Traverse

**Traverse** is the first episode of *Ben 10: Dino Charge Omniverse*.

## Synopsis

After the events of Dino Supercharge, the rangers all go off to live their normal lives. However, after a villain from a different dimension enters their world and manages to subdue and destroy the Dino Supercharge timeline, the Dino Charge rangers from the Dino Charge timeline must locate themselves into a new timeline to prevent their demise.

## Plot

Amber Beach, home of the Dino Charge rangers. It was brand new, like nothing had changed. But something did change; dinosaurs never went extinct, and they now are stored inside the only dinosaur zoo in all of Amber Beach. Entering the dinosaur zoo, we are greeted by the workers. Tyler Navarro, Shelby Watkins, Chase Randall and Riley Griffin. There were no signs of Koda and Ivan, since they returned to their time periods. Moments later, a short woman, wearing glasses, and her hair up in a ponytail enters the scene, with a clipboard and pen, taking notes.

Tyler and the other three either worked on cleaning the dinosaurs, or working in the small café that was further down. Children would run in with their tired parents, and some couples would turn up also. Funny enough, Chase's girlfriend, Kaylee would sometimes visit, causing some sort of humorous charm to the other three, including Chase, only to act embarrassed immediately afterwards.

The camera shifts to Amber Beach's dinosaur zoo from the outside, as the time skipped from noon, to the nighttime. The camera shifts back into the inside, with Chase, Riley, Tyler and Shelby standing in a line from height order. Kendall was standing opposite them with a bright warm smile, thanking them for attending work as scheduled.

"I am happy that you four turned up to work today." Kendall spoke, with a smile. "If we keep this up, you guys will have your early finish on Friday."

The four cheered, as they had removed their aprons, hanging up on a rack of where the aprons were kept. They noticed Ivan and Koda's were still there, as they all felt a little down. The four turn to face Kendall as she finds Koda's apron and Ivan's apron hung on the rack, collecting only a sheer amount of dust, since they no longer work in the place anymore. The five turn around to see Tyler's dad, James enter the area, to find them sad.

"What's wrong?" he asked. "Why are you all sad?"

"We're upset that Koda and Ivan don't work here anymore." Shelby confirmed. "It would've been better if they were here along with us."

James thought. Maybe Shelby was right. Ivan and Koda were both very humourous at their jobs. Koda, since he can't cook, and even if he did, he'd just eat the food. And Ivan, because he's never worked out modern day technology, much like the caveman. James looked up, trying to remember what he was about to say next.

"I think Keeper would like to visit." he said.

"Keeper?" Kendall questioned. "Why? Wh-what's going on?"

"I know it sounds sudden, but Keeper and Heckyl still visit from time to time." James spoke. "They still protect the Dark Energem from being apprehended by Lord Arcanon by going back in time."

"So you're telling us that Keeper and Heckyl still visit?" Kendall asked again.

James nodded. "Come and see, I feel like they haven't arrived alone."

The five were confused about what James was trying to infer. They thought Koda and Ivan would stay at their timelines, but apparently not. But they weren't sure he was lying. After following him from one cold room into the base, they are exposed to Koda, Ivan, Keeper and Heckyl, followed along by Zenowing. Shocked, they stood completely still, frozen on the spot. It felt like there was some sort of trick that was hidden beneath the dark depths of the sudden return of Ivan and Koda. It felt misplaced, giving it an "out of the blue" sort of vibe, and it surely wasn't a good one.

"Koda? Ivan? You're back so soon?" Kendall questioned. "But I thought you two were going to live normal lives like us?"

"We were. But we were told something rather important." Ivan responded.

Keeper added. "This timeline is in danger. We have been followed by someone not from this dimension. If we are not careful, we will die."

"What will we do?" Tyler asked, a little scared.

"We must travel across timelines to keep the low ground, we must not be seen by anyone. It'll create a paradox." Keeper responded.

Riley, Shelby and Chase were trying to process what was going on. They looked puzzled. An interdimensional being? Attacking the current timeline? How absurd; surely everything was fine before the dimension traveller showed up. But it turns out they were all under attack. Keeper had known something like this'd take place, he just thought now was the right time to explain everything.

"So..." Chase spoke. "You're telling us, that we have to abandon this timeline, because we have a dimensional traveller on the loose?"

Keeper nodded. "Yes. We must notify the Graphite Ranger about this news. He has to be here for our relocation."

"Where are we heading?" Shelby asked, feeling worried.

Keeper responded with a sigh. He turned around to face the round table where Zenowing and Heckyl stood behind. "I have no knowledge on where we end up. But I have a plan."

