On a nice sunny day, Lunella, Devil, and I started fighting a metal villain named Devos. "Whoa! Devos! Take a chill pill." I exclaimed. "Devos doesn't need medicine." Devos said. "Devos needs to destroy!" "Devos needs to stop talking in the third person." Lunella complained as Devil started pushing against Devos. "Come on, MG and SB. Give me your good side!" Casey exclaimed, taking pictures on her phone. "I said your good side!" "Girl, this is my good side!" Lunella shouted. "Sorry to interrupt, but can I get a little help, Moon Girl?" I asked. "Nevermind. We'll fix it in post." Casey said as Lunella and I were tossed in the air and we landed on a boy's table. Devos grabbed us both. "Devos will smoosh you like bugs." Devos threatened just as Devil headbutts him. "Devos' tummy!" "Well, if that hurt Devos' tummy, this is really gonna hurt Devos' face." Lunella said, launching her glove to his face, ending our fight. Civilians cheered for us.
We met up with Casey at Ahmed's deli before school. After Casey showed us the fight with Devos on the website, we gave her some feedback. "So, do I have skills, or do I have "skillz?"" Casey asked. "Casey, this video is fiyah!" Lunella exclaimed. "Got that right." I commented. "Who are you tellin'?" Ahmed asked. "I've watched it 10 times already! Oh, you know the part where Moon Girl was like, bam! Sun Boy was all, pow! And Devil was like, zaboom! And then they did the bap-bap-ba-tah!" "Sorry, Ahmed. We have to get to school." I chuckled. "Yeah, and thanks for the sammies!" Casey thanked. "Oh! And hit that subscribe button."
As we walked to school, Casey was skimming through the comment section of our video. "This video has the fan page blowin' all the way up!" Casey exclaimed. "For real?" Lunella asked, taking Casey's phone to look at some comments. "Yo! Look at all those comments! 917KWEEN said, "I just love how their hair defies gravity. #sunandmoonmagic." I mean, according to Newton's law of gravitational force..." "Lulu, as much as I love how smart you are, please just take the compliment and read another one." I interrupted. "Okay. Here we go." Lunella chuckled. "SYPHON8TR says, "The only thing bigger than that robot is, Moon Girl and Sun Boy's foreheads. #5heads? #bigheads? #moonheadgirl? #sunheadboy?" Okay, who is this SYPHON8TR? And why would they say that? My head isn't that big, right, guys?" "Uh, well, you know what?" Casey hesitated. "Let's just focus on all the positive comments. I've dealt with my fair share of haters and the key is to not let it bother you. For example, last week when Eduardo made fun of my scrunchie, do you know what I did?" "Punched him and got detention?" Lunella and I asked. "Regrettably, yes." Casey replied. "I saw that." I said. "But, do you know what I did the second time he made fun of it?" Casey asked. "I said, "So?" and "You are entitled to your opinion." and "Thank you for noticing my bomb scrunchie." Then I shrugged it off like this." Casey began moving her shoulders around, showing off her fresh moves. "Oh, the shoulders, you moving the shoulders." Lunella sighed. "Alright, Case. I see you. You know what? There's no way I'm gonna let one dumb little comment bother me."
That night, Lunella was lost in her thoughts. All she could think of were those hateful comments. How would I know that? She was screaming, which of course woke me up. "Lamar?" Lunella whispered, attempting to wake me up. "You're thinking about that hate comment, aren't you?" I asked with a yawn. "What? No!" Lunella lied. "Okay, I might be bothered." "Lulu, you can't let this bother you." I groaned. "I know I'm not." "You don't care about someone hating on you?" Lunella asked. "Haters gonna hate." I said, putting on my sleep mask and falling back to sleep.
Do I want to know what Lunella did in the night? No, but I had the feeling she was obsessed with that hate comment and was going to address it.
