Calvin and Hobbes peeked around the corner, Odious right behind them.

"Okay, Dyno-Dumb," said Hobbes. "Get going."

Odious nodded and jumped forward. Using extra strong strength, he punched the door down to where Vetvix was hidden. Then he dashed behind corner.

Calvin jumped into place and stood there, holding his fists up.

Vetvix whirled around.

She stared at Calvin.

"Did you…?"

Calvin grinned sheepishly, yet still pretending to be under hypnosis.

"I, er, got a little thirsty on the way over," he said, holding up the shot.

Vetvix got a disgusted look on her face.

"Still, you retrieved what I asked for," she said.

Calvin handed her the shot, and hit a sneaky grin.

Not an evil grin.

No, that's Vetvix's job.

Vetvix used some dark magic to remove the DNA of the Pet Force leader, and then she inhaled the orange fumes that were floating in the air in front of her. She was enveloped by a flash of light, and then there was a snapping noise.

"It's working!" Vetvix cheered. "Once I have Garzooka's super-strength, I will be able to destroy Emperor Jon and take over the universe!"

"So she thinks," Calvin thought.

Calvin put a hand behind his back and gave a thumbs-up.

That was the signal.

It was that instant that Garzooka, Hobbes and Starlena burst in.

"LET THE FUR FLY!" Garzooka shouted.

Suddenly, a large object with a dog head slammed into the wall, leaving a giant impression.

"A little more to the left, Odious," said Hobbes.

Odious backed up, and then ran in next to the others, barking happily.

Vetvix was left stuttering.

"Wait, if you're all… And he is… And I… Huh?"

"HA!" shouted Calvin. "FOOLED YOU!"

Vetvix growled.

"No matter," she snapped. "Fooled or not, you're going down!"

She clapped her hands together, and black smoke started to emit from them.

"That's…not a good sign," Garzooka muttered.

Vetvix made her hands into the shape of all ball, and they started to part, forming a black sphere in between her hands.

"Uh-oh," said Starlena. "She's about to practice her seven-ten split!"

Before they could get out of the way, Vetvix bowled the round object straight at them.

Garzooka, Odious, Starlena and Calvin were knocked off their feet.

"Darn it," Calvin muttered. "Aw…DARN it!"

Hobbes examined Starlena.

"You know, in this kind of light, you're kind of cute!" he said.

Starlena growled at him.

Calvin then fired a blast of ice at Vetvix, but it was no use, before Vetvix had put an invisible fore-field around herself.

"Think you're so clever, kid?" she asked. "Well, try this on for size!"

She fired a blast of energy at Pet Force.

Calvin reacted quickly.

He threw up his own force-field, and the energy bounced off and hit a computer, turning it into a flower.

"Huh, thank goodness that didn't hit me," Garzooka muttered. "I would have had to eat myself."

Odious punched the floorboard, and it sprung up, sending Vetvix through the air towards Garzooka.

"Ah, a nice hearty game of Villain-Ball," Garzooka said, punching her through the air.

Odious punched her back.

This went on for a while until Vetvix crashing to the floor.

Hobbes held up the gun.

"Say your prayers, Vetvix," he chuckled. "You are goin' down!"

"Oh, I don't think so," she grinned.

She snapped her fingers.

WHUMP!

Pet Force looked behind them.

"Oh, look who's back," Garzooka muttered.

Yeah, it was the LMTKSBET, and it had landed right behind them.

"Seriously, how do you hide that thing?" asked Hobbes.

"Seize them!" Vetvix ordered.

The giant creature proceeded in stalking for Pet Force. It had built up a lot of fury, and now the furry fighters of justice (and Calvin) couldn't fight it.

"Uh-oh," muttered Calvin.

Suddenly, right when they were about to be toast, there was a familiar horn that sounded in the air.

"Is that…?" Starlena asked.

"It couldn't be," said Garzooka.

But it was.

The Lightspeed Lasagna came crashing through the ceiling, and it landed on the LMTKSBET, flattening it.

"Nice touch," said Garzooka.

The door popped open, and out tumbled Nermal, and Pooky was in his hands.

"ALL RIGHT!" he cheered.

But Vetvix didn't speak cat, so she just saw an adorable little kitten holding a teddy bear.

"Huh," she commented.

"Wow, that was perfect timing," Hobbes said to Nermal.

"Aw, shucks," Nermal smiled. "T'weren't nothin'."

Vetvix growled, but then she got a funny feeling in her stomach.

She started to glow a brilliant shade of yellow. Red swirls started to go around her.

"YES!" she crowed. "GARZOOKA'S DNA IS TAKING EFFECT!"

"What would she want with his DNA?" asked Nermal.

Suddenly, Vetvix's eyes turned red, and she started to growl loudly.

"I'm achieving his super-strength!" she yelled.

Hobbes grinned smugly.

