Ross saw that he was now back in Madame Vik's mansion in the middle of the forest. She looked terrified of him for some reason, which was a good feeling to Ross. Then, somehow, he knew to grit his teeth again. When he did so, he saw that a golden light shot from the inside of his mouth again.

When it hit Madame Vik, she turned solid gold.

The white abyss appeared in front of Ross again, and as always, it disappeared after only a few seconds. He was getting really tired of having to fight his old enemies over and over again.

When the abyss was gone, Ross saw he was in outer space. He was wearing a space suit and had a space creature coming right at him.

Ross immediately remembered who it was. It was Zodie, Zozu's wife. Ross then saw to his horror that he was on a missile and steering it straight towards an asteroid so that it would hit the rock instead of the earth and destroying it. In other words, Ross was about to commit suicide to save the world.

Ross jumped off of the missile just as Zodie was about to stop him from running it into an asteroid. As a result, Zodie was on the missile when it exploded on the asteroid, ultimately getting killed in the explosion.

Ross turned around, and he saw that Zozu was out of the space station and was firing laser blasts at Ross, trying to kill him for killing Zodie and foiling his plans to destroy earth again.

Ross fired a laser blast from his space weapon and hit Zozu's helmet with it. The glass part of the helmet shattered, exposing Zozu's head. Zozu's head instantly froze solid, and Ross watched as Zozu's lifeless body began floating into outer space.

After seeing the white abyss again, Ross saw that he was in a secret lair for nuclear testing. And Mr. Dawnson, the nuclear physicist, was right below Ross on a platform and ready to tie Ross up so he couldn't interfere with the warhead being detonated.

Thinking quickly, Ross saw the warhead in front of him and kicked it, causing it to fall off the platform and right on top of Mr. Dawnson, crushing him.

After defeating Mr. Dawnson, the white abyss appeared in front of Ross again. When Ross could see what was around him again, he saw he was on top of a building in the middle of the night. And standing right next to him was Dennis, Ross's father now. And hovering in the air right over them was Ubels, a phantom who Ross had accidentally set free when he got into his new school.

In Ross's hands, he saw he was holding a gun that looked like a mini-bazooka. It was the Ray of Light, the weapon Ross had created for him to fight back the ghosts in his school.

Aiming, Ross fired the Ray of Light and hit Ubels right in the stomach with it. The blast went right trough Ubels, and soon, Ubels began vaporizing.

The white abyss cleared, and Ross hoped that would be the last one, mostly because that was the last adventure he had been on. And indeed it was. When the abyss cleared, he found himself back in the room he was in before Maverick had literally blasted him to the past. Bien and Mike were still tied up, and Beth was tied up with them. However, the giant weapon Maverick had created was gone, and Maverick was gone with it.

"Ross!" Mike yelled. "Where were you?" Mike yelled.

"Mike, you're not going to believe this," Ross said. "Maverick actually sent be back and made me fight all of our enemies that we've had to beat on our previous adventures."

"What?" Mike asked. "You mean like Baron and Mory and Zozu and all those guys?"

"And a lot more of them," Ross said. "I'm lucky to be alive after having to take all those jerks on again."

Ross looked around and finally realized what it meant now that the robotic weapon and Maverick were gone. Yet still, Ross still had to ask.

"Where's Maverick and the weapon?"

"Maverick got in the weapon and left in it," Beth said, sounding really scared about what's going on. "He's going around the village and probably destroying everything in his path!"

Ross covered his eyes in his hand and shook his head. He couldn't believe how deadly Maverick was turning out to be. This was not what Ross was expecting from a monk.

"By the way," Mike said, "I think I finally figured out why this all started."

Ross looked at Mike curiously. "What do you mean?"

"Remember how Maverick said that this happened all because we broke a stick and he claimed that was "interfering" with the past?"

"Yeah. Why?"

"When Maverick started taking that giant robot-like thingy for a ride, I noticed something that was keeping the thighs of the robot from separating from the calves. The two parts were connected by several wooden rods."

