Summary: Calvin and Hobbes try to disable the super volcano under Yellowstone National Park. However, the evil Dr Brainstorm has other ideas.

And now back to Calvin and Hobbes: The Series
Written by Swing123 and garfieldodie

The Yellowstone Monster

Calvin sat in front of the television, watching the National Geographic Channel with Hobbes.

Calvin wasn't really watching it though. He was sitting in the opposite chair as Hobbes, and he was working with Dad's screwdriver and hammer as he installed more cool features into the MTM.

During the commercial break of the big cat show Hobbes was watching, Calvin was trying to install a holographic TV into the machine when a loud explosion came out of the TV's speakers.

"I SURRENDER!" Calvin screamed, throwing the MTM, and his hands into the air.

The MTM went out the window.

BONK!

"OW!" Susie screamed. "CALVIN! I'm gonna get you for that!"

Calvin and Hobbes didn't listen though. They were staring at the TV.

The sound of the explosion continued, and the screen showed a cloud of fire and smoke flying everywhere.

Then the screen went blank, and words on the screen faded on.

We're overdue

Calvin and Hobbes watched the commercial.

"When Will Yellowstone Erupt?" The TV said. "Today at six seven central. Only on the National Geographic Channel. Available on channel 227."

There was a moment of silence.

"Yellowstone?" Hobbes asked.

"Yellowstone isn't a volcano!" Calvin announced. "It's a national wildlife park! Isn't it?"

"Let's go ask your mom." Hobbes suggested.

"Yes, Calvin. There is a volcano underneath Yellowstone." Mom said, as she stood at the counter washing dishes.

"Yellowstone can't be a volcano!" Calvin yelled. "There's all that wildlife and such! It couldn't have ever erupted!"

"Yes, Calvin, it did." Mom said. "It erupted a few million years ago."

"And that commercial said we're overdue!" Calvin yelled. "What's that supposed to mean!"

"It erupts every few thousand years, Calvin." Mom said, placing a plate in drainer.

Calvin eyes bulged.

"Every few thousand years?"

"Yup."

"And it's last eruption was a few million years ago?"

"Yup."

Calvin's eyes crossed.

"And, this is just a simple volcano right?" He asked. "Something like what we see in the Mt. St. Helens right?"

"Nope." Mom said. "It's a super volcano."

Calvin keeled over backwards.

"Super... vol-can-o..." Hobbes said flipping through a dictionary in the livingroom.

"Here it is!" He said. "Noun. An extremely large volcano. Yellowstone is perfect example."

"A lot of help that was!" Calvin yelled. "Get out Dad's encyclopedia."

Hobbes picked up a large book from the shelf, and went to the index.

"Let's see. Super... super... super... ah. Yellowstone super volcano. Page 535 to 536."

Hobbes flipped through the book, and finally came to the topic.

Yellowstone super Volcano

The Yellowstone super volcano is located under the national park and is the size of five New York Cities. If erupted, the volcano can consume the entire Earth in clouds of smoke and smog. It will blot out the sun for more than fifty years, and may even start another ice age.

"Like we need that." Hobbes said, closing the book.

"HELP!" Calvin screamed.

"Yup." Hobbes said. "I'll set this under Computer Revolution on our Things to Fear list."

Calvin's eyes began rolling around in circles.

"WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO!" He screamed.

"Well, you got through six years without it erupting. That leaves several more years to go."

"HELP!"

"I don't think we would have this fear if we hadn't seen that commercial."

"HELP!"

"I suppose you want to watch the show now, huh?" He checked his watch. "That starts in fifteen minutes."

"HELP!"

"I knew it."

Calvin dove for the TV, and switched it on.

National Geographic came on and the show started.

Meanwhile, under Calvin's city, there laid a huge diabolical lab.

It had the classic beeping sounds, and flashing numbers across computer screens.

Inside that lab was a man in a lab coat connecting wires to something, and doing other fiendish stuff.

The man had a very strange hairdo. It was dyed red, and was sticking straight into the air, and ending in sharp spikes almost as though he had just been electrocuted.

