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Benjamin Tennyon, better known as Ben 23, now, at the age of fifteen, was having an amazing day so far.

"Stand still, miscreant!"

Except for the villain wearing a power suit, shooting energy blasts from his hands at him. It was all orange with a big letter 'O' on his chest with yellow lines across his armor, wearing a helmet that covered his head except his face, revealing a middle-aged man with an enraged expression.

"Overlord? More like Edgelord 'cause that's your whole stick," Speedyquick, Ben 23's Kineceleran form, said with a yawn and dodged another blast aimed at his head.

He was facing Edgelord, Overlord, for about twenty minutes. The guy straight up attacked him while he was eating his Gyro at Mr. Gyro. Using Speedyquick, he got everyone out of there fast and decided to face the former businessman turned villain who doesn't know when to quit.

"My whole stick as you claim is to destroy you, Tennyson." Overlord said as his armor opened at the back, revealing multiple holes that had missiles in it. He launched it outward, and then it rocketed towards the hero of Bellwood.

Smiling underneath his mask, Speedyquick evaded the missiles using his enhanced speed and wheels on his feet, grabbing one in the process with his sharp claws and throwing it back at Overlord.

Crossing his arms, he deployed a yellow translucent shield with a hexagon pattern on it. It connected with his shield, detonating it, building up smoke, and cracking the pavement underneath his feet. It blinded him for a moment, but that didn't matter to him. He lowered his shield, it faded away into nothingness as he gathered yellow energy into his fist and thrust his arms forward, the smoke expelling away towards where he thinks is where Twenty Three is standing.

Indeed, he was standing there but with a different alien form. His body is fully black with a blue chest colour with one blue eye in the middle of his head, two antennae, a tail with round plugs on their tips, four-fingered hands with square plugs on it as well, and feet with only two front toes. His Hero Watch on his chest, glowing light blue.

He outstretched his antennas forward with his arms crossed and let the energy from Overlord hit it deadcenter. It absorbed the energy into it. Overlord looked on in shock, not realising the hero had this form available to him.

"Feedback is back for action, baby!" He yelled out as the last of the energy entered his antennas and flowed through his veins, his blood. He held out his hands with sparks of blue electricity gathering inside his square plugged fingers.

Overlord crossed his arms again, the yellow translucent shield appearing before him again. But Feedback didn't launch the attack. No, he charged forward with the blue electricity sparkling out. He clenched his fist, a smile plastered on the Conductiod's face as he pulled back his fist and launched it forward.

Overlord, or more commonly known as Carl Nesmith, was trying to be a superhero but was overshadowed by an eleven year old kid with a watch that can turn him into aliens. Nesmith hated the kid for stealing his spotlight and fame. He tried busting the aliens that came to earth but was always outshined by Ben Tennyson and his freaky watch. So he became a villain after witnessing another hero looking identical but older to Twenty Three, and he vowed to make the world bow before him and take the Hero Watch from him. But that proved difficult as the hero always came out on top, and the villain didn't.

Feedback's electrified fist went through the shield and squared into Overlord's jaw. The shield faded away as his body jerked backwards and sent flying into a nearby building. The wall dented, and bricks fell onto the ground. Nesmith fell unconscious, not before uttering a curse at the hero.

"Oh, ya!" He shouted out in victory, throwing a peace sign before letting out the excess energy still stored up, firing it in the air.

"And just like that, Ben 23 has defeated yet another villain! Give it up for our Hero!" The announcer said out louder through the microphones floating into the air along with the cameras, filming everything that's been going on since Overlord attacked the Gyro store.

"And remember to check out Mr Gyro and get a twenty-three percent discount on your next order!" Feedback spoke to the cameras, his voice being broadcasted throughout Bellwood. His Omnitrix started beeping, and in a flash of blue light, he turned back into his human form.

His hair was still long, but it extended above his shoulders, the one bang obscured his left eye. Aside from him growing taller, he was still the same. He wore a designer varsity jacket with a black shirt sporting the Omnitrix symbol on it, dark blue ripped jeans, his shoes having the Omnitrix symbol on them. He still wore the golden rings on his fingers, along with the earrings as well. His Omnitrix – Hero Watch – had changed to a sleek blue watch with gold accents which now features a hologram display of his aliens but he still kept the usual twenty three aliens limit for himself, and for his fans.

He pulled out his phone, texting his agent about how well he did facing Edgelord and also tested Tetrax to come pick him up.

Suddenly, dark purple energy gathered behind him, and a portal opened up with a figure flying overhead out of it and crashing high into the building. A masked figure stepped out wearing silver heels with a purple visor, leaving only two glowing purple eyes staring intensely as Ben. The figure wore a black bodysuit with silver boots and gauntlets along with a purple cape. The wielder of the Omnitrix readied himself yet again, seeing the familiar foe before him. One he doesn't face on a daily basis.

"Eon," Ben addressed the time walker, turning the dial of his Omnitrix activated, showing a hologram of a random alien.

"Ben Tennyson," Eon scoffed, then looked around, seeing the familiar place and the camera's, "The 23rd Dimension, the only dimension that has a Ben Tennyson whose ego is better than a skyscraper." The portal behind him closed, and Eon started walking slowly towards him.

"Why don't you go back where you belong, Eon. Last time didn't work so well for you."

The time walker stretched out his arms, and his hands crackled with purple energy.

"Last time was a fluke and trusting Vilgax was a mistake and something I intend to never do again," He thrust his arms forward, firing a purple beam of energy at Ben but it never connected as a tall figure appeared in a flash of light blue light.

His helmet is gone, revealing a crystalline face with light yellow eyes, a beard on his face. He wears a white light blue Plumber suit armor.

"Tetrax!"

Tetrax Shard extended his hand forward and shot crystals at Eon, who used his cape as a shield.

"Ben, go see who else came out of that portal, I'll handle him," He ordered his partner as he fired more shards at the time traveller. Ben nodded his head and made his way towards the person who was flung

Clicking his tongue in annoyance, Eon fired another blast with Tetrax responding by morphing his arm, a taydenite shield blocking the blast, but it didn't stop. He was pushed back, his boots scraping against the pavement floor as he felt the heat of the blast. Tetrax felt like he held the blast for hours, but it wasn't. It had only been a few seconds, and the blast stopped, and he lowered the shield.

Eon charged forward like a madman, holding a blade in hand, glowing purple. Tetrax responded in kind, morphing his hand into a blade as well. The two were locked in combat, with Tetrax being the more superior combatant and having more strength than the time walker currently has. Eon sneered and kicked Tetrax in the side. The Petrosapien grunted, and he swung for Eon's head, but the time- walker ducked underneath it and slashed at his leg, making him fall onto his knee. Eon jumped up and kneed him in the face, then charged up an attack in his free hand, then launched it into his face.

Tetrax staggered back a few paces, then fired randomly at Eon, who evaded to the side and charged again with his blade out. Tetrax then slammed his fist into the ground, crystals jaded out of the ground towards Eon who jumped over it but was met with the Petrosapien in the air as well, hand morphed into a blade ready to stab him. He thrust forward, but Eon moved his body out in the last second, letting the crystal scratch his side as he fired purple energy point blank at him. Tetrax grunted out in pain, smoking from the attack as he fell on the ground onto his back.

Eon landed before him, "A mere Petrosapien giving me a challenge? As expected from the famed Tetrax Shard, who mentored Ben Tennyson. A pity you'll die here," He charged up another attack, this one having intense violet energy to it, a time ray.

His outstretched his arm ready to erase Tetrax from time itself but a figure appears and suddenly kicked his outstretched arm upwards, letting him fire off his blast into the air, as they suddenly pulled out handgun, not those issued for earthlings and fired upon Eon, point-blank. He grunted, covering his face as he took most of the blast head on. He started gathering energy again in his hands and swung horizontally, unleashing a wave of purple energy at the figure. But the figure was gone as the wave hit nothing but air as he felt his cape being pulled on. He looked behind him and saw the light cyan armoured alien flying behind him, grabbing onto his cape. The alien pulled and swung him into the air before Eon could react or even decide to cut or burn his cape off. SevenSeven morphed his arms into wraps, turrets extended from his back as he unloaded rapid fire on Eon, who was still airborne.

An explosion was set off with the cameras and video feed being destroyed for being too close to the action. A smoking Eon fell back to the ground, creating a man made crater where he landed.

"SevenSeven," Tetrax grunted in pain and shook his head, shrugging off Eon's attack from earlier, "Thank you." His colleague simply spared him a glance and nodded his head, his weapons aimed at the crater where Eon was still in.

"Don't let your guard down just yet, he's tougher than he looks and from what Ben told us, he's the rogue time walker that tried to kidnap him," He morphed his arms into sword and readied himself for another fight.

They might need help, good thing the camera's were destroyed.

Metal boots clicked against the pavement ground as Eon stepped out of the crater, his suit undamaged, no marks on the side where Tetrax nicked him.

