A Spy's Life Reboot Ep 21: Game Over Part 2

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I told you guys you get the next chapter tomorrow and here it is, enjoy!


The starship and Arwing reaches a large grassy hollow with some ruins mixed in with Thorntales all over, called Thorntail Hollow, as the 2 ships lands near each other as Fox climbs out of the cockpits while Tricky comes out of the Cargo hold of Fox's ship. The others made it out of the hatch of the Starship. "Wow... This place looks pretty." Sam spoke in awe as took off her helmet and runs her fingers through her hair, amazed by the Hollow's peacefulness and nature. "This is beautiful... It reminds me of Goldwood, before Mizar took it over." Vela breathes out as Lupas barks and runs around, yipping as well.

"Welcome to Thorntail Hollow, everyone." Fox spoke out as he walks up to the others. "I need to help Juno return this Spirit to it's rightful place. I was wondering if you can return the Spellstone to a place called the Volcano Force Point Temple?" "Sure, we can do it." Sam smiles as she places her helmet on. "Not a problem!" Ben grins out as well. "Juno nods as he spoke to his sister and war-dog. "Vela, Lupas. I need you 2 to go with them and help them out as well. "Understood!" Vela replies as Lupas licks Juno's face in response as a way of saying yes.

"It's just past that large well on the right. Keep going down to see a path there. You just need to go through Moon Moutain Pass." Tricky points as the large well over by a corner as Fox, Juno and Tricky ran off towards another way. "Okay, Ben! Lead the way." "Wait! You want me to lead?" "Of course! You know this game, better than I do. And right now, I need your help!" Ben gazes up and smiles, glad that he is appreciated, after all. "Okay! Follow me!" He cries out as he ran across the river and towards the well with Sam, Vela and Lupas following.


Intro:

The screen is black, only for a bolt of green lightning to makes a flash of white light as upbeat music is heard.

Ben stands as he is smirking at the camera as a black with green bubbles background is behind the tween, making the boy raise both his arms and shows off his new Omnitrix and then slaps down with a grin, making a flash of light.

"BEN 10!"

"He's a kid and he wants to have fun!"

Upgrade with hands on hips appears as a close-up of his face shows up in the background as a bolt of lightning comes down.

Big Chill flies across and freezes as the same thing happens to Swampfire, leaping out of an explosion.

"But when you need a superhero, he gets the job done!"

"BEN 10!"

Shock Rock smashes his fists together, sending out waves of electricity that affects the 4th wall.

"With A device that he wears on his arm."

"He can change his shape and save the world from harm!"

Ben poses with his Omnitrix, just as headshots of Shock Rock, Water Hazard, Big Chill and Crashhopper show up, one-by-one.

Rath was staring at Grey Matter, who hopped along a bunch of platforms with the watch symbol on it as the tiger alien was confused before it turned into rage as he held his head in anger.

"When trouble's taking place."

Ben was then running towards the screen.

"He gets right in it's face!"

"BEN 10!"

Humungousaur, Slapback, Fasttrack and Gravattack's headshots show up as well!

A green circuit board background is shown as 5 aliens show up in a row as Ben was staring at the 4th wall as his right side is shown. The aliens are Shock Rock, Fasttrack, Rath, Swampfire, Gravattack and 4 Slapbacks.

"When lives are on the line."

The same thing happens with his left side as more aliens appear. The aliens are now: Big Chill, Water Hazard, Grey Matter, Humungousaur, Crashhopper and Upgrade, which is still in normal form.

"It's hero time!"

"BEN 10!"

It ends with Ben and Alex, standing side to side with crossed arms and smirks as well as Normie and Madison on Ben's side and Sam and Clover on Alex's side the title appears above.


The 4 kept running down some ledges and through a tunnel and leaps over a large hole, thanks to there enhanced abilities. They kept running as they stopped as they look around their environment. It almost resembled a lunar surface, but they were at a loss as to what could have shaped the environment in this area in such a manner. They stepped out carefully onto the new terrain. The ground seemed to be composed of fine, bluish-gray sand that shifted slightly underfoot, and geysers of yellow, sulfur-smelling vapor occasionally erupted from small craters scattered haphazardly across the ground. "This is Moon Mountain Pass? Weird." Vela mumbles out as Sam stops and looks around, whispering to herself. "I wonder where the programmers came up with these level designs?"

The 4 kept running, only for a laser bolt to hit before their feet, making them stop and stumbled back in surprise. "Whoa! Where did that come from?!" Ben cried out as Sam look up at the walls and spot some drones, chuckling at them "Up there!" "Great... More bugs. Looks like Mizar managed to set up shop on this planet and send those drones to kept us from returning the Spellstone." Vela frowns as Lupas growls as they both brought out their machine guns. Sam smirks out as she whips out her weapon as Ben did the same. "Well then, you know the best way to get rid of bugs in your way? Squash them!" They all charged as they open fire, running up the hill while blasting at alien bugs on the ledges as limbs and goo are sprayed all over.

Some bugs even try charging at them from behind, but Sam and Ben turn backwards and blast them while running backwards as well as Vela and Lupas cover their front. They managed to reach what could only be a guard station as they took a breather. "Well... that was intense." Vela spoke out. "I know... I'm... just going to take a breather." Sam breaths out as she rests her hands on her knees as Lupas pants. "Too bad I don't have Fasttrack, then I can just get the stone back to the Force Point in a snap." Ben frowns out as he held his finger on his chin as Sam reassures the boy. "Don't worry. We're bound to run into his icon soon."

After resting and encounting another weapons chest that contained Grey Matter's icon, the 4 continues running up the hill and blasting down some hover droids of Mizar and into a temple entrance, continuing down to noticed they arrived at the Volcano Force Point, only for Sam and Ben's helmets to give off reading of intense heat. "Whew! This place is like an oven!" "What do you expect? This is a Volcano!" Ben exclaims to Sam as he gestures to molten lava below them. "Now, this way! I know where the temple is and how to get in!" He cries out as they leap from platform to platform, got past jets of fire with timing, ran up a Convery belt as barrels ran down on them.

