Ben 10 Ultimate Hero EP 12: Desert Dilemma
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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 into 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 towards 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.
The Rust Bucket was driving down the blistering, hot desert road. "Saddle up, kids! Big day ahead of us! We got a lot of roping and riding, ahead of us. YEE-HAWW!" Max exclaims, excited as he and his family head to their next stop: An old-style, wild-west town. "Oh, Man! I'm so excited! Hey, Gwen! What are you going to do when we get to the Ranch?" "Ben, I'm trying to read," Gwen responds as Ben dials in an alien. "I'm thinking of getting Water Hazard out for some target practice!" FLASH
"Pew! Pew! Pew!" Water Hazard exclaims as he flings 3 water stars at 3 cups at the back of the RV and then runs back to his seat. "Hey! Did you guys see that?!" "No! But I heard it." Gwen snaps back as the mollusk alien chuckles. "That was awesome. Hey, Gwen. Gwen. Gwen. Gwen. Gwen." Water Hazard kept pushing the front seat, annoying his cousin as her left eye twitched. "GRRR…. I SAID, I WAS READING, DOOFUS!" She yells at Water Hazard, who stares in shock. BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP FLASH "I was just asking what you were reading." Ben whispers.
"Now, now, you 2! It just sounds like you have a case of cabin fever. Don't worry! All you need is a little fresh air. Besides, we're meeting up with an old buddy of mine as well." Max said as they parked at their stop. "WOO-HOO!" Ben exclaims as he hops out of his chair and runs to the door the others follow as the boy shouts out. "Cowboy Showdowns! Sweet hats! The Wild West is right outside!"
Ben rushed out of the door, hoping to get in on the cowboy action. Only when he ran for a few steps did he start to sweat, coming to a stop as he looked up at the sun in the blistering heat. "Why…. Why is it…. so…. Hot?" Gwen tries drinking from a water bottle, only for it to evaporate before it touches her lips. "Run…" Ben said as both kids ran back to the camper Max chuckled. "If a real cowboy saw you 2, you'll be laughed out of town." Ben glares at his grandfather as he shuts the door. Max looks at his watch, only for the temperature to read 'extremely hot'!
"I guess it is a bit toasty." Max takes off his cap and fans himself with it. Just then, another car parks nearby as the driver speaks out. "Max? Is that you old friend?" "Over here!" Max calls out with a smile.
"Aaaahhhhhhhhh…. Do you think Grandpa is okay?" Gwen questions as both cousins sit near the air vent, blowing cool air at them. "Hey, kids!" Both look up to see their grandfather walk in. "I managed to meet up with my old friend and we're going on a great hike up on 'Tombstone Hill', that's 10 miles from here." Both kids look at each other and silently beg their senior to not take them along, not wanting to go back out into the sun. "And the best part about is… You guys can stay here!" "What?" "Really!?" Both cousins grin.
"Ben, Gwen: Meet Wes Green." Max introduces an elder, fit, Native American man, with white and grey hair, tied back in a ponytail and is wearing a brown jacket over a collar shirt, blue pants, and hiking boots. "Hello there." "Hi." "Hey there." The kids greeted back. "Wes also has 2 kids with him that don't want to go as well, so we both decided that you 4 can hang out together!" Max explained as the 2 got looks of extreme annoyance. "BABY-SITTING?!" "Just a sec, Gramps!" Max chuckles as he explains. "Now, don't worry! You don't have to do any babysitting. Her granddaughter got that job." Wes then calls out of the doorway. "Kai, Simon! Come on in!"
A boy who is 10 years old, wears a backpack along with an orange and yellow shirt that has a white cog and a basketball on the chest. He has the same skin color as his grandfather and has brown hair that resembles an afro and black eyes. He lastly has grey shorts and red tennis shoes, steps in. He walks up to Ben with a smile. "Hi!" But as Ben was not sure how to respond, he glanced up, only to freeze up what he saw!
A 10-year-old, Native American girl walked in. It seemed like the world moved in slow motion as the girl flipped her hair. She has brown eyes and straight black hair that goes to mid-back with 2 bangs that frame her face and a cyan headband on top. She is wearing a red shirt over a while long-sleeved one and grey shots that go her thighs and has a brown belt with a Navajo-style buckle. She lastly wears grey with dull white soil and dull yellow laces and patches on her tounges hiking shoes and white socks.
