"You have failed!" Azmuth shouted as the team regrouped on Galvan Prime.
"Harsh," Kevin winced.
"You had four opportunities to destroy Aggregor and stop him from reassembling the Map of Infinity and in the end, he bested you!"
"Hey, while you're doing the recap, you might want to remember all the good we did while we were chasing him," Ben reminded.
"Yeah," Becky said. "We helped a lot of people."
"Trivialities! While you eight dithered about saving mere planets, Aggregor has now obtained the means to travel to the Forge of Creation where he can obtain the greatest power in the universe!"
"It does sound bad when you put it that way," Jen said.
"You had the Map in your hands and you gave it to him, Scarlet Warrior!"
"Jen's life was at stake," Emma said, hugging Jen's leg.
"It's true, Azmuth. If you don't try to save one life, you'll never save any," Scarlett said.
"Jen is the Master Spark. She and her brother are as, if not more important than the map is."
"We still have one chance to stop Aggregor," Ally said. "Tell us how to get to the Forge."
"I don't know where it is!" Azmuth screamed. "That was the whole point of hiding it!"
Everyone gave a look as Azmuth bowed his head.
"All hope for the multiverse is lost."
The twins bowed their heads as well... but then suddenly perked up as they looked to each other.
"You don't think..." Jen said.
"Yep," Ben said.
"You have a plan?" Kevin asked.
"Yes," Ben nodded. "We have one transformation that can find the Forge of Creation and stop Aggregor for good."
Gwen, Kevin, Becky and Ally looked up as they reached into their pockets.
"Ben, Jen, are you sure about this?" Ally asked.
"We need the keys," Ben ordered as he and Jen both stuck out their left arms. "All four of you."
"What is this?" Emma asked.
"Ben and Jen had Alexia build some security systems into the Ultimatrixes just to be safe," Ally said.
"We really don't want Albedo to ever gain access to this one if he manages to rebuild his knockoff Omnitrix," Jen said.
"Or even worse, change into it in the middle of a fight intentionally or accidentally," Becky nodded.
"Do it," Jen ordered.
Gwen, Kevin, Becky and Ally produced all four of their keys and Gwen and Kevin stuck their keys into Ben's Ultimatrix while Becky and Ally stuck their keys into Jen's. All four turned their keys and Omni and Trixie both chimed out.
"Celestialsapien transformation lockout is now overridden," they said. "Transformation now available."
"You two are free to combine," Trixie said.
"Ready?" Ben asked.
"Born ready," Jen said as both adjusted their the Omni-Twins both shouted out as they slammed their cores against each other. And with that, their bodies instantly dissolved into green and pink energy and they both swirled around each other in a yin-yang symbol before combining as they formed into one singular shape and they hovered above the ground, perfectly still.
"Alien X!" the Celestialsapien shouted in the forefold voice of Ben, Jen, Bellicus and Serena.
"Wow!" Emma said as she looked at her combined older siblings as they floated above the ground.
"It could work," Azmuth said, stroking his beard. "Alien X can do anything."
"Of course. It's their most powerful transformation," Scarlett said. "But Ben and Jen can't do anything in this form unless they can convince Bellicus and Serena to cooperate."
"Yep," Becky said. "That's al they have to do. It's not like the entire multiverse is at stake."
"No pressure," Ally agreed.
Inside the Celestialsapien, the twins floated in front of Bellicus and Serena with determined expressions on their faces.
"Ben and Jen Tennyson," Serena smiled upon them. "It's been so long since we've seen you last. Motion to greet our honored guests and hear them out?"
"Motion denied. Motion to ignore them for a thousand years after which we set them on fire for a second thousand years?" Bellicus asked.
"Bellicus, vengeance is not our way."
"Vengeance is absolutely my way!"
"Bellicus, please," Serena begged. "I know they hurt your feelings when they abandoned us. They hurt mine too. But you know how their species works. We can change almost anything, but we can't change human nature. You know that."
"I hate it when you're right."
"We're really sorry," Jen said. "We need-"
"I don't care!" Bellicus shouted.
"We have to vote on it," Serena reminded.
"We don't do anything unless we both agree. That's how this deal works."
"But this is bigger than any of us," Ben said. "The whole multiverse is at stake here."
"And?" Bellicus asked.
"You're being obstinate, dear," Serena chided.
"Am not."
"Are too."
"Am not."
"Are too."
"Am not!"
"Are too."
"Hello!" a calming voice said, shocking the twins as Professor Paradox appeared right beside them in a flash of blue light.
"Professor Paradox?" the twins asked.
"I am sorry, but you will not be able to convince Bellicus and Serena to help you two. Not today."
"Am not!"
"Are t- Time Walker!" Serena said, finally noticing Paradox's presence. "You are not welcome here!"
"Agreed," Bellicus nodded. "Resolved: Punish Paradox for ignoring the treaty between him and the Celestialsapien race!"
"Seconded!"
"I'm not supposed to go within 500 light years of them," Paradox explained.
"Resolved: Destroy Professor Paradox."
"It's time to leave," Paradox said, pulling out his remote.
"But we have to convince them to-" Ben began, but was unable to finish as Paradox teleported out of the Celestialsapien and Ben and Jen transformed back, separating and landing on the ground.
