Rooters Arc

The Rooters Arc is the fifth story arc in Ben 10: Omniverse. Following Kevin's time in the Null Void where the Rooters came and freed him and he met the other Amalgam Kids. 
== Background ==
===Five Years Prior to Omniverse===
In the flashback portion of The Rooters of All Evil, sometime during the Kevin's stay in the Null Void, the Plumbers affiliated group known as Rooters came and freed him from the hostile enviroment of the dimension. Kevin then was welcomed by the organization, and then Servantis, the leader of the Rooters used his absorption powers to mix human DNA of four kids and the leader himself with alien DNA, thus making them alien hybrids. 
Servantis then created the Amalgam Kids in order to eliminate Ben Tennyson, as he thought that Ben was a threat because the Omnitrix was too powerful to being wield by an "scuzzy little brat".
In the flashback portion of Weapon XI: Part 2, Servantis explains to the Amalgam Kids that the Omnitrix can transform Ben into a To'kustar or even a Celestialsapien and that Ben could one day wish everything out of existence. Servantis then says he assembled the "Ben Hit Squad" with Kevin being the secret weapon due to his powers. Argit (who was watching secretly) says that Kevin was the key to the Rooters and the Amalgam's powers as Kevin and the others drive into Earth. On Earth, A portal to the Null Void appears and a black tank exits from the portal. Kevin discovers Argit and threatens him to start running, which he ends up doing.
Ben, Gwen, and Max eventually arrive in the Rust Bucket 2. Ben exits from the Rust Bucket 2 due to wanting to fight Kevin. Kevin then uses a blaster in order to shoot at Ben, who manages to avoid the blasted through running over to a tree stomp and hiding behind it, and Max saves Gwen from Pierce's attacks. Helen takes the ray gun from Max but Gwen trips her up with a spell. Present Gwen says she didn't know they were the Plumber's Helpers and Argit says that they had a different appearance back then. Manny goes to fight Max and Gwen and Alan transforms into his Pyronite form. Ben transforms into Eye Guy and blasts down Kevin after deceiving Kevin that he blasted one of his eyes. Eye Guy pins Kevin down to the ground wondering since when Kevin uses blasters and Kevin says it's not a good idea to let him get close. Kevin touches the Omnitrix and he and Eye Guy scream in pain due to the feedback released by the device. Kevin then transforms into a mutation after Eye Guy reverts back into Ben, who is sent flying into a tree and falls to the ground.
After the smoke clears, Kevin sarcastically congratulates Ben, who rises from the ground battered and confused about what has happened. Kevin roars and then claims that his new mutation is much better than the previous one. Ben says that Kevin is going to become insane and Kevin questions Ben and starts to blast at Ben, Gwen, Max, and even Amalgam Kids, (who all manage to dodge the blasts, except for Alan who is knocked away) as he says that he has friends in high places and states he is the hero. Kevin then says that Ben is the problem and laughs maniacally. Young Argit is afraid and hides behind a tree and Present Argit says that he has never seen Kevin like that before and since. As Ben stands in front of Kevin ready for battle, Kevin tells Ben that all of the time, Ben made Kevin to believe that he was the problem when it was actually Ben who was the problem.
Ben then transforms into XLR8 and starts to speed around Kevin, but Kevin punches the ground uses the abilities of Wildvine to trap XLR8 after he stops speeding, Max, Gwen, and the Amalgams in his vines. Kevin says that everyone else is the problem and that he's the solution. Kevin then laughs maniacally as everyone else struggles to escape from the vines and prepares to take down everyone by eating a rock that he carried from smashing his hand into the ground (mostly attempting to use Upchuck's ability) after wondering if he can get them all with one blast and wanting to find out. Gwen, after struggling with the vines and freeing one of her hands, blasts at Kevin with mana trying and tells him snap to out of it, but the attacks do nothing and Kevin calls her lame repeatedly.
Suddenly, Kevin is taken down by Argit, who shoots his quills at Kevin's head, knocking him out. After everyone is freed from the vines (with Alan being comforted by Helen), Gwen walks other to and looks over Kevin. After Kevin transforms back into normal, Gwen then pulls the quills off of his head and asks Kevin if he was okay. Kevin greets her weakly and smoke fills the area (which were caused by the smoke grenades thrown by Alan as he is being carried by Helen). Kevin takes Argit with him and Kevin, Argit, and the Amalgams return back to the Null Void with their tank, which knocks into the Rust Bucket out of the way while it drives into the portal. Afterwards, Gwen, Ben, and Max exit from the cloud of smoke and look around, but Max becomes angry after he sees that the tank had knocked the Rust Bucket onto its side.
After the Amalgams and Argit arrive into the Rooter's base in the Null Void and crash the tank into a platform, Argit says that Servantis was furious that the plan was a failure and wiped out everyone's memories before setting them loose in the Null Void
==Omniverse==
===The Rooters of All Evil===
From a sudden Null Void rift, the Rooters arrive at the Plumbers HQ in order to search for Kevin.
===Weapon XI: Part 1===
===Weapon XI: Part 2===
==Trivia==
*The premise of the Rooters Arc came from Derrick J. Wyatt's goal of making Kevin a mutant human again, as he was under the impression that this characterization was what the creators of the Original Series had intended for him. As such, Kevin's backstory was changed to make things more in line with the concept of him being a mutant and so not everything was derived from aliens.
**Osmosians were still considered aliens during the earlier part of Omniverse, with the decision to change it being made sometime after January 28, 2013.
*At some point during the planning stages of the arc, the Rooters originally consisted of their unnamed leader, Phil, Ragnarok, Bel Biv Kaboom and a female Lenopan.
**Similarly, Gorvan was supposed to be a former member and the group would have had ties to the Forever Knights.
*Aggregor was supposed to return in an early version of The Rooters of All Evil, where he would seek out Kevin and reveal himself to be an experiment created by the Rooters to duplicate Kevin's powers, potentially with his memories having been fabricated. 
**If the episode was to go as planned, Aggregor's genetic code would have been breaking down before resulting in his "death", having been melted into what Derrick J. Wyatt called "ooze".
**Derrick believed that Aggregor was excluded from the episode because no one could work up any enthusiasm to do another Aggregor-centric story. As a large part of the crew for Omniverse had worked on the first two seasons of Ultimate Alien, he did not think anyone was in any hurry to get back to the character.
==References==
===Crew Statements===
====Derrick J. Wyatt====
====Matt Wayne====
===Ben 10 Planet===
Category:Story Arcs