Gwen Tennyson, All Grown Up

Chapter 6
Loss of Control

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Chapter Description: Ben and Gwen discovered a group of criminals stealing the bank’s money so they have to stop them. But during the battle, something goes terribly wrong with Gwen’s powers. What’s going to happen? Let’s find out.

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At the mall’s parking lot, Ben got out of the mall to see what was going on outside. What he saw was a turned over armored car with flows of cash flying around. Looking at all of this mess, Ben rubbed his head and wasn’t sure about what transpired in the lot.

Ben: “Oh man... What went on out here?”

Just to answer his question, Ben heard a huge explosion coming from inside the back. Turning around to see the bank filled with smoke, he saw three figures emerging from the area. At first, it was hard to see who it was coming from the smoke, but when they got out of it Ben got a clear look and who attack the bank. One was big and bulky and had a shape of a thumb, nail included, one was a female criminal with reddish locks that has black balls on each tip and appeared to be moving on their own holding multiple bags of money, and the last individual was skinny with thinning hair and his mouth looked like it was messed up and was breathing green smog. They all had the same green color skin were all wearing the same unique outfits that include black spandex shirts with orange and black sleeves, black spandex pants, and black slip on shoes. To his surprise, Ben found out that the three were in fact Thumbskull, Frightwig, and Acid Breath. All three use to work for Zombozo the Clown, a psychotic vampire that sucks the happiness out of victims. But thanks to Ben defeating the dangerous clown, they now work for themselves stealing whatever they can to survive. While watching them, Ben heard them talk of their now successful job.

Frightwig: “Ha, ha! See, what I tell you? Piece of cake.”

Acid Breath: “Yeah, well we got just lucky. Now let’s all this money into the truck before the cops come.”

Quickly, the three started to move the money into their van as fast as they could. What they didn’t know was that Ben was behind one of the cars and watched the whole thing go down.

Ben: “Great... Just if things weren’t bad enough, I got Zombozo’s freaks to deal with. Why is it that every time I go on a different state, my enemies always follow?”

He was waiting for the answer he was looking for but found nothing. So he sighed to himself and looked down at his alien watch.

Ben: “Oh well... It’s hero time!”

He started to activate his Omnitrix and turned the dial to find the right alien for the job. When he found the right one, he pushed the dial down and begins his transformation. Back with the Zombozo gang, they were just about to wrap up their unofficial deposit until Thumbskull notice a flash of green light coming from the parked cars not far from them. He turned around and saw the light but soon he saw it, it fades away quickly.

Thumbskull: “What was that?”

He then drops his bags of money and approached the area where the light was. As he got closer to the area, in investigated to see what it was. As he did that, the big green brute suddenly got punched and was flying high over the other two. Both Frightwig and Acid Breath saw their comrade flew up in the air and landed on the ground with a huge thud. Seeing that, the two looked at each other and wondered what occurred.

Acid Breath: “What just happened?”

Just to answer his question, they heard a voice that was really familiar.

Eye Guy: “Oh I’ll tell you what happened. Me! That’s what happened.”

The two turned back to where Thunbskull got attack and saw a strange being they’ve seen before. From what they saw, it’s an alien with a massive body with numerous eyes on its arms and back and a huge one on its chest. Though it doesn’t have any eyes on its head, it still has huge bat like ears to help it hear well. And on the buckle of its strange pants was the symbol of an hourglass. To Ben, he was one of his alien heroes, Eye Guy. But to the two freaks, they know who it is when noticing the Omnitrix symbol on its belt buckle. To that end, Acid Breath turned his head to his comrade and was completely irate about this.

Acid Breath: “A piece of cake huh?”

But Frightwig didn’t respond to his question. She was completely shocked at what she was seeing right in front of her.

Frightwig: “Impossible! How did he even get here to begin with?”

Acid Breath looked back and was completely annoyed about this.

Acid Breath: “Who cares, just get rid of him quick so we can get out of here.”

