Bearclaw's skull-like face hit the pavement with a considerable thud, putting a crack in the sidewalk. The bear-like alien shook his head and looked back behind him, just in time to see a huge energy frail being swung at his head. Thinking fast, the humanoid bear fell through his shadow, disappearing from sight. While he did that, Alex and Alexis were standing on the side in their disguises, watching at the strange humanoid pig, yes, their enemy was an alien pig. After a moment, Bearclaw's head pocked out of Alex's shadow, followed by his entire body, as he stood up behind the two humans.
"So, should we help out, or do you still think that you can do it?" Alex glanced back at his brother.
"In my defense, he's tougher than he looks," Kalin pointed out.
Alex shook his head and twisted the dial on Kalin's stomach before slamming it, transforming him into Frost Lizard. The smaller blue alien looked at his paws for a second then narrowed his eyes.
"Let's see if this is going to work out any better."
"You're done for!" the alien pig shouted as it swung the frail over his head. "Thunder… Thunder… Thunderpig!"
Yelling its own name the alien swung the mace at Kalin, who fired a freezing beam from his mouth that hit the incoming weapon with enough force to knock it back. The mace head dropped on the ground, covered in a heavy layer of ice. Thunderpig dropped his weapon and jumped out of the way as another ice ray flew past him and hit the streetlamp behind him. A rocked then came flying out of nowhere, exploding into the humanoid pig's face and releasing a green gas that knocked the alien out could.
Kalin raised an eyebrow, confused, then looked back at his brother, and noticed a smocking rocket launcher sticking out of his car's roof. The younger boy frowned then slammed the dial on his arm, reverting back into his human form.
"I almost had him exactly where I wanted," he crossed his arms.
"I figured that helping you out a little wouldn't hurt." Alex walked into his car, deactivating the defense system, which made the rocket launcher break down into pieces that retracted back into the roof.
Kalin shook his head and walked back to the car, noticing something in his seat; a pair of small boxes that made him raised an eyebrow. He turned toward his siblings, who were also looking at him, Alexis with a kind smile on her face, while Alex with a slight smirk.
"You took so long beating the pig that it's January the tenth already," Alex told him. "So, happy birthday!"
Kalin looked back at the two boxes and grinned before jumping into the car.
January the 10th, was a day that they were never going to forget. That day was when all the weird stuff in their lives had started to happen. All of that, because five years ago, Alex and Kalin ran into the forest to have a snow fight…
It was still early in the night, even though the sun had set long ago. Far from civilization, two boys, one ten, the other thirteen, were running through the forest, throwing snowballs at each other. Alex didn't know how his brother managed to trick him into following so far away, but he was going to get in trouble with their parents, either way, so he figured that since he already ran all the way out there, he might as well win that fight, and beat his brother a little for causing him so much trouble.
Ducking behind a tree, the older of the boys avoided his brother's snowball then threw one on his own, hitting the little troublemaker in the face, blinding him with the cold snow.
"Argh! Not in the face!" Kalin yelled and stepped back to run his eyes.
Before he could do so, his brother ran over to him and grabbed his smaller body, lifting him off the ground and them body slamming him into the cold snow. Kalin coughed out some snow that got into his mouth and quickly turned around, putting his hands together in front of his face to block his brother's next attack, but he miscalculated. Instead of Alex hitting him in the face, his fist struck his brother in the stomach.
"UGH!" Kalin coughed, grabbing his stomach in pain. "I'm going to tell mom!"
"Then should I hit you again, since I'm getting in trouble either way?" Alex threatened him, raising his fist to deliver another devastating strike.
"Nonono! Don't!" Kalin shrieked and cuddled into a ball.
"Then stop annoying me dipshit," Alex stood up and kicked his brother in the back.
"Ow! I'm sorry!" Kalin apologized.
Alex glared as his brother for a moment then stepped back, allowing Kalin to get back up and shake off the snow from his baby blue jacket. Some of it had managed to get under his jacket and it was making him uncomfortable, not to mention that his head was also wet from getting slammed head-first into the snow. If he actually caught a cold, his mother was going to kill him, since she warned him to put on a hat before they left the house.
"For the record, I could have easily won the fight," Kalin bushed off the snow on his shoulders. "But since I'm the more mature one, I choose to give you the victory."
"Should we go for a second round then?" Alex glanced back at his brother.
"N-No, I'm good."
"I thought so," Alex smirked and turned his back to him. "It's your birthday so I'm trying to show restraint, but I'm still going to punch you in the face when you get too much onto my nerves. It's about time you drill that information into your empty head."
"Fuck off, will you?"
