Maddie sat on the couch snuggled up to Tadashi as they watched a movie. All of their classes were canceled for the day so the two decided to spend the day at home. However, they both were feeling extremely lazy and they knew that soon the popcorn bowl would be empty.

"Alright. Who's gonna go get the popcorn?" Maddie asked as she placed the bowl on the coffee table. It was stupid how much these two were making this a serious matter.

Immediately Tadashi tilted his head back and began to snore.

"Oh come on! Wake up knucklehead!" She yelled playfully as she poked him in the ribs.

"We could do rock paper scissors." Tadashi suggested with a challenging grin

"It's on." Maddie said as she cracked her knuckles. "You ready to lose?" she hovered her fist over her palm.

"I never lose." He said as he did the same.

"ROCK PAPER SCISSORS!"

Tadashi drew paper.

Maddie drew rock.

"Fire beats paper?" Maddie said igniting her hand in flame.

"Haha! I take my popcorn with a little butter." He said as he handed her the bowl

She playfully punched his arm before getting up and walking into the kitchen with the bowl. Maddie stopped when she saw something in the corner of her eye. It was sitting on the counter and was about the size of her hand. She turned her head and widened her eyes and shrieked while jumping on top of the bar top.

"TADASHI TADASHI TADASHI!"

"What?! What is it?!" He yelled as he ran into the kitchen

Maddie pointed to the counter top with a horrified expression on her face. Tadashi looked and flinched. It was a hairy tarantula. This thing was huge. But he still had to keep his manly vibe. No spider was going to mess that up.

"It's a spider." He said flatly

"It's the devil."

"Why don't you just kill it?"

"Tadashi, I may light myself on fire and literally run into the heart of danger but I do not even dare to venture close enough to one of those things to kill it. You're the man of the house. Only you can destroy this eight-eyed cretin."

Tadashi rolled his eyes with a sigh as he looked down to grab his shoe, "You know, I really don't see what the problem- WHERE'D IT GO?!"

Tadashi sat next to Maddie at his desk, both trying to find a way of transportation to get to Los Angeles for the robotics festival. They had gone through idea after idea but found that neither of them had the money to afford what they wanted.

"Hey guys! What's up?" Fred exclaimed as he walked through the open door with a pizza slice in hand.

"We're just busy Fred. Same as always." Maddie sighed as she typed away on her laptop.

"Oh yeah? Busy with what?" He asked with a mouthful of pizza.

Tadashi turned his chair; "We're trying to find a mode of transportation to get from here to Los Angeles that doesn't involve us selling our organs to afford."

"I might be able to help you guys out." Fred said wiping his mouth with his sleeve.

"Thanks Fred but we really-"

"Here's my address. Swing by some time and I'll hook you up with whatever you need." He said as he dug in his pockets for a slip of paper with his awful handwriting on it. Maddie took it and Fred put his blaring headphones in as he walked away out of the private lab.

Maddie swiveled back to Tadashi and looked at the paper. Maybe Fred could help them after all.

"Maddie you can't be serious." Tadashi said as if he could read her mind.

"What? Maybe he can solve our problem. It is free after all."

"Maddie, we're talking about the guy who is trying to eat Pizza without using his thumbs." Tadashi said motioning to Fred who sat in his chair and struggled to take a bite. "And this is the same guy that gave us food poisoning."

"I know! I know! But all I'm saying is that we should give it a chance." She said giving him a pleading smile.

Tadashi exhaled through his nose, "We'll go by tomorrow."

Maddie drove down the street as she followed the navigation guide. But she noticed something and she just hated being a snob about it.

"Are these houses getting bigger?" Tadashi asked from the passenger seat.

"I was thinking the same thing!"

"Man we're awful."

"I know…"

"Continue on Royale Court trail and in .3 miles the destination is on your left." her navigation chimed.

"Alright!" Maddie said excitedly trying to get the energy up, "Here's the moment of truuuu…" Maddie trailed off as she and Tadashi's mouths suddenly hit the floor of her car and she pulled into his drive way. The place was a mansion! It was huge! Tadashi leaned forward and placed both hands on the dashboard to get a full view of the thing. It was three stories tall! Fred lived here? It was insane! The couple got out and just spun in a circle to let it all sink in.

"Welcome friends of Master Fredrick." Said a monotone yet proper voice behind them. They spun around to see a butler carrying a silver tray with hot towels on it.

"Hot towel?" He asked holding it out. Tadashi and Maddie took one without a word and followed the butler inside the castle-like mansion.

"Can you believe it?" Tadashi wheezed out

"I can't believe it." She wheezed back.

The butler walked them to the entrance of a long hallway, "You will find Master Fredrick in the room at the end located in-between the eighteenth century urn of Master Hans' ashes and priceless Da Vinci portrait. Welcome to the Manor." He said as he left. Tadashi and Maddie wordlessly took a step into the hallway and walked to Fred's room. Tadashi walked along admiring the paintings, wondering how the hell a guy like Fred could live like this and smell like a dumpster fire. He looked over to Maddie and found that she wasn't there. She was standing right in front of a portrait with a man, woman, and a child that must have been Fred. She just looked at it and shook her head with a smile, her attention mostly on Fred's father.

"You ready to go inside?"

"Hmm? Oh yea." She said with a laugh. Tadashi would have to ask her what was so funny another time.

"Fred is gonna lose his mind when he finds out." She thought.

Tadashi knocked on the door and it slid open revealing a room full of nerdy, comic book stuff. Glass cases full of super suits, action figures and vintage posters lined the walls. The couple stood with their mouths agape.

