Chapter 4: Chapter 4: Let's party Winx!
The rest of the night comes and goes with no real other events happening that night other than Bloom and Ben figuring out that with enough willpower and concentration they could use their magic kind of like the green lantern ring he mentioned earlier as now all 6 of them are currently having breakfast just chatting about how happy they are that the two of them can finally use fully use their magic to some extent despite neither of them having access to their winx forms yet.
"So does anyone have any plans this afternoon?" Ben asks, currently in his fairy transformation as she takes a bite out of the sandwich.
"No, not really why do you ask?" Flora asks but before Ben can answer her Faragonda suddenly speaks up interrupting him which Ben just thinks is annoying since any time he tries to do anything whether it's talking or doing something someone or something interrupts him.
"Your attention please everyone" Faragonda says before she begins telling everyone of the annual Alfea and Red fountain gift exchange ceremony which Ben planned on skipping entirely since she wasn't a fan of fancy events at least that was until she noticed Bloom looking excited which is when she realized she'd have to attend one way or another.
"And with that classes are canceled for the day you may all go now" Faragonda says as breakfast ends and everyone begins heading to their apartment.
"Ok so there go my evening plans" Ben says to himself as the team get to their apartments with her getting tackled to the ground by ship the moment she steps a foot into the apartment.
"Ship!" Ship barks while licking Ben's face as the girls just leave Ben to her fate of being licked to death by ship.
"Dammit Ship you need to stop doing this every time" Ben says, picking up the small dog-like creature while walking towards the rest of the group as he reverts back to his normal human form before Musa walks away from the group over to him.
"Hey Ben, could you run into town really quick?" Musa asks Ben who stops and just gives her this look that says 'really?' since when did he become someone's errand boy.
"Why do you need me to run into town for?" Ben asks, a bit annoyed but still willing to do it for her as he puts down Ship who runs off to play with Kiko.
"Great, I need to get some speakers for tonight's party and I was thinking if you'd be willing to run by the electronic's shop and grab some" Musa says as Ben just simply nods as he pulls up the Omnitrix scrolling through his alien playlist until he finds XLR8.
"Fine but you'll have to come with me since I don't know which speaker to choose" He says as he then selects XLR8 before slamming down on the dial turning into the Kineceleran transformation.
"Yeah, that's fine but why did you turn into that…..alien" Musa says as XLR8 brings down his visor and then suddenly scoops her up holding her in the princess carry "W-what?! Ben put me down!" Musa protests as he looks at her before shrugging.
"Calm down it'll be over before you know it" He says before looking towards the others "Later guys we'll be back soon" He says and before Musa can protest any further the two disappear in a black and green blur as XLR8 runs out of the apartment and begins heading to Magix City.
Meanwhile far away in the witch school Cloud Tower the Trix had just been informed of the party that was occurring at Alfea between the fairies and specialists and to be honest Icy wasn't all to confident that they'll be able to pull off their plan since it seems that at every turn Ben is there to stop them.
"Are we still going through with the plan?" Darcy asks as Icy is just staring off to the distance on their balcony looking towards Magix City and she seems distracted deep in thought.
"Icy snap out of it" Stormy says, grabbing Icy's shoulder causing her to flinch as she quickly turns around while clearing her throat nervously.
"I mean yes sisters, we will strike Alfea tonight and ruin their little party" Icy says though she's already betting that Ben will be there somehow someway in order to stop them and to her it seems their goal of getting the Dragon's flame from Stella's scepter sees to be getting farther and farther away with each passing day.
Back with XLR8 and Musa the two had just arrived at Magix City as XLR8 skids to a stop right before they enter the city as he retracts his visor taking in a breath of fresh air.
"And we're finally here" he says reverting back to his human form as he looks down at Musa who's clinging to his hoodie with her eyes closed mumbling something which Ben can't quite hear or make out as the only thing, he can make out is that she's still scared.
"Musa?" Ben asks concerned for her now regretting turning into XLR8 while mentally cursing himself for not just taking the bus like a normal person "Musa we've stopped you can open your eyes now" Ben says in a soft tone of voice as Musa then slowly opens up one eye before she notices how close he is as she puts her hand on his chest pushing herself away to get some space.