They made to a bridge area, only to encounter a couple of what look like biped dinosaurs in leather and metal armor and carrying axes and shield, to which Ben points out as Sharpclaws. As Vela took care of some sniper drones from above, Lupas tackles one and growls as he slams his armored paws/hands on the mutant dinosaur. Sam ducks under a swing from one and delivers a hi-kick to his jaw, knocking him back as she delivers a few punches to it's ugly mug. The being snarls as it tries to tackle Sam, but she smirks as she leaps over and delivers a roundhouse kick to his back, sending him over the edge and into the lava. "Nothing personal, lizard boy!"

Ben, on the other hand, smirks at the Sharpclaw. "This time, I don't need a heavy hitter!" Ben dials the Omnitrix and slaps down, turning into Grey Matter. "Just my big thinker!" He grins out as Sharpclaw sees how small the alien is and laughs loudly at him, but Grey Matter leaps onto and climbs up as the mutant dinosaur tries to get him off, dancing around in the process. "Hmm... Although the body is different to an average member of the Tyrannosauroidea family, the structure is somewhat similar. Which means the main nerve cluster should be... here!" He cries out as he pinches a certain part of the Sharpclaw's neck, making it freeze up with a goofy grin and fell over, knocked out as Grey Matter dusts his hands off. "Done and done!"

"What did you do?" Sam asks out as she picks him up and they continued onto the bridge that leads to the temple. "Hephaestan Neuro Grip. Useful for subduing all manners of prey, thank you very much! And don't ask me how I know it, Grey Matter just does. Now, pull out the Spellstone over this panel on the floor." He gestures to the ident on a glowing circle panel on the floor. Vela did that, with the SpellStone clicked into the slot as though it was magnetized. And then, sparks flickered between the stone and the panel, and the gate in front of them rotated out of the way, leaving the path to the Temple's entrance clear. "Impressive." Vela raises an eyebrow.

Sam stores the stone into her belt's pouch as they walk in with Lupas blasting a Sharpclaw by the door with her rifle as she uses the stone to open the doors, "Good thing Fox already solved the puzzles. Makes our trip much easier and gets us closer to the last level and back home." Grey Matter spoke the teen spy as she blasts a few more Sharpclaws and stepped on a circle platform, making it lower them down.

Grey Matter times out back to Ben Tennyson as the 4 sets off for the tunnel as they passed some flaming bats into a large room that a series of narrow bridges that hangs over lava pits. "We made it! Up on the 2nd floor, is the teleport pad we need to get to." Sam groans out in dread Ben's statement as she stares down at the bubbling magma below. "Lava pits... One of the most dreaded things in Video Games. I'm really starting to not like this game." Sam lowers her eyebrows as she slouches over and hung her head in a depressed manner. "Now worries! I know a shortcut! Just wait for a few mins." Ben leans against a wall as Sam steps away from the lava and crosses her arms in waiting as well. After a bit, Ben's watch beeps green as the boy slaps down with a smirk, turning into Big Chill.

"Hang on!" He grabs Sam and Vela and flew them upward to the 2nd floor as Lupas activates his suit's hover feet feature to follow them and towards a glowing platform, steeping on it as lights of energy engulfs the 4 and were teleported away to a large room with a large stone momentum in the center that has 4 slots around, with 2 filled out by 2 other Spellstones and the other 2 are empty. "That's where we need to return the Spellstone, guys." Big Chill points out as Sam nods in response. "Right! Here goes..." She breathes out and places her stone onto one of the empty slots, causing a brief rumble as they saw the beam of energy that is coming out of the stone object has shrunk, weakening as they all Hi-five in victory as Lupas howls out.

"Yeah! We'll save Dinosaur Planet in no time!" Sam grins out as Vela adds out with a smile as well. "And stop Mizar and restore peace to the Galaxy as well!" Big Chill smirks as well. "Oh, yeah! We're unstoppable!" They all got teleported outside of the Temple as they noticed, making Big Chill holds onto his friends as he flew and phases through walls, getting back to Moon Mountain Pass in record time as Lupas got out and hovers alongside with them.

Once they managed to reach the exit of the area, Ben times out as they both continuing running back to Thorntail Hollow, making it back as they passed the well and ran back into Fox, Juno and Tricky. "The Spellstone is back in place!" Vela reports out. "Which means, the Volcano Force Point has been shut off." Ben adds out as Fox smiles. "Good job! What you all did really helped on saving this world." Ben grins out as Sam merely smiles at the Tod's words. Vela then frowns as she speaks to her brother. "But we also rain into Mizar's troops on the way and it looks like they are working with the Sharpclaw." "Then it looks like Mizar and Scales really did team up!" Juno frowns out

"So, where to next?" "I need to release this new Krazoa Spirt I got while you 2 were gone." Fox explains to Sam as he walks away, but Team Gemini and Ben and Sam follow after him and went into a small garden area, only to be surprised a huge, living stone statue! "Whoa..." Sam breaths out in awe as the stone smiles and replies in a Scottish accent. "Fox, me boy! See you made some new friends! And it looks like you got another Krazoa Spirit already as well!"

"Yeah, big guy! Listen, I was wondering if you can teleport my new friends with me to the Palace? They have been a good help, lately!" "Well, then! You lads and lassie hop on and off you go to Krazoa Palace!" The Warpstone spoke out as Sam whispers out. "This is not possible a talking statue can warp us to another place! It's impossible!" "Really?" Ben had a questioned look as he lifts his visor up. "We're on a magic filled planet with talking smart dinosaurs in a video game world and we are teaming up with a talking fox alien pilot and 2 space twins an armored pet. And you saying something is impossible to a kid with an alien device on him that change him into any being in the Universe?" Sam sweat drops in response. "Oh, yeah... You make a good point." Nonetheless, the 6 got onto the statue's left hand and were bathed in a glow as they disappeared.


