Ben 10: Bride To Be

I Don't Own Ben 10 Or Any Of The Characters

A/N: Hello and welcome to Ben 10: Bride To Be! Or whatever this story comes to be known as in the future. I have created this story to sort of "promote" my other Ben 10 story, called Ben 10: The Doofus and His Dweeb. So, if you like Ben 10 and if you like Bwen, you should check it out! Said story is also going to get a sequel sometime in the near future. But, we're moving on now. This story takes place in a AU version of the Ben 10 T.V. show. It's mainly the original show and definitely not the God awful reboot. There may be references to Alien Force, Ultimate Alien and Omniverse, but I really haven't decided yet. So anyway, I'm just going to say that Ben first gets the Omnitrix when he is sixteen in this version. Since most of the story will mostly be from his point of view, so the rest of the story will be explained from his point of view. This story is a Bwen btw and is probably the reason why you decided to check this story out. And if you don't like Bwen, then I would highly suggest that you leave right now! Anyway, I hope you enjoy and with that said, let's get this show on the road!

Chapter 1: Trip To Vegas

Ben

Hi. My name is Benjamin Tennyson. But you can just call me Ben! Everyone does when I really think about it. Well, the only time I'm called Benjamin, is by my mother. And that is just when I'm in trouble! This is the story of uh, well, how... Look, this may make a lot more sense if I just start from the beginning. It was the first day of summer vacation and it was looking good for a change. I had just gotten done with my Junior year of high school and I was currently seventeen. I had discovered a watch of somekind in the woods, six months prior to the start of my summer vacation. That was in November and now it's May. This watch that I found while I took a walk in the woods, can unleash a special energy to turn me into ten different aliens, I think they are. My favorite one is a alien I called "Diamondhead". Ever since I found the watch, I have been using it for good. Sneaking out every chance I could find to stop crimes in the city.

Right now, I was just sitting on the couch in the living room. I was watching TV, when my mom dropped the ball on me. "Ben?" she asked, as she walked into the room. "Yes, mom?" I asked. "Your dad and I have an announcement to make." she said. I looked up at her. "What? Am I going to have a little brother or sister anytime soon?" I asked. My mom's eyes widened. "What? No! No." she said. "Then, what's the announcement?" I asked. My mom took a breath before speaking slowly. "We are taking a two week trip to Las Vegas." she said. Vegas? Cool! I smiled. "Cool!" I said. "No, no, no. I said we're going to Las Vegas." my mom said. "I know. For two weeks, right?" I asked. My mother nodded. "Yes. But you misunderstand." she said. "What do you mean?" I asked. "You're father and I are going. Along with your Aunt Natalie and Uncle Frank." she said. "But, I'm going too. Right?" I asked. My mom smiled a sad smile, before shaking her head. "No, Ben. Besides, you're only seventeen. You can't drink legally yet and you can't gamble yet. What are you going to even do in Las Vegas if you go?" she asked. "What does it matter? This is sooooo not fair!" I exclaimed.

"It is perfectly fair. We've been planning this trip for months. And besides, you couldn't go anyway. We've already made plans for you." she said. "What? Are you sending me to summer camp?" I asked. My mom shook her head. "Benjamin, you haven't gone to a summer camp since you were twelve." she said. "Fine. Are you sending me to summer school?" I asked. My mom shook her head once again. "Summer school enrollment was weeks ago." she said. "Than what am I doing?" I asked in a irrated tone. "You're going to hang out here with Gwen." she said. Gwen? Who's- Wait, as in my cousin? "Gwen? As in my cousin?" I asked. She nodded. "What other Gwens do you know?" she asked. I shrugged. "Mom, I haven't seen Gwen since I was ten." I said. "Exactly!" she said. "Since we and her parents are going to Las Vegas, we thought you two could have the entire two weeks to catch up and get to know each other better!" I sighed. "Of course." I said in a glum tone. "Ben? What's wrong?" she asked. "Nothing." I said, as I got up from the couch. "I'll be downstairs in the game room." I said, as I left the living room before my mom could say anything. I walked into the hallway in the kitchen that led to the basement stairs.

If you are wondering how my parents haven't noticed the alien watch yet, well, it has it's own camoflauge feature. No, it won't turn invisible, but it would be cool if it could do that. What it does instead, is it takes the shape of a water-proof wrist watch. So, it literally hides in plain sight. I can also remove it in this form, which is weird, since I can't remove it when it's in it's true form. I walked into the game room and turned on the lights. My dad had a government job, so we were kinda wealthy, but we still lived in the suburbs. Just so you can get an idea of what kind of stuff we have in the game room, well, there is a lot. We have a hockey table (it's not air hockey, but well, you can't really complain), we also have a pool table, a dart board on the wall, a flat screen T.V. and two gaming systems. Well, we technically have three, with one of them in my room. I have my old game system down here that I play old Sumo Slammer games on and I have an Xbox 360, which I play first person shooters on, such as Halo, Call of Duty and Battlefield. We also have a mini science lab down in the basement. I began to display an interest in science once I got the alien watch. Believe it or not, it seems to have increased my intelligence, so that's why I have the lab in the next room over and it helped me pick up my grades. You can't beat that!