"E-ever heard of personal space?" She asks a bit flustered before Ben helps her stand up but since her legs are shaking, she has to lean against him for support "Just so you know we're taking the bus back" Musa says promising herself to never let him carry her no matter what.
"Fine by me" Ben says not wanting to potentially harm their friendship any more as the two walk into Magix and have to walk around for a decent bit before they finally find the electronics store.
"So which ones are we getting?" Ben asks as they get to where all the speakers are as then Musa's look around until she looks up seeing the speakers they need are all the way in the top shelf that was way too tall for anyone to reach and grab.
"Well Ben...you have something in the Omnitrix tall enough to get that?" Musa asks not even bothering to look away from the speaker as she sees a green flash of light in her peripheral vision.
"Humungousaur should do the job" The newly transformed Vaxasaurian says as he reaches up grabbing the box and bringing it down to Musa who grabs it "by the way we're going to need multiple speakers right? Because I don't think that box is going to hold enough speakers to fill the cafeteria" Humungosaur says before looking around to make sure nobody sees him though thankfully, they're in a pretty isolated area in the store so that shouldn't be a problem.
"No, this one box contains a bunch of speakers so we should be ok" Musa says while looking at the box before she then looks up at Humungousaur as he then reverts back to his human form.
"That little box contains many speakers? Well then again, I should expect it from the place literally called Magic with an X instead of a c" Ben says shrugging before he and Musa go to the cashier and buy the box of speakers which was surprisingly cheap as the two then begin to make their way to the bus stop.
"You know I wonder what the other girls are doing" he says quietly as he takes a seat at the bus stop before looking towards the incoming bus with it stopping in front of them soon after.
Though they then hear voices the two quickly recognized as Stella, Bloom, and Tecna come out, Flora wasn't with them as she had to stay back to work on the decorations for the party.
"Oh, hey girls didn't expect to see you here" Ben says as he quickly stands up from where he was sitting.
"Oh, we just came by to get Bloom a dress before the party" Stella says as she looks to her side at Bloom who seems too focused on something and that something was Ben as she had already made up her mind and was determined to confess her feelings for him tonight at the party.
"We I can't stay long as I need to get things ready, but I'll see you guys later" Musa says getting on the bus with it then driving off as Ben decided to stay behind as he also needed to get one last thing before being able to return to Alfea.
"So, Ben you are you coming?" Stella asks before Ben changes his gaze towards Red Fountain which can barely be seen in the distance as he then pulls up the Omnitrix and begins scrolling through his aliens.
"Sorry girls but I have one last thing to do before the party so I'll see you guys later" Ben says while walking backwards as he slams down on the Omnitrix transforming into his fastest flying alien aka Jet ray giving them one last wave before he shoots off into the air so fast, they can only see a slight red and yellow blur.
The girls keep looking at the blur which keeps getting further away in the direction of red fountain before Tecna just shakes her head "Well something tells me he's about to do something stupid" Tecna says as she crosses her arms.
Jet ray continued flying through the sky faster than any red fountain aircraft could go while also making sure to stay low as he doesn't know if he they have some type of radar as he sees the school for specialists getting closer and closer as he slams on the Omnitrix symbol on his chest quick changing into his Necrofriggian transformation.
"Big Chill" He says in a low voice before laughing at himself as he realizes that he calls out his alien names even without anyone else being present as he then turns invisible and intangible "I should be able to sneak in and grab one of their uniforms without issue since I am NOT wearing a dress" Ben says to himself as he phases through the side of the cliff.
Big Chill after flying through the ground for a bit then pokes his head through the floor as he notices that he's arrived at some sort of apartment noticing an open closet with some spare uniforms with him smirking and flying up deactivating his intangibility walking over and grabbing one of the uniforms.
"Yes, this'll do quite nicely" Big Chill says as he puts the uniform underneath his arm but before he leaves, he notices the names of the people whose apartment this belongs to...….Riven, Sky, Brandon, and Timmy with him just staring at the names for a bit.
