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Calvin and Hobbes are unable to comment on this chapter due to events that are happening...those events..you shall see.
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Hobbes uncovered his eyes. as He blinked before he and looked at Calvin.
"That was…short." He said
"Well, we only traveled 30 years back as opposed to a few million." Calvin commented as they climbed out of the box. The two of them were looked around, surprised by how as they saw how...barren Calvin's room was.
"Wow...this is dull." Hobbes said. Calvin scoffed.
"Well obviously, this place had no life until the day I was born into the world!" He said. Hobbes sniffed the air and then looked back at Calvin.
"This paint smells now and so does the plaster...it must have been just built." Hobbes ran his paw across the wall and he felt some wet spots. "Yep, just painted." He confirmed.
"Well, we didn't come back here to explore the house; we already know its layout." Calvin said. He rushed over to the window and looked outside. The streets looked...exactly the same. The only thing that looked different was that several houses were under construction, including the one that would eventually belong to the Derkins family. Hobbes walked over and looked out as well.
"Think there would some irreparable damage to time and space if something happened to stop the construction of Susie's house?" Calvin asked. Hobbes gave Calvin a very pointed look.
"Well...to us or Susie?" Calvin asked. Hobbes shook his head with a sigh.
"So what exactly are we going to do here?" Hobbes asked. Calvin walked back toward the empty closet and slid the box into it.
"Simple: we walk around, get some stuff, maybe get a newspaper and look at current events, go home and write the report." Calvin shrugged.
"You mean copy down the article word for word and add in your own details?" Hobbes asked. Calvin turned to give Hobbes a look.
"It's always the little joys in life that you take away, Hobbes." He said. Hobbes once again rolled his eyes. The two of them made their way downstairs and to the world outside, taking note that a white fence was around the yard.
"Where did this come from!?" Calvin demanded. He and Hobbes walked closer to the fence and saw that it went all the way to the backyard, closing off at the forest.
"Maybe they have a dog." Hobbes mused. Calvin was still outraged.
"What kind of sicko would try to fence in my house? My house! It's tyranny, I tell you-tyranny!" Calvin shouted. Hobbes sighed and tapped Calvin's shoulder.
"You do realize that this is when the house was first built? You were born, like, 22 or so years later; odds are if your parents didn't remove the fence then someone else did."
Calvin thought it over, tapping his chin.
"You do have a point," he mused. Hobbes looked around. Something just didn't feel right to him.
"Let's go get your report done, my tails getting bushy." Hobbes observed as he noticed his tail. This got Calvin back into reality.
"Right, we need to get that done before we cause some kind of irregularity with time and space!" Calvin said. Hobbes shivered.
"Why is it that every time someone travels through time, they threaten all of reality?" Hobbes moaned as he and Calvin walked out of the yard and down the street.
If either of them had stayed around for much longer, they might have seen the moving van and car that pulled into the driveway. But then we wouldn't have a story, then would we?
Calvin and Hobbes walked along for about five minutes until they passed the park. Hobbes took notice of some boys playing baseball.
"Those boys seem to be playing baseball in the wrong attire." Hobbes said, noting that they had buttoned up shirts, collars and nice looking pants. Calvin turned to look as well and blinked.
"Are they on their way to church or playing baseball?" Calvin wondered. He saw the boys hit the ball...right toward him.
"Hey kid, catch the ball!" One of them shouted. Calvin froze. He looked up to see the ball flying through the air right toward him and Hobbes.
Calvin tried to move himself to catch it, running along the pavement and trying to grab it mid air...only to discover that despite the boys looking his age from a distance, they were actually nine to twelve, as opposed to six. As such, the ball went sailing over Calvin's head and slammed itself into the side of a car. Everyone stopped what they were doing as they heard the sound of metal being dented and a mirror shattering. Calvin and Hobbes stared at the car. With a clunk, the ball fell from the side of the car and onto the pavement, rolling to a stop by Calvin's foot.
Calvin chuckled weakly as the boys came running over, some mad, some shocked, and one or two impressed. When they got to the car, all they could do was stare in shock and horror.
"Uhh..." Calvin picked up the ball and placed it into hand of the boy with a bat.
