Part four written by Swing123

Retro and Electro closed in, laughing, insanely.

"You're defenseless, Calvin!" Retro cackled.

"There's no point in running!" Electro shot back.

"RUUUUUUUN!!!!" Calvin screamed.

There was a mad scramble, and Calvin, Hobbes, Socrates, Andy and Sherman all ran off in different directions.

Retro and Electro watched them.

"They just don't listen to anything, do they?" Electro said.

"Nope." Retro replied.

"ATTACK!!!" Electro ordered.

The inventions began glowing a bright yellow, combined back into one, and then split up going after our four heroes.

And Sherman.

The MTM went after Calvin, the Mega-shrinker went after Hobbes, the Transmogrifier Gun went after Socrates, and the box went after Andy and Sherman.
Calvin went tearing down Socrates' hallway, hearing blasts of electricity behind him.

He looked behind him, and saw the MTM flying down the hall after him.

He rounded a corner, barely avoiding another laser blast, and came to the elevator.

He frantically pushed the OPEN button, and waited.

He looked behind his shoulder to see the MTM round the corner.

A red light came out, and began focusing.

The light centered on Calvin's forehead.

Calvin gulped.

Then, he held up his hand, and hollered, "MTM! I am your creator! I command you to stop!!"

ZAAAAAP!!

A large bolt of electricity emitted from the tip of the MTM, and nearly charred Calvin to singe.

He was able to leap out of the way in time, however.

He tumbled across the ground, and then came back to his feet.

"I must warn you, MTM, all of this is going into my report!"

ZAAAAAAP!!

Calvin dove from the way, as another lightning bolt struck a small table, reducing it to ashes.

Calvin leaped to his feet, and whirled around to MTM.

"Alright, buddy! If you do that, again, you're in big trouble!!" He warned.

You can guess what kind of results that had.

ZAAAP!!!

Calvin ducked yet another blast, and raced to another part of the hallway.

Suddenly, the sound of a bell rang out, and the elevator door opened.

Calvin looked up, and dove into the elevator.

He pushed a button, and the doors began to close again.

The MTM roared forward, and prepared another bolt of lightning.

ZZZZZZT!!!!

Luckily, the doors closed before the blast reached Calvin.

Calvin stood panting in the elevator, then sighed, and sat down.

"Whew. Glad that's over..." He sighed.

"Welcome to the elevator of Socrates." A voice came from a speaker on the wall. "You may not know this, but elevators are powered by electricity! Who knew?"

Calvin paused.

His eyes slammed shut.

Suddenly, the lights on the elevator ceiling began flickering, as the whole thing came to a stop.

"Uh... help?" Calvin asked, looking around.

Hobbes flew down the stairs of the mansion to the bottom floor, with the Mega-Shrinker 5000 right behind him.

The Mega-Shrinker, however, had one flaw that kept it from keeping up with Hobbes: Before it could shoot a shrinking blast, it had to plug into a jack!

So in other words, it was pretty much a losing battle for the invention.

Hobbes, of course, did not give any notice to this, as he tore through the mansion, knocking tables, couches, TVs and the refrigerator over, while screaming, "HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP!"

Eventually, the Mega-Shrinker gave up the pursuit, and flew off away from the tiger.

Think Hobbes noticed this? Oh no, he continued plowing his way through the house, covering his head, and screaming 'help' over and over again.

After the shrink ray gave up, it wasn't long before Electro set Socrates' electrical appliances after Hobbes.

As Hobbes entered the living room, or should I say exploded, violently, into the living room in a wild blur of orange, Socrates' big screen TV began glowing bright yellow.

Before Hobbes could exit the room, the TV skidded across the floor, and blocked the door.

Hobbes came to a screeching stop in front of it, stared at it for a second, whirled around, and began running towards the other door.

CRACK!!

Suddenly, the glass on the TV burst, and several wires shot out of it.

One of the wires whipped across the air, and wrapped itself around Hobbes' arm.

"AAAUGH!!! LET GO!!! HELP! HELP!!! SAVE ME!! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP!"

Hobbes yanked at the wires, and continued to try and escape.

Another wire came out, and twirled itself around Hobbes other arm.

This did not stop Hobbes, however, and he continued moving his feet at a high rate of speed across the floor.

Within seconds, he was pulling the TV along with him.

Two more wires shot out the TV, these grabbing Hobbes' legs, and tripping him.

Hobbes collapsed to the ground, and the TV began pulling him towards it.

Hobbes immediately sunk his claws into the carpet.

RIIIIIIIIIIP!!

More wires rushed out of the big screen, these wrapped around Hobbes' stomach.

"HELP!!!!" Hobbes screamed, as the TV ripped his claws out of the carpet.

Hobbes went flying up into the air, and crashed landed inside the TV.

The wires instantly retracted away from Hobbes once he was inside, and without missing a beat, he dove through the air, in an attempt to exit the...

BONK!!

That is, he almost destroyed his nose on the glass, which had replaced itself on the TV screen.

Hobbes rubbed his nose, and glared outside.

"I blame Calvin for all this." He growled.

Andy raced across the hallway, Sherman in his pocket, with box not far behind them.

