I'm sorry about the wait guys. But like it happens to all of us, personal stuff gets in the way of my time to write on this site. I have stuff that goes on in my life, so I write this at my own speed. And for all of you guests in the reviews begging me for more stuff, constantly pestering me about is not going to make these chapters come out any faster.
Ben and Jen smiled as they looked around their new tricked-out headquarters.
"Man, how did you manage to find all that tech that Mr. Wainwright had in his RV?"
"Never underestimate Grandpa," Ben said as they fistbumped and Jen turned on the lava lamp on the shelf. "Hey, get me a soda?"
"Why not?" Jen said as she pressed a button on her Omnitrix and an ice-cold cola shot out of the vending machine in the corner and into Ben's hand. "Wait until we show Julie and Justin what we did with the place."
"So how much do we have left?" Ben asked as he sat down in his green translucent heated vibrating chair that was hanging from the ceiling and Jen sat in her pink one and they turned on the vibration.
"Well," Jen said, checking her phone. "After all the stuff we bought for the headquarters and the Plumber's construction drones creating our own rooms here, we should have... about $1,000 left. Each."
"Man, gathering that golden poop was simultaneously the grossest and the best idea we ever came up with," Ben said as they hugged.
"So, Ally bought bought everything we have in the game room now, including the foosball table and the pool table. I bought the 52-inch Plasma TV with the deluxe game system."
"Becky improved the weapons area to hold all of the weapons we've collected from our missions, including Rojo's old energy cannon from five years ago."
"Almost forgot about that thing," Jen chuckled as she smiled. "Kevin improved the garage and all our vehicles."
"Gwen managed to get Xylene to update our tech to update a fighting simulation room to help us train for our missions. We got Hope to lend us copies of her spellbook collection, the Plumbers Kids helped us with creating our rooms and getting most of our stuff over from our homes. What did you buy?"
"Most of the great fun stuff like every video game system in existence, a massive Blu-Ray collection for our movie-watching needs, and a communications system so we can call the Protectors thanks to our ties with Scarlett."
"And after all of that, our accounts thanks to our jobs as Plumbers is still going up," Ben said. "Man, can you believe that in about a year, we'll be set for life?"
"I think we already were when these things ended up on our wrist," Jen said. "Still, now that we've overhauled the place with everything we could ever need for our heroes duties and moving in here, this place is going to need a better name."
"Hmm," Ben said as they looked at each other. "How about..."
"Omni-Manor," they both said in unison.
"It's perfect! This place is basically our own personal mansion at this point!" Ben said.
"Now that we've all settled, we got to go see Julie and Justin at the movies."
"Right, let's go," Ben said. "Can't keep our others waiting."
"Oh, you're a great boyfriend to Julie."
"Well you're an even better girlfriend to Justin."
"Guilty as charged."
That was when some kind of holographic device similar to the ones they found when battling the Highbreed appeared at their feet.
"Huh?" Jen asked as Ben lifted the device up and a projection of a pale-skinned, purple haired alien girl was projected towards them.
"Dear Mr. Ben 10 and Ms. Jen 10," the little girl said. "My name is Probity. My mom and dad told me all about how you two saved the universe from the Highbreed. I hate war. Do you hate war too? Because if you do, I want you to come here and stop everybody from fighting. Anyway, even if you can't, I think you two are great. Thank you."
Ben and Julie walked up with Ship barking happily to them as Jen and Justin stood on the side, hugging each other while Gwen, Kevin, Becky and Ally stood sipping smoothies as the twins walked up to them.
"There you guys are," Ben said. "I've been looking for you guys all morning."
"We know," Gwen said. "We got the fifty messages you left."
"It wasn't fifty messages," Ben said, raising his hands.
"It was fifty each," Kevin said.
"You two sent them 200 messages?" Justin asked.
"Of course not, "Jen said. "They're just exaggerating."
"Okay, I get why you two brought them along, hon," Julie said. "But why us?"
"We couldn't get out of our dates with you and we couldn't turn this down either," Jen explained. "So we made the best of both worlds."
