- A status-seeking nerd illegally buys a robot girlfriend, only to have it become dangerously jealous.
- Batman prepares for battle while Bruce trains him on fighting the criminal adversaries. The Riddler, Two-Face and Killer Croc all fight against him, but the new Batman is just as effective against them as his mentor. During the fight with Croc, Batman rips his head off revealing it to be a robot. Bruce says he has improved but could be a little more subtle. He instructs Terry to get a replacement robot after school.
Out at Hamilton Hill High School, Howard goes around the school announcing a party at his house but no one seems to be interested. Terry and Dana tell him to give up on the popular students and that he's being shallow. Howard, however, doesn't care and claims that what he really wants is a cool girlfriend and popularity.
Terry goes off to the synthoid factory and brings Howard along for the ride. While Terry deals with paperwork, Howard wanders around and sees Louie, an employee, create a female for an unknown customer. Intrigued, Howard goes to Louie and orders a special order for himself in spite of the fact that he's told that it's illegal. He's specific about her appearance, particularly the height, hair, and eye color, but when it comes to personality, he only says she has to be absolutely devoted to him.
The next day, the synthoid walks through the halls of school gathering a lot of attention, especially that of Nelson. However, she shoves off Nelson and says she's only interested in Howard. He introduces her as "Cynth-i-a" and the two leave. Nelson is angry, believing that Howard doesn't deserve someone like her and plans to "put him in his place". Cynthia overhears Nelson's plans and gets angry.
Later, Nelson comes into the locker room from sports practice and finds that Howard's locker is open. He immediately begins a search. Cynthia is also in the locker room, and when Nelson is in position, she shoves over the lockers nearly crushing him.
News of the accident spreads fast and the students wonder of its cause. Cynthia, however, coldly blows off the situation. The other students aren't very happy with her attitude.
Terry goes to investigate the fallen lockers with Max despite it's the boy's locker room and discovers handprints deeply imbedded into them. He finds it curious that someone with such small hands could push over the lockers. He scans for fingerprints but finds that there aren't any, which Max guesses that gloves might been worn. But to her embarrassment the boys from gym class are heading in and she hides in a locker and Terry tells her that he'll let Mr. Silverstein know she'll be late much to her frustration.
Now that he has Cynthia at his side, Howard re-announces his party and the students are now interested. Chelsea even offers to have a dance with Howard, which upsets Cynthia so much that she cracks Howard's notebook with her bare hands. Terry notices this and follows her. He soon discovers Cynthia trying to push over the school's stone logo onto Chelsea. When he tries to stop her, she attacks him, throwing him off the building. Terry's agility saves him, and Cynthia's strength and abilities, as well as the evidence pointing towards her being the one who injured Nelson and various comments she made to him that hinted at her origins, cause him to suspect her true nature. He then calls Max with his suspicions that Cynthia is a synthoid. Max is shocked that they even could make human-like synthoids, with Terry mentioning that the process is illegal, meaning he needs to do some sleuthing at Synthops. He then tells Max to tell Dana that he'll be running late and that she keep her eye on Cynthia in case she does anything drastic.
That night, Batman goes back to the synthoid factory and finds Louie fulfilling more illegal orders. He activates several synthoids and has them attack Batman but they are of little threat. After the synthoids are done, Louie tries to flee and has a synthoid double confronts Batman to distract him but the ruse fails. Batman apprehends him and ends his sideline business.
Meanwhile, Howard is having trouble with Cynthia as she continues to shove anyone who shows any interest in him or tries to stop her. Howard takes her into his room and, after trying to call Louie to get her repaired, Cynthia cites that Howard's her only reason for living and existing. Howard tells her that he wants to see other girls. Upon hearing this, Cynthia malfunctions and becomes outright violent, nearly killing Howard. Max stops Cynthia momentarily, but the synthoid's strength proves to be too great. Max is almost killed by Cynthia, but Batman arrives in time to stop the carnage.
With a stronger opponent to face, Cynthia gets even more violent, forcing the party guests to flee the house. Since Cynthia is such a formidable opponent, the fight continues for a while. In desperation, Howard tries to talk things out with her and naively suggests that they can still be friends which makes Batman slaps his forehead in disbelief at his stupidity. The word "friend" drives Cynthia completely mad. Her circuits overloaded, Cynthia explodes, destroying just about the entire house. Batman escapes with Howard just in the nick of time.
Batman drops Howard outside where the other students congratulate him on the party and its "legendary" end. Howard is happy that he now has the popularity he sought, but finds that Chelsea isn't interested in him, and to make things even worse, his parents arrive. They are angry at both the fact that he maxed out their credit card-thereby forcing them to cut their vacation short, and that he blew their house up, accusing him of buying dynamite. Howard's friends leave him to his fate.
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