How long has it been since I updated? ... NEARLY A YEAR?!

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Well... Now I know how Tom felt.

I am so sorry that it took so long for me to update. Really, I am. I've just been experiencing two things alongside my usual laziness and procrastination problem. Writer's block (Really hate that) and a sudden uninterest in Ben 10. Don't worry, I'm still a fan of the series, but whenever episodes stop airing, I sorta leave the series and come back to it when new episodes come on. And since there were only a few episodes last year, I haven't been very hyped over it.

Even then, I think I can kinda sorta place the blame on other things around me, but I can just chalk that up to procrastination too...

So... yeah. I am so sorry to all of you who have been waiting for the last several months. Holy crud, I am so sorry. This story is my number one priority now. I will not give up this thing until it is through... because now, there's only one more chapter left.

"Yeah. Yeah, sorry, don't worry, they're okay. Yeah. Uh-huh. Okay. See ya tomorrow." Max hung up his phone. He walked back inside the Rust Bucket and saw Gwen and Earthia in the both of the Rustbucket. Earthia looked at Max and said, "Are you done?"

Max nodded and responded, "Yeah. Just gave the call to Ben's parents. Told them that we lost track of time and we won't be home until tomorrow."

"Which is why we have to be fast about finding Ben and Cosmo." Gwen said.

Max nodded to his granddaughter.

Earthia looked down to the ground in sorrow. Her daughter was lost somewhere. She was most likely in the clutches of the black arms. This frightened her to the extreme. Max gave her a look and she said in response, "I shouldn't have taken her with me. I should have just left her at home with Galaxina..."

Max looked at her with a stern face and retorted, "Look, now's not the time for 'should have's or 'what if's, now's the time for action. We will find them. It's just a matter of tracking them... Gwen, do you think you could try and track them down?"

"I think I can try for Ben, but not sure on Cosmo. I don't have anything of hers that I can use to sense her."

"Well, then we start by looking for Ben and hope that Cosmo's with him. That's the best idea for right now." Max explained. A small yelp was heard behind the three. Max turned to see the Black Arm with a box on his head and some random contents on the floor. The alien lifted the box off of his head an cooed lightly at the trio.

"What do we do with 'Sparky' here?" Gwen asked.

"I don't like the idea of one of those monsters with us on the vehicle with us." Earthia said crossing her arms

"Well, we might be able to use him for our benefit. Besides, he's not armed and seems harmless enough." Max explained, walking up to the drivers seat. He sat down and buckled his seat belt, getting ready to drive when he said, "Gwen-"

"Already on it." The child interrupted, getting in the other seat in an Indian sitting position. She closed her eyes and started to try and sense her cousin.

The rust bucket started to drive off as her hand became encased in the pink magical energy and her eyes glowed the same shade, in an attempt to find Ben.

"You have no idea how to drive one of these things, do you?" Cosmo asked Ben, holding on for dear life as Ben drove the hijacked jeep from the Forever Knights Base like a maniac.

"Not really, But this is awesome! Whoo-Hoo!" Ben replied in joy. The two weren't really on the road, but any sort of obstacles were few and far between, so the two children did not crash the car.

Cosmo looked at Ben with a question in her mind. Several actually. Although, you couldn't tell by her face as it was more worried about the vehicle and herself then curious. "So-" Cosmo said being interrupted by a few bumps on the "Road" before continuing, "You've faced the forever Knights before?"

"Huh? Oh, yeah. I've fought them before. They steal alien tech and try to take over the world." Ben explained.

Cosmo looked back to the road they were driving on. "Uh... W-when do you think-" She said being interrupted by another bump, "-That we'll be able to walk on foot?"

"Either when we find Grandpa, or when this baby runs out of gas! Whoo-Hoo! Aw, yeah! This is awesome!"

Cosmo looked back onto the road with a worried face, "Right. 'Awesome.' Totally."

The Drakon commander looked upon the lush, green planet of Greengate. So full of lush, beautiful plant life... It's a shame that it would be bombed to the ground, with it's inhabitants being used for slave labor. And more. But, hey, that was the circle of life. It was the survival of the fittest. That's how it was, and that's how it would always be. At least by this commander's eyes.

His armada of ships was at the ready to shoot and capture, ready to raze nearly all plant life and civilization to the ground. There were hundreds of them, however, the biggest one was the lead ship, which was close to the front of the fleet, but had a few ships in front of it. It as such a sight to be seen from his control room.

His control room was bright yellow, with green lights around it. There were even some lines on the floor, that appeared to be regulating energy. He sat in his commanding seat, his throne as he looked through the giant window. Behind him was an arch, with several odd light bulbs on it. In front of him was an array of computers, with some Drakons using differing suits to command it. They appeared to be a set of small, spider like legs on a pole, which had thin arms, attaching itself to the sphere filled with the water for them to breath.

"Sir! Sir!" Shouted a Drakon sentry as he ran into the deck of the ship. His suit was not bulky and built for combat like the others. His suit had a very large glass sphere filled with water and very thin robotic arms and legs. In fact, the seemed like they shouldn't even be able to support it's weight.

"Speak, sentry. What is it?" The commander asked, with the slightest hint of venom in his throat.

"Well, sir, I have good news and bad news!"

"Well, don't tell me that you have it, tell me what it is!"

"Oh, right, um... Well, we have um..." The sentry stuttered.

"Spit it out, sentry!" The commander barked.

"We have just captured Princess Cosmo!" The sentry said quickly.

The commander looked at him and smiled, "Ah, so this war has been won? Wonderful! Now all we have to do is enslave the helpless seedrians who will be too worried about their precious princess to fight back!"

"A-actually... that's where the bad news comes in..." The sentry continued.

The commander's smiled turned into a frown as he looked upon the Drakon with an angry expression. Well, as angry an expression that a fish could make, "... What is the bad news, sentry?"

"U-u-um... B-B-Ben Tennyson, the famous hero of the universe, is on his way to take down these ships with his girlfriend, a Revonnahgander and a Galvanic Mechamorph, s-s-sir..." The sentry stuttered.

The commander looked upon the sentry. His frown formed back into a smile as he began to laugh, "Hahahahaha... Is that it? The 'hero' of the universe is on his way here to try and stop us with a catboy, human and a blob? I say let him come! Our ships will obliterate him the second he enters firing range!"

The commander walked up to the giant window to look outside the ship. He saw his fleet of ships. All of them, piloted by Drakons. He couldn't wait to see the human hero brought to his knees by the Drakon glory. The sentry stayed silent, but remained in the room. He really didn't want to be here, but his brother was in the army, and he was not leaving his brother's side at such a time. He knew what ship he was on, and he had to be ready if he was in trouble. Although, he probably wouldn't be much help, considering that he was a soldier, and he was a simple assistant sentry.

"Alright, Ben, we are coming up to the Drakon fleet." Rook said as he piloted Ship.

"Perfect." Ben told him with a cocky grin on his face, "Now, you remember the plan?"

Rook looked back to Ben and nodded, "You providing a distraction, while we look for a warp portal to their home world."

"Awesome. Now then..." Ben started to fiddle with his watch, "Come on, Omnitrix, I just need one hero." He slammed his hand on the thing and started to transform. He seemed to shrink in size and his skin turned porcelain white. He had somehow grown a pair of headphones on the sides of his head and the Omnitrix symbol was currently on his forehead.

"Echo Echo!" Ben screamed. He looked down at his hands to make sure that he was his desired alien. And indeed he was.

"Echo Echo?" Julie said, looking at her boyfriend, "You gonna turn into so many of them that you overwhelm them?"

"Not exactly." Echo Echo replied. He split up into about three Echo Echos and each one of them slapped the Omnitrix symbol on their foreheads. After a bright and quick flash of light, all three of them had become Ben once again. Three Bens to be precise.

One Ben looked over to the other two Bens and down at himself, "Aw, yes! It totally worked! Thank you Azmuth!"

Rook and Julie looked at the three Bens with wide eyes. "Uh..."

Another one of the Bens, this one looking incredibly impatient, looked back to the first Ben who spoke, and spoke himself, "Hey, moron, I'm pretty sure they don't know about this multiplication stuff."

The last Ben spoke up in retaliation, "Well, there's no need to be so mean about it, Ben."

The first Ben who said something, continued to speak, "Oh, right. Basically, I can turn into any Alien I want and then change back, right? So, I assumed that the same thing worked if I had multiple mes. So, I turned into Echo Echo, multiplied, and now..." With that, Ben lifted his hand and slapped the Omnitrix, now turning into Crashhopper, "I have a team of me."

The arrogant Ben lifted his hand and slammed it down onto his omnitrix, turning into Heatblast, while the sensitive Ben, pressed down on his with one finger to turn himself into Fasttrack.

The two not-Bens looked at them. Rook smiled widely, "Astounding! I would have never guessed to use a Sonorosian's power to multiply to your advantage like this!"

Julie's look on her face, however, was more as if she was thinking about something, "Wait a minute... is this how you went to see that Sumo Slammers movie during my tennis match?"

Crashhopper's eyes widened and his mouth opened in a frown, but with his teeth still shut, "Uh... right! Well, Gotta go!" And with that, Crashhopper jumped to the back of Ship to be ejected, followed closely by Heatblast and Fasttrack.

Julie's mouth curled downwards and her eyebrows furrowed in anger. She folded her arms and sighed to herself.

Ship flew into the fleet of Drakon ships. Almost every single one ready for battle... No... ready for a slaughtering. A slaughtering for the seedrian race.

In the head of the Drakon Commander smiled evilly as he lifted his communicator to his fishy body, "Alright, everyone. On my mark, I want you to fire at that pitiful excuse for a ship! Ready! Three..."

Ship quickly readied what appeared to be a cannon on top of himself. "SHIP!"

"Two..."

The cannons of the fleet were all aimed directly at the galvanic Mechamorph.

"One! FIRE!" Shouted the Commander.

Suddenly, every single cannon fired their blast upon the small craftable creature. Well, actually, he was very large to the Drakons, technically, but you get the idea. All of the blasts came into contact with Ship, causing a very, very large explosion.

