Swing123: OK, here is Garfieldodie and I's third collaboration work. It is (sort of) a continuation of CALVIN AND HOBBES III: DOUBLE TROUBLE, which wraps up the tale of Rupert Chill. The human. Brother of John Chill and total moron.
Once again, thank you, garfieldodie for all the help you've contributed to our latest Calvin and Hobbes story.
One bright summer day, Dad walked out of his house, crossed the street, and checked the mail for the day.
It had been three months since Calvin had saved him and the rest of the world from a deadly planet dictator named Rupert Chill.
Calvin's heroic deeds were honored, and then completely forgotten.
I mean, people had just went right on with their meaningless lives.
However in the week that Calvin was considered a hero, he won fifty medals, a bunch of long and boring speeches about him from the mayor, seven free meals at the restaurant of his choice, access to thirty movies that hadn't even gone into theaters yet for free, and a thousand dollar gift card for Wal-Mart.
So, yes, Calvin and Hobbes had a lot of fun during the first five weeks.
Soon, though, everyone seemed to forget who saved them from aliens, and went back to their lives.
Calvin's parents even started to treat him the way the did before they found out about Rupert and Earl.
All of the stuff Calvin had bought from Wal-Mart was either broken or taken away, and soon, Calvin and Hobbes' lives returned to normal, too.
However, when Calvin and Hobbes went into public, some little kids still pointed him out to their parents, and the adults were whispering back and forth about him.
It gave Calvin the "I'm legendary, and your nothing but a bunch dummies" feeling, and he pranced around half the time, bragging about how he beat up Rupert with one hand behind his back.
Nobody believed that, of course.
At school, things were not all that much different.
Miss Wormwood was still handing out reports, and Susie was still bugged to death about him.
Moe, however, was EXTREMELY jealous of Calvin, and he began bullying him more often with less excuses.
But all and all, Calvin and Hobbes had fun.
While it lasted.
Dad shifted through the mail.
Electric bill, credit card ad, some guy promising to make him a millionaire, Calvin's July issue of Chewing, some other letter Dad didn't pay much attention to and... Of course.
A postcard.
Since Calvin and Hobbes saved the world, they had been getting a lot of postcards.
Each one from a different state, but all from the same person.
Rupert Chill. Not the alien. But the real, human one. Brother of John Chill, and total lunatic.
You see, Chill was never apprehended, and he was still on the loose, jumping from state to state.
The police were unable to find fingerprints, or pin point exactly where the postcards had come from. Plus, Chill was leaping to random states at a time, making impossible for the police to set a trap.
And as if that wasn't bad enough, Chill was changing his appearance and name everyday. First he was George Jetson with a orange combed hair, and a mustache, then he was Buzz Adams with a jet black mohawk, missing teeth, and round features, then he was Jim Hawkins with red hair, sharp features, and armed with a full set of teeth.
Ever since Calvin and Hobbes had saved the Earth, Chill was sending them taunting postcards with messages like,
CAREFUL! I MIGHT OF PUT POISON ON THIS THING!
Or,
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, COPPERS!
Or,
PRAISE THE TWO WONDERFUL HEROS!
And, the most popular one of them all,
WE SHOULD DO LUNCH SOME TIME!
Dad always threw them away without telling Calvin about them.
He feared for Calvin's health if he read them.
Because he would be laughing so hard, he'd forget to breath.
Dad sighed, and carried the mail into the house.
He threw the postcard from Chill away, and threw the rest of the mail on the kitchen counter.
He then went outside to the garage, and started pumping air into his bicycle tire.
Calvin walked up to the kitchen counter.
He crawled up on top, and put the peanut butter on it.
Then he took out a plate, and slapped the peanut butter onto a piece of bread.
Then, as an experiment, he took a bottle of honey, and poured it over the peanut butter.
He put the other piece of bread on top, and bit into it.
His eyes fell on the mail.
He picked it up, an started shuffling through it.
"Bills, bills," He read. "Some guy promising to make him a millionaire, bills, bills..."
He stopped at the last letter.
His mouth went dry.
He started shaking violently, and he dropped his sandwich.
He grabbed the last letter with both hands, and hissed, "NO!"
The return address was TREE HUGGERS INTERNATIONAL.
And below that was, FORCE YOUR FAMILY ON CAMPING TRIPS IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE!
Calvin leaped off the counter, and raced upstairs where Hobbes was reading a comic book.
"HOBBES! HOBBES!" He screamed. "CODE GREEN! CODE GREEN!"
Hobbes dropped his comic book, leaped into the air, hit his head on the ceiling, and dove under the bed.
Calvin watched.
"Hobbes." He said. "I said code "green","
"Code Green means New Invention, right?" Hobbes asked, peeking out from under the bed.
"No." Calvin growled. "There is no code for that, you tuna. Get out from under the bed."
"There should be." Hobbes muttered, climbing out from under the bed.
"Code Green means that Dad is about to ruin our summer, again!"
He shoved the envelope into Hobbes' face.
Hobbes took it, and read the return address.
"Does this mean..."
"Yes." Calvin said. "Dad's taking us on another camping trip! We have to do something!"
"Hide the letter!" Hobbes whispered. "We'll throw it under the bed, so the monsters will tear it up tonight."
"Hey, great idea, Hobbes!" Calvin grinned.
Hobbes ran over to the bed, and tossed the letter underneath it.
They thought that would be the end of it.
However, 'twas only the beginning.