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| A Small Problem | Secrets | |
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Prologue
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| A wrecking ball smashes into a run-down apartment building. The wrecking ball operator smiles to himself. | |
| Joe | Gettin' paid to smash stuff! Haha! You gotta love this job! |
| He goes for another whip into the building. It creates a big hole, a hole from which a man silently appears. The operator's coworker sees him and panickingly yells at him to stop. The man in the building is wearing a brown coat, has pale blue skin, and roaches crawling all over him. | |
| Clancy | (calmly) Get out of our home. |
| Joe | Yeah. (laughing) Well, I hate to break it to you, pal, but this building's condemned by order of Ms. Liang. |
| Bob | Yeah, so move it or lose it! This place is comin' down, like it or not! |
| Angry, the man sends a swarm of insects flying out from his hands. The clipboard worker runs away; the bugs swarm the wrecking ball operator before he can get away. He yells as they surround his body and move him up in the air. They bring him up to the the man. | |
| Joe | Get these things offa me! |
| Clancy | Well, if you think we're bugging you now... |
| Theme Plays | |
Act 1
| Speaker | Dialogue |
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| A red sports car speeds down a road. The driver checks his rear-view mirror with a smile on his face. | |
| Robber | Ooh, they'll never catch me! |
| The Rustbucket drives after on that same road. Gwen, sitting in front with Max, looks out her window. | |
| Gwen | There he is! |
| Max | You sure? |
| Gwen | Totally. |
| Max smiles. A motorcycle with no driver passes the Rustbucket and drives off after the car. The motorcycle is black with green stripes and has an eye in front. Upgrade! As the robber's car whips through dense traffic, Upgrade decides to steer away and take the sidewalk. | |
| Upgrade | (passing people on the sidewalk) Look out! One side! Coming through! |
| Back on the road, Upgrade notices a car-carrying semi behind the car. Upgrade pulls a wheelie and aligns with the back ramp of the truck, using it to launch himself in front of it. The robber sees him and steps harder on the gas. Coming up for both of them is a light going from green to yellow to red. The robber decides to run it, and makes it just before an RV starts driving in front. Upgrade slides underneath the RV and catches up. | |
| Upgrade | Hey! |
| Robber | (hearing him behind) Huh? |
| Close enough, Upgrade uses his eye to blast a laser at the trunk, blowing it clean off. Stolen bills come flying out of the trunk. | |
| Upgrade | Some people just can't hang on to their money. |
| Out of the side of his front wheel, Upgrade forms an energy spike. He speeds up to the car's back wheel and drives the spike into it, causing the car to spin out of control and safely crash into some parked cars. Upgrade drives himself up to the reeling driver to show himself, no driver and all. | |
| Robber | No way! |
| Upgrade burns rubber, pushing exhaust in the robber's face. He runs off once police cars start coming in the distance. As he turns the corner, he stops at a parked ice cream delivery truck. | |
| Upgrade | Well, I did just nab a bad guy... |
| Upgrade gets out of the motorcycle and opens the back hatch. There's tons of boxes of ice cream. | |
| Upgrade | Now we're talking! |
| Max and Gwen watch the robber get arrested. | |
| Robber | Look, I'm telling ya. Tha-that motorcycle, i-it was driving itself! |
| Max | (to Gwen) Where's Ben? |
| Gwen | Long chase, hot day, I'm thinking...? |
| She motions to the ice cream truck right behind her. Max opens up the back, inside is a shivering Ben holding a partially bitten popsicle. | |
| Max | You okay? |
| Ben's nose is dripping. He sneezes and rubs it. | |
| Max | I'll, uh, take that as a "no". |
| Back inside the Rustbucket, Ben lies in bed and Max takes a thermometer out of his mouth. | |
