In the lab, Leo was looking at all of the inventions Mr. Davenport made. "Ooh. Ah. Ho, ho. What's this?"

"Hey, that's part of my put that down collection." Mr. Davenport says, taking a device he made from Leo's hands.

"Oh, sweet pen," Leo says.

"It's not a pen. It's a highly-pressurized air canister that can inflate a blimp in 8.6 seconds." Mr. Davenport says.

"This little thing?" Leo says.

"Mmm-hmm."

"Impossible." Leo clicks the pen and wind blows throughout the lab. Mr. Davenport takes the pen and turns it off.

"You might wanna put a little warning sign on that," Leo says. "So, what're you having? Garage sale for geeks?"

Mr. Davenport laughs sarcastically. "No. We are preparing for...the call."

"Once a year, Mr. Davenport and I present his newest devices to all the international buyers," Chase says. "In other words..."

"Ka-ching!" Chase and Mr. Davenport both say. They start doing a handshake, and Leo tries to join in.

"What are you doing?" Chase asks.

"I wanna be in on...the call," Leo says.

"Yeah, sorry, Leo. There's no more room. I'm already the product specialist, the set designer, chief demonstrator, and insanely happy spokesmodel." Chase says.

"Although, there might be a role for Leo." Mr. Davenport says. "As long as someone follows him around everywhere he goes with a fire extinguisher."

"But Mr. Davenport, I'm way better at selling this stuff than Leo," Chase says.

"Please, I could sell nunchucks to a nun named Chuck," Leo says. "I could sell this thing without even knowing what it is." Leo walks up to one of Mr. Davenport's inventions.

"Leo, no. That's an electrofield destabilizer. Whatever you do, don't let it..." Leo taps the device against metal while waving it, and he goes flying across the room. "Touch metal."

"I have to admit. A small part of me was hoping that would happen." Chase says.

"Well, can a big part of you come over and help me up?" Leo says. Mr. Davenport and Chase run over to Leo and help him up.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

In the living room, Tasha was on the phone with her mom. "Yes, mom. Leo and I love our new home. Oh, you should come and visit." Tasha looks over at her family, who are also in the living room with her.

"467, 468..." Leo counts as Adam bench presses him. "Put some muscle in it. 469."

"Take that zombie! Die, zombies!" I shout as I play a video game while standing on the couch.

"Shh! I'm picking up radio free Singapore." Mr. Davenport says. He was standing on one foot with a device on his head, and he started singing in a foreign language. "That's gonna be a hit. You mark my words."

"But not today. Why? Because Donald's not feeling well. Look, I gotta go. He just threw up in my purse. Love you, bye!" Tasha says. She hangs up the phone.

"You know, we're gonna have to have your mother over eventually." Mr. Davenport says.

"No, we don't," Tasha says. "Look, my mom doesn't just visit. She has inspections. If she spots anything weird, she will use it as an excuse for her to move in." Bree super speeds over to Tasha and Mr. Davenport and catches the ball she was playing with Chase.

"Nothing weird here," Bree says. She continues to play catch with Chase.

"Honey, when your mother visits, I will shower her with love, I will make her feel welcome and I will do everything humanly possible to..." Mr. Davenport was cut off when we heard the doorbell ring.

Tasha gasps. "It's my mother!"

"I'll be in the lab." Mr. Davenport says, leaving the living room.

"Quick! Turn invisible!" Tasha says. The four of us just look at her. "Oh, come on. You have every other freaky ability. Just run and hide." Adam, Bree, Chase, and I hide behind the kitchen counter.

"Oh, good. It's unlocked." Tasha's mother says as she walks through the front door.

"Mom! You're here." Tasha says, hugging her.

"Would've been here sooner if it hadn't been for your stupid gate." Tasha's mother says.

"Oh, that's just Donald's titanium security fence," Tasha says.

