Underground Omniverse
Gammatron: Hey guys. I own no one in this story nor the series of Sonic Underground, Ben 10 Series, or the BlazBlue series. I do own Roll Cyber Sakurai, Volt Thunderstorm Sakurai, and Jazz Blizzard Sakurai though.
Rebel 12: Ben Again
It was a nice late-morning in a semi-small city. In that city was a Mr. Smoothy building instead of a cart. The sign for it sported a giant smoothie cup holding a smoothie cup with feet resembling green and red swirled straws. Its large bulbous nose was then blasted off as a blue and black blur zipped by, dodging more laser shots. It stopped, revealing XLR8.
"Seriously? Your name is Eon? Like E-yawn!" XLR8 taunted.
Standing nearby was a strange man. His pale, ashen complexion was riddled with wrinkles and black lips. He narrowed his onyx eyes behind his deep indigo helmet's magenta visor. He wore black robes with dark indigo trimming and silver armor on his lower arms-minus the hands-, shoulder armor, torso armor, and boots. He began to fire more laser shots from his gloves, XLR8 zipping all around him.
"Your juvenile taunts won't save you, Ben Tennyson," Eon informed as his hands glowed with purple energy.
"Save me from what?" Eon yelped as he was kicked in the rear before XLR8 appeared before him, "You can't hit me."
"I won't have to. Time is on my side," Eon sneered as he pointed a thumb at himself.
XLR8 rushed at him. Eon swung his cape up to hide the slightly-dented RV behind him. He moved it to the side, revealing the Underground Bus in its place. Diamondhead grunted as he collided with it face first. He pulled his face out and faced Eon, the man blocking Sonia and Sonic's laser shots with a single blast from his left hand while ducking under a right hook Makoto swung that ended with her getting hit by a magic-thrown boulder Manic had sent via drums.
"What? No weird time beams or whatever? Not your usual style, Eon," Diamondhead noted.
"The only thing predictable about me is that I'm unpredictable!" Eon replied as he reaching into his robe and pulled out an indigo-colored bronze knuckle that projected a violet beam sword from it while his left lower arm's guard glowed to form a violet energy shield.
"Unpredictable, but lame," Diamondhead yawned before his left arm turned into a sword of his own body, "Now this is a sword!"
With that, the two began to sword battle. Eon ducked under Makoto's tail swing before finally kicking XLR8 back. It was then the Omnitrix timed out.
"A-ha! Just what I was waiting for!" Eon sneered as he rushed out and grabbed the Omnitrix.
A green burst of energy roared out of the device before Ben was sent back into Sonic. Ben groaned as he began to get up from hitting the wall. He rubbed his head to try to calm down his aching head. Was it just him or was everything bigger?
"I don't know what that was about. But now it's my turn!" Ben declared, "Though, did everything get bigger?"
His answer was given to him when he turned to the window of a mirror shop and yelped. There was him, but he was eleven! His shirt was a bit bigger than he remembered, it being primarily white with the sleeves' trimming being black along with a black stripe going up to and then around his collar. He wore baggy olive-green pants with various pockets. And his Omnitrix was bulkier with a circular top to it, the center sporting the Omnitrix symbol and a green button near the direction of his body.
"This is weird," Ben noted, "I'm 16 now? And, sweet, new Omnitrix!"
"Uh, Ben? Are you okay, dude?" Manic pondered.
"Ah! Talking green hedgehog!" Ben yelped.
"What's with you?" Sonia pondered.
"I hope I can still work this thing," Ben gulped.
He pressed the green button. The center rose up and the symbol inside changed into a green diamond with a black outline of the alien inside. He cycled through them and slapping down on it. In a flash of green light, he had been replaced with a short, possibly the height of the average six-year-old human child, alien. Its skin/fur was a pure white while her had large four-fingered arms, stubby feet, and wore a black leotard with the arms cut off. He had solid green eyes and a black helmet-like attachment with the Omnitrix symbol on it.
"Ditto? Wow! I haven't used Ditto, since…forever!" the alien shrugged.
He jumped into the air and split into twenty of himself in a second flat. Eon cried out as he was dogpiled on by the Dittos. The Dittos began to talk amongst themselves as they began to pummel Eon until he went through the floor.
"Oh come on!" Ditto Prime groaned.
"Where'd he go?' Ditto 20 asked.
"I don't suppose we pummeled him into oblivion, did we?" Ditto 7 pondered with a smile.
"Meh. Whatever, man, at least we got rid of him," Ditto 11 noted.
"Score One for the little guy!" Ditto 9 cheered.
"Not score one for the little guy," Ditto 19 gulped as he shakingly pointed ahead, "Look!"
The other Dittos turned and gasped. There was the RV. The bottom had bits of rust on it while the roof sported multiple satellite dishes and antennae. Ditto 8 punched himself.
"OW!" all 20 cried out.
"It…It's real," Ditto Prime gasped, tears forming in their eyes.
"Ben!"
All 20 turned and nearly sobbed. Running up to them was a girl around 12 with bright orange hair neatly combed down to her shoulders with a blue hairclip, green eyes, a blue shirt of light and dark shaped that sported a cat head design on the front, and white short-pants. The other was a man in his sixties. He had grey hair, a rotund belly, white bellbottom pants, a black shirt, and a Hawaiian shirt over it.
"G…Grandpa Max," Ditto 3 choked back a cry.
"Gwen!" Ditto 16 sobbed as he hugged her before Ditto's time ran out, turning them back into one Ben, still hugging Gwen and shaking, "It…It's you. You as a kid!"
"What are you talking about? You sound weirder than usual," the girl noted.