"What is it?" the blonde, short one, wearing green spoke.

"Remember when you five fought against Duplicon? And he duplicated you guys as evil clones?"

They nod.

"We're heading to that timeline. So that way no one would suspect a thing. We must morph immediately."

Keeper passes them their Energems, Dino Chargers and Dino Morphers. Each Energem bonded to their respective ranger, glowing an aura of their respective colour, Riley's being green, Chase's being black, etc. while they start morphing into their suits.

"In order for Ivan and the other four to not be seen, we have another plan. We'll enter another dimension, and will call you after the battle comes to a close." Keeper added.

"And what if that plan fails, Keeper?" Tyler asked.

"Then all is lost." Keeper replied. "We'd have no choice but to accept defeat and perish."

They nod in exchange. They all morph into their suits not long after Prince Phillip arrives in his suit. Phillip had heard about the situation elsewhere, rather through Kendall managing to communicate with him. The rangers hurdle into a portal, just in time for the villain to arrive. The camera shifts to the roof of Amber Beach's dinosaur zoo, as a purple aura started to glow into a portal, revealing the dimension traveller to be Eon. Eon finds himself in a different world with different physics, there were no signs of any magic beings, or any Omnitrix wielders anywhere. He believed that this dimension would be easy to destroy.

"Ah, just another tasteless dimension." Eon grinned. He projects a ball from his hand, ready to aim. "Shame how it'll be destroyed by my immense power."

As soon as Eon was about to blast some objects into smithereens, he is halted by a woman. The woman looks at the villain as she runs towards him.

"Excuse me, sir." she spoke. "Have you seen my boyfriend? He has brown hair, brown eyes, and wears either light grey, dark grey, or black."

Eon looked at the woman who, judging by her boyfriend's description, was revealed to be Kaylee. She was worried about Chase, had she known he wasn't around. The villain looked down at her with a glare, as he would've proceeded to continue with his work. He turns back to face the object he was about to destroy.

"No, I have not seen your boyfriend. And I do not wish to meet someone who is inferior to me. Love is nothing but a primitive distinction. It does not defy who or what I am."

"Who are you?" Kaylee asked. "If you ask me who you are, you must take me to Chase, deal?"

Eon had no choice but to give in. "Fine. My name is Eon, and I am not from this world. I am from a dimension surrounded by absolute adversaries. I condone myself to be the most powerful timewalker in the cosmos. And I travel from dimension to dimension, destroying them in my quest to prove my power."

"So... you're telling me we're all going to die here?" Kaylee said.

Eon shook his head. "Except you, idiot. You have a boy to find. I'll locate him through each timeline and hope nothing is out of line."

While all this was going on, Chase and the other nine rangers were at the other timeline, making sure everything goes as according to plan. Duplicon had yet to create the clones, but the morphed four; Shelby, Koda, Riley and Chase had sprung into action to fight their Dino Charge selves, so Duplicon didn't need to send in any clones. Everything was going according to Keeper's plan, while he and the others had time to make their other getaway in hopes to not get caught by the villain they had not seen.

Within that moment, a purple aura starts gushing into the Dino Charge timeline as the Dino Supercharge and Dino Charge timeline rangers stop fighting. Kaylee stood with Eon as she gasps, seeing Chase in his morphed state. This confused the Dino Charge timeline rangers, had they never seen anything like this before.

"Chase!" Kaylee gasped, running to the black ranger who was morphed.

"What is this?!" Eon snapped. "A time travelling shenanigan? How could this be?!"

The Dino Charge rangers had fled the scene, demorphing as they were quick to hide themselves with what ever attack Eon was about to throw out at their Supercharge counterparts. Later, Keeper swings in, followed by a morphed Ivan, Prince Phillip, Zenowing, Kendall and James as they stand next to Keeper, forming a line.

"More of you?! Hah, the more the merrier." Eon smirked.

"Whatever you are, you're not welcome here." Keeper exclaimed. "You must not fiddle with the timeline, it's already collapsing as is."

"You do not order me, creature." Eon snapped, firing up a timeray blast that can kill anyone within its blasting radius. Keeper and the ten were startled. Kaylee had been tricked as she walked closer to him.

"We had a deal! You said you'd find Chase. We didn't agree to destroy them."

"I lied." Eon spoke, pushing her aside, getting ready to blast them. Within that moment, Eon blasts the ten rangers who were able to barely dodge the attack. Swinging his arms at their directions, Eon continues attempting to assassinate them all, until Keeper manages to escape, luring the Dino Charge timeline rangers into a place Eon couldn't catch them in.

