We cut into a dark room as a split screen showed two bloodied makiwaras in place before they were suddenly struck with two powerful fists. This was followed by an overhead shot of Bellwood as a shot of one of the stands was struck again followed by another shot of Bellwood.
The other stand was struck as we cut to an image of a street corner as Sandra in her knight armor walked through the city with a blazing lantern in her hand as she made her way to Omni-Manor.
"I am the way into the city of woe."
A sound of heavy feminine breathing was heard before the makiwara was struck again.
"I am the way into eternal pain."
Another strike of the dummies.
"I am the way to go among the lost."
Another strike.
"Before me, there were no created things..."
Another strike.
"...but those that last forever-"
Another strike.
"AS! DO! I!"
Another dual strike.
"Abandon all hope, you who are about to enter here," Sandra said as she approached the large door to Omni-Manor and tossed the keys in her hand.
The sound of heavy breathing was heard again as the the nagiwaras were struck once again as the doors opened and Sandra walked into the large main training room to see her twin children furiously striking the makiwaras, looking as fit as ever, their bodies in absolutely tip top condition to go for what may be the most difficult fight of their young lives.
"You are now in the presence of the MOTHERFUCKING QUEEN!"
The twins then slammed out against the makiwaras with every bit of wrath they had as Sandra flicked a match and lit a pyre made from an old barrel, which then burned a trail to four more pyres, creating a flame path in the shape of the iconic hourglass symbol of the Omni-Twins as the two stood in the corners of the top symbol, striking the dummies furiously. She then smirked as she held up a hanger with Ben's jacket.
"You ready, kiddos?"
The twins gave out one last slam to their respective rope dummies before looking to their mother with a deathly serious look on their faces.
"...Yeah," Ben and Jen chorused.
Sandra snickered before lifting the match to her face as she blew it out, triggering a jump cut.
Alan and Jess ran through the cornfields of Grover's Mill, scared out of their wits before running into a clearing.
"I think we lost him," Alan said into his Plumber's badge.
"Think again," a booming voice said as Ultimate Kevin rose up from the ground.
Ultimate Kevin then breathed out a gust of super-cold air that seemingly froze the two in place, only for Alan to change into his pyronite form as he blasted the ice away with a burst of flame.
"Kevin, don't!" Jess shouted. "It's us, Alan and Jess!"
"I know."
Ultimate Kevin stuck his arms out and several vines shot out from the plants and wrapped around the duo, who struggled to get free as Jess let loose a burst of wind from her body as she flew upwards as her best friend levitated a rock underneath his feet to join her in the air.
"What did we ever do to you?!" Alan asked.
"You two have something I need."
Ultimate Kevin's eyes glowed red as he fired his laser vision at the two, sending them plummeting to the ground again before they regained their composure and flew around him, blasting him with their fire and wind blasts, sending him to his feet.
"I'm made of fire and I'm not letting you hurt Jess. We don't have anything else on us."
Ultimate Kevin then blasted the two of them with water jets from his hands, soaking them as Alan was changed back to human form and Jess' wings were now too wet to fly. Ultimate Kevin then unfurled his own wings and flew towards them.
"It's mine!"
"Wh-whatever you're lookng for, we swear we don't have it!" Jess shouted.
Alan then changed back and blasted him with his fire blasts, only for Ultimate Kevin to let loose a burst of wind from his maw that extinguished the flames and changed Alan back again. Ultimate Kevin then grabbed the pair as they struggled in his grasp.
Kevin then absorbed the powers from Alan and Jess as they groaned out as their energy left them and they both fell unconscious in the dirt. Ultimate Kevin then glowed with a fiery red aura as winds started swirling around him.
"More..." he said as he approached the downed Plumber's Kids. "Goodbye, you two."
Just as he was about to burn them to bits, he was suddenly blasted away by a burst of lightning as Discharge sparkled into existence with a hateful glare as NRG showed up as well underneath her.
"Enough, Kevin!" NRG shouted.
"Let me go, Tennyson!"
"Um, how about... no," Discharge said before she and her brother double-teamed Kevin with a dual lightning and radioactive burst, sending him flying into the cornfields.
"Alan, Jess, can you hear us?" NRG asked.
Alan and Jess only groaned in pain as Ultimate Kevin emerged from the cornstalks.
"I want your power."
"Oh yeah?" Discharge asked. "Then come and get it."