"Eon's a dangerous opponent. A crafty one to face against," the old man pointed out before Ben hugged him.
"Grandpa…You…You're both alive," Ben whispered.
"Easy, Ben. We're alive," Max assured, "Though, you don't exactly sound like Ben right now."
"It…It's a long story," Ben replied, wiping his tears off with his right arm, "Right now, I'm glad I get to see you both again."
"Eon did something, didn't he, Ben?" Max asked, putting a hand on Ben's shoulder.
"I think he placed my eleven-year old mind in my sixteen-year old body," Ben replied, "Poor younger me…He must be freaked out."
"What do you mean his mind's regressed to his eleven-year old self?!"
"Th-th-that's what the s-s-s-scans say," Cyrus gulped as he hid behind an overturned bed with Ben, Sonic, and Manic from the livid magenta hedgehog.
"Still, this is pretty awesome. I'm a teenager now!" Ben grinned.
"Interesting…" Eon's voice spoke before he appeared nearby, "A full temporal consciousness conversion. Not the effect I was going for, but it should still have the desired result."
"You're still here?" Ben frowned, "I'll fix that."
"Wait, Ben-kun," Makoto advised, "You don't know how to work it yet."
"Aw man," Ben frowned.
"Where is Paradox?!" Eon demanded.
"Para-who?" Ben pondered.
"Paradox? Isn't that the guy you said was the one that most likely saved Nun-Kaka?" Sonic asked.
"Ugh! The time-travelling busy-body who shows up whenever you make a mess of the time stream!" Eon growled as he pointed at Ben, "He's possibly more annoying than the Doctor."
"Never heard of him, dude. And I hate doctors," Ben replied.
"The Time Lord!" Eon snarled before facepalming, "Of course you wouldn't know Paradox or what a Time Lord is. You haven't met Paradox yet. He'll go to the other one."
"Oh, no you don't!" Roll and Sonic called as they tackled Eon just as he was leaving, taking them with him.
"Bro! Step Sis!" Manic gasped.
"So if you're really from the future, what's it like?" Gwen asked as Ben drank a pickle, kumquat, and chocolate smoothie before he began to choke on his drink as she asked, "What am I like?"
"I…I, uh…" Ben stammered between coughs.
"Gwen, I think it's best we try not to ask about what our future selves are like," Max noted, "We can learn a bit about his future, but not too much. It may alter the time stream even more than what's happening now."
"Thanks, Grandpa," Ben recovered with a small smile at the older man.
"So what were you doing before all this?" Gwen asked.
"I was travelling with my friends. We got a lead on Sonic, Sonia, and Manic's mom when Eon showed up and flipped the place we've been travelling and living in over," Ben explained, "The three I mentioned are royal triplets who lost their throne in the first year of their birth to a dictator named Ivo Robotnik. Their father died protecting their mom as she fled with them, having to separate them into three homes to be safe. I'm part of a resistance group known as the Freedom Fighters to help liberate their home. Luckily, we have Sonic's fiancé Roll Sakurai with her Wisp partner Yacker, who turns into blades for Roll to use in battle to go with her speed, and Makoto Nanaya, a Squirrel Beastkin with super strength and dangerous tonfa strapped to her arms."
"You're involved with a civil war?" Gwen gasped, "Yeah right…"
"Has the resistance been using Guerrilla Tactics?" Max interrupted.
"Yeah. We've been blowing up Robotnik's Roboticization and Machine Factories to weaken his forces," Ben replied, "As well as outwitting his subordinates, Sleet and Dingo, in various schemes to take over another town."
"Grandpa, how can you believe him?" Gwen asked.
"It's in his eyes," Max replied, "I know that look in them all too well. You've seen opposing forces in war, killing each other without mercy. During my time as an on-the-field Plumber, I've had to take a life at times when there was no other choice."
Ben nodded, 'And it was my own hands that killed everyone.' "Though, you and Gwen were pretty cool before I joined the war. I miss you both a lot at times."
"No more spoilers, Ben," Max advised.
"I know. But, well, I just wanted to tell you both that," Ben replied.
"Ah, such a pure heart despite the blood on your hands, young Benjamin."
Ben's eyes widened as the three turned to see a man in his possibly late thirties approach. He wore a white lab coat and black pants, the coat sporting gold trimming. Over the lapels of the
coat was red and black shogun armor. He wore brown Victorian era military boots, bronze kneecap guards, a formal brown military shirt with gold belt, and gold Victorian-era shoulder guards. His lab coat also had various pockets sewn onto the outside and inside while around his neck was a pair of goggles with green tinted lenses. His right hand was covered in a silver gauntlet with his left hand holding a cane.
"Professor Paradox!" Ben gasped as he ran over to the gentleman, "I'm talking to the Paradox that saved Nun-Kaka, right?"
"Ah, it seems that Eon targeted you after the Forever Calamity," the man replied as he knelt down to Ben, putting his gauntlet-covered hand on Ben's shoulder, "I'm sorry, Benjamin, I'm so sorry."
"It…It's fine," Ben replied, struggling to hold back his pain, before he changed the subject, "What's with the Steampunk makeover?"
"Let's just say that I have been forced to make more forceful actions as of late involving temporal affairs. It's become open war-fare on the Space-Time Continuum, I'm afraid," Paradox replied with a small sigh as he stood up, "And it's centered around Gallifrey."
"A Time War?" Ben gulped, "If I was younger, I would have thought that would be cool."
"Uh, Ben? Do you want to introduce us to your friend here?" Max asked.
