CALVIN IN OZ - chapter two
Calvin found himself on some ground. Soon after that thought, he wanted to say to himself 'duh'. But soon, he realized that ground meant he wasn't dead. Unless heaven had grass. He pulled himself to his feet and found himself surrounded by knee-high people. He was reminded of an old story in which this big guy was tied to the ground by little guys. He wondered if he had gotten bigger or the people had become smaller.
Calvin glanced behind him, finding a snowmobile that was completely demolished, and finding a crushed body under it. 'I'd hate to be that sucker.' Calvin thought to himself.
Walking over to the body, Calvin found a cool green glowing wristwatch. It caught his eye, and reached out to grab it. He simply touched it, and the compound seemed to jump from the body's hand to his hand. It slowly formed around him, remembering Calvin of the old science fiction movies that he had seen while Mom wasn't looking. Soon it had covered him completely, and he started spin 'round and 'round and he screamed.
When he slowed to a halt, he was covered in a cool leather jacket, and he was wearing a cool leather jacket, like a motorcycle gang wore. He grinned from ear to ear, and showed off his flashy new costume.
"Ooh." One of the tiny men said. "He has transformed into the Secret Agent of the Odd."
Calvin raised an eyebrow at this. "Hey, I'm not odd."
"What would you call someone who drops out of the sky on a snowmobile?" asked the same little man.
"Who are you?" Calvin asked.
"We are the Munchkin Men." Said them all together, in an eerie voice to Calvin.
"Right. If you need me, I'll be on my way home." Said Calvin. Obviously the little men had shrunk because their brains had shrunk too. Geez, what a way to start off a day. Calvin slowly ventured off through a maze of cornfields. He was soon very lost.
'Wow. This reminds me of the cornfield mazes we always go to at the fair.' Calvin thought. He heard some grinding and buzzing, and Calvin ran over. The corn was gone in a complete circle. A blue beam was shooting down from the sky and was sending electric sparks into a figure. Calvin followed the blue beam and found… an alien spaceship! Just what he was looking for.
Calvin studied. Looked close enough and low enough, he figured. He grabbed a corn cob and threw it with all his might at the giant spaceship. The beam flew everywhere, and started turning green. The spaceship went out of control, and the green locked onto Calvin and the other figure. He slowly levitated up through the tractor beam, when it turned red and spun crazily in circles.
The red was firing and a bolt of death ray was coming straight for him. He pushed the other guy out of the way and barely avoided the beam. He flew straight into another patch of cornfields and ran, with his new 'friend'. He was in another circle and stared up. Swarms of alien spaceships were zooming around and creating crazy circles in the corn.
'This is so much better than a school day, any day!' Calvin thought. Calvin was suddenly jolted by a zap of green and felt his body rip apart. He felt himself reform on an alien spacecraft. He ran down some corridors and found some aliens with that other guy.
Calvin decided to copy what those guys on karate videos do and acted like a master, copying moves and shouting out 'pig Japanese' phrases (that's fake words that sound like Japanese tongue). It was enough of a distraction for Calvin to grab his friend and shimmy past them.
When he reached an alien corridor, Calvin finally saw the new guy looked like Hobbes, except made of straw and wearing totally dorky overalls. Calvin decided he would call him the Scaretiger. Since he had seen Wizard of Oz a few times at his parents' requests, Calvin knew that this guy had no brain. And all the brains in those sci-fi movies couldn't talk, so apparently, this guy couldn't talk. He knew it made absolutely no sense, but decided that was his theory and he'd stick with him.
Pulling the Scaretiger behind him, Calvin found an alien spaceship and decided to have some fun. 'Even if this is a dream sequence, I can still have some fun.'