Anti-Ben 10 ch.12: Truth
Deep in the mountains hidden by the thick tree coverage was an army base, high security in both systems and highly trained personnel. The reason for such security was that this base contained several dozen nuclear warheads that were to be used only if war was declared.
Above ground the base wasn't easily found as there was only a fence and tower to tell you something was there, not to mention the top of the missile silos housing the warheads.
High above the base a space ship hovered, several beams of lights shot down from it and each covered the hatches of the silos and opened them, pulling the warheads up and loading them into the ship.
Beneath in the base two men ran through the base, stunning and knocking the soldiers and guards unconscious with expensive and complex looking guns. The two men wore full body suits with dark glass on their helmets to protect their identity.
"You sure this'll work Max?" One man asked as they ran into the main hanger of the base, throwing a pair of concussion grenades at several soldiers and knocking them out as the grenades exploded
"The Tetrivites want something to make a few holiday planets, for that they'll need something that can make a bang. They played it smart and came to the Plumbers, and Plumbers always deliver Phil" Max smiled even though his partner Phil couldn't see it "a couple of more minutes and they'll have all they need"
"A couple more minutes and you shall be in a holding cell on my ship" a rasping voice said behind them.
Spinning around Max and Phil started firing at the person who spoke, but they easily dodged the shots by leaping and flipping over them, landing they protected themselves from the shots by crossing their arms in front of them as a sustained blast hit them and pushed them back.
"You've got no jurisdiction here Vilgax, what are you doing on my planet?" Max asked as he cocked his gun
"He's going down is why he's here" Phil aimed his gun at Vilgax but knew the distance between was too big and he'd easily dodge them
"I came following the Tetrivites, but seeing as you two are here I have decided to take you back to the Alliance with me" Vilgax growled looking from Max to Phil "You've caused enough problems in Alliance territory to be locked away for the rest of your lives"
"Not happening squid-face" charging forward Phil ignored Max as he yelled at him to stop, once the distance was shrunk enough Phil aimed again and fired as Vilgax leapt into the air, his shots missing as Vilgax fell towards him and kicked him in the face, knocking Phil's helmet off and making him drop his gun.
"Enough Tennyson surrender now and you'll receive a fair sentence, resist and I will have to use the authority given to me by the Alliance to stop you and the Tetrevites with deadly force" Vilgax warned as he pulled out a shock gun and aimed it at Phil's back, setting it to maximum stun.
"Don't do it Max, just take the son of a bitch down" Phil grunted as he felt Vilgax add more pressure
"Don't worry Phil, everyone will get out of this happy." Dropping his gun Max watched as Vilgax followed it with his eyes. Raising his wrist a small part of the metal band that made up part of his glove opened and revealed a red circle. Aiming expertly Max shot at the gun and blasted it out of Vilgax's hand giving Phil the chance he needed to escape, slamming his elbow into Vilgax's stomach as hard as he could making him loosen his grip. Pulling the arm away from his throat Phil rolled forwards and away from Vilgax as Max used his foot to flick his gun back into his hands. Switching the setting of the gun Max aimed quickly and fired at Vilgax, shooting a thick grey goo at him.
As the goo slammed into him Vilgax was pushed off his feet and slammed into the side of a rocket, as he fought against the goo he could feel it restricting his movement and refused to break no matter how hard he pushed against it.
"Well, we'll get out of this happy" Max smiled as he watched the rocket get bathed in a light and start to raise upwards "Give our regards to the Tetrivites"
As the rocket disappeared through the silo opening Max heard Vilgax shout his name in rage
-Break-
"And that was the last time I saw Vilgax, I thought the Tetrivites had taken care of him and I'd never see him again." Max finished telling Ben and Gwen his story of the last time he'd seen Vilgax while enjoying a cigar as he drove the Rust Bucket.
"Whoa you were badass grandpa, I can't believe you beat Vilgax so easily" Ben smiled from the passenger seat, he knew Max was cool but now he was seeing him as more, Max was almost awesome.