The Drakon commander laughed evilly to himself, "Hahaha! We took 'em down, boys! That'll teach the beings of this galaxy not to mess with the mighty Drakon Empire!"

One of the Drakon pilots of the other ships, however, looked at his radar and talked into his communicator.

"Um... Sir... you may want to look at it again..."

"What?" The Drakon commander looked back to the explosion. It was still nothing more then a big puff of gray smoke. At least until Ship flew threw it with a green bubble-like shield around him.

"How in the name of Ko-Dorr?!"

"SHIIIIP!" shouted the galvanic mechamorph as he aimed his cannon straight at the lead ship. Suddenly, without warning, it fired at the ship. Well, actually, it should have been warning enough, considering it as a giant cannon, but still.

The contents of the cannon flew through the empty space between Ship and the Drakon Ship. If there was air in space, then they'd be able to hear shouting coming from the odd projectile. Suddenly, without warning, it split into three different things. only one of them actually seemed to be on fire, though, the other two weren't. However, all three of them went straight for the ship and broke through it's hull.

It was very large inside. There was a lot of room around for troops to run through and get ready for the invasion. Not to mention racks of weapons scattered all around, along with some small airships. There were also several Drakonian Procecutors. All of them readying themselves for the invasion. They all looked at the sudden explosion. From the smoke came a Citrakayah, waving innocently at them. "Hello, Drakons. It would be so nice if you would take me to your leader."

The Drakons looked at each other before attacking the newcomer. They aimed their guns at the blue creature.

Fasttrack's eyes widened, "Uh-oh..."

Suddenly, Crashopper jumped from the smoke, "Whaa-hooo!" Crashhopper shouted as he jumped onto the Procecutor. It changed it's aim from Fasttrack to Crashhopper, who, in turn, jumped to another Procecutor. He jumped from one to another, to another to another, all of them attempting to shoot the alien. As a result, they started to hit one another, in their failed attempts to actually land a blast on the grasshopper-like alien.

"Yeah! You get him, Ben!" Fasttrack yelled aloud. Suddenly, from behind him, a large ball of fire shot out of the smoke and hit the Procecutor aiming for Crashhopper. The blue alien looked behind himself to see the arrogant Heatblast behind him.

"Yeah, Ben, you wanna help out in actually fighting and not be a wuss?" The fire alien snarked.

Fasttrack made an unsure look before speaking, "Um, yeah, okay I guess." He turned around and ran up to the Drakon Procecutor, landing right on the cockpit of it, looking at the fish piloting it, "Hey, sorry about this." And with that, he punched into the tank and pulled out the fish. With that the Procecutor fell to the ground below them. "Well, that was kinda violent." Fasttrack said.

"Yeah. Which is good. We need violence. Lots and lots of violence." Heatblast replied, running ahead of him, using his fire powers as jet propulsion.

Meanwhile, back with Rook and Julie, Ship was barely dodging any of the Drakon's shots from their fleet. Each blast was huge, enough to caused some damage to Ship's engines. Rook held on as best as he could in his chair. Julie did the same in hers.

"It's no use! Their blasts are too big for Ship to fly around! We can't dodge them!" Rook shouted.

Julie held onto her seat for dear life as Rook flew through the onslaught of missiles. Then, an idea came into her head.

"Rook. I'm going to have to shoot you."

Rook looked at her with a confused face at what she said.

"Keep firing! They can't last much longer. That thing's too slow to dodge all of our blasts!" A Drakon shouted as the cannons were reloaded. He was on the outside of the ship, getting most of the troops out, their suits protecting them from the harshness of space. Most of the machines were the same tanks that Ben and crew found on Greengate.

The Drakon looked up and saw that Ship appeared to be growing an appendage from it's roof. Ship extended the cannon that he fired Ben from earlier and aimed it right at the Drakon fleet. Specifically, the ship that Ben was on. It began charging up before firing something out of it.

"Fire now! Fire now!" The Drakon yelled. And with that, almost all of the firepower simultaneously shot out and hit Ship, causing a huge explosion.

"We hit it! Haha! Take that, little worm!" The Drakon laughed.

Almost instantaneously after that, an energy ball fired out of the smoke and hit some of the tanks. The Drakon stopped his cheering and looked up to see what it was that did that. From the smoke, a small, person sized black and green thing had shot something from the smoke.

"Well, Drakons, I guess it's time to show you what Ship and I can really do!" Julie said, flying down towards the ship with so many tanks. Each of them fired at her, but she effortlessly ducked and dodged every blast, now with Ship being much smaller and more agile then he was as a giant ship.

Rook flew through space, as per Julie's plan. He had a small facemask on that he got from seemingly nowhere. He had his Proto-Tool aimed right at the ship's hull, firing a steam of endless beams at it, in hopes of blasting through it. His hopes were brought to reality. He was able to blast right through the hull of the ship. He curled up and rolled his way to the ground, so that was he wouldn't break his ankles upon touchdown. His rolling came to a stop as he landed on his knee, and placed his foot on the slowly got up onto his feet, holding his Proto-Tool in his hands like a gun.

Suddenly, a Drakonian Procecutor fell back next to Rook, it's pilot not being in the cockpit. He turned around to see Fasttrack with his arms out, almost as if he had just thrown something. "Oh, hi, Rook." He said in a friendly tone. Quickly, in a fireball, Heatblast flew by, landing on the now-burnt to a crisp Drakon armor.

"Ha! Score one for the big guys!" Heatblast said, arrogantly.

Crashhopper landed right next to them all and looked at Rook, before asking, "Hey, Rook, why aren't you with Julie?"

A quick static sound was heard in the large room. Heatblast looked down to see a small, broken TV screen on the floor, relaying a picture from another part of the armada. "We need back-up! BACK-UP I TELL YOU! This human and the Mechamorph are too much for us!" Said a panicking Drakon through the intercom TV thing. He appeared to be in a small green room, with a lot of lights and buttons. Quickly, the Drakon moved around in said room and was sent flying around in it, only for a loud crash to be heard. The back of the room was open and in the background, one could see Julie in Ship's armor flying away. And a damaged Drakon as well.

"I'm okay..." He said in a weary tone. Then Heatblast smashed the TV with his foot.

"Well, that wasn't very nice." Fasttrack said.

"We're kinda in a war. Nice doesn't win wars!" Heatblast retorted.

"No, but strategy does. We're never gonna win this war unless we take out a lot of things at once..." Crashhopper said, stroking his chin. His eyes widened when an idea popped into his mind, "And I know just how to do that. Heatblast, turn into Cannonbolt, Fasttrack, turn into Armordrillo."

Heatblast and Fasttrack slapped their hands on their chests, transforming them into the two aliens Crashhopper has specified... but for the wrong person. Fasttrack became Cannonbolt, and Heatblast became Armordrillo. Crashhopper's sweat dropped a little bit, "Okay, whatever, that can work too."

"Ben..." Rook said aloud as he looked behind Armordrillo. They turned their own attention to where Rook was looking at. At least three Drakonian Procecutors stared at them, each of their hands transformed into a different weapon. On one's hand was an axe, on another hand was a sword, and on the last one appeared to be a cannon.

"Get off of our ship, cretins!" Said the Drakon with the cannon for a hand. He raised his arm towards the group and shot balls of energy at them.

Crashhopper's eyes widened, "Oh, shoot."As the blast made it's quick way towards them all, Cannonbolt stepped in front of everyone and pulled his hands up, with the backs of his arms outwards. His fists clenched tightly as the blasts his his armor plating, creating small explosions and sending him back a few inches. When the smoke cleared he looked at the Drakons and said, "You know, it's not very polite to call people names."

Quickly, Rook aimed his Proto-Tool at one of the Drakons and took a shot, which appeared to do nothing. "Pleasant and Polite Ben, we need to take those Drakons down." He told Cannonbolt.

"Wait, pleasant and polite Ben?" Armordrillo questioned with a hint of anger in his voice.

"We'll deal with the formalities later, dude." Crachhopper interjected, "Right now I need you ready to do two things."

Julie flew around the blasts of the Drakon warriors. She was being fired by normal Drakon Prosecutors. They aimed their staffs at her and shot energy beams out of them. They even had tanks similar to what they had gotten their hands on on Greengate, but they weren't as super charged. Still, she assumed that if they hit her, she'd be done for.

She dodged and ducked around them, doing crazy back flips in the zero-gravity environment. Some of their blasts, however, came dangerously close to her. One had fired a shot right at her torso, but she just barely dodged it, so it flew right under her arm, and next to her side. Another one was aimed right for her lower half, which she raised both of her legs, almost making it appear as if she was jumping over it. The next one was aimed right at her head, which she leaned back far on, as it just barely grazed her faceplate.

She particularly noticed something about that last blast. It was spherical. An energy blast in the shape of a ball. Come to think of it...all of the energy blasts were in the shape of orbs.

Julie looked down at them and looked at her arm, analyzing it quickly. She looked back down to the tanks and smiled as an idea came into her head. One of the tanks had aimed it's cannon right at her. It fired the energy sphere at her, intending to destroy the human and mechamorph. Julie, however, didn't move out of the way. Instead, she quickly brought her hand behind herself, and got into a position she found herself familiar in.

The Drakons watched as the sphere had nearly made its way to Julie. However, right as it approached her, she moved and it bounced back at the Tank. The Tank suddenly exploded in a fiery display, which kinda made no sense, since fire really couldn't be in space, because there was no oxygen to maintain it. They looked at the tank and back at Julie, who appeared to have her arm in an entirely different shape. They had no idea of what to make of it. It looked like a hoop on her hand with laser lines in its center. To them, they had no idea what it was.

To Julie, however, it was a giant weaponized Tennis racket, ready to swing back all of the energy blasts from the tanks.

Armordrillo's hands turned back to normal as he finished drilling what Crashhopper had told him to drill. "This good?" He asked. Crashhopper ran up to the hole he had crated and got a good look at it, and what was through it. He smiled, "Yep. That's good. Now, go do that other thing."

