Tootiriz: I'm glad you like the story. As for where I got the channel surfing thing as exercise, it WAS from a past comic. I don't remember which one, though. Enjoy this next chapter!

"CALVIN!" Mom called. "CALVIN WHERE ARE YOU!"

Mom sighed. "Wow."

Rupert came into the room.

"Wow, John." Mom said to him. "If Calvin would just realize your not Rupert..."

"Ah, he'll figure it out, soon!" Rupert said. "Then he'll come out of hiding, then we can properly meet."

Man, are Calvin's parents morons or what?

Garfield crawled through the tunnel.

"Here." He grumbled, impatiently. "Your MTM."

"Garfield, you seem upset." Calvin said, taking his MTM, and putting it along with his Duplicator/Time Machine/Trasmogifier, Time Pauser, Transmogifier gun, comic books, and bottomless bag.

"Oh you noticed?" Garfield asked.

"When people get bored, they need things, Garfield." Calvin said. "You can go put that in your pipe and blow bubbles with it."

Garfield and Hobbes stared at Calvin.

Calvin ignored both of them.

"So, Garfield." Hobbes said. "how is everything going above ground?"

"Rupert and Earl are still there." Garfield yawned.

"Great." Calvin said. "We could be here for weeks."

"Considering you have access to the fridge, I feel your pain." Garfield said.

"Oh, alright. Take this."

Calvin handed Garfield his Time Pauser.

"What's this?" Garfield asked, looking it over.

"It's a Time Pauser." Calvin said. "With it, you can stop time, and get food without anybody noticing."

Garfield grinned.

"Oh thank you!" Garfield said. "This friendship has officially kicked off!"

"I want it back though when we can leave." Calvin said.

Garfield's grin faded a little.

"Oh." he said, dully.

Garfield left, leaving Calvin and Hobbes alone.

"I'm so bored, I think I want to go to the Cetaceous Period again." Hobbes said.

"Here ya go."

Calvin handed Hobbes the MTM.

"I'm not that desperate." Hobbes said.

Calvin leaned against the dirt wall.

"Maybe we can conquer our boredom by thinking of something we like?" Hobbes suggested.

"Right!" Calvin said.

Everything became quiet.

"All I can think of is that guy in New Jersey who died of Boredom last year."

"Me too." Hobbes said.

"Well, I guess we can just sit here, and slowly rot." Calvin said.

"Sounds fun." Hobbes said.

Above ground, Garfield was talking with Odie.

"Alright boy?" Garfield said. "Just like secret agents. We gotta find out if that "John" character is an alien!"

Odie barked.

"However, we need code names." Garfield said. "You can be brainless moron, and I'll be agent genius."

Odie barked suspiciously.

Garfield grinned, innocently.

"Why no, Odie," He said. "this isn't an excuse to call you names. What a silly idea."

Garfield walked up to Rupert, who was sitting in the chair.

Rupert glared down at him.

"Get away from me!" He snarled.

He drew his foot back, and kicked Garfield clear across the room.

Garfield crashed into the wall, and there he lay, his eyes not in focus.

Rupert got up, and walked over to where Garfield was.

He bent over, and leveled a finger at him.

"That was for scratching me." He growled.

He stood up, brushed himself off, and walked off.

"Agent Genius to Brainless Moron!" Garfield called. "The victim is heading for the Kitchen doorway! Release the foot!"

From behind a plant at the doorway, Odie gave Garfield a thumbs up, then stuck his foot in Rupert's way.

"AAAAA!"

CRASH!

Odie barked, happily, and rushed off.

Rupert got up, growled, angrily, then chased after Odie.

"Turn him off to me!" Garfield called.

Odie rushed toward Garfield, then turned away at the last second.

Garfield pinned his ears down, grinned, evilly, then swiped Rupert across the leg.

SWIPE!

"YEEE-OUCH!"

Rupert stopped chasing Odie, and started chasing Garfield.

Garfield rushed off.

Rupert ran after him.

