How are the energy cuffs?
Comfortable?
His name's trombipulor.
Whatever. I forgot.
He wouldn't.
It was too funny.
Anyway, your ride's here.
He's wanted for
level weapons-dealing.
He's all yours, officer.
Tennyson, Tennyson, and
Levin, right?
That doesn't look like
a medal.
"Because you received"
your plumber commendations
during a field engagement, your
required training is incomplete.
Please report to academy
for field-certification
"courses."
Wait.
We have to go to school?
What is the
plumber academy gonna teach us?
It's not like we haven't saved
the whole entire universe
already.
Give it a rest,
Tennyson.
If this is what it takes to keep
our plumbers badges, then this
is what we'll do.
Tennyson?
You are Ben Tennyson, hero of
the Highbreed wars, conqueror of
Vilgax?
Yeah. Hi.
It is because of you that I
go to plumber academy.
My name is tack.
Um, what are you doing?
Greeting you reverentially.
I thought it was a
really slow head butt.
Head...Butt?
This is awesome!
Look at the classes we get to
take!
Weapons and tactics,
interstellar law, cultural
sensitivity.
Started strong, but
then you lost me.
Starship maintenance.
And you got him right
back.
I wouldn't mind
learning about those sweet
foldspace engines they're
putting in the new cruisers.
Classes... too much like
school.
This is like no school any of
us has ever attended.
I heard that our drill
instructor is the meanest,
toughest plumber in the service.
Except for my grandpa.
All due respect to your
grandfather, magister Hulka is
the most decorated officer in
plumber history, and he expects
no less than excellence from his
students.
But surely he has never
had a pupil like the great
Ben Tennyson.
Surely.
I think our barracks are this
way.
I can't get a signal.
Plumber badges don't work on
campus.
It's against the rules to use
them.
Good thing they're not
grading on following directions,
huh, tack?
You are funny, Ben Tennyson.
Eyes forward, you larval
dipteroid!
"Larval dipteroid"?
Did cadet no-neck just call my
new buddy a...
Maggot?
Yeah... insulting.
Technically, he implied
he was sort of a space maggot,
so there's that.
Are you plebes giving me
attitude?
N-no, that is the great
Ben Tennyson.
He's new here, but he's hardly a
lowly ple...
I don't care who he is.
I'm senior cadet Brannigan,
commander of Alpha squad.
You are a larval dipteroid
who's here to learn plumber
work, so shut it!
We got off to a bad
start.
How about I buy you and tack
whatever passes for a smoothie
here, and we all start over?
There's been a null-void
breakout, so magister Hulka
wants all new recruits in their
bunks and accounted for.
You don't want to make him and
me mad on the same day.
Do we understand each other,
larval dipteroid?
Ooh. Big mistake.
Brannigan, you just
bought yourself a nose full of
Humongousaur.
We're going, Tennyson.
You're not getting us thrown out
of here on the first day.
Wait.
You're holding me back?
Any time, any place.
I'm in Alpha squadron!
"Look at me!"
I should've gone all Armodrillo
on him.
No... Fourarms!
You should have walked
away, which you did, thanks to
Kevin.
Yeah, way to have my
back, Kevin!
Keeping your plumber's
badge may not matter to you, but
it does to me.
Don't mess this up for
him.
]] You ladies settling in okay?
You must be
magister Hulka.
I'm Ben Tennyson.
Maybe you've heard of...
]] I don't care who you were
before you came here!
Now you are a larval dipteroid.
You aren't fit to shine my
boots!
But maybe, just maybe, if you
shut your hole and learn
everything I teach you, you
might become a plumber!
Any questions?
Sir, I wanted to ask
about the null-void breakout.
I was thinking we could help...
"thinking"?!
Did I order you to think?!
No, sir!
Then your mind is a blank
Slate!
Is that clear?!
Yes, sir!
Listen up.
This is the plumber academy.
You are here to learn how to do
your job, not to help me do
mine.
