Ben 10: Ultimate Alien s02e16 Episode Script
The Flame Keeper's Circle
[ Indistinct shouting .]
[ Giggles .]
[ Laughs .]
[ People cheer .]
Hideous creature from the deep! Hideous creature from the deep! Come insidelf you dare! Can't miss the freak show.
Sure we can.
It's late.
And I don't want to see something gross in a rubber suit.
[ Growling in distance .]
Sure you do.
Sure you do.
[ Growling continues .]
Ticket, please.
It's $5 extra.
That's okay.
We were just leaving.
Oh! Sorry! No harm done.
Please -- take one.
Please -- take one.
It could change your life.
No.
It's not possible.
It is.
It's you.
[ Thunder crashing .]
Who is that? The carnival's closed.
You hear me? [ Thunder crashes .]
We stand here tonight as liberators.
No! You stand here trespassing! You stand here trespassing! [ Grunts .]
[ Gasps .]
[ Punch lands .]
[ Groans .]
[ Thunder crashes .]
It is as I said.
He has returned to us.
Historic day -- the day that marks the return of Diagon, the knowledge bringer.
[ Thunder crashes .]
[ Thunder crashes .]
[ Growling .]
Circle? Julie: Yep.
I can't believe it took so long to convince you guys to come check this out.
Ben: Yeah.
I'mCompletely disinterested in a tour of an office building.
It is a puzzler.
Julie: Anyway, you're here, and I'm glad.
This place really makes me feel like I'm making a difference, you know? Ben: Making a difference is Ben: Making a difference is good.
Swanky setup.
What do they do for money, again? Julie: They take donations.
Kevin: Sweet.
Argit would love this place.
Ben: So, you say these guys approached you at a tennis match? Julie: They were excited to get me on board.
My celebrity can help raise awareness of their organization.
Ben: Your celebrity for being ranked 173 in women's tennis Or for being the girlfriend of the Ben Tennyson? Julie: First of all, I'm ranked 83rd, and I've only been in five tournaments.
Ben: I didn't say you weren't good -- just that you're not famousYet.
Julie: Does it ever occur to you that everything isn't always about you? Ben: Not really, no.
Ben Tennyson.
What an honor it is to finally meet you and to have a celebrity of your stature visiting our of your stature visiting our meager offices.
Conduit Edwards.
Ben: Conduit? A title I have the honor of holding.
Julie: It means he knows all about the aliens.
Ben: Ohh.
Kevin: The flame keepers circle, huh? [ Laughs .]
That's just a symbol of what that's just a symbol of what flame represents -- knowledge.
Metallurgy -- milestones of human ingenuity and invention.
Or were they? Julie: The flame keepers circle believe that thousands of years ago, mankind was visited by benevolent aliens, who gave us the beginnings of technology.
Ben: Benevolent? I guess anything's possible.
Ben, you of all people can appreciate that we are not alone in this universe.
Kevin: Which aliens are we talking about here? I know a lot of them.
I'm sure you do, but we're talking about one alien in particular -- the knowledge bringer.
His name is Diagon.
Diagon prosed to return to earth someday, with the technology needed to save mankind from war, famine, disease To make the world a utopia.
Ben: And the flame keepers circle are the welcoming committee.
Julie: In the meantime, the keepers dedicate their resources to using modern technology to help the less fortunate -- things like modernizing schools and medical facilities in underprivileged countries.
Kevin: It's a shame, after all this time, he never managed to make it back.
You don't suppose he's, you know -- "ckkk!"? I can personally assure you he's alive.
Ben: How can you be so sure? As a conduit, I am privy to as a conduit, I am privy to secret knowledge.
Behind this awesome door? [ Chuckles .]
For example.
Now, if you don't mind, this way, please.
Julie: That's conduit's chamber.
Chamber.
It's private.
The donations he bilks out of the donations he bilks out of the suckers.
Man's nature to be skeptical, but trust me when I say Diagon is coming.
The new age of mankind is about to begin.
I'd love to bring the Ben Tennyson on board with our Ben Tennyson on board with our cause.
Ben: Uh Any points with Julie back there.
Julie: Okay, so you're not into it.
I get it.
That's fine.
But did you have to laugh in his face?! Ben: Julie, it was an accident.
