"Haha, this is great!"
Brother Ben rode his skateboard through the air with effortless freedom, toying with Vilgax behind him like he was walking a dog.
No matter how Vilgax attacked, he couldn't so much as touch a hair on Brother Ben's head.
That was, until they reached the swimming pool.
Vilgax missed a strike and stomped down hard, making the nearby pool tremble violently as waves crashed across its surface.
Ben 10,000 leaped into the air, landed behind Vilgax, and instantly transformed into Tutu.
"Splash!"
A thick stream of slime shot from his mouth, and the powerful impact instantly knocked Vilgax backward.
Vilgax lost his balance and stumbled back.
At the same time, Diamondhead rushed over, clenched his crystal fist, and slammed it into the ground.
Stab stab stab.
Countless sharp spikes, gleaming with icy green light, burst from underground in a crisscross pattern and shot at Vilgax with thunderous force.
One enormous crystal spike erupted from the earth and slammed brutally into Vilgax's chin.
Vilgax was caught completely off guard. His body lost all balance, and with a loud splash, he fell into the swimming pool.
Seeing that, Tutu immediately transformed into a blue lizard, crouched at the edge of the pool, and blew out a blast of freezing air.
The entire bright blue pool froze over at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Vilgax, trapped inside, was frozen solid and couldn't move at all.
"Nice! That stinking squid finally shut up!" Diamondhead threw up a V sign.
"Yeah," said the blue lizard.
"Hey, what's your name, alien hero?" Diamondhead asked.
"I don't know. I'm not really one of them anymore..." The blue lizard suddenly paused, then said tentatively, "Sub-Zero?"
"Lame!" Diamondhead said in exasperation. "Just call yourself Arctiguana!"
"Mm, not a bad name." Arctiguana nodded.
Rumble.
Behind them, Mount Rushmore suddenly erupted with an earthshaking roar, as though boulders were crashing down, or some giant beast was howling.
Diamondhead and Arctiguana turned around at the same time.
In the next second, both of them froze in shock, their eyes wide.
They watched as the presidential sculpture on Mount Rushmore was torn apart by a massive black hand clawing up from underground. Those razor-sharp nails and that terrifying pressure made everyone's throat tighten and their blood run cold.
"Roar!"
A towering evil giant stood atop Mount Rushmore. Over a hundred meters tall, pitch-black all over, with a pair of wild bull-like horns growing from its head and bulging muscles covering its body. It looked far more powerful than Super Giant.
It had to be said that even Super Giant was only around fifty meters tall. Only Ultimate Super Giant reached a height of one hundred meters.
But this evil giant in front of them was over a hundred meters tall, with terrifyingly dense muscle, as though it had fused with the genes of a wild bull and become pure brute force.
"What... is that monster?" Arctiguana stood there dumbfounded, as if struck by lightning. He had fought across the universe for decades, but he had never seen a creature like this.
"Oh, man, don't tell me this is Dr. Animo's doing?" Diamondhead grabbed his head, thinking they were in serious trouble now.
Rumble.
And that still wasn't the end of it. On the other side of the evil giant, another giant appeared.
Its body was emerald green and covered in sharp crystal spikes. Its eyes burned like furnaces, radiating dazzling golden light. Its whole form looked like a towering mountain of crystal, utterly indestructible.
Super Giant... no, this had to be Super Diamondhead!
It had Diamondhead's crystal powers and Super Giant's physique!
"Come on, let's go help them!" Brother Ben transformed into XLR8 and shot toward Mount Rushmore as a blue blur.
"Alright, can somebody explain what the heck is going on here?" Diamondhead spread his hands, then chased after him.
...
Five minutes earlier.
One kilometer east of Ben 10,000 Headquarters.
Future Lucian was piloting Barbatos, locked in battle with a large group of alien creatures.
These criminals who had escaped from the Null Void knew they couldn't outrun Barbatos, so they quickly joined forces on the spot and decided to tear this persistent nuisance apart first.
Lucian, of course, wasn't afraid.
He was piloting Barbatos Lupus, the so-called strongest melee Gundam, in Emperor Form. Dealing with this bunch of alien trash was more than manageable.
