Chapter 30: Chapter 30: Benwolf
The team was making their next stop at a small village in New Mexico, where they were taking in the local history.
Max was standing by a stand with a native of the village was next to him as he told him about the dreamcatcher on display.
"Navajo legend says that the web of the dreamcatcher protects the dreamer while holding the nightmares in the center," the native said. "While the dreams travel down the feathers and bless the person sleeping."
Ben groaned at this as Jen and Gwen stood by him as Gwen sighed.
"Speaking of sleeping," Jen whispered to her cousin as they walked away and crossed their arms.
That was when Allison and Becky came by with some strips of fried dough that they handed out to the others.
"Who wants churros?" Becky asked.
"Don't mind if I do," Gwen said to her sister with a smile as they all started munching them.
"I know Mr. Green is Grandpa Max's old buddy, but could this date get any..." Ben said when they stopped in their tracks and saw a young Navajo girl about their age doing a dance by them and Ben was instantly smitten. "...cooler?"
"That's my granddaughter, Kai," Mr. Green said as the girls looked over and Jen smirked and put her hands on her hips and shook her head.
"Wes, last time I saw her she was barely walking," Max said to his friend. "Now look at her."
Kai continued dancing to the beat of the drum nearby as Jen looked over and jabbed her brother in the arm, getting his attention before she rolled her eyes at him.
"She is performing the traditional Navajo dance," he said.
"You know, I was hoping to see one of those before the summer ended," Ben said.
"Since when have you been interested in Native American spiritual dance?" Gwen asked.
"Since, like, forever, Gwen," he said. "It rocks."
"Come on," Allison said as Jen pulled her cousins and best friend over as she smiled.
"Guys, I can read my brother like a book," Jen said with a smile before shifting to a singsong voice. "He's got a crush."
"Oh my gosh!" Gwen said to him. "You're right! He's showing all the signs!"
"We've got to tell him what to do!" Becky said.
"Ladies, please," Allison said. "Let's not meddle with him. I've seen that go wrong too many times. The only thing he needs to know are two little words."
"Who wants to tell him?" Gwen asked.
"I will," Jen smiled. "He's my brother. My twin. It's kind of my responsibility."
"You are closer to him than any of us, Jen," Becky agreed with a nod.
"Let's go," Gwen said as the girls all gave a four-way fist bump to each other before going back as a smitten Ben saw Kai walk past as he smiled at her.
Suddenly, they looked up to the sky to see storm clouds rolling into what was once clear beautiful skies illuminated by the sunset.
"Are you sure you're not doing a rain dance?" Allison asked Kai.
"Positive," Kai said. "Why?"
That was when the skies erupted with rain and lightning struck down and sent the civilians scattering in a panic.
"That's why!" Gwen and Becky shouted.
"Take cover in the Rust Bucket!" Max said as he and Wes rushed Kai, Gwen, Becky and Allison into the Rust Bucket and a still-smitten Ben stood by as Jen glared at him and snapped her fingers in front of his face.
"Hello! Wake up, lover boy!" she shouted to him before she slapped him across the face, snapping him out of it.
That was when a cloud of dust kicked up from the wind and they looked up to see a beastly silhouette in the cloud and they instinctively activated their Omni Suits as they glared and Jen coated her hands in energy and Wes looked back in shock as the figure growled.
"Anyone want to ask that thing for an umbrella?" Ben asked.
The figure stood up and revealed itself to be a hulking wolf-like creature with glowing purple eyes before it snarled and rushed away as Becky gasped from the Rust Bucket and the twins looked confused.
Suddenly, they saw a major wave of water wash through the streets and they all gasped.
"Flash flood!" Wes gasped before Gwen, Allison and Becky climbed up onto the roof of the Rust Bucket while Max and Wes climbed up onto a roof while Jen and Ben ran up on energy platforms created from Jen's powers before they looked to safety.
That was when Kai was about to climb up before she lost her grip and was swept away by the waters of the flash flood, causing everyone present to gasp.
"Help!" she shouted as the twins nodded and activated their Omni-Suits and then dialed in an alien.
"Going Ripjaws!" Omni-Green said as he slammed the core down... only for nothing to happen. Jen tried the same thing, but it only yielded the same results. "Okay... going by myself!"
"Right behind you, bro!" Omni-Pink said as she ran on her energy platforms and chased after Kai before her brother leaped down onto a stray barrel that was swept away in the waters as Kai gasped.
"Help me!"
"We've got you!" Omni-Green said. "Take my hand!"
Kai then gapsed and nodded before she grabbed Omni-Green's hand and he hoisted her onto the barrel.
Suddenly, they saw a wall crash up a wall of water by them and Omni-Pink gasped as she illuminated her hands using her energy and Kai was surrounded in a void of energy and she lifted her up onto the building by her as Omni-Green used his enhanced reflexes to front flip onto the building by them as she sighed.
"The Omni Twins," Kai said as they smiled. "You really are there whenever we need you."
"Just doing our job, Ms. Green," Omni-Pink said with a smile underneath her visor.
"If there's anything I can do to-"
"Repay you?" Omni-Green asked. "No thanks. I'm one of those leap first ask second kind of guys."
