(Gwen and Becky walked towards their home with a sigh as Becky had her hands in her pockets and looked towards her sister with a sigh.)
Becky: "Are you sure that this is what you wanna do?"
Gwen: "I am."
(Gwen stated plainly.)
Gwen: "I don't have the right to keep a secret from them any longer. Especially since I just met Grandma."
Becky: "I suppose so."
(Becky said as they sat down in Gwen's room with a sigh before she cupped her hands over her mouth and shouted out.)
Becky: "DADDY! Me and Gwen want to talk to you!"
(The sisters' dad, Frank, walked up to the room and Gwen sighed and bowed her head.)
Frank: "In your room, guys?"
(Frank asked as Gwen sighed.)
Frank: "I'm honored. When was the last time you ever let me or your mother in here? Or anyone besides your sister?"
(Becky walked up to the door and closed it, locking it behind them.)
Gwen: "Dad."
(Gwen said to Frank as he walked in with Becky cringing in her room as he walked in and she locked the door.)
Gwen: "Me and Becky have been keeping a big secret from you and Mom."
(Becky nodded to her sister as she opened her closet to reveal her collection of various weapons and Gwen opened her drawer to reveal her spellbook and magic charms inside.)
Gwen: "Magic powers."
Frank: "So, you're what? Some kind of wizard in training?"
Becky: "Sorceress."
(Becky corrected.)
Becky: "We've been going out for the past five years to help Ben and Jen with their... work."
Frank: "Come on, girls. There's no such thing as magic."
Gwen: "Actually."
(Gwen said as she grabbed her right sleeve.)
Gwen: "That's where you're wrong."
(She looked to her sister, uncertainly, before she nodded.)
(Gwen then winced as she rolled her sleeve up to reveal her tattoos of the Charms of Bezel on her arm.)
(Frank stumbled back as Gwen sighed.)
Gwen: "Are you ready for what I'm about to show you?"
(Frank nodded nervously as Gwen focused and her Telekinesis charm glowed and she focused as the drawer closed up and Becky nodded.)
Frank: "That's a pretty big secret. When did you get those?"
(Frank asked, gently holding his daughter's inked arm.)
Gwen: "About five years ago."
(Gwen said.)
Gwen: "It just kind of happened one night. I had this vivid dream where this young man gave me these tattoos of these magic charms I had previously encountered. But it was more than a dream. When I woke up and looked myself in the mirror, the tattoos were just kind of there."
Becky: "Show him your energy powers."
(Becky said as Gwen enveloped her hands in pink energy before diminishing them before she and her sister stood up and activated their watches, changing into their hero outfits for a split second before they changed back.)
Becky: "We're a part of the Omni-Team. I'm Huntress, Daddy."
Gwen: "And I'm Lucky Girl. We met Grandma Verdona today."
(Gwen sighed.)
Gwen: "Jen has these energy powers and the ability to use magic too."
(Frank sighed, looking at the family pictures.)
Frank: "Your Uncle Carl and I were afraid this day might come for any of our kids. But you and your cousins never showed any signs of having powers. Your mother and I thought we were in the clear. Rebecca, do you have powers?"
Becky: "No, Daddy."
(Becky sighed.)
Becky: "I'm just really good with weapons of all shapes and sizes."
Gwen: "So magic runs in the family?"
(Gwen asked.)
Gwen: "I knew it!"
Frank: "Honey, it's not that simple."
(Frank sighed.)
Frank: "Yes, it's undeniable that you and your cousin Jen can use magic, but magic itself isn't the source of your powers. The truth is... your grandma's an alien."
(Becky gasped and put a hand to her mouth as Gwen sat down on her bed and took her father's hand.)
Gwen: "Okay, I'm overloaded with questions right now but first... guys! I know you're out there!"
(Indeed, Ben, Jen, Kevin and Allison were hiding outside of Gwen's window with a gulp.)
Gwen: "You can come on in."
(They all crawled in through the window with a sigh as Ben looked to his uncle with a smile.)
Ben: "Hey, Uncle Frank."
(he said.)
Frank: "Ben, Jen."
(Frank said as Jen walked up and hugged him with a sigh.)
Kevin: "How do you do sir?"
(Kevin asked.)
Kevin: "Kevin Levin. This is my big sister Allison."
Allison: "Charmed."
(Allison smiled.)
Frank: "Who's this, Gwen? Your boyfriend?"
Kevin: "What?! Absolutely not!"
(Kevin shouted.)
Gwen: "Daddy, no!"
(Gwen shouted over each other.)
Jen: "So, let me get this straight."
(Jen said with a sigh as she generated her energy in her hands.)
Jen: "Our grandmother, who we never knew, wants something from the two of us and we don't know what it is."
Becky: "Sounds about right."
(Becky said.)
Gwen: "And on top of that, she's not even human?"
(Gwen asked.)
Kevin: "Called it."
(Kevin smiled as Jen sighed and sat on the bed, running her fingers through her hair.)
Jen: "I don't believe it."
(she said with an exasperated sigh.)
Jen: "You guys were right. We're not completely human."
Frank: "Then let's ask her."
(Frank said.)
Frank: "Your cousins and friends aren't the only ones who like to sneak around, eavesdropping on people. Isn't that right, Mom?!"
