"K.O.! We're gonna be late for school!"

"Coming, Mommy!"

Carol and K.O. got into their respective car seats and were off. K.O. watched the houses go by, wondering what is going to occur in the next episode. It had been a little while since he and Professor Venomous had hung out - which was weird, cause they had been doing the weekend deal for several weeks now, but maybe it was because there wasn't any focus between them being shown for some reason for a few other character arcs to flourish.

"K.O., are you breaking the fourth wall again?" Darn it! Mommy could hear his narration too?!

"Sweetie, you're thinking out loud again."

Curses!

"What did I say about cursing, K.O.?"

GAH! Initiating Operation: Change Topics!

"If you want to change the subject, just say so."

"What do you know about my dad, Professor Venomous?"

Carol actually stopped the car in the middle of the road to look at him. Doh, he hated that look…the one where she was trying to come up with an answer fast. This was more awkward than that time he asked her where babies came from. Or what grown-ups were doing making loud noises in the middle of the night. Or that time -

What was he thinking about again?

"Your…father…isn't really comfortable with a lot of people knowing about his life, Sweetie. One time, he told me that information was power and that was something he didn't really want to have people use against him."

Mommy looked sad, now.

"There's a lot of things about him that I don't know if he would want you to know or not. Things that you'll understand when you're a little older."

"So you don't want to tell me about him?" K.O. frowned.

"I do, I just don't know if he'd be okay with me telling you stuff about him. He…he's still the same buddy I knew deep down, I know he is. He puts up an act, but when he hurts, he hurts real bad. I think you should try asking him yourself, Peanut. Whatever I know about him, it's not my story to tell." She smiled at him, looking more confident. "He wants to know you, this is a great chance to get a little closer to him."

"So you won't even tell me his real name?"

Mommy pfffted. "Nah. He's not touchy about that. It's Steven."

"Steven?" K.O. felt disappointed. He was hoping for a better name that Steven. Steven sounds like someone who would want to make friends, not want to fight, and make giant bubbles.

Wait…

On the other hand, it was a good thing. Steven was normal sounding. It wasn't hard to pronounce. And it wasn't super edgy like he was afraid it was going to be, either.

"Do you know how long he was a hero?"

Mommy bit her lip. "P.O.I.N.T started at least five years before me and Mr. Gar joined them. I don't think they were a team to start, they just…found each other, I guess."

"So how old are you two, then?"

Carol's face turned bright red. "And that's enough questions for the rest of the day!"

A few minutes later, they arrived at the school and K.O. noticed that a lot of the kids were looking at their car with terror in their eyes. Oh boy, this couldn't be good. Did they need to go to the car wash again? He grabbed his backpack and started heading inside when Mommy honked the horn.

"Have a great day at school, Peanut!"

K.O. waved back eagerly. "Love you, Mommy!"

When he got to his classroom, he could see that a lot of his classmates were looking out the window. The room was buzzing with hushed conversations.

"Can ya see it?"

"It's driving off! It's driving off!"

"What is?" K.O. dashed to the window and tried seeing what everyone was looking at. But all that he could notice down below were other cars dropping off their kids, the parking lot, and how everyone in his classroom was now looking at him funny. He turned away from the window and the others took a step back. He shrugged. "What? Do I have a boogie?"

Dendy's appearance next to him was announced by the cheers of off-screen children. "You are not the focus of their attention, K.O. Merely a proxy."

"A whuh?"

Dendy summoned a hologram showing an angry mob at the Plaza. "Recently, your mother was involved in an incident with P.O.I.N.T. Or, to be more precise, she was subverting an incident before it could escalate into something bigger."

K.O. gulped as he looked at the video. There were a lot of views on it already. And his Mommy looked really angry! The only time K.O. saw that look was when she thought he was trying to surprise attack her while she slept. That was a coward's way of dealing with an enemy.

And those angry people…Elodie didn't deserve it no more than Miss Sunshine or Greyman did. If it wasn't for Elodie, they wouldn't have been able to take back the Plaza from Foxtail in the end. Was this all because of him?

"This was not your fault, K.O." Dendy patted him on the shoulder, as if she knew what he was thinking. "People will react in ridiculous manners even when it goes against all logic and reasoning. And the only ones they will truly hurt is themselves in the end. Just look at Rad's former associates, they tried to throw those footballs at a poor 6-11 year old."

"Jeez, what is with those jerks?" K.O. scowled at the video. "And why would they throw it…at…Fink?!"

"Probably cause I was there in the first place." Fink answered in a dry tone.

"Thank goodness my Mommy was there to set them straight." K.O. nodded. Then his eyes widened with shock and he saw that Fink was in their classroom?!

"Fink?!" K.O. got into a power stance and prepped a Power Fist. "Don't tell me you're our substitute teacher today!"

"Nice to see you, too, Brat." Fink did not look amused. Then, she made a face. "And heck no! Like I'd want to be in a stupid classroom with a bunch of goody-two shoes like you!"

"Hey!" Goodie-Two Shoes protested. She was a level 2 Hero dressed like a pilgrim that could change a bag of goodies into a pair of shoes. "I take offense to that!"

Fink stuck out her tongue at her. "Sucks to be you, then."

"Don't worry, Scamp, she's not here to teach anyone today." Professor Venomous stood behind Fink looking equally unamused.

"Then what exactly is she doing here?" Dendy stiffly asked.

Fink gave a sinister smile. "Now is that how you treat your newest classmate on her first day?"

K.O. clapped his hands to his face in shock. "New classmate?! Wait…does this mean villains don't have schools for little villains…? Or do they get homeschooling? Oh jeez, what if they become so socially awkward that they become villains for attention?"

