A Really Funny Teacher
Chapter 4

The Professor stood in the basement, thinking. He had been able to tell from the beginning that something was wrong with the teachers, he just had no idea what. Was it another villain coming to try to harm the girls? Or two just relatively weird people? The Professor suddenly found himself thinking this: "I wonder if Ms. Yelrah is married." He smacked himself. "Got to keep on task..." he murmered. He continued to think while in the lab. "There's got to be more to this..."

It was about 12:00 AM, on a Sunday, when the phone call arrived. In the middle of the night.
Harley strained herself, getting up off the uncomfortable apartment bed to answer it.
"Hello..." she said tiredly.
"Yes. I'd just like you to know, Ms Yelrah, that I love y—er—that I'm coming to visit tomorrow. I'd like to talk about what my girls are having trouble with in school...again."
"Uh—NO! I'LL be the one to come over!"
The Professor blushed.
"No, please, you don't have to go through all the trouble to--"
"YES I DO!" Harley demanded. "I mean, please, allow me."
"Um...but of course."
The two stood there, silent, on the phone for a while.
"So, how're the girls doing?" asked Harley nervously.
"They're OK. In fact, right now, they're...Hold on, let me check..........." He ran up the stairs, looked inside the girl's room, and ran down to the phone again. "Uhh...they're asleep. Of course, I knew that."
"Yup. Hey, you ever heard about this spider that--"
"Actually I have."
"Oh. Well, goodbye then."
"Bye."
They hung up at the exact same time.
Harley threw herself into bed, and closed her eyes. Immediately, she began to sleep.

"HARLEY!!! WAKE UP!" yelled the Joker. "Today's the day!"
"What?"
"You invited them over! Now it's time to just KILL the audience!"
Harley got out of bed, horror-struck.
"Oh my god! How did you..?"
"Figure out your invitation? It was easy. I know everything."
Somehow the Joker's grin was wider than it had ever been.
The doorbell rang.
"I'll get it," said the Joker, now in full makeup.
He slipped a gas mask on. He motioned for Harley to do it to. She couldn't. She just stared as the Utonium family walked in. All noise stopped as the gas bomb hit the floor, causing Joker venom to fly out from all sides.
Harley keeled over, laughing. She saw, in horror, that the girls were all affected too.
"That's the Antidote X I was telling you about!" said the Joker. Then, he began to laugh. Even though he wore a gasmask, he still laughed. Harley felt herself slip away into darkness...

"HARLEY!!! WAKE UP!" yelled the Joker.
"What? NO!!!!! DON'T KILL THEM!!!!! I DON'T WANT TO DIE!!!! I DON'T WANT THEM TO DIE!!!!!"
"What on earth are you talking about, woman? You must have had a nightmare. Everything's going to be alright sugar-muffin-honey—Wait. Was I in it?"
"Uh...No."
"Damn it!" the Joker yelled. He relaxed. "I heard about some conversation on the phone you had last night. You were talking in your sleep again, honey."
"I...I was planning to go to the Professor's." she said, suddenly correcting herself, "To case the joint...y'know, to look around for weaknesses."
"EXCELLENT. This might all work according to plan!" The Joker shouted with glee. He burst the window open. "I AM EVIL, AND LOVING IIIIIIIII TTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!"
"Aw shut up, you lousy bum!" yelled some ctizen.
"Friendly people these Townies..." muttered the Joker.
"Do we have to kill them?" Harley asked timidly.
There was a silence.
"Good one, Harley. Yeah right. Of COURSE we're going to kill them!" he yelled. "Now, tonight at 8:00 PM, you're going to meet the Professor, and, as you put it, 'case the joint'. Alright?"
"Okay..." said Harley nervously.
She sighed. There had to be some way to stop all of this. If only she could—
That was it.
She smiled. For once, she was the one who was making the plan...

TO BE CONTINUED...