"Well, if you ram it with your car hard enough, it pops right open." Tasha's mother says. "Leo. There's my baby. Come and give me some sugar." Tasha's mother hugs Leo aggressively. "Ooh! Grandma's so glad to see you." She grabs his face. "Let me see your face. Let me see that face. Let me see your face. Let me see your face. You're so cute! Grandma brought your favorite bran fruitcake." Tasha's mother hands Leo the fruitcake, but he drops it due to its weight.

"Oh! Wow. Grandma, you shouldn't have." Leo says.

"Oh, baby." Tasha's mother says.

"And when I say you shouldn't have..."

"Leo," Tasha warns.

Adam, Bree, Chase, and I try to sneak out of the kitchen but Tasha's mother sees us.

"Who are they?" She asks.

"They are the...staff!" Tasha says. "Big house."

"Staff? Oh, Tasha. Still so lazy." Tasha's mother says.

"And you are still so...my mother," Tasha says.

"So what do you do?" Tasha's mother asks, looking at Adam.

"Well, I collect rocks, I lift heavy things, I chase bugs."

"Adam is our chef," Tasha says.

"Oh. Right. Chef. Normally, I wear a puffy hat and yell things in Italian." Adam says. "Bonjour!" Everyone except Tasha's mother starts laughing nervously.

"What a wonderful sense of humor," Tasha says. We stop laughing when she gives us a look.

"And who is she?" Tasha's mother asks, looking at Bree.

"Bree is my personal trainer," Tasha says.

"Oh. And what exactly does a personal trainer do?" Tasha's mother asks.

"It's personal?" Bree says.

"And Chase...Chase is Leo's nanny." Tasha says. "Man-nanny. Manny."

"Aren't you a little young to be a manny?" Tasha's mother asks.

"Aren't you a little young to be a grandma?" Chase says.

"Oh, I like him." Tasha's mother says. She looks at me. "And what about her?"

"Cassie. Cassie...is our...cleaning lady." Tasha says.

"Yeah, I'm their clean...what?" I say, looking at Tasha. "Yes, that's right. I'm the cleaning lady. I just love to clean."

"Where's all your cleaning supplies?" Tasha's mother asks.

"My cleaning supplies? They are, um, in a special room that Mr. Davenport made me. It's a room full of cleaning supplies. Yeah, it's great." I say. Chase gives me a worried look when he notices my eyes turning purple.

"Wait a minute, what's wrong with your eyes? One minute they were green, and now they're purple?" Tasha's mother asks.

"Oh, that. That's just my new glow-in-the-dark eye contact lenses. Pretty cool, huh?" I say.

"But the lights are on." Tasha's mother says.

"Yeah, well, um...I gotta go." I say, running out of the living room.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"I said, of course not. A camel has two humps." Mr. Davenport says to Leo in the lab. They both laugh as Chase walks in.

"Guys, so, here are your fully collated, color-coded presentation packets. I had them laminated so you can practice in the shower." Chase says, handing Leo and Mr. Davenport folders.

"Uh-huh. You know, I say we just wing it." Leo says.

"Leo's right. We shouldn't overthink it." Mr. Davenport says.

"But, guys, I wrote an entire script filled with our spontaneous, yet, witty banter," Chase says.

"And we would all love to hear that someday," Leo says. "But now, Big D and Leo are gellin' on the sell it." Mr. Davenport and Leo do their own handshake.

"No, no, no handshakes!" Chase says. "I mean, uh...Leo's great and all, but you and I are the dynamic duo here. What if something happened? He could get electrocuted. Again."

"Yeah, we could use the help. I mean, this year I am unveiling my coup d'etat." Mr. Davenport says.

Leo covers Chase's ears. "With children in the room?"

"No, I am talking about a level of technology so amazing that I have to unveil it game show style!" Mr. Davenport says. He holds out his hands, and a door slides open, revealing a robotic suit. "It's my exo-skeleton. And, Leo, you have been doing such a great job helping, you're gonna be in it when we make...the call."

