Summary: After Calvin tries to combine all of his inventions, he accidentally gains the powers of his inventions... and Dr Brainstorm finds out about it.
And now back to Calvin and Hobbes: The Series
Written by garfieldodie and Swing123
Super Calvin
Hobbes had noticed that Calvin had been spending most of the day in his room.
He thought that very strange.
Today was Saturday, and it was very unlike Calvin to spend all day in his room.
He would be either watching TV, or playing Calvinball.
Hobbes walked up the stairs that led to Calvin's room, and knocked on the door.
"STAY OUT OF MY ROOM! I DON'T CARE WHO YOU ARE! THIS IS TOP SECRET STUFF, AND YOUR MOTHER WAS AN UGLY TOAD!!!"
That's what Hobbes received as an answer each time he knocked on the door.
At last, at 6:00, Calvin came out of his room.
"Hobbes, c'mere." Calvin called.
"OH, NOW you want me to come!" Hobbes spat.
"Just get up there." Calvin grumbled.
Calvin and Hobbes walked up into Calvin's room.
"These are my inventions." Calvin said.
He pointed at his Time Pauser, Mini Duplicator, Transmogrifier gun, his MTM, and his Time Machine/Duplicator/Transmogrifier/Airplane/Book and Movie Transport box.
"Yes." Hobbes said.
"Now watch this."
Calvin twisted his Time Pauser into the box. Then his Transmogrifier gun, then his mini Duplicator.
"I'm combining all my inventions into one!" Calvin grinned.
"What for?"
"Well, let's say that we're on a mission to defeat Rupert and Earl, Retro, or Dr Brainstorm. We'd have to hold all the gadgets. So I made them all into one big…thing for easy convenience."
Hobbes nodded, now looking interested.
Huh. Maybe this was a good idea.
"Now I'm turning it on!"
Calvin flipped the switch on the box.
The engine zapped to life.
"Yes? Yes!" Calvin grinned.
He held up a handheld monitor for Hobbes to see.
Time Pauser: 100 percent operational
Transmogrifier gun: 100 percent operational
Box Inventions: 100 percent operational
MTM: 100 percent operational
Mini Duplicator: 100 percent operational
Just then the numbers dropped dramatically.
Time Pauser: 35 percent operational
Transmogrifier gun: 44 percent operational
Box Inventions: 27 percent operational
MTM: 8 percent operational
Mini Duplicator: 19 percent operational
Just then the engine died, and all the numbers on the monitor dropped to zero.
"OH DARN IT!" Calvin screamed. "I've been at this all day long!"
He sighed, and leaned against the box.
"No matter how hard I try I can't get it riIIIIAAAAAA!!!!!"
Hobbes gasped.
Electricity from the box was surging through Calvin!
Hobbes looked down at the monitor.
Time Pauser: 100 percent operational
Transmogrifier gun: 100 percent operational
Box Inventions: 100 percent operational
MTM: 100 percent operational
Mini Duplicator: 100 percent operational
Calvin wasn't expecting that!
"I'll save you!" Hobbes rushed over to Calvin.
He hesitated grabbing Calvin away from the box.
"What if I get electrocuted?" He thought.
He looked down at the Time Pauser fused into Calvin's box.
He grabbed it out of the box, and hit the button.
BOOM!
Time Paused.
Hobbes hesitated, and then started to peal Calvin's fingers off the box.
Hobbes then carried Calvin three feet away from the box, and started time up again.
Calvin shook for a bit, but then regained himself.
"Whoa." He muttered. "What happened?"
"That's what I'd like to know," Hobbes replied.
"Time for bed, Calvin." Mom called.
"Aren't you going to read me my rights?" Calvin asked.
"Your rights are to get into bed. Now move." Mom said.
"Yes, your dictatorship." Calvin muttered.
Calvin walked up to bed.
Before he knew it, he was asleep, and morning had come.
Calvin yawned, and looked at his clock.
8:45 AM.
Calvin yawned again.
"Hobbes, wake up." He said.
Hobbes didn't wake up.
"Hobbes, wake up!" Calvin yelled.
Hobbes didn't move.
"GET UP!!!" Calvin screamed.
Hobbes didn't move.
Calvin stuck his nose in Hobbes' ear, and screamed.
"ARE YOU GOING TO WAKE UP, OR DO I HAVE DO SOME MAJOR DAMAGE?!?!?"
Hobbes didn't even twitch.
"Wow he's really knocked out." Calvin observed. "However no sleeper can sleep through this!"
Calvin jumped onto Hobbes, grabbed his head, and started banging it against the bed frame.
"WAKE UP!!!" Calvin screeched.
Hobbes still refused to wake up.
Calvin narrowed his eyes, and pressed his head against Hobbes' furry chest.
He gasped.
"Oh no! His heart's not beating!"
Calvin exploded downstairs.
"MOM!! DAD!!!! SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH HOBBES!!!"
Calvin stopped.
Mom and Dad were sitting at the table.
They were holding still.
Dad was stuck in chewing Corn Flakes, and Mom was frozen with a spoon of Corn Flakes in her mouth.
"I must have slept on my Time Pauser." Calvin decided.
He walked back upstairs.
But the Time Pauser was resting safely on Calvin's desk.
"Huh." Calvin grunted. "How'd this happen?"
He took a good long look at the Time Pauser.
He gasped.
The small screen on the invention was on "TIME ON"
"I didn't use my Time Pauser to stop time." Calvin muttered. "I did it on my own?" But how..."
Calvin hit the button.
The screen changed over to "TIME OFF" but otherwise, nothing happened.
Calvin hit the button again.
BOOM!!
The screen changed back over to "TIME ON", and this Calvin came back with it.
"How did that happen?" Calvin thought out loud.
"Ouch." Hobbes muttered. "Don't talk so loud. I've got a headache this morning."
Calvin chuckled nervously.
"Heh, heh." He chuckled. "Funny you should mention that..."
"YOU WHAT?!?!?" Hobbes screamed.
"Don't rub it in." Calvin muttered.
"DON'T RUB IT IN?!?!?" Hobbes screamed. "YOU BANGED MY HEAD INTO THE BED FRAME, AND YOU TELL ME TO NOT RUB IT IN!!!!"
"Look, Hobbes, that's not something we should be concerned with right now," Calvin interrupted. "Take some aspirin and sit. Somehow, during the night, I paused time, and I did it without the Time Pauser!"
Hobbes' eyes popped open.
"Huh. That's odd."
"I'll say. And I don't know how I did it."
During Calvin's last sentence, he clapped his hands in exasperation.
The minute they came in contact, there was a loud noise.
BOOM!!
Suddenly, a white shockwave shot out from him, and the world suddenly stopped.
Calvin stared at his hands.
Then he stood behind Hobbes.
He clapped again.
BOOM!!
"What th—?!" Hobbes gasped.
"Over here."
Hobbes looked back.
"Well, it appears that whenever I clap, time stops," Calvin commented.
"Interesting," said Hobbes.
Calvin then looked at his watch.
"Oh! Speaking of time, Captain Napalm is going to be on TV in a minute."
Calvin and Hobbes rushed downstairs and turned the TV on.
Captain Napalm appeared on the screen.
But as they started to watch, Calvin started to feel a tingling sensation going through his body.
And suddenly, Calvin found himself flying forward and going through the television screen!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" he screamed.
Hobbes stared.
Suddenly, Calvin appeared on the TV screen.
"Wow!" he said. "I'm on TV!"
