Becky: "But all it's doing is messing up an old army base."
(Becky said.)
Becky: "Why is that a problem at all? Why not just leave it alone?"
Paradox: "That's a better question for the man on the moon."
Ben: "What?"
(Ben asked.)
Ben: "Who's the man on the moon?"
Paradox: "I am!"
(Everyone suddenly shot their heads around in awe, finding that they were on the moon.)
Allison: "Probably some sort of time trick."
(Allison said.)
Ben: "We're on the moon."
(Ben said.)
Paradox: "No. We're on the moon in your distant future."
Kevin: "What?!"
(Kevin shouted.)
Kevin: "How are we still alive?! How can we breathe?"
Paradox: "Good question. Not remotely the point though."
(Paradox smirked.)
Paradox: "Imagine what the Earth would look like in, say, 200 years with that time monster wandering all over it, aging everything that crossed its path to dust. For those of you with no imagination, the Earth is up there."
(Everyone looked up... and then immediately regretted it.)
(They saw the planet with tons of browns and greys, no blues or greens at all.)
(It was surrounded by a red aura and looked incapable of supporting any kind of life whatsoever.)
Jen: "You brought us to the worst possible version of the future."
(Jen said, her eyes widening in horror.)
Paradox: "No, Jennifer. Should I fail to stop that creature, this is your best possible future."
???: "Not a pretty sight, is it?"
(an identical voice said as they looked to see an exact copy of Paradox ahead of them.)
Paradox: "What are you doing here?"
Parallel Paradox: "I'm allowing myself to feel the full impact of my failure."
Jen: "Okay, who's he?"
Ben: "He's a parallel Paradox."
(Ben realized.)
Jen: "We're meeting up with the same guy who came from a different point in the past."
(Jen said.)
Parallel Paradox: "The twins have an innate sense of trans-temporal metaphysics. Something that will serve them well in their future... or should I say past?"
Ben: "Bet I drive good too."
(Ben smirked to Kevin, who groaned.)
Kevin: "We can breathe on the moon in the future, but you can't fix our rides?"
Paradox: "What should I do?"
Parallel Paradox: "Obviously, not what I did."
(the parallel Paradox stated.)
Parallel Paradox: "But whatever you do, you'd rather do it quickly. Time is running out."
Allison: "Let's do it."
(Allison said as Paradox activated his pocket watch and transported them back to their present and Gwen and Allison tied their masks back in place as Ben and Jen regenerated their helmets.)
Omni-Pink: "Why come back here, though?"
(Omni-Pink asked.)
Omni-Pink: "Why don't we travel back in time and stop the time experiment from ever happening?"
Paradox: "Isn't it just like an energy being to think outside temporal convention?"
(Paradox asked.)
Gwen: "We're only half-energy being."
(Gwen deadpanned.)
Paradox: "The experiment that releases the creature, also unsticks me in time. And that must happen because, in all modesty-"
Ben: "You've saved the world dozens of times."
(Ben realized.)
Paradox: "Hundreds, actually. In fact, one time, you, your sister and I work together to save the entire uni- never mind. The creature should be here any-"
(It was at at that point that they heard some crashing and roaring as they heard the creature approach.)
Paradox: "You could set your watch by it."
(They saw the church by them start to decay and fall apart as the twins nodded and slammed their cores down, transforming into-)
Jetray: "Jetray!"
AeroForce: "AeroForce!"
(As the creature approached from the rubble of the church, Jetray blasted his neuroshocks at it while AeroForce sent out her mini-cyclones towards it, both doing absolutely nothing.)
(Paradox reached into his pocket and pulled out a ton of... gumballs, which he threw at the creature, prompting it to stop.)
Jetray: "They hit it?"
(Jetray wondered.)
Jetray: "Doesn't everything age into oblivion as soon as they touch this thing?"
Paradox: "Gumballs last a really long time. Look under your desks at school, now get back!"
(Jetray and AeroForce looked to see the creature approach before they immediately took to the sky.)
(Lucky Girl aimed her mana bolts at it, but Paradox jumped in front of the creature and shouted out as he grabbed it in a hold and grunted out.)
Huntress: "Let go!"
(Huntress said.)
Huntress: "He'll age you into dust!"
Paradox: "I exist outside of time. But I can still feel the eons passing!"
(The twins then nodded to each other as they transformed back.)
Omni-Green: "Paradox."
(Omni-Green said.)
Omni-Green: "Take us back to the accident, now."
Paradox: "But I told you!"
Omni-Green: "Just do it!"
(Paradox groaned as he used his warping power to send the Omni-Team and the creature back to the time and place of the accident.)
Omni-Pink: "Guys, the lab! Quick!"
(Omni-Pink shouted as the team all ran towards the lab.)
Matter Girl: "You keep that thing occupied!"
(Matter Girl shouted.)
Paradox: "Keep it occupied? I'm a time traveling hero! I don't keep things occupied!"
(Our heroes snuck into the lab with a nod.)
the general: "You sure this thing is gonna work?"
(the general asked as the team ducked down to avoid his gaze.)
the general: "Your time machine has cost the US government a pretty penny, Doctor."
(Our heroes snuck behind the blackboard as the past version of Paradox explained his theory.)
Past Paradox: "As to cost, I believe the alleviation of untold human suffering throughout history is ample justification, general."
Omni-Green: "Why would it use the phone?"
(Omni-Green asked.)
Lucky Girl: "What?"
(Lucky Girl asked.)
Omni-Pink: "The creature."
(Omni-Pink realized.)
Omni-Pink: "It tried to use the payphone. Then it went to the police station, then the dorms. The way I see it, this thing didn't act like some unfathomable trans-dimensional creature. It did everything a normal person would do. I think it was looking for something. Or someone."
