Rupert and Earl stared wide eyed at the spider which was glaring at them with it's horrible compound eyes.
They exchanged glances.
"Do Earth spiders have poison?" Earl asked.
"I believe some of them do, yes." Rupert replied
"Uh huh."
The crew, of course, were paying no attention to the spider, figuring it was a harmless little something or other.
But when they saw their leaders activated their jet packs zoomed out off there, they decided they had better things to do than gawk at a deadly spider.
They panicked, in other words, and lost control of their rocket packs.
Again.
The crew went flying in all directions, screaming their heads off, and colliding with the retreating Rupert and Earl.
Why on Earth did the aliens insist on crashing into their bosses? It was a question Rupert and Earl would never be able to answer.
Well, The aliens lost control, and slammed into Rupert and Earl.
"HEY!" Rupert screamed. "GET OFF OF ME!"
Tim's strap got caught in Rupert's strap, and all at once, Tim's rocket was in control.
Actually there was no control.
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Rupert and Tim screamed, spiraling for the window.
SHATTER!
The result was like throwing a rock at the window.
All the glass exploded outward and fell onto the grass in tiny shards, Rupert and Tim along with it.
Seeing his king being thrown around, Earl swatted Lenny off of him, regained control of his rocket pack, and bolted for the window.
The alien crew attempted to gain control of their packs again, and when they finally did, they followed Earl.
Earl was tempted to tell them to go play with the spider, but he decided he'd need Calvin outnumbered.
Mom ran into the kitchen.
She was holding a dirty rag in one hand, and a Windex window cleaner in the other. She was sweating, and was wearing a red bandanna on her forehead.
Her eyes fell on the broken window.
Oops.
Her eyes bulged and turned to fire, she sprouted fangs where her nice white teeth used to be, smoke bellowed out her nose, her nostrils took on the shape of cobras, and she screeched, "CALVIN! WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU!"
Hoo boy.
Rupert, Earl, and the crew all collapsed to the ground.
When they looked up, they saw fragments of pointed glass hurling towards them.
"Eek." Erne squeaked.
Before the aliens were instantly killed from the glass, however, Rupert pulled a jet black cube out of his pocket.
He tossed it at the ground, and told everyone to huddle together.
FOOM!
The cube burst open, and a red energy field surrounded the aliens.
The glass shattered and exploded when it hit the field, and the aliens emerged, unharmed.
"Alright." Rupert said, deactivating the field, and raising into the air. "The Earth Potentate is out here somewhere. Split up, and search for him."
"What's that thing?" Asked Alex, pointing at the sky.
Rupert and Earl looked up.
"It's a bird." Earl said. "now, Erne, you go that way, Alex you go..."
"Wait a minute." Rupert scowled.
He pushed a button on his sunglasses.
Magnifiers shot out of the sides of the glasses, and piled up in front of Rupert's eyes.
The hawk came into focus. Rupert spotted two red and orange specks in the hawk's talons.
The magnifiers drew back into Rupert's sunglasses.
"The hawk has him! Let's go!"
Rupert blasted off. Earl activated his pack and zoomed off after his king. The crew struggled to find out how to start their rockets, and totally lost control, again.
Meanwhile, the hawk was carrying Calvin and Hobbes farther and farther away from their home.
"This is just great!" Calvin yelled. "Here we are stuck on a bird, and we're being hauled off to some awful place where a bunch of stupid chicks will gobble us down like worms! Could this day get any worse!"
Hobbes looked behind the hawk's tail feathers.
"Yes. Look behind you." He said.
Calvin looked behind him.
There were two evilly grinning aliens blasting after the hawk with an insane crew behind him.
"Well, gang's all here." Calvin muttered.
Hobbes looked downward.
"Hmmm, this is interesting." He said. "Maybe if we can get the hawk to drop us we'll land on one of these houses."
"How are we going to get the hawk to drop us?" Calvin asked.
Hobbes hit the switch blade in his paws and his claws shot out.
He lightly scratched the leg of the hawk. Hard enough to get its attention but not hard enough to cause any pain.
The hawk made that screeching sound that hawks make, and opened it's feet.
Calvin and Hobbes hung suspended in the air for a moment.
"Well, I hadn't thought of this." Hobbes said.
"Brilliant, genius." Calvin growled.
And with that, Calvin and Hobbes started falling.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Calvin and Hobbes screamed, hanging onto each other as they fell.
They bounced off a Direct TV dish, rolled down a roof, and landed in the gutter.
Calvin looked up.
"HEY!" He yelled. "We're alive!"
"Are you sure?"
"Really sure! Look where we landed!"
Hobbes cracked one eye.
He looked all around the gutter where they had landed.
"I was better off with my eyes closed." He muttered.
"Maybe if we go into this house, we'll find someone who will help us!"
"Yeah right."
"Come on! Let's try and climb through the window!"
And with that, Calvin started climbing out of the gutter.
"YEEK!" Hobbes yelled. "GET DOWN!"
Calvin's head shot up.
Whoops.
Aliens.
Calvin ducked back into the gutter.
They peeked over the side, and watched Rupert and Earl pass them, followed by the crew.
Calvin wiped sweat from his brow, and sighed.
"Whew! What a relief! They're still following the hawk. They think it still has us!"
"Wow, that was convenient." Hobbes said.
"Tell me about it. Now come on, let's try and get into this house."
And with that, they started climbing out of the gutter, into the unknown person's house.