#534 - Ultimate Little Bobo and Valeria

Ultimate Echo Echo is even more of a heavyweight.

Why do I say that? You'll understand as soon as you hear the nickname people in the know gave him: War God.

Don't get the wrong idea; it's not the kind of War God like Ares, who only cares about starting fights regardless of winning or losing. Ultimate Echo Echo's achievements are genuinely impressive, outstanding even among a crowd of alien heroes.

However, the Ross before him was unaware of all this. He only knew that his enemy hadn't died; he had even changed his appearance, which was something he couldn't allow.

Ross roared, slamming his hands into the ground, launching himself at Yang Le like a cannonball, moving more than twice as fast as before.

Facing the aggressively approaching Ross, Yang Le showed no intention of dodging. Instead, he stood his ground and swung his palm, causing the light blue discs on Ultimate Echo Echo's palm and back of his hand to detach.

The two light blue discs stopped a meter away from the main body and hovered in the air. Yang Le, standing behind the discs, waved his fingers like a conductor, and the two discs began to multiply like the previous Echo Echo.

What were originally only two discs had now multiplied to ten, all aimed at the charging Ross.

“Buzz!”

As Yang Le lowered his finger, the ten sonic discs activated simultaneously, firing a terrifying wave of sound that knocked the murderous Ross out of the air.

Ross, now on the ground, was in a terrible state, with not a single piece of good flesh left on his body. Green blood containing high levels of radiation constantly oozed out, making him look like a boneless octopus, unable to crawl properly.

But Yang Le knew this was only temporary. It wouldn't be long before the gamma radiation's power restored Ross. Based on the characteristic of gamma monsters getting stronger as they fight, the monster before him would soon become very troublesome.

However, this was also Yang Le's goal. He needed the opponent to become stronger, which was why he chose Echo Echo to fight him.

Waving his right hand, the ten sonic discs received the command and immediately flew towards Ross's location, surrounding him.

Unlike Echo Echo's previous encirclement, the sonic discs were now constantly releasing sound waves while moving erratically to prevent Ross from exploiting openings to escape as he had done before.

Although the sonic discs could fly, eliminating the worry that Ross would destroy the terrain and cause them to lose balance, preventing them from continuously releasing sound waves, a constantly moving object was clearly superior to a stationary target.

This way, even if Ross tried to escape, it would take him some time, giving Yang Le enough time to react and make corrections.

Seeing Ross contained, Yang Le nodded in satisfaction. The sonic prison not only restrained the enemy, but the trapped enemy was also constantly taking damage every second. Yang Le had also specifically adjusted it so that the damage gradually increased over time.

This meant that no matter how strong Ross's recovery ability was, he couldn't escape Yang Le's control because just as he adapted to the current damage, the damage would increase in the next second.

Normal creatures couldn't undergo a level-skipping evolution in a short period, except for Darwin among the mutants.

Sound waves released outwards formed a shield, while sound waves released inwards formed a prison. Yang Le learned this from Ben Tennyson. It could only be said that Ben was indeed a genius in combat.

Reaching out with his left hand to touch the disc on his right hand, Yang Le detached it, held it, and gently tossed it aside. After rotating a few times in the air, the sonic disc stabilized and released a relatively gentle sound wave.

In this soft melody, a blue figure gradually appeared, another Ultimate Echo Echo.

Many people may not know that Ultimate Echo Echo can actually do more than just create sonic disc clones. His original cloning ability hadn't disappeared. The reason Ben hadn't used this ability was that the Ultimatrix Ben was wearing at the time had malfunctioned, preventing Ultimate Echo Echo's cloning ability from working.

However, Ultimate Echo Echo's clones were indeed more troublesome than before. He needed to rely on his sonic discs to replicate, but they were more flexible and unpredictable than the previous clones.

Without Yang Le's explanation, the cloned Ultimate Echo Echo understood what he needed to do. He immediately rotated the Omnitrix symbol on his chest and transformed into another alien hero.

The obvious pigtails revealed his identity: the coolest guy among the alien heroes—AmpFibian.

“You can come over now, bookworm,” AmpFibian contacted someone on the other side using the Omnitrix's built-in communication device. After a while, the Time Cycle, which hadn't been seen in days, slowly stopped beside them.

“You’re really impolite, Hubie.”

The Time Cycle's hatch slowly opened, and a stunning figure with dazzling golden hair stepped out of the Time Cycle with long legs. It was Valeria, who had gone to keep her brother Franklin company while he was picking up girls.

“Even though you’re asking for my help, you still call me a bookworm.” Valeria flipped her hair and rolled her eyes at AmpFibian.

“Ignore that blockhead.” Ultimate Echo Echo interjected with an electronic voice. “The Omnitrix affects the wearer’s personality. In AmpFibian form, I’m just a hippie. Don’t take him seriously. Did you finish making what I asked for?”

“You’re not much better.” Valeria said in annoyance. “Is no one going to say ‘long time no see’ here?!”

Ultimate Echo Echo and AmpFibian looked at each other and then said in unison, “Long time no see, Little Val.”

“Expecting anything from you really makes me look like a bookworm.” Valeria scratched her head in frustration, finally sighing helplessly, then turned back to take something out of the Time Cycle.

It was a uniquely shaped and retro-looking gray lantern, about the size of a human head. The most peculiar thing was its light-emitting openings at both ends, which looked like two speakers.

“Here! What you wanted.” Valeria tossed the lantern to Ultimate Echo Echo, completely ignoring AmpFibian, who had his hands outstretched with a look of anticipation.

“I still don’t understand why you wanted me to build a battery that can store special energy, and why you wanted me to make it look like a lantern.”

“You’ll know soon.” Ultimate Echo Echo smiled as he took the lantern. “A thousand words are not worth seeing with your own eyes. Are you sure this thing has a large capacity?”

“Of course.” Valeria puffed out her chest proudly. “Because you said you needed it right away, I could only ask Franklin to create a pocket universe and, with his help, I embedded it into this lantern.”

“You’re amazing, Little Val!” Yang Le looked at the lantern in his hand with surprise. “Even Mr. Fantastic couldn’t do this kind of technology at your age, right?”

“Of course!” Valeria raised her head, her nose almost pointing to the sky. “My dad only recently solved this problem, and then he showed off by embedding a pocket universe into a ring and giving it to my mom on their wedding anniversary. I would have taken it out a long time ago if I wasn’t afraid of embarrassing him.”

Fun fact: Reed did make a ring containing a miniature galaxy, said to contain four hundred trillion loving couples, as loving as Reed and Susan (laughs).

By the way, Reed doesn't actually have that many inventions, and he doesn't cause that much trouble. What really gets people is his spur-of-the-moment ideas, which are the real source of trouble.