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| General Information | |
| Release Date | 5/31/23 |
| Series | Rewri-10 |
| Details | |
| Season | 2 |
| Episode Number | 3 |
| Overall Episode Number | 16 |
| Credits | |
| Written by | AnOddEncounter |
| Episode Guide | |
| Previous episode | Big Tick Energy |
| Next episode | Grudge Match (Rewri-10) |
Plot[]
"Go, go, go!"
Several train robbers are running a job in New Mexico, this had to be precise and had to be to the letter, no distractions. They would throw out bags to their men outside and...
"Hey! You guys robbing trains still? What is this, a western?" A voice called from above, despite the tone of the words, it sounded less like a person's and more like a gurgling demon.
The voice remained in the shadows as the robbers outside pulled out their guns and began shooting at the top of the train, hitting... Nothing?
Then they saw it descending down, he was a lot like Ben's Ripjaws, but his scales were red, the white angler light remained however, black lights showed from the veins in its arms and necks.
This thing very easily took down the robbers, tossing them all into the unmoving train.
The alien picked up the bags and changed into a green, almost military armored XLR8, but it still lacked an Omnitrix dial and then ran off.
A blond, buff older man with a scar over his left eye watches the events play out on a screen in a room.
"So, he's making his way out of New Mexico, eh? Fine, we'll play ball, I'll just have to bring out my all star team."
Meanwhile, the Tennysons are in a long line in San Francisco, waiting for a newly released game, Sumo Slammers 2.1 that is. Ben made a very big deal about the fact that "you can change your character's color during the match", however it was very easy to see that neither of the other two could care as much (especially when he already had Sumo Slammers 2...)
Things got so bad that Max and Gwen decided to leave the line and chill out in a bookstore, Ben declined, books were for nerds after all.
"So, you think Ben's gone stir crazy yet?" Gwen asked.
As if to answer this question, a loud clang came from outside, they looked out the window to see a golden Humungousaur with all his Stegosauride features grown rampaging about, drawing the attention of police and more noticeably, the SACT, who had been watching these alien attacks for quite some time now.
Gwen quickly tries to get "Humungousaur"'s attention, maybe even reason with him, however the men stepped in front of her.
"You're the hero here, remember! All of this for some game?"
"Settle down little lady, we can handle this. This is Lieutenant Steel; Special Alien Containment Team, put down that cop car now, or else we shall be forced to fire!"
The alien just roared, tossing the car into the air as Steel motioned for his men to fire concussive blasts at him.
"There has to be a logical reason for this, right?" Max wondered aloud.
"Yeah, these aliens can't be trusted is the reason. You don't remember Rushmore?"
"Humungousaur" got up, jumping away to safety.
Gwen and Max hop straight into the RV, Ben was there completely silent, taken into his "new" game.
"Are you demented?! You could have killed people and all over a stupid video game!"
"I did what?" Ben was genuinely surprised.
"Don't play dumb with me, dweeb!" Gwen slammed her hand down on the table.
"Maybe at least try to give some evidence first?" Ben responds.
"Ben's right, Gwen, you can't just accuse him."
"Well, how about you check the news." Gwen turned on the RV's radio and there was a broadcast of "Humungousaur"'s exploits, then on the the TV.
"Yeah, that doesn't look like Humungousaur to me, the skin's gold, not brown. He doesn't even have the watch!"
Gwen looked at Ben, then at the TV, then at Ben again. Fine, he was right. But then who was that?
"All the aliens in the Omnitrix live out there somewhere, right? Maybe he's one of them. Time to see what's up." Ben hopped up and walked to the door.
"What do you expect to find that the police won't?"
"They may know crime, but I know aliens..." Ben walked out with a smirk, twisting the dial of the Omnitrix.
A gray, bestial version of Jetray landed on the side of a building, it then transformed into a purple, muscular Heatblast who slid down to the door, melting straight through it like it was butter.
The workers inside turned to face him and so did several security guards, but all the alien could do was grin, or, grin as well as you could without visible lips and muscles and only a skull-like face.