The team had appeared, only to noticed that they were in some sort of cave. "What the?! This isn't Krazoa Palace!" Fox cries out in surprise as he glances around as Juno ask out. "What happened? This looks more like an old cave than a Palace." Just then, the Warpstone's voice rang out. "Sorry, lads! Some sort of forging energy source interfered with me powers and sent you 3 below the Palace instead. But not to worry! That cave leads to a Chamber that'll take yea to the Palace. just keep going down the tunnel." Vela groans out as she pets Lupas. "Well... Guess we're walking." "I wonder what is that energy the Warpstone mentioned that sent us here?" Sam ponders as the 2 walks off as Ben notices his sparking Omnitrix, putting 2 and 2 together as he realizes the Omni-Energy affected the teleport magic, causing it to malfunction. "Uhh... No idea! Let's just go!" Ben grins out as he catches up, hoping the others never find out or he'll be in hot water.


As the trio kept walking down the hall, Fox and Sam pass the time making small talk as Team Gemini. Fox told the teen human about his mission and about the Spirits were needed to save a girl named Krystal, who is trapped in the Palace. "Well, looks like we got a hero trying to save a damsel in distress over here!" Juno grins as he wraps his arm around Fox with a big teasing grin as Vela giggles as Fox blush in response. "I'm just trying to help, that's all!"

Vela then realizes something. "By the way, Sam. How did you and Ben get to Mizar's palace in the 1st place when we met you? And how come we've never saw you at Jet Force Command before?" "It's... complicated to explain." Ben stops as he gazes a large crack in the wall. "Whoa! I had no idea this part of Krazoa Palace even existed, or even have a bottom." He ran after the 2, unaware of yellow and red glowing eyes narrows at the boy from the shadows of the crack.

Ben kept running, only to nearly tripped on a rock as he stumbles and accidentally pushed Fox and Sam away! "Hey!" "Sorry!" Ben regains himself as he dusts his armor off. Sam frowns as she places her fist on her hips. "Honestly, Ben! Can't you ever look where you are going?"

But as Ben looks off, he noticed a ledge above with a chest. "Sweet! A Weapons Chest!" He leaps up and punches it open, making 2 tokens fly out as Sam grabs one as did Fox with the other, making 2 flashes of light. Ben lands as they both noticed Sam is holding a large Chain gun with a similar design as their weapons. "Thanks for the new weapon! I've been looking for more firepower." Fox notices he is holding what looks like a gun, only it has a giant blade sticking out of the barrel part as the whole thing collapses into a smaller form as Fox stares at in confusion. "I'll figure out what it is, later." He mumbles as he stores it in his pack.

Just then, a stone door opens near them, making the young boy peeks in and grins at the sight of 5 floating Omnitrix tokens. "Keep the guns! I just hit the Omnitrix jackpot!" He rushes forward as Fox spoke out in worriment. "Wait! It could be a trap!" Ben grabs them all, only for his surprise as a red beam shot out and the others barely ducked out of the way as the laser blasted a source mark in the cave wall as they all frown at the kid hero. "It was Sam's fault! She didn't stop me quicker!" "Excuse me?!" Sam cries out at being thrown under the bus as Juno replies. "Let's…. just go. We need to find a way out." They walk off while Sam frowns at Ben as the boy noticed the remaining tokens got into the watch, briefly showing Humungousaur, Swampfire, Water Hazard and Shock Rock as he races to catch up.


The team of 6 eventually reaches a large chamber with a huge statue in the center. The statue is of a humanoid being that is tall and lanky while covered in robe and has a human-like head and face with a elongated chin. "Well… this is interesting." Vela comments. As Juno ask. "What is that?" "That's the Krazoa. From what I know, they are the deities that are worshiped by this planet." Fox explains. They all then look around the large room, trying to figure out where to go next. Sam then spots something of interest as she calls out. "Over here! Look at this..." She runs her fingers on some writing in the wall as Fox taps on his PDA. "Fox here. Peppy, do you see this?"

A hologram of an elder rabbit with glasses shows up as it spoke. "Yes, Fox! I'm scanning the writing now and the computer says that this is the Language of the Krazoa. And it says that this statue contains the passage to the palace of the Krazoa above, but only grants access to wisdom of the beings who solve this riddle: 'The key is by your weapons' ancestors. But only by true sight! When uttered in a vow, it is considered a gesture polite.' Hope that helps you, Fox. Peppy out."

Fox shuts the hologram off as they all ponder at the riddle as well as Sam asked Ben. "What do you suppose it means?" "Beats me!" Ben shrugs out as he then noticed something near a pillar. "But I know what that is! Bet my new guy, Crashhopper can show Jet Force Gemini what I can do!" But just as he got near it, something massive swoops out of the shadows, making him leap back to dodge as the figure grabs the others in its right hand. Ben glares up to see Mizar himself!

"Let them go, Mizar!" "Tell me more about this 'Upgrade icon' you seek child! Or your friends will pay with their lives." The Tyrant demands as Juno replies. "We will never speak, Mizar!" "Don't tell him a single word!" Fox cries out as Sam struggles. "He's right, Ben! We can't let Mizar loose in the real world! WOOHP won't be able to stop him!" The teen spy cries out as Mizar's interest peaks at the teen's words. "The real world? Soon to be another world I will rule with an iron fist!"

"No way!" Ben cries out. "But I'm going to show you good-old sumo slamming!" He runs and slams his fist down on the icon, turning into Crashhopper. "Crashhopper style!" He leaps up and bounces off a pillar and aims his head at the tyrant, who release of his hostages and dodged as the others did the same as the alien slammed head first into the ground, making him pull his head out and groans. "Okay… Maybe I haven't gotten full control of Crashhopper, yet." "I'll leave you to my minions as I search for the Upgrade Icon." He left as out of shadows, were more Droids. "Time to exterminate these insects! Sam! Your Chain Gun!" Fox cries as he whips out his staff as did Team Gemini and charged at them.