Armordrillo nodded and he ran towards the Drakons that were currently fighting Cannonbolt and Rook. Cannonbolt was rolling back and forth in between them, which was doing minimal damage to them. Rook kept on shooting them with his Proto-Tool, which did even less damage. Armordrillo rolled his eyes. Well, at least he got to punch in one of their heads. Or... whatever you would call the "Head" part of a fish.

One of the Drakons had swatted away Cannonbolt, and used it's free hand to slam down on Rook. He lifted his axe high into the air and yelled, "Time to perish, Revonnahgander!" He began to bring his axe down onto Rook before it was blocked. His eyes widened when he saw Armodrillo holding his axe up with his hand.

"Yeah, leave the Rovana- Roverner... Rovergand-... the Cat kid alone!" Armordrillo yelled at him. He clutched his fist tightly. The piston on the other end of his arm extended. He quickly brought his arm forwards and slammed the Drakon in the cockpit. Right as he did this, the piston in his arm began moving back and fourth, causing his arm to act as a jackhammer. It shook apart the entire Drakonian Procecutor. It's robotic components fell to the ground, with the Drakon inside appear in to have a black eye and a lot of bruises. He was aiming for maimed, but, oh well.

"Thank you, Arrogant and Angry Ben. " Rook said, getting to his feet.

"Arrogant and Angry?!" Armordrillo yelled, looking back to Rook. Quickly, Armordrillo was blasted back by a cannon shot. Rook turned to see the Drakon Procecutor's cannon smoking.

"That was for my friend!" He yelled angrily. He as pushed slightly forwards by something behind him. He turned his upper body around enough so that his cockpit could get a good look at what was behind him. And the answer to that question was Cannonbolt. The rolly-polly alien bounced off of a wall and spun forwards like a bowling ball, intending to strike down the Procecutor as if it was a bowling pin. However, this bowling pin had a laser cannon mounted on it's arm.

It quickly turned and shot at Cannonbolt, firing a small ball of energy at him, which was deflected off of his plating. After this failed and the a line got closer then ever, he used his free hand to swat away Ben. He smiled sadistically as he saw the large alien fall on his back, unable to get up due to his body structure and armor.

He brought up his cannon, aiming it right at the large creature, when he got an unexpected surprise. A jackhammer powered fit to the side. He plummeted to the ground and looked up to see Armordrillo, up and aiming his hands at him. He was surprised when the alien didn't make contact with him. Instead, the alien placed his hands on the ground and used his arms to cause a small tremor, shaking up the room a bit. Quickly, the floor underneath him began to crumble and give out. Before they knew it, it had given way and the two were on the floor below.

Rook looked down the hole that Armordrillo created and saw that he as actually going down a few more floors then one. He ran over to Cannonbolt and helped him to his feet.

"Gee, That was close." He said in his deep voice.

"Indeed. However, Angry and arrogant Ben is using Armordrillo. In his rage, he could tear apart the whole ship with his arms." Rook explained.

"That would be even worse!" Canonbolt yelled.

"Indeed. Which is why we should make our way out of here." He said.

Cannonbolt, Suddenly hugged Rook tightly, and bawled, "I don't wanna blow up!"

Rook struggled to get out of his grasp, and tried to speak out. He could get a breathless sentence out, "Well, then maybe you should try-Ow!-Rolling us out of this ship before it does?"

Cannonbolt sniffed, "Okay!" Before curling up and rolling at an incredible speed.

Crashhopper on the other hand was looking out the hole that Armordrillo made, squinting his eyes. He studied the outside carefully. Making sure he was precise with his plan. But across the room, a single Drakonian Procecutor remained. He held a sword in his arm, and eyed the grasshopper carefully. Ben knew he was there, and knew he was going to attack him. He just didn't stress it, because he knew what he was going to do.

The Procecutor ran towards the alien, yelling like a warrior. Crashhopper bent his knees, readying to dodge the attack. The Drakon raised his sword, ready to slash at Ben. The grasshopper placed every ounce of strength into his legs. Not a single amount of energy in his body was anywhere else. His muscles tensed up, but were functioning. As the Drakon had made his way to Ben, he brang his sword down upon the shape shifter, intending to end his life. However, within that split second of time, Ben had done the one thing he needed to do to take out not only this single elite, but much of the Drakon army.

He jumped.

Julie threw a Drakon soldier into the air... or rather, space, and swatted at him with her racket. He crashed through a few other soldiers, knocking them all down like bowling pins. Y'know, knocking down Bowling pins with a tennis racket just seems like the wrong kinda game all together. Either way, Julie pumped her fist in success at striking them all. In the corner of her eye, she saw a Drakon aiming right for her with his sniper riffle. She was ready to fly right out of the way of the blaster when something happened.

Something knocked the Drakon off of his feet. He began to move over to the left... while on the ground. In fact, everything began to move to the left. It puzzled her quite a bit. It was almost as if the ship had moved very abruptly. She glanced around and saw out of the corner of her eye another ship, one much farther away from them, move abruptly as well. This intrigued her. After a few seconds another one, right above them, had moved very abruptly, in the opposing direction of the last one. Julie looked up at it as something fell downwards from it. It had landed right on the surface of the ship she was fighting.

"YAAAA-HHHOOOOOOO!" Ben screamed as he used his leg muscles to take another leap to another ship. Julie looked as he jumped up very high to another ship. It too, was moved from it's position. She stared in awe as Ben had singlehandedly made ships move by leaping to and from them. She looked back to the ship she was fighting over and smirked.

"We're gonna win this fight."

Armordrillo crashed through the floors of the ship. Each time he punched the Procecuter, he went lower on the ship. He was angry right now. He wasn't sure why. He just was. He decided to let it all out on this Drakon right here. May as well have. Each punch he landed shook the entire ship. Eventually, he punched through a floor that was a roof to a really large room. So he fell down to the floor, not on top of the beaten and mangled Drakon.

"Put your hands in the air, Talpaedan!" Shouted a voice.

He looked over next to him to see a very large group of Drakon Prosecutor's next to him, all of them holding guns. His eyes twitched in anger. He wouldn't admit it, but he could barely take down one of these guys, let alone such a good 20 of them. He slowly got to his feet and lifted his large jackhammer arms in the air.

"I am in a very bad mood right now. And trust me, you do not want me to be in a very bad mood, With Armordrillo!" Ben shouted. The pistons in his arms extended and he curled his hands into fists. He planted them into the ground below him and began shaking apart the entire ship. This led to all of the Drakons falling onto their metallic armor's feet. It also led to the entire ship falling apart.

Cannonbolt rolled through the walls of the shaking ship, probably increasing in it's imminent destruction. They had rolled past, and even into a few Drakon soldiers, through the hallways of this warship.

"Be-e-e-e-n! We-e-e-e ha-a-a-ave to-o-o-o-o sto-o-o-o-p!" Rook yelled as Ben rolled.

Immediately after Rook said that, Cannonbolt skidded to a stop and uncurled up, letting Rook out. Rook stumbled out of Cannonbolt's grasp and fell to the floor, dizzy as he could be.

"Hey, Rook, are you okay?" Ben asked him, concerned.

"Never... Better." Rook lied, hoping to keep his lunch down.

"Aw, poor little Revonnahgander. Looks like he can't take some spinning." Said a voice from behind them. Cannonbolt turned his entire body, and Rook side stepped to see a Drakon Prosecutor standing there, with a Drakon sword in hand.

"... How long have you been stand there?" Cannonbolt asked.

"Long enough." The Drakon answered. He jammed his sword into the wall, changing the gravity in the area to go up against the wall. Ben and Rook grunted in pain as the intense gravity began to crush them. Well, until Ben's heavy weight as Cannonbolt crashed through the wall.

"WHOA!" Ben fell through the walls, shaking up a bit of the area. The ship, however began to shake even more violently then before. And it didn't stop. Rook looked around themselves to see that the ship was actually coming apart piece by piece. In fact, Rook thought for a second there, he was able to see another ship off in the distance.

"You have to listen to me! This ship is being torn apart from the inside! We have to get out of here!" Rook shouted.

"Hahaha!" The Drakon laughed, "I can take the cold outside of space in my Exo-skeleton, Revonnahgander! And since my brother's somewhere in this big army, he'll just get somone to come and pick me up"

The Drakon then waved his sword around, causing the gravity to shift once again. This time, however, it appeared that the gravity wasn't there, because Rook was floating in the air.

"But if you need to get of so badly..." The Drakon uttered, waving the sword around a bit more. Suddenly, a bunch of the pieces of the ship began to fly off, quickly creating a hole in the ship.

"Then how about I personally get you off!" The Drakon shouted.

Rook's eyes widened as he heard that. The Drakon was doing exactly as he thought he was doing. He altered the gravity in such a way that he could use it to slingshot Rook off the ship, at lighting speed. Rook fell in the direction the new gravity was pulling and flew right off the ship at an amazing pace. Thinking quickly, he pressed a small button on the side of his air mask.

Julie shot all around herself, making sure that she took down any Drakon aiming at her when she heard a small ringing. She looked over to the side of her visor on her suit and saw that Rook was calling her with his own communicator.

"Huh. You built in a communicator, Ship. Good job." Julie said.

Ship "Shipped" with joy as she answered the cal.

"Hello? Rook? What do you need?" Julie asked.

"I need help! A drakon used his Gravity sword to throw me into a ship! I am either going to be stuck in space, or -"

"I'm on my way." Julie said, knowing what Rook was going to continue with. She began to look around, trying to find Rook, or at least a small enough dot that could potentially be Rook.

"Ship, start zooming in on heat signatures." Julie ordered.

"Ship, Ship!" Ship Shipped in response. The visor that separated Julie from the cold harshness of space quickly became a heat seeking visor. She began to move her head in all sorts of directions, until she saw a small speck of heat, zooming towards them in the distance. She zoomed in with her visor to see a humanoid shape flying towards where she was. Acting quickly, the jets on her legs boosted her towards the heat signature.