Leo runs over to the robot and laughs excitedly.

"What? No. You said that I was gonna present the exo-skeleton." Chase says.

"Chase, you've been doing this for years. It's not gonna kill you to let Leo demo one thing." Mr. Davenport says. "Besides, there will be plenty of other little things to do."

"Yeah, like stand and point, Vanna," Leo says.

"Fine, you know what? Leo should demo the exo." Chase says.

"See, that's more like it." Mr. Davenport says.

"You deserve it, Leo," Chase says.

"Well, I do pride myself on my work ethic," Leo says. Mr. Davenport and Leo leave the lab.

"Buckle up, exo, 'cause you're about to go on Mr. Leo's wild ride," Chase says. He takes out a screwdriver and starts tampering with the controls.

In the kitchen, Adam was getting ready to make some dinner while Bree sat by the counter. "Mmm-mmm. See, there is too much technology around here. In my day, we didn't have all these gizmos and gadgets. You had your family, it was horrible, and you lived with it." Tasha's mother says as she and Tasha walk into the living room. "And don't get me started on your staff. I mean, how is my Leo supposed to learn how to do anything for himself?"

"Well, he'll learn without someone criticizing his every move," Tasha says. Tasha's mother gives her a look. "I'm just saying." They walk into the kitchen.

"So, what is the master chef preparing anyway?" Tasha's mother asks.

"Uh..." Adam begins to say.

"He's making..." Tasha takes out a cookbook and skims through it to find something for Adam to cook. "What's easy, what's easy? Spaghetti. I love how you always follow the directions exactly as written."

"Hey, why don't we do some exercises? It'll help loosen up your creaky bones." Bree says, walking Tasha's mother to the living room. "And by creaky, I mean time-tested and full of experience!" She does a hip bump with Tasha's mother.

"Add one can of tomatoes," Adam says. Adam crushes a can of tomatoes with his super strength and dumps the tomatoes in the pot. He tosses the can over his shoulder. Adam starts scratching his head with a spatula. "Simmer on low heat. Low heat. Oh, okay!" Adam uses his heat vision from one eye on the tomatoes.

"Yeah! I'm cooking!" Adam exclaims. Tasha's mother gives him a strange look. "Which I always do."

"Okay," Bree says as she gets up from stretching. She notices that Tasha's mother is stuck and helps her up.

"Oh, thank you." Tasha's mother says.

"Um, let's move on to a simple little exercise that can strengthen your core while crushing a man's windpipe," Bree says.

"Ooh." Tasha's mother says.

Tasha laughs nervously. "They already kicked her out of book club for using that one. Anything else?"

"How about, um, pick up the hat? Yeah, you reach down like you're gonna pick up a hat, and then you kick the air behind you." Bree says. When Tasha's mother kicks her leg back, she starts to fall, and Bree super speeds behind her to keep her steady.

"How'd you get behind me so fast?" Tasha's mother asks.

"Uh, how did you get in front of me so fast, you speedy, little grandma, you?" Bree says.

"Okay, I cleaned every inch of this house. You could practically eat off the floor." I say, walking down the stairs with a few cleaning supplies.

"Thank you so much, Cassie. You did a wonderful job as always." Tasha says.

"It's no trouble at all. Now, where's my money?" I say.

"Excuse me?" Tasha says.

"Well, since I am the cleaning lady shouldn't I get a little ka-ching?" I say with a little smirk.

"Oh, you'll be getting something," Tasha says giving me a look. She hands me some cash.

"You know, I'm pretty impressed with Cassie here and her cleaning. Mind if I take her every now and then to clean my house?" Tasha's mother asks.

"Not at all, Mrs. Tasha's mother. But I will warn you, I pay by the hour." I say.

"Please, call me Rose," Rose says.

"Rose," I say.

"I like this one," Rose says, looking at Tasha.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

In the lab, Chase, and Leo are showing off various inventions to a group of people on a web conference. "The Davenport Industries' Tabletop Particle Collider. I have absolutely no idea what it does, but it sure looks pretty." Leo says.