He had yellow eyes that were out of focus, and a big grin on his face.

He was wearing a lab coat with a black shirt underneath, brown sneakers, black jeans, and green gloves.

He was grinning to himself as he prepared his invention.

"HA HA!" He yelled, in a triumphant yet slightly squeaky voice. "I have completed my SERVANT RAY! This terrific device will do everything I tell it to!"

He turned to a robot that was leaning against the counter and staring at him.

The robot was as tall as him, was very thin, and was a sleek silver color. His eyes were blue, and he had arms that extended outward.

"Wanna see it?" the man asked.

"Sure." The robot yawned. "Try not to kill yourself, Frank."

"It's Doctor Brainstorm to you, Jack!" Yelled the man. "And we can do without your smart remarks."

"I'm just referring back to the last invention you made." Jack the robot said. "And the last one. And the last one. And the one before that. And..."

"You act like I can't make inventions!" Dr Brainstorm yelled. "I made you didn't I?"

"Yeah, great craftsman's shift." Jack said.

Jack reached up, and yanked his arm off of his metallic body.

Dr Brainstorm blinked.

"Well, fine. You go hide, and I'll test my invention out without you!"

Jack put his arm back on, and Dr Brainstorm turned around, and pointed his pistol like device at a crate of discarded metal parts.

"DEVICE!" he commanded. "Shrink this box!"

ZAP!

The box immediately started growing.

"NO!" Dr Brainstorm yelled. "SHRINK IT!"

It got larger.

"I knew it." Jack said. "It doesn't work."

Then, Dr Brainstorm got an idea.

"DEVICE!" He yelled. "ENLARGE THIS BOX!"

ZAP!

Instantly, the crate was shrunk down to half an inch tall.

"IT WORKS!" He yelled.

"It does the exact opposite of what you tell it to." Jack said. "It does NOT work. As usual."

"Maybe there are a few glitches." Dr Brainstorm said, putting the device down. "But, It still works."

"The only reason you say that is because something happened." Jack said.

Dr Brainstorm glared at him.

"Nobody asked you!" He yelled. "Now come, partner in crime! We must plan out our threat to the world!"

"This should be good."

"Shut it!" Dr Brainstorm screamed.

Upon completing the Yellowstone special, Calvin was now down right terrified.

Do you know what he wanted to do about it?

"HOBBES! WE NEED TO STOP YELLOWSTONE FROM ERUPTING!"

Hobbes stared at him in disbelief.

"Did you just say what I just thought you just said?" He demanded.

"Yes I did say what you thought that I said." Calvin yelled. "We have to go to Yellowstone and disable the Yellowstone super volcano!"

"Point one," Hobbes said. "There is no way I'm going with you on another one of your suicide missions. Point two, Yellowstone probably wont erupt for another thousand years. Point three, how do you plan to disable this volcano? Dare I ask?"

"We'll use my MTM, and fill in the magma chamber with something to keep it from erupting!"

"There we are." Hobbes said. "That idea speaks for itself."

"Really? What does it say?"

"It says, you are the most stupidest kid in American history."

"WE'RE DOING IT, AND THAT'S FINAL!" Calvin screamed.

Calvin stormed up to his room to pack.

"I don't like where this is going." Hobbes said.

Calvin spent the next few minutes packing his inventions up, and piling them into the box.

After he was all packed, he turned to the toughest task of them all: Finding Hobbes.

You see whenever Calvin touches more than one of his inventions within one minute, Hobbes suddenly vanishes, and Calvin has to spent most of his day tracking him down.

Calvin looked everywhere around his property, and finally pulled him out from under the couch.

And no, I don't know how he got down there.

Calvin heaved Hobbes up the stairs.

Hobbes claws were hooked into the carpet on the stairs, and were ripping it as Calvin pulled him up them.

Finally, Calvin reached his room, and somehow got Hobbes into the box.

"Alright!" Dr Brainstorm yelled. "We will center our headquarters in the middle of Yellowstone park!"

