Sticky Situations

"Sp/ /dr? As in that peacekeeping bot from Oscorp?" Syndrome asked, looking as shocked as Hiro felt, "That's clear over in New York, what is it doing here in San Fransokyo?"

"This unit is no longer affiliated with Oscorp following a negotiated severance package between them and my creator," Sp/ /dr explained in its synthesized voice, "Now this unit is free to help the innocents wherever it finds them in need. Save for New York, of course, as per previously mentioned negotiated severance."

"You may be considered some kind of super-bot by the public," Screenslaver said as she began rapidly typing on the holo-keyboard that appeared over her right arm, "but to me you're nothing more than a big and hackable hunk of..."

Before Screenslaver could finish her brag or Hiro could do anything to prevent her from completing her hack she was interrupted by a thwipp and a splatt as her typing hand is glued to her other arm with a wad of Sp/ /dr's webbing, whose face looks like ( VへV ) as it does the hand gesture for shame while saying, "Very naughty, Screenslaver, trying to get in my head like that. Not to mention rather futile, for my firewalls have firewalls, and there are some rather nasty surprises for those idiots who try to force their way in."

For a moment Screenslaver looked frustrated and more than a little angry, then she glanced down at her arm (which Hiro noticed was still displaying its holographic screen despite being encased in webbing) and she gave a smile that had Hiro's skin crawling as she said, "Well I admit that you kept me out of any critical systems, but I saw some interesting things in your diagnostics, like the regulator maintaining an Earth-equivalent atmospheric balance of O2 and carbon dioxide."

Hiro's eyes widened as the implications of what Screenslaver was saying, but Syndrome was looking rather lost and frustrated, and Hiro could feel Screenslaver's eyes rolling under her mask at her partner's slowness as she explained, "Such a regulator would be useless and a costly waste of energy for a bot, yet it's essential for a mech with a very human pilot in its cockpit."

Syndrome appeared to get this as his face split with an evil smile, then he whirled around and pointed at Sp/ /dr, an arc of Zero-point energy shooting from his fingertip to envelop and immobilize Sp/ /dr even as it lifts the bot off the Screenslaver extended the tips of her gloved fingers into claws with a snickt and used the sharp points to slash through the webbing binding her before tapping a hidden button on her goggles, projecting a hypnotic pattern towards the trapped bot.

For a moment Screenslaver and Syndrome double-teamed Sp/ /dr, and while there was no visible signs of struggle Hiro thought he could hear a very human grunt over the sounds of Syndrome's men cheering. Then, taking advantage of their distraction, Hiro sent a wave of his surviving microbots towards Syndrome. It turned out that Syndrome wasn't as diverted as he might have appeared as he casually pointed at them with his other finger and unleashed a blast of zero-point energy their way. However, Hiro was two steps ahead of him, for before the zero-point energy enveloped them he had a larger portion of the wave split off and sweep towards Screenslaver instead, carrying her off to the surprise and frustration of her partner.

Then just as Hiro had a fraction of the microbots form into a pair of cuffs to bind Screenslaver to a lightpole a small distance away and before he could order the rest to go after Syndrome next, a bright flash of light seemed to emanate from the Sp/ /dr bot until the zero-point energy field surrounding it shattered and the bot fell back to the ground with a metallic thud. Upon touching down Sp/ /dr pointed its arm and launched a container at Syndrome. Almost instinctively Syndrome used his rocket boots to fly up in the air before the container detonated on the ground beneath him. A cloud webbing sprayed from it in every direction, and though Syndrome avoided being caught up in it his men weren't so lucky, being hopelessly entangled along with Hiro's friends and Baymax. Even though they were within the spread radius Hiro and Mirage remained untouched by the webbing, Hiro because a fraction of the microbots that had remained with him shielded him from while Mirage was covered by Baymax, and Hiro noticed that everyone (except Baymax) who was touched by the webbing quickly fell asleep. A number of possibilities ran through Hiro's mind until Baymax confirmed one of them by announcing, "This batch of webbing is mixed with a low-grade anesthesia designed to be absorbed topically through the skin. Fortunately none present has an allergy to this anesthesia, so everyone affected will be resting peacefully until it wears off in about an hour. Being a robot I'm unaffected by the anesthesia, but the upgrades "

"Lucky them," Cadet Asis grumped, "they're not stuck between a rock wall and a cold hard bot. Of course the rips and tears in my uniform don't exactly help to keep me warm either."