Acid Breath was the first to attack as he spit out dissolving acid at the hero. Eye Guy quickly jumped out of the way before the acid could hit him. But it did hit the two sides of the cars of the parking lot in between and started to dissolve. Frightwig is up next as she used her hands to navigate her lively hair and threw them at the alien. Ben run fast to avoid the attack as the black balls missed him in every attempt and caused cars in their path to fly around. When he saw the cars flying about, he got an idea on how to approach them. He then jumped on a trunk of a Toyota Avion and started taunting the female freak.

Eye Guy: “Hey, Repunzal! Why don’t you go get yourself a haircut? Your hair looks more unruly then ever!”

This made Frightwig angrier then ever when she heard Ben say that.

Frightwig: “That’s it! You’re so dead!”

She used all of her dreads to extend them to the car that Eye Guy was on. But Acid Breath notice what’s going on and tried to stop it.

Acid Breath: “Wait! Stop!!!”

But it was too late. All of the freak’s hair hit the front side of the car, creating a catapult for Eye Guy to launch from. The alien flew up high in the air until he landed on the ground feet first in between the two freaks. When he was there, Ben did a straight uppercut at Frightwig’s chin, sending her flying to the entrance to the mall then turned around and did a quick sucker punch at Acid Breath. He thought that the fight was finished, but what he didn’t know was that Thumbskull came out of nowhere and charged at the alien after the surprise punch. Eye Guys many eyes, which were on his back looked at the big bully as the hero turned around to fight back. Soon enough, the two got together and grappled in a wrestling position. They held on tight against each other until one of them could get an opening and take the other down. Thumbskull over strengthen Eye Guy and brought him to one knee, thinking he had this one in the bag. But what the freak didn’t know was that the alien hero had a little trick up his sleeve, or on his big eye on his chest. While they were grappling, Ben was charging his big eye to give it enough power to take down the behemoth. Thumbskull didn’t even notice the charge as he was busy keeping Ben down. That was of course until he noticed something getting brighter and he looked down to see what it was. When he did that, Eye Guy smirked to himself and fired a huge load of eye beams straight at the brute, sending him flying straight to the circus freaks van. He hit the van after such an impact that it causes the doors to pop open and the money that would be inside to come out and bills flying just about everywhere. The alien hero looked at his accomplishment and celebrated about it.

Eye Guy: “Oh yeah! Now that’s what I call hitting the jackpot!”

As he was celebrating, both Frightwig and Acid Breath slowly got up from the last fight and see what has happened. When they looked up, they notice that Thumbskull completely wreck their ride. What they also saw was all of their money is flying around in the air and landed on the floor. That made them completely upset.

Acid Breath: “Hey, that’s our stash!”

Frightwig: “That’s it! That brat is going to pay dearly for this!”

Frightwig waved her hands around as her red dreads followed it. In a quick flash, all of her hair extended and headed straight to the alien. Eye Guys many eyes saw that and was prepared for that matter. Once the dreads reached to him, Ben turned around and grabbed them with his entire left arm. He then used his strength to pull the female freak off the ground and straight to him. The hero then used his right fist and used it to punch Frightwig straight to the face. She flew right back to the spot and landed right next to Acid Breath. The thin freak watched the whole thing go down and step up to the plate this time. He immediately jumped up into the air and took a deep breath to let out a huge blast of toxic smog to the alien. Eye Guy saw this go down and jumped back away from the attack, letting the smog miss him and burned all the asphalt and random parts of cars into melted piles of sludge. Once Ben avoided the attack, the freak landed in front of him and was about to fire another load on him. But Eye Guy had the time to make another recharge and fired another energy eye beam at the enemy. Acid Breath saw that and sidestepped out of the way before the beam could hit him. Ben then fired another blast to get into contact with the enemy. But the freak still avoided the next attack by jumping up in the air and landed on the hood of a parked car. Ben continued on firing, hoping to get a hit but so far, all he got was nothing but parked cars and damaged asphalt. But what he didn’t know was that it was all nothing but a distraction. As he was busy taking down the stinky freak, Thumbskull came out of nowhere and grabbed Ben by the back, giving him and bone crushing bear hug. The alien hero tried to break out of it but there was little effect compared to the muscled freak. As he was trying to struggle, both Freightwig and Acid Breath grouped together and stared at Eye Guy with devilish smirks on their faces.

