A month had passed.
The sanctuary, though peaceful, still bore faint scars—rifts now sealed, earth gently healed, yet the silence had changed. Not empty. Not still.
Just… waiting.
High above the gleaming towers, Kai sat cross-legged on a slanted crystal rooftop. The morning mist clung to his shoulders. The sun had yet to rise, and the air felt heavier than usual—as if the world held its breath beneath layers of unseen meaning.
He inhaled. Slowly. Steadily.
His mind tuned itself to the breath of the sanctuary.
Just stillness.
Until—
"Kai."
He twitched.
"Kai."
His eyes remained closed, but something inside him pulled tight, like a thread being plucked from the back of his neck.
"Kai…"
He exhaled sharply, and turned.
There she was.
For a heartbeat, he thought it was a mirage. A memory playing out in ghostlight.
But the breeze didn't pass through her robes this time. Her presence bent the light subtly around her, like reality itself hesitated before settling on her shape.
"You're real this time," Kai muttered, rising.
The Ancient One stood on the ledge behind him, hands folded calmly, her face unreadable and wise. Her yellow robes danced in the wind like incense smoke.
"I told you we would meet again."
They walked in silence for a few moments along the rooftop path, above the sleeping sanctuary.
Then she said it.
"I saw my death."
Kai blinked. "Come again?"
"Not a possibility. Not a dream. A vision. A singular point where time ends… for me."
He didn't know what to say. Words clawed their way up his throat and died there.
She smiled faintly.
"It wasn't painful. But it was necessary. Some events must happen. Some doors must close so others may open."
"You were there, you know."
Kai turned toward her, eyes narrowed. "I was… there? At your death?"
The Ancient One nodded.
"You held the line, as you always do. But even with the Omnitrix, you are not meant to fight alone forever."
She extended her hand.
The Omnitrix began to pulse violently on Kai's wrist, glowing not green—but gold. Ancient markings, long hidden in its circuitry, spiraled outward like veins awakening.
"What are you—?"
The Ancient One gently touched the center dial.
Time didn't stop.
Kai's breath caught in his throat as an overwhelming flood of data, languages, genetic signatures, and subsystems swept through his body—not visually, but like a second mind being born within his own.
The Omnitrix chirped. Clicked. Whirred.
Then glowed still.
"Half of the Master Control is now unlocked," she said softly. "You will now command the bio-healing matrix—capable of regenerating broken tissue, restoring lost structure… not just in yourself."
"You can apply it to others."
"Like rewriting their injuries at the genetic level."
Kai stared at the watch.
"And the aliens?"
"Unlocked."
There was a sudden ping—then wave after wave of icons spiraled across the Omnitrix interface.
Way Big. Rath.Terraspins,Clockwork,fast-track.ditto.etc and all the other aliens till Ben ten ultimate alien
All new forms..
Each one powerful.
Kai took a shaky step back. "That's… too much. Why give me this now?"
The Ancient One tilted her head.
"You are the one who unlock it."
"How."
"You showed it to me".
Kai stared.
"But how? I didn't do anything special. I didn't master anything."
She stepped closer.
"You chose to fight without hatred. You healed those who could not repay you. You sought peace when vengeance was easier."
"The Omnitrix responds not just to will—but to growth."
"You are not who you were when you fell into this world."
Kai frowned, gaze turning inward.
"So what now? Is this where you tell me I have a destiny to stop the Collectors? To protect the dimensions? That I'm the 'chosen one'?"
The Ancient One actually chuckled.
"No."
"I am not here to explain fate. I am here to prepare you."
Kai met her gaze.
"Then… how do I unlock the rest? The full Master Control?"
her voice, a whisper:
"You already know."
Kai opened his mouth—and then stopped.
He didn't know how. But some part of him did.
And that answer wasn't for today.
She turned to leave.
"Wait—why do this now?"
"Because time runs thin. And the threads around you are tightening."
"The next step is not yours alone. You will meet another… soon."
Kai's mind whirled with questions.
But she was already vanishing into golden mist.
Her final words echoed like a thought not quite remembered:
"When the hour is darkest… listen to the watch."