Nexus: Heroes Will Rise

by tmb1112

Universal borders have been erased and beings from thousands of universes now live on the same world: Nexus. In the first Saga of Nexus, Awul was saved, but the mysteries of Nexus remain. Now our heroes sail across the sea to Aebrith to search for lost loved ones and save the world. MCs from DBZ, KH, Soul Eater, FT, Blue Exorcist, Bleach, 7DS, OP, Ben 10, SAO, HxH, and many more!

17. Nexus HWR 3-3 Forever Kingdom

A/N Hey guys! Sorry it's been a while, had a lot of work at school, blah blah excuses. Anyway, here's the newest chapter! Spent all night writing it, and the next three are all ready to post as well so get ready for some quick updates again! Enjoy...

Disclaimer: Still own none of the sources that the characters I use are from. None of them.

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Nexus HWR 3.3 Forever Kingdom:

"Guys! I found something!" The crew of the Thousand Sunny snapped their gazes up in the air and watched as Timmy came flying down to the deck. Goku was still out searching like Sora and Riku, but the rest of them were still on the ship sailing east and hoping for a miracle.

The second sun was rising just above the horizon and they were all wondering if this was going to be their last day on the planet. Ben's Omnitrix was almost completely orange now, the hourglass symbol on the top of it only having a tiny bit of green in the very center. "What'd you find?" Nami called up to the boy who flew straight down to her.

Timmy excitedly looked in Nami's eyes and then spun around to talk to everyone gathering around him. "I found another island. It's similar to the one Sora was on that was surrounded by those buoys that mask energy. It didn't have a cloaking device on it though, so I could see it from the air."

"Another island?" Gray muttered pessimistically. "What good is that going to do us?"

"Chances that the guy who can fix the watch is on it," Killua began, then shook his head as there was no point in mentioning the odds with such a specific desire.

"There's something else though," Timmy added. The others looked at him confusedly and he said with a bright smile, "When I flew into their airspace, I recognized the energy of someone who was on that Enoch guy's island with us. So I dove down, and there were Forever Knights all over the place!"

"Forever Knights?" Luffy mumbled. He scratched his head and then exclaimed, "Hey! I thought we beat those guys!"

"Enoch isn't their leader," Ben said. He still looked pretty depressed, but this bit of news was somewhat hopeful. He tried to force a smile and looked around, "Let's go there," he suggested. "Even if the Forever King doesn't have a way to stop the countdown, it's their fault that the watch is going to explode in the first place. I want them to see what they did."

"I'm in," Natsu growled. "Those bastards are going to get us all killed. Let's kick their asses first."

"They looked into our minds, pried into our memories and forced our friends to watch," Kairi added from behind the Dragon Slayer. "I want to give them a piece of my mind too."

"Who knows?" Kirito added. "There's a chance that they have means of turning off the watch." The others looked at him skeptically but Kirito continued to look serious. He kept going, "Maybe they set the watch off because they were trying to take it off without disabling it. If they had a way of fully deactivating it, they wouldn't do it right? Not if they could get it themselves."

A few of the others started nodding and Robin questioned, "So you believe that if they hear that the Omnitrix will destroy them as well, they will deactivate it? That is very good thinking Kirito-kun," Robin told the teen who nodded his head and looked at Ben with a reassuring look.

Ben scrunched up his face as he did not believe such a thing himself, but he thought about what Sora told him, and his mouth curled up into a smile. "I guess, we just have to hope it all works out, right?" He looked around at his friends and they all nodded. They knew their chances were slim, the odds were not in their favor, but still, as long as they had hope there was no need to drop into a sad depression.

Killua could see that everyone around him truly believed there was some hope, and he curled his hands into balls at his sides. They can't be serious… but they are. Even Robin, and Kirito, and Gray, they look like they think there's a chance we survive this. I bet, if we didn't find Sora that time, no one would have this crazy notion of hope in their minds. The boy's eyes widened and he started sweating though, Then again, I was positive that Sora was dead back then too. As sure about that as I am that we're all screwed now. Maybe, maybe I'm the one who's wrong? The kid sighed and leaned back where he stood as everyone else ran around getting the ship ready. No, that's just me trying to trick myself. Well, if I am going to die, it wouldn't be so bad dying with these guys. Especially if we're about to kill the people responsible for the end of the world. The boy smirked menacingly and his whole posture matched his expression.

Natsu was pulling the sail in and he glanced back at Killua who stood where they were all just discussing. He saw the kid's eyes, his murderous expression, and he thought back to a few days before. He was not the only one still thinking about those dreams they had, as a few others spotted Killua's scary look and recalled the kid pulling out someone's heart without them even noticing. Sure, the guy he killed was a murderer; Killua told them all later on to clear the air that the man was a serial killer who had ripped apart over a hundred innocent people with his bare hands. Still, the look in the child's eyes that they remembered in the memory, it was not of a normal boy. Natsu grimaced at the sight of the kid looking his way and he got back to work on turning the ship around.

"Hey Timmy," Luffy called out. Everyone looked over at the rubberman who stood at the bow of the ship that was turning the direction Timmy just told Nami and Franky to turn them in. The boy floating back behind the Captain next to his navigator and shipwright looked forward with the rest of the crew. Luffy pointed over the bow and he turned his head to Timmy, "Just this once, you can pick us up. I want to get there as fast as possible."

Most people on the ship's eyes widened. They had totally forgotten since they had been sailing for so long that there was an alternate means of transportation with them at all times.

Timmy nodded his head, actually glad Luffy brought it up as he was one of those who forgot it was a possibility. "You got it," Timmy replied hastily. He flew away from Nami and Franky and dropped over the port side of the deck. He dropped into the ocean, swam beneath the hull, and put his hands directly on the bottom of the ship. Here we go, he thought. The kid picked up the Thousand Sunny out of the water and started flying east with it. He had searched for most of the night for somewhere close to them they could go for help, and the island he found was almost directly to the east about a hundred fifty miles.

The deck was covered in people, but Kirito realized something as they flew off and he spun around. "Hey," he began with a bead of sweat on the side of his head. The others all looked at him and he continued, "Shouldn't we have waited for Goku, Sora, and Riku to get back?"

"Too late now," Natsu shouted as he spun back to the bow. "I can already see an island, and since we're heading straight for it…"

"Looks like this is our stop," Sanji said. He took out his lit cigarette and put it out under his foot.

"Those guys at that last island weren't so hard to beat," Usopp mentioned, stepping far up to the bow himself as he was feeling confident. He put a foot up there and the fast wind rushed into him even harder so it was pushing the skin on his face back. "Let's break their whole organization of Forever Knights or whatnot!"

"You going to lead the charge, Usopp?" Ben asked the long-nosed man in front of him.

Usopp saw the skeptical look in Ben's eyes but he himself grinned and flexed one of his muscular arms. He rested his slingshot over his shoulder with his other hand, then looked back at the boy behind him with a cool expression on his face. "Of course I will. Who do you think I am?!" He spun back forward and they were starting to slow down their approach. "I am the Great, CAPTAIN USOPP!"

"I'm bringing us right to them!" Timmy yelled.

The group flying over the water assumed they were going to be put down somewhere on the side of the island and have to go in after. Timmy was not planning on stopping before the coast however, and he flew right over the docks and the port town they reached to head towards the huge castle building he could see from the opposite coastline. Most of the island was flat, as in almost all of the trees on it had been cut down. Stumps remained over certain sections, and a couple of low-elevated outlets out from the main section of the island were covered in twenty foot tall trees. The trees covered those areas until the sand started, and there were beaches sticking out all over this island. The landmass almost looked like a squid from above with the number of inlets sticking out all over the place.

Timmy shot over the land fast and headed straight for the massive Medieval-looking castle on the eastern coast of the island. As they got close, they noticed a gap of water separating the castle that was on a smaller island from the mainland. Between the castle's own island that pretty much only had the castle on it, and the mainland that they just flew over, was a two mile long bridge that was over a hundred meters wide. Timmy slowed down because at the front of that bridge on the island they were currently over, eighty soldiers stood in rows of ten behind their commander at the front.

"I think they see us," Rin shouted, lifting up his sword as he did.

"Oh yeah!" Timmy yelled up to the deck from below. He saw all of the army's members lift up their rifles and as they fired he dropped a hundred feet to the ground. His friends stumbled around but Timmy slowed them down right before lowering the ship to the floor. He flew around the side of the ship and called out, "This is as far as I can get us without risking the ship getting badly damaged. Now let's go try to find-"

"Timmy behind you!" Nami shouted.

Timmy looked back expecting to see dozens of beams flying at him. Instead, a single person whose energy he could not feel was flying through the air towards him. It was a single woman who as Ben saw her in the air his eyes went wide in shock. "Frightwig?!" He shouted and then dropped his jaw as the thin pale-skinned woman slammed the orange hair tentacles on her head forward and the black balls at the ends of them smashed into Timmy's chest. The kid who turned to her was not concerned at first because of her small power that he could not even feel, but his eyes picked up on the bracelet on her right wrist a second too late. Power masker?! He thought, right as the black balls slammed into his chest and knocked the wind out of the unprepared boy.

Timmy knocked back through the air but did a backflip to right himself. The woman who hit him stopped moving after she hit him backwards, and she looked down to the ship that just landed right in front of her army. Her eyes widened and then she smirked and called out, "Why if it isn't Ben Tennyson!" She looked around and frowned, "Aw man, where's that Saiyan who was supposed to be with you? I wanted to thank him," she said.

"Shit," Killua muttered and he took a step back on the deck. "We didn't get it all."

"That's right," the woman with enhanced hearing said. She cracked her neck to either side and then held her arms out at her sides, allowing a thin white veil surround her body. "Hahaha! The Forever King has no time for pests like you. He is too busy planning the Emperor's overthrow."

Gray's eyebrows lifted up and he glared harder at the woman above them. If their leader thinks he has the strength to take on the Emperor now, they must have succeeded in replicating Goku's Saiyan DNA. If they inject that into their armies, they might get increased strength, but that's not all. The consequences of a different species' DNA mixed with their own could lead to some serious side effects.

"Frightwig!" Ben yelled up at the woman who glared down at him. He lifted up his left wrist and shouted, "You idiots set off the Self Destruct Mode on the Omnitrix when you tried taking it off! Now it's going to explode and destroy the entire planet! If your scientists have a way to deactivate-"

"SHUT UP!" The woman roared. Her red hair broke apart into eight tentacles and started spinning around above her head as she flew there. She flew down towards the side of the ship and glared between a half dozen people at the boy standing there on the deck. Her eyes were white with small black pupils in the centers of them, her irises faded. Her teeth were white, but as she glared furiously straight ahead and yelled, a few of the others noticed her canines getting a little sharper. "You have no idea how long I've been waiting for this brat! All the times you defeated us!" She shook with rage and flew forward with all of her hair snapping back behind her like she was preparing for a punch.

Frightwig made it about three feet. Luffy was suddenly in front of Ben, grabbing his right bicep with one hand and punching his right hand forward as he grabbed that arm. His fist indented into Frightwig's face right through her aura, making her mouth open and her tongue stick out as her entire face pushed the other way. When he finally followed through with the punch, the woman flew backwards and into the railing on the side of his ship that she broke straight through.

