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Chapter 167 - Chapter 167: Visions And The Watcher

(Xylene's aircraft had landed near the now-repaired Rust Bucket and the team were now saying their goodbyes.)

Jen: "Ben and I wanted to apologize to you for being such jerks before."

(Jen said, wringing her hands as Ben sighed.)

Ben: "I guess we were just jealous of the attention you were getting from Grandpa."

(Ben said.)

Ben: "But if you make him happy, then we're happy."

Xylene: "You two certainly are Tennysons, aren't you."

Jen: "Sure are."

(Jen smiled.)

(She and Ben then reached for their Omnitrixes.)

Jen: "I don't know if-"

Xylene: "Keep them."

(she said.)

Xylene: "Take good care of them. Vilgax isn't the only one interested in them."

Jen: "Believe me, we know."

(Jen said.)

Gwen: "Well, you guys managed to impress another alien."

(Gwen said as Becky and Allison looked over them.)

Becky: "I guess we should let Grandpa say goodbye."

(Becky said.)

Jen: "Yeah. But to who?"

(Jen asked.)

Xylene: "You're not coming with me, are you?"

(Xylene sighed.)

Max: "It's a big galaxy out there, my friend."

(Max said.)

Max: "But right now, those kids are my whole world."

(Xylene sighed and gave Max a small smooch on the lips and he kissed her back.)

Gwen: "Ugh!"

(Gwen cringed.)

Ben: "Gross!"

(Ben groaned.)

Allison: "And this is why I'm an Asexual."

(Allison said.)

Allison: "Well, this and the fact that I can absorb anyone's energy and powers even through a small kiss."

Jen: "So you're like Rogue from X-Men."

(Jen said.)

Allison: "Yeah, pretty much."

(Xylene then broke the kiss and departed upwards into her ship before looking back on the Tennyson family and Allison and nodded towards them.)

Xylene: "We'll always have Roswell."

(she repeated Max's words before the entry to her ship closed and she blasted off into space.)

Ben: "We thought you were going to lose you, Grandpa."

(Ben said.)

Max: "Nope. You can't get rid of me that easily. Let's get out of here."

Ben and Jen: "Front seat!"

(Ben and Jen smiled.)

Ben: "Called it first!"

(The kids then smiled and ran towards the Rust Bucket as Max looked up and saw the faint outline of the ship depart towards who knows where.)

(At 4 in the morning, Ben was tossing and turning in his and his sister's bed as they groaned outwards and then the camera shifted upwards into his dream.)

(He saw images of Max smiling upon him as he and an alien were blasted away into who knows where when the image flashed to a young woman that faintly looked like Jen kneel in a spaceship before exploding outwards into a being with purple skin and flaming hair and wings behind her with a war cry.)

(He started to sweat as he saw an image of Scarlett looking over Jen and saw them brawling together and shouted out as Scarlett bested Jen with a glare before dusting off.)

(Ben looked confused and was shocked and horrified to see an image flash by of him mutating into some kind of alien monstrosity before he rushed down a teenager with mechanical arms.)

(Ben screamed outwards and woke up in a cold sweat as he saw his sister sleeping like a baby and then looked to see the same for Allison on the couch and Gwen and Becky in their bed.)

(He rubbed his eyes and decided that he couldn't sleep.)

(He exited the Rust Bucket and put on his Omni Suit before going out to patrol St. Louis, leaving them behind as he jumped from building to building to look for any crime in the city.)

(He then looked and then used his enhanced leaping to get to the top of the St. Louis Arch and then he looked down upon the city when he heard a voice suddenly appear next to him.)

???: "Beautiful view, isn't it?"

(Ben then looked beside him to see a man wearing a fully neon blue battle armor with white streaks and he has cloak of nanotechnology that glows cyan and stands 5'5".)

(He has no optics on his helmet, revealing his handsome face and bright blue eyes.)

Ben: "Drake?"

(he asked.)

???: "No. But the two of us are acquainted."

(he said with a smile before sitting down beside the young hero.)

Ben: "And you are?"

???: "Names are a trivial pursuit, so I don't need one."

(he said.)

The Watcher: "You may refer to me as The Watcher. Penny for your thoughts?"

Ben: "How do you know me? How did you know I would be here?"

The Watcher: "They don't call me The Watcher for nothing. I've been watching you and your sister for awhile. Ever since you two were born. I knew you would come here after that nightmare that you had, my friend."

Ben: "That was the weirdest nightmare I've ever had. Weirder than the ones I had when I knew Vilgax was coming."

the Watcher: "Ben, my friend."

(the Watcher said.)

the Watcher: "I'm afraid that was no mere nightmare. I think those were visions of a possible future."

Ben: "Visions?"

(Ben asked, raising his eyebrow.)

the Watcher: "It's kind of hard to explain in a way that you would understand, but it's kind of like how you suffered a temporal rift of your own reality caused by outside forces that I can't explain and your innate telepathy linked itself to that force."

Ben: "Innate telepathy?"

the Watcher: "Of course. It comes from the same source of power as your sister. Hers was the dominant trait from your dad whereas yours was the recessive trait."

(Ben only looked on, confused.)

the Watcher: "I thought you'd be confused. No matter."

(the Watcher told him as he stood up.)

the Watcher: "Just live your life, protect your loved ones and be a hero. It's your destiny."

(He then prepared to leave when Ben stopped him.)

Ben: "Wait, Watcher, what about those visions? I mean, they're probably going to happen sometime and I'm scared."

the Watcher: "Don't worry about it now. You'll find out when you're 18. I've got to go. I have places to be."

(He then nodded and faded away into mist, leaving behind a very confused young hero as he looked on and departed back to his family.)

[End Of Volume 3...]

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