While the mummy was down, Snakepit's eyes blazed with intense golden light.
Three snake heads. Six eyes.
Six golden bolts shot out at once, all striking the mummy.
Crack... crack...
The mummy's huge body rapidly began to petrify.
Its chest, head, bandages... until its entire body turned gray.
Of course, the petrification was only temporary.
Snakepit walked forward and stomped the mummy to pieces with one kick.
Only after the mummy had been reduced to fragments all over the floor did Snakepit stop.
Even then, he still was not at ease. The mummy's life force was just too tenacious.
Who knew whether it might come back again.
So Snakepit gathered up the mummy's "ashes" into a jar.
Then he opened the hatch and scattered the mummy's "ashes" into space.
A few purple crystals were still left on the ground. They were the Corrodium crystals from inside the mummy.
Snakepit decided to finish the job properly and took the time to destroy those Corrodium crystals too.
Once he was done, Snakepit tapped the Omnitrix and changed back into Lucian.
"Whew. Time to rest for a bit."
Lucian floated inside the ship, quietly closing his eyes.
Once the Omnitrix had cooled down, Lucian transformed again.
Upgrade attached himself to the ship, blue-green flames bursting from its rear as it sped back toward Earth.
During the flight, Upgrade used his abilities to lock onto NASA's location, which kept the ship from going off course.
...
A little over ten minutes later, Upgrade landed in the junkyard behind NASA and found Ben and the others already in serious danger.
Ben's mummy form was powerful, but he did not know how to use it.
And once the transformation time ran out, he changed back immediately.
Gwen and Grandpa Max were only able to do limited damage to the red wolf beast as well.
At a glance, it looked like the savage red wolf beast was just about to tear Ben and the others to pieces.
At the critical moment, Upgrade came plunging down from the sky and pressed the Omnitrix in midair.
"Echo Echo!"
A small white alien wearing headphones and carrying an MP3 player landed in front of everyone.
"Cuz!" Gwen cried out in delight.
Great. Now they were not going to die after all.
"Awesome! Cuz really showed up just in time!" Ben cheered excitedly.
"With Lucian here, that wolf beast is in for a bad time!" Grandpa Max said with a gentle smile.
[Echo Echo: Derived from the Sonorosian DNA of Sonorosia. Its true body is a giant speaker, but in reality it is a mass of living sound stored inside a white silicone suit.]
[Abilities: Powerful sonic attacks, duplication, echolocation, sonic barrier.]
"Wah wah!"
Echo Echo opened his mouth and unleashed a powerful invisible sound wave, instantly blasting the red wolf beast backward.
"Awooo!"
The red wolf beast flew into a rage and leaped back to its feet at once. Its long snout split into four petals like a blooming spider lily, releasing a crimson ultrasonic wave.
Echo Echo used duplication.
Two, four, eight, sixteen!
All sixteen Echo Echos unleashed fierce sonic attacks at the same time. The power was terrifying, instantly swallowing up the red wolf beast's crimson sound wave.
And without losing momentum, the attack continued straight toward the red wolf beast.
"Roar!"
In the next instant, the red wolf beast was shaken until blood poured from all seven orifices. It clutched its head and collapsed to the ground, howling in agony.
Just like the Vulpimancer, Loboans had extremely sharp hearing. To them, Echo Echo was practically a nightmare.
At that moment, all the Echo Echos surrounded the red wolf beast, opened their mouths, and unleashed their strongest sonic attack.
The red wolf beast died.
With that, the Halloween trio was completely wiped out.
Grandpa Max could not help letting out a breath of relief. "Whew. It's finally over. That was close. That wolf beast almost ate me just now."
"Hmph. If I'd turned into Four Arms, I would've pounded that stupid wolf ages ago!" Ben said, gesturing wildly.
"Tch. It's because you're a doofus who doesn't know how to use the mummy. All you know is how to use brainless aliens." Gwen looked at him with disdain.
"Hey, bookworm, is the mummy even an alien regular people can use?" Ben pouted unhappily. "It's all soft, floppy bandages. So annoying!"
"Alright, alright. It's over now." Echo Echo smiled.
[Ding~ Successfully stopped the mummy and saved all life on Earth.]
[Obtained Random Powerful Hero Treasure Chest.]
"Open it," Lucian said silently to himself.
He really wanted to see who this powerful hero was.
[Successfully opened Random Powerful Hero Treasure Chest.]
[Obtained new hero: Evolved Human!]
!!!
"I never thought it'd actually be Evolved Human?" Lucian was deeply shocked.
Evolved Human, known as a higher lifeform of the universe, possessed strength that could completely overpower Humungousaur and Four Arms.
Not only that, it also had incredibly fast flight speed, making it a true all-rounder.
Getting the Evolved Human gene was something Lucian had never expected, no matter how he thought about it.
After all, Ben in the original series never seemed to have Evolved Human DNA.
At least, the original work never showed it.
There was no doubt that obtaining the Evolved Human gene had pushed Lucian's strength to another level.
...
That same night, the snowfield stretched out in blinding white as a freezing wind howled through the air, whipping up flurries of snow with a mournful wail.
Two travelers, bundled up in thick winter clothes, rode snowmobiles across the endless snow.
"Ah!!"
Suddenly, one of them was startled by wreckage up ahead and jerked the vehicle sharply to the side.
The next second, he dropped straight into a depression in the ground.
"Th-this... where is this?" The traveler scratched his head, eyes full of confusion.
"Hey, are you okay?"
The other one hurried down too.
"I'm fine, but... what's that?" The traveler raised a hand and pointed at a silver metal plate ahead.
Half of it was buried in the snow. It looked a bit like some kind of vehicle brake assembly.
But it was much larger, and its sheen was bright, almost as if it were made of pure silver.
"Damn, buddy, if that thing's really pure silver, aren't we rich?"
"Heh, let's go take a look. We're way out in the middle of nowhere. Nobody's coming to claim it. If we take it, it's ours!"
The two of them immediately crept toward the metal plate.
Rumble...
The snow beneath their feet suddenly collapsed.
"Aaah!"
Terrified, the two scrambled desperately, grabbed the edge of the collapse, and fled the place as fast as they could.
After they were gone, an alien spaceship emerged from the collapsed snow.
It was badly damaged, its surface covered in black scorch marks, as though it had gone through a brutal battle.
Click!
The hatch slowly opened.
A green lizard-man crawled out from inside...