P7Prisoner 775
Leave me be! I intend to balance the scales!
You want to balance scales? Go on a diet. Unh! [sighs] Gone again!
I can sense his manna! He's to your right!
He moved! He's to your left!
He's back to your left! No, no, no! Behind you!
Unh! Thanks for the help, Gwen!
He's too fast! He's -- Unh!
Wherever you are, stay away from my family!
P7Prisoner 775
You're going to live, Rozum... Just long enough to see what it's like to lose your family.
They have nothing to do with this!
P7Prisoner 775
Neither did mine.
[Wildmutt growling]
P7Prisoner 775
Lease your overgrown pet! He's no match for me!
[Wildmutt slams his Ultimatrix]
UWUltimate Wildmutt
Ultimate Wildmutt!
I was gonna do that for you.
UWUltimate Wildmutt
Tell you what, you can clean up what's left of him.
P7Prisoner 775
Let go of me, you stupid --
[Ultimate Wildmutt roars]
P7Prisoner 775
Do it. Finish me. Come on! Let me join my family. Do it. Do it!... Please do it! Please finish me. I've got... nothing.
Ben Tennyson
Some threat, huh?
[scanning Prisoner 775's DNA] Alien DNA scanned and recognized. Merlinisapiens, unlocked and available on Playlist 5.
Ben Tennyson
Hey, guys, check it out. (activates Ultimatrix)
CChamAlien
Overkill! Well? Well? (Gwen and Kevin walk away) Too soon?
I'm sure he's behind the disappearance of area 51. I want to be there for questioning.
Why? Because you think we're gonna torture him and you don't want to miss it?
I expect you'll do whatever it takes.
Then I'm happy to disappoint you. That's not how the plumbers do things. You still don't get it, colonel. Earth's in violation of interstellar law. You don't seem to realize the enormity of what you've done.
I realize it fine, Max. And under the same circumstances, I'd do the exact same thing. When it comes to choosing between a few hundred aliens and my country's safety, well, that's just a no-brainer.
[The team is at Mr. Smoothy gazing up at the stars in the night sky]
Ben Tennyson
Hey, do you guys realize it's been two days since anyone tried to kill me, arrest me, or ask me for an autograph?
Then let me apologize in advance for my timing.
Well, well, well. If it isn't the con artist formerly known as prince.
Wait! I can certainly understand your ire.
Ben Tennyson
You lied to us, Simian… you used us and sold us out to the Highbreed!
And I'm sorry, but things have changed, and now I have no choice but to humbly beg for your help, oh, great Ben Tennyson, hero to all worlds.
Oh, this is gonna be good.
The Highbreed weren't exactly pleased when you caught on to my little deception before.
You mean when you tried to trick us into taking out the Plumbers' communications system so Earth would be defenseless against the alien invasion?
Yeah. That's the one. [voice-over during a flashback] I was able to distract them long enough to escape, taking along a few valuables to compensate me for my troubles. I sold a certain item to a powerful client named Mizaru, a collector of unusual animals. Honestly, I was only trying to make a fair profit. I had no idea this would happen.
[Back to the present]
Ben Tennyson
Are you telling me you willingly brought a Xenocite to your home world and turned it loose on some crime boss?!
I didn't turn it loose, he did! And now the DNAliens are spreading all over. In a few days, there won't be a single unaffected Arachnichimp left on the planet. I… I need your help.
Not buying it. Nobody's that stupid.
Ben Tennyson
Maybe. But can we really take that chance? A whole planet of innocent Arachnichimps turned into mutant monsters?
It won't hurt to check it out. If he's telling the truth, we need to do something about it.
And if it's just another con?
[Simian and the team arrive on his home planet and the forest is covered in snow]
Ben Tennyson
Sure gets dark fast around here.
The forest is always dark below the canopy.
Not much heat either, huh?
That's not normal. It certainly never snows here.
Probably weather machines. The DNAliens like it cold.
Mizaru's palace is this way.
[As the team follow Simian along the way, Ben's Ultimatrix starts beeping]
Ben Tennyson
Hold up. The Ultimatrix is detecting a signal.
Matrix core detected in range. Version code: Unitrix.
Ben Tennyson
Unitrix? Eunice is here?
All right, monkey boy. Spill.
