Galactic Shift Extend

by Seanzilla1988

A familiar Beastkin goes through a familiar abandoned Cauldron. However, she doesn't end up in another timeline, but Bellwood, home to a teen with a watch he wears on his arm that can change his shape to save the world from harm.

85. Back in the Rustbucket

GT: *lying in an RV's top bunk* Hi, folks. I splurged on an RV for the current arc. Thought it'd be fitting.

SZ: It really is fitting given where we're stopping at first.

Z0: *sitting in driver's seat with novelty drink holder hat* I drive…anyone who touches the radio I bite their arm off.

SZ: He means it too.

GT: *shows arm, showing several bite marks* I sneezed on it and he did this. Still, welcome to the next chapter of the Alien X-Tinction Arc, folks! Now let's go check in on our team and see what they're up to, eh? We own nothing in this but our own ideas!

Z0: Hard Left! *takes sharp turn making everyone fall over before the screen follows and slams onto the floor*

---

"You know, I never appreciated how roomy the Rustbucket was when I was barely five feet tall…" Ben sighed, "But now…wow, this thing is small!"

"Never needed it to be all that big," Maximilian shrugged, sitting in the driver's seat with Tsubaki in the passenger seat, "Was gonna splurge on a Galvan room expander for a big road trip with the whole Bellwood part of the family, but…" he shook his head and tapped a button on the dashboard, "Captain's Log. Maximilian Tennyson. Interdimensional Coordinates 05-25.2019. Another dimensional Ben was attacked today and the team he works with actually managed to inflict honest to god damage on X-Tinction. Also gave him the moniker 'Evil X' for simplicity's sake. They were able to destroy three of the stolen Omnitrixes while removing several others before X-Tinction could escape into another universe. Due to their experience with interdimensional travel, this Ben and a small handpicked team have come along in order to stop his threat. One interesting thing to note: he's dating a girl who's part squirrel and isn't a Kai or Julie. Seems happier, too."

"..." Makoto smiled at Ben on hearing that as Ben raised a brow.

"Gonna have to ask later about that," Ben muttered as Maximilian tapped another button and a screen popped up, showing pictures of various images of Ben at different ages in different outfits, hairstyles…even skin color and species…several were highlighted in green, several in yellow, and a few in red.

"If it's not obvious, this Ben survived," Maximilian went on, tapping the image of their Ben, making it green, "The reclaimed Omnitrixes are, for the most part, ones to Bens that lost theirs and are still alive. I'll make sure to return them once X-Tinction is dealt with." he tapped on a few yellow ones, turning them green, "One, sadly, belongs to a Ben that died." he looked at an adult Ben, "Hopefully, his kid will be able to handle the responsibilities that this will be handed on him…if that Azmuth will let him."

"So many…" Tsubaki whispered in surprise, 'Green must mean 'safe,' red is 'deceased,' so…does yellow mean 'safe but lost the Omnitrix and a loved one?' Or is it something else?'

"Save to the usual folder, Glitch," Maximilian spoke.

=Of course, Grandpa= a young boy's voice spoke before a beep went off.

"Ah! Wh-who was that?" Noel asked, hugging her Ditto-Corgi plush tighter.

=Greetings. My name is Glitch. A pleasure to meet you, citizen of Universe 5-25.2019=

"Huh…Sounds like me when I was ten," Ben noted while Maximilian dismissed the screen and pulled out a worn photo, showing him in it with a ten-year-old Ben and eleven-year-old Gwen, Ben laughing at something while Gwen looked at him in annoyance while Maximilian was smiling at the camera.

"...You'd think I'd be used to this by now with how long I've chased that menace," Maximilian muttered, wiping a tear before inhaling and exhaling quickly, "Right. You kids better be seated and buckled up back there. Dimensional traveling in the Rustbucket isn't as comfy as a smoothie shop."

"Noted," Lambda whispered, currently sitting at the table with Noel.

"G-ite!" Mai winced when she hit her head against the roof, "Ugh…bith my to'gue…"

"So what's our strategy, sir?" Tsubaki asked.

"Right now, it's best if we try a world he hasn't gone to yet, set up an ambush," Maximilian explained as he tapped another button and displayed a large yellow sphere with numerous smaller ones within, "...That one." one of the spheres turned green, "Glitch, set coordinates to Dimension 2-19.2018. Once we enter the dimensional highway, go to autopilot."

=Understood. ETA to Dimension 2-19.2018 is fifty minutes= Glitch replied.

"So what's this world like?" Ben asked, "Or this me?"

"From what the scans indicate, he's a kid you, about ten years old. Just got his Omnitrix barely two months ago," Maximilian explained, "Unlike yours, however, his can only do ten at a time and if he unlocks a new alien, one goes back into storage. A bit reckless, too. He destroyed the Galvanic Mechamorph sample on accident by using it to upgrade his Omnitrix. Just recently dealt with a man called the 'Forever Knight.'"

"That guy?" Makoto asked in annoyance.

"So you have him in your dimension?"

"He managed to bring the Forever Knights back from the brink of collapse, cloned Tsubaki to try to get Excalibur, was the guy behind the attempt at genocide on the aliens living on Earth, and ruined a perfectly good chestnut and grape couples-size smoothie," Ben listed.

"Don't forget he worked with that Dredd guy to get to Max…uh…not Grandpa Max, but the Max that blew up the three Omnitrixes," Makoto added, "His parents named him after Grandpa Max."

"His Mom and Uncle were like students of our you," Ben explained, "And his dad was an alien who used to be the last of his world that lived on Earth."

"He can produce infinite energy," Noel added, "It means anything he touches will…go kaboom though…but thanks to Steel and Kajun, he doesn't need to worry about it anymore."

"Second best male in the team," Lambda added.

"Hehehe…let me guess, that the list for females is much deeper?" Maximilian chuckled, glancing at how, aside from Ben, the away team was all female.

"We're always outvoted," Skurd sighed.

"It does look like you're outnumbered, boys," Maximilian chuckled.

"It's been a while since I sat here and heard some jokes from my grandpa." Ben chuckled as well, "Let's make sure more Ben's can enjoy this with their Grandpa Max."

"...That's my boy…" Maximilian sighed at that, a small but…sad smile on his face.

"So…What edition of the Rustbucket is this? Mark 34?" Makoto asked.

"Oh come on, Makoto. It's probably not that…"

"Try Mark 42. Your Max probably told you all about the times Ben here blew it up one way or another, huh?"

"The Vehicle Destroyer…" the girls all sighed.

"Hey, hey, hey! Vehicle Destroyers," Ben corrected, gesturing to Makoto.

"Wha?! How dare you, my good boyfriend of mine! If anyone is the second destroyer, it's Tsubaki with all those failed driving tests while the rest of us passed the first time we did them!"

"I have no idea what she's talking about," Tsubaki said in a neutral tone.

"She damaged three cars when she was with Ben and learning how to do parallel parking," Makoto snickered.

"How you managed to damage a car that was reinforced with alien technology with just two Earth cars, I am still trying to figure out," Ben admitted.

"..." Lambda tilted her head at Noel and reminded her, "Wish list."

"...Okay, okay, we'll get you on getting a license after we get home," Noel sighed, earning a smile from her sister.

"See, this is why I decided not to get another car and made the one I got off Kevin into the bike…" Ben sighed, "At least you can't take a test on my motorcycle."

"Motorcycle, huh…my Ben stole my old one…never did get it back," Maximilian laughed.

'Oh shoot…I knew I forgot to do something…' Ben thought, managing to hide a flinch.

"He stole your bike?" Makoto blinked, "Wow…who knew Ben's could be such rebels."

"Right…because…I never did such a thing…during an invasion of alien microchips that bodyjacked people…" Ben coughed.

"His eye twitches!" Skurd declared.

"Ever get blasted with a spell by Gwen and turn your Azmuth into a To'kustar?" Maximilian asked in amusement.

"Gah! Don't remind me of that…" Ben cringed, "Being chased by Azmuth's dad was weird and ruined Stonehenge for me!"

"Oh-hoh~! I've gotta hear that one!" Makoto grinned.

"It was a really weird story…and I am not proud of the Wrestlemania smackdown I had as Way Big in the city…" Ben cringed again.

"He suplexed Evil To'kustar Azmuth through a building!" Maximilian laughed.

"Brutal…" Lambda blinked.

---

Thunder rumbled as a torrent of rain poured down upon the vast grand canyon. Gust-O, Hail-O, and Shock-O stood together as they glared upon Cannonbolt.

=Must you always get in our way, Ben Tennyson?= Gust-O demanded =If we could feel annoyance, it would be directed at you=

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. You guys lying to yourselves as always," Cannonbolt waved it off, "So what are you guys even doing? Trying to turn the Grand Canyon into the world's largest pool?"

=Wrong. Flooding the Grand Canyon with water will ruin its beauty for people who come to see it= Hail-O stated =Thus it will eliminate any incoming joy those people have had to see this=

"...So you're turning it into a public swimming pool without any slides? Oh that's even worse!"

=...We did not think this through= Shock-O muttered.

=If I could feel shame, this would be it= Hail-O sighed, shaking his head.

=You two are idiots= Gust-O deadpanned =Now we must replan…=

"Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna let that happen. How's about instead I kick your butts, I win…and we call it a day?" Cannonbolt offered.

=Interesting proposition. Here is my counteroffer= Gust-O replied as he held a hand up and sent a tornado at Cannonbolt, who was sucked up into it.

"Oh not agaaaaaaaaaaainnnnnn!" Cannonbolt screamed as he curled up into a ball as he was spun around inside of it.

=That should give us the allotted time to begin replanning= Gust-O noted before they heard laughter from the tornado.

"Hey! This is kinda fun as Cannonbolt! Whoo~! Faster!" Cannonbolt laughed.

=...= Shock-O and Hail-O slowly turned their heads to Gust-O.

=If I could feel disbelief and anger, I would be feeling them right now. Are you kidding me?!= Gust-O threw his arms up in disbelief and anger.

=Gust-O, you are actually providing joy to organic beings= Hail-O noted =If I could feel disappointment with you, now would be the time I would show it=

=Both of you are failing at our one protocol as you are both clearly showing signs of emotional distress…you bring shame to us all= Shock-O replied.

=...You are right…= Gust-O muttered.

=...is it a bad time I detect something else heading this way?=

=Wait, what?= Gust-O asked, looking at Hail-O.

=Yes...I am detecting something heading th….= Hail-O began before the Rustbucket came into the area, crashing into the three Weatherheads as they were sent flying.

=We'll be back! And we will have a new plan!= Gust-O declared as they flew out of sight, causing the weather to clear up.

"WHOO~!" Cannonbolt laughed as he landed, rolling around a rock formation in the shape of a 'U,' and bounced along the ground until he stopped before the Rustbucket, "Whew! That was awesome! Do it again! Do it again!" he looked around, "Hey…Where'd those three go?"

"D-Did we just hit something?" Mai's voice came from the RV.

"Oh don't let it be a deer and her fawn…" Noel's voice spoke in worry.

"Why would you say that, Sister? …Now I fear it, too," Lambda complained.

"Uh nope…looks like we hit evil robots…" Maximilian spoke.

"Oh…then nothing of importance is lost," Noel sighed happily, "I only have so few robotic lifeforms I care for."

"...wait, what?" Cannonbolt blinked a bit before knocking on the RV, "Uh…Grandpa? You and Gwen got people in there? And when did you get a new RV?"

"Who's there?" Maximilian asked, opening the door with a Plumber Rifle in hand, "Oh it's just a Cannonbolt, phew…had me worried for a moment there, Kid."

"...n…noted…" Cannonbolt whispered as he held his hands up, "Uh…mind putting that down, Grandpa…who looks…oddly more awesome and looks like he came from an action cartoon…"

"Hah! Told ya!" Makoto cheered.

"D'oh…Why did I even make that bet with you?" Mai complained.

"What did we hit?" Ben asked, sliding next to Maximilian, "Was it anything important?!"

"Oh no, Ben, just some weird robots I keep hitting with this thing for some reason…" Maximilian sighed, "It's like the Rustbucket is auto locked on hitting them for some reason…"

"Ben?!" Cannonbolt repeated, "Hey wait a second…I'm Ben!"

"And so am I," Ben replied, holding up his Omnitrix.

"...No way," Cannonbolt gasped, stars in his eyes, "Are you from the future?! Do I get all the current series Sumo Slammer cards?! Oh! Wh…"

"Well technically I'm a future you from an alternate dimension. But…I mean…I have…and you're a Me…so…technically you should, too, if you're smart about it," Ben muttered.

"So cool~!" Cannonbolt awed before a red flash went off, replacing him with a ten-year-old Ben in a green and black shirt and baggy olive-green shorts.

"Hey you're a ten year old me. Nice!" Ben smiled, jumping out, "Oh wow cool! Your Omnitrix looks way cooler than mine did at your age!" he awed while looking at it, "This is still the one you found in the pod, right? Man I miss that one. This is the Model 2 version, but it's like all digital so it's hard to work sometimes. The WiFi feature is cool though,"

"What?! Yours can do that?!" Little Ben awed, "That's so cool! How many aliens do you have?"

"I lost track…Feels like I keep finding new ones every week," Big Ben admitted, "But…unfortunately not all of them are cool…There are sadly…a few lame ones here and there." he sighed, "I try to only remember the useful ones."

"Aw what?! I have a lot, but they keep getting switched out on me," Little Ben pouted as he held his up, "I just got Cannonbolt back, but it swapped Jetray."

"You already have Jetray?" Big Ben asked, "Never got him until I was fifteen."

"Wow, really?" he blinked.

"Yeah…He's a much better flying alien, right? And he goes underwater, too!"

"Oh my goodness, is that Ben as a kid?" Mai gawked as she and the girls poked their heads out from the doorway.

'Resist urge to hug…Resist it, Noel!' Noel thought.

"So tiny~" Lambda picked Little Ben up from behind.

"Whoa!" Little Ben panicked, "Hey! These are unauthorized hugs, lady!"

"Ah…these are friends from my dimension," Big Ben chuckled as the girls stepped out, "They are a lot of fun and most of them are like the sisters I never wanted," he looked to Tsubaki at the last bit.

"Well someone has to stop you from making a mess of the town," she crossed her arms.

"I don't…on purpose…often…" Big Ben chuckled, "In my defense…I thought it was a water truck when I threw it…"

"Focus, kids," Maximilian spoke as he knelt down to Little Ben, "Ben, you are in danger."

