Author's Note: I just managed to get this one done yesterday. I thought it would take longer to get to this one, but once I actually started writing, I knew I couldn't put it on hold. This one here is something...special.
Earth-192
Bellwood, Pennsylvania
Near the edge of a public park stood a tall and firm white oak. It towered above all the other trees in the park, and it's branches stretched out far. The tree casted a large shadow that provided a nice escape from the glaring light of the summer sun. While one could reasonably expect to see several children huddled underneath it, perhaps daring each other to try climbing up on it, only one person was under its shade. It was a sleeping girl, who was slumped up against the trunk of the white oak.
"Kevin..." she faintly mumbled in her sleep. "...Ben…"
The girl looked to be between the age of ten to twelve. She had rather light beige skin and short, bright ginger hair. Her bangs were kept out of her face with a large blue hair barrette. She wore a long sleeved t-shirt that was two tones of blue, with a small, stylized cat face printed on the front, white pants, and white and blue sneakers. She was alone, with only the tree there for company as she slept. Sounds could be heard off in the distance. There were people yelling fat off in the distance, but those weren't what would break her out of her light slumber. No, that would be a single leaf that fell from the tree and drifted down, landing on the girl's face. It wasn't much, but it was enough to make her open up her vibrant green eyes.
"Where am I?" the girl asked herself as she took in her surroundings.
She stood up from the grassy ground and shook her head as she kept looking around the area. She walked out from the shade of the tree and over to a nearby stone path. Even though it was a sunny day, there were a few sizeable puddles of water, likely leftover from rain that must've preceded the current weather.
"I recognize this place; it's the park." she realized. "Well, Gwen, you must still be in Bellwood, but..."
The girl, Gwen, fell silent and stopped dead in her tracks right in front of a large puddle. In it, she saw her reflection. Gwen stared down at it in readily apparent shock. She touched her hands to her face.
"I'm...a kid again?! That's impossible!" Gwen yelled out.
Gwen stepped back and then calmed herself down rather quickly.
"Wait. No it isn't. This must be some alien weirdness." Gwen told herself. "Yeah, that must be it; something either sent my mind back in time or made me younger. I better find Ben."
Gwen began to walk throughout the park. While at first it seemed like she was the only one in the park, she soon spotted a group of four other adolescents all hanging out around a bench. They were all looking at a tablet computer that one of them was holding. From a distance, Gwen took note of their appearances.
"Hey, I went to school with at least two of them…but we didn't have computers like that back then." Gwen noted to herself.
Even though she was confused, Gwen walked up to the kids at the bench. She was doing her best to look casual and friendly. One of them looked up from the tablet and smiled when he saw her.
"Hey, Gwen." the boy greeted her. "I wasn't expecting to see you here."
The others looked up to see her too. Gwen smiled nervously. The boy who had addressed her by name was one of the kids she actually didn't recognize.
"I could say the same thing about you. All of you, really." Gwen responded. "Hey, have you seen Ben around?"
The four looked at each other with puzzled expressions.
"Who's Ben, Gwen?" another one of them, a girl, asked.
"Ben Tennyson, duh. He's my cousin who goes to our school." Gwen quickly explained. "I have to find him. It's a family thing."
"Sorry, but I'm afraid we wouldn't know, Gwen." another boy apologized. "We didn't even know you had a cousin."
"Yeah, you've never mentioned him before." the first boy commented.
"Seriously? That doesn't sound right. Have you at least seen any other kids around?" Gwen asked as she rubbed her forehead.
"You're the only one we've seen around here since my dad dropped us off." a second girl answered.
"Of course, we kind of had our faces buried in this." the first girl said while holding up the tablet computer. "These freaky aliens are so hard to just ignore!"
Gwen's eyes lit up.
"Can I see?" Gwen asked.
The girl holding the tablet nodded yes and handed Gwen the tablet.
"We were watching a video from yesterday. Crazy stuff." the second boy said.
Gwen promptly restarted the video the four had been viewing. It started with an older teen girl she didn't recognize showing off her new watch on her camera phone before there was a flash of pink light from behind a nearby building. A hard to make out creature then emerged from the same spot, jumping out onto the street. The girl in the video screamed in fright and fell over, but then zoomed in and started taking a video of the scene before her. The first thing Gwen noticed was a sort of metal disk with an almost hourglass like shape on it.
"Ben." Gwen whispered to herself.