"Why?" Jack asked.

"I want a view of Old Faithful." Brainstorm replied. "Now, we'll center our headquarters there, and plot to take over the world!"

"That should be fun." Jack said, sarcastically.

"Indeed!"

And with that, Jack and Dr Brainstorm set off for Yellowstone.

At the same time, Calvin started his engines, and flew out the window for Yellowstone.

Heh, heh.

Jack and Dr Brainstorm beat Calvin and Hobbes to Yellowstone.

The two snuck past some park rangers and tourists, as they started for the very center of the park.

"OK!" Dr Brainstorm yelled. "We'll plant our foundation right here!"

"Is this legal?" Jack asked.

"Not yet. But when I rule the world it will!"

Dr Brainstorm took a shovel, dug a small hole, and dropped a chrome seed into the hole.

He then covered up the hole with dirt, took out a watering can, and watered it.

A small earthquake followed this, but there was no visual change.

"Our secret hideout has been built!" Dr Brainstorm declared. "Thanks to my Secret Hideout Seed, we now have our underground lab ready!"

"Brilliant, Eienstein." Jack said. "Now, how do we get inside it?"

Dr Brainstorm's eyes blanked out, and his grin faded.

"Uhhhh..."

"You forgot to add in a door, didn't you?" Jack asked.

"Get my Metal cutter, Jack, we need to break into our secret hideout."

Jack sighed, and reached into Brainstorm's pack.

Meanwhile, Calvin and Hobbes were approaching Yellowstone.

They were flying over heavily wooded areas, and were getting closer to it.

"This really isn't the best time to be clogging up the volcano, Calvin." Hobbes said. "This is Saturday, you know. So there's a lot of people there right now."

"We block out the volcano, we leave. Simple as that, Hobbes. We'll be there for fifteen minutes.

"We don't even know where the volcano is!" Hobbes argued. "Plus, what if your attempts to 'clog' it cause it to blow up!"

"It wont, Hobbes, I know exactly what to put into it!"

"What?"

"We'll freeze everything inside the volcano!" Calvin yelled. "It's perfect! We'll just freeze everything inside the volcano!"

"Calvin, that's the stupidest idea I've ever heard." Hobbes yelled.

"Of course, it will only be temporary." Calvin said. "It another thousand years, it'll thaw, but my MTM can put the volcano into deep freeze for the rest of my life!"

"Well, let's at least lay low until the tourists start leaving." Hobbes said. "I don't want to be seen in this box."

"Very well, we'll set up camp behind the park." Calvin grumbled.

Calvin landed the box, and started unpacking.

After much digging, and ripping of metal, Dr Brainstorm had finally dug his way into his empty hideout.

After Jack climbed in after him, Dr Brainstorm took out his Hypercube.

He turned it upside down, and started shaking.

Nothing came out.

"Stupid storage cube!" He yelled. "It's always jamming up!"

He reached his hand into the Hypercube, moved his hand around it for a second, then pulled his arm out, and shook it again.

FOOM!

Immediately, all of Dr Brainstorm's inventions, computers, and other stuff fell out of it, and began organizing themselves insides the large blue tiled cubic room.

"Wonderful!" He yelled. "I have updated my hideout! Nobody can stop me now! HA HA HA HA HA!"

"Nobody needs to." Jack said, leaning against the desk.

That seems to be a natural feature to Jack.

Whenever he stops moving, he immediately leans against anything that's handy. A post, a rock, a tree, a desk, his leg, his own creator, a wall, a door, and so on.

Dr Brainstorm payed no attention to him, as he continued to unpack.

Night fell.

The tourists began to thin as they all retreated to their camp sites.

Calvin started piling everything back into his box, then forced Hobbes in.

"OK." Calvin said. "We'll use my MTM to locate the volcano. Then, we'll just freeze it up, and go home. However, even though it's dark, there could still be some tourists around, so we'll have to be quiet."

Hobbes turned to the audience.

"Calvin is about to mess around with a volcano, folks. Hurry and get to your bomb shelter."