Suddenly a gigantic space monster jumped out of nowhere.
"And now I'm in big trouble. GET ME OUTTA HERE!"
Suddenly, the TV glowed, and Calvin was somehow catapulted out the TV and back in to the chair.
"How on earth…?" Hobbes asked, stunned.
"Strange," Calvin commented. "I was just sitting here wondering what it'd be like to be in that show, and the next thing I knew, I was flying STRAIGHT TOWARDS IT! HELP!"
Calvin flew off the chair again and into the show.
There was a pause.
Calvin suddenly shot back out of the TV and back where he belonged.
"Okay, I getting scared," said Hobbes. "I'm going upstairs."
Calvin scoffed.
"Ha! I thought tigers were never scared."
Then a peculiar thing happened.
Calvin was suddenly enveloped in a field of gold, and when emerged, he was an ittybitty tiger.
Hobbes gaped at the sight.
"What happened now?"
Calvin looked at himself.
"It would appear that I can transmogrify without the Transmogrifier," he said. "All I have do is say what I want to turn into. And now I'd like to be Calvin again."
The field of gold returned, and then Calvin changed back to himself.
"Okay, that's it," said Hobbes. "Despite my better judgment, you need medical attention. Come on. We're off to Andy's house."
"Huh?!"
About fifteen minutes later, Calvin was strapped to an examining table, and a giant thing was above him, scanning him.
Sherman was sitting in a chair at a desk with a computer in front of him.
Hobbes was nearby, watching.
"Hmmm," said Sherman, tapping his chin. "This is…interesting."
"What is it?" asked Hobbes.
"Well according to this, somehow, Calvin's DNA has somehow been altered."
"Meaning?"
"What do you mean 'meaning', you imbecile?" Sherman snapped. "It means that Calvin's like a mutant now!"
"Really? I am? Cool!"
"No, not cool!" said Sherman. "With altered DNA as strange as this, you could be permanently damaged for the rest of your life!"
"But I have some helpful new abilities now!" Calvin protested. "I can pause time, go into movies and transmogrify myself."
Hobbes stared.
"How the heck did this happen?" he wondered.
Calvin thought for a moment.
"It must have been while I was combining my inventions into one!" he gasped. "When I touched it, it electrocuted me, and this somehow must've damaged my DNA, and now I have the abilities of all my inventions! Looks I've molded them all into one big thing after all: me!"
Hobbes gulped.
"What do you plan to do?" asked Sherman.
"Well, what any kid would do given this gift! I'm gonna become a superhero!"
And for the first time ever, Hobbes and Sherman agreed on something.
And that something was: Earth was big trouble.
When Calvin and Hobbes got home, Calvin immediately went to work designing a costume.
He made a black mask, a red jumpsuit with little bolts of electricity going down the legs, and arms, yellow collar, gloves, belt, and boots, and little yellow circle on Calvin's chest with a bright crimson C in it.
Calvin put the costume on.
"So, Hobbes, how do I look?" He chuckled, showing the costume off to Hobbes.
Hobbes looked up from his comic book.
"Like a superhero. Why?"
"That's exactly how I want to look." Calvin chuckled. "I will use my amazing powers to save worlds, and fifth dimensions from monkey people!"
"That's sounds hard." Hobbes said.
"Yeap." Calvin said. "It's a tough job but someone's gotta do it."
Hobbes looked back at the comic book.
"Mmhmm." He said. "Well, have fun."
"Wait!" Calvin yelled. "What if you became my sidekick! You could be the Death Tiger!"
"Don't have super powers. Leave me alone." Hobbes said.
Calvin glared at him.
"Fine." He sniffed. "I'll save the world on my own!"
"Mmhmm."
"You'll be sorry, of course."
"Mmmhmm."
"I'll be having all the adventures, and you'll miss out."
"Mm."
Calvin grumbled to himself, and turned to the window.
He opened it up, and jumped off the ledge.
He fell for a second, then rose into the air, and soared across the city.
"WHOO HOO!" He screamed.
Calvin's town, unfortunately, was fairly crimeless.
Or to put it another way, nothing ever happened.
Calvin spent three or four hours flying around the town, searching for some form of crime or injustice.
"Gee," Calvin said, landing on a building, and walking to the edge. "You can just never find any good super villains anymore. Hmm, what am I doing wrong? Other super heros get cool villains! Batman must make one enemy per day!"
Calvin looked around the city.
"Well, maybe I just need to look harder. I'll try looking in a few dark alleys. I need to hold up to being a super hero!"
And with that, Calvin blasted off his feet, and flew off towards the other side of town.
Meanwhile, several hundred miles away in Yellowstone National Park, another weirdo was not holding up to his title.
"DARN IT!!!" Brainstorm screeched, as several springs and screws flew out of his latest invention. "WHY CAN'T I GET IT RIGHT!!!"
There was a moment of silence.
"JACK!!!" He screamed. "GET IN HERE!!!!"
There was a moment of silence, and then, Jack the robot walked in, sipping on his soda, and holding a National Geographic magazine in his hands.
"Yes, Frank?" He asked, sitting down in his chair.
"DOCTOR BRAINSTORM!!! I need you to fix this again!!!" Brainstorm shoved a small metal cubical box in Jack's arms.
"Really?" Jack yawned, placing the box on the desk. "How much more money do you have?"
"I have ten dollars in my pocket, but I'm using that money to purchase my Doomsday Device from the Institute of Mad Science!"
"Sorry. I don't fix unfixable items for free." Jack said, taking another sip.
Brainstorm growled, furiously, and reached into his pocket.
"Fine! Here ya go!"
The insane scientist shoved a ten dollar bill into Jack's face.
"Are you happy, now?!?"
"Sure." Jack said. "Let's see what we can do with it."
Jack took the box, and walked out of the main lab with it.
He walked into the kitchen, and dropped it on the counter.
CLANG!!
"What was that?! Are you fixing it?!"
"Yes. Stay there." Jack called back.
He yawned, and opened the fridge door.
He pulled out another soda, and opened the top.
CLICK SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
"What was THAT?!?! Have you fixed it?"
"Not yet. Just hang on." Jack called back.
He took a long drink from the soda, then, once it was gone, smashed the can against his head.
K-K-K-K-K-K
"Almost done!" Jack called into the main lab.
He threw the can away, and yawned.
Jack then walked back to the fridge, and closed the door.
CLICK
"OK, there. I'm done." Jack said.
He picked the box off the counter, and walked back into the lab.
"Here ya go, Frank. Good as new." Jack said, offering the box back to Brainstorm.
"IT'S DOCTOR BRAINSTORM!!!! And thank you!"
"Sure." Jack yawned, walking back into towards the hallway to his room. "Nice to be able to make easy money so quickly."
"WHAT?!" Brainstorm screamed.
"I said, have fun scheming." Jack said, closing the door to his room.
Jack walked over to his desk, and sat down.
He turned to his computer on, connected it to the internet, and started typing.
Hello, Hobbes, are you there?
Jack leaned back in his seat, and waited.
Suddenly a response popped up on the screen.
Hello, Jack. Yes I'm here.
Jack leaned forward, and started typing again.
You said you wanted to tell me something? You might want to hurry, because I'm going to have to scam another ten bucks out of Frank, soon.
There was a pause, then, a huge message popped up.
Jack squinted his eyes, and studied it.
It the whole story of how Calvin had merged his inventions together, and how he had gotten all the powers of his inventions.
Jack chuckled his way though it, and finally replied.
Interesting. Has he destroyed anything yet?
