(Later, as the kids were leaving the class, Ms. Harrison passed the papers back to them and Jen got a C+ and Ben got...)
Ben: "A D? Aw man."
(Ben sighed.)
(In Gym class, the kids were in their jerseys as Ben and Jen stood on one side with a few kids as they prepared themselves.)
Jen: "Bring it on! You're not getting one over on Ben and Jen Tennyson!"
(Jen said.)
the coach: "Go!"
(the coach said as the twins got rained on with dodgeballs and they shouted out as they were out.)
Ben: "Aw man!"
(Ben said.)
(Later, they were into the lockers and Ben unlocked his door to see it was stuck with gum on the edges and a huge wad in his locker.)
Ben: "Aw man!"
(Ben said as Jen sighed and helped him clean it up.)
Cash: "You know."
(Cash said as he and J.T. walked over.)
Cash: "You're supposed to chew the gum, Tennyson, not wear it. Just consider it a welcome back present from us, loser."
Jen: "You know, we could kick your butts any chance we got."
(Jen said, reminding them that they were the Omni-Twins.)
Ben: "Stand down, Cash."
(Ben warned.)
Cash: "Make us!"
J.T: "Good one, Cash."
Cash: "Can it, J.T.! So what are you going to do about it, Tennyson?"
(Jen glared as her eyes briefly glowed pink, with the bullies not noticing as the huge wad of gum levitated in the air and she tossed it at them, only for it to miss and nail Principal White as he was walking down the stairs.)
Jen: "Oops!"
Principal White: "Tennyson."
(Principal White said, taking off his glasses as Cash and J.T. laughed and Ben and Jen sighed.)
Ben: "Sorry."
(Ben said as Jen sighed and hiked up her backpack.)
Jen: "You don't need to say anything, Principal White. We'll see you in detention."
(After detention, back at the Tennyson Household, Ben and Jen were sitting at one end of the table with Carl and Sandra siting on the other end and Emma sitting in a baby chair at the side as the twins picked at their dinner.)
Ben: "Look, it was an accident."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "Jen and I were just having a really bad day."
Sandra: "We understand that, Ben."
(Sandra said.)
Sandra: "But no one here wants you to follow your feelings."
Carl: "No."
(Carl agreed.)
Carl: "There's way too many emotional volcanoes in this world already."
Sandra: "You blinded Principal White, Jen."
(Sandra said, concerned.)
Jen: "Mom, Dad, it was just gum."
(Jen said.)
Sandra: "Okay, Jen, please."
(Sandra said.)
Sandra: "Call us Sandra and Carl. We're all equals in this house."
Ben: "Sorry, the two of us would rather call you Mom and Dad."
(Ben said, nodding.)
Carl: "...What Sandra is trying to say is that you two should find another outlet for your anger than violence. There's choices you can make, guys."
Jen: "Like?"
(Jen asked, spreading a bit of hummus onto her cracker.)
Sandra: "Music? Writing?"
(Sandra suggested as Jen bit into her cracker before she spit it out into her napkin.)
Carl: "Did you put sage in the hummus?"
(Carl asked as Emma babbled with a laugh.)
Carl: "Have to grow more in the backyard garden."
Ben: "Can we go now?"
(Ben asked.)
Ben: "We're gonna go see Grandpa."
Carl: "Oh."
(Carl said disappointedly.)
Jen: "What?"
Carl: "Well, we were kind of hoping that you two would find friends your age to play with."
Ben: "Yeah, but kids our own age are boring. Grandpa is cool."
(Ben said.)
Jen: "And we have friends. We've been practicing for the talent show together."
(Jen said.)
Sandra: "Well, sweetie."
(Sandra said to her.)
Sandra: "We let you go on that road trip around the country with Carl's father the whole summer because it's important to us that you two feel independent."
Carl: "Yeah."
(Carl said.)
Carl: "Life experiences define us. And I know that Grandpa Max's stories are very exciting but they're not real life."
Ben: "You have no idea."
(Ben whispered under his breath.)
Sandra: "And why would you two want to hang out in that smelly old trailer of his all the time anyway?"
(Sandra asked.)
Jen: "First of all."
(Jen began.)
Jen: "It's called the Rust Bucket. Secondly, it's not a trailer. It's a motor home."
