Ben 10 Ultimate Hero EP 4: Take 10
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Intro:
A green glowing, steel pod was flying through space, hurtling towards Earth as it crashed, making a huge green flash.
The camera zooms out from the glowing symbol on the Ultimatrix as Ben looks up close at it.
He then activates it while smirking at the camera, raising his hand high and slapping it down on the core.
The background turns all green as Ben morphs into Four Arms, who pumps his upper fists while cracking his lower ones with a smirk.
A white number appears on the left side, starting at 1.
"Ben 10!"
2: Heatblast ignites 2 fireballs in his hands.
"Ben 10!"
3: XLR8 zooms to the right.
4: Diamondhead swaps his right arm across as it turns into a blade.
"Ben 10!"
5: Cannonbolt uncurls and poses.
"Ben 10!"
"Ben 10!"
6: Upgrade stretches out of his puddle form.
7: Grey Matter hops off the 7 and lands into a crouch, giving a thumbs up and a smile.
"Ben 10!"
8: Water Hazard slides in on his water blasts and raises his fists.
"Ben 10!"
9: Wildvine extends his legs and stretches out his right fingers while holding seeds in his left one, chucking them offscreen.
10: Big Chill phases through the number and floats briefly before zooming near the camera.
"Ben 10!"
Big Chill's head turns back into Ben's as it rotates.
The camera zooms out to reveal Max and Gwen by his side.
Ben gave a low-five to his grandfather as Gwen crossed her arms and shook her head playfully with a smile.
The 2 then ran off-screen, making Ben run toward the camera with a determined look.
He then froze as his aliens appeared in heroic poses on each of the kids' sides, 5 on each side. Just as the title appears on a black background with green rays appearing from the title.
At a bank in a calm town in Ohio, everything was normal as people were going about, depositing and withdrawing money from their accounts. BOOOM Suddenly, the doors were blown open as the people screamed in panic. All was quiet until 3 figures stepped out of the smoke and entered the bank. They are all men wearing gray suits with little bits of yellow on them.
The eye-catcher, however, all of them carry grey and yellow machines on them that are modeled after bugs. The short one has 6 spider legs carrying him, despite the that spiders are not bugs, but predators. The medium guy has 2 claw pinches while the tall one has mantis-like arms with drills on the hands. "Freeze!" A few security guards said but were knocked away by the medium guy's claws.
"Okay boys, you know what to do. Let's get the cash and get back!" The short guy said to his partners in crime. They all then charged in, scaring all the people and making them hide behind the desks. The spider guy lands in front of the vault door and using his legs, he rips it out and tosses it away. The tall guy then sliced the bars off with his drill arms as the pincer guy fired one of his claws and brought it back as it was carrying a sack full of money. The claw guy then fires his claws as bolos, capturing groups of people as well. While the short robber went into the safe, the medium and tall one threatened the hostages. "Everyone! Empty your pockets! Give us the goods or else!" One of them said.
"Or... How about getting blasted, instead?!" A fireball blasted the 2 away from the people as Heatblast rode in through the door on a fire comet. He tossed a few more fireballs and yells out. "If you can't stand the heat…. Stay away from me!" He lands and snaps his fingers. He then absorbs the fire on a nearby money sack and uses a small flame to burn the ropes away, freeing the people as they quickly thank him and run out. The tall henchman narrows his eyes and charges with a cry, hoping to slice him in half when Heatblast, notching in a reflective window, quickly roundhouse kicks him with a fire blast, sending him crashing into a wall with swirls in his eyes and smoke emitting off him.
"Who's next?" Heatblast smirks out. The spider guy emerges with tons of money bags. "All right! Let's get out of here before-" He noticed his knocked-out friends and Heatblast. "Uhh... Nevermind!" He leaps upward, hoping to stomp on Heatblast, who rockets upward and delivers a double flaming punch that sends him crashing into the other 2, knocking them all down for the count as Heatblast lands. "And that is way crime never pays... Did the drones get that?!" Heatblast quickly said out excitedly at his cousin, who was by the door, and responded as she glanced at her tablet.
