Secret of the Omnitrix (Gren)

Secret of the Omnitrix is the twenty-third episode of Gren 10 (CYOA).
==Plot==
Gren, Octavia, Rex, Kai, and Lucy were inside Sydney Springs, a shopping plaza for SydneyWorld. They had gotten a vacation to the amusement area to try and relax after Animo’s attack. Lucy and Octavia were checking out dresses in a shop while Rex and Gren were next door in an arcade as Kai was outside waiting.
“I can't even believe we're here having fun after just stopping global extinction. Still feels unreal that things could've gone that wrong…,” Gren said.
“It’s not like we can go back to school..” Rex pointed out as he shot a basketball and missed, “Damn it.”
“Yeah. I suppose." Gren picked up a ball and attempted a launch as well. "Probably going to take a while to rebuild too. Hopefully there's a solution that isn't training on an asteroid or something."
“I guess we'll just have to wait and see. For now though, maybe we can see who’s the first to lose their lunch on Rock n Roller Coaster or Terror Tower. My bet is on Kai,” Rex said.
	“I heard that!” Kai called from outside.
“Well, I can tell you it won't be me. After the first few teleports and quite some time flying as Astrodactyl and Paralite, I've gotten resistant to feeling sick." Gren said.
The group headed into Prototype Living Experimental Dome Obode aka PLEDO, there were a few different areas of exploration. A Past and present section as well as countries around the world which had, China, Korea, Japan, Brazil, Germany, France, Sweden, Morocco, Britain, Canada, Egypt, and more.
Lucy looked at a map in one hand while holding Gren’s hand in the other.
“What should we do first?” Lucy asked.
“Call me biased but let's check out what they have in Brazil , Gren chuckled. "Maybe it'll be good to feel at home for a bit "
“Probably an Americanized Brazil…” Kai commented.
The gang headed through Asia and got to Brazil’s section which had food carts, restaurants, a calm river boat ride titled ‘Amazonian Adventure’
“Overall not bad. Slightly... off, but that's to be expected. They gotta aim for things people are gonna 'recognize' as Brazilian I suppose. I'll admit though, I think I'm still so full of adrenaline after all that happened that I don't think a calm boat ride is gonna be very enjoyable right now. Though maybe that's what I need to calm down..."
“We could also go to the Future Plaza area and try their Crash Course ride. ‘Driving’ cars into crashes. It goes about 90mph,” Rex said, reading off his phone.
“Oh now that sounds more like it!" Kind of a morbid concept for a ride when you think about it, but it doesn't sound any less fun,” Gren agreed.
The group walked back to the front of the park and got in line for Crash Course. After about one hundred minutes of waiting, the ride is finally in front of them as they load up. Rex in the ‘driver seat’, Octavia next to him and Kai in the passenger. In the back was Lucy and Gren as a random eleven year old was placed in the middle of them. They moved up the track as a worker checked to make sure all safety restraints were on. 
After they were cleared to go the ride started. They went through a glowing tunnel as their car was scanned showing the design and ‘mods’ they added in the line queue.
“Welcome to the test track. We will begin with a capability test to see how your vehicle does under weather and surface situations. Monitoring the road surface”, the ride spoke.
The ride started moving through a rainy scene as it shook them around and about creating a ‘fake’ crash before it moved onto an icy scene doing the same thing.
Gren instinctively moved his hand to the Omnitrix with the first 'crash' only to realize it at the last second. "...Oops. Fun ride so far."
While the group was screaming and having fun, the kid with them was emotionless just sitting still. The car moved on to a thunderstorm scene and when the car was ‘struck’ the watch flashed orange creating a pulse feedback that was absorbed into the car. The car sped up out of control or normal for the ride as the speedometer hit 130mph. 
Rex panicked and opened up the speedometer trying to tinker with it to slow down. The kid in the backseat is still emotionless. Gren stared at the watch and tried to activate it, considering Grey Matter to fix the car but with no time, going for Upgrade instead. As much as Gren tried to slam the watch down, it wouldn’t work. 
