Chaotic Clumping

**"Chaotic Clumping"** is the tenth episode of the first season of Elliott from Earth and the sixth episode in Chapter Two, written by Guillaume Cassuto, Mic Graves, Tony Hull, Daran Jonno Johnson, Joe Markham, Richard Overall, and Mikey Please. It premiered on April 1, 2021 in the United States.

## Synopsis

Elliott and Mo accidentally take a teleporter together and find themselves closer than they've ever been before. Will they decide to mutually part ways?

## Plot

At an observatory window, Mo surprises Elliott with a view of the space scenery outside. As they talk, the scene suddenly pauses, turning out to be a digital replay of a memory. The real Elliott and Mo step into the scene, fondly remembering the fun memories. From outside the digital scene, Frankie calls them, and they turn off the memory-viewing headsets as they sit on the couch. Frankie, getting ready for her new job at the science center, comments that the two of them are "attached at the hip" and reminds them to get ready to go to school. After she leaves, Elliott and Mo decide to watch a few more memories before leaving.

Soon after, Elliott and Mo frantically rush down the street to catch the last bus to the Hive, late for school. They end up missing it, but find a teleporter machine that they can use instead. They decide to use it together rather than one at a time, and when they emerge from the machine, they find themselves physically merged together. Elliott immediately panics, but Mo suggests that it could be a good thing. Nearby, two aliens see them and wonder if the two of them are stuck in the same clothing. As Elliott and Mo try to get to class, they end up stumbling through the hallways.

In class, Mr. Kallous reveals that there will be a surprise test. Elliott worries that there's no way they can do a test in their current state, but Mo reassures him by saying they've got the power of two brains in one. This gives Elliott more confidence, but as soon as he tries to do a high-four with Mo, they clumsily fall out of their seat.

Later at lunch, Elliott is upset that they likely failed the test. However, a droid approaches them and reveals they got an A. Even though they just wrote a poem using autocorrect for it, they celebrate their success, and Elliott begins to agree that they're twice as strong when merged. They try using their abilities, including double strength and double hearing, unaware that it's not working the way they think it is. When the droid returns, telling them to report to Mr. Kallous, they suspect that it'll be good news, but it is not.

Kallous tells Elliott and Mo that they put two names on their test, but he can only accept one. One of them will take the A, and the other will get an F and must clean the school windows. As Elliott and Mo leave, they begin to argue about the situation and about being merged in the first place. More and more disagreements occur, and after struggling against one another too much and falling down multiple flights of stairs as a result, Elliott and Mo realize that they shouldn't stay merged together.

Elliott and Mo find their way to a clinic for separating aliens with conjoined individuals, and reluctantly decide to go in. They see many newly-separated aliens, who are all angry toward the others that they were connected to. Mo, seeing this, begins to break down crying, thinking Elliott must hate him too. Elliott reassures him, and tells him that they don't have to get separated after all, saying that he'd rather put up with the slight discomforts of being merged than risk losing his friendship with Mo. On their way out, the doctor tries to tell them something important, but they don't stop to listen.

Back in Kallous's classroom, Elliott and Mo explain how they decided to stay together in the end. Kallous interrupts it and points out to them that they're not physically merged together, they're just both stuck in the same clothes. Elliott and Mo, relieved at this realization, take a moment to get physically separated from one another properly. As they're about to leave, though, Kallous stops them and demands that one of them still has to take the F on the test. He asks who it will be, and Elliott and Mo glance at one another.

Later on, Elliott and Mo share the same spacesuit and work together to clean the school windows, having decided to take the F together. As they do, they marvel at the beautiful view outside of the Centrium, even better than the one in their memories from earlier.