Nick clenched his fists tightly as he looked up at the Incursean warship, his eyes narrowing as he stood up. “We need to gather the girls, NOW!“ He shouted, Rainbow Dash flying off, leaving a rainbow streak behind her. Nick looked to the Incursean that was still slightly conscious, grabbing him by his body suit and quickly dragging him off. The Incursion warship looking over head.

Emperor Milleous sat on his throne in his warship, a sigh escaping him as he shook his head. His daughter, the princess Attea kept her arms behind her back. The screen in front of the two of them showing a scan of the planet ahead, the planet nicknamed in the cosmos Equis. “Daddy, why are we back on this backwater planet? This can’t be where Argit is hiding,” Attea pointed out, Milleous glancing to his daughter. “You’d be surprised how cunning he can be daughter, unfortunately, retreating to Equis was probably the worst idea he’s had.”

“But I thought you had been banished from this disgusting planet? I recall the Equis/Incursean war not going to well for us with due to their magic and surprisingly versatility on such a nasty planet.” Attea commented, Milleous bellowed out in laughter, “daughter. Of course I’m banished from this planet, and you truly call my visit here a war? It was more like...Equis presenting its strongest fighters to us, which we demolished, and their gods had to step in and destroy my ship with this magical trinkets.” Milleous explained as he looked stone faced at the planet ahead.

“Celestia and Luna have had this coming a long time now, and Argit only made my job much easier.” He then let out a ribbit of triumph, Attea narrowing her eyes as she began to think to herself. A mischievous plan forming in her head as she grinned widely, “I agree father! I agree whole heartedly...”

“When’s the soonest that I can get some witness protection? Maybe moved to the moon! Or maybe some type of place deep in the planet I can hide!?” Argit screamed as he slammed his hands against the Map, the Mane Six sitting around the table along with Starlight and Spike. Nick standing beside Argit said, “you do realize, that nowhere on this planet can keep you safe from Emperor Milleous.”

Twilight nodded, “the Incursean and Equis war is one of the most devastating battles our planet has ever faced. However the two that played an essential part in it was Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, and that battle was many MANY years ago, before any of us where even born.” The alicorn stated as she rubbed her hoof against her chin. Nick crossing his arms over his chest as he then piped up, “well. We still have the Incursean in the back of the room.”

The frog like alien was still very much unconscious, half his helmet on the table directly in front of Starlight with Pai hooked up to the damaged helmet, the AI stored inside the device chirped up. “Download complete. All Incursean warship data has been uploaded to my systems,” Starlight then slide Pai to the middle of the Map table, showing a massive holographic projection covering that of the entire table.

“Pai, upload the information to my Omnitrix, I have an idea.” Nick stated as he clicked the faceplate of his Omnitrix, the dial popping up as he pushed down on the dial. His body shrinking down into that of a fairy-like alien with blue skin. Purple fairy-like wings sprouting from his back as blue hair replaced his small afro, sticking straight up. His clothes replaced with that of a green dress-like outfit with black zigzags. His eyes turning a nice green with feminine eyelashes growing, along with pink markings on his cheeks and chin. “Pesky Dust should do the trick.” He stated, Nick’s usually loud voice with slight deepness, now replaced with that of a more feminine voice to fit his fairy like body.

“Whatever this alien does, make it quick Nick!” Rainbow dash stated, Rarity forming a frown at the mare before shaking her head and looking at Pesky Dust. “While I wouldn’t be as forward as Rainbow Dash, yes. Please do hurry, we need you to plan further with your extensive knowledge.” Rarity followed up, Pesky Dust giving the both of them a thumbs up. “Don’t worry, I’ve got it.”

Floating over to the Incursean, Pesky Dust placed his hand on his bumpy frog head. The process was quick, but Pesky Dust had used the natural ability of his species, the Nemuina, which made them one of the most feared species in the Ben 10 continuity. Dream manipulation and observation. Using this ability to manipulate the Incursean, known as Eltra from his observation to gain more information on Emperor Milleous’ warship, such as key armory locations, the throne room, and mainly what Nick needed to worry about. The layout and location of their main world ending cannon at the belly of the ship. Removing his hand, Pesky Dust reverted to his human form as Nick stood up, approaching the table and placing his hands on it.

“Ok, we know the best entrances for the ship, which is hijacking one of their teleportation beams at the belly of the ship just behind world destroying cannon. When we enter from there, we break off into teams of two, however I don’t want to get to far in on explanations until I know we have EVERYONE.” Nick stated as he then muttered, “that includes you Eris.”

That was when confetti appeared out of nowhere, the Goddess of Chaos appearing as she stood on the table, obscuring the holographic projection of the ships exterior. “Oh? I finally get to be on an adventure with my Stallion-Friend! It seems that my talent has finally not been overlooked!” Eris flexed her talons, smirking widely as Nick then said. “Eris, not now. We’re not playing hero. This is serious, you need to listen so we can be ready for anything.”

