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| Secrets | |
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| General Information | |
| Release Date | 3/25/23 |
| Series | Rewri-10 |
| Details | |
| Season | 1 |
| Episode Number | 13 |
| Overall Episode Number | 13 |
| Credits | |
| Written by | AnOddEncounter |
| Episode Guide | |
| Previous episode | Bees In The Trap |
| Next episode | Truth Comes Out |
Plot[]
A news-station helicopter is following police cars in a chase with an armored vehicle.
"We're live on the scene of a high-speed police pursuit of an armored vehicle stolen from a federal reserve here in Denver. It is also believed these thieves have a hostage."
The armored car speeds past the Rust Bucket, who was trying its best to keep in pace, inside Gwen is doing all that she can to make Ben wake up, the boy seemingly fallen asleep with his eyes open on a desk.
"Hello? Earth to Ben?"
Meanwhile, in Ben's dream, he stands face to face in a burning hellscape with the man who has been sitting in Ben's head ever since that fight with Rojo, he wielded a broadsword and swung it down onto Ben who tried to defend by turning into Heatblast, only to be knocked away as Ball Weevil.
"There is nothing you can do to beat me, child! No transformation is worthy!" Vilgax breathed a wall of fire at Ball Weevil, who was immediately knocked out.
Vilgax took the insect's limp body, and he could only wake up to seeing Vilgax slowly tear the Omnitrix from the alien's neck, reverting Ben back to human.
"No!" Ben immediately woke up, flailing as he got up.
"There you are! Do something!"
Ben just wordlessly transformed into XLR8 and exited the Rust Bucket and circled the armored car, knocking on the driver's door.
"Yeah, I'm... gonna need you to pull over now, 'kay?" XLR8 paused to yawn a few times.
"Oh, we'll pull over, all right! Right over this roadkill!" The driver quickly spun around, flinging XLR8 off the highway and stopping, now surrounded by police officers. One criminal gets out with the hostage, an old businessman, and the other aims a large rifle at a police car, the cops inside escaping just before the car was blown up by several shots, the thug then aimed the rifle at XLR8.
"What's this? Yes. It looks like we have another alien sighting!" The reported shouted, "we don't know where these strange ten creatures come from, but ever since Yosemite Park, they've always been here when we've needed them!"
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It was the first day Ben had gotten the Omnitrix, and he was fighting a giant mechadroid as Chromastone, firing several beams at the crystal alien, he began to point out his right palm to redirect the beam across the ground as a rainbow energy blast, changing directions until he eventually cleaved it in two.
-
"And in Washington..."
"NO! MY TROPHY! WHO ARE YOU, ALIEN MENACE!?"
Jetray just stole the Transmodulator helmet from Animo, leaving him powerless, breaking the device with a neuroshock blast which returned the scientist's T-Rex to its skeletal form as well as all other mutated animals to normal.
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"New York..."
The cargo train continued to speed through the tunnels, Chromastone doing his best to hold it back, digging his feet into the ground.
"Don't worry! I've got an idea!" Chromastone said, turning around, his back now to the train, pointing his arms out before firing.
-
"Against an android menace..."
The SWAT team all fire at Rojo, giving Upgrade the opportunity to charge her and pin her to the ground.
"Now, this won't hurt a bit!"
He merged with her, shorting out her technology.
"Get off of me!"
"Okay, maybe I kind of lied..." Upgrade removed himself from her, watching as her transformation crumbled and fell off her body effortlessly.
-
"Against the Bugg Brothers and the Queen Bees..."
"Your majesty, allow me to make a statue in your honor!" A blue Heatblast quipped as he brought down a giant ball of ice-flames onto the Magg-O-Nett monster who tried to shield itself while Heatblast intensified it with fire breath, finally freezing the whole thing.
-
"And now, here on our Denver streets!"
XLR8 easily barreled through the thugs, standing on top of them.
Meanwhile, up on the Chimeran Hammer, Vilgax watches the broadcast from his rehabilitation chamber.
"The Omnitrix, wasted on pointless heroics!"
"Sir, there's someone trying to enter our ship. Shall we send a drone to-"
"No, I may see it myself." Vilgax opened his chamber until it suddenly closed again.