"No," Kai said. "What I meant was could you let go of my hand?"
Omni-Green looked down to see he was holding Kai's hand and he let go and Omni-Pink rolled her eyes at his antics.
"That beast is still around the area," Omni-Pink said. "I think we're going hunting, Green."
"You're right, Pink," Omni-Green said as they instantly leaped behind one of the buildings... only to reappear from behind it a few minutes later in their normal forms.
"Where did you two go?" Kai asked once she noticed the twins behind her.
"The Omni Twins saved us," Ben said. "I guess they saved you too."
"They sure did," Kai said. "They're the best heroes in the world."
"I wouldn't be too sure," Jen said. "The L-Crew can do pretty much everything they can do and in greater force."
"Yeah, but they're not nearly as skilled at it as the Omni Twins," Kai acknowledged with a chuckle.
The camera transitioned to the nearby satellite where the werewolf figure grabbed the satellite dish and stole it in a flash of lightning.
Later, when the flooding had cleared and the storm stopped, the group had gathered in the nearby museum where Wes examined a banner on dispaly with a figure on it similar to the werewolf figure.
"I never thought I'd ever see one with my own eyes," Wes said.
"See what?" Allison asked as she raised her eyebrow.
"A Yenaldooshi," he answered. "A Navajo werewolf. I thought they only existed in folklore. Their presence is pure evil." He then brought out a rifle and glared. "I must find it. I'll tranquilize it and bag it."
"I'll go with you, Wes," Max said.
"Count me in," Ben said.
"Me too, Grandpa," Kai said.
"You know only Braves can be trackers, Kai," Wes said.
"Who made up that rule?" Gwen asked.
"It's been that way for centuries. Times change, but traditions do not. You, Becky, Jen, Allison and Kai will remain here."
"But-" Becky began before Max stopped her.
"Their land, their rules, Becky," Max said as his granddaughter only groaned.
Wes walked off, leaving behind some very disappointed girls as Ben looked to them.
"Kai looks bummed," Ben said. "Maybe I can cheer her up."
"Maybe you should," Allison said. "After all, it's not every day that you get a crush."
"What?!" Ben shouted before Gwen and Jen smiled.
"Skip the dramatics, Ben. We know that you have a crush on her. You've got all the symptoms," Jen said.
"I do not!" Ben said, blushing.
"You so do!" Gwen said with a smirk.
"Oh, who am I kidding?" Ben asked. "You girls are right. I do have a crush on Kai. Please don't make fun of me for it."
The girls then smiled to each other before Jen placed a hand on her brother's shoulder.
"I'm not going to make fun of you, Ben," Jen said. "Just the opposite. I still feel guilty about when you had a crush on Patty Berkenfeld back in third grade."
"Patty was just a phase," Ben said. "This could be a phase too... but when you girls are hanging out with her, could you kind of let it slip about how awesome it is to be my sister, cousin or friend?"
"Deal," Becky said as Ben smiled and hugged his sister before they ran off and Becky sighed once he was gone.
"You're totally thinking about sneaking out and going after that werewolf, right?" Gwen asked.
"Of course," Becky said as she showed off the blades slung into her belt. "I'm the Huntress. And the Huntress always gets her prey."
Ben, Max and Wes wandered through the desert and Wes picked up and examined a few stray hairs from the Yenaldooshi.
"This reminds me of the time we went after that yeti in the Himalayas," Max reminisced.
"You're a Plumber?" Ben asked.
"Was," Wes remarked before standing up. "It appears the pawprints lead this way."
He gestured to a canyon with rocky walls on both sides as far as the eye could see.
"Too bad Becky isn't here," Ben said. "She'd be better at this than any of us."
Back in the village, the girls were sitting on a rooftop as Jen gestured to her cousins and friend as they nodded with a smile.
"So..." Gwen said. "I guess the Omni Twins saved you."
"Yeah," Kai said. "They're really cool."
"My brother wanted me to ask you what you thought of him," Jen said.
"He seems okay," Kai said.
"Oh, once you get to know him, he's one of the greatest people you could ever meet," Gwen said.
They then heard a howling nearby and looked out to see into the desert as Becky sighed.
"That's it! I can't take it anymore!" she said as she leaped off of the roof and landed on the ground before Jen and Gwen followed her and Allison picked up Becky and leaped onto the ground. "I'm going after that thing."
"You know the rules, Becky," Kai said.
"Rules, schmules!" Becky said. "I haven't missed out on a hunt in five years and I'm not starting now."
"Okay, if you want to get in trouble, that's your problem," Gwen said as Becky ran to the Rust Bucket for her weapons.
"We're totally going with her, right?" Allison asked Gwen and Jen.
"Like you can't imagine," Ben said.
Ben, Max and Wes looked down over the cliff to see the Yenaldooshi was sifting through a pile of scrap metal and sparks were still flying from the area as they all widened their eyes.
Wes nodded and aimed his tranquilizer gun and aimed carefully and put his finger to the trigger.
