Author's Note: This week I decided to give you two chapters instead of one to make up for being a few days late for last weeks chapter.


Chapter 9. A New Universe.

Andy began to stir. To his amazement he was back home in his bed.

He looked around, everything seemed normal, the last thing he remembered before being knocked out was being surrounded by black shadowy creatures known as umbra and that characters from video games were holding them off.

Maybe that had all been a dream. Andy thought as he got out of bed and got dressed.

He rubbed his head. He didn't know why but his head seemed to hurt. He remembered that he got hit when a hooded figure threw some kind of orb at him, but if it was a dream it shouldn't have affected him

He went to check on Sherman, who was still sleeping.

Deciding to go have breakfast he made his way downstairs, put some waffles in the toaster and got out a comic book while he waited.

Just then he heard a knock at the door.

He turned and went to go answer it. To his surprise it was Socrates, looking rather worried.

"Hello Socrates." Andy said. "What brings you here this early in the morning."

"I can't seem to find Calvin and Hobbes." Socrates said sounding slightly panicked.

"Did you check their home?" Andy asked calmly.

"Why would I check their home if we aren't even in our own universe?" Socrates asked.

Andy stared at him perplexed.

"Uh, Socrates, are you sure this isn't some prank?" Andy asked now a bit confused. "Because last I checked we live here."

"Is Sherman with you?" Socrates asked.

"I saw him in my room. He's still sleeping."

"Are you sure? Because I don't see him anywhere."

"Socrates what is wrong with you?"

"There's nothing wrong with me, aside from the fact that some of our friends are missing."

"Look i'll bring Sherman to you to show I still have him."

Andy then went upstairs and into his room to check on Sherman. Except he was gone.

"What the?" Andy exclaimed.

He then looked out the window, but it no longer showed the early rays of sunshine but black skies instead.

He then turned and saw that Socrates was now in his room with him.

"Socrates, What is going on?"

"You need to wake up Andy." Socrates said grabbing him by his shoulders and shaking him.

"Socrates, stop shaking me." Andy said.

However instead of his bedroom, he now was in a field of rocks, sitting against a boulder.

He looked around and saw that Ratchet, Clank, Sonic and Amy were walking. As if they were looking for something.

So it wasn't a dream. Andy thought.

He turned around and saw Socrates staring him in the face.

"Ah good you're awake." Socrates said, now in his usual tone of voice. "For a moment I thought that teleport messed your mind up."

"Thanks for the concern." Andy muttered. "Now where are we, and where's Calvin, Hobbes, Sherman and the others?"

"Well when we woke up we didn't see them. Not to mention Jak, Daxter and Tails were all missing as well. Didn't you hear me when I was trying to wake you up"

"Can't we just teleport them with the MTM."

"A good idea with a slight problem. The MTM was with Calvin when we teleported."

"And?"

"And we don't know where he is."

"Oh."

By then, the others had finished searching and were grouping up to debate on what to do next.

"What are we going to do?" Amy asked. "Calvin's MTM was the only way we could locate the precursor stars and now that we don't know he and the others are, we have no chance."

"Look Amy just calm down." Sonic said. "Calvin could teleport here any minute, he wouldn't leave us behind after all."

"Then why hasn't he teleported yet?" Ratchet asked.

"Well Calvin did take a pretty big blast, and it could have damaged the MTM in the process." Clank said. "But that's just a theory."

"Besides before we teleported, The MTM said it was teleporting us to the next precursor star location, so it must be here." Andy said.

"So let's sum up the situation so far." Ratchet said. "Our universes have been taken over by someone called Tenebris, we're stuck on a planet which i'm guessing is probably from my universe, Calvin, Hobbes, Jak, Daxter, Tails and Sherman are who knows where, and the only way to locate the things that can apparently stop Tenebris is with Calvin."

"I think that sums it up nicely." Sonic said.

"Let's not worry about it now." Andy said. "I know Calvin and Hobbes well, they can take care of themselves. Let's focus on finding that star."

"We're probably going to need to do some detective work." Ratchet said. "Any ideas?"

