All four of the Tennyson's slowly crept back to the three remaining AG's. After a few moments, Gwen had regained consciousness and was finally able to recount what had happened since Ben had last met her…
"I was on my way to see Max a few days ago." She explained "When I heard about what happened with the Kryl back home, I knew that's where you'd be going so I waited there a while, but you didn't show up. I left for home to see if you'd gone back without realising I'd missed you by only a few hours. By the time I got there and found the house empty, it was nightfall and Kryl were all over the place like locusts. I knew you'd escaped because of that massive hole in the front porch but for one person, its very hard to get away from the Kryl. I managed to get as far as the garden next door, when they found out, they really began to get determined. I must have been there for hours trying to keep them away. By the time the four of you appeared overhead, I couldn't keep my concentration on the rift to hold them back. It collapsed, and… That's about it."
"But why didn't you just run for it?" Asked Ben, curiously. "They can't move unless you don't think about them, you could have backed away slowly and they couldn't have done a thing about it."
"I couldn't." She replied. "That works for one of them, not thousands, you only got out of the house alive because they needed the Omnitrix. And what happened to that ship thing you always used to fly? I saw a quite a bright flash before I blacked out."
"Its back there." Answered John. "I think something went wrong with it, caused it to crash." He gestured to the remains of Ben's AG.
"Thank you." Ben mouthed, silently.
"Well, whatever." Said Gwen, not having spotted this message. "But we really need to go now. In case you haven't noticed, we're standing in a load of knocked out Kryl."
"Not to mention the anti-matter powered space craft that's about to go nuclear right beside us!" Added Ben, backing away.
"Run!" Shouted John, activating his Modifier and giving the all go for the others to do the same.
As they began to gain some ground, the self destruct mechanism engaged, and emanating from the inside of the ship, right behind the pilot seat came a glowing red gas.
"What's that going to do?" Asked Gwen, apprehensively.
A second later, her question was answered as an immense dark blue hole seemed to rip through the very air around the AG. A dim light from within it began to intensify.
"It's a quantum singularity." Explained Ben, as though this piece of information would have a great impact on their thoughts. They simply stood completely still, watching it as though it were a television. No one even noticed that rocks and branches from near-by trees were disappearing into it, until with one last creak as it slid along the tall wet grass towards the singularity, the AG was gone. The hole began to enlarge, and it was as though the atmosphere around them was being blown into it. Finally - for barely a moment - it burned almost as brightly as the sun during day, and imploded, leaving no evidence it was ever there.
"I thought you said that wouldn't happen for hours." Said John, breathlessly. "You… You said just last night that it takes hours for the collider to access enough particles for a micro-wormhole to form."
"You're right." Said Ben in awe "It is impossible…"
"Could it have been the Kryl?" Asked Will curiously. "Maybe its just another of their effects?"
"No… I'm starting to think something else is at work here. And its not like we're hard to find, is it?"
"We'd better get back to the AG's before something else blows." Said John "Just barely made it out of this one alive as it is."
"Right" They replied, changing direction and heading for the three craft which - though some ingenious manoeuvring - had been landed right behind a huge, dark fern tree.
A variety of black outlines could be seen darting out of the way, as the four people walked briskly through the long grass which seemed to grow longer with every stride. Finally, John pulled several large branches out of the way, revealing all three AG's, green-stained, but otherwise in undamaged.
"Come on." Said John, climbing aboard his own. He apparently didn't was to start the Fusion Core until everyone was ready to go. "I want to keep the Kryl away for as long as I can" Was his reasoning for this, though Ben had doubts about the Kryl's ability to hear.
When - at last - everyone was ready and waiting, three AG's launched simultaneously into the night sky. Dawn was fast approaching, and it was their only protection from an unseen enemy.