"Thing!?" Okay, now he was miffed.

"Besides stating the obvious, it's not like I had a choice in the matter. I didn't exactly sign up to be a zombie, you know," he snapped. "And I'm not going to just lie down and rot because some idiot decided to play with things he didn't understand."

The Professor wasn't an idiot, though. Far from it. He acknowledged that, he was a genius and despite the horror he'd done to him, a worthy opponent.