Ben screamed as he fell through what seemed to be an infinite void in time as he suddenly stopped and looked around himself in awe as he saw what appeared to be an infinite amount of portals to several places and points in time in the multiverse as he looked around.
"Am I still in the Forge of Creation?"
"Not quite," a female voice said.
Ben screamed as he fell through a seemingly endless tunnel, wondering where he was possibly going to end up before he suddenly crashed into a white void that was filled with hundreds of windows to various other spots in time and space, stretching through various dimensions. He stood up and then, a familiar voice was heard.
"Not every day you save your entire universe, only to get sucked into a completely new one, right? Well, let me tell you something: for me, that would be every day of my life."
Ben turned around and saw a being that looked very familiar to him as she had the same height and hairstyle of a familiar athletic French girl, but her costume was noticeably different. She now wore a blue and white bodysuit with blue bunny ears on her head and a rabbits paw print at the soles of her boots. She also held a blue and white umbrella over her shoulder as she looked at Ben with a smirk.
"Alix Kubdel?"
"Yes... and no," the rabbit heroine said as she smiled. "I am Alix Kubdel, but I'm not the Alix Kubdel from your universe. She's Dragonfly. I'm Bunnix, Master of Time and Space. And you're in my Burrow."
"A Master of Time and Space? Like Professor Paradox?"
"Oh, I've run into that guy quite a few times," Bunnix chuckled as she showed out a blue and white pocket watch to Ben. "The Rabbit Miraculous allows me to go to any point in time I wish. And, as you can expect, as a Master of Time, it's kind of my job to make sure the timeline of every universe stays intact, Ben Tennyson."
"Yeah, I know that. What am I doing here?"
"Well, I was looking through my Burrow and I noticed you falling through the infinite void of space and decided to intervene myself. And I've noticed something peculiar happening in another universe that is completely different from your own. No connection at all. They could use some help with this problem."
"Okay, but why don't you do it?"
"Um, I'm kind of busy maintaining the timeline and my team, the Miracu-League, needs me far more than those guys do."
"Fine," Ben said. "It'll be nice to see another dimension anyway. But what about my sister and my teammates?"
"There's nothing either of us can do to help them at the moment. They have their own problems.
Bunnix smirked and held out her umbrella and shot a beam from it that highlighted one specific portal and she opened it and held it over her shoulder.
"Shouldn't you get going? Your teammates aren't having it any easier where they were sent."
"Right. On my way," Ben announced, transforming into Humungousaur as he leaped through the portal.
In said universe, a rift opened up in the skies above New York City, catching everyone's attention as a funnel opened up from the clouds and a giant ball of electricity generated in the funnel of clouds, raining lightning down upon the city, destroying the Brooklyn Bridge and shattering several skyscrapers' windows, sending all of the civilians in the streets running in a panic.
Meanwhile, a set of twin siblings in similar attire started running through an alleyway with a pant before stopping in their tracks.
They were both Hispanic teenagers with black hair with the girl's going down to her back.. The boy wore a blue and white shirt under a red and orange jacket with blue gloves and black pants with wire patterns along with black combat boots. He also wore orange aviator goggles on his head. The girl wore very similar attire, only she had a black and pink shirt over a blue and purple jacket with white gloves, dark purple pants with black combat boots and deep purple aviator goggles on her head.
And then, they winced as they grew tense as they spotted a shadow rushing around them.
The girl smirked to her brother as she leaped up and stuck her hands out and formed a kusari-gama from in her hands and started spinning the chain sickle around, barely missing her target, a man with a green armored bodysuit with and sunglasses as he blocked the attacks with his swords.
"You need to pay attention, Roxie!" the man said as Roxie rapidly swung her chain blades around, almost break-dancing and Roxie smiled, attacking with everything she had.
"I'll tell you what we need!" the boy shouted, his arms glowing and changing form into giant orange fists that he called his Smack Hands, smashing at them.
"More training? Your swing is getting a little sloppy, Rex."
"Not what we were thinking," Roxie said as she leaped onto her feet and de-generated her chain sickle and summoned a warhammer, smashing at Six as he avoided everything. "But thanks for the tip!"
"Two words, Six! Theme song!" Rex shouted as he activated giant boots on his legs that he called his Punk Busters before getting onto his back and slamming Six back with them as he skittered backwards.
"Theme song?" Six asked as the twins leaped backwards and landed on top of a platform in the training area, catching the attention of a beautiful young woman with an orange suit and a black vest over it.
"If you break even one of my things, I will ruin you!"
"Things have been getting pretty good for us lately," Rex said as he and Roxie deactivated their builds. "I mean, we have a home, friends, family, The only thing we need now is our own theme song!"
Rex then generated a tank on ihs back and then started lashing forwards with a giant tentacle on his arm as Six avoided them.
As the battle continued, a mutant chimpanzee stood on top of a railing. He has pale purple skin and brown fur. He wears an eye patch and fez. His shirt and shorts are a dingy gray/green color with blue cloth at the bottom of his sleeves, shorts and a line down his shirt that extends to the bottom. He also has blue cuff-links. His outfit is like something out of a Renaissance fair.
"I got your theme song right here," he said before making farting noises with his armpit.
"We're serious, dude," Roxie said as she leaped off the platform and activated her hoverboard with a smile. "Every superhero should have their own theme song."
"We've been working on one," Rex said as he built a large cannon from his arm. "Though you probaby won't hear it over the ringing in your ears."
The back of the cannon shot out into the ground and started blasting large pieces of debris at Six, who avoided it as Roxie conjured two blasters and started blasting at Six as well.
"It started when the nanites went 'KA-POW! across the scene
Transforming all the life on Earth like nothing that you've seen.
But there's two lucky hombres who can make them weaponry
They're Gen Rex!"
"And Gen Rox!" Roxie chimed in as Six rushed in and kicked her off her board as she instantly recovered with a smirk and a toss of her hair.
"It's... catchy," Six said. "It's good to see you two happy, Rex. Just remember that in this world, all of those things can be taken away in an instant."
"If that was your attempt at inspiring us, Six, you need a little more practice yourself," Rex said.
It was at that point that an alarm sounded out and the woman from before, Dr. Holiday, rushed downwards.
"How quickly can we get to Manhattan?"
A woman reached down to pick her daughter up as she noticed the white ship that represented Providence Headquarters flying above them.
"Providence! It'll be okay now, sweetie."
The Providence fighters rushed towards the giant rift in the sky as a woman with purple hair, known as Black Knight, reported this as she gave a report out to the twins' older brother Caesar Salazar.
"Dr. Salazar, what am I looking at?"
"You want the truth?" Caesar asked. "For the first time since I was six years old, I haven't a clue what I'm looking at."
"What is going on here?" Rex asked as Bobo examined what was going on in his plane.
"Don't know. But I wish I'd brought my tanning butter."
"Cut the chatter," Six said walking up.
"Trust me, we would," Roxie said as she and her brother looked up at the giant rift in the sky. "But ripping on Black Knight is the only thing keeping us from freaking out right now!"
"This isn't our usual deal," Rex said, activating his Boogie Pack wings while Roxie conjured her hoverboard and they both lowered their goggles set off towards the rift. "Just make sure Providence stays off our butt while we're off saving theirs!"
Both twins flew towards the giant ball of energy at the center of the rift as they looked on.
