Part two written by Swing123
Retro stared at the man in front of him for a long moment.
"Uhhh... hello? Am I missing something?"
The man didn't answer.
Already he had lost interest in Retro, and was now examining his new body.
Retro stood up.
"Hello? Anybody home?" Retro growled.
"Shut up." The man replied.
Retro's eyes narrowed.
"You must not know who you're talking to right now, so I'll let that slide." He said.
"Shut up." the man said, examining his hand.
Retro glared at him.
"Listen, my good man, good moods aren't invincible, so I suggest that you tell me who you are and what you think you're... ACK!
The man suddenly held a hand up, and blasted Holographic Retro with a shot of electricity.
He grinned.
"Excellent." He said. "I still have my powers."
Holographic Retro stood there for a long moment, with electricity flowing all around him before the man finally noticed him.
"Oh, hello. Have you been helped?" he asked.
Retro sighed.
He waved his arms, and shook the yellow electricity off.
The man stared at him.
"Oh I'm sorry, allow me to introduce myself." He said.
"Thank you." Retro muttered.
The man held out a hand.
"I am Electro. Master of all electricity and electronic devices."
Retro stared at Electro for a moment and then shook his hand.
A stream of electricity shot out from Electro's hand, and up Retro.
Retro growled, and shook it off.
Electro stared at him.
"You're a hologram." He said, finally.
"Yes, I am! What's it to you?" Retro growled, grumpily.
"Huh. I wondered what that 'H' on your forehead meant." Electro said. "Anywho, I must be on my way."
And with that, Electro turned around, and started to walk away.
Retro paused, then ran to catch up.
"Wait a minute. Where are you going?!" He yelled.
"I need to settle the score with a certain boy." Electro replied.
Retro stopped.
"A boy?" He asked.
"Yes, A boy, you know, the child version of adult males."
"I know that." Retro growled. "But this boy, is he a short six year old with yellow spiky hair, and an obnoxious sense of humor?"
Electro stopped.
"Yes." he said, slowly.
There was a moment of silence.
"Huh." Said Retro. "I'm after the same kind of kid."
There was another pause.
"Team up?" Electro asked.
"Be glad to!" Retro replied.
Oops.
Meanwhile, Calvin, Hobbes, Socrates, Andy, and Sherman were completely involved their poker game.
Calvin looked through his cards.
"I'll see your paper clip, and raise you a penny!" He said, finally, throwing a penny on the desk.
"I fold." Hobbes said.
"Hmmm," Andy said, examining his cards.
Socrates was looking at his cards.
He had an eight of clubs, a king of spades, an ace of diamonds, a seven of hearts, and a queen of hearts.
He looked up from his cards, and checked the rest of the gang.
They were paying no attention to him, and were currently going through their cards, deciding what to do next.
He immediately stuck his hand into his pocket, and pulled out several extra cards he had.
He stuck his other four cards in, and now had an ace, king, queen, jack, and 10 of spades.
Socrates opened his mouth, and prepared to speak.
"Socrates, you are the most unsubtle cheater in the world." Calvin said.
It was then that Socrates realized that Calvin, Hobbes, Andy, and Sherman were all staring at him.
"What?" Socrates asked, shocked. "I am offended! I didn't cheat! What makes you think that?!"
"You threw your cards on the table, stood up, took four cards out of your pocket, put the other four in your pocket, sat back down, and pulled the chair back up to the table." Hobbes said.
Socrates stared blankly at the gang.
"Well, excuse me for being creative." He sniffed.
Reluctantly, Socrates gave Hobbes the extra cards he had, and took his other four back.
"Okay," Socrates said, "I might as well stop being cruel to you now."
He threw his cards on the table.
Four of them were all aces, and one was a king.
"What do you say about that!" He grinned.
"I say pick your cards off the floor, and get rid of that stupid hologram device!" Sherman spat.
Socrates stared at Sherman for a moment, sighed, and flipped a switch on the table.
The cards flickered, and vanished, and Socrates picked his real cards off the floor.
There was a moment of silence.
Socrates peeked out from behind his cards.
"Empty your other pocket." Andy sighed.
Socrates stared at Andy.
"Uhhhh..."
Calvin reached forward, put his hand into Socrates' pocket, and pulled out over fifteen cards.
Everyone stared at them, as the fluttered to the floor.
"Huh, well would you look at that." Socrates said. "Where'd those come from?"
"SOCRATES!!!" Everyone screamed.
Socrates flinched.
"OKAY, OKAY!!!" He yelled.
They resumed the game.
"Okay," Socrates said. "I hereby raise this thing to seven paperclips, nine pennies, and ONE DIME!!!!"