Alex turned back to glare at his brother, who instinctively backed away. It seemed like they were going to have that second round. Kalin raised his fists defensively but was interrupted by a high-pitched whistling noise. The brothers looked at the sky, noticing a literal ball of fire in the dark night sky that was getting bigger and bigger. The ball flew over the trees and fell down a dozen or so meters away from the siblings with a loud explosion.
The brothers looked at each other, blinking for a moment in confusion then turned back at the cloud of debris, which had started to settle, revealing a large metallic sphere that resembled some sort of space capsule.
"What. The. Fuck?" Kalin asked.
"Where did that come from?" Alex looked at the sky, unsure of what had just happened.
"Let's check what it is!"
"Wait, that's not-"
Before Alex could finish his sentence, his brother had already ran off toward the strange object, forcing him to facepalm and follow behind. The two of them jumped into the crater created from the strange metal sphere's collision with the ground, and Kalin reached out to touch it when Alex suddenly grabbed his arm stopping him.
"That thing was literally covered in fire moments ago! It's going to burn you!" Alex snapped.
"Jeez, no need to scream." Kalin narrowed his eyes and pulled his hand away.
The two of them looked back at the sphere, noticing some sort of flashing light on its side. Before they could reach, the sphere scanned both of them, surprising them enough to make both of them take a step back and stumble on the debris, falling on their butts. After a moment, the sphere gave a confirmative beep.
"Species scanned: Human. Access granted." The sphere said in a robotic voice and opened up.
"What's that all about?" Alex groaned as he stood back up with his brother following him. "It might sound crazy, but is that thing alie-!"
Alex's response was cut short when he noticed what was inside the sphere. It wasn't an alien or some sort of arcane technology, but a pair of watches? At least that was what the devices inside the sphere looked like to him.
The one on the left was pretty bulky, primarily black and grey in color with a black dial with four green buttons in it and a green hourglass face. The device had four white tubes on the sides and a single larger green button on the right side of its main body.
The other watch was a lot slimmer and better looking, resembling a white digital wristwatch with a square black faceplate with two green stripes forming an outline for an hourglass-like symbol. These green stripes extended to the white part of the watch, covering the edges of the white wristband in green.
"Ok, this is just too weird," Alex said. "We should get out of here and tell-"
"I'm putting this one!"
"Wait, don't! You don't even know what this is!"
"A watch?"
Before Alex could respond, Kalin reached into the pot, and the large black watch jumped on his left wrist, on its own, locking tightly around it. The boy, and his brother, normally panicked and screamed out. Kalin began to shake his hand, trying to get it off, but it wasn't bulging!
"It's alive!" He screamed and fell back, grabbing his wrist. "That watch's fucking haunted!"
"Calm down," Alex muttered after a moment, taking a deep breath himself. "Does it feel like it's hurting you? Eating at your hand?"
"Um…" Kalin paused for a moment then looked at the watch. "Nope. But it has a button, should I press it?"
"Are you seriously goin-"
Before he could finish speaking, Kalin unceremoniously pressed the button on the side, and the core popped up, turning to show the silhouette of a huge four-armed humanoid. Alex gave his brother a hard glare.
"Cool!" Kalin exclaimed. "What happens if I press it down?"
"You are going to press it even if I say don't do it, right?"
"Especially if you tell me no to."
"Go fuck yourself."
"You first."
Smirking, Kalin pressed the circular core back down and the strange watch-like device emitted a green flash. His skin began red and his body grew slightly larger than his brother gaining some muscles over his body with a second pair of arms growing out of his body. His eyes became yellow and slightly enlarged with a second pair appearing under the first. A black stripe went from his forehead to his chin, breaking only around his mouth. His outfit changed as well, gaining dark blue pants and a short-sleeved baby-blue winter jacket with white fur lining on the hood and a white hourglass symbol on his left shoulder.
"Um…" Kalin looked down at his hands, while Alex simply stood there with his chin dropped. "That's so fucking cool man! Look, I'm tatter than you!"
"You're not human anymore!" Alex snapped, gesturing at his brother's body. "How am I supposed to explain all of this to mom and dad!?"
"Sounds like a 'you' problem," Kalin shrugged, then clanged his fists and smirked evilly. "But you know, I rethought my response about that second round of ours. Come here!"
Alex's eyes widened as his brother swung his right fist toward his face. The still human boy quickly stepped to the side, barely managing to avoid that hit. His eyes gazed at the second watch inside the metallic sphere and he knew exactly what he had to do. He jumped over the open sphere, grabbing the white watch, and fell down in the snow on the other side, slapping the strange device on his right wrist. He got up and raised his wrist to show the device to his brother.
"Hold it, or I'm going to kick your ass using the same thing!" He exclaimed in a treating voice.
"Good luck with that." Kalin kicked the metal sphere aside and moved toward his brother. "That thing doesn't have a button to activate it with."
