A New Dawn

A New Dawn is the tenth and final episode of the eighth season of Ben 10: Omniverse, and the eightieth and final episode overall. It is also the final episode of the Classic Continuity.
==Plot==
Continuing from the previous episode, Maltruant flees the scene on a chariot driven by a Time Beast. Before Ben and Rook give chase, Professor Paradox appears, informing Ben that he doesn't have much time left. Ben takes this advice as the Time Cycles go after Maltruant in the timestream. Recklessly, Ben rams the Time Cycles into Maltruant's ship, first knocking the Time Beast, then Maltruant out of the stream before their Time Cycles follow and crash.
As they get out of their Cycles, Ben and Rook are confronted by George Washington, who stands down after the heroes explain themselves. Washington wields a modified rifle and is revealed to be in an organization that predated the Plumbers but works similarly. Meanwhile, Maltruant recovers and begins sending out a distress signal.
Washington explains that he is on the hunt for a shambling monster, which Ben describes as a zombie and wishes to find out what happens. A zombified Redcoat soldier shows up, and to the surprise of Washington Ben transforms into Ghostfreak to deal with it. Ghostfreak attempts to possess the soldier, but as he has no brain to possess the soldier beats himself up until Ghostfreak is forced out. Ghostfreak binds the soldier with his tentacles and calls for help, prompting Washington to approach and pour a vial over the soldier, curing him of his zombification.
Washington lets the soldier go to Ghostfreak's surprise, who wonders about the American Revolution. After Ghostfreak transforms back into Ben, Washington has no idea what Ben is talking about, and Rook realizes that they're in the early 1770s. Rook recalls Plumber archives stating that the first documented alien contact happened in 1773 with the sighting of an alien ship known as the "Cherry Tree."
Indeed, the alien ship shows up: the Chimeran Hammer piloted by a young Vilgax, summoned by Maltruant's distress call. Vilgax had been exiled to Earth after being banished for his warmongering behavior. Maltruant praises Vilgax, offering a Chronosapien Time Bomb for payment so Vilgax can fix his chariot.
At the same time, the heroes move to investigate with Rook doubling back to retrieve the Time Cycles. Against Ben's suggestion, Washington charges into the fray, and Vilgax calls on his droids to stop him. Washington handles himself rather well, but Ben is hesitant to show himself to a Vilgax that has never seen him before. Skurd points out that the timestream would only be affected if Vilgax saw Ben himself, prompting Ben to transform into XLR8 and fight Vilgax before he can come to blows with Washington.
Vilgax is surprised by this but nevertheless beats XLR8 away as the Omnitrix times out. Instantly, Ben transforms into Mole-Stache, shocking Vilgax with his ability to transform. Skurd modifies Mole-Stache's mustache into Heatblast maces, and Mole-Stache quickly gains the upper hand and he and Washington defeat Vilgax. Meanwhile, Maltruant prepares to intervene, but Rook arrives in time with the Time Cycles. As Vilgax retreats, Washington arms his rifle with a pair of axes and releases a kite attachment, which gathers a bolt of lightning and supercharges the axes which fire, severing the attachment cable from Vilgax's ship.
As Vilgax floats off into the sky, he sees Mole-Stache's transformation time out and resolves to possess the transformation device for himself one day. Rook informs Ben that Maltruant has escaped, and the two quickly board the Time Cycles but not before Ben says goodbye to Washington, referring to him as "Mr. President."
Ben is confident that without a Time Beast, Maltruant's chariot is no match for the Time Cycles, but Maltruant takes out another Time Beast Egg and ages it into a mature beast, which takes him into the timestream. The heroes chase after him, and the chase eventually takes them into a massive blank void. A familiar ship appears in front of them, and the Time Cycles crash into it, landing inside a hallway. Ben and Rook recognize the ship as a Contumelia ship and eventually make their way to the bridge, where they think Maltruant is.
Ben attempts to confront Maltruant but is surprised to see the bridge manned by three Mr. Smoothys. Rook, however, sees three copies of his father, Rook Da. The Mr. Smoothys reveal themselves to be Contumelia, whose fifth-dimensional forms cannot be seen by any three-dimensional beings, and instead take the form of whatever the viewer holds as having the most influence over their heart. The Contumelia explain that they're in the midst of an experiment: creating a new universe.
