Pacing back and forth in the ship, Nick was pondering an idea in his mind. It was stupid, highly dangerous and in every sense should be discarded as an idea in the first place. So it would be the perfect idea! Stopping dead in his tracks, Nick smacked his fist dead into the palm of his hand.

"Ok, I may have an idea! A solution to our current crisis!" He exclaimed, with Attea snickering slight at his hopeful deposition. "Oh really? Does this plan involve us all crashin' and burnin' in a massive flame of glory?" She asked condesendingly, Nick's expression souring at her tone, but instead he simply shook his head. "I may be able to save us all, I'm not particularly sure how effective it may be, or how over exerting, but it's worth a shot. I'm going to tear the ship in half, and I'm going to hurl it back into space."

There was a brief silence in the room, a very long and drawn out silence, only consistently pierced by the loud blaring of sirens. Looking for possible alternatives Twilight finally perked up, "no! There may be another way other than just risking your life for a gambit that may not even work!" She outspoke, with Nick opening his mouth to reply, only for Starlight to interrupt him. "You could use Alien X..."

Silence returned to the room once more, with Nick holding his head as he clenched his fists tightly. Twilight gasped in response, with everyone from the previous teams arriving. Looking at Nick with quizzical expressions, almost as if they heard Starlights statement. Nick then looked to them, and said bluntly with damn near anger in his voice.

"No."

To which Celestia began to speak, "but it's the safest route to ensure my subjects are safe! Nicholas, I know you've expressed how much you do not want to use Alien X, but this is a threat to my subjects, to my little ponies!" She retorted in a shocked tone. Nick shook his head again, simply saying once more. "No." Only for Rainbow Dash to ask, "aw c'mon! Why!?"

"Because this isn't a threat that requires that level of power!" He then shook his head again and began to speak up further, "I can't believe I have to argue this with you all! I will not use Alien X for this! I have other options to save the day! I don't have to use my most powerful transformation for something like thus!" Rubbing the temples on his forehead, he cycled through his memory, his vast memory of everything Ben 10 related to decide on what he wanted to do next. Way Big would be plausible but would cause too much damage to the ground below trying to brace himself, Atomix might be able to do something, but he does not particularly trust his friends being shielded in space for long. Wait, that was it! Space! Not the literal space anyway, but he needed space for any of this to work!

With time being very limited, and everyone aware of Nick being the independent variable in this scenario, the human then pointed to both the Princesses, Starlight, and Rarity. "I need you all to form a magical bubble around everyone here except me. I'm going to jump out of the window." He said as he approached the compromised glass casually with Rarity quickly piping up. "D-Darling! Aren't you going to discuss the plan!?"

Nick then looked at her she had a bag wrapped around her torso, that certainly was a new feature, although now wasn't the time to comment on it. With a small and almost reassuring smile on his face, the human exclaimed loudly, "just trust me!" Twilight however was one to pipe up before Nick launched himself out of the window, "wait! Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and myself can help you! You should wait!" To which Nick simply shook his head. "We barely have any time for this and I need to make absolutely SURE that everyone will survive a fall from this height, or at least have enough magic to protect the ponies down below if I fuck up somehow, which I won't! Believe me Twilight! I know I can do this, I don't need help!"

"But-!" The princess was ready to refute, only for Celestia to nudge her and shake her head simply. The Princess of Friendship sighing and nodding, "be careful... Ok..?"

He smiled warmly at her and gave her a small thumbs up. "I'll be as careful as possible!" He said before then busting out the window to the command center, promptly being sucked out into the debris filled sky.

With Nick gone, Twilight was quick to take up a leadership role, “ok, everyone gather around us and get ready!” Glancing down to her faithful student, Celestia nodding before she began to flash her horn. With everyone falling in, Argit being the one to make it in first as he looked around at all the other ponies coming inside. With him looking around intensely with a grumble. “It’s WAY to crowded in here! Can’t you guys make the bubble a little bit bigger!?”

“It’s either that, or you can stay with the crashing and burning ship.” Rainbow Dash commented, with Argit scoffing. “Yeah, fair point.”