"So...we smash that?" Roxie asked.
They both reached out to touch the rift, only to be blasted back by a bolt of lightning before instantly recovering.
"Holiday!" Rex shouted. "What is it and where do we hit it?!"
"I... I don't know. I... wait," Holiday reported before looking closely at the rift and something inside of it. "I'm picking up bio-organic energy inside the event."
It was at that point that Ben burst through the rift as Humungousaur and Roxie summoned her battleaxe and gave a swipe at the Vaxasaurian, only for him to grab her axe and toss her down into Central Park, crashing into the trees. He then gave a swipe of his tail and sent Rex flaling down right next to her.
Both twins looked up as Humungousaur landed down in the park, looking around confusedly.
"Anything you want to say for yourself before we commence with the face stomping?" Rex asked.
"Yeah," Humungousaur said, shocking the twins as he stepped forwards. "You two just made a humungous mistake!"
Rex quickly built up a shield that he used to block Humungousaur's punches as he looked down at them, eventually putting them into a crater."
"Stay down if you know what's good for you," Humungousaur said before walking away as Roxie leaped up and summoned her energy cannon.
"Then let's show you exactly what we're good at, idiota!"
Humungousaur turned around and was hit with a powerful blast of energy as Rex activated his Smack Hands and tackled him.
In the event, however, another EVO creature burst out of the rift and started laying carnage to the Providence agents below.
"Rex, Roxie, I'm detecting more fluctuations in the event. Something's coming out."
"Yeah, we see it, Holiday," Rex said, building up his Punk Busters.
Humungousaur looked up as a Providence ship descended over him.
"You and your partner had better call it quits right now and I'll keep the pounderizing to a minimum!"
"Funny," Rex said as he built up his Smack Hands and Roxie smirked as she built up her own large gauntlets. "We were about to say the same thing, only in Spanish!"
Both twins gave a powerful punch and sent Humungousaur flying into one of the park's statues.
"You take the hunk and junk, Six!" Roxie shouted. "The big lug is ours!"
"Great," Humungousaur groaned. "The one time that I don't have Jen is when I need her the most."
The ship turned around and chased after the EVO as the twins turned to the giant dinosaur alien glared at them.
"You want to learn the hard way? Lesson one, dangerous aliens are not welcome on my planet!"
Humungousaur gave a rolling ground pound, sending a rock wave rushing towards the twin EVOs as they leaped out of the way.
Above the city, the Providence Ship opened its front and started charging up its giant cannon as Black Knight's agents turned to her.
"Black Knight, target is locked and the weapons are charged. Firing on your mark."
Black Knight gave the signal and the ship's cannon fired out a powerful laser outwards that blasted right into the orb of energy inside the rift, energy charging up from the outside.
"Keep everything we've got focused on that rift," Black Knight said. "Nothing else comes out of there. Pawns, get those EVOs alive. I need answers. Caesar?"
"The physics are amazing," Caesar said, examining the rift from his bunker. "Like a star in collapse, it-"
Caesar was interrupted as a loud beeping rang out from the monitor behind him.
"I'll buzz you back."
"Don't hang up on me, Caesar."
Her words fell on death ears as Caesar's monitor went out with a glare.
"Bring Salazar to me! Now!"
In Caesar's place on the monitor appeared Black Knight's predecessor White Knight, clad in the Providence agent's armor.
"Hands full?" he asked. "My team is here to help. You'd be well advised to let them."
"You'd be well advised to get off my screens, White Knight. I'll see you tried for treason."
"While you're filing the paperwork, we'll be saving New York. Join us or stay out of our way."
Rex and Roxie shouted out as Humungousaur swatted the dynamic duo back into the lake, sending water everywhere. They stood up at the alien as they coughed up water.
"You can punch, dude. I'll give you that," Rex said as their opponent waded into the water.
"You alien wannabes should know better by now," Humungousaur said. "You mess with Ben, you get the Ten! Man, wherever Jen is, I hope she doesn't hate me for saying that."
"Aliens?" Roxie asked, confused. "The Ten? Ben and Jen? Great, another insane EVO to add to the list."
"Providence is all over your... energy weapon or whatever. So let's see if we can't knock some normal back into you."
"Yeah? Good luck with that," Humungousaur scoffed as the twins ducked under the water and giant metallic tentacles wrapped around him and pulled him under. Thinking quickly, he slapped his Ultimatrix symbol and transformed into Diamondhead, growing crystal spires from his back that instantly sliced through the tentacles and he emerged on the surface with Rex on his shoulder, activating his nanites to try to absorb Ben's... only for nothing to happen.
"Okay. That's weird," he said as Diamondhead tossed him and his sister off.
"What did you just do to me?!"
"Not sure," Roxie said as she summoned her battle axe and Rex built up his Big Fat Sword. "But I like it."
Diamondhead retaliated by drawing a giant crystal blade of his own and slashed it down to attack the twins as all three clashed blades, water flying everywhere.
"Holiday," Rex said. "Are you seeing this? Creature feature just went bling on us!"
"Be careful, guys. This is nothing we've ever seen before."
Meanwhile, the giant machine rampaged through the Manhattan streets, sending cars crashing and blowing up and the civilians ran away screaming.
"Diane Farrah, broadcasting to you live from what appears to be the end of the world," Diane reported as she gestured to the EVO scaling up the Empire State Building.
In reality, the machine looked on, sensing the heat signatures of the passersby.
"So many of us," the entity controlling the machine wondered. "What has happened here?"
The machine jumped off and landed on an adjacent roof, scanning for lifeforms as he witnessed Rex and Roxie clashing with Diamondhead for a few seconds before Six stepped in front and glowered at the mechanized menace.
Six bounded over the thrashing tentacles and blocked the strikes with his swords as some Providence agents on hoverboards flew up and shot down at the EVO. It was about to go after them when Six stabbed a sword into his back, slid under him and kicked him off of the roof, crash landing on top of a car. But the EVO wasn't done yet as Six followed him to the ground as it recovered and he drew his sword, ready as he avoided another swipe.
"Holiday, what am I looking at here?"
"Preliminary scans say non-organic," Holiday answered as Six avoided another swipe that left an imprint on the side of the building. "It appears to be entirely mechanical. I'll need a closer look."
"I'll see what I can do."
Meanwhile, Diamondhead crash-landed onto the Brooklyn bridge, sending several empty cars flying into the Hudson river. Rex and Roxie hovered in the air above him, looking down as he got up from the resulting crater.
"Lucky punch."
"Oh, we don't believe in luck," Roxie said, drawing her sword. "Now hold still so we can cure you!"
"What are you talking about?! I'm not sick! We're wasting time!"
Diamondhead slapped his Ultimatrix symbol again to transform into Lodestar.
"Metal, meet magnetism!"
Lodestar sent out a magnetic wave that sent the metal weaponry flying away from the twins.
"Magnets, huh? Well, there's no metal in pavement!"
Rex built up his Slam Cannon and sent concrete projectiles flying at the Biosavartian, sending him flying across the bridge.
Holiday walked up to Six as he tossed a fragment of the machine to her.
"It's gone. But I found this."
Holiday pulled out her scanner and started examining the piece of debris.
"I'm not exactly sure what we're looking at here. I'm not even sure if this is made with an element I've ever worked with before. I'm getting some type of residual nanite signature, but this is definitely not an EVO we're dealing with here."