Frightwig: “Now Ben, it’s payback time! Shall we?”

Acid Breath: “Why not. Ladies first.”

Frightwig nodded as she slowly approached the hero as her red dreads started to wave around. Ben thought it was all over from here on out. But just before the female freak could make the final blow, she was immediately hit by a blue beam of energy from the right. Acid Breath saw that happening right in front of him and turned his head to the direction of the beam that hit her. What he saw was Max Tennyson with a plasma-charging rifle in his hands, pointing at the stinky freak.

Max Tennyson: “Get away from my grandson you sickos!”

Acid Breath saw the grandfather and took abasive actions by taking a deep breath and was going to dissolve him away. But Max pulled the trigger and fired another plasma beam at the skinny guy, hitting him directly and sending him to the back end of a car. Thumbskull was completely shocked at what happened to his teammates he completely forgot that he was still holding onto Eye Guy. The alien hero got the opening he needed as he broke free from the muscle freak’s hold and placed his hands on the back side of Thumbskull’s head, performing a pull over toss. Once he was free from the hold, he joined his grandfather and was pleased that he came in the nick of time.

Eye Guy: “Boy am I glad to see you Grandpa. I thought I was a goner.”

Max looked at his son and smiled at the response.

Grandpa Max: “Don’t thank me. Gwen told me about the explosion and I had to go in and investigate.”

Eye Guy: “Gwen? Where is Gwen?”

That’s when he heard a familiar yet mature voice coming from behind him.

Adult Gwen: “Right behind you dufus.”

Eye Guy turned around and knew who that voice belonged to. To his surprise, he saw a grown up Gwen with her hands on her hips. But what really got her attention was that she was wearing fashionable clothes she got from the store. That made him blink a couple of times before he could ask her a question.

Eye Guy: “What are you doing?”

Gwen tilted her head and answered his stupid question.

Adult Gwen: “Saving your sorry butt. What does it look like I’m doing? After the explosion, I had to head to grandpa and told him what happened. Be lucky that he was able to track your Omnitrix signal or you would’ve been good as dead.”

Ben shook his head, knowing that that wasn’t the answer he was looking for.

Eye Guy: “No not that. What I meant to say was what are you doing with that get up? That looks ridiculous on you.”

The alien hero started laughing at the choice of clothes his now older cousin was wearing. Gwen had a nasty glare on Eye Guy and groaned at the bottom of her throat.

Adult Gwen: “For your information, this is the hottest fashion for young women like me.”

Eye Guy: “Yeah right... It looked like you got it at some kind of thrift store or a garage sale. Never thought blue was still in fashion.”

Adult Gwen: “Well if you were my age, I know you would find the hottest fashion for your taste. If you do have any taste in fashion to begin with.”

Max listened in on the whole conversation and shook his head, realizing they will still fight even if Gwen was a different age. But as he looked at where the freaks are, he realized they were getting up.

Grandpa Max: “Ben, Gwen, now is not the time to be fighting over something like this. Right now, we got bigger problems to worry about.”

Both Ben and Gwen turned their heads at the direction where their grandfather was looking at and saw all three of the circus freaks slowly getting up and had mean looks on their faces.

Frightwig: “That’s it! No one’s going to stop our crime spree, not even a little brat with an alien watch and his family! Let’s get him boys!”

The two nodded as the freaks charged towards the family. Eye Guy saw them charging at them and knew that the time is now to finish this off.

Eye Guy: “Grandpa, take care of Acid Breath. Gwen, Frightwig is yours. I’ll handle Thumbskull.”