Forty Minutes Later...

"Hey, Doofus!" I heard Gwen's voice behind me. I paused my game of Halo: Combat Evolved to turn to look at her. "Hey, Dweeb." I said, in a glum tone as I turned to face her. Once I saw her, my heart skipped a few beats. She was stunningly beautiful. She had her red hair pulled back into a ponytail, she was wearing a simple blue T-Shirt, jeans and black Nike shoes. She started to give me a weird look. "Are you okay, Doofus? You're looking at me weird." she said. I shook my head a little bit. "I'm fine." I said. "I just, I'm kind of in a bad mood." Gwen walked over and jumped onto the couch next to me. "Really? What's wrong?" she asked. "My parents and your parents are going to Vegas. And I'm not going." I said, in a glum tone. "So? I was looking forward to being here all month!" she exclaimed. "Glad to see you are enjoying it." I said. "You'll enjoy it too!" Gwen said. "I doubt it." I said. "No, really! We can order a pizza tonight," she said, as she began to count on her fingers. "we can catch a few movies, we can watch TV, we can go to the new water park that just opened, The Riptide Rapids Zone, we could go up the middle school for open swim, we can play some Sumo Slammers, we could do lot's of stuff!" She threw up her hands to show me how excited she was, I guess.

"Hmm." I said, as I unpaused my game. "Halo: Combat Evolved?" she asked. Wait. She knows what I'm playing? "Yeah..." I said, as I looked at her out of the corner of my eye. "Is this the 2nd level, Halo?" she asked. I nodded. "Where are you at?" she asked. "I uh, just met up with Sgt. Johnson at the first structure." I said. "Cool." she said. Now what she said next, completely and utterly threw me off guard. "Can I play?" she asked. I dropped the controller, which was bad, because I was being shot at by an Elite. Imagine the sound of a record suddenly skipping. That's the sound that came to my mind when she asked this. "I'm sorry?" I asked, as I turned to look at her and I reached to pick up my controller. "I asked if I could play. So can I?" she asked. "Do you know how to play?" I asked. "Are you kidding? I love Halo!" she said. Wow, didn't see that coming. "Sure. You can play." I said, as I got up to grab a spare black controller. I handed it to her and she took it. "Do you want to play the co-op campaign?" I asked. "Mmmm... Can we play split screen multiplayer?" she asked. "Um, sure. I don't mind." I said. I paused the game and saved and quit.

A couple minutes later, she had set up her profile. Her character (a Master Chief clone), had cyan colored armor and her name was just Gwen, keeping it nice and simple. My character, was just solid green colored (because part of the alien watch was green and because Diamondhead was somewhat green) and named Benjamin10. It used to be just "Ben", but when I got the alien watch, I began to name all of my profiles on my games "Benjamin10", due to the ten alien forms I had. "So, what map do you want to play?" I asked. "My brother, Ken and I usually play on Sidewinder. What's your favorite map?" she asked. Now that I thought of it, I knew her brother played Halo. In fact, every other weekend, Ken, my friends J.T and Cash and I would all gather down here to play four player split screen free-for-all. "Blood Gulch." I said. "Mmm. Since it's just us two, why don't we just play on Battle Creek?" she asked. "Okay." I said as I shrugged. We set up the game, which was going to be fifty points and no time limit. "I'm not going easy on you." I said. "Good. Don't." Gwen said. "Fine. I won't." I said. "Tell you what. If you win, I'll pay for the pizza tonight. If I win, you'll pay for the pizza." Gwen said. I smirked. "Better get out your wallet." I said. As the map loaded, I couldn't help but say the map's description. "Splash, splash." I said. "Bang, bang." Gwen said. Damn. "Dang Gwen, you know your stuff." I said. She just laughed. I was starting to get the feeling it was going to be a fun two weeks...

One Hour Later...

Welp, to make a long story short, Gwen kicked my ass. The score was so: Gwen - 50, Benjamin10 - 27. I did fairly decent, but it wasn't enough. We had to stop halfway through the game to say good-bye to our parents. They told us to have fun these two weeks and I actually believed that I would have fun. Once they left, we both took bathroom breaks, grabbed a few sodas and went back downstairs to finish the game. I put down my controller on the coffee table in frusteration. "Better get out your wallet!" Gwen teased. "Hey, it wasn't my fault that I lost! I didn't know that you wanted to play when you got here!" I exclaimed. She just giggled. "You know what? Since I feel bad about kicking your butt so much, I'll pay for half of the pizza tonight." she said. "You don't have to. You won fair and square. I should pay for the pizza." I said. "But I want to." she said. "I didn't say no." I said. She got up off of the couch and stretched. As she did, she looked around the room. "You certainly have a lot of stuff down here." she said.

