Part six written by Garfieldodie
Everyone was being marched down the street from their glass imprisonment by a ton of Shadow duplicates. They all marched in a straight line, each of them shackled together. It was a sad sight. Children were crying, their parents were trying comfort them and each other, and the robots kept their bazookoids on "kill".
Near the middle of the line, Calvin, Hobbes, Socrates, Andy, Sherman, Dr Brainstorm and Jack all marched.
Jack looked bored, as usual. Dr Brainstorm was cursing and grumbling under his breath. Sherman was in a small shackle between Andy and Dr Brainstorm. He kept checking the sky. Andy had his hands shoved in his pockets and faced the road. Socrates was simply walking along, humming to himself. Hobbes was looking rather nervous.
As for Calvin, he had no look of expression on his face. He was just walking straight ahead, not caring what happened next.
What happened next, however, was soon made known.
They arrived at a giant jailhouse at the edge of town that had been emptied. The Shadows led them inside and, one by one, they were all searched for anything that looked remotely dangerous.
Several objects, like knives, razors and English IV text books were confiscated.
Finally, Calvin and the gang arrived.
They were all thoroughly searched.
All of Calvin's inventions were confiscated, as well as Dr Brainstorm's (even though they weren't so dangerous).
Later, they were all taken to their cells.
Mom, Dad, Susie and Rosalyn were given one cell. Moe, Candace and Miss Wormwood were put in another. Retro, Sheila and Jacqueline were thrown in one as well.
Dr Brainstorm and Jack were given a bigger cell than most others. They were shoved inside and the door slammed behind them.
CLANG!
Jack watched them leave, but Dr Brainstorm simply glared ahead.
"Well…," he said. "This certainly qualifies as bad."
Brainstorm didn't respond. He was too busy grumbling.
A few moments passed.
As they stood there, they heard footsteps from behind them. They turned around.
It was Dr Thunderstorm, who was grinning sinisterly at them.
"Hello, Frank, Jack," he said coolly. "Enjoying your stay so far? I could have room service send up some torturing instructors if you'd like."
Jack simply glared at him and walked towards the window.
Dr Brainstorm, however, opted to confront him.
"Mind telling me what you plan to do now?" he sneered, folding his arms.
Dr Thunderstorm grinned wider.
"Oh, but of course! If there's anything I love, it's gloating!" he said.
Brainstorm rolled his eyes.
"Anyway, I've taken over the world by now. I've got a video conference with the world leaders to…ahem…bargain with them so I can become ruler of the world!"
"I'm so happy for you," Brainstorm grunted through gritted teeth.
Thunderstorm grinned.
"Ah, I see that you're jealous! Of course, you have every reason to! After all, it was always your dream to rule the world, and I beat you to the punch! Aren't I just terrible?"
And he laughed a horrible laugh.
Dr Brainstorm felt his blood boil.
"GET AWAY FROM ME!!" he shouted.
Thunderstorm smirked.
"What? Don't you want to catch up with your old college buddy?"
"LEAVE!"
Dr Thunderstorm grinned.
"Fine, then, Frank. I'm leaving. Just remember one thing: I'm the best there is!"
And he laughed again as he left.
Dr Brainstorm felt himself trembling with rage.
Jack, on the other hand, was staring out the barred window.
"Hey, Frank—"
"DOCTOR BRAINSTORM!!"
"Whatever. Look outside."
"What?! And look at Thunderstorm's handiwork? Don't make me laugh!"
"No, it's not that," Jack insisted. "Look at the sky!"
Dr Brainstorm sighed and approached the window beside Jack. He gasped when he saw it.
Clouds were flashing past over them, and the sun was very quickly setting, and the sky was changing colors.
"Sherman was right!" said Jack. "Any time now, the Earth is going to be destroyed!"
"But that's not in his plan!" Dr Brainstorm cried. "He's out to rule the world, not destroy it!"