"You changed us back?" Jen asked, confused.
"You all want to go to the Forge of Creation, correct? I'm here to take you there."
"How?" Ally asked. "It's hidden."
"Indeed it is. However, I'm the one who hid it."
"This has gone far enough, Paradox!" Azmuth protested.
"Has it?"
"Granted, they achieved far more than even I believed possible, but trusting those twins with my Omnitrixes was a grave mistake on my part."
"It wasn't a mistake on any level," Scarlett said. "It was destiny. You know very well the reasons why."
"Yes. You both told me of their grand destiny, that they were the legendary beings who would someday-"
"Up up up! Spoiler alert," Paradox interrupted. "For that glorious future to occur, we must first survive current crisis at hand."
"It's too much! The children cannot win this time."
"And I say they can! Won't it be fun to find out who's right this time?"
"Um, you guys want to top talking about us like we're not here?" Ben asked.
"What he said," Kevin said. "We're gonna do this."
"And we're not letting him get away again," Gwen nodded.
"Are you going to help us or what?" Becky asked.
"With the help of all of us, we can destroy Aggregor," Scarlett said. "You two think you're ready?"
"Do you have to ask?" Jen asked. "We're with you."
"Let's do this!" Emma said, jumping up... and that was when the twins looked concerned before walking up with her.
"Emma, please listen," Ben said. "We want you off this mission. You don't have to go through with this. We have plenty of others who can help."
"Ben, Jen, I don't want-" Emma began, only to be interrupted by her big sister.
"It's our responsibility to find and destroy Aggregor," Jen said, leaning down to grab her little sister's shoulders. "Ours. No one else's. That's the way it has to be. Live by the battlefield, die by the battlefield. Scarlett her has taught us that and it's stuck with us ever since."
"Guys, please listen..." Emma said.
"This isn't the place for you," Ben encouraged. "If you keep working with us, you're going to wind up someplace dark. And you won't be able to find your way back."
"I...I'm fine with that," Emma answered knowingly, with a nod.
"What?" the twins asked, shocked.
"Guys," Emma began, taking Jen's hands. "Aggregor kidnapped innocent lives. He basically destroyed their bodies, ripped out their souls just so he could rule the entire universe. I've never felt like this before, so... angry. I just feel like... he has to pay for this. If I just quit now, how would I be able to live with myself?"
"Emma..." Ben and Jen said.
"Maybe I would be happier with living the normal life that you weren't able to have, but now I know. I've seen how the universe truly works and I can't just forget it. Maybe I can't do all the crazy things you two can, but, come on. I can at least back you up on any support you need."
"You're sure about this?" Jen asked.
"Positive," Emma nodded. "Look, I know you two aren't killers. You're soldiers. Superheroes. And sometimes, that's the call you have to make. Aggregor is a different kind of bad guy. You can't let him get away or merely capture him. He's much too dangerous to be kept alive. I know you have to do whatever it takes to make sure he can't hurt anyone ever again."
Ben and Jen smiled down on her.
"The big brother and sister I'm talking to now are the same two I've always known and loved. The ones who would put their lives on the line to protect the universe."
Ben and Jen smiled and hugged their little sister lovingly.
"It's great to have you on the team, Emma."
"Great to be here."
"If we're going to get to the Forge in time, we'll have to have already left," Paradox said, pulling out his pocket watch. "Off we go."
And with that, everyone but Azmuth was teleported away and into the Rust Bucket III with everyone manning their stations.
"Where are we?" Kevin asked. "There's nothing showing up on my instruments."
"Understandable," Paradox said. "There's nothing outside either. You see that faint glow in the distance?"
Everyone looked out the window to see a faint red glow.
"A star?" Gwen asked.
"No, Gwen. That's the universe. We're in the space beyond," Scarlett explained. "Not even the Protectors' enchantlets are programmed to take us here."
"And what about that blue glow?" Emma asked as everyone looked out the opposite side to see a faint blue glow.
"That is the next universe over," Paradox sighed. "I don't like it at all. The physics are terribly counterintuitive."
"Makes sense," Ally said. "No wonder the Forge is hidden so well. It's literally not within any universe."
"Ah, we've arrived," Paradox said. "Full stop."
"Relative to what?" Jen asked.
"Excellent point, actually."
"I still don't see anything," Ben said, trying his best to find the Forge.
"That's because the Forge is enclosed by a chronal randomization barrier," Scarlett said, remembering the conversation with Azmuth. "It's out of sync with all of time and space and, without the Map of Infinity, totally inaccessible."
"That is, unless, of course... you're me."
And then, the barrier was lifted to the eight heroes' perspective and the team looked around to see a seemingly endless void filled with nothing but the beauty of space.
"Inside this hidden nebula is the birthplace of a bouncing baby Alien X," Paradox explained. "And while it is a truly adorable creature..."
"We can't let Aggregor touch it," Jen nodded before balling her hands into fists, a snarl on her face as she was thinking about everything she's witnessed the past few months. "Any one of the things I witnessed this psychopath do is an executable offense. He's treading on the Plumbers' and our family's good name. The only way we can stop this guy is to take him down and out. Permanently."
"You are absolutely right, Jen," Ben said to his sister. "This time, we're holding absolutely nothing back."
