I can't believe I'm actually writing the CNSE again. It feels so bizarre. But now that there's an actual sequel to Subspace, I guess we're gonna have to get into it. I am so hype to be doing this. So… without further ado, let's start by retconning the ending of the last story.

Originally, I was just gonna wait for January 1st, but since everybody's on that Smash hype and I am too just without a Switch so with that said, let's have some fun with this new chapter.

Cartoon Network: World of Light

Prologue:

EVERYONE IS HERE!

"Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

Aku let out a mighty roar of pain as the cosmic beam tore into him, ripping away at every fiber of his being as he was wiped from existence.

Ultimate Waybig stood before him, pouring everything he had into the cosmic ray as he let out his final smash and laid waste to the foul demon before him.

And just as soon as it had started, it had finished. The towering behemoth before him, disappeared in a flash of light and in its place stood Waybig. Then another and finally, there was Ben.

Where Aku once stood was a small puddle of darkness where Apu's face sat inside. It blinked, looking confusedly at its form before pouting.

At that, Ben dusted himself off and pointed at the puddle with a smirk. "Mess with Ben, you get the ten!"

With his wisecrack came the groans of several heroes, villains and the writer of the story.

"Oh come on, I just came and finished this and that's how you guys react?"

"Shut up, Tennyson." Kevin Levin chuckled, before grabbing the brunette and ruffling up his hair. Ben couldn't help but grin and laugh at this too.

"Good to have you back, Ben." Gwen smiled.

"Excellent work." Samurai Jack nodded.

Numbuh 5 agreed. "Numbuh 5 couldn't have said it betta herself."

"Pi-pika!" Pikachu cheered from on top of Ash's hat maing his trainer laugh.

"We are victorious!" Omi cheered.

Steven whooped, hugging the two closest people to him. Those two people of course happened to be Mojo Jojo and Jack Spicer who gave the half gem odd looks as he continued to wrap them in his embrace.

The heroes celebrated their victory.

They'd finally done it.

The Subspace Emissary was destroyed.

And that's when they heard a low wheezing sound.

"You fools do not know the destruction you have wrought…" Aku groaned.

Everybody stopped and looked to the puddle that was, Aku… most of them with their weapons drawn.

"Face it! It's over, Aku!" Finn declared.

But the demon couldn't help but smile despite the hacking cough that rang out. "Fools! It is never over. Not yet. You may have destroyed this form, but so long as my essence exists, I will always be a danger to this world. But with my passing, Subspace will fall and with it everything inside of it will diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

Adam gulped. "Bu-but, we're inside of Subspace…"

"Precisely."

Aku let out his signature laugh one last time before that turned to fits of coughing that slowly died down to wheezing and then… his face disappeared, leaving nothing but the dark puddle behind.

At that moment, Subspace rumbled and the world began to vanish around them.

"What do we do now?!" Mac cried out.

But it was too late. He vanished.

"Mac!" Bloo shouted. Calling for his boy only to disappear along with him.

"Guys?!" Steven shouted. "This isn't fun anymore…"

He vanished.

Jake Spidermonkey looked to Adam and groaned. "Adam… I- I don't feel so good."

Adam looked to Jake and sobbed. "Jake, no!"

But Jake vanished within his friends arms before Adam disappeared too.

Courage whimpered before following along.

"I'm too young and pretty to die!" Johnny Bravo wailed as he disappeared.

Pikachu clutched Ash's hat tightly while Ash held Juniper's hand. They all disappeared.

Flapjack latched on to Eddy again.

One by one, they all vanished.

"What are you all doing just standing around?!" Jack Spicer whimpered. "You're the superheroes! Do your heroing thing!"

Omi just closed his eyes and shook his head. "It is over, Jack."

"Look on the bright side…" Finn said, trying to remain calm, but his voice cracked clearly showing his unease. "We beat the bad guy and saved the world. Now everything's going to be fine. Just… without us…"

Lucario placed a paw on Finn's shoulder. "You were a wonderful companion. It was great to have met and fought alongside you, young warrior."

"Heh. Ditto, Luc."

Together they left.

"Ben…" Gwen looked to him.

"Right." Ben nodded.

But Gwen too disappeared.

"Ultimatrix..."

Many more fighters began to disappear.

"Unlock DNA file 10."

Chowder sobbed as he too vanished.

"Code Tennyson."

And then there was simply Ben.

And he too began to fade.

And soon, there was nothing.

That is until a flash of green light appeared in the empty expanse.

There he was, the most powerful being in the universe, Alien X!

With that, Alien X called out commands declaring the universe saved and the world of Subspace and everyone along with it.

But there was a problem.

"Seconded, the destruction of Aku's essence!" Alien X declared.

He pointed at the dark puddle that remained in the void to which a bright light appeared out of his hand and struck the puddle of darkness.

But nothing happened. The dark puddle remained within.

"Seconded, the destruction of Aku's essence!"

Again, a white light appeared out of the palm of Alien X's hand nothing happened.

Within Alien X, Ben floated there watching everything with Serena and Bellicus.

Serena's eyes were widened in surprise at the sight, unsure of what to do.

Bellicus' face was creased into a glare at the dark substance, continuing to will Alien X to do more and more to it yet nothing happened.

