Consequences (Earth-61)

"Consequences" is the pilot episode to StreetM's Ben 10 reboot Alienated: A Hero Reborn. It was written by TJlive800 and StreetM, who was behind the story.

Episode
(From a fully black screen, little dancing bolts of green energy come from the sides.)

(They begin to approach each other and interlock, creating a sparking noise and expanding into an odd shape.)

(The electric bolts vanish and sharpen the shape to a green outline of the Omnitrix symbol. The symbol begins to rotate as a green circle outline forms around it. The symbol stops while upright and green diagram-like lines of circuits begin to creep out the sides of the emblem.)

(The symbol is filled with a solid green color and glows as the camera zooms out to show this on a computer screen.)

(The camera slowly pans to the right and rotates to show what's behind the computer screen: a cylindrical incubator-like pedestal on which the Omnitrix sits.)

(Around the Omnitrix is a green laser shield sparking with electricity.)

(The camera begins to zoom in on the Omnitrix as the electric sparks shroud it and the camera shakes.)

(The scene cuts to black.)

(The next shot abruptly cuts to an overhead view of hands assembling circuit-like pieces on a glowing white tabletop.)

(The camera then shifts to a first-person view of these hands building something, similar to the view from a shooter video game.)

(The camera shakes as a slight rumbling and faint alarm is heard on the right. The worker whose perspective the camera is taking turns to the right.)

(A green door on a black and green wall lights up and opens. Two armored and armed men walk in.)

[Man 1]: Sir, there's been a break-in.

[Worker]: I understand. Leave it.

[Man 2]: Leave it? Sir, we're here to guard you, but the commotion below doesn't sound good.

[Worker]: It shouldn't be a problem. Hey, look, this is sort of interrupting my flow of thought, I was busy. Can you go take this outside?

(The men look at each other, confused.)

[Worker]: I meant what I said.

(The men are about to leave when another similarly-dressed man frantically comes running from the halls.)

[Man 3]: Hey, guys! Guys, I seriously need help down there.

[Man 1]: We're the private security detail for this office. We're not the unit authorized to be in your location.

[Man 3]: Does it really matter? We're getting slaughtered down there! Please, help us!

(PEW!)

[Man 3]: AAH!!!

(Red bolts of electricity surround him by the back and electrocute him - he collapses with smoke spewing from his charred back and clothes.)

(The two other guards aim their guns... there stands Aggregor with his staff.)

[Man 1]: You! I thought you were responsible for the hassle below!

[Aggregor]: I thought you were responsible for keeping that from happening.

[Man 2]: We're not, this is our assigned spot.

[Aggregor]: Away from everything... you must be feeling safe.

[Man 1]: We don't take threats, and we don't negotiate with terrorists!

[Aggregor]: You're branding me as a terrorist that fast?

[Man 2]: You put your hands in the air!

(Aggregor slowly lifts his hands, with his staff raised as well.)

[Aggregor]: Guess I keep the staff, then.

(The grunts and slashes the ceiling open with his spear, and the split sections collapse. The guards get back.)

(Aggregor lunges at them and stabs one through the chest - the other rushes him from behind but Aggregor kicks him back, and spins around, taking him down with a flying kick. He then calmly pulls the spear out of the other man and walks into the room.)

(The first-person camera following the worker shows him quietly turning back to his table to work, and then back at Aggregor.)

[Worker]: Oh, I'm sorry. Are you here for something? Sit down, I'm all ears.

[Aggregor]: I hope you know I'm not here to talk.

[Worker]: *(Sigh)* Fine, I'll play fair. Are you here to kill me or to take the Omnitrix?

[Aggregor]: All of the above.

[Worker]: I'd prefer it if you start with B, I'm almost done with this little fella.

(Aggregor spins his staff in his right hand and aims it at the Omnitrix's pedestal.)

[Aggregor]: Your confidence betrays you.

[Worker]: Shall we see to it? Perhaps another time?

[Aggregor]: Time isn't the most abundant for me, your horrors will come quick. Consider it mercy.

(He stabs the spear through the shield and the electric sparks collide violently, scorching part of the security device.)

(Aggregor rotates his spear slowly and redirects the electricity into a wall switch - it deflects and shoots back at the security device, frying it. The shield vanishes and the overhead shield projector dangles.)

(Aggregor calmly picks up the Omnitrix.)

[Worker]: Good luck wearing that.

[Aggregor]: I'll have all the time once I kill you. And that's part A, remember?

[Worker]: That's good, very good. Saving the most difficult for the last.

[Aggregor]: Difficult? Please, don't bluff in front of me.

[Worker]: You think I'm bluffing?

[Aggregor]: Why would you not be, you pathetic rodent?

[Worker]: I can give you several reasons.

[Aggregor]: Start with one.

[Worker]: As you wish. (Claps hands)

(The first-person camera looks at Aggregor, but suddenly, a figure lands hard on the table in a running stance. He aims two pistols at Aggregor.)