(A violet light appeared in the room and Verdona appeared with a smile towards her family.)
Verdona: "You and your brother always could tell when I was watching, son."
(Verdona smiled.)
Verdona: "I thought that maybe either of you had the spark. But no such luck."
Ben: "Grandma."
(Ben said as she nodded to him.)
Jen: "Yeah. We need to talk."
(Jen said.)
Verdona: "Indeed."
(Verdona agreed.)
Verdona: "You guys want to talk? Let's talk."
(She then snapped her fingers and teleported everyone out of the room and into the living room.)
(Gwen and Becky's mother, Natalie was in the room as she dusted off a vase with a smile before her mother-in-law teleported everyone in and knocked the vase over, breaking it.)
Natalie: "Verdona."
(Natalie said with a snide glare.)
Natalie: "What a surprise."
(Verdona smiled and stuck her hand out, levitating the shards of ceramic off the floor and back into the position of the vase, fixing it instantly.)
Gwen: "Whoa."
(Gwen said as she and Jen stared in awe.)
(Verdona removed the hood from her cloak and smiled as she looked towards her.)
Verdona: "I don't suppose that your son has the spark either, Natalie?"
Natalie: "No."
(she said.)
Natalie: "Ken's never emitted any of your power and neither has Becky."
Verdona: "Tea dear? And something sweet for the kids as well?"
(Natalie only nodded to her and walked off with a sigh to the kitchen as Ken walked in as well from his room and looked down to his family and the old woman in the room who smiled to him as he looked confused.)
Ken: "...Is there something you're not telling me, Dad?"
Frank: "It's been a while, Mom."
(Frank said as the group sat around the kitchen table and sighed as Ken and Ben took a few cookies and Verdona poured the tea into the cups with her telekinesis.)
Verdona: "It certainly has, dear. In human time."
(she said before turning to Jen and Gwen.)
Verdona: "Sweeties, your grandmother is an Anodite. And so are you two."
Jen: "What's an Anodite?"
(Jen asked.)
Verdona: "Anodites are a race of free spirits with powers that humans can barely comprehend."
(Verdona explained.)
Verdona: "Now, our kind don't often meddle in the affairs of common folk. But I fell deeply in love with Max Tennyson."
Ben: "You're not the only one."
(Ben muttered under his breath, remembering Xylene.)
Allison: "Yeah, but if that's the case, why did you ditch him?"
(Allison asked, earning a jab from Becky.)
Verdona: "I didn't. It's just that after Carl and Frank were grown and out of the house, I needed to reconnect with my Anodite heritage on the planet Anodyne. And Max was busy saving the universe with the Plumbers."
Jen: "Wait, what?"
(Jen asked.)
Jen: "He told us that you didn't know that."
Verdona: "Yes, he didn't want me to worry."
(Verdona smiled.)
Verdona: "But we Anodites are smarter than we look. Sweet man, he was. We had many good years together, but we grew apart overtime. We never did get married. Even a fellow loaded with as much mana as Max is still just a physical being."
Ken: "What's mana?"
(Ken asked.)
(Verdona then shot out her finger and caused a roll of tape to appear over her oldest grandson's mouth.)
Verdona: "Your grandfather's fate was big news. It even reached my planet. So I came back here to remember the good times. But who knew that there was not one, but two budding Anodites among you? Jennifer, Gwendolyn, you'll be amazed at the things you can do when you're older. Let me teach you two to master life energy. That is what mana is."
(Her eyes glowed pink again and the tape disappeared from Ken's mouth and he sighed.)
Ken: "Oh."
(Ken said, shrinking back.)
Gwen: "The two of us do want to learn."
(Gwen said, standing up with Jen.)
Jen: "Where do we start, Grandma?"
(Jen asked.)
Verdona: "On Anodyne. Stop living this humdrum life. Come home with me and join the real party."
Jen: "Wait, what?"
(Jen asked as she and Gwen stepped back.)
Jen: "Leave? Uh, this is all so... wow. This is too huge."
Gwen: "Mom, Dad? What do I do?"
(Gwen asked.)
Frank: "I don't know."
(Frank said as Becky and Ken looked silently from the couch.)
Frank: "It's an opportunity I never had."
Natalie: "We always hoped that all three of you would only take after my side of the family."
(Natalie said, giving her mother-in-law the stinkeye.)
Natalie: "But it seems only your sister and brother had that luck."
Ken: "We want you to be happy."
(Ken said with a nod.)
Ken: "We're not going to stand in your way. Either of you."
(Kevin and Allison looked unsure along with Ben and Becky as they turned away.)
Jen: "You won't?"
(Jen asked.)
Verdona: "Then it's settled. Come on, kiddos."
(Verdona said... just as Jen and Gwen turned away and ran upstairs together just as Ben and Becky turned to follow them.)
Ben: "Let us."
(Ben said to his grandmother, aunt and uncle.)
Ben: "Jen and I shared the womb together. I'm closer than anyone could be to her."
Becky: "Same with me and Gwen."
(Becky said as they ran upstairs.)
Verdona: "Oh, those two are such serious girls."
(Natalie glared angrily at Verdona.)
[To Be Continued...]