And new chapter! You don't know how long I wanted to write this episode, because I love Professor Paradox! He is one of my favorite characters in Ben 10 of all time, after Ben, Gwen and Kevin of course. Can't wait to see how you like the chapter and always remember to leave a review and a favorite...Anyway I don't own anything, except my OC'S

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{Episode 8: Paradox}

[The Past: 50 years ago]

The story starts in Area 51, where we see a bunch of scientists pacing around on a lab as they worked tirelessly on a large and mysterious device, which seems to be a large brown circular rock that is connected to the wall by wires and other various machines. The scientist's seems so focused in their work that some of them didn't noticed the General entering the lab, while standing on the other side of the room as he and a couple of more scientists were protected by an reinforced glass.

After being saluted by the scientists, the General placed his hands behind his back and scanned the room to look for someone. The General's eyes squinted as his eyes landed on a 40 year-old man working on a control panel, completely oblivious to the General as he was too engrossed on his work. The middle-age man had white skin with black hair, blue eyes and he was wearing a white lab coat, a brown shirt underneath with a black tie and green goggles that was hanging by his neck.

"Sure, this thing is going to work? Your time machine has cost the U.S. government a pretty penny doctor." The General said as the lab coat wearing man pressed a couple of buttons on the control panel, before stepping back to admire his work.

"The Chrono-logger is hardly a time machine in the sense of a vehicle, but rather a sub-atomic drill designed to boor a tunnel in the fabric of space time." He said in a stereotypical scientist type manner as he puts his hands on his pockets and faced the general. "As for the cost I think the alleviation of untold human suffering throughout history is amble justification, General."

"It will also give our 'red buddies' overseas a thing or two to think about." He says quietly to a scientist, who snickered in response.

"But to answer your first question, there is only one way to find out."

He says with a cheeky grin as he slipped on his goggles and started up the machine by pulling a lever. The General and the other scientists could only stare in awe as the center of the machine glowed white and soon the whole room was light up like a Christmas tree.

The goggle wearing man stood in front of the machine with an expressionless look on his face as one of the scientist, who was working on one of the control panels, looked over at the man and gave him a cautious look.

"You're certain we're safe, doctor?"

"I'm not certain of anything, Hugo." He says calmly, ignoring the freak out look Hugo was giving him." But the Chrono-magnetic field we generated should protect us."

"Should!?" Hugo says as he walked over to the man and noticed that the machine started glowing brighter. "Doctor, I-I'm frighten."

"Here, have a gumball." The man offered, while pulling out a bag of gumballs out of nowhere. "It'll calm your nerves."

He says as Hugo gave him a questioning look, before looking back at the machine as it seems to be sucking up everything in the room. The General and the scientists gasped in shock as the machine glowed brighter and soon everything was being dragged into the machine, including the man. The man calm expression instantly disappeared as he tried to run away, but it was futile as the machine was too strong and soon he was sucked into the machine. The General and the other scientists step backed in horror as two large bodies appeared out of nowhere and they both let out primal roars that shook the entire base.

[Present time]

The story then resumes back in the present, where we see Vanessa and the gang driving through the dessert as they drove up to an old army base, that looks like it was abandon for years. The gang got out of the car as Kevin walked up to a brick wall, which seems to be surrounding the whole base, and turned to his friends.

"You guys didn't really have to come. Gwen and I could've handled this alone, its nothing really."

"Doesn't sound like nothing. Weird noises, unearthly lights, rumors of weird creatures around here?"

"I only came, because I have nothing better to do." Vanessa says with a shrug as Zeda appeared out of the Zennatrix and crosses her arms. "And also because Zeda has been dying to find some action, since she missed out last time."

"Geez, I take one little nap to recharge my batteries and suddenly I miss everything!" Zeda says with a pout.

"Aw, don't be sad Zeda. I'm sure you'll get some action today, right Kev?" Vanessa asked Kevin, who looked away as he scratched his neck nervously.

"Um…"

"Kev?"