I don't know. And if it doesn't have anything to do with saving this planet, I don't care.
Ben Tennyson
That's where we differ. Before we do anything else, we're going to find Eunice.
Matrix core detected in range. Version code: Unitrix.
Ben Tennyson
This way.
[Gwen, Kevin and Simian follow him, but once they arrive at Eunice's location, she is nowhere to be seen]
You have arrived at the matrix core. Version code: Unitrix. Ending route guidance system.
Ben Tennyson
I don't get it. It says she's right here.
Directions are different in the trees. You're thinking in two dimensions. Look out!
Ben Tennyson
Ultimatrix, revert DNAliens to Arachnichimps.
Insufficient power for this operation.
Ben Tennyson
What?! Uh… repair genetic damage to Arachnichimps.
Insufficient power for this operation.
They're not taking me without a fight!
Sometimes a chimp gets cornered. What can you do?
Ben Tennyson
Man, I miss my old Omnitrix. Got enough power for this?! [transforms into Terraspin]
[to Eunice, while meeting her for the first time] How come you fight so much like an Arachnichimp?
Because I'm a Unitrix. I can take on the power of whatever creatures are near me.
[puzzled] Like a living Omnitrix.
Now he's trying to figure out how much he could get if he sold you.
[The team and Simian follow her to a cave where an Arachnichimp family is hiding]
HHaplar
Eunice, thank goodness you're back.
This is Haplar and his family. [gestures to Simian] Other than your friend here, they're the only unaffected Arachnichimps I've seen in days. I came here to investigate irregularities with the Arachnichimp DNA in the codon stream on Primus, but as soon as I got near the planet, my ship was blasted out of the sky. [voice-over on a flashback of the events] I didn't even have time to grab my equipment before I was captured. The DNAlien Arachnichimps brought me and what was left of my ship to their leader: Mizaru. Mizaru didn't know me, but he recognized my ship as Galvan and decided to hold me for ransom. I had to get out of there and try to save the rest of the Arachnichimps from pending extinction. [back to the present] I've been on the run ever since. I met Haplar a short time later, and I've been helping his family to hide and find food, but we can't hold out forever. They may very well already be the last of their kind.
Ben Tennyson
We came to help, but I'm not sure how. The DNA repair guns we brought from Earth didn't work.
Those guns were built to restore human DNA. Naturally, they have no affect on Arachnichimps.
As for the Ultimatrix, Azmuth gave me a one-way subspace connection to Primus so I can upload DNA samples.
"Parallel signal interference." [to Ben] That's why your powers aren't working.
Link to Primus re-established. All functions available.
Ben Tennyson
That's more like it. Now I can cure the DNAlien Arachnichimps.
No. The Ultimatrix doesn't have that capability. But the equipment in my ship does.
Then what are we waiting for? We go to your ship, zap all the mutant monkeys back to normal, and we're home in time for dinner.
I was hoping you'd say that. Come, Haplar. It's time.
[Haplar looks at his wife, who's tearing up]
Wait. Why does he have to go?
EEuince
Because I need an original DNA sample for my equipment to work. Haplar volunteered.
[steps forward] You stay with your family, Haplar. This mess is partly my fault, anyway.
I'll provide the DNA sample. Let's get going.
[Ben, Kevin and Julie leave the building after Ben accidentally laughed inappropriately at Conduit Edwards, angering Julie]
Okay, you're not into it. I get it! That's fine. But did you have to laugh in his face?!
Ben Tennyson
Julie, it was an accident. Sometimes I laugh inappropriately in awkward situations.
You're a terrible boyfriend! [Ben laughs, then covers his mouth, realizing he messed up again] I'm not talking to you. [turns to walk away]
In Ben's defense, you're way too smart to be buying into this junk.
[turns around, having to have heard that; offended] Which junk is that, Kevin? The "using technology to help people" junk or maybe the "modernizing of hospitals and schools" junk? So what is it, the existence of aliens?
Oh, right… because we've never seen aliens before. [to Ben] How many different aliens can you turn into now? 50?
Ben Tennyson
63.
And yet, believing in aliens is laughable?
Ben Tennyson
Say Diagon is real. It still wouldn't be right to use his alien tech to change the planet.
Ben's right. They got rules for that stuff.