"These are my grandchildren: Simon and Kai." "Hello, there." Kai greets as Gwen responds. "Hi. I'm Gwen and this is my cousin, Ben. Ben? Ben." Gwen noticed her cousin just froze with a goofy look as she elbowed him, making him snap out of it as he shook his head. "Right! Nice to eat me. I mean! Meet you! Yes! Meet you! Hehehe..." Ben sweats as he smiles while darting his eyes all over. "You guys are going to be okay while we're gone?" "We'll be fine, Grandpa!" Gwen answers as the elders walk out of the RV. "Okay, Kai? Keep an eye on your cousin and make sure he doesn't get into any trouble, okay?" "Yes, Grandpa." Kai responds to Wes as he leaves.
Kai goes to the table and starts playing on her phone. Gwen shrugs and picks up her book, putting in headphones as she listens to music from her phone as she sits beside her. "Cool glove! I have this very special belt." Simon spoke as Ben just looked at him as the kid unbuckled and took off a hi-tech-looking belt sat on the table opened his backpack and took some tools out. "What are you doing?" "Doing some work on it. I'm pretty good at technology. It's just something I have known ever since I was 6. Do you have any photon cables on you? Mine are on their last legs."
"Uuhhh…." Ben ducks under the table as Simon blabs tech stuff. He then pops next to his cousin and taps her shoulder. "Hey, can we talk in private?" He drags Gwen to the bathroom and shuts the door, locking it as the girl asks. "What is it, Ben?" "Can you do me a favor while I go out to get away from Simon, can you tell Kai cool stuff about me? Like, how lucky you are to have me as a cousin?" "Why?" Gwen asks with a raised brow as Ben waves it off and he looks away. "No reason! Just a favor as cousins, that's all!" But Gwen is convinced as her girl's instincts are telling her something is off.
"Since when are you interested in what... Girls think of you... That's it! You like her!" Gwen cries out with a grin as she figures it out. Ben opens his eyes in shock! "Wait! What?!" "That's it! You like her, like her!" "No, I don't!" Ben blushed as he denied it and Gwen got a teasing look. "Ben's got a crush~! Ben's got a crush~!" "No, I don't!" "I should have figured it out from that line you said! 'Nice to eat me?' Who would say something like that?!" Ben facepalmed at being reminded of his slip-up. "Look... Can you please do this for me? Please?" "So, you want me to lie to a girl we had just met about you?" Ben ponders at what his cousin said. "Well... When you put it that way: Yep!"
The boy grins as he leaves the bathroom and exits the RV as Gwen has a deadpan look. The boy went down the steps as the door shut behind him, looking up at the sun as he felt the heat while shielding his eyes. "Man, it's so hot! Guess I can go for some ice cream while I'm out here."
"I'm more of a soda guy, myself!" Simon replays as he straps his pack and belt on and walks past him as Ben blinks in shock. "Simon?! What are you doing here?!" "Oh! Kai wants me to get some ice cream for us. But to be honest, She wants me to get away from her. I can tell." Simon whispers the last part to Ben with a frown as the other 10-year-old wipes some sweat off his forehead. "Maybe if I turn into Big Chill and use his ice breath, I can cool things down!" He then reached the Moth Alien's icon, raising his hand when… "Hey, what's that guy?" Simon said as he stuck his head over the core. Ben merely pushes his head off and slaps down. FLASH
"Who wants some cold air?" Big Chill looked up and breathed out a gust of ice, making it snow around the 2 boys. "WOAH! You're those alien heroes?! Awesome!" Simon exclaims in awe as he feels the cool snow chills him. "That is so cool! You're like a walking ice shooter!" "FLYING ice shooter, to be exact!" BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP FLASH "Darn it! Well, on the bright side, we're both cooled down." Ben said as they relaxed in the snow. Only for it to melt into water by the heat as Ben frowns out. "Come on, let's go."
The 2 kids got their ice creams as they headed back, enjoying their treats. "Well... at least the Ice Cream is doing the trick." "Yeah... It's not Root Beer, but Chocolate is pretty good." Simon smiles as he licks his cone. As the 2 kids kept walking, they spotted a man driving by them with a jeep. He has a sack with him, only for him to suddenly panic as he is about to drive over a puddle of water, swerving around it as he sighs out. This action didn't go unnoticed. "Weird. Since when are cowboys scared of water?" Ben ponders out. "Don't know. Maybe he already had tons of it and doesn't want any more?" Simon shrugs out. But Ben had a funny feeling about that man and went off while dialing his watch as Simon decided to follow him.
