Two ships raced through the sky, heading towards the location where Thouser's World Seed was located.

That location was a large forest, which the two ships were currently flying over. It wouldn't be long before they found the spot where the World Seed laid. And when they did, the kanpeki could take it to another planet and terraform it into their home world.

Aboard the Plumber Jet, everyone watched as Zaaton's ship made its way through the air.

"How's it looking?" Twilight asked Shining, who was constantly scanning the ship for any problems. "I know Flash was able to fix it, but that kind of damage can't be perfectly fixed without the right parts."

"Yeah," Flash nodded. "I remember Grey Matter thinking that it was gonna have to be a patch job. It should get them there, though they might need some repairs once they find the Seed. No way are they getting off planet with that ship like that."

Shining completed the scan and nodded. "The ship's holding together. So long as nothing unexpected happens, it'll stay in one piece until we can get it somewhere to properly fix it up." As soon as he said that, a laser came sailing down from above and struck the ship. "WHAT THE!?" The others got up and ran to the window, looking up and seeing something flying down.

"Is that who I think it is?" Rainbow asked, the others frowning as they realised it was the bounty hunter from before.

On the kanpeki's ship, the four yelled as another laser hit their ship and caused serious damage.

"We're losing power!" Mera cried, as part of her console exploded. "We're not gonna be able to stay airborne much longer." Zaaton growled, as a screen showed the ship currently trying to attack them.

"Why can't you just leave us alone?" Another laser hit the ship and alarms were blaring all over the place.

"We need to bail out!" Adoyk yelled. "If we don't, we'll all be burned to a crisp!" The others agreed, but didn't know how to escape without getting blown to pieces.

Suddenly, a call came through their system. "You guys okay?" Shining asked, as the ship was struck again. "Listen. Your ship's done for. We have to get you guys out of there."

"How?" Kiraki asked, as Zaaton swung to the side to dodge another laser.

Over at the Plumber Ship, the hole in the bottom opened up before expelling a certain alien hero.

Flash fell a good few feet before activating the Ultimatrix. "It's hero time!" He slammed it down and in a bright green flash, he transformed. "Gryforce!" The humanoid griffon flew at high speed towards the kanpeki ship, as the ramp opened up to show three of them standing there.

As Gryforce grabbed Kiraki, Shining started firing his ship's weapons at Ryzar's ship.

Onboard, the bounty hunter noticed the attacks and frowned before moving his ship out of the way. This forced him to stop firing, allowing Gryforce to carry the kanpeki to the Plumber Jet. "Annoying twerps. Stay out of my way!" He fired at the kanpeki ship again, hitting it and doing more damage.

Smoke was starting to come out of an engine, as Gryforce returned to it and grabbed both Mera and Adoyk. "You can't carry us both!" Mera told him, as the alien flew back to the Plumber ship.

"Watch me!" He groaned, though he was having trouble with the weight.

This made dodging the lasers that were aimed at him, rather difficult. But he managed to avoid them and reach the jet, dropping the pair onto the roof as it opened up to let them in.

He then headed back towards the kanpeki ship once more, but Zaaton wasn't at the exit.

He flew inside, heading for the bridge and finding the alien doing something. "Hey. We've gotta go!" Zaaton nodded, as he removed something from the computer.

"I just need to program this to track the World Seed. If I don't, we'll never find it." He quickly connected it to the computer, as part of the ship suddenly exploded and the whole thing fell towards the ground. Gryforce held on to Zaaton's chair, as they waited for the data to be uploaded. But with each passing second, more and more of the ship exploded.

"Zaaton!"

"Almost...GOT IT!" He disconnected the device, but an explosion occurred on the bridge and flew towards them.

Before it could hit them, Gryforce slammed the Ultimatrix and transformed into Bloxx. The alien gorilla leapt at Zaaton and formed a sphere around him, as the explosion flew over him. And that explosion filled the entire ship, ripping it apart.

On the Plumber Jet, everyone saw the explosion and gasped.

"ZAATON!" His friends cried, whilst Flash's watched with baited breath. They knew better than to assume Flash wasn't okay, as the smoke cloud filled the air. And then, Shining picked something up on his scanner.

"The Ultimatrix is still active. Flash is alright!" The others sighed, as something fell out of the smoke. A red, blue and yellow sphere of blocks, that flew down towards the forest. "I'm also picking up another life sign. Zaaton's safe."

His friends sighed as well, as they watched the sphere fall into the forest.

Ryzar didn't seem to notice this, instead turning his attention on them. "We've gotta get him away from Flash and Zaaton." Shining flew away and the ship followed. "If we keep him distracted, Flash and Zaaton can find the World Seed without interruption." The others nodded, as they held on tight.

They flew off in another direction, Ryzar's shark ship following behind and continuing to fire at them.

Down in the forest, a river was running through the woodlands.

It was rather deep and wide, running through it at quite a speed whilst the trees around it kept it hidden from sight. The raging torrent was like nothing anyone could imagine. And suddenly, that river exploded as a long red, blue and yellow arm flew out and grabbed a nearby tree.

Pulling hard, the arm retracted and Bloxx flew out of the water.

