Kevin drove his car down the road and Ally drove her bike behind him at high speed.
"There it is up ahead!" Gwen said. "Just like your tip said."
"You sound surprised, Gwen," Kevin said.
"We're not surprised," Ben said. "It's just that this whole thing seems a little pat."
"You guys think it's a trap? I can just keep driving."
"No," Jen said, putting her hand on her chin. "Somebody went through a lot of trouble to get us here. And when they want the Omni-Team, it's serious. Let's play it out for now."
Kevin nodded and pulled over by a flipped truck as Ally pulled her bike over as they walked over to the door.
"Your turn, sis."
Ally nodded as she absorbed the metal from the door handle and morphed her hands into blades to slice the door down the bias and they looked into the darkness to see several red lights.
"DNAliens! Coming in hot!" Ally said as they ducked and the swarm leaped out of the truck and Becky glared as she looked to the others.
"Let's hero up!"
They all suited up as they prepared to do battle... however, they all seemed to target Absorber as he gasped and fell down the hill by the road, crashing into the trees before settling in a clearing.
Lucky Girl ran up on several mana platforms and shouted out as her Fire Charm glowed and she sent forth a blast of magenta flames from her hands that blasted into the aliens and sent them flying.
Huntress saw the DNAliens above her on the truck leap into the air and fire down slime balls before she jumped off of Matter Girl's hands as she twirled in the air and managed to hit the DNAliens with her arrows, sending them all flying back as she flipped her black hair out of her face.
The twins then nodded and slammed the cores down, each transforming into...
"Spidermonkey!" they both shouted as Spidermonkey (Ben) leaped up and webbed a DnAlien from his tail and flipped forwards, sending it crashing down into the trees as Jen hooted and flipped on her four arms and then kicked forwards with a snarl.
They both ran forwards on all fours in separate directions, avoiding the slime blasts before Ben climbed up a tree and twirled down it like a pole dancer before blasting the DNAliens with web balls, hitting them back as Jen webbed one DNAlien with a web line before she broke it and used it to knock the DNAlien into several others like a ball and chain, sending them all crashing down as Ben went down beside her.
"Keep it on. It's supposed to be good for the complexion," Ben said as he and his sister high-tened from both the upper and lower right arms.
Soon, another truck came in with more DNAliens armed with blasters as they rained down hell on the team before they climbed up the trees and avoided the blasts as they severed tons of branches.
Soon, Lucky Girl and Huntress were quickly overwhelmed by the sheer amount of DNAliens approaching as they aimed their blasters at the two unconscious young women.
"Two less heroes to worry about."
Soon, who appeared to be Ben in his Spidermonkey form ran up and leaped forwards, landing several hits with his four arms and kicked forwards, sending them all crashing down.
Matter Girl and Absorber were struggling against many DNAliens as well, only for Spidermonkey to blast forwards with web blasts and several punches as he growled.
The DNAliens immediately panicked and ran away, screeching, filing into the truck and driving away from the alien.
Spidermonkey stuck out two hands to the Levin siblings as they smiled and changed back.
"Man, Ben," Ally smiled. "We've never seen you fight like that. In any form."
The Spidermonkey only chittered, confused.
"Ben?" Kevin asked as they looked to the right to see the twin Spidermonkeys groaning and rubbing their heads.
"What did we miss?" Jen asked as she tried to get the knick out of her tail.
"Wait a minute," Becky said as she and her sister walked forward. "If you're not Ben..."
"Then who are you?" Gwen asked.
"Another Arachnichimp, obviously," Becky said.
"Tell me this isn't going to be one of those evil clone things again," Ally said, facepalming.
"I don't think so," Gwen said. "Albedo and Alexia are still in prison."
"Are you alright?" the Arachnichimp asked, helping them up.
"Yeah," Ben said. "Fine."
"But who are you?" Jen asked.
"Just someone who saw you two fellow Arachnichimps in trouble and did what any of us would've done."
"Yeah, well, we appreciate that," Ben said. "But we're only Arachnichimps sometimes."