This was going to be fun.
"There he is!" Ben yelled, running after the shadow down a hall, "Of course, the mind, come on XLR8!"
Ben kept running towards the US Mint building, outpacing his family and turning into Humungousaur and shoulder bashing "Heatblast" into a wall, pinning him to it with one hand.
"Who are you! Why do you look like Heatblast!"
"First of all, it's Hot Shot. Second of all, I'm a little sad you don't remember me, 'partner'." Partner? "Of course you'd forget about little old..."
Hot Shot's head changed from to "Jetray" then to "Chromastone", then to...
"Kevin?!"
"In. The. Flesh." He then turned into a purple-circuited variant of Upgrade to slip out before turning into a horrifying form of Ghostfreak, turning invisible, "After absorbing enough of that weird watch energy, I have all of your powers. Only problem is, I can only stay human for a limited time. So I devised a little plan. Anything bad that I do, you'll be blamed for! I do the crime, you do the time!"
Humungousaur continued trying to swat at "Ghostfreak" before Kevin turned into a brown "Ball Weevil" that reminded Ben of a spider more than anything with the body type it had.
"Bug Bomb should be able to keep you still." Bug Bomb then spat a stream of red plasma that trapped Humungousaur, tying up his arms to his body.
"You're a monster, Kevin!"
"I'm a monster now? Me, a monster?! You think this is bad, wait 'till you get to the good part." Bug Bomb changed to his base form for a moment and walked out before the SACT could find him when they rappelled in while Gwen and Max entered from the other side.
"Now do you two believe me?" Humungousaur rolled his eyes as the other Tennysons tried to untie him.
"Snark after we catch him, alright?"
"Step away from the alien! Nobody's making any authorized withdrawals today."
Max and Gwen approached the officers, Gwen starting her plea, "He's the good alien The bad alien just trapped him and got away!"
"I don't try 'em, kid. I just catch 'em. It's for the boys at Area 51 to figure out who's naughty and nice. Denver, Albuqueruqe, Washington D.C.. Those other-space pals of yours have kept us real busy... But you won't get away with it this time."
"This time?" The Tennysons all asked.
"Get back guys, I have an idea!" Humungousaur yelled, flexing as his family got behind separate pillars while the SACT immediately pulled out riot shields, he managed to set off the explosive plasma he was trapped in and ran through the smoke to time out.
"Come on! Get him!"
When they approached the door, all they found was a cowering Ben.
"Ah! Don't hurt me, please! I-Is that monster guy gone? I came in here to hide from him..."
"B-Ben! Oh, am I glad to see you!" Gwen jogged over and the two had a very awkward hug.
"Oh, Mr. Steel, this is my grandson Ben, and that's his cousin Gwen. Sometimes he gets away from us every now and then."
The guards begin to file out when Steel stopped them, he noticed Ben's watch and examined it for a second.
"Nice watch, kid. Haven't seen anything like it."
"Er... it's... a..."
"It's a family gift." Max joined in.
"So, what's your connection to that dinosaur-."
"Actually, it's Humung-."
"Oh! We just see the Ten on TV, so we recognized him." Gwen interjected.
"If you see 'em again, let us know." Steel handed them a piece of paper, "...Keep an eye on 'em. They know something."
The Rust Bucket rides up a hill alongside some cable cars with Ben inside explaining everything.
"Kevin's back, and he's doing all of this! These crimes are all setups!"
"That explains why that Steel guy's so angry about aliens." Gwen nodded, "Grandpa, you know anything about this SACT stuff?"
"Everything he said about their job is true, but from what I know, the Plumbers and SACT are unrelated."
"Check this out, your friend's bene busy. 'Hellhound' terrorizes Denver. 'Darkshark' in Albuquerque. 'Deadbeat' in D.C. Everywhere you've been, Ben."
And speaking of Kevin, an upgraded cable car scurried by on crab-like legs.
"And there goes Upgrade." Max watched.
