Psychic Squad

A recap special (episode 39.5) of Zettai Karen Children. Narrated by "The Double Face" (Nowaki Hotaru and Tokiwa Natsuko), the episode introduces all the characters in B.A.B.E.L. with their abilities and roles etc. It also shows various facilities and places in B.A.B.E.L that have appeared in the story.

Summary of the Zettai Karen Children TV series bundled with the limited edition 21st tankobon volume.

Koichi Minamoto is the prime suspect of exploding a bomb at Babel's headquarters. It is up to The Children to find out the truth behind this strange accusation.

The Children—comprising three Level 7 ten-year-old espers named Kaoru Akashi (a psychokinetic), Aoi Nogami (a teleporter), and Shiho Sannomiya (capable of psychometry)—are members of the Base of Backing ESP Laboratory (B.A.B.E.L.), though are unhappy with the woman assigned to lead them in operations. The Children are deployed to apprehend a criminal esper known as Muscle Ōkama, and while he initially gets away, they are later able to stop him from stealing a gold statue in a museum with the help of Kōichi Minamoto, who had recently been transferred to take over as the field leader of The Children.

During Minamoto's orientation tour of B.A.B.E.L. headquarters, the precognition division issues an alert that there is a high probability of a fire at a certain gas station. The Children are sent to the scene and manage to stop a plane in mid-flight before it crashes into the station, saving the pilot's life. However, Kaoru forgets about the plane, and it crashes into the gas station anyway. During a medical examination, Kaoru destroys an expensive medical device to assess her psychic abilities, and during a later operation, Kaoru's powers go out of control. She uses her powers to stop her heart and regain control, and Minamoto manages to bring her back to life.

Minamoto moves into his new apartment, but is uninformed that the chief of B.A.B.E.L. had approved that The Children would come to live with him. He initially dislikes the notion of sharing his apartment with the girls, and gets angry at them after they uncover a yearbook from his elementary school days. The Children go into the town after he yells at them, and become hostages when an esper holds up a bank. The esper notices their limiters and tries to get them to help him since they are all espers, but they decline and help apprehend the criminal. Afterwards, Minamoto decides to let The Children stay at his apartment.

The P.A.N.D.R.A. release of several commercials that appear to be for the purpose of membership recruitment (or for simply flexing their muscles since there is no contact information given) abruptly forces Minamoto to set aside his anguish over Ikyuugo's mortal sacrifice to protect Taizou when he is charged the apprehension of a pair of sibling espers with electromagnetic powers that wish to manufacture a false news broadcast of The Children attacking normal humans without cause. Prior to mission zero hour, the quarry sibling electromagnetic espers introducing themselves with an electrical charge that incapacitates their helicopter and an electromagnetic eidolon pre-empts Minamoto's explanation of Kyousuke's ultimate goal being an esper-led war against humans. As Taizou frenzily works the main nerve center to locate them, Kaoru is loving the attention not realizing that she is playing right into the hands of the perpetrators who decide that it is necessary to have footage of Kaoru and her teammates attacking the city and its human citizens to ruin the image of espers in general. The deus ex machina to apprehend the perpetrators comes from a mysterious esper that uses Taizou's phone to suggest blacking out the entire city. A blistering reproof at Kaoru coupled with stringent orders to restore the severed cables later, Minamoto directs Shiho and Aoi after the two fugitives only to find that they have to be apprehended simultaneously. Kaoru rejoins the battle to find that the tables have turned -- her company with P.A.N.D.R.A. for Minamoto's life. After Shiho and Aoi break the stalemate with an avenue for perverting the toxic electrical wave to their advantage, Kaoru emphatically refuses to join P.A.N.D.R.A.; a furious telekinetic pummeling later, the two sibling espers are apprehended and made to undo all the damage that they have done even as there are unresolved loose ends.

While they are undergoing a cops-and-robbers exercise at Ichirou's behest to teach them the sentiments of the criminals that they confront, Kaoru and her teammates wonder what their leader is up to that for which their presence is a hinderance -- Minamoto in convoy with Taizou and Oboro to pay a visit to Fujiko Tsubomi who has been in a decade-long estivation. After a brief history lesson, Taizou concludes that not much can be accomplished and is about to lead Oboro and Minamoto away when Aoi and her teammates phase in from a teleportation jump eager to find out what their leader is doing. A ping-pong match of insults/errant comments/seduction and Kaoru's telekinetic shoving defines the conclusion of Fujiko's estivation after Shiho's psychometry reads Fujiko's involuntary energy siphoning as voluntary seduction/copulation. After an introductory kiss to Kaoru/Shiho/Aoi (much to their watery/soapy disgust) along with the just-arrived Naomi, Fujiko sets to bringing herself up to speed at B.A.B.E.L. and yearns to spend more girl time with Double Face before approaching Minamoto to explain that his esper charges are going to turn out exactly what Kyousuke wants if they stay under his leadership in its incumbent state. As Minamoto is sent off to another location to be detained, Ichirou leads Naomi and The Children on another exercise -- this time, a tanker with a leaky fuel tank that will explode in 30 minutes. Fujiko phases in to begin appraising both The Children and Naomi before mentioning Minamoto's impending arrival. After seeing Naomi beating up on Ichirou, it becomes apparent that Fujiko wants Kaoru and her teammates to help her teach Minamoto what it takes to change fate. Unfortunately, the only change to fate that Fujiko's cruel prank successfully effects is Minamoto angrily resigning from B.A.B.E.L. in disgust of his feelings being trivialized and manipulated so friviously by his esper charges.

Taizou and Dr. Sakaki's endeavors to pacify Minamoto and dissuade him away from following through on his resignation announcement from the previous episode quickly take a back seat when Kaoru, Shiho, and Aoi's extreme anguish and anxiety at losing their leader prompts the girls to combine their energies into a frenzied and effulgent psychic tempest. After successfully pacifying the girls before they completely destroy B.A.B.E.L. Headquarters with such ease that it could be argued that the tempest was by her design, Fujiko resolves to make Minamoto recant the resignation declaration as she spirits him away into a brief history lesson and personal anecdote. While Fujiko illuminates her awareness of Ikyuugo's final prediction for Minamoto through her admonition to guard against being such a workaholic and to spend quality time with his esper charges, Kaoru and her teammates are not thrilled about Taizou and Oboro paying them a visit. Fortunately, Taizou sees the light as he explains that Fujiko is training Minamoto to increase his power. As Oboro mirrors the girls' confusion regarding Taizou's inadequate explanation, Fujiko is directing the hypnotic nurse Hanae Suetsu to take good care of Minamoto. Minamoto's disgust and Hanae's anguish give way to Fujiko again warning Minamoto that he will see his esper charges as adults unless he makes some drastic changes. Fujiko is realizing some meager success from her plan as Hanae successfully emulates both Shiho and Aoi as adults; aside from Fujiko rushing things a little, not a whole lot could go wrong . . . except the real Aoi who is not at all flattered by the emulation and Kaoru who sees Fujiko as her vendetta. After driving home his passionate displeasure of Fujiko and Hanae's conduct of him as a plaything, Minamoto apologizes about the resignation threat and realizes that the avenue to save his esper charges' future and keep them away from P.A.N.D.R.A. is to make lots and lots of euphoric memories with them in the present.