(Out on the sea, our heroes were sailing after the path of the octopus on a rental sailboat.)
(Suddenly, the other three Dittos all shouted out in pain, feeling the shock of their original counterpart.)
Dittos: "Did you just feel that zap?"
(they asked each other.)
Ditto 2: "The other us is in trouble!"
(Ditto 2 said.)
Ditto 3: "But if something happens to him?"
(Ditto 3 asked.)
Ditto 4: "What happens to us?!"
(Ditto 4 asked.)
(They all immediately ran to the steering wheel to the boat that Max was commanding and scrambled for control of it.)
Dittos: "Can't this thing go any faster?!"
Max: "No backseat drivers!"
(Jen only wringed her hands together nervously and Allison walked over to her.)
Allison: "You okay?"
(Allison asked as she walked over to her and laid a hand on her shoulder.)
Jen: "Yeah, I'm fine."
(Jen said.)
Jen: "I'm just worried about Ben is all. Who knows what Animo is doing to him right now?"
Allison: "Don't worry, Jenny."
(Allison said.)
Allison: "He'll be fine. We'll find him."
Jen: "I hope so."
(Jen said.)
Jen: "Because I don't want to be stuck with these three bozos for any longer than I have to."
Becky: "That makes five of us."
(Becky agreed as they all looked at the Dittos fight.)
Animo: "It's better than I could have ever imagined!"
(Dr. Animo said as he examined one of Ditto's DNA cells through his microscope.)
Animo: "With just a single strand of this alien form's DNA, I can extrapolate the genetic code of your entire arsenal of alien creatures! And when your sister gets here, I will extract her's too!"
(Ditto looked helplessly in his capsule prison and looked to his left to see the mutant seagull in the rafters beside him.)
(He then smirked and banged on the glass wall of the capsule, quickly catching the seagull's attention.)
(He then laughed and made funny and insulting faces at it, quickly angering it.)
(The seagull then flew down from the rafters and attacked the capsule, raking its talons against the capsule, shaking it before Dr. Animo turned around to face his creation.)
Animo: "I thought I told you not to damage the specimen!"
(The seagull immediately backed off and angrily flew upwards to its perch.)
(Dr. Animo went back to observing the Ditto DNA in his microscope and watched as the cells seemed to split themselves of their own accord.)
Animo: "Truly amazing. Limitless cloning capabilities."
(Back with our heroes on the sailboat, the Dittos looked out and groaned.)
Ditto 2: "Can't this thing go any faster?"
(Ditto 2 asked.)
(Max finished working on his project and then looked up to see the shipwrecked oil tanker where Animo was hiding.)
Allison: "Well, it's a good thing we have a few extra hands on deck."
(Allison smiled.)
Max: "Head for that oil tanker. It's the only thing off shore."
Ditto 3: "Aye-aye, Captain."
(Ditto 3 said as Jen adjusted her Omnitrix and nodded to the others.)
Jen: "I'm going overboard."
(she said as she slammed the core down.)
(Her Omnitrix sank into her wrist and their arms were covered in greyish-blue scales that traveled up her arms and her fingers turned to claws.)
(She then grew two anglers from their forehead and gills on their neck as her teeth grew and sharpened themselves as the scales finished covering their bodies and her hair turned into a green dorsal fin running down her backs.)
(Her clothes turned into a one-piece swimsuit covering her entire midsection with the watch symbol were on their upper left torso.)
(Mermaid nodded and dove overboard into the sea to the oil tanker.)
(Ditto 2 steered the wheel, turning the boat towards the oil tanker.)
(Suddenly, his two clones lost their balance when adjusting the sail and lost hold on the rope, sending the sail crashing down on it.)
Ditto 2: "Oh man!"
(Ditto 2 shouted.)
Ditto 2: "What is with those two? They're driving me nuts!"
Becky: "Yeah."
(Becky said.)
Becky: "You're telling us."
Gwen: "They're all you, Ben."
(Gwen said.)
Gwen: "What did you expect?"
(Mermaid glared as she swam towards the oil tanker, only to have herself be swatted aside by the mutant octopus' tentacle and she looked down to see the giant spiked cephalopod before her.)
Mermaid: "This could be tougher than I thought."
(she said as she shook her head to shake off the impact.)
(Meanwhile, the original Ditto was still trying his best to escape by angering the mutant seagull.)
(He stuck his tongue out and made poses to it.)
Ditto: "Too scared to fight me?"
(Ditto asked.)
Ditto: "Come on! Are you a seagull or a big. Fat. Chicken?!"
(The seagull bit its tongue as it looked to see its master studying, but then looked to see Ditto taunting it by sticking his butt out and making chicken noises at it.)
(Finally, anger took over and the seagull squawked out and destroyed the capsule with its powerful talons, sending water spilling everywhere.)
(Dr. Animo gasped and tripped from the sudden gush of water as the mutant seagull fell over as well, dazed.)
(Ditto smiled and exited the capsule with a smile as he taunted the seagull one last time.)
Ditto: "Thanks, bird brain! I owe you one!"
(He then ran away from the scene.)
(Meanwhile, as the boat advanced towards the oil tanker and Mermaid continued battling the mutant octopus with all of her might and strength, the Dittos smiled.)
Dittos: "He's here. I can feel it."
(they all said.)
(Suddenly, the Omnitrix started to beep its timer down and they suddenly levitated in the air and were seemingly pulled towards the original Ditto off of the boat.)
Allison: "Well, there's something you don't see every day."
(Allison said.)
(Meanwhile, Ditto ran along the tanker's exterior and looked over the railing to see his sister battling against the octopus, unwittingly keeping it distracted for him.)
(He reached the tip of the wreck and sighed in exhaustion before he heard his Omnitrix symbol start to beep down again.)
(He, too, was lifted up into the air and flew towards his clones, causing them to all merge back to one Ditto and he fell into the ocean as he timed out and resurfaced as Ben.)
Ben: "Whoa."
(he said.)
Ben: "I'm back to normal."
(Suddenly, he heard a squawk from above as the mutant seagull flew in and snatched him up in its talons.)
(Mermaid was smashed against the tanker's side as she looked on, unable to help Ben in her current situation.)
Mermaid: "Ben, no!"
(Thinking quickly, Ben activated his Omni Suit and banged against the seagull's talon.)
Ben: "When this thing recharges, you are so KFS: Kentucky-Fried Seagull!"
(Suddenly, from the sailboat below, Max came flying in using his science project, which was revealed to be a jetpack.)
(He rammed himself against the seagull's wing, causing him to let go of Ben, sending him falling through the sky.)
Gwen: "Saphirius Expectorium Perpetua!"
(Suddenly, he was caught in a giant twister and looked to see Gwen, Becky and Allison below.)
(The twister died down as Gwen twirled her spellbook on her finger.)
Gwen: "And you said that reading books was a waste of time."
Ben: "Okay, okay."
(he said.)
Ben: "I guess you're not as boring as I thought you were."
Gwen: "You got that right."
[To Be Continued...]