Sometimes I laugh situations.
Julie: You're a terrible boyfriend! Ben: [ Laughs .]
Julie: I'm not talking to you.
Kevin: In Ben's defense, you're way too smart to be buying into this junk.
Julie: Which junk is that, Kevin? The "using technology to help people" junk or maybe the "modernizing of hospitals and schools" junk? So what is it -- the existence of aliens? Kevin: Well Julie: Oh, right -- because we've never seen aliens before.
How many different aliens can you turn into now? Ben: 63.
Julie: And yet, believing in aliens is laughable? Ben: Say Diagon is real.
It still wouldn't be right to use his alien tech to change the planet.
Kevin: Ben's right.
They got rules for that stuff.
Julie: I see -- so only you're allowed to use alien tech the save the world.
Ben: Right.
I-I mean, no! That's not -- Julie: Never mind.
Let's just drop it.
Ben: Julie, I -- look, you said there's some sort of members meeting tonight? Kevin: More tech talk with conduit? Julie: Forget it.
I thought I wanted you here, but now I think it's best if you just leave.
Ben: Julie! Kevin: I'd let her cool down Kevin: I'd let her cool down first.
Ben: Talk about what? Kevin: The Julie thing.
Ben: I know! She's doing volunteer work for a crooked organization, and she can't even see it.
Gwen: Come on, guys.
Give Julie some credit.
She's not a dope.
Ben: True, but that doesn't mean she can't get in over her head.
Gwen: With a charity group? What's the problem? Ben: Her heart's in the right place, but that guy reminds me of a used-car salesman.
[ All gasp .]
Kevin: Even if these guys were legit, their mission goes against plumber rules and interstellar law.
Gwen: You think they really have access to alien tech? Kevin: Doubt it.
Smells more like a multilevel marketing scam.
Getting your suckers to get more suckers -- charity for profit.
Ben: Yeah, conduit wouldn't know alien tech if it was staring him right in the face.
[ Beeping .]
Gwen: Speaking of alien tech, looks like we've got a lead on that stolen plumber ship.
Ben: Stolen plumber ship? Gwen: Grandpa Max called while you were getting your burger and a side of sulk.
Kevin: The ship got jacked on a routine run of this quadrant.
What do you say we skip dessert and do a little follow-up? Ben: You guys can handle it without me, right? Gwen: Have some apologizing to do? To do? Ben: Only if I'm wrong.
[ Indistinct conversations .]
Another amazing night.
Big changes are coming soon.
[ Elevator bell dings .]
[ Muzak plays .]
[ Elevator bell dings .]
[ Doors open .]
Ben: [ Grunting .]
[ Gasps .]
Would find me.
Ben: Vilgax? How can you be here?! Vilgax: These days, they call me the Diagon.
Ben: I don't care who these people think you are.
I know the truth.
Vilgax: But how can it be? I can see your tiny human brain struggling to comprehend the impossible.
Ben: Vilgax, conqueror of 10 worlds, living in a fish tank in the v.
I.
P.
Room of a bunch of people who believe that Santa drives a u.
F.
O.
It's a mystery, all right.
Vilgax: I should have been dead.
Our last battle -- the terrible our last battle -- the terrible explosion.
Did I.
Rather than being destroyed, I rather than being destroyed, I was lost to the sea.
Form, I eventually washed up onshore Onshore [ Groaning .]
Carnival.
Despite the indignity of my situation, it did provide me with food, shelter, and time to regain my strength.
Recently, I was liberated by this collection of buffoons -- the esoterica.
Ben: The flame keepers circle.
And this Diagon they're so obsessed with just happens to be some kind of space squid, too.
Vilgax: A most fortuitous coincidence, would you not agree? Ben: So now you're a prophecy made to order -- their old alien pal finally making his promised return.
Vilgax: "All hail Diagon!" They'd do anything for me.
Why, they just acquired for me a class 7 interstellar ship.
Ben: What are you going to do with it? Vilgax: My followers think I'll use it to fetch some glorious alien tech stashed on a nearby moon.
Instead, I will find Psyphon, regain my lost powers, then regain my lost powers, then return home to rule my empire.
Empire, genius.
It fell after everybody heard you were dead.
