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Cars, Cafes & Creative Destruction After a chaotic day at the Tuttles' family-owned cafe, Ethan and Emily's parents consider getting a new machine that can make coffee, create latte art, and restock napkins. The twins disagree with this proposal out of fear that it may threaten their jobs, and Gabby takes them to meet Henry Ford, who talks to them about creative destruction and discusses the pros and cons of innovations, particularly automobiles. As Gabby and the twins fly through the timestream, a masked, hooded figure appears and fires an energy projectile at them. Gabby successfully steers her wheelchair to dodge the projectile, but she and the twins fly out of the timestream and end up in a parallel dimension where horse-drawn carriages remain in use, inventions such as printing presses, telephones and flush toilets are eschewed by their community, and doctors still use leeches to draw blood and balance the humors. When the twins return home, they and their parents discuss the benefits of having the new coffee machine in their cafe.