Gwen Tennyson, All Grown Up

Chapter 1
Slip Up

Chapter Description: After a fight with Rojo at Fort Knox, Gwen thinks she isn't as powerful as she thought she be. What would she do?

Chapter One: Slip Up

It was a nice peaceful day in Louisville, Kentucky. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, and everyone was doing their own type of business. But at Fort Knox, it’s a whole different story. Sure everything looks peaceful enough, of course that was until there was a huge explosion coming from the inside.

Deep within the building that was loaded with tons and tons of gold bricks a fight was raging on. There were explosions appearing left and right while golden bricks flew all over the place. Coming out of the stacks of bricks, a huge figure flew and crashed right into the wall. Once the crash started, the figure landed on the floor and shook off from the feeling. By the look of this being, it was completely made of green glass like stone with yellow eyes and a black and white suit with a circular symbol of an hourglass. This being if of course one of the alien heroes named Diamond Head. But the truth is that this being is really Ben Tennyson who uses a strange watch called the Omitrix that can turn him into any alien he chooses. Shaking the cobwebs out of his head, Diamond Head got up and was getting sick of being thrown around.

Diamond Head: “Oh man... Does this one ever give up?”

Suddenly, there was another huge explosion in front of him and another figure jumped out of it and landed right in front of the diamond alien. Ben, or Diamond Head right now, got a good look at whom this person was. It was a female individual all covered with black alien tech armor from head to toe, and had red spiky hair on top of her head and dark brown eyes. Her biker name was Joey, but her villianess name is known as Rojo. Rojo looked at Diamond Head and smirked very evilly.

Rojo: “All right you little crystal punk. It’s time for some major payback.”

She lifted her arm up and revealed a small laser popping out of one of her compartments. But when she fired it, the small laser fired a huge blast at the alien hero. Diamond Head saw that and quickly defended itself by placing his hands on the ground and a crystal like wall grew up and out to protect himself from the blast. The laser blast hit the wall and deflected it from the crystallized alien and went straight up to the ceiling. Soon after the blast was over, Ben in his alien form jumped up high in the air and over the wall, turning one of his hands into a blade like arm. He rocketed down to his target and was about to strike, but Rojo jumped back and avoided the attack. As the smoke cleared, Diamond Head did a heroic pose on the ground and looked up at Rojo with a sly grin on his face.

Diamond Head: “Had enough yet?”

To that end, Rojo chuckled under her breath and answered his question.

Rojo: “Oh I’m just getting started.”

That’s when two blades came out of her armored hands and did a swift karate move before doing a stance of her own. Seeing that, Ben got up and turned his other hand into another blade performing his own stance. They both stood there, staring at each other for what appeared to be a long time. After that long of a wait, the two charged at each other and began their attack. Rojo started by a straight slash at his chest. But Diamond Head blocked it with both of its arms, hoping he wouldn’t get pierced through the chest. Though his arms were badly cut, Ben’s crystallize skin was pretty much impenetrable. So the flesh wounds he has now would heel up in no time. He then reacted faster by using his blade arms to slash the culprit. He slashes right and left just to see if he can slow her down. But Rojo avoided them all and strikes back with an attempted cut at the alien’s head. Diamond Head’s only option was to use both his blade arms to block the sudden strike and lifted it up his in the air. He held the energized weapon as hard as he could as the crook tried to bring her blade down to Ben’s head. The alien thought he got it all under control. But when he noticed Rojo smirking at him very devilishly, she lifted her free hand up and activated her laser, charging it up to full power. Once Diamond Head saw that, his yellow eyes grew wide in both surprise and fear, realizing he’s now in real big trouble.

Diamond Head: “Uh oh...”

Within seconds, the blast came out of the laser gun and hit the crystal alien, sending him flying in the air and crashed right into a pillar that hold part of the ceiling. When he crashed right through it, Rojo approached the ruble and laughed manically to herself.

Rojo: “How do you like that?!”

Just as she was about to enjoy her victory, the ground suddenly begins to shake and the rumble in front of her blew up. She jumps back in hoping to stay clear of the debris that was flying around her. When she got out of the way, she looked back at what was left at the debris and saw Diamond Head still alive. Though he was a little banged up and scratched up, he was still angry at that set up and turned his blade arms into a bunch of small spike like darts.

Diamond Head: “This fight’s not over yet till I say it’s over! Not by a long shot!”

He lifted his arms up and blast the darts at the renegade woman, but Rojo armed herself with an energy force field to deflect the crystal projectiles. She then pointed the laser at him and fired another shot.