"..." Little Ben raised a brow, "Um…Aren't I always?"

"We're chasing this evil dude who is tracking down Alternate Bens across the multiverse and taking their watches," Big Ben explained, "He's got a lot of them already, but we were able to spook him off. Now we think he's gonna target well…young versions of me…IE you."

"So…what?" Young Ben asked, "Plenty of people were after my Watch. Animo, Vilgax…Billy Billions…"

"Wait. Billy wants it?"

"Had it once, too. That was….a trippy adventure."

"I'm honestly surprised he even knows Billy at this age. Didn't you never even notice him as a kid, Babe? Aside from the Sumo Slammers card?" Makoto asked as Little Ben gasped.

"So fluffy~!" Little Ben awed, "Big me, who is she?!"

"Makoto Nanaya," Makoto introduced herself as she knelt down and offered a hand, "I'm the older you's girlfriend."

"You mean you get to hug her all the time and not sneeze?" Little Ben asked.

"Eh, only when she tickles my nose with her tail," Big Ben replied.

"Sneeze?" Makoto repeated as Little Ben pouted.

"I'm allergic to most animal fur," he complained.

"Eh!? You can't hug cute little things?!" Noel gasped.

"Well, there is this one animal that Dr. Animo named I named Cadobbit," Little Ben replied, "He was so cute and fluffy and never made me sneeze once!"

"...C…Cadobbit?"

"A cat, dog, and a rabbit combined."

"..."

"...Noel, La-chan, no," Tsubaki immediately spoke up.

"But it's a Cadobbit…"

"No. We're not having our Animo make you one! You already have Mari the Mink!"

"But it sounds so adorable!" Noel argued.

"I have pictures!" Little Ben beamed, holding up a touch phone.

"And we're already off to a strange start," Maximilian noted in amusement as he stood by Big Ben while Noel and Lambda cooed over the pictures.

"...Wait a second. If little me is here…where's the Grandpa Max and Gwen here?" Big Ben pondered.

"...Oh right! They were gonna grab lunch at the pit stop!" Little Ben recalled before gasping, "What's your Gwen like?! I…no no…I gotta let my Gwen ask this! She's probably gonna freak!"

"...Is it just me or is he starting to remind you of that one Ben we met that one time?" Makoto whispered to Big Ben, "The one with the really supportive Gwen?"

"Ah well…I guess not all Bens are stuck with a Gwen who just doesn't like us as kids…" Big Ben sighed.

"I must say…this one has an interesting taste to its samples," Skurd noted, making Big Ben and Little Ben look to see him attached to both their Omnitrixes, "However, I do taste a lack of Galvanic Mechamorph…or, rather, a lingering aftertaste of it. Did Maximilian not say it was used to upgrade this?"

"Gyah! Talking booger!" Little Ben freaked as Big Ben facepalmed.

"How rude!"

"No…it's just Skurd…You may meet your version of him when you're my age," Big Ben sighed, "He's actually some weird alien symbiote who feeds on DNA. The Omnitrix makes him happy, but he does have some benefits."

"What could this thing possibly have to offer!?" Little Ben asked as Skurd returned to his place on Big Ben's Omnitrix.

"Skurd?"

"Hmm…but of course." he covered Big Ben's arm and after a moment turned it into Diamondhead's before changing into Heatblast and then finally Upgrade.

"...Duuuuuuuuude~~~" Little Ben awed with big stars in his eyes.

"Thanks to Skurd…I can combo alien powers," Big Ben smiled, "Turn into Four Arms but punch people with Diamondhead fists. Or turn into Humungousaur with Heatblast arms to punch fireballs."

"That sounds so much cooler than when I broke the watch and ended up with mix-and-match forms!"

"You did that, too? Please tell me Animo didn't get the faceplate and mutate animals and Grandpa with it in the bayou."

"Nope! But, uh, Grandpa did get turned into Cannonbolt once when we were inside the Omnitrix. Long story. You have Shock Rock?"

"Yep."

"Don't use him too much. You'll start sleepwalking as him and build a weird satellite thingy to summon them all from your watch."

"Weird…I've used him a few times, but nothing like that happened. Probably 'cause after the first time he would leak over to my other forms…" Ben muttered, "But soon as that happened, Azmuth showed up and fixed my Omnitrix."

"Azmuth?"

"He made the Omnitrix," Makoto explained, "He's an alien like Greymatter!"

"Wait…Greymatter made the Omnitrix?" he gawked.

"Yep, just hope yours isn't a cranky old guy like mine. He always complains about anything…and really hates when I break the Omnitrix…" Big Ben sighed.

"Uh-oh…" Little Ben blinked at that.

"I won't tell if you won't," Big Ben smiled.

"Won't tell what?"

"...Heh. Nothing," Ben grinned, seeing where he was going as he rubbed his head a bit, "But I think we dawdled on long enough. Mind taking us to your Max and Gwen? This is probably gonna take a while…plus we haven't eaten much since we left our world so we can grab a bite."

"I'll handle the order," Tsubaki sighed.

"Wha…hey…is that meant to be aimed at me?" Makoto asked.

"Speaking of Maximilian…how have you…" Mai began.

"You've eaten stuff from the forest, haven't you?" Big and Little Ben sighed.

"Restocked some good grub back in their universe," Maximilian chuckled.

"Yeah…that's Grandpa." they sighed still in unison.

---

"Huh…Looks like Ben got it all taken care of," Grandpa Max noted, a swirl on top of his hair while he sported a fishing vest over his typical Hawaiian shirt, as he and an eleven-year-old Gwen in a white long-sleeve shirt under a blue t-shirt with a black cat face on the front and brown shorts walked out of a pit stop with several snacks.

"I swear, it's like those Weatherheads get easier every time we run into them," Gwen noted, "Guess their processors are taking one too many hits?"

"Eh most likely," Grandpa Max shrugged as they approached the Rust Bucket, its large blue and silver frame glistening in the sunlight, "Say, might as well just take a bit of time to really relax, huh?"

"Yeah…that sounds good," Gwen smiled a bit, "Plus it's the Weatherheads, so Ben's definitely got this."

"Uh Grandpa…" Ben's voice got their attention, "Any chance you have some extra snack money? …I got some new friends who are very hungry."

"The Cadobbit didn't follow us all the way here, did it?" Grandpa Max asked, looking down at Gwen.

"Ben, what did you do?" Gwen asked, "Did you unearth some race of hibernating creatures?"

"No…"

"...Did Billy try to sneak attack you?"

"Nope."

"...Did you meet a clone of yourself?"

"Who'd make a clone of me? That sounds like some major inferiority complex right there."

"Psst…don't tempt fate, Little Me…" Big Ben's voice whispered, "I actually do have an evil clone…with that exact complex mixed with a superiority complex."

"Who was that?" Gwen asked.

"...ok. Promise me you guys won't freak out but…" Little Ben began as he walked over…with Big Ben and his team in tow, "Guess who just met their future self~?"

"Alternate future self," Big Ben reminded.

"..." Gwen looked between her soda and the group several times before removing the lid and tipping the drink out of the cup, "I think the soda's bad here."

"Well that seemed like a waste…" Both Bens muttered while crossing their arms.

"Ben, what did you do?" Grandpa Max asked.

"Apparently put on the Omnitrix," Little Ben replied as he ran over to them.

"It's a very long and…complex story that needs a little backstory first," Big Ben sighed.

"We'll give you all the important information…after we get some grub," Maximilian sighed as multiple stomachs began growling.

"So…about that snack money?" Little Ben smiled.

"Please have something," Lambda added.

"We can't survive off Grandpa Max cooking." Makoto added.

"I can…" Mai muttered.

"I still don't get what's wrong with it," Noel noted, "The Galatean Gumbo is really good."

"Absolutely not," Tsubaki, Lambda, Big Ben, and Makoto all spoke.

"Whoa~! You're…a cooler looking action movie me?" Grandpa Max asked Maximilian.

"Long story, Max," Maximilian replied.

---

"That's honestly all we've got," Maximilian spoke, the group sitting in the much larger Rustbucket.

"So you're from an alternate dimension from the rest of these kids," Grandpa Max summed up, gesturing to Big Ben and the girls, "And you're after this 'Evil X' guy who wants to take our Ben's Omnitrix?"

"Yep…" they all replied while eating.

"Ah…we fought Evil X so long ago we forgot dinner…" Makoto muttered, a pile of empty snack wrappers before her.

"And breakfast…" Lambda nodded.

"We didn't even get a chance to eat snacks during our Dungeons and Dragons game," Noel sighed.

"I said sorry…" Mai cried.

"Still punished," Lambda declared.

"So if you're an older alternate Ben…What's older alternate me like?" Gwen asked, looking up at Big Ben with hopeful eyes, "Are we in college?"

"Yep…early admission," Ben nodded, "You and your boyfriend moved out over a year ago already, and have your own life upstate at this really fun school that's always being attacked by guys in masks…but it's cool. You're the local Superhero."

"I am?!" Gwen gasped, stars in her eyes, "Wait. Boyfriend? I have a boyfriend?!"

"Yeah…" Ben mumbled, eating another snack bar, "I mean saving the world together kinda helped set a relationship in stone if you catch my meaning…after alien invasions, Vilgax invading a couple more times, then fighting an interdimensional Space Cthulhu…you find someone to stick through all that and you've got a keeper. By the way, you were an awesome partner the entire way I might add; even with your goofy boyfriend sidekick."

"Probably safer for the future if we don't tell you his name…" Makoto added, "But then again, this is an alternate dimension…so…who knows?" she shrugged.

"Absolutely not," Noel ordered, a stern look in her eyes, "No romance spoilers!"

"But…" Makoto began…

*THWACK!*

"No. Spoilers," Noel repeated, standing over a downed, twitching Makoto while holding Tsubaki's reinforced paper fan.

"Give me that…" Tsubaki snatched it back, "I am so sorry for Noel. She is a romanticist at heart."

"So do you all have an Omnitrix?" Little Ben asked, pointing at the Plumbers badge on each of them.

"Nope. Just me," Big Ben replied, "Those are badges for the organization we're part of; the Plumbers."

Little Ben and Gwen tilted their heads, neither seeing Grandpa Max adopt a wide-eyed startled expression. He quickly made a muted 'sush' gesture and began to quickly do a 'cut it out' gesture after that.

'Oh, so we're at that point…' Big Ben thought as Little Ben began to snicker.

"The Plumbers? What, do you fix toilets, too?"

"No/Sometimes," Big Ben and Tsubaki replied at the same time, earning a bewildered look from Big Ben.

"...What? It's still a part of basic training for the Earth bases," Tsubaki admitted with a small blush before clearing her throat, "Plumbers may mean, well…plumbers on Earth, but on others planets in our dimension, it has many meanings. 'Savior,' 'Liberator,' 'Great Protectors from Beyond the Stars.'"

"...Wait. So that means…are you girls superheroes?!" Gwen excitedly asked.

"Eeyup!" Makoto beamed as she got up, "I even got a superhero costume and everything!"

"Ah…bard," Lambda spoke.

"La-chan, that's just in the game," Noel whispered.

"Eh? But…I can…nevermind…" Lambda sighed a bit.

"Urp!" Mai belched a bit, a large empty bowl before her, "Sorry…but ahh…that was so good…"

"She ate the entire bowl?!" Little Ben gawked, "And not pukin'?!"

"That's a thing with her. We just kinda ignore it," Big Ben explained, "Trust me, it's way too long of a story to go through…" he whispered.

"Oh…say no more, not tripping that one!" he nodded.

"Still…what happens now?" Grandpa Max asked.

"Now? We need to set up a trap for X-Tinction," Maximilian replied.

"The crazy guy after all Bens," Big Ben explained, "We think you're a target because, well, you're ten. He must be underestimating you. I think as long as he gets an Omnitrix, he will get stronger…so it doesn't matter if it's a Model 1 or Model 2."

"So what do we do to set it up?" Little Ben asked.

"The important thing is to cause him to be distracted long enough for us to rip the Omnitrixes out of him," Maximilian spoke, looking at Little Ben, "This dimension is your dimension, Ben. What's the one place that you know far better than anything else in this dimension that could provide a perfect place to set up traps in?"

"Hmm…" Little Ben rubbed his chin in through before grinning deviously, "Oh, I know a few places."

"Aw~! He has your sneaky smile, Babe!" Makoto cooed.

"No hugging him, ma'am," Grandpa Max warned, "Allergic to most animals which, yes, includes squirrels which we learned after that one incident with the peanut butter jar and the acorn tree."

"Rats," Makoto snapped her fingers in defeat.

"Strangely, those don't set off his allergies," Grandpa Max noted, "...But still not allowed a pet."

"Boo~" Little Ben pouted.

"Really? Weird, we had a family dog," Big Ben muttered, "Weirdness of the multiverse…"

"I am so jealous of you…" Little Ben pouted.

"...Okay, go for it," Makoto spoke.

"Huh?" Little Ben pondered before the sisters glomped hug and cooed, "Ah! Hey! Hey! Unauthorized hugs again?!"

"You girls are sure you don't have pet fur on you, right? You let Mari and Bluey hang off you like Pokemon…" Big Ben reminded.

"ACHOO!"

"Ew~!"

"Nevermind," Big Ben sighed.

"I'll get his medication," Gwen sighed as she walked off to the bathroom.

"How could we forget that…?" Tsubaki blinked.

"I guess we were in such a hurry, we didn't notice," Mai muttered.

"We're so sorry!" Noel apologized, bowing repeatedly with Lambda.

"Deepest apologies…!"

"Honestly w-" Makoto began before tensing, her tail sticking straight up, "?!"

"Babe?" Big Ben blinked.

"...I smell something…bad…real bad…" Makoto whispered with dread in her voice.

"...Bad how?" Mai asked as she pulled her spear out.

"Like..." Makoto began as she sniffed the air a bit, flinching a bit in disgust, "Like rotting flesh…and death."

"...d….death?" Gwen nervously repeated, quickly giving Little Ben his allergen medication.

"This just went from zero to a hundred real quick…." Little Ben added.

"Alright, that's new," Big Ben spoke as he was the first to step out, "Evil X is a total jerk…but he doesn't literally stink. So…what is it? Zombozo? …Is he a zombie here?" he leaned back in to ask his Alternate younger self.

"He's a zombie!?" he gawked.