"He was a lot smaller back then, and taking on people like Vilgax just came with the job"
"Earth to grandpa, you never told us what that job was" Gwen spoke up from her laptop with an annoyed tone, her head still hurt slightly from where it was cut open when she banged her head against the dashboard when they smashed their way out of Vilgax's ship. Fortunately the doctor had done a good job with the stitching and had told her when it had fully healed she wouldn't be able to see the scar unless she was looking for it.
Taking a large puff from his cigar Max sighed, he didn't want to drag his grand kids into his old work but now he had no choice, they'd been dragged into the crazy world of space aliens and monsters and there was no helping it.
"I worked for a galactic organisation called The Plumbers, we specialised in acquiring, trading and smuggling items to who ever wanted them, if you came to us then you'd tried everything and everyone else and failed. Needless to say the Galactic Alliance didn't like us going against their laws and tried to stop us."
"Grandpa you've just gone from cool to awesome, smuggling stuff across a galaxy, it's like something out of a movie" Ben's eyes practically sparkled when he looked at Max and thought of him flying space ships and fighting aliens in bar room brawls.
"And you knew about the watch the whole time?" Gwen asked bringing the conversation back on track as she slammed her laptop closed
"Not really, just rumour and scuttle bug, I was as surprised as you guys when it turned up on Ben's wrist" Max could guess what was making Gwen angry and it wasn't the cut on her head, he'd always told them they could tell him anything and here he was playing by a double standard.
"What's got your panties in a twist? Don't you realise grandpa's been training us to join the plumbers" Ben slid down his seat and placed his feet on the dash board while putting his hands behind his head "well, training me anyway"
"I'm not training anyone Ben, my Plumber life is behind me" Max said seriously "I deal only with terrestrial stuff now."
"Yeah right, probably keeping some stuff for yourself and not telling us" picking up the laptop she quickly moved to the back of the R.V and pulled the curtain closed, effectively slamming the proverbial door.
"Wonder what crawled up her butt?"
-Break-
Feeling the R.V come to a stop Gwen ignored Max as he spoke through the curtain, even the lure of spending money wouldn't get her to forgive Max so quickly. She wasn't surprised Ben didn't care that Max had kept such a big secret from them, ever since he'd gotten the watch Ben only cared about stealing and smashing stuff. Which she had to admit he was good at, at this rate they'd be set for life and she wouldn't have to do a days work when she got older, though she'd never openly give Ben a compliment if she could help it.
Thinking about Ben and smashing stuff gave Gwen an idea, and got her curiosity going. She'd heard on the radio and news about Ben's destructive actions but she wondered what others were saying, the one thing you can be sure about on the internet was that there was always some lonely loser nerd that had an opinion on something.
In no time at all Gwen had found message boards and blogs about the Alien attacks, some had put up pictures of various aliens while others had put up small videos from their phones or a news report. What Gwen found hilarious were some of the names people had given them, XLR8 had been called Blue Streak which to her sounded like a crappy corporate toy, though with aliens like Four-Arms they got it right, what else were you supposed to call him, Big Red?
Gwen was feeling in a better mood as she scanned the websites, she particularly enjoyed the parts where they insulted the government for not being able to track or stop the aliens, but as she clicked on a new website the first blog caught her attention. It wasn't about Four-Arms smashing up something, but another alien of the same species helping people out of a collapsed building, the person had even put a link to an interview from a news group. Gwen watched as the camera ran up to the Four-Arms alien and the reporter asked what the alien was doing in the city and if it had anything to do with the aliens attacking people across the country.
"Not all aliens are bad" the alien said, it's voice like Ben's but sounded slightly different, the way he spoke was different to Ben as well "we've come here to track down and stop the aliens attacking and stealing from people, and helping people along the way is what we do best"
Gwen couldn't believe it, other aliens had come to earth to stop Ben, or at least all of Ben's aliens, the good Four-Arms said "aliens" so he didn't know all the aliens were just one person, plus he said "we" so that meant that were other aliens as well.