Ultimate Kevin charged forwards as the twins blasted him with their powers, only for him to dissolve himself into green goo before swirling around NRG and reforming, grabbing him from behind and started absorbing his energy.
"I'm gonna crack you like an egg."
"Let go of me!" NRG shouted as he massively heated the metal of his suit, forcing Kevin to let it go as Discharge shocked him from behind as the twin heroes stood on either side of him with a determined glance.
"I shouldn't have let go of you," Ultimate Kevin said to NRG. "You were doing me a favor. Only one of us is walking away from this, Tennyson. And it's not gonna be... Alan or Jess!"
Ultimate Kevin then shot a blast of lightning from his horns, causing Discharge to fly in and start absorbing the lightning, pushing her back before she let it flow around her as she blasted it back into Ultimate Kevin's face, sending him stumbling back.
"Your time is coming, Tennysons!" Ultimate Kevin warned as he took to the skies and flew away as the twins changed back and turned to their friends, helping them up.
"You're gonna be okay," Jen said soothingly as Jess shook her head.
"No, we're not," Jess said as she weakly shook her wings out. "None of us are. We got off easy thanks to you two. You should've seen what he did to the others."
"Pierce? Helen? Manny?" Ben asked.
"Lila, Wade, Nate?" Jen asked, her eyes widening.
"And Rosie," Alan said. "And he also took down one of your old enemies. Some guy named Dr. Viktor."
"We didn't understand what Kevin wanted from us," Jess said. "Until now."
"Your energy," Ben realized.
"And he's gonna want more," Jen said. "He's never gonna stop. Unless we stop him."
"Once and for all."
Meanwhile, at the Protectors Headquarters in the Mystic Isles, Scarlett stood by, watching this unfold with some of the leaders of the Protectors as she ran a hand down her face and looked up.
"That's it. I've seen enough," Scarlett said as she snapped her fingers and instantly changed into her warrior outfit. "I cannot let this go any further."
"You know what? We understand," Princess Luna told her as the warrior queen rose her Keyblade to conjure a portal.
"It's my responsibility as a Protector to stand by Ben and Jen. We have to end Kevin's reign of terror... permanently."
"It's your call, Scarlett," Pink Diamond stated. "We're not going to stop you."
Scarlett nodded as she stepped through the portal with a determined glance.
"Get ready, Kevin. Because no evil shall escape the Scarlet Warrior."
"No. We won't help you," Gwen said as she and Ally stood by closely.
"If you don't use your powers to track him down, that's not gonna stop us from finding him ourselves," Ben said as he and his twin sister stood by with a serious nod.
"Jen, don't you have anything to say about doing this?" Ally asked.
"What my brother says goes. We have to do this, Ally."
"Becky?" Gwen asked hopefully as Becky stood on the couch with a sigh as she looked to both of them.
"I'm not gonna help you guys kill Kevin," Becky said to the twins. "But I'm not gonna stop you either. Just do what you have to do."
"But it's Kevin!"
"Wake up and smell the end of the universe, Gwen!" Ben shouted. "He's out of control!"
"Are you serious? You're seriously going to kill your good friend?"
"This isn't about killing a friend, Ally!" Jen said, grabbing her cousin by the shoulders with a serious look on her face. "This is about having the strength to do what needs to be done to save the world!"
"He's our friend! And Ally's brother!"
"Was our friend and Ally's brother," the twins corrected in unison.
"We'll figure out some way to save him," Ally said.
"He's too far gone," Ben said.
"We have a choice between saving one person and saving the entire world. Every world," Jen said. "To me, that's an obvious choice."
"You can do both!" Gwen said. "The Omni-Twins always-"
"Not always," Ben said as the twins huffed as they turned to the door, only for Gwen and Ally to step in front of them, blocking their way.
"We can't let you do this, guys," Gwen said as Ben and Jen turned around with a stern look.
"And we can't let you stop us," Jen said as she and Ben activated their Omni-Suits with a pose and Gwen and Ally pressed their watches and morphed into Lucky Girl and Apex.
"He's come out of this before," Lucky Girl said, pushing Ben back. "Remember what he was like when he was little?"
"Do you? He's worse now than he ever was," Ben said. "And both of you know it."
The twins then exited the door as they headed to the DX-Mark 10 and Pink Angel, only to be encased in a mana ball.
"There has to be something you can do," Apex said.
"He's beyond our help, Ally," Jen said. "We can't put his life over the lives of everyone else."
