As Ben, and the rest of our heroes make serious headway back to their camp, Azmuth continues to run diagnostic checks on the Omnitrix, in hopes of getting some control back over of his invention. Behind our heroes is Pilaf, the woman and the dog inside a huge Pink robot mech.
"YOU WILL PAY FOR FOILING MY PLANS!!!!" Pilaf's voice echoed in anger. The robot was continuously being pelted with Ki blasts and Diamondshards, but it kept on chasing after our heroes, tossing trees and rocks to deter them or crush them, but thankfully, Kevin dealt with all of that, tossing them right back at the mechanized menace. As Kevin and Ben fired Ki blasts at the robot, Tetrax fired a larger crystal at the mech, stopping it in its tracks, giving our heroes to make a quick run for it to get out of the emperor's range.
"Gah, Pilaf sir, we lost them. Should we get reinforcements?" The dog asked. "Don't be ridiculous, Shu. Pilaf won't let them get awa-" "We're going back to the castle..." Pilaf interrupted the woma. "What?!" "Don't be so daft, Mai. We need to find out what we're going up against, if we are to succeed in finding the Dragonballs next time, before they do... and that device, what did the crystal man call it, The Omnitrix or something? I might have a new wish for the dragon, when the time comes." Pilaf schemed as the machine turned back to the castle.
As our heroes began to slow down, a pinging sound rang out from the Omnitrix.
"Finally! After repairing my firewalls you broke, I have regained mastery over the Omnitrix. Now, can someone properly explain to me, where in all of creation are we?!" Azmuth exclaimed hysterically. Ben put Azmuth on the ground and began to explain his side of the story.
The watch crashing on Earth, an explosion that destroyed the rustbucket and killed his cousin, five armored individuals with monkey tails similar to Goku's, everything stopping, meeting Paradox, jumping through a portal, and everything else Ben had gone through in the last 3 years he'd been stuck here. Azmuth grimaced at the idea that such a barbaric race could exist even here as well, if only he had his equipment.
"If I had my equipment, we could properly diagnose any problems in the Omnitrix that could just pop up at random. Now-"
"You never did answer me, I know, not the time and place, but you piqued my curiosity, as my grandpa was a secretive guy, but he could look death in the eye and tell it to leave his family alone. He was as kind, as he was tough. But you know something else about him, don't you?" Ben interrupted. Azmuth froze, not knowing how to properly answer the child's question. "Tell your friends, and the Petrosapien to get a couple of feet away. This is information for you and only you, Understand?" Azmuth stated firmly. As the others went off a ways that wasn't in hearing distance or out of sight, Azmuth stood and looked at the Omnitrix wearer, thinking back to Max.
'He does bear a striking resemblance... but is it true that he had grandchildren? Never thought Maxwell as the type to settle.' Azmuth thought. "Let me explain first on where your grandfather was before he settled down." Azmuth stated firmly.
Many long years ago, on Earth...
"I keep on telling him, Commander, but Tennyson was not having any of our plans for the creature. He nearly killed one of us to come to a compromise!" A woman's voice echoed. "Come on Phil, you know him best, snap him out of it!" The woman continued. The man infront of her was tall, had a black beard with stripes of gray and white that inched and blended into his hairline. "Please, Marinah. You make it seem like your kind wouldn't have done the same. Besides, Max is usually quite the charismatic guy, why he'd attempt to kill one of his own men is concerning, but not enough to put out a watch." Phil stated. Marinah growled and stomped on the metal floor, leaving a massive dent, and walking away. Phil just sighed, and muttering something under his breath.
'damn saiyan, she's gonna get what's coming to her if I have any say about it. But Max, killing his men? that isn't like him.. I need to-' "Phil, can I speak with you?" a voice rang out. Phil looked up to see Max, with a Galvan on his shoulders. Max seemed to have a scar over his right eye, and his high tight buzz cut was a bit singed. The Galvan was quite young for his age, but seemed content with something. Max was worried.
"Max, did you-" "Yes I did, what of it? That's not what I wanted to speak with you about." Max interjected, his lax expression becoming angry. "Phil of Earth, I am Azmuth of Galvan Prime. I am nothing more than humble and generous to share my resources with the plumbers, including my best work yet." Young Azmuth introduced. He pulled out a holo viewer from his pocket and it displayed schematics for a wearable Peace making device.
