"Troops, make yourself at home.", Flagg comands. The other thugs start going through Zeta's parent's refrigerator.

"Someone else was here.", Brick figures. "A man. Your video game controller is still warm. Who is he?"

Zeta sneers. "He's Superman. He flew out the window as soon as he heard you cause you scared him so bad."

"There you go. Choppin' me down again."

"But I forgive you, doll. It'll be great. You call up some of the other girls that work the movie theatre. Then all you, me, the girls and the troops'll hit every Bueno Nacho and Cow 'n' Chow in town."

Zeta stands defiant. "I ain't calling nobody. Not for no fathead that needs to hit around a woman to feel like a man."

Brick steps toward her ominously. "That's an outright lie. I never hit a woman in my life."

Brick pushes Zeta to the ground smashing a glass table, then steps over her. "I gotta take a leak."

The thugs stop slapping their hands together in congradulations of Brick's domination. One of them speaks.

"You know, he is generous. But that temper of his...oooh. But I don't have no temper, so you can feel all kinds of cozy with me."

Zeta picks a shard. "Touch me and I'll cut you."

The thug eases back at the threat, trying to laugh it off.

Flagg finishes in the bathroom and goes to wash his hands. When he looks in the mirror, he sees two faces. One is his own, held back. The other is Ron who has an arm around his throat and his hair pulled back.

"Um...hi.", Ron begins. "I'm Zeta's new boyfriend. You probably 've seen me around, you know, at school or something. Look, if you ever see Zeta or even so much as think her name, I'll unleash all types of monkey kung fu on you."

Brick stares at the other set of eyes in the mirror. "Look buddy, you're making a big mistake."

"So did you.", Ron reminds him. "Your mouth is gaping open with a naked mole rat in the room."

Then Brick spots the pink creature. Rufus scrubs the soles of his feet on Bricks tongue. Brick panics and starts slapping his head to get the rodent away. When he doesn't feel it anymore, he searches the bathroom frantically. Ron has disappeared again.

Brick storms back into the kitchen. "Troops, move out. No questions. No questions, I said!"

Zeta watches in amazement as everyone leaves. She runs back to the bathroom to find no one. She pokes her head out the window, and Ron is standing on her window sill.

Zeta pleads to Ron. "It was only the one time, Ron. And it was only because I felt sorry for him. It didn't mean nothing. I've done some dumb things."

Ron shrugs sheepishly. "Considering that I'm one of those dumb things, I can't give you too hard a time about that, Zeta."

Brick and the thugs pile into a car and tear off down the street the window faces.

A rocket takes off from Middleton Space Center.

"But I'm gonna have to stop these guys. They're out for blood. A woman's blood."

Ron jumps from the window, Rufus' pink face lapping at the wind.

Zeta yells something, but I can't hear her over the roar of the rocket. Sounds like "sock". I'm just glad it isn't pants, because it's too early for them to fall down just yet.

Ron tumbles out of his fall and runs to his beat-up newly purchased but far from new scooter. The boy putts off after the car.