"Finally… my time to rise has come, Otto." Amelia stepped forward from behind some trees. "My army is now strong, and I am ready to get revenge on those Wild Kratts."
"Mein master, your army's ready for action at your signal." Otto stood in front of the "army".
"Excellent." She smiled. "Soon, meine armee, we'll attack with such intensity they won't know what hit them!" She cackled evily.
The team trained in the park as usual. Mina and Bites occupied themselves with a pillow fort.
"Come on, guys! Speed it up. I have people to go and places to meet! Let me have a turn!" David complained, as he prepared his thunder powers.
"Calm down, grasshopper," Chris commented, with his eyes closed as he trained with his vines. "Patience is a virtue."
"Since when are you a wiseman?"
"Why do you think he's our leader?" Martin commented, preparing a water attack. "His motto is to always be the best he can."
"And mine is… LET'S FIGHT NOW!" David quickly sent a bolt of lightning at Chris. However, a crystal wall came up, and it bounced back at him. The Time Guardian fell onto his back with an "oof".
"David!" Aviva complained. "I can't concentrate." She was trying to meditate on an air cloud. David grunted, turning around and kicking Mina and Bites' pillow fort down.
"HEY!" The two of them argued. But he simply grunted louder.
"There goes a one-hour job," Bites complained.
"Help! Help!" Gavin came running.
"Gavin?" Martin immediatly stopped training. "What's up, sport?"
"*huff* Forest…. trees… So many Predators…"
"Future Predators?!" Elsa exclaimed. "Where? When? How?!"
"Calm down, folks. We better give him some space first," Bites pointed out.
"Where there's Predators, there's Amelia right behind them," Daivd said with a smirk, punching his hand. "Finally that witch has made another appearance. I say we go see the situation now!" He went running in the direction where Gavin came.
"David, we can't just rush at her without a plan!" Chris argued, standing up. "Wait!" He grunted, seeing he was already really far. There was no choice left but to follow him.
The team arrived at the location, and gasped at the horrifying sight of a destroyed piece of the park.
"Wow… what a mess." Ventus observed the surroudings. Trees were destroyed by the creatures, leaving many critters homeless.
Chris stood still, as if listening intently.
"The trees… the forest. I hear its pain. Sounds strange, but I do." Chris brought a hand to his head.
"It could be like me with marine creature telepathy. Maybe because of Forest Crown, you're more connected to the Earth," Martin suggested.
"Then I think this calls for a bit more Crown Power," Chris decided, activating his Forest Crown.
"But what about Amelia? She probably is hiding somewhere around here, preparing another attack," David started. "You'll take YEARS to fix everything here!"
"Don't be ridiculous, David. We'll do it in less time than you think!" Chris affirmed.
"Look, some of us need to stay and build new homes for these poor little critters," Koki stated, with some squirrels in her arms. "Me, Jimmy, Chris, Martin, Ventus and Mina will stay. The rest can go out and look for Amelia."
"I'm seeing a Predator!" Bite-Size stated, flying high. "It's headin to a portal!"
"Then what're we waiting for?!" David stated at the rest of the team. "Come on, come on, come on!"
"David, wait for us!" the Time Nymph called, as they hurried after him. Ventus sighed.
"When's he going to learn?"
"Jimmy, look!" Koki pointed out to the necklace her brother gave to her. It seemed to respond to Jimmy's adopted brother's gift.
"Uh, Koki, your necklace is…"
"So is yours…" The two looked at the glowing stones. Once they joined them together, their glow surrounded the couple. Chris stopped what he was going to do.
"Wow..."
"We're getting really close to get that Predator! Hurry! Seriously, you guys!" David argued. The Future Predator used something glowing on his neck to open a portal. The team crossed the portal before it could close.
"Phew! We made it," Bite-Size panted. "But where he is?"
"Aw, dang it! We lost her!" David grunted. Then, he looked around. "Hey… this is… Uncle Cronos's Temple..."
"But what would Ms. Dictator Imitation want with the Greek God of Time?" Elsa wondered.
"God of… Time?" David asked. His shard of the Time Gem then started to point to somewhere. "Hey! What the..."
"Hey, it was like that for Martin too at Poseidon's temple," Aviva pointed out.
"Does it want me to go inside?"
"Probably."
"I know Cronos really well from him teaching me how to properly use my powers," Elsa explained. "He was the only god for the job."
"And I still am, wise Time Nymph, " an old man, holding a scepter, approached the group.
"Uncle Cronos!"
"He's huge!" Aviva shouted in shock, seeing him taller than even a giraffe.
"Of course, silly. He's a Titan. Entities, aka Gods can change their size," David told her. "Most just prefer being human size, like the ones you saw before."
"Oh... right."
"It's great to see you, Uncle. I fear not only my friends' world, but your world as well is in terrible danger."
"I know… I've seen her," Cronos admitted. "They broke into my temple and destroyed everything, and tried to take away… this." He showed them a small silver clock.