"We need you guys for a mission... it's off-planet," Ben said.
"Gwen and I have tae kwon doe practice tonight, guys. Sorry," Becky said.
"What about you, Kevin?" Jen asked.
"Yeah... no," Kevin said.
"Seriously?" Ben asked. "What about you, Ally?"
"Sure," Ally said. "I've been itching for action lately and I have nothing else to do this week."
"We love being the Omni-Team, Ben," Gwen said. "But we do have lives outside of it."
"Well, maybe you can say no to us," Ben said.
"But, we'd like to see you say no to this," Jen said as she activated the hologram of the little alien girl. "It was teleported into the headquarters this morning."
"Dear Mr. Ben 10 and Ms. Jen 10," Probity said. "My name is Probity. My mom and dad told me all about how you two saved the universe from the Highbreed."
"So you get fan mail," Kevin sighed. "What's the big deal?"
"Wait for it," Ben shushed. "You'll miss the important part."
"I hate war. Do you hate war too? Because if you do, I want you to come here and stop everybody from fighting. Anyway, even if you can't, I think you two are great. Thank you."
"So, there you go," Ben said.
"There you go, what?" Becky asked.
"Don't you get it?" Ally asked. "They want us to go to some other planet and end their war."
"Okay?" Justin asked. "I'll be glad to do it... as long as we don't get caught in the crossfire."
"And we need Ship to get there," Jen admitted to Julie.
"Sure, I don't see why not. That's why you wanted me to come too, isn't it?"
"Yeah."
"Okay, not that I'm even considering it, you guys, but how do you plan to stop a war?"
"Oh, we've got a very simple solution for that," Ben said as he and Jen fist-bumped with a smile.
Ben was at the pilot seat of Ship as he looked at the coordinates of the message and flew towards the warring planet.
"So how did you guys get so good at flying anyway?" Julie asked.
"Actually, it's footwork stuff," Jen said. "We don't know everything about it, but footwork we can do."
"How?" Justin asked. "You two don't strike me as someone who has good footwork. Well, maybe Ben when he's on the team with me, but still."
"I grew up practicing ballet and gymnastics," Jen said, running a hand through her long brown hair with the pink streak. "And Ben here, well..."
"Promise not to laugh or tell anyone?" Ben asked.
"We promise," said Julie, Justin, Kevin, Ally and Becky.
"Shortly after Becky disappeared, when Jen was taking ballet lessons, my mother signed me up for tapdancing lessons," he said. "That's why my footwork is so good in soccer."
"You took tapdancing lessons?" Kevin asked, laughing.
"Yeah. I was six and it was involuntary. Mom signed me up."
"Speaking of which, have you been talking with Shelby lately?"
"Who's Shelby?" Ally asked.
"An old friend that I made in his tapdancing lessons. I think she still lives in Bellwood, but I guess we just lost touch over the years. Especially after we became superheroes," Ben said. "Anyway, Julie, Justin. This is your first time ever leaving Earth. How does it feel?"
"Definitely weird," Justin said. "But it's not bad at all. I always wondered what other life there was beyond our planet."
"Me too," Julie said. "Ever since we learned the twins' secret, I was always curious."
"Why are we going there anyway?" Kevin asked, resting on the seat by Ship's window. "Everybody hates war. But nobody ever does anything to stop it."
"Maybe that's because there's never been anybody like us before."
"Oh, right. The great Omni-Twins Ben and Jen 10 are going to solve everything in one weekend," Kevin scoffed.
"It's a three-day weekend," Jen sighed. "And besides, we've solved plenty of problems in far less time."
"I like that the twins are willing to come all this way to help these people," Gwen stated.
"That's my boyfriend for you," Julie said, pecking Ben's cheek. "Always willing to help others more than he helps himself."
"You could learn a little of that yourself, Kevin," Becky said.
"War is like eating or sleeping, girls," Kevin sighed. "It's part of human nature."
"He's got a point," Ally admitted.