He had his other arm wrapped around Zaaton, the pair soon out of the water and swinging around to land on the ground. The two then laid there, panting as Bloxx hit the Ultimatrix and transformed back. Flash sighed, feeling the water soak his clothes whilst Zaaton sat up.

"Of all the places to land, it had to be in a raging river."

Flash sat up as well. "I'd rather it be a river than the ground. At least it wasn't solid." He looked down at the device Zaaton had retrieved. "Is that thing okay?" Zaaton checked it and nodded.

"Yeah. Luckily, it's waterproof." It started beeping until it eventually showed an arrow on the screen and pointed in a direction. "That way." He got up and headed in that direction, Flash getting up to follow.

They made their way through the forest, which was difficult due to how uneven the ground was. Roots and rocks stuck out of the floor, forcing them to watch where they stepped. All the while, Zaaton kept following the device and prayed the World Seed was close.

But as they marched through the woods, Flash suddenly heard a sound. "What's that?"

Zaaton stopped, "what?" Flash pointed to his ear and the pair listened, Zaaton wondering what he was talking about until he heard a buzzing sound. "A bee?"

Flash frowned, having never heard a bee like that. They kept listening and realised the buzzing sound was getting louder, which meant it was getting closer.

Flash activated the Ultimatrix and prepared to transform, as they stood back to back in order to not be taken by surprise. And eventually, Zaaton spotted something moving towards them. "THERE!" Flash spun around and was shocked by what he saw.

It was a creature the likes of which he had never seen before. It had a large round body the size of a soccer ball, with a pair of large wings on its back. It had a mouth in the centre with six eyes surrounding it in a circle. Four football-shaped limbs came off the side, connected to the body by a single round tube-like ligament. And sticking out the end of each limb was a curved claw-like weapon made of some kind of bone.

The creature flew towards them and let out a horrible hiss, as its claws flew inwards and connected at the tips before opening up again. It then tried to grab Flash in its claws and Flash quickly leapt out of the way, barely avoiding it as Zaaton did the same.

"What is this thing?"

"I...I think I've seen it before." Zaaton tried to think and finally remembered. "That's right. I saw it in our ship's archives. It's a creature from Thouser. But it's different."

"Different how?" Flash slammed the dial down and transformed into Diamutt.

"It shouldn't have wings. The ones on Thouser had snake-like bodies and that was just the head. And they were supposed to be very docile. The claws were just for self-defence. But its natural predator died out centuries before Thouser was destroyed, so it never attacked anything so long as it wasn't threatened."

"Okay," Diamutt frowned. "So what's it doing here? And why is it different?" He thought for a moment and realised what was in the forest. "The World Seed. It's energy must be leaking out and affecting the wildlife."

Zaaton nodded, as the creature attacked. "I bet a bug stumbled upon it and was mutated into this." He drew his knife and managed to block its attack, as Diamutt charged in.

His claws and arms were quickly surrounded by crystal, which he swung at the creature and cut right through it. This sliced off one of its limbs and blades, making it hiss in pain and allowing Zaaton to push it back.

He then jumped beneath it and stabbed his blade up into it, the creature screaming as it died instantly. Diamutt sighed in relief, as Zaaton threw the beast off his knife and cleaned it. "So if the wildlife is being turned into Thouser hybrids, I'm guessing that means we're on the right track."

"Looks like it," Zaaton agreed as he held up the scanner. And as he did, it beeped whenever he pointed it in the direction the creature had just come from. And that part of the forest looked a lot denser than the rest of it. "Let's go." Diamutt nodded and they started marching, Diamutt using his claws to help him swung from tree to tree and cut through the deep foliage.

Zaaton also cut his way through the trees, whilst they also kept their eyes and ears open for any other little surprises.

Diamutt sniffed the air and when he did, he growled. "There's more creatures up ahead. And I think they're mutated, like that other one." Zaaton nodded, but he couldn't let himself get scared.

"I've faced danger in my quest before. I won't allow myself to be stopped now. If anything tries to get in my way, I'll destroy them before they have a chance." Diamutt seemed a little disturbed by this sudden statement, but understood how he must be feeling.

Twilight had mentioned how old they really were. Anyone would be anxious to finish a mission after spending so many centuries trying to accomplish it.

And so the pair prepared themselves for the battles that awaited them. No matter what, they would fight their way to the World Seed and uncover it.

Back at the jet, the vehicle continued to fly around avoiding Ryzar's attacks.

Shining did his best to avoid the attacks but it was proving more difficult than he had originally expected. Ryzar was a pretty good pilot and whenever Shining thought he had escaped the bounty hunter's grasp, he managed to get them back in his sights and fired again.

The jet rocked every time they were struck, the shields only down to twelve percent.

"We're not gonna be able to hold out much longer," Shining stated. "If we don't find a way to stop him, this ship's gonna go the same way yours did." The others began to panic, as Shining did a barrel roll to avoid another missile. The following explosion almost sent them out of control, Shining being able to just pull them up before they hit the trees.

Suddenly, a bunch of lasers slammed into them and the shields went down to five percent.