"Oh, my apologies, Maxwell, I have you at a disadvantage. Or I will have had you at a disadvantage. Time travel makes verb tenses so confusing," Paradox admitted, "I am Professor Paradox, an immortal human and friend to the Time Lords of Gallifrey, and named such for ironic reasons I will not be going into."
"The Time Lords?" Max repeated, "You mentioned a war. So, the Daleks are on the move on killing all Time Lords?"
"Indeed," Paradox replied, "Ben, a word?" Ben nodded as he and Paradox walked a few meters away from Max and Gwen, "I know you wish to try and change it, but…"
"It's one of the events that can't be altered, can it?"
"That was the only good outcome I was able to perform," Paradox sadly replied, "And even then, it was horrific. But, more important at the moment, we don't have much time so listen carefully. Eon will not stop until he has absolute power over everything, which is why he started the Time War. All timelines, all alternate realities, everything."
"But…You know how to stop him, right?" Ben gulped, managing to suppress his urge to punch Paradox.
"Yes and no." Ben felt his urge getting stronger, "I've managed to trap Eon in this timeline only. He can travel to the past or the future freely but he's powerless to access any alternate realities."
"That's…good?"
"Yes, but the key to his escaping this timeline is my Chrono-Navigator," Paradox explained, "And he will stop at nothing to get to it."
"Chrono-what with the who now?"
"My pocket watch, of course," Paradox replied, "Think of it as a GPS or a Time And Relative Dimensions In Space vehicle for the Multiverse. I've taken great pain to camouflage it for safekeeping. You must keep the Chrono-Navigator out of Eon's hands at all costs. Do you understand?"
Before Ben could reply, a purple light caught their eyes. Eon grunted as he was sent into the pole with the Mr. Smoothy's sign as Sonic and Roll spun in the air and landed before Ben and Paradox.
"Ben-kun?" Roll pondered as she saw Ben.
"%%H#fD!-!-!" Yacker screamed as he pointed at Ben in shock.
"Wow. You sure dress weird," Sonic noted before he tackled Paradox, Ben, and Roll down as a purple beam raced over them.
"The Chrono-Navigator! Give it to me, Time Walker!"
"You know very well that that is never going to happen," Paradox replied as he stood up and assumed a fencing stance with his cane.
"Then I'll just have to take it from you!" Eon hissed as he summoned his blade.
The two charged at each other and swung their blades, entering a stalemate. Eon attempted to punch and Paradox ducked it, managing to use his gauntlet-covered fist to strike Eon in the gut. Sonic, Roll, and Ben were about to charge in when Paradox spotted them.
"No, Ben, King Sonic, Queen Roll, this is not your fight!" Paradox shouted before he cried out as his gauntlet-and hand-were sliced off, "Do what you will, Eon. You will never get your hands on the device you seek."
"Time will tell," Eon replied before the two started vanishing in a purple light, leaving behind Paradox's gauntlet.
"Don't worry, you three! I'm sure you have the important matters well in hand!" Paradox called out as he vanished with Eon.
"Oh no," Roll whispered as she ran over and picked it up, "It…It's robotic."
"Well in hand…" Ben whispered before his eyes widened, "Of course! Roll, that's the Chrono-Navigator!"
"Time-Navigator?" Roll blinked as Yacker scratched his head.
"A Wisp," Max gasped, earning a look of recognition from Yacker.
"Max!" Yacker shouted as he began to fly around the old man happily, "Max!"
"So you're this 'Max-san' that Yacker-chan talks about so happily," Roll giggled before bowing to him, "Ware wa Sakurai Cyber Roll, Sonikku is my Anata."
"Ben, mind explaining who that was and what's going on here?" Sonic asked.
"Let's talk in the Rust Bucket. For once, I'm actually hungry for some of Grandpa's cooking," Ben replied.
"This is so cool!" Ben beamed, "What does this thing do?"
"Ben-kun, please don't touch anything," Makoto advised, pulling the 11-year old in the 16-year old body away from a computer.
"We still need to figure out where that guy took Bro and Step Sis," Manic frowned as he typed on a computer, "We've got no reports from the Eastern or Southern Freedom Fighters."
"Miyuki-sama is a bit miffed at Roll and Sonic vanishing," Sonia noted on another computer while blushing, "But she also mentions that during this time, fear would pump adrenaline and hormones into them and you do not want to know what's she saying right now."
"Yes, I do," Manic replied, earning a rock to the forehead, "Ah! Hey that was-Where did Ben go?"
"Huh?" Makoto turned to see Ben was missing, "Augh! Not again!"
=CORE JETTISON IN TEN…NINE…EIGHT…SE…=
"Beeeeeen!-!-!" Cyrus nearly roared as he stomped over to where Ben was sitting at a computer and turned it off just as it reached 'TWO' in the countdown.
"So…uh…Got any games on this thing?" Ben asked, laughing sheepishly at the scowling Cyrus and the frowning Makoto, her hands on her toned hips.
"Makoto, go to the kitchen with Ben and get him his usual," Cyrus ordered as he took a deep breath, "If he stays in here, I'll most likely enter a feral anger and rip his throat out."
"But I'm not sure what he likes right now," Makoto replied, "I mean, from what I'm guessing, his mind is from when he was 11. I only know him at 16."
"I do."
Everyone turned to see nothing. A whistle made them look down and blinked. The figure was GreyMatter, but he wore black and green robes with whiskers on the sides of his head and a beard of long whiskers.
"A GreyMatter?" Makoto pondered.
"Galvan! I'll have you know that I am Azmuth, creator of the Omnitrix," the Galvan snorted, making the four of the present's eyes widen.
"You made Ben's helpful device?" Manic asked, "Wicked."