"Guys!" Luffy yelled. At the same time, eighty people in full silver armor already charging at their ship started shouting and firing beam weapons their way. Luffy sprinted to the broken part of the rail and leapt over the edge, "Let's kick their asses!"

Ben watched as all his friends around him started running forwards. He looked down at his watch, the mostly orange hourglass on it, and he ground his teeth together in anger that he could not use it without speeding up the countdown. That did not mean he could not fight with the others though, and the boy opened his mouth and yelled out angrily as he chased after Luffy and the others.

Timmy rubbed his stomach a few more times and he looked forward at the crew charging at that army ahead of them. That, kind of hurt. Even with Saiyan DNA, that's weird, he flew over the ship and watched as the army firing beams at his friends started backing up towards the bridge. Many of them turned and ran as Luffy reached the front of their ranks and a dozen armored soldiers went flying up into the air. Timmy darted his eyes around and then he saw her, slowly staggering back to her feet with a welt on her face and blood trickling out of her mouth to her chin. "That's not good," he said with wide eyes.

Usopp was standing on the edge of the ship pulling his slingshot back and firing at the armed enemies far from them. He was the only one still there, and he turned to Timmy who was looking ahead and to the right nervously. He looked the same direction and the sniper started shaking in his shoes. Frightwig was back on her feet, but her face no longer looked smug and condescending like before. Her eyes were bloodshot, and she was bleeding out the corners of them. "RAAA!" She roared, making the ground beneath her feet crack in several different directions and all the people running towards the bridge or even over it already spun her way.

The ground was trembling and pebbles dislodged from the ground by her shout lifted into her white aura and broke apart. Her power was not huge, but it was incredibly unstable. The woman who had never used this power before smirked and tilted her head almost fully to one side as she stared ahead insanely at her enemies. Ben took a step towards the carnival freak with long hair and yelled, "Frightwig! What are you doing?!"

"I'm going to kill you!" She screamed back, and then shot forward faster than many of them could see.

Ben stepped back, but this time as someone got between him and Frightwig, she saw it coming. Natsu jumped in between them with a fist covered in flames pulled back. She swung one of her hair tentacle whips forward and he punched his fist into it, knocking it aside, only for seven more of them to slam forward full force and knock Natsu flying back into Ben. The two of them tumbled over each other for fifty feet before Natsu stopped himself and got back to his feet. Ben staggered up a moment later, but he groaned and swung his left arm that hurt a lot from landing on it too many times.

"Take her down!" Nami yelled, pointing a hand up at the woman, while taking several steps back herself.

Robin crossed her arms and Frightwig's entire body wrapped in arms. She did not fall from the air though, just kept floating where she was wrapped in a casing of arms. Frightwig tugged her arms apart from the sides of her body and Robin's arms got pulled away from her. Robin winced but kept her arms crossed and made a giant fist appear out of the ground, rising up and opening up to wrap around the creepier woman. She clenched that hand around Frightwing, but her eyes opened in surprise as it did not feel like she was crushing anyone.

That was mainly because Frightwig was now thirty feet closer to her, and straight up in the air. Robin snapped her head up a second too late, but luckily Sanji was not as far in front of the group as Luffy was. Luffy spun around on the bridge and shouted out his crewmate's name, but Sanji reached Robin and pulled her away from the other woman before she could land the skull-crushing kick she was coming down with. Sanji turned to the freaky woman whose hair swirled around like tentacles above her, and she screamed at him as he put Robin down.

Frightwig charged forward at the blond man, and Sanji stood there and took the blow like a man. He got hit in the gut, the face, the back, and right below the waist by swings of her hair that moved like fists. She bashed him back and forth before putting all her hair together in one whip and slamming it through the air towards Sanji's side. Right before it hit him in the side though, the hair jolted to a sudden stop, even though no one was grabbing onto it. "Come on Sanji," Timmy groaned as he flew forward with one hand raised to telekinetically hold back the glowing woman's hair. "You can at least defend yourself," he told the bloodied chef who would not lift a hand or foot to a lady.

"Cure!" Kairi called out, casting green light down on the man whose bloody cuts and bruises went away.

Sanji opened his eyes wide then looked down at his vanishing injuries in surprise. He did a spin on his toes and called out, "Thank you Kairi-chwannn!"

"Let go of me!" Frightwig roared. Her eyes were even more red now and the ground started shaking beneath her again, even harder than last time. The floor cracked apart and fissures shot out from below her feet. Timmy's arm started shaking as he held her in place, and his own eyes went wide as hers started bleeding out both corners now. The woman lifted up one of her hands towards Timmy and the boy floated back in the air as she formed a ball of white on her fingertips. The ball wavered and energy flared off of it, and then it exploded in front of her hand before she could throw it.

Timmy released the woman who could not control that energy and just blew her arm apart. She screamed and slammed down into the floor, surrounded by a veil of smoke. The others all looking her way calmed down slightly as the ground stopped shaking as much. Franky lowered his left arm that had opened up into a machine gun, and Robin uncrossed her arms. Usopp lowered his shaky slingshot, Kairi her Keyblade, and Luffy stopped running back towards his friends.

Kirito looked closer into the smoke, and then his Observational Haki kicked in hard and he took a step back. "Tim-"

The smoke all dispersed and the ground shook horribly. They all looked into the area that was just covered in the woman's explosion and they went wide-eyed as a group at the sight of Frightwig's face. Her skin was wrinkled and her eyes had blood trails going from the bottoms of them down to her chin. Her entire right arm was gone, but the rest of her body had bulked up, her teeth had sharpened, and she tilted her head back to roar, "ROOAAAA!" Wind rushed out from her body and the cracks already beneath her doubled in size. One crack shot away from her body towards the bridge, but went just to the left of it, cutting down the side of the mainland and into the water so that the water rushed into it and filled up other cracks too, splashing up over the fissures as she screamed.

"The Saiyan DNA," Gray shouted over the woman's screams. "It's fighting against the human side of her and neither side is winning! It's going to tear her apart, but before it does…" Frightwig's head snapped back down and her lips curled up dangerously. Her sharpened teeth bared and she took a step forward. One step became two, and then she lifted off the ground and dove at Timmy who did not know what to do. He was thinking of a way to save the woman who was harming herself with these new powers, but he could not come up with anything and just floated fast to the side to avoid her lunge. As he moved out of the way though, four whips of her hair shot out and grabbed him around the arms and legs, pulling him with her for a second and then slamming him down into the ground below.

"Hey!" Nami shouted at the woman who smashed Timmy into the ground. Frightwig spun towards the navigator and saw Nami spinning parts of her Clima Tact around to make bubbles full of storm clouds fill up the sky in front of her. "Leave him alone!" She shouted, and all of her bubbles popped to form one giant black storm cloud in the air.

"RaaaAA!" Rin tore his Kurikara out of its sheath and his body surrounded in blue flames. "Hold on Timmy," he called out.

The boy in the pink hat lying on the floor in a crater his size stared straight up at the woman above him who was bleeding out. I'm okay guys, really. I just, don't know how to save her. Not without Wanda. I can't get Ben's watch off, I can't stop villains without killing them, I can't do anything! He watched as the circus freak above him screamed and her energy pulsed out again, and as it did her left arm split where some of her new bulging muscles were. Her arms were bulging, but she did not have enough skin there to cover them up and blood spurted out.

Only a few people noticed this though, as Frightwig flew forward at that same moment towards Nami. Nami swung down her Clima Tact, but the other woman was very fast. The bolts of lightning that formed in the cloud and started coming down were dodged and swerved by the crazy woman surrounded in a white aura. She came to a complete stop as a slash of blue flames was about to fly in her path, then sped up again and pulled back her own fist instead of her hair this time. Kirito flew behind her using his wings and he swiped at her back while spinning with both swords stuck out.

Although Frightwig was staring straight forward, her hair seemed to have a mind of its own, swinging behind her and grabbing Kirito by each of his four fairy wings. The teen only had a second to scream before she started ripping him apart. "Kirito!" Timmy shouted, pulling back the teen with his mind and releasing him from Frightwig's grasp. As he was distracted by Kirito though, the woman continued shooting forward at Nami who dropped her jaw at the look of insanity on Frightwig's face.

"Nami!"

"Nami!"

Frightwig's fist was inches from Nami's face. Lightning zapped on her left, steam rose on her left, and wind slammed into her at the speed the three figures appeared. Three fists slammed into Frightwig on the back and sides of her head. Killua looked right in surprise at the rubber pirate who appeared out of nowhere right when he decided to step in to save Nami, but neither him nor Luffy were all that surprised that Dash moved in that second to come help.

Frightwig's red eyes opened wide as her head got bashed from almost all sides except the front. Because she did not get hit in the front, Nami could see the horrifying expression on her face turn to one of sheer terror mixed with pain, right before her mouth opened up and blood splashed out everywhere. She flew over Nami's head and back over the mainland of the island, hitting the ground, bouncing up, and then smashing into a building two miles away so hard that they could see the dust rising from back at the bridge.

Everyone stared back across the island for a few moments, waiting to see if Frightwig would return. Seconds passed, but the ground did not shake and no one saw movement across the mostly flat island. "Alright," Ben grumbled, swinging his arm a few more times and turning back towards the smaller island across the bridge from them. "Let's get going. We should, get across…" Ben quieted down as he stared across the bridge over the water. Every single person with him started staring at the other side of the island in shock, watching as nine figures covered in white glows lifted up above the castle's walls and hovered there waiting for them. Ben stared closely at each one of the figures and his jaw dropped farther and farther at the sight of so many enemies he once faced on his own world.

Down below the commanders of the Forever Knights, armored soldiers lined the walls and slammed their rifles down on the ledges to aim across the water at their opponents. The gates of the castle's outer walls opened up and hundreds of men in full silver armor and helmets covering their faces sprinted out and started charging over the bridge. They screamed out and the glowing commanders above the smaller island grinned and shot forward.

Luffy lost the steam covering his body as he stepped back towards the front of the bridge. He lifted up his right fist and grabbed it with his other hand, cracking his knuckles. Natsu stepped up on his right side and cracked his head to both sides, making loud cracking sounds both times. Gray walked up behind him and a pair of long frozen short-swords emerged in his hands. His torso surrounded in a icy tunic that covered his thighs, shins, forearms, and biceps as well. The ice did not restrict his movement, but it gave him a lot more protection and he finished with a frozen helmet that surrounded the top, back, sides of his head leaving only holes for his ears, and an opening in front of his face.

Franky pounded his red fists together and Sanji pulled out a lighter and a pack of cigarettes. As he pulled them out, Nami spoke up, "Don't." He glanced at her but Nami, scared as she was of the army ahead of her, was looking up in the air at dark gray clouds in the distance. "A storm's coming," she told the chef. She whipped out her Clima Tact again and started spinning it around with a deep frown on her face, "I'll make it come faster." Weather bubbles floated out of her blue staff and up into the air above the bridge.