"I'm not letting you out," Lucky Girl said.
"Oh no?"
Ben then slammed his Ultimatrix down and transformed into...
"Chromastone!"
The Crystalsapien stuck his hand out and absorbed the energy from the dome as Apex flew forwards in front of Jen.
"Please," Apex said. "He's my brother."
"Come on," Jen said, shaking her head. "I don't want to do this."
"I can't let you hurt him."
"Then I'm sorry, Ally," she said as she readied her own Ultimatrix. "But I have my own family to worry about."
She then pressed the core down and transformed into...
"Kung Fang!"
Apex glared as they both started flying up in the sky as Becky only looked on from the window.
"We won't let you do this!" Lucky Girl said as she blasted her mana beams forwards, only for Chromastone to absorb them all and fire his own empowered ultraviolet blasts back at her, pelting her against the wall.
Chromastone shouted out as he blasted his cousin with a powerful energy blast, which she barely blocked with a mana shield.
"You don't have to kill him!" Ally shouted as Kung Fang dodged all of her punches before nailing her with a spin kick.
"Yes we do!" Kung Fang shouted. "It's the only way!"
Kung Fang shouted out as she tossed her shuriken forwards that actually cut Apex in the cheek, causing her to groan as her opponent unsheathed her swords and flew forwards as Ally morphed her arms into blades and clashed together as they traded blow for blow, evenly matched... just until Kung Fang let out her sonic screech, causing Apex to shout out in pain as she morphed her arms back and covered her ears as Kung Fang nailed her with a powerful roundhouse kick.
"Even a blind alien knows you can't beat me," Kung Fang said.
"You might as well go back inside, Gwen," Chromastone said, turning away. "There's no way you can beat Chromastone with your kind of powers."
"Think so?" Lucky Girl asked, pulling out her spellbook. "Facio gravis!"
Suddenly, the gravity around Chromastone shifted, pulling him down to the ground.
"Now you'll stay right there."
"Yeah?" Chromastone asked. "What do you think Kevin is doing while you two are wasting our time!?"
Chromastone shot out his hands and blasted out another ultraviolet blast at his cousin.
"Tabesco caix!"
With that spell uttered, the blast fell limp to the ground with a wet splat as Chromastone started to melt as well before he slapped his Ultimatrix symbol to transform into...
"Terraspin!"
Apex shouted out as she blasted her lasers from her eyes, which hit Kung Fang in the chest as she shouted out and slapped her Ultimatrix symbol to transform into her new Tamaranean form.
She looked mostly the same as Jen, only with long hair that seemed to flicker like flames at the tips with bright orange skin, pink eyes with dark pink irises and she wore a pink leotard with fingerless elbow-length gloves and pink thigh-high boots. Her name was...
"Novaflare!" she shouted as she blaetd out pink starbolts that caught Ally by surprise before she flew forwards and slammed into Apex, which hit her like a truck as she collided against the wall of Omni-Manor.
"You haven't been trained in your abilities as an Alpha Osmosian yet," Novaflare shouted, blasting her with her pink starbolts. "Even with your new powers, I still have way more experience than you in so many more."
"But I'm just as powerful as you now and I know you better than you know yourself!"
Apex then let loose a burst of red energy from her chest, which sent Novaflare back and she wiped her lip before flying forwards and the two started brawling in hand-to-hand combat in the sky.
Terraspin floated off the ground and turned his body into a giant fan, blowing Lucky Girl back into the Omni-Manor wall with her spellbook landing by her side.
"If you think for one second that Kevin wouldn't drain either of you dry, you've got another thing coming if you continue to protect him," Terraspin said.
"Some friend you two are," Lucky Girl said. "You won't even try to help him. What if it was you?!"
"We are not arguing about this, Gwen!" Novaflare shouted as she blocked a kick before delivering her own to Apex's chin, dazing her slightly.
"Tardus mortus!"
The winds that Terraspin was generating seemed to slow to a crawl and Lucky Girl fell down on a mana platform and ran down to his level as he pressed his Ultimatrix again.
"NRG!"
The Prypiatosian-B then shot his arms downwards and slammed his hands downwards on the ground, sending up a massive amount of magma spurting up from the ground and a tidal wave of molten rock splashed all over Lucky Girl... and then when the lava cleared, she found she had encased herself in a sphere of mana to protect herself.
