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Under The Sea | |
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General Information | |
Release Date | 9/16/23 |
Series | Rewri-10 |
Details | |
Season | 2 |
Episode Number | 10 |
Overall Episode Number | 23 |
Credits | |
Written by | AnOddEncounter |
Episode Guide | |
Previous episode | The Brief Return of Lucky Girl |
Next episode | Animorphed |
Plot[]
Ben kept replaying the events that he had been experiencing over and over for the past few days, what he could have done differently. But at the end of it all, nothing changed. He screwed up somewhere and no matter how many comics he looked at, none of them served as a manual for his experience of magical artifacts rolling back time.
But at least Gwen and Max were having a good time on the way to the family's next destination.
The destination? Donovan Grand Smith's new Underwater Resort and Hotel, and they were getting there by jet.
The three got out, going to meet the old man and his bored grandson, Edwin. The two looked almost like clones of each other so much it was uncanny.
"Hey there, Mr. Smith, it's me, Tennyson. Ben Te-."
Ben was quickly shoved out of the way by Gwen who also wanted to meet Donovan, "Good morning, Mr. Smith! I'm Gwen. I actually read about your resort in Pacific Monthly Oceania."
Donovan just laughed, "It's not me you have to impress. It's my grandson, Edwin."
"Yeah, whatever." Edwin barely looked at the kids before going inside with his grandfather as the trio followed.
The five got on a tram shaft going down towards the resort, Smiths on the right, Tennysons on the left.
Max quickly picked up something was wrong, "Are you sure building anything here was a good idea?"
"Underwater faultlines?" Donovan answered.
"I mean to say, you're right in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle."
"Max, you seriously believe in that poppycock?" Donovan chuckled, gesturing out, "There's way more things down here that you couldn't believe.
The five step out to look at the rather empty insides of the resort.
"The grand opening hasn't occurred yet, you guys are getting a family friend sneak peek." Donovan explained.
The kids were mostly looking at and admiring the wildlife, that and making funny faces in the glass.
"What, you two never seen glass before?" Edwin stared, unimpressed.
"Now now you three, let's calm down." Max tried to intervene as the lights flickered.
The moment they came back on, one of the workers outside was sucked in by the reversed fans, his screams and thrashing alerting sharks.
"I can't have one of my employees turned into fish food, the press'll ruin me!" Donovan yelled, running to the control port, "Must be some kind of reverse power surge..."
Ben quickly runs off to some door.
"Those sharks have nothing on Ripjaws!" Ben slams down on the Omnitrix, turning into... Jetray.
"Close enough." Jetray jumps into the water as Edwin could have sworn he saw a green flash out of the corner of his eye.
"What was that?"
"What was what?" Gwen sheepishly laughed alongside Max.
Jetray fired a blast at both sharks before burning the employee free to fly straight into the resort, dropping the man off safely as he continued flying up.
"Please tell me you're okay!" Donovan knelt down to his employee, "the control port wouldn't work at all, I don't know why!"
"You mind telling me what happened with your cousin?" Edwin cocked his eyebrow.
"Bathroom break."
"Yoo-hoo! Anyone got a ladder!" Ben yelled, slowly sliding down some of the piping.
A few minutes later, Donovan helps the employee back to his living quarters.
"I'll have to double his salary, but he won't breathe a word of this. Neither will any of you, understood?"
"Right, buy them off, the Grand Smith way..." Edwin rolled his eyes.
"I'll... talk to Max about the old times while you kids play by the beach, alright?"
"An underwater beach? Seriously?" Ben smirked, now that was stupid.
Then they actually say the underwater beach and it may have been the coolest thing Ben had ever seen.
Turning into aliens trumped that by ten thousand though.
But still, underwater water park. At an underwater beach.
"You really live like this?" Ben stared at everything.
"In the mornings I work with my personal trainer and swim coach." Edwin explained.
"You're a swimmer?" Gwen was genuinely surprised.
"Long distance. Grandpa says it 'builds character'." He put air quotes at the last part.
"'Grandpa says it builds character'. What character, a massive jerk?" Ben chuckled.
"Oh, real funny Ben. You think I'm some 'loser'? Huh, well I'll prove myself! I'll show you two I'm cool!" Edwin then rushed down a hallway.
"Ben, I know he deserved it, but you didn't have to do that."
"Whatever, we can check up on him." The two followed him, a little confused as to what Edwin was talking about.
"Here! The Undersea Manta Ray! And we're taking it for a ride!" Edwin turned on the device from a panel, letting it drop down to the kids' level.
