Swing123: The dramatic conclusion for this story is near. So hang on!

Garfieldodie: I'm glad you're looking forward to Double Trouble. I can't tell you very much about it, yet, or I might ruin some of the surprises. Hang on though. The conclusion of this story will be here in the next chapter, so that'll give you an idea on what's gonna happen. Then the trailer in the bonus chapter will be pretty good, too.

Mom watched the clock with nothing better to do.

She and Dad had been fighting lately about who's fault it was that Calvin got lost.

And since Mom didn't even want to go on the fishing trip in the first place, well that made it worse.

Posters with Calvin's picture on it were posted all over the state.

MISSING!

Have you seen this Boy?

If so call 555-7957

5,000 dollar award for his safe return

Meanwhile, back in Calvin's state, School was continuing.

The class was not shocked to learn that Calvin had gone and gotten himself lost again.

In fact, they were expecting it.

"Calvin can't go on a vacation without doing something crazy." Susie said.

Moe was downright angry.

He figured Calvin had done this on purpose so that he would get into the newspapers again.

Dad still went fishing every morning, alone.

Only he never fished.

He searched the horizon for a ship.

He got exited each time he saw one, and started banging his head against the boat when he found out that it was a cruise ship returning from Hawaii.

Calvin happily carried some fish down the ship and into the diner.

Just then, he fell into a hole in the floor that the Sea Monster put there.

"AAAAAAA!" CRASH!

Calvin grumbled, and started up the stairs.

"AAAAAAAAAA!" CRASH!

Calvin forgot that the sea monster ate the stairs too.

"Be careful of that first step!" Hobbes said. "It's a killer!"

Calvin yelled curses at the stairs, as Hobbes slipped a fish into his mouth, and pulled it's skeleton out seconds later.

Calvin somehow found his way out of the prison cell of a basement, and made his way into the diner.

That day was wonderful.

They almost forgot about the Sea Monster, and well, they hadn't seen the aliens for months.

They had long since decided that they had given up.

Calvin even found a navigational map.

That was good.

Hobbes was thrilled as Calvin messed around with the controls.

"This is so great!" Hobbes said. "Did you know that those work from satellites? YES!"

Calvin finally pinpointed his location.

"Hobbes!" Calvin said. "Africa's only a few hundred miles away."

"Just get back to America!" Hobbes spat.

Calvin started messing with the controls, and set the directions.

Calvin watched the monitor as the ship turned around, and headed for America.

"We'll be there by the end of the week." Calvin grinned.

"Great!" Hobbes said, enthusiastically.

That night, Calvin and Hobbes lay in bed.

Not a worry in the world. Up in the sky, The Alien Mother Ship, sent down twenty hundred troops, three in each space jet.

And if you want to know how many jets there were, you can do the math yourself. I'm a very busy writer trying to make a movie here.

Calvin and Hobbes slept, as millions of ships came into focus.

They all surrounded the ship, and fifty landed on the deck.

Rupert Chill and The captian, Earl was his name, stepped out of one of the ships.

"Search the entire ship!" Rupert ordered. "Bring him here, ALIVE!"

The aliens spread out, while the other jets hovered in the sky, in case Calvin did another fancy song.

"What are we gonna do with Calvin when we find him?" Earl asked.

"Drop him off the side." Rupert said. "Him and his tiger."

An Alien called Bob slithered across the deck.

He wasn't looking downward, however, and fell down the...

"AAAAAAA!" CRASH!

hole in the floor.

"AAAAAAAAAA!" CRASH!

I would have warned him about the hole in the stairs but it made things more interesting.

The Alien grumbled and realized that he was stuck in the basement.

Another Alien searched the basketball court.

He picked up, a basketball, and threw it aside.

Nope.

No Potentate here.

Meanwhile, Another alien approached the room where Calvin and Hobbes were snoring loudly.

The alien opened the door, and saw them there.

Sleeping like rocks.

The alien started tiptoeing for the bed. Just then, he tripped on a loose floor board.

CRASH!

The sound would have rattled fifty elephants.

Calvin simply turned over in his sleep.

The alien got back up, and started for the bed again.

He stepped on a roller skate.

"AAAAAA!" CRASH!

Hobbes snorted in his sleep, and turned over.

The alien pulled its head out of the wall.

Calvin and Hobbes were still asleep.

"Gosh. Calvin's a Heavy sleeper." The alien said.

Calvin's eyes flew open.

"Who? what? where?"

Calvin's eyes turned to the alien.

His eyes nearly bugged out of his head.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Calvin screamed.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Screamed the alien.

Hobbes shot out of bed, and screamed too.

The room was now filled with screaming.

Calvin grabbed his pillow, and leaped out of bed.

"Prepare for your udder downfall, Alien!" Calvin smashed the pillow into the alien's head, knocking him out cold.

"Calvin that was an alien!" Hobbes yelled.

"Yeah, we better check the camera for more."

Calvin walked over to a bunch of monitors on the wall, and hit on.

Instantly, Big bug eyes appeared in all the screens.

Tentacles, chrome heads, and sharp teeth.

Calvin and Hobbes both started screaming.

"Shhhhh!" Hobbes yelled. "They have us surrounded!"

"What are we gonna do?" Calvin asked.

Calvin and Hobbes looked around.

Outside, an alien screamed, "GET ME OUT OF THIS STUPID BASEMENT!"

Calvin and Hobbes slowly opened the door.

They stared up the stairs leading to the deck.

"Are we due for another rock n' roll song?" Hobbes asked.

"That would be redundant." Calvin said.

"Mmmm, good point." Hobbes considered.

"Plus, you won't be able to." Said a raspy, hacksaw voice behind them

Calvin and Hobbes spun around.

Calvin saw a pair of black sunglasses, and sharp teeth before something buzzed him with a hotshot.

And he knew no more.