They then hit the Omnitrix cores and transformed back to human form.
"See?" Ben said. "We have these things called the Omnitrixes and we can transform into-"
"-any one of ten aliens each!" the Arachnichimp said. "You're the famous Ben and Jen Tennyson, aren't you?"
"The two and only," Jen said, smiling with a slight proud tone.
"I never thought I'd meet you two."
"We get that a lot," Ben said. "Hey, maybe you can help us stop those DNAliens."
"DNAliens?"
"Those things that attacked us just now were DNAliens," Jen said. "You've never heard of them?"
"No. And I'm sorry, but I can't do anything more for you guys. I've got something important I have to do."
"Well, maybe we can help you," Ben suggested.
"You know, you two are everything they say you are. And more," the Arachnichimp said. "If you really want to help, tell me where there's a cryogenics lab around here."
"A what?" Jen asked.
"It's not important. I'll find it myself. I'm glad I got to help you two at least."
The Arachnichimp then climbed the trees and started swinging off into the woods.
"With any luck, my mission will go just as well."
Later on, the team were hanging out in the Omni-Team headquarters as Ally hit the weight bench with her new championship belt from the fight with Lynn hanging up on the wall behind her as she grunted out.
Ben and Jen were hanging out as they played a game on their PS4 as Kevin looked to them with some kind of device in his hands.
"You know, you never asked me what this thing is."
"We're worried about that Spidermonkey," Jen said.
"Why?" Ally asked.
"He saved our lives," Ben said. "Yours too."
"We repeat our question," Kevin said.
And that was when Gwen and Becky walked in and noticed the device in Kevin's hand.
"What's that, Kevin?" Gwen asked.
"See, guys? That's a normal level of curiosity," Kevin said. "It fell off one of those DNAliens. I'm trying to figure out what it does."
"Wait," Becky said. "Grandpa used something like this to clean his ears."
"Yeah," Gwen said. "You press this button here and boric acid solution comes..."
She pressed the button and a drop of acid came out and burned its way through the floor, creating a hole.
"Ear cleaner, huh?" Ally asked, deadpan. "More like ear killer."
"I guess the DNAliens use a stronger acid."
She then tossed the weapon away until it rolled by Ben and Jen as they paused their game and walked off.
"See you guys later," Ben said.
"Where are you guys going?" Kevin asked.
"Just out."
At the cryogenics lab that was mentioned earlier, the Arachnichimp carried a container of some kind of chemical as he ran forwards on all sixes before he used some skilled martial arts moves on the security guards as they ran forwards and tried attacking. He leaped up and flipped forwards, landing on their heads with a hoot. He leaped up and fired a web line onto the bridge above to swing away.
Unfortunately, a guard used a minigun on the bridge, breaking it from its frame and sending the Arachnichimp crashing down to the floor. The security guards ran forwards with a shout of fury... just before they got tackled by Ben as Goop before Jen swooped down as AeroForce and sent a small cyclone forwards, blowing them away.
"We thought we would find you here," AeroForce said as Goop formed by him.
"It's us, Ben and Jen. What are you doing?"
"I... I need some equipment."
"So you just decided to take it?" AeroForce asked, prepping her wings. "That's stealing!"
"Can't be helped."
The security guards ran forwards and blasted at them before the Arachnichimp blasted forwards with a web rope and reeled a blaster in before he aimed it at them.
"NO!" Goop shouted before he engulfed the monkey alien in his gelationous form and started rolling out as AeroForce blasted forwards with a tornado, which blowed all of the guards present away before she flew out the door with her brother.
Later, Ben and Jen were sitting at a campfire in the desert by the Arachnichimp as he held the container he stole.
"What are we supposed to do with you, man?" Jen asked.
"Yeah, we owe you one, but you're just a common thief."
"How dare you!" the alien said, pushing Ben back as Jen gasped as her eyes started glowing pink with her anger. "I'm sorry, you're right. I am a thief... but not a common one. My name is Simian. Prince Simian."
