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!

35. Nexus HWR 7-3 The Eliacube

A/N Enjoy...

Nexus HWR 7.3 The Eliacube:

"Usopp!" Nami shouted, holding out her arm towards the long nosed man getting dragged away by two vines. The vines were covered in thorns and some of the thorns had stuck completely through the pirate sniper's legs, going in one side and coming out the other.

The orange haired woman swung her Clima Tact towards the two trees Usopp was getting dragged between. Dozens of little black balls of thunderclouds shot through the crack as Usopp got pulled through it. The other side was only shadows, but it lit up for a second as lightning went off and struck a huge venus fly-trap that loosened its grip on Usopp's legs.

"I knew it!" Usopp screamed. "We are gonna die!" He looked down at his legs and gagged at the sight of the thorns leaving them. Blood splattered out of his calves and thighs as the thorns were removed, and all the color left from the sharpshooter's face. Usopp slapped his hands down to get the vines completely off him,, but the fly-trap had not been defeated with one strike of lightning.

"Get moving!" Nami yelled at the long nosed man, stepping between the trees he was dragged through. Her eyes widened as she saw the main body of the venus fly-trap leaning over her friend who was pushing himself up on shaky red legs. "Usopp!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, starting to swing her Clima Tact again. She was only halfway through the swing when the beast clamped down halfway down on Usopp's torso, it's sharp teeth cutting straight through his body.

"Nami-san! What's happening?!" Sanji called out as he ran to her side and looked through the trees to the other side. The chef who heard her scream and came running dropped his jaw. Nami lifted her hands to her mouth, dropping her Clima Tact as she did. "Usopp," the chef whispered as the Venus fly trap lifted up its mouth, and pulled Usopp up with it... for a few seconds. Then, without enough holding him together, his lower half ripped off on the line where the teeth ripped into his stomach.

"Us-" Nami tried saying, but found it impossible to make out words as his lower half twitched for a second and then stopped moving. The Venus fly trap lifted back up its body and all the flaps of it were closed. It looked like a flower that had yet to bloom, and then all of the petals extended out to the sides revealing a pink covering that looked completely safe to step on. The vines around it settled out like motion sensors on its sides, and one was moving towards Sanji and Nami.

"That, that couldn't have just-"

"Nami-san," Sanji said as he grabbed her by the arm and turned. He did not say another word, just lifted her up bridal style and jumped through the trees, his eyes darkened by his hair and his teeth clenched harder than ever.

The chef flew through the trees, going in between them by kicking the air beneath him. It was foggy, but with his Observational Haki he found the group after ten seconds. There were only three people here as everyone else was off looking for the rare medicine.

Sanji dropped to the ground and lowered Nami down, where she curled up in fetal position against a log behind her. "Why are you already back?!" Natsu shouted at the two of them, looking away from the man lying on the ground in front of him. "He's dying! You heard what plant he said we needed!" Gray was lying on the ground at Natsu's feet and Juvia was on her knees holding his right hand as tight as possible.

Gray turned his head a little, and saw Nami shaking uncontrollably where she sat. He looked up and saw Sanji standing there with his fists clenched furiously. "I'm sorry," the ice wizard whispered.

Natsu looked back down at his friend, and then to the pirates. His eyes widened and he whispered quietly, "Where's Usopp?"

Nami clenched her eyes shut and brought her hands up to cover her face. "Watch over Nami-san," Sanji demanded, then turned to his left. "I'll keep looking for-"

"There's, cough, ack, no use," Gray muttered. Everyone looked over to the young man with a pale face. Blood was seeping out of the corners of his eyes now, and he whispered, "After blood starts coming out of the eyes, the medicine becomes useless, remember?" He started having another coughing fit as everyone shouted at him that it wasn't too late. "It is," he whispered, tears coming out of his eyes now along with the blood. "I failed. I should never have brought all of, agh ack ugh, shouldn't have, brought you to this, aggghhh," he kept trying to speak, but his eyes were pure red, and finally they rolled back and the hand Juvia was holding fell limp.

"No," Natsu whispered as he watched his best friend's head tilt to the side lifelessly. "AhhHHHHH!" Natsu tilted his head up to the sky and roared.

A stream of fire shot up in the sky all the way up to the clouds above the tree canopy. Ben and Dash turned around from where they were looking for flowers. "That's Natsu!" Ben exclaimed, then the mask of his alien XLR8 lowered and he raced back as fast as he could. Dash ran at his side, and he two of them ran right past Franky and Luffy who were looking that way as well.

"Was that Natsu?" Franky asked as he looked back. "You think they're being attacked?" The cyborg asked the pirate captain next to him.

Luffy's straw hat shadowed his eyes, "No," he muttered. The two of them started walking back towards the main group. Luffy thought about the ice mage. He never really became friends with him even after their whole journey together. The guy had told him what to do every step of the way since they got off the Sunny. But, every time he talked about finding his friends, or keeping all of them safe, it was impossible not to begin to respect, and even start to like him. And now he was dead.

Luffy stepped out into a small area where Gray lay dead on the ground with Juvia lying on top of him, her head buried in his chest but her loud sobbing still audible. He saw his navigator shaking next to a log, curled up in a ball, and then he saw Sanji walking over towards him and Franky. The chef had a horrible look on his face, but the other two assumed it was just because of Gray.

Ben and Dash stared down at Gray's body on the ground. He looked bad with all the blood and tears on his face. The two of them heard a roar behind them and turned around to see Luffy grabbing Sanji by the front of his yellow button down. "You're lying!" The rubber pirate yelled at him.

Cyborg Franky turned around and slammed a large red, steel fist into the tree behind him, punching a hole straight through it. Ben couldn't figure out if they were all just freaking out because of Gray, but then he heard a low whisper near him being repeated over and over. He turned and saw Nami shaking back and forth, whispering, "Usopp, Usopp, Usopp..."

"No," Ben whispered. The thirteen year old looked around as everyone else finally came walking into the clearing. He counted them off, Luffy, Sanji, Franky, Natsu, Juvia, Nami, Robin, Killua, Rin, Kuro, Kirito, Sora, Riku, Kairi, Dash, and me. There are sixteen of us. No one else dies!

Dash noticed his best friend shaking horribly and he put his hand in Ben's. The kid a little older and a little taller looked down and saw Dash looked almost in tears. The boy was holding his hand and Ben lost the furious glare on his face, reverting to a sad look again that he had when it was just Gray who had died.

"Hello there everyone," a sudden voice spoke above them.

Everyone looked straight up to the hole in the canopy where Natsu's flames had burned through. The tops of the trees were still on fire around it, and there was a person standing in the air between all of these flames. His body looked like it was either mechanical or a suit of armor, completely covering him including his face. There were two eye sockets on his face with glowing blue circles filling them, just like the larger blue circle on his metal chest.

"Who are you?" Killua asked, the one least affected by the two deaths that just happened which had everyone else in mourning.

"My name is Nox" the person said, only now he was standing on the ground in front of Killua. Where he just was in the air fizzled blue while the man appeared before them.

"He teleported," Dash said, as he was the fastest one there and had not seen anything.

"Close," the man named Nox stated, turning towards the boy. "Ah, my Wakfu sensors tell me that you have the most of everyone here." He vanished again and appeared next to Dash.

"Whoa!" Dash yelled, jumping backwards and throwing a hand forward, creating a large ball of white energy on it. "Take this!" The boy yelled at the guy who was seriously freaking him out.

"Be careful Dash!" Ben yelled as the white ball grew twice as large as either of the ones he threw earlier that day against the magma monster.

"I know," the boy yelled as he landed and put his other hand on the wrist holding the white ball for support. He was about to fire it, when he thought of something and yelled, "Haaa!"

The person in front of them laughed and teleported to the left of where Dash was aiming. As soon as he appeared there though, the two blue circles on his face grew in size as the white ball was coming his way. Dash had waited until the man moved to fire, just shouting 'Haaa' early to make him dodge.

The white ball slammed into the man and Dash grinned, only to get that grin wiped off his face as he saw the side of his explosion farthest from him flattening out against something invisible. Nox was standing there with a hand raised, and a sort of large forcefield in front of him blocking the attack.

"I don't know who you are," Natsu growled, turning his head towards this guy with a furious look on his face. "But I'm going to kick your ass!" He was so enraged by Gray's death that he was looking for a reason, and this guy was giving him one.

Unfortunately, Nox was too fast for them. "Seems that none of you can see through my time magic," his voice said from Dash's left side, while the huge ball of energy Dash threw finally kept going and exploded a quarter mile away, shaking the ground terribly. Everyone started turning towards the guy, but only Dash and Killua moved fast enough. Dash turned to see the man holding a hand directly in front of his face, glowing blue. The little boy went wide-eyed, and then the explosion hit him and slammed him into the ground.

Everyone who did not see Nox move looked now and saw the little blond kid unmoving on the ground. "Dash!" Ben yelled. Riku was already moving though, jumping up high in the air and raising an appearing Keyblade.

"Yes, I was right! You have so much Wakfu it is unbelievable!" The crazy time wizard explained, lifting up the boy and then freezing time. He took a few steps backwards and rose a hand, before unfreezing time. Riku landed down where Nox was just standing, the silver haired teen swiping down at him, but before his swipe was even finished a beam of blue light crashed into him.

"Riku!" Kairi and Ben yelled at the same time, whereas Sora was just running towards the man.

"It's time to fight time with time," the boy with brown spiky hair yelled. "Stop!" He pointed his Keyblade and the enemy froze where he was standing.