Apex shouted out as she and Novaflare clashed several punches at each other with a shout as Novaflare pressed her Ultimatrix symbol and changed into her Anodite form as they both blasted each other with fire and mana beams from their hands, neither having any intention of holding back or letting up as they shouted out in effort.
Lucky Girl then set herself down on the ground and looked up.
"Ben?" she asked, raising an eyebrow as her male cousin had vanished.
"Nanomech!" a very faint voice called and she looked up to see the smallest alien in the twins' arsenal fly up to her face. "I dodged between the lava droplets."
"Cloudo doris!" Lucky Girl started... before closing her spellbook right on Nanomech. "Game over cousin. Check and mate."
Suddenly, a green light appeared between the pages and the spellbook fell to the floor as Lucky Girl's eyes widened as she looked up to see...
"Way Big," she said, fear bubbling in her stomach.
Ally smirked as she blasted Jen back, but then a bright magenta light shined outwards and she gasped as she saw her best friend morph into her Master Spark form and flapped her wings further upwards.
"Oh, fu-"
She never finished as Jen shouted out and blasted a massive energy beam from her chest outwards as Ally quickly blasted her own red energy beam outwards from her palms to try to counter it, but she was slowly overpowered as her best friend's blast slowly creeped to her, before she was completely engulfed in the neon pink energy and she screamed out in pain as she crashed to the ground, defeated.
Way Big positioned his hands and blasted forth his own powerful energy beam and Gwen quickly put up a mana shield that slowly cracked and then finally shattered as she was hit by the beam and she screamed out in agonizing pain as she fell down next to Ally, both nearly unconscious as the twins changed back and approached them with a nod.
Becky stood by meekly as Ben and Jen approached the barely conscious Gwen and Ally with stern looks as Jen crossed her arms.
"You wanna know why you two lost, guys?" Ben asked. "It's because you care about not hurting us."
"And that's exactly why you can't do what needs to be done to deal with Kevin," Jen said before the twins both went to their cars and took off with Becky standing by the house with a nod of her head as Gwen and Ally then felt themselves lose consciousness.
"Her mind's not even being warped by anything right now," the wild girl said, stunned at what Jen just did to Ally. "Imagine what they're gonna do to Kevin."
In a Forever Knights outpost, loud crashing and slamming was heard from the outside. Some of the Knights screamed their heads off as they ran away, only to be suddenly pulled right back in and slammed into the metal garage door, creating a knight shaped outline on it.
The Knights looked upwards to see a scowling Lodestar and Hairicane approach as Hairicane gave out a shout of effort, sending out several hair tendrils that wrapped around the Knights before she slammed them into the walls, ceiling and floor, causing them to groan out in pain as she didn't let up on the hurt at all.
Lodestar sent out his electromagnetic wave that caught onto the knight's armor and sent them crashing into each other and he sent them all crashing into the walls and screaming.
A knight ran away screaming, only for his legs to have his legs caught by a pink hair tendril and Hairicane lifted him up to her face with a scowl plain on it.
"Kevin Levin!" she shouted. "Where do we find him?"
The knight whimpered as Hairicane got a faint whiff of the smell of urine in the air.
"I said... WHERE?!"
She then slammed him into tons of his comrades as Lodestar levitated them all up and then slammed them down.
She then sent a hair tendril outwards and then removed a crate that several knights hid behind as she rolled her eyes at their futile attempt to take cover.
The camera panned out of the warehouse as loud clanging and smashing noises were heard.
"We're sorry to bother you while you're still recovering, Grandpa," Gwen said as she and Ally stood in front of Max's healing tank, which was being looked over by a few Galvans.
"I'm always happy to see you, Gwen. And any of your friends. I don't have a lot to do in this regeneration tube except float and heal."
"We can't let the twins destroy Kevin. And Becky's refusing to help any of us. We've got to find a way to cure him," Ally explained.
"Ben and Jen are right," Max stated.
"I know, they... wait, what?!"
"Gwen, Ally, you two are Plumbers and superheroes. People throughout the universe are depending on the twins taking care of Kevin. You must put your feelings aside and do the right thing."
"But this is Kevin we're talking about!" Gwen shouted.
"If you two can't be professionals, then do what your sister is doing and stand aside and let the twins do what has to be done."
"But, Max? How could you support them for trying to kill someone in cold blood?"