Alex looked back at the watch he had and noticed that, just as his brother had said, there was no button on its side to press. He turned back to Kalin, just in time to see a red fist being swung at his face. There was a sharp pain in the right side of Alex's face, and he left like time had slowed down as his body got flung back and rolled in the snow.
"Oh, that feels so great!" Kalin laughed as he walked slowly toward his brother.
Alex sat up and grabbed his cheek, which had started getting swollen. He licked his lip, sensing a familiar taste of metal on his mouth. The boy spit some blood on the snow and looked down at his watch again. There wasn't a button on it, but the black faceplate was resembling the touchscreen of a phone. Having little time to think about it, he pressed his fingers against the screen and a holographic green screen with five monster-like faces on it appeared. Wasting no time choosing his forms, Alex picked the first one that the watch suggested and the faceplate retracted back revealing a green hourglass core, similar to that of Kalin's watch.
"I'm so getting you back for that," Alex muttered and slammed down the watch.
A green flash engulfed the boy and dark red rock covered his entire body. The rock cracked, showing yellowish magma glowing inside his body, his arms grew large, and the finger on his feet merged into two toes, with his hands and feet being made completely out of the yellow magma-like substance. A flame burst form from the alien's head. A green version of the hourglass symbol appeared on the creature's chest, finishing the transformation.
"W-Whoa!" Kalin exclaimed in surprise and stepped back, raising his arms defensively. "That's not fair! I'll burn myself if I hit you."
"Yeah?" Alex looked at his arms, generating a fireball in each one of them. "I think that's the least of your problems right now."
He had no idea what this form he had turned into was, but for some reason, he felt like he knew exactly what it could do and how to do it. It was strange, almost like his mind turned into that of the creature he had turned into. The idea that even his mind was changed due to this gadget was scary, but at the moment, he had a more immediate threat to deal with in the face of his brother.
"Y-you're not going to burn me, are you?" Kalin gulped.
"No, but I seriously should after you hit me in the face with this… whatever the fuck you're right now!" Alex spat out and extinguished his flames then stood back up. "So, what now that we're these freaks? We won't even be able to get back home!"
"Is there a button to shut it down?" Kalin asked, looking at his wrists.
"I sure hope there is, or else I'm really going to set you on fire," Alex growled. He looked at the badge on his chest, which appeared to be the watch's new form. Maybe? He wasn't sure about any of that anymore.
"This looks to be about the right time, hmm?"
The brothers looked at the side as a strange purple portal opened a few meters away from them. Not sure about what exactly was going on, but with all the weird shit that happened in such a short period of time, both of them were on edge, and Alex generated a new pair of flames in his arms, ready to strike if anything weird came out of the strange portal.
And when the creature that said the previous line stepped out, Alex was already unsure if it was weird or not. On one hand, it was a human. But on the other hand, it was a human that came through a portal!
It was a boy, around sixteen or seventeen years old with pale skin, crimson red eyes and snow-white hair with red highlights, and several long red bangs of hair covering the right side of his forehead. He was wearing a dark purple and red jacket with large white areas on his chest and shoulders over a white dress shirt with a black tie on it, dark purple pants with white kneepads, and sneakers whose colors matched his jacket. Also, black gloves, couldn't forget the black gloves.
"Who the fuck are you?" Kalin raised an eyebrow.
"Evan Aron Greyson at your service," the boy bowed. "At least for the moment. And you are the lucky bastards that just found the Omnimatricies, aren't you?"
"The Omni-what?" Kalin asked.
"Did you made these things?" Alex gestured at the badge on his chest. "How can we shut them off?"
"Ah, sorry, but I'm not the one that created these things," Evan clucked. "As for how to shut them down, I can't tell you right now, as you must figure that out on your own. I'll however tell you that the watches can stay active only for about ten to fifteen minutes, so you would return back to your human forms after that."
"And you know that because?" Kalin crossed his arms, unsure if they could actually trust this man.
"Ah, that's a long story that I won't be able to get into at the moment." Evan looked at his wrists. "But after about fifteen minutes, maybe? What's important right now, there are two alien drones that were sent to scout the area for those devices on your wrists. They will come from the west, so destroy them for me, will you?"
Alex looked back for a moment; the west was where they had come too. "Wait how you know tha-"
Alex turned to ask the boy, but by that time, he had already disappeared without a trace. Shaking his head, Alex turned back, starting to notice a pair of silver-colored drones that resembled birds coming down at them. The machines opened fire with blue laser beams and the two siblings jumped in different directions, dodging the attacks.
"What do we do?" Kalin asked.
"I know what I do!" Alex shouted and threw a pair of buzz-saw shaped fireballs at the machines, slicing one of them in two, while the other one avoided the attack and fired a blast that hit the boy in the chest, knocking him down.
