Susan got off of the bus at Tech Square and nervously walked up to Mandark's building with her nanos in her arms. Mandark saw that she was outside from his surveillance cameras and let her in, meeting her in the lobby of his lab. "You were almost late." He said a bit agitated. "I was? I'm so sorry I took the bus here." Susan answered nervously.

"Just follow me. I need to get you suited up and registered into my computer." Mandark led her into his office which was a fairly brisk walk. He sat in his chair and called Sugar. "Sugar send up Susan's uniform please."

Sugar on the other end of the line was in his living quarters in the lab half asleep on his bed. "What? Oh okay! Coming!" Sugar quickly got up and put on some black jeans and a pink T-shirt and his sneakers and ran toward the storage room where there was a large white box labeled 'Susan Silverbullet' sitting on the first shelf next to the door. He picked it up and made his way to Mandark's office. Meanwhile Mandark instructed Susan to put her nanos aside and to sit down in the guest chair to fill out some papers. "Just fill these out, it mostly asks about your personal information such as your home address and your contract is on the back you must read it and sign it. By signing you agree to the terms and conditions."

Susan filled out the personal information sheet and then moved on to read the contract. Thirty seconds was too long for Mandark to wait so he gave her a concise version. "The contract in a nutshell says that you have to do everything I say as I say it and you cannot speak ill of me or my company and you cannot give away or sell any secrets that I may tell you." Susan nodded, "I wouldn't do that anyway." She smiled and signed the contract.

Sugar walked into the room with the box, "Oh did you just sign your soul away to the devil?" He grinned and Mandark scoffed. "Totally." Her Dexter nano chirped; Mandark turned his head and glared at the nano who rebutted by sticking out his little tongue. "Here Sooz this is your uniform." Sugar handed her the box. Susan placed the box in her lap and opened it.

"Wow." Susan was a bit stunned by its design. Inside the box was a black blazer with a red trim, a white blouse, a red tie with a black "M" in the center, a black miniskirt with a red hem cut to look like an "M" above a thigh and black leather pumps. There was also a package of dark brown stockings and a red headband. There was a smaller white box inside as well. Susan opened it and inside it was the same uniform but made for her Dee Dee nano. Susan smiled, "This is beautiful."

"You can go change into it in the bathroom across the hall." Sugar suggested. "Yes you'll need to change into your uniform right away." Mandark said. Susan picked up the box and Sugar showed her to the bathroom with her nanos not far behind. Susan let her nanos into the bathroom with her and locked the door. She set the box with the uniform in it on the floor and took off her clothes and folded them neatly, placing them on the sink. She put on her stockings first, then the blouse, tie, skirt and blazer and lastly the shoes. Susan then changed Dee Dee's clothing into the uniform. "I love it!" The nano chirped. "Yes my love you look so gorgeous!" The Mandark nano crooned. Dee Dee giggled. "You do look cute." Susan smiled and brought her nanos and the box out.

"Ah, Sooz you look amazing." Sugar said, looking her over. "Why aren't you wearing your headband?"

"Do I have to wear it?" Susan asked. "Well ayes, you're hiding your left eye and customers tend to not respond well to representatives that look like they're hiding something." Mandark answered. Sugar took the headband and put it on Susan, revealing her eye. "See? Better already." Sugar said. Mandark turned his attention to Dee Dee, "Ah you are so precious! A perfect petite version of my precious! If only I could get her to wear this uniform in real life I could die happy."

Sugar chuckled and Susan just giggled covering her hand with her mouth. "What's so funny?" Mandark asked. "Nothing…" Sugar said playfully. "I have a question…Mandark how'd you know my clothing and shoe size?"

"That's easy. Every time someone walks into my lab there's a sensor that records your weight, temperature, takes an extremely low-dose X-ray and checks to see if you're pregnant. It's against the law to have a pregnant woman in the lab and I don't want to have any fines or accidents."

Susan looked a bit angry. "You scanned me? What else do you know?"

"Your blood type, allergies and of course what size clothes you wear." Mandark shrugged.
"I have allergies?" Susan asked. "Yes, to tiger lily pollen. Why do you doubt that I know everything?"

"You don't know how to divide by zero." Sugar smirked. Mandark glared at Sugar. "Okay, okay please don't fight…I don't want to have to pick up your teeth." Susan nervously cooed. "It's time I tagged you and got you an ID card." Mandark said, getting out of his chair. Susan stood and followed him out of the door with her nanos and Sugar behind them. "Wait, tagged?" Susan asked.

"Yes, tagged. I have trackers in all of my employees."

"All of your employees are robots."

"And?"

"But I'm not a robot."

Mandark turned around and looked at Susan, "You signed the contract. It allows me to put a tracker on or in you."

"What?! "In"?!"

"Will you relax? It's not very big. It's smaller than a grain of rice now stop complaining." Mandark continued on to another room in the lab full of computers and cameras. "Besides I need to know where all of my employees are at any given time. It's a matter of safety we're in a war. There are lots of people like Dexter who are after my secrets and are not above kidnapping and disabling my employees to get some of my scientific secrets."

