Bad Bot

**Bad Bot** is the second segment of the fourteenth Season 2 episode.

## Summary

Doc Ock creates a bad bot doppelgänger of TRACE-E to trick Team Spidey in order to lure them into a trap. When the plan worked, the real TRACE-E needs to do everything she can in order to save herself, and Team Spidey.

## Characters

* **Heroes**
	+ Team Spidey
		- Peter Parker/Spidey
		- Miles Morales/Spin
		- Gwen Stacy/Ghost Spider
	+ TRACE-E
	+ WEB-Ster
* **Villains**
	+ Doc Ock
	+ CAL
	+ Bad Bot (character) (debut)

## Plot

The episode starts with TRACE-E and Team Spidey in Webquarters, where they put her through an obstacle course that they made just for her to test her skills. After TRACE-E successfully made it through the course from start to end, using her various skills such as jumping to the ceiling, wall crawling, video recording and scanner to scan the code for the correct password in order to open the hatch, Team Spidey cheer and praise her for her success. A few seconds later, the Spidey Alert goes off as WEB-Ster alerts them that something big is moving through Central Park, causing trouble.

At Central Park, several civilians and birds flee as a huge robot stomp through the park, just as Team Spidey arrives on their Team Transport. Spidey instructs TRACE-E to stay on the Team Transport for her safety, while he and the rest of the team handle the giant robot. Unbeknownst to the heroes, Doc Ock and CAL are hiding behind a tree, spying on them. Doc Ock tells CAL that the spiders did not know that she built the giant robot that is attacking the park just to distract them, so she could switch TRACE-E with a fake version of her (TRACE-E) that looks just like her (TRACE-E). Doc Ock then tells CAL that fake TRACE-E will trick the spiders and lure them to her (Doc Ock) so that she (Doc Ock) can lock them up and take over the whole city. Doc Ock then pushed a button on the back of the TRACE-E lookalike robot, turning it on. Ock then asked the robot whether it is ready to make some mischief, which the robot replies by saluting. Doc Ock then take a peek at Team Spidey still fighting the giant robot, before turning back towards CAL, telling him to quickly swap fake TRACE-E for the real TRACE-E, as the spiders are so busy, they will not even notice. CAL salutes as he carries a cage-like carrier.

TRACE-E is still on the Team Transport, watching Team Spidey's battle with the giant robot, just before she felt someone tap her. She turned to look and sees Bad Bot, threateningly confronting her. Frightened, TRACE-E steps backwards, only to quickly bump into CAL, who traps her in the cage-like carrier and takes her away, while Bad Bot warbles evilly once they are off of the Team Transport. CAL discreetly carries the carrier counting TRACE-E pass the area where Team Spidey has the giant robot secured in one place with their webs. The giant robot falls apart when they pull on their webs together, much to their confusion as the robot fell apart in an unusually easy manner. Spin then finds Doc Ock's symbol stained on one piece of the giant robot, allowing Team Spidey to figure out that Ock created the giant robot, and deduce that she is up to something bad. Team Spidey then heads back to the Team Transport, where they greet Bad Bot, thinking that it (Bad Bot) is TRACE-E. After all three spider-themed heroes headed inside the vehicle, Bad Bot's eyes switched from light blue to red, before it hops into the vehicle.

Once inside the Team Transport, Spidey asked the TRACE-E imposter did everything go alright while they were gone. Bad Bot's different-sounding noises causes Spidey to turn to look at it, asking did it say something. Bad Bot quickly changed back to putting on a behaviour like TRACE-E, switching to having light blue eyes and squeaky noises. Thinking everything is alright, Ghost Spider then announces that it is time to take off, before walking off to the driver's seat. As soon as she looked away, Bad Bot discreetly switches back to displaying its true nature with its red eyes and warbling-noises.

