Disclaimer: I do not own Calvin and Hobbes.
Scar was not anyone's nomination for "Most Merciful King". In fact, he was the lowest on the list. He was the kind of Zeker that killed his underlings. That's what Gassendi was afraid of. He'd seen it happen to Zekers who'd made much smaller blunders.
Gassendi was freaked out about the bad news. But he had to give it. His fear began maximized as he entered the King's Quarters. As Scar was thirteen feet tall, and had ten twenty foot tentacles; who wouldn't have been scared.
It was unfair. The device was able to transport anyone and everyone who saw the firework trap to the fifth dimension. It was supposed to be the perfect plan. The mole said everyone would go to the fireworks. Of course the mole hadn't known about the Supreme Earth Potent, so they shouldn't listened to that nitwit.
"Who enters my domain?" The feared Zeker King cried to Gassendi.
"Hea… Head Scien…Scientist Gassendi." Gassendi stuttered at the sight of Scar's crescent moon-shaped scar on the king's eyelid. "Our abduction went with a small hitch. Four of the Earthlings in the village didn't see the firework trap. And two of the Earthlings were sort of…"
"If you say the Target and his tiger, you'll die painfully and slowly." Scar sneered.
"I'm s…sorry master!" Gassendi cried. "And that's not it, one of the remaining villagers kind of saw the other Earthlings get sucked into the fifth dimension. We think he's going to warn the Target. If he succeeds, there's a good chance of them attempting a nuclear strike."
Scar screamed loudly, causing Gassendi to cringe in fright.
"GUARDS. TAKE. THIS. IMBECILE. TO. THE. DUNGEONS." Scar cried. "MAKE. SURE. HE. SUFFERS. ENOUGH. FOR. HIS. EXECUTION. WHEN. WE. GET. BACK. HOME."
A bunch of Scar's guards burst in at once. Without hesitation, they grabbed a speechless Gassendi and dragged him away.
Scar shook his head. Things were getting complicated. They kidnapped that president guy and replaced him with a clone. Which reminded him, they outta let that bore go back; he was so long winded. Then they hear of this Supreme Earth Potent. So they target him and his village, but Dr. Gassendi's invention fails.
Scar needed another plan. However, there was something he needed to do first…
Scar pressed a button. "Commander Lock! Gassendi failed. An Earthling knows about the fifth-dimension-on-sight device. He is the new primary target. Do not let him get to the Earth Potent!"
"We're already after him!" Lock replied.
Moe ran. He didn't know what had happened at the fireworks. Yet, an army of aliens was attacking him. Why? What was going on?
Moe turned his head to see around forty aliens getting nearer and nearer.
"No!" Moe cried as he tried to speed up and ran for the nearest building he saw.
"Please don't be locked!" Moe thought as he tried to open the front door. However, his hopes were unsatisfied. The door was locked. Aliens had surrounded him. Even before one of them blasted him with a strange gun, Moe knew it was over.
And once the smoke from the blast that had hit Moe had risen, he was gone.
One grabbed a headphone. "Commander Lock, the target has been neutralized."
They turned around and left for the skyscraper they'd landed the ship on. Now to let it all boil.
Scar sat at his throne trying to think about the earthling's defeat. However, he was being bored stiff. Him and Lock sat waiting for his advisor Palminetti to finally shut up.
"…And that's my plan sire!" Palminetti finished.
"Say it in simple Zekerland, Palminetti." Lock ordered.
"Well sir, there technically is no Zekerland language. We head from planet to planet and adopt the nearest civilization's primary language." Palminetti corrected. "Right now, we've been using the Earth language "English"! So the term is…"
"We don't need to hear it! I want a simple idea of your plan!" Scar screamed.
"Fine! I say we kidnap the other earthling, make clones of all the residents of the fifth dimension, leave the targets to get pleased with themselves, then we'll kidnap the tiger creature and hold him ransom." Palminetti said. "I've been watching him; the Potent doesn't seem to care about anyone but the tiger. If we take the tiger to our ship, he will be sure to bargain with us."
Lock shook his head. "You are an idiot. We can't let anything into our ship and let it live!"
To the two's shock, Palminetti began laughing evilly.
"I know!" He said in between laughs. "But I said nothing of giving him back."
"Nice, but I say we just burst in, kill the tiger and the Earth girl, and force the Potent to give us Earth." Scar replied firmly.
"No my lord, I've see this human do weird things. He'd have a nuclear strike done on us faster before we even manage to enter." Palminetti answered. "But with my idea, we'll be able to get the Potent easily."
"Fine! We'll try it your way!" Scar answered. "Start the cloning process. And get the girl."
Calvin slept soundly with Hobbes at his side unaware of the terror that was seeking them. Meanwhile, Rosalyn drank another cup of coffee.
"Where is everyone? The fireworks ended four hours ago." Rosalyn thought as she looked out the window at the empty houses on the block.
She sat down on the couch and began watching late night TV.
"If I see one more movie about aliens, clones, alternate dimensions, or stuffed toys that are actually alive, I will go mad!" She said aloud as she flipped through the channels. Until, the remote jammed on a channel with a weird, dark green alien with four slimy tentacles and one large, bug-like eye.
"Earthling girl…" The alien said.
Rosalyn sighed as she walked up to the TV change the channel.
"I am Commander Lock of the Zekers!" Lock continued.
She froze. The channel wasn't changing.
"Your kind will soon be annihilated."
Freaked out, Rosalyn walked to the plug in and pulled out the wire.
"You can't get rid of this broadcast." Lock said annoyed. "So stop trying."
"Wha… What's go… going on?" Rosalyn asked.
"We have a rather ingenious invention allowing this." Lock answered. "You are of the last three in this village."
"What did… did you do?" Rosalyn gawked.
"It doesn't matter. You'll join them right about now!" Lock said.
Suddenly, a large light emitted from the TV. It was so bright, that it engulfed the entire house. And once the light disappeared, Rosalyn had vanished. And the TV had finally turned off…