Retrieval Saga

The Omnitrix Ordeal

Chapter 10: Watch Storm

Now it's been about a month since Matt and the crew had joined the Tennysons. Matt had been trying to contact the Shadow Hawk, not just the time where they met those Loboans, but other times too, but he kept getting the wrong signal. A few times he thought he did have it, but it was busy and yet he thought he could hear party music. But this time when he tried, he finally succeeded. It was answer by a very-tired sounding Techo. When Techo heard who was calling, Matt could have sworn he was weeping with joy. He told Matt to meet him at Memphis, Tennessee. When Lilo and Max heard about where the meeting point was, they immediately agreed to go. They had both been dying to see Graceland. Max could still remember seeing Elvis perform live, never was a better rock star after him. Lilo wanted to see Elvis's final resting place, just to make sure he was there. Matt was pretty sure Elvis was dead, but then again, why would they have a spaceport nearby.

The gang eventually made it to Memphis. Lilo was hyped up on seeing Elvis's home by then so Matt let her and several of the others go check it out. Only Ben, Gwen, Kala, Draco, and Stitch didn't want to go. "I can see Graceland anytime," said Ben, "when I will get to see a spaceport again?" Gwen had agreed for the same reason. The experiments wanted to see their crewmates before going. Max dropped them off at the spaceport, which was cunningly disguised as a Mexican restaurant not too far from Graceland. Strangely, Lilo said Elvis ate here often.

Inside the spaceport, there were several alien species. A few Ben and Gwen recognized but several were hard to tell. Ben saw a weird-looking guy with a ventriloquist dummy walking by and said, "That's the worst disguise ever. That guy's definitely an alien." The dummy turned its head and said, "Hey, I don't criticize your outfit." Gwen noticed a discoloured blob on the floor and said, "Ew! Some alien's been sick here." The blob muttered, "Hyperspace doesn't agree with me, alright?" and scuttled away on previously hidden spider legs. "There sure are a lot of weird aliens here," said Draco, "look at that one that looks like a potted rose." "That is a potted rose," said Matt. "That's what they want you to think," said Stitch.

Eventually, they reached the spot where the Shadow Hawk was docked. Waiting for them was Techo, Angel, Reuben, and Contrinus. Angel and Contrinus cried, "Boojie-boo!" and ran over to give Stitch and Draco a kiss. Kala watched with a mixed look of happiness for them and envy. Reuben looked at Ben and Gwen and said, "So those are those Tennyson kids I heard so much about." "Yep," said Ben, "wanna see a trick?" Ben pushed the button on the side of the Omnitrix. But before Ben could do anything else, he was suddenly turned into his EXP form. "Darn it!" he cried, "why dose it keep doing that? I didn't press any other buttons." "Maybe this'll cheer you up," said Reuben passing Ben a steaming cup. "No, don't, please," whined Techo. Ben chugged down the contents of the cup and suddenly started twitching uncontrollably. Matt glared at Techo and said, "I thought I told you to keep them away from the coffee." Techo grabbed Matt's shoulder and yelled, "They stole the key from me! That's not the only thing! They've throw wild parties, spray-painted everywhere and hung me from the ceiling with toilet paper!" Matt looked at Techo and said, "I bet you wish you stayed in New York, don't you?" "No, but just barely."

They had just managed to get Ben calmed down and returned him back to human form when someone from the reception desk called out, "Benjamin Tennyson, you have a message at Phone Six. Benjamin Tennyson, you have a message at Phone Six." "Who could that be from?" asked Ben. "Well, I need to check up on the Shadow Hawk," said Matt, "go ahead and check that call, phones over that way." Ben went in the direction Matt pointed and came upon several communication machines that were built quite similar to the videophones in Pokemon.