"Rarity!" Sunset cried, "can you try and protect us?" Rarity nodded, but every time she tried to put a shield wall up the jet flew away from them.

"I'm sorry. I can't put shield completely around something this big."

"Can't we fire back?" Rainbow asked, with Shining shaking his head.

"Frontward lasers only. No way to fire backwards." The others hated that and soon enough, another laser took their shield down for good and the next one hit one of the engines. "We're going down!" Everyone held on tight, as the jet fell towards the trees.

Shining did his best to slow them down, using the retro thrusters to drop them down to just below thirty miles an hour. But the impact was still intense.

Everyone cried out, as the ship slammed into the trees and had the branches scraping along the grass and metal. The ship was uprooting a bunch of trees and Fluttershy screamed about the animals that might be living in them. But eventually, the tree slid to a stop and everyone remained braced as if expecting a secondary impact.

Shining moaned as he held his head. "Everyone okay?" Nobody stated they were injured, though several seemed to be having minor panic attacks.

Shining quickly unbuckled himself and got out of his seat, moving back towards them and seeing them all gripping their chairs. Kiraki had even turned into some kind of octopus alien, who had wrapped his arms around his chair.

"That wasn't fun," Mera stated. And it was about to get less fun, as the ship suddenly shook again and everyone cried out.

Part of the damaged wing exploded, as lasers continued to rain down. "We can't stay here!" Shining announced, everyone unbuckling themselves as another laser hit part of the hull. Shining quickly ran to the doors and threw them open, using his Multi-Striker to create a shield that blocked the incoming lasers.

He leapt out as the others followed, staying behind his shield as they ran along the wing and leapt down. Rarity and Trixie began to help with the shielding and when everyone was safe, Shining jumped down and they all began to run away from the ship to get into the forest.

They managed to hide, only for a large explosion to suddenly occur behind them and cause the lot of them to almost fall over. But they managed to keep themselves running and moved deeper into the forest.

Up above, Ryzar was following their heat signatures and chuckled. "You think you can escape?" He accelerated ahead of them before spinning the ship around. "Think again!" He hit a few buttons and soon enough, a bunch of clay balls descended from out of the ship.

The fell towards the forest and as soon as they hit the trees, they exploded and the pieces rained down over the woods.

Whenever they hit the ground or the side of a tree, they started to form and the clops soon filled the forest. "TAKE THEM DOWN!"

The humans and kanpeki all raced through the woods, but eventually found the clops blocking their path. The golem-like creatures charged, their arms turning into blades and other weapons to attack with.

"Move!" Rainbow told Sunset and Fluttershy, who rushed to a safe spot whilst the others fought back.

Shining and Adoyk started blasting them, whilst the Rainbooms took their pony forms and started fighting back. Rainbow sped around and slammed her legs through the creatures, destroying them whilst Pinkie threw several cupcakes at them.

Twilight used her magic to grab the clops and keep them in place, allowing the cupcakes to hit them and explode. Rarity then used her gems to slice through the creatures, whilst Applejack ripped a large branch off a tree and used it as a club.

Mera began to fight with her hands and feet on fire, whilst Kiraki had turned into a large snake and slithered along the ground. Whenever he reached a clop, he coiled his body around it before squeezing it into exploding.

Trixie had transformed into her Rapid Turtle form and was using her shield like a frisbee to destroy as many as she could. But despite how many they managed to destroy, more and more literally came out of the woodwork. The battle would last a good while and by the time Ryzar ran out of clops, they would likely be too exhausted to fight against him.

Back with Flash and Zaaton, the pair were up against another strange creature.

This one appeared almost worm-like. Its body was made up of sections that were made up of a strange substance that was similar to a beetle's carapace, being purple in colour. The head was round with a section cut off where the neck was, connecting it to the next section that was a tube-like structure with blades on the top and bottom. There were eight more of these sections after the first one, ending in a tail that was a cone-shape with four blades on the end.

The creature's head had a line of eyes, starting from the centre and moving upwards until they reached the back of its head. Two long tentacle-like limbs stuck out either side of its head, the four all ending with snapping jaws.

The creature charged forward and Diamutt leapt into the air, barely avoiding the attack as a tentacle flew up to try and grab him. But Diamutt was able to cut its mouth off, causing the other three mouths to scream in pain and he grabbed onto another.

Zaaton then ran forward and before the creature could recover, he leapt up before stabbing his knife right into its eye. This caused even more pain for the beast, as Zaaton leapt away and left the knife in place.

Diamutt swung from one tentacle to another and leapt straight up before diving down, hitting the Ultimatrix as he did. The green light that followed blinded the other eyes of the creature, as a new alien flew out to attack. "DIAMONDHEAD!" The crystal alien flew down and transformed his fist into a hammer, which he slammed into the knife.

This impact sent the weapon flying through the creature's head and out the bottom of it, having completely destroyed its brain.

Zaaton rushed underneath and grabbed his weapon, getting away seconds before the worm hit the ground and died. Diamondhead landed on the body and the two panted, looking around and seeing the other worms they had fought whilst travelling there.

Diamondhead quickly changed back, hoping the Ultimatrix would recharge faster if not fully depleted.