"Prince?" the twins asked in unison. "Huh?"
"They call my planet Aranhaschimmia" Simian began. "There's a legend we have about someone named Gefret. He was leading the Arachnichimps against an army of aliens. He was totally outnumbered. It looked hopeless until he saw the light coming from the cave. Inside, he found a crystal refracting light from the enemy campfires. He saw that the cave was really a natural tunnel that led to the aliens' rear flank. He led his soldiers through the tunnel on a sneak attack. They were able to drive off the aliens, but it never would have happened without that crystal. Gefret was crowned King of Aranhaschimmia and the crystal became a symbol of our monarchy. My father, the king, he died suddenly when I was finishing school. But just as I was about to be crowned, the crystal disappeared. The people thought it was a sign I didn't deserve to be king. A military dictator took over."
"So what are you going to do?" Ben asked.
"Prove that I am worthy. I'm going to get that crystal back," Simian said.
"Where is it?"
"Hidden in a fortress. That's why I need that equipment to help me break in. And that's also why the pair of you can't interfere anymore. Understand?"
"Wait," Jen said. "You don't have to steal anything else."
"But you don't even know this monkey," Gwen protested at the headquarters.
"Besides, what are you going to get out of helping him?" Kevin asked, unsure.
"He saved our lives, remember" Jen said. "We owe him this much."
"And there's something else, guys... he's a kid," Ben said. "His father's gone now and he has to step up. Sound familiar?"
Gwen, Kevin, Becky and Ally only stood listlessly.
"He's just like me!" Ben shouted, only for Jen to elbow him. "Um... us. He's just like us."
"Jen, look," Ally said, laying a hand on her best friend's shoulder. "You shouldn't go off with someone you don't know."
"Oh, we're not going alone," Jen said. "We told Simian we wouldn't go without you guys."
"I guess we don't have a choice at this point," Becky said, standing up from her chair. "Where's that fortress we were talking about?"
"On the moon," the twins said simultaneously as they looked through the window to the night sky.
Later on, the group was flying towards the moon in Simian's ship as the six teens were trying to practice as Simian explained the layout of the fortress to them.
"Here's the entrance and here's where the robots patrol outside. If we land over here, they won't see us."
"One problem," Ben said. "Me and Jen's Omni-Suits should protect us outside, but the others are going to need pressurized suits to get from the ship to the fortress."
"I don't know if Lisa's upgraded armored suits came with an oxygen supply," Jen said. "She might not have thought about space travel."
"I brought some for them."
"But when Kevin and Ally are in those suits versus their own, they won't be able to use their powers. Becky's the only one who's just as useful since she doesn't have any powers."
"This is the craziest thing we've ever done," Kevin whispered. "And that's saying a lot."
"You didn't go with these guys on that road trip. We had to stop a crazy ghost alien from mutating the entire planet into monsters," Ally whispered back.
"The twins have a lot in common with the prince," Gwen said, pondering. "They've had a ton of responsibility thrown at them from out of nowhere, they're young."
"They all get on my nerves," Kevin said as Becky glared and fingered her belt that contained her weapons.
"Did you hear that?" Simian asked the twins.
"Hear what?" Jen asked.
"Oh, right. Your human hearing isn't as strong as ours."
"They're saying they don't trust me. I'm too young."
"To be honest, I don't blame them," Jen said. "I mean, you did just drop on us from out of nowhere."
"But we trust you. Don't listen to them. I almost never do," Ben said as Jen elbowed him again with a glare.
"I've heard that before. From others."
"Look, Sim," Ben said. "No one thought that two children would be able to handle the Omnitrixes, but we did it. You can do this."
"You're right, Ben. I'll show them. I'll show them all."
"We, Sim," Jen said. "We'll show them."
They then all cupped hands and smiled.
Soon after that, the ship managed to go onto the moon and touched down, stairs forming from the ship's door as Ben and Jen pressed their Omnitrixes and were coated in their Omni-Suits and the others got on their hero suits before getting into the pressurized suits to survive on the moon along with Simian.
