Nadia sat at Ben's bedside, he was still unconcious. Bandages line his body and his ankles were in casts along with his left arm, Nadia looked at the door as a nurse came in and greeted Nadia "hello, looks like everything is calmed down" the nurse began checking things and writing things down on her board, the nurse looked at Nadia who was fixated on Ben "he's lucky to have a girl like you in his life" Nadia looked at her "I'm not his girlfriend" the nurse chuckled "never said you were, but he would be lucky to have you as anything, I know I would" the nurse left and soon after Sophia opened the door and walked in "hey Nadia" she said with Nadia getting up and hugging Sophia "how is he?" Sophia asked with Nadia answering "they said it's too early to tell, the damage to his arm and legs is pretty bad". Sophia sat next to Ben's side and held his hand with his dad walking to the other side and putting his hand on his head "I should've paid more attention, this wouldn't have happened-" Ben's dad put his hand on his head "I'm sorry Ben" Sophia got up and walked out of the room with Mason and Arnold following her "I feel so useless right now" Sophia uttered while putting her back to a wall "if only we were there with him" Mason dug into his pocket and took out his phone and began making a call "hey Trevor, we're at the hospital, Ben got hurt, he's stable now but he's still in bad shape".

Ben opened his eyes to see Nadia and Kaori, Nadia smiled "welcome back" she said. Ben looked at his dad who was asleep in a chair "should I wake your dad?" Nadia asked with Ben shaking his head "yeah, that's probably for the best" Kaori patted Ben's shoulder "thought we lost you there" Ben sat up with Nadia putting her hand on his chest, Ben grabbed her hand and displaced it from her chest. Ben took the mask off his mouth "I'm fine, thanks for riding with me" Nadia blushed and they put their hands down "you would've done the same for me" Ben looked at his bandaged legs, he could feel his bones merging back into place, his arm had already set back into place and was nearly done repairing itself "how am I healing so fast?" Ben gripped the cast wrapped around his arm and tore it off "Ben! What are you doing?!" Nadia asked with Kaori whistling in disbelief "woah, you're not as much of a pussy as I thought" Ben clenched and relaxed his hand looking at it. Ben felt his chest, he could feel his ribs setting back into place, Ben looked at his jacket hanging on a chair "hey, Nadia, could you hand me my jacket?" Nadia nodded and gave Ben his jacket. Ben searched his inner pockets and found something that wasn't there before, Ben pulled out a green stone that pulsed with energy "this was not here last time I checked, the only thing I had in my jacket was a pack of breath mints and hand sanitizer" Ben flipped the stone and saw a note attached to it, Ben opened the note, it was from Adrien

"Ben, looks like I need to save your skin yet again, remember, you're never alone in this fight"

Nadia looked at Ben's focused face "what does it say?" Ben looked at her and crumpled the note "it was from Beowulf, he apologized for getting me injured and wishes me a full recovery" the stone pulsed more and then faded "looks like this thing was a one-time use" Ben put the stone down and reached over tearing the casts off his legs and getting out of the hospital bed "I'm really sorry you two, I made you guys worry and that worrying turned out to be warranted, look at me, all beat up because of my actions" Nadia hugged Ben "shut up, please" Ben hugged her back just as Sophia and the others walked in, Nadia released Ben and backed away "Ben? You're okay!" Sophia rushed over but controlled herself "wait...what happened? You were so beat up" Ben picked up the stone "looks like Beowulf was looking out for me" Sophia felt Ben's chest "you're all better" Ben pulled Sophia in and hugged her "yeah, I am, I'm sorry for making you worry" Sophia petted his head "shhh, get some rest now...".

A few hours later

Ben stood up from his bed, everyone had gone home except for Nadia, Sophia, and his dad. Sophia had fallen asleep and his dad was finally waking up "Ben?" His dad uttered, Ben turned around and smiled "hey dad, I guess I don't need to go to school tomorrow huh?" Ben's dad nearly jumped out of his seat but stopped short when he saw Sophia sleeping, he slowly rose and walked over to Ben "I did something stupid didn't I?" Ben said while looking down. His dad put his hand on his head "yeah, you did" Ben was surprised by a hug by his dad, this was truly a rare occurence "I thought I had lost you today, what happened?" Ben responded "I-I tried to help people" Ben felt guilty about lying to his dad, he was hurt because he had given into the anger and played right into his enemy's hand, but of course no one could know that.