"He does and it's also not applicable here," Jen said, kicking back as Ben flew the ship.
"I think I know a little more about human nature than you two do."
"Yeah, human nature," Ben said. "These guys aren't human."
"It might still be a part of their nature, though," Justin said as Becky sighed.
"Okay, fair enough point," Jen said as the radar beeped.
"We're approaching the planet, everyone," Gwen said as everyone looked at the windshield to see the giant yellow planet in front of them as Ben squinted and noticed something.
"Is that a giant dotted line across that planet?"
"Yep," Ally said as the Omni-Team nodded.
"That definitely calls for a closer look," Becky said as Ben flew them in closer.
"Ship, lower us down!" Julie ordered.
"SHIP-SHIP!"
Ship lowered down to see some kind of vehicle dropping several blocks down to form a fence as everyone examined it.
"Okay," Gwen said. "Now we know where the fence came from but-"
Her statement was cut off when Ship was blasted, sending everyone crashing down as they saw tons of blue cannons blasting them out of the air, but they kept flying as Gwen generated a forcefield around Ship as he flew forwards.
"What are they shooting at us for?" Jen asked.
"Duh," Justin said.
"The fence must be some kind of borderline between the two halves of the planet. They must think we're the enemy," Ally said.
"SHIP!"
"Good boy," Ben said to Ship. "No shooting back."
"What?" Kevin asked.
"SHIP!"
"Okay," Kevin said. "I vote that we turn around and head home now. Gwen and Becky can still make their martial arts classes and as a bonus, I don't have to get shot at."
"Except we'd be throwing away a little girl's hope for a world without war," Jen said.
"Life's full of disappointments," Kevin said. "What is she? Five? It's about time she learned."
"War is a fact of life, guys," Justin agreed. "Probity will understand that when she's older."
"Jen," Ally said, taking her best friend by the shoulders. "I say this with absolute love. You and your brother may be the saviors of the universe, but you can't solve all the universe's problems."
"Maybe," Jen sighed. "But I really want to solve this one. It's a poor little girl. You know what that's like."
"Fine, just this once for my best friend," Ally said, sitting down with a shrug. "But next time something like this happens, can you promise to leave us out of it?"
"Deal," Ben and Jen said.
Soon enough, Ship crossed the fence and suddenly, red cannons were firing at them this time.
Feeling the jolt, the twins nodded as Ben stood up.
"Land us, Ship. We'll distract them. Jetray."
"AeroForce," Jen said as they transformed into the aliens and flew down to the cannons. "Wait, stop!"
"Have any of you ever heard of..."
That was when the twins transformed back and crossed their arms, standing back to back.
"...Ben and Jen 10?"
The soldiers started murmuring in wonder amongst themselves as the twins gestured to keep the praise coming.
"That's right. Ben and Jen 10. And we're here to tell you that war just isn't cool," Jen said with a smirk.
The red aliens murmured amongst themselves as Ben nudged his sister with a wink.
"See, war never accomplishes anything. It's pointless and-"
He was interrupted when an alien in red general's clothes stepped out and glared at them.
"Get them! I don't care if they're royalty or not!"
"Wait, what was that last part?" Jen asked as the aliens all aimed their weapons at the twins.
"Hey, if you want to get rough, how about a taste of Humungousaur!" Ben shouted as he slammed his core down and his sister did the same, only for them to trnasform into tow new aliens.
Ben was a was an alien made of living alien metal with a magnetically floating metal head surrounded by a glowing white aura and levitates in an arch between his shoulders. He has crab-like claws for hands (similar to Brainstorm's) and his body is mainly brownish-black with yellow feet, hands, shoulders, and chest.
Jen was a pink-scaled naga like alien with no legs and only a tail for her lower body. She still had her arms that had long sharp talons and a snake-like head that tapered into a cobra-like design and she had long sharp fangs with venom sacks behind them and her eyes became pink and slitted like a real snakes.
"Lodestar!" Ben shouted as Jen looked at herself and sighed. "Oh man. This is no time to shake down a new guy."
