Chapter 2: Challenges

[06/08/2006_Thursday_04:00]

[Trailer]

Ben wakes up from his sleep and looks around, Max was sleeping on the bench and Gwen was sleeping on the other sofa.

"Huuumm, well I guess that's okay" Ben thinks, opening the window and getting out of it

Leaving the trailer Ben realizes that he was at a car stop near a gas station.

"Hey Beta, do you have GPS or something?" Asks Ben

"Yes, and if you are looking for somewhere to train, I dare disappoint you, there is no suitable or safe place to train" Beta replies "

Oh shit, so what do you recommend I try to do?" Ben asks

"I can explain to you about the aliens I have, the 13 species they have are very useful" Beta says "

13, why only 13, there must be more, right?" Ben asks

"Yes, but at the moment there are only 13 aliens available" Beta says

"That's right, describe what you think I'll use the most" Ben says

"The most useful thing would be..." Beta can't finish his speech, the omnitrix starts beeping

"Unknown electronic signals detected, possible enemy droids approaching" Beta Speech

"Shit" Thinks Ben running to the trailer and knocking on the door without stopping

A few seconds later grandma Max opens the door looking sleepy but soon understands that something bad it's happening seeing Ben's reaction.

"We have to get out of here, there are droids coming after us and I'm sure it's not good to fight near a gas station" Ben says I understand in the trailer

Ben enters and wakes Gwen up, Max starts to step on the accelerator and go in search of a place empty for the fight.

"Children, the trailer will shake a little but don't be scared" Max says, clicking on a button.

The trailer starts to shake, outside laser weapons shoot up at the back of the trailer.

"So Ben, any useful aliens for this situation?" Asks Gwen

"I don't know, most of them are weak to begin with, so even if they were useful I don't know if they would be strong enough" Ben says "You can't

see the type of droids, just feel their energy source, but I dare say petrosapien" Says Beta

"I don't know who that is" Ben says

"It has a pointy head that looks like a diamond" Beta says

When Ben started looking for the alien on the watch, an explosion sound followed by a shock in the trailer, throwing Ben and Gwen back. reaches.

"Hold on, they're already in range" Max responds

Max starts firing his weapons at the droids, seeing them through a camera, there were 6 1.70m droids, but what scared Max was that he knew who owned these droids .

"Fuck it" Ben thinks, getting up and running to the trailer door and opening it

"I'll be right back" says Ben with a smile and jumping out of the trailer Ben clicks on the clock

The orange light explodes and falling to the ground on one knee was an alien that they appeared to be made of diamond.

Petrosapien was 1.70 tall, the spines on its back were very small, its body was less robust than normal and the pointed crystal that should have been on top of its head was rounder, its body was more transparent and its forehead arm that should look like a shield was the same thickness as the rest of the arm.

Still kneeling, Ben puts his hand on the ground and a crystal barrier is formed.

The droids began to shoot, the barrier held steady against the shots from the 6 droids but began to show cracks after 3 waves of fire.

Ben runs to the side and sends a blast of spikes with both hands focused on the robot right in the forehead, so one of the robots explodes.

"So I have enough firepower to destroy them if it's in the head" Thinks Ben relieved

But soon his relief ends when one of the 5 robots shoots close to him, making him stumble and others send shots in Ben's direction.

Ben reacted by bringing both arms together and creating a shield, the shots hit him sending him flying.

While Ben was being thrown due to the impact, he shoots again with both hands and manages to knock down another droid.

Ben transforms his hand into a blade and, sinking it into the ground, manages to hold on and stop.

Ben was sighing heavily and having difficulty standing.

"Just 4 more" Ben thinks, getting up and looking at the droids.

But before he can do anything, 2 of the droids are blown up by a red laser.

Taking advantage of the fact that other droids began to recalculate to find out where another enemy was, Ben puts his hand on the ground and makes a crystal column that pierces the other 2.

Ben soon detransforms and gets on his knees on the ground, he turns to the side and sees Max with a pistol.

"Nice shot, grandpa" Ben says, getting up with some difficulty

"It was stupid of you to do that" Max says, helping Ben to stand up

"My arms hurt, you know when you hit metal and you feel shock and stay kinda numb, so that's what I'm feeling" Says Ben

"Let's go to the old can" Says Max taking Ben in our arms

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[08/06/2006_4:15]

[Old can]

Ben was sitting on the couch with some ice on the arms.

"How are you?, did you feel pain while you were transformed" Gwen asks

"Well, yes I felt pain, but when I was transformed it was different, like a laser shot at the human body must be horrendous, but when I was transformed into the diamond it was equivalent to a stone hitting me in the stomach, the worst part is that now I found out It seems that part of the damage I take in battles stays with me" Ben says looking at his arms

"That's worrying, we should train as early as possible so you don't have any difficulties, like imagine if the shots hit your head" Gwen says "

True, but one thing that scared me was receiving the information from the alien, it was kind of strange, like in 1 second I didn't know anything and the next I already knew, like for 1 second I felt totally vulnerable because I had to accept that, it was very strange and uncomfortable" Says Ben

"I can't even imagine, but I've already started making a spreadsheet for the training of the aliens we've seen so far" Says Gwen, taking the notebook and opening a notepad

"So far we know of 3 aliens, the first It's obvious that it has firepower, the second one must be pure brute force and this is a mix of tanking and attacking from afar" Speaks Gwen

"The one with flames we will have to go in search of increasing the firepower, so let's put more fire on you or take you to places with more extreme temperatures and to get rid of weakness, let's use fire extinguishers" Speaks Gwen

"As for the one with four arms, we're just going to go to the gym, calisthenics and things like that" Speaks Gwen

"And lastly, we're going to possibly hit you and throw these crystals at something" Gwen says

"The basics, for those who know almost nothing about them, are better" Ben says

"When Grandpa Max explains it better and even gives information about them it will be easier for us to train you" Gwen says, placing her hand on Ben's shoulder

"It will be" Ben says with a half smile

"So are you going to try to sleep?" Gwen asks

"No, to be honest I don't know if I'll be able to sleep for a long time, you know the feeling of..." Ben can't complete the sentence

"Of being able to die in my sleep" Gwen completes the sentence in a weak, melancholy and slow voice

"Yeah, like at first the vacation seemed boring, with the gain of the clock it was incredible, but now being attacked in my current place took away 90% of what I thought it would be cool to be a hero, like I can be attacked at school, at home or whatever place" Ben says

"So do you want to talk about something?" Asks Gwen

"Huh, I don't think so,

"Calm down, you can't be stressed and emotional for now" Max thinks

"The closest base is Washington, I'll arm myself better, get maps of other bases, see if there's alien data still in the system and train Gwen and Ben, Everything will be fine" Max says

"Now the only thing I can do is drive" Max thinks, storing the gun in a Coudre

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[Omnitrix]

"Azmuth said that feeling pain would help Ben understand the aliens, that pain is part of the process , but it's not cool, it doesn't look cool" Thinks Beta

"But he's not wrong, if Ben doesn't understand the pain of fights when he takes real damage he could go into a crisis" Thinks Beta

"Huh, what can I do to help you out ?" thinks Beta for several minutes

"Ahhhh, thinking is very irritating, I'm going to try watching psychology videos to see if that helps me" Thinks Beta, not seeing any way to help Ben physically