(In the Rust Bucket, which was at Gwen and Becky's home, Gwen was on her laptop with Becky over her shoulder as Ben snuck in the window and scared them.)
Ben: "Boo!"
Gwen and Becky: "Aah!"
(Jen and Allison walked into the R.V. and smiled.)
Jen: "You two just totally screamed like a couple of girls."
Becky: "That's because we are girls."
(Becky said, pushing Ben out the window and he groaned.)
Becky: "You just totally screamed like a boy."
Allison: "What are you doing, Gwen?"
(Allison asked a few minutes later after she changed out of uniform into her regular clothing.)
Gwen: "Just downloading the yearbook photos."
Ben: "Where's the one of me?"
(Ben asked as he looked at the laptop with the girls crowding him.)
Ben: "This picture's terrible, it's all blurry."
Jen: "No it's not."
(Jen said as she saw the blurry figure next to it and raised her brow.)
Gwen: "Whoa."
(Gwen said as she focused on the image.)
Gwen: "What is that thing?"
Jen: "Can you focus it?"
(Jen asked.)
Gwen: "Hang on."
(Gwen said as she started rapidly typing in codes and focused intently as she slowly focused in the frame and finished up.)
Ben: "Whoa."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "That's the figure we turned into a fireworks display a few days ago."
Jen: "Or, we thought we did anyway."
Becky: "But if he's in this picture, that means that not only is he not dead. He knows who you are."
(Becky said.)
Allison: "Why would he fight you two and then pretend to die?"
(Allison asked.)
Ben: "Maybe he was testing us to see how good we are."
(Ben suggested.)
Gwen: "You mean like research?"
(Gwen asked.)
Jen: "Is that so crazy a theory?"
(Jen asked.)
Becky: "Considering our reputation around the country? No."
(Becky admitted.)
Max: "What are you two doing in here?"
(Max asked as he stepped inside, holding a certain cephalopod.)
Ben: "Grandpa, what is that?"
(Ben asked.)
Max: "Octopus. Great taste."
Gwen: "Do you know this guy?"
(Gwen asked as she gestured to the figure on her computer.)
Max: "Girl."
(Max said, looking at the figure.)
Max: "And there isn't a Plumber alive who doesn't. Her name is Era, a Chronian."
Ben: "You mean you fixed this guy's toilet?"
(Ben asked.)
Becky: "Not those Plumbers, Ben."
(Becky said.)
Gwen: "The Plumbers. The secret ones who hunt aliens. Grandpa used to work for them."
(Gwen reminded.)
Ben: "Oh! Those Plumbers. I knew that."
Max: "Era was the beginning. She was the first alien captured nearly 200 years ago by the original Plumbers."
(Max said.)
Max: "According to the archive, she was half dead by the time we found her and she was working on a device known as the Hands of Armageddon."
Allison: "Armageddon?"
(Allison asked, worried.)
Jen: "What was it?"
(Jen asked.)
Max: "It took us many years to find out exactly. The Hands of Armageddon, as the name suggests, is a Doomsday Machine capable of opening a gateway into another dimension."
Ben: "You mean like the Null Void?"
(Ben asked.)
Max: "Similar. We assumed it meant the start of an alien invasion that would mark the end of the human race as we know it. Era was the beginning and she brought with her the start of our end. Pack your things. We're going on a road trip."
Jen: "Yes!"
(Jen said as she and Ben high-fived.)
Jen: "The Omni-Team is back in business!"
(The Rust Bucket drove through the desert as Jen looked out the window and winced.)
Jen: "Where are we?"
(Jen asked.)
Allison: "This looks like nowhere."
(Allison agreed.)
Ben: "It's better than boring old Bellwood."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "I'm just itching to get back in the action."
Gwen: "Normal life isn't that bad once you get used to it, you know."
(Gwen said.)
Gwen: "And Ben, you wore that shirt all summer, don't you ever wash it?"
Ben: "It's my lucky shirt. Why would I wash the luck off it?"
Max: "I can't reach anybody."
(Max said, hanging up the phone.)