Unfortunately for the others, the suits were made for Arachnichimps and not humans.
"So what are we supposed to do with the extra arms?" Kevin asked, holding the limp arms up.
"You never used to have a problem figuring out what to do with the extra arms," Jen smiled with a cheeky grin.
"Or at least, that's what the girls say,"
That was when Jen, Gwen and Becky started giggling under their breath as Ally rolled her eyes.
"Which girls?"
Simian led the team to the moon fortress, which was being patrolled by a good amount of robots.
"These drones are the first line of defense," he explained. "When their radar spots something moving, they make a beeline for it and explode on contact. I can probably dodge them."
"I couldn't," Ben said as they turned to the others.
"Don't look at us," Ally said. "Our powers are useless unless we can touch something."
"And when we're in these literal monkey suits, we can't," Kevin said.
"And my arrows aren't going to be very effective in zero-gravity," Becky said as all eyes turned to Jen and Gwen as they nodded.
"Let's do this right," Jen said as Omni-Green nodded and activated the blaster from his left hand and his energy sword from his right hand as Omni-Pink did the same.
The robots near the fortress examined the area until spotting the heat signatures of the team as they slid down the hill, extra arms flopping limply past them as they did so. The robots then charged forwards.
"Now!" Simian said.
"Right!" Gwen shouted as she leaped up along with the twins, their jumps enhanced by the lack of gravity as Gwen and Omni-Pink sent out mana bolt after mana bolt and Ben shouted out as he blasted forwards with the Omni-Blasts from his suit, ng them as Becky reached into her belt and extended her spear.
"Let's see what I can do in zero-g," she said as she leaped upwards, super enhanced by no gravity as she plunged her spear into a robot before backflipping off of it and slashing and bashing with her spear as she smiled. "Pretty well, actually."
Omni-Green slashed forwards, slicing the robots clean in half with his green energy blades as Jen stabbed downwards with hers as Gwen and Becky turned to them, their friends and Simian.
"Well what are you waiting for, guys? Go!"
"Right!" Ben said as they made a break for the fortress just before more robots came charging in.
"We'll hold them off! Get in while you still can!" Becky shouted as she took an explosive arrow from her quiver and stabbed it into the robot as Gwen blasted another with a mana bolt.
The team then ran inside the fortress as the doors closed. They saw Simian struggling with the lock.
"Help him!" Ally said as they groaned outwards and pushed down on the lock, sealing it shut and opening the doors on the opposite side.
"You can't do this all on your own, Sim," Omni-Green said. "Remember that."
"Yeah," Omni-Pink said. "If I were doing this hero thing without Ben or the others, I'd have been dead by the second day."
The team then walked into the open area and the door sealed behind them and the room was flooded with fresh oxygen, prompting them all to remove their suits, except the twins as Kevin and Ally activated their super suits, becoming Absorber and Matter Girl.
"Whoo!" Matter Girl said. "That feels good."
"Nice to be out of that monkey suit," Absorber sighed. "No offense."
"None taken," Simian said as the doors opened.
"How close are we?" Omni-Pink asked.
"Won't be long now," Simian remarked as he pulled on the wheel that would open the next door as he grunted in effort. "Little help here please?"
The twins then walked forwards and helped Simian pull the wheel open... only for Matter Girl to cross her hands over her throat as they saw the door revealed more robots.
"Okay, screw that!" Omni-Pink said as they closed the door again.
"What now?" Omni-Green asked.
"Us," Absorber said, absorbing the wheel's metal as Matter Girl grabbed Omni-Pink's hand to absorb a small sample of her powers as she ran forwards and blasted forth dark purple balls of mana to match her aura and destroyed several robots as her brother smashed and bashed several of them with little effort now that they could use their powers freely.
"Go!" Matter Girl shouted. "We've got this!"
Simian then took out two communicators and turned to them.
"Kevin! Phone!"
Absorber reached out and took the communicator with a nod before he destroyed another robot with a swift kick.
