Genesix

(Phil)

In the dark space between Dimensions, there lies an island. It floats silent and still, day after day, night after night. But this island is special, for it rests above the multiverses that contain giantesses. So far, none of the giantesses you've read on this website have encountered this island and the sole inhabitant who lives there, but until then, it floats.

One night, however, everything changed. It all started with a black, sleek flying fortress, camouflaged by the darkness of the Void, flying towards the island. On the highest mountain, its figure prominent in the occasional streaks of light zipping past, lied a white-coloured diamond, as huge as a house. Next to it lay the sleeping form of a young man in his 20s. His black hair and glasses shone in the diamond's glow, catching the fabric of the warrior-like clothes he wore. A sword, its blade a tiny bit rusty, lay next to him, as well as a shield that had nearly lost its colour. And as the warrior slept, he began to think...

"As far back as I can remember, I have been living on this dark island. Always guarding the Creation Diamond from anything that could harm it. I don't know why I was given this job, (why it was my fate), destined to be here ... forever."

SMASH! The sound of glass tinkling echoed in the dark cosmos, awakening the warrior. He sprung to his feet, picked up his sword and shield and turned round. There before him was the sight of two beings: one was a purple-coloured being with dragon-like features, about his size (although he could also make out a ball of light hoverring around it, which could or couldn't be part of the monster). The other was a towering blonde teenager with braces and wearing a blue shirt. Her green eyes stared down at him, and she was holding a cigarette lighter the size of Earth in her hand.

"Man!" she rumbled. "I've been in there for, like, forever!"

And with that she started to light a huge cigarette, the size of Jupiter.

"I know you!" cried the warrior. "You're Sharon Spitz! A sole survivor of one of the alternate realities that make up the Elkford Multiverse, I see. But I always thought you didn't want to smoke!"

"Don't believe anything you see on TV." giggled the meganess as she sexily blew smoke at the tiny speck-like man before her.

Coughing, the young man turned to the dragon-like creature.

"What's going on here? Oh no! Something's happened to the Creation Diamond!"

It was true. The Creation Diamond had been smashed by someone, or something. Perhaps Sharon busted it open. But then he didn't detect her massive movements through the Void. Was she in the diamond all along? Nevertheless, it had to be the creature.

"Who are you? Did you do this?" asked the warrior. "I'll get you for this, or my name isn't GENESIX, the MAN OF DIMENSIONS!"

Crying out his name, Genesix charged at the mutant dragon humanoid with his sword, but the dragon jumped out of the way. Sharon watched, dropping ashes onto the island and starting forest fires.

"Fool! I have no time for you." the mutant said in a light, growly voice. With that, it dissolved into a purple puddle of something before moving back towards the shattered diamond and disappearing, alongside Sharon, who blew a sexy kiss before allowing the Void to fill the background of the island once more.

Seconds passed, before the island began moving, as if it was pushing itself out of its orbit and dropping downwards.

"Oh no! It's starting to happen!" cried Genesix. "Without the Creation Diamond's power, this entire island will fall into a Multiverse!"

The island fell down, the background changing from darkness into twilight. With a resounding boom, it fell into the sea, creating a massive wave that spread across its boundaries...

***

While all that was going on, in another part of the forest that hadn't been burned down by Sharon Spitz, there lived a strange creature that looked like a small beast, coloured green. His name was Rufus, and he was the last of the Noops that lived in a dimension before the Creation's Rapture. As such, his memory had been erased and all he had for a companion was a green frog he nicknamed, for some strange reason, Albert. They had been the best of friends for years. He had made a makeshift hut there and was peacefully sleeping the night away, dreaming dreams of long ago.

Albert, however, stayed awake. He had seen a purple coloured gloop (smaller than the dragon-like creature Genesix had met) moving through the undergrowth near the hut. Albert hopped over to investigate. Suddenly, the gloop blasted into Albert, mutating him and growing a long lizard-like tail on his posterior.

Rufus turned over in his sleep, then woke up. He couldn't feel Albert lying on top of the blanket. Sitting upright, he noticed his friend looking straight at him, the frog's eyes interested in a yellow gleam behind him.

"Albert, is that you?" asked Rufus. "You look kind of weird. Why do you have a tail?"

Albert hopped past Rufus and picked up the yellow diamond that was on Rufus' bed. The Noop didn't know where the diamond came from, but he considered it a good luck charm and an effective dream catcher.

With a yellow blast of light, a meganess appeared from the gem. Like Sharon, she was blonde and towered over everything on the now still island, but that was the only thing different about her. She wore a black shirt with a white vest on top, and had red, big cute lips.

"Like, what's up?" she boomed.

Albert looked at Nazz and a strange sense of familiarity washed over his mind. Then he looked at the diamond .... and ATE it! A purple aura glowed over Nazz as she tried to fight it off, but it absorbed into her.

"You say your master is expecting me and Sharon, little dude?" she inquired. "Please take me to him."

Like Sharon, Nazz disappeared as Albert hopped towards the outer rim of the forest. Rufus ran after him.

"Come back here! What's wrong with you?" he cried, picking up his fishing rod, his Long Rod and two of his lures (Rufus could only remember liking to fish before the events of Creation's Rapture happened).

***

Spirit Central was a typical city full of tall buildings and shops. A railway system linked both it and the Ancient Ruins a couple of miles away. A green futuristic-looking car drove into the city and parked at a nearby hotel car park. A teenager stepped out of the car, wearing green clothes with a black-and-white pattern embossed on it. He had brown hair and a constant smile.

"Spirit Central at last!" smiled Ben Tennyson. "Time for a vacation!"

Suddenly, he looked up. While some white streaks of light were cascading down over parts of the city, some helicopters and police cars were racing towards the Mayor's Office alongside a strange glowing light. Deciding to investigate, he ran behind them, and came across the most unusual sight he had ever seen. A purple-coloured dragon with a humanoid build, about half his size, was leering at the policemen outside the doors to the Office, whilst helicopters were flying upwards towards a colossal braced teenager with a huge cigarette.

"You are completely surrounded!" yelled the policemen to the purple mutant. "Surrender yourself!"

"Never!" yelled the dragon.

"Then we have no choice." the policeman yelled back.

The cops fired their guns at the dragon whilst the helicopters fired missiles at Sharon. Neither of them were affected. Sharon blew smoke at the helicopters and laughed as they crashed into the city, exploding on impact. Whereas the bullets fired at the dragon simply fell out of the gloopy build.

"Retreat!" cried the policemen. "All personel, fall back!"

As Sharon disappeared once again, Ben Tennyson entered and looked at the dragon.

"It's hero time!" he announced, touching the pattern on his chest. Nothing happened. He tried it again. Nothing.

"Come on!" he cried. "Why won't you work?"

The creature's left arm lunged at Ben, causing him to jump aside. Picking up a nearby crowbar, he ran round and bashed it on the back of the creature's head, melting it into goop. But the form of the creature rose upwards and resumed its shape, before spinning round on the spot, its arms extending into a sort of propeller around it. Ben shimmied up a lamppost and threw the crowbar at the creature, making it melt once more. Taking a glance at Ben on the lamppost, the creature resumed its shape and leapt onto another lamppost just as Ben clambered down. Thinking that Ben was giving up, the creature jumped down, only to be torn apart into goop by Ben as he sliced through its head with the crowbar.

The two pieces of goop merged back into one and retreated into a nearby drain.

"Was that it?" wondered Ben. "Who was that mysterious creature? Why didn't the Ultimatrix work on him? And who was that almighty monster working alongside him? I'd better get some sleep and figure all of this out in the morning."

As Ben walked back to the hotel, he didn't see a mysterious man on the roof of the Office looking down on him. He was wearing a dark long cloak that covered half of his body.

"You know nothing, Ben!" sneered the man. "It's KARDROZ, the GOD OF NIGHTMARES!"

***

The next morning, as the sun rose on Spirit Central, Genesix walked out of the train station, people glancing at him due to his tattered warrior-like clothing and weaponry. Because he wasn't used to sunlight, the sun's rays nearly blinded him at first.

"It's up to me to find the missing pieces of the Creation Diamond. It won't be easy. Pieces flew off everywhere. I guess I'd better start looking anywhere I can." he remarked, heading towards the busy hubbub of the city's interior.

***

Meanwhile, in a nearby plane, a young yellow-haired boy with spiky red-tipped hair was flying across the sky.

"And they said I was too young to fly a plane!" smiled Johnny Test. "It's a shame Dukey was too busy playing fetch with Dad to watch me do it."

Suddenly, the plane shook as a purple aura shot out and formed around Johnny's plane. A purple-jumpered meganess with long black hair formed around him. With two colossal fingers, it picked up the plane and gazed deep into it.

"Do you know how long it took for me to get out of that dirty little plane?" she boomed. "Me, the great Trixie Tang?"

"Didn't see that coming." mumbled Johnny.

"Tell me I'm pretty!" ordered Trixie.

"No way! I'm trying to fly a plane here!" Johnny shot back.

"Tell me I'm pretty or else I'll fly the plane for you!" sneered the giantess.

Towering over the city, she toyed with Johnny's plane as the screaming lad looked on in horror. Like a child playing with a toy plane, she dipped it this way and that, in and out of the streets. Until she got bored and disappeared back into the engine.

"I'm out of control! Mayday! Mayday!" screamed Johnny.

Below the sky, on a lounger near the hotel's pool, Ben was woken by the sounds of Johnny screaming and crashing onto Torquay Beach.

"No! It can't be!" Ben cried. "Dexter said that the unmerging of dimensions meant we wouldn't see each other!"

Turning into XLR8, Ben raced across Torquay Beach, hoping that Johnny was still alive...

The next thing Johnny knew after he had woken up from the crash was that he was sitting on a beach lounger near the hotel pool. Cooling down with a drink was his rescuer, Ben Tennyson.

"Yo, Ben!" smiled Johnny. "Long time no see! But didn't Dex...."

"....yeah, he did." interrupted Ben. "Remember? After Lord Fuse had merged our dimensions together and aged us with Fusion Matter, the whole Fusion Wars took place, and Dexter told us afterwards that we wouldn't be able to see each other again."

"Looks like he was wrong." said Johnny. "I was helping my sisters test a new prototype propulsion system, I think they called it, but since I've managed to enter your world by mistake, it's got a few bugs to iron out. And one great big prissy one at that!"

"You could've used Ship to help you out there. And what do you mean by a 'great big prissy bug'?" asked Ben.

"Susan and Mary had acquired a new power supply that's too powerful for the plane." said Johnny. "Check it out!"

As Johnny took out a purple-coloured diamond, the huge form of Trixie Tang appeared again, this time taking up the entire beach.

"Again? You tiny little ants are getting so annoying!" she leered down at them.

"Woah! Grandpa told me about this before, but I didn't know they exist!" exclaimed Ben. "That's a Genesis Diamond!"

"'They' has a name!" yelled Trixie, smooshing her finger near Ben and destroying the pool.

"Look, you're stuck with us, Ms. Tangzilla." mocked Ben. "And as legend has it, whoever has possession of a Genesis Diamond will be able to order the meganess trapped within. I am Ben Tennyson, wielder of the Ultimatrix, once bearer of the Omnitrix, and intergalactic hero extraordinaire! You will obey your master, Johnny Test, until we find the other Diamonds and return you and your girl friends to your home. Capice?"

Trixie was busy gnawing on a skyscraper, watching the people fall onto her levithian tongue.

"OK, OK, whatever." she sighed.

Johnny spoke up. "The sisters just happened to find one of the seven Genesis Diamonds during their research. You know that Trixie bears unlimited power, so they thought 'Why not use it to power up our plane?' Super charged!"

"We can't keep Trixie here." said Ben cautiously, remembering the meganess from last night. "We need to find a stretch of open plane."

"Mary and Susan kept a spare workshop in the Ancient Ruins during the Second Fusion War," remembered Johnny, "so we can go there and I'll show you what they had been building in case Fuse's minions arrived there. The fastest way is by train. Last one there is a rotten egg!"

***

Meanwhile, Genesix was busy gathering the pieces of the Creation Diamond. He did see Johnny being toyed with by Trixie in his plane, but he wrote it off as not having enough sleep after his encounter with the mutant. Noone seemed to mind the young man questioning them and jumping between buildings to find the shards. He eventually found three of the pieces thanks to what he thought was pure instinct, but what he would soon learn was that it was part of his disability...

***

The Ancient Ruins was once twice as spacious as it was when Ben and Johnny hopped off the train. For some reason, a large amount of rock and cliffs, not to mention a vast forest, occupied the country plains and waterfall, which cascaded down into a lake. Letting Trixie out of her diamond, the two boys walked towards the workshop on top of the highest hill. What they discovered when they reached the top was someone they weren't expecting.

He looked like a living shadow, or a clump of egg-shaped shadows, floating high above them. The sun's rays made him seem a lot bigger than he would normally be.

"If it isn't Ben Tennyson and Johnny Test!" the shadow cackled.

"Oh look!" mocked Ben. "It's a giant talking shadow!"

"Silence!" came the reply. "I am the shadows of the Robotniks that were once living and the ones that took their places. You can call me BAXOLA, the LIVING SHADOW!"

"Robotnik?" asked Johnny. "Who's that?"
"I have no time to answer such trivial questions! I've got big plans, and now I'm gonna put them to work!"

"I vaguely recall you somehow." said Ben, his head trying to recall Baxola's image. "What do you want?"

"Like the last time, I want all of the Genesis Diamonds! You'd better not interfere, or else I will take them from you by force ... the HARD way!"