"That's not strength you're feeling," he shouted.

Suddenly, Vetvix changed. She became a bit shorter, and her skin turned a faint orange color. Her body got a bit hairier. But what was really weird was her stomach, which suddenly inflated like a balloon, and she grew fatter and fatter.

"What th—! What's happening!" she shrieked.

"You wanted Garzooka DNA," said Calvin. "Sadly, though, Garzooka is no longer with us, and you got Garfield DNA."

"NOOOOO!" Vetvix screamed.

Pet Force watched with much amusement as Vetvix grew larger and rounder and heavier by the second, and when she was finally finished, she was about the size of a bulldozer.

"Why…why do I suddenly hate Mondays, cute kittens, spiders and rain, and suddenly have an urge to eat lasagna?"

"Welcome to my world," said Garzooka sarcastically.

With Vetvix temporarily distracted, he walked over to her.

"Vetvix," he snarled, "you have proven to be a very worthy adversary, but the game's up, and you're down."

He pulled out the gun, and he took aim.

Vetvix scowled.

"You haven't won yet! Just watch!"

She attempted to blast him with her magic, but her arm was so heavy that she couldn't lift it.

"Darn it!" she muttered.

"Good bye, Vetvix," Garzooka growled. "And good riddance."

Everyone waved at her.

Vetvix growled.

"Oh, there's no way I'm going to the dimension like this!" she said, patting her bloated stomach. "The original Pet Force will laugh at me."

But Garzooka could've cared less.

He pulled the trigger.

A blast of crimson shot out and enveloped the whale of a veterinarian in an instant.

She screamed loudly as she started to fade away, and then she was gone.

Pet Force cheered.

"WE DID IT!" they shouted.

"We finally defeated Vetvix once and for all!" cheered Garzooka.

"We're heroes!" said Nermal.

"The universe is saved!" added Starlena.

Odious barked and pranced around happily.

Calvin and Hobbes watched the celebration.

"Well, I'd say our work here is done," Calvin said.

"Yeh," said Hobbes. "It was fun."

Suddenly, Calvin saw his hands starting to glow.

"Hey, what's going on?" he asked.

Everyone looked over their shoulders.

Calvin and Hobbes were turning that same color that Vetvix had turned just a while ago.

Then Nermal and Pooky started to glow too.

All four lifted up into the air.

Garzooka, Odious and Starlena watched in awe.

Well…two out of three, anyway.

Suddenly, Calvin and Hobbes disappeared in a blast of light, and when everyone's eyesight adjusted, they found that Calvin was once again wearing his red shirt with black pants and purplish-red shoes. Hobbes was out of the hovercraft and completely naked again.

The light shifted and moved over towards Nermal and Pooky. They were enveloped in the light, and then they got their Pet Force uniforms back, and once again became Abnermal and Compooky!

The four figures landed on the floor before the other three.

"WE'RE BACK TO NORMAL!" cheered Abnermal. He started running around in circles, annoying the heck out of Garzooka, Calvin and Hobbes. "WE'RE BACK! WE'RE BACK! WE'RE BACK! WE'RE BACK! WE'RE BACK!"

"And so is his pester-power," Garzooka mumbled.

"Gee, aren't we lucky," Hobbes muttered.

With a series of whistles and clicks, Compooky landed nearby Hobbes.

"I see you didn't do any damage to my craft," he said.

Hobbes yawned and went into his cat stretches.

"Oh yeah, they're fine. But I guess it'd take someone with legs as short as yours to sit in that chair for so long."

Just then, they saw several of Vetvix's cronies were starting to change.

A half-gerbil, half-gorilla changed back into a gerbil and gorilla. A half-parrot, half-turtle turned back into a parrot and a turtle. A half-hawk, half-wolf changed back into… Well, you get it.

"All of Vetvix's black magic is being erased from the universe!" said Compooky.

"Cool!" cheered Calvin.

Starlena sighed.

Calvin whipped around towards her, Hobbes right behind her.

"As for you, I believe you have something to say to us?"

Starlena groaned. "I'm… Well…geeze. I'm sorry."

"For?" asked Hobbes.

"For being a jerk."

"And…?" asked Calvin.

"And for not believing in you."

"And…?" asked Hobbes.

"And for calling you idiots."

"And…?" they both asked.

"And shut up, or I'll kill you both!" she shouted.

"Good enough," Calvin decided.

All over the universe, everything that had ever been altered by Vetvix's dark magic went back to its normal status.

The Lethal Lizards went back to being regular lizards.

All her mutant companions returned to regular animals.

Gorbul went back to being a gorilla and a bull dog.

But not all that happened was good.

Many miles away at the far end of the universe, an asteroid hurtled through space. And it was the one Vetvix had imprisoned her ex-sidekick, Space Pie-Rat inside it. Without Vetvix's magic to hold him there, the pirate-clad rat magically appeared on a distant planet called Glacia, which was home to Vetvix's tutor, Barfo the magic wizard, which was where he had last been.