"No roaming charges?" he asked as Matter Girl shouted out and blasted two robots apart with two lasers from her eyes. "Whoa. How did you learn to do that so quickly?"
"I've been watching my best friend do it for years. I'm adaptable."
Simian tossed the other communicator to Omni-Green and they both ran forwards deeper into the fortress before running into a split road.
"Which way?" Omni-Green asked.
"I don't think it matters."
True to Simian's word, metal walls came crashing down on either side of the three, cornering them inside with no way out.
"Oh crap!" Omni-Pink shouted as she encased herself in a forcefield, blocking the path of the wall as it crashed down from the ceiling as her brother used the enhanced strength that came with his armored suit to help him hold it up as he looked behind him as Simian tried holding up the ceiling as well.
"Jen! Think you can transform?"
"Maybe," Jen said through her effort. "But that would require me dispelling my forcefield. And my alien forms aren't nearly as strong as yours are!"
"Sim, can you reach my Omnitrix?"
"No!" Simian said, reaching out with his tail. "Too far!"
"Great, we're stuck like this!"
"Ben, Jen?" Absorber asked as he and Matter Girl stood together in a pile of destroyed robots. "Just checking in. Everything's cool on our end."
The communicator rang in Omni-Green's belt.
"Ben, Jen? Can you hear us?" Matter Girl asked.
"We can hear you! Not cool on this end!"
"Haven't heard from you two in awhile," Absorber said.
"I said 'not cool!' Get your butts over here!"
"They can't hear you," Simian explained. "You have to hold down the button, which you can't do without crushing the three of us."
"Oh man!" the twins chorused as Omni-Pink felt her forcefield start to crack.
"Well, guess you would've called if there was a problem," Absorber said. "Over and out or whatever."
"Sis, think you can try your telekinesis on my pocket?"
"I can try," Omni-Pink said as she closed her eyes shut and put a hand to her temple as a pink glow surrounded an object in Ben's belt as he started shaking his posterior.
"What are you two doing?"
Omni-Pink shouted out in effort as the DNAlien ear cleaner fell onto the ground.
"Simian, get that!" Omni-Green said.
Simian reached his foot out to grab the ear cleaner, but just couldn't reach it.
"I can't... wait, I can!"
He shot a webbing out of his tail and grabbed the ear cleaner and looked at it.
"Spray it on the floor!" Omni-Pink screamed as cracks appeared all throughout her forcefield.
Simian sprayed the powerful acid solution on the ground, burning a hole into the floor and the three leaped through the hole just as the ceiling came crashing down on them.
"Any idea where we are?" Omni-Green as as they dusted themselves off.
"This wasn't in the blueprints. But leads are leads. Let's try this way," Simian said before walking forwards along with the twins.
"By the way, where did you get the DNAlien resin remover?"
"Long story," Omni-Pink said, raising an eyebrow as Simian handed it to her brother before she whispered as silently as she could into his ear and he nodded silently to her and she returned the gesture.
They walked forwards... until Omni-Green tripped over a laser wire that the others walked over.
An alarm sounded throughout the area, alerting a sleeping security guard from his sleep.
"Whoa!" he said, fuddling with the controls and readjusting them. "Maybe it's just a short circuit."
He was proven wrong when he saw the three intruders walking through the fortress. "Whoa!"
"Oh! Why me?! Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3! Testing!"
The Omni-Twins and Simian groaned out as the feedback from the loudspeaker screamed in their ears.
"Whoever you are, you need to leave! Right now! I-I'm serious!"
"He sounds scared, doesn't he?" Omni-Green said.
"I'm serious!"
Annoyed, Simian shot a web out of his tail and ripped the speaker out of the wall with it.
"Hey, I have to fix that!"
He noticed the group pressing forwards, despite his threats.
"Oh, dang it!"
He activated a secret compartment of his control station and took a wrench out of it before rushing off, moving to the twins' area.
Speaking of which, the twins and Simian arrived at a large door that was sealed shut with a secret pass code.
"I don't think we can open this thing."
"No," Omni-Green said, activating his Omnitrix. "But I know who can!"
