⍟ Broken Strings {A Chaos Theory x Male Reader Story - Ben}

𝟺. 𝚃𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚍 𝚆𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜

"Ben!" Y/N shouts as they accelerate right towards a tree.

The boat smashes into the exposed roots, sending the four of them jostling around, gripping onto their seats to avoid falling off.

"Are you guys alright!?" Sammy calls from their boat.

"Stay there!" Zayna instructs, "We'll turn around and come help you."

"We're fine." Y/N sighs, getting up and using one of the oars to push the nose of the boat our from where it got buried in the roots, "We'll catch up."

"Dude," Kenji glares at Ben, "Focus."

"Right, yeah. Sorry." Ben zips the phone back into his pouch and starts the boat back up.

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

The group careens through the water at a steady pace. Ben taps away at his phone as he drives while Y/N and Yaz try their best to swat the attacking bugs away.

Kenji sits at thee bow, tapping his foot more anxiously with every coming second.

"Can't this thing go any faster!?" He complains, whipping around to face Ben.

"Ben!" He shouts when he notices the boy on the phone.

"You already asked me that!" Ben whines.

"Kenji, relax." Y/N sighs.

"The others are way, way ahead of us now!" Kenji goes on.

"They really aren't." Yaz buts in, "Maybe if we can all just find a way to work together--"

"Am I the only one in this boat who cares about getting Bumpy's egg-baby back!?" Kenji cries, getting to his feet.

"Oh, of course not!" Ben huffs.

"Then put this thing in a higher gear!" Kenji demands.

Ben rolls his eyes, turning around to face the motor. He gazes over it lazily, not seeing any buttons.

"Just knock it!" Kenji urges, to which Ben responds by punching the motor pathetically.

"Dude, it's over on the side. On the side!" He groans.

"You do it then." Ben folds his arms.

"Fine!" Kenji grunts.

The two of them swap side, climbing over Y/N and Yasmina in the process, much to their annoyance.

"Seriously, dude?" Yaz sucks her teeth as Kenji pushes down on her head as he brushes past her.

"I guess Captain Kenji also needs to be First Mate Kenji," Kenji mutters to himself as he tinkers with the motor, "So you can focus on--"

"Wait," He turns to Ben, "What are you doing?"

"Ah..." Ben's eyes remain locked on the screen, "I'm seeing if Brook-- Broke-- Broker might have left any clues about where the cargo ship went."

"Or how a ship that size even got up this tiny river."

"Okay..." Kenji nods slowly, "Yeah. Yeah, okay. You do that."

The two boats soon come to a stop, their path through the water blocked by three large Brachiosauruses.

"I know another route we can take." Zayna takes the initiative to reform the plan, "It's much safer, hardly any dinosaurs."

"But... you didn't know this way had any dinosaurs." Ben interjects.

"Maybe Zayna's right." Darius shrugs, "Should we--"