"I'm gonna take that as a 'no, he's just a creepy clown,'" Big Ben muttered.

"Yep…" Gwen nodded, "So…is it your Zombozo then?"

"Recruiting our villains from the multiverse…almost sounds like a classic bad guy move," Big Ben muttered.

"Dweeb…." a voice groaned in the distance.

"Wasn't me…" Big Ben quickly stated.

"...yet it sounded…like you…" Tsubaki whispered before a feeling of dread hit her, "...Lambda…"

"Scanning," Lambda spoke as her armor formed, her visor glowing, "...zero heartbeat…radioactive-like substance detected…virus detected…"

"..." Makoto whimpered as she quickly jumped into her Ben's arms with wide terrified eyes, "Z-z-z-z-zombie…!"

"Z-z-z-z-zombie?!" Noel freaked as she bolted behind Tsubaki.

"Which direction, Lambda?" Tsubaki questioned.

"...Above," Lambda replied.

"Wha?" Big Ben asked as the Rustbucket creaked before something jumped down before them, "?!"

It…well it almost looked like Ben save for the pale almost purple-like skin, the bald head save for small strands of hair, and the long purple straight jacket covering him. He turned around as he groaned at them.

"Dweeb…" he looked at Gwen, "Cousin Dweeb!" he raised his arm to reveal a rather odd Omnitrix that looked more like a band of his jacket save for the metallic tubes and the glowing purple dial…which…he slammed his head into as he morphed into Frankenstrike.

"Gah! What is that?!" Little Ben freaked.

"Frankenstrike," Big Ben replied, "Uh…Babe? Kinda need my arm to change…"

"Can't let go…too terrified!" she yelped, hugging him tighter, "Only thing that makes me feel safe is boyfriend!"

"Yipe!" Ben panicked as he jumped out of the way of a punch meant to flatten them both.

"Crush fake Ben!" the purple Frankenstrike roared.

"Ah man…Little me, can you lend me a slight hand while I deal with this?!" Big Ben panicked.

"You got it!" Little Ben beamed as he turned on his Omnitrix, "Okay, you big guy! Time to meet my big guy!" he pushed down and, in a flash of green lights, Humungousaur roared, sporting several black spikes going down his spine and the tip of his tail covered in a mace made of the spikes, "Humungousaur's ready to rock!"

"Huh…That's a new design," Big Ben noted, "Anyway, just be careful. That guy has super strength and electricity!" he called out, "I recommend punching him before he can zap you!"

"Oh I can do that!" he smirked as he tackled Frankenstrike down and rolled along the ground with him, "Man, I am so glad I won't be turning into you!" he growled, tossing Frankenstrike into several trees.

"...grr…." Frankenstrike groaned as he got up, completely unphased by his attack, "Benzarro…want…watch…"

"Huh?" Humungousaur raised a brow, "But you already got one!"

"No…Benzarro's Zombitrix…!" he shouted, "Benzarro…want yours for master…"

"Master?" Tsubaki silently repeated before tensing when Frankenstrike turned towards her and the others.

"...mmm…hungry…after this…" he grunted as he rubbed his arm over his drooling lips, "Hopefully taste better…than Kevin and Rook…"

"...Did….he just imply that he ate…" Mai began with wide eyes.

"Hah!" Humungousaur roared, slamming his tail on the ground and unleashing a shockwave that sent Frankenstrike flying back. "I don't know what a Rook is…but even if Kevin is a jerk, that's too far, freak," he growled, slamming his tail again as the shockwave knocked Frankenstrike off his feet.

"Here…hold her…" Big Ben grunted as he pushed Makoto into Mai's arms.

"Ah! Too tight! Too tight!" Mai yelped as she struggled to stay on her feet, "Hey! Hands! Hands!" she cried while falling over.

Big Ben turned on his Omnitrix while narrowing his eyes. He calmly selected and gently pushed down on the raised core. Frankenstrike roared as he got back up only to see a flash of green light and then his face being smashed in by Kickin' Hawk's foot, knocking him through a tree.

"A rooster that kicks?" Humungousaur asked.

"Kickin' Hawk," Lambda supplied.

"Ooh, nice name, Big me!" Humungousaur beamed before blinking a few times, "Uh…Is…Is he alright? He's not talkin'."

"He's in serious mode!" Noel explained from behind Tsubaki, "We've only seen it with the really nasty bad guys! It means he's gonna kick butt extra hard!"

Frankenstrike howled as he charged at Kickin' Hawk, holding the broken tree like an oversized club. He swung down only for Kickin' Hawk to swing his leg and kick through it. Frankenstrike blinked a few times before he was suddenly punched in the stomach, making him double over and leaving him open for a solid roundhouse to his face. The Benzarro version stumbled back only to be kicked in the chest multiple times as Kickin' Hawk literally walked up Frankenstrike's chest before flipping into the air and landing another kick to his chin. Frankenstrike groaned in pain as he held his face, but this left his body wide open as Kickin' Hawk began unleashing a barrage of punches into his stomach, ending it with a powerful rising uppercut that sent this zombified variant of Ben falling on his back.

"You…mean…" he groaned in a punch drunk state as he struggled to stand up.

A Green flash went off as Chromastone walked forward, "Yeah…well…I don't like Monsters." he replied, letting Frankenstrike punch him and unleash an electric shock into him, "If you're really me…you'd remember Chromastone…is a living conductor." he punched Frankenstrike while unleashing a bright prismatic beam right into his face and sending him flying.

"Wow…Ben…no offense, but…big you is MUCH better at this," Gwen awed.

"Y…yeah…" Humungaosaur slowly nodded, a dumbstruck amazed look on his face.

"...You say this is his 'serious mode?'" Grandpa Max whispered to Noel, a concerned look on his face.

"Mmhmm…Ben only ever gets like this if he is so angry…he loops around back to calm," she explained quiet enough for the kids not to hear, "It's not normal he does this…the last time he did this was the time he fought Vilgax."

"I'm well aware of that guy," Grandpa Max noted, "My Ben's had several run-ins with him this whole summer and none were good."

"Mm, that's just like our Ben's stories. But I only saw him once…he's really scary," Noel added as Chromastone blasted Frankenstrike, sending him skidding along the ground, "Ben fights a lot more…effectively when he's in this state…"

"Ugh…you…so…strong…" Frankenstrike shook his head.

"Yeah…that's kind of my…" he paused, looking at Humungousaur, "Kinda our…thing." he smiled as he relaxed a little, "I think I've gotten that out of my system, Mini-Me…what's say we tag team this freak?"

"Really?" he asked excitedly.

"Why waste the transformation?" he smirked, "I'll run defense, you hit him with all you got!" he jumped in the way of a purple electric blast and absorbed it, "Now go!" he cheered as they rushed forward together.

"...Oh this is so cool!" Humungousaur grinned before he charged out, "It's Double Hero Time!"

"Little Ben…snapped him out of it?" Noel blinked as the two punched Frankenstrike.

"Oh! Oh! Do the tail thing!" Chromastone cheered, "That is so cool! Mine can't do that!"

"Ah really? Well…okay!" Humungousaur cheered, slamming his tail and sending a shockwave that launched Frankenstrike into the air.

"Yeah…but I do have lasers!" Chromastone shouted as he blasted Frankenstrike while he was falling, sending him flying into another tree, "Not bad. I'm no crack shot…but not too shabby~" he smirked, blowing on his fingers as if it was a gun.

"If there's one thing my Ben cares a whole lot about, it's keeping kids calm in tough times," Makoto noted, relaxing a little at seeing the two tag-teaming Frankenstrike.

"Don't worry," Maximilian spoke, putting a hand on his counterpart's shoulder, "We make sure most Bens turn into pretty outstanding young men."

"Oh! Suplex!" Chromastone cheered as Humungousaur slammed Frankenstrike headfirst into the ground.

"...Well…mostly pretty outstanding," Maximilian corrected himself as Grandpa Max chuckled.

"Oh, this is so cool! I'm fighting a Zombie…with an older me!" Humungousaur cheered, "Hey, how'd you change aliens?"

"It's a trick we learn when we turn 15," He explained, "Want me to do it for you?"

"Let's do it!" Humungousaur cheered.

"Hup!" Chromastone cheered, slapping his Omnitrix as he turned into Heatblast.

"Wait…You mean I could've done that?!" Heatblast awed, "Dude~"

"Eh, it drains a little extra energy, but with two of us…that's double the bad guy beat down!" Chromastone cheered.

"So that's why that happens to him…" Heatblast muttered to himself.

"Less talk, more blast!" Chromastone cheered.

"Yes, sir, big me!" Heatblast beamed before firing a stream of fire at Frankenstrike, making him roar out in pain as he staggered back.

"Fire…bad…!-!-!"

"Oh wow…" both Alien Heroes muttered, "How cliche…" they shrugged before blasting Frankenstrike at the same time, sending him sliding along the ground.

"..." Makoto began to dig through her tail.

"Makoto…are you searching for matches?" Mai deadpanned.

"...Maaaybe…"

"What I'm curious about is why that zombie Ben is here," Maximilian admitted.

"He said 'Master,'" Tsubaki recalled, "...Maximilian, sir, do you think it means…?"

"It couldn't be. X-Tinction has worked alone for as long as I've chased him," Maximilian frowned.

"So…You're not a fan of fire, huh?" Chromastone asked, "Then you really won't like this." he tapped his emblem and swapped to Swampfire, "Swampfire!"

"Phew! Dude, you stink!" Heatblast waved a hand over his face as Makoto gagged until she got a clothespin on her nose.

"Yeah…but he's like a combination of Heatblast and Wildvine!"

"Wait, really?!"

"For example…" Swampfire smirked as he grabbed the seeds on his shoulders and threw them at Frankenstrike along with a blast of methane, letting them hit the ground before sprouting into vines that quickly entangled the Anur System alien, "Wildvine first."

"Vines…bad! Bad vines…!" Frankenstrike growled, struggling in their bindings.

"And now…" Swampfire began before he shot his free arm out, unleashing his own stream of fire at Frankenstrike, "Heatblast!"

"...List," Heatblast spoke as he looked back at his Gwen, "We need a list of what Aliens I want to unlock that big me has!"

"Hey, I bet I can show you tricks with the aliens you got already~" Swampfire smirked.

"You can?! Oh! What you got for Heatblast?"

'This is almost like Allen all over again. Good times...' "Ever tried making a surfboard out of the ground to fly on?" he smirked, "You can kind of control rocks~"

"I can?" he blinked.

"Yep, just send all the flames down to your legs, and melt some of the ground…then…lift it up." he explained.

"Uh…okay," Heatblast muttered as he planted his feet on the ground, heating it up as the asphalt began to melt…before it suddenly rose up beneath him, "Ahh~! Oh that's so cool~!"

"Hey, did you know you can make your fireballs explode for way more damage?" Swampfire smiled.

"No, I did not and yes! SO! MUCH! YES!"

"Uh…wait, Ben…that sounds dangerous…" Grandpa Max began before an explosion sent Frankenstrike soaring over their heads, "And…he did it…"

"Oh lord…Ego Ben is back," Tsubaki groaned.

"Hey, nice distance!" Swampfire smiled, "You're a fast learner, Mini-Me~"

"Well, I do have a great teacher, Big-Me~" Heatblast laughed.

"I don't know…I kind of like Ben better like this," Noel spoke up, "He looks…happy."

"Well things are getting explosive here…" Makoto noted.

"Will you get off of me!?" Mai complained while pushing Makoto off of her.

"And no punning," Tsubaki scolded.

"I am freaking out here because of a zombie near us. Give me my puns," Makoto argued.

"Hopefully, they can get this Ben back to his untransformed state so we can restrain him, figure out where he came from, and send him back," Maximilian noted as a smoldering Frankenstrike groaned from the crater he was inside of.

"Yeah…he is weirdly tanky…" Swampfire muttered, "Maybe there's a spell or something that can, I don't know…put him to sleep…restrain him?"

"You know magic!?" Heatblast gasped.

"What…not me, Gwen." Swampfire pointed to Gwen.

"I know magic?! Like Lucky Girl?!" Gwen gasped in awe, stars in her eyes.

"...If I were to say the name 'Verdona'..." Tsubaki began, looking at Grandpa Max.

"Ehe…well…" Max sheepishly chuckled, blushing.

"Wait, so they don't know about….that we are part…?" Swampfire blinked, "Seriously…we had to learn the hard way…" he looked at Maximilian, who also looked a bit nervous, "Oh come on! You too!?"

"About what?" Heatblast and Gwen asked.

"Ugh…sorry, but apparently it's not cool for me to spill family secrets…" Swampfire crossed his arms.

"Aw~!" the two whined.

"Really…not a single Max…ever?" Makoto muttered.

"Uh…H-Hey, what's he doing?" Grandpa Max asked, pointing at Frankenstrike slowly getting back up.

"So no magic, huh?" Swampfire looked at Gwen, "Didn't you steal Charmcaster's book of spells to learn?"

"I could do that?" Gwen blinked.

"Well yeah…that's how you learned to do magic. Energy bolts, force fields, tornados out of thin air, making my skin blue for a week…" Swampfire listed.

"She did it again after the last D&D night when I was the DM," Noel reminded.

"Hey, hey, hey! We agreed over a plate of chili-fries that stayed secret!" Swampfire called out.

"Can we go back to the I know magic!?" Gwen asked.

"Change…like this…?" Frankenstrike pondered, earning their attention as he reached to his Zombitrix.

"No you don't!" Swampfire shouted, summoning vines he used to grab his arms, "Ugh…I hate learning curves…"

"Tell me about it," Heatblast sighed, "I almost forgot…this is some nasty zombified version of us…what's up with that?"

"Heck if I know…First time I'm seeing something this…weird…" Swampfire admitted, "Normally the changes are minor, like you having a cooler looking Gen 1 Omnitrix…or your allergies to animals. I figured maybe there was an evil me out there somewhere…but this is not what I was thinking…I pictured me…but with an evil mustache…man, I hate not having facial hair…I would look so cool with a beard…"

"Beards are awesome!" Heatblast cheered.

"See! He gets me!" Swampfire laughed.

"Ben!" Makoto complained.

"Right, right. Evil zombie me…" he sighed, "Okay…we got him…now we wait for him to time out…" he frowned, "And I have no idea how long that will take."

"Can't you poke him like you did me?" Heatblast asked.

"..." Lambda walked off to the current world's Rustbucket.

