To Jeffaplus: I'm glad you like this story. I just come up with ideas like the MTM, but a Dinosaur encyclopedia is where I'm getting most of the info. As for your suggestion for JAWS, well, I don't know. I'll think about it.
Chapter ten
Aerial Probe Launched
with a deep hum, the Aerial probe shot out of the MTM, and hovered over the small herd of Hypsilophodon.
The dominate female looked up, and stared at the humming frisbee hovering above it.
It clicked disapprovingly, and started moving its chicks away.
The Aerial Probe followed it.
The Hypsilophodon stared at the Probe.
It began hissing at it. It obviously saw the probe as some kind of threat.
The super computer in the probe realized this, and backed up a bit.
The Hypsilophodon continued to hiss at it, threateningly.
The Aerial Probe raised high into the air, high above the Dinosaurs.
The herd watched it.
The Aerial Probe hovered a few feet in the sky.
It focused its lens at one of the chicks.
It was still trying to sit up. It was obviously a newborn.
The lens zoomed in on the dinosaur.
It couldn't get a fix on them, so it inched closer to it.
Finally it was close enough to...
HUH?
There was an outbreak of hissing and shrieking.
The lens of the Aerial Probe shot around.
The female Hypsilophodon was stampeding towards it.
Before the Aerial Probe could react, The Hypsilophodon was on top of the it, shrieking and hissing.
The camera lens saw the Hypsilophodon climbing over it, clawing it, and scratching at it. All the time, screaming.
Then it retracted off of it with a jump.
The Aerial Probe crashed to the ground.
The lens saw the herd scurrying away, and clicking in fear and shock before the camera went out, completely, with only the hiss of static left.
"YOU STUPID ANIMALS!" Calvin screamed after the Hypsilophodons. "YOU'RE GOING EXTINCT, ANYWAY! MORONIC ANIMALS!"
Calvin gathered up the remains of his Aerial Probe.
"Stupid idiots." He muttered
"They were just protecting their baby." Hobbes said, coming out form behind the bush.
"It was a frisbee for crying out loud! A flying frisbee! What harm could it have possibly done!"
Hobbes rolled his eyes.
"Luckily!" Calvin grinned. "I have a spare probe in the MTM!"
Hobbes stared at Calvin in shock.
"You mean to tell me that we spent all that time trying to save that one stupid probe, when you had another one!" Hobbes screamed.
"Hey!" Calvin yelled. "I didn't want to use it unless the probe was destroyed!"
Hobbes stared at Calvin at shock.
He then crouched down, and pounced Calvin.
POW!
They flew into a tree.
CRASH!
Calvin got up, and grumbled, but Hobbes was satisfied that Calvin had lived out his punishment.
Just then, Calvin stopped.
He looked up in the tree.
"Hobbes!" Calvin whispered. "LOOK!"
Hobbes looked up.
There was a bird nest up in the trees.
"Do you know what that is?" Calvin asked, excitedly.
"Nope." Hobbes said, not sure if he wanted to.
"It's an Archeopteryx nest!" Calvin shouted.
Hobbes blinked.
"You mean those flying things that have feathers, so they're classified as birds?" He asked.
"That's right!" Calvin said.
"Oh great." Hobbes sighed, turning away.
"OK!" Calvin said. "I'll take pictures of the nest, you stand guard in case Mommy Feathers comes back."
"Right." Hobbes said, doing a solute.
Hobbes tied the rope around Calvin's waist, and grabbed hold of the other end.
"PULL!" Calvin yelled.
With great might, Hobbes pulled at the rope.
The rope scratched against the tree limb, as Calvin slowly started to raise upward.
Hobbes heaved, and Calvin raised farther upward.
Soon, Calvin reached the top. Calvin untied himself, and pulled out his MTM.
"Sheesh, it's still wet from yesterday!" Calvin mumbled drying it off with his shirt.
Calvin then turned back to the nest, and started taking pictures.
"Hey, little babies!" Calvin cooed. "Looky, looky!"
The three babies in the nest turned around, and stared at Calvin as if saying, "What do you want now?"
Calvin took several pictures from the nest.
Just then, Calvin heard Hobbes' voice.
"Alert. Alert. Mommy Feathers has returned. Mommy Feathers is carrying something dead in her mouth. Mommy Feathers will be very pleased about company at this particular time."
HUH?
Calvin looked up.
Hmmm... There appeared to be a... well... an Archeopteryx standing above him, with a lethal expression.
"Um..." Calvin rolled his eyes around. "Greetings from the future?"
"SQUAWK!" screeched the Archeopteryx.
The babies watched with great interest as Mommy Feathers proceeded to amputate Calvin's head, arms, and legs.
Hobbes watched from the safety of the ground.
"OW! HEY! LEGGO! OUCH! TAKE THIS! OUCH!"
By this time, the babies had joined in on the fun.
Hobbes was laughing now.
