Outside James Bellwood Middle School

I don't know what I expected there to be when I stepped out of the school. Outside was just your average summer setting. The sun was glaring at us at 80 degrees Fahrenheit, showing that today was indeed summer. You could see kids everywhere occupying the place, waiting for their parents to pick them up. They could be seen either playing card games like Yu-gi-oh or on their Game boys. 

"Gameboys? What period is this again?" I said out loud. I checked my bag to see if there was anything useful in it. I had a bag of corn chips, a Chocolate bar, a CD layered with different CDs, 3 pairs of the same shirt and pants I was wearing, a Gameboy, and a flip phone. I get my flip phone and see that today is 5, 31, 2005 which is 18 years into the past for me. 

The timeline lines up with the fandom's speculation of Ben and Gwen being born in December 1994 making them both 10 going to 11. That meant that I was probably in one of the prime timelines. 

This causes even more questions. Who brought me here? A Celestialsapien? No, they would care about one measly human soul. Professor Paradox? Why would he replace Ben with someone else? It doesn't make any sense. The only ones I think could be either Eon messing up the timeline somehow or Maltruent fucking up the past to win the future.

But it doesn't explain how I ended up here. Was it by accident? Or did someone intentionally isekai me here? And what happened to Ben? Did he die and then I replaced him or did I end up killing him and then forcibly taking his body? That was a question I did not want to be answered.

I was interrupted by someone bumping into me. That someone is one of the two bullies in the school.

"Watch it squirt, you're lucky I'm not going for you this time." Cash said as he walked passed me. "Yeah, watch where you're going punk," Jt said, following Cash. They then proceeded to bully a kid into giving them money like normal but instead, I didn't try to stop them. It wasn't because I couldn't, but because I didn't try to be the hero I wasn't.

That was the difference between Me and Ben. Ben was a good kid who helped other people just simply while I would only help if it benefitted me somehow. I wasn't a hero, I was just selfish.

I was interrupted again by a car honking or more specifically an RV. "C'mon Ben, Let's go. We're burning daylight. I want to make it to the camp by nightfall." said the one in the RV. It was Grandpa Max, Ben's grandpa who is secretly a space cop, or a plumber. Yes, I know that is a dumb name for a secret alien organization but it is what it is.

It was weird seeing characters that I once thought to be from a cartoon talk and interact with me. Well, they aren't "characters" anymore. They are people, real living people, and this was now real life. This world and its people were now my responsibility. Whether I wanted it or not.

"Ben!" Max called. "Let's go or else it'll be too late." He said. I snapped out of my thoughts and took a deep breath. "I'm coming, Grandpa," I said. With a hardened resolve, I faced the van and went inside.

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