"Ok so, basically what I'm getting is that this magic map, gave Starlight the ability to travel through time yeah?" Nick asked, his arms crossed over his chest, him and the other Elements of Harmony, Spike, and Starlight where currently gathered in the Map room. Spike scratching at the inactive map, slightly knocking at it. "Mhm, and since then it's been inactive due to Starlights messing with it!" Spike followed up, Twilights face forming into a frown as she rolled her eyes. "Yes, since then." Starlight gave a sheepish smile, rubbing the back of her head with a hoof before Twilight continued, "however as a part of her studies under my wing Starlight's been assisting me in crafting a spell to revitalize the Map!" The Alicorn princess said proudly.

Everyone in the room clapping and cheering joyously, except for Spike who was still scratching at the Map. Up until he was picked up by Nick and placed on the ground beside him.

A smile formed on Twilights face as her and Starlights horns began to glow, "now! Without further ado..." The two ejecting their energy as a orb formed just above the map, expelling energy into the seats of each of the Elements even tagging Nicks Omnitrix, actively making him flinch, the struck objects then reflected the energy to the Map. Sparking in and out, it finally settled and revived itself, the detailed almost holographic map of Equestria showing as Nick raised an eyebrow.

"Oh? Ok, that's dope, this is my first time seeing the map!" He said as Applejack tilted her head, "really? I could've sworn you've seen it once..." She muttered as Nick shook his head, "if I have, I more then likely wasn't paying attention due to the whole Erebus thing, y'know?"

That was when the cutie marks began to appear over the map, Pinkie Pie pointing out each of their locations, including the weird Twilight and Twilight glitch.

"Whats happening with the Map?' Nick asked curiously, Twilight giving it a once over. "More then likely due to being reactivated, it needs some type of recalibration...Pai?" She asked, the device at Nicks waist chirping to life. "Yes ma'am?"

"Could you take the information from the map into a more advanced scan of Equestria?" Twilight asked, Nick raising Pai up as the device took a scan of the map below, taking a moment to load up. She then said, "data transfer completed." Nick pulled her back down, clicking a button at her side and activating a smaller yet almost identical holographic scan of Equestria. "Unfortunately I cannot replicate the Cutie Mark summoning feature the map has, however I know can give an estimate of how long traveling takes and many useful features."

That was when the actual map popped up the final set location, Pinkie Pie and Rarity had been called to Canterlot. While Rarity went off on why she was super excited to go back to Canterlot, Nick’s Omnitrix began to obnoxiously beep, an eyebrow raising as he looked at the device curiously.

”SKKKKKR- Hello? Doe- anyone hear me? They’re after me! Pl- help!”

Nick’s face was one of confusion, the Omnitrix was a communication device. Pai piping up from his belt, “a vessel is approaching Equestria.” She stated, Nick’s ears perked up to it. The sound of Rarity and Pinkie drowning out Pai’s statement.

“How far away is it?” Nick asked as Pai began to calibrate and calculate, "approximately 140,234 miles away."

"Nick! NICK!" Pinkie screamed, Nicks attention was finally grabbed, Rarity and Pinkie Pie standing directly in front of him as he rubbed the back of his head. "I'm sorry! I was kinda zoned out," a frown formed on Rarity's face as she then spoke up. "Well, regardless! Me and Pinkie Pie are headed out to Canterlot!"

He gave a thumbs up, leaned in and hugged the two mares. Rarity's scowl disappearing into a warm smile as she hugged him back, Pinkie Pie giggling softly. "Don't go alien hunting today Nick! I'm sure you'll find some weird rat alien and get thrown into a massive- oh! We have to get going Rarity! Come on!" The pink mare shouted, getting a grip on Rarity and running out. Nick simply blinked as the two left, Rainbow Dash nudging Nick. "You seemed lost in your own head there?" Nick chuckled as he rubbed the back of his head, a sheepish smile forming on his face. "It's nothing, honest." To which the rainbow maned mare looked at Nick with a shifty expression. As estimated in his head, it was going to take that vessel until nightfall to land in Equestria, in which case Nick would be ready for it, and whatever it held inside...

That night, while everyone including Eris was asleep, Nick was sat on the second roof attached to Twilights Crystal Castle. Laying back, his hands where behind his head as he narrowed his eyes looking at the stars. Pai right beside his head as she spoke up, "less than 5,000 miles and counting." She stated as Nick sat up, he did see something in the nighttime sky burning up, "what even is that..? I can barely tell from the fire." That was Rainbow Dash suddenly appeared in front of him, "What fire?"