Rook screamed as he flew through space, unable to stop his velocity, when suddenly, something quickly grabbed him and started to fly him in the opposite direction. He looked to what had grabbed him and saw that Julie was lying him up, away from the very thin line of gravity the Drakon form earlier created. He sighed with relief, knowing that he wasn't going to go splat. His relief however, was short lived as he looked down to the ship that he was flung from. And the ship that Cannonbolt and Armordrillo were on. He gasped aloud, making Julie look to what he was gasping to. Her eyes widened when she saw it.

The ship that Rook was just on was nearly a giant heap of scrap metal! The entire ship was falling apart, thanks to Armordrillo's rampage. His metallic arms were shaking the entire ship with an earthquake level of destruction.

"Ben's on that ship!" Rook shouted.

Julie's visor, however, made a small pinging noise. It appeared that it was trying to alert her to looked up to see that her visor was homing in on something. Something headed towards the quaking ship. She zoomed in and to her horror...

It was Ben.

"WHAAAAHHH-HOOOO! Ben screamed as he flew down from his jumping spree. He had just pushed up a giant ship and was headed down to another one to push with his strong legs. However, to his horror, he saw that he was headed towards the ship that Amrordrillo was on., And he could tell by the fact that it was nearly destroyed.

"OH, SHOOT, OH, SHOOT, OH, SHOOT, OH, SHOOT!" He screamed as he fell towards the quaking ship. He went straight through some of the debris of the ship,even hitting a few pieces of it on his way, until he landed on a piece of the ship inside the massive chunk of pieces.

He held his head before getting up onto his feet. He gazed around the area he was in and saw that he was surrounded by ship pieces. He knew he had to get out of here, and quick. He readied his leg muscles, and made a leap up high... Only for it to end with him hitting his head on one of the pieces. He began to float around as he rubbed his head, in pain.

"Oh, great... Just great... Now what am I supposed to do?" Ben asked himself as he rubbed his head. He was surrounded by nothing but scrap metal of the Drakon ship. It's soldiers were probably floating all around in here... Wait a minute, Drakon soldiers. A quick memory came back to Ben.

"That's it!" He screamed. He began to try and swim through space, which would have been really hard had there not been a bunch of scrap around him.

"Umm... S-sir?" The little sentry Drakon asked.

"What is it?" The Drakon commander asked.

The sentry gulped. "I-it appears that an entire ship is quickly being demolished..."

The Drakon commander looked at him and said, "Put in on the screen."

The little Drakon sentry started to punch in some buttons on one of the control panels, and suddenly, from the ceiling, a large screen descended, showing a picture of the ship that Armordrillo was on. Or rather, the giant hunk of metal that Armordrillo had made. The commander's eyes widened.

"What?! How is this possible!?" He screamed.

"It appears that Ben Tennyson had transformed into a creature that can cause massive earthquakes, and he is quickly shaking the ship apart..." The sentry said. He looked incredibly concerned. Heknew exactly who was on that ship. And it wasn't just Ben Tennyson.

The Drakon commander stayed silent. Pondering what to do in this situation. His mind began to wander into a bit of an extreme territory... but it would no doubt fix the problem. He smiled sadistically with his next command.

"Bring out the Chaos Blaster."

The sentry's eyes widened upon hearing that.

"C-chaos B-b-blaster, sir?"

"Yes! Bring out the Chaos Blaster, and aim it right for Tennyson!"

"What?! B-b-but... our troops are on there, sir!" The sentry shouted, with his voice sounding incredibly concerned.

"I know. But, they'll just float off in space, into the endless abyss, with that ship destroyed." The commander explained.

"We can send in Oxygen Attackers to retrieve them!" The sentry rebuttled.

"Oxygen attackers that will be taken down by Tennyson if he's still there." The commander pointed out.

"My brother's on that ship!" The sentry shouted.

The commander jumped up from his chair and stomped down to the sentry, towering over him by at least four feet. He gave him a deathly glare as he quietly said, "Activate the Chaos Blaster."

The sentry stayed silent. He looked up at his commander with a fearful expression, pondering the next words he would speak. If he followed his orders... he would kill his own brother... but if he didn't... well, who knows what would have happened to him. After pondering for a few seconds, he looked at his commander and responded.

"... No."

The commander stayed silent for a few seconds, looking at his sentry with a deathly glare.

"Fine..." He said. He curled his hand into a fist and continued, "Then I'll activate it myself!" He reached for the sentry's glass dome, and threw him across the room. He took a few steps forwards and began to press a series of buttons on the control panel.

The sentry got up onto his feet and looked to what his commander was doing.

"No..." He whispered in horror.

"Ben!" Julie screamed.

"Yes, Ben is on that ship. We need to get him off of it!" Rook replied.

Something caught their attention out of the corners of their eyes, though. They looked over to see the largest ship in the fleet advancing closer to them. However, it appeared that something huge extended out from it's hull. It appeared to be... a cannon. A giant cannon.

"What is that?" Julie asked herself.

The cannon on the ship began to slowly rise from the ship, appearing to be connected to a giant arm of sorts. The arm moved around, swiveled and swerved. As the arm moved, the cannon began to glow a green color. A deadly green color. Pointed right in the direction of the two.

"Julie... it is aiming for us!" Rook shouted. Julie, thinking quickly, flew high into space, in an attempt to avoid the cannon. In the corner of her eyes, she saw the cannon ready to fire, but quickly swivel around. She stopped mid-flight to see where it was swiveling to... Only to be horrified to where it was aiming. Right at the ship that Ben was on.

Crashhopper jumped from piece of the ship to piece of the ship.

"Where is it, WHERE IS IT?!" He screamed, looking around for something. A faint glow caught the corner of his eye. He glanced quickly to the faint glow and smiled.

"Bingo!" He shouted, jumping towards the glow.

"It's not aiming for us, Rook..." Julie shouted, "It's aiming for-" Julie could not finish her sentence as the cannon took it's aim and fired. A giant beam of energy shot out and hit the wreckage of the ship.

Armordrillo stood on a single piece of the wreckage he caused. He smiled in his head at his handy work. Until he caught a glimpse of the faint glow, brightening towards him. He looked up to it, only to realize what it was.

"Oh, shoot!" He shouted before being engulfed in the beam.

Cannonbolt held his breath in the ship. There was no amount of oxygen in space, and his species that he currently was apparently needed oxygen. He wasn't sure why. He looked over to the advancing green light and widened his eyes. He curled up in a ball in hopes of surviving the blast. He didn't.

Crashhopper jumped from chunk of metal to chunk of metal, advancing to the faint glow that was his target. However, behind it, he saw a brighter glow, becoming brighter by each second.

"Oh, crud. Come on, come on, come on, come on!" He shouted, making his final leap to the faint glow before it was engulfed in the laser.

Julie and Rook shielded their eyes from the bright blast of the cannon. When the light faded, they looked down to where the small field of scrap once was to see that it was gone. Vaporized. With little to no sign of life in it. Julie switched to heat seeking mode and zoomed in where it once was to see that, indeed. Not a single ounce of life was there. They couldn't believe it...

Ben was... dead.

"No..." Rook whispered, looking on in horror.

Julie felt a small tear fall down her cheek. Ship noticed this, and sadly said, "Ship..."

She could barely believe it. Ben was dead... He was gone... Never once in her life did she think she could have lost him. But now... he was gone. She felt such sorrow.. and such anger. The drakons had killed him. They fired the beam. And they were going to end many other lives. Lives that Ben tried to save. Lives that he risked his own for. She clenched her fist tightly in anger. She looked over to the lead ship with anger in her eyes.

"Let's fry these fish..." Julie said in a deathly cold voice.

It was a few hours after they had escaped from the Forever Knights base. And the jeep eventually slowed down to a complete stop, unable to move, despite Ben's best efforts.

"Aw, man, outta gas." Ben said, disappointed.

"Looks like we're walking from here..." Cosmo replied, with a hint of relief in her voice.

Ben stood up from his seat and jumped out of the car. Cosmo did the same thing, but more... stumbilly then the human. She couldn't keep her balance after the bumpy ride and she fell flat on her face when she got out of the jeep. "Oof!"

Ben walked over to the other side of it and he laughed when he saw Cosmo on the ground. She rolled herself over and brushed the dirt off herself before looking up to see Ben extending his hand. Cosmo lifted her own hand up and Ben helped her back onto her feet.

"Thank you..." She said to him.

"No problem." Ben responded. He looked up at the sky and saw that the night was falling. "It's getting dark out."

Cosmo looked up to the sky, "Yes, it is... What do we do?"

"I say we keep walking around. Try to find Grandpa and your mom before we can't see anything." Ben said.

"Yeah... I agree. The last thing I want is to be stranded on an alien planet with no source of protection..." Cosmo said, holding her arms close together.

"Hey! You've got me, don't you?" Ben said with a cocky grin.

"Is that wrist thingie working?" Cosmo asked him.

Ben's eyes widened when she asked him this. He quickly glanced at his Omnitrix to see that it was still in the red. Huh. That was odd. It usually was charged up by now. Well, at least when the Omnitrix wasn't being a jerk to him. "Uh... No."

"I rest my case." Cosmo said, walking ahead of the boy.

"Fall back! Fall back! We can't take much more!" A drakon soldier screamed out as her fired his blaster frantically. He watched as the warrior came up to him and punched right through his suit. The rage driven warrior threw him behind herself, ready to fight an army of them.

"You're going to pay!" Julie screamed in rage.

Several Drakon Soldiers ran towards her, blasting rays of death from their swords. Julie replied to this by turning her arm into a large cannon and blasting them all to bits, one by one.

Rook fought several of them off at close range. He was in the middle of a brawl with several of them. One swiped in front of him, but he ducked and shot him in the leg with his Proto-tool. With this moment, he transformed his Proto-Tool into a Power Sword and swiped at his other foot. As another Drakon raised his sword to slam down on him, he jumped up and landed on his back, where he shot a few more surrounding him. He then lowered his gun and shot at the Drakon he was perched upon.