He then slammed the core down, transforming into...
"Big Chill!" the Necrofriggian called as he pressed a hand to the door, sealing it shut in solid ice before his sister looked to Simian.
"Go for it."
Simian ran forwards and punched the door apart, only to reveal the security guard waiting for them, patting his wrench into his hand.
"Now I have to fix that too!"
Simian walked forwards on the walkway on all sixes and glared at the security guard.
"Out of the way."
The security guard patted the wrench in his hand nervously as Big Chill flew forwards and Omni-Pink walked up, unsure, fisticuffs raised in case.
"Ben, Jen, I think this guy needs to... chill out. What do you two think?"
"I think I hate puns," Big Chill scoffed.
"And we don't like to hurt anybody who doesn't deserve it or tries to attack us first," Omni-Pink stated plainly.
"Then I'll do it myself."
Simian screeched loudly as he walked as the guard tried to swat him with his wrench and missed before he was tripped up by Simian's tail, sending him off the ledge and hurtling towards the bottom.
"No!" Omni-Pink said as she threw herself over the ledge and slammed her Omnitrix core down and transformed into AeroForce with a caw, folding her wings at her sides and caught the guard in her talons before flying back up to her brother.
"I don't suppose you kids will tell me what's going on here," he said. "Just a clue, maybe?"
"You start," AeroForce said as she set him back on the ledge. "My brother and I here want answers about what this place really is, dude."
Simian walked into the apparent control room where the fabled crystal sat, resting on a large pedestal in a room filled with glowing yellow lights. Almost entranced, Simian walked slowly forwards and clambered up onto the pedestal and reached out for the crystal, only to be violently shocked by purple lightning, causing him to scream in pain just as the twins ran into the room, having changed out of their suits.
"That's gotta smart," Ben said as he transformed into Chromastone and Jen transformed into Discharge as she transformed herself into electricity and zipped towards the crystal in an instant as Chromastone picked up Simian and tossed him safely to the ground as he and Discharge started absorbing the lightning arcing around them as they both prepared themselves to grab the crystal.
"Ready?" Discharge asked as Chromastone nodded.
They then reached forwards, having a hard time concentrating with all of the energy surrounding the crystal as they both shouted out in obvious pain from overloading before they managed to separate the crystal from its pedestal, crashing to the ground with it on either side, transforming back.
The removal of the crystal, however, caused the pedestal to close and all the lights in the room and the fortress to power down slowly, just before the auxiliary power activated, illuminating the room with blue lights as the twins recovered, obviously and literally shocked from the experience as they walked over to Simian as he slowly got up.
"Sim," Ben said as he walked towards the Arachnichimp. "We got it."
"We had to put it in this container just to be sure there wasn't any residual electricity or radiation," Jen said, holding the container up.
"You know, the three of us make a pretty good team, don't we?" Simian asked, reaching for the container before Jen snatched it away.
"What's the matter?"
"That guard," Ben said. "He was just doing his job. He didn't want to hurt anybody."
"But you were going to kill him!" Jen scolded.
"Ben, Jen, there are a lot more lives than his at stake back home. Now give me-"
"No way," Ben said. "If you're really trying to make your planet a better place, you can't start out by murdering someone."
"*sigh* You're right. All I ever wanted to do was lead. But if I have to sacrifice my principles to become a leader, I'll never be a good one. Thanks, guys."
"You're welcome, Sim," Ben said slyly. "But that sounded a little pat."
"You know... phony?" Jen smirked.
Simian screeched in anger as he charged after the twins as they nodded and Jen tossed the container out of Simian's reach before she blasted out her mana laser eyes at him, blasting him back as Ben tackled him and Jen joined in the dogpile as they all struggled against each other and Jen slammed him against the wall in anger, her eyes blazing pink.
"You don't deserve to be king!"
"You idiots! I made up all that stuff! Do you two know what this place really is? It's an intergalactic communications center and the crystal is its power source! Once it's gone, no one's gonna be able to call for help when the Highbreed invade your miserable worthless planet!"
