Ben Ten Omniverse Episode 1
Marketta Carucci
Ben 10: Omniverse is an American animated television series and the fourth installment of the Ben 10 franchise, which aired on Cartoon Network from August 1, 2012, to November 14, 2014, in the United States.[1] Man of Action Studios, consisting of Duncan Rouleau, Joe Casey, Joe Kelly, and Steven T. Seagle, created the franchise.
Each Ben 10 Omniverse episode is about 22 minutes in length, with two-part episodes (such as the series premiere "The More Things Change", "Showdown", "The Frogs of War", "Weapon XI" and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Ben World") being about 44 minutes combined in length. Only forty episodes were ordered at first with the 2010 Cartoon Network Studios logo,[2] but on August 25, 2012, production of episode 41 began, with 20 more episodes being ordered, bringing the total up to 60. However it was expanded to 80 in June 2013.[3]
After stopping Bubble Helmet, Fistina, and Liam from destroying Mr. Baumann's store, Ben and Rook discover an underground alien city named Undertown where they discover that Psyphon is behind the protection racket. At the same time, Khyber sends his pet in the form of Buglizard to hunt Ben.
Infiltrating the Plumbers' base, Khyber downloads footage of young Ben's encounter with a corrupted Mechamorph named Malware. This shows Malware's origins and Ben's first encounter with him when he attacks Galvan Prime.
Ben meets an alien con artist named Professor Blarney T. Hokestar whose miracle elixir is extracted from a small alien called a Screegit in his lab. When a Florauna activist named Pax convinces Ben to help him free the small alien from Hokestar's lab, chaos ensues when the nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere turns the Screegit into a giant, acid-spitting monster.
Argit and the Vreedle Brothers are fighting for possession of a doomsday device called the Annihilarg. The device then activates and destroys the universe, but Ben uses Alien X's abilities to recreate the universe, albeit with some minor differences.
In flashbacks, it is revealed that after a fight with 11-year-old Ben, Malware allied with Dr. Psychobos to create a knockoff of the Omnitrix called the Nemetrix to defeat Psychobos's rival Azmuth and prove that Cerebrocrustaceans are smarter than the Galvans. In the present, after a heated argument, Ben and Rook go their separate ways, giving Khyber his best chance to capture Ben. After a long battle, Ben is forcibly changed back into his human form and supposedly falls unconscious.
Khyber tells Ben that he needs different alien DNA to complete the Nemetrix. He also reveals that Dr. Psychobos assigned him to hunt down various species for DNA to transfer it to the Nemetrix and also tells Ben that the reason Dr. Psychobos is creating an evil Omnitrix is because of the orders from Malware. After Ben breaks free, a brawl breaks out leaving Khyber the victor. Rook breaks in and saves Ben and the duo then reveals to Khyber that they orchestrated the whole "fight" at Undertown and Ben only let Khyber capture him so he can lead them to his ship. Ben and Rook accidentally crash Khyber's ship eliminating the DNA to complete the Nemetrix. Khyber and his dog emerge unharmed as Malware and Dr. Psychobos arrive.
While Khyber struggles to control his dog's transformations, Dr. Psychobos tells Malware that he will need a part of the Omnitrix to fix it. This causes Dr. Psychobos to infiltrate the Plumber's base on Earth and steal a part from Ben's Omnitrix, causing it to malfunction. The malfunctioning of the Omnitrix causes its powers to leak into Psyphon, Bubble Helmet, Fistina, and Liam, giving them abilities similar to the Omnitrix aliens.
Ben and Rook must stop Trumbipulor from gaining absolute power. Meanwhile, Blukic and Driba set out to find a Mr. Smoothy's after seeing an advertisement for their new grasshopper smoothies and have many misadventures along the way with one of them tying into fighting Trumbipulor's robotic rats.
Eon returns and switches Ben's mind with his younger self as part of a plot to take over the timelines. It's up to Paradox, and the two Gwens from the past and present, to help the Bens regain their rightful minds and help to defeat Eon.
Ben takes Blukic and Driba to look for the 23rd Mr. Smoothy restaurant. After Ben, Blukic, and Driba enter the 23rd Mr. Smoothy restaurant, they find it run by Professor Blarney T. Hokestar who is using a dimensional device to move the restaurant to different dimensions and make more money. In one dimension, Ben meets an alternate version of himself called Ben 23 who is very rich, names his aliens differently, and has lost his beloved Grandpa Max, which lead to him exploiting his heroism for fame and fortune.
After Ben accidentally destroys Mr. Baumann's car during his fight with Psyphon's minion, Thunderpig, Mr. Baumann orders Ben to make deliveries for him without using the Omnitrix. When Ben unknowingly gets the Dwarf Star (a massive power source that was going to be sold at Psyphon's auction) in his possession, Ben must fight off Pysphon, Fistina, Zombozo, Trumbipulor, the Vreedle Brothers, Fistrick, Vulkanus, Sunder, and Seebik to keep them from getting absolute power.
