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afterdark's afterthoughts:
Sorry, people. Lots of stuff got in my way between the time I started writing this, and the time I actually posted. But it's here now. And also, one more review:
Bethany-Hime: Glad you came back. Update is here now, sorry not In, Come In...
Snookman (My alternate personality, or alternate screen name used elsewhere, don'ttellanybodythat) and Hobbes shall be answering reviews today, while I (afterdark) wait somewhere in line, trying to follow Raven on her cruse, to provide an accurate description of the events following here arrival in Orlando, Florida, for my other story, "Raven's Week Off."
10-4,
afterdark
—via handheld radio, with a rapidly decreasing signal.
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Snookman's Reviews.
CrazyDeafGirl: Well, I'm happy to hear you got your books back! Yes, The red spacecraft was Calvin. The C&H gang returns in this chapter, trying to explain about everything. Although I don't remember that comic specifically, it sound's like something Spiff would say, and it's defiantly funny! Max is right!
dragonpurity: Yep, it's Max all right. Glad it's getting good.
Hobbes' Reviews
StarfirePhantom: Of course were coming back! I would imagine the Titans wouldn't like being dogs forever! We have to change them back, and help Robin! (And this "Terra.") Also, yes it was Max. Good times... Good times...
mew-xena: Hey, I was in the space craft with Calvin, too! (Calvin: Put a sock in it fuzz-lumpkins.) Yes, poor Max. he really must of hated Calvin after that, because he never came back...
Well, thank you to everyone, especially mew-xena, and CrazyDeafGirl. You two have reviewed from square one, and Yay! This Chapter's detected to you guys. )
And now, presenting...
Hobbes' Trivia Corner
By: (Look Up)
When Calvin wrote to Santa, what was Calvin's imaginary brother's name?
Chaptr for: Hobbs' owne riteihing
(Hobbes Wrote This)
Mhe and Kalfin wer flieing aloghn. Et wus fon. Whe wer gohing bac tu teh Titons damenchion. "wowwee" sed mhe. "Cooleo" sed kalfin.
Narrator: Just then, afterdark returned from his trip. He saw Hobbes in front of his computer, attempting to write a chapter. If you read the first treasury, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, you know that Hobbes is a bad speller. Anyway, afterdark, in fear that Hobbes was posting his own chapter on , did a running tackle on Hobbes, to avoid a bad chapter with many flames. afterdark hit Hobbes a little to hard, and sent Hobbes flying across the room, and into a box in the corner. Hobbes pasted out in the box. Don't worry, though, he'll be all right. Breathing a sigh of relief, partly for the fact that Hobbes didn't get to post his whole chapter, and partly because he didn't kill Hobbes with his unexpected tackle, afterdark sat down to write the real chapter. And so he began...
Chapter 4: Hello, Susie! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!
Calvin looked out the window of the small craft. He had one hand on the wheel of the ship, and one in his hair, twiddling it around. Hobbes glanced down at the four dogs they carried below them. Calvin was headed for the giant "T" that stuck out over the city skyline.
"What do you think it stands for?"
"Huh, what?" Calvin was pulled out of his daydream.
"Yeah, that big "T" tower over there. What do you think it stands for?"
"Donno. The Thompsons?"
"It could stand for the Trashers."
"These are good guys Hobbes. I doubt it."
"Huuummm..."
"How about 'The Three Terrific Trinkets from Threazar-3'?"
Hobbes gave Calvin a funny look. "And you said Thrashers was funny."
Calvin and Hobbes finally arrived at this tower. They sat the Titans down slowly on the roof, and then landed next to them. Calvin when around to the trunk, and rummaged through its contents. He finally pulled out a ray gun of some type, which Hobbes recognized as his Transmogifyer gun. Calvin prided open the gun, and proceed to alter its insides. When he put it back together, he told Hobbes that he had turned it into a powerfyertakerawayer.
Hobbes rolled his eyes. "What a creative name."
"Hey, strudel for brains, I don't hear you thinking up a better one."
"Ok, ok, sorry. What does it do?" Hobbes thought for a second. "And, how come your inventions work in this dimension, but not in ours?"
"What do you mean my inventions don't work back at our house?" Calvin arched an eyebrow.
"Oh, er, nothing! Never mind!"
"Well, this 'ill suck there powers out of them, so they can't attack us while where explaining to them."
"Oh, ok."
The first thing Calvin did was turn the Titans back into people, instead of dogs. Then he sucked their powers. Each of Titans sort of gasped a little, But when Calvin fired it at Cyborg, the gun emitted a 'errrrrrrnnntt' sound a displayed 'invalid specimen' on the little screen.