Baxola's form glowed a dark colour and from a portal that appeared somehow in the sky, mechanical parts flew out and attached themselves to his body. It formed into a strange hornet shape, which then lunged at Ben. Ben and Johnny darted out of the way.

"Johnny, protect yourself." ordered Ben, touching the Ultimatrix on his chest and becoming Cannonball.

The alien curled into a ball and jumped at the mech, blasting it down onto the ground. Baxola recovered and jumped into the air, firing missiles down at Cannonball. Then the drill-like stinger that formed around his feet began to spin and drill into Cannonball. The alien transformed himself into Ultimate Cannonball and jumped out of the way just in time.

"Blast!" cried Baxola as Ultimate Cannonball blasted him once more. "He's not going to get away with this!"

Finally, Trixie took a hand in the ordeal by picking up the mech between her almighty fingers.

"I'm sooo hungry and pretty, little man." she said. "I sooo could do with more IRON in my system!"

Squishing Baxola between her fingers, the parts of the mech came apart and onto Trixie's tongue, which she then devoured and swallowed.

"Well, that wasn't so hard!" smiled Johnny as he took the diamond over to Ben, who had transformed back from Ultimate Cannonball.

Suddenly, the diamond was snatched from his hands, almost by itself, as Baxola used his magnetic powers to steal it. Like before, Trixie was briefly covered in a purple aura before she came to and walked round so that she faced behind the shadow monster.

As the two boys screamed and held each other tightly in fear, Baxola announced: "Come on, Kardroz, time to eat!"

The purple goop that Ben saw the other night emerged as if from nowhere and rose into its usual dragon humanoid form. Baxola tossed the purple Genesis Diamond into Kardroz's body and watched him change shape!

Kardroz grew about twice his usual size and his limbs grew more humanoid in form. A purple claw-shaped tentacle formed on Kardroz's left side.

"Phase 1 ... complete." said Kardroz solemnly.

"Oh yes!" smiled Baxola. "It's just as the Ancient Documents of Yggdrasil predicted! His strength increases every time I feed him a Genesis Diamond! With all seven diamonds within him, he'll be invincible! And all of the seven meganesses that are housed in them will soon join us and work for me! Together, we will destroy Spirit Central and, in honour of the past and present Robotniks that exist within the Sonic Dimension, I will fulfill their dreams and build Robotnik Land upon its ruins, where the meganesses and I will rule it all! Come on, Kardroz. Let's find another diamond, shall we?"

As Kardroz's eyes shined purple, everyone except for Johnny and Ben disappeared.

"So THAT's how they managed to keep vanishing!" exclaimed Johnny. "Ben, we can't let him get away with this, can we?"

"No way! I want to know exactly what he meant by 'last time'!" Ben replied.

"Without more diamonds, the monster can't transform, so it's up to us to get the diamonds before Baxola does." Johnny decided.

"And I know where one of the diamonds is!" Ben said, rushing towards a cave near the lake. "As I was battling Baxola, I detected the signs of another meganess within the Windy Valley."

"Why's it called Windy Valley?" asked Johnny.

"Because it's normally so windy that researchers find it hard to keep their balance." explained Ben. "That's why the Plumbers and KND Operatives didn't venture too far from here during the Fusion Wars."

Morphing into Stinkfly, Ben flew into the Windy Valley with Johnny on his back. As they were a quarter of the way within the valley itself, the wind began to pick up. A huge tornado had formed unexpectedly in their path!

"Hang on!" cried Stinkfly as they were sucked into the vortex. Luckily, they landed on a spiral-shaped pathway that formed the eye of the tornado.

"Where did this come from?" asked Johnny.

"From the meganess I detected." explained Ben. "This is a Breath Vortex: a tornado made from the exhaled breath of a meganess. And it smells like ... strawberry bubble gum!"

"We'd better get out of here before the smell makes me sick." Johnny said, racing past Ben. "As much as I love bubble gum, I can't stand the smell of it for long, chewed or not!"

It didn't take the boys long to reach outside the tornado and back onto Windy Valley's stretch of path. Ben transformed back into Stinkfly (the Ultimatrix having recharged itself by the time they escaped) and the two rode the winds until they came across another meganess alongside a blue diamond. This meganess was chewing gum and was wearing a green plaid shirt and a red top.

"Debbie Thornberry, I presume?" asked Ben, grabbing the blue Genesis Diamond.

"I guess." sighed the meganess, sexily popping her gum and creating a slight tremor. "I won't rampage so long as no weirdo bothers me."

"That's one down." said Johnny. "Now where are we going to find another emerald?"

"There's always Paignton Arcade." replied Ben. "It's getting dark, so it should be open by now."

***

Ben was referring to the casino nearby the hotel. It was built after Vegas' finest melee of casinos, with a huge pirate ship filled with animatronics here and a giant statue of Dexter there. Ben managed to keep everyone talking whilst Johnny sneaked into the casino. But they didn't need to be fooled into deception: they had other things on their mind...

Genesix was also in the casino, searching for three other pieces of the Creation Diamond. He had correctly guessed that, as people didn't generally know much about the diamond's backstory, they would use it to gamble and trade for lots of money. And yet, he felt as if he recognised two shady characters that were also in the casino. One seemed to give him brief flashes of blurred flashbacks, the other he sure was far too young to snoop around a casino! He decided to gather the three pieces slowly and wait until the boys exited the building. Then he would surprise them and interrogate them! A piece of information wouldn't hurt in-between searching for the pieces of the Creation Diamond...

Suddenly, just as he grasped the last of the three shards, the glowing orb from the first time he met Kardroz appeared before him. And, with a wheezing and groaning sound, he felt himself disappearing from the casino, as if he was being teleported. Johnny and Ben didn't take much notice as they were too busy gaining enough money to pawn over the 'mysterious gem' the manager had told them about...

***

In a split second, Genesix found himself in an area dotted with cybernetic temples, holographic murals depicting the events of Creation's Rapture and people that wore clothes half like that of Aztec and Mayan people, and half like that worn by people before the Rapture happened.

"Where in the world am I?" he asked himself as he wondered around the pseudo-historical area. "I don't remember being here before, but something about it ... is familiar."

His head panged and in a split second he saw himself next to what seemed like a blue tall box. But that figment was wearing modern day clothes, and not the ragged clothes he was wearing now...

***

Back at the casino, Johnny lugged around a wheelbarrow of money as Ben walked towards the manager.

"There you go. $4000 dollars. Enough to pawn over the gem." Ben said.

"It's a deal," said the manager, leading them towards the Vault. Johnny tipped the barrow over and added the money to the already vast amount of cash, as Ben picked up the grey Genesis Diamond. Somehow, it didn't respond first time and Ben's senses were telling him that somehing about the gem was familiar to him.

"I just don't understand it." he told Johnny as they walked outside. "Where is the meganess within the diamond?"
"Right here, small fry!" giggled a voice that made Ben shook with fear.

It was GWEN! His cousin! Albeit ten years younger and looking down at him from a colossal height.

"Didn't see that coming!" noted Johnny. "Guess that means SHE'LL be looking after YOU from now on!"

"Unless I get there first!" came a voice. Swooping down at them was Baxola. He collided with Ben and made him drop the grey Genesis Diamond.

"You're not gonna turn my cousin into a menace!" Ben yelled as he ran towards the diamond.

"OH NO YOU DON'T!" yelled back the reply as Baxola exhaled a black mist from his mouth. Ben realised straight away what it was. Sleeping gas! But it was too late! As Ben and Johnny collapsed in a deep sleep, they could hear Gwen's cute laughter echo around them...

***

Back in the past, Genesix had come across a young red-haired girl speaking to an elderly, but seemingly still physically fit, man.

"Father, please don't!" she cried.

"Eve, the seven Genesis Diamonds are essential to our survival! It is for the good of all the people of the Neo-Picomen. Why else did Creation exist for such a lengthy amount of time?" the man replied sternly.

"How can I make you understand the truth?" Eve cried back, tears welling up in her eye. "Mother would understand..."
"Mother isn't here right now. She hasn't been since she died ten years ago. I'm now the ruler of this city. I thought I'd brought you up properly to ignore such emotions." her father strictly said.

"Attacking other countries, stealing and killing ... can't be the right path to Peace. Wasn't that why Nazzilla and Phil were so successful in the Final Battle? Noone has the right to take their holy grounds. I beg you, Father!" Eve asked.

Nazzilla? Phil? Genesix's head panged again. Why did those names seem so familiar? But before he could question this 'Eve' on what was going on, Genesix was returned to the present time, again with a wheezing and groaning sound. He looked round and saw the sleeping Ben and Johnny on the floor. Deciding to let them go just this once, Genesix raced back into the hotel, to see where he could find the next set of shards.

What he found wasn't information. Rather, it was an old enemy.

"No. It can't be. Ben destroyed him, I saw it with my own eyes!" he said to himself. "Baxola can't be still alive. And what's that he's holding in his hand? It's gotta be part of the Creation Diamond! I knew that trickster would find a way to steal it again."

***

At the top of the Observatory, Genesix saw Baxola conversing with a form he swore seemed somewhat familiar.

"Baxola!" shouted Genesix. "In the name of my ancestor, hand over the Creation Diamond pieces!"

"Genesix?" Baxola asked. "Surely this grey Genesis Diamond isn't what you're after!"

"It's not?" Genesix asked back.

"Nope!" came a voice from above. Gwen's giggling intimidated the tiny warrior.
"That's OK, though. Gwen and me could use you as a guinea pig to test it." said Baxola.

"Let me toy with him, master!" cooed the meganess. "I could blow him out like a birthday candle!"

With a powerful breath, the observatory's ceiling was smashed, letting in the cold chilly air of the night. But luckily for Genesix, he wouldn't be facing Gwen. He would be facing ...

"KARDROZ! KARDROZ!" called Baxola as the purple goop reformed itself into the form Genesix saw on his island. But he looked different from before.

"It's that creature again! He was there when the Creation Diamond shattered, I'm sure of it! He saved me the trouble of looking for him. Now I'll get him good!" Genesix taunted.

But as Baxola added Gwen's diamond to the mix, he became different still! Kardroz grew a hammerhead shark-like head and became hunchbacked. His arms grew into further mutated tentacles.

"Phase 2 ... complete." he said, his voice lowered just a tiny pitch.

"Changing shape won't scare me!" Genesix cried as he unsheathed his second-hand sword and raised his second-hand shield in front of him. Kardroz formed into a bubble and began to bounce after Genesix, the warrior being chased for about a minute under the watchful eyes of Gwen and Baxola. The creature stood still as Genesix jumped into the air and lowered his sword's blade onto the monster's body...

...which was deflected by a blue shield the monster raised. Genesix countered with his shield, pushing Kardroz backwards into a pillar. Kardroz turned into a bubble again, but was bounced back by Genesix's shield. Reforming into Kardroz, it lashed out with its arm, which Genesix sliced off with his sword!

Merging the arm back with his body, Kardroz dissolved into a puddle of goop, which grew into a lake. The center of the lake started to pull Genesix into it! But Genesix had a cunning plan. He wall-jumped off the pillars, feeling Gwen's breath hit his back, before lunging downwards blade-first straight into the center of the lake! Kardroz roared and shrank back into a puddle of gloop.]

Baxola watched as Genesix placed his sword back into its pouch.

"Bah! So what if you've won like last time?" he snorted. "You have yet to see the true power of Kardroz."

"That still doesn't phase me, ya hear?" Genesix replied indignantly.

"I know something that might." suggested Baxola. "It's about Ben Tennyson."
"Who?" asked Genesix.

"The Dimension Hero of the Ben 10 Dimension. Your ancestor fought side-by-side with him since his Dimension's creation up until Creation's Rapture. Ben is after the pieces of the Creation Diamond too. He's using the Genesis Diamonds to create a search party to help him."
"Yeah, helping him to seal me and stop me from having fun!" Gwen replied from above as she created an amazing colossal pout.

"What do you mean?" asked Genesix, a little bit angry that he didn't ambush Ben when he had the chance.

"You're not the only one on a wild goose chase, idiot!" snapped Baxola. "Why should I ruin your surprise?"

As Baxola disappeared, Genesix pondered. Why was Ben Tennyson after the Creation Diamond? It seemed very out of character. But if Ben didn't know the true power of the diamond, he could cause more harm than good. Genesix decided to head off to the Ancient Ruins before Ben got there first.

***

"Ben! Ben wake up!" cried Johnny. "We've been sleeping near the sidewalk all night! I've got a really stiff neck!"

"I know." yawned Ben. "We were ambushed and Baxola got Gwen's diamond. But Debbie's is safe."

Ben pointed to the meganess voring some unsuspecting people for breakfast.

"So that's his two to our one." Johnny counted on his fingers. "And that's not good. Come on, Ben! We need to get busy!"

Ben's Ultimatrix was beeping.

"Another diamond has been detected." Ben said. "Within the peaks of a tall mountain near the Ancient Ruins. Grab some coats, buddy, we're going polar!"

***

Up within the tall peaks of Christmas Mountain, Johnny shivered as he walked alongside Ben.

"All this snow makes me wanna build snowmen!" he complained. "Are you sure we don't have time?"

"No we don't. And be careful," advised Ben. "there might be a risk of an avalanche depending on the weather."

Johnny wasn't listening. He was busy throwing stones up the peak. By some weird chance, one of the stones bashed into a clump of snow, which unevened its place among the other clumps, soon creating an avalanche!