"You guys may want that back. Be sure to play nice with it now, those things can take out windows!" With that, he took off running, Hobbes dashing off with him.
The other boys stood in shock as the owner of the car came rushing over. He looked at the car and then whipped around, glaring that the group of boys.
"Which one of you did this?" The man demanded. The boys looked down and around at each other until one of them spoke up.
"It wasn't us, sir; it was this short kid with bright hair and a stuffed animal." The boy with the bat said. He pointed down the road where the man saw Calvin running around a corner.
The man whipped around to face the boys.
"None of you leave until I get back!" He demanded. He ran down the sidewalk after the alleged "mirror smasher."
Calvin and Hobbes were unaware of the frame job being pulled on them as they ducked into an alleyway.
"Not even ten minutes and already we've destroyed something." Calvin said. Hobbes shot him a look.
"We!? You were the one who was supposed to catch the ball!" Hobbes shouted. Calvin crossed his arms.
"Well, if you had helped me, it wouldn't have happened; you're taller than me!" Calvin accused.
"They didn't ask for me to catch it-they asked you." Hobbes said, poking Calvin. Calvin was about to yell when they heard the sounds of running and then a man's voice.
"Have you seen a kid with a stuffed animal? They smashed up my car." The man said. The duo froze. Hobbes peeked around the corner, spotting the angry-looking man from before ranting to another man.
"That little rascal smashed up my mirror and dented my door with a baseball!" The angry man continued.The other one nodded.
"We can't let that kind of hooligan go around our town acting like that." He agreed.
Hobbes ducked his head back into the alleyway. "It appears that you've been framed for a crime you didn't intend to commit." Hobbes said. Calvin gasped as he looked around.
"What do we do?! Do you know what people in the 1950's do to trouble makers?" Calvin asked.
"No…do you?" Hobbes asked.
"No, but I'm going to assume that it's pretty bad." Calvin said. He looked down the alleyway. "Let's get out of here before he decides to check this place." Calvin took off running to the other street. Hobbes followed as they dashed down a corner and found themselves standing near a bunch of stores.
"Let's hide in there until things cool down." Hobbes said, pointing toward a clothing store. Calvin made a vomiting sound.
"A clothing store!? Are you mad, Hobbes, we can't hide in a clothing store-" Calvin stopped when they heard a voice echoing down the alley.
"I think I heard something this way!" The man shouted. They both heard multiple footsteps coming.
"Then again, I heard they had some nice fashion styles back in the 50's." Calvin amended. He and Hobbes made a mad dash for the clothing store. They entered and ducked behind some dresses on a rack. The two men raced past, unaware that their quarry was right inside the store. Calvin poked his head out and looked around. The store was mostly empty, save for a young girl with short brown hair and glasses sitting behind the counter. She was doodling in a sketchpad so she didn't notice the two of them.
"Okay, looks like we're clear at the moment." Calvin said as he looked at Hobbes.
"Maybe we should try to blend in more so people won't notice us. You don't really fit the look of the time period." Hobbes suggested as he looked Calvin over.
"Yeah, well, you're not exactly Mr. Subtly yourself." Calvin pointed out. "Besides, why should I change my ways just to fit some time where I don't even belong?"
"Because you're wanted for smashing up a car mirror." Hobbes said. Calvin thought if over before sighing with defeat.
"Alright, fine. What do you have in mind?" Calvin asked.
"Well...we can keep the pants but…" Hobbes ran off, coming back with a red shirt and a comb. Within five minutes-with two dedicated to resisting and three to complaining-Calvin had his hair brushed and was wearing a nice-looking red shirt.
"I hate this." Calvin grumbled as he looked up at Hobbes. "What about you, stripe butt? You're even more of a sore thumb!"
Hobbes thought it over before dashing off again. and He walked back with a leather jacket and shades.
"I'm going for the Fonzie look!" Hobbes said. Calvin face palmed as Hobbes pointed his fingers at Calvin.
"Eyyyggggg" Hobbes said in the worst impression of the Fonz...ever.
"That's even worse. And how come you get the leather jacket!?" Calvin demanded.
Hobbes straightened it out. "Well, I am the cooler one." Hobbes He said with a smirk.
"More like the dumber one." Calvin whispered.