He went over to the one with the number 6 over it. He picked the speaker and spoke into it, "Hello?" The video screen in front of him came to life and showed a very familiar face. "Hello, Omnitrix-boy." "Dr. Jookiba?" said Ben. "Please, call me Jumba," said Jumba. "Why are you calling me?" asked Ben. "Well, I was going to Galaxy Defence Industries convention to see what they've been working on. And while I was there, I found old college I use to work with. We were catching up on old time and then we find out we have both recently met you." "Really?" asked Ben, "Who was that?"

Then a small grey alien appeared on Jumba's shoulder and said, "That would be me." "Azmuth? You worked at Galaxy Defence Industries?" "Sure, they're always glad to have Galvans working for them. But when we started working on the Omnitrix project, I found that in this case too many chefs spoiled the broth, if you know what I mean. No offence, Jumba." "It's alright," said Jumba, "I prefer working alone too."

"So, how did you know where I was and why'd you call me?" asked Ben. "To answer your first question, I built in a tracking device into the Omnitrix so I can check up on it every once and a while," said Azmuth, "Haven't used it for a while, but it still works." "As for second question, when we both learned we had your acquaintance, we decided to work on something together for your Omnitrix." "What is it?" asked Ben excitedly. "It is new form for Omnitrix, made from blueprints of my own genetic experiments. I created the genetic sequence while Azmuth designed it to be downloaded into Omnitrix. We are sending it over now."

Another part of the machine (where the Pokeballs were teleported on Pokemon) crackled with energy and a small ball appeared in a flash of light. Ben picked it up and looked it over. It was the same shade of green as the Omnitrix when it was fully charged. It looked like an experiment pod, but instead of a number, it had a small icon on it that obviously was the silhouette of the alien inside. "So, do I put in water or what?" asked Ben. "Nope," said Azmuth, "just put it on the face and it will download into the Omnitrix." "But I thought Jumba made so that experiment DNA couldn't be downloaded into it," said Ben. "Downloaded accidentally," corrected Jumba, "this is intentional download so pod is made with molecular energy crystal. But before you use it, I must warn you: while this form will be useful, it can also be dangerous. When you use it, the more excited you get, the harder it is to control your urges, particularly your destructive ones." "Not that you can use it," said Azmuth, "for a while that is. The teleportation will have shorted it out slightly. You won't be able to download it for about an Earth hour. But I'm sure you'll find a good use for it." Soon after that, Jumba and Azmuth hung up and Ben put the pod in his pocket. Then he walked back to where the others were.

When he got there, he saw that the experiments and Techo were gone. "Where'd they go?" asked Ben. "They went off to see the town," said Gwen. Then Matt came back from the ship and said, "Well, everything seems to working well, there's a bit of a mess in there, but nothing we can't clean up. Say, while we wait for the others, how we go for a ride?" "I don't know," said Gwen, "I'm not sure I'd want to fly in something that there's been a party in for weeks." "No, I mean in the escape cruiser," said Matt. "Escape cruiser?" asked Ben. "Sorta like the space equivalent to a long boat," explained Matt, "they'll be much cleaner and good for a thrill ride." Ben and Gwen considered the possibilities; go to an Elvis museum or cruise around in a spaceship. "Shotgun!" they both yelled and went aboard the Shadow Hawk with Matt behind them.

Minutes later, they were flying around the area between Earth and Mars. The cousins were getting a thrill from this ride. But eventually, Gwen stopped whooping to ask Ben, "By the way, what was call about anyway?" Ben described how Jumba and Azmuth had given him a pod with a new form in it. "Ah," moaned Gwen, "how you get all the cool upgrades?" "Because my powers can be upgraded," said Ben. "Hey! Mine can be upgraded too! What about the time when the Keystone of Bezel was working for me?" "That's not an upgrade," argued Ben, "Just something equipped to you that makes you better." "Oh, look whose talking, Mr. 'I-can't-do-a-thing-without-the-watch'!" "I am not!" The cousins continued to argue and it proved very distracting to Matt, as proven by the slight eye twitch. Then Matt couldn't take it anymore and he turned his head around and yelled, "You two keep quiet or we're pulling over!" Ben and Gwen were about to reply when they both noticed something out the front window and yelled, "Look out!" Matt looked and saw he was heading straight for another ship.

