Rupert entered his room, and walked over to the bed.

Calvin, Hobbes, Garfield, and Odie backed up into the darkest corner of the bed.

Rupert was mumbling and grumbling things nobody could hear.

He sat down onto the bed, and attempted to get his shoe off. He didn't untie it, or anything, he was trying to rip of off without untiing it.

Finally, he got one of them off, and began working on the other.

Then Earl came into the room.

"Are you sending transmissions out to the crew?" he asked.

"No, Why?" asked Rupert.

"I just picked up a bunch of high radio frequency levels in this room. Somebody was in here, sending messages to the ship through a radio."

There was a moment of silence.

Calvin gulped, and the four backed up into the deep darkness under the bed.

Then, Rupert spoke.

"Earl. Close the door."

There was a thud, as the door closed.

"Are Jon or Calvin's parents in the house?" Rupert asked.

"The parents are out looking for Calvin. Jon's in the livingroom, but he wouldn't hear anything relating to action in the state he's in."

"Good. Check the closets."

Earl started flinging the closet doors open, and looking inside.

Through the bedding, Calvin, Hobbes, Garfield, and Odie watched in sheer helplessness as Rupert's hand reached for the cover.

He ripped the covers up.

Everyone under the bed was quiet as a mouse.

Then... the big compound eyes of Rupert revealed themselves, as Rupert crouched down, and peered into the bed.

He looked right into Calvin's face.

Rupert's eyes went from Calvin, to Hobbes, to Odie, to Garfield.

But for a while, he didn't say anything. He just stared at them.

Then...

Whew...

He let the sheets drop, and he stood up.

"He's not under the bed." Rupert said.

Everybody nearly fainted with relief. It must have been too dark for him to see anything.

"I hope Earl's crew hurries." Hobbes whispered.

The UFO descended upon the Earth. Earl's crew aboard trying not to mess up.

"I wonder what the Earth Potentate's doing to him." Rick wondered.

"Probably using advanced human technology to encase him in a deadly floating orb of cottage cheese!" Lenny yelled.

"Yeah, but only we can do that." Alex pointed out. "All the other alien civilizations think that it's a stupid weapon."

"Oh yeah."

The UFO continued downward.

Meanwhile, while Jon was babbling about horse flies attending the wedding of mashed potatoes, Calvin, Hobbes, Garfield and Odie discussed their plan.

"Alright, plan clear?" Calvin asked.

Everyone nodded.

"OK." Garfield said. "But tell me, where do you plan on getting a ten ton diamond for the vaporizer?"

"I thought you had one." Calvin said, blinking.

"Look, let's just go with my idea." Hobbes voiced.

"What, and get ourselves killed?" Calvin demanded.

"How long has it been since you called the aliens?" Garfield asked.

Calvin looked at his watch.

"It's been about two minutes, now." He said.

"Yeah... We're dead." Garfield stated.

Suddenly, the mattress, the precious mattress, was yanked away, and Calvin, Hobbes, Garfield, and Odie were revealed to the light for all the world to see.

"This is bad." Calvin said.

The four looked up.

Earl was grinning down at them, as he threw the mattress away. Rupert was standing above them too, grinning at them like a lunatic.

"Well..." Calvin chuckled. "Look who it is! It's our good buddies Rupert and Earl! How ya doing? Great! Shall we discuss the brotherhood of all aliens and alien like creatures?"

Rupert and Earl shook their heads, and grinned.

"Well, then, we'll be forced to run for our lives screaming like a bunch of loons." Hobbes said.

"Good plan." Earl said.

"HEEEEEELP!"

There was an explosion of bedding, and the four had vanished.

"AFTER THEM!" Rupert ordered.

Calvin, Hobbes, Garfield and Odie zoomed past Jon who was talking about flying DVDs going to market to sell their milk cows, and zoomed for the nearest exit.

Earl was blocking the nearest exit.

The four screeched to a stop, and roared towards the unnearest exit.

Rupert was blocking the unnearest exit.

So, Garfield, Odie, Calvin and Hobbes zoomed up the stairs, and raced for the hole in the wall.

Earl had filled the tunnel in.

After Calvin and Hobbes had finished spitting all the dirt out of their mouths, they continued their race against...

Rupert grabbed Calvin by the shirt and Hobbes by the scruff of the neck.

"YEEK!" Calvin and Hobbes screamed in unison.

Rupert laughed, and carried him off.

Garfield and Odie continued running.

They zoomed past Jon, who was talking about dancing snowballs at the movies, and raced for the bedrooms.

Oops.

CRASH! BANG! BOOM!

Garfield and Odie had run right into the middle of the paint cans. Jon had been painting the bathroom, and now Garfield and Odie were covered in... hmmm... Well, Jon murdering Garfield didn't bother him as much, because Earl was running up the stairs into the bedroom.

So, both pets got covered in paint, and that wasn't entirely Garfield's fault, and they dove into the closet.

For a while, silence.

Garfield rolled his eyes around, and Odie shivered.

Earl entered the room.

"Come out, come out, wherever you are." Earl hissed.

Garfield and Odie didn't move a hair.

There was a moment of silence.

For a while, Garfield thought Earl had given up, but... just then there was the sound of... sniffing?

Garfield turned to Odie.

"This isn't good, Odie." He said. "That alien's using some kind of smelling device. He's not depending on his eyes. In other words, if you can't understand that, than let me rephrase it. Earl's going to sniff us out."

Odie began to shiver.

Then, Earl's hacksaw voice rang through Garfield's ears.

"Uh. Can't find that idiot cat or dog... Now everything smells like... paint."

"Did you hear that?" Garfield asked. "Oh happy day! We were saved by the paint!"

Just then, Garfield picked up another sound. A kind of clicking.

It was coming from...

"Odie, you stupid mutt! Stop clacking your teeth! They're going to hear you!"

"W-Whimper, whimper, whimper." Odie clacked. Translation: "I c-c-can't h-help it, I'm so s-s-scared."

Garfield was about to straggle Odie, when... There was a loud hacksaw laugh, and Earl's voice.

"HA HA HA! Well what do you know? I can just follow the sound of the teeth. This is the best news of the century."

Earl walked over to the closet, and yanked it open, revealing Garfield and Odie's paint covered bodies.

Earl grinned down at them.

"Hi there, petties." He growled.

"Was that suppose to be friendly?" Garfield asked.

The two pets were about to leap away, when Earl grabbed them, and carried them away.

Earl carried them past Jon, who was talking about something so ridiculous I wont even bother to mention it, and carried them outside.

"To the basement!" Earl yelled.

"We don't have a basement." Garfield said.

Earl pushed a button on his suit, and ground underneath them dropped down like an elevator.

"We do have a basement." Garfield said. "What do you know?"

Garfield and Odie were flung into a cell with Calvin and Hobbes.

"Hi?" Hobbes said. "Come here often?"

Garfield and Odie gulped and turned to Rupert and Earl.

They were laughing their heads off, and muttering threats about all the terrible things they were about to do to them.

"Just so you know," Garfield said, turning to Calvin. "You're never invited back here, again."

Calvin blinked.