Eon brought out his blade yet again, without saying a word, and took a fighting stance with his blade at the side of his face.

Without a word or a signal, SevenSeven took to the air and started firing, and Tetrax charged forth.

Earlier, with Ben, when Tetrax told him to go see who else entered their dimension. His Omnitrix was still recharging, despite the upgrade it got from Azmuth. Nesmith was still unconscious and didn't seem like he would wake up soon. He saw the figure crash into the building, and Ben quickly entered to see if it was a threat or an alley. Most of the people had already exited the building, so he was lucky no one asked for his autograph or a picture at the moment.

Why was Eon here? Who was he fighting? And more importantly, is there gonna be another multiverse event like last time?

He couldn't contain his excitement at the idea of travelling to other dimensions again. Well, it's not like last time, but still.

He appeared where the figure was, and he had to do a double take because the person was one of Dyno-Mighty's species. The light brown skin tone, along with the tail and rough skin, wearing nothing aside from an Omnitrix that rested the center of its chest, glowing brightly pink before beeping red, flashing a crimson colour.

In its place was a girl about his age, with short orange hair with a blue hair clip on the left hand side, wearing a dark blue biker jacket along with a pink undershirt, long tight jeans and running shoes. But her face was most noticeable, the freckles on her face, and he didn't need her to open her eyes to know that they would be green. His eyes then trailed to the device strapped to the back of her left hand. The device is dark blue in color with white circular tubes connected to the pink interface with the black squares near her knuckles. It looked more like a band than a watch.

He stepped towards the unconscious girl and tried to shake her awake, "Gwen…" He tried at first, but she didn't come too immediately. He then picked her up bridal style, which wasn't easy without using his alien forms and got her.

He needed to help Tetrax face Eon. It didn't matter if Tetrax survived a hundred missions or not, Eon was something else entirely.

As he walked out, the girl in his arms started to stir and snuggle into his chest, like she had found the most comfortable pillow known to man. Her eyes open up, revealing them to be green. He stopped and let her adjust to who was carrying her.

"Ugh," She let out a pained groan, and her green eyes met those of blue, "Ben?" He let a smile crept up his face, the voice both familiar and unfamiliar to him. His Gwen sounds different but the same.

"Yeah, it's me. Who else did you expect?" It was meant to be a rhetorical question, but Gwen didn't catch along and let out a breath.

"Eon. He attacked me," She started, and Ben took this as his queue to let her finish. She gave him a small thanks and continued onward, "my Ben and Kevin tried to help but were too powerful and the next thing I know was sent blasting through a portal," She held her head, probably from her impacting the building while in her Vaxasaurian form.

"Tetrax is holding him down but not for long either," He said as he activated his Hero Watch. A hologram appeared above the watch, "SevenSeven should already be there by now."

She muttered the alien bounty hunter's name again and wondered why he would be helping this version of Ben but then shook it off. Not everyone in the grand scheme of the multiverse is the same. Instead, she looked at his Omnitrix and noticed it looked like her old watch, but to him, it's, "New Omnitrix?"

"I could ask you the same thing."

She looked at the hand at the Ultimatrix and frowned, "Not as good as the original, but it's better than nothing."

"Look out!" A voice cried out, and both Tennyson's turned and saw SevenSeven's flying body heading towards them.

Ben pushed Gwen to the side and quickly moved out of the way as the Sotoraggian made contact with the ground, sparks flying, skirting across the ground. Then they turned their focus towards the battles and saw Eon standing over Tetrax, whose head was cracked.

"Finally," The villain of the hour said, kicking Tetrax away. The Petrosapien grunted in pain, trying to get up, but he couldn't. He was too hurt.

"I was starting to wonder where you ran off to, Gwendolyn and you brought Mister Gyro with you as well," He laughed a little and his hands crackled with energy, "Killing you both will–" He stopped talking. He narrowed his glowing purple eyes and let out an audible laugh.

"What's so funny, E-yawn," He asked, moving his hand closer to the watch so that he could change into whatever alien was selected.

He lowered his arms and let the energy fade away. He turned around and opened a portal to who knows where.

Gwen's eyes widened as she realised that it's because of Eon that she was shared now. She pressed the black square button in the Ultimatrix, and the dial popped up, revealing pink circuit lines as she quickly slammed the faceplate down. In a flash of hot pink light she had transformed into a Citrakayah, a cat like alien with dark purple suit, her hands, legs, chest and a part of her head are coloured light blue, a thunderbolt design on her chest and a triangle on her back with hot pink eyes and a striped tail. Her Ultimatrix was located on her chest.

She moved fast, almost breaking the sound barrier, but Eon raised his hand. It glowed purple with energy as a temporal field surrounded her. Her movements slowed down. She mentally cursed at herself as she wasn't able to catch him much less react in time.

A flash of cyan blue and a voice shouted, "Freeze Lizard!"

A blast of ice hit him dead on, but Eon quickly broke free and saw Ben 23 turned into his Polar Manzardill. His Omnitrix rested on his left wrist. The four-legged iguana tried again to freeze him, but Eon countered it with his own blast. He then swiftly walked back into the portal, letting it disappear along with the temporal field around Gwen, who halted in her tracks, letting her furred covered feet gaze at the ground. All around them, the area was scorched with Eon's fight against Tetrax and SevenSeven. Some buildings would need their windows repaired in the future.

"Shit…" She cursed and slapped the Ultimatrix symbol on her chest, reverting to human form in a flash of hot pink.

"Nice, didn't know you had Fastcat as well," The voice of her cousin said behind her, and he saw him grinning, and she actually looked at him this time.

He was much older than the last time she saw him. But the eyes, hair, and even the way he dresses were the same, somewhat. His Omnitrix gave Gwen some bad memories she wanted to forget but was happy to know she wasn't the only one to get an upgrade.

But now she is stuck in the 23rd Dimension, for God knows how long before she is taken back to her dimension. She could try her Chronian form, but that wouldn't do her much good if she didn't know what to do. Much less navigate through the vast multiverse that had an infinite number of realities. Oh, just thinking about it gives her a headache.

"Fastcat?" She asked after a moment of collecting herself.

"Yeah, that alien you just turned into, Fastcat." Oh, he was talking about her Citrakayah form. Also, that's a dumb name.

"I see you're still giving your alien hero names," She crossed her arms, a bit annoyed. It's bad enough that Ben started to name all her alien forms, which she will never use aside from one alien. But this Ben, Ben 23, gave the most ridiculous names.

Copy-Copy, Build-A-Guy, Charcoal-Man, etc. The list goes on, and Gwen swore that it was just a quarter of the list of names she had just heard.

"How else am I gonna promote them? Also, it's a lot better than naming them after their species or home world," He's got a point which Gwen won't admit, "but enough about alien names. How are you, Gwen?"

Her expression softened a little at the question. How long has it been since anyone asked? Ben and Kevin don't usually ask since they're always with her. But other than that, no one else. Truth be told, she was tired. Eon had to ruin everything with his meddling, and now she was stuck here!

"Ben…" The voice of Tetrax Shard came from behind them as the duo saw the Petrosapien limping with SevenSeven supporting him by holding his arm over his shoulder, "Is he gone?"

Ben gave a wordless nod but knew better. They both did intact but didn't want to voice their concern, afraid Eon might just come back and slice their arms off.

"Good…" He grunted in pain then looked at Gwen with a raised eyebrow, "Is that you cousin?"

Ben was quick to say no but held his tongue and decided to state the obvious, "Yes…but also, no, she's from another dimension."

"Another, another dimension, Tetrax," She smiled and saw another familiar face she could recognize. It has been months since she last saw the Petrosapien.

"I guess you know me in your world, huh," He huffed and straightened his body, "I guess Eon brought you here, right."

Gwen nodded, "Yeah, and I need to get back home. Do you guys have a way to cross the vast multiverse? Or can we ask your Azmuth for help?" She wanted to go home as soon as possible. There was no telling what would happen with her gone. Plus, leaving both Ben and Kevin alone was never a good idea.

SevenSeven spoke, but his voice sounded like a bunch of gibberish to the human ears. But Tetrax nodded along and sighed, "That's right, Azmuth is off-world. He's Galvan Prime at the moment. At best, it would take a few days for him to return," He explained mainly to Gwen, who sighed in defeat and hung her head.

"What am I supposed to do while I wait?"

Waiting around? She could try a thousand inherent things rather than simply waiting, but what about Paradox? In her dimension, she hasn't encountered him or even heard of a man matching his appearance, much less abilities. But if they could get in touch with Paradox, no. He's more focused on the Prime dimension and Eon. But Eon is the one who brought her here, so wouldn't Paradox have sensed a ripple in the dimensional barriers or felt Eon teleporting?

"Relax cuz," She was pulled into a one-armed hug from Twenty Three. She looked at him, seeing him with a smile on his face, a smile that was very much contagious, "while you're here, I'll show you around town and maybe we can bust some villains along the way."