The pair kept making their way towards the signal and as they did, they spotted something above the trees. A mountain. One that was only a mile or so high, but still large all things considered. And if they kept following the scanner, they would eventually reach it.

"You think the World Seed is under the mountain?" Flash asked, as they passed another thick piece of foliage.

"It's looking that way." They kept pushing on until they heard a buzzing sound and both got ready, the two leaping behind a tree and waiting for the creature to appear. And sure enough, another of the strange clawed creatures flew past. And before it could realise they were there, Zaaton threw his knife into its back and killed it.

The creature fell to the ground and once the dagger was reclaimed, they headed in the direction it came. "Is it just me, or do these creatures keep coming from the same direction?"

Zaaton turned to him. "What do you mean?"

"It's just that they don't seem to be appearing at random. It's always from the same direction. And someone must have come to this forest before, so how come there haven't been any stories or rumours about bizarre creatures?"

"Huh," Zaaton thought about it, "you're right. It's obvious the World Seed created them. But maybe it wasn't by accident."

"You think it made them to act as some kind of defence?" Zaaton shrugged, unable to answer that without any proof. But it would appear that way.

Eventually, they arrived at the base of the mountain and found the scanner was sending them towards it. And as they made their way around the mountain, the direction the scanner was pointing changed to always point at the mountain. "This is definitely the spot."

"So we've gotta find a way in," Flash frowned as he looked down at the Ultimatrix. "Maybe I can use Armodrillo."

"I don't know what that is, but it might not be necessary." Flash followed Zaaton's gaze and they soon spotted a hole in the side of the cliff, which seemed to lead into the mountain. The pair smirked and headed for it, only to find a new creature shooting out of the cave and flying above it.

They stopped and were surprised to see some kind of chimera-like creature staring down at them. The best way to describe it was to imagine a stingray, with a body like a giant snake. Bat wings were sticking out of the side and on the end of the tail, three claws snapped together ready to grab anything that got too close.

"H'oh boy," Flash gulped as the creature opened its mouth and spat a green liquid towards them.

They both leapt to the side as the liquid hit a tree, causing it to hiss as it began to melt. "Acid?" Zaaton cried. "I don't remember a Thouser creature that could spit acid."

"Maybe the archive was incomplete," Flash activated the Ultimatrix. "Or someone deleted it for some reason. Either way, doesn't matter." He slammed the dial down and transformed, "LANTOOL!" The energy being flew up and as the creature spat more acid, he created a shield of energy that blocked it.

Zaaton ran for the cave, as Lantool created a hammer with his other arm and swung it around.

It slammed into the creature and smashed it into the side of the mountain, making his way into the cave. And as he did, he saw it was a long tunnel that led downwards. And within it were a bunch more of those creatures, which started flying towards him with a hiss.

Zaaton quickly snapped his fingers and created a field around him, the beasts flying into it before spitting acid at him. But he was able to avoid it all as Lantool flew in and attacked with energy blades.

Zaaton also managed to get a few hits in, with his field eventually cancelling out the abilities of the creatures and Lantool. But unlike the creatures, Lantool wasn't stuck in a single shape and he quickly hit the Ultimatrix. "Yak-Smasher!" The giant minotaur almost filled up the whole tunnel and with his hair protecting him from the blades, he was able to grab and crush the beasts without issue.

The pair nodded to one another, as they charged down the long winding tunnel. They didn't know how deep it went, but they knew they were close. The World Seed was almost in their gasp.

Back with the others, they continued to fight against the clops to the best of their abilities.

Shining continued to blast them, whilst Trixie and Rainbow moved at super speed in order to take them out. Fluttershy and Sunset were still keeping themselves hidden, whilst the other girls fought with everything they had. But the clops' ability to reshape their arms was proving difficult.

Several launched arrows from their crossbow arms, Rarity using her shields to block most of them, whilst others spun around to morph into tornadoes that had razor sharp blades on the ends of their arms.

Twilight was quick to catch these ones and stop them from moving, allowing Pinkie to throw cupcakes at them whilst Applejack whacked them with her branch club.

The kanpeki were also fighting with everything they had, Mera unleashing blazing kicks and punches one after another. Adoyk focused on blasting the ones that could fire from a distance at bay, whilst Kiraki kept shape shifting in order to keep the clops on their toes.

But as Kiraki destroyed another clop, they heard an engine and looked up to see Ryzar flying down on his bike.

The bounty hunter started shooting at them, as he descended from the sky and forced them all away from the others. "Now I've got you." He landed, jumping off his bike as he charged at them. "I might not be able to get all four of you, but I'm sure three will still fetch a high price."

"You're not taking us anywhere!" Mera charged and threw a flaming fist towards him, but Ryzar was able to block using his gauntlet before kicking her back. At the same time, blades extended out of his arms and he used them to block Adoyk's laser fire.

As this was happening, Kiraki transformed into an Arburian Pelarota. He ran forward and curled up, racing towards Ryzar who fired some kind of missile at him. And as soon as it hit him, it fired a pair of cables that struck two trees and stretched.

