Time passed. Nothing big came up. Dr. Cockroach kept on attempting to win Ginormica/Susan's heart without seeming too forward. Mostly time out as friends, like having a pleasant chat in a coffee shop or going to the movies during the day.

One day Dr. Cockroach took Susan out for a night of dancing. She was blown away by how good a dancer he was. Of course she had already seen him dance back on Gallaxhar's spaceship, but this was the first time she saw him dance with a partner. She couldn't remember the last time she had so much fun.

What Dr. Cockroach didn't know was that he had quickly succeeded in winning her heart, she just still wasn't ready to start dating again.

After a few months, General Monger contacted Susan and Dr. Cockroach.

"Dr. Cockroach, Susan, time to come back to work." General Monger said. "This time we have a giant praying mantis terrorizing New York City." He was suddenly called away from the phone. "Huh? What's...? Oh, make that leaving New York City and heading southwest."

"Yes General Monger, we'll go after the mantis." Susan said. "However, don't send Insectosaurus with us, the praying mantis might try to eat him."

"Of course."

Susan went outside and turned back into Ginormica. She then picked up Dr. Cockroach and they headed towards where Link and B.O.B were. After picking them up they started to head northeast.

Fortunately, they met up with the mantis in an unpopulated area. The monsters and the mantis started to fight. But, when Ginormica knocked off a claw they saw that it was really a robot mantis!

"Surprise!" An evil voice said.

A guy on a hoverboard appeared. He was a black-haired caucasian, wearing green clothing and what looked like mantis antennae.

"Dr. Mantode!" Dr. Cockroach gasped.

"Who?" Link asked.

"He's an old rival from my college days." Dr. Cockroach explained. "He also had a fascination for bugs, mostly mantises and garden pests. He wanted to create a race of pest-humans and mantis-humans that he could use as an army. I stopped him though by reporting him to the head of the campus. Hadn't heard from him since until now."

"That's right, and I'm back for revenge!" Dr. Mantode said. "When I heard about a cockroach-human battling an alien I knew it was you so I decided to attempt to kill you. Unfortunately my last attempt was not successful, but this one will be!"

"Last...wait, you were the one who attacked Paris with Escargantua!" Ginormica realized.

"Yes, forgot to account for the salt weakness." Dr. Mantode shrugged. "Now Dr. Brambre, it is time for you to die!"

"Uh, you forget, you can't kill a cockroach easily." Dr. Cockroach pointed out.

"Dr. Brambre?" B.O.B repeated.

"Yes, that was my human name." Dr. Cockroach explained. "My human first name was Sander."

A.N. Dr. Cockroach's real name is a combo of the names of the two scientists from the movies The Fly (there were two movies, one from the 1950s and the other from the 1980s).

Dr. Mantode activated the robot mantis, causing it to attack Dr. Cockroach. Dr. Cockroach kept ducking, avoiding the attacks by inches. Link, meanwhile, had climbed onto the machine to try to short circuit it. B.O.B tripped the robot mantis by wrapping himself around its legs.

Ginormica couldn't help at first because Dr. Mantode was distracting her by trying to blast her with a ray he had on himself. Ginormica then decided that she would make a harder target if she shrunk to human size, so she did and put the 'ring' back on as a necklace. Her idea worked, Dr. Mantode didn't expect her to shrink and lost her as she hid amongst some rocks. By this point B.O.B had tripped the robot mantis, while Link succeeded in short circuiting it. Unfortunately, the robot mantis was going to fall on Susan!

"Susan!" Dr. Cockroach cried out, running towards her.

He then knocked her out of the way just as the mantis landed on the ground...right on top of him!

"Dr. Cockroach!" Susan gasped.

There was no sign of him.

Angry, Susan turned herself back into Ginormica, picked up Link, and flung him at Dr. Mantode. Link started to beat Dr. Mantode up as Susan lifted the robot mantis off Dr. Cockroach. She then shrunk back down to Susan and ran over to him. B.O.B followed.

"Is he going to be okay?" B.O.B asked.

"I hope so." Susan almost sobbed.

Link was able to defeat Dr. Mantode, and quickly joined them after restraining Dr. Mantode with some cables.

"Doc?" He said, worried.

Dr. Cockroach groaned and slowly opened his eyes.

"Are you okay?" Link asked.

"I think so, if not I'll be okay after a few more minutes." Dr. Cockroach weakly smiled.

"Thank you." Susan smiled, relieved. "You saved my life."

"Of course." Dr. Cockroach smiled.

Susan turned back into Ginormica, picked up Dr. Cockroach, B.O.B, and Link with one hand, and then turned around and grabbed Dr. Mantode in her other hand.