"And what he can upgrade, I can upgrade better!" Ben quickly turned into the techno-organic alien and slithered out the Rust Bucket.
"Mobile One. I have sights on some goop coming out of the RV, it seems to be alive and headed to the runaway cable car, sir." An SACT member relayed to Steel over a walkie-talkie, "They're headed down California Street."
Steel quickly hung up his radio before getting into a car.
The two Mechamorphs were locked in a struggle for dominance, each holding control over separate halves of the car and just when Ben semed to get some leverage, Kevin's transformation began to creep out of the floor and took a civilian hostage by the clawed hand.
"So, how do you like my Virus?"
"Why are you doing this?!"
"Do you know what this man did?! This man killed someone!"
"Is that true?" Upgrade grew out of the floor, Ben was taller than Virus in this form, but that didn't stop Kevin from making his form look more imposing.
The man weakly nodded.
"You see, I've done research, snuck into a few police buildings, I know things about people. You're too busy worrying about the 'big picture' that people like him slip through the cracks. Where were you to save me from my stepfather, huh?"
"I.... Kevin, you can't put all of these people in danger just because of one person!"
"What did I say the last time... oh right, 'I just did'! But, you're right, have a nice trip, scumbag!" Virus opened up the cable car window and tossed the man out before reassembling himself on the roof and jumping away.
Upgrade wanted to stretch to save the man, but saw the cable car speeding towards the ocean and took over the car.
"Alright everyone, I know this has been a weird day for all of you, but you all might wanna hold tight!" Upgrade strapped the passengers in, looking outside.
"Attach the car to the RV!" Max called out as Upgrade did just so, attaching a winch line before stretching his arms out to pull the civilian away from the edge to safety while Max sent out a grappling hook into a building from the Rust Bucket and was able to bring both vehicles to a stop.
Upgrade climbed into the RV and timed out just before Steel made his way in.
"You've got two choices, tell me what your connection to these aliens are, or you won't be able to remember it!" Steel had his SACT officer show devices that did remind Ben of those ones from Men In Black (then again, he thought the Plumbers would be the real "Men In Black"), "It's this, isn't it? Must send out some kind of signal that calls the aliens!"
Another officer enters, "Sir, there's been reports of a.... crystal alien terrorizing the Golden Gate."
"Falcon One. Pick up at my twenty. We're not done yet, you three." Steel takes a helicopter away, watching the Tennysons.
"They don't stand a chance against Chromastone! I gotta do something!"
At the bridge, Crystalien, Kevin's Chromastone equivalent melted some of the wiring of the cables, bringing them down on the people below. Luckily, passerby and drivers were saved by XLR8.
Meanwhile, the SACT had their sights on the two aliens, aiming a concussion bazooka.
"Targets locked on. Sir?"
"Fire on my command. Repeat, on my command only."
Crystalien noticed this copter and put his hands together in a "C" and brought them to his side, charging up a blast between his palms, he then fired it at the copter's rotors, knocking it out of the sky just as Steel jumped out, barely managing to catch himself on the landing.
"Great... just one more thing for me to get blamed for today..." XLR8 muttered, dashing up to the scene and standing between Kevin and Steel, "Don't bother, Kevin. This is between you and me."
"Someone wants to be a goody-two-shoes? Lemme guess, you're 'here to help'?"
"No. You're too far gone now."
"Glad we both figured that out." Crystalien gave XLR8 a mocking "come on" gesture before turning into "Humungousaur" to try and fail to smash the Kineceleran before trying Hot Shot to send a fireball at him as XLR8 just flipped over it, going for a flying kick to meet nothing as Kevin had turned to Bug Bomb and crouched the hit before grabbing XLR8 by his tail with some plasma to toss him into the air.
Bug Bomb then turned to Stingray, his Jetray equivalent and flew up towards the falling XLR8 to pick him up.
"We gotta blow those alien freaks to outer space!" Steel ordered, a soldier fired a blast as Gwen and Max watched XLR8 fall towards the ground.