The cables eventually snapped back and Kiraki was sent flying backwards, as Mera attacked again. She swung her legs around and tried to burn him up, but Ryzar dodged and grabbed her leg where it wasn't burning. And before she could ignite it, he spun around and threw her towards Adoyk.

"Gyah!" The pair slammed into each other and Ryzar quickly fired something from his gauntlet, this being another missile that exploded above the pair.

The two soon found themselves being surrounded by some kind of energy net, which coiled around the and connected at the ground before shrinking down. Soon, the pair were pinned to one another and unable to move.

Ryzar smiled, only for Kiraki to attack as he transformed into a vulpimancer. He charged and tried to claw at him, but Ryzar dodged before slamming a finger into a spot in his back. This made him roar in pain before he crumbled to the ground, Ryzar quickly firing another missile that created a net.

Kiraki groaned as he turned back to normal, then tried to transform again only to find the net was keeping him from changing sizes. He was stuck as he was and unable to do anything.

Ryzar chuckled and began to head towards his bike, planning to carry them up to his ship.

However, before he could do that, he heard a laser charging and spun around to see Shining pointing his weapon at him. And as the Plumber fired, Ryzar leapt back just in time.

Most of his clops were gone and the girls were finishing off the last of them, whilst Shining and Trixie rushed in to save their new friends. And as Ryzar landed, Trixie activated her Rapid Turtle's power and began to run towards him.

He tried to counter, but she was too fast. In the blink of an eye, she was right in front of him and slammed her shield into him. "GYAH!" He was thrown backwards, crashing into the ground and rolling to a stop. As he did, Shining moved over to the kanpeki.

"Hold still!" He used his laser to fire at a section of the nets that didn't have them in it, hitting it and burning a hole right through it.

Kiraki managed to change into a snake and escape, whilst Mera punched through the hole and ripped the whole thing open. "No!" Ryzar cried, as he got up and ran in to try and recapture them. But Shining fired at him and he was forced to evade.

As he did, Trixie rushed over to him and dealt several more punches. She then grabbed him by his armor's front and started spinning on the spot before letting him go.

Ryzar screamed as he was thrown toward the Rainbooms, who had finally dispatched the last of the clops, the girls seeing him coming and all jumping to the side as he flew by them. He then crashed into a nearby tree, shaking the leaves off it as he fell to the ground.

The girls quickly ran to the others, the kanpeki brushing themselves off after their close call. "You alright?" Twilight asked, as they nodded. "So what do we do now?"

"I say we take control of his ship," Rainbow stated. "We need some way to get out of this forest. And this guy's obviously gonna go to jail, so he won't be needing it." The others agreed, as Shining turned to Ryzar whilst planning to take out a capture cube.

But before he could, Ryzar picked himself up and glared at them. "Why? Why are you helping these guys?"

"It's the right thing to do," Shining stated. "I don't care how much you're being paid to take them, you're not having them. We're going to help them restore their home and you can't stop us."

"Restore their home?" Ryzar asked, only to apparently put the pieces together. "No way. You...they have a World Seed here?" Everyone was surprised to hear this, not having expected Ryzar to know what that was. "You idiots! Don't you realise what that means?"

"That their world will be reborn," Rarity stated.

"Exactly," Ryzar stated. "Which means your world is going to be destroyed." Now everyone was really confused, Pinkie speaking up.

"They're not gonna turn Earth into Thouser. They're gonna un-root the seed and take it to another planet." Ryzar heard this and could barely believe what he was listening to.

"You idiots have been scammed." He pointed at them. "If the World Seed has taken root, those guys are either here to restore their world or un-root it. They can't do both."

"What?" Shining was starting to put the pieces together and it worried him.

"Listen. When a World Seed takes root, that's it. It either terraforms the place it's rooted to, or it's un-rooted and dies in a matter of minutes. It can't be removed and planted somewhere else." He pointed at the kanpeki, "they forget to mention that, didn't they? That the only world that can become Thouser now, is this one."

Everyone turned to the aliens, who had been oddly quiet since Ryzar started talking. They hadn't said anything to deny his statements. "That's not true, right?" Twilight's question was more of a plea than anything. "He's lying, right?"

"Of course he's lying," Mera told them. "He's trying to turn you against us. Probably thinks that if you guys believe him, you'll help him capture us. Trust me, he's lying."

"Yeah," Kiraki nodded. "We'd never destroy a planet to save our own. That'd soil what makes Thouser so great." The others nodded, but the humans didn't seem convinced.

Sunset decided there was only one way to know for sure and stepped over to them, placing her hand on Kiraki's arm. And as she did, her eyes widened as she saw into the alien's memories.

In the blink of an eye, she was suddenly in their ship and Zaaton spoke. "If I told them the truth, they wouldn't have helped us." Sunset frowned, not liking the sound of that. "I'll admit, a part of me feels guilty for tricking them whilst they've done nothing but help us. But I can't afford to allow the World Seed to be destroyed."

"Why did the Seed have to land here?" She heard Kiraki sigh. "All these planets in this solar system and the Seed lands on the one inhabited one."