"Sorry!" cried Johnny. "I'm contractually obligated to not pay attention at least once at any given time!"
"No time for apologies!" exclaimed Ben, handing Johnny a snowboard. "Let's go down this peak before the avalanche hits us!"

Quickly, the pair jumped on their snowboards and raced down the peak, trying to avoid the avalanche. As it was a tall peak, by the time they reached the bottom with no sign of a Genesis Diamond, the avalanche was closing in towards them! Johnny quickly dug through the snow and pulled out a green diamond! Out of it appeared a black-haired young meganess with red ruby lips and rich clothing. Alongside Debbie Thornberry, they managed to stop the avalanche by evaporating it with their breaths. Never had the crisp cold air smelled like strawberries until the teenage meganess came!

"The name's Gem. Gem Stone." Gem announced. "One of the richest meganesses around!"
"Really?" replied Debbie, chewing her gum. "How nice."

"Aw, great." sighed Johnny. "Out of the frying pan and into the fire! Just my luck!"
"Silence!" yelled Gem. "Or else I'll turn you into a little light snack!"

***

Meanwhile, on the opposite side of Christmas Mountain lay Summer Valley, where its volcanoes contrasted the snowy ice-filled mountains of the former. Genesix had decided to beat Ben at his own game by finding the pieces that landed on his island first. Although he would think back to this day and realise he should have done it earlier, Genesix was too headstrong to care about such nitpicks. As he saw the shadows of Trixie and Gem emerge from the other side of the mountains, he pocketed the three pieces and raced back towards the Ancient Ruins.

When he got there, he saw Ben and Johnny trying to tame Trixie and Gem. He saw the green diamond in Ben's hand and thought wrongly that they were going to search for more pieces. With a yell, he fired coloured beams from his shield that made Ben and Johnny jump.

"Woah! Who are you and what do you think you're doing?" Ben asked. Then he looked at Genesix. Something about him reminded Ben of a friend he had met years before, yet whoever it was that he was thinking seemed to have aged since the last time they met. Could it be...?

"Alright. Put 'em up." Genesix replied. "Hand over the pieces now."

"That's not gonna happen, buddy!" yelled Ben as he charged towards Genesix.

"I am not your buddy, Ben. My ancestor might have been my buddy, but I'm not!" yelled Genesix, charging back at Ben.

The two collided, sending Debbie and Gem's diamonds hurtling into the grass! Just then, the shadowy figure of Baxola appeared, cackling.

"Baxola! What's he doing here?" asked Genesix.
"You know this creep?" asked Johnny.

"The last thing I can remember, before all this started, was waking up in a chamber with a bad headache and this sword and shield next to me, and this guy saying how my ancestor left them for me and that he, Baxola the Living Shadow, was my primary foe. Baxola has been telling me everything about my ancestor, how he was the Wielder of Autisma, how his name was shared by others who encountered giantesses, meganesses and even giganesses (and possibly beyond that) throughout Post-Creation, that sort of mumbo jumbo, before I pummeled him good and kicked him off the island after he tried to steal the Creation Diamond." explained Genesix.

Baxola reached out his arm and once again picked up the two diamonds like a magnet.

"That's all there is to it! You guys are so easy!" he laughed. "Genesix, there was a saying in the Real World: 'First come, first served'. And you served me too well for your own good! Let's just say that what I was saying to you when we first met wasn't exactly true."

Genesix gasped!

"Then that means ... I don't have an ancestor! And that Ben here wasn't trying to steal the Creation Diamond!"

"You can't get away with this!" yelled Ben. "Bud...I mean, Genesix, did you let him trick you TWO TIMES since you woke up?!"

"Like you weren't?" countered Genesix.

"Nice to see you again after all this time." thought Ben to himself.

"Enough nostalgic memories!" announced Baxola. "Now I have FOUR lovely diamonds! KARDROZ!!!"

Out from his gloop-like form came the familiar (to Genesix) form of Kardroz. Baxola threw the diamonds at Kardroz and he changed shape once again. He grew a huge spinal cord and his arms developed further. He became amphibious in appearance and dived into the lake.

"Phases 3 and 4 ... complete." he acknowledged, his voice lowering a tiny bit more.

Debbie, Gwen, Trixie and Gem looked down at the lake, as if watching their future master get acquainted with his new form.

"IT'S HERO TIME!" announced Ben and Genesix together, even though Genesix didn't know why he said it.

Ben transformed into Water Hazard and Genesix unsheathed his sword and shield. The two jumped into the air, dodging Kardroz's shockwaves he created as he twisted like a corkscrew in the water before pummeling into the creature. Kardroz went after Genesix, his shield on his back in case any meganess wanted to toy with him. Kardroz launched multiple shockwaves, causing Genesix to use the giant lilypads to hop from place to place, before slashing at the creature with his sword. Kardroz changed tactic and went after Water Hazard. He thrashed about in the water, knocking Water Hazard off the lilypads he went on and thrashing his arms at the alien. A quick blast of water did the trick, sending Kardroz out of the water and into the cliff-face nearby the waterfall.

"Sorry, girl friends!" taunted Genesix. "You won't be toying with us today!"

Suddenly, from the sky came a rumbling sound as a sleek dark flying fortress, the same one that flew to Genesix's island, flew and stopped above the Ancient Ruins, but only coming above about lip level to the meganesses.

"Behold, my floating masterpiece: the DARK MOON CARRIER!" announced Baxola in a fit of glee. "But, it pales in comparison to the power of Kardroz. Adieu, until we meet again my friends!"

And with that, Baxola floated upwards into the Dark Moon Carrier, Kardroz following him, as the meganesses once again disappeared.

"Hey! We can't let him get away!" exclaimed Johnny. "Let's go to my sister's workshop and take their plane, the Fusion Destroyer. It was going to be used in the Fusion Wars, but luckily we kicked butt enough times for it not to be used."
"Sure!" smiled Ben. "Are you coming, Genesix?"

"You guys go." replied the warrior. "I need time to think things through. Besides which, I have some unfinished business to take care of."

"We'll take care of everything here, no probs." Ben replied, watching Genesix race off to find more pieces.

***

"Ben, wait here for a second!" Johnny said as he raced into the small workshop on top of the hill. Ben watched as the long stretch of palm trees adjacent to the workshop were pulled back and a runway rose up on the path. Driving out of the workshop was a red-coloured biplane with the images of Susan and Mary's star and moon-shaped hairpieces painted on it. A modified Gatling gun was affixed at the front.

"Hop in!" called Johnny. Ben jumped into the back seat, fastened his seatbelts and watched as the Fusion Destroyer roared into the sky, after the trails left in the clouds by the Dark Moon Carrier.

***

Genesix watched them fly past as he went into the thickest of the big forest (where Rufus lived). He had a lot to think about: his true identity, the identity of the warrior's sword and shield that were by his side when he first encountered Baxola, Eve and the Neo-Picomen. Remembering how he was teleported to Eve's time when he was gathering the Creation Diamond pieces, he thought that he could explore the Temple of the Picomen, in the middle of the forest, to see if anything there could solve at least one of his dilemmas.

Dropping down into a crack in the temple's walls, he found that everything was still in its place, gathered with dust. As he looked at the murals that lined the temple walls, which told the story of a Picoman that was promoted from messenger to ambassador of the mysterious Xanadu island, befriending meganesses known as the 'Winx Club', Genesix felt a shiver of familiarity wave over his body. Yet he couldn't remember anything about it. His identity was slipping closer and closer into an eternal fog of mystery, so he pocketed the three shards and exited the temple.

***

In the busy skies over Spirit Central, Ben and Johnny had been caught in an ambush.

"Good job that Gatling gun still had ammo in it!" Ben exclaimed as sentient planes were shot down accurately by the young pilot.

"Good job that it hasn't rusted, you mean!" Johnny shouted back as he shot down three missiles fired at them by the Dark Moon Carrier's gun ports.

Closer and closer they came, swarming over the Dark Moon Carrier from top to bottom and side to side.

"We're doing it!" yelled Johnny. "We'll come out of this in one piece!"

Just as they managed to get to the front, however, it spilt open to reveal a huge cannon as Baxola's voice could be heard commanding:

"Not for long, they haven't! Get the cannon ready! FIRE!"

A blue beam shot straight at the Fusion Destroyer, smashing half of it to pieces! Ben was knocked out of the Fusion Destroyer and fell down towards Torquay Beach. Johnny, in the other half, fell down towards the Ancient Ruins. They were separated!

***

Unaware of the recent disaster, Genesix found himself being mysteriously teleported through time again, accompanied by another wheezing and groaning sound. As before, he had returned to the Neo-Picomen's tribal area, but it seemed as if an hour or two had passed between his last visit. Or perhaps he had arrived before then. Genesix was at the Altar of the Diamonds, with all seven held in place with pillars surrounding a now rebuilt Creation Diamond!

Genesix scratched his head. How could this be, if the Altar he had seemingly been protecting all his life was ruined the moment he arrived there? Nevertheless, Eve was there, talking to the Creation Diamond.

"I beg of you," she was saying, "hear me now! My father is coming here soon and I fear of what may happen. I know you haven't been on the side of Good from Creation's birth to its Rapture, but you must take everyone away from here. Please!"

Genesix couldn't hear the reply, yet Eve seemed to understand the response that came from the diamond. Was it Kardroz she was talking to? Or someone else entirely?

"I understand entirely. Until the other nine Embodiments acknowledge you, and you in turn acknowledge them, then there IS no way for you to be released from the Creation Diamond. Let me talk to my father again. If only there was a better way to do this." Eve replied. She then turned to what looked like a group of purple misty demons that were floating about her.

"Don't worry, my friends." she said to them. "I won't let you down. I must do something, quickly!"

Before Genesix could offer her some advice, he found himself being returned to the present with a now-familiar wheezing and groaning sound.

***

Ben landed with a soft thud in the sand below. He could feel someone helping him out of his predicament.

"Johnny, is that you?" he asked, rubbing the sand from his eyes.

It wasn't. It was a kid licking an ice cream cone.

"Thanks, bud, but you're not who I'm looking for."

Dusting himself down, Ben stood up and walked back towards the hotel. He had to find Johnny and figure out a way to reach the Dark Moon Carrier before it was too late!

***

Johnny woke up. He was lying on the flat plain of grass near the Ancient Ruins' lake. He didn't know where the bits of the Fusion Destroyer went, but he knew now that getting to the Dark Moon Carrier would be more difficult than he thought.

"That dream brought back memories." he said. "I owe so much to Ben for saving me and my family from Lord Fuse. I wonder where he went? I sure hope the dude's OK. The Fusion Destroyer wasn't powerful enough after all. If I'm gonna get that Dark Moon Carrier, I need to finish off my sisters' prototype plane. As much as it pains me to say it, it needs a Genesis Diamond to work! Looks like I'd better find one, and fast!"

***

Meanwhile, in Spirit Central, a black-haired Asian teenager had just checked into the hotel, and was busy getting some groceries.

"Where is Ben?" thought Julie to herself. "I thought he said to me that he would be here as soon as I came. He said that it was the perfect retreat for what we've been through. Chasing after aliens and blowing them away! But now he's gone and there's nothing for me to do ... except shop until I drop!"

Suddenly, the sky grew dark over the city.

"Hey! What's going on here? Is there an eclipse today, or what?" exclaimed Julie.

It wasn't an eclipse. It was the Dark Moon Carrier, sweeping over the city. People screamed and hid as it flew past, heading towards the Ancient Ruins.

Julie thought she saw something flying out of the aeronautic fortress. It swooped over lampposts and buzzed past cars until it slammed straight into Julie, nearly knocking her over! It was a red robin, bigger than most others of its species, wearing a pendant!

"Hey, are you alright?" Julie asked the bird. "You look kinda hurt."

"She's not but I am." came a giant voice from within the pendant. "You'd better hurry up and release me from the pendant, sister, or you will feel the wrath of Sissy Blakely!"

Before Julie had time to question the robin's strange ability to speak, something else had come down. It looked like a humanoid robot with a dome that formed part of its head. It was in a constant squatted position, and was green in colour. From the dome on its head, a voice spoke:

"ZUDO Power! Target landed 3.20cm from current position. Evil OK!"

Julie screamed and hid inside a nearby fast food restaurant. The robot outside hovered outside the restaurant, but walked past. From underneath a table, Julie and the bird slowly peaked out.

"Who was that?" she asked the bird.

"That was one of Baxola's robots. Baxola's a mean, nasty shadow that wants to take over the world." the voice explained. "And that robot is called ZUDO-Bug, or at least the robot inside the robot. He came from a universe before this one was created."

"So where is your voice coming from?" Julie asked.

"Inside the pendant. My birdie pal and I were captured, but we managed to escape. Of course, I'm much, much bigger than you are, girl friend."

"Don't worry. I'll protect both of you. I'll do my best to keep us both from harm." said Julie.

"Thanks!" said Sissy.

Suddenly, she came across Ben, walking past the restaurant. She went out and tapped him on the shoulder.

"There you are, Ben Tennyson!" she said. "I was getting worried!"
"Ah, Julie." replied Ben. "It's a long story. See, Johnny and I..."
"No time for explanations!" Julie said. "I need you to protect this robin for me. As her bodyguard. It's dead important..."
"Um, not right now, Julie." Ben said hesitantly. "I need to find Johnny."
"Don't worry." Julie said calmly. "We'll just tag along anyway!"