Soldiers charging across and their leaders slowed down as the sky above them started getting very dark very fast. Gray clouds turned black and they spread from the area right above the bridge to cover part of the mainland and all of the smaller island the castle was on too. Nami connected two pieces of her Clima Tact and pointed it up into the clouds, "Weather Egg!" She shouted. The ball shot out of the opening in her staff and into the clouds where it popped. Everyone facing the crew at the end of the bridge closer to the mainland looked up, and then felt the droplets of water on their faces that clanked out loudly on their armor.

The soldiers looked back across the bridge and dozens of them backed up. Their show of force by all charging out at once with their glowing commanders did very little to intimidate their opponents. Killua glanced around at the group with him who all started marching across the bridge together. The kid thought about how much trouble just one of those figures with Goku's blood gave them, and how there were nine more of them, but not one of the people with him were backing up. Then again, he thought, Usopp is still back on the ship.

As Killua thought it, a tiny green ball flew over all of his friends, over the enemies, got hit by two drops of rain and dropped several inches, and then hit directly on target on a Forever Knight twice as big as the others right in the back of their bridge forces. All the men spun around and stared in shock at the giant venus fly trap that emerged and closed its jaws around one of their battalion lieutenants while its vines wrapped around other retreating knights. The Forever Knights started to panic, and then they heard a voice shout at them from up above.

"Fools!" Rojo shouted. The woman had spiky red hair sticking out of her metal helmet, black armor over her entire body except for the scary skull symbol on the front of it. She was glowing and she pointed one of her glowing hands down. "Do not run!"

Animo held up his hands at his sides and cackled loudly. The mad scientist on Rojo's left side shouted, "Ben Tennyson! Did you bring your friends here to die with you?!" Out from the dark clouds above him dropped twenty giant insects that looked like they were merged with other creatures into giant hybrids. Animo pointed an arm down and shouted at his creations to attack and the Forever Knights saw the monsters on their side and rose their weapons that they cheered with. They lowered back down their rifles and started firing through the rain, not getting deterred anymore when Pop Greens came out of the sky and plants attacked them. The original venus fly trap got hit by a few hundred beams and ripped to shreds while other Forever Knights cut apart the vines holding their comrades down.

Luffy's march across the bridge turned into a jog, which turned into a full out sprint with the others on his sides. Dash was behind him a little and the kid turned to Ben who was lagging behind most everyone else. Ben had huge eyes and he was clenching his teeth furiously. "Ben, we're all here fighting because we want to," Dash told his friend. "They messed with us as much as with you, so don't feel guilty. Besides," the kid continued while Ben stared at him through the heavily increasing downpour. "We're going to be fine!" Dash yelled and he sprinted forward.

Luffy jumped up in the air and he pulled his fist back. Killua's fingernails extended at his sides and Natsu's fists burst into flames, surrounding them with steam from the rain constantly coming down. Lightning dropped out of the sky and the Forever Knight army charging them roared out as they rose up their swords and rifles. Beams shot across the sky and Franky unloaded bullets from his Weapons Left into the soldiers. Luffy slammed his right fist forward right as the fastest Knight in the army slammed his sword down towards him. Luffy's fist covered in black right before it hit the blade, and the sword shattered into pieces on the collision. The soldier's eyes went wide, and then darted down to the other fist than the one that broke his sword, coming up fast on Luffy's side as the pirate spun his body forward. His fist hit the soldier in the chest and the man's armor broke, Luffy's fist hit him in the chest, and threw him back into dozens of people behind him as he dragged back across the bridge.

Thumbskull and Acid Breath, Frightwig's comrades in the trio of circus freaks dove down towards the pirate who sent their comrade flying across the mainland. Their bodies covered in white glows and they roared with eyes slowly getting redder as they dropped. The two of them were almost at the pirate, when a small figure with brown hair and a pink hat intercepted them, grabbing them each by the face and smashing their skulls together. Timmy threw the men down into their own ranks but watched as they opened back up their eyes and glared at him. Their eyes looked like Frightwig's did earlier, and the bridge beneath them started to shake. Timmy grimaced and he clenched his fists at his sides, You don't know what you're doing here. You're going to get yourselves killed.

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"Sir! We have to call back the commanders," Charmcaster called over to the Forever King who was looking out a tall window of his castle and out at the battle on the bridge. Charmcaster was standing behind a computer where like around the rest of the room, there was a scientist typing fast into his computer. There was a big screen on the wall in front of them with the body types of each of the commanders on it, and all of their vital signs were spiking. Charmcaster stepped towards the Forever King, "Until we can figure out the problem with the injections, there's no telling what will happen to Animo and the others."

The Forever King continued looking out the window for a few seconds, then he turned his head to the silver haired woman in a pink cloak behind him. "And?" He asked, making Charmcaster's eyes open wide. He turned to his head scientist next, "Figure out the problem in ten minutes or you're all dead." The scientists around the room all looked over at their king in shock. He never said anything like that before, and Charmcaster spun back to the illuminated wall in front of her as the scientists rushed around to get their work done as fast as possible.

The witch examined the vitals of each of her comrades out there and she gulped. Their aggression is through the roof. Their body types are changing. Muscle mass, bone density, this is more than just receiving Saiyan energy. Charmcaster turned to one of the scientists who was not rushing around like all the others. He was sitting behind his desk calmly, and he smirked at the screen in front of him as he saw the dental structure of Thumbskull shift and his canines extend. His smirk wiped from his face as a blue bubble surrounded his face. He reached up to the bubble and pounded it with his fists but he could not break through, and after a second he was grabbing at his throat as he could not breathe either.

"Dr. Genus," Charmcaster snarled. The man's glasses fell off inside his bubble and his face was getting as blue as the orb of magical energy. "What did you do?" She growled at him.

The man drooling inside his bubble lifted up the corners of his lips and Charmcaster's eyes grew huge. She let go of the bubble and he chuckled while gasping and grabbing his throat. "I did what I was told," the doctor responded. Dr. Genus looked up at the Forever King who was looking his way through the red visor on his face. "And with the results I acquired with this experiment," he motioned around at the room he was in and the blinking lights all over it. "I can do it," he said. He got back up to his feet and smiled wickedly at the Forever King while putting his glasses back on, "I, the genius Dr. Genus, could turn you into the perfect weapon, my King," he bowed to the Forever King while all the scientists started yelling at him for tampering with the experiment.

The Forever King, Driscoll, had a decision to make. He stared at the genius scientist in front of him and his red visor started glowing brightly, but he heard a crash and turned back to look out the window. He looked down at the courtyard below and watched as three of Animo's creations stopped skidding after breaking through the wall on the outside of his castle. Soldiers were getting thrown back through the hole as well, and a glance above the walls showed him white lights spinning around and all going after two or three figures, but his super soldiers he planned on taking down the Emperor with were not as invincible as he thought. He slowly turned his head back to Dr. Genus who Charmcaster was walking towards with a lifted glowing pink hand. "Do it," the Forever King growled.

Everyone in the room spun to their leader in surprise. They watched as he reached up and removed his helmet, revealing a light skinned man with a black goatee, sharp blue eyes, and short jet black hair. He stepped towards Dr. Genus, "But to be safe. If this does not work, I am programming the Forever Ninja to make sure you die in the most excruciating way on the occasion of my death." Dr. Genus's eyes went wide and his face covered in sweat. Driscoll typed some things into a pad that opened up on his metal left arm, and when he was done he pulled that entire piece of armor off, before turning his arm and showing Dr. Genus the inside of his elbow. "Now," he said and his mouth curled up into a spine-chilling smile, "make me into even more of a God."

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"Azmuth!" Ben shouted up at the ship floating above the island he and his friends invaded because of the castle full of Forever Knights on it. The fight had been going on for a while now, the rain had slowed down and stopped, and when Ben looked up he saw technology he recognized very well, and a figure who made his heart race faster than the battle. The small Galvan sitting on the edge of his ship looking down at Ben Tennyson was amazed to see the young boy still had his Omnitrix on his wrist. "The Forever Knights set off the SDM! You have to deactivate the watch!" Ben shouted.

"Why should I?" Azmuth questioned loudly. Behind him Myaxx facepalmed as she was half-expecting him to say that even after convincing him to go check out who had the watch in hopes that Ben still had it.

Ben groaned and yelled, "This? Really? Are you really going to do this, right now?!" He dodged left and then swung his right fist forward into the chest of a Forever Knight, sending the soldier stumbling backwards with a dent in the front of his armor. Ben snapped his gaze back up to the surprised alien who was confused at Ben's normal strength as a regular human being. "I don't want the universe to explode!" Ben yelled at him.

"Then why did you let the SDM go off again?" Azmuth called down. "Sounds more like it's your problem than it is mine," he added.

"You'll be destroyed too!" Ben shouted.

"And?" Azmuth questioned. The tone of his voice showed he seriously did not care whether or not he went with the rest of the universe and Ben's eyes turned huge. Before the boy could keep shouting at the cynical scientist, a loud explosion to his left made both him and the aliens in the air turn that way. They looked at the cloud of dust fading away and Ben's eyes opened wide at the sight of a cyborg inside the dust on his hands and knees, struggling to push himself back up.

"Franky!" Ben yelled. Out of the sky dropped an armored woman with spiky red hair who smirked over at Ben in a way more menacing than he had ever seen her look before. "Rojo," Ben whispered. He looked into her eyes and those were not the eyes of a sane person. She looks like Frightwig did… as he thought it, Rojo's body covered in a white aura and she lifted up her left hand, forming a ball of white energy on it. As she did, her arm muscles bulked so fast that the armor around them broke apart. She glanced at her huge muscles and looked confused for a second, before her mouth twisted into a huge smirk and Ben saw her growing canines on the insides of her mouth.

It's the Saiyan DNA, Ben thought, remembering what Gray was saying back when they saw Frightwig. I always thought they were really similar to humans, but there's a side of Gohan he holds back normally. I saw it when Mikey died, when he slaughtered the Balrogs. I saw it when he told Luthor he would hunt him to the ends of the planet. Ben gulped as did Franky at the sight of the woman's bleeding eyes and the growing ball of white over her hand. Saiyans can be ruthless, Ben thought, and he started sprinting forward right as the crazed woman was bringing her arm down.

"What do you think you can do without the Omnitrix?!" Azmuth shouted down at the boy sprinting towards this woman like he had a death wish.

"Anything!" Ben screamed, and he dove straight into Rojo's arm as it was halfway down. She was so focused on the cyborg she was trying to kill, and everything in her peripheral vision was blood red, so she did not see the boy coming. Ben grabbed her arm and pushed it away, right as she released the ball of white light. Ben thought he saved Franky, but his jaw dropped as he saw where the ball was flying now, straight towards Sanji and Thumbskull who were trading punches and kicks every second. Gray was running up to Sanji's back with two swords drawn, and Ben screamed over, "Guys! Move!"

Sanji and Gray turned, and both of them leapt as far back as they could in that instant. Thumbskull on the other hand, had much slower reactions even as with his Saiyan enhancements. The stupid brute turned his head and let out a low grunt of confusion, right before the ball of white flew past his knees and hit the ground directly behind him, making a dome of light that encompassed his entire body and stretched out to hit both Gray and Sanji who crossed their arms in front of themselves and roared out in pain.