"We can't do anything about that," Adoyk stated. "The fate of this planet was decided the moment the seed landed here. At that moment, only one of the planets could live. Earth or Thouser. And honestly, it's clear which planet deserves to live more."

With that, Sunset's vision came to an end and she gasped. "Ryzar's telling the truth!"

Everyone was horrified, with Shining's expression turning to one of anger. "You tricked us! We were willing to help you and all this time, you were planning to betray us and destroy our planet!?"

"I'm sorry," Mera told him. "But we had no choice. Our world must be revived. Even if that means destroying this one." Everyone glared at them, as Mera looked hopeful. "It's not too late. Call your base and tell them to evacuate the planet. Your world will be gone, but your race will survive. I'm sure Thouser will welcome you once it's been reborn."

"Are you nuts!?" Ryzar stated. "If what I've heard about the World Seed is true, it'll revive every living thing on your planet that died when it was destroyed. How many was that? A few billion?" The kanpeki didn't deny it. "You really think your planet can hold your entire race, plus the seven or eight billion people that are on this planet right now?"

"That'd be impossible," Twilight sighed. "There wouldn't be any room for anyone. Food would be scarce and everyone would be forced to eventually leave the planet anyway."

"Yes," Adoyk told Mera. "If we revive Thouser and let the human race survive, they'll start a war to reclaim what they believe to be their world. It'll ruin the world we're trying to revive."

Mera looked heartbroken, but nodded. "Then we have no choice. It's either Thouser or Earth." They all turned to the humans and Ryzar, Shining and Trixie stepping forward to battle.

Adoyk and Mera nodded, Adoyk fiddling with his blaster arm before firing. But it didn't shoot a laser.

Instead, some kind of oil flew out of it and started spilling across the ground, everyone moving back as it formed a small lake between them and the kanpeki. And before they could do anything, Mera ignited her hands and placed them on the oil.

Within seconds, the lake was set ablaze and a massive wall of fire flew into the air.

The surrounding trees were quickly ignited as well, forcing Ryzar and the humans back. "No!" The bounty hunter yelled, as Trixie switched to her Sky Butterfly form and tried to fly over it with Rainbow and Twilight.

But a bunch of lasers flew up and almost hit them, forcing them back as the kanpeki began to flee.

Shining quickly transformed his Multi-Striker into a combi-cannon, using it to mix several chemicals together before firing a blast of foam onto the trees. At the same time, Rarity used her magic to create a dome of gems that quickly surrounded the flaming lake.

She placed it on the ground and as the trees were put out, the flames slowly died down as the oxygen was burned away.

But as this was happening, they heard an engine and looked past the gem dome. And to their shock, the kanpeki were flying away on Ryzar's bike. "HEY!" He yelled, pulling out his blaster and firing at them.

Adoyk and Mera were on the bike and managed to avoid the lasers, whilst Kiraki was a bird and flew ahead of them. They soon reached the shark ship up above and disappeared into the mouth, with Shining turning to Ryzar.

"Do you have some way to remote pilot that thing?"

"No. I can fire a few weapons and send out the clops, but-" The ship powered up and began to fly away, as the fires were put out. "NO!"

"What do we do?" Pinkie asked, as Rarity dropped the shield and Shining sprayed the oil with dissolving foam.

"We need to stop them," he stated. "And more importantly. We need to contact Flash and tell him what Zaaton plans to do." He frowned. "If they get to the World Seed Zaaton won't hesitate to activate it."

Ryzar nodded. "And when he does, there'll be no stopping it. The terraforming process can't be halted or reversed. If he gets to that seed, your world will be over and everyone on it that isn't kanpeki will be turned into materials to rebuild the world with." This terrified everyone, as they started heading in the direction the ship had gone.

As they did, Shining took out his badge and tried to get in contact with Flash. But something was blocking the signal from getting through to Flash. "Come on!" He tapped the device, trying to break through whatever was keeping them from communicating. "If we don't get in contact soon, it'll be too late."

Back in the cave, Flash and Zaaton were making their way lower into the cave.

Flash was currently timed out, praying he wouldn't need an alien for the next few minutes. And as they followed the curving tunnel, they found themselves coming to an exit into a larger cavern. The pair shared a hopeful look and ran towards it, entering the large chamber and finding a bunch of roots covering the ground. And when they looked towards the source of the roots, which all led to the back of the chamber, they saw it.

It was a large black rock, the size and shape of a football. The roots were sticking out of the bottom and running along the ground before digging into it, likely sending the seed's energy to the other parts of the country. It had not been seen by any living creature for thousands of years.

"This is it," Zaaton stated. "The World Seed." He took a few steps forward. "I can't believe it. After all this kind. So many generations. All the challenges up until now. We've finally found it." He seemed to be having trouble breathing. "Is this real? I've dreamed of this moment so many times. I'm scared I'll wake up and have no idea where it is."

Flash smiled, turning to the alien and patting him on the shoulder. "It's real. You and your crew did it."

Zaaton nodded, as he turned back to him. "Thank you, Flash. You have no idea what this means for us. I swear to you, your name will live on in Thouser's history until the end of time." Flash nodded, as Zaaton began to walk towards the seed. Flash couldn't help but feel proud, excited to see what Thouser looked like when it was restored.