Opening a small hole in the bubble for them to climb through, the ponies and Argit began to flee from the scene. With Twilight looking back slightly at the falling ship with worried expression in her eyes.

~~~

Meanwhile in free-all, Nick put his arms close to the sides of his body to increase the speed of his fall. Taking a deep breath and closing his eyes, clenching his fists tight, and then turning around fully to the collapsing ship before him.

"OMNITRIX, LODESTAR!"

With that command, the watch flashed a bright shade of green. Inevitably surrounding Nick was a mass of brown structures that quickly raced into, forming around his body and changing his hands, feet, and collarbone into something akin to crab like claws. With his head forming into a large metallic sphere with bright green eyes and a large yellow eyebrow-like crest. Arms crossed over his chest as he then looked up and opened them up. A large pulse of magnetism spreading from both his claw like appendages and to the ship before him. Attached to the ship and any debris that may have attempted to fall from it, Lodestar outstretched his claws and pushed them forward. Actually managing to push the large structure back with extreme difficulty, buckling from what was presented to him. Many things pushed him to keep going, friends, relationships, the adventures he's had and will have, everything.

He looked up, steadied himself, and continued to push the Incursion warship back, letting out a guttural scream from himself as he continued to push it back. However the buckling did not stop, his flight now limited as he put all forward power into pushing the ship back. But it just wasn't enough, "no... NO! I can do this!"

Lodestar shook his head and let out another scream, the burst of magnetism increasing in size as the ship began to shake, cracking and breaking at the seams, Lodestar pushed his hands together, and with one final and large yell...

"HHHHHRRRAGH!!!!"

Tearing the ship into two separate and massive chunks, with the object split in half, thrusted his arms forward and lobbed the wretched warship back into orbit. With it floating in Equestrian space, Lodestar watched it until a loud noise filled his ears.

FAABOOOOOM!

Sending him flying back and towards the earth below him, Lodestar crashed back first into the ground behind him forming a massive creator and groaning in pain. Reverting back to his human form and looking up at the aftermath of the massive explosion, seeing two pods escaping the wrecking after the fact as his eyes narrowed slightly. "Ugh... God..." He rubbed his forehead and began to slowly pick himself up, dusting himself off and watching the wreckage practically float off into space and out of sight. "Hmmm."

~~~

"Well, I guess that is that!" Argit said as he dusted his hands off, with the group of ponies sitting in a field watching the warship float off. "If anybody is looking for me, I'll be somewhere on this planet trying to find any sort of entertainment." He muttered as he began to slide out of view, a turquoise wall forming in front of him and blocking him. "No. You will stay. If our friend perished due to YOUR arrival, punishments will be warranted."

Argit scoffed and then looked at the midnight alicorn with a confused expression. "It's not my fault your friend has morals against doing the easy thing rather than the sensible and safe thing! If he dies, it's his own fault for trying to be a god damn hero!" He spat back, with Applejack then cocking an eyebrow at him. "And what would be the sensible thing for y'all? To run away like a coward from your problems?"

"Absolutely!" The rat answered as he adjusted his collar. To which a voice grumbled slightly from behind the bickering group. "Fucking rat..." The owner of that voice being Nick who made his way up the hill, stretching slightly. With the mares gasping in surprise and extreme glee at the return of the human, "Nick! Thank goodness you're ok!" Rarity said aloud as she let out a low huff, Pinkie Pie practically bouncing up and down. "That was super duper stupendously fun! Those frogs said pew pew with their weird alien things, then I said, 'PARTY CANNON!' We totally need to do that again!"

With Rainbow Dash inevitably jumping into the conversation along with AJ, Nick only smiled and shook his head. Glancing at Argit and narrowing his eyes. "So, tell me Why in the HELL did you bring the Incursean's to Equestrian Space? What did you do?" He asked before then thinking about it for a second, "on second thought, what DIDN'T you do?"

Taking a deep breath, Argit began to recount his previous run-ins with the Incursean's. "Well, I kinda sorta sold them overpriced faulty weaponry during their conquest of another planet, then I managed to strand a couple of their soldiers on a lifeless planet, the list just sorta goes on and on really... But can I stay here to lay low from them?"

Nick's eye twitched at this request, this obscene request, this ridiculous request as he looked back to the ponies that were conversing. They took him in even when he first arrived to Equestria, they treated him like a hero, they were the ones to make him feel... Special.

Looking back to Argit, his nose scrunched up as he then took a deep breath and narrowed his eyes at Argit. "Fine, you get one chance. Just, don't do anything stupid. Alright?"

Argit looked from left, to right, and then rubbed the back of his head, Nick's judgmental gaze becoming fiercer. "Fine, fine! I won't do anything stupid!" Nick took a heavy breath and sighed with slight relief.

“Then get the hell out of here would yah?” Nick asked, with Argit then QUICKLY taking off. Turning back to the girls, with Eris now having returned with a yawn. “You abandoned us Eris!” Celestia stated as she looked at the draconequus with slight anger. To which Eris yawned again, “I didn’t abandon you, I just... Lost interest and simply left!”