And then, a giant shadow appeared over the team and they looked up to see Caesar's laboratory ship appeared over them.
"Caesar?" Holiday asked into her communicator. "We could use a little help down here. What is it?"
"The fragment came from the machine," Caesar said, examining the data.
"Can you tell us anything about it?"
"Yes, but not right now."
Caesar sent a crane arm down to collect the fragment as Holiday took the fragment and sent it up to Caesar's lab before it flew away.
"For the record, most scientists are not like that," Holiday said.
The machine looked on at Providence headquarters and the fighting ships surrounding her and scanned Caesar's ship as it flew towards the headquarters.
"Him," the entity pondered. "Father?"
The machine leaped up high and landed on top of one of the fighters, reaching its tentacle into the ship and wrapping around the pilot, who let out a Wilhelm scream as he was sent flying out of the plane. The machine wrapped its tentacles around the controls and began projecting its nanites into it, up until it felt a jolt as Six landed behind it.
"We're not finished yet."
Lodestar grunted as he crash landed against the frame of a Providence billboard, sending as the twins flew up to him.
They were about to continue fighting, only to stop as the billboard broke off its hinges and fell down towards the street, sending eveyrone running away in a panic.
"Time out! Innocents!" the trio of heroes all shouted.
As the billboard fell, Rex and Roxie activated their Rex Ride and hoverboard and rode down after it as Lodestar slapped his Ultimatrix symbol, transorming into Rath and leaped down with them as they all collected all of the civilians they could, Rex picking up Diane and her cameraman.
"Thank you," Diane said to Rath as the cameraman began rolling. "You... who are you?"
"Seriously?" Rath asked. "I'm the cat who's all that! The Rath attack! And about a million other things-"
And that was the point that Rex landed on top of Rath with his Punk Busters as his sister ran in and gave a bicycle kick to the head.
"Time in!" he smirked before his legs went back to normal.
"Thanks for the assist, but say goodbye to your nanites for real this time, el gato!"
Roxie stuck her hand out and began to use her powers to suck up Rath's nanites, but nothing happened as her hand stopped glowing.
Rath backflipped out of the crater and growled at the twins angrily.
"Will you two quit that?"
"What the?" Roxie asked.
"But that could only mean that... you're not an EVO?" Rex asked.
"Let me tell you something, Robot Boy and Weapon Girl! Rath has no idea what an EVO is! I'm just trying to do my thing."
"What? Destroy New York?!" Roxie asked.
"...Oh, right. This is a different dimension," Rath facepalmed as he slapped his Ultimatrix symbol and morphed back to human form.
"The name's Ben Tennyson," he explained to the stunned set of twins. "You're not going to believe this but I'm from a version of Earth from another universe."
The giant machine from earlier slammed down on a car behind Ben and the twins and they turned to it as it roared at them, watching Six futilely stab at its head.
"Six!" the twins shouted.
"Everybody down!" Six shouted as he stabbed at the eye and the nanite energy started building up inside.
Everyone in the room ran for cover and ducked behind the cars as a giant red explosion was let loose among them. As Ben recovered, he looked to see Roxie cradling her unconscious mentor in her arms.
"Hang in there," she said before pressing at the communicator in her ear. "Holiday, Six is down!"
"This is all your fault!" Rex shouted to a stunned Ben.
In Providence headquarters, the twins looked at Six's vital signs and then saw Six laying in a recovery chamber, not showing any signs of movement.
"Holiday?" Rex asked.
"I'm doing everything I can, Rex," Holiday said as the chamber sealed up. "But we have to focus on the bigger picture. Six would want us to."
"It figures the only time we do what Six would want, he's in a coma," Roxie sighed.
Later on, the trio walked over to see White Knight and Bobo standing by the monitors with Ben held in a green tube, obviously designed for his imprisonment.
"I'll have the pleasure of figuring out how to help Providence close the rift," White Knight said. "The rest of you can deal with that machine."
"How?" Rex asked. "It was blown to bits along with Six, remember?"
"Don't be so sure," White Knight then gestured to a red ball of energy escaping from the machine just as it blew up. "Someone needs to figure out what that thing is and where it went."
"I can do that!" Ben shouted from the tube.
"You ain't doing nothin' but sittin' pretty and shuttin' up," Bobo taunted, climbing on the tube.
"And if Six doesn't pull through, you won't even be able to do that," Rex glared.
"Look, I'm sorry about your friend, honestly," Ben said. "Obviously he's important to you. But I have no clue what's even going on here. I'm not from this world, after all."
"What?" Roxie asked.
"Me and my sister are the leaders of our own team of superheroes on our Earth. We've never heard of Providence or EVOs. One minute, me and my team just annihilated our most dangerous foe yet. The next, my best friend was mutated into a monster with all my powers and the rest of our team and I got separated into five different dimensions where apparently, the Omni-Team doesn't exist."
"He might actually be telling the truth," Holiday said, scanning Ben. "Ben's nanite absorption level indicates that he came through that rift without any."
"I thought White Knight was the only living thing on Earth that's nanite free."
"Wait, so you mean I have those things in me now? Oh great. Where's my spacesuit."
"You'll live," Holiday said. "But it still doesn't explain how you got here."
"I told you already, I'm from another universe," Ben said. "My team and I were sucked through five dimensional portals and I ended up here... with the help of a rabbit-themed superhero."
"Parallel universes are only a theory- and a shaky one at that."
"Are you serious? My team and I go to them all the time. Maybe if you know where that mech thing was from, it might help prove-"
"Quit talking!"
"Exactly! Nothing is going to get solved sitting around here."
"In case you hadn't noticed, we're holding you on house arrest."
"You aren't holding me. I was just staying to see how I could help."
Ben then slammed his Omnitrix symbol and transformed into...
"Big Chill!"
The Necrofriggian simply went intangible and phased through the tube."
"And for the record, you two aren't the only ones worried about someone close to you."
Big Chill then spread his wings and phased through the roof of the ship.
"We're on it!" Roxie shouted as she activated her hoverboard and Rex built his Boogie Pack, flying through the door.
"Rex, Roxie, don't!" White Knight shouted. "I hate kids."
The twins chased after Big Chill as he flew through the sky and into the city, not noticing as the red energy ball from earlier followed after them.
Meanwhile, Caesar was in his laboratory, researching the rift, which was still hanging over the sky.
"Nanite cloud," Caesar examined. "This is being drawn in from the atmosphere. Now, where are you?"
A file showing tons of active red nanites pulled up in the corner.
"So it is you. This is most disturbing."
Caesar stepped back and ran for his ship as it took off from the headquarters.
"Why don't you just go back to where you came from, Ben!" Rex shouted as the twins chased Big Chill around a water tower.
"It's not that simple! That's what I want more than anything, you doof!"
The chase continued until the twins landed on top of a roof as Big Chill faced them.
Roxie summoned her swords and charged, only for Big Chill to let out a super cold blast of air that froze them immediately.
"Oh no!" Big Chill noticed, flying off.
"What?" Roxie asked, breaking the ice off her swords as she and Rex followed Ben as he landed at Bob's Biscuit House and landed, transforming back.
"Mr. Smoothie isn't here," Ben said. "That's messed up."
