Garzooka, Odious, Starlena and Hobbes wandered through the ship.
Hobbes held the gun in his hands. His head swiped back and forth, keeping a keen eye out for Calvin and Vetvix.
"Something just occurred to me," said Hobbes. "Do we have a plan?"
"Usually we just improvise," Garzooka replied.
"Well, maybe for the sake of the story, we could come up with something."
"For once in his life, he has a point," Starlena said.
Odious barked in agreement.
Garzooka thought for a moment.
"Well, what could we possibly do?"
"Well, knowing Vetvix," Hobbes stated, "she's probably watching us right now. No doubt she already knows about the gun."
"How so?" asked Garzooka.
Hobbes pointed at a bunch of video cameras located throughout the building.
"Oh."
"She's probably prepared something sinister right now," Hobbes carried on. "So Garzooka and Odious should be on hand for battle."
Odious flexed his tongue proudly, which was actually very creepy.
"Well, now that that's settled, not to mention put me off my lunch," Hobbes said, "I'll try to pinpoint Vetvix's exact location with my computer. If we find her, we'll find the machine that can transfer the powers back to Nermal and Pooky."
"Go for it," ordered Garzooka.
As Hobbes started, Starlena glared at him.
"Wait, what am I supposed to do?" she demanded.
"You're going to help me take out Vetvix," Hobbes replied, his eyes not leaving the screen.
"How? She can protect herself with her magic from my siren song."
"We won't need it. At the speed we'll be going, we should be able to escape her grasp."
Everyone would have raised their eyebrows if they had any.
Hobbes sighed. "I'll explain when we get there."
Meanwhile, Vetvix was sitting in her secret lab.
"There's only one more phase to the plan," she was saying to Calvin.
"What's that, o great master?" Calvin asked, still under Vetvix's spell.
"You are to get a sample of Garzooka's DNA," she said. "I'll need it in my next dirty little trick."
"What good will it do here?"
"I am going to use that DNA sample to change my form. With Garzooka's strength, I'll be unstoppable. I will manage to boot Emperor Jon off the throne and take it as my own."
Calvin blinked in response, and then started to wander down the halls.
Vetvix chuckled evilly.
While the team was sneaking around the building, they heard footsteps approaching.
"Someone's coming!" hissed Starlena.
"No kidding?" Garzooka said sarcastically. "I could have sworn it was just the hallway singing a little ditty."
And who should step around the corner, but a gone-evil Calvin.
"Uh-oh," said Hobbes. "Keep your eyes peeled," he warned. "He might just have some sick mutant around here."
"He kind of is one himself," Starlena commented.
Calvin pulled out an animal shot.
The needle gleamed.
Garzooka and Starlena screamed.
"I DIDN'T MEAN IT!" Starlena shouted.
Calvin advanced.
Hobbes was confused as to why these two were suddenly a couple of… well, 'fraidy cats.
"What's up with you two?" he asked.
"It's a shot!" Garzooka shouted.
"Hold still!" Calvin yelled at Garzooka. "I must retrieve a DNA sample from you to give to Vetvix so that she can obtain super strength."
"Well, she can take it from Dumb-Dog-A-Lot over there," Garzooka shouted, pointing at Odious.
Odious, however, had yet to have seen the horror yet.
Instead, he just looked happy to see Calvin again.
So happy, in fact, that he gave him a big, wet slurp!
The slurp was set on "stun", so Calvin's brain was fried.
That meant that Vetvix's hypnosis also got fried.
Calvin stood there, a look of blank idiocy on his face.
Much like Odious, I suppose.
Once he snapped out of it, he saw the blurred images of Garzooka, Starlena, Hobbes and Odious standing before him.
"Oh, my aching head," he moaned. "What the heck happened?"
"He's free!" cheered Hobbes.
"Huh?" Calvin asked. "Hobbes? What are you doing here? And where's Vetvix?"
"I followed you here, but that's not important. Vetvix hypnotized you into working for her, and you attacked us with some gigantic creature."
"And Vetvix apparently wants some of my DNA so she can be stronger," Garzooka put in, backing away from the shot.
"Huh, Starlena was right about you and shots," Calvin sighed.
After Hobbes told him about the special gun, he thought long and hard about the situation.
"Okay, I'm getting an idea," he said. "Vetvix doesn't know that I'm free, so I can go around here no problem. Hobbes, Vetvix says she wants Garzooka's DNA, but that's not really Garzooka. It's just Garfield in someone else's body, so it's still his DNA."
"True," Hobbes agreed, looking Garzooka over.
"So if we gave Vetvix Garfield DNA…," Calvin pondered.
They all watched him thinking.
Calvin finally snapped his fingers.
"Okay, let's hear Hobbes' plan, and then we can merge the two together," he said excitedly.
Vetvix stood in her lab, waiting.
She was staring at a wall of security monitors, and she had just sat down to find Calvin.
She spotted him standing before Pet Force.
"Fast little thing, isn't he?" she said to herself.
Calvin was holding the needle. He pounced on top of Garzooka, who strangely fell to the floor.
Calvin held the shot over Garzooka, and then he seemed to jab it into his body.
Starlena, Odious and Hobbes seemed helpless at the sight of their fallen leader.
Right when it looked like they would do something, Calvin fired a blast of ice at them, and all three were frozen on the spot.
Calvin then removed the needle from Garzooka, and then he ran off, leaving them.
Vetvix cackled evilly.
"Everything is going to plan!" she cheered.
But suddenly, the screen went blank.
Vetvix could have cared less.
She'd seen all she'd need to see.
Or so she thought.
"…and…CUT!" shouted Hobbes.
A pair of electrodes snaked back into Hobbes' hovercraft.
"I'm having so much fun today," he chuckled.
The electrodes had short-circuited the cameras in the hall, and that had left Garzooka free to get up.
Calvin had gotten some DNA from Garzooka, but he'd gotten it by different means (I'd rather not say how). He had faked stabbing him in the chest.
Garzooka stood up and joined Hobbes and Starlena nearby.
"You know, I should go into the movies," he bragged. "Hire up some other nuts to play all your roles. Except Odie, of course, because he knows his role so well."
Starlena went over to the frozen Odious.
Hobbes had projected holograms from his craft in the spot where Calvin had fired, therefore saving himself and Starlena. As for Odious, well, he'd been frozen several times before, and they figured he'd be okay.
Starlena whipped out the defroster and melted the ice, bringing Odious back to the real world.
Well…about as close to it as they could bring him anyway.
"Well, now that that's settled," said Calvin, "we now move on to Hobbes' plan. Hobbes?"
"Okay, first of all," Hobbes started, "Calvin, you go in and give her the Garfield DNA…"
And as Hobbes continued to elaborate, Pet Force grinned widely.
Even Starlena.