The creature was only vaguely humanoid in shape and appeared to be made up of a dark gray substance resembling clay or wet cement. It had no mouth, but possessed large inhuman eyes that glowed pink.
"Mudrock!" the creature boomed.
"That's what people are calling it now." the second girl stated.
Gwen kept watching the video. Another figure ran out from behind the building. This one was a man in black armor, dark gray chainmail, a red-brown tunic and a golden mask.
"Is that Enoch?" Gwen asked herself.
"Who?" the first boy asked.
When ignored him and stayed focused on what happened next; Enoch pulled out a sword and left forward at the alien creature that had been named Murdock. He was yelling something, but it was hard to make out except for one part;
"No more will you besmirch the name of the Forever Knights!"
His blade became stuck in Mudrock, who then morphed one of their 'hands' into a crude tennis racket shape and smacked Enoch away into a nearby lamppost. Mudrock then ran up and coiled its amorphous body around Enoch, who screamed as his body was enveloped by the alien being.
"Oh my god! It ate the guy!" the girl filming the video shrieked.
Mudrock looked over in the direction of the girl and crossed its arms.
"Not true!" the creature loudly exclaimed.
Mudrock then expelled the man from their mucky body. He was unharmed, but was now dressed only in white boxers covered with red cartoon hearts, with only his ornate mask remaining over his face.
"No!" Enoch screamed angrily.
"Bye bye, Mr. Enoch!" Mudrock laughed.
The bizarre creature then leapt up onto a rooftop and hopped down over the other side. The girl filming the video then turned the camera back to herself.
"What in the world was that?!" the girl screamed. "That was nuts…"
The video then ended. Gwen quickly shoved the tablet back into the arms of one of the kids on the bench.
"I know, right? So crazy." the second boy said.
"I have to go! See you later!" Gwen shouted.
She then frantically dashed away. The kids on the bench seemed perplexed by her and how she was acting, but just shrugged it off and walked off to go fool around about the park as Gwen ran out of the was now on the sidewalk near a busy street.
"Ben's never had an alien called 'Mudrock' before. I have to figure out what's going on...and fast." Gwen said to herself. "His house shouldn't be too far…"
Gwen looked over at some street signs and quickly started to run in a particular direction, gaining a confident grin as she did. While she was still confused by her situation, she was certain things would be getting back to normal once she figured out what had caused it. After a good deal of running, along with a couple brief breaks to catch her breath, Gwen finally made it to her destination; a fairly large, one story suburban house that was painted eggshell white and had a reddish brown roof and doors. She walked up and knocked loudly on the front door.
"I'm coming! Just a sec!" a man called out from inside the house.
Gwen just crossed her arms and started to wait at the door, but then she recognized that yet another thing was off to her.
"Wait. That...that guy doesn't sound like Uncle Carl at all." Gwen observed.
She then looked over towards the mailbox situated near the front of the house's lawn. It was a fairly generic mailbox and she hadn't paid it any mind when she had arrived, but now that she looked at it, she spotted a detail that left her utterly stumped; on it were decal stickers that spelt something out.
"The Mason-Wells Family…?" Gwen read aloud. "Did I get the wrong house? No. No, this is the right address. This is so weird."
She then heard a click and turned around to see the front door opening up from the inside. In the doorway now stood a somewhat gruff, but not unapproachable black man who looked to be in his early forties, wearing a t-shirt and worn out jeans. The look on Gwen's face made it apparent that if she did know who this man was, she didn't recognize him. The man looked down and smiled at Gwen.
"Oh hello, young lady. Are you a friend of my son's?" the man asked.
"Ummm…I..." Gwen awkwardly mumbled. "...Hi, I'm Gwen Tennyson and I'm looking for my cousin Ben, Ben Tennyson. Did he and his parents move out or something? And who are you?"
The man shook his head.
"Well, Gwen, my name is Michael Mason, and I'm afraid you must be mistaken; My partner Harrison and I moved in here just a little over four years ago, and we didn't buy it from anyone named 'Tennyson'." he responded.
"Is something wrong, Pa?" a boy asked.
A young African-American boy who looked a little younger than Gwen then walked up to the doorway.
"Oh hey, it's Gwen." the boy said when he saw Gwen.
"You know this girl, Alan?" Mason asked.
"Yeah." the kid, Alan, confirmed. "She goes to my school. We've hung out during recess a few times."
Suddenly, Gwen's eyes lit up. The name Alan helped her recognize the boy for who he was.