"Sssserpentina!" Jen shouted, her forked tongue flicking out of her mouth as she sighed. "Oh yeah, brother? Well, I'm not too much better off."
The red armored aliens blasted away at our two heroes as the lasers bounced off the two of them, both grunting out in pain at them.
"Cut it out!' Lodestar shouted as he raised his hand. Soon, a magnetic wave came out of his hand and attracted all of the aliens' blsaters out of their hands and into arm. What he didn't expect was for them all to blast into him and surround his body in blasters.
"Typical," Serpentina said as she slithered forwards and gave a sly grin as she bared her fangs and started to freak the aliens out.
"Oh, wait a minute," Lodestar smiled as he reversed his magnetism's polarity and sent the blasters crashing back into the aliens and he and his sister smiled.
"Now, as I was saying..."
A few minutes later, Ship came down and the others filed out of him as he morphed back to his normal form and bounced around the twins.
"Hey there, Sssship," Serpentina said with a smile.
"And so, you have to sit down with your enemies and talk with them," Lodestar told the red aliens. "They're human too, you know. Or whatever it is you guys are."
"Are those new ones?" Julie asked the regular members as Kevin sighed.
"Hey, who keeps track?"
The others walked up to meet them, but stopped to pick something up at his feet.
"*whistle* A generating power pack."
Kevin looked behind him and saw several military crates full of the stuff and smirked as Becky looked worried.
"Oh no," she said. "I know that look."
She followed him as Kevin reached into the crates to grab one, only for a certain porcupine alien to grab it too.
"Hey, hands off my... Kevin! Becky! Long time no see! You look different. Did you cut your hair?"
"No," Kevin said as Becky took her spear out and aimed it at Argit.
"Hey, I was just going to call you guys. I'll have that money I owe you all real soon."
"Uh-huh," Becky said, not letting her spear go. "What are you up to this time, Argit?"
"Nothing."
"We're wise to your act now, Argit. What's the scam?!" Kevin shouted.
"Oh, okay. I was going to cut you in, honest. These guys, they leave their weapons all over the place. So I scoop them up, paint them blue and sell them to the other guys. Low overhead, big profits."
Kevin looked on as Becky sighed and shook her head.
"Well, your overhead just went up. Come on," Kevin said as Becky shouted after him and Argit.
"We just made millions on the last mission we went on!" she shouted as Kevin left. "Greed, sometimes, man."
"Of course we want to hear your side," Ben said as the others grouped around him and Jen as the Red General spoke to them.
"Good. Because you have us all wrong. They attacked us. We are only defending ourselves."
"Really?" Jen asked.
That was when blue explosions occurred near them and they saw the blue army running towards their side and they gasped.
"Okay, I believe it," Ben said.
"See?!" the general asked as they ran away, leaving the twins alone as they sighed.
"Here we go again," they chorused as they transformed into...
"Spidermonkey!"
"Rockette!"
Spidermonkey blasted tons of webs at the blue soldiers, sticking them into place as Rockette stuck her tongue out and played an awesome solo that sent a pink sound wave at the soldiers, sending them all flying back as she twirled the guitar around her neck and smirked.
"War! Huh! What is it good for?!" Rockette asked as Spidermonkey nodded to her.
"Absolutely nothing!"
"Say it again!"
"It's one of those alien spider monkeys and one of those rocker aliens. You know what to do," the Blue General said to his troops.
Spidermonkey chittered and leaped onto a pole next to the Blue General.
"Are you the guy in charge?"
"I am."
"Then we need to talk," Rockette said, fingers flexing on the guitar strings.
"I am a man of action, not talk."
"Well look where it's gotten you," Spidermonkey said.
"Indeed," the Blue General said.
A missile suddenly fired up into the air behind him and the twins looked up, stunned at the spectacle as a cloud of green gas dispersed above them from the missile, sending them both into a coughing fit and they both hit the groundn, coughing up a storm as he looked upon them with a smirk.
"Look where it's gotten me."