"We could try going to that camp there." Socrates said pointing to the left.

Everyone looked to where Socrates was pointing.

It was indeed a camp. it had various tents, but it also had some small buildings in some places.

"We might as well start there." Ratchet said. "Might give us a scope on what planet this is."

Socrates then clapped his hands together. "What are we waiting for people? Allonsy."

He then ran towards the camp.

"Is he usually like this?" Amy asked Andy.

"Pretty much." Andy replied. "His reaction to finding out his house was haunted was to watch tv."

"I see." Clank said. "Keep in mind we're on a unknown planet where we don't know who's friend or foe and most likely taken over by Umbra."

With that thought on their minds, they ran towards the camp.


Hobbes began to wake up. He found himself in the middle of an empty street in an alley.

Groaning he slowly got up, stretching as he did. He looked around and saw that Calvin was lying unconscious as well, holding the MTM in his hand.

Deciding to wake him up, he decided to shake him a bit. That didn't work as Calvin was still out cold. So Hobbes shook him harder, still didn't work.

Deciding to resort to desperate measures he brought Calvin close to him and yelled these words.

"CALVIN WAKE UP!"

That did the trick as Calvin's eyes suddenly snapped open.

"Ahhhh, Zok is coming for my Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs." Calvin said.

He then looked at Hobbes.

"Oh, it's you."

"Nice to see you alive." Hobbes said rolling his eyes.

"You too, but where is everyone."

Just then, Calvin felt something under his shirt. Confused Calvin reached under it and to his surprise, pulled out Daxter, apparently disoriented from the teleportation.

Hobbes took a look around and saw that Jak was slowly getting up, Tails was rubbing his head, and Sherman had somehow ended up inside a bowl.

Once everyone had regained their bearings. They started to look around the place.

"Where are we?" Jak asked.

"I'm not exactly sure." Tails said. "All I know is that I don't recognize anything from the universes we've been to."

"Now Now, there's a simple solution to that." Calvin said calmly while pulling out the MTM. "MTM where are we?"

Unfortunately all they got was a bunch of static and garbled speech.

Calvin frowned. "MTM, teleport us to our friends."

A sphere of electricity formed, but it quickly faded.

"Okay, scratch that. We have no solution to this problem right now."

"Well that's just great." Hobbes said. "We're trapped in a unknown universe, the MTM is damaged, the others could be in mortal danger and there's no way of getting back to them."

"Calm down everyone." Jak said. "Let's just figure out where we are right now. The MTM wouldn't teleport us here without a reason would it."

"Your right." Sherman said. "I dimly recall that The MTM diverted the course of one group and teleported them to the next precursor star. So it's probably here somewhere."

"Can we just get out of this back alley already?" Daxter asked. "I feel like we're about to encounter a group of thugs at any second."

"Yes that does sound like a good idea." Hobbes said

Everyone then left the alley and entered the streets of the unknown place.

Now that they were in a wider area, everyone started to look at their surroundings.

Just then, Hobbes noticed something.

"Look over there."

Everyone turned and saw a familiar structure in the distance. Well familiar to Calvin, Hobbes and Sherman.

"It's the Eiffel Tower." Sherman said in awe.

"Well this isn't bad." Calvin said smiling. "Always wanted to visit Paris."

"To be honest, even if we're stuck here for the rest of our lives, we at least have a nice view." Hobbes said.

"But that doesn't really narrow down what universe we are in." Tails said. "For all we know we could've teleported back to Calvin's universe."

"Probably not." Sherman said. "Because if this was our universe we should have seen an umbra by now. Plus the skies aren't completely black."

Sherman was right. Instead of the pure black skies, there was a night sky.

"I guess the only thing we can do now is ask someone who lives here." Jak said.

"Agreed." Hobbes said.

So they began to walk around town trying to look for people. That was easier said than done because the streets were empty.

They walked for what seamed like hours when they came upon a house. The house seemed to be old, with parts of the paint peeling off, and some of the wood worn down.

Despite the fact that they needed to find someone who knew the universe, the group stared at the house.

