Dr. Paradox lifted his foot, about to step forward.
Swish!!!
An unbelievably fast figure streaked past him!
"XLR8?!"
An alarm went off in Dr. Paradox's mind, and his expression instantly tightened.
Had he been targeted by some rogue XLR8?
Just like… how Max had been targeted by Star of Dread back then!
Whoosh! Bang!
The figure abruptly stopped.
Speed God turned around, looked at Dr. Paradox, and removed his mask.
"Dr. Paradox, it's me. Ethen."
"…Ethen? How did you get here?" Dr. Paradox stared at him, stunned, then added helplessly.
"And could you maybe run a bit slower? You nearly scared me to death just now."
"I was already moving very slowly," Speed God replied calmly.
"Almost like walking. If I were any faster, you wouldn't even be able to see me."
"Wait…"
Only then did Dr. Paradox truly notice the change.
A terrifying, divine aura wrapped around Ethen's body.
"You've mastered some astonishing new power!" Dr. Paradox exclaimed.
"Let's go," Speed God said simply.
"To the Ben Without the Omnitrix timeline."
Dr. Paradox swallowed hard.
"You… you look extremely reliable right now."
He turned and began moving forward again.
But Speed God merely leaned slightly—
And vanished.
Dr. Paradox hadn't even fully crossed the time axis before stopping in front of the Ben Without the Omnitrix universe.
Before he could open a space-time gate—
Whoosh!!
Speed God accelerated again, transforming directly into a beam of light and drilling straight into the universe!
"…"
Dr. Paradox wiped his forehead as cold sweat slid down.
"Is this… divine power?"
Asking about someone else's secrets was extremely impolite.
But damn it—he really wanted to know where Ethen got all these damn clocks!
Ben Without the Omnitrix — Parallel Universe
Fifteen hours had passed since the black hole swallowed Earth.
The gigantic black hole continued expanding, having already devoured the Moon, the Sun, and countless planets across the Milky Way.
Speed God stopped at a distance, calmly observing it.
He frowned slightly, his tone relaxed.
"So… how should I save it this time? Just smash the black hole directly?"
"Ethen…" Dr. Paradox stepped out of the portal, arriving a full step later than him.
"My suggestion is to first rescue Ben Without the Omnitrix, Brother Ben, Full Class, and the other shapeshifters trapped inside. They are critical anchors to multiple timelines."
"After that, we can use force to destroy the black hole—and finally have Atomic X restore everything."
As long as they were alive, the timeline could still be stabilized.
"Enter the black hole to rescue people?"
Speed God raised an eyebrow.
Then he lifted his hand and rotated the glowing pattern on his body.
"Then let's switch forms."
Manually rotating the pattern allowed him to freely change alien forms.
Whoosh!!
Divine light flashed.
"Is he using the orthodox Alien X—huh?! What the hell is this?!"
Dr. Paradox's anticipation turned into deep confusion.
The light faded.
Jet-black upper body.
Lower body formed into a translucent white fish tail.
A divine Ripjaws stood before him.
"…Ripjaws? Can he seriously pull this off?" Dr. Paradox was extremely doubtful.
Among alien heroes, Ripjaws was practically sewer-tier.
Aside from breathing underwater, he had almost no advantages whatsoever.
"Listen," Ripjaws God said calmly.
"When I use a Celestial alien, there's no room for doubt."
He stretched his body, spread his arms, and adopted a relaxed swimming posture.
Then—
Bang!!
His fish tail gently swayed.
And he swam freely… through outer space.
He surged straight toward the black hole.
The black hole's gravitational pull instantly locked onto him—
Bang! Bang! Bang!!
Divine power erupted endlessly from Ripjaws God's body, completely overpowering the pull.
He even adopted a freestyle swimming posture, casually swimming into the black hole—
Like it was his personal swimming pool.
"…"
Dr. Paradox's jaw dropped.
"That's a black hole, not your private swimming pool, hey…"
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!!
Ripjaws God swam deeper, expression utterly indifferent.
So this is a black hole?
Not exciting at all.
Unexpectedly… calm.
"??"
The first person he encountered was Snare-Oh.
Snare-Oh stared at Ripjaws God like he'd seen a ghost.
Ripjaws God grabbed him.
Crack!!
He opened his mouth and bit straight through the black hole, tearing space itself apart and forming a spatial gate.
"Dr. Paradox—catch!"
With a flick of his arm, he hurled Snare-Oh out through the gate.
He kept swimming.
Negative Ben, protected by a clock that had already exhausted its energy.
Albedo, relying on Ultimate Way Big to survive.
The dying Gravattack.
Along the way—
Anyone Ripjaws God encountered was casually scooped up and thrown out of the black hole.
He even switched swimming styles mid-way—
Freestyle.
Butterfly.
Effortlessly traversing the black hole until he reached its deepest core.
"This… this is a fusion of Alien X and Ripjaws… And not just a fusion—
The most perfect fusion state!"
Atomic X, the form Brother Ben had transformed into, stared in shock as he tightly protected Ben Without the Omnitrix in his arms.
Because he had to constantly protect him—
He couldn't free his hands to escape.
Otherwise, how could a mere black hole trap Brother Ben?
"Let's go."
Ripjaws God grinned, biting open the outer shell of the black hole.
With a single flick of his fish tail—
Atomic X was launched straight out, blasting free of the black hole!
Shock filled his face.
If he used the Fusion Omnitrix to combine Ripjaws and Alien X—
He'd likely get some unstable, half-baked abomination.
But Celestial aliens were different.
Every alien was perfectly fused with Celestial power.
"Now…" Ripjaws God straightened.
"Terminate the black hole."
He surged out of it in a dazzling, heroic arc—
Then suddenly struck a perfect diving pose.
And plunged headfirst back into the black hole.
Flashy.
Way too flashy.
"He's actually diving," Atomic X muttered darkly.
Whoosh!!
The pattern on Ripjaws God's body rotated again.
Divine light flashed.
A short, squat, pitch-black figure covered in starlight appeared—
Frogmaw.
"Hehehe…"
Frogmaw grinned wickedly, drool spilling from his mouth.
"Black hole… Looks delicious!!"
...
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