"What was that?" Hobbes asked, extending his claws out. Calvin felt himself sweating a little.
"I mean, uh…how are we going to pay for this, 'cool' one?" Calvin asked. He pulled out his pockets, showing that he had no money.
"...put it on a tab?" Hobbes suggested. Calvin shrugged.
"Put this on our tab!" He shouted as he and Hobbes walked out. The girl at the counter looked up, confused.
"...the heck?" She asked, She looking around the store. Seeing nothing amiss, she shrugged and went back to drawing.
Calvin and Hobbes stood outside. "So now what do we do?" Hobbes asked.
"Well…we might as well get that newspaper and head home. We've come this far." Calvin said.
"How do you plan to pay for that paper?" Hobbes asked as the two of them began walking down the street.
Calvin shrugged. "I'll just tell them to put it on my tab. It seemed to work back there."
"Ah, the glory of words that we don't understand!" Hobbes said. They kept walking, passing people on the streets and lots of old-time cars. Thankfully, no one seemed to notice Calvin. Hobbes was a different story, but people passed it off as a cute little kid walking around with an imaginary friend.
Soon the two of them came to a small area in the entrance of a building. There were several shelves set up with rows and rows of newspapers, magazines and books. Calvin reached over and picked up a newspaper.
"Let's see what boring stuff happened in the 50's." Calvin said as he opened it up. Hobbes came over and looked at it with Calvin. They barely glanced at the sports section and saw an article about the school that Calvin hissed at. They soon came to some more local news about a train wreck that happened a few miles outside of town; it wasn't a very big one, but it shut down the roads for a few days.
"Well...that's as interesting as this is going to get." Calvin said with a sigh.
"You have any better ideas?" Hobbes asked.
"Well, we could get in the time machine and go forward every year to see if-"
"Let's go with the train wreck article!" Hobbes said. Calvin rolled his eyes as he looked around.
"Got anything we can cut out the article with?" He asked.Then he heard someone clearing his throat.
"I hope that you're going to pay for that paper before you destroy it." A heavy-set man with a cigar said from behind them. He held out his hand for payment.
Calvin looked up at the man. "Well sir, I need this for a school project-" He tried saying, but the stand owner scoffed.
"I weep for you, kid, but I have a business to run. Either pay up or skedaddle."
"Umm...can you put it on my tab?" Calvin asked. The stand owner gasped a little and almost chocked on his cigar. He pulled it out and blew smoke at Calvin.
"This isn't a grocery store, kid. Now pay up, or I'll throw you and your little teddy bear out!" The owner growled.
"I'm a tiger!" Hobbes shouted. Of course, the man didn't hear him, much to his annoyance.
"He's a tiger. He hates being called a teddy bear." Calvin said. The store owner laughed.
"Aww, what is he, your best friend? Does he have words he can say?" He reached for Hobbes and grabbed his tail.
That did it for Hobbes. With a roar, he flew at the man's face and began attacking. The owner fell over in alarm and began shouting.
"HELP! Police, I'm being robbed!" He screamed as Calvin grabbed Hobbes.
"We may want to get out of here!" Calvin shouted as they saw a policeman running toward them.
"Stop, Police!" The policeman shouted as Hobbes grabbed a stack of newspapers and tossed them at the policeman. The stack burst open as it hit the Policeman's arms, throwing them everywhere. Calvin and Hobbes took the opportunity to run down the street.
"Breaking a mirror, stealing clothing, stealing a newspaper, assaulting a store owner and a police officer as well as resisting arrest." Hobbes said as they kept running over the shouts of people. "Wonder what other offenses we can commit while we're here."
"Just get to the time machine and we won't have to find out!" Calvin said. "We just get to the woods, sneak into our backyard and get to time machine and we'll be home free!" The duo ran off to the woods, unaware that the car owner had also gone to the police as well. The officer they assaulted with a newspaper was reporting into the station about it; the police were now putting out an APB on a six-year-old with a red shirt, black pants and a stuffed tiger.
And the worse was yet to come.
Looks like our favorite duo have gotten themselves into trouble. Will they be able to get to the time machine? What will happen when they return home? Will their actions change the future as they know it? IS ANYONE EVEN READING THIS FANFIC!?
Ah well :p Tune in next time to find out!
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