But before Eye Guy could move in, Thumbskull rushed in and speared the alien, continued to run right into the one end of the battlefield. Both Max and Gwen saw that and decided to follow Ben’s advice after all. Max charged in and headed to Acid Breath with his gun at the ready while Frightwig pounced ahead and used her living dreads to attack Gwen. Ben’s cousin immediately jumped away from the attack, missing the dreads by a couple of inches as the female freak continued with the assault. Now the real fight begins. Down as one side of the battlefield, both Eye Guy and Thumbskull continued to duke it out. They’ve exchange punches and kicks on any part of their body but the two didn’t go down just yet. Thumbskull gave the alien a straight right punch to his face, but Ben was able to block it. Upon blocking it, Ben found an opening and used his knee to jab the muscle thumb right to the sternum. Thumbskull felt that and cried out in agony. Unable to move for a second, the alien hero took the opportunity and gave the freak a swift uppercut to the chin, sending the brute flying in the air and right into a line of parked cars. As he landed on the ground, cars flew around the crash and alarms started to blare. Ben thought he was taken care of and thought he should start helping the others. But before he could do that, he heard another crash only this time it was someone coming out of the mess. Eye Guy turned around and sees what just happened only to find Thumbskull still standing and holding what appeared to be a Hummer H3 over his head. The alien saw him having a pissed off look and lower his head to sigh to himself.

Eye Guy: “Oh man...”

Thumbskull grunted as he threw the Hummer with all of his might right at the alien. Reacting to this, Ben charged up his big eye on his chest and fired a huge plasma beam at the car. The beam hit the hummer with extraordinary force, causing it to explode and send parts flying all over the place. Once the smoke cleared, Ben thought he was out of the woods. But he forgotten about the opponent he was facing. When he looked down, he saw Thumbskull rushing at him with punched him right in the face. At the same time, Max was busy taking down Acid Breath by using the butt of his gun to hit him in the cheek. After that, he pulled the trigger and was going to blast him. But the skinny freak jumped out of the way before the energy blast was going to hit him and breathed out his toxic air. Max saw this coming so he ran for his life and the deadly breath followed him, disintegrating the asphalt along the way. As he was running, Ben’s grandfather noticed the blockade of wrecked cars he was approaching. Thinking this through, he knew that now was the time to react or be burned away. He quickly jumped to the left and rolled out of the way second before the poisonous air hit the cars and dissolved them down the middle. Max then got up and pointed his Plumbers rifle right at the attacker. He pulled the trigger and fired a barrage of blue beams, but Acid Breath jumped and dodged each and every shot Max gave. The freak then landed on the hood of another car and spit out guncky saliva at the grandfather. But that saliva didn’t hit Max, instead, it hit the front end of his laser rifle. Once it was on the end, the rifle started to dissolve away. Ben’s grandfather noticed that and immediately tossed it away before the dissolving saliva would spread to him. As he threw it away, Acid Breath laughed maniacally at the pathetic actions of the former member of the Plumbers.

Acid Breath: “Ha! You think you can stop me old man? Why don’t you head back to the retirement home take your medication?”

Max smirked at the freak, not letting him realize he has something up his sleeve.

Grandpa Max: “Sorry bud, but I’m not ready to retire just yet!”

In a quick second, Max reach to his back pants pocket and took out a futuristic pistol and was made of stainless steel metal. When he pointed it at the freak and pulled the trigger, a strange white energy beam came out of it and flew straight to him in blinding speed. When it reaches Acid Breath, it created a huge blast big enough to knock an elephant out. And that it did as Acid Breath flew after the blast and hit straight to a wall of the mall. The freak got a little dazed after the attack as Max twirled the pistol around his finger and blew on the front end, thinking it had smoke coming out of it.

Grandpa Max: “Now are you ready to retire now, or do we have to go at it again?”

While Max was finishing up, Gwen was taking care of Frightwig. The female freak used a barrage of attacks with her braided living hair to knock Ben’s cousin off of her feet. Fortunately, Gwen was able to avoid all of those attacks by dodging and jumping with her karate moves. Not only that, but with her new grown up body, she is more flexible and agile then her old body. As Frightwig was about to use her deadly hair to hammer her to the ground, Gwen jumped out of the way somersaulted backwards in the air. As she landed a couple of feet away from the enemy, Frightwig was a little confused at who this person is.