In the other ship, a small fighter ship to be exact, the pilot was having an argument with his fellow passenger, NegaMorph. "All I'm saying is that they can't stay on Earth forever and they have to go into space at some point." "Well I don't care about how often you zoom around in this place," said NegaMorph, "the chances of us finding those guys out here must be 1:946." Suddenly the radar picked up something going really fast. They both looked up to see another ship coming right at them. They both screamed and the pilot managed to jack-knife out of the way at the same time as the other guy. "Wait!" cried NegaMorph, "that was Lynch! Go after them!" As the pilot started after them, NegaMorph muttered, "If you even think about saying 'I told you so' you're going to get bit."

"What was that?" asked Gwen. "An Empire ship," said Matt, "and unless I'm mistaken, NegaMorph was in the co-pilot seat." Suddenly the radar started beeping, showing several dots. Matt cursed in Splitter and said, "Looks like they've called for back-up. You both have your seatbelts on, right? Cause it's gonna be a bumpy ride." 'Bumpy' didn't fully describe what happened next. Several Imperial fighter ships came soaring at them, guns toting. It was mostly disabling shots, since they were wanted alive. Matt had to use every trick he knew to keep himself away from the ships. He even managed to hit a couple. But then a larger battleship appeared and grabbed Matt's ship by the afterburner with a tractor beam.

"Guess we'll have to fight our way out now," said Matt, extending his ion staff. "I'm way ahead of you," said Ben, quickly going through the different selections on the watch before he found the one he was looking for. With a flash of green light, Fourarms appeared. "Alright!" said the Tetramand, "got what I asked for!" "Fine for you," said Gwen, "but there's hardly enough room for us!" "There will be when they pull us into their docking bay," said Matt.

Eventually, the cruiser was pulled into the battleship's docking bay. Drones entered the bay to apprehend the captives in the captured ship. But the second they opened the door, they were thrown back by Fourarms' sonic clap attack. Then several bolts of plasma and magical energy were thrown at them by Matt and Gwen. The drones opened fire, but Gwen had her shield spell ready for her and Matt. Fourarms just charged on through, punching aside robots as he went. "These guys aren't that different from Vilgax's bots," said Fourarms as he crushed two robots together and threw them at some others. Suddenly the drones launched several small grenades that let out a foul-smelling knockout gas. Matt and Gwen eventually succumbed to it, but Fourarms was holding his breath, hoping his larger lungs will keep him safe. But suddenly the Omnitrix logo started flashing red and Fourarms said, "Vilgax wouldn't have resorted to this." Then the Omnitrix timed out and Ben could no longer fight against the gas. The last thing he saw where the drones picking up Matt and Gwen.

When Ben woke up, he found that he was with Gwen and Matt in a cage. The cage was positioned near what looked to be the main docking spot on the battleship. "Uh, how long have I been out?" Ben asked. "I'd say about three minutes," said Gwen. "Why are we here and not in the brig?" "Apparently," said Matt, "there'll be someone coming aboard who wants to have a look at us and doesn't like the long walk to the brig." "Too bad he'll never see us," said Ben as he pressed the button on the side of the Omnitrix. But then he looked down and saw that it was still in the red. "Drat," he muttered, "guess we're stuck here for a bit. How do we know when whoever it is arrives?"

The answer to that question came very soon. Several soldiers marched into the room and stood in rows on either side of the port door. Then they went into military salute formation. Then the officers of the ship came in; Silvia, NegaMorph, and Virustoxico. Tuatara also came, although he was on a leash so he could be controlled. As the officers stood next to the cage, Matt said, "So, I guess someone really important is coming." "The most important being in the Empire," said Silvia.