Sandra: "You two do realize the pollution that thing puts out due to the fuel it runs on."
Ben: "Okay, we've had enough."
(Ben said as he and his sister pushed their plates away from them and walked away with his sister kissing Emma on the head.)
Sandra: "Where are you two going."
(Sandra asked.)
Jen: "To see Grandpa and Allison."
(Jen said as they walked to the front yard where the Rust Bucket was parked.)
Sandra: "But-"
Carl: "No."
(Carl said.)
Carl: "They made a choice, Sandra. We have to respect that."
(In the Rust Bucket, Max was going through his tool box as Allison lay on the couch watching Chopped on the TV.)
Allison: "What's so cool about those tools anyway, Max?"
(Allison asked.)
Max: "These are things of beauty."
(Max said as he pointed a wrench at a picture that separated and fired a laser out that burned a hole in the wall.)
Allison: "Okay, that's cool."
Max: "Thanks, but it needs a little more work."
(That was when Ben and Jen came in and Allison stood up.)
Allison: "Hey there, guys."
Ben: "Grandpa, where are your keys?"
(Ben asked.)
Max: "Ben, Jen, why do you need my keys?"
(Max asked.)
Jen: "Because we want to go on an adventure."
(Jen said.)
Jen: "We gave school a few weeks, it sucks. It's time to be the heroes we are and hunt down some aliens."
(Allison groaned and rolled her eyes.)
Ben: "Come on."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "If we go now, we're going to miss the traffic."
Max: "You want some squirrel jerky? It's a delicacy."
Jen: "We just ate, Grandpa."
(Jen said as she sat next to her best friend.)
Allison: "Okay, girl."
(Allison said.)
Allison: "What happened?"
Ben: "It sucks being nobodies after we were heroes."
(Ben said.)
Jen: "The whole school, Mom, Dad, everybody has no clue who we are after we found these."
(Jen said, showing her Omnitrix.)
Allison: "That's good. They're not supposed to. Heroes are supposed to keep who they are a secret."
(Allison said.)
Ben: "What's the point in having the Omnitrixes and our powers if we can't use them?"
(Ben asked.)
Max: "So you think that the kids will like you better if they know you're the Omni-Twins?"
Jen: "Well, yeah, Grandpa."
(Jen admitted.)
Max: "You might be right."
(Max admitted.)
Jen: "So we can tell them?"
Max: "I'm afraid not. That was summer and it's over now. We're home in Bellwood now. Ben and Jen Tennyson have to be Ben and Jen Tennyson again."
Allison: "He's right."
(Allison said.)
Allison: "It's your responsibility as kids and as heroes to keep this a secret."
Jen: "Yeah, but even though they know we're the Omni-Twins, Cash and J.T. still haven't stopped bullying me and Ben. At least Casey and Simone love us for who we are and not these things on the wrists."
Max: "Why don't you kids make an effort at school tomorrow. Jump in with both feet. Just be kids again, Benjamin and Jennifer. That was not a request. That was an order."
Ben: "Okay."
(Ben said in defeat.)
Ben: "We promise."
(That night, inside the town clock tower, the figure from the previous night, who was still alive and was revealed to be a girl, met with her henchmen as they gathered before her.)
???: "Did you find them?"
henchmen: "No."
(one of them said as they bowed.)
???: "Of course you did not. This place is already dying for me. Rememberance fading, stolen away. I don't have much time left before I'm gone."
(She then groaned as she hit her knees and leaned against a pillar as one of the figures went up to her.)
henchmen 1: "Mistress Era!"
Era: "Don't touch me!"
(she said, blasting him away down the stairs and breaking his helmet open.)
(The remaining four figures went up to him in worry.)
Era: "No. Let him die. You exist to serve me not each other. Or would you rather I sent you back where you came from?"
(The cloaked figures protested by shaking their arms.)
(Era nodded and opened her hands, showing a projection of several ships in orbit flying overhead as her henchmen nodded.)
Era: "My journey here is nearly at its end. My people are depending on me. At last they will rise from their dark sleep in the Phantom Zone. This time, nothing shall thwart me once I find and destroy the Master Spark: Jennifer Tennyson as well as her brother."
[To Be Continued...]