***

Ten minutes after he entered the jungle-like forest, Johnny saw a red Genesis Diamond lying on the path. Just as he was about to reach it, a frog with a tail hopped by and grabbed it!

"Give that diamond back!" he demanded.

Unfortunately, the diamond activated and out from it emerged two meganesses that were much MUCH worse than Trixie and Gem combined! It was Susan and Mary Test, his sisters! They giggled, sending Johnny reeling back into the forest!

"Oh, look!" sneered Mary. "It's our speck-sized brother!"

"It's about time we got our revenge on him!" exclaimed Susan. "For taking all the credit for his heroic deeds!"

"If it's about the Fusion Destroyer, I'm so sorry and I'll pay for it with my pocket money, alright?!" Johnny panicked as their giant bare feet got closer and closer.

But then, the Test Sisters disappeared, as the frog had hopped off towards a small cave. Johnny, deciding that Ben could help him sort it out when he found him, followed suit and found himself in a strange desert-like area! It was one of the many secret Dimension Portals that Genesix's island contained.
"Woah, didn't see that coming!" he exclaimed as he pulled out his snowboard, jumped on it and sped after the frog. All the while, the images of the titanic Test Sisters towered over the sandy dunes, taunting him and giggling endlessly. As if it was another test they had been planning for him all this time!

***

"Wait up, Ben!" exclaimed Julie as she stopped near a lift to catch her breath.

"Sorry, Julie." said Ben. "I think Johnny ran off to this 'Alton Park' indoor theme park to get some R&R after what happened to us."

"ZUDO Power! Target found and alive. ZUDO needs to neutralise Other Target B with prejudice! Evil OK! Evil OK!" came a voice next to them.

"Ben!" cried Julie. "It's the robot that's been following me and the birdie!"

"No problem!" cried Ben. "Time to go ---"

A shriek filled the air, stopping both Ben and ZUDO-Bug from fighting. It came from Julie who was reading the poster next to the lift.

"Look Ben!" she cried. "It says 'Cute couples can get in free!' We're a couple, so let's go and hide from ZUDO-Bug, then have some R&R to ourselves."

Before Ben, or ZUDO-Bug for that matter, could respond, Julie had run into the lift and had traveled up to the entrance. Shrugging his shoulders, Ben raced into the lift next. ZUDO-Bug was left to try and squeeze his robot into the lift the next time it came down.

***

Johnny grabbed the frog and watched as the Test Sisters returned to their Genesis Diamond. They had seen a strange abnormal ball of light that flew around all of them. Just as Johnny could think up something witty to say, he was teleported to a weird city filled with temples made of steel and skyscrapers covered with vines, accompanied by a wheezing and groaning sound. Out from the corner of his eye, he could see someone kneeling down at a mural, saying something that sounded like: "The Forgotten Ones are the Seven Infinites."

Johnny, clutching the tailed frog tightly, ran up to the young girl as she was about to continue.

"Hello young friend! How are you?" she smiled sweetly.

"Um, what were you saying before?" asked Johnny.

"Oh, it's the Mural of Creation's History." said the girl. "I come here every now and then to see if I can understand it."
"And what can you understand from the weird picture?" Johnny asked.

The girl stood up, and began to explain:

"Wait!" exclaimed Johnny. "How did you know my name?"
"It was written down to us through Prophecy." explained the girl. "Now, let me tell you the most important bit: Creation's end..."

Adjusting herself, she knelt down and showed Johnny the lower half of the mural, and returned to telling her story:

"Woah!" said Johnny. "Awesome story! You should turn it into a movie!"

"Well, not for now anyway." smiled the girl.

"So, what was all that about the Forgotten Ones and the Seven Infinites?" asked Johnny.

"It's something my Mother taught me. I am never to forget it. It goes like this: 'The Forgotten Ones are the Seven Infinites. Infinite is the power they produce from the heart. The Beyond Infinite is the one that unifies the Seven's power.' But I'm still not sure what it all means. But the number seven ... is the same as the number of diamonds there are."

"I just hope I can remember all this so that Ben can figure it out for you." Johnny replied. "By the way, what's your name?"

"Eve." smiled the girl. "It's Eve."

But just before Johnny could react, he and the frog were teleported back to the present by the orb of light ... right as the frog escaped his clutches and a green beast-like creature ran past Johnny!

"Albert! Come back here!" cried Rufus as they ran towards the train station that would take them to Spirit Central.

"Now that's a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment if I ever saw one." commented Johnny. "Now where was I?"
"You were going to surrender yourself to us and pay for putting us out of the spotlight!" came the chorused voices of Susan and Mary as they leapt out of the diamond again.

"Listen!" said Johnny. "I may not be the 10,000ft brother you know and love back from wherever you are, but I need the Fusion Destroyer II up and running. I just need you two to add the final touches and power the plane to the Dark Moon Carrier. If Baxola and Kardroz get their way, there won't be anywhere left for you to crush me!"

"Fine." sighed the girls after a few minutes' pause.

An hour later, Johnny smiled as he added the final touches of paint.

"The time has come at last! This new plane should work a lot better. I've ironed out most of the problems, and those two meganesses sure know how to amplify power! But I'm sure there was something I've forgotten about. It'll come to me later."

Johnny boarded the Fusion Destroyer II, now painted yellow and with Johnny's signature on the sides.

"Here goes!" he said bravely. "Sisters, do your stuff!"

The palm trees pulled back and the runway appeared in front of the biplane.

"Ready, Ben? Here I come!" cried Johnny Test. "Fusion Destroyer II, ready for take off! Away we go!

And with that, he took off into the air...

"Oh shoot!" cried Ben as he raced back to the entrance Alton Park. "The Sumo Slammers ride broke down AND I've lost Julie! I bet that robot hauled butt after her! I better catch her before it does!"

Ben raced to his car and drove across Speed Highway, the motorway that was built around Spirit Central, to see if he could see ZUDO-Bug and Julie. He even parked near the shops and checked for them there. No such luck. Where could they be?

***

On board the Dark Moon Carrier, Baxola added the final touches to a strange-looking robot. It was egg-shaped with robotic legs and arms sticking out of it. A flight unit was attached wirelessly near its dome.

"Excellent! All systems, full power! Look at me! I am your brilliant creator, Baxola the Living Shadow! I created you from the blueprints I salvaged from one of the many Robotniks that existed in the Multiverses before Creation's Rapture!" he exclaimed. "You're the second of my BCR-100 Model machines. BCR-102. Codename: GAMMA."

"GAMMA." parroted the robot.

"That's right!" agreed Baxola. "You will now obey only me! Come with me, GAMMA."

GAMMA followed the floating shadow over to a nearby door.

"The Shooting Range is through this door. Your big brother, BCR-101: BETA is there practicing. Enter, GAMMA! You're not as advanced as BETA is, but you'll do just fine. Just destroy the targets that have Ben Tennyson and his alien forms on them."

As GAMMA entered the door and began firing, Baxola floated over to another room, with a window showing the interior of the Shooting Range. He was amazed: GAMMA might have moved more slowly than BETA, but his shooting ability was slightly faster and more refined. GAMMA walked out of the Shooting Range, Ben Tennyson-shaped targets lining its floor.

"Good job, GAMMA!" smiled Baxola. "I didn't think you had what it takes. OK, then, GAMMA. Here's your next test. If you want to stay onboard, you must be able to pass it. So, pay attention to what I say. The almighty Dark Moon Carrier is a flying fortress that has the ability to pass through Space and Time. I will use it to spread my Secret Weapon into the Hallowed Halls of the Eternals and become Ruler of the Universe, once I've turned Spirit Central into rubble and turn it into Robotnik Land. But in order to do that, it needs a good crew. Come forth, BETA!"

BETA dropped down next to Baxola and GAMMA. It looked like GAMMA, but was coloured black and had two powerful guns.

"I'd like you to meet your older brother, BCR-101. Just call him BETA. I am pitting the two of you against each other and the winner serves on my ship. I put my bets on BETA, but I owe you at least a fair chance..."

Baxola floated out of the way as BETA and GAMMA began firing at each other. Although BETA's guns fired more powerful missiles and his flight unit was faster, GAMMA's speedy refined ammo cut through the missiles and was soon able to weaken BETA long enough for BCR-102 to emerge victorious.

"You surprised me, GAMMA!" cackled Baxola. "I had a funny feeling there was more to you than meets the eye. I hereby grant GAMMA permission to serve aboard the Dark Moon Carrier."
"Negative." said BETA. "This unit requests permission to stay onboard. This unit is more powerful than BCR-102."
"Okay, okay." sighed Baxola, before saying darkly. "We can always use a spare set of parts, I guess. You have special permission."

Baxola turned to GAMMA.

"Now, hurry along, GAMMA, and join the rest of your brothers. I have a special announcement to make in five minutes..."

Five minutes later, GAMMA and three other robots that looked like it, except that they were coloured orange, blue and purple, were huddled round a podium in front of a large screen as Baxola floated down dramatically onto it.

"Ahem! You, the elite Dark Moon Carrier crew are here today to hear a very special announcement!"

A picture of a green tailed frog and a gigantic girl flashed onto the screen.

"Behold! It's a tailed frog and Nazz, the girl within the yellow Genesis Diamond!" announced Baxola, a hint of excitement in his voice.

"That doesn't sound illogical to this unit, for an organism with an unnatural appendage and a powerful meganess to be considered a special announcement, if you pardon this unit." droned the orange robot.

"Oh, they're very unique! They are absolutely vital to my plans! I command you to locate them immediately! You hear me? I don't care what it takes to get it. Just bring them to me! We haven't got time to waste, so come to attention." demanded Baxola.

"Aye aye sir!" announced all four robots, heading off on their important mission.

***

It was about this time that Julie, the robin and the diamond-imprisoned Sissy ventured out of Alton Park.

"That's the last time I go on rides with you while I'm cooped up in this diamond." came Sissy's voice. "I think I barfed on the roller coaster. When I get outta here, I'm gonna subject that theme park to my powerful size!"

"But at least we got rid of ZUDO-Bug." said Julie. "By the time his body fit through the entrance gate, we were halfway round the park! So now he's in there trying to find his way back! Ben must've gotten lost too."

Suddenly, they heard a fit of manaical laughter. It was ZUDO-Bug's robot, leaping down from a smashed window at the side of the indoor theme park and trapping Julie and the robin!

"Target acquired! Prisoner acquired! Beginning imprisoning procedure! Directions to Dark Moon Carrier downloaded! Evil OK!" he announced, floating towards the train station.

"Let us down! Let us go! Ben, HELP!" squealed Julie.

It was a good thing that Ben was around Paignton Casino, checking to see if Julie was there, as he definitely heard his girlfriend's cry for help!

"I'll cut him off at the Ancient Ruins!" Ben said as he transformed into Stinkfly and flew off in a different direction.

***

Elsewhere, Rufus had managed to finally catch Albert at Torquay Beach after miles of chasing, dodging people, fishing for him in the sea and the like. Sadly, he didn't notice GAMMA race past and snatch the frog (and Nazz in the diamond) in a single second! Rufus turned and faced GAMMA.

"You leave my best friend alone!" he yelled at GAMMA.

But he could only watch as GAMMA was teleported back in time by a strange ball of light, accompanied by a wheezing and groaning sound.

GAMMA found itself near a strange and quiet altar, near which was several coloured diamonds.

"Must determine location." it noted. "Accessing data."

GAMMA used its special In-Built Optical Scanner and Eternal Mainframe Database to try and find out exactly where the mysterious light took it.

"No data found." announced GAMMA. "Location unknown. This presents a problem."
"Crud, dude." Nazz commented as she emerged from the diamond, sucking on a Jawbreaker and dripping saliva all over the place. She placed her feet carefully into the waters near the altar, ready for a good soak.

Walking towards the Altar, GAMMA could see many purple misty shadows, with scary faces, congregating around the Creation Diamond singing to it. In the waters around the staircase, ripples appeared as a dark growly voice growled its delight. Sensing an immediate threat, GAMMA whipped out its blaster and began to charge it...

"No!" cried a voice behind it. "Don't go any closer!"

GAMMA turned round and saw Eve.

"I'm sorry. I see you must not be one of them." apologised the girl. "Did you notice the presence guarding these living nightmares? Although he wasn't normally like it before the Rapture, the presence is now a loving and gentle creature. These little shadows are too vulnerable without his protection. This protection allows them to continue to 'sing' in peace."

GAMMA didn't say anything, but added the information to its databanks.

"Even I was surprised the first time I saw him. He told me how he and the creatures balanced Dreams with Nightmares just so that Creation could not unravel and destroy itself." Eve continued. "But now my father is trying to take their sacred home. It seems his heart is closed off to us all. He wasn't anything like the King Percy of old. My true hope is that some day we'll understand each other."

Nazz, filing her nails with a large bit of broken metal, seemed to feel a shiver down her back spine. She seemed to remember something about the shadow clouds, and their master. She even vaguely remembered how she was a guardian to someone, whose parents died terribly when he was young. But just as she tried to gather her thoughts, she disappeared back into the diamond Albert was holding, as GAMMA returned to the present.

***

Elsewhere, Genesix was just coming round after his little trip through time. He looked around him and gasped.

"What? I'm back in front of the Altar! This is beginning to blow my mind!" he exclaimed. A thought clicked into his mind.

"Wait, I remember! The broken pieces of the Creation Diamond. I have to restore them to where they belong."

Walking up to the diamond, he took out all the shards he had collected and threw them onto it. In a flash of white light, the Creation Diamond returned to its natural state!