From their cell, one floor down, Calvin, Hobbes, Andy, Sherman and Socrates were sitting around, waiting for something to happen.
Calvin was staring ahead at the wall. Sherman was watching the changing sky. Hobbes and Socrates were pacing around while Andy lay on his back, watching the ceiling.
"Poor MTM," Andy sighed.
"Yeah," agreed Socrates. "Shot down in the prime of life! I feel so bad for him!"
Hobbes snorted.
"Well, I don't care," he said. "All he ever did was insult me and mess things up and everything else bad. You ever look at our lives? Everything always leads back to Calvin's inventions. If you ask me—OUCH!"
Hobbes jumped in the air in pain.
Everyone stared.
Calvin had snapped out of his daze and had stomped his foot down incredibly hard down on Hobbes' tail. He was refusing to remove his foot.
There was a very tense pause.
"Shut…up…," Calvin said hoarsely.
Hobbes stared.
"But I…"
"Shut…up…," Calvin repeated with more danger in his voice.
Hobbes clamped his mouth shut.
Calvin continued. "All MTM ever did was try to help us. He always fired his lasers on time, and he always tried to lighten the mood. And what did you do during all those adventures?"
Hobbes gulped. He knew where this was headed.
Andy, Sherman and Socrates continued to watch nervously.
"You were always running off. You were always hiding. You never helped us. What happened when we were attacked by a monster under my bed? You ran off. What happened when Socrates and I were attacked by a mountain lion? You ignored us. What happened when we were all trapped by that ghost? You deserted us. What happened when Socrates was lost and cornered by two bears? You feigned injury and made me do all the work, AND I DON'T EVEN LIKE SOCRATES!!"
Hobbes felt himself getting smaller with each reminder.
"YOU STAND HERE COMPLAINING ABOUT HOW USELESS MY INVENTIONS ARE, WHEN IN REALITY, YOU'RE THE USELESS ONE! I DON'T KNOW WHY I BOTHER WITH YOU!! I SHOULD'VE KICKED YOU OUT ON SORRY FURRY BUTT YEARS AGO!!" Calvin roared.
Hobbes had now back into a corner and had shrunken down quite a bit.
Socrates, Andy and Sherman watched in shock.
Calvin continued to stand over Hobbes, his face red with fury.
There was a long pause.
Finally, Calvin calmed down and reached into his hair, and he pulled out the Transmogrifier Gun.
"Now let's get out of here," he said at last.
Everyone stared as Calvin walked over to the wall. Aiming carefully, he pointed it at a brick in the wall.
BRZAP!
The brick was transmogrified into a replica of the Servant Ray.
"What's that for?" Socrates asked.
"To help us, stupid," Calvin replied.
"How can it do that?" asked Hobbes.
"Watch."
Calvin took the Servant Ray and aimed it out the door.
Several Shadow guards were in the hallway.
"Servant Ray?" Calvin said. "Take out the robots!"
There was a pause.
Everyone rolled their eyes.
"Huh," Calvin said. "It's a more exact duplicate than I thought. Servant Ray, DO NOT take out the robots!"
ZAP!
A flow of steady electricity flew from Servant Ray and through the bars.
All the Shadow robots suddenly screamed in agony as the electricity hit them and flew through their circuits. They fizzed and rattled for a while before they finally gave out and blew up.
KABOOOOOM!
Everyone ducked down as little bits of metal flew about and landed everywhere.
When the smoke plume cleared, they saw the remains of the robots.
Calvin then used the Servant Ray to unlock the cell door, and then he exited the cell and approached the destroyed robot. He kicked some of the rubble with his foot.
"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust…," he sighed.
The others followed him.
"Now what?" asked Andy.
"We need to get Dr Brainstorm and Jack," said Calvin. "They're on the top floor."
They scrambled down the hall, up the stairs and into the top floor where Dr Brainstorm and Jack were being held. Using the Servant Ray, Calvin was able to free them. They both stepped out.
"Now what do we do?" asked Jack.