"Can you imagine what would happen if he became omnipotent?" Scarlett asked. "Not a single person in the multiverse would be safe. He's going to destroy everything the Protectors and my family have worked for and I need to put an end to this now."
"Let's do this," Jen said.
And then, Paradox reactivated the barrier as he nodded to the team.
"This is as far as I am permitted to go."
"With all your powers, why don't you just snap your fingers or something and fix all of this?" Kevin asked.
"You could go back in time and stop Aggregor before he gets the map," Gwen agreed.
"If only it were that simple," Paradox lamented. "Even with my ability, there are still places I cannot go and things I cannot do."
"But the twins can?" Ally asked.
"I've opened a portal through the barrier and arranged for life support. While inside, you will not need oxygen nor will you feel discomfort from heat or cold."
"Then we can't be killed?" Emma asked.
"We most certainly can," Scarlett said. "A fact that Aggergor will be attempting to prove as soon as he's aware that we're here."
And with that, Paradox vanished.
"Hey!" Becky shouted.
"How are we supposed to find the... never mind," Kevin said as everyone looked ahead. "There's the nebula."
And with that said, the team entered the nebula and by extension, the Forge of Creation... and then, everyone felt a jolt and grunted as the ship suddenly stopped.
"You hit something?" Ally asked.
"No. Something hit us," Kevin said.
Everyone looked at the radar and spotted several bogeys on the Rust Bucket III.
"Aggrebots," the twins chorused, looking up as they saw the robots rip a hole in the roof of the ship.
Jen, Gwen and Emma quickly sprang into action, all firing out a flurry of their most powerful mana beams out that destroyed several Aggrebots as they swarmed the interior of the ship.
One of the robots crawled the roof before dropping down to grab Kevin's head.
"Get offa me!"
Kevin then gave a powerful right hook that severed the robot's head as Ally ran in and absorbed the energy from its carcass and then let out a powerful lightning blast that arced around all the robots as Kevin went back to the controls as the wing ran against the invisible wall of the Forge.
"We're wedged in!" Kevin shouted.
Scarlett shouted out and thrust her hand out, putting up a red forcefield that blocked all the robots from them as Kevin shouted out in effort, having the engines fire as hard as they could.
"Jen, now!" Ben shouted as the Aggrebots broke through the forcefield and Jen quickly gave a front flip and transformed into...
"Terraspin!" the Geochlone Aerio shouted before she formed a giant fan from her body, sending a powerful gale out that blew all the robots to the back as Ben transformed into...
"Kung Fang!" the Chiropterran shouted before unsheathing his katanas and used the gale to propel himself forwards, slicing and chopping all the robots to scrap metal.
"Nice!" Emma shouted as the twins transformed back.
"Aggrebots," Jen said. "That means that Aggregor's already here. We've got to get moving."
"We're not going anywhere," Kevin deadpanned. "We're stuck."
"So let's get unstuck," Ben said.
The team had all climbed onto the roof of the Rust Bucket III and Kevin examined the damage.
"This is weird," Gwen said. "We shouldn't be able to breathe in here."
"There's a big hole in the Rust Bucket," Scarlett noted. "We shouldn't be able to breathe in there either and yet here we are."
Kevin tried in vain to use his crowbar to get the wing out, only for it to come up empty.
"It's no use," he said. "It's stuck."
"What if I just turn into something strong enough to shove it through like Way Big or-" Ben began, walking forwards with his sister when they suddenly fell into the white void with a yelp.
"Ben!" Becky shouted as Gwen and Emma shot a mana tentacle out that wrapped around their feet and pulled them back.
"Dude, you okay?" Ally asked.
"It's weird," Ben said. "I think I saw something... moving in there."
"You have to be more careful," Becky said. "Paradox warned us not to touch the time field."
Suddenly, two figures suddenly walked up from the field.
"Wait. I do see something moving in there," Jen said.
"Matrix cores detected and in range," Omni chimed out. "Version code, Omnitrixes."
"That means it can only be two people," Emma realized as the figures walked up.
"That's right," an all too familiar voice said as the figures walked up and revealed themselves to be the ten-year-old versions of Ben and Jen as they stood side by side with their backs turned to each other. "And we're not some things. We're some ones. I'm Ben Tennyson. And this is my sister Jen."
"We're the Omni-Twins," Young Jen said.
"Do we know you two?" Young Ben asked as he examined the present Ben and Jen. "You both look sort of familiar to us."
"We're you two," Jen said. "Ben and Jen. Six years later."
"Why in the world would you two bring us here?!" Young Jen asked. "I hope you're not the dark future versions of me and my brother we saw with our team."
"We're not," Ben said. "And we brought you here on accident."
"You've got one more chance to start making sense or we're taking you apart!" Young Ben said, slamming his fist into his hand.
"There's been some sort of time travel accident," Jen started.
"Oh, that's how you want to play it?" Young Jen asked, her fists glowing pink with mana as she and her brother ran up to their future counterparts, only for their much stronger selves to lift them up by their shirts.
"Just let us try to explain," Ben said. "I mean, why would we lie to you? We are you two."
"I really don't want to hurt myself," Jen said, only for Young Ben to give a headbutt him, sending him stumbling back.
