Summary: Calvin invents a small device called the TIME PASUER. It used to stop time.

Darkwarrior17: To tell you the truth, I feel mixed feelings about Calvin and Hobbes going onto the TV screen. I picture Calvin's voice being somewhat high, and loud, with Hobbes quiet and calm. Bill Watterson gave us a great gift with Calvin and Hobbes. So yes. I guess it going onto TV would kind of ruin the magic. Oh, and to answer one of your other questions, yes. I have every Calvin and Hobbes book, including the Tenth Anniversary Book.

And now back to Calvin and Hobbes: The Series

The Time Pauser

Hello, my name's Hobbes. I'm a tiger.

Yes, I know, You're just dazzled that the legendary tiger is actually speaking to you.

I'm here to tell you a story.

The story of Calvin and his new invention.

Ah, what an adventure.

It all began one windy day in April.

I had noticed that Calvin had been acting kind of strange lately.

He always grinning.

Well, when Calvin's grinning, You know he's up to something.

I had confronted him on it, asking if he'd tell me what he was up to.

He said no.

Actually he said,

"I REFUSE TO TELL YOU ANYTHING! I AM INNOCENT AS THE DRIVEN SNOW! YOU HAVE NO PROOF! I DIDN'T DO IT!"

Well, of corse when he screams that, he means the complete opposite.

One day, during Calvin's strange behavior episode, Calvin's Dad was giving him a lecture.

What was it about, again?

Oh yes, it was about building character.

Something about how suffering did the trick.

"Suffering" wasn't exactly his use of words, but I'm sure that's what he meant.

To my complete surprise and shock, Calvin actually sat through it, and nodded his head to what Dad was saying!

I watched him for a trick.

I saw nothing.

I did notice, that every now and again, Calvin would start grinning like a lunatic.

Strange. Very Strange.

Just then the lecture ended, and Calvin walked up the stairs to his room, whistling.

I stopped him.

"Ok, Calvin." I said. "It is impossible for you to be able to sit through one of your Dad's lectures. What's going on?"

Calvin glared at me.

"Hobbes, How long to you plan on keeping this up?"

In a quick response, I said, "Your under house arrest."

Calvin sighed.

"Oh, alright, if you're gonna do this all the time, I might as well tell you."

Calvin looked around.

"But not here! Up in my room!"

Calvin and I rushed up to his room.

Once there, Calvin locked the door, placed a chair over his closet door, closed his windows, and checked under the bed for intruders.

I felt this a unnecessary act, since most of Calvin's ideas were complete death traps, anyway.

"Hobbes," He said. "Allow me to show you the future!"

"This isn't another form of the Time Machine is it?" I asked.

"No." Calvin said. "Now if you'll just shut up, I'll tell you."

Calvin pulled something yellow out of his pocket.

"Behold! The Time Pauser!"

I studied the device in Calvin's hands.

It was about an inch tall. There was a big red button on the top. It was in a cylinder shape, and was yellow.

"Wow. What is it?" I asked.

"With this amazing device, I can actually stop time!"

I blinked.

"Stop time?" I repeated. "Where'd you come up with that dumb idea?"

"Well, I got sick of my boring life." Calvin said. "So, every time I hit this baby, school will stop, Dad's lectures will stop, and my world will be my oyster!"

I scratched his head.

"No wonder you seemed to enjoy those lectures." said I.

"Right!" Calvin said. "There's no limit! Like if Miss Wormwood is giving out a boring assignment, I can just stop time, and go out, and play on the playground! Then all I have to do, is come back, every now and again, sit through the boringness, for a few minutes, or until I get bored, and them, presto! It's me-only recess time!"

I scratched my head.

"Clever." I observed.

"Yes well it took a day to invent." Calvin said.

"Well," I said. "Now that you have a Time Pauser, What now?"

"Wanna see it in action?" Calvin asked.

"Oh, uh, sure. Ok."

"Good, hold onto my arm. That's the only way it works."

I grabbed hold of Calvin's arm.

Calvin hit the button.

BOOM!

All at once, everything was turning, a shockwave traveled out from us, and spread across the world.

All at once, everything became quiet.

I looked out the window.

A bird was frozen in Mid-take off. A kid across the street, was trapped in a jump over his jump rope.

"Nice touch." I said. "How does it work?"

"Well," Calvin said. "It takes time and puts into some big demension where time has no meaning. Are you with me?"

