Hurrying inside the giant machine, Ross, Mike and Bien were soon inside the torso. It looked very plain with metal walls for siding and a concrete floor. The only thing in the room was a staircase in the corner that led upward, where Maverick supposedly was.

But as Ross, Mike and Bien walked in, they got another surprise. Just as Ross predicted, there were more shadows formed by Maverick waiting for them.

Forming right in front of their eyes from black mist was the shadow of a kid who looked about the same age as Ross and Mike. There were visible scars on his face, but other than that, he looked very plain. It was Mory, who Ross hadn't seen for over four years. All of Mory's clothes were black, but his skin and anything else was a shade of gray.

The one next to him was a shadow of a woman who looked like she was showing her age. She had puffy black hair and large, circular earrings and long fingernails. Like Mory, her clothes were black, but everything else was a dark shade of gray on her. It was a shadow of Madame Vik.

The third and final shadow was one that resembled an already ghostly figure. He had very human-like features, except for that his eyes were much wider than they would be on a human. He was completely black except for his eyes, which were a bright shade of gray. This was a shadow of Ubels, Ross's main enemy in his last adventure (who was already a ghost).

"Uh…how about we all take one?" Ross suggested when the three shadows started closing in on them.

"I'll take the weird woman," Mike said, heading over to the shadow of Madame Vik.

"I'll take the ghost," Bien said, heading over to fight the shadow of Ubels.

"Guess that leaves Mory to me," Ross said, heading over to Shadow Mory.

When Ross started battling Shadow Mory, Shadow Mory started by lunging for Ross and hoping to tackle him to the ground.

Ross jumped out of the way just in time and Shadow Mory landed flat on the ground. Ross immediately pulled Shadow Mory up by the back of his shirt and started punching him in the head over and over. Shadow Mory eventually started fighting back and when Ross wasn't expecting it, Shadow Mory rammed his fist into Ross's stomach.

Ross fell onto the ground with the wind knocked right out of him. Gritting his teeth, Shadow Mory started grabbed Ross's head and was about to try to snap his neck out of position.

A split second before that, though, Ross grabbed one of Dark Mory's ankles and pulled him to the ground. Dark Mory fell on the ground with a hard thud. Ross sprung up and then grabbed Dark Mory's head, and then snapped it out of position.

Dark Mory slouched onto the ground and started slowly disappearing. Ross wasn't affected by this, though, because he hadn't really killed anyone. The real Mory had been dead for over four years, after all.

Meanwhile, Mike was busy fighting Shadow Madame Vik.

Madame Vik wasn't really a good fighter, so neither was her Shadow. All Mike had to do to defeat Shadow Vik was to slam her in the face with his fist several times over. Once that was done, Shadow Vik was already in a much weakened state.

Taking advantage of this weakness, Mike dragged Shadow Vik over to the latch that they had just climbed up in. With one forceful shove, Mike pushed Shadow Vik out of the machine and she went tumbling down the metal stairs, quickly and painfully.

When she reached the bottom, Shadow Vik slowly started disintegrating, just like the other Shadows before her.

That just left Bien to take care of Shadow Ubels. Shadow Ubels was the toughest of all, because he actually had several attacks that would prove very useful.

Shadow Ubels actually got the first hit when he stuck his fingers right into Bien's chest. Since Shadow Ubels was a ghost to begin with, he still had all of his ghostly abilities.

Bien screamed in pain as Shadow Ubels continued performing some sort of attack as his hands passed right through Bien. After several seconds, Shadow Ubels pulled his hands out.

Bien was breathing heavily as he tried to recover from that last attack. When he looked up, he saw that Shadow Ubels was doing something else. In a quick flash of darkness, Shadow Ubels had transformed into an exact copy of Bien, except he still had the black and gray shades that all Shadows did.

Bien was shocked at that ability, but he didn't have time to stammer because of it. If he wanted to survive, he would have to keep fighting very quickly. And so he did, firing punch after punch after punch.

Shadow Ubels was as crafty as he his living counterpart was before Ross blasted him, though. He was able to move incredibly fast, and as a result, Bien couldn't land a single hit on him.

"Bien looks like he's in trouble," Mike said wearily to Ross.

"I know," Ross said. "Come on, there's no way that Ubels clone can take on three people at once."

Ross and Mike ran over to Ubels and started surrounding him. Shadow Ubels looked around and hissed angrily when he saw that he was surrounded, and not knowing who to take on first or thinking about who would be the most dangerous, Shadow Ubels instead pushed himself out from between his three opponents.

"Not so fast!" Bien said, jumping in front of Shadow Ubels when he tried to make a getaway.

"You're not going anywhere!" Mike yelled.