After scanning the web and looking into more websites Gwen found more and more footage and pictures of aliens helping people, making a list Gwen could see it was, alien for alien, that Ben turned into; four-Arms, Diamond head, Ripjaws and every other alien Ben fought in, the only alien she couldn't find was Grey Matter but that might be because he's too small.
Gwen knew this wasn't good, it looked like each alien had come to stop it's own species and if they all found Ben at the same time it would be bye-bye Omnitrix. Taking notes on where the aliens had been seen and what interviews she could find Gwen quickly saw a pattern on their movements, the aliens were seen in each town and city Ben had gone on a rampage while she and grandpa had stolen stuff, what troubled her the most was that they seemed to be getting closer to them with each sighting. Despite her grudge against grandpa, Gwen knew she'd have to tell Ben and Max even though she knew Ben would take it the wrong way.
"If those alien goodie-goodie geeks want a piece of me I'll take them all on at the same time" Ben smiled as he slammed his fist into the palm of his hand.
"I knew you'd take it the wrong way dumbass" Gwen sighed as she turned her laptop to face her "you really think you can face ten aliens that can use their powers fully, while you can barely change into the alien you want and not to mention, barely know the first thing about them. You'd lose in less than ten seconds"
"Gwen's right Ben, it'd be a tough fight if you go up against one of them, but to fight them all together is impossible, have you forgotten about Tetrax. Strap yourselves in, we're leaving town" sitting in the drivers seat Max was about to start the engine when Ben shouted
"You want me to run away from a fight? Come on grandpa I never run from a fight, I can take these guys"
"It isn't just these aliens Ben, they most likely work for the Galactic Alliance like Vilgax and if one of them finds out about the Omnitrix then we're going to have an entire fleet looking for it, it's best to try and lose them for now and face them when you've got better control of your aliens" as Max started the engine he heard Gwen shout as the door of the R.V slammed open against itself, looking in the mirror Max saw Ben leap out of the Rust Bucket
"Think I can't handle one lousy stinkin' alien? I'll show them" Ben grumbled to himself as he ran down an ally, he'd heard the R.V come to a screeching halt and knew Gwen would chase after him but he had no intention of going back until he found the alien and handed out a large ass kicking with a side order of broken limbs. Gwen said that they'd been following his rampages and showed they were either close to or was in the city, so that meant to get the aliens to come to him he'd need to make a lot of noise, and a large display of destruction. Stopping at the end of the ally Ben saw the perfect target to get attention, even with a small amount of noise and destruction.
"Ben isn't that stupid is he?" Gwen asked she looked out the window of the Rust Bucket, scanning for any sign of Ben "there's no way Ben's that stupid" she said trying to convince herself
"You really shouldn't ask questions you don't want the answer to" Max suddenly hit the breaks as they heard a loud crash, turning the R.V around they headed to the one building which had smoke coming out of it.
Inside The Mint, Diamond Head was causing a lot of collateral damage, smashing everything but the printing presses that made the money. Sending shards of crystal through windows and making large crystals along the floor and smashing through walls, as the guards watched the alien one was brave, and stupid, enough to draw his gun, aiming and firing at the creatures large back. As the bullet bounced off Ben didn't even feel it and continued smashing stuff.
"Only you would be stupid enough to try and get my attention on purpose" a voice yelled, looking up Ben saw an alien like Heatwave jump down through a hole in the ceiling.
