Albedo Showdown Scene

Pre: they somehow find Albedo and realise he's the one with all the Unitricies. The ones Ben and co. have are stolen back, and Albedo inserts them all into the vest.

"It's over, Albedo." Ben stood in front of Rose, and opposite a younger man who resembled himself. He had white hair and red clothes to contrast with Ben's brown hair and green, and didn't yet have the beginnings of a beard that Ben had. His jacket had a white stripe running down it, and a "10" on the left center, and he had no Omnitrix on his wrist, instead wearing a white vast with countless slots down each side, each holding a Unitrix.

"Quite the contratry, Tennyson." Albedo cracked a humourless smile. "It's cruel of you to drag those kids into this, you know." He pointed directly at Rose and glared - hard - at Miles and the others. "I was here to kill you only, but now these poor children have to suffer too." Rose looked at Ben, hoping he would call Albedo's bluff, but the look in his eyes - the fear, the anger - told her that he meant every word.

"Why are you doing this? You just wanted to be a Galvan, where did this revenge stuff come from?" Ben readied his Biomnitrix, and the others took the hint; Miles turned invisible, Luna began to open her jaw and Shane's gloves started glowing. Rose herself felt her claws grow.

"It started when you turned me into that child!" Albedo snapped, "I only ever wanted to be my own species, and you and Azmuth turned me into a human kid! You laughed at that, it was a practical joke to you, but do you have any idea how that felt for me?! Do you know how it feels to be in the wrong body for years? To feel like you're not who you really are?" Rose met his eyes, and she wanted to say that she did, but he turned back to Ben and continued. "It's crushing. You did that to me as a joke, so now I've stopped caring. I know I'll never become a Galvan. But you deserve to suffer for what you did. You and Azmuth. And with these, I'm unstoppable!" A Unitrix on his vest suddenly lit up white. Albedo became smaller, his skin turned fully white, and fins began to line his body. His hands turned into claws, and his face grew whiskers. Rose recognised his form as a Splixson.

"That?!" Luna blurted out, "you're going to kill us all with that little guy? What're you gonna do, overload us with cuteness?" She ran forward and split her jaw, but was suddenly pushed back by another Splixson. There were two, now, standing there, one with the vest and one without. Then four. Then, before Rose knew it, Luna was being piled on by at least sixteen tiny Splixson. Miles suddenly reappeared besides her and threw some away, dragged her out of the pile and retreating back to Ben. When Rose looked back, there weren't just sixteen. There were... too many to count. At least fifty Splixson now stood next to each other, all grinning.

"These Unitricies contain almost every alien you have in that Omnitrix of yours. I have no doubt you could beat any one of those with your fancy fusion, but can you beat *all* of them at once?" The Splixson with the vest spoke, with a single remaining white Unitrix lighting up, and his form shifting to a white Necrofriggian. Each copy held a single Unitrix too - though without the vest - and all inserted theirs. Flashes flooded the quarry as each Splixson transformed rapidly; a Pyronite, a Petrosapien, a Polymorph, a Polar Manzardill, Rose tried recognising all of them, but they became too many to count. Tonnes of species, all parallel Rose, all Albedo. "I'm slimy, creepy, fast and strong. I'm every shape and size." Rose couldn't tell which was speaking now. "And I won't stop until I make you pay."

Every alien ran forward at once, and Rose entered action, jumping onto the first she saw. The Talepaedan bucked her off, and she quickly rolled out of the way of a drill arm. She felt her wings emerge from her back, and flew upwards; just above it. She kicked repeatedly at its head, but was suddenly blasted from behind, spinning her around. Regaining her balance, she turned to see a pterodactyl-like creature boosting itself with a jetpack. Its mouth glowed and she flew out of the way, dodging another energy blast.

Rose feinted left, and soared directly into the pterodactyl creature, biting into its shoulder and draining its strength. It fell, unconcious, as its form returned to a Splixson before disappearing. She looked around, and saw Atomic-X blasting black raditation at a group of plant-like aliens. Each instantly disappeared after being consumed by his beam, and it looked like none had gotten in a hit yet. A few meters away, Luna was fighting the same Talepaedan; her jaw was split and her scream was creating cracks in its armor easily. Miles switched quickly in and out of invisibility, punching from different angles each time at a group of Sonorosians, which were suddenly blasted by radiation from Shane. Rose heard something along the lines of "You almost hit me!", and saw them start fighting a Vaxasaurian together.