Hobbes' reply came quickly.
That's what I'm worried about. Do you have any suggestions on how I can keep him from blowing the planet up?
Jack rubbed his chin, and thought for a moment.
"Hmmm," He considered.
He then began typing again.
Where is he?
Suddenly, Jack's screen went blank.
"Hey!" Jack yelled.
Dr Brainstorm appeared on the monitor!
"JACK!!" He screamed. "MY ANTI-MASS DESTROYER, STILL ISN'T WORKING!! I WANT MY TEN BUCKS BACK!!!"
"It's as good as spent, Frank." Jack sighed. "Now, if you don't mind, I'm very busy right now, so if you would please shut off the camera, I could continue..."
"I know what you're doing, Jack!" Brainstorm yelled. "You're communicating with the ENEMY!! Just for that, all of it goes into my report! Now, I'm downloading your conversation, and I'm shutting you down!!"
Brainstorm pushed a button on his desk.
Jack sighed, and stood up from his desk.
He walked out of his room, and reentered the main lab.
By the time he entered, Brainstorm had already copied Jack and Hobbes' writings onto the main monitor, and was now reading it.
Jack walked into the lab, and sat down at his chair.
"So, the six year old brat has super powers, now, eh?" Brainstorm considered, rubbing his chin in thought. "That can't be good, with those powers, he could destroy me and my lab in a matter of minutes! WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!!!"
"He could destroy you and your lab with or without his powers, Frank." Jack said.
"FOR THE LAST TIME IT'S DR BRAINSTORM!!!!" Brainstorm screeched. "Now come on, we need to attack him before he attacks us!!"
"More than likely, he has a lot more important things to do." Jack said.
"Shut up! Let's go!!"
And with that, Brainstorm raced out of his lab.
"So how do you plan on beating Calvin?" He yawned, sitting down in the passenger's seat of Brainstorm's rocket.
"Simple!" Brainstorm cackled. "We're going to that town wherever it is he lives! Then, I'll unleash all my inventions of DEATH upon him! I'll defeat him, take his powers away with my Power Take-Awayer transfer them into myself, and then I WILL RULE THE WORLD!!!"
"Uh huh." Jack said, sipping on a milkshake.
Brainstorm leaped into his rocket, stuck his keys in the ignition, and turned it.
VROOOM!!! VROOOOM! VROOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!! VROOOOOOOOOOOOM!!
"DARN IT!!" Brainstorm screeched. "The engine's flooded, again!! JACK!! Go fix it!!"
"Do you have another ten bucks?"
Brainstorm's eyes slammed shut.
Meanwhile, Calvin was still having no luck finding any suitable crimes.
He had attacked seven or eight people for littering and had brought someone in for "illegal poodle ownership".
So in other words, it was a typical crimeless day.
"Oh man this is hopeless." Calvin sighed, looking around the city. "I haven't made any enemies today, besides that guy I gave a black eye for throwing his banana peel on the ground, and there hasn't been a single bank robbery!"
Calvin crossed his arms, and looked around.
"Well, I guess this town isn't ready for my super powers of justice. ON TO THE NEXT CITY!!"
And with that, Calvin leaped from the ground, made a 180 degree turn, and started rocketing off towards the north.
"Well, I'll try a few cities in the next state," He said to himself as he flew above the town out of everyone's sight. "Then, if that doesn't work, there's always New York, Boston and Indianapolis!"
He continued flying for a while.
"Well, I might as well stop in at my place at get a bit to eat." He decided.
Calvin made another turn, and started going towards his neighborhood, which was only a few miles away.
"Ahh, it's great being a super hero!" He sighed, looking up at the clouds. "The fresh air, the bugs slapping against my face as I fly, and Dr Brainstorm's broken down old rocket heading towards me. Yep, there's nothing quite like..."
ZAAAAAP!!!
"YAAAAAAUGH!!!"
Suddenly, Brainstorm's rocket, which had seemed so harmless at first, sent a blast of electricity shooting at Calvin through a laser gun sticking out at the bottom.
Calvin halted his flight, and started falling downward.
"HA HA!!" Brainstorm screamed, throwing his fists to the sky. "DIRECT HIT!!! JACK ACTIVATE THE BOOSTER ROCKETS!!!"
"We don't have any." Jack said, flipping through his Robot's Weekly magazine.
Brainstorm growled, and his eyes narrowed.
Calvin went twirling downward for about fifty feet, screaming, before he finally regained control of his powers, and came back up, again.
"HEY!" He shouted at the rocket, as he floated back upward, again. "Frank, that's wasn't nice! Now you go home, and play with your little inventions!"
"He has a point, Frank. You're being kinda mean." Jack said, leaning back in his chair.
"DOCTOR BRAINSTORM!!!" Brainstorm screamed. "And just for that, Calvin, I'm going to unleash my inventions upon you!! NOT EVEN YOUR ROBOTIC TIGER CAN SAVE YOU NOW!!"
Calvin blinked.
Brainstorm started pushing buttons on his control panel and screaming at Jack to help him.
A long tube extended from the front of Brainstorm's rocket, and pointed at Calvin.
"I'm just going to bail out, now, Frank, if its all the same to you," Jack said, standing up and reaching for his parachute.
Brainstorm was too busy laughing insanely to notice, however, as he slammed his fist into a bright red button.
The end of the tube began glowing bright red, and suddenly a thick laser beam shot straight out of it.
Calvin held his hands upward, and suddenly, a large red transparent dome appeared around him.
ZAAAAP!!!
The laser collided with the dome, and shot Calvin backward, a little, but otherwise kept balanced.
Calvin growled, and started flying forward, slowly, the laser beam getting thicker and brighter the closer he got.
Brainstorm blinked.
"Uh... Jack, Something's happening. Do you think you could..."
Brainstorm turned around.
Jack wasn't there anymore.
"COWARD!!" Brainstorm shouted. "RETREATING DURING BATTLE HUH!! THIS IS ALL GOING INTO MY REPORT!!"
Suddenly, a red light started flashing on Brainstorm's panel, and a siren started emitting from the speakers.
Brainstorm blinked.
"Huh boy." He sighed. "BAIL OUT!!!"
Brainstorm grabbed a parachute, and leaped out of the rocket.
BOOOM!!
Calvin continued to shield himself, as the rocket was blown to smithereens.
"HEY!!" Brainstorm screamed, as he fell downward. "THAT WAS MINE!!!"
"Well, that takes care of Brainfreak." Calvin said, clapping his hands together. "Now, then on to more important matters."
Calvin turned and continued flying towards his house.
Brainstorm grumbled to himself, and pulled the string on the parachute.
Luckily, it deployed, and caught Brainstorm as he fell.
"Boy, I'm glad Jack finally fixed this." He said to himself.
Calvin flew through his window, and landed on the floor next to the bed.
Hobbes was sitting on the bed, reading a comic book.
"Hi Hobbes!" Calvin grinned.
"Hello, Calvin." Hobbes replied, not looking up. "Make any new enemies or fight any major battles?"
"No. Not really. Just another crumby battle with Brainstorm." Calvin yawned. "I was just about to go to some other city and look for some crime, and I just stopped for a bite to eat."
"Uh huh." Hobbes said, turning the page.
Calvin transformed back into his original form, and ran down to the kitchen.
Meanwhile, Brainstorm and Jack had landed in some unknown location in Calvin's neighborhood, and Brainstorm was now planning his revenge.