| Max | Well, 101. Sorry, Ben, it's official: you have a summer cold. |
| Gwen | Maybe from now on you'll think twice before having snack time inside an ice cream truck! |
| Ben feels a sneeze winding up. He grabs some blue clothing and uses it to rub his nose. | |
| Gwen | Hey! That's my new blouse! |
| He sneezes right into it. His voice is stuffy. | |
| Ben | Maybe from now on you'll think twice about leaving your new clothes just lying around! |
| Gwen goes back to pulling various things out of a box. | |
| Gwen | Cold tablets, decongestant, cough suppressant, hospital mask... |
| Ben | (sitting up) I don't need all that junk. |
| Gwen | They're not for you, dweeb! They're for me! Once a bug like that gets out, there's no stopping it! |
| Ben | (to Max) Why don't you just lock me away in some closet somewhere until I'm better? |
| Gwen | (gasps) Can we, Grandpa? Pretty please?! |
| Max | All Ben needs is a dose of my famous "San Ju Yen Pien" cold remedy. Let's go! Chinatown's just down the block. |
| In Chinatown, a parade is going on. Many people are watching a red dragon puppet and some costumed actors walk past. Max and the kids walk out of a drugstore with a green jar. | |
| Max | You know it's so hard to find fresh potaikadon root anymore. It's all freeze-dried nowadays. |
| Ben | (coughs) Can I get a milkshake or something? Ugh, my throat is killing me! |
| Max | Don't worry. The stinkweed honey in the San Ju Yen Pien coats your entire esophageal area! |
| He hands Ben the jar. Ben opens the lid and smells what's inside. | |
| Ben | UGH! (quickly closing lid) And that's a good thing...? |
| Gwen | So, where exactly did you learn how to make this stuff, Grandpa? |
| Max | I picked it up from a monk in Guangdong, China. |
| Gwen crosses her arms. | |
| Max | They have plumbing in China, too, you know! |
| A councilwoman starts to make a speech at a podium in the center. | |
| Liang | Ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank all of you for your support of my downtown redevelopment program. It's truly a dream come true! |
| A wasp lands on her microphone. Some more buzz around the crowd. Hundreds more show up. The crowd starts panicking. The councilwoman looks above her and sees the man, Clancy, standing on a hovering "raft" of bugs. | |
| Clancy | Better make that a nightmare, councilwoman! |
| His eyes glow and thousands fly into the crowd. | |
| Gwen | Wasps! |
| They swarm everyone, chasing them out of the center. Someone drops their ice cream, someone else falls into some boxes, others drop to the ground as the swarm flies just above them. Ms. Liang looks up at Clancy. | |
| Clancy | You're NOT tearing down our apartment building. We won't let you! |
| Liang | You're the nutjob who wouldn't leave! |
| Clancy | Nice to know we've made an impression. |
| His eyes glow once more. Thousands of bug instantly swarm Liang, from her legs up to her neck, lifting her up to Clancy. | |
| Liang | What are you doing? |
| Clancy | Just bringing you home for dinner... You're the MAIN COURSE! |
| Her eyes widen. Ben wipes the snot off his nose and activates the Omnitrix. | |
| Ben | This looks like a job for...ah, aH, AH- |
| He slams it down, turning into Wildmutt. Wildmutt completes Ben's sneeze, while his snot-covered gills try to locate his surroundings. All that he's able to see is a few dots in a black void. He scratches his chin, desperately trying to sniff around. He starts running in a direction until he smacks into a venue, gets up, shakes his head, and runs elsewhere, this time smacking into a pole. After getting up, he lets out a low growl, starts gagging, then leaps away. | |
| Gwen | Has Ben gone rabid or what? |
| Max | Ben's cold must be affecting Wildmutt's sense of smell! With his schnoz clogged, he can't tell where he's going! |
| Gwen | OK, furball! |
| Gwen jumps on Wildmutt's back. | |
| Gwen | I'm driving! |
| Gwen struggles to hold on. | |
| Gwen | Go left! |
| Wildmutt spins around. | |
| Gwen | No...your other left! |