"It's what they have to do. If you two interfere with Ben and Jen's mission, you'll be committing treason against the Plumbers for trying to protect a dangerous criminal instead of doing your duties. It'll be forced to arrest you."
"I can't help you, Gwen. Not this time."
"Did you call Scarlett, Ally?" Gwen asked as Ally nodded.
"Of course I did, Gwen. She was the first one I contacted after the twins refused to help us with Kevin."
"Oh," Gwen said. "What did she say?"
"She said no," the unmistakable voice of the twins' godmother sounded as she appeared from behind the tank with a stern look on her face. "Not even if you paid me."
"Scarlett," Ally said as the warrior paced in front of her and Gwen by the tank. "You're one of the most powerful mages in the entire multiverse. Isn't there something you can do to fix him?"
"There's no 'him' to fix," Scarlett stated bluntly. "Kevin's DNA is 100% mutated beyond even the finest magic in my entire arsenal. Your cousins are right."
"Scarlett," Gwen said. "You don't know what you're talking about."
"I don't know what I'm talking about?" Scarlett asked with a chuckle. "I've been a Protector for over three hundred years and I'm no stranger to things like what happened to Kevin. I've seen it over and over."
"I can't believe this! You're a Protector! You're a hero!"
"Exactly. Ben and Jen are sworn heroes too. And a hero does whatever it takes to save the world, the universe, the multiverse. And if that means killing someone close to us, then that's the way it has to be. Whether we like it or not."
"Scarlett, this is wrong," Gwen pleaded.
"That's not your call to make."
"What?" Ally asked. "What do you mean it's not our call? He's my brother. I'm a superhero-"
"But you're not a superhero in our house," Scarlett noted, referring to the Protectors. "Kevin's also currently a major threat to this entire universe. And the fact that he's your brother or your boyfriend does nothing to change that."
"You're really going to help the twins do this?" Gwen asked.
"It's not personal, darlings," Scarlett explained, putting a hand on her hip. "You two knew how this worked. I made a sacred vow as a Protector to do whatever it takes to defend the multiverse. I cannot continue to stand idly by while Kevin destroys it. Some sacrifices have to be made. He is going to set out to wipe out the entire universe and countless innocent lives. And Ben, Jen and I have to destroy him. Taking one life is a miniscule price to pay to save countless others. So I'm going to say this to the both of you once and once only." She then shot her sneering face straight into Gwen and Ally's, who looked entirely intimidated. "Stay out of our way."
"Can we talk about this-"
"We just did." Scarlett interrupted. "And tell your friends in the reserves for the Omni-Team to stay out of our way too."
And with that, Scarlett snapped her fingers and vanished into red smoke, disappearing entirely.
"They're not going to help us," Ally said. "No one is. Not even the Protectors. It's their duty to do whatever it takes to defend the multiverse and even they don't have the means to cure Kevin."
"Then we're going to find someone who can."
In an alleyway in Bellwood, a stray dog started eating some food out of a garbage can before it was struck by a black beam that was instantly cancelled out by a magenta forcefield as a red energy beam blasted out and struck the Osmosian, causing him to stumble backwards.
"Look at you," Gwen said with disgust evident in her voice. "I never thought I'd see you like this... Michael."
"You two aren't catching me at my best," Darkstar admitted. "Perhaps if you bothered to call first before just dropping by."
"I'll admit. It took a lot of rifling through police reports to pinpoint your hunting area," Ally said.
"It's hard to believe that you've been reduced to draining energy out of dogs in back alleys," Gwen noted.
"We all do what we must to survive. Where's your cousins?"
"They're busy. And Becky's staying out of it," Ally said.
"And Levin?"
"Busier."
"Enough with the chit chat," Gwen said as she took out her spellbook, which glowed pink as she stuck her glowing hand forwards.
"Your mana. It's as intoxicating as ever, Lovely Gwen."
Darkstar shot his black beams outwards, but the newly stronger Gwen thrust her hands forwards, overpowering Darkstar and blasting him with her spell, sending him crashing back as his helmet fell off to reveal his zombie-like face, much to his horror as he looked at it in a nearby puddle.
"You think I'm defeated? I... I can still..."
"We're not here to fight you, Michael," Gwen said as her eyes glowed pink. "We're here to help you. Restituo navitas."
Darkstar screamed in fright as Gwen continued.
"Vis penetro intus."
"No!" Darkstar shouted as his body was encased in a sphere and levitated upwards.
"Vigoratus per vita."
