Calvin opened his eyes.
He and Hobbes were tied together with nylon rope.
And they were surrounded by gray yellow-eyed, chrome-headed, sharp-toothed aliens.
And standing above them was tall man with sunglasses.
He had black hair going down into a small goatee, dog tags, a Camp Pine T-shirt with a couple of pine trees on it, and evil grin on his face.
"YOU!" Calvin screamed.
"Not good." Hobbes muttered.
Rupert laughed.
"Did you really think some Earth dungeon would hold the Alien King?" He laughed.
"It was worth a try." Hobbes replied.
"Well it didn't work." Rupert chuckled. "Did it?"
The alien crew started laughing.
Calvin saw no humor in that, no matter what angle he looked at it from.
Those aliens have strange senses of humor.
None of the aliens or Calvin and Hobbes noticed that the water was beginning to boil, and the ship was rocking to one side a bit.
"Well." Rupert said, taking off his sunglasses. His yellow eyes glowed in the moonlight.
"Do you have any last words?" Calvin stared at Rupert. He didn't say anything.
"Well?" Rupert asked.
"Sssshh." Calvin said. "I'm trying to compose another song."
The aliens got a big chuckle out of that.
Everyone except the aliens present during his song laughed.
They still had headaches.
Rupert grinned evilly.
"Ah yes, Earl told me about that little ditty of ours. I found it very... annoying." He hissed.
Ear grinned.
"Yes, and being tied up as you are, the only way you could sing another song would be from sing-along."
The aliens laughed again. Hobbes' claw shot out of one of the ropes, unknown to any of the aliens.
Rupert bent down, so that he was eye level with Calvin.
Calvin saw his terrified face reflected in Rupert's big yellow eyes.
"I'll give you one last chance for last words, potentate, I suggest you use it."
Hobbes started to tear down the middle of the rope.
Before Calvin could answer, a loud BUMP sounded and the ship rocked backward.
Calvin looked off the side of the ship along with Hobbes, Rupert, and several other aliens.
The water was bubbling.
"Yeah. I have something to say." Calvin grinned at Rupert. "Gotchya!"
As soon as the words left his mouth, an enormous neck erupted from the water, and grabbed hold of a space jet in its terrible jaws.
The three aliens in the jet screamed as the sea monster sunk down into the ocean with the ship.
Rupert's sunglasses fell out of his hands, as he gawked where the sea monster had just been.
"Rupert? Sea monster. Sea Monster? Rupert." Calvin said, pretending to introduce the two villains. "Now that we have that out of the way, I suggest you all RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"
This started a mass panic among the space jets seeing the commotion, but just then, not one but FIFTY Sea monsters shot from the water, and tried to grab the space jets.
Rupert screamed into his walki talki thing.
"HOLD YOUR POSITION! STAY AT YOUR POST!"
Nobody heard their king's orders as they flew for the safety of the mother ship.
Then two of the sea monsters turned their attention to the cruise ship.
Rupert turned a face to Calvin and Hobbes that was filled with homicide, but Calvin and Hobbes weren't there!
There was just a pile of ropes.
Rupert looked up, and saw Calvin and Hobbes bolting across the deck, and into the bedrooms.
"GET HIM!" Rupert screamed.
Rupert's order was droned out by a high pitched
"SCREEEEEECH!"
Rupert looked up, and saw two pairs of giant hands with three foot long red claws hooked to the ship.
With a mighty chomp, The two sea monsters had destroyed a vital part of the ship.
Calvin and Hobbes were rushing through the basketball court when a large stream of water shot into it.
"UPSTAIRS!" Calvin screamed. Calvin and Hobbes rushed out of the court and into the library.
With the water only a few feet from entering that room, Calvin and Hobbes rushed up to...
Hobbes stopped.
He admired the book on the self marked "ENCYCLOPEDIA ON THE BIG CATS OF ASIA"
Calvin screamed to him to hurry up, as the was now up to his heals.
Hobbes sighed, and rushed out of the library carrying ten books on Big Cats.