As the Drakon he was on fell, he looked behind himself to see a few more Drakons running towards him. And a few more running in from of him. He quickly pressed a button on his weapon to transform his Proto-Tool into a staff. He swung it in a circle around him, taking out the Drakons in one fell swoop. He turned his attention to another horde of Drakons, to which, he transformed his staff into a gun once more.

"This is for Ben..."

The Commander stood awestruck at the events that just transpired before him upon his screen. The a matter of a few minutes, these two were on his ship, taking down hordes of his men as if they were insects to them. It amazed him. And angered him. He looked to his sentry assistant, who was looking at the carnage as well, awestruck.

"Sentry. Ready my suit." The Drakon ordered.

The sentry looked up at him, fear instilled in his eyes.

"Do it, now..." He whispered in a deadly tone.

The sentry fearfully nodded, pressing a series of complex buttons on the control panel. The Commander walked up to a wall and stood up against it. A tube extended from the wall and grabbed the glass dome, perched upon his exo-skelleton's body. He was sucked through the tube, leaving the suit empty.

The sentry looked down at the ground, unsure of how to assess the situation at hand. The commander had just fired a shot that killed so many Drakons... And from the looks of things, the carnage wasn't going to stop there. Those two down there were laying waste to the flagship, and it didn't look like they would be stopped looked at the very large control panel before him... and in the right corner of his eye he caught something. A faint light. One from the teleporter room of the ship. His eyes widened at what this could mean.

He ran out of the room and raced down the hallway. He ran into the nearest elevator and pressed the button on it multiple times in a row as the doors closed, wanting to get to that room as soon as possible. After a few seconds of smooth jazz in the elevator, the doors opened and he began to run off to the room. He ran to a small security panel on the wall and pressed in a few buttons.

With those buttons pressed, a doorway opened and he ran into a very large room, filled with giant golden rings. All of them neatly lined up, and each about the same size. Except for one, which was bigger then the rest of them. He began to run over to one of the rings, only for his eyes to widen at what he saw.

Julie and Rook blasted their way through a door. They weren't sure of where they were currently. Taking a good look around them, they noticed they were in a very large room, with a ceiling at least 40 feet above them. On the other side of the room, there were very large battle mechs, much similar to the one they fought with Fisttrick on earth.

There appeared to be weapon racks on the walls, leaving the assumption that this was a preparation room for the war. But considering that the walls were at least 30 feet apart from each other, it made the room look less like a room to gear up for war and more like a battle room of some kind. Rook looked up at the ceiling and noticed something odd. It appeared to be a bunch of tubes with liquid inside them. And they weren't just on the ceiling. Some of them were on the walls, as well. In fact, they seemed to be attached to one another.

"Why do they have such strange tubes everywhere?" He asked.

Julie took notice of this and examined around. She caught glimpse of something that finally entered the room. A drakon, swimming through one of the tubes.

"I think I know why..." Julie said, pointing up to him. The Drakon looked down to the three, and snarled at them, continuing to swim down the tube aligned on the ceiling. However, the tube angled downwards and he swam down to where the clear pipeline went... which was right behind one of the mechs. The control pod began to fill with water as another tube came in and attached itself to the pod. The Drakon swam into the pod, and took control of the mech while it was powering up.

"Just a wild guess... you're the leader of this whole thing?"

"Well, I'm not Emperor Ko-Dorr if that's what you're asking..." He answered, chuckling, "However, I am the commander of this fleet... and therefore, I must be the one who sent you into this spiral of rage, considering I was the one who killed Ben Tennyson..."

"You singlehandedly murdered one of the greatest heroes in the universe. He's saved so many lives with his selfless actions. He weld the most advanced piece of technology in the universe. He... he.. He was our friend!" Rook shouted at him.

""He was my boyfriend... I... I..." Julie muttered, tears forming in her eyes. She couldn't bring herself to finish the sentence with what she intended to, so replaced it with another one, "I'm going to make you pay!"

The Drakon commander laughed to himself, "Of course you will. And I will personally escort you to Benjamin himself, as I take you to your graves as well..."

With the threats said, the commander took action first. He jumped in his mech towards the two heroes, intending to squash them with his weight. Rook jumped out of the way from the giant monstrosity, while Julie simply flew up into the air, dodging the mech. She held her arms out and had Ship turn them into large blaster cannons. She blasted the Drakon several times with spheres of energy, but the Drakon placed his metallic hands up, and took the blasts without a scratch.

Rook looked up as the mech took blasts from Julie's arm cannons. The commander laughed with a sadistic grin perched upon his fishy face. Rook held his Proto-Tool in his hand and aimed it right at the cockpit of the mech. He fired it right at the pod, intending the blast to go right through the cockpit and blast the Drakon. It instead bounced right off of the pod, but alerted the fish to Rook's placement. He glanced down at him and lifted his other arm up above his body. Julie saw this and acted quickly, grabbing the arm and flying behind the robot. She wasn't able to drag him across the room, but she was able to get him off balance, and fall on his backside.

As the commander attempted to get up, something landed on him with a loud thud. It was Julie. Her forearms to her hands appeared to be much bulkier then they were before... and they had spiked knuckles. She struck the commander continuously, shouting a word with each strike.

"You're! Going! To! Pay! For! What! You've! DONE!" Julie screamed in anger.

The Drakon's mech shook with each punch Julie landed on him. Each one with more ferocity then before. At this rate, the mech would have been shaken apart. In his cockpit, he was able to just barely press a few buttons, leading his mech to do something that no one thought it could do. The mechanical hands of the Drakon pulled it's fingers together and quickly snapped. After they did so, a quick, painful distortion of energy happened right in front of Julie, sending her flying back. Rook looked as Julie landed against a wall and he ran over to her. The Drakon quickly got to it's mechanical feet, the arm that snapped appearing to be glowing green. Rook ran over to Julie and helped her get onto her feet.

"Ugh... what was that?" She asked dazzilly.

"Hahahahaha..." The commander laughed, "That, my friends, was a taste of the power we Drakons have created..."

"What?" Rook shouted.

"We created chaos energy, a powerful, non-conductive source, able to power nations with a single spark..." The commander explained, "But the power they create is derived from thought itself. We can aim it with our minds. In other words..."

"You can just think it, and you can blast us..." Rook determined.

"That's right!" The commander shouted, snapping his fingers, having another small explosion happen right at the feet of our heroes.

"Oh, man. They're getting hit hard..." Said a voice in the command room.

The sentry brought the stranger from the Warp Ring room into the command center. Which in all honesty, wasn't the best idea, but considering who this was, there were worse options.

"Yeah..." The sentry said, sheepishly, "I-I kinda hope that they win though..."

"You do? Why is that? Isn't he your boss?" The voice asked.

" He is... It's just..." He looked back up to the main screen, seeing Julie Rook and the commander duke it out, "When he destroyed that ship... my brother was on that ship... so he..."

"Oh, man, I'm sorry..." The voice replied.

The sentry looked back up at the screen, "But I can't just help those two win... The Drakon Empire would..." He gulped, not finishing his sentence.

The owner of the voice looked down at the fish, and then back up at the fight. Julie and Rook were giving it their all... but it wasn't enough. He knew they needed help. And he also knew that this little sentry could use his help.

"Tell you what... I'll make you a deal."

Julie flew around the explosive snaps of the Drakon commander. Each explosion quicker then the last. She could barely dodge any of them. Each blast just grazing her armor, she couldn't take much more. Rook, on the other hand, simply shot at the mech, in hopes of at least distracting the commander enough for Julie to get a good shot in. The Drakon noticed Rook and raised his arm high. It's fingers came together, much like Fisttrick's before, but instead of forming a drill, this one formed a cannon.

He lowered it and aimed right at Rook before shooting at him, nearly hitting him as well. Julie saw Rook in trouble and flew right down to him, grabbing him and flying away from the shots. She flew up high and extended her free arm to create the weaponized tennis racket, beating back energy shot to the mech. It appeared to be taking those shots really well though.

"This Drakon is, as Ben would say, a lousy shot." Rook said.

"Yeah, let's be glad on that." Julie said to him.

"Hahahaha... Ohh, you fools... I'm deliberately holding back!" The Drakon shouted.

"What?!"

"You're the largest threat to our kind as of right now. And this thing can blast you to kingdom come, so I may as well have some fun before I crush you, like the feeble insects you are!"

Julie's right eye started to twitch in rage. She couldn't believe it. He just killed her boyfriend, and now he was just toying with her? OH, she wouldn't take that lying down. Not thinking, she threw Rook aside and rushed up to the mech, in a mad rush of punches and kicks. Rook landed on the hard floor, but he was fine. Julie flew all around the robotic contraption, punching and kicking all around, in a blind rage. She eventually rammed his robot arm up against a wall and started to beat that thing senselessly. The commander balled up his hand into a fist and suddenly, a large sphere of energy circled around his arm, trapping Julie in it as well.

Julie screamed in pain as the energy coursed through not only her body, but Ship's as well. Ship screamed in pain, but his scream was more distorted, and rather horrifying. The energy ceased and she fell to the ground. Ship slowly removed himself from her body, becoming the small little blob he's known for. He slowly got up and started to nudge his owner, who petted him in return.

"It's gonna be okay, Ship..."

"Hahahahaha..." The Drakon laughed, looming over them. Julie and Ship looked up to see the Drakon pulling back his fist, readying himself for a deadly punch. However, he received a small blast to the cockpit, which did nothing but make him look over to see Rook, standing there, holding his blaster out.

"You leave her alone!" He shouted. The Drakon in retaliation, began to run over to Rook, intending to beat him to a pulp instead.

Julie looked at this and said, "Ship, go save Rook!"

The Mechamorph barked in response, rushing over to Rook's aid. And he was fast. The Drakon commander jumped high, with his arms glowing green, ready to maim Rook, only for Ship to get to him first and fuse with his Proto-Tool, upgrading it. Ship transformed it into a super shield, containing the two in a small bubble, just as the Drakon fell on top of them, saving them. Rook looked down to Ship, who barked to him. He smiled as he transformed Ship into a Mega Blaster and shot up at the Drakon immediately after the shield fell, throwing the Drakon off of him. Rook continued to blast him in the air, it actually kept him up there. He just stood there and juggled him with his blasts.