So while you're under my
instruction, you will study
hard, sh**t straight, fight to
win, and above all, follow
orders.
Got it?
Yes, sir!
I can't hear you!
Probably busted his
eardrums with all the shouting.
Test me again, Tennyson, and
I will wear you like an
overcoat.
Sorry, sir.
One question, sir?
I heard you've got more medals
than anybody.
I notice you only wear one.
]] Report to me on the f*ring
range at !
Every second you are late will
equal an eternity of suffering!
He needs to cut back on
the caffeine.
]] This is a top-of-the-line
Mark Techadorian
Multiblaster.
It is capable of delivering a
maximum energy burst of three
petawatts.
]] You will learn to assemble it
blindfolded with one hand behind
your back.
You will keep it cleaned and
maintained.
Used properly, it will save your
life and the lives of those
you've sworn to protect.
A plumber's blaster is his best
and only friend.
Hello, old friend.
Did you hear that?
]] Your best and only friend is
in pieces!
What are you waiting for?!
Assemble your best friend!
Go! Go! Go!
Fourarms!
]] What do you think you're
doing?
Helping my
squad mate, sir.
His power pack fell under the...
]] did you read the general
orders in your orientation
materials on your flight in?
Skimmed them, sir.
]] This is a learning facility.
There is to be no use of
superpowers during training...
none.
You should know that.
I've got bad reading
habits, sir!
Swampfire!
S-sir.
I should probably
practice with the blaster more,
huh?
I'll go do that.
]] The key to using fusion
grenades is to reverse the
polarity of the magno-catch.
So instead of being attracted to
your hand, it repels.
You first, cadet.
What's the glitch?
We've been studying this all
week.
Reverse polarity and get rid of
it!
]] It will not come
off!
It's on overload!
Get back! That's an order!
Ben!
You saved us!
You are the greatest plumber of
all!
He's a larval dipteroid!
He disobeyed orders!
I was supposed to let
the grenade get you?!
You were supposed to do what
I tell you!
You'd know that if you were ever
listening in class.
You don't think this
was an accident, do you, sir?
Tack's glove was tampered with
to stay magnetized, wasn't it?
I get it.
This is some kind of test to get
us to solve the mystery, right?
This is no test.
Is someone trying to hurt tack?
]] W-who would want to hurt me?
Get real, you guys.
It was just a bad grenade.
What, the magna-lock
went bad and it was set on
"overload" instead of "stun"?
Gwen's right.
Go back to your barracks.
Someone's out to get
you, sir, aren't they?
Or you wouldn't let tack be out
of your sight, would you?
Mind...Your own...Business.
Someone tampered with
that grenade.
Hulka knows who it was.
He doesn't want our
help.
Let's take the night off,
explore a little.
We've been stuck in these
barracks all week.
Whole place is on
lockdown.
Breaking curfew is against
orders.
It's like I don't even
know you anymore.
Being a plumber isn't
something you mess around with.
If you screw this up, you and I
are gonna get into it.
Come on, tack.
Let's see what this place is all
about.
We'll bring you a souvenir.
Y-yeah, I'm not sure this is
such a good...
I can't help it.
I'm exhausted.
Relax.
We can sleep in until
tomorrow.
Or not.
On your feet, cadets!
Let's go, let's go, let's go!
Late night?
How did he know?
Full gear and ready for
dust-off in minutes.
Your inability to follow orders
yesterday and last night bought
you a combat exercise.
Nice.
Way to go, Tennyson.
You are the plumbers on duty.
Alpha squadron has taken a
hostage.
Your mission is to rescue that
hostage using your plumber
training and not your powers!
All multiblasters are set on
"stun."
Go!
Bad news, plebes... the
alphas never lose.
They may be jerks, but
they're good.
Not as good as us.
Ben, no powers.
We have to do this the right
way.
]] What is the right way?
Kevin, advance to that
Boulder.
I'll cover you, then follow as
tack covers me, et cetera.
Ben, you stay here as backup.
Why do I have to stay?
Because you're a lousy
sh*t.