As the car was about to come around the corner Rex finally got control of the car and was able to fix the speed returning it back to its normal pace. With a relaxed sigh of relief, Rex fixed up what he broke as the ride finally ended.
“That was a close one, I don't know what happened with the watch... but it doesn't seem good." Gren tried to tamper with it. "Do you guys think I should bring this up to Myaxx?"
“She’s still in recovery, but maybe Xylene could help when we get back?” Rex said.
“Right. I just think she could know better since she helped make it or like, worked with the guy who did or whatever. Probably nothing too serious either way."
The rest of their day at PLEDO was uneventful minus Rex being the one to puke first on Space Station Protocol. Kai laughed at him as they soon went to their hotel for the night.
In their hotel villa, Kai was making the group dinner as a beam of light shot into the living room as Tetrax and Vitus arrived after many months in space. They greeted the group with a hand gesture to their chest moving it to the side.
“Oh hey Vitus! And… the other guy… Just kidding Tetrax, I’ve gotten over it. Why are you two here? If it’s about the academy blowing up, you’re slightly too late.” Gren said.
“We already knew about the academy but were still on our way back from deep space. We are here because we picked up on the watch’s self-destruct mode,” Tetrax laid out plainly.
“Ah, okay. Makes sense it would take a while, but if you picked up on the-" Gren frozen for a moment. “WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT HAS A SELF-DESTRUCT MODE?!"
“Myaxx had theorized the creator made a self-destruct mode in case the watch ever fell into the wrong hands. Given it’s unlikely he’s heard of you something else must have tipped it off,” Tetrax said.
“It HAD to be the earthworms in the jello!” Vitus thought out loud.
“...yes, yes, the 'earthworms in the jello'. Do you know how to turn it off, Tetrax?" Gren asked.
“No and with Myaxx in recovery still, we will need to locate the creator right away or else the universe will explode,” Tetrax stated, “I’ve picked up some equipment that might be able to help us scan the Omnitrix for his DNA signature.”
“Ah, well, then it's not really a big deal, we just have to scan-” Gren froze again, “WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE UNIVERSE WILL EXPLODE?"
“Will you stop that? We can solve this before then in about…” Tetrax looked at the watch, “about four and a half earth days.”
“Oh I'm sorry I'm not coping well with the fact if we don't find a guy who's been missing for years to shut off this thing, everything that exists will be destroyed, Tetrax. I really should not be losing my mind over this situation. Why are we not on our way yet?”
Tetrax rolled his eyes as he teleported the Gren and Vitus back to his ship along with himself. Vitus scurried to the pilot’s room as Tetrax took Gren to the lab to analyze the watch. The ship roared to life as it took off to deep space.
The scan started as a holographic projection of the watch’s blueprints appeared. Tetrax tried looking for anything of note.
“Damn thing, there’s no inscription or anything…”
“Can't I have Grey Matter or Upgrade try to fix it? Not that it worked when I tried transforming earlier..." Gren asked.
“This is the type of thing another being would better help assess then a transformation tampering with it while on them,” Tetrax stated before an idea popped in his head.
He put the watch back together before examining the back of it finding a signature.
“I’ve got it. Now to scan for his location based on this…..” Tetrax glared, “He’s on…. Incarceron??”
.”..That's not a reassuring tone." Gren replied.
“It’s a prison planet. Where ex-cons live after constant relapse. An-” Tetrax is interrupted by a security alert on the ship, “Something is in the ship that shouldn’t be here.”
“A stowaway? Let's get 'em! Or uh, you get them, still not sure I can transform."
“Still let’s split up and cover more ground,” Tetrax ordered.
“Fine." Gren went off in the opposite direction as him to check out what it could be.
After some time searching the place, Gren found Lucy using the hoverboard simulator.
“Lucy!" Gren exclaimed, then repeated as a whisper as to not alert Tetrax. "I'm so glad you're here, I'd go crazy stuck here with Tetrax and Vitus for four whole days. How did you get in?"
