Solitary Alignment
Last time on Ultimate Alien, Vilgax was taken into Diagon's dimension after getting a viscous beating from Ben.
Old George picks up the sword known as Ascalon and is returned to his young form.
" Whoa, I don't believe it."
Gwen felt more confused if she wasn't already.
" Yeah you think he would have helmet hair."
Albedo patted his hair thankful it was normal and healthy.
" This is what the Diagon saw and let the Diagon come!"
He walked slowly toward Ben and the team only to stop as Ben in the skeletal wolf form growled at him.
" You have my permission to genuflect at this time."
" I'll genuflect whenever I want to."
Kevin snorted at the comment while Lance felt like smacking him.
" Kevin! It means to kneel before him."
" Oh really? Then not going to happen."
Ben stood near Kevin now aiming his rage at George.
" You need to put the sword down NOW!
" And why would I do that Master Tennyson? Ascalon is mine."
" No it belongs to me!"
They turned to see Azmuth appear and Azmuth focused on Ben.
" So the rumors were true about a skeletal cereboan and yet I never would have imagined it was you."
" Azmuth that's your sword?"
Ben didn't know to react to Azmuth's claim, but kept his attention on George.
" Hence the word mine, try to keep up Tennyson."
Azmuth faced George, watching him hold the sword he's kept in his possession for too long know.
" I haven't the time to banter words with you Azmuth. The monster lies there and now it's time to finish this!"
George unsheathes Ascalon and runs toward the crack in the seal only to find it empty with no sign of Diagon anywhere.
" With the seal broken, the monster can enter and exit this dimension anytime."
Everyone wanted to face palm at this since they already knew that.
" Now to stop this foolishness, give me back my sword."
" Not with the monster still living. If you want it back, come and take it!"
" You think I can't? I am Azmuth, creator of the Omnitrix, Sculptor of worlds and smartest being of 5 galaxies. Of course I can take it. Ben Tennyson take it from him!"
Without a second thought the skeletal wolf charged at George and went to bite him only to have the sword stab the top part of his mouth.
George tugged to remove the sword, but he was spat out and hit the ground without major damage to his body..
Kevin manages to get George in a headlock while Albedo tried to remove the sword from Ben's mouth.
" What? Let me go!"
" Make me old man."
"Respect your elders, stripling. And by the way, hair pulling? Seriously? You fight like a girl."
" (Gwen attacking Sir George) Wrong! I fight like a girl."
" No argument there now bring it on old man!"
" Who are you calling old you senile dog!"
The sword came out with ease, but Albedo was sent flying into the wall as George retrieved his sword.
Ben charged at him again only to be slowed down by a energy wave fired from the sword.
" I've been going easy on you. Stay down."
Ben snapped at George as he felt his instincts go crazy at his new target.
" Like that's gonna happen."
George then made a tornado, but the wolf kept coming towards him until George used the power of the sword to down them all down.
Ben was human again and was trying to get up as George made a portal and leaves the cave.
Ben demands that Azmuth tells him why he is making it look like he is involved with the Diagon and Forever Knight affair.
So Azmuth teleports him, Ben and the team to a volcano on Primus.
The volcano erupts and the team runs away, however when the lava pours over them.
" Huh that's weird it's not hot or burning us."
Azmuth explains that he is immersing them in images and that they are like ghosts who can't be touched by anything or seen.
Azmuth changes the environment to the laboratory where he use to work with his love, another Galvan named Xenith.
Xenith walks in and speaks to Azmuth about spending some time outside the lab, so they go outside and have a picnic together.
Azmuth speaks to Xenith about harnessing the primal forces of the universe, which she believes isn't right.
Azmuth promises that he will try to view things her way as they gaze up at the night sky.
Xenith points out a planetary system in perfect alignment which inspires Azmuth to create a sword.
" This sword can cleave right through reality and into the primal forces."
" It's irresponsible to create things without considering the ramifications."
" It's not my job to worry about what happens next, but what happens now.
" Well that makes since true enough."
Azmuth jumps to hit Ben, but a black furry, clawed hand blocks the hit.
Azmuth sees Kevin's eyes glowing yellow and brighter than usual.
" No one touches or hits Ben except me!"
Azmuth decided not to provoke Kevin's wrath this time.
" Well he's missing the point. I was once young and stupid like he is at this very moment."
Azmuth goes on to create the sword anyway, but Xenith leaves him before he finishes it.
" She never came back did she?"
Gwen was sad at the realization shown in the memories.
" No and that Ben Tennyson is the point."
Ben just shrugged his shoulders.
" What does ignoring your girlfriend have to do with me?"
" When was the last time you and Levin ever did anything as a couple?"
Lance knew this was crossing a line, but he was curious about their relationship.
" This is not about me and that's private!"