And with that, he threw several paperclips and coins on the table.
"Daring, aren't I?!" He yelled.
"I fold." Sherman said.
"Me too." Andy said.
Calvin grinned.
"I raise you seven more pennies!" He said.
Calvin threw some more pennies on the table.
"I'll see your seven pennies, and raise you a quarter!!" Socrates shouted, throwing a quarter down.
"I'll see your quarter, and raise you hair pin!" Calvin shouted back.
"Okay, hands down." Socrates said. "What do you have?"
Calvin threw his cards down.
"I have a royal flush, you have the old maid. I win."
Socrates gritted his teeth, and his eyes slammed shut.
Calvin gathered up his prize, and slipped it into his pocket.
Meanwhile, down in the sewers, Retro and Electro walked along the edge of the water, plotting Calvin's downfall.
"The little brat tricked me, when I was offering a reasonable compromise." Electro said, walking along the sewers.
"Is that so?" Retro said.
He looked around.
He noticed, with some nervousness, that some of the pipes were shaking as he passed by them.
"He used a power transferor in his watch to drain my power and weaken me." Electro said.
"Huh." Retro said, as the pipes began shaking, wildly.
Electro turned, and started walking down another tunnel.
Retro followed.
The pipes were vibrating faster and more violently the closer Retro came to them.
"And uh... what else happened?" he asked, apprehensively.
Electro, who didn't seem to notice the pipes, continued.
"By that time, I had collapsed into electrical energy, totally helpless, and was transported into the power lines."
"Uh huh.." Retro said, cutting his eyes from side to side.
"From then on, I spent time looking for an electric source powerful enough to bring me back to life. I tried using a power source located under Yellowstone park, and that would have worked if that idiot with the tall hair hadn't blown all the fuses trying to turn his invention on."
"Yeah..." Retro said.
At that very moment, several pipes all snapped in half, and pointed at Retro, throwing sewage water at him.
"GAAAAH!! GUBBLE!! BURBBLE!! GASP!!"
"It took me several hours to get out of there, and I didn't make it out until the tall grey robot finally decided to flip the power back on." Electro continued as if nothing happened.
Pipes everywhere suddenly started exploding off the wall, and went hurling for Retro.
"GACK!!" Retro yelled, ducking one of them.
It hit the wall with a CLANG, and fell to the ground.
Several more pipes began flying through the air towards him.
Retro screamed, and began running ahead.
He passed Electro, and rushed off down the tunnel.
Without even looking around, Electro held his hand up over his shoulder, and sent a blast of electricity at the ever approaching pipes.
ZZZZZZAPPP!
The darkness was lit up with the blast, and the pipes all fell into the water.
"If you're done, playing around, now, maybe we could get back to the task at hand?" He said to the terrified Retro, who was cowering in the corner.
Retro glared at him, and stood back up.
"Now, what is your plan for destroying Calvin?" Electro asked.
"Don't you want to hear what he did to me?!" Retro demanded.
Electro paused, as if thinking about it.
"No." He said, finally.
Retro growled.
"Now, what did you have in mind, for the destruction of the boy?"
Retro glared at Electro.
"I was going to recreate the imaginator." He said.
Electro stared at him.
"What's an imaginator?" He asked.
"I'd tell you, but then I'd have to go into detail about what Calvin did to me." Retro said, crossing his arms.
Electro rolled his eyes, and sighed.
"Fine, whatever, but please make it quick."
Retro then told the story of how Calvin thwarted him in his attempt to rule the world by kidnaping all the kids, and bringing their imagination to life with the imaginator.
Electro patiently listened, but when Retro was all finished with it, he shook his head, and crossed his arms.
"No." he said.
Retro said.
"What do you mean no?" He demanded. "The imaginator is the most powerful device in the world!"
"Oh genius." Electro said. "And what are we supposed to do if Calvin somehow gets a hold of it? Go home and build another one?"
Retro opened his mouth to speak, but paused.
"Okay." He said, getting a little annoyed. "So what's your hotshot idea?"
"We're both electrical, right?" Electro said, walking over to Retro.
"Right." Retro said, uncertainly.
"We can both control electrical items like cars and blenders, right?"
"One would suppose so." Retro said.
"So we can control Calvin's inventions." Electro said.
Retro's eyes brightened.
"We can..." He grinned.
"Therefore rendering him defenseless." Electro said.
"And once we turn his inventions against him," Retro said.
"We can kill Calvin." Electro said.
"And then use our electrical power to rule the world!!" Retro cackled.
Electro and Retro burst out in insane laughter.
"NOBODY CAN STOP US!!" Retro screamed.
Uh oh...