“About that,” Lucy smiled as she changed her form into Vitus, implying he was back at the SydneyWorld villa.
“..oh. Tetrax is gonna be so mad. But wait, if you were already here... is there another intruder on the ship?"
“Probably me when I changed out of the Vitus disguise,” Lucy said.
“Oh great, now it’s just me, Gluto and you two…” Tetrax sighed, walking in having found nothing of note on his search.
“Gluto? And, don't get me wrong, I like Vitus, but... frankly we'll be fine without him”, Gren said.
“Gluto is the pilot. How else did you think we were flying with me not at the controls?” Tetrax asked.
He left the two in the simulation room as Lucy started looking through the course catalog quietly.
Gren groaned at Tetrax. "This whole situation is so... ugh. We just saved all of Earth from being turned into monsters, and now the universe might explode unless we find a Galvan in a massive, dangerous prison planet? Come on..."
“It just never ends….” Lucy commented.
“Well, at least you're here. I'd much rather hear your voice than Vitus' weird food ramblings. Anything particularly fun in that simulator?"
“Give it a whirl,” Lucy said, loading up one of the levels.
Gren nodded with a smile and readied himself. As he flew through the course, Lucy was standing in the simulated sky next to him talking.
“Do you ever wish you could stop being a hero? Or at least not have the Omnitrix? Maybe things would be less stressful? Like maybe after the creator fixes the watch, he could remove it?” Lucy asked.
“I… have considered it to be honest. Not that I don't like being a hero, I feel absolutely great saving people. The problem is when the costs outweigh the benefits. In a lot of cases, if it weren't for the watch I wouldn't have needed to save 'em to begin with. Like the uh, bounty hunters kidnapping you in that training simulation. Rojo being turned into a cyborg, Kevin into a monster. Kevin beating up Rojo, technically. Rex's arm. The... potential destruction of the entire universe... I could go on. I've seriously considered giving up on it before, if given the option. Then again, maybe if I didn't have it, we'd all be animal mutants by now. It's tough. Or maybe not, if I didn't have to rely on it to be a hero. Kind of disappointing I didn't inherit even a little bit of grandpa's super soldier thing."
“I… I’ve been thinking about dropping out of the academy… if it ever even reopens to begin with…,” Lucy admitted.
Gren smiled reassuringly at Lucy. "Yeah, and I get why... I'll support you no matter what you decide to do, too. It really isn't easy."
“We are coming up on Incarceron, get to the cockpit for landing protocol,” Tetrax called out on a sound system.
As they approached the planet, a robotic voiced requested identification or be destroyed for trespassing. Tetrax quickly entered codes into the computer next to him as the planet defenses prepared to shoot them down. After eight tries, Tetrax finally got the correct clearance. They landed in a sanitation bay as Tetrax started to leave. 
	‘Stay here, wouldn’t want the aliens here to get any ideas seeing a human,” he ordered.
	Lucy changed her form to Vitus only without the Plumber uniform and smiled.
What kinds of ideas do you think- you know what nevermind I don't wanna know." He waited until Tetrax got out of sight. "Absolutely no way I'm staying here though."
Tetrax and Lucy left into the planet leaving Gren to sneak around behind them. Gren tried to make an assessment of the criminals in the planet - and most importantly, look for any potential familiar faces, besides Azmuth - who all he knew about was Galvan Or at least, might have been - Myaxx only said he left their planet, but not necessarily he was one of them.
A firm hand wrapped around Gren’s neck as a voice whispered, “Keep your head down and follow me”
Gren compiled for the sake of not causing a commotion and tried to examine who it was.. Gren followed them into a little shack as they pulled down their mask and hood revealing Kevin, who was free from his mutation.
“What are you doing here, Gren?” Kevin asked.
“..Kevin?" Gren called out in shock, making sure to keep a low tone. "What are you doing here? I thought you were in the Null Void, how did you escape?"
