Chapter 189: Ben Broke Gwen's Laptop

Ben: "Woo-hoo!"

(Ben cheered as he slid down a large grassy hill in a park on a block of ice with Gwen and Max following right beside him before they slid to a stop at the bottom to see Becky practicing with her arrows towards a tree as Allison and Jen spared with Allison morphing her hands into rubber pads as Jen practiced her hand-to-hand combat against them.)

Allison: "Let's go!"

(Allison shouted out as Jen dodged her punches back and then practiced her jabs and punches like a boxer against her as her brow broke out in a sweat.)

Allison: "Go, Tennyson! You gotta want it!"

Jen: "I want it!"

(Jen shouted as she shouted out and slammed the rubber pads as hard as she could, sending her friend sliding back from her strong punches while she smiled.)

Allison: "Nice one, Jen."

(Allison smiled.)

Allison: "You're getting really good at this."

Jen: "So is Ben when you train with him."

(she smiled.)

Jen: "He's getting more and more used to fighting without his aliens. Ever since we first activated the Omni Suits, we discovered that we can't rely on the Omnitrixes for everything."

(As they seized training, they looked to see the other teammates slide down the hill.)

Ben: "That was so cool!"

(Ben said.)

Ben: "Let's try the bigger hill this time."

(The six looked up to see the incredibly tall hill looming above their heads and their jaws dropped open.)

Gwen: "Ben, I think that sitting on that ice gave you brain freeze."

(Gwen said.)

Gwen: "It's going to take you forever to carry that block all the way up there."

Becky: "And by the time you did, it'll already have melted."

(Becky said, putting her hand on her hip.)

Ben: "Don't you guys ever get tired of being wrong?"

(Ben asked as he slammed the core of his Omnitrix down, transforming into XLR8.)

Allison: "Oh, this can only end so well."

(Allison said, rolling her eyes.)

(XLR8 closed his visor and zoomed upwards towards the top of the hill before striking a pose.)

XLR8: "Presenting: XLR8 on ice!"

(He then got onto the ice block and then used his tail to push himself off the hill, rapidly gaining velocity and speed as he zoomed downwards towards the park.)

(A man was about to bite into a hot dog before XLR8 grabbed it as he zoomed by.)

XLR8: "Thanks!"

(he said, biting into the hot dog.)

(He then gasped as he zoomed over another hill and then slowed down to a stop as the ice block melted below him, soaking his bottom.)

(He realized he stopped in front of a mother and son.)

son: "Mommy, why did that weird lizard thing with the tail wet himself?"

(XLR8 looked down and saw that the melted ice gave off the impression of urine and he groaned and closed his visor in shame as the others looked on from the other part of the park and Jen face-palmed and shook her head with a groan of embarrassment.)

(That night, Gwen and Becky walked into the Rust Bucket where Max was doing the dishes, Jen and Allison were continuing their training exercises and Ben was... on Gwen's laptop.)

Gwen: "Uh, hello?"

(she asked with a shout.)

Gwen: "What do you think you're doing, Ben?"

Ben: "Hmm."

(Ben said.)

Ben: "Is this a trick question? I'm going online and checking out the new Sumo Slammer blog."

(Jen groaned outwards and buried her face into a pillow and screamed outwards at her brother's stupidity.)

Becky: "Not without asking her first, bub."

(Becky said.)

Gwen: "That's my brand new XT-9000."

Ben: "Okay."

(Ben said.)

Ben: "May I please use your computer?"

Gwen: "No way!"

Ben: "See, that's why I didn't ask first."

(He then pressed a few buttons before the screen suddenly went black.)

(He chuckled nervously before running into the bathroom.)

Gwen: "Hey! Get back here!"

(Gwen shouted as her sister consoled her.)

(Allison and Jen looked over and glared.)

(Ben sat on the toilet and desperately pressed keys down to try to restart it.)

Gwen: "Ben, my whole life is on that hard drive!"

Ben: "Just one minute!"

Max: "Ben."

(Max said.)

Max: "You need to be more responsible! Look at what happened in the park."

Ben: "Oh man."

(Ben said under his breath.)

Ben: "I have an idea! Le'ts all go out and do something as a family!"

(Jen, Gwen, Becky, Allison and Max glared with raised eyebrows.)

Ben: "You can even pick this time, Gwen. Honest?"

Gwen: "Anything?"

(Gwen asked with a raised eyebrow.)

(Ben, Jen and Allison groaned outwards as they exited the restaurant's poetry reading.)

Gwen: "Ah, that was amazing."

(Gwen sighed.)

Gwen: "I love listening to modern poetry."

Jen: "It's fine."

(Jen said.)

Jen: "But it's not music."

Ben: "Two words, BOR-ING!"

(Ben said as he walked off, and then took notice of a poster attached to a bus stop.)

(He then read the poster's text and his eyes widened.)

Ben: "Tough enough to be the champion? Prove it in the ring and win the $10,000 grand prize. Hello, new computer!"

(He saw the others walk up to him and gave a loud yawn.)

Ben: "Man, I am beat! We'd better get back and get to bed."

Max: "Really?"

(Max asked.)

Max: "There was a nice old sawmill around here. I wanted to go check it out."

Ben: "Nope, gotta go!"

(Ben hurriedly said before dragging the others to the Rust Bucket.)

(Jen and Allison looked to each other with unsure expressions before following him back to the Rust Bucket.)

(It was late at night and everyone was asleep in their beds.)

(Gwen and Becky snuggled up to one another in their bed as Jen tossed and turned with a groan as Ben pet her head as he got up, got dressed, and ran off.)

(A few minutes passed since he walked out the door before Jen's eyes shot open and she got up as Allison kicked the sheets off her bed on the couch as she looked to her friend.)

Allison: "We're totally following him, right?"

(Allison asked.)

Jen: "Of course."

(Jen said as the girls ran out of the doorway and followed Ben sneakily as he ran towards the city.)

(At the wrestling arena, a huge wrestler was engaging with a much smaller wrestler, who ran up to him before he clapped his hands on either sides of his face, knocking him out as the bell rang.)

???: "None of you weaklings can budge the Immovable Object!"

(Ben then glared from the stands as he adjusted his Omnitrix.)

Ben: "We'll see about that."

(As he left and transformed in a green light, Jen and Allison popped up from the entrance as they looked to each other at the stands going behind them.)

Jen: "Whoa."

(Jen smiled and put a hand on her hip.)

Jen: "Lynn would totally love this place."

Allison: "Wrestling match, huh?"

(Allison said as she cracked her knuckles with a smile.)

Allison: "I could get into this."

Jen: "This is what Ben snuck out for?"

(Jen asked.)

Jen: "He must want some prize."

[To Be Continued...]