Huntress: "It's what we would do if we suddenly found ourselves in an abandoned military base, right?"
(Huntress agreed.)
(The team then heard a rumble as the time tunnel powered up and they looked off and gulped.)
Matter Girl: "Oh no."
(Matter Girl said.)
Matter Girl: "The experiment's starting."
(They looked and saw the time vortex appear in the tunnel... just as the lab assistant, Hugo, stumbled back into the controls and accidentally hit them, causing an explosion to occur.)
Omni-Green: "Look there! The assistant!"
(Omni-Green said as Hugo panicked at the sudden explosion.)
(The materials all in the laboratory started to trail themselves into the tunnel and Paradox was sucked in as well.)
(Hugo tried to grab a cabinet, only to start to be sucked into the vortex as well as the Omni-Twins stood up and ran upwards to try to reach him.)
Lucky Girl: "Guys, you'll be sucked in along with him!"
(Lucky Girl said.)
Omni-Green: "Then I may need to put on a little weight!"
(Omni-Green said as he adjusted his Omnitrix and transformed into...)
Humungousaur: "Humungousaur!"
(The soldiers witnessing the event gasped as Humungousaur reached out his hand to Hugo as he lost his grip and was floating in midair.)
Humungousaur: "Trust me. This beats the alternative!"
(he said.)
(Hugo shouted out as he took Humungousaur's large hand and he pulled them back towards the wall as Omni-Pink and Lucky Girl nodded to each other as the latter's eyes and tattoos glowed white as she hovered in the air and the two shouted out and blasted tons of spells and mana blasts into the vortex, much to the three soldiers' astonishment as the tunnel collapsed in on itself and the vortex closed.)
(Paradox looked concerned as the anomaly moved forwards and brought the two of them closer to the wall... only for it to fade from his grasp, as if disappearing from existence altogether.)
(In reality, he looked down to find that he was in fact holding...)
Paradox: "Hugo! Of course! If it were a snake it would've bit me."
(The Omni-Team approached with a smirk, especially on the twins' faces as they fist-bumped.)
Ben And Jen: "Pound it."
(they said in unison.)
Paradox: "Well, don't look so smug. I would've figured it out eventually."
Ben: "You had 100,000 years! We figured it out in an hour!"
(Ben shouted as Paradox teleported them all away, leaving Hugo behind.)
(Back in the present, Paradox smiled at the team as they stood by him in front of the library.)
Paradox: "Well, I have to admit it. I'm impressed. No one's been able to outsmart me like that in a long long time."
Jen: "I think we know a few people who can relate."
(Jen said.)
Paradox: "All those years trapped in the event horizon and it never occurred to me that the accident wasn't my fault. You're much smarter now than when I gave you credit for in the future."
Ben: "Thanks... I guess."
(Ben said as Allison smiled and jabbed him in the arm.)
Becky: "But there's one thing I don't understand, though."
(Becky asked.)
Gwen: "And what's that?"
(her sister asked.)
Becky: "What happened to your assistant?"
???: "I lived my life."
(They all turned their heads to see Hugo smiling at them, now visibly 60 years older.)
Paradox: "Hugo! How are you?"
(Paradox asked as he walked over and shook his old assistant's hand.)
Hugo: "Well, you look the same. And I haven't seen you in sixty years."
Paradox: "Well, I haven't seen you in 100,000 years. But you don't look that bad. How was your life?"
Hugo: "Good, a good life."
(Hugo said.)
Hugo: "But I'm sorry about the experiment. I ruined everything. I never got to time travel."
Paradox: "Would you still like to?"
Hugo: "Yes. I'm not afraid anymore."
Paradox: "Glad to hear it."
(Paradox said, opening his pocketwatch.)
Paradox: "How about I give you a behind the scenes look at eternity?"
(He then opened a portal before he looked to Jen as he smiled at her.)
Paradox:: "We will be seeing each other again soon. You have a great destiny... Master Spark."
(he said with a wink of his eye before he took Hugo's shoulder and led him through the time portal as it closed behind them.)
Gwen: "At least he's got company now."
(Gwen mused as Kevin and Allison sighed.)
Kevin: "Oh, and thanks for stranding the six of us out here in the middle of nowhere!"
Allison: "Come on, guys."
(Allison said, putting her hands in her pockets.)
Allison: "It's going to be a long, lonely walk home."
(The six heroes set off towards Bellwood, but when they turned the corner, their eyes suddenly widened as far as their faces could go when they saw Kevin's car and Allison's motorcycle just sitting there, looking no different from when the anomaly destroyed them.)
Kevin: "Aw, stoked!"
(Kevin said as he ran towards his car and got into the driver's seat as Allison excitedly turned her keys and revved up her motorcycle with a cheer as she rolled her fist.)
Allison: "It's like new!"
Kevin: "It's not like new."
(Kevin said as they filed in.)
Kevin: "It is new. Factory new from 40 years ago. Paradox, I take back everything I almost said about you!"
Allison: "I spent my entire life's savings at the time for this baby. I'm not letting her go."
(Allison said as she smiled.)
(It was at that point that the twins noticed a note underneath the windshield wiper of Kevin's car.)
(Ben took it and read it out loud.)
Ben: "'Kevin, try to keep in mind that if this car or your sister's bike come into contact with anything else from the year 1976, they will explode like antimatter. Enjoy-Paradox.'"
Kevin: "He's kidding, right?"
(Kevin asked.)
Kevin: "That's some kind of time travel joke, right?"
(Allison smiled and rolled her eyes as she took the lead as they drove back home.)
Kevin: "Isn't it? Guys?"
[To Be Continued...]