The spider robot walked through the Crystal Cove High School parking lot one morning, accidentally scratching Ethan's paint job, and bending Gary's Chubby the Chipmunk Educational Antennae Ball. Fred Jones, Jr. saw it as a mystery that needed trapping, when Jason revealed himself, who was trying to impress Velma Dinkley, and scare the jocks and popular students into controlling them, but it just got him a wedgie from Ethan and Gary.