Mutant gerbils. Orbital death rays. Evil coffee. All in a day's work at Narbonic Labs. Helen Narbon is a mad scientist with an unexplained fondness for gerbils. Along with her evil intern Mell Kelly and hapless computer guy Dave Davenport, she'll do battle with Antonio Forensic Linguist, win the heart of Prof. Lupin Madblood, quell a rebellion of superintelligent rodents, and face the greatest evil of all... her mother.