(After setting up a campfire, Ben and Jen transformed back to human form and sat around the fire to keep themselves warm.)
Ben: "Pull up a boulder. Sit down."
(Ben suggested.)
Highbreed: "So your infernal pit can deplete me of my strength? I will not."
Jen: "It's just a campfire, dude."
(Jen said.)
Jen: "It's an Earth tradition. You sit around it and, you know, talk."
Highbreed: "To you two? For what conceivable purpose?"
Ben: "My name is Ben. Ben Tennyson."
Jen: "And I'm his twin sister Jen. What's yours?"
???: "I am called Reinrassig III, seventh son of the Noble Highbreed House of Deralla, direct descendant of the Pure-Blooded High Order of Rarsect. Heir to the-"
Ben: "Too long."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "We're gonna call you Reiny."
Reiny: "That is disrespectful, Ben Ben Tennyson."
Jen: "Weird."
(Jen said, adjusting the fire so it blazed brighter.)
Jen: "Despite the fact that we don't trust you as far as Humungousaur or Titanosaurus can throw you, it's still cool that the three of us have managed to work together to survive."
Ben: "I mean, we may not be friends exactly, but we're not full-blown mortal enemies anymore either."
(Ben said.)
Reiny: "The pair of you and I are enemies."
Jen: "Come on, Reiny."
(Jen said.)
Jen: "We've been able to see past our differences. Probably because we know what it's like to be... well, not a Highbreed exactly, but a whole bunch of other alien life forms kind of like you."
Ben: "Thanks to the Omnitrixes, we can walk a mile in other life forms' shoes."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "That way, we can totally understand what it's like to be them. Because we sort of have been."
Reiny: "Such presumption. But what else is to be expected from genetically inferior creatures?"
Jen: "What is that supposed to mean?"
(Jen asked.)
Reiny: "Why would I, a Highbreed, be slightly interested in befriending the revolting likes of you?"
Jen: "Hey, we're just trying to be nice. Find some common ground here."
Reiny: "The two of you and I are more than mere enemies. Highbreeds were the very first race in the entire universe. All species since, other than pure-blooded Highbreeds, are nothing but mongrels. Hideous abominations of nature! Especially humans!"
Jen: "I'm only half-human."
(Jen said, crossing her arms.)
Reiny: "And half of nothing is still nothing."
(Reiny spat.)
Reiny: "The moment I no longer have to rely on you two for my own protection, Ben and Jen Tennyson, I shall eradicate the both of you and there will be two less vermin infesting a grateful universe."
Ben: "You can't really believe all that."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "Not after everything we've been through. Not after the way we saved your life."
Reiny: "Well, you were trying to kill me."
(Reiny spat.)
Jen: "Fair enough point."
(Jen admitted.)
Reiny: "The pair of you are tired, human. I will take the first watch."
Ben: "No way."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "The two of us are wide awake."
Jen: "Get some sleep, Reiny. We'll take the first watch."
Reiny: "Very well."
(A few hours later, when the Highbreed was taking a watch, Ben slept soundly against a rock as Jen as Rockette played "You and Me" by Lifehouse with a sigh as Reiny looked over to her.)
Reiny: "As disgusting as Zepplians are, they do have an amazing gift for music."
(Reiny admitted as Rockette dozed off and fell asleep, transforming back as Jen rested her head on her brother's lap as Reiny looked over to them and then walked over silently, raising his claw upwards as Ben's eyes fluttered open.)
(He shouted out, startling his sister awake as Reiny shot his claws out at a lone Dasypodidae that was looming towards the twins and pounced, hitting the ground.)
(Ben prepared his Omnitrix as Jen readied her mana as Reiny brought his hand down on the space maggot creature... just as the Dasypodidae immediately shot up and bit down on the Highbreed's hand, shouting out in pain as the twins stumbled back in horror at the sight as Jen blasted her mana at the space bug, sending it flying away as the hand landed on the ground.)
Ben: "Can you regenerate it?"
(Ben asked.)
Reiny: "I am not a lowly homo-palustris!"
(Reiny spat.)
Jen: "But it can be healed, right?"
(Jen asked.)
Reiny: "Not from such an injury as this. Not in these conditions!"
(The twins looked over to each other and then nodded as Ben readied his Omnitrix.)
(He then transformed into Swampfire and took the bleeding hand as Jen walked over and then placed her hands outwards, enveloping the Highbreed's arm stump inside a mana sphere as Swampfire walked over.)
Swampfire: "You sure about this sis?"
(Swampfire asked.)
Jen: "No. I've never done anything like this before."
(Jen said.)
Jen: "I've healed with my mana before but nothing like this."
(Swampfire then approached Reiny and placed the severed hand on the arm surrounded by Jen's mana as his vines wrapped around the arm before securing into place as Jen let go and Swampfire smiled before changing back.)