"Our partner is in a coma and you're stressing over a frozen drink?" Rex asked, disgusted. "You are totally getting Punk Busted!"
"This obviously isn't Bellwood," Ben said. "Sorry, it's just that everything is so different here. Nothing is like it is in me and my team's home. Part of me hoped it wouldn't be, but this pretty much proves it."
"This doesn't prove anything!" Roxie shouted.
"You know that partner you two care about? Well I have my own sisters, cousins, a grandfather and two best friends that I care about! And none of them exist here and most of them are stranded in their own separate worlds. And if my godmother doesn't find us, I may never see them again. I'm totally alone here for the first time ever."
"Godmother?"
"You're not gonna believe this, but our godmother is a powerful warrior queen from another alternate dimension and she's a member of an organization that spans the multiverse and they're searching for us even as we speak. But until she finds me, go ahead. Do your worst."
The twins gave a look as Roxie sighed and looked to her twin with a concerned look.
"What do you want to do?"
Rex nodded. "Maybe, we can all... help each other."
"You'd do that?"
"Of course," Roxie said. "If what you're saying is right, then we're all superheroes here."
That was when a loud whirring noise sounded above and Ben looked up to see Caesar's ship landing.
"What's that?"
"Our brother," Rex noted.
"Is he like you two?"
"Uh, no. Caesar's a litatle crazy and he's working for the wrong side, but otherwise, he's not so bad."
And that was when Caesar emerged from the ship with a weapon in hand, aiming it at Ben.
"What constitutes 'not so bad' in your world?"
Caesar fired the weapon at the twins as Ben pushed them away, transformed into Diamondhead and absorbed the blast of electricity and redirected it back at Caesar, knocking the weapon out of his hands.
"No! We need that!"
The weapon rolled at Rex's feet and he picked it up.
"To blow our heads off?!" Rex shouted.
"To stop that!" Caesar explained, pointing upwards.
Everyone looked up to see the red energy mass flying past them.
"What is that?" Roxie asked, seeing as the energy mass took on a more human shape and glowered at the civilians below and Diamondhead slapped his Ultimatrix symbol to transform into Lifeforce as he floated in the air.
"A bad, bad thing."
"Why would you speak of me so, father?" the mass asked. "I am your Alpha. I came home. You are pleased?"
"No. Not especially."
Alpha leaped downwards and lifted Caesar into the air by his shirt. Rex and Roxie rushed forwards, only for Alpha to put up an energy field and blocked them, sending them flying back into Lifeforce's telekinetic grip as he set them down.
"What has happened here?" Alpha asked, dropping its creator. "Why so many brothers?"
"We had an accident."
"The bodies I build, father, they still do not last. But my brothers are free. I can control them. They could help make me complete."
Alpha suddenly went through a spasm as his form briefly started to destabilize. The twins ran forwards to investigate, only to be stopped by their older brother.
"Rex, Roxie, stand back!"
"I am still weak, father. I need more. Will you help me live?"
"...I don't believe so, Alpha."
"That... is a very disappointing response."
"Then you really won't like this one!" Lifeforce shouted as he flew up and gave a powerful mana-charged punch to Alpha's face, sending him flying back as the energy mass looked to the twins.
"Don't let it touch them!" Caesar ordered.
Rex built up two giant axes in his hands as Roxie summoned a large spear as she twirled it and pointed it towards Alpha, who scanned their interiors curiously.
"You both control nanites... yet you are human. How is this possible? Tell me the secret."
"They don't have to tell you shit!" Lifeforce shouted, interrupting Alpha as he blasted a barrage of mana bolts at Alpha, disrupting his from again and seinding him flying away as the twins deactivated their builds and Lifeforce transformed back into Ben, landing on the ground.
"Uh, Caesar? What is that thing?!" Roxie asked. "Why did it call you 'father?'"
"It's migrating. We have to follow it. Now!"
Inside Caesar's ship, he showed the trio of heroes a sample of nanites he had taken from the cloud.
"These were gathered from the area of the space-time rift. You'll find them everywhere Alpha goes," Caesar explained.
"I take it those are nanites?" Ben asked.
"Dead nanites. Drained by the entity you just fought. And incidentally, if what you're saying is right, this thing must have been the reason that this Bunnix girl sent you here."
"Really?" Roxie asked. "He really is from another universe?"
"Of course. Science class much?"
"I believe that Alpha has been searching for a way home. It was possibly attracted to your weapon when you went through the portal. It's powerful, no doubt."
"It's called the Ultimatrix," Ben explained. "Me and my sister Jen both have one. They both have the DNA of over a million aliens."
"Right. Aliens. And leprechauns gave me these goggles!" Rex joked as Ben glared.
"But seriously," Roxie said. "How does our big brother know so much about something from another dimension?"
"Because I sent it throughout the multiverse," Caesar began. "In the early days of the nanite program, our goal was simple: construct micromachines to cure diseases, grow new cells, regenerate bones. But there was a control issue. Some thought a human-machine link was answer. Others proposed that the machines could control themselves. I was in the latter camp. I developed the Alpha to control other nanites. To maximize its effectiveness, I had to program Alpha to think for itself."
"So, does a long explanation mean something bad on your Earth too, guys?" Ben asked. "Because that's what it always means on mine."
"Pretty much," the twins chorused.
"Alpha developed its own consciousness. It developed into a unique being and wanted a body. But whatever it built burnt out on it. So when Alpha began possessing living things, it had to be eliminated. So I built a dimensional disruptor."
"That sounds like a Null Void Projector," Ben noticed. "We've got those on my Earth too."
"I designed it to send the Alpha to an empty space where it couldn't do any more damage," Caesar explained. "That's what I was attempting to do again back in the fight until you destroyed it."
"But the Null Void isn't empty. It's an alternate dimension that works as a prison for intergalactic criminals."
"Hmm... I see. Then clearly, it found a host within a mechanical one. Alpha did always have a way with machines. It's been gaining mass and energy from machines and other nanites. If it's able to stabilize a host body, there's no limit to the amount of damage it can cause."
"So then just cook up another bazooka thing and let's go zap it!"
Suddenly, everyone felt a jolt as something landed on top of the ship.
"Too late for that, Rex!"
Caesar ran for it as the Alpha melted a hole in the top of the ship. The twins and Ben looked to see Casear exit the room with something in his hand.
"¡Lo siento, mijo!" Caesar shouted as he closed teh doors.
"Please tell me that's a new weapon!"
Then, Caesar's section of the ship separated from its foundation and blasted off into the atmosphere.
"Caesar!" Rex and Roxie shouted.
That was when the entire ship went up in a fiery explosion. Luckily, Ben just managed to transform into Cannonbolt, rolled the twins into his protective shell and crashed into thh earth like a comet.
"Ew! Ew! Ew!" Roxie shouted as Cannonbolt unfurled and transformed back. "Do you have any idea what it smells like in there, abominatio!?"
"I'm sure you two can handle a little Arburian musk if it means saving your nuts and bolts... dude," Ben said.
"Sorry," Rex sighed. "Thanks. It's just... ugh, this day started off perfectly. Now there's aliens, our partner's in a coma and our brother's trying to kill us."
"Maybe he was trying to protect us?" Ben suggested. "Alpha was right there and now it's not. And it's no picnic for me being away from my partner either."