Frightwig: “Gotta admit, you got the moves missy. But I never seen you before in my life. Who are you?”

Gwen smirked at that question and answered in the most drastic tones.

Adult Gwen: “Me? I’m what you would like to call your worst nightmare.”

Frightwig took that as an insult and launched all of her dread straight to where Gwen was standing. Ben’s cousin saw this coming as she positioned her feet and jumped up high in the air, just second as the hair was about to hit her. The black balls attached to her hair just missed the cousin as they sped to the car and hit it, making the alarm go off. Frightwig didn’t know what just happened until she looked up and saw Gwen in the air and heading right towards her with a speeding straight kick to the face. The freak just got hit in the face and back up, leaving her completely dazed and her hair was waving around in every direction. Landing on the ground feet first, this gave Gwen the opening she needed. She rushed towards the female freak and gave her a couple of jabs and punches to the face and a couple of round houses to her sides and head. At first, she was doing all right fighting the crazy hair menace. But just as she did a spinning back roundhouse, Frightwig found an opening and used one of her dreads to wrap the Gwen’s foot that was stationed on the ground. That causes Gwen to fall and landed on her back with a big thud. Gwen was a little shaken by the last attack she looked up and saw Frightwig with a devilish smile on her face and her hair waving around like they were ready to strike.

Frightwig: “Worst nightmare huh? You don’t look like much.”

She then raised her hands up and the dreads went up to one direction. That’s when she threw her hands towards the grown up Gwen and all the dreads headed straight towards her. Gwen’s only chance was to cover her hands and hope for the best. But just as she did that, something purple emanated on her hand. As she started to cross her arms, the purple energy spread in mid air and formed some kind of shield seconds before the dreads could attack. The red dreads hit the purple shield but didn’t penetrate through it at all. Frightwig blinked her eyes a couple of times and was surprised at what just happened.

Fightwig: “Whoa... What the... How did you do that?”

Gwen slowly opened her eyes and realized she didn’t get hit. What she saw was a purple shield that protected her from the impact. Gwen stared at the purple shield and wondered how she did that. She didn’t chant any spells to begin with and she didn’t bring her book of spells with her as well. For some reason, she was thinking that she needed protection and she got it. Starring at the shield, then at Frightwig, she smirked and gave her the answer.

Adult Gwen: “Just lucky...”

With the freak and little off guard, this gave Gwen the opening she needed. So she removed the shield in front of her and lifted both feet up to give the longhaired enemy two kicks to the sternum. Frightwig flew a couple of feet away from Gwen but landed on her feet and skidded to a complete stop. The freak looked at the young adult and was now getting angry at what she did. She stretched her hands out and her hair went into many directions, ready to attack the woman in any direction. Immediately, all of her dreads grew and flew to Gwen in every which way it did. Gwen saw this coming and jumped up in the air as the black balls attached to each dread hit the ground with an impactful thud. The dreads then flew up and followed Ben’s cousin with righteous fury. Gwen did all that she could to block all of the attacks in the air, but it wasn’t enough. As most of the hair hit her on every angle, the last one hit her right into the chin. Gwen started to fall and thought she was done for. But as she turned right side up, she landed on something very sudden. When she looked down, she noticed that she wasn’t even on the ground. What else she noticed was that she was standing on a transparent square tile that was colored the same purple at the shield. Gwen was completely amazed by what just happened, the Frightwig was more upset then ever.

Frightwig: “Neat trick... Let’s see what else you can do!”

The freak waved her arms around as her dreads headed back to Gwen for the finishing blow. Gwen, upon seeing that, immediately jumped away to the left as the red dreads hit the levitating floor tile, shattering it to a million pieces. But just as one tile got destroyed, another was created next to it as Gwen landed on it. Frightwig drew her hair back and launched another assault at the sorceress. Again, Gwen jumped away and created another tile behind her while the other one gets trashed. This continued on for about thirty seconds and Frightwig was getting really tired of this.