[The team is hanging out at Burger Shack later that evening]
Ben Tennyson
[eating his burger] Talk about what?
The Julie thing. [eats his burger]
Ben Tennyson
I know! She's doing volunteer work for a crooked organization and she can't even see it.
Come on, guys. Give Julie some credit. She's not a dope.
Ben Tennyson
True, but that doesn't mean she can't get in over her head.
With a charity group? What's the problem?
Ben Tennyson
Her heart's in the right place, but that guy reminds me of a used-car salesman.
Kevin: Even if these guys were legit, their mission goes against plumber rules and interstellar law.
You think they really have access to alien tech?
KKevin
Doubt it. Smells more like a multilevel marketing scam. Getting your suckers to get more suckers -- charity for profit.
Ben Tennyson
Yeah, conduit wouldn't know alien tech if it was staring him right in the face.
[Gwen and Kevin's plumber badges start beeping]
Speaking of alien tech, looks like we've got a lead on that stolen plumber ship.
Ben Tennyson
Stolen plumber ship?
Grandpa Max called while you were getting your burger and a side of sulk.
The ship got jacked on a routine run of this quadrant. What do you say we skip dessert and do a little follow-up?
Ben Tennyson
You guys can handle it without me, right?
Have some apologizing to do?
Ben Tennyson
Only if I'm wrong.
VVilgax
I was wondering when you would find me.
Ben Tennyson
Vilgax? How can you be here?!
VVilgax
These days, they call me the Diagon.
Ben Tennyson
I don't care who these people think you are. I know the truth.
VVilgax
But how can it be? I can see your tiny human brain struggling to comprehend the impossible.
Ben Tennyson
Vilgax, conqueror of ten worlds, living in a fish tank in the VIP room of a bunch of people who believe that Santa drives a UFO. It's a mystery, all right.
VVilgax
I should have been dead. Our last battle-- the terrible explosion. But just as you survived, so did I. Rather than being destroyed, I was lost to the sea. Too weak to revert to my normal form, I eventually washed up on shore… and was sold to a traveling carnival. Despite the indignity of my situation, it did provide me with food, shelter, and time to regain my strength. Recently, I was liberated by this collection of buffoons-- the Esoterica.
Ben Tennyson
The Flame Keepers' Circle. And this Diagon they're so obsessed with just happens to be some kind of space squid, too.
VVilgax
A most fortuitous coincidence, would you not agree?
Ben Tennyson
So now you're a prophecy made to order-- their old alien pal finally making his promised return.
VVilgax
"All hail Diagon!" They'd do anything for me. Why, they just acquired for me a class 7 interstellar ship.
Ben Tennyson
What are you going to do with it?
VVilgax
My followers think I'll use it to fetch some glorious alien tech stashed on a nearby moon. Instead, I will find Psyphon, regain my lost powers, then return home to rule my empire.
Ben Tennyson
You don't have an empire, genius. It fell after everybody heard you were dead. [Vilgax roars, hearing him say that] You know how it is. When the cat's away, the mice will play.
VVilgax
Those who resist my rule will be washed away in the tide of battle! My empire will rise again!
Ben Tennyson
Yeah, about that… not gonna happen.
Ben Tennyson
I'm telling you, it's just wrong.
Pretending to be you in a stage show for money? Sure is… unless they pay you.
Ben Tennyson
Right? I mean, no. [pause] I mean, aren't there laws about this, facial copyright or something?
According to their website, this show sells out everywhere it plays. People are driving miles to see you.
Ben Tennyson
So?
Kind of seems like a compliment.
Ben Tennyson
Compliment?! Did you see that guy's hair?
Okay, nice work on the priorities.
Remember, before we do anything, we find out all the facts.
Ben Tennyson
Since when did you become the voice of reason?
Since you two became theatre critics.
[angered] I am perfectly calm! [her hand glows and shakes it] Okay, now I'm perfectly calm.
I don't see what you're so sore about. I'm not even in the show.
[taking off the brown hair wig and turns to Ben] Ben Tennyson, we meet again.
Ben Tennyson
[shocked] Albedo?! What do you think you're doing?
I was about to go out for some chili fries. Care to join me?
Ben Tennyson
I mean, what are you doing with this show?
