CHAPTER 2
Night found professor Membrane still working. And then I don't mean that someone named Night found the professor, but that the professor was still working at night. The workaholic.
His eyes were invisible through his goggles and his mouth was covered by his collar, but it was obvious he was a man with trouble on his big, big mind. He stood slightly hunched over his work table and paused once in a while to sigh, grumble, wipe away some sweat, or mumble something about science.
You would expect the trouble to be some sort of invention that didn't quite work. You would be wrong.
The most important thing in the whole world to the famous professor Membrane was his reputation as the smartest man on Earth. Nothing, absolutely nothing could best that. (All right, smartest man of the multiverse would we nice, too.) But he wasn't about to let some newbie journalist ruin it for him!
He was going to find a…
He frowned. What was that word the reporter used again? A… nanny? That was it.
He was going to find a nanny for his offspring!
...Right after he finished this invention.
A/N: Yes, I know I haven't written in a while. Was too busy doing other stuff – plus a major Writer's Block. Bad excuse, maybe, but another short chapter is the result.