But then, Genesix looked closer. Three more pieces were missing! But where could they be? The Creation Diamond began to shine even more, as if it was trying to tell its guardian something. In the reflection bore the familiar sight of...

"The Dark Moon Carrier!" exclaimed Genesix. "That's where the rest of the pieces must be. But I don't know where that ship is."

As Genesix walked back from the Altar, he caught sight of a red egg-shaped robot walking across the path leading to the Ancient Ruins.

"It's one of Baxola's robots!" recognised Genesix. "I know. I'll follow it back to Baxola's base! Here I come, Baxola!"

Ten minutes later, deep within the forest, Genesix saw the parked Dark Moon Carrier resting nearby, a docking chamber resting on the edge of the forest. The robot was walking into it, carrying what looked like a frog.

"Time to make a house call!" thought Genesix as he sneaked behind the robot and into the fortress.

And Genesix couldn't have picked a better time, for just as soon as he was onboard, the docking chamber was snapped back into its original position as the Dark Moon Carrier took off...

***

"ZUDO Power! ZUDO Power!!"

ZUDO-Bug was gloating to himself enormously now that he had accomplished the task given to him by Baxola. Now he would be able to learn where his old universe had got to after Creation's Rapture. But he hadn't encountered on Ben!
"Hey there, bolt brain!" called Ben from above him. "You'd better give Julie back to me or I'll squash ya with Humongosaur!"

As Ben dropped down, the sky went dark. It was the Dark Moon Carrier, which promptly teleported Julie, her robin and ZUDO-Bug into its confines.

"Shoot! I've lost them again!" moped Ben, turning himself into Spidermonkey and racing up the cliffs in hot pursuit....

***

"This frog's the one we want!" cried one robot.

"No, here's the real one." corrected another.

"My frog is the right one!" interjected yet another.

The three robots were presenting their frogs to Baxola. None of them, sadly, had any tails and none of them were the right colour.

"Gah! Dummies, dummies, dummies, dummies!" yelled Baxola, having a fit. "NONE of you got the right one! We must find the frog with Kardroz's tail. That same frog has also swallowed the Genesis Diamond with Nazz in!"
"You looking for me, little dude?" came a voice from behind the robots. It was within the tailed frog that GAMMA was holding.

"There it is! Right there!" Baxola exclaimed as he floated to GAMMA. "I'm proud of you, GAMMA! I knew you'd be of some use to me!"

Baxola's eyes flashed blood red as he turned to the other robots.

"All your worthless hunks of junk be gone!"

As GAMMA looked on, Baxola raised his right arm (he normally used his left arm to magnetize natural objects such as the Genesis Diamonds) and managed to make the trio disappear, as if by magic!

"You will get a new assignment. This one's easy!" smiled Baxola. "Go to the Interrogation Room through the last door on your right. Once there, you will find a girl and a bird. Just get me that bird!"

As Baxola floated away, GAMMA looked at the three doors ahead of it. Sadly, they didn't have any labels, and GAMMA's Directional Pad Circuit was still a bit shaky after its trip through time.
"Is this the one?" it asked, walking through the door on its left. Sadly, it wasn't. GAMMA looked on, horrified, as it saw its bigger brother, BETA, being disassembled and modified. BETA's old parts were lying on the floor. THAT was what its master meant by 'spare parts'!

"BETA?" inquired GAMMA as it looked on. No response. Knowing that its master's orders are more important, GAMMA walked out of the room.

***

At the top of the cliffs, Spidermonkey turned back into Ben and watched the Dark Moon Carrier get away. However, he also saw Johnny flying his old plane, albeit newly decorated and customised.

"BEN!" the young boy shouted.

"Alright, Johnny! Way to go!" Ben called back. "This plane is cool!"

Jumping onto the plane, Ben set his sights on the Dark Moon Carrier as it flew into the twilight.

In the Interrogation Room (which was more like a prison than a room), GAMMA walked until it came to the cell with Julie and the robin in.

"Go away!" called Julie.

"Hand over the bird." intoned GAMMA.

"No way!" Julie yelled.

"Resistance is futile. Hand over the bird." GAMMA intoned again.

"I said no!" Julie yelled.

"Why not?" asked GAMMA.

"None of your business, that's why not!" Julie said confidentally. "I wanna know why you want it."

GAMMA processed its memory.

"Data unavaliable." it said.

"You don't even know?" Julie was shocked. "I bet you'd be mean to him, you bully!"

She stood up.

"Why not help us out instead? Don't you know how bad I feel?"

GAMMA backed away from Julie as it started to shake.

"Does not compute!" it cried. "Why try to save that which is useless to you? Does not compute!"

"I feel sorry for you." she said. "Baxola failed to give you feelings."

Suddenly, the robin recognised something deep within GAMMA. It flew close to the robot, as if it was trying to communicate. GAMMA shook even more as its memory circuits nearly overloaded. Eventually, GAMMA walked to a switch and pressed it. Julie's prison door opened.

"Get going." it ordered.

"Why are you letting us go?" asked Julie, walking out of the prison.

"It is dangerous here. We'll be arriving at the Ancient Ruins base soon."

Julie thought.

"So, you're not like that ZUDO-Bug, huh? You truly are a good person inside, aren't you? I guess we can be friends then. Take care, OK?"

GAMMA looked on as Julie ran off. Perhaps it should help her out...

***

Genesix raced onto the Dark Moon Carrier just as he saw Ben and Johnny land on the Dark Moon Carrier.

"Now we'll see who's so easily tricked!" he smirked. "I can sense the shards are here somewhere."

***

"Wow! This thing is really huge!" Ben cried.

"No time to gawk now," Johnny said impatiently, "we need to find your girlfriend!"

"You're right, my friend!" smiled Ben. "Here we go!"

Suddenly, Baxola floated above them.

"Don't get too many ideas, you fools! You haven't seen the power this vessel really has! Get a load of this!"

Baxola's body glowed dark as he magnetised the lever inside the control deck, setting the controls so that the Dark Moon Carrier transformed! The front wings rose and swivelled round.

"Awesome!" exclaimed Johnny. "It's changed shape!"

"Darn! This makes it harder for us to get to the bridge!" swore Ben.

"I hate it when he doesn't listen." moped Johnny.

Baxola laughed.

"I bet you weren't expecting this!" he mocked. "The only way you can get to me is through the Sky Deck! I doubt if you can figure this one out."

Agreeing to the challenge, Ben and Johnny raced into the Sky Deck and dodged the blasts from the various cannons from up above. Baxola was giving it his full this time! Ben turned into Echo Echo and fired at the cannons, destroying them. Now the Dark Moon Carrier was flying through a dark storm, and the ship was rocking violently from left to right. Johnny clung onto Echo Echo as it grabbed a nearby wall and climbed up it tightly. After a few minutes, the ship flew out of the storm, and Echo Echo transformed back into Ben.

Genesix watched from above as Ben and Johnny headed towards the Sky Deck's exit. He didn't have time to follow them, as he was dodging cannons and slicing through robot guards with his sword, collecting the last three pieces of the Creation Diamond...

Julie, meanwhile, was having her own adventure. She was walking out of the Interrogation Room when a mysterious orb of light shone around her, teleporting her and the robin with a wheezing and groaning sound. She was near an altar, with a young girl approaching some dark purple mists.

"So, you're the Argorribles from Past-Creation." Eve mused. "The legends were right!"

The mists began to disperse.

"Don't be afraid. You'll be safe with me." she promised.

The mists returned and carefully surrounded her. It was then that Eve heard a deep, dark growling sound fill the background. As Eve approached the Creation Diamond in the altar, Julie was teleported back to the present.

"What happened?" Julie asked the robin. "Was I dreaming? We need to get out of this place!"

***

"At last! I have the three remaining pieces!" Genesix smiled. "Now, to restore the Creation Diamond...!"

But Genesix's smile was soon wiped off when the orb of light appeared and teleported him to the past. But this time, the Altar he arrived at was on fire! Dark foreboding clouds covered the sky, the sounds of screaming and wailing coming from up above it, and he could hear in the distance the dark growling sounds of a creature. Genesix started to get pains in his head again. He KNEW he heard those sounds before!

Genesix walked up and saw the body of Eve lying on the floor.

"My name is Genesix." he said, waking Eve up. "What happened here?"

"I couldn't stop them." Eve moaned. "They came and my father.... I had no idea how bad this turned out! Now the Neo-Picomen are being RAPTURED!"
"Raptured?" inquired Genesix, before a wave of fear hit his mind and he dropped to the floor.

"Are you alright?" asked Eve.

Genesix got up.

"I'm fine." he said.

"You!" came a dark, growly voice from before. "I know you! I thought you PERISHED!"

"Leave him to me!" came a booming voice from above. It was Sharon. She was about to pick up her lighter and her packet of cigarettes within her pocket.

Genesix looked up, but aside from Sharon, the creature was nowhere to be seen. Eve, meanwhile, had set her sights on the Creation Diamond. Genesix took his mind off his impending doom, and saw the fully restored diamond. Now he was starting to put some pieces of the puzzle together. But a lot more were missing.

Eve ran to the Creation Diamond. Just as Genesix was about to stop her, he was teleported back to the present.

"Is this a dream?" he asked himself. "It's more like a nightmare!"

***

Julie ventured onto the bridge of the Dark Moon Carrier, right into the path of Baxola!
"Where do you think YOU'RE going, Julie?" he asked, his red eyes flashing deep onto the robin.

"Baxola, don't!" cried Julie.

Ben and Johnny then emerged from the exit of the Sky Deck.

"Too late, Tennyson!" taunted Baxola, extending his left arm. The robin was shot forwards as it was magnetized. Baxola opened the pendant the robin was carrying and took out the light blue Genesis Diamond. As Julie caught the robin as it escaped from Baxola's grasp, Sissy appeared, towering over the fortress.

"So, THAT's why you couldn't get out!" Julie cried. "You're a meganess!"

"Correctamundo, little girl." Sissy smiled, her lips taunting the tiny trio. "But now I'm on BAXOLA's side!"

"I don't need the wretched robin when I have Sissy Blakely to assist me!" Baxola exclaimed. "GAMMA!"

The egg-shaped robot emerged from a hidden trap door.

"At your service, sir." GAMMA intoned.

"Dispose of these annoying pests!" ordered Baxola. "Give 'em all you got! Me and Sissy here have got better things to do."

"Aye aye, sir. Will comply." replied GAMMA, as Baxola floated away to a spot further behind the bridge, Sissy following.

"Time to go hero!" cried Ben, transforming into Cannonball. Before Julie could stop the fight, Cannonball had pummeled GAMMA into a wall. Although the robot could stay upright, it was starting to short circuit.

"Please stop, Ben!" exclaimed Julie, running in front of GAMMA. Cannonball stopped.

"Julie, get out of the way!" ordered Cannonball. "That's one of Baxola's clunkers!"

"No! He helped me before by letting me escape." Julie explained. "This robot is different. You don't need to hurt him, OK?"

Cannonball stopped and thought. Then he turned back into Ben.

"OK. I guess I'd better let him go, then." he sighed.

BOOM! The ship started to shake.

"What's happening?" asked Ben.

"Dangerous amount of Meganess Power identified." GAMMA managed to say in-between bursts of electricity. "Dark Moon Carrier losing altitude!"

Julie remembered what GAMMA had said to her before. She smiled.

"See? GAMMA told me it was dangerous here a few moments ago." Julie walked up and put a hand on Ben's shoulder.

"No time to get all lovey-dovey now!" Johnny exclaimed. "The ship is losing altitude!"
"We're fresh outta time!" cried Ben. "Take Julie and get out, fast!"

"What about you?" asked Julie.

"I'll nail that Baxola. Can't let him escape."

Ben took off towards the Dark Moon Carrier's cockpit.

"I knew Ben would save me." smiled Julie. "He's my hero!"

She turned and looked at GAMMA.

"Are you OK?" she asked. "It's dangerous here, just like you said. Don't pay attention to Baxola any more. Free yourself. Come on!"

"Why are you helping me?" asked GAMMA.

"I said we'd be friends and I'm returning your favour. Even my birdie wants you to be free. Baxola's not the kind of creature you should be working for."

Johnny was getting the Turbo-Action Backpack from the Fusion Destroyer II.

"There's no time!" he said. "Let's get going, Julie!"

"Until we meet again, Mr. Robot! Take care of yourself." Julie said as she blew it a kiss. She grabbed Johnny by the hand and watched as jet rockets appeared on the sides of the backpack. They took off into the air, before GAMMA activated its own flight unit and flew off in a different direction.

***

Rufus panted as he cuddled Albert. Ever since the incident in Torquay Beach, Rufus had been following the trail made by GAMMA all the way to the Dark Moon Carrier.

"We're together again at last!" he smiled. Just then, a glowing orb of light shone round him and teleported him to the past, alongside a strange wheezing and groaning sound. The duo were at a big altar with a huge diamond in its center. Rufus walked upwards and saw a girl next to the diamond.

"Wow!" cried Eve. "Is it alright for me to be here?"

Although Rufus couldn't hear the response that followed, a breeze made him shiver. It just seemed familiar to him.

"So, do you trust me? Despite your past?"

Again, the response was purely psychic, at least to Rufus. Was this girl a mind reader?

"So these are the seven Genesis Diamonds. Each one containing a meganess from Post-Creation, sealed by the Legendary Embodiment of Good, Phil the Valiant himself, before the GTS Gene nearly destroyed the fabric of Existence. And one of them is Nazzilla, the Legendary Embodiment of Peace? Even though they did find their homeworld again, and even though she wasn't a Judge, that has to be a very sorrowful tale."