"Sanji!"

"Gray!"

Natsu and Luffy spun from their opponents and shouted back at their nakama. As they turned though, Dr. Animo saw his chance and his pointed his glowing hand forward. Five giant hybrid bugs in the air shot out of the sky and the two who turned to their friends only turned back when the monsters were right behind them. They slammed half-powered punches into the bugs closest to them, but for some reason they did not even slow down, and Natsu realized why a second later as he saw the scales covering them. The Fairy Tail mage snarled, "Are those…"

"Dragon scales!" Animo shouted over at him. "Saiyan DNA was not the only reward that Dreamcaster brought us after she screwed with your weak little minds!" Luffy and Natsu spun in circles throwing punches at the bugs that had such strong outer shells that they pretty much pushed straight through them. "And with the combined efforts of my own and the Forever Knights' elite science division, we have made my creations, unstoppable!"

Natsu heard that last word a lot louder than all the others and he started spinning around, much too late however to avoid Dr. Animo's fist that collided straight into his left cheek. The Fire Dragon Slayer lifted off the ground and flew back into a stone wall that he blew into pieces with his collision. Animo looked at his fist and watched as the glowing white aura spread up his arm, but he calmed down his breathing after punching Natsu and the aura faded back to being just around his hand. He turned to Luffy who was facing all of his creations alone now but still keeping an eye on him because of the threat he posed, and Animo chuckled at the rubberman's confused expression. "Are you wondering why I am not losing control like the others?" He questioned.

Luffy was somewhat wondering that, but instead of answering Animo, he punched his right hand out to the side. His forearm pumped like an accordion as all five bugs pointed their stingers in at him and shot in from every direction. Animo smirked, then Luffy vanished and appeared directly in front of him. The pirate punched forward yelling, "Jet Pistol!" His hand flew forward, but Animo's surprised expression lasted half a second before his glowing hand rose and blocked the rubber fist that hit him. Luffy's other hand covered in black coating and he punched it up towards the bottom of Animo's chin, right as the mad scientist covered his own left hand in a white aura and uppercut towards Luffy's gut. "Your body seems especially resistant to physical pain," Animo yelled as his fist slammed into Luffy's gut and pushed it back. Luffy's fist was still coming up, but the pirate opened his mouth and coughed, his fist opening up because he was so shocked, as Animo opened his fist while pushing it against his stomach and shot a huge force of his energy straight through Luffy.

The white aura shot out of Luffy's back up into the sky and although it was not solid and would not rip through Luffy, the force itself going through his insides squished his lungs and made it impossible to breath. He flew off the good doctor's hand, but Animo clenched his right hand down on the fist Luffy punched him with first. Luffy shot away, but his rubbery arm only extended so far before shooting him back towards Animo. Animo spun his left foot up towards Luffy, but the pirate sucked in a huge amount of air right before the kick collided. Luffy opened his mouth and let out all the air, but because his body was so large, even though Animo shot his energy through him again, it did not cause the pirate any pain. Luffy wrapped his free arm around Animo's leg as it pressed into his deflating stomach, and with all his strength he tugged up in the air, lifting Animo off the ground and tossing him up.

Animo let go of Luffy's hand as he was tossed in the air. Luffy looked up at the man reaching the top of his arc and he threw his right arm far back, spinning it around as he did and turning his fist black. All five of the insect monsters covered in scales were flying down towards him and blocking his view of Animo, but Luffy ignored them all and focused straight on the man. "Gum Gum…" A pillar of flames shot over Luffy's head, making Animo's eyes widen and his head snap to the side where he saw Natsu standing on top of a pile of rubble. He only looked back down when he heard the pirate below him finish his shout, but by then he was too late to dodge. "HAWK RIFLE!"

The spinning black fist slammed into Animo's face and knocked his head back, flames shooting out the back of his green skull and white hair, some of his hair catching on fire even. His creations were all lying on the ground, their scales not enough to protect them from Natsu's pillar of fire that had a glowing orange core just like the thin orange veil that surrounded the Dragon Slayer at that very moment. Animo slammed into the ground hard close to the main castle across the courtyard full of craters and flames and dead insects that some of the fighters were standing on, and more were reaching every second as the army of regular Forever Knight soldiers on the bridge were almost completely taken care of.

Kairi arrived with Juvia, Usopp, Killua, Rin, and Kirito, and they all looked at Natsu and Luffy on different sides of a destroyed courtyard that must have had some crazy battles on it even before they arrived. The two did not look happy about the lack of enemies around them though, or the fact that Animo's monsters were motionless on the ground around them. Both of them were just staring towards the castle where Animo was getting back up on his feet, his entire body covered in a thick aura now, his white hair lifting above his head and waving around in a sudden wind. "RAAAA!" A deep voice roared, and everyone spun left to see Thumbskull standing up covered in burns, his eyes bleeding like his nose and ears, but his body bulked up twice as much as usual.

"Need some help over here," Sanji called out. Everyone looked over in surprise wondering what monster could be stopping the chef with amazingly powerful kicks, and they saw Sanji standing hesitantly in front of a woman who had her hand clenched around Ben's neck.

"Idiot!" Nami yelled, running past Sanji with her Clima Tact drawn. She swiped towards the crazy woman's head, and her weather-controlling staff slammed into the side of it, but did not even make the armored woman flinch. It did make Rojo turn her gaze to Nami though, and she pulled a choking Ben back and threw him forward into the younger woman. "Ahh!" Nami screamed as Ben hit her so hard that they were both thrown backwards.

"Watch it brat!" Sanji yelled at Ben as he dove behind Nami to catch her.

"Don't yell at him because you're an incompetent idiot!" Nami screamed, then looked down as Sanji did not catch Ben and the kid was on his knees and one hand, using the other to grab at his throat that was red from the choking. "Ben, are you okay?"

Ben stopped rubbing his throat and he clenched his teeth in anger, some blood dripping through the cracks of them. "I'm so, pathetic," he growled while clenching his eyes shut. He clenched the hand he was just rubbing his neck with and punched it down on the floor beneath him. He snapped his head up and glared at Rojo, only to lose his glare as the rest of the woman's armor around her legs and upper body shattered all at once. She still looked pissed about getting slammed in the head by the weak pirate girl, and in only a tight red undershirt and shorts that stretched as her body buffed out, she snapped her head straight back and roared.

Animo had started charging at Luffy and Natsu, but he stopped himself halfway across the courtyard. The steam on Luffy's body had faded and Natsu let his aura go down too, both of them were panting, but Animo calmed down his breathing and he let his white aura fade. "The reason I am not out of control like those idiots over there," Animo said, his voice loud enough for said "idiots" to hear, but neither of them turning around as they were already lost in their rage, "is because I discussed the introduction of Saiyan DNA into my body with Doctor Genus prior to his alterations to our experiments. As long as I keep a level head, my body will not atrophy at an increased rate as my new power grows exponentially, like theirs."

Timmy Turner stopped flying around in the air and he stared straight ahead at four fighters who he had been trying not to kill, but were getting increasingly powerful the longer he fought them. This is nuts! I wish I could wish up a way to trap them. Unlike Madara and Krona, Wanda's magic could stop enemies like these. But on my own, what can I do but kill them? I guess, I need to knock them unconscious. The boy covered in a white aura and he shot forwards faster than he had been fighting previously, but as he did he saw each of his enemies' eyes following his movements better than before as well. Their bodies were larger and they had blood all over their distorted faces, and when they roared they sounded like animals.

Acid Breath shot a cloud of green gas at Timmy that he had to fly over to avoid. A dark green mutant bug named Clancy flew over the gas as well though, his eyes glowing red and his entire body seeming to take the effects of the Saiyan DNA differently than his comrades. He raced towards Timmy and grabbed at the boy with his arms, but Timmy interlocked his hands with the mutant's claws. As he did though, two smaller arms pressed against Clancy's side to blend in with his body shot out covered in a white aura, stabbing at Timmy's chest. The boy only flew back fast enough to avoid getting cut, though his shirt did tear from the swipes. His eyes widened that he was caught off guard, and because of that he was caught again by two monstrous enemies shooting up through the gaseous cover beneath Timmy's feet.

They opened their mouths as they shot through it but neither of them cared that Acid Breath's gas started affecting their bodies, as long as they were able to grab one of Timmy's legs each and then fly opposite directions. "Damn it!" Timmy yelled, flaring his aura and sending the men grabbing him flying away. He pointed his arms out towards them and white balls of energy appeared on them, "I'm sorry," he said in a voice full of regret, then fired the balls at his enemies still being pushed away from him. The balls hit his enemies in their chests and sent them flying away from each other before exploding in huge spheres of light in the sky.

Down below the strongest fighter on the island, taking on four enhanced enemies at once, Animo shot forward faster than he had ever moved before. He looked fine though, and his hands did not even have white auras around them as he appeared in front of Natsu who took too long to power back up. Animo put his fists together above Natsu's head, and slammed down on the Dragon Slayer's face as he looked up to see the attack. Natsu's nose cracked and his whole face got pushed in as he broke the floor beneath him and was smashed into a large crater.

"Gear Second!" Luffy shouted. He shot towards Animo who spun around mid-glowing-kick. Luffy pressed down on the roundhouse kick to get himself above it, while swinging his other fist forward, slamming Animo right in his smug face and breaking the doctor's goggles. Besides breaking his goggles though, a non-Haki-coated fist did nothing to the doctor whose head snapped to the side, then instantly spun back towards Luffy with a much more enraged expression. He tried to remind himself to stay calm, but two hands grabbed him by the ankles and he snapped his gaze down to see Natsu grabbing him tight.

"Burn," Natsu snarled. His hands burst into flames and then Animo's entire body followed suit.

"Ahhh! RAAAA!" Animo screamed in pain, and then fury as a white aura surrounded him and pushed away the flames. "INSOLENT WRETCHES!" He snapped his right arm out and grabbed Luffy by the throat even as the pirate punched him in the face with a fist covered in Haki, and he kicked up with his leg, nailing Natsu in the gut and sending the Dragon Slayer up into his own free hand to catch. He grabbed Natsu by the back of the head and squeezed, while gripping Luffy's neck even harder while his red steaming skin faded back to normal.

"Hi-yaa!" Dash yelled, slamming a fist into Animo's face after sprinting straight in between both Luffy and Natsu. The others facing off against Thumbskull and Rojo glanced over at the boy covered in a white aura who appeared out of nowhere to save the two they all thought they were going to have to step in themselves to save. Animo's head snapped back far again, even with the aura around him, and Dash smirked as he followed through with his punch. I always wanted to try this one out, ever since Barry told me about it. Supersonic punch. Had to go across the other island before I started running to pick up the speed I needed, but it was worth it. Animo went flying from Dash's punch all the way across the courtyard where he crashed into the entrance to the Forever Kingdom's castle, shattering the doorway and making it all collapse on top of him.

Dust filled the entrance and they looked at the rubble waiting to see if there was any movement under it. The only ones not looking that way were Rojo and Thumbskull, too absorbed in their own power trips to care, and the two facing off against them at full strength. Gray had ice protecting most of his body and he slashed his swords at the woman who blocked with her bare arm skin again, but he smirked as the woman's wide grin vanished itself, because his swords broke the skin this time. Sanji looked at the young man around his age with a look of surprise, because although Gray's ice swords were the color of ice, he could feel the faint Haki emanating from them.