“By sheer luck… but so did Vilgax… once I was out we both arrived here. He left immediately and I ran into a guy named Azmuth who helped me out of my mutation. Spent the time after that to now just trying to live. Figured I fucked up at Codon too much to go back. Now why are YOU here,” Kevin asked.
.
“I'm looking for Azmuth! Long story short, Animo tried to make the entire planet his lab rats so eye shot him into a reactor and either that or a cheap park ride messed up the watch so if it's not fixed in four days, the whole universe blows up."
“First off was that a fucking eye pun? Second, well that’s going o be an issue… Azmuth left weeks ago,” Kevin explained.
“Yeah, new alien, covered in elemental laser eyes. I'm thinking of calling him 'Eye Guy' but it's kind of a lame na- he left? To where?"
“I’m not sure. Maybe we can check out his old place here for clues?”
“Sure, can you take me there? Man, I'm so glad to see you again and that you're fine... We were really worried, trying to find a way to rescue you."
	“I mean it all worked out I guess? What’s happened since I’ve been gone?” Kevin asked as he grabbed a spare costume for Gren to hide in.
“Oh boy. A lot. First there was this whole incident I'm not sure was real or a fever dream where V and I traveled to the future to fight the President of Brazil after Argit helped her hijack Vilgax's corpse. You were there, Rex was there, uh... some kids from when we went to a camp to fight alien mushrooms, they were there too, I think. You were already on the void when we did that. Anyway, somewhere between that, Animo gave Rex a new arm that gave him a bunch of tech powers but also messed up his head, leading to his personality and memories being repressed because of something inside him, but we got him fixed recently thanks to another new alien - you'd like that one, I gotta show you later. But also one of the evil aliens my grandpa killed was resurrected and tried to possess him with help of an alien monster gang - thankfully, the hotel owner mummy woman was really nice to me on our way up to the space station and we managed to get her to help us beat him alongside a group of huntresses. Oh, and Lucy and I are dating now. Guess you didn't miss out on much?", Gren explained, catching his breath. “Oh yeah, and the Animo thing, but I already told you that one."
“I wasn’t in the Null Void for the camp mission. I just couldn’t go because I was mutated. Wait, you and Lucy? Shit… I owe V SO much money,” Kevin said as he handed Gren a costume.
“Right... Wait, was it really that obvious from the start?", Gren asked as he put on the costume. "Anyway, what I was saying, I don't think you messed up too much to go back, they'd probably be happy to have you back... oh, I knew I was missing a detail. There isn't really an academy to go back to anymore... Animo blew it up and, um... JT and Cash are presumed dead. I'm really sorry, Kevin. I know they were your friends."
“I wasn’t really close with them, only Argit. Speaking of…” he opened a room presumably Argit’s and tore it apart grabbing a toolkit, “This will help us get in quicker.”
“We'll probably need it, the watch isn't exactly working right, even self destruction aside."
The two arrive outside another shack as Kevin gets to work on getting inside. As Kevin worked away an alien came up to them.
“What do you two think you are doing?” he asked.
“I, uh... maintenance work?" Gren replied, putting on a deeper tone while trying to get a better look at the alien.
The alien readied his mace hand as it came swinging down at Gren.
“I’m sure, the owner wouldn’t appreciate someone breaking into their house,” he screamed.
Gren rolled to the side to dodge the attack and tried to transform into Spitter to fight the alien. Spitter shot out a stream of pressure pushing the alien back. He quickly reduced the pressure by blocking with his mace hand. Spitter took a moment to "reload" before spewing slime once more, this time aiming at the alien's legs. The alien jumped over Spitter landing behind him before striking his backside. Kevin absorbed the floor before jumping to Gren’s aid.
“This is slightly annoying. Can’t you just mind your business?” Kevin asked.
“Ensuring safety of the planet is Technorg’s business,” the alien responded.
Spitter mumbled something unintelligible before slamming into Technorg. Technorg was pushed into Kevin who punched in his back as he fell to the floor. Kevin used this to go back to the door and toolkit, finally getting it open. Spitter covered Technorg in sticky slime for good measure before following Kevin.
