"MOM! DAD! IT'S TERRIBLE!"

Slowly, Mom and Dad looked up from what they were doing.

"What is it, Calvin?" Dad asked.

"HOBBES, SOCRATES, ANDY AND SHERMAN ARE ALL TRAPPED IN DIFFERENT TIME PERIODS!"

There was a moment of silence.

Then, Mom and Dad returned to their books.

Calvin grumbled to himself, then ran back up to his room.

He grabbed his MTM, and started typing in names.

A holographic picture of Socrates appeared, and information came rolling out, next to it.

Then, a holographic picture of Hobbes came up, then one of Andy and Sherman.

Calvin stared at the information.

Then, before Calvin finished reading, The MTM started beeping, and a flashing red message came up.

WARNING!

Socrates, Hobbes, Andy, and Sherman are all unlocated!

Last reported location: Sherman J. Hamster's Lab

Current location: !UNKNOWN!

Calvin blinked.

He entered the search engine, and selected TIME PERIOD in the SEARCH BY check box.

Specified Persons located

Socrates: Old West

Hobbes: Mesozoic Era

Andy: Medieval times

Sherman: Future

Calvin blinked several times.

"WHAT!" he yelled. "They're all in different spots in time! That just makes everything more complicated!"

Calvin complained for fifteen minutes, then finally decided to actually go and save them.

"OK," Calvin said, setting dates. "I'm going back to the Late Jurassic Period to save Hobbes!"

Calvin pushed the Dates and Times button, set the dials, and pushed the GO button.

Nothing happened.

A message came up.

Low Batteries

Calvin blinked.

"That's weird. Ah well, I can always use the box."

Calvin tossed the MTM behind his shoulder, and it landed, CRASH on the floor.

Yes, that's how Calvin treats his inventions when he can't use them.

He rushed over to the closet, pulled out the Time Machine box, and leaped into it.

He pushed the button, and he rose into the air, and then blasted into a time vortex.

Hobbes lifted his head, and cut his eyes from side to side.

He appeared to be sitting in a giant nest.

Make of sticks.

And, uh, logs.

And he was surrounded by huge white eggs.

"Oops." He muttered.

Suddenly, The cliff, where the nest was laying, started shaking, and the wind started to pick up.

Hobbes squinted his eyes, and looked up.

In the blinding sunlight, a giant pterodactyl landed on the nest, and it's eyes fixed onto Hobbes.

Hobbes' eyes popped open.

"Gasp." He muttered to himself.

The pterodactyl stared at Hobbes.

Hobbes stared back.

"Uh, hello."He said. "I don't suppose you'd be interested in discussing malnutrition, would you?"

The reptile stared at Hobbes, then made a snap at him.

"YEEK!" He screamed, leaping from the way.

The pterodactyl screeched, and made another snap at Hobbes.

Using his cat like agility, Hobbes dodged every peck.

The pterodactyl screeched, and extended its wings, before taking another snap at Hobbes.

"HELP!" Hobbes screamed.

At that very moment, A time vortex opened up, and Calvin came flying into the humid Jurassic in the Time Machine.

"OK," Calvin said, rubbing his chin. "Now that I'm here, I have to find Hobbes."

"HELP!"

Calvin looked up, and saw a pterodactyl snapping at something in her nest.

"Well, that was easy." Calvin shrugged.

By this time, the pterodactyl had almost gotten Hobbes, when a voice rang out.

"GET AWAY FROM MY FRIEND YOU RAT WITH WINGS!"

The pterodactyl looked up, and saw a brown cube rocketing towards her.

Calvin steered the Machine to left, and grabbed Hobbes as he bolted past.

The pterodactyl looked up, and screeched.

Then, it lifted off its nest, and flew after Calvin's box.

Calvin shifted into third gear, and started flying away from the approaching terosaur.

It was gaining however.

And Calvin, who was too dramatic and lazy to turn on the Time Travel device, and zap out of there, altered his course, and zoomed towards a dried out riverbed.

The pterodactyl shrieked, and dove down after them.

Calvin skimmed the ground, making several lizards scatter, and glared at the pterodactyl as it lowered itself to Calvin and Hobbes' level.

"Oh, so he wants to play tough does he? Very well! Hang on to something sturdy, Hobbes!"

Calvin gabbed a lever, and shoved it from "Fast" to Faster".

The Time Machine began picking up speed as it flew along the ground at ninety miles per hour.

Calvin jerked the wheel to the left, making Hobbes fly to the right, and started flying for a tall wall of rock.

"AAAAAAAAAAAA!" Hobbes screamed, covering his eyes.

Calvin's eyes narrowed, and that same mischievous grin spread across his face.

He jerked the wheel upward, and roared up the rock.

The pterodactyl's eyes popped open, and it tried to stop.

CRASH!

Calvin stopped the Time Machine, and Calvin and Hobbes looked down at the pterodactyl.