The next morning, sure enough, on the way to school, a video on Casey's website popped up about Moon Girl and Sun Boy not having large heads. I only watched part of it because I knew I'd get bored watching Lunella show her work with graphs. "Lulu!" I shouted to Lunella on the sidewalk. "Why'd you bring me into this? I thought you weren't going to let this bother you. And how is Devil filming you in the first place?" "Watch and learn, little bro." Lunella replied. "What exactly am I watching and learning?" I asked. "Ooh! My video must be getting all kinds of love!" Lunella squealed, just as Casey grabbed both of us by the arm. "You guys posted to the Moon Girl and Sun Boy fan page without consulting me?" Casey asked. "What we're you thinking?" "Nuh-uh! That was all Lunella." I explained. "Okay, one, Hi, Casey. And two, what's the big deal? Our fans are really feeling my educational video!" Lunella exclaimed just as Casey pulled up a video on the fan page. "SYPHON8TR remixed my video into a song?!" "That's how the internet works, sis." I replied as Casey played the video. "What? Those aren't even real equations!" Lunella exclaimed. "Who cares?" Casey asked. "I can't believe that this janky video is getting all these likes. My graphics are way better. We gotta figure out how to get ahead of this thing before it goes..." As Casey opened the door to the school, our fellow classmates were watching SYPHON8TR's remix on their phones. "Viral?" I asked. "Thank you, Lamar." Casey thanked. "Oh, this can't be happening." Lunella groaned. "There. I just blocked that trolling SYPHON8TR from the page." Casey explained. "Okay? This will all blow over soon." "I hope you're right, Case." I said, noticing Lunella looking at her phone. "Lulu?" "This means war." Lunella grumbled in anger.
After school, I worked on my homework in mine and Lunella's room. Not long after finishing, Casey knocked on the door. "Hey, LJ." Casey greeted. "Have you seen Lu?" "Not since going on patrol earlier. She's been glued to her phone all day." I replied. "My folks did say she came home, though. How about we check the lab?" "Okay, let's go." Casey said as I took her down to the lab.
Inside the lab, Casey and I found Lunella on the computer, typing at an incredible speed. "Hey, Lu. Just came to check on you." Casey said. "Haven't seen you at lunch." "Lunella hissed at both of us. "Sheesh, have you eaten today?" Casey asked. "Don't worry, she does that sometimes when she's in the zone." I explained. "Just a steady diet of troll for breakfast, lunch, and dinner." Lunella replied, posting a comment on the fan page. "That's definitely not a balanced meal plan." Casey commented. "And besides, I thought I blocked that guy." "Yeah, I undid that." Lunella explained. I pulled up the fan page on my phone to find Lunella's most recent post. "You called him a sea sponge?" I asked. "Yeah, I did!" Lunella chuckled. "Sea sponges don't have a spine or a brain. It's the ultimate insult." "Real mature." I said. "Ay dios mio, your nerd spiral is ruining my work of art. Please stop this!" Casey begged. "Never!" Lunella shouted, clearly going insane. "Help me out here, Barney." Casey said, turning to Devil. "Do something before you fossilize!" Devil roared in excitement, wanting to play a game of frisbee. "Devil, I can't play frisbee at a time like this." Lunella refused. Devil pouted and groaned. ""No big deal?" Okay, then I guess this isn't a big deal either." Lunella showed a trending hashtag on the fan page from her laptop. #TinyArms. Devil grunted. "Oh, yes he did!" Lunella exclaimed, causing Devil to get frustrated. "Yes. Devil! Oh! Let him know what you really think!" Devil tries to grab the laptop, but couldn't reach. "Oh, yeah. Maybe I should type. You have small arms." "Thanks for nothing, Devil!" Casey grunted. "Lunella, you've left me with no other choice." Casey logged onto the website and changed the password, which booted Lunella out. "That's weird. I just got booted out." Lunella said. "That's because I changed the password and the login credentials." Casey explained. "You what?!" Lunella gasped. "I was chewing that troll all the way up!" "The only thing getting chewed up is your follower count." Casey continued. "Look, I know you want to best this troll, but this isn't the way." "Casey's right, Lulu. You've gone too far!" I exclaimed. "Just let it go." "Fine. I'll stop." Lunella sighed. "Thank goodness! Well, I'm off to do damage control on the page and catch my favorite TV show." Casey said. "Is it the one where the guy picks a girlfriend based on how she smells?" Lunella asked. "Gross." I commented. "TV has gotten weird." "It's called Love Scent and yes!" Casey replied. "Tonight's the finale, so catch you two later!" After Casey left, Devil tried to reach for Lunella's phone, still hurt by that comment about his arms.
