Unluckily for Steve and Emma, Natasha and Kate are not the only two girls paying attention to the coming invasion.

Noriko is ready with an opened and half-empty, mostly melted strawberry ice cream, the lip of the tub perched in the window and held up by a stool as she peers out to see the top of a much older boy's head. With effort she aims for him and tips it up, much like the cartoonish descriptions of pouring boiling oil on intruders. Only the melted ice cream is much stickier and harder to get off. "Banzai!"