The Sea's the Limit

Alien Universe
Season Shorts, Episode 5
Air date	Sept. 27, 2012 (Part I) Sept. 30, 2012 (Part II) Oct. 2, 2012 (Part III) Oct. 6, 2012 (Part IV-V)
Written by	Stripes
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The Sea's the Limit is the fifth episode of the Shorts (0th) season of Back in Action: Alien Universe.

Overview

After an odd fight with Zombozo, Ben, Gwen, Kevin, and Julie are introduced to an underwater society of civilized, talking sea creatures.

Story

Part I

[Ultimate Wildmutt is running on the side of some buildings at night in Downtown Bellwood, chasing after Zombozo. Trailing behind, Gwen is running on her mana stairs she keeps on a single level after Ben. To her side, Kevin is armored up in stone driving his car. Julie is down on all fours, attached to the roof of Kevin's speeding car with suction cups she created with her shoes and hands.]

Kevin (out the passenger window, to Gwen): Gwen, you sure you don't want to come in here where all the work is coming out of my driving?
Gwen (panting): There's less exercise in that.
Kevin: You've been running for like 3 miles, Gwen! We're not going to be able to catch up with Ben at this rate.
Gwen: Yes, we will. I just need you to push me by moving a little faster.
Kevin: That's not going to work, Gwen. You're going as fast as you can. Just stop for a second and get in!
Ultimate Wildmutt (from about two blocks away, closing in on Zombozo, to Gwen and Kevin): Will you two pipe down? Gwen, just get in so I could get some help over here!
Julie: Gwen, I have to side with Kevin on this one.
Gwen: Oh, you just want to test out your new powers.
Julie: Well, yeah, but...come on, we'll never get to fight Zombozo!
Gwen: Guh! Kevin, pull over.

Focusing on the primary chase between Ultimate Wildmutt and Zombozo, Zombozo is on Ben's hoverboard, which has been customized with 4 rear rocket boosters, all active. In hand, Zombozo has a black sphere featuring 4 Omnitrix symbols on it.

Zombozo (laughing maniacally): I wouldn't hurt a clown if I were you. Haven't you heard the one about the guy with glasses? Well, I don't wear glasses, but my prescription recommends I--
Ultimate Wildmutt: Be quiet and get off my hoverboard! Begins to run faster on the side of the buildings until he's finally right next to Zombozo. He jumps off the building and onto Zombozo, tackling him off the hoverboard and onto his back on the road with Ultimate Wildmutt lying on top of him, holding his arms to the ground as the spherical Omnitrix device rolls away. The hoverboard continues to soar until it reaches the ocean and curves downward into it. Ultimate Wildmutt caught the whole thing. Look what you did to my hoverboard!
Zombozo: I didn't do anything, Mr. Tennyson. I was just riding the stolen means of transportation when you inadvertently tackled me. You should really think about the consequences of your actions as you let me go.
Ultimate Wildmutt: Hmm, let me think about that...

Ultimate Wildmutt's face gets extremely close to Zombozo's pinned-down one, and he begins to snarl at Zombozo. As Ben's hand is raised far into the air to wind up for his attack on Zombozo, Kevin's car drifts to a stop in the background. Gwen is quick to open the passenger door and leap out of the car, sending a gripping mana blast towards Ultimate Wildmutt that encompasses him completely. Julie removes her suction cups and jumps over to Gwen's side.

Ultimate Wildmutt (snarling, growling): Gwen, what are you doing? I have him!
Gwen: Ben, listen to yourself!
Ultimate Wildmutt: I am listening to myself. And I think I'm going too easy on him! Time to make him my food...
Julie runs over to Ultimate Wildmutt, Gwen's grip being removed from him, and roundhouse-kicks him in the face, knocking him over on his back.
Julie: Ben, you're going to stop this.
Ultimate Wildmutt: Who's going to make me?
Julie: I am! Pounds the Omnitrix symbol, reverting Ultimate Wildmutt to standard Wildmutt; then pounds it again, reverting Wildmutt to human.
Ben (wearing his new outfit featuring an Omnitrix similar to the second Ben 10,000's shirt, but with a green hourglass portion; and baggy pants the color of 10-year old Ben's pants; lying on his back, with Julie doubled over him ready to help him up): I'm sorry, Julie. It won't happen again. Is helped up by Julie.
Julie: Good.
Ben: Psyche! Ben backs up and transforms into Streak.
Streak: You really ought to check for people crossing their fingers on an agreement. Phases through the floor of the dock they were standing on, and comes up through Zombozo. Alright, Zombozo, got any final words?
Zombozo: Oh, well, nothing but "Doom Clown."
Kevin (rushing out of the car): Hit the deck!

The spherical device Zombozo was holding, which now lay right next to Julie, and all of its Omnitrix symbols turned red.