Meanwhile, everyone form security guards to tourists were evacuating the building as fast as they could. Two of the tourists were young kids watching the battle from afar. They thought they would be safe from where they are, but they didn’t know that the support beam Diamond Head crashed through was cracking the ceiling above them. When they see the dust falling around them, they look up and saw large amounts of debris falling towards them. They panicked and ducked their heads low, thinking that they could be goners. That was when they heard a young female voice that saved their lives.

Gwen: [color=#0000FF]“Vortexia Lifsa!”[/color]

Suddenly a wind of a tornado appeared over them and lifted the debris over their heads. The two kids looked up and wondered how the rocks were floating. That’s when they turned their heads to see a girl they never seen before. This person has short orangey hair with a blue clip that holds part of it. She was wearing a long sleeve light and dark blue shirt that goes down to her elbows and had a picture of a cat’s face, a pair of white Capri pants that go down below her knees, and pair of white and blue feminine flip flops. But what made them shocked to see her was that her hands were glowing brightly blue and she was holding them like she was holding the debris in mid air. They didn’t know the person that was saving them was Gwen Tennyson, Ben’s cousin who knows karate and quite recently learning to do magic spells. The kids just stood there starring at this strange girl, not knowing what to do. They also didn’t know that someone was right behind them, scooping them up and taking them to safety. When they were out of harms way, Gwen let her hands go, causing the pieces of debris to stop levitating and fall to the floor. The stranger got the two to a safe location and put them down. Once they were on the floor, they turned around and looked at the person that saved them. What they saw is an old stout man with gray and white hair, wearing a button Hawaiian shirt, dark blue pants, and brown boots. It was obvious that this person is of course Max Tennyson, former member of a group of alien protectors called the Plumbers and the grandfather of both Ben and Gwen. After saving the two boys, Max looked at them and told them to leave.

Grandpa Max: “Trust me when I say this. It’s not going to be much safer if you two are standing there. Now move!!”

The two tourists nodded and immediately left the premises, getting to a safer place and reuniting with their parents. Knowing that the kids would be all right, Max look back at his niece to see how’s she holding up. Turns out Gwen was using a blue shield to protect a wounded security guard from being crushed by pieces of twisted metal rocky slabs. When the mess is out of the way, she let go of the shield as her grandfather approaches the two and picks up the security guard. While he was doing that, Gwen was getting upset at what was happening.

Gwen: “All I wanted, just this once is to have a normal day with no crime, no danger, and no aliens. Is that too much to ask?”

Max looked at Gwen and tired to calm her down.

Grandpa Max: “Sorry Gwen. Guess we don’t get what we always wanted. Looks like this is the last of them. We should get out before things get real hairy.”

Max left the area carrying the unconscious guard over his shoulder. Gwen was about to follow her grandpa and leave the building. But suddenly, she heard a huge explosion followed by a loud crash from behind. So she turned around to see what was that about. That’s when she saw her cousin, who was Diamond Head, being pushed through the flames and into the wall by Rojo. Seeing Ben in deep trouble, she rushed to him to see if she would help out.

Gwen: “Ben!!!”

While she was running, her grandfather heard her scream and looked back to see her running to Ben’s aid.

Grandpa Max: “Gwen, get back here!”

But before he could do something to stop her, more debris rain down in front of him. Being that it’s too late to get her out, he decided to head out and calls for help. Back to Ben, he was having a really hard time trying to stop Rojo from stealing the gold in Fort Knox. Even in the form of Diamond Head, his outer shell couldn’t last against her weapons. He was about to get up after the last impact, but Rojo grabbed him by the throat and lifted him up above the floor.

Rojo: “When I’m done with you, I’m going to use your diamond body to make me a lifetime supply of jewelry.”

She armed herself with the blade in one of her arms and was about to slice and dice him up. But before she was about to do that, she heard a young voice of a very familiar girl.

Gwen: “Hold it right there missy!”

Rojo stopped what she was doing and turned her head to the right where the voice came from. What she saw was Ben’s cousin, Gwen, in a battle ready pose and has her hands glowing bright blue. Diamond Head turned to see her and was a bit perplexed at her being here.

Diamond Head: “Gwen?”

Gwen: “Nobody’s messes with my geekazoid cousin but me!”

Rojo stared at this strange girl and snickered at her threat.

Rojo: “So you think you can defeat me huh? Well then, ladies first.”