"Isn't he cute? Kids. Okay." Chase laughs, pushing Leo out of the way. "Up next we have something even more exciting. It's thrilling, yet mysterious...exotic, but useful. I have no idea how any household has survived without the..."

Chase gestures to where the invention was, but Leo is holding it on the other side of him. "Leo," Chase says in disbelief.

"Go ahead, you're doing great," Leo says, showing off the invention to the people on the webcam.

"You stole my thunder. He stole my thunder." Chase says.

"Who needs thunder when you've got lightning? Zap." Leo says. Chase snatches the device from Leo's hand, and Mr. Davenport pulls them away from the web conference.

"Guys, uh, now might be a good time to unveil my coup d'etat." Mr. Davenport says.

"Yes, Leo, why don't you go do your demo?" Chase says.

"One coup de Leo coming right up," Leo says.

"You know, ladies and gentlemen, I think it's about time for the moment we have all been waiting for." Mr. Davenport says. He presses a button on a remote.

"I know it's the moment I've been waiting for," Chase says. Leo walks in wearing the exo-skeleton.

"Exo-skeleton in the house!" Leo says.

"That's right. The power of ten men in a one size fits all suit." Mr. Davenport says. "Leo, please demonstrate by lifting this table. Now, ladies and gentlemen, see how elegantly he..." Instead of lifting the table, the exo-skeleton smashes it.

"Smashes my table of priceless inventions." Mr. Davenport says. Mr. Davenport and Chase run across the room and duck behind a console as the suit goes out of control.

"Gee, if only I had warned you that letting Leo help us was a bad idea," Chase says.

"Leo, stop!" Mr. Davenport shouts.

"I can't! I'm not doing anything." Leo says. "This thing is out of control!" He smashes an invention. "Whoa!"

"Oh, no!" Chase winced as the suit continues to go haywire.

"My bad! You didn't need that, did you?" Leo says. He knocks down another device. "Oh! Was that expensive?" Mr. Davenport runs up to the webcam.

"Live webcams. You know anything can and will happen, it's just extraordinary. You know what? We'll call you back." Mr. Davenport says. Leo walks up to the webcams and the exo-skeleton smashes the computers.

Leo screams as the exo-skeleton continues to smash things in the lab. "Okay, this is the scariest and most awesome thing that has ever happened to me."

"Are you using me as a shield?" Chase asks as Mr. Davenport hides behind him.

"You're bionic." Mr. Davenport says. Chase pushes Mr. Davenport in front of him. "I don't get it. I must've tested it, like 120 times. I don't know what could've happened."

"Something must've gone haywire with the power source when I reversed the controls," Chase says. Mr. Davenport gives Chase a look. "I guess? I'm sorry. I...I didn't mean for it to go berserk. I just wanted to mess with Leo."

The exo-skeleton continues to destroy things and Mr. Davenport and Chase duck. "Well, next time, could you give him a wedgie like everybody else?" Mr. Davenport says.

"Big D, I hope this doesn't hurt our friendship, but I think I'm about to crush you," Leo says. The exo-skeleton picks up Mr. Davenport.

"Not the face! Not the face!" Mr. Davenport shouts. Before the suit could hit Mr. Davenport, it powers down, and Mr. Davenport drops to the floor.

"I think it drained its battery!" Chase says.

"Oh. Still unnecessarily handsome." Mr. Davenport sighs in relief, touching his face. "Leo, get out of that thing."

"I know this wasn't exactly what you were going for, Big D, but, man, are we gonna sell a ton of these!" Leo says.

Once Leo was out of the suit, Mr. Davenport was trying to fix it up. "Chase, how could you do this?"

"Come on, with my mechanically inclined intelligence, how could I not do it?" Chase says.

"Well, you did something, all right. You ruined my biggest sale of the year." Mr. Davenport says. "Now I'm gonna have to reschedule...the ca...you know what? It's not even fun to say anymore."