"How did you find him?"
"By a promise I made to him years ago," Azmuth replied, "I was to come here on this day at this time when I got the signal for the Ultimatrix after he made me swear on it. Quite the persuasive boy, he is."
"Maybe you can tell us what's wrong, then. Ben says he's 11, yet we all know he's 16," Cyrus informed.
"Hmm…Seems that the Time Walker's done something brilliant once more," Azmuth sarcastically noted, "Tell me, did he come into contact with a being known as 'Eon?'"
"Yes," Sonia replied.
"Cerebral Temporal Conversion," Azmuth said.
"…What?" Makoto tilted her head.
"You mean the theory that if time travel is possible, the mind would be the only thing that went back in time, correct?" Cyrus asked.
"It's not a theory anymore," Azmuth replied, "Eon must have done something to cause it, meaning that our Ben is in the past and we have the idiot."
"Hey!"
"Then again, he's an idiot now as well."
"Hey!"
"But this one is much worse, seeing the Omnitrix more of a toy to play with than what it was truly meant to do!"
"He-well, I guess?"
"What it was truly meant to do?" Sonia blinked.
"It's meant to be an item of peace, letting proverbially walk a mile in another's 'shoes' by letting them turn into another alien," Azmuth explained.
"I guess that means I got cool enough to get this new Omnitrix then," Ben smirked.
"We're still not letting you learn how to use the alien forms until otherwise," Sonia informed, making Ben pout.
"Anyways, that wasn't me. I have no idea what you're talking about, Azmuth," Ben noted.
"Then that means the older you asked me to do this," Azmuth noted, "Knowing that I was keeping an eye on you." He proceeded to sigh in annoying, "All this time travel nonsense is giving me a headache. Now as I recall, he made ask him to take him to Galvan B, the moon where the Galvanic Mechamorphs live, with a girl named Makoto, a hedgehog named Sonia, and a 'hedgehog with sticky fingers' named 'Mechanic.'"
"Manic, actually," the green hedgehog correct.
"Very well."
"You are a timid fool, Paradox."
The skies were a mixture of red and black clashing in chaotic collisions. All over, cities were floating all over, destroyed beyond recognition of their former selves. A Mr. Smoothy sign, the left eye destroyed, was on its side, the savage path of time having done its thing on it. Nearby, Paradox was bound to a technological ring by violet energy.
"Just because you never took full advantage of the Chrono-Navigator's power, doesn't mean I won't," Eon continued as he approached him.
"Yes, but in anyone else's hands but mine could cause irrefutable damage to the time stream or destroy all of time causality itself," Paradox replied, "In-In any event, I couldn't give it to you even if I wish to do. Heh-heh. That's because I don't have it."
"Hmm…No, you don't, do you? You are many things, Paradox, but a liar you are not."
"Precisely. Now if you would be so kind as to loosen these shackles, I shall be on my way."
"What's the rush? We have all the time in the world," Eon replied as he walked away from Paradox.
Sonic and Roll slept soundly on the top fold-out bed in the back of the RV, Gwen sound asleep on the lower bed. Max snored at the driver's seat, the seat pulled all the way back to act as a bed. Outside, Ben held the Chrono-Navigator under an arm as he had the Omnitrix active. He had learned how to lock and unlock the aliens he had when he as 16 as a gift from Azmuth along with ten new ones for doing a good job with it. He moved it in just a way, not too many turns yet not too few turns. Soon, he had a blackened out image of the alien he wanted and slapped down.
"Big…Chill!" the lithe moth alien declared softly, "Okay, it won't be safe with me, so I need to do my best with it…I need Azmuth."
With that, Big Chill spread his wings out and flew off into space. This was his fastest form that could breath in space.
A sphere of light glowed on a black and green piece of ground before it faded, revealing Ben, Makoto, Manic, Sonia, and Azmuth in space suits. The four non-Galvan members awed as they saw various Galvanic Mechamorphs coexisting in a massive city.
"Welcome to Galvan B," Azmuth introduced, "Come. He said there was something for himself at the Helix."
"The Helix?" Sonia repeated.
"It is where the Galvanic Mechamorphs were born," Azmuth explained as the four taller members walked along the path, "It is also where my greatest mistake was conceived."
"Your greatest mistake?" Makoto repeated.
"Tell me, has our time's Ben even muttered in his sleep?"
"Yeah," Manic replied, "I sleep right under him so I hear the dude perfectly clear. He…He keeps crying and mumbling apologies; that he should've been stronger, that he failed to protect."
Ben looked at Manic in confusion. He never said anything in his sleep. Azmuth sighed.
"I was afraid of this. I was curious as to why Ben is only 16 still when he should be 27," Azmuth sighed, making them stare at him in shock.
"It's been that long?" Sonia pondered.
"I'm an adult? Awesome!" Ben whooped.
"You're only 16 physically and 11 mentally," Azmuth snorted, "Now be good and I'll get you a smoothie."
"A smoothie?! Yuck!" Ben shuddered.
"Oh, yes. I forgot that you hated smoothies until you turned fourteen," Azmuth recalled, "After that, you would normally hang out there with your cousin Gwen and Kevin Levin."
"Kevin Eleven?!" Ben gawked, "No way! Now I know this is some freaky alternate messed up universe!"
"The young Osmosian-Human changed thanks to the time spent with you and Gwen. He became a good guy. In fact, good enough that your cousin began dating him."
"What?! Ugh! That is sick!" Ben shouted in disgust, "That's even more gross than smoothies!"
They entered a massive helix-shaped construct after that. They went down an elevator to a mile below the ground, entering a massive black and green data-themed chamber. In the center was a pyramid with a green and red helix on the top.