Streak: Julie! Transforms.
Cannonbolt: Cannonbolt! Smacks the Omnitrix once more, releasing the four diagonal prongs on the chest-placed symbol.
Ultimate Cannonbolt: Ultimate Cannonbolt! Rolls into a ball, and as Julie stands motionless at the sight of the bomb ready to detonate, Ultimate Cannonbolt comes rolling in to cover up the bomb. Rolled up around the spherical bomb, Ultimate Cannonbolt uttered one thing to Julie. Run.

Ultimate Cannonbolt bounces a bit on the dock as the bomb explodes, releasing a circular wave that spans to a great area around him before beginning to fade into nonexistence, after which, Ultimate Cannonbolt unrolls. The area around the Omnitrix is black from the result of the Omnitrix.

Omnitrix: Chronosapien Age Randomization Algorithm Detected. Threat Averted. Cycling to recharge mode. The Omnitrix flashes red and begins playing its time-out loop. It finally reverts Ben straight back to human.
Zombozo: Well, I'd love to stick around for the emotions to be shared in a few moments, but I really must catch that board of yours. But just in case the doctor can't give you one due to your age, (throws a lollipop at Ben) here's a prize for joining us today. A large white rift opens far along down the street. A speeding creature comes rushing out of it.
Zombozo: No, no, no. Not him! Anything but him! Runs for the edge of the docks and jumps in.

The speeding creature continues to run after Zombozo, eventually reaching the end of the dock and immediately sinking itself into the deep waters.

Kevin: What was that?
Everyone's heads, including that of Ben who lay nearly paralyzed by the impact of Zombozo's bomb, flip to face Kevin.
Kevin: What? Something opens up and I don't even get to see what comes out and I'm supposed to know what it is.
Gwen: Well, kinda. Haven't you seen a white portal open up before and throw an alien out of it?
Kevin: How do you even know it was an alien?
Gwen: I managed to get a sample of it when it was right in front of me, and it definitely wasn't human.
Kevin: Does it look like anything we've seen before?
Gwen: I recognize it from somewhere.
Ben (walking with a limp, one leg up, one arm around Julie's shoulders and his other on his stomach as Julie helped him walk around): Then--ouch--it's definitely someone we know. I say--oowww--we go after him in the water. A little bit of--eeeeow!--Ripjaws should be enough to catch him.
Julie: Ben, I don't think you're okay to go after Zombozo and whoever that other alien was.
Ben: I'm--urgh--fine. I just need an alien that'll (struggles to get the next word out) heal faster than me, or has more than my number of arms.
Julie: But Four Arms and Spidermonkey aren't the greatest swimmers.
Ben: No, but--eek--I've got an alien who can make as many arms as he wants.
Julie: Goop?
Ben: After the incident last week with that purple Goop? No way. I keep thinking about if you...if you had...well...
Julie: I get it. But then who?
Ben: Let me show you. Glows green and Julie walks away from the supposed fast healer alien.
Benmummy: Benmummy!

[END OF PART I]

Part II

[We open back at the docks, where Gwen, Kevin, and Julie are watching Benmummy. His paper-like arms continue to droop over to the floor when he feels weak, but he is quick to heal.]

Julie: Shouldn't we go after Zombozo, Ben? He has your hoverboard.
Benmummy: I can't go like this. His legs deform, then immediately reform. I'm falling apart.
Julie: Use Goop, Ben. You didn't use Goop, and I wasn't hurt.
Benmummy: But you could've been.
Julie: Ben. C'mon.
Benmummy: I'm not going to risk anything. His stomach opens up and the paper from the stomach droops over on the floor. Benmummy inhales greatly and he heals the stomach as well. Alright. I think I'm safe. Let's do this.
Kevin: Tennyson, you sure a Thep Khufan's the best way to go in the ocean?
Benmummy: Nope. I was hoping you'd turn your car into a sub so we can all go down there.
Kevin: Why does it have to be me? You've got Ripjaws.
Benmummy: But we've also got your car, which is right behind you.
Kevin: Ugh. Let's go. Runs around to the driver's seat of his car, and features of the car transform for underwater-ready conditions. Get in. Benmummy and Julie get into the backseat of the car through the passenger door, and Gwen's the last inside on the front passenger seat.

The back of the car slides left and right, the wheels rotate allowing the car to hover, and Kevin's car's turbo is boosted down the docks and straight down into the water at a 90-degree angle.

[A thousand miles underwater, and dropping, inside Kevin's car, a screen begins to flash blue and green.]

