Mech-X4 S2 E18

## Plot

We start this episode with a flashback to when Ryan and Harris first met eighteen months ago. Wait, really? Only a year and a half ago? It feels like they've been friends for way longer than that. Also, they expect us to believe that these actors can convincingly play twelve year olds, which means their characters are only thirteen or fourteen now, which I don't buy for a second. Harris does tell Morris later on in the episode that he's fourteen. Ryan was in danger of being held back, so Grace hired a tutor to help him. Harris points out that they've lived on the same block for a decade. Before he starts tutoring Ryan in algebra, he helps him get a wheel off a skateboard, and explains that he used leverage to do it. In the present day, Ryan is still furious at Mark, and Grace sees that they haven't even started cleaning the living room. She doesn't seem to believe them when they tell her that everything's fine, but she leaves anyways. Veracity contacts Ryan and tells him that she thinks she found a possible location in the data core he found at Harper's. Translation: She might've found Harris. Mark still refuses to apologize for what he did. He thinks Ryan should've done the same thing. Ryan says he wouldn't have taken that risk with Harris, even if it meant saving the world. Mark tells him that a leader would. Ryan tells him that he'll go to South America, stop Traeger, and save Harris without him. Mark points out that if it weren't for him, he'd have no idea where they went. Ryan says he'll mention that to Harris, *if* he's still alive. At the robot, Veracity tells Ryan that according to the data core, Harper was secretly building greenhouses all over the world… and he was thinking of proposing to Grace. The greenhouses were for a steady supply of food after he caused the apocalypse. One of them is in Brazil. They could also use it to make the Red Bloom. Ryan wants to head there right away. Spyder thinks that leaving Mark behind is a bad idea. Veracity agrees with Ryan though. Mark lied to them and lost Harris. Ryan thinks that he's back to being the arrogant jerk he was before they found Mech-X4. We see another flashback of Mark trying to kick Harris and Ryan out of the house when Grace leaves for work so he can throw a big party. However, Ryan convinces Harris to stay and attend the party. This is his house too, so he's staying. In the present day, Harris finishes planting the Red Bloom seeds, and built a machine so Traeger can use his power to mass produce them. He arrives with Morris and Grey, and sees that sparing Harris was a wise decision. By tonight, he'll have enough Red Bloom to control every human on the planet. You'll have over seven billion flowers? Damn. Harper asks about Mech-X4 and Ryan, but Harris tells him that if they show up, they're his. Sure enough, they arrive, cloak themselves, and find the greenhouse the bad guys are in. They'll destroy the greenhouse after they save Harris. Veracity added the enzyme to the antidote, but she can't be sure it'll work without testing it. They grab a belt and an arm cannon and leave. Spyder and Veracity get Morris to chase after them, and Ryan separates Harris from them, but he dodges the first blast of the antidote. Ryan distracts him and manages to hit him with two darts, which seems to bring him back to normal. While getting something to drink at the party, Harris sees Mark and Dane set up a prank involving a carton of eggs to humiliate Ryan when he opens a specific cabinet. Harris shoves him out of the way and takes the hit instead. In the present day, he turns evil again and tells Ryan that the antidote didn't work. He activates the alarm, and Ryan runs away. Harper and Grey have harvested and packaged the first batch of the Bloom. Traeger wants Seth to stay until the rest of the flowers have reached maturity, and assures him that they're not defenseless. Ryan meets up with Spyder and Veracity, who somehow managed to tie up Morris offscreen. They do make a pretty funny joke about it though, saying that *anyone* can take him out. Ryan tells them that the antidote didn't work, and they see that a container is already filled with flowers. They head back to the robot. Before they can destroy the container, Harris stands on top of it. Ryan can't bring himself to step on him. At the hospital after the party, Harris's head and nose are bandaged. Ryan apologizes for his older brother's behavior. He was just trying to impress his varsity friends, and sometimes he doesn't think about who could get hurt. Ryan promises to have Harris's back if he's ever in trouble, no matter what. Both of them already knew Spyder. In the present, Harris says he knew he was too weak, and grows into a giant monster. Specifically, a crabby shark. Ryan tells Veracity to get the anti-ooze weapon up and running, but dial it down so they don't kill Harris. She needs a few minutes though, and then Harris digs through the ground and nails the robot right in the chest. Ouch! That's also where the X-weapon is located. It was the only weapon they had to take down a monster made of red ooze. Ryan says he can't breathe, and Harris hits them with his tail before Veracity is able to turn the shields on. Ryan wants to go back, but he can't move the robot. There's damage all over. It's gonna take Veracity a few hours to get them moving again. When they get back to the greenhouse, they don't see any signs of life. Ryan says they need to figure out where they took the Red Bloom and Harris. Spyder and Veracity remind him that they didn't *take* Harris against his will. He *went with them*, willingly. He's one of the bad guys now. The next time they go up against them, Ryan has to choose between saving Harris and saving the world. When they get back to Bay City, they see the Red Bloom start falling from the sky. Spyder uses the bounce belt to protect them, but everyone else is under Traeger's control. He instructs them all to eliminate Ryan and destroy Mech-X4.