(Meanwhile in a castle of some kind, a man dressed up as a knight with a cowl, armor and an elaborate golden mask was sitting at his laptop talking to the man over video chat.)
(His name was Enoch.)
Enoch: "Mr. Howell."
(he said.)
Enoch: "We've more than had enough of your fuzzy claims and blurry photos of supposed alien spaceships. I'm not someone you'd want to annoy."
Howell: "I-I know that."
(Howell stuttered.)
Howell: "But this one's different. I promise you."
(He then showed the knight the photo he took.)
Howell: "You see, he's only about six inches in size and converses fluently in English. Perhaps the Organization will consider?"
Enoch: "I'm sending a car. You'd better not be wasting our time or our resources."
(In Howell's home.)
Grey Matter: "Great."
(Grey Matter said.)
Grey Matter: "A thousand people at the water park and the UFO freak spots me."
(Howell's cat walked up, curious at the tiny alien in the beaker on the shelf.)
Grey Matter: "Wait."
(he said.)
Grey Matter: "This could work. Here, kitty, kitty."
(he said as he knocked himself against the beaker to try to knock it off the shelf.)
Grey Matter: "I taste just like chicken."
(The cat, intrigued, leaped up onto the shelf and swatted the beaker away, breaking it open when it fell to the floor, releasing Grey Matter.)
Grey Matter: "I'm free!"
(he shouted.)
(Unfortunately, Howell's vacuum bots detected the broken glass on the floor and trailed over to Grey Matter to sweep it up.)
Grey Matter: "Uh-oh. I'm free."
(He tried backing up to avoid them, but the cat was waiting for him there.)
(Thinking quickly, he hopped over the bots and started running for the door with the vaccums chasing him.)
(As he ran out, Howell stepped out of his office and into the hallway.)
Howell: "Howell Wainwright: alien discoverer! Let the fame and fortune begin!"
(He stepped into the other room to discover Grey Matter had escaped.)
Howell: "No!"
(The chase continued into the kitchen as Grey Matter quickly hopped on the cabinet and drawer handles and safely onto the counter where the vacuums couldn't get him.)
(He turned to his right to see the phone and got an idea.)
(In the Rust Bucket, Jen's phone rang and she quickly answered it as she continued using her Omnitrix to track down her brother.)
Jen: "Hello?"
Grey Matter: "Jen, it's me."
(Grey Matter said on the other line.)
Jen: "You're still Grey Matter?"
(she asked.)
Grey Matter: "Yeah, the watch still won't work!"
Jen: "Where are you?"
(Grey Matter carried the phone to the window, where he gazed through the glass and analyzed the surrounding area to pinpoint his location.)
Grey Matter: "Uh, there appears to be a mountain peak 13.2 miles due west with a vertical angle at 45 degrees."
Jen: "Gee, that narrows it down, brainiac."
(Jen said over the phone.)
Jen: "How about a street?"
Grey Matter: "Oh, yeah. It's Ripley!"
(Suddenly, an alarm sounded through the entire house and metal sheets came down while Grey Matter was still on the sill! He quickly leaped off, but knocked the phone onto the floor in the process, breaking it.)
(Jen then heard the tone signifying Ben hung up as she gulped.)
Jen: "Ben? Guys, something happened. We need to get to Ripley!"
Gwen: "Ripley what?"
(Jen then got a deadpan look on her face.)
Jen: "That's going to be a problem."
(The alarm shut off and Grey Matter spotted Howell staring him down, angry.)
(He then ran towards the tiny frog alien and clamped his hands over him, preventing his escape.)
(Fortunately, Grey Matter crawled up his arm, into is short sleeve and down his back.)
(Howell tried to trap him, but only ended up hurting himself as Grey Matter jumped out of his collar and bolted for the air vent for safety.)
(Sadly, Howell thought of this and removed the grate and grabbed him.)
(Thinking quickly, Grey Matter bit down on his hand, causing him to yelp in pain.)
(As this was going down, inside the Rust Bucket, Gwen unfolded a map as she and her cousin read it at the table.)
Gwen: "Ripley Avenue, Ripley Lane, Ripley Drive?"
(Gwen read.)
Gwen: "We don't have time to check them all out!"
Max: "Do we have a choice?"
(Max asked as he drove the Rust Bucket into suburbia.)
(In Howell's home.)
Grey Matter: "What's your malfunction?"
(Grey Matter asked the Omnitrix as he crawled through the air ducts of Howell's house.)
Grey Matter: "Probably something stupid like the DNA splicing replicator copying a fragment of the amino acid sequence."
(He then gasped as he realized what he said.)
Grey Matter: "So this is what it feels like to be smart."
(He then crawled to a different section of the ducts until he suddenly heard a whirring as Howell turned up the fan.)
Howell: "I'll teach you to blow me off!"
(Howell exclaimed.)
(The fans blew Grey Matter through the ducts, causing him to thud against the metal walls.)
(Howell heard this and followed the thudding.)
(Grey Matter continued flying through the ducts before he found a vent and grabbed onto it before he opened it, finding himself in the kitchen again with Howell waiting for him with a broom in his hand.)
Howell: "Gotcha!"