Benmummy: What's that, Kevin?
Kevin: No idea. Taps the screen, and live video of a crowd of aliens and sea animals swimming towards various food stands can be seen.
Benmummy: What are we looking at?
Kevin: And I repeat: No idea.
Benmummy: I'm going to need a swimmer, then. Smacks the Omnitrix symbol and is reverted to human.
Ben: I wanted a swimmer, Omnitrix, not for you to turn me back.
Gwen: Ben, aren't you going to need your Plumber's suit down here?
Ben: Yeah, but what about you, Julie, and Kevin?
Kevin: If I absorb something down here, I should be safe.
Julie: And that helmet you made for me is perfect for being this far underwater.
Gwen: I can make an air bubble around myself.
Ben: Well, the air bubble'll be like an umbrella; you can share with your cousin right?
Gwen: I could...But you've got your aliens to survive down here. It takes a lot out of me to make one.
Ben (muttering, to himself, arms crossed and facing the window): Chelsey would be able to make an air bubble around all of us.
Gwen: What was that, Ben?
Ben (arms no longer crossed): Nothing. Let's just prepare for anythi--
Kevin's car's screen (Deep voice over Intercom): You are entering restricted sea space. Turn back or be destroyed.
Ben: Are we going in?
Kevin: Would I ever thinking of listening to what someone told me to do? Shifts up, and Kevin's car is thrown as if at light-speed towards the restricted sea space.
Kevin's car's screen (Deep voice over Intercom): Restricted sea space penetrated. Engaging lethal force.
Kevin: Hang on, guys. Shifts up once more, boosting forward a bit more.

An onslaught of lasers of all different colors are fired at Kevin's car. Kevin is quick to swerve around all of the blasts, and continues to drive forward.

Kevin (turned around, facing Ben): I'm the best at what I do, no need to compliment.
Ben: I wasn't going to.
Gwen: Kevin!
Kevin (facing Gwen): What?!
Gwen: Look in front of you.
Kevin looks ahead and sees three large rockets coming after the car.
Kevin's car's screen: 4 life forms detected on your vessel. Teleport in progress.

Everyone in the car glows blue and tiny blue particles are left as remains of each of them.

[We are inside a large underwater glass dome. Ben, Gwen, Kevin, and Julie appear in the dome, looking outside the dome. Kevin sticks his hands onto the glass as he watches the missiles fly toward his car.]

Kevin: My car!
Gwen (coming over to pat Kevin on the back): You can get a new one.
Ben: Yeah, you can get the same car which you manage to fix every time the old one's destroyed.
Kevin: Do you know how expensive it is to do that so often?
Ben: What do you mean? It's been weeks since your car last exploded or got damaged.
Kevin: What about when you got back from Galvan Prime? You used Upgrade to drive my car and ended up crashing it down the street!
Ben: Well, that wasn't completely my fault. The road was slippery.
Kevin: You're a horrible driver, Ben.
Ben: You may be right, but--Smacks the Omnitrix.
Buzzshock: I'll help you out using Buzzshock to spark some life back into your car.
Kevin: The pieces of my car and floating out in the ocean over there right now, Tennyson.
Buzzshock: Then I can use an alien to--
Voices from behind everyone: Hands in the air, face this away.

Buzzshock, Kevin, Gwen, and Julie, all original looking out the dome at the shattered remains of Kevin's car being scattered across the ocean, slowly turn around with their hands in the air. Buzzshock is now floating at level with Kevin's head. They all turn to see three Piscciss Volann Plumbers, with golden staffs in hand.

Piscciss Volann Plumber #1: We did not detect any form of Nosedeenian life on your vessel. Explain his presence or be vaporized where you stand.
Buzzshock: You guys don't know who I am?
Piscciss Volann Plumber #1: I can't say I know. Facing the other 2 plumbers. Team?
Piscciss Volann Plumber #2: Don't recognize 'im.
Piscciss Volann Plumber #3: Hmm...the emblem on his chest. Is that a Plumber's badge?
Buzzshock: A badge? This is even better. The Omnitrix begins to glow.
Piscciss Volann Plumber #1: Get down, it's a weapon! Crouching down, each of the three Plumbers begins firing at Ben's team.
Kevin: Don't know what's taking that transformation of Ben's so long, but--

The Omnitrix ceases to glow, and Ben becomes Swampfire.

Swampfire: I was hoping for Water Hazard, but eh. To Kevin, Something about the connection down here made that take way too long, but--Enflames his hand.

Gwen creates a mana bubble around herself, Julie creates two shoulder-mounted rockets, and Kevin absorbs the floor.

Piscciss Volann Plumber #1: You have the right to remain silent!
Swampfire: And *you* have the right to stop firing at us! We're the good guys. One laser phases Swampfire's stomach.
Piscciss Volann Plumber #2 (speaking into his chest badge): Direct hit, Magister.
Swampfire: Think again. Swampfire's stomach cures itself. Maybe I should've used Swampfire for healing.
Gwen: Remember when "Overlord" sprained your arm, Ben?
Swampfire: Oh, yeah. That's why I didn't use this one.
Julie: Guys, let's fight! Runs toward the Piscciss Volanns, dodging every shot. When she gets close enough, she fires her rockets at them, leaving smoke and dust in their place.
Swampfire: Julie, no! You're hurting them!
Gwen: Wait, look!