Sam opens fire, using her new weapon's strength to tear apart the bug army as she moves between pillars to dodge fire. Crashhopper joins by using his powerful leaps and shockwaves and leg smashes to take out more droids and smashed through the robotic hover enemies. Lupas pouches on one bug and open fires with his rocket weapon as he also grabs one bug's leg by his teeth and throws it into some others as he howls.

Juno kept moving and firing with his machine gun as he also went from pillar to pillar, taking cover as well as he sherds the hover bots to pieces as his sister blows bugs up, left and right with her Tr-Rocket Launcher.

Fox unleashed a Super Ground Quake that blew all the drones around him away as he delivers some kicks and staff combos on a few more drones as well as using his fire blaster to blast more drones. Just then, he noticed a massive, red Droid with 2 large pincher arms glaring at the Vulpine. Fox charges with a cry as both enemies clashed in shower of sparks.


Meanwhile, back in the real world, Alex was upstairs as she calls out. "Sammy? Ben? You 2 up here? Clover and I were going to order pizzas. You want any?" She then heard noises and went towards Ben's room, only to sigh out at the sight. "Why does Ben like making a mess of his room?" She groans out as she tosses a smelly sock away, only to notice the TV. "Didn't mom and dad keep telling him to turn the system off when he's done playing with his games?" Alex went over and reaches out towards the systems, unaware of her other hand touching a button on a N64 controller.


Back inside, Sam blasts another Droid as she leaps on top of another and kicks off it, only to froze in mid-air along with everything else, except for her mouth and eyes along with Crashhopper, who is double kicking 2 Droids in their chest next to her. "I can't move! What's going on?!" "Clover or Alex must be messing with the controls! If they shut the Game off, they'll delete us along with the game! ALEX!" "CLOVER!" "DON'T SHUT US OFF!" They yelled out as loud as they can.


There cries broke the focus of Alex as she was startled, only to recovered as she gazes at the screen, only to be surprised at Sam and Crashhopper in it! " Sammy!? Ben?! Is that you 2?!" She noticed a headset and decided to plug it into the TV for communication. "Please tell me this is all a hidden camera show." She groans out in annoyance.

Nevertheless, she listens to their entire story as Crashhopper wraps it up. "So, now we need to find the Upgrade Icon that's hidden somewhere, so we can get out of this game!" "There must be something I can do… Maybe if I hit the reset button?" "NO!" They both cried as Sam explains. "We mean, just hit the resume option and don't touch anything else! Just leave the rest to the pros! And Ben." Crashhopper had a sour look in response. "Ohh... Very funny. Another burn." "Okay! Get ready!" The game resumed as the fight was on, once more!


Alex noticed the manuals for the 2 games as she reads the titles. "'Jet Force Gemini'? 'Star Fox Adventures'?" Clover peeks in. "Hey! Found those 2?" "You are never going to believe this, Clover." Alex spoke as she starts reading the Jet Force manual.


Crashhopper smashed in the center of a group of Droids, blowing them away as Sam shots down more as Team Gemini finishes off the last of the robots. Fox cries out as the staff emits energy in one end and thrusts it downward in mid-air as the Mega-Droid leaps up, only for the lead pilot to won the clash as the bug was sent crashing through the floor and into darkness. Fox lands outside the hole and stores his weapon away, smirking as he dusts his hands off. Crashhopper lands near him as the landing pushes Fox towards the hole as he flails his arms, but Sam grabs his tail and yanks back, pulling him to safety as they gave sour looks at the alien. "Uhh… Oops?"

"Way to go, Ben! You almost got Fox killed!" Sam exclaims as the alien responds "Hey! I said sorry! It was an accident, okay?!" "Anyway, we still need to answer the riddle to get to the roof." Juno spoke out as Sam approaches the statue as she ponders the riddle. "'The key is by your weapons' ancestors. But only by true sight! When uttered in a vow, it is considered a gesture polite.' My weapon's ancestors? But my weapon didn't have ancestors because it's an object. But true sight…. Unless…. That's it! My weapon is a gun. But before the gun, is the Bow! It's ancestor! And when Bow is uttered in vow, it is known as, bow."

She bows in a polite manner as the Statue's eyes lit up as a circle hatch opens in the ceiling while a stone elevator is summoned, making the group get on as it rose to the top. "Well done, Sam! Good work!" Vela grins out as Sam smiles as Lupas barks and licks her face as she giggles. "Oh, sure!" They glanced at an annoyed Crashhopper. "When I smash something, it's all silent stares. But when she smashes something, she's a hero!" Crashhopper complains as he glanced away with crossed arms.

Nevertheless, they finally managed to reach the top, which is a raining roof of a huge palace on top of the mountain. The group steps off the elevator as they noticed that it was underneath a similar statue, which was lowered back down, sealing it off. "Guess there's no going back." Sam spoke out. Fox then told the others to stay put as he ran off towards a hole in the ground and fell in as Sam and Vela searches the base of a large podium, gazing at some weird round plating's with heads of the Krazoa on strange things that resemble pools of water while Juno and Lupas explores one of the holes that leads into the palace as Crashhopper were on top of the podium to see a large crystal, floating in the middle. As he examined it and the weird mechanism it is supporting, he noticed that there was someone in it!

The person is a humanoid vixen being that is colored blue and white and is 2 years younger than Fox. She has short blue hair that is held up with a sliver headband. Her face is a short muzzle and has twitching fox ears on top of her head and a bushy tail. She is wearing an outfit that consisting of a golden bra-like top and nothing but a small white loincloth. She also wore jewelry, including two bands on her tail, silver braces on her shoulders, arms, and legs, and white and golden sandals. She also sported a beaded tiara with a red gem on her head, and a necklace with a turquoise pendent. Ben knew who she is: Krystal of the Star Fox Universe. "Yep! That's Krystal, all right. And who needs Spirits when good old brute force can fix this mess?" Crashhopper grins out as he leaps up and is about to drop kick the crystal, only for a forcefield to knock the bug away as he crashes back.

