(Back at the crater in the Arctic, the same two men drove by with another friend of theirs as they rode their snowmobiles up to the crater.)
(They got off of their snowmobiles and climbed down into the crater to investigate the machinery there as the new friend scoffed.)
???: "I don't see any big lizard. All I see is a bunch of junk."
(Suddenly, they felt a tremor sound throughout the ground they were standing on and a small part of the snow broke away to reveal one of Vilgax's robotic drones that formed shape around them and scanned around.)
(The men screamed out and ran away from the site as the drone stuck a cable out to the snowmobile as the three men drove away in fear.)
(The drone took the snowmobile apart piece by piece and started to upgrade itself with the pieces.)
(Back at the campsite, the heroes were all gathered by the picnic table by the Rust Bucket as Ben, Jen, Gwen, Becky and Allison all looked at Max and Xylene as they conversed with each other about the old times that they had together.)
Allison: "Gross, gross, gross."
(Allison said as she pushed her dinner away from her since it was Max's turn at the stove today.)
Ben: "That lizard lady's been here for, like, three hours and she hasn't said anything to us."
(Ben said.)
Jen: "I know."
(Jen said.)
Jen: "You'd think that we were invisible or something."
Gwen: "Don't take it so personally, guys."
(Gwen said.)
Gwen: "They're just catching up."
Becky: "Exactly."
(Becky said.)
Becky: "When you guys found me again, Gwen and I spent the whole day talking to each other before going shopping for me."
Allison: "So."
(Allison said, turning to Max and Xylene.)
Allison: "How'd you two meet?"
Max: "Xylene and I go way back."
(Max said.)
Max: "To my early days in the Plumbers. We worked a lot together in those early years."
Xylene: "You even made me an honorary Plumbette."
(Xylene said as she showed off her badge.)
Jen: "Not surprising, really."
(Jen admitted.)
(Xylene then looked down at the still-alive mealworms crawling around in the bowl and she then shot out her long, blue forked prehensile tongue out and wrapped up a bit of the grub and swallowed it down, much to the kids' disgust.)
Xylene: "Mmm..."
(she said as she munched.)
Xylene: "Delicious."
Max: "Well, it's nice to have somebody around here who appreciates my cooking."
(Max smiled.)
Ben: "Why shouldn't the lizard lady like Grandpa's dinner?"
(Ben asked.)
Ben: "It was crawling on the ground an hour ago."
Jen: "Well, she is a lizard."
(Jen shrugged.)
Max: "So, Xylene."
(Max asked.)
Max: "What brings you back to Earth after all these years?"
Xylene: "Those."
(she said, pointing towards the Omnitrixes on the twins' wrists.)
Jen: "We knew it!"
(Jen shouted as she put her hand around the Omnitrixes protectively.)
Jen: "She's just like all the rest!"
Ben: "Yeah!"
(Ben said.)
Ben: "She's only interested in the Omnitrixes."
Max: "Now, just calm down, you two."
(Max said.)
Max: "Xylene, tell them that's not true."
Xylene: "Well of course it's true."
(Xylene scoffed.)
Xylene: "Why wouldn't I be interested in the Omnitrixes? I'm the one who sent them to Earth."
Everyone: "You did?!"
(the kids all asked.)
Becky: "I suppose now it's story time."
(Becky said as Allison sighed and sat down.)
Allison: "Get ready, everyone."
(she said.)
Allison: "This could take awhile."
Xylene: "I was transporting the Omnitrixes."
(Xylene explained.)
Xylene: "When I was attacked by our old friend."
Ben: "Vilgax."
(Ben realized.)
(Xylene only nodded in confirmation to him.)
[Flashback...]
(Xylene was at the controls in her ship and maneuvered around, avoiding the massive Chimera Wrath's lasers until she felt a bump as she realized that she was hit.)
(She then aimed her laser's at the ship's hull and fired the blast that caused Vilgax's major injuries.)
(Soon, Vilgax's drones swarmed out of his ship and swarmed towards hers until she destroyed them with her lasers.)
(A few of them managed to sneak through, however.)
(She then heard a grinding sound as she exited the control booth and realized that the drones were advancing towards her ship's entrance.)
(She shouted out as she activated her telekinesis and destroyed one of the drones while forcing the door closed.)
Xylene: "Realizing I could no longer protect the Omnitrixes from Vilgax, I placed them in a special pod."
(After doing so, she entered her sleeping pod.)
(But just as she was about to go to sleep, she realized that the drone was burning a hole through the door.)
(But before it could break in, the Chimera Wrath fired the final blast that destroyed her ship.)
(But it was too late.)
Xylene: "I jettisoned them to the planet below for safekeeping."