"Why you little!"
"I guess this is the time travel advice Paradox gave you, Tennyson. But you chose to ignore it and fell into this mess along with your sister," Kevin said.
"Kevin? Is that you?" Young Ben asked.
"It's me. But I'm not eleven anymore and I stopped using the power of the Omnitrixes."
"That wasn't a smart move to tell young Ben it's really you, Kevin," Ally said. "He and young Jen still think you're evil."
"I wasn't evil, Ally. I'm nuanced and I just went crazy with all the energy I absorbed."
"Whatever you're trying to pull to turn our future selves evil, Levin, it's not gonna work!" Young Jen shouted. "It's hero time!"
The young twins activated their Omnitrixes and transfomred into Heatblast and Firefly, blasting out their fire blasts at the Omni-Team, sending them scattering away.
"You little juvenile delinquents, trying to set me on fire!" Kevin shouted as he absorbed the metal from the ship's wing and started exchanging blows at the Pyronite, who just kept avoiding them.
"You're right," Heatblast said. "We've got a better idea."
Firefly flew overhead and stuck her posterior out, sending out a blast of heat at Kevin, sending him crashing into the base of the ship.
"Kevin!"
"Who's next?"
"Since you two need to cool off, we vote Big Chill and Overflow!" Ben shouted as he and Jen slammed down their Ultimatrixes and transformed into...
"NRG!" Ben shouted in a Russian accent, looking almost exactly like P'andor's armored form, but with the Ulimatrix symbol on the lock.
"Terraspin!" Jen shouted, looking down at herself. "Ugh, can we catch a break?"
"You two undoubtedly hit the cores down too hard again," Trixie deadpanned, appearing on Terraspin's shoulder.
"Oh, the two of us will break something for you!" Firefly shouted, swooping down as Terraspin went into her fan form again and started spinning rapidly, sending her flying off as Heatblast flew down and knocked NRG down, only to recieve a radioactive blast to the face in return.
Emma then ran up and shot her hands out, sending her mana tendrils out that caught the young twins and caught them.
"Huh. I'm saving my big siblings' lives? Funny how fate works."
"You two need to be careful, Ben and Jen," Becky said. "It's dangerous out there!"
"Not as dangerous as us," Heatblast said... just as he and his sister timed out.
"Yeah," NRG said. "We can see that."
"You think we're afraid of ourselves?!" Young Jen asked.
"Remarkably, no," Terraspin said.
"Look at them, Ben, Jen," Scarlett said, walking up and glaring down at her future godchildren.
"Scarlett?" Jen asked.
"You two recognized Kevin. So you must know who these four are?"
"Gwen? Becky? Ally? Emma?" Ben asked. "What happened to you girls?"
"Your cousins went through puberty, I'm an adult now and Emma's not a baby anymore," Ally explained.
"I find it hard to swallow that we time traveled again since my brother would never transform into anything as lame as NRG," Young Jen said.
The twins then slapped their Ultimatrix symbols and transformed back to human form.
"Well, we are. And I'll explain why NRG is in a containment suit later," Ben said.
"Emma has the same powers as me and Gwen, little me. But they're not as strong as ours yet," Jen explained. "And Kevin's a good guy now."
"Things change, guys," Becky agreed.
"They don't change that much," Young Ben denied. "We'll be keeping an eye on you."
"I'm quaking in my boots, pipsqueak," Kevin shrugged.
"Maybe if we touch the time field again, it'll send him home?" Jen suggested.
"Not a good idea," Scarlett said. "What if it makes the situation even worse?"
"Yeah," Gwen said. "We don't want a 21-year-old Ben and Jen to add to the set."
"Then I guess we'll let Paradox sort this out after we're through here."
"After what?" Ally asked. "We're still stuck here."
"No problemo," Young Ben said as she gestured to her brother. "We're all recharged."
"Maybe we can fix the ship," Young Jen suggested.
Young Ben and Jen slammed their Omnitrix cores and transformed into... Wildmutt and Wildcat. The Vulpimancer and Felineko rushed forwards and took a bite out of the plane as their future counterparts walked up and slapped the cores on his shoulders, transforming him back.
"How did you change us back to human?" Young Jen asked.
"We're you two from the future," Ben said. "We know more about the Omnitrixes than you do."
"It's better that you keep them locked," Jen advised.
"You... took a bite out of my ship!" Kevin lamented.
"It's not like we put the first dent in it," Young Ben said. "Anyway, you can always go out and steal another one."
"Oh my Gods," Ben groaned as he facepalmed. "Please tell me I wasn't this obnoxious six years ago."
"You were," Becky said. "Up until we went to the future. After that, you really matured for the most part."
After Young Ben used Upgrade to get the Rust Bucket III out of the time field, the team traveled into the nebula, seeing tons of Celestialsapiens grouping around the Forge, absolutely still as both of their consciences were still at war with each other.
"Celestialsapiens spend almost all of their time debating. Jen and I know that from experience," Ben said.
"It takes a lot of their attention," Jen said. "And that's okay. We don't want it."
"Why not?" Young Jen asked.
"Because otherwise, these guys are the single most powerful species in the multiverse," Scarlett said. "They have the very power to change reality itself."
"They could just blink and we'd be gone in an instant," Ally agreed.