Calvin and Hobbes burst into their bedroom, which was still dry, and started packing up.
Quickly.
"PACK ONLY THE ESSENTIALS!" Calvin screamed.
Hobbes tightly packed his books into the Time Machine.
Calvin piled everything else in.
Before Calvin and Hobbes could get into the box, the sound of rushing water filled Calvin's ears.
"SHUT THE DOOR!"
Hobbes slammed the door shut, but that didn't do any good.
The door was knocked over, and the room was instantly filled with salt water.
Hobbes opened his eyes he was floating around in the water, along with several other items.
His breath was held as he looked around.
Calvin was floating around the ceiling. He was limp, and his eyes were closed.
Hobbes gasped in mouthful of sea water, and grabbed Calvin's arm.
He swam through the water, and emerged.
He put Calvin on the stairs.
Calvin wasn't breathing.
Hobbes bent over to perform mouth to mouth.
It was then that Calvin opened his eyes, and saw a big furry mouth heading for him.
Calvin screamed in alarm, and jumped back.
"What were you doing!" Calvin screamed.
"Saving your life!" Hobbes spat.
Calvin started at Hobbes but had to stop when he noticed something was missing.
"Where's the Time Machine?" He asked. \
"As far as I know, still in the bed rooms, why?"
"YOU BOZO! THAT'S OUR ONLY WAY OUT OF HERE!"
"Whoops." Hobbes said, sheepishly.
Before Hobbes could stop him, Calvin dived back into the water.
It was then that Calvin wished he had listened to his swim teacher.
He dog paddled to the Time Machine, and slipped inside.
Just as he was about to run out of air, Calvin pushed a button in the box, and a glass dome slipped over Calvin, and drained the water out.
Calvin was suddenly glad he had put in that feature.
Calvin hit the rockets, and floated back up to Hobbes.
Hobbes hopped into the Machine. Calvin raised out of the water, and flew up to the deck.
There they saw a terrible sight.
The other aliens were gone only Rupert and Earl were fighting off the sea monsters.
Their uniforms were ripped, Rupert's sunglasses were cracked, and both were firing shots from ray guns to ward off the monsters.
Calvin and Hobbes looked off the ship. They predicted that they had five minutes to get away before the whole thing sunk.
"Ya know, Hobbes," Calvin said. "I feel mixed feelings for leaving a big screen TV here."
Hobbes stared at Calvin in disbelief.
"Just drive!" Hobbes spat.
"YOU!" A voice screamed.
Rupert was limping over for Calvin. He was firing blast after blast at him.
"Lets get out of here!" Hobbes screamed.
Calvin hit the escape button on his time machine, and he instantly was gone.
Flying at light speed away from the ship.
Rupert stared after Calvin with hate etched in every feature in his face, just as the ship disappeared under the water.
Calvin and Hobbes were zooming across the water.
Hobbes was reading a book.
"Calvin! Did you know that each tiger has a different style of stripes?" Hobbes asked.
"Fa-a-a-a-scinating." Calvin said ignoring him.
Just then, a familiar dock came into view.
"Hobbes!" Calvin yelled. "THERE IT IS! WE'RE SAVED!"
Calvin and Hobbes landed the Time Machine next to the dock.
They climbed out of the box, and rushed for the hotel.
On the way, they spotted several posters with Calvin's face on it.
"I feel like a dictator." Calvin said.
"No, they would've erected a statue." Hobbes said.
Calvin and Hobbes rushed over to their hotel room, and Calvin banged his fists into the door.
There was small scuffled across the floor, and Dad opened the door.
He had sleep in his eyes, and he had obviously just woke up.
"Who's here?" He asked, groggily.
"It's me Calvin!" Calvin said to his father. "I've returned from parts unknown, and boy do I have a story for you!"
"Oh, yes, well, we can hear them in the morning, Calvin." Dad muttered, closing the door.
"I'll give him ten seconds." Calvin said to Hobbes.
Calvin and Hobbes both started at his watch.