"This is an outrage, Jack!" He yelled, as he and Jack walked down the sidewalk towards Calvin's house. "I spent all this time scheming and plotting, and he didn't succumb to mighty might!"
"That's just devastating." Jack replied, expressionlessly.
"And to top things off, YOU don't want to hurry and get to Calvin's house again before he leaves! So here I am being held back by you!!"
"Uh huh."
"And it makes me think you don't want me to take over the world!"
"Uh huh."
"I'LL MAKE YOU ALL PAY!!!"
"I think I see him." Jack said, squinting into the sunlight.
"What?" Brainstorm said, looking around.
Then, he spotted Calvin.
He was flying high above them, both his fists forward in a Superman kind of style.
"Jack! I'm a genius!! He's heading right towards us!!!" Brainstorm screamed.
Jack sighed.
Brainstorm started rooting through his pocket.
"Let's see here, where's my servant ray?!"
"Here he comes. He's flying right over us." Jack said.
"NO WAIT!!! DON'T!!! WHERE IS IT! I KNOW I HAD IT HERE SOMEWHERE!!!"
"There he goes." Jack said, his head following Calvin as he flew overhead.
"NOOO!! DARN IT!! WHERE'S MY SERVANT RAY?!?!"
"In your boot. Where you always keep it." Jack said.
"WHAT?!?!"
Brainstorm frantically grabbed his servant ray out of his boot, pointed it at the escaping Calvin, and shouted, "SERVANT RAY, BRING HIM!! BRING DOWN!!!!"
The gun didn't do anything.
Brainstorm blinked.
"OK, then, DON'T bring him down."
Suddenly, a net shot out of the gun, and flew straight towards Calvin.
Calvin was munching on a peanut butter sandwich as he flew, and he had not noticed Brainstorm or Jack as he went over them.
But when the net hit him, he had to notice.
Especially since it was electrified.
ZZZZZZZZT!!!
"YAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!!"
Calvin began fighting with the net, as he lost control of his flight, and began plummeting to the ground.
CRASH!!!
"HA HA!!!!" Brainstorm yelled in triumph. "I'M A GENIUS!!!"
Jack rolled his eyes.
Calvin struggled with the electrified net, before finally ripping it apart, with his strength.
Calvin stood up and looked around.
"WHO DID THAT?!" He shouted. "ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A BATTLE?!?!"
Suddenly, Calvin saw Brainstorm running up to him, grinning like a lunatic, and holding his servant ray.
"Oh, it's just you." Calvin said, his excitement dying.
"JUST me, eh? Well, I'll show you how much damage I can really do!!" Brainstorm yelled, rummaging through his pockets in his lab coat.
"Sure you will." Calvin said, crossing his arms.
Brainstorm took out something that looked like a squirt gun, and pointed it at Calvin.
"PREPARE FOR UTTER DESTRUCTION!!!!"
Calvin yawned.
Brainstorm pulled the trigger.
ZAAAAAAAAAAAP!!!
"AAAAAAAAUGGH!!!"
Suddenly a bright green blast shot from the gun, and collided with Calvin, which both threw him flying backwards, and electrocuted him.
CRASH!!!
Calvin crash landed into the side of a house, and sunk to the ground.
His eyes popped open and faced Brainstorm's laughing figure.
And Jack, who had just arrived.
"Hmm, maybe this will be a bit of scuffle." He said, thoughtfully.
Brainstorm pointed the gun at Calvin, again.
"Calvin, give up your powers to me or face dire consequences!"
"So, storm brain, ya wanna play rough, huh?" Calvin yelled, leaping to his feet. "We can play rough!"
Calvin held his hands up, which began glowing light blue, and pieces of frost began falling from them.
A light blue ray shot out of Calvin's hands, and headed straight for Brainstorm.
Brainstorm blinked, and leaped from the way.
The blast hit a pair of trash cans, which immediately became incased in a solid block of ice.
Brainstorm rolled across the ground, and stopped on his stomach.
"JACK!! HE'S TAKING COUNTERMEASURES!! DO SOMETHING!!!!" He screamed, frantically.
"Sure."
Jack turned to Calvin.
"Calvin, do you know where I can find a soda machine?"
"Sure there's one at the entrance of Brown's General Store, just around the corner from here." Calvin said, pointed to the end of the block.
"Thanks."
And with that, Jack started walking away.
"JACK!!! GET BACK HERE! DO NOT WALK OUT ON THE FACE OF BATTLE!!!"
Calvin turned back to Brainstorm and grinned.
"Now then, where were we?" He grinned, cracking his knuckles.
"JACK!!!"
Brainstorm leaped to his feet, and began shot another blast at Calvin
Calvin held out his hands, and a tall red transparent shield appeared in front of him.
ZAAP!!
"UUUNGH!!!"
Upon impact, the shield vaporized, and Calvin fell to the ground.
"Wow, this thing really works." Brainstorm commented, scratching his head, and staring at the ray gun.
Then he snapped back to his task, and aimed it at Calvin, again, who's eyes narrowed.
"MIST!!!" He yelled.
Suddenly, Calvin's outline collapsed, and became a light almost invisible cloud.
Brainstorm looked around.
"Where did you go?!?" He yelled. "Show yourself! Show yourself so I can destroy you!!"
"CALVIN!!!"
In a blast of light, Calvin suddenly appeared in front Brainstorm, holding his glowing hands up.
BLAST!!!
"AAAAUUGH!"
In large blast of fire, Brainstorm was knocked off his feet, and he fell on his back.
Calvin then held both his hands out his side, as electricity began flowing around them.
At that very moment, Jack came walking back around the corner, sipping on a soda with a straw.
"Hello," He said, walking up to them. "What did I miss?"
"Oh not much, you came in time for the finale!" Calvin grinned.
"Ah, very nice."
Calvin held his hands up, and threw a blast of ice at Brainstorm.
"HEY!!" Brainstorm yelled.
Suddenly, the hand holding the ray gun became frozen in a block of ice.
Calvin held his hand over his head, and threw another blast at Brainstorm.
This one pinned him completely to road, as both his hands where now frozen.
"Well, that was easy." Calvin yawned.
"THIS BATTLE ISN'T OVER!!" Brainstorm screamed. "I was just getting started!!! UNFREEZE ME THIS INSTANT!!"
"Nah, I'll leave that up to Jack." Calvin said, pointing at the robot. "Toodles, Frank."
"IT'S DOCTOR BRAINSTORM!!!" Brainstorm screamed, as Calvin blasted off the ground, and flew off towards the house. "JACK!!! GET MY FIRE BLASTER OUT OF MY POCKET AND UNFREEZE ME!!!"
"You have another ten bucks?" Jack inquired, taking another sip from his soda.
"RRRRRRRGH!!!!" Brainstorm screamed, struggling against the ice.
The next day, Brainstorm was still in Calvin's town, but this time, he was ready for the super hero.
"Alright, Jack!" the mad scientist cackled. "I have everything prepared for that spiky haired brat, now!!"
"Uh huh." Jack said, leaning back in a chair.
The two had taken up residence in a hotel in the night, Brainstorm almost got kicked out several times, because of his constant screaming at night about how he was about to take over the world.
Brainstorm had also complained about there not being a laboratory in the hotel.
Jack picked a magazine off his bed, and began flipping through it at Brainstorm talked.
"These two wrist watches may look normal, but they're really deadly ray guns ready for whatever that super powered fool has for me!" The scientist bragged holding his hands up to show off his watch rays.
Jack looked up, and stared at him.
