This is the first in a series of stories called " ben10 ultimate challenges" I will be writing them simultaneously after this first one. ENJOY

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"Ben?" the soon to be twelve year old said as she looked to her cousin.

"what's up dweeb?" the cocky hero responded.

"What are you going to do when we get back?"

"What do you mean?" ben asked looking confused

"I mean now that you don't have the omnitrix anymore and well you know..." Gwen trailed off as she looked at the newest additions of her cousin's uniform of cargo pants and his favorite t-shirt.

"Oh …" the toxic eyed boy looked troubled before sliding on a bright smile." I'll just go to school! I mean, there are some plusses like…" he stopped and looked thoughtful before starting again.

"No gym that's cool... um and cash will probably lay off some now that you know I'm technically a cripple..." ben looked at his shoes so Gwen wouldn't see him cry.

" I'm ben Tennyson!" he thought angrily " I've saved the universe at least three times, gone toe to toe with the worst of the worst! I can't let a stupid thing like this stop me!" just as he was about to say something Gwen started

"You know ben I've been thinking, maybe you should take off the first semester you know take some time to..."

Gwen looked up expecting to see ben looking hurt thoughtful or even angry. She definitely was not however expecting to see a slack jawed look of disbelief!

"Are you kidding?" he said incredulously. "This is sixth grade we're talking about! If I don't go I'll be the only person in the history of ever who's never been to outdoors school! Besides my birthday is only a few weeks away and I'll be twelve which meeeaaans I'll get taller! Even cash won't mess with me. And any way you'll be there so if I really need help you can be my back up. See Gwen? You shouldn't worry so much."

The young sorceress couldn't help but laugh at his logic even if some parts weren't very well thought out. She also couldn't help but smile and thank heaven that ben was like he is, then a thought hit her

"Anyone else but ben would have reacted completely differently to everything that happened. And even the best case wouldn't be cracking jokes or being so lighthearted."

"Well I wouldn't want him any other way."

"Huh what did you say I couldn't hear you over the sound of my AWESOME SUMO SLAMMERS SKILLS!"

Gwen looked over to see her cousin balancing precariously on his crutches as he engaged in a hand held sumo slammers game he had gotten while in the hospital.

With a sigh and an eye roll she said "ben what are you doing? Do you want to end up in the hospital again?" and went off to prevent her cousin from any further injury.

Two months later.

Man I love the woods!

Ben Tennyson thought as he grabbed his backpack and duffel bag from the pile slowly growing beside the bus, and started out on the tricky hike to the sign in desk.

Ben hadn't changed too drastically since he was ten, he still wore green cargo pants only now the knees had holes in them, he replaced his old black and white shirt with a plain white one mainly because it helped him blend in, he was still slightly shorter than the rest of his peers even after his growth spurt. And his hair once long in the back had been trimmed to look cleaner cut. After that the only changes were additions such as his dog tags given to him by the plumbers. And of course the most obvious change his four-arm crutches.

"Hey Tennyson!"

Poor ben barely had time to register that someone was calling to him before a barrage of pebbles and what felt like small twigs hit him from behind. Whipping around ben became face to face with a boy two or three inches taller than him with dark hair slicked down so that it looked painted on with tan skin and a permanent frown.

"What do you want Cash I don't really do fights anymore and I don't have any ca erm money on me." The hero had to hide a chuckle at just realizing that his tormenters name was a form of currency.

"What's so funny freak?" Crap uh think of an excuse.

"I was just thinking about this really funny joke I read once uh so what did the clown fish say to the cucumber no uh wait a sea cucumber and a clown fish are walking well more like swimming…"

"Jeez loser shut up!" success. Thank you Nemo!

"Yah shut up!" JT repeated the slightly pudgy read head with glasses and an unfortunate spray of freckles is cash's main lackey always following the bully around and repeating what he says.

Funny those two make even the forest have an echo. Ben came out of his privet comedy show just in time to catch a glimpse of cash smirking evilly before he wiped the look off his face.

"I doubt you just wanted to chat so what's up Cash?" The tween asked cautiously getting a better grip on his duffel bag. After having been the butt of the bully's jokes far too many times the hero was now wary of the dark haired boy and his lackey.

"Your weirdo cousin isn't here to protect you anymore loser. So you better watch your back!" and with that cash slammed his open hands into bens chest sending the smaller boy to the ground. Then with a smirk he turned and walked away.

"Good one Cash! Boy you really showed him!" JT said chasing after his friend.

Oh this is gonna be a fun week and a half. Ben thought as he picked up his fallen bag and adjusted his crutches.

Now if only I can get to the check in desk without running into any more trouble.

That however was of course too much to ask for as the twelve year old ended up almost getting lost twice and somehow got his foot stuck in a root which resulted in him falling flat on his face before FINALLY finding the check in desk.

Good thing Gwen isn't here she would be enjoying herself WAY to much…

"And what's your name son?" an over smiley councilor asked a now dusty ben.

"Ben Tennyson." Don't his cheeks hurt from smiling that big?

"Well here you go Benjamin. You're in cabin 10! Just follow this path and it will be the fifth on the right! You can't miss it!"

Just as he turned away the councilor newly dubbed 'smiley' yelled out to him.