The swords broke the skin, and then as Rojo attacked furiously a second later, Gray dropped the sword in his left hand and stepped towards her, closing the gap and making her fist go right by the side of him. He clenched that fist hard and slammed the hilt of his other sword into it, "Ice Make: Longsword!" The short-sword's hilt that collided with his fist shimmered a light blue glow, and then the blade sticking out of it got twice as thick and extended five times as long. It extended straight into Rojo's chest and broke through her red shirt, making her scream as it lifted her off the ground and pushed back before breaking the skin and sending her flying with blood splashing out of her torso.

"You may be strong," Kairi called out, a serious look on her face as she jumped left, right, and then back to dodge Thumbskull's heavy swings. Her body was covered in a swirling wind thanks to her Aero magic, and she pointed her pink Keyblade ahead at the monster as he snapped his gaze up from the point below his fist that just made another small crater in the ground to snarl his teeth and sharp canines over her way. "But you are much too slow," Kairi said. He looked at the end of the girl's Keyblade and did not even process what was happening as it glowed white, and then light blue, and then the blast of ice magic slammed into the front of his body and his arms stopped moving as did his legs. He froze in place and even his expression was having a hard time changing because of the ice on it.

Azmuth looked down from his ship and watched the carnage going on below him. He turned towards the bridge where hundreds of unconscious and moaning soldiers lay. Not all of them were just unconscious though, as Killua did not hold back in his end-of-the-world rampage. There were dead on the Forever Knights' side, yet those Forever Knights were turning their soldiers into monsters that were destroying themselves for what looked like the sole purpose of killing their enemies. "It does not matter where I go," Azmuth said. Myaxx had her legs up on the console of the ship she was sitting in, relaxing as she watched the nutty battles down below and even up in the sky where that kid kept fighting his enemies with restraint. Azmuth continued in a dark tone that sounded so tired, the winkles on his small gray face getting more defined as he spoke like this experience alone was aging him several years. "It always remains the same. Centuries go by and the nature of life never changes. We kill, we destroy, I tried to think I was different because I was trying to help the universe, but my inventions have been used for so much violence, so much conflict. This world is a dark place that I tried to find some light in, but small lights like Ben Tennyson's can not shine when surrounded by so much darkness."

"Whoa," Myaxx said, lowering her legs from the console and looking at the scientist's back with huge eyes. "You're serious this time. You're really going to let us all explode?" He did not respond and the tentacle-faced alien snapped her nervous gaze down to the console of the ship they were in where a timer was counting down. The numbers on the far left of the countdown were all at zero, the ones marking days and hours that they had left to live. She watched as the seconds ticked down and the green woman gulped, looking back out of the ship and down at Ben Tennyson who staggered forward along with all his comrades towards the fortress that remained standing despite its collapsed outer walls and fallen armies. She looked down at his watch that's orange glow she could see from there, so little green left on the hourglass symbol on it.

Ben glanced up at the ship himself as he walked forward to join his friends. Dash saw him look that way as he got next to him and the kid said, "I've been wondering for a while now, who are those guys up there? The small one looks a lot like an alien I saw you use before."

Ben nodded his head and in a grim voice muttered, "It's Azmuth."

Everyone else around him who were catching their breaths as Rojo and Thumbskull were not getting back up, and Animo was still beneath the rubble in the entrance of the fortress, all spun towards Ben. Only Natsu and Luffy who were up ahead of him kept staring at the castle, and both of them had extremely nervous expressions on their faces.

"What?!" Killua shouted at Ben. The boy raced towards him and then snapped his gaze up to the ship that the small gray figure and a taller alien woman were sitting on or inside. "Can they turn off your watch?"

"Yeah," Ben said. "But they won't," he added before all of them got their hopes up. They looked at him in confusion and then remembered what he said about Azmuth having to believe there was still a reason to save them.

"Yes they will," Killua said, a shadow covering his face. Ben looked at the older boy in surprise, but became even more shocked as there were several others around Killua who had similar expressions. Killua continued in a scary voice, "I can make them-"

"No!" Ben shouted.

Killua turned and glared harshly at Ben. "Do you want to die?"

Ben shook his head, but before he could argue, Gray started, "Killua is right." Ben turned to him in surprise and Gray shook his head, "We can't let everyone die. If we have the possibility, we have to be willing to do anything to save the world."

"If he is going to let all the ladies of the world die," Sanji growled. "I would gladly force him to turn your watch off."

The kid with the self-destructing Omnitrix on his wrist kept shaking his head as the others voiced their words of agreement. They were all stopped from continuing the conversation though as the rubble near the fortress shook and all of them turned their attentions back over to it. Up in the sky, Timmy had a horrible feeling in his gut. I'm sorry, he thought, then rushed around as fast as he could and threw restraint to the wind as he slammed powerful fists and chops into the heads and necks of his enemies, even going as far as to blasting them with powerful ki attacks that he did not know if they could take. He did so because the feeling he got from the fortress in the center of the small island to his right and a half mile down made him extremely afraid for all his friends.

His enemies dropped from the air, the boy shot back, and then he flew straight up in the air as a blur appeared before him and almost got him with a slash of a razor-sharp sword. Timmy's eyes grew huge at the sight of the enemy. At first he thought the man was just wearing another power blocker like the others, but this one was different. The Forever Ninja lifted up its blade and the weapon glowed bright red, like the red V-shaped visor on the front of his red helmet. Timmy opened his mouth to shout at the enemy to move or die, but this enemy had no white aura like the others did, and yet he was still faster than any of them. Wait a second, this isn't a person!

Despite the Forever Ninja being a robot that Timmy did not feel the need to hold back against, it was a creation formed by the culmination of all of the Forever Knights' scientists minds put together. Up until a few days ago, it was the most impressive thing they had ever made, more powerful than the Forever King or any of his commanders, the robot that got Driscoll a position as a Lord in the King's Cooperative. It shot at Timmy so fast that the kid had to draw his own sword and block this time, before covering himself in an aura and moving faster so he could get behind the robot and swing his sword at its side. The boy thought he had it, but the Forever Ninja lifted its left arm so the sword passed under it, then jammed its elbow down against its side to trap Timmy's sword there. The boy tugged at his sword, but as he did, the Forever Ninja's back opened up and flames shot out into his face.

Timmy was impervious to flames, but not the sword that the ninja robot shoved back at him while his vision was blocked by the fire. As Timmy was distracted by the Forever Ninja, the monster that he risked killing his last enemies to stop before it reached his friends, had appeared before them. All of them stood in the courtyard with very nervous expressions on their faces, a few of them backing up at what they were seeing. The rubble at the entrance of the castle had broken apart and Animo had shot out of it with his fists up in the air, his arms covered in aura, his eyes red for the first time and he had looked enraged. He snapped his gaze forward, and then as he opened his mouth to yell about his anger to Luffy and Natsu, his hated opponents, a hand grabbed him around the top of his skull.

The hand had lifted Animo off the ground while the doctor grabbed at it with both hands and tried prying it off. He struggled and the man with a black goatee, coal black eyes, and a straight expression on his face simply stated in a chilling voice, "Doctor Animo, before I executed Dr. Genus for the secret he kept from me, he revealed to me that you also knew of his treason."

"Forever King! I can expl-" Driscoll clenched his hand into a fist and Animo's head squished inside it. The mad scientist's body fell to the floor with blood spurting out of his neck, and the man who crushed his skull opened back up his hand and stared at his palm. In a calm voice that made each of his enemies even more unnerved, the Forever King, not wearing any of his usual armor, simply muttered, "Oh, I didn't mean to do that." His voice was so calm, it sounded like he had lost his mind. He slowly looked up from his red hand covered in smushed brains and faced the two closest to him, "I did not know the extent of the new strength Genus provided me before his death." He paused and then continued, "I still do not know the extent."

The man looked very average for a super-villain, not too buff, yet still intimidating, and a black goatee just to top off the evil villain appearance. Despite this though, when he took his first step forward and the island shook beneath him, even Luffy had to gulp at the feeling he got deep in his gut. "Sanji!" Luffy shouted. The chef became confused as to why Luffy called out his name, but Luffy continued without turning around, "Get everyone out of here!"

Sanji felt the ground shake as the bearded man took another step and he did not need to be told twice. He spun around and yelled, "Nami, Robin, Juvia, Kairi, come with me!" None of the guys even mentioned how he forgot to say any of their names, as they were all either backing up or staring motionlessly at the Forever King as nervously as the women whose names Sanji just shouted out were.

"I am the Forever King, Driscoll," the man said, stopping his walk while he was still ten meters away from Natsu and Luffy, right in between them. "Since joining the Cooperative, I have not been able to use that title, the 'Forever King.' Not at official Cooperative meetings. Not when visiting other countries and cities. I was solely referred to as another, Lord," he said the word with distaste, the first time his voice changed since he appeared before them and murdered the strongest commander on the battlefield.

Acid Breath staggered up off the ground where he fell when Timmy knocked him out of the air. He had bloody eyes making his vision red, and he could barely hear with the blood clogging his ears. His focus instantly returned to Timmy, the only thing he could focus on as it was the last thing he was thinking about before losing deeper mental functionality. However, there was one thing that could take his attention off the boy fighting a robot in the air, and it was the monster who was scaring him even without an aura, because he had been working for Driscoll for a long time now, and not once had he ever seen that look in the Forever King's eyes.

Killua was stepping backwards nervously, afraid for his life. He snapped his gaze back towards the ship that had the creator of the Omnitrix on it, and the thought crossed his mind to go take the short figure, take Ben, and escape with them and force the alien to turn off Ben's watch for him. What stopped him was not the morality of the idea, but the belief that there was no way he would make it away from the monster across the courtyard from him with two prisoners in tow.

Luffy pumped himself into Second Gear and he turned his fists black. He yelled at Sanji to get going while Natsu's body covered in flames, lightning, and then a dark orange aura on the inside of his flames. He yelled out, 'Arcosian Dragon Slayer Mode,' and punched his fists together in front of him to double the size of his aura. The two of them stepped forward, and then Driscoll appeared on Natsu's right side, opposite where Luffy was walking. Luffy started to turn towards Natsu who saw the pirate's shocked look before he even saw the hand reaching for his head. He tried turning to Driscoll, but the Forever King was too fast, grabbing Natsu by the side of the head and then continuing to run forward so fast that he slammed Natsu's head straight into Luffy's. Both of their bodies left the ground and their legs pointed the other way as they were heading as Driscoll continued to push them, and then the man let go straight towards a portion of his wall that was still standing.

The wall was not standing for long. It collapsed on top of two of the strongest fighters on the island. Killua turned and ran. The others near him felt similarly to the kid, but Driscoll was still close to Natsu and Luffy and they did not see the pile of rubble moving yet. They could not leave their comrades behind. Rin's body covered in bright blue flames while Sanji's leg covered in red ones. Franky was panting but he still had some Cola left and he lifted his arms, as Usopp rose his slingshot, Nami her Perfect Clima Tact, and Robin crossed her arms in front of herself as well. Dash lifted his fists, though the kid looked terrified after watching Natsu and Luffy get tossed aside like pieces of trash. Gray looked at Juvia nervously and she looked back into his eyes, but they both knew they could not run; they had to save Natsu or die trying.