Ben's dad stepped out to get food for everyone and Ben clutched his bed covers "Nadia..." Ben said, Nadia looked at him "yes Ben?" Ben looked her straight in the eye "thank you...I mean it, I heard you saved Sophia's life, you truly are an amazing person, I'm glad we're friends" Nadia got up and sat next to Ben, the room stood still in time, Nadia looked at Ben, their eyes locked with eachother "Ben, what happened today, it made me realise something..." Ben raised an eyebrow "that you're really good at go-karting?" Nadia snickered a bit "no...it made me realise that...I might not get the chance to ever say what I want to say, do what I want to do, Ben, I love you" time stood still, it was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. Ben tried to swallow but his mouth was dry, Nadia's eyes began to well up "Nadia, I-" Ben moved a bit and knocked a pan over causing a loud clatter, the impact startled Sophia awake "w-what was that?!" Sophia blurted out, Nadia picked up the pan "this got knocked over" Sophia shrugged and went back to sleep. Nadia nearly ran out of the room and almost knocked into Ben's dad "sorry" Nadia said quickly.

The Next Day

Ben stepped out of the front door of the hospital, his injuries had fully healed and he was back to 100%. Sophia snuck up behind him and lept onto his shoulders "you're a free man!" she laughed with Ben chuckling too "that I am, it feels good to stand on my own two feet again" Sophia pulled him by the arm "but you're not free for long mister, you have to make it up to me for worrying" Ben smiled "oh really?" Ben moved swiftly and grabbed Sophia's waist "I'd be more than happy to make it up to you" Sophia giggled "Benji, not here in public!" Ben dipped her "then where would you like this form of recoprocation to occur?" Sophia looked around "anywhere but on the sidewalk, the back of a car would be better than here" Ben picked her back up "oooh, I like that idea, we haven't done that before" Sophia scoffed and maneuvered out of his hold "don't be coy, let's go to my place, my dad is out of town so we can be as loud as we want" Ben sauntered to her side "that's good, because you do not know how to hold your voice du-" Sophia kicked him in the shin "geez Ben, you're way to zealous today". Sophia opened the door to her apartment and grabbed Ben by the wrist "c'mon, let's go to my room" Ben and Sophia made their way to her room but her dad suddenly came out of ths bathroom "Dad!?" Sophia's dad got a quite a scare "oh geez Sophia, you scared me" her dad looked behind her to see Ben "oh hey Ben, heard you were in the hospital, looks like you're better, I guess it wasn't that serious" Sophia hit her dad in the stomach "oof, okay, I deserve that" Sophia grabbed Ben's wrist and brought him to her room.

Ben was nearly thrown onto the bed "wait, we're doing this now?" Sophia sighed "no...the moment is ruined" Sophia threw herself onto the bed and groaned, Ben rubbed his hands together in a dastardly way and smacked Sophia on the butt which made her jump "Ben! My God you're asking for it" Ben giggled before lying on top of Sophia "you bet I am" Sophia laughed cackled as Ben tickled her "stop, stop, aha, stop!" Ben got up and sighed "I'm such a lucky guy" Sophia sprang up "hmmm, yeah, you really are" Ben and Sophia kissed. Ben stepped out of Sophia's apartment "alright, I'm gonna head out, gotta get home to my parents, promised I'd get home after hanging out with you" Sophia blew him a kiss and Ben pretended to catch it, Ben began to walk to his house when he began to think about the other day, what happened with Timothy, Nadia, and just the whole day "I need to call Adrien" Ben took out his phone and called him...the ringing kept going but, nothing. Ben looked at his phone "dammit, where are you, Adrien?"

Somewhere lost in Time

Bunnix stumbled through a void of light, blood poured out of an open wound in her shoulder. Bunnix looked behind her to see a floating figure approaching her "how-how did you find me?!" The figure lowered and walked over to her "hm hm hm, this body is much smarter, and stronger as you can see" the mysterious person pointed at Bunnix and a small beam of light shot out of their finger and pierced Bunnix' abdomen causing her to cough up blood and fall to her knees "you won't get away with this, someone will stop you" Bunnix pulled out a little notebook "Adrien..." Bunnix opened a portal and threw the notebook in just before another laser pierced her neck, killing her. The person floated over to Bunnix' body "you sneaky rodent, you managed to get it to him".

Back where Ben was

A portal of light appeared above Ben and a falling object hit him in the head "ow, the hell?" Ben saw what it was, it was a red, leatherbound notebook "huh, what's this?" Ben picked up the book and opened it, he saw the bolo tie that belonged to Adrien. Ben took the tie and Steer popped out "Adrien noooo!!!" The little Kwami yelled as hard as it could, Steer looked around and saw Ben "Ben...oh no". Ben snuck into his house, his parents were out getting food and he wasn't expected for another hour, Ben got to his room and let Steer out "okay Steer, talk" Steer floated toward the window and looked out of it, Ben joined him "Ben...do you think Adrien is a good teacher" Ben pursed his lips "well, he's bratty, he's as dense as a diamond, and he smokes...but yeah, he's a good teacher, he doesn't always have the answer but he has his own take on it, no matter what he's got guidance and I think that's his best strength, he always knows what to say, now come on, spill what's going on" Steer sighed "that makes this a bit easier, Ben...Adrien is dead".