He made the perfect target for Natsu's flaming fist and Luffy's black one. Their fists collided with the armored man and sent him flying backwards, with Dash coming out of his hands.

"I got you," Ben said as he jumped up in the air to catch his unconscious friend. Right before he was going to reach him though, a figure with white bandages around his body flew up in the air between him and Dash. The figure had a shield in his hands, and he slammed it forward into Ben so hard that the kid slammed into the ground between his friends before they even had time to look inwards.

Robin turned in and saw the ground indented down in the shape of a child. She looked up to see that new figure with the shield dropping down, lowering his shield so they could all see the armored mask over his face. Robin frowned and she crossed her arms. A dozen arms extended out of this man's body and snapped his neck backwards. "Clutch!" She yelled, and a loud crack sounded.

"Look out!" Kirito yelled and pushed the woman out of the way, right before a white string would have hit her in the back. Instead it got on Kirito and a sticky web wrapped around his arm. "I don't think so," he growled as he felt it pulling him towards it. He looked up to a branch and saw another bandaged-up man trying to pull him in, so instead Kirito tugged hard and yanked the enemy his way, forming a swirling blue ball of energy on his free hand as he did. "Rasengan!" He yelled, slamming the ball into the enemy's face.

The one Robin Clutched slammed into the ground and her extra arms vanished into thin air. The one Kirito slammed his attack into flew backwards covered in smoke and the web released from the teen's arm. Meanwhile, the man who was hit by Luffy's Armament Haki coated fist and Natsu's flaming one flew through at least twenty trees before coming to a stop.

"I need more power," the gray-steel covered man growled as he floated up in the air. "Eliacube!" He called out, and even from a distance the others could see his body become coated in blue light. Even farther behind him, above some trees, the team of heroes saw a giant metal... clock? The two hundred foot tall, round, metal monster rose out of the trees and turned their way, the front of it glowing the same blue as was covering Nox's body. "Give me more strength! I will return it a hundred fold with these warriors' Wakfu!"

The man's metal body got wider at the shoulders and actually every part of him buffed out as if the robot were powering up. Nox flew forward without using his time powers, but he was still so fast that barely anyone could see him. "I'll deal with these two before bringing you your meal," the metal man stated as he flew in between Luffy and Natsu. The pirate was a little faster and turned in quicker towards the man covered in a blue veil.

Nox was even faster though, and he slammed a fist into Luffy's face that sent the pirate tumbling over and over again through the jungle. He slammed a kick backwards that did the same thing to Luffy to Natsu, only even faster in a different direction. Everyone watched as the two of them went flying, and then Nox lifted up a hand and caught a falling Dash.

"Get back up," Nox demanded and rose his arms. No one knew what this crazy man was talking about, but as he said it, the masked-guy whose neck Robin had supposedly broken got back up on his feet. Kirito saw this and looked back towards the one he hit with a Rasengan, only to see him getting up as well. "Take care of them while I return to the Eliacube."

The man turned around and then everything seemed to slow down as there was a figure standing behind him covered head to toe in electricity. The boy's hair was even spikier white than usual, and he was walking forward while lifting up his hands covered in lightning. Nox froze time and the boy stopped, allowing the man to chuckle to himself and walk right past.

No one knew how long time was frozen for, but when it unfroze Killua was standing there in shock as his enemy was gone. The boy looked all around, still covered in electricity, but he didn't see him anywhere. "No," he whispered, turning and looking all the way back to that large metal clock in the distance. "Godspeed," he stated, taking one step and vanishing to everyone still there.

Kirito created three shadow clones who all started charging the bandaged man in front of him. It looked like the person had just been caught by surprise before though, as he lifted up his head and stared directly at the real Kirito. The teen leapt up in the air and threw two Kunai knives down at the top of the guy's head which was wrapped with a red bandanna. Both ends of the bandanna waved behind him like tails as the bandaged guy leapt up in the air, and slammed a fist forward into Kirito's crossed arms.

The teen went flying back across the air, but as he was falling he stopped himself, deciding to use his wings for once instead of training his normal flying. Four large black wings sprouted out through Kirito's clothes and he had perfect control over them. He looked across the air at his opponent who in the center of the red bandanna on his forehead was a single glowing blue eye that made him look like a cyclops.

Down on the ground, Franky had charged at the one with the shield and was using his signature Franky Boxing on it, but every hit was being blocked. Rin reached up for the sword on his back to go help out, but as he grabbed the hilt he felt something grab him by the wrist. He looked back to see a green head sticking out of the tree behind him, smirking at him menacingly and glaring at him with black eyes that had tiny yellow pupils in them. The monster with green tentacles at the bottom of its face instead of a mouth reached an arm out of the tree that he grabbed Rin with. The figure then threw the teen with spiky ears and demon powers up in the air, making Okumura Rin scream as he shot into the sky at eighty miles per hour.

"We have to go after Dash before Nox gets away!" Ben shouted, looking back through the trees towards the large clock that was rising higher on four large spider-like legs. It looked like it was about to get moving. "Quickly!" He shouted.

"Go after him," Kirito yelled down from up in the air. The messy black haired teen had his hands interlocked with the bandaged figure with a red bandanna on his head. He looked down a little with a strained look on his face, "These guys are stronger than they look. Everyone go on ahead, I'll hold this one here."

The one with the shield sent Franky flying backwards into a tree. As it moved forward to get to him though, a body completely covered in flames flew at it from the side. Sanji spun around with a leg burning so brightly red it looked like a sun, and he slammed it into the shield as the man went to block him. The bandaged figure had a steel mask on his face that kept it from looking into Sanji's flaming eyes as it pushed back. The chef was the one winning out though and his powerful kick made the masked guy skid backwards farther and farther until he hit a tree and smashed straight through it.

"I will protect you ladies!" Sanji yelled over to Robin as he landed. "There is no need to trouble yourself with him-" the chef stopped as his Observational Haki picked up on the man he sent crashing through a tree. The guy was back on his feet already, and the chef who just lost a good friend ground his teeth in aggravation. "Get going you guys, don't let them take Dash."

"Got it," Ben was not going to argue and he started sprinting towards the giant glowing-blue clock made of metal. He raced past fallen trees, and jumped over logs. The kid ignored the shouts of his name from behind, and just kept going as fast as he could.

Everyone else looked at Sanji and Kirito, and then nodded before running forwards themselves. "Juvia let's go," Nami yelled at the girl with blue hair as she herself finally came to her senses.

Juvia was watching everything that was happening, but then she looked back down at Gray. She stared at his body cold and lifeless on the floor, and when she looked back at Nami all the life from her own eyes was gone. "Juvia does not wish to live anymore," she stated in a completely calm voice.

"Juvia," Nami started and reached her arm out. She watched as Juvia gave up right next to Gray's corpse, and at the same time something was appearing on a tree not far behind her. It started off as a face at first, but then the dark brown tree trunk turned green, and a whole body stepped out. "J-Juvia!" Nami shouted. She reached for her Clima Tact and her hand grabbed nothing. Her eyes widened as she remembered she left it back where Usopp was... "JUVIA RUN!" She yelled.

The group running away from the previous area looked back and watched as a creepy green figure walked up behind Juvia's kneeling form and reached down, grabbing her. Nami stepped forward towards her friend, and then watched in horror from a few feet away as Juvia's skin darkened and her eyes turned pupil-less, pure white. The girl's blue hair even turned a little darker shade, and she slowly stood up.

"Nami!" Luffy came out of nowhere and slammed a fist into the green figure, sending him flying. He looked at Juvia for a second, but she looked like a zombie from Thriller Bark. "We'll figure out how to get you back," he said in a confident tone, then grabbed Nami and jumped backwards as Juvia reached for the orange haired woman.

The green figure that got punched away stood up with a frown on its face, but then lifted its head as a loud roar was coming down towards it. Nami and Luffy looked up to see Rin covered in blue flames, slamming his sword down into the green figure and nicking him as it jumped backwards. "I have this one," the son of Satan growled in a demonic tone. Kuro hopped out of his bag and the cat turned big while Rin lifted back up his sword. "Keep going," he growled louder at his friends just standing there staring at him.

"He's right!" Ben yelled and turned, lifting up his watch and slamming his hand down on it. Everyone lifted up their heads as a massive three hundred foot tall giant appeared. Ben did not bother yelling its name and just charged forward through the forest as Way Big.

"Let's go!" Luffy roared and threw one arm forward. "Gum Gum Rocket!" He shot himself away with Nami who was wrapped in his other arm.

Ben got all the way to the giant clock in a few seconds since his strides were huge. Nox was watching from inside the clock face, and he appeared out of it suddenly. "I'm sorry, but I can not let you disturb the Eliacube while it absorbs your friend's Wakfu."

"Give Dash back!" The giant white alien roared, slamming a huge fist down towards Nox. The man frowned inside his mask as he could not move and risk the boy's fist crashing through the clock and hitting his precious Eliacube inside it. Instead he rose up his arms and Ben's fist slammed into a forcefield, Nox was shaking but he pushed hard back into it as the barrier shook.

"I defeated the dragon Grougaloragran! You are nothing!" Nox shouted. His body pulsed blue light and the massive alien stumbled backwards and fell down on his butt.

Some of his friends had to dive for cover as he fell near them. Others were lifted off their feet anyway by the force of the collision on the ground.

Nox grinned, and then opened his eyes wide as the white haired boy was in front of him again. He was about to disappear, when he screamed out as his body filled with electricity. "After Image," Killua said with a small grin as he floated behind his metal enemy. "Guess there is a person in there if you're screaming this much." The boy put more voltage into his attack, and then kicked off the air and flew backwards, landing with his feet on the vertical longer hand of the clock. He stood at a ninety degree angle with his feet flat on the clock hand and his head lifted up to look into Nox's glowing blue eyes.