Suddenly, she was grabbed, and turned to see a To'kustar frowning. Before she could react, it smashed her into the earth, and pain shot through her. Again. Again. Too frequently for her to even shout for help. Her body ached, made worse by the laughs of the giant holding her. As she was about to be pushed into the ground once more, the laughter turned into a scream and the grip around her loosened. On top of the To'kustar was Luna, biting into its fin. It continued to scream and swatted at her, but she refused to let go until the pain overwhelmed it and it toppled into the ground, moaning.

Luna jumped from the fin and into Rose, the two rolling quickly before righting themselves. Rose smiled, "Thanks."

"No problem." Luna readied a dash, "I've taken down seven of these freaks, Miles has gotten three, Shane's gotten like ten and Ben's taken down a billion. That leaves... a buttload still left. Unless *you've* taken down that many."

Rose laughed. "At least we're getting somewhere." Luna dashed away, and tackled a Biosovortian, while Rose turned and ran back into the battle - immediately punched in the face by a Tetramand. As she was about to strike back, a blur appeared before her and rapidly kicked at the Tetramand, before disappearing entirely. A second later, it reappared - in the same manner as Miles - behind the Tetramand and roundhouse kicked it, reverting it to a Splixson and making it disappear. Once the blur stopped moving, Rose realises that it was Ben; transformed into a hybrid between a Kineceleran and a Merlinisapien.

"I call this bad boy Dissip8!", he posed, "How've you been doing?" Rose was about to respond, but she suddenly became enveloped in a glob of green slime. A stickier mucus-like substance covered her mouth and nose, while a more viscous liquid held her body down. Her air began to thin, and she realised she was going to suffocate. Ben himself was frozen in place; a blue iguana and a moth-like alien both breathing cold air onto him. As the Polar Manzardill turned to her, Ben slowly moved through the ice, just managing to touch the tips of the Biominitricies together and mouthing something, before being enveloped in green light. Flames were now where the ice used to be; and a large molten lava tiger tackled the Manzardill and blasted a stream of fire directly into it.

"Lemme tell ya somethin', one of Albedo's many clones! This guy has the explosive power of a hundred bombs, and I will use all one hundred of those to blast you into tomorrow!!" The tiger alien, made of molten rock and fire, smashed his fists into the Manzardill until it disappeared, and then grabbed onto something in the air; bringing the Lepidopterran that attacked her down by the tail and swinging it into the Necrofriggian, disappearing both. He bent down and burnt the mucus off of Rose's mouth (she immediately took a deep breath) before setting the Polymorph on her body on fire, prompting Rose to scream. It retracted from her and thankfully took the flames with it, being met by a fireball from Ben and disappearing.

"You okay?" Ben asked, and Rose nodded, standing up.

"What do you call that guy? Heatrath?" She asked.

"I wasn't calling him anything, but Heatrath sounds good enough!" Ben tapped his chest Biomnitrix, and he switched back into Dissip8. "Keep it up, we're almost done with this dude!" He sped away, and Rose looked around. He was right; there were signifigantly less clones left. What seemed like an insurmountable battle was now something she could've done in tra-

-der and draining its energy. It kicked her off and... wait, what? Where was she? Dodging kicks from the eagle alien, she looked around and realised that she was a few meters away from where she was a second ago. Had she forgotten? Did she move over here without realising? She blocked the eagle alien and punched it out cold. This time she would take note of everything she did. This time she would-

-"Thanks, Rose." Miles stood up and brushed himself off.

"Huh?" Rose stared at him. "What just happened?"

Miles looked as confused as her. "I... where did you come from? I was just being attacked by Mr. Mummy over here," he gestured to a Thep Khufan struggling to regrow part of its body, "And now I'm free, and you're here."

"You were thanking me, did I save you?" How would Rose forget something like that?

"I don't know, I don't remember trying to say that either. It must be an alien!" Miles' eyes widened.

"There aren't any aliens with the ability to erase memories. I know everything about most aliens, there isn't any who could do something like this." Rose shook her head, and looked around. Just in case there was something she missed. There were only 20 or so aliens remaning, and none of them had anything beyond basic abilities. But there had to be some-

"That's what's causing this!" Ben shouted. Rose realised what happened and internally cursed. They were in the same place, but Ben was standing before them - as Diamondhead - and the Thep Khufan had disappeared. Diamondhead seemed to not realise what happened, as he didn't look confused. "The one causing this is-"

"Got it!" Rose affirmed. Except she didn't. "Wait, I don't."

Diamondhead cursed, and realised he wouldn't be able to explain. He pointed, and Rose and Miles turned - but noticed Shane and Luna being crushed by a Translyian. Diamondhead was pointing at something else, but Rose ran towards them. She closed the distance quickly and slashed at the Translyian-

-making it disappear. There was now a ball of radiation where the Translyian was, and Rose was holding Luna's hand. When would this stop? Ben caught up to them and was rapidly saying something. Rose finally heard him - "clockwork" - the name of his Chronosapien transformation! That was it!

