At the start of class, most of the students were seated at their desks, ready to start the lesson. Of course, Ditto was worried about how he'd get through school, especially if there's no chance of him turning back into Ben. The teacher was currently checking he list of students, and as she goes along the list, asks the students in the class if they are here or not. Seated next to Ditto is much rather (as you would expect) Gwen.

The teacher had realised what was that creature sitting in Ben's place… even though she knew exactly who it was.

"Benjamin Tennyson?" the teacher asked. "Are you sure that is you?"

Ditto rose his hand and answered, "I wouldn't want to go into too much detail, ma'am." He grinned as if trying to gain the teacher's approval.

"If you insist," the teacher replied, and marked down something on the list. If you were able to read what she was writing, it read, "BE AWARE OF ABNORMAL ALIEN FORM APPEARANCES." Then she turned to the class, ready to start the lesson.

"Now I would like to let you know," the teacher began, "Benjamin has had a rough morning today, and it would be kindly appreciated if you treat him with some respect."

Ditto had regained confidence, surely enough, but given the fact that some of the students have quietly snickered under their breath, he was not confident enough.

The students had no intention to spread rumours in the classroom, not even during lessons. As usual, Ditto went on with his school work as given out to the teacher, while at the same time trying to look on the bright side of what's going on. Halfway during the lesson, he was close to falling asleep during parts of the class, just as Ben usually did… but by luck and chance, he didn't. Ditto had tried his best staying awake during class, no matter how boring class may have been. The teacher realised that since the accidental transformation, Ditto was rather confident about his schoolwork.

The school bell rang for recess. As most of the students at their class were outside playing games with each other, some have gathered round the basketball court to watch an amazing game of basketball… played by Ditto and five other Ditto clones with him – in short, a three-on-three game with each other. Despite some problems, for example, how Ditto and his clones, in two separate teams, get each other confused, it was a great game played in front of some of the students. At the end of the game, Gwen had managed to get through the crowd, only to find Ditto and the other clones shaking hands with themselves.

"Ben," Gwen scolded, as if she is not too satisfied, "what on earth are you doing?"

Ditto and the other clones merged into each other, leaving a lone Ditto clone in the middle of the clone, and he slowly approached Gwen, who was waiting in the crowd for a while.

"Just decided to amaze the others with a bit of three-on-three," Ditto explained, trying to win back Gwen's approval.

"Ben, you have got to realise," Gwen lectured, trying to display her disapproval, "that no matter what you're doing, you're just a few steps away from getting yourself humiliated in front of everyone in the class. How would you like to be suspended from this school for going alien?"

"No duh," Ditto answered back, standing up for himself. "It's not that I can turn back into Ben the whole time!"

"Wake up, Ben," Gwen continued on with the lecture, "you haven't changed back into Ben the whole time!"

During the lecture, as Gwen is about to end the lecture, something strange had happened… the Omnitrix appeared to deactivate, but no, Ditto did not change back into Ben… the Omnitrix symbol on his forehead resembled one of the countdown sequences that once indicated that the Omnitrix was about to self-destruct… by the looks of things, it was different. The symbol only had a very small red dot almost filling the middle part of the symbol, with a large part of the area (top and bottom) left white. This would mean that Ditto would turn back into Ben by the time the middle part of the symbol was glowing red completely.

"What happened?" Ditto asked, confused about what happened lately.

"Ben," Gwen explained, "way back during our summer vacation, do you remember the last time the Omnitrix was put in self-destruct mode, putting you and the universe in danger?"

In reaction to Gwen's 'story', the students gasped in worry, and spreading rumours of whether the tale was true or not.

"Well, this time," Gwen continued, "the Omnitrix is now in countdown mode. Only a few of us know how long you'd turn back into Ben,"

Ditto was in a state of worry and confusion at the same time. There were only two words Ditto would describe the scene…

"Aww, man!"