Ben 10 Meets the Wild Kratts

A Power Like No Other

It was now the next morning in the Tortuga HQ. Jimmy, Koki and Aviva were all examining the Ultimatrix. The Kratt Brothers were on a mission to help some animals being manipulated by Zach. 

"It's not blinking blue anymore. Is it done rebooting?" Koki said to Aviva, who was busy reassembling the remains of her creature power suit from the previous night. 

Aviva excitedly walked over to the Ultimatrix and picked it up. The Ultimatrix was finished calibrating and now was glowing a nice solid green color. 

Jimmy, now rested, chimed in. "Well Aviva, aren't you going to put it on? It's clearly a watch you know!" 

Aviva was a bit worried, but not wanting to be a disappoint, slid the device onto her wrist. Despite being too large for her, as it was previously worn by a teenage boy. The device quickly shrunk to fit Aviva perfectly and the color slowly changed into a purple color scheme to match her preferences. 

"You get a powerful device and the first thing you try is changing the color?" Koki asked confused at Aviva's priorities. 

"No no! I didn't even touch anything. It just changed... Like it already knew?" Aviva responded to Koki, before she brought one of her creature power discs to the Ultimatrix. The Ultimatrix began automatically scanning the disc but responded in a robotic tone, "Biometric data is not considered sentient enough to become an available transformation in Primus. Please select another."

"Huh?" Aviva said confused before picking up another disc. This one was a dolphin, one of the most intelligent creatures on Earth. The Ultimatrix again scanned it, but repeated the same thing as before.

"What do they mean dolphins aren't sentient? I've made creature power suits of all kinds of different animals, EVEN BUGS! This is confusing... I need to figure out how this device works." Aviva said confused before she attempted to remove the Ultimatrix, which wouldn't budge. 

"Uh... Aviva just slide it off!" Jimmy said to Aviva after he noticed she was struggling to remove the device. 

"It's not coming off!" Aviva was becoming desperate and scared. Koki came to the rescue with a large set of pliers and began yanking on the device. But all that came of this was a set of destroyed pliers. 

"What is this MADE of?" Koki said in confusion, holding up the pliers which were now bent heavily. 

"Just leave it on for now. It's clearly comfortable. I'm sure after you figure it out you'll be able to remove it. Like a tough level in a video game!" Jimmy responded to Koki and Aviva, before setting a piece of gum in his mouth.

Meanwhile, in the wilderness. Ben Tennyson had finally made it to the crash site. Since he was done with his transformation, the Omnitrix automatically timed out and turned him back into a human. Ben clicked on his Omnitrix and began leaving a message for the plumbers.

"I just made it to the crash site. No sign of the Ultimatrix. Two of the crates were forced open by somebody or something. All the others are still sealed shut." Ben spoke into his Omnitrix before ending the audio message, looking around the rubble. The smoke had cleared up alot since the Kratts had visited, and Ben noticed the damaged probe dragging itself along, searching the empty crate which used to contain the Ultimatrix.

Ben grabbed the probe and lifted it up to his face. "Hey there little guy... Did Azmuth send you?" Ben turned the device around and noticed a familiar signature on the back. Albedo. Ben spoke into his Omnitrix again. "I just found a robot searching one of the crates. It belonged to Albedo." He then finished abruptly noticing some tracks on the ground. It was the tracks of three people. Ben didn't know if they were involved, but they must have saw something when they visited that location. The Omnitrix still hadn't recharged, so Ben had to follow the tracks without the use of XLR8. 

The Kratt Brothers had just managed to save some beavers from mind control devices invented by Zach, who was now clinging to a tree begging for the beavers to not gnaw him off and hurt him.

"Well bro, looks like our work here is done. Run along free you guys!" Chris told Martin and the beavers who helped them take care of Zach. 

"I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME, WILD RATTS!" Zach said angrily, still too scared to leave the tree incase the beavers returned. He called his cell phone for one of his robots to come rescue him.