"Five... four... three... two..."
the door flew open, and Dad screamed, "CALVIN!"
"Off by one second, not bad." Hobbes commented as Dad embraced Calvin.
The next day, every news cast you could name was piling into Calvin's room.
MSN, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, FOX, you name it.
Each one demanded an interview with Calvin.
The state even awarded Calvin a free dinner at the restaurant of his choice.
Calvin enjoyed a nice burrito at Taco Bell, and Hobbes had delicious taco.
The next day the headline was in all the newspapers.
The Return of Calvin
The return of Calvin shocked many people. Calvin told another strange tale on how Rupert Chill attacked Calvin on his ship, and a sea monster then sunk the ship. This raises many eyebrows to the general public. A search has been issued for the lost ship, as Calvin reported that it was approximately 100 miles from shore. When a newscaster had asked him how he had known this, Calvin had screamed, "It was on the mileage on my Time Machine, you moron!" When the ship was found there was a gruesome discovery. The ship had been tattered by an unknown force. The captain's cabin's roof was missing. So was several bits of flooring, and walls. When Calvin was questioned on this, he had screamed something about a Sea Monster. Nobody can explain the missing bits of the ship. But Calvin stuck with his story. "Did you find Rupert and Earl, dead down there!" Calvin had asked. No bodies had been found on the ship. Which made Calvin worry about the criminal Rupert Chill who escaped from custody three months ago. What has also confused people is Calvin's sudden appearance. Nobody knows how he got to the shore after the ship sank. All they found was a wet cardboard box with the words "TIME MACHINE" Smeared across it. Calvin has confused many people. They don't know what Calvin is talking about. But then again, most six-year olds are like that.
As you can see, it was the usual cheerful junk you'll find in the newspapers. If the world was as cheerful as the newspapers, the world would be a very different place.
"Well!" Dad said, two days after Calvin's sudden reappearance. "It's time for another fun filled day of fish..."
"I'll break your ARMS if you say that word!" Calvin yelled.
"Calvin don't talk your father like that!" Dad spat.
"Not even when I can't hear you, because I have a hawk's eyes!"
"And a beak to match!" Calvin spat. "I'm not going fishing!"
"It's good for your arms Calvin!" Dad said.
"Why, look at my arms!"
"I'm looking, but I can't seem to find them!" Calvin yelled.
"I don't have thin arms! My arms are like arrows." Dad said, proudly.
"Yeah, feathers and all." Calvin said.
Dad's eyes flashed in Calvin's direction.
"DEAR!" Mom yelled. "I've had enough fishing for one lifetime! Might I remind you that it was your fishing that got Calvin lost at the Atlantic!"
Dad couldn't argue with that. They all piled into the car, and headed for the airport.
Dad never took his family fishing, again.
He stuck to his camping trips.
Everything seemed normal again for Calvin. For right now...
Epilogue
Darkness had fallen over the beach at the Atlantic.
All was still.
Just then, something rose from the water.
It was a chrome head.
Earl slowly rose from the water, along with Rupert.
Both had hatred in their eyes. Earl and Rupert emerged on the beach.
Then, right before somebody's eyes, the aliens changed.
Their eyes became bloodshot red instead of the usual yellow.
Their teeth got sharper, and their chrome heads got sharper points too.
Red eyed Earl slithered over to Red eyed Rupert.
Rupert had anger marked in every bit of his face. "
Hiding ourselves from the Earthlings no longer matters." Rupert snarled. "At this point of the game, nothing matters but revenge."
Earl turned a grin on his king.
"How so?"
"We will capture Calvin from his own house." Rupert hissed. "I no longer care about taking over the Earth. All that matters is killing Calvin and Hobbes."
Earl laughed.
Rupert laughed.
They had an evil idea stuck in their heads.
An idea that maybe, just maybe, not even Calvin could stop.
To be Continued...
Swing123: There it is. A clue on how suspenseful the next movie will be. Want more? Wait for the bonus chapter. It's coming right up.