But as Zaaton got closer, Flash's Ultimatrix suddenly started beeping to show he was getting a call.

"FLASH!" Shining's voice cried, surprising Flash at how worried he sounded. "Have you found the World Seed yet?"

"Yeah. Zaaton's just about to harvested it."

"He's not. He's going to activate it. He's been lying to us. The Seed will die if its roots are cut. Now that it's taken root, the only planet it can terraform is Earth." Flash's eyes widened. "You have to stop him!"

Flash turned to Zaaton, who had stopped moving and now stood in the centre of the chamber. "It's wrong, right? You're not gonna activate it here." Zaaton said nothing, "tell me!" Zaaton remained quiet. "ZAATON!"

"I'm sorry," Zaaton finally announced. "I hated lying to you, but you never would have helped me if you knew the truth." Flash could hardly believe what he was hearing. "I know this must be hard, but it's for the best. Your planet's sacrifice will allow Thouser to be reborn. It needs to be done."

Flash stood there, anger beginning to flow through his body. "You lied to me. I trusted you and you lied to me." Flash broke out running, "I WON'T LET YOU DESTROY MY WORLD!"

Zaaton spun around and drew his knife, trying to cut Flash down.

But the teen had seen this coming and leapt under the knife sliding past Zaaton and getting between him and the World Seed. Flash checked the Ultimatrix, but it was still in the red. And as Zaaton turned to him, he raised his knife. "Move." Flash shook his head, "then you leave me no choice." He charged and Flash ran forward, Zaaton stabbing at him only for Flash to dodge it. "You can't win!"

"Why not? Your powers only work on level three abilities. I don't have any, so you've basically got no powers like me." The two started fighting, Zaaton slashing at him with Flash dodging and blocking the knife every time. Flash then dealt a kick to Zaaton's side and made him flinch, as the teen tried to pry the knife out of his hand.

But Zaaton recovered and the two fought again, Zaaton punching Flash in the face and knocking him back.

He then turned to the Seed and tried to grab it, but Flash got up and ran over to him. He grabbed him in a full Nelson and dragged him back, holding his wrist to keep him from attacking with his knife. "Why? Why do this!?"

"I don't have a choice," Zaaton stated. "The World Seed can't be removed once it takes root. It's just bad luck that it landed on your planet."

"That doesn't give you the right to destroy our world."

"One planet has to be sacrificed," Zaaton managed to throw Flash off of him and send him flying through the chamber. "For one to live, the other must be lost forever. And I'm sorry, but your planet doesn't deserve to survive as much as mine does."

Flash groaned, as he picked himself up and turned to Zaaton. "You're insane. What are you talking about?"

"Look at the state of this planet. Pollution, strangling it. Countries divided by arbitrary borders. Leaders that only care about themselves. This planet is nothing compared to the paradise Thouser was."

"And you think that gives you the right to destroy us? How do you even know Thouser's as good as you say it is?" Zaaton tilted his head, "what if all that was just a lie your parents told you? To give you a reason to keep searching. You don't know what Thouser was really like. It could have been just as bad as this world."

"Shut up," Zaaton told him. "Thouser was a utopia. And it will live again."

"Not if it means killing this planet and everyone on it." Flash charged at the seed, clearly planning to rip it out of the ground.

"NO!" Zaaton charged and the two met before either could touch the seed, the pair once again fighting with the dagger being fought over. But eventually, one of them managed to get past the other's defences and stab the dagger into their opponent's side.

"GYAH!" Flash screamed, as the blade dug in deeply. He staggered back and Zaaton used this to spin around and slam his foot into Flash's chest, using all his strength to knock the teen flying backwards. Flash let out another scream and was sent halfway across the chamber, hitting the ground and rolling until he reached the other side and slammed into the wall.

He flinched and hit the ground, as blood began to pour out of the wound in his side.

He tried to get up, clutching his side as he did, but his legs suddenly died and he was unable to stand. "No," he groaned out. All he could do was lay there, as Zaaton put his knife away and moved over to the World Seed.

"With this, Thouser is reborn." He touched the seed and Flash prayed that it wouldn't work. That the millennia it had remained hidden had made it lose its power. But as soon as Zaaton touched it, the rock began to crack and light flew out of that crack.

More cracks then followed, until the entire seed exploded and unleashed a strange black sludge.

That sludge flooded the room and began to spread across the walls and floor. It ignored Zaaton but when it reached Flash, the teen found himself suddenly being covered by it. "NO!" He yelled, trying to fight against it. But the sludge was too fast and strong, Flash reaching for the Ultimatrix in a last ditch effort to save himself. "Come on!" But soon, the slime completely encased him in a human-shaped cocoon.

Zaaton sighed, as he stared at Flash's remains. He then watched the slime beginning to cover the rest of the cavern and move up the tunnel leading out of the cave.

Outside, the kanpeki were flying over the forest and had finally reached the mountain where the World Seed was located.