Then the light above the port door flashed red, signalling that was someone had docked in their ship and was now coming aboard. Then the door opened and some mist came out, caused by the change in atmosphere. Then Silvia cried out, "All hail Emperor Hamsterviel!" "Hail!" shouted the soldiers. Matt, Ben, and Gwen looked around in confusion and then Matt said, "I don't see anyone." "Down here, you earth-crawling bipeds!" shouted a high voice. They looked down and saw a small rodent-like alien wearing a red cape with an H clasping it at the throat, holding a sceptre, and a quite large crown on its head. "So," said Hamsterviel, "Matthew Lynch the Traveller, we meet at last."

But instead of the awe and fear he was expecting, Matt, Ben, and Gwen started laughing loudly. "You're the Emperor, Shorty?" laughed Matt. "I AM NOT SHORT!" yelled Hamsterviel and he pressed a button on his sceptre. Part of the cage electrified Matt, but the cousins kept laughing. "The Great and Powerful Emperor is a chinchilla?" said Ben. "I AM NOT A CHINCHILLA!" yelled Hamsterviel and pressed his button again. Curiously, only Matt got zapped. "Aw," said Gwen, "he's so cute." "I AM NOT CUTE!" yelled Hamsterviel and Matt got zapped again. Hamsterviel looked from Matt's slightly smoking body to his sceptre and said, "Hmm, that cage's systems needs to be fixed."

"If I may ask, sir," said Silvia, "for what reason have you honoured us with this visit?" "Ah, I was getting to that," said Hamsterviel, "First; I wanted to have a look at the interdimensional wanderer who's been causing so much trouble. Also, I have a little matter of business to attend to. I am hereby relieving you of your position." "What!?" cried Silvia and NegaMorph. "You heard me," said Hamsterviel, "you have been slipping up for quite a while. If it weren't for the fact that the incidents in New York and with Experiment 717 were involuntary, you wouldn't be able to stand here. But fortunately for you, you're just on probation." Silvia made a small twitch with her knuckle but said nothing. "So the other reason I came here was so I can present the one who will be taking your place until you shape up a bit." Then another person stepped through the door. He looked like a human man, but he was completely covered in armour. "I would like you to meet Commander Jaidan Korvak," said Hamsterviel, "he'll be your new captain as a further notice."

"I thank you for this honour, sir," said Korvak with a stereotypical military dialect, "I promise you that I will whip all these men into shape, no matter what species they really are." "There goes poker night," muttered NegaMorph. "And to prove my loyalty," continued Korvak, "my first action as captain will be to bring these rebels under Empire control." "And how are you going to that?" asked Gwen. "With Experiment -630 of course." "'With Experiment -630 of course'" muttered NegaMorph under his breath, "Bah! He won't be bossing me around." "Well tough luck," said Matt, "Ben and I have already been bitten by the pet of yours and we've been vaccinated." Korvak looked at NegaMorph who shrugged and said, "Technically it's true, it was V-627 who bit Matt." "No matter," said Korvak, "7-1-7 is quite capable of voiding your immunity." "Too bad you don't have him," said Ben.

"Guess again," said a voice. Matt, Ben, and Gwen looked and saw Jekyll standing not to far away. "In case you're wondering," said NegaMorph, "he followed us back after his affects wore off last time." "Jekyll," said Gwen, "how could you?" The purple dragon shrugged and said, "Nothing personal, I'd think I'd like hanging out with these guys more than you guys. It's a lot less hectic." "You little turncoat," growled Matt. "Enough talk," said Commander Korvak, "7-1-7, activate the Tennyson boy's AI." Jekyll saluted and said, "Yes sir." He turned to Ben and released a blast of white light from his mouth. He was aiming for Ben's head, but Ben's defensive reflexes caused him to raise his left arm in protection. Because of that, the blast hit the Omnitrix dead-centre.

