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33 Long Time Coming

Kevin blinked. They were standing in a dark room. Gwen wavered and he caught her as Jen made her way over to a console and clicked it on. Despite the armor she made not a sound as she moved. The sword in her hand glimmered, the Omnitrix symbol in the hilt glowing. Kevin steadied Gwen.

"Are you ok?" She nodded but he guided her into the nearest chair anyway. Jen smiled under her helmet.

"That is a new record for you, South Dakota. Nice." Kevin frowned at her words.

"Wait does that mean we're…" Jen nodded.

"Inside the mount Rushmore base yeah. We don't have long though probably a few minutes at best." She whirled her sword as Vilgax's voice echoed around them.

"Tennyson! You cannot escape from me!" Gwen typed up the exterior cameras and Kevin swore as they spotted the Esoterica climbing the mountain.

"Oh I don't like our odds." Gwen rolled her eyes.

"That's only because you never bothered to read the manual." Her fingers flew across the keys. Lasers blasted over the encroaching Esoterica and Kevin grinned.

"I love you so much." Gwen grinned at him. Her hands were shaking slightly though as Vilgax's voice echoed around them again.

"You will not escape me!" Gwen leapt back to her feet and she and Kevin rushed forward as the whole base creaked but they were both blasted back as the front face of the base was ripped off. Vilgax cast aside the face of George Washington. Gwen and Kevin groaned from their spot on the floor. Jen stepped past them whirling her sword. Vilgax laughed.

"I hold the powers of a god child! What will you do against me? What new transformation will you try? Or perhaps one of your tiresome Ultimate Aliens?" Jen shook her head.

"I don't need to transform this time. I have all the power I need here." She gestured to the sword. Vilgax growled.

"Azmuth's sword will not be enough to save you welp!" The two foes charged at each other as Gwen and Kevin sat up.

"Someone should have done this a long time ago." Jen said as she leveled the blade at Vilgax. At the last moment she stepped to the side and drove the blade up and into Vilgax who cried out in shock. Power rippled through the room forcing Gwen to throw up a shield around herself and Kevin. When the light died again they found Vilgax on the ground holding a bleeding wound. He was no longer glowing as he had been since he had returned from Dagon's dimension. No instead he looked just as he had when he had vanished through the seal.

"You stabbed me!" He sounded almost affronted. Jen rolled her eyes.

"Oh don't be such a baby all I did was take the Dagon's power from you." Gwen stared at her cousin. Indeed she now glowed with the godlike power Vilgax had held up until a moment ago. Vilgax leaned back on the destroyed wall and laughed lightly. Kevin frowned.

"What are you laughing at? You lost." Vilgax ignored him though.

"You are an interesting creature Jennifer Tennyson. You hold all power in your hands, the Ultimatrix, Azmuth's sword, and the powers of the Dagon at your fingertips. What will you do with it?" Jen blinked seeming to only now realize that he was right. She lifted a glowing hand seeming to examine it. Gwen stepped forward but Vilgax wasn't finished talking. "You and I are very much alike, we mold the world around us to suit ourselves. Use the power Jen Ten." But he got no further. Kevin had absorbed the stone of the mountain and smashed a fist into his head.

"Shut the fuck up." He told the unconscious bleeding figure before turning back to Jen who still hadn't spoken.

"Jen?" Gwen asked, her voice full of trepidation as if she was unsure what her cousin would do next. Green met green as Jen looked up at her cousin.

"He's right about one thing. I do have the power." She raised the sword which glowed white. Gwen threw up an arm to cover her eyes. Kevin grabbed hold of her holding on worried what would happen when the light cleared. But within a moment the light died. Kevin blinked around. Nothing had changed. Gwen laughed, one hand to her head.

"What? What happened?" She was grinning. Jen answered his question.

"I fixed what the Dagon did. I turned everyone on Earth back into themselves. I put right what George took too, the way he wanted it to be. But I'd like it if that stayed between us. There is something else I have to do too." Gwen frowned as Jen sheathed the blade the glow of the Dagon's power vanishing with the armor. The blade hung innocently at her side. "All anyone needs to know is that we won." She pulled a pair of cuffs from thin air and fixed them around Vilgax's wrists as the coms crackled to life.

"This is Magister Tennyson putting out a general call. All Plumber's who are able check in now!" Gwen stepped over to the console and pulled her badge from her pocket.

"This is Agent Tennyson checking in."

"Agent Levin too." Kevin said stepping up next to her.

"Gwen! Kevin! What the hell happened!" They glanced at each other.

"It's a long story Grandpa. Jen's here too." Gwen glanced over her shoulder but her cousin had vanished. Kevin pointed to another console. A ship was taking off.

"She did say she had something else to do." He said. Gwen rolled her eyes.

"Scratch that Grandpa she just took off in a ship heading off planet. No idea where she's going. But we've got Vilgax here, tied up and ready for prisoner transport to the Null Void." Max sighed.

"So we won?" Gwen nodded.

"That's one way of putting it. I'm sure she'll tell you the whole story when she gets back." Max sighed.

"I'm sure she will. I'm sending a team to your location to pick up Vilgax. Head home with them once that's done." They nodded. Kevin took Gwen's hand. He smiled at her, she pulled him into a kiss.

Jen pulled into Primus's atmosphere and smiled as she stepped out of the ship. She could feel the planet reacting to her presence, the trees parting to guide her way to the place she needed to go. She smiled as she stepped up to the one standing structure on the planet. It was large, big enough to house the larger of Azmuth's assistants. She was met at the door by Eunice who grinned and hugged her.

"It's good to see you Jen." She smiled.

"You too Eunice, but is he here?" The blonde nodded.

"He is, says he's been expecting you." Jen laughed lightly.

"He would." She stepped past Eunice and into the main lab. Azmuth was sitting in the lab and smiled at her.

"I see you've taken up Ascalon." Jen nodded drawing the sword but keeping the point down.

"Yes, and defeated the Dagon with it. Took its power from Vilgax who stole it in the first place." Azmuth nodded.

"What will you do with it?"

"I've already done all that I wanted with it. Now, I don't need the Dagon's power, I don't want it. The safest place for the sword is back with its creator. And the power that goes with it." Azmuth shook his head.

"That is the reason I know you're worthy of it. But if you insist I will destroy the sword and the power along with it. Is that what you want?" Jen nodded.

"It's too much for any one being to have." Azmuth smiled.

"You've grown so much since I first met you. Set the sword down here." She nodded and followed his instruction. The device closed around the sword and Jen watched as it atomized in a flash of light. She turned to leave but Azmuth spoke again.

"Before you go I have something for you." Jen frowned as she turned back to him. He nodded to a box on the table. She stepped over to it and paused. He nodded again. "Open it." She tapped a finger to the box which retracted and gasped at the item inside. It was a brand new Omnitrix, slimmer and sleeker than the original model, with a white band instead of a black one.

"Why?"

"Because you're finally ready for the finished Omnitrix. The one you stumbled upon six years ago was a prototype. The Ultimatrix was an improvement on the prototype but never the finished device. You're ready for the real one." Jen smiled and nodded as Azmuth hopped over to her and picked up the finished Omnitrix. With a quick spin to the dial of the Ultimatrix it fell to the ground, quickly replaced by the new device. Jen stumbled slightly as the power from Master Control faded and breathed out as Azmuth placed the Ultimatrix in the same device that had destroyed Ascalon. She watched as it too vanished from existence. She smiled lightly at Azmuth.

"Don't suppose I could convince you to give me back Master Control?" Azmuth laughed.

"I'll let you figure it out on your own this time." Jen laughed loudly. Azmuth smiled at her.