"You, boy," Nox growled, turning around fully and looking at the kid covered in blue lightning. "You should be burning up with that much lightning around you. How are you-"

"This is nothing," the boy bragged, trying to intimidate his opponent. "The torture training I went through was much more severe, though, I could turn it up a notch if you'd like?" His whole body zapped with electricity and his hair shot up even spikier while his eyes narrowed into slits and sent shivers down Nox's spine.

The kid kicked off the wall and appeared in front of Nox, but the man appeared on his left side. However, Killua was in the middle of a Nen-coated kick in that direction. Nox froze time, panting hard as he stared at the foot moving ever so slowly in the time freeze. "Too fast," he whispered, "for even my time magic to stop it completely."

Nox looked down towards the woods near the giant alien monster that was standing up. All around it he could see people running towards him. "These pesky annoyances have become too troublesome. I will need a lot of Wakfu, much more than last time, three thousand times as much by my calculations. With only two or three of these fighters however, I will finish my plan that has lasted far too long," he voice sounded sad towards the end, but he became focused again as he noticed that the electric boy's attack was getting pretty close to him. "AaHaahh," he sighed. "Not you though. You are too fast, but do not have nearly enough strength to risk you being around for much longer."

Time unfroze and Killua darted his eyes down to where Nox was hovering with one arm held up towards him. The white haired kid crossed his arms, but was not expecting even half of the blue beam that came out of Nox's hand and sent him flying up in the air.

Ben was getting up to his humongous feet and he stared in horror at Killua in the middle of a blue beam that was tearing him apart. The beam finally faded but the fourteen year old inside was falling out of the air with blood seeping from his smoking mouth. Way Big Ben reached a hand forward and caught him, looking for a sign of life from the boy lying on his palm. "Kil," he whispered, staring at a friend of his who he could not even feel a heartbeat from.

Nox stared at the giant monster about to get angry and frowned. "Help me Eliacube. Please. This Wakfu will not be wasted."

"Of course Maximillian," a calm-sounding voice replied in his head. The front of his clock glowed bright blue and his body started glowing more and more.

Ben lowered down to a knee and placed Killua down on the ground in front of the main group who finally came running out into a small clearing in front of the giant clock thing. "Oh no," Nico Robin whispered at the sight of the boy who she was looking through the woods for medicine with only ten minutes ago. He was not moving and Kairi ran over and bent down over him, putting a hand on his chest. She made a little whimpering noise and it was all any of them needed to hear.

"Look," Riku stated and pointed up in the air.

"Is that Nox?" Sora replied with wide eyes.

Ben stood back up to his full height and glared down at the man in a metal suit in front of him. The giant white alien with red spikes on his shoulders, head, and chest, along with a green Omnitrix symbol right in the center of his torso, punched his huge white fists together and made a shockwave. He glared with glowing green eyes into Nox's blue ones that had little blue flames rippling around them now. The time wizard's back had puffed out and transformed to become all bumpy, covered in cracks showing blue light seeping out from them. He held up his hands and a blue staff of energy appeared clenched in them, with large metal hammers on either end and one flat and one sharp side on either hammer.

At that moment, there was movement on the ground underneath the large clock. The fighters on the ground looked ahead of them to see hundreds of small black creatures with little white eyes, all wearing brown cloaks, were running towards them with tiny steps. "Are those Nox's soldiers?" Nami asked as she watched the figures approach them.

"Mille Fleur," Nico Robin said, her eyes dark after seeing Killua's small corpse in front of her. A thousand arms appeared covering the entire ground in front of her. Two arms for each black creature. Her arms crushed them all and left them lying on the ground unmoving, then all of her arms morphed into only four giant hands reaching up twenty feet in the air. Her huge hands coming of of the forest floor grabbed the huge clock by the knees of its spider-like appendages, and then pulled its legs out from under it.

While this was happening, Ben had roared and punched towards Nox. His fist slammed into the front of Nox, but again hit a forcefield. This time though, he did not even manage to make Nox struggle. The time wizard just stood still, and all the power he just received easily made a barrier that pushed in and then bounced the fist back out. He flew forwards as Ben went off balance, and slammed one side of his long blue staff into Ben's chest. One of the giant hammers hit Ben right in the red chestplate and Way Big was lifted off the ground, thrown a mile backwards before hitting the ground and tumbling away even farther.

Nox heard creaking below him and looked down to see Robin's attack. He saw the woman who was doing it and appeared in front of her next, bringing down his hammer towards her head. He was met with a giant black fist however, "Elephant Gun!" Luffy roared and hit the man in the side just hard enough for Nox's forcefield to push back into his body and knock him backwards.

Robin was still shocked by Nox's sudden appearance in front of her and she lost concentration on her thousand added appendages for a second. It was all the giant clock needed and it ripped its legs free from her, stomping down on them after and making Robin scream.

From half a mile away, Sanji heard Robin's scream and turned. "A lady in danger!" He shouted, then had to block from the masked guy who tried slamming the shield into him.

"Go Sanji!" Kirito yelled, while crossing his arms above his head to protect from the barrage of punches the bandaged figure with red eyes was hitting him with. Sanji looked over to see Kirito in the bottom of a forty foot wide crater getting deeper every second. "Rin has lost control! He'll take care of his guy and yours soon enough!"

Sanji looked over at the black haired boy with pointy ears who was covered in blue flames, even more than usual. His eyes were crazed as was his smile and the green figure who turned Juvia into a zombie looked scared as he tried to block the kid's flurry of attacks. "Go!" Kirito roared, and Sanji looked over to see the yelling kid uncross his arms and jump, slamming a fist up into his enemy's chest.

Sanji needed no further convincing and he jumped fifty feet up in the air. He kicked below him to propel himself, making little shockwaves in the air as he flew towards Nox. Sanji saw his Captain down below using some of his strongest moves to fight Nox, but the man was just too fast. Even when Luffy did manage to hit him, his attacks bounced off. Finally the Captain decided he had to go into Gear Fourth. While he was about to bite down on his Armament Haki-coated arm though, he got slammed away by the man's hammer made of blue light energy.

Sanji wanted to go down there immediately to stop the guy, but he also knew the man cared a lot about this clock to be stopping anyone from even getting inside. "Hey shitty bastard!" Sanji roared as his right leg covered in flames. He put it in front of him and flew straight towards the middle of the clock where both of the clock's hands connected.

Nox heard the voice above him, glanced up, then rose both arms to block the Keyblades coming down from Sora and Riku. He looked up at the blond man flying over him, and chuckled as he said, "I have one last Lieutenant."

Sora and Riku were confused and followed the man's gaze up. As they looked up, Sanji also noticed a man standing at the very top of the clock machine. He was covered in white bandages like two of the ones they were fighting back where Nox first appeared. This one had long white hair that flowed in the wind up here though, and other than the blue glowing circle in his chest, his only other defining characteristic was the bow he had raised in his arms. The figure pulled back on the string and an arrow of light blue light appeared. He fired it towards Sanji who had to abandon his attack and kick off the air to send himself backwards, dodging the arrow.

The man kept firing though, dozens of energy arrows shooting up through the sky at Sanji. The pirate chef had enough after only a few seconds and shot forwards fast towards the man on the top of the robot. "Diable-" he started shouting.

As he was only feet away from hitting the man, the first arrow that missed him finally hit the ground two hundred feet below. The explosion was massive. The chef caught a glimpse of the huge explosion at the same time he saw another arrow form on the guy's bow. Sanji's foot was only inches away when the man released his final arrow.

The huge clock robot stumbled backwards as an enormous blue sphere of light erupted at the top of it. Ben Tennyson was running back over from a couple of miles away where he had finally stopped skidding before, and he slowed down as the explosion faded, revealing neither Sanji nor the enemy were there. "No," he whispered. Sixteen! I said no more! But I already lost Killua. Way Big watched as a tattered suit jacket flew away in the wind when the blue explosion subsided. Fourteen... Not. One. Less.

Nox was down on the ground staring at his clock anxiously as it stumbled back and only barely managed to stay on its feet. His eyes glowed blue, "Head towards the three in that direction. Along with the one you already have, they will be enough!" His voice sounded frantic now, but also seriously pissed. "The ones here have annoyed me to no end. I will not use them for their Wakfu," he turned towards the young skinny man who was gawking up at the sky where Sanji no longer was. "I am just going to kill them," he slammed his hammer in a three sixty degree spin and the hammer slammed into Luffy's side, sending him soaring away. The hammer kept spinning right into Robin's chest, blowing her away into the sky and into the mountain they had come from before, then through Ha'gar's Peak actually to the other side.

Way Big stayed still as Luffy slammed into his chest. He turned his head a little and saw the hole appear in the mountain miles away where Robin flew. As Luffy was falling from his chest, still not in Gear Fourth as Nox was too fast for him to transform earlier, Ben caught the pirate. "Luffy, Luffy!" He yelled at the man. "Come on you have to get up!"

Luffy heard the roaring of the alien holding him and he looked up a little from where he was held in Ben's hand. As he did, the large green circle on Ben's chest glowed red. "No no no. Nooo-" the red light vanished and Luffy fell from the air down to where Ben appeared standing on the ground, his Omnitrix in the red. "Damn it! No! God Damn it!" Ben slammed his watch into a tree next to him and freaked out.

