Gwen and Ben just laughed at this. "Anyway I offered that he could stay but he said he didn't think he would. So I gave him a local map, about 30 bucks, and some contact information. WE kept in touch and my life went back to normal. My birthday came around again and I had some trouble." Her voice had this edge to it like this was still and uncomfortable subject to talk about. "I told my parents I was going to a Plumber school in England that helps people with powers like mine, they told everyone I was just going to a boarding school. Really I went and lived with Kevin and helped him with his line of work." Ben, being Ben, asked "What kind of trouble mad you leave?" Gwen just mentally face palmed herself as Arianna jumped up and said," I need to use the bathroom." and rushed off. "Nice job doofus! You don't think do you?" Kevin said angrily. "Huh?" was all Ben said. "Never mind," Kevin said," you want to know what happened fine."
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