"I don't even know," Paco said, shaking his head. "I...kind of hope that she can't. Because if she could, and she hasn't been, after what happened to the one Brainy and Cassie Lang, and all those people in the pods who got zombiefied..." He really wanted to think that Stacy wasn't that cruel.

"Well," he said more brightly, "maybe Stacy will let you go home with someone else if we win. My mom loves taking people in, and people in my universe might be able to help you with the whole monster disease. We've got labs devoted to that kind of thing."