01x08 - Hot Stretch

[bunniefuu]

Better stock up on that sun block.

This heat wave should last
clear through to Sunday.

Once again, we're getting word
of a break-in at the Coriolanus labs

in Bellwood ending in a high-speed
police pursuit through downtown...

[ sirens wailing ]

[ tires screeching ]

[ tires screech ]

[ brakes squeak ]

Ben Tennyson!

Ben: I see him. Thanks, Chief.

I'm not the Chief.

[ beep ]

Rook: We will take it from here.

Careful. She stole
some kind of fusion thing.

Rook: I am a Plumber, officer.
I am always careful.

Crashhopper: Yah!

Yah!

At the end of your rope, huh?

Ester: Not ever.

[ grunts ]

Eeeee!

Aah!

♪ Ben ♪

♪ he's a kid,
and he wants to have fun ♪

♪ but when you need a superhero,
he gets the job done ♪

♪ Ben ♪

♪ with a device that he wears on his arm ♪

♪ he can change his shape and
save the world from harm ♪

♪ when trouble's taking place ♪
♪ he gets right in its face ♪

♪ Ben ♪

♪ when lives are on the line ♪
♪ it's hero time ♪

♪ Ben ♪

Crashhopper: Whoa!

Aah!

Crashhopper: Ptew!

[ gasps ]

Uh... shoo.

[ grunts ]

Ester: You might have the power,
Ben Tennyson, but I got the reach!

Rook: Do not touch it!

[ sizzling ]

Ester: It's been an honor, Ben,
but I don't think that form suits you.

Bye-bye!

[ grunts ]

[ chirps ]

Okay. So, the girl took the
fusion device where?

[ grunts ]

Are you going to stay like that?

Crashhopper: Just till the
Omnitrix times out.

- Rook: How long does that take?
- Crashhopper: Uh, minutes or so.

Ben: Guess that's it.

Rook: I think our thief appreciate
this Ben Tennyson a little more.

Ben: Huh?

Rook: She did express interest
in some other form of yours.

Ben: Oh.
She must have meant Ditto.

According to the fan sites,
that's my cutest alien.

Rook: That is not
at all what she meant.

Ben: Ha! Right!

'Cause you know
everything about girls.

[ beeping ]

Rook: We have something.

[ beeping continues ]

[ grunts ]

[ grunts ]

[ beeping continues ]

[ aliens speaking
native languages ]

Ben: Bet it's that.

[ beeping intensifies ]

Rook: An old thermo-electric
generator. Space junk.

Not junk. A bargain!
taydens.

[ gulping ]

It's even hotter down
here than it is up there!

Rook: Perhaps I can
recalibrate ...

Ben: Uh, Rook?
Don't bother.

Hold it!

- Ester: You turned human.
- Ben: I do that.

Rook: Hand over the fusion
engine, please.

Ester: What if I told you I couldn't?

Ben: It's not a matter of "could."
Two of us, one of you.

Ester: You sure you won't
just trust me on this? No?

[ grunts ]

[ beep ]

Eatle: Got ya!

[ steam hissing ]

Ester: You sure?

[ groans ]

[ grunts ]

I'm pretty sure.

Seebik: Get off her!

Off!

[ lasers charge ]

- Give us the fusion engine.
- Eatle: Who are you?

Seebik: We're the Kraaho.
I'm Seebik.

Lackno: Uh, can we do this
quickly, Seebik?

I can see my breath!

Eatle: You're cold?
What's your problem?

Seebik: You're the one with
the problem. The fusion engine.

- Rook: You are not getting it.
- Eatle: Not without a fight.

Ben: Is everyone around here
made of rubber?

Ester: Only the winners.

- Ben: I'm warning you...
- Ester: Yes?

[ beep ]
[ Omnitrix sputters ]

[ beep ]
[ beeping ]

Ben: I got nothing.

Ester: Let's do
this again sometime ...

- this or anything else, I guess.
- Ben: Huh?

Lackno: C-c-c-can we get
going, Seebik? I'm f-freezing!

Seebik: Ester, stop
talking to that cold-cut.