"Frank, do you know how stupid you look with two wrist watches on both arms?" He asked, raising his eyebrows.
"Nobody asked you." Brainstorm sniffed. "And it's DR BRAINSTORM!!!!"
Brainstorm then went on to his feet.
"If my any chance, that punk knocks me off my feet, my boots are also equipped with deadly lasers, which will fire if my feet aren't touching the ground!!!"
"Uh huh." Jack said, turning back to the magazine. "so in other words, you're just going to stand in one place, and fire at Calvin with your watches."
Brainstorm stared at Jack.
"No, of course not. I'll be moving around." He said, his brow furrowing.
"Have you tried walking, yet?" Jack asked, looking up.
"Sure, I..." Brainstorm lifted his foot.
BLAST!!!
"WAAAAUGH!!!"
Suddenly, the boot went off, and rocketed Brainstorm off his feet.
This of course activated the boot, and it fired a large blast into the air, as Brainstorm on his back.
Jack ducked, as the laser blasted a hole in the wall, right where his head had just been.
"Wow," Jack said, sitting back up. "I hope you have insurance."
"Shut up!" Brainstorm screamed, standing up. "So I have some bugs to work out! I'm still ready for that punk now!!"
At that very moment, the manager burst into the room.
"What is going on here?!" He demanded.
He looked at Brainstorm. He looked at Jack. He looked at the charred piece of rug. He looked at hole in the wall behind Jack's head. He looked at Brainstorm again.
Brainstorm blinked.
He whirled around to Jack.
"JACK! USE YOUR AMAZING ROBOTIC POWERS TO GET US OUT OF HERE!!!" He screamed.
"Ya got ten bucks?" Jack questioned, looking up.
Brainstorm's eyes slammed shut.
Meanwhile, Calvin was practicing his powers in his room.
He was freezing and unfreezing his closet, and trying to use his transmogrification powers to only affect one hand, as he was trying to turn his hand into a tiger paw.
Hobbes walked into the room, and stared at him.
"Having fun?" he asked, sitting down on the bed, and taking a comic book.
"Sure you can say that." Calvin grinned. "It sure is cool being able to do everything your inventions does!"
"Uh huh."
Calvin stood up, and stretched.
"The only problem is, I can't find any villains that are competent enough to face off with me." He complained. "I don't mean to complain, but at least all the other super heros have super villains that at least give them a hard time."
"Uh huh" Hobbes yawned, not listening to Calvin.
"Do you have any suggestions on how I could find some good villians?"
"Uh huh."
"Really? How?"
"Uh huh."
"You're not even listening, are you?"
"Uh huh."
DING DONG
Calvin perked up.
"HEY! That could be a bloodthirsty bad guy ready to give me a hard time! COOL!"
"Uh huh." Hobbes turned the page.
Calvin quickly turned his hand back to normal, and rushed downstairs.
He ran down to the front of the door, and ripped the door open.
"GREETINGS VILLAIN!!" He screamed.
His grin dropped.
"Oh. Hi Jack."
"Hi Calvin." Jack said. "Frank wants to fight you again. He's out at the park."
"Really? Cool! More practice!"
A gold dome appeared around Calvin, and when it vanished, he was in his super hero costume.
"Lead me to him!" He yelled, electricity surrounding his hands.
"Will do." Jack yawned.
Jack turned around, and started walking away.
Calvin ran after him.
"I should tell you, however, that he has lasers in his boots and watches." He said.
"Trivial information, Jack. Just show me what to beat up, and I'll take it from there!" Calvin declared, cracking his knuckles.
Jack lead Calvin to the park, where they found Brainstorm standing on top of a hill grinning down at Calvin.
"Ah, so Calvin, you've decided to come! FOOLISH DECISION!!!"
Calvin ignored Brainstorm as he looked around.
"Say, Jack, where is everyone?" He asked, turning to the robot.
"Oh, Frank paid them a bunch of money to leave. He's been having a lot of money lately." Jack nodded."Anyway, you're on your own, now."
"Whatever." Calvin said, turning back to Brainstorm.
"So, Brainy, are you gonna come down here, or do I have to go up there?"
Brainstorm's grin vanished.
"Uh, you'd better come up here." He said. "I'd rather if I didn't move."
Calvin turned to Jack.
"Lasers go off when his feet aren't touching something." Jack said.
"Ah, so in other words, this will be easy."
Calvin spun back around, leaped into the air, and started flying upward towards Brainstorm.
Brainstorm held one hand up, and pushed the button on his watch.
Nothing happened.
Brainstorm's eyes popped open, and he frantically began pushing the button.
Calvin was getting closer.
Brainstorm kept the button to no avail.
Then, Calvin reached him.
ZAAAAAAP!
"AAAAAAUGH!!"
In a blast of electricity, Brainstorm was knocked over.
Before the lasers in his shoes were activated, however, Calvin clapped his hands.
CLAP!
BOOOM!!
White shockwaves spread out across Calvin, and time fell to a complete stop.
Calvin causally walked around Brainstorm, caught in mid fall, and stopped at his head.
He clapped his hands, again.
BOOOM!!!
"..UUUGH!!" Brainstorm crashed to the ground, and the lasers in the shoes immediately kicked in, and blasted a hole in one of the rocks, nearby.
"TAKE THAT!!!" Brainstorm screeched, looking up.
He looked around.
Calvin cleared his throat.
Brainstorm looked around, and saw Calvin grinning over him.
"Oh." He said.
Calvin took a deep breath in.
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!"
Red shockwaves emitted from Calvin's mouth as me mimicked his scream horn, and caused Brainstorm to go flying.
"HELP!! JACK!!!! SAVE ME!!" Brainstorm screamed, tumbling through the air.
Jack looked up.
He was sitting on a park bench, reading his magazine.
And he was wearing cotton balls in his ears.
"Yes?"
CRASH!!
Jack watched, calmly, as Brainstorm collided back with the ground, and began rolling down the hill.
Once he reached the base of the hill, he immediately was stopped by a bench.
CRASH!!
Brainstorm grumbled to himself, and took his boots off.
He set them on the ground, and got up, now in his socks.
"OK, Calvin, prepare to face utter destruction!"
Calvin calmly walked down the hill.
Brainstorm reached into his pocket, and pulled out his servant ray.
"Servant ray! DO NOT defeat Calvin!!"
Suddenly, a large blast of red shot out of the servant ray.
"YAAACK!" Calvin shouted, as the blast collided with him, and he went flying into a tree.
CRASH!!
Brainstorm grinned.
"Now, then, Servant ray, DO NOT take his powers away, and DO NOT give them to me!!"
Another blast exploded from the tip of the servant ray.
Calvin's eyes popped open as he saw another streak of red coming towards him.
On instinct, Calvin's hands shot up, and little pieces of frost began forming around them.
SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK!!!
The laser beam halted in mid air, as ice traveled up it at a high rate of speed, and went up to freeze the servant ray.
Brainstorm blinked.
"Darn it." He muttered.
Calvin then leaped to his feet, and held his red glowing hand up.
BLAST!!!
Fire exploded from his hand, this time, and sent Brainstorm flying off his feet, again.
"JACK!!! HELP!!! DO SOMETHING!!!"
"I am." Jack said, turning the page. "I'm reading."
"JACK!!!!" Brainstorm screeched.
Calvin held his hands up again.
CRACK!!!
Just at Brainstorm was getting up, Calvin threw another ice blast at him, hitting his hand, and locking it against the mail bin on the sidewalk.
"HEY!! NO FAIR!!!"
