(Our heroes had parked themselves outside of the library as Gwen stood at the computer for research.)
Gwen: "The files are really corroded."
(Gwen said.)
Gwen: "But it looks like this base was built for some king of time travel experiment called Project Paradox."
Kevin: "Who wouldn't pick the desert outside Bellwood for some top secret research?"
(Kevin asked.)
Ben: "They built it here because of the huge quartz deposits."
(Ben explained.)
Allison: "Quartz? Time?"
(Allison asked with a chuckle.)
Allison: "Maybe they were trying to build the world's biggest wrist watch."
Ben: "Not funny, dude."
(Ben said.)
(They looked up the scientist in charge of Project Paradox as Gwen looked at his picture.)
Jen: "His name's been censored."
(Jen said.)
Jen: "But whoever he was, his paradox theory was the basis of some kind of tunnel through time."
Becky: "Come on."
(Becky said as they walked off to the laboratory to find the destroyed time tunnel.)
Kevin: "This place looks like our apartment after that big party I threw last weekend."
(Kevin said to the group as Jen chuckled.)
Becky: "By the way, that was pretty rad."
(Becky said as she jabbed her friend and she chuckled.)
Allison: "It took me all day to clean up after you and those crazy kids."
Gwen: "That thing was here too."
(Gwen said, looking at the burn trail.)
Ben: "It's all one big trail."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "It either came here and vanished."
Becky: "Or it was born here."
(Becky surmised.)
(Everyone heard some crashing from the other room and Ben and Jen hurriedly regenerated their helmets around their heads before slamming the Omnitrixes down to transform into...)
Swampfire: "Swampfire!"
Spidermonkey: "Spidermonkey!"
(Spidermonkey ran forwards and shot the webbing out from her tail, hitting its target as Swampfire ran forwards and grabbed the intruder by the shoulders.)
Swampfire: "I got you."
(They looked down to see the scientist from the computer file before them before he simply teleported his way out of the webbing.)
the scientist: "Swampfire. Spidermonkey."
(he said.)
the scientist: "That takes me back. Or is it forward? It's so hard to tell, Ben, Jen. Have we met?"
(Swampfire glared as he and his sister stepped back.)
Spidermonkey: "How do you know our names?"
(Spidermonkey asked.)
the scientist: "Have we met yet, I suppose the question should have been."
(the scientist said.)
Allison: "Hey, it's that guy from the photo."
(Allison said.)
Kevin: "The Paradox guy."
(Kevin confirmed.)
Gwen: "You haven't aged at all. In 60 years."
(Gwen said.)
the scientist: "Oh, it's been considerably more than that. Gumball, anyone?"
Swampfire: "No thanks."
(Swampfire said.)
Swampfire: "Who are you?"
Spidermonkey: "What's your name?"
(Spidermonkey asked.)
the scientist: "The six of you just read my file. I was rather hoping you could tell me. It slipped my mind several hundred years ago."
Becky: "Did he just say several hundred years?"
(Becky asked, stunned.)
Swampfire: "Yeah, did-"
(Swampfire began, only to look back to see that the scientist was no longer there.)
the scientist: "By the way."
(he said from the corner.)
the scientist: "You haven't happened to see a space-time anomaly around here, have you? About yea-big? Incredibly destructive? Virtually unstoppable? No, I Must have been thinking of another moment. Ta-ra."
(As he left, Kevin ran after him, only to find that he suddenly vanished.)
(Allison looked out of the corner to see that the scientist was...)
Allison: "He's over there! Outside!"
Swampfire: "He's obviously connected to that creature."
(Swampfire suggested.)
Spidermonkey: "We need to talk to him."
(Spidermonkey said.)
Kevin: "Oh yeah."
(Kevin said.)
Kevin: "We'll talk."
(Kevin absorbed the concrete from the wall and ran forwards with a shout, breaking the wall and ran towards the scientist.)
The scientist: "Right after the pounding!"
(The scientist shrugged and stepped behind the telephone pole to vanish, leaving behind a confused Kevin.)
Kevin: "Huh?"
(He looked beside him to see said scientist step inside the apartments, leaving.)
(Kevin burst throgh the door in anger, wrecking the apartments inside and out as the scientist shrugged from outside.)
the scientist: "Was I in there?"
(He ran away as Swampfire and Kevin burst through the door as the group all aimed their powers/weapons at him as he smirked from across the road.)
Spidermonkey: "How does he move so fast?"
(Spidermonkey asked.)
the scientist: "You mean how do I move so quickly?"
(he asked as he suddenly appeared by another apartment.)
the scientist: "It's called warping."
(He suddenly appeared by Allison as she looked over to him.)
the scientist: "Strolling, really."
Allison: "That's better."
(she said, grabbing the collar of his lab coat.)
the scientist: "Easy on the jacket, it's 1,200 years old."
(he said, not even a little bit scared.)
the scientist: "Anyways, thanks."
Swampfire: "Thanks? For what?"
(Swampfire asked.)
the scientist: "Well, I had a feeling that if you made a loud enough racket, he'd show up."
Becky: "He?"
(Becky asked as she looked behind her to see the anomaly appear behind them.)
Kevin: "Finally, something we can hit!"
(Kevin said.)
the scientist: "Oh, I really don't think that's a good idea!"
Gwen: "Those trails."
(Gwen said, looking at the markings that the anomaly left behind it.)
Gwen: "They're not burn marks, they're age! The creature accelerates time!"
the scientist: "Very good, Gwen!"
(the scientist said as Kevin ran ahead while the others hesitated.)
Kevin: "Not so fast, ugly!"
(He ran forwards and punched the anomaly as it passed, only for him to feel a shock as his armor dissolved in front of him and he felt his skin wrinkle and his muscles start to give way.)
(He fell forwards onto the ground as the scientist ran after the anomaly and the others gathered around him.)
Allison: "Kevin!"
(Allison said, turning him over, only to reveal that Kevin was an old man now!)
Gwen: "Kevin!"
(Gwen said as the Omnitrixes timed out.)
Jen: "Just touching that thing aged him sixty, eighty years give or take."
(Jen analyzed.)
Ben: "We've got to get him to a hospital."
(Ben said as Kevin came to and got to his feet.)
Kevin: "What are you doing? Get your hands off of me!"
Becky: "He's fine."
(Becky sighed.)
Kevin:: "If you call being aged 60 years in the blink of an eye, yes!"
Allison: "Come on, Kevin. We're going to get you some help."
(Allison said.)
Kevin: "Help? I don't need help! I'm gonna kick that thing's keister!"
(Kevin shouted just before he grunted in pain as he felt his back go.)
Jen: "Are you okay?"
(Jen asked.)
Kevin: "My back is killing me, my legs ache and what's up with these shoes? Is it too much to ask for a little support?!"
Gwen: "He's like a really irritable, short-tempered, crotchety old man."
(Gwen said.)
Allison: "Why are we whispering?"
Ben: "In other words, apart from the ill-patterned baldness, he's pretty much the same as always."
(Ben said with a chuckle.)
Ben: "So, I guess this makes you the younger sister, Ally."
Allison: "Don't even go there."
Jen: "Let's go."
(Jen said as they left for Kevin's car.)
[To Be Continued...]