| He roars and runs off in another direction. Gwen steers him around some frightened people. She can barely keep her eyes open, but when she opens them, she sees they're running into a tent with boxes and gasps. Wildmutt knocks into the boxes and runs off, bucking her into them and causing one to fall on her and trap her. The boxes are full of fireworks, some littered on the ground with her. In the swarm, a random wasp cuts a line of lanterns. One lantern rolls out of control, catching itself on fire. It rolls up to a banner right in front of Gwen and lights it up. As she struggles the fire grows in front of her. | |
| Gwen | HELP! |
Act 2
| Speaker | Dialogue |
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| The fire starts coming close to Gwen, and a spark starts travelling up the line which leads to a box of fireworks next to her. Max comes running to her with a cart full of dumplings in soup. He dumps the lot on to Gwen and the boxes, extinguishing the flames. | |
| Gwen | Phew. Thanks, Grandpa! |
| Max | Just hope you don't mind smelling like chicken dumplings. |
| Meanwhile, Wildmutt runs in front of them with a trash can on his face, crashing into something. Max and Gwen look at each other. | |
| Back in the Rustbucket. | |
| Ben | Ouch! Oh man, just when I thought it couldn't get any worse! |
| Max | Here, this will help. |
| Max hands him a jar of the green-colored cold remedy. Ben sniffs it. | |
| Ben | Ugh! Yuck! |
| Max | Don't worry, it smells worse than it tastes! Or, is that the other way around...? It's not just you I'm worried about. Seems like your bug has spread to all your aliens as well. No telling how it'll affect them. |
| Ben agreeably looks at the jar and takes a swig of the drink. He instantly cringes. | |
| Ben | That was so grim... |
| Max | Heh, don't worry. After ten or so doses, you'll start to get used to it. |
| Ben | Ugh... I don't know what's worse, the cold or the cure! |
| Gwen | Got it! |
| Gwen has been busy searching on her laptop. | |
| Gwen | 'Bug guy' said something about knocking down his apartment building. Well, the only apartment downtown left for demolition is at 8610 Chester Street! |
| While Max is listening to her, Ben secretly hides the San Ju Yen Pien in a drawer. | |
| Ben | Ssso what Grandpa doesn't know - won't hurt me. |
| At Clancy's apartment, spiders crawl up Liang's dress. | |
| Liang | (shuddering) Please...don't hurt me! |
| Clancy steps out from the shadows. | |
| Clancy | Mmmm, black widows... You shouldn't make any...sudden moves. |
| Roaches watch Clancy as he continues talking, | |
| Clancy | Our grandfather built this building. We grew up here! Just me and my little friends... They are the only ones who understand, and no one is evicting us! |
| The Rustbucket pulls up to the tattered broken building. | |
| Gwen | Nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live here. |
| Max | Let's all stay together. |
| The Tennysons move through a hallway, keeping weary of holes in the crumbling floor. With every step, a loud creak. Max has to lower himself under a fallen beam. Spiders crawl on the beams above them. Ben splits up, looking down the rest of the hallway, while Gwen and Max investigate a room. Max reads some newspaper clippings, tacked to the wall. Most have pictures of bugs; one headline about cockroaches reads "BUGS SURVIVE NUCLEAR BLAST". | |
| Max | They've gotta be here somewhere! |
| Gwen kneels down at a gigantic nest in the room. Spiders and flies chitter as she gets near. | |
| Gwen | (nervous) Something tells me we're getting close... |
| Max | Where's Ben? |
| As they walk to the door, a big giant shadow steps in, with four eyes and antennae. | |
| Gwen | (screams) MEGA BUG! |
| The creatures steps into the light! ...And it's Four Arms, holding his fingers up like antennae. | |
| Gwen | Ha-ha, real funny! |
| Four Arms | (smirking) I thought so. |
| Liang | Help! |
| Max | That came from right above us! |
| Four Arms | I'm on it! |
