PASTA LA VISTA - chapter three
Hobbes had waited until Tracer had fallen asleep, and then had attached the helmet to him. He clicked the button and he disappeared in a flash of light.
'Now to find out where Calvin is…' Hobbes thought. 'Oh well. Until I find him, maybe I'll read some of his comics. Didn't he just get a new issue of Nuke-Man?'
Calvin tried to crawl through space back to Spiff's spaceship. If he could get back there, maybe he could rebuild the machine and get out of this dimension before…
POW!
The red spaceship went flying, pulling Calvin down. Calvin looked behind him. A Naggon enforcer ship. Calvin gripped on tight to the cable as the ship started to veer down toward the atmosphere of planet Glook!
KABLOOEY!
Another jolt of the death ray fired as Calvin held on to the spaceship. Good thing it was on Auto-Pilot, or he would have been space roadkill. The saucer-like craft steered through the rock formations, and Calvin had to twist his body to keep from hitting the rock carvings.
The Naggons were following, but their ships were so big that they just crashed through the rocks and shattered the priceless formations to pieces. Calvin yelled as the ship veered up into the sky, performing a perfect right angle.
Hobbes was reading the comics. He had his trusty pen with him. "Oh, Nuke-Man, let's see how you look with a mustache… good, but we need to balance it out. Maybe a Mohawk will help! Perfect." Hobbes said, drawing on the picture.
Calvin, using every ounce of muscle he could, started to climb the cable back into the ship. He finally got in, and closed the dome, so that he stayed in the cockpit. He had gone through enough of these imaginary adventures to know what to do next.
He clicked MANUAL PILOT and did a U-Turn, and turned into Offensive Mode. He set his missiles and flew over the Naggon ship, releasing the missiles onto the ship. It exploded and sent out a shockwave, which Calvin used to ride his way out of the planet's atmosphere.
"Wahoo!" Calvin yelled. That was the most fun he'd ever had. Suddenly, Calvin saw a whole fleet of Naggon ships in front of him. Calvin yelled and did a turn to narrowly avoid hitting the fleet.
Laser rays rained down on the little red ship. Calvin yelled from intense pressure. The spaceship was riding out of control and veering down towards the planet's surface.
His thoughts were screaming inside his head. He felt like he was going to burst. 'I don't want to do this anymore!' he thought to himself.
Suddenly, in a burst of light, Calvin found himself in his room. Hobbes was reading Calvin's comic books, and lounging on Calvin's bed. Calvin looked at himself. He was half-transparent.
'I'll bet I got sent here, but I never fully made it back since the machine didn't register it!' Calvin thought. He clicked the button on the machine and he was then zapped again in the white light, before he found himself back in his bedroom.
"Hobbes! I'm back!" Calvin yelled. Hobbes hid the comic book behind his back and tried – very badly, I'll add – to act casual.
"Oh, Calvin. Hello." Hobbes said.
"Nice try, Hobbes. I know you were reading my comic books. I'll deal with you later. But first – wait a second, the letter!" Calvin exclaimed.
"Oh yeah! Where is your letter?" asked Hobbes.
"It's on my desk. We need to use the machine again. But this time, I'll switch around the cords. Instead of me coming to them, they'll come to me!" Calvin said.
"So how is that going to help? We'll just have a bunch of your alter-egos running around!" Hobbes said.
"No! We'll use their help to get the letter back to the garbage can before mom finds the letter and reads it!" Calvin said.