Mech-X4 S1 E1

## Plot

Ryan Walker is a different kid. He has a gift. His older brother Mark is an egocentric jock who is the most popular kid at their school, Bay City High. Ryan is a technopath, someone who can control technology with his mind. His gift started developing over the summer, and he tells his best friends Spyder and Harris about it. Spyder is the comic relief weirdo whose humor mostly serves to undercut dramatic moments and be stupid. Harris is the smart prodigy genius. Mark and his team are jerks, picking on Harris, Spyder, and Ryan because they're freshmen. As revenge, Ryan tries to use his power to dump waste on Mark. However, his power malfunctions and dumps waste on them instead. His head hurt, and he had a vision of a junkyard by a river with an abandoned ferry. Cassie Park is an intrepid reporter teenager who uses social media to deliver the news. She's not an important character, which makes me wonder why they bothered to include her. Harris discovers the location Ryan saw in his vision, and they ride their bikes there after school. A lamp runs a facial recognition test on Ryan and confirms his identity. The top part of the ferry is really a hologram. It's to hide the fact that it's actually a hangar for a giant robot. They enter the robot by getting stepped on and being sent to the control room head by a high speed elevator. They see a recording by the creator of the robot, Leo, a rather eccentric scientist. The robot is called Mech-X4. He says that Ryan is a technopath who can control technology with his mind. Ryan bonds to the robot. Now it mimics his movements. He says that monsters are coming, and he's gonna need a team to help him pilot the robot and protect Bay City: There's a weapons and defense station. He's about to tell them something important when the recording breaks and stops. Harris is worried. He takes up defense while Spyder calls being the weapons specialist. Ryan decides to use the robot to prank Mark and his team. He dumps a dumpster full of trash on them. Mark apologizes to Ryan for pranking him, and Ryan feels guilty about what he did. Mark is being humiliated, and Ryan feels bad. However, just then a giant monster starts attacking the school. Ryan, Harris, and Spyder get to Mech-X4 and try to defend the school. They're new at being superheroes though, so they don't do a very good job. Ryan's arm gets hurt after the monster bites on the robot's arm. Because Ryan and the robot are linked, if the robot gets damaged, Ryan gets hurt. Harris learns how to activate the shield. There needs to be a fourth member of the team: A mechanic to fix the robot. And Mark is really good at that sort of thing. He's outside, looking for Ryan. They get him inside the robot. At first he's mad at being pranked by them, but he puts his feelings aside when he sees that Ryan is seriously hurt. He fixes the cannon arm. They use a plasma punch to destroy the monster and turn it into orange goo. They explore the robot and find a lounge. It's 150 feet tall, so there's a lot to explore. It's revealed that the principal of their school, Kim Grey, is behind the monsters. Ryan is upset that they won't get any recognition for saving the school because of the secret identity stuff. His mom is Grace Walker. She's a single mom who runs a catering food truck business. Harris is trying to figure out who the creator of the robot is. They decide to do minor stuff to get people to like them. Their first two attempts don't go so well, but then they save a window washer who works at Harper Futuristics. The founder and CEO, Seth Harper, sees the robot and is fascinated by it. He thinks that people shouldn't be afraid of Mech-X4. He goes on the news and invites the robot to his estate at five o'clock so he can thank them in person. Now that Grey knows where the robot will be, she creates a new monster to destroy it. It's a combination of a snake and an octopus. The others want to reveal themselves to Seth Harper, but Harris is against it, even if Seth is his idol. He knows that Ryan is just doing it to be famous. He leaves to try and unlock the secrets of Leo's cut off video. He finds where the video was filmed and finds an RV at the junkyard, which is where Leo used to live. He finds a secret compartment and learns Leo's name. He finds journals full of Mech-X4 ideas, drawings, and blueprints. He also finds the camera that the video was filmed on and watches it. He finds out that the monsters are sent by people, which is why they can't reveal their identities to anyone, or they'll come after them and everyone they know. And Leo knows Ryan's name. He built the robot specifically for him. This means that he knew Ryan at some point, and he knew that he would be a technopath. Harris tries to stop the others from leaving, but fails because they're in a giant robot. They don't receive any of his texts or calls. He bikes after them. Mech-X4 arrives at Harper's estate, and Harris gets past security. They see him and check their phones. They don't take him seriously, but another monster attacks. Harris is trapped under a shed that almost crushed him. The others are in shock and believe that he's dead. They actually say that he's dead too. Damn, this show has guts. They see that he's still moving though. Mark goes down to get him while Spyder and Ryan give him some cover from the monster. Harris has some goo dropped on him and he ingests some before spitting it out, clearly disgusted. Mark saves him and the two get back inside the robot. They cut off parts of the monster with a weapon that Spyder calls the plasma axe. The cut off parts turn into more goo, and the rest of the monster, "bleeding" out, leaves through the hole it made. Harris tells the others what he found out, and he and Ryan make up. Afterwards, we see that the stuff Harris ingested is affecting him.