Bjorn was still spending his time in the hobby room, occupied with his most recent hobby - robots.



Eventually, Bjorn managed to create a Servo, imbued with the latest in AI technology. ServBot_001 was capable of performing major household tasks autonomously, as well as hold a conversation. The battery life still left things to wish for and Bjorn assumed he would have to work on the exterior before his model could be sold worldwide as a household aid, but it was an outstanding prototype nonetheless.



Training ServBot_001 to respond to various social situations required Bjorn to spend almost all of his time with it. It was a very rewarding task. Unlike childcare, which had always bored Bjorn and which he had left mostly to Gundrun, educating the robot left him amazed at the wondrous creation he had produced.



To protect Bjorn’s invention from industry spies, ServBot_001’s existence needed to be kept a close secret even from the other household inhabitants. The robot was capable of keeping itself entertained for a while, but Bjorn noticed that over time it seemed to develop a close attachment to him and managed to emulate loneliness and sadness when left alone over a long period of time with astounding skill.



Gundrun was lonely, especially since both her children were now teenagers. She vigorously defended her husband from any criticism though. Erin always complained that they never saw her dad anymore, but Gundrun refused to hear of it.



Meanwhile, Loki (still lacking any trace of facial hair) had his own set of issues to deal with. That good-for-nothing Vid Curious had not only upstaged him in the latest Science Fair, he had also been looking at Circe Salamis in a way that made Loki angry.

Vidcund Curious would not like Loki Beaker when he was angry.



“You must be angry right now then, Beaker, because I sure don’t like you.”

Well that was just the worst.

“You Curious boys think you’re so great, with your observatory and your green relatives and all that! Well we’ll see who has the last laugh! For now I’m warning you! Stay away from me and those close to me, all of you!”



With that impassioned speech, Loki charged Vidcund with all his strength and put him in a chokehold.

“You stay away from Circe, got that? And tell your brother to stay away from my sister as well!”

“Wait. Wait wait wait. Time out. Which brother?”

Erin's schoolfriend in the background is Ivy Frehndly, Rose and Ray's daughter.



As Jenny put it when Vidcund came rushing through her front door and demanding that she talk some sense into Lazlo, “two houses, both alike in geekery”. In a complete disregard for their elder siblings’ mental well-being, Lazlo “that thieving sneak’s little brother” Curious and Erin “Her brother is evil incarnate, can’t you see that?” Beaker had fallen in love and were ready to elope in spite of their family’s age-old feud in a perfect imitation of Romeo and Juliet. Fortunately for the couple, their elder siblings headed off to college soon after their forbidden love was revealed and the feud was relocated to La Fiesta Tech.



As for Jenny, even if she had cared about the feud with Loki Beaker, she was very busy with her first pregnancy. P.T., always the culinary expert, had provided himself with all the information that was to be had on what kinds of food a pregnant woman should eat in order to give birth to a healthy child. Seeing as how this changed every week, Jenny had very early decided to ignore everything and eat whatever she wanted, but the next nine months were a constant battle against P.T.’s health trip.



It might have been the health regimen or not, but Jenny eventually gave birth to a beautiful and perfectly healthy baby boy named Jonny.



It's little Jonny! Aww, in't he cute?

Unfortunately for Loki and Vidcund, the family feud is restricted to them only, so nobody else takes it seriously. This is probably a good thing.


Coming up next: The Nigmos family