"Stupid force fields! Why do the bad guys like using them?" He groans out as he rubs his head in discomfort. Just then, a ghost shows up from below the crystal as it joins the other 4 flying around the crystal. "Whoa! Are those ghosts?!" Sam asked out in surprise as Juno spoke out. "No! That's a Krazoa Spirit!" They noticed that they look like Krazoa heads, with long tendrils extended from them as hair.

They both then heard a noise and looked over to see the gates on the small area are open, making them investigate it and spot a glowing teleport pad. "Hmm... Must be pretty important if this teleport pad is sealed off." Sam ponders out as Crashhopper steps on it, only to be teleported in a flash of light as Sam is surprised. "Great... Hang on, Ben!" She cries as she disappears as well as the rest of Team Gemini follows.


Crashhopper stumbles as he recover from the strange effects from teleporting as he steps off the pad. "I think I'll never get use to teleporting." "Yeah… Still, we need to talk to Jer about those, they are way better then sudden WOOHPING." Sam comments as she appeared as well as the duo notices that they are in some sort of chamber with a square shaped stage in the center of the room. And all the way at the end is a large round mirror-like object that looks like waves of water.

Just as Crashhopper went in first, he was surprised when the gate shut behind him with a red glowing force field appear over it, cutting him off from Sam. "Sam! Are you okay?" "I'm fine, Ben. But it looks like this Forcefield isn't going to let me in. See if you can find something in that room to shut it off." He nods as he leaps on it, just as the rest of Team Gemini shows up as Sam explains what it is going on.

The alien hero slowly walking towards the center as he can't help but shake a feeling that something is off. "It's too quiet… Something's not right."

"I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU, SHAPESHIFTER!" A voice cries out as the alien gazes around, only to leap back in surprise as a figure lands in front of him in with dark intentions. The being is a humanoid, dinosaur, standing at roughly Rath's height. He has green scales and a tyrannosaurus like face with red and yellow eyes with an evil glint and slitted pupils. He is wearing a red tunic with spiked shoulder armor and metallic gold patterned bet on his waist. He has knee pads with red clothes on his knees and calves and has a helmet with bull horns with a 3 clawed right hand. But the most unique feature is the double-hooked claw for a left hand.

"I was hoping Fox McCloud to show, but you and your little friend are just as annoying as well. I'll take care of them once I'm done with you, boy! Now you must face me, General Scales!" Crashhopper recovers as he glares out. "Look, lizard brain! I'm just trying to find the Upgrade Icon. But if I have to fight you, then very well!" The Tyrant grins out as he declares. "Very well! A duel to the death!" "Wait?! A duel to what?!" Crashhopper was sucker punched as he was sent near the edge as the teens watched. "Ohh… That's got to hurt." Sam comments as Vela nods with a grimace as Crashhopper leaps up and bounces off a wall and tries to headbutt Scales, only for him to swing his tail and knock him away. Just to be grabbed by the neck and pulled in. "That looks painful." Juno comments.

Fox then teleports in as he is surprised by their appearance. "Sam?! Guys? What you doing in the Krazoa Shrine? I couldn't find you and Ben around the Podium." "Well, long story short: That!" Sam gestures to the fight as Fox came over to get a better look. Fox then noticed the fight as he cries out. "Scales! And Ben's fighting him?! Well… Is he trained well?" Fox asked out as Crashhopper answered, too busy to know who asked it as he struggles in an arm hold. "Yes!" He got punched in the face a few times as Sam cringe and answers in a straight face. "No."

"Then he shouldn't have face General Scales on his own! What was he thinking!?" Juno exclaims as Sam explains. "Well… He does have a tendency of acting without thinking at times. And this is one of those times. Besides, the door came down before we can respond. Come on, Ben! Planet in the balance!"

Crashhopper narrow dodge a double stomp as he leaps away, only to be surprised at how agile and fast his opponent is, not to mention strong as demonstrated of him cracking solid stone when his fist hit the floor. Crashhopper leaps over, only to turn back into Ben as the boy leaps onto another ledge, away from Scales. Only for him to cry out as Scales leap over and tries to impale him with his hooks, but barely missed as Ben stumbles back onto the arena

Sam cries out while clapping her hands. "Come on, Ben! New alien! Turn into Humungousaur and smash this jerk!" "Is yelling and cheering all you are doing right now?" "You got a better idea on getting this forcefield and door open, fox boy!?" Sam frowns back at Fox as he rubs behind his head in realization. "Oh, yeah... Good point." "Well, it's not we can blow it up or have Lupas chew through it. Darn forcefields.' Vela pouts as Juno glances back at the fight. "Wait… Why did he turn into a small frog?!"

"GAHHH! I swear I was going for Rath!" Grey Matter cries as he flails his arms as Scales hold him by his leg. Scales chuckles as he chucks him away, noticing Fox. "Ahhhhh… Fox McCloud! How pleasant of you and your friends to witness a demonstration of my soon-to-be victory over Dinosaur Planet! And this must be the infamous Jet Force Gemini I've heard about from Mizar? Not very impressive, if you ask me." "Well, we didn't task you! No one did!" Vela pouts with crossed arms and a glare as Fox calls out. "Gloat all you want, Scales! But the Tribes will unite against you, and you'll be the one through! You'll never enslave anyone again!" "Come on, Ben! Let's see some hustle! New alien!" Sam cries out.

Shock Rock complies by lassoing the general and shocking him full of volts, making him cry in pain, but pushed through it and grabbed the rope, swinging him around and knocking him down as he rushed at the alien, but Shock Rock recovers and blocks his strikes, backing away as he quickly made a force field to repel an aerial strike. He then charges at Scales and made a sword as the tyrant drew his own and clashed blades with him.

The 2 aliens sword fight as they traded strikes and blocks with each other. Shock Rock then made some energy punches and smacked Scales in the face a few times, only to grab his shoulders and throw him back. Scale leaps up to slash with his hooks, but Shock Rock makes a force field to bounce him off, making him tackle the general and unleash volts of electricity. But Scales powers through it and grabs the alien by his back, lifting him up and slamming him on the ground, just as Shock Rock times out. "Not good!" Ben groans as Scales smirks evilly at the turn of events.

