Betty, Sparky and X-5 hid behind a big display case inside a huge museum. They were staring at a big glass case and inside was a big silver diamond.
"Are you sure the crook will come?" asked Sparky
"Of course," said Betty, "He won't be able to resist."
Just as soon as Betty said this, they saw the doors to the museum open and the man entered.
He walked towards the diamond with a nasty smile on his face. He slowly removed the glass case and placed it on the floor.
"They're making this too easy," he said to himself as he grabbed the diamond. But as soon as he touched it, he dropped it on the ground and it shattered.
"It's cold," he said.
He then picked up one of the pieces of the diamond and it melted in his hand.
"I've been tricked," the man growled, "This diamond is made out of ice. Who would pull a prank like this?"
"That would be us," said a female voice from behind the man. He turned around and saw Betty and her crew standing right behind him
The man's smile returned as he said, "Well, well, well, if it isn't the famous Atomic Betty. And me without my autograph book."
"Your little crime spree is over Callaway," said Betty.
Daniel's smile disappeared as he said, "What did you call me?"
"That's your name isn't it?" asked Betty, "Daniel Callaway?'
"That's where you're wrong, my little red haired friend, " said Daniel, "I use to be Daniel Callaway. Son of Jacob Callaway, one of the best comedians in the galaxy. He could make a person laugh so hard, they'd wet their pants. So I decided to follow in my father's footsteps and become a comedian myself. I used some of my dad's best jokes on stage, but nobody laughed. They said I wasn't funny."
"Maybe that's because some of those jokes of yours were only funny in the olden days," said X-5, "And nowadays, people don't think they're funny anymore."
"Nobody asked you, you floating garbage can," scowled Daniel, "Anyway, because people thought my jokes weren't any good, I was kicked out of every comedy club on Celebra. My jokes weren't exactly putting food on the table. That's when I figured out I could both get money and make people laugh at the same time, by going into a life of crime. You see, I'm no longer Daniel Callaway, I am the Cosmic Jester!"
"Yeah, yeah, so you steal from a few places so you can get some money," said Betty, "But what's with the smoke you shoot into people's faces?"
"Oh, you mean this baby?" said the Jester as he took out his baton, " Well, as you can see, not only am I a professional comedian, I also have a PHD in Chemistry. Inside this little baton of mine is a special compound I like to call Giggle Brand X. It's a special type of gas I created using normal laughing gas and a few special chemicals I created myself. Just one little squirt, and anyone who inhales it will go into a huge state of laughter. Like I said, I wanted to make people laugh."
"Wait just one minute here," said Sparky, "Let me get this straight. You turned into a crook just because you didn't get a few laughs?"
"That's right Pickle Nose," said the Jester, "You got a problem with that?"
"Look buddy," Sparky said, "Maybe you should face facts. I saw you perform and the people are right, you're just not funny."
The Jester had a really angry look on his face. "What did you say?" he asked.
"You heard me," said Sparky, "You're not funny."
The Jester started to growl as he stared at Sparky and said, "I'll show you not funny!"
And before Sparky could do anything, the Jester sprayed a huge smoke of his gas right into Sparky's face.
Sparky let out a few giggles at first, but then he burst out laughing. Betty could see tears streaming from his eyes.
Betty then gave the Jester an angry look and said, "Nobody does that to my crew and gets away with it!"
The Jester just smiled and said, "Well then, let's see what you got little girl."
Betty ran towards the Jester, jumped up in the air and kicked him in the chest. But it only made the Jester stumble a few steps back.
"You call that a kick?" he chuckled, "My grandmother could fight better than you."
The Jester did a flying kick at Betty and she fell flat on her back.
Betty sat up and looked at the Jester with a serious look.
"What's with the face?" said the Jester, "C'mon Betty. Let's see a smile."
And the Jester sprayed some of his gas at Betty who burst into laughter.
The Jester smiled at what he saw and then looked at X-5.
"Now it's your turn robo-dork," said the Jester, "Time to put a smile on that face."
The Jester sprayed a huge cloud of gas at X-5, which covered his whole body. But when the cloud disappear, X-5 wasn't laughing.
"Hey, how come you're not laughing?" the Jester asked in shock.
"I'm a robot," said X-5, "I'm not programmed with a sense of humour."
The Jester groaned and said, "You robots take the fun out of everything."
The Jester ran towards the front door. X-5 turned his hand into a blaster and started to fire at him, but missed by a few inches.
Before he left, the Cosmic Jester looked at X-5 and said, "I can promise you this, this planet has happy days ahead." And the Jester let out an insane laugh and ran out of the museum.
X-5 saw Sparky and Betty on the floor laughing like crazy.
He started to shake like a paint shaker at a hardware store, then his chest opened and took out two test tubes, each with a blue liquid inside it. X-5 went up to Betty and Sparky and poured the liquid down their throats.
Betty and Sparky's laughter went down to a few giggles and then stopped in a matter of seconds. "Thanks X-5," said Betty.
"Yeah, thanks," said Sparky, "For a minute there, I thought I was going to bust one of my four stomachs. What was that stuff?"
"When the Cosmic Jester sprayed me with his gas, I was able to inhale some of it and create an antidote," X-5 explained, "I think I have enough to cure all the other victims too."
"Good idea X-5," said Betty, "But right now we got to stop the Cosmic Jester. Letr's go"
Betty and her crew ran out of the museum in search of the Cosmic Jester.