Team Bananafishstickers Post #14
Bringing the boys home. Totally would have had this up earlier, but LJ went into “maintenance mode” on me. Oh well, at least waiting for it to come out gave me time to write more. Yay?
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Kevin cradled Ben in his Vulpimancer arms, and rushed the doorway he had blown up earlier. The alarm blaring would bring out more of the cockroaches, Kevin was sure. Forgoing destroying the bastards who had hurt Ben, Kevin tried to cover as much ground as possible until bugs overran him. The escape pods weren’t too far if he used his speed.
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“Track them down,” Sagark’s grating voice commanded the cockroach soldiers. “We can’t afford to lose the human boy or the mutant!”
“Ssssssssagark, what isssss sssso sssspecial about that monssssster?” The Zophts’ reptilian client slithered across the room to the irate dragonfly.
“He piloted this ship before Silla got it! He knows the layout, the shortcuts, the controls, EVERYTHING!” Sagark waved one of his bloody hands at the door. “And he is the most wanted criminal in this galactic cluster! Do you have any idea how much money we could get from anyone if we captured him? Silla was insane to try and dispose of him! She should have placed him under tighter security!”
“ME?!? I didn’t know who he was! I was under the impression that the infamous ‘Kevin 11’ was not human! How was I supposed to know that metal-absorbing boy had a bounty on him?” Silla’s infuriated shrieking was only heightened by the burns Kevin had left on her body. Her exoskeleton was cracked and charred, her left eye was covered in a crispy film, and her wings were peppered with scorch marks and holes from the crystal shards. Blue blood oozed from the ruptured veins in her wings and her two right arms hung limp at her side.
“You should have listened to me when I told you he was from Earth! How many intelligent species live on Earth? NOT MANY. And the only Earth species to have made any contact beyond their planet? HUMANS. How hard is it to put that together?!?” Sagark threw the knife he had used to slice Ben’s back at his sister. She gave another shriek and dove to avoid more injuries.
“Now, now, Ssssssagark. Do not be too harssssh on your ssssissster.” The limbed snake turned to face both siblings at once. “However, if you do not retrieve the boy you promissssssed me, I will have you both desssssstroyed.” With that the snake slithered through the wreckage and left the room.
“Get yourself cleaned up Silla. I’ll make a plan to track them down. Shouldn’t be too hard. If they get off the ship at all they’ll just head back to Earth and that town we found them in.” Sagark stomped out of the room, leaving a broken dragonfly behind him.
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The bug-soldiers were hard pressed to keep up with Kevin. He was speeding through the hallways of the ship as fast as he could go, fully intent on getting Ben back home. ‘Gwen will know what to do about his back. I never had to deal with this shit when I was off on my own.’ He plowed his way through the little bugs like they were nothing but water. His free arms were slicing, dicing, and frying any bugs that he didn’t run over. He was on a rampage now.
Kevin broke down the door blocking his way to the escape pods. He crushed the bugs that had stationed themselves there earlier. Electricity-laced spears were absorbed and broken, shields snapped in pieces like twigs.
“You fucking bastards! I’m not gonna let you get in my way!” Kevin set the last standing soldiers afire and kicked their charred remains aside. He hurtled into an open pod and shut the door behind him. He set the coordinates for an abandoned lot off the beaten path near his apartment. ‘I knew it would help to know the galactic coordinates for this stuff.’ Still holding onto Ben’s broken form, Kevin settled down to wait for the pod to reach Earth. By the time the rest of the bugs and Sagark had made their way to the escape pod room, Kevin and Ben were halfway home.
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“Nnnnngh…” Ben felt groggy and his body refused to cooperate with his brain. He felt pain lancing through his back as he was being moved. ‘Wait… moved? Who’s moving me?!?!’ Ben’s mental alarms went off when he realized the arms holding him weren’t human. They were furry. An oddly familiar kind of furry. “Wha-? Where… what? Huh?” Ben’s eyes opened more. The first thing he saw was stars. Distant though, as though they were nowhere near by. As though he was back home, on Earth. He shifted to look around more. Trees and a path surrounded him. ‘This looks like that park by Kevin’s apartment. KEVIN!’ Ben panicked when he realized that he was back on Earth but wasn’t seeing Kevin. His mind jumped to the furry arms carrying him. ‘No… could they be?’ Ben turned his aching head to look to the other side. The sight he hoped, yet dreaded all the same, to see affronted him. A strange conglomeration of the aliens from the Omnitrix when he was ten hovered above him, carried him. It looked like Kevin, but not. Something was different. He was leaner than the Kevin 11 Ben remembered, more human, even. “Kevin?”
Three golden mismatched eyes looked down at him, a set of fangs glinting in the moonlight as he smiled gently. “Don’t worry Benji. I’ve got you.”