As the battle continued on outside, Kevin and Becky stood in a metal tent by the fence with Argit as he spray-painted the red blasters blue.
"What's taking so long, Argit?" Kevin asked.
"Don't rush me, Kevin. I'm going as fast as I can."
They all heard a knocking on the door and Argit gathered some of the new blue blasters and went to the door that slid open the compartment to show the blue soldiers.
"Here you are, gentlemen. The finest blasters money can buy," Argit said as the soldiers handed him some multicolored gems. "Much appreciated and death to the red guys!"
"Argit," Kevin said as Becky facepalmed and Argit placed the gems in a large chest full of several mutlicolored gems.
More knocking was heard on the door opposite them and Kevin handed Argit some red blasters and the alien rodent handed them to the red soldiers, who handed him some gold nuggets. "Pleasure doing business with you. And death to the red-er-blue guys!"
More knocking was heard on the blue side's door and Becky sighed and got up.
"I still think this is stupid."
"I'm not expecting anybody this soon."
Becky opened the door and Gwen and Ally stood there with Justin and Julie, looking sternly.
"What's all this racket in there, little bro?" Ally asked.
"You didn't think I would keep this from my sister, did you?" Becky said to Kevin and Argit.
"I can explain."
"You're making money off other people's misery?" Gwen asked.
"Okay, I don't have to explain."
"Yeah, I thought you guys were already rich from that golden poop you sold?" Julie asked.
"She's got a point," Justin said.
"I thought you were here to help Ben and Jen?" Gwen said.
"Guys? When have Ben and Jen ever been in a situation they couldn't get themselves out of themselves?"
"Don't you see?" Spidermonkey protested as he and Rockette were tied together with rope and were tied at opposite ends of a wooden pole. "We are not the enemies!"
"We believe in peace!" Rockette agreed.
"Let us tell you who your real enemy is," Spidermonkey said. "It's war!"
That was his last words before he and his sister were gagged with two clothes and the soldiers took aim.
"Ready!?" the Blue General said as the soldiers took aim.
"Wait!"
Everyone turned to see the little blue-skinned girl from the message running up as she saw and recognized the two aliens.
"That's Ben and Jen 10! I'm sure of it!"
The soldiers murmured in wonder as the twins nodded.
"She doesn't know what she's talking about. Fire!"
The soldiers took aim and fired on the two, before they were instantly blocked by a mana force field.
"Hang on, guys! I can't hold on much longer!" Lucky Girl shouted.
Huntress came in from the wall and fired an arrow or two at the twins binds, slashing them loose as Justin and Julie came in and bashed the soldiers' heads in from behind as Kevin and Matter Girl took on the rest with a smile.
Probity helped the twins out of their binds as they transformed back and presented themselves.
"You really are them," the Blue General said. "So what do we do now?"
"Oh, I know," Probity said. "Let's eat!"
At the feast, the team was sitting at a table in the blue fortress with the soldiers surrounding them.
"So why did that general call us royalty?" Ben asked as Kevin looked nervously to them with a chuckle.
"Yeah, about that," Becky said to the twins. "Funny story. You do know the rules of a Conqueror's Challenge clearly state that the winner becomes the ruler of both worlds, right?"
"Yeah, so?" Jen asked before it dawned on her. "You mean..."
"Yeah. Because you two defeated Vilgax in a Conqueror's Challenge... that technically makes you two the rulers of Earth. And Vilgaxia, but of course he'll never let anyone take his throne from him."
"So," Gwen said. "Because you two are only sixteen, that would technically make Ben a prince and Jen..."
"I'm a princess?" Jen asked, stars in her eyes.
"Technically," Ally confirmed, sitting down. "But no one on Earth has to know that. You're only a princess by galactic law."
Jen started fangirling all over the tent as Ben shut her up.
"Just because we're technically royalty now, that doesn't mean we have to act any differently than normal."
"Right," Jen said, calming down. "Sorry, I just always fantasized about being a princess when we were little and now it's reality."