"Not while we're around!" Ben said, landing a strong punch to the monkey alien before tossing him away and he ran for the container holding the crystal.
"Sorry, Ben. That crystal's leaving here with me," Simian smirked as he avoided Jen's mana blasts and Ben went for his Omnitrix.
"Let's see what Humungousaur has to say about that-"
Unfortunately, Simian saw this coming and webbed Ben's left arm with his Omnitrix and used his strength to toss the screaming Ben into his sister, sending both crashing into the wall, unconscious.
"I don't think Humungousaur has anything to say."
Ow," the twins both groaned out.
That was when simian ran out of the room and started sprinting back to his ship, past Kevin and Ally, who had changed out of their suits and were waiting patiently as Kevin popped his bubble gum.
"Hey, Sim, where's the twins?" Ally asked.
"Right behind me."
That was when the door to the hanger closed behind him and the Levins looked back to see the twins not coming.
Simian had changed into his space suit and ran towards his ship just as Gwen and Becky had finished up with the robots and looked at the Arachnichimp just as he got to his ship.
"What are you doing?" Gwen asked.
"Yeah, where's the others?" Becky asked.
"I, um, uh... aw, forget it," Simian gave up as he shouted out and slammed the sisters with his three free fists, sending them crashing against the moon's surface.
Becky prepared an arrow from her bow and Gwen prepared a mana blast just as Kevin and Allly came up and stopped them.
"Gwen, it's okay," Kevin said, having changed into his space suit. "Let him go."
"What do you mean, 'let him go'?! How are we supposed to get home?!" Gwen shouted as they all witnessed Simian depart in his ship.
Ben and Jen ran up to the group with satisfied smiles on their faces.
"Lou's going to let us use his shuttle," Ben said.
"Who's Lou?" Becky asked.
"The techie who runs this place," Jen said. "We saved his life and he told us what was really going on."
"Of course, the pair of us were already suspicious when Simian knew what the DNAlien ear cleaner was even though he said he'd never heard of the DNAliens."
"Yeah," Gwen remembered. "But the prince, he's got the crystal now and-"
"One, he's no prince," Ben said.
"And two... you mean this crystal?" Jen asked slyly, spinning the crystal on her finger. "I'm not always such a goody two-shoes, am I?"
"My sister can get really sly and sneaky when she needs to. She's a bit of a short fuse," Ben said, jabbing her arm.
"But wait," Becky said. "If you two have the crystal..."
"Then what does Simian have?" Gwen finished.
Ben and Jen smiled to each other and started laughing in hysterics.
Back on Earth, Simian was meeting the Highbreed Commander after landing and presenting him with what he thought was the container that held the crystal that powered the communications center.
"I'm telling you, these Tennyson Twins are so overrated. I tricked them into helping me steal the crystal and they never had a clue!"
"Sounds like you made real monkeys out of them," the Highbreed Commander said as he opened a chest that held several gold bars. "No offense."
"Offend me all you want as long as you keep paying me like this."
That was when the Highbreed closed the container.
"First, I'd like to see the crystal."
"Of course."
Simian took the container out and handed it to the Highbreed Commander, who opened it, before gaining an invisible disappointed look on his face.
"What is this? A joke?"
"A joke?" Simian asked, crawling up onto the rock beside the Hihgbreed. "What do you mean?"
Simian's eyes widened and he gasped in horror when he saw what was actually inside the container: the DNAlien ear cleaner! He had been completely duped by the twins!
He backed up in fear as the Highbreed walked towards him and he slipped off the rock into the desert.
"T-this is a mistake!" Simian cowered in fear.
"It certainly is. We distinctly told you to bring us the crystal," the Highbreed said, holding up the ear cleaner. "You didn't hear us. Maybe you need to have your ears cleaned."
That was when the Highbreed Commander activated the powerful acid on Simian's ears, causing him to screech in pain as the camera shifted upwards to the night sky.
Next time on Ben and Jen 10:
Unearthed (aka Birthday Babysitting)