Ross couldn't believe it. "So you're saying the wood that we found in the woods when you saw your camping trip was actually something Maverick was using to build this? No wonder he was so angry; we broke something that was part of this giant thing that he was building."

"Yeah," Mike said.

"We shouldn't worry about that now," Bien said. "We've got to stop Maverick before he does anything too dangerous with that."

"Well, what are we supposed to do?" Mike asked. "It looks like we're going to have to destroy that thing from the inside, and there's no way we're going to get into it if it's moving like that. We'll get crushed!"

"Grrr…" Ross said. "We're going to have to find some way to get it to stop moving."

"How are we going to do that?" Bien asked, trying to shine some common sense on the two teenagers. "We've got absolutely nothing that will cause that thing to stop or even slow down."

"Or maybe there is," Beth said, looking like she was just coming to a realization.

Ross, Mike and Bien turned to her.

"Really?" Mike asked. "What's that?"

"Maverick may be directly controlling that machine out there, but it's detecting radio waves that can help it sense what Maverick is doing in side this temple somelace," Beth explained. "All we have to do is destroy the temple, and that should stop sending the radio waves out to the machine."

Mike stammered before finally saying, "Destroy the temple?! How are we going to do that?"

"We're not," Beth said glumly. "I am."

"What can you do?" Bien asked.

"If I hook myself up to that memory machine and dump all my memories in at once, it should be too much for the computer to handle," Beth said. "The result should cause the memory machine to explode."

"Explode?!" Ross yelled. "Won't that kill you if you're on this thing when it blows up?!"

"Duh," Beth says.

"No way!" Mike yelled. "There's gotta be some other way."

"There isn't," Beth said, trying to put on her bravest look.

"Come on, Beth," Ross said. "You can't honestly go and blow yourself up just to stop that robot thing."

"Ross!" Bien yelled, grabbing Ross by the shoulders and spinning him around so they were staring face to face. "Beth said she's willing to do it. She's willing to make that sacrifice."

"But Bien…"

"Ross!" Bien snapped again, only louder this time. "I may not remember much when I was an archaeologist, but I do remember a few things. I remember the times when my comrades would get killed in their work, whether in a digging accident or an attack by bandits or anything. They died, and it was very hard to get over it. But accepting death is part of life."

"Bien, you can't really think that's going to make it better or easier," Ross whined.

"Of course it's not going to make it easier," Bien said. "Accepting death is never easy. But it's a part of life, and you need to deal with it."

Ross had no idea what to say. Bien gradually lifted his hands off of Ross's shoulders. As Bien took his hands off his shoulders, Ross turned back to Beth.

"Beth…"

"Ross, don't worry about me!" she yelled. "If you don't want to stop Maverick, then I won't do this. But if you do, get out there!"

"But…"

"Come on, Ross," Mike said, not sounding like he was objecting to Beth's plan at all.

Ross didn't have much choice. Yes, he wanted to stop Maverick, but there had to be some way to do it besides Beth sacrificing herself.

Beth hopped in the chair and started turning the machine on. She started hitting an assortment of buttons to get all the settings right.

Mike and Bien were running out of the room, but Ross stayed behind and watched as Beth continued hooking herself up to the machine. When she was fully in, Beth looked and was unhappy to see Ross was still there.

"Go!" she commanded.

Ross didn't hesitate knowing another moment. Knowing that this was officially the last time he'd be seeing Beth, he ran out of the room and down the long hall of the temple and out the front door. He ran outside and saw that the giant robot-like machine was on the loose, and Maverick was piloting it.

Ross stared in complete horror as Maverick continued going through the entire village and destroying everything in his path with it. Was this payback for something? Was Maverick really doing this just to show how powerful he was capable of being?

Meanwhile, in the room with the memory machine, Beth was dumping every single thing in her memory into the machine. She hoped her overload plan would work.

All the memories of her life flashed, knowing that each passing memory was another instant closer to death. The last thing she saw was an image of Ross disappearing from her mind.

"Good-bye, Ross…"

Outside, Ross, Mike and Bien were watching the giant machine as Maverick continued making it stomp all the houses and all the obstructions in its path.

