Outside, Mom, Dad and the whole neighborhood could hear the noise going on outside.
"It's Calvin!" shrieked Mom.
"He's in the building!" said a policeman. "Let's break the door down!"
The smashed through the doors and scattered throughout the building.
"Calvin?" Dad called out.
"HELP!" yelled a petrified shriek.
Everyone looked up at the second floor balcony. Calvin, with a stuffed tiger slung over his shoulder and two suitcases in his arms ran over them with a scary, green Creature right behind him.
"Calvin!" everyone shrieked.
"I wanna go home!" Moe shouted. He ran out the door for home, but Rosalyn grabbed him.
Calvin rounded the corners with Hobbes right behind him. In his grasp was the suitcase with the hypercube in it. They ducked into a crease in the wall.
The Creature lumbered past. Then it doubled and went back.
Instead of Calvin and Hobbes, it found a little blue glowing box. He picked it up curiously and eyed it closely.
Suddenly, a little fist came out and bopped the Creature in the nose.
The Creature howled.
Then a paw with sharp claws came out a sliced his face.
"YEOW!" yelled the Creature.
He dropped the hypercube, and Calvin and Hobbes crawled out. Calvin jammed it back into the suitcase, and they scurried down the hall again.
"RUN!" Calvin shouted.
They ran up the stairs to the third floor, looking for safety. They found the art room, and they dove behind the desk.
"What are we gonna do?" asked Hobbes.
Calvin scoped out the room. He saw something yellow dripping out of the old desk. He quickly ran forward and tossed to paint bottles to Hobbes.
"When he breaks the door down, squeeze them."
The Creature burst through the door. Squeezing its wrists, it managed to shoot its green gloop out at them, barely missing them.
"Three can play at that game!" said Calvin.
Calvin and Hobbes squeezed the paint bottles. Four streams of green, red, yellow and blue shot out at the Creature, coating him in a sickly color.
"Wow," Hobbes said. "The color of barf."
They quickly ran over the Creature and down the halls again.
Next stop was the music room. They ran in and slammed the door.
The Creature ran in and saw Hobbes grinning up at him.
"Drum roll, please!"
Calvin took an abandoned bass drum and rolled the giant drum toward the creature, and then hurled whatever he could.
The Creature was almost flattened by the drum, and as they ran past, trumpet mouthpieces, drumsticks, and an entire tuba!
As they ran, they ducked into a locker.
The Creature lumbered over, practically beaten. By the time it opened the door to their locker, Hobbes tossed globe at it's head.
The Creature fell and tripped over Calvin's foot.
I don't know why Calvin and Hobbes were scared. They were handling this quite nicely.
They ran back over the balcony as everyone ran up the stairs.
Everyone missed Calvin and Hobbes, but they surrounded the Creature.
"You're goin' down!" yelled a cop.
Everyone closed in on the Creature. But this thing was tougher than they thought. It managed to grab onto them all and corner them.
Everyone cowered in the corner.
The Creature towards them, its fangs gleaming and its claws shining…
Up above on the roof, Calvin and Hobbes noticed that they were alone.
"What are we gonna do?" Calvin asked. "We can't face that thing up here!"
"This is probably the most dangerous adventure we've been on," agreed Hobbes. "This is making our trip in the Time Machine to the Jurassic Ages look tame."
"What'll we do now?"
"We need to do something. Is there anything in the hypercube we could use?"
Calvin took the hypercube and stuck his head inside. He watched all the stuff floating around in it.
"Let's see here…," he muttered. "Ah ha!"
He reached out and pulled out the cardboard box.
"What'll that do now?"
"We just need to add a feature onto the list of options."
Calvin jumped into the box and started working hard. He used a wrench and hammer, putting it all together. There was buzzing and whamming from inside.
"Can't you hurry up?" Hobbes yelled. "He could be here at any moment."
"Hobbes, this is a delicate procedure. This cannot be rushed," Calvin said calmly.
About thirty seconds passed, and Calvin finally finished it.
"Lo and behold!" Calvin said.
A word magically seemed to appear on the side with the arrow on it. It read DRILL. A long, metal drill appeared on the front, and box tipped forward.
"We can kill off the Creature with this! Come on!"
Calvin hopped into the box.