Rufus walked behind Eve as she inspected the giant diamond carefully.

"That's it! Now it all makes sense!" she cried. "The Forgotten Ones are the Seven Infinites, unified by one that is the Beyond Infinite. And as Nazzilla is the odd one out, the one within the Creation Diamond is the Seventh Infinite! Which means .... the Seven Infinites .. the Beyond Infinite herself .... could this be the diamond that controls the Seven Infinites when the Beyond Infinite isn't there?"

As Eve parted her knowledge to the stranger, Rufus and Albert found themselves teleported back into the present.

"I don't like the looks of this place, Albert." said Rufus. "And I'm sure whoever she was talking to was our old enemy..."

But his words were silenced by the huge boom as Ben (unbeknowst to Rufus) transformed the Dark Moon Carrier back to its original form.

"If something happens now, there's no point in my rescuing you." Rufus remarked to his pet frog. "I don't know who would bother to save us both. Let's get going, buddy!"

But, before they could escape, Rufus and Albert heard a sinister breathing behind them. Turning round, they saw a 10ft purple half-human, half-dragon hybrid, wearing blue clothes.

"I know you!" gasped Rufus. "You're...."

"The very same." interrupted the creature in a semi-dark growly voice. Although Rufus remembered his old enemy being bigger and having a much deeper voice, he knew the Lord of Nightmares when he saw him.

"So!" exclaimed Baxola as he floated down. "I see you're trying to escape. I'm right on time."

"Who are you?" asked Rufus.

"None of your business! Kardroz! Grab him! Get that frog! And don't forget that Genesis Diamond!"

"With pleasure." Kardroz replied.

Just as Rufus was about to tell them his real name, Albert began to hiccup in fright at the towering creature, darkness taking over the light surrounding it. With ten hiccups, he spat out the yellow Genesis Diamond! In the same second, Baxola threw Sissy's diamond into Kardroz, causing him to change! Kardroz became five feet bigger, and his robes changed from blue to a bluish purple colour. Spikes grew from his shoulders. Nazz, Trixie, Gwen, Debbie, Sissy and Gem appeared behind him, their eyes turning purple in colour.

"Phases 5 and 6 ... complete." smirked Kardroz, his voice now taking on the dark growly pitches Rufus could remember. "And now I have NAZZILLA, the Legendary Embodiment of Peace, in my clutches at last! If only her partner could see this now!"

"Excellent!" smiled Baxola. "And now for the frog. The frog is possessed by your tail! Once you get your tail, you'll be complete and ultra strong."

"Kardroz, NO!" exclaimed Rufus. "I may not have the most precious and powerful object in my old universe with me, but I can still take you down!"

Kardroz smirked. His 'master' knew very little about him. Nevertheless, he scooped up the frog with his claws and devoured it! His tail, half-blue and half-cream in colour, appeared, alongside Albert, still alive, trapped in it!

Ben suddenly appeared behind Rufus.

"Unbelievable!" he exclaimed. "Kardroz has transformed again!"

"Albert!" cried Rufus to Ben. "I must save Albert!"

"So, that frog is your friend?" asked Ben. "No sweat. I'll get him back. Time to go hero!"

Ben activated his Ultimatrix and transformed into Humongosaur.

"Pathetic." growled Kardroz. "Nothing can stop me!"

Baxola, noticing that Humongosaur was on the battlefield, conjured up icy bombs with his right arm. Humongosaur's body managed to break them, just as Kardroz was about to inhale the alien in his mouth. The bombs exploded inside Kardroz, freezing the monster solid. Humongosaur began to drain the creature's health, smashing and punching the body.

"Hey!" exclaimed the ten-year old Gwen. "Leave him alone, little man!"

"Stay out of this, Gwen!" roared Humongosaur. "I am STILL your cousin!"

Gwen's giant fingers appeared and flicked Humongosaur down. Then, Gem reached down and scooped up the tiny Humongosaur before crushing him with a deep kiss! Nazz appeared behind Humongosaur and added to the crushing, kissing its back. Suddenly, another flash appeared as Ben activated his Ultimatrix again.

"ULTIMATE HUMONGOSAUR!!" he roared as he dropped down from the surprised meganess' lips and punched through the now unfrozen Kardroz. Out from his body came Albert, coughing and spluttering.

"Hooray!" exclaimed Rufus. "I won't let them take you away again, Albert!"

"Go!" exclaimed Ultimate Humongosaur. "Go on and get out of here! I'll do the rest!"

"Come, little buddy." smiled Rufus as they hurried away from the battlefield. "Time to get a move on!"

"THAT ACCURSED HUMAN!" roared Kardroz. "He has defeated me for the last time!"

Reaching out a hand, he began to fire a blue lightning bolt from his hands. Ultimate Humongosaur dived out of the way just in time, for one of the ice bombs it had fired on was turning to stone! Timing his movements just right, Ultimate Humongosaur ran and punched straight through Kardroz's chest, causing such a powerful reaction inside his body that Kardroz exploded into purple goop, the six Genesis Diamonds falling onto the floor.

"Not again!" wailed Baxola as he saw the lifeless puddle of goop on the floor. "I hate you!"

As Ultimate Humongosaur looked on, Genesix ran onto the battlefield.

"There you are, Genesix!" the alien smiled. "About time."

"You and I will settle our scores some other day, Genesix!" cried the shadow demon as he fled the Dark Moon Carrier. "And as for you, Ben Tennyson, I shall return!"

Genesix watched as Ultimate Humongosaur transformed into Stinkfly and followed Baxola in hot pursuit.

"I better let Ben handle it from here." he said. "Now, I must return to my island and the Creation Diamond. I need time to think about what I've learnt today."

"NOT SO FAST!" came a roar. "It's time I dealt with you personally, Embodiment!"

"No! It can't be!" exclaimed Genesix. "I thought you were dead!"

Kardroz wasn't. He had somehow reformed himself back to his Phase 6 form.

"You are a Legendary Embodiment, that I know of." said Kardroz. "But your true identity clouds my mind."

"I guess you didn't get enough the first time. And now I'm beginning to vaguely remember you!" remembered Genesix. "The Dimensional Gambit: the day the Silence appeared in all our worlds and meddled with your cohort's plan to take over the Real World. But why aren't you bigger?"
"Because the Elemental Shade from the Hallowed Halls of the Eternals has yet to realise that there is ONE more Phase I need to acquire."

"Elemental Shade? You mean Baxola is NOT my old foe?"

"You never met him." confirmed Kardroz.

"And the island?" asked Genesix.

"Created from the last vestiges of the Other Side of Creation, taking aspects from the Sailor Moon, Dragonball and Code Lyoko Dimensions that existed before the Rapture."

"Wait..." said Nazz. "I'm starting to remember him. He seems cute and sweet and...."
"Don't you DARE break my spell!" cried Kardroz. "We must destroy him!"

"You can't stop ME from restoring the Creation Diamond!" cried Genesix as he raised his shield. He fired a beam of seven colours that blinded the eyes of the meganesses, before picking up an ice bomb and throwing it in Kardroz's mouth. Like the last time, Kardroz's body was frozen solid. Unlike the last time, Kardroz was still low on energy but high in determination, so it was taking the beast longer to unfreeze himself. Genesix took out his sword and slashed at Kardroz's body.

Ten minutes later, Kardroz blasted himself out of his frozen prison. He had one more trick up his sleeve. He gathered energy from the six meganesses behind him, lifting himself high into the air. Then, he quickly lowered himself down, creating a shock wave! Genesix stuck the shield out in front of him and watched as the shock wave was absorbed into the shield! The shield took on a new shean as if it was restoring itself. Genesix looked at his sword. It too was restoring itself. The blade became sharper and markings began to form on the hilt. A memory temporarily flashed in Genesix's mind.

Kardroz watched as Genesix raised the sword into the air, watching as a powerful beam of light formed around its blade.

"VALIANT SWORD!" yelled Genesix as he pointed the sword at Kardroz's chest and fired the beam at is center. With a roaring cry of defeat, Kardroz was blasted into bits of purple goop, which trickled down the Dark Moon Carrier and fell like rain onto the ground below. Genesix watched in astonishment as the shield and sword returned back to its dull, slightly colourless features.

***

Elsewhere, Rufus and Albert had found the abandoned Fusion Destroyer II.

"Hey! Maybe we can use this!" the Noop exclaimed to his froggy chum. "But I don't know the first thing about it. Oh, well! I'll give it a try, anyway!"

He hopped in and started the engine.

***

Genesix looked at the six Genesis Diamonds, the meganesses having gone back inside them to recharge.

"At last! Kardroz is finished! What's left now is to return to the Creation Diamond. I guess I'll just have to keep on guarding it until I know my true identity. But what was up with that sword and shield? And why was Baxola hiding all this information from me?" he pondered.

Genesix found a nearby parachute from a packing case on the outer rims of the battlefield and hopped off the fortress. Which was convienient, for the Dark Moon Carrier exploded and fell downwards. Rufus steadily piloted the Fusion Destroyer II down into the island's forest, with Genesix parachuting down to the Altar.

***

Three seconds later, Ben fell down into the forest. His Ultimatrix ran out of power just as he was approaching Baxola. Luckily, he wasn't hurt.

"Gah! I hate Baxola!" moaned Ben. "Where's Kevin when you need him?!"

As Ben looked at the strange surroundings, he saw a temple rise from above the ground. A strange orb of light was flickering around it, as if it was trying to tell Ben to enter it. The teenager ran up to it and watched it enter the temple. Deciding that the light was playing games with it, he decided to follow the light all the way into the temple's center...

***

The sight of BETA being remodified before it...

Baxola banishing its brothers away from the Dark Moon Carrier...

"It's dangerous here, just like you said. Don't pay attention to Baxola any more. Free yourself. Come on....!"

"Look at me! I am your brilliant creator, Baxola the Living Shadow...!"

All these memories flashed faster and faster, again and again, in GAMMA's mind until it couldn't stand it any longer. It stopped flying, touched down and announced:

"Baxola the Living Shadow: ENEMY. Master Registration: DELETED. BCR Series: FRIENDS. Must save!"

Activating its GPS System, GAMMA began to locate its brothers...

***

Ben watched in amazement as, after a series of hidden passages, traps, dead-ends and puzzles, the orb of light stopped near a giant mural. It depicted a humongous girl, wearing a yellow headband and a redish pink dress with a heart on it, battling what looked like a darker version of Kardroz. But the most astonishing thing about the mural was that Ben's alien forms, ALL of them, were surrounding the meganess and fighting alongside her.

Ben was about to ask the light how his alien forms got there on the mural, when he was teleported into the past, accompanied by a strange wheezing and groaning sound...

Ben arrived at an altar that had all the Genesis Diamonds stored on it. But, like Genesix's previous trip to the past, it was on fire. Purple mists were dissipating into the air as a foreboding chill swept around it. And, watching all of this happen, was a young girl.

"Why?" moaned Eve. "Why did this have to happen?"

She turned round and looked at Ben.

"It's terrible." she sighed. "Oh, I must stop this now!"

As she firmly ran to the Creation Diamond, Ben was transported back to the present before he could do anything to help.

***

Elsewhere, in the Windy Valley, GAMMA was fighting one of its brothers: BCR-103, codenamed DELTA. It was shaped like GAMMA and had a flight unit, but it was coloured blue. GAMMA had tried to reason with it, but it seemed its Master Registration was firmly locked. GAMMA had no choice. He fired past the blue missiles DELTA fired and destroyed its blue ally, releasing a red squirrel.

***

Johnny safely touched down and turned off his Turbo-Action Backpack. He glanced round and saw Baxola falling down onto the ground. He waved goodbye to Julie as he went off to investigate the matter. Julie cuddled the robin as she contemplated her next move.

"I wonder what Ben is doing. He's always rescuing me from bad guys and aliens, it seems." she said to the robin. "I should be more independant. You know, you sure surprised me by having a Genesis Diamond with you. No wonder they were after you, my feathered friend."

The robin flew out of her hands and allowed her to look at its pendant. Flicking the pendant open, Amy saw a photo of it and two older robins, their red breasts resplendant on their feathered chests.

"I guess those must be your Mom and Dad." she summarized. "I'll help you find them! Does Baxola have them captive now?"

The robin cheeped positively.

"We'll have to find his crashed fortress and find them. I've come this far, I may as well go all the way!" she said boldly. "Mr. Robot said Baxola's base was in the Ancient Ruins. Let's go and check it out!"

***

Johnny Test raced over to the fallen Eternal Shade. He didn't see Ben anywhere, but at least Baxola was defeated. Or so he thought...

"I'm finished!" the Living Shadow moped. "Kardroz is dead and now my Dark Moon Carrier is ruined. No matter! I will DESTROY Spirit Central anyway!"

Extending his right arm, Baxola summoned a giant rocket from the depths of Torquay Beach.

"If that missile is launched, then...." thought Johnny.

Amidst the screams of the public, Baxola watched as the rocket shot off and landed into the city's center!

A few seconds past. Another couple went by. Nothing.

"DAH! No, it was a DUD! No way! I can't believe this!" yelled Baxola. "I'll just have to go and deal with this myself!"

Magnetising a nearby building's door with his left arm, Baxola ripped it open and fled into an elevator shaft that took him onto the motorway surrounding Spirit Central.