The magic sphere suddenly exploded and Darkstar got to his feet... and then looked in a nearby window to see his original handsome self in the reflection.
"Why would you do this for me?"
"Because we need your help," Ally said, causing Darkstar's eyes to widen.
The twins drove their cars down separate roads to the same destination, determined looks plastered all over their faces as their Plumbers' Badges rang and they pressed the button on the dashboard.
"Look, Gwen! We've already made up our minds!" Jen shouted angrily.
"We're done talking!" Ben said. "This matter, like this call, is closed!"
"I'm not Gwen, guys," Max said, causing their eyes to widen. "But we are going to talk about her and Ally."
"Let me guess, they couldn't convince us so they went to you?" Jen asked.
"Something like that. Scarlett's on her way to help you destroy Kevin right now."
"So you agree with them?" Ben asked.
"No," Max said. "You two are right. Kevin's a menace. Your friendship aside, the only responsible move is to take him down and out with all necessary force."
"And you're calling us, why then?"
"It's the logical move. It's the safest move. It's the sensible move."
"But?" Jen asked.
"Its not the Ben move or the Jen move. You two trust people. You give them second chances and they always live up to your expectations. Kevin was a sociopath when you were kids, but you guys trusted him anyway."
"Yeah, and look how that turned out," Ben sighed.
"He's turned into a fine young man. A hero a dozen times over thanks to you two."
"Yeah," Jen said. "But now he's a monster. He's worse now than he ever was when we were kids."
"True. And I'd put him down like a mad dog... But I never thought you two would. You always find another way."
"There is no other way, Grandpa," Jen sighed, putting her head down for a second. "Not this time."
"Scarlett trained us and always told us that we have to do whatever it takes to protect the universe. And if that means that we have to sacrifice someone we care about, then that's the way it has to be," Ben said.
"That woman knows exactly what she's doing, no matter how hard she is on you guys as a mentor," Max said.
"Ben and I really didn't want to do this. We checked and re-checked and re-re-re-re-rechecked all our options at least twenty times, Grandpa," Jen said. "This time, there's just no way around it."
"When we thought you were dead, we had to do a lot of growing up."
"You kids did fine."
"For awhile, yeah," Jen sighed. "But lately, we let our fame go our heads a little bit."
"We've been bigger jerks these past few months than we've ever been," Ben said.
At that moment, a long moment of silence occurred between grandfather and grandchildren.
"Well? Aren't you going to argue with us?"
"Not when you're right."
"Look, Grandpa," Jen sighed. "We've had fun, but we promised ourselves that when the situation got serious, so would we."
"I'm not gonna argue with you guys," Max said. "I just wanted to make sure that you two really thought it through this time."
"We did, Grandpa," Ben said, nodding. "We really did."
"We're so sorry for what we're gonna do to Kevin, we really are," Jen apologized before gripping the steering wheel tighter. "But this isn't kid's stuff anymore. Play time is officially over."
They both activated the nitrous on their cars and zoomed off.
Vulkanus shouted out in pain as Four Arms tossed him to Scarlett who shouted out in fury as she leaped upwards and landed a powerful dual energy kick to his chest, sending him right into the arms of Humungousaur.
The pickaxe minions shouted out as they rushed to Scarlett, who simply unsheathed her katana and swung it around at almost invisible speeds as the pickaxe's weapons to bits before they fell to the ground, dead as a doornail as Humungoursaur growled out.
"Why do you two keep following me around?!" Vulkanus asked.
"You've done business with Kevin before," Four Arms spat.
"Sure, you all know I have. He really puts himself into his work if you know what I mean," Vulkanus said, sticking up a shard of taydenite. "I think you do."
"We are not in the mood to negotiate!" Scarlett shouted as Four Arms tossed him to her. "Where is he!?"
Scarlett tossed the Detrovite away before she let loose a red beam of magic from her hands that blasted him back.
Four Arms then changed back before she morphed into her Anodite form as she levitated him up before mercilessly slamming him into the ground and walls repeatedly with her telekinesis.
"Watch it! I'm still paying for this!"
"Answer us!" Jen shouted, her eyes starting to catch a fiery aura.
Vulkanus gasped as Jen applied her telekinetic pressure onto the arms of his suit before they shattered into a billion pieces.
"Oh, not the arms! They're the hardest parts to replace! They're always on back order!"
"We are not playing games, Vulkanus," Humungousaur said. "Where's Kevin!?"