"Understood, making adjustments," Baymax announced ad his face glows red, and Hiro could feel the heat from where he stood some distance away as Baymax asked, "Is this better, Ms. Asis?"

"Considerably, thanks," Cadet Asis answered with a small smile. Then, upon hearing a grunt and a metallic rattle, Hiro turned to see that Screenslaver had broken free of her bindings, the microbots that had been holding her booking it to pass her and rejoin the mass of their fellows near Hiro. As Screenslaver angrily stalked back towards them Hiro assumed a defensive stance, his microbots forming a protective wall before him and Baymax. Rather than heading after Hiro, however, Screenslaver made a beeline towards Syndrome who was still hovering in the air and staring at Sp/ /dr in shock and frustration until Screenslaver angrily yells, "What's the deal!? Your Zero Point Energy was supposed to be the "ultimate weapon, capable of rendering even the most powerful super helpless," but you couldn't even hold that tin can still for 10 seconds!"

Syndrome landed on the ground and, taking care to not step in the webbing binding his men, stomped over to Screenslaver and met her angry glare with his own as he yells back, "Well I wouldn't have to held it still that long if you hadn't been so useless in bringing that tin can under control!"

"Useless!? You really want to go there!?" Screenslaver asked as she put her hands on her hips and glared down her nose at Syndrome, the motion emphasizing the fact that she is a good couple of heads taller than him, "I would have the machine and its pilot under my control by now had now had you not utterly failed to prevent the kid from sending a wave of his microbots to seeping me off the street like so much driftwood!"

Guess there's no honor among haters of supers, Hiro ironically thought to himself, and in his mind he was already formulating a plan of how to pit them against each other and make it easier for him and Baymax to take them down. Before he could come up with one solid enough to put into effect Hiro watched in stunned shock as Sp/ /dr raised his/her/its hands in a placating gesture and said, "Guys, there's no need to fight: you're both equally lousy excuses for supervillains. After all, Syndrome, my battle against M.O.R.B.I.U.S. taught me to be better prepared against energy-based attacks. And while your Zero-point Energy truly is something, and it could be a real threat in the wrong hands, with your amateurish and inefficient application it is little more than an annoyance to me. And I've already fought a more dangerous version of Screenslaver in the form of Mysterio, who helped me shield myself against many forms of external manipulation. Thus it only stands to reason that her second-rate hacking and her parlor trick hypnosis wouldn't be that effective against me."

"Amateurish!?" Syndrome growled as he turned his attention back towards Sp/ /dr.

"Second-rate!?" Screenslaver echoed.

Hiro fought a herculean battle against doing a face-palm as he realized that Screenslaver might be correct: while it is understandable that a bot might continue to battle with an enemy regardless of the situation, only a human (and a dumb one at that) would stop the enemies from arguing with each other and draw their attention back towards themselves., though Hiro couldn't see how Sp/ /dr's semi-spherical body could possibly be big enough to accommodate a cockpit for an adult pilot.

As Hiro noticed a thin trail of smoke rising from the back of Sp/ /dr he was struck by an epiphany. With all of Syndrome's men (as well as Hiro's own mind-controlled team) knocked out and the dastardly duo angrily focused on Sp/ /dr this was the perfect opportunity to separate them and end this conflict. Sending a mental command to his microbots Hiro commanded Baymax, "Baymax, stay with Ms. Asis."

Baymax, still webbed in position against the wall, affirmed, "I will continue to shield Cadet Asis from harm."

"Don't worry about us, kid," Asis said with a small ironic chuckle from behind Baymax, "We aren't going anywhere." Hiro nodded, and with a thought he was surfing atop a wave of his microbots, the crest of which swept towards and grabbed up Screenslaver before she or Syndrome knew that he was there. In the rear-view display of his visor Hiro saw Syndrome looking both shocked and furious as he started to fly after them until Sp/ /dr snagged him from behind with a web tendril and slammed him into the ground behind it.

Hiro didn't have much time to watch the other's fight, however, before Screenslaver climbed up to the crest of the microbot wave and immediately put him on the defensive with the furious slashes of her claws. As she was bigger, stronger and likely faster Hiro realized that were this fight taking place anywhere else he might have been in trouble. However, the microbots that were forming the mobile fighting platform they were standing atop of were as sensitive to his thoughts as ever, shielding him from the worst of Screenslaver's blows and keeping her from overwhelming him with its own counterattacks, all while racing through the city to keep pace with Sp/ /dr and Syndrome's aerial battle.

