Sorry it took this long to get Chapter 3 up. I've been busy with schoolwork lately. Anyway, enjoy this chapter! And congratulations to Swing123 and garfieldodie fortheir amazing work on Calvin and Hobbes The Series: Season One! I look forward to Season Two!

NOTE:Due to the amount of homework I'm swamped with every week, there could be a lot of waiting in between chapters. I'm really sorry about this, but I promise to have Chapter 4 up soon!

Chapter 3

Claustrophobia, Chaos, and Candy!

Calvin and Hobbes were still wedged against the door, thinking as fast as they could to make a plan that would stop the deranged flying candy dispenser.

Calvin was stuttering. "But…but…I can't figure it out! I programmed that chip chip to read my thoughts and my thoughts only! How's it being controlled?"

"Maybe that poor guy in your MTM finally snapped," replied Hobbes.

"You're NOT helping!" shouted Calvin. "Besides, HE'S on a different microchip completely."

"What a shame," said the MTM, sitting in Calvin's back pocket.

"Hey!" Calvin piped up. "That's a great idea! I can frazzle the Pez 6000 with the MTM's laser! Thanks, Hobbes! You DID help!"

"I'll get some paper and carbons for your written apology," said Hobbes, walking off to Dad's home office.

Calvin swung open the front door, MTM in hand, and shouted, "EAT LASER, YOU FLOATING PIECE OF PLASTIC JUNK!"

As soon as Calvin finished the word "junk", the MTM said, "The batteries are dead, dunce."

Time stood still for a moment, as Calvin looked straight at the Pez 6000, and the Pez 6000 looked Calvin dead in the eye.

Then Hobbes quickly grabbed Calvin by the back of his collar, yanked him inside the house and locked and propped the door.

Calvin was in hysterics. "NEW IDEA! NEED A NEW IDEA! ONE THAT DOESN'T INVOLVE GOING OUTSIDE!"

Just then, Calvin and Hobbes heard Mom screaming.

"CALVIN! ARE YOU STILL HERE! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE ON THE SCHOOL BUS! GET ON THE BUS, QUICK!"

"WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO, KILL ME? My Pez 6000 is out of control! It's after me! It's lethal! Don't put me out! DON'T PUT ME OUUUUUUUT!" Calvin screamed.

Mom threw him outside. As soon as Mom left to get her car keys, the Pez 6000 sprang to life, and locked on it's aim at Calvin's head.

Calvin raised his arms in surrender.

In response, the Pez 6000's power dial switched to 'Hiroshima Bomb', and started storing energy to fire.

3…

2…

1…

Click.

Click.

Click.

The Pez 6000 just hovered there, going 'click'. It had run out of candy ammunition.

Calvin didn't waste any time. He jumped into the air, grabbed the Pez 6000, and wrestled it to the ground. Although the device tried to fly away, Calvin caught it again, and snapped the candy dispenser in two.

Then, just to make certain, Calvin snapped the device in four.

Then, just to make ultra-certain, Calvin melted the Pez 6000 with the Transmogrifier Gun's laser.

Hobbes ran outside to Calvin. The duo looked at the molten piece of yellow plastic that was smoking on the ground. Then Calvin and Hobbes looked at each other for a few seconds. Then they burst into song.

"IT'S OVER! IT'S OVER! THE NIGHTMARE IS OVER! WE'RE SAFE! WE'RE SAFE! WE WON! WE WON! YAAAAAAAAHHHHHOOOOOOO!"

But Mom heard the noise, and gave Calvin a massive lecture on how he shouldn't have missed the school bus. Mom also had to drive him to school. But Calvin really didn't care. It had been another adventure for him and Hobbes, and another enemy they had trounced. Calvin took Hobbes to school with him, too (with the excuse he was taking him for show-and-tell).

One long, hard, tiring, and overall boring day at school later…

Calvin jumped off the school bus with Hobbes. They were just idly chatting about how tough school is what lessons Calvin had had today.

"Funny," Hobbes said. "I could've sworn that 7 + 3 was 73. I think that those problems are way too advanced for first grade, if you ask me."

"Forget about it, that's history!" Calvin laughed.