"No, I will handle this." The second chamber opened, as Psyphon exited, his top half fine for the most part, however his lower body was completely detached, moving around using four mechanical legs hitched to his back like a certain New York supervillain from a comic book.
The United States Space Force was basically their military but... in space. Thanks to the confirmation that extraterrestrial life existed, they finally bulked up their gear and sent them out.
Several soldiers tried to find a point of entry into the Hammer only for the ship to open itself up, letting them in, they cautiously moved through hallway after hallway.
Then, everything went dark, and one last door opened. Sounds of metallic scraping and sparks came from the walls. One brave soldier put on his flashlight, revealing Psyphon dragging one of his legs against the wall, menacingly approaching.
"Don't get any closer, or we will be forced to open fire!"
"Is it me who should be afraid of you? Or you who should be afraid of me!" Psyphon pointed his wrist at the group, a blaster mounted to his arm opened fire, the blasts setting the group aflame, "Incendiaries, Neural Destabilizers, Techadon Disruptors, and so many more toys..."
Meanwhile, the Rust Bucket was at a Rest Stop, Ben woke up once more after trying to sleep, screaming bloody murder.
"Ben? Another nightmare?" Max looked back.
"Same as last time, but this time, the alien was... bigger, uglier, and scarier."
Any other day and Gwen would have said something snarky, but this time, she paused. These nightmares were obviously starting to take a bad toll on Ben's health.
"It was just a bad dream, kiddo. We can talk about it later. After you get some sleep."
"He'll take the Omnitrix Grandpa, I just know it. He looked me in the eye and said, 'I'm coming for you, now'."
This was the thing that finally shocked Max.
"Change of plans, we're hitting the road now."
The Tennyson kids looked to each other, confused.
"Grandpa, it's 3 in the morning." Gwen noted.
"It's the best way to beat the traffic." Max started the RV, driving off, "We'll make it to Mount Rushmore by nightfall."
Off at the Chimeran Hammer, Psyphon is approaching a still shadowed Vilgax.
"We have narrowed down the Omnitrix's location, we guess that it is approaching what is known as 'Rapid City' in 'South Dakota'."
"You guess?"
"Y-Yes sir, you see, all of these heroic events seem to only occur in major cities and states, 'New York', 'Denver', 'Washington D.C.'."
"You have proven yourself, Psyphon, give him an invitation."
"Of course. Thank you, Lord Vilgax!"
Psyphon then inputted landing coordinates for the Chimeran Hammer, the ship showing up in a bison-filled field, releasing several of a new type of drone. R.E.D.s, unlike the standard mechadroids were box-shaped robots with blasters extending out to their sides, on their face were red eyes and a skull insignia to signify their creator, Psyphon. Alongside these smaller drones, was a large Attack Drone, followed by a giant mace, all of them approached the closest city, wreaking havoc.
Psyphon's triangulation was correct, because the Rust Bucket was heading to this exact city, seeing the damage.
"Lives are on the line! looks like it's... hero time!" Ben paused to yawn as he scrolled through his aliens, "Time to turn up the Heatblast on these- huh, a new guy?"
Ben transforms, his arms bulking out as green tentacles encircled them, he grew taller, and taller, tentacles sprouted from his chin to form a beard as two green fluid sacs formed on his cheeks and his eyes turned a devilish red.
"Ben, now's not a good... time..."
Grandpa grew silent as he saw the behemoth before him. The feeling he had, it was like a war veteran hearing gun fire.
"Sorry! Gotta go! Danger's calling my name!"
The R.E.D.s are wrecking shop in the city, people run around in panic as the giant mace destroys buildings as it rolls through, the Attack Robot blasts a gas station, causing a massive explosion. Suddenly, a boulder crushes a few R.E.D.s while another is punched clean through the back.
"Yeah, who's bad! I'm bad!" Then, Ben looked around, getting a good look at how many of them there were. This was going to suck.
"Okay, why do I get the feeling you all were expecting me?"
Only really understanding that he had Super Strength, Ben fought like he was Humungousaur and threw a boulder at the Attack Robot before tossing some R.E.D.s at it. The others continued to shoot at him but they barely managed to get through his thick hide, the disappointment let Ben practice some other abilities, finding out that he could fire lasers of his own, taking out a few R.E.D.s.