Later that night at the rink, Lunella and I sat down at one of our tables. She was still looking at her computer, thinking about the comments and the remix. "Looks like someone needs my special Beans N' Weenies." Mimi said, serving both of us with a bowl of her specialty. "Thanks, Mimi. I feel better already." Lunella thanked. "Thank you, Mimi." I added. All of a sudden, Mama, who was spinning the turntable made an announcement to the rink's customers. "Alright chy'all, this next track just dropped today and already has the city going crazy!" Mama announced, playing the remix with her setup. "Okay, that remix is going to push me to insanity." I complained. "I swear if I hear that remix in here again, Imma break Mama's turntables!" "Mimi, has anyone ever said anything mean about you on the internet?" Lunella asked. "Child, I don't even use the internet." Mimi replied. "At all?!" I gasped. "Like ever?" "You've never been curious to see what people are saying about you online?" Lunella asked. "Back in my day, if you had something to say, you said it face to face." Mimi explained. "That's it! Thanks, Mimi." Lunella exclaimed, kissing Mimi. "You're welcome?" Mimi questioned. "Thanks for the food, Mimi." I said, also kissing her cheek. "Any time, baby." Mimi smiled. What are you up to, Lunella?
Back at the lab, I met up with Lunella and Devil. Our dinosaur pal was still insecure about his arms. "D, you have beautiful arms." I complimented to cheer him up. Devil rubbed his face against mine like a cat. "Okay, I got it, guys!" Lunella explained. "We may not be able to beat this SYPHON8TR online, but we can check this fool face to face!" "Love your enthusiasm, Lulu, but how are you going to find him?" I asked. "So glad you asked, little bro." Lunella replied.
After a brief explanation of her plan, I helped Lunella build a small antenna with some spare parts. Sun and Moon Magic! Devil wondered about what the invention was. "It's not a sword, Devil. It's an antenna." Lunella explained. "This baby right here can triangulate the cell towers used by SYPHON8TR." "And then what?" I asked. "We kick his booty?" Devil gave a thumbs up. "That's right, guys." Lunella replied. "Let's show this suckah who he's messing with!"
After getting suited up, Lunella, Devil, and I headed into the city to use the antenna from the Moon Scanner to track down SYPHON8TR. It took a bit longer than expected. My feet were sore from skating. "I'm so tired!" I complained. "We're getting close, bro." Lunella said as we began approaching the Williamsburg bridge. "That troll will never se us coming. Ooh! I can't wait to see the look on his face when I say, "Freeze, sucker!"" "Let's just get this over with." I sighed. "On three. One. Two." "Break yourself, SYPHON8TR!" Lunella shouted. "It's Moon... Girl. Uh, SYPHON8TR? Hello?" "Well, there's no one here, so I'm going home." I said. Devil grunted. "Yes! I charged the batteries before we left!" Lunella explained to Devil. "Maybe it's busted?" I wondered. All of a sudden, we saw a literal troll swing down from the bottom of the bridge. "You're the ones who are busted." He taunted. "Hello. Moon Head Girl and Sun Head Boy!" "Holy spark plugs! My internet troll was an actual troll?" Lunella wondered. "You know, for some people with huge brains, it sure took you a long time to find me." SYPHON8TR teased. "I guess bigger is always better." "Joke's on him. Lulu's the smart one." I mumbled to myself. "Okay, first of all, everybody knows the correlation between volume and a positive outcome is relative to the given situation." Lunella explained. "Second, I... I came here to... I'm a loser!" "Second, I..." He mocked. "I came here to... You're a loser!" "Sis, calm down." I warned. "Syphonate this!" Lunella shouted, firing a glove at the troll, but that caused him to get a little bigger. "How do you like that?" "A lot actually. It tickles." SYPHON8TR replied. "Hey, maybe you or your boyfriend should try a head butt. Now that might actually put me in a coma. Get it? 