Author's Note: Just so any readers are warned, the beginning will be somewhat confusing. If anyone is wondering why Lance/Icon is currently not with the Titans and why he's in such a bad mood, I can assure you that I will provide explanations later on in the story. This time, I'm going to experiment with a new technique or two and explain the events between Ten in One and The Power of Two through a series of flashbacks.

P.S. I was finally able to decide on a more specific physical description for Lance/Icon.

By a bustling street in the New York hamlet of Cold Spring Harbor, lay a diner. Within the diner, were a number of hungry customers, each eating and drinking until his or her heart's content.

Seated in a far corner, apart from the other customers, was a teenage boy. At first glance, there didn't appear to be anything unusual about him. His attire was a pair of tan pants and a blue short-sleeved jacket over a white t-shirt. He had a medium stature and a lean body. His head sported a bush of short spiky red hair and a pair of clear blue eyes.

However, if anyone looked at his left wrist, they would have noticed a peculiar object. It was a rather bulky looking black watch that had a green hourglass symbol at its center. This was the working prototype of the Omnitrix and its bearer was Lance Rios.

Up until recently he had gone by a different name: The Icon.

Lance gave an emotional huff before he returned to needlessly stirring the milkshake on the table in front of him. To think, that he had been the Icon. In fact, he had been a Titan, a Teen Titan.

Not too long ago, Lance had been recruited onto the crime fighting team that defended the citizens of Jump City. There had been Robin, the leader, who was the famed protégé of Gotham's own Dark Knight and a renowned martial artist; Starfire, a Tamaranean who natural abilities enabled her to fly, wield superhuman strength, and launch bursts of energy; Cyborg, the team mechanic, whose half human and half mechanical body made him a powerful opponent; Beast Boy, the green shape-shifter who could transform into any organism he could imagine; and Raven, an extra dimensional human who possessed incredible power in manipulating dark energy.

Lance had been one of two people who had joined this team of five. As the Icon, he had contributed by using what the device on his wrist had given him. With the mere touch of a button and a few twists of a dial, Lance could temporarily transform into one of ten alien beings, each with natural abilities that were nothing short of superhuman.

Then there had also been Terra—

Terra…

Lance suddenly felt the need to go out for some fresh air. Since he had already paid the bill, Lance was simply able to get up and leave the diner.

Walking the streets and sipping on what was left of his milkshake, Lance mulled over past events. Things had been going so well. But in one fell swoop it had all gone apart.

How? Why? He and Terra had both defied that man together…

That man. Lance doubted that he would ever get that man's face and name out of his head now.

"It's headed this way!"

Lance nearly dropped his milkshake when someone bumped into him while running past him at break neck speed. He looked around to see that a number of other people were also running past him, screaming in terror. Lance would have asked what was going on if the cause of the commotion hadn't come lumbering in. It appeared to be a twenty-foot tall praying mantis.

Lance was shocked to see the creature. "What the—" he cut off his own explanation when he saw someone mounted on the insect's neck. It was a silver-haired old man with oddly green skin who was sporting an odd colander-like device on his head. It was a familiar face.

"Dr. Animo?" shouted Lance in spite of himself.

Dr. Animo looked down upon hearing someone call his name, "What? You?" The mad scientist was equally surprised. The last time either of them had seen one another was in an abandoned science facility in the middle of a desert.

Dr. Animo glared, "So we meet again!"

"Sure looks like it…" Lance was taking a few steps backwards, sizing up the situation.

Animo's glare turned into a sinister leer, "Then why not stick around? We have so much to catch up on, Icon!" The giant praying mantis began advancing.

Lance's fingers flew towards the Omnitrix and quickly started working the dial. After he slammed his hand on the dial, Lance was engulfed in a green light. The light faded to reveal a Petrosapien, a large crystalline humanoid, standing in Lance's place. He was forced to leap out of the way to avoid being pinned down by gigantic leg.

"What'd you call me?" Lance was taken aback by what Dr. Animo had just called him. The young combatant dove to avoid a swiping claw.

"You heard me!" snickered Dr. Animo. "You've made quite a name for yourself with your little exploits in Jump City."

A barrage of crystal shards suddenly buried themselves in the praying mantis's outstretched claw. The creature let out a pained shriek and nearly bucked Dr. Animo off as it reeled back.

"Then you should know what you're up against," smirked Lance. The praying mantis let out another angry shriek and charged at Lance full force. Lance was smacked across the street.

"I do know," retorted Dr. Animo. "I'm dealing with an awkward adolescent."

Lance picked himself up only to be smacked yet again and sent crashing into a parked car.

"Speaking of which," continued Dr. Animo. "Why aren't you with that little team that you joined up with? Better yet, where's that friend that you had to help you last time—GYAH!" Dr. Animo quickly hid behind his creature to avoid being completely skewered by a second barrage of crystals.

The praying mantis took most of the damage as the crystal shards pierced the front of its neck. It screeched even louder than it had before.

Lance decided to seize the opportunity. He leapt to his feet, placed a hand to the ground, and began growing crystals from his hand to create a platform that propelled him forward.

Lance then directed the crystals so that the crystal platform began to raise him to greater heights. By the time he was within his desired range, Lance was almost eye-to-eye with the monster mantis. Lance leapt off of his platform and high into the air, melding a crystal arm into a blade. He then came crashing down upon the giant insect below.

Swish! Splat!

Lance decapitated the creature with one swing of his bladed arm. He landed on his feet as the praying mantis's severed head and body fell to the ground. Lance turned his head to see Dr. Animo climbing off of his dead creation. After taking one look at Lance's aggravated face, Dr. Animo quickly decided to try and find an escape route.

Figuring that it would be best to simply swallow his pride, Dr. Animo ran over to a man hole. He lifted off the metal lid and practically hopped into the sewer system below.

"Whoa…" said a deep astonished voice.

Lance paused. That deep scratchy voice was familiar to him. He looked over his shoulder and his jaw nearly dropped from astonishment.

Standing before him across the street was a large red four-armed humanoid. It was merely staring at the scene in astonishment.

Lance was equally taken aback. He knew what that creature was it was a Tetramand. He knew what that creature was because he had been that creature on more than one occasion.

But Lance was standing right here as a Petrosapien, not a Tetramand. This Tetramand was someone else! Lance's eyes fell onto an hourglass symbol on the Tetramand's shoulder. It was identical to an hourglass symbol that was currently on Lance's chest. The symbols on Lance and the Tetramand suddenly began blinking red. Lance and the Tetramand were each engulfed in a red light.

The red light faded and Lance felt that he had resumed his human form. He found himself staring at where the Tetramand had been across the street. Standing in the Tetramand's place was a young ten-year old boy. He had messy brown hair and a pair of green eyes. His apparel was a black and white t-shirt and a pair of baggy olive-green pants.

Lance actually let out a small inaudible gasp. Despite the fact that he had never met the boy in person, Lance knew who this was. During his time as the Icon, the Titans had fought a time-traveling thief named Warp. The said thief had abducted Lance so that he could take the prototype Omnitrix that was strapped to the teen's left wrist. Fortunately, a second time-traveler named Professor Paradox had intervened and rescued Lance. In the process of returning Lance to his proper place, the professor had not only explained the history of the Omnitrix to Lance, but he had also shown him the face of a second bearer of the device.

Two Omnitrixes had been created. One had been the prototype, a test model, the one that had accidently come into Lance's possession. The other, the final and intended model, had come into the possession of the one now looking back at Lance, Ben Tennyson.