A Jolt From the Past

A Jolt From the Past is the third episode of the first season of Ben 10: Omniverse, and the third episode overall.
==Synopsis==
Alien pests from Ben's youth come back, but now they need Ben's help.
==Plot==
In the past at the night of the grand opening of Mr. Smoothy in Bellwood, a Nosedeenian appears and starts destroying things. Stinkfly then flies into the restaurant and projects slime at the Nosedeenian that attaches it to a wall. The Nosedeenian attempts to escape, prompting Stinkfly to say that the Nosedeenians are irritating. Then, after several attempts, the Nosedeenian manages to break out of the slime and activates the smoothie machine, causing the pipes inside the machine to project a three large streams of smoothie and one of the streams hits Stinkfly and knocks him away. After Stinkfly reverts back into 11-year-old Ben, he is irritated towards the Nosedeenian's antics and becomes disgusted at the fact that the smoothie had spilled all over his clothes. The Nosedeenian laughs at Ben's defeat and escapes outside. Ben gets up, grabs a Mr. Smoothy cup and catches the Nosedeenian with it after he exits outside and jumps. Ben believes that he has won, and is glad that there is only one Nosedeenian, but the Nosedeenian escapes from the cup and absorbs some electricity and duplicates himself. Before long, Ben is surrounded by hundreds of Nosedeenians.
Ben wonders about what to do about the Nosedeenians and complains that he doesn't have any electrical aliens. Ben suddenly remembers that he has Feedback and transforms into him. Feedback absorbs the energy out of the Nosedeenians, which causes them to fall asleep and slowly land on the ground. Feedback says that he is in such a great mood, and claims nothing can get him down now. Max and Gwen arrive in the Rustbucket 2 and wrap the Nosedeenians up in some of Ben's rubber blankets. Max comments that it's a good thing Ben still needs them, and Gwen looks back at Feedback in a taunting manner, prompting Feedback to tell Gwen to not even think about it.
Five years later, 16-year-old Ben arrives late at the hanger at Plumber Headquarters to find Max and Rook waiting for him. Max informs him that he's not working on his own timetable anymore and Ben says that he was saving the universe, but Max sees a smoothie and walks away. As they prepare to go on patrol, Rook shows Ben the Proto-TRUK, and the two leave the base.
Rook gets the feeling that Ben is mad at him. Ben corrects him, saying that he's simply bored, saying that he feels he's been more of a tour guide for Rook than a superhero. Rook, however, is excited about working with Ben, eager to learn if he stacks up to the legends about him. Rook knows that not all of the stories about Ben are true, believing for example that Alien X is just a myth created by Ben's fanbase on the Extranet. While on patrol, the pair interrupts various alien incidents, and most of them turn out to be misunderstandings on Ben and Rook's part. The few that were actual crimes, the alien criminals were scared straight as soon as they saw Ben activate the Omnitrix. Ben is bored with the patrol and notes that a normal kid named Corvo is with a cell phone. Rook notices that the phone is extraterrestrial and shouldn't work on Earth. Ben and Rook decide to follow Corvo, but he sees and attacks them before fleeing and Ben chases after him. Ben tries to transform into Big Chill to chase after the criminal by phasing through the buildings, but he transforms into Heatblast instead and decides to improvise by flying through the city after Corvo's car.
Rook chases Corvo in the Proto-TRUK while Heatblast flies after him. Corvo shoots at Heatblast with his weapon and drives away. Heatblast melts the tires of Corvo's car, which stops it. When the Omnitrix times out and Heatblast transforms back into Ben just above the ground, Ben then suffers an embarrassing and painful landing while Rook tackles and cuffs Corvo. Questioning the criminal about the alien tech he's carrying, Rook notices a strange sound coming from Corvo's engine, and they investigate, Suddenly, a Nosedeenian breaks out of the engine and frees another Nosedenian in Corvo's backpack. Ben is surprised to see the Nosedeenians.
