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Ben crosses his arms, his expression dim as he angrily sits at his chair. "Why does he have to be here!" He said gesturing to Rook. The three teens are at Mister Smoothie, with Rook sitting in the middle of the couple.

"Ben, we're here to talk about the latest mishaps about dimensions error. What did you think we were doing?" Eva asked, as the hologram on her hand disappeared. The brunette huffs, and looks at the side, "I thought this was a date. OUR date."

"When did I say that?" The ginger asked, "When you said we're going out to talk." "Yeah, about the new situation Paradox informed us about. Did you not listen to my words when I said we'd go out?" The hero only narrows his eyes as he avoids eye contact.

"Am I interrupting something?" The third party asked.

"Yes."

"No."

Eva pinched the bridge of her nose, "Ben." The brunette still looked mad, which elites a sigh from the girl, "Fine, after this let's go on a date." His mood switched to a 360 degree as he happily smiled at her.

Rook looked at his partner surprised at his sudden turn, while the ginger looked unfazed. "Is this a normal occurrence?" The girl only nodded.

Suddenly, a portal opened up right beside them and came out Paradox. “Ah, there you are,” Paradox greeted cheerfully, as if materializing out of nowhere in the middle of a smoothie shop was perfectly normal.

Ben nearly spilled his drink. “Do you mind?!” The old doctor coughs, "My search about the situation, I found the cause. Someone had found a way to cross different universes and has been tampering with time and space."

"What do you want us to do?" The hero asked, as he sipped on his smoothie. Paradox twirled his cane. “Simple—find the culprit, stop them, and repair the damage before the entire multiverse collapses into a catastrophic paradox of itself. Oh, and preferably before lunchtime.”

Ben blinked. “That’s… oddly specific.” Eva leaned forward. “Do you have any leads?”

“Indeed.” Paradox’s tone grew more serious. “The trail leads to an unstable rift in Universe 1123. That’s where the tampering began—and if left unchecked, it will spread to other timelines.”

Rook set his cup down. “How unstable?” “On a scale of one to ten?” Paradox tapped his chin. “Approximately… banana.”

The ginger raised a brow, "That's not a number." “It is when your reality is about to peel itself apart,” The dimension traveller replied without missing a beat.

The two plumbers then looked at the alien hero waiting for his response. He thinks before giving in, "Okay fine, when are we going?"

Paradox smirked, "Right now." Suddenly, a portal appeared below the teens as the three fell. The old doctor hums and checked at the time and walked towards the seat the three were sitting and sat himself. "Hmm, maybe I'll order some coffee."

Ben’s yell echoed through the swirling tunnel of light. “I hate it when he does this!”

Eva twisted herself upright mid-fall, scanning the strange, shifting landscape below. “Focus! We need to figure out where we’re landing.”

“Oh, you mean the giant glowing fracture in the middle of the ground?” Ben pointed toward a massive, jagged crack pulsing with unstable light. “That would be it,” Rook confirmed.

Meanwhile, the running men were waving at the crowd as another game finished, with Pala winning the round. "Good job, Pala." Sezmir congratulated, as the impa returns it with a thumbs up.

"I'll win the next game, believe it." Popo announced, the team laughed at him. Their happy moment was cut short when the whole place began to shake, the sky changed color, the blue turned into different shades of red.

"What's going on!" Lonkey panicked. A screen appeared on each of them, showing Mala's face behind him is Shan, "Mala! What's going on!" Liu yelled through the chaos.

"I don't know! The system can't track the cause!"

"The spectators!" Sezmir's eyes glowed making a whole golden barrier around the arena, protecting everyone in it.

Suddenly in the sky, a giant crack formed making everyone shocked at the sight. Then three figures fell out of the crack. The pululus start to point at the three figures slowly began to fall towards them.

With the three, Rook pointed at the tree city, "Look over there!" Eva's eyes squinted, with how fast they were falling and the wind hitting their face, it was hard to look. "Ben!" She yells seeing they're slowly nearing the ground.

"Got it!" He smacks his watch and turns into Four Arms, "Ah, shucks. Hold on!" He said as he grabbed the revonnahgander and the inventor, pulling them closer to his chest, his back facing the ground.

Sezmir's eyes widen, "They're closing in!" When Four Arm's back touched the barrier it shattered, and they all slammed to the ground, creating a big wave of dust, which made them cover their eyes.

Rook and Eva rolled away from Ben as he transformed back and groaned, "Guys, I don't think we're alone." The tall alien said grabbing a hold of his proto-tool, the ginger clenched her fist as her gloves glowed blue.

Ben sits up and looks around seeing many eyes looking at them, he stands up and raises his hand ready to transform at any moment.

“Uh…” Ben lowered his hand slightly but kept his thumb hovering over the dial. “Rook… I think we crashed somebody’s… sports event?”

Rook glanced around at the floating scoreboards, the golden barrier fragments still shimmering in the air. “Given the cheering crowd and obstacle course remnants, I would say yes.”

Eva took a step forward, scanning the closest group with suspicion. “Who are you people?”

Kuga readied himself in a fighting stance, "We should ask you the same thing." Liu jumped between them holding both his hands up, "Wait! Let's resolve this without fighting!"

But Kuga and Ben didn't listen, with the brunette transforming into Humangausour, as they both ran towards each other fists up ready to strike. But before they could hit one another, golden outlines surround the two making them float.

