[Eunice is on planet Primus, checking samples from the Codon Stream and discovers that the Arachnachimp DNA is undergoing some issues]
That's unsettling. [calls Azmuth]
[apologetically] I'm very sorry to bother you, Azmuth.
Yes, well, it's the Arachnichimp DNA stored in the Codon Stream. I've detected some sort of degradation in the genetic pattern.
Eunice, I put you on Primus precisely so I wouldn't have to deal with these mundane trivialities. Send some voliticus biopsies out for a fresh sample and stop pestering me!
[mockingly] "Stop pestering me."
[The team is at Mr. Smoothy gazing up at the stars in the night sky]
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.
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]
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.
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]
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]
Hold up. The Ultimatrix is detecting a signal.
Matrix core detected in range. Version code: Unitrix.
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.
That's where we differ. Before we do anything else, we're going to find Eunice.
Matrix core detected in range. Version code: Unitrix.
[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.
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!
Ultimatrix, revert DNAliens to Arachnichimps.
Insufficient power for this operation.
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?
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.
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.
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.
