(As the group flew/walked through the tunnels, Ben and Jen looked down sadly as Tetrax and Scarlett looked towards them with a bow of their heads in sympathy.)
Tetrax: "You okay, kids?"
(Tetrax asked.)
Jen: "No."
(Jen said.)
Jen: "We're not."
Ben: "We're just wondering how we're going to tell Grandpa about-"
Scarlett: "I'm so sorry."
(Scarlett said.)
Scarlett: "Truly, I am. I've lost someone dear to me one too many times too. It's part of being a warrior."
Jen: "Tell us?"
Scarlett: "I wasn't born as the Crown Princess of Cinnibar."
(Scarlett explained.)
Scarlett: "That honor originally went to my older twin sister Rose. She was a great warrior and she was as kind and beautiful as I. She would have made an amazing queen one day. In fact, when I became the Scarlet Warrior, she shared my powers too. We shared each other's places, sharing our duties as the Scarlet Warrior and the Crown Princess of Cinnibar while under the guise of two different identities."
Ben: "What happened to her?"
Scarlett: "Ultimo the Destroyer."
(Scarlett said.)
Scarlett: "An Omnitrix wielder from another dimension that was trying her best to destroy every other Omnitrix wielder in the multiverse so she could prove she was the most powerful. As a Protector, she was willing to give everything to bring this woman down. But she let her ambition cloud her judgement and ultimately, that was her downfall. She was annihilated because Ultimo was just too powerful. I was never the same after her death. I was more cutthroat and ruthless to my enemies than ever. And that came to a head once me and my cousin Sofia faced her father Victor Blum in a war that decided the fate of the multiverse. It was about the time that you were born, in fact."
Jen: "Did you defeat Ultimo?"
Scarlett: "No."
(Scarlett said.)
Scarlett: "Gwen 10, an alternate version of Gwen, did after several months of training. It was not my destiny, it was hers."
Jen: "I'm sorry, Scarlett."
(Jen bowed in understanding.)
Scarlett: "And now you should know about my undying hatred for Eragon and his father."
(Scarlett said as she glared towards the Dragon Osmosian.)
Scarlett: "Remember Venger's future? Well, Eragon isn't that much better."
Ben: "How so?"
(Ben asked.)
Scarlett: "Because of his warped ideologies of true peace. he's been murdering supervillains in different realities. In fact, when it came to Ultimo, he was the one who actually let my sister die because he didn't want to fight her. And because of that and his numerous counts of murdering supervillains, he is on the Protector's Most Wanted List."
Jen: "Wow."
(Jen said, her eyes widening.)
Jen: "No wonder you hate him so much."
Scarlett: "And because Drake's his father, I truly believe he is equally to blame. That is why he is not allowed to step foot in my kingdom again."
(Scarlett said.)
(As Eragon flew from the front, he heard their conversation and grew immediately tense when his father and Ultimo were mentioned as he glared towards the Protectors and glared.)
Scarlett: "I don't want your sympathy."
(Scarlett said.)
Scarlett: "I can't change the past. But I can change the future. We have to find Azmuth before the self-destruct detonates."
Tetrax: "I can sympathize as well."
(Tetrax said.)
Tetrax: "I know what you two are going through. When I was young, I didn't care about anybody but myself. So it made sense that I wound up a mercenary. A soldier for higher. I was loyal to whoever paid me the most, no matter how evil they were. In one of my jobs, I met a beautiful Florian named Su'Flow. We were eventually married and had a daughter named Rosie. But my work got the better of me and... it's safe to say that we're separated. It was only a matter of time before I ended up working for the worst of the worst."
Ben: "Vilgax."
(Ben realized.)
Tetrax: "I stole the last piece of the puzzle that Vilgax needed to invade my home world of Petropia. When my people didn't bow at his feet, he destroyed the entire planet to make an example out of it. Vilgax did the dirty work, but there was no way that he could have done it without my help. So when I heard that he was after the Omnitrixes, I vowed that I would never let another weapon fall into his claws again. I met another bounty hunter, Maya, and we teamed up to take him down."
Jen: "This is all our fault."
(Jen said, bowing her head.)
Jen: "We saw that the watches were acting all weird at Animo's reactor, but we used them anyway."
Ben: "We must have somehow set off the self-destruct!"
(Ben said.)
Ben: "Gwen and Becky are dead because of us! Now everyone else is going to be too."
Samus: "We've all made costly mistakes."
(Samus said as she and her daughter walked by them.)
Samus: "We are all destined to at times. But if we don't find Azmuth and stop the self-destruct, then Gwen, Becky, Gluto and all the others will have lost their lives for nothing."
Maya: "And we're not going to let that happen, right?"
Jen: "No way!"
(Jen said.)
(Everyone else stopped in front of them and gasped when Ben, Jen and Tetrax passed by them.)
Jen: "Look out!"
(she shouted.)
(Tetrax gasped and grabbed the twins, sending them tumbling away as some massive flame jets flew forwards and almost roasted them.)
(As Tetrax let them go, Eragon glared as everyone else started getting more cautious.)
Eragon: "Duh!"
(he said.)
Eragon: "Of course Azmuth booby-trapped the cave. He doesn't want to be found!"
(The team all walked forwards with their hands on their weapons as a lights appeared next to a door and revealed a camera that scanned the twins and glanced when it saw the devices on the twins' wrists.)
???: "The Omnitrixes!"
(a booming voice sounded.)