"Alan Albright?!" Gwen gasped.
Alan looked up at his parent in confusion.
"...Albright? That's not my name anymore. Why'd she call me that, Pa?" Alan asked.
Mason looked down at Gwen and stared at her coldly.
"My husband and I had Alan's name changed when we adopted him." Mr. Mason stated. "How could you possibly know what it used to be?"
Gwen gulped and stepped back. Mr. Mason stepped out of the house and walked slowly towards her and the nervous Alan ran off into the house, presumably to his bedroom. Gwen stumbled and fell onto the lawn. She didn't know what to do.
"I'm not going to hurt you. I used to be a cop out in the country. Wait, you probably know that not all cops are good people...uh, well, unlike a lot of the cops I used to work with, I'd never hurt a child. That's why they fired me. Well that and being a gay black man, but they wouldn't admit that...Okay, look, the point is that you don't have to be afraid." Mr. Mason spoke to her as he walked up. "Everything will be fine if you just give me some answers…"
Gwen hopped up. She now had tears forming in her eyes.
"I'm the one who needs answers! I don't know what the hell is going on! Am...am I trapped in an alternate universe or something?! I don't know what's happened to me!" Gwen shouted.
Gwen broke down crying and ran off down the sidewalk. A concerned Mr. Mason tried to stop her, but he stumbled and fell onto the ground. By the time he got back on his feet, Gwen was too far away for him to possibly catch her. Alan opened up the door and zipped up to his father.
"What happened to Gwen?" Alan asked him, sounding worried.
"There's something wrong with that girl. She bursted into tears and ran off." Mr. Mason said. "No way am I running after her though. The last thing I need is someone thinking I threatened her."
"Pa..." Alan began to say.
"It's fine, Alan. It's fine." Mr. Mason cut him off.
Alan just hung his head down as Mr. Mason walked back into the house. The boy looked off in the distance and simply sighed, before walking back in himself. Far away, Gwen came to a halt at a bus stop by the street. She sat down at it and rubbed her eyes to dry her tears. What she didn't notice was that there was a man sitting near her. He was a light skinned man with short black hair and grayish eyes, and was dressed in a white lab coat over a brown vest, white dress shirt and black tie, and black pants and shoes. He looked at her knowingly.
"Why did I freak out like that?" she asked herself. "Not like me at all. I feel so...so helpless."
The man rested his hand on her shoulder. She looked up at the man, only having just noticed his presence.
"Ah, Gwen, I knew this would happen today." the man said kindly.
"Professor Paradox! You can tell me what's happened!" Gwen exclaimed, sounding highly relieved.
Paradox stood up and took Gwen's hand in his.
"Of course I can, Gwen, but first we have to go check in on Julie." he said to her.
"What does this have to do with Julie?" Gwen asked.
"I'll explain everything when we get there." Professor Paradox told her.
The two became consumed by a flash of white light. In less than a blink of an eye, the two were teleported onto the large flat rooftop of a tall office building in downtown Bellwood. Gwen was quick to notice that they were not alone up there; there was a fight going on between an alien and two burly men in black ski masks. The alien creature had hooved feet and was actually a few inches shorter than Gwen. It resembled a humanoid goat, right down to having small curved horns on its rather large head and pointy little ears. It was covered in light blue fur and had the same metal disk on its chest as Mudrock did. It's eyes were bulbous and were a dark violet color with squiggly red pupils. The creature was darting around, avoiding the masked men as they tried to land a blow on it. The creature looked over to see Gwen and Professor Paradox.
"Don't worry! I've got this!" the goat-like alien chirped.
One of the men lunged at the creature with clenched fists.
"Look out, Ben!" Gwen called out.
"Who's Ben?" the creature asked.
The creature dodged the attack and then hopped onto the man's head and stared directly into his eyes. Its eyes glowed lightly. They then leapt off of the man and hit the other one in the stomach with its horns, knocking him to the ground.
"So...dizzy…" the first masked man said as he startled to fumble around.
The alien then shoved the dizzy man onto his comrade, pinning him under him. The creature then moved both of their masks around to temporarily block their eyes. Just then, a hatch meant to provide access to the roof of the building flew open.
"The burglars are up here! They were chasing that goat thing that set off the alarm!" a man could be heard yelling.
The goat-like creature then gasped as the symbol on the desk on its chest began to flash a pink light. They jolted up to Gwen and Professor Paradox.
