In the story The Battle for a Universe: The Lost Relics, Poxten plans to collect relics, the purpose of which is was for a long time unknown, just to make a deal with "some guy" mentioned by a Crux underling. It turns out that Poxten was collecting the relics for Atsa'an, the ancient that was sealed away long ago. Poxten was being used, as Atsa'an stated he was going to destroy Poxten, and not follow through with his end of the bargain. He attacks Poxten, who attempted to reveal the truth about Atsa'an, leaving Poxten supposedly dead. During the final battle, when all hope is lost, Poxten somehow makes it to the Biome Buster and throws Atsa'an into the power core, which ultimately destroyed him and the Biome-Buster while Poxten warped the gang away. He later faked his death and escaped.