Mech-X4 S2 E8

## Plot

Traeger attacks a government area, but all the seriousness is taken away when they add a Wilhelm scream, of all things. Leo and Harris are showing Ryan and Spyder the red ooze they salvaged from when Grey was holding Harper. They've created a weapon to destroy it. It's an arm cannon. They just need to hit it with the right frequency. Traeger is made of red ooze, so this could kill him. I know they don't normally use lethal force against their enemies, but they've never faced anything like Traeger before. He's like General Zod. There's an arm cannon for each of them. Leo is leaving to pick up the last few things he needs to give the robot a flight mode. Mark tells them that the sensors picked up Traeger right outside Bay City. Leo sees a man watching him, and runs away, with the man hot on his heels. His name is Aaron. And while she doesn't appear in this episode, I found out that cosplay girl's name is Georgia. Harris's arm is still broken, but he insists that he's fine. They reach Traeger's location: The secret government weapons facility he attacked in the beginning of the episode. The military guys are all still alive. The tracker fell off when he was fighting them. Mark thinks Harris should take it easy and let them do this. He gets mad and decides to split up. Spyder goes with him. He says he needs a win. He's the one who lost Grey when they freed Harper. If they had stopped her, Traeger wouldn't have been born. He feels like it's all on him. Spyder says that nobody blames him, but he says that he blames himself. Leo shocks the man following him, and assumes he's one of Harper's thugs. He tries to zap him again, but it doesn't work. The man floors him with a stick. Mark and Ryan are ambushed by Traeger. He shoves Mark and grabs Ryan. He says that Ryan is more than human, and senses power in him. He asks him why he doesn't use it to rule. Ryan makes a joke, and Traeger tells him that humor doesn't mask his fear. He's blasted by Harris's cannon. Then Spyder, Mark, and Ryan join in. He blasts them back with a pulse. They find him in another room with a laser. Ryan tells him to surrender. He respects them because they were able to hurt him, and says he'll never underestimate them again. However, they've underestimated him. He turns into a giant monster. He damaged the whole system. It's overloading. If it explodes, it'll kill everyone in the facility. Mark leaves to try and shut down the power. He finds a bunch of wires, and lampshades that it couldn't have just been a simple off switch. This is secret government property, so, yeah. The others get to the robot to fight Traeger. Mark rips some wires out, which shuts down the power. Harris is having trouble with the shields with just one arm, so he uses both of them, despite the immense amount of pain. It doesn't stop them from getting their butts kicked though. Harris is thrown back, and he can't move. They're defeated, and Traeger flies off, once again letting them live. Harris is examined in the med bay. Now he has a dislocated shoulder, a sprained wrist, and a sprained ankle. He thinks they could've won this battle if he had two good arms, and apologizes to the others for letting them down. They tell him that he didn't let them down. The reason he broke his arm in the first place is because he gave them a way to track Traeger, and then he gave them weapons to fight him. Ryan tells him to stop beating himself up. He says that the stakes are too high for them to not be operating at a hundred percent. They'll wait for him to get better, and in the meantime, they'll see what Traeger's gonna do with the weapon. He says they can't wait though, and goes to Veracity's house. She thinks he's going to ask her out at first. They bring her in to pilot Mech-X4 in Harris's place. I'm not gonna lie, the full theme music kicking in, combined with her being in total awe, made me like that moment. Aaron knows Leo, but he doesn't recognize him. Aaron says that that makes sense, since he used them and threw them away. Randall shows up and releases Leo. He explains that they need his help. There were side effects in his technopath trials. Aaron is allergic to technology. He's extremely ill. Leo had no idea. There's thirty more just like him, and if Leo can't cure them, they'll die. Aaron says that if that happens, then Leo dies.