I only own the aliens. But you all should know that by now.
Almost instantly the goons separated into three equal groups of sixty. One group ran through the gaps and raced after their battle ships to pursue Spaceman Spiff. Another charged after Tracer Bullet who responded by running for the forest. And the final group jumped onto Stupendous Man before the superhero could move.
And Lock began chasing after Calvin who chose to flee for his charred down house. Lock immediately followed in hot pursuit, unaware that Calvin had planned out the route.
Meanwhile, Stupendous Man struggled from under all of the aliens that were dog piling on him. He just needed to move slightly and he'd be able to escape.
But soon enough, Stupendous Man managed to get into a decent position and jumped into air, sending the aliens flying, and effectively knocking out a large chunk of them. He looked around to see that only thirty-eight were left. And the conscious were stirring.
Spaceman Spiff zoomed across the sky, followed closely by the group of goons. Luckily, they were very lousy pilots. Spiff looked back to see a substantial gap in between him and the mob.
He did a sudden U-turn and zoomed towards the group, blasting them at random. Many got out of the way. But he easily blasted six of them. Sending the six ships careening into buildings. Fifty-four left. And it would take mere seconds for the ships to regroup.
A pack of aliens wandered through the forest, aimlessly searching for Tracer Bullet. The detective had somehow managed to speed away to safety. They did not know that Tracer Bullet was sitting safely in a tree, a very nearby tree.
Tracer dropped down onto the ground in a sudden movement and shot the ten aliens that'd been searching. They all fell to the ground sobbing in pain.
"It hurts!" One sobbed. "It's unbearable."
Tracer examined the sobbing aliens. No wounds. The bullets had bounced right off of them. Fortunately, it'd been painful enough to subdue them.
Fifty were left. And the cries of pain were attracting more of the
Lock ran after Calvin. Luckily, Calvin was way faster than the competent commander. Lock began to run even faster than he had been previously as Calvin stopped to stop and bend down. He forgot to think about why Calvin would stop.
As he neared the kid, Lock jumped after Calvin. Just as the six year old pulled a baseball bat out of the snow.
"Sorry Lock, but this is going to hurt." Calvin said before he swung and hit Lock in mid air. Making Lock drop to the ground in extreme pain.
"Bye!" Calvin said as he began to run again. Lock slowly began to stand up. He wasn't going to lose to that kid.
Stupendous Man watched as the conscious enemies that he'd knocked away stood up to attack. Six of them jumped after the superhero. Stupendous Man just looked around and flew into the air, causing the idiots to crash into each other. He watched as the aliens were scrambled up into a pile. Stupendous Man descended onto the six. And knocked each one of them hard in the head.
Six more were down, thirty-two to go. And none of them were ready to give up.
Spaceman Spiff watched as most of the pursuing ships began to resume chasing him. He looked back to see that some were taking a different route, probably to try and cut off the explorer.
Spiff looked ahead to see a small gap between two skyscrapers. He tilted the battleship onto its side to barely get through. The pursuing aliens attempted to get out of the way. But most were incapable of escape and crashed into the buildings. Only ten managed to survive.
Including the aliens that had taken another route, there were twenty-three left. And Spiff only knew the location of less than half of them.
Tracer Bullet fired a series of bullets as a trio of aliens ran after him, blowing away the three.
"Come and get it!" Tracer said as he reloaded the gun and fired at four more charging enemies. But before Tracer could shoot anymore, an alien managed to knock the gun out of Tracer's hands. The detective replied by punching the alien in the head, KO-ing the goon.
That left forty-two left to fight. And Tracer no longer had a weapon.
"Slow down Earthling!" Lock called out as he ran.
"Lock! Wrong way!" Calvin said as he stopped by a pile of snowballs, to watch Lock running around in circles, apparently an after-effect of being hit in the head by the baseball bat.
"Oh!" Lock replied as he got back his bearings and chased after Calvin, only receive a barrage of snowballs in the face.
At last, all the conscious aliens that had attacked Stupendous Man finally stood up. Stupendous Man flew in the air and charged after one of the aliens. He easily ploughed over the thug.
Three nearby aliens jumped onto Stupendous Man and rode on him Piggy back style. Stupendous Man simply jumped onto his back, squishing the trio. The super hero grabbed the three unconscious thugs piled on his back and tossed them into another trio of goons, also defeating the three.
Twenty-five left, and Stupendous Man was having the time of his life.
Spiff zoomed ahead of his ten pursuers. He wondered where the heck the other thirteen were as the ten began to catch up.
Spiff looked back to see that the ten were quite close. He suddenly braked, allowing the other ten to zoom right past him. As the ten tried to turn back, Spiff easily blasted the group one by one.
Thirteen were left. Only, Spiff had no clue of where any of them were.
Tracer Bullet looked around in an attempt to locate his revolver.
All of a sudden, an alien jumped in front of Tracer. The detective immediately grabbed the alien by the tentacle and flipped it over his head.
