War of the Worlds: Part 1

War of the Worlds: Part 1 is the twenty-fifth episode of the first season of Ben 10: Alien Force, and the twenty-fifth episode overall.
==Synopsis==
Ben must recruit the other Plumber's kids to help stop the Highbreed invasion of Earth.
==Plot==
The Highbreed fleet appears in the skies above Galvan Prime, having shut down their planetary defenses. Azmuth, looking on from his tower, is visited by Paradox, and laments the defeat of the Galvan, noting that without them, the rest of the galaxy stands no chance against the Highbreed. Paradox disagrees and suggests that the Omnitrix could give the universe a fighting chance and insists that Azmuth come with him to Earth. A Highbreed ship fires at Azmuth's tower, and Paradox teleports them both away just as it is destroyed.
On Earth, Ben is practicing soccer with his team when Paradox and Azmuth appear to retrieve him. They meet up with Gwen and Kevin at Mr. Smoothy and go over the imminent Highbreed plan to use the Hyperspace Jump Gate to transport their fleet to Earth. The team resolves to destroy the Jump Gate as quickly as possible, and Ben decides that they ought to call in the help of the other Plumber's kids whom they have aided in the past. Azmuth asks that Gwen and Kevin be responsible for their retrieval, as he wants a word with Ben.
Gwen and Kevin visit Alan and recruit him as he is capturing a DNAlien, then meet Cooper at his lab and ask him to join forces with them as well. Cooper dons robotic armor and agrees to do whatever he can to help. The team then travels to the Plumber base at Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota and release Michael Morningstar from the Null Void. They make a deal to release Michael on the condition that he help them stop the invasion. When Michael asks why Kevin would trust him, Kevin points out that if Michael doesn't help stop the invasion, he won't survive either when the Highbreed destroy the Earth.
Meanwhile, at Mr. Smoothy, Azmuth reveals that he has withheld information about the Omnitrix's true purpose from Ben. He explains that the Omnitrix contains DNA samples from over one million sentient life forms in the Milky Way Galaxy, including humanity, and that if any of these species were to be destroyed by the Highbreed, the Omnitrix could restore them to life a la Noah's Ark. However, if the Omnitrix is destroyed, then there is no hope of restoring any species destroyed by the Highbreed. Azmuth insists that Ben not participate in the final battle due to this risk, but Ben refuses, and threatens to fight Azmuth if he attempts to take the Omnitrix from Ben. Realizing Ben will not yield, Azmuth reluctantly activates the Omnitrix's Master Control, granting Ben access to every alien, as well as the voice command within the Omnitrix.
Gwen and Kevin then arrive along with Alan, Cooper, Darkstar, and Julie, who brings Ship with her to fight in his battleship form. The team makes their way to Los Soledad and enters the cloaking field. Ben transforms into Cannonbolt, and they fight their way through hundreds of DNAliens in an attempt to reach and destroy the Jump Gate. Michael is injured during the battle and attempts to drain the life force of numerous DNAliens. Ben stops him, reminding him that the DNAliens are humans possessed by alien control. He is then given the idea to use the Omnitrix to revert the DNAliens to their human forms; however, having reverted as many DNAliens to human as possible, this depletes the Omnitrix's power, reverting Cannonbolt back into Ben. After seeing the Omnitrix's genetic damage repair at work, Cooper transforms his robotic suit into several DNA repair guns, which can instantly turn DNAliens back into humans.
With the DNA repair guns in hand, Ben and the team continue the fight, making their way to the Jump Gate. Once they reach it, they attempt to destroy it but causes no damage. Ben, as Upchuck, transforms into Way Big and attempts to pull the Jump Gate out of the ground, but before he can finish, the Gate activates and Ben is severely injured, transforming back into his human form just as the Highbreed fleet arrives on Earth.
==Noteworthy Events==
===Major Events===
*Galvan Prime is destroyed by the Highbreed.
*It is revealed that the Omnitrix contains DNA samples from every species in the Milky Way Galaxy, 1,000,903 to be exact.
*Ben regains access to the Omnitrix's Master Control function, and in the process unlocks some of the aliens from the Original Series; such as Cannonbolt, Murk Upchuck, and Way Big.
*The team rounds up Darkstar, Azmuth, Alan, Cooper, Professor Paradox, Julie and Ship to fight the Highbreed.
*The Highbreed begin their invasion of Earth.
====Character Debut====
*Highbreed Commander
====Omnitrix Alien Debuts====
*Cannonbolt (Alien Force debut)
*Murk Upchuck
*Way Big (Alien Force debut)
===Minor Events===
*Kevin's full name is revealed to be Kevin Ethan Levin.