"La-chan, what are you doing?" Noel asked.

"Muzzle for no biting," Lambda replied.

"Alright, worth a shot…but he did call it a Zombitrix," Swampfire walked closer, "If you see sparks from his back, burn his face." he ordered Heatblast.

"You got it!" Heatblast saluted.

Swampfire got closer before he looked at his arm and stretched it the rest of the way to tap the symbol on Frankenstrike before a purple flash replaced him with Benzarro. He sighed as he made more vines tie his entire body in place. Benzarro roared, struggling to get out only to gag when a rubber ball shot into his mouth followed by two of Lambda's blades zipping over and wrapping a cloth over it and around the back of his head.

"No biting allowed," Lambda informed, returning the blades to her before dismissing her armor.

"Whoa~! You looked like a phoenix!" Gwen awed.

"Ah…" Lambda blushed, "Yes." she patted Noel's head, "Mothra."

"Who told you about…" Noel muttered as she assumed it was about the time her DNA was scrambled.

"Nice singing voice," Lambda added.

"Okay…we caught him…" Swampfire sighed, returning to Ben in a green flash, "Now what? We can't just lock him up…He's a literal zombie. Leaving him here is just begging for trouble!"

"I'll run a scan in my Rustbucket, figure out his home dimension, and send him back to it," Maximilian offered as he walked off to it.

"Here Mini-Me," Big Ben spoke, slapping Heatblast's Omnitrix and reverting him to normal, "Changing back before you time out lets it recharge faster."

"That is so cool!" Little Ben awed, looking at his hands.

"We'll leave some instructions for you on what we've learned on our Omnitrix to give to your Ben when you think he's ready to learn," Makoto quietly offered.

"That'd be a big relief," Grandpa Max noted.

"So…as disturbing as this was…something tells me Evil X isn't looking to show up here," Big Ben sighed, "I think he collected goons like this freak…and sent them to collect more watches for him."

"MMMM!-!-!" Benzarro growled as best he could.

"I kinda feel bad for this…us," Little Ben spoke.

"Well maybe we can ask the Omnitrix to fix him," Big Ben offered.

"Wha?" Little Ben blinked.

"Oh, check this out," Big Ben smiled, "This…I think this is actually the best power we have. Omnitrix…repair genetic damage." he ordered.

=Authorized, beginning scan now= the Omnitrix spoke up before a yellow light scanned Benzarro, the zombie squinting when the beam hit him in the eyes.

"It talks?!" Little Ben asked, "Wait…Repair?"

"The guy who made our Watch, Azmuth…he's a bit cranky…but he's also nice. He just wanted to make something to help people, so…the Omnitrix is more than just something for Hero Time. It's…it's kinda like Noah's Arc…and you…and me? We're Noah. As long as we keep fighting, we can keep millions of Aliens alive inside the Omnitrix. And…we can heal them, save them." he smiled, "That's what the Omnitrix was made for…but you're using it in a new way too, just keep helping folks…and you'll figure out the rest on your own."

"Whoa…" Little Ben awed at that before looking down at his Omnitrix, "I didn't know it was so important."

"Yeah me neither…but that just means you gotta be a Hero." Big Ben smiled, patting his shoulder, "Trust me…it'll be hard. Maybe not all of us could do it…" he looked at Benzarro, "But trust me…you got what it takes Ben 10."

"Whoa…Mind…Blown," Little Ben awed, mimicking an explosion above his head.

=Scanning Complete. Alert. Alert. High levels of genetic damage detected. Unknown virus in target's systems. Sample collected and placed under quarantine until connection to Galvan Prime MKII and Primus is reestablished=

"Can he be cured?" Big Ben asked.

=Affirmative. Due to severity of damage, access to transformations will be restricted for three hours, twenty-two minutes, and nineteen point ninety six seconds=

"That severe?" Big Ben asked in surprise.

=Affirmative=

"...Worth it," Big Ben spoke, "Alright do your thing Omnitrix," he sighed.

=Acknowledged. Beginning charging for in-depth genetic repair=

"Can mine do that?" Little Ben blinked.

"Probably, but mine needed to be recalibrated first before I learned it was an option." Big Ben smiled, "Just think of it as another new way for you to save folks. Careful though healing people takes a bit of energy with mine. So try to use it after beating the bad guys."

"Yours can talk…is it…alive?" Little Ben asked.

"Hmm…I'm not sure about that…but I think it has some kind of AI…maybe yours does too…it just hasn't woken up yet." he explained, "Guess that means I'm benched 'till my Omnitrix is finished. You're on Hero duty 'till then Mini-Me."

"Oh..." Little Ben noted before saluting, "Got it, Big me! I'll make sure no one disturbs ya then!"

"I know you won't. Sides I think we can take it easy…as long as we keep an eye on Bitey here…" Big Ben paused, "Lambda…go find more stuff to cover his face."

"Mission accepted." She saluted as she rushed off.

"She is such an adorable young lady," Grandpa Max noted.

"Hard to believe she acted like a robot when we first met her," Mai noted.

"She is quickly learning how to be a slightly more normal girl." Noel added, "Me and my sister are a fair bit weird."

"Oh I don't know you look like normal girls to me." Grandpa Max noted.

"Oh…well you see we're clones." Noel chuckled, "It's…a weird story…"

"Huh…well yeah thats weird…" he muttered.

"Question is we don't know who they're cloned from," Makoto admitted, "Hopefully they were a good person or something if Noellie and La-chan came from them."

"I found a random bike helmet." Lambda spoke, coming back with a motorcycle helmet she jammed onto Benzarro's head before pulling out duct tape and using it to stick it to the head like a strap.

"...you didn't nick that from someone did you?" Tsubaki asked.

"...no."

"I should move the Rustbucket. Better to hide him until we have that cure done," Grandpa Max spoke.

"Good idea," Mai nodded before pausing, "...and someone to keep look around the area in case one of Little Ben's enemies shows up."

"Oh that's something that happens at random…" Gwen sighed.

"I already beat the Weatherheads, two bad guys in one day? No way." Little Ben scoffed, "Sides while Big Me is helping Zombie me, I'm on look out. Nothing bad could possibly happen."

"Yeah…that's Ben alright…" the girls from Big Ben's universe all nodded.

"Hey!" both complained.

"No matter the version, he inadvertently causes trouble," Skurd shook his head.

"Silence you." Both Ben's complained.

"Well…at least he makes for a good laugh." Maximilian laughed as he came back with a scanner.

"So what, you cure him then send him home?" Makoto asked.

"Hmm…let me take a guess, Omnitrix, is this guy the Originator of his virus?" Ben sighed.

=Affirmative, curing him shall create antibodies that can save others under a similar infection=

"Yeah I had a feeling…" Ben sighed, "Fix him, dump a cure back in his world. Long shot…but I think in his world, his Gwen is his enemy and probably the one trying to fix things. Maybe if we dump him on her front door she can do something with the antibodies?"

"You have a lot of faith in me…well me's…" Gwen spoke walking up to Big Ben.

"Of course I do, you're a genius." he smiled, "That's the one consistent with Gwen's."

"You'll grow up to be a pretty great young lady," Makoto added, "Even if you guys are apart, you and your Ben will back each other up."

"Eh…" Little Ben shrugged only to be shoved slightly by Gwen, "Okay okay, I need you," he chuckled.

"Yeah you do." she smiled, "Still it's kind of cool to meet a future you who knows what he's doing."

"I made plenty of mistakes first." Big Ben chuckled, "But hey, as long as I got Team Tennyson to help, I get better."

"Are you sure your Ben? You're way too humble to be one." Gwen joked.

"Hey I can be humble…" Little Ben complained.

"Well Ben you shouldn't stick out here with this thing. You should have enough range to keep the connection up from inside the Rust Bucket." Maximilian sighed as he and his counterpart of this dimension parked their Rustbuckets parallel to one another with Benzarro between them.

"With this makeshift set up," Grandpa Max began as he put up a tarp between the two RV's, "We can hide this guy from sight till your done curing him."

"Ah…a nap in the Rustbucket…been a while since I had one of those." Big Ben sighed.

"In the mean time, we'll rest up and figure out where we go from here," Tsubaki stated.

"Yeah I need time to forget that…" Makoto muttered.

"Looked as ugly as Morningstar without his mask…" Big Ben muttered.

"Brr~ Don't remind me," Makoto shivered.

"Wait, you have a Michael Morningstar too?" Little Ben asked.

"Is he a big dingus here who feeds off girls' life energy?" Big Ben asked.

"Eeyup."

"Ah…that guy is always a loser…" Big Ben sighed, "Mine drained too much energy from Gwen and went super…but after we beat him he got all gray and nasty…now he wears a lame Metal mask and calls himself Darkstar. But that was the most epic buttkicking ever. Me and my friends beat him up while I changed into like 5 Aliens one after another."

"Cool~" Little Ben awed.

"Yeah, we can compare weird enemies," Big Ben smiled, "You got an Animo?"

"Oh big time!" Little Ben groaned as they walked in.

"Ooh story time!" Makoto followed.

"I get to hug him this time." Lambda went in next.

"Wha…aw man…" Noel complained.

"You can hug the tail," Makoto assured.

"Yay!" Noel cheered jumping in next.

"...can I hug the tail?" Gwen asked, following them inside next.

"Well you are Gwen…take turns." Makoto smiled.

"Yes~!"

"Well…I guess if anyone can get over a zombie attack after a few minutes…it's us?" Mai sighed.

"Trust me…I've learned to get over a lot…" Grandpa Max muttered.

"Well things only get weirder with time, trust us." Tsubaki smiled.

"Oh no…" Grandpa Max groaned at the prospects of what adventures could come next.

"?"

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After a while everyone within the Rustbucket had nodded off into their own varying levels of sleep. The events of several battles and no rest while traveling the multiverse for some had left them more drained then they expected. Big Ben snored lightly, leaning against the window next to the Rustbucket's table, Makoto likewise was sleeping while resting her head on her boyfriend's shoulder…while Noel and Gwen slept against her tail which took up the third spot on the little bench. Little Ben somehow got on the table…and used it as his sleeping spot while Tsubaki, Lambda and Mai sat across from Big Ben and Makoto in the seats. Even Grandpa Max and Maximilian took this respite to get some much needed rest, but they chose to take their naps in the back of the RV…even snoring in sync with one another.

While everyone rested, they failed to notice someone spotting the two parked RV's and recognizing one. They walked up and spotted the masked and tied up Benzarror who groaned as he struggled to get free of his recently secured straight jacket. He grunted looking at the figure who was left confused as to who or what he was. Benzarro however grunted upon seeing the cobbled together makeshift device on their arm.

"MMNNRIX!" he groaned, making the figure blinking.

"You know what this is?"

"MMMM!"

"Did Tennyson do this to you?"

"EEEB!"

"What?" they asked.

"Mmm…ptui…" Benzarro finally spit the ball, gagging his mouth out, "Dweeb!"

"...Want help getting out of here?"

"...yes…" he nodded.

"Don't worry…I'll have ya out in a second."

"Mmm…" Benzarro grunted as he was helped away.

"N-No squid…no keep it away…" Little Ben snored.

"Evil…evil feathery devils…" Big Ben mumbled.

"Dweeb…" Benzarro growled.

"I know right," the figure led him into a better light revealing him to be a child about 11 years of age. He was a bit scrawny and pale skinned, with a head of shoulder length black hair, wearing an olive green jacket over a torn black shirt, blue jeans and black shoes. Upon closer inspection the Omnitrix like device he has was a dull brown with a red core…but the hourglass symbol was split down the middle, making it almost look like a K instead. "So what are you, and why did Lameson keep you locked up?"

"Me enemy…" he groaned, "Him Dweeb…me crush Dweeb! I Crush all Dweebs!" he paused looking down at the boy, "You…?"

"My name is Kevin, and if your gonna mess with Tennyson then I'm in." he smirked, "But you don't strike me as the…plan type?"

"Me not plan…" he struggled as he freed his arms but was unable to rip the helmet on his head off, "Grrr…Me hate mask…me hate Dweebs!"

"I can help with that." Kevin offered.

"Help…you…good Kevin." he nodded as he began following him, "Then smash!" he roared.

"Snnrk…who said that?!" Little Ben shouted as he fell off the table, "AH!"

"Mmm…five more minutes…" Big Ben groaned.

"Ten…" Makoto muttered nuzzling into Ben.

"Fifteen…" Noel and Gwen sighed hugging Makoto's tail.

"Little Ben, are you okay?" Lambda rubbed her eyes as she woke up.

"I'm okay! I'm good!" he declared while shooting up, "I just…thought I heard something."

"...what did it exactly sound like?" Tsubaki slowly asked as her eyes shot open.

"I don't know…I thought it was that weirdo Zombie me banging his head against something…it actually got kinda soothing after a while." Little Ben admitted, "...I'm gonna check on him!" he ran out, "AAAHH!" he yelled running in, "Guys…problem! Zombie…escaped! Into the world! End of days!"

"Whose turn was it to scream in panic?" Lambda asked.

"ME!" Makoto and Noel freaked as they hugged each other in fear.

"Help…I'm trapped between them…" Gwen groaned, stuck in the middle of their panic hug.

"Ugh…I should have set up a shift for watching him…" Tsubaki groaned as Big Ben scratched Makoto's ear.

"Really wish this was done charging the cure," Big Ben noted, looking at his Omnitrix, "Wildmutt would have found him quick." He looked at Little Ben's, "Unless…"

"What's Wildmutt?" Little Ben asked.

"You don't have Wildmutt?" he blinked, "He's a big orange dog thing with quills and no eyes." he explained.

"Nope…sounds kinda weird, why no eyes?"

"He sees with echolocation and smell…so technically invisibility is useless against him. He's also really strong and good at finging lost things." Big Ben explained.

"Okay that does sound kind of cool." Little Ben admitted.

"Shoot. There goes that idea of using Wildmutt to track," Big Ben frowned.

"Ahem," Skurd cleared his nonexistent throat…from Little Ben's Omnitrix, "You may not have access to the Vulpimancer DNA, but I have no such restrictions." He pointed at Little Ben, "I'd suggest using a flying form or a strong athletic one that will let you cover a large amount of ground."

"..oh! In that case…!" Little Ben began as he ran outside while turning his Omnitrix on as he pressed down on it, transforming him into Jetray, "How about this guy?!"

