Rupert and Earl continued chasing the hawk.

Which wasn't easy.

The hawk would make sharp turns every few seconds, and Rupert and Earl would have to do the same.

Now this was no big deal for Rupert and Earl, their jet packs could handle anything.

However, when sharp turns were made by the crews' jet packs, they...

Do I really need to say more? I don't think I do.

And so, the aliens continued to follow the hawk.

Soon, the hawk reached its nest, and landed.

Rupert and Earl halted.

The crew ran into them.

And then lost control of their packs.

This time, however, Rupert and Earl ignored them, and tried to dodge them as they spoke.

"The Earth Potentate has to be in there." Rupert said, ducking as a deranged alien flew over his head.

"Let's go in, and get rid of him, once and for all." Earl grinned, showing his razor sharp white teeth.

Rupert and Earl started to move in on the nest, wide grins plastered all over their faces.

The hawk's eyes shot at them like bullets.

"CAW!" It screeched, snapping at them with its beak.

"HEY!" Earl screamed dodging the bite.

"CAW! CAW!" The hawk shrieked, blocking the nest with its wings, and starting to move its feet restlessly.

Rupert gave the hawk a glare.

"Get out of here!" he yelled. "We have a planet leader to destroy!"

The hawk, however, had no interest in Rupert's weird ideas.

It cawed again, rose into the air, and started snapping at the aliens, again.

Rupert spun around ninety degrees to the left, and the hawk bolted past him.

"Missed!" Rupert taunted. "Earl! Get the Earth Potentate! I'll take care of Polly, here."

Earl blasted towards the nest.

Rupert thought he could hold the hawk off.

He couldn't.

The hawk screeched, again, swatting the alien out of the way, and zoomed towards Earl.

Right before he reached the nest, perched ever so perfectly on the cottonwood tree, A long shadow fell over Earl.

He looked up.

A giant red tailed hawk was glaring down at him.

Earl blinked.

Compared to the hawk, Earl was a bug.

"Um." Earl started. "Would now be a good to leave?"

The hawk grabbed Earl in its talons, and flung him away.

Guess where he landed?

Earl landed smack into Biff the alien.

He instantly lost control of his jet pack.

And as if setting off a chain reaction, all the other aliens lost control of their jet packs.

Boy, this joke is getting old, isn't it?

The hawk screeched and squawked, and refused to let an alien get close to her nest.

Whenever an alien got in range, WACK! She would swat him away with her wing.

This constant collision with the bird wasn't helping Earl's crew regain control over their packs.

Finally, when the hawk was busy with Lenny, Earl flew forward and peeked into the nest.

HUH!

Empty?

It was empty! There were three eggs there, but that was it!

"Rupert!" Earl screamed. "We've been sent on a fool's errand! This nest is empt... OOF!"

The hawk slapped Earl away.

Earl collided with Rupert.

"What's wrong with the nest?" Rupert growled, his eyes narrowed to slits.

"It's empty!" Earl snarled. "The hawk must have dropped them a while back."

"So why are we still here!" Rupert demanded.

"Ya know, I was kinda wondering that, myself." Luke said, as he bolted past them.

"Come on!" Earl screamed at his crew. "We have to go!"

The crew still couldn't gain control of their rockets.

Earl's teeth gritted, and he growled.

"FREE MILKSHAKES!" He screamed.

Now get this.

All at once, the crew immediately gained control of their rockets, and lined up perfectly in front of Rupert and Earl.

And there they floated, giving Rupert and Earl their usual simple grins.

They gave the lunatic aliens before them withering glares.

"Alright." Rupert scowled. "Have any of you morons seen the Earth Potentate being dropped, and you just weren't speaking up?"

There was a moment of silence, in which the crew whispered to each other.

Then, a tentacle went into the air.

"Where is he, Lace?" Rupert growled, through gritted teeth. "I want the full report for what happened."

"Oh my gosh. The full report." Lace said. "Well, let me think here."

He thought.

Then he stated his report.

My Report

By Lace the alien

Well, let's see here. I was flying around. The sun was shining. It was pretty hot, and I stopped to get a drink. A bird flew past, and landed on a tree. I saw two crickets and a grasshopper. Then I saw one grasshopper and two crickets.

Maybe they were the same ones. I get confused, sometimes.

And then, I flew around some more. Life gets pretty boring on hot days. I've always liked winter better than summer. Summertime always seems so hot.