"Yep! And it's pretty awesome!" She smiles as she points at a couple of small drones with large cameras planted on them hovering near the ceiling. Heatblast looks over and smiles as the drones recorded his fight of him kicking the henchmen's butt. "Sweet! This is so going to be my most epic video, ever!" "I got to hand it to you: Grey Matter's new camera drones worked like a charm." "Thank you! Thank you. I try." Heatblast had a big grin as he gave a few bows as his ego went up, making the cousin roll her eyes with a headshake.
As the henchmen recover, the short one glances at a watch and gasps out. "Uh-oh! Guys! We need to go! Now!" The other 2 nod in response and throw down smoke bombs, obscuring the kids' view. "What the?! Hey! Not so fast!" Heatblast cries out as he runs towards them, only when he gets outside through a hole in the wall, he groans out in dismay at the henchmen gone. "Great..."
Later, at the parked Rust Bucket, Ben and Gwen were uploading footage from the drones on the tablet. "Ugg… I don't believe this. I was this close to stopping those weird, mech-suit robbers, only for them to get away! How am I going to show the world my awesomeness at being a cool hero, if I let the bad guys get away?!" Ben frowns as he rests his arms and head on the table. "Calm down, Ben. Look on the bright side, you managed to get some wicked footage!" Gwen displays said footage from earlier which did cheer Ben up a bit, until he still frowns. "Yeah... But it also shows the bad guy getting away, just before I could nab them."
"Okay! But how about a Follow-up Video? We find the robbers, stop them, then make a new video and explain that they slipped us temporarily, but we managed to catch them!" The girl suggests. "Uh... What's with this 'we' when I do all the hero work?" Ben frowns as Gwen explains with a frown. "I happen to be the brains behind your videos, doofus!" "Hello?! I'm the guy who does all the hero work! You just stand on the sidelines like a camera girl!" Gwen growls out in response as Max speaks out from his paper. "If I might add to this conversation?" "NO!"
"Overruled. You both forgotten about that 'Bug Gang' you let escape. I'm concerned that you 2 care more about being famous than stopping and capturing the bad guys who had stolen the money from the poor people who had deposited their savings into it. Remember, being a hero isn't about doing the right thing to make people love you. Being a hero is about doing the right thing because it's the right thing to do. You need to keep your egos in check, as well. An over-inflated ego can make you lose sight of what's important. You need to stay focused on doing the right thing, not hogging the spotlight, understand?" Max said his great wisdom, making the grandkids look down in thought.
Ben responded. "Okay, Grandpa. We will catch the Bug Gang and get the bank's money back!" " There you go, Ben!" "While also making the most awesome video to showcase my heroism in action! Come on, Gwen!" Both kids rushed out as Max sighed. "Well, at least they're trying to do the right thing." He went back to his paper.
"Ahahahah… Marvelous, simply marvelous!" From an underground lair, the Bug Gang was standing in front of a huge pile of gold and jewels that had a red carpet rolled down the middle. Connected to the carpet is a fancy gold and red throne that has a fancy roof over it with red valent curtains. The person on the throne, however, is not human, despite her humanoid appearance.
The person is a humanoid, female bumblebee. She is yellow with black stripes. She has two pale-colored arms and wears white gloves. She only has two black legs with 2 toes. The bottom of her torso is black. She has two light blue colored wings. She has two black antennas and has short brown hair. She looks like she has a part of a white furry coat on her neck. Her teeth are sharp and white. She has orange eyes and red lips. She also has a black stinger.
"Uhh… Queen Bee?" "What?!" The bug diva yells out as she pounds her fist on her armrest, annoyed at her minions, that is looking at her with pleading expressions. "I know we failed because that Heatblast fella showed up and ruined the heist. But umm... The boys and I were thinking, before we did say heist, about when we get our cut?" The middle robber questions his boss about their pay.
The leader stood silent for a few seconds as she processed what her henchman said and responded with a smile. "Of course, darlings. Considering what you have been through, recently." She then tosses down a few coins, making her minions look in sadness at the cheap pay.