Jen: "Better?"
Reiny: "Why would you two help me?"
(Reiny asked, confused.)
Jen: "Why would you help vermin like us?"
(Jen asked.)
Reiny: "It was in my own interest to stop that creature from harming you."
Ben: "Yeah? Well, it's in our own interest to help anybody who needs it."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "That's what heroes do."
(Later, Ben and Jen stood over the fire as Ben adjusted the firewood with a stick as Jen yawned with a sigh... just before they felt the ground shaking hard as the twins hugged each other in fear from what happened and closed their eyes from the shaking as Reiny looked over to them as he blasted his claws outwards to the fire... just as the shaking stopped.)
(The twins then let each other go, peeking their eyes open before jumping back in disgust and brushed themselves off... right as a Dravek burst out of the ground and roared at them, sending burning wood everywhere as the twins screamed outwards as Reiny ran forwards and avoided its strikes as he blasted his claws out and the twins activated their Omni-Suits.)
(Reiny ran away before he was suddenly scooped up by the Dravek, leaving him dangling over its maw as he closed his eyes.)
Reiny: "Tennysons!"
(Ben grabbed a flaming piece of wood and ran forwards, as his sister lifted him up on her mana platforms and they landed on the creature's back and looked as Reiny was about to fall into it's maw as Jen looked on as her brother crawled over to the front as she nodded.)
Jen: "Now, Ben!"
(Ben then tossed the torch into the Dravek's mouth and looked on as the inside of the Dravek was set on fire as the twins grabbed Reiny as the Dravek let him go and then it spat the fireball out of its mouth before looking to them with an angry glare before burrowing back into the ground.)
Ben: "Maybe you were right."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "Maybe we should walk at night."
Jen: "Agreed."
(Jen sighed as they walked forwards back onto the path as Reiny followed them.)
Ben: "Thanks for helping us back there, again."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "This is a huge thing to us, Reiny."
Jen: "This is proof that maybe underneath that exterior, Highbreeds aren't really so bad."
(Jen said.)
Jen: "Despite those terrible things about us you may have said before, you really do want to try to be friends with humans."
(Reiny stopped and said nothing as the twins continued on the path.)
(At sunrise, the twins had finally managed to make it to the teleporter relay before they gasped and ran over in anticipation.)
Ben: "There it is! Come on!"
(Ben said as they ran forwards... only to see that Reiny wasn't following them anymore.)
Jen: "Not the whole 'ten paces behind' thing behind."
(Jen said with a sigh.)
Reiny: "Go home, Ben and Jen Tennyson. I shall remain here."
Ben and Jen: "What?!"
(Ben and Jen gasped.)
Ben: "Did you hit your head when the Dravek attacked or something?"
(Ben asked.)
Ben: "The teleporter's right there. We can finally get off this sand trap of doom and back to our lives."
Reiny: "I have spent too long with the pair of you and have therefore myself become contaminated."
Jen: "Contaminated?"
(Jen asked, slightly offended.)
Reiny: "As evidenced by my uncharacteristic behavior, risking my own life to save yours, two lowly humans."
Ben: "Reiny, what you did was a good thing."
(Ben said.)
Reiny: "I have obviously become infected by your mongrel influence and am now myself unclean."
Jen: "Even if we believed that was true, why remain here on Turrawuste?"
(Jen asked.)
Reiny: "In self-imposed exile, as I should be. For I can never return home. Or anywhere. I could infect the rest of my kind. The only honorable choice is to remain here."
Jen: "No."
Reiny: "Because all lesser beings other than pure unadulterated Highbreeds must be expunged from the universe... including myself."
Ben: "I thought we had gotten through to you."
(Ben said.)
Ben: "I thought you had changed."
Reiny: "This much is true. I Have changed. And now, I must pay the price."
(Ben and Jen sighed in disappointment as they walked towards the teleporter.)
(Inside the warehouse, the others looked on as Kevin worked on the teleporter and sighed.)
Kevin: "Everything looks like it's in the proper position, but I can't make it work."
Gwen: "You have to fix it Kevin."
(Gwen said.)
Gwen: "We have to find-"
Becky: "Wait."
(Becky interrupted as they looked over and saw the teleport activate as the twins leaped out of the portal as it closed behind them and sighed, dusting the sand off their clothes.)
Allison: "Ben! Jen!"
(Allison shouted as the group ran over and hugged the twins and Kevin rubbed Ben's head playfully.)
Kevin: "You gave us a big scare there."
Gwen: "Where's the Highbreed?"
(Gwen asked.)
Gwen: "Did he get away?"
Ben: "I doubt it."
(Ben said with a sigh as he and Jen bowed their heads.)
(Meanwhile Reiny looked on at the teleporter before sighing and walking away, hearing the roar of the Draveks in the distance with a glare.)
[To Be Continued...]