"Keeper? What's going on? Why are there more of us? Why is there two versions of the five of us? Who's this girl that made a deal with that villain?" Riley asked, knowing Keeper wouldn't have time to explain them all.

"Now isn't the right time to be asking questions, Riley." Keeper explained. "The timelines are under attack. I'll teleport you five to a different dimension, and it'll be your new home. By then I can explain everything."

Keeper creates a portal in which the five Dino Charge rangers rush into, Keeper follows along, along with Kaylee. Kaylee jumped in before the portal closed, as she was sent to another part of the new dimension that she and the five rangers were teleported into. Back at the fight, Eon was getting sick of the amount of dodging that was going on, so he manages to blast a tripped over Shelby who had been killed by the attack.

Tyler watched as his girlfriend who he loved so much was killed by Eon's timeray. Tyler was blasted next, and was ultimately killed. Two of the ten rangers had been killed, and Eon was not finished. Eon tried blasting Riley who was able to deflect it with his sword, before getting shot. Riley tumbled down onto the ground as Chase ran up to him.

"Riley!" he cried, leaning down as he watched Riley turning into dust.

"I'm sorry you had to witness the end of me, Chase." Riley spoke, faintly as he was close to death.

Chase tightly held onto Riley's hand as he started crying under the helmet. "Riley, don't go on me, please. You have always been like a brother to me, I don't want to ever lose you."

"I really thought we'd be the bestest of friends together, but, I just wanted to tell you that I love yo-"

Riley's words were cut off as his entire body crumbled to dust. Chase had no words. His best friend had feelings for him? That was a dramatic turn on their relationship. The brunette southerner collapsed onto his knees as he unmorphed. He didn't care if Eon were to just kill him, as he was struck dead by one of Eon's fatal blasts. Koda had been dead also, during Chase and Riley's moment, so there were only five rangers left in the ultimate extinction event.

Keeper had teleported back into the fight to see five crumbled bodies of the main five rangers. Keeper had opened another portal which led to the dimension where Tyler and the others were. Keeper managed to attack Eon back with his staff, while Kendall and Ivan attempted to enter, only to be killed by Eon who got the upper hand. Keeper swipes hold of the purple and gold Energems as he flees to the dinosaur museum.

The camera shifts to the museum, with Kendall working in the base before Keeper quickly enters the base. The Dino Charge Keeper was amazed, but shocked.

"Me?!" he gasped. "What in tarnation is-?"

Dino Supercharge Keeper passes Kendall the purple Energem. "There's no time for an explanation. But I'd need you to find Ivan, the Gold Ranger. Kendall? You must enter a portal I have created. Your team are inside. Once Ivan is found, you, Ivan and Keeper must quickly enter the portal without getting killed."

"Me?" Kendall shook. "Why me?"

"There's no time for more explanations. Go! I'll come with you. Keeper, you must travel back in time to grab Ivan, meet us outside the portal." Dino Supercharge Keeper spoke.

Dino Charge Keeper nodded. "Very well. Pass me the gold Energem."

He gives his past self the Energem as he travels back in time. Enter a gloomy, dim lighted forest in the year 1215. A young knight had come across what appeared to be a glowing stone. He is quickly halted by Keeper.

"Ivan!" he shouted which caught his attention. "You may not know me, but you must come with me on a noble quest. You must become a Power Ranger."

"I may not know who you are, alien creature, but if it is indeed a noble quest, then I shalt come with you." Ivan replied.

Ivan accepted the favour as he then enters a portal to present day. By being given the gold Energem, he had bonded successfully to the Pterodactyl. Later, he is guided to a portal as he, Kendall and Dino Charge Keeper jump in. The portal finally closes, as present day Keeper stands there, with only Zenowing left since the other members had also perished. With little to no luck, both Keeper and Zenowing barely were able to hold off Eon as he makes his departure.

Keeper faces the lone silver ranger as he felt a wave of guilt course through his body. "Zenowing. I need you to inform Heckyl that we've lost the rangers. This my be horrible, but I need you to retrieve the dark Energem. If this Energem doesn't turn Heckyl into Snide, Heckyl will become a ranger himself."

Zenowing was confused. "Wait. What do you want me and Heckyl to do?"

"You two must go under cover in the dimension the rangers went into and keep an eye on them. They must not see you or Heckyl at all."

"Understood." Zenowing responded. "What will you do in the meantime?"

"What I do is something I cannot tell you, Zenowing. But if you'd like to know, an uprising will take place in the future. With my knowledge, the rangers' new mission has just begun."