"Even if I knew, I wouldn't tell you three. You didn't say please."
"Oh, that is it!" Scarlett shouted as she stuck her katana towards Vulkanus' throat before he ejected from his suit and Jen caught him and held him in the air as Scarlett pointed her sword forwards.
"No one likes a bully, you know."
"Stop holding out on us, Vulkanus!" Jen shouted. "SPILL!"
Vulkanus struggled in Jen's telekinetic grip.
"Oh, you're keeping up. I'm gonna spill something alright."
Scarlett shouted out as she thrust her sword forwards, only to have the blade stopped as she was kicked back by Ally as she flew in.
Humungousaur and Jen gaped as they saw Gwen and Ally standing there as Gwen used her Telekinesis Charm to hold her cousin's arms back.
"Gwen?! Ally?" Ben, Jen and Scarlett asked in shock.
"Let him go, guys," Gwen ordered as Jen sighed and let go of Vulkanus, tossing him to a wall.
"You tell 'em, sister."
Humungousaur charged towards them, but Ally shouted out as she slammed her fist into the ground and eight pillars of earth popped up around the Vaxasaurian as Gwen lidded it with a mana disc.
"Just listen for a second, will you?!"
Humungousaur shouted out in furious as he slammed on the cage, slowly breaking it before he too slammed on the ground, causing Gwen and Ally to jump up as the cage disintegrated and massive cracks in the floor appeared as Jen flew upwards, not noticing as Vulkanus fell through one of the cracks.
"Do we have to curb stomp you again, Ally? Just stay out of our way!" Jen shouted.
"Just stay out of our way, Gwen," Scarlett said, picking her sword back up. "We're gonna find Kevin, no matter what it takes."
"You'll never find him," a haunting voice said and the trio's eyes widened as Michael Morningstar stepped into the cave. "But I can."
"They're teaming up with Darkstar now?" Humungousaur asked as Jen groaned.
"The fuck they are!" she cursed as she prepared her mana to blast Michael into oblivion, only for Gwen to shield him.
"Calm yourself, Jen. I'm merely offering my assistance with your... Osmosian dilemma. Isn't that right... Lovely Gwen?"
"Don't push it, Michael," Gwen said as Ben and Jen changed back as Scarlett kept her hand on her sheathed katana.
"You two brought Darkstar into this?" Ben asked. "And he's just going to act like he's our friend again and then destroy us all when we're least expecting it. How stupid do Jen and I look?"
"He's the only one who can help Kevin," Ally said reluctantly.
"Uh-huh," Jen said blankly.
"But I can help," Darkstar said. "Because the three of you don't understand Kevin and I do."
"Okay, you're making even less sense than you usually do," Scarlett said, raising an eyebrow.
"Just give him one chance," Gwen said.
"We gave him a chance before and look what happened," Jen said. "Everything he does is for his own benefit. Why should we believe he'll keep to his word now?"
"I can help you, Tennyson. Because I can predict Kevin's next move. Kevin and I are the same."
"You got that right," Ben said. "You're both evil."
"We both have an insatiable craving for energy."
"And you're evil," Jen said, folding her arms.
"Kevin's not evil," Ally said. "Somewhere deep down, he's still our friend and my brother."
"No, Allison," Darkstar said. "The twins are right. He's not your friend. Not anymore. He just looks like him. He's... an empty shell knowing only a hunger that must be fed. That very craving is his weakness."
"Michael has a plan to cure Kevin," Gwen said.
"He's beyond even my finest healing magic," Scarlett said. "What makes you think anything he can do will work?"
"I don't know, but I already don't like it," Ben said.
"Let me explain. When the Dominus Librium was destroyed, I managed to save a piece of it," Darkstar said, showing the piece of the destroyed relic.
"The energy absorption relic you used to cure Kevin before?" Jen asked.
"Precisely."
"That's great," Ben said.
"Unfortunately, it no longer works."
"Great," Ben sighed.
"But with a large enough power source, we may still be able to tap into its inherent abilities."
"You're joking, right?" Jen asked. "Gwen and Ally have already wasted enough of our time trying to find a cure for Kevin. It's too late for that now."
"Every moment he's on the loose is a moment that many innocent lives are suffering," Scarlett agreed.
"Now for the last time, are you going to help us find Kevin or not?" Ben asked Gwen. "Because if you don't, whatever else he does, the blood will be on your hands."