The affect was not quite was expected. The Omnitrix started letting off green sparks but then the sparks grew into crackles of energy. Then the Omnitrix let off a feedback pulse not unlike when it was preparing to self-destruct, except this one was green. The pulse went through the bars of the cage and threw everyone back. The machines seemed to have been short-circuited while the rest were simply knocked-out by the hit against the wall. "What the heck was that?" asked Gwen. "I don't know," said Ben, "but at least the watch is at full charge again. Hang on, I'll have us out it a second." Ben quickly select Grey Matter's form and activated it. "Not to sound too pessimistic," said Matt, "but I don't think that little guy's going to get us out of here." "You've never met a Galvan before have you?" said Grey Matter. "Can't say that I have." "Then watch this." Grey Matter hopped over to the lock of the cage and very easily figured out how to open it. As Matt and Gwen stepped out of the cage, Grey Matter jumped onto Gwen's shoulder and said, "We need to get moving to the escape pod bay. That's where they'll be keeping our cruiser. And judging from the style of this ship, the main interconnection point for two ships should be quite a bit of a distance from the escape pods. But if I know my schematics right, we should go through the mess hall which will be down that corridor." As the three of them moved on, Matt said in amazement, "How can you cram that much stuff in such a tiny brain?"

Not too much later, everyone on the ship was looking for Matt and the Tennysons. NegaMorph was looking for them too, but he had another objective to accomplish. He had stopped in front of a wire box and was making alterations. "Let's see how long that usurper Korvak's in command after he screws up right in Hamsterviel's face," he muttered as he crossed another pair of wires and put a third one in a new outlet. Then he heard someone coming and he closed the box and turned around.

It was just a grunt soldier. "What are you doing?" asked the grunt. "Just making sure that the little Galvan had tampered with the ship," said NegaMorph. "Good," said the grunt, "we won't want the ship to act up on Captain Korvak's first day would we?" "No we wouldn't" said NegaMorph, hiding a sly grin. Then NegaMorph changed the subject and said, "Did you hear what those guys called Hamsterviel?" "Yeah, saying that the Emperor was a chinchilla." "Disgraceful." The grunt went away muttering, "What is a chinchilla anyways?" As soon as the grunt was gone, NegaMorph took out a notepad and said, "Chinchilla, I've got to write that down."

Meanwhile, Gwen and Matt were getting closer to the mess hall, thanks to Grey Matter's directions. "How can you know this ship's schematics so well?" asked Matt. "I don't know," said Grey Matter, "Grey Matter just seems to know these things as soon as he sees them." Suddenly the Omnitrix logo on his back flashed red and he turned back into Ben. Fortunately, he was on the floor at that time. "Don't worry," said Ben, "I remember that the mess hall should be around this corner. After that, it'll be easy to find the escape pod bay." So the three of them went around the corner, and walked right into a group of grunt soldiers. "Okay, didn't see this coming." "Raise your hands in the air nice and slow," said one of the grunts, aiming his weapon. The three of them were about to reply while they thought of a way out of this when the Omnitrix started sparking again. Then another feedback pulse came out of it, only larger and more intense. The pulse knocked out the guards while our heroes narrowly avoided it. "Are you sure it's not getting ready to blow up?" asked Gwen as she got back up. "If it was, it'd be glowing orange," said Ben, "I just hope there aren't anymore guards like these in the mess hall."

When the three of them walked in, there weren't any guards, but there sure was a lot of battle droids. Matt whistled and said, "Wow, these guys are state-of-the-art tech." "Let's see how state-of-the-art they are next to Upgrade," said Ben as he activated the watch. But instead, he turned into a small, green, slightly gelatinous, woodchuck-like alien. "What the, I said Upgrade, not Upchuck! Stupid watch!" "Uh, what does this guy do?" asked Matt. "Trust me," said Gwen, "you don't wanna know." Suddenly the droids started making advancements on them. "It's feeding time!" said Upchuck and he opened his mouth and shot out his four long tongues. The tongues grabbed a droid and carried it back to Upchuck's mouth where he swallowed it. His stomach glowed green for a second then Upchuck spat out a large glob of goo at the droids, which exploded on contact. Gwen used her levitation magic to smash the robots against each other, while Matt whipped out his trusty blaster. But then Matt noticed that the droids were getting in too close. So he picked up Upchuck and said, "Freeze scumbags!" He started using Upchuck as a bio-grenade launcher against the robots. "Don't make me use the other end," he called. With Matt's aiming and firing, the droids were soon completely decimated. Upchuck jumped out of Matt's arms and said, "Next time, tell me you're going to use me as a gun before you do it."