"Only you would be stupid enough to face me without your alien pals" Ben smiled as his hand turned back to normal from a sharp point "you should've all attacked at the same time, you might have stood a chance"
"Ah Ben always with the ego. Even though I only hung out with you for less than a day I could tell you'd had your ego all your life, even though your no better than a school yard bully." Heatwave smiled, watching Ben's surprised face at the mention of the watch and Ben's name
"Who are you?" Ben asked as he clenched his fist
Ben watched as Heatwave groaned as he closed his eyes, his head suddenly changing shape becoming more solid and growing skin and black hair "don't tell me you forgot me already"
"Kevin?" Ben gasped in surprised, looking at the weird amalgamation of Heatwave's body and Kevin's head "but how? Last time I saw you you were sent flying through the bank's wall"
"Turns out that wasn't all your watch did. When it blasted us apart I absorbed some of its energy, enough to be able to turn into any and all your aliens if I concentrate. Once I learned to control the transformations I knew I had to track you down and stop you, and I got to say you didn't make it too hard. But I also found there's a small draw back, I can only stay in one form for a short amount of time, but then that's not much of a problem considering the amount of different aliens I can turn into and the good I can do with them, like taking you down for good."
Turning his head back into Heatwave's Kevin shot a fireball at Ben, who simply held up his hand to block it. Once the flames had gone and the smoke cleared Kevin had disappeared.
"You got all that power and you're still being a goodie-goodie, talk about a waste" looking around Ben tried to find some kind of clue as where Kevin had gone, or what alien he might have turned into. "Even before you took my aliens you could've had anything you wanted, just taken it but no you decided to play pansy and hide away."
"BEN" Gwen's voice shouted as she and Max ran into the room, easily getting past the security who had run away from the two monsters and were now watching them on the security camera's "stop talking to yourself and let's get out of here"
"I'm not talking to myself bitch, Kevin's here and he can turn into any of my aliens" Ben warned as he continued to look around
"You think I should be more like you Ben? A dumb punk who only knows how to break stuff. Or should I be more like your skank cousin and use any means to get what I want." Kevin's voice echoed around the room, his voice different now no longer sounding like Heatwave
"HEY, come out here and say that to my face pussy" Gwen shouted in rage to the room only to get a chuckle Kevin
Before he could reply they heard something hit and rattle across the floor, looking around Ben, Gwen and Max saw small canisters roll towards them from several direction. Suddenly all of them started spitting smoke at them, quickly filling up the area with smoke making it almost impossible to see as their eyes stung and began to water and for all of them to start coughing.
"Tear gas" Max coughed as he tried to clear his eyes, reaching out Max managed to find and grab Gwen's wrist.
"Get out of here" Ben ordered as he coughed slightly, the smoke tickling his throat and, thanks to the lack of tear ducts and any liquid at all, Ben was fine as Diamond head. Running through the smoke Ben finally cleared it to see two things, Stinkfly to fly up and out of the broken glass skylight and men in gas masks and uniforms that said they were ready for trouble swing in through the broken windows, as they landed they quickly and expertly detached themselves and aimed their fancy looking guns at Ben in one smooth motion as if practised thousands of times.
"Who the hell are these guys?" Ben thought to himself as the men slowly inched towards him, guns still aimed at him
"It's about time I caught up with you alien" a commanding voice said, a man with a large scar across his face stepped forward "you and your friends have lead me on a merry chase around this country keeping me busy. But now your ass is mine freak and your days of destroying things in the U.S of A is over"
"Hey I'm not the bad guy, you want the alien that just flew out of here, I'm trying to stop him" Ben tried to sound convincing to the strange man, the others had stopped moving at his signal so it was clear he was in charge. Ben didn't know what those guns fired and if they could hurt him, but if he could convince this guy he was the good alien then he'd be able to get the drop on him.
"Sure, and I hand out gumdrops and ice creams to all the little kiddies every sunday while grandma sits in her rocker. What kind of fool do you take me for? We've been watching this place ever since you started smashing it up and as soon as that friend of yours turned up things went real quiet." signalling again the men with the guns started moving closer to Ben.
"So you going to come quietly crystal head or do you want a few boo-boo's for momma to kiss better later?"
Looking over his shoulder Ben saw three goons, turning his fingers in to razor sharp point he spun around, sending the shard flying into the barrels of the guns. As the men tried to fire the guns exploded as Ben ducked and dashed forwards, dodging the fire from the others and turning a corner. He didn't know how many soldiers were outside and he couldn't risk been seen stepping into the Rust Bucket or they'd all be tracked down and locked up. Ben knew he had two options right now; hide until he turned back and sneak out, or stand and fight until he timed out then run and hide.
