Chapter 54: Chapter 53: Survival Skills
Max got out of the RV to see Gwen and Becky sitting around a campfire as Jen and Ally were having one of their girl talks on the table.
"Hey, Grandpa, check it out," Gwen said as Becky finished the fire.
"Whoa, look at that," Max said as Ally's stomach grumbled.
"I've been starting campfires since I was six years old. You have to learn how to cook your food in the Null Void somehow, obviously," Becky chuckled before the fire was suddenly completely doused by a gush of water.
"Seriously?" Jen shouted as she and her friend stood up and saw Ben standing over the pit with his water gun in hand.
"Ben, we needed that fire for dinner," Max scolded.
"No problemo. If Becky here can start a fire without any powers, it should be a piece of cake for a hero," Ben said, preparing his Omnitrix.
"No heroes, Ben. I want a fire built by Ben."
"And don't think of asking me for help either," Jen said as Ally glared. "I already had to save you from drowning in the lake when you went Ripjaws to get some sleep."
"How'd you know he was in trouble?"
"Twin telepathy. It's just an ability we have as twins."
"I'm going to kill you if you mess this up," Ally said as she entered.
Ben rolled his eyes before he set the logs back up and then started banging a rock against the flint, only to get no results.
He started banging them together even faster, only to knock the logs over.
He then tried to rub Becky's bow against a stick to generate heat, only to break the stick and Becky walked up and snatched her bow back from her cousin.
"I'll be taking that back," she said with a huff and walked back into the Rust Bucket.
"Sorry!"
After getting some smoke from the wood, he decided to blow on it, only to send a cloud of smoke to get him into a coughing fit.
Ben then tried slamming the rocks against each other even faster... only o accidentally slam his thumb with a rock, sending him leaping up in pain before he threw the rocks down in frustration and shouted out in anger, only to send the rocks bouncing onto his leg, causing him to shout out in anger.
"That is it!" he shouted as he turned tot the Omnitrix. "What Grandpa doesn't know won't hurt him."
He slammed the core down and Heatblast shot a fireball into the pit.
"Perfect."
"Took him long enough," Gwen said as the others got up from their seats.
"Uh-oh," Heatblast said. "Time to turn back now!"
He pressed the symbol on his chest, only to stay in his Pyronite form. "Oh man!"
He ran away as the others gathered around the fire.
"Wow. Now that's a fire," Max said. "Nice work, Ben... Ben?"
"Ben?" Jen asked as she looked around. "Where'd you go? Let's fix dinner!"
"Turn back! Turn back! Any time now!" Heatblast said on a tree branch, banging on his Omnitrix symbol, before smelling something burning. "What is that?"
The branch suddenly broke from underneath him and he crashed to the ground, revealing himself to the others.
"You are so busted!" Ally said.
"Now put that fire out and start over," Max ordered.
"But Grandpa," Jen said. "I'm starving!"
"It'll be morning by the time Ben gets that fire started," Becky said.
"...Not necessarily," Max said.
The others smiled as they roasted marshmallows over Heatblast's molten body as he grumbled under his breath while trying to start the fire with the rocks again.
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