Frightwig: “Hold still will you! Can’t hit you while you’re moving around.”

Gwen continued to jump and creating tiles around her to avoid the freaks attack, thinking of a way to take her out. If she has something to throw at her, maybe she would be able to get out of this mess. She tightened her fist in complete frustration but as she did that, she felt something completely warm around her hand. She looked at her hand while in the air and noticed a purple orb of energy encased around her hand. Staring at that, she smiled and came up with an idea. She landed on another floating purple tile and waited for Frightwig to guide another dread to her. To her luck she did that and the long strand of red hair with a black ball headed towards Ben’s cousin. Gwen jumped out of the way before it could hit her but she didn’t create any floor tiles. Instead she threw the purple orb she was holding and it flew toward its target. And that target was non other then Frightwig herself. The orb hit her in the face and was blinded for a moment. This gave Gwen the opportunity she needed to finish this. Instantly, more tiles were in front of her and they pointed downwards to form levitated stairs. She ran down the steps towards her enemy while the female freak was trying to rub the flash spots on her eyes, completely unaware at what was happening. When she was able to see and turned around to look at Gwen, she saw the sorceress coming down to her and did a spinning back heel kick to the freak’s face. Frightwig was sent flying five feet away from the young woman and immediately landed on her feet to make a complete stop. She then looked up at her and was really annoyed at what just happened now.

Frightwig: “All right that’s it! I’m going to teach you a lesson you will never forget!!”

She rushed towards the woman with her braids going out of control with a vengeance. Now Gwen was in trouble for sure. If only she could find a way to hold and contain her, then maybe she would be safe. That’s when she remembered how she was able to focus on this new power she possess just now. So she started concentrating hard and thought of something that can hold Frightwig. To her luck five smaller purple orbs appeared at each of her fingertips as she position them to the female freak. Instantly, the orbs shot out and grew into long curvy lines, surrounding the longhaired enemy. Frightwig stopped and looked around at the strange lines and tried to take them out, but they were too fast for her to hit. Soon enough, they wrapped her around her legs, her body, and her lively hair. She tries to break free from their grip but the lines were too strong for her to penetrate. The magical lines then lift her off the ground and levitated up in the air, pulling her closer to Gwen. The young woman smirked at her success and asks the freak a question.

Adult Gwen: “So tell me, how do you like my powers now?”

Frightwig was going to say something, but one of the purple lines covered her mouth completely from talking. Even if she was able to talk, it wouldn’t be anything pleasant. Gwen chuckled at that and shook her head.

Adult Gwen: “Thought so...”

Gwen then looked around to see how the others are fairing. To her surprise, they were having a hard time getting the other two freaks down. Ben, who was still in Eye Guy form, was still wrestling Thumbskull and using his big eye beam to knock him down while her grandfather was trying his best to fight off Acid Breath. Seeing all of this go down, she rolled her eyes around and sighed to herself.

Adult Gwen: “Do I have to do everything myself?”

She started to concentrate while lifting her other hand up in mid air, creating more magical purple lines that headed towards the two other freaks. Eye Guy continued to grapple Thumbskull with all of his might, finding any opening he can against the hulking freak. But just as he was going to find one, some of the purple lines came out of nowhere and wrapped around the freak’s huge body, lifting him up in the air. Ben scratched his supersonic ear and was confused at what happened.

Eye Guy: “What the heck?”

At the same time, Grandpa Max was still fighting off Acid Breath with his energy pistol. He kept on firing and firing with all he could, but the stinky freak kept on avoiding the attacks as quickly as possible. He then jumped up to avoid a shot at his foot and landed on a damaged car. Acid Breath took a deep breath and was about to launch a whole load of toxic air at the former Plumber member. But before he could do that, one of the purple lines came up from behind him and covered his mouth completely. Soon after that, more lines covered the rest of his body and lifted him off the ground too. This made Max more confused then his grandson.