| Four Arms bursts through the door frame and grabs Gwen and Max with his lower arms. Gwen notices his armpits are covered in pink hives. She plugs her nose and fans it. Max too. Four Arms sniffs himself. | |
| Max | It's your hives. The cold must have turned them into puss-filled pockets of- |
| Gwen | Pure putridness. |
| Four Arms | I can't help it. I'm sick! |
| Gwen | You're telling me! |
| Regardless, Four Arms leaps up into the floor above. He drops Max and Gwen, who spot Liang curled up on the floor, spiders crawling all over her. Max runs over to her. | |
| Liang | Stop! (hushed) Black widows! |
| Gwen | There's gotta be some way to help her- |
| Just then, Four Arms violently sneezes. His green mucus flies all over Liang. Surprisingly, she's now completely rid of them. | |
| Four Arms | Oops. |
| Liang | Eugh. (Mucus drips off her face.) Thanks. |
| Four Arms | Don't mention it. |
| As Max helps her up, Clancy appears from the shadowy ceiling beams above them. | |
| Clancy | You are trespassing. |
| His eyes light up. Many red bugs suddenly swarm into a big wave, towering over Four Arms and knocking him back. Clancy leaps to another beam and hisses. | |
| Clancy | We will rule mankind! |
| The wave of bugs turn towards Max. | |
| Gwen | Grandpa, look out! |
| He dodges before they break a hole in the spot he was standing on. Termites suddenly swarm under Gwen's feet. | |
| Gwen | Termites! Ahh! |
| The floor is quickly eaten from below her. Gwen hangs from the edge of the dent in the floor. Liang helps her up. | |
| Four Arms | You want to be king? Get ready to be crowned! |
| Four Arms starts charging toward Clancy. His eyes light up and thousands of red bugs swarm Four Arms' feet and travel up his legs. He suddenly starts hopping on one foot and scratching his infested leg. | |
| Four Arms | Aaaagh! Aaants in my paaants! |
| Four Arms starts scratching all over. Max jumps out of the way before he comes hopping into him. As he scratches, he punches holes in the walls and bashes beams. | |
| Clancy | You're destroying our home! |
| One beam causes the ceiling to start crumbling. | |
| Clancy | Nooo! |
| Clancy's eyes glow in anguish. Wasps come, forming a bubble around him. | |
| Gwen | The whole place is coming down! |
| Liang | We have to get out of here! |
| Max | No time! |
| The entire apartment building comes crashing to the ground, all with the Tennysons, Liang, and Clancy still inside. | |
Act 3
| Speaker | Dialogue |
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| The Rustbucket is now parked next to a sea of rubble and dead bugs. Four Arms lifts a large slab off his shoulders, having protected Max, Gwen, and Liang. Falling on his back in exhaustion, he groans, right as the Omnitrix starts timing out. Ben pops up. | |
| Ben | Ugh, it's a good thing I can't feel my head. |
| As they get up, Clancy rises out of a small pile of bugs. He grabs handfuls of them, all dead. | |
| Clancy | No, no, NO! ...You will all be sorry. We will exterminate the entire city! |
| Clouds of wasps suddenly come from all corners of the sky and meet in the middle, dropping down as a tornado, picking up Clancy, and carrying him away. | |
| Liang | This has been a really weird day... |
| Gwen | Welcome to our world. |
| Ben | At least my hives are gone! |
| Liang | Where'd that smelly four-armed guy go? I wanted to thank him. |
| Ben | I'll let him know. |
| Max | Can you find your way back home? |
| She nods and walks away. | |
| Ben | So, where do you think 'bug-brain' crawled off to? |
| Max thinks and spots a local power plant off in the distance. | |
| Max | Only one way to exterminate a whole city... |
| The Rustbucket rushes off to the plant. Ben sits in the front seat, shaking. | |
| Ben | Turn on the heat, Grandpa! It's freezing in here! |
| Max | It's already on, Ben. But you're shaking like an earthquake! Gwen, get him another dose of my San Ju Yen Pien! |
| Ben | No-no-no! I mean...I just finished it off! Heh. All gone! I'm sure it's gonna start working ANY MINUTE now! |
