There we switched chapters.

Now where were we?

Garfield burst into the tunnel, he frantically crawled through it until he reached the room.

"Well?" Calvin asked. "Did you look into it?"

"Apparently," Garfield yawned. "the rapidly disappearing food is the least of my problems, believe it or not."

Hobbes' eyes widened to the size of dinner plates.

"You saw Rupert and Earl in their alien forms!" He shouted.

Garfield nodded. "And let me say, they desperately needed a face lift."

Calvin felt his eyes trying bounce out of his head.

"Then they are Rupert and Earl! They've come here to get me! And I'm in big trouble!"

"Considering that they were going to fry me for sport," Garfield said. "Yeah, you are in big trouble."

Suddenly The three heard Jon.

"GARFIELD! WHERE ARE YOU!"

"Whu oh." Garfield said. "The artillery is requesting my presence."

"Wait a minute!" Calvin said. "We're trapped under the house!"

"Yeah, but I'm not. Bye."

And with that, Garfield left.

Calvin and Hobbes glared after him.

Garfield walked out of the tunnel.

There he met, Jon, Mom and Dad.

"We're going out to look for him some more." Dad said.

"You stay here." Mom said. "In case he comes back."

Jon's eyes became very serious and he did a salute.

Mom and Dad walked out the door.

Jon turned to Garfield.

"Alright Garfield. I'm going to stay here in case Calvin comes back." He said.

"What an original idea." Garfield said.

"Meanwhile, you came help John and Earl find him."

"I'd rather go on a diet." Garfield said.

"Go!" Jon growled.

"Very well, but mark my words, when I die, I'll come back as a ghost and haunt you."

Garfield marched away.

Rupert and Earl were waiting for Garfield in the Kitchen.

"Here kitty." Earl snarled, reaching behind his back.

Garfield's eyes widened, slightly.

"There's only one thing to do about this!" He declared.

The shoved a finger at Rupert and Earl.

"I will no longer hide behind the curtains of cowardly something or other!" He announced. "I will rise up from the shredded curtains and defeat the terror that faces me!"

As Garfield talked, Rupert and Earl exchanged confused glances.

"...Some president said to "Fear nothing but fear itself!" I see no fear anywhere, at this particular moment, so I will rise, and defeat the aliens who..."

Garfield's speech was cut short by Rupert taking out his ray gun, and blasting Garfield.

"YEEEK!" Garfield yelled, as the blast of red energy rocketed him into the livingroom.

Rupert and Earl changed into their alien forms and raced into the livingroom.

Jon wasn't in the chair.

Rupert slithered up to Garfield and growled, "where's Calvin!"

"Which Calvin could you be asking for?" Garfield asked, nervously. "There are many Calvins. Once I met this guy called Calvin who won a marathon in Oklahoma City."

Rupert and Earl pointed the glowing ends of their ray guns at Garfield.

"Or maybe you're talking about the Calvin that's here. I suppose that makes sense, since he's the only Calvin around."

At that very moment Jon walked into the room.

"Hey Garfield," He said. "I got some popcorn so we can watch some movies while we wait for Cal..."

He spotted Rupert and Earl.

He gawked at them.

Rupert and Earl stared back.

Then Jon spoke.

"Buh buh buh... A WHEEEE, a bumbedoo. GomlamunaeHUM!"

Jon's eyes went out of focus, and he continued to babble.

Garfield, Rupert and Earl exchanged glances.

Jon dropped the popcorn.

"Glum gleem mum dee dee DOO DAA! Mumble maple syrup on Tuesday. Rumple Ragamuffin. Remember December hop along horse feathers. Buzz blop buggy bumpers. Honk wheeze whiffle. Wheezle Whickerbill soap suds."

Garfield had later considered Jon's words. He tried to imagine a fantasy world that Jon had made up for himself. A world where horses had feathers, ragamuffins wore ruffled suits, buggies had bumpers, and Whickerbils ate soap suds.

By the end of the day, Garfield had decided that Jon was a lunatic, and what he said in a dazed state was even nuttier than what he said when he was awake.

Rupert and Earl stared at Jon.

"He found out." Earl said. "Should we waste him?"

Rupert studied Jon as he continued to talk about how twenty toads went to the wedding of an egg salad sandwich.

"No." Rupert grinned. "Let's watch him struggle to tell everybody that we're not of this planet."

Earl grinned and turned to Jon.

"Boo." He said.

"YAAAAAAAAAH!" Jon screamed, leaped in seven directions at once, and disappeared in a puff of dust.

Rupert and Earl got a few chuckles out of that. Then they turned back to Garfield.

He had vanished.

Garfield was in bed, of corse, sleeping his life away, and hiding from Rupert and Earl.

Underground, Calvin and Hobbes continued to sit. bored out of their skulls, and about to mad.

Calvin stared Hobbes, and Hobbes stared at Calvin.

Hobbes was half awake, while Calvin had completely checked out.

"Spaceman Spiff stares at the alien." Spiff thought. "just staring. who-hoo. star-ing. Something should happen any year now. a-a-a-a-a-a-a-any decade now. Yes sir."

"SPIFF LEAPS THROUGH THE AIR AND ATTACKS THE ALIEN!" Calvin screamed, desperate for something to happen.

Calvin and Hobbes rolled around on the ground for a while, until Hobbes decided they had to go upstairs before brains started leaking out their ears.

Calvin peeked out of the opening in the wall.

He took a step out.

Nothing happened, so he took another step out.

When nothing happened, again, Calvin stepped out of the wall, and peeked down the balcony.

Rupert and Earl were nowhere in sight.

Calvin motioned for Hobbes to step out, and he did so.

Hobbes closed the opening, and tiptoed over to where Calvin was.

They had left their hiding space.

And they were going after Rupert.