Truth be told, I'm making the best of a bad situation. Thanks to you, I have no Ultimatrix, and hence no way to fly myself away from this sad little planet your actions stranded me upon. Worst of all, [takes off the green eye lenses, looking at his reflection] I'm trapped in this repulsive human form! And since I needed some way to earn a living… [takes off the green jacket, opens a closet, and takes out a sound-wave grenade] I realized that the most fitting, if ironic choice, would be to make money off of you. So I created "Ben 10 Live!"
Ben Tennyson
Well, you just had your last curtain call. The show's over!
[shocked gasp] And disappoint my fans?!
Ben Tennyson
My fans!
Whatever. [throws the grenade at them]
This Ultimatrix is just an overgrown strobe light. Between that and the smoke, he blinded the audience long enough to cover the aliens' entrances and exits.
So, you've been going around the country, doing this act for...
Ever since I escaped from Vilgax's ship. Every second-rate resort, sales convention, and county fair. In one night, out the next.
But now you're gonna stop, right?
What, and give up show business?
Ben Tennyson
Oh, I am so going to clobber you!
Oh, but what's the point?
Ben Tennyson
What's the point?! I'll tell you what's the point! How many times has Albedo stolen the Omnitrix, or the Ultimatrix, or kidnapped you, or, might I add tried to kill me?! And-and now, here he is again, ripping me off, using my face to fool people, and steal their money with this ridiculous dog-and-phony show!
Ben Tennyson
A little.
Ben, if you want to shutdown "Ben 10 Live," fine. My dad's a lawyer. Let him handle it.
Ben Tennyson
Yeah, but--
I don't like him either, but Albedo isn't a threat anymore. He's a nuisance.
You needn't worry. Tonight was our last performance.
HHugh
What?! B-But what about--
Ben Tennyson
All right. But try anything like this again, and I'll… I'll…
Ben Tennyson
Yeah! That! [he, Gwen and Kevin then walk out of the building to the Rustbucket ship] I still think he deserved a major beat down.
Why waste the energy? You won, he lost. End of story.
Ben Tennyson
What happened?
[repairing the Ultimatrix] Your sacrifice reset the Ultimatrix. The flaw that generated the self-actualized Ultimates has been corrected. Any Ultimates generated from this moment forth will simply be reflections of you, as was always intended.
Ben Tennyson
But I jumped into the pit. Why am I still alive? Not that I'm complaining, mind you.
Your intention was what mattered to the Ultimatrix-- the fact that you were willing to sacrifice everything in order to set them free. Genuine self-sacrifice-- more rare than astatine or francium. That's twice today I have found a small measure of hope… a very disturbing pattern.
SUSentient Ultimate Humungousaur
Glad you're all happy, but where do we go when the only home we've ever known... Is in that device?
You can always go back in. [Sentient Ultimate Humungousaur scowls at him] Or not.
Ben Tennyson
Somewhere out there is a planet where you can be free.
And I can take you there. [opens a portal and the other sentient Ultimate aliens follow him]
SUSentient Ultimate Humungousaur
We were wrong about you. I was wrong.
Ben Tennyson
Given the circumstances, I can't say I blame you.
Ben Tennyson
Colonel Rozum. This must be pretty embarrassing for you.
He probably means the way we saved the Air Force's butt last time, even though you were involved in all kinds of dirty ops.
Ben Tennyson
That's what I meant.
And now he needs another favor.
Ben Tennyson
So, what brings us to the department of weird today?
Have you heard of the pacific garbage vortex?
Of course. Approximately billion tons of non-biodegradable plastics are dumped into the oceans every year. Currents collect this and untold trillions of pounds of other refuse into gigantic floating islands of garbage. The pacific garbage vortex is the largest in the world.
Ben Tennyson
Really?
She can't help it if she's a reader.
Ben Tennyson
How much garbage are we talking about here?
It's twice the size of Texas.
That's what the public knows. What they don't know is that the area around the vortex has become a dead zone, a dangerous place where ships tend to... Disappear. 18 months ago, my sister was on a ship that sailed too close to the vortex. After she went missing, I sent two of my best agents to investigate. They disappeared, too. Now my bosses upstairs are telling me to shut the investigation down… officially.
So you need someone to investigate… unofficially.
Ben Tennyson
Told you we were gonna do something fun.