Authors' Note: So. My first fanfic. Yay. Anyways, expect more author's notes like this one later. That's all for today.
Space.
Vast. Dark. Mostly empty, with a few planets orbiting their solar system's resident burning ball of gas.
Oh, and the spaceships. Yeah, there's spaceships. One, in particular, plays quite a role in this story.
It was shaped like an oval, with fins on the side and jets to propel it through the cosmos. There was a spaceship equivalent of a windshield-Though I doubt we can call it that when there's no wind in space-to allow the pilot to see, with little round portholes across the spacecraft's sides.
It's pilot was a humanoid being, with no visible neck, and a dome for a head. In place of arms, he had two sets of tentacles, and his glowing compound eyes were oval-ish, bending slightly upwards and tilted diagonally.
"I still can't believe how easy it was to fool everyone in that organization." he said. "After all this time, they still haven't caught me. When your target's a shapeshifter, you should probably check twice on who's boarding a ship."
He tapped some buttons with his tentacles, and a holographic map popped up.
"Hm..." he said. "The nearest inhabitable planet is about a hundred arkloknots away."
He poked the planet, and a few facts came up in some alien language. The alien muttered under his breath as he read the lines of text. "Earth... Primitive inhabitants... Decent atmosphere... Dominant species screwing up the planet..."
He began closing the holographic tabs. "Seems easy to fool. Still, I've heard that two inhabitants have made contact with some Scaepians. Might be rumors, but better safe than sorry."
He poked a tab, and two pictures came up. One image is what we humans would recognize as a little boy, and the other a tiger that stood upright.
"Yeah," said the alien. "I don't think they'll too much trouble. Now, time to get to work."
And with that, he pushed a lever forward and pressed a button, and the spaceship sped forward towards the little blue planet.
In another part of the galaxy, another spaceship of a similar design floated through the cosmos. Inside, two little green aliens, resembling blobby squids standing on their tentacles, with one big eye in the middle of their heads, were looking at screens on the dashboard.
"I've got his location!" said one.
"Where is he?" asked the other.
"He's heading to Earth." replied the first.
"You mean where Calvin and Hobbes are?" the other said.
The first alien nodded. "We might be able to ask them for help!"
The second paused for a second, then nodded back. "They're our best chance. But we've got to hurry. We've got a tracker on his ship, but if he gets there before we do, he'll blend in and we'll loose track of him. Full throttle, Galaxoid!"
The first alien tapped away at the buttons, pushed a lever forward, and with that, the spaceship sped across the cosmos, to the same planet as their target: Earth.
Author's Note: Sorry this chapter's so short. It's just the prologue, so please keep in mind that the actual chapters will be a good deal longer, and much more worth the read. Thank you.