Things weren't just bad for Ben, Kevin suddenly revered to human form and was hopelessly falling, XLR8 shook off his surprise and grabbed onto the closest part of the bridge he could and caught the boy with his prehensile tail.
"I'm... not through with you yet Tennyson! Get us back over there so we can finish this!"
"No. I'm done." XLR8 hopped off the tower he caught, tossing Kevin to their fighting bridge and stood over him, "You're not worth it. You never were."
XLR8 began to move away as something in Kevin... erupted. Every single memory of his home life shot back to him and he shot up with a blood-curdling yell of...
"TENNYSON GET BACK HERE OR I WILL TEAR EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE YOU LOVE ASUNDER!"
He grew Rush's (his XLR8 from earlier) tail, his legs changing to that as well, the boy grew to the size of Humungousaur as his shirt ripped clean off and his pants ripped to shorts.
His torso became rocky, yet with almost a metallic texture similar to Crystalien's with more cracks to let Hot shot's purple magma flow.
His chest grew Deadbeat's (his Ghostfreak) eye tracks and pulsating false eyes and it became just like his version of Humungousaur, Dinomight in color while on his back, he had Hellhound's black fur with Virus' circuit patterns.
His left arm was Virus' with Hot Shot's magma inside the circuits while his right was Deadbeat's, it was thin and pale. Darkshark's fin came from the wrist up to the elbow, ending at a Crystalien crystal, another crystal coming out of the shoulder.
Both of these arms had Stingray's membrane coming down from each, passing through Bug Bomb's lower limbs.
His neck was a mixture of Hellhound and Darkshark, the black fur and general bulk of Hellhound and the glowing veins and fin running down the back of Darkshark.
The amalgam retained Kevin's facial structure, however he had a crest from both Bug Bomb on the right and from Stingray on the left, he also grew Darkshark's antenna and the helmet from Rush, donning the visor.
With the visor, Kevin then sped towards XLR8 who only stared in shock, pickup the Kineceleran up and smiling.
"Starting with you."
"Fire again, now!" Steel yelled from below, just before Kevin could slam XLR8 down, he was shot by another concussive blast, only agitating but he stumbled, and he stumbled just over the bridge and fell towards the water no matter how hard he tried to glide and sunk below.
In the RV, Ben, Gwen and Max are talking about what just happened.
"Kevin has Jetray and Ripjaws' powers, right? No way he isn't able to swim.."
"You're asking the wrong guy, Gwen. I thought he was done for the last time we met him!"
Max stopped the RV so Steel could talk to them.
"Now, why is it that you three always seem to follow those aliens?"
"Oh, really? we never noticed." Max smiled and so did the Tennyson kids.
"Guess it's some coincidence. Well, drive safely. Don't make us have to come find you."
Noteworthy Events[]
Major Events[]
- Kevin mutates into Kevin 11
- The SACT are introduced
Character Debuts[]
- Lieutenant Steel
Characters[]
- Ben Tennyson
- Gwen Tennyson
- Max Tennyson
- Lieutenant Steel
Villains[]
Aliens Used[]
By Ben[]
- Humungousaur (intended alien was XLR8)
- Upgrade
- XLR8
By Kevin[]
- Darkshark
- Rush
- Dinomight (2x)
- Stingray (3x; second was partial)
- Hot Shot (2x)
- Crystalien (2x; first was partial)
- Virus (2x)
- Deadbeat
- Ball Weevil (2x)
- Kevin 11
Allusions[]
- There are similarities drawn between the Plumbers, SACT and the Men In Black
- Crystalien charges up a blast similar to the Kamehamaeha to fire at the SACT helicopter that Steel is in
Trivia[]
- This episode was used for a trailer at the Spring 2023 Fanon Con, albeit with some events altered
- I am fully taking the piss out of Sumo Slammers 2.1 here, don't give me that as your only feature to a new game and expect me to take it seriously
- The most interesting part of this episode was probably creating designs for each of Kevin's versions of Ben's aliens