Hobbes gulped nervously, but then he put on a brave face. This was no time to be a coward. He would make those saber-toothed tigers from the museum proud. He got in the back.
"3…2…1…BLAST OFF!" Calvin shouted. He pressed a button.
The drill spun hard and fast.
Calvin and Hobbes quickly put on their goggles.
They dipped downward as the drill started to go through the roof. A hole began to show.
Suddenly, the drill stopped and broke a little.
"Maybe I should've spent forty-five seconds working on it instead of thirty," Calvin said.
However, all was not lost. The roof caved in.
The Creature was about ready to slice and kill everyone in front of him, but a shower of plaster fell from the ceiling on him. He looked up just as a cardboard box fell through the ceiling with a kid and his stuffed tiger in it. The weight caused the Creature, the box and our two heroes to fall through the floor and onto the first floor.
Everyone looked down and watched Calvin, Hobbes and the Creature roll around on the floor.
The Creature growled as he stood up, with Calvin on his shoulders.
Hobbes sank his teeth into the Creature's foot. The Creature howled angrily.
The Creature shoved Calvin to the floor, but Calvin's fear had vanished all of a sudden. He was tired of being afraid. All the fury he had bottled up over Mom and Dad, he released on the Creature.
"Feel the wrath of Stupendous Man, you big green freak!" Calvin shouted. He still didn't have his cape, but he put his mask back on, and he jumped the Creature.
Hobbes helped too by biting and scratching wherever he could. "I'll teach you to terrorize my friend!" he shouted.
Calvin grabbed onto the Creature's head and squeezed it hard. "YOUR STRENGTH IS GREAT, CREATURE," he shouted loudly. "HOWEVER, YOU ARE NO MATCH FOR STUPENDOUS—"
He was cut off as he tugged at the Creature's ears. To his amazement, the head came off!
"…man?" he said, taken aback in shock.
Hobbes looked up. "Boy, they sure don't make monsters like they used to."
Calvin just gazed at the floppy rubber face in his hands.
"Will you get off of me!" yelled a male voice. "You way a ton!"
Calvin looked down. There was a bald guy underneath him with a beard and buck teeth.
"Who are you and what have you done with the Teacher Creature?" Calvin shouted.
The man managed to push Calvin off of his back.
"That does it! I'm tired of you people always barging in here, ruining my peace and quiet. I'm ending this now!"
He pulled a knife out and prepared for the kill. He was going to throw it at Calvin, but this kid was smarter than he'd thought. Calvin stomped on the floor hard. The old floor creaked and buckled, and he fell through it, falling into the basement. He crashed and was rendered unconscious with a stuffed tiger on his back.
"Way to go, Hobbes!" Calvin shouted, taking off his mask. "Hold him down!"
Everyone ran down the stairs to Calvin.
Mom and Dad scooped him up and hugged him.
"Oh, Calvin! You're alright!" Mom said.
"Don't touch me!" Calvin yelled. "This is your entire fault and you know it! You drove me out of the house on purpose because you can't stand me."
Dad sighed and put Calvin down. "Calvin, we just thought we were doing it for your own good," he explained. "We didn't think you'd go this far. Look, don't worry. We're letting you keep you tree house and the TV will come out of the closet. We admit we were a bit harsh."
A policeman walked forward and looked down at Calvin.
"Calvin, thanks to you, we can now restart business in this neighborhood. This man has been terrorizing people for years, and now that he's been caught, business will boom!"
Calvin beamed with pride. He and Hobbes were heroes again!
The policemen led the man away. Right before he was in the car, Calvin jumped up.
"Say, there's one thing I can't understand," he said. "How did you shoot off green goop from your wrists? I've searched the whole costume, and I can't find anything that you could've used."
"What are you talking about?" the man grumbled. "I never did that."
Calvin arched an eyebrow. Then he realized that the man's costume was a regular color! Didn't he and Hobbes squirt paint all over him? "Uhh…"
He was locked up in the car.
Calvin looked at Hobbes in confusion.
"Wait, if that wasn't him, then who was…?"
"Let's not ask questions," Hobbes said. "Let's just go home to peace and tranquility."
"Let's go, Calvin!" Mom shouted. "We're going home!"
Calvin smiled, forgetting the confusion, and he and Hobbes ran into the car.
They failed to notice the dark figure watching them from the window as it disappeared into the shadows…