He held his servant ray, which had been melted in Calvin's fire blast.
"SERVANT RAY!!! DO NOT... HEY!!!"
Calvin threw another ice blast at Brainstorm. This one nailing his other hand, and locking it against the ground.
"MELT MY HANDS THIS INSTANT!!!" Brainstorm screeched. "I'll have you know I can beat you whenever I want to!!"
Calvin sighed.
"Frank, I just beat you twice in a row. There's no possible way you can beat me."
"IT'S DOCTOR BRAINSTORM!!!" Brainstorm screamed. "And yes I can!!! I can prove it to you!!"
"Very well." Calvin said, crossing his arms. "Let's do this again, then. Name the time and place."
Brainstorm's eyes blanked out.
"Uh, well, I didn't really have anything prepared..." He started.
"Jack, what do you suggest?" Calvin asked, turning to the robot.
Jack looked up.
"Hmm, oh, well, I don't want Frank dragging me around in the morning, so make it during the afternoon."
"Very well." Calvin turned to Brainstorm. "How about Sneer Hill, tomorrow at five. Sound good?"
Brainstorm's eyes narrowed.
"You're on!" He yelled. "NOW UNFREEZE ME!!!"
"I'll leave Jack to do that." Calvin said.
"NO!!!" Brainstorm screamed. "HE'LL CHARGE ME!!!!"
"Charge you, what a great idea! Twenty bucks, and I'll unfreeze you!" Calvin grinned.
Brainstorm gritted his teeth.
"JACK!! GET OVER HERE!!"
"Got the money?"
"I'VE GOT THE MONEY!!!"
"Coming."
Calvin grinned, and blasted off his feet, back towards his house.
The next morning, Hobbes woke up, and discovered that Calvin was already gone.
Off fighting crime, he guess.
Hobbes yawned, and sat up.
He looked around, and suddenly, he started hearing a beeping sound.
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP...
Hobbes looked around, then his eyes fell on the MTM.
With every beep, a red light on it blinked.
Hobbes walked up to the MTM, and pushed the PLAY button.
"Hello?" He muttered into where the CD usually would go.
"FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!" Sherman cried. "IT TOOK ME TWO HOURS TO DIAL THIS STUPID NUMBER! I KEPT GETTING NUMBERS WRONG, AND CALLING SOME ALIEN HARDWARE STORE!"
Hobbes held the speaker away from his ears.
"Yeah, I keep bugging Calvin to make the number 81522519 instead of pi."
"Why 81522519?" Sherman asked.
"Because if you get the code right, those numbers spell out my name. Of course, Calvin wants it 311222914."
"Cat, I'm calling you for a very urgent reason! Get over to my lab, now!"
"Vermin, it's seven in the morning. I haven't even had breakfast yet."
"It's about Calvin's powers!" Sherman spat.
"What about them?"
"GET OVER HERE! IT'S TOO COMPLICATED TO EXPLAIN OVER THE PHONE!"
Hobbes sighed.
"Alright, alright. I'll be there in a minute."
Hobbes hung up.
He yawned, again, and walked out of the house.
He walked down the street, then came to the house with the fancy satellite dish.
He knocked on the door.
Andy answered it.
"Oh hello, Hobbes." He said. "Did you get Sherman's call? He's nearly frantic."
"Yes, yes, I got it. Where is he?"
"His lab. Careful, though, he's cranky in the mornings."
"I noticed."
Hobbes walked past Andy, and walked down the stairs into Sherman's lab.
Sherman, dressed in a tiny lab coat, was typing on his humongous computer.
When Hobbes closed the door, he turned around and glared at him.
"Hobbes, my tiger." He said. "Calvin is in terrible danger."
"I'm guessing some terrible supervillain has emerged, and he's beating him up, now, right?"
"Wrong. Shut up, and let me explain."
Sherman pushed a button on his keyboard.
Calvin's outline appeared on the screen.
"When Calvin's creations electrocuted him, it shorted out a specific gene that rehabilitates potency. Whereas he is exploiting his jurisdictions ceaselessly he is wasting his valuable outlets of strength, and considering none of it is being rejuvenated he's just getting more unstable with every combat. When he loses all of the strength he'll be deceased."
Sherman turned, and faced Hobbes
Hobbes was giving him a blank stare.
"Hah?" He asked, squinting one eye, and raising his other one's eyebrow.
Sherman sighed, and muttered, "Simpleton." Then said, "If Calvin uses too much of his powers, it'll kill him."
Hobbes' eyes burst open.
"WHAT!" he screamed. "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME!"
"I did." Sherman said, through gritted teeth.
"How much energy does he have left!" Hobbes asked, frantically.
Sherman pushed a button on his keyboard.
The outline of Calvin that was on the screen filled up with red. Then the red dropped down to the top of his stomach."
"He has one day worth left." Sherman said.
"Can you fix him!" Hobbes yelled.
"Of course I can fix him." Sherman said, turning around. "You have to convince him to let me do it, though."
Hobbes blinked.
"Calvin, I'm serious! You have to go see Sherman so he can take out your powers!"
"Hobbes, I'm fine!" Calvin scoffed. "Do I looked like I'm out of energy?"
Calvin shot an ice blast at his bed, freezing it solid. Then he shot a fire blast at it with the other hand, and melted it.
"Calvin!" Hobbes exclaimed. "Stop doing that!"
"Hobbes, relax." Calvin said. "The problem with you, is that you're a hypercardiac!"
"Calvin, I'm serious! When you electrocuted yourself, you shorted out some gene, and now your energy doesn't get restored!"
"I'll bet. Listen, I have to go beat up Dr Brainfreak, again. I'll be back in a few hours."
"CALVIN!" Hobbes called.
"Super Calvin." Calvin said.
A dome of gold surrounded Calvin, and when it vanished, Calvin was wearing his mask and jumpsuit.
Calvin ran for the window, and leapt out.
"CALVIN!" Hobbes screamed, running up to the window. "YOU DON'T HAVE MUCH ENERGY LEFT!"
But Calvin was already gone.
"I'm tellin' ya Jack, my plan is totally fool proof now!!" Brainstorm yelled, cracking his knuckles and jumping up and down.
They had been up on Sneer Hill for about an hour, and Brainstorm was bragging about his latest plan.
Jack was sitting on a rock, filing his nails, and barely listening to the raving lunatic in front of him.
"There is no way Super Punk can beat me now!!"
"Mmm hmm." Jack said, not even looking up.
At that very moment, there was a blast of electricity and Calvin appeared in front of the two.
"Why, hello, Frank." He grinned. "Ready for your daily whipping?"
"IT'S DOCTOR BRAINSTORM!!!!" Brainstorm screeched. "And I'll have you know I have a secret weapon this time!"
"Secret weapon, eh?" Calvin chuckled. "What are you going to use?"
"Nothing!" Brainstorm screamed, throwing his arms into the air. "I'll destroy you with my bare hands!! BWA HA HA HA HA!!"
There was a long moment of silence.
"So, uh, Brainstorm, what did you hit your head on, this time?" Calvin said, finally, rubbing his chin.
"That's not it, he gets hit in the head at least twice a day." Jack said.
Brainstorm glared at them.
"Of course, I will be having a little help WITH THIS!!!!"
Brainstorm reached into his pocket, and ripped out a small object that resembled a black cigarette box. With a red button in the middle.
Brainstorm pushed the button.
FOOOM!!!
