"Ack! You're holding it to tight!"
"I'm trying trying not to fall of, Benji!"
"Then trust me!"
Ben swerves and dodges people, "Ah-look out!" I yelp to the people on the sidewalk. "Banza! Coming through." Ben laughs, zooming past them. Ben drive back onto the road and gets behind a truck with a back that was almost like a ramp...
"Don't you dare." I growl nervously as Ben revs up. I scream when Ben speeds and drives up the ramp, causing us to fly in the air for a moment. The car we were chasing speeds up and runs a red light, I teleport us behind the car "Hey!" Ben shouts "Huh?" The man asks. Ben shoot the car's trunk and money flies out, I levitate the money in the air and put it in a neat stack "Some people just can't hang on to their money." Ben says.
He speeds up so we're beside the car and I pop the tire. The car swerves out of control and crashes into a wall, "No way..." the man asks gasp. Ben revs his tires and smoke flies in the man's face "Alright, let him breathe." I snort. Ben stops and drives off.
"Benji, stop!" I say "What?" Ben asks, coming to an abrupt stop. I hop off of Ben and run over to an ice cream truck, Ben pulls up beside me and I grin at him "Well...we did just nab a bad guy." Ben hums, morphing out of the motorcycle. Ben opens the back door and I walk in "Yes! They have the character ones with the gumball eyes!" I cheer, going through the box. "Now we're talking!" Ben says excitedly.
~
I groan quietly as I sit on the ground, I had 6 popsicles, 2 ice cream cones and 4 ice cream sandwiches. Ben shudders and clings onto me, the door opens and Max and Gwen appears "Are you two ok?" Max asks.
Ben sneeze and I shudder, "I'll uh take that as a no." Max sighs tiredly...
~
"Well, 101." Max says, looking at Ben's thermometer. Max turns to me and takes my thermometer out my mouth, he gasps "209." He stares. Gwen turns to me "How are you alive?" She ask, raising an eyebrow "I-I dunno." I mumble tiredly "Either way, it's official. You two have a summer cold."
Gwen washes her hands, "Maybe from now on you guys will think twice before having snack time inside an ice cream truck." She says "I regret nothing." I huff, Ben sniffles and was about to sneeze-but instead he blows his nose in one Gwen's shirts "Hey! That's my new blouse!" Gwen says.
Ben sneezes and wipes his nose with the blouse "Maybe from now on you'll think twice about leaving your new clothes just lying around." Ben scoffs "Especially with Benji around." I say tiredly. Gwen glares at us and sighs before going through a box "Cold tablets, decongestants, cough suppressants, hospital mask."
"Good for you to wear a mask, Gwenie." I laugh before coughing harshly, Ben pats my shoulder and turns to Gwen "Uh...we don't need all that junk." Ben states "They're not for you, Dweeb. They're for me. Once a bug like that gets out. There's no stopping it." Gwen says "It's just a cold." I state, blowing my nose with a tissue. "Yeah, and why don't you just lock us away in some closet somewhere until we're better?" Ben scoffs
Gwen gasps happily "Can we, Grandpa? Pretty please!" She asks excitedly "Don't make me hug you." I say with a sniffle, Gwen cringes. "All these two need is a dose of my famous Song Ju Yen Pien cold remedy. Let's go, Chinatown is just down the block." Max states, walking to the front.
~
"Whoa cool!" I gasp sickly at the parade happening outside. The doors open behind me and the Tennysons walk out "You know it's so hard to find fresh Potikadon root anymore. It's all freeze-dried nowadays." Max sighs. Ben leans on me and coughs "Can't we get a milkshake or something?" He asks, I cough "Ugh, my throat is killing me." I groan.
Max smiles at us "Don't worry, the stinkweed honey in the Song Ju Yen Pien coats your entire esophageal area." He stares, Ben grabs the jar and sniff it. Ben gags, quickly screwing the top back on "And that's a good thing?" I ask, cringing deeply. "So, where exactly did you learn how to make this stuff, Grandpa?" Gwen asks "I picked it up from a monk in Guangdong, China." Max says.