Everyone looked down to see the soldiers around them disgustingly feasting on the food in front of them like pure animals as Ben wiped the stuff off of his face with a napkin.
"Do you guys always eat like this?"
"We have to keep up our strength up for the war you know," the Blue General said between bites.
"Yeah, about that," Julie said. "I'll bet that Probity over there doesn't eat like this every day."
They turned to see Probity eating a pickle in a civilized manner and her pet lizard creature gnawing on a bone.
"Unfortunately, our citizens must sacrifice for the war effort."
"But what if there wasn't a war?" Jen asked. "Probity could eat better and maybe go to school?"
"Ben and Jen 10, I hate war too. But our neighbors keep attacking us. We have to defend ourselves."
"But the red guys said the same thing," Ben said, earning a strange look from the others.
"Wait, if both of you are just defending yourselves, then there doesn't have to be a war at all."
Everyone turned tot he twins, curious and Probity smiled gratefully.
Meanwhile, the blue soldiers stood at Argit's area and said porcupine alien handed them some new blasters, dripping with blue paint.
"Here you go, boys. Use them in good health," he said as Kevin stood behind him.
The sodleirs were just about to hand them some more gems, when suddenly...
"Wait!" a soldier said, pushing through everyone. "They've declared a truce! No more fighting!"
The soldiers cheered and tossed their blasters away, running for the hills and Argit looked down disappointed.
"This was the best scam I ever worked," Argit despaired.
"Don't worry. They'll be shooting at each other again in no time," Kevin said.
"You're just saying that to make me feel better."
The fence retracted back into the carriers, signalling the truce. And in one of those carriers, the team were waiting patiently inside as the two generals were having a meeting.
"I say he was red!"
"He was blue! I say any idiot knows that but obviously you don't!"
"Red!"
"Blue!"
"Red!"
"Blue!"
"Red!"
"Blue!"
"Okay, I give up. What are they talking about?" Ally asked.
"Zabin of course," Probity said.
"Who's Zabin?" Ben asked.
"He was the wisest man who ever lived. He gave us our laws and stuff like that."
Everyone looked out the window and saw a giant Lady Liberty-esque statue outside.
"There's his statue. They made it a long time ago. Now the paint's faded away."
"So no one can remember if he was red or blue, right?" Jen asked.
"You two are so smart. That's what all the fighting's about."
"Well that's a stupid reason," Gwen said.
"Yeah, my sister here is right," Becky said. "Who cares if he was red or blue or not. That's no reason to start a war."
"Say, did you call me an idiot?!" the Red General shouted.
"No, you're underqualified!"
The short red and blue generals shouted out and and leaped towards each other and started violently wrestling on the table.
"Hey!" Ben said as he ran towards them and was promptly pushed away, groaning out as Jen helped him up. "This is going to be tougher than we thought."
"No kidding," Jen sighed.
"But you're Ben and Jen 10! You can do anything!" Probity said.
"Hmm," Ben said as Gwen, Becky and Ally looked on.
"Oh no."
Jen transformed into Titanosaurus and slammed the two generals apart with her mace tail and glared with a grin as she transformed back.
"That's better. Now everybody shake hands," she ordered, but the generals simply refused to do so.
"Okay, we'll start," Ben said, holding out his hand to the blue general, who chuckled.
"Ha ha! There! That proves it! You were with them all along!"
The blue general departed in a huff and walked off with his soldiers and the red side did the same.
"Um, what just happened?" Justin asked as Julie asked.
"What gives, Probity?"
"You ruined everything!" she shouted. "You tried to shake with your right hand! We shake with the left! Everyone knows that!"
"Not us!" Ally said. "We're human, you're not!"
"Can we help what our dominant hands our?" Becky asked, throwing her hands up.
"Come on, men! We've got a war to win!"
Probity stormed off as the soldiers all grabbed their blasters again and returned to the battlefield.
That being said, tanks started charging towards each other and the fence was put back in place.
The twins only facepalmed and groaned in annoyance at what just happened.