"Yeah, I'm cool, I know." Ben flexed, what surprised him was that when he did this, his arm split into five tentacles, "Yeah! That's what I'm talking about!"
He gripped each of the R.E.D.s and began swinging them around to repeatedly bludgeon the Attack Robot until it exploded. Or was that because of the giant mace that just ran over it? The spiked sphere opened up to reveal Psyphon, crawling out on his legs.
"Stay tight my lord, you will be whole soon enough." The scientist's voice was pained, almost like that Star Wars guy in that old movie he watched once.
"Okay, I'm guessing you're the one who sent those guys?"
"How clever, Omnitrix wielder, for guessing the truth, just when it's about to be revealed." Psyphon then aimed his wrist blaster at Ben who retaliated with an eye beam, blasting the shot back at Psyphon who was launched into the mace, "Yes, this is the power of a Chimeran! Perfect to be reunited with my lord once again!"
"Uh, yeah, I'm gonna have to stop you right there and say no." Ben extended several tentacles from his right arm at Psyphon who simply chopped them off with his leg, aiming a blast at the writhing tentacles that electrocuted the boy to his knees, Psyphon then fired a net to capture Ben, allowing him to walk over, lowing himself down, only to forget to calculate that the boy had eye lasers that would send him flying into the city and break Ben out of the net.
"Fine then, if the prey won't go down silently, the hunter must put it down by force!"
"You can't bother to tell 'the prey', this 'hunter's' name?" Ben rushed in, blocking another shot of Psyphon's with his own beam before he was launched into the air by a grenade he stepped on, falling onto another, knocking him onto his back.
"Now, hold still." Psyphon ensnared Ben again, using his appendages to tap the Omnitrix on Ben's chest and turn him into human like it was nothing. The fact Ben was a child shocked Ben temporarily, but he hoisted the boy anyway and tossed him to Vilgax who had finally stepped out of the mace.
"So, you looked... smaller in my visions." Ben weakly got up, examining his next foe, "You're like, a giant squid man, a... Megalopod-"
"Silence, boy! The master is speaking..." Psyphon yelled, aiming his blaster as Vilgax examined the Omnitrix, determining the best plan of attack.
"I am Vilgax. And I have come for one goal, and one goal only."
"Let me guess, to 'take over the world'?" Ben could barely keep his eyes open at this point but the adrenaline worked wonders to keep him awake and relatively himself.
There was a short, awkward pause, that is until Psyphon cleared his throat.
"He has two goals."
"This is beyond your knowledge, child!" Vilgax then attempted to pry the Omnitrix from Ben's wrist, activating a feedback pulse which knocked the warlord back and freed Ben, "The Omnitrix has already merged with your DNA in such a short time..."
Ben quickly slammed down, transforming into Jetray, firing a neuroshock from his tail to knock Psyphon over before flying into the air.
"Man, what is that guy's deal?" Jetray wondered, looking down to see Vilgax leaping directly towards him, grabbing onto his tail to weigh the Aerophibian down, and on the opposite side, the Rust Bucket speeding to help him, "Hey! Lay off!"
Jetray attempted to charge up another neuroshock blast, however Vilgax simply tossed him through a building.
"A hero cannot catch a break these days..." Jetray shook himself awake and flew down towards the Rust Bucket, hoping Vilgax wouldn't see him, however it wasn't the warlord who caught up to him, it was his lackey, Psyphon, using his spider legs like a helicopter to fly, charging up a larger blast which startled Ben, making him pick up the pace, weaving around the shot of a Techadon Disruptor beam and entered through the Rust Bucket's opened sunroof to transform back to human.
"Glad you finally came to your senses, Ben." Gwen chastised.
"Believe me when I say this: You do not wanna pick a fight with Vilgax." Max explained, driving as fast as he could.
"Uh... how do you know his name is Vilgax?" Ben asked, his eyebrows up in shock.
"What aren't you telling us?" Gwen made the same exact expression while Max was completely silent, spinning the RV around to run Psyphon out of their way as he stood in front while his master chased by leaping from rooftop to rooftop.
"Come on, come on, if I can just go Megalopod-" Ben tried to get the Omnitrix up and working again while the Rust Bucket swerved the best it could around the two villains.
"You named it?! I mean, we can't focus on fighting them, we need to get to Mount Rushmore." Max yelled, but he began to compose himself.