"What are you doing!?" Screenslaver screamed as she continued her assault, "With this technology you could literally change the world any way you want! Why are you squandering it to play at being a super!?"

"I can ask you the same question, Ms Deavor," Hiro responded, and despite the calm voice in which he asked Screenslaver still looked taken aback, "Yes, I know who you are, Evelyn Deavor. You and your brother Winston had been the heads of DevTech ever since the death of your parents. Effectively you were DevTech, with your brother Winston selling the technological advancements you came up with. So why would you squander that away to pursue your agenda against Supers?"

Screenslaver removed her mask and looked at Hiro through narrowed eyes as she said, "If you know that much then you should know that my father died because he believed in the Supers. When his house was broken into, rather than hiding in the saferoom like mother asked he instead tried to call them on his private hotline phones, and when he was caught the intruders shot him dead. Mother died later from a broken heart. That's why Supers are the worst thing to happen to our society and why we're better off without them: they keep us weak and reliant on them!"

"Sorry, but you're wrong," Hiro gently disagreed with her, "It's not Supers that are responsible for your parents' deaths but rather people like you. Were it not for the Superhero Relocation Program I'm certain that the Super he tried contacting would have advised him to get hidden until help arrived. If it wasn't for people like you blaming Supers for every little thing and suing them for it there wouldn't even be a Superhero Relocation program. Regardless of whether they were born with great powers, had those powers granted to them, or if they created them themselves, everyone who has the ability to make the world a better place has the responsibility to make it a better place: it's people like you who prevented them from doing so."

For a moment Screenslaver was frozen speechless, her fingers twitching and her face locked in an expression of pure rage as Hiro continued, "Anyways if you really felt like you said you do then why would you team up with Syndrome?"

"What do you mean by that?" Screenslaver asked irritably.

"What do I mean? Just look at him!" Hiro said as he gestured towards where Syndrome and Sp/ /dr were having their pitched fight, "Why do you think that he came up with that getup?"

"To take revenge on the Supers?" Screenslaver guessed.

Hiro shook his head and said, "His idea of revenge against the Supers is taking their place, becoming a Super as beloved and popular as they used to be if not more so."

"You're just making that up!" Screenslaver objected.

"Really? Can you honestly say that after seeing him like this?" Hiro challenged her, "He used to call himself Incrediboy and was a superfan of Mr Incredible, saw himself as his sidekick. However he didn't understand why Mr Incredible wouldn't let him along during his missions, how his getting involved endangered not only himself but also everyone else. So when Mr Incredible had the police take Buddy (that's his real name, BTW) home and inform his mother of the stunts he was pulling Buddy decided that if he couldn't help Mr Incredible then he would replace him, and he didn't care how many people he hurt or killed along the way.

Screenslaver still looked furious, but the uncertainty that Hiro saw in her eyes told him that she was no longer certain where that fury should be directed as he said, "I'm sure that you were probably brought into this by something like Ms Asis having a hand in re-establishing Supers as legal, but even if you are successful in helping Syndrome with his plans for her then what next? Do you think that he'll bring you into his scheme of becoming a new group of Supers? Or is it more likely that, knowing what your opinion on Supers in general is, that he'll peg you as a dangerous loose thread that he can't afford to keep around, a formerly handy tool that has outlived its usefulness?"

At this they both looked at Syndrome, who at the moment was caught up in several of Sp/ /dr's web tendrils and was using the full force of his rocket boots to try and break free. when he glanced over and saw Screenslaver staring back at him he yelled, "You still not done over there? Stop playing around with that kid and get over her and help me!"

A hard look crossed Screenslaver's face then, and with a quick series of movements she pulled her mask back over her face and pressed a button on her goggles which emitted a bright flash of light that Hiro's visor was barely able to filter down to below harmful levels. Once the light faded enough for him to see again Screenslaver was nowhere to be found. Hiro started to panic that she might be trying to go help Syndrome or, perhaps, doubling back to eliminate Ms Asis and/or his friends, but then readings he got from Baymax showed Screenslaver quickly making her way away from all of them, using the uneven skyline to mask her retreat.