"This is the Helix," Azmuth informed, "This is where the Galvanic Mechamorphs were born."
"But why did we have to come here?" Makoto asked.
"I don't know, Ben never told me!" Azmuth replied.
"Hey! A Sumo Slammers sticker!" Ben beamed, noticing a sticker of a sumo on a wall nearby near a hole smaller than Azmuth, "That's my favorite one, too!"
"Etched right into the wall. What could do that?" Makoto pondered as she knelt down as well.
"Hmm…It seems he designed this hole for a creature smaller than a Galvan," Azmuth noted.
"Do you think our Ben left this as a clue?" Sonia pondered.
"Possibly. Override Code, vocal user: Azmuth."
=OMNITRIX UNLOCKED – WELCOME AZMUTH=
"Huh?" Ben looked at his Omnitrix to see it turn on.
Azmuth hopped onto Ben's arm and cycled through the aliens before selecting one. In a flash of light, Ben had been replaced with an alien just barely smaller than the hole. He was made out of an organic metal of sorts in grey coloring with green items infused into it with a single green eye on its head and green data insect wings.
"Ah. Nanomech," Azmuth noted, "Quite a clever boy, Ben."
"Oh, wow. A brand new alien!" Nanomech beamed, "Ugh! My voice is so squeaky!"
Manic fell over, laughing.
"You have me believe the Chrono-Navigator was with young Tennyson. So what did you have then, that you don't have now?" Eon pondered before seeing the missing hand, slowly forming back, "Clever. Very clever."
"Nothing gets by you, does it?" Paradox asked.
"Now that I know the answer, I will return to the moment I severed your hand and…"
"With two time travelers already there?" Paradox interrupted, raising a brow, "Plus Ben's condition along with King Sonic and Queen Roll? You are well aware that the fabric of space-time is stretched dangerously thin at that particular moment? If you go back there now, you could cause a Rupture, and when a Rupture occurs, Ameterasu will find the source and delete it."
Eon's pale skin turned paler at that. He had completely forgot about Amaterasu and how much power it held.
"Hmm…That is true. But there is another way."
"Rrrgh…!" Nanomech grunted as he pushed out a yellowed roll of paper.
"There was a scroll in the hole?" Sonia pondered.
"Heh-heh. Sis is a poet and doesn't even know it," Manic joked, earning an elbow to the waist by said sister.
"Why would Ben leave a scroll?" Sonia pondered as she opened it, "Random numbers and the words 'Spidermonkey' and 'Primus?'"
"Primus?" Azmuth pondered as he hopped onto her shoulder, "Ah ha! These are co-ordinates on Primus and, if I'm reading this correctly, the alien he used!"
"So it's a scavenger hunt?" Makoto pondered.
"An intergalactic one at that," Azmuth replied.
"Mou…I really wish that Mai-chan was here. She could kiss the scroll and tell us what he did with whatever Ben-kun hid," Makoto pouted.
"Well, since she isn't here and we don't know who she is, we'll have to go through with this," Sonia sighed, "It could also help us find Sonic and Roll."
"Sonic and Roll? You mean Roll Sakurai, correct?" Azmuth asked.
"You…know them?" Makoto asked.
"Know them? Heh. I'm their kids' godfather," Azmuth replied with a smirk, causing the group, except for the confused Ben, to gawk, "They're living on Primus, taking care of Eunice."
Azmuth snapped his left hand's fingers. The group glowed before they vanished.
Spidermonkey swung through the trees, chattering as he dodged large, wolf-sized mosquito robots. He jumped onto one and flew all the way up to near a steep Cliffside near a green slime waterfall pouring from a volcano. He slid a piece of paper into place and covered the hole. Spidermonkey opened up the hole and pulled it out. He nodded to Azmuth and the robot mosquito flew down to the others. Spidermonkey opened it up and Azmuth looked at the scroll.
"Once we stop by to visit my goddaughter and godson, we're heading for another planet," Azmuth informed.
Sonia and Manic gulped. Azmuth had told them that Sonic and Roll had been brought to Azmuth almost 17 years back, who managed to hit off with the Galvan and ended up making him the godfather of any children they had. The group walked through the jungle around the mountain before coming upon a farm-like area. Azmuth explained that the water surrounding the farm was constantly refreshed and renewed from multiple resources that didn't go near the green slime or, as Azmuth informed them, the Codon Stream where all of Ben's Alien DNA was.
Manic walked a bit before his foot stepped on a near-invisible wire. Inside the house on the other side of the farm, a set of three bells rang and a pair of scarlet eyes and a pair of cyan eyes opened. As they began to near the home, a yellow blur and a blue blur slammed into them and knocked them away. Azmuth, who had been on Ben's shoulder, had managed to jump at the last second and onto the ground. He whistled and the blurs stopped, revealing they were a Mobian hedgehog and a Mobian Hedgefox.
The first blur was the hedgehog, his quills a brilliant gold, his fur a golden peach, and his eyes a stunning scarlet. He wore an inversed pair of Sonic's shoes, black gloves, and black socks. Lightning sparks on his hands as he beamed while looking down.
The second figure was the Hedgefox, her fur and quills and gentle shade of blue with her muzzle a gentle ivory and her eyes a cold cyan. Sonia noticed that aside from the shoulder length hair and different coloring, she looked exactly like Roll in appearance. The Hedgefox wore a pair of hip-hugging jeans, a tight tee that pushed up her bosom with its built-in bra, and black fingerless gloves. Makoto saw small vapors of ice every time the Hedgefox breathed softly.