The Tennyson kids look at one another, Gwen in disapproval, Ben simply shrugging and so they enter.
Meanwhile, the adults are in a room discussing the whole resort and how it gets its power.
"You see, it's pretty simple, we tap into underwater volcanic vents like a big steam generator."
Max points over to three workers over by a device with some sort of glowing energy behind a sheet of glass.
"And that's some sort of backup generator?"
"No, no, alien power source I found underwater. Only for case of emergencies.
"What's with the casual air?"
"Max, come on, we were both Plumbers, and it's not like they don't know."
"What about Edwin?"
"Oh, no, haven't told him. Hope he doesn't find out."
"Something tells me it won't be too long."
The kids are going through the ocean's depths, Edwin having calmed down slightly.
"So, can anyone explain the ship graveyard I'm looking at." Gwen peered outside.
"Did Grandpa not explain it? Bermuda Triangle." Ben scoffed as suddenly the ship was caught in a whirlpool as it began to rock.
Everyone looked around, seeing robotic squids pounding against the sub's hull and especially the propulsion system.
"We gotta try and make it back to the hotel, I'll try and find some kind of protection system!"
"There's nothing like tha-!"
Ben was already gone, and it seemed like they were about to head through some kind of a minefield.
"If you turn me into Heatblast right now, I'm finding a way to take you off." Ben presses down on Ripjaws' icon, turning into him.
He escapes through the airlock, easily making short work of the Cyber Squids and keep most of them away from the mines.
"Grandpa! There are these weird squid things trying to break into our ship!" Edwin yelled over the intercom.
"Why did you take the Manta Ray?! Don't you dare be playing some kind of..."
"He's not joking, do you have any of your old gear with you?" The two adults looked down to see the Cyber Squids swarming the resort as a whirlpool formed from them all spinning, rocking the building.
"No, I left it all when I retired, but I still have the skills. Everyone, evacuate! We'll have to ditch the gem! Me and Max need the best wetsuits you've got, and harpoons too!"
"You sure we can take them on?"
"Less worrying, more working." Donovan took a suit from an assistant as he walked away, "We're getting our grandchildren back."
Back over by the grandchildren, Ripjaws is just about to turn back when the whirlpool turns up a notch and the trio is pulled into the darkness.
Ben was the first to wake up, he was 50% convinced his lungs were still full of seawater but considering he wasn't drowning, that wasn't true.
The other two had similar reactions, then they all figured out that they were in some kind of cavern.
"I just wanna say I'm sorry about earlier, guys, I..."
"It's alright Edwin." Gwen accepted the apology before looking to Ben.
"Uh, um, yeah, that. You're not the worst."
"I'll take it."
"Anyways, you two have any idea what just happened?" Ben scratched his head.
"I think I just figured it out..." Gwen stood in thought, "Those squid things have a vendetta against us."
"For what?" Edwin stared, the two looked at him incredulously, "I mean, what specifically did my grandfather do?"
"Aargh, ye landlubbers, he has done something. Plundered something very, very important from me." A deep, gruff voice rang through the tunnel on some kind of intercom.
"What? Your 'booty'?" Ben could barely get the last word out without laughing on how inherently funny the word "booty" was to him.
"D'oh! Why did I think the pirate voice was gonna work! Forget it!" The voice retained its deepness but lost the accent, "Your grandpa's taken a power source that I hold quite dear, I need it for my... business. So, if you don't mind, I'll be holding you lot hostage until he brings it back. In fact, I'll patch myself over to him."
Over by the grandparents, they're taking on Cyber Squid after Cyber Squid, when suddenly they begin speaking, every single one of them.
"Donovan Grand Smith! Pay attention to these words: Give me back the Piscciss Geode! It means these children's lives!"
The Cyber Squids made a formation to show a hologram of the three, huddled up against one another as Cyber Squids all converged on them.
"You will go inside that resort, and let my squids take that rock or you both will watch them suffer. That is my deal."
"...I accept." Donovan swam back to his resort as Max looked there and back at Donovan and swam too.
"A fine choice. You wouldn't want to disappoint Captain Kork."
"Ben, the Omnitrix working again?" Gwen looked over, trying her best to keep up her shield.
"One shot!" Ben transformed once more, yet again into Ripjaws, "Don't worry Edwin, we've got you!"
Ripjaws rushed forward, cleaving through squids and running down the hall they kept coming from.
"Hmph, a Piscciss Volann, disgusting enough to exterminate, but impressive enough for me to face myself..." Captain Kork said through another squid.
