Mech-X4 S1 E2

## Plot

Inside Mech-X4, Mark is trying to train Ryan in throwing punches. Harris comes in, and is acting absentminded, having forgotten to put pants on that morning. He acts rude to Mark, and he gets super strength and throws him across the room. He collapses and asks Ryan to help him. The ooze is mutating him into a monster. He needs a sample of it to reverse engineer an antidote. Spyder reveals that during their first fight, an orb like object inside the monster didn't turn into ooze, which he saw in Cassie's video of the fight. It's the monster's heart. It landed in the woods near Coulton Ridge. They find it, but the residual ooze dried out. Everyone gives Spyder grief for not telling them sooner. Harris is getting worse, and hurts Spyder's feelings. He leaves to fix a thruster that he broke earlier in the episode. Harris finds volcanic rock on the heart, which indicates that it came from Mount Hartley, a nearby volcano. Spyder runs into Cassie at the school. He claims that the rocket is for a stunt he's doing involving sending himself across a lake in a cart. Cassie decides to stream his stunt live. The other guys see that the volcano is full of ooze. A man named Davage works for Grey. He tells her that the robot is there. They don't have a new monster ready. She decides to initiate the failsafe to get rid of Mech-X4, even if it means that they'll have no more primorphorous gel, which they need to make monsters. Davage is blind in his right eye. The site explodes, sending Mech-X4 into the ooze. The explosions also severely damage the robot and Ryan. The guys will run out of air if they don't get out in 17 minutes. They can't just rocket boost through all the rubble, and the arm cannon is busted. Harris has gone full on monster and is somewhere in the robot. The only way to fix the cannon is from the outside. Ryan tries to text Spyder about what happened. Mark doesn't have faith in him. Ryan wants to fix the robot and save Harris, convinced that they can do both. Mark thinks that the priority should be saving themselves first, and then they can worry about Harris. Ryan tries to contact Spyder while Mark looks for Harris. Davage did a thermographic scan of the robot and shows it to Grey. They learn that the robot is piloted by at least three people. While trying to get a signal, Ryan runs into Harris. Mark finds them and shocks Harris. Ryan is able to knock him out with a door. His phone is busted though, and he doesn't know if his text got through. Spyder sees the text, and decides to ditch Cassie to help his friends. Ryan and Mark restrain Harris just in case he wakes up and goes all monster-y again. They have a minute of air left. Spyder gets there and fixes the cannon arm. They make it out just in time. Harris makes an antidote and cures himself. The others apologize to Spyder and say that he deserves to be on the team. It turns out that Grey has a leader, called… the Leader. Or as the protagonists call him, the mastermind. He's disappointed with her for losing the gel and failing to get rid of the robot. She informs him that the robot has human pilots though. It turns out that Leo is alive and being held captive by him. He refuses to tell him who the pilots are, and is beaten up for his troubles.