"Konnichiwa, Azmuth-Oji-san," the Hedgefox greeted.
"Yo, gramps," the hedgehog winked.
"Jazz, Volt," Azmuth nodded before turning to the others, "Sonia, Manic, I wish to introduce to you Volt Thunderstorm Sakurai and Jazz Blizzard Sakurai, the fraternal twin children of Sonic and Roll."
"Eh?!" the two gasped.
"What's going on out there?" a voice pondered.
"Mou…Too early," a second voice muttered.
Sonic and Roll emerged from the house next, slightly taller and a bit more filled out in her breasts, derriere, and hips for Roll's case. The hedgehog wore a red plaid shirt that was torn at the bottom, where the sleeves had been, and the front to remove the buttons. Roll wore a pink and black plain-looking sundress with a large sunhat.
"Bro?!" Manic gawked.
"Took you long enough," the blue hedgehog joked, earning a giggle from the Hedgefox.
"So you ended up with our Ben in the past," Makoto noted.
"Yeah. He was gone for a whole month after we came to the past," Sonic explained, "Pain in the bum since we had to hide for a whole month. And no Chili-Dogs! I had to eat Max's cooking!"
"You had Grandpa's cooking? Dude, I feel your pain," Ben nodded.
"How did…When did…?" Sonia tried to ask as she looked out at Jazz and Volt collecting fruits and vegetables.
"Well, what did you expect us to do for almost 17 years?" Sonic asked as he pulled Roll into his lap, "Especially when I had a beautiful angel with me?"
"Oh you," Roll giggled with a blush.
"You kiss and I am going to scream," Ben warned, causing the two to laugh.
"So why didn't you try to interfere with Robotnik's takeover?" Sonia asked.
"Then what reason would we have in getting Ben and Makoto? What reason would I have to end up with Roll?" Sonic asked, "Time travel is very complex. Slightest changes in the past can result in events unthinkable."
A green slime raced through a pipe system. Eventually, the slime ended up in a five human-sized chamber. The slime formed into a humanoid shape with solid green eyes and a tiny UFO over its head. He pressed a finger on a wall and the wall steamed, the slime acting as a powerful acid to write something. The slime slithered out of a bathroom stall on an alien carnival planet, the inside of it sporting a bit of the piping with the location and alien name written on it.
"Good job, Goop," Makoto beamed.
Ghostfreak emerged inside a red nuclear chamber with a shard of Diamondhead crystal. He etched out the location on a wall. The door to a nuclear chamber on a planet of nuclear-powered sentient robotic humanoid wolves slid open and a large figure made of a dark-green and gray metal stepped out, the 'face' being four red vents, the Omnitrix symbol on the torso, and a handle on the top of the head. He held up the chunk with the location and name of the alien on it to the others. Jazz swung her hands and a wave of icy wind hit the alien, cooling down his body armor.
"Arigatou, NRG-san," Jazz bowed.
Volt held a shovel in his hand as he sat on the back of a large orange-furred, eyeless alien with black lips and a dog-like appearance. The alien had a green collar and black and silver shoulder guards, the Omnitrix symbol on the collar. Gill-like slits on the sides of the alien's neck flared before the alien grinned and made an 'X' on the ground of the cave they were in. The two went to digging. They walked out, covered in dirt, and holding a fossilized bone showing the location and alien name.
"Nice job, Wildmutt," Volt beamed.
"Are you sure this is the correct location?" Sonic pondered as they appeared in Azmuth's lab.
"Eeyup, Pops," Volt replied.
"How did he hide the next location in my lab?" Azmuth pondered.
"It's crazy that we ended up here," Manic noted.
"It's brilliant! No one would ever think to look for something where the treasure hunt begins!" Ben grinned.
"Oh, you're brilliant, Ben-kun!" Makoto cheered as she hugged him, earning a blush from the 11-year old in the 16-year old's body.
"Well, when you put it that way, it does seem ingenious," Sonia noted.
"It said we needed to use Big Chill," Sonia noted as she looked at the bone.
"Who?" Ben pondered as Azmuth set the Omnitrix and activated it, turning into the Necrofriggian, "This guy?"
Big Chill went intangible and slid through the ground. He floated back out and changed back into Ben, holding Paradox's gauntlet.
"I didn't find any numbers, but I did find this near arm," Ben grinned.
"The Chrono-Navigator!" Sonic and Roll gasped.
"And now it's finally mine," Eon's voice echoed before a time portal appeared, letting Eon walk out from behind Ben and swiped the gauntlet from him.
"Hey!" Ben barked.
"And thanks to you, it is now…Mine!" Eon declared before he began to cackle as the Chrono-Navigator began to glow, "It is amazing. All the time lines, every alternate reality…I can see them all and they're all mine!"
"Eon, I am so gonna clean your clock," Ben scowled before slapping his Omnitrix, "Rath!-!-! Huh? Lemme tell ya somethin', new Omnitrix; Rath didn't want Rath! Rath wanted Way Big!"
Eon raised the Chrono-Navigator into the air and the entire upper half of Azmuth's lab turned to dust, revealing the dark skies above. Purple lightning raced out of the gauntlet and opened up time vortexes. They deposited multiple duplicates of figures in the same jumpsuit Eon wore with helmets that hid their faces. They pulled out purple energy katanas as Yacker floated around Sonic.
"I've got 'em," Sonic informed, "Yacker, Laser."
"LASER!" Yacker declared as he turned into his cyan form.
Sonic jumped into the air. Yacker spun around Sonic before they did a high-five. Yacker entered Sonic and he curled up into a ball. Cyan data swirled around the hedgehog before he rocketed off as a cyan laser, bouncing off the minions of Eon and vaporizing them. He landed on the opposite side of the room, Yacker emerging from him.
