Clowning Around

**Clowning Around** is the sixth episode of Ben 10: Battle of the Omnitricies. This episode was written by Benzarro85 on February 2, 2022.

## Plot

The episode begins in Plumber HQ. Three shadows lurked the halls of the facility, in search for something, or rather someone. Later, the shadows were revealed to be The Circus Freaks, as they appeared to be in search for Zombozo. As soon as they found him, Acid Breath, a member of the Circus Freaks, breaks Zombozo free from the cell he was stuck inside, as they managed to make their departure.

Later, they manage to arrive at Earth by using one of the Plumbers' ships, as they had crash-landed down in Bellwood. Zombozo looks around, scheming.

"So... have we got any plans?" he asked.

"Well, we did think about starting a circus again. Since the last time, it flopped." Frightwig spoke.

"I decided that we should start another circus, actually." Acid Breath interrupted. "You two just went with the idea."

"Yeah, yeah." she scoffed. "It's not like they work. The first time we did this, it was Zombozo's idea. Not yours."

"Hush, you two." Zombozo snapped. "We have a circus to set up. It's going to be the greatest show yet."

Zombozo was excited to make a circus again, since the last one was a failure, mainly because Ben kicked his butt as Toepick. Zombozo was afraid of Toepick, and he never wants to experience seeing him again. It was like Zombozo witnessing his past trauma coming back to haunt him. It was like a nightmare come true. It was mainly Ghostfreak or Toepick that scared him, but he didn't care about that. He wanted to make his audience laugh, which would then set his plan into motion.

During this, Ben was hanging around in Mr. Smoothy during their overnight hours. Rook, Gwen and Kevin were sitting around, while Ben was at the counter, ordering some more smoothies. He later arrived with them. Within a second of putting the tray down on the table, Ben takes a deep breath and sighs.

"It's a shame how boring Monday's typically are." Ben spoke, taking a sip out of his smoothy. "Remember the good old days, when it was just the Ultimate Alien Force trio? We used to kick so much alien butt. Now it's just me and Rook, while you two go off and do whatever in college."

"I get that you miss us being in a team, but we have other things to work on." Gwen replied. "We have to move on and stuff, it's not like I didn't decide to go to college."

Rook hesitated to speak for a moment. "Are you saying that I'm not good enough as a partner? Throughout our many months of fighting against Incurseans, Tetramands, Anur Transyl civilians, The Vengers, you still feel like I'm not good enough for you."

"I never mentioned that you aren't good enough." Ben spoke. "I just miss having my cousin and my best friend around to fight by my side. It's like a nostalgic feel, much like when I was ten years old, and I first found the-"

"We get it, Tennyson." Kevin smirked, before taking a sip from his smoothy. "Since you found the Omnitrix. You've said that a lot back when you and Gwen were fifteen. Heck, you've probably mentioned it when you were eleven."

Gwen chuckled a bit. "Oh don't even start. I still remember the times Ben kept going Upgrade and trapping us inside the computer."

"I... thought we did it only once, Gwen." Ben thought. "I don't remember doing it over and over again."

Gwen backtracked what she said. "Never mind. But remember the time when we fought Malware back at Plumber HQ?"

Ben chuckled, before catching a glimpse of Zombozo and the Circus Freaks. He gets up and departs from Mr. Smoothy in order to catch up with the villains. As they manage to escape without notice Ben trying to catch up, Ben loses track of them before he dials the Omnitrix, only to get distracted by something else. It appeared to be Yetta.

"Yetta?" Ben asked, concerned. "What are you doing out of HQ prison?"

"I'm meeting the girls for a girls night out at Undertown. We're then visiting a new circus that not long opened."

"Circus? Does this have something to do with Zombozo?" Ben asked again.

"Who?" she asked.

"Zombozo? The creepy clown? The guy who runs the circus?"

She thought. "Nope, never heard of Zomboni."

Ben rolled his eyes. "Whatever. Just don't get into trouble, got it?"

She nods. "See ya next time, eh, Ben 10?"

She walks away, waving goodbye at Ben, who waved back. "Yeah, maybe next time."

As soon as Yetta departs from her conversation between her and Ben, Ben goes back to attempting to catch up with Zombozo and the Circus Freaks. Ben finds them as he dials the Omnitrix, as an array of aliens scroll through the playlist: Ditto, Armodrillo, ChamAlien, Alien X, Spitter, Frankenstrike, NRG and Feedback. Later, he transforms into ChamAlien as he takes a turn in order to catch up with them faster. He turns invisible, to avoid being seen.

Later, Zombozo and the three Circus Freaks arrive at their circus that has yet to open. They were followed by ChamAlien who snuck inside. He turns visible, but still remains hidden, so he could spy on the villains.

He whispered to himself. "Why would they rerun a failed circus act?"

After Zombozo finishes preparing the equipment, etc., ChamAlien quickly takes a departure before getting caught. He luckily escapes without being seen once again, but his footprints were what gave him away. Acid Breath notices the footprints as he wandered to the location.

"Footprints? But nobody's been here other than us." Acid Breath spoke.

His eyes widened as he turned to face Zombozo. "Somebody has been here. We have been spied on."

"By who?" Zombozo asked. "There hasn't been any signs of anybody else here. Unless..."

"Unless what?"

"Ben Tennyson was here. He has been here, of course he has. He's been watching us. No wonder we couldn't see him." Zombozo thought.

"You, sir. Are annoying." Acid Breath sighed. "No wonder we were a little hesitant to breaking you out of prison."

## Characters

* Ben Tennyson
* Rook Blonko
* Gwen Tennyson
* Kevin Levin
* Brynjar Ahlström (cameo)
* Elián Zee (first re-appearance)
* Julius (first re-appearance; cameo)
* Yetta (first re-appearance)

## Villains

* Zombozo
* The Circus Freaks
	+ Acid Breath (first re-appearance)
	+ Frightwig (first re-appearance)
	+ Thumbskull (first re-appearance)

## Trivia

* This episode's plot is similar to the *Ben 10: Omniverse* episode *Something Zombozo This Way Comes*, being that Zombozo's plan was to turn everyone into Zombie Clowns. Zombozo, in this episode however, wanted to use the Zombie Clown minions to turn the entire world into a huge circus.
* It is implied that Yetta has no clue who Zombozo is, and refers to him as Zomboni.
	+ Zomboni is a reference to Zombozo's real name, being Herbert J. Zomboni.