Chapter Text
Eon had always been used to receiving his share of physical beatdowns over the years.
Between Paradox and the Ben Tennyson of whichever current timeline he was in he had been hit hard before by the best of them.
But today, he had a short fuse and this particular Ben was driving his personal patience thin.
"STAND STILL YOU PECHULANT CHILD!" Eon screamed at the blue motion blur circling around him as he fired his time beams to dust the annoying pest.
"Nah, don't really feeling like standing still purpledome." XLR8 says none pressing as he dodges another beam he fired at him by Eon.
"Or having you body jacking me so you can do you freaky time antics so you can bring back your race or whatever" XLR8 said as he went in for a punch aimed at Eon's shoulder. The punch Connected but only slightly staggered Eon before XLR8 retreated to avoid another oncoming time beam.
The street around them had been hit by stray shots from Eon's attacks and thus were in various states of decay from accelerated aging. Concrete had been reduced to dust and cars had been rusted to non-functionality.
The latest beam fired hits a bus stop, leaving half of it dust and the other half standing. A poster for "JCJenson cleaning products™" hangs on the side still standing.
Before Eon could lock his eyes back onto the Tennyson he felt the a rash of pain strike across the side of his head as XLR8 landed an sonic speed punch directly into his left check.
Before impacting the ground Eon he deceleration his local time to allow himself enough time to catch his fall with his telekinesis.
As he dragged himself to his feet he heard the slowed sound the Omnitrix's activation sound.
'Lovely, Tennyson is about to transform into Clockwork to counter my powers' Eon thought as his body was raised to his feet once more.
"CLOCKWORK!" A loud cry announced.
Surely enough a flash of green came into Eon's view and just as quickly dissipated to reveal the form of that Chronosapien transformation.
Eon quickly engaged his time manipulation to accelerate his own relative time.
Not a moment too soon as he barely didn't see Clockwork charging towards him with extremely accelerated speed thanks to the Chronosapien's own time manipulating abilities.
Eon reaches out to Clockwork with his telekinic powers as the golden tin can is still rearing back from his missed punch.
"Awe, man...." Clockwork disappointedly pronounced. Eon wasted no time in throwing Tennyson as hard and as far across the street as he could.
Clockwork flew backwards and hit the nearest building in the Bellwood street with enough force shatter the wall and kick up a massive dust cloud that obscured the other side of the street.
Eon used the moment to catch his bearings. "Alright" he said. 'He should've be out from an impact like that one, I should be able to transport him back to a safe house before he wakes up and transfer my mind into his body' He thought as he cautiously approached the assumedly unconscious hero.
As Eon got with in range the smoke cleared up only to reveal an empty crater in the side of the building.
Immediately on guard again, Eon took a defensive stance and searched his entire surroundings for signs of Tennyson.
There was suddenly a cold presence breathing down his spine. "Nice try pal" a ghostly echo spoke. He hastily turned to see the transparent image of Big Chill standing behind him.
He quickly turn to face the Necrofriggian and forced himself to fire his strongest time beams before Tennyson could encase him in ice with Big Chill's cryokenisis to end the fight.
Another flash of green consumes Eon's vision as a stony hand griped his both wrists with just one motion.
As he looked up Big Chill's transparent form was replaced by a bulkier and wider alien compared to the skinny but muscular frame of Big Chill.
"Diamondhead!" The crystalline alien standing before Eon exclaimed as dust produced from Eon's neutralized time beams.
Eon know what this meant, Petrosapien matter was highly resistant to aging (Eon cursed that particular version of Ben 10,000 for letting this current Ben become aware of that property) and his telekinesis was far too weak to damage the crystalline form of the alien in any major way, leaving Eon with out a path to victory.
Eon stood still as the Petrosapien said, "Alright bored now". With that, a mighty punch from Diamondhead was dealt directly into Eon's stomach and immediately toppled him over from the guttural pain.
And with that Eon was done with today. The feeling of his stomach turning on him aside, today had hardly been a productive fight. All he learned was again that Tennyson has begun adapting to always changing to the right aliens to fight him with minimal difficulty and was getting better at doing so.
Sad, but inevitable with the number of fights he has had with this Tennyson of course he was going to improve to the point where Eon's attempts were start resulting in diminishing returns.