"I know what I'm about to do is a dick move but honestly I just don't like these guys" Big Chill says before he takes a deep breath then letting out his ice breath freezing everything in sight to make it as difficult as possible for them to enter the apartment until every single thing they own is covered by multiple feet of ice as he then takes a bow once it's done "some of my best work honestly" he says sounding proud of himself as he then hears the door handle rattle with him then quickly reactivating his intangibility and diving through the floor.
"Cmon why the fuck won't you open!" Riven says angrily as he tries the door again only for it to not open as he curses under his breath as he tries over and over again to no avail as then the rest walk up.
"Something wrong Riven" Brandon asks but Riven just ignores him as he sees the angry teen gives up temporarily before deciding to try kicking the door open "woah hey calm down don't blame the door" Brandon says as he and Sky have to physically pull him back before Timmy walks over to give it a try himself as he places his hand against the door.
"What in the world? The door's really cold. Did we leave the air conditioner on the lowest setting?" He asks as takes out a multi tool that he always carries around with him as he begins unscrewing the hinges until all the screws are off "Sky help me over here" He says Sky walks over helping Timmy get the door off its hinges as they hold it for all of two seconds before dropping it as all four of them see the several feet of ice covering every single thing in the apartment and they just stare silently for a few seconds before they all let out a synchronized "What!?"
Around an hour or later back in Alfea everyone is back in their apartments changing into their dresses or at least just Bloom since she had gotten back last minute from Magix city with a dress she had to modify.
"C'mon where are the scissors" Bloom says as she's throwing multiple things aside in her search as Ben who had already put on the stolen uniform grabs every single item that was thrown but before he can tell her to stop throwing things he gets hit in the head by a flying Kiko.
"Oh, c'mon you weren't even thrown" Ben says trying to hold up his laugh from how ridiculous the situation was as the rabbit just gives him this sheepish smile before he jumps off.
"Oh, screw it, I'll use my magic" Bloom says, giving up after being unable to find the scissors as she points her finger at the dress before firing this small fire beam that does cut through the part of the dress, she needs cut, but it sets everything else on fire "No no no!" She says hurriedly as she was panicking to notice the bright flash of green that went off behind her before the dress gets shot with a concentrated water blast as she turns to see Ben had turned into the alien Water Hazard as he absorbs the moisture right back out of the dress to prevent it from getting ruined.
"Phew thanks Ben" Bloom says relieved her dress didn't get burnt as Ben reverts back to his human form before he grabs her hand leading her away.
"c'mon I'm sure we can find some scissors elsewhere" Ben says unable to look her in the eyes since he's never admitted this before but he felt some kind of...attraction to Bloom that he hasn't felt since he was together with Julie and Ester though he's afraid of admitting his crush to Bloom since the last two relationships he was in they ended up cheating on him so unless Bloom also has some kind of crush on him he'll never admit it preferring to stay friends over possibility of losing the first person who was nice to him in this universe.
Bloom and Ben end up searching for a long time with no luck at least that is until they hear some familiar voices with the two then peeking around the wall to see the Trix talking next to some open chest with eggs in it.
"Hey, isn't that Red fountain's gift to the Alfea?" Bloom asks as Ben just shrugs since he has no idea but what he can tell is two things from what they can overhear.
The first is that they're cursing the eggs or something similar and the second is that they're after Stella's staff.
"We need to tell the others let's go" Bloom says as Ben just nods before following her since that's probably for the best as the girls probably know how to undo a curse.
The two run through the hallways until they get to the main room where the party is happening and honestly Flora and Musa had outdone themselves as the place looked beautiful and Ben knew he'd have to ask Musa for her music playlist later but for now they had to look for their roommates.
As they're making their way through the crowd Bloom ends up bumping into Brandon who was wearing a damp uniform due to him and his roommates barely being able to get their uniforms from their frozen apartment before rushing to the aircraft that was taking them to the party.
"Hey wait don't I know you?" Brandon asks only for Bloom to glare at him as she still hasn't gotten over her grudge against them for shooting Ben before she rushes past towards the other girls but before Brandon can stop her to talk he gets tripped by what he can only assume to be Sky as he sees this specialist with brown hair walk past him unable to make out his face as he walks over talking to the group of girls before they walk away.