Tasha walks into the lab. "What on earth is going on down here?"

"The exo-skeleton went berserk and almost crushed me." Mr. Davenport says.

"My mother is upstairs," Tasha says.

"Yeah, okay. You win." Mr. Davenport says.

"She's been asking where you guys are and I'm running out of excuses. I need everyone upstairs acting like a normal family now!" Tasha says. She storms out of the lab.

"You know what, we should probably do what she says." Mr. Davenport says. "She's more prone to violence than the exo-skeleton. And, Chase, I am very disappointed in you. I don't want you on the next call." He leaves the lab.

"I wasn't trying to bump you out. I was trying to show you up." Leo says. "You know, add a little sizzle to your steak."

"Well, congratulations, Leo. You won. You got the sizzle, you got the steak, you got the whole stinking cow!" Chase says. He leaves the lab.

"Hey, you're my manny. You're supposed to be nice to me." Leo says before leaving the lab. Once they were both gone, the exo-skeleton powers back up.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"Donald!" Rose says as Mr. Davenport, Chase, and Leo walk into the living room.

"Rose." Mr. Davenport says.

"About time. I was beginning to think you were avoiding me." Rose says.

"I was...uh, sick. I mean I was sick. I was feeling very ill. And I had a very important phone call. Uh, it's not nearly as important as you." Mr. Davenport says.

Rose chuckles. "Nice save."

"Thank you. I thought so." Mr. Davenport says. He notices me cleaning the living room, Bree doing jumping jacks, and Adam cooking the spaghetti. "Honey, what are Adam, Bree, and Cassie doing?"

"You mean our chef, trainer, and cleaning lady?" Tasha says.

"That explains what they're doing." Mr. Davenport says. As Adam was cooking, he held up the burnt spatula he was using to stir the spaghetti.

"Uh, just a couple more minutes," Adam says.

"Till what? You melt the pot?" Leo says.

"You know what? Let's all just sit down and have a nice dinner together." Tasha says.

"Good. Anything to get me out of cleaning." I say, tossing a spray bottle and towel over my shoulder and walking to the dinner table.

"We can sit down, but having a nice dinner just isn't gonna happen," Leo says.

"Hey, you're Leo's manny and you're letting him near a hot stove?" Rose says to Chase.

"Watch it, Leo. You wanna get sent to bed without any supper?" Chase says, pulling Leo away from the stove. Leo looks at the burnt food and looks back at Chase.

"Yes," Leo says. Adam serves burnt spaghetti to Rose.

"What the...?!" Rose shouts.

"Pa-sghetti?" Adam says.

"What in the name of great Ceasar's ghost is going on around here?" Rose asks.

"Trust me, there is nothing unusual going on here," Tasha says. "Everything is completely normal." The exo-skeleton bursts through the wall.

"That was horrible timing." Mr. Davenport says. The exo-skeleton knocks down a table. We all get up from our seats.

"What is that?" Rose asks.

"That is another member of our staff," Leo says. "Go away, James. We don't need you right now."

"Boy, I'm old, not senile, and that's no butler," Rose says. "I'm out." Adam, Bree, Chase, Tasha, Mr. Davenport, and I hide behind the couch while Chase and Leo hide behind the wall of plants.

"Adam, don't just sit there. Go take that thing down!" I shout.

"No! You do that, and someone will know that someone has certain abilities!" Tasha exclaims. We duck and scream when the exo-skeleton tosses the pot of burnt pasta across the room.

"Oh, well, great. Now dinner's ruined." Adam says.

"What are you complaining about? I just cleaned this place!" I say.

"Donald, you're the man of the house, do something!" Rose says.

"Right. I'll take care of this." Mr. Davenport says. He gets up and the exo-skeleton fires lasers at him. He screams and hides behind the couch again.

"My hero," Rose says.

"Wait, I have an idea," Leo says. He runs out of the room while dodging the lasers.

