Let Me Show You the Real Clockwork

"The ultimate form of the Omnitrix? No, you're not a variant of Ben Tennyson at all."

The Clockwork stood up, his purplish-black battle armor shimmering with the light of time energy. He scrutinized Jiang Li through his mask and let out a cold laugh.

"No matter who you are, daring to venture to the end of the river of time is the most foolish decision you've ever made."

"In this dimension, there is no space, only time. And I am the master of time!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the Clockwork suddenly raised his hands.

Boom!

Two purple time rays shot out from his palms, heading straight for Jiang Li and Gwen.

This is no ordinary energy wave. It is Aging Ray that can forcibly accelerate the Time Stream in objects. Any living thing that is hit will experience millions of years in an instant and turn directly into a pile of ashes.

"Gwen, step back."

Jiang Li calm and did not even take a step back.

He raised his left hand and pressed his thumb heavily onto the watch face.

Buzz!

A flash of green light, Jiang Li transformed into a mechanical alien whose entire body was composed of bronze gears and springs.

Galvan System, Chronosapien.

[Clockwork]!

Faced with the incoming purple time ray, Jiang Li simply raised his mechanical arm, and the clockwork knob on his head began to spin rapidly counterclockwise.

"Reverse."

As Jiang Li uttered those two words...

A green ripple of time spread out from his chest, colliding with the Clockwork's purple ray.

There was no violent explosion, nor any deafening roar.

To the Clockwork's disbelief, the purple time ray he fired seemed to have encountered an insurmountable physical law, and actually began to retreat along its original path!

"How is this possible! You can reverse my time attack?!"

The Clockwork was shocked and immediately cut off the energy output, quickly dodging backward.

His prized trump card was easily countered by his opponent, turning the bronze throne he stood on into a pile of rusty fragments.

Jiang Li walked with heavy, mechanical steps toward the Clockwork.

"You're nothing but a bunch of mutated genes, sneaking around in the Time Stream. You really think you understand time?"

The Clockwork's pride was thoroughly enraged.

"Shut up!"

The Clockwork roared and slammed his hands together.

"Time Freeze!"

Buzz--!

An extremely large purple energy field instantly covered the entire Void Fortress.

Within this force field, all physical motion is forcibly stopped.

The air stopped moving, and the pebbles floating in mid-air froze. Gwen, standing at the edge of the hall, also remained motionless in a defensive posture.

The Clockwork, panting heavily, looked at Jiang Li, who was frozen in place, and let out a hoarse, maniacal laugh.

"Your watch face is indeed very powerful! But during the absolutely frozen time, you can't even conceive of turning the watch face!"

A purple time-light blade popped out from the Clockwork's wrist as he strode towards Jiang Li.

"Now, your watch is mine!"

He raised his light blade and slashed fiercely at Jiang Li's left arm.

However, the light blade stopped less than an inch from Jiang Li's mechanical arm.

It wasn't that it was blocked, but rather that its wrist was gripped tightly by a large hand made of bronze gears.

The Clockwork's maniacal laughter caught in his throat. His eyes widened in horror as he stared at the mechanical alien that should have been Time Freeze.

The spring on Jiang Li's head was ticking away at an extremely steady pace.

"Freeze time?"

Jiang Li's voice, with its metallic synthesized tone, rang out clearly in the still fortress.

"That's a good trick. Unfortunately, your 'clock frequency' is too low."

Jiang Li exerted sudden force, crushing the time generator on the Clockwork's wrist. The light blade instantly went out.

"Ah!" Clockwork screamed, trying to pull back, but Jiang Li had already grabbed his neck with his other hand, lifting him into the air.

"In the underlying logic of the Chronosapien, my own Time Stream is not affected by any external force field."

The green watch face on Jiang Li's chest emitted a blinding light.

"Let... let me go..."

The Clockwork's legs kicked wildly in mid-air, and his mask emitted a piercing alarm due to lack of oxygen.

"You like to play with time, don't you? I'll let you play to your heart's content today."

The wind-up knob on Jiang Li's head suddenly started spinning wildly clockwise!

A green current of time flowed down Jiang Li's arm and directly into the Clockwork's body.

"No... no!"

The Clockwork let out a desperate scream.

He could clearly feel that the time energy that sustained him was being forcibly drained from his body by Jiang Li!

His once strong body began to age rapidly; his skin became loose, and his hair turned gray. His purplish-black battle suit also became tattered and turned to ashes under the accelerated passage of time.

Less than ten seconds.

The once invincible interdimensional Clockwork has become a weak, withered, and wrinkled ordinary old man. All the mutated time genes in his body have been completely washed away by Jiang Li's time turbulence.

Jiang Li released his grip.

The aged Clockwork fell to the ground, too weak to even stand up.

With the Clockwork's power destroyed, the Time Freeze field within the fortress instantly dissipated.

Gwen regained her mobility. She looked around, not even realizing that time had just stopped, and only saw the old man lying on the ground, panting.

Jiang Li deactivated his transformation and reverted to his black-clad youth.

He walked up to the Clockwork and looked down at him.

Jiang Li snapped his the Snap.

A yellow spatial rift opened beneath Clockwork, swallowing him whole.

"I threw him into the Void Space (the Plumbers's ultimate prison)."

Jiang Li turned and walked towards Gwen. "There's no Time Stream there; it's enough for this old man to spend the rest of his life in peace."

"Is that all?" Gwen looked at the empty throne room.

"The leader is dealt with, but there are still a few henchmen left."

Jiang Li looked up at the holographic screen above the fortress. It displayed the coordinates of several evil variants wreaking havoc in other universes.

"Let's go, let's wipe out the rest of the pirated goods. After we've cleaned up the battlefield, we should go on a long vacation."