She can't argue with that. As much as she wanted to get home, she couldn't lie and say that the opportunity to explore another dimension didn't make her excited. The only thing she saw was his billboard years ago. Maybe this time, she can explore more and see what makes the dimension vastly different from her own.

Smiling, she nodded at the more doofus version of her cousin, "Alright, lead the way."

Ben brightened at her, accepting his proposal. He was half expecting the girl to outright reject him, but fate proved wrong. He needed something to keep his mind busy after what had just happened.

"Sweet, also, you like Gyro?"

"Gyro? What's that?"

And it could only get better from here.

Gwendolyn Tennyson, wielder of the Omnitrix, saviour of the universe, the one who bested Vilgax in combat and saved the world more times than she could count was now sitting on a rooftop overlooking the city of Bellwood. Not her Bellwood, a variation of it. Belonging to Ben 23, the hero of this dimension who she saw met yet again after five long years.

The two had a pizza box between them as their legs hung off the ledge of the roof they were sitting on. It had been an eventful day, to say the least. Eon came and caused trouble, bringing her to Twenty Three's dimension, and now she was stuck here, unable to go back. Twenty Three tried to cheer her up, and it worked for the most part, but she was reminded quickly that this wasn't her home and those people weren't her parents. She could just hug them. Right now, Twenty Three was telling her about the time he and Ben, the Prime one, went to Mad Ben's dimension and got stuck there unable to get the correct transformation cause they both name their aliens differently, which was stupid in her opinion, as the two resolved the problem quickly once they found out about Dr Psycobos plan to detonate their watches.

"I used Techno-Bubble while Ben used his Clockwork form to try and get back but it didn't work, but then Store 23 came to pick us up and Rook was there as well but since I was so used to him using contraction it was really trippy but at the end of the day I learned what was needed to be learned," He finished looking down at his Omnitrix with a small smile.

"And what did you learn?"

"That I'm only worthy of my Hero Watch if it makes other people happy and there's a lot riding in what we do. So we better not blow it," He said, remembering it word for word as if he said it yesterday.

Gwen can see that Twenty Three misses his Prime counterpart very much, if it wasn't evident in the way he spoke so highly about him during her tour around this Dimension of Bellwood. During their talk, Twenty-three told her all about Ben. Safe to say, she does remember that particular Ben, but the one who recruited was a different variation.

"What kind of enemies have you faced?" She asked, taking a slice in her hand. They had managed to avoid talking about their respective enemies, only sharing what happened to them after going back to their dimension.

The likes of her Ben and Kevin forming a team and saving the world as well as becoming Plumbers as well. Twenty Three gave her an odd look when she mentioned Plumbers, but she double backed and said that they were like galactic police who put away criminals. He snapped his fingers at that and reiterated that they didn't have those in his world. Only he, Tetrax, and SevenSeven, along with Azmuth, protect the planet. Gwen had to not overthink about how he survived so long without the Plumber's help…or anyone's help since he founded the Omnitrix.

"I've only faced small-time villains like Edgelord and Khyber," He said and pulled out his phone to show her a picture of the villains he fought. Gwen chewed on the pizza and wiped the cheese off her mouth to take a better look at them. True to his word, he only faced small-time crooks and villains.

Twenty Three pocketed his phone, grabbing a slice for himself. He preferred his Gyros, but Gwen didn't enjoy them as much as he thought he would.

"What about the Forever Knights or Vilgax?"

"Never heard of these Forever Knights before, but I've gone against this cult that worships a dragon. That ring any bells to ya?"

Shaking her head, "No. And Vilgax?"

"He's not a threat. At best, he's an old man who tried to scam me for my Hero Watch."

Now there's a story to tell, Gwen thought to herself, "Why? What I know of Vilagx is that he is usually a threat. Look at what he did all those years ago, wiping us all off the map."

"Trust me, that old squid is nothing. The best he's done is trying to frame me and he even failed at that," He laughed and Gwen can see it wasn't arrogance in his voice, he genuinely believes that Vilgax of his dimension isn't a threat. Then what of the DNAliens and the Highbreed? Darkstar? Charmcaster? Kevin?

Is he even here in this dimension? She and Kevin aren't on good terms, but she doesn't hate him. After everything they have been through, she still cares for him. But she can never feel the way he wants her to feel.

"And you?" She looks up at him, "Did you face those guys and win?"

"Well, yeah," She brags and goes into detail about how she stopped a war and beat Vilgax countless times along with her other enemies. She talks about Ben and Kevin, how they held her grounded at times. With a device so powerful on her wrist, she can sometimes let it go to her head. Something that Twenty Three has learned along the way as well.

"So you're Ben uses magical artifacts and guns?" He asked, a bit surprised, taking a sip of his smoothy that they also got with their pizza.

"Ben didn't want to feel left out, so he started collecting them as a hobby as well as gun handling. He's a pretty good shot. You should see him sometimes," If they ever get her back home, that is. She clicked her tongue gently at her own negative thoughts, which had some truths to them, but the day had barely ended, so she could let it slide.

"Sounds awesome, don't worry. Once Azmuth's back, he'll make a portal to your dimension in no time. I mean, I visit Ben from time to time, so it is possible," He said with a smiling grin, being optimistic and comforting Gwen. He leaned against her to show her that she wasn't alone. She does have people she can count on.

"You're right, Twenty Three, I'm just worried," She smiled overlooking the city, the sun had set a few minutes ago, the sky starting to darken to signal the day's end.

"So, what now?"

Before Twenty Three could answer another voice spoke out in the dark behind them, "Now, you all die."

Both Tennyson's jumped at the sudden voice, making themselves known. They got away from the ledge onto the more open area from the roof.

"Oh, don't bother moving around, I'll be able to find you no matter what," The person steps out of the shadow revealing, red ringed eyes with black marks with small flesh-coloured horns on his head. The man has long black hair, wearing a brown knee-length, open-chested tunic, baggy jeans, and black calf-high boots. He held a metal spear in his right hand.

"Agg—"

"Greg," Twenty Three beats her to the punch in identifying the enemy before them, but she was stumped at what he was calling the person before them. But it was definitely him. Gwen recognized him from the reports in her own dimensions, a similar species to Kevin. An Osmosian.

His red eyes stared at Twenty Three, then at Gwen, then back at Twenty Three. He scraped his spear against the concrete floor, creating a small spark and then twirling it on his hand.

"I thought I sent you packing the last time you tried to face me head on," He smiled and held up his hand, showing his Omnitrix is activated and ready to transform.

"Indeed, but I had underestimated you in our first encounter and believe myself superior in every way," He pointed the tip of his spear at Ben, "But I won't make that same mistake again."

Red energy crackled at the tip of the spear as Aggregor swung at the duo, unleashing a wave of energy that threatened to cut them down. Slamming the faceplate down Twenty Three transforms in a flash of cyan light.

Twenty Three was much smaller now resembling a humanoid amoeba-like creature with bluish skin, six sprout-like growths on the back of his head, light blue eyes, and crooked overbite, he wears a light blue sleeveless suit with dark blue highlights and his Omnitrix is on his left hand.

"Vomit Man!" He opened his mouth wide and ate the incoming energy wave, fueling his belly as he then opened his mouth again and vomited back an intense blue energy at Aggregor. The Osmosian swatted the energy away and charged at the Gourmand.

Gwen, not wanting to miss a chance to fight, pressed the square button on her Ultimatrix, a hologram appeared, a random alien was selected, and she pressed the faceplate down. In a flash of hot pink light, Gwen's form changed into a taller figure with four arms, red skin, four pink eyes, and three toes on either foot. Her signature red hair on her head. Her attire changed as she wore a black shirt and ripped jeans with her Ultimatrix on her left shoulder held together by a strap that goes across her chest and back.

She roared out in furry as she was now in her Tetramand form.

Aggregor swung low at the Gourmand, but Vomit Man jumped over it and regurgitated another blast of energy from his gullet point blank at him, but the Osmosian blocked the attack with his free hand. It stung him a little, but he then brought his spear upward and struck him into the stomach.

"Oof!" Vomit Man gasped as he was sent flying to the ground and also off the roof.

"Rrraaah!" Gwen roared out, and sucker punched Aggregor in the face. He staggered back and swung his spear at her head. She ducked underneath the attack and gave him a double gut punch with her right upper and lower arms.

His breath was momentarily taken away, but Gwen kneed him in the face, his head shooting backward. She went for another sucker punch, but Aggregor caught her fist with his free hand. She used her other hand, but he blocked it as well. Except for her two lower arms, which she used to uppercut. His feet left the ground for a split second, but he never came down. Instead, he started going upwards until he was two feet away from the ground.

Her four pink eyes widened, seeing Aggregor float above her. The Osmosian gripped his spear, twirled it, gripping it with both hands, then struck downwards. Gwen used her two upper arms and caught the spear's head between her hands. She smiled at the obvious attack, but Aggregor grinned. Then, an intense red electricity coursed through her very being as the spear crackled with the same electricity. Gwen felt herself being fried from the inside, similar to how the Nosedeenian shocked her that one time, but this was more dangerous.