'Cause you both have big heads. Really, really, big!" "Hey! I'm her little brother!" I retorted. "Huh, that's odd. I thought the sun was bigger than the moon, pipsqueak?" SYPHON8TR joked. "Stinky troll!" Lunella shouted as we both shot more gloves at him. "Only a momma could love that face!" Devil tried his hardest to bring SYPHON8TR down from the bridge, but he was off by a few feet. "What's wrong, fork arms? Can't reach me?" SYPHON8TR taunted. I wrapped my glove around him as I used my stun gadget. "You know, you three really do make a great team. Balloon Head Boy and Girl and Devil Whine-a-saur." As SYPHON8TR kept getting bigger with every attack, the bridge began shaking, meaning that it wouldn't be long before becoming unstable. Lunella kept trying to throw punches at SYPHON8TR, but I decided to actually start saving people from the bridge while it was still shaking. "You guys are going to be fine. I'm gonna help you get evacuated from the bridge." I explained, grabbing a few people at once, bringing them to the other side. "Thank you, Sun Boy." A civilian thanked. "Don't mention it." I replied, repeating the process a few times before SYPHON8TR climbed up onto the bridge, bigger than ever! I went below the bridge to rejoin Lunella and Devil, who were both stuck in some mysterious green goop. "Sticky situation, huh?" I asked. "How will I ever get out of this?" Lunella complained. "Beats me. Casey and I told you this was a bad idea." I replied. "Yoo-hoo?" Casey said, surprising both of us. "Oh, Casey!" Lunella exclaimed. "I'm so happy to see you! You'll never guess what happened..." "Oh, yeah? Well, let's see, was it that you went after the internet troll specifically after you promised not to and it turned out to be an actual giant troll who's destroying the bridge, and now, I have to wait until next week's rerun to find out who Marcus chose?" Casey asked. "Did I miss anything?!" "We both had Beans 'N Weenies for lunch?" Lunella chuckled nervously. "You are lucky the world needs saving right now." Casey said. "Speaking of which, why are you covered in boogers?" I added. "It's not boogers. I ran an analysis on this goop and it looks like it can be broken down by an acetate compound." Lunella explained. "But, acetate?" Casey asked. "Well, like nail polish remover?" "Well, yeah, I guess, but who carries..." Lunella replied, just as Casey pulled out her nail care kit. "I got light duty, medium strength, acrylic power, and this stuff right here can melt concrete." Casey said. "It is not good for your nails." "Oh, Casey. Did I mention you're one of my favorite people?" Lunella asked. "I'm my favorite person, too." Casey replied, tossing me one of the bottles of nail polish remover. "Sun Boy, you take this and free Devil, and I'll free your sister." "Gotcha." I nodded. "Let's get you out of here, Devil."
After a few minutes, the bridge began shaking again as I finished freeing Devil. "Booger King over there is tugging on the bridge string thingy!" Casey pointed out. "The suspension cables?" Lunella wondered. "Well, those are fractured little pieces!" "Habla ingles, chica!" Casey exclaimed. "If any one of those cables break, the entire bridge will fall apart!" Lunella exclaimed. "What? No, no, no!" Casey panicked. "I can't die, before Love Scent's finale! You gotta stop him!" "Yeah, but how?" I asked. "It doesn't matter what we say or do, he just gets stronger!" Lunella added as the bridge shook again, causing Casey to hold on for dear life. "I got you, Casey." I said, grabbing onto her. "Thanks, SB." Casey thanked. "But I told you not to feed that troll in the first place." "Feed! That's it!" Lunella gasped. "That's how Trolls work."