The Piscciss Volanns appear in floating green bubbles, unconscious.

Julie: I'd never hurt someone, Ben. You know me.
Swampfire: I know, I know. Sorry.
Kevin: Alright, stop with the mooshy stuff. We have to scope this place out.
Swampfire: You're right. I'm going to use Buzzshock to get around this place. Hopefully with Plumbers here they have some cameras I can wire myself into.
Julie: I'll try and get around through the wiring, too, if I can't do this right. Jumps onto a wire on the wall, and as if she's Goop, she melts into slime. See you soon, Ben. Follows the wire through the floor.
Swampfire: Alright. Smacks the Omnitrix, reverting to Buzzshock. He follows the same wire, except floating around his green sparks of electricity.
Kevin: And no one cares what we do.
Gwen: They just had a plan first.
Kevin: I guess we'll just bash through the floors as far as we can. Grows his hand as large as possible and pounds through it. He jumps and can be heard bashing through lower floors.
Gwen: I guess I have to do this. Puts a mana platform in the hole, and places one lower than that, falling lower and lower as if she was on an elevator.

[END OF PART II]

Part III

[We open in the lowest floor of the ocean dome. Buzzshock sparks in through some wires and finds a town populated by water-based aliens and Earth animals alike. Dolphins and sharks with floatation devices or jet packs man food stands as well as guard a tall building that looks to be extending outside of the dome to somewhere in the middle of the ocean. Octopi alongside various other Earth and alien water-based species man stands as well as aid dolphins and sharks. Buzzshock drops down to the concrete ground below, which turns out to be made of a material allowing only certain species to stand on it, leaving Buzzshock forced to hover slightly over it. He starts to fly around observing the town until he accidentally bumps into a shark. This shark has one red robotic eye and artificial arms and hands generated by machines on his shoulders. These hands, though, appearing holographic, are just as powerful as Vaxasaurian fists. The shark lowers his head to Buzzshock's face level.]

Shark: What are you doing here?
Buzzshock: I-I-I-
Shark: You-you-you, what? You run out of cargo already? Just go behind the Krill Haul 'Ems down the road and get the supplies. The truck should be back there, too. And nice Plumber's badge mock-up you got there, but you better keep that away from the dolphins guarding the tower. You know how they are.
Buzzshock: Uh...
Shark: Well, what are you waiting for; an invitation to the Red Sea Awards? Scram, or neither of us will have enough krill to bring food to the table tonight.
Buzzshock: Uh, yes, sir! Flies back and finds a wooden stand with a sign on it reading Raul's Krill Haul 'Ems, with a head-shot of the Shark, winking. Raul has a business with hauling. It's a name-to-job match made in heaven. Flies around back to find some boxes with stickers showing pictures of krill in various colors, as well as some that come in more than one color. Multi-colored krill? Should I even be here, doing this?
Voice from behind Buzzshock: Seeing as it's not your job, probably not. Buzzshock flips around to find three hovering dolphins, donning fish bowl-esque helmets with two water pumps entering through openings on the lower front of each helmet from the jet pack-water tank hybrids on their backs. Each holds a weapon resembling the Ulam K83, the speaking dolphin holding an assault rifle with the red "ULAM" tag on the left.
Buzzshock: You guys are...uh...floating dolphins?
Dolphin Officer #1: Yes, and you've already encountered our kind.
Dolphin Officer #2: Nosedeenian, we suspect that you are in possession of a device capable of transforming the user into other alien species. We also suspect you, alongside a humanoid Galvanic Mechamorph, Human-Anodite, and a Human-Osmoian, are responsible for the injury of three Murmadaan officers.
Buzzshock: Well....wait, what's a Murmadaan?
Dolphin Officer #3 (whispering to #2): He's definitely not from around here.
Dolphin Officer #1: These are the Murmadaans you injured on the Dome's 19th level. Pulls out a circular device much like a Plumber's badge, but in place of the Omnitrix/Peace Symbol face is a white silhouetted dolphin on a light blue backdrop. A hologram bounces off the badge face, showing off video of Julie using her powers to neutralize the Piscciss Volann Plumbers by suspending them in bubbles.
Dolphin Officer #2: Alongside that Mechamorph is you, "Buzzshock."
Buzzshock: You guys, aren't you Plumbers? Don't you know who I am?
Dolphin Officer #3: You're a Plumber?!
Dolphin Officer #2: What Barkk here means is...we're Plumbers, too. Are you?
Buzzshock: Well, of course. Recognize this? Smacks the Omnitrix symbol, reverting to human.
Dolphin Officer #3 (whispering to #1): He truly is a Plumber. He looks to be an air-breather, too.
Ben: Would you guys please stop whispering? As long as I'm not Spidermonkey and can't hear you, I'm pretty sure it's rude to whisper.
Dolphin Officer #3: Uhh...you mind if we call you Shapeshifter?
Ben: I...guess not? I mean I have a--
Dolphin Officer #3: Alright, Shapeshifter, come with us to our leader. He will help you with whatever needs you feel must be met.
Ben: Perfect. I almost thought this would be difficult.

