Simple
General Information
Original broadcast	October 9, 2009
Series	Ben 10: Alien Force
Details
Season	3
Episode number	31
Overall episode number	83
Credits
Written by	Stan Berkowitz
Directed by	Butch Lukic
Episode Guide
Previous episode	Fool's Gold
Next episode	Vreedle, Vreedle

Simple is the thirty-first episode of Ben 10: Alien Force.

PlotEdit

On a distant planet, a war is about to start between red beings and blue beings. Ben, Gwen and Kevin travel with Ship to this distant planet. On the Plumber trackers, they get a message from a little girl named Probity to stop the war. When they arrive, Ben tries to talk the red aliens into not fighting, and then Kevin meets up with an old friend, Argit and they start selling weapons to both sides. Ben's influencing doesn't work and the red soldiers attack. Ben turns into a "new alien", Lodestar. (Ben transformed into Lodestar, off-screen, at the end of War of the Worlds: Part 2) An alien with magnetic powers and fights back. The red team backs away and retreats.

Ben's various attempts at getting the two sides to form a peace treaty fail miserably. The day of the war comes and Gwen and Probity watch in disgust. Ben turns into Way Big and goes in between the two armies. He talks them into not fighting, but Way Big accidentally knocks down the statue of their sage Zavin: whom both armies were fighting their civil war over in the first place, and the two leaders declare this as an act of war on Ben instead of fighting against each-other

Ben, Gwen, and Kevin are forced to retreat and leave the two sides to their war. Kevin is forced to leave Argit and his loot behind as he boards Ship as they leave.

In the end, Probity records a message to Ben saying that now she has no home, has to work double time, and hates him alongside the war. She then discovers Kevin's loot which makes her happy.

Major EventsEdit

• Ben is first seen to transform into Lodestar.
• Argit returns.
• Ben attempts to stop a war, but fails.

Omnitrix Alien DebutsEdit

• Lodestar

CharactersEdit

• Ben Tennyson
• Gwen Tennyson
• Kevin Levin
• Ship
• Argit
• Probity
• Military Leader of Blue Team
• Military Leader of Red Team
• Blue Team
• Red Team
• Purple Team (both the blue and red teams put together)

Aliens UsedEdit

• Jetray
• Lodestar (first appearance)
• Spidermonkey
• Humungousaur (cameo)
• Swampfire
• Goop
• Way Big

QuotesEdit

Ben: There you guys are! I've been looking for ya all morning. Gwen: We know. We got the fifty messages you left. Ben: It wasn't fifty messages! Kevin: It was fifty each.

Kevin: What is she, five? Past time she learned.

Argit: Kevin! Long time, no see! You look different. Did you cut your hair?

Kevin: I can't believe we're even doing this! Everybody hates war, but nobody ever does anything about it. Ben: Maybe that's because there's never been anybody like me before.

Kevin: Oh, right. The great Ben 10's going to solve everything in one weekend. Ben: It's a three-day weekend!

Kevin: (starts crying) Gwen: Kevin, are you crying? Oh, you do have a heart! Kevin: (sobbing) Yeah, that's what poor people have instead of money.

ErrorsEdit

• When Ben tries transforming into Humungousaur, the hologram shown is Lodestar's.

Naming and TranslationsEdit

TriviaEdit

• When Ben goes to the red side of the war, he turns into Jetray, who is a red-ish color, and when Ben goes to the blue side, he is Spidermonkey, who is blue. He might have been trying to signal to each side that he was on each of their sides.
• Probity has a dog-dinosaur-like pet that has animation alike of Stich from the 2002 TV production Lilo and Stich.
• Kevin Levin cries for the first time on screen.