Greetings From Techadon

***Greetings From Techadon*** is the sixteenth *Ultimate Alien* chapter of *Clock 10: Choose Your Own Adventure*.

## Plot

About a week after the events of *Hero Time*, Clock and his team decide to have a night away from the hero stuff by playing mini golf. The game is interrupted by a large yellow robot known as a Techadon Robot destroying part of the course. Clock turns into Lodestar to combat it. He easily wins the fight, but Kevin warns him more will likely come, and if they do, Lodestar will be ineffective against them.

Heading to McRonald's after the fact, the group ends up ambushed by a dark grey Techadon Robot. In response, Clock dials up and becomes Upchuck. Upchuck initially uses his acid on the robot, which causes it to melt but it immediately starts regenerating. He then tries an explosive vomit projectile, which blasts a hole through the chest that also begins to repair. His teammates try to help, but the Techadon does away with them before returning its attention to Upchuck. Upchuck transforms into Nanomech, which causes the Techadon to lose track of him.

Nanomech flies into one of the damaged holes before they rebuild themselves, and finds it difficult to comprehend the technology on the inside. Although he tries to blast several of the inner machines, each one quickly rebuilds itself due to the minimal damage caused. Deciding to hell with it, Nanomech changes into Way Big while within the Techadon, destroying it from the inside. Kevin determines the Techadons are specifically going after Clock, being commissioned to kill him and being made in a mobile Techadon factory nearby. Taryn has an idea for who might've sent the Techadons, and leaves to take the Rustbucket III.

Kevin and Clock find the mobile Techadon factory having landed in the middle of downtown. Kevin attempts to break in, which does absolutely nothing. Clock then accesses Armodrillo and attempts to use his jackhammer arms on the factory, which doesn't damage the factory and instead reflects all of the heavy duty vibrations back onto Armodrillo himself. As the two continue to ponder how to get in, the factory opens itself up just to reveal a newly made bright silver Techadon.

The scene cuts to Taryn entering the alien bar last seen in *The Con of Rath*, where she finds Vulkanus. Upon apologizing for Clock's actions last they met, Vulkanus reveals to Taryn that he commissioned the Techadons from the Techadon Weapon Masters to take him out for the pain caused last time. Argit suddenly chimes into the conversation, commenting that Vulkanus would be properly getting his money's worth if he saw the Techadons defeat Clock. Agreeing, Vulkanus heads for Earth, with Argit telling Taryn to tell Kevin he "owes him" for the Forever Knight incident.

Taryn contacts Armodrillo via the Ultimatrix, warning him of Vulkanus arriving. Turning his attention back to the Techadon, Armodrillo changes to Water Hazard. Water Hazard throws a hydrokinetic attack, which the Techadon dodges via liquifying itself then regaining its regular form, blasting Water Hazard away. Water Hazard changes into Diamondhead, and the Techadon blasts him with a laser that reflects back at itsefl, only for it to repair itself far quicker than the last.

As Diamondhead attacks the Techadon in an almost futile attempt, Kevin remarks about having an idea. He rips off one of his sleeves and hands it to Taryn before pulling out an ID mask and making himself appear as Ripjaws. He runs off and the Techadon gives chase just before Taryn realizes what's happening. Upon Taryn's request, Diamondhead becomes human again, and she wraps the sleeve over the Ultimatrix. Kevin comes back and removes the ID mask, causing the Techadon giving chase to look around confused. The two then explain that the Techadons weren't tracking the Ultimatrix's signal, but just finding whatever had the Ultimatrix's hourglass.

An angry Vulkanus becomes confused as to why the Techadon isn't working, and Kevin takes advantage by placing the ID mask onto his back, making it appear like the Ultimatrix's hourglass, which thusly causes the Techadon to go for Vulkanus instead, to which the group finds very entertaining. The episode ends by panning down to show a sublte "13" embedded into one of the side panels of the Techadon mobile factory.

## Major Events

* Clock's team fights the Techadon Robots for the first time.
* Big Dig Energy is unlocked by passively scanning Vulkanus.

## Characters

* Clockwork Firefly
* Taryn Firefly
* Kevin Levin

### Neutral

* Argit
* Slix Vigma

### Villains

* Vulkanus
* Techadon Robots

## Aliens Used

### Clockwork Firefly

* Lodestar
* Upchuck
* Nanomech
* Way Big
* Armodrillo
* Water Hazard
* Diamondhead

## Allusions

* The bright silver Techadon's ability to liquify itself is a nod to the T-1000 from *The Terminator* franchise.

## Trivia

* Julie was cut from the CYOA version of the episode as she contributes nothing to the canon version anyway.