After setting aside the Omnitrix some years ago, fifteen-year-old Ben Tennyson is enjoying a normal life. After winning a soccer game and meeting a girl named Julie, he visits Grandpa Max only to discover that he’s disappeared. Inside Max’s RV, the Rust-bucket, Ben finds a Holo-viewer with a recording from Max telling Ben that he has the Omnitrix and he’s safe. However, Ben has had the Omnitrix ever since he took it off years ago.