| Gwen | Wow, listen to this! Ants can lift 10 times their own body weight, grasshoppers can leap 100 times their length, and cockroaches can hold their breath for over an hour! |
| Ben | We don't need their résumés, we need to know how to squash them! |
| Gwen | Duh! I'm saying insects are pretty tough little suckers! Short of another ice age or a tanker full of pesticide, looks like holding a "bug barbeque" is our best option! |
| Ben | (gripping the Omnitrix) And I know just the chef... |
| They arrive at the plant, bugs in the air outside. Inside, the Tennysons walk down an empty hallway. An alarm suddenly goes off and red lights start flashing. | |
| Ben | What's happening? I-Is that bad? |
| Gwen | (sarcastically) No. I'm sure anytime an alarm goes off inside a nuclear plant, it's good news! |
| Plant Intercom | Core temperature rising. Approaching critical. |
| Max | He must be fooling around with the reactor's controls. Let's go! |
| They run to the control room. Smoke and electricity is billowing out of a bunch of broken control panels. | |
| Plant Intercom | Core temperature critical. Meltdown imminent. |
| Max | All the controls are smashed! We'll have to shut it down manually. |
| Ben | How do we do that? |
| Max points to the main cylindrical core that the control room overlooks. | |
| Max | Just outside the reactor core, there's an emergency override system. |
| Gwen | Let me guess? You learned about nuclear reactors from a monk in China. |
| As Gwen leans on a panel, she spots a bug crawling up next to her. Clancy walks in to the tune of his flies' buzzing. | |
| Clancy | Came for a front row seat? |
| Ben | If this place goes nuclear, you're gonna wind up blowing along with the rest of us! |
| Clancy | We don't think so. |
| Clancy holds out his hands. Cockroaches come out of his sleeves and surround them. They come out of his pant legs too and travel up his body. Wasps, cockroaches, and others swarm his entire body and grinning face. They form into a giant bug-filled figure. | |
| Clancy | When the reactor goes super critical, we'll be snug as bugs in a rug! |
| Gwen | Of course! Scientists think cockroaches are the only things that would survive the blast! |
| Ben | So, the guy's gonna wear a bug suit to protect himself from the meltdown? |
| Ben activates the Omnitrix and turns into Heatblast. As he walks forward, | |
| Gwen | Wait! Something's weird about you... |
| All of Heatblast's fire is now strangely blue. | |
| Heatblast | We don't have time for you to diss me! You guys shut down the reactor, I'll take care of 'Bugsy'. |
| Heatblast leaps at Clancy, but he smacks him away into a window. As he walks over to him, Gwen and Max run out of the room. Clancy sees them. | |
| Clancy | You can't escape us. |
| He sends a swarm of bugs flying after them. | |
| Heatblast | That's it. Time to turn up the Heatblast around here! |
| Heatblast cups his hands and throws them forward, but nothing shoots out. He instead sneezes. | |
| Heatblast | Hey, what happened? You should be a bunch of briquettes by now... (realizes) My cold! it froze my flames! |
| Clancy punches him. | |
| Gwen and Max run through a hallway. Max looks behind him. | |
| Max | Uh oh. (to Gwen) Remember the old expression, "mean as a hornet"? |
| Hornets are flying after them. | |
| Plant Intercom | Meltdown in five minutes. |
| As Gwen and Max turn a corner, they run over to a hose coiled up on a wall. As the hornets catch up to them, Max turns on the water and Gwen sprays. They all start dropping. | |
| Clancy holds Heatblast in his hand and throws him across the room. On his knees, Heatblast looks up as Clancy walks up to him. | |
| Heatblast | Oh, man. (holds up his hand) Maybe we could talk about this? |
| Suddenly, out of his hand, ice starts shooting out and freezing Clancy. | |
| Heatblast | (amazed) Hey. |
| Max and Gwen make it to the reactor room. | |
| Plant Intercom | Core temperature critical. Meltdown in one minute. |
| As they stare at the core, bugs start crawling up behind them. | |