"Sounds like security, Paradox. I don't know why you're here with Gwen of all people, but I'd appreciate a quick exit!" the creature requested in a hurry.
"Hardly any trouble." Paradox chuckled. "We wouldn't want those security fellows to see the real you, after all."
The three were then teleported away in another burst of bright light. They then found themselves alone, standing in the decent sized backyard of another home in the suburban area Gwen had been running around in earlier. Gwen grabbed onto the alien's shoulders as the metal symbol on its chest continued to blink a pink glow.
"I'm so glad to see you, Ben! Today's been crazy! I have so many questions!" Gwen practically hollered.
"Gwen, I can explain everything."
"Why are people acting like you don't exist?! What turned me into a kid again?! What's with these new aliens?! How could Alan be living in your house with gay dads?! Not that the gay dads thing is bad but…"
"Woah! Hold it, Gwen! I have no idea what you're talking about!" the blue furred life form bleated.
The pink energy from the disk on the creature's chest then expanded round their body.
"Shouldn't this be green?" Gwen asked.
"One question at a time, Gwen. I know you're ten again but come on now." Paradox quipped.
The pink light faded away, having reverted the goat-like alien back to their true, human form. It was clear from the look on Gwen's face that it wasn't the human she wanted it to be. It obviously couldn't be her cousin Ben Tennyson, because this human wasn't even a boy. She was a lissome young girl of East Asian ancestry, with dark, soulful brown eyes and straight, medium length black hair that she had tied into twin tails, and wore a white overall skirt with some pink trimming over a short sleeved pink blouse, along with matching tennis shoes. Around her right wrist was a black and silver device that resembled a watch, with the symbol from the aliens' chests in place of, well, an actual dial with numbers. She was the same age as Gwen currently was and stood roughly around the same height as her. Gwen's mouth hung open. Professor Paradox's comment about checking in on someone named Julie now made sense to her.
"For one thing, why did you think I was a guy named 'Ben'? I'm Julie, you goof!" the girl, Julie, giggled.
The redheaded girl pointed at the device on the other girl's wrist and looked up at Paradox.
"Julie Yamamoto...has...the Omnitrix." Gwen stated to him.
"Yes, I knew that already." Paradox said to her with a nod of his head.
"I got it earlier last summer, Gwen. Don't tell me you forgot, because I know how smart you are." Julie said, resting her left hand on Gwen's shoulder. "We both know you've seen me turn into Vertigoat before today, for one thing."
Gwen pulled away from Julie and motioned at her with outstretched arms.
"So...I must be in an alternate universe! One where Julie got the Omnitrix because Ben was never born! That's got to be what this all is!" Gwen blazoned before confidently placing her hands on her own hips. "Am I right or am I right, Professor Paradox?"
"You're wrong. This is the same universe you were born in, Ms. Tennyson." the man before her answered.
Gwen promptly slumped onto the grass beneath her and wrapped her arms around her knees. Julie knelt down beside Gwen and placed her hands on her back, as a way to try and comfort her during her time of distress. Paradox also knelt down, but only with one leg, so he could be closer to Gwen's eye level.
"I...I guess nothing I remember is right." Gwen lamented.
Professor Paradox touched Gwen's hand.
"It used to be right, but it just isn't anymore. I think it's time I told you the truth, Gwen." Paradox said to her.
Gwen looked up at him.
"That would be nice of you." Gwen thanked him.
Finally, the time for answers had arrived.
"There was a great multiversal crisis, Gwen. Even now, I'm sure you remember a version of it that affected our world. Half of the population vanished." Professor Paradox began. "The heroes of our world came together to protect our Earth during the chaos that swept across it. Oh, it was quite the spectacle. The Powerpuff Girls from Townsville, the Sym-Bionic Titan of the Galalunans, those adventurous Saturdays, the remaining members of the organization called the Kids Next Door, a samurai prince from the ancient past…"
"...and Ben and Kevin and I as well." Gwen added. "Yeah, I could never forget."
"What? I didn't notice there, Gwen." Julie commented.
"That's because they weren't there when you were there." Professor Paradox informed them. "You see...I had to alter our reality shortly after."
"What? Why? Did we fail before?" Gwen asked.
"No. We won then too." Paradox answered. "We thought it was all over after the missing were returned, but I learned soon afterward that there was another, far different threat on the horizon. I discovered that this threat would ravage our universe if it remained the way it was. The threat I discovered was an army originally from a parallel universe. They are members of a race of shapeshifters known as the Skrulls."
