Time Heals
I don't own Digimon or Ben 10
Gwen was running towards a large building which looked abandoned and she ran up to a window on platforms made of mana and she stood on the ledge and she held her hands out and the window opened up silently. She then descended to the ground floor on platforms made of mana and she walked along a large shelf of books, she then stopped once she saw one book. "Ortis," she spoke and the book flew out of the shelf and towards Gwen, she then heard the sound of a door opening and Hex walked through and he looked around.
"Odd, I could have sworn I heard..." he said as Charmcaster walked up behind him.
"I told you Uncle Hex there is nothing here. It's late go to bed," she told her uncle before walking off and Hex followed her. Gwen meanwhile had hidden behind a pillar and she looked at the book in her hand which was the Archamada book of spells.
"I am one lucky girl," she said to herself. The next morning Kevin was knocking on the door to Gwen's house with Ben and Daisuke behind him.
"We're gonna miss the kick off," he said.
"The car's gone. Nobody is home," Daisuke told him as Kevin began to ring the doorbell. "You're going to break it,"
"No I'm not," Kevin replied before he pushed the button into the doorbell and it short-circuited and Ben and Daisuke frowned at him. "It was already loose, we should go in. She's want us too," he told them.
"What're you guys doing here?" they heard Gwen ask from behind them and they turned to see Gwen wearing a trench coat and a pair of glasses with the Archamada book of spells in her arms.
"Nothing, we totally going to sneak in and watch the game on your dad's sixty inch TV," Kevin lied as Gwen walked up and opened the door and she walked in with the others following. "And your doorbell was already busted when we got here," he lied.
"No it wasn't, he broke it," Ben said.
"You know what, I don't really care. Go watch your game, I'll be right back," Gwen said walking up the stairs.
"Did you hear what she said?" Kevin asked.
"That she doesn't care about the doorbell?" Ben asked.
"It was code. What that meant was she doesn't care about me," Kevin explained.
"Kevin that's ridiculous. Gwen does care for you," Daisuke told him.
"She doesn't even pretend to like me anymore. I mean who could blame her, look at me," Kevin said removing his ID mask revealing his true form. Meanwhile Gwen was drawing symbols on the floor of her room with a piece of chalk and she lit some candles and she floated into the air in the centre of the triangle and the Archamada book of spells floated in front of her.
"Ortis Expositis," she said and the book turned to a page on its own. "Quis quandum era maflictus, iem feachus mas redentegero..." she chanted before the door to her room opened and Daisuke walked inside.
"I know what you're doing Gwen," she said and Gwen sighed.
"I have to do this Dai," she told her and Daisuke frowned.
"You know messing with the past will have consequences," she told Gwen just as a bright flash of light appeared and Professor Paradox appeared in the room.
"She's right. Time travel is for immortals and fools, and I speak from experience," he told Gwen.
"What're you doing here?" Gwen asked dropping to the ground and standing up.
"I'm about to warn you not to go through with this plan of yours," Paradox answered pulling out his pocket watch and he looked at it. "See, I just did right on queue... Now comes the part where you tell me..." he said.
"This spell can send me back in time! Back when Ben tried to hack the Omnitrix!" Gwen explained.
"And you think if you can stop them there won't be any explosion and Kevin and Ben won't be transformed into monsters. And everything will be wonderful again!" Daisuke said raising her eyebrow.
"Yes!" Gwen replied.
"No! Generally, 2 out of 3 isn't bad, but in this case however... Trust me, Gwendolyn. Don't do this!" Paradox warned her.
"But I haven't been able to cure Kevin with my magic. It's the only way," Gwen told him.
"How do you think I feel? I haven't been able to help Ben either," Daisuke said.
"There's always another way. In fact, sometimes to do something, all you need to do is nothing," Paradox told Gwen who began to shed tears.
"You're not making any sense," Gwen told him.
"I am often accused of that, but I'm the time walker and I'm generally quite well informed on these matters," Paradox told her.
"I have to do this," Gwen said.
"I suppose you do. But mark my words, Gwen Tennyson. You are about to unleash forces that you can neither comprehend nor control. Goodbye for now," Paradox said before he vanished.
"This is going to bite you in the butt," Daisuke told Gwen who ignored her and she floated into the air again.
"Quis quandum era maflictus, iem feachus mas redentegero, quis venit pro mas mesquam essei," she chanted and the candle's flames turned blue and a triangle portal opened up and Daisuke watched as Gwen vanished and she sighed.