"No." Said I.

"Ok." Calvin said. "I'll put it like this. The Time Pauser will take the moment that is happening right now, and stop it. That way, we could be in one second for days and weeks, and years! And the best part is, we don't age! Since We're still in one exact second, we can't age! Eternal youth!"

I looked out on the streets.

"Yeah but if you have eternal youth like this, you can't interact with people." I said.

"I didn't want to in the first place." Calvin said.

"True." I replied.

"Wanna go have some fun?" Calvin grinned.

"Sure." I said, sarcastically.

Calvin obviously missed it, because he rushed out of the room.

I followed.

"Amazing." I said, walking down the street.

"Yeah, I know." Calvin said. "You can even make something funny happen. Here watch this!"

I watched Calvin do his dirty work.

Calvin spotted someone spraying paint on a brick wall.

Calvin grabbed the man's legs, and slowly turned him around.

What? Did I miss something?

"What are you doing?" I asked.

"This teen is spraying paint on a building." Calvin said. "All I have to do is turn this guy around so that he's facing this policeman here."

"But then the policeman will get sprayed."

Calvin made his crazy look, and started chuckling, evilly.

HUH?

"Calvin, surely you're not..."

Calvin grabbed my arm, and hit the button.

BOOOM!

Calvin had just hit play on the VCR of life, and the mess began.

The teenager sprayed his can of red paint into the policeman.

The guy in blue screamed bloody murder, and spun around to the teen, who looked shocked.

"Calvin, you got that kid, arrested." I said, a little later.

"What, he deserved it for spraying paint on an American building!"

I rolled my eyes.

"Once again, you've succeeded in making an ideal invention of the future a death trap of doom." I sighed.

Calvin laughed, he hit the button again, for a split second he disappeared and then reappeared three feet away from me.

"With this device, old buddy, we could travel to Mexico in a split second! Hike to Canada in a New York Second! Go to New Jersey in a flash! This could be a new device for transportation!"

I sighed, and walked back up to him.

"Well, here comes a good time to put that thing in use. Here comes Moe."

Calvin spun around, and saw Moe and his gang of thugs approaching.

Have I ever mentioned Moe's gang of thugs? There were only two of them. Some short kid who wore his baseball cap backwards, and another tall kid in sunglasses and bright red hair. Huh. I've never seen his two buddies talk. I'm not sure if they even can talk.

Shall I describe Moe? He had his usual strange hairdo with it going into his eyes. I don't know how he sees through that. Today, he was wearing a T-shirt that had a skull on it. That was new.

He walked up to Calvin in that long trot of his.

For some reason, they ignored me, and focused their attention on Calvin.

"Spare change, twinky?" He snarled.

Calvin smiled, smoothly, and stuck his hands into his pockets.

"Why, yes Moe, I happen to have three dollars in my pocket."

Calvin slipped three one dollar bills out of his pocket, showed them to Moe, then slipped them back in.

"Give me it."

Moe held out a large hand.

Calvin yawned.

"You know, Moe, I'm not feeling too generous today, uhh... No, I don't think I want to give you any money. Sorry!"

Moe raised his fist.

"You'll want to give it to me, when I'm through with you."

Moe threw his fist at Calvin.

It happened so quickly.

All at once, there was a loud POW!

I thought that Moe had clobbered Calvin, but when I opened my eyes, I saw Calvin standing on the sidewalk, perfectly unharmed, and the short kid with the cap on backwards, was laying face down in the dirt.

Moe stared at shorty, then at Calvin who was staring calmly at shorty, as he lifted himself from the dirt. He looked around in shock.

Moe and his two thugs looked around at Calvin trying to figure out what happened.

Calvin yawned. "Yeah, uh-huh."

And with that, He turned to leave.

Moe growled in anger, and virtually pounced at Calvin.

In less than one millisecond, Calvin had disappeared and instantly reappeared three feet away.

Moe landed in the dust.

Calvin turned, and calmly looked back.

He smiled sweetly at the shocked Moe, and continued walking down the sidewalk.

I rushed up to him.

"Don't say anything yet," Calvin whispered.

We rounded a corner.

"NOW! Wasn't that hilarious!"

I smiled. "I must say, you took good care of Moe."

"For once in my lifetime, I was able to ice Moe!"

Calvin pulled his Time Pauser out of his pocket and kissed it.

"I love you!" He said to the inanimate object.