The scene fades to black. The next scene fades in with Tyler and the other four jumping out of a portal and landing face first into the ground. They appear to have arrived in the dimension, that looked like Ben Tennyson's hometown, Bellwood. They got up from the ground and dust themselves off, trying to process what had happened.

"I don't think this at all was supposed to happen." Riley spoke.

"Oh, so you think we don't already know that?" Chase snapped. "We were sent here by Keeper after some thing from another dimension decides to attack us. Our future selves just died in front of us, and you think we haven't taken it all in?!"

"Chase, calm down!" Shelby snapped back. "We couldn't have known this had happened. None of us have the ability to see into the future-"

"Well, honestly, Chase. With a small brain like yours, I don't think you would have taken it in already." Riley snaped, interrupting Shelby.

"You take that back right now!" Chase snapped. "You do not stand there acting smug, claiming you know it all. You know nothing. Just because you have the brains, does not mean you know everything."

"I loathe you, Chase." Riley screamed. "I don't know why I decided to even pity you during Cavity's attack, let alone apologise to you when we were out doing parkour. I despise your every being, with you and your disgusting attitude. Thinking any girl would want you go out with you. I'm surprised they even like you at all, with your dark brown hair, and a hand-me-down sort of clothing. What are you, an emo?"

"That's enough, both of you!" Tyler snapped. "I know this is a lot to take in, but we need to at least stay as a team. We're supposed to be together as Power Rangers. And Riley... stop with the attitude, you're not Draco Malfoy."

Chase snickered before Tyler turned to face him. "And Chase... shut up with your stupid remarks, you're not 10."

Shelby looked around the place they were in. It was filled with life, both humans and aliens. It looked as if it were a safe place, but they didn't notice that it wasn't. There'd always be a fight or two happening in Bellwood. And Ben Tennyson would show up to kick their butt. But today was not that day, Ben was nowhere to be seen as of right now.

"Right. Since this place is our new home, we need to get used to our surroundings. I know we might get lost, but we need to stay as a group." she spoke. Kendall had finally exited the portal as she looked around, in a shocked manner.

"Miss Morgan?" Shelby asked. "Are you alright?"

Kendall looked at Shelby. "I-I'm fine. As much as this place is our home, we don't feel like we fit in at all."

"Yeah, we figured that." Chase scoffed.

"Can't you just stop acting like a complete jerk for five minutes, Randall?" Riley asked, annoyed.

"Shut up."

"Shut up, both of you." Kendall snapped. "You two were perfectly fine when we were fighting Duplicon earlier, so what's gotten into the both of you now?"

Chase and Riley were both silent. Both the brunette southerner and the blonde American didn't truly hate each other. They were too caught up in the moment, that they had to evacuate their own home in order to survive. Given that they didn't know what to do but follow the orders of Keeper, since they were under his influence of being power rangers. The emotional trauma hit the two of them like a train unable to pull the breaks. They had never felt so bad, that Keeper had yet to give them more information on their new missions during their stay in Bellwood. Tyler broke the silence, diffusing the tension.

"Say. Why don't we have something to eat?" Tyler asked.

"That... that'd be nice." Riley stuttered a bit.

"V-very nice..." Chase responded, still emotionally distraught.

Tyler and the other four began to walk to a place where they could have at least something to eat. The emotional trauma had scarred Chase far worse than anything Chase or the other rangers could imagine. It was a shame that Chase never opened up about his problems, he always avoided the questions that were related to anything in particular. Strangely enough, Kaylee was in the background, navigating her way across Bellwood, but so was Ivan. Ivan had yet to inform the rangers about their team up.

Ivan quickly catches his attention to the tanned male wearing red as he approached the five. "Excuse me, fellow citizens. I believe you five are affiliated to Keeper, I assume?"

They nod. Tyler spoke. "Are you my dad?"

"No, you silly boy." Ivan chuckled, revealing his gold Energem. "My name is Sir Ivan... Knight... of Zandar. Keeper entrusted me to keep the gold Energem, and I believe we're meant to work as a team."

"Keeper never told us about the gold Energem, right Miss Morgan?" Shelby asked.

"I believe he did." she replied. "Considering how we were also in search for the Energem. But since it's found in the hands of a fellow ranger, we accept your offer to join our team."

Ivan took a bow, thanking them, but mainly Kendall. "Thank you, kind lady. It is an honour to be in the team with my fellow ranger acquaintances."

"Hate to cut this greeting short, but, we just came out of our home with a time travelling monster killing our future selves in front of us." Shelby rolled her eyes. "And we hardly know you, Ivan. What makes you think you're not a monster working for Sledge, disguised as a human to gain our trust?"