As Eon writhed on the ground he found enough strength to stand up and just he found his footing his felt a mass of metallic goo encase his body and slowly watch his suit's purple lighting turn a terrible shade of green.
"Yeah, no not today purple glasses." A one eye green and black mass of an alien said as a head with circuital patterns emerged from Eon's left shoulder plate.
"NO GET OFF ME YOU BRAT!" Eon shout has get desperately swiped his hands at the alien to remove it from his suit, but Upgrade simply retracted his head like a gooey nanotechnology turtle to avoid him.
"Listen man, I enjoy our scuffles as much as the next guy, but I'm getting a little sick of dealing with you. so here's the deal, I'm gonna use your suits systems to send you to the future lets say 1,000 years? and then disable your systems to ensure that you don't come back to bother me, like, ever again, compesh?" The alien's digitised voice proposed from the com speakers inside Eon's helmet
"NO! You don't know what you are doing, cease now!" Eon cried out. Tennyson didn't know Eon's technology he was going to kill them both! Eon felt the temporal syncs within his suit that were designed to help him navigate time begin to warm up and his helmet's hud began feeding him information on his projected location: Earth in the year 3071.
"That should keep you out of my hair for a while, now ready for your one way flight?" The mechamorph eye curled into a shape resembling a smile as Eon was forced to watch his suit light up to forcibly guide time to a far off future.
"NO! NO! NO! NO! I WILL HAVE MY VENGENGE TENNYSON!"
Eon made a futile last threat to the Omnitrix welder before his income temporal banishment.
The alien hero paid no real mind to Eon's words as he prepared the final calculations to banish the time traveler. "Yeah sure bye forever now." There were no other words spoken as Eon's suit shone a blinding green light and wind and dust picked up around him. A loud scream emerges from Eon's lungs as he is dragged away into a far away time beyond sight. Upgrade casually detaches himself from the Chronian's suit before the time wrap is fully completed to avoid himself being trapped in the future as well.
As the light faded and the wind settled Ben stood proudly of himself in a very incredibly egotistical stance. "Welp" his Mechamorph transformation spoke. "Another days work for the greatest hero to ever live, hehe" Ben giggled at his own half joke with the digital filter of his transformation still overlaying his voice.
His transformation stretched its limbs to an extent beyond human capabilities as he yawned "Time to power down Omnitrix, you been good today no mistransformations during that entire fight I'm proud of you" Ben said to the watch as he hit the Omnitrix dial present on his chest to deactivate the transformations. Only for it to remain unresponsive to his input. "Huh" Ben voiced has he realised his efforts were having no effect on his current form. "Oh right" Ben spoke with a sudden realisation. "I see what's going on here, you're just waiting to time out on me, fair play Omnitrix no mistransformations but I don't get to detransform until you're time is up very clever" Ben pronounced with confidence. All he had to do was wait a few minutes and he'd be his human-self again. "Alright I'll play along, any second now I'll be back to human and we can both laugh about this later" thus Ben began to wait for his human form to return
"Any minute now" Ben spoke.
"Any minute now" Ben spoke.
"Any minute now" Ben spoke.
"Any minute now" Ben spoke.
"Any minute now-"
~ 8 Hours later ~
"And that's why I'm been stuck as Upgrade the last 8 hours" Ben defeatedly said to his partner as he held his Mechamorph head between his gooey circuit covered hands as they spat on a time outside their regular Mr. Smoothie's™ location.
Rook stared at him with a carious look. "So Eon showed up to attack you and you fought, you turned into Upgrade, used his Mechamorph physiology to hack into a quote "time radar" in his suit we were previously unaware of and after doing so the Omnitrix has refused to let you revert to human form?"
"That's pretty much it, yeah. I called you not long afterwards and now we're here" Ben Spoke.
"That is carious, are you sure Eon hack to Omnitrix in turn when you were attached to his suit? Also I was unaware 7 hours was consider "not long" in terms of a human day" Rook spoke with a bit of a smirk towards the last part of his comment.
"First of all... shut up I was hoping it would turn off on its own before I called you with that phonebooth" Ben spoke with embarrassment in his digital voice. "Secondly, no I don't think he did, if he had access to the watch's system's then he would have changed me into something other than Upgrade not lock me into being Upgrade while I was still attached to him".