"Fuck this!"
Kalin roared and jumped, the strength of his legs launching his body into the sky, right toward the remaining drone. The machine noticed the incoming treated and opened fire, but the red alien crossed his arms in front of his face and chest, the blasts hit his limbs, leaving painful burn marks, but he gritted his teeth, ignoring the pain, and grabbed onto the drone, the added weight causing it to start slowly dropping down.
"Chickens can't fly without wings," Kalin muttered to himself, as he grabbed the drone's mechanical wings with his extra pair of arms and tore them off.
This made the machine completely lose its flight capabilities and drop down on the ground with the four-armed aliens that were holding on to it. Both of them crashed into the snow, and Kalin was forced to let go of the machine as he rolled through the snow, with the machine right behind him.
"I'm somehow still alive," Kalin groaned, grabbing his head. "Man, this form is durable, huh?"
He glanced at the side, noticing the drone lying next to him. Suddenly, a whirring sound came from the wreckage of the machine and one of its eyes flashed as its chest opened up to reveal a small pair of blasters that it aimed at the larger red alien. Kalin went wide-eyed, but a moment later a fireball hit the drone's chest and it caught fire, the drone's entire body exploding into fragments that flew all over the place, disappearing under the snow.
"Two out of two." Alex stepped forward and put his hands on his hips with a smirk. "I'm practically a superhero at this point."
"You only took it off after I did the harder part for you," Kalin growled as he stood back up.
"Sure you did."
"Um, there's a large spaceship behind you."
"Sure there is."
"I'm being fucking serious!"
Alex's eyes widened and he looked back, seeing an odd-looking silver-colored spacecraft descent from the pitch-black sky. Alex raised his arm, generating a new fireball to hit it with, but suddenly his brother disappeared in a flash of silver light, catching him by surprise. Alex looked back, and as soon as he did, he was teleported away as well.
"So, um,"
"We're fucked?"
"Yeah, that seems to be the case."
Alex and Kalin were standing back to back in their alien forms on some sort of corridor, surrounded by four armored figures, each of which was looking pretty human with all the armor that was covering their bodies, though all of them appeared to be about two heads taller than a normal human adult, with long skinny arms that had a blank watch-like device on them, similar to the two brothers.
"I can already guess what those guys want," Alex muttered.
As if on cue, all the armored aliens raised their arms and slammed down the cores on their wrists, a silver flash of light surrounding each one of them, turning them into a red humanoid with portholes all over his body, a large humanoid made of bluish-green crystal, a large blue iguana-like creature and something that resembled Victor Frankenstein's monster with silver generators on its back. Seeing that trying to call it through was useless, Alex threw a fireball at them, but the red alien raised his arms and fired a blast of water that extinguished the fire and hit the boy in the chest, knocking him down.
The blue iguana opened its mouth and fired a bluish-ray at Kalin, who jumped over it and swung his fist at the reptile, but was stopped by a large crystal wall that formed between the two in the last second, taking the attack instead. The unknown red alien jumped over the wall and fired a blast of water into Kalin's face, blinding him for a moment, as the other alien landed behind him and tripped him over, knocking him down.
Alex ran over to the red alien and wrapped his arms around its waist, raising it into the air and then body-slammed it head-first into the metal floor. The large crystal wall retracted back into the ground and the blue iguana fired another ray which hit Alex in the chest, freezing a large area for a second, after which the ice began to melt from his heat. Alex looked up with a smirk, which was quickly dropped as a crystalized fist collided with his face, cracking some of the rock on his head.
"Ugh!" Alex grabbed his head in pain, and another blast of water hit him from the side, slamming him into a wall and knocking him out.
Kalin jumped back onto his legs and grabbed the crystalized alien by the shoulders then threw him at the unknown red alien, knocking them both down. The iguana fired another ice ray that Kalin jumped over and then charged at the reptile. He threw another fist that was intercepted by the Frankenstein Monster, which grabbed his fist and fired a silver electrical charge from the generators on his back, electrocuting the four-armed alien and knocking him back. He then charged forward with electricity cracking around his fists and started beating Kalin down, each hit sending electricity through the boy's body, causing his muscles to spasm.
After a few hits, Kalin's body collapsed on the ground, shaking from the electricity. The four aliens with black badges on their chests walked over the unconscious siblings and the blue iguana pressed the badge on his chest, reverting to its original form.
"Put those two in a cell, I'll go tell the captain that we have acquired the Omnimatricies." He told the others and walked off.
The remaining three looked at each other and grunted then grabbed the unconscious siblings and carried them over toward the prison sector of the ship.
"That was easier than expected." One of them said.
"Found by a pair of retarded kids," Another one chuckled. "Funniest shit I've seen."