The man parks the jeep by a large rock on the outskirts of town, unloading the bag as he is unaware of an Upgrade-enhanced jeep parked away from him. "Hmm... Wonder what Mister Friendly is up to? Simon, stay here!" The other kid pouts as Upgrade separates and gets closer. As he watches the man, he sees a trap door underneath the rock and he pushes it out of the way. "This town is getting weirder and weirder." Upgrade mumbles out.
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP FLASH Ben glances at himself in dread. "Not good!" As if things can't get worse, the man's face oozes to the back of his head, much to the kids' shock, and roars out as Ben screams in fright, being grabbed and hoisted up as the boy struggles. "HEY!" They both glanced back at a glaring Simon, who was out of the jeep and standing in front of the 2. "Simon! Don't!" Ben cries out.
"Don't worry, Ben! Simon Sprocket said: Leave my friend alone!" He yells out as he twists his belt buckle, making it glow as yellow lines form all over it. Then, to Ben's amazement, the belt starts transforming and expanding all over Simon, engulfing him metal as he gets bigger until he is double his height. Simon's face is covered up and his eyes glow yellow.
Simon is now in a hi-tech very advanced robot armor suit that is colored orange and yellow with bits of red that has an Iron-Man look with a yellow glowing circle on his chest with a golden cog symbol around it. He has shoulder pads and yellow repulsor blasters in his palms. His head is covered in an iron mask and helmet that looks like a human's face with wide glowing yellow eyes and also has pointed fins coming out of his eyes and curls upward.
Simon cries out as he aims his right palm while charging it up. "Let him go!" He cries out as his voice has a robotic tone to it, much like Upgrade, and fires a yellow repulsor blast, hitting the man away as he lets go of Ben. The boy groans as he recovers quickly as Simon, now the height of a teenager, helps him up. "You, okay?" "Yeah! But dude! That is so intense! You can turn into a robot?!" "My belt actually makes and expands into this nano-powered, super combat suit and-" Both boys noticed the man had recovered, only to be surprised to see him crack his body into place as it screeches out. "I'll explain later! Get on my back!" "Don't need to tell me twice!" Ben exclaims as he leaps on Simon starts running as fast as he can while the slime man chases after them.
Ben looks back with fear on his face as the mutant is gaining on them. "Uhh… I swear we didn't see your face popped onto the back of your head, HONEST! Geeze… What kind of freaky drinks do they sell in town?!" Ben questions as Simon glances back to see the man catching up, running backward as he fires twin beams that push the mutant back. "Nice shot! Now, do you think you can fly us out? I mean, this suit is advanced enough to fly, right?" "Well, yeah... But-"
But before Simon can explain, the man stretches his arms to catch the 2, making Simon quickly jump up high and activate thrusters on his feet and hands, rocketing away, only to go out of control as Ben struggles to hang on. "WHOA! WHOA! HEY! I THOUGHT YOU SAID THAT YOU CAN FLY?!" "I CAN! IT'S JUST THAT I'M BAD AT IT!" "LOOK OUT!" Ben cries out in terror as they are sent crashing into the ground with Simon protecting Ben from the impact.
"Ohhh..." Ben groans out as the 2 kids struggle to get up, but just then, they hear a sound and turn around, only to gasp to see the man reaching out to them. The boys try to run, only for their legs to get entangled by the arms, and get dragged towards the man. Ben tries dialing the watch but it still glows red. "COME ON! Four Arms, XLR8, Diamondhead!"
But just then, some water starts pouring up from above, due to Simon hitting an underground spring when he crashed. The man noticed as he ran, screeching. Ben stares in shock as he stands up and looks at the water and then back at Simon as he flips up the mask, showing the boy's face. "Okay… that was weird," Simon mumbles as Ben nods in response.
"You know, the heat's not so bad when you get used to it..." Max said as he and Wes hiked along a mounting ledge trail. "Really? I hope you're right, Max." Wes responds as they keep going before stopping for a bit, getting canteens of water out to rehydrate. "I don't know about you, but I needed some time from my little grandchildren. I love them, especially since Kai is thinking about joining in some of my expeditions, soon. But Simon can be a real handful, from time to time with his tech and gadgets." "Oh, I hear you! Ben can be a handful too!" Max said, understanding the stress of having a crazy grandson, especially one that has an alien device in his hand. But as both elders rested up, they were unaware of a shadow creeping up at them and suddenly lunging at them.