"You're one of those glass-half-full guys aren't you?" Roxie asked. "And if you're sister's anything like you, I'm sure I would love to meet her."
"Here on crazy earth? Why not? And trust me, you'll love her."
"Holiday?" Rex asked. "Is Six?"
"He's the same," Holiday reported. "But the Knights have figured out how to close the rift. You need to get Mr. Ten back to New York if he ever wants to see his home again."
"Figures," Roxie said. "Just when we almost considered liking you."
"Hold on a second!" Ben protested. "You think I'm leaving you guys like this? This might not be my Earth, but it's still Earth... sort of."
"Thanks, but this is our problem, not yours," Rex said.
"Rex, Roxie, we need you two back at base. It's here."
At Providence Headquarters, Holiday entered the medical bay to visit Six in his healing chamber, when she looked to the cameras in the Petting Zoo, where Alpha burst through the walls, looking around before grabbing at every animalistic EVO in sight, draining their nanites and drying the EVOs up into shriveled husks, where they crumbled to dust, dead.
"Come to me, my siblings."
Holiday looked on in horror as she leaned in close to Six's chamber and kissed it softly before picking up her weapon.
"I'll be back."
Holiday went over to the top balcony of the Petting Zoo and looked down at Alpha from above.
"The nanites in those creatures, they are different. Powerful. Your nanites are weak. I have no use for you. Where are the boy and the girl?"
"Their nanites are off limits!" Holiday shouted, blasting down at Alpha, the blast merely going through him before instantly healing himself. He then expanded hsi hand to huge proportions and grabbed Holiday off the balcony, leaving her struggling in his grip.
Rex suddenly ran in with the Rex Ride and bashed into the energy being, sending him crashing into a few cannisters as Holiday sailed through the air and Ben as XLR8 rushed in and caught her before safely setting her down.
"Feel like giving us a hand?" Rex asked as Roxie flew in on her hoverboard.
"How about four?" the Kineceleran asked as he slapped his Ultimatrix symbol and transformed into Four Arms, slamming his fists together.
"We're starting to like the way you think, Ben 10," Roxie smiled.
Four Arms picked Rex up and tossed him at the approaching Alpha and the human EVO built up his Smack Hands, which collided with Alpha's giant fist, sending them both flying back as Roxie flew in and caught her brother by the shirt, setting him down.
"You three cannot keep me from what I seek."
"Our brother?" Rex asked. "Look around! He's nowhere to be seen."
"The father is redundant now that I found you two."
Alpha expanded its hands again, sending one flying at Roxie, who summoned a dual headed mallet that she used to push him back. Four Arms leaped in, but Alpha expanded its other arm, grabbing Four Arms and tossing him to the ground before absorbing Roxie's arms and sent a violent shock to her system, causing her to scream out in pain.
"Impossible! I cannot merge! What makes you two so special, human?"
Alpha then took a closer look at the nanites in Roxie's system before he was hit with an epiphany.
"Yes. You shelter an Omega."
Alpha started retracting his arms, bringing Roxie in closer as it opened its maw, revealing several hideous tentacles within. Just as it was about to eat Roxie, he was interrupted as Holiday blasted him from above.
"Roxie!" Rex shouted as he built up his BFS and sliced the arm holding her, setting her free as Four Arms pried himself out of his own confines.
"Hey! That was my leg you almost chopped off!"
Four Arms then gave a mighty clap, sending Alpha flying into the wall again from the force of the collision and Holiday held her weapon in his face.
"Your move."
Thinking smart, Alpha decided to make a break for it, flying out of the room as Ben transformed back.
"Okay, let me get this straight," Ben said. "Your brother wants to blow you two up and she's your best friend? You guys might be safer on my Earth after all."
"Rex and Roxie can lose their builds relatively pain-free."
Later on, the twins brought Ben to the gymnasium of Headquarters, where they decided to play some basketball.
"So are we seriously just going to wait around?" Ben asked.
"It wants nanites. Our nanites," Roxie said.
"Holiday thinks it'll come back for us, but yeah," Rex said. "I'd rather go after the thing, knock it into another dimension."
"But your builds need a break," Ben scoffed. "I get it. My sister and I go through that all the time too."
Rex dribbled the ball before shooting... right through the window adjacent to the hoop.
"You missed!" Bobo called through the window.
"At least you hit the rim that time," Ben said.
"Yeah, thanks," Rex said, grabbing Ben's ball and dribbling again.
"So what happened to you guys anyways?" Ben asked.
"We were gonna ask you the same thing," Roxie said, raising an eyebrow.
"Okay," Ben said. "It started when the Omnitrixes fell out of the sky when me and Jen were ten years old. There's alien DNA in the Omnitrixes, which allows us to transform into various alien life forms from across several universes. Now, we, along with our cousins Gwen and Becky and our best friends Kevin and Ally are the Omni-Team. Jen and I are also the leaders of the Earth division of the Plumbers."
"Plumbers?" Roxie chuckled. "And I thought Providence was a dumb name.
"For us, six years ago, the Nanite Event changed everything," Rex said. "It infused every living thing on Earth with micromachines called nanites."
"Yet thanks to a top secret project that Caesar was involved in, Rex and I can control ours," Roxie said. "That's how I can conjure anything I can think of into existence and Rex can build crazy machines with the micromachines. All of this is with the micromachines in our bodies."
The trio smiled at each other before bursting into laughter. Roxie then made a shot that bounded off the rim when Ben leaped up and made the shot himself.
"Nice assist, dude," Rex said.
"That's how we get it done."
Suddenly, the trio heard some high pitched beeping and booked it to the meeting hall.
"Sat scans just picked up the Alpha," White Knight informed Rex and Roxie. "It's in the Bug Jar."
"What?" Roxie asked. "But the Bug Jar's shielded."
"Not anymore."
The team then immediately put on their jackets and ran off... before Ben stopped and sniffed his jacket.
"Why does my jacket smell like bananas?"
"Ugh, this feels too baggy," Rex said.
"Uh... guys?" Roxie asked.
The boys then noticed that they had put on each other's jackets by mistake.
"You guys are our only hope against that thing?" Bobo asked, putting down his newspaper and tossing it into the air. "We're doomed!"
The team flew over to what used to be Kiev, which now had various holes in the domed shield. Upon landing in the ruined city, Ben, Rex, Roxie and White Knight left and looked around.
"If this is the Bug Jar..." Ben started.
"Then... where are the bugs?" Rex asked.
The team looked to the side to see a giant faced spider EVO looming over them. However, just as it was about to attack it was sucked dry of its nanites, sending it collapsing to the ground before it withered into dust. They looked up to see another storm of nanites swirling overhead.
"Whoa," Ben said as he transformed into Kung Fang, brandishing his swords. "What do you guys call that?"
"I call it the entire nanite population of the Bug Jar," White Knight examined.
The nanites then funneled downwards before disappearing as Alpha suddenly appeared, his body now covered in grey armored shells as he stood tall over our heroes.
"The power to change life itself. What foolishness to give my brothers such a command."
"Preaching to the choir, buddy," Roxie said, summoning her gauntlets.
"Don't let it get to Rex or Roxie," White Knight ordered Kung Fang. "If it drains their nanites..."
"It's game over," Kung Fang agreed. "Understood."
"Wait," Roxie said. "It already tried to eat me. It didn't work."