"And you are welcome to use it anytime." I said. "Thanks. That's so nice of you, Ben." she said. I shrugged. "It's just who I am." I said. "I'm surprised that we're getting along." I said. "Why? What makes you say that?" she asked, as she turned to face me. "When we were ten, the last time you ever slept over, we got into a fight. I said some things, you said some things. Well, you mainly said that you never wanted to see me again." I said. "And you thought I meant it? It was seven years ago, Ben! We were ten! We probably didn't even know what we were saying. One of the reasons I was so excited to come over here for two weeks was because I was hoping to reignite the spark in our friendship." I smiled. "Yeah... We did have some good times here back in the day." I said, as I became giddy with memories. We used to play Super Mario Bros. upstairs on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Or SNES for short. Good times. Unfortunately, we moved the SNES up to the attic after Gwen stopped coming here. I was too traumatized from our fight to even touch the controller, because it reminded me so much of Gwen. And I haven't seen it ever since. The one thing that never changed here, was Gwen's room, in hopes that one day, she would come back. Yes, she came here soooo much, that she has her own room. I mean, she was here almost every weekend since the age of six!

And we took turns on a regular basis, with me going over there and she coming here. I doubt that my room at her house even still exists. "We didn't even have most of this cool stuff down here back then." I said. "I'm sorry." Gwen looked at me. "You don't have to apologize. Neither of us meant what we said that day. I don't have to say sorry either." she said. "Hormones." I said, as I sighed. "We were growing up. And we pretty much have." She smiled and eventually laughed. "Speaking of growing up," she said, as she walked over to me, pulled up my sleeve and grabbed my bicep. "where did these guns come from?!" I couldn't help but laugh as well. "Gwen, you'd be surprised what happens in seven years." I said, as she let go. Or six months. Yes, that's right. Since I found the alien watch, my muscles have grown significantly. I almost had a six pack!

It's not like the watch did all of it by itself, though. It did make me stronger, but I had to do most of the work myself. Ken, Cash, J.T. and I had our own private hangout not far from our houses. It was ours and only ours. I could make it there on my bike in under ten minutes, it was that close. My dad paid for the electricity, so it was rightfully mine. Since getting the watch, I had renovated half of it into my own person gym. Complete with weights, a barbell and bench, a elliptical and a thing to do pull-ups on. Dad paid for the equipment. When he learned that I was serious about working out, that turned out to be my Christmas present. That and the science stuff for my lab. I can't tell you how expensive that shit was. It was practically my only Christmas present from them. "You want to go upstairs and watch T.V. or something? Play a board game?" I asked. "Sure!" Gwen said. She went upstairs and while she did that, I turned off the Xbox, T.V. and on my way out, the lights.

Three Hours Later...

We watched T.V. and played Battleship until it was time to order the pizza. Once the pizza came, I let her pick the movie, since I had picked the T.V. show. She ended up picking Finding Nemo. Leave it to my cousin to pick a hit movie and a hit first-person shooter game. Go figure, if she weren't my cousin, I'd consider dating her. Whoa... forget I said that. Still... she is hot! Fuck! Forget I said that, too! We stayed up till about ten thirty or eleven. Once Finding Nemo was over, we put the left over pizza in the fridge and said our good nights. She went to her room and I went to mine. I locked the door and undressed except for my boxers and socks. I went over to my dresser and pulled out a white undershirt, and put it on. I only locked the door, because I didn't want to risk Gwen walking in on me. Not that I jacked a lot, but I was hoping her understanding of privacy was as good as mine was. I tapped the time change buttong on my wrist watch, which would switch it to the alien watch setting. I figured since I was the only one in here, I could sleep with it on it's original setting. Besides, I always slept with it like that, as an emergency. I flicked off the light and got into bed. As I began to drift off, I couldn't help but think: Something tells me this is going to be the best two weeks ever!

A/N: Well? Love it? Hate it? I really hoped you enjoyed this first chapter! if you did, I implore you to favorite and follow it. If you want to let me know how I'm doing, than please, PM me or submit a review. Also, please don't forget to check out Ben 10: The Doofus and His Dweeb, as it's another good story that I've written! I wasn't exactly sure if Halo or all of the other fps games existed in the Ben 10 universe. So, I decided why not! Besides this is fanfiction and an alternate version of Ben 10. The fictional water park that Gwen mentioned was a reference to the Riptide Rapids Zone water slide, that Ben snuck into as Greymatter from the episode A Small Problem, from the original series. The fact that Gwen loves Halo like Ben does, well in season 3 of the original series, they played and eventually were sucked into a Sumo Slammers game. I thought I'd expand on this, by making Gwen a full-on gamer, just like Ben! Halo is also one of my favorite game series, so I decided to squeeze it into the story. If you have questions about anything else, again, you can always review or PM me. With that being said, I hoped you enjoyed! I'm going to go though, so have a good day and bye!