Chapter 120 - [BT] Mental Blocks...

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"And? What's going on in my head?" Ben asks the professor with some trepidation since he really doesn't want all his problems to be caused by phycological issues because that would mean that it isn't something Reed can just whip up a cure for and he won't be able to easily return to his human form anytime in the near future, I can understand why he's scared of what the Professor will reveal but Ilya must also be feeling relived just at the fact that the Professor has news for him even if it is bad news since that would mean that they have found the crux of his problems and going from there to solve it will be easier than travelling blind however I doubt that Ben will see it like that since he's more liable to smash something in anger and go back to being depressed which is really easy for him since he doesn't like to go outside as he is. "Ben, it's not as simple as what's going on in your head. The mind is a complex thing and messing with it can have untold consequences such as what just happened when I tried to view into your mind but instead got blasted halfway across the room and gave you an intense headache, we can not be lighthearted when facing matters of the mind." The Professor speaks out some warnings when Ben wants to know what happening inside his mind but it's made quite clear by the professor's words that he did not get a full view of his mind before he was blasted but I bet he saw at least some of it as he triggered something in Ben's mind that sent out the psychokinetic blast from Ben's body. "So, you didn't find anything then? You didn't see anything before you were pushed out of my mind than? Nothing at all?" Ben's starts to talk out clearly becoming panicked at the fact that the Professor was blasted out of his mind when he started to investigate the deep vestiges, the rest of us stay relatively calm with me and Ororo being mostly indifferent (though I show a different expression upon my face) while Johnny looks worriedly at his friend just like Susan while Reed listens with an interested face.

"While I did not get a full comprehensive view of your mind I did see most of the important bits and I did manage to find out just what the issues in your mind is Ben, at least before I was shoved quite violently out of your mind space. Though since I was blasted out I do not have all the information apart from some which I was able to gather before I was ejected from your mind, I'm afraid that I will not be able to dive into your mind again to look at the problem since I would be met with the same results as the last time and there's nothing I can do to change that." While the rest of us look intrigued by what could be causing the Professor to be restricted in his abilities Ben along with Johnny instead focus on the fact that the Professor has discovered something and pay more attention to that then pondering what could've possibly booted the a skilled powerful telepath like the Professor out of Ben's mind, I am also quite intrigued by this mystery since the only things I can think of that would be able to beat and force Charles Xavier out of the mind are more skilled telepaths than him and telepath with the Phoenix inside them ( or any other kind of power like that residing within them) and I know for a fact that Ben is neither a telepath nor a host of the Phoenix but who knows maybe he's the host of the earth though I'm pretty sure it's Ororo Munroe that is the champion of Gaia or something along those lines which begs the question, what could've forced the Professor out of Ben's mind so violently like that? "That doesn't matter, all that matters is that you found something. What is it, can you get rid of it? Please get whatever it is out of me, I can't stay like this anymore. I can't handle it." Ben word vomits when he hears that the Professor found something and I'm pretty sure that's all he heard since at the end of his dialogue he gets more desperate and begs for help when the Professor clearly just stated that he won't be able to go into Ben's mind again and come out with a different result so I'm willing to bet that Ben stopped listening after the professor said he discovered something and it's showing as he's clearly asking the professor for something which he just said he can't do, I honestly feel bad for the guy and I hope that whatever information the professor has will be able to aid Ben in returning to his human form since I do genuinely hope the guy will be able to stop being depressed since I know since I've met him the guys been nothing but a grumpy arsehole but I know that that's only because he's depressed and not because he's an arsehole.

I do know that there's hope for him since I know that in the comics the kid department of the Fantastic Four (future something they were called, I don't think that included those four kids calling themselves the power pack but who knows) decided to help Ben return to his human form but instead of trying to do it like Reed who was trying to make him a full time cure or something they instead decided to make something so he would be able to turn human for a few days before it stops working afterwards they would modify it to work again and so on and so forth so he could have a few day as a human after a couple of months being a giant rock formation, kinda like in Detective Conan where Haibara Ai makes a pill that would return Kudo Shinichi from his child form back to his teenager form but the pill had a limited amount of uses since it would stop working on him each time after around a day I think so he wasn't able to return to being a teenager for very long periods of time and he wouldn't do it unless there's an urgent need which is kinda similar since I know in the comics Ben used a method to temporarily return to being human so he could enjoy his honeymoon with the blind woman love interest of his which means he has to return to human to use his wang but that doesn't mean he doesn't have a rock wang but he just can't use it (is that why he's so grumpy, he has he can't find release I mean if he can even stroke the dog in his rock form would some pebbles come out or something) which is why he's so angry all the time because he can't even maturbate. "Ben, I can't help you any further asides from telling you exactly what the issue in your mind is as it is beyond my capabilities to solve it. What I can do though is tell you what the problem in your mind is and give you some probable ways in which you could go about resolving it as sometimes the best help you can get for mental issues is self help." The Professor sighs, relenting at the fact that he won't be able to help Ben further.

Ben goes to say something but he doesn't manage to get anything out when the Professor holds up his hand to stop him from speaking, Ben surprisingly stays quiet and acquiesces to the professors demands even though I can see that he desperately wants to say something but kudos to him for losing his tongue and allowing the Professor to say his piece. "I'll answer any questions at the end Mr Grimm but for now let me tell you what I have discovered and then you can ask me anything that you're unsure about, I'll do my utmost to help you resolve this issue. First of all I only had a cursory glance around your mind before I finally found what I was looking for and what I discovered was a mental block in your mind that was quite hidden, in fact I had to spend a very long times looking for it as human thoughts are a lot faster that's out here so while for the rest of you it might have only been five minutes for me it was a lot longer than that and I used that time to look around and find the mental block inside Ben's mind." At this point Reed interrupts directly ignoring what the Professor said earlier while we all look and though Susan and Ororo are looking at him disapprovingly for speaking when he wasn't supposed to but he doesn't seem to realise it, sometimes I wish I could have ignorance on the same level or even more than this guy because then I wouldn't have to be some worried and panicked all the time plus I'd be a lot more happier. "And what is this mental block? What is it doing to Ben exactly?" I suppose his ignoring of the professors words came form a good place and the Professor clearly saw this as well so he didn't mention Reed interrupting his talk and instead answered him, I guess being a benevolent leader and a forgiving mutant messiah or whatever is kind his schtick.

"A mental block is simply that, a block in your mind that is preventing you from doing something or thinking about something. In this case Ben's mental block is preventing him from returning to his human form and even when you give him a cure to help him his mental block would soon revert the progress and turn him back to his current form, it was good of you to bring me here to examine him as now that we know what it is we can go about resolving this and helping Ben return to his human form." The Professor says ending on a high note with hope for the future though Ben ignores that in favour of asking his own questions since Reed already broke the rule, he asks some interesting questions as well. "So how can we get rid of this thing? How do I even have it anyway? It's not like it appeared out of thin air or anything, it must've been Doom. He must be playing one of his sick games again but this time he's gone too far." Ben shouts out and I can see the professors face turn slowly into frown the more that he's talks.

"I'm afraid that there isn't any outside influence that is causing this mental block of yours Ben." The Professor tells himself stopping Ben in his tracks, I guess you can't run away from anything forever no matter how hard you try...

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