"Perfect…" he molded around Jetray's neck and then down to his gills before they turned orange and opened to reveal Wildmutt's sensory gills in their place. "Behold! Now you have a super nose!"

"Okay that's weird…" Gwen muttered.

"Try living with him…" Big Ben sighed as he checked his Omnitrix, "Alright Mini-Me, find Zombie us and zap him 'till he goes down. Hopefully you'll put on enough of a light show we can find you."

"Oh trust me…Ben and subtle never go hand in hand." Gwen chuckled, "We'll know where he went in no time."

"For once my total lack of subtlety pays off~" Jetray gave two thumbs up.

"Oh so just like ours." Tsubaki nodded.

"Oh don't start that bit again…" Big Ben groaned.

"Vehicle Destroyer~" Lambda teased.

"Wait is that what they call you?" Gwen giggled.

"Use Kevin's car as an exploding hammer and never hear the end of it…" Big Ben grumbled.

"Awesome…." Jetray awed at that, "...Wait. Kevin?"

"Let me guess you guys have a Kevin E. Levin here too?" Big Ben asked.

"He's Ben's school bully…" Gwen sighed.

"Is he half alien?" Ben asked.

"He's half alien!?" Jetray gasped.

"Well he is in my world. It's how he got his super powers." Big Ben explained.

"He has powers!? Here he just…"

"Ehem…Zombie…on the loose…find…now!" Skurd growled, "Do you want the world to be doomed!?"

"AH! Right! Gotta jet!" Jetray panicked before flying off.

"Honestly you two…" Tsubaki sighed as she pinched the bridge of her nose.

"What? We get caught up in our own nonsense at times," Big Ben argued.

"Hopefully, Zom-Ben isn't too far off or bit anyone," Makoto noted.

"...Zom-Ben?" Mai repeated with a deadpan.

"What? It's all I could think of," Makoto argued, "Well…that and Benzarro…"

"Didn't he call himself that?" Noel asked.

"He did? I was a little panicked."

"You must be a nightmare at scary movies," Gwen noted.

"Hey…"

"She is unless Ben's there," those who knew her replied.

"I require security hugs!" Makoto declared, "I might have super strength but I'm still just a girl." she huffed.

"Yes…a girl with rational fear as you claim…" Tsubaki retorted.

"Come on you," Ben tossed Makoto over his shoulder, "After that Mini-Me!"

"This isn't over, girls," Makoto fumed, glaring at her friends, "When this whole adventure is over…Prank….War."

"GH!" Tsubaki, Noel, and Mai froze with pale faces as Lambda tilted her head in confusion.

"...I pick Makoto's team…" Lambda muttered, following them.

"No~! La-chan, you traitor!" Noel cried, chasing after her.

"Wait…ah…" Tsubaki groaned as she and Mai followed.

"Zzzzz…" both Max's snored…still very much asleep as not even all this could wake the elder Tennysons, "No, Ben…don't touch that…zzzzz~"

---

"Do you always itch?" Jetray asked as he flew around.

"Stop talking. You're making this more awkward than it needs to be…" Skurd groaned.

"I'm just saying you are a booger covering my entire body giving me smellovision. It feels fair to ask if this itch is normal?" Jetray muttered.

"No…it's not normal. I think you and I are not compatible as I come from an alternate universe. But your Omnitrix is unique. So many hidden features…I never saw this in my version…" Skurd noted, "Nor this alien…or this…ooh~ You have this, too? Amazing~ Splendid~!"

"...uh…thanks?"

"I speak not to you…I speak to our Omnitrix. You're just another Ben…"

"How does Big Me put up with you…?" Jetray groaned.

"He stuffs me into a pickle jar when he's upset…" Skurd huffed.

"Nice~" Jetray smirked.

"Don't do that to the me of here when you eventually meet," Skurd warned, "We are vindictive!"

"Oh sure-sure…" Jetray smiled deviously as he clearly lied through his teeth.

"Though I must ask…did you know your Omnitrix works off a chamber system? You need to manually load in what aliens you want to use like loading the super moves shortcuts on a fighting game…?" Skurd asked, "Honestly, this feels more reliable than having all your aliens at once…"

"Huh…That explains all the tubes inside of it when me, Vilgax, Grandpa, and Gwen got pulled into it when the Fulmini were using it to invade Earth," Jetray noted.

"I found the controls to change the cylinders," Skurd explained.

"Wait, really?!"

"Yes…good luck figuring it out~" he laughed evilly.

"Oh you suck!"

"Yes…Aha! Zombie…gasp…and a hoodlum!" Skurd pointed down as Jetray sensed them with his Wildmutt smellovision.

"I know that stink of angst and BO…Kevin!" Jetray gasped as he dived down.

"Oh so there is a Kevin here, too…"

"Yeah and he's a bit of a jerk! Him and his Antitrix!"

"...I'm sorry, his what?"

"Kevin!" Jetray shouted to get their attention, he started off by blasting Benzarro, sending him flying into a tree as the zombie twitched from the neuroshock of his beams. He quickly spread his arms out and stopped himself and swooped up, the air from his sudden maneuver knocking Kevin off his feet, "What are you doing!? That's a zombie!"

"Zombie?! As if!" Kevin argued as he got up, "In fact, why did you guys have him hidden underneath a tarp and bound up?!"

"Because otherwise he'd end up eating somebody or try to take my Omnitrix!" Jetray argued, "He's a zombie…do you know how zombie movies work?! They bite, then that person bites someone else, and eventually the world is doomed! It's horror movie 101, you dingus!"

"Who ya calling a dingus?!" Kevin demanded.

'This is a possible version of how they acted as children…I see no difference with the ones I know,' Skurd mentally deadpanned as he dismissed the enhancements he gave Jetray.

"Hey, what's that glob of snot?" Kevin blinked as Skurd glared at him, "And why's it looking at me?"

"Blasphemous child! I'll show you snot! Taste Lepidoterran slime!" he morphed around Jetray's shoulders, making them blue…before blasting Kevin with fouls smelling slime.

"Ack! Ew dude! Did he just spit gack on me?!" Kevin gagged.

"Yeah…he's kind of cranky…but thanks to him, I can use two alien powers at once." Jetray smirked, "Wait…That was Stinkfly's slime. Hahahaha…ah…classic~!"

"Why is your Lepidoterran DNA showing that its body is humanoid?" Skurd asked.

"Big Me's isn't?" Jetray asked.

"No…his is an actual giant bug…killer sharp stinger included," Skurd explained, "This is indeed a most entertaining world of odd DNA. Now tell me…what is that horrible mistake of metal and pipes on his arm? …It can't be an Omnitrix…could it?"

"Hey! My Antitrix ain't no mistake!" Kevin glared.

"More gack for you!" Skurd shouted, blasting Kevin in the face while his mouth was open.

"You really don't like him? I think I like you more now," Jetray smirked.

"Excuse me a second, good boy." Skurd stretched off and onto the Antitrix, "Hmm…tasty, hybrids…except for the 11th one…that…that one is new…ooh how wonderful~" he wagged his pseudopods around happily as the Antitrix Logo formed on his head.

"Ah dude! What the…?!" Kevin gawked as he tried to shake Skurd off.

"Hmm…not much in here, is it…seems your modification to make your aliens stronger cut off your connection to download more aliens…" Skurd noted as he jumped off and returned to Jetray, "Alright I had my fill. I can remake those flavors later on my own."

"Dude, you better not have uploaded some kind of virus into my watch!" Kevin snapped.

"...Can you do that?" Jetray asked, looking down at Skurd with a concerned look.

"Hmm…Give me a bit," Skurd replied.

"Ah great. I really hope I don't get a vi…a vi…Gah! The Zombie!" Jetray panicked as he looked to where Benzarro had been only to see nothing, "Ohh…I'm in so much trouble with the older me and the other grandpa that looks like he came out of an action comic…"

"Huh? What are you talking about?" Kevin asked.

"Allow me to do so in advance," Skurd informed…before making Rath's arm pop out of Jetray's shoulder and dope-slapped both kids.

"OW!" both yelped as Skurd dismissed the limb.

"...Why did it sound like a stick hitting two coconuts?" Skurd pondered, "And it's not your grandfather from another dimension nor the older Ben from another dimension you should be worried about…" he shuddered, "'Tis Lady Tsubaki Yayoi that you should be terrified of."

"The red-haired girl that makes me think of Gwen but older?" Jetray blinked.

"She is cruel. She will cause you untold pain and misery, both of you…she will find what you love most and burn it…BURN IT! Then when you think you have reached the deepest pits of despair…she will give you the Stare of: 'I'm not mad…just disappointed'~"

"..." both boys shivered with wide eyes.

"And she will have me tossed into the Jalapeno jar this time! The vinegar burns my eyes!"

"Please tell me you didn't take that helmet off him!" Jetray begged.

"I was about to," Kevin replied, "You're serious about him being a zombie!?"

"Yes! A zombie older me from another dimension, too!"

"Dude, that's messed up!"

"He also bragged that he ate his Kevin…" Skurd added, making Kevin freeze, "Undoubtedly…he probably wanted to eat you too." he pointed out, "So I believe a 'thank you' is in order…"

"Thank you?!"

"You're welcome~"

"Oh he's good…" Jetray muttered.

"A thank you. Now find the zombie before we hear the sound of a reinforced paper fan meeting palm comes forth!" Skurd declared as the two boys tensed and looked around.

"Well if he's a zombie, he can't have gotten far, right?" Kevin asked.

"Oh…my dear boy…this isn't a Romero Zombie…" Skurd sighed, "Sadly…he's a Runner."

"One with his own Omnitrix, too," Jetray remembered.

"Wait, what?" Kevin asked as something took form over him.

"Mummy!" Jetray shouted, pointing behind Kevin.

"Now is not the time to call for your …" Kevin turned to see a purple tinted Snare-Oh staring down at him, "Mummy!"

"Kevin…DWEEB!" he roared as one of his gauze swung around and wrapped up his leg, "You torment me!" he shouted, tossing Kevin at Jetray and sending both skidding across the ground.

"Oh…I think he's seeing the you he ate," Skurd noted.

"Ghhh…W-Well…Let's see if his Kevin had this!" Kevin declared as he turned his Antitrix on and slammed down on it, letting loose a red flash of light and a purple version of Diamondhead replaced him, his crystals shaped to make him resemble a facsimile of a hockey player with a sleeveless black bodysuit with a jagged V-shaped portion on his upper torso colored purple, crystal 'ribs' growing on the outside of it along with more growing over his knees like kneepads, "Mummy, meet Crystalfist!"

Snare-Oh said nothing as he disassembled into his bandages and burrowed underground. Crystalfist and Jetray blinked as they looked at one another and shrugged.

"Some monster he turned and-gah!" Crystalfist yelped as he was picked up by the bandages and slammed into the ground head first.

The bandages suddenly shot out and wrapped up Jetray before slamming him into the ground. Snare-Oh reformed as he launched both arms out and picked up both young Alien shapeshifters. He slammed them into one another before spinning them around and tossing them into a tree. A groaning noise went off before the branch they were on broke and caused them to fall down onto several more until they landed face-first on the ground.

"Any chance you can do the switching thing Big Me knows?" Jetray muffled out at Skurd.

"Fine…" Skurd sighed, "Let's see…it's a Thep Khufan…try this." he tapped the Omnitrix as he turned into Heatblast, "Better?"

"Much better!" he cheered, burning the bandages off, "Hey creepy, let's do this!"

"You doofus!" Snare-Oh laughed as one of his bandages touched his Zombitrix as he changed in a purple flash, replacing him was a giant mass of purple slime that took on humanoid form as he glared down at Heatblast with a little rusty UFO over his head.

"...What's this one called? Goop?" Heatblast asked.

"Actually…yes," Skurd replied as Crystalfist grunted as he grew spikes and ripped the bandages on him off before retracting them.

"Hey, I thought only I knew how to do that," Crystalfist complained.

"Turns out it's not that special," Heatblast explained, "Older me can do it…plus he has hundreds of aliens all at once."

"You serious?" Crystalfist asked.

"Yep…now duck and cover!" Heatblast yelped as a stream of purple slime almost hit him, the slime hissing and melting the ground away, "Oh that's not good."

"It's walking slime…and it's predatory…it eats anything stuck in it by dissolving it in its mass," Skurd explained.

"You mean like that old movie with the living blob from space?" Crystalfist asked.

"Yes…but why are you concerned? Diamonds don't dissolve in acid…" Skurd pointed out, "Well…unless your tampering has made you…less Diamond like…"

"As if!" Crystalfist growled before firing a barrage of crystal shards at Goop, who weaved out of the way of the assault.

"With this stuff able to eat away at things…I need a moment to suit up," Heatblast noted as Crystalfist charged in with his arms sharpened into blades that he tried to stab the dodging slime with.

"Excuse me?" Skurd asked.

Heatblast smirked as he reached up to his emblem and rotated it ninety degrees clockwise…and armor engulfed him to Skurd's surprise. His head was encased in an orange helmet, with his flame still being cast out, which had a lighter orange visor with yellow dots for eyes and three grill plates as a mouthguard. His neck and shoulders were covered by orange plating. His right arm had white segmented armor and an orange gauntlet for his hand, while his left arm ended instead in an orange cannon, with the middle portion containing parts of what looked like Heatblast's inner magma body. His white torso piece was separated from his neck piece by metal tubes that also went around to his back. His legs were covered by white armor plating for his thighs and dark orange for his knees, shins and feet, with two sets of metal tubes connecting the thighs and shins together. FInally, two sets of tubes connected to the Omnitrix emblem.

"...What…in the world…is this, my good boy?" Skurd asked, slowly looking up at Heatblast.

"Omni-Kix!" Heatblast declared.

"Omni-Kix, you say…Oh the older you is going to be quite jealous…" Skurd noted, "Also, there is a major weakness Goop has that, while quite obvious, no one seems to ever aim for."

"...Is it the UFO?" Crystalfist asked.

"...Huh…maybe you're not as stupid as I percieved," Skurd muttered.

"Hey!"

"Silence…or I tell Gwen how you feel about her!"

"AH! How-I mean I don't know what you're talking about!" Crystalfist panicked.

"...I was merely joking…" Skurd muttered to himself, "Oh, Noel shall be quite the writer later on when she learns of this romance transcending dimensions…"

"Right…So we knock that off and he can't move anymore?" Omni-Kix Heatblast asked before the two rolled out of the way of another strike of acidic slime.