While Ghost Spider is flying the Team Transport, Spin asks WEB-Ster to search for Doc Ock. Seeing this, Bad Bot jumps onto WEB-Ster's screen, before jumping onto Spin and Spidey in an aggressive manner, while Spin asks it (Bad Bot) what it is doing. Bad Bot then messes with WEB-Ster's controls, before jumping onto Ghost Spider pushing her hood over her eyes to blind her while it (Bad Bot) takes control of the Team Transport's steering wheel. After Ghost Spider takes back control, Bad Bot displays behaviour like TRACE-E by switching to light blue eyes and squeaky noises. Spin asks the TRACE-E imposter why is it acting so weird. Spidey begins to think that the weird behaviour might be because of the extra hard obstacle course they put TRACE-E through has overloaded her wiring. Spidey approaches the robot, telling it to let him look at its machinery, as he can fix whatever is wrong with it. Bad Bot then switches back to displaying its true nature with its red eyes and warbles, before jumping onto Spidey's head, then jumping all over the front of the Team Transport before taking control of the steering wheel again, causing the vehicle to crash land right next to a large garage-like building.

After Team Spidey get over their crash-landing, Spidey points out they are alright, but the TRACE-E imposter is not. The team then hears Doc Ock's laughter as they see her outside the front of the Team Transport. The heroes jump out of their vehicle to confront Doc Ock, noticing the real TRACE-E trapped in the carrier that CAL is carrying. Spin asks in shock, "There are 2 TRACE-Es?!" Doc Ock asks the spiders that they have not figured it out, before telling them to take as long as they need while she holds the carrier containing TRACE-E on one of her tentacles. Spidey comments that no wonder the robot that had been acting so weird was acting that way, as it was not the real TRACE-E at all. Ghost Spider points out that the robot in the cage is the real TRACE-E. Doc Ock responds by telling the spiders that they are correct. Spin confronts Doc Ock, telling her that she will not have TRACE-E for long. However, Doc Ock laughs and responds by telling him that that is what he thinks.

Doc Ock carries the carrier holding TRACE-E into the building, as Team Spidey follows them. Once inside the building, Spin tries to web up Doc Ock, but she catches his web and spins him around while she tells the heroes that what they do not realise is that she tricked them with fake TRACE-E, and crashed their vehicle right at her lair so that she can do this. As soon as she finishes her sentence, Doc Ock presses a button on a remote to activate a laser cage, trapping Team Spidey in it. Doc Ock leaves the remote with Bad Bot while she and CAL go off with the real TRACE-E still trapped in the carrier that CAL is carrying. Spidey tells TRACE-E that they (Team Spidey) will save her, causing her to squeak sadly in response, just before CAL takes her down the hatch, which Bad Bot aggressively closes once they are gone. Team Spidey then tries to web up Bad Bot, but it dodges their webs every time, causing Spin to comment that the robot moves fast. Ghost Spider and Spin then try to convince Bad Bot not to work for Doc Ock as she (Doc Ock) is mean, while they (Team Spidey) will be nice towards it if it (Bad Bot) works for them. Bad Bot hesitates for a while, before deciding to blow a raspberry at them, showing them that it has decided to continue working for Doc Ock and it does not agree with them.

Bad Bot then leaves the remote on the wall, which Spidey notices and tells the rest of Team Spidey. Spin tries to use his webs to hit the button that will deactivate the laser cage, but Bad Bot successfully swats the web away. Ghost Spider comments that the web did not even stick to Bad Bot. Spidey figures that Doc Ock must have made Bad Bot out of some kind of material that their webs will not stick to. Spin comments that the fake TRACE-E may look a lot like the real TRACE-E, but cannot be more different. Spidey sighs as he says that he hope that TRACE-E is alright.

Meanwhile, in Doc Ock's lair's basement, Doc Ock instructs CAL to lock TRACE-E in a small laser cage nearby, saying that she (TRACE-E) will never get out because only she (Doc Ock) knows the code. CAL does as told by throwing TRACE-E from the carrier into the laser cage, before closing the cage's door. After completing the task, CAL throws the carrier away as he joins Doc Ock, who announces that it is time to make the city Doc Ock city, before commenting how glorious that is. While they are busy, TRACE-E uses her scanner to scan the code for the password, after she successfully gets the door to open, it creates a sound that catches Doc Ock's attention. Ock then instructs CAL to check what caused the sound, as she cannot have anything ruining her plans. TRACE-E steps out of the laser cage, but quickly steps back in and closes the door when she hears someone coming. CAL takes a peek and sees TRACE-E still trapped in the laser cage, causing him to think that everything is still going well for him and Ock. After CAL leaves, TRACE-E quickly steps out of the cage again, this time crawling away from Doc Ock's basement lair as fast as she can.