Immediately the box collapsed, and metal ran up Brainstorm's arm, crossed his torso, went down his other arm, and started to go down his torso down his legs, and to his feet.
Then a metal helmet formed over his head, with some glass in front of his face.
When it was done, the mad scientist was in an all metal all body suit, grinning like a lunatic.
Calvin stared at him.
"You built that?" He asked, his eyebrows raising skeptically.
"Yes, I did!" Brainstorm yelled. "What do you expect! I'm a genius!!!"
"He didn't build it." Jack said, expressionlessly. "He bought it from the Institute of Mad Science."
"Ah." Calvin nodded. "That sounds better."
"Shut up, Jack!" Brainstorm spat. "Anyway, Calvin, now that I have this indestructible suit, you can't possibly beat me!!!"
"Wanna bet?" Calvin grinned, pulling his hands into fists.
Brainstorm pushed a button the suit.
Nothing happened.
His eyes popped open, and he looked at the button.
He pushed it again.
Nothing happened.
He looked back up at Calvin.
He opened his mouth to say something, but nothing came out.
He turned back to the button again, and pushed it.
Nothing happened.
"He didn't read the manul." Jack said, turning to Calvin.
"Oh. Well, then this will be easy." Calvin grinned
Calvin crossed his arms over his chest, and then threw then forward, sending a blast of ice at Brainstorm.
"AAAAUGH!!" Brainstorm screamed, leaping from the way, as the blast hit a rock, and trapped it in ice.
Brainstorm began hitting random buttons on the suit.
The suit's glove suddenly, shifted, moved forward, twisted around, and locked back in place.
Brainstorm turned and stared at it.
The glove had turned into a laser cannon.
The lunatic scientist grinned.
He turned to Calvin, and held his arm up.
BLAST!!!
A red explosion of red light shot from the cannon, and hit Calvin as he was flying towards him.
"AAACK!!!"
Calvin went flying backwards, and crashed into a tree.
Brainstorm grinned.
"Hey, it works!" He yelled.
Jack sighed.
Calvin stood up.
He was panting.
"OK, how does your precious suit stand up to this?"
Calvin took a deep breath in.
Brainstorm's eyes popped open.
"Oops."
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHH!!!" Calvin screamed, throwing Brainstorm off his feet, and causing him to roll into another tree.
CRASH!!!
Calvin immediately stopped screaming, and glared at Brainstorm. He was panting more heavily, now.
Brainstorm stood up, and rubbed his head.
"There we go." Jack said. "I was worried he wasn't going to get his second one for the day."
"SHUT UP, JACK!!" Brainstorm screamed. "I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW THAT'S GOING INTO MY REPORT!!!"
He then turned back to Calvin.
He was gone.
Brainstorm looked around.
"Hey, where'd he go?" He asked.
"He's above your head." Jack said. "Getting ready to freeze you. So just stay there, OK?"
Brainstorm glared at Jack, and looked up, Calvin was hovering the air, his fists had snow swirling around them.
"Well, I can fly too!" He yelled at Calvin. He looked down at his feet. "At least the catalogue said I could."
Calvin fired an ice blast at Brainstorm, who screamed, and leapt from the way.
Calvin turned, and saw Brainstorm running off in the other direction.
"Having fun?" Jack yawned.
"Sure, but I'm getting a little tired." Calvin said. "This super hero stuff is hard work."
"Huh. Well, do continue."
"Oh, I will." Calvin chuckled, flying off after Brainstorm.
Just then, Brainstorm appeared over the trees. He was grinning, and there was fire coming out of his boots, holding him up.
"Found out how levitate! Now I just have to learn to fly!" He yelled.
Calvin flew up to Brainstorm's level, and lifted his red glowing fist at him.
ZAAAAAP!!
"YEEEK!" Brainstorm yelled, flying backward.
Calvin chuckled.
Brainstorm landed on his back in one of the trees.
"I should have read the manul..." He muttered to himself.
He looked up in time to see Calvin rocketing towards him, his fists fired up for another blast.
"AAAAUGH!" Brainstorm yelled, ducking under the leaves.
Calvin stopped above the trees, and looked around.
Still panting.
Then, he did a nosedive into the trees, and came out at the ground level.
There he saw Brainstorm laying face first in the dirt.
"This is so easy, it's sad." Calvin sighed, shaking his head.
Brainstorm leaped to his feet, and whirled around to Calvin.
"SURRENDER, CALVIN! YOU CAN'T POSSIBLY BEAT ME!!!" He screamed, holding his laser cannon up.
Calvin stared at him.
Then, he held both his hands up, and clapped them.
CLAP!
BOOM!!!
Calvin walked over to Brainstorm, frozen in time stop.
He reached into the laser cannon, and ripped a few wires out.
He then walked back to where he was, and clapped his hands, again.
BOOM!!
"HA HA!!" Brainstorm screamed pushing the button on the cannon.
Nothing happened.
Brainstorm paused, then looked down at it in confusion.
Calvin chuckled, and held up one hand.
He snapped his fingers.
SNAP!!!
"HA HA!!" Brainstorm screamed pushing the button on the cannon.
Nothing happened.
Brainstorm paused, then looked down at it in confusion.
Calvin snapped his fingers, again.
"HA HA!!" Brainstorm screamed pushing the button on the cannon.
Nothing happened.
Brainstorm paused, then looked down at it in confusion.
Calvin snapped his fingers again.
"HA HA!!" Brainstorm screamed pushing the button on the cannon.
Nothing happened.
Brainstorm paused, then looked down at it in confusion.
He looked back up at Calvin.
"WOULD YOU KNOCK THAT OFF!!!!"
Calvin snapped his fingers.
"...THAT OFF!!!" Brainstorm screamed.
Calvin snapped his fingers.
"...YOU KNOCK THAT OFF!!"
Calvin snapped his fingers.
"...OFF!!!"
"I love time travel." Calvin chuckled, snapping his fingers.
Brainstorm held his head, trying to figure out what was happening.
He turned a glare on Calvin, and opened his mouth.
Calvin held a finger up, and began twirling it around in a circle, still grinning.
Brainstorm started moving backwards, and doing everything he had already done, backwards.
Calvin stopped twirling his fingers, and looked down at Brainstorm, again, who was once again laying face first in the dirt.
The mad scientist leaped to his feet, and pointed the laser cannon at Calvin, again
"HA HA!!" He screamed pushing the button on the cannon.
Nothing happened.
Brainstorm paused, then looked down at it in confusion.
Then his eyes squeezed shut.
Calvin chuckled.
"Hey, ya Brainstorm! Let's put our little feud on ice for while, hmmmm?"
Calvin held his hands up, and then threw them forward, throwing a blast of ice at the mad scientist.
"HEY!!! NO!!! HELP!!" Brainstorm screeched.
CRACK!!!
Calvin dusted his hands together, as he grinned at Brainstorm through the ice.
Everything except his head was now trapped in ice.
Brainstorm glared at Calvin.
"I COMMAND YOU UNFREEZE ME THIS VERY INSTANT!!!"
"I'll leave that up to Jack."
"NO!! THIS ISN'T FAIR!! I HAD THE COOL SUIT!!! IT WAS MADE OF METAL!!!"
"See ya."
Calvin ducked down, then exploded upward, and started to fly off.
Brainstorm growled.
"JACK!!! HELP ME!!!"
There was a long moment of silence.
Then, Jack slowly came around the corner, drinking a soda.
"Hello, Frank. How'd the fight go?"
"IT'S DOCTOR BRAINSTORM!!! And you can just shut up about the fight!!! UNFREEZE ME!!!"