"We need to confront Thunderstorm," said Calvin. "We need to show him who's boss and get him out of the picture once and for all."
"Indeed," said Brainstorm. "He and I have a score to settle."
The others nodded.
Just then, Andy walked up holding a small box.
"I found the confiscated items," he announced. "Your inventions are in here."
"Excellent!" said Calvin.
Calvin and Brainstorm immediately pulled out their things and jammed them into their pockets.
"Let's go," said Sherman. "We have to hurry. This universe is becoming more and more unstable."
"Check," said Calvin.
They all started to leave, but before Calvin left, someone called out to him.
"Hey, wait!" Susie shouted. "What about us?!"
Calvin turned to face her.
"What about you?"
"Calvin, you've got to let us out!" Dad cried.
"Why should I?"
"Because we're your family!" Mom said.
Calvin scratched his chin.
"Oh, okay," he said at last. "I'll come back for you."
Everyone stared at him.
Then Calvin grinned as he walked out the door.
"Don't worry, Dad! Being in jail builds character!"
And laughing at his own wit, Calvin walked away.
Dad grumbled angrily.
Up above the Earth in the space station, Dr Thunderstorm was typing commands into a computer. It was the machine for the portal. He was trying something out.
"If I try just right, I can open the portal even wider!" he said happily. "I can have over a zillion Shadow replicas within the next two hours at least!"
Then he saw the Earth spinning a little faster down below. He thought for a moment.
"Hmmm…," he said. "Maybe I should try and stabilize it."
WHIRP! WHIRP! WHIRP! WHIRP! WHIRP!
He whirled around.
It was the alarm.
"What's happened?!" he cried.
Thunderstorm ran over to the control panel and looked at the report on the screen. He gasped.
"What?! Someone has escaped from the prison! Who could have done this?!"
Then pictures of Calvin and Dr Brainstorm appeared on the screen.
There was a pause.
"Well, when you ask a bonehead question…," he muttered.
He thought for a moment. Then he had an idea.
"Shadow! Get in here!"
Shadow came running up.
"Master?" he asked.
"We are going down to Earth! We are going to destroy Brainstorm and Calvin once and for all!"
"Affirmative."
Thunderstorm pushed a button on the control panel.
ZZZT!
Thunderstorm and Shadow disappeared.
Calvin was now sitting on a sidewalk. He had the remains of the MTM scattered around him, and he was doing everything in his power to repair it. Sherman was assisting as well.
"Come on… Come on…," he grunted. "Please work…"
ZZZAP!!
There was a flash of light.
Everyone looked up in surprise.
It was Dr Thunderstorm and Shadow.
"YOU!!" Brainstorm shouted.
"YOU!!" Thunderstorm shouted back.
Jack stepped forward.
"Well, now that introductions are out the way…," he said, "…shall the battle commence?"
"Affirmative," Shadow growled.
Dr Brainstorm pulled out his Servant Ray, and Dr Thunderstorm pulled out his.
Hobbes paused for a moment. Then he did something surprising. He picked up the Transmogrifier Gun.
Everyone stared at him.
"Hobbes?" Socrates asked.
"Better dead than a jerk," Hobbes stated boldly.
Everyone grinned.
Andy picked up the Scream Horn, and Socrates picked up the Time Pauser, and Jack picked up the Atomic Freezer. They all joined up with Dr Brainstorm.
"And so it begins…," Thunderstorm said diabolically.
"ATTACK!!" Hobbes crowed.
They all descended upon Dr Thunderstorm and Shadow, and giant battle commenced.
Dr Brainstorm ordered his Servant Ray to not attack, and lasers flew everywhere.
BRZAAP! BRZAP! ZAP! ZAP!
Hobbes shot the Transmogrifier Gun everywhere.
BAM! ZAP! BRZAPP!
Dr Thunderstorm fired his own Servant Ray.
ZAPP! BAP! ZIP ZAP!
Andy blared the Scream Horn at Shadow…
SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!