"So let's be quiet," Gwen advised. "We don't want to disturb them."
"How can we breathe with no air!?" Ben asked. "Where's Grandpa Max? If this is the future, does everybody have jet packs? Who won the last five World Series'? Seriously, though, where are the jet packs?!"
"Ben," Young Jen scolded. "No more sugar for now. Give."
"I don't have any," Young Ben said with a twitch of his left eye, catching everyone's attention. He relented and handed Gwen the candy in his pocket and she turned around. "Your butt is huge."
"Uh, what did you just say?" Gwen asked.
"He said your butt is-" Kevin began.
"I heard him!"
"It was just an observation."
"You were trying to hurt her feelings!" Becky scolded.
"How'd I do, big butt?"
"You know," Ally said as she picked up Ben by his shirt, causing him to flail around as she only smiled. "I'd almost forgotten how much of a jerk you used to be."
"It's not your fault, dweeb," Young Ben said. "With a butt that big, you must not be getting enough blood to your brain."
This caused Young Jen to shout out and tackle her brother, sending them both in a tussle.
"No one talks about my best friend that way!" Young Jen shouted before Jen began levitating them upwards, separating themwith her telekinesis.
"Where do you get off talking to your friends like that?" Ben asked.
"I'm ten years old. What's your excuse?"
"Everything's not a game," Scarlett said. "What we do is important. There are countless lives on the line. If you can't see that, maybe you are just two dumb kids."
"You think we don't know that?" Young Jen asked as her future self set her and her brother down and she held up her Omnitrix. "When it's hero time, it's down to business. If we mess up, someone could die."
"And from what you told us, if we mess this one up, everybody could die," Young Ben agreed.
"That's right," Gwen said.
"Maybe that's too much to have in your head when you have to win," Young Ben told the team. "Maybe if I pretend everything's one big joke, when the time comes, I'll be able to do what I have to do."
"Is that why you were so arrogant all the time?" Becky asked the twins. "Because deep down, you're more scared than anyone else?"
"Of course we're scared," Jen said. "But more than anything, I'm scared of letting down everyone who ever believed in me. That's why I have to do what I have to do today."
"There's no room for mistake this time," Scarlett said as she stepped in front of everyone and looked out into the Forge. "This is the make it or break it moment."
"Dumb, lame, weak, guess this one's okay," Young Ben said as he scrolled through the Ultimatrix and his future self's new aliens, going through Echo Echo, Brainstorm, Goop, Humungousaur in that order. "How'd you break the Omnitrixes again?"
"No, we didn't break them," Ben said. "We had to destroy them so Vilgax couldn't use their powers for his Bioid army. That way, he couldn't enslave the universe to make his empire stronger."
"Well then how come you and two still have the Omnitrixes, future me?" Young Jen asked.
"So, here's the thing, little me," Jen said. "These gauntlet versions of the Omnitrixes are called the Ultimatrixes and they're improvements over the originals because now, we can turn any of our aliens into their ultimate forms. You and Young Ben will see them in action when we battle and destroy Aggregor. Plus, I wouldn't count out NRG, Goop or Echo Echo since they have some pretty special powers of their own."
"How is that?" Young Ben asked.
"NRG has to remain in a containment suit since his natural form is way too dangerous for most species to be around safely," Jen said. But he has heat powers like Heatblast, only with radiation instead of fire. Echo Echo has the duplicating powers of Ditto plus Blitzwolfer's sonic screams. And Ditto is just as smart as Grey Matter with the electrical abilities of Frankenstrike and... that one alien that must not be named."
She said that last part through gritted teeth to her brother, leaving the young twins confused.
"Still," Young Jen said, kicking the ground. "I can't believe we would have to resort to killing our enemies aside from Vilgax."
"I know, young Jen," Ben said, leaning down to his sister's level. "But in the future, Scarlett is going to teach you that some of your adversaries are much to dangerous and resilient to be left alive. And Aggregor is one of them."
"And that leads us to how we got these bodies," Jen chuckled, showing off her impressive biceps. "We did some training with Scarlett, who's now our godmother, to stop Vilgax from doing what we just told you."
"And sometimes, we have to do things we don't want to do," Young Ben said. "Because the easy way isn't always the best way to keep people safe."
"Okay, now you're sounding like our grandfather, young Ben," Jen said. "And to answer your question from earlier, he's kind of recovering on Galvan Prime from an injury Aggregor gave him."
"Are we there yet?" Young Jen asked as Kevin slowed the ship down.
"Yeah," Ally said everyone he looked up at a humungous female Celestialsapien with her hands outstretched and a small glowing orb in her palms. "I think we are."
Everyone looked stunned at this as they quickly pressed their watches and put their hero outfits on.
"What's that in her hands?" Becky asked.
Everyone looked closer and Jen nodded.
"Aggregor's target."
"A baby Celestialsapien," Ben confirmed.
"Where do baby Alien X's come from?" Young Ben asked.
"When two constellations love each other very much-"
"KEVIN!" Jen, Gwen, Becky, Ally and Scarlett shouted.
"Just trying to help the kids out," Kevin said. "I had to learn about astrophysics on the streets."
Suddenly, everyone felt a jolt and were sent out of their seats as the ship started to careen.