Alex and Kalin sighed as they sat in the strange cell they woke up in. There were no beds or anything else, so they were sitting on the cold metal floor. The door was some sort of force field that neither of them was stupid enough to try and touch, at least not while they were in their normal forms. And talking about forms, the stupid devices didn't want to work anymore! Kalin's had turned from green to red, while Alex's simply showed a hologram of a triangle with an exclamation mark inside of it in place of the strange alien faces.
"I guess we won't have to explain any of this to mom and dad," Kalin sighed, leaning back against the metal wall. "If I just haven't thought of the stupid idea to make you chase me into the forest. Where are they taking us? What will fucking happen to us?"
"I don't know." Alex grabbed his head. "I don't fucking know anything!"
"Then it's a good thing that I'm here, isn't it?" Another purple portal opened in the center of the cell and Evan walked through it.
"Gonna break us free, eh?" Kalin grinned.
"Not exactly," Evan shook his head and walked over to Alex, swiping his gloved fingers over the screen.
After a moment, the watch beeped and projected a large screen on the wall across. The screen showed a tiny reddish alien with a large nose and white eyes that resembled a goblin. The brothers gave Evan a questionable look, but he raised his hand, signaling them to stay quiet, and pointed back at the screen.
"To the humans who have come across my inventions, my name is Zarmaruk. I've made a grave mistake that can mean the destruction of countless civilizations, including yours. My inventions, the Omnimatricies are the only weapons in the entire galaxy that could stop this threat. You've been chosen to carry this burden. I beg you, if for nothing else, for the sake of your own species, follow the coordinates that the Omnimatrix gives you!"
With those words, the transmission ended, and the Omnimatrix on Alex's wrist stopped projecting, shutting down once again, leaving the pair even more confused that they were before this message was shown to them.
"What. The. Fuck." Kalin said wide-eyed.
"Why did you show us this?" Alex turned to Evan and gestured at the device on his wrist. "And what are these… Omnimatricies?"
"Well, for beginners, I wasn't initially supposed to help you with any of this, but since your timeline has been rebooted, I figured that I might as well put my own fingerprints on the most important event that will guide your future." Evan crossed his arms.
"You're saying things and I don't even know what the words you say mean," Alex muttered, shaking his head.
"Then, important information dump," Evan pointed at the device on Alex's wrist. "The device you wear is called the Omnimatrix, it's a powerful alien technology that can transform its users into a multitude of different alien forms. The device your brother wears is the prototype version. You can also refer to the device as the Omnitrix, which is the shortened version."
"Omnitrix?" Kalin tapped his device. "I like that name."
"That's why I told you about it," Evan smirked and turned around. "Those devices exist all across the multiverse, though two or more copies are rare to exist at one time across the other universes and timelines. Thanks to this annoying fella called Zarmaruk, however, there are an endless amount of those devices now all over the galaxy."
"Like the ones, used by the guys that threw us here?" Alex asked.
"Exactly," Evan nodded. "Though their device is called the Prototrix, it's a far inferior version of the devices on your wrists, though sadly also a mass-produced one too. Your mission now is to find and destroy all of those Prototricies."
"Our mission?" Alex stood up. "I don't want any of this! Can't you just take the stupid thing and do all of this yourself?"
"This isn't my story," Evan shrugged. "As I already told you, your timeline has been rebooted. All of this had already happened once, you saved the world, so now you guys will simply have to do the same thing again, but differently. Plus trust me, you will want to keep this watch on, for what's to happen after that."
"So, we're stuck with this?" Alex narrowed his eyes.
"Yep," Evan nodded and gestured toward the barrier keeping them trapped inside the cell. "Think of this as your superhero origin. So, what you say we finally get out there and kick some alien butt?"
"You can get through the barrier?" Kalin asked.
"I can't." Evan gestured toward Alex. "But he can."
"Me?" Alex stepped back in surprise. "But my watch doesn't want to work? I can't do anything!"
"Oh, is that so?" Evan smirked, a moment later there was a beep and both siblings' Omnimatricies glowed. "Ah, just in time I see!"
"What did you do to it?" Alex pressed his fingers against the device and the wheel with the alien faces appeared before him.
"Nothing," Evan shrugged. "Your devices weren't broken, they simply require some time to recharge between transformations. Now, pick an alien and try to get through this barrier."
Alex nodded and looked down at his watch again, selecting a transformation at random. He slammed the core and his skin turned white and blue with a pair of tendrils shooting out of his back, while his arms and legs turned into similar tendrils. He turned into a jellyfish-like alien with blue eyes and the green Omnimatrix symbol on his chest.
"Hmm," Alex looked down at his body for a moment then turned back to the barrier and narrowed his eyes." I think I know how to do this!"
