1 Calvin and Hobbes on Dinosaur Planet

Disclaimer: I don't own C&H, Watterson does. If I did, I'd be goin' crazy, possibly even hysterical. Nobody owns dinos, they're just there.





"Ha, ha! In your face, Calvin!" Hobbes taunted him after having jumped all his pieces on the checkerboard. "It's almost like you purposely sat them up to lose!"

"Shaddap, you orange flea circus. Right now I feel like rippin' you down limb from limb, personally." Calvin looked around his room, then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw his history book and a sheet of paper. "Oh no! I completely forgot about my history report! Oh gosh oh gosh oh gosh. I need more time!" Suddenly Calvin's eyes lit up and he just stared into space for a few moments. Then gradually a smile formed on his face.

"Yo, Calvin! Anyone home?" Hobbes said, waving his hand in front of Calvin's face continuously.

All of a sudden Calvin exclaimed, "I'VE GOT IT!!! I know what we can do, Hobbes ol' buddy! We can just go into the future, tomorrow, to get my report from the future Calvin and be off the hook!"

"Hold it," Hobbes rejected, "don't you remember what happened last time we time traveled?"

"Yeah, I know, and I made sure that would never happen again. From now on your traveling with me everywhere."

"No! I mean, we could get lost in the wrong timeline!"

"I've also taken special precautions on that too," Calvin argued back. "Now we can't waste any more time. We've gotta leave right this second!"

"Listen, Calvin, there are two reasons why- "

"GET IN!" Calvin yelled, cutting off Hobbes' last sentence. "Which word do you not understand?!"

"-sigh- Okay, but I'm telling you."

"Shut it and get in now, Furball."

"-sigh-" Hobbes sighed and jumped in the cardboard box time machine. Calvin, in the front and facing the time-travel direction for heading into the future, scowled at Hobbes one last time before embarking on the journey of time. Of course Hobbes was coming also. He was just in the back seat or end, whatever you call it.

"Okay, Hobbes," Calvin said as they neared the time portal they were going to travel in, "we're going to go twelve hours into the future to get the report. We've gotta get back in five minutes or mom's gonna blow her stack. It's that easy. Think you can try to not screw it up?"

Hobbes gave Calvin an offended look then looked back forward at the swirling time passage they were flying through. Only a few minutes later they landed in their future room with the future Calvin sitting on his bed facing the opposite direction of them. Future Hobbes was nowhere to be found.

Calvin broke the sudden silence by yelling, "HEY!!!" F. Calvin jumped up from his bed, completely surprised. He turned around at Calvin.

"Alright, now that I have your attention, I want to-

"YOU!" F. Calvin yelled pointing at Calvin.

"Me? Me what?!?"

"You. you are the reason that Hobbes is gone!"

"What?!?" Hobbes said even before Calvin could say anything, "F. Hobbes is gone?!? But that means I'll be gone in twelve hours!!"

"Ten, actually," F. Calvin replied.

"Oh. But how the heck did this happen?!?"

"Well," F. Calvin started, "because you didn't ever do your report, mine was never done, and."

"What?! You don't have my report?!" Calvin burst out loud.

"Quiet! Let me finish the story!" F. Calvin snapped back, "now where was I? Oh, yes, and mom and dad decided that I would be better off in homework if I never saw Hobbes again. So there. The only way to save Hobbes is to finish the report on time."

"Hmmmm. That doesn't leave me with a lot of choices. I can either go back in time to finish my report at home orrrrrrr. I can go way back in time to Lincoln's inauguration and get it done easier."

"I would take the hard way if I were you," F. Calvin interrupted. Calvin him a strange look. "Or, I mean, if I could be you twelve hours ago."

"Nonsense! What could go wrong?" Calvin said. F. Calvin lifted one brow.

"With our record? Ha!"

"Okaaaaay, so it is a little bit. er. horrible. But I'm not going to let that stop me! C'mon, Hobbes! Let's go!" Calvin said to him at last.

"Uhhhhhhn.. Huh?! Er. ummm. Yeah, okay, I'm coming Calvin!" Hobbes said as he jumped into the time machine. Ever since he found out he could possibly be gone forever he had been staring into space unconsciously just, well, looking. I mean, what would you do if you knew you only had ten, er. now 9½ hours to live?

"Look, you don't know what you're doing!" F. Calvin said, trying to stop him. "You'll get stuck in a bad-"

But before he could finish his sentence Calvin and Hobbes blasted into the timeline portal. F. Calvin's attempts to thwart him from time- traveling were unsuccessful.

"Doesn't he realize?" F. Calvin said a few moments after they had left. "I've been where he's been. And I know he's in big trouble, too."