Inside the lab, tech and tools were everywhere all human sized, leading no further clues to what species Azmuth was. Kevin scavenged around for any clues. Spitter looks around for something that could help find out where Azmuth went.
As they searched more people came to see what the ruckus was. As more onlookers came, the watch timed Gren out as Lepidopterran shouted at him.
“The Omnitrix IS real!” he called out.
Kevin grabbed something off a table as he absorbed the surface before chucking it at the flying alien.
“Let’s book it!” Kevin yelled.
“Great timing, Omnitrix... Tetrax is gonna be so mad when he realizes it", Gren said as he began running, in the direction where the ship was.
“Yes, I am,” Tetrax said, creating a wall between the team and the prisoners. 
“Kevin???” Lucy as Vitus said confused.
“He’s back, and met Azmuth! We're in luck! Well, sort of luck, the Omnitrix timing didn't help..." Gren mentioned.
As they ran Tetrax looked at the Omnitrix eyeing it as the countdown orange quickly accelerated due to Gren transforming.
“...That's not good, is it? Too bad we didn't find any clues about where he might be..."
“I did manage to snag this, hopefully it can track him better,” Kevin said holding a Galvanic Mechamorph cube.
“Hm.. Looks familiar for some reason... almost like Upgrade. Any idea on what exactly it is or does, Tetrax?" Gren asked.
Tetrax took the cube as they loaded back onto the ship and took off. After analyzing it, Tetrax came back.
“I was able to pick up on an energy signature that was more recent. Seems Azmuth is hiding out on Xenon,” Tetrax said.
“Is that better or worse than the literal prison planet? Can we make it before the watch goes boom?" Gren asked.
“Depends who you ask,” Tetrax responded.
Eventually, the ship came across an asteroid belt that was in complete darkness and so they stopped.
“So what's the plan now? We can't stay here for long. Want me to use the watch to try and clear the way?" Gren asked.
“Not exactly using it how you normally would. With this cube, we can enhance the Omnitrix’s own signature and it will act as a beacon to guide us on the hidden path Azmuth likely placed,” Tetrax explained.
“That’s easier-sounding than having to cut down the asteroids with Astrodactyl. But it does make me think. Azmuth is supposed to be like, really really really smart to have made the Omnitrix, yeah? Surely if he didn't want to be found he would know better than to leave that sort of thing behind... Hm."
“He did know that I knew you and that you had the Omnitrix… maybe he knew you’d meet eventually?” Kevin theorized. 
“I could see that. Do you think we're gonna make it in time, Tetrax?" Gren asked.
“Should everything go well, yes,” Tetrax replied.
Gluto and Tetrax got Gren set up inside a suit, as he was placed at the top of the ship to guide them. The watch’s hourglass glowed and turned slightly to the left.
“Okay pointing left,” Gren relayed the directions over comms, “This is kinda fun, could.. No should be the default feature of this thing.”
The ship followed Gren’s instructions, as they veered to the left then the right, the watch glowed as it shot a beam towards the planet allowing everyone to see once more. As Kevin cheered, three drills broke into the ship behind Gren. As he looked up he saw a ship had either found or followed them. As the ship hacked into Tetrax’s comms, a familiar sinister voice spoke out.
“Surrender the Omnitrix, or die,” Vilgax threatened calmly.
“You're gonna have to take it off me, Squidface. But my friends have nothing to do with that." Gren attempted to activate the watch to turn into Frankenstrike, only to mistransform into Astrodactyl.
Meanwhile inside the ship Kevin and Tetrax are preparing to go outside of the ship to detach Vilgax from them or else be destroyed upon entering Xenon. The duo arrived on the outside of the ship as Tetrax formed a blade with his arm. Kevin absorbed Tetrax’s arm and mimicked his task. The two effortlessly cut the three tendrils from the ship as they noticed a pod had gone inside to Lucy and Gluto.