"I hope you know what you are doing Gwen," she thought before she vanished as well in a blue flash of light.
"Ben….what did you do!?" Daisuke shouted at Ben as the Omnitrix began to overload.
"It was an accident," Ben told her.
"It's overloading!" Kevin shouted.
"Everyone run!" Daisuke told the others but Kevin ran up to her and Ben.
"Maybe I can…." He said before the glow intensified and a massive explosion occurred levelling the warehouse, suddenly everything rewound and Gwen shook her head and noticed everything was frozen except for her, she walked over to Kevin and waved her hand in front of him but he didn't react.
"What's going on?" she asked herself.
"That's a little complicated," Gwen turned to see her future self walk up to her.
"Who are you?" she asked.
"Who do you think I am? I'm you," Gwen told her past self. "I've just travelled back in time to give you important information,"
"Prove it. Prove that you're me, how do I know you're not an imposter or an evil twin," past Gwen said and future Gwen sighed.
"We don't have time for this," she said.
"Why not? If you're a time traveller you should have all the time in the world," past Gwen said.
"What do you want me to do?" future Gwen asked.
"Tell me something only I know," she answered and future Gwen walked up and whispered into her ear. "Okay you're me. And by the way yuck, you could have just told me our locker number or something," she told her.
"We need to stop Ben from messing with the Omnitrix. If you don't, you will never forgive yourself if you let this happen," future Gwen said.
"Alright," past Gwen replied and future Gwen walked away as time resumed.
"Trust me have I ever been wrong?" Ben asked Daisuke who gave him a blank look. "Forget I asked," he said but before he could do anything to the Omnitrix, Gwen grabbed him, Kevin and Daisuke with her mana and held them against the wall.
"What're you doing Gwen?" Daisuke asked.
"It's too risky hacking the Omnitrix. No promise me you won't try to hack it," Gwen told them.
"I promise. I didn't even want to go through with the plan," Daisuke said and Gwen dropped her and she looked at Ben and Kevin who nodded and she dropped them as well. "Ya gonna explain?" Daisuke asked her.
"No," Gwen said.
"Good girl," future Gwen said as she vanished and opened her eyes and she landed on the ground, she looked around her room and she ran down the stairs and out of her house and she then gasped as she saw nothing but destruction.
"Attention citizens, surrender. Continued resistance will only result in further suffering," a voice announced as a truck with loudspeakers on the top of it drove past her. A wall of a house then crumbled reveal two of Charmcaster's stone monsters.
"Charmcaster's monsters, what is she doing?" she asked herself as the monster looked at her and they roared and walked towards her. "Get back, I mean it. Don't come any closer," she warned them but one monster slammed its arms down but she rolled out of the way and the monster demolished the door to the house. "Hey, that's my house!" she shouted as she grabbed one monster and slammed it into the other one before she ran off as three more monsters gave chase, she turned a corner into an alley and hid behind a dumpster, she then heard a roar behind her and she turned and fired a mana blast at the rock monster and she blew its head off. She then ran off down the freeway towards the city, she soon arrived at the Mr Smoothy to find it destroyed and she took out her cell phone and dialled a number. "Where are you Ben and Daisuke?" she asked herself and soon she made her way to Kevin's garage to see Kevin's car ruined. "Oh Kevin, not you too," she said sadly, she then saw a rock monster behind her and she sent a mana blast at it turning it into dust and she then saw dozens of rock monsters walking towards her. "There's too many, I gotta get out of here," she said running off. Soon she had made it into the city and hid behind a wrecked car and she ran to an alleyway and looked at the posters over the buildings which were of Hex.
"Been quite a day hasn't it?" Paradox asked behind her and she turned around to see him and Daisuke who as frowning at her.
"Will you stop doing that!?" she shouted at Paradox who smiled at her.
"What did I tell you Gwen? Messing with the past has major consequences," Daisuke told her.
"I was trying to help," Gwen said and Daisuke folded her arms around her chest and says
"And how'd that work out for you?" she asked him.
"What happened here?" Gwen asked.
"You happened, you went back in time to stop that explosion and ergo Kevin and Ben from mutating," Daisuke answered.
"But that was the plan," Gwen replied.