"Hola mi amigos!" Fred greeted. The two turned their attention to Fred who sat on the couch playing a video game.

"Fred?... this is your house?" Maddie asked motioning outside of the room.

"Awesome right? Anyways let me show you what I've for you guys." He said pulling out a laptop. "I've got a charter bus, a private jet, limo- I'll just let you decide."

Maddie sat in the parking lot of Hiro's high school. Tadashi had forgotten to give him money for the bus ride home and he was held up in his laser photonics class so Maddie volunteered to pick him up.

"Haha! What a geek!"

"He's such a freak!"

"Stupid Asian!"

Maddie sat up and looked out to the bus ramp where two teenagers, whom she assumed were in Hiro's grade, were laughing. One was a football jock and the other was wearing a beanie.

"Look there he is now!" The jock said as he pointed to Hiro who walked out form the main building. His hands in his pockets and his head low.

"Hey! Panda Express!" He called out to Hiro.

Maddie sat back in her seat as her eyes burned orange in a heavy glare. Bullies. Maddie started her car and speeded out of the parking lot. Hiro on the other hand rolled his eyes before looking in the direction of the two. One of them was holding back their laughter as the other pulled at the corners of his eyes to a point. Hiro inhaled and began to walk away.

"Hey! Where are you going?" Hiro was yanked back by his hoodie.

"Hey! Let me go!" He yelled as he tried to get away.

"Oh yeah?" The one in the beanie said as he pushed Hiro into the brick wall, "What're you gonna do about it?" asked the jock.

Hiro was cornered. He had nowhere to run now. People were gathered around the commotion. Some hollering for the bully to hit him while others were hollering for it all to stop. The bully raised his fist and pulled his arm back. Ready to strike. Hiro squeezed his eyes shut and braced himself.

That's when a hand gripped the back of the jocks neck and slammed him into the same wall making the crowd immediately dissipate and move toward the school buses. The one in the beanie, who was holding Hiro against the wall, took a step to run away when the mysterious person grabbed his collar and slammed him into the wall as well. Hiro opened his eyes to kids looking out of the bus windows and snapping pictures. Hiro turned around and saw Invinci-Girl pressing both of the boy's chests into the brick.

"You okay kid?" she asked Hiro with a wink.

"Ma- Invinci-Girl!"

"Come on man let us go!" the jock whimpered as he held his face away from the scratchy brick.

"I'm a lady!" She yelled in his ear causing him to flinch. "And if you two are gonna act like criminals then you're gonna be treated like criminals. Both of you, feet apart! Hands on the wall!" She ordered as she kicked at their feet. They did as they were told. Kids in the buses were laughing and pointing at them.

"Come on! You're making us look stupid!" the one on the beanie yelled as the buses pulled away.

"Like you already weren't? Now that you two have gotten a lesson of good old humiliation, I'm warning you. If you continue on this path it will land you in jail. I guarantee it. Now get your shit and go home." She said throwing their backpacks at them.

They turned around and picked them off the ground. "B-But our bus already left." The jock said nervously.

Maddie flashed them a big fake smile. "Oh! I'm sorry!" she then towered over them and glared. "Walk home." she growled.

The two ran away, almost tripping. Hiro watched in amazement. That solved his bullying problem once and for all. She walked up next to him and nudged his shoulder. He gave her a smile before she nodded in the direction of her car with her own.

"Lets go home." She said as she ruffled his hair and transformed herself and her car out of superhero mode.

They were just five blocks away from the café.

"You know…" Hiro started "No one other than Tadashi has ever stood up for me like that before."

Maddie gave him a smirk of recognition.

"So you know… Thanks for everything."

Maddie gave him a nod before looking forward and gasping. Everything went in slow motion. A car came full speed at them, crashing into her hood and sent Maddie's car flying. The windshield shattered sending glass everywhere. Maddie thought quickly and surrounded Hiro in a force field before the car flipped down the street and landed right up. Skidding to a stop. The roof of the car looked as if the Hulk landed on top of it, Hiro's door was gone, and the machinery that would normally be under the hood but broke through was crushing Maddie's legs. She was bleeding. Bad. Her upper half was banged up as well, but not as bad as her mangled legs. Hiro was untouched thanks to Maddie's force field that faded away.

He shook his head as the pounding in his ears went away. His eyes opened slowly as he turned to check on Maddie.

"… M-Maddie?" He groggily called. He then took notice of her condition and his eyes widened in horror. "Maddie! Oh god no… No!" He panted. He unbuckled and quickly moved closer to her. He grabbed her shoulders and shook them, trying desperately to wake her up.

"Maddie! Come on wake up! Please!" He cried. Hiro felt the same way he did all those years ago. When he screamed and cried for his dead parents to wake up. He didn't move when he heard the police and emergency vehicles pull up. A large metal sound was heard as the firefighters began to cut away at the roof on his side. "Maddie! Wake up! You can't die! Not like this!" He yelled. That's when he felt a pair of hands on his shoulders pull him back away from her. "Wait! No! Stop!" He yelled he was pulled from her reach. A firefighter carried him out of the destroyed car and towards the ambulance. they passed the car that hit them which had a crushed hood and a few scratches. the driver sat in his seat with his head in his hands. Probably crying from guilt. Hiro struggled in the Firefighters grasp.

"NO! Wait! There's someone still in there! She's dying!" He screamed. The firefighter looked at him and set him down before running back to the car with five others.

"Please… Someone has to help!"