From Hedorium to Eternity

From Hedorium to Eternity is the seventy-first episode of Ben 10: Omniverse.

Plot
The episode begins in the past at Ben's House where he was showing some soccer skills to Gwen and Lucy where they notice Ignacius Baumann walking out of his house wearing a tuxedo. Ben thinks he is going on a date but Mr Baumann explains that he is just heading to Thaddeus J. Collins's house to eat and walks off. Later at night, the three of them were playing soccer again. Gwen kicks the ball off Ben's hands and Lucy scores a goal using her head. Ben then transforms into Upchuck, swallows the ball into his mouth and spits it out. It ended up hitting Mr Baumann's car and breaking the glass window. Mr Baumann returns from Collin's house and switches off his car, he was not angry at all much to their surprise. One of his eyelids was closed and he says the sky is too bright when it was night time, he goes into his house leaving Ben, Gwen and Lucy suspicious.

At one in the morning, Ben sees Mr Baumann outside his house and tells him that it is late, but Mr Baumann did not hear him and Ben just goes back to bed. Later in the morning, Ben, Gwen and Lucy were walking along Bellwood talking about what their dreams during their sleep. As Gwen was about to explain her dream about fighting Vilgax, Lucy notices a man pulling a rope without anything, leaving them thinking he had forgotten something. They bumped into a lady and helped her pick up her groceries. They noticed her eyes was like Mr Baumann's eyes, as well as the other grown up's eyes. The three of them meet Jonesy and he also agrees that all the grown ups are acting strange. In the Rust Bucket, Ben tells Grandpa Max about the situation, but Max just thinks that it was just their imagination. But when Ben said Mr Baumann was nice to him, it aroused Max's suspicions.

Max went inside the house for quite sometime already leaving the kids worried. When he comes out, his eyes became just like the grown ups and started talking strangely, he walks away. Ben decided they call for back-ups. Back in Ben's house, Ben calls Cooper and asks if he could help them build a camera to spy inside the house. Cooper denies his request but once he heard Gwen's name, he rushed over to help. He finishes building his camera, known as the Surveillance Spider, impressing Lucy. Cooper explains that it would go inside the house as they watch a live video on Gwen's laptop, impressing Gwen. As they were watching the video, Jonesy explains about the haunted house leaving the rest of them staring at him clueless. Suddenly a cat scares them and Ben tells them to relax. After that, the video was cut off and Cooper says the Surveillance Spider is underground, Ben decides they check it out.

In the haunted house, Cooper asks Gwen if they could hold hands in case she was scared, but Gwen rejected the offer and says she was perfectly fine, disappointing him in the process. Ben teases him as Jonesy asks about Lucy's whereabouts. Lucy emerges from a chair and was angry that he blew her cover when she was trying to see what was going on. Ben steps on a platform as the five of them started falling down underground. Ben transforms into Way Big as they land on him. Way Big reverts back to Ben as they fell underground. Gwen casts a spell which gives them light to see the caves clearly. Suddenly, a voice is heard and calls Ben's name, only to be Kevin Levin. Kevin explains Thaddeus J. Collins asked him to mine Hedorium using his powers. Kevin was tied to the Null Void portal using Plumber technology. Cooper examines the technology as Kevin asks him to disconnect him from the portal. Ben disagrees with his request as he has done a lot of bad deeds to him. Kevin then tells him that the Earth would be in danger, Ben takes Lucy and Jonesy to find out about the problem as Gwen and Cooper deals with Kevin.

Ben, Lucy and Jonesy sees Grandpa Max holding a weapon, he shoots at them but they dodged. Ben turns into Eye Guy and shouts at Max to stop shooting them, but Max just kept shooting. Back at the otherside of the cave, Kevin teases Cooper about being Gwen's boyfriend but both of them stated they were just friends. Kevin teases and thinks he is a better guy, leaving Gwen raged and walks away. Lucy was disguised as Eye Guy and tricks Max, Ben, as Eye Guy shoots the weapon off his hands and Jonesy takes him down. Cooper tried to pull the connection but failed. He then re-programmed Kevin's connection to let him pull the portal like a kite. Gwen blasts at the portal to separate the ionic bonds as they headed to join Ben, Lucy and Jonesy. Ben laughs at Kevin that he is still connected to the portal, Kevin says it is better than being stuck to one spot.