"No, it's math," said Hobbes.

"Huh?" asked Calvin.

"Never mind," replied Hobbes.

The pair walked across the front lawn, until they came to the crumpled remains of the Pez 6000.

"What are we going to do with what's left of the Pez 6000?" asked Hobbes.

"Easy," answered Calvin. "Wait here a moment."

Calvin ran off.

While he was gone, Hobbes sat down on the ground next to the broken candy dispenser. Suddenly, he found himself talking to it.

"I'm glad Calvin broke you when he did. Now we won't have to go on some life-risking journey. Well, I suppose it already has been, but you know what I mean…"

Calvin came back with the shovel. He dug a big hole, threw in the Pez 6000, buried it, and to make sure nobody got their hands on it, he heaved a heavy rock on top of it. With evil device forever destroyed, Calvin and Hobbes went inside to watch TV to celebrate.

Later that night, Calvin and Hobbes had the best night's sleep they had in ages.

But, unbeknownst to them, their adventure had only just begun. And they had better enjoy the sleep they got now…

…lest it be the last sleep they ever got.

Calvin and Hobbes woke up the next morning at 5:15 AM. Calvin bounced on the bed and shouted, "OH BOY, IT'S SATURDAY!" Calvin and Hobbes raced downstairs and turned on the living room TV faster than you can say, "Why isn't there a picture on the TV screen?"…

…Which Calvin did say.

Hobbes flicked through the TV guide until it got to the 'Saturday' page. "It says here that the cartoons don't start until 6:00 AM."

"Heck, that's 45 minutes from now! C'mon, I'll race you up and down the stairs!"

Calvin's mom, who could hear the banging and crashing of the stairs, wondered aloud, "Why can't he ever be like this on school days?"

Dad, desperate to get any sleep at all, asked, "Go break his little legs, would you, honey?"

CRASH! BANG! BONK!

Dad pulled the pillow over his head.

Calvin and Hobbes spent the next few hours eating Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs (Well, just Calvin, actually. Hobbes refuses to eat cereal that turns the milk purple.), watching cartoons on TV, and generally having great fun.

Judging by the way Calvin and Hobbes were behaving, you'd think yesterday's events were totally forgotten. Or even never happened.

They were about to get an unpleasant reminder.

The duo were in the G.R.O.S.S. treehouse, attending a meeting.

Dictator-For-Life Calvin kicked things off.

"This G.R.O.S.S. meeting will now come to order! Herewith, a field report from Top Scout Calvin!" Calvin saluted Hobbes. Hobbes saluted back.

"What news, Scout?" asked First Tiger and President Hobbes.

"The enemy has been sighted walking down the sidewalk two blocks away, Mr. President," Calvin reported. He leaned over the treehouse and pointed at Susie Derkins, G.R.O.S.S's archenemy.

"Do we have any intel on who the enemy is, Scout?" inquired Hobbes.

Calvin got out a pair of binoculars Dad once gave him. He zoomed in on the enemy.

"Yes!" announced Calvin. "Susie Derkins, an acknowledged girl! I recommend we establish a strike force!"

"It's objecti—Hey! What's that weird rumbling, Scout? Is this part of the secret plan?"

"N-N-No!" replied Calvin. He was bouncing up and down from the shaking.

Indeed, the ground was violently shaking, growing more intense as every second passed. Suddenly, without any warning, the bottom and the left half of the treehouse exploded in a shower of fireworks, throwing Calvin and Hobbes out of the treehouse screaming.

Calvin and Hobbes looked at the remains of the treehouse. Half of it had been burnt, and many of the branches were broken. The treehouse was obviously unfit for one person to stand in, let alone a kid and a tiger.

The smoke cleared, revealing the Pez 6000 lying on the ground. Calvin wasn't surprised. The explosion had broken the rock that was on top of the device.

But upon closer inspection, the Pez 6000 was no longer burnt and broken. It was gleamy and new, and now—HUH!--- made of METAL?

Then something devastating happened. The Pez 6000 lifted itself off the ground. And it now said 'Pez 6,000,000 ' on the side. The horror of the device had returned. And should it ever be destroyed again…

…it looked as though it was going to take Calvin and Hobbes with it.