"Death to the blue guys. Have a nice day," Argit said as he handed the red soldiers their freshly painted blasters and collected some gold coins, putting them in the chest. "I gotta hand it to you, Kev. You were right about the truce not lasting. How could you be so smart?"
"Experience."
Kevin reached into Argit's apron and took out a gold coin.
"Aw, come on! Cut me a little slack, won't you?"
"Why not?" Kevin asked, flicking the coin back to Argit. "We're in a growth industry, aren't we?"
The rest of the team watched as red and blue gun and cannon fire rained down on both sides of the fence. It was absolute madness down below as the seven teenagers looked on from a hill.
"If only they had talked to each other," Ben said.
"It seems like they were better off before they started talking," Gwen said.
"I don't think the talking's the problem, guys," Jen said. "It's the listening."
"And it's you, my fellow soldiers, who are the bullwork against the heathen blue horde who wrongly claim our Zabin as their own," the Red General said to his soldiers. "And who would have our children in school with blue trash? It is you who-"
An explosion rang out as Swampfire burst in and swatted the soldiers aside as he got to the general.
"Enough!"
A soldier blasted out, zapping Swampfire's head, only for it to instantly regenerate. He grabbed the Red General and walked off.
Meanwhile, the Blue General was giving a similar speech to his soldiers, only for massive vines to grab him from the ground and Blossom Rose walked in with a smile as she stretched her vines from her fingers to grab him and drag him off as well.
They arrived at a cave and Swampfire and Blossom Rose tossed the two generals to a clearing as they stood by and fist-bumped.
"What's going on here?" the Blue General asked.
"No one is leaving this cave until you two work out a peace treaty."
"Impossible!"
"That's what I told him!"
"Very well then," Swampfire said as he ignited some of his methane and blasted a fireball at the two generals.
They gasped in fear and ran away towards the far end of the cave.
"Yeah, that's what I thought," Blossom Rose said as she and Ben transformed back to human and went outside the cave to wait.
Then, the Red and Blue Generals walked out of the cave to meet up with the twins.
"Uh, Ben and Jen 10?" the Red General asked.
"Well, that was fast," Ben said.
"Did you two work something out?" Jen asked.
"Uh, no. We just want to know when lunch is," the Blue General said.
"There's not going to be a lunch!" Ben said. "Or dinner."
"Not until the pair of you come up with a peace treaty."
"You can't do that!"
"Do we have to break out the watches again?" Jen asked as she and her brother prepared their hands.
"Easy, Ben and Jen 10," the Red General said. "Violence never accomplishes anything."
"Did you hear what you just said?!" Ben shouted.
"He means random violence," the Blue General said. "War is orderly violence."
"Orderly violence?!" Jen asked, her eyes flashing pink.
"We need war, Ben and Jen 10."
"That's right! It gives people something to blame their problems on," the Blue General said. "If they can't afford houses or food or schools, it's the war's fault."
"If there were no war, they'd blame us for all that."
"Exactly. So can we go now?"
"Are you kidding? This is the first time you two have ever agreed on anything!"
"But-"
"Get back in there!" Jen ordered.
"OH!"
Inside the cave, the Red and Blue Generals shined a flashlight through the dark cave, trying to find another way out.
"There's got to be another way out of here," the Blue General said.
"Where did you get that?" the Red General asked, referring to the flashlight.
"What, this? It's just a crystalline light."
"Yes," the Red General said, taking off his monocle. "I've got this."
The Blue General smirked mischievously.
Night fell and the twins were asleep by the rock, groaning as they were approached by the two generals.
"Ben and Jen 10!"
"We've come up with something!"
"Finally," Jen groaned as they stood up.
Unfortunately, the Blue General shined his flashlight into their eyes and the Red General shone his monocle to the light, intensifying it and the twins were sent hurtling off of the cliff to their possible demise.
"Quickly!" Jen shouted as she crossed her arms and shouted out as she transformed into her Anodite form.
"Lifeforce!"
They both shouted out and formed a mana chute that caught them just before they went splat and then they glared upwards at the cliff.
