Chapter nineteen

At the last possible second, Hobbes leaped through the air, and landed on top of a small rock.

The rock began to slide downward, and Hobbes slid down the mountain four feet, and crashed into the leader of the pack.

SMASH!

"SCREEECH!"

Hobbes rockboarded down the mountain with the stunned raptor on him, leaped off, and the raptor crashed into the boulder with the backpack on it, giving him a bloody lip.

CRASH!

The rest raptors of the raptors stared at their staggering leader.

Then the backpack fell off the rock, and crashed into Calvin's head.

BONK!

The backpack bounced off Calvin's head, and landed in his hands.

Calvin's eyes went from the backpack to the raptors then back to the backpack.

There was a awkward silence.

"Uhhhh..." Calvin said. "And let that be a lesson to you! And the next time you think you're going to attack Calvin, you'll get something worse than a bloody lip! I might just tear that lip of yours right off your mouth!"

The raptors stared at him.

"They can still attack us, ya know." Hobbes said.

"Not this time." Calvin snarled, pulling his MTM out. "Scram, you extinct dumbbells."

The flipped a switch on the CD player, and the tip started to hum.

The raptors hissed at Calvin, then ran.

Calvin grinned, and put the MTM away.

"Wow, they are smart." He said.

Hobbes rolled his eyes.

Calvin and Hobbes spent the next few hours tracking down Ankylosaurus.

By 4:08, they had finally reached his territory.

Ankylosaurus was grazing on the side of the lake, they seemed to take no notice of Calvin as he snapped photographs and videos of the giant creatures.

"Hobbes, after this, we will be rich enough to buy our own car!"

"Uh huh." Hobbes said.

He wasn't really listening.

He was staring at the sky.

Jet black clouds were beginning to gather, and the small little comets had gotten larger.

"Calvin, what time is it?" Hobbes asked.

Calvin checked his watch.

"Four eleven." He said.

"Uh huh."

He continued to watch the skies.

Even though he knew that they'd be out of there in thirty minutes, he still felt uneasy.

So were the Ankylosaurus.

They were beginning to get restless.

One of them smashed a tree with its tail, and Calvin began to take a few steps back.

He put the MTM away.

He then said something Hobbes hoped he would say for days.

"Well, Hobbes," He said. "We've gotten enough photos. Let's go home."

Hobbes leaped into the air.

He screamed with happiness, pumped his hands into the air, pranced around in circles, whooped and hollered.

"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!" He screamed.

Calvin muttered to himself, and pulled the MTM out of his backpack.

"I told you we'd be out of here before the asteroid hit." He grumbled.

He pushed the Dates and Times button, and started fiddling with it.

July 8,2005 1:53PM

He pushed the GO button.

Hobbes grabbed hold of Calvin's arm with a look of glee on his face.

Electricity started to surround Calvin and Hobbes.

The MTM flashed several numbers as it prepared the time portal.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!

The Ankylosaurus slowly started to fade away and the color changing time portal started to come into focus.

But just then, something happened.

Suddenly, the MTM went dead, the electricity stopped, and the grazing Ankylosaurus came back into vision.

Calvin blinked.

"What the..."

Suddenly a bright flashing red hologram came up.

WARNING!

LOW BATTERIES

MTM IS UNABLE TO TIME WARP

Calvin and Hobbes stared at the message with expressionless eyes.

There was a long silence.

"No." Hobbes whispered.

Calvin blinked.

"Well, this is no big deal." He said. "The batteries just need recharging."

Calvin opened up the Main Menu, scrolled down to Miscellaneous, and selected the BATTERY RECHARGER mode.

Please insert Battery Recharger

Calvin reached into his backpack.

He pulled out a green cup, and attached it to the bottom of the MTM.

Batteries currently being recharged.

Please Wait

1 percent

Calvin and Hobbes stared at it.

1 and a half percent.

"This could take some time." Calvin said

"We don't have some time!" Hobbes yelled, jabbing his hand at the sky. "The asteroid hits in THIRTY MINUTES!"

"What can say, Hobbes?" Calvin demanded. "The batteries need recharging. We'll get out soon, this thing only needs 49 percent worth of power to get us to the present! Just relax!"

"REALAX!" Hobbes screamed. "WE'RE ABOUT TO DIE ALONG WITH THE DINOSAURS AND YOU'RE TELLING ME TO RELAX!"

2 percent

"GIVE ME A BREAK!"

And so, with nothing better to do, Calvin and Hobbes sat under a tree, stared at the MTM, and waited.


27 percent

"What time is it?" Hobbes asked.

"Four forty five."

Hobbes didn't answer.

Black clouds were engulfing the skies.

The dinosaurs were getting upset.

When the MTM was 30 percent operational, the bushes started shaking.

Calvin and Hobbes stared at them.

Then, the raptors leapt from them.

Their leader appeared to be fully recovered.

Calvin and Hobbes froze.

The raptors started growling as they moved in.

Calvin could tell that the raptors were saying, No where run, this time.

"HEY!" Calvin yelled, leaping up. "THIS ISN'T FAIR! GET OUT OF HERE, YOU CREEPS!"

The raptors screeched at him.

Calvin's eyes widened.

They darted to the MTM on the ground.

Calvin grabbed the MTM, and pointed it at them, even though it was still recharging.

"GET BACK!" He yelled. "I'm armed!"

The raptors continued to walk forward.

"I don't think they believe you, Calvin." Hobbes said.

33 percent

The raptors extended their moon shaped claws for the last time, as they prepared to rip the two to shreds.

Calvin dropped the MTM, and held his hands over his head.

But suddenly, their was a loud BOOM!

Calvin, Hobbes and the raptors were knocked off their feet.

The raptors looked all around in confusion.

They didn't know what had happened.

Calvin and Hobbes did.

In seconds, the black clouds in the sky covered the sun, plunging the world into darkness.

Calvin and Hobbes exchanged glances.

The MTM's hologram gave off a glowing, so it wasn't completely dark.

The raptors leaped to their feet, and started screeching.

Calvin and Hobbes backed into the tree.

They knew what was coming next.

All at once there was another loud BOOM!

The raptors ran off, shrieking.

The ground started shaking.

Calvin and Hobbes collapsed, and held onto the tree for dear life.

35 percent

Calvin opened his eyes, and looked over at the mountains about two hundred miles away from them.

There was a large cloud of smoke and debris coming down from the mountain hurling towards them.

"Oh no." Calvin hissed.

The sounds of the forest halted, and all the dinosaurs seemed to vanish.

Hobbes stared at the cloud coming towards them.

Then his eyes darted to the MTM.

41 percent

"We're doomed." He said.

He might have been right.

Because the asteroid had hit.