(A light shined out and a hologram projection of a large hulking armored figure with the Omnitrix symbol on his chest and DNA waves flowing on his visor and shoulder pads appeared and glared at the team.)
???: "What are you doing with my Omnitrixes?"
Ben: "My Omnitrixes?"
(Ben asked.)
Ben: "You're Azmuth?"
Azmuth: "Myaxx."
(Azmuth said as he glanced at his old assistant as she flew by on her hoverboard as the warriors all glared at him as they unsheathed their weapons again.)
Azmuth: "You traitorous worm. Is that you?"
Myaxx: "Nice to see you again, too, boss."
Jen: "Azmuth."
(Jen said as she and her brother walked in front of the projection.)
Jen: "I'm Jen Tennyson. This is my brother Ben. We wound up with the Omnitrixes. Now they're in self-destruct mode and-"
Azmuth: "I know. I invented them!"
Ben: "Oh, yeah."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "So, anyway, if you could just turn them off-"
(His hopes fell on deaf ears as more heavy doors appeared to block the room and they locked themselves.)
Samus: "Yeah, maybe the twins didn't make it clear why we're here!"
(Samus said as they all prepared to break the door open themselves.)
Azmuth: "I understand completely! You misused my creations and now the whole universe will be destroyed!"
Jen: "Look! I don't know why you won't help us but our cousins sacrificed their lives to stop this thing!"
(Jen angrily shouted as her hands drifted to her Omnitrix.)
Azmuth: "That is none of my concern."
Ben and Jen: "IT IS NOW!"
(Ben and Jen shouted as they transformed into Cannonbolt and Four Arms and ran in and smashed the doors down with their intense strength and durability before they were shocked by the door and were sent flying back.)
Korra: "That looked like it really hurt."
(Korra said as she glared and prepared her metalbending as Ryu prepared his Dragon Sword with a glare.)
(Four Arms tossed Cannonbolt's hard shell towards the door and sent him crashing into her again.)
Four Arms: "We've come too far!"
(Four Arms said.)
Four Arms: "We've lost too much to be stopped now!"
(She and Cannonbolt ran forwards and dented the door as Korra metalbended the door down and Ryu, Eragon and Scarlett sliced the door into little tiny chunks with their blades as the others gasped in shock.)
Bayonetta: "Remind me never to get those kids mad."
(Bayonetta said to Scarlett as she breathed heavily.)
Myaxx: "Ditto."
(Myaxx said.)
(The team all looked outwards and saw Azmuth as he stood over his desk.)
Cannonbolt: "You will turn these things off!"
(Cannonbolt threatened.)
Azmuth: "You think you are heroes, but you're really fools. You've only sped up the countdown! Because of you two, the universe has even less time!"
Four Arms: "Fine!"
(Four Arms said as she cracked her knuckles.)
Four Arms: "If the universe is going down anyway, then my brother and I are going to have the pleasure of KICKING YOUR BUTT FIRST!"
(The twins angrily ran in and smashed directly into the robotic suit, smashing into it as Four Arms laid massive punch after massive punch to him and shouted out with anger before she backed off, breathing heavily as Matter Girl and Scarlett walked to her sides to calm her down as Scarlett looked to her soldiers as Maya and Samus looked on with raised eyebrows.)
Scarlett: "Stand down."
(she ordered as they all sheathed their weapons.)
Matter Girl: "Bummer."
(Matter Girl said.)
Matter Girl: "I wanted to do that."
(The suit's chest mark opened up and from the steam walked out... a being of Grey Matter's species that had a mustache and had a green suit on and was holding a golden stick.)
Azmuth: "Look at what you did. Do you two know how long it takes to break in a biosuit like that? Especially when you program them into another device like the Omnitrixes"
Four Arms: "Huh?"
(Four Arms asked, confused.)
Cannonbolt: "He's really a Grey Matter?"
(Cannonbolt asked.)
Eragon: "Who knew?"
(Eragon asked, shrugging.)
Myaxx: "He always hid in that suit."
(Myaxx said.)
Azmuth: "Yeah, I'm a Galvan. So what?"
(Azmuth asked.)
Azmuth: "Does that give you the right to destroy my property and invade my privacy?"
Maya: "Enough talk, pipsqueak!"
(Maya growled at the frog-like alien.)
Tetrax: "Stop the countdowns!"
(Tetrax ordered as the Omnitrixes timed out, accelerating the countdowns again.)
Azmuth: "I say, let the Omnitrixes self-destruct and take the universe with them. Probably the best thing that could happen. Start fresh. I didn't create weapons, all of you did. I created the ultimate devices for understanding the beings of the universe. I knew that only one of them was a bad idea, but no. I'm so caught up in my own brilliance that I decided to create a second one and make it so that they can only work when both of them are active. You two and Vilgax are no different."
Jen: "That's not true."
(Jen said, now calm.)
Jen: "Sure, we've messed around with the watches, but we've helped a lot of people with them too."
Ben: "At first, all we cared about was that we wouldn't be able to go hero anymore, that we'd be stuck with just being us."
(Ben sighed.)
Ben: "But not anymore. Now the entire universe is at stake. Sometimes you have to see the good in people and not just be a selfish jerk like we were."
(Azmuth turned around with a look of sympathy towards the two broken twins before everyone inside felt the lab start to shake and rumble as Kratos looked out.)
Kratos: "That doesn't sound good."
(he said.)
[To Be Continued...]