"That thing was made to control machines," White Knight explained. "And until it burns through them, it's got every active nanite in the Bug Jar at its command. You two think you can stop that?"
"We can try," the trio of heroes chorused.
Kung Fang flew up and gave a sonic screech outwards that disorientated Alpha as Rex build up his BFS and Roxie conjured her warhammer and both leaped up and gave a dual strike to Alpha's head before ducking to avoid its swipes and it struck the ground, knocking the twins back and it reached down to pick them up.
Kung Fang then flew in and sent out a massive flurry of shuriken, which barely phased the Alpha at all. Then, it shot its arm out and hit his Ultimatrix symbol, sending a ton of nanites out, forcing Ben to transform back.
"That thing just hacked my watch!" Ben shouted.
"You're gonna run out of nanites eventually," Rex warned as he and Roxie struggled in Alpha's grip.
"Incorrect. Thanks to the one thing left on this Earth that can create them: your Omegas. They thought they could replace me. Now it will make me whole!"
Both Rex and Roxie were violently shocked as Alpha started absorbing their nanites.
"Ben! We could use an alien right now!" Rex shouted.
White Knight attempted to spring into action, but Alpha used another one of his tentacles to toss him away.
"Great idea, Rex! But a certain nanite monster busted my watch! If Jen were here, she would know what to do!"
"Well she's not!" Roxie shouted, her and her brothers' skin glowing with veins as they were shocked. "Do something! Anything!"
Thinking quickly, Ben reached down and picked up a rock adn tossed it up... only to hit Rex's head.
"DO SOMETHING BETTER!"
"I could try calling it names!"
Rex and Roxie struggled as, deep within their systems, their nanites started to converge around the Omega Nanites and let out a flash of blue light.
"LET US GO!" the twins chorused.
A massive surge of energy burst from their bodies and sent Alpha stumbling back to the ground and the twins themselves were sent flying just as the Ultimatrix glowed green.
"Ultimatrix system fully operational," Omni chimed.
"Thanks, Omni," Ben said as he slammed the core down and morphed into Jetray, flashing forwards as he caught the twins in his feet before setting them down and transforming back and the twins breathed heavily.
"As long as we keep fighting it, it's like the Alpha and the Omegas cancel each other out," Roxie panted.
Then, the Alpha recovered and looked to the trio of heroes.
"An alternate path is required."
Alpha shot a tentacle out and tapped Ben's Ultimatrix, deactivating it again.
"He did it again!"
"No," Rex said as the trio noticed an Ultimatrix appear on the Alpha's wrist. "It's worse!"
"Your machine is most interesting. Perhaps within, I can find a suitable host."
Alpha then slammed his Ultimatrix core down and transformed into his own version of Heatblast, looking absolutely more demonic than Ben's Pyronite form.
"...Can it do that?" Ben deadpanned, shocked.
"I think it just did," Roxie said as Alpha Heatblast let out a bloodcurdling shriek and sent out a massive burst of fire, sending our heroes ducking for cover immediately. They then ran off, only for a pillar of flame to knock them aside and Ben tried to adjust his Ultimatrix to no avail.
"I think that thing really fried it this time," Ben said worriedly.
Rex activated his generator on his back and his tentacle whip as he started whipping after Alpha Heatblast as it ducked and dodged every swipe as Roxie bounded overhead and conjured a giant water cannon that she used to blast outwards, countering the flames the demonic creature fired at her.
Alpha Heatblast went for the tentacle on its back and separated it into a makeshift whip that he tried to use to destroy Ben, only for Rex to counter it by ensnaring his arm.
"Hey!" Rex shouted. "It's us you want!"
"You presume so much, brother. Organics who rely on machines for their power, I don't need."
Alpha Heatblast then used his superior strength to swing Rex around into the ground before smashing him into Roxie, sending them both tumbling into the ground.
"The machines themselves? Now, those I will have."
Then, Rex used his Smack Hands to get out of the crater he appeared out of as Roxie summoned two giant greatswords in her hands as she and Ben charged forwards.
"Machines not sold separately, Alfalfa," Roxie spat. "Oh, and by the way, stop calling us your siblings!"
Alpha Heatblast then touched his Ultimatrix symbol and morphed into a demonic version of Four Arms as it caught both twins attacks in his four hands.
"Okay, evil entity or not, even I got to admit that looks fucking awesome," Ben said, noticing his Ultimatrix was still not charged. "Can I use those insults now?"
Alpha Four Arms smakced the twins into the streets of Kiev and both recovered, breathing heavily.
Rex leaped up and generated a Punk Buster on one of his legs, sending Alpha Four Arms deep into the ground.
It was then that Ben's Ultimatrix glowed green again and Ben hurriedly slammed the core down and transformed into... a new alien.
He was now a Sasquatch-like alien and appears with yellow and black fur, grey fingers and toes. He now had four fingers on his hands as well as two bolts on the side of his wrists. He has green eyes with black pupils and yellow lightning bolt-shaped horns. He wears a green and white belt where the Omnitrix symbol is located.
"Wow," Ben said in a Canadian accent. "This is unexpected."
"Well!?" Roxie shouted as Alpha Four Arms started to recover. "Blast it or something!"
"I have no idea what this alien does! I've never seen it before!"
"You're not filling us with confidence here!" Rex shouted, blocking Alpha Four Arms' strikes with his Smack Hands.
Ben concentrated before his fur stood on end and he blasted out a massive bolt of yellow lightning out that violently shocked Alpha Four Arms, sending him crumpling to the ground in a heap.
"Wow," Roxie said before slapping his back. "Nice going there, Shocksquatch."
"Shocksquatch," the alien, now christened Shocksquatch smiled. "That's a good one."
And that was when he timed out.
"Oh come on! Right when I was learning what he does!"
Alpha then rose up, now transformed into a more kaiju version of Humungousaur. The trio stood stunned as Alpha Humungousaur raised its arm to strike, only to be blasted back by a yellow laser beam.
The trio turned to see White Knight with a smoking blaster raised from his armor before he kneeled down, exhausted as the twins rushed to him.
"Your faceplate's fractured, White," Rex said, noticing the cracked faceplate. "You gotta get out of here before it cracks through."
"Not a chance! Six would have your back. I'm here in his place."
Alpha Humungousaur charged forwards and White blasted at it with both of his arm lasers. Rex and Roxie flew towards it on their flying mechanisms just as they were contacted by Holiday.
"Rex, Roxie, your biometrics are dangerously low. You need to get away from that thing."
"Just listen to us!" Roxie shouted. "Alpha controls nanites, so do we!"
The twins avoided Alpha Humungousaur's swipes and looked to see the Ultimatrix symbol on its chest.
"How about we shut it down?" Rex asked.
"...Hey, Jerksasaur!" Ben shouted, catching the demonic Vaxasaurian's attention and began slapping his butt. "You're a loser!"
This distracted Alpha Humungousaur long enough for the twins to drop in and absorb the nanites in the Ultimatrix symbol, sneidng Alpha Humungousaur into a roaring fit before it transformed back to its pre-evolved form.
Alpha struck down, only for Roxie to block it with her shield and Rex blocked his other arm with his Smack Hands and Alpha tried retaliating by absorbing their nanites again, sending a massive current of electricity.