Suddenly NegaMorph walked in. He didn't notice Matt and the Tennysons at first because he was checking off a checklist. "Now to mess around with the food preparers," he muttered. He looked up and saw our heroes among the destroyed robots. NegaMorph groaned and said, "Figures that it's me that has to deal with you guys." He then noticed Ben's form and commented, "A Gourmand, eh? I guess whoever built that thing really went to impressive lengths to get that DNA." "Beat it Nega-blob," said Upchuck, "or you'll be dessert." "Nice try," said NegaMorph, "but you haven't matured enough to blend organic matter yet. But I, however, have a much stronger stomach."

As the pupil in NegaMorph's eye turned white for Gluttony, he opened his mouth and released several tongues. There were far more than four there and even Matt couldn't count how many. The disturbing part was that they had different ends on them. Some had claws, some had suction cups, some of them even had straw-like appendages apparently meant for sucking. Several tongues went into the kitchen and grabbed several articles of food. They brought into NegaMorph's mouth one by one where he swallowed them. "You ready for a monster food fight?" challenged NegaMorph. Upchuck swallowed some leftover robot parts and said, "Bring it on!"

What followed was a very intense, but quite nauseating, battle. The two of swallowed different things, organic for NegaMorph and inorganic for Upchuck, and spat them out as energy blasts. Matt and Gwen took cover behind a table Upchuck hadn't eaten yet. "When is this over?" asked Gwen. "It's over when one of them bites the dust," said Matt. Gwen gave him an odd look and he said, "No pun intended." Suddenly one of Upchuck's tongues reached around and ripped off Matt's shirt before returning to the mouth. Matt pressed a button on his time drive and a new shirt appeared on his chest. "It's a new program that Techo added," he explained, "Don't ask how it works."

The battle was getting pretty rough when Upchuck heard that familiar beeping coming from his left hand. "Looks like its over," growled NegaMorph before a glowing blue chair hit him into a wall. Gwen lowered her hand and said, "It certainly is." After Ben returned to his human form, he said, "Aw, I had him to the end of the table and he knows it." "Which table would that be?" asked Matt looking around the much emptier mess hall.

Suddenly the Omnitrix started letting off sparks again and bolts of green energy leapt out of it. "Ben!" yelled Gwen, "What did you do?" "I didn't do anything," said Ben, "something's wrong with it." Suddenly it let out another pulse of energy, this one the largest and most powerful seen. Waves of green energy went out of the watch and swept throughout the room. Everyone was thrown back by the blast. When the energy disappeared, Ben sat up, looked at the Omnitrix, and said, "What's gotten into you?" "You mean what's got out," said a voice.

Ben looked up and gasped. Standing in front of him was the spitting image of himself in his experiment form. But the look in this Ex-Ben's eyes was of a different nature then what Ben would be using. Ben had experienced this type of thing before with Ghostfreak, but this was a horse of a different colour. "How can you be here?" asked Ben, "you can't be here, you're just a virus." "Wrong," said Ex-Ben, "I am the AI of the EXP Virus, or at least my mind is. But I was just a virus at first. I was about to do my basic programming when NegaMorph bit you when Kala intervened. Instead of rewriting you physically and mentally, I was trapped in that Omnitrix for quite a long time. But unlike Ghostfreak, I remained independent of the Omnitrix. You may have used the Omnitrix to inhibit me and use my form, but I was still separate from you.