As the Dolphin Officers lead Ben to the tower down the road, other dolphins, sharks, Volanns ("Murmadaans") and various sea creatures in water-pump suits look on. Some occasionally whisper "It's an air-breather", "An air-breather! No way!" or things along those lines.

Ben (to #1): So down here you guys Piscciss Volanns "Murmadaans"? Why not their real name?
Dolphin Officer #1 (escorting Ben): Uhh...preference? Murmadaans were their original names when they were born here.
Ben (to #1): Wow. Didn't know that. That's not in the history books at the Plumbers' Academy.
Barkk/Dolphin Officer #2: Yes...you're right, it truly should be.

The Dolphin Officers approach the door to the tower. The three dolphins guarding the tower wear black sweaters encompassing everything below their heads. They have belts with various weapons and tools, as well as a red dolphin on their chests. They also hold special ULAM weapons.

Dolphin Guard #1 (arm extended, fin up, in Dolphin Officer #1's face): Hault. What is *he* (points to Ben, with gun hand lowered) doing here?
Barkk/Dolphin Officer #2: He'd like to see Him.
Dolphin Guard #1: Do you have two forms of proper identification that will grant you access to His domain?
Dolphin Officer #1: Right here, sir. Hands the Guard two tubes, one green, one red, which appear somewhat out of nowhere. The Guard examines it closely. As he examines each tube, they bubble, and faint screams can be heard.
Ben: What are those?
Dolphin Guard #1: You ought to know, Shapeshifter. Hands the tubes back to #1. You three are clear. I'm going to assume the other two aren't disguised fugitives, but just to be on the safe side, the remainder of the escort will be done by myself and Barkk. You two take my shift. I'm sure He will not be displeased with this action. C'mon, Barkk. The Guard puts in a pin at least 10 digits long on the keypad hidden behind him. An elevator door opens behind the second Guard. Guard #2 makes way, and Barkk, the first Guard, and Ben enter.
Ben (in the elevator): So, what's your game, and do you think I should need a water suit up there?
Dolphin Guard #1: I don't give out personal information. And we don't hand out water suits.
Ben: It's alright. I've got my own. Just checking if I need one. The Omnitrix tower pops up, and Ben immediately smacks down on it. The green glow causes the scared Guard and Barkk to swim away into the corners.
Water Hazard: Water Hazard! What's up with you guys? You act like you've never seen me transform before.
Barkk (re-composing himself, halting his panting, and getting closer to Ben again): Uh, yeah, no, I've seen the great Water Hertz transform all the time.
Water Hazard: It's Water Hazard. Are you sure you've seen me? I mean...hmm, then again, now that I think about it--
Dolphin Guard #1: We're here. Shapeshifter, stay quiet until you're introduced and He allows you to speak. The elevator beeps. The number up above seems to be in a language like no other, but judging by the scale of numbers from left to right, it's the 30th floor in the building.
Water Hazard: Fast elevator, where'd you guys--

The elevator door slides open. The Guard puts energy cuffs on Water Hazard, and alongside Barkk, escorts him to the dark figure at the end of the room sitting a rather large seat. As Water Hazard struggles in trying to remove the cuffs, a hand in the darkness can be seen raised, signalling the Guard, Barkk, and Water Hazard to stop in place. With the figure's index finger, it points downwards. Barkk and Guard #1 kneel, and Water Hazard follows. A guard of the highest rank exits from the shadows. He holds a golden staff covered in both black standard alien writing and blue alien writing similar to that of the kind in the elevator. The top of the staff appears to be the face of an Arachnichimp. The guard looks to be of a more humanoid species, but you cannot tell due to the all-black garbs (with another red shark on the chest), golden Arachnichimp helmet, and red cape.

High-Ranking Humanoid Guard: The master welcomes the Shapeshifter and questions your presence. An explanation is necessary, or your demise will be swift and...promptly. As a collective, we call upon Guard to speak.
Water Hazard (to Guard #1): Your name...is Guard? If I hadn't said it already--
High-Ranking Humanoid Guard: Silence! Guard shall speak.
Guard: This air-breather here is a suspect in the case of impersonating a merchant and hospitalizing three Murmadaans, as well as possession of a device granting shapeshifting abilities to its user, represented by the air-breather emblem on his chest.
The elevator is seen dropping behind Guard.
High-Ranking Humanoid Guard: Why has the elevator been called back?
Guard: Likely to keep suspicion away from the rest of the population. If people pass by seeing the elevator missing, someone'll assume we have somebody inside, and you know how people are.
High-Ranking Humanoid Guard: Of course...