Fink leered at Dendy. "Hey Kappa loser. How's that bump on your head?"

Dendy calmly adjusted her glasses. "A full recovery has been achieved, thank you for asking. How are you handling the after effects of a Love Beam for the second time?"

Fink went red in the face. "Why I oughta - !"

Professor Venomous grabbed her by the scruff of her collar and lifted her in the air before she could pounce Dendy. "That's enough, kiddo. Remember, you're here to learn things and play nice, not get expelled before lunchtime."

K.O. scratched at his head. "You brought her here to make friends?"

Professor Venomous started sweating and couldn't look his son in the eyes. "Well…"

Earlier that day.

Fink popped her head in the lab. "Boss? Wanna play a videos game with me?"

"Hmmm…" Professor Venomous grunted. He was focused intently with his microscope, examining a new specimen that had came in from the black market. Fink tapped her foot, waiting for a response.

"Boss?" She tried again. Professor Venomous didn't respond. Fink tried a different tactic. "Hey Boss! I'm gonna set Auntie Cosma up with Box Boss! You better try and stop me."

"That's nice."

Fink scampered up to Professor Venomous and clambered onto his back. She tried looking at what he was doing, but he shrugged her off without breaking his focus on his work.

"Hey Boss?" Fink tugged at her Boss' lab coat. He grunted, but gave no other response. She tugged at his lab coat again with more urgency. "Boooooo-ooooooooossssss!"

He grunted again, but didn't react beyond that. Fink scowled and stormed off, but not before lighting a match and dropping it onto his coat. Venomous continued to look through his microscope with great interest/obliviousness, never noticing the smoke slowly rising from behind.

Raymond came through with a pile of magazines under his arm. He looked at Venonmous unconcerned and causally said, "Stepfather, your butt is flaming."

Shannon was passing by as he said this and shook her head in disgust. "Ewww! Raymond, don't hit on Stepdaddy!"

"I wasn't hitting on him, you rust bucket," Raymond scoffed and turned away from a very confused Professor Venomous. "His butt is literally on fire."

Venomous had a moment to process this before he finally smelled smoke. And bacon. Hmmm…bacon…oh dear Cob, that wasn't bacon!

As this epiphany hit him, Venomous started hopping and howling in terror while the flames spread onto the rest of his coat.

"Pookie Poo!" Boxman poked his head in the lab. His eyes were glittering and his cheeks were pink with joy. "Are you making your hunk muffin bacon this morning?"

Then he realized that it wasn't bacon he was smelling and started screaming like a chicken with it's head cut off. Then he caught sight of a hose labeled Waterand grabbed it, taking aim at Venomous before he saw the rest of the label saying Flammable Water.

His eyes shrunk in horror. "Oh bother…"

Now the entire lab was on fire, they had no insurance to cover the damages and Boxman still didn't have any bacon.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Boxman sobbed into Venomous' burnt and purple chest.

"It's alright, Boxman," Venomous sighed wearily. He was used to disasters happening when his boyfriend was around.

Boxman's face went red with fury. "When I get my hands on the sneak that set your butt flaming, I'm gonna - !"

"Fink did it!" Darrell tattled, popping his head into the lab.

"CAN'T YOU SEE THAT WE'RE HAVING A MOMENT, HERE?!" Boxman screamed.

Darrell ran away in hysterics. "Yes, Daddy, sorry, Daddy!"

"Now, as I was saying…"

"Boxy, do you think Fink's lonely?" Venomous cut him off. "She's spending a lot of time at the Dojo lately."

Boxman took Venomous' hand in his own and stroked his face with the other. "I'll pretend I didn't hear that last part, Pookie. Why would Fink be lonely? She has the other children to play with."

"Yeah, and you have them working non-stop except when it's time to attack the Plaza."

Boxman snapped his fingers with delight. "OH! That's what she needs! A little exercise against the Bodega Buttheads and -"

"Boxy, I'm being serious right now!" Venomous cupped his face and had a panicked look in his eyes. "Do you think Fink needs to…to…to…"

"For Cob's sake, spit it out already!" Boxman pleaded.

"…go to school…?"

Boxman blinked. Then blinked again. Then blinked a third time. And then he laughed.

"That's a good one, Voxy! You had me going there, for a moment!"

"I'm not joking, Boxy. What if she needs to be around actual kids her age?"

"Well, my children have never been inside of a classroom," Boxman smiled proudly. He wasn't going to mention Ernesto's disastrous plan, of course, because failures were not meant to be treated with pride. And Ernesto saw himself more as an employee/slave, which worked out perfectly for Boxman. If Darrell hadn't canceled Boxman's low-budget puppet show meant for instruction, then perhaps the rest of the robot series wouldn't have gotten so lax lately. "I've home-schooled them all myself, and they can function perfectly in society when I am long gone."

Just then, there was an explosion from another room not far from Boxman and Venomous' shared office space. And not a moment later, there were angry arguments from all the Darrells and other Shannons over who failed to follow instructions on opening a bottle of ketchup. Boxman's eyes widened with shock and soon, his blood began to boil until his face was a bright ketchup-red.

Venomous, ever the logical one, just sagged in defeat. "We have got to enroll Fink into school…"

Back to the present.

"Yes…" Venomous sagged again. He couldn't bring himself to lie to his son about that. Cob, this was going to be a long first day…

Author's Note: Here's another chapter! Fink was apparently supposed to be enrolled in K.O.'s class (Thanks for messing that up, Cartoon Network). Hope you enjoyed and please review! They help me more than you realize!