The Faction infiltrates a Galvan museum and try to take Azmuth, but instead teleport Ben and Rook to the museum. Khyber and Dr. Psychobos have a fight and Zed turns into Vicetopus and takes Dr. Psychobos. Ben reveals that when he was 11, he had a battle with Malware and he took Feedback out from the Omnitrix and killed him. Angered, Ben puts his Omnitrix into Malware and he seemingly perished from the overload. Khyber takes the Nemetrix from Zed and mysteriously escapes. The group arrests Dr. Psychobos, who warns Azmuth that the planet and his species are about to become extinct. Galvan Prime's moon, Galvan B, explodes with everyone shocked and surprised.
Galvan Prime's ecosystem is engulfed by Malware and Galvan Prime is destroyed. A gigantic Malware then accumulates on the surface of Galvan. Ben is absorbed into Malware and confronts his 11-year-old counterpart. They both forgive each other for the incident with Malware and 16-year-old Ben regains Feedback. There is a shower of Mechamorphs leading to Malware becoming its original size. Malware is finally defeated and destroyed by Feedback, and Kevin ends up adopting Khyber's dog.
Dr. Animo remembers the time he had taken control of the Plumbers Headquarters inside Mount Rushmore, planning to mutate everyone on Earth into grotesque, monstrous creatures resembling him. Hence tries again in the plumber HQ.
The Secret Saturdays come to Bellwood to investigate a rash of chupacabra attacks. Ben and Rook assist, finding the chupacabras have been draining aliens of their lifeforce. They soon discover that the chupacabras are being controlled by Dr. Animo, who is an old business associate of V.V. Argost. Using the alien lifeforce, Animo successfully revives Argost in a mismatched hybrid body. Now Ben, Rook, and the Saturdays must work together to turn the tables on the alliance of Dr. Animo and V.V. Argost when they plan to make an army of "Franken-Cryptids."
Octagon and Rhomboid Vreedle decide to prove themselves to Ma Vreedle by pulling off successful crimes; to ensure success in numbers, they take a Pretty Boy Vreedle to assist them under the belief that Ma won't notice one out of the several others missing. When Ma does discover this, she threatens to blow up the sun if the Plumbers don't find Pretty Boy. Meanwhile Ben tries to hide from his mom so he won't get seconds on the dinner that he hates.
While attending an intergalactic auto show on Khoros, Kevin, Rook and Argit run into OTTO (Kevin Schon), an old enemy of Kevin and Argit that stranded them alone in the Null Void. But OTTO and Violet Offenders end up stealing some of the most expensive cars, and OTTO turns into a giant robot, leaving Ben having to stop him.
Albedo (disguised as Ben) seeks a device that will finally change him back into his Galvan form. Meanwhile, Ben (disguised as Albedo by Khyber) is locked in Plumber HQ prison. It reveals Khyber has disguised Ben and Albedo as each other for their plan to work. Meanwhile Argit opens claims to be the hero of Undertown after stopping the Way Bads in "The Frogs of War".
After Ben falls for Albedo's trap, Grandpa Max and Rook search all over the galaxy looking for Ben. Meanwhile he has been secretly trapped on Khyber's hidden personal hunting preserve fighting Khyber's new pet called Panuncian that now wears the Nemetrix. But as Ben finds a way out, he has to deal with Albedo. When Grandpa Max and Rook arrive, they find that Albedo and Khyber have Azmuth as their captive.
Albedo took out Azmuth's brain through his cerebral vortex. With assistance from Gwen and Kevin, Ben, Rook, Max and Azmuth and the Plumbers must find a way off Khyber's Place, to get back to Earth and stop Albedo and Khyber from taking over the galaxy by absorbing Azmuth's brain at Billion's Tower.
Ben, Rook, and Max have their hands full when Phil returns as a human-Terroranchula hybrid as a side effect of using the Nemetrix five years ago, and starts absorbing all of the electricity in Bellwood. But when he heads into Undertown's mini power-plant and starts to absorb the Megawatts, they must find a way to stop him.
After Gwen as Lucky Girl beats Punchinello, Ben and Rook visit her and Kevin at college, but Darkstar gets revenge by using Charmcaster's rock monsters, and creates a cult to use Gwen to open up a portal to Ledgerdomain to absorb all the mana to become even powerful.
Ben's childhood crush, Kai Green, asks Ben and Rook for help when her grandfather Wes Green (Miguel Njera) is kidnapped by Chadwick and the Forever Knights, who are after a mysterious sword called Excalibur hidden in Big Ben London.
Dr. Animo from the future returns to the present to break his past self out of prison, and to steal something from the SACT (Lowenthal) so that they can populate and rule the Earth with mutant animals. In order for Ben and Rook to stop him, they get assistance of someone from the future currently known as Chrono-Spanner.