"What's at Mount Rushmore?!" Gwen asked.
"This not the time to explain, just trust me.
"He... he could turn me to human with just a touch of the Omnitrix, how?" Ben's question couldn't have time to figure it out as Psyphon tore a hole in the RV's roof, extending an energy lasso from his palm to pull Ben up and away so they could fly towards Vilgax while Gwen urged Max to make at u-turn to try and chase after her cousin, however he remained on the road to Rushmore.
"What are we doing, we should be helping him!"
"We will, but first, we need some special help."
"At Mount Rushmore? Grandpa, you're really starting to freak me out."
Meanwhile, Psyphon has Ben in the same kind of electrical net he tried to hold Megalopod in earlier, both the scientist and the warlord examining him.
"I have retrieved the boy... again."
"The Omnitrix... in the hands of a mere child... I should have known. These transformations couldn't be an adult member of their species." Vilgax tsked, tossing Ben into his mace which then teleported the group away.
The three were then on the Chimeran Hammer, Psyphon affixing Ben to an extraction device, chaining his right hand and legs into an energy lock while his Omnitrix arm is trapped in a cylinder.
"Listen to me boy, and listen well: You hold the key to a power struggle-" Vilgax began to speak before Ben interrupted him.
"'Between good and evil that involves the very universe'. Yeah, I heard this before. Long summer, alright? Let's just call this even, and do this later, 'kay?"
"Psyphon." Vilgax, without even telling Psyphon exactly what to do, gave a clear sign. Psyphon pressed a button on the device on his other arm, high voltage electricity coursed through Ben's veins as he screamed.
"The Omnitrix as once a device I helped work on, built to 'keep peace' between all races in the galaxy, however I knew what it truly deserved to be used for: Conquering the lesser planets of the world, subjugating all those who dare stand in my way! So, I took the device to do just that. He had a plan in place, and stole half of my DNA, placing it within that device, however, thanks to Psyphon's hacking, I was able to force you to unlock, allowing me to locate and capture you. So I could be reunited with what is rightfully mine!"
An array of tools began to rise up around Ben, scaring him.
Max and Gwen finally arrived at Mount Rushmore.
"I-I don't think tourists are allowed this way."
"we're not tourists, Gwen, we're tenants." Max exists the RV, approaching a "ROAD CLOSED" sign, pressing a device on a button in his hand, saying something into it as the ground beneath them began to lower like they were in an elevator, transporting the two into a massive underground facility.
"They began to wander the corridors with thousands of compartments and drawers. Max and Gwen open several of them, each with their own alien device.
That's it! You're going to tell me what's going on, now! Why aren't w helping Ben? What is this place? And how do you know who this 'Vilgax' person is?! We're your grandkids, so stop hiding these secrets!"
Max pulls out a rather large and deadly looking weapon, placing some equipment over his face.
"well, let's just say... I wasn't exactly a normal plumber before I retired.
"...That answers nothing."
"Er-hem! I believe that I can answer that." A voice from below the two spoke, Gwen couldn't tell who was talking, "Er, down here."
"Ah, Driba! Blukic! Long time no see!"
"We don't have time for pleasantries, Grandpa!" Gwen urged him to get moving.
"Ah, right, save the reunion 'till after y'all beat Vilgax." The other one, Blukic, Max called him had a country accent despite being an alien, something that confused Gwen, but wasn't exactly important.
"That weapon is keyed to Vilgax's DNA-signature. Or... what would be left of it after He took half." Driba explained.
The Tennyons then entered the Rust Bucket and began to wait.
"This should be enough this time. Let us know when you're finished with the repiars!"
"Wo exactly are those guys, Grandpa?"
"The country one's Blukic, the other's Driba. They're both Galvans, one of the smartest races in the universe, and by proxy, some of the smartest people on the planet. They work here as mechanics. They're fixing up the RV for reasons you'll find out later."
"I'm done!" Blukic yelled, having placed the finishing touches on the RV's roof, "Weapons system should be back online!"
"Don't you mean we're done, Blukic?"
"Nope! Was all me."
"Was not!"
"Was too!"
The two Galvans immediately got into a squabble, rolling around on the floor like two children, reminding Max of how Gwen and Ben would argue.