Ross looked at Mike and Bien and gave them all a signal to punch Shadow Ubels. When he counted down from three with his fingers, all three of them balled their hands into a fist and smashed it right into Shadow Ubels's face.

Shadow Ubels hissed in pain, and slowly he started disappearing like the other Shadows. In a matter of seconds, he was completely gone. The room was quiet then, with only Ross, Mike and Bien's breathing able to be heard.

"Man, those black things were much easier to beat than their real versions were," Ross said, slightly out of breath. "I mean, I needed to use a blaster or something like that to destroy Ubels about a year and a half ago."

"We can hear your stories later!" Bien said sharply, cutting Ross off. "We've still got Maverick to take care of."

With Bien leading the way, the three friends ran to the staircase in the corner of the room and began climbing it. The spiral metal staircase was a little cramped, but the trio had to do their best to ignore it and go as quickly as they could.

At the foot of the stairs was a large metal door. There was no doubt in Ross's mind what lay beyond it.

"Maverick must be behind that door," Ross said, gulping. He turned to his two friends. "This is it. There's no going back after this. You guys ready?"

"Come on, Ross," Mike said. "We've just killed a bunch of black shadow versions of some of the things we had to fight years ago, we're inside a robot thing in the late eighteenth century with an archaeologist who lost his memory, and a friend from your child hood just committed suicide to help you defeat the guy she sided with, and now both your life and my life are screwed up because of what Maverick did to you on that machine. Don't go making it any more dramatic."

Ross scowled. He took the side of his fist and started rapidly banging on the door with it. "Hey! Maverick! We know you're in there, and we just creamed those shadow things you sent out at us! Open up the door and we won't hurt you!"

There was the sound of glass shattering coming from behind the door, and then there was silence. Ross, Mike and Bien listened for a while. There was nothing to be heard after that.

Without even saying anything to either of his friends, Ross kicked the door open. He and his two friends were stunned at what they saw.

What was in front of them was no doubt the room Maverick was operating the machine from. There was a solid wooden chair sitting behind an entire panel of buttons and joysticks. There was a very large window in front of the control panel, and it was smashed open.

"He didn't jump out?!" Mike exclaimed. "We're, like, forty feet in the air. How could an old geezer like Maverick survive that fall?"

"I think I see how," Bien said.

Ross and Mike went over to Bien, who was now standing right in front of the smashed window. Leading down from the smashed window was an inflatable slide that was extending all the way to the ground.

"No way," Mike whined. "Maverick had an emergency slide equipped? Maybe he was anticipating that two teenagers and some archaeologist were going to come and stop him."

"Come on, Mike," Ross said. "We've gotta find him. He can't be too far away."

"Look!" Bien yelled, pointing to somewhere on the ground.

Ross and Mike looked where Bien was pointing, and they saw he was pointing to the temple of the Finis Tempi. And Maverick was running up the stairs and inside it.

"We've got to chase after him," Ross yelled.

All three of them jumped on the emergency slide and started shooting down it. The ride was surprisingly smooth, but in just a few seconds, it was over. All three of them were back on the ground and were running right for the temple.

As soon as Ross put his foot on the first step of the stone stairs leading up into the temple of the Finis Tempi, something just went off in his mind that triggered a sense.

"This is it," Ross thought to himself. "When we find Maverick in this temple, a fight is going to break out and it'll be the end. Something is going to happen now."

When the three friends ran inside the temple, they saw the entire west side of it was blown to bits due to the explosion Beth created when she dumped all her memories into the machine, causing to overload and explode.

Since the west part was completely destroyed, that would only give Maverick the option of either heading east or straight. Ross and Mike deduced that he'd try to get as deep into the temple as possible, therefore, going straight would be the logical choice.

They reached the center of the temple in just a few short moments. The only thing that was there was a wide empty space with a pedestal in the center. It was that pedestal where Ross and Mike were when Maverick teleported them to the past for the first time. And standing right behind the pedestal was Maverick.

"Maverick!" Mike yelled.

Maverick scowled and seemed barely aware of the fact that he was trapped now.

"Maverick, listen," Ross said, "we don't have to fight. We just wanted to stop you from completely destroying this town with that thing you created."

Maverick started snickering. "Then how am I supposed to show my power?" Maverick asked.

"What?"

"I need to prove to everyone that if you need to conquer something, then time is the way to do it. Some say it's knowledge that conquers all; some say it's strength; they're both wrong. It's time."

"You're crazy. You know that, don't you?" Mike asked.

"You're not proving anything other than that you're a jerk who wants everyone to be afraid of him," Bien said.

Maverick was completely silent. Ross soon got irritated by the silence.

"What? No apology?" Ross snapped. "You tried to kill me. You tried to kill Mike. You tried to kill Bien. Because of you, Beth is dead. You've taken the process of time travel and used it to create a weapon that you're only trying to use to make people afraid of you."