"Now, you see? Your little gizmo's putting us all in danger." Rose says. "That robot's about to kill us. Now, see, back when I was a kid back in the day..."

"Yeah, that's a fascinating story, Rose. Do you mind if we hear about it later?" Mr. Davenport says. The exo-skeleton fires another laser and Mr. Davenport starts throwing pillows at the exo-skeleton.

"It's destroying our house and you're tossing pillows at it," Tasha says.

"Well, they're called throw pillows." Mr. Davenport says. Leo runs back into the living room with one of Mr. Davenport's inventions.

"Time for this exo to meet its match," Leo says.

"The electrofield destabilizer. Great idea, Leo." Chase says.

"Thanks," Leo says. He runs up to Chase. "Here. You should do it. Sorry for stealing your sizzle."

"No, I'm the one who should be sorry. I just have to get used to the idea of having another brother around." Chase says.

"Guys, I'm really enjoying the heartfelt moment, but I'm running out of pillows here." Mr. Davenport says, throwing another pillow at the robot.

"Shall we take this bad boy down together?" Leo says.

"I'll flip, you zap?" Chase says. He gets up and tries to get the exo-skeleton's attention. "Hey, exo!" Chase flips over the couch.

"Here comes the pain," Leo says. When he tries to hit the robot with the device, the exo-skeleton knocks the destabilizer out of his hand and grabs him.

"Hey, Chase, did we have a plan B?" Leo asks.

"Hey! Nobody lays a hand on my grandson." Rose says. "It's time to pick up the hat!" Rose kicks the robot, and it releases Leo. Rose runs back to the couch.

"Way to go, Grandma! And you didn't even break a hip." Bree says. Leo is on the ground and the exo-skeleton advances on him.

"Look out, Leo!" Chase shouts. He slides over and grabs the destabilizer, helping Leo up in the process. "Stay close." Chase uses his force field to block the exo-skeleton's lasers, and he zaps it with the destabilizer. The exo-skeleton goes flying across the room, no longer a threat. We all cheered once the robot was down.

"Yes!" Leo and Chase both say.

"Somebody better tell me what's going on right now. And right now just passed, so you're not talking fast enough." Rose says.

"Uh, Rose, there is a completely rational explanation for all of this." Mr. Davenport says. "You are delusional. Who wants dessert?" Leo and I raise our hands.

Rose turns to Tasha and points at Mr. Davenport. "You know what, mom? This is our life. Our house may be high-tech and chaotic, but it is full of love. And it may not be perfect for you but it is perfect for our family." Tasha says. She walks over to Adam, Bree, Chase, Leo, and me.

"What family?" Rose asks. "Wait a minute, who are these people?"

"They are my brother's kids. That I adopted when he died. Fell in a volcano." Mr. Davenport says.

"Well, why didn't you just say so? Now it all makes sense. You're just a modern family with a bunch of adorable kids." Rose says. "Who is gonna need their grandma around all the time. You know, I can stay for a few days in the spare room you got down the hall. Come on, baby. I got my overnight case in the car, and Gladys is watching Poochie so it's no problem. Don't thank me now. Come on." Rose and Tasha leave. Tasha frantically signaled to Mr. Davenport.

"Chase, you really messed up today, but you kind of made up for it the way you helped Leo like a brother." Mr. Davenport says. "And since we have to reschedule it anyways, I want you both to be on...the call. Hoo, it's back, baby."

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Later, we were all sitting on the couch waiting for the pizza to arrive. "Oh, man. I am starving." Rose says. The doorbell rings.

"Oh, that must be the pizza." Mr. Davenport says.

"Finally!" I say.

"I'll get it!" Leo says. He walks in wearing the exo-skeleton.

"Leo, what are you doing in that thing?" Tasha asks. He opens the door and when the pizza man sees Leo in the suit, he runs away, dropping the pizza. Leo picks up the pizza.

"Getting free pizza."