The Yenaldooshi's ears suddenly perked up at the sound of the gun cocking and he dodged the tranquilizer dart that followed with great speed. He then dodged the following darts as he leaped onto the rock behind our heroes and fully revealed itself. It has bluish-grey fur, a long flowing dark mane and a large bushy tail with three sharp claws on each hand and foot. The inside of his mouth is green with his eyes being pink.
It gave out a great howl before swatting the boys off of the cliff, sending them screaming downwards as Ben activated his Omnitrix.
"Time to go full Stinkfly!"
He then slammed down the Omnitrix, transforming into...
"Wildvine?" He asked as Wes gasped when he saw the plant alien in the young boy's place. "Aw man!"
He then shot out his arms and they stretched around the seniors before he stretched his leg roots upwards and wrapped them around a rock above to stabilize himself and when he reached the bottom, he let Max and Wes go before he slingshot himself back up onto the cliff.
Wes gave Max a confused look before he chuckled.
"Yeah, I know. I have a lot of explaining to do."
Wildvine got back onto the cliff and looked around before four pairs of eyes looked downwards and Allison was riding on Firefly as she looked downwards while Gwen and Becky looked from a nearby rock using binoculars as Becky sharpened her spear using a stray rock.
"Let's do this," Becky said with a sly smile.
The Yenaldooshi climbed up the cliff face to the top... where he was instantly wrapped up by Wildvine's vines.
"Tag. And you're it, fang-face!" he said.
Becky then aimed her bow carefully from her rocky position as Firefly flew above.
The Yenaldooshi then chomped down on Wildvine's arm, causing him to yelp in pain.
"So you want to fight dirty, huh?"
He then shot underneath the ground, dragging the werewolf with him and slamming him into rocks as Firefly and Becky aimed their weapons carefully and Gwen's tattoos started glowing as she aimed a fireball in her hand as Firefly flew into the area and aimed shot out her fireballs and Becky fired her arrow as the the Yenaldooshi shot up to the ground and landed in a heap as the fireballs and arrow collided as Firefly flew down... as the Omnitrixes timed out.
"No! Not now!" she shouted as she collided with the ground as Allison did a backflip and hit the ground perfectly as Omni-Pink groaned upwards as the Yenaldooshi faced them as Ben quickly activated his Omni Suit and chuckled.
"Uh, that Fangface nickname?" Omni-Green chuckled. "I meant it in a nice way."
"Ben, run!" Omni-Pink shouted as Omni-Green ran away from the Yenaldooshi as his sister fired her energy bolts after him.
Omni-Green wasn't quick enough as the Yenaldooshi swiped its claws outwards and managed to scratch the Omnitrix and he landed in a heap on the ground as Allison and Gwen ran by him and helped him up.
"You okay?" Allison asked as Omni-Green nodded.
"Ben!" Max shouted as he and Wes ran up the cliff as the Yenaldooshi ran away and leaped off the cliff.
Omni-Green looked down at his Omnitrix, which had its faceplate spinning and it was glowing yellow. He shrugged and walked away as Wes looked at the girls.
"What did I tell you girls about our traditions?" he asked as Omni-Pink removed her helmet and revealed herself.
"We're superheroes, Mr. Green," Jen said. "Traditions have to be broken to save the day."
Later, the team had regrouped near the Rust Bucket as Wes explained the situation to some of the tourists as Ben looked at Kai before turning to the girls.
"So, did Kai say anything about me?"
"Maybe, maybe not," Gwen said.
"Gwen!" Ben whined.
"Don't seem too interested, Ben," Allison said. "Girls can totally sniff desperation out a mile away."
"Right," Ben sighed, rubbing his arm.
They looked to see the tourists walking away.
"Where are all those people going?" Becky asked.
"Off the reservation," Wes explained. "They fear the Yenaldooshi return. And since the full moon is tonight, its power will be greater than ever."
"Well, I'm sure that after we went hero on it, it's long gone," Ben said.
"Don't be so sure," Jen said, nudging her brother. "They always come back."
"My grandpa told me what you did," Kai said to Ben.
"Yep," Ben said. "It's one of my many talents. I don't like talking about it."
"It's okay," Kai said. "I understand. It must be tough being superheroes all the time."
"It's a full-time gig," Ben said as he and Kai walked off.
"So," Kai said as Ben started itching and scratching at himself. "What things have you done?"
"You know, the usual. Arrest criminals, take down aliens, save mankind," Ben said as the girls all raised an eyebrow at his scratching.
"Scratch yourself like a monkey?" Gwen asked.
"Are you okay, Ben?" Becky asked.
"I'm fine!" Ben said. "I just can't stop itching! Could one of you scratch my back?"
"My fingers on your back?" Gwen asked. "No thanks. I'd rather pull out my nails one by one."
Ben took a seat on the ground before he pulled one of his shoes and socks off and didn't notice as his skin turned a sallow shade of blue and he started scratching himself behind the ear with his foot, which grew sharp black claws on the toes and the same thing happened to his fingers.
"Uh, Ben?" Kai asked. "Your face looks..."
"Handsome?" Ben asked. "Yeah, I get that a lot."
"Actually," Kai said. "More like really hairy."
