Grudge Match

***Grudge Match*** is the tenth episode of *Clock 10: Choose Your Own Adventure*.

## Plot

The scene opens up in a windmill field wherein the camper is turned over. Clockwork Firefly is seen as XLR8 fighting against Kevin 11. Kevin fires crystals at XLR8 who proceeds to dodge and creat a cyclone around the former. The cyclone sends Kevin into the sky but he easily regains control with his wings before flying down and grabbing XLR8 by the neck, spinning him around and throwing him at the ground.

XLR8 throws some of the debris from his landing at Kevin, who blocks it with his Diamondhead arm. The two charge at each other, but then XLR8 suddenly finds himself in a dark room. A light suddenly shines on him and an announcer introduces him as a "challenger" from Earth.

More lights come on and XLR8 finds himself in the middle of an arena, with several alien onlookers in the audience. Turning around, he finds himself going against a large robot, which has swords for hands. XLR8 creates another cyclone around it, causing the robot to slice itself with its own swords. He then tries to use his cyclone to escape, but an odd force field around the arena knocks him back down to the ground where he becomes human again. A wall lowers, revealing Kevin to have also defeated a similar robot. Kevin accuses Clock of bringing them to the ship, but the two are teleported in the midst of their conversation.

In a different part of the ship, samurai-like robots knock the two of them down, and attach small devices to their chests. Kevin tries to attack the robots, but the device shocks him to the ground. The two are then introduced to another robot who reveals his name to be Slix Vigma, the captain of the Megacruiser, the ship they're on. He declares that he owns everything on the ship, including Kevin and Clock, and says they're prime candidates for his galaxy-wide gladiator battles. He waves his hand and sends them to another part of the ship, where other prisoners of Slix are.

Kevin once again blames Clock, pinning him against the wall until he's shocked by the device again. Suddenly, a panel comes out and is covered in steaming, orange goo, which one of the other prisoners reveals is "supper." In the midst of eating, a Detrovite by the name of Technorg enters, and the other aliens bow, relaying to the two new guys that he's the reigning champion and demands food offering. Clock plays along, unlike Kevin. As Technorg approaches, Kevin uses his tail to throw Clock's tray of slop into Technorg's face, thus blaming it on Clock. Technorg picks up Clock and throws him, only for the latter to dial in Four Arms on the Omnitrix, but getting Wildmutt instead.

Before the two can fight, Wildmutt and Kevin are teleported back to Slix, who claims the two would make an excellent team in the arena, locking them together via energy shackles attached to their ankles. The two are teleported back to the arena where Technorg is. Wildmutt attempts to rush Technorg, but is halted by Kevin not moving. Kevin then uses XLR8's speed to rush Technorg, dragging Wildmutt along who he then whips around to hit Technorg, almost knocking him off the edge into a pit of hungry Vulpimancers. Wildmutt gathers his strength and returns the favor, using Kevin to hit Technorg back into the arena, with Kevin using his anger to more brutally beat Technorg. The two are crowned the champions before being teleported back to the mess hall, Clock becoming human again.

Technorg relents, giving his food to the two new champions. He then says he looks forward to seeing them fight in the next galaxy, causing Clock to realize the severity of the situation and comments on needing to escape. Technorg explains that escape is impossible with Slix controlling everything, and taking out Slix is a challenge due to the shocking devices. Clock then activates the Omnitrix, becoming Grey Matter in hopes the device will be too big for him an will fall off, but it just changes size with him. However, he does use his intelligence to disable the devices on Kevin and Technorg, allowing them to destroy the ones on the others. With the prisoners being freed, they start taking on the guard robots.

Kevin and Grey Matter reach Slix's chamber. Using his intelligence, Grey Matter is able to switch to Upgrade, merging with Slix and detaching himself from the shackle that held him to Kevin. Upgrade finds that Slix doesn't just operate the control panel, but he *is* the control panel, and now, so is Upgrade. Upgrade intends to fly back to Earth and then have Technorg destroy Slix, with Grey Matter later rebuilding the control panel for the aliens to get back home. Technorg offers the easier alternative of using the escape pods to send everyone home.

With Upgrade accessing the escape pods, everyone runs to their respective pods and puts the coordinates of their homeworlds, returning to them, except for Technorg. Technorg explains that his life belongs to Clock after his defeat, and his homeworld of Vulcan is a wasteland where there's nothing for him to return to. Upgrade offers Technorg to join him back on Earth, but the Omnitrix quickly times out and he leaves Slix's body. Slix goes to attack Clock but is stopped when Kevin rams his Diamondhead arm through him.

Kevin then heads for Clock, but is stopped by Technorg throwing him across the room. Technorg rushes Clock into an escape pod, calling it even between them as Clock is sent back to Earth, while Technorg and Kevin battle it out, the Megacruiser going into hyperdrive as they do.

## Major Events

* Kevin is trapped in space on the Megacruiser.

## Characters

* Clockwork Firefly
* Taryn Firefly
* Geralt Firefly
* Technorg

### Villains

* Kevin Levin
* Slix Vigma

## Aliens Used

* XLR8
* Wildmutt *(selected alien was Four Arms)*
* Grey Matter
* Upgrade

## Trivia

* This is Clock's favorite episode of the original series to do for CYOA.