Luffy hit the ground and instantly the bloody pirate started running back towards Nox. Ben looked his way and called out the pirate's name before chasing after him. The two of them charged through the trees with explosions coming from behind them where Kirito and Rin were still fighting. There were loud explosions in front of them as well though, along with the sound of the mega-clock's footsteps.

When they reached the large clearing though, both Ben and Luffy were pushed backwards by an incredibly large aura that slammed into them furiously. The two of them shielded their eyes and then lowered their arms to see a form of pure darkness standing in the middle of the clearing. Huge black tendrils shot up into the sky around him, and the air in a huge dome that extended half a mile in every direction was darkened by his aura.

Lying at his feet was a girl whose limbs were crushed, turned the wrong way, her auburn hair all messed up and bloody. "Kairi," Ben whispered.

Luffy stared at Kairi for a second himself, then saw a large red robot hand a few feet away from the girl's body, and even farther, the same robot's head. "F-F-Franky?" He whispered, wondering if this was real or if the cyborg was about to put himself back together. Tears streamed out of the pirate's eyes and he didn't even think as he raced forwards and jumped up towards the man in the air above the black form giving off a horrible aura.

"What is that thing?!" Ben shouted as another pulse of pure darkness slammed into his body. He got pushed back and needed to hold onto a tree at the outskirts of the clearing to keep himself there.

"Sora!" He heard Riku's voice. Ben looked ahead to see Riku pushing towards the black form through the darkness. Riku's body itself was covering in dark clothing with a red heart on his tanning chest, but his silver hair just grew longer instead of turning black. He had control. "Sora! Sora please!" None of them had seen Sora like this before, it was horrifying.

Riku shouted at Sora to stop, but he watched as the black creature with spikes on its head reached down and gently brushed a black hand across Kairi's soft face. It then snapped its head up and its eyes were glowing bright white. The beast opened its mouth that glowed white on the inside and the most horrifying screeching roar bellowed out from it.

Nox had Luffy held by the throat in the air, a blue light glowing on his hand that was dragging the life force out of Luffy, and making the bumps on Nox's back grow larger. He tossed Luffy up in the air, and the pirate threw his hands down in a Gum Gum Gattling Gun. Each fist hit an invisible blue forcefield around Nox that only lit up when attacked, but nothing ever reached him. The time wizard flew up high and spun his huge blue energy hammer into Luffy, and three blue shockwaves rippled through the air going up after the rubber pirate who was sent flying. Nox appeared up above him and shot him back down while he was still moving too fast. It became like a pinball machine and Luffy was the pinball getting shot around the sky at speeds impossible to follow.

At least, they were impossible for normal people. Nox appeared behind Luffy to hit him again, when a fist covered in darkness slashed across his back and tore through the huge lump on it. Blue light escaped as Sora ripped through the man who yelled in pain, only to be cut off by Luffy slamming into his front. He was distracted so his barrier didn't go up automatically, but he still only winced at the pirate's limp moaning body slamming into his chest.

He did get distracted enough by Luffy though that he had lost focus on the dark fighter who twisted his whole body around then spun around so fast that he looked like a tornado. His black claws tore through Nox crazy-fast, shredding through armor and flesh alike. The man roared and vanished, appearing twenty yards away in the air. He was panting and his back had no armor, and all the bumps full of energy were gone, he was back to his normal size.

Down on the ground, Ben was looking around at the corpses of all his friends, and watched as Luffy dropped down in front of him on his back. "Lu-Luffy," Nami whispered, making Ben alert to her presence where she was cowering ten feet away curled under some debris. She crawled out and crawled towards Luffy, and Ben ran over himself while glancing up in the air at Riku trying to calm Sora down by shouting at him.

"Luffy get up," Ben demanded as he saw Sora swat Riku away and soar in towards Nox again. "We need your-" Ben froze as the scene he was looking at just became unbelievable. Nox had froze time again, so in an instant it had happened. The man in the metal suit was floating in front of Sora who had been flying towards him. The dark creature did not seem to understand what had happened to it, but the darkness started leaving its body. Nox stood in the air in front of Sora with his hands wrapped around the shaft of his spear, and the point of the energy spear was sticking out of Sora's back.

The boy with brown spiky hair lost all of his darkness and then Nox pulled the thick spear from his chest. "So-ra," Luffy rasped out where he lay on his back, staring up at the sky. Nami had not seen what Nox did as she was looking at her Captain, but now she looked up and watched as Sora fell, blood pouring out of the huge hole in him.

"This can't," Ben whispered. He watched Riku charge at Nox recklessly in a fury. Nox appeared a few feet away and swung the blade down, which Riku parried, only for the man's other hand to be held inches in front of Riku's unguarded chest. The beam shot through Riku's chest and through his heart.

"Damn you boy," Ansem growled at the teen as he himself was losing consciousness as well. "I won't-" he faded away and all the darkness and life left Riku's body.

"This can't," Ben whispered.

The huge clock creature in front of them started walking forwards. It had regained its balance after getting pushed back again by Sora's powering up this time. Now it was able to march towards its intended destination.

"You know, you do have an incredible amount of energy," a voice stated right in front of them. Nox had appeared and he stood there looking pissed as Hell. "I think I will take you."

Ben was planted to the ground in fear. I said I would protect them all. I wanted to rid the world of monsters. I wanted to save everyone. There were eighteen. Sixteen. Fourteen. Everyone is- he saw Nami lean over Luffy's body to protect him, shouting that enough was enough. The kid opened his mouth, but Nox was too fast and his spear went through Nami's back.

As Nox lifted up the glowing blue spear and tried throwing Nami off it, a fist slammed straight into his mask and pushed him backwards fifty feet yelling out in pain. He dropped the spear and Luffy caught it along with his navigator. Nami was crying and he looked at the energy spear in her chest which was vanishing now without being in the possession of Nox.

"You would have been another good addition," the man stated from in front of Luffy where he reappeared in the air. The pirate's arms were occupied with Nami, but he threw his head forward which the time wizard wasn't expecting. Luffy's head collided with Nox's and the man reeled back angrily, then he leaned back forward with a snarl.

Nox's clock machine kept walking forward and left the clearing, heading towards the area where Rin and Kirito were still fighting their opponents. Nox himself was panting heavily, and he growled, "I can't believe my armor was corrupted." He had slashes on his back that cut all the way through to skin. His front was burned and had a few dents, but he rose up his arms and growled. "One last time Eliacube, give me more strength. I will finish these fools!"

Nox's eyes lit up brighter blue, and he rose up his hands towards Luffy. Both hands had glowing blue circles in the centers of their palms. The pirate in the straw hat thought, Usopp, Sanji, Robin, Franky, Nami... I'm sorry. A huge ball of blue light had formed in front of Nox's palms.

Ben shook his head back and forth to regain his composure and he took a step towards Luffy. He lifted his right arm and took another step, "Lu-"

The blue ball of light collided with the pirates and exploded. The blast lifted Ben off the ground and sent him flying back into the forest. He slammed into a tree head-first. Everything went black.

When Ben opened his eyes he felt thuds beneath him. He opened his eyes a little more and discovered that he was leaning against a tree with his butt on the ground. He stood up slowly, and everything came back to him fast. His eyes widened, his heart started racing, he panted fast, and he felt the thud again. "The clock," he whispered, turning around as he felt another footstep from the giant machine. That was the last footstep as the metal beast stopped moving. "Dash, I won't," he muttered, and started walking forward, ignoring the blood pouring down the left side of his face. "I won't let you die."

Ben charged through the jungle, leaping over roots and dodging between trees. He made his way all the way to a huge crater where a bandaged body lay in three pieces. There was a torn red bandanna next to the piece of the fighter that had its head on it. He looked to his left and saw a broken shield and another destroyed fighter, and then to his right where a crushed and sliced-up green figure lay.

"They got them," he whispered, then looked up in the sky where he saw movement. The canopy was thinned out near here as it was where everyone had been fighting. He looked up towards the back of the clock giant standing in front of him. A large panel opened up in the back and Nox was flying in, holding three prisoners with him. Juvia was there too, no longer a zombie, but trapped in a little blue ball and pounding her fists against it. "When her opponent was defeated she must have been set free," Ben whispered with a glance back over towards the crushed green figure nearby. Kirito and Rin were captured too and Ben saw all three of them falling unconscious while Nox brought them inside. He did not see a cat with them and suspected the worst from the distraught look on Rin's face right before his eyes closed for good.

"I need to," he stopped talking. His mouth was still open, but his voice had cracked and his body was shaking too hard to move. "I need," he whispered quieter than last time. He killed them all. He beat Luffy, Sora, and even Riku. I, I could go home. I should go home! If I die, Gwen won't know what happened to me. Her and Gohan would come looking. Yeah, her and Gohan! I could live, with them, and everyone in Pao!

The thirteen year old who started smiling froze again, his smile vanishing. And I'll have to confront Dash's family. Tell them how I left my closest friend to die at the hands of this monster. I'd never be able to look Violet in the eyes. Hell, I wouldn't be able to look anyone in the eyes! I won't run! I can't run! I'm not the kind of person who runs! Ben lifted off the ground with a determined look in his eyes and flew up towards the clock machine.

The whole robot was pulsing blue, and Ben did not like the looks of it at all. He landed on the back of the monster, and he started walking inside the open panel that Nox went in before. He entered a dark room, a corridor of sorts and crept forward through it. He checked his watch and saw it was in the green. The thought of changing to Clear Body crossed his mind, but he discarded it. No, I can't waste my powers again. I need the Omnitrix if I am going to beat him.