Nick actively jumped from her sudden appearance, "why does everyone keep doing that!?" He yelled, Rainbow Dash laughing at his reaction, rolling in the air as she took a deep breath. "Woo Celestia..because your reactions are awesome! Anyway," She was still snorting and cackling under her breath. "What are you doing up this late anyway?" Nick exhaled deeply, "listen Dash. I won't lie to you, when we where inside the Castle earlier today, my Omnitrix picked up a distress signal and Pai detected something entering Equestria's system and heading right for us."

"And you were planning to do what?" Rainbow Dash asked with a raised eyebrow, Nick crossing his arms over his chest. "I was going to investigate it and see what's up."

She frowned and narrowed her eyes, looking deep into Nicks eyes before smirking, he then nodded, "ok. I believe you, although you can't keep me out of this! I always love smacking an alien in the face!" Listening to this statement, Nick rolled his eyes as he stood up. "Yeah, I can tell from when we first met." Nick pressed down on his Omnitrix's faceplate, scrolling through his playlists of aliens, he eventually came upon the holographic icon of his pegasus form. Slamming down on the dial, his bone structure began to change as his body shrunk, his fingers and hands turning into hooves as a tail grew from his backside, his short afro style hair extending and spiking up into a short spiky style, dark green highlights visible in the mane. The Omnitrix relocating itself to his flank as a muzzle extended from his face, a pair of wings growing on the top of his back. Large emerald eyes opened. "Emerald Skies should do the trick nicely for some varied flight." He said in his now more higher pitch and teenager esc voice, his voice emulated that of Yuri Lowenthal and it was bizarre.

"Emerald Skies? Couldn't have picked a better name?" Rainbow Dash asked as Emerald Skies rolled his eyes, taking flight as his wings flapped. "Just follow my lead Rainbow." He said, lowering his head and picking up Pai by his mouth.

"1,000 miles away." Pai stated as Emeralds eyes turned to the skies above. The clouds parting as a massive flaming ship was headed straight for the clearing just outside Ponyville, "500 miles...400 miles." Pai continued to count down until the ship finally touched the ground, digging itself into the dirt, Emerald and Rainbow Dash flew over to the ship as the fire raged. Emerald before touching the ground saying, "Omnitrix, Terraspin."

In response, before Emerald Skies touched the ground, a shelled body grew on him, his arms extending and flattening turning into flippers, the hind legs forming into more stumpy legs. His head resembling that of a turtle, to which well. He was a giant turtle, the Omnitrix directly on his chest. “A giant turtle? How does that help?” Rainbow Dash asked as Terraspin glanced to her, “well. How about you see.”

Floating up in the air and retracting his head into his shell, his legs formed one larger limb resembling that of his arms as they began to spin intensely, speeding up the flames moving in the opposite direction of the wind before fully snuffing out. “That’s why I picked Terraspin.” Nick stated as he reverted back to his human form. “Pai? Any signs of sentiment life that survived the crash?”

“From the design of the ship, it appears to be a one man station. However I am detecting a single life form inside.”

As if on cue, the top haul of the ship flew off, Nick raising his hand over his Omnitrix as Rainbow Dash lowered her stance. A pink hand landing on the top of the ship along with another following suit. Gagging and coughing heard as the creature fully revealed itself, rat like in appearance wearing a orange jacket with white highlights, his head landed on the haul as he crawled out, falling out of the ship and landing face first on the ground. Nick’s eyes widened as Rainbow Dash stayed in her stance, Nick’s Omnitrix returning to its idle style as he stood straight up. Tilting his head, he asked with shock in his voice. “Argit!?”

The alien patted his jacket, looking up at Nick with a confused expression of his own. “Uh, and who are you exactly?” He asked, Rainbow Dash standing up as she looked at Nick. “You know this creep?” She asked, Nick nodding. “YEAH! He’s fictional! He comes from the same place as my Omnitrix, the Ben 10 continuity! But how th- aaaaand I answered my own question. Displaced?” Nick asked Argit, the alien giving him a quizzical expression.

“A Displaced? What? No! I’m Argit! And what do you mean fictional? I’m as real as could be buddy, and did you say Omnitrix? I thought that was just a legend of the Galvan..” Argit stated looking at Nick’s wrist, a grin forming on his face as Nick gave him a glare. “Don’t even think about it, I know about you Argit. Grew up in the Null Void and eventually broke out with Kevin Leven, then you became an intergalactic Con-Man who’s one of the most disloyal people I’ve ever seen.” Nick explained, Rainbow Dash floating over to him and narrowing her eyes. “I already don’t like him, can I knock his lights out?”