"Now get out of my sight and start planning our next Heist." The Bee orders as she places a crown and admires herself in a hand mirror. "Blah, blah. 'Start planning our next heist.' Humpf." The Middle guy mumbles in anger as he holds the few coins on the ground while his partners look in worriment. "What was that?" She glances over as she raises her left hand, getting ready to snap the fingers as the henchmen have terrified expressions as if they had seen ghosts. "Nothing!" He quickly responded to his boss in fear as all 3 walked away.
"Okay! Let's try this again! And hopefully, get better footage to show my awesomeness to the world!" Ben exclaims as he carries 4 small black and green cubes as he and his cousin walk down an alleyway, after making sure no one notices. "And we're also going to remember to get the people's money back from those creeps, right? Like Grandpa said?" "Of course! I just want to get some cool footage of me kicking their thieving butts, but we will make sure to bring everyone's money back to the bank. I swear." Ben assures his female cousin as he squeezes the cubes. The said cubes suddenly began shaking before growing as they started slowly morphing into four small green/back drones as they hovered in mid-air.
"Seriously, Ben, you had outdone yourselves as Grey Matter with these drones," Gwen comments with an impressed look at her cousin's inventions that he made as his smartest form. "Thanks, I guess the little guy isn't as useless as I first thought he would be, but he can't take all the credit. I also used Upgrade on these as well. I kind of got the idea from TV and figured I could use it. It was about a Spy cartoon with teenage girls, or whatever. Now! With the cameras out, we can now begin looking for the thieves."
Gwen got a small frown as she spoke out. "Easier said than done, Ben. Ohio is big! They can be anywhere in this town, or the next town over." "Yeah..." Ben frowns as he crosses his arms in thought while looking down. "Too bad I don't have some sort of alien to track them down. Like a dog or something. That would come in handy, right now!" Just as Gwen begins to think, an idea pops into her head as she pulls out her phone and taps on it.
"Maybe there is a way! Remember that we had a couple of your drones inside of the bank, right?" "Yeah, why?" Gwen pressed a few things on her phone as it showed the footage of the fight from earlier, but Ben was surprised to see that the footage seemed to catch what happened outside of the bank as Gwen turned her head to smirk at her cousin smugly.
"Well, I remembered that we had the rest of the drones flying outside of the bank in case we wanted to get some cool aerial shots, and if the drones were flying around outside recording the whole fight, then that means-" She trailed off expectantly, wanting for Ben to figure out what she was thinking and finish her sentence as the kid stared at her confusedly as his brain began using itself... Before gasping as his eyes widen in realization. "Then that means the drones must've caught a video footage of the thieves getting away!"
"RIGHT! Now, let's see where our bad guys had run off to." Gwen says as she rewinds the footage of their fight from earlier before pressing play the kids saw the smoke cloud from before as the henchmen were running away, down into the street, near a manhole cover as the claw Henchman grabbed it and opened it as the other 2 went down into the sewers before the last minion after them puts back into its original place.
"That's it! They all retreated into sewers! That must be where their secret lair is!" "Sweet! Now all we must do is go down the manhole on the footage, stop the thieves, and show my awesome victory to the world!" "And get the money back as well, dweeb? Remember?" Gwen asks out as she wants her cousin to stay on task. "No problem! Besides, I have 10 aliens and there are only 3 of them! I got them way outnumbered! How hard can they be?" Ben smugly said, not knowing how wrong he was on the numbers.
"I want those diamonds ordered by karat." Queen Bee orders her minions, which includes more guys equipped with fly wing-based backpacks, and the original 3 as they are organizing the stolen jewels. "And if they're off by a tenth of a milligram, I will have my pets dip you in honey and drop you in a bear cave!" Just then, the spider guy picked up a fancy-looking necklace. He looks around to see no one noticing him. He then thought it would be nice to keep the jewel to himself to be rich and hopeful wouldn't be noticed by his boss. But just as he was about to pocket it…
"Oh, darling! What did you have there?" "Umm… A necklace? I was going to clean it off and give it to you later?" He nervously answers his boss, who is right behind him. "Very well... But know that it belongs to me! Understand?!" RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE Queen Bee looks up to the roof of the cave at the source of the sound as she spoke out. "What the?"