"Well, you see the dudes I heard it from aren't totally reliable." He said as Zeda pouted again and Vanessa gave her a pat on the back.

"Isn't that like a big bad boy thing to do? Come out here to the ghost town to drag race." Gwen says with an amused smile.

"How should I know? I just know them from the auto shop." He says as Ben, Gwen and Zeda stared at him blankly and pointed to a graffiti on the wall that says 'Kevin rules!' in red spray paint.

"Ugh, boys. Am I right, master? ...Master?" Zeda asks as she and the others turned to Vanessa, who had a spray can in her hand and was writing something on the wall. "Master!"

"Huh? What did I do?" Vanessa asks, while putting on an innocent face as Zeda frowned at her.

"Master, you can't do these types of ill-rotten activities! It's illegal! What if Sabrina saw you doing this?"

"What? I was just writing a short, but inspirational message to the world."

Vanessa says with an innocent smile, while throwing away the spray can as Zeda looks over her shoulder and saw the words 'Vanessa is number 1# bitches!' written on the wall with blue spray paint.

"Really?" Gwen asks, while face-palming as Zeda does the same.

"Anyway, Grandpa Max said Los Soledad used to be a big military base back in the 1950's. Some kind of research facility." Ben said, trying to get the mission back on track.

"Yeah, must've been some pretty serious research. Check out these walls, 50 years later and there still no way in."

"What about those huge holes in the wall." Vanessa said plainly as she pointed to a wall that had two huge holes in it"

"No way. These weren't here." Kevin says as he and the others entered Kevin's car and drove into the army base.

"Did anyone notice some of them are vaguely person shaped?" Gwen asked as Kevin parked the car in the center of the base.

"Weird. Maybe something-I don't know-burned through the wall." Ben as he and the others got out of the car.

"A Pyronite, maybe?" Vanessa asked Zeda, who looked around the base with a thoughtful expression on her face.

"Hmmm, I don't think so. Not even a Pyronite can burn holes with that much precision, plus I didn't pick up any high level of heat signature from the holes. We should probably keep looking around for clues."

"Like this?" Ben says, while pointing down at the multiple trails on the ground.

"Look!" Gwen says, while pointing at a pile of boles on the ground.

"Ew!" Vanessa says, while backing away from the corpse in disgust.

"This is a bird." Ben says, while bending to inspect the bird and saw another pile of bones. "And these a lizard bones. They're fossilized." He says as he reaches his hand out to touch it, but Vanessa slaps his hand away before he could.

"Don't touch it! Who knows how many diseases that thing has!?" Vanessa says as Ben raised his hands in surrender and backed away.

"Who knew you were such a neat freak?" Kevin said, while laughing as Vanessa huffs and looked away.

"I'm not a neat freak! I just think that thing is super gross and I don't want Ben getting infected or something!" Vanessa says as Kevin laughed again and ruffled her hair.

"Guys, you should check this out!" Gwen says, while standing near a telephone booth that had a loose wire in it. "It seems those animals weren't the only thing that were fossilized. It's like someone turned the slate into sand by standing on it."

"He was probably on hold." Kevin quipped as Vanessa snorts and raise her hand.

"Nice."

She says as Kevin grinned and gave her a high-five. Ben eyed the telephone booth with a thoughtful look on his face as Zeda flew by his side and poked his shoulder. Gaining his attention as Zeda flew behind the telephone booth and pointed at the ground, where a large trail was seen.

"Nice find, Zeda." He said as Zeda grins proudly at the praise. "It seems this trail leads to the police station, then to does-I guess they're apartments." He said, while examining the ground.

"Just to review someone stood here a millions years ago and then walked to those apartments that were built 50 years ago?" Kevin asked.

"You're not helping. These could be signs of serious DNAlien activity, and it's up to us-"

"DNAliens are not doing this!" Gwen says, while interrupting her cousin. "Does that looks like a DNAlien to you?" Gwen asks, while pointing at something as the gang turned around and saw a large blue creature heading towards them at high speeds.