Tracer then jumped in the air and grabbed onto a three-foot tree branch. The detective snapped it off, and swung it around like a staff.
An alien jumped from a tree, but before it'd even hit the ground, Tracer Bullet had smashed the goon in the stomach.
A dozen goons came out of nowhere and chased after the detective. Tracer rolled to the side and swung the branch to trip on of the aliens. He jumped forward and jabbed another alien in the forehead.
The one of them jumped after Tracer. Tracer jumped back and lifted his branch, so that it impaled itself on the branch, leaving the alien to fall to the ground in pain.
A trio ran after Tracer. Tracer swung and knocked two into a heap. The third avoided the branch and neared Tracer, prompting the detective to punch it in the belly. Tracer looked around to finally see the revolver. He dropped the staff, jumped at the revolver, and grabbed it. Tracer simply aimed and shot what remained of the nearby goons.
That made fourteen more down. Now there were only twenty-eight of them. And Tracer Bullet had regained his favourite weapon.
After tossing the last snowball, Calvin began running away again. Lock took a deep breath and followed (You've just got to admire the guy's perseverance).
Calvin looked at the ground to see his Transmogrifyer Gun in the snow. He staged tripping and grabbed him.
Calvin turned to see Lock running full speed. He aimed the Transmogrifyer Gun at the snow right in front of Calvin. As Lock neared, Calvin shot the snow and transmogrified it into a brick wall, causing a running Lock to crash into it painfully.
"What the hell just happened?" Lock asked as he lay on the ground.
"It involves complicated meta-physics, and recent scientific knowledge." Calvin replied as he walked around the wall and pointed it at Lock. "Now, you're done."
Lock immediately whacked away Calvin causing him to drop his weapon, which would transform a nearby tree into a goldfish. Calvin landed a fair distance away from Lock.
Lock was about to grab the kid and kill him. If not for a deafening explosion in the woods, he would have.
Lock turned to see what had happened as Calvin got up and began running away again. That had been a close call.
Stupendous Man looked around as the remaining thugs. It looked like an easy fight. None of them presented any challenge so far.
"Give up." Stupendous Man said. "I haven't even broken a sweat."
The aliens began to huddle up together. Stupendous Man didn't even care until they all pulled out their ray guns, one for each tentacle.
"Okay. This could be a problem…" Stupendous Man muttered. As he zoomed in the air, the aliens began firing shot after shot at the superhero. Every shot miraculously missed.
The aliens stopped shooting as an explosion rang out in the forest. Stupendous Man used the opportunity to zoom into them, bowling them over and leaving fifteen of them unconscious.
Ten left. This battle was almost over.
Spiff zoomed around searching for the remaining ships. He was not going to let them get the jump on him.
As he began to fly over the forest, he saw Tracer aiming his weapon at a group of goons. While he searched, he may as well help out the detective out.
Spiff flew right above Tracer and made a U-turn. He fired a bomb into one of the trees, just a few dozen feet away from Tracer. It was close enough to blow a bunch of goons away, but just far enough to not blow apart Tracer Bullet. Spiff saluted Tracer and zoomed off
Unfortunately for the Space Explorer, the explosion drew the attention of the absent battleships. Spiff watched as they began to surround him. He quickly fired shots into two of the ships, sending them careening to the ground. But before he could get any of the others, Spiff received a shot to the wind of his battleship, causing his ship to spiral out of control. As he span around randomly, he fired shots, taking down three of them. But he was unable to avoid crashing into the ground.
Spiff got out of the crashed ship watching as the remaining ships began to land so they could finish him off. He pulled out his blaster in preparation of battle.
Eight were left. And Spiff had mere seconds before he had to engage into a fight.
Tracer watched as twenty of the aliens marched after him. He fired a sea of bullets into the group, taking out half-a-dozen of them. Tracer knew one thing. He stood no chance of taking on all of them.
Before he could shoot anymore, Spaceman Spiff flew above. He did a U-Turn and fired a bomb, sending the entire group flying into the distance and just barely missing the detective.
Tracer looked around in horror as he saw the remaining aliens surrounded him. He aimed his gun wildly.
Eight left. Things had come down to this final battle.
Calvin looked back as he ran from Lock. The commander was just about to catch up with him. He could see the G.R.O.S.S. tree house nearby.
Calvin dashed up to it. He jumped onto the rope ladder and began climbing as fast as he could. Lock ran over. Unable to reach Calvin, he began to climb up the rope ladder after the kid.
Calvin quickly entered the tree house to see a lot of water balloons piled around. Lock had seconds before falling water balloons bombarded him.
Lock screamed in agony as the freezing water soaked his flesh. Calvin knew that the commander was almost done. He would save Hobbes.
Stupendous Man watched as the remaining aliens charged at him. The superhero bent down and made a pair of snowballs. He tossed them into two of the aliens, sending the duo flying in recoil.