Maverick put up both of his hands like he was some sort of martial artist. "Don't misjudge me," he warned.

"So, you want to fight, huh?" Ross said. "I've tried talking to you, Maverick. But if you're only going to listen to my fists, then fine!"

Ross immediately put up his two fists in a fighting stance, and Mike and Bien followed by doing the same.

Maverick stared at his three enemies before the necklace around his neck (the one Ross was somehow wearing the day this entire mess got started) started glowing a pale cerulean color again. Somehow, Maverick looked like he had just gained a lot more power, and the blue glow started clouding around his fists.

"Get ready," Ross yelled as Maverick started approaching. "Here he comes!"

Maverick suddenly lunged at the three friends with the blue glow around his hands growing increasingly violent with each passing second. He was soon taking savage swipes at anyone who was close to him.

"This guy's insane!" Mike yelled, backing away. "Where'd he get all this from?"

"Impressed now?!" Maverick yelled as he ran over to Mike.

Maverick put his two hands together and started forming a giant bright blue ball in them. He got ready to launch it at Ross and Mike simultaneously until Bien jumped Maverick from behind and tackled him.

Maverick fell to the ground and the blue ball of energy flew out of his hands. It passed by Ross and Mike's head and out of Maverick's control, just barely missing the two teenagers.

Ross and Mike split up and started heading at Maverick from two different directions while he was still on the ground. They ran over to him and started kicking him as hard as they could, hoping that they were injuring Maverick too much to have him get up.

But Maverick suddenly started to glow the strange cerulean blue all over him. It was the same blue that came from his necklace. When the blue was all over his body, he suddenly shot up and sent massive blue shockwaves throughout the entire room.

The shockwaves sent Ross, Mike and Bien flying backwards and into the walls very hard. All three of them started moaning as Maverick got up. He was still glowing the shade of blue that he was right before he created that seismic wave. However, he also looked like he was getting a bit more exhausted.

Mike and Bien jumped up at the same time as Ross still tried to recover his strength from the blow. (it was very hard to recover from getting slammed into a stone wall)

The two of them started charging towards Maverick, and, without warning, both of them slugged him hard in the stomach. Maverick jumped back, but was still in pain from the hits.

Mike and Bien were tired, but they knew they had to keep pushing themselves. Otherwise, Maverick would walk all over them.

Ross, meanwhile, was still struggling to get up. However, he was in excruciating pain from the knock against the wall. Then, out of nowhere, a small twinkling sound was heard coming from Ross's pocket.

"Huh?" Ross mumbled as he passed his glance towards his pocket. "What was that?"

Before Ross had time to investigate what the mysterious sound was, a giant beam of blue light shot right passed his head and barely missed him. It woke him up, and he saw Maverick was aiming his blue energy at him.

Mike and Bien were both on the ground and were kneeling, so Ross assumed Maverick had hurt both of them pretty bad while Ross was thinking about what the odd sound he heard coming from his pocket was.

Ross jumped up just as Maverick was about to fire another blast at him. Ross quickly started dodging every single ray of energy Maverick was sending at him, but it wasn't easy.

After firing several rays and missing every single time, Maverick fell on one of his knees as well and started panting. He must have been using up a lot of some unknown power if he was able to fire energy like that.

While Maverick was in his weakened state, Ross took advantage of it. He ran over to Maverick and grabbed him by the front of his brown cloak. He started firing a series of rapid punches to Maverick's face and was relentless.

Maverick had no control and could do nothing to stop Ross as he continued beating away at him.

Finally, Ross stopped, but he didn't end his attack there. He turned Maverick's head and started slamming his face into the stone wall of the temple, over and over.

Mike and Bien were finally getting back up again and saw that Ross was going insane and was beating the life out of Maverick. They thought he was going too far now.

"Ross! Stop!" Bien yelled.

He and Mike ran over to Ross and both of them started holding them back. It took both of their full strength in order to stop their raging friend.

Ross was breathing heavily when he finally stopped (only because Mike and Bien had gotten a hold of him)

Ross then looked at Maverick's face. There was blood all over it, and his stare was lifeless. The blue glow around Maverick had completely vanished and he seemed more like a limp rag doll now.

Ross slowly let Maverick go. Maverick's body fell onto the stone floor and lay there absolutely motionless and lifeless.

"W…what?" Ross choked out. It was the only thing he could say.

"It's okay, Ross," Bien said calmly yet sadly. "We're finally finished now."

"Yeah," Mike said. "You really Maverick a good butt-whooping. I never knew you had it in ya."

Ross was stammering so much and he could barely believe what he had just done. The only thing more disbelieving than what he had done to Maverick was the result of his actions.

It was all over. Maverick was dead.