"Wait! I almost forgot, your camp T-shirt you're gonna need to wear it every day. There are a few washing and drying machines in the showering house and some detergent should be in there .if not you can always come by the main cabin."

"Thanks I'll keep that in mind." Ben said grabbing the grey and black shirt. He headed off to find out who he would be bunking with.

At least smiley didn't baby me too much. I hate when they act like just because I can't do some things means imp completely inept.

As ben came up to cabin 10 a few worries flickered across his mind.

Calm down Tennyson, you're not ten anymore and you've gone up against way worse than a few school bullies.

All his doubts were shoved into the back of his mind as he turned the handle on the wooden door.

The room had five twin beds four on one wall and one on the other. And from what he could see almost all of them were occupied the floor was wooden as were the walls and the single window had dark blue curtains with moose on them. For a moment the be-crutched {A: N I'm going with that's a word, so yup.} boy just stood at the door, he probably would have stayed there if not for the fact that a boy around his height in nice blue jeans and his camp T-shirt already on with spiky black hair and blue eyes shouted.

"Hey guys looks like the last of our group is here!" All eyes turned to ben as he 'walked' farther into the room.

Maybe Gwen was right… maybe this was a bad idea. Bens discomfort must have shown on his face as the spiky haired kid said.

"Wow guy's way to go you scared him." He gave ben an apologetic smile before introducing himself and the others.

"My names Richard Kane but most people just call me Dick." Dick chuckled at bens reaction, but continued pointing to a slightly taller boy wearing a pair of ripped jeans he also had a camp shirt on but his hair was longer in a skater cut and his eyes looked gray.

"This is Jason Lucas"

"But my friends call me Jace."

Next Dick pointed to a taller boy who looked like a runner. The kid had short red hair freckles and green eyes he was wearing yellow and red basketball shorts and his camp T-shirt.

Freckles didn't wait to be introduced though he ran (yes ran) right up and shook bens hand so energetically ben almost fell over.

"Oops sorry there dude didn't mean to knock ya off kilter the names Wallace park but that's a stupid name and a mouthful so call me Wally."

"Okay wally. Um could I have my hand back I kind of need it to stay standing."

"Oh, sorry again uh yah…" after letting go. Wally went back over to Jason to continue whatever they had been talking about.

"Oh I completely forgot to ask your name!" The other two boys started chuckling, but stopped when the dark haired boy glared at them.

"Well seems only fair… my names Ben Tennyson." The looks that crossed the boys faces was pretty funny.

"No way! Seriously duuude that is so cool! Didn't you save like six people from a burning building last summer when that freaky alien attacked and the alien super guy fought him?" the young hero had to laugh at Wally's excitement.

I wonder what he would do if I told them how I was the alien super guy?

"Yah I did but anyone would have done it, besides that alien guy did most of the hard work I just got them out…"

Please don't ask more questions; please don't ask more questions…

"Whatever man it's still really cool."

"Leave the kid alone Wally, let him unpack."

"Fine… hey ben! Need any help unpacking?"

Ben stopped looking through his bag and looked over at the overenthusiastic ginger.

"Um I think I'm good. Just could someone tell me which beds mine?"

Jason pointed to the bed between him and Wally.

"Right here dude and there's room under the bed to put your bag."

As ben 'walked' over to set his bag down he tripped on a shoe and ended up falling flat on his face for the second time that day. The room fell silent. As if the boys were torn between laughing and jumping up to help. Wally however made his decision first and fell down laughing followed shortly by ben and finally the whole group was in stitches.

"Hey ben are you okay?" dick got out in-between chuckles.

"Yah." ( laughter.) "I'm fine it's just this is the second time I've done this in like an hour." Insert awkward silence. "Um a little help up would be great."

Both Jason and Dick helped him up. Only for Jason to trip on one of Ben's crutches and bring them all back to the floor, thankfully for ben he ended up on top of the two larger boys. Wally fell over laughing and soon they were all cackling again.

Five minutes later they had finally pulled themselves together enough to get off the floor. Just as ben put the last of his stuff under the bed a loud voice shouted through a megaphone "ALL MEMBERS OF BELLWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL PLEASE BE INFRONT OF THE COMMONS HALL IN TEN MINUTES FOR YOUR SCHEDUALS AND LUNCH. DON'T FORGET TO WEAR YOUR T-SHIRTS".

"Whelp guys, we better head out." Ben said only to get confused looks from the others

"Okay one, you don't have your shirt on and two it's like a five minute walk and we have ten minutes "

"Oh… um okay. Is there a bathroom around here?" again the confused looks

"We're all guys dude and it's just your chest unless you're secretly a girl…" Wally trailed off

"No I'm not a girl, I am definitely a guy!" please don't ask why please.

"Then why does it matter?" stupid Wally.

So sitting down and taking a breath ben quickly took off his plain white t-shirt and put on the' Bellwood Middle School' shirt.

What he expected was a flood of questions about the angry looking scars running down his left side. Or maybe looks of shock. So it was a happy surprise when Jason just stood up and said

"Come on guys we don't wanna be late"

I think this might actually be fun. Ben thought as the group set out for commons.

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Authors note : important!

I have a picture of ben from this story I made here is the link

art/camp-crutch-391347215

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