(Later, the group walked through a deep cavern, similar to the caves in New Mexico as Ben and Jen looked outwards, disturbed before Hector stopped the before a huge body of water.)
Hector: "There it is."
(Hector said.)
Hector: "The American Fountain of Youth."
Max: "One of life's greatest mysteries: solved."
(Max said.)
Max: "The Plumbers never thought to deal with something like this."
Scarlett: "I'll send out a message to the Protectors."
(Scarlett said.)
Scarlett: "They will make sure that only the worthy ever find this place again."
Hope: "Hey."
(Hope suggested.)
Hope: "Maybe Hex never found it?"
(Then, everyone felt the ground shake as Scarlett and Korra bared their swords and they gulped.)
Hope: "Then again..."
(They ran into a secluded part of the cavern as they felt the room shake.)
(They looked to see Hex, now restored to his original age, rise up from the Fountain's waters and glare at them as Scarlett, Korra, Hope, Lucky Girl, Huntress and Matter Girl prepared for battle with him as Matter Girl absorbed the stone from the ground.)
Hex: "You are too late."
(he said.)
Hex: "With control of the water, I shall become immortal! My power is becoming greater than you could ever imagine!"
(Lucky Girl flipped through the pages of her spellbook and shot her glowing hand out at her enemy.)
Lucky Girl: "Teewat Ligara!"
(she shouted.)
(A whirlwhind burst forth from her hand towards him, but Hex merely caught the spell in his grasp and redirected it towards our heroes, sending them flying away.)
(Korra strategically created a whirlwind spinning in the opposite direction, which cancelled Lucky Girl's out and Hope flew forwards and her eyes glowed pink.)
Hope: "Kemo Char!"
(she shouted and fired out her blast of magic energy towards him, which he blocked with his forcefield.)
(Scarlett flew forwards and fired out energy blasts from her hands and kicks that dazed him as she engaged in hand-to-hand combat as he roundhouse-kicked her in the head as she groaned and then gave a sweep to his legs and fired energy beams from her eyes to him, which he blocked with his staff.)
(Korra shouted out as she sent out fire blasts and air sweeps towards him, which blasted him back and she shouted out as she levitated the water from the Fountain, froze it with her ice cold breath and shouted out and blasted him in the chest, but not before he sent a spell blast out to her, which knocked her into the wall.)
(Matter Girl, Lucky Girl and Huntress glared outwards and ducked back towards the twins, Max and Hector.)
Hex: "You cannot defeat me now that I am all-powerful!"
(Hex shouted.)
Korra: "Don't go into the Avatar State."
(Korra told herself.)
Korra: "It's too big of a risk."
(She then shouted out and bended up a rock wall, which protected our heroes from his attacks.)
Hex: "That was merely the beginning!"
(Hex shouted as he levitated up in the air and generated a huge field of energy around himself, leaving everyone stunned.)
Scarlett: "Okay, screw attacking him now."
(Scarlett said as she and Korra stood and ducked behind the wall and looked towards the evil sorcerer before her.)
Matter Girl: "What are we going to do now?"
(Matter Girl asked.)
Lucky Girl: "Give up."
(Lucky Girl said.)
Lucky Girl: "I mean, what good would the twins be as baby alien heroes against Hex now? Not even Scarlett and Korra can match his power. What chance do they have?"
(She then smirked and winked to her friends who smiled slyly at her.)
Ben: "Hey, who are you calling babies?!"
(Ben asked.)
Huntress: "I mean, come on, guys."
(Huntress said as Hex levitated the water up.)
Huntress: "Even if you guys went, say, Heatblast or Flataurus, he'd just blow you guys out like birthday candles."
Jen: "Oh, yeah?!"
(Jen asked as she and Ben slammed down the cores and transformed into Heatblast and Flataurus and charged towards Hex as Flataurus snorted out in anger.)
(Besides the obvious change in scale, Flataurus' belly merely had four teats since her udder didn't have the time to properly develop yet.)
Heatblast: "We'll show you!"
(Heatblast generated a fireball in his hand and shot out a fireball at Hex, which he just caught and extinguished with no effort at all.)
(Flataurus shouted out and charged forwards in a cloak of flames and charged forwards, shouting out, before Hex merely uppercut her and sent her tumbling to the opposite side of the cavern.)
Hex: "I am working up quite a thirst."
(he said and levitated up the fountains' waters.)
Matter Girl: "Told you, guys!"
(Matter Girl said, waggling her finger.)
Matter Girl: "Told you, told you, told you!"
(The twins glared and started heating up and glared.)
Heatblast: "Stop it, stop it, stop it!"
(Heatblast shouted out and she and Flataurus shouted out and charged forwards, tackling Hex with supernova heat and sending him crashing through the walls of the cavern as Flataurus charged him and hit him with her small horns and glared.)
Hex: "No!"
(Hex shouted as Heatblast continually heated up and Lucky Girl smiled.)