He liked the second option better.
As he stopped and turned Ben turned his hands into sharp points, he heard a high-pitched whining noise coming from somewhere and as he looked around something hit him hard, blasting him backwards into the ground kicking up a cloud of dirt and dust.
Above on a walkway two soldiers smirked shouldered their guns and high-fived, suddenly sharp green shards flew out of the dust cloud and hit their guns, as more flew towards them they ducked down and felt the walkway buckle, looking around they saw the almost indestructible shard slice through the walkway on both sides of them as if the metal was made of paper.
As the dust cloud cleared Ben watched as the walkway collapsed, the soldiers falling to the floor and getting covered in metal. Hearing the beeping noise Ben looked around for a quick escape but he heard the heavy footsteps of the soldiers coming from the route he just came from and from the end of the row of printing presses, having no other choice Ben charged at the nearest wall and smashed through it finding himself standing in a hallway. Quickly turning Ben placed his hands on floor and made crystals grow over the hole stopping the soldiers from following, as soon as the hole had been covered a bright green light flashed and Ben returned to normal, sighing a breath of relief as he stood back up.
-break-
"That was way too close" Gwen said as they drove the R.V and Ben finished explaining what had happened after they'd left "who is this 'Steel' anyway?"
"He must be some part of a secret government agency that tracks and takes down aliens"
Ben held an excited look in his eye, ever since he got the Omnitrix he wanted to take on some government shadow group and Steel fitted the bill perfectly "next time he ain't getting the drop on me, I'm taking him and his men down. Hard"
"We've got more pressing matters than Steel," Max spoke up from the drivers seat, parking the Rust Bucket and turning off the engine "we've got to think about Kevin first. We can't just wait until someone like that with powers like those come after us, you have to take him down quickly before he becomes too much of a problem"
"Speaking from experience grandpa?" Gwen glared at Max, the actions of the day had made her forget he anger at but now it was coming back as high-grade annoyance
"Yes. People like Kevin, you not only have to beat them, you have to break them. First we have to get his attention," pulling out a cigar Max lit it and puffed at it as he tried to think of a way to get to Kevin "then we have to find a way to keep Steel off our backs."
"Right now I'd settle for Kevin. Mister goodie-goodie is gonna go down quicker than Gwen when someone offers to buy her jewellery" Ben smiled as the seething look Gwen was giving him "you know, because you a who-"
Gwen's hands shot across the small table and grabbed Ben by the hair, getting two good fists full as she proceeded to bang is head against the table several times before pinning his head on it.
"I'm getting Real tired of your bullshit Ben. Call me a whore one more time, and I'll snap your tic-tac sized dick off and force feed it to you" Gwen whispered in Ben's ear. She felt Max large hand wrap around her left wrist and squeezed it tight, the unexpected grip surprising her and making her wince at the pain making her left go of Ben's hair, she felt herself get pulled upwards out of her seat as Max's grip squeezed harder.
"And I'm getting sick and tired of you two fucking around when we have serious problems. You two either kiss and make up right now or I will be seriously angry with both of you" Gwen had seen the angry look in Max's eyes before but never at her, or Ben, or any other family member. He reserved it for people who insulted his family and he put in hospital. Max had always been patient with her and Ben's antics, annoyed at most but never angry to this degree.
Letting go of Ben's hair Gwen felt herself drop back into her seat as Max let her go, she watched as Max moved back into the drivers seat and started the engine, saying nothing as he began to drive. As Ben sat back up and rubbed his head he looked over she shoulder as he whispered to Gwen
"Do we really have to kiss?"
.*Break*.
Ben smiled as he sat on top of an archway as he looked down at the chaos and destruction Max and Gwen was causing below. He'd heard rumours you could make explosives out of stuff you buy for the kitchen but Max took it to a whole new level, the stuff he'd mixed up had cars on fire and exploding. Now all he had to do was wait for Kevin to turn up, or Steel, then he'd go alien and beat the living snot out of them then go back to a nice vacation of stealing and destroying things.