"Ben?" Allison asked as Ben's ears grew to points. "What's going on?"
Ben felt at himself and gasped. "I don't know!"
"So this isn't one of your alien heroes?" Kai asked.
"Nooooooooooo!" Ben said, breaking into a howl towards the night sky.
"Were you bitten by the Yenaldooshi?" Wes asked as they examined Ben.
"When I was Wildvine," Ben said. "But it didn't even break the skin... or in this case the root."
Ben, this is nothing to make light of," Wes said. "The Yenaldooshi can create others in its own image. And when it does, those followers will seek to destroy those closest to them."
Allison gulped. "That's not good for us."
"So how does Ben un-wolf?" Max asked.
"The only way to reverse its spell is to stop the Yenaldooshi."
"With a silver bullet, right?" Jen asked.
"That's only in the movies. You must dip a silver pendant in the juice of the arbol del matrimonio cactus and place it against its heart. And we must do it before tonight's full moon or you could remain like that forever, Ben."
"Forever?" Ben gulped.
"The Navajo also believe the Yenaldooshi to be a god," Kai said.
"You know, a little back hair's not so bad."
"Oh no, you don't," Jen said. "I'm not having a werewolf as a brother."
"I'll get the pendant," Wes said before walking off.
"Hey, is anybody else hungry?" Ben asked as they looked over to see a cow grazing in the grass.
Inside the Rust Bucket as the girls crowded around Gwen's laptop and Ben poured an entire carton of eggs into a bowl and poured milk all over them and then immediately chowed down on it like an actual dog before looking up and looked upwards as he saw that Jen created a forcefield around them that blocked the egg and milk on them as the girls looked absolutely disgusted, especially Kai.
"Napkin?" Ben asked with an embarrassed smile as Kai took the napkin.
"Ugh," Allison said. "We'd better destroy that werewolf sooner rather than later."
"That thing's head is going to be on my spear by the end of the night," Becky said as she sat in the corner, sharpening her bladed weapons by her with a determined look on her face.
Gwen rolled her eyes and turned back to her laptop and pulled up a Wkipedia article on the cactus.
"The arbol del matrimonio cactus," Gwen said as the others crowded around her before Ben pounced off the seat and ran on all fours towards the fridge as he opened it.
"Let's see what else I can wolf down," he said. "Get it? Get it?"
As he feasted and the girls looked on in disgust, they watched as Ben's muscle mass grew exponentially and his faced pulled out into a small muzzle with wolf-like ears perched at the top of his head and his eyes were reduced to two fully green glowing orbs. A portion of greyish fur grew over certain portions of his body, while leaving the blue untouched in some areas.
He then looked at the girls and shrugged before he continued wolfing down the food in the fridge.
"You're looking more and more like a Yenaldooshi," Kai told him.
"Well, I still feel like just me," Ben remarked in a deeper tone of voice.
He then turned and gave out a sniff with a more sensitive sense of smell and then gripped the roof of the Rust Bucket and he flipped his way onto the roof and gave out a smirk and a glare before shooting his gaze towards a jackrabbit loaming in the ground below.
The rabbit then gave out a frightened squeak and ran away as Ben pounced onto the ground and ran after it as it burrowed downwards into the ground with Ben digging down after it before he suddenly stopped in his tracks and looked backward to see that he had coated Kai with the dirt and sand and she looked pretty upset.
"You were saying?" Jen asked.
"I guess you can teach a new wolf dumb tricks," Gwen said.
"*chuckle* Uh, sorry," Ben said to Kai as she shook and dusted the dirt and sand off of her with a glare.
That was when Wes and Max arrived with a concerned look.
"The NASA tracking station on the north ridge was just destroyed by some sort of werewolf," Wes said. "It almost ripped apart the guards there."
"I'll give you one guess what it was," Becky said as she slipped her weapons into their slots sheaths along her belt and slung over her back and she glared outwards to the desert and cracked her knuckles and joints.
"What did it want?" Allison asked.
"It took some satellite equipment," Wes said.
"And it also ripped down the receiver that you guys had here," Jen remembered, looking to the empty radio tower.
"Definitely strange," Ben said. "What do you think it wants?"
"Obviously, it's angry that technology has invaded what it considers to be its sacred land," Wes said. "We need to find the Yenaldooshi and find it fast."
"You won't be able to look for both the Yenaldooshi and the cactus," Kai said.
"Let Kai, Allison, Gwen and me look for the cactus," Jen said with a nod.
"When we find it, we'll give a call," Allison said.
"And Becky will go with you. She has been pining to hunt for this beast," Gwen said with a nod as Becky nodded with a grin.
"I didn't buy this shirt on the road for nothing, guys," she said, gesturing to the wolf's head icon on her T-shirt.
"Very well," Wes said. "She may come with us."
"Thank you! Let's go hunt us a wolf," she said, fingering the blades in her belt.
"Be careful," Ben and Kai said to each other as the rest of the girls all smiled and winked to each other.
However, Kai saw their sneak move and just rolled her eyes and sighed outwards.
Later, Ben, Becky, Max and Wes grouped together by a clearing as Wes drew a diagram in the sand with a stick.