"Done and done," Sonic smirked.
"Sugei, Tou-chan, sugei!" Jazz cheered.
"Oh, but there's more where that came from," Eon replied as he held the gauntlet into the air once more, summoning more minions.
The minions charged at the group. Rath roared as he tackled one and threw it into three more. Nearby, the royal triplets summoned their instruments and began to play, firing a volley of lasers with Roll using her Laser Rapier.
"Lightning Blitz!" Volt roared as he sent a barrage of plane-shaped bolts of lightning at the minions.
"Winter Wave!" Jazz called as she swept her arms, releasing a wave of ice that froze the minions.
"The holes in time! They're not closing!" Roll gasped.
All around them, purple 'scars' began to form. One opened up, revealing Gwen berating Young (16) Ben about leaving for a month without telling anyone, Sonic, Roll, and Max nearby.
"Gwen Tennyson?!" Rath exclaimed as he paused in punching a minion.
"Ben?" Gwen pondered, stopping her berating.
"Aw man! So this means I couldn't stop Eon from getting the gauntlet?!" Young (16) Ben groaned as another 'scar' opened to reveal Paradox.
"Careful, children! Crossing over the time warp can have disastrous consequences!"
"What is this, Time Walker?!" Eon demanded as more 'scars' appeared, "You tricked me!"
"On the contrary, I warned you! Stop this now or all existence will be destroyed or, if we're that unlucky, Ameterasu will come and get us all, incurring the Continuum Shift!" Paradox called out.
"No! If I cannot rule the cosmos, then I will be the one to destroy it!" Eon declared as he used the Chrono-Navigator once more.
Young (16) Ben quickly used the Omnitrix. His form glowed before turning into a plant-made alien. It had four vines for legs, four-fingered hands, a Venus Fly Trap for shoulders, and pods on its back. Its back had a single green eye and a leaf-shaped spike on the top.
"Then it's time for Wildvine to take it back!" the alien declared.
His front 'legs' went into the ground before shooting out into longer tentacles. They raced for Eon, only to break apart near the 'scar'. Eon fired shots through the 'scar' and they went through. Wildvine yelped as he barely avoided the shots.
"Lemme tell ta somethin', Eon; Leave Rath's younger, older self alone!" Rath roared before he performed a tackle that sent Eon into the 'scar,' causing the man to cry out and be trapped between both times.
"Gwen-chan! You need to free Paradox-Hakase!" Adult Roll called.
"Eh?" Roll blinked with Gwen, "It's an older me!"
"B…But how? I don't know any freeing spells," Gwen gulped.
"I made sure to find out," Adult Roll winked, "It's called 'Combibo Potentia.' It's an energy-siphoning spell that can be used to unbind a target from their shackles. I was able to learn a bit about magic, enough to use this spell since it requires two users. Ok?"
Gwen gulped but nodded, "If you say so."
"Let's do it!" Adult Roll nodded as the two girls stood together on their sides of the 'scar' and looked at Paradox's 'scar.'
"Combibo Potentia!" both cried out.
A pair of magenta magic sealed appeared above them before they shot pink lasers that slammed into Paradox's prison, freeing him from his shackles.
"We did it!" Gwen cheered.
Past Wildvine and Wildvine with two extra pods on his back, Venus Fly Traps on his wrists, and six vine legs were working together to try and get the Chrono-Navigator. Eon roared as he sent out a shockwave of chrono energy that slammed into the two Wildvine and sent them backwards, cancelling their transformations.
"Professor Paradox, we're open to suggestions here!" Sonic called.
"You must combine the four Magical Amulets that are currently here with Clockwork's power to anchor Eon into your respective timelines!" Paradox explained.
"I am so glad I unlocked all my aliens from five years from now," Young (16) Ben sighed in relief.
"Who's Clockwork?" Ben (11) asked.
"Omnitrix, Unlock Master Control. Verbal override code: Azmuth. Chronosapien DNA access," Azmuth shouted.
In a flash of light, both Bens had transformed. Both were egg-shaped in their bodies with the top half of the 'egg' cut off for a pound cake-shaped head. Both had a green circle on their stomachs with the Omnitrix symbol in the center. However, Young Clockwork had a rounder head with a child-like green face and a white and black jumpsuit while Clockwork had a more sharper head with a neutral green face. Both sported key-shaped headdresses. The two stood together on opposite sides of the 'scar' and fired a green pulse beam from their bodies with two blue shots shooting from the two Sonics' Medallions, a magenta beam from Sonia's, and a green beam from Manic's. Upon impact, Eon grunted as his eyes turned green. He cried out in agony before a massive burst of light flashed. Ben slowly lowered his arms, revealing everyone was in the Underground Bus with Roll and Sonic back to their normal ages.
"It worked!" Ben cheered as Paradox's gauntlet turned into a gold pocket watch, letting his newly regenerated limb pick it up.
"Without Eon anchoring them, all the separate eras of time are snapping back into place," Paradox explained.
"Which means in a few seconds, none of us will have happened and we won't remember a thing," Ben guessed.
"Somewhat. Sonic and Roll had a completely separate timeline for them. That separate time will be more of a dream for them, letting them gain those bonds quicker," Paradox explained before chuckling, "You're really getting quite good at this, Master Tennyson. Pity you won't be able to recall anything. Nor will Azmuth know you are here until later."
"I…I see," Ben nodded.
"However, I also advise you to tell them about what happened before you awoke on Mobius, about what happened to them all," Paradox informed.