"Okay, now I'm really starting to hate those guys," Lifeforce said as his sister nodded.
"You said it, bro."
Later on, the red and blue armies were gearing up for the battle of a lifetime.
"Men," the Red and Blue Generals said to their respective troops. "This fight isn't about land or money. It's about our honor and purity. And above all, it's about the reputation of the great Zabin!
"That's a laugh, isn't it, brother?" a loud voice said and they looked up to see the twins descending from the sky in their respective Anodite forms as they touched down on opposite shoulders of the Zabin statue.
"Took the words out of my mouth, sister," Lifeforce said.
"Don't listen to them! Charge!" the Blue General shouted to his troops and the two armies charged forward, firing everything they had... only to be blocked by a large mana wall dividing them.
"Idiots!" Jen shouted. "You're going to have to listen to us."
"A few days ago, we got a letter from a little girl who lives here. It doesn't matter if she's red or blue. All that matters is that she wants the war to stop!" Lifeforce said.
"Our friends said we'd never be able to fix everything in one weekend," Jen said as Probity watched on a hill with everyone but Kevin beside her, listening to the speech, a tear coming to Probity's eye. "Well, I guess they're right."
"So we've made a decision. We're going to stay here for as long as it takes until you two bozos come to your senses."
The two sides looked at one another as the twins smiled as they sat on the shoulders of the statue and Jen winked at her brother as he smiled.
"We've got nothing but time, after all."
The two armies looked at each other and started murmuring amongst themselves and the two leaders got out of their tanks and walked along the road towards each other and shook hands, reluctantly.
Everyone then cheered for the end of the war as the twins flew off the statue and pounded fists and Probity started cheering on the hill, jumping for joy as Justin and Julie smirked.
"Wow, your girlfriend and my boyfriend really are that amazing," Julie said, Ship barking happily in her arms as Justin nodded.
"They really are," Becky said.
A short while later, Ship was taking off, going up the desert runway and the twins sighed, smirking happily at their handiwork.
"I can't believe that you two managed to stop an entire war," Gwen said as Ben sighed.
"Hey, we're just that good," Ben said.
"We've done it more than once now, after all," Jen said.
"Guys!" they heard a voice as they saw Kevin and Argit running up to Ship, chest in hand.
"Jump!" Becky shouted as Argit jumped into Ship and Kevin continued to run as Ship started to take off.
"Kevin, grab my hand!" Gwen said as she and Ally stuck their hands out and Kevin held onto the chest of gems.
"Oh!" Kevin groaned as he tossed the chest away and grabbed onto his girlfriend and sister's hands and they pulled him into Ship.
"No!" Argit shouted as he panicked at seeing the chest fall off the cliff and one of his quills suddenly fired off from his back and bounced around Ship's interior before it suddenly slammed itself right into Jen's shoulder, causing her to yelp out in slight pain as Argit chuckled.
"Heh, heh. Sorry."
Jen rubbed at her sore back as the quill suddenly vanished from her shoulder and Justin, Julie and Ben turned to her, worried.
"You okay?"
"Yeah," Jen groaned. "I-I think so."
"This may not be good," Becky thought to herself as she and the others turned to Argit.
"So... you gonna drop me off back at Earth, eh?"
"Oh, no, no, no," Ally said to the little porcupine. "I was thinking more like the Null Void."
"No! I can't go back there!"
"Not our fault, Argit," Ben said. "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime."
"Dear Ben and Jen 10," Probity said into her holo-viewer as she walked down the desert road. "Thank you for ending the war that has been raging for so long. Now, I can finally go to school and be a normal girl. Sincerely, Probity."
Probity then looked down into a crater and saw the chest that Kevin had discarded.
"Hey, what's this?"
She opened the chest and gasped in awe to see hundreds, maybe thousands of gems inside the chest and she threw them in the air, happily. Now, she was rich beyond her wildest dreams. And it was all thanks to the Omni-Twins.
Next time on Ben and Jen 10:
Ben 10 vs. Jen 10