"Are you sure it was them?" Flora asks, wondering how in the name of Magix did the Trix even manage to sneak into Alfea.
"We're positive they even changed the eggs the specialists are going to give to us" Bloom says as Ben looks at the Omnitrix as he begins scrolling through trying to find XLR8 to see if he can speed blitz the chest before the eggs can be given out.
"Maybe I can stop them from being given out" Ben says as a small gasp from Bloom makes him look back accidentally scrolling past XLR8 and selecting his fairy transformation.
"We're too late they're already being given out" Musa says before they hear Ben transform as he or rather now she looks down at her hands before sighing knowing her luck had probably run out because of this mis-transformation and not only that instead of wearing a version of the specialist uniform she was wearing instead she's now wearing this mostly green dress with some black and white on it.
"Oh c'mon" She says annoyed at not only the mis-transformation but because of the fact she's wearing a dress.
"We don't have time quick everyone hold hands we'll have to cast a spell to undo what was cast on the eggs" Flora says as then everyone holds hands in one big circle "now repeat after me 'What it once was let it be again'" Flora says and they repeat the chant a few times before the eggs return to normal and once a fairy is given one yellow butterflies come out.
"Phew crisis averted also nice dress Ben" Tecna says as Ben just gives her this unamused stare with Ben then grabbing Bloom's hand and dragging her away.
"C'mon we still need to find those scissors….later girls" Ben says bitterly that she now has to wear a dress but she can always de-transform later as he and Bloom make their way back to their apartment.
Ben and Bloom arrive at their apartment but before they can continue looking for the scissors, they see this small jewelry chest begin floating out of Stella's room and out the door.
"Well that's something you don't see any day c'mon" Ben says as the two then follow the floating chest out through a side door as they run outside with the chest falling on the floor spilling out a bunch of jewelry and this golden shell that opens to reveal what looks to be Stella's ring that floats over right into Icy's outstretched hand.
"Damn can you not relax for 1 day without stealing my friend's ring" Ben says loudly, quickly manipulating her own DNA turning both her arms into that of a Pyronite lighting them on fire.
"You have got to be kidding me" Icy says before she quickly begins firing ice at her with Ben retaliating with her fire as the rest of the Trix join in on attacking them with Ben and Bloom having to dodge a bunch of different attacks until Stormy splits the ground open making both of them have to grab onto the side with Ben looking pissed now that Bloom's now in actual danger.
'I can't give up now!' Bloom thinks determined as her body then begins to crackle with magic while Ben's body also reacts in the same way as he's determined to beat them into the ground.
"What?!" Icy yells as she and the rest of the Trix are blinded by two sudden bursts of green and blue magic as now once the light dissipates Ben and Bloom are now standing there in their respective Winx forms with Ben's being mostly green with some black and white like his dress from earlier.
"This power is amazing" Ben says as she cracks his knuckles ready to kick some ass as she crosses her arms making a cross as she mixes To'kustar DNA into herself which makes her a bit taller as she then fires a laser at them from that which Icy blocks with an Ice wall as then Bloom comes up from above and fires some flames at them.
They continue fighting for a good bit before Ben and Bloom are sent back with them landing side by side facing the Trix "Bloom grab my hand let's combine our flames and finish these witches" Ben says confidently holding out her hand as she then grabs it with a smile as they then point their joint hands towards the Trix as they're now back to back while facing the Trix as they then begin charging up the attack with fire quickly coating both of their arms but what's curious is that Ben forgot to use his normal Pyronite DNA to create the flames instead it seems to come by itself like he was using a separate magic compared to his normal genetic manipulation.
The Trix try to block the attack with a wall of all of their separate spells as a dragon made of flames appears on Ben and Bloom's joint hands "Fire!" The two yell as they fire the attack at them with this massive fire dragon coming out of nowhere from in front of the two charging straight at the Trix and just when it seems that it's going to hit them, they all disappear in less than a blink of an eye as the dragon hits where they were a few moments prior creating an explosion.
As Ben and Bloom just stand there for a second before letting go of her hand and looking towards the smoking crater of where the Trix once stood.
