The Ultimate Sacrifice

***The Ultimate Sacrifice*** is the twenty-second *Ultimate Alien* chapter of *Clock 10: Choose Your Own Adventure*.

## Plot

Upon what Clockwork Firefly says is meant to be movie night, he and his team are fighting a large robot. He becomes Big Chill before becoming Ultimate Big Chill, although as soon as he does, he becomes more violent than usual, and his eyes turn yellow, which conerns Charmcaster.

Ultimate Big Chill defeats the robot, and responds to Charmcaster, declaring himself "not Clock." Taryn and Charmcaster work together and restrain him in a force field, their combined magics keeping his intangibility from letting him free.

Ultimate Big Chill becomes Ultimate Jetray, without using the default form first, and portals out of the force field, and struggles for control against Clock. Clock becomes AmpFibian, Arctiguana, Armodrillo, ChamAlien, and Wildmutt, with the other "entity" taking over and each alien becoming their respective Ultimate forms. With the other yellow-eyed being in control, the other Ultimate forms all cameo before an explosion occurs. When the smoke clears, Clock is gone, and a deactivated Ultimatrix remains. Charmcaster becomes concerned, and Kevin instructs her and Taryn to attempt to find a spell to help, while he goes to Galvan Prime to seek help from Azmuth.

Clock awakes to find himself inside a blue and purple colored cityscape, totally unfamiliar to him. Calling out yields no results, and his first attempt to look around results in him finding an omnious red light which he chooses to stay away from. Going in the opposite direction, he finds a large building labelled "DNA Pods."

Going inside the building, Clock finds thousands of the DNA pods, each being large blue canisters holding blobulous shapes that resemble different creatures to some extent. Clock trips and falls into one of the DNA pods, which turns him into Goop. He decides to try out another pod, and turns into a new transformation called Antigravitesla. However, he has almost no control over the transformation, and starts flinging himself uncontrollably around the facility.

Annoyed, Antigravitesla forces himself into another pod, but his powers make him go through two pods rapidly, which are revealed to be Cannonbolt's and Slapback's, causing him to become Slapbolt. Slapbolt tries to use the form to find someone to help, but upon rapidly duplicating without meaning to, determines it's not such a good idea. Forming back into one, Slapbolt jumps through another pod, becoming Toepick.

Toepick attempts to go through another pod, but is taken away from the building entirely by the webbing of Ultimate Spidermonkey. Topick attempts to talk, but all of his speech is unholy screams. It isn't long before all of the other Ultimate forms surround him. Ultimate Humungousaur commands Ultimate Spidermonkey to force Toepick into the human DNA pod. Unfortunately, Ultimate Spidermonkey haphazardly throws Toepick into a DNA pod, which makes him become Heatblast.

Upon questioning, Ultimate Spidermonkey explains Heatblast is inside the Ultimatrix, and that the Ultimate forms desire freedom, which they believe to only be accessible through the demise of Clock. Ultimate Spidermonky refuses to listen to peace, and knocks Heatblast into another DNA pod, turning him into an Omnibusveraxisapien which Clock dubs Captain Clockwork.

Captain Clockwork uses his first randomized power, Darkness Slash, to propel himself out of the DNA pod building and through the air, only to be followed by Ultimate Big Chill, Utimate Jetray, and Ultimate AmpFibian. Captain Clockwork tries to fly away, but gets caught in a portal loop by Ultimate Jetray. He then creates a shadow over the landscape to hide from the Ultimates, but Ultimate Wildmutt is unaffected as he tracks Captain Clockwork's scent and knocks him to the ground.

Captain Clockwork summons a new power, which is Symbiotic Connection. He touches Ultimate Wildmutt, and gains a symbiotic relationship with him via their minds, which causes Ultimate Wildmutt to gain Clock's dreams, specifically about hamburgers and Charmcaster. Conversley, Captain Clockwork gains Ultimate Wildmutt's pseudo-memories, which were spawned when he was made by the Ultimatrix's simulation. These include visions of Vulpin's toxic environments and giant, two-headed snakes.

Due to his symbiotic connection to Ultimate Wildmutt, Captain Clockwork warns if he dies, they both die. The shadow across the area disappears, and the other Ultimates are much cloesr than before, aside from Ultimate ChamAlien. Ultimate Wildmutt shrugs the comment off, saying he'll be a necessary sacrifice and that he wouldn't be the first Ultimate to die.

Captain Clockwork ignores this, trying to find Ultimate ChamAlien, which results in snide remarks from some of the Ultimate forms regarding his dismisal of Ultimate Wildmutt's comment. Ultimate Armodrillo traps Captain Clockwork in the ground as the others explain. The first Ultimate to gain sentience was Ultimate Simpleten, but the Ultimatrix's failsafe quickly destroyed him. However, most of the others gained sentience in such rapid succession that the device couldn't keep up.

