Hideous creature from the deep!
Come inside...lf you dare!
Can't miss the freak show.
Sure we can. It's late.
And I don't want to see
something gross in a rubber
suit.
Sure you do.
Ticket, please.
It's $5 extra.
That's okay.
We were just leaving.
Oh! Sorry!
No harm done.
Please -- take one.
It could change your life.
No.
It's not possible.
It is. It's you.
5 bucks, pal!
Who is that?
The carnival's closed. You hear me?
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We stand here tonight as
liberators.
No!
You stand here trespassing!
It is as I said. He has returned to us.
Historic day -- the day that
marks the return of Diagon, the
knowledge bringer.
Circle?
Yep.
I can't believe it took so long
to convince you guys to come
check this out.
Yeah.
I'm...Completely disinterested
in a tour of an office building.
It is a puzzler.
Anyway, you're here,
and I'm glad.
This place really makes me feel
like I'm making a difference,
you know?
Making a difference is
Making a difference is good.
Swanky setup.
What do they do for money,
again?
They take donations.
Sweet.
Argit would love this place.
So, you say these guys
approached you at a tennis
match?
They were excited to
get me on board.
My celebrity can help raise
awareness of their organization.
Your celebrity for being
ranked 173 in women's tennis...
Or for being the girlfriend of
the Ben Tennyson?
First of all, I'm
ranked 83rd, and I've only been
in five tournaments.
I didn't say you weren't
good -- just that you're not
famous...Yet.
Does it ever occur to
you that everything isn't always
about you?
Not really, no.
>> Ben Tennyson.
What an honor it is to finally
meet you and to have a celebrity
of your stature visiting our
meager offices.
Conduit Edwards.
Conduit?
>> A title I have the honor of
holding.
It means he knows all
about the aliens.
Ohh.
The flame keepers
circle, huh?
That's just a symbol of what
that's just a symbol of what flame represents -- knowledge.
Metallurgy -- milestones of
human ingenuity and invention.
Or were they?
The flame keepers
circle believe that thousands of
years ago, mankind was visited
by benevolent aliens, who gave
us the beginnings of technology.
Benevolent?
I guess anything's possible.
Ben, you of all people can
appreciate that we are not alone
in this universe.
Which aliens are we
talking about here?
I know a lot of them.
I'm sure you do, but we're
talking about one alien in
particular -- the knowledge
bringer.
His name is Diagon.
Diagon prosed to return to
earth someday, with the
technology needed to save
mankind from war, famine,
disease...
To make the world a utopia.
And the flame keepers
circle are the welcoming
committee.
In the meantime, the
keepers dedicate their resources
to using modern technology to
help the less fortunate --
things like modernizing schools
and medical facilities in
underprivileged countries.
It's a shame, after
all this time, he never managed
to make it back.
You don't suppose he's, you
know -- "ckkk!"?
I can personally assure you
he's alive.
How can you be so sure?
As a conduit, I am privy to
as a conduit, I am privy to secret knowledge.
Behind this awesome door?
For example.
Now, if you don't mind, this
way, please.
That's conduit's
chamber.
Chamber. It's private.
The donations he bilks out of
the donations he bilks out of the suckers.
Man's nature to be skeptical,
but trust me when I say Diagon
is coming.
The new age of mankind is about
to begin.
I'd love to bring the
Ben Tennyson on board with our
cause.
Uh...
Any points with Julie back
there.
Okay, so you're not
into it.
I get it. That's fine.
But did you have to laugh in his
face?!
Julie, it was an
accident.
Sometimes I laugh
situations.
You're a terrible
boyfriend!
I'm not talking to
you.
In Ben's defense,
you're way too smart to be
buying into this junk.
Which junk is that,
Kevin?
The "using technology to help
people" junk or maybe the
"modernizing of hospitals and
schools" junk?
So what is it -- the existence
of aliens?
Well...
Oh, right -- because
we've never seen aliens before.
How many different aliens can
you turn into now?
50?
63.
And yet, believing in
aliens is laughable?
Say Diagon is real.
It still wouldn't be right to
use his alien tech to change the
planet.
Ben's right.
They got rules for that stuff.
I see -- so only
you're allowed to use alien
tech the save the world.
Right.
I-I mean, no!
That's not --
Never mind.
Let's just drop it.
Julie, I --
look, you said there's some sort
of members meeting tonight?
More tech talk with
conduit?
Forget it.
I thought I wanted you here, but
now I think it's best if you
just leave.
Julie!
I'd let her cool down
I'd let her cool down first.
Talk about what?
The Julie thing.
I know!
She's doing volunteer work for a
crooked organization, and she
can't even see it.
Come on, guys.
Give Julie some credit.
She's not a dope.
True, but that doesn't
mean she can't get in over her
head.
With a charity group?
What's the problem?
Her heart's in the right
place, but that guy reminds me
of a used-car salesman.
Even if these guys
were legit, their mission goes
against plumber rules and
interstellar law.
You think they really
have access to alien tech?
Doubt it.
Smells more like a multilevel
marketing scam.
Getting your suckers to get more
suckers -- charity for profit.
Yeah, conduit wouldn't
know alien tech if it was
staring him right in the face.
Speaking of alien tech,
looks like we've got a lead on
that stolen plumber ship.