"This will bring peace to all forms of life, it catalogues the DNA Samples of soon to be or already extinct Alien lifeforms, allowing who wears it to turn into the prime example of that species. Maxwell of Earth willingly volunteered to test the prototype for this. I called the Project: OMNITRIX. No more will all forms of life have to squirm and fear death, because their species will be preserved and brought back to brave the new meta that is Natural Selection." Azmuth explained with contentment.
"So if it fell into the wrong hands, it'd be the most powerful weapon in the universe?" Phil questioned. Azmuth's smile faded to a look of mortified realization. "I'll have to program it to work with only those who have a close genetic relation to Maxwell, since he volunteered." Azmuth restated. As Azmuth wandered back to the cross junction, Max and Phil had another talk.
"Max, you can't be serious. You want to what?! Since when!?" Phil stated hysterically at his partner. "Because I am not going back on my promise. I met that woman-" "There you go again, those living energy beings are not human, you'd be better off with Xylene. As a matter of fact, why not Xylene?!" Phil urged on. Max got up, ready to throw a punch, but stopped himself. "If I wanted to be badmouthed by my own friend, I wouldn't have asked you. If you love Xylene so much, have her, Verdona is all I need in this world, I thought you'd understand that." Max stated firmly. "But to settle down?! You're the best of the best, you are the number one plumber here on Earth, and you're going to retire after facing Vilgax of all people, just to settle with a mass of energy?!" Phil questioned. Max said nothing else, and left Phil standing there, mouth ajar and began conversating with Azmuth about when The Omnitrix should be finished and sent to Earth. On that day, Max settled with Verdona, having kids, and then they had kids of their own.
Flashforward to the day Ben got the Omnitrix...
Max ran through a bunch of tree branches, bushes, and rocks till he got to a cliffside, to behold the image of the end. Rockets flew down to the Earth, burrowing into the ground, getting closer and closer to the Earth's core. He heard the rustbucket explode and knew it had to be his grandkids. He ran all the way back, knowing he'd never make it, until a pink light enveloped him and he vanished, as his world did before him.
"All those years ago, I heard he settled down, retiring from the Plumbers to have a peaceful life, but his past came back to haunt him... I... I'm sorry, Ben Tennyson." Azmuth finished. Ben sat in silence, and knew he'd have far more to do. Ben got up, picked up Azmuth, and walked over to the others. "Well?" Kevin asked. Ben handed Azmuth to the Petrosapien and whispered something to the crystal bounty hunter something that seemed crazy, but then seemed doable. Tetrax walked away from the heroes as Tetrax was told that if the Omnitrix brought dead alien species back, then the Galvans of this particular universe would now be alive thanks to him.
As Azmuth and Tetrax flew away in Tetrax's ship, Ben cycled through his aliens and noticed that the watch was completely fixed. Ben deactivated the Omnitrix and looked to his friends. "Well, we've got nowhere in particular to go, and I'm fine with doing more training, what's the plan?" Ben asked smiling altruistically. "Well, maybe we'll get lucky and see if Roshi will train us. What say, Ben? Kevin?" Goku inferred. Ben and Kevin looked at one another and smirked confidently. "Heck yeah!!" The two exclaim in unison.
In somesort of mystic pocket dimension, Max awoke and was struggling to get his bearings till a familiar face welcomed him, his wife, Verdona, in her pure form. "What happen-" "It's over, Maxie. Gwen will be here shortly... unfortunately, I cannot say the same for Ben... as his fate isn't tied to our world anymore." Verdona explained. In a few minutes, Gwen had formed, panicking as she woke up from what felt like a nightmare. Gwen saw her grandfather and embraced him, asking if Ben got here, but the two couldn't answer, but Verdona did tell her something unique.
"We will see him again, but not in the same way as before. He will have undergone change, but deep down, you'll know... he's our Ben." Verdona reassured her granddaughter.
As our heroes venture back to Roshi's Island, Ben noticed that Roshi was waving them down. Was he expecting them to come back? Ben was the first to land and properly greet Roshi. "Roshi, we were wondering if maybe you could train us!" Goku asked. "I will, if you can bring me a sizzling woman to this island." Roshi commented as he laughed pervertedly. Ben cringed at the idea, Kevin had nothing to say, Goku didn't know what that implied.