Vilgax: [ Roars .]
Ben: You know how it is.
When the cat's away, the mice will play.
Vilgax: Those who resist my rule will be washed away in the tide of battle! My empire will rise again! Ben: Yeah, about that -- not gonna happen.
Vilgax: Guards! This intruder is an enemy of this intruder is an enemy of Diagon! Vilgax: You cannot stop the vilgax: You cannot stop the followers of Diagon with doors.
But you've got to believe me -- this guy is not Diagon.
He's an impostor.
His name is vilgax, and -- enough lies! Enough lies! You are an enemy of the flame.
Ben: [ Grunts .]
How are you guys -- aah! Rules, then why should i? Rules, then why should i? [ Beep .]
Big chill: Big chill! Vilgax: Bewildering, isn't it? Ultimate big chill: Ultimate ultimate big chill: Ultimate big chill! Julie: I'm sorry, Ben.
I -- give up, or I'll lose Julie in between dimensions.
Julie: [ Grunts .]
[ Gasps .]
[ Gasps .]
Aah! Ultimate big chill: All right.
You win.
[ Beep, beep .]
Ben: I did what you wanted.
Ben: I did what you wanted.
Let her go.
He wasn't really going to hurt me.
That's right, Ben.
She wasn't my hostage.
She was my accomplice.
Ben: Julie, you -- what is going on here?! Julie: It was the only way I could get big chill to chill out.
Ben: You are fighting on the wrong side here! These people are dangerous! You don't understand! Julie: You're the one missing it.
We don't need to fight.
The stories were real.
Diagon is back, and he's going to bring us the technology needed to heal the world.
Ben: Julie, no! Stay away from him! Julie: He's not going to hurt me.
He's about to bring a new golden age to all humanity.
No sickness, no war.
Don't you see? Vilgax: He sees all too well, child.
He sees a world where he's no longer special -- a healthy, safe world where he is no longer needed.
That is the real reason he stands in our way.
Julie: Ben's not like that.
If you just let me explain it to him Ben: This isn't about me at all.
Even if Diagon was real, using alien technology to accelerate a planet's natural development won't bring utopia.
It'll bring disaster.
It's happened before.
Why do you think the plumbers have those laws? But even that's not the point, because that isn't Diagon! His name is vilgax.
He's not a hero.
He's a selfish, evil warlord, who's using you.
And if you let him get in his ship, he's going to fly off and start an interstellar civil war.
Julie: That's vilgax? You're telling the truth? Kevin: Mostly.
Except for the "flying off" part.
That ship isn't going anywhere that ship isn't going anywhere without its pulse core.
Gwen: We had just tracked down the stolen plumber ship when Ben opened a communications link so we could hear your plans.
Kevin: Hence my custom modification to the pulse core.
[ Blows .]
Vilgax: These infidels must not be allowed to interfere with not be allowed to interfere with earth's glorious rebirth! You heard Diagon.
Attack! Ben: Little help? Kevin: On it! Gwen: Tricky.
You could have been one of us.
The world.
Julie: The world needs saving, all right -- saving, all right -- from creeps like you! Vilgax: Enough! Destroy the boy! Destroy Ben Tennyson! Starting to take this personally.
Personally.
[ Beep .]
[ Shrieks .]
[ Flame keepers groaning .]
Julie: I hate when he does this! Gwen: What?! Aaaaaah! Aaaaaah! Vilgax: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! [ All scream .]
[ Beep .]
Ben: Vilgax! Water! Water! Save Diagon! Save the knowledge bringer! Ben: I'll be keeping an eye on you.
There's no way I'm letting you get off the earth.
Kevin: Better keep your nose clean.
Gwen: Or we'll be back.
Kevin: Does he even have a Kevin: Does he even have a nose? Vilgax, but you're wrong about keeping alien technology out of the hands of the people it could help.
Ben: We could all argue about it some more over dinner.
Kevin: I never did get my dessert.
Julie: Fine.
Julie: Fine.
But no seafood.
What if Tennyson is telling the truth about Diagon? Circle! We do not doubt.
We'll find you another ship, and then the nonbelievers will see how Diagon the knowledge bringer will transform the earth into a better place.
Vilgax: Yes.