"We're hit!" Emma gasped as everyone saw multiple light, dark and radioactive blasts raining down on them.
"Take us down!" Ben ordered.
"That's where we're going anyways!" Kevin said. "The engines are out."
"Move!" Young Ben shouted. "We'll land it!"
"Sit down!"
"Sitting," Young Jen smiled innocently before the ship crashed into the hands of the giant Celestialsapien.
And then, the doors of the ship burst off as the team emerged with Ben as Humungousaur, Young Ben as Four Arms, Jen as Lumine and Young Jen as Diamondhead.
"We were going for Upgrade and XLR8," Four Arms said.
"Yeah," Humungousaur said. "We were going for Big Chill and Kung Fang."
"How much stronger do we get when we're older?" Diamondhead asked.
"A whole lot stronger," Lumine smiled.
"INCOMING!" Ally shouted as Aggregor flew down with the Map of Infinity in his hands, raining down various elemental blasts at our heroes as they scattered. The sheer power Aggregor was exuding was already starting to have an effect on the Forge of Creation as it began to distort slightly.
Scarlett put up her own forcefield and protected the team, specifically Emma, from the onslaught.
"I can't imagine how you managed to beat me here, Omni-Team, but it doesn't matter. I am going to kill you all now and finally claim the ultimate prize."
"And they say I talk too much," Four Arms said.
Four Arms and Diamondhead rushed Aggregor on either side, but he grabbed both of them by the throat and tossed them into their older counterparts as Lumine put up a forcefield of light to stop them.
Gwen shouted out and fired two powerful mana beams fromher hands that slighty injured Aggregor as he smiled.
"You seem to have gotten stronger. But tihs is as far as any of you will go!"
The rogue Osmosian fired a blast of radiation and lightning from his hands, which knocked Kevin and Ally out as they groaned in pain. Becky, however, leaped in and caught the blasts in her spear's blades and then sent them back at the team's hated enemy, who then sent out a pulse to the ground that sent the twin sisters off their feet.
"Leave them alone!" Diamondhead shouted.
The female Petrosapien ran in anhd tried to rush Aggregor, only for him to grab her, fly high up and sent her flying into the Celestialsapien's hands and then delivered a massive piledriver to her chest.
"Jen!" Four Arms shouted as Scarlett ran in and sent a powerful blast of energy from her hands that blasted into Aggregor, who was sent flying back.
"It's over, Scarlet Warrior. With all of the Andromeda aliens' strengths added to my own, nothing you have in your arsenal can even hope to touch me."
"He's right," Four Arms said, helping his struggling sister up. "We can't fight him like this. Should've picked some fliers."
"Not a bad idea," Humungousaur said as he and Lumine reached over and touched their younger selves' Omnitrix symbols, transforming them into...
"Stinkfly and Firefly?" the Rhopaloceran asked, fluttering up and instantly healed. "How did you?"
"You'll learn how to do it later," Lumine said before she slapped her Ultimatrix symbol and morphed back into Jen and then focused out before shouting out in fury as she transformed into her Anodite form. "Give us some cover!"
The younger twins nodded and flew up as Aggregor flew down to face them.
"Swampfire!"
...and then hit it again to become...
"ULTIMATE SWAMPFIRE!"
"Plant guy?" Stinkfly asked, flying above. "It's just a copy of Wlidvine."
"His name is Swampfire, genius," Battlefly deadpanned. "I think that alone tells us that he's not a copy."
"She's right," Ultimate Swampfire smirked. "Remember the time Wildvine did THIS?!"
Ultimate Swampfire tossed tons of seeds out that grew into giant vines that wrapped around Aggregor as Battlefly tossed air blasts at him and Stinkfly spat out his acid that slightly damaged him. But Aggregor used his light blades to break free of the vines and then sent out an air blast from his stomach that sent the younger twins flying away as they crashed into the ground, transforming back to human.
"NO!" Scarlett shouted as she put her best red crystal shield around the twins and Emma as Aggregor sent out a massive blast of solar and radiation energy, blasting the shield apart as they were sent scattering to the ground (but not transformed back yet) and then sent out his hair tentacles and violently shocked her as she dropped her Keyblade and fell to the ground as the twins glared at him menacingly.
"And now, the ultimate power is mine. At last!"
Everyone groaned as they saw Aggregor race towards the orb and groaned as Scarlett looked out at the distortion the Forge was emitting starting to increase.
Young Ben and Jen recovered as they looked at their Omnitrixes and ran up to Kevin, Ally groaning as she tried to recover, Scarlett's hand scrambling out to try to reach her Keyblade.
"Wake up," Young Ben shouted as he reached up to Kevin. "You can still stop him."
"Ugh," Kevin groaned. "What?"
"You can absorb our Omnitrixes, just like you did before," Young Ben said. "You can have all our powers."
"No," Kevin said. "If I'm gonna do this, I'd better go with the 'A' game."
"Kevin," Ally groaned out. "No."
Kevin ran and touched Ultimate Swampfire's Ultimatrix symbol and then absorbed the energy out, sending a massive surge of light around him, everyone shielding their eyes as he did so.
Scarlett, finally reached Crimson Justice and hoisted it into the air with a groan.
"Curaza!"