(As the pod zoomed down to Earth, where it would eventually find the twins, Xylene herself and the remains of her ship crashed down at the Arctic site.)
Xylene: "When I crashed, my body fell into a hybernative state. Until now."
[Flashback Ends...]
Xylene: "That is my story."
(she said.)
Max: "Well, the good news is that Vilgax is no longer a problem."
(Max said.)
Max: "Thanks to the twins here, he's cooling his claws in the Null Void."
Becky: "Hey, we helped too, you know!"
(Becky said.)
Xylene: "Yes, yes."
(Xylene said before turning to her co-worker.)
Xylene: "And I'm sure you're being modest about your role in all that."
Ben: "So, since Vilgax is taken care of, I guess that means you don't need to stick around here anymore!"
(Ben said.)
Max: "Benjamin, that's hardly polite!"
(Max said.)
Xylene: "No, he's right."
(Xylene said as she reached into her pocket and pulled out a remote.)
(She then sent out a signal from it up into the sky.)
Xylene: "My transportation will be on its way shortly."
Max: "In the meantime, you'll be our guest."
(Max said.)
Max: "We'll use the time to... catch up."
Jen: "As if they haven't been doing that already."
(Jen whispered to her brother, who nodded in response.)
Max: "You kids wouldn't mind cleaning up, would you?"
(Max asked as he walked away with his old friend.)
Jen: "I don't like her."
(Jen said, folding her arms.)
Gwen: "Really? I never would've guessed."
(Gwen said as she and Becky scoffed while Allison just looked concerned.)
Ben: "She has a right to be concerned, Gwen."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "Remember what happened with Grandpa's old partner Phil?"
(Jen gasped at the realization.)
Jen: "That's it! I'm doing an undercover investigation, Hero Style!"
(She then activated her Omnitrix as Allison glared.)
Allison: "Jen, these dishes aren't going to wash themselves, you know!"
Gwen: "...Or will they?"
(Gwen asked as she pulled out her spellbook.)
Becky: "Good call, sis."
(Becky said.)
Becky: "Good call."
Xylene: "The youngsters."
(Xylene said as she and Max took a walk.)
Xylene: "I never took you as the domestic type, Max."
Max: "You remember Verdona, right?."
(Max asked.)
Max: "We were together for a long while, but we never married. However, we did have two kids."
Xylene: "Oh, so you got together with another Plumber after me?"
Max: "We were partners on that mission when we had to rescue her."
(Max reminded her.)
Xylene: "Right, right."
(Xylene sighed.)
Xylene: "Don't you miss your old Plumber days?"
Max: "Well, we still get our share of excitement around here."
(Max smiled.)
Max: "Especially since you dropped those little presents of yours into our laps."
Xylene: "You haven't aged at all since I last saw you."
Frostblight: "Ugh, gag me."
(Frostblight said as she spied on them from up in the trees.)
Xylene: "Do you remember that night?"
(Xylene asked.)
Max: "How could I forget?"
(Max asked as they looked up at the moon.)
[Flashback...]
(A young Max was standing at attention by Xylene as she stood by her ship as she prepared to depart on a mission into outer space.)
Xylene: "Rumors are swirling that there's a new DNA weapon out there."
(she told him.)
Xylene: "Sure you won't change your mind and come with me?"
Max: "Tempting offer, Xylene."
(Max said.)
Max: "But until I bring down Vilgax, I've got a job to do here. But we'll always have Roswell."
(The two then smiled and gave each other a kiss before the Plumbette went into her ship and blasted off to parts unknown with Max staring sadly after her.)
[Flashback Ends...]
Xylene: "With Vilgax out of the picture, there's nothing keeping you here any longer."
(Xylene told Max.)
Xylene: "I could use your help out there, Max."
Max: "sigh Another tempting offer."
Frostblight: "No way!"
(Frostblight gasped, holding her hand to her mouth in shock.)
Xylene: "There's something about that Osmosian girl that seemed familiar to me."
(she explained.)
Xylene: "It took me awhile to figure it out, but I think I got it from reading her mind. I believe that she's the daughter of your old partner."
Max: "Phil?"
Xylene: "No, not Phil."
(Xylene said.)
Xylene: "Your other old partner. What was his name? Devin Levin?"
(Frostblight's eyes widened even bigger than normal.)
(Jen's eyes widened immediately at that
Max: "Devin? That was a long time ago. I genuinely didn't know that Allison and her brother were Devin's kids until you just now told me."
(Max said.)
Xylene: "That's what happens when you're a telepath."
(Xylene said, putting her hand to her hip.)
Frostblight: "I've got to tell the others!"
(Frostblight said as she flew away from the scene.)
[To Be Continued...]