With the story said and done, Ultimat ChamAlien comes in and shatters the Human DNA pod onto Captain Clockwork, forcing him back to human. Clock fruitlessly fails to talk peace, as Ultimate Rath rushes him and grabs him, almost slashing his throat open. Clock is saved from Ultimate Rath and the other Ultimates by a wave of blue and pink energy, which is revealed to come from a being that is a mix between Taryn's magic and Charmcaster's magic.

The projection takes Clock to the Ultimate Chamber, where the selected DNA pod undergoes its simulation into becoming an Ultimate form. They did not bring a DNA pod, as to not risk another form gaining sentience, but instead focused on the fact Ultimate ChamAlien had destroyed a DNA pod. The projection activates the Ultimate Chamber, and when Clock is ready, initiates the simulation. The simulation is painful, and gives Clock visions of a future where Earth is desolate and destroyed. The power of all his unlocked aliens flows through him before he becomes Ultimate Clock.

Ultimate Clock immediately assumes the powers of Alien X. He walks out and finds the Ultimate forms to have surrounded the Ultimate Chamber. Ultimate Clock taunts them, and they all rush him, but are stopped in place by his power. He decrees the Ultimates will be released only when he dies, so they can live their own lives after. However, the ominous red light grows brighter and hums, which the Ultimates seem to understand the implications of. Ultimate Clock tries to leave, but Ultimate Humungousaur groans to try to get his attention.

Ultimate Clock grants Ultimate Humungousaur the ability to speak, and the latter explains the light is what destroyed Ultimate Simpleten, and that it would destroy Clock as well. However, with augmentation, it could potentially free all of them. Ultimate Clock takes his word, an goes to augment the light, but the light grows in size and consumes everyone.

Clock wakes up back in his normal form on the ground on Earth. The Ultimates surround him, no longer frozen in time but also no longer wishing to fight. Azmuth is revealed to have reset the Ultimatrix and fixed its failsafe, questioning Albedo's comment about the Ultimatrix being superior to the Omnitrix. Azmuth explains the Ultimatrix should not experience this again, and decides to take the Ultimates to Primus and put them to work there; he opens the portal to Primus and the Ultimates enter, with Ultimate Humungousuar stopping to thank Clock for at least giving them a chance.

## Major Events

* The Ultimate Forms gain sentience and are able to escape thanks to Azmuth.
* Clock uses Ultimate Clock for the first time in the present.
* Antigravitesla and Captain Clockwork debut.
* Slapbolt debuts.
* Ultimate AmpFibian, Ultimate Arctiguana, Ultimate ChamAlien, and Ultimate Wildmutt debut.

### Ultimatrix Debuts

* Antigravitesla
* Captain Clockwork

### Ultimate Form Debuts

* Ultimate AmpFibian
* Ultimate Arctiguana
* Ultimate ChamAlien
* Ultimate Wildmutt

## Characters

* Clockwork Firefly
* Taryn Firefly
* Kevin Levin
* Charmcaster
* Azmuth

### Neutral

* Sentient Ultimate AmpFibian
* Sentient Ultimate Arctiguana
* Sentient Ultimate Armodrillo
* Sentient Ultimate Big Chill
* Sentient Ultimate Cannonbolt
* Sentient Ultimate ChamAlien
* Sentient Ultimate Echo-Echo
* Sentient Ultimate Humungousaur
* Sentient Ultimate Jetray
* Sentient Ultimate Rath
* Sentient Ultimate Ripjaws
* Sentient Ultimate Slapback
* Sentient Ultimate Spidermonkey/Tom
* Sentient Ultimate Swampfire
* Sentient Ultimate Wildmutt

## Aliens Used

* Big Chill *(goes Ultimate)*
	+ Ultimate Big Chill
* Ultimate Jetray
* AmpFibian *(cameo, goes Ultimate)*
	+ Ultimate AmpFibian *(debut, cameo)*
* Arctiguana *(cameo, goes Ultimate)*
	+ Ultimate Arctiguana *(debut, cameo)*
* Armodrillo *(cameo, goes Ultimate)*
	+ Ultimate Armodrillo *(cameo)*
* ChamAlien *(cameo, goes Ultimate)*
	+ Ultimate ChamAlien *(debut, cameo)*
* Wildmutt *(cameo, goes Ultimate)*
	+ Ultimate Wildmutt *(debut, cameo)*
* Ultimate Ripjaws *(cameo)*
* Ultimate Cannonbolt *(cameo)*
* Ultimate Swampfire *(cameo)*
* Ultimate Humungousaur *(cameo)*
* Ultimate Spidermonkey *(cameo)*
* Ultimate Echo-Echo *(cameo)*
* Ultimate Rath *(cameo)*
* Ultimate Slapback *(cameo)*
* Goop
* Antigravitesla *(debut)*
* Slapbolt *(debut)*
* Toepick
* Heatblast
* Captain Clockwork *(debut)*
* Ultimate Clock
	+ Alien X

## Trivia

* Clock switching between aliens that became Ultimate was to maximize the amount seen in the episode, as well as debut the Ultimate forms of aliens unlocked that have yet to be used.
* Clock becomes an Ultimate form without using the default form first; however, this is solely due to the Ultimatrix's glitching, and is not something he can do normally.