When I'm done with this planet, when I'm done with this planet, you won't recognize it.
[ Giggles .]
[ Laughs .]
[ People cheer .]
Hideous creature from the deep! Hideous creature from the deep! Come insidelf you dare! Can't miss the freak show.
Sure we can.
It's late.
And I don't want to see something gross in a rubber suit.
[ Growling in distance .]
Sure you do.
Sure you do.
[ Growling continues .]
Ticket, please.
It's $5 extra.
That's okay.
We were just leaving.
Oh! Sorry! No harm done.
Please -- take one.
Please -- take one.
It could change your life.
No.
It's not possible.
It is.
It's you.
[ Thunder crashing .]
Who is that? The carnival's closed.
You hear me? [ Thunder crashes .]
We stand here tonight as liberators.
No! You stand here trespassing! You stand here trespassing! [ Grunts .]
[ Gasps .]
[ Punch lands .]
[ Groans .]
[ Thunder crashes .]
It is as I said.
He has returned to us.
Historic day -- the day that marks the return of Diagon, the knowledge bringer.
[ Thunder crashes .]
[ Thunder crashes .]
[ Growling .]
Circle? Julie: Yep.
I can't believe it took so long to convince you guys to come check this out.
Ben: Yeah.
I'mCompletely disinterested in a tour of an office building.
It is a puzzler.
Julie: Anyway, you're here, and I'm glad.
This place really makes me feel like I'm making a difference, you know? Ben: Making a difference is Ben: Making a difference is good.
Swanky setup.
What do they do for money, again? Julie: They take donations.
Kevin: Sweet.
Argit would love this place.
Ben: So, you say these guys approached you at a tennis match? Julie: They were excited to get me on board.
My celebrity can help raise awareness of their organization.
Ben: Your celebrity for being ranked 173 in women's tennis Or for being the girlfriend of the Ben Tennyson? Julie: First of all, I'm ranked 83rd, and I've only been in five tournaments.
Ben: I didn't say you weren't good -- just that you're not famousYet.
Julie: Does it ever occur to you that everything isn't always about you? Ben: Not really, no.
Ben Tennyson.
What an honor it is to finally meet you and to have a celebrity of your stature visiting our of your stature visiting our meager offices.
Conduit Edwards.
Ben: Conduit? A title I have the honor of holding.
Julie: It means he knows all about the aliens.
Ben: Ohh.
Kevin: The flame keepers circle, huh? [ Laughs .]
That's just a symbol of what that's just a symbol of what flame represents -- knowledge.
Metallurgy -- milestones of human ingenuity and invention.
Or were they? Julie: The flame keepers circle believe that thousands of years ago, mankind was visited by benevolent aliens, who gave us the beginnings of technology.
Ben: Benevolent? I guess anything's possible.
Ben, you of all people can appreciate that we are not alone in this universe.
Kevin: Which aliens are we talking about here? I know a lot of them.
I'm sure you do, but we're talking about one alien in particular -- the knowledge bringer.
His name is Diagon.
Diagon prosed to return to earth someday, with the technology needed to save mankind from war, famine, disease To make the world a utopia.
Ben: And the flame keepers circle are the welcoming committee.
Julie: In the meantime, the keepers dedicate their resources to using modern technology to help the less fortunate -- things like modernizing schools and medical facilities in underprivileged countries.
Kevin: It's a shame, after all this time, he never managed to make it back.
You don't suppose he's, you know -- "ckkk!"? I can personally assure you he's alive.
Ben: How can you be so sure? As a conduit, I am privy to as a conduit, I am privy to secret knowledge.
Behind this awesome door? [ Chuckles .]
For example.
Now, if you don't mind, this way, please.
Julie: That's conduit's chamber.
Chamber.
It's private.
The donations he bilks out of the donations he bilks out of the suckers.
Man's nature to be skeptical, but trust me when I say Diagon is coming.
The new age of mankind is about to begin.
I'd love to bring the Ben Tennyson on board with our Ben Tennyson on board with our cause.
Ben: Uh Any points with Julie back there.
Julie: Okay, so you're not into it.
I get it.
That's fine.
But did you have to laugh in his face?! Ben: Julie, it was an accident.
Sometimes I laugh situations.