The High-Ranking Humanoid Guard backs up into the shadows. Whispers can be heard among three in the shadows. Another guard appears from the same location, this one wearing a helmet with a Piscciss Volann face and holding a staff with a Piscciss Volann face.

High-Ranking Humanoid Guard w/ Piscciss Volann pieces: He would like to see proof of these accusations beyond the forsaken emblem.
Guard: Of course. Pulls out the badge that projected the evidence to Buzzshock before.
High-Ranking Humanoid Guard w/ Piscciss Volann pieces: You are permitted to bring it up.
Guard gets up, but the High-Ranking Guard stops him immediately.
High-Ranking Humanoid Guard w/ Piscciss Volann pieces: Not you. The one you call Barkk.
Guard: Of course. Hands Barkk the badge, and returns to kneeling position on Water Hazard's left.

As Barkk approaches the high-ranking guard, the floor begins to shake. The elevator returns.

High-Ranking Guard w/ Piscciss Volann pieces: What is the meaning of this?
Guard: I...I honestly have no--

The door of the elevator is broken from the center, being bashed off, sliding up towards the center of the room, stopping immediately in front of Water Hazard, who turns around to see the contents of the elevator. Gwen, ready for battle as indicated by her pink eyes and glowing hands; Kevin, appearing to have absorbed the fine material of the floor outside; and Julie, prepped simply with her battle pose, stand inside staring into the room.

Kevin: This thing went from the 30th floor to the first and back in under 2 minutes. Where'd you guys get that kind of Takion tech?
High-Ranking Guard w/ Piscciss Volann pieces: The same place you'll be buried after this.
Kevin: Is that a threat?
High-Ranking Guard w/ Piscciss Volann pieces: Think about it, tough guy.
Julie: Ben, we're coming!
High-Ranking Guard w/ Arachnichimp pieces (exiting the shadows): Best you not reveal your plans out loud, miss.
Water Hazard: He's right, you know.
Kevin: Let's just get this over with.
High-Ranking Guard w/ Arachnichimp pieces: Alright, but pardon us if we don't battle ourselves. The walls on the left and right sides of the room slide downward, revealing armies of robots resembling the true high-ranking guards. Each one has a unique set of pieces, one with a Pyronite helmet and Pyronite staff; another with an Anodite helmet and Anodite staff; even ones with very large Galvan helmets and Galvan staves. Activation code 908014. Section 0A.
Robots (all in unison, in one voice sounding similar to that of the Arachnichimp-pieced guard's very dark and sinister one): Mission ready.
One Group of 40 Robots: Seeking Human-Osmosian.
Another Group of 40 Robots: Seeking Human-Mechamorph.
Barkk (muttering, to himself): It's a human hybrid?
Last Group of at least 50 Robots: Seeking Human-Anodite.
Gwen: Why doesn't Kevin get the group of 100 robots?
Kevin: You act like taking on more than like 20 at a time would be easy for you anyway.
Gwen: I can handle myself quite well with anything that's thrown at me, thank you very much.
Kevin: Then you can take one hundred of those things. I'll help you when I finish first.
Gwen: Finish first, I don't think so.

The robots begin to march towards Gwen, Kevin, Julie. Gwen can be seen blasting her way through many of them, Kevin using a large mace, and Julie using a rocket launcher that takes the place of her right arm.

[END OF PART III]

Part IV

[Water Hazard is on his knees. He watches as Julie, the last conscious member of the team capable of saving him, takes on the last 20 robots. After blasting through two bots, her nervousness causes her launcher to jam. She manages to manually shut off two more bots with her Mechamorph touch, but a single robot with Galvanic Mechamorph pieces neutralizes her with a tazer on its highest possible setting.]

Water Hazard (forced to watch Julie fall to the floor as her clothes return to normal): No! Glows green, transforming into Buzzshock. The energy cuffs shrink to fit his hands, but when he pulses his energy, the cuffs fade away.
High-Ranking Guard w/ Piscciss Volann pieces: Army, shut down sequence 14, only section 7F. Sonorosian reproduction cycle, engage on shut down devices.

8 of the remaining 16 bots back up into the wall they entered the room from. As the wall shuts, more robots can be seen being created. The new ones can be seen with blank golden helmets, and purely golden balls atop their staves. The remaining 8 that haven't retreated into the walls march towards Buzzshock.

Buzzshock: You know this is going to be a walk-in-the-park, guys! Reverts to Water Hazard.
Water Hazard: Let's wash these underwater robots back into the ocean. Flips over the bots, and from the elevator, he blasts them out of the large window behind the shadows containing the "leader." The robots can be seen getting electrocuted but the water doesn't fall into the room.
Water Hazard: How are you...?
Leader's Voice in the shadows: What is the meaning of this!

