Absolute Prison (Part 1)

Absolute Prison (Part 1) is the pilot episode of Ben 10: Eternal Forms.

Plot
(The episode starts by flashing through several dramatic scenes from the Ultimate Alien episode Absolute Power, suddenly freezing at the very end of the fight between Gwen and Kevin in the arcade. The picture darkens somewhat.)

Paradox: (offscreen) You may remember what happens afterwards.

(The screen continues to flash through the episode, showing up to the very end.)

Paradox: (offscreen) But that is not what happens this time.

(Screen flashes back to the end of Gwen and Kevin’s fight, and the camera turns to an empty space in the room. Paradox walks onscreen towards the camera.)

Paradox: You see, everything that happens to anyone is dependent on the choices made by themselves and the people around them. Back in “Absolute Power”, as I hear you call that event, Gwendolyn here didn’t make a certain choice, either because she decided against it or it completely slipped her mind in all the commotion. But what if she did? What if she did make that choice? How would it effect her world, Kevin’s world, Ben’s world? The answer to this is quite intriguing indeed.

(Paradox snaps his fingers and the fight resumes, right up to when Gwen manages to escape and meets back up with Ben and Morningstar. They have the same conversation as the original episode for a while.)

Ben: From now on, we do this my way.

(There is a long pause. Gwen spends a moment in deep thought.)

Gwen: (glaring at the floor) I’m sorry Ben, I can’t let that happen. (looks at both of them) Don’t follow me. (storms off)

Ben: Wait, what? Gwen, get back here!

(Ben runs after her, but when he gets out of the alley, she’s already disappeared. He throws up his hands in frustration. Morningstar walks up slowly after him.)

Ben: Great. Just'' great. ''

Morningstar: Well, I guess I’ll be off then. (starts to hover)

Ben: Wait, where are you going?

Morningstar: I’m here for Gwen, not for you. And since she’s obviously going solo, I have no need to stick around. (flies off)

Ben: Oh COME ON!

(The camera transitions over to Gwen’s room just as Gwen is quietly shutting the door behind her. She walks over to her closet, opens it, and pulls a package wrapped in brown paper off the top shelf from between two spellbooks. She kneels on the ground in front of it and rips off the wrapping. Inside is another spellbook, entitled “Archamada Volacron”. It is covered in gems and diabolical looking symbols, and there is a metal latch holding it closed.)

Gwen: (sighs) I was hoping it wouldn’t come to this. (puts her hand on the lock) ''Hesarada utuge. ''

(The lock clicks open, and she opens up the cover. The pages suddenly take on a life of their own, fluttering to a page somewhere near the middle. What appears to be smog of pure darkness drifts up from the page. Gwen stumbles backward onto her hands, looking both repulsed and terrified.)

Gwen: (hyperventilating slightly) I… I’m doing this for Kevin.

(She pulls herself together and sits back up, leaning over the book again. She runs her finger down the page to a certain spell.)

Gwen: Bingo.

(She mutters some incantations under her breath, then rips the page right out of the book. Another page just like it grows back. She flips through a few more pages and lands on another, this one with a diagram of a flask surrounded by runic text instructions. She grabs a shoebox full of potion components and begins to work.)

(The camera shifts to outside Gwen’s house. Across the street and obscured by some trees sits Kevin. He stares up at the house, grinning maniacally.)

THEME SONG

Author's Note
I kinda forget the exact sequence of events of Absolute Power, so the beginning will probably have to be edited. Sorry for any inaccuracy.