"Indeed. There should be a button on it that disables its abilities," Skurd informed before chuckling, "I should know…Older you shall never forget when I learned of it during a spar with Rook on a trip to Rook's homeworld." he then whispered to himself with a devious snicker, "And neither will Rook's girlfriend with how heavy her blush was."

"So we just need to turn that thing off?" Crystalfist asked as he jumped out of the way of Goop's acidic slime.

"Is there an echo out here? That's what I just said…how do you not beat him within five minutes? Seriously? Our Kevin is only half human, this one is full human…but still only half as smart as one…" Skurd sighed.

"Hey!" he complained, only to be body slammed by Zombie Goop, "It's so nasty!" he cried out.

"Oh no Kevin look out…" Heatblast spoke slowly as he aimed at the UFO. He launched a blast of fire that knocked it out of the air…letting Zombie Goop just…fall and slide off Crystalfist, "I got it!" he jumped after it before picking it up, "Button, button…ah!" he clicked it.

"Pftt…ptui…ah! Why does it taste like grapes!?" Crystalfist gagged as he lurched forward and began tossing up crystals.

"Funny enough, the Goop I am used to tastes like limes," Skurd noted.

"Why do acidic slime aliens taste like fruit?" Heatblast asked.

"Uh…problemo…this thing doesn't have his symbol on the UFO…" Skurd muttered.

"Wait, what…then where?" Heatblast looked as a purple flash got their attention.

"AWOOO!" Blitzwolfer howled as he jumped and swiped at them.

"Now he's a werewolf!?" Heatblast shouted.

"Oh please…I got this," Crystalfist spoke, forming blades on each arm.

"Should we tell him Petrosapians are weak to sonic attacks?" Skurd asked.

"AWOOO~!"

"GAHHH!" Crystalfist yelled as he flew overhead, a few cracks on him as he crashed into a tree.

"...I'm pretty sure he just found out…" Heatblast noted with a cringe before Crystalfist crashed down onto his back.

"...Okay…Now I'm mad…" Crystalfist growled as he jumped up and turned to Blitzwolfer, "Okay, ya big mutt! You think you're the big bad wolf here?"

"Wait…before you make a stupid mistake…" Skurd spoke up, getting his attention, "Try thinking this through, that form has powerful sonic howls…if you turn into a beastly alien…with sensitive ears…you will be taken down again." he waited, "Don't fight dog with dog, you idiot…" he groaned.

"Hey!" Crystalfist growled, "Rrr…Well if Bashmouth won't work, let's see if I can't clog his howls." he tapped his emblem and, in a flash of red, was replaced with a humanoid red beetle with a gold carapace, "Here's some Skunkmoth for your nose, ya freaky mutt!"

"GH! What's that stench?!" Makoto's voice exclaimed.

"Who was that?" Skunkmoth asked.

"Oh, that was Makoto," Heatblast replied, "Guess her nose is super-sensitive."

"She tends to gag whenever older you goes Stinkfly or Swampfire," Skurd chuckled, "And the less said about Buglizards aka the natural predator to the Lepidopteran, the better. I swear, that species seems to just love unleashing their gas when she's close enough…"

"Awoo!" Blitzwolfer howled, pouncing on the two young Alien shape changers. But he gagged when he got a face full of Skunkmoth's stink.

"Hahaha! See I'm a genius!" he laughed, only to yelp when they were both blasted by a sonic howl, sending them flying and slamming into trees followed by two flashes.

"Ah!" Ben panicked.

"Oh no!" Kevin shouted.

"Grrr….Dweebs…" the zombie Bitzwolfer growled, drooling as he looked down at them, "Bite size…"

"AH!" they panicked holding each other.

"Grah!" Zombie Blitzwolfer howled as he lunged at them, only for a tree to strike him and send him flying away.

"Bad undead mutt!" Makoto shouted.

"Nice distance, babe…Your best swing yet," Big Ben smiled as he looked down at the two, "So…I take it you found who set the zombie us loose, Mini-Me?"

"Kevin did it!"

"Way to throw me under the train, Tennyson…" Kevin grumbled before seeing Makoto, "Dude, is she a squirrel lady?"

"Aw…it's a teeny tiny Kevin." Makoto responded, "He almost looks cute as a little boy."

"L-Little!?" Kevin gawked.

"Kevin…" Big Ben spoke in a serious tone, "Do us a favor and shut up." he sighed as he grabbed his head and turned him towards Benzarro as he groaned and got up to his feet before morphing into Frankenstrike once more, "You can get your lesson on not being you later. That thing…doesn't like Kevins…so you can fight me and Mini-Me…or you can help us…and live to be a jerk another day."

"...I'm only doing this 'cause I want to." Kevin replied.

"Uh-huh…" Big Ben and Makoto smirked, crossing their arms.

"I-I am!"

"Hang on," Big Ben spoke, looking at the Omnitrix, "How are we doing?"

=Repair Process is complete, please revert subject back to original form. In order to accomplish such task, transformation feature unlocked once more=

"Perfect," Big Ben grinned, "Up for seeing some more Aliens I've got?"

"Yes! So much Yes!" Little Ben cheered.

"Alright Kevin, up for being a good guy today?" Big Ben smiled.

"Wha…no…we're…just fighting the same freak together," Kevin muttered.

"You would look good infront of Gwen~" Makoto teased.

"What?" he jumped.

"Ew…" Little Ben muttered.

"Shh… Now pay attention…" Big Ben whispered, "Kevin is easy to deal with if you know how…" he whispered on, "For example…if he's like mine…just think: What could Gwen ask him to do? Then he's super easy to manipulate."

"Oh…" Little Ben smiled deviously.

"Also…if you're like me…in a few years, Kevin is going to fall madly in love with a car…Always use the car as a weapon." Big Ben whispered.

"I can do that." Little Ben smirked.

"I don't know what your talking about, lady, Gwen has nothing to do with this!" Kevin defended as he blushed.

"Well you clearly don't like Ben so why keep messing with him? Clearly…you're going after Gwen, right?" Makoto went on, "You want to be a cool brooding bad boy…but you're not nearly that cool yet kid."

"I am cool!" Kevin snapped.

"Kevin…Loser!" Frankenstrike roared as he rushed them.

"My turn!" Big Ben cheered, tapping his Omnitrix.

Frankenstrike blinked before being blasted back by a blue beam of electric energy. Kevin and Little Ben looked up at Feedback. He crossed his arms as his antenna shot out and wrapped around the tesla coil towers on Frankenstrike's back…before draining all his electricity out. Feedback uncrossed his arms as he held his right hand and formed a large ball of energy.

"Oh yeah…this…this is my favorite guy still~" he held his arm out and fired the electric blast at Frankenstrike, blasting him through several trees. His antenna returned as they released the electric towers.

"Oh my gosh! He's so awesome!" Little Ben awed with stars in his eyes.

"Whoa…I mean…it's alright…" Kevin muttered.

"Little Me, Little Kevin, say hi to Feedback, next to Shock Rock, one of my greatest Electric Aliens!" he cheered, "I just have way more practice with him."

"He even pummeled a kaiju with him!" Makoto grinned.

"I am awesome!" Little Ben awed.

"Please Mini-Me…you're me…you're awesome too~" Feedback smirked, "Your pretty cool too little man~" he teased Kevin messing with his hair. He looked over his Antitrix, "So that's your thing here, huh?" he poked it a few times, "Looks a little too much like something my evil twin would make…but you could do some good with it."

"...what?" Kevin blinked at that, "...wait. No way my Antitrix looks like something some evil twin made!"

"Hey dingus," Feedback smirked, flicking his head, "Don't worry about it." he chuckled, "I don't care who made it. But if you can use it to help folks? That's all that matters. Otherwise you turn into a monster like that." he pointed to Zombie Frankenstrike, "Why don't you show me what makes yours so cool?"

"Huh?" Little Ben blinked at that before Makoto tapped his shoulder to tell him to wait and see.

"Of course I'm cool, way cooler than you or Little Tennyson!" Kevin declared.

"Oh yeah?" Feedback asked, "Tell you what…show me you can kick some bad guy butt…and maybe…maybe I'll show you something even you don't know about that watch?"

"You're on!" Kevin declared as his Antitrix beeped as it finished recharging, "Bet you've never seen Bashmouth before."

"Bashmouth?" Feedback and Makoto repeated as Kevin slammed down on his Antitrix, engulfing him in a red light as a large beastly wolf-like form took his place, "?! WHAT IS THAT?!"

"Bashmouth!"

"Oh you're gonna scream now, aren't you?" Feedback looked at the now-frozen Makoto.

"Oh she's scared of dogs, isn't she?" Little Ben realized.

"Yes…EVIL!" Makoto screamed in Bashmouth's face, making him flinch as she jumped away.

"Ow my ears!"

"Hey the snot was right!" Little Ben laughed.

"Alright…lets pummel zombie breath." Feedback smirked, "And I know just the angry guy for the job!"

"Angry…I got someone for that!" Little Ben smiled as he slapped the Omnitrix at the same time as Feedback.

"RATH!-!-!" two voices roared.

Standing there were two versions of Rath, easy to tell apart as the one that was the younger Ben had a white Omnitrix symbol, yellow eyes and white brows, on top of being naked. Unlike the green eyed Rath of elder Ben who was now clad in black wrestling pants with multiple green stripes along his legs, with the singlet looping around his feet, his torso was as normal bare, but he did have dark black and green wrist bracers.

"Pants…yes! Rath was so tired of not having pants! Let me tell you somethin', Skurd the Slimebiot, if you didn't tell me I never would have known I had an option for this!" Older Rath shouted as Skurd jumped back to his Omnitrix.

"Mmm…no problem…I wanted the lucha mask…"

"Wait…we can wear clothes?" Younger Rath blinked.

"Oh yeah!" he flexed, "Let me tell you somethin' Younger Rath with a different voice that I find equally charming, we Apoplexians actually have an advanced sense of shame! Nothing makes us more upset…then being buck naked! Except for everything else!"

"Seriously?! Younger Rath has been running around...?!" Younger Rath began.

"Dude...gross," Bashmouth deadpanned before an acorn beaned him in the face, "Ow! Hey!"

"Don't worry, Younger Rath…use that rage! Use it and those respectable muscles!" Older Rath shouted as he flexed his arms, "Oh yeah! Use it…to pummel that zombie into the dirt!"

"Oh yeah! You're right Older Rath! Rath is mad!" Younger Rath growled, flexing his arms as well.

"What are you two doing?!" Bashmouth asked before he was magnetically pulled away towards Frankenstrike, "Oh no!" he yelped.

"Hoorah!" Older Rath cheered as he made his pectorals flex.

At that, the two Apoplexians crossed arms as if swinging at each other before clasping hands together tightly. The two smirked at one another as a noticeable twinkle formed in their eyes. The two growled, turning to Frankenstrike as he clashed with Bashmouth.

"Here comes Rath!" they both roared running forward and punching Frankenstrike at the same time knocking him away from Bashmouth, "Oh yeah!"

"What is happening?" Bashmouth groaned in confusion.

"They have bonded! They are the same person in mind and body…we're doomed! DOOMED!" Skurd shouted.

"Let me tell you somethin' Benzarro user of the Zombitrix from some zombie universe! You made a horrible mistake coming to this world with younger Alternate Rath, while I! Older Rath from a parallel dimension was visiting…and that mistake is you underestimated RATH!" Older Rath roared, extending his wrist claw before he punched it into the ground sending out a shockwave that knocked Frankenstrike up into the air and "Younger Rath!" he put his hands together, "Hammer throw!"

"You got it!" Younger Rath spoke, stepping onto Older Rath's hands before he was flung at Frankenstrike before swinging out and punching him. He growled, grabbing his legs before spinning around and slamming Frankenstrike face first into the ground.

"Grr…get off Benzarro!" Frankenstein roared as he shot up, attempting to bite Younger Rath before a rock was tossed into his face, "OOF!"

"None of that!" Makoto shouted from a decent distance still.

"Come here little man…" Older Rath growled, picking Frankenstrike up by his head before flipping him around and holding him by his waist, "Polaris Piledriver!" he shouted jumping into the air before bringing him down headfirst into the ground. He smirked, dragging him back up and holding him up and roughly smacking his chest as a sign to his younger variant.

"Hah!" Younger Rath roared dropkicking Frankenstrike, sending him flying towards Bashmouth.

"Ha!" Bashmouth roared as he shoulder checked into the flying zombified alien, sending him falling to the ground, "Oh yeah! What's up?! Come get some ya zombie freak!"

"So much macho…" Makoto muttered as the three Alien shapeshifters continued this rather one sided battle.

"M-Makoto…" Noel gasped, "We found…what is happening here?" she asked.

"Antarian Armbar!" Older Rath roared, picking Frankenstrike up in an armbar before running and pushing him into a large boulder, "Ophiuchus Face plant!" He pulled him free and lifted him up, "Vega Drop!" he brought the zombie Frankenstrike down on his shoulders before he jumped back and slammed the Anur Transyl down back first while letting his head slam on his stomach.

"I really want some popcorn," Makoto admitted.

"Of course your Ben would have a Rath…but what's with the clothes?" Gwen asked.

"Oh…Rath's species actually have a very developed sense of shame," Noel explained.

"..." Gwen snorted back a laugh, "Y-You mean, this whole time…he's been…?"

"Buck Naked? Yep," Makoto replied as Gwen fell over in a giggle fit, "Aw~ She's still young enough to enjoy the joke."

"Regulus Lariat!" Older Rath roared landing a powerful lariat to Frankenstrike as he sent him flying to Younger Rath.

"Regulus Lariat!" Younger Rath roared slamming his own to Frankenstrike's back as he pushed him back towards his older variant.

"Double Regulus Lariat!" Older Rath shouted slamming another to Frankenstrike from the front as the two Apoplexians caused a shockwave from the combined impact of their strikes on a single target.

"From the Top Rope!" Bashmouth shouted as he jumped over the two and drop kicked Frankenstrike hard in the face, sending him flying back further.

"At this point they are just being dumb boys right?" Gwen asked.

"Oh sadly that never changes." Tsubaki sighed.

"Rath can hear you!" the Rath's shouted.