Ben and White Knight looked on, stunned as the Ultimatrix glowed green again and Ben immediately noticed.
"Ha! You see that?! Hero time!"
Ben then slammed down the core again and transformed into Rath.
"Oh yeah! Let's cause some pain!" the Appoplexian shouted.
"Wait!" White Knight protested. "Not while they're linked."
"Oh, you did not just stop me!"
"The power you hold is impressive," Alpha told the twins.
"You mean the power to kick your butt!?" Rex screamed.
"The power to create machines and weaponry. You two are not worthy of such a gift. The Omega Nanites are mine!"
Finally, Rex and Roxie's Omega Nanites were fully assimilated by Alpha, a cube forming around them as their builds shattered to pieces and they crumpled to the ground in a heap.
As Alpha began generating machinery, Rath leaped forwards, landing powerful punches and kicks across its face with absolutely no success. The wicked creature sent out a massive surge of energy that sent Rath stumbling back into the twins arms as he transformed back.
Everyone looked at the sky as Alpha began sending out massive energy waves throughout the Bug Jar's sky and the trees around everyone began to wither and decay.
"It was foolish of me to put my trust in a father that did not want me. I never needed him. I simply needed the energy and means to do what I have always done: evolve."
Our heroes looked on as Alpha used the Omega Nanites to evolve, mechanical growth growing all across its body as it mutated into an indescribable mass of metal and energy.
"You okay?" Ben asked as he helped the twins up.
"No," Roxie said. "Definitely not okay."
"It took our Omega Nanites and I think we know what it wants!"
Finally, the mass exploded in a massive surge of energy before everyone shielded their eyes as the creature in front of them looked mostly the same, only much larger and it was standing on eight spider-like legs and everyone present stared in awe at it.
"Behold, organics... the beginning and the end of all things. I am Alpha-Omega! This is the twilight of humanity! Alpha-Omega destroys all!"
Alpha-Omega started towering over the Bug Jar before smashing everything in sight, buildings toppling over.
Ben as Big Chill as well as the twins flew over to a clearing to see the damage as Ben transformed back.
"Holiday?" Rex asked into his communicator. "Are you seeing this?"
"Unfortunately, yes," Holiday told the twins. "We're not look at random destruction here. Alpha-Omega is synthesizing the matter around him to create his own nanite."
"And thanks to our Omega Nanites," Roxie sighed.
"This isn't your fault, guys."
"It sure feels like it," Rex said as he hung up. "Damn it! We woke up this morning on top of the world! Now we're about to witness the end of it."
"Six was right."
"I don't think this is how it was supposed to play out," Ben said. "I've seen what you two can do."
"But our most powerful builds came from the Omega Nanite," Roxie said. "A lot of people are going to get hurt and we can't stop it."
"What happens when the best you can do just... isn't enough?" Rex asked.
"...You get an Upgrade!" Ben said, his face lighting up with an idea.
"Um, weren't you listening?" Roxie asked. "That thing ahs the Omega Nanite."
"Oh, I'm not talking about a nanite," Ben said as he adjusted his Ultimatrix and slammed it down, transforming into Upgrade.
"Hey!" Rex shouted as the Galvanic Mechamorph marched towards the male EVO twin. "What are you..."
Roxie went wide-eyed as Upgrade then fused into Rex, causing him to spasm outwards.
"Okay, this is weird."
Then, Rex's entire body except for his head glowed green and it was covered in the liquid mechanical alloy that made up Upgrade's body with the Ulitmatrix symbol appearing on his chest, stunning the twins.
"Whoa!" Roxie said. "So... what's supposed to happen now?"
And then, Upgrade's head popped up on Rex's arm.
"Okay, don't do that! You're freaking me out!"
"Build something," Upgrade ordered in a mechanized version of Ben's voice.
Rex then built up a Smack Hand and it suddenly grew even larger than before and turned into a spiked gauntlet.
"Sa-weet! So what's the plan?"
"You two build whatever you can think of, I make it better, fight, fight, fight! We win!"
"Works for us!" Roxie said as she and Rex lowered their goggles.
Rex built his Boogie Pack, which Upgrade then enhanced as Roxie summoned her hoverboard and both took off towards Alpha-Omega. Rex then built up his Smack Hands, which Upgrade then manipulated into powerful projectiles as he tossed it towards Alpha-Omega, sending him stumbling back.
"My turn!" Roxie shouted as she summoned her warhammer. Upgrade then oozed off of Rex and merged with the warhammer, upgrading it into a more giant version of itself with another head on the end as Roxie spun it around rapidly before both sides opened up and let out a massive flurry of green missiles that pelted Alpha-Omega relentlessly, sending up a massive cloud of smoke.
Upgrade then merged with Rex again as Alpha-Omega let a massive torrent of fire from his maw as Rex built his Boogie Pack up and sent out powerful rockets from the thrusters that all slammed into the monstrous EVO as Roxie leaped upwards and Upgrade fused with her hammer again and she gave a twirling slam to the face that sent the monstrous creature stumbling into the ground.
"Nice shot, guys!"
That was about the point that Alpha-Omega recovered and let out a roar as it charged after the twins.
"Run, run, run, run, run, run!" Roxie shouted as she and her brother sprinted down the rooftop as Alpha-Omega rampaged behind them before they landed on the ground and Rex built up his Rex Ride, which Upgrade enhanced and it blasted back down the street after the it.
Roxie built up her swords and Rex built up his BFS and Upgrade hopped between both of them, changing them into giant swords with a chainsaw-blade at the end and both immediately went to hacking off Alpha-Omega's limbs one by one.
Sadly, this didn't work as Alpha-Omega regenerated its limbs and gave out a mighty roar before blasting at the twins with a massive torrent of red energy, sending both of them skittering an impossible length and Upgrade de-merged with Rex and transformed back into Ben as all three stopped in the rubble, their jackets all torn.
"This isn't working!" Rex said, looking at the monstrous creature approaching him, his sister and their new friend. "We need a direct hit on the Alpha."
"More insults?" Ben joked. "I've got a good one."
"I have an idea," Roxie said. "But you're just gonna have to trust me. When we fire, you have to become that rolly polly thing."
"You mean Cannonbolt?" Ben asked. "You don't mean-"
"Yep," Rex nodded as he and his sister stood by each other.
"Isn't that dangerous?"
"More than likely."
"On three, guys?"
"Okay," Roxie said as she smirked. "I've officially decided that you're my new best friend from another world, monster guy."
"I'm your only friend from another world. But I have other friends in other dimensions, but I like you guys too, cyborg kids."
Rex then built up his Slam Cannon as Alpha-Omega approached and everyone nodded.
"One..."
Rex then prepared himself and loaded Ben into the Slam Cannon before lowering his goggles.
"Two..."
Roxie then lowered her own goggles before activating their scanning feature, looking deep within the Alpha-Omega before finally spotting the Omega Nanites within it.
"THREE!"
And that was when Ultimate Cannonbolt blasted out of the Slam Cannon, roaring outwards as he rolled into his spiked ball form and burrowing deep into the Alpha Omega before bursting out of the other side.
A massive amount of energy built up before the monstrous energy being roared in defeat as it suddenly exploded in a massive surge of fire. The twins grinned at their victory before both gasped out as they ran away screaming from the destruction behind them before both were thrown into the clearing again.