His body turned into blue electricity and he flew through the wall, disappearing from view. After a few moments, sparks began to fly out of the projects that were generating the barrier, which in turn began to flicker. The projectors then burst completely and the barrier disappeared, a spark of blue electricity shooting out of the destroyed projectors and turning back into Alex's alien form. He gestured at the exit and bowed.
"I think I'm starting to like the idea of being a hero," Kalin walked over to Evan. "So, what are we going to do next?"
"What do you think you should do?" Evan asked.
"Destroy the engines so the ship wouldn't be able to get too far away from Earth?" Alex asked. "Then probably take an escape pod back to Earth?"
"Hmm, is everyone on with this idea?" Evan turned to look at the younger of the two siblings.
"Eh, sure." Kalin shrugged.
"Excellent," Evan smirked. "Then I suggest you head east, there's a huge door with large alien symbols written in yellow. Can't miss it."
"You won't come with us?" Alex asked.
"Of course not." Evan chuckled. "I'm here to help you out, but you must be able to deal with the harder parts by yourselves. I'll however head to the bridge and stop the troops there from coming your way once they learn that you have escaped."
"Aw, I was itching for a fight," Kalin exclaimed.
"After we both got our asses handled to us back there?" Alex gave his brother a hard glare. "Are you serious?"
"Whatever," Kalin rolled his eyes and activated his Omnitrix, slamming down the core.
Kalin's hand expands while a yellow armor plate grows on the back of it. His torso arches backward as armor begins growing on his back and shoulders with his skin turning white. A black stripe appeared on his chest and his eyes turned yellow as a white Omnitrix symbol appeared on his forehead.
"So, um, what does this one do?" Kalin turned to Evan.
"Has very heavy armor plating and can roll into a ball at a very high speed," Evan explained to him.
"Not a stealthy choice, exactly." Alex narrowed his eyes.
"Just keep going." Evan waved the older sibling off. "Your chances don't seem too bad if you believe me, that is."
There was a rather big and impressive explosion that sent a few armored aliens flying face-first into a wall as an army composed of multiple aliens were firing all weapons that they managed to get their hands on at the intruders. Well, technically prisoners, but at that point, they were causing so much damage to the ship that they might as well have been an entire enemy army!
Alex flew past the blaster fire and pressed his tendrils against the ground, releasing an electrical charge that traveled through the metal ground and hit the aliens, electrocuting all of them. Alex narrowed his eyes and dispersed his body into electricity as Kalin rolled through and slammed into the large group of dazed aliens, steamrolling through them all. The electricity that composed Alex's body fused together once again, giving him a physical appearance as he stood next to his brother and looked toward the three aliens that were coming their way, each of them wearing a Prototrix.
There were three silver flashes of light and the three armored soldiers were replaced by the same crystal humanoid, red humanoid, and Frankenstein monster that had beat the siblings before. Alex turned into electricity once more and flew into the wall as the Frankenstein monster jumped forward with electricity cracking around his fist and swung at Kalin, who rolled forward. The two aliens collided with each other and the electricity which was supposed to shock Kalin instead empowered him, surrounding his outer shell as he powered through the Frankenstein monster's physical strength and ran over it.
The red alien fired a blast of water to try and slow down the rolling sphere of doom while the crystal alien slammed his fist into the ground, generating several crystals in front of Kalin's body that he slammed into and fell back, unrolling with a groan. Alex flew out of the wall and wrapped his tendrils around the red alien's arms from behind and released an electrical charge so intense that it almost friend the alien's brain and it dropped on the ground unconscious. The crystal alien roared and thrust his blade-like arm at Alex's head, but he dispersed his body into electricity and flew inside the silver badge on the alien's chest.
"Uh, oh." The crystal alien muttered and looked down at the badge as electricity began to shot out of it.
After a few moments, the crystal alien was forcefully reverted back to his normal form as Alex's body flew out of the wristwatch and waved at the armored humanoid. The armored alien looked down at his Prototrix, which began to shot out electricity and then exploded in its user's face, taking his arm with itself.
"How did you do that?" Kalin groaned.
"I figured that if it's a machine, I should probably be able to mess with it." Alex shrugged. "Watch out!"
The blue jellyfish alien flew behind his brother and fired an electrical charge that connected with an incoming purple-colored electricity blast. Kalin looked behind, noticing the Frankenstein monster who was groaning while standing back up, the generators on his back, firing a constant electrical charge that Alex was busy blocking to launch an attack. Kalin rolled back into a ball and charged the monster, which hit him with its fist from the side this time, slamming the yellow sphere alien into a wall, only for Kalin to bounce right back with even more momentum, slamming straight into the Frankenstein monster's face, knocking him out cold.
"I'm surprised how easily we beat those guys, considering the way we were the ones getting their asses kicked last time we met," Kalin commented.