Gwen and I both raise an eyebrow at that
"They have plumbing in China too, you know." Max says with a nervous laugh. "Ladies and gentlemen. I want to thank all of you for your support of my downtown redevelopment program. It's truly a dream come true." A lady says. Bees start to surround the crowd and I gasp as a man...riding a wave of bees appear...
"Better make that a nightmare, councilwoman!"
"Wasps!" Gwen gasps "Wait those aren't bees?! Ugh, wasp are worst!" I whine sickly, placing a force field around the four of us. The people around us start to scream and panic,
"You're not tearing down our apartment building! We won't let you!"
I rub my eyes tiredly and look around, "Hey, Benji...hear me out. What if we didn't go hero while sick? And we just...stay in bed like normal sick children?" I suggest with a cough. Ben looks at me as he wipes his nose "Come on, N/N," He says, dialing on the watch "This looks like a job for...for-"
I put on my suit and Ben sneezes. I turn to see Wildmutt...with green lips and slimy gills. He sneezes again and grunts, "You good, Benji?" I ask. Ben whimpers and looks around before running into a pole "Taking for a no..." I sigh, hopping on Ben's back. Ben growls and tense up "Just me...just me, ok." I say, gently petting his fur.
I stop when I hear purring, I crack a wide grin "Did you just-" Ben grunts and starts moving. "Wait-ack! Go left!" I tell him.
Ben stops and starts going right
"You're other left!" I sigh, Ben nods and this time actually goes left. "Watch out!" I say to the people around us. "Alright, isn't working." I sigh, pulling Ben to a stop. Ben whimpers and grunts, looking around. "I'm still here. I'm just gonna levitate you and tell you when to hit, ok?" I ask.
Ben nods, I lift Ben into the air before letting out a harsh sneeze-that made the sky turn F/C "Whoa!" I gasp, accidentally dropping Ben. He lets out a yelp, "Sorry!" I say nervously. I look over to Max and Gwen confused, Gwen shrugs and Max studies me.
~
Ben groans as we sit together on the couch in the back "Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse." He grumbles "Um...I don't know has to fix the sky. Is anyone concerned?" I ask with a cough, looking out the window. Max walks up and hands us to cups "Here, this will help." He says. We take the cups and Ben sniffs it "Uh, yuck!" Ben gags. I look down at my cup in fear
"Don't worry, it smells worse than it tastes. Or is that the other way around?" Max mumbles "That worries me even more." I sigh, coughing "It's not just you two I'm worried about. Seems like your bug has spread to your alien powers as well. No telling how it'll effect them. We've already seen what Y/N's powers can do..."
Ben glance at me and I look down at my cup "Benji, if I die...tell everyone I died fighting an alien." I sigh before quickly gulping down the liquid
IT TASTE LIKE IT SMELLS!
I lets out a harsh gag, "Welp, your go." I say to Ben. He looks at his cup and sighs before drinking it. Ben gags too, "That was so grim..." He sighs "Don't worry," Max chuckles "After 10 or so doses. You'll start to get used to it." "Ugh, I don't know what's worse the cold or the cure." Ben groans
"Got it!"
We turn to Gwen, "Bug guy said something about knocking down his apartment building. Well the only apartment downtown left for demolition is at 8610 Chester Street." Gwen says, Ben gently takes my cup out my hands and slides it in a drawer with his cup. I open my mouth, but he shushes me "What Grandpa doesn't know, won't hurt us." He whispers. "He's trying to help." I sigh "You wanna drink that?" Ben asks, raising an eyebrow.
I cough and sigh "No..." I say, "Exactly." Ben says, leaning on me.
~
"Nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live here." Gwen says as we walk towards the apartments "I mean...it has character." I say, holding Ben's hand. We walk around holes quietly and look around.
