Chapter 53 Ben 10,000 Returns
I don't own Kamen Rider Fourze or Ben 10.
Ren was traveling down the road on his bike with Sari following him.
"Okay, so where are we going at this moment?" Sari asked.
"Just checking a few things." He said.
They saw Ben at his car with Kevin and Gwen inside too driving down the road.
"Hey guys what's going on?" Ren asked.
"Quality time, tracking down the source of the mystery transmission Ben's ultimatrix found." said Kevin
"It's either an uncataloged alien or yet another feature I can't figure out. Or it's broken again." said Ben
"Oh cool, we'll follow too." Ren said.
"Yeah." Sari said.
They soon got to the museum. Kevin absorbed the handle and used his finger to unlock the door. Gwen then used her powers to give them some light to see.
"Witch way? asked Gwen
"We're right on top of it." said Ben
"Creepy museum basement. Figures." said Kevin
They went down to the basement with the orb Gwen made for light still going.
"What ever it is, it's got to be in here." said Ben
"There's probably a crowbar around somewhere," said Gwen
Then Kevin quickly absorbed some metal and morphed his hand into a morningstar. Then destroyed a side of a crate. Gwen just started at Kevin.
"What? We already broke into the museum. What's the big deal?" asked Kevin
"Let's see what we've got." said Ben as he move the wood that was broken off revealing the Hands of Armageddon.
"What's that?" Sari points.
"I don't know." Gwen said.
Ben touches it but then it glowed making them get ready as a armored like ninja came out carrying a sword.
He tackles Ben and tries to attack Gwen but she uses a dome to push him back, the attacker then goes after Ren who dodges and uses his strings to catch him.
"Gotcha!" Ren said.
Kevin absorbs some of the metal. "Nice metal." He punches the attacker down knocking him down before he vanished in a purple light.
"Oh come on." Ben said.
"He vanished." Sari said.
"So we won." Kevin said.
"Yeah but isn't it weird it came out of that thing." Ren said.
Gwen reached out her arm about to touch the artifact but Ben stopped her.
"Don't! That's how they got out before." said Ben.
"I don't think so." said Gwen as she touched it. "I'm getting a weird vibe off it, almost like I'm sensing my own mana. I'm gonna try a spell of revelation. Ostendo specialis." Then a image of a younger Ben, Gwen and Grandpa Max appeared.
"That's us when we were kids." Ben said.
"You did a spell to show the past" asked Kevin.
"No. It's just supposed to reveal secrets," Gwen said.
The image then showed the battle Eon figthing against someone that looks like Ben.
"Who is that? I don't remember that happening." Ben said.
Then there was a flash and Gwen grabbed her head as she fell down, Kevin went to check on her.
"Are you okay?" asked Kevin.
"Spell's broken. I don't know why." said Gwen
"Maybe somebody erased your memories, or..." said Kevin trying to think of something else. As he helped Gwen up.
"Or maybe it was time travel and something happened to change our history?" asked Ben
Then there was a flash of light as Professor Paradox, with a older Ben next to him..
"Good guess." said older Ben
"Good guess? It's completely wrong." said Paradox
"Professor Paradox?" asked Gwen
"Hello, children" said Paradox
"Who are your friend?" asked Kevin
Ben stares at him. "Are you?"
"That's right, Ben. I'm you, only even more awesome!" said older Ben as he shakes Ben's hand. "Ben 10000."
He looks around and saw Ren and Sari. "Hey Ren and Sari, ha, you look cute at that size."
She frowns hearing that.
"Your from the future?" Ren said.
"Different from the one they went, as I remember traveling to that future." He said.
"Well that's interesting because." They saw Gwendolyn appear.
"Gwen?" Ben 10000 got surprised.
She was stunned before she cries holding him. "Ben!"
"What?" He holds her and was confused.
"It seems because she's here you should know." Paradox said.
They explained to him what happened.
"What?! You mean to tell me that he destroyed her future." Ben 10000 was shocked.
"Yes, another Fourze took it down." She looks down.
"How dare he." He punches his fist.
"Well let us go, we have much to do." Paradox said.
After that they went to the spaceship and fly foward through a desert with the hand of armageddon.
"Are you sure about this? We're going in the middle of nowhere." Kevin said.
"One only hopes it's far enough." Paradox said.
"Nothing ever makes sense when you're around."
"That's a fair criticism."