As they recovered, the twins grinned at the sight of the destroyed husk and the massive cloud of nanites in the air above it.
"WHOO-HOO! YES! HE SHOOTS, HE SCORES! HA! AND THE CROWD GOES WILD!"
"We did it!" Roxie cheered as Rex picked her up and spun her around in a massive hug. "I can't believe it! We really did it!"
Their celebration was cut short when Alpha re-emerged as a massive cloud of nanites.
"Not on my watch, little nanite brothers!" Rex shouted as he and Roxie sprang forwards and put their glowing hands on the corpse of Alpha-Omega and got to work as Ben transformed back.
"Alpha's not the only one who's telling you what to do."
And that was when the cloud of nanites dissipated as Rex and Roxie grunted in effort as they began to sweat.
"Aren't your Omega Nanites going to be in there too?"
"I'll handle that."
The twins looked to their right and spotted Caesar in the clearing before he fired a charge into the sphere of nanites that began to cloud over and he looked at his scanner.
"Where are you, little guys?"
Caesar searched forwards before he spotted the Omega Nanites beeping deep within the sphere, which lowered down as he absorbed them into the suction device he also brought with him.
"Got it!"
The twins shouted out as they absorbed the last of the nanite energy before the sphere shrank down to practically nothing, as if Alpha-Omega was never there. And that was when both of them hit their knees in exhaustion.
"And that, my friends, is how you save the world."
"Very clever, brother, sister," Caesar said, scanning the remains of the sphere. "The density of this sphere is over thirty grams per centimeter cubed. It would be extremely difficult for the Alpha to slip through the molecules of this thing, assuming it survived the compaction. We need to get rid of it."
"Caesar, wait!" Rex said.
"Rex, Roxie, I wasn't able to fully repair the Void gun. I'm not sure how long my repairs will hold before it discharges," Caesar explained. "We've only got one shot at this and we've got to do it fast. It's now or never, guys!"
The twins turned to Ben, who nodded as Caesar fired the Void Gun, which opened a portal to the Null Void."
"How are you going to carry that thing?" Roxie asked. "It must weigh, like, ten tons!"
"I'm not going to carry it," Ben said as he transformed into Upchuck and swallowed the sphere before firing it into the portal just as it closed.
"Wow," Rex said. "That's just... wow."
"But how are you going to get home?"
"I can answer that question right now," a calming female voice sounded out.
That was when another red portal suddenly opened and who else would come out but Scarlett, holding the Map of Infinity in her hand as Ben transformed back and smiled at his godmother.
"Scarlett," Ben said before he ran over and gave her a hug.
"It took awhile to find you, Ben. But we did. We're still looking for the girls. It could take awhile to find them as they could be anywhere in the multiverse right now."
"You should totally meet my new friends," Ben said, gesturing to the twins as they looked awkwardly.
"Are you Rex and Roxie Salazar?" Scarlett asked as Ben moved to stand behind her.
"That's us," Rex said.
"Let me explain what's going on. My name is Scarlett Katherine Felchenerow, Queen of Cinnibar and leader of the Scarlet Army. I'm with an interdimensional organization called the Protectors."
"Yeah," Roxie said. "Ben may have told us about you in passing."
"We've been watching this whole thing unfold for awhile. And that's what the Protectors do. We oversee peace all throughout the multiverse and we try not to get involved ourselves unless it's absolutely necessary."
"So you've been spying on us?" Rex asked.
"They're not spying on you," Ben informed. "It's the whole universe. Not just you."
"This is what the Protectors do. And I have come to bring Ben back home."
"So why didn't the Protectors prevent the event from happening?" Roxie asked. "Stop this whole EVO mess from happening in the first place?"
"We only get involved when it's an absolute necessity," Scarlett explained. "That event was preordained to happen whether we got involved or not."
"I... guess I can understand that," Rex said. "We should do this again sometime."
"No kidding," Ben said. "And next time, I'll bring the rest of my team too. You're gonna love them."
"I hope we see you again, Ben," Roxie said, jabbing Ben in the arm and he smiled warmly as Scarlett raised her Crimson Justice and opened a portal and the twins smiled after them as they entered back to Ben's dimension.
"So... what do we do now?" Rex asked.
Back at Providence Headquarters, Rex and Roxie entered the medical wing to see Holiday and Bobo standing over Six's healing chamber.
"Six?" Rex asked.
"He's gone," Bobo sighed.
"Gone?" Roxie sighed weakly before she hit her knees and Rex pat her back to comfort her.
"...to the little ninja's room."
"He's going to be fine, guys."
"He is?!" Rex and Roxie shouted before jumping for joy. "Yes!"
"Oh man, I knew it! I knew the whole time!" Rex cheered... just as Six entered the room in a bathrobe.
"...I mean cool," Roxie said.
Six only smiled at them warmly... before both twins embraced him in a tight hug.
"I'm so glad you're alive!" Rex exclaimed.
"Me too," Six said.
"I was so scared, Six," Roxie said, letting go. "I mean, we've never done anything so hard in all our lives."
"I really thought the world was gonna end," Rex said. "...And then, we totally kicked butt!"
"I hear you had a little help."
"Oh, yeah," Roxie said. "We also made a great new friend out of the deal."
"Ben is amazing," Rex said. "And I can only imagine his sister is just as amazing as he is. I can't wait to meet her."
"Knowing your luck, that's an inevitability at this point, Rex," Holiday smiled.
"The cosmos work in mysterious ways," Six said. "I think that people are meant to meet, to fight, side by side. To be friends. You may see each other again and meet that kid's team sooner than you think."
And then, Caesar entered the room with two syringe guns in hand.
"Caesar?" Holiday asked. "How did you-"
"Okay, before White Knight comes looking for me here, I have one last piece of unfinished business."
"You're sure these are the Omega Nanites, right?" Roxie asked. "You didn't grab the Alpha by mistake?"
"100% certain. Well, actually 99.998% Nothing is ever 100%"
And that was the part when Caesar injected both his little brother and sister with the Omega Nanites once again.
"Thanks, bro," Rex said.
"No big deal."
Emma sat in her room worriedly as she watched Finn swim around in his tank as she fed him some flakes when a swirling portal opened up and Ben and Scarlett stepped out.
"Ben!" Emma cheered as she walked in and gave a big hug to her brother as he smiled.
"Emma, I'm back!"
"I missed you so much! Is Jen with you?"
"Unfortunately, no," Scarlett sighed. "We still have to find her and the others. There's no telling how long it could take."
"Why not use the Map of Infinity to find them?" Emma asked, confusedly. "I mean, it'll be easy."
"That's not how the map works," Scarlett said. "It'll definitely allow us to travel to where they've been sent throughout the multiverse, but it doesn't allow us to locate them. We have to know precisely what universe they're in before we can find them."
"Okay. I guess we'll just have to wait for the Protectors to find them for us to deal with Kevin," Emma said.
"Right. I almost forgot about that."
"Everything's gonna be okay in due time," Scarlett smiled on her godchildren. "We're doing everything we can to find them. All we can do is wait."
"And hope they're successful in whatever battles they're in," Ben said.
"They're your family, Ben. With any luck, they've also encountered other superheroes to team up with just as you did," Scarlett said. "With what the Protectors have in store, you two will need all the allies you can possibly get."