Feeling herself slip, Gwen let go of the spear and jumped back a few feet but was quickly met with Aggregor, his fist pulled back and vibrating. He socks Gwen in her stomach. She spat out saliva as his fist shook her entire body. She swung aimlessly at him but was met with the blunt of his spear to her head.

Aggregor then stabbed and jabbed with his spear across the Tetramand's chest, legs and arms, moving faster than Gwen could react and released a torrent of water from his free hand. Soaking her wet and launching her near the edge. Seeing what he was trying to do, she tried to leap away, but Aggregor grabbed her foot and slammed her back into the concrete roof, denting it with cracks all around where she landed hard, Aggregor plants his foot on her neck and raises his spear.

"Electricyeti!"

He turned around and held out his right hand, letting the blue electricity hit him dead on. But instead of feeling any shock or pain, Aggregor instead absorbed the attack.

Standing before him was Twenty Three in his Gimlinopithecus form with yellow fur at his chest, forearms, and knees with blue fur covering his hands, waist, and feet with three toes, around his head. His blue eyes filled with electricity as he let out an animalistic money roar.

"Let her go, eh," The sasquatch-like alien spoke, blue electricity dancing around his body, "It's me ya want, right, eh, Greg." Away from Gwen, the better. That's what he thinks.

"Very well," Aggregor spoke, but he didn't move away. Instead, he grasped Gwen's Ultimatrix.

Hot pink energy shot out of the watch as Gwen screamed, feeling it rip her apart, but Aggregor relished in the power that this device was giving him. Sparks flew all around them as he absorbed more and more of the Ultimatrix.

Electriciyeti's eyes widened and ran forward, "That isn't wasn't what I meant, eh!" He absorbed the electricity that sparked out as he charged forward and grabbed Aggregor's shoulder then tossed him away from Gwen whose Ultimatrix started beeping rapidly and in a flash of red light was back in her human form laying on the ground. A few bruises in her face and her watch cracked with the same sparks.

"Hahaha!" The laughter of Aggregor grabbed his attention faster than Speedyquick could get a Gyro.

Aggregor was taller now, taller than Dyno Mighty, Twenty Three guessed. His skin is a mixer of red and brown. His right upper arm is that of an evolved Vaxasaurian, left upper arm that of Toolboxx, the right lower arms of Plantman, left lower arm of Eye Guy. His feet bare with three toes, two front, one back with it resembling that of Charcoal-Man, a spiked tail similar to Tetrax's crystal. His back was covered in Rollaways' shell. His eyes have two extra ones as well glowing crimson, sharp teeth with his head resembling that of JellyFritz and two light blue tentacles falling over his shoulders.

"What's with the freaky monsterizer you got there, Greg," He spoke with a bit of concern, not knowing the full extent of an Osmosian absorbing energy.

Aggregor looked at himself, pleased that he got a taste of that device. It was much better than whatever Twenty Three had. The girl had ultimate power, and it was just sitting there on her hand, waiting for its true wielder.

"My master will be pleased with the results," He spoke softly to himself, but Twenty Three didn't hear him.

"What's that? Speak up, eh. I wanna kick your keister for hurting her," He glanced back, seeing her move a bit. Whatever happened, she was still alive but knocked out. It's not a good way for the day to end. First, Eon and now Greg. He was starting to get annoyed with how easily they managed to one up them.

"The way I am now, the only one who would get his butt kicked," He pointed his right arms at Electricyeti, it morphed into a four barreled launcher, "is you."

He started firing missiles made from his bones at Electricyeti. Thinking quickly on his feet. He slammed the Hero Watch that was on his waist, a flash of cyan later he turned into Dyno Mighty. He crossed his arms and let the missiles hit him, but he stood his ground as the smoke started piling up.

He opened his blue eyes and stared at Aggregor, now the same height as him. His skin is a greyish-cyan with his chest being a lighter color and his eyes blue. He wears a blue sash around his chest with his Omnitrix symbol on it.

"Dyno Mighty!"

He announced and charged forward. Aggregor fired bone fragment missiles at him but like a tank, Dyno Mighty took it head on and when he finally reached the Osmosian, he gave him a bearhug then quickly jumped off the roof and onto the ground below leaving Gwen to stir awake. Her eyes opened, and she felt a sense of deja vu for a moment.

Her body flared with pain throughout thanks to Aggregor trying to rip her watch away from… Aggregor!? Twenty Three?!

She stood up and dusted herself off, but the watch in the back of her hand shocked her. She looked at it and saw it giving off small sparks.

Great, now this thing was broken.

Falling for half a minute, Dyno Mighty held Aggregor's head downward while his other hand grappled with his Toolboxx hand. He quickly realised what a massive mistake he made by jumping off a roof and then trying to wrestle a guy with two extra limbs more than he had, not to mention the abilities Greg could have now.

The laughter of Greg broke his concentration as the two got lower and lower to the ground, and he wondered why. Then he saw with his own eyes Aggregor turning intangible. Dyno Mighty's grip on him was non-existent as Aggregor fazed through him, and he was met with the ground, creating a small dinosaur crater with him inside of it.

The Ultimate Osmosian laughed as his form became visible again, and he landed onto the ground with a thud. The greyish-cyan Vaxasaurian crawled out of the crater he made himself and rubbed his head.

"I didn't think that one through…" He muttered and got himself upright and faced the villain in front of him. Without a word he charged forth pulling his fist back and brought it forth but Ultimate Aggregor caught it, but Twenty Three didn't stop there as he headbutted him, staggering him for a moment and holding his hands together. He swung upwards, hitting Greg in the chin, hard as a shockwave echoed throughout the baren street, and sending him flying backwards into the pavement.

He made no sound, no, did he feel it. He laughed and stood right up. Clenching all four of his fists. Dyno Mighty's mouth gaped as he saw Greg stand up from that. He didn't pull his punch with that one. Getting serious now, Dyno Mighty started walking forward with Aggregor doing the same. In a few seconds, the two broke into a sprint and met each other halfway.

Their hands grabbed the others in a vice grip as they both struggled for control over the other. Dyno Mighty gave it his all to overpower Aggregor, who didn't seem to be struggling at first but having a grin on his face the entire time. He wanted to let out a snarky remark about his face but was met with an upper cut from his lower right arm. His grip failed, and Aggregor took this opportunity to send an onslaught of punches at Dyno Mighty's head, chest, and stomach.

The Vaxasaurian grunted in pain, stepping back with each punch that landed on his skin. He swung his whole body around, his tail following suit but was caught. The Ultimate Osmosian only smiled, pulling the larger Vaxasaurian towards him and then slamming his head into the pavement. Again and again and again. Dyno Mighty's teeth were beginning to fall out from the repeated slams against the pavement. Aggregor stopped slamming him and held his head up, then dropped it on the floor. Dyno Mighty clenched its teeth and punched the ground.

"Still have some fight left in you," He taunted the down hero. It was a good thing he told his agent not to film him during the night or else Bellwood would see him getting his butt handed to him, "That's good. Once I'm through with you, I'll finish that girl."

He spat on the ground, gritted his teeth, and stood back up, facing him, "Not on your life." He spoke out furiously and started growing taller with armour plates of the same colour as his skin appearing on his shoulders and forearms, going from his head down to his tail as spikes appeared on it. Now larger and stronger than before, Dyno Mighty roared out a mighty cry.

But Aggregor didn't look fazed as Dyno Mighty went for a punch. Again, predictable but what the Osmosian didn't see was that his punch was a feint for his other fist to connect to his face. Staggering as he felt a bit of pain across his pain. He cracked a smile but was met with another one. A left. A right.

Aggregor caught both Vaxasaurian fists in the palm of his hand. Dyno Mighty headed butted him, but Aggregor kept his grip on his fists as something started to form at the center of his chest. It opened up revealing a red eye with a black silt. He gasped, and before he could pull away, red flames sprouted from the massive eye.

Dyno Mighty cried out in pain. The flames torched his chest as he struggled to get free from Aggregor's grip. He stops letting go of his hands and then throws a right hook, followed by a gut punch. He extended his right arm and morphed it into its barrel form again. He unleashed a barrage of bone missiles at Dyno Mighty. The explosions from the attack sent Dyno Mighty flying backward.

He got up quickly and slammed the Omnitrix and in a flash of cyan light he stood about the same height as Dyno Mighty but his body was larger, bulkier, with darker cyan blue rocky skin, a giant mouth with teeth made of rocks with a molten lava planet core at the centre of his body. His Omnitrix rested on the top of his forehead.

"Orbit Man!" He announced then quickly raised his arms, generating a cyan color aura around his hands. Instantly, Aggregor was pushed down to the ground, almost as if something was weighing him down.

"Ha! Enjoy being crushed by gravity, Greg," He amplified the amount of gravity by tenfold, and Aggregor stumbled to his knees, grunting his pain and feeling a trickle of blood leave his nose.