I gasp at the roaches crawling around on the floors and ceiling. Ben and I share a look and we continue to walk. "Wait...where's Max and Gwen?" I ask, Ben wipes his nose and looks around "I dunno." Ben says. Ben lets go of my hand and hits the Omnitrix.
Ben turns into Fourarms "Come on." He says, reaching his hand out to me. I look at him in confusion, wait-is he for real? "Are you seriously trying to hold my hand as an alien?" I ask, blushing a little. "Well, yeah," Ben says, still holding his hand out "You're my girlfriend now, your hands are really soft, and I have four hands right now...perfect opportunity if you ask me."
I shake my head and take Ben's hand "Come on." I say, trying to shake off my blush. I cough harshly before hearing footsteps. "That might be Max and Gwen." I say, taking a step. Ben pulls me so I stop "Wait...I have an idea~" He says
~
"AH! MEGA BUG!"
Ben grins and we walk out of the darkness, causing Gwen and Max to sigh "Haha, real funny." Gwen grumbles "I thought so." Ben says proudly. I wipe my nose and yawn, why can't I can't a nap right now?
"HELP!"
"Because some lady is dying, duh."
I yawn and put my suit on, "That came from right above us." Max states. Ben grabs me and breaks through the door "We're on it!" Ben grabs Max and Gwen. Gwen cringes and covers her nose, Ben sniffs his armpits. "It's your hives. The cold must've turned them into pus-filled pockets of-" "Pure putridness." Gwen finishes for Max before looking at me "How is this not bothering you?" She asks "My nose has been stuff for hours and I've been breathing out my mouth this whole time." I explain with a sick smile "Lucky you..." Gwen gags
"I can't help it, I'm sick." Ben states "You're tellimg me." Gwen sighs before Ben leaps through the ceiling. Ben places us down and Max walks over to the councilwoman "Stop," She says in fear "Black widows." "There's gotta be some way to help her." Gwen says "Uh...I could just...levitate them off." I suggest before sneezing. "Last to you levitated something, you turned the sky F/C." Ben states "That was because I sneezed." I huff.
I levitate the spiders off the woman carefully "See I didn't even screw it-ACHOO!" I sneeze loudly.
"Darn it, so much for proving a point..."
The black widows glow, turning into confetti. The councilwoman looks at me confused as the confetti falls on her. "See nothing bad happened." I say proudly, Gwen taps my shoulder and gestures to Ben. He was pink...
"What?" Ben asks "Nothing." Gwen snorts
"Thanks..." the councilwoman sighs "Don't mention it." I say, sniffling. Max helps the woman up "You are trespassing." The bug guy growls before a bunch of roach come toward us and form into a fist. The fist knocks Ben back, we gasp. "We will rule mankind." The bug guy hisses, "Max, look out!" I shout, putting a force field around him.
The bugs crash into the force field and to ice, I teleport a bug spray in my hands "Gwen, catch!" I call, tossing her the can. "Seriously?" She asks "I can always take it back." I hum "No...I'll keep it." The councilwoman says seriously. I look down at the floor as it cracks beneath Gwen "Termites!" Gwen gasps.
She falls through the floor, I help her up. "You want to be king? Get ready to be crowned." Ben says, charging for the bug guy. I groan tiredly and gag "You ok?" The councilwoman asks "All I want to do is sleep..." I whine.
"AH! Ants in my pants!"
I turn to see Ben hopping around and scratching all over. We dodge Ben as he runs around in an itchy panic, "You're destroying our home!" Bug guy hisses. Ben continues to ram into things and I sigh, levitating him into the air. I squeak when the ground starts shaking, "The whole place is coming down!" Gwen gasps "We have to get out of here!" The councilwoman shouts.
"No time!" Max says, giving me a look. I nod knowingly and put a force field around all of us. The building comes crashing down. The councilwoman gasps in awe, I rub my eyes tiredly. "Anyone else cold? No? Just me?" I whine "Why are you so pouty?" Gwen asks, crossing her arms as the watch beeps "Cuz, I'm tired and I just want to sleep and I'm forcing myself to stay up for you people-and I'm not pouty!" I huff.
