Becky was sitting in her last class of the day, still trying her best to lay low, watching the clock intensely. All she wanted to do was return to her spaceship hideout so she could hide away somewhere no one would find her. The bell was due to ring and dismiss them for the day any minute now. Suddenly, Becky heard a commotion coming from downtown.

Out of my way! I need to get into Mr. Big's Clothing Warehouse before the mega sale ends! Get out of my way!

Becky sighed. Now? This couldn't wait just a few more minutes?

The teacher, noticing Becky's distress, spoke up.

"Miss Bottsford, is everything okay?" Asked the teacher.

"What? Oh, uh yeah, everything's fine…" Becky said, lying once more. The teacher shrugged and went back to her work. Becky watched the clock nervously, waiting for the bell. When finally it rang, she rushed out of the classroom as normally as possible and zoomed downtown to investigate what was going on.

"Mr. Big! What's going on here?" Wordgirl demanded.

"Ah ah ah, Wordgirl, careful what you do. I could very easily 'accidentally' spread word of your secret identity around town…" Mr. Big said as he noticed Wordgirl's sudden appearance.

"I'm done letting you hold that over my head. If you want to tell the whole town then fine, so be it. But I'm not letting you get away with another crime."

"Oh, right, like you'd be perfectly fine with that. You won't even face your family yet, let alone the whole town. You'd just run away like a little coward. And who says I'm committing any crimes? These nice people just want to buy some clothes. And at such wonderful prices, too." Mr. Big said, sounding as innocent as he could.

"Don't play dumb with me, Big, I know your usual tricks. These people aren't acting normal, your prices are as absurd as usual and you look suspicious. Give up the game, I'm sick of all this." Wordgirl demanded.

"I'm not playing dumb, I'm doing business. There's a difference. There is nothing wrong going on here so I suggest you leave before everyone in this store knows something more about you. Something you don't want them to know."

Just then, as Wordgirl was about to respond, a giant robot foot came crashing through the ceiling, with Tobey sitting on the robot's shoulder, guiding the foot so it didn't squish anyone.

"Prepare to surrender, Mr. Big! It's three…okay, four, against two!" Tobey shouted. Mr. Big laughed at his enthusiasm while Wordgirl slapped her hand over her face.

"Tobey, what are you doing here?" She asked.

"I wanted to help! I saw the commotion from across the street when I was walking home from school and I thought, since he has the advantage of your secret identity, you might appreciate some help!" Tobey shouted from his robot's shoulder.

"Oh, that is rich! Wordgirl has herself a little helper!" Mr. Big said, laughing out of entertainment.

Becky floated up to Tobey's level to talk so Mr. Big wouldn't hear.

"Tobey, why are you helping me?" She asked.

"Because I don't want the whole town to know your secret if it's not what you want! I don't want you to leave the city," Tobey explained shyly. Becky blushed.

"Oh…" She said quietly. "T-thank you…"

Tobey shrugged and flashed her a timid smile.

"What can I say, I'm a loyal friend."

Before Wordgirl could respond, Mr. Big cleared his throat in an attention-grabbing manner.

"Wordgirl, I don't know if you and your new little helper over there want to fight any crime today, but if not you could probably continue this elsewhere." He explained.

"Not so fast, Mr. Big, I know you're using mind control here. I'm not going to let you get away with these crimes anymore." Wordgirl explained. "And he's not my 'new little helper', he's a good friend. Something you may not know about." Tobey smiled when he heard Becky defending him.

"Ouch. That hurts. Just for that I'll have to harm you now." Mr. Big said, grabbing the remote to a giant claw and pressing the button, shrugging as he did so. "Shame."

Wordgirl was grabbed by the claw and struggled to break free, but wasn't succeeding. Tobey aimed his robot's foot over the robot arm Wordgirl was caught in. He was about to press the button to stomp the foot down, but Leslie had managed to climb up the robot and snatched the remote away.

"Hey! Give me my remote back!" Tobey exclaimed, annoyed. He climbed down his robot's arm and tried reaching for his remote, only for Leslie to hold it out of reach. As they fought over the remote, Becky found Mr. Big as he was trying to escape.

"Where do you think you're going?" She asked, folding her arms as she floated in front of the doors.

"To tell everyone your secret identity. Unless you get out of my way." Mr. Big said, a menacing look on his face.

"I'm not scared of that anymore. If it takes you telling everyone my secret identity to stop you, I'm prepared to do that."

"Your choice…" Mr. Big said, pushing Becky aside and walking out of the store. He grabbed a megaphone from a side table outside the store that a worker was tending to and turned it on. He was about to speak, until Tobey and his robot's hand took the megaphone away.

"You're not spilling anything on my watch! Give it up, Mr. Big, you're outnumbered by a superhero and a robot!" Tobey exclaimed. "A-and a monkey and me."

"Oh, what, you think just because you have a giant robot you can defeat me? Get real, boy, I have mind control devices. I can make you both into my slaves in a split second." Mr. Big said.

"You're not going to as long as I'm here to say something about it." Becky said, arms folded.

"Oh really?" Mr. Big said as he pulled out a small remote of his own from his back pocket. Before his opponents could respond, he pressed the single button on it. It rendered Tobey and Becky expressionless and blank.

"Now, minions, you will be a greeter at the door. People seeing you here will ease their consciences." Mr. Big explained. The two went to do Mr. Big's bidding.

Bob, having managed to sneak away, quickly found a hiding spot in Mr. Big's store and watched as he got rich off of mind control as he thought of a way to save his friends.

I'm stopping here for a couple reasons. First of all, I'm not sure what I want to do for the rest of this story, but I know where I cut off is going to lead to the end of the story. So I'm gonna cut off here so I can think of what to do for future chapters and because I haven't updated in a while and I want to get something posted tonight. So review!