No offense.
Or I turn into
big chill, phase into the
ground, and come out behind
them.
I hate this!
Kevin! Hang on!
What did I say?
The alphas never lose.
Okay, that's it.
Alpha!
What's the matter with you?!
Take him down!
You gonna handle these
clowns, or should I?
Don't blame
yourselves.
She's devious.
Diamondhead!
Nice try, but you still lose.
Stay back!
In case you were
wondering, this is what it's
like to lose.
The exercise is over.
Stand down.
How could you let yourself be
taken down?
You're supposed to be the elite
squad.
Maybe you guys should
add my moves to the lesson plan.
Not only did you disobey a
direct order and use your
powers, look what your smart
moves did for the hostage.
Oh, come on.
If the hostage had been real, I
wouldn't have...
you failed. Case closed.
It doesn't matter how
you handle a situation, as long
as it gets handled!
If you can't see that, you're
crazy!
Perhaps you should not have
called him crazy.
What are you complaining
about?
I have to use this tomorrow.
Anyone know if he was in
there?
Who?
Magister Hulka!
These are his quarters.
If Hulka is in there, he
doesn't stand a chance!
Yes, he does!
Terraspin!
All clear.
No sign of magister Hulka.
Somebody likes fusion
grenades.
And doesn't like
magister Hulka.
So, where is
grouchy McRulebook, anyway?
What's happening here?
Plumber-issue.
You know who it is,
don't you?
When your quarters are clean,
you can get started on mine.
Plumber weapons and
tactics, someone with a grudge
against Hulka.
Long list.
But brannigan looked pretty
ticked when Hulka called him
out.
That's not proof.
]] So, what do we do?
Stakeout.
]] Hulka sure hasn't taught you
much about surveillance.
He did, actually.
We sort of put our own
spin on it.
Where is he?
Why are you trying to hurt him?
What are you talking about?
I'm shadowing him because he
doesn't want a guard.
I knew it was you all along.
I see you didn't learn anything
in the null void.
I learned enough to break out
and come here to pay you back!
But not enough to avoid
getting lured into attacking me
in an equipment depot.
You ruined my life!
You ruined it yourself,
Kolar.
Plumbers have honor.
You've got nothing.
I may not have gotten
smarter...
But I'm a lot stronger!
Stronger than
fourarms?
Oh, yes!
Let's try that
again.
Nobody move, or I'll tear him
in half.
Hands off my cadet!
Happily, magister.
But first, you're gonna do
something for me.
You're gonna step into this
space warp.
]] And the other end lets out
where?
]] A small sun in the null void.
You won't feel a thing.
Tack, greet Kolar.
]] What?
You know... "with
great respect."
]] Ah! Head butt!
You...Pushed him into
a sun?
]] I did not.
I changed the arrival address to
a null-void penitentiary.
Plumbers are law enforcement,
not judges.
Don't ever forget that.
Not bad.
We saved our instructor's life
and used plumber tactics and
weapons.
But you still used your
powers.
You just can't resist
improvising, can you?
I hope this class is
pass/fail.
I can't believe I only
scored a !
Out of , Gwen.
Try and unclench.
It only takes a to
pass, which I exceeded.
How about you, Ben?
.
People think I'm not paying
attention, but I am.
My is starting to
feel really weak.
This is me not paying
attention.
]] To my considerable amazement,
you all completed the course, so
it's official.
You're plumbers.
But we knew that
already.
So what you really came here for
was to thank me for saving your
life, didn't you?
Go on. It won't hurt.
Your shuttle home leaves in
five.
Wait. What's this for?
"For demonstration of a"
plumber's most essential
attribute... the ability to
exercise latitude and creativity
"in problem-solving."
Sounds like a
thank-you to me.
02x08 - Basic Training
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A year after Ben defeated Vilgax, he's known the world over as a hero and must learn to master the powers of the Ultimatrix.
A year after Ben defeated Vilgax, he's known the world over as a hero and must learn to master the powers of the Ultimatrix.