She turned to Luna and Shane. "Find the Chronosapien, it's skipping over time!"

"How does that even work?" Luna asked.

"I don't know, it just works." Rose looked around for the Chronosapien - a large, yellow clockwork body *was* pretty hard to miss. And there it was, seemingly fused with a Galvanic Mechamorph. Green veins ran down its body, and its key was much bigger than a normal Chronosapien - and steadily turning. But how could she get to it without it stopping or skipping time? Chronosapiens were very powerful, she didn't know if it would be possible to shut down an upgraded one. Maybe she could...

*Bang!*

The Chronosapien reverted to a Splixson and vanished, leaving the Galvanic Mechamorph alone. Miles appeared behind it, holding a diamond wrench.

"Oh." Rose said.

"What, Rose?" Miles dropped the wrench as Diamondhead walked over, turning back to Ben.

"I just thought it'd be harder than that." Rose looked around, and realised with a start that barely any clones remained. The Galvanic Mechamorph lay in a puddle, while a Pisciss Volann flailed helplessly, gasping for air. "We're done?"

Ben kicked the Pisciss Volann and Shane blasted the puddle, both disappearing.

"Yeah." Shane said, "But none of these have that vest."

"Didn't he turn into that one you beat as Heatrath?" Rose asked.

"He was a different colour!" Miles suddenly realised, "And don't those species have two different subspecies?"

"They can also turn invisible." Ben groaned, "That means..."

"He fled?"

"Probably. As long as we obtain those Unitricies, he can't pull this off again though." Miles looked around, "Where did they go, anyway?"

Ben's eyes widened, "When Splixson clones are too weak to go on, they merge back into the original. If he split the Unitricies out through the clones in the first place..."

"... they would have gone back into the vest." Rose finished for him. "This is bad."

"He'd be incredibly tired out after a spectacle like this, he won't try again for a while." Ben assured her, though the look on his face betrayed him. "You kids need to go home, we'll put the Plumbers on high alert, and we'll tell you when we find him."

"Finally, the fight is done!" Luna cheered, "Can't wait for a long, warm bath when I get home!"

"We'll see you again?" Rose asked Ben.

"Of course. You kids have done a great job with the Unitricies so far, I look forward to working with you again."

"BEN TENNYSON LIKES US!" Luna jumped up. "We're like, famous by extension now!"

"Before we go-" Shane was interrupted by a flash from the Biominitrix, then another flash that faded to reveal the Plumbers' Academy common room. "Oh."

"That was certainly something." Rose went to return to her room, but Shane put his hand on her shoulder and stopped her.

"Hey, Ross?" Rose turned to see Luna looking at her inquisitively, and Miles looking guilty. "Me and Luna was wondering earlier, why did Miles call you Rose?" She froze.

Albedo punched the concrete until his knuckles almost bled. It didn't work. How didn't it work? He had nearly every single alien at once, all attacking. Did Ben use Alien X? Albedo was sure he had reservations about that form, which was why he didn't create a Unitrix of it. Did they really elimate all of those clones? Nearly 70, and they were beaten? Reverting from his Necrofriggian form, he collapsed onto the alleyway, his legs no longer holding out. His body was drained, the effort took away all of his energy. He was sure he would win. How didn't he win?

He could always try again. He held onto that, at least. Maybe instead of using them indivually, he could create some sort of hybrid? He could hack the Unitricies, he could-

Something pierced his chest. He saw the end of a tentacle tear through his shirt. "Pathetic." It retracted, and Albedo twisted around, looking up at Vilgax. "You are pathetic. You have all that power, and yet you still lose?"

"What... what makes you think I lost?" Albedo didn't realise Vilgax knew where he was. Albedo planned to abandon Vilgax after his victory, he couldn't have been found so soon...

"You would not be bleeding in an alley if you had won, right?" Vilgax smirked. Albedo tried to punch him in the face, but he couldn't move. He had no energy left. "*I* will take that vest." Vilgax lifted the vest off of him and placed it onto himself; Albedo only able to helplessly watch. "Do you know *why* you lost? You are no longer Galvan. Once you became human, you inherited all of the weaknesses of them. Even when you evolved yourself, you still held the same human weaknesses. You were turned into a child by Azmuth, and though you're older now, though you claim to still be Galvan, you're just that. You will die like a tiny, snivelling human child."

A white Unitrix on Vilgax's vest lit up, and he disappeared. All Albedo could do was lay there, dying, and stare into space. Vilgax was right. He lay and stared blankly, just like a pathetic child.