"The Chrono Clock?"
"The Chrono what?" Mina repeated.
"It's a relic from my inventory. This small device has the ability of freeze people and things in time, and it can change its appearance to fit the current age."
"That's why it looks so much like mi abuella's favorite watch," Aviva pointed out.
"However..."
"There's always a however with power," David whispered to Elsa.
"It is extremely powerful, but if overused, it can cause permanent damage to time itself. This is why I'm trusting it… to you, David." Cronos handed the clock to him.
"Eh? Me?"
"Him?" Elsa wondered.
"I am sure you'll use it with wiseness. The Chrono Clock will help you to stop Amelia."
"Really?" Elsa couldn't believe what she was hearing, but she decided to leave it alone and see where this could end up.
"Yeah, yeah, sure, Uncle. Now we gotta hurry to find her!" David said, leaving the temple, being followed by the team.
Cronos observed them leave, sighing. "Well, guess I'll have to clean all this up myself..."
"Okay… if we're gonna get Amelia, and since the rest of the team is too busy trying to fix the mess left by her and the Predators, guess we need some quick training," David decided.
Seeing a leaf falling nearby, he pointed the clock to it and… it froze in mid-air.
"Wow..." Aviva stared, impressed. Then, a curious squirrel appeared, trying to pick up an acorn. David froze him in place, after unfreezing the leaf.
"Yeah, it works. But, bro, you remember what Uncle Cronos said about overus…" Elsa tried to alert, but she was interrupt by David as he froze her.
"Fine. Test complete," David concluded. "It works perfectly. Amelia won't have a chance to deal with me when time's too slow for her!" He unfroze Elsa before entering the newly-opened portal along with the team.
"...ing the Chron- huh? HEY! Wait for me!" Elsa called, once she saw she was left behind by her impatiant brother.
Once the team arrived to meet the rest of the gang, they all were impressed with what they saw: it looked like nothing happened at all with that piece of the forest.
"Huh? Is this… the place destroyed by the Predators?" David asked in shock. The area that was destroyed earlier was covered in new trees and grass. The damage he believed to only be fixed in years was fixed earlier than he thought.
"It took a while, but it was worth it. And Koki and Jimmy's Crown Forms also helped, with a bit of magma."
"Magma?! Where did you get that?!" Ven almost shrieked.
"From underground," Koki said, stomping the ground a little. "It wasn't that hard with the help of our Magma Crowns."
"Frozen by water, and turned into rock that was perfect for new vegetation," Jimmy explained.
"Yeah. Exhausting to get it all to grow at once, though." Chris wiped some sweat off his forehead. "But the final result was worth it."
David looked at the four. They had worked together to revive and create. It took them time, but they did it.
"Maybe Chris was right… maybe patience IS a virtue..." But then he looked down at the clock. "But it's too late to turn back now..."
"So… any luck with Amelia?"
"No. She disappeared. They tried taking this from Uncle Cronos, but now I'll keep it away from her." He showed them the Chrono Clock.
"Not for long, mein feind!" They all heard a voice from the dephts of the forest. Amelia approached them with her new army of Predators.
"Amelia Cutter! Finally showing your cowardly face to us!" David said.
"Coward? Watch your tongue, elend junge!" Amelia pulled something off her neck. It was some kind of pearl on a string.
"That's..." Luna gasped. "That's a crystal from the Gaia Scepter! Apollo's Pearl!"
"But how did you ever get your hands on it?" David asked.
"I found it laying around the woods after my first failure to annihilate you in this timeline," Amelia remembered.
"I was furious… then as I found other creatures to create a new army, this small thing helped me to control their small minds.
"With my genetic knowledge, even though these creatures are less well-developed than the ones in the future, I succeeded in creating a new generation of Predators."
"And now, I shall use this army to annihilate you all!" Amelia lifted up the pearl, and the light called for the creatures Amelia controlled now. "Destroy them all!"
"Okay! Showtime, you guys!" Chris activated his Crown Form again, being followed by the rest of the team: the Wild Kratts activated their Crown Forms, Clarissa called for her wolf form and Ventus used his powers. David stood in front with the clock.
The Predators charged against all the team, but eventually David stood in front of each and every member just to freeze the Predators in place, not letting the team act once.
"David, what are you doing?!" Chris asked, once the Time Guardian interrupted him.
"Ending this as fast as I can, not wasting time at all!" David bragged.
But while he froze the Predators, really full of himself, he didn't notice his teammates being floated to a cage by the pearl's powers.
"Is that all you have, Ame..." David was saying, until he looked behind to see his friends trapped and about to be thrown in a puddle of drowning mud.
"No matter where you are, your weakness remains the same, Genosharp," Amelia commented. "Always impatient, wanting to solve everything yourself. Either you surrender to mein armee, or your friends will drown!"
"NO!" David growled, pressing the Chrono Clock button once more, not noticing it was going beserk, until the sound of a crack was heard. In that moment, the device exploded in David's hand with such intensity it pushed him to the floor.
