The Metal Bat Cousin

Ghostfreaked Out

Park

A boy has thrown his frisbee into a nearby tree. The boy climbs the tree to get it unstuck, but finds that he's too afraid of the height to do anything other than cower.

Little Boy: Huh! Ooh... Help! I can't get down!

Gwen: <Calling up> Don't worry! We'll come up and get you!

Ben and Gwen stand underneath the tree in the park.

Ben: <Sarcastically> We?

Gwen: Hey, you're the one with all those alien heroes at your fingertips.

Ben fiddles with the watch before transforming into Wildmutt and begins to climb the tree.

Gwen: Oh, good thinking! Turn into the vicious alien attack dog to rescue the scared kid out of the tree.

Ben looks over his shoulder, and growls at Gwen's jab. As Ben approaches down the branch, the boy becomes even more scared.

Little Boy: Oh! <Turning away and cowering>

Ben: <talking normal while being WildMutt> It's okay. I'm here to help get you down.

Little Boy / Ghostfreak: I don't want to get down.

The boy turns around to reveal his face now has Ghostfreak's one purple eye.

Ghostfreak: I want out!

Ben: <Recoiling> Nyah!

The whole setting transforms, the branch melts into Ghostfreak's hands, and the leaves and sky into the Omnitrix's DNA void. As Ben backs up against the trunk, it turns into Ghostfreak's face, fully completing the transformation.

Ben: Leave me alone!

Ghostfreak: You can't get away from me.

Ben jumps back, and the branch, now a hand, grabs Ben in its grasp and lifts him closer, face to face.

Ghostfreak: Always the hero. What a waste of potential. <Pulling Ben closer> If you want to be helpful, get me out!

Ben: Aaah!

Ben suddenly wakes up and falls out of the bottom bunk of the RV, realizing the whole experience was a nightmare.

Ben: <Slumping> Oh...

Rip jumped on Ben's bed and rubbed his head on Ben's arm as Ben held him close.

Ben: thanks, Rip.

Later

The Rustbucket drives over a bridge, up the road towards a school. Ben sits looking at the greenery outside the window with his head in his hands.

Max: Ben... Ben!

Gwen: <Smacking Ben over the head with literature> Earth to dweeb!

Ben: Huh?

Gwen: Clean the wax out of your ears.

Max: <From the driver's seat looking back> You okay, son?

Ben: Oh, yeah. I guess I'm still just a little weirded out by that Wildmutt nightmare.

Gwen: Well, what do you expect when you wolf down two mega-enchurritos for a midnight snack? Wade how come you didn't get nightmares?

Wade: I don't know and I ate three.

Hope: I put a Dreamcatcher above his head.

Ben: <Snatching the literature Gwen was reading from her hands and fumbling with it> You think you're so smart. Is that why you want to go to this stupid school? It's full of nothing but snobs and posers.