Evil Calvin watched with ghoulish delight as everyone started to chant Retro and Rupert's names.

"Phase three is complete," he said. "Now what's next? Let's see… Step One: Fool Hobbes. Step Two: Make Plan. Step Three: Scare Earth. What next…?"

He thought, and then his eyes lit up.

Evil Calvin grabbed a microphone and hooked it up to the camera. A broadcast was sent out.

"All right, as slaves to Retro and Rupert, you are all to do their bidding, and that shall be issued out through me," he said.

Everyone on Earth stood at their television or radio, waiting for orders.

Evil Calvin cackled evilly.


Meanwhile, Rupert and Retro had finished up their speech, and they were pretty sure that Earth was under their control by now.

That thought was confirmed when Evil Calvin called them up, and told them.

"Well," Rupert said, as Evil Calvin got off the phone. "What shall we rename Earth?"

"How about Retro and Rupertville?" asked Erne the alien.

Rupert and Retro stared at him.

"Get out of here," Retro said.

Erne muttered a grumble and left the room.

"What about Rupretroia?" Retro asked.

"Or maybe The Planet of Evil?" asked Rupert.

"Or perhaps The Planet of No Calvin?"

"That's a tempting name," Rupert said, grinning happily.

"We could make a law that nobody on the planet can be named Calvin!" Retro said.

"Or Hobbes," Rupert said.

Rupert and Retro were having a good time, laughing and exchanging all the terrible things they planned to do to Earth.

However neither of the villains looked at the radar screen, in the control room. If they had, they would've seen something coming towards them.

Sherman's spaceship was getting closer.


Outside the door, Calvin had been listening to the whole thing.

"How dare they!" he shouted. "Those fiends have taken over Earth without my permission! I shall put an end to all this!"

But before he could, he was lassoed by Biff, another alien.

"Hey, Lenny, I caught him!" Biff shouted.

"To the cells with you!" Lenny added.

"Darn it," Calvin muttered.

And he was dragged away.

Again.


The ship was flying through space, getting closer and closer to the target. Rupert's ship had moved a little in the past few hours, so it was taking a while.

"…forty-eight bottles of beer on the wall, forty-eight bottles of beer!" Socrates was singing. "You take one down and pass it around. Forty-seven bottles of beer on the wall. Forty-seven bottles of bee—"

"SHUT UP!" shouted Hobbes, Sherman and Andy.

"You know, if you were tired of the song, you should've said 'don't sing it' before I started," Socrates snorted.

"We did," said Andy.

"Oh. Well, I guess I just love annoying you guys."

"Okay, that does it!" shouted Sherman. "All in favor of throwing Socrates out into space by himself, say 'I'!"

"I," the three shouted.

"Well, it's unanimous."

They started to move towards Socrates when they suddenly heard a faint beeping noise.

"Now approaching Rupert's ship," said the computer.

"This is probably the first time a computer has said anything uplifting to me," Hobbes muttered.

"Wow, look at it!" cried Andy.

They saw that just ahead was a gigantic spacecraft just ahead. It was probably about the size of Mercury!

Socrates, Andy and Sherman stared at it.

Hobbes rolled his eyes.

"Okay, let's find Galaxoid and Nebular," he said. "They're probably around here somewhere."

Hobbes piloted the ship around Rupert's ship. He kept an eye out for that familiar oval-shaped spaceship.

They eventually found it directly below.

Sherman pressed a few buttons and the radio came on.

"Galaxoid? Nebular?" Hobbes said into the microphone. "Are you two in there?"

"Hobbes?" Galaxoid's voice asked. "Is that you? Where are you?"

"Almost directly beside you," said Socrates.

Nebular looked out the window of the ship and saw Hobbes staring at him through the window.

"When he's right, he's right," Nebular commented.

"All right," said Galaxoid. "Now that you're here, we've found a safe way in. There aren't any security cameras on the bottom half of the ship, mainly because it's used as storage."

"Not very bright of him," commented Sherman.

"Indeed," agreed Nebular.

"Hang on," said Galaxoid. "We're going to connect our ship to Rupert's at the hatch. We'll sneak in first, and then help you all in next."

"But if you connect it, then someone will have to stay here and move the ship out of the way so we can put it there," objected Socrates.

"And even if you did have a magic ship, how would you be able to help us in? You don't have any arms!" added Andy.

"Again with the arms!" Nebular shouted. "Sheesh! Did it ever occur to you that we're a little sensitive about that?"

"We are?" asked Galaxoid.

"Aren't we?"

"I don't believe I am."

"Well, I am! I can't even hold up a feather!"

"What's a feather?"

"Coating for Earth birds."

"Where did you learn that?"

"Um, guys?" Hobbes asked.

Galaxoid and Nebular realized that the voice had not come from the radio, but rather behind them. They looked behind themselves and saw Hobbes, Sherman, Socrates and Andy emerging from a tube that connected with the ships' doors.

"Can we just get this over with and save Calvin?" Hobbes continued.

The two aliens looked at each other and then back at the group.

"Very well," said Galaxoid.

They returned to the controls and flew the ship upwards. The hatch on the ceiling locked into place with the door on the bottom of Rupert's ship, and then when they got an all-clear signal, Hobbes opened the hatch.

Hobbes slowly took in what he saw. He'd never seen this part of the ship before.

There were crates lined up alongside and all around him. They stretched to probably twenty feet tall!

"Wow…," he breathed.

"Go on!" Andy called. "I wanna see!"

Hobbes got out of the way so that Andy could enter.

"Cool!" Andy cried.

Socrates crawled in next, carrying Sherman, against his will I might add.

Galaxoid and Nebular scrambled up into the ship afterwards and closed the hatch.

"Well, where do you suppose Calvin is?" asked Nebular.

"I dunno," said Hobbes. "We're gonna have to search for him. But first, we're going to have to find the way out of the storage room."

"How're we going to do that?" demanded Socrates. "This place is huge!"

"I know the way out," said a voice.

Hobbes, Socrates, Andy, Sherman, Galaxoid and Nebular whirled around.

They saw Bob.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" shouted Hobbes, Socrates, Andy, Sherman, Galaxoid and Nebular.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" screamed Bob, who was startled by the sudden outburst.

"It's Bob!" screeched Hobbes. "This is…is…is really weird. What am I screaming for? Bob's harmless."

Bob snorted indignantly. "I'm ignoring that," he said.

"Quick! Jump him!" said Socrates. "Harmless or not, he's a bad guy."

Socrates, Sherman, Andy, Galaxoid and Nebular scrambled forward and attacked Bob, taking him down.

"Hey, get off of me!" Bob shouted.

"We're not letting you kill Calvin!" Andy shouted.

"Yeah!" added Sherman, Galaxoid and Nebular.

"I might let you," said Socrates.

"SOCRATES!" everyone shouted.

"Sorry," Socrates muttered.

Hobbes stood over Bob's head. "Okay, fiend, where's Calvin?"

"How should I know?" Bob shouted. "After I helped him escape, he disappeared."

Hobbes stared at Bob in disbelief. "Wait, you helped him? What did he do to you!"

"He threatened me, what else?"

"Sounds like Calvin," commented Galaxoid.

"But," Bob continued, "he helped me realize, in his own unique way, that working for Retro has made my life a living nightmare, and now I'm trying to find him so that I can get him to a Space Jet, and we can get out of here before Rupert and Earl blackmail Earth. Then we'd find you guys and defeat the Evil Calvin, and but as you're all already here…"

Hobbes looked Bob.

"Bob, I'm proud of you," he said. "Welcome to the Good Side. Don't expect free donuts, though." And he helped Bob up.