Chapter 1: I'm Coming to Save You... Elena!

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It Was Yet Another Day In The City Of Bellwood. No Crimes, No Burglaries, No Extraterrestrial Court Cases or A War Of An Alien Warlord... Nope, Nothing But Just A Hot Day In Bellwood... And We Can See that Someone is Getting Fed Up Of This Hot Day and He Is:

(yawn) "It's Such A Boring Day Today... And Not Forgetting the Fact that it's Sunday AND it's So Hot Ughh! Where the Heck Is the Crime? Where's Vilgax? Where did Every Supervillain Go Today?!?" (Sips His Smoothy)

This Young Boi Who's Bored Asf Right Now... is The Universe's Saviour and Our Fav Childhood Hero... is None other Than, The "Ben Tennyson" Who's Craving for Something To Happen While Sipping His Smoothy At Mr. Smoothies, And His Partner isn't there With Him.

"Grrr... I'm So Bored Man! Rook Just HAD TO Go To Revonnah For A Week! Wish I Could hangout with Gwendolyn Or Kevin But... (Sigh) Gwendolyn Is Busy With Her College Classes and Kevin Went With Arjit Somewhere... Again!

I Swear If that Kevin Again Ditched Me with An Alien Girl... I'm Gonna Throw Him in the Null Void Myself! Even My Cold Smoothy Just Melted Ughh, Can't Things Get Any Worse-"

And as If the Universe Itself Heard Him, A Small Explosion Just Happened In the nearby Neighborhood.

"YES YES YES!!! FINALLY SOME ACTION!"

Ben Threw His Now Finished Smoothy Inside the Trash Can And tapped on The Black Surface with Green Strips of his Omnitrix and Quickly Slammed his hand On it's Dial and His Body Began to Change into A Velociraptor type Alien as He shouted after finishing transforming:

"XLR8!!!" And then he started running towards the neighborhood ahead where the explosion happened and in the next minute When he arrived there, He Stopped To See something weird Around him.

"Huh.. What The-" As Ben Reached There... He Saw that the Skies Were Bloody Red, Trees were burnt, No Signs of Pedestrians Around, Houses were Broken, Then he wondered:

(It's Like The Time Itself Had Stopped Moving and Since When did This Neighborhood Became So Haunted?... Don't Tell Me It's Another Time Wa-)

"-Nope, It isn't A Time War This Time Benjamin... Not Yet For Now."

A Figure Placed His Hand on Ben's Shoulder and interrupted him, making Ben Surprised and When He Turned to Look at the Figure Who was eating Gumball behind him, He saw who it was!

"Professor Paradox! What are You Doing Here and What do You Mean 'Not Yet For Now' And-" Professor Paradox Interrupted XLR8 by extending a gumball. "Gumball Benjamin?"

"Umm... No Thanks Professor. Anyways Can You Tell me What's happening here professor? Why Did The Time Got Stopped here? What happened this time now?" (As Ben Slammed the Omnitrix on his Chest reverting back to his Normal self, he asked Professor some Questions.)

As Professor Paradox Gave Him A Serious Look and Looked Around and then said:

"Hmm... You See Benjamin, I Really... Don't Know Myself How This Happened Here. I Sensed A Disturbance In this Timeline Around this Neighborhood, and When I Tried to Find The Cause Of it, I Found out that.. Something From the Past Is Intervening with The Present Timeline Here... It's Almost Like A Breakdown or something like that, which shouldn't be affecting the present..."

Ben Stood There With Confusion And Didn't Got A Single Word that He said.

"Umm... come again professor Paradox? What do you mean that the past is Intervening with the present huh? Can you not Talk in Riddlish for once?" He Asked The Professor Annoyingly.

"Hmm... How About You Walk There with Me First of All Benjamin?" The Professor Walked Some Yards with Ben Following Him and Then Both Stopped infront of A Burnt House. "Benjamin, Right Now... The House Infront of us... is Your House and Don't Worry... Your Parents Are Not Here so Don't Panic." The Professor Alerted Ben So He Won't Panic.

"O-Oh Okay... I Won't Panic Professor But... I didn't even realised when I was running here that it's my Neighborhood... But, You Didn't still Answered Why We Are Here and What's Really Happening?" Ben Asked While Controlling His Emotions and Sighed Softly.

"Hmm... Come Here and See if you can recognize this House or Do You Remember who used to live next to you?" The Professor gestured Ben to Walk to the next House which Ben did and Stood infront of it and observed silently until his eyes fell on something Insane as he Just realised:

"NO WAY... P-Professor Paradox, This is... I remember Now... This House was... Elena's... Elena Validus Used to Live Next to me... She was My Childhood Friend... A Great one... She Was my Soccer Coach... (Sigh) Until She Became The Swarm Queen... How Can I Forget her."

As He Kept Murmuring with His Head Down, Another Question popped in his mind and He asked the professor: "But, How can this be? they shifted like 6 years ago from here Professor and i don't get why we are talking about Elena, What happened to her and where is she by the way?"

The Professor Just Stood There Quietly and After few moments later Decided to Spoke up:

"Benjamin... Elena Validus... is Dead." As Silence Quickly Filled the Air While Ben couldn't take his Eyes off the Professor... He Couldn't believe what he was just hearing! Tears started to form in his eyes, his voice began to shake, his heart started to run a long marathon.

"P-Professor Paradox.. It can't... be.. E-Elena... No... Please Tell me it's Not T-True! Wasn't she the Swarm QUEEN!?!? HOW CAN SHE DIE PROFESSOR?!?! ANSWER ME PLEASE!!!" as he began to scream while professor just Sigh'd and Placed his hand gently on Ben's head and Began to say:

"You Do Know How Elena Felt About You Ben... How Much You Meant to Her... And To Save Your Life... She... Fought with the Queen and Ended up destroying Herself... to protect you... For You Son.." As The Realisation Hit Ben, He Began to Remember all of his and Elena's memories together, Their soccer matches, Hangouts, School etc.

"P-Professor... I...(Sigh) Ever Since Elena came back and When i Saw Her Again, when i had the ultimatrix, My Heart itself began to Beat faster whenever i was around her, I had a crush on her too when we were younger... But I never showed it and With Julie and the others...i had to hide my feelings about Elena! I know She Was Becoming Evil but... I Just can't... bring myself to be mad on her, She Just Needed someone to show her the right way... Together, i could've had helped her beat the Swarm Queen inside of her... After All this... She's now... I had powers of a God, Azmuths Sword and His Watch... yet i feel so useless..." Ben Was Feeling so miserable, He Wanted To Do something, He wanted to Save Her..

"I Want to bring her back... with me... But It can't happen now-" "To Every Possibility, There Lies An Opportunity Benjamin... If you were To given the chance of Going back to save Your precious Friend Elena Validus... Then Would You, Even If It Means to risk your life?" The Professor Interrupted him by exclaiming this.

"Really? we can Do that? OF COURSE I WOULD PROFESSOR!!! Elena is dead because of Me! it's my Responsibility to Save her and bring her back to her senses... help her.. be there for her... I Will Do Everything To save Elena, Professor and you know it!" Ben Got Motivated suddenly And Had A Bright shine in his green emerald eyes Was Determined to save his childhood friend!

"Alright Then, Let us Go Without Wasting Any Time then Benjamin, I'll fill you on the details in the way!" The Professor opened a Portal with his Chrono Glove and Walked into it with Ben Following Him While thinking:

(I'm Coming to Save you For real this time Elena, I promise!) Both of them went inside the portal and it closed.