"We should have taken the creator and left," Gray muttered as he turned back to Driscoll who saw them all preparing and turned their way with a slightly amused, but also far-off look like he was still in a daze. It was the same way he looked when he left the castle, almost like whatever happened to him had him confused mentally. "It would have been the smart thing to do."

Kirito rose his swords in front of himself and coated them in Haki. "It's not something I like to admit, but this is one of the few times torture would have been called for."

"It would not have been hard to make the creator deactivate Ben's watch," Robin agreed.

"If Goku shows up in a second and saves us," Nami whispered, "then we might still be able to do just that."

"You're all wrong." The voice was quiet but their whole group heard it and looked to the front of their condensed pack where Ben stepped forward. His eyes were closed tight and he shook his head side to side as he walked. "He won't do it, at least not right now." The group looked at the boy in confusion and he started speaking louder, "We can't make him do it! That would defeat the point!" None of them knew what he was talking about, but Ben stopped in front of them, now the closest one to Driscoll. As he needed saving from Nami before, they looked at him like he was an idiot for getting so close to a monster almost none of them could see move when he attacked Natsu. Ben clenched his fists at his sides though and he shouted, "Azmuth won't fix the watch, because he thinks we're not worth saving! Is torturing him going to change his mind about that?!"

A few of the others got shocked and then ashamed looks on their faces. Azmuth himself stopped staring at Driscoll and he looked back at Ben who was facing away from him and at the monster instead. "He would rather let the entire universe perish, than save it, because he thinks it would be better off that way! We're supposed to be the good guys, yet we're having a conversation about torturing someone for what? 'The greater good?' It's no wonder he thinks that way!"

As everyone else stared in shock at Ben's back, Kairi lifted up the corners of her mouth and smiled at the child. I can see why Riku picked you, Kairi thought, lifting up her Keyblade as she got ready to fight for real.

Ben's fists clenched harder at his sides and everyone staring at the kid watched as a white aura flared around him violently all at once. "If Azmuth does not want to fix the Omnitrix, that's his decision! If we're all about to die, then I'm not going to spend my last few minutes doing something that would have tortured me for the rest of my life otherwise!" He started running forward and he screamed, "I'm going to spend it fighting for the sake of my friends!" A green light spread around Ben and his friends gasped, Azmuth and Myaxx gasped, and the Forever King smirked at the boy running his way.

Green light surrounded the boy and Driscoll shouted at it, "Ben Tennyson. I did not recognize you before. I do not know why. But I must now pay you back for all of my plans you foiled in the past! With the Saiyan blood we acquired, my scientists created a physical enhancer like nothing you have ever seen before. You will taste your own blood before I rip your throat out!" The man started running forward, and he punched towards the green light that was finally fading.

Driscoll punched and all of Ben's friends started running forward. Azmuth's bug eyes enlarged, Myaxx leaned over the dashboard of their round ship and over the edge of it altogether so she was almost falling out. Luffy and Natsu just got out from beneath some rubble and stopped moving, Killua's eyes grew huge from the deck of the Thousand Sunny, and Timmy froze where he was above the island as he had been flying over as fast as he could away from the ninja to stop Driscoll. He was frozen in place because Driscoll's fist stopped as well, and the ground beneath where the punch stopped dropped down ten meters and a thirty-foot radius crater formed around him. And for the first time since Driscoll believed he became unstoppable, his mouth dropped into a deep, deep snarl that revealed his sharpened canines.

The green light faded entirely, and Ben floated there in midair in front of Driscoll with a palm held against his fist. The boy glared with coal black eyes straight into Driscoll's, and a brown tail waved around behind his body. "You may have injected yourself with some Saiyan DNA, but you're still partly human. This is Saiyan Ben," he said, and closed the fingers of his hand around the outsides of Driscoll's fist. "I am one hundred percent Saiyan, and I'm about to kick your ass." Ben pulled back on Driscoll's fist and he slammed his other fist forward as he did. Driscoll rose an arm to block Ben's fist, and he was blind-sided by the kick that slammed into his left temple.

Ben pushed through the kick and sent Driscoll flying out of their crater towards his castle. Scientists watching from inside the window backed up as it looked like the Forever King was about to smash straight through the wall, but the man stopped himself before he did with a large kiai. The windows shattered and the scientists covered their faces, but they all screamed a second later anyway as Driscoll snarled down at Ben and powered up. His body covered in a white glow that ripped apart the walls behind him and the men and women in white lab coats right behind them. He was not the only one powering up though, as Ben glared straight up at him and he pulled his elbows down to his sides as he flew up in the air to reach Driscoll's elevation. "Raaaa, RRAAAA! AHHHH!" Ben screamed, the amount of powering-up so intense on his body that he could barely handle the pain.

The island could barely handle Ben's power-up either though. The ground down beneath him cracked and rocks lifted up in the air before breaking apart. Outer walls that were already damaged from other fights and even the walls of the Forever King's castle started coming down as Ben roared. The island shook and the clouds above Ben's head started swirling around in a strange way like his power was reaching all the way up there. Driscoll's too strong. If I don't stop him now, he's going to kill my friends! With that thought in mind, Ben vanished to the eyes of most of his friends and shot towards Driscoll in a flash of white.

Although Ben vanished, the look on his face a second before he disappeared was engrained into Azmuth's mind. The creator of the Omnitrix frowned and his own wrinkled hands clenched into fists at his sides. He could tell exactly what Ben was thinking when the kid powered up stronger than ever with an alien Azmuth never put into the Omnitrix himself. He is continuing what I originally started. To unite different species from all over the universe, to use the Omnitrix to understand them, he has obtained new DNA and with that he has done only good. In those eyes, I saw no hate. He was not fighting Driscoll because the fool set off the self-destruct, or because of his anger at the Forever Knights. He is fighting because he cares for his friends.

Ben slammed his right fist into Driscoll's and a shockwave rippled across the sky above the roof of the castle. He spun his left leg and his shin collided with Driscoll's right directly over the bridge. Both attacks, although far from each other, happened in such a short amount of time that to those trying to watch the fight it looked like the roof of the castle and the bridge's center got blown apart simultaneously. Ben spun off the kick over the bridge though and he slammed three consecutive punches into Driscoll's chest, punches that made the man gasp each time.

The furious super solider put his fists together above Ben's head and slammed down, smashing on the top of Ben's head and breaking the skin. Ben got pushed down out of the air a little and the cut under his hair let out so much blood that it came out from his hairline, drenched his forehead, and covered the left side of his face. The panic that would have normally set in from an injury that looked so bad did not occur this time though. Ben just lifted his bowed head and stared straight into the Forever King's shocked eyes as the monster did not hold back with that attack. Ben's knee embedded in Driscoll's gut before the man could say a word about Ben's tenacity like he wanted to, and Ben's knee wiped all conscious thought from the man's mind.

The gut-knee was so strong that a visible force shot out of Driscoll's back, and Ben's friends' eyes opened wide with hope at the sight of the man arcing off of Ben's knee. The kid himself was in so much pain from powering up stronger than he ever had before, from making his own muscles bulge like Driscoll's commanders had, but he ignored the pain and just clenched his teeth harder as blood dripped down the corners of his mouth and off his chin. He took a deep breath and put his hands down to his right side as Driscoll continued to arc away from him over the bridge back towards the much bigger mainland. Waves crashed on shore much bigger than the island was used to and the half of the broken bridge beneath Ben that was hanging partially onto the mainland got pulled off by the strong waves Ben's aura was creating. Water splashed up in the air behind Ben and then out of thin air all around him, blue light particles appeared and pulled towards the same point between Ben's hands.

"KAME-" Ben began.

Azmuth's jaw dropped as he watched the energy condense on Ben's hands. In his mind appeared an image from one of the first days he was on the planet. He was a small creature who most people paid no mind to, but one man with spiky black hair did, the man who saved his life with this very attack. Azmuth stepped towards the edge of his ship and he watched as the light created a ball on Ben's palms. "HAME!" Ben's voice echoed back to the Forever King's castle, where Charmcaster and Dreamcaster both watched from a cracked floor in front of a wide opening where a wall used to be. They stared at the boy they once fought and felt true fear of him even more so than they felt for Driscoll.

Driscoll's eyes opened and he righted himself in the air, just in time to see Ben flying towards him and pushing his arms forward at the same time. "HAAAA!" The boy screamed and the ball of light shot off of Ben's hands even faster than he was flying. The Kamehameha Wave illuminated the sky with blue light, making everyone in the Forever Kingdom turn towards the bright blue ball at the end of it. Driscoll rose his hands towards the energy but they were pushed to the sides and he got thrown backwards by the attack, an attack that quickly went from pushing him to engulfing him, surrounding him in the energy that tore at his very being. "No, NOOO! AHHHhhh…" His voice faded away as the beam kept going and Ben lost sight of the silhouette inside it. Killua looked straight up with eyes as big as saucers as a beam as wide as the grounded pirate ship he was on flew over his head, and when it finally faded he shifted his gaze to Ben and found himself in more amazement of the boy than he had had been of anyone else before.

Ben's aura disappeared, his arms dropped limp to his sides, and then his body flashed red. It flashed red again and the tail behind him vanished, his eyes turned green, and the symbol on his Omnitrix blinked orange, over and over again. All of the green was gone, and the orange became a solid shape, right before the watch started sparking violently and Ben stared at it in fear. His friends all watched the boy who looked down and glanced at them, and then snapped his head straight up and flew as fast as he could into the sky.

"BEN!" Dash screamed up at his friend.

"Come back!" Nami yelled.

They almost lost sight of him, and then the watch sparked again and an orange dome of light surrounded Ben's left wrist. He felt the pain start and came to a stop, grabbing at his wrist with his other hand and screaming out. His body curled in and the orange energy widened to surround his entire body. It continued to spread out and made a sphere of energy sparking lightning that grew bigger and bigger until it stretched hundreds of feet in every direction of Ben. His friends stopped screaming and stared into the center of the dome in horror, not because the light indicated the end of existence itself, but because they heard Ben's screams and could see him directly in the center of that blast.

"Ben!" Rin yelled.

Kirito's wings spread out from his back and he shot up in the air. Sanji saw the teen flying and he jumped up himself, kicking the air beneath him and flying towards the scary dome of universe-shattering energy. As they flew towards the energy though, both men realized that the dome had stopped getting larger. It sparked a few more times, and then the dome faded altogether. This was not it.

Myaxx looked down finally after thinking it was all over and she stared at the countdown on the dashboard, the countdown that had sped up as soon as Ben transformed, and that sped up even faster when he turned back into his human self. She saw the zeroes on it had filled in more spaces past the hour slot now though, filling in the spots where the minutes had been counting down earlier. She looked to the seconds and she slouched in her seat at the sight, "Guess this is it." She heard no response. "What? Planning on dying in silence?" She turned her head, but there was no one on the edge of the ship anymore.