He struggled to move his head upwards. The pain of just moving his neck was already something he hated. His four crimson eyes glowed with energy, fire burning at the edges of his visions as he shot forth a burning beam of heat at Orbit Man's face.

"Gah!" He lost his concentration. The aura around his hands faded, and Aggregor was up again and dashed forward. Orbit Man thinking quickly extend his arms to his side, using his gravity powers and slammed his rocky hands together with pavement and concrete slamming the Osmosian in the sides then it shifted in an sphere locking him away.

He started crushing him, the sphere growing smaller and smaller, but cracks started to form. A crimson light started to pour out, and within seconds, it exploded. Orbit Man covered his eyes as the heated concrete and pavement burst outwards.

He raised his hands again to hold him in place, but a green elastic hand reached out and grabbed his Omnitrix on his forehead. Instantly, red electricity coursed through it as it shocked him. His body rocketed with pain as he cried out in pain. His body fried from the inside out until it stopped. Smoke left his body as he wobbled back and forth slowly, then descended backward with an audible breath. The Omnitrix beeped for several seconds, and he turned back to human form mid way as he fell on his back. Ben Twenty Three laid motionless with scruff marks all over him.

Aggregor's Florauna arm retracted back, and he smirked with glee. Previous encounters with the boy had him at every turn beaten. But this time, it was different. Thanks to the red head, he managed to gain Ultimate power. With this, he and his master would be able to rule the world. But first, Twenty Three was a problem he should finish first.

Twenty Three groaned, his eyes opened up revealing Aggregor standing before him, his arms outstretched, the barrel of the Evolved Vaxasaurian aimed at him.

Just then, blue small sphere shaped balls were thrown before Aggregor, which then exploded automatically as he yelled out in pain. A figure then landed between Twenty Three and Aggregor. A humanoid tree, its body dark brown in colour with three blue gooey shells containing organic blue gel in its arms and a large one on its back. The figure turned around, and Twenty Three saw it having pink eyes with the pink Omnitrix symbol on its chest but had four squares at the edges of the watch.

"You okay?" It…She asked him. Twenty Three nodded his head slowly as he took in the form Gwen had taken. It looked like Mr Mucky had a growth spurt or a bloomed mode. He is definitely gonna ask her about this.

"Yea…just a little shocked, that's all," He laughed at his own joke and got up. Legs shaken, and his body numbed a little, "Give me a minute to catch my breath."

"You have ten seconds," She told him and turned to face the enemy that attacked them.

"Ah, back for more," He began. He straightened himself and looked at his meal before him, "Maybe you should give that device over to someone who can use it, girl."

"Over my dead body, Aggregor," She stated, and he raised a brow.

"You know me?"

She didn't answer and ignited the palms of her hands in azure blue flames and shot it forth. He blocked the attack by crossing his arms, but the intensity of the flames was greater than he thought. Vapor started to leave his mouth as he uncrowded his arms and released an ice breath, combating the blue flames. It didn't work as the flames were hotter than his arctic ice breath can handle. Gwen stomped forward, arms still raised as she let put more power into her attack. She broke off her assault once she was near him and kneed him in the chin, followed by a swift kick across the face. Her wooden feet touched back onto the ground as her larger opponent stumbled back and shot out electricity from his Opticoid arm. She evaded by going to the side and threw more of those blue gel bombs, which exploded on contact.

Aggregor gritted his teeth as eyes all around his torso and arms appeared. All of them red with a black silt they glowed for a moment then all fired red beams of energy at the Evolved Methanosian. She threw seeds on the ground, which sprouted a large dark green vein in seconds as it blocked the assault of the laser but was quick to get cut down.

As the veins disappeared, Aggregor saw that she was gone, then looked up, seeing her with her hands extended and lowered. Blue flames sprouted out from her hands as it kept her airborne.

Holding out both hands, his right morphed into the barrel while his left was surrounded by a multi-colored energy. He unleashed a rapid fire of bone missiles and multi-colored light energy at the airborne Methanosian. She bobbed and weaved through the air, evading the onslaught. She extended one of her hands and fired a blue projectile, which Aggregor shot mid way, and it exploded with blue gas now in the air. It obstructed his vision for a moment, but a moment was all they needed.

A flash of cyan blue light and a voice with an echo called out, "Copy Copy!"

A small light cyan humanoid with the Omnitrix symbol on his chest ran towards him as his body glowed with blue outline, and it started to multiply itself. One became three, with three becoming five and five becoming seven until he was surrounded by twenty-three of them.

Gwen tried to find the original, but they all looked identical to no another, and before he could start blasting, they all said the same thing.

"Echo Chamber!" All of them announced and unleashed a sonic scream that surrounded him three-sixty degrees.

"Gaaahh!!" He cried out in pain yet again, reducing to his knees but this time he punched the ground, his fist going through the pavement as crystal's started jutting out in all directions, stabbing a few copies of Copy Copy. The attack minimised now, as Aggregor then turned his head towards a few clones and fired neuroshock blasts at them. Killing them and reducing his number back to three.

"Uh, oh, we screwed up," One of the copies said, taking a step back.

"We should have let Gwen handle it," The other said, reading himself for the worse.

"Come on, don't be scared, we can still win," The last one said, probably the original, as he created four more copies, "Charge!" All seven of them charged towards Aggregor with the original making more for in case.

Aggregor brought his head back and roared out loud, the ground quaked as the copies of Copy Copy stopped dead in their tracks, stunned and maybe afraid.

"Retreat!"

They all scrambled away in terror with him and started to kill them again as he charged forth with his right arm and neuroshock blast, killing the one that was just created. It was starting to be dire as there were only three left, and each new one was immediately blasted to bits either from a missile or neuroshock blast.

He stood over them with his arms raised over his head as Copy Copy closed all their eyes, but it never came as Aggregor was lifted from the ground up and got supplexed by the evolved Methanosian.

Gwen threw a bunch of seeds on the ground around him, as the green veins began to form and surround, clinging onto him as his movements were halted. He fired more neuroshock blasts from his four eyes. She ducked underneath it and sucker punched him across the jaw but that didn't help much as he breathed out ice, encasing her in a block of ice which melted just as fast as she heated herself up.

Her eyes widened, seeing Aggregor's body started to shift into a red liquid goo. He then morphs his own body around her own, wrapping her in the red liquid goo with his upper body and then turning solid. He pulled back his fist to punch her but was met with blue electricity shocking him as well as Gwen. He let go of her, his lower body morphed back into its monster form, stumbling back and seeing Twenty Three in another alien form.

His entire upper body is covered with light blue eyes, with him having no eyes on his face, leaving only a mouth with large bat-like ears as eyes. His skin is grey with his pants black, with blue cuffs on. The Omnitrix symbol on his belt.

"Eye don't think so, Greg," He fired more blasts of energy beams at him, which he took head on, then charged forth.

Thanking the attacks, Eye Guy puffed out his chest as a massive light blue eye appeared and shot a bolt of electricity forward. It exploded making contact with Aggregor, but the Osmosian wasn't fazed at all. Swiping the smoke away with his right hand, his left pulled back.

He was shot in the side by Gwen, who fired the blue projectiles at Aggregor. Eye Guy, seeing this he opened up all his eyes and blasted him with lasers. Gwen threw another set of seeds at Aggregor's feet, but he saw it coming from a mile away and burned them away before they could start growing. He took every attack they let out, taking steps back until his back was against the wall.

Gwen then slapped her Ultimatrix and, in a flash of hot pink, turned into a slimmer and bluish crystal humanoid. With pink eyes, her whole torso and legs are indigo in colour similar to her Crystalsapien form. The Ultimatrix is on the left side of her chest.

She then proceeds to punch the ground with crystals jutting out, and it moves onto Aggregor. The crystals started to incase his body and halt his movements. Eye Guy then slapped his own Omnitrix and turned back into Dyno Mighty, and threw a left hook to his face before he could start breaking out. He knocked him out cold.

The crystals stopped at his neck, his arms were left out but other than that they've won.

Their watches beeps rapidly, and in a flash of cyan blue and hot pink, they both really returned to normal, but Gwen's Ultimatrix started sparingly again, causing her harm.

"You okay?" He asks, walking over to her and seeing her scruffy appearance. He grasped her hands into his and checked her for any major injuries.

"I'm okay? What about you?" She asked him, getting her hands free from his then grabbing his face in her hands, soft hands. She looked him dead in his cyan blue eyes, a soft worried expression on her features, "You fought that manic and still managed to come out on top with no injuries." It sounded more like flattering than worried, but he'll take it.

It took them both half a minute to realise they both fred over each other's injuries instead of their own. The two burst out in laughter, but Gwen's hand never left his face. It was weird to them both at first. Having someone be worried for them, in Twenty Three's case, Tetrax made sure he could defend himself and walk away with or without injuries. He wasn't sure about Gwen, but he knew she was tough. She has her Ben and Grandpa Max with her, which still stung, knowing that his dimension might be the only one without a Max Tennyson. She didn't show any fear or hesitation when fighting him. He admired her bravery and the way she jumped in to protect him.