“Damn it, can't let it get to them." Kevin tried to chase after it, forming sharp edges to cut through any obstacles.
Tetrax and Kevin rush into the ship to find Vilgax covered in slime as the crystal man jumps on top of the conqueror. While Tetrax deals with Vilgax, Kevin tries to assess if Lucy and Gluto are safe. Kevin finds Lucy in the next room hunched up into a ball. He crouches down next to her. 
"Try to stay calm, we're gonna make it. Just keep it together, okay?"
“He…. he killed Gluto… he sacrificed himself..”
Kevin snapped and rushed back into the other room, jumping on top of Vilgax in an attempt to absorb him. As he jumped, Vilgax threw Tetrax at Kevin, stopping both of them. As Vilgax approached them, Gren as Astrodactyl came barreling in with a supersonic tackle to the wall.
Astrodactyl formed a star sword and attempted to cut off Vilgax's arm, some form of revenge for what happened to Rex the first time they fought.Vilgax’s arm comes clean off as he yells before running off. 
Astrodactyl lands and takes a deep breath. "Is everyone okay? Did he hurt anyone or take anything? Should I try to lasso him back in here, or...?"
As Gren lands he times out back to human as a new ring forms around the dial of the Omnitrix, speeding up the count down.
“No we need to keep moving, we are running out of time,” Tetrax ordered.
“Right. We need to find Azmuth." Gren tried to relax, but the tension of the situation made it hard to. He walked up to Lucy to comfort her after the traumatizing invasion.
The group soon arrive on Xenon and head out on hoverboards towards the directions the Omnitrix would give.
“Well, we're here. Now we just gotta get to him so he can turn this thing off. Maybe even the watch itself, I'm not sure yet."
As they passed by a dark passing several eyes lit up as limbs shot out at Gren. Before he was grabbed, Lucy pushed him out of the way as she was taken into the darkness. Gren without hesitation slams down the Omnitrix, aiminging for Tunnel Vision but ultimately mistransforming into Shocksquatch. 
Shocksquatch grunts in frustration but continues to try and get to where Lucy was taken, using his electricity to light up the way and get rid of any obstacles. Shocksquatch eventually runs to a dead end as Kevin catches up to him.
“WHAT USE IS THIS WATCH IF I CAN'T EVEN SAVE THE PEOPLE I LOVE?"
Gren transforms back rather quickly as Kevin holds his shoulder in silence.
“...let's go take off this thing already before it kills everyone else too."
The remaining team headed through more terrain on hoverboards. Gren remained silent, overwhelmed by the guilt of what happened to Lucy. To break silence, Tetrax spoke of how he originally was a mercenary and worked for Vilgax at one point.
“..is that some kind of cautionary tale about how I shouldn't let go of the watch or else it's gonna fall in the wrong hands or did you just pick the most anti-climatic moment possible to tell me your backstory?"
“No, it was a compliment to all the good work you’ve done since getting the Omnitrix. There may have been some bad, but overall it’s been a positive thing. I can’t say I could have done the same at your age,” Tetrax clairfed.
“Thanks, I guess.. I’m glad I’ve had people like you, Grandpa, and my team to fall back on and support me at least. And you know, help me fix it before it blows up the entire universe or something.”
“Here’s to many more adventures with you in the future,” Tetrax smiled. 
The group appeared before a door as a hologram appeared of a suited mech.
“Shard…. Levin……………. Grenfell…..”
“..do you know that guy?", Gren asked Tetrax and Kevin. "Maybe he thinks I'm grandpa and you're your dad like Phil did."
“I know all of you, Caio Grenfell. I’ve been watching you for quite some time.”
“Wait. You're... Azmuth? I imagined you a bit differently, to be honest, but we can leave that for later. I need your help to shut this thing off before it uh, explodes. But you probably already knew that."
“Yes.. I picked up on the signal days ago. How did you let this happen?” the voice asked in an annoyed manner as a door opened.
“I was hoping you wouldn't say that. Even then, the entire universe seems to be a bit of an excessive blast radius?"
