A/N: your not supposed to know what the heck is going on in the first few paragraphs. So if you think they suck, I will be returning to them eventually. This is my first time doing a real story and I am a little nervous, but I thought I'd give it a shot, it's in the time of U.A. obviously.. I'll only upload chapter one right now, if it's not hated, then maybe I'll continue... anyway On with the show:
"You say that like you actually think you can enforce it" Ben chuckled darkly.
Ben was standing in front of his parents, Gwen's parents and grandpa Max (who was sitting in a chair rubbing the bridge of his nose with his eyes closed).
Ben was staring at them with the full force of his "hero of heroes" personality radiating from his eyes. Gwen slightly worried gripped his hand tightly. He was in "hero mode" and she wouldn't, couldn't say anything against him, she never could... This was going to be resolved one way or another right now, she knew... "how did all this come to a head ?" she wondered...
FLASHBACK:
Ben, Gwen and Kevin were fighting the Forever Knights in one of their castles, and were of course, clobbering the hell outta them. At the end of the fight, just as Ben was about to clobber the one named "old george"... he reached into his pocket and pulled out what looked like a modified fusion grenade, setting it and throwing it before Ben could react.. he tossed it not at ben, but toward his team... "NOOOOOOOOO" thought ben.. and punched straight thru his head... turning toward his team to protect them, he watched the events transpire as if in slow motion.. the bomb arched, landing beside his two teammates...Gwen used her mana to push Kevin away.. and the bomb went off... Ben was thrown into darkness.
"ben wake up!" ... "BEN, DAMN IT WAKE UP!" Ben opened his eyes to see Kevin standing over him shaking him, "good your ok, help me find Gwen"... Kevin said... "GWEN!" Ben thought immediately sitting up and surveying the scene... Kevin Had a few places on his body that his armor had broken, the roof had caved in and a huge pile of debris was sitting in front of him, He himself had ripped and burned clothing, he felt burned and bruised all over *something that NEVER happened* ... and he noticed that Gwen was no where to be seen... He also had a empty feeling deep in his gut...A sense of PROFOUND loss... Like he was hollow... "no...PLEASE NO... PLEASE".. was all he could think as Kevin launched himself at the debris pile. "Gwen! Can you hear me? I am getting you out of there.. Gwen!" kevin was shouting... as he tore into the debris pile, "BEN! Help me, she's under here" Kevin screamed and continued to tear through the debris... Finally reaching her, he let out a sob... her skin was blackened her hair burned almost completely to nothing.. She wasn't breathing... "BEN GET OVER HERE"... Kevin screamed as he held Gwen and tried shaking her...
"BEN, what are you waitin..." Kevin screamed again until he looked back at Ben... he was chalk white, his normally bright green eyes seemed almost black, like someone had turned off the light behind them, trails of tears streamed down his face, a line of snot from his nose and he was shaking so bad Kevin thought he was having a seizure.. It took him only a second to realize that the shaking was caused by every time he breathed in... He was broken, "no" was the only thing Kevin thought... "GWEN WAKE UP! You survived worse than this! Wake up" he yelled at her as tears began to flow down his face... "Gwen come back" he laid her down on the floor and began cry.
Ben was cold, empty, dead inside... He failed... He didn't protect his team... He didn't protect HER... AGAIN... all of a sudden his thoughts shifted to the time he had searched out Azmuth... When he thought he lost her once... .But this time there was a body in front of him, there would be no miracle saves.. His brain felt broken... He couldn't think properly... EMPTYNESS stretching to infinity.. He didn't want to go on, more then anyone else on the team she was his battery, his savior, when he felt that he had no recourse, she would call him stupid and tell him what to do, she had taught him to fight in human form, she had poked and proded him till he SAVED Kevin instead of butchering him... All these thoughts and more were swarming in his mind as he watched Kevin trying to save her... But he KNEW, he didn't know how but he KNEW she was gone... lost to the void... He wanted to join her... He wanted a miracle... With that thought something sprang to mind... He slowly stood.. Feeling his left ankle was broken.. he snarled but walked forward anyway..
"Kevin, she's gone... for now"... Ben said, but his voice sounded so hollow, Kevin was expecting to see one of his aliens... Kevin was continuing to do cry... "WHAT YOU JUST NOW THINK TO ACT?" Kevin yelled at him then looked at him, Ben was... well not Ben.. the sense of loss, the look in his eye... it was like when he went hero, but like he wasn't looking at the scene... instead something very far away... Kevin hurt more then anytime in his entire life, but looking at Ben?.. He knew he lost both his girl and his best friend at the same time... Ben was dead... Ben reached out to Kevin's and Gwen's neck and at the same time and tore the keys they wore there off of them...He slammed the ultimatrix and plugged both keys in, unlocking alien X... "Goodbye Kevin... Please take care of Gwen, don't hurt her, and be a great plumber"... Ben said with a far off look as he stared at Kevin. Kevin's eyes widened but he was still crying... "you mean your gonna do..." before he could finish Ben said... "make sure she doesn't grieve too much... but... I can't do this without her!" and he slammed down his hand on the ultimatrix transforming him into alien X.