Day 1:

Max, Ben, and Kevin all sat together in the sand, looking at the Omnitrix.

"Come on," Gwen complained. "If you're not going to do it, than don't just sit around staring at it." The three men didn't respond, either because they didn't hear her or they chose not to hear her.

Gwen sighed, and laid back on her beach towel. It was a beautiful day, so every one had thought to bring their swimsuits and towels for a day by the lake. Or, at least Gwen had. While she lay on the beach trying to tan, her relatives and boyfriend sat around looking at a watch.

Finally, Ben spoke. "Alright, I'm going to do it."

Kevin stood up. "Finally. What were you waiting for?"

Gwen had to groan. "Men", she thought.

Ben stood up, helped Max up, and then focused his attention on the watch. He clicked the dial, and the selector pop up. The others gathered around him as he clicked through different holograms, finally settling on a large, humanoid figure.

"Here goes nothing" he said. And he pressed down the selector.

Gwen, Kevin and Max held up there hands to shield them from the burst of green light, and when then looked back they saw an alien they hadn't seen before.

Ben's height was well above eight feet, due in no part to his long limbs. His skin was deep blue, with white dots going down his arms, chest and the bridge of his nose. From his backside sprouted a long, whipping tail. His face was angular, with a squashed animal nose and cat-like eyes. His hair was black, and was neatly braided. He wore nothing but a loincloth, and a sash around his chest with the Omnitrix symbol on it.

Ben took a moment to look at himself, flexing his limbs and poking his skin. Finally, he looked at his friends. "Alright, Grandpa, what is it?"

Max rubbed his chin. "I'm not exactly sure, but I remember that the Plumbers lifted a holo- encyclopedia off a crashed ship, and I'm pretty sure I saw this on it.

"You're pretty sure?" Gwen asked. Max just shrugged.

Ben stretched out, and put himself in a runner's position. "Alright," he breathed, "Let's see what you can do."

He took off, running down the beach. The three people he left behind just gawked as he ran straight towards the trees at the end of the beach, and bolted straight up the nearest one. Pretty soon he was swinging to and fro from tree to tree.

Max, Gwen, and Kevin took their time catching up to Ben. "If I remember exactly, it's called a… Na'vi. They live on some jungle moon 'bout a couple hundred light years away from us. Never met one, but…'

He was cut short by Ben leaping out in front of them. They all jumped, which just made Ben laugh harder than he already was.

"This is great!" As if illustrating his point, he did a back flip. "It's like being Spider Monkey and Way Big at the same time!" All the jumping and leaping suddenly caught up with him, and he fell back and laid on the beach.

Kevin sat down next to him. "Having fun, Smurf Boy?"

"Ha ha. Jealous much, Kevin?"

Gwen knelt down beside her cousin. She suddenly gave a little yelp, and jumped back.

"What? What happened?" Max ran up beside her. Gwen only pointed at Ben's hair braid.

Ben reached over his head, and pulled the braid in front of him. The hair fell away at the tip to reveal a cluster of small, pink tendrils squirming and twisting around.

Kevin leaned in to get a look. "Dude, that's just plain gross."

Ben nodded. Then, "Kevin, don't move."

Without waiting for an answer, Ben shoved the tendrils right into Kevin's ear. Kevin yelled for about two seconds then calmed down.

"Ben!" Gwen yelled. "Get your weird hair tentacles out of my boyfriend's ear!"

Ben didn't listen. Instead, he said, "Kevin, raise your right hand." And Kevin did. "Now the left." Again, Kevin did as he was told. Then, Ben pulled the tendrils out of his ear.

Kevin shuddered, ten stood up. "Okay, what was that?"

Max looked over Ben's braid. "One thing I remember from that encyclopedia is that the Na'vi use these things to tame their animals, like how the Cherokee tamed horses."

"Ick." Gwen poked the tendrils, watching them move. "You mean they stick these things in animals' ears?"

WWWWSSSHHH! A flash of green light, and Ben was back to being himself. He stood up, and felt the back of his head, as if the braid was still there.

"Well, that was cool" he said.

"Yeah," Kevin grunted, rubbing his ear "it was really cool."

End of Day 1

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