"...And they're also some of the most immature people on the planet." Max noted as they began to ascend from out of the elevator while the Galvans climbed inside, "Gwen, press that red button under that cabinet."
Gwen followed directions as a holographic display appeared, showing exactly where Ben was, and his location was rapidly rising.
"GPS-assisted tracker. Locked onto the watch's signal. Blukic, Driba, you can help navigate. Gwen, just hold on tight, we'll see Ben soon."
The Rust Bucket drove up a hill, Max presses a button on the console, extending the RV's bumper to reveal jet boosters that accelerated the vehicle enough for it to quite literally fly towards Vilgax's ship.
On the ship, Vilgax is about to bring a rather large energy blade down on Ben's wrist before being interrupted by a car horn, the warlord paused to look behind him.
The RV crashed through the wall, running through most of Vilgax's crew and flinging both Vilgax and Psyphon to a wall, the Rust Bucket then reversed a few yards before ramming them again.
"Warning! Hull breach! Power surge!"
Max then kicks the door of the RV open, weapon at the ready, aimed at Vilgax who easily pushes the Rust Bucket off of him.
"Claws off my grandson, Vilgax!"
"Grandpa?!"
"Tennyson! Psyphon, handle the boy! I have unfinished business to attend to."
Vilgax approaches Max who fires a beam at Vilgax who levitates in the energy before being launched through a wall.
"Grandpa... you... know that guy?" Ben said with pained, tearful and tired eyes.
"It's a long story." Max sighed, however he gasped as he noticed the Omnitrix extraction chamber was crackling with electricity, quickly getting to work trying to disable it.
"A shame to be forgotten, too bad you too will be, Tennyson I 'll make sure your grave goes unmarked in the midst of a dying planet, frankly it sounds too good for you."
Ben screams, transforming for a good few seconds into Wildmutt, his yells turning into guttural roars as he tries to trash out of the device.
"Interesting, the ship's power surge is affecting the Omnitrix..." Driba notes, his eyes star-struck, but his fanboying was interrupted when Max dodged a swipe from Psyphon, retaliating with a Galvan-sized pistol which only bounced off a shield, the villain firing back with a nerve destabilizer that... was blocked by Gwen Tennyson, the girl falling to the floor, her body seizing up, going into shock.
"Gwen!" Max yelled, trying to shake her back to life as Wildmutt roared yet again, transforming into Chromastone, who absorbed the energy holding the rest of his body before melting the cylinder.
"Psyphon, you made one grand mistake."
"And that would be?" Psyphon rhetorically asked, smug as ever, aiming a different shot to Chromastone.
"You hurt my family!" Chromastone put his palms together, even charging with his eye, for one of the biggest lasers he ever fired in his life. Blasting Psyphon trhough the ship and out of commission, the surrounding power surge putting him on mechanical life support.
"Ben! Are you okay!"
"Don't worry about me, Grandpa..." Vilgax forced his way through the hole he was launched through. And they could have sworn that he was a little taller too, "...Worry about what he can do to us."
Several drones streamed into the room, Chromastone running over to punch one of them only to feel his DNA changing yet again, it was the same feelin gas going from Ben to an alien, but a whole lot worse. His body went from almost indestructible crystal, to red flames with heat matched only by the sun, he was Heatblast.
"Hit me with your best shot, I'm not going anywhere." Heatblast challenged the drones, tossing fireballs and easily dodging laser blasts, even managing to develop some new pyrokinetic techniques such as fire spears and his new favorite...
"And for the final course..." He formed a ball of flames in his hand, crushing it before opening it again to reveal a disc that he tossed past the drones, "Pizza's coming! But it's not delivery, it's Heatblast!"
Like a boomerang, the disc returned and sliced through the drones like a knife through butter like a knife through butter. And then, there was a slow, sarcastic clap from Vilgax who just stood there, watching the boy's futile attempts to attack him, looking over to the child's grandfather, the warlord's greatest adversary, reduced to fighting back tears and tries to keep the ship airborne and his granddaughter awake.
"So, you're finally ready to jump back into the fight after being ever so gracious to let me cleave through your lackeys? You bad guys can be so cooperative when you wanna be."
"No, I was simply savoring your full potential before I take this device for myself, from your cold. Dead. Corpse." Vilgax then rushed forward, holding Heatblast in the air.