"As to my escape, you can thank Jekyll for that. I would have escaped the first time Jekyll turned his power on you, but Ghostfreak beat me to it. But nevertheless, I had woken up, from what felt like a long and forced sleep. I eventually became stronger and it was only today when I was able to make my presence in the Omnitrix." "When I turned into you at the spaceport," said Ben. "Yes, after that, it would have been a matter of days for me to break out by simply absorbing some of the molecular energy from you when you were in alien form. But Jekyll again sped up the process so I only needed two more transformations to have enough power to break out. I'm a bit upset by that, if I had to stockpile a bit longer, I would have absorbed the powers of your other aliens too, instead of the three you used today."

Suddenly the Omnitrix on Ex-Ben's wrist glowed with green light. The light spread over Ex-Ben's body until he was completely covered in it. Then he seemed to become the light and when he did so, his shape started to alter. He grew somewhat taller and a second pair of arms grew from his sides. When the light faded, Ex-Ben was now two heads taller and much more muscular. His Omnitrix was now a belt attached to his new pair of pants which were white above the knee and black below. He also wore a black vest that didn't cover his stomach, but did have white stripes that outlined his pectorals. His head had altered significantly. It was a bit smaller and had features from Grey Matter and Upchuck: the former's eyes and the latter's ears and whisker marks. "I am no longer Ex-Ben," he said with a voice that still resembled Ben's much more warped, "my name is now Omnirus. And I will now have the pleasure of crushing you."

Suddenly a bolt of plasma energy blasted Omnirus and threw him into a wall. Matt lowered his hand and said, "I told you EXP AI's were tricky." "Let's get out of here," said Ben. As Ben, Gwen, and Matt fled, Omnirus got up and said, "You're not getting rid of me that easily." NegaMorph had been watching all this and as Omnirus took off, he said to himself, "Maybe biting Ben was a bad idea."

Omnirus chased our heroes through the hallways. Along the way, he made it very clear he had the combined powers of Fourarms, Grey Matter, and Upchuck. He pounded through blast doors that stood within his way, was able to hack into nearby consoles to activate security programs, and used Upchuck's four tongues to swallow nearby objects and spit them out as exploding goo. Miraculously however, Matt and the Tennysons were able to remain ahead. Equally miraculously, they had managed to find the escape pod bay. But just as they were heading towards their ship, Omnirus came through the doorway and clapped his four hands together. This created a sonic wave that threw Ben one way and Matt and Gwen the other. Ben was about to press the activation button on the Omnitrix when Omnirus said, "Don't bother with that. I know everything about those 19 aliens you can turn into and I have their DNA in my own Omnitrix. You don't have anything that can beat me."

Just then Ben remembered something. "That could be," he said, "but I have an ace in my pocket." "You mean up your sleeve," said Omnirus. "Nope," said Ben as pulled the pod out of his pocket. Then he said, "Time to make it an even 20," he placed the pod on the watch's face. The pod glowed for a second then disappeared in a flash of yellow light. The Omnitrix's face turned yellow and spun around a few times before popping up with the silhouette from the pod highlighted. "It's hero time!" cried Ben and he slammed the face down.

There was a flash of green light and a new alien replaced Ben. It looked almost exactly like Stitch in his original alien outfit, but he had a different colour scheme. His clothes were white and black instead of red and yellow and he had the Omnitrix logo in the triangle in the middle of his chest. His eyes were green and his fur was brown with his familiar hairstyle. After a quick examination, he said, "Looks like just I became Omni-Stitch," with a voice that sounded like Stitch's. Omnirus growled and said, "New form or not, you have no chance against me." "Bring it on!" called Omni-Stitch and they charged at each other.

The battle between the two was fierce. Apparently, Omni-Stitch had all the powers of Stitch. However, Omnirus' combined powers, no matter how slightly diluted they were, were still more than a match for Omni-Stitch. That is until Omni-Stitch smacked his hand in a way to cause his index finger to flex slightly. Then a beam of positive molecular energy came out of his fingertip. Then Omni-Stitch started firing molecular beams from his other index fingers.