"What?!" Ben exclaimed before blinking, Paradox missing from their group of six, "Is it just me, or is this trip to find that clue on the Queen actually feel longer than it is?"
"I'm almost wishing that something exciting would happen by now," Sonic noted.
"Yeah, well, something's bound to happen sooner or later," Ben shrugged, "It always does with me, so just give it some time."
A green vortex opened up near them. From it emerged a man in his late forties, yet was physically fit and around his twenties in appearance. He wore a white shirt with green designs in the places where Young Ben's black had been. He sported a belt with various artillery pockets and a buckle sporting a '10K' on it, brown pants, green wristbands with dual Omnitrix on them, and a beard/mustache combo.
"Ben, where's Paradox? The Chronospaiens have gone rogue and the Daleks have awakened The Nevermore King. And if that wasn't bad enough, the Cybermen are now invading!" the man declared before groaning and sighing, "This Time War is getting out of hand…"
"Time War?" Ben repeated.
"Wh-Who are you?" Makoto gawked.
"Ben 10,000, Makoto," the man replied.
"Awesome!" Ben beamed.
Tutor Me! Azmuth! Done in BlazBlue Chibi Style
Starring: Azmuth, Taokaka, Carl Clover, Aya Clover (Nirvana), Bang Shishigami, and Ms. Litchi.
The curtain rises up, revealing not Kokonoe's special lab, but a futuristic black and green laboratory that is kept nice and tidy and organized. Standing on a table was a small alien. It has grey skin and seems a bit...frog-like in appearance. His large eyes are green with horizontal rectangle irises while he has six 'whiskers' on his face that go down like a beard and mustache. He wears a green robe with silver bands on the shoulders, waist, and neck.
"Greetings, I am Azmuth, the creator of the Omitrix along with its predecessor, the Unitrix, and this is 'Tutor me! Azmuth,'" the alien introduces himself, "If you humans don't understand, I am a Galvan from the planet Galvan Prime MKII and the planet Primus, where the Omnitrix's alien DNA is stored within the Codon Stream along with saving a copy of it inside of the Omnitrix as well as a safety precaution. Right now, we are in a room I had built specifically to let me speak with you all and not worry about canon things and it's where I go to hide from Myaxx when she has her species' version of a human female's menstrual cycle that involves the tentacles on her face expelling a highly corrosive acid."
"Um...Mr. Azmuth, I think you forgot about us again," Carl noted.
"I was getting to you five," Azmuth frowned, "Now then, these are my two students; Carl Clover and Taokaka. With me are my two assistants: Bang Shishigami on the blackboard and Ms. Litchi, who runs the video files on the subjects we're covering. And there is also Carl's...er...sister, Aya. Though to others, she has been given the nickname 'Nirvana.'"
"Now, Master Carl, my dear Disciple, are you both ready for today's lesson?" Bang asked.
"Tao is ready, meow!" Tao cheered, her ears going up and down with her tail as she punched ahead rapidly.
"Then stop that and we'll begin! But, actually, we have all the time in the world with this Alien." Azmuth chuckled as Ms. Litchi started the reel by playing Ben's transformation into Clockwork, "This is Clockwork. He is a Chronosapien from today, yestrday, and ever single second of existence."
"Huh?" Tao pondered.
"Chronosapiens are without a currently-known homeworld. We know it exists because of Chronosapiens mentioning it at times," Azmuth explained, "They are a race of sentient technological organic machines, primarily more machine than organic."
Bang drew a Chronosapien as Azmuth continued with, "Chronosapiens are made of a brass-like metal and have a translucent window in their torso which displays their innards, which appear to be various gears. They have a round, short head with a semi-circular appendage on top. When moving, Chronosapiens produce gear-like sounds."
"Like Sis at times in the morning?" Carl asked before ducking a ruler aimed at his forehead, "Ah! S-Sorry, Sis."
"..." Nirvana floated back into her seat.
"Well said," Azmuth nodded to Nirvana before she raised her hand, "Ah, yes? Well, we're not sure how they're able to reproduce. When two are together, the pause time and then when it's resumed, there's a child Chronosapien with them."
"What are they able to do?" Litchi asked before playing a clip of Ben using Clockwork.
"Chronosapiens are able to produce time-rays that age their targets into dust. Chronosapiens are capable of time-travel, and can display events that have happened in the past by rotating the appendage on their heads, which produces a light. This light covers the area and displays all objects and movements in the past as holographic images," Azmuth explained, "However, with all this power, there are drawbacks. They're fragile and easily able to be damaged. Their metallic bodies can be broken by sufficient force, and they can fall into a powered-down state in which the light in their torso as well as on their face goes off and they cease moving. They are very slow."
"Why can't they just slow time to appear fast, meow?" Taokaka asked.
"They can't use their powers while moving," Azmuth replied, "Now then...Show me your notes!"
Carl and Tao turned their notebooks in. Tao's notebook was filled with drawings of Clockwork and her, Tao sitting on him, fast asleep on its head, the Kaka Kittens drawing on one, and one holding Nun-Kaka in his arms with little scribbles Azmuth managed to make out were the words 'Did one save Mommy?' below it. Carl's was as usual with the notes focusing on the abilities and how they could possibly exist. He also noted a little side-note that Nirvana had written on how to try and stop making those noises in the mornings.
"Well, they're good," Azmuth noted, "Ms. Litchi, would you like to use the kitchen for your meat buns that Tao mentioned? Also, might I ask you about something while you and I go into the kitchen alone?"
"But of course, Professor Azmuth," Lithci nodded as she left with Azmuth.
"Yay! Meat buns!" Tao cheered.