Scales then grabs the boy by his left arm and cackles loudly and throws Ben into a pillar as he screams, making a dust cloud of rubble and smoke as the watchers gasped. "BEN!" Sam cries out in horror. "No one defeats General Scales!" He bellows, having believed that he won the fight and the control of the very planet. Ben, on the other hand, groans as he recovers, only to noticed his Health Bar was in red by 5%. "Barely held on. But I need something that can match Lizard Lips!" He then noticed the Omnitrix was glowing yellow as it was spinning, making the boy grins as he recognizes this feature of the Omnitrix: The Scan Mode!

"HEY! SCALES!" Everyone else was shocked that he is okay as they gazed at the dust cloud. "This isn't over! Want to know why I always win?!" FLASH A figure moves his way out of the cloud as he reveals himself, much to the surprise of everyone. "WHAT?!" Scales below in shock.

Ben is now a copy of General Scales! Only he is a couple of inches shorter than him and doesn't have a helmet. His scale color is lighter green with blacker spots and stripes. Unlike Scales, this version has both real hands, that are covered by black with white cuffs fingerless gloves. He has white bands on the same area as Scales as his kneepads. He is wearing black and green shorts with a green and white belt that sports a white square buckle. He has a black and white sleeveless vest with sliver shoulder pads with green spikes and the Omnitrix on his chest as it is part of two green sashes worn across his chest. His emerald green with slitted pupils eyes narrowed as he spoke in a lighter, kinder version of Scales' voice. "Because I don't give up." "A GENERAL SCALES TRANSFORMATION!" Sam bellows out in joy, remember the Scan feature of the Omnitrix that Ben told her about one time as the others are amazed.

Scales growls out as his eyes twitched in anger as he charged, making Ben did the same as they slam both their right fists against one another, causing a shockwave and blew Scales back a few feet, only for Ben to headbutt him in the stomach and tail smacks his face, leaving him vulnerable to a roundhouse kick. "Yes! Now it's a fair fight!" "Now this is getting interesting." Fox smirks out with crossed arms. "Okay. I got to admit that is cool." Juno smirks out with crossed arms as Vela nods and pats Lupas.

Ben tries to scratch Scales his claws, but he used his hooks to clothesline him and sent him down, only for Ben to leap on a wall and leap off and tackles Scales as he flips over him as the General got up. Just then, as Ben prepares himself, he vanished out of nowhere as he spoke. "Sweet! Built-in camouflage!" Scales got knocked around a few times, only for his right hand to shoot out and grabs Ben by his neck, holding it out as he reappears. Ben was able to kick away from him as Scales whips out his sword.

As Ben prepares himself, he feels something in his vest as he reaches in and pulls out a hi-tech, green, black, and white boomerang and gazes at it. "A boomerang? Couldn't give me a sword, Omnitrix?!" He then decides to throw it, only to miss Scales as he laughs at the throw, but unbeknownst to him the rang was double back as it starts becoming covered in ice as it generates a frost aura.

Scales glanced back, just as the Ice-rang nails him at his side, making him hiss in pain as he notices part of his body was frozen as the thing came back to Ben, who grins at his new toy as he pulls out a second one as they both generate fire and lighting. "Now this is more like it!" He throws them both as they smacked Scales, burning, and shocking him as Ben throws them both again while leaping up, making them covered in rock as they suddenly generate a green energy line between them, wrapping around Scales as the stones weight him down. Ben smirks at his new form's abilities.

"Elemental Boomerangs? Now that sounds quite handy." Fox comments as Sam fist pumps in victory. But General Scales broke free as Ben grabs both boomerangs and they both generated green energy on the blades, turning them into dagger swords. "Now this is handy!" He throws a few practice swings and clashed blades with Scales, but the villain fights dirty as evidenced by smacking his tail in Ben's gut and elbowing his back. "I doubt Ben is going to last long." Vela spoke out in worry. "You can't beat me! You're just a child!" Scales cries out.

Ben slides back as Scales kept whaling on the copy as he blocks with his blade, making Ben kicks him away as his weapons gain a long energy rope between them as Ben notices and holds it by the rope, turning the boomerangs into a kusarigama as he grins out. He then starts swinging it, whipping at Scales as the general barely blocks the blades as he was pushed back, making Ben wraps it around a nearby pillar that Scales was in the way of. "Don't mess with kids!" He cries as he yanks it with all his might as Scales noticed and cries out as he was smashed, making the 2 watches with bated breath for a few mins.

Just then, the cloud clears as Ben walks out with Scales lying on the ground in defeat, making the good Sharpclaw raised his boomerang in victory as the gates open, making them cheer as they rushed up to him. "Ben! That was incredible!" "I admit, you did good, kid." "Nice work, Cadet Tennyson." "Way to go!" Lupas howls as he barks in excitement. Ben stuffs his weapon away. "Thanks! It was no problem! I could have had him handled longer for like... 5, 10 seconds tops." Sam chuckles as the new alien hero rubs his neck in response with a somewhat smile.

Just then, they heard Scales getting up as he glares at them. "I'm not… Done… With you…. Yet!" "Jeeze! This guy doesn't know when to quit, does he?" Ben comments. But as they all got ready for another fight… "STOP! Scales! You are no longer any use for me!" Everyone was startled at a strange voice that came out of nowhere as they glanced around, wondering who or what said that and where is he. Scales was angry at his revenge fight being interrupted as he waves his sword in the air. "WHO ARE YOU?! I demand you show yourself!"

"I am the one you brought to Krazoa Palace. Just as I was the one who lure Mizar to your planet, in the first place! The Earthwalkers can see me, but you could not." "I… don't understand?" "No... I didn't think you would. Your desire for power has overwhelmed you and blinded you to the truth inside." Fox looks up in confusion as Ben scratches his head in pondering while Team Gemini kept looking around as they are not sure what to make of the voice. Sam was wondering as well with a hand on her chin as 3 Sharpclaws appear behind their leader.