Rook is suspicious, since the stories he'd heard from childhood described the Contumelia as destroyers of universes. Ben realizes that the Contumelia Annihilarrgh not only destroys universes, but creates a brand new one in its place as well. The Contumelia are intrigued by Ben and Rook's knowledge, wondering if they have anything to do with their "other guest." Ben realizes that Maltruant seeks to create a universe of his own design with the modified Annihilarrgh.
The Contumelia teleport Ben and Rook into another chamber where Maltruant is busy swapping out an Annihilarrgh from a machine with his own modified copy. Maltruant gloats that Ben is too late, and the Contumelia (whom the egomaniac Maltruant sees as copies of himself) confirm that the machine's sequence cannot be stopped or canceled. Ben tells Rook to handle Maltruant while he stops the device. Rook charges in and begins fighting Maltruant, whose time powers do not work in a world that existed before time itself.
After some struggling, Ben lets Skurd pick an alien, and he transforms into Chromastone. Unfortunately, he cannot breach the protective barrier around the Annihilarrgh. Skurd modifies his arm into an Alien X arm with a Celestialsapien sword, but as Chromastone pierces the barrier, the Annihilarrgh drops through a hatch, ready to destroy his universe. Chromastone forces open the barrier and dives in; Maltruant, barely managing to beat Rook, attempts to chase after him but fails to breach the barrier. In the emptiness before time, the Annihilarrgh falls endlessly until it opens up, forming a black hole. Chromastone reverts back to Ben, and the black hole shrinks, releasing a red explosion of energy right in front of Ben and Skurd.
Rook, watching from the ship, is horrified that Ben has been killed. Maltruant roars with laughter, believing that he has destroyed Ben's universe and made a new one in his own image, which he will now rule. Suddenly, the energy rises out of the void and back into the ship, much to Maltruant's horror. The pulsing energy is being held by Ben as Feedback, who cycles through nearly all of his alien transformations, containing the energy before finally transforming into Feedback again. Feedback blasts Maltruant with the Annihilarrgh's energy, causing the rogue Chronosapien to implode into bits and pieces.
After he times out, Ben crushes the modified Annihilarrgh beneath his feet. Rook is amazed that Ben survived, and Ben explains that the Omnitrix had a function that would protect the wielder if the wielder ever died; something which he'd always guessed it had. Ben remarks on the Omnitrix somehow always giving him the right alien to transform into, even if it's not the one he wants.
The impressed Contumelia congratulate Ben for his efforts, inviting the two to watch their universe be created, remarking that it might be "the most interesting one yet." Ben and Rook are awestruck by the experience, and a Contumelia reveals to them several chambers filled with Slime-Biots.
Skurd is surprised at the sight of other Slime-Biots besides himself; the Contumelia explains that Slime-Biots are the most important species in all of creation who carry samples of DNA and spread them across the created universes, seeding life. The Contumelia invites Skurd to join his ancestors, pointing out that he has forgotten his original purpose after billions of years. Skurd shares a heartfelt goodbye with Ben before willingly detaching himself, joining the other Slime-Biots to seed DNA throughout the created universe.
Professor Paradox makes his appearance, praising Ben for not letting him down. Ben admits that he believed things would happen this way, as Maltruant is stuck in a time loop. Paradox confirms this: Ben would defeat Maltruant and separate him into pieces, which Paradox would hide; Maltruant would revive himself, retrieve his missing pieces and attempt to return to the beginning of time only to be defeated by Ben in an endless cycle that Maltruant isn't aware of. Paradox invites Ben and Rook to help him hide Maltruant's parts across the multiverse before sending them home.
Back in their own universe, Ben and Rook have another day at Mr. Smoothy's, although Ben is bored; having witnessed the creation of a universe with his own eyes, his present state of peace is dull by comparison. Ben, inspired, proposes that they should explore the universe they watched being created, and Rook agrees with this sentiment. Ben calls Gwen on his cellphone, declaring that he, Rook, Gwen and Kevin are going on a road trip.
The camera pulls back from Bellwood, then Earth, revealing the vast expanse of the universe as the episode, season, and series ends.
==Noteworthy Events==
===Major Events===
*Vilgax is given his Chronosapien Time Bomb by Maltruant, and is inspired to hunt down the Omnitrix.
*Maltruant is defeated and his components are scattered across time and space by Professor Paradox, creating a recurrent time loop.
*Ben and Rook witness the universe's creation.
*Skurd decides to stay with his ancestors, leaving Ben forever in his mission of seeding life across creation.
====Character Debuts====
*George Washington
*Contumelia
===Minor Events===
*The Omnitrix is revealed to have a fail-safe that kicks in when Ben is about to die.