Suddenly Rupert realized that Garfield was up the stairs.

He could have sworn that he was going down the hallway.

Rupert continued chasing Garfield, but it seemed like Garfield was in seven places at once!

Soon, Garfield just vanished.

Rupert scratched his head, then turned back, to go to the living room.

Garfield was hanging onto a lamp on the ceiling.

"Agent Genius to Brainless Moron!" Garfield called. "I am now stationed at the spy counter! Retreat!"

Odie rushed out of the livingroom.

Now was th perfect time for spying.

Jon, Mom, and Dad were out of the house, looking for Calvin.

Garfield stood on the ceiling, virtually invisible.

Earl came into the livingroom.

"The Earthlings are outside looking for the Earth Potentate." He said.

"He's not outside." Rupert snarled. "He's in this house. I've stationed cameras at the every exit in this house. Calvin has not left it."

Garfield watched Rupert and Earl.

He was getting suspicious for Earl's use of the words "Earthlings" and "Earth Potentate."

And how could Rupert set up cameras without Jon noticing?

Just then, Rupert took off his sunglasses.

Garfield nearly fell off his station.

Behind the sunglasses were yellow, compound eyes.

Earl took off his sunglasses.

They were the same.

Rupert's skin turned gray, and his hair vanished. His head filed into a point, and his hands and legs turned into tentacles. His clothes vanished, and a space uniform appeared. more tentacles shot out of Rupert's sides.

The same happened to Earl.

"Gee," Garfield said. "John and Earl could really use some advanced plastic surgery."

"We're going to search the house." alien Rupert said.

Earl and Rupert went separate ways.

"Oh no!" Garfield said. "If they push on that side of the wall, they'll find the tunnel! And if they find the tunnel, they'll find Calvin! And if they find Calvin, the world will be destroyed! And if the World's destroyed that means... GASP! NO FOOD! No TV! No sleeping! They'll probably turn us all into slaves! I've got to do something! And quick!"

Garfield's stomach growled.

"Hmm." He said. "I guess the world can wait until after lunch."

Garfield climbed down from the ceiling, and walked up to the refrigerator.

"Let's see." He said. "Do I want tuna, french fries, lasagna, egg salad, or a cake?"

Just then, something tapped on Garfield's shoulder.

"Yes?" He asked turning around.

"Hello, cat!" Earl growled.

Garfield screamed.

"ALIEN!" He yelled.

Earl lurched form Garfield.

Garfield leaped from the way, and slammed the fridge door on Earl's head.

"YEE-OUCH!" Earl screamed.

Garfield rushed off.

"ODIE!" Garfield yelled. "RUN FOR YOU LIFE! THE ALIENS ARE COMING! AND THEY DON'T WANT OUR FOOD!"

Garfield rushed upstairs to get to his tunnel.

Just then Rupert leaped in front of him.

"Here kitty, kitty, kitty!" He snarled.

Garfield screamed, and rushed off in the opposite direction. Just then Earl leaped in Garfield's way.

"Here go your nine lives, cat!" Earl laughed, holding up a ray gun.

Garfield flinched, put his hands over his head, and started shaking.

Just then the front door slammed.

"Garfield! Odie! John! Earl! We're home!" Jon called.

Rupert and Earl exchanged glances, and quickly changed back into humans.

"And did you find Calvin?" Rupert asked as Jon came up the stairs.

"Nope." Jon said. "wherever Calvin hid, he did it in a good place!"

Jon looked down at Garfield.

"Whoa, look at Garfield!" He said. "he's all shaken up!"

Jon bent over to where Garfield was.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

Just then, Garfield's stomach growled again.

Garfield stopped shaking, and smacked his lips.

"Hmm." He said. "I will if I have a good medium sized snack. Perhaps some soup, a string of smoked sausages, some lasagna, a burrito, a cheese burger, another burrito, some French Fries, a Strawberry milkshake, a Big Mac, some tuna, a cake, a pie, some chips, a..."

Is this boring you?

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Maybe that will help.