Calvin and I continued down the sidewalk.

We reached Susie's house.

"Watch this." Calvin said. "The new generation to GROSS operations!"

Calvin filled up a balloon water, and took my arm.

BOOOM!

Time stopped.

Calvin and I walked up to Susie who was playing on the sidewalk.

Calvin held the water balloon over Susie's head, and let go.

Miraculously, it hung in the air.

"Amazing." I said. "You can soak Susie when you're miles away."

"Come over here." Calvin and I hid behind a bush.

Calvin hit the button.

BOOOM!

SPLASH!

"AAAAAAAA!"

Calvin muffled his laughter.

He hit the button.

Once time had been stopped again, Calvin burst out with crazy laughter.

"This is great! Lets see!" Calvin and I walked out from the bush.

Susie was frozen in a surprised jump.

Her tongue was sticking out, her eyes were squeezed shut, and she was soaking wet.

"This is G.R.O.S.S. history!" Calvin laughed.

"Another triumph!"

Calvin laughed.

"And before Susie even knows what hit her, we'll be back in the house!"

Calvin and I rushed back into Calvin's room.

Once there, Calvin hit the button.

BOOM!

Calvin started laughing again.

"Isn't this invention, great?" He said.

"I guess so." I decided. "It's better than your other inventions. For sure."

Calvin smiled. "Unlimited access to everything! I am the lord of time!"

"More like the lord of insanity." I muttered under my breath. Calvin didn't hear me, though, because he was to busy bragging about his new invention.

Calvin had a lot of fun the next day, or so I heard.

Calvin had stopped time during lunch, and had placed a gob of food above every lunch lady's head.

When he had started time up again, everything went splooch!

I could see that everybody was starting to get annoyed.

I was even beginning to get annoyed.

No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get a clear pounce on Calvin.

I mean, one second he was at the front door, the next second he was in his room.

And you know, when I can't pounce on Calvin, I start to get annoyed.

One time, I was stationed at the front door.

I heard Calvin's footsteps running up the sidewalk (When will he learn that I can hear that?).

When he opened the door, and I saw him, I sprang into the air, and landed right into the middle of...

PEWFTH!

Grass.

When I had managed to get the last bits of dirt out of my teeth, I realized that Calvin was standing in the door, grinning at me.

I tried to pounce him again.

He grinned, and hit the button on his Pauser.

He disappeared, and I crashed into the wall.

CRASH!

GRRRR!

It makes me mad just to think about it!

At last, I decided to do something about it.

I mean, who or whom did he think he was?

That night, I took action.

While Calvin was asleep, I switched over to stealthy crouch mode, and slithered out of bed.

Not a spring creaked as I removed my enormous body from the bed.

I stalked for Calvin's closet.

I opened the door, Calvin, of corse, had just thrown his shirt and pants on the floor in the closet. Didn't bother to hang them up. Oh no. Too much trouble.

Oh well, I can't get started on that.

I reached into Calvin's pocket, and took the Time Pauser out.

I looked to see if Calvin had woke up.

He hadn't.

Good.

I chuckled to myself and pushed the button.

BOOM!

With time stopped, I switched off stealthy crouch mode, and made as much nosie as I could.

"HEY CALVIN! IF YOU CAN'T HEAR ME, DON'T SAY ANYTHING!"

"HEY CALVIN! DON'T WAKE UP!"

I laughed as hard as I could, and slipped the Time Pauser in a place Calvin would never think to look.

And that's the story.

The next day, Calvin looked all over the house for his Pauser.

But he never thought to look in the car.

Tee-hee.

Oh yes, Calvin did eventually find it, but we had to make a few agreements on it.

He would stop using it to terrorize the town and me, and I wouldn't tear it apart into 54 pieces.

Oh yes, I had to put up with some grumbling, but pretty soon, everything became normal again.

Calvin still did use on a few occasions, but otherwise, I had the entire situation under control.

Tee-hee.

And so that's my story.

I hoped you liked it...

If you're wondering how you could thank me enough, we could mosey over to the kitchen?

What might you have in your fridge?

Uhhh...

Any fish? Salmon?

Tuna, perhaps?

The End

Voice Work:

Pamela Segal: Calvin

Tom Hanks: Hobbes

Dakota Fanning: Susie

Bill Murray: Dad

Elizabeth Daily: Moe

Dee Bradley Baker: Miscellaneous voice work

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