Ben crept into a glowing room that was so tall he could see the curve at the top of the clock. He tiptoed his way around some panels and such and peeked out to see Nox standing in front of some sort of cube. It was less than a foot in any of its dimensions, but it was clearly the source of all this blue light pulsing around the room. The man was up a small flight of steps and standing in front of a sort of carrier for the cube.

"Yes. Yes! Take it all!" The man shouted.

Ben looked closer to see what it was that he was talking about. His eyes widened and his heart fell at the sight of three figures floating around the cube on either side of it. Lying on the ground next to Kirito, who was floating on the left side, was Juvia's body. Nox spoke as if he knew what Ben had just seen. "The girl did not have as much energy, but then again, neither did he," as he said it, the blue light around Kirito's body faded fully, the last of it sucking over into the Eliacube. Kirito's limp body dropped from where it floated and hit the ground with a disgusting thud.

"This, this is amazing!" Nox exclaimed as he read some numbers on a device next to him. "This time, I'm really going to do it. The numbers aren't even on my charts. I, I'll be able to see them again!" He looked over to the right and appeared in front of a little fake window on the right side of the room. The window's red curtain opened up and inside were a bunch of dolls. Three of them were lying on the bed and another was a man who Nox picked up and started moving around while talking as if he were him, "Don't worry children. Daddy will protect you from the big bad scary monster..."

The man started making voices for the children now, and Ben was done watching the insane person. He could see the cracks in the man's armor on his back. There was some blood seeping from them. If I rush over as XLR8, I could get him before he freezes time. I just have to shove my hand, vibrating really fast, right through... his back... into his heart... The thirteen year old paused and his heart rate skyrocketed.

No! He shook his head fast and looked over to the two glowing figures next to the Eliacube. I need to save Dash and Rin. Even if I beat Nox there's no guarantee the cube will stop draining them. Ben made his decision and snuck out fast.

"But Daddy are you sure?" Nox asked in a high pitched voice.

"Oh but of course! Daddy would never be late! Not again..." He faded off, putting his marionettes back down. He closed the window with a sigh, "Soon I will have the real thing. No matter how many people I've killed, civilizations I've destroyed, I will get back what I have lost." He clenched his fists, but then grinned, his blue glowing eyes showing his glee. "But to think, thirty minutes of draining and that boy still is not empty. How powerful could he have been if he had truly known how much energy was inside him?"

Nox turned around to look towards said blond boy, and his blue eyes turned huge at the sight of Ben letting down the black haired teenager who also had a huge amount of power. "Rin, get a hold of yourself," Ben slapped the older boy around a little, and Rin opened up his eyes.

Ben looked into Rin's eyes happily, but the teen pushed him, "Ben move!" He yelled, and Ben dove out of the way just before a blue ball of energy would have slammed into him.

"I thought you died!" Nox roared. He disappeared, his body vanishing and then reappearing near them in under a second. He lifted up his right hand, but Rin leapt up and knocked Nox's open palm up in the air, while swinging up a kick and catching Nox under the chin.

The guy who could teleport and control time got knocked back, and Rin narrowed his eyebrows as he landed next to Ben. Ben turned and ran to try and help Dash who had a pained look on his face as he hovered, getting all of his energy sucked out by the pulsing cube. "Hey Ben," Rin started, glancing back at the boy, "where's everyone else?"

"We're all that's left," Ben replied coldly, and in a panicked voice as he reached for Dash and felt a much stronger shock than when he tried to pry Rin out. The main reason, was that Rin was almost empty, and that was shown now as Ben dropped that bombshell on him and Rin collapsed.

The thirteen year old was pushed back as his hand finally touched Dash's skin. He winced and looked down at his hand covered in burns, then heard gasping behind him. He looked back and saw Rin held by the throat. "I am glad the Eliacube managed to get most of your Wakfu before this pest-" Nox was talking to his victim before he crushed his throat, but Ben was not going to wait for that to happen. He turned into XLR8 and shot forward, snatching Rin away and placing him down at the bottom of the stairs up to the Eliacube, panting and grabbing at his throat which he thought was done for.

"Ah hah ah heh," Nox breathed in and out deeply. "Again you have surprised me, pest," he growled at the boy down below who lowered the black mask of his blue lizard-like alien with super fast speeds.

Ben's blue alien face glared up at Nox with an angered but determined expression. "I saved Rin, and I will save Dash too. It isn't looking so hot for whatever plan you were making does it?" XLR8 hissed at him. His black mask lowered and he shot up the staircase towards Nox.

He jumped up and kicked rapidly down at the man, who allowed his invisible shield to block. A flash of green light transformed Ben into a huge bumpy mass of green reaching almost to the ceiling, and Nox held up his arms to catch it but was crushed down by its weight anyway.

The man stood and tossed the bumpy green creature up, and then disappeared and appeared high up in front of its three-eyed face. He attacked, but another green flash made the huge green monster vanish and nothing to appear in its place. "Where did you-" he started, then looked down to see Rin staring up at him nervously. "Haha! After all that and you still leave your friend behind."

The crazy man flew down and hovered directly in front of Rin. He lifted an arm, and then Rin's eyes went wide as a three foot tall purple creature appeared behind Nox. A flash of green alerted him to its presence and he turned his head just in time to see the large four-eyed, four-armed red muscular alien appear. The alien wore a white shirt with black lines on it and he roared as he slammed all four arms forward, colliding with Nox's exposed back and cracking it loudly.

"Aaahhhh!" Nox roared in pain as he was sent flying. He crashed into the wall of the room and Rin cheered for his comrade.

"Now," the four-armed alien growled, turning back into Ben before his watch did it for him, which would keep it in the red for a while. "Time to free Dash," he looked over and saw his blue light shining bright as ever. "Timmy really did make you tough," Ben said as he jogged up the stairs towards his friend.

"Pathetic," a voice growled far behind him. He froze in place before he reached the spot Dash was floating. Ben gulped and was about to turn, but there was no need as in a flash of blue, Nox was standing in front of him, his body sparking and twitching as he looked to be in a lot of pain, but still functional. "I am so close now. Over two hundred years I have waited. And now," he looked back at his equipment around him which was sparking and blowing up as his clock could not handle the Eliacube any longer. "I will be able to go back!"

"I'm taking Dash!" Ben roared, finding the courage to scream in the face of this man who sent so many of his friends to their deaths. "I won't leave until I do!"

"It doesn't matter!" The man yelled at him in a crazed voice. "Whatever happens, it's already over for you all! Hahahaha!" He cackled insanely with his head tilted up. Then he slowly lowered it down to the boy in front of him. A green light started to emerge from Ben's watch, and as it did, Nox froze time. "Ah, so that is the source," Nox said, then laughed a little crazy laugh as he figured it out. "So many different transformations. Very impressive," he walked straight up to Ben who was frozen still with sweat all over his face. "Too bad," the man stated, then started a kick and unfroze time. The green light barely started when it was cut off by a devastating kick to Ben's head that sent him flying away with blood splattering out of his face.

Ben crashed into a wall and dented the inside of the machine. He fell from the wall and heard his name being shouted as he did. He hit the ground down below the dented wall and landed on his stomach. His chin was on the ground and he kept his face pointed forward towards a laughing Nox. Blood poured down the entire left side of his face and his vision was getting red, not to mention dizzy.

In a blur, Ben watched Nox appear behind Rin and stomp him down to the ground. He stomped over and over while laughing and shouting something about his cube. Ben heard a crack as the time wizard stomped down on Rin's neck, and the struggle was over. Ben moved an arm forward, but stopped as it reached in front of his face. He was going to push down and get himself up, but he was running out of reasons to do so. Juvia, Kirito, Rin, I... I really thought I could save you, he clenched his eyes tight. What was I thinking? I told Gwen not to come because I'm not a kid? Who was I kidding? Nox was right. I am pathetic. I let everyone die. He opened his eyes and looked over to see Dash's bright blue light starting to go down.

"Finally! Finally!" Nox roared. "With this much power there is no doubt! I can, I can do this!"

BOOM

A hole ripped in the wall right across the room from Ben and up twenty feet. The hole was huge, the metal all ripped inwards, with flames covering the steel. A figure whose body was covered in flames and his face shadowed completely, making it black with red glowing eyes, was standing in the hole. He had spiky hair and he dropped down into the room, his fist denting the ground into a large crater where he landed.

"Na-tsu," Ben gasped out, pushing his left hand down a little. His palm slipped on his own blood puddling next to his face, but he rose his elbow and tried pushing down again. "Nat-su," he said, trying to be a little louder and putting his other hand down now.

"Juvia," Natsu whispered at the sight of his fellow Fairy Tail wizard lying dead next to Kirito. Rin was lying with a crushed neck not far away, and at the top of the staircase, Nox was standing next to Dash who had just a little bit of blue light remaining around him. "RAAAAA!" Natsu roared, lifting up his head and making the entire machine start trembling as his power rose.

Lightning and fire rippled around the Dragon Slayer who was thrown miles away over forty minutes ago, and was unconscious for over half of that time it took him to get back. "You killed my nakama!" He roared in fury, the walls, floor and even ceiling starting to heat up and turn red. Everything started to melt, the heat in the room getting so intense.

"Insolent fool!" Nox shouted as he saw the carrier that held the Eliacube start melting. "You will make it lose some of the Wakfu it has collected!" He vanished and appeared in front of Natsu, but Natsu already punched forward and Nox's chestplate bent in and cracked. He flew backwards and blue light seeped out of his chest.