"And all plans have unforeseen consequences," Paradox explained. "For example Hex and Charmcaster tried to take over the world, as is there want. You Ben, Kevin and Daisuke swung into action; you were humanity's last line of defence only there was a weak link,"
"Me?" Gwen asked.
"Oh no my dear, not you it was Kevin," Paradox answered. "Because you went into the past and prevented that explosion, you kept him from mutating, ergo the old Kevin lacked the powers he would have needed to stop Hex and so the bad guys won,"
"I didn't know," Gwen said.
"I warned you that time travel was for immortals and fools, I am the only immortal hereabouts, you do the math," Paradox said.
"Where are Ben and Kevin?" Daisuke asked him and the trio vanished and reappeared in a tree overlooking the large building Gwen had stolen the book from and saw Kevin who looked like one of the stone monsters and he picked up stones and moved them to a pile in front of Charmcaster.
"Kevin," Gwen said in shock.
"What did Charmcaster do to him?" Daisuke asked.
"It amused her to bind him using the same spell which gives her control over her rock monsters," Paradox answered as Kevin dropped a rock.
"Aw, clumsy, clumsy Kevin," Charmcaster said as she fired energy bolts at Kevin making him groan and back up.
"I'll save you Kevin," Gwen said.
"That's the thing that started this whole mess in the first place," Paradox reminded her.
"What about Ben?" Daisuke asked.
"He fought bravely, as an Anodite he could hold his own against Charmcaster and overpower her easily, but up against Hex and Charmcaster he stood no match. Pity, after you and Daisuke died he was the planets last hope," Paradox answered.
"No! Dead?! Us?!" Both girls asked him shocked.
"Yes! Dead! You! Why are we talking this way?" he asked them.
"We're not dead, we're right here," Daisuke told him.
"That is the funny thing about time travel," Paradox explained.
"I need to change everything back to what it was before," Gwen said.
"I suppose there is no harm in trying, but stealing that book will not be as easy this time around. What with the rock monsters, Hex and Charmcaster's heightened powers," Paradox said as he saw Gwen and Daisuke on a platform of mana heading towards the building. "Ah youth, they never listen," he said with a smile. Daisuke and Gwen neared the building when a magic blast hit them sending them both onto a balcony and they saw Charmcaster floating above them.
"Daisuke Motomiya and Gwen Tennyson, no way," she said.
"Why so surprised?" Daisuke asked her.
"Because I killed you both, and I am going to do it again," Charmcaster told her as she sent a powerful magic blast towards Daisuke and Gwen but Daisuke was enveloped in a gold flash of light and she turned into Chromastone who absorbed the magic and redirected it at Charmcaster knocking her to the ground.
"Killing me is so not cool!" she shouted firing another energy blast at Charmcaster and knocked her out cold.
"Nice shot," Gwen said and Chromastone grinned and both made it to a window and Chromastone blasted it open and both jumped down, Gwen began to search for the Archamada book of spells.
"Looking for something?" both turned to see Hex sitting in a chair holding the book Gwen needed.
"You aren't surprised to see us?" Chromastone asked him.
"On the contrary, I've been waiting for you. After all you're the time lost Gwen," he said to Gwen. "The last link to a less appeasing past,"
"How did you know all that?" Gwen asked him.
"Magic my dear, I am enjoying this new world that your meddling created, I'm not letting you change it back," Hex told her as Charmcaster dropped down in front of Chromastone and Gwen.
"Are you two done talking, because I am totally going to kill them again," she said.
"You must learn patience my dear niece," Hex told her.
"But not right away, first I'm going to kill them," Charmcaster said before Chromastone fired an energy blast sending her flying.
"You have got to stop saying that," she told her and Charmcaster sat up.
"If you think I am going to fight you, then you are dumber then you look," she said to them just before they heard grunting and Kevin smashed through the door and he jumped and punched nearly hitting Gwen before Chromastone blasted hi away and he stood and walked back.
"Kevin! Don't do this! It's Daisuke and Gwen, remember who you are!" Chromastone shouted and Kevin stopped and grunted before he shouted and punched Chromastone who stumbled before Gwen blasted him with mana sending him into a bookshelf. "Why do I bother?" Chromastone asked as Gwen cut a hole in the floor and fell down and Chromastone jumped after her.
"You little fool!" Hex shouted at Charmcaster.
"Oh sure, like you knew she was going to do that," Charmcaster replied as Gwen and Chromastone crashed through floors until they stopped in what looked like a dungeon and both looked around and saw Ben chained to a wall in pain.
