Back at the robotics lab, Chloe and Abigail decide to get to the bottom of Heavy Metal’s malfunctioning. Abigail eventually stumbles on GradeWorm saved on Heavy Metal’s drive. They wonder who could have installed it and land on Noah as the likely candidate. Abigail is furious, but Chloe recognizes that Noah is naive in many ways and wants to cover for him. Just then, Oz enters the lab in a frenzy. His laptop has GradeWorm on it, and the program is copyrighted to “Superkid Hardcastle.”

Noah’s time as the superkid has come to an end. He has been kicked out of Hardcastle over GradeWorm and must go back to the Academy. He is not very thrilled about it. According to Noah, he learned and grew while at Hardcastle Middle School, whereas nothing about the Academy challenges him.

Nobody seems to care about the whole superkid thing anymore. Noah is still friends with Hashtag and his cheerleading squad; in fact, he was allowed to remain on the team thanks to the insistence of both the lacrosse players and the cheerleaders. He is happy to have all the things that matter to him: his IQ, his friends, and

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