*Ben, Kevin, Gwen, and Rook decide to go on a road trip across the universe together.
*It is revealed that the Contumelia create universes, not destroy them.
*The Time Cycles are destroyed.
==Characters==
===Main Characters===
*Ben Tennyson
*Rook Blonko
*Skurd
===Supporting Characters===
*Professor Paradox
*George Washington (first appearance)
*Contumelia (first appearance)
===Antagonists===
*Maltruant
*Time Beast
*Vilgax (past)
**Bioids (past)
===Other Characters===
*Ken Tennyson (cameo)
*Ben 10,000 (cameo)
*Kai Tennyson (cameo)
*Red Coat
*Alton Alabaster (cameo)
*Gwen Tennyson (photo)
==Aliens Used==
===By Ben===
*Ghostfreak (x2; second time was a cameo)
*XLR8 (x2; first time was an off-screen activation; second time was a cameo)
*Mole-Stache (x2; second time was a cameo)
*Chromastone (x2; second time was a cameo)
*Feedback (x2; first time was an off-screen activation and cameo)
*Four Arms (cameo)
*Ripjaws (cameo)
*Heatblast (cameo)
*Wildmutt (cameo)
*Diamondhead (cameo)
*Grey Matter (cameo)
*Stinkfly (cameo)
*Upgrade (cameo)
*Cannonbolt (cameo)
*Wildvine (cameo)
*Blitzwolfer (cameo)
*Perk Upchuck (cameo)
*Ditto (cameo)
*Eye Guy (cameo)
*Way Big (cameo)
*Swampfire (cameo)
*Echo Echo (cameo)
*Humungousaur (cameo)
*Big Chill (cameo)
*Brainstorm (cameo)
*Spidermonkey (cameo)
*Goop (cameo)
*Alien X (cameo)
*Lodestar (cameo)
*Rath (cameo)
*Nanomech (cameo)
*Water Hazard (off-screen activation; cameo)
*Ampfibian (cameo)
*Armodrillo (cameo)
*Terraspin (cameo)
*NRG (cameo)
*Clockwork (cameo)
*Shocksquatch (cameo)
*Eatle (cameo)
*Juryrigg (cameo)
*Bloxx (cameo)
*Gravattack (cameo)
*Crashhopper (cameo)
*Ball Weevil (cameo)
*Walkatrout (cameo)
*Pesky Dust (cameo)
*The Worst (cameo)
*Kickin' Hawk (cameo)
*Toepick (cameo)
*Astrodactyl (cameo)
*Bullfrag (cameo)
*Atomix (cameo)
*Gutrot (cameo)
*Whampire (cameo)
===By Skurd===
*Heatblast
*Alien X (x2; second time was an off-screen activation)
==Quotes==
==Naming and Translations==
==Cast==
==Continuity==
*Several references are made to previous Omniverse episodes.
**Ben and Rook recall their past experiences with the Contumelia ship and the Annihilarrgh from their last visit in So Long, and Thanks for All the Smoothies.
**Rook alludes to the events of Something Zombozo This Way Comes, when he mentions that he has been a zombie before.
**It is revealed how Vilgax obtained the Chronosapien Time Bomb, which he utilized in And Then There Were None.
*It is revealed that Ben himself was responsible for Vilgax's goal of pursuing the Omnitrix.
==Allusions==
*The tunnels that Ben, Rook, Skurd, and Maltruant fly through when they travel through time are a reference to the wires of time from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
*The Cherry Tree refers to the story of George Washington chopping down a cherry tree, written by Parson Weems.
*Washington also alludes to Benjamin Franklin and his lightning kite experiment.
*Aside from Feedback, when cycling through all of Ben's transformations, the aliens appear in chronological order, with the Original Series aliens coming first, and Omniverse aliens coming last. 
**On top of this, all the aliens that are shown appear in chronological order based on who appeared first on-screen in their respective debut series, except Four Arms, Ripjaws, and Rath.
==Errors==
*George Washington states that "Plumbiers" is the French word for "iron workers". However, this is false; the word is not the translation of "iron workers" (ferroniers) nor "plumbers" (plombiers).
*When Chromastone jumps after the Annihilarrgh, his Alien X arm is missing.
*In one shot, Chromastone's upper arms are magenta like his lower arms.
*When talking to Skurd, Chromastone's chest is colored green like his jumpsuit.