"Ben!" Chromastone shouted running up and she broke the chains and helped Ben to the ground when he groaned and opened his eyes.
"Dai? But...I saw Charmcaster...you and Gwen were fighting her and she..." Ben said before grunting in pain.
"I know, Ben...It's all my fault..." Gwen said walking up.
"I don't understand," Ben said.
"The Omnitrix... when it blew up... only it didn't... but it should have and would have if only I hadn't tried to fix everything," Gwen said.
"We'll explain as soon as we get you out of here," Chromastone said helping Ben up just before Charmcaster broke through a wall with a rock monster and Kevin.
"Oh sure, like that's gonna happen," Charmcaster told them.
"I'll handle Charmcaster, Gwen get Ben out of here," Chromastone told her.
"I lost you both once, I am not losing you again," Ben said as his hands glowed with mana and he threw a disc at the rock monster while Kevin ran towards Gwen and Chromastone turned into Heatblast and she sent a stream of fire at Charmcaster.
"Tempestus!" she chanted and a wall of water appeared and blocked the fire and Charmcaster sent it towards Heatblast who was enveloped in a gold light and she turned into Arctiguana who breathed a beam of ice and froze the water and she then fired another beam at Charmcaster encasing her in a block of ice. Gwen fired a mana blast at Kevin sending him flying back into a wall while Ben threw mana discs as best he could at the rock monster holding it off, Gwen then saw Hex descending through the hole in the ceiling.
"It's time to write the last chapter in this sad little saga," he said.
"Sorry Hex, I'm not much of a reader," Ben told him sending a mana blast at him knocking Hex to the ground and Gwen grabbed the spell book and Ben grunted and fell to his knees in pain and Arctiguana ran up to him as did Gwen, Hex got to his feet followed by the rock monster and Kevin.
"Gwen, go! I'll hold them back," Arctiguana told Gwen.
"But..."
"Go!" she shouted and Gwen ran off.
"Quis quandum era maflictus, iem feachus mas redentegero, quis venit pro..." she began as Hex burst through a wall.
"Stop!" he shouted.
"mas mesquam essei!" Gwen finished the chant and a triangle opened above her and she was sucked in before Hex could stop her. Gwen then appeared outside the garage where the two past Gwen's were talking.
"Are you sure?" the first past Gwen asked.
"You will never forgive yourself if you let this happen," the second Gwen said.
"Don't listen to her! I'm from her future and she doesn't know what she's talking about!" Gwen shouted making both look at her.
"Oh come on! How do I know you're not an impostor?" the second Gwen asked.
"Ugh, the lock on our locker is broken; we just leave it hanging there so it looks closed..." Gwen answered.
"Alright, you're me...but I still think we should save Kevin," the second Gwen told her.
"You guys need to make up our mind!" the first Gwen told them.
"Already done. Paradox was right! We have to let it happen the way it did the first time," Gwen said.
"We can't keep Kevin from mutating?" the second Gwen asked.
"No...we can't," Gwen answered as she walked to the first Gwen. "And just to make sure she doesn't try—I'll make her forget everything that happened..." she said as she placed her hand on the first Gwen's forehead and wiped her memories before she turned her around and walked off with the other Gwen. "Come on... we don't belong here..." she told her.
""Ben….what did you do!?" Daisuke shouted at Ben as the Omnitrix began to overload.
"It was an accident," Ben told her.
"It's overloading!" Kevin shouted.
"Everyone run!" Daisuke told the others but Kevin ran up to her and Ben.
"Maybe I can…." He said before the glow intensified and a massive explosion occurred levelling the warehouse. Gwen opened her eyes and she found herself in her room as Daisuke walked through the door.
"Everything is back to normal Gwen, good job," she said. "Oh and you missed the whole game," she said as Gwen placed the spell book in her bookshelf as Kevin and Ben both mutated walked up.
"Hey, you want to head to Mr Smoothy, Ben's treat," Kevin said. Gwen walked up and she hugged Kevin tightly and pecked him on the cheek before walking off and Daisuke kissed Ben before following her.
"What was that about?" Ben asked and Kevin shrugged as they all walked out of the house to see Paradox standing there.
"Something wrong?" Daisuke asked him.
"No. All is well," he said with a knowing smile before vanishing in a flash of light.
The end of the chapter
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