"Why are we even staring at this house?" Daxter asked. "And why do I have the urge to go in and investigate."

"You're not the only one." Calvin said, curious of the house as well.

"Look maybe we can stay in it til morning." Jak said. "We've had a long day today and we need some rest."

"Agreed." Sherman said.

They managed to get over the fence easily enough but the real challenge came to the door. Expecting it to be open they found that it was locked.

"Huh." Calvin said. "Didn't expect this. Hobbes if you would please."

Hobbes nodded, got out a claw and put it in the keyhole.

After a few seconds the door unlocked and the group entered the home.


The inside of the house was just as worn as the outside with wallpaper being torn in places and some of the floor being rough as if it wasn't sanded in a long time.

"Woah." Hobbes said. "Someone needs to fire their maintenance guy."

"Did the ruined exterior not give it away?" Sherman asked.

"Let's just find a place to sleep." Tails said.

Calvin then got out his hypercube and pulled out several two way radios. "This place looks pretty big and we should cover more ground if we split up. Use the radio if you find anything interesting or find a place to sleep."

Everyone nodded and split up. Jak and Daxter going left, Calvin and Hobbes going to the right and Tails and Sherman going up the stairs.


Calvin and Hobbes slowly made their way through the house. Calvin had gotten a flashlight out and was taking in the sights.

"I'm worried about the others you know." Hobbes said as they walked down the hallway. "What if they were left behind back in Sonic's universe?"

"They're probably fine." Calvin said. "Ratchet probably held the Umbra off while they escaped given the enormous amount of weapons he has."

"Good point. But did you see the size of that army? And we know that if you beat one umbra, another absorbs its remains and becomes even more powerful."

"I just wish the MTM was working right now." Calvin said. "He could have told us if the others were alright and teleported them to us."

It was true what Calvin said. The hooded figure not only damaged the voice chip of the MTM, it also disabled the teleportation feature, the self repair feature and the projector feature.

Just then they heard a creak from upstairs. Causing the two to pause and look up

"It's just an old house." Hobbes said to reassure himself.

"Or it could be Tails exploring the upstairs." Calvin said. "Let's keep moving."

With that the two continued through the house.


Calvin was right. Tails was exploring the upstairs with Sherman on his shoulder. The first thing they noticed when they got upstairs was it had tracks from presumably a wheelchair.

"That's odd." Sherman said. "If someone living in a wheelchair was living here, we should have seen some kind of stair ramp to get them up here."

"Well maybe the reason there isn't one of those is that the person doesn't live here anymore." Tails pointed out.

After about a minute of exploring they entered a room. Inside was a couch that looked like it seen better days, a television that was showing nothing but static and a balcony with it's door left wide open.

Tails went to a table and picked up a photograph that was lying there.

It was slightly faded and worn but he and Sherman could still see the photo itself. It contained a raccoon wearing a blue shirt and shoes, a bandit mask, a flat cap that was also blue and appeared to be holding a golden kane. On his right was a turtle sitting in a wheelchair wearing glasses and what appeared to be a safari cap. On the left was a pink hippo wearing a light blue shirt, goggles and a red cap and gloves.

"Who are these guys?" Tails asked.

"I'm guessing these are the previous owners." Sherman said. "Would explain the wheelchair tracks."

"I think we may have found out more about this universe." Tails said putting the photograph away.

"That's true." Sherman said. "A picture can tell you some things."

"That apparently this universe is inhabited by walking animals." Tails said. "Let's just keep looking around."

With that they exited the room and continued looking around.


Back downstairs, Jak and Daxter were in what appeared to a living room, complete with a rug, bookshelf, and comfy chairs.

"This could be a good place to sleep." Daxter said.

"Well we haven't heard from the others." Jak said. "So I might as well call them."

As Jak got out the radio, Daxter got curious about the books on the bookshelf and went over to it.

Daxter observed the books, they seemed to be all books about science, inventing, and thieves.

Curious he pulled one out. Doing so however caused the shelf to move, causing Daxter to lose his balance and land on the floor.