The real TRACE-E discreetly climbs out of the hatch while Spidey asks the rest of the team how they are going to get out of the laser cage with fake TRACE-E around. Just like what Bad Bot did to her before, TRACE-E taps Bad Bot from behind, causing it to turn to look and see her, startling it. TRACE-E and Bad Bot begin facing off, just as Spin tells TRACE-E to grab the remote and where the said remote is. TRACE-E quickly starts to crawl and jump towards the remote, but Bad Bot does the same and quickly catches up with her, causing the remote to fall off the shelf as the two robots battle. Bad Bot quickly gets hold of the remote and crawls off, with TRACE-E following it. TRACE-E then catches Bad Bot off guard by climbing onto the ceiling, startling the doppelgänger, Spidey then asks TRACE-E to keep Bad Bot in one place, TRACE-E responds with a salute before doing as instructed. TRACE-E corners Bad Bot, allowing Ghost Spider to snatch the remote with a web, bringing the remote to herself so she can deactivate the laser cage, freeing herself and her teammates.

Now freed, Team Spidey joins TRACE-E confronting Bad Bot. The TRACE-E imposter tries to crawl away, but Spidey manages shoot a web that hits the on off button on it's (Bad Bot's) back, turning the robot off. Team Spidey cheer upon their victory as Bad Bot is defeated, while praising TRACE-E for her role in helping them earlier. Spin then announces that they have to stop Doc Ock, before commenting that it will be great if they can get the Bad Bot to go after her. Spidey responds by saying that he thinks he knows how to do that, as it will just take a little reprogramming.

In Doc Ock's basement, she tells CAL about her plans to first take over the park so she can ride the carousel as many times as she wants, then take over the amusement park so that she can can keep all the cotton candy for herself, before declaring that soon the whole city will be hers. Ghost Spider interrupts the villainess by confronting her. Doc Ock then turns around to see Team Spidey and TRACE-E not trapped at all, much to her shock. Spidey then activates Bad Bot, which crawls towards Doc Ock. The villainess confronts the robot, asking it why did it (Bad Bot) let Team Spidey out. Bad Bot then offends Doc Ock, causing her to ask what has gotten into it. Team Spidey then web up Doc Ock and CAL, as Bad Bot jumps around the webbed up villains. Team Spidey then celebrate their victory, as Spidey comments that they could not have done it without the best bot ever, TRACE-E, causing TRACE-E to happily squeak with pride as the episode ends.

## Trivia

* The title of this episode is said by Doc Ock.
* TRACE-E is seen using her scanner to scan the passcode of a lock for the second time, the first time is in the Season 1 episode Washed Away.
	+ Similar to Washed Away, this episode is the second segment of the fourteenth episode released in its season, and both episodes focus on TRACE-E getting in trouble and saving the day.
	+ However, unlike Washed Away, TRACE-E managed to save herself and save Team Spidey, while in Washed Away, Spidey saved TRACE-E from getting washed even further down the sewers by the rushing water,
* This is the second episode to share a name with a debuting character, the first being the Season 1 episode TWIST-E.
	+ Similar to the episode TWIST-E, both episodes share a name with a robot character that debut in them, both feature Doc Ock as the main villain, and both have TRACE-E and WEB-Ster appearing in them.
	+ However, unlike the episode TWIST-E, CAL and the entire Team Spidey is present, while Ghost Spider and CAL were completely absent in the episode TWIST-E.
* Bad Bot is the first antagonist seen getting into the Team Transport, and encountering WEB-Ster.
* Doc Ock and CAL are seen encountering TRACE-E for the second time, following the Season 1 episode A Very Spidey Christmas.
	+ Doc Ock does not know about TRACE-E's ability to scan locks with codes for their password, as Ock figured that TRACE-E will never get out from a cage that can only be unlocked by those who know the code.
* It is unknown what happened to Bad Bot after the events of this episode, as Team Spidey is seen leaving it with the webbed-up Doc Ock and CAL in Doc Ock's lair.