Secrets

***Secrets*** is the sixth episode of *Clock 10: Choose Your Own Adventure*.

## Plot

The episode opens with Clock as Stinkfly in a high speed chase along with the police, going after some criminals who used an ambulance as a getaway vehicle. Stinkfly flies down low and uses his tail to puncture the tires of the ambulance, causing it to halt.

The criminals then leave the vehicle and fire at Stinkfly, which proves to be in vain as Stinkfly clogs up the guns with his goo. Another criminal comes out and shoots at Stinkfly, but it reflects off his tail and hits the criminal in the arm. The scene suddenly pauses and zooms out, showing several other heroic exploits of Clock before a dark silhouette with glowing red eyes appears, claiming he'll find him himself. With that, Clock wakes up from his dream in a cold sweat.

Geralt comes to check on Clock, and becomes increasingly worried after Clock relays the dream to him. He then decides to start the drive early to get ahead of traffic and get to Mount Rushmore.

The group travels on a back road just outside of Rapid City. From the city an explosion is heard, and Clock turns to see a large plume of smoke coming from the city. Against Geralt's wishes, Clock dials up the Omnitrix and becomes Ghostfreak. Flying to the city, Ghostfreak sees several robotic drones, and extends his fingers into sharp claws to take them out. Ghostfreak then grabs one of the drones with his tentacles, and Zs'Skayr recommends throwing it at a gas station despite the innocents that may die. Rejecting the idea, Ghostfreak instead just crushes the drone with his tentacles.

Thinking he's won, Ghostfreak goes to leave, but is suddenly pinned to the wall by an odd energy net that keeps him from phasing through. A gigantic, spiked sphere rolls towards Ghostfreak and opens, revealing the ominous, looming figure that is Vilgax. Ghostfreak insists on Vilgax stopping whatever it is he's doing, in hopes to keep the body count low. Vilgax admires the heroism, claiming he'll "reward" him for it. Agreeing to not fight, Vilgax reaches down and taps the Omnitrix, forcing Ghostfreak back to human. He then puts a device on Clock's wrist to keep him from transforming, and takes him back to the ship.

Clock is then restrained in a large, floating, circular device, which has his feet and left hand restrained in energy and his right hand with the Omnitrix in a much larger device. Clock attempts to convince Vilgax to not do whatever he's planning, to no avail. Vilgax remarks he's been after a power like that of the Omnitrix for nearly 300 years, and he intends to link the Omnitrix to a whole army that can transform independently, acting under Vilgax's will.

Vilgax goes to begin the process of removing the Omnitrix, but is suddenly pinned against the wall as the Firefly's camper rams into the ship. Geralt exits the camper with a gigantic, alien weapon. Clock tries to convince Geralt to leave, but Geralt instead activates the weapon, blasting Vilgax a few rooms away in the ship. Geralt claims he'll explain later, and goes to help Clock out of Vilgax's device, only for the device to go haywire and turn Clock into Wildmutt, then Diamondhead, then Ripjaws, then Upgrade.

Upgrade merges with the device then leaves it to escape, only for Vilgax to return with some of his robot drones. Upgrade blasts them with his optic beam, which turns into firebreath as he's transformed into Heatblast. He then aims his fire at Vilgax, who proves to be essentially immune to it. Vilgax then activates his steroid boosters, making himself stronger as he pins Heatblast to the wall, only for the latter to become Stinkfly.

Stinkfly rams his tail between Vilgax's muscles, causing him to scream in pain and release him. Stinkfly then flies around destroying more drones with his tail before becoming Four Arms and crushing another. Four Arms proceeds to get Geralt back into the camper, but then is thrown by Vilgax through the hole the camper came through. Vilgax jumps after him, the two of them falling quickly from the great height the ship was at.

Mid-air, Four Arms becomes Heatblast and flies up, bashing Vilgax before turning and shooting fire at him again, propelling himself up towards the ship. However, just as he almost gets to the ship, he's transformed into Ripjaws and falls again, this time onto the nose of one of the Rushmore presidents. He manages to climb to the top of the mountain, but collapses in exhaustion from dehydrating. Vilgax lands nearby and approaches.

Miraculously, the Omnitrix switches Ripjaws to Ghostfreak just before Vilgax can harm him. Vilgax is then surprised when the Omnitrix changes Ghostfreak again and he is unable to find him, only to feel him as Grey Matter biting one of the tentacles on the back of his head. Vilgax reaches back and grabs Grey Matter and throws him, only for Grey Matter to shift to XLR8 mid-air. The two of them notice Vilgax's ship crashing not so far away.

XLR8 then tries to ram Vilgax as hard as he can, which only proves to hurt himself before he becomes Wildmutt again. Wildmutt then runs off towards the crashed ship, while Vilgax jumps high into the air to get an advantage. Reaching the ship, Wildmutt is transformed into Four Arms again, but finds Vilgax to have taken Geralt and Taryn hostage, giving him the option to fight and risk their lives, or save them by giving himself up.

Ultimately, Four Arms gives in, and Vilgax reverts him to Clock before taking him into the somehow still operational ship, taking off. Vilgax then throws Clock to the side when he realizes Geralt activated the ship's self destruct feature. Clock reaches for the Omnitrix, transforming into an entirely new transformation: Cannonbolt. The ship's rocky movements causes Cannonbolt to fall over and change into his sphere form.

Cannonbolt starts rolling around, acting as a pinball as he is thrown about the chamber of the ship. He eventually knocks Vilgax into a large energy conduit which explodes, damaging Vilgax's body and destroying the ship. Cannonbolt goes flying out of the ship, falling onto the ground before rolling to meet up with his family. He dizzily looks up at Geralt and remarks that the two have a lot to talk about. Geralt gives a quick explanation that he was once a Plumber, an intergalactic force of justice that caused him to interact with many aliens, including Vilgax. He actually recognized the Omnitrix immmediately, but had hoped playing things close to the chest would keep Clock safe, although he was wrong about that.

## Major Events

* Clock meets Vilgax.
* Geralt's Plumber history is revealed.
* Grey Matter and Cannonbolt debut.

### Omnitrix Debuts

* Grey Matter
* Cannonbolt

## Characters

* Clockwork Firefly
* Taryn Firefly
* Geralt Firefly

### Villains

* Vilgax
* Vilgax's Drones
* Zs'Skayr

## Aliens Used

* Stinkfly *(2x, first time dream, second time unintentional)*
* Ghostfreak *(2x, second time unintentional)*
* Wildmutt *(2x, both times unintentional)*
* Diamondhead *(unintentional)*
* Ripjaws *(2x, both times unintentional)*
* Upgrade *(unintentional)*
* Heatblast *(2x, both times unintentional)*
* Four Arms *(2x, both times unintentional)*
* Grey Matter *(debut, unintentional)*
* XLR8 *(unintentional)*
* Cannonbolt *(debut)*

## Trivia

* The Omnitrix glitching is what caused Cannonbolt to be unlocked.