"Wait. I think I've bumped into some aliens called that before." Julie recalled. "Except they aren't shapeshifters, and they just seemed like wanderers selling their old junk to whoever wanted it."
Paradox put his hands together.
"I can explain that if you allow me to continue." Professor Paradox said.
"I need to know. Please go on." Gwen requested.
"All right, this is a bit hard to explain, so I'll try and keep it simple," he said. "You see, I did something that none have ever done before; I changed the makeup of our realm of existence to make it so the Skrulls would lose their special abilities once they enter our reality from another. They wanted to invade our universe by changing into important individuals and stealing their lives. What I did stopped them before it even began, at least in our universe. Now? They are useless to their compatriots in other realities, and have been stranded here by them, having been deemed worthless. I saved our universe…but it came with a price. The universe couldn't be changed in the way I needed to change it without leaving things...significantly different than before."
"That's an understatement." Gwen said harshly.
"Don't go accusing me of being careless, Gwen." Paradox countered her. "You see, I decided to consult with Ben about what had to be done, and we both agreed that we should leave our history as close to the original as possible, with one sad exception; everyone and everything directly connected to him. He...sacrificed himself for this safer universe Gwen, and I did my best to have the changes be for the better."
Gwen suddenly slapped Paradox in the face. He could've stopped her, but he allowed it to happen. Julie held Gwen back before she could try to strike him again. He stood up as she did so.
"I was hoping you would take it better than this…but I already knew that you wouldn't." Paradox said solemnly.
He sadly placed his face in his hands. It was obvious that he wasn't happy with this situation.
"You wiped Ben out of existence and I'm supposed to feel better because you made me and Julie and Alan and whoever else younger and living different lives?! There had to be another way!" Gwen screamed, with tears of anger forming in her eyes.
Julie held onto her even tighter.
"Gwen, I am floored by this too! I thought getting the Omnitrix was my destiny or something! But you have to calm down! I'm begging you!" a distraught Julie pleaded.
"What did you do to Kevin?! Where is he in all this?! Tell me now!" a furious Gwen demanded.
"With his parents, Gwen. Including his birth father. Kevin Levin is a normal human boy in this reality, living a normal childhood, just like you now are. I even set it up so that the Levins will move here in a few years. Kevin's going to be your high school boyfriend." Professor Paradox answered.
This made Gwen pause and stop trying to get out of Julie's grasp.
"Really?" Gwen asked.
"Of course. I gave him a better life, one that he can later share with you." Paradox reiterated. "In fact, Ben asked me to make it so. I was able to set some things in stone. The same with Julie being the one to get this new version of the Omnitrix."
The increasingly surprised Julie Yamamoto let go of Gwen and stepped up to Paradox.
"Wait, so this Ben guy wanted me to get the Omnitrix? Why me?" Julie questioned.
Gwen then gasped and new tears formed in her eyes. She covered her mouth. Now that Gwen was aware of the truth, she was only just now remembering what had happened to Julie in the previous timeline. Professor Paradox looked at Gwen knowingly and nodded his head at her. Gwen now understood. Gwen darted up to Julie and hugged her.
"Because…he cared about you, Julie. Ben cared about you so much. Sometimes he would screw things up with you, but he really did care, and he wanted to know that you would be safe in a world where he wasn't around. That's...that's all I can bring myself to say." Gwen told her.
Julie hugged Gwen back.
"That's all you have to say then." Julie said to her.
Gwen smiled, but then turned around. Paradox was gone, nowhere to be seen.
"Huh? Where'd he go?" Gwen wondered.
"I don't know, Gwen. He was…" Julie started to say before blinking a few times and shaking her head, "...um...wait, who do you mean?"
Gwen shook her head too and rubbed it for a second.
"I...I forget." Gwen said.
Something about Gwen's tone of voice changed. It was subtle, but she now sounded much more like an actual ten year old girl, or at least what one would expect.
"Actually, I'm totally blanking too. Why'd you come over again?" Julie asked.
Gwen thought to herself for a couple of seconds and then snapped her fingers.
"Oh right! Now I remember!" Gwen smiled as her memories came back to her. "I saw some kids from school watching a video of you taking down that Forever Knight loser as Mudrock!"
"Oh yeah, that was just yesterday! Sorry I forgot to tell you about that!" Julie laughed.
