Bernadette Meets Ben 10: Alien Swarm

**Bernadette Meets Ben 10: Alien Swarm**, also known as **Bernatrix 3: Alien Swarm**, is the eighth episode of the Punch Time Exploders.

**Disclaimer: So no one gets huffy about the recent Ben 10 reboot, this episode will focus on the movie from the original Ben 10 series.**

## Summary

### First Episode

This is the story of how Bernadette reunites with a familiar hero to solve a new mystery behind a major conspiracy and they both to become closer together-- okay, the punchline is Ben 10.

### Subsequent Episodes

This is the story of how Bernadette reunites with Ben Tennyson to help an old friend of his and uncover a new conspiracy.

## Plot

The film opens as Bernadette watches Ben, Gwen, and Kevin Levin negotiate with a group of black market dealers, who are attempting to sell them alien nanotechnology. One of them reveals herself to be Elena, a childhood friend of both Ben and Gwen, as well as a Plumber's kid. Elena explains that she had set up the negotiations to lure Ben out, and explains that her father has been abducted, and that she needs their help.

Just as Ben agrees to help her, the Nanochips suddenly spring to life, controlled by a mysterious man hiding in the rafters. Kevin immediately labels it a double cross, though Elena insists that she is not responsible for that. While the dealers escape, Ben transforms into Big Chill, attempting to transform into Spidermonkey, and drives off the intruder. Elena escapes in the confusion, further justifying Kevin's suspicions. Ben, however, is not as easily convinced. It's at this point Bernadette reveals herself, reuniting with Ben and Gwen, and being introduced to Kevin.

Arriving at their headquarters underneath the Bellwood auto repair shop, the trio, along with Grandpa Max, study the chips, learning that they are a hybrid of organic and technological components. Elena, having followed the trio, breaks in; Max orders her to leave, explaining that Elena's father, Victor Validus, was dishonorably discharged after stealing the original chips. Ben refuses to believe that Elena is like her father, and breaks ranks to help her, with Bernadette helping them.

While Max is away, Gwen, Kevin and Bernadette's new colleague Mah-ree hack into the computer files relating to Victor Validus, and discover a video of Max interrogating Victor, in which Victor insists that "the Hive", the mind and intelligence behind the chips, is coming to take over the planet. Realizing that Max's anger towards Victor's betrayal may be clouding his judgment, Gwen and Kevin decide to aid Ben as well.

Meanwhile, Bernadette, Ben and Elena arrive at Victor's old lab. It has been cleared out by the Hive, but they have left Ship-It order slips behind. Other leftover files in the office indicate that Victor was studying and upgrading the chips, and a picture indicates that Elena is close to the person controlling them. A group of people under the control of the chips attack the trio, forcing them to retreat. They head to the Ship-It building to investigate further.

Gwen, Mah-ree and Kevin, having reached the building first, are too late to stop the distribution of the chips. Instead, they are met by one of the Ship-It 'Cap Diamant' (head employees), who is also possessed by the chips. He directs a chip swarm to attack Gwen and Kevin, which eventually wrecks Kevin's Car after a lengthy chase. Ben, having overheard the commotion and followed them, transforms into Humungousaur to defeat the swarm with the help of Bernadette in her BWF-7000, completely demolishing Kevin's car in the process, making Kevin mad as usual.

By the time they return to headquarters, the chips have been spread across the globe, and now reached numbers in the millions. The group deduces that there must be a queen controlling the Hive, and by destroying her, they will likely destroy the chips as well. During their search for the queen, however, one of the chips takes over Max. Pulling together, the group notices an anomaly in the chip distribution; while world population centers are all infected, the relatively remote Barren Rock, Missouri, has the highest concentration. The town is home to the central headquarters of Ship-It. With Kevin's car out of commission, Kevin reveals that he has built a second car for Ben as a late birthday present.

Infiltrating the factory, the group discovers that the queen has infected Elena's father, whose body is being used to mass-produce the chips. Ben uses the Omnitrix to transform into a new alien that he dubs "Nanomech", which was created by scanning the DNA of the chips over the course of the film. He and Bernadette, now a Nanochip-Mechamorph hybrid, enters Victor's brain and battles the Queen while Gwen, Kevin, Elena and Mah-ree fight the drones. After a grueling battle, Nanomech destroys the Queen and thus the entirety of the chips, freeing everybody from their control.

In the aftermath, Max, after personally apologizing to Victor, decides to retire and leave his position as leader to Ben, but Ben refuses to allow him to do so. The film ends as Ben, Gwen, Kevin, and Elena drive home and Bernadette blasts off after receiving a note that Mah-ree was asked to deliver.

## Aliens Featured

* Ben's Transformations
	+ Big Chill (selected alien was Spidermonkey)
	+ Humungousaur
	+ Nanomech

## Trivia

* There is a deviantART exclusive scene in Part 1, where a history lesson is given on the Ben 10 live-action films.
* When Part 5 was posted on deviantART, it received a notification asking if it has mature content, despite no mature themes being used.
* This is the first moisode that was based on a live-action adaptation.

## Links

* deviantART
	+ Part 1: https://www.deviantart.com/heavyhitterconnor/art/Bernadette-meets-Ben-10-Alien-Swarm-Part-1-759319951
	+ Part 2: https://www.deviantart.com/heavyhitterconnor/art/Bernadette-meets-Ben-10-Alien-Swarm-Part-2-760508460
	+ Part 3: https://www.deviantart.com/heavyhitterconnor/art/Bernadette-meets-Ben-10-Alien-Swarm-Part-3-762349602
	+ Part 4: https://www.deviantart.com/heavyhitterconnor/art/Bernadette-meets-Ben-10-Alien-Swarm-Part-4-762350072
	+ Part 5: https://www.deviantart.com/heavyhitterconnor/art/Bernadette-meets-Ben-10-Alien-Swarm-Part-5-762350218
	+ Part 6: https://www.deviantart.com/heavyhitterconnor/art/Bernadette-meets-Ben-10-Alien-Swarm-Part-6-762350429
* Full story: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GgwWyIWLyvS81drbRAZTEMSpHBbQ8jjC8aqu4OYfM\_U/edit?usp=sharing