Rook: These are Tungsten-based
life forms, no doubt.

Ben: Uh-huh. Totally.

Lackno: S-Seebik, two more
minutes, and I'm an ice sculpture.

Seebik: All right, Lackno.
But first... finish him off.

Ester: Seebik, that's Ben Tennyson!

Ben: Don't forget Rook!
Better "off" him, too.

I'd totally let you guys go,
but this guy never gives up.

- Seebik: Back to the hot spot!
- Ester: But you never said you...

This isn't the Kraaho way.

Seebik: The Kraaho way
is what I say it is!

Go ... now!

[ sighs ]

[ stomping ]

Rook: They seem to want to "off" us
with some sort of ritualized "offing."

Ben: Thank you,
tribal culture channel.

[ beep ]

Gravattack: Okay, then.
Take off!

[ all gasp ]

First, I make you weightless,
and then...

Ben: Then I time out.

- Rook: I thought you said minutes.
- Ben: Give or take.

[ all groaning ]

Ester: Sorry.
I can't let you do this.

I'm f-f-freezing!

- I can't see!
- Over there!

Ow!

Ester: Come on!

[ growls ]

Lackno: Ah!

- Ester: Hurry!
- Ben: Wait. I can't run away.

It doesn't matter if those guys
are made of Tungsten or tuna fish.

I got to stop them.

Ester: They have what they want.
They won't be any more trouble.

- Rook: Everything about this is trouble.
- Ben: Yeah, including yo... unh!

Ester: The Kraaho can't
follow us up here. Too cold.

Ben: Sure, 'cause it's only
degrees... in the shade.

Rook: The Kraaho need extreme
heat, yet you seem fine without it.

Ester: I'm only half-Kraaho.
To me, it's just nippy out.

- Rook: And the fusion engine?
- Ester: They needed that to keep warm.

Ben: And now they have what
they need, so... problem solved?

Ester: Exactly.
Ben gets it.

- You're overthinking everything.
- Ben: I wouldn't say ...

- It's Ester!
- Ester!

[ all cheer ]

Ester: Friends of mine.

Come play with us!

- Yeah!
- Come on, you guys!

Rook: We were chasing a
thief, and there she is!

Ben: Yeah, and she saved us, dude.
Loosen up!

[ sighs ]

"Problem solved, dude!
She saved us, dude!

Loosen yourself, dude!"

[ sighs ]

Want to play with us?

Ester: He's playing.
Come on, player.

[ horn honking ]

Car!

- Here we go!
- Let's do this!

[ indistinct shouting ]

Ben: Hey!

[ grunts ]

Car!

[ groans ]

- We can go easy if you want.
- Ben: Go easy?

[ beep ]

Xlr : It's on like computron!

[ clang! ]

- Whoo-hoo!
- Yeah!

[ chuckles ]

Who wants to cool off?

[ beep ]

[ all cheering, laughing ]

Water Hazard: Hey, Ester...

Ester: No! No!

Aah!

[ laughter ]

All: Android ella, dressed in yella,
went topside to kiss a fella!

[ shivers ]

[ chuckles ]

[ laughs ]

Rook: She likes you, Ben, dude.

Ben: Everyone likes me.
I'm the hero.

Rook: Yes, but she is not innocent.

The party is over.
You must tell her.

Be the hero, Ben...
before I am forced to poop this party.

[ electricity crackles ]

- Lackno: It's ready.
- Seebik: Fire the laser!

Lackno: How long will this take?

I've been cold so long,
I've got frostbite on my...

Seebik: Lackno! Enough with
the "how cold is it" jokes!

Lackno: ...on my frostbite.

[ beeping ]

Seebik!
The laser struck magma!

Seebik: Here we go!
Valves open! Pumps on!

[ mechanical whirring ]

Ahh. Finally!

Lackno: Yeah.
Yeah, I was so cold that ...

[ clears throat ]

Never mind.

Seebik: Now let's clear some room for ...
what do they call it topside?

Lackno: Bellwood.

Seebik: Make way for New Bellwood.

Aah!

[ horns blaring ]

[ gasps ]

Aah!
Aah!