The look of shocked betrayal on Syndrome's face spoke louder than words as he cried out, "Screenslaver? Evelyn!" His rocket boots then shorted out and quit as Sp/ /dr told him, "Oh quit whining and take a nap you big baby!" Sp/ /dr then sprayed some gas from one of its wrists into Syndrome's face, knocking him out cold. When Hiro got close to where Sp/ /dr was clinging to the building's side and dangling Syndrome before it like a prized catch he said, "Good work."

"You too," Sp/ /dr replied, "It's too bad that Screenslaver got away, though."

"If I had my team we could have got her, but we didn't even know that she would be here so she caught us off guard with that hacking/hypnosis trick of hers. If she ever shows her face around here again, however, we'll be ready," Hiro explained, "By the way, thanks for helping us out there. I wasn't sure how we were going to get out of that one."

"Us heroes gotta stick together, especially with the bad guys teaming up like this," Sp/ /dr responded matter-of-factly, "Speaking of which my Dreamcatcher Webbing should be wearing off any time now, so what say we get back to the others?"

"Good idea," Hiro agreed, and together they turned and headed back to the ambush site.

As we arrived Hiro saw that the anesthesia had indeed wpre off and that most of his friends freed themselves. Wasabi and Go Go were in the process of cutting Baymax free, and Triclops stood guard while Honey Lemon was walking amongst Syndrome's men and tossing a ball produced from her chem-case into the faces of those who were stirring, knocking them out again. Just as the last of the webbong binding Baymax to the wall was severed he turned and pointed up at Hiro and announced, "Constructor has returned."

This announcement causes the faces of Hiro's friends to light up and, once they spot where he and Sp/ /dr were landing, they race over to him (Honey Lemon lobbing an armful of knock-out balls at the remaining Syndrome troops as she did so.) Even though the looks on the others' faces wasn't aggressive or anything the stance Sp/ /dr took seemed to not be lowering its guard. With what he just went through with them Hiro couldn't blame Sp/ /dr for reacting this way, though with how much it was smoking now Hiro wasn't sure how much fight was left in it.

Apparently the others picked up on the mood, or else were now remembering what they did during Screenslaver's control, for they stopped short of reaching Hiro and Wasabi made some uncertain noises before saying, "Hey man, sorry about rolling up on you earlier like that. It felt like I was in a daze watching as someone else played puppetmaster with my body."

"I'm sorry too," Go Go echoed, looking rather remorseful, "I would never intentionally hurt you like that. I hope that we are still, you know, good?"

Hiro understood what she was trying to say and gave her a reassuring smile and he said, "Yeah, we're cool. Anyway I'm the one who should be sorry. I'm the one who brought us together to be heroes, and yet throughout all the changes and refinements we made to our suits it never occurred to me that someone would attack us in such a manner. I promise you that once we get back to campus that I will do everything I can to ensure that you won't be vulnerable to such a tactic ever again."

"You mean that we will," Honey Lemon corrected him with a smile, "One person's methods can be anticipated and broke through, but between the five of us we can come up with a series of hardware and software firewalls that would stymie the most talented of hackers while allow us to communicate and share Intel easily."

"Yeah, sounds good," Hiro agreed, and he felt better than he had since this long night began.

But wait! This could all be a trick!" Fred exclaimed, causing Hiro to groan inwardly, "One of us could still be under control and just pretending to be fine now, lying in wait until the rest of us lowers their guard, which is when they will rip off their face and lay eggs in our brains!"

"Uh, are your friends ok?" Sp/ /dr asked, sounded concerned.

"Yeah, Triclops is always kinda like that," Hiro explained, "He's a bit of a comic book nerd and has an overactive imagination, but I can say with confidence that he's back to normal."

"In that case..." Sp/ /dr started to say, then the front of Sp/ /dr opened upwards and a thick plume of smoke was released from within. Immediately after a petite figure stood in the middle of it, and as the smoke thinned and dispersed Hiro saw that it was a young woman. She was wearing a skintight jumpsuit, though it wasn't very provocative as she looked around Hiro's age and wasn't very curvy yet, and though most of her facial features were covered by high-tech-looking goggles and an aviator's oxygen mask her skin tone suggested that she was of Asian descent like him.

The young pilot removed her breathing mask and almost immediately started coughing and choking on the smoke remaining in the area, the sound jolting Hiro and his friends out of their stunned silence as Wasabi exclaimed, "It's a kid!"