"Which still doesn't explain how Ben met himself in the future, but it wasn't this guy."
"You traveled into cross-time."
"Like a parallel world?" asked Gwen
"Exactly."
"That's why the me in the future didn't remember it happening to him before."
"But you remember this." Kevin said to older Ben.
"Yeah, I do." said older Ben.
"Well I didn't expect that much to change." Gwendolyn said.
"As Gwen guessed, cross-time is made up of parallel versions of the history we know. There are hundreds of them, a world where Gwen found the omnitrix, a world where Albedo turned into Allen X and was trapped motionless for nearly a year, a world where you didn't have to destroy the omnitrix, even one where Ren never existed." Paradox said.
That made Ren surprised to hear about that.
"These worlds are all every bit real as our own, but they cannot, must not, be allowed to leak into ours."
"Witch brings us to our problem." said older Ben.
"The Hand of Armageddon" Ben said.
"Very good, Ben. It's a cross-time gateway, existing in many worlds." said Paradox.
"You saw into two of them with your spell." said older Ben.
"Wait a minute. If you remember that, if you remember this whole adventure, what's the problem?" asked Ben.
"It's because i'm you from 20 years in the future." He said.
"Oh, if our Ben goes away you'lll vanish." Ren said.
"Yup. Good thing that I had help from your counterpart." Older Ben said.
"Why didn't he come?" Kevin asked.
"He was busy with other things." Older Ben said. "Also we gotta go, because i'm afraid he might go after him."
"Him?" Ren was confused.
Paradox looks at his watch. "Kevin could you speed up."
"Nobody as ever told me to go faster." He said.
"It's just a cros chronal warp is opening nearby." Paradox told them.
They felt a crash in the back.
"Oh no." Ren said.
"Well i'll be off children." Paradox vanishes.
They went to check and saw the Hand of Armageddon floating in mid air.
"That's not good." Sari said.
"Something floating is never good." Ren said.
"We were toast when Paradox came." Ben said.
Then many warriors came out.
"Watch out!" Ren activates his watch and transforms "Prime!"
Ben uses his. "Goop! The one time I wanted Rath!"
They fought against them as Sari hides behind Gwendolyn as she shoots many mana blasts at them to keep the attackers away.
Ben uses his body to trip many of them as Prime punches against them, then two sent stars at the controls making the ship crashing down.
"Keep the ninjas away from Kevin. Prime help me out." Older Ben said.
He nodded as Older Ben uses his watch. "Jetray!" He opens a hatch and they went out catching the ship as they used they're strenght to push it back, then they stopped it near a cliff.
"That's too close." Prime said.
"Yup." Older Ben said.
They went inside and saw the others finished the attackers.
"They seem to vanish when we beat them." Gwen said.
Gwendolyn looks at Ben. "Ultimate Ben?"
"Yeah, I got this power." He shrugs.
"Anyway, why did we fly the Hand of Armadoohickey all the way into the desert?" asked Kevin
Then Professor Paradox appeared. "To destroy it." said Paradox.
They carried the Hand of Armageddon to a place that Professor Paradox told them. "The ninjas work for a being named Eon. The one from the cross-time Earths Gwen showed you with her spell."
"Eon was defeated by the Ben of that world when he destroyed their version of the Hand." said older Ben.
"That Ben believed Eon were destroyed as well, but he wasn't. He was instead thrown out of that reality and into cross-time." said Paradox.
"Since then, they been moving from one parallel Earth to the next. With Eon taking down every Ben 10 he can find." Older Ben said.
"Why?" asked Gwen
"We don't know. But we do know that they need an operational Hand of Armageddon to enter our world." said Paradox.
"So we're gonna bust it." said Kevin.
"We're going to destroy the hand throughout space and time every version."
"Why don't you just do it with your time-travel powers?"
"There are rules, Kevin. I cannot interfere."
"Excuse me, but aren't you already interfering?" asked Gwen.
"Touche. Actually, I've just come to give young Ben a warning, but that can wait."
"Until what?" asked Ben.
"Until I can see if you survive."
Ben and older Ben went to different sides to the Hand of Armageddon.
Ben then activated the ultimatrix and hit it. "Way Big!"
Older Ben uses it. "Clockwork!"
Gwen makes a barrier with her older versions to protect the others, the tow blasted against the Hand making a shockwave that almost destroyes the dome.
Then the Bens watches started to glow purple and Kevin noticed. "Is that supposed to happen?"