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I squee’d when I thought of that last bit. XD
Passing us back around to the_tonberry !
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Kevin cradled Ben in his Vulpimancer arms, and rushed the doorway he had blown up earlier. The alarm blaring would bring out more of the cockroaches, Kevin was sure. Forgoing destroying the bastards who had hurt Ben, Kevin tried to cover as much ground as possible until bugs overran him. The escape pods weren’t too far if he used his speed.
----------- x ----------
“Track them down,” Sagark’s grating voice commanded the cockroach soldiers. “We can’t afford to lose the human boy or the mutant!”
“Ssssssssagark, what isssss sssso sssspecial about that monssssster?” The Zophts’ reptilian client slithered across the room to the irate dragonfly.
“He piloted this ship before Silla got it! He knows the layout, the shortcuts, the controls, EVERYTHING!” Sagark waved one of his bloody hands at the door. “And he is the most wanted criminal in this galactic cluster! Do you have any idea how much money we could get from anyone if we captured him? Silla was insane to try and dispose of him! She should have placed him under tighter security!”
“ME?!? I didn’t know who he was! I was under the impression that the infamous ‘Kevin 11’ was not human! How was I supposed to know that metal-absorbing boy had a bounty on him?” Silla’s infuriated shrieking was only heightened by the burns Kevin had left on her body. Her exoskeleton was cracked and charred, her left eye was covered in a crispy film, and her wings were peppered with scorch marks and holes from the crystal shards. Blue blood oozed from the ruptured veins in her wings and her two right arms hung limp at her side.
“You should have listened to me when I told you he was from Earth! How many intelligent species live on Earth? NOT MANY. And the only Earth species to have made any contact beyond their planet? HUMANS. How hard is it to put that together?!?” Sagark threw the knife he had used to slice Ben’s back at his sister. She gave another shriek and dove to avoid more injuries.
“Now, now, Ssssssagark. Do not be too harssssh on your ssssissster.” The limbed snake turned to face both siblings at once. “However, if you do not retrieve the boy you promissssssed me, I will have you both desssssstroyed.” With that the snake slithered through the wreckage and left the room.
“Get yourself cleaned up Silla. I’ll make a plan to track them down. Shouldn’t be too hard. If they get off the ship at all they’ll just head back to Earth and that town we found them in.” Sagark stomped out of the room, leaving a broken dragonfly behind him.
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The bug-soldiers were hard pressed to keep up with Kevin. He was speeding through the hallways of the ship as fast as he could go, fully intent on getting Ben back home. ‘Gwen will know what to do about his back. I never had to deal with this shit when I was off on my own.’ He plowed his way through the little bugs like they were nothing but water. His free arms were slicing, dicing, and frying any bugs that he didn’t run over. He was on a rampage now.
Kevin broke down the door blocking his way to the escape pods. He crushed the bugs that had stationed themselves there earlier. Electricity-laced spears were absorbed and broken, shields snapped in pieces like twigs.
“You fucking bastards! I’m not gonna let you get in my way!” Kevin set the last standing soldiers afire and kicked their charred remains aside. He hurtled into an open pod and shut the door behind him. He set the coordinates for an abandoned lot off the beaten path near his apartment. ‘I knew it would help to know the galactic coordinates for this stuff.’ Still holding onto Ben’s broken form, Kevin settled down to wait for the pod to reach Earth. By the time the rest of the bugs and Sagark had made their way to the escape pod room, Kevin and Ben were halfway home.
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“Nnnnngh…” Ben felt groggy and his body refused to cooperate with his brain. He felt pain lancing through his back as he was being moved. ‘Wait… moved? Who’s moving me?!?!’ Ben’s mental alarms went off when he realized the arms holding him weren’t human. They were furry. An oddly familiar kind of furry. “Wha-? Where… what? Huh?” Ben’s eyes opened more. The first thing he saw was stars. Distant though, as though they were nowhere near by. As though he was back home, on Earth. He shifted to look around more. Trees and a path surrounded him. ‘This looks like that park by Kevin’s apartment. KEVIN!’ Ben panicked when he realized that he was back on Earth but wasn’t seeing Kevin. His mind jumped to the furry arms carrying him. ‘No… could they be?’ Ben turned his aching head to look to the other side. The sight he hoped, yet dreaded all the same, to see affronted him. A strange conglomeration of the aliens from the Omnitrix when he was ten hovered above him, carried him. It looked like Kevin, but not. Something was different. He was leaner than the Kevin 11 Ben remembered, more human, even. “Kevin?”
Three golden mismatched eyes looked down at him, a set of fangs glinting in the moonlight as he smiled gently. “Don’t worry Benji. I’ve got you.”
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I squee’d when I thought of that last bit. XD
Passing us back around to the_tonberry !