Jak, heading the thud looked around and saw that the shelf had been hiding a secret passage.

He stared at it for about a minute in complete silence.

Meanwhile Calvin, the person Jak was communicating with, became concerned.

"Jak, are you there? You were saying something about finding a place to sleep."

Jak finally responded. "You might want to come down here."

After about a minute everyone was in the living room.

"So." Hobbes asked. "Who want's to go in the unknown secret passage?"

Calvin, Jak, Tails and Sherman raised their hands.

"Of course." Hobbes muttered rolling his eyes.

With that everyone descended into the hallway.

They found that they were going down on what seemed like a ramp. Soon they came across a door which they opened.

What they found amazed them. It was a laboratory with white walls and floors, had tables of beakers with various chemicals in them, with shelves filled with books.

"Holy cow!" Sherman exclaimed. "This makes my lab look like the one at the university."

"Looks like a scientist's version of the batcave." Calvin remarked. "Let's look around."

Everyone stepped into the lab and began to look around.

While looking, Hobbes picked up a notebook and began flipping through it. In it contained various blueprints and notes. Some were notes on experiments, the others were blueprints for some kind of crossbow, and various types of darts. Some that blew up on contact, and some that made you shrink.

"Huh. Looks like he probably would have gotten along with Sherman or Calvin." Hobbes said.

"Hobbes, look at this." Tails said.

Hobbes put the notebook down and turned around.

He saw that Tails was staring at what appeared to be a vault. It appeared to be very secure as it had a keypad, a handprint scanner and a retina scanner.

"Looks like someone doesn't want to let anyone else in there." Hobbes said.

"But why would it be here?" Tails asked. "Why put all those security measures and probably more in this vault."

"Maybe whoever lived here had secret projects he didn't want anyone to see." Hobbes said.

Just then they heard a thud.

"What was that?" Sherman asked in alarm.

"I don't know. I just hope it wasn't Calvin or Daxter knocking over something with dangerous chemicals in them." Hobbes said.

They ran down and saw that behind one of the tables, Calvin, Jak and Daxter were lying on the floor, with darts sticking out of them.

"Oh dear." Tails said worried.

Hobbes quickly went over to Jak and nudged him slightly causing Jak to moan."

"Well they're not dead." Hobbes said. "They look like they're asleep."

"But how did that happen?" Sherman asked.

"Some kind of trap one of them accidently activated maybe." Hobbes said.

"But I don't see anything that those dart's could have fired from." Tails said.

"Well maybe they're hidden."

Suddenly, they all felt a prick on the back of their necks and immediately began to feel drowsy.

Hobbes pulled the dart from his neck and looked at it. It was the same kind of dart that put the others to sleep.

"Oh not again." Hobbes muttered before losing consciousness.


The MTM wasn't having the best of days. It had endured a crash landing, suffered some slight water damage, got hit by a ball of energy that scrambled it's systems and found out that it was behind on its television payments.

Now it had tried to tell Calvin what universe they were in. The problem was that the voice chip was damaged and its words came out as gibberish. However while it couldn't see, it could still hear and right now it was hearing a voice that didn't sound like Calvin, Hobbes, or any of the others.

"Hmm interesting." The voice said. "This CD player looks like a normal one on the surface but inside it's almost advanced."

The MTM didn't know who was speaking, but it noticed that it was getting better, it was regaining its optical sensors and some other stuff.

Right now all it could see was white but it was slowly coming clearer.

"It also has a startling amount of features, A storage device that can hold anything of any size, a teleporter, a laser and most amazingly time travel."

By then the MTM's vision was back and it found itself on a desk with various papers, a laptop computer, some pencils and various tools such as a screwdriver.

Looking down on him was a turtle wearing glasses and a safari hat, sitting in a wheelchair.

"We can finally find him and bring him back to the present." The turtle said with happiness.

The MTM decided to ask the obvious question.

"Who are you?"


Authors Note: No i'm not going to tell you what universe this is or who that was right now. You'll have to wait until the next chapter to find out, or you might have figured it out so congratulations.