Stolen plumber ship?
Grandpa Max called
while you were getting your
burger and a side of sulk.
The ship got jacked on
a routine run of this quadrant.
What do you say we skip dessert
and do a little follow-up?
You guys can handle it
without me, right?
Have some apologizing
to do?
- To do? - Only if I'm wrong.
Another amazing night. Big changes are coming soon.
Would find me.
Vilgax?
How can you be here?!
These days, they call
me the Diagon.
I don't care who these
people think you are.
I know the truth.
But how can it be?
I can see your tiny human brain
struggling to comprehend the
impossible.
Vilgax, conqueror of 10
worlds, living in a fish tank in
the v.I.P. Room of a bunch of
people who believe that Santa
drives a u.F.O.
It's a mystery, all right.
I should have been
dead.
Our last battle -- the terrible
our last battle -- the terrible explosion.
Did I.
Rather than being destroyed, I
rather than being destroyed, I was lost to the sea.
Form, I eventually washed up
onshore...
Onshore...
Carnival.
Despite the indignity of my
situation, it did provide me
with food, shelter, and time to
regain my strength.
Recently, I was liberated by
this collection of buffoons --
the esoterica.
The flame keepers
circle.
And this Diagon they're so
obsessed with just happens to be
some kind of space squid, too.
A most fortuitous
coincidence, would you not
agree?
So now you're a prophecy
made to order -- their old alien
pal finally making his promised
return.
"All hail Diagon!"
They'd do anything for me.
Why, they just acquired for me a
class 7 interstellar ship.
What are you going to do
with it?
My followers think
I'll use it to fetch some
glorious alien tech stashed on a
nearby moon.
Instead, I will find Psyphon,
regain my lost powers, then
return home to rule my empire.
Empire, genius.
It fell after everybody heard
you were dead.
You know how it is.
When the cat's away, the mice
will play.
Those who resist my
rule will be washed away in the
tide of battle!
My empire will rise again!
Yeah, about that --
not gonna happen.
Guards!
This intruder is an enemy of
this intruder is an enemy of Diagon!
You cannot stop the
followers of Diagon with doors.
But you've got to believe me --
this guy is not Diagon.
He's an impostor.
His name is vilgax, and --
enough lies!
Enough lies! You are an enemy of the flame.
How are you guys -- aah!
Rules, then why should i?
Big chill!
Bewildering, isn't it?
Ultimate
Ultimate big chill!
I'm sorry, Ben. I --
>> give up, or I'll lose Julie
in between dimensions.
Aah!
All
right.
You win.
I did what you wanted.
Let her go.
He wasn't really going to hurt
me.
That's right, Ben.
She wasn't my hostage.
She was my accomplice.
Julie, you --
what is going on here?!
It was the only way I
could get big chill to chill
out.
You are fighting on the
wrong side here!
These people are dangerous!
You don't understand!
You're the one missing
it.
We don't need to fight.
The stories were real.
Diagon is back, and he's going
to bring us the technology
needed to heal the world.
Julie, no!
Stay away from him!
He's not going to hurt
me.
He's about to bring a new golden
age to all humanity.
No sickness, no war.
Don't you see?
He sees all too well,
child.
He sees a world where he's no
longer special -- a healthy,
safe world where he is no longer
needed.
That is the real reason he
stands in our way.
Ben's not like that.
If you just let me explain it to
him...
This isn't about me at
all.
Even if Diagon was real, using
alien technology to accelerate
a planet's natural development
won't bring utopia.
It'll bring disaster.
It's happened before.
Why do you think the plumbers
have those laws?
But even that's not the point,
because that isn't Diagon!
His name is vilgax.
He's not a hero.
He's a selfish, evil warlord,
who's using you.
And if you let him get in his
ship, he's going to fly off and
start an interstellar civil war.
That's vilgax?
You're telling the truth?
Mostly.
Except for the "flying off"
part.
That ship isn't going anywhere
that ship isn't going anywhere without its pulse core.
We had just tracked
down the stolen plumber ship
when Ben opened a communications
link so we could hear your
plans.
Hence my custom
modification to the pulse core.
These infidels must
not be allowed to interfere with
earth's glorious rebirth!
You heard Diagon. Attack!
- Little help? - On it!
Tricky.
You could have been one of us.
The world.
The world needs
saving, all right --
from creeps like you!
Enough! Destroy the boy!
Destroy Ben Tennyson!
Starting to take this
personally.
Personally.
I hate when he does
this!
What?!
Aaaaaah!
- Aaaaaah! - Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Vilgax!
Water!
Save Diagon!
Save the knowledge bringer!
I'll be keeping an eye
on you.
There's no way I'm letting you
get off the earth.
Better keep your nose
clean.
Or we'll be back.
Does he even have a
Does he even have a nose?
Vilgax, but you're wrong about
keeping alien technology out of
the hands of the people it could
help.
We could all argue
about it some more over dinner.
I never did get my
dessert.
Fine.
But no seafood.
What if Tennyson is telling the truth about Diagon?
Circle!
We do not doubt.
We'll find you another ship, and
then the nonbelievers will see
how Diagon the knowledge bringer
will transform the earth into a
better place.
Yes.
When I'm done with this planet,
when I'm done with this planet, you won't recognize it.