13. He Doesn't Believe Them

CHAPTER 13 HE DOESN'T BELIEVE THEM "That's the most ridiculous story I've ever heard!" laughed Mr. Krupp. "But it's true!" cried Harold. "Yeah," said George. "Everybody in the entire school is an evil zombie nerd! The kids, the teachers... everybody!" "All right," said Mr. Krupp. "I'll prove it to you!" He pressed the button on his intercom and called for his secretary.

Soon Miss Anthrope entered the room. She was dressed in a pink polka-dot polyester dress, with orthopedic knee-high stockings and ugly brown arch-support loafers. "See?" said Harold. "She's dressed like a nerd!" "She always dresses like that," snapped Mr. Krupp. "But she's gray and clammy and reeks of freakish zombified death!" cried George.

"She always smells like that!" Mr. Krupp argued. "And she's always gray and clammy, too!" George and Harold had to admit that school secretaries were not very good subjects to compare and contrast with evil zombie nerds. But then, Miss Anthrope leaned over and took a huge bite out of Mr. Krupp's desk. "Must destroy Earth," she moaned as she took another bite. Even Mr. Krupp had to agree that Miss Anthrope was acting a bit more evil than usual.

So George and Harold took Mr. Krupp down to the cafeteria to confront the evil lunch ladies. Suddenly, out of the shadows stepped the evil Zorx. "Gotcha!" Zorx cried, as he grabbed onto Harold's shoulders. "Aaaagh!" screamed Harold. He squirmed away, pulling Zorx's gloves off and revealing two slimy green tentacles. "See, Mr. Krupp?" said George. "We told you they were space guys!"

"You FOOLS!" screamed Zorx. "Now we will destroy you!" The evil Zorx pointed his tentacle at George, Harold, and Mr. Krupp, and snapped his fingers: SNAP! Suddenly, Mr. Krupp began to change.

A heroic grin spread across Mr. Krupp's face. He threw out his chest and placed his fists firmly at his sides, looking quite triumphant. "Uh-oh," said George. "That evil space guy just snapped his fingers! Now Mr. Krupp is turning into you-know-who!" "Hey, wait a second," said Harold. "Tentacles don't have fingers! You can't snap a tentacle!" "There's no time to argue the physical improbabilities of this story," said George. "We've got to stop Mr. Krupp from changing into Captain Underpants before it's too late!"