Gwen slung her right arm around Julie's shoulder and the two began to walk into the Yamamoto home.
"Don't worry about it. You can make it up to me by showing what you did with his doofy knight getup." Gwen said.
"Aww, so you didn't just really want to see me?" Julie sarcastically asked.
"Don't pretend you don't love it when I geek out over you being Julie 33." Gwen playfully teased her.
Julie opened up the back door to her home and rolled her eyes at what Gwen just called her.
"Gwen, I told you not to call me that silly name you came up with. I mean, we both know that I can't even turn into half that many aliens." Julie reminded her friend.
"Yet." a smirking Gwen added. "Not yet. But once you do reach 33, I'm going to make sure it sticks."
"Good luck with that. It's not even that good a rhyme." Julie said as she walked into her house. "Hey, you wanna a glass of my dad's limeade? He makes it himself."
Gwen looked back at Julie's backyard and stared at it for a couple moments.
"Hey, don't leave me hanging. I'm already in the kitchen!" Julie called over from inside.
Gwen shrugged and turned back towards the door. Even she didn't know why she had
"I'm coming, Julie!" Gwen yelled back. "And sure, some of that limeade would be great right about now. Oh, and speaking of sweet things, I heard some girls at school say that Alan has a little crush on you..."
Gwen walked inside and shut the door behind her. Up on the roof of the house stood Professor Paradox, who looked rather somber.
"It was...nice letting them know what happened, if only for a little while." said Paradox, seemingly to himself. "You...did good, Mr. Tennyson. You were able to bring her back after she died."
His nose then twitched a little, and a glimmer came to eye. He gained a new, bemused expression and then glanced upwards, almost as if he thought someone was there, and said something that was truly, truly unexpected of him;
"Hello there, Stephen. I hope you enjoyed the 'show' and found it to be informative. Oh, and feel free to tell the Time Lord I said 'Hi' when you see him or her. Well, we should both be making our respective leaves now, so to speak."
He then winked and disappeared once again in a vibrant burst of light.
I think we all knew Ben 10 would become a part of Infinity Crisis sooner or later, but I didn't just want to do something "typical" with the property. This was the perfect chance to go wild with things, and make something no one would've expected. Feel free to tell me what you think!
Some Notes:
- Yes, this is indeed the same Cartoon Network based universe from The New Kids in Townsville and Of Mice and Mojo. Just a different corner of it. I figured a chapter of Glimpses would serve as a good place to expand on it a little.
- What Paradox said is true; He did something unprecedented and altered the Ben 10 related parts of Earth-192 in order to make it a place that strips all Skrulls of their shapeshifting abilities, making them less of a threat and saving it from the more aggressive faction's attempt to invade. Otherwise, the universe is the same as it was, except now Julie helped the other heroes during the Snap where Ben originally did.
- Julie's alien forms of Mudrock and Verigoat are fan created OC aliens, created by DeviantArt users TheHawkDown and Zigwolf, respectively. I thought they were neat and figured it'd be in service of the story to have them be among Julie's arsenal, so I asked them permission to use them in a story. Check 'em out over there if you like. They're good artists.
- In this new timeline, Alan Albright was orphaned and adopted by a couple who moved to Bellwood. Said couple are actually based on Sheriff Mason and Officer Wells, the two cops who were pursuing him in his first appearance in Ben 10: Alien Force. Here, I gave the two given names. Mason's first name of Michael is taken from voice acting veteran Kevin Michael Richardson, while Wells gets the first name of Harrison. Yup, he's the Earth-192 of Harrison Wells! I just couldn't resist.
- Paradox has met the Doctor at some point in time. The latter isn't particularly fond of Paradox due to him "stealing their act", but lets him do his thing anyway.
- As suggested back in Of Mice and Mojo, the Skrulls who were left abandoned on Earth-192 are up to something, but that's not a story for today.
- Do I even have to explain the references to other CN shows? I mean, the only one who wasn't mentioned by name was Jack.
- I was originally going to include Erin from Miguzi in here, by having it turn out that the version of the Omnitrix Julie has originally came from the underwater alien ship Erin and her alien pals hung out in. Julie got it from the ship when she went to visit Erin because they're second cousins or something. I already had a lot going on, so I cut that part. That detail is still canon to the story anyway, and I may find a way to work it in somewhere else at another time.
I thought I'd have more to break down, but I guess that's it for now. Well, I hope you enjoyed reading this. Goodbye for now!