Julie: You're a terrible boyfriend! Ben: [ Laughs .]
Julie: I'm not talking to you.
Kevin: In Ben's defense, you're way too smart to be buying into this junk.
Julie: Which junk is that, Kevin? The "using technology to help people" junk or maybe the "modernizing of hospitals and schools" junk? So what is it -- the existence of aliens? Kevin: Well Julie: Oh, right -- because we've never seen aliens before.
How many different aliens can you turn into now? Ben: 63.
Julie: And yet, believing in aliens is laughable? Ben: Say Diagon is real.
It still wouldn't be right to use his alien tech to change the planet.
Kevin: Ben's right.
They got rules for that stuff.
Julie: I see -- so only you're allowed to use alien tech the save the world.
Ben: Right.
I-I mean, no! That's not -- Julie: Never mind.
Let's just drop it.
Ben: Julie, I -- look, you said there's some sort of members meeting tonight? Kevin: More tech talk with conduit? Julie: Forget it.
I thought I wanted you here, but now I think it's best if you just leave.
Ben: Julie! Kevin: I'd let her cool down Kevin: I'd let her cool down first.
Ben: Talk about what? Kevin: The Julie thing.
Ben: I know! She's doing volunteer work for a crooked organization, and she can't even see it.
Gwen: Come on, guys.
Give Julie some credit.
She's not a dope.
Ben: True, but that doesn't mean she can't get in over her head.
Gwen: With a charity group? What's the problem? Ben: Her heart's in the right place, but that guy reminds me of a used-car salesman.
[ All gasp .]
Kevin: Even if these guys were legit, their mission goes against plumber rules and interstellar law.
Gwen: You think they really have access to alien tech? Kevin: Doubt it.
Smells more like a multilevel marketing scam.
Getting your suckers to get more suckers -- charity for profit.
Ben: Yeah, conduit wouldn't know alien tech if it was staring him right in the face.
[ Beeping .]
Gwen: Speaking of alien tech, looks like we've got a lead on that stolen plumber ship.
Ben: Stolen plumber ship? Gwen: Grandpa Max called while you were getting your burger and a side of sulk.
Kevin: The ship got jacked on a routine run of this quadrant.
What do you say we skip dessert and do a little follow-up? Ben: You guys can handle it without me, right? Gwen: Have some apologizing to do? To do? Ben: Only if I'm wrong.
[ Indistinct conversations .]
Another amazing night.
Big changes are coming soon.
[ Elevator bell dings .]
[ Muzak plays .]
[ Elevator bell dings .]
[ Doors open .]
Ben: [ Grunting .]
[ Gasps .]
Would find me.
Ben: Vilgax? How can you be here?! Vilgax: These days, they call me the Diagon.
Ben: I don't care who these people think you are.
I know the truth.
Vilgax: But how can it be? I can see your tiny human brain struggling to comprehend the impossible.
Ben: Vilgax, conqueror of 10 worlds, living in a fish tank in the v.
I.
P.
Room of a bunch of people who believe that Santa drives a u.
F.
O.
It's a mystery, all right.
Vilgax: I should have been dead.
Our last battle -- the terrible our last battle -- the terrible explosion.
Did I.
Rather than being destroyed, I rather than being destroyed, I was lost to the sea.
Form, I eventually washed up onshore Onshore [ Groaning .]
Carnival.
Despite the indignity of my situation, it did provide me with food, shelter, and time to regain my strength.
Recently, I was liberated by this collection of buffoons -- the esoterica.
Ben: The flame keepers circle.
And this Diagon they're so obsessed with just happens to be some kind of space squid, too.
Vilgax: A most fortuitous coincidence, would you not agree? Ben: So now you're a prophecy made to order -- their old alien pal finally making his promised return.
Vilgax: "All hail Diagon!" They'd do anything for me.
Why, they just acquired for me a class 7 interstellar ship.
Ben: What are you going to do with it? Vilgax: My followers think I'll use it to fetch some glorious alien tech stashed on a nearby moon.
Instead, I will find Psyphon, regain my lost powers, then regain my lost powers, then return home to rule my empire.
Empire, genius.
It fell after everybody heard you were dead.
Vilgax: [ Roars .]
Ben: You know how it is.