"The NASA station is west of here," Wes said, drawing an X followed by a few lines around it. "It's surrounded by lakes to the north, south and east. Which means the Yenaldooshi should've come this way."
"Let me see if I can help," Ben said before he turned to the moon and started howling outwards before the unmistakable howl of the Yenaldooshi came in response. "He must be this way."
"Let's do it," Becky said as she unsheathed her spear and followed Ben with Max and Wes following them for a bit before Becky stopped them by putting her hand up with a glare and Max shined his flashlight on the ground and saw the pawprints ended.
"The pawprints end here," Max said as Becky sighed and put a hand to her ear and focused only on the sound around before she heard growling and yipping by her as she then nodded before she unsheathed her spear with a glare.
"I believe that the huntress is about to get her prey," she said before she shouted outwards before she leaped onto a rock above as... Ben came out, now looking more muscular and spikes had grown from his shoulders and knees and a long bushy tail had grown from the small of his back and he stopped Becky in her tracks.
"No! It's me! Benwoooooolf!" he howled.
"The transformation is complete," Wes said. "We need the cactus."
Max then pulled out his cellphone, only to see that his phone had no reception because the tower's receiver was stolen. "No reception."
"We need another way to summon them," Wes said before he reached into his backpack and pulled out a flare gun.
Meanwhile, the girls were wandering through the desert into the cacti field they were searching for.
"The Canyon de Chelly is a sacred place," Kai explained to them. "It's where our spirits go."
"Well maybe the spirits can help us find that cactus, because I'm about ready to give up," Gwen said before she sat down and yelped outwards into the air as she held her bottom and fell face-first into the ground with prickles and vines in her bottom.
"Ben would've loved to have seen that," Jen said as Allison couldn't help but giggle at what just happened.
"The arbol del matrimonio!" Kai exclaimed. "I guess the spirits work in strange ways."
"And painful ones..." Gwen groaned before Allison pulled the cactus vine off of her and Jen helped her up and Kai looked at her cell phone.
"No phone signal," she groaned.
The girls then looked outwards and saw a flash of light in the sky and gasped at once when they saw the flare shoot up in the sky before it disappeared.
"Over there!" Jen said. "They must be sending us a signal."
"Let's move, ladies!" Allison said before they rushed off.
"I hope they found the cactus," Max said.
They then heard a growling by them and looked upwards to see the Yenaldooshi jump down from the cliff in front of them as Becky unsheathed her spear and aimed it at them.
"Back, back!" she shouted, thrusting her spear outwards. "I'll put your head on the Rust Bucket's mantel!"
"Don't rush in, Becky," Wes said. "We need the cactus to destroy it."
The Yenaldooshi then growled and pounced forward onto Benwolf before he recovered and tossed him away, where he landed back on its feet.
"Yeah, but it doesn't need anything to wipe out us," Benwolf said.
The Yenaldooshi then inhaled and his muzzle split into four and he howled outwards, giving off a purple sonic wave that knocked the others back against the cliff face before they slumped over and Becky propped herself up on her spear as she looked towards her cousin with a groan as he stood up too.
"I don't suppose there was anything in the Navajo legends about that?" she asked.
"Guess its bark is worse than its bite," Benwolf said as he went to his Omnitrix.
He then growled outwards and charged towards the Yenaldooshi and soon, a fighting match had begun that amounted to the two wolves slashing their claws at each other before the Yenaldooshi knocked Benwolf back towards the cliff with its powerful tail, which caused Benwolf to groan out.
As the Yenaldooshi approached, a war cry sounded out and Becky ran forwards and took out two of her knives from her belt and shouted out before she jumped up and sank the two knives into the back of the wolf monster.
"Get your claws away from my cousin, punk!" she shouted before the Yenaldooshi cried out in pain before it growled at the young girl before it pulled her off while she was still gripping the knives and tossed her away and she screamed outwards before Max caught her.
Ben looked up at the werewolf approaching Becky, Max and Wes while Becky aimed her spear at it and he snarled before standing up.
"Going XLRWolf!"
But as he went to activate his Omnitrix, he found that it was missing.
"Huh? It's not on my wrist!"
He then charged after the werewolf when Jen, Gwen, Allison and Kai popped up from the cliff face before Jen activated her Omni-Suit and Allison absorbed the material from the ground and the two shouted out as they charged after the Yenaldooshi.
Gwen and Kai then went to Wes and handed the cactus to him. "Here."
Wes took the silver pendant out of his pocket and dripped the juice from the cactus onto it.
He then charged towards the Yenaldooshi as Jen shouted out and punched it in the face with her energy-charged fist, knocking it back into Allison and Benwolf's grasp as they held it.
"Hurry! I don't know how long we can hold him!" Allison said.
Wes then nodded to her and pressed the pendant against the wolf's chest.
The wolf growled towards him and tossed both Benwolf and Allison away before glaring at Omni-Pink as she held her hands up in surrender.
"Uh... nice puppy," she said nervously.
The wolf growled outwards and brought his claws down and Omni-Pink screamed as it scratched her Omnitrix. Luckily, her Omni Suit protected her from getting seriously injured, but her Omnitrix started glowing yellow, just like Ben's did.
