* This story will flirt with alternate possibilities as well as some time-jumping in the future. I hope you enjoy!

Curve Ball

For a few years now, every summer since Gwen was 10 she had something to look forward to, for the most part.

That first summer back in 2005 had been a challenge, but she loved it. Gwen could and would admit that it had been a trial. At times, her doofus of a cousin would always force her to rise to his challenges though, truthfully, she loved it, being pushed and being able to push back. She was able to be her true self with him something she could never do at home with her mother around or at school. Than in the middle of this vacation: fate ripped through their lives like a flash flood.

On that day everything changed. Ben her baby cousin, her doofus, and her would be arch nemesis rushed head first into life threatening danger and gained the omni-matrix, an incredibly powerful device capable of changing its user into different species - well, to be more precise, different ALIENS!

This had terrified Gwen. Ben was now almost daily or at least weekly rushing head first into danger. This upset her deeply. For one thing Ben wouldn't listen to her warnings that the omni-matrix might in itself be dangerous, and two, unlike grandpa Max, she couldn't help him much.

Sure, she was athletic, had a propensity to think things through, and was very confident in her martial arts for a 10-year-old, but that didn't help when a two and a half meters tall hulking monstrosity was throwing your cousin through reinforced concrete dividers like they were not even there.

Every time she watched him fight to save someone's life "going hero", as he put it, she would become excited, but every time he was in a tight spot she had a horrible sinking feeling and a pang in her heart "What if this was the last time I ever see him again; what was the last thing I said to him!" This and more would flood her mind leaving her paralyzed at times, but Ben would always snap her out of it either by saying something so infuriating that she would have to defend all decency or by being surprisingly nice, though she doubted he saw it that way.

This would all change as luck was in the wind, but luck is a very interesting thing, even when it seems like it has turned against you, it can throws you a curveball.

*Special thanks to csgt he has been a great help to me and if you end up liking my works even 1 iota I suggest going over and reading his stuff. give him some more followers