Gwen and Kai were still doing their own thing, enjoying some quiet when Ben and Simon got in and slammed the door behind them, panting like crazy. "What's with you 2?" The Natiiv-American girl asks as Gwen questions. "Ben? Why does it look like you ran a marathon?" "Kai! You have got to help us! This cowboy town is freaky and weird!" "What Simon says is that the locals are not locals! We saw this guy drive by while we were getting ice cream, only it was like he's got a fear of water or something. And when we followed him out to this rock in the middle of nowhere, he was some sort of slime mutant with long sticky limbs and this face that oozed to the back of his skull!" Ben explains as Gwen speaks out. "Guys... It was just disillusion from the heat. This town looks too normal to be weird." "Besides, Simon. Grandpa told you to stay out of trouble." Kai points out.
Annoyed at his cousin just brushing off his beliefs, Simon stomps out as Ben follows as well. "Wait! Simon. Where are you going?" Gwen groans as she rolls her eyes as she stands up. "Come on! We better make sure they don't break anything." "Fine..." Kai sighs out.
The kids sneakily went through town as the teen and girl walked normally behind them. "Why are you 2 acting like you're in a spy movie?" "SUUH!" Ben shushed his cousin as they quickly pressed against a wall they peeked out to see 2 people walk by without noticing. "We need to get to that large rock on the outskirts of town. Come on!" Simon said as they ran off. The girls walked behind them after sharing glances at each other.
As they were almost out of town, they walked by some people as they looked at them. But out of the blue, the people hisses out with sharp fangs as they chucked rocks and Ben cries out. "Duck!" They did as Gwen yells out. "Run!" The 4 ran away as fast as they could! "I told you these guys were freaky and there's the proof! I was right!" Simon states as they keep running and ducking under rocks. "Not a good time, Simon! But I'm willing to admit you're right" Kai cries out as they quickly hide behind a building.
"Kids?" They perked up at the sound of Max as he and Wes showed up. "What's wrong?" "Grandpa! Thank goodness we found you. They're everywhere!" Ben exclaims. "We know." Both elders grin out their fangs as they stretch out their arms. "Come here and give your grandfather a hug." They both screeched out as they made a ran for it. "They're both one of them now!" Kai screams as the kids run into the desert while being chased. "Up ahead!" Simon points at the large rock from before.
But just as they reached it, Simon armors up, much to Gwen's surprise, The boy tried to move the rock but barely could move as the fakes were slowly approaching. But Ben smirks as he slaps down on the gauntlet.
Ben's skin became all red as spikes and his thick armor popped out of his forearms and his muscles began getting bigger and bigger. His height shot up greatly as his eyes split into 4 while his hair vanished. 2 more arms popped out from under his original pair as he cried out, pumping his arms.
Four Arms glares as he takes hold of the rock and chucks it at the fakes, crushing them and Kai is surprised. "Whoa..." Gwen chuckles out. 'Oops... Guess I forgot to mention that about Ben, huh?" They all see a trap door. "A secret trap door." Simon points out. "Think that's where our grandfather and your grandpa are?" Kai asked Gwen as Simon blasted it open. "Only one way to find out." The armored kid responds. "Hold on, everyone!" Four Arms grab ahold of them and leap down, crashing to the ground with a thud. "Wow! What a deep hole." Simon comments, only to spot the freaks, crawling down like spiders. "Floor it, Ben!" "No need to tell me twice!" Four Arms cries out to his cousin as he runs down the tunnel.
He then came to a sudden stop at multiple tunnels. "Great! Now where do we go?" The alien complains. "Looks like these tunnels run all over the desert!" Kai observes as Four Arms releases them. But just then, Simon's HUD in his helmet went off as he glanced back to see the fake elders, lashing their arms at the teens. "Behind us!" Simon yells as a red hand grabs them and slams the fake Max into some rocks.
Simon then fires rocket fists at the fake Wes and knocks him away as the alien smiles. "You got rocket fists, too? Sweet!" Simon and Four Arms charge as Simon dodges out of the way from 'Wes's' tendrils. He grabs the 2 and judo throws them away as the imposter hisses out and lunges, only to meet face first with a repulsor blast. "That was for taking my grandpa!"