The other two finally caught up with Ben, who looked over to see parts of the cavern changing as what looked to be another tunnel forming. He looked at Edwin and Gwen, all three nodding as they walked down.
The three finally enter Captain Kork's chambers, it definitely looked like the inside of a pirate ship, complete with all sorts of treasure. And in the midst of it all, the man himself, a giant, green alien with a massive black beard, his left hand is but a hook made of energy coming out of a gold gauntlet. He props himself against a banister, letting him rest his peg leg.
"Still don't get the pirate gimmick by the way. You're like, two centuries too late." Ripjaws said, "Most of 'em died of disease more than they died in battle anyway."
Everyone stared at him like he was insane. Ben? Knowing history? What's next, the world ending?
"What? I watched a video, or two."
"So... Volann, how's about we make a deal, we do battle. You win, I let you go. I win, you'll be my dinner. No outside help."
"Ben-."
"I accept."
Edwin just couldn't come up with anything to say.
"Then may the superior species win..." Cork ran at Ripjaws who leapt over him, swinging off a model ship overhead down to the bottom.
Cork lunged over a railing, Ripjaws simply landed a right hook to Cork's jaw as he rolled across the floor getting back to look at Ripjaws who was in a boxer's stance.
"Who's the landlubber now, 'matey'?" Ripjaws joked before rushing Cork and going for a bite while Cork used his hook to pry Ripjaws' mouth open.
"Still you, rookie." Cork used his free hand to smack Ripjaws on the head, poking the inside of the Volann's mouth before punching out the respirator and finally kicking Ripjaws down.
Cork holds Ripjaws down with a foot, dragging his hook across Ripjaws' body to show how he intends to gut him when he's done.
"Big... mistake..." Ripjaws grabbed Cork's beard, springing off him to get back up and send Cork doubling into his control board, stabbing into it with his hook.
"I will never yield to you! The superior will always come out on top!" The water from outside of the cavern began flooding the inside, allowing Ben to breathe but the other kids weren't so lucky, Ripjaws quickly jumping up to them and running to safety with them on his back.
Over with the grandparents again, Donovan solemnly reaches for the geode, before punching in a code.
"Polarity flow reversed." The computer said.
"Max, we've gotta get out of here." Donovan said, picking up his dropped harpoon and shooting the cyber squid down, "We've got one submarine close by, we've gotta make it count!"
Ben also found a submarine, just in... not as good of a shape.
"Come on, Upgrade! Upgrade! Please!" Ben kept slamming the Omnitrix, no power.
Gwen had to keep downing Cyber Squids with magic discs.
"Wait, I know this one! My grandpa kept trying to hide it from me!" Edwin ran over to the sub, jumping inside to find a high tech panel, "Get in and look at this!"
Of course, the two jump inside as well but nobody understands what they're looking at.
"Anyone got an English translation?"
"This better be the 'GO' button!" Edwin slammed down on a part of the panel as water began to fill up the cavern area.
Sure enough, the sub got moving, shoving right past the enemies and breaking through the cavern out into the ocean.
But, things weren't all good, they were starting to run out of energy pretty quickly and a massive Cyber Squid appeared and began sucking them in.
The Omnitrix finally timed back in, Ben going Upgrade and taking over the sub and flying right up to where Max, Donovan and his employees were in trying to escape the infested resort.
"Hop on!" Upgrade yelled as he was grabbed by the squid, he fired a missile from the sub at it, blowing it to smithereens along with the cavern as everyone escaped.
Upgrade finally shows himself to the whole group.
"Tadah everyone! Just got done beating up a racist, how about you?"
"Edwin, you're alive!" Donovan hugged his grandson.
"Shame the resort had to go..."
"Ah, forget it! I'm stepping away from the underwater stuff for now, there's what, 14 others? Let's focus on you, kiddo. First, we'll uh, talk about what caused all of it."
"I guess grandkids have a way of rising to expectations." Max smiled.
"I'd say we rose above expectations." Gwen fist bumped Upgrade who's single eye turned up with little green blush lines forming under it.
A helicopter catches everyone and carries them off to the mainland.
Noteworthy Events[]
Character Debuts[]
- Edwin Grand Smith
- Donovan Grand Smith
- Captain Kork
- Cyber Squids
Characters[]
Villains[]
- Captain Kork
- Cyber Squids
Aliens Used[]
Trivia[]
- I figured Max knowing Donovan for being a former Plumber would be a more interesting backstory to this "Character of the Day"