With his wounds finally healed, Vilgax decides to personally retrieve the Omnitrix. He contacts Ben in a dream, which worries Max. Ben ignores Max’s warnings not to use the Omnitrix and flies off to Rapid City, where Vilgax captures Ben and brings him aboard his spaceship. Max retrieves weapons from a secret base in Mount […]

Ben Tennyson, a 10-year-old boy from the city of Bellwood, begins his cross-country summer vacation with his cousin, Gwen, and his grandfather, Max. Ben finds a crashed pod at their first stop. Within it is a watch-like alien artifact called the Omnitrix. When he reaches to touch it, the watch latches onto his wrist and […]

After Ben passes an obstacle course set up in the by Max, the Rustbucket breaks down outside the mining ghost town of Slatterville, New Mexico. Meanwhile, Vilgax hires three bounty hunters – Kraab, Sixsix, and Tetrax Shard – to retrieve the Omnitrix. Ben fights Tetrax, who reveals himself to be a Petrosapien. Tetrax criticizes his […]

Grandpa Max tells Ben and Gwen about his secret past. He was part of “The Plumbers”, a secret government organization that dealt with extraterrestrial phenomenon, which was disbanded after Max defeated Vilgax himself for the first time. They run into Max’s old partner, Phil Billings, who is still hunting aliens, though he is now a […]

While visiting Albuquerque, Four Arms reluctantly fights a female thief named Rojo, who injures Max. Ben realizes that the Omnitrix makes him a constant target and puts Gwen and Max in danger, but when he encounters Rojo again, this time telepathically controlled by Vilgax’s robots, Max’s advice helps Ben win. Vilgax makes telepathic contact with […]