Mech-X4 S2 E19

## Plot

Picking up right where the previous episode left off, Ryan, Spyder, and Veracity run away from the Traeger controlled citizens, which include Dane and Yasmin. They barricade themselves inside a building. Veracity can't contact her dads. Ryan gets a call from his mom. She's not under mind control, but her food truck is surrounded by people saying "Get Mech-X4!" She asks Ryan about Mark, and he just says it's a long story. They'll get her out of there with the robot. When the citizens break in, they activate the invisibility on their Mech links. Grace sees that Georgia is under mind control. Mark saves her with his car. Harris is spreading the Red Bloom in his giant monster form and telling everyone where the robot is. Even the military is under mind control. Ryan, Veracity, and Spyder get back to Mech-X4, but their weapons are dead and most of their systems are offline. Ryan is able to destroy the military's missiles before they hit Mark and Grace. Ryan and Mark act awkward around each other, which Veracity points out, along with the fact that the military isn't out of missiles. Ryan can't stop that many, so he jumps out of the way. The base is destroyed though. They head to the no tech village. Ryan tells Grace about the ore that blocks out electronic signals when she asks him how he knows they'll be safe there. Veracity is staying in the control center to keep an eye on things just in case. They put their phones in the well bucket, and Ryan finally asks his mom if she wants to meet his birth mother. They thank each other for taking care of Ryan and sheltering them from bad guys, and they look at baby pictures together. Mark tells Ryan that Traeger is winning. He had to leave Georgia behind, and Ryan points out that *yes*, he does know what that feels like. Mark says they can't hide here while the rest of the world falls apart. Ryan points out that they don't know how to cure anyone, and the X-weapon is still busted. He can cure the rest of the thirty while he's here. Mark says that will hurt him, but he tells him that losing Harris did too. Violet and Grace watch him cure someone, which also causes a screen that Veracity is watching a video on to spark. She notices that there was a huge spike in technopathic energy. Meanwhile, Spyder takes Brandi and a boy to a pizza place so they can experience "real fun" before the world potentially ends. The building suddenly starts shaking, and Spyder sees Harris as a giant monster. He spreads the Red Bloom, and everyone outside is mind controlled. Spyder contacts Veracity and tells her what he did. He locks the door and distracts the kids. Veracity tells Ryan what he did, but they can't use the robot to rescue them because she disabled the control pad. She needed to understand the technology that connects his power to the robot, because– Ryan interrupts her and tells her to get it back online ASAP. He can't take his hoverboard because Spyder took it to take the kids there. What about Mark's car? Sure enough, that's how he gets there, but it means an awkward ride with Mark, since he's the only one who can drive it. He deliberately annoys Ryan by listening to music that he knows he hates. This is just petty. The world is ending! Make up already! What more do you have to lose? The only thing they can agree on is that the two of them going after Spyder doesn't change anything between them. Meanwhile, the mind controlled people break in. Spyder actually does really well at fighting them and goes all Papa Wolf on them, but only because the idea of tactics has clearly never crossed their minds. Stop approaching him one at a time and rush him already! Flank him! Ryan and Mark get there, and remember when zombies cornered them in the metal shop. Mark uses the gravity pucks in his shoes to kick the ringleader with the Red Bloom before he can infect Spyder. They fight off the other people together, and Ryan knocks everyone out with electricity from the arcade cabinets. Spyder finally has enough of Mark and Ryan fighting and lectures them both. Mark made a hard choice to get answers, Ryan has a hard choice about Harris, and he chose to protect the kids… after he put them at risk, but that's not the point. They're both right, and they're both wrong. The world needs them on the same team, so they have to figure it out. They realize that he's right. Ryan admits that they work well together, but when he thinks about what Mark did, he gets really angry. Mark tells him that's how he felt when he wouldn't listen to him about Harris. He's willing to admit that he shouldn't have hidden his plan from Ryan, but only if he can admit that he's made some not so great calls. He kicked him off the team because he was mad, not because it was the right thing to do. They make up, and everyone heads back to the farm. Veracity tells them that the robot is fully repaired, and she shows them a device that she says is the key to defeating Traeger. It can store the technopathic energy that Ryan absorbs into energy for later. It basically turns him into a giant battery. It will let him cure all of the sick villagers at the same time, and supercharge him to fight Traeger. If it doesn't work though, he'll die. They have to do something though. He absorbs all of the technopathic energy, which enables him to fly, or at least float in the air. He can hear information from all over the world. He learns that Grey is in London in her monster form, and she's spreading the Red Bloom all over the city. They can't go overseas without the flight mode jet though, and Mark says it's back in Bay City. However, Ryan reveals that he can also remotely control any tech at a much wider range than he could before. They decide to find out how powerful he is now.