David gasped in horror: in his try of freezing time for Amelia, he ended up freezing all of time itself for his friends as well. They were all freezed in time… perhaps forever. And the Chrono Clock was broken.
"My friends... what have I done?" His legs collapsed from beneath him from shock and tears fell from his eyes. "This is all my fault… I was such a fool to believe that the fastest way was the best way… And now... I'm stuck in this frozen world… forever..." This last word echoed.
He looked down at the broken clock. It was in a certain angle that made the sunlight bounce off. The sheen got in his eyes, making them grey for a moment. The Time Shard glittered in the same light.
Suddenly, he felt a breeze, and this surprised him. Everything started to move again
"D-did I... unfreeze time?" David gasped, not believing. Then, he heard the team screaming in panic as the cage drowned more and more in the mud.
"What's happening?!" a yell from Amelia caught his attention. The pearl started to heat up in the dictator's hand, making her let go of it.
The pearl floated down to David's hand. The Time Shard around his neck began to glow, reacting to the pearl. Then, the shard grew into a medallion with the WK symbol.
He looked at the pearl in his hand. In determination, he looked up at the scientist. "I'm the Nature Guardian of Time and Patience, David Genosharp! And no one treats my friends like this!"
*BG music: Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls*
The light of the pearl surrounded him. As he remained with his eyes closed, surrounded by a silver light, he held the small stone tightly with one hand, and held the bars of his cage with another, making them rust and eventually crumble. The crew came out of the mud quickly, before the rusted cage sank.
As the glow died down, David was wearing gray and copper samurai like armor with silver streaks in his hair and his eyes a pale gold. The Pearl was now in a copper helmet-like crown.
Amelia growled in anger, trying to send her Predators to attack the Guardian. But since she didn't have the pearl, they didn't obey her anymore.
"Heh… Looks like it's just you and me now," he teased, with a slightly silent tone.
While she tried the best she can to attack him, he simply waited for the woman to reach him to move aside at seemingly fast speeds.
"Is he moving faster?!" Jimmy questioned in awe.
"No, Jimmy... He made time slower around him, making it look like his speed increased!" Elsa stated, remembering it as her time trick.
"What?!" Amelia yelled in frustration. "How dare you... That pearl is mine!"
"Not anymore, mein feind!" David announced. A goldish light appeared in his hand. When it faded, there was the Crossbow. He shot an arrow at Amelia, trapping her in a time-space sphere and then he shot again, creating a portal.
Amelia found a way of popping the sphere, and complained in German, proclaiming to return, while Otto helped her escape.
David, feeling the power within him fade, felt himself fainting, as the crew reunited around him.
"Ugh..." David woke up, dizzy about the incident, surrounded by the team.
"Relax, kiddo. We felt the same in our first use of the Elemental powers, but you'll get used to it," Martin assured.
"Well, the good news is the Time Gem is repaired. The bad news is that we couldn't reach Amelia," Chris told David.
"She escaped?!" David gasped. Then, he thought. "You know what? Forget her for now. I'm just glad you all are okay. I'm sorry if my impatience got you in such trouble."
"Nah, we know how it is to suffer the consequences of impatience," Martin affirmed, staring at Chris.
"You know, it's kinda ironic… Amelia was stronger in Patience than me, the Guardian of it…"
"Yeah, boy. Just because you symbolize Patience, it doesn't mean you'll always show it," Chris said. "If you want, I can help you with this. We all can."
"Even knowing it might take long for us to have a chance of getting Amelia again… this time, I'm willing to be patient. In baby steps, but I will. I promise," David said, and the team agreed that was a good way to start. "Uh… Luna, since you're here..." he asked. Luna, knowing exactly what he wanted to do, picked up a scroll and a pen.
"Spill it out, kid."
"Dear mother, I thought freezing time in my favor was the quickest way of defeating Amelia, but in my impatient way of acting, I ended up puttinmg my friends in danger, and even getting in danger myself. I learned in the hard way that as slow as it may be, being patient and remain calm are virtues to be considerated."
Mina threw a pillow on him. "Hey!"
"You owe us a pillow fort, mister!" Mina proclaimed.
"Aw, come on! You're still mad about that?" David asked. "I was angry, and I already said I was sorry, Mina."
"It's not that easy to build one, you know!" Bites pouted. "Why don't you get over here and help us re-build it?"
David wanted to discuss, but… he knew they were right. He DID destroy it, so he had to fix it.
"Fine..." He walked to help her and Bites, but was hit by the two of them, and eventually this became a pillow fight between them all.
The team's concentration was broken by David, Mina and Bites' laughs, and of course, they decided to join the fun.
Cronos appeared through a portal, exhausted after cleaning the mess in his temple. Luna, seeing him appear, gave him the broken Chrono Clock.
"Well, looks like Hephaestus will have something more to fix today. Hope it did help David."
"You don't know how, Cronos. You don't know how," Luna affirmed.