The Nosedeenians celebrate their freedom through zapping Corvo and Rook and they then fly away. Ben and Rook give chase to the small aliens and leave behind the Corvo, who flees. Rook grapples onto a building to scout for the Nosedeenians while Ben chases them on foot. Ben tries to transform into XLR8, but he transforms into Clockwork instead. Clockwork chases the Nosedeenians while quickly becoming exhausted due to his size. Strangely, the Nosedeenians allow Clockwork to keep up with them as they pause to wait for him and then continue to fly, which Clockwork notices.
They arrive at a building where Rook catches up and Clockwork transforms back into Ben, who is tired due to all the running. Ben says that the Nosedeenians wanted him to keep up with them and they enter the building to see a machine powered by dozens of captive Nosedeenians. Ben is shocked by this and the thugs arrive and capture the Nosedeenians Ben was chasing. Another thug attacks Ben and Rook and catches them in an electricity bubble. The leader named Fistrick arrives with Corvo, who is not amused to see Ben and Rook. Ben realizes that they steal alien tech and charge it with the Nosedeenians and then sell it. After Rook disables the electricity bubble, Ben transforms into Bloxx and battles the thugs with Rook.
They manage to simply defeat two of them and Bloxx transforms back into Ben. Fistrick runs off after Rook disables Corvo and he and Ben chase Fistrick. Then, Fistrick emerges in a giant robot suit powered by six Nosedeenians and attacks Ben and Rook. Fistrick attacks Ben and Rook with missiles and they run for cover and Ben tells Rook to try to not hit the Nosedeenians. Ben tries to transform into Four Arms, but he transforms into a new alien named Gravattack instead.
Fistrick knocks Gravattack outside the building and continues to attack him. Gravattack fights back and discovers his gravity powers in the process. Gravattack uses them to toss Fistrick around and Rook arrives and tries to free a Nosedeenian. One Nosedeenian escapes before Fistrick shoots Rook away and knocks Gravattack when he tries to help. He starts punching Gravattack, but Rook operates a crane and knocks Fistrick away. Rook tells Gravattack to keep Fistrick still so he can free the Nosedeenians and Gravattack pins Fistrick down, which destroys the pier they're on in the process.
The robot suit gets wet before Gravattack pulls it out and Rook fires at it with his Proto-Tool, which frees the remaining Nosedeenians and disables the suit. Fistrick fires missiles at Gravattack with his last remaining power and Gravattack traps them in orbit and sucks Fistrick in as well, transforming into a small planetoid in the process. Gravattack flings Fistrick away and shoots the missiles at him, which destroys the suit and defeating Fistrick, and transforms back into Ben. Rook states that the battle was not easy, and Ben responds that it never is easy.
Max comes in with Plumber back up and arrests the gang. Max also reveals that the Nosedeenians have volunteered to power Undertown. With the issue resolved, Rook suggests they go get smoothies but Ben suggests chili fries instead, which disappoints Rook. The episode ends with the pair then flying away and getting into another argument about Alien X.
==Noteworthy Events==
===Major Events===
====Character Debuts====
*Nosedeenians (Omniverse flashback and present debut)
*Gwen Tennyson (Omniverse flashback debut)
*Max Tennyson (Omniverse flashback debut)
*Bryk
*Corvo
*Fistrick
*Hoodlum
*Fistrick's Thug
====Original Omnitrix Alien Debuts====
*Stinkfly (Omniverse debut by 11-year-old Ben)
====Omnitrix Alien Debuts====
*Heatblast (Omniverse debut by 16-year-old Ben)
*Clockwork (Omniverse debut)
*Gravattack
===Minor Events===
*The flashback in this episode reveals that 11-year-old Ben didn't like smoothies.
*Clockwork's species is revealed.
*The proper species name of the Megawatts is revealed to be Nosedeenian.