Eris pouted, but nodded teleporting beside Nick and having her arms crossed over her chest. “Now we only need two more.” Nick stated, as if on cue a bright flash of blue and yellow light filled the room, Celestia and Luna standing in their royal armor resembling that of, of course, day and night. “Apologies for our tardiness. We had to calm own the people of Canterlot, we never expected to have the Incurseans return in another attempt to enslave us...” Celestia muttered as Nick then said. “And you believed him? Incurseans are naturally coldblooded, they’re manipulative, dirty, and slimy backstabbers. Almost like the dude on my left.” Nick stated looking at Argit, who crossed his arms over his chest, a frown forming on his face.

“Ok, THAT, was uncalled for.” Argit stated as Applejack then exclaimed, “y’all put the entire planet in a war and frenzy! Nothing is uncalled for sugah!”

Argit huffed as he rolled his eyes, “please. It’s not like you all couldn’t survive the planet exploding. You have magic.” To which Starlight piped in, “if the planet is destroyed, our magic will be next to worthless! We cannot go back and undo all this without breaking ethics!” To which the Mane Six, Spike, Eris, and Nick glanced at her, the mare shaking her head. “Without ethics! I will never time travel like that again!” She stated as she huffed.

“Well if that’s the case, then I suppose I should go on the ship as well. I may not look it, but um. I’m a bit of a smooth talker.” Argit said with a smirk, Nick pinching the bridge of his nose. “If by smooth talker, you mean look for the nearest scout ship and hightail it to the nearest inhabited planet with higher then level 5 technology. Then yeah, you’re a real smooth talker Argit.”

“You’re one to talk! Mr. Wielder of the Omnitrix! You could’ve left this sorry excuse for a planet with one of those alien forms! You have level 20 technology attached to your WRIST!” Argit said grabbing Nick’s arm and raising it up showing the Omnitrix to the room. “I guarantee you, you have at least ONE transformation in here that could solve this whole problem in the blink of an eye!” Argit stated, the ponies actually looking at Nick and considering the odds of that.

Grabbing Argit by the face and slamming him back into his chair, “it doesn’t work like that! There’s a reason I’ve never used my more...extremely powerful transformations to fix my damn problems you rat!”

Celestia then asked, “what transformations is he talking about then Nick?”

Silence struck the room at that, taking a deep breath, Nick then spoke. “He wasn’t particularly specific, but I do have a form like that in the Omnitrix. Alien X. A Celestialsapian with the power to do pretty much anything, bend reality, space and time, ANYTHING.” Nick stated as chatter formed in the room, Eris scoffing. “Sweetie, I could do all that-“

“No, no you couldn’t. Not to the extent of Alien X. Listen everyone.” Nick took a deep breath as he pulled he lowered his head, looking at his hands on the table. “It took me a while to realize this, but I started piecing it together after Jason left to return to his Equestria. I’m NOT a god, I’m human. It’s not my place to alter reality just because I can. The universe isn’t my own custom playground, and if I treat it as such with that type of power, what would I be saving? It wouldn’t be real. It would be manufactured, an illusion of life that I would NEVER be truly happy in ever again.”

Then raising his left arm up and showing the Omnitrix, his eyebrows lowered, “every alien, every DNA sample in this damn watch matters, as an Omnitrix wearing Displaced, I have to be an example of that. If I managed to master Alien X, if I managed to remove the inhibitors from the form and used it to save the day all the time. The ponies of Equestria wouldn’t look to Celestia, or Luna, or any of the princesses for approval. They’ll look to me. As if I was a determining factor, a key player and the maker between right and wrong, justice and doom, hope, and sorrow. It’s nobodies right to feel that way, to feel that they can do ANYTHING because they want to, regardless of who they are as a person or pony. It’s why I didn’t let Erebus win, and it’s sure as hell gonna be the reason why we’re going to drive back those Incurseans, save Equestria, and laugh about it tomorrow.”

Everyone in the room smiled at Nick except for Argit who did not believe Nick, Luna then saying. “At the very beginning of your time in Equestria, you believed yourself to be an inadequate hero. And now look at you? You’ve grown Nick.”

Eris wrapped her arms around his neck, smiling as she grew over him in a cartoonish fashion. “You’ve grown a lot!”

Nick smiled as he then said, “thank you all...I couldn’t have gotten here without you all, this watch, being in Equestria? It’s been the best damn thing that’s ever happened to me.”

That was when Argit growled, exclaiming. “Uh, hello!? We still have an oncoming invasion on our hands! No time for sentimental crap when our lives are in danger!” That was when Rainbow Dash flew in his face, letting out a growl of her own as she stared deep into his eyes, Argit backing up.

“No, Argit is right. We have to stay focused on the task at hand, so everyone in this room, you all need to listen up. This is very, VERY important.” Nick stated as the planning fully begun.

Author's Notes:

I know this chapter is relatively short, but I managed to get everything I wanted in it so I apologize. However the next chapter and part two of the Incursean Invasion has the potential of being very, VERY, VERY long, however I won’t make any promises. Have a great day!

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