"You're a little pouty..."
Who asked you?!
Ben turns back into himself and walks up to me "It's a good thing I can't feel my head." He groans, leaning on me. The bug guy pops out from the wreckage "No..." He whispers, picking up the the dead bugs. "No. No! NO!" He scream before glaring at us "You will all be sorry. We will exterminate the entire city!" Bug guy shouts.
Buzzing fills the sky as millions of bees flies around Bug Guy. He disappears, "This has been a really weird day." The councilwoman sighs "Welcome to our world." Gwen says. "At least my hives are gone." Ben says, checking himself. I stare at the sky "Is no one else worried about that?" I ask, frowning in confusion. Ben looks up too before grinning at me "Nah, I know you can fix it." He state, looking up with a smile.
I blush a little, "Hey-where'd that pink, smelly 4-armed guy go? I wanted to thank him." The councilwoman says "Pink?" Ben asks with a frown, glancing at me. I grin nervously "I'll let him know." I say with a laugh. The councilwoman smiles and nods, "Can you find your way back home?" Max asks, she nods and starts walking away.
"So, where do you think bug brain crawled off to?" Ben asks, Max looks around in thought "Only one way to exterminate a whole city." He hums
~
"This is be a lovely time for you to be Heatblast." I say, shivering in the front seat with Ben. "Yeah, turn up the heat, Grandpa. It's freezing in here." Ben says, "It's already on, but you two are shaking like an earthquake. Gwen, get them another dose of my Song Ju Yen Pien." Max calls. Ben gasps "No. No. No-I mean...we just finished it off." Ben states, Max glances at me. I nod tiredly "All gone...." I sigh glancing at the F/C sky.
"I'm sure it's gonna start working any minute now." Ben lies, I groan tiredly and lean on his shoulder. Ben tenses, but doesn't push me off. "Wow, listen to this. Ants can lift 10 times their own body weight, grasshoppers can leap 100 times their length and cockroaches can hold their breath for over an hour." Gwen says in awe "Huh...the more you know." I say with a cough. Ben wraps an arm around me and shivers, "We don't need their resumes, we need to know how to squash them." He states
Gwen rolls her eyes "Duh, I'm saying insects are pretty tough little suckers. Short of another ice age or a tanker full of pesticide, looks like holding a bug barbecue is our best option." She says. Ben grins "And we know just the chef." He says.
~
An alarm goes off as we walk, "What's happening?" Ben asks "Is that bad?" I ask at the same time "No. I'm sure anytime an alarm goes off inside a nuclear plant it's good news." Gwen says sarcastically, I stick my tongue out at her.
"Core temperature rising. Approaching critical."
"He must be fooling around with the reactor's controls. Let's go!" Max says, the four of us run to the control center
"Core temperature critical. Meltdown imminent."
That bug guy really made a mess of the controls....
"All the controls are smash. We'll have to shut it down manually." Max tells us as I cough harshly. Ben looks at him confused "How do we do that?" He asks, taking my hand and dragging me with him "Just outside the reactor core there's an emergency override system." Max states. "How do you know that?" I ask in awe, Max looks around nervously "Let me guess, you learned about nuclear reactors from a monk in China." Gwen says before we hear buzzing
Bug Guy walks up and grins at us "Came for a front seat?" He asks "This place goes nuclear, you're gonna wind up blowing along with the rest of us!" Ben says, wiping his nose with his fist. "We don't think so~" Bug Guy snickers, lifting up is hands. Roaches surround his whole body, "When the reactor goes supercritical, we'll be snug as bugs in a rug." He cackles.
"Of course," Gwen says "Scientists think cockroaches are the only things that would survive the blast." "So...the guy's gonna wear a bug suit to protect himself from the meltdown?" Ben asks, I gag quietly. I would rather blow up than be cover in bugs!
Ben takes a step and dials on the watch, I take that as my cue to put my suit on. Ben hits the watch and turn into Heatblast.