All eyes turned to Gwen as she sighed and nodded, whipping out her phone.
In the abandoned Total Zone arcade in Bellwood, Ultimate Kevin wandered the rows of destroyed consoles, muttering to himself before the voice of his girlfriend sounded behind him.
"Kevin?"
Ultimate Kevin whirled his head around to see Lucky Girl standing there, prompting him to blast out a ton of spider silk from his maw outwards, which Lucky Girl blocked with a mana shield, which she lowered.
"Bad idea, Gwen."
"What is?"
"Tracking me here."
"I had to. Ben, Jen and Scarlett are after you."
"You brought them here?!" Ultimate Kevin shouted as he slammed his fist down, majorly cracking the ground.
"No, I came so we could talk. You and me."
"...Yeah?"
"Yeah. The twins and Scarlett are going to do whatever it takes to stop you, you understand? Whatever it takes. Even if it means ending your life. But Ally and I have come up with a way to help you."
Lucky Girl approached her mutated boyfriend and laid a hand on his head.
"If you just trust me, I can cure you."
Ultimate Kevin groaned at feeling Gwen's mana. "You shouldn't have come here!"
Lucky Girl stepped back as her boyfriend tried and failed to hold himself back.
"Don't you realize why I've been trying to stay away from you?!"
"Why?!"
"Because I knew what I'd do to you if you had the chance!"
Ultimate Kevin then approached Lucky Girl menacingly before her tattoos and eyes started glowing as she dodged a swipe from Kevin as he slammed into the console by her before slamming at her with his brute strength, to which she used her acrobatic skills and her Luck Charm to avoid his attacks. Ultimate Kevin tore a pole from its foundation, walking straight towards Lucky Girl, but she used her Lightning Charm to blast the pole to smithereens.
Lucky Girl shouted out, blasting Kevin with several mana bolts, which simply shattered against his bulky frame. Ultimate Kevin then blasted out a stream of fire from his upper left arm, which Lucky Girl blocked with two consoles she moved into place with her telekinesis. As she ran away, Ultimate Kevin's entire body erupted into flames as he flew through the roof and then crashed back down in front of her and blasted out two walls of flames that sent a wall up that blocked any escape for the young Anodite hybrid.
After pelting him with more mana blasts, Lucky Girl quickly pulled out her spellbook.
"Incendia Absum!"
With the spell declared, the flames all died down almost instantly as they were swept away with a gust of wind.
"Don't make me hurt you, Kevin!"
"Give it your best shot."
Ultimate Kevin then sent out a burst of seeds outwards that caused several vines to grow up from the floor and ensnared Lucky Girl right where she stood. Groaning out, she levitated the book to her face as the pages turned to one particular spell.
"Silicis Miles Suscitatio!"
Then, several grey arms with glowing pink runes burst out of the ground and then resolved themselves into the Stone Creatures used by Lucky Girl's own best friend.
"You summoned Charmcaster's pet monsters? I gotta say I'm impressed"
"Her name is Hope and you know it!"
The stone monsters growled as they approached Ultimate Kevin on all sides and started grappling with him as another one tore the vines off of their master.
"I'm so sorry I had to do this to you."
As Ultimate Kevin was buried under a sea of stone limbs, and was brought down to his knees, Gwen suddenly looked over her shoulder to see the pink runes on the creatures slowly dwindle out before they crumbled away as Kevin burst out, now fully charged with their mana.
"Thanks, Gwen. But I didn't get you anything."
Lucky Girl gasped as Ultimate Kevin tossed a giant mana ball forwards that slammed right into Lucky Girl, causing her to put up a shield to deflect the brunt of the force. Ultimate Kevin let loose a sonic screech from his maw and Lucky Girl struggled to maintain her footing as she blocked the scream with her mana shield that slowly started to crack. Ultimate Kevin then increased the screech's strength, destroying the shield and sending Lucky Girl screaming as she crashed into several broken game consoles.
She looked up from the ground as she saw Ultimate Kevin approach and he smirked down to her.
"Hello, Lovely Gwen."
Lucky Girl's pupils shrank to pinpoints at that name as Ultimate Kevin reached down and grabbed her arm, slowly absorbing her energy, causing her to scream out in agonizing pain as Ultimate Kevin smirked, not noticing as a certain someone was lurking in the rafters above the arcade, preparing her weaponry for a sneak attack.
To be continued...