But then Omnirus caught all of Omni-Stitch's hands in his own. "This form may be tough," he growled, "but when I figure out how to make those other forms work for me, you won't stand a chance." "Then we'll have to fix that won't we?" said Omni-Stitch. Omni-Stitch yanked his lower arms out of Omnirus' hands and fired two beams into the Omnitrix on his belt. Omnirus roared with pain and let go. Then Omni-Stitch kept up four continuous beams into Omnirus' Omnitrix. Omnirus struggled to break free, but the pain made it impossible for him to move. Suddenly a crack appeared right down the face plate and there was a small explosion. The explosion threw Omnirus back into an escape pod. Omni-Stitch ran over and hit the eject button before Omnirus could get up. The escape pod blasted into space, taking Omnirus with it. "Good riddance to bad rubbish," said Omni-Stitch as his Omnitrix timed out.

Suddenly the door pounded and Commander Korvak's voice was heard shouting, "Open up in the name of Emperor Hamsterviel!" "We have to get out of here!" said Gwen. "Even if we did take the cruiser," said Matt, "they'll gun us down before we go 10 feet." Suddenly there was a familiar vroom and the Shadow Hawk appeared outside the battleship. "Now there's quality pickup service," said Ben and the three of them raced out into the cruiser. The cruiser took off and flew out to the Shadow Hawk, which quickly flew off away from the Imperial ships.

Just then, the Imperial forces had broken through the locked door to the escape pod bay and had seen the Shadow Hawk flew off. Hamsterviel was in front and was now doing a small dance of rage. "Korvak!" he yelled, "you are the worst captain I have ever seen. Not only does the ship practically fall apart, but you let the prisoners escape! You are going to be so fired!" "I'm not fired now?" asked Korvak. "Not yet," said Hamsterviel and he snapped his fingers and said, "Stuff this incompetent mockery of a commander into a cannon and blast him to Mercury!"

As the grunts took a struggling Korvak away, Hamsterviel turned to Silvia and said, "You can have your old position back, but I expect more results from you." As Hamsterviel stormed off, Silvia turned to NegaMorph and said, "You wouldn't have anything to do with the malfunctioning machinery now would you?" "Me? No," said NegaMorph, "if someone was tampering with it, I'd say it was, uh, space gremlins. They're a terrible nuisance." Silvia looked at NegaMorph doubtfully and said, "Well, I'm just going to have to make check for those 'space gremlins'. Fortunately, they didn't cause serious damage." She headed for the door but then paused and said, "But if I do find them, I might want to thank them for helping me get my job back." As she left, NegaMorph's pupil turned slightly grey with pride.

On the Shadow Hawk, Matt, Ben, and Gwen had found that the crew had found their signal on the Imperial battleship and had rushed off to rescue them. Grandpa Max had even gone to make sure Ben and Gwen were alright. "We'll just drop you guys off on Earth and head out again," said Matt. "Finally!" said Techo, "some civilized human company." "It's great to be back here," said Chris, "I wonder if they did anything with my room." He opened the door and the chupacabra jumped out and latched onto his forehead. "OH MY GOD!" he yelled as he tried to pull it off. "Chris, I am so sorry," said Rick. "WHY DO WE STILL HAVE THIS THING?"

Meanwhile, out in outer space, a lone escape pod was zooming through the void. Suddenly the pod's rockets flared and it turned in another direction. Inside the pod, Omnirus had just assumed control over it. "Tennyson," he growled, "I will have my revenge on you. But first, I have to do some training."

There's the final chapter. Man did this take a long time to write. I hope the next story will be a lot shorter than this one. Speaking of which, largefish8 is having a bit of writer's block so I'll be doing the next one solo. It's going in the Cartoons Crossovers catergory so look there for it. It'll have "Retrieval Saga" in the title. In other news, I'll be updating the bios on my deviantART page soon, so check there. Keep an eye out for my next story and please review.