…who attempted to counter with his claws.
SCREECH!!
Socrates managed to confuse the villains by using the Time Pauser to appear everywhere and nowhere and laughing.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Jack managed to sneak the Atomic Freezer onto Dr Thunderstorm's lab coat, freezing it.
SHIICK!
Unfortunately, Shadow was able to break the ice with his lasers.
KAZAP!
While this was going on, Calvin and Sherman quickly began to repair the MTM as best they could.
"Here are the voice chip and the personality software," said Sherman, holding up to pads of electronics.
"Good," said Calvin. "Let's start with those."
They immediately inserted them into the banged up MTM's casing, along with all the wiring they had managed to get back into it. There was a pause as the circuitry whirred. There was some static until…
"Alright, dudes?" MTM said at last. "What's happening down in Grooves Town?"
"MTM! You're alive!" Calvin cheered.
"Barely. What'd I tell you? My paint job has been scratched up, just like I said earlier. Gordon Bennett, look at me. It's like someone took a garage sale bought shaving razor to me casing."
"He'll be okay," Sherman sighed.
"Now then," Calvin said, putting more wires into the MTM. "Let me just engage MTM's nanotechnology auto-repair feature and..."
WHUMP!
They all looked up in surprise.
Dr Thunderstorm and Shadow had defeated the others, who lay in a heap nearby.
"Uh-oh," said Calvin.
"Shadow, retrieve!" Dr Thunderstorm ordered, pointing at Calvin.
"I obey," Shadow replied.
Before Calvin could escape, Shadow extended his arms and grabbed him, pinning him down briefly. Calvin quickly whispered something to Sherman, who nodded just before he was whisked away.
Seeing that no one was taking any notice of him, Sherman began typing things into the now completely repaired MTM.
"Ooh, good plan," MTM said. "You ever think of selling it?"
Sherman rolled his eyes.
Shadow brought Calvin to Dr Thunderstorm.
"You rang?" Calvin asked in a monotone voice.
"SHUT UP!" Thunderstorm shouted. "I'M DONE COMPETING WITH YOU AND BRAINSTORM!! NOW YOU SHALL PERISH!!" And he pulled out his Servant Ray.
"Oh no," Calvin said emotionlessly. "Help! Scream. Oh, unspeakable horror."
Just then, the MTM beeped.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT?!" Thunderstorm demanded, taking the Servant Ray down.
"Energy Absorber activated," MTM replied.
There was a pause.
Dr Thunderstorm stared at him.
"Uh…huh?" he asked.
Then the ground began to shake.
"What the…? SHADOWS! ATTACK!" he screamed.
But the Shadow replicas that surrounded them didn't move. In fact, they were the source of the vibrations.
"WHY DON'T YOU OBEY?!" Thunderstorm demanded.
"Simple, really," Calvin replied calmly. "MTM's energy absorber is being used to close the portal up. All across the planet, all the Shadows, save for the original one here, will be sucked back into the dimension from where they came from."
"WHAT?!"
"But hey, the plus side is that the planet will stabilized at last and everything will go back to normal!"
"HOW IS THAT A PLUS SIDE?!"
"I didn't say it was for you," Calvin grinned.
Suddenly, one of the Shadow clones imploded.
FOOM!
The same thing happened to three more.
FOOM! FOOM! FOOM!
Then a whole row of them disappeared.
FOOM! FOOM! FOOM! FOOM! FOOM!
"NOOOOOOOOO!!" Thunderstorm wailed hysterically. "MY PRECIOUS ROBOTS!!"
Shadow was in a state of shock, so Calvin was able to escape from him. He scooped up Sherman and the MTM and joined the others, who were managing to get up.
"Nice plan!" said Andy.
"Well done," Jack agreed.
Dr Brainstorm remained silent.
Jack nudged him.
"Huh? Oh, right," he said unsurely. "Er…nice work, Calvin."
Calvin simply grinned sweetly, and then he turned to MTM.