“That’s the same as abandonment Eris!” The princess of the sun stated, with Eris then shrugging. “Eh, you live and learn I guess. I still did teleport some Incursean’s away though. They’ll be fine.”

Fluttershy raising her head and saying softly, “at least we managed to beat the Incurseans... So that’s good!” She said, with everyone nodding in agreement as they smiled proudly and warmly. “We can’t settle for that though. This completely blows the LID off of everything I thought I knew about Equestria. Literally everything.” Nick suddenly interjected, gathering the attention of the ponies and chaos goddess.

“What do you mean?” Rarity asked with a confused expression, Starlight than pitching in as well, "how does this change anything?" To which Nick simply shook his head. "If the Incursean's existed here, that means that possibly everything from Ben 10 continuity could have folded over into Equestria! Argit, the Incurseans, and god knows what else, this could bring either disaster or ruin! It's... Complicated, I need time to think, but before I go and... Well, check. Did anyone else find anything else that was weird on the warship?"

Everyone exchanged glances with one and other, a low huff escaping Rarity as she reached for her newly acquired bag. "Yes... I found something, while rummaging through the dungeon I managed to find these... Bizarre grey looking small creatures that seemed to argue all the time!"

Nick blinked, his eye twitching as he rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Please don't tell me it is who I think it is..."

There was a hefty amount of shuffling in the bag, only for two Galvans to pop their heads out. One wearing a bizarre looking cap and the other being relatively overweight for the race. Taking a deep breath and sighing heavily, Nick simply shook his head.

"Blukic and Driba..." He grumbled as the two Galvans glanced at him with a questioning gaze, "do you know who this is Blukic?" Driba asked his almost inseparable comrade, who simply shook his head. "No I have never seen him in my life Driba." He stated with his thick country accent showing, which earned him a small smile from Applejack.

"Well he knows our names, he has to know us-" Driba then paused, glancing further at Nick and eventually landing his eyes on the Omnitrix on his left wrist. "Is that- Is that the Omnitrix? Azmuth's last invention on Galvan Prime after he returned home?" He asked in an almost shocked manner, Blukic then looking at it and following up. "No it's not."

Driba looked at him with a confused expression and then stated, "yes it is! It looks exactly like the description Azmuth gave us!"

"No it doesn't, and even if it was how would a human land his hands on an Omnitrix?" Blukic asked skeptically.

"I don't know how, it just is!" Driba replied, with Blukic simply shaking his head. "No it's not." A low grumble escaping Driba before he replied, "yes it is!"

Rubbing his temples, Nick just began to rub his temples and groaned. "Look, look. Yes, this is the Omnitrix, well, technically. It is a beat for beat perfect replica of it, but still, it's an Omnitrix. So by technicality, neither of you are right, just, be quiet. I need to go..."

This got a perplexed expression from Luna, who asked, "why? Where are you going?" Nick glanced at her after the question. "To Canterlot, I need to just... I need to ask him something."

There it was again, that silence, but this time it was almost choking. He could feel it, the eyes of his friends, the people who helped him into this new world questioning him, was he right to do it? To go to him for understanding, even after he finally defeated him? After everything he had done to this place he loved so much? He was unsure, but it was the only way to get proper answers.

Starting a casual stride, Nick made his way forward and busted out into a full on sprint, leaping into the air and softly muttering. "Astrodactyl."

With a bright flash of light enveloping him, and the human being promptly replaced with the bipedal space pterodactyl, his wings popping out of the jetpack like structure on his back, a blast of propulsion shooting out from the bottom of his 'jetpack' as he took off into the sky. Enveloped in his own thoughts, Astrodactyl on the way to Canterlot, his mind began to race and swell.

'He had to have known, there was no way he didn't. It makes sense, he was going to build an Annihilarg and he resembled Eon closely, it has to be. Erebus had to have known. And if he knew about this odd merger... What other pieces of information is he withholding from me? I have to know, and I WILL make him talk.'

Author's Note

Oh boy I love cliffhangers! With the Incurseans now finally gone, this only leaves more questions then answers for our boy Nick, like what else from Ben 10 is here?

I know the delays have been horrific, but I'm going to make up for them in terms of revamping previous chapters that I had written! I'm hoping to fix inconsistencies and bring in a new audience of readers, and as always, if you see any inconsistencies, typos, or anything, please bring it up! Feedback is highly appreciated, and as always, I hope you all enjoyed the chapter!

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