"I'M FREE!" he cheered. "It means that Vetvix has been eliminated, and that means that I can take over the universe!"

Whoops.

Back at Emperor Jon's palace on Polyester, all of Pet Force, as well as Calvin and Hobbes, stood up in front of the huge crowds.

"Pet Force," Emperor Jon said, "I congratulate you all. Thanks to you, Vetvix has been gotten rid of for good, and she's not coming back."

Garzooka stepped forward modestly.

"Why thank you, Emperor Jon," he said. "It was a routine job, really."

Everyone else in Pet Force groaned and rolled their eyes.

"Of course, we couldn't have done it without Calvin and Hobbes," he added.

Calvin and Hobbes took a bow.

The crowd cheered.

"Oh, thank you, thank you," said Calvin.

"Please, stop!" Hobbes said. "You're too kind."

Emperor Jon and Sorcerer Binky stood before Pet Force.

"You did very well," said Emperor Jon. "You have finally defeated the greatest threat to this universe."

"And it only took six tries," added Sorcerer Binky.

Abnermal looked a little sad. "Is this the end of Pet Force?" he asked.

"Of course not," said Emperor Jon. "Even with Vetvix gone, there are a few more threats waiting out there somewhere. You never know who could possibly pop up around here."

"So true," said Garzooka.

"And well done to you two," said the emperor. "It was a pleasure meeting you."

"Thanks," said Calvin. "Now do we get a large cash award?"

"Or a lifetime supply of tuna?" asked Hobbes.

Everyone rolled their eyes.

"Well, the adventure's over," said Sorcerer Binky. "Time for you all to go home."

"But I don't wanna!" whined Calvin. "My mom's eggplant casserole is waiting there and I for one am in on mood to take that on."

"Sorry, kid," said Binky. "You're going to have to go."

Calvin sighed, but decided to go along.

"Once again, Pet Force, good bye, and good luck," said Emperor Jon.

Emperor Jon and Sorcerer Binky waved good bye.

Pet Force, Calvin and Hobbes waved back.

In a flash of light, they were sucked into the magic cauldron and disappeared.

"Well, now that that's over with," said Emperor Jon, "it's time to get back to laundry day."

Sorcerer Binky sighed.

Our universe, Calvin and Hobbes' house…

ZAP! Garfield, Odie, Arlene, Nermal, Pooky, Calvin and Hobbes were transported back to the dinner table, through the dimensional portal of Pet Force #100. They had each landed back in their seats.

Calvin and Hobbes were extremely confused as to what had just happened. They had a vague recollection of having just had a strange experience, but they could quite put their fingers on it. Garfield and the others had had that same feeling after their first Pet Force adventure.

Calvin sifted through memories of a cool spaceship, ice, muscle-bound bodies and fat evil veterinarians.

Hobbes pondered thoughts about cool sunglasses, magic cauldrons, calculations, and talking teddy bears.

They glanced through the kitchen at the others, and saw everything was the same as before. Time had gone very slowly here.

Mom and Dad had just finished their argument, and Jon Arbuckle was just removing his hand from his face after just choking down Mom's eggplant casserole.

When they looked back at their friends (including Arlene), they saw the argument Garfield, Nermal and Arlene had been having had been resolved, and they were now continuing to dump the contents from their plates to Odie's. Odie growled at them, and then he dumped his load of garbage onto Dad's plate. Pooky just sat there.

Mom and Dad seemed to show no evidence that the whole adventure had happened.

It had been like a really fast daydream.

Calvin and Hobbes looked at each other, shrugged and resumed looking at their plates.

"Uh, Mom, I'm done. Can we go now?" Calvin asked.

Mom sighed.

"Fine, go to your room," she said.

Calvin, Hobbes, Garfield, Odie, Arlene, Nermal and Pooky left.

When Dad wasn't looking, Jon poured the contents on his plate onto his.

Later that day, they were all upstairs, reading comic books and eating Calvin's hidden stash of cookies.

Calvin and Hobbes were reading Captain Maim when something stirred their memories.

They looked at the comics in their hands, and then glanced over at the animals eating cookies on the floor.

"Hmm…," Calvin pondered.

"Huh," Hobbes thought.

They looked between their comics and Garfield and the gang.

Garfield looked up and saw them looking confused.

"Is something wrong?" he asked, with a mouthful of cookies.

Calvin and Hobbes looked at each other, and then tried hard to hold in their laughter at the crazy thought that had just gone through their heads.

"Oh, nothing," said Calvin.

"Yeah, nothing at all," agreed Hobbes.

Garfield shrugged it off and stuck his head in the cookie vat, and started to gorge on some chocolate chips.