Then, from behind, a loud explosion was heard. Ross jumped and turned around. A giant fireball burst from the room Beth was in, completely destroying that part of the temple of the Finis Tempi.

"Beth…" Ross said. He knew there was no way she could have survived that explosion.

But just as Beth predicted, Ross turned around, and the machine stopped dead in its tracks. It was now stalling, and before long, it was completely still.

"Beth was right!" Bien yelled. "Let's not have her sacrifice go to waste!"

"Right," Ross said.

That instant, the three of them started running towards the giant machine and started trying to figure out a way to get Maverick out there and destroy the machine.

"Look!" Bien yelled, pointing to a small latch on the underside between the machine's legs. "It looks like there's a door there. One of us has to climb up there and try to open it."

"Have Ross do it," Mike said. "If he can climb a statue, he should be able to climb up that."

Ross didn't say anything. He hopped onto the leg of the machine and started trying his best to climb up it without losing his grip and falling.

"Keep breathing…keep breathing…keep breathing and don't look down," Ross kept telling himself as he climbed up the leg.

He went higher and higher, and from self-pressure, he found it much harder to keep a firm grasp on the cold metal. He kept worrying that he would slip and fall to the ground below and be too hurt to fight.

When Ross finally was as high up as he could get on the machine's leg, he reached out and tried to punch the part that looked like it could break open. After smashing it with the side of his fist a few times, it finally opened. The latch opened up and a long, metal staircase came down with it.

So THAT'S how Maverick designed this, Ross thought to himself. He must have had a remote control or something like that to cause this latch to open so he wouldn't have to climb up the leg every single time.

Ross climbed down, and when he was back on the ground, he was greeted by Mike and Bien.

"Great work, Ross!" Mike said, giving Ross a few hard pats on the back.

"It's not over," Bien said. "We've got to climb up there and stop Maverick from causing any more destruction."

"Right," Ross said. "Let's go."

Ross, Mike and Bien started running up the metal flight of stairs. The stairs were fairly wide and made loud clanking sounds whenever anything came into contact with them.

Then, a nasty surprise found the three friends on the stairs. Right in front of them, two shadows appeared. One shadow looked exactly like Pox, except it was completely black, except for the eyes, which were a shade of gray.

Right next to Pox was a shadow of Zozu. Zozu looked exactly the same, except his eyes was also gray, as were his claws and teeth.

The shadows of Ross's deceased enemies started closing in on Ross, Mike and Bien, and none of them had expected the attack.

Ross started by running over to Shadow Pox and threw a punch right into his face. Shadow Pox got knocked backwards and onto the metal railing. Ross took this opportunity to quickly start bashing his foot on top of Shadow Pox's face.

When it looked like Shadow Pox was about to be finished, Shadow Zozu started sneaking up behind Ross and got its sharp claws ready to attack. But just as it was about slice Ross open from behind with those claws, Mike and Bien grabbed Shadow Zozu from behind and pulled it backwards, causing it to fall back-flat on the metal stairs.

When Shadow Zozu was lying flat on the stairs, Mike and Bien went over to its feet and pushed forward, causing Shadow Zozu to started falling backwards down the long metal stairs, making loud grunting noises as it fell.

When Shadow Zozu landed on the ground at the bottom of the stairs, it moaned in pain. Then, it slowly started disappearing into thin air.

Meanwhile, Ross was having considerably good luck taking care of Shadow Pox. He kept punching Shadow Pox over and over and over.

After punching Shadow Pox a few more times, Shadow Pox finally started hissing loudly. He started disintegrating like he did when Ross defeated him years before, but now, the black that was making him up was vaporizing into the air as well.

Before long, Shadow Pox and Shadow Zozu were gone.

"Yeah!" Mike said.

"Mike, Bien, those were shadows of my dead enemies," Ross said, turning to both of them. "Maverick must be doing this."

"You mean there might be more of them?" Bien asked.

"It's possible," Ross said. "Now we've gotta get a move on. Maverick is still inside this thing."