Ring! Ring!

Ben slowly opened his eyes.

03:00

3AM? Why's it ringing now?

He raised his hand to turn if off, but then he realised it wasn't his alarm clock. He looked at his hand and saw the Omnitrix buzzing. He pressed it, and a hologram of Azmuth appeared.

"Azmuth?"

"Ben, stop lazying around and get to work! I may have figured out something," Azmuth said.

"It's 3AM," Ben said. "On Earth, it means beauty sleep time here."

"Benjamin, this is important," Azmuth said. "I analyzed the footage you sent me and I-"

"Call me back in 6 hours."

"Tennyson, don't you dare-"

Click

KEVIN'S AUTO SHOP

09:00 AM

"Isn't it a bit early for this?"

Kevin yawned, leaning against the wall.

"Hey, at least you live here. I had to travel here," Gwen said, having dark circles around her eyes.

"Well, it's better than waking up at 3am," Ben said. "Anyway, it's time for Azmuth to call. Let's just sit."

Ben looked at his watch, but nothing happened.

"What are you looking at?"

Ben turned around and jumped.

"You-how did you get here?!"

"Teleportation, as always," Azmuth said. He stood on a small hovering device so he could speak eye to eye to them. "Anyway, let us get to the heart of the matter."

Azmuth showed a 3D projection of an image. It was a zoomed in picture of the wormhole from earlier.

"That looks familiar."

"It should," Azmuth said. "That is Vilgaxia."

"What?" Gwen asked. "Why are there so many different aliens there?"

"That's the thing," Azmuth said. "There shouldn't be. Satellite footage of Vilgaxia shows nothing of what we are seeing here. Furthermore, transporting different species from all over the galaxy would attract a lot of attention, and yet nobody picked it up. Unless Vilgax has some kind of cloaking technology even I don't know about, that is a very different Vilgaxia. Basically, for the first time in history, we have actual evidence of parallel universes."

"And yet you don't seem very happy," Ben said. "Which is really weird for you. Why?"

"This is because, Benjamin," Azmuth said. "When you decided to take your 'beauty sleep time', and yes, Gwen, Kevin, he did say those exact words, I was investigating. I went to the base on Earth's Moon and decided to review the tests they had performed on 'Gwen-2'. I also visited the site of the incident. After a few modifications to the Null Void Projector, I managed to reopen the wormhole, though only as a 'glass mirror', which means the barrier between our universes is slowly healing. I confirmed that it was only 5cm in diameter, and I used my best telescope to observe the other side. After all my investigation, my hypothesis, is that 'Gwen-2' is a parallel version of you, Gwen. Something happened that provoked her to prematurely use her full Anodite form, and with it, she tore the spacial barrier between our universes, but only slightly. She was basically sucked through a wormhole the size of an insect, which is partly why she couldn't even speak for a while."

"The science lesson is good and all," Kevin said. "But why is that so concerning?"

"It would take a few more days for the tear between the universe to heal," Azmuth said. "However, that means if anyone were to cross through to our dimension, it would be during that time. Furthermore, Gwen-2's wounds were inflicted by powerful lasers. I've only seen one being who could do that kind of damage."

Ben's eyes widened.

THE MOON

PLUMBER BASE

Day 5 - I'm starting to feel better now. Yesterday, Blukic gave me some liquid medicine, and it helped me get my appetite back. But it's still hard to remember things though. I think I was in a…

"Hello, Gwen," Driba said. "Is the electronic journal to your liking?"

"This is amazing," Gwen-2 said. "How am I typing in this computer?"

"It's is quite simple," Driba said. "Since we had to surgically remove your hands, we decided to give you this special computer we use for patients with special needs. The device you are wearing on your head is connected to your cerebral cortex, which transmits your thoughts into the computer you're using."

"Yeah." Blukic said. "So if you think, 'Driba's dumb', it'll say so on the screen."

"You idiotic simpleton! How dare you-"

Suddenly, Blukic and Driba froze.

Gwen-2 waved her hand in front of them, but there was no response. She looked around, and saw everyone in the room was the same.

"Hello!"

VILGAX 10 UNIVERSE

THRONE ROOM

"Please tell me why you are coming along."

Vilgax looked at the hooded person.

"Just increasing our chances," he said. "You can never be too careful."

Various other hooded people, all of them as large as Vilgax himself, was also there.

"It's time."

The hooded figure held out his hand, and a portal opened.

(Author's Note: I'm working full time now and I have assignments, so it's going to be difficult to write every week, since I am managing this and Gwen 10 Alien Force. If you haven't read that, go ahead and give it a read. There are also a couple of one off stories I've written, so you can read that if you want. I'll try to update at least one of them once a week, so stay tuned :) )