CRASH Just then, Cannonbolt bursts in, landing and uncurling himself as he poses heroically. "Man, you 3 are starting to bug me! Hey, Gwen! Did you get that?!" He looks up this his cousin, who is controlling the drones as they hover in and spread through the cave. The girl gets a surprised look and points. "Uhh… Cannonbolt? You might need to rethink that line." Cannonbolt turns to the sounds of guns being prepped and widens his eyes at the sight of the 3 original robbers and more bug theme members as well. "Ohh…. I did not see that coming. And I think we're going to 'bee' in trouble." "Boo..." Gwen spoke with an unamused tone and looked as Cannonbolt shrugged.
"Great! Another one of those alien heroes showed up! What have you done to my lair?!" Queen Bee yells out as she shoves the spider guy aside. "Seesh… You guys like the bug outfits, don't you?" "Umm… Ben? I don't think she is wearing a bug outfit." Gwen said as she stood by her alien cousin's side after safely coming down the hole as she studied the mutant bee lady.
"Ohh… I see. Hey, about your boss? Let me guess: Former scientist, experimenting on bees, freak accident, mutation, turning towards crime for revenge? Am I close or…" Cannonbolt wonders out loud about the bee mutant as the spider guy replies. "Actually, despite the revenge thing, you were pretty spot on about Queen Bee!"
"Thanks! Anyway, Queen Bee, I'm pretty sure that you and your faithful henchmen heard all the 'buzz' about me, so why don't you 'bee-have' yourselves and turn yourselves in, or else, we're going to make you 'bee-gone'!" Cannonbolt quips out with a grin, but Queen Bee and her henchmen groan loudly at each pun as a confused Gwen turns over to the alien. "What's with all of the lame bee puns, Mega-dweeb?"
"To add a little flair for the cameras!" Cannonbolt whispers while sneakily pointing at the drones as Queen Bee and her henchmen are completely oblivious to the drones recording their conversation. "Besides, my bee puns aren't lame! They're awesome!" Cannonbolt says defensively as Gwen rolls her eyes and shakes her head. "ENOUGH OF THIS NONSENSE AND STUPID PUNS! You broke my ceiling! Now you ruined my lighting scheme! Henchmen! Attack!"
"Gwen, get to safety, but keep rolling! Things are about to get awesome!" Gwen ran to a hiding spot behind some barrels while managing the drones as Cannonbolt rolled up and knocked back a group of charging thugs, sending them flying past Queen Bee as she barked more orders at them. "Get up! What are you doing?!" The thugs groan in response as they stand up. "Oh, boo hoo. I don't care! Get that… That… Rollerguy!" The diva yells out, making the Bug Gang charge.
Cannonbolt rolls over more guys and then uncurls in front of one, grabbing and tossing him at 2 flying guys behind him. "You guys are 'bee-on' terrible." Just then, a bunch of thugs jumped on him, dogpiling him. "Cannonbolt, there's too many of them. Get serious!" Gwen cries out. Just then, a lone member snuck up and grabs Gwen. But using her karate skills, she grabs, and judo flips the guy, stomping on his chest for good measure. "Don't mess with this girl, punk!" Suddenly, a flying member swoops down and tries to grab her but is met with a flying kick to the face.
"I am serious! And by the way, are you sure that's a smart move, guys?" Cannonbolt then spun in place, knocking all the gang members off him and sending them flying. He then charges up and launches himself at a wall, making him bounce around as he keeps smashing into Bug Gang, over and over. He then body slams onto a group as the shockwaves send them flying. Cannonbolt then blocks the one with drills with his forearm plates as he grabs him and curls up, spinning in place as muffled screams are heard. Cannonbolt then released the guy and sent him crashing into 4 more henchmen.