[ people screaming ]

[ tires screech ]

[ tires screech ]

[ horn blares ]

[ all screaming ]

Ester: I swear I didn't know!

Rook: That the Kraaho would
use the fusion engine to do this?

This is their work, isn't it?

Ben: We're past the blame stage.
It's hero time!

[ car alarm blaring ]

[ beep ]

Arctiguana?
Cool!

[ siren wailing ]

[ beeping ]

- Ester! You're okay!
- Ben: For now.

Rook: Look!
The lava is still coming.

What will happen when it
flows down into undertown?

[ gasps ]

My parents!

Rook: Miss, we need
that fusion engine back.

The Kraaho are using you.

Ester: They said they wanted
to make it warmer down there.

Ben: Down where?

That place they told you to
go to, right ... the hot spot?

Ester: You're asking
me to betray my people.

Ben: Asking?
I am begging you.

[ lasers charging ]

Lackno: It's a miracle, Seebik!

You turned this frozen
wasteland into an oasis!

Seebik: As soon as New Bellwood's
warm and the stragglers dealt with...

how does the name
"New Earth" strike you?

[ gasps ]

Seebik!

You lied to me!

Seebik: How long can
we stay in this cavern?

A generation?
Two, maybe?

We need a world, Ester.

Ester: This world doesn't
belong to you. You can't roast it!

Seebik: It's not up for debate!
My word is law!

[ beep ]

NRG: Create a distraction.
I'll get the fusion device.

[ metal creaks ]

Rook: Hey! Hey!
Eyes on me!

Today we will learn an Earth
game called "tag."

[ all muttering ]

[ poink! ]

You are it!

Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!

NRG: I'm a way better at distractions.

Seebik: You brought him here?
Your father would be ashamed of you!

[ lasers zapping ]

[ grunts ]

[ grunts ]

Um...
very good!

Now, who wants to learn the
electric slide?

[ laser charges ]

[ panting ]

[ grunts ]

[ grunts ]

[ grunts ]

Ester: Rook!

[ groans ]

[ grunts ]

[ panting ]

Hurry, Ben!

[ grunts ]

[ grunts ]

[ panting ]

[ groans ]

[ grunts ]

Seebik: Keep that cold-cut
away from the engine!

NRG: Get off me!

[ thud ]

No! Please, whatever you
do, keep the suit closed!

Don't open me up!
That will end NRG!

Suckers!

[ laughs ]

Seebik: Warriors,
don't let him... do that.

NRG: That is good fusion engine.

[ beeping ]

Seebik: Well, you've won.
Happy?

Ester: You haven't exactly lost.
We'll do just fine here in the hot spot.

Ben: It is practically
another part of undertown.

You even have your own private
hot springs.

Seebik: Coexistence, living
next to a city of cold-cuts ...

that's not the Kraaho way.

Ester: No, Seebik, it's not your way.
I see that now.

But it was my father's way.

Ben: Yeah!
Wait, who was your father?

Ester: He was the leader
before Seebik.

Ben: What are you doing?

Seebik: Anything she wants.
She's defeated me.

Ester: And?

Seebik: And the Kraaho way is
whatever you say it is.

- Ester: Coexistence.
- Lackno: You'd allow it?

Ben: As long as you don't step
out of line. If you do, well...

Ester: As leader of the
Kraaho, I swear this day

that I will always be a good
neighbor to you, Ben Tennyson.

Ben: Uh, yeah.
Well, easy, now.

Rook has to go patrol his...
right, Rook?

Rook: Water.

Ben: Lemonade?

[ gulping ]
[ glass shatters ]

[ gulping ]
[ glass shatters ]

[ gulping ]

[ panting ]

Thank you.

Hey, it's Ester's boyfriend!

- Hey, Ester's boyfriend!
- Hi, Ester's boyfriend!

[ sing-song voice ]
Ester has a boyfriend!

- Where's Ester?
- Rook: Still at large.

Ben: Not her fault the fusion
engine was never recovered.

She's not my girlfriend!
We're just... friends. Just...

Hey, wait a second.
Do you think I have a sh*t with her?

Rook: What?