Don't Drink the Water

Don't Drink the Water is the forty-second episode of Ben 10.

Plot
Growing weak with old age, Hex is seeking out something to make him stay young. So he goes to an old man asking him if he had anything that could make him young. The old man gives the water from the Fountain of Youth to Hex and he becomes a little younger. At the same time, Grandpa Max is having difficulties with his aging body, so he decides to impress Gwen and Ben at a fair to show them he's not as elderly as he seems. At the dunking game, Max challenges them to dunk him, to which Ben successfully does so.

But before they can get him out of the water, Hex attacks, splitting up Ben and Gwen in the process. During the battle, the water barrel Max was in earlier was destroyed, soaking Cannonbolt in the process. All sides are unaware that the water is from the Fountain of Youth. Max shrinks into a ten-year-old while Ben becomes a four-year-old. The booth's owner Hector is then targeted by Hex only to fight Ben as Hector escapes. They arrive at Hector's farm. While Ben tries to destroy the machine as Wildpup (thanks to the Fountain of Youth), they find Hector tied up as Hex managed to force him into revealing the location of the fountain. It turns Hector is the guardian of the fountain, having been charged to do so by Juan Ponce de León 400 years previous.

When the group catches up to Hex, he mentions his plans to use the Fountain of Youth to become immortal. However, thanks to some taunting/hinting from Gwen, Ben uses Heatblast to vaporize the fountain (all the while throwing a temper tantrum), in the process exposing Hex to enough of the water to turn him into an infant. With the fountain gone, Hector reveals that the effects of the water will wear off without constant exposure. Meanwhile, Charmcaster finds her infant uncle Hex and enjoys taunting him at his expense. In the end, Gwen reverses the rotation of the fountain and throws Ben and Max in there. They become their right ages again.

Spells Used

 * Metum Quix - Causes something to be lifted in air while being covered in a red aura.
 * Kellecki Rock - Causes rock spikes to erupt underneath the target.
 * Retoff Alegoria - Causes something to go flying at the enemy.
 * Teewat Legora - Creates a silver-colored whirlwind that attacks the target.

Characters

 * Ben (10 and 4 years old)
 * Gwen
 * Grandpa Max (60 and 10)
 * Hector

Villains

 * Hex
 * Charmcaster (seen at the end of the episode)

Aliens Used

 * Cannonbolt
 * Young Four Arms
 * Young Wildmutt (Wildpup)
 * Young Stinkfly (Stinkyfly)
 * Young Heatblast

Trivia

 * Hector says he'll live his life finally, but he'll die when he doesn't drink the water from the Fountain of Youth.
 * When Gwen says they drained Charmcaster and Hex of their powers, she forgot about Charmcaster in A Change of Face.
 * When the water goes all over Ben and Grandpa Max, Ben goes Cannonbolt and he wasn't young, this might be because the young power wasn't activated yet.
 * We see that Grandpa Max has to wear reading glasses when he's reading small print.
 * Apparently, even four-year-old Tetramands (Four Arms) have immense strength.
 * As of now, every episode with Hex in it, Wildmutt and Four Arms are always used.
 * This is the first and only time we have seen Ben, Grandpa Max, and Hex as children.
 * Since the water turned Max(who is 60 years old)into a 10 year old and Ben(who is 10 years old)into a 4 year old,being soaked in the water probably makes the person 6/10 younger.