==Characters==
*Ben Tennyson (11 and 16 years old)
*Rook Blonko
*Nosedeenians (first reappearance; flashback and present)
*Gwen Tennyson (11 years old; first reappearance)
*Max Tennyson (60/61 years old, first reappearance; 66 years old)
*Plumbers
**Molly Gunther (cameo)
**Jerry (cameo)
**Bryk (first appearance; cameo)
**Morty (cameo)
===Villains===
*Fistrick (first appearance)
*Corvo (first appearance)
*Hoodlum (first appearance)
*Fistrick's Thug (first appearance)
==Aliens Used==
===By 11-year-old Ben===
*Stinkfly (first reappearance; off-screen activation)
*Feedback
===By 16-year-old Ben===
*Heatblast (first reappearance; intended alien was Big Chill)
*Clockwork (first reappearance; intended alien was XLR8)
*Bloxx
*Gravattack (first appearance; selected alien was Four Arms)
==Quotes==
==Naming and Translations==
==Cast==
==Continuity==
*When Ben captures the Nosedeenian in smoothie cup, he says "At least this time, there's only one of you", referring to the events of Tourist Trap, where the Nosedeenian duplicated into several clones.
==Allusions==
*The title of this episode is a reference to the phrase "A blast from the past".
==Errors==
*Inside Mr. Smoothy, Young Ben has the remains of a smoothie on him. When he goes out, the smoothie disappears.
*When Young Ben is about to transform into Feedback, the button to activate the Omnitrix is on both sides.
*When Rook says that he hopes "the real Ben Tennyson lives up to the legends", his mouth does not move.
*When Ben activates the Omnitrix to threaten the alien with the handbag, the hologram wheel faces the wrong way.
*When Ben selects Big Chill, the holographic interface doesn't disappear after the Omnitrix's core pops up.
*When Ben is hoping to transform into XLR8, Humungousaur's icon is shown.
**In addition, the hourglass is rotated 90 degrees.
*In one shot, the shine on Clockwork's body is darker than usual.
*Clockwork is missing the black stripes and the keyhole on his back.
*When the containment device is first shown, it has no Nosedeenians, but in the next shot, it is full of them. This error is seen many times.
*When Bloxx smashes the ground, he is shown falling for a while, then smashing the ground, but Ben and Rook were only a few feet from the ground. Also, when he does fall, one of his feet is missing.
*When Bloxx grabs Hoodlum before he can shock Rook, the line on his hand is colored red instead of black.
*When Ben says "Shutting you down isn't one of them", the Omnitrix symbol on Rook's Proto-Tool is all green and doesn't have the hourglass symbol on it. This error is also seen when the Nosedeenians attack Rook.
*Ben selects Four Arms' icon. When the camera view changes, it shows Ben's selected alien is now Bloxx.
*The closed captions on the Ben 10 Omniverse: A New Beginning DVD call Gravattack "Graviton", his concept name.
*In one shot, Gravattack's Omnitrix symbol is on the side of his head.
*When Rook gets shot and Gravattack talks to him, the rim of his Omnitrix symbol is the color of Gravattack's skin instead of white.
*In the interior shot of Fistrick's suit getting flooded, the water leaking inside alternates between the top and lower layer as the lights change color.
A Jolt From The Past (24).png|No smoothie
A Jolt From The Past (40).png|Two buttons
A Jolt From The Past (208).png|Interface error
SacudidaPasado (271).png|Humungousaur instead of XLR8/Rotated hourglass
SacudidaPasado (282).png|Shine error
SacudidaPasado (315).png|No Nosedeenians
SacudidaPasado (316).png|No minus symbols
SacudidaPasado (359).png|Bloxx is falling/Missing foot
SacudidaPasado (374).png|Red line
SacudidaPasado (383).png|All green symbol
SacudidaPasado (426).png|Bloxx selected
SacudidaPasado (449).png|Omnitrix symbol placement
SacudidaPasado (471).png|Rim error
==Trivia==
*This episode's title is listed as A Jolt From The Past within the episode itself, A Jolt from the Past on the Cartoon Network website, and A Jolt From the Past on iTunes.
*When Ben transforms into Clockwork, all of his body changes at the same time instead of one at a time like most transformation sequences shown in Omniverse.
*Gravattack's voice is noticeably deeper during his first line.
==References==
===Matt Wayne===
===Cartoon Network===
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pt-br:Um Choque do Passado
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