"Now, give Fox and the others what they seek. Give him the Final Krazoa Spirit!" Scales glares at Fox and Ben and spoke out. "You will regret this, McCloud. You too, Tennyson." He roars out as a Krazoa Spirit left his body as he collapses to the ground, not moving, much to their surprise. Fox walks forward as he gazes at the spirit. "So that's how Scales gave me a run for my money!" Ben spoke out as Juno nods. "This explains how Scales became so powerful." "And how he was able to handle your other aliens. That Spirit must be enhancing him, this whole time!" Sam deduces from observing the energy being as it floats around "But still… That voice. Don't I know it from somewhere?" Fox mumbles out, just as the spirit shot into him, making him float briefly before setting down, fist pumping at gaining the last spirit as the others cheer as well.


The group teleports back to the roof, one-by-one as they all gathered themselves. "Well, that was quite the battle." Sam comments as she checks herself. "Yeah! And Scales is done! And the last Krazoa Spirit is saved!" Ben grins out. "I want to thank you guys for stopping Scales. I admit, I wasn't sure if I can take him." Ben grins out while flashing a 'v' sign at the alien Tod. "By the way. How long are you going to stay like that?" Juno ponders out "Until the Omnitrix times out." "And that's…." "About 10 or 15 mins. Give or take." Ben answers.

Fox then heads towards one of the platings as the 2 followed, just as the vulpine knees as he struggles himself, thrusting his arms and chest out as he yells while the spirit leaves his body, entering the head as it's eyes glowed white. "Dude! You okay? Looks like it hurt." "Just some minor discomfort." Fox groans out to Ben as he stands up. But as the others noticed the last spirit was joining it's brothers, something was wrong!

They glanced up as the machines starts spinning faster as well as the spirits starts getting closer and closer. "Something is wrong! That girl isn't being released!" Vela cries out as they quickly run up. "What's going on?! You said this would save her!" Fox cries out in worry and anger. Suddenly, one of them enters her body, making her spasmed as she grimaced in pain. "NOOO!" "She's getting hurt!" Sam cries out to Fox as she aimed her Chain Gun, only for Fox to stop her. "No! You might hit her and make it worse!" Ben cries out as Lupas whimpers. "Then, what do we do!?"

The rest of spirits entered one by one, only for all of them to leave in a flash of light as they all shot upwards into the sky! Just then, the machines exploded as the girl flutters her eyes open as the crystal shatters into pieces, making her fall as she screams. Ben, thinking quickly, grabs Fox and spoke. "GO LONG, FOX!" He chucks the Vulpine alien hard as he went flying as he manages to grab the woman in a bridal style and slides to a stop at the edge.

The others sighed in relief as Ben fist pumps! "Got to love my throwing arms!" Fox sighs as he smiles at the woman, who is recovering as she noticed what is happening. "Wha…. What happened?" "Are you okay, miss?" Fox asked as she sets her on her feet. She was able to clear the cobwebs from her head as she notices the stranger and spoke out. "It's you… You were in my dream. Who are you?" "I'm Fox. Fox McCloud."

"Why did you saved me? I could have been evil!" "Well, you were in pain and were in trouble. I'm not one to turn down one in need. Besides, I don't think you're evil." Fox smiles at her as the woman was surprised at him, staring at his green eyes for a few mins and smiles, grateful at him for rescuing her from her life-draining prison. "Thank you. I'm Krystal. It's a pleasure to meet you, Fox McCloud." She smiles, making Fox blush as he gazes away. "Uhh… Just Fox."

Sam gushes out as she spoke out. "Aww... it's a shipping moment!" But Ben was grossed out. "Bleagh! Why is romance so barfy?" "Oh, hush! Can't you see it's a sweet moment?" Vela glees with clasped hands as Juno smirks at the 2 foxes as Krystal notices the others, but when her eyes land on Ben… "SCALES!" She cries out as she grabs Fox's staff and charged at the alien, tackling him, and putting him in a choke hold as he struggles. "Quick! Help me take him down!" She cries out as the others were shocked, but just then, Ben times out, making Krystal noticed as Ben was able to escape the choke hold, but was still stuck.

Ben breathes as Krystal steps off and speaks out. "You're… a child?" "Yeah! And you're the crazy fox lady that tried to strangle me!" Ben rubs his neck as Krystal realizes. "OH! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to! It was… Hey… How did you do that?" "It's complicated. But don't worry, we're all here to help you. I'm Sam. And that's Ben." Sam spoke out with a smile as she holds out her hand, making Krystal hesitant for a bit, before shaking it.

Vela approaches as well. "I'm Vela, of Jet Force Gemini. This my twin brother, Juno and our dog, Lupas." Lupas barks as Juno shook her hand with a smile as well. "It's a pleasure to meet you, all. I'm Krystal." She bows slightly.

Fox then spoke out. "Glade introductions and misunderstandings were cleared up, but what about my staff?" "You mean, my staff?" "Wait… You're the voice I first heard when I picked it up!" "Really? I didn't think the message would play for you." Krystal ponders as she gazes at her weapon.

Just then, Fox's computer went off as he answers it, making a hologram of Peppy shows up. "Peppy. What is it?" "Fox. I have noticed that the Krazoa Spirits have left the planet and are now in a pyramid shaped-floating fortress that is hovering in the planet's orbit. It was able to elude our radars for quite a while, hence way we didn't able to detect it." "Mizar's palace." Jet Force Gemini and Ben and Sam spoke out as they glanced at each other.

"And I was able to recheck the manuscripts of Dinosaur Planet. The Spellstones are important, but they only stop the flow of magic energy from destroying the planet, even farther. Only the Krazoa can restore the planet back to normal. It's important you get these spirits back, Fox. Otherwise, the planet will be doomed! Peppy out." The Hologram shuts off as Fox spoke out. "Well, looks like the job isn't over. I might need some help on this. Think you guys are up for the task?" Ben and Sam smiles as well. "No matter what comes our way, Fox! It's hero time!" "Count on us!" Team Gemini salutes as Juno spoke out. "I told you before Fox that we won't leave until Mizar pays for his crimes and we intend to finish the mission!" Fox nods in respect and response.