Julie slowly got up to her feet, looking over as Rook shot the mech. She looked around her and saw a few battle weapons at the ready. She took notice that each of them appeared to have some sort of container on them. She noticed that it appeared to have some sort of green substance in it. She examined what appeared to be a trident that could hook around one's arm. The Drakon commander, struggling to stay intact from the massive blasts, snapped his fingers, causing a mini-explosion to appear right next to Rook.

Rook was blasted off of his feet and the Drakon fell right over top of him. He raised his hands and suddenly, his fingers retracted, pulling out sword from his arms. Rook, thinking quickly, transformed his Proto-Tool into a sword. It turned into a giant, triple bladed sword, each one just as large as the swords the Drakon commander had. Rook looked down to Ship.

"You are good."

"Ship, ship!" With that, the mech started to sword fight with Rook, who was barely able to keep up with the twin bladed mech. Ship had to slightly redirect each of the blades to counter the other swords strikes. As Rook and Ship sword fought, Julie observed the weapon on the wall. It was pretty evenly matched between the two sword fighters, so She had an idea on how to turn the tides in this fight.

She looked over to Ship and Rook and shouted, "Guys! Over here!"

Rook turned his head and nodded to her. He quickly transformed his triple sword into a cannon and shot the Drakon back a bit. He threw Ship on the ground and placed both feet on top of him. He pressed a button with his foot and suddenly, Ship shot forth, carrying Rook on him like a skateboard. However, it ended more slapsticky then he thought, considering he couldn't stop himself from face planting into the wall. He fell to the floor with a thud while Ship separated from his Proto-Tool.

"Ship, fuse with this. Take it's blueprints or whatever really quick." Julie explained, holding the trident weapon off of the wall. Ship did just that. Ship upgraded the weapon a bit before Julie gave him her next order.

"Good, now turn into my battle armor again..." Ship did just that, wrapping himself around her physique, turning into the slimmer variation of her armor that she's been using.

"Good.. now, take the blueprints or whatever from that thing..." Julie explained as Rook dizzilly got up. Ship did just that. Julie grew out a large trident from her forearm, with a small glowing item on it. She looked over to see the Drakon captain slowly getting up. He looked at her with a deadly stare, while she decided to try something out. She aimed her arm at him and snapped her fingers. Suddenly, a small explosion happened at his foot, leading him to become off-balance.

Rook was able to see exactly what happened. Julie had absorbed some of the same technology that the Drakon had. She was now able to use the Chaos Energy against him. Julie looked at the Drakon with a serious face and curled up her fist.

"Let's do this."

Julie's entire body became engulfed in a light pink aura. Most likely from the energy she had attained. She acted first, by reaching her hand behind herself. She pulled her other hand back with it, and brought them forwards together, before pulling them apart and having several beams of energy fire at the Drakon commander. In retaliation, the commander brought his leg up and kicked away each and every single blast from Julie's attack. While he was doing this, Julie began to run up to the Drakon and tackled him by his still standing leg, knocking him off balance.

The commander fell to the floor, but quickly jumped up and landed on his feet. He began to swipe at Julie with his over sized swords, to which, Julie dodged each and every one of them. The pulled out her arm and had Ship form her tennis racket, but this time put an interesting twist on it. It grew spikes on it's edges and began to spin around like a saw blade. Its tips glew with Chaos Energy. She began to swipe at the monstrosity, finally doing some visible damage to it. The mech began to receive small cuts to it, in little places all around it. It could take it, but at the rate it was going, it wouldn't be long until the thing was scrap.

The commander jumped away from Julie and pulled his swords inwards. They were now replaced by barrel cannons. He aimed each blast at Julie, intending to hit her this time for real. However, his aim was now to slow, as the Chaos energy had super charged Julie enough for her speed to max out. She went by super fast, almost as if time was stopped. She ran under the mech and began to blast it from underneath. However,this ended up not being the best idea, as he brought down his arm, slamming it down onto Julie, who held it up from crushing her with her Chaos enhanced strength, standing straight up. However, something odd happened, that she didn't expect.

Three small wires came out of the robot's arm and connected themselves to Julie. She tried to fend them off, but was too busy holding the arm from crushing her. It was when she felt a shocking sensation from the wires that she realized something was wrong. She began to feel... weaker. Ship screeched in pain as the wires shocked her. She began to break down, landing one of her knees to the ground and barely able to keep the other one up. The fist was coming down on her hard. She wasn't lifting it with just her hands, but now with her back as well. She finally figured it out. Those wires were draining her Chaos Energy. She grunted as the weight became heavier and heavier.

Right next to her was an unwelcoming sight. The mechs's other hand was placed right next to her, readying itself as a gun. She grunted and groaned as she felt the energy getting sucked right out of her. The other hand appeared to be readying one final blast for her. She was doomed. However, something caught her foot on the ground that pulled her out from the fist, and just barely from death. Rook had turned his Proto-Tool into a grappling hook and grabbed Julie out from under the weight. He brought her over to him and helped her up as the Drakon got back standing upright. It appeared that this battle was not going to have a winner anytime soon. Then a voice spoke up.

"Stop!"

Everyone looked over to the burst open doorway to see a Drakon standing there, in a very fancy suit. Rook and Julie did not know who he was, but the commander did.

"Ah, sentry. It seems you took my suit. You're lucky I'm winning this fight, otherwise, I'd smack you silly. But, oh, well. You've come to see me triumph over these two insects." The commander shouted.

"No, sir, I've actually come to be of assistance." The sentry responded.

A brief moment of silence filled the room. It was the commander who broke said silence.

"HAHAHA! You? Be of assistance? Oh, please, sentry. I don't need any help taking down these commoners." The commander laughed.

"I know. Which is why I'm helping them out." The sentry stated. Even more silence followed, but this one wasn't interrupted by laughter like before.

"Sentry... I'd suggest that you not make jokes like that. They're liable to get you killed in battle."

"You mean like how you killed my brother?" The sentry spat, "I never wanted to be a part of this war, I was fine just being with my family on Drak. But now you've forced my hand to go against my own monstrous empire."

Even more silence followed. Dead silence. Not a word was uttered. Even when the silence was broken by the commander once again. Instead of shouting at him, or even speaking to him, he lifted his arm at the sentry and without a word, he blasted the sentry with his cannon. Julie and Rook's eyes widened and their mouths dropped at this sight.

"Well, that's what happens to people who betray us. They get taken down before they take us down." The commander explained.

"Or if you think they're expendable." Said a voice. The commander looked over to see the sentry standing where he was, completely unharmed. Although it appeared his suit was now drenched entirely in black.

"What? You're alive?!" The commander shouted. The sentry began to run towards the commander, with every intention of doing as much damage as he could. Wanting to avenge his fallen brother from the hands of this murderer. And all of the other lives taken from him, or anyone of he Drakon empire. Unfortunately, he wasn't even able to get a hit in, as the commander grabbed his comparatively tiny exoskeleton and slammed in on the ground multiple times. He lifted up the suit and squeezed it so hard that the dome that held the sentry popped right off and landed intact at the feet of Julie and Rook.

"Hahahaha! You're nothing but a fool to think that you can take down my machine with such a puny suit, sentry!" The commander yelled. The next voice to respond was a voice that the commander never heard. A voice that the commander wasn't even sure where it came from.

"He wasn't the one trying to take you down, fish face." Said a voice.

The commander glanced around the room to try and find out who said that. No one else was in the room. So who said that? It was at that point that he noticed something weird about the armor in his hand. It appeared that the blackness of the suit was spreading onto the mech. He quickly threw away the suit in his hand in response, but all that happened was the blackness left the suit and stayed on him. It spread over his entire mech. Eventually, the whole thing was cloaked in the blackness of whatever it was. However, soon, it was revealed to him what it was.

Green lines began to make their way on the entire machine. All of them intricate and sleek. On the cockpit, however, there appeared to be a plumber's badge on it. But that was no badge at all. It was the omnitrix symbol.

"Yeah, next time you try and kill me, you might wanna make sure I'm dead, dude." Upgrade said to the Drakon as he began to overload the entire mech. Sparks of electricity flied everywhere as the circuitry was corrupted by Ben's actions. It almost looked as if the entire thing was about to explode, until Ben popped out the Drakon commander in the pod, and separated himself from the mech. The mech then powered down and fell to the ground, shut down.

Upgrade held the Drakon in his hands as the omnitrix timer began and he transformed back into Ben again. Julie and Rook's eyes widened in joy.

"Ben!" "You're alive!"

The two heroes ran over to greet the guy they thought had just died in battle. He smiled as they got up to him, and Julie lept into a great big hug.

"You're alive! Oh, thank goodness, you're okay..." Julie said.

"Ship! Ship, ship, ship!" Ship shouted, jumping off of Julie as her battle armor and attempting to lick Ben like a puppy.

"Ah! Easy boy! I'm okay..."

"But how? We saw you on that ship when the commander vaporized it!" Rook exclaimed.

"I remembered what the Drakon said back on Greengate. Each one of these ships has a warp ring on it. I just jumped into one before I got zapped. Each one connecting to another one, and one back to Drak." Ben explained, "Speaking of which..."

Ben walked over to the sentry Drakon and picked him up, showing him to the crowd, "This is Bob the Drakon. He's going to help us stop the Drakon Empire and then move to somewhere in our galaxy to be a normal citizen."

Julie, Rook, and Ship all gave him an odd look.

"Um.. My name's not Bob." The sentry Drakon said, sheepishly.

"Really? Cause you look like a Bob to me."

"I'm not."

"Okay."

Rook walked up to the sentry Drakon and asked, "Can you really get stop the Drakon Empire?"

"I can get you to Drak from a warp ring here, but that's about it. You're on your own for the rest of the way." Not-Bob the Drakon said.