As Mera kept flying, Kiraki and Adoyk searched for any signs of their friend. Then, Adoyk saw something. "LOOK!" They all looked down and saw a cave, which suddenly began to spill out black sludge. They were amazed by the sight of it and watched, as the entire mountain was suddenly covered by the black sludge. And as the sludge spread out, it began to surround the trees and anything else that was part of the planet.

"He did it," Mera gasped. "It's happening. The great terraform has begun."

"Awesome," Kiraki cheered. "that means Thouser is going to be reborn."

"Yes," Adoyk nodded. "But it also means that this planet and everything that evolved on it, will be lost." The other two frowned, feeling sorry for the citizens of the planet. They knew this had to happen, but it still felt wrong somehow.

In the forest, Twilight and the others continued to run as fast as they could.

Shining had lost his signal to Flash's Ultimatrix, meaning he was unable to figure out if he had managed to stop Zaaton. "Come on." He tapped his badge, but it didn't go through. "FLASH!" The others were beginning to worry. But something soon happened that drew their attention.

A rumbling sound, along with the trees around them shaking slightly and dropping their leaves.

"What's that?" Applejack asked, the others wondering the same thing. And slowly, the rumbling and shaking grew stronger. Until eventually, Rainbow saw something that made her eyes go wide.

"What's that!?" The others looked around and were shocked to see a giant wave of black sludge moving towards.

"No," Ryzar yelled, "they've done it. The World Seed's been awakened!" Everyone else looked horrified, with Ryzar quickly turning to run in the opposite direction. The others did the same, with Rainbow picking up Fluttershy and trying to super speed away. But they quickly realised there was nowhere for them to go.

Eventually, Applejack was suddenly overtaken by the slime and swept into it. Rarity and Pinkie then followed, with Shining, Trixie and Twilight soon falling victim as well.

They all screamed, as they were pulled into the hundred mile an hour wave. One by one, they all disappeared into the terraforming sludge and were gone. Rainbow and Fluttershy were horrified, as they looked back to see everyone had disappeared. And as Ryzar was pulled into the wave, Rainbow flew straight up with Fluttershy summoning her own wings.

But before they could get too high, a tendril of sludge flew up and grabbed Fluttershy's leg.

She screamed as she was pulled down towards the sludge, Rainbow grabbing her hand and pulling. "Let her go!" She cried, but the slime wouldn't. And soon enough, more tendrils flew up and caught them. "WOW!" They were both pulled down and engulfed by the slime, as the birds and anything else that flew too low would soon be grabbed as well.

The slime kept spreading, moving faster and faster by the minute. It eventually reached the edge of the forest and kept going, soon arriving at a small town.

That small town was soon overrun by the slime, people getting into cars in an attempt to escape only finding themselves in metal coffins. In less than a minute, the entire town was lost to the sludge.

On and on it went. If someone was watching the planet from space, they would see a giant black dot covering a part of the United States. And it kept spreading, taking over towns and cities, washing over the entire country before anyone could scream or call someone for help.

In the Plumber Base, an alarm suddenly went off and Clawcer rushed to the monitoring room.

"What's happening?" He got his answer when an image appeared on screen, showing the giant black mass spreading over the country. "What is that?" None of the Plumbers had an answer and as it spread, Clawcer realised it would be in Canterlot any moment. "Prepare to roll out. We have to find a way to stop this before it takes over."

The Plumbers rushed into action. But many realised it was likely too late already.

All over the city, people were living their lives until the ground suddenly started rumbling.

And when they looked around, they heard screams and looked around to see a giant black tidal wave moving towards them. It quickly slammed into buildings, knocking several tall ones over and consuming the others and anything in them. And as the people tried to run, they were quickly overtaken.

This included Trail Blazer and Misty Vail, Flash's parents running as fast as they could only for Misty to trip. And by the time she got back to her feet, the sludge slammed into them both. The last thought they had was of their son, praying he was safe.

In another part of the city, Cadance was driving away with Flurry in her baby seat.

The sludge was catching up and as she drove into Cosmic Town, she saw many aliens attempting to get away as well. But many were overtaken and soon, her car was grabbed as well. "NO!" She tried to get Flurry out of her seat, but the slim wrapped around the vehicle and it was eventually pulled into the tidal wave as well. "SHINING!"

Another victim of the slim was Telsa, the alien and her friends attempting to warp away. But they couldn't outrun the tidal wave and when they realised that, Telsa held the younger members of her species tight and told them it would be alright. That someone would save them. And soon, they were captured as well.

Eventually, the entire city of Canterlot and Cosmic Town were captured and sealed within the black substance. And as soon as they were, the slime hardened into rock whilst also spreading out.

The sight of the USA from space was now entirely black. The whole country had been covered in it. And soon, it started spreading to Canada and Mexico, whilst also reaching the ocean.

When the slime fell into the water, it started covering the surface of it and slowly, the black slime began to spread across the rest of the world. In under an hour, the entire planet would be completely surrounded. Earth would soon be no more, replaced by the planet Thouser and its people. And when that happened, nothing could be done to undo it.

Author's Note

Well, I bet you weren't expecting that. Very Infinity Wars, huh?

So, is this the end of Flash and his world? You'll have to tune in again, same Omnitrix Time. Same Omnitrix Channel.