"Aw, jeez!" exclaimed Johnny, racing towards the building. "I better get to that missile before he detonates it! The fate of Spirit Central depends on my actions."

He stopped at the ruined entrance, a wave of fear surrounding him.

"Ben! Where are you?" he called.

Suddenly, he stopped and shook his head. He recalled the dream he had after his fall from the original Fusion Destroyer and his encounter with Eve.

"I've changed a lot since I've started hanging with Ben, but I can't depend on him forever. And if Real Worlders saw me and my world as fictional, they must've hated my guts a lot. I know I can do this by myself! I don't need Ben, Dukey, my sisters OR the army!"

Turning back on the Turbo-Action Backpack, Johnny raced after Baxola.

***

GAMMA was fighting another of its uncooperational brethren. This time, its orange-coloured friend, BCR-104 EPSILON, had been teleported into the fiery depths of Summer Valley's mountains. It seemed that the powers of the Genesis Diamonds had managed to merge part of the mountains with a volcano from the Dragonball Dimension upon the creation of the island, and so far in its history it had not erupted. The heat didn't put off GAMMA, though, who managed to destroy EPSILON and release the elephant calf from within. Its prime enemy, Baxola, must've captured a lot of animals to power up its brethren, GAMMA thought.

***

Baxola laughed as he flew towards the city center.

"You think you can keep up with me, Johnny Test?" he sneered as he saw Johnny race on the roads by him. Suddenly, he saw Johnny speed past him with the Backpack's jets!

"Wot?! He's caught up! Johnny, wait for me!" demanded Baxola.

Johnny ignored his enemy's pleas and raced off the road and into the air, passing by buildings, cars and helicopters until he came to the center of the city, with the rocket dud towering above him. Pressing a button, tools appeared from the Backpack, attached to mechanical arms, as they began to deactivate the missile. By the time Baxola had caught up with him, Johnny had done it!

***

Night had fallen by the time Julie and the robin negotiated their way out of the forest. There in front of them was the crashed Dark Moon Carrier, about some miles away from the forest, but this time its docking chamber was connected to a bridge.

"I don't remember this bridge being here before." said Julie. "It looks dangerously suscpicious."

Swallowing her fear, Julie entered the bridge and, in turn, the docking chamber.

***

Crowds of people looked up in fear and fled as the shadow demon magnetised metal parts and formed a giant metallic walker around his body.

"So, you beat me to the missile, you little pest." Baxola angrily proclaimed to Johnny Test. "I will make you pay DEARLY for this! You fool, away, before I make MINCE MEAT out of you."

"I'm not scared. I'm NOT scared!" cried Johnny. "Even though I can't become Johnny X, I CAN do this!"

Johnny activated his Turbo-Action Backpack and swarmed around Baxola's walker, trying to find a weak spot. Baxola noticed the boy and began to fire missiles at him. The Backpack created a shield around Johnny and deflected the missiles back at Baxola. Not to be outdone, Baxola then began to stomp at Johnny with the giant legs, destroying the shield. Johnny then noticed that the walker's legs were beginning to crack. Carefully timing his movements, he spun round in the air and began to karate kick the cracks. The small cracks grew in size and increased around the walker. With a terrific explosion, Baxola was sent flying into the air, disappearing into the night!

"Awesome! I did it all by myself!" exclaimed Johnny as the crowds emerged from their hiding places and applauded his efforts. Smiling, he activated the Turbo-Action Backpack and flew away to the Ancient Ruins. He was content: he had now gained a degree of independance AND people were beginning to admire him as much as they did with his sisters!

***

GAMMA flew out of the Summer Valley volcano.

"BCR-103 DELTA, BCR-104 EPSILON, Rescue Mission: ACCOMPLISHED." it commented. "BCR-105 ZETA, BCR-101 BETA, Location: UNKNOWN."

GAMMA began to recall the time it saw BETA being remodified. Something whirred in its databanks.

"Perhaps ... Aboard the Dark Moon Carrier." it spoke as it began to walk towards the crash-site...

***

Within the Dark Moon Carrier, at that moment, Julie had managed to enter the inner sanctums after a long and tedious walk across the vast docking chamber.

"Phew! That was a long walk!" she panted. "But I can't see any signs of your relatives, birdie."

She started to think. Then, a thought struck her.

"Ah! I remember! Sissy said that you two escaped from Baxola on the Dark Moon Carrier! So maybe your family's still around here!"

With that goal in mind, Julie started to walk up to the bridge of the fortress...

***

Ben came round to find himself outside the temple.

"What was that all about?" he asked himself. "I don't think I'm dreaming here."

A sound caught his attention. It was Baxola, fleeing into the Dark Moon Carrier. Now Ben could finally destroy Baxola before starting to find out Genesix's true identity.

***

"BCR Series: CONFIRMED. Beginning search. Accessing data." said GAMMA as it scanned the Dark Moon Carrier. Ten seconds later, it got its information.

"Engine Room: BCR Series Location: CONFIRMED."

GAMMA walked off towards the Dark Moon Carrier's inner-most room, ready to try and negotiate a deal with at least one of its brethren.

***

Unbeknownst to BCR-102, Ben Tennyson was launching a solitary all-out invasion of the Dark Moon Carrier, checking in all the rooms until he reached the utmost center of the fortress, where he knew Baxola was waiting.

***

Ten minutes later, GAMMA was concentrating its attention on ZETA, which was vastly different to the other robots. Like BETA, it had been remodeled, and was physically attached to a turret deep in the Engine Room's center. GAMMA dodged the massive barrage of missiles fired from the huge bazookas circling ZETA's body before blasting its lasers straight into the robot's top. As before, it exploded and left a young peacock in its place.

"BCR-105 ZETA Rescue: COMPLETE." it intoned as it left the Engine Room. "Units Remaining...."

GAMMA began to feel weak and low on energy. Its memories of its brother, BETA, and of the animals unleashed from its brothers' bodies flashed before it, albeit at a low resolution.

Its memories were cut short when it saw BETA speeding past to the battlefield where Ben and Genesix had their battles with Kardroz.

"ONE." finished GAMMA as it raced off after BETA.

BETA was vastly different from the last time GAMMA saw it. It was jet-black in colour and had massive claws. When GAMMA tried to fire at it, BETA quickly shifted and dodged the attacks. Then it tried to slash at GAMMA with its claws. GAMMA saw its chance and fired at BETA, damaging it. Using the last ounce of energy, BETA jumped above GAMMA and fired energy grenades. GAMMA flew up with his flight unit and used its own energy to blast through BETA's body, leaving a hole in its center.

GAMMA walked up slowly to its fallen brother, but at the last instant BETA embedded its claws deep into GAMMA's body! As the weakened GAMMA watched, BETA's body exploded, revealing an adult robin. The robin flew and looked straight into GAMMA's eyes. And it was then that GAMMA remembered who it really was. It collapsed on the floor, dead, as its body exploded and the OTHER adult robin flew away! The two robins met each other in the air and headed off towards the front of the Dark Moon Carrier.

***

Ben Tennyson ran up onto a bridge connecting two vast walls. In front of him, he could see Baxola, his shadowy body starting to fade away, who was adding the final touches to a vast machine that covered all of his form, turning into a sort of mechanical viper.

"Well, if it isn't my pal, Ben Tennyson. I'm surprised you've made it this far! Seeing as how Genesix might have guessed I wasn't his true enemy by now, I guess I'll have to join your own Rogues Gallery!" he cackled, coughing due to his weakened form.

"Time to go hero!" exclaimed Ben, transforming into Humongosaur.

"That old beast again?" mocked Baxola, firing missiles at the monster. "It's getting a bit tiring!"

Time seemed to slow down as Humongosaur judged his movements and hurled at Baxola, smashing into the chestplate of the viper. Humongosaur jumped onto another bridge that was shadowed by the viper all this time.

Angrily, Baxola fired the circular shoulderpads of his vessel at Humongosaur. They were edged with sharp spikes! Humongosaur jumped onto the bladed shoulderpads, his claw scraping the edge of the spikes and creating sparks, and once again smashed into the viper's chestplate! In retaliation, Baxola fired a beam from one of the mecha-viper's scales, destroying it.

Humongosaur transformed into Ultimate Humongosaur, now becoming the same height as the viper. With every ounce of energy, Ultimate Humongosaur grappled the viper and launched it into the wall, making it explode. Ultimate Humongosaur transformed back into Ben, the Ultimatrix needing to recharge.

"If I die, YOU DIE TOO!" yelled Baxola as he flew towards the bridge where Ben stood. Ben watched as the burning mech began to tore up the bridge. Ben clung onto one of the wall supports of the bridge, awaiting his impending doom. Luckily, however, the viper missed and the screaming body of Baxola plunged into the darkened depths of the room, dying out a few seconds later.

"Alright!" smiled Ben. "Wait until Genesix hears about this!"

***

Unaware of her boyfriend's victory, Julie watched as the young robin took off towards the back of the Dark Moon Carrier. Half a minute later, she rejoiced as the robin and its two parents returned, happy to have found each other again. Suddenly, a beam of energy fired and clipped one of the robin's wings, bruising it.

"ZUDO Power! Target wounded. ZUDO can return home to his own world. Evil OK!" came the familiar voice of ZUDO-Bug.

"You idiot!" yelled Julie, picking up a nearby mallet from a packing case. "How could you do this?"
"If ZUDO can't return home, the Target suffers too. ZUDO Win! ZUDO Win!!" replied the robot, sitting smugly within the bigger robot.

Julie ran at the robot, smashing it with the mallet. The robot shot backwards and crashed into some power cables, which electrified it and ejected the pilot out of its casing. The bigger robot blew up as ZUDO-Bug lay dazed and surprised on the floor.

"No evil ... no good." he moped as he shut down his systems. His hopes of returning home to his own Dimension were lost.

Julie walked over to the robin. It got up and started to fly away. Then it fell. Julie gasped. Suddenly, to her delight, she saw the robin flying away with its mother and father, tweeting their goodbyes. The teenager smiled, blew it a kiss then walked back to the Ancient Ruins.

"If only Ben could see me now!" she smiled. "Now that I've become more assertive of myself, he won't be hanging out with his team ALL the time!"

Of course, it would be best to end the story here, you are probably thinking. However, something else was stirring in the forest of Genesix's island. As Mary and Susan Test were stretching their legs in the forest, waiting for their speck-sized brother to come and rescue them and the Fusion Destroyer II, they didn't see a swarm of purple gloop jump at the red Genesis Diamond and absorb it. Until it was too late...

Floating within an orb-shaped device that covered his body, but left his head open, Baxola contemplated his latest defeat.

"Ooh, I hate that Ben Tennyson! And his spiky-haired friend too! They always seem to get in my way! But ... he can't spoil my master plan!"

It was then that Baxola saw a huge purple goop leading Mary and Susan Test towards him. A shiver ran over his half-dead form. Kardroz seemed more sinister than before. With a dark growly roar, it lunged at Baxola.

"KARDROZ, NO!" yelled Baxola. But he was too late to stop what would happen in the next couple of hours...

***

Genesix stood at the completed Creation Diamond, its shape giving off a bright white gleam.

"The Creation Diamond is where it belongs, but this island STILL hasn't taken off back into the sky." he said, worriedly. "This doesn't make any sense..."

Genesis looked down at the six Genesis Diamonds he had managed to collect straight after his battle with Kardroz.

"Perhaps it's those Genesis Diamonds!" he realised. "I'll take them to Ben for his advice."

Suddenly, he heard a crash. It was Baxola, his body gone and his head lying on the floor. He went to investigate.

"This is terrible!" Baxola was saying. "K--Kardroz is...."

"Is what?" asked Genesix.

"Is ALIVE!" came a dark voice. "And so too will the Rapture, Embodiment!"

A massive rumble shook the island. Mary and Susan Test had captured it, each half of the island sitting on their hands as they giggled. Kardroz roared again...

***

Ben Tennyson was napping under the shade of a tree in the Ancient Ruins. Now that everything was put right, he could FINALLY begin his vacation! He woke up and stretched his legs.

"Guess Baxola learned his lesson." he smiled. "Genesix can finally start to find out his true identity. And maybe I can take another vacation somewhere."
"BEN!" shouted Johnny Test as he ran from the forest.

"Yo, Johnny!" smiled Ben. "Did you find those meganesses and the Fusion Destroyer II?"

"Never mind that!" cried Johnny. "Get up and follow me! Genesix's island hasn't risen into the sky!"

"What?" exclaimed Ben. "Who blew it this time?"

"I don't know," replied Johnny, "but we'd better hurry!"

***

By the time Ben and Johnny had reached the Creation Diamond Altar, Genesix and Baxola were out cold on the floor, the two meganesses and Kardroz had gone.

"Ben .... sorry ..." moaned Genesix. "Kardroz stole my Genesis Diamonds, and he ... is STILL alive!"

"Oh no!!" cried Ben.

Baxola's head rolled to the orb-like device.

"That's better." he said. "My primitive life-support system is still operational. But Kardroz is not going to get away with this!"

"Wait up!" cried Genesix. "Although you're not my enemy, you might have some information about my true identity!"

But it was too late. Baxola was flying off the island.

"Ben, Kardroz is a fearsome beast. So fearsome, his own name is a misnomer. Baxola told me, and I recognised it so much that I collapsed from a massive migraine. If he gets that last Genesis Diamond, he will reveal his true name and bring the Rapture from Past-Creation to Post-Creation!"

"No need to explain." Ben reassured him. "We'll get on it!"