Ben started falling from the sky. His eyes closed and the cuts all over his body made it so blood rained down above him. He looked more red than white, and Kirito flew up as fast as he could, catching Ben in his arms and then turning, flying back down just as fast. Sanji snapped his head down as Kirito shot right by him and he shot himself back down after him. Kirito landed on the ground ten feet in front of Kairi and he ran towards her, "Kairi!"

"Cura!" Kairi shouted, swinging her Keyblade at Ben. Although the cuts all over his body, his body that was almost completely visible as his pant legs and his entire ship had been ripped to shreds, shrank or faded away, Ben did not look much better after the use of healing magic. What kept him looking so terrible was not the dried blood all over his face and body though, it was the sparking watch on his wrist that had a pure white hourglass on it that should have been green, or red, or orange, or anything but white. Orange bolts of lightning sparked off of it and Kirito lowered Ben down as the kid's eyes opened back up.

Ben stood on two feet and when he was stable enough Kirito let go of him. "I'm sorry guys," Ben said, his head partially bowed. He saw the watch sparking and he knew it was all over. He sniffled and continued in a sad voice, "I'm sorry I sped up the countdown. I just couldn't, watch you all die. I didn't want that to be the last thing I remembered."

"That's alright Ben," a voice said on his right side. He lifted up his head and turned in shock to see a nineteen year old with silver hair just landed on the ground very close to him. "I saw your Kamehameha and followed it," Riku said. He gave the kid a small smile as he put a hand on Ben's head and ruffled his blood-soaked brown hair. "You guys sure left us far behind," Riku said. He lowered his hand from Ben's head down to his right shoulder and looked into the boy's green eyes with his own. "You have nothing to be sorry for Ben. I'm proud of you."

Ben's eyes watered up and he clenched them shut as he saw all the small smiles of his friends around him. His watch let out a loud beep, and then Ben felt a strange tug on his arm and opened back up his eyes, turning his head to the watch himself that just let out a beep like it was saying, 'Goodbye.' He stared at it and his jaw dropped farther and farther, just like all of his friends who stared at the strange gray alien standing on Ben's arm with the top part of the Omnitrix in his hand, no longer sparking, no longer attached to the rest of the watch.

Azmuth looked up and saw Ben's shocked expression that made him turn away quick so the boy would not see the ashamed one on his face. He distracted himself from his emotions by looking at the watch he needed to fix, but he did speak as he examined it. "Alright, this world might be full of monsters, and I'm not talking about Grimm and Heartless, I'm talking about people like Driscoll, the Emperor, the King, and just about everyone who follow them. But," he said and let out a sigh, "there are also those who fight these monsters. As long as the fight exists, who am I to say there's no hope for this world?"

The hourglass on the top part of the Omnitrix in Azmuth's hand turned green. Just the sight of that color, filling the entire watch again, made each one of Ben's friends feel an enormous weight lift off of their chests. Azmuth continued to work on the watch, but it looked like it was finally over. The universe was not going to be destroyed after all.

"Well then," Natsu grumbled and he crossed his arms over his chest. "It's about time. And Ben," he continued, making the younger boy look up into his eyes. "Good job with beating that guy and all, but he just caught me off guard. I could have taken-"

Dooommmmm!The ground beneath their feet trembled and half of them fell over. Azmuth fell off of Ben's arm and dropped the top of the Omnitrix, Kairi lost a grip on her Keyblade, and Kirito was in the middle of sheathing his swords and wound up missing one of the sheaths, cutting himself in the shoulder instead. Nami fell over but Sanji had caught Robin already and he cursed loudly and yelled apologies at Nami and asked if she was alright.

"I'm fine!" Nami yelled. She spun her head back and forth as she sat though and she shouted, "But what's going on?"

Riku lifted his hand from Ben's shoulder and the boy snapped his gaze to his older friend. His eyes grew huge as Riku's entire body covered in a black coating that surrounded his muscles tightly to look like clothing. A black heart with a red outline appeared on his chest, and a white aura coated his entire body as he turned and created two Keyblades in his hands. He stepped towards the main island that was now completely separated from them without the bridge connecting the smaller island they were on with the main one. A flash of lightning appeared next to Riku, and Killua reappeared near them as he no longer felt safe on the mainland.

"Nice of you to show up," Usopp muttered, though he was not really focused on Killua at all.

The kid did not say anything back to him, but they all became distracted a second later as a pile of sparking red scrap hit the ground in front of Killua and Riku. Out of nowhere Timmy appeared and stood in front of them, and those far enough on the sides of Timmy's back that they could see his face felt an intense sense of dread at the beads of sweat rolling down his face. Timmy roared and his body started rippling, the island beneath them shaking violently. His arms bulked up, much more than Ben's did before as his actually extended. Timmy's brown hair grew longer and his chest muscles bulged, followed by his abs, and then his legs. He stopped screaming in pain after a few seconds, while his friends behind him started backing up at the feeling of Timmy's strength.

"BEN TENNYSON!" A voice they all recognized echoed over the islands and the water around the mainland rippled before all the waves going towards it changed directions and started heading back into the ocean. A violent white aura formed on the island and flared so huge that it encompassed a hundred yard radius in every direction, and even higher than that up in the air.

"It can't be," Nami whispered.

"He's still alive?" Gray asked in shock.

"Juvia believes it would be a good time to run," the Rain Woman offered.

"No," Ben whispered, already exhausted and now dropping his arms down to his sides as he saw and felt Driscoll's power rising to new heights. "I failed," he whispered.

"That's not true Ben," Riku said. He did not turn to look at the boy who stared at the back of his head as he walked away towards the mainland. Riku continued, "What you did somehow convinced Azmuth to deactivate the Omnitrix. You just saved this world. Don't forget that," Riku lifted off the ground and in a blur of white shot towards the island where they could finally see Driscoll. Even from miles away, they were able to see the man, because he was no longer just a man.

"What the Hell is that thing?" Gray asked, stumbling backwards as he watched it grow even larger.

Usopp's jaw dropped and his slingshot fell from his hand. His head slowly lifted up like the others and turned blue like many of theirs did as well.

"I've seen this before," Natsu said. None of them turned to him, but he continued as if they did, "Soon after I got to Pao Town, there was a full moon. Apparently Goten and Trunks looked at it, and when they did it awakened the beast inside all Saiyans." The others who never really understood what made the Saiyans different from humans suddenly had a very different perspective of them. They stared at this Great Ape, the Oozaru, drawn out thanks to Doctor Genus's genius that he was no longer around to witness and enjoy.

"Can we stop it?" Sanji questioned with a quickly shrinking cigarette in his mouth due to how fast he was puffing it.

"Goku and Vegeta took care of it," Natsu muttered, "but Gohan told me that their powers multiplied by a huge factor. I don't remember what it was," the Dragon Slayer admitted.

The Oozaru stopped growing, and it turned its head towards the small island off of the mainland. It had huge glowing red eyes and a giant mouth sticking out of its face full of sharp teeth that they all saw as it opened its mouth. They thought it was going to roar, but the massive gorilla did not open its mouth for that purpose. Instead, a white glow formed on the inside of its throat and got brighter every second.

"Oh my God," Franky muttered.

"That's not going to be pretty," Killua agreed. He looked around for an escape route but he was trapped on these islands with a massive monster that sounded like it could destroy both islands easily. He cursed under his breath and growled loudly, "We have to take it down!"

"You want to fight that thing?!" Usopp shouted at him.

Killua was already jogging forward though, and he yelled out, "It's all we can do!"

The boy vanished and reappeared on the shore of the island across the water, and an instant later there was another boy next to him. Killua turned left in surprise that his speed was matched but he lost his surprised look at the smaller boy nodding his head up at him. "Let's do this," Dash said, before turning and racing inland ahead of the older boy. Killua looked after him and nodded himself, before chasing the boy towards the feet of the giant monkey. It's aiming at that island you idiots, Killua thought as he charged straight at it. So listen to me and get off of it already!

A massive white beam shot out of the Oozaru's mouth. It was a beam wider than Ben's Kamehameha Wave, and it stopped before it reached the island because of a giant black portal that opened in the sky. Riku was panting as he floated behind it with his arm extended and his hand missing inside the darkness. He clenched his teeth for a few seconds before opening his mouth and letting out rapid gasps for air as he tried to control his giant portal of darkness. "Let me take control. You are still too weak." I have this! Riku thought, grinding his teeth and yelling out as he concentrated on his dark powers to keep the portal out.

Driscoll-Oozaru finally closed his mouth, and Riku's portal closed as well when the beam faded. He dropped his arm to his side and started panting heavily, and his eyes grew huge as the Great Ape started sprinting across the island. It crushed trees below its feet, the few ones that had not already been cut down on the island. Riku lifted up his Keyblades, but a giant hand smacked him out of the air like a fly. Killua had ran to the right to avoid giant feet, but the boy still got hit by huge rocks that were thrown at him from Riku's collision with the ground twenty yards away. The fourteen year old jumped back to avoid the rocks and he skid away on his feet, before lifting his gaze up to the Oozaru's head in the sky and watching as a muscular eight foot tall figure flew around it punching and kicking, but causing little damage to the monster that was having trouble hitting him back.

Killua stepped back with a face full of fear. What the Hell was I thinking? Fight something like that? Even Timmy God-damn Turner is having trouble. I, I can't-

"It's alright Killua," a voice said from the crater in front of him. The boy's eyes snapped down and he looked at the crater in the ground, where an injured figure using a Keyblade to push himself up looked away from him instead at the giant ape they had to fight. "Whether or not you can find it in you to face this opponent, things will work out. One way or another, they always do. You've figured that out by now, right?"

The kid who that morning thought the chances of the universe exploding by nightfall were a hundred percent, and had just given up all hope of survival, dropped his jaw at Riku's words and the sight of the older teen rushing back at the giant monster. Every time, Killua thought. Every single time I give up, these people prove me wrong. His hands balled into fists, and he whispered under his breath, "I want to fight with them."

Miles away from the fighters who made it to Driscoll's monstrous form, the others were finding ways to cross back to the mainland without the bridge. They were rushing towards a monster that looked impossible to beat, and Ben watched them all with scared eyes. "What's the matter?" an old, scratchy voice asked behind him. Ben turned around, and Usopp and Nami both looked down at the small creature who stayed back here with them and Ben. Azmuth looked up at Ben and questioned, "Why do you have that look on your face? Don't make me regret fixing this for you."

Ben shook his head and his heart hurt as he spoke, "I tried as hard as I could, with what I thought was my strongest alien. And now Driscoll's even stronger. I just, don't know if I can do this. I tried so hard to save my friends, but now, what if they…" Nami and Usopp both turned to the boy who let a tear drip out of his left eye and roll down his face. He was thinking about his best friends, Dash and Riku, the first ones to charge at the monster, and he imagined Riku getting smacked out of the air by a bone-crushing swing of the Great Ape's hand.