She started out by pointing the laser cannon/blade at Ben’s cousin and fired it at her. Gwen quickly rolled out of the way and fired a blue blast at the enemy. Rojo quickly got her red shield up in time to deflect the shot. Still holding Ben by the neck, she tossed him away to prepare for battle.

Rojo: “Is that the best can do?”

Gwen growled under her breath and started thinking of an alternative way in stopping her. She then looked to her right and saw a cart filled with gold brinks and came up with an idea. So she lifts her glowing blue hand up to the cart and started chanting some magic words.

Gwen: [color=#0000FF]“Levitatious crisia throwa!”[/color]

Soon as she said it, that cart filled with bricks was covered in blue energy, lifted into the air, and flew straight at Rojo. Rojo saw it coming and immediately ducked and dodged the bricks while using the laser to destroy the cart that was heading towards her. She then used the laser to try to destroy the girl, but Gwen used her acrobatic skills to somersault backwards and avoid the blasts. When she reached to the wall behind her, she jumped up on the wall and uses all her strength to jump off the wall and gives a spinning roundhouse kick at a turned over table that was taken down moments ago. It flew directly at the criminal but Rojo armed her energy blade and started to slice through, making two ends pass in between her and crashed right into a wall. But she didn’t come prepared for what would happen next. For after she cut the table, Gwen flew straight to her with a flying high thrust kick. Rojo felt that kick and was sent flying to the end of the wall, creating a crater on the impact. Gwen flipped back and landed on the ground with both hands and feet on the floor, looking up to see if this fight was over yet. Unfortunately, it isn’t. To her surprise, Rojo just got out of the crater and felt a little dizzy from the previous attack. But she pointed the laser at Ben’s cousin and opened fire at her. Gwen quickly crossed her arms together, thus creating a blue shield that would protect her from the blast. Though it successfully did that, both her and the shield started to fly and crashed right into a stack of gold bricks. Rojo looked at the pile of bricks that were on top of the girl and had a devilish smirk on her face.

Rojo: “Ha! Felt that? That’s what you get when you mess with me!”

But before she was going to be proud of her victory, green diamond shards came out of nowhere and attack Rojo from her right side. She was caught off guard for the moment as the shards tried to pierce through her armor. Luckily she was able to activate her red shield and deflect the rest. When she looked at what attacked her, she couldn’t believe what she was seeing. Standing in front of her was Ben A.K.A. Diamond Head, fully recovered and was extremely ticked at what happened to his cousin.

Diamond Head: “No one, and I mean no one, hurts Gwen!!”

Immediately, he raised his hands up in the air and threw down on the ground. At the same time he was doing that, large spike like green spears came out of the ground and made a straight line straight to the criminal. It caught Rojo off by surprise as the spikes pushed her off the ground and sent her up in the air. On instinct, Rojo activated her grappler arm and fired a hook with a sting attached to it at one of the catwalks. Once it latched on to the support bars, she retracted it back and flew down to the catwalk, landing on her feet. When she got up, she looked down at the alien and shook her head to herself.

Rojo: “When are you going to learn Solid Face? No one beats me. Not even you!!!”

She armed her laser and pointed it at the diamond alien, firing it straight at him. But Ben ran and rolled out of the laser’s path from behind. He even swift his way his way through the fire power, in case the laser gets too close to him. He immediately hid behind a pillar as the laser hit the pillar and tried to break through it. Immediately Ben armed himself by forming one of his hands into a spike machine gun and told the crook something.

Diamond Head: “The name is Diamond Head!”

Quickly, he jumped out of his hiding place and fired his crystal machine gun, targeting the steel ropes that hold the catwalk together. The many green spikes flew to those targets and lucky ones hit the ropes. The ropes then snapped and the part of the catwalk that Rojo was on fell to the floor. She quickly fired her grappling hook again and the hook reached the top of the ceiling. Once the hook grabbed the ceiling, she got off the catwalk and flew down to the crystallize alien. She used her other hand to arm the red blade attack the alien. Ben lifted both his hands and blocked the blade with his out shell. Rojo pushed him with her blade and landed on the floor while Diamond Head skidded away from the dangerous felon. When he made a complete stop, he took a peak and saw Rojo heading straight towards him, only this time she has two blades attached to her arms. She started swinging the blades all around in order to slice and dice him up to nothing. Though Diamond Head was able to block them all with his crystallize arms, it would only be a matter of time before his end will come. As Rojo was doing the cutting while Ben was blocking, the crystal alien backed up to get some room and thinks of a plan. But Rojo walked forward in order to get closer to cutting him to pieces. At this time, Ben was now running low on options and has no idea what to do next. But he didn’t know was that he almost forgot about someone else. Back at the pile of gold bricks, there was a lot of shaking as the bricks started to rumble and stir. That’s when a huge explosion burst out of the gold bricks and scattered them all over the place. When the smoke cleared, it was obvious that out of the mess was Gwen herself. At first, both Rojo and Diamond Head thought she was a goner. But what they didn’t know was that when the enemy’s laser hit Gwen’s shield, she concentrated long enough to form a blue egg like barrier around her seconds before she crashed through a stack of golden bricks. When she was buried underneath it all, she charged up her powers to insert all the energy into the egg shield. That’s when the egg exploded and sent the flying bricks every which way. As she got out of the mess and took a deep breath after conjuring up all the energy within herself.