Suddenly, the orb of light from the temple shone around Ben. With a wheezing and groaning sound, he was teleported back to the past, and back to a fiery Altar.

"This place!" exclaimed Ben. "It looks familiar! It's NOT a dream after all!"

Ben saw an army of warriors led by what looked like their leader approaching the burning Altar. The young girl from his last visit was blocking their way.

"Eve, get out of my way!" snapped the leader.

"I won't obey!" cried Eve. "You will bring the End of Creation upon you!"

"We need the seven Genesis Diamonds to give us total power!" replied her father. "It's power for the Neo-Picomen, and they are YOUR Neo-Picomen too, you know. We MUST get that diamond!"

"Greed is our enemy." explained Eve. "Once it starts, you will always want more. Please don't do this! I beg you!"

"I don't listen to the words of a child!" snarled her father. "CHARGE! "

The Neo-Picomen pushed away Eve and slashed through the Argorribles, destroying them completely. Their dying cries alerted something with the Creation Diamond to shine. Accompanied by seven trumpet calls, the meganesses from the diamonds appeared and began to attack the warriors: voring them, crushing them, intimidating them and, in the case of Sharon, burning them with ashes from her cigarette.

But worse was to come. From the Creation Diamond emerged Kardroz, his small dragon/human hybrid shape frightening the warriors. Ben raced to Eve and helped her up.

"Are you alright?" he asked her.

"I think so." Eve replied. "Oh my gosh!"

Ben watched as Kardroz began to kill the Neo-Picomen. Eve raced off to the Creation Diamond.

"The Forgotten Ones are the Seven Infinites." she enchanted as Ben raced after her. "Infinite is the power they produce from the heart. The Beyond Infinite is the one that unifies the Seven's power!"

She then realised the answer to her life-long question.

"The seven diamonds can change our thoughts into power for the meganesses. If the Creation Diamond controls that power.... Please, Beyond Infinite! You MUST stop him, or else the Rapture will start all over again!"

A bright light shone from the Creation Diamond as the young teenage meganess from the mural Ben saw in the temple emerged. She was much MUCH bigger than the other meganesses, about a million feet tall, and was covered in a heavenly aura...

***

"Ben!" exclaimed Johnny. "Wake up!"

Ben had been teleported back to the present again.

"Sorry, bro." said Ben, a bit embarassed. "I guess I was on a snooze cruise, I guess."

"Good thing you were OK. You just seemed to disappear for a couple of minutes." Johnny smiled. "Genesix left already. We've gotta go after the last Genesis Diamond! It should still be onboard the Fusion Destroyer II, albeit without those gigantic sisters from another world!"

***

By the time Ben and Johnny reached the abandoned plane, however, a powerful thunderbolt sound filled the air and a huge blue lightning bolt zapped the diamond. By the time it was gone, so too was the last Genesis Diamond!

"No!" cried Ben. "He's got the last diamond!"

"All Phases complete!" came a voice from the heavens. "Now the Rapture can recommence!"

***

Spirit Central was in a state of peace that day. Nothing out of the ordinary. Until the trumpets sounded...

With one sound, Sharon Spitz emerged. She towered over a section of the city and made it into her ashtray! People screamed as she sexily smoked on a cigarette, blowing smoke into the street below. Her braced smile flashed as she laughed, the ashes starting to burn the city.

With another, Nazz emerged. She looked down cutely on another section of Spirit Central and, with a cry of "Awww, like, you're so cute!", started to kiss it. The amazing colossal ruby lips crushed buildings and sucked people onto them, making them swim within the lipstick.

With another, Trixie Tang emerged. Taking off her shoes and socks, she slammed one of her bare feet into her chosen section, crushing cars and blocking the way out for the people.

"You are so like my slaves!" she laughed.

With another, Mary and Susan Test emerged. With a painted nail, Susan divided their chosen section in half. People dodged the massive nail as it tore through the pavement and separated buildings neatly in half. Now they would be the guinea pigs for their own experiments!

With another, the ten year old Gwen Tennyson emerged, sucking on a lollypop. She laughed as drops of saliva flooded her section, as she began to command the people to fetch all the food (most importantly lollypops) they could find.

With another, Debbie Thornberry emerged. She picked up her section of the city, dropping all the people onto her finger, before wrapping her gum around the city and putting it back in her mouth, chewing it.

With another, Sissy Blakely and Gem Stone emerged. Each of them towered over their sections of city, before sucking it up onto their lips. The people panicked as the city stuck to the lips, now prisoners of the two meganesses.

Once the seven trumpets had sounded, the sky turned dark and the sun became blood red in colour. From a floating throne sat a 20ft half-blue, half-cream dragon, wearing purple robes and a metallic covering upon his shoulders, neck and back. He looked at the meganesses destroying Spirit Central and spoke:

"All the people that the meganesses have chosen will be spared, akin to those that their gods spared before. But they will become slaves to them once Post-Creation is destroyed. And who has found them? Who has freed them? Who will use them to destroy? Who will wipe out this Existence and rebuild it to his likening? ZORDRAK! LORD OF NIGHTMARES!"

Ben looked at the destruction and shivered.

"If I wasn't just dreaming, then that monster is a real menace."

"You weren't dreaming, you annoying Dimension Hero." replied Zordrak. "The young girl I befriended sent you and your friends hurtling through time and space with a small part of the TARDIS' power. The time machine died when it flew into the Raptured Time Vortex, but parts of its power survived."

The roar of engines appeared behind Ben. It was the Dark Moon Carrier, only slightly smaller and slower.

"Looks like Baxola is after Zordrak too." he commented.

"The Dark Moon Carrier II was built in case something like this would happen." Baxola announced in the cockpit via megaphone. "You have defied your master, stupid beast! Now you must be destroyed at all costs! There is no escape. No way out. No Plan B! My cannon guarantees it!!"

The cannon fired, but Zordrak remained unharmed. Reaching out his hand, he fired a blast of blue lightning that blew up the Dark Moon Carrier II, killing Baxola in the process. Or so it seemed to Ben. His gigantic younger cousin, on the other hand, gathered the broken bits, placed them on her half-sucked lollypop and resumed sucking on it cutely.

"I've had enough!" exclaimed Ben. "Who do you think you are, anyway?"
"I am Zordrak, Lord and Legendary Embodiment of Nightmares. Like your friend, Genesix, I survived the Rapture with my memories temporarily forgotten. But when Baxola spoke my name, and I recognised Genesix's body, I gained them back. All Genesix has to do is to find an Embodiment and recognise it before it in turn recognises him."

"So, obviously Genesix doesn't recognise you, or at least he didn't have time to say it, else he would've known by now."
"Yes." Zordrak replied.

The orb of light from earlier came down and brushed against Ben's cheek.

"Now it's starting to make sense!" he cried. "You're Eve, the one who sealed Zordrak in the Creation Diamond. Somehow you must've found a bit of the TARDIS' power in your time and used it to tell us what was going on."

The orb of light, with a wheezing and groaning sound, made Eve appear before Ben. Her form was faint and light.

"My heart has always been in the Creation Diamond along with Zordrak's and the form of Sharon Spitz." she explained. "Now he has remembered who he his, his heart is filled with vengeance and anger. Zordrak was the counterpart of the Legendary Embodiment of Dreams, the DreamMaker, and both were firm enemies in their Dimension in Past-Creation. The meganesses were also members of the Judges, the ones who first fell to the Rapture outside of the Real World before the Legendary Embodiment of Good sealed them in the diamonds and escaped their Dimension's destruction. And if they go on, they will help to destroy all worlds like the Rapture did before. They will survive in their infinite size again."

Zordrak raised his hand. The seven meganesses stood up, growing in size, still toying with their sections of the ruined city. They soon became a million feet tall!

"The Legendary Ten Embodiments will rise again, this time with ME and the Seven Infinites in charge! We will take over the empty space where the Real World once stood and it will be as it was before the Doomsday Project destroyed it!" he laughed.

"Look!" exclaimed Eve. "They have absorbed the power of the Genesis Diamonds! All the power sources salvaged from after the Rapture is now powering the meganesses! Zordrak must be sealed in the Creation Diamond, now!"

"How can that help?" exclaimed Ben. "Don't you see, Eve? He tricked you into helping him remember his memories. If we just seal him back in the Creation Diamond, the Rapture will just continue. How can that help the other nine Embodiments to find him and reunite?"

Eve thought.

"What choice do we have?" she asked.

Just then, from behind the ruined buildings, walked out Rufus, Johnny Test and Genesix, each holding empty diamonds.

"Ben!" came a voice. It was Julie.

"Take this and push the Ultimatrix's button with it." she advised.

"What's going on?" asked Ben.

"Genesix told us that Zordrak and the meganesses only used the negative power of the diamonds. Ben, your Ultimatrix should be able to harness their real power." explained Johnny.

"As much as I hate to admit it, interrogating Zordrak about my real name will have to wait." agreed Genesix.

Ben pressed the seven emeralds to his Ultimatrix and rose into the air. The sound of a thousand universes seemed to be calling his name.

"Negative forces aren't the only way to empower the Genesis Diamonds." Johnny said. "Our positive feelings towards each other can make them work. Our hearts together form an awesome power."

A flash of light filled the air as ALL of Ben's alien forms emerged at once! This in turn began to summon the young teenager from Ben's last trip through time, now a staggering five BILLION feet tall, to compensate for the meganesses' recent growth.

"All hail SISSI DELMAS!" said the girl in a sexy French accent. "Bow before me and the Predicted One and surrender to the BEYOND INFINITE!"

She looked down at the speck-like Ben.

"Ben, sweetie," she said. "Use your alien forms to attack the Legendary Embodiment of Nightmares. I will use my power to harmonize the meganesses and return them to the Genesis Diamonds."

"You imprudent fool!" yelled Zordrak. "Do you think you can stop me? ME?!"

"Don't see why not!" chorused the alien forms. "Wouldn't be the first time, would it?"

Zordrak roared and fired a blue lightning bolt at Ben's glowing form. Ben dodged it and watched as it rebounded off the glowing aura around his body and hit the meganesses, zapping them of their power and reverting them to their 10,000ft size. The towering form of Sissi grabbed them all with her little finger, lifting them to her mouth, watching them scream in terror as she licked her lips. In retaliation, Zordrak charged at Humongosaur and Ultimate Humongosaur with his throne, bashing them and sending them flying. Fortunately, they were caught by the flying alien forms, who then launched them and rammed Zordrak's throne. He spiralled out of control, roaring.

"Stand and deliver!" yelled Ben.

"NEVER!" cried Zordrak. He created a vortex filled with the power of the Rapture, which began to increase his powers. Soon, he fired thousands of lightning bolts at all the alien forms, who then charged and bashed Zordrak off his throne. Zordrak landed on the other hand of the towering Sissi Delmas.

"STOP!" Zordrak commanded the meganesses. "STOP THEM!"

"I don't think so." Sissi commented. A thought brushed her mind and the meganesses were sent back into the colourless diamonds, restoring their power.

"I am the Beyond Infinite. Nothing can destroy me and nothing can make me change my mind. Resistance is futile."

A Dimensional Crack appeared in the dark sky, which opened up to reveal a swirling blue maelstrom. Zordrak felt his body glow as Sissi willed him near the crack.

"The Rapture ends here." she said, a grin on her cute face.

"NO!" yelled Zordrak as the maelstrom caught his body. With another resounding cry of "NOOOOOOOOOO!" he was sucked into the maelstrom as the crack began to close completely, the Argorribles (and the Sleep Mode form of ZUDO-Bug) following him.

The sky returned to its bright colours and the sun became yellow again. The people that the meganesses caught were placed down onto the ground and their ruined sections of the city were restored. Spirit Central was back to the way it was.

***

"Peace has been restored. The battle is finally over. I can't thank you enough." said Eve as Sissi's spirit returned to the Creation Diamond. "There's room now for me, Sissi and Sharon in the Creation Diamond."
"But what about you?" asked Genesix. "Can't you at least ask Sissi to restore your body?"
"My race died a thousand years ago." Eve said. "There's no point in me staying here."

"Where's Zordrak?" asked Ben, his alien forms absorbing themselves back into the Ultimatrix.

"Only the Beyond Infinite knows." replied Eve. "Even though it means Genesix will have to find another way to restore his true identity. But it will come soon, I promise."

"What of Zordrak's Rapture?" asked Julie.

"It wasn't as powerful as the real Rapture that ended the Real World. Instead of ending Post-Creation, it helped BEGAN its life. Post-Creation has 1260 years to rebuild itself, and for its denizens to rejoice and have fun, before Zordrak tries again!"

And with that, Eve waved a goodbye as both she and the orb of power flew into the Creation Diamond.

***

Two days later, Ben and Johnny were enjoying their vacation in Spirit Central, Julie was off shopping, Rufus and Albert were asleep in the forest and Genesix watched as the island flew back into its original area. As he started to nod off, he thought:

"I'll probably be on this floating island forever, guarding the Creation Diamond again until I know my true identity. All that I know is, I'm a Legendary Embodiment. But which one? I may not know the whole story behind the Rapture, the Genesis Diamonds or what happened to me before now, but perhaps it's better that way. For now, I'm at peace once more."

As the winds began to pick up, a page full of difficult writing was stuck onto a nearby tree, probably from the Rapture that Zordrak created. But if only the inhabitants of the island had bothered to look, they would've read:

"The Plumber Research Center: Papers on the Legendary Embodiment of Good. Real Name: PHIL THE VALIANT. Project Codename: GENESIX."

END