Queen Bee felt her anger grow as more of her henchmen were defeated, they started to scream and run away. "What are you doing?! Get back and fight! Ugh! Humans! Worthless as always! Bees! To me!" She snaps her fingers as out of the tunnels comes a large swarm of bees they hover above while buzzing. "Bees! Destroy him!" Queen Bee commands as the swarm charges at Cannonbolt. "Cannonbolt! Look out!" Gwen cries out. "Whoa!" Cannonbolt quickly curls himself up as the stingers bounce off the shell. "Thanks for the heads up! Gwen?" Cannonbolt uncurls himself, only to find Gwen is gone. "Where did you go?"
"Looking for someone?" He glances over to find Gwen, being held by the swarm as she struggles near Queen Bee. "Gwen!" Cannonbolt cries out in dismay at the sight of his cousin as a hostage, unaware of the 3 original robbers surrounding him from behind him, ready to attack. "You made a mistake, destroying the roof of my lovely lair and trying to stop my operation. Now to... Excuse me?" Queen Been then turns towards the guard on her left, one of the 5 remaining human henchmen. "Could you… MOVE! You're in my light! I am trying to do a cool bad-guy moment, and you are ruining it!"
"Man! What a drama queen." Cannonbolt widened his eyes once again, only in realization at Queen Bee's tone. "An over-inflated ego can make you lose sight of what's important. You need to stay focused on doing the right thing, not hogging the spotlight, understand?" "Thanks, Grandpa. It's perfect!" Cannonbolt called out, getting the attention of Gwen and Queen Bee. "Our super-undercover-location hunt was a success! We can make our new movie! And more importantly, we found our new star! Isn't that right, Director?" Cannonbolt winks at his cousin, making her realize Cannonbolt's coy smile.
"He's right! You are made for the big screen!" Gwen exclaims at Queen Bee, getting her interest. "Oh, well… I did spend some time at a local community theater when I was young, before becoming a scientist and then turning towards a life of crime." "Oh yeah, I can tell." Cannonbolt commits. "Great! Uh… Ms. Bee? The minions?" "Oh, of course, darling." Queen Bee then snaps her fingers, making the bees release the young girl.
She got out her phone and then started recording the diva as she made the drones hover next to her as the Diva started posing for the video cameras. "You have that special something!" "Ohh… stop. But don't stop." As Gwen keeps Queen Bee busy, Cannonbolt decides to do his part. "Psst… You guys got an operation, really going on! Too bad you're not appreciated at all." Cannonbolt mumbles to the 3 robbers near him, making them respond. "What do you mean?" "Yeah, we get appreciated." "Oh, sure..." Cannonbolt responded sarcastically. "When you're not getting yelled at by a diva! You're the ones who work their buggy limbs off and do all the back-breaking labor! And what's she doing?" Cannonbolt turns towards them while waving an arm towards the Queen.
The Queen is lodging on the pile of loot and posing at Gwen's camera, laughing to herself. The bug gang lowers their limbs in realization as Cannonbolt's words hit them like a truck. "Getting her close up." The short guy said in shock. "And keeping all the loot!" The medium guy replies in anger. "And had she ever said 'please', or 'thank you, or 'good job'?" "No! She hasn't!" "And to be honest, I think she is going to replace you with that swarm above. She seems to like them better." Cannonbolt adds out.
"She does, does she?!" "You know what, fellas? I think we should write a strongly worded letter of disapproval!" The claw guy exclaims to the others, just as Cannonbolt gave his option. "Or you could revolt and take the money for yourselves to spite her. That seems like the quicker option."
The Bug Gang cheers and starts stuffing all the loot into sacks for them to carry. "You know, you should consider a life of crime." The claw guy said as his buddies went to the other piles. "No thanks! I just gave my opinion. Besides, I prefer being a hero than a villain." "Ehh… Fair enough." The claw guy shrugs and then grabs his sack and starts climbing up the hole as Cannonbolt waves. He then turns towards the bees. "Now for the real bugs." He grinned as he spun and smashed right into the swarm, flatting them like pancakes as he kept bouncing around the lair to hit any strays.
The claw guy got to the top, only to see a bunch of cops and police vehicles around the hole. His fellow members were all arrested, and robotics disabled as well. "Aww, nuts!" He cried out in dismay as the cops cuffed him and disabled his spider legs.