Everyone throws their attention towards the Piscciss Volann-pieced guard, who is facing where the window was with his left arm raised towards it. His hand glows magenta.

Leader's Voice: Murmadan, what is the meaning of this?
Murmadan/Piscciss Volann-pieced guard: I'm sorry, Overlord Zyzz.
Barkk: Murmadan? The legendary man whose name was the origin for the species?
Murmadan: In the flesh, Barkk.
Leader's Voice/Overlord Zyzz: Your standing with me is waning, close to withdrawn, Murmadan. Explain yourself with your dying breath.
Water Hazard: What's the issue with him? He just saved you from becoming electrocuted along with anything else out in those waters.
Arachnichimp-pieced guard: It's not just that Dan saved Zyzz's life; it's that he used magic to do so.
Water Hazard: So what's the problem with using *magic* to save your Overlord "Sizz"?
Overlord Zyzz: It's Zyzz, lower specimen. But of course the Shapeshifter who wields Azmuth's greatest invention the Omnitrix is not aware of what his kind did to me. Water Hazard: And what did they do?
Overlord Zyzz: They locked me in this containment suit that prevents me from leaving the depths of the ocean. I haven't seen my home, my family, in 1000 years. And Murmadan's magical ancestors are responsible for this.
Murmadan (reshaping the glass window): My ancestors weren't involved. They are respectable and honorable people. My father is responsible for your entrapment. He passed away 800 years ago, so...
Overlord Zyzz: And so all this time, you knew this and were probably capable of freeing me, but you didn't?
Murmadan: My father had good reason for containing you. Plus, you're the leader of an advanced society immune to the power and supply fluctuations of the rest of the Overworld.
Overlord Zyzz: Precisely the reason I don't enjoy it down here. Sotoragg needs a leader. Who knows what kind of issues have risen in the past millenium!
Water Hazard: Don't hold you breath, Sotoraggian. Chances are this big bad destroyed your world 7 years ago.
Overlord Zyzz: Impossible. Our reinforcements must have been few. After all these years, a civilized army must have been difficult to be self-overseene by our men. 'Raggians are honorable, yet uncontrollable, men. The world must be safe.
Water Hazard: Honorable? I know three of your species who've hunted me for the last 7 years, all siblings!
Overlord Zyzz: Hunters?
Water Hazard: Yeah.
Overlord Zyzz: Hmm...I know who they are.
Water Hazard: Do you..?
Overlord Zyzz: The mercenary family. I knew OneOne when his career'd just started. I can only imagine his children or grandchildren still hunting, but hunting humans? Earth had to have become an open system for that, and it's only a level 1.
Water Hazard: Level? We're level 2, bordering 3. How do you suppose you've been getting your tech if we're a 1? The Forever Knights would be all over anything flying in--especially the Omnitrix.
Overlord Zyzz: Flying things in? The technology we have is manufactured here. It's why the sea floor has become so barren. Had we not come along, Earth'd be wielding around level 4 or 5 tech by now.
Water Hazard: So give us our tech back before I take it from you.

Murmadan flips himself around to control Water Hazard.

Murmadan: My master, Zyzz Vyva, let me redeem myself. Bind yourself to your word; vow not to harm the Earth and its inhabitants, and my partner, and I will begin the process of your release.
Overlord Zyzz (raising his right hand): I bind myself to a Sotoraggian vow, in which I promise not to touch the Earth--or those who have imprisoned me.
Murmadan: Alright.
Water Hazard: And as long as you promise, I'll be off on my way with my knocked out friends until Viva here goes off his promise. Raises his hand over the Omnitrix.
Murmadan: Maggus! The Piscciss Volann-pieced staff in-hand fires a red beam at the Omnitrix symbol. When it hits, molten rock covers the symbol.
Water Hazard: What have you done?! Smacks the rock over the Omnitrix, but immediately pulls it back to blow on his hand. Ow, hot, hot!
Murmadan: By my research, your Omnitrix can no longer carry out any functions.
Water Hazard: Well, I hope you don't think you're getting this thing now.
Murmadan: I don't want it. I just need a few powers of yours. Raises his hand, and Water Hazard unintentionally does it as well.
Water Hazard: Hey!
Murmadan: It's okay, Shapeshifter. You won't have any problems as soon as we're finished here. Tur-bo!

A wave is shot out of Water Hazard's hand. Immediately, the mouth on the head of Murmadan's Piscciss Volann staff opens. Water Hazard's wave perfectly shoots into the Volann staff mouth. With more and more water inside, the staff glows brighter and brighter until the water is visible in its mouth. While the water flies in, Water Hazard is levitated higher and higher. After filling the water in the staff's mouth, which mysteriously disobeyed physics by standing still and not pouring out, Murmadan releases his grip, and Water Hazard is dropped on his hands and knees. The Volann mouth closes, and its glow disappears. The eyes flash from golden to green.

