The Tennysons Who Fight Together, Die Together
Who: Ben Tennyson and Gwen Tennyson
What: Battling it out against puddlespawn and such in Nautilus, and then things go south.
Where: Somewhere in the North
When: Today
Warnings: Character Deaths
( It only gets worse from here, folks. )
What: Battling it out against puddlespawn and such in Nautilus, and then things go south.
Where: Somewhere in the North
When: Today
Warnings: Character Deaths
( It only gets worse from here, folks. )
"Gwen!" He shouted, his voice booming like thunder.
No, no, no.
He reached for Gwen but the wave of power she released forced him back. Ben blinked his alien eyes, trying to refocus them after the intense burst magenta energy subsided.
Gwen had activated her Anodite form but she didn't seem like she had meant to. Ben knew what that would mean if he couldn't calm her down. He wasn't going to lose her, not like Holiday...
"Gwen! You need to fight it or you'll!-"
He activated his ability to grow, his Vaxasaurian form's height increasing slowly. Ben reached out for his cousin, hoping he could reach her before she flew out of his reach.
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"No! You don't get it - it's so simple - Ben, I can eradicate those things with a thought. And then the Aeon -- it's caused too much suffering! I won't have it -" She's cocky, overconfident - fueled by anger and power and the want to end the fighting. No one else will die, no one else will suffer. Only ... only-- she stared at Ben's alien form as he moved to intercept her, green eyes narrowing.
If she was alarmed that she felt no connection to her cousin, it was too disconnected from her current self to reveal. She wasn't Gwen anymore - not the way he knew her. "Why are you standing in my way!? I thought you wanted to end this - MOVE." She clenches a hand, "Or I'll make you move."
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"Gwen, that isn't you talking. It's the power, it's destroying you."
Ben stared up at her, he was sure he could take her. He'd done it before, granted that she wasn't a full Anodite then, but he really didn't want to have to fight Gwen ever again. He tried to reach up to her again.
"Gwen please..."
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She wasn't listening. Or - to be more accurate, she was listening but paying it no mind. She turned away to stare in the other direction, reaching out to sense the presence of the Aeon and its spawn.
"They're _STILL_ out there. More of them, attacking people -" And there was something to the south too, wasn't there. She remembered seeing an alert on the network a few days ago.
That will have to be dealt with too. But first, this person - that boy who took the form of the Vaxasaurian. He had ties to the her that was weak and afraid - the one that clung to her humanity. He's pleading to something that was buried. Pleading to her humanity - she had no need for it.
Once she dealt with the creatures here, he would see sense. He would be grateful. But they wouldn't be cousins. They wouldn't be family, or even friends. And a part of her - overshadowed by the pulse of energy, breaks down in tears at that thought ( ... )
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Those words were more painful than any attack Gwen could possibly throw at him. Yes, she was right about him wanting to end this war, but he wasn't going to allow Gwen to sacrifice herself to do it. Ben wasn't about to give up on his closest relative, no matter how much her power might tip the scales in Nautilus' favor.
The alien dinosaur glared up the energy being. The only thing connecting the two vastly different beings was the pair of green eyes they shared, a genetic trait marking them as family.
"You know I can't do that, Gwen."
Ben knew she'd attack, he braced himself for it. With any luck he could end the fight in a single punch.
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In her heart, she would never say things like that. She cherished her bond with Ben, and in this place, he was her only family. Her only family she didn't want to strangle, that is.
But now, they were just two aliens in a hostile situation. Green eyes to green eyes. "So be it."
He knew she would attack, and attack she does. Her energy was stronger in this form, and without hesitation, she held out that clenched hand in his direction. The energy ball glowed brighter, a matching aura surrounding his form, and hauling him off the ground, only to throw him into a nearby abandoned structure.
It wouldn't finish him. He was stronger than that.
That was why she flew after him.
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Ben recovered quickly enough from the unexpected attack, shrugging the debris off himself as he stood. He was prepared for an energy blast, not being turned into an alien baseball. He knew Gwen would come after him, and he wasn't going to wait for her to strike again.
He thundered toward the hole in the wall, the structure around him shaking with every step. He scooped up a slab of concrete from the ground.
"Nice pitch cuz. Now let's see how well you catch!"
The slab left his grasp, hurtling toward the Anodite like a meteor.
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It was coming in too fast for her to dodge it, or even to blow it up. She braced herself instead, the slab of concrete slamming into her in turn. She grunted in pain, the weight of the concrete bearing her down where she slammed into the ground and skidded backwards.
Once she slid to a stop, she gasped for breath, trying to focus on that single presence she was facing off against. But she felt so many others - enraged, she let out a guttural yell, the slab of concrete shattering apart. The smaller pieces each took on a hue of magenta as she took control of them and sent the barrage back at her cousin in an attempt to get to her feet again.
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The torrent of mana charged stones hammered into him, forcing him onto one knee. He grunted as he shrugged off the last of the stones. Humungousaur was large and powerful, but his size made him an easy target for Gwen. Ben could see this going badly for him if he couldn't close the distance.
He shrunk back to his default size and charged toward her. He needed something, a distraction, something that would blind Gwen for a few seconds.
"Come on Gwen, I've seen fireworks way more powerful than that."
Ben was intentionally trying to goad his cousin into attacking. He needed Gwen to cause an explosion, that way he could take advantage of the smoke and debris to change forms. He had to be confident that Humungousaur could take the blast. If he couldn't Ben was toast.
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Given the lack of her humanity in this state, his attempt to goad her didn't work on an emotional scale, but ... overconfidence scale? Yep~! The way she saw it, she had to defeat this pesky nuisance, and then she could take out the Dark Aeon and its spawn.
"Is that what you want? I can oblige -" Normal Gwen would see this as the trick it was. Anodite Gwen didn't care, as both arms raised, a ball of mana forming, deep magenta rather than the translucent shades Gwen usually had. By the time the ball of energy was twice the size of her head, she decided it workded for an attack, and sent it speeding to impact towards the alien-boy.
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