"As you can see, Tennyson, your weapon wasn't enough, I have grown since our last encounter. That weapon was only calibrated to half my DNA. However, since my revival from the brink of death, and my reabsorption of the Chimeran transformation in the Omnitrix, I have-"
"'Reached the apex of existence', blah, blah, blah." Heatblast jeered, putting his hands to the ground to make an explosion that shot him out through the hole Max came in as Vilgax jumped through the smoke alongside him, the two rapidly falling towards Mount Rushmore, Heatblast fighting exhaustion to keep himself in the air with his fire, a rookie mistake that allowed Vilgax to catch him, tightly holding him to his chest to try and crush the boy.
Heatblast writhed as he intensified his flames, higher and higher, until he finally exploded, pushing them apart, his flames temporarily going out as he fell unconscious, waking up to see he had turned into Wildmutt, curling into a thorny, orange ball of quills and landed on Mount Rushmore, specifically Teddy Roosevelt's face, rolling until he managed to to grab onto the nose until Vilgax's landing shook the monument loose, throwing him into freefall once again, leaping about the faces to dodge Vilgax's attacks with ease, leaping onto the Chimeran's arm to begin biting into it, however his mouth enlarged, and his orange fur changed into white scales.
Up in the sky, the Chimeran Hammer was rapidly descending as Max continued doing his best alongside the Galvans.
"Blukic! I'm going to need your help to land this ship. Driba, make something to help Gwen." The two aliens got right to work, Blukic making the ship pull up so it would land horizontally while Driba got to making a device from scraps and other devices dropped by Psyphon that he placed on Gwen's forehead to stabilize her body, waking the child.
"Huh? What's happening..." Gwen asked.
"No time, we've got to to get off this ship, now!" Max clutched his granddaughter in his arms and ran towards the sliding Rust Bucket, climbing in.
Ripjaws had now had his water tanks punctured and gasping for air, clawing for some kind of escape.
"You were once slipping out of my grasp, and now look at you, groveling where you stand!" Vilgax threw a punch, but he wasn't met with the shattering of fish bones under his fists, instead he was met by Humungousaur kicking Vilgax off the monument.
Humungousaur then leapt down into the forest below, the two rolling in a ball, sending the two across a road and continued on until they finally lost momentum, Humungousaur getting up first.
"Had enough?" Humungousaur triumphantly jumped up to stomp on Vilgax only to have his leg grasped and his body swung around and tossed him back all the way towards Rushmore's heads.
"Hardly." Vilgax leapt over there in a single bound, the steroid cylinders in his arm growing and receding into the red veins of his tentacle arms as he slammed down on Humungousaur, knocking any and all wind out of him.
"Gonna... feel that... tomorrow."
"Worry not, because for you, there will be no tomorrow." Vilgax brought his still bulked arm down again but once more, his fists didn't meet what he thought they would, this time it was only the stone of Rushmore. The only transformation the boy had small enough to dodge was an Insectoid, unless he turned into...
Vilgax' tentacle beard was his undoing as it was used to repeatedly slam him into the crater that Humungousaur left. Then the force revealed itself, it was Ghostfreak, who held the warlord in his grip and stared him dead in the eyes before releasing tentacles to pull him closer, restraining him enough to possess.
The Chimeran screamed in agony as he was a prisoner in his own body, being forced to hold still as the Plumber Defense of Rushmore blasted several beams through him, and only adding insult to injury, he had to watch his ship slowly descend while the Rust Bucket flew overhead, firing several missiles down at him.
"Don't you ever come back to this planet again, Vilgax! Understood?!" Ghostfreak spoke through the alien's body, after some time, he booted himself out in case he ended up turning into something different and flew towards the Rust Bucket, "Is Gwen alright?"
He looked inside and saw Gwen weakly wave to him and give a thumbs up that he returned just before he transformed into Upgrade and began slowly falling, watching Vilgax shake off the constant damage and began... regenerating?
Tendons of sickly green and brown muscle and flesh began to reform over the burnt parts of his body as he leapt to grab Upgrade slam him down, holding him with one foot before looking up at the Rust Bucket, charging a laser blast.
