Harley Quinn at Super Hero High by Lisa Yee

Author:Lisa Yee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2018-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Pied Piper was at the piano. He nodded to Cheetah, who was staring at the ground. As the teacher’s fingers nimbly hit the piano keys, Cheetah raised her head. Harley watched her face transform. It was confident, yet vulnerable at the same time. Then that smile appeared. The famous Cheetah smile, as if she knew something you did not.

Cheetah winked at Harley and began to sing. It was a torch song—the heartfelt lyrics were about love and loss. As the last note hung in the air, the room was silent. Pied Piper leapt up. “Bravo, bravo!” he shouted. “I could feel that emotion. Beautiful. Seriously, beautiful. Thank you.”

Cheetah took a bow, and when she swept past Harley, she said, “I would have won the Battle of the Bands. You should have a rematch.”

In the front of the room, Cyborg had turned himself into a one-man band—a synthesizer with an electronic keyboard, and speakers coming out of his boots. As the rest of the class rocked to the beat, Harley kept thinking about her show. What could she do next to top it? Surely her viewers were expecting something spectacular. Was it enough to just live stream the Krazy Karnival?

“Harley?” Pied Piper called out. “You’re up!”

Each student had been charged with doing a two-minute performance piece, whether it was singing solo or in a group, playing an instrument, or even karaoke.

“OH!” Harley cried. She hadn’t prepared. “For my piece, I’m going to…to…” She looked around, desperate for inspiration. Suddenly, she saw it: Green Lantern was holding his tuba. “We’re doing a duet!” she announced. As Harley dragged him to the front of the room, she whispered, “Just go along with me.”

“What? No,” Green Lantern protested, running his hand through his thick brown hair. “I’m doing a tuba solo—”

“So low?” Harley quipped, grabbing the tuba. “And how’s about holding it high for a hat?”

When she placed the mouth of the tuba over her head, the class howled with laugher.

“Harley, please stop. Instruments are not toys,” Pied Piper cautioned.

But Harley couldn’t hear him from inside the tuba. “It’s dark in here!” she cried out comically, getting more laughs from the classroom.

“Give that back to me,” Green Lantern insisted. When he tried to wrench the tuba off Harley’s head, it was stuck.

In a panic to un-tuba herself, Harley began running around the room, knocking over instruments and students. Green Lantern was in pursuit, causing even more calamity and chaos. Soon, Supers had taken sides, yelling, “Go, Harley!” and “Return the tuba!”

“Come back!” Green Lantern called out.

“This is epic!” Beast Boy cheered. “Harley, you’re such a crack-up!”

“The class clown does it again,” Cheetah said, yawning. “This is pathetic. She’ll do anything for a laugh.”

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