*During the mass alien transformation scene:
**Skurd is missing from all of the aliens except Feedback.
**Four Arms' teeth are colored and drawn incorrectly.
**Cannonbolt's Omnitrix symbol is lower than it should be.
**Blitzwolfer's fingers have the same color as his body.
**Chromastone's gauntlets only have two stripes.
**Alien X is missing his stars.
**Lodestar's chest is completely black, and the glowing aura around his head is missing. 
**Rath appears naked again, despite gaining clothes in The Secret of Dos Santos. This was caused by an Omnitrix glitch.
**The outlines around Ampfibian's eyes are white instead of black.
**Parts of NRG's suit are incorrectly colored, and the left screw located near his Omnitrix symbol is missing.
**Bloxx has two color error. Mid-transformation, some of his parts are incorrectly colored, his shoulders, legs, chest, and chin have reversed color patterns, and after the transformation, he has Juryrigg's colors.
**Some parts of Gravattack’s hands are uncolored.
**Ball Weevil has Crashhopper's color scheme.
**Mole-Stache has Pesky Dust's color scheme.
**The Worst's body is blue.
**Toepick has Kickin' Hawk's color scheme.
**Astrodactyl has two Omnitrix symbols.
**Bullfrag's color scheme is brighter than usual.
**Atomix's color scheme is mixed with Gutrot's.
**The insides of Gutrot's nozzles are black instead of green.
**Whampire's color scheme is darker than usual.
**Frankenstrike, Snare-Oh, Murk Upchuck, Arctiguana, and Buzzshock do not appear despite the fact that they did appear previously in the series.
**The Original Series and Alien Force aliens do not appear entirely in chronological order, as Four Arms and Ripjaws appear before Heatblast and Rath appears before Nanomech.
*When Feedback is about to launch his final attack on Maltruant, there is a rendering error in the right side of the scene.
*When Feedback reverts back to Ben, Ben is seen with Alien X's left arm. Not only is it missing its standard white rim-lighting for most of its screentime, but its presence and retraction imply that it was brought out by Skurd while containing the Annihilarrgh's explosion but was not animated.
*When Skurd deactivates Alien X's left arm, Ben's arm is missing its shading.
*As Ben and Rook watch the formation of the universe, the Omnitrix is missing.
*The Slime-Biot cage is open before the Contumelia opens it.
*Towards the end of the episode, parts of Rook's Proto-Tech Armor are blue instead of black.
AND (464).png|Missing Alien X arm
AND (471).png|Green chest
AND (477).png|Magenta upper arms
AND four arms.png|Teeth error
AND cannonbolt.png|Omnitrix symbol error
AND blitzwolfer.png|Light grey fingers
AND chromastone.png|Missing stripe
AND alien x.png|Missing stars
AND lodestar.png|Black chest/Missing glow
AND rath.png|Missing clothes/Color error
AND ampfibian.png|White outlines
AND NRG.png|Color error
AND bloxx.png|Color error
AND Bloxx With Juryrigg's Colors.png|Color error
AND gravattack.png|Uncolored hands
AND ball weevil.png|Color error
AND mole-stache.png|Color error
AND the worst.png|Blue body
AND toepick.png|Color error
AND astrodactyl.png|Two Omnitrix symbols
AND bullfrag.png|Brighter color scheme
AND atomix.png|Color error
AND gutrot.png|Nozzles color error
AND whampire.png|Darker color scheme
AND (528).png|Celestialsapien arm/Missing rim light
AND (530).png|Missing shading
AND (547).png|Missing Omnitrix
AND (557).png|The cage is already open
AND (610).png|Proto-Tech Armor color error
==Trivia==
*This episode has the most aliens used by Ben, with 54 aliens used and with 59 individual transformations.
*Murk Upchuck, Arctiguana, Buzzshock, Frankenstrike, and Snare-Oh are the only aliens who have previously been featured in Omniverse to be absent in this episode.
**This excludes Jetray, Fasttrack, Chamalien, and Spitter, all of whom never appeared in this series.
*Apart from Ben, Vilgax is the only character to physically appear in both the first and the last episodes of the entire Classic Continuity.
*Steve Blum is the only voice actor to lend his voice in both the first and the last episode of the entire Classic Continuity.
*The crew wanted to show the Earthly origins of the Plumbers fighting the supernatural since the beginning of the series. George Washington was originally going to be travelling with Ezekiel Saturday, but the idea was nixed due to time constraints.
==References==
===Derrick J. Wyatt===
es:Un nuevo amanecer
pl:Nowy wszechświat
pt-br:Um Novo Amanhecer
ro:Un nou început
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