Friday afternoon~~

"Come on, Ben!" Gwen calls out to her cousin standing in a corner.

"I'm working on it!" Ben replies.

"Well, hurry it up! I don't think I can hold him much longer," Kevin shouts.

The team came up against Ssserpent yet time Ben, Gwen and Kevin weren't about to let him get away. As usual, Ben's omnitrix was malfunctioning again.

"Come on, come on," Ben murmurs as he repeatedly slams down on the omnitrix. The omnitrix finally showed a hologram of Swampfire. "Yes! Finally!"

"Ben!" Gwen shouts.

"No, no, no," Ben murmurs as he turns the dial on the omnitrix. "Okay, this one!" Ben shouts as the hologram of Spidermonkey appears. Ben slams onto the omnitrix making him transform into Spidermonkey.

"Spidermonkey."

Spidermonkey leaps on Ssserpent then hops off. Spidermonkey then spun a web around Ssserpent trapping him. "Now we got him."

"No, you don't," Ssserpent said as he spit acid on the web. The web began to melt and Ssserpent was once again free.

"Oh, come on," Spidermonkey whined.

"Oh, yes," Ssserpent teased.

"Snake versus monkey fight… this is gonna be good," Kevin snickered.

Gwen slaps him on the shoulder. "Come on, Ben needs our help."

"No worries, Ben can take care of himself."

Ssserpent gets a hold of Spidermonkey by the tail and flings him off. Spidermonkey lands on the ground and shoots his web on Ssserpent, he dodges.

"I'm gonna need," Spidermonkey slams down on his omnitrix symbol and transformed into…

"Echo Echo."

Echo Echo duplicates into six similar copies and created an "Echo Chamber" and knocked out Ssserpent.

Echo Echo transforms back into Ben. "That was a success, huh, guys?"

"Yeah, now we can finally go!" Kevin sighed a relief.

"What about you, Gwen?" Ben asks his cousin as he sees her being silent.

"I'm gonna go home and do my project."

"You sure you don't want to come with Kevin and me? We're gonna have a movie night," Ben teases.

"Yes, I'm sure."

"Aw, Gwen," Ben whines.

"Alright then," Kevin says as he gets into his car. "Come on, movie night's not gonna last forever." Ben and Gwen get into his car and they drove off.

At the Tennyson's residence~~

Gwen comes home an hour later after battling out with Ssserpent. She goes into the kitchen and finds her mom cooking. "Hey, mom. I'm back."

"Hi, honey. How was your afternoon."

"It was alright."

"Gwen, your father and I will be going out tonight, it's for a meeting."

"Alright, mom…I'll just be here then."

"You're not going to spend time with your friends tonight?"

"No, mom, I've got other things to do."

"Alright, then."

Gwen goes upstairs to her room and closes the door behind her. She opens her school book and reads it but cannot concentrate as she was feeling tired. "I think I better rest for a while." Gwen falls asleep and wakes up an hour later. "It's getting dark. I better get started."

Door slams shut.

Gwen stops as she heard the door slamming. "What was that?" She goes downstairs but sees no one. "Mom, dad? Are you back?" She looks around, putting her hand on her head. "They're not here; I guess I might still be dreaming and hearing things."

"I'm afraid not, Lovely Gwen," a voice behind her said.

Gwen turns around and sees a glimmer of light reflect from a helmet. She squints and realizes that it was Darkstar. "Michael? What are you….?"

A flash of black shimmering light tries to get a hold of Gwen. But fortunately, she created her energy shield just in time. She hurls energy orbs at Darkstar continuously.

"Enough of this!" Darkstar shouts as he shoots a beam of his dark energy, this time surrounding Gwen. She struggles to break free, but in vain.

"Now you're all mine," Darkstar uses his powers to mind-control Gwen. She transforms into a darker figure with pink glowing eyes.

"Here to serve you Darkstar."