So, Calvin when around the back of Cyborg, and after a few minutes, opened his control compartment, looked inside, saw a box labeled 'Defense Mechanisms' and chopped the wires to it.
That, well, took care of everyone.
The Titans were still out cold, though. Calvin decided to have a little fun. He pointed the gun at Hobbes, who wasn't watching, set the gun on random selection, and fired it. A green beam struck Hobbes who then turned around, obviously angry.
He tried to speak, but Calvin was rolling around on the ground in hysterics.
"What? What is it?"
"You're—hehe—green!"
Hobbes looked down at himself. He was, in fact, a light shade of green, instead of his normal orange. He could also feel a fang pointing out of his mouth. Hobbes charged at Calvin. "Hahahahahahahahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Calvin ran away, because Hobbes had turned into a giant rhinoceros. Calvin, gun in hand, pointed him at himself, and prayed it would work. Calvin fired it, and a purple beam hit him. Suddenly, a black aurora surrounded him, because of his extreme emotion right then. Calvin was coming to the edge of the tower. It was either jump, or face Hobbes the rhino. Calvin looked at the gun's display screen. it provided a small description of Raven's powers, and what to say.
"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos, Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos, AZARATH, METRION, ZINTHOS!"
Calvin had decided to jump, after learning that he could fly with these powers. He was currently flying down the tower, flapping his arms, and praying that these powers would kick in soon. He was thinking of falling onto the rocks at the bottom of the tower, and was just plain freaked out. Finally, about three feet from the rocks, he saw his life flash before his eyes. The day he found Hobbes, when Roslyn had played Calvinball with them, Cub Scouts, Uncle Max, when their house was broken into, the seemingly weird meals his mom fixed him, when he rode behind his wagon with an umbrella, and flew into the lake...
That was it.
The time he FLEW! (or thought he did.)
"AZARATH,"
"METRION,"
"ZINTHOS!"
His eyes were closed, and he was all ready for the final impact—
That
never came.
He peeked out of one eye, and looked out. He was
actually hovering about one foot above the ground.
"Whoa."
Calvin tried out these new powers. He found he could levitate other objects, as well as himself. He didn't know that it would have been harder if he had a demon trapped inside him, as Raven did.
Although, his dad would say it would build plenty of character.
He flew back up to the top of the tower, where Hobbes was fumbling with his power-sucker gun. Calvin realized there was still one more superpower left inside it, and greed took control.
"Hobbes! Gimmee that!"
Hobbes looked up. "Oh no, I saw you suck out those guy's powers, and I know there's one left in this ray-thingamajig."
Calvin tried to grad the gun with his powers, and almost succeeded, until Hobbes turned into a bird, and pulled it away. Finally, after numerous situations, Hobbes, in the form of a large Hippo, sat on the gun ad crushed it. A light purple ray flew up from the guns remains and went strait up into the air
"Oops." they coursed together.
The ray slowed, and fell back to earth. It was headed for the nearest body. It didn't hit the Titans and it headed straight for Calvin and Hobbes.
Calvin jumped and raised his hand. "Ohhhhhhhh! Pick me! Pick me!"
Hobbes rolled his eyes, but silently hoped the ray would come his way. He also wondered is the writer was a poet, but didn't know it. Then suddenly...TIME SNAP!
Anyway, the ray headed down, down, down, curve.
It headed straight for the ship, went into the ship, and disappeared.
Calvin was confused. "How did it do that?"
Hobbes held up a finger, and stated authoritatively:
"Well, it could be, because of a malfunction in quadrant Z of the Flux Compositor, but based on the principal of all things great and large, plus the added reassurance of the B-3XZ129.3493 equation, I'd have to say that's very unlikely."
Calvin counted on his fingers. "Flux...Z quaderent...large...3XZ... Hey! those are my blueprints!"
Hobbes whistled.
"Well, c'mon Hobbes, let's go see what happened."
The two looked around inside the ship. They searched it high and low, but could not see where the power was absorbed to. Finally, both were standing outside the ship looking somewhat perplexed.
"Well, I don't see where it could have gone to. Maybe the ship's lithium core absorbed it—"
Calvin was interrupted by a bug eyed stare from Hobbes. Hobbes pointed behind Calvin. Calvin turned around.
Something was causing Hobbes back seat to thump.
Thump.
THUMP.
BUMP—CRASH.
Suddenly the seat flew off, and someone tumbled out of a hidden compartment in the ship.
It was Susie Derkins.
Cliffy. Sorry people. R&R..
Don't worry, the Titans will have there powers back SOON in the next chapter. I can't stand that much more of Raven-Calvin, either.
afterdark
