"Carmen!!?" The voice of a young woman rang through the head quarter's labs and training centers. "Vic? Sarah, Sarah, Robo, DT? I'm back from school!" 

Getting no reply, she walked in and put her things on the first empty chair she found. Dim were the lights. Everyone was probably down in the lower floors doing important stuff. Patty Larceny was home from a long semester in college. She was studying fashion marketing, something far removed from her chosen profession. At least it was something she liked.

She got out vanilla pudding from the fridge and started digging in. What would she do without pudding? She'll bet anything puddings were invented in Rome, like that exotic Italian boy she met a few weeks before the break. He was one of those refined polite foreign boys worth going gaga for and besides writing his name in hearts along the edges of her notes, she was also spending free moments thinking about their life together. That is, if she could muster the courage to get him to ask her out.

Before she knew it, Patty was wasting hours looking up Italian endearment phrases on the Interweb.

Her glittery pink iPhone rang a while later to the tune of a Britney classic. Patty made a note to change that, it's way too 2004. Vic on Carmen's phone said they're starting a meeting. V.I.L.E. is planning something starting with Spain.

"Yes! Europe!" Patty thought. If she wasn't a total airhead this time, maybe she could get Carmen to do something through Italy where her dream hottie is visiting his cousins!