"Well, then, what are we waiting for? Let's stop this war!" Ben shouted.

Gareth and Tom sat in front of their monitor, looking closely at a little red dot on it, tracking it's whereabouts.

"Man, dude, Enoch will be glad that we got a tracker on that jeep. Now we can track them down." Gareth said aloud.

"Indeed..." Enoch said behind them. They turned around to see him along with several other Forever Knights,all armed to the rim.

"I'm going out to try and find them. We have the location of the vehicle. If it moves at all, tell me where it moves too. When we get back... That staff will be ours." And with that, Enoch left the room, followed by his small army of Forever Knights.

"Dude, Enoch's gone. Let's order some Pizza." Gareth suggested. Tom placed his palm upon his face.

"I swear, Gareth, you're going to get us killed someday."

Ben looked up at the bright stars in the cold night time sky. Great, now it was dark. It would be a lot harder to find Grandpa now. Quite a bit of time had passed since they left the gasless jeep. At the very least an hour. He gave a quick look over to the seedrian that accompanied him. She was shivering at the cold.

"Brr... It's cold..." She said aloud, stating information they both already knew.

His gaze shifted around the forest they were in. It was dark and they were in a place where they were not familiar with. They needed to do one of two things. Get out of there as quickly as possible, or set up camp for the night. At least that's what he thought of doing. He looked down at his watch to see that it was still not red. Well, they weren't getting out of here anytime soon, that was for sure. How long as this thing conked out for?

He stopped in his tracks and looked around where he was. Cosmo took notice a few steps in front of him, and stopped moving, turning to see him looking around.

"What are you doing?" She asked him.

"Looking for sticks to make a fire with. There's no way we're gonna get outta these woods tonight." Ben said, walking over to a few branches on the ground. He held a few in his other hand when he reached for another one, only to have someone else grab it. He looked over to his side to see Cosmo picking a few up to try and help him. She continued to pick up sticks beside him, not paying attention to the boy. He smiled to himself before going back to picking up sticks.

The fire roared as Ben threw another stick into it. It was surprising how fast Ben was able to set it up. Now it was nice and toasty around them, and they had a light to see. Cosmo sat with her knees up to her chest, and her arms wrapped around them. She sat close to the fire, but was visibly keeping her distance. Ben brushed his hands off on each other, making a clapping sound before wiping them off of his shirt.

"There. Now we have some fire to keep us warm..." Ben said before sitting down. Cosmo looked at Ben, with her eyes, drooping down a bit from her being tired. He had his eyes on the flames, almost as if he was spaced out for a bit. A gaze she herself made when she was thinking. She partially wondered what he was thinking about. She also wondered how her mother was. She was probably worried sick. She also began to wonder what her sister was up to now... still on her home world, at war with the Black Arms...

Still, thinking about it now wouldn't do much good. It would just stress her brain. She needed to relax for now... she needed rest. She really needed to break this silence, it was killing her.

"Um... So... Ben, was it? How exactly did you turn into... all of those things?" She asked. Ben snapped out of his trance and looked at Cosmo. After it took a half a second for her question to register, Ben smiled smugly and held up his watch.

"It's this watch. It's called the Omnitrix, and it can transform me into 10,000 aliens." Ben explained, gloating over the fact that his future self could transform into 10,00 aliens. He remembered his future self well. He had to remember to not turn into a jerk like he was.

"Whoa! Ten... thousand aliens!?" Cosmo said, clearly sounding surprised, "It can really do that?"

"You bet!"

"Can you turn into one now?"

Ben's sweat dropped visible from this question. He looked down to his watch to see that it was still in the red. Huh. This was odd. It usually was recharged by now.

"Uh... no. It's not recharged..." Ben said, rubbing the back of his head.

Cosmo looked at him briefly before she sighed and gazed back to the blazing fire keeping them warm. Ben watched her gaze at the flames. He did take notice that she was keeping her distance. Her species was rather plant like. He assumed fire would be rather dangerous to her. He also noticed that she had rather... nice, blue eyes. Her facial structure was rather cute.

She felt like something was watching her. She looked over to Ben to see him looking towards her. Nonexistent eyebrow raised, she asked him, "What are you looking at?"

Ben's eyes widened at this. He quickly moved his gaze up to the sky and said, "Nothing."

Cosmo looked at him funny. His gaze at her reminded her of how some boys on her planet looked at her. Quickly, a thought came into her mind.

"You think I'm cute don't you?"

Ben's eyes widened and he looked at her quickly, "What?! No, I don't!"

Cosmo giggled at this, "Yes you do. I saw how you were looking at me."

Ben folded his arms. "Hmph. No, I wasn't. I don't even like girls."

"Well, I assure you, you will in a few years."

"No, I won't."

"Yes, you will."

"No, I won't.

"Yes, you will. I bet you'll even have a girlfriend."

"What?!" Ben screamed, "I won't have a girlfriend! What girl would ever like me?"

"Really now? What makes you think that?" She asked, curiously.

Ben remained quiet for a few seconds. He gazed down to his watch, "This watch makes me a hero. I can do some many cool things with it. I've fought with evil aliens, and saved the day a bajillion times..."

Cosmo listened intensely at Ben's little speech, making sure to not miss a detail.

"But that's all because of the watch. Any girl that would want me would want me for my alien heroes... not me." Briefly, an image flew right through his mind. The face of a girl he remembered meeting once over his summer vacation. A girl named Kai.

Cosmo felt a little bad for him. The way he was talking about himself was... rather depressing. Did he really think of himself that way? Think of himself only being loved as a hero? Come to think of it, she was in kind of a similar situation. How many boys from her home world actually liked her that way for being pretty or nice? Most of that probably came from her being as princess...

Ben stayed silent, staring at the fire. Cosmo didn't like seeing him like this. Not anything personal towards him, she just didn't like seeing anyone upset. It was in her nature. She wanted to snap him out of it. She tried to think of a way to cheer him up. And herself.

"Um... Well, hey, you didn't need to use an alien to get out of those bad people's base.." Cosmo suggested.

"... I used Stinkfly and cannonbolt to get you out of there." Ben pointed out.

Cosmo's sweat dropped upon hearing this, "I-I was talking about after you used those two..."

"Whatever... Still had to be rescued... From peacocks." Ben muttered.

"Hey, don't talk so down about yourself, Ben. I assure you, you would have gotten the both of us out of there, even if you didn't have that watch."

"What makes you think that?"

"Well... I got out, didn't I?" Cosmo pointed out.

Ben sighed loudly, "Right. A princess got out of her cell and had to rescue me. That's gonna cheer me up."

"Ben, I would have never gotten out of that place if it wasn't for you." Cosmo pointed out, "I was only able to get out because some stupid guy pressed the wrong button on my Avohkii Staff. Even if he still did, if you weren't there to rescue me, I would still be in there, probably having my head dissected."

Ben looked up to her after admitting that. "You really think so?"

"I know so."

Ben smiled at this. He shut his eyes and smiled widely. "Well, hey, if ya ever need an alien hero around, you can always count on-" Ben was interrupted mid-sentence, by something he never thought would happen. Something that surprised him greatly. Cosmo had came close to him and placed her own lips on his. Ben, slightly pleased, but mainly disgusted, pulled away from Cosmo's sudden actions.

"Bleh!" Ben shouted, spitting out, "Ew! I know I was just kinda down on myself about that stuff, but you didn't have to do that to make me feel better! P'too!"

The expression on Cosmo's face changed to a curious one, "Uh... what do you mean? I was just thanking you for saving me. I never properly did that.."

Ben continued to spit around, as any ten year old his age would do., "Blech! That's how you thank people?! By kissing them?"

Cosmo stayed silent for a few seconds before continuing, "... Kiss?"

"Yes! Kiss! Blech!"

"... I kissed you?"

"Yes! Ugh! What part didn't you understand?"

"... Wait, what I just did, touching our lips together, that's what you're referring to?" Cosmo said, trying to figure this out.

"Yes! That's what a kiss is!"

"... Um.. okay? I don't see what the big deal is... Does.. 'kissing' mean something else on this planet?" Cosmo asked.

Ben wiped his arm across his mouth before speaking again, "... Uh, yeah. What the heck does it mean on your planet?"

"It is an expression of showing someone their deepest form of gratitude. Expressing a thanks that cannot be put into words. A thanks for something along the lines of saving.. not only one person's life, but the lives of many..." Cosmo explained.

Ben rubbed his arm across his face before speaking, "Really?"

Cosmo nodded, "Yes."

"Well... next time... just send a card or something. It's what we do here..." Ben explained.

"Um... okay..." Cosmo said, looking back to the fire, "May I ask what kissing means on this planet? I feel like I've offended you terribly..."

Ben's eyes widened. He wasn't entirely sure how to respond to that sort of question. "Um... well... how do I put this?"

Ben glanced back to Cosmo, who was staring at him with a curious face.

"Well... you see... when a guy... or a girl... likes another guy or a girl... or whatever... Like, they think they're really cute, or handsome... or pretty... kissing is kinda like showing... that you like them."

"So... it's just for people who are handsome, or pretty?" Cosmo asked.

"Well... no... it's more for people who... like other people. Like like them."

Cosmo's face turned from the pale green it was before to a bright shade of red, "Oh... Oh... Okay... um... I see. I understand now... I-I'm sorry... I didn't mean it like that..."

"Um... yeah..." Ben replied, looking down at the fire. A minute or two of silence followed this awkward moment. Ben looked up at the starry night sky.

"It's late. We need to rest." He said aloud.

"Y-yeah..." Cosmo replied. She looked behind herself and saw a tree behind them. Well, they were really all around them, but it was the one tree in particular that's semi important to the plot, so you can only pay attention to that one. It was slightly leaning, so that way one could potentially lay up against it or a pillow, or a reclining chair in that way. She crawled up to the tree and rested her head up against it, laying down to go to sleep. Before she fell into slumber, her eyes shot open.

"Wait, what if one of those bad men, or Mother, or your grandpa come around?"

Ben looked back to her and replied, "Well, I'm obviously gonna stay up and stay look out."