Four Arms wrestle with the fake Max, surprised to see he's almost as strong as him. "Whoa! What kind of vitamins do you take?" The fake Max kickflips to knock Four Arms away as he stumbles back. He then blocks punches from the imposter, counters with an uppercut, and blasts him with a sonic clap. The fake Max then lashed out his arm, only to be grabbed and pulled in as Four Arms smacks him into Wes, making Four Arms charge and deliver 4 uppercuts at the same time. As the 2 were sent flying. Simon ran to Four Arms as the alien noticed and got the idea. "I set you up, Simon! Now hit the game point!" Four Arms cups his hands and boosts the armored 5th grader up high. Just as his fists are energized and smacks the 2 fakes into a wall, burring them 2 in rocks.
"WOW! Now that was so cool! Ben! Did you see that amazing combo?! That was so amazing!" Simon jumps and down in excitement as Four Arms smirks with crossed arms. "I know! We're so awesome!" "Boys..." Gwen frowns as Kai states. "Not to interrupt your little hero showboat moment, but if those 2 were fakes, then where's our real grandpa or Max Tennyson?" The tan girl asks as they look around the tunnels, unsure which direction to go in.
Just then, Simon's computer went off as he scanned the tunnels. "Hang on... Down there!" He rushed off as the others followed. "Simon! Hold on!" Gwen cries out as they keep running, only to come up to a dead end as Simon opens 2 missile pods from his shoulders and blasts the wall down, landing in another tunnel as the others follow with Four Arms punching and smashing away any remaining rocks in the way as he timed out.
"Sheese... You wreck stuff just as badly as Ben does." "Hey!" The 10-year-old frowns out at Gwen as Simon raises his faceplate. "Simon, why did you run off like that?" RKai asks his little brother. "It was my suit. It detected a strange signature, coming from this tunnel. Maybe this is where those weird things came from?" The armored kid explains as he walks down the tunnel with the others following.
They walk for a bit, only to stop as they look over a ledge along with the others. They all stare at a large, alien ship with dozens of green pods around it. They all slide down as they walk towards the ship, noticing all the pods have people in them as they are sleeping. "It's like everyone in town is podded up!" Gwen exclaims as she looks around. "As for why, I get the feeling we're going to find out soon..." Kai comments as they keep walking. Simon scans them with his suit as he states. "They are all not harmed. It looks like they are all sleeping. I wonder why those slime freaks want to kidnap a whole town?"
Just then, Ben notices a green pod that holds Max. And next to him is Wes in another pod. "Grandpa!" Ben tears open the pod as Simon does the same with his pod as both elders slowly wake up. "What happened?" Wes moans as Max mumbles. "We were out hiking the hill when…. I don't remember what happened next." Ben walks towards another pod when…
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." They all turned to see the fakes coming up to them. "Well, you're not me!" "Not yet I'm not!" The fake cowboy responds to Ben as his skin turns light green and bubbly. The group of 6 gasped in shock as they all turned into humanoid blobs that were mostly green in color with dirty pink-colored organs. They have multiple eyes, and they have no definite appearance, having extra arms, fin-like protrusions, or misshapen body parts.
"Okay, that is creepy and disgusting." "Gee, you think?!" Ben sarcastically responds to his cousin. "You can fill us in, later!" Max cries out as they all back away. Just as Kai places his hand on the ship, a part of it glows and opens up, making them turn to see more pods in the ship. "Look back here!" He called out as they went to help the people. "Their ship!" Max states out. "And the rest of the townsfolk." Wes points out.
"They found it! We can't let them out!" One of the aliens cries out as the ship glows. "Get the pods on board! They have been marinating long enough!" Another one cries as the humans stare in shock. "Marinating?!" "You mean, they want to eat them?!" Wes adds to Max's statement. Ben frowns as he notices his glove is recharged, pushing the button to raise the core as he dials past XLR8 and Grey Matter to Heatblast as he frowns at the aliens. "You guys burn me up!" FLASH
Hot lava emerges from the device and spreads all over the boy as rocks start forming while the magma forms a solid humanoid form. Ben's head became rocky as fire burst all over, making him throw his fists out in a power pose as he was ready to roast!
The aliens back away as Heatblast glares out. "And now, I'm going to return the favor!" He blasts them with a large flamethrower on the slime aliens. But just as he stops, he is surprised to see them form and merge into a larger being. "Whatever you are, you just made a terrible mistake! We Limaxs live for the heat! Why do you think we came to the desert in the Summer?" Heatblast tried punching him, but it didn't work on its liquid body.
Just then, he was grabbed and slammed all over, only for pulse blasts to get it to stop as it glared at Simon in his armor. "Leave my new friend alone, slime freak!" He then made rocket launchers on his shoulders fire missiles, only for the slime alien to form holes that made the rockets blow up a rock wall instead. "Oops." Simons briefly said before getting slapped away.