"Krystal?" They all gazes at the blue vixen as she put some thought into it. After a bit, she smiles out and spoke. "You don't need to convince me, because I'm all for saving this planet." The rest smiles and smirks in response. Ben then noticed Fox doesn't have a weapon anymore. "Uhh... Fox? What are you going to do, now that you don't have your staff? I mean, it's not like you can take on anyone now with just your hands." But just before anyone can reply to the question, they all noticed the mouth from the alter on where Fox released the last spirit opens it's mouth as a beam of light came out, making the group went to check up on it, only to get sucked into it!


The group of 7 arrived back at Thorntail Hollow. "Whoa... That was weird." "But useful!" Ben smirks at Sam. "Fox! Guys! You made it back!" Tricky cries out as he ran up to them. "Who's this?" Tricky asks at the sight of Krystal as Fox introduces one another. "Oh! Tricky, this is Krystal. She was one I helped by releasing the Krazoa Spirits. Krystal, this is the crown Prince of the Earthwalkers, Tricky." "It's a pleasure to meet you, your majesty." Krystal smiles and bows in response as Tricky replies. "Just call me Tricky."

"Well, glad introductions have been made. Now, how is Fox going to defend himself if he doesn't have a weapon?" Sam ponders out as Fox realizes that as well and is wondering that as well. Until he recalls the strange weapon he picked up in the caves as he took it out and unfolds. "Hey, that looks like a gunblade! It's a weapon that can not only act like a sharp melee weapon but can also fire as well. Give it a try." Sam suggests and Fox practices with his new weapon, highly impressed at the move he had just preformed and how powerful the gun part is. "Looks like I found my replacement weapon!" [I know the gunblade is part of the Final Fantasy franchise. But I saw some fan art of Fox using one and thought it whould be pretty cool here as well.]

Ben then whispers to Sam. "How do you know about this weapon, Sam?" The teen girl got nervous a bit as she answers. "Uhh... Internet?" "Okay!" Fox spoke out. 'Now it's time to take on Dragon Rock, where the last Spellstone is!" Ben then spoke out. "But we need find the GateKeeper first, or we'll never get to Dragon Rock. So, where could we find him?"

But the group heard a voice nearby. "You say you need to get to Dragon Rock?" They turned to their side and spotted a ThornTail that appeared nearby them. The ThornTail continued. "I too attempted to save our planet, but I failed." Fox asked. "What happened?" "I led a group of dinosaurs against General Scales. He learned of our plan before we could act, and he launched a full-scale offensive against us." Krystal was shocked. "He knew what you were plotting?! But how could that be!?" "He must have an inside man to leak his info to him. It's a pretty effective way to figure out your enemies' secrets without them knowing." Sam ponders out as she recognizes her line of work, anywhere.

The ThornTail continued. "I don't know. But she is correct. Scales has ways of spying on us. We never stood a chance. He imprisoned three of my closest friends on Dragon Rock. And it is also where he has taken the SpellStone." Juno askes out. "So, how did you survive? If Scales let you go, it could only be because…" The ThornTail said, "I am the GateKeeper." The ThornTail then opened his mouth and a blue light started to glow in his mouth. Then that light left his mouth and shot its way into the sky. The group looked around them and saw that all the surrounding ThornTails were also emitting powerful energy from their mouths and all their energy combined opened a portal in the sky.

They saw the portal in the sky and knew they had a chance to get to Dragon Rock. The first ThornTail then said, "The gateway to Dragon Rock is now open. Please help my friends. They are on your side." "No worries! Besides, Scales is down for the count!" Ben grins out as Krystal is confused. "I'll explain on our way." Vela responds as they make their way to the ships as Fox, Krystal and Tricky climb into the Arwing while the other got into Team Gemin's Starship as they both took off into the portal.


In the vacuum of space, the 2 ships were flying away from the planet as Ben hollers. "YAAHHHH-OOOOHHHH! This is awesome!" Ben cries out as he enjoys the thrills in being a spaceship in space. Just then, the Arwing joins them as Fox's face appears on the communicators with Krystal peeking out from behind him. "This is Fox. Do you copy?" "Loud and clear, dude!" Ben responds out.

"Okay! We need to go to Dragon Rock. That's where Scales hid the last Spellstone. After that, we can confront Mizar at his Palace. So, get ready because we're going to fight our way towards Dragon Rock. Follow my lead!" Fox cries as his Arwing took off as the other follow. They were heading towards a debris field, along with floating mines and robot space fighters as Juno was able to weave around them. "Yeah! Now we're talking! Hang on!" He cries as he engages.

Some space fighters appeared, but Juno used the Starship's weapons and blast the fighters into scrap. "Bullseye!' Juno grins out as He flew through outside of a giant cylinder as he blasted some mines and more fighters, being supported by the Arwing. They did have a few close calls with some huge asteroids and large rock walls, but them managed to make it through and spotted it! "There it is! Dragon Rock!" Krystal points out as Fox spoke out. "Let's take it in." And so, the team of 8 were about to arrive at their toughest level, ever: Dragon Rock!

But unbeknownst to them, Mizar is watching from a distance as he narrows his eyes and open up his mechanical hand and displays a hologram of someone. "Well? Any news?!" "Jet Force Gemini, McCloud and those 2 unknown soldiers have managed to free the Ceriniaian girl as well. They are on their way to Dragon Rock." "Good... Drakor will burn them to ash! But just in case he fails, retreat to your palace! I will be there, soon." "Very well..." Mizar nods as the transmission shuts off as he gives one last glare and snarls at Jet Force Gemini and the Arwing, seeing they made it through the rocks and are touching down on Dragon Rock. "Soon, heroes... Soon." Mizar spoke as he went back to his palace, undetected.

To be Continued...