| Heatblast freezes a bit of Clancy's arm. Clancy pauses, then decides to run toward Heatblast, tackling him through the window and into the reactor room. Inside, Max is accessing the emergency override controls, while Gwen is working up a sweat sweeping away a swarm of bugs. | |
| Gwen | Grandpa, I can't hold these bugs off much longer! |
| Plant Intercom | Meltdown in 30 seconds. |
| The swarm quickly stops as Heatblast freezes them in midair. He then rides the frozen end of his projectile down to the ground. | |
| Heatblast | Somebody call...for a hero? |
| Gwen | I don't get it. Since when are you an automatic ice cube maker? |
| Heatblast | Heheh. I guess for some aliens, 'getting a cold' isn't just an expression. |
| Max | I can't override! All the manual controls have overheated! |
| Clancy gets to his feet and starts to charge Heatblast. | |
| Max | Ben, look out! |
| Heatblast cups his hands and charges an ice blast. He then whips around and fires it, completely engulfing Clancy and freezing his bug suit in a block of ice. | |
| Plant Intercom | Core meltdown in ten- |
| Heatblast | Stand clear, I've got an idea! |
| Plant Intercom | Nine - Eight- |
| Heatblast starts firing ice into the reactor core. | |
| Plant Intercom | Seven - Six - Five - Four- |
| Steam starts coming out. Gwen and Max are slack jawed as ice surrounds the core. | |
| Plant Intercom | Three - Two... |
| Heatblast is determined. | |
| Plant Intercom | ...Core temperature falling. |
| Heatblast collapses. The entire core is covered in ice. | |
| Plant Intercom | Returning to below critical limits. |
| Gwen | All right! |
| Max | Way to go, Ben! |
| Heatblast | Thanks, heheh. Now, can we please get some hot chocolate or something? |
| He sneezes as they look at the Clancy cube, still not moving. | |
| The Rustbucket drives off. Ben lies down in the back. | |
| Ben | Bad guy's on ice, the reactor's chillin', and I think (sigh) that that steam knocked out the last of my cold! |
| Max | Don't you just love it when everything works out? |
| As Gwen gets a milk carton out of the fridge, she spots a cockroach by her foot and raises it to crush it. | |
| Gwen | Sorry, Mr. Roach. This is going to hurt you a lot more than it's going to hurt me! Ugh... |
| Suddenly, thousands of bugs enter through the Rustbucket's door and windows. | |
| Gwen | Ahh! Company! Lots of company! |
| She drops her milk. Ben leaps away from the walls. Max parks the RV and gets out of the driver's seat. The door is suddenly opened by Clancy, still in his bug suit. He steps inside and retracts the swarm from his face. | |
| Clancy | We didn't appreciate that cold shoulder you gave us at the power plant! |
| Max tries to punch from behind. Clancy grabs him and throws him back. As he diverts his attention to him, Gwen grabs a fire extinguisher and Ben tries the Omnitrix. | |
| Gwen | I thought you turned 'Mr. Bug' into a snow cone! |
| Ben | Me must've thawed out! |
| The Omnitrix is inactive. | |
| Ben | Oh man! We're on our own. Any ideas how to get rid of 'em? |
| Gwen | Not unless you've got a 6-foot candy bar to tempt them with! |
| He gets an idea. | |
| Ben | Nope! But I have the next best thing! |
| Ben runs to the back. Clancy is now holding Max up by the neck. | |
| Ben | Come and get it! |
| Ben holds up the jar of San Ju Yen Pien. Its intense smell attracts all the bugs to it, even off of Clancy's suit. | |
| Clancy | What's happening?! Stop! |
| As the bugs reach Ben, he throws the jar out the window. | |
| Ben | Fetch! |
| All the bugs spill out the window as the jar falls into the river below. Clancy chuckles nervously as Max walks up behind him. He gets punched out of the RV and into the road. | |
| Gwen | Good. That guy was really starting to bug me! |
| Clancy lowers his head, knocked out. | |
| Max | I'm calling the police. I'll be right back. |
| Gwen | Ah, ah, AH-CHOO! (voice stuffing up) Oh no... |
| Ben | Hey! What do you know? Everything really did work out after all! |
| Gwen sneezes some more. | |
| Credits Play | |