"Finally something worth the gas." Kevin says, while absorbing the ground below.

"…Okay, what the hell is that thing?" Zeda asked as Vanessa brought out her Zennatrix and planted it above her chest.

"It kind of looks like a giant lava lamp." Vanessa says as Ben brought out his Omnitrix and slammed the core down, causing a green light to occur and once it disappears, we see him transforming himself into Chromastone.

"Chromastone!" He says as Vanessa slams her Zennatrix down and transforms into Hyper-Bolt.

"Hyper-Bolt!"

She screams as she speeds pass her team and rushed at the mysterious creature. The creature didn't seem to be faze by her as it easily sidestepped away and headed towards a building. The gang chased after it as the creature scraped against the building and caused it do de-age as it became unstable and started tilting over.

"Look out!" Ben screamed as Vanessa grabbed Gwen and sped off, while the boys rolled out of the way as Zeda stood still and let the building fall on top of her. The gang panted heavily from the close call as Zeda floated off from the rubble of the destroyed building, obviously unharmed since she was a hologram, and floated over to her teammates.

"Great. He got away." Hyper-Bolt said with a deadpanned voice as she and the others noticed that the creature was gone.

"Man, I barely did anything." Zeda says grumpily as Vanessa and Ben transformed back to normal, while Kevin took off his armor.

"At least the building it destroyed wasn't the library."

"You really love the books."

"She is saying we have to do research, find out what that thing is. All we know so far is that it's looking for something here on the base." Ben said as Vanessa turned to Zeda and nudge her shoulder.

"Hey, Zeda. You wouldn't happen to know what that thing is, right? Is it an alien?"

"Even if it was, I wouldn't know. And that's saying something since I basically know every single alien life-form in the universe, thanks to my father." She said, before grabbing her friends hands as she started leading them towards Kevin's car. "Come on, lets not dilly dally. The faster we find the nearest library, the faster we can solve this mystery."

{Time Skip}

The story then skipped as we see Gwen working on old computer at the library, while the rest of the team stood by her as they waited to see what she find.

"This films are really corroded, but it looks like this base was built was some kind of time experiment called 'Project Paradox'."

"Who wouldn't pick the dessert outside of Bellwood to do some top secret research?" Kevin said sarcastically.

"They built it here, because of the huge quartz deposit." Ben said.

"How do you know that?" Vanessa asked as Ben shrugged.

"Quartz time? Maybe they were trying to build the worlds largest wrist watch?" Kevin said, trying to make a joke but it failed miserably.

"Boo!" Vanessa said as Zeda looked closely at the computer screen and saw a photo of a man.

"Who is that?" She asked as Ben looked over at the screen, but couldn't find his name.

"I don't know, his name has been censored. Whoever he was, his paradox theory was the basis of some kind of experiment tunnel through time."

"Lets check out the lab where the experiment was held to see if we can find any more clues." Vanessa suggested as she and the others headed out to the lab where the experiment took place.

"Whoa." That was the one word that the gang could only utter at the sight of the deserted lab. The lab was a complete mess, like no one was bothered to clean it up after they left it. But the weirdest part was that there was a large machine at the end of the room and the equipment around it seems to stretch into it.

"Looks like my place after that big party I threw last weekend." He said as Vanessa gasps dramatically and puts a hand in her heart.

"You had a party at your place and you didn't invite us? How rude." Vanessa says as Kevin rolls his eyes at her.

"Trust me, you can't handle my type of party's." He said with a grin as Zeda floated above his shoulder and gave him a confused look.

"You have a place? I thought you lived in your car." Zeda asked, causing Vanessa to laugh as Kevin glared at the confused AI.

"Guys, look! That thing has been here too" Gwen said, while pointing at the burned trail on the ground.

"Only one trail. Either it came here and vanished..."

"...Or it was born here." Gwen said all mysterious like.

"Geez. If that machine is the mother, then can you imagine who the father is?" Vanessa quipped and before anyone can retort, a loud and gravelly noise was heard throughout the lab.