Gwen: “All right, mental note never use a shield against a high powered laser cannon.”

She then looked around, wondering where she was. That’s when she noticed she still was in Fort Knox. Not only that, but she saw both Diamond Head and Rojo slugging each other off, and it looks like the enemy was winning. Rojo bolted Ben to the wall and was using a test of strength to defeat the alien. Diamond Head was using his strength to fight back, but he wouldn’t stand a chance against the criminal’s blades, trying to pierce through his skin. Gwen was shocked at what is happening and tried to figure out a way to save her cousin. She looked up and saw a few loose wires dangling over the two’s heads. That was when Gwen came up with a real good plan. Back to Ben and Rojo, they were still at it with the test of strength, with Rojo about to win. She smiled wickedly and was pleased at her success.

Rojo: “Too bad for you punk. You’re never going to defeat me! You or anyone else.”

That was when she heard Gwen’s voice once more.

Gwen: “Oh yeah? [color=#0000FF]Tangula, Strangula![/color]”

Suddenly, the loose wires came to life and rain down on the evil woman. It then wrapped around Rojo and lifted her up in the air, tightening her so that she won’t get away. As she struggled to get out of the wires, Diamond Head was relived at the fact that he was saved by his own cousin. He looked to his left and saw Gwen heading towards him, hoping that he’s okay.

Gwen: “Ben, are you all right.

Diamond Head looked both his arms and twisted his wrists around, to see if they were in good condition. Though his arms were a little scratched and cut off, they were still intact and he was all right. He looked at her cousin and smiled a little.

Diamond Head: “Yeah, I’m fine. A little banged up, but I’ll be cool. Thanks for the help Gwen.”

Gwen smiled too as she shrugged her shoulders a little.

Gwen: “Hey, don’t mention it. Just making sure you don’t get into trouble. Now c’mon, let’s get out of here before this entire building starts falling.”

Diamond Head nodded as the two ran to the closest exit they could find. But while they were finding one, Rojo was still struggling on the fact that she was still tied up by the lively wires that was tying her up. After much effort, she finally used her blade to cut the wires up and launched a grappling hook to attach it to the pillar beam that holds the ceiling up. She then got out of the wire mess and, she swung down to the two with a blade up high in the air, and was about to attack the two with a rebel yell.

Rojo: “DIE!!!”

Both Diamond Head and Gwen heard the scream and turned around to see Rojo heading towards them, ready to cut them all up. Gwen was surprised by all this and was about to chant another spell. But before she was able to do that, Ben blocked the way and gave Rojo a straight diamond punch at her sternum, sending her rocketing towards the end of a wall and smashed right through it. The crystallize alien smirked and thought that was all taken care of. But what he and Gwen didn’t know was that while Rojo was flying to the wall, the grappling hook that was attached to the pillar detached itself from its foundation and destroyed it. Soon as that happened, the pillar started to crumble and the ceiling begins to crack. As it started to break, Ben reflexes his punched hand and shook his head a little.

Diamond Head: “Well, that was easy. C’mon Gwen, let’s get out of here.”

Gwen cocked an eyebrow, felt like she was a little left off on the final blow. But at least she was glad her cousin saved her. But before she was able to thank him, she saw pieces of dust and little debris raining around her. She looked up and discovered that the pillar above them is tearing apart, while the ceiling was on the verge of breaking down. Immediately she reacted to that and pointed up.

Gwen: “Ben, we have a problem.”

Diamond Head looked up and noticed both the pillar and ceiling beginning to wear and tear.

Diamond Head: “Don’t worry, I’ll take care of this.”