Argit scoffed, putting a hand on his chest and leaning his head back over dramatically, “how could you accuse me of such a thing? I did nothing wrong to you! Besides, in this kind of business pal, you need to be dishonest, and disloyal! But that’s not why I crash landed on this dump, this planet is barely level 2 and WAY worse then Earth. So I thought I could hide on here...”

Nick raised an eyebrow, he or Rainbow Dash wasn’t buying this in the slightest. “Oh yeah? From who?” The cyan mare asked, that was when a spaceship landed on the ground. Nick’s eyes narrowing as he clenched his fists, “friends of yours? Maybe the Vreedle Brothers?”

“Thankfully, no. Just worse...” Argit ran behind Nick, the ship opening up to show 5 bipedal creatures. Having frog shaped heads, three fingers and frog like feet along with masks and black/slightly purplish suits, they pointed their weapons at Nick, Rainbow Dash and Argit.

“Hand the prisoner over to us! NOW!” One spoke up, Nick’s eyes widening even more. “Incurseans!? You pissed off Emperor Milleous?!”

“No! No! I’m not stupid enough to do that! Just a small squad of his forces you see?” Argit replied, Nick shaking his head. “No, you’re a Con-man Argit! You pissed off the Emperor and now you put the ponies of Equestria in harms way by coming here!”

“Who even are these Incurseans? If it’s these frog losers, Equestria has nothing to worry about!” Rainbow Dash replied, her insult gaining a reaction from the squad, blasting at her. The mare quickly dodged and weaved around the shots.

Nick and Argit dodging to opposite sides to avoid a blast as Nick then commanded. “Omnitrix, Kickin Hawk!”

As a response, his Omnitrix changed Nick’s size. Increasing his muscle mass, feathers grew over his body as a small beak formed on his face. His fingers forming into massive claws as a green mask formed over his eyes and extended past his head, a green strap vest forming as the Omnitrix relocated itself to the vest hooker. Lowering his stance. Kickin Hawk narrowed his eyes and ran forward toward the Incursean, slamming his foot into the helmet of on and bouncing off his head. Spinning horizontally in mid air only to bring his foot down upon the next. Landing on the ground stylishly as Rainbow Dash dealt with two Incursean soldiers of her own, dodging and weaving between them, she slammed her hind hooves into one of their stomaches, knocking the wind out of him and quickly wiping around to elbow the other. Landing on the ground, the mare stood between the two aliens, both of them diving for her to take a step back, having them both slam into each other.

The last Incursion took a step back as Kickin Hawk cracked his hands, rolling his neck as he grinned widely. Rainbow Dash standing tall as she smirked, and Argit sitting in the background thinking of ways to sell the Omnitrix and the amount of profit he could make from it. Or all the things he could do on his own...

Making a break for it, the Incursean ran full speed. Not getting fair seeing as Rainbow Dash flew in and sweep kicked his legs, launching him in the air for Kickin Hawk to slam his foot against his helmet, breaking half of it off and forcing the Incursion on his back. Approaching him, Kickin Hawk used his claws to grab his shirt, raising him up with his eyes narrowed. “Alright listen slime ball. Me and my friend over there don’t want any trouble, so I’d suggest you start talking! How many are coming?” He asked, growling in his face. The Incursean simply pointing upwards, “all of them...”

Kickin Hawk looked up, an Incursean warship directly overhead as his eyes widened. Dropping the Incursion, “oh no...”

“They actually fully followed me here!? It’s an Incursion Warship! We’re all dead!” Argit exclaimed as he ran for the town wailing and crying out in absolute fear. Rainbow Dash looked up at the warship along with Kickin Hawk, the chicken/hawk like alien reverted to his human form, Nick clenching his fists. “We need to gather the girls, NOW!”

Author's Notes:

It was a long time coming, but yes. We are finally fully introducing characters like heccing Argit into this story from the Ben 10 lore.

You wouldn’t believe how many times I rewrote this chapter because of a swell of ideas, but I managed to get it done, and now well? Here we are! I believe the quality of the story is improving drastically, even if I believe no one is reading it anymore-

https://ben10.fandom.com/wiki/Terraspin

https://ben10.fandom.com/wiki/Kickin_Hawk

https://ben10.fandom.com/wiki/Milleous

https://ben10.fandom.com/wiki/Incursean