Kendall sighed. "Shelby... Ivan is not a monster working for Sledge. Ivan is one of us. He's the one that bonded to the gold Energem through Keeper. If we get to know him better, we can all get along."

"Well..." Tyler spoke to Ivan. "Would you care to join us on having something to eat?"

Ivan gre hesitant at first, but kindly accepted the offer. "I'll be honoured to have a feast with you, fellow ranger."

Tyler chuckled nervously. "Please, call me Tyler."

"Very well, Sir Tyler. I'll kindly accept the offer given." He corrected. "As well as all of you fine ladies and gentlemen."

As they proceed to walk, they unfortunately did not know where to go. Upon finding out where to find the place they wanted to go and eat, they stumble upon a girl wearing a white school shirt with a blue jumper, a black skirt and shoes, with white, knee-height socks with ginger hair, and a taller, stockier boy with long, black hair, wearing torn, jagged black and grey clothing.

"Excuse me, we're finding somewhere to eat." Tyler spoke, walking over to them. "Could you give us a hand on finding the nearest restaurant?"

The girl smiled. "Sure. The closest restaurant is on the far corner on the left. It should be open. My cousin goes there a lot."

Tyler chuckled. "Thank you, ma'am. You're a life saver."

As soon as Tyler and the others went off, the girl smiled, waving. "Don't mention it." she spoke under her breath, but her boyfriend could hear it.

"They seem like very nice people." the boy spoke. "But I'm kinda confused. Why would they ask where the nearest restaurant is? Do they live here or something?"

"Kevin. We still ask where the student reception is at college." she responded, smirking slightly. "I'm sure they got lost on the way."

"Maybe. But just in case. We should keep a close eye on them. They look like they could start some trouble."

As the girl rolled her eyes, the camera switches to Tyler and the other six arrive at a restaurant called Burger Shack, the ginger girl's cousin's favourite place to have his meal. They enter a building, with a cool air flowing around the room. The place was quite big, and it also had a drive-thru. Tyler and the others sat down in their seats, next to the far right, near a window, enjoying the view.

## Characters

* Gwen Tennyson (first re-appearance)
* Kevin Levin (first re-appearance)

### Dino Supercharge Timeline

* Tyler Navarro (first re-appearance; death)
* Shelby Watkins (first re-appearance; death)
* Koda (first re-appearance; death)
* Chase Randall (first re-appearance; death)
* Riley Griffin (first re-appearance; death)
* Sir Ivan of Zandar (first re-appearance; death)
* Kendall Morgan (first re-appearance; death)
* Prince Phillip III (first re-appearance; death)
* James Navarro (first re-appearance; death)
* Zenowing (first re-appearance)
* Keeper (first re-appearance)
* Heckyl (first re-appearance)
* Kaylee (first re-appearance)

### Dino Charge Timeline

* Tyler Navarro (first re-appearance)
* Shelby Watkins (first re-appearance)
* Koda (first re-appearance)
* Chase Randall (first re-appearance)
* Riley Griffin (first re-appearance)
* Kendall Morgan (first re-appearance)

### 1215

* Sir Ivan of Zandar (first re-appearance)

### Dino Charge Timeline

* Duplicon (first re-appearance)
* Vivix (first re-appearance)

## Continuity

* This episode takes place after both *End of Extinction* and Dino Supercharge's Christmas epilogue *Here Comes Heximas*. Many supporting pieces of evidence can back up this claim, those being Chase's girlfriend, Kaylee appears, and Koda and Ivan had returned to their time periods.
* Keeper mentions the time Tyler, Chase, Koda, Riley and Shelby fought Duplicon, which happened in the episode *Double Ranger, Double Danger*.
* Riley from the Dino Charge timeline, during his argument with Chase, mentions the Cavity incident in the episode *The Tooth Hurts*. He also mentions the apology he gave to Chase.
* Since Keeper from the Dino Charge timeline went back in time to retrieve Ivan, that means the supposed events that would have taken place, had been rewritten. Since Keeper took Ivan before Fury could get his hands on the Energem, this implies Fury does not have a strange power that needed to come out of him by using technology from Wrench in *When Logic Fails*.

## Errors

* When Tyler asked the team "Why don't we get something to eat?", the original intention from the script would've made Koda say that line instead, since Koda is usually one of the first rangers to complain that they're hungry. But instead, Tyler was given that line.
	+ That means Koda has not spoken at all throughout the entirety of the episode.

## Trivia

* Since this episode focuses on the rangers' perspectives, Ben's team do not make their appearances in this episode. The only exceptions are Gwendolyn Tennyson and Kevin Levin.