The young pilot, who managed to fan enough of the smoke away that she wasn't choking on it anymore, was opening a compartment in her cockpit and pulling out a multifunctional tool as she scoffed, " 'Kid', I'll bet that I'm older than your leader or captain or whatever it is that you refer to the boy who you were trying to tear to shreds at Screenslaver's behest when I showed up." The pilot looked over her shoulder as she added, "You're welcome, by the way."

"Of course we're grateful for you helping us," Go Go said as she reached Hiro's side and gave his hand a squeeze, then she thoughtfully asked, "What should we call you?"

"Sp/ /dr," the pilot said simply as she opened another panel in the mech which released a fresh torrent of smoke.

"But isn't your mech called Sp/ /dr?" Triclops asked in confusion.

"As far as the rest of the world is concerned I don't exist," the pilot clarified as she did something in the smokey panel with her multi-tool, "They believe that Sp/ /dr is a hyper-intelligent peacekeeping robot and I want to keep it that way. If word got out that she was a mech then I would have everyone from the Kingpin to the government trying to steal her from me, and it's annoying enough having people like the Screenslaver trying to hack her into following their orders."

"Believe me, we get the need for a secret identity," Hiro agreed, "What I think that Triclops was trying to get at is that it's a bit confusing to refer to both you and your mech as Sp/ /dr when you're not closed up in your cockpit."

The pilot paused in her work as she" thought for a moment, then she looked back at Hiro and said, "You can call me Sp/ /dr-Girl, but just you guys, alright? I don't want that circulating around out there."

"Sp/ /dr-Girl, got it!" Hiro confirmed, but Sp/ /dr-Girl already had went back to working on her mech. After a couple more seconds, however, she had let out a dissatisfied grunt and Hiro had thought maybe he'd said something that insulted her until she emerged from the crawlspace saying, "Looks like the surge from the reactor burnt out the atmospheric generator. I'll need to have Uncle replace it, but I've got to meet him at his work in a couple of hours. Guess I'll be eating bugs until then, just hope that nobody looks out their window on the way."

"Why don't I take a look? Maybe I can help," Hiro offered.

"Thanks for the offer, but Sp/ /dr says that it is irreparable," Sp/ /dr-Girl said as she petted a tiny robotic spider that had climbed up her arm from somewhere in the cockpit and perched on her shoulder, "I tend to differ to her judgement in cases like this."

"I'm pretty good with machines, just ask anyone here. I even invented these guys single-handedly," Hiro told her while holding up one of his microbots, "What do you say?"

Sp/ /dr-Girl let out a heavy sigh as she said, "Just don't mess anything else up or make things worse, please?"

"You got it," Hiro agreed, and with a mental command his microbots swarmed over towards Sp/ /dr and climbed up its sides. Sp/ /dr apparently found this ticklish,but Sp/ /dr-Girl looked more than a little freaked out by them. Hiro didn't know how a girl who pets robot spiders and whose outfit and goggles makes her look like a humanoid insect can be scared of a swarm of non-descript robots but he wasn't going to give her a hard time about it.

A few seconds after the microbots entered the crawlspace the smoking stopped entirely and the lights in the cockpit lit up more brightly, and Sp/ /dr-Girl exclaimed delightedly, "You did it! But how?"

"I just bypassed the atmospheric generator and opened up the ventilation ducts," Hiro explained, "You'll still need to get the generator swapped out, and until then you'll want to lay off the trips to space or under the sea, but that should get you to your uncle without problems."

"Thanks, that is a big help!" Sp/ dr-Girl told Hiro as she settled into her cockpit, "You know, I don't know why my uncle decided to move us here, but perhaps it won't be so bad with cute and smart guys like you as neighbors."

"H-huh?" Hiro stammered and he felt Go Go's gaze burning a hole in the side of his head, but he was saved a response when the sound of sirens became audible and Sp/ /dr-Girl said, "Well that's my cue to skedaddle. it was fun hanging out with you guys, we should do it again later." Then Sp/ /dr's hatch closed as it gave one last salute, then a web thwipp later it was swinging through the streets and out of sight before the first police car arrived.

Turns out the authorities arriving at the scene were largely comprised of NSA agents, and most senior among them was Rick Dicker, current head of the NSA and Ms Asis's direct report. Once the paramedics had checked her over and determined that she had no life-threatening injuries Asis reported the night's events to Dicker, and Dicker complimented her on her composure though this scenario where she was the one hunted. He also complimented Big Hero 6 on their keeping Cadet Asis safe and apprehending her assailants with so little collateral damage.