"Perhaps he extended the watches time out function with his Chronokinesis so that while it believes its operating in normal time its actually going a hundredth of the speed of everything else currently" Rook proposed.
"If he did he could have slowed me down too" Ben said with frustration begin to enter his voice. "THIS SUCKS! I can't transform out from Upgrade and I can't drink Smoothies until this stupid thing times out!" Ben shouted with a strain in his digital voice.
"Wait did you just say you cannot even change form from Upgrade?" Rook spoke up with a new theory beginning to form in his head.
"Yeah why? The Omnitrix has locked me to a single transformation before when messing around" Ben asked confusedly.
"I remember reading a case written up by Magister Tennyson before where the Omnitrix refused to let you return to human form due to you currently being in your Splixson transformation and being out of range of one of it's clones at the time" Rook spoke with confidence about his new theory as he slammed his right hand into his left hand's paw.
"What? You mean when I first unlocked Ditto?" Ben questioned.
"Yes, exactly it's a failsafe to ensure the user is not missing potential parts of their physic when detransforming. Ben do you believe it is possible a piece of Upgrade was still attached to Eon while he was time jumping?" Rook asked with a new found concern at the implications of his realisation.
"I mean... no, that would be absurd, its not like Upgrade has... no centralised brain structure so he his mind would be... in all parts of the body... and I do feel lighter than normal as Upgrade ever since I defused with Eon's suit..." Ben spoke with a slow awareness of what had occurred to him.
A silence over took the table as Upgrade's eye began to frown intensely.
"Awe... man"
~ Earth, 3071 ~
Eon awoke atop a pile of rumble bathed in a yellow light. He coughed as he removed the rubble laying atop his body. He began to recall his fight with Tennyson and check his suit's temporal syncs. 'It appear Tennyson lived up to his words, great that's at least a week's worth of fixing if I want to have accurate and precise time jumps in the future. Wonderful' he thought as he stood and brushed his coat of dust from his previous entrapment.
As Eon began to pay more attention to his surroundings he noticed it was night time... despite his hud read the current time as 11:23 am and it still said Bellwood so he had not teleported alongside his time wrap. This itself was nothing, Tennyson just messed with his time sync he could mess with GPS and internal clock. However the more he paid attention more more he noticed... oddities, there was no atmosphere according to his hud, there were no buildings in sight that were not ruins and the yellow light he was bathed in was seemingly coming from... a pit in front of him?
As Eon walked towards the mysterious pit he felt gravity increase in intensity before he began to see what was other the edge. There was no shaft leading downwards to a pit, no. Instead Eon could see the night sky again, or rather Eon saw space itself staring back at time as well as the remains of what look like a planet's upper crust. He realised he stood atop the remains of one such crust now floating in the void, but that was not what disturbed him most. No for in the center of the crusts was the source of the yellow light. It sat in there, it pulsed, and writhed in ways something found in a planet's center should not.
Eon stared into the cosmic eye of a planet consuming beast as it's tentacle like limbs of light waved around the remaining crust and into the void. As word in English was inexplicably floating inside the mass of the assumed destroyer of the planet Earth. A word that like represented its intentions to the rest of the universe and maybe specifically Eon in that one moment if whatever was before him was even aware of his tiny presence in the darkness.
[NULL]
:3
~ Elsewhere, 3071 ~
Across the universe a pile of green and black patterned circuit covered goo began to drag itself across a frozen waste land of a planet, from its limited ability to sense it could see the outline of human skeletons in various positions scattered across a ruined city scape. Two planet reflected light from the system's sun like the moon of Earth would, providing a much need assistant to the fragment's path finding.
It had a mission and wanted to complete it as soon as possible, return to whole. It understood its will was that of the Omnitrix's failsafe's in case of separation from the main user to ensure that lost aspects of the user would be able reunite and transform back with the user. It was luck it was currently in the form of a Galvanic Mechamorph as its ability to alter technology would allow it to either travel to or contact its origin point faster.
As it dragged itself along the ground it came across an odd sight, it appeared to be a robot of some design. Its glass face plate was shattered and its chest had been cut open by what appeared to be claw marks. It was unusable as a host for the Mechamorph mass due to damage, however that fact there is one means there is more than likely others in a better state of repair it could use to advanced its return to origin point.
It shall look further for active potential hosts to assist its return home.