[Aggregor]: I didn't know you have a puppy dog.

[Worker]: There's a lot of things you don't know about Rook.

(Rook fires at Aggregor's left hand, which is holding the Omnitrix, but Aggregor blocks it with his staff.)

(Rook pulls out two swords slashes at Aggregor, which Aggregor blocks again. Rook jumps and flips over Aggregor and stabs one sword back, but Aggregor rapidly turns and blocks that too. He swings his staff but Rook slides below him, kicks his abdomen while doing so, and does a flying kick to his back as he gets up behind him.)

(Aggregor stumbles into the wall, and Rook lands two jabs to his face before getting knocked back by a swing of the staff.)

(The worker calmly looks back to his table and continues assembling a few tubular gauntlets - noises of fighting are heard around him.)

(The camera pans over to the fight - Aggregor uppercuts Rook, which Rook dodges and kicks Aggregor's stomach in response. He spins and does a roundhouse, followed by a karate chop to his left shoulder. He then kicks Aggregor's left arm up from below, knocking the Omnitrix off and sending it flying.)

(The camera goes back to the worker's first-person view - he quietly catches the Omnitrix.)

(The worker turns around and walks over to the wall behind him. He presses a few buttons and a safe unlocks. He places the Omnitrix inside.)

(The worker then presses a few more buttons and the safe closes with a glass cover over it - its outline glows green as an unlocking sound is heard.)

(A screen on the control pad displays the word "LAUNCH". The worker presses it.)

(The green outline flashes and beeps and the Omnitrix is ejected into space inside its escape pod.)

(CRASH!)

(Aggregor's spear comes flying and smashes the glass cover.)

[Aggregor]: NO!

(Aggregor vaults over the worktable, kicking Rook back in the process, and pulls his spear out.)

(He brings it down on the worker but Rook kicks him in the lower back, and grabs his head, pulling him to the ground.)

(Aggregor gets up and smashes the wall again with his spear.)

(Several lights flicker and go out, while electric sparks go all over the place in the now-exposed wiring.)

(Rook lunges at Aggregor, who dodges him.)

(Rook pulls out a baton-like weapon and holds it in the electric sparks, charging it and unfolding it into a shuriken-like blade weapon.)

(Rook throws the electrified shuriken at Aggregor, who hits it aside with his staff. The shuriken goes flying into a wall and slices some wiring, electrifying the wall and cracking open bits of it.)

(Rook charges at Aggregor, who drives the butt of his spear into the cracked wall. Machinery breaks and more of the wall gives way, enough to bring in the vacuum of space.)

(Aggregor stumbles towards the wall.)

(The camera cuts back to first-person view of the worker, who staggers backwards.)

[Worker]: Rook, get back!

[Rook]: Hang on!

(He lunges at Aggregor with his sword, but Aggregor dodges it... and breaks through the wall in the process.)

(Rook staggers to the right and finds himself cornered to protect himself from the vacuum of space.)

(Aggregor, meanwhile, stumbles and gets sucked out. He hangs onto an edge of the ship.)

(Rook staggers forward, but Aggregor accidentally rips out the wall of the ship he was holding onto.)

[Aggregor]: AAH!!! (He goes flying back and is hit by the loose wall, which lingers off into space and carries him with it.)

[Rook]: Sir, we have to reach the bridge of the ship!

(An electric spark travels across the ceiling and short-circuits a switch on the opposite wall.)

[Rook]: That was the emergency generator!

[Worker]: I know, it's-

(KABOOM!)

(The electric spark's line of scorching splits the ceiling and leaves a section of the ship dangling.)

(The first-person camera is covered by glass into indicate the worker activating his helmet.)

[Worker]: Rook, this section of the ship will give way any minute!

[Rook]: Same here! Does that mean we can't reach the bridge?

[Worker]: My last commands to you: abandon ship! The Omnitrix is safe!

[Rook]: If that's all that matters, it's been an honor, sir!

[Worker]: (Salutes) To another day, another innovation! Enjoy Planet Earth!

(KABOOM!)

(The piece of the ship the worker is clinging onto breaks free and tumbles loose into space.)

(Rook, meanwhile, coils a nearby wire around his arm.)

(He closes his eyes as electric sparks make their way down the halls of the ship and engulf it in fire.)

(The fire lights Rook's face as he mouths "planet Earth".)

(The camera slowly zooms out to see the jettisoned ship debris floating through space.)

(The camera pans towards Earth...)

(The camera begins to zoom slowly past Earth and through space as a circuit-like pattern starts surrounding the screen...)

THEME SONG: The camera moves through space and various planets as battle music plays, and then back to Earth - it pans through clouds, trees, and cities and over to a barren field at nighttime - the camera and the ground shake like an earthquake until a blocky 3D logo of "Alienated: A Hero Reborn" lands hard on the ground.