"Its here!" Zeda screamed, while generating electricity in her arms.

"Look, if this is about the father quip, I apologize!" Vanessa screamed out loud with a scared grin as Ben activated his Omnitrix and transformed himself into Swampfire.

"Swampfire!" Ben screamed as he ran into another room, where the growl was coming from, and grabbed something from out of the shadows. "Got you!" He screams as he pulled up a figure, who turned out to be the man from the news article.

"Swampfire? That takes me back...or is it forward? Its so hard to tell, Ben. Have we met?" The man asked as Ben stared at him confusedly and let go of him.

"How do you know my name?"

"Have we met yet, I suppose the question was." He says as he ignores Ben's question, either it was intentional or not, it was hard to tell.

"Hey, its that dork from the photo, the paradox guy." Kevin says, recognizing the man's face.

"You haven't changed at all in 50 years." Gwen says with a shock look, not believing how young the man looks.

"Oh, considerably more than that. Gumball?" He asked, before raising an eyebrow as he saw Vanessa eying him as she stood beside an armored up Kevin. "I'm sorry, but...who are you?"

"I'm, Vanessa. But the better questing is, who are you?" She asked, but the man ignored her as he walked up to her and inspected her. "Um, what are you doing?" She asked a little bit creeped out from the man's intense stare as he looked down at her Zennatrix and snapped his fingers in realization.

"Ah, yes. Now I remember you, your Vanessa Ashido Cunningham! Sorry I didn't recognized you at first, my dear. But your hat and glasses covers your face very well."

"Your middle name is Ashido?" Ben asked Vanesa, who was embarrassed to have her middle name revealed to her friends.

"Yeah, I don't like talking about it. Anyway, who did you know my middle name?" Vanessa asked as the man put a hand on his chin and gave her a thoughtful look.

"Tell me, my dear. Are you the Vanessa that is Ben's best friend and went with him on his summer vacation or are you the Vanessa that ran away from an abusive father and joined Ben's team later on?" He asked as Vanessa went pale at the mention of her father and looked away.

"Uh, the second one I guess." Vanessa says quietly as Ben and the gang gave her a concern look.

"Splendid!" He said, completely unaware of the gang's angry looks. "Sorry for making you relive tragic memories, my dear. But I needed to confirm."

"I-Its okay, I guess." Vanessa says, while looking at the floor as Swampfire walked up to the man and glared at him.

"Who are you? What's your name?"

"You just read my files, I was rather hoping you could tell me. It slipped my mind several hundred years ago."

"Did he just said several years?" Kevin said, not believing what he just heard.

"Did you just said-Hey!" Swampfire asked, before letting a surprise shout as the man suddenly disappeared and reappeared at the other side of the room.

"By the way did you happen to see a space time anomaly around here did you? About ye big, incredibly destructible, virtually unstoppable. No?" He asked, but he didn't get a respond since the teens were staring at him in shock. "I must be thinking of a another time. Ta-Ta!" He said, while walking into a room as Kevin chased after him, but to his shock the room was empty.

"Where did he go?" Vanessa asked as Gwen looked out the window and gasped.

"He's out there!" She says as Ben and Vanessa walked over to her and saw the man leaning on a lamppost with a calm expression on his face.

"He's obviously connected to the creature, we need to talk to him."

Oh yeah, we'll talk" Kevin said, before suddenly charging through the wall as the gang stared at him, shocked over his rash actions. "Right, after I pound him!"

He screams as he charges at the man, who only grins at him as he went behind the lamppost and disappeared again. The gang sweat dropped as Kevin let out a yell and ran through multiple buildings, effectively destroying each in every on of them.

"Was in there?" The man said, suddenly appearing by Vanessa's side as she turned to him and her jaw dropped.

"WHOA! WHERE THE HELL DID YOU COME FROM!?"

She screamed, while pointing at him as the man grinned at her surprise face and took off her glasses.