Ben tried watching, but he could only focus on one thing at once and used his other hand to lift him up some more. "Gotta, get, Dash," he whispered, pulling his knees up to his chest and then using one hand to get up to his feet. He almost slipped on his blood again, and his vision was still red but less blurry than before. He rubbed the left side of his face with his right arm and his arm got covered in blood, but it did make it a little easier to see.

He could see Dash's energy all leaving him, and he stumbled towards the steps.

"Raaa! AAHHH! TAKE THIS!" On Ben's left, Natsu was going crazy destroying everything with super powerful attacks. Holes were ripping in the clock, everything was melting. Ben was sweating badly from it all and his clothes were even burning as he walked towards the steps. He reached them and moved up a step at a time, while Nox fired a half dozen blue balls of energy into Natsu where they exploded. Seconds later, Natsu's shadow was visible inside the smoke and he walked out slowly, looking like a monster and intimidating his foe who took a step back.

Nox growled, "If you make the Eliacube lose even a single scrap of Wakfu I'll-" he turned towards the cube to make sure and froze at the sight of Ben there reaching for Dash. "You-" Nox started but never got to finish. Natsu grabbed the back of his head and slammed him into the ground before he could teleport away.

"I'm not done with you," Natsu snarled in an unrecognizable low voice as he pressed the man's mask into the ground, cracking the back of it with his insane grip. "You will pay!"

"Dash!" Ben yelled, grabbing his friend just as it looked like the stream of blue energy seeping out of him was about to stop. He pulled Dash out of the air and the boy fell on him, which knocked him down considering how weak he was at the moment. "I made it," Ben whispered as he saw Dash's chest moving up and down. However, Ben noticed something; Dash's breathing was getting slower.

The blond kid's eyes opened up just a crack as he looked up into Ben's eyes. "I'm, alive?" Dash asked.

"Yeah," Ben told him. Blood was covering Ben's face and he was starting to look pretty pale. His clothes were all torn and burnt, and the amount of scratches that were bleeding on his body was insane.

Everything was shaking around them, and Natsu lifted up Nox's head before slamming him down again, which only made it worse. As Nox hit the ground this time, the metal legs beneath the monster clock could not hold it up anymore and they cracked, creaked, and snapped.

They started free-falling down, and Ben tried lifting Dash up, but he felt a light touch on his hand and saw it was Dash's. He looked into the boy's eyes, the twelve year old boy's eyes, and all he saw was absolute fear. "I'm, dying," Dash whispered, and as he opened his mouth for his next breath, he froze in that position. No breath came, no next rise of his chest, no next heartbeat.

Ben just sat there with Dash in his arms. He didn't notice the machine around him start going haywire. He did not see the cube fall off its carrier, nor Nox go mad when he saw it happen. The man roared and froze time, but the Eliacube continued to lose blue light from it. He formed a spear and turned, slamming it into Natsu's chest and then turning and running for the steps. Time was not staying frozen for long as he had used the power far too often recently and had stopped taking power from how Eliacube.

Time kept going, slower at first, and then at the normal speed. Ben heard a squish noise behind him and turned around fast, dropping Dash to instead look over at Natsu, his friend from Pao for almost as long as Gohan, and someone he had spent more time with than Dash or Riku. He saw Natsu falling with a spear through his chest, a confused look on his face like he had absolutely no idea how that happened. His eyes rolled back and he fell with the ground as it collapsed.

They were all free falling inside this broken machine. Chunks of melted metal were falling everywhere, and blue lights were shooting out in all directions. "I won't let you escape!" Nox roared, Ben thought at him, but it was actually at the cube releasing bright lights all over the place.

The man's metal mask was cracked, and pieces of it were falling apart as he stumbled up the crumbling stairs. They finally hit the jungle's floor beneath them and Ben and Nox were both jolted by the sudden end to their falling. They rolled around and saw the huge metal shards making up this robot falling down towards them.

Ben pushed a sheet of metal off him and looked over towards Nox. "You killed everyone," the boy said as he stood up, ignoring the ceiling and walls falling around him. "Now, I'm taking something that's yours!" Ben looked down at the blue cube a few feet in front of Nox. It was spraying huge blue lights out everywhere, and Ben started walking slowly towards it on bloody legs.

Nox was drained, physically and especially mentally. "No! You can't! Tell him Eliacube! You're mine!" He crawled forward, reaching towards it. "You will always be mine! My family! I-I-" he reached out once more towards the cube, but Ben dove forwards and put both of his hands around it.

"No!" Nox roared, reaching forward himself and putting his hand on the cube as Ben grabbed hold of it. The blue lights stopped shooting out, but the cube started glowing brighter than ever. "It's mine I say! Mine!" Nox yelled, holding on tighter and reaching for it with his other hand.

Ben kept his right hand on the cube, but held out his left hand and opened his bloodshot eyes to look straight into the cracked blue ones on Nox's face. "Gohan, I'm not saying it," he stated. Nox was about to ask what, when the left hand Ben had held out started glowing bright blue.

"No!" Nox yelled. He tried stopping time, but had no power. He lifted up his other arm to fire an attack at the boy, but little blue dust poofed out with no effect. The light on Ben's hand grew as he clenched his fists, trying to draw all his power to put into a Kamehameha Wave that he wasn't shouting the name out loud for.

Ben's enemy was panicking as he saw a strong light appearing on Ben's hand. Then, he smiled wide which was visible under the part of his mask that just fell off. "Yes! Yes it's happening!" He yelled, and Ben lost concentration for a second as a huge chunk of metal falling behind Nox stopped falling, and then slowly started moving back up.

The kid was still furious, and his energy only grew more and more. "What is- No!" Nox yelled at Ben. He was keeping one hand on the cube, but he pulled himself forward towards Ben as the rest of the ceiling debris around them started shooting back up in the air. "You are stealing from the Eliacube! She may not be able to make it all the way back if-"

"Shut up!" Ben roared, and his left hand glowed even brighter blue. It no longer felt like a Kamehameha though, but it was still the strongest energy he had ever felt in the palm of his hand. He looked down at his right hand which he had kept around the cube. Nox's hand was there as well, but the armor had ripped off of it and his skin started to burn. Still the crazy man would not let go and started screaming at the cube to let him stay. "Why isn't it hurting me?" Ben asked, not really to Nox but just confused as he felt warmth flood through him, not pain.

Everything around them started to turn a shade of blue. It was like all of existence turned blue. Ben tried to stay calm, but he couldn't help but freak out as the floor below him rose up quickly, much faster than it fell. "Time," he whispered, "is going backwards..." He looked to his left and watched Natsu fly up in the air, an older version of Nox grab onto him, pull the spear out that last time he had shoved in, and fall back where he had jumped from. Time only reversed faster after this, with Dash going back to hovering in the air, and blue energy shot over and filled him.

"What? No!" Nox roared at the cube that was burning his hand, melting his flesh now. "If you give them back their energy... Please Eliacube! I, I don't understand! Tell me why!"

"Are you serious?" Ben asked the man as Natsu's surprise appearance happened in reverse, then the two of them fighting earlier. He lowered his left hand back to the cube and tried to pry it from the man whose melting hand had a vice grip on it. "You really think this cube can talk? You're mad!"

"Please," Nox got dragged forward a little when Ben lifted the cube. Time was flooding past them, with the large machine walking backwards towards the area where they were all fighting Nox before. They didn't feel the jolts of any of the steps as they were in some weird special field right now. Even their old bodies were still moving backwards faster and faster as time reversed.

Nox's entire mask crumbled off. The version of him moving back in time had it all back together, but this version of him didn't. He was bleeding under the mask, and had finger-marks in his skull, indents from where Natsu crushed down on him earlier. His back was slashed up from Sora and his nose was broken as well as both eyes blackened. His whole body was burned and electrocuted, and he stared up at Ben with crazed, sad eyes. He looked like... a normal guy, which only made Ben angrier as he looked at him. "What will happen to us?" Ben asked, his voice sounding a little nervous as he did see a different version of himself.

"We'll remember what happened," Nox replied with wide eyes. "Only we will know what happened. My family won't have to know how many people I had to kill. Everything will be forgiven-"

"But what will happen to us?!" Ben yelled at the man. "I-" he saw Nox was distracted by some crazed thought and he slammed a foot forward into the man's arm. Nox's eyes went wide and he tried to grab the cube, but as soon as his fingers left it for a single second, it was all over.

"No! No no nooo! Two hundred years! I, I can't... All I wanted," he started to flicker out of the reversing time, "I just wanted, to see them..." His body started shriveling up, getting wrinkly and then losing its wrinkles as he got younger.

Ben's eyes widened in shock and he held on tighter than ever to the cube that was bringing him back in time. Now that Nox was no longer holding on, the cube followed after Ben's past self as time kept reversing. Their special blue sphere followed a three hundred foot tall alien running backwards across a forest. They shot across the landscape away from the clock machine that was sitting still in the jungle. Time kept moving backwards as the sphere of blue light shot across the jungle and came to a stop near a blond boy and speedy lizard alien looking around for medicine. This shot by just as fast as always, maybe even faster.

"You! Nox!" Ben yelled at the man floating in front of him who was a young child that started aging again quickly. He went through his teens and twenties in a matter of seconds, which was the same as negative ten minutes, which was the same as Ben had no idea what was happening to time anymore. "Before you die!" The boy yelled heartlessly, as all of Nox's wounds stayed on him while he aged. The man hit his fifties and sixties hard, getting wrinklier and with whiter hair. At least Ben thought it was like what fifties and sixties should look like, though the guy did say he was trying for two hundred years so Ben did not want to let go of the cube in the off chance he suddenly aged a hundred and fifty years. "Tell me how to stop this thing!"