The culprit, Sezmir looked at the two with a smile while having an irk, "Have you two heard what Liu said?" The tiger flinched at her look while the hero sweats, for some reason she reminds him of someone.

The golden aura around Ben and Kuga tightened just enough to keep them from struggling too much.

“Now,” Sezmir said evenly, his voice carrying the weight of command, “you will both take a breath and explain yourselves—without fists.”

Ben, still in Humungousaur form, grumbled. “I was just introducing myself…” Eva crossed her arms. “Yeah, sure. That’s how you introduce yourself, by turning into a dinosaur and tackling strangers.”

Kuga scoffed. “He came at me first.”

“You lunged first!” Ben shot back.

"Enough." Sezmir tightened her arm which in reply made the two groan. Eva lands in front of the fox her hands extended in a calm manner, "Wait, let's talk about this. We didn't want trouble."

Miyo stepped in front of Sezmir, trying to protect the orange fox from the stranger, "Who are you? What are you? And what's your business here?" Sezmir grabbed the cat's shoulder, "Let her talk."

"I will talk if you put my boyfriend down first." Eva replied, the alopex slowly put her hand down, the golden outlines disappearing on the two boys' figures.

Kuga and Ben landed with a heavy thud, both glaring at each other but resisting the urge to jump right back into a fight. Eva exhaled slowly. “Thank you.”

Sezmir’s golden eyes studied her for a moment. “You speak as if you’re not the one in charge. ”

Rook stepped forward, standing slightly between Eva and the others. “We’re here because of that—” he pointed skyward to the jagged rift still pulsing violently above. “It’s destabilizing your dimension. If we don’t act fast, it could consume this entire city.”

The running men looked at Liu, waiting for his opinion. But before he could voice out his thoughts, multiple footsteps interrupted them, they turned to see the dv7s running towards them.

"Liu!" Shan called, as they stopped beside the running men. The ginger's eyes darted towards the multiple creatures, sensing the growing tension. "Can we talk somewhere private?"

Now they were all in the loft area, the three humans had their hands tied up as they were sat on the sofa with the running men and dv7 giving them aware looks.

Sezmir sweatdrops at the sight of the three strangers tied up, "Is this necessary?" Lonkh puts his hands on her shoulder, "Sezmir, my dear. We don't know if these three—whatever they are—will do if we don't tie them up."

Popo hops on the giraffe's shoulder, joining him, "Yeah! Like did you see that green guy did? He turned into a dinosaur! You don't know what the other two will do!"

Ben and Rook sweated, as they heard their allegations, as they were not discreet with their words. Miyo then starts, "Now back to my questions."

The two boys looked at the only female one in their group, Eva mentally sighed and prepared herself to answer any questions. "What are you?" Spin asked.

Eva met Spin’s curious gaze without flinching. “We’re humans. Well—” she tilted her head toward Rook, “—two of us are. He’s a Revonnahgander.”

Rook gave a polite nod. “A humanoid species from the planet Revonnah, in another galaxy.”

Spin blinked slowly. “Another galaxy?” His tone was skeptical, but his ears twitched like he was filing the detail away.

Ben leaned forward in his restraints, grinning despite the situation. “And I’m the guy who can turn into all kinds of aliens.”

"Aliens?" Liu questioned, "Are you guys not aliens?" The inventor asked, which made them even more confused, "It seems like their species is different from ours." The revonnahgander said, making her nod, "I noticed with the way they didn't know our species, humans don't exist here."

Eva glanced between them all, noting the range of expressions—suspicion, curiosity, and in a few cases, something that almost looked like excitement. “Right,” she said evenly, “so we’re definitely not from your dimension. That’s why we’re here—to fix the mess before it gets worse.”

Rema tilted her head, eyes narrowing. “And why should we believe you?”

Rook answered calmly, “Because if you don’t, your city—your world—could collapse within days. Possibly hours.”

"Next question, what are your names?"

The brunette started, "Name's Ben Tennyson, hero of the universe." He grinned proudly, "Never heard of you." The trio—pala, lonkey, and popo answered, which made Ben flinched and irritated.

"I am Rook Blonko, I come from the planet Revonnah. Pleasure to make you acquaintance." Then their heads turned towards the last member.

"My name is Evangeline Yoshida, Eva for short. We came from dimension 10, and are tasked to look for the culprit behind the giant rift in your sky."

The room went quiet after Eva’s words, the only sound being the faint hum of the rift outside, audible even through the loft’s walls. The running men and dv7 exchanged looks, their wariness softening just enough for the questions to shift from suspicion to calculation.

Shan crossed her arms. “So you’re saying someone from your dimension—or another—came here and caused that thing?”

Eva nodded. “Yes. And based on the readings we got, they’ve been here for a while.” Rema tilted his head. “Then why didn’t we notice anything until now?”

Rook’s voice was measured. “Because tampering like this is subtle at first. The damage spreads slowly… then suddenly accelerates when the stability threshold is breached. Which is where you are now.”

The ropes in their hands vanished making them look at Sezmir, "I believe what they are saying. But…" Her smiling face darkened, "If something ever happens revolving into anyone getting hurt, I won't hesitate to cut your heads." Then her face switched back to her usual smile.

Rook and Ben looked at each other, "She reminds me of someone." The Brunette smirks at his girlfriend, "She does." The female plumber closed her eyes in irritation, "Shut it."

Suddenly the whole place shook which made them alarmed.