"You're so morbid." Calvin muttered.

Calvin started the box's engines up, and rose into the air.

Meanwhile, Dr Brainstorm was monitoring the park through cameras he had set up around them, and making sure that Batman or Spiderman didn't come to defeat him.

When he told this to Jack, he had replied with, "I think Batman or Spiderman would want more of a challenge."

And Dr Brainstorm had replied with, "You know exactly what I meant, smart guy!"

He had been watching, when all of a sudden, his radar started picking something up.

"JACK!" He yelled. "COME HERE! QUICK!"

Jack came walking over.

"What?"

"The radar is beeping!"

"Fascinating."

"Let me finish. That means someone is coming!"

"News flash."

Dr Brainstorm hit the button, and Calvin and Hobbes' box came onto the screen.

"HOT CRICKET FEET!" He screamed. "SOMEONE IS COMING TO OVERTHROW ME!"

"Overthrow you from what?"

"We must stop them!"

"They don't look like they're after you." Jack said. "They're heading towards the north part of the park. They're probably just tourists."

"ARE YOU MAD!" Dr Brainstorm yelled. "Look at there advanced outside technology!"

He pointed at Calvin's flying cardboard box.

"And that... that... that thing!"

He pointed at Hobbes.

"That thing must be a deadly robot for overcoming my amazing technology!"

"That's a tiger." Jack said.

"That's preposterous!" Dr Brainstorm screamed. "That's a horrible Cat Monster!"

"It's a tiger."

"It's a robot!"

"Whatever." He said, turning around, and walking away.

Dr Brainstorm glared after them, then turned back to the screen.

"Alright then!" he growled. "If you want to overthrow me, you're gonna gave to FACE ME! FACE TO FACE!"

Dr Brainstorm started pushing buttons.

"Now what are you doing?" Jack asked, picking up a magazine.

"I'm sucking them into my secret lab!"

"Frank, it's a six year old and a tiger in a cardboard cube."

"IT'S DOCTOR BRAINSTORM TO YOU!" Dr Brainstorm yelled.

And with that, DrDumbbell hit a button and waited for it to take effect.

Calvin and Hobbes continued flying over Yellowstone.

"OK." Calvin said. "We're almost there. Are you ready to get rid of this super volcano once and for all?"

"No."

"WHAT! SPEAK UP!"

"I said, Oh boy. Whatever."

Calvin rolled his eyes, and turned back to the road in front of... there was a beam of red light shooting for Calvin and Hobbes.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Calvin and Hobbes screamed leaping from the way, as it blasted past them.

"What was that!" Hobbes yelled.

"I dunno." Calvin said. "It was some kind of laser beam."

Suddenly, another one, flew past the box.

Calvin dodged it, as it flew past.

Then a third one came.

And hit them.

Immediately, Calvin and Hobbes' box was sucked towards the ground.

Calvin hit the afterburners, shifted into reverse, and attempted to break free.

The force was too strong, though.

They were sucked right into the ground.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Calvin and Hobbes screamed, tumbling into Dr Brainstorm's secret lair.

Dr Brainstorm stood there, grinning at Calvin and Hobbes with his hands behind his back.

Jack was leaning against the wall, reading Robots Weekly.

Calvin opened his eyes and looked around.

"Wh... where are we!" He yelled.

"Earth." Jack replied, not looking up.

"Where are you?" Dr Brainstorm chuckled. "You're in my secret lair. And I am DOCTOR BRAINSTORM!"

Calvin and Hobbes stared at him.

"Doctor what?" Calvin asked

"Dr Brainstorm!" Dr Brainstorm repeated, a little less loudly.

"That's a dumb name." Calvin said. "Why not something interesting? Like Doctor Doom, or Doctor Chaos, or Doctor Chaotic Doom?"

"Dumb is it?" Dr Brainstorm grinned. "We'll see how dumb you think it is when you face off with my inventions!"

"Can't be any worse than his." Hobbes said, pointing at Calvin.

"Believe me, they are." Jack said, turning the page.

Uh oh.

To be Continued...