Aggregor finally smirked as he reached the orb and smiled as he reached for his prize.
"At long last," he said, almost drunkenly. "More power than I could have ever imagined. The universe at my fingertips!"
"Step away from the baby, Aggregor!"
"Levin?"
Aggregor looked out to see a now completely mutated Kevin Levin. He Humungousaur's body build and chest, Four Arms' skin color and left eyes, Grey Matter's right eye, Ultimate Humungousaur's skin on the right, Jetray's face with Ripjaws' lure, Ultimate Spidermonkey's lower jaw, Echo Echo's inner mouth, Lifeforce's hair color, Big Chill's right wing, Stinkfly's left wings, Frankenstrike's towers reaching from his shoulders, Chromastone's spikes on his left shoulder, Diamondhead's left arm with some of Eye Guy's eyes, Brainstorm's hand on the Diamondhead arm with Water Hazard's port on the palm, Spidermonkey's lower left arm with Wildmutt's fur, Swampfire's upper right arm with Lodestar's shoulder, Heatblast's lower part of the Swampfire arm with Rath's claw on the wrist, Brainstorm's legs in place of the lower right arm, XLR8's tail and Jetray and Rath's feet. He was now Ultimate Kevin!
"Remember when you told me and my sister about how using our people's laws against absorbing too much energy were lies to control the weak back in Los Soledad?"
Ultimate Kevin then tossed Aggregor out of the orb, sending him skitting across the ground as the remainder of the Omni-Team stood up and got ready as Jen shouted out and was engulfed in a massive surge of magenta light. Ultimate Kevin then blasted out neuro lasers from his eyes that sent Aggregor skidding back more and then sent a blast of shadows out that sent him into a fit of pain.
Ultimate Kevin reached out and hoisted Aggregor into the air with a hateful glance.
"Let's see who's the weak one when I take away your powers too."
Aggregor gave a scream of pain out as Ultimate Kevin slowly absorbed his energy into his own system and a glow surrounded Aggregor as he slowly changed back to his original Osmosian form and collapsed to the ground, breathing heavily.
"I could kill you myself," Kevin said. "But Jen made a promise. And who am I to prevent her from keeping it?"
"Aggregor!" Jen shouted as the Osmosian looked up in uncharacteristic fear at the evolved Anodite flying above him as she grit her teeth in anger, her five elemental crystals generating around her. as her cousin in Anodite form floated beside her as Ally wielded her energy cannon, charging it up, Becky knocked three explosive arrows and Ultimate Swampfire glared as he punched his fists together as Scarlett spun her Keyblade like a javelin and Emma floated in the air hatefully as well.. "I won't let you hurt anyone ever again!"
She shouted out in fury as she let her elemental crystals spin at blinding speeds around her before they let loose five different colored beams that converged into one powerful blast as Ultimate Swampfire added in his blue flames and the others added in their own blasts as they all shouted out, not letting up in the screamed in agonizing pain and anguish as the onslaught of power that the Omni-Team unleashed upon looked around as powerful energy surged around them and shouted out in pain.
He was sent skittering back as Ally ran in, lifted him up and decked him in the fast and chest multiple times, letting her pent up rage loose on him. Emma then leaped up to him and gave out her strongest mana blast that sent him up to Gwen, who let loose a massive spell of mana fire that seared his shirt off as she then smirked and twirled her spear out as she reached up.
"No..." Aggregor grunted.
"This is your old weapon, right?" Becky asked. "Poetic justice."
She then thrust down and stabbed Aggregor in the chest before lifting him up and tossing him to Scarlett, who then slammed him into the wall of the giant Celestialsapien's palm and then stuck her dagger out.
"Please," Aggregor grunted as Jen flew down. "Have mercy..."
"Oh, you mean the mercy you were going to have for us when you were about to erase us from existence?" Scarlett asked as she backhand tossed the dagger to Jen, who caught it and approached him. "We're fresh out of mercy."
Jen grunted as she slowly sliced Aggregor's throat with the dagger as he fell to the ground, now dead as a doornail as Jen walked up to him and stomped on his face, hard with her boot.
"It's over," she said as she transformed back to human. "At long last it's over."
"No," Ben said as everyone looked at Kevin. "It's not over yet."
"Kevin, please," Ally said. "This isn't you. Absorbing too much energy makes Osmosians with our powers lose control of themselves."
"Yeah? Well, I like being out of control! Maybe I should absorb the Alien X power for myself!"
"You know we can't let you do that," Scarlett said, unsheathing her katana.
"You can't stop me either! I deserve that power. I'm the one who always gets turned into a monster. I'm the one that nobody ever trusts or cares about!"
"That's not true," Gwen said, tears forming in her eyes.
"Face it, Gwen! Whatever I look like, I'm a freak!"
"No," Young Ben said, stepping up. "You're a jerk. You've always been a jerk."
"People try to be nice to you, but you can't ever see it," Young Jen agreed. "You're too busy feeling sorry for yourself."
Ultimate Kevin growled as Scarlett stepped in front to protect the young twins, but then lowered his pose.
"Maybe I'll try it your way, kids... at least for today. But tomorrow, whole different story."
Ultimate Kevin then spread his wings and took to the sky, flying out of the rapidly distorting Forge of Creation.
