Marshall is sick, feverish, and to make matters worse he uses all of his spare time working on a new money making scheme. While he feels awful, his new venture, which was doing extremely well and making profits, bottoms out.

Bizzarly, even the school develops symptoms of Marshall's infection. Some parts are too cold, others overheat, sneezes and coughs begin occurring from deep inside the school and a greenish slime extrudes from the interior, exactly like Marshall's symptoms. But why does it occur? And when will it stop?

Practicing for the academic Olympics, Corrine is more critical than usual. Frusterated, the Science Club leaves the room and Corrine finishes the practice equations on her own. When Lucas glows, Vaughn can't stop running, and Josie breaks the laws of gravity, could it be a side effect of the equations assigned to each of them that Corrine did instead? Even if Corrine can undo the work, she still has to face her family's legacy of first prize for the academic Olympics.

Just as Vaughn's intelligence seems to be increasing, Josie's intelligence seems to be dropping. Coincidence? Not at Black Hole High...

Josie is having a hard time sleeping at night, but not in class. She has gone cathemaral - she has lost her sleep routine. More worrying, however, are the hallucinations she encounters whilst sleeping...

Lucas cancels a long-weekend fishing trip with his father so that he can stay at Blake Holsey and investigate Victor and Vaughn. While setting up a surveillance camera in Professor Z's lab, he stumbles upon a secret compartment that holds a strange device. When activated, the device turns the school into a tesseract- causing the school to begin folding in on itself...

Marshall is testing a rocket but when he launches it, it fails to come down. Instead, a large silver sphere falls from the sky. When the gang go to investigate, the sphere dissolves, leaving behind a strange device. They take it to Z, who also has no idea what it was. When Josie touches it a panel opens up, and a timer begins to count down. Now the science club has 26 minutes to figure out what it does, and what the connection is to Vaughn...

Vaughn tells Corinne that he saw her on the Pearadyne security tapes- talking to his mother. He becomes angry at her when she denies ever seeing his mother.

Z explains to the science club about friction- how it can cause things to fuse together. He demonstrates with two blocks of metal. When the lesson is over, Corrine leaves quickly, followed by Vaughn who doesn't believe Corrine is telling the truth about his mother. As the remaining science club members are leaving, they notice that the metal blocks have fused together, despite being set apart. Something clicks and they go to warn Vaughn and Corrine, but it is too late. Vaughn grabs Corrine's wrist to stop her, and suddenly they are fused together and can't separate. Now in order to come unstuck, Vaughn and Corrine must cooperate to find out what really happened when Corrine went through the wormhole.

Josie suddenly finds herself in 1879 by way of the wormhole. Vaughn, Lucas, Corrine, and Marshall come to her rescue. All return to the present except Vaughn, who discovers he has returned to a much different yet familiar reality...