He grabbed her left hand gently, rubbing at the faceplate of her Ultimatrix with his thumb.

"How's your Omnitrix?" He asked softly, almost a whisper, and he took her hand in hers.

"Faulty. Like I said, I like the original better," She says with a smile on her face, and the two share another laugh, just enjoying the little moment they have for a while longer.

"Ahem," A rough voice broke their thoughts, and they saw Tetrax standing there with a smile on his face with SevenSeven holding a rifle as long as his forearm, "You mind?"

The two separate from each other as fast as a Kineceleran on steroids. Twenty Three's face flushing a bit with Gwen fake coughing and looking away.

"R-Right, Greg's all yours Tetrax," Twenty Three stammered, pointing his thumb at the unconscious Osmosian.

"Good job," The Petrosapien smiled and patted Twenty Three's back, "We'll get him back—"

"Raaaarrrrhhhh!"

Aggregor roared out in blinded rage. His eyes fired neuroshock blasts at random. Tetrax grabbed the Omnitrix duo and shielded them using his body as SevenSeven loaded his rilfe up. Aggregor's body started glowing as the crystals incasing him starting cracking and before long he broke free from his inprisonment and charged at the duo. SevenSeven aimed and fired a plasma shot, nailing him in over the head. He staggered back and let loose a flaming breathe attack. SevenSeven took to the air as the attack passed him, and Tetrax felt the heat from the flames. He grunted and held on. The Sotoraggian blasted him from the sky, the rifle doing just as much damage as Gwen's evolved Methanosian form.

"Tetrax!" Both Tennyson's exclaim worried for the Petrosapien.

"Stay put," He ordered and let then go. He turned around and pulled out a small disk roughly the size of his hand.

"But–"

"Stay put."

He told Twenty Three and sprinted forward at the mad Osmosian who fired bone missiles, ice, and heat at the flying Sotoraggian who continued to damage him further with his rifle. He gurgled out words at Teteax, and he nodded.

He fired his crystal shards at Aggregor, doing little to no damage and only irritated him further. He got his attention as he started firing at him. Tetrax used his free hand and created a taydenite shield that took most of the hits. Cracking slightly as he pushed through. SevenSeven charged up the rifle, letting the energy build it as he took aim at Aggregor's back.

Once closer to the crazed Osmosian did Tetrax shouted for his partner to fire, and he did. He led loose a condensed blast, and it connected, tearing through the armor on his back as he cried out in pain and Tetrax then left hooked him, then placed the disk on his chest.

Instantly, sparks became to emit from it and Aggregor yelled out in pain and his body started growing smaller, jis features returning to normal, his extra limbs, eyes and tail retracting till he was left in his ruined pants. His boots and coat gone as he slumped forward with Tetrax catching him. His back scorched with a diagonal line going across it. SevenSeven landed in the ground and gave Tetrax a thumbs up. He nodded and slumped Aggregor's unconscious body over his shoulder, turning to face the stunned heroes.

"You could have done that from the start! We didn't have to fight him to begin with," Twenty Three angrily said with Gwen nodding in agreeing as well.

"Easy, Ben. We didn't know Aggregor attacked you till we heard of the commotion from our base," He began slowly to explain, "Once we did we tracked one of those disk that can siphon off energy, but as long as it's on his body, he won't be reverting back to that freaky mess of aliens." SevenSeven gargle a few words and pointed at Gwen.

"What's he saying?"

Tetrax nodded, "We need you both as base now. Azmuth answered your prayers, and he's here to solve your problem."

She smiled brightly at that. She could go home earlier than expected!

"What are we waiting for? Let's go."

A half an hour later, they entered the base that they were using. An abandoned warehouse at the coast of Bellwood. Once inside, there was a small square table in the middle of the warehouse with three chairs present. It wasn't a dining table for sure. To the back was a kitchen area. Next to it was a lab and a small creature working on an invention.

Tetrax gave Aggregor to SevenSeven, "Put him in the interrogation room and wait for me," The former mercenary nodded his head and took the Osmosian down to the basement.

Standing at five inches tall, resembling a grey frog with gills. He has bulbous green eyes with rectangular black pupils. For thin tendrils growing out of his lower jaw, with two longer ones getting out of his upper jaw. He wore the same suit that Tetrax was wearing, albeit in the frog's size.

"Azmuth!" Twenty Three exclaimed and ran up to the Galvan.

"Ah, Benjamin, glad you and Gwendolyn could make it in time," He spoke with calmness and patience, different from the Azmuth, Gwen knew in all her years.

"Yeah, but that's not the least of my problems," He took out his phone and showed Azmith the pictures he took of today's events, "First Edgelord then Eon and now Greg. Why are they suddenly showing up out of nowhere?"

Azmuth hummed, storking his tendrils like a man would do their beard, "I have no idea, and what makes it more concerning is that the Osmosian was last seen off planet."

"Well, he wasn't, and why are you back so fast? Tetrax said it could be a couple of days before you returned."

"When I heard about what happened, I left Galvan Prime as quickly as I could," He said, "And as for your villains popping up, Tetrax will handle that."

Tetrax nodded, "SevenSeven is already prepping him for interrogation. He's waiting for my arrival."

"Good, good," He nodded, then looked behind him, seeing Gwen, "Miss, do you mind stepping forward?" He asked politely, and Gwen obligated and stood next to Twenty Three.

"Interesting," He looked at the Ultimatrix strapped to her left hand, "What an ingenious device, it's certainly could run forever giving, and it more advanced than what I can up with."

Gwen raised her left hand and held it close, "You know all that just from looking at it?"

"A little, the device is from another dimension, but I do recognize that it is indeed similar to the Omnitrix I created although less dangerous and not used a weapon."

"Got it right in one go," She muttered, then spoke up, "Then can you fix it for me? Ever since I got it, it's been acting up, and it only causes me more trouble than the original," She asked, and it was true. Ever since getting Albedo's knock-off Omnitrix, a lot of glicthes and mistranformations have been happening. She's lucky to have gotten the right alien each time, but she will admit she liked the design off the watch, but the glitches it has were getting to her. Her Azmuth didn't want to touch the knock off verison, so she settled with making the best of both worlds.

"I will, but there are others matters such as getting you home," He said and turned to face a small computer on the desk, small for beings that aren't Galvan.

Hope flashed through her face as she stepped forward, looking for his shoulder and on to the computer, where he did a bunch of calculations that were too advanced for her human brain. But from what she could tell it, the calculations were for traveling through space time. Through dimensions.

"Can you do it? Can you get me home?"

"At the moment no," Her face fell, but she listened as he went on, "but I can. Given enough time to locate your dimension and having scanned your DNA it would narrow down my search rather than just scrolling through the finite dimensions," He typed away and displayed their own dimension with bolds letter '23'.

"As of now, we're only able to hop to the Prime Dimension, where the Ben of that multiverse lives. We, and I mean Ben over here, visits from time to time and as such it began to take less energy to make the necessary trips," He showed the Prime Dimension with bold letter 'Prime'.

"So locating my own dimension would take time given how big the multiverse it, and you can't just open up a portal like you usually do?"

Azmuth hums and smiles, "It's good to know that there are intelligent Omnitrix wielders in the grand scheme of the multiverse, but yes." He then showed an image of Gwen along with DNA code at her sides, "Thanks to your other worldly genetic makeup, it won't take as long to get you back home as you think."

"Why can't you just ask Ben to call Paradox?" Twenty Three suggested, but Tetrax gave an immediate answer.

"We can't always rely on your counterpart to solve our problems, Ben, we need to think for ourselves. If we go to him with every problem them how are we or you are supposed to learn from this."

He hung his head low. He knew jt to be true, but he just missed his mentor as times. Thanks to Azmuth and the one from Prime's world, they had managed to make a dimensional line that let's them contact each other via messages and calls. The only problem is that he doesn't know if his counterpart is busy or not. The last time he called, Ben was being chased by a mad robot.

"Indeed," Azmuth spoke, breaking his train of thought, "not to mention Time Walker is nowhere in sight. We can't simply call him out, and he'll take you back. He's main concern is the multiverse and whatever happens in the Prime Dimension," He pinched the bridge of his nose and let out a sigh, "And whenever time travel is involved nothing good comes off it."

"So I wait them?"

"Yes," Quick and simple, "Unless you want to go jumping to other dimensions at random, I suggest staying here for the time being."

She nodded her head, slowly understanding that it won't come as quickly as she hoped. It frustrated her a little, but there was no need to rush the smartest guy in three galaxies who created a device capable of changing into any species in the universe.

"How soon can you fix the Ultimatrix?"

She held up the watch as the Galvan turned to her for a moment then went back to his computer, "Come back tomorrow afternoon, I'll study that device some more and see where the problem lies."

"Thank you, Azmuth."

The Galvan stopped typing for a moment. Not many people say thank you to him nowadays. Ben on rare occasions but still. It little thank you goes a long way.