"I- I don't understand?!" Ben gaped at the sight. No matter what Alien X did, the puddle that used to be Aku. "Why isn't he disappearing or being destroyed or anything?! He's still there."

"I don't know…" Serena cried. "This- nothing like this has ever happened before!"

"I have destroyed many over the course of eternity but never before have I seen anything that was able to withstand my unbridled rage." Bellicus frowned.

"But Alien X is supposed to be able to do anything!"

"He can." Serena insisted.

"And that?"

"Nothing should be able to withstand our might unless… oh no."

"What?" Ben asked. "What's wrong?"

"Alien X can do many things…" Serena said. "But only on a universal scale. This? Have you brought us an extradimensional being?"

"A what?"

"Troglodyte." Bellicus grumbled. "An extradimensional being is one that exists outside of your realm of time and space… If one is here then there is nothing we can do."

"If this thing is too strong for Alien X, then what if we… what if we made Alien X stronger?"

"We are at peak strength." Bellicus stated. "There is nothing we can do to get stronger."

"You're wrong." Ben shook his head. "Serena, Bellicus… please… allow me to go Ultimate so we can destroy this thing."

Serena and Bellicus looked to each other before they looked to Ben and nodded.

"Seconded!" Alien X shouted.

With that, Alien X rose his hand to the Ultimatrix on his chest and slapped down on it hard.

Alien X was enveloped in the green light and in its place stood a new form, never before seen. This being didn't even have a real form, it was a massive galaxy itself of glittering stars that stood in the shape of a muscular man. It stood tall and only had one pointed horn on the top of its head.

"ULTIMATE ALIEN X!"

"Serena, Bellicus, we did it!" Ben shouted from within the void. But they were no longer there.

With the great power that Ultimate Alien X mustered, he had let go of his other personalities, completely free of his indecisiveness and the laws of the universe.

Ben was almost saddened by this, but knew he had a job to do.

With that, he will Ultimate Alien X to go to the puddle.

Standing over it, Ben formed a massive ball of energy over his head that looked to the light and fired down on it.

What happened next was by far the most bizarre thing.

The puddle did react to the light from Ultimate Alien X only it did not do what he had expected.

Rather than be destroyed, the puddle began to erratically move around, expanding and shrinking, moving left and right, up and down, every which way and that in a single trillionth of a second.

And then it stopped and exploded in a blast of white light, enveloping Ultimate Alien X within it.

~Cartoon Network: World of Light~

When Ben came to, he blinked. Confused as to what had happened as he tried to get a grip on his surroundings. He looked down and saw that he was on a rocky face of some kind but that was the least of his confusion.

He saw that he was wearing some sort of white hoodie with green accents on it. Honestly, it was pretty stylish, but how it got on him was more confusing than anything.

But if the jacket wasn't enough then the weirdest thing was that he did not have the Ultimatrix on his wrist. No. Instead, he had on a sleek wrist watch made of some sort of white metal with similar green lines along the side like his jacket, a black glass faceplate with green lines going over it in an x formation.

Okay… new jacket? New Omnitrix? This is weird…

"Get your head in the game, Tennyson!" A voice shouted.

But Ben knew that voice all too well. It was his best friend, Kevin.

He looked to the source of the voice, but was slightly taken aback at the sight of his friend. He was different… The young man was a little more rugged than before having grown out his hair more than before so that it hung loosely around his ears, was slightly unshaven so that he had a little stubble on his chin. He was wearing tight jeans that went into these sort of overalls that hung around his shoulders, he had on a black shirt with striped sleeves and wore a locket with an 11 on it.

"Wha- what?!" Ben said confused.

He then looked around and saw that everyone was there, but some of them had changed too. Gwen was there, opting to wear glasses, a skirt and a blue shirt with a cat logo on it similar to when they were kids; Finn looked like he had lost an arm and now had one made of metal in its place; Ash had changed from his darker colors to a short sleeved jacket that was blue in its entirety except the zipper which was white.

But if that wasn't enough then there were even more faces that weren't originally with them in Subspace. Charmcaster, Rex and Zak were the only ones that he recognized and… well this odd blue cat alien in blue plumber armor looked familiar to him and… was that his younger self? But along with her there was a blue jay, a raccoon, some strange woman with a square afro, some sort of skeleton man, a bunny standing on his hind legs and more. So many people he just didn't recognize. It was bizarre.

"Focus, Tennyson!" Kevin shouted again.

And Ben looked back to him to see him pointing at the sky.

Ben looked in the direction he was pointing and immediately his face fell at the sight.

Up in the sky, this gigantic portal of swirling darkness was hovering above them, surrounded in a ring of flame that continuously spiraled around it.

But if that wasn't bad enough then, how about the large multitude of women in skintight black suits that hovered around it, brandishing all kinds of sharp weapons like swords, sickles, nun chucks and more. There were hundreds of them.

DAUGHTHERS OF AKU

Ben gulped, sweat forming on his face at the very sight of this new foe.

"Oh man…"

I'm gonna quote one of my favorite RWBY intros with this one. But uh… "Things looking bleak and they're bound to get worse."
Yep. This is gonna be a fun story. I wrote this shortly after the world of light trailer and let's just say I'm pretty darn hype about this. Hope you guys like this story and everything I'm gonna do with it, but for now…
R&R