Jack took a long sip from his soda.
Then, he wiped his mouth on his arm, and threw the empty can into his robotic arm.
He smacked his lips, and studied Brainstorm for a moment.
"Ya got ten bucks?" He asked, finally.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!!!!" Brainstorm screeched at the top of his lungs.
Calvin flew above the trees of Sneer Hill, and began flying down back towards the house.
Chuckling to himself.
"Heh, heh, I can't believe that Brainstorm was stupid enough to think he could beat me! HA! What a moron! What a dunce! What a... Wow, I'm really getting tired."
Calvin stopped, and wiped some sweat from his brow.
"Well, perhaps I should take a small break."
Slowly Calvin lowered himself to the ground, breathing heavily.
"That Frank battle really took it out of me..." Calvin gasped, landing on the ground, and sitting down.
There was a moment of silence, only broke by Calvin's heavy breathing.
"Maybe I should take a nap..." He considered.
Calvin laid down in the grass, and closed his eyes.
He was getting more tired by second, and he wasn't getting any stronger.
Oops.
Meanwhile, Hobbes was pacing back in forth in Calvin's room.
'What am I going to do, What am I going to do?" He asked to himself for the 235th time.
Not including the times he said, "What to do, what to do?"
He was pacing back and forth, when suddenly something brown caught his attention.
It was the Time Machine.
Hobbes stared at it for a long time.
Then, he cut his eyes from side to side.
"I wonder if I could..." He shook his head. "No, that's ridiculous. It would never work."
He gave it some thought.
"On the other hand..."
His eyes blanked out.
He grabbed a pair of vortex goggles off the desk, and climbed into the Time Machine.
He set the date for yesterday, and pushed the GO button.
The box rose into the air, and the engine started to hum.
Hobbes pushed button on the Machine, and swirling pinkish vortex opened up.
Hobbes revved up the engine, and flew inside, before it imploded.
After a short trip though the time vortex, Hobbes reappeared in Calvin's room, one day earlier.
He took the goggles off, and stepped out of the box.
"CALVIN!!!" He screamed, frantically, rushing up to the six year old, who was currently in the process of inserting the Time Pauser into the Time Machine.
Calvin looked up, and stared.
"What the... How did you get in here?!" He demanded. "I had the door locked! Get out of here! May I remind you that your bursting in on a top secret operation?!"
"Uh huh. I know all about this idiotic idea, Calvin. I'm the future Hobbes." Hobbes said, crossing his arms.
Calvin stared at him.
"Oh..." He said. "OK, well if your from the future, I guess that's fine. Wanna see all the cool features it's gonna have?"
"NO!!" Hobbes yelled. "I've come from the future to warn you!"
"Huh?" Calvin asked, looking up from the box. "Let me guess, the government pays me a trillion dollars for it, and while I'm bathing in the money, I get a hundred caught in my throat?"
Hobbes stared at him for a long time.
"No, that's not what happens. I think if the government knew what you were doing, then they would place you under arrest for trying to destroy the Earth." He said, finally.
Calvin rolled his eyes.
"That's nice, Hobbes. You live in your weird world, and I'll live in mine. What did you want to warn me about?"
Hobbes went into the huge story about how the inventions would electrocute him, he'd acquire the powers of the inventions, and end up killing himself by using to much energy.
When the story was done, Calvin scratched his head in thought.
"Hmm, that would be kind of a set back, wouldn't it?" He said to himself. "The world would fall into total darkness if I wasn't around."
"Uh huh, right." Hobbes said, rolling his eyes. "The point is, I'm here to tell you to stop doing whatever the heck it is your doing! For your own safety!"
Calvin tapped his chin.
"Well, OK... I guess I won't..." He said, finally.
Hobbes sighed with relief.
"OK, thank you." He said, wiping some sweat from his brow.
"Uh huh." Calvin sighed, taking the inventions out of the box. "Darn it. I thought this would be a good idea, too."
Hobbes rolled his eyes, and turned back to his Time Machine.
He got in, said his goodbyes to Calvin, and turned the machine on.
VROOOM!!
The time vortex opened up, and the box was immediately sucked inside of it.
BOOM!!!
Hobbes looked around.
Everything appeared to be normal.
The separate inventions were placed in their regular positions, the room was a mess, and... Calvin was laying on his bed, reading a comic book with a dull expression on his face.
"Calvin! You're alright!!" Hobbes yelled, holding his arms out.
Calvin looked up, and stared at Hobbes.
"What? What are you talking about? Of course I'm alright!"
Hobbes stared at him.
There was a moment of silence.
"Oh, right, my nonexistent powers. I forgot about that." Calvin said, putting the comic book down. "Forgot about that."
"Well, it doesn't matter now!" Hobbes sighed. "Everything's back to normal, now."
There was a moment of silence.
"Well, as normal as things get around this place." Hobbes said, his eye lids dropping.
"Well, problem's solved then." Calvin said. "Back to more important matters."
Hobbes sighed.
He picked up his own comic book, and sat down.
For a couple minutes all they did was read.
Then, and totally out of the blue...
DING DONG!!
Calvin looked up.
"Who dares interrupt my comic book reading?!" He demanded.
Hobbes rolled his eyes.
Calvin stood up from the bed, and walked out of his room, and downstairs.
DING DONG!! DING DONG!!
"I'm coming, I'm coming!" Calvin yelled, his brow furrowing.
He opened the door, and stared outside.
"Alright, Calvin!!!" Brainstorm screamed, still wearing his metal all body suit. "I've gone over that manul, and now I'm all ready for you and your precious little powers!! GIVE ME YOUR WORST!!!"
Calvin stared at him for moment.
"Hi, Frank, what's up?"
"IT'S DR BRAINSTORM! And don't play innocent with me!! You have amazing super powers and I won't stop until I've defeated you in hand to hand combat, and aquired these powers so I can TAKE OVER THE WORLD!! BWA HA HA HA HA!" Brainstorm threw his arms into the air, and cackled.
"Uh huh." Calvin said. "Listen, Frank I hate to burst your bubble, but I never did and never will have any amazing super powers. Sorry."
Brainstorm stared at him.
"What are you talking about!! I've been fighting you for three days straight!! Don't tell me you don't have any powers! YOU CAN'T TRICK ME!!!"
"I'll make a note of that." Calvin said. "In the mean time, however, if you still want me to unleash my inventions on you, then here ya go."
Calvin reached into his pocket, and pulled out a clothes pin.
Before he could react, Calvin clamped the pin onto Brainstorm's finger.
"HEY! WAIT!!! NO!! THIS ISN'T FAIR!!!"
K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K!
Calvin grinned at the frozen Brainstorm, took his atomic freezer, and closed the door.
"HEY! YOU STOP!! GET BACK HERE!! UNFREEZE ME THIS INSTANT!! HELP!!!" Brainstorm screamed, struggling against the ice.
At that very moment, Jack came walking up, chewing on a peanut butter sandwich.
There was a long moment of silence in which Jack and Brainstorm stared at each other.
Brainstorm sighed.
"I have a ten in my pocket." He grumbled.
"Ah, very nice." Jack said. "I'll get your ray gun."
It was going to be a long, cold, explosion filled, expensive trip until Brainstorm actually took over the world.
The End
Voice actors
Pamela Segal Aldon Calvin
Tom Hanks Hobbes
Colin Mochrie Sherman
Neil Crone Dr Brainstorm
Michael Brandon Jack
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