The alien notices the others and splits out 2 Limaxs to chase after them. As Gwen was about to lift another pod, one of the Limaxs knocked her bag off as the elders went to help their grandkids. As Limax was going to attack, it noticed a discarded water gun and cried out in panic. Kai noticed, glancing down to see the toy. he looked between the 2 as she got an idea, grabbing the water pistol and chasing them out to spray them with water, which dissolved them in an instant. "That's it! Guys! They hate water! Remember the cowboy in town that you told us?" "Or when he freaked out at the spring in the desert!" Heatblast points out in remembrance.
Simon overheard and started scanning as the 2 struggled in the tendrils. "But... Where can you find water in the middle of a desert?" Just then, his computer rang out as it showed a water pipe up on the ceiling as his scans indicated it was full. Heatblast also saw the pipe as they both nodded at each other, firing a flame stream and repulsor blast at the 2 pipes above, making them burst as they rain upon the alien, melting it as it hollers in pain. "See ya, slimeball!" "And we don't want to be ya!" Simon adds out as the 2 heroes run away they watch the beast dissolve into steam as they both share a fist bump. "Nice job, Kid Steel!" "Hey... Kid Steel! I like it. It's catchy." Simon smiles in response as he opens his faceplate.
The others managed to get the last of the pods off as the ship started up. "Sorry! No drive-through service here!" Max exits the ship last as one of the aliens slips on as the ship closes up.
The group looks to see the ship rise and blast through the ceiling, going straight into space, never to be seen again. "We should get all these people back to town, so it will look like they never left," Max spoke as they glanced around at the pods. "And with the way they're all sleeping, they will just think it's all just a dream," Wes states as Gwen groans. "That could take hours!" "Give me a few minutes! I'll see if XLR8 can help!" Heatblast glances at a pod as Simon glances at his feet. "And maybe my jet boots can do the trick as well."
After getting the townspeople back and chilling for a bit, it was time for the 2 families to go their separate ways. "This was some visit, huh, Max? Let's do it again sometime! Minus the whole, aliens trying to kidnap and eat you, of course." "Sure thing, Wes!" Max said as they both shook hands. As Simon and Gwen chatted with each other as Ben had already said his goodbyes to the tech boy, Ben went up to Kai with a smile. "So... It's going to be a long summer! Maybe we'll see each other, again?" "Ben... I can tell when a boy likes a girl. And I admit this adventure was exciting and you are a fun guy to hang out with. But... You're just not my type."
Ben is shocked as he feels like his heart just broke like glass! "Wha? What do you mean?" "It's just... You yourself are an enjoyable company and it's pretty cool that you do all these superheroes things throughout the country. But your aliens themselves... They're just too weird and grotesque for me. It's nothing personal, Ben. I just want to be with a guy that's a little more normal." Ben looks down with a sad smile. "Yeah..." They both shook hands in response. "Okay, kids! Back to the car." Wes calls out as they all head to their car while Kai and Simon wave bye to Ben and Gwen.
"Well... That was some day, huh, kids?" Max asks his grandkids as they all get into the front of the Rust Bucket. "Yeah! Who would have thought that there was another kid hero besides me, out there?" Ben asked as Max got in the driver's seat and the kids sat down on the side. "Yeah... Simon did remind me a bit of you, Ben. And Kai kind of reminds me of me as well." Gwen spoke out as the 2 vehicles took off, side-by-side as both families waved bye to each other and went off in different directions, 2 different kid heroes going down different roads.
But as the Rust Bucket kept driving, Gwen noticed Ben looking out of the window in a depressed tone with his head resting in his hand. "Something wrong, Ben?" "Kai thinks my aliens are too weird for her. She said she wants someone normal." Ben mumbled as Gwen felt bad for him. "The thing about crushes, cuz. is that sometimes you get crushed. Besides, it's her loss!" "Huh?" Ben wonders what Gwen means as the girl explains. "If Kai can't see how cool your aliens are and don't appreciate you for you, then forget her!"
Ben thought about it and realized Gwen was right! "Thanks, Gwen." He smiles as the girl shrugs with a smile. "No big deal! It's what family do. Besides, there are 2 little words that always make a girl like you. But you'll have to figure it out on your own." She smiles as she goes up to the front seats as Ben calls out. "Aw, man!" But he still smiles.