Melancholic Megalomaniac

"**Melancholic Megalomaniac**" is the fifteenth episode of *Elliott from Earth*, and the eleventh episode in Chapter Two. It was written by Mic Graves, Tony Hull, Joe Markham and Joe Parham, and premiered on April 8, 2021 in the United States.

## Synopsis

Elliott and Mo try to cheer up Lord Kallous, with the help of someone from his past.

## Plot

In the Hive bathrooms, Elliott and Mo sneak away into a bathroom stall rather than showering after a gym class. They then send mindless clones of themselves to take their showers for them, so that they don't have to stand in dirty water or avoid looking at alien "rude bits". The clones begin to melt beneath the water, terrifying other students and clogging the drains. As Elliott and Mo thank the wizard-like alien Dregwallis for making the clones, Dregwallis reveals that they dissolve when wet, just before water floods out from the showers. Elliott and Mo are sent to Kallous's desk, and they wait anxiously for him to arrive, fearing what their punishment might be. When he does arrive, though, they're shocked to find that he's too dejected to do anything.

Later, they decide to go to his habitation pod with a box of chocolates to cheer him up. In his home, a palace full of relics from his past, they meet a henchman named You (since Kallous never bothered to learn his real name). You explains that Kallous is sad because he misses his old life, and tells them about how Kallous was once a warlord who ruled a dark world far away. When he mentions that Kallous talks in his sleep about someone named Prince Cryon, Elliott thinks that it must be whoever Kallous misses.

Elliott and Mo meet with Dregwallis again, having stolen a gauntlet that belonged to Cryon from out of Kallous's home, and give it to him so that he can use it to make a clone. Dregwallis creates a clone from one of Prince Cryon's hairs. The newly-made clone Cryon has no idea where he is, and only remembers or understands life as it was on his medieval home planet. Cryon asks where Kallous is, mentioning that his last memory is of him, and Elliott answers that they'll bring Cryon to him.

Meanwhile, Kallous calls the lost and found service about his missing gauntlet, but soon receives a message telling him to go to the top of the Centrium to retrieve it. Kallous goes there, and waits at a fancy restaurant. After getting a proper outfit and a sword, Cryon finds Kallous in the restaurant and harshly returns the gauntlet, while Kallous is shocked at Cryon's arrival, asking how he could return after dying with their home planet. Cryon says that he was "summoned" back, and initiates a fight to the death with Kallous.

Elliott and Mo watch through the window, expecting a heartfelt reunion and being shocked to see Kallous and Cryon battling instead. As they fight, Kallous knocks Cryon into a table and causes a glass of water to spill on his arm and dissolve it, leading Kallous to realize that Cryon can be destroyed by water. Elliott says they should save Cryon, and together he and Mo manage to drag Cryon away from the fight just before Kallous tries to dissolve him with a fire extinguisher. Kallous doesn't see them, though, and believes he successfully defeated Cryon.

Outside, Cryon thanks Elliott and Mo for saving him, and says he is in their debt. When he asks what he can do to repay it, Elliott tells him that they need him to go away and not return, and Cryon accepts it and leaves. Kallous then arrives, revealing that he figured out that they were responsible for Cryon's return, but ends up thanking them for cheering him up by allowing him to finally destroy his archenemy. He returns to his usual menacing self, and brings up the earlier situation of the mess in the school bathroom.

In the city, Cryon wears a cloak to protect himself from the rain. He starts to explore the strange new world that he's found himself in, before asking a passerby where they got their umbrella, mentioning his weakness to water.