It's Back to Bellwood for Ben.
When Winter Break comes around the corner, Mikoto is excited to come back to Ben's home town to spend Christmas with the Tennysons. A nice quiet city, where nobody's trying to experiment with you. Though granted, the t...
"So.. wait.." said Mikoto. "You don't actually know what alien you're going to use on her!? I mean, how hard is it!? She's super strength! Use somebody like Big Chill and she's toast.."
"Well, it's not entirely that simple." Swampfire muttered. "She could keep busting out of the ice, and the battle would never end!!"
Swampfire hadn't changed back into human form, as he had become distracted with the conversation he and Mikoto were now having.
"Maybe.." said Mikoto. "Just maybe.. it's not that bad of a secret! Maybe you could just forfeit, let Sorano have her way, and we can get on with our vacation without any trouble!"
"Mikoto! This secret is WAAAAY too embarrassing for ANYBODY to know about!" Swampfire exclaimed. "You've got to trust me on this one!"
"So embarrassing that you can't even tell me!?' said Mikoto "COME ON!! We've been dating for months now, and gone through stuff together that NO couple on Earth ever has! If you can't trust me, who can you trust?"
"SECRET!!!? OOOOOOO I WANNA KNOW!!"
There was a familiar black and blue blur, and Helen zoomed in between Mikoto and Swampfire, looking excited. "HEY GUYS!! Just got back! Heard you were here from Mom, so I just raced on in, I got straight As so I should be good!"
Mikoto stared at Helen. She had NEVER ever seen Helen in anything other then a Tokiwadai uniform or her combat vest..
Helen was currently wearing an ordinary black 2 piece bathing suit. She had kept her helmet on, but other then that, her swimwear revealed the black dinosaur-like stripes that ran down her back, as well as the small stripes on her shoulders.
It was odd.. yet.. it looked rather natural.
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"NO! I'm not telling even you Helen!" Swampfire exclaimed, as if Helen hadn't just arrived out of nowhere.
"Why don't you just throw the fight then?" said Helen. "I saw the whole thing on tv.. it looks crazy.. i don't know what Misaki is planning, but this can't be worth a measly secret."
"Yeah.. listen to your sis Ben, she's got a point." said Mikoto.
"No!" said Swampfire. "Unless there's some sort of life risking situation in which we HAVE to throw this fight, I'm not going to-"
"Ribbit, Ribbit!!" Mikoto's cellphone began to ring.
Swampfire sighed. "That's going to be the life risking situation isn't it?"
Mikoto opened her phone and listened in. "Yeah? Hello Max! Oh.... okay.. we'll be right there."
Mikoto looked at Swampfire. "You're such a jinx sometimes Ben."
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Max shoved the cellphone back into his pocket.. and gritted his teeth as he tried to crawl further behind a truck so as to avoid the Wildheit's line of sight..