"Plot convenience I guess," Alex shrugged. "Either that, or it's like Pokémon, where you got to pick the right alien for the situation."
"So, about that large door with yellow alien symbols," Kalin turned around, noticing a large door with yellow alien symbols all over it. "Yep, plot convenience must be at work here."
Meanwhile, at the bridge, the crew was running around in a panic, as calls came from multiple parts of the ship one after another about an Amperi and an Arburian Pelarota wrecking their way through the ship and the troops aboard. Everyone was busy checking screens and communicating with the troops that were spread over the entire ship, while the captain sat on his chair surrounded by the guards and glared at the armored soldier standing before him.
"Why haven't you disabled their watches?" the captain asked.
"Disabling those things isn't as easy as disabling a Prototrix; they are far more advanced and complicated!" the soldier exclaimed.
"Then grab some troops and stop them before they cause any more damage to this ship!"
A purple flow flashed behind the captain and he turned to identify it. What he saw was a single sixteen years old boy with a hood on his head that had cat ears on it and a long black sword in his right hand. His crimson orbs glanced at the aliens and he smirked as the sword in his hand unleashed a purple light that traveled through his body, encasing it in a suit of black demonic armor.
"Another one!" the trooper exclaimed and transformed into the blue iguana alien.
He opened his mouth and fired an ice ray at Evan, who swung the sword in front of himself, opening a portal that the ice ray flew through and hit one of the crewmates working behind the trooper, freezing him instantly. The trooper's eyes widened in surprise and he pressed the badge on his chest, transforming into a larger and more muscular version of Alex's fire alien, as the captain's guards joined him, transforming into a large humanoid dinosaur and a humanoid made from an indigo-colored rock with magenta crystals over it.
The fire alien threw a fireball at Evan, but the boy spun the sword in front of himself, creating a powerful whirlwind that extinguished the flame and was powerful enough to send all three aliens flying back. The humanoid dinosaur roared and grabbed the ground, holding on. Evan narrowed his eyes at that and charged toward the dinosaur, who stood up and threw a fist the size of Evan's entire body.
The boy hit the ground and skidded under the dinosaur's attack and legs, standing up behind it. He jumped up and stabbed the alien in the back, which made him roar in pain and swing his arm back, but Evan kicked against his back and made a flip in mid-air as he landed down between the dinosaur and the other two aliens. He swung his sword around, forcing all three of them to revert back to their normal forms, then did another three hundred and sixty degrees swing, slicing their heads off their bodies. The heads fell on the ground with dull thuds followed by their respective body as Evan stepped past them and pointed his sword at the captain.
"Who the fuck are you?" The captain asked.
"Just another human, I guess." Evan shrugged. "One, armed with the corrupted version of Ascalon, yes, but still just a human If I say so myself."
"You're not with the other humans, are you?"
"As a matter of fact, I'm." Evan nodded. "But don't let that worry you, the only reason why I'm actually here is that you weren't going to be able to send troops in time to stop them from blowing up this ship's engines either way."
"THEY ARE GOING TO DO WHAT!?"
"Which will cause a reactor meltdown that's going to make this entire ship blow up about ten minutes after they destroy the engines, yes." Evan nodded. "Shouldn't have made your ships that way, or else anyone could sabotage them."
"If this ship gets destroyed, you three will go down with the rest of us!" the captain exclaimed.
"Aren't the escape pods located right next to the engine room anyway?" Evan asked.
There were a few moments of awkward silence.
"Fuck," the captain cursed.
"Since you're going to die either way, what do you say we settle this with a duel?" Evan asked, waving the sword in his hand. "See, if you are any better than the others."
"You fool, I'm a captain of the Royal Navy!" the captain exclaimed as he raised his left wrist, which had a blank silver wristwatch on it. "I've got the best stuff! My Prototrix isn't like the other cheap garbage on this ship!"
There was a flash of light, and the captain was replaced by a tall metal humanoid with a floating head and black and yellow skin. He stretched out his pointed arms forward, grabbing Ascalon within a magnetic field that he used to pull it toward himself.
"You know, I've already seen that trick somewhere before," Evan commented with a confident smirk on his face. "Let me show you how it's actually done."
He swings the weapon, blasting the magnetic alien's white magnetic energy back at him. It collides with the captain's arms and spread to the rest of his body, causing it to explode with magnets flying in every direction and the alien's floating head fell on the ground. After a few seconds, the magnets around the room began to fly back together, reforming the body as the head flew back into place, and in another silver flash of light, he was replaced by a huge rocky humanoid with a molten lava core in the center of his chest. The new alien raised his arms and a white aura surrounded them, as Alex's body was lifted off the ground.