"Wait...something weird about you." Gwen says, I stop and turn to her, but Ben drags me away "We don't have time for you to diss us." He sniffles. I cough and clear my throat "You guys shut down the reactor, we'll take care of bugsy." I state. Ben charges for Bug Guy and gets smacked across the room "Ew..." I mumble, making bug spray appear. I shake the can and approach Bug Guy carefully. He hisses and shoots a bunch of bugs at me, I scream teleport behind him.
I shake the bugs off and spray them down, Gwen and Max shoots me sympathetic looks as they run past. "You can escape us." Bug Guy growls, pointing at me harshly. My eyes widen when a swarm of bees flies towards us, "Oh n-n-n-ACHOO!" I sneeze and a F/C energy wave jolts out my body. The bees stop buzzing and stare at me "Uh..." I say nervously, wiping my nose.
"Time to turn up the heat blast around here." Ben says, letting out a sneeze. I stare in confusion "Uh...HB....nothing happened." I state "Huh?" Ben gasp, looking around. "Oh no, it's your cold!" I say worriedly "...It froze my flames!" Ben says, looking down at his hands. Bug Guy gets ready to punch Ben but the bees start attack Bug Guy...
"Hey! What are you doing?! Attack the girl! Not me!"
Ben and I share confused glances as the bees buzz around Bug Guy "ENOUGH!" He screams loudly, grabbing Ben and swing him back and forth. I run to go help Ben, but he gets thrown into me. We grunt "Are you ok?" Ben asks "I'm fine. You ok?" I ask, rubbing my head. Ben's flames darken and he nods before Bug Guy's shadow looms over us.
"Oh man...maybe we could talk about this." Ben says, Bug Guy snickers and grabs me "Ew! Ew! Ew!" I gag as bugs crawl on my arm "Y/N!" Ben gasps, holding his hand out. Ice shoots out his palm and hits Bug Guy in the face. "Whoa!" I yelp, teleporting on of the way. Bug Guy hisses and stumbles back, I look at Ben "Whoa..." We both mumble
"Core temperature critical. Meltdown in one minute."
I hope Gwen and Max are almost there....
Ben shoots more ice at Bug Guy, but it wasn't enough "Oh!" I chirp. I make a flamethrower appear and toss it to Ben "Wow-so you can just make stuff?" He asks, taking a shot "I'm not sure," I tell him "I just think of something and it appears." "Huh..." Ben hums, shooting at lot of fire
"Meltdown in 30 seconds."
"Ah, something must be wrong! Come on." I say, running towards the window. Ben runs up and hugs me from behind before jumping through. Bug Guy jumps right after us, I levitate me and Ben so we float down gently. Ben shoots ice at the bugs below as we float down.
Gwen looks up at us and I wave, holding on to Ben tightly as his gracefully slides down an ice pole. "Did somebody call for the best hero pair?" Ben asks-with an OBVIOUS stuffy nose. "I don't get it," Gwen says confused "Since when are you an automatic ice cube maker?" I snort "Guess for some aliens getting a cold isn't just an expression." I joke, Gwen rolls her eyes and Ben snickers. We turn to Max when he gasps, "I can't override, all the manual controls have overheated." He tells us. "Well...you might be able to cool it." I say to Ben
"Y/N, look out!"
"Uh uh! Not today!" Ben shouts, hopping in front of me. Ben makes an ice ball and shoots it at Bug Guy. I look past Ben to see Bug Guy frozen in place...
Wow.
"I'm so glad you guys are finally dating~"
"Meltdown in 10...."
Ben turns to the reactor and shoots ice at it, I cover my nose as steam fills the air...
Hey...I CAN BREATHE
"-3
2...
Core temperature falling. Returning to below critical limits."
Ben sighs a sigh of relief, "Alright!" Gwen and I cheer "Way to go Ben." Max says happily. I teleport beside Ben when falls to the floor, I place a hand on his back-so glad this isn't burning.
"Thank," Ben snorts, sniffling "Now can we please get some hot chocolate or something?" Ben let's out a sneeze.