We're still in the month of April, and summertime isn't here yet, but I still say Summer's too hot.

Oh yeah, that's when I saw it. Boy was I shocked. I wondered who did such a horrible thing!

Anyway, that's my report.

There was a long throbbing moment of silence.

Rupert and Earl stared at Lace for a long time, trying to make sense out of his... whatever it was.

Call it a report if you like.

Rupert's head fell to his chest, and Earl slapped his forehead.

"Lace," Earl said, calmly. "That had nothing to do with what we told you to tell us. You gave us what you were muttering to yourself while you were flying! WE WANT TO KNOW WHERE CALVIN IS!"

"I told you." Lace said. "I think. The house was..."

"You did not tell us where he was. You gave us rubbish!"

"Oh."

"Now where is he! Didn't you just say something about a house?"

"Well, let me think here."

Rupert stuck his nose into Lace's face, and screamed, "YOU SAID SOMETHING ABOUT A HOUSE, YOU LITTLE MORON! WHERE IS THE SUPREME EARTH POTENTATE!"

Lace shriveled back.

"Don't yell at me! It makes me think you don't like me."

"You're driving me insane, is all! Did you find Calvin! OUT WITH IT!"

"Yes, yes! I did! That's why I gave you the report!"

Rupert closed his eyes and sighed.

"Lace?" He said calmly. "You made a report that said nothing about Calvin or a house. For the last time, did you see Calvin?"

He nodded.

"Yeah, I was shocked. I knew you'd want to know."

Rupert turned away from the little lunatic.

"You knew I wanted to know, so you wrote a report that said nothing about it. Right?"

"I guess I forgot."

"I guess you did."

Rupert turned away, placed a hand on his face, and sighed.

"Now, for the last time. Where did Calvin go?"

"The hawk dropped him." Lace said. "That's why I wrote the report. He landed on one of the houses."

Rupert spun back to Lace.

"Finally!" he yelled. "The truth is revealed! Did you get the address?"

"No."

Rupert's eyes slammed shut.

"Never mind." he snarled. "Let's just go back into the neighborhood, and scan the area for him."

And with that, Rupert and Earl blasted off, the crew right behind them.

Meanwhile, Calvin and Hobbes were having no luck getting into the house. They had reached the window pane, don't ask me how, but all of a sudden, they found that the window was shut.

Hobbes turned to Calvin.

"OK, genius, what do we do now?"

Calvin studied the window.

"Well, Hobbes, the window appears to be shut."

"Gee whiz, I hadn't noticed." Hobbes said, sarcastically.

"And we won't be strong enough to open it ourselves."

"Gosh." Hobbes muttered.

"We're going to have to find another way in, or else just wait for someone to open the window."

Suddenly, Hobbes heard the sound of spewing fire.

He looked behind him, and saw... uh oh... Rupert and Earl had spotted them, and had come down to get them!

Hobbes' eyes popped open.

"Ya, know, Calvin, I'm suddenly feeling this burst of energy, and I think I could probably manage to get the window open."

Calvin looked behind his shoulder.

His eyes bulged.

"Yeah, me too." He said.

They leaped in front of the window, and started heaving the humongous window.

At first they got nothing.

Rupert and Earl were almost on top of them, when, slowly but surely, the window started to rise.

When it was open wide enough for them to enter, Calvin and Hobbes darted inside the house.

SLAMM!

The window slammed, and shook, slightly.

Rupert and Earl halted in front of the window.

And then the rest of the crew ran into Rupert and Earl.

The little dumbies.

Calvin and Hobbes stood on the opposite sides of the window, and stuck their tongues out at the crowd of aliens.

"HA!" Calvin yelled. "Take that! And just remember that your no better than a flying jellybean!"

The aliens all stared at him.

"Very well." Rupert growled. "We'll all wait out at the front."

The aliens all flew away.

Calvin and Hobbes watched them go.

Calvin turned to Hobbes.

"Gee, that was easy." Calvin said.

"Yeah." Hobbes said. "Now how are we going to get down?"

Calvin looked down.

Whoops.

They were marooned on the window pane.

Calvin and Hobbes stared off into the room.

"Well, this is awkward." Calvin said.

"How are we going to get down?" Hobbes asked.

"Hey look!" Calvin said, pointing. "There's a piece of string!"

"Gee, how convenient." Hobbes said.

Calvin and Hobbes rushed over to the string, and started climbing down.

"Why can't we live a normal life?" Hobbes moaned.