“Because you let it build up for so long, the design was only meant for a quick build up for a maximum of one minute to only damage the user and whoever was near. It was never meant to be a weapon until you and Vilgax turned it into one.”
“I didn't turn it into a weapon, I turned it into a shield because it put a target on me and my friends' back. I didn't even want to wear this thing. Do you have any idea how much I've lost because of it while you were here in your secluded invisible planet playing gardener? Myaxx tried to get to you several times ever since I first put it on and you simply didn't do anything. One of the most amazing people I ever knew died so I could get here, and that's what you have to tell me? That I made your creation into a weapon?"
“It was created to be a symbol of peace. Walk a mile in another’s shoes. No one has truly understood that. Not Myaxx, Not Vilgax, Not Albedo, and certainly not you.”
“You’re wrong” Kevin chimed in, “I may have been gone for a few months, but I know Gren knows the true meaning of the watch. He’s the only one to have used it, and extensively. He’s helped more people than I can count, myself included. If it wasn’t for him I’d probably be a dropout. You tell us that it’s for nothing? That everything the watch did for us is wrong? Then you must be the dumbest person in the galaxy not to see it.”
“That... means a lot coming from you, Kevin. But I suppose Azmuth already has taken a decision on what should happen to the watch after the SDM is turned off, for better or worse."
“Who says I’m going to turn it off? If the masses can misconstrued the true meaning of a peace keeping device, I say we are doomed to die soon or later, so why bother,” Azmuth scoffed.
“Are... are you listening to yourself? Did you seriously just say you will not stop a potential omnicide because I've been using the watch to save lives? That's so ridiculous it makes you sound worse than Vilgax, at least he was coherent in what he wanted out of this. What we've been doing is peacekeeping, it's just a proactive way of handling it instead of shooting the device out to the universe then hiding out in fear of what would happen. If you can't see that, maybe you should take a note from your creation and be the one walking a mile in our shoes, Azmuth."
“I did send it out to the universe. Myaxx t-” Azmuth started.
The building began to shake as a light fixture fell on top of the suit as it broke. It started smoking as Azmuth came out of it revealing himself to be a Galvan.
“Yeah, that makes more sense. So, are you gonna fix this or not? I don't think we have much time left. Seems like we got company out there."
"Why bother? It's hopeless."
“Hopeless? I'd argue the contrary. Sure, maybe I haven't been using the watch to 'walk a mile' in other species' shoes too often, but... I think the watch could be a beacon of hope. Like when Zs'Skayr possessed my grandpa and tried to black out the sun, or when Vilgax attacked the academy and put one of my best friends, or when Kevin got turned in a monster, I thought having the watch around is what led to that happening, but it was also what made me sure no matter what, we would be able to overcome it. And we did. I felt hopeless sometimes too, but I knew it gave me a chance to do something better. And if you're not going to choose doing something better, fine. That's on you and your twisted idea of what peace is. But I'm not about to let everyone die because of your stubbornness, o great creator. And I'm sure if there's anyone you love out there, they would be very disappointed in the decision you took." Gren turned up the Omnitrix and began to scroll for Grey Matter. "I've been a Galvan before, I think I can figure out how to turn this off in ten minutes or so."
Before Gren could transform, Azmuth hopped onto his wrist, and took out the core.
"I'm not totally convinced on the whole thing, but let's bid some more time. One more transformation would have definitely killed us." Azmuth frowned still annoyed.
“I know." Gren smiled. "I knew you'd have the patience to wait for the timer if you had to but wouldn't let me do something as stupid as speeding it up."
“Well, well, well, look at you thinking like a Galvan,” Azmuth let off a small smile.
“I guess the Omnitrix did serve it's original purpose then", he chuckled in response.
Tetrax led the charge outside where Vilgax, with his arm fully healed, was leading a cybernetic army. Kevin absorbed the ground becoming rocky.
“This is going to make one coll ass dad lore story for the future,: Kevin joked.