She rubbed her head and groaned when she looked at her Omnitrix as well.
"This is not good," she said.
The pendant rolled by Gwen and she glared before she rolled her sleeve up and her tattoos started glowing and she chanted before crossing her hands.
"Terra elevare!"
The earth suddenly rose up around the Yenaldooshi, trapping its arms in earth cuffs before Gwen walked forward and placed the pendant against the wolf's chest... only for absolutely squat to happen.
"Um, shouldn't something happen?" Becky asked.
The Yenaldooshi then broke out of the rocky cuffs with its brute strength before growling and running off up the cliffside and leaving them all looking on as Jen looked at her Omnitrix, which finally stopped spinning and a new icon started glowing on it, looking extremely similar to Ben's.
"I don't get it," Wes said. "That should've worked."
"Grandpa," Kai said. "The pendant didn't work because... maybe we're not dealing with a Yenaldooshi."
"But it bit me," Benwolf said. "Isn't that why I'm like this?"
He then started twitching before he hit his hands and knees to the ground and convulsed before he looked to see his clothes change around him to form a green jump-suit like uniform with no collar or sleeves and four black lines formed around the Omnitrix symbol which formed on his stomach.
"Kai's right," Omni-Pink said before looking at her Omnitrix and immediately recognized the new icon on it to be the werewolf from before. She removed her helmet and looked at her brother. "You're not some Navajo werewolf... you're some alien werewolf. That's why you haven't been able to go hero, because you're already an alien."
"That would explain that howl of his," Wes said.
"And why the Omnitrix isn't on my wrist anymore," Benwolf said. "But how did I go alien then?"
"Did that thing ever touch the Omnitrix?" Allison asked.
"Right," Ben realized. "Both times it scratched it with its claws and it glowed yellow."
"The same thing happened to me," Omni-Pink said as she showed them the werewolf icon on her wrist. "Only it only scratched my Omnitrix once, so that's why I'm not a wolf right now."
"An alien werewolf," Max said. "Just when I thought this summer couldn't get any stranger."
"I'm used to it," Becky sighed as she sheathed her weapons. "When you've been in the Null Void for as long as I have, nothing surprises you anymore."
"Aw man!" Benwolf said.
"What is it?" Gwen asked.
"Well, if I knew that I could become different aliens if they touched the watch, I'd have let them scratch it a long time ago. I mean, I would make one awesome Vilgax."
"I have to admit, you do have a point there," Omni-Pink said, a hand on her hip.
"But right now, I'd just worry about you being Ben," Allison said.
Suddenly, they felt some sort of earthquake suddenly shake the ground beneath them, causing them to lose their footing for a few seconds.
"Something tells me we have other concerns as well," Wes said.
"Tell me about it," Kai said.
The group then walked towards a cave before Jen held her arm out in front of them to stop them.
"What is it, Jen?" Max asked.
Omni-Pink lit her hand up in pink energy before she tossed an orb into the cave, prompting a whole swarm of bats to fly away, prompting a whole swarm of bats to fly outwards towards them, causing the girls to scream outwards before recovering and Benwolf chuckled at that as Kai looked to the girls and chuckled as well.
"I got to admit, they look pretty cute when they're scared," she thought in her head.
Omni-Pink nodded to the others. "Coast is clear. Let's go."
They then wandered into the cave with Jen illuminating the darkness with her energy as they heard a rumbling within the caves as Gwen sniffed.
"Do you smell that?"
"What? My wolf breath's not that bad," Benwolf said before Becky shook her head.
"No, cuz. I smell it too," she said.
"It smells like sulfur," Allison said.
"A sulfur smell is the sign of lava," Wes said. "But these volcanoes in here have all been dormant for millions of years."
That was when Benwolf and saw the room light up in orange light and Omni-Pink gulped.
"So that's not real lava, then?"
Kai and Gwen screamed when they saw the lava flow through the caves and they all ran away as Omni-Pink created energy platforms beneath her feet and Gwen's Levitation Charm tattoo started glowing before she used it to fly above them while the rest glared.
"The werewolf must have reactivated the volcano somehow," Max said.
"It must want us off our land, one way or the other," Max said as they arrived at a clearing that had a path that led to the other side, but the outside was broken.
"Right," Omni-Pink said as she created energy platforms beneath her feet to the other side while Gwen took Becky's hand and flew over to the other side before her tattoo stopped glowing and she set her down.
"Now I know how Jen feels," Gwen smiled. "These powers rock!"
Benwolf stood on the other side with the remaining 3 and looked to see the lava coat the other side, thwarting their way back.
"Time to see how far this big bad wolf can jump," he said, grabbing Kai and Allison. "Who wants a ride?" He then leaped all the way across the canyon of a bridge and stuck the landing before setting the two Navajos onto the ground and jumping back for Max and Wes.
As he did so, the pathway he was on was starting to crumble from the intense heat of the lava. He took the two seniors in his grip and nodded.
"I'll need to take both of you. And I'll need all the help I can get."