Gwen smirks at her phone that is showing a police tracker, glad she and her cousin made the call, long before busting into Queen Bee's operation. "These look great! Tell me, do you have an agent?" "Believe me, I've been looking." "I know someone good! Here, take some headshots." Gwen said as she gave Queen Bee her phone, who then started to take all sorts of selfies.
Just then, Cannonbolt appears behind her, making the diva turn and yelp in surprise. She looks to see all her minions and most of her loot gone. as well as her bee army has been splattered as well, as evidenced by the green goo on Cannonbolt's shell. She turns back to Cannonbolt, who narrows his eyes into near-silts and sighs in defeat. "Do you think they have a drama club in prison?" Queen Bee gave the phone back to Cannonbolt, who put it down on a nearby barrel. "Why don't you ask the cops when you see them?" Cannonbolt then grabs Queen Bee and hurls her up the hole, right into the Police's waiting arms as she slouches in defeat.
Cannonbolt then turns to drones. "And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how Cannonbolt saves the day! Until next time!" The alien waves as Gwen gets to work, shutting off the recording as the drones immediately edit the whole footage together to make it more coherent and leave out some of the unnecessary stuff that isn't important for the video before uploading it onto the internet. "Now, Cannonbolt, get us out!" "You got it, hang on!" Cannonbolt grabs his cousin and starts rolling and springs up through the hole.
Back with Max, he had just finished his newspaper before seeing a flash of green light emitting from the outside of the RV as the door was opened, and a smiling Ben and Gwen walked into the large vehicle as they quickly went over to Gwen's tablet. "Oh, hey, kids! How did the mission go? Did you manage to locate those thieves and bring them to jail?"
"We sure did, Grandpa! We had managed to round up all the thieves and even their boss!" Ben exclaimed while sitting down on the couch as the kids sat down next to him. Gwen quickly turned on her tablet as she opened up her YouTube app and signed in with their secret YouTube account, which both Grey Matter and Upgrade had used their powers to create as the brainy and tech-savvy aliens had created the account to be secured and private, to the point that it's nearly impossible for anyone to hack into it or use it to track down their location.
So, the kids decided to use their secure account as their official superhero secret YouTube account now expertly named, 'TheUltimateOmniverseChannel', and their channel currently has about 5,000 subscribers so far. Ben spoke as they clicked the fight with Queen Bee. "Check out this new footage, Grandpa." The group began watching the video as they chuckled at certain parts, complimented at points of the fight, and winced at a few unfortunate/embarrassing moments As the video was finished the Tennysons smiled at themselves, even more when they checked the comments and got positive feedback.
"Wow! Check out all these fans!" "Well, I'm glad that people like you, sport. But try to remember to not let it go to your head like it did to Queen Bee. As for you recording your battles, I'm okay with it if you don't overdo it, and remember what's important, like saving people's lives and protecting them from all kinds of threats. That should always be your number one priority, no matter what. Don't forget that." Grandpa Max says sternly as both kids listen to what the old man says and nod. "Don't worry, Grandpa, we won't our YouTube career get into our heads." "Yeah, in fact, I'm not even going to record my fights anymore," Ben added as Grandpa Max stared at the boy in surprise. "Really?"
Gwen nods as she answers. "Yeah, the only reason we recorded today's battle is because we wanted to show everyone that the alien heroes are good guys. But after today, it's safe to say that we're done with recording the fights." "Yep, we're only going to make random videos of me, mostly goofing off with my aliens, answering questions from my fans, etc." Max stared at the young children for a few seconds before smiling proudly as he placed his hands on his hips.
"Well, I'm happy to see that you kids, had learned your lesson today. Anyway, now that you 2 have taken down Queen Bee, why don't we go out to eat? Who wants to eat at Burger Shack?" "I do!" The kids shouted while raising their hands high into the air, eager to eat some chili fries or burgers as Max walked up to the Driver's Seat and the kids sat down as Grandpa Max turned on his RV, and it droves off as the large vehicle head straight towards the nearest Burger Shack.