"Well then," Azmuth said, stepping towards Ben and hopping up to his arm, grabbing on and tugging himself onto the kid's hand. Ben shifted his arm so it was easier for Azmuth to stand and the little gray alien lifted up the top piece of Ben's Omnitrix. "If you're that afraid of what's going to happen, then get out there and stop it." He attached the top piece of Ben's Omnitrix and Ben watched as it twisted around on its own, restarting his alien-transforming device. Azmuth started twisting it himself though and he reached into his back pocket, pulled out a small slide like scientists use under microscopes, and he lifted a small piece of plastic off the top of it. Ben watched in confusion as did his pirate friends as Azmuth took the slide and pressed it down on Ben's watch. The watch glowed and Azmuth said, "I admit, there was a part of me that thought I actually might wind up fixing the watch if I came, especially if you really were the one here to convince me."

The black silhouette on the watch's hourglass finally appeared after the watch glowed bright green for several seconds, and Azmuth removed the slide. "You said you used your strongest alien and couldn't beat him? How about you try this one?" Azmuth jumped up and landed on the top of Ben's popped-up Omnitrix. He pressed down on it, and a green light enveloped Ben while the small alien leapt backwards.

Ben's skin rippled and changed color from white to blue. His arms and legs got longer and his torso covered in muscles. His skin was light blue, but navy blue patterns covered his entire body. His hair was purple and spikier than anyone the pirates next to him had ever met, which was amazing for Nexus. He had a dark red shiny orb in the center of his chest, but there was a black line going straight up and down the orb and then vertically up the rest of his blue body. The black line split around his waist and kept going down his legs, while it broke apart near his neck and made a black wrapping around it. Directly in the center of this black line that split Ben vertically, in the middle of the red core in the boy's muscular chest, was the green hourglass symbol of the Omnitrix.

"Holy-" Usopp started.

"Crap," Nami finished for him.

Ben stood twice as tall as both pirates. He lifted up his right hand and clenched it in front of his body. The air above his hand all the way up to the clouds rippled and the pirates, and even Azmuth, dropped their jaws. Ben lifted up that clenched fist in front of his face and the single eye that took up the majority of the top half of his face narrowed at it while the sharp shiny white teeth in his mouth all became visible as he smirked. The kid chuckled in a deep scary tone that sent shivers down the other three's spines, then said in that same tone, "I can work with this."

The alien took one step forward, then another as he started to jog. He ran towards the edge of the small island, and then he vanished so fast and suddenly that Nami and Usopp's eyes widened into saucers. The boy left behind only a pink line that traced where he just shot off to, and a second after that line appeared over the channel, the water dropped down into a deep trench that continued once it reached the opposite shore.

"Whoa!" Gray yelled and stumbled to the left as the ground on his right tore apart.

"Sorry about that!" A deep voice yelled back to him. Gray and all the others running across the mostly flat mainland spun their gazes after the pink trail of aura and spotted the figure inside it as he stopped moving a hundred yards in front of Driscoll.

Timmy flew up in the air after his last punch collided with Driscoll's and made a shockwave that threatened to split the island below them completely in half. He wanted the monster to focus his attacks in the sky, and thought about how much easier it was to fight when he did not have all his friends' lives to worry about too. As Ben appeared below him though, Timmy looked down at him in astonishment. "Ben?!" He shouted, unable to recognize him. He normally could not recognize Ben when the older boy was fighting as an alien, but this time his entire energy changed as well.

"It's me Timmy," Ben said, his voice calm, cocky, and full of anticipation. He did not look up at Timmy, but stared straight ahead into the glowing red eyes of the monster in front of him. "That's right Driscoll," Ben said as he knew he saw a look of recognition in the monster's eyes. "It's me, Ben," the kid said, and the lips of the Great Ape lifted up so that it could bare its pearly whites at him. "And you know what else?" Ben asked. He vanished and appeared in front of the Great Ape's face with his leg snapped up, and the Oozaru flying backwards away from him. He lowered back down his leg and watched the ape hit the ground and skid back across the island. The kid pulled back his fist and chased after the Oozaru, while yelling at the top of his lungs, "IT'S HERO TIME!"

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Several Hours Later...

In the old Forever King's great hall, a room that no longer had two of its walls and its ceiling, two dozen people were gathered. Half of them were soldiers, half of them were scientists, but there were two who did not belong to either group. Charmcaster leaned back where she stood and put her hands in her pockets. She looked ahead at her sister while the others around them all discussed loudly about what they were going to do now. "Guess we should start looking for someplace new," Charmcaster said to her longer haired sister who had her hair falling straight down contrasting Charmcaster's ponytail.

"Please don't leave." Charmcaster turned left and saw a muscular solider in full armor except a helmet looking at her pleadingly. The high-ranked officer in one of the battalions of Forever Knights held out his hands towards the witch before him, "We're at our weakest point. If anyone else comes to take the Forever Kingdom right now, we'll be destroyed for sure."

"Yes," a scientist, the leader of the scientific team actually, stepped towards the witches and agreed loudly. The others stopped talking as much as this older woman seemed to take charge. "We need to go to the Emperor and request he send a new Lord to rule the Forever Kingdom. If we stay under his protection, we will avoid the power struggle that is sure to-"

The scientist collapsed. Everyone opened their eyes wide, including Charmcaster, at the sight of Dreamcaster standing behind her with an arm extended. "It's okay," she said at the sight of all their horrified and shocked looks. "I just made her fall asleep," Dreamcaster said, though as she did the woman on the ground started writhing around from the horrible nightmares she was having. Dreamcaster smirked at the fearful looks the others started giving her and she turned her back to them. She started walking away and called out, "Enoch, Driscoll, they were idiots. I bet the next person I'm told to follow will turn out to be a fool as well."

Dreamcaster walked up steps cluttered with pieces of the roof. She reached a chair at the top and reached down, wiping the dust and debris off of it with a few swipes of her arm. "We broke off ties with the Emperor," she said in a more serious, threatening tone. She turned around and glared into the room full of subordinates and her sister who was stepping towards the steps with huge eyes. Dreamcaster smirked at her sister's awed look, and she questioned loudly, "Do you really think a man like him will accept us back? No," she shook her head and then sat down on the throne behind her. "All we can do is prepare for what he's going to try and do to us now that our forces have been severely weakened."

The woman sat on the Forever King's throne, something that Driscoll would have killed someone for. The throne meant power, and Dreamcaster just took it. The look in her eyes dared a single person in the room, even her sister, to make a noise against her. They all stayed silent. "Good," she said. The young woman leaned back in her chair and crossed her left leg over her right. "I rule this kingdom now."

"What-" Charmcaster began, and Dreamcaster darted her gaze down angrily that her sister would interrupt her crowning moment. Charmcaster gulped but then looked at her sister seriously, "What about Ben Tennyson? And the others with him?" Her older sister frowned deeply and Charmcaster continued, "They are still on the main island. I just heard that even more powerful fighters have arrived and joined them, including Son Goku."

"You think this was their final destination?" Dreamcaster scoffed. She put her arms behind her head and grinned, "Those idiots sure blabbed a lot at that feast we drugged them at. They're heading to Aebrith to save their friends and fight the King." As soon as she said it she burst out into laughter and the figures all around the room dropped their jaws wondering if she was serious. "Haha, ha, and the best part is," she said, trying hard to speak which was difficult to do between laughs. She threw her arms up in the air and in an amused voice yelled, "They actually think they can beat him!" She lowered her arms and stopped laughing, though the grin stayed on her face as her eyes narrowed and she stared through the hole in the wall out towards the main island. "They have no idea what they're getting themselves into."

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A/N Hope you guys enjoyed the chapter! Some pretty intense battles and it almost looked like the universe was going to end there for a minute... though I doubt I tricked anyone into believing it XD. Tell me what you thought of the arc, comments about the story, or predictions/questions about the future of Nexus. I hope everyone had a good Valentine's Day, and will have a great Mardi Gras weekend! Dr. Genus is the scientist from One Punch Man who created the House of Evolution. The rest of the villains were all from Ben 10, (except for Dreamcaster who I created in my other fanfic Nightmares XD ). Anyway, review responses:

joebob323 chapter 16 . Feb 7

I predict... that the forever knight will die! Not a painful one, but if he thinks he is as strong as a saiyan, he is in for a huge surprise...in goku's base form, he might be about equal, but even then, goku has 3 more transformations that even with his blood, no human can access... on a brighter note, have you seen DBS, the new arc? It's pretty cool, and the animation techniques are back to the old style!

Nice prediction haha! Thanks for the review, guess you were probably right on that guess even though I did end the fight a little vaguely. I definitely agree that had Goku been there, this would have ended very quickly. Hope you guys don't think I nerfed Timmy too much for this battle, he did have to face most of the enhanced soldiers, and the Forever Ninja before even seeing Oozaru-Driscoll, so it shouldn't be too tough to believe. I agree that this new DBS arc looks awesome! Can't wait for some awesome Roshi, Tien, Krillin, and ANDROID 17 battles against the strongest fighters in the multiverse!

Espada-001 chapter 16 . Feb 7

Well it's certainly dangerous that the Forever Knights got their hands on some of Goku's DNA. That's is if they live long enough to see any actual results. Saiyan's are strong theirs no doubt about that however that's only because they get stronger through trial of combat. Sure they might give an initial boost of strength but if they want to see any actual results they're going to have to grind it out. Hell Ben's watch would give him a better boost since it uses only the best DNA to put him at the pinnacle of each respective race, to be honest I can't remember if I said this already but Ben's watch is likely to have given him the DNA of a Legendary Super Saiyan. Anyway I did enjoy the chapter and I can't wait to see more of one of the smartest if not the smartest characters ever come into play some more in future chapters. Well that's all I have for now so until next time have a wonderful evening and I can't wait for the next chapter! Goodnight! :)

Those Forever Knights definitely got some good use out of that DNA, and out of Natsu's Dragon-y stuff too for Animo's creations. The fact that the enhanced soldiers did not have any training with their powers was a main reason that they lost all control and fell apart, though really, is injecting a different species DNA into your system ever a good idea? XD guess not! Animo thought he had it under control, but Driscoll brutally crushed his skull before starting his fight against our heroes. You called it with Ben's Saiyan form being stronger than theirs, however I would argue with the Legendary Super Saiyan thing for one reason, and that's that Azmuth did not put the DNA in the watch. Ben did not get "the best DNA" from the Saiyans, he probably got a sample from one of the Saiyans he knows who he bumped his watch into one day. If he hit Gohan with his watch to be able to become a Saiyan, he wouldn't get DNA with the mutation that makes a Saiyan into a Legendary, I think he would have had to hit Broly himself to get that. Anyway, hope you enjoyed the chapter, and thanks for the review! Sorry the chapter took a while :P

Darugus chapter 16 . Feb 8

If you don't mind me asking what is the time limit on the omitrix for transformation

Don't mind at all, but I'm not too sure. Watched the show a lot, it was never really specified. It just seemed to run out at the right time or right in the middle of a fight. Since Ben has more control over transforming now, the whole being able to transform multiple times in the same go thing, he probably has a better idea of how long he can last, but he will have problems with that in the future... But no spoilers. Thanks for the review!

-Thanks again to everyone who reviewed, faved, and followed this story. I'll have another update up soon. 'Till next time!