Somewhere else in a lab, Dr. Chipolte was working on a serum that was supposed to make a person strong and powerful if it is infused. However the serum was mixed with blood from deceased villians and it was highly unstable.

"Sir I don't know if we should do this?" His assistant warned. "The last few people we experimented on went insane, some of them have even died."

"Don't be a coward! All scientist take risks!" Chipolte said. "Now suit me up."

He was strapped up and the serum was injected into his body. The meter began to pick up while Chipolte started to shake like mad. For a moment the meter went dead.

"Dr. Chipolte!" His assistant gasped.

Suddenly the meter went up and Dr. Chipolte jumped up and strangled him to death while laughing wickedly.

...

The next morning Manny woke up feeling a lot better. The belt was still stuck on him, he took off his pants and the belt just stuck itself to his underpants.

"Well this thing isn't going anywhere."

He stood up and looked in the mirror. He had developed upper body strength and muscles.

"Weird."

"Manny?" Maria said knocking on his door.

"Yeah."

"Are you alright?"

"Uh...yeah I'm fine."

"Are you feeling better? Any change?"

"Change? Yeah, big change."

"Well hurry up or you'll be late."

He got dressed and packed his bag. When Manny put his pants on the belt moved from his underwear to his pants. He skipped downstairs and jumped from the rail.

"Goodness me." Maria cried.

"I thought you were sick." Rodolfo said.

"I got better."

Manny grabbed his bag and headed for the door.

"Hey Michaelangelo, don't forget! We're painting the kitchen right after school. Got it?"

"Yeah, sure thing Dad."

He went outside and hurried to school. He saw Frida waiting for her friend to pick her up. Manny decided to use this time to ask her out but he wanted to practice first.

"Hi Frida, hey Frida, we've known each other since we were six and I was wondering if you want to do something fun."

Then her friend came and she left with her.

"Or not."

That's when he saw the bus drive past him. As usual Manny chased after it with people shooting insults. Meanwhile at Davi's house, he had found his father unconscious.

"Dad! Dad! Wake up!" He said.

"Davi? Ugh!"

"Dad, what happened?"

"I don't remember."

"Dr. Chipolte!" His secretary said. "You're assistant is dead."

"What?"

"He's been murdered and the glider and death suit have been stolen."

At school Manny was eating lunch while gazing at Frida as usual. But then he sensed that she was about hurt herself. She slipped on a puddle, thinking fast he caught her and her lunch.

"Wow! Great reflexes. Thanks."

"No problem."

She looked at him in the eyes.

"You have brown eyes. I never noticed."

Manny smiled shyly and blushed. He could barely speak to the girl.

"Well, see ya."

Manny sat back down to eat. That's when he noticed his fork was stuck to his hand. There was sticky string from his wrist. As he tried to remove it he accidentally caught some of it on a tray and flung it on Carlito. Manny quickly ran away with an angry Carlito following him. He had just gotten to his locker when he sensed a fist coming toward him. He dodged it quickly.

"You think you're pretty funny, don't you freak?" Carlito said.

"Carlito! Let it go! It was an accident." Frida said.

"My fist breaking his teeth is gonna be the accident!"

"I don't wanna fight you, Carlito." Manny said.

"I wouldn't wanna fight me either."

A crowd gathered to watch. Carlito swung for a punch but Manny easily dodged it.

"Help him, Davi!" Frida said.

Carlito tried to ram Manny and he jumped and flipped out of the way.

"Which one?" Davi asked.

Carlito kept trying to punch him but Manny just cleverly avoided each one. Finally he caught him by the fist and pushed him aganist the wall. Everyone looked at him wideyed and amazed.

"Manny, that was amazing!" Davi said.

Manny quickly left school and ran into an alley somewhere. He looked at the belt, he started to feel around it looking for something. He spun the buckle and all of sudden he grew claws, fangs, and his eyes turned green. He stared at his claws then at the wall he was aganist. He began to climb up it really quick. He could hardly believe what was happening. When he reached the top he began to jump from roof to roof.

"Whoo-hoo!"

He looked at his hands and remembered the sticky stuff.

"Go! Fly! Shazam!"

Nothing. Then he launched it out but this time it was a stronger substance, it was almost like a chain. He launched on to the edge of a building and gripprd it tight.

"Tally ho." He said nervously.

He jumped off and tried to swing. It was strong enough to hold him but he needed to work on his landing skills. This proven after swinging into a billboard. His buckle was accidentally clicked and he lost his claws and fangs and his eyes were brown again. When it got late he finally came home when he got back he realized he forgot to help his dad with the painting. Suddenly he was snapped out of his thoughts by screaming which was heard next door.

"You can't keep working this late!" He heard a woman scream.

"I have a job! We need money!" He heard a man shout.

"I know but I barely see you and so do the girls!"

"I'm sorry. I'm just too busy at the bugle!"

"Too busy to see your family?"

"Guys please don't fight." He heard Frida say.

"What do you want me to do? Stop working, leave the girls in a shelter somewhere, while we live off the streets!"

"No! I...I just want to see my husband!"

Manny went to take out the trash just as Frida left for some air.

"Were you listening to that?" She asked.

"No...well I tried not to."

"I guess you can always hear us."

"Everybody shouts."

"Your parents don't."

"Oh! They can scream."

They laughed.

"Your parents always seemed so happy to me."

"They were until we lost our life savings and Dad started working twenty-four seven."

"Listen about Carlito, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hurt him."

"I know. You're too sweet and kind to hurt anyone."

"Is he okay?"

"Yeah, he's just happy you didn't give him a black eye before graduation." She said. "So where are you going after you graduate?"

"I wanna move to the city and hopefully get a job. Maybe a photographer."

"My dad works at the bugle. He can get you a job."

"I don't know. I think your dad doesn't like me."

"My dad doesn't like all boys."

"Well once I get through college I wanna be an artist."

"Oh yeah. You used to draw a lot when we were little. I remember how you used to beg me to let you draw me."

"Well...I had already done Mom and Dad, I just wanted to draw something new." He said nervously. "You know that offer still stands."

"I'll have to think about it."

"What about you?"

"I'm headed for the city too. I wanna..."

"What?"

"No."

"Come on, try me."

"I wanna sing."

"Really? Oh that's perfect! I've heard you sing. You're great! I cried like a baby when you sang in the talent show."

"Manny, that was first grade."

"Well... Even so."

Just then Carlito pulled up in a new car.

"I gotta go." She said.

Manny looked at the car and a thought came into his mind.