[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.
[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?!
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?
And yet, believing in aliens is laughable?
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]
[eating his burger] Talk about what?
The Julie thing. [eats his burger]
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.
True, but that doesn't mean she can't get in over her head.
With a charity group? What's the problem?
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.
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.
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?
You guys can handle it without me, right?
Have some apologizing to do?
VVilgax
I was wondering when you would find me.
Vilgax? How can you be here?!
VVilgax
These days, they call me the Diagon.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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!
Yeah, about that… not gonna happen.
I'm telling you, it's just wrong.
Pretending to be you in a stage show for money? Sure is… unless they pay you.
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.
Kind of seems like a compliment.
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.
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.
[shocked] Albedo?! What do you think you're doing?
I was about to go out for some chili fries. Care to join me?
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!"
Well, you just had your last curtain call. The show's over!
[shocked gasp] And disappoint 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?
Oh, I am so going to clobber you!
Oh, but what's the point?
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, if you want to shutdown "Ben 10 Live," fine. My dad's a lawyer. Let him handle it.
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--
All right. But try anything like this again, and I'll… I'll…
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.
[enraged] You imbecile! The Ultimatrix must have interfered with the alteration field. So now whatever I turn into, I'll always change back... to this!
HHugh
It's all my fault, Albedo. I-I brought them here.
HHugh
Back home, I'm a nothing. But here on Earth, I-I'm kind of a celebrity. [clears throat] At least I closely resemble a celebrity. Most importantly, I had friends, especially you. That's why I told Ben Tennyson, so he would stop you, so you wouldn't leave.
I don't blame you, Hugh. [turns to Ben, pointing angrily at him] I blame you! YOU DID THIS TO ME! IT'S ALWAYS YOU! [transforms into Rath]