He then split his jaw into four sections and leaped off of the platform before he fired his sonic howl (which was colored with green energy) and used the force of it to gain momentum and it nearly got him to the other side... before they heard the all too familiar beeping.
"No!" Omni-Pink shouted as Benwolf let go of Max and Wes, causing them to crash land on the other platform before the red light shot out and Omni-Pink and Max looked over the side to see Ben dangling from the cliff.
"Ben!" Max shouted.
He then reached his arm out and Ben took his hand as Jen deactivated her Omni Suit and they looked to see Ben back in his human form.
"The Omnitrix finally timed out," he realized as Jen sighed.
"*phew* Relief," she said as she smiled and hugged her brother as he showed the group his Omnitrix. "And check this out?"
He showed them the symbol of the werewolf alien on his watch that mirrored Jen's.
"The watch absorbed its DNA," Gwen said.
"Welcome to the club," Ben said to his Omnitrix.
"Great," Allison said. "Let's get out of here. I've had about as much excitement as I can handle for one day."
"Yeah, me too," Ben agreed as they continued on their way out of the cave.
As they walked through, they saw their way out of the caves as daylight shined through the area and Becky wiped her brow.
"Look, a way out!" she said as they walked to the exit.
"So, I wonder where that satellite equipment the werewolf took is?" Max asked.
They then heard a rustling of stones nearby as they looked to see the werewolf leap in front of them with a glare.
"This thing just won't quit!" Jen shouted.
The werewolf opened its jaws again and unleashed its sonic howl at them again before Jen created a forcefield to stop it while the others all ducked for fury as the twins nodded to each other and activated their Omnitrixes.
"Ben, you had your turn as the werewolf. Now it's my turn!" she said as she slammed the core down.
Jen's Omnitrix sank into her wrist and grey and blue fur grew from her wrist down and her fingers grew sharp claws before they shrank down to four. She then crouched down as spikes grew from her elbows and shoulders and the same happened to her legs and feet as they grew sharp claws and grew paw-like. Her clothes morphed into a pink off the shoulder jumpsuit with no collar and the Omnitrix on her stomach. Her muscle mass increased exponentially and her ears grew furry and formed a triangular shape before resting on top of her head. Her jaws and nose pushed forward into a wolf-like muzzle that split horizontally and vertically. Finally, she grew a long bushy tail from her spine before she posed as she shot to her hands and knees howled upwards before the transformation ended.
Jenwolf glared and bore her claws outwards with a glare as her eyes glowed pink. Her werewolf form had more of a figure than Ben's did, making it noticeably female. She looked to Ben with a grin and a wink.
"Not bad. But I'm better," Ben said. "Going hero!"
Ben's Omnitrix sank into his wrist and his entire body started to bloat into a more rounded shape as he clutched his eyes shut. And when he opened them again, they were fully golden. His body was covered in yellow armored plates with a white inner body with black markings on his eyes and the Omnitrix symbol appeared on his forehead. He spun his body around like a ball before striking a pose as his transformation finished.
Cannonbolt smiled as Jenwolf growled.
"You may have the honors, good sister," Cannonbolt bowed.
"Thank you, kind brother," Jen bowed in return and growled outwards before her jaw split open and she let out her sonic howl (powered with pink energy), to counter the Yenaldooshi's howl as it came forward. Both of them were pretty evenly matched, but Cannonbolt spun forwards and slammed into the werewolf with all his might. He then bounced upwards before he body-slammed the werewolf with no regard.
But the Yenaldooshi used its brute strength and knocked the Cannonbolt away, sending him lodging into the wall.
"Ben!" Jenwolf shouted before she bore out her sharp claws and ran forward before engaging in a scratching and clawing match with the Yenaldooshi, both landing strong slams and blows against the other. Jen then landed a strong uppercut followed by a leaping kick to the chest, sending it flying back.
Cannonbolt then adjusted himself and finally lodged himself out of the wall... at the cost of letting the volcanic crater outwards, sending out the lava again.
Everyone gasped as the volcanic crater opened up again, sending the lava flowing throughout the caves.
"We can't let this lava flow go down the mountain side and reach the village," Wes said.
"I'll seal it all up, go!" Cannonbolt shouted.
"I won't leave you!" Jenwolf said.
"You'll never survive the crater!" Cannonbolt shouted. "Cannonbolt just might! Go!"
The Yenaldooshi then ran inwards and tackled Cannonbolt away as the others all gasped.
"Ben, no!" Gwen shouted.
Cannonbolt and the Yenaldooshi glared outwards before the platform separating them broke away from the lava flow.
"Ben!" Max shouted.
"I'll be fine!" Cannonbolt shouted. "Just go!"
They gasped and saw that both Cannonbolt and the Yenaldooshi got buried underneath the rocks and Jenwolf gasped outwards before Allison and Becky tugged on her arms.
"We gotta go!" they shouted.
"Oh, fine!" Jenwolf shouted and ran out of the cave on all fours as the others all ran out of the cave behind her as Gwen started screaming out in effort while Kai looked behind her at the lava flow and her eyes widened as they finally made it out of the cave, where an explosion occurred behind them.