Murmadan: The first step in the restoration of Zyzz Vyva to the population--
Murmadan and Arachnichimp-pieced guard (in unison): Complete!
Arachnichimp-pieced guard: Engage the second step.
Murmadan: Confirmed. Engage.

The Arachnichimp-pieced guard slightly raises his golden mask revealing a freckled white face and red lips. He pulled the skin of his human face, which turned out to be an ID Mask.

Water Hazard (on all fours, raising his head to observe the blue glow left by the Arachnichimp-pieced guard's transformation): You're...an Upchuck?

The Arachnichimp-pieced guard revealed himself. He was of Upchuk's species, the Gourmand, but his eyes were blue (over Ben's green), his Omnitrix symbol of course missing, and spots covering his lighter stomach area.

Arachnichimp-pieced guard (true form): I am *not* an Upchuck. Now prepare to be destroyed! Picks up a chunk of the ground and eats it. This blue fin glows, and he fires at Water Hazard, who begins to yell before checking the results of the blast.

Water Hazard (eyes closed): Aaah!
Arachnichimp-pieced guard (true form): Open your eyes.
Water Hazad (opening one eye at a time): You...melted the rock? Jumps up on to his feet. Boy, have you made the biggest mistake of your life. Raises his hand over the Omintrix and smacks it. As the green glow engulfs Water Hazard, the Arachnichimp-pieced guard and Murmadan begin chanting a spell.

Murmadan and Arachnichimp-pieced guard (true form) (in unison): Technus Fixidge Cimmia!

Water Hazard glows until the transformation is complete.

Spidermonkey: Chroma-Spidermonkey...? Well, thanks, Omintrix. Couldn't have gone with any better alternative?
Murmadan: I'm afraid the work of that transformation is our own. The spell we just used forced your Omnitrix into its current state. Now, just controlling you...
Spidermonkey: You can't control technology, though! It's too much for any non-Anodite.
Murmadan: Well, pardon me, but I am an Anodite. ow to control you! Repetani! Murmadan gets down on all fours, and grows a tail similar to Spidermonkey's. As the altered Murmadan body moves, the real Spidermonkey is forced to follow suit. Spidermonkey's tail was raised, facing the Gourmand guard.
Spidermonkey: Stop this!
Murmadan: No!

As Spidermonkey attempts to go against Murmadan's bidding by moving his hands towards the Omnitrix, Murmadan grips the floor, forcing him to do the same thing.

Spidermonkey: Well, Mermaid Dan, there's one flaw in your plan.
Murmadan: And what would that be? I know how to control every known alien species that exists in this universe.
Spidermonkey: Well, that just happens to be the flaw. You don't know how to control the *Ultimate* forms in the Omintrix, or my lower arms! You've only got two arms!
Murmadan: Duo Emme Spectrus! Two webs fire out of Spidermonkey's tail at the Gourmand Guard, which the guard catches in the mouth of its Arachnichimp staff's mouth.
Gourmand Guard: Only one more, Dan!
Murmadan: Calling any of your aliens "ultimate" isn't enough for my power.
Spidermonkey: Oh yeah? Moves his lower right hand over the Omnitrix and smacks it. Four prongs shoot out of the corners of the symbol, and Spidermonkey's extra hands retreat into his body, and exit as four spider legs on his back. His stomach becomes much larger, and the spider legs beg into hold him up. His tail shrinks away, his head becomes bigger, and his color scheme transform to black and purple. As a large, Spidermonkey has become--
Ultimate Spidermonkey: Ultimate Spidermonkey!

[END OF PART IV]

Characters

• Ben Tennyson
• Gwen Tennyson
• Julie Yamamoto (merged with Ken)
• Kevin Levin

Villains

• Leader
  • Leader's High Ranking Humanoid Guards
    • Murmadan
    • Gourmand Guard
  • Leader's Dolphin Guards
    • Guard
  • Leader's Dolphin Officers
    • Barkk
  • Piscciss Volann "Plumbers"
• Zombozo

Neutral / Mentioned Only

• Speedy Alien
• Raul

Aliens Used (by Ben)

• Ultimate Wildmutt
• Wildmutt (forcibly reverted from Ultimate Wildmutt by Julie)
• Streak
• Cannonbolt
• Ultimate Cannonbolt
• Benmummy
• Buzzshock (x3)
• Swampfire (accidental transformation; selected was Water Hazard)
• Water Hazard (x2)
• Spidermonkey
• Ultimate Spidermonkey

Allusions

The episode title is a reference to the phrase "the sky's the limit," as some would use to inspire people to reach their goals no matter what they are.

Trivia

• It's revealed that Piscciss Volanns are called "Murmadaans" (a play on Mermaid) by the population of the ocean dome.
• A Nosedeenian is revealed to work for Raul, also sharing Buzzshock's black, green, and white color scheme.