(he shouted, swinging the broom.)
Grey Matter: "Think again!"
(Grey Matter shouted as he dodged the broom as it knocked the vent off.)
(This continued for a bit with Howell swinging the broom and Grey Matter dodging it before he found his way to the sink and crawled down the drain.)
Howell: "If he gets away, the organization will come after me!"
(he said to himself.)
Howell: "Come on. Think, Howell!"
(He then spotted the faucet and an idea came to his head.)
(He turned the valve and water came out of the faucet and filled the sink, sending Grey Matter through the pipes as the water washed him away.)
(He then suddenly surfaced and took a deep breath and sighed.)
Grey Matter: "Ah, fresh air."
(He then realized he was in the toilet.)
Grey Matter: "This is so gross."
(The Rust Bucket then parked in front of a house as our heroes got out and they glared.)
Gwen: "I'll take this side, you take the other one."
(Gwen said as they ran around the house looking for Ben.)
(Max gazed through the windows looking for his grandson before the sprinklers turned on and startled him away.)
(Gwen gazed through the window into the basement before a spider crawled down and startled her and she ran away... right into her grandfather, sending them both sprawling to the floor, dazed as they groaned.)
(Jen looked from the Rust Bucket and shook her head as she looked at her Omnitrix to find her brother's signal.)
(Howell stood at his security system, gazing at the cameras' views as he grinned.)
Howell: "You can run, but you can't hide."
(In the basement, the cameras gazed through as Grey Matter climbed down the power wires and opened the power box as he grinned mischievously at the camera before he stuck his tongue out and flipped the lever, cutting the power.)
Howell: "What? No!"
(Howell exclaimed as the lights and monitors turned off.)
(Grey Matter then glanced around the room, hiding in a potted plant before he spotted the furnace and grinned.)
Grey Matter: "Ah, my ticket out."
(He then ran for it as he hid from view behind a couch as Howell showed up, shining a flashlight through the room.)
Howell: "Don't make this hard on yourself."
(He then walked away as Grey Matter ran for the furnace and pushed the lever, opening it and startling Howell.)
(He then saw Grey Matter crawling up the furnace as he glared.)
Howell: "I'll smoke you out if I have to!"
(he shouted as he struck a match, igniting it and lighting a fire in the furnace, causing smoke to rise up.)
(The smoke filled Grey Matter's lungs, sending him into a coughing fit and causing him to lose his grip as he fell down the furnace before Howell caught him with a fishing net.)
(Meanwhile, Jen, Gwen and Max continued searching for Ben until Gwen spotted a very familiar car parked in a driveway out of the corner of her eye.)
Gwen: "Grandpa, that's his car!"
(Gwen shouted as Max nodded and drove forward.)
Jen: "We're coming, Ben!"
(Jen shouted.)
(Howell placed Grey Matter in a glass cabinet as the alien glared at him and looked at all the figurines and stuff of the like he had amassed.)
Grey Matter: "Something tells me you're the kind of guy who has a lot of friends."
Howell: "Who needs friends when you have the fame I'm about to have?"
(he asked as he opened the door to reveal three figures wearing hats and trench coats along with knight-like armor.)
(The one in the center held a small electric cage in his hands.)
(The three walked into the house, catching Howell's attention.)
Howell: "gasp They're here!"
Grey Matter: "Yeah."
(Grey Matter said, thinking it was his family.)
Grey Matter: "To break me out."
(Howell turned to face the knights and smiled nervously.)
Howell: "You don't know how long I've waited to meet you people. It's truly an honor."
(he said, sticking out his hand.)
(Grey Matter looked in disappointment as he realized that it wasn't his family.)
(Speaking of which, Jen, Gwen and Max ran up the doorway and glanced at the door.)
Jen: "Wanna ring the doorbell?"
(Jen asked.)
Max: "I'll knock- hard!"
(Max shouted as he kicked the door off it's hinges.)
the leader: "Where's the alien?"
(the leader of the knights asked.)
(Howell moved out of the way as he showed Grey Matter.)
(The knight then walked up and grabbed him before placing him in the cage and closed it.)
Grey Matter: "Hands off!"
(Grey Matter shouted as he groaned and they walked away.)
(The others realized they got the wrong place as they saw a dog growling at them before an old woman in a wheelchair pulled up and glared.)
old woman: "Rufus, sic boy!"
(Rufus growled before he attacked Max and sent him sprawling to the floor as he attempted to bite him.)
(The girls looked to see the knights carrying Grey Matter to their car as Jen gasped when she saw them escorting Howell into the car.)
(Howell didn't realize that his phone fell out of his pocket and onto the lawn as he entered the car.)
Jen: "It's him! The guy who kidnapped Ben!"
(she shouted as the car pulled out of the driveway.)
Gwen: "They're getting away!"
(Gwen shouted as Max finally pried Rufus off him.)
Max; "Down, boy,"
(Max said as he pinched a nerve, putting Rufus to sleep as he placed him down.)
Jen: "Nice trick, Grandpa."
(Jen said.)
Max: "Come on."
(Max said, standing up.)
Max: "We need to find out where they went."
[To Be Continued...]