" True we haven't gone out on a first date, I think Ben is ashamed of going out with me."
Ben snarled at Kevin's remark knowing he was joking, but still he got riled up.
" Oh shut it Levin! You know damn well with two kids, how can you go out? Besides with Gwenny here what privacy do you have?"
Albedo snapped since he knew privacy was hard to come by and he understood completely.
" ANYWAY! What happened to the sword?"
Azmuth explains that the sword he created was later stolen by an Incursion warrior who hoped to use the sword's power to unite the many warring factions of his home-world. The result was the destruction of the Incurison's planet. Seeing the destruction he had caused, Azmuth tells them that he hid it away and dedicated himself to peaceful sciences, creating the Omnitrix as an apology to the galaxy and Xenith. However, he then immerses them in a scene of a primitive planet he had encountered in his studies. The planet is revealed to be Earth in the middle ages.
Azmuth tells them that at this period in Earth's history an extra-dimensional creature called the Diagon and his servants the Lucubra were invading Earth with hopes to conquer the entire dimension. Many knights had tried to stop the creatures but had failed under their mind control. Albedo was trying to keep this nauseous feeling down seeing body parts and blood flying along with screams of agony. Only the strongest knight, Sir George (who had somehow live for 900 years) was able to defeat the Lucubra, but couldn't stop the Diagon.
The invasion of the Diagon convinced Azmuth that the sword must be used again, so he presented the sword to Sir George as he was the only one worthy of wielding its power. George named the sword Ascalon and used it to cut out the Diagon's heart and stabbed the sword through it. The Diagon, however, would not die even though it's heart was removed. So George cast it back into its own dimension, and sealed it in so that no one would ever unleash it by mistake and keep te world safe.
The violence and gruesomeness of the scene causes Ben and the team to feel great discomfort. Lance was affected the most since he still remembered the massacre of Cereboa in which he saw everyone he knew and his parents slaughtered like animals. So Ben demands that Azmuth return them to the cave and he does. Gwen started to shake from the vision so Ben hugged her to calm her down. Kevin hugged Ben and Gwen while Albedo hugged Lance who was trembling.
" So what's wrong with letting George using the sword to kill the monster?"
Ben was curious since he didn't know how powerful this sword really was.
" Because the monster won't underestimate him a second time and George won't hit his target. Meanwhile the power will overwhelm him and corrupt him as well.
" So you're saying the sword needs someone worthy. Someone handsome and wears a nifty jacket."
Ben figured the only person capable of handling a dangerous weapon would be himself.
" Didn't you learn anything, the power will overwhelm you if not make you corrupt and unstable."
Gwen was angry at the cockiness and lack of regard her cousin was showing at the situation.
" Haven't you learn anything over the past 6 years? I'm the go to guy when it comes to saving the universe."
" You can barely control the cereboan powers and the power of Ascalon could make it unstable like Levin's mutations."
" Even if I could find George I need something of his to track him down."
Gwen tracks down George using a piece of his hair that Kevin pulled out during their fight. Gwen finds him in Area 51, so the team go there. While Kevin, Lance, Albedo and Gwen battle the Forever Knights guarding the area, Ben transforms into Humoungousaur again, then into Ultimate Humungousaur, to battle George alone. During their fight George is able to relate to Ben by explaining how their heroic ability is both doubted, so Ben and George make an agreement that if George loses to Diagon, he will give Ben the sword. Ben and the team meet up at the cave again and he tells them what the compromise with George is.
" At least we have two chances to stop this thing. George deserves the right to have his shot."
Ben did understand why George was so set of stopping Diagon himself, being doubted by your family and friends hurts deeply.
" You could be right. What I told you about building the Omnitrix and Ultramatrix are true, but I never told you the true reason. I was hoping she would have noticed."
Kevin looked at his phone and gaped at the time it was now.
" I had no idea it was 11:30 pm already."
" Oh we only have half an hour left."
" You're right I totally forgot about tomorrow."
" Time flies when you're having fun and a wedding is stressful."
Azmuth was happy despite the impending looming feeling of death and the end of their world.
" Well the big day is tomorrow which means we'll be Ben and Kevin Levin."
" And we'll be Albedo and Lance Lavigne."
" All right Ben and Albedo come with me and we'll see the grooms at the ceremony?"
Gwen saw the sad faces, but hey tradition was tradition no matter what.
" I hate dresses and I don't want to wear one!"
" Relax once it's over, I'll be tearing it off your soft and slender body on the honeymoon."
" Please last thing I need to picture is you and Ben alone!"
" Don't mind him since him and Ben haven't been intimate for two and a half months."
As Azmuth left back home, our team went to their separate cars until Kevin gave Ben a breathless kiss and Albedo just got in the car with fresh hickeys on his neck.
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