From behind Roshi was a Bald guy with six dots on his head. "Hey, someone else does live here! What's your name?" Ben greeted. "I'm Krillin. I trained a bit at the Orin Temple, but I decided to try Roshi's training because I wanted to get a bit stronger. I assume you're Ben, that's Kevin, And you're Goku!" Krillin stated, pointing at them in the corresponding order. "That's us, did Roshi tell you our names?" Ben asked quizzically. "Nah, but thanks for telling me!" Krillin chuckled. Ben felt so stupid for not knowing what had transpired, but didn't care much for it as it meant he had a new sparring partner. Ben, Goku, Kevin and Krillin flew off the island as Yamcha and Puar went their own way after Oolong decided to chill and stay at Roshi's island, where as Bulma had possibly better things to do.
As our heroes flew throughout the skies, they couldn't exactly figure out where this woman was supposed to be, until they heard Police sirens wail out in the distance. As the four race to the sirens, they see police cruisers chasing after a woman on a motorbike. The woman had blonde hair, a Green top and green pants. She wore some gloves and was firing a machine gun back at the cops. The woman had a lethal glare in her eyes, but the woman then sneezed, and her hair went from blonde to a dark Purple. Her eyes were as innocent as a child's, and she didn't know what had transpired, but she was scared.
The boys looked on, and knew she needed help. Maybe in return, she could help them. "Come on, we can't let this go!" Ben stated, flying down to the woman.
"Hey!!" Ben exclaimed. The woman turned to the boy, and was rightfully confused by his ability to fly. "You look like you need some help! Me and my friends can help you if you help us in return, deal?" Ben exclaimed. The woman turned behind her and noticed that the police weren't behind her anymore. She stopped her bike, and thanked the young boy for helping.
"My name is Launch. Nice to meet you!" Launch said kindly. Ben saw his friends close in, ready to see if she'd be what Roshi was looking for. Launch looked at the boys, noticing the muscles two of them have at such young ages, where the other two have basic to above average muscle mass. "My name's Ben, this is Kevin, Krillin and Goku." Ben introduced.
"So, what is it that you need my help with?" Launch asked. "It's... hard to explain, but maybe it's just my personal opinion. We need training from a martial artist, but to do that, we need to bring him a woman... take your time, you'll figure it out." Ben explained. Launch happily accepted her end of the deal and the five made head way to the island.
As our heroes landed, Roshi came out and was thoroughly impressed by the woman they chose, but soon realized a problem with having four students, a talking pig and a beautiful woman. Roshi then decides to move his home to a much, much larger island nearby. As the four went on to quite literally move everything off the island and onto the much larger one, Ben noticed that a green piece of cloth and blue cat fur were waving in the wind. "Uh, was Puar and Yamcha here when we left?" Ben asked. "Yeah, they said they had something important to do, up until they suddenly vanished." Roshi casually said. "Wait, vanished? How?!" Kevin asked confusedly. Roshi seemed to be sweating, like he was hiding something. "I don't want to be more of a bother, but if something happened to them, you better fess up!!" Kevin gritted. Roshi was worried about what they would do if he didn't speak, and since he saw a sample of what Ben himself is capable of, with or without the watch on his wrist, he fessed up.
"Alright, so they didn't leave on their own accord, they vanished into thin air, last I checked, their energy signatures were last felt by a strange and unfriendly place... The Devil's Hand. It's a five peaked mountain range that's a little ways from here. If you would kindly go and get your friends, then you'll have more than proven to me that you can take on my training." Roshi explained. Ben never heard of a mountain called anything like that, but he had to try. "Best know that I'm with you on this, all the way." Kevin said. "Same, I feel something in you that tells me, I want to see what you can do years from now." Goku stated, whipping out his pole. "If Goku's with you, so am I. I don't know alot about you Ben, but you better have my back like I'll have yours." Krillin chimed in.
Launch then sneezed and her hair turned blonde, and her eyes went green. She looked at the 4 boys, the old man and the pig, and groaned. "Okay, didn't know she could do that! Let's go before the gun gets aimed at us!" Ben stated in shock. He was then grabbed by the collar by the blonde woman.
"You listen here, pal! Where am I and who are you schmucks?!" Launch said in a sassy and rude tone. "We told you who we are! We brought you here because the police were tailing you!" Kevin exclaimed. Launch looked at the island, and didn't seem impressed. "Look, you can shoot me later, but our friends are possibly in danger! We need to get them back!" Ben explained. "I'll go with you twerps, someone has to watch you get your asses kicked." Launch stated snarkily.
Ben knew that there was no winning, so Goku called Nimbus, Oolong got dragged along for the ride, and our heroes, plus Launch, then set off for the Devil's hand.