Susan sighed and blushed with embarrassment, "I'm sorry I just don't like needles…or anything invasive. I understand being tracked." She felt awful that she embarrassed herself in front of them like that; especially since Mandark was trusting her with such a big responsibility.

"It's not going to be invasive! It's so tiny you won't even notice it. Besides this one isn't going into your body this one is going onto it. I went and made it myself last night because originally Mandark was going to inject it under your skin near your wrist but everyone knows about your phobia of needles. The tracker is over here." Sugar said, moving over to a small cabinet and pulled out a small black box.

"Sugar what have I told you about doing things in the lab without my consent?" Mandark asked agitatedly. "Ah, Mandark will you relax? It's passed every test imaginable and it works perfectly fine." He placed it in Susan's hands. She opened the box and inside it was a silver locket shaped like a heart with a black "M" written on it with circuit-board etching in red. "The tracker is on the inside."

Susan was a bit blown away by the new clothes and now the new necklace. She put it on, "It's beautiful."

"Ooh!" Dee Dee chirped. "It's pretty." She stared at the necklace. "I am so spoiled." Susan said. "Yes you are." Sugar said. How he hated playing nice. He didn't hate Susan but he saw her as a minor threat. "Try not to take the necklace off. It's waterproof too." Sugar said cheerfully.

Mandark suddenly interrupted them, "Susan stand over here." Mandark directed her to a little white square on the floor. "Now smile so I can take your ID picture." Mandark picked up a digital camera and got ready to take her picture. Susan smiled a little and Mandark took the picture. "Did I blink?" Susan asked sheepishly. "No." Mandark answered, uploading the image into a nearby computer which promptly spat out an ID card with her picture, address, full name and her fingerprints. Mandark inspected the card and gave it to Susan. "Here."

"Thank you," she said taking it. "You have my fingerprints too?"

Mandark sighed, "Yes you had your fingerprints taken when you were a child." Susan nodded, "Yes that's right my parents were so paranoid that I'd get kidnapped or something that they took me and my sister to a safety seminar thing and we had our fingerprints taken…wow you know everything about me huh?" Mandark shrugged, "Just about."

"That's a little creepy." Susan's Dexter nano said under his breath. "Yes, you would think so." Mandark said with a bit of attitude. Susan gently took her nano into her arms, "Be nice Dexter." She said gently rocking him. He laid his big round head up against her arm, "sorry," he cooed.

"Susan, there are a few rules I need you to take note of and follow when you go to see Frankie Foster today. Firstly you must conduct yourself in a professional manner at all times while wearing that uniform, even if you are not working. You represent my company and you will represent it well. While some companies go by the motto 'the customer is always right' I like to follow 'you should have read the fine print.'" Mandark said, "This means that if the customer you're dealing with tries to weasel his or her way out of some clause you must let them know there is no way out of the proverbial pit they dug themselves into. You must be polite but firm when reminding them of this. So when you go to see Miss Foster let her know that the building will not be changed just because she doesn't like my taste in architecture. You also have to treat all customers the same regardless of who they are to you. There are no freebies; you cut slack for no one."

Susan nodded, "polite but firm, got it."

"Good," Mandark said, now you may go speak to Frankie. Oh and bring your gun, there are Scribble Spawns all over the construction site and you'll also have to kill at least ten of them. That should drive them away from the property."

Susan thought for a second, "My gun?"

"Yes you didn't bring it with you or my computer would've informed me." Mandark said.

"Sooz don't you always have your gun with you?" Sugar asked. "Yes but…the hospital must've confiscated it after I went into the weapons vault after Mandark and the two stooges to save their butts from each other and got that mild concussion." Susan hit her palm to her forehead. "How could I forget Cherise? I'll have to go there later tonight and get it back if they still have it." Susan also realized she had left one of Mandark's old capes she got from Mojo Jojo there too. She was so distracted by her uncle's shenanigans that she completely forgot two of the most important items in her life at the hospital.

Mandark sighed with frustration, "fine you can take one of my weapons. Follow me to the arsenal." Mandark led them to a nearby elevator and they began to descend deep underground. It was quiet for a moment but Mandark broke the silence. "And for the record I did not need your help that day Susan."

"Sure..." Sugar said sarcastically and laughing quietly. Susan just smiled until she saw Mandark's sour look then she looked at the floor. When the elevator came to the floor the arsenal was on the door opened. The arsenal was a huge room with a very high ceiling and Mandriods stood guard every few yards. There were all kinds of weapons lining the walls; each more dangerous and unethical than the last.

Mandark walked over to a shelf on which there were a few black briefcases with red "M"s on them and picked one out. He opened it up and showed Susan. The briefcase looked empty until he lifted a hidden flap and revealed a standard handgun sitting in black foam. "It's a simple handgun but it's loaded. I trust that you'll use it wisely."

Susan picked up the gun and unloaded the bullets into her palm and inspected them. They were silver-plated bullets with the Mandark Industries "M" emblem etched from end to end. "Now this is sexy," Susan muttered. "As is everything related to me...." Mandark said, stroking his own ego. Sugar tried to stifle a hearty laugh but Susan's Dexter nano let it all out with an adorable giggle. Susan just smiled. "Alright enough," Mandark said, now thoroughly irritated, "Susan it's time you left and went to Foster's."