"You were meant to…"

"D'oh~! Lemme tell ya somethin', Tsubaki Yayoi, my superior officer even though she was my apprentice less than a year ago…!" Older Rath began before Frankenstrike managed to zap him, "One moment!" he spun around, jumped, and grabbed Frankenstrike's face, "Lemme tell ya somethin', Frankenstrike from a Zombie Apocalypse Universe! Zapping doesn't do much to Rath except make Rath MAD!"

"And you don't wanna make Rath mad!" Younger Rath added as Older Rath threw Frankenstrike at Younger Rath, who did a roundhouse kick that sent him over to Bashmouth.

"I'M YELLING!" Bashmouth shouted as he piledrived Frankenstrike into the ground.

"Oh lord, it's Idiot in surround sound," Skurd groaned.

"...Who's that third one?" Tsubaki asked, looking at Gwen.

"That's Bashmouth, one of Kevin's transformations," Gwen replied.

"He can turn into aliens?" Tsubaki asked, blinking a few times in surprise.

"Huh…All our Kevin does is absorb matter to make armor and weapons for himself," Mai compared.

"And always loses his car," Noel added, "His original got taken by Ben because Kevin was a jerk and broke a poor lady's heart for the engine block…which is now in his motorcycle because Ben wrecked the car…Oh, and then there was when Kevin and Rook went to that intergalactic car show and Ben used Kevin's new car to become a Transformer and broke it while beating up a villain that used other cars and the Proto-TRUK for a combining robot…"

"The Incursean Invasion," Mai reminded, "Oh, and last Tuesday for the final part of our last campaign that got interrupted by Thunderpig wanting revenge on Tsubaki for 'eating his uncle with swiss and cube steak.'"

"I'm still angry because I was about to deliver the finishing blow," Tsubaki grumbled.

"No one expected him to suddenly attack the house!" Makoto argued, "I mean it…He just suddenly shows up whenever we're trying to relax because one of us ate something pork-related that day!"

"And here comes the metal chair!" Older Rath roared, he and Younger Rath tossing Bashmouth up into the air as metal plates covered the back of the wolf-like alien's arms along with razor sharp metal fangs engulfing his normal teeth.

"Elbow Drop~!" Bashmouth roared as he slammed down hard on Frankenstrike, actually cratering a large part of the ground around them.

"...He can make his teeth even sharper…" Makoto whispered, her eyes wide and blank as she shivered.

"Uh…" Gwen began before the girls all blinked and Makoto was now at the tippy top of the tallest tree, hugging it while making the entire tree shake from her shivering.

"KEEP AWAY FROM ME, FANGED SPAWN OF SATAN!"

"...scared of dogs?" Gwen guessed.

"Well, she is part squirrel…" Noel pointed out, "The…The cliche is very much real…"

"She's fine when Ben becomes canine aliens, along with a few normal canine aliens that live in Undertown, but…yeah," Mai sighed, shaking her head, "Dobermans really make her scream and hide somewhere high. Last time we had to help with the Bellwood Annual Dog Show? Doberman was a contestant, Makoto saw it…and Ben had to go Big Chill and fly all the way up the Empire State Building in New York City to get her down." a moment passed, "No, really. She somehow ran all the way to New York City in less than five minutes and climbed the Empire State Building from the outside in less than two. We're…We're still debating how the heck she pulled that stunt off. Current bets are she drank an energy drink again or a malfunction in the Omnitrix went off and she got XLR8's speed for a moment."

"Honestly…concerned…" Lambda muttered.

"At least she's fine with smaller dogs like chihuahuas and corgis," Noel noted.

"Give up yet?" Younger Rath asked, earning a muffled groan from Frankenstrike in the crater, "Rath didn't hear a 'no!'"

"Grr…need…bigger…" Frankenstrike groaned as he got up, "Need…Archfiendzarro…"

"...What did he just say?" Tsubaki slowly blinked as Frankenstrike slapped his emblem, engulfing him in light as a hulking massive...FAT red giant in a tiny purple cloak took his place, "!?"

"...DID HE JUST BECOME A DEMON?!" Makoto freaked from her hiding spot.

"...Uh…" Younger Rath and Bashmouth looked at Older Rath.

"Lemme tell ya somethin', younger me and younger Kevin from another dimension: I don't have that form," Older Rath replied, "But I did jump into another of his kind's gut to pull out a baby he ate and broke his front teeth before threatening to do it again and this time knit his intestines into a sweater if he declared war."

"...Wait. His kind eats babies?!" both Bashmouth and Younger Rath exclaimed.

"Yep," Older Rath growled, cracking his knuckles.

Younger Rath growled, "Eating. Babies. Is not. Cool! I'm suiting up!"

"Suiting up?" Older Rath repeated as Younger Rath grabbed his emblem and twisted it before dark-orange, black, and silver armor came out and engulfed his body, neon-green energy glowing from several lines on his arms and shoulders while three long claws emerged from the back of the silver gauntlets on his lower arms, "...Ooh~! Rath digs that, Younger Me!"

"Yeah!" Younger Rath cheered.

"Wait, you can't do that?" Bashmouth asked with a smile as if to tease him before realizing Older Rath…was much taller than him, "Eh-hehe…uh…nevermind…" he muttered.

"Just for that…Rath is gonna throw you…" He grabbed Bashmouth by the scruff of his fur, "HA!" he spun around before throwing Bashmouth at Archfiendzarro.

"GAH!" Bashmouth screamed before he was caught, "...uh…nice d-" he began before Archfiendzarro's hand lit up, engulfing him in fire before tossing him right at younger Rath, "GAH! HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT!"

"I GOTCHA!" Younger Rath jumped up and caught him…before rushing towards a nearby bed of water and dunked him in, creating a lot of steam as he held up..a burnt yet wet Bashmouth, "You ok?"

"That was even worse than that ghost pepper chili I tried once…"

"Rath feels your pain," Younger Rath agreed.

"Rath could threaten Jaret and Vicetopus with jumping down them, but Rath doesn't think that's a good idea here with a zombie virus," Rath scowled before looking down at his Omnitrix, "Tag in!"

Archfiendzarro threw a blast of flames at Rath before a flash of green light went off. Bashmouth and Younger Rath spun around at the flash of green…and slowly looked up as Grimlock growled, his Energon shield deployed and blocking the stream of flames.

"Stupid Omnitrix! Me, Grimlock, was going for Way Big!" Grimlock growled.

"...Dude, what is that?!" both Rath and Bashmouth exclaimed in awe and excitement, Bashmouth's tail even wagging from it.

"Grah! You stupid zombie! Me, Grimlock, mad now!" Grimlock snarled as he swung his shield to disperse the flames…before shifting to Beast Mode and roared, blasting Archifiendzarro with his plasma flames, "SKREEEEEOOOOOOONNNK!-!-!"

"That is so much cooler than anything I/Rath can turn into…" the two younger shape shifters awed with stars for eyes.

"He actually has a second robot-like form…but that one can turn into any vehicle he looks at," Makoto added.

"You come back here!" Grimlock roared, grabbing Archfinedzarro by the legs with his jaw as he whipped his head around before slamming him down into the ground. He then reverted to robot mode, "Grimlock tired of monsters! Grimlock tired of zombies!" he grabbed Archfinedzarro's leg as he tried to crawl away, "Grimlock tired of you scaring girlfriend!" he picked him up, "Me Grimlock…break you…"

"I love him so much," Makoto smiled as Grimlock proceeded to pummel and toss Archfiendzarro around like a ragdoll.

"Watching Ben beating up enemies is quite the calming effect for her, huh?" Gwen asked.

"Oh there are a lot of ways she calms down when Ben's around," Mai replied.

"Hey! Children!" Grimlock shouted, smashing a boulder on Archfiendzarro's head.

"...Get your mind out of the gutter, Ben," Mai deadpanned as Tsubaki rolled her eyes.

"You started it…" he responded, turning back into his T-Rex mode as he chomped down on Archfiendzarro and tossed him into the air.

"And yet, all I was going to say were 'hugging her in a side-hug or scratching her ear,'" Mai stated, "You, mister, thought otherwise."

"SHUT UP, MAI!" Grimlock barked as he spun around and smacked the falling Archfiendzarro with his tail, sending him back up in the air…with the cheeks of the Cybertronian a lighter color than normal.

"Oh Ben…" Noel sighed with a giggle.

"Why are you talking about gutters?" Gwen asked.

"Your parents will tell you when you're older," Noel assured.

"I hate that response so much…" Gwen pouted.

"Hit him again!" Rath and Bashmouth cheered.

"Oh right…" Grimlock looked up as Archfiendzarro landed next to him, "Grimlock forgot this alien so easy to beat…" he kicked some dust onto him as he groaned in pain, "Hmm?" he nudged him over with his snout, "Think he passed out…?" he tilted his head towards the others.

"...La-chan?" Noel asked as Lambda's visor formed.

"...Subject is knocked out," Lambda replied as a flash went off, Benzarro laying face first on the ground, "Suggestion…cure before he awakens."

"Ah. Right," Grimlock nodded as he changed back to Big Ben as Bashmouth and Rath ran over and grabbed Benzarro's arms, "Good thinking, you two. Still good for the cure, Omnitrix?"

=Affirmative. Begin distribution to subject?=

"Yes."

=Beginning Sequence=

Ben held his arm as a green light shone from the Omnitrix and covered his hand before he touched it to Benzarro's chest, which quickly spread as a green glow across his entire body. The Alternate Ben grunted as his body was fully obscured by the green energy before it all receded back into the Omnitrix. After a moment, the Zombitrix sparked and fell off Benzarro's arm as he groaned. What was visible of his skin now a normal healthy color, his hair had grown back and any other disfigurements of his zombification were removed. However, his eyes were purple rather than green.

"Ah…what…" Benzarro began as he rubbed his head the moment the two boys released him as they timed out, only to tense when he noticed his current condition, "...oh…oh my god…" he quickly patted his head a bit...before he began to shake as tears began to well up in his eyes, "It's gone….th…the hungry feeling…it's finally gone.."

"Yeah…you're good, man," Big Ben sighed, patting his shoulder before he bent down and picked up the Zombitrix, "Won't be needing this mistake anymore."

"...Far as I see it, that…thing…needs to be destroyed," Benzarro stated as he grit his teeth, "I…I caused too much pain for everyone back home…I…I ate…gh…"

"Whoa man…it's okay," Big Ben spoke, patting his shoulder again, "Now…you are a cure. Go home, and let someone smart do some good with it." he smiled, "I know…you must have done horrible things while…you were that." he sighed, "But…well if you're still A me…you want to fix it." he looked to the Zombitrix, "I think I know someone who can get rid of this thing."

"...y…you do?"

"He does?" Gwen and Rath blinked as the latter and Bashmouth changed back to normal.

"He does indeed," a British accented voice spoke.

"...Professor Paradox?" Makoto blinked as everyone looked to the side, seeing Paradox standing there. Or rather…this world's version of the good time traveling doctor as he sported a pair of glasses over his eyes, a green vest underneath his lab coat, and a fashionable green bowtie around his neck.

"Why yes...just not the one you know," he smiled a bit as he pulled out a pocket watch, "He's terribly sorry he couldn't come, you know...had to deal with a bit of a ripple issue so I came in his place."

"...uh…who's this guy?" Little Ben asked.

"My dear boy," Paradox began, startling Ben as he turned to see him standing right behind him, "I happen to be someone you'll have quite the adventures with soon enough…Of course it would be rather rude to not introduce myself properly," he chuckled as he fixed his bowtie, "I am Professor Paradox. Or rather…a version of the good doctor the older you know."

"Wait…how did he…" Kevin began as he looked back and forth between the spot Paradox was standing in and the good doctor himself.

"Hmm. How did I really?" Paradox pondered, making Kevin tense as he turned to see him sitting down on the side of the road, "Really you can never predict the how when it comes to someone who can walk through time."

"He's a good friend," Big Ben smiled, "Always has been, always will."

"Oh, I'm gonna have timey wimey headaches from this," Makoto muttered.

"I think I already do," Noel admitted to Makoto, who offered her tail to the blonde to cuddle.

"Mint gumball?" Paradox smiled as he stood between the two, startling them a bit by surprise, "I find mint often helps with heachaches."

"Oh…th-thanks," Noel and Makoto blinked as they each took an offered piece.

"Now then…" Paradox began as he walked past the two, "I do believe you need my assistance with…er, Benzarro here," he said as he approached the former zombie, "Honestly I'm glad this one was cured…the universe is a rather sad and depressing place when a Ben goes bad, both intentionally or unintentionally…"

"...Any chance it could be as far away from Gwen as possible?" Benzarro asked, cringing a bit at thinking of that confrontation.

"...My boy…" Paradox began as he leaned down a bit, "Who do you think has been working on a cure for you back in your home world?"

"?!"

"In fact, I'm sure she'd be delighted to see you again...and with a cure to help save your world from that terrible fate," Paradox smiled softly.

"You'll do good, man," Big Ben smiled, "Just get it over with…it will be okay."

"If she's anything like my Gwen, she'll just smack you once for being a dummy thinking badly of her then give you a hug," Little Ben added.

"...y…yeah…" Benzarro slowly nodded as he stood up, staggering a bit as he nearly fell over, "I…I want to try and make things right again…"

"You will. You're us." Big Ben nodded simply.

"...But before I go...I need to warn you about something," Benzarro began as he looked up at the sky, "That Celestialsapien…that Evil Alien X has been gathering…evil versions of us…to hunt down Omnitrixes for him."

"Oh great…more Evil Bens," Skurd groaned.

"Quiet you," Tsubaki ordered as she walked up next to Big Ben, "So Evil X…is gathering other evil Versions of Ben to do his dirty work for him?"

"I guess he made them a deal they couldn't refuse…" Big Ben sighed.

"Ironically…a cure for me," Benzarro admitted.

"...So he's using their weakness to control them," Tsubaki noted with a frown, "...we need to tell Maximillian this."

"Wait…where are the Maxes?" Big Ben blinked.

"Oh please Benjamin…you do know how old your grandfathers are, right?" Paradox muttered.

"Right! I leave the rest to you, Doc!" Big Ben tossed him the Zombitrix as he picked up little Ben and Kevin, "Allons-y!" he cheered, running off with them.

"Hey, hey, hey! I don't like being carried, dude!" Kevin complained.

"Sorry, can't hear you! Don't want a worried pair of Grandpas!"

"Ah! You're right!" Little Ben panicked.

"Heh heh…ahh no matter the version, Ben Tennyson never fails to bring a smile to my face," Paradox chuckled.