"My pleasure, Gwendolyn, now get some rest."

She nodded and looked at Twenty Three, who smiled at her and began to walk away out of the warehouse. The door shutting close with a clank and the smartest Galvan alive let's out a tired sigh.

"I'll be downstairs," Tetrax informed him, but he waved it off.

Walking down the stairs and into the hallway that served not only as a prison holding cell but an interrogation room where SevenSeven was holding Aggregor. Opening the door, he saw the Sotoraggian leaning against the opposite wall, staring at Aggregor, who had woken up a little while ago. His hands were bound in taydenite with the disk still on his chest, draining away his powers and the excess energy he got from Gwen's Ultimatrix.

Seeing his partner, SevenSeven stood up from the wall and moved to the table. Tetrax closed the door behind him as SevenSeven gargeld at him.

"Yeah, their gone, which is good," He took off his gloves, reaching his hard crystal skin, "I've been in a bad mood since this afternoon."

Aggregor chuckled, seeing him, "You think that will scare me?" SevenSeven gargle, pointing at him and slamming his fist on the table angrily. Aggregor only stared at him with a smirk.

Tetrax's crystal hand gently grabs SevenSeven's armored shoulder, a smile on his own face.

"Let me handle him, Seven, you stay back and watch," SevenSeven stared at his Petrosapien partner for a solid minute, then moved to the back and leaned against the wall, staring at Aggregor.

"I'm only gonna ask this once," Tetrax stared him in the eyes. His blue eges staring into Aggregor blacj coal eyes, "Who are you working for?"

He leaned forward with that smirk on his face, "I'm not telling you."

Faster than Aggregor could react, Tetrax threw the table on its side, picked Aggregor up, and slammed him against the wall.

"Who are you working for?!" He demanded, and Aggregor only laughed. Tetrax punched him across the face onto the ground. He spat out blood and felt his nose broken.

"The sooner you talk, the sooner I'll stop," He cracked his knuckles, and Aggregor glared at him, then spat on his boot. Tetrax grinned a little and reeled back his fist, punching him again.

The elevator door dings open with Twenty Three and Gwen inside. The brunette led the way towards his penthouse. His penthouse in Tower twenty-three, ironically. They didn't use their alien forms. The redheads Ultimatrix was still glicthing, and she saw it sparking a few times leaving the warehouse they were in. Twenty Three was too lazy and just called a cab to pick them up. He didn't have to pay the driver. Said driver wanted Twenty Three's autograph and a selfie along with answering a few questions about his Omnitrix and alien forms. It was surreal to think how famous he is in his dimension. When the drive asked for Gwen's autograph, she hesitantly did so. Even in her own dimension, she wasn't this famous. At best, people cheered for her, and that's all.

Both of them were still battered and bruised, but it looked like Twenty Three shrugged most of them off as he approached his door and fumbled for his keys in his pocket, which he got seconds later. A golden key with a '23' key chain on it. She resisted rolling her eyes cause of her tired body. She needed rest.

Once the door was open, she saw how big his penthouse was. They were on the highest floor of the tower, and the place looked amazing. The kitchen was prestine, floor marbled, the living area looking comfy with the sofa along with the flat-screen tv hanging on the wall. A fireplace underneath it. She spotted three…four…five rooms and can only guess one of them was Twenty Three's room and the other was the public bathroom.

"So, what do you think?" He asked her, his varsity jacket taken off revealing his black shirt with his watch on it. He also took off his blue tooth earpiece, which somehow survived the whole ordeal.

"It's…" She looked around again. She couldn't believe how nice it all looked, and it always had a nice view of half of Bellwood, "perfect."

Maybe that was too on the nose, but what else can she say about this grand place. She took off her biker jacket, revealing her pink shirt.

"Where can I put this?"

As if a sudden thought appeared inside his head, "Oh! The guest rooms are on the right, choose any one that fits you and the bathroom's at the end of the hall," He pointed and Gwen nodded her head, "You probably want a shower and clothes that don't reek right?"

She smelled her jacket then herself, "Yeah…if you have some spare clothes I could use." She scratched the back of her head nervously.

"I'll go get you a towel and clothes while you get finished up?"

"Yeah, yeah…"

The two awkwardly went along with their plan in a stiff motion. Gwen went to the end of the hall and entered the bathroom. Again, she was stunned at what she was seeing. The bathroom was spotless and shining. She shook her head and began taking her clothes off and putting them on a pile on the side.

Maybe Twenty Three knew where the washing machine was, she thought as it looked like he didn't do his own laundry, giving all the fans and money he had. But she could be wrong.

The knocking on the door startled her as the voice of the brunette called out, "Gwen," The door slightly opens and spare clothes along with towels are shown to her, "I think these might work for you."

"Thanks," She grabbed them quickly and the door closed fully, "And where should I put my clothes?"

"I'll put it in the washer later on," He thrust her, and she nodded.

"Thanks again."

"No problem, Gwen." He spoke softly with a smile on his face. He changed out of his clothes to more comfortable ones. A sweater along with loose pants and slippers, "I'll be in the living room watching some TV, yell if you need help."

"Ok," She placed the clothes down and began to open the tap as the water came pouring down. Once the area was beginning to steam, she walked in and closed the shower door.

Back at the warehouse Tetrax walked up the stairs and his expression somewhat relieved, almost as if a weight had been lifted off his shoulders, his greenish-blue hands stained with blood from Aggregor who he had been beating up over an hour and finally. Finally! He started to talk. And when he was done talking he knocked him out and told SevenSeven to take him in a holding cell and call Plumber Headquarters out in space to pick him up. Maybe they can send him to the Null Void and let the warden sort him out.

"You're back," Azmuth said from his workstation not bothering to look up our behind him as he worked on countless calculations and running formulas through the system.

"Yeah," He grabbed a towel from the kitchen and began rubbing the blood off his hands, "Took a lot longer and he was stubborn till he spoke a name."

He threw the bloodied rag on the table and walked over to the monitors near Azmuth and tapped away on the Plumbers Database. An image of a middle-aged man with no hair and small beard appeared on screen wearing a darker version of the Plumber's outfit.

"Proctor Servantis, leader of the splinter cell known as the Rooters. A black ops team composed of elite Plumber operatives working in the shadows and outside of the galactic law," Another image appeared of a man, this time he was wearing a ragged and torn version of the Plumber's uniform and had a long facial grey beard and messy shoulder length hair. He has a scar going over his right eye.

"One of their members is Phillip Billings, former partner to Max Tennyson," He paused and let the information sink in as Azmuth only let out a heavy sigh.

"He had a lot of partners throughout his years, I'm not surprised one of them was on a black ops team. What else have you gathered?"

"More teammates and classified documents, must be the mission they have embarked on while still working for the Plumbers," Two images showed off the last known members of the Rooters. He showed more images but it was off a place filled with red skies and floating rocks along with natives of this place.

"The Null Void," Azmuth answered having seen the place before, "They were sent there, weren't they."

"Yeah but that's not all," He crossed his arms and leaned onto the desk with his back turned, "Aggregor wasn't registered as a Plumber and we don't have an official file on him. Just that he appeared two years ago and that's it."

Azmuth placed his hand on his chin, "He was created."

Tetrax nodded, "My same exact thoughts and it only leads to one man," He glanced back at the monitor that showed Servantis' profile. If he created Aggregor then what else did he make?

"You and SevenSeven should investigate this matter once Aggregor is in custom with the Plumbers. If the Rooters are a threat to Benjamin then it means that they fear him and the power of the Omnitrix," Azmuth explained and frowned getting a slight headache.

"Should we warn Ben?"

"We'll tell him tomorrow once I have fixed Gwendolyn Omnitrix," Tetrax nodded and started making his way outside and Azmuth went back to work.

Stepping outside the bathroom with her short hair damp wearing a black shirt with a green Omnitrix symbol on the chest along with loose grey sweatpants. Her bare feet touched the cold floor as she made her way to the living area. She checked her watch in her left hand and got quickly reminded that it doesn't tell time. She felt more refreshed than anything. Was it because of the shower or the products Twenty Three has that made her so relaxed at times.

She walked in the living room and saw Twenty Three but he was dressed differently. Long sleeved light blue sweater with dark blue cargo pants wearing slippers. He has his Omnitrix necklace around his neck as he typed away on his phone, or playing a game.

He looked up and saw her walking forward. He looked at her, dressed in clothes that were a perfect size for her as his eyes were roaming and he had to mentally slap himself.

"You done?" He asks after a moment, trying not to look at her too much.

She nodded her head, "Yeah, it was nice and you have a lot more products than me and that's just for your hair." It was laughable that someone else has more hair products, shampoo bottles and all. She had to take an extra minute or two smelling the conditioners he had. And she liked them all.

"I have to keep my hair fresh throughout the whole day. Those conditions cost a fortune which I'm glad I bought," He then stands up, "I'll quickly go throw your clothes in the washer out in the garage." She nodded her head as he walked to the bathroom to get her clothes then walked out to the garage.