As the remaining aliens neared, Stupendous Man jumped in the air and kicked two of them away. The hero landed on his back and quickly jumped to his feet so he'd be able to punch away another one of the aliens.
The remaining five ran past him, Stupendous Man bent down and once again made a pair of snowballs. He span around and tossed snowballs into two of the alien goons. The pair was sent flying away leaving only a trio of goons left.
"My Stupendous sense is tingling." Stupendous man said. "I believe that I am going to win."
The three made a desperate charge. Stupendous Man jumped in the air and did a spinning kick. The trio were easily knocked away.
Stupendous Man looked around at the unconscious aliens all over the area.
"I rule.
Spaceman Spiff blasted one of the aliens as it left its battle ship, sending the alien flying back. He span around and shot a ship as it landed, making it explode. As a charred alien exited the ship and collapsed on the ground, Spiff turned to see that the other ships had all landed. They all exited and chased after him.
Spiff randomly shot at the aliens, blowing away five of them. The final alien managed to near the spaceman. Spiff jumped to the side causing the alien to stumble around wildly before being blasted by Spiff.
Spiff blew on his blaster and put it away. He casually got into one of the abandoned battleships and turned it on
Tracer Bullet fired immediately as the aliens surrounded him. Before they'd gotten their blasters out, three of them had been shot away. Tracer ducked and fired a shot at another as a series of shots zoomed over him.
Tracer stood up, and shot another one. He rolled to the side and fired another bullet, leaving only two of them left.
The other two realized that they going to lose that fight. They realized that they had to run away if they wanted to spare themselves the pain of being hit by a bullet.
"And I'm the winner." Tracer said
Calvin reached over and grabbed the duffle bag. He quickly jumped from the tree house, landing on the freezing cold Lock. Lock let out a long scream of pain and passed out. Calvin raised his arms in the air out of celebration. He had defeated the only competent alien that had attacked.
"You shouldn't have even tried." Calvin said to the unconscious body of Lock.
Calvin turned to see Stupendous Man flying after him, Spaceman Spiff landing a battleship nearby, and Tracer Bullet emerging from the woods.
"All of them are defeated." The superhero said.
"Victory!" Spiff added.
"They never stood a chance." Tracer bragged.
"Great!" Calvin said. "Because it's time to go after their mother ship and save Hobbes."
"And the city?" Tracer added.
"Uh… sure… I guess…" Calvin said. "I mean... it wasn't a priority or anything. Can I only just save some of them?"
"I don't think so." Spiff said.
"Darn. Okay, we can save them all."
"Well, I can fly someone on my back." Stupendous Man suggested.
"And this thing can seat two." Spiff pointed out.
Tracer and Calvin looked at each other quickly before breaking out in a sprint. Calvin was lucky enough to get there first.
"Ha hah!" Calvin stated as he climbed in.
Tracer groaned and walked over Stupendous Man who put the detective over his back.
It was all coming down to one final standstill
Gassendi entered the lab to find Hobbes playing guitar again.
"Now, I know how far you'll go,
"To have the best pet ever, the American Tiger."
"Take away the guitar." Gassendi ordered. "It's almost time to blast him."
As one of the scientists began to reach for the guitar, Hobbes pulled it out of his reach. "No it isn't!"
Gassendi sighed in annoyance and grabbed onto the guitar. "Sorry, but I am not going back to that dungeon.
"And I'm not going to be fried by a death ray." Hobbes replied as he pulled on it.
"He hung me upside down in a dark cage for two day. I won't go back in that thing."
"Locked in a cage? Big deal. I'm going to be killed." Hobbes retorted.
"You're going to be killed anyways. At least choose a quick and painless death while letting me survive." Gassendi pointed out.
Hobbes paused momentarily. "That is a very good point."
"Then let go." Gassendi said.
"No way!" Hobbes answered.
At that moment, Palminetti burst into the room. "We need to blast the tiger. NOW! The earthlings defeated Lock and his army."
"Oh no. How many of the crew is still on the ship?" Gassendi asked.
"That depends. How many scientists do you have?" Palminetti said.
"Twelve."
"Well then, including you, me, and Scar… Fifteen." Palminetti answered.
"Well, if I'm gonna blast him, I'll need to remove the guitar." Gassendi replied.
"I'm not losing it." Hobbes said.
It was at that moment when Palminetti pulled out a bunch of ray guns and aimed them at Hobbes. Hobbes immediately put down the guitar and allowed Gassendi to chain him up.
"Uh… wasn't that a bit harsh?" Gassendi asked.
"You do realize that we are probably going to lose this battle. We need to make sure that the Earth Potent pays for defeating us. So we have to eliminate his best friend!" Palminetti reasoned, causing Hobbes to lose the ability to breath.
"This is twisted!" Gassendi said.
"Why don't you go tell Scar that?" Palminetti questioned as he left.
Gassendi sighed. He didn't like this, but he wasn't going to let himself be imprisoned again.
Hobbes could barely breath. There was a chance that Calvin might be able to save him, but not much of one.