"It won't stop," Nox said with a smile on his face. "It's going to take me, all," he coughed and blood splattered out. His elderly body could not take the injuries he sustained and neither could his skull, finally cracking from the fingerprints indenting in his head. "All the way back," Nox whispered, and then fell still, floating backwards until he left the blue sphere and vanished.

"I hope, he doesn't come back to life in his ship," Ben muttered. He looked back down at the cube and fear filled him. "I, I can't go too far back. If I'm the only one who will remember, I'll go mad!" He looked around and saw his friends walking backwards through the jungle at amazing speeds, Gray slapping the back of his neck as he was bitten by a mosquito. Everything happened in a blur, but in under a minute and a half, an hour was gone, and it was only speeding up.

"How long?" He whispered. Ben stared outside of the blue sphere and watched himself walk backwards through a jungle. "How far back?" He whispered again, his mind racing with hundreds of possibilities while he held this cube in his hands. "Dressrosa? Before we took off? Metropolis? Or even..." He looked at the Eliacube, "I could go back to Pao and warn everyone, tell them about Luthor. I could save... Grandpa..."

He looked down below him and at the pack of friends marching through the jungle. Another hour must have gone by without him noticing, as Ha'gar's Peak was getting close again. "All these friends I've made," he whispered. He looked at Usopp, and Riku, and Rin, "Everyone who was trapped at Castle Oblivion." He even turned to Kirito, "You were tricked by the Underworld."

Ben frowned and looked at the cube. "All the decisions we've made have had consequences. But, good things have come from them too! I can't, hurt my friends, just to save my Grandpa!" He held the cube tightly, "Eliacube! That's what he called you right?" He couldn't believe he was actually talking to it, but it was all he could do at this point. "If you can hear me! If you can understand my feelings! Then please, listen!" He yelled, closing his eyes and holding the cube right.

Everything was silent inside the time realm without Nox's insane blatherings. "Please Eliacube," he whispered, "listen to me."

The warmth that had filled Ben before got even stronger and his whole body filled with the blue light of the Eliacube. Ben opened his eyes and saw his skin emitting a blue glow. He looked down and saw his friends walking out of the trees, backwards. They were at the start of the foggy jungle, and they kept walking backwards up the gentle slope of Ha'gar's Peak. The blue time-sphere lowered down towards the mountainside, with Ben still inside holding the Eliacube. "They're, slowing down," he realized as his friends stopped being so much of a blur as they walked backwards up a mountain, smiling and laughing.. He turned and saw four lions jumping out of the forest backwards, and then leaping back up the mountain a little.

The cube hummed and time slowed again, and hummed again as Ben was pulled along inside the time space. He was brought up right in front of the him from five hours earlier, his body halfway through taking a step and still moving backwards slightly. The slow motion got even slower, and then as Ben's foot touched the ground, it froze entirely. "You, did it," he whispered to the cube in his hand. "Thanks," he whispered, in shock. "So, uhh, what do I do?" He mumbled seeing the bright blue light of the Eliacube start fading. It shrank down as it faded and he sighed, placing it in the unripped right pocket of his shorts.

He looked ahead at his body standing in front of him, a wide carefree smile on his face. He was laughing. Laughing! "Maybe I could try this," Ben mumbled as he stared at his old form. He turned around inside the blue sphere, and his whole body looked blue and see-through actually. He stepped backwards into the position of his body, or as well as he could make it, but nothing happened. He shivered as he was standing inside his own body. The boy grumbled incoherent words for a few seconds, then stepped forward and re-examined his body. "Oh," he mumbled, and then stepped back into the same position he was in five hours ago. Something was different between that him and him now and he had figured out what it was.

He stood there inside his body without anything happening, and then he forced the hardest smile he had ever had to force onto his face. The blue sphere around him vanished, noise started up around him again. Time started. Ben just stood in place, the only difference between then and now that he could feel a cube in his pocket.

"Yippee! A jungle! It reminds me of the one I grew up in with the mountain bandits," Luffy said.

Ben remembered hearing that before and he saw the pirate who he had been following forward. He froze though, not taking that next step, and he didn't make the same remark he did last time. Luffy, he stared at the pirate's back. In front of the rubberman were a boy with white hair and an older one with pink. Natsu, Killua. Farther in front of them still were the Keybearers, all still transformed into jungle cats. Kairi, Sora, Riku.

"...If you wait too long, it might be too late. Depending on what gets you though, I might not have a cure for it. In that case..." Gray was speaking behind Ben to the group still on the mountainside.

"You will die," Gray stated, but at the same time a voice spoke the same words over his a few paces in front of their pack. They all looked down to see Ben standing there facing away from them down the mountain.

"Y-Yeah," Gray responded. The older man frowned that he was being that predictable when trying to sound serious. "Well let's go," he started walking down and everyone else walked with him.

Usopp was walking in the back, the most hesitant of them all. A few of them walking down the mountain moved to the side a little when Ben got in their path and they looked at the unmoving thirteen year old oddly. Usopp was mumbling behind them, saying the same things Ben heard him say last time. "...That's a great idea! I wish I had thought of it! Oh, and one more thing, you're all going to die!" Usopp's tone was sarcastic and a few of them were laughing at the complaining coward in their midst.

Ben stood still as Usopp walked on his right side. The sniper opened his mouth and moaned out in a terrified voice, "We're all going to die!"

"We're all going to die," Ben said at the same time as him. Usopp stopped and spun towards the kid who just said exactly what he was going to say with no hesitation, no waiting to start hearing what he was about to say or anything.

Gray froze and turned around, this being the second time in the same few sentences that Ben had done this. "Are you a telepath and just haven't told anyone?" The ice wizard accused.

The others back here looked at Ben, and the kid just stood still with glassy eyes. He looked at the group, and then past them down towards the large cats about to enter the forest. "STOPPP!" He yelled at the top of his lungs.

As he yelled it, a large commotion gained his attention in the woods and he looked over to see a large cloud of dust fly up exactly where the clock machine was before. Too much of it was caught in the time space, brought back with us. But my injuries, Ben looked down at his arm which used to have a noticeable gash on it that he saw when holding the Eliacube. As he looked at his arm, he saw a cut open and start growing larger and larger.

The others who looked at Ben were confused at what was wrong with him. Some of the ones farther down the mountain complained and wanted to keep going anyway and ignore Ben. However, when all their friends higher up started screaming and running back up towards Ben, they decided to run up and check for themselves.

"Haha, ha, hahaha!" Ben laughed as he collapsed down on the mountainside. Usopp went wide eyed and took a step away from the kid whose body started covering in scratches, bruises, and burns, yet kept laughing through it all. "AaaHahahaha!" Ben laughed. Tears started streaming out of his eyes as he laughed, making him look insane to the people looking down at him.

"Ben! Ben what's wrong?!" Dash yelled as he dropped down next to his friend at super speeds. The blond kid lifted up Ben's head, only for his hand to get soaked. When he pulled his hand back it was covered in blood.

"Oh my God," Nami gasped and covered her mouth with her hands as a gash ripped open on Ben's skull, some of his hair falling away as it happened. Blood poured down like a faucet and covered his face, and the kid gurgled on it as he couldn't stop laughing.

"If my injuries stayed," Ben laughed really hard and lifted an arm to his pained chest. His face bruised up along with his body and cuts formed all over him. "Then that means so did his!" Ben laughed, imagining the inside of the clock machine where the insane Nox must have been so confused as to why he was getting beat up and dying. He stopped laughing and thought, Unless he still does remember... What happened after he fell out of the sphere? I have no idea how any of that worked, but I know for a fact that that bastard is dead! "He's dead," Ben whispered with a wide smile on his face, blood coming down off the corners of his lips.

"What is happening to him?!" Luffy yelled at Gray who was leaning down over the kid.

Gray shook his head fast, "I have no idea! It's not poison," he shouted, "he's just, getting beat up!"

"That doesn't make sense!" Natsu yelled as he got back here to see a kid he was supposed to have taken charge of getting killed. "Who's doing this?!" The Fire Dragon Slayer roared loudly.

"Let's find them and kick their asses!" Luffy shouted and punched a fist into his open palm.

Killua was staring down at Ben nervously, sweat pouring down his body as he wondered if this was something that could just happen normally to people here. Then there won't be a safe place anywhere!

"Ben, what's happening to you?" Rin asked the boy who closed his eyes but kept smiling. "Why are you-"

"Oh my," a grown voice said from behind them and the group parted as a large lion was looking down with concerned eyes. Simba was looking at Ben with a surprised look on his face.

Sora ran forward and looked down, "Sorry Simba, some other time!" He promised as a Keyblade formed in his mouth and dismissed his Summons.

"I understand," Simba replied, still staring at Ben confusedly while he dissolved into light particles.

Sora continued to hold up his Keyblade and he, Riku, and Kairi all turned back into people. They would have complained about wanting to use their furry forms more, if Ben wasn't bleeding out in front of them. "Let's do this!" Sora called out.

All three of them formed Keyblades and held them up above Ben who coughed and some more blood came splashing out of his mouth. He looked to be laughing... but that didn't make sense. The three Keyblade wielders shouted together, "Cure!"

A dome of green light lifted up above Ben and expanded farther and farther covering everyone on the side of the mountain and much more. The green light was condensed the closer to the center of the dome, so Ben's eyes snapped open as all his injuries healed in seconds. "Wow," he stated in a surprised voice, "that was fast."

"Ben!" Everyone shouted and a couple of them bent down, helping him up on his feet.

Ben turned to thank the cyborg who helped him up, but as he looked at Franky's face, his heart dropped. He imagined Franky's head sitting on the floor lifelessly, robot parts scattered all around.