"BACK! BACK YOU RATS WITH WINGS!" Calvin screamed, attempting to throw the birds off him.
Just then, Calvin dropped his MTM.
It dropped onto the ground.
Hobbes followed its progress back to Earth.
CRASH!
Calvin continued his attempt to get the prehistoric birds off him.
Finally Calvin got away.
He didn't know how, though.
Maybe the Archeopteryx got bored with him.
Anyway, Calvin and Hobbes zoomed off.
The zoomed into the forest.
The Allosaur was waiting for them.
"Terrific!" Calvin yelled.
Calvin and Hobbes started climbing a prehistoric tree. They climbed and climbed until they reached the top.
No good did that do.
The Allosaurus head butted the tree, and Calvin and Hobbes were nearly knocked off.
The probe flew back into the MTM as the Dinosaur crashed into the tree, again.
Calvin and Hobbes were holding on with all their might.
The Allosaurus roared in frustration, and slammed its head into the tree again.
Calvin opened the Main Menu, and scrolled down to defense mode.
BOOM!
The Allosaurus was knocked off its feet.
It got back up and roared, again. Then it left.
"Well, that was close." Said Calvin. "Pretty fortunate too. We got a video of one of the most earliest monsters on the Jurassic!"
"What about that one?" Hobbes asked.
Calvin looked behind him into the next tree.
There stood the Dilophosaurus in all its terrible glory.
"Ah, him again." Said Calvin. "Well, since it would be redundant and would wipe out an action scene if we used the defense again, I suggest that run like maniacs to escape our ultimate doom."
"Agreed." Said Hobbes.
There was a second of silence, then,
"AAAAAAAAAAA! RUN FOR YOUR LI-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-FE!"
The Dilophosaurus responded by throwing its frills up and screaming.
Calvin and Hobbes jumped out of the tree and vanished in a puff of frantic feet and dust.
Bad move.
They had jumped right into the pack of Dilophosaurs.
They all surrounded Calvin and Hobbes.
"Now would be a good time to whip out the old MTM Calvin." Hobbes said.
But before Calvin could respond, the biggest and ugliest Dilophosaur stepped into the circle, and glared at Calvin.
Calvin could see that he was the leader of the pack.
Calvin started to reach slowly for his MTM, but then, the acid spitting dinosaur set a wave of the black stuff at the MTM, and knocked it from his belt.
"He knew you were going for it." Hobbes whispered staring down at the smoking MTM.
The leader growled at Calvin.
Calvin didn't move a hair.
But then, Hobbes sprung into action and swiped the leader on the snout.
The creature honked in pain, and took several steps backward.
Hobbes growled at surrounding Dilophosaurs.
Then all at once, all fifty of their frills went up, and their spitting cry echoed through the forest.
"THAAATAHATAHTTAHHATAHATAHATHATAH!"
Calvin and Hobbes screamed, and started jumping up and down, ducking, dodging and avoiding the flying acid.
"Great work, Hobbes!" Calvin spat. "You scratched their leader, and now a bunch of kites with heads are gonna kill us! Thanks a bunch!"
"GET THE MTM, I HAVE AN IDEA!" Hobbes said, dodging a bit of spit.
"Your last idea was the bomb can't wait for this one!"
Calvin ran over to the MTM which was a few feet away.
Just then, one of the Dilophosaurs put its foot on it, keeping it away from Calvin.
"Not in the mood, buddy!" Calvin screamed, and with that, he slugged the Dinosaur in its jaw.
It stumbled backward, and Calvin grabbed the MTM.
Calvin quickly opened the Main Menu, Went into Miscellaneous, and into system drive.
"HURRY!" Screamed Hobbes.
Welcome to the System Drive
What would you like to do?
1) Increase power for defense mode
2) program the aerial pro...
Calvin didn't have time to read the entire thing to the reader, so he just clicked on number one, and the screen changed.
How much would you like to increase?
Current electricity: (400) volts
Current range: (1,000) (feet)
Current mode: (big explosion)
Save changes and fire. Have a nice day.
Calvin started clicking around, and changing the settings
Current electricity: (50 google) volts
Current range: (1,000) (miles)
Current mode: (hydrogen bomb, atom bomb, and big explosion mixed together)
BOO-OO-OO-OO-OO-OO-OO-OO-M-M-M-M-M!
There was a loud explosion, a blinding flash of light, and all the Dilophosaurs screamed in panic.
Calvin then turned a fan on, and blew all the smoke away.
Hobbes was next to him.
Dazed yet unhurt from the explosion or the Dilophosaurs.
"Calvin, I've had enough of the Jurassic Period." Said Hobbes.
"Well, Yeah." Agreed Calvin. "The Jurassic is pretty dangerous."
Calvin pulled the MTM out.
"Cretaceous Period, here we come."
"WHAT?" Hobbes screamed.
There was a loud scream of electricity, and Calvin and Hobbes were gone.