"Ah…" Lambda offered the dropped biker helmet to Benzarro, repainted black and purple with animal stickers and a '10' on it, "Gift."

"Lambda Eleven Vermillion, seriously, did you steal that helmet from someone?" Noel demanded, frowning at her sister.

"I left compensation." Lambda gave a thumbs up.

Benzarro chuckled, "You two seem really nice, huh? That other me is lucky to have that."

"...I'm sure you'll have that luck yourself," Noel assured with a smile.

"Th-Thanks," Benzarro chuckled with a blush, "You have a cute smile, you know that, right?"

"E-Eh?!" Noel blushed.

"What? It's true," he smiled at her before putting the helmet on.

"C…c…c…..cute?!" Noel gasped as she fell over, her entire face bright red as steam escaped her ears.

"Sister…you need to practice what you preach…" Lambda sighed, picking her up in a fireman's carry and ran off with her.

"Hmm…I felt another ripple…" Paradox mused as he took his pocket watch out, "Oh well…other me's problem."

"Wait, wh-" Benzarro began before he and Paradox vanished.

---

"So…X-Tinction really is gathering evil versions of Ben to do his own dirty work," Maximilian frowned as the group met up with him and Younger Ben's Grandpa Max.

"That's just terrible," Grandpa Max shook his head, "Hopefully, you guys are able to sort it out like we'll try to if anymore show up here."

"Mmm…We've tried everything and nothing to get in here," Little Ben fumed, looking at his Omnitrix with Big Ben, "Ugh. Really wish I could go GreyMatter, but I haven't had him since I lost the Omni-Enhanced forms."

"...I am such an idiot," Big Ben groaned as he turned his Omnitrix on and turned into GreyMatter and looked at Little Ben's Omnitrix, "Okay, let's see he-and of course it'd be the one thing we didn't think of."

"Babe?" Makoto blinked.

"Pull up on the faceplate," GreyMatter instructed Little Ben, who did…and caused a popup screen to appear, "Yep…We found how to modify his playlist. Looks like it shows only your unlocked forms. Excellent selection so far, too."

"...So then how come I can't transform into the others ones I have when a new one gets unlocked?" Little Ben asked.

"Did you already forget what I said, my boy?" Skurd asked.

"He's ten, Skurd," GreyMatter reminded.

"Oh, of course…"

"Well, Ben, your Omnitrix only lets you have ten available at a time. You use this screen to change which ten you have at a time," GreyMatter explained, "And hm? That one's new to me."

"I think that's Slapback. He splits himself whenever he bumps into stuff and we get smaller and smaller, but also super heavy," Little Ben explained.

"Fascinating, my cloning aliens don't work like that. Ditto has an upper limit, but Echo Echo has no limit as of yet discovered," GreyMatter noted, "A clone who gains power as he duplicates…that sounds useful."

"Hey, Babe, did you remember to replace your Echo-Echo in the basement before we left?" Makoto asked.

"Did so after our last road trip, dear," Greymatter replied, "We should really upgrade that stasis pod…I think he gets out sometimes." he tapped his chin, "Now let's see…" he tapped on a few spots on the screen and a new alien resembling Big Chill appeared on the selection, "Ah. Seems the codes are pretty much the same."

"New alien?!" Little Ben gasped in excitement.

"Test successful. If you do as I did, you'll be able to swap out your aliens before any time you need them. Like picking your loadout in Sumo Slammers VS 3."

"Oh, that is such a great game!" Young Ben cheered.

"Excellent," GreyMatter nodded before looking at the AntiTrix, "Hmm…Not a single piece of technology not found on Earth was used to make this."

"Made it all myself," Kevin smirked.

"Impressive for a human," GreyMatter admitted, "Functions more like my previous model. I'm guessing this hybridization process is your doing as well?"

"What? I like to tweak it."

"While I have no clue what Azmuth would think of this device, it's quite the good work. Unfortunately, there is an issue in it."

"Ah, say what?!" Kevin frowned.

"You have no scanning function that would let you unlock new forms or collect samples from ones not stored in it," GreyMatter explained, "But with the selection you already have in here, I'm rather impressed with what you can come up with to overcome that hurdle."

"So…I did make it awesome!" Kevin smiled.

"Yes…but this does mean you only have the current roster." Grey Matter added.

"...aw man…" Kevin slumped.

"You wanted Humungousaur, didn't you?" Grey Matter guessed.

"Oh…HumungoRaptor!" Kevin cheered.

"Huh…looks like the only one that isn't some odd hybrid is Bashmouth…" Grey Matter noted, "I guess since you added an extra chamber, the hybrid process was already somewhat pushing it. I think I can adjust yours to have a scan function…but if I do I want to strike a bargain with you Mister." he put his hands on his hips.

"Seriously? What sorta bargain?" Kevin asked, narrowing his eyes in caution, "Because last time I did one without knowing all the deets, I got stuck in ancient Egypt with Forever Knight and had to use Crystalfist to freeze myself until last Tuesday."

"Oh, you have him here as well," GreyMatter noted in annoyance before shaking his head, "It will be nothing like the bargain you had with him. But rather I want you to promise me, if I fix your watch…you only use it to help people. And sometimes when bored, but mostly helping people. Promise me that…and I'll hook you up with a major upgrade."

"Help people? Why should I?" Kevin huffed.

"Well…in my world Kevin Levin is a Hero," GreyMatter smiled, "He helped save the whole universe. Are you saying you're not as cool as my Kevin?"

'Ah, I love when my Babe outwits folks,' Makoto thought in amusement as Kevin's eye twitched in annoyance.

"Oh heck no! I'll show you! I'll be a lot better hero than the Kevin of your place!" Kevin declared.

"Oh really? Then I guess that means I can give you this upgrade," GreyMatter smiled, "Afterall, I can only trust great power to a great hero." he began adjusting the Antitrix, "Just this…and that…someone hand me that screwdriver…no, the other one. Oh, and a quarter, too." he responded without looking back at them.

"What's the quarter for?" Kevin asked.

"No time to explain, working that fine magic~" Grey Matter smiled as he took the offered items, "Well I've done the best I can for what you got." he smiled, "Now…you are free to go out there and be your own Hero." he offered as Kevin looked over the Antitrix, "Well…that's unless you're tired of going around solo. I'm sure you can find a place to hang out, with folks who are nice and care for you."

"Hmph. Nice try on that one," Kevin replied.

"Eh, can't win all of them," GreyMatter shrugged as he jumped away, "Well you are free to go then."

"Awesome!" Kevin cheered.

"We already took our payment~" Skurd chuckled.

"Wait, what?" Kevin blinked after jumping outside.

He then flinched as a green flash went off, before he turned to see…an even LARGER version of Bashmouth's species, his eyes green and his torso covered in a black and green vest.

"Makoto might not like dogs…but I've always been a dog person at heart," Ben's new form smirked, "Thanks Kevin, I can add this to my personal favorites now~"

"Why are you bigger!?" Kevin panicked.

"I'm older," he replied simply, "As you get older, your aliens will mature with you." he chuckled, "I remember when I first met the future me called Ben 10K. His Heatblast has volcanoes growing out of his shoulders. And another Ben 10K I met could use the powers of his aliens without changing into them."

"I get volcano shoulders?!" Little Ben awed as the new Alien changed back into Big Ben, "The future is awesome!"

"Not gonna tell Mini-You or Mini-Kev about Big Chill and…?" Makoto whispered.

"Pfft…Oh, that'll be a laugh riot if Kevin…" Big Ben softly snickered, "Oh, oh…I gotta tell our Kevin about him being a Necrofriggian dad in another universe." he paused, "..."

"Worried for your kids here getting bullied by Kevin's kids?" Makoto quietly asked.

"A little…but a Tennyson always comes out of top," Big Ben smirked.

"I'm so jealous. He can hug fluffy things like tails," Little Ben pouted.

"Oh get over it," Gwen rolled her eyes.

"Oh right," Big Ben turned around, as he pulled out a small remote, "Here Gwen, I can trust you with this."

"What is it?" she blinked.

"Just a failsafe, it will turn off the Antitrix for a few minutes. I'm sure Kevin will screw up a few times, so better if someone I know will use it at the right time, has it," he explained.

"You trust me with it?" Gwen blinked.

"Hahahaha!" Little Ben laughed, "He got played!"

"I know if anyone can be trusted with a thing like this…it's a Gwen who always has a good head on her shoulders " Big Ben smiled, "You're a smart kid, so trust your brain and your heart. And keep an eye on mini-me…we need a good Gwen in our lives."

"I'll do my best!" Gwen nodded, "Though…Where did the remote idea come from?"

"Oh, that's because I have one I gave to…" Big Ben began before Ditto replaced him, "...Makoto…"

"..." Little Ben and Makoto shared looks before Makoto hid her remote back in her tail and he hid his poking finger before both blamed, "Noel did it!"

"Eh?" Noel looked up from putting a beret on the Ditto-corgi plush.

"Oh hardy-har-har~" Ditto complained, "I'll have you know that I take this as an act of war. My beloved girlfriend I won't tell you when…or where…but you shall be gotten back at!"

"Wha…but Noel did it!" Makoto pushed her forward.

"Noel…did you turn me into Ditto?" Ditto sighed.

"I may have thought it…" Noel admitted.

"Oh you adorable dumb-dumb…" Ditto frowned.

"Hey this guy's tiny!" Little Ben chuckled.

"It's so cute!" Gwen awed.

"Okay enough of this." Ditto replicated several times.

"Whoa! He can clone himself?!" Ben awed as the Ditto's picked him up.

"This is yours." the Ditto's spoke, handing him to his Grandpa Max.

"Oh why thank you." he smiled, holding him under his arm.

"No! I need to know more! He can clone himself at will! That's so cool! I can be my own cool entourage!" Little Ben squirmed to try and get free.

"This is awesome!" Gwen cheered as she crowd surfed a line of Dittos who put her back into the Rustbucket.

"Come on the rest of you too!" the Dittos spoke, lifting everyone else up.

"Can we chant about Caribou?" One Ditto asked.

"...Why caribou?" Another asked.

"Feels appropriate for a successful hunt," the Ditto replied.

"...What number are you?"

"54."

"6, kick him in the keister."

"Right!"

"Ow!"

"OW!"

"Ben, are you trying to start a random musical number again starting off with a song from James Brown like when you were seven?" Grandpa Max asked.

"No, Grandpa!" The Dittos replied.

"...You what?" Makoto choked back a laugh.

"Nice going, you guys. More teasing ammo for Makoto," Ditto Prime groaned.

"Funny. My Ben had that when he was eight," Maximilian chuckled.

"Ditto's all feel each other's pain." Ditto Prime sighed, "Hurt one hurt them all. It's his weakness."

"...so if I were to do this…" Kevin began as he pinched one.

"OW!"

"OW/OW/OW/OWIE!"

"Okay…now ya gone and made us mad!" they all slapped the Omnitrix, all of them merging together into his XLR8, which to both Little Ben and Kevin…was much taller, muscular and imposing compared to their Kineceleran forms.

"Why are all your's cooler!?" Kevin panicked as XLR8 picked him up, "Oh no…"

"Oh yes…" with that they vanished. After a second they returned as Kevin was changed into a fancy prep school uniform and his hair combed and cleaned.

"...PFFT!" Ben snorted as he fell over laughing, "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

"Now don't you look dapper?" XLR8 chuckled as he fixed Kevin's new tie, "I also fixed your greasy hair…now it's all soft and fluffy, your welcome~"

"It's an improvement." Gwen spoke, trying not to laugh, but failing.

"...not…cool…" Kevin whispered with narrowed eyes

"Just be glad I'm not ten. I would've taken you all the way to Bellwood and hung you in a big tree by your underwear," XLR8 chuckled.

"I would have preferred it!" Kevin complained, "This…this is sick and wrong!"

"But you look so clean and proper, like a good little boy." Noel smiled, "It's cute."

"I'm not cute! Or little!" Kevin snapped, only to get slapped by XLR8's tail, "Ow!"

"Don't yell at girls dude…it never ends well…" XLR8 sighed.

"See Ben? You do learn to respect people. Eventually." Gwen giggled.

"He just needs to find the right gal once he's older," Makoto giggled a bit.

"Still hard to believe how much you and our Ben bickered back then," Tsubaki admitted

"Shh…" Makoto spoke, bopping Tsubaki with her tail, "No talking about my foolish youth. Love prevailed in the end."

"Pftt…ah…why do you do that? It's hard to breathe, you know!" Tsubaki coughed.

"Well someone brought up my younger days," Makoto huffed, "Besides…you're not so innocent yourself miss 'often sneaks chocolate into the house.'"

"This never happened." Tsubaki replied.

"Mmm hmm. I thought so," Makoto smirked as she removed her tail from her mouth.

"Regardless...I think we've prolonged our stay long enough," Tsubaki sighed a bit.

"Agreed," Maximilian nodded, "Evil X is still out there…and now he's enlisting Evil versions of Ben to do his dirty work, so we have no time to lose."

"Alright, you two try not to destroy the planet." XLR8 sighed reverting to normal, "Who knows we might meet again some day," he held his arm out to his younger variant, "Till then…keep being a Hero Mini-Me."

"Can do, big me," Little Ben smiled as the two fist bumped, "Kick that evil guy's butt extra hard for me!"

"Can do." Big Ben smiled as their Omnitrixes lit up for a moment, no one but Skurd noticing.

"Well…this is new…" he blinked as the two groups parted ways, "Eh…I'll tell them later."

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SZ: And another chapter finished…and I know someone of you are asking why we're doing another multiverse-type arc after doing a huge one beforehand…well we've been planning on this for some time now. We were gonna do something involving X-tinction/Evil X, and this was one of the best ways to use it considering the movie he's from involved different versions of Ben.

Z0: Also shut up we do what we want. And we have more major plot arcs we want to get to after. So we're having as much fun as we can first.

SZ: Yup…this is us basically having fun before we begin the truly big stuff.

GT: Yep. Plus, this has been a big time plan even longer than the Omniverse Arc. And I am stopping there because I fear spoiling.

SZ: Good…we know how z0 feels about spoilers.

Z0: I will dunk them in boiling oil while covered in batter…then feed them to my pet Rathalos….Again. Anyway first stop down just a few more to go…*marks checklist* Oh! SHARP TURN! *takes a sharp right making the others fall over in the back of the RV*

GT: Ow…P-Please Read and Review, folks….