~
I sigh peacefully, hugging Min close with and snuggling into my blanket. "Bad guy's on ice, the reactor's chilling, and I think that steam knocked out the last of our cold." Ben says peacefully "And I finally fix the sky." I hum, playing with Min's ears.
"Alright it's too peaceful. Something's about to happen...I know it!"
"Don't you just love it when everything works out?" Max says. Ben and I nod, "Sorry, Mr. Roach. This is gonna hurt you a lot more than it's gonna her me." Gwen says. My eyes widen when bugs start to crawl on the wall "WHOA!" I yelp, leaping into a standing position. "Company. Lots of company!" Gwen screams, bugs surround the door and it swings open-revealing Bug Guy. The Rust Bucket comes to a quick stop and Max runs to the back
I levitate Min into the air as I shake off the bugs, "We didn't appreciate that cold shoulder you gave us in the power plant." Bug Guy says. Max tries to throat a punch, but ends up getting thrown into the front. Gwen, Ben and I share worried glances...
I surround my body in a F/C hue
Ben dials up the watch
And Gwen grabs a fire extinguisher.
"One of these weapons aren't like the other~"
I roll my eyes, "I thought you turn Bug Guy into a snow cone." Gwen says, spraying the bugs down "He must've thawed out." Ben states, pressing down on the watch. I make a can of bug spray appear and start to spray the bugs down "Oh man! We're on our own, any idea how to get rid of them?" Ben asks. Gwen grunts and sprays more bugs "Not unless one of you got a 6-foot candy bar to tempt then with."
Ben pauses and grins before running to the back "Nope, but I have the next best thing." He says. I spray the bugs down, "Come and get it!" Ben calls. He lifts the cups of Song Ju Yen Pien in the air. The bugs flies into the air, "What's happening? Stop!" Bug Guy cries as the bugs fly away from him and go right to the cups.
"Fetch!" Ben shouts, throwing the cups out the window. Bug Guy looks around and laughs nervously, Max walks up to him.
"Yeah! Kick his butt!"
Max punches Bug Guy out of the Rust Bucket, "Good, that guy was really staring to bug me." Gwen says, I roll my eyes playfully "I'm calling the police, I'll be right back." Max states. Ben and I grin at each other, "A-a-a-ACHOO!" Gwen sneezes. She slumps "Oh no..." Gwen sighs, "Hey, what do you know. Everything really did work out after all~" Ben teases as Gwen sneezes again.
Gwen sighs and wipes her nose.
~3rd POV~
"I can't just keep waiting and waiting and waiting! I need to see my child!"
"I'm doing my best...she's just a kid. She just learned about her powers and she just got a boyfriend...give Y/N time..." Other Y/N sighs nervously, rubbing her arm and looking away
"It's not Y/N I'm blaming-I'm not even blaming you as worthless as you are. It's not even M/N...it's Max who filled M/N's head with lies and convinced her to take my child away. That coward..."
Other Y/N blinks "But...I've seen that way Max talks about you to Y/N. He always says nice things. And I still don't even understand why you can talk to me, you're not even-"
"SHUT UP!"
"Y-yes sir!" She squeaks nervously "The Tennysons are parasites! They destroy families and think they can get away with it! It's not fair-not fair! NOT FAIR! He sent me to a h*ll hole, he promised my wife that he'd help to take care of my child, he's filling my baby's head with LIES! LIES I TELL YOU!" The shadowy figure screams loudly, stomping his foot. Other Y/N swallows nervously as the figure lets out a deep sighs.
"How was Y/N's day today?"
Other Y/N blinks before grinning nervously "Well, she and Ben got sick from eating ice cream and they took out a bug dude-oh and Y/N made the sky F/C! And...that's pretty much it!" She says. The figure hums and sighs "Y'know...I've been here for 9 years. I've done a lot of thinking and guess what...."
"W-what?"
"I think I found a way out of here~"
A/N: Who's excited for the season finally?