“It really is. But I don't wanna sit it out. Got anything I can use to help 'em out, Azmuth? Maybe another cool not-weapon? Actually, a suit like the one you were using wouldn't hurt, either."
Azmuth was busy tinkering to hear Gren, while Tetrax handed him an arm blaster.
“Works for me." Gren rushed into th ebattle with him and Kevin, aiming to take down some of the robots with the blaster
The battle on Xenon starts as blasts are fire from both sides, with the heroes vastly outnumbered and new ships arrive to fire at them. Before Gren is hit he is encased in mud as it shoots out whips taking the ships down. THe mud transforms into Lucy’s true form.
“Lucy? You... you're okay? You're okay!" Gren embraced her, a tear of joy running down his face. "I'm so sorry I let that happen to you..."
“It’s alright. I survived with a little help,” she stated as she held up a small vial filled with orange goo which blinked at Gren, “Now let’s go save the universe.”
Gren smiled and winked at the vial before nodding at Lucy. "It's what we do best." He continued to fire at the incoming enemies.
As the battle rages on, Azmuth comes hopping over to Gren and as he places the dial back in an emp pulse surges the battlefield knocking out the smaller droids. 
“...does this mean what I think it does, Azmuth?"
“... for now….. There is room for improvement. For starters, stop hitting it so hard it messes with the DNA Pod selection! Next, try this one on for size,” Azmuth started to lecture before changing is tone and selecting an alien for Gren.
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Gren grew in size, bigger and bigger and bigger until he towered over everything. Vilgax glared at the new form.
“Woah! Check me out! I’m not Just big… I’m WAY BIG! Why couldn't I get this one sooner? Do you have any idea how much easier it would've made things? Well, I'm not complaining though..."
Gren snatched Vilgax from where he was.
“Any last words?”
“This won’t be the last you see of me Grenfell. Our fates are forever intertwined now,” Vilgax sneered.
Way Big rolled his eyes, positioned himself, aimed up, and spun his arm around... only to curve down and smash Vilgax into the ground with the spin's momentum instead of launching him.
“Didn't expect me to do this, did you? How many steps on him would be too many? Just out of curiosity."
A drone flew in to recover Vilgax’s body before more harm could be done. Tetrax tried shooting it down but it dodged the crystals. The drone escapes leaving a cluttered battlefield behind as Kevin falls to the floor as a metal coating leaves his body.
A little while later, Gren is back as human as Lucy is able to reform her human disguise and gives the via back to Tetrax. Azmuth is working on modifying a drone’s head.
“I can't believe we actually did it. The watch didn't blow up, Vilgax became a stain on the ground, and... Kev's back! I can't wait to tell the rest of the team when we go back to Earth."
“Are you going back to Myaxx? If so, tell her to come find me on Galvan…. We…. have something to discuss with each other,” Azmuth asked.
“Yeah, Myaxx is... well, the Codon Academy was blown up, so she is still recovering from that. I'll make sure to tell her when she does."
With the ship for Azmuth done, he leaves the planet claiming he will be in touch. With everything done, the team heads back to Earth where they meet back with their friends. Vitwas wearing Sidney South ears and was eating a Sidney Sundae. Everyone rushed to KEvin upon seeing him again as Octavia kissed his cheek.
“Finally, Team GOLD is all back together! We need to catch up for the time apart..." Gren said with a sly smile.
==Major Events==
*Azmuth debuts
*Way Big debuts
*Kevin makes his return
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==Characters==
*Gren
*Octavia
*Rex
*Lucy
*Kai
*Vitus
*Tetrax
*Gluto
*Kevin
*Azmuth
===Villains===
*Vilgax
==Aliens Used==
===Gren===
*Spitter
*Astrodactyl
*Shocksquatch
*Way Big debut
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==Trivia==
*This chapter came from the idea of building up the starting conflict of Doctor Animo a bit more
**Taking the idea and plot from that scene and adding the Spider-Man PS4 Sinister Six as well.
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