"D-Did we kill them?" Bloom asks, afraid that they just took a life as Ben walks over inspecting the crater before she just shakes her head.
"No, they were teleported out is my guess or we would see ashes....still I wonder who did it" she says dropping out of her Winx form along with reverting back to his human form.
"Ben, Bloom are you two alright!" They hear someone calling out for them as they turn to see the rest of the Winx running at them as Bloom looks over at Ben before smiling and dropping out of her Winx form.
"Yeah, we're alright but the Trix got away with Stella's ring so I'm going to Cloud Tower after them" Ben says pulling up the Omnitrix and just before he can even get to use it he hears Stella's nervous laugh as he looks over to see Stella looking nervous.
"Wait, they DID steal the ring...right?" Ben asks as Stella goes on to explain that they hid the real one and then swapped in its place a fake one which Ben does think was smart but he's still a tiny bit upset that he and Bloom put themselves in danger over a fake ring but oh well can't change the past now.
Ben's thoughts then turn to the Trix. It's like they were there one moment and then gone the next so it was faster than teleportation since that usually takes a moment so he wonders what could've saved the Trix.
Meanwhile far far away near Cloud Tower the Trix stumble back as instead of facing a fire dragon launched at them they were now instead looking at fog covered woods which leaves them all confused as Icy didn't get the chance to teleport them all out.
"So you lot aren't going to thank me for saving your lives?" A mechanical voice with a thick German accent says followed by some gear noises before a purple flash of light is barely seen in the distance behind some heavy fog as then this figure in a black trench coat and a purple helmet that covered his entire head is seen walking over to them
"Eon? Why did you help us" Icy says, suspicious since the last time they spoke he said he'd stay away, and she'd never see him again.
"Quite simple Icy, I still need you" He says reaches up before taking off his helmet revealing that under the mask....Eon looked exactly like Ben with the only difference being his purple eyes "Plus now that Tennyson's here it's personal" Eon says as all the Trix take a step back before they all let out a collective "What the fuck!?"
Back in Alfea Bloom finally found the scissors and was able to get her dress just the way she wanted it and now she was ready to do what she had set her mind to earlier that day.
"Ok Bloom you can do this confess to Ben your feelings" Bloom says to herself as she walks with all the confidence in the world towards the party but as soon as she got there and saw Ben all that confidence was severely diminished, but she still walked over to Ben who was talking with Flora about something she couldn't quite make out.
"Umm Flora could I borrow Ben for a minute" Bloom says as the two turn her and she can almost feel the anxiety slowly creeping in.
"Oh, sure see you guys later then" Flora says with a little smile before she walks away leaving the two alone.
"So what did you want to talk about?" Ben asks as he looks at Bloom who then grabs his hand and drags him away to the spot where she planned on confessing "Woa- Hey where are we going?" He asks.
Bloom is quiet all the way to a fountain in front of Alfea that she thought would be perfect as she then let's go of his hand taking a deep breath trying to steady her nerves.
"Bloom are you alright?" Ben asks, kind of worried that she has some kind of bad news for him as she takes one last deep breath before looking him straight in the eyes.
"Ben I…...like you have for a long time" Bloom says and almost immediately she can feel her cheeks heat up but she powers through it determined to not freeze up "I know this came out of nowhere, but would you take me as your girlfriend?" Bloom asks as she can feel her heart beating so fast it almost feels like it's about to beat right out of her chest.
"Bloom I…..." He says struggling to come up with the words as this is the first time a girl had confessed to him and not the other way around but eventually, he's able to get them out "Yes I'd love to be your boyfriend" Ben says smiling as shock briefly covers Bloom's face before she runs over and hugs him tightly.
The two stay hugging for a while just enjoying the others embrace not wanting the moment to end but eventually, they knew people would probably start getting suspicious if they stayed gone too long.
"We should probably go back" Ben says reluctantly not really wanting to go back but he knew if they stayed longer Griselda would probably come looking.
"I know…...but before we go can we seal the deal with a....kiss?" Bloom says unable to make eye contact since she's too embarrassed as she then feels Ben put his hand on her chin making her look up as the two make eye contact briefly before closing their eyes and leaned forward just as their lips touched in a sweet and tender kiss.