"You really can't help yourself can you?" A voice shouted above Ben, looking up her saw Stinkfly flying towards him and he watched as he landed and turned back into Kevin.
"Just thought it was the best way to grab your attention," standing up Ben stared at Kevin, neither moving as they watched each other for the slightest movement. "You are a goodie-goodie after all"
"Yeah and so could you. With that thing on your wrist you could be saving people and fixing problems, helping the world instead of causing more problems and destroying things"
"But I am helping, every time I destroy something someone's got to fix it" Ben smirked at Kevin's annoyed look "not my fault some expensive stuff goes missing"
"No, that's your cousins and grandpa's fault. Once I've beaten you I'm stopping them next"
"See, there's the problem with your plan right there. You're not going to beat me" quickly raising his wrist Ben quickly pressed the button and slammed the screen down on the first alien as Kevin concentrated and his body began to grow and change.
As the light disappeared Four-Arms charged at Diamond head, swinging his large fists Ben missed as Kevin ducked and shot crystal shards at him, his thick skin stopping them from cutting him but Ben had to cover himself with his arms. Leaping forwards Ben managed to slam his knees into Kevin's face, surprising him and making him stumble backwards as the cracks quickly disappeared. Taking the chance Ben swung two of his fasts as hard and as fast as he could into Kevin's stomach lifting him off the floor, moving quickly Ben raised all four of his arms above his head before slamming them into Kevin's back, smashing him into the metal floor and making it dent inwards.
Before Ben had a chance to hit him again Kevin forced large sharp crystals to grow out of his back, making Ben back off for a second and giving him the moment he needed to transform again. His body shrank and went from green to red, the mineral body being replaced with one of fire. Throwing a fireball Kevin made Ben stumble backwards in surprise as a hole burned into his shirt but otherwise it barely phased him, covering his head with his left arms Ben dashed forwards as Kevin shot a stream of fire at him, once close enough Ben swung his right fist downwards but as Kevin leapt backwards Ben's fists smashed through the metal, trapping him.
.*.
Down below on the bridge Max and Gwen watched the fight, everyone else having run away from them and their home-made explosives.
"Come on Ben finish it" Max said to himself as he looked through a pair of binoculars "they'll be here any second"
"Too late grandpa" Gwen looked behind her as she heard a heavy smashing sound and saw several heavily armoured trucks smashing through the wrecked cars.
As the trucks screeched to a halt soldiers piled out of them as Steel shouted orders
"Get the big gun primed and aimed at the primary. Someone get me a bird in the sky, as in an hour ago ladies, and keep eyes on the targets if one of them looks like they're going to make a break for it I want a bullet in each eye before they flex a muscle"
"Sir, we have civilians in the area" a grunt said as he pointed to Max and Gwen who were standing in front of their R.V
"Get them out of here" Steel ordered only to get shouted at by Gwen
"Screw You military man, you think we're gonna stop watching two monsters duke it out you can think again"
Before Steel could give another order two soldiers ran up to him, one was carrying a gun as long as a man was tall while the other had a battery pack strapped to his chest, cables leading out of it and into the gun which he aimed at Ben and Kevin.
"Gun primed and ready sir, targets locked on" the one with the battery said
"Fire on my command only, we wait till these alien punks tire each other out then waste them" Steel ordered
.*.
Ben struggled to pull his fist out of them hole as Kevin walked up to him, aiming his palm right in front of Ben's face
"Game over Ben" Kevin said as he fired a fireball at Ben's face.
Ducking quickly the fireball flew over his head as he grabbed Kevin's legs with his free hands, in a whip like motion Ben swung Kevin over his head and slammed him into the metal floor then repeated the motion and flung Kevin away from him. Growling with strain Ben ripped his hands free from the metal and clenched his fists, making his knuckles crack.
