One day during the first week of November, Frank was working in the lab. His mind kept drifting to a conversation he'd had with Columbia and Rocky recently. Having only half a brain had never seemed to bother Rocky before. He'd always managed to be cheerful, even if he didn't always understand what was going on around him. Now that he had a school-aged son, however, his limited intelligence discouraged him. Columbia told Frank that Rocky had gotten upset one day when KO asked for help with his homework. Rocky had tried, but he just couldn't make sense of it. Twenty years earlier, Frank had thought giving Rocky an imcomplete brain was a good idea. Now he couldn't stand to see Rocky, who had become one of his best friends, look so miserable. There was no way to fix this, unfortunately. The other half of Eddie's brain was long gone. Frank sighed and went back to staring at a beaker full of a bright blue liquid that he'd just concocted. He was so distracted that he jumped when he heard sounds coming from under the table. He knelt down and came face to face with KO, whose big blue eyes were wide with fear.

"I'm sorry, Uncle Frank. I didn't mean to!" KO said, looking like he was about to cry.

"What...?" Frank was interrupted by the sound of the elevator.

Mina stepped out of the elevator, looking angry. "KO! I know you're here!"

KO gasped and came out from under the table. "It was an accident, Mina. Honest!"

Mina snorted as if she didn't believe him, then started chasing him all over the lab.

Frank didn't know whether to yell at them or laugh. Watching Mina, who looked so much like him, running after KO, who was the spitting image of Rocky, gave him a feeling of déja vu. Finally, he settled for yelling. "What is the meaning of this?"

Mina gave up and walked over to her father. "Dad, would you please tell KO to not get gum all over everything? He was chewing gum near my roses."

"The white roses your mother and I gave you for your birthday?"

Mina nodded. "He popped his bubble on one of them. I tried picking the gum off." She held out a flowerless stem. "It's ruined!" She shouted, slamming the stem down on the table with such force that the beaker wobbled, spilling a small drop of liquid on the stem. "Oh, I'm sorry, Daddy!" Mina cried, clinging to Frank.

"That's okay, sweetheart." Frank pulled his daughter into a tight hug, attempting to calm her down. "I know you're upset, but KO probably didn't mean to..."

"Look!" KO directed their attention to the stem. The rose had somehow regenerated itself, and it looked exactly the same as it had before it had been torn apart.

"How did that happen?" Mina picked up the rose and smelled it. "It came back!" She handed it to Frank.

Frank inspected the rose, touching and smelling it. "That's incredible! It's as if nothing happened to it. Let's try this again, but without taking our eyes off of it." He ripped the flower off the stem, smiling apologetically at Mina. He then set the stem back down on the table, pouring a tiny amount of liquid on it. Within seconds the rose was as good as new.

KO stared at the rose in shock. "How did you do that, Uncle Frank?"

Frank looked at the beaker. "I'm not sure." He glanced over at the ingredients he had used, which were near the beaker. "I know what I used, though. To be honest, I wasn't paying that much attention. I was too busy thinking of..." All of a sudden, a grin spread across his face. He snapped his fingers. "Of course! This could be the answer!"

"The answer to what?" Mina was confused.

"Mina, go get your mother. You too, KO, find your parents and ask them to come up here." Frank smiled. "Oh, I just love success!"

Mina grabbed KO's hand and they ran into the elevator, wondering what Frank was talking about.