As they walked further into the caves, they see a portal which things come out off. They head up only to see Thaddeus J.Collins, who is revealed to be Zs'Skayr in disguise, and that the portal is for the Ectonurites to come in from their homeworld. Gwen is surprised that Kevin has been helping Zs'Skayr. The other Ectonurites are inside the bodies and controlling the grown ups. Ben transforms into Upgrade and fights Zs'Skayr as Gwen blocks the grown ups from attacking them. Cooper asks if she has a spell that could separate the Ectonurites from the humans. Gwen begins working on the spell as Cooper, Lucy, Jonesy and Kevin help to keep them occupied. Cooper heads off to break the connection from the portal and Jonesy destroys the Hedorium collider. Lucy and Kevin could not continue holding them off, but Gwen saves them by casting her spell and separate the Ectonurites from the grown ups. Upgrade merges with the Surveillance Spider he found and blasts at Zs'Skayr. Cooper managed to succeed in severing the connection, sending the Ectonurites back to their homeworld. Zs'Skayr yells that he would have his revenge on Ben as he gets sucked into the portal. Everyone was saved when suddenly the Null Void portal starts to pull Kevin. Ben is reverted back to normal, Gwen, Lucy, Jonesy and Cooper helps to pull Kevin but they failed to do so, leaving Kevin getting pulled back into the Null Void, much to Gwen's sadness. On the other hand, they saved Grandpa Max, Mr Baumann as well as the Earth, which is quite an accomplishment for them. Grandpa Max and Mr Baumann thanks the five of them, but Mr Baumann's car smashes from the top, much to his anger.

Back outside Ben's house, Ben boasts about destroying the evil plot by Zs'Skayr, Gwen says he was good. They suddenly notice Kevin climbing out of the hole, Ben thought he was in the Null Void. Kevin says Gwen's love was the one who brought him back. Gwen blushes and held his hand, but Kevin is revealed to be Lucy in disguise as she reverts back to normal. Lucy teases Gwen about liking Kevin and Ben thinks Gwen is an Ectonurite. The episode ends with Gwen and Ben chasing after Lucy on the road.

Major Events

 * Cooper Daniels makes his flashback Omniverse debut.
 * Upgrade makes his Omniverse debut by 11 year old Ben.
 * Jonesy makes his debut.

Characters

 * Ben Tennyson (flashback)
 * Gwen Tennyson (flashback)
 * Cooper Daniels (flashback)
 * Lucy Mann (flashback)
 * Max Tennyson (flashback)
 * Ignacius Baumann (flashback)
 * Jonesy (first appearance; flashback)
 * Kevin Levin (flashback)
 * Thaddeus J. Collins (first appearance; flashback)
 * Walt (flashback; cameo)

Villains

 * Zs'Skayr (flashback)
 * Ectonurites (flashback)

By 11 year old Ben

 * Upchuck (cameo)
 * Way Big
 * Eye Guy
 * Upgrade (first re-appearance)

Errors

 * Zs'Skayr's real name was used in the episode even though it was first mentioned when Ben was older.
 * Zs'Skayr's face should've been upside down since he didn't bother to fix it until Rad Monster Party.
 * Kevin and Cooper meet for the first time in this episode, but in Undercover, Ben and Gwen were unaware that Kevin knew Cooper.
 * Also, in this episode, Ben sees Kevin absorbing matter and demonstrating it's use, but in Ben 10 Returns: Part 1, (which takes place 4 years after this episode) he did not know Kevin could do that, as pointed by Swampfire saying "That's new".
 * Lucy's white socks are missing in the scene where she's sit next to Gwen; and in another sequence, Ben's eyes are black, while focusing in his soccer ball.
 * In this episode, Ben trusts Kevin and believes that Kevin became a hero but in Ben 10 Returns: Part 1, he still considered him his enemy.

Allusions

 * While doing a soccer role-play, Ben uses the name McDuffy, which is a reference to Dwayne McDuffie, who previously worked on Ben 10: Alien Force and Ben 10: Ultimate Alien.
 * Thaddeus J. Collins' appearance is based on the character Barnabas Collins, from the TV soap opera and 2012 film, Dark Shadows.
 * The title is a reference to the movie From Here to Eternity.
 * Jonesy's theory regarding Mr. Collins being "eternally young while a painting ages in his place" is the story of "The Picture of Dorian Grey" by Oscar Wilde.
 * The magic circle that was used by Gwen is the same as Sakura Kinomoto's Magic Circle used in the series CardCaptor Sakura, just without the symbols.

Trivia

 * This is the first Ben 10: Omniverse episode that doesn't feature 16 year old Ben.