Lucky Girl: "We knew they'd go supernova hot. Four-year-olds always have meltdowns."
Scarlett: "Korra, protect the Fountain!"
(Scarlett shouted as Korra nodded and flew over to Flataurus and glared and fought through the intense heat.)
Korra: "Get it together, Korra."
(she told herself as she looked over and shouted out and pinched Flataurus' shoulder, which caused her to suddenly widen her eyes as her muscles seized up and she fell into her arms, snoring peacefully, the heat dying around her and she used her airbending to fly back over and hand the sleeping alien calf to Scarlett who smiled and pet her head as she looked to see Heatblast laying waste to Hex as he shouted out.)
Hex: "Stay away!"
(he said.)
Hope: "Let's get out of here!"
(Hope said as they all ran/flew away out of the caverns and back through as Heatblast used his intense heat to blast Hex through the roof, sending him flying away from the scene.)
Hex: "I must be eternal!"
(he shouted as he was sent flying who knows how far away.)
(As they all left the area and Flataurus groaned as she woke up and smiled at Scarlett.)
Flataurus: "Mommy?"
(she asked.)
Scarlett: "No, Jennifer."
(she said.)
Scarlett: "I am not."
Flataurus: "Oh."
(she said as she stood by her brother who dusted himself off as his heat died down.)
Heatblast: "Oh yeah, who's hot!?"
Lucky Girl: "Oh yeah, who's smart?"
(Lucky Girl said as Max sighed and looked himself over.)
Max: "Who's going to be 10 forever?"
Hector: "Don't worry, Max."
(Hector said.)
Hector: "You must keep drinking the water to remain young. Its effects should wear off of you and the twins shortly."
Scarlett: "Hector."
(Scarlett said as she dialed in her enchantlet.)
Scarlett: "The Protectors will take charge of protecting the Fountain now."
Hector: "I gladly hand over my duties to your group, Scarlet Warrior."
(Hector said as he bowed to her.)
(Scarlett and Hope sighed and positioned their hands and shot them out towards the cave entrance, which then shimmered and faded from view.)
Hope: "Simple illusion spell."
(Hope said.)
Hope: "No one will find the Fountain of Youth again."
Scarlett: "But I've mapped down its location for the Protectors. Only the worthy may be allowed entrance."
(Scarlett said as she looked to Korra and smiled.)
Scarlett: "My job here is done. Until we meet again."
Allison: "Great meeting you, Korra."
(Allison said as she shook the Avatar's hand and she smiled.)
Korra: "You too. You know what to do to call me or one of the others."
(Korra said as Scarlett whistled for Oleander who walked over and generated a portal from her horn.)
(Scarlett then got onto the alicorn and then rode off into the portal with Korra behind her, the portal closing behind them.)
Hope: "Guess I should be going too."
(Hope said as she smiled and left.)
Hope: "I've got places I need to be as well."
Lucky Girl: "Great seeing you again."
(Lucky Girl said as the two hugged and Hope smiled and teleported away from view.)
Huntress: "What about you?"
(Huntress asked.)
Huntress: "If you don't drink the water anymore, you won't be immortal anymore."
Hector: "No. But it might be nice to finally start acting my age."
(Later, after the effects of the water had worn off of Ben, Jen and Max, they waved goodbye to Hector and regrouped back to the Rust Bucket.)
(Ben smiled and opened the door, as Jen smiled and laid a hand on her shoulder.)
Jen: "Now, now, bro. Age before beauty."
(she said.)
Jen: "Go ahead, Grandpa."
(Max then smiled at them and walked into the RV with the others following and Ben going last.)
(But he tripped on the step and fell onto his back.)
Ben: "Oh man."
(he said.)
Ben: "I think I just threw my back out."
(Scarlett stepped through the portal as Pink Diamond waited for her in the area and smiled.)
Pink: "A job well done as always, my friend."
(Pink said to her as Scarlett bowed with respect.)
Scarlett: "Thank you, Pink."
(Scarlett said to her.)
Scarlett: "But do me a favor. Next time you have a mission to the Prime dimension, send Sofia or Samus instead."
Pink: "As you wish."
(Pink said as Scarlett smiled and departed for her palace before Pink sighed and entered the meeting hall in the Protectors headquarters before she parted the curtain to reveal her, Celestia, Hippolyta and a few other warriors painted on a stained-glass window.)
(One of said warriors was a being embodying pink energy with a purple body, blazing pink hair and wings and a masquerade-like mask on her face at the very top.)
???: "There is so much more meaning to us in the Prime Dimension than you even understand, Scarlett."
???: "I am still all-powerful!"
(a squeaky voice said as a familiar chuckling was heard in the woods.)
???: "Uh-huh. Sure you are."
Hex: "Put me down, Enchantress!"
(Hex, now reduced to nothing more than a mere child, commanded to his eldest niece.)
Enchantress: "Oh, Uncle Hex. Something tells me that I'll be the one giving the orders from now on."
[To Be Continued...]