Sherman peeked out of Andy's pocket, and looked around.

"Andy, go up into the attic!" He shouted. "The box won't fit in the door!"

"I don't know where the attic is!" Andy gasped, dodging a laser blast.

"Look for a trap door on the ceiling." Sherman said, looking upward.

Andy continued running down the hallway, glancing at the ceiling every few seconds, and before long, he saw the door.

Passing by it, Andy leaped up, grabbed the rope on the trap door, and pulled it down.

KONK!!!

As Andy came down, the door sprang open, and the ladder fell straight downward.

On top of the box.

The box immediately began struggling and twisting under the ladder, sending blast after blast of electricity in the very limited range it had. In other words, a straight line.

Andy wiped some sweat from his brow, and grinned.

"Well, that worked out." He grinned.

And with that, he turned around, and rushed off away from the infuriated box.

As they continued down the hall, Andy and Sherman took no notice to the lights on the wall, which were beginning to flicker and burn out.

They did, however, take notice when the bulbs all went out, completely, plunging the windowless hallway into total darkness.

Andy stopped, and looked around, frantically.

"What happened?" He asked, squinting through the darkness.

"The lights went out." Sherman said.

Andy looked around, nervously, then continued walking.

For a while, nothing happened.

"Sherman, is it just me, or is it starting to get a little cold?" Andy asked, suddenly.

"No, that's just the air conditioner." Sherman replied. "This place is being heated with electricity."

There was a moment of silence.

"Yeah, you better just start running, now."

ZOOOM!!!

Andy halted his casual walking, and took off as fast as he could.

A rush of cold air flew up the hall, and the vent doors erupted from the ceiling, and clanging to the floor as more air flew out.

"HELP!!!" Andy and Sherman both screamed, rushing down the hallway.

Suddenly, the stairs came in sight, signaling the end of the hall had finally come.

Andy began running faster, as they approached the edge.

But suddenly, an air vent on the ceiling above them burst, and air was immediately sucked inside of it.

Andy fought against the vacuum, pumping his arms, and trudging across the carpet, but unfortunately, the air power was too powerful, and he tripped.

"AAAAAAAUGH!!!" The duo screamed, as they went flying upward inside the air vent and out of sight.

Socrates however, despite the fact that all his friends were suffering, had locked himself in his room, and propped a dresser against the door.

He had long since lost the Transmogrifier gun, and was now laying on his bed, sipping a soda and reading a comic book.

In other words, a total repeat of how he reacted to Rupert and Earl taking over the planet.

You can guess Socrates' reaction when he heard a knock at his door.

In a total state of calm, he looked up, and called, "WHO IS IT?!"

ZZZZZT!!!!

The dresser suddenly rocketed away from the door in a blinding blast of yellow, and crashed into the wall.

Then, with another dazzling blast, the lock burst off the door, and shot straight across the room into the wall above Socrates' head.

Socrates stared blankly, as the door was ripped off its hinges, and Retro and Electro stepped into the room.

There was a moment of silence, in which Socrates and the villains stared at each other for a moment.

Then, a light came on in the tiger's eyes.

"Oh, right, you two." He said, slowly. "OK, it's coming back to me. We're in another battle for the planet, right?"

Retro and Electro sighed, heavily.

Then, Electro held his hand up, which began glowing bright red.

He jerked his hand downward, and the air vent on Socrates' wall burst open, and Andy and Sherman tumbled out.

"AAAAAUGH!!" They both screamed, crashing into the floor, and rolling into the wall.

Electro then jerked his hand upward.

CRASH!!!

Suddenly, the elevator crashed through the wall, opened up, and spit out Calvin, who rolled across the floor into the wall, also.

Oh, and he was covered in mayonnaise and catsup. Just thought I'd mention that.

Electro then jerked his hand to the left.

CRRRRRRRRRAAACK!!

The big screen TV burst from the floor, shattering the monitor, and spat Hobbes out onto the floor.

Socrates watched all this, silently, still holding his comic book.

"You two are going to pay for the damages to my house after you kill us, right?" He asked, finally.

Calvin, Hobbes, Andy and Sherman glared murderously at Socrates.

"Now then," Retro said. "Now that your done attempting to escape, shall we get down to killing you?"

Electro and Retro began laughing, and held their yellow glowing hands up.

"Who said we were done?" Calvin demanded.

Electro and Retro stopped laughing.

They stared at Calvin for a long time.

"Well we're going to assume that you're unselfish enough to stay put, so we don't have to go through so much trouble to destroy you." Electro said.

There was a moment of silence.

"RUUUUUUUUUUUUN!!!!!!!" Calvin screamed.

There was a mad scramble, and Calvin, Hobbes, Andy, Sherman, and Socrates all dove out the open window into the outside.

Retro and Electro watched.

"This could really take some time." Retro sighed.

"Well, we better get to work." Electro said.

And with that, Electro collapsed into electrical power, and shot out the window, and into the phone line.

A large blast of electricity surged through the lines, causing a massive power outage throughout the town.

Retro pealed a sweatshirt off his leg, and dove out the window as well.

Hoo boy...