"Oh…no…" Calvin breathed. "It's…here…back…" Calvin voice became a whisper. He was frozen in shock.

Not so Hobbes, though. Hobbes had pure rage in his eyes. One of the branches that was destroyed was his favorite place to nap, and he wasn't about to let this candy dispenser get away with it.

Hobbes claws shot out at an incredible speed. "YYAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" Hobbes ran towards the Pez 6000 and slashed at it with his claws. It didn't leave a mark.

Hobbes looked closely at the Pez 6000. It had undergone more than purely cosmetic surgery. It now had three firing turrets, one for candy bullets, one for firing fire, and one that fired ice. But the most worrying new aspect of this revamped contraption was that the new lowest setting on the power dial was 'rapid fire machine-gun' and the new highest setting was…gulp…'Halley's Comet'.

Hobbes eyes widened. He turned around and shouted, "CALVIN! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! SAVE YOURSELF WHILE YOU STILL CAN!" Then it happened. The Pez 6000 shot Hobbes with the ice beam, and he was now frozen to the spot.

Calvin was horrified what this…evil…thing…had just done to his best friend. But Calvin didn't cry. Calvin didn't give up. He didn't let Hobbes' sacrifice be in vain. Instead, Calvin did what most grown-ups wouldn't do in this situation. He shouted, "GOTTA CATCH ME FIRST, YOU RUSTY PIECE OF SCRAP METAL!" Now that's guts. Now that's courage. Now THAT'S friendship.

Calvin turned around and ran for the house. The Pez 6,000,000 closely followed. Calvin dashed up to his room, grabbed his Hypercube containing all of his inventions, and jumped out of the window, with the demented sweetie dispenser following him.

Calvin had a route mapped out in his mind. He ran past the garage, taking his wagon with him, and leaped into it. He was headed en route for Sneer Hill.

"Faster, Hobbes! Faster!" shouted Calvin…then he turned around. He realised that Hobbes wasn't with him anymore. A tear rolled down his cheek. But that didn't make him any less determined to stop this piece of trash! He wiped the tear off, and got ready for anything that the Pez 6,000,000 had to throw at him!

As Calvin rocketed around a corner, he looked over his shoulder. As he suspected, the device was gaining fast. Then, it suddenly opened fire.

RATTATATTATATATATTATTA

Calvin missed every shot, but the wagon had suffered a bit. The screw had come out of the back right wheel, and was now slowly coming off. But Calvin had a plan.

He purposely drove right off the edge of the cliff that was at the bottom of Sneer Hill, but he grabbed a branch on the way down. He let go of the branch, and it sprang him into the air, at the same level of the Pez 6,000,000. Calvin didn't waste a second. He grabbed the device's candy ammo, rendering it helpless.

As Calvin fell back down, he shouted, "GOOD LUCK TRYING TO DO ANYTHING WITHOUT YOUR AMMUNITION!"

Calvin's mind was snapped back to reality. He was falling fast. He quickly grabbed his Transmogrifier Gun out from his pocket, and transmogrified into a light particle. He zipped all the way to the back yard instantaneously.

Calvin found the frozen Hobbes. Calvin dragged him inside the house, and thawed him out in front of the fire. Hobbes was slowly coming around. Calvin eyes lit up. Was he still alive?

"Uuughh…EW! Water! My fur will stink now!"

"HOBBES!" Calvin cried with joy.

"Ohhh…Thanks, Calvin. I think I woulda died of frostbite if I had been left much longer…" Hobbes sighed.

Calvin was overjoyed to see his best friend in all the world back. He gave Hobbes a massive hug, and, despite being just as wet as Hobbes after the hug, Calvin promptly made Hobbes some peanut butter crackers, a hot chocolate (with marshallows in), and a comic book to read (Issue 381 of Amazon Woman if you were wondering).

After their happy reunion (and a not-so-happy reunion when Calvin discovered that Hobbes had drawn mustaches and glasses on all the characters), Calvin and Hobbes began to map out a plan on a big piece of paper. This was going to be a plan to decide what to do now that the Pez 6000 was back.

"I've got some news," said Hobbes.

And it was the best news yet.