"MTM, how is the planet doing?" he asked.
"Processing…," MTM replied.
Everyone glanced at Hobbes.
Hobbes simply sighed. "I guess I would've missed it after awhile," he admitted.
The others grinned.
"Processing…," MTM repeated. "Alright, the world is almost saved," he announced. "All the Shadow replicas have been sent back to the other dimension, and the Earth is slowing down considerably."
"Good," said Calvin. "Now then, let's initiate a concentrated time vortex, shall we?"
"Check."
MTM beeped again.
ZZZZZZZIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP!!
Suddenly, a white, spiraling funnel shot itself from the MTM, and engulfed the whole planet.
"ACK!" Thunderstorm shrieked. "NO! STOP IT! SHADOW, TELEPORT!!"
"I obey," Shadow replied.
In a field of electricity, Dr Thunderstorm and Shadow teleported to the space station again.
The others decided to ignore them.
"Now what happens?" Jack asked.
"Now we just rewind time!" Calvin replied.
"What? Why?!" Hobbes asked. "You could be revered as a hero!"
Calvin shrugged.
"I dunno," he sighed. "I guess it's got to do with people being scarred for life by this event."
"Oh, I dunno," said Andy. "I think this whole thing might have saved a couple of marriages."
Calvin rolled his eyes and hit REWIND on the MTM.
"Time being rewound now. Engaging time-proof force field," MTM announced.
A green electric dome covered Calvin, Hobbes, Andy, Sherman, Socrates, Dr Brainstorm and Jack, protecting them.
"How far back do you want to go?" MTM asked.
"Oh, how about just after the first blackout that Frank made?" Calvin suggested.
"DOCTOR BRAINSTORM!!"
"Right then."
Everything blurred slightly as it became night and day a few times before it finally made past three whole days.
"Finished," MTM announced.
The dome disappeared from around them, and they stood in the streets, watching cars go by and people walk past.
"Did it work?" asked Socrates.
"Look, on the TV over there," said Sherman, pointing.
They all looked at the electronics store with the TVs in the window.
"So, you think the worldwide power failure may have something to do with solar flares?" The reporter asked.
The other man nodded. "Yes, it's a rare occurrence, but it may be possible for a solar flare to actually cause a power failure of that nature," He said.
"Do you also think that any of it might have something to do with global warming or the thinning of the ozone?" The reporter asked.
The man stared at him. "Why would that have anything to do with it?" He asked.
The reporter rolled his eyes.
Calvin grinned.
"We did it!" he said triumphantly.
"Case closed," Andy added.
Dr Brainstorm stepped forward.
"Well, Calvin, you have proven to be a most worthy advisory," he said.
Calvin stared at him.
"Uh…okay?" he said.
"And in those lost three days, you also proved to be a worthy companion."
Everyone stared at Dr Brainstorm in surprise.
"Wow, Frank, that was almost touching," Jack commented.
"DOCTOR BRAINSTORM!"
"Okay, moment's gone," Hobbes sighed.
Suddenly, there was a flash of electricity.
ZZAP!
Everyone jumped in surprise.
"What the…?!" Calvin cried.
It was Shadow. He had teleported back. He grabbed him MTM away from Calvin.
"Hey!" Calvin shouted.
Shadow immediately pressed a command into the MTM.
"Teleporter activated," MTM announced.
ZZAP!
They were all zapped away.
A man with a mustache saw them do this.
"Mmm-hmmmm…," he said, and he continued walking away.
ZZAP!
They all appeared in the Space Station.
"Oh, now what?!" Hobbes moaned.
"YOU!!" Thunderstorm shouted, appearing before them.
"What, this again?" Andy groaned.
Dr Thunderstorm, hated etched into his every feature, advanced on the group.
"YOU'VE RUINED ALL MY PLANS!" he shouted. "ALL MY HOPES AND DREAMS DESTROYED RIGHT BEFORE MY EYES!! IT CANNOT BE TRUE!!"