Apparently they already knew that Sp/ /dr had been there without anyone saying anything, no big surprise as the agents were still cutting Syndrome and his men free from her webbing to be put in appropriate binding and loaded into the paddywagon, though Dicker did surprise Hiro when he privately confessed that he lamented not yet having met "her" in person.

By far the biggest bombshell of the evening came when Asis asked Dicker if this event would reflect negatively on her fieldwork approval rating. That was when Dicker informed her that she was not hired to be a field agent but rather his replacement. At her jaw-dropped expression Dicker confessed that he was getting too old to be keeping up with superheroes and supervillains, and he needed someone with excellent organizational skills and the desire to do the right thing by the right people to take over for him when he retired. When Asis asked why he didn't just promote someone else within the agency for the job Dicker told her that almost everyone there was hired after the Superhero Relocation Program was put into effect, and that none of them had experience dealing with active Supers. Of the few that were recently hired after the SRP was annulled none had the experience Asis had as Syndrome's former second in command. Dicker assured Asis that while some of the older agents might resent her appointment over them, none of them could deny that she was the best suited for the job given a year or two more training, that is if she wanted it. Asis could barely contain her tears as she said that yes, she accepts.

Recognizing that there was nothing left for them to do and that he had all the information he needed for now Dicker permitted Big Hero 6 to go. Hiro and his friends then hurried back to the campus, just barely making it into the labroom and changing out of their uniforms when Ms Callaghan ran in. Apparently once they recovered the guards had called her in, informing her of the armed intruders from earlier. Knowing that Hiro and the others had been working late on a project there Abagail had gotten worried and rushed there as fast as she could, only being beaten out by them as they used the secret entrance that they had installed without her knowing.

Of course she calmed down somewhat when they explained how they hid when they heard the intruders, shutting off their phones so as to not be betrayed by an inopportune ring, but she still insisted that they should have texted her first so that she could have gotten someone there sooner. After promising that they would next time (which they wouldn't as it would likely impede their heroic activities) Ms Callaghan continued, "I almost forgot the original reason I was coming over, I want to introduce you to your new teacher."

"We have a new teacher?" Wasabi asked in surprise.

"Well I can't keep hiring substitutes for your class forever, and even if he got out anytime soon there's no way I could rehire my father for the position," Ms Callaghan explained, "Fortunately for us a highly qualified person recently inquired about the opening, and after passing an extensive background check I decided to hire him."

At that moment a middle-aged man walked into the lab. His skin tone suggested that he was of Asian descent, though his facial features could have fit into a number of different nationalities. Hiro couldn't deny the intelligence that he saw in the man's eyes, however, as well as something else: pain and loss, the same thing that in hindsight Hiro realized that he saw in Mr Callaghan's eyes. Hiro didn't see any of the anger in this man that was present in Mr Callaghan, however, but maybe that was just because the target of said anger was not here. Regardless Hiro felt himself on edge as Ms Callaghan said, "Everyone, I'd like to introduce you to your new teacher Mr Parker.

Hiro had to pick his jaw up off the floor as he asked, "Not Mr Benjamin Parker, one of the top researchers in robotics from Oscorp!?"

"Please, call me Ben, and I'm not really that person anymore," Mr Parker humbly stated, "After I lost my wife May I realized that I couldn't make the kinds of things Oscorp wanted me to make and that I needed to spend more time with our niece. So I signed over control of the designs I had worked on for them and turned that in with my resignation, then I moved here with my niece to get back to my teaching roots and to hopefully heal."

That explains the pain that I saw, Hiro thought, and his thoughts were interrupted when Ms Callaghan asked, "By the way, where is your niece, Mr Parker? I thought that she was going to be joining us this semester."

"Sorry, she texted me a bit ago saying that she was having trouble finding a good place to park, but..." Mr Parker started to apologize until he was interrupted by a chipper voice saying, "Ohayō!" Shortly after a young girl enters the room and hugs Mr Parker saying, "Sorry I'm late Uncle."

"Actually you're just in time," Mr Parker responds with a smile. Meanwhile Hiro and his friends all have to pick their jaws off the floor as Hiro says haltingly, "You... you're..?"

The young woman before them was dressed in a girl's private school uniform and not a jumpsuit and goggles, but there was no doubt in Hiro's mind that she was the one who earlier introduced herself as Sp/ /dr-Girl even as she turned towards them and said, "Hello everyone! My name is Peni Parker, and I can tell that I'm really going to like it here!"