"Why didn't you tell me you and Doctor Doctor were going to do... that?" Kowalski asked while taking Professor Professor home. "I almost died of embarrassment back there!"

"Well, I hadn't exactly planned on it," Professor Professor replied. "I was just going to pry some answers from her and that would be it, but nope. I had to draw a blank for some reason. I didn't know what to do, so I just... kissed her right there in the heat of the moment."

"Your mind drew a blank, and that was your first course of action?"

"I didn't know what else to do!"

"Right, so you kissed her and that somehow led to both of you boning each other?"

"When you have the kind of chemistry Doctor Doctor and I have had for years, these things can just happen."

"Okay..." Kowalski wasn't quite sure how to respond after that.

In all seriousness, that was probably the weirdest thing she'd witnessed in a long time. Sure, she knew about their history together, but she hadn't exactly expected them to do anything other than just talk. She decided not to press on about it further, figuring that what happened would just be a one-off moment.


A couple weeks had passed since the incident back at the T.H.E.M. base. Professor Professor still couldn't stop thinking about Doctor Doctor. It wasn't as intense as it was before, but he still had dreams about her that haunted him through the night. He figured that he could keep the thoughts at bay if he focused on other things like his work, but at the same time, he knew that it wouldn't be easy. Then again, nothing in life was really easy.

So today, he was off to work, hopefully to keep himself from dwelling on Doctor Doctor and his unresolved feelings for her any longer. Maybe it was better this way. Once he'd arrived at the U.Z.Z. base, he went through all the usual processes to get into the main pod and then made his way into the briefing room and sat down in his designated seat.

"A fairy woman has been going around Stratford-upon-Avon, turning people into lampposts due to perceived slights they made against her," Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo explained while leaning against his mantelpiece. "It's only a matter of time before she turns everyone there into lampposts. We must stop her before she can turn everyone into lampposts or pose a huge threat to security. You all know how seriously I take security, don't you? In fact, I take security so seriously that my name is Changed Daily. Today, you may call me..." His cellphone beeped and he made an annoyed grunt. "Vodka Gobalsky."

Everyone else just laughed.

Now it was Professor Professor's turn to speak. "What Vodka Gobalsky neglected to mention is that this isn't just any fairy woman. She's Princess Wulfrun, daughter of King Oberon and Queen Titania of the faeries."

Victor couldn't help but gulp at this. "I have a bad feeling about this."

"How are we supposed to stop her?" Anita asked.

"Well, seeing as how she's a magical being, it stands to reason that we fight magic with magic," Professor Professor replied.

"And how exactly are we supposed to do that?"

"Why don't you follow me and see for yourself?" Professor Professor punctuated this suggestion with a wink.


Wulfrun slowly walked through the streets of Stratford-upon-Avon, passing every single person she'd turned into a lamppost along the way. Throughout her walk, she appeared eerily calm on the surface. Beneath that surface, however, there was white-hot anger flowing through her veins. She tried to calm herself by tucking loose strands of long copper hair behind her pointed ears, only to little avail. Something had set the Princess of the Faeries off to want to turn everyone in this quaint little town into lampposts, but what exactly this was wasn't yet known.

"How dare they..." Wulfrun murmured to herself. "How dare they just take the piss out of me like that?"

She continued on with her walk, paying no mind to the lampposts frantically blinking their lights at her in an attempt to communicate with her. All of a sudden, she turned her head to see Victor and Anita heading her way on their skybikes.

"Oh, for the love of..." Wulfrun extended her hand in the direction of the U.Z.Z. agents and shot an energy orb at them, causing them to crash their skybikes onto the ground. "Do I have to turn you two into lampposts, too?!"

Victor was still reeling from the crash when he got a phone call from Professor Professor.

"Victor, are you still alive?" Professor Professor asked.

"Yes, I'm still alive!" Victor replied, annoyed by the question like usual. "Wulfrun just shot an orb at us and crashed our skybikes!"

"Oh dear, I should've anticipated that. Oh well. The best you and Anita can do now is create a diversion for Wulfrun."

"Wait, what about that gadget you made that's supposed to fight 'magic with magic?'"