Calvin grinned

"Well."He said. "I guess he learned to not deal with the Calvin!"

Hobbes looked down.

"Calvin, it's getting up."

"He should've known better. The dunce."

"Calvin, it's not even bruised."

"Yes sir, I'm sure he's learned a very valuable lesson about... what did you say?"

"When?"

"Right now, you tuna!"

"I can't remember."

"Something about bruises."

"Bruises?" Hobbes asked. "Hmm, nope. I'm drawing a blank."

"That's weird." Calvin said, rubbing his chin. "I could have sworn you said something about..."

CRASSH!

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Calvin and Hobbes screamed, as the Time Machine went roaring upward.

The pterodactyl was floating where Calvin and Hobbes just were.

"Oh, now I remember!" Hobbes said. "I said that the pterodactyl was getting back up, and was about to fly after us, again."

Calvin glared at Hobbes.

"Well, gee. Thanks for the information!"

Before Hobbes could reply, the pterodactyl crashed into them again, sending them higher into the air.

"FLOOR IT!" Hobbes yelled.

Calvin roared forward, and blasted away from the pterodactyl, who flew up where they had just been.

Calvin altered his course, and started roaring back to the nest.

"Why are you doing that!" Hobbes screamed.

"I don't know what else to do." Calvin shrugged.

"WHY DON'T YOU TRY GOING TO A DIFFERENT TIME PERIOD!" Hobbes screamed.

"I can't!" Calvin yelled.

"WHY NOT!"

"This chapter's not long enough, yet." Calvin sighed.

"Oh." Hobbes said,

The pterodactyl screeched, again, and started after the machine, again.

Calvin jerked the wheel to the right, and Hobbes shot to the left.

The pterodactyl screeched to a stop, and looked around.

Then it spotted the box again.

Calvin flew the box through a herd of Sauropods, and continued flying off.

By this time, the pterodactyl gave up, and returned to its nest.

Calvin was relieved.

"That was a close one." He sighed.

"Uh huh." Hobbes said. "You're a regular matador. Now keep the box from getting stepped on."

Calvin looked up, and saw an Ultaosaur foot about to come on top of them.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Calvin and Hobbes screamed, and Calvin jerked forward.

STOMP!

Dust went everywhere, as that overgrown foot came to the ground.

Not two seconds after that one landed, another one came down inches where Calvin and Hobbes were.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Calvin and Hobbes screamed.

Calvin and Hobbes spent the next thirty seconds dodging the progress of the wandering Ultrasuar.

Then, Calvin jerked the wheel upward, and rose above the sauropods' heads.

Which they should've have done in the first place, but like I said, Calvin was too dramatic and lazy to do so.

So, they rose above their heads, and Calvin turned a grin onto Hobbes.

"Well, Hobbes, once again, I have beaten all odds to save you from a bunch of dumb lizards. I'm sure you're flattered."

"Right. It was your dumb inventions that got us into this mess. As usual." Hobbes muttered.

"My fault!" Calvin said, shocked. "It was Sherman's stupid Time Machine that got you stuck here."

"Yeah, but he wouldn't have built it, if you hadn't been showing off your Death Trap Inventions." Hobbes said.

"Good point." Calvin considered. "Well, when you're a child prodigy, like me, you have to put out your remarkable intellect, somehow!"

"You're unbelievable." Hobbes said. "Get me out of here."

"Very well." Calvin said, "But we can't go home, yet."

"I suspected as much." Hobbes sighed. "You just have to make things more complicated by bringing me along, don't you?"

"Well, I'm not wasting power going home, and dropping you off before I take off, again." Calvin spat. "Now, I think we should go save Andy, next."

"Very well." Hobbes said. "When is Andy?"

"Let's see, here."

Calvin studied a small screen on the Time Machine.

His grin dropped.

"Whoops."

Hobbes leaped out of the Time Machine.

Calvin grabbed him by the tail, and somehow dragged him back in.

"Hobbes! Calm down! It's not that bad!"

"You said 'whoops', and that's all the warning I need! Get me out of this thing! I'll take my chances with pterodactyl!"

"Hobbes, it's in medieval times!" Calvin finally screamed. "We have nothing to worry about!"

"Medieval?" Hobbes demanded. "Andy was sent to the Knights of the Round Table Times!"

"Correct."

"Fine. I'll go." Hobbes said, calming down. "I've always wanted to meet a knight."

"Good." Calvin said.

He turned back to Time Machine.

"Andy, here we come."

Calvin set the dates and times, and pushed the GO button.

A red, swirling vortex appeared in front of Calvin and Hobbes' box.

Calvin revved up the engine.

"Don't worry, Andy! We're coming to get ya!"

Calvin burst into the vortex.

Once he entered it, the vortex imploded.

Calvin and Hobbes were off to save Andy from a bunch of knights.

Whether or not it was smart still remains to be seen.