"You just said it yourself, Einstein," Socrates said.
Dr Thunderstorm immediately pulled his Servant Ray.
"IF I CAN'T HAVE THIS WORLD, THEN IT CAN'T HAVE YOU!!" he shouted.
Everyone stared.
"Has anyone ever said that before?" asked Andy.
"I don't think so," said Jack. "That was a pretty good line."
Suddenly, the tip of Thunderstorm's Servant Ray crackled with electricity.
Everyone hugged and hoped it would be quick.
ZZAP!
Everyone flinched. Then they noticed none of them were hurt. They all looked up. They stared at what they saw.
Dr Brainstorm was standing in front of them, holding his Servant Ray outwards at Dr Thunderstorm, whose own Servant Ray had been blasted out of his hand.
It was a tense moment as Dr Brainstorm held his angry glare at Thunderstorm.
"Nobody can kill any of them but me!" Brainstorm announced forcefully.
Thunderstorm growled and suddenly attacked him, pinning him to the ground.
"You were always the inferior one," Thunderstorm growled. "I'm the best there is! You should have just put up with the inferiority and played it good like you always did. But no, you had to try and compete. How can you possibly want to continue this hopeless escapade?!"
Dr Brainstorm continued to glare at him through narrow eyes.
"Because I still remember," he replied simply.
"Remember what?!" Thunderstorm demanded.
"The smile when you tore me apart," Dr Brainstorm stated boldly.
And with those last words, he kicked Thunderstorm in the stomach and hurled him across the room.
When we start killing, it's all coming down right now.
Everyone stared as Dr Brainstorm got up and continued.
From the night that we've created, I wanna be awakened right now. (I wanna be awakened right now)
"You deceived me right from the start. You showed me dreams of ruling the world together, but no! You had to break the promise. It made me realize it was all just a lie!!" he shouted.
When we start killing, it all will be falling down.
The puzzle pieces slowly began to piece together in everyone's mind.
"And now you get no mercy," Brainstorm finished dramatically. He pulled out the Servant Ray. "SERVANT RAY! DO NOT ATTACK AND DESTROY THUNDERSTORM!" he shouted.
All the hurt that we're in, all we are is fading away…
BRZAPP!
When we start killing…
A shot of fire roared from the Servant Ray and struck Thunderstorm, sending him hurtling into the wall of the space station.
This activated a protection system in Shadow.
"I must protect," he cried, dropping the MTM on the computer console.
Shadow immediately jumped in to attack.
"LOOK OUT, BRAINSTORM!" Calvin shouted.
Brainstorm was ready, however, and he immediately ducked out of the way, allowing Shadow to sail over him.
CRASH!
It was around now that MTM realized what he was sitting on. Activating his manipulator arms, he began typing commands into the computer.
Dr Thunderstorm had recovered now, and he was now wrestling with Dr Brainstorm.
"Give up, Frank!" he shouted. "GIVE UP NOW!"
But Dr Brainstorm pinned him to the floor.
"My…name…is…DOCTOR…BRAINSTORM!!" he bellowed.
When we start killing…
"Self-destruct sequence activated," a voice announced.
Everyone stopped and stared.
…it's all coming down right now.
They saw the MTM on the desk, waving at them with his robot arms.
From the night that we've created, I wanna be awakened somehow (I wanna be awakened right now)
Taking advantage of the shock, Calvin grabbed MTM and blasted Thunderstorm and Shadow away.
BRZAP!
They both flew to the far end of the Space Station.
When we start killing…it all will be falling down.
"MTM? Teleport us out!" Calvin shouted.
"I can't. You never recharged my batteries when you repaired me," MTM replied.
"I knew we forgot something," Sherman said, snapping his fingers.
From the hell that we're in, all we are is fading away.
"QUICK!" Brainstorm shouted. "There's an extra rocket in the launching room!"