Max: "But we'll be there soon enough."
(The Rust Bucket reached a Chem Lab at the top of the hill and stopped in front of a gate with the phone on the end off its hook.)
(Max took out a crate of remote controls and went through several before he found the one that opened the gate and drove through.)
Max: "The Chem Lab was built to conduct tests of alien lifeforms and technologies. We kept Era locked up here in deep freeze. A highly guarded secret even from the Plumbers themselves."
(Soon, the Omni-Team suited up to be careful and walked along as Omni-Pink nervously wringed her hands.)
Omni-Pink: "It's quiet here."
(she said.)
Omni-Green: "Is anything here anymore?"
(Omni-Green asked.)
Matter Girl: "This Era chick was supposed to be."
(Matter Girl said.)
Max: "'Supposed to be' is right, Allison."
(Max said as he gestured to an area to see it leaking steam from the open door.)
(Max opened the concave doors to show an open container and several leaking tanks of liquid nitrogen.)
Omni-Green: "Whoa!"
(Omni-Green said.)
Omni-Green: "This is cool."
Lucky Girl: "Yeah, as in freezing cool."
(Lucky Girl said, bundling up.)
Max: "We have to find Constantine Jacobs. Come on."
(Max said, gesturing the team to follow him.)
Omni-Green: "Who?"
Max: "He's the Plumber in charge of Era."
(They walked into the security area to see the computers and tech completely trashed and papers strewning the area, making a complete mess.)
(Huntress 'eeped' as she saw the computers spark out and she gulped nervously.)
Max: "Jacobs."
(Max said as he saw the chair with a figure in it.)
(He then turned the chair around to reveal a figure that was completely dessicated and had his eyes closed.)
(His skin was completely wrinkled and he had barely any hair and the hair he did have was completely white.)
Lucky Girl: "Gross."
(Lucky Girl said as Matter Girl held her.)
Max: "I'm sorry, Constantine."
(Max said to the corpse.)
Max: "I wish we could've gotten here sooner."
(Omni-Green then briefly felt at the hand before it grabbed onto his arm and Omni-Pink pulled him back as he screamed and the arm broke off and she blasted it away with an energy bolt.)
Constantine: "I'm not dead yet!"
(Constantine shouted weakly as everyone calmed down from the shock.)
Max: "Constantine, can you hear me?"
(Max asked.)
Constantine: "Eraaaa."
(Constantine said.)
Max: "I know. Just hang on. We're going to get you some help."
Constantine: "It's too late for me, Max..."
(Constantine said.)
Constantine: "Era did this. She said she didn't want to kill anybody, so she simply aged me so I would die peacefully. Made me old in the blink of an eye. cough She's after the Hands. You can't let him find the Hardware Store or the rest of the Plumbers."
Lucky Girl: "There are other Plumbers?"
(Lucky Girl asked.)
Omni-Pink: "You said they disbanded."
(Omni-Pink said.)
Max: "We kept a handful of them active to watch over our things. Dangerous things."
Matter Girl: "Like the Hands of Armageddon."
(Matter Girl surmised.)
Max: "None of them were more dangerous. We never planned for this, kids."
Constantine: "You're the ones."
(Constantine said to the twins.)
Constantine: "The twins who found the Omnitrixes. Era knows about you two."
Omni-Green: "How could she know about us?"
(Omni-Green asked.)
Omni-Green: "We've never seen her before the other night."
Constantine: "She knows."
(he said to the twins.)
Constantine: "Good luck, my children. You'll need it..."
(He then gave out one last breath and passed away peacefully.)
(Omni-Pink bowed her head as she ran her hand over Constantine's face, closing his eyes as everyone gave a moment of silence for the fallen.)
Max: "He was a great friend. And a true Plumber."
(Max said on Constantine's behalf.)
Omni-Green: "What did he mean 'she knows?'"
(Omni-Green asked.)
Max: "I couldn't tell you."
(Max said.)
Max: "That's why I keep telling you kids to be careful. This is no game."
(The twins looked at each other concerned as Jen got ready.)
[To Be Continued...]