PASTA LA VISTA - chapter two
Calvin stood on top of his cardboard box. He tried balancing. The box was flipped upside down and Calvin was wearing an antennae-like thing made out of those fuzzy twisty things. Calvin couldn't remember what they were called.
"So, explain to me how this works again?" Hobbes said. Calvin wobbled on the top of the box.
"It's simple really. These antennae connect to my brain and transmit radio waves back to the box. The lines connect to the carpet, and hook under the box. That way, my ideas are grounded in reality." Calvin said.
"Too late." Hobbes said.
"Would you stop yelling and turn this thing on? I feel like this thing is going to fall down on me." Calvin said. Hobbes clicked a little button that said 'push me, you idiot!' and he pressed it. Hobbes covered his eyes so he wouldn't be blinded if there was a flash.
"Brzap" Calvin said, making a sound effect.
"Did it work?" asked Hobbes, still closing his eyes.
"You're asking a private eye, sabertooth. My minds cocked like gun, of course it worked!" a figure said. Hobbes opened his eyes, and Calvin was dressed like a detective.
"Woah. It transforms you into your alter-egos?" asked Hobbes.
"You catch on like a fly to stickypaper." The man said. Tracer Bullet, Hobbes guessed.
"Please don't compare me to a fly." Hobbes said.
Somewhere in an alternate universe, Calvin found himself sitting in a detective chair. Everything was black and white, and things were looking like Tracer Bullet's world.
'Woah!' Calvin thought. 'The altered-ego machine must have gone haywire. I had planned it to bring Tracer Bullet to my world to help me, but it must have brought me here. I need to get back to reality, before mom finds out about the letter!'
Calvin tried something. If he was in his imagination's world, he could do whatever he wanted. At first he thought it might be nice to have a missile and wreak havoc, but then he decided he should get back to his own world first.
Calvin thought real hard and his altered-ego machine appeared in front of him. Calvin strapped himself on and reached down and clicked the button. He was transformed in a flash of light, and then everything was black.
He slowly looked around and as his eyes adjusted, he saw little white specks everywhere. He reached behind him and felt a cable. He turned to look where the cable was leading to, and saw a familiar red spaceship. He was Spaceman Spiff!
"This was not what I had planned." Calvin said to himself.