"Over Time bitch"
Charging at Kevin he saw him changing again, the fire disappearing and his hands turning into paws. As he charged at Ben Wildmutt gave a big roar and leapt at him, as he landed he dug his claws into the thick skin and sunk his powerful jaws into Ben's shoulder. Shouting in pain Ben used his upper arms to push Kevin away from him as much as he could, making enough room for him to slam his lower fists into Kevin's side making him roar in pain and giving Ben the chance to throw him away.
Checking his neck Ben saw only a bit of blood on his glove, his tough skin stopping Kevin from sinking his teeth in too deep. Growling in anger Ben stood his ground and clenched his fists as Kevin charged at him and leapt again, this time Ben grabbed Kevin in mid-air and slammed his fists into Wildmutt's 'gills' making Kevin roar out in pain. Leaping into the air Ben made sure he had a firm grip on Kevin as he flew downwards, doing a body slam and landing on top of Kevin.
As he stood up Ben watched as Kevin turned back to his human self and groaned in pain as he lay semi-conscious. Grabbing Kevin by the shirt Ben walked towards the edge of the archway.
"This why you goodie-goodie guys always loose, you never have the guts to finish what you start"
As he stood at the edge Ben tossed Kevin's limp body over the side of the archway.
.*.
"Fire" Steel ordered, without so much of a thought the soldier pulled the trigger on the big gun, which had been locked on Ben the whole time
.*.
Hearing a loud bang Ben looked in the direction it came from, seeing the giant energy shot shooting towards him Ben dived out of the way but moved too slow as it hit him in the left shoulder.
Howling out in pain Ben collapsed to the floor, his upper left arm wouldn't move and his lower one felt numb. As he looked at his shoulder he saw blood oozing from it in a steady, slow stream. Groaning in pain Ben forced himself on to a knee, then his feet, as he shook the dizziness from his eyes.
"Poor Ben. That looks like it hurts" a weird voice said, looking to his left he saw a creature even weirder than the voice, it was the weirdest thing had ever seen and that was saying something
"Kevin?" Ben panted, hazarding a guess
Saying nothing Kevin charged at Ben, tackling him and running the length of the archway before slamming him into the other end. Grunting in pain Ben tried to punch Kevin but was easily stopped as Kevin grabbed his fist with Heatwave's hand and punched him across the jaw with Diamonhead's fist.
Feeling himself begin to fall Ben shot his hand out, grabbing and twisting the metal with his grip. Pulling himself up Ben glared at Kevin as he panted and waited for his ears to stop ringing.
"Had enough yet Ben, or do I need to knock you out?" Kevin asked as he watched Ben carefully
"Knock me out?" Ben weakly chuckled as he supported himself "I told you before, you don't have what it takes. Freak."
As Kevin swung his fist Ben managed to counter with his own, dodging Kevin's crystal fist and slamming his own into Kevin's face surprising and staggering him. Keeping his balance Ben followed up with a head butt slamming his head into Kevin's large eye from Grey matter making him cry out in pain. Using the last of his strength Ben grabbed Kevin by the throat and leapt over the side, sending them both falling to the bridge below.
As they fell Kevin aimed his heatwave hand at Ben only to be punched in the ribs by Ben's free hand, before he could get his wings working both Kevin and Ben slammed into the bridge making it rock and the road to crack and begin to crumble. As the road began to collapse the soldiers and Steel were forced to back up and run from the destruction or face a long fall before a very cold bath.
As Ben rolled off Kevin he groaned in pain as he lay on his back, he could feel the bridge collapsing around him and he knew he needed to move. Sitting up Ben grunted in pain as he forced himself up, his whole body hurting as he forced it to move, as he dragged himself through the archway he heard the road and bridge segment collapse behind him, thankfully it didn't continue onto the next one.
"Told you before Kevin," Four-Arms panted as he collapsed to his knees "you ain't got what it takes"
With a flash of green light Ben collapsed onto the road, quickly losing consciousness as he heard some kind of loud honking.