He was about to create a huge crystal slab to protect himself and his cousin from the falling debris. But before he would be able to do that, his hourglass symbol started flashing red and an occurring beeping started. Looking down at the symbol, he knew what that meant. That’s when a red light engulfing him, blinding both him and Gwen for the moment. Once the red light faded, Gwen, who covered herself after the flash, looked back to see the results. What she saw was that Ben was back to his old human self. He had messy brown hair and a pair of green eyes just like Gwen, only it was a little darker. He was wearing a white T-shirt with a black strip down the middle, dark beige cargo pants, and a pair of white and black sneakers. Strapped to his wrist is a bulky black watch with the same hourglass symbol and four white tubes around it. It was apparent that the watch was in fact the Omitrix, a device capable of turning the person who obtains it into any alien he or she chooses. Back to the story, Gwen rolled his eyes around and desperately sighed.

Gwen: “You were saying?”

Ben looked at himself and was completely upset by all of this.

Ben: “Oh man! Not now!!”

Suddenly, the pillar started to fall the same time the ceiling break down, heading straight down towards the two cousins. With Ben all aliened out, Gwen decided to save both her and her cousin before things get worse.

Gwen: “Hold on to me tight.”

Ben looked at his cousin and was a little confused at what she was doing this time.

Ben: “What?”

Gwen turned her head back and demanded him to follow her orders.

Gwen: “Just trust me! Now do it!”

Ben looked up at the falling debris coming towards them and realized he doesn’t have much of a choice. So he approached his cousin and wrapped his arm around her waist. Soon Gwen started to pronounce another magic spell she learned a week ago. It was a teleportation spell that could take her anywhere she pictures. All she needs to do is to concentrate on the very location she needs to be and start chanting the magic words.

Gwen: [color=#0000FF]“Transportus Viorga!”[/color]

As soon as she said those words, a blue light engulfed the two and they disappear in the flash, seconds before the rubble crashed down on the very spot they were on.

Outside of Fort Knox, rescue teams, fire departments, and police officers were at the scene, rescuing civilians and keeping order in the area, while news crews describe on the situation for national television. But while everyone was doing their business, they didn’t know what was happening far from them. Outside the electric fence of Fort Knox, where no won’t go through without being electrocuted, a bright blue light hovered above the ground. That’s when both Gwen and Ben appeared out of thin air, out of the Fort and away from any danger. Unfortunately, Gwen didn’t count on the fact of whether she would be on the ground or not. Soon as they appeared, the two fall to the grassy ground and landed in a loud thud. After feeling that type of an impact, the two got up and felt completely soar just about everywhere. After they rubbed the pain away, Ben looked at his cousin and had a sour look on his face.

Ben: “Smooth move Gwen... Next time you want to teleport us, make sure it’s on the ground and not in the air.”

Gwen turned to see Ben and wasn’t aware they were in the air. She thought they would teleport on the ground, but she was wrong. So she decided that it’s best to apologize to Ben about what happened.

Gwen: “Sorry Ben. I didn’t know we were going to be in the air in the first place. This is the first time I was able to do that spell, so I thought I had it right.”

Ben: “Yeah? Well try to perfect your powers next time you cast that. I don’t know who’s dangerous, all the aliens and criminals I face, or a nimrod of a cousin that has no idea about how to use her powers correct!?”

That last statement made Gwen gasp in surprise, not expecting Ben to be this serious. Shortly after, an old RV with a number of satellites in the back appeared on the road not far from them. Inside the RV the window rolled down as the two looked at the vehicle and saw their grandpa in the steering wheel, waiting for them.

Grandpa Max: “Good, you two were able to get out in one piece. I was worried that something bad might happen to you. Now get in. Who knows if the authorities come here and investigate what just happened.”

Ben was glad that he can now finally relax after the whole ordeal and walked straight to the RV.

Ben: “Finally, a chance to kick back. I can so need a shower after when I get in. I’m covered in both dirt, and Gwen’s cooties.”

As he was heading to the RV, Gwen stayed behind, still a little shocked at what Ben said. Lowering her head, she wondered to herself what he meant by being more dangerous. Then it hit her.

Gwen: ?Is Ben right? Am I that weak, or that I couldn’t control my powers?’

Before she would figure out the answer, he heard Ben’s voice coming from the distance.

Ben: “Hey Gwen, you coming?”

She looked up and saw Ben at the entrance to the RV, waiting for her to come in. Knowing that he was now a little concern about her cousin in a dramatic pause, she decided to join him.

Gwen: “Coming!”

She quickly catches up with him, wanting to get some rest of her own. But before she would do that, she’s going to do some reading on a book she’s very familiar with.