Grandpa Max: “What the...”

The two turned their heads to see where those lines were coming from. To their surprise, they saw Gwen holding the criminals up in the air, concentrating hard enough to keep them up.

Ben and Max: “Gwen?”

The two were completely amazed at Gwen saving their butts. But that turned into fear as they notice something incredibly wrong. While Gwen concentrated to keeping the lines intact, more lines came out of her fingertips and headed straight towards her family. This surprised both Max and Ben and they had little time to react. All the magical lines got a hold of the two and they lifted them off the ground. Now Ben and his grandfather were scared at what would happen next and tried to get out too. But even with an energy pistol and alien strength, they were no match for this powerful magic. So Max looked at Gwen and demanded her to stop this at once.

Grandpa Max: “Gwen, it’s your grandfather! Whatever it is your doing, stop this at once!”

Gwen did listen, but she couldn’t stop it. For some strange reason, this new power she posses is too strong for her to control. She immediately opened her eyes and they too were glowing bright purple, completely scared at this power.

Adult Gwen: “I can’t!!!”

Suddenly, her entire body was covered in this strange purple aurora as blasts of energy emanated out of it, creating so much destruction by blowing up cars and ripping pavement apart. Even the magical lines that holds the freaks and Gwen’s family and moving around violently, spinning them around in different places. Eye Guy was being thrashed the most as he hit the floor and cars when ever the lines move around. To that, he couldn’t take it anymore and decided to take action.

Eye Guy: “All right that’s it! Time to stop this once and for all!”

He used all of his strength to break up the lines that were covering his big eye and succeeded in doing so. The alien hero then charged up his eye to target his cousin. Max looked at his grandson and was perplexed at what he’s up to.

Grandpa Max: “Ben, what are you doing?!”

Eye Guy: “What does it look like I’m doing? Saving our rear ends!”

Eye Guy’s eye now got super charged enough to knock Gwen off of her feet. The eye then blasted a huge beam right at the sorceress hoping to stop this madness once and for all. But just as it was going to reach her, a shield appeared above her and protected her on instinct. Ben was surprised by all of this but continued to blast her anyways. The beam became much more powerful as the shield started to crack from the pressure. Eye Guy continued to assault, only to realize that the hourglass symbol was beeping red. Knowing what that means, the alien pushed hard to penetrate the shield.

Eye Guy: “C’mon, c’mon... Just about there...”

The beam kept on getting stronger and stronger as the shield crack to the limit. Finally, after all that effort, the shield break and the beam hit Gwen, causing her to fly away from the blast and hit the wall of the mall. This left Gwen in a temporary unconscious state as her powers faded. The thick magical lines faded away quickly, causing the freaks and the family to fall to the ground. The criminals fell on the floor and they too were unconscious while Eye Guy and Max landed on their rears. After they landed, a red light engulfed Ben and he was now back to his normal human self. After transforming back, Ben rubbed his back and felt incredibly sore.

Ben: “Ow... That hurts. Talk about cutting it short.”

With the two still alive, they got up and approached a knocked out Gwen. Grandpa quickly checks her pulse to see if she’s all right while Ben was next to him.

Ben: “Is she...”

Feeling a pulse, Ben’s grandfather shook his head and gave him an answer.

Grandpa Max: “No. She’s still alive. But she is unconscious.”

Ben was glad that Gwen was still breathing, but was wondering about what happened.

Ben: “Hey Grandpa, you mind telling me what just happened. I never seen Gwen cast that magic before.”

Max wondered that too. He believed he saw that before, but from where? Before he could figure it out, he heard police sirens from a distance. Turning back to see flashing lights not far from here, he knew now wasn’t the time to find answers.

Grandpa Max: “I don’t know. But we should leave right now before the police comes and ask questions.”

To that end, Max turned to see a sleeping Gwen and picked her up. That’s when the two flee the scene and headed to the RV while the police got there and wondered what happened to the parking lot.

 

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