"HEY! GIVE THOSE BACK!" She screamed, while covering her face as the man made a 'Come and get me' gesture and ran behind a house. Ben instantly reacted as he ran inside a house and blew up a wall to catch up to the man, but he disappeared again.

"That was public property you know?" The man said as he suddenly appeared behind Vanessa, who turned around to face him as he put on her glasses and disappearing again.

"Whoa, how does he do that? I don't think even Hyper-Bolt can move that fast" Vanessa said as a cough was heard, causing the gang to turn around as they saw the disappearing man standing by a local building.

"Its called walking, young Cunningham." He said, before appearing by Kevin's side. "Strolling, really?" He says as Kevin walked forward and grabbed him by his lab coat.

"That's better."

"Easy on the lab coat, its twelve hundred years old. Anyway, thanks."

"For what?" Swampfire asked, confused by the man's question.

"Well, I had a feeling that if we made a loud enough racket he'd showed up." He says as the gang looked around and saw the blue creature from before showing up from out of nowhere.

"Finally something we can hit!" Kevin said excitedly, not noticing the nervous look the man was giving him.

"Oh, I really don't that is a good idea!" He warns as Gwen as looked over the creature and observes closely at the trail it makes.

"Those trails, they're not burnt marks. They're aged. The creature can accelerate time!" Gwen concluded.

"Very good." The man says as Zeda looked at the creature flabbergasted, not believing what she was hearing.

"B-But that's impossible! Only Chronosapiens have the power to reverse time! How is this possible!?" Zeda screamed as the man laughed at her freaked out look and patted her head.

"Oh, young Zeda don't fret. There is a lot of things about the universe that you still don't know about." He said as Kevin ran pass him and charged at the creature, completely ignoring his friends screaming at him to come back.

"Not so fast, ugly!"

He screamed as he threw a punch...only for it to go through the creature's body as his armor came off and soon his whole body started aging. Kevin doubled over in pain and fell on the ground as the creature ran off and the man went after him, Ben and the rest went over to check up on Kevin as they turned him to his side and gasped in horror as the creature made Kevin grow into an old man.

"Kevin!" Gwen screamed as Vanessa and Zeda helped the old man up to his feet, while Ben changed back to normal.

"Just touching that thing aged him 60 or 80 years. We got to get him to a hospital." He said worriedly as Vanessa gave him a look.

"Uh, Ben? I'm not sure a hospital will help him, what we need is the fountain of youth." She says with a grin as old Kevin came back to his senses and glared at the girls holding him.

"What are you doing? Get your hands off of me!" He says with an old man voice as he brushed off the girls and dusted off his pants.

"Come on, Kevin. We're going to get you some help." Gwen said, while giving him a concern look.

"What do you mean help?! I'm gonna kick that things keister!" He said angrily, while kicking the ground as Vanessa chuckles.

"Did you just said 'keister'?" She asked as Kevin glares and pointed a finger at her.

"Don't laugh at me, Cunningham! Or else I will-AH!" Kevin said, before howling in pain as a loud crack was heard.

"Are you okay?" Gwen asked

"My back is killing me, my legs ache, and what's up with these shoes!? Is it too much to ask for a little support?" He ranted as Zeda looked him over and hummed thoughtfully.

"Huh? He is acting like an 80 year old man."

"Yeah, a real irritated short-tempered grouchy old man." Gwen said as Kevin put his hand on his ear.

"Why are you whispering?"

"In other words aside from the male-pattern baldness, he is pretty much the same as always." Ben said as he and Vanessa snickered. "Come on, old man. Lets go find you car." He says, while grabbing Kevin's hand.

"Why are you whispering again?" He asked, but they ignored him as they headed out to find Kevin's car.

And done! Fun fact I was originally planning on doing the original Ben 10 series with Vanessa as Ben's cheerful and perky best friend that joined him on his summer adventure, but then I decided against it since I wanted them to have a romantic relationship and with how arrogant and childish Ben is, that is clearly never going to happen.

Anyway as always, I will talk to you all later.