Julie's House…
The fifteen kids were brought to their honorary woman father's house for they needed to be watched while Ben was on a mission.
Julie truly grew to love her little moth alien-human hybrid adoptive children as her own. Ben may give birth to them alone, but she felt like they were a part of her, too. When Ben agreed to take in the little ones that were meant to be independent of birth but couldn't because of their DNA, how she felt… she was never prouder of Ben than on that day. He may get a bighead, may be careless, and often the dorkiest man she ever met. But Ben was also the sweetest, kindest, most heroic, resourceful, and most forgiving person she ever met.
Ben would give his life for his loved ones in a heartbeat, which often troubled her with the thought of her boyfriend dying because, by that characteristic, it was in his nature to protect them. Of course, Ben would take custody of them. He didn't care if he was a teenager or the biggest hero, none of that mattered to him more than those kids.
So, Julie was definitely pitching in to help because…
Just because Ben has new responsibilities…
He can't forget the old ones.
Even Julie wanted him to give them up, it's something you can't quit from, not with everyone looking to him as the peacekeeper of it all. It was harrowing and yet something Ben had to bear. She only hoped that the kids understood that this was Ben's obligation.
"Okay, so I need to deal with these weird creatures that have been popping out from the ground. Hoping, it's not a big deal, for once not be a big deal, we can start looking into the schools' Grampa Max showed us for the kids." Ben sighed as he was still a little ragged from the last mission they were on, not even given a full hour to rest a bit.
"I still think we should also try some of these schools too. These places can write their ticket anywhere and could provide a good future." Julie suggested as she had some pamphlets in her hands, "We should keep our options open; a good education will help them find good careers. Plus, some more insight into our world a bit since they've been beyond it for so long."
"Ben, we have to go!" Gwen shouted.
"Duty calls, love you, Julie." Ben kissed her as he bid his children goodbye as well, "Be good for your Daddy, kids. Don't freeze anything or scare grandma again. Yule, Belle, no fighting, and Iris, don't mess with the cars again. I left you all some star cupcakes and some galactic pies for your grandparents as an apology. Love you all."
Before he could go, a tiny hand stopped him as it was tugging his pants. He looked down to see little Osmo with pleading eyes at his beloved mother.
"I wanna come with. I wanna see you do hero time." He pleaded as Gibson hated some of his siblings' hero worship.
"Ossy, you have to stay here. Mommy has to save the world from evil." Max informed his little brother as Ben smiled at them.
"You're still too young for stuff like this. Maybe when you're older and we get back when can go out for ice cream, okay?" Ben promised as Ossy pouted.
"Okay…"
Ike then approached them and gave Ben a drawing of him and Gwen and Kevin in hero poses.
"Sweetie, this is beautiful~. I'll keep it with me and hang it up my wall." Ben promised as he ruffed his son's hair.
Julie smiled as she remembered that Ben would take down his posters to put up his son's drawing. Such a sweet thing to do. Ben then left as Julie went to Ossy.
"Come on, Ossy, we can play instead of doing that boring hero work."
Ossy then smiled as Julie's attention turned to an argument with the siblings, giving Ozzy the opportunity to sneak out…
Three hours later…
Julie searched everywhere for Ossy as she tried calling Ben!
But wherever he has had no signal. She feared something bad happened to him as the car rolled up to the driveway. She looked outside the window to see Ben holding Ossy, shocked and exhausted at what he went through on his mission, and the child clinging on to his mother as if his life depended on it.
"Ben, are you both okay? What happened?" Julie gasped at the sight of them.
"Saved the world from getting cook, realized cryptid exists, bigfoot is a guy in a suit, and a mole man almost blew us up with TNT…" Ben muttered as Gwen and Kevin were not too far behind him.
"What?!" Julie gasped, "Ben, I am so sorry I let him out of my sight."
"It's okay… We forgot about their ghost powers… He's grounded and I'm going to pass out…" Ben muttered as he fainted on the couch while his team was rethinking that they were almost blown up.
"Oh, Ben. I'll go get the kids and you some ice cream in the freezer." She offered, "Do you guys want some too?"
"Please."
"Ben, we can talk about the kid's school in the morning after you have time to recover."
"Mmm…"
Julie took that as a yes and she was going to give Max a piece of her mind, without the kids in the room because there will be cursing.