"You can't stay up all night Ben..."

"Yeah, and I can't drink an entire gallon of soda in under a minute." Ben boasted.

"... How about we take shifts? Like, after a while, you wake me up and I take watch and then I can do the same for you?" Cosmo suggested.

Ben rolled his eyes, "Fine. Sure, we can do that. But I'm taking the first watch."

Cosmo smiled and laid back down. She closed her eyes tightly, readying herself for slumber. A quick chill, however, descended onto her body as the cold, night wind blew over her. She shivered in response to this. Very loudly. It was very cold.

Ben noticed this. He knew that Cosmo was a plant, like Wildvine. And he knew Wildvine couldn't take the cold very well. She probably could make it through the night with the fire going next to her. But she still looked really cold.

"Brrr..."

And her shivers were rather loud. Ben looked at the fire and back at her. He rolled his yes at his next decision. He crawled up over next to her and lifted her up from laying on the tree. He sat up against the tree an pulled her forwards to himself. Very confused, Cosmo looked up to Ben.

"It's way too cold out. We need to stay as warm as we can. And the only way to do that is by... Ugh... sharing body heat. So we gotta stick close..." Ben explained.

Cosmo did not say anything. She just simply leaned her head onto Ben, and fell quietly asleep, while Ben kept up the first watch.

Emperor Ko-Dorr sat in his throne room, waiting for one of two things. The announcement that his forces captured Greengate, or the arrival of the feast. Both signified the victory of the Drakon empire, but he was simply stuck twiddling his exo-skeleton's thumbs until either had happened. He was surprised how easily his troops were able to take her. After this day, They would have a base in the Milky Way Galaxy, and be ready for Galactic conquest.

He smiled evilly as he imagined all of the monuments built in his honor when he took over. Heck, he wondered what materials his new throne rooms would look like. This one was a mixture between gold and emerald, with giant doors, overlooking an under water city behind him. Maybe the next one could have the heads of his enemies mounted on his walls. He heard of this Khyber hunter guy who was really good at that sort of thing.

There were a few things that he was expecting this day. And what was about to happen wasn't one of them.

The large doors to his throne room burst open with a loud clang, surprising the emperor fish. His eyes widened when he saw the people who burst down the door. Ben, Julie, Rook and Ship. Granted, he didn't know who these people were exactly, but considering what he heard from his men, he had a hunch.

"Hello... Let me guess... You are Benjamin Tennyson?" Ko-Door presumed.

"Yeah, it's me. And you kidnapped my friend. So, if you could just hand her over, and leave her planet alone, I won't have to go Fourarms on your tail." Ben said, curling his hands into fists.

Ko-Door looked at him and chuckled, "Hahaha... Oh, that isn't going to happen. What is going to happen, is I'm going to call my men in here and have them take you to the arena of judgment, where they will obliterate you."

"We took down most of your fleet attacking Greengate, including the head of that armada. I do not think you are in a position to tell us what will happen."

"Ah, but you're failing to realize, I am only one third of this empire's leads. I am the leader of the House of War. Even if you strike me down, you will still have to deal with the other two leaders, Master Scholar, leader of the house of knowledge, and Sister Haggra, leader of the House of Magic." Ko-Dorr explained.

"We'll take them down too." Julie said, holding Ship in her arms. The little Mechamorph growled at the man in the exo-skelleton.

"Hahahaha... You're on Drak, my enemies. Even if you take us down, we will make sure you leave this planet in one way alone. Death," Ko-Dorr threatened. Suddenly, out of seemingly nowhere, a loud buzzer rang throughout the room.

"Ah, it appears that the feast of our success has begun...I shall see you later for your punishment humans." Ko-Door said, in a cold tone. He lifted up a small compartment on the arm of his throne and pressed a button underneath it. Quickly, the throne descended into the ground, leaving a large, clean-cut hole in the ground. Ben rushed up to the hole along with Rook and Julie, looking down to see it acting as a form of long tunnel way to... where ever Ko-Dorr was headed.

"Come on!" Ben shouted as he jumped down the hole, followed by Julie and Rook. It was along ride down, with a few twists and turns but the three saw the end of the tunnel and prepared for a landing. Ban landed gracefully on his feet, but fell onto the ground as Julie and Rook fell on top of him.

"Ow..." Ben muttered. The three of them scrambled up onto their feet and got a good look around them. The room in question appeared to be much longer then the last one, with a very long and narrow table standing between them and Ko-Dorr. Said table was filled to the brim with many foodstuffs and meals, looking almost like an alien version of thanksgiving. In fact, it appeared that Ko-Dorr himself had a very big dish under a large food cover. Standing beside him were two more Drakon Prosecutors, each holding a Drakon Sword in their hands.

"Alright, Ko-Dorr... just give up now. And tell me where Cosmo is!" Ben demanded.

"Oh, don't worry... I'll tell you where she is... Hahahahaha..." Ko-Dorr laughed deeply. Slowly, he lifted his robot hand up and placed it on the handle of the food cover. He lifted it up to reveal Cosmo laying on the platter, with her arms tied behind her back, and an apple in her mouth. The three heroes' eyes widened and their mouths dropped in shock. Nothing happened for a few seconds, until Rook's eyes rolled into the back of his head and he fell to the ground, fainting into unconsciousness.

"You're going to eat her!?" Ben shouted in horror.

"Of course. Have you ever had seedrian? I mean, really, from all that I hear, her species is an absolute delicacy. Why else do you think we decided to invade Greengate first? Not only do we have save labor for conquering your galaxy, but we also have a wonderful livestock." Ko-Dorr said with a sadistic grin planted upon his green face, stroking his pointed chin. Cosmo whimpered in fear as he began scrapping together a knife and fork in front of her, scared to death at her fate by his plans.

"You can't eat her! It's inhumane!" Julie shouted, Ship barking angrily at him.

"Well, it's a good thing I'm not a humane, or however you pronounce it." Ko-Dorr laughed.

Ben's eyes were filled with rage. He wouldn't take what this fish was about to do. He lifted his hand up into the air, only for his entire body to be brought down quickly to the ground. Julie and Ship followed suit.

Ko-Dorr smiled as he looked over to his side, looking at his Drakon bodyguard, intensifying the gravity for the two humans. Cosmo looked at him and whimpered, tears pouring out of her eyes. Being devoured by an alien was one thing, but to have the last thing you see be your friends' bodies crushed into the ground was even worse. Ko-Dorr smiled as he lifted his knife and fork over her. She looked up at him with the most horrified expression she could muster. Ko-Dorr looked down at her and smiled. She closed her eyes in fear, only to have the next thing she heard be Ko-Dorr's next order.

"Bring the Tennyson child over here."

Cosmo looked up at him for a split second so see him looking over to his guard. The guard nodded and used his staff to slowly move Ben over next to his throne. The emperor quickly got up and out of his seat. He stood over a helpless Ben as if he was above him, which he was. Although, it was kinda odd, considering that he was only three feet tall. He grabbed Ben by the chin and made him look him in the eye.

"You have broken so many laws by the Drakon order. However, I am a man of mercy when it comes to this sort of thing. So, I'll give you a single chance...To not only save yourself, but also the princess." Ko-dorr spat at him.

"Name your... game... you sardine..." Ben struggled to say, the gravity still having ill effects on him.

"How we deal with things on this planet is simple. Trial by combat. To try and dumb it down so that way your tiny little ape mind can perceive it, we place you in an arena, and you have a battle with a Prosecutor. If you win, you shall be found non-guilty of your crimes, and I'll let you leave this planet with the seedrian princess, and call off this whole invasion." Ko-Dorr explained.

"Hrk! Wow... How generous of you..." Ben said, sarcastically, "Any.. reason... why?"

"Hahahaha... I see the look on her face. I know that you two have a history. So I may as well let her see the fall of such a noble hero before the grand feast." Ko-Dorr spoke in a deadly tone. He let him go, and snapped his fingers, ordering the Prosecutor to release him of the gravity increase. The guard did just so. Ben slowly got up onto his feet and stumbled.

"Take them all to the Arena of Judgement. Today, Benjamin fights for not only his own life, but the lives of millions." Ko-Dorr ordered. The Guard nodded and smacked Ben with his staff, getting him to move down the room. He cooperated and walked the way the guard wanted him to walk.

Julie slowly got up off of the ground, groaning in pain from the gravity spike. Ship came over to her and nuzzled into her jacket, making sure she was okay. She petted him on the head and looked up to see Ben, walking with a Drakoin beside him.

Julie got up onto her feet, and was given a look but the Drakon to follow Ben. She looked at him and walked up to Ben, keeping close to him.

Rook slowly woke up from his fainting spell, gripping his head with his hand, "Ugh... I had the oddest dream..."

"Come on. We gotta go to this trial to stop Cosmo from getting eaten." Ben said to him. Rook looked all around the room to see Everything just as it was before even with Cosmo still on the plate.

"Never mind..." Rook said, getting up and dazily following Ben.

Cosmo looked over to the three leave the room, tears still falling form her eyes.

"I'd say you should consider yourself lucky, seedrian..." Ko-Dorr spoke to her. She turned her head to look at the despicable emperor.

"You get to be the first to witness the first great loss of your galaxy...Ben 10. Hahahahaha HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Ko-Dorr laughed, placing the food cover over Cosmo once again, and picking it up. His chair then began to move by itself, moving to the arena where the fate of the galaxy, and Comso's life, would be held...

17,400 words... and it's done... FINALLY! And just in time for my one year anniversary too... I kinda woulda prefered if I had finished there story by now, but oh, well. I'll take what I can get at this point.

Once again, I am so sorry that it took me this long to update. I promise that the next update will not be anywhere near as long. Being honest, I was kinda confused at where I was supposed to take the plot at this point. I knew what had to happen, but I didn't know HOW it would. There are some things that turned out better then I though, and others that just... well, didn't.

So, yeah, tune in next chapter, to see the stunning grand finale Of Ben 10 Omniverse Greengate! And then the epilogue... and then some author's notes... Yay.