Everyone gasped as they looked behind them and saw that the cave was sealed by tons of boulders blocking the exit.
"Ben... no..." Jenwolf said as she hit her knees and bowed her head as a tear threatened to escape her eye.
"Jen... I'm so sorry," Allison said as she put a hand on her shoulder. "I know what it's like to lose a brother. It's something that you never get over."
"Thanks," Jenwolf said. "But that's not going to make me feel any better."
"Then maybe this will!" a voice said from underneath as they felt the ground shift beneath them. They then gasped as Cannonbolt shout out of the ground and landed squarely in front of them. "Oh yeah! Shell power!"
"Ben!" Jenwolf said as she immediately tackled him in a hug as the Omnitrixes timed out and Jen was all over her brother in relief and love. "I thought we agreed that you would never do that to me again!"
"Easy," Ben said. "I love you too. Just let me go."
"Sorry," Jen said as she let go of her brother and dusted herself off.
"Way to go, Ben," Max said as they all smiled and Becky, Allison and Gwen crossed their arms before Allison playfully jabbed Kai with a nudge and Kai smiled before she looked at Ben and sighed as she rubbed her arm before she looked to the side and sighed.
The group had gathered again in the village as the tourists started talking to Wes again before smiling and walking away as he turned to the group.
"Good news. It seems a few people are returning. Thank you. All of you."
"Yeah," Ben said. "It was nothing."
"Just part of being a hero," Jen said with a smile.
"What do you think that alien wanted anyway?" Kai asked.
"Since we never found any of that satellite equipment or your receiver, I can't say for sure," Max said.
"Who cares?" Becky said as she cracked her joints and sighed. "I told you, the huntress always gets her prey. And sure enough, I did."
"We did," Gwen said with a smile.
"Together," Allison agreed.
"And now, maybe we can collect alien DNA," Jen said as she looked at her Omnitrix to see her Jenwolf icon on it.
"Come in the museum," Wes said. "I can't send you on the road without a few souvenirs."
As he and Max walked into the museum, the kids all smiled to each other as Jen smiled and pushed Ben towards Kai.
"Well, go ahead," she said, urging him to talk to her.
"Well, it's a long summer," Ben said, rubbing the back of his head. "Maybe we'll see each other again."
"Ben, I don't know how to say this..." Kai said with a sigh as she rubbed her arm. "You seem like a really sweet boy and it was great meeting you and your family... but you're just not my type."
Ben grew shocked and his jaw dropped open. "But, I thought you really liked me."
"No, no. I do, I really do... but only as a friend," Kai said with a bow of her head. "It has nothing to do with you, Ben. It's me."
"What do you mean?" Ben asked as Kai bowed her head.
"I have a confession to make to you guys," Kai said before vibrating her lips and sighing. "...I like girls... I'm gay."
At that mention, everyone's eyes widened and their jaws dropped open as Kai nodded and Ben walked to her.
"Well, why didn't you just say so in the first place?" Ben asked.
"I didn't want to hurt you because I knew you were interested in me," Kai said. "What kind of friend would I be if I broke your heart like that?"
"It's okay," Jen said with a smile. "We understand, Kai. You'll find the right girl one day."
"You're not mad?" Kai asked.
"Not at all," Ben said with a smile. "I'm not the kind to judge people for who they are."
Kai then nodded as she and Ben gave a hug to each other as she then wrote down her phone number on a piece of paper and handed it to Jen with a smile before putting her finger and a thumb in a cellphone position and put them by her ear.
"If you ever need anything from me, all you have to do is call."
"Gladly," Allison said as she walked off with a smile and a wave as Ben sighed in disappointment and put his hands in his pockets.
"The thing about crushes is that sometimes you get crushed," Jen said to her brother.
"Don't get so down on yourself. There are lots of girls out there," Gwen said.
"Yeah," Ben said. "But how am I going to get the courage to talk to them without your help?"
"Two little words are all you need to know," Becky said.
"What are they?" Ben asked as Jen smiled and hugged him.
"Be yourself," Jen said. "That's it."
Ben smiled and looked at them and nodded. "Thanks, girls."
"Anytime, bro," Jen said, continuing their hug. "Anytime."
They then started walking towards the Rust Bucket as Becky nudged Jen and smirked.
"So, do you think Kai has a thing for you, Jen?"
"I don't think so," Jen said. "And even if she did, I like guys. It's never going to happen between us."
"I guess you're right," Allison said. "Do you have a crush on anyone?"
"Not yet," Jen said. "But I will one day. We all do."
Meanwhile, in the caves where the battle had ensued, the camera zoomed into the caves where in a dark cavern, the satellite equipment and the receiver were revealed to have been used to create a satellite machine of some sort. It suddenly activated and glowed with a green light as a swarm of bats flew towards the camera as the screen faded to black.
You guys didn't see that coming, did you? I figured, "Let's see. How can I make it so that Kai and Ben don't end up together while not making her seem like a total jackass? My best idea was to make her a lesbian in this version. I hope that you're all okay with this because I know that this has never been done in this franchise or this fandom before.
Next time on Ben and Jen 10:
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