Author's Note: I love this next episode. I own nothing.

21 Asunder

Jen was not having a good morning. Being chased through the city by a nutjob on a supped up hoverboard with a literal axe to grind was not how she liked her Saturdays. She hadn't had a chance to call anyone for backup. Not before the Omnitrix timed out and the alien swung the axe. There was a blast of light and Jen blinked sitting up. The sky was red and she was laying on some very uncomfortable rocks. She blinked.

"Ok… How did I get here?" She shook herself as she stood. "Everything feels fine." She went to brush off her sleeve and froze, stock still. Her hand was gone, her arm ending in a glowing red stump a few inches from where the Omnitrix should have been. She shook her head.

"No…" Her voice was shaking as she waved her good hand through where her missing one should have been. She trembled as her knees gave out on her. She couldn't breathe, this couldn't be happening. She had no more time to panic though as a roar sounded feet away from her. She had just enough time to roll out of the way as a large green beast barreled past her. She took to her feet and ran, letting panic fuel her speed as she skidded down into a crevasse and out of the sight of the creature. She shoved her good hand over her mouth and held her breath as it scuttled over her and out of sight. She waited, sinking to the bottom of the crevasse and breathing lightly though her tremors.

"Ok, I can still feel my hand it's just, not there right now. I can figure that out later. Right now I need to get out of here. Wherever here is." She pulled herself back to her feet and scrambled along the crevasse.

Sunder laughed loudly as he opened the storage compartment on his hover-glider. He tossed in the human hand still attached to the Omnitrix a grin still on his face.

"Easy money. And a fortune at that." He laughed again before a spike blossomed from the engine of his hover-glider. "No!" The machine sputtered to a halt and fell to the asphalt. He swore and swung his axe, splitting the next spike in two.

"Stand down! Appendages on your head and drop the axe! Plumber's are here!" Pierce Wheels called out holding out his Plumber badge with one hand and readying another spike. He'd been monitoring police radios and overheard something about a confrontation between a large blue monkey and a giant grey man with an axe. Here was the axe-man, but where was Spidermonkey? He frowned but had no time to contemplate as he dove to the side rolling to avoid the axe. He shot a volley of spikes, separating them for a moment as a green glow caught his eye. He frowned. It was coming from inside the damaged hover-glider. He jimmied the compartment open and stared for a moment before turning to glare at the grey man who was pulling the spikes out of his shoes.

"What did you do to her!" The man laughed.

"Don't know don't care! I am Sunder the Retriever! The Omnitrix is mine now and I won't let some child Plumber take my best payday in years from me!" Pierce slipped his badge back into his belt and pulled a few pellets from the pouch there as Sunder charged. He threw them and a cloud of smoke billowed sending Sunder coughing and stumbling. When the smoke cleared Pierce was gone. Sunder shook his head.

"Coward." He set to work on his hover-glider.

"This is officially the weirdest thing I've ever done." Pierce said looking over at the passenger seat of his truck. It was technically a loaner from Ed but he drove it everywhere. The passenger seat was currently occupied by a severed hand, which somehow wasn't as gross as it sounded. There was no blood or gore, rather where the wrist should have been attached to the rest of Jennifer Tennyson it simply glowed bright red. But that wasn't the end of the glow. The Watch was moving on its own, the dial turning and twisting and slowly green lines of code were spreading out from the watch over pale skin. He flinched as the fingers of the hand twitched.

"Just drive Pierce. Max may be out of town but Gwen and Kevin might know what to do."

"Ok so Null Void. That's helpful… Well I say helpful." Jen muttered as she leapt from floating stone to stone. She'd ended up close to Animo's stronghold as Devoid. It was busted up now, clearly either time didn't work the same way here as it did elsewhere or else things fell into disrepair really easily. She was betting on the second one. She'd have to ask Kevin, assuming she ever made it back. Her currently absent hand itched and felt too warm but there was nothing she could do about it right now. She took a deep breath and hopped the last length, nearly missing and just catching the wall of the broken down fortress with her hand, her empty stump slapping uselessly next to it. She swore as she tried to make a fist. It felt like she succeeded but she couldn't tell if that was true or not. She took a steadying breath.

"Get out of the Void first, then get your hand back." It had become a small mantra over the past… well she had no idea how long she'd been here. Could have been hours could have been days. "Get out of the Void, then get your hand back. Then shove Sunder's axe up his ass." She nodded, liking the sound of that plan. She made her way into the destroyed fortress.

Gwen smiled as Kevin pecked her on the cheek, she'd brought him lunch. Well him and Ethan, they were having 'guy time' which meant Kevin was working on his car and Ethan was working on his bike. Ethan rolled his eyes and picked his wrench back up but set it back down as the sound of skidding tires met his ears.

"Guys?" They turned and Gwen's hands lit up pink as one of Ed's trucks came barreling around the corner, pulling to a stop just outside the warehouse. Pierce rolled down the window.

"You guys are not going to be happy." His grim expression was nothing next to what he picked up out of the passenger seat. Gwen's stomach dropped through the floor seeming to disappear entirely.

"Is that…?" She managed to stutter out at the sight of her cousin's hand, just her hand in Pierce's. Then it moved and she blinked. It was tapping the way Jen did when she couldn't visibly fiddle with Omnitrix, which was whirring almost nervously.

"Max is out of town, talking to his old friend Wes about the tapestries at the dig site Jen accidentally flooded. Didn't know where else to go." Kevin nodded.

"Toss her here, that looks familiar." Pierce glanced at him but nodded and tossed the severed hand to Kevin. It balled into a fist and punched him in the jaw as it wiggled and he missed.

"Ow!" Jen cried out as her missing hand throbbed. "Why does it feel like I just punched a rock?" She grumbled to herself as she dug through one of the few still standing storerooms. There wasn't much left here but there had to be something she could use to at least defend herself on the way to Grandpa Max's old hideout here. She spotted it beneath a few pieces of rubble and managed to shoulder them out of the way. She grinned as she recognized one of Manny's smaller blasters.

"Thank you gun happy Manny." She said to the Void as she picked up the gun and tucked it into her belt. A screech met her ears seconds too late to redraw the weapon and stop the Null Guardian from grabbing her and taking off.

"Well, at least we seem to be flying the right way." She lamented, dangling upside down from a few of the beasts tentacles her arms pinned at her sides.