It took her a moment to finally voice her question, "There's a garage here?"

Few minutes later he came back walking with his cellphone in hand, the sound of someone fighting came from it. His thumbs moved fast as he turned the phone like a steering wheel. And he jumped up in excitement at his victory. He pocketed his phone, pointing a finger behind him.

"Your clothes are getting cleaned, just have to take them out tomorrow," He told her with a small smile.

"Noted."

Then the silence overcame the two, they were all tapped out from talking this afternoon and now here she was staying over in his house because she can't go back yet. It wasn't all that bad. And if he had his own penthouse what else did he have? Or rather yet, what doesn't he have? She knew he was rich, but she doesn't know by how much. She certainly doesn't have her phone on her, not that it would do her much here of all places. She sighs and lets her fingers run through her short red hair. Hair that she once let grow past her shoulders but quickly cut it short. She liked it that way. It saved time for her to do her hair in the morning. Ben was certainly surprised by it but said it suited her. She played with the ends of her hair both wielders of the Omnitrix awkwardly made their way to the couch.

The clothes she wore smelled fresh. Not that she wanted dirty smelly clothes, but these 'old clothes' haven't been worn for some time and Gwen knows if for a fact. She doesn't mind wearing other people's clothes, if she doesn't have a spare once that is.

Deciding now was best to bring up a change of topic, she asked, "You still name your aliens?"

Without missing a beat, he nodded his head enthusiastically, "Of course, it's good for marketing and better than not naming them. You don't?"

"No," She quickly replied and Twenty Three opened his mouth to say something else but she shut him down quickly, "I'm not gonna let you name my aliens. I already have Ben naming them for me and I don't need even weirder names."

"Come on, how else are you gonna keep track of them?"

"By their species."

"Sounds boring."

"Better than Vomit Man, that's for sure."

He faked being hurt by grabbing his chest, "You wound me, Gwen, truly," He couldn't contain his laughter and she laughed along with him.

"But seriously, you never even thought of naming them once? Not even a little?"

There was a silence between them as Gwen thought it over. She knew naming them after the species that they are was simple, too simple. Ben had already started coming up with names once she found the device when they were on the summer road trip. The road trip that would forever be in their hearts as the best summer ever.

"If I had to choose how to name them," She began looking away, feeling embarrassed about naming them. Ben, and Twenty Three to an extent, come up with creative and clever ways to name them and she just looked at it as a waste of time. But maybe her future self did have a point in naming them, "I'd name them after Gods of mythology."

"That's so cool!"

He exclaimed his eyes sparkled brightly. Gwen was taken aback by his excitement and wanted to retort but chose to stay quiet. Guess naming the aliens in the watch was a thing all over the multiverse if her Ben named her aliens even though he doesn't the watch. But still, it was embarrassing for her to start naming them but seeing her future self when she was ten might have changed that perspective later down the line.

"You think so?" She asked after a few seconds of taking in his excitement.

"Yeah! Also, what's up with that freaky, monster version of Mr Mucky?" He asked and Gwen had to hide her cringe at the name. No one is perfect and she liked that he didn't know the alien race and just called them by their goofy names.

"My Methanosian form."

"Metha-what?"

"Nevermind," She held up her left hand that holds the Ultimatrix, "The watch or Ultimatrix as it is called, allows for an evolutionary function to take place. A worst-case scenario situation that simulates about a million years allowing the alien of my choosing to evolve and grow stronger in times of war," She explained and saw Twenty Three listening to her like a puppy, "So far I've only evolved five of my aliens. My Methanosian form that you've seen in action while we fought against Aggregor."

It saved her life just as the original has but with more firepower than its predecessor. Azmuth didn't want to look at it but complimented on its design and work. But that's as far as she had seen the Galvan talk about the device but with Dimension 23's Azmuth, he was more open and took his time rather than just being hurtful towards her.

"Mind blown," Twenty Three made a small explosion at the explanation of the Ultimates, "So who created that? Azmuth, right."

Shaking her head she answered, "No, Albedo, a Galvan who wanted the Omnitrix, the original one, to be in capable hands and not someone ten year old earthling. Long story short, he, or she wanted to take mine but she failed and created this. I got my hands on it soon after my Omnitrix blew up."

"Blew up," He's eyes widened and he looked down at his own cyan blue-gold watch, "Mine's not gonna blow up as well, right?"

A small laugh escaped her lips as she shook her head, "Not unless someone forces you to blow it up, then no. You're safe," She watched him let out a sigh of relief at that.

She found it cute how this version of Ben is still innocent in regards to what he has been facing up until now. Small time crooks, a grumpy Vilgax who she couldn't believe was an old man from what Twenty Three has spoken about him. But she wonders about the rest of the villains. Especially the Forever Knights. They were a pain in the butt while they were on the road trip. Wanting her watch and forming a hit squad to take her out but they still won in the end. What about Hex and Charmcaster? When asked earlier Twenty Three didn't know anything about them. As they went one the duo were reaching a point that they needed sleep and not talk about their lives and past villains.

Gwen was the first to stand up and walk to one of the many rooms that were in the hallway and opened the first one she felt was right.

Once opened she saw there was a simple bed, a nightstand along with a closet as well. It was simply bigger than she imagined but she went with it. She waved at Twenty Three goodnight with the hero doing the same as well. She closed the door and fell on the bed with a small thud, soon she was drifting asleep.

His eyes linger a little while longer at the closed door, not knowing how to feel about this and how to react about everything. On one hand he was happy while on the other he was so emotionally confused he didn't know what was right or wrong anymore. He couldn't ask anyone for advice, much less Tetrax or SevenSeven. Hell, Azmuth was out of the question. He hadn't spoken to his parents in a while but they were enjoying life so leave then be.

That left him with only one person. And he hoped he wasn't gonna get laughed at.

Sitting on his bed, Twenty Three held up his leg ark containing his Hero Watch with the core popped up, a hologram with cyan blue outline shaped as a large square with a call being put through. It rang for two minutes straight and Twenty Three thought he was busy. He decided to end the call but before he could it went through as the screen showed a tired face with a goatee beard on his face. Messy brown hair and his emerald eyes opening and losing, adjusting to the light his Omnitrix was giving off.

"Hey, Ben," He said nervously as his Prime counterpart rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, "Did I call at a bad time?" He heard Ben grumble something underneath his breath about Plumbers, sleep and what else more Twenty Three couldn't decipher.

"No," The yawn that escaped Ben Prime's mouth told him otherwise.

"Sorry," He apologised with a smile on his face, "I couldn't wait till tomorrow morning…" He stopped him and saw Ben leaning against his wall.

"What's up? You usually don't call in the middle of the night, dude," He said with his usual grin. Even while tired, he still wanted to hear him out.

"I was wondering… just… y'know about, some stuff…" He couldn't put his thoughts together and give his counterpart a clear answer, but Ben clearly saw him nervous through their call.

"Take a deep breath, dude, I'm not gonna interrogate you," He said calmly, suppressing a yawn in the process, "Just gather your thoughts and start from the beginning." He advised, and Twenty Three did so.

He gathered all his thoughts and told Ben everything that happened. From his fight Overlord, to Eon's arrival to Gwen showing up and finally Aggregor showing his face and getting beaten. He told him about his feelings he has towards the redhead that was a few rooms away. How he thought about her and knew it was wrong, yet he still wanted to try. After he spoke his heart out, Ben woke up, and his attention was fully on Twenty Three.

Then Ben started laughing, and Twenty Three wanted to die in a hole and never come out. His cheeks flushed with embarrassment as Ben continued to laugh for some time.

"Ha," He let out a deep breath as he stopped laughing and wiped away a tear from his eyes using his right hand, "Sorry, Ben, I didn't mean to laugh at you like that it's just no one comes to me with love advice, heck my own partner doesn't trust me and I don't blame him." Ben took a deep breath and relaxed.

"So this whole call was pointless?" He felt like kicking himself with Copy Copy.

Shaking his head, Twenty Three's counterpart spoke up, "Look, I won't judge nor tell you who you can and can't love."

"You won't?" He sounded surprised at this, "But if it's wrong, then why–"

"I'm the last person in the entire multiverse who gets to judge you about who you like, dude. But I'll tell you this. If you love her or want to start something with her, then act on it, even if the whole world is against you. Just know you'll have my support. Friends don't let each other down. They help each other get up."

Twenty Three let out a heavy breath he didn't know he had held in and nodded at his mentor-best friend.

"So don't give up before you haven't done anything yet," He said with a smile on his face.

"Thanks, Ben."

"Anytime, dude. Goodnight."

"Goodnight."

The two ended the call, and Twenty Three laid on his bed, facing the ceiling above him with a smile on his face. Although he is on a timer, not knowing when Azmuth might open the gateway to her dimension. He was all but happy to try his luck. He just hoped it didn't end badly.

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Did he just jinx himself?

To be continued...