"Oh, I had specifically made it for Anita since, you know, she's a mermaid. I actually want you to be the one to create the diversion."

"What? Seriously?"

"Oh, ja. Alright, you keep Wulfrun busy while I ask Vodka Gobalsky to send back-up, understood?"

"Yeah, whatever." Victor just hung up the phone as quickly as possible without even so much as letting Professor Professor get the last word. "Dammit, guess I'll have to risk my life to keep a faerie princess distracted." He started throwing random pebbles in Wulfrun's direction. "Hey, princess! Why don't you pick on people your own size?"

"Piss off!" Wulfrun yelled. "I ain't got time for this shite!"

While Victor had Wulfrun distracted, Anita pulled out the magical gadget Professor Professor had invented: a light blue faerie spector that he had retooled from one of his old pointy sticks. Anita aimed the spector right in Wulfrun's direction and fired a beam at her shoulder.

"Ah!" Wulfrun shouted. "Who did that?!"

Before Wulfrun could see who it was that attacked her, Victor started throwing more pebbles at her.

"Got anything else for me, Your Majesty?" Victor asked tauntingly.

Wulfrun turned around to focus her attention on Victor again when Anita zapped her with the spector from behind. It went on like this for about two to three minutes before back-up arrived to take care of things. Professor Professor also decided to come with, having taken a ride on Kowalski's skybike.

"Princess Wulfrun!" Ray yelled out to her. "Stop what you're doing!"

"Or what?!" Wulfrun yelled back to the special U.Z.Z. agent. "What are you going to do to me, you wanker?"

"This!" Ray threw a smoke bomb at Wulfrun that exploded and enveloped with sleeping gas. "How's that for size, Your Majesty?"

Wulfrun didn't respond right away, as she'd been overcome by the sleeping gas and was now dozing away.

"Alright, now to figure how to revert everyone back to normal," Professor Professor said as he hopped off Kowalski's bike.


Later that day, after the dust had settled on that admittedly anticlimactic encounter with Wulfrun and all the afflicted people in Stratford-upon-Avon were back to their usual selves, Professor Professor decided to get to the bottom of who had provoked Wulfrun into turning people into lampposts in the first place. He noted that Doctor Doctor had been among Wulfrun's victims in this mess, and that Wulfrun had shown him a letter the cyan-hued baddie had allegedly sent her containing a "your mum" joke. At first glance, it seemed like it'd been in Doctor Doctor's handwriting, but something about it seemed off. He needed to confront Doctor Doctor about this. He needed to see if she actually wrote this or not.

"How nice of you to visit again." There was a hint of sarcasm in Doctor Doctor's voice as she said it. "What do you want this time?"

"I know Wulfrun turned you into a lamppost because of that letter she got."

Doctor Doctor raised an eyebrow at him. "What letter?"

"The one you sent her so she could provoke you."

"I didn't send her a letter."

"Oh yeah?" Professor Professor produced the letter from one of his pockets as if out of hammerspace. "Then how do you explain this?" He inched it close to her face so she could read the contents. "Isn't that your handwriting?"

"No. I didn't write this. One of my Expendables must have done it. I think I have a pretty good idea who it was, too, but I can't prove it right now. They made a crucial mistake, though. They peppered in too much French and not enough Russian. I can't believe Wulfrun would even fall for that."

"I can't, either." Some time passed before Professor Professor spoke again. "So I guess we should talk about the elephant in the room, huh?"

"What? Oh, right, what happened last time. Okay, so clearly, there's still... something between us, I would say. Whatever it is just brings out a side of me not many people get a chance to see. I don't know about you, but my feelings for you are quite the distance."

"Well, I'd have to say mine are too."

"Wait, really?"

"Ja, it's hard to say succinctly, but I have very deep feelings for you. You just intrigue me. You give me a reason to go on, a challenge. There isn't anything better. There's nothing more I could ask for." Professor Professor cupped her cheek with his hand and then pulled her head forward into a brief kiss. "So do you think we should try this whole relationship thing again?"

Doctor Doctor was a little shocked by this. Was he suggesting what she thought he was suggesting? It took her a few seconds before she responded with a yes.