When the cat's away, the mice will play.
Vilgax: Those who resist my rule will be washed away in the tide of battle! My empire will rise again! Ben: Yeah, about that -- not gonna happen.
Vilgax: Guards! This intruder is an enemy of this intruder is an enemy of Diagon! Vilgax: You cannot stop the vilgax: You cannot stop the followers of Diagon with doors.
But you've got to believe me -- this guy is not Diagon.
He's an impostor.
His name is vilgax, and -- enough lies! Enough lies! You are an enemy of the flame.
Ben: [ Grunts .]
How are you guys -- aah! Rules, then why should i? Rules, then why should i? [ Beep .]
Big chill: Big chill! Vilgax: Bewildering, isn't it? Ultimate big chill: Ultimate ultimate big chill: Ultimate big chill! Julie: I'm sorry, Ben.
I -- give up, or I'll lose Julie in between dimensions.
Julie: [ Grunts .]
[ Gasps .]
[ Gasps .]
Aah! Ultimate big chill: All right.
You win.
[ Beep, beep .]
Ben: I did what you wanted.
Ben: I did what you wanted.
Let her go.
He wasn't really going to hurt me.
That's right, Ben.
She wasn't my hostage.
She was my accomplice.
Ben: Julie, you -- what is going on here?! Julie: It was the only way I could get big chill to chill out.
Ben: You are fighting on the wrong side here! These people are dangerous! You don't understand! Julie: You're the one missing it.
We don't need to fight.
The stories were real.
Diagon is back, and he's going to bring us the technology needed to heal the world.
Ben: Julie, no! Stay away from him! Julie: He's not going to hurt me.
He's about to bring a new golden age to all humanity.
No sickness, no war.
Don't you see? Vilgax: He sees all too well, child.
He sees a world where he's no longer special -- a healthy, safe world where he is no longer needed.
That is the real reason he stands in our way.
Julie: Ben's not like that.
If you just let me explain it to him Ben: This isn't about me at all.
Even if Diagon was real, using alien technology to accelerate a planet's natural development won't bring utopia.
It'll bring disaster.
It's happened before.
Why do you think the plumbers have those laws? But even that's not the point, because that isn't Diagon! His name is vilgax.
He's not a hero.
He's a selfish, evil warlord, who's using you.
And if you let him get in his ship, he's going to fly off and start an interstellar civil war.
Julie: That's vilgax? You're telling the truth? Kevin: Mostly.
Except for the "flying off" part.
That ship isn't going anywhere that ship isn't going anywhere without its pulse core.
Gwen: We had just tracked down the stolen plumber ship when Ben opened a communications link so we could hear your plans.
Kevin: Hence my custom modification to the pulse core.
[ Blows .]
Vilgax: These infidels must not be allowed to interfere with not be allowed to interfere with earth's glorious rebirth! You heard Diagon.
Attack! Ben: Little help? Kevin: On it! Gwen: Tricky.
You could have been one of us.
The world.
Julie: The world needs saving, all right -- saving, all right -- from creeps like you! Vilgax: Enough! Destroy the boy! Destroy Ben Tennyson! Starting to take this personally.
Personally.
[ Beep .]
[ Shrieks .]
[ Flame keepers groaning .]
Julie: I hate when he does this! Gwen: What?! Aaaaaah! Aaaaaah! Vilgax: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! [ All scream .]
[ Beep .]
Ben: Vilgax! Water! Water! Save Diagon! Save the knowledge bringer! Ben: I'll be keeping an eye on you.
There's no way I'm letting you get off the earth.
Kevin: Better keep your nose clean.
Gwen: Or we'll be back.
Kevin: Does he even have a Kevin: Does he even have a nose? Vilgax, but you're wrong about keeping alien technology out of the hands of the people it could help.
Ben: We could all argue about it some more over dinner.
Kevin: I never did get my dessert.
Julie: Fine.
Julie: Fine.
But no seafood.
What if Tennyson is telling the truth about Diagon? Circle! We do not doubt.
We'll find you another ship, and then the nonbelievers will see how Diagon the knowledge bringer will transform the earth into a better place.
Vilgax: Yes.
When I'm done with this planet, when I'm done with this planet, you won't recognize it.