After getting Casey to safety, I joined Lunella and Devil again to finish off SYPHON8TR once and for all. "Moon Girl and Sun Boy!" He grunted. "You're messing up my Wiki page!" Devil roared at him with anger. "No, no, no." I said. "Just follow our lead." "What's wrong, Mega Head Girl and Boy?" SYPHON8TR teased. "Hmm? Nothing." Lunella replied. "But thanks for asking." "How about yourself?" I asked. SYPHON8TR was shocked. "I should be asking you about that bird's nest Moon Girl calls hair!" SYPHON8TR exclaimed. "It looks like a tumbleweed." "You are entitled to your opinion." Lunella said. "And you're both entitled to some decent clothes." He fired back. "Those suits look like, like you sewed them yourselves!" "Oh, we did sew them ourselves." I explained. "Thanks for noticing." SYPHON8TR started shriveling up before we knew it.
"Ooh, we did it!" Lunella cheered as SYPHON8TR reduced his size with every word. "I knew it was gonna work!" "I'm proud of you, sis." I complimented. "No! Stop cheering or I'll, I'll take down this bridge!" SYPHON8TR shouted, losing his grip and about to plummet to his death, but Lunella and I still caught him before he could get hurt. "You're welcome." Lunella said as we brought him to the bottom of the bridge. "You saved me." He panted. "That we did." I replied. All of a sudden, a symbiote escaped from SYPHON8TR and headed towards the East River. "The snot blob is getting away!" Casey exclaimed, trying to catch it, but failed. Looking back at SYPHON8TR, turns out he was just that kid from the park while we were fighting Devos. "Possum kid?!" Lunella and Casey wondered. "Wait, that's Angelo, one of my classmates." I whispered.
Angelo told us how he became SYPHON8TR as soon as he regained consciousness. "And that's what happened." Angelo sighed. "I guess I just wanted you to feel small like I did. But I didn't mean for it to go this far. It just spiraled out of control. I never even thought I could hurt your feelings. You're Moon Girl and Sun Boy for crying out loud!" "Wow! I mean, it's cool you see us that way and all, but underneath, we're still humans with feelings, like you." Lunella explains. "We may be superheroes, but we're also kids like you who want to right the wrongs." I added. "I get that now." Angelo said. "I'm really sorry, Moon Girl and Sun Boy. Can we ever be cool?" "Okay, but only if you promise us to never do anything like this again. For you and my sister's sake." I replied. "And take a big break from the internet 'cause you need it!" Lunella added. "And maybe tell us what editing software you use." Casey commented as Lunella and I glared at her. "I want my videos to go viral too!" "I promise." Angelo chuckled. "Cool. And hey, maybe we can team it up one day." Lunella suggested. "Me? Work with Moon Girl and Sun Boy?" Angelo asked, shaking hands with both of us. "Now that's a bet!"
The next day, Lunella, Devil, Casey, and I actually helped Angelo with a new campaign to stop bullying. Believe it or not, it was a success. Angelo ended up getting lots of signatures.
Later that day at the rink, Casey had published the video on the website and showed it to us. "I gotta copyright that dance move." Casey said. "Whoa! Dope graphics, dope music?" Lunella asked. "Oh, this is legit." "Yeah, it is." Casey agreed. "Angelo's table was a success, the bridge is getting fixed, and the fan page is popping again! It's just too bad that the slimy loogie got away." "Well, I mean, hey, there's always gonna be a hater out there, somewhere." I said as we began to do our handshake together. "At least we know how to handle it." "Skimpy With The Nachos?!" Mimi snapped, firing back at someone using Lunella's computer. "Well, I'll add an extra ingredient just for you! It's called a can of whoop your... hey!" Lunella shuts her computer. "Mimi, how about Lamar, Casey, and I show you a dance move?" Lunella suggested. "I couldn't agree more, Lulu." I smiled.