Of course, "strongest" was just a title Future Lucian had given it himself.
Because up to this point, it was the strongest Gundam he had been able to build.
"You ignorant Earthling, die!"
The Green Giant held an iron hammer and let out a beast-like roar. His muscles swelled, his knees bent slightly, and then he shot forward in an instant.
The hammer, as big as a sack, came crashing toward Barbatos with a shriek, even producing a terrifying sonic boom from the sheer force behind it.
But Barbatos was no pushover.
It pulled out a massive hammer-spear.
The rectangular hammerhead took up half the weapon's length, and four sharp blades jutted from the front of it, making it devastatingly lethal and easily capable of cutting through steel.
The entire hammer-spear was a full fifteen meters long.
"Whoosh!"
The deadly iron hammer was already right in front of him.
"Perfect timing!" Future Lucian said, thrilled. A sharp gleam flashed across his reflective lenses.
"Barbatos, go!"
As soon as the words left his mouth, cyan light flared in Barbatos's eyes.
With a single swing of the hammer-spear, it instantly shattered the incoming iron hammer into pieces, sending fragments flying everywhere to scatter across the road.
The Green Giant's eyes widened like bronze bells, hardly able to believe it.
His proud weapon had just been destroyed like that?
"Hahaha, trust in science!"
Blue flames erupted from Barbatos's back, and in a flash it appeared right in front of the Green Giant.
One swing of the hammer-spear.
That huge, bull-like body was split clean in two, and green blood splashed across Barbatos's armor.
"Hiss!"
A sharp gust of wind came from behind, carrying a thick, bloody stench.
Barbatos didn't even turn around.
Slice slice slice.
Accompanied by the sound of flesh being shredded, the evil flood dragon that had tried to ambush it from behind was torn into chunks of gore by the blades on Barbatos's tail, dead beyond doubt.
"Roar!"
Up in the sky, a winged tiger opened its bloody jaws and dove down, trying to bite this metal machine to pieces.
Barbatos gave a cold snort and raised one arm.
Whoosh whoosh.
Two red Vulcan shots fired from its wrist and hit the flying tiger square in the mouth.
Instant kill!
Woo woo. Suddenly, icy snowflakes began to fall from the sky, looking bizarre and completely out of place in the middle of summer.
A snow maiden over three meters tall stood there, beautiful-faced and fair-skinned, dressed in a blue gown. Her long legs stretched out from beneath the hem, white as lotus root, an alluring sight.
Holding a wand, she summoned dozens of magical ice serpents, which surged toward Barbatos one after another with biting cold.
Barbatos put away the hammer-spear and extended its ten Emperor claws, carving crimson streaks through the air.
In an instant, every ice serpent shattered into glittering fragments.
A flicker of panic passed through the snow maiden's beautiful eyes, and she was just about to cast another spell.
But in the very next second, her chest tightened.
Her delicate body trembled, and she slowly looked down. Despair and fear instantly filled her lovely eyes.
At some point, a sharp alloy katana had pierced straight through her full chest like the grim reaper's harvesting scythe.
Threadlike streams of fragrant blood seeped out.
"Save me... I don't want to die..."
Before the snow maiden could finish speaking, Barbatos pulled the alloy katana back out.
Splurt.
A huge spray of blood burst from her body like a broken dam, staining Barbatos's white armor crimson.
Barbatos raised both hands and stood bathed in the rain of blood, its cyan eyes gradually turning scarlet.
"Mm, a perfect finale." Future Lucian smiled elegantly, clearly very satisfied with the result of the battle.
He felt no pity at all for the pleading snow maiden, because he had heard from Brother Ben that she had never been anything good.
She had killed at least ten thousand male aliens, all of them dying between her legs. She was a demon whose name terrified everyone.
Otherwise, she would never have been locked away in the Null Void.
Killing the snow maiden today could be considered removing a menace for the people.
"Well, she just had to try breaking out..."
Future Lucian shrugged and was about to fly back to base.
Then suddenly, two towering figures that blocked out the sky slowly rose from Mount Rushmore.
"Oh, wow... now this is getting interesting." Lucian's pupils trembled slightly as he stared fixedly at the two giants.