"No, i've been deceived, stop! He's using your power to open a breach!" Paradox told them.
They stopped but more ninjas came out with Eon. "I am free!"
"Not for long." Ben got up.
But Eon blasted Way Big causing him to turn to dust surprising the others, Ben came out of the dust.
"He destroyed Way Big!" Prime said.
Eon saw Sari and he narrows his eyes. "You."
She backs away but the two Gwens shoot mana at him with the other taking Ben away.
"Eon destroyed Way Big with accelerated time." Paradox said.
"So is any other transformations that get hit by him. Be careful Ben." Older Ben said.
"He's the one that needs to be careful." Ben changes into Swampfire and goes ultimate. "Ultimate Swampfire!"
The ninjas broke through the dome with Prime shooting at them and Swapfire helps out too.
Sari was hidding behind Prime as she looks around to see the battle going on.
"XLR8!" Older Ben uses his speed to hit many of the ninjas but Eon flips him to the ground.
"He managed to catch him." Prime said.
"But why is he after Sari?" Gwendolyn said.
"Something that happened in the future." Paradox said.
Eon looks at Ben. "Prepare to die." He shoots at him.
"Not today." said Ben as he tossed down a few seeds and a wall of vines grew in front them to take the hit.
They tank the as they reduced to dust but Ben was gone.
"Where?" Eon looks around.
Ben grabs him from behind. "Right behind you."
"How about you explain yourself? Why attack me over and over?" Ben asked.
"Our paths are intertwined, in this and every other timeline." Eon said.
Eon flipped Ben to the ground and blasted him. Then Swampfire turned to dust leaving Ben back in base.
He goes to finish him off but then diamonds came up blocking the attack.
Older Ben was the one that did it. "Give it your best shot. Diamond doesn't particularly age."
"I came to destroy your younger self but it can change." Eon said.
He blasted him but Older Ben summons mana shields surprising Ben.
"You hang around an anodite for 20 years, you pick up a few tricks." He said.
The others are still fighting against them.
"Weird that they don't talk." said Kevin as he knocked back a few ninjas
"Probably just to intimate us." Gwen blocked a few throwing stars that were tossed at her with using magic.
"Maybe. Makes me curious, thought."
"Then let's take a look. Statua!" The spell Gwen cast caused all the ninjas to freeze in place.
Prime goes to one and takes off the helmet to reveal Ben.
"What?!" He said as he takes off another and it's another Ben.
The others noticed it too and Ben said: "Your absorbing other Bens."
"That's right to make them my slaves..." Eon takes off the helmet to reveal a older Ben. "And i'll be the only Ben 10 in existance!"
They got surprised to see that.
"A evil Ben, cliche." Sari said.
"And you, you were a thorn in his future, so i'll stop you!" He charges at her.
They tried to protect Sari but more ninjas came to attack.
One slashes Sari's making her grunt before she saw Eon charge a blast.
She gasped but then her key reacted as it makes her eyes glow and time slows down around her.
"Nooooo." Eon felt it.
They got surprised and older Ben cheers. "Yeah!"
Prime sees the hand and destroys it with a powerful blast.
Then it caused a reaction as every clones vanished with cracks appearing on Eon.
"Very good." Paradox appeared.
"Well that was easy." Sari then saw sparks come out of her arm.
The others gasped seeing it and she was scared.
"What?" She looks at Prime.
Prime looks at her. "I have a lot to explain.".
"Yes a lot to explain and I can confirm that this is the original timeline. But the cost of victory was high. Young Ben lost Way Big and both Swampfires today. If only there were some way to restore them." He looks at Older Ben.
"Yeah, okay. I get it. I'll put them back in your playlist." Older Ben messed with younger Ben's ultimatrix.
"While you're at it, how about giving me master control?" Ben asked.
"Nice try, but I'm already in enough trouble with Azmuth. There you go. I just unlocked everything you've ever become up until now."
"Really? Thanks!"
"I also threw in a few new ones, because it'll annoy Azmuth when he finds out."
"Time to go. But first, a warning to my young friends. Beware Old George. Beware the creature from beyond. So long!" He vanishes with Older Ben.
"What does that even mean?" Kevin said.
"Later." Ren changed back as he takes Sari with him to explain a lot of things.
Note: Eon appeared and Sari's secret has been revealed shocking her, Eon wanted to get rid of Sari because of her hidden potential.