Greetings From Techadon

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Greetings From Techadon is the fourteenth episode of the third season of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, and the thirty-fourth episode overall.

Synopsis[]

A mysterious object crashes in the center of Bellwood, unleashing Techadon robots with one thing on their mind, destroying Ben!^{[CN 1]}

Plot[]

In Bellwood, a massive rectangular object crash lands in the center of the town, and from it emerges a yellow Techadon Robot. Meanwhile, at a local mini-golf course, Ben, Gwen, Kevin, and Julie are playing an even game of miniature golf. Ben casually transforms into Brainstorm to calculate a series of complex equations and easily uses them to score a hole-in-one in a Tokyo hole, causing Julie to demand an immediate rematch. However, the Techadon Robot from earlier arrives and attacks the group. Remembering their first victory against the robot, Brainstorm transforms into Goop. However, he has far more difficulty with battling this one, forcing Kevin to spear the robot with a model of Tokyo Tower from the golf course. Kevin salvages the robot's black box, with the intent of figuring out who sent it before selling it on the open market.

After Ben and Gwen drop Julie off, they go to Mr. Smoothy for drinks, and Gwen comments on how everything seems to come so easily to Ben. Gwen believes that despite how he acts, Ben does take things seriously and only makes what he does look easy. Kevin arrives with bad news; the Techadon Robot was custom made by the Weaponmasters of Techadon themselves, specifically to fight Ben. Now the other designs will take into account Ben's past battles with them, and they won't stop coming after him until he's dead. At this time, a new grey Techadon Robot arrives, and Goop is rendered useless against it by the past battle. Instead, Ben transforms into Rath and fights it and eventually defeats the robot at the cost of Mr. Smoothy. Gwen decides to hunt down the one who put the hit out on Ben, while Kevin and Ben locate the mobile factory from which the Techadon Robots were spawning, which crash landed at the beginning of the episode.

Based on how Kevin stated that the Techadon job would have cost a fortune, Gwen hunts down Vulkanus at the cafe inside Space Station Kubrick, pointing out that he has the money to afford such an attack. Vulkanus admits to being the one who contracted the Techadon Robots and states that he can't retract the bounty even if he wanted to. The contract is auto programmed into the fabricator and won't stop until the job is done. Argit arrives and tells Vulkanus that while he is celebrating his early victory, he's missing out on Ben's destruction, and at this Vulkanus leaves to watch "the show" while Gwen pays Argit for his help.

After Kevin and Ben track down the factory, they discover that it's indestructible. Ben transforms into Big Chill but he can't phase into it, nor can Kevin absorb it. A third Techadon Robot is then created from the factory and proceeds to fight Ben and Kevin. Big Chill transforms into Ultimate Big Chill to rescue civilians and lures away the Techadon Robot from the crowded city streets. Once in a safe area to fight, Ben transforms into Echo Echo before Vulkanus arrives on the scene and watches as the Techadon Robot easily pummels Echo Echo and his clones. Echo Echo then transforms into Ultimate Echo Echo and keeps the robot at bay with his Sonic Disks. While the robot is occupied, Ultimate Echo Echo asks Kevin how it is tracking him, and he states that they work visually. At this, Ultimate Echo Echo realizes that it's tracking the Ultimatrix, and he transforms back into Ben and hides it using his jacket. Not able to find the Ultimatrix, the robot begins looking around for it.

As a joke, Ben and the others confront Vulkanus and Kevin plants his old ID Mask on Vulkanus' back, setting it to mimic the Ultimatrix symbol, thus causing the Techadon Robor to attack Vulkanus instead. Vulkanus angrily flies away with the robot going after him, yelling at Ben that he wishes he could "hate him to death". With the Techadon issue resolved, the team decides to get Julie and play her in a rematch in mini golf. The episode ends with Ben giving Gwen his car keys and telling her she can drive them.

Noteworthy Events[]

Major Events[]

Character Debuts[]

• Techadon Robots (Ultimate Alien debut)

Minor Events[]

• Space Station Kubrick makes its Ultimate Alien debut.
• It is revealed that ID Masks can be used to copy objects.

Characters[]

Main Characters[]

• Ben Tennyson
• Gwen Tennyson
• Kevin Levin

Antagonists[]

• Techadon Robots (first reappearance)
• Vulkanus

Other Characters[]

• Julie Yamamoto
• Argit

Aliens Used[]

• Brainstorm
• Goop
• Rath
• Big Chill
  • Ultimate Big Chill
• Echo Echo (x2; goes Ultimate and reverts; second time was a cameo)
  • Ultimate Echo Echo

Quotes[]

Naming and Translations[]

Cast[]

Continuity[]

• Ben as Brainstorm recalls that Techadon Robots have a weakness for Goop, which was shown in The Gauntlet.
• The ID Mask that Ben places on Vulkanus is the same one used by Kevin during Season 2 of Ben 10: Alien Force.

Allusions[]

• The move Rath uses to defeat the Techadon Robot is similar to the Flying Cross Chop from the Street Fighter franchise.

Errors[]

• Echo Echo, Humungousaur, Rath and Big Chill's holograms face away from Ben.
• In the shot of Brainstorm's completed diagram of the "Death Hole", the dinosaur statue and the robot statue are missing.
• When Brainstorm says, "Winning. It's what I do", he has a black stripe along his back.
• Right before Brainstorm turns around to see the yellow Techadon Robot, his Ultimatrix symbol is all black and a rock in the background is overlapping his arm.
• After Rath turns around to fight the Techadon Robot again, his Ultimatrix symbol briefly becomes white.
• When the Techadon Robot punches Rath after it is knocked down, Rath's neck is orange.
• In one shot, Rath's arm is entirely orange.
• The silver Techadon Robot manages to hit an intangible Big Chill with a pole.
• In one shot, Ultimate Big Chill's head is all red.
• In one shot, the Echo Echo clones are shown emitting sonic screams, but their mouths are closed.
• In the end credits, Vulkanus' name is spelled as "Volcanus".

Hologram error

Hologram error

Missing statues

Black stripe

Hologram error

Ultimatrix error

Orange neck

Orange hand

Hologram error

Pole error

Head error

Closed mouths

Credit error

Trivia[]

• The episode's title is listed as Greetings from Techadon on the Cartoon Network website^{[CN 1]} and iTunes.
• This episode was actually written by Eugene Son. Charlotte Fullerton was miscredited to this episode.^{[ES 1]}

References[]

Crew Statements[]

T.J. Collins[]

Eugene Son[]

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