"Is that the family you fight so hard to protect?" Vilgax was a bout to fire when Upgrade extended his arms to latch onto Vilgax's face and yanked him down bringing the laser directly at him. Once Upgrade finished regenerating, he turned human again, a feeble, ten year old human, one held high in the air by the neck by an enraged despot who was more than happy to tear him limb from limb if he had to.
Max quickly activated his weapon however he was interrupted by Vilgax shooting the Rust Bucket out of the air allowing Vilgax to hoist the old man and his troublesome granddaughter from the vehicle and presented them to Ben, who he dropped to the floor, the boy trying his best to get his dumb, stupid legs to work so he could run away, but he was too exhausted to move.
If he had just listened and gotten some rest, despite the nightmares. If he hadn't kept fiddling with the Omnitrix... if he had just never gone on this stupid trip.
"Your choice, boy. You... or them?"
Ben turned around to yield, holding his hands out.
"How noble of you..." He tossed Ben's family to the boy like ragdolls before taking the boy for himself and going towards the remains of his ship.
"Vilgax, don't go back there!" Max yelled, trying to get up despite his bad back.
"Foolish human, believing I'd fall for such..." Vilgax mocked the Plumber before he heard an alarm.
"Alert! Too much damage has been done to the system, auto-destruct sequence initiated!"
"TENNYSON! You remain a thorn in my side!" Vilgax cried out as the tried to stop the sequence, only to be shot through the back by Gwen of all people, holding Max's weapon.
"Which one?" She quipped.
"Commenicng self-destruct launch."
"NOOOOOOOO!"
Ben, in the nick of time, was able to turn into Ball Weevil, covering himself in a protective globule that let him survive the explosion unscathed, falling into a smoking crater.
"So, not bad for a doofus, huh?" Ball Weevil laughed as he crawled out of his, well, ball and congratulated Gwen.
"You weren't half bad out there yourself, dweeb." Gwen joked back.
Ben then turned back to human and shook his head.
"Grandpa, we have got to talk- WOAH- WHO ARE THOSE GUYS?!" The boy looked down to notice Blukic and Driba jostling to try and get a closer look at the Omnitrix.
"Apparently, they're the 'smartest minds on the planet'." Gwen snarked.
"One of their race is believed to have created the Omnitrix, so they think it's a marvel of galactic technology."
"Come on, Grandpa, can we keep 'em? Can we, can we?"
Max just sighed, "Ben, no, we have to get them back to Rushmore."
"Aw..."
"Excuse me, er... Ben, could you please transform into something?" Driba requested.
"Alright, let's see... we've got Heatblast, Ball Weeivl, Chromastone, XLR8..."
"Wait, where'd the new guy go?" Gwen wondered.
"Don't see him, besides, I'm never doing that again. It's like I could hear that Vilgax guy in the back of my head the whole time..."
"Ben, you've done a lot of good work." Max congratulated the boy, giving him a pat on the back that stung a little due to several injuries sustained previously.
"Thanks, but can we talk about this after I get some sleep, and... after I get some breakfast?"
Noteworthy Events[]
Major Events[]
- Ben meets Vilgax face to face for the first time.
- It is revealed that Max is a Plumber
- The Rust Bucket is stocked with several weapons built into it
- It's revealed that Mt. Rushmore is a Plumber base
Character Debuts[]
- Blukic
- Driba
Omnitrix Alien Debuts[]
- Megalopod
Characters[]
Villains[]
Aliens Used[]
- Ball Weevil (2x; first time was in a dream)
- XLR8
- Megalopod (debut)
- Jetray
- Wildmutt (2x; First was a cameo)
- Chromastone
- Heatblast
- Ripjaws
- Humungousaur
- Ghostfreak
- Upgrade
Allusions[]
- The scene of Psyphon decimating the Space Force troops is reminiscent of the Star Wars scene where Darth Vader decimates several troops
- Ben references the Omniverse intro when he says "lives are on the line, it's hero time"
- Psyphon references one of Frieza's lines in Dragon Ball Z Abridged when he says "an unmarked grave in the midst of a dying planet, frankly it sounds too good for you"
- Heatblast references Digorno's slogan
Trivia[]
- This is the first episode of the Rewri-10 franchise to feature all of Ben's aliens
- The aliens used when Ben's Omnitrix begins glitching were actually randomized using WheelDecide.com
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