"Unfortunately for you, gravity is still a part of the forces driving this universe, therefore…" Evan swung his blade and his body slowly descended on the ground, no longer affected by the Galilean's gravity powers.
In another flash of silver light, the huge rocky creature disappeared and was replaced by a blue blur that collided with Evan, knocking the boy back a few feet. He stood back up and looked around himself as the blue blur came from behind him, hitting him, then again, and again, raining a merciless series of attacks on the black knight, who simply chucked to himself and threw his fist forward, managing to hit the blue blur straight into the face. The captain hit the ground and skidded to a stop. Another flash of silver light followed and this time standing against Evan was a large crab.
"The intellect of this Cerebrocrustacean should prove to be the edge that I needed," the captain exclaimed.
"Oh?" Evan raised an eyebrow. "Also about those engines, I believe they should be going up in flames about… Now!"
At that moment, a chain-reaction of explosions tore through the ship, and the entire back of the ship practically disintegrated as the explosions from the engine room reached the actual engines themselves and, well, the ship no longer had any engines quite literally. The shock from this reached even the bridge at the very front of the ship and the ground under Evan's feet shook like there was an earthquake.
"Think ten minutes would be enough time for you to get to the escape pods with those legs of yours?" Evan asked mockingly.
"Damn you, human!" the captain roared and opened the shell covering his brain, unleashing a wave of yellow electricity at his target.
Evan held the sword in front of himself confidently and the blade absorbed the incoming electric blast inside itself. Evan swung the blade once, creating a windblast that knocked the captain off his feet. He then swung the blade a second time, opening a tear through space next to himself that showed the captain's back, and fired a golden energy blast through it. The blast hit the crab in the back and launched his body forward, toward the dark knight, who raised his blade.
He brought the blade down, and the captain's body was sliced vertically in two pieces that flew around Evan and landed on the ground behind him. The dark knight sheathed his sword and in a purple flash of light, the demonic black armor that was covered from head to toe disappeared, leaving him in his old outfit. He looked at the remaining aliens, all of which ran out of the room in a panic.
Evan smiled to himself and walked over to the large console, which was showing that one of the escape pods has already been launched. In a flash of purple, the human disappeared from the bridge. A few minutes later, the entire ship exploded.
Even though five years had already passed since that day and the siblings had almost forgotten about the fight they had on the ship, and about its fate. Its wreckage was still floating around, lost in the dark vacuum between Mars and Jupiter. The crew's bodies had vaporized in the explosion, there was no sight of the terror and pain that those lost souls had to suffer in the last moments of their lives as the reactor exploded and tore the ship in two. To the rest of the galaxy, it was just another ship that had been lost to the void of space.
A single pair of green eyes stared at the wreckage of his own ship as they passed through the area. His eyes gazing over the destruction. This was nothing compared to the destruction that the Omnimatricies were capable of in the right hands. It was scary but also fascinating what the Omnimatrix was capable of accomplishing. There were so many possibilities, but he never got to see them before reality, because of Azmuth.
The Galvan's green eyes turned away from the floating wreckage and he focused on the green Omnitrix that was locked around his stomach like a belt. He had begged Azmuth to let him take care of the stolen Omnimatricies, offered him his genius mind, did his bidding for so many years as his assistant, and what he got for all of his hard work? He never got acknowledged, his ideas were always turned down by Azmuth. But no more of that! He was going to do what even Azmuth's latest creation couldn't accomplish. He was going to get the Omnimatricies back from those disgusting humans!
A slim green alien with long tentacles on her head and chin like those of a squid walked over to the Galvan and asked "Are you spacing out?"
"Just thinking, Myaxx." The Galvan told her. "Isn't it ironic, we, Azmuth's two assistants are the ones who went out of our way to come and reclaim the Omnimatricies while he's busy sulking back at Galvan Prime?"
"I don't care about that old geezer." Myaxx leaned forward and put a hand on her hips. "I'm simply not charged by the idea that I might one die day alongside half the galaxy because some idiot accidentally activated the watches' self-destruction."
"For all of Azmuth's talk about how the Omnimatrix should be a symbol of peace, he sure had no problems adding some destruction functions to it, did he?" the Galvan narrowed his eyes.
"That's the thing you butted heads with Azmuth the most about, wasn't it." Myaxx narrowed her eyes. "The Omnimatrix's destructive potential."
"That's all in the past now." The Galvan turned around and patted the Omnitrix on his stomach. "I'm no longer his assistant, so there's nothing to stop me from improving his work."
His Omnitrix was more powerful than those Azmuth built, and he knew it, but the galaxy needed to know that too! This was the entire point of this quest, to prove that his Omnitrix was the better one. That he was the true First Thinker about the Galvans. No, more than just that. He was the Ultimate Thinker!