"Kevin!" Gwen and Ally shouted.
"He's gone crazier than he was before," Jen said as Scarlett walked up and picked up the Map of Infinity from Aggregor's corpse and then stuffed it into her pouch.
"At least we stopped Aggregor and recovered the Map of Infinity," Scarlett said. "This thing is going back to the Mystic Isles where it can never be used for personal gain again."
"Kevin is a problem for another day," Paradox said as he suddenly appeared. "Today, all of you have saved the universe again and it's time to go home... particularly you, my impetuous young friends."
"We're gonna forget everything that happened, aren't we?" Young Ben asked.
"Come on," Young Jen said, referring to the older twins. "They don't remember."
"You'll think it was a dream. But one day, you'll remember it dimly and trust Kevin when you shouldn't and he'll respond to that trust and help you save the universe."
"So that's why we were ready to trust him when he joined us," Jen realized. "But then, he'll turn evil again."
"The story isn't over, Ben and Jen," Paradox said. "When the moment comes, you'll do what needs to be done. That is your great gift."
"Bye, guys," Ally said to the young Ben and Jen. "Try being nicer to your family."
Paradox then stuck out his hand and the young twins were engulfed in a light and were then teleported away back to their own time.
"We must also take our leave. Before the locals take notice of my presence."
"What about Kevin?" Gwen asked.
"Don't worry, Gwen," Ben said. "We'll take care of him."
Unfortunately, just as Paradox was about to teleport everyone away, a massive sonic boom sounded out from the Forge of Creation, shockijng everyone as the entire Forge started to build up a glow of energy, everyone's hair blowing back as they looked on at the area around them.
"What's going on?!" Becky shouted.
"The battle with Aggregor overloaded the Forge's energy!" Scarlett realized shouted as the walls and sky around them started to distort. "In order to compensate, it needs to release that energy all at once!"
"That can't be good," Jen said and with a large and loud burst of energy from the Forge, five swirling portals opened all along the room and then, the remaining five members of the Omni-Team all began to feel some kind of force sucking them towards a different portal as they scrambled on the floor.
"Oh crap!" Ben shouted as Gwen shouted out and shaped her mana into claws to grip the floor with a shout.
"Scarlett, help us!" Jen screamed.
"The portals aren't going to stop until they suck up one of us each. There's nothing I can do," Scarlett said, holding Emma in one of her arms and her Keyblade, which was stabbed into the ground with her other, feeling the wind blowing her hair wildly. All Paradox could do was watch in dismay at what was happening beforehand.
"Well that's just typical!" Becky shouted.
And when their grip finally gave out, Ben, Jen, Gwen, Becky and Ally all screamed out in terror as they all fell into each of the five portals, which instantly closed behind them, leaving Scarlett, Emma and Paradox behind.
"Ben! Jen! No!" Emma shouted as Scarlett hit her knees, panting heavily. "Scarlett, what happened?"
"They've all been separated. They've been sent to five different dimensions completely different from our own," Scarlett explained. "Until the Protectors can pinpoint exactly where they are, there's nothing we can do to get them back."
"Then for the moment, the universe is without its most valuable guardians," Paradox said, bowing his head. "We'd better get you home at least, Young Emma."
Emma nodded as Paradox teleported her home and Scarlett hurriedly stuck Crimson Justice out and opened a portal back to the Mystic Isles.
"The council is not going to be happy about this," she said, running a hand through her hair as she teleported, once again, leaving the Forge of Creation uninhabited except for the Celestialsapiens.
"This is terrible!" Hippolyta shouted. "They've all been separated throughout the multiverse."
"It's not all bad," Celestia said as she focused, her horn glowing and her eyes closed, trying to sense where the twins were.. "From what I'm able to gather, each of these new dimensions seem to be or are going to be in quite a pickle at the moment. Maybe they could use a little outside help."
"But what about Kevin? He's gone completely mad with power," Angella said. "And his hunger for more energy is obviously insatiable."
"We could get intervene," Arthur said as he crossed his feet on the table. "It hasn't stopped us before."
"No, Arthur," Hippolyta declared. "We cannot abandon our posts just for a situation like this."
"We'd typically only send one of the best in our ranks for something like this," Pink Diamond said, crossing her arms. "Such as Scarlett or Queen Moon. We'll send Scarlett as soon as they figure out this whole alternate universe mess each of them are stuck in. But at this time, we cannot interfere ourselves."
"They're right," Celestia sighed. "I'm sorry, but the fate of their universe is not worth risking the safety of all others."
"You're right, Celestia," Billy said with a nod. "Besides, I doubt Kevin would listen to us in the state he's in."
Coming soon on Ben and Jen 10: Ultimate Alien
Five Heroes
Five New Universes
Five Movie Events
Ben and Jen 10: Across the Multiverse.
Don't miss it.
A.N.: And this is why I said you might be disappointed with how I handled the Heroes United chapter. Needless to say, I'm sorry. Jen is not going to be in it. I have my own plans for her and the rest of the Omni-Team barring Kevin. Also, I'm sorry, but Ally absorbing all the DNA from Jen's Ultimatrix would just be completely out of character for her. She would never do anything to affect her relationship with her best friend. That is the one risk that I just don't want to take.