"Yeah, he and I were enemies, maybe more like rivals by now. Friends now actually come to think about it." Ben shrugged as he slowed to a stop in front of the Mr. Smoothie, the environs still empty but it was Ben's unofficial base of operations.

"When I first met him, he was an angry kid, had run away from his mom. His dad's a plumber, or was anyhow, and he was trying to make it on his own. He had this ability to siphon energy from anything, and he got a taste of the energy coming from the watch. Too much though was taken the next time, and it turned him into an alien freak, which he blamed me for. He managed to regain his humanity, and since then, has only absorbed metals and stuff to make body armor."

(ooc: replies might be slow. I woke up with sore hands)