"Are you okay?" Kairi asked, leaning in in front of the boy's face.

She had a bright smile on her face and he tried to return it, but suddenly instead of this version of her he saw the mangled one. Her limbs were snapped the wrong way, her head was broken, bloody, so bloody...

"Ben!" Riku yelled, getting serious now as Kairi was backing away from the boy who looked horrified to see her. Riku got close to his friend and grabbed him by the shoulders, "What happened? What did that to you? Why are you looking at me like that?" He yelled the last part as Ben did not even seem to notice he was doing it.

Ben opened his mouth to reply, and then closed it. He looked around at everyone, his body starting to shake. He lifted up his hands in between him and Riku, "What was I thinking?" He whispered, quietly but still loud enough for the group of people around him to hear. "Beat all the monsters? What a joke," his hands were shaking and his heart was beating fast. Everything that just happened kept playing in his head. No one will know. I'm the only one who remembers. If I forget, it's like it never even happened. But I can't forget. Even as he thought about forgetting he was imagining Killua's limp body on the palm of Way Big's hand. "I, I want to go," he whispered, tears coming to his eyes as he reached up and grabbed the sides of his head.

Riku lowered his arms from his friend's shoulders and stared at Ben with a scared look. Not once have I ever seen Ben this scared. What just happened?

"You want to go?" Luffy asked the kid who less than a minute before, he, Franky, Sanji, and Kirito were all encouraging him to follow his amazing dreams of taking on the world. The pirate wearing a straw hat wanted to hit Ben, and he normally would have after hearing something so cowardly from a person he normally respected. "Why are you being such a-"

Luffy stopped talking as Ben looked up at him. All Ben could imagine was the blue explosion, and watching Luffy die. He tried to hold in the tears, scrunching up his face and clenching his eyes, but the tears poured out anyway. "I can't-" he gasped out. "I can't handle this burden," he whispered, only a few people could hear him.

"What burden?" Nami asked the boy.

Ben didn't want to look at her, but just the sound of her voice made him imagine her dying in Luffy's arms.

"I-" Ben gasped out.

Then, before anyone could say anything else, three or four of them felt something. They felt it and their bodies reacted by dousing them with their own sweat. It was not a single second after they felt it that everyone else saw or felt it, floating right in front of their group in the air above the downwards slant of the mountain closest to the forest.

Everyone already facing that direction dropped their jaws, and the others started turning around while their bodies shouted at them to run. There was a green figure floating above the mountainside staring at their group. He had two arms, two legs, his body was striped with different shades of green. His face was light green and the dark green crown on top of it was part of his body actually. He had a long, thick, striped-green tail with a thin silver point at the end of it.

Everyone turned to this figure who through the way in which he came out of nowhere, or the power that they could all sense from him, made each and every one of them tremble in fear. Ben lifted his teary eyes towards this figure and his heart screamed as he wondered if he would have to go through losing all his friends again to this monster of a creature.

Gray was the one whose eyes opened widest though, and who felt fear greater than any of them. He opened his mouth to speak but could not.

The floating green figure looked at them with light purple eyes that discerned each and every one of them immediately. "Someone has been messing with time," he stated, his voice calm, commanding, and horrifying all at the same time. "You," he looked straight at Ben who was the only one whose body did not react the same way as the others upon that last sentence. "You caused the time shift?"

"N-no!" Ben exclaimed. "It was Nox!" He yelled, terrified for his life from the threatening look this creature was giving him.

The green creature stared at Ben and could feel his fear, all of their fear. Ben lifted up his arm slowly and pointed out towards the area in the woods where Nox's ship was. "H-He's over there. I-I beat him. He was planning on going back two hundred years..."

Everyone around Ben looked at the kid in total utter confusion, except for the creature, and Gray. Gray could not look away from the creature, and the next one to look back was the white haired former assassin. Killua was sweating, almost as bad as Gray was. The ice mage finally found the courage to move, and he dropped down to a knee. "King," Gray greeted with his head bowed.

"Huh?" Natsu asked his friend, then looked back at the terrifying monster. "This is the-" he stopped talking as the creature turned its head towards him a little.

"The Ant King," Killua said, trying to keep his voice calm. The green creature looked down at him, and Killua gulped but looked him back in the eyes. "I was wondering if he returned to this world." He looked the creature straight in the eyes, "Meruem, that's your name."

Meruem stared at the child for a second, "Ah, you are the one who fought Youpi and Pouf. Not many humans ever knew of my existence, or my name, and survived. You were one of the few." The Ant King nodded at the kid slightly with a look of almost being impressed on his face, which surprised Killua and absolutely stunned Gray. Meruem looked back to Ben, "Two hundred years would have been a tragedy. What was the length reversed?"

Ben was sweating ridiculously hard and no one else was interrupting this scary figure. "F-Five hours, around, I think," Ben said. He looked back over towards where Nox should be, "Aren't you, going to check?" Ben whispered.

"He is dead," Meruem responded. "The person in the spot you are motioning towards died seventy five seconds ago."

Ben did not know how to respond to that statement, so he just nodded dumbly. The King continued, "You saved this world from a fate of not existing, along with most of the people on it. You were telling the truth, or at least you believe you were being honest. I am in your debt," then, the King bowed his head to the child in front of him.

"Uhh, okay," Ben replied hoarsely, still looking a little pale, very lightheaded, totally confused, and with tear streaks on his face. "Th-Thanks," the kid continued, and Meruem lifted back up his head.

"What is your name?" Meruem asked the boy.

"Ben, Ben Tennyson."

"Ben Tennyson," it was instantly remembered by the King who forgets nothing. Meruem nodded once more and turned around. "Thank you," the King said, and then vanished. Most of them saw nothing but the poof of a cloud circle in the air above them, and the stream of white going into the distance that was left behind. Only Dash, and in part Killua and Luffy managed to witness the Ant King's departure.

Everyone stared into the distance for a few moments, and then Nami collapsed to her knees. Usopp fell backwards and everyone else released deep breaths. "What, the Hell, just happened?" Sanji asked, looking around in total confusion. He turned to Ben, "What was that about a time reversal?"

Everyone looked towards Ben, and a few of them who were not as scared were smart enough to comprehend what had happened. Killua looked back at Ben, then out over the forest, "Did you get in a fight with a time traveler?" The white haired kid asked.

"Five hours," Nico Robin began, stepping up towards Ben and seeing the kid look up at her. He winced at the sight of her face completely fine and her body not blown to pieces. "Ben, what happened in those five hours? You seem to be the only one who remembers."

"I don't remember!" Ben shouted back at her. "Nothing happened," he whispered. He took some deep breaths and calmed himself down some, not wanting to say anything embarrassing like he wanted to go home again. "Let's just," he looked down towards the forest and froze as he took a step. "Let's camp here for the night," he whispered. He looked around at everyone, "I'm really tired. I've already been up until sunset. It was getting dark when, when..."

"Come on Ben, tell us what happened!" Dash exclaimed as his best buddy was being way too secretive about this.

"NO!" Ben yelled at the younger boy, then closed his mouth and leaned back as he saw Dash's hurt look. "Just, don't ask me about it," he growled. I can't forget it, he thought. He continued speaking, "Maybe if we just wait a little, my time will synch with everyone else's and I'll only remember this timeline." If only. That's not going to happen. It couldn't happen. I don't want it to. I'm not the hero I thought I was. I can't do things like beat all the monsters. I'm just, Ben, he looked down at the green watch on his wrist. No amount of training or alien tech can change that. I let all of my friends die. I can't even pretend like I didn't get there in time, or I wasn't ready. No, I just... watched, as Nox killed everyone.

The group stared after Ben as he walked up a little and then reached down into his pockets. His clothes had remained the same as five hours earlier opposite as his injuries, but when he reached in his right pocket the cube was still there. His fingers brushed on it and he felt warm, but he went past and grabbed a little box. The boy pulled out the box and opened it, removing a small capsule that he tossed on the ground revealing a sleeping bag. He never once turned back around as he got into his sleeping bag and closed his eyes. Goku, Timmy, why weren't you here? Why didn't you come? Everyone died, but you never showed up. Could, could you have died already?

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A/N Hope you enjoyed! Who actually thought I killed everyone off? Doubt many, if any, of you did, but if you believed for a little that the ones dying were staying dead, let me know when you started to realize somehow it was going back to normal. Anyway, the King is revealed, and it turns out yes, he is the Ant King. How did the Ant King Meruem become the King of almost all of Aebrith? How is Ben going to handle the deaths of his friends? Just to clarify, Nox is the main antagonist of the first season of Wakfu, the show that Yugo is from (that portal guy who stopped on the Thousand Sunny during the trip to Aebrith). Time powers and teleportation are pretty OP so I hope no one is too peeved that the crew got crushed by Nox and his near-immortal soldiers.

Darugus chapter 34 . Apr 25

That chapter title and that ending are really worrying me also doesn't luffy have imuntity to poison

Thanks for the review. Usopp called it! Haha, he was kind of right, though by some miracle things got fixed as the one killing them all happened to be trying to go back in time anyway! Luffy is immune to lots of poisons, but Gray turned out not to be... Hope you liked the chapter!

joebob323 chapter 34 . 22h ago

Well, Looks like my question will go unanswered... I do have another one though, I am not sure what Kirito's Devil fruit power is, could you clarify? Thanks for updating!

Kirito has the Crack-Crack Fruit. Thanks for the review! Thanks to everyone who read the story, leave me a review telling me what you think, and 'till next time!