==Characters==
===Main Characters===
*Ben Tennyson
*Gwen Tennyson
*Kevin Levin
===Supporting Characters===
*Azmuth
*Professor Paradox
*Alan Albright
*Cooper
*Darkstar
*Julie Yamamoto
*Ship
===Antagonists===
*DNAliens
*Highbreed
**Highbreed Commander (first appearance)
==Aliens Used==
*Cannonbolt (first reappearance)
*Jetray
*Swampfire
*Murk Upchuck (first appearance)
*Way Big (first reappearance)
==Quotes==
==Naming and Translations==
==Cast==
==Continuity==
*Ben and Professor Paradox mention the time the team took down a Highbreed ship in Ben 10 Returns: Part 2.
*Azmuth mentions the events of Secret of the Omnitrix, where he told Ben that the secret of the Omnitrix is that it allows him to walk in the shoes of other lifeforms.
*Ben previously thought the Omnitrix contained the DNA of only 10,000 aliens, referencing when he met Ben 10,000 in Ben 10,000.
*The Hyperspace Jump Gate is now complete after the DNAliens acquired the Oscillator Key in the previous episode.
*Cooper saw Highbreed ships invading Earth via the Hyperspace Jump Gate in a vision in Undercover, which comes true in this episode.
==Allusions==
*The title is a reference to the 1898 novel by H. G. Wells.
*The opening and Azmuth's tower being destroyed is a loose reference to Roland Emmerich's 1996 blockbuster movie Independence Day.
*Azmuth compares Ben and the Omnitrix with Noah and his Ark.
==Errors==
*When Professor Paradox and Azmuth teleport onto the soccer field, the field seems to be empty despite Ben saving a shot from a player before they teleported in.
*When Professor Paradox teleports himself, Gwen, and Kevin, he also seems to have taken Azmuth despite him wanting to talk to Ben.
*When Alan fights the DNAlien, his arms switch between magma and rock in different shots.
*Alan is not present when the team recruits Cooper.
*Cannonbolt's hologram is drawn incorrectly.
*Kevin has one shirt instead of two separate shirts when he is covered in green metal.
*Before turning into Cannonbolt, Ben is facing his ragtag army, but after the transformation, he's facing away from them.
*Just after Cannonbolt's transformation, Gwen is not wearing her stockings.
*When DNAliens surround Professor Paradox, Azmuth is next to him, but after he stops time, Azmuth is gone. Then, Azmuth is shown running. Furthermore, there is a perspective error where some of the DNAliens look much smaller than Paradox.
*Two of the DNAliens that Cannonbolt reverts to human have the exact same designs as two other DNAliens he cured.
*When Cannonbolt reverts the DNAliens to human, his back is white instead of yellow.
*In one shot when Cannonbolt reverts the DNAliens to human, one of the cured people from a previous shot appears on-screen for a split second.
*The first DNAlien Cooper reverts to human has the same design as a DNAlien Cannonbolt cured.
*When Jetray turns into Swampfire, he crosses his arms, but in the next shot, his arms are above his head.
*When the team reverts DNAliens to humans, the number of humans reverted seems to be less than the number of DNAliens prior to reverting.
*When Upchuck eats the laser, his entire torso glows instead of just his stomach.
*When the team tries to destroy the Hyperspace Jump Gate, Julie and Ship are a lot smaller than they should be.
*When Way Big lifts the Jump Gate out of the ground, he has five fingers on each hand rather than four.
*The end credits misspell Cannonbolt's name as "Cannon Bolt".
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==Trivia==
*The episode's title is listed as War of the Worlds Pt. 1 within the episode itself, War of the Worlds, Pt. 1 on the Ben 10 Alien Force: Volume 6 DVD and iTunes, War of the Worlds Part 1 on the Cartoon Network website, and War Of Worlds Pt.1 on Amazon Prime Video.
*Galvan Prime was first described as a "tiny but highly advanced planet".Ultimate Weapon This is retconned in this episode, as it is of normal size.
*Originally, the Omnitrix only held thousands of DNA samples.And Then There Were 10 This is retconned in this episode, as the Omnitrix is revealed to contain over one million DNA samples.
*There were no female Galvan or children in the crowd at the beginning because the females were at home/work and the children were at school.
*Wildmutt was among the aliens unlocked by the Master Control, albeit off-screen.
==References==
===Crew Statements===
====T.J. Collins====
====Dwayne McDuffie====
===Pop-Up Trivia===
===Cartoon Network===
===Ben 10 Planet===
es:La guerra de los mundos
fr:La Guerre des Mondes, Partie 1
it:Guerra dei Mondi (Prima parte)
pl:Wojna światów: część 1
pt-br:Guerra dos Mundos: Primeira Parte
ro:Războiul lumilor: Partea 1
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Category:Highbreed Wars
Category:Episodes Written by Dwayne McDuffie
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