Everyone that wasn't trying to take over the world at that particular moment ran after him. They all ran inside the next room and scrambled into the rocket. It was a bit cramped, but they managed to fit inside.
When we start killing…
Dr Brainstorm managed to start it up.
The space station shook as smoke and sparks poured everywhere.
It began to start upwards towards the ceiling, which was opening up.
When we start killing…
Everything got more and more intense.
Dr Brainstorm stomped on the gas, and the rocket began to fly out of the hangar.
When we start killing…
KABLAM! KABOOOOOOOOM! BAM!!
The explosion of the space station was enough to push the rocket further away from it. The rocket caught the shockwave and rode it to safety.
The space station was destroyed. None of them recalled seeing neither Dr Thunderstorm nor Shadow escape…
The rocket landed on top of Socrates' mansion.
Dr Brainstorm and Jack let Calvin, Hobbes, Andy, Sherman and Socrates off there.
"Well," Hobbes said, stretching. "Let's not do that again sometime."
"Agreed," said Jack. "What a long day."
"A day that technically didn't exist," said Sherman.
Dr Brainstorm remained quiet.
"Frank, are you okay?" Calvin asked.
There was a pause.
Finally, Brainstorm spoke.
"IT'S DOCTOR BRAINSTORM!!" he shouted.
Everyone rolled their eyes.
"DON'T GET USED TO THIS SORT OF THING, CALLY!! I'LL GET YOU, AND YOUR LITTLE TIGERS AND BOY AND HAMSTER AND CD PLAYER, TOO!! Come, Jack! WE'VE GOT WORK TO DO!!"
"Do we?" Jack asked.
Dr Brainstorm glared.
"Jack, I'm afraid that this will have to go into my report," he sighed.
Jack chuckled. "Man, I haven't heard that in a while."
Everyone waved goodbye as the rocket took off.
In the distance, they heard, "JACK! GET THE BRAKE PEDAL OUT OF MY EAR!!"
They all sighed.
"Glad that's done with," Calvin sighed. "So MTM, how do you feel?"
"Never been better," MTM replied. "I had a real out-of-body experience back there, I did. The bright light, the tunnel, the whole ten yards! But I'm back from the other side. Back and better than ever!"
"God help us," Hobbes sighed.
Everyone chuckled.
"Come on," said Socrates. "With time reversed back to wear we started, our movie should be starting again. Let's go watch without interruptions this time."
The others agreed, and they went downstairs to watch it.
In Antarctica, there was a sudden blast of electricity.
BRZAP!!
Dr Thunderstorm and Shadow, both severely injured, arrived in the snow.
"THANK GOODNESS!" Thunderstorm shrieked. "WE'VE ESCAPED! DOCTOR BRAINSTORM, YOUR DAYS ARE NUMB—!"
Suddenly, he fell through the ice.
SPLOOSH!
Shadow looked down.
Dr Thunderstorm reappeared again, bobbing up and down in a huge chunk of ice, frozen again.
"Warning," Shadow said. "Heat shield failure from earlier battle has arisen. Circuits fr-fr-free-freezing over-ver-ver-ver-ver-ver!"
Shadow stopped moving suddenly, now also frozen.
There was a long pause and wind howling as the screen went black.
THE END
Voice work
Pamela Segall Adlon Calvin
Tom Hanks Hobbes
Ryan Stiles Socrates
Andrew Lawrence Andy
Colin Mochrie Sherman
Norman Lovett MTM
Jennifer Love Hewitt Mom
Bill Murray Dad
Kurtwood Smith Holographic Retro
Dakota Fanning Susie
Lauren Tom Candace
Daveigh Chase Rosalyn
Elisabeth Daly Moe
Mary Jo Catlett Miss Wormwood
Bridget Nelson Sheila
AnnaSophia Robb Jacqueline
Neil Crone Dr Brainstorm
Michael Brandon Jack
Clancy Brown Doctor Thunderstorm
Tom Kenny Shadow / Additional voice work
Dee Bradley Baker Additional voice work
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