Summary: After he is accidentally freed from his prison, Dr Brainstorm's insane rival, Dr Thunderstorm, attacks the Earth.
And now the Calvin and Hobbes: The Series Season 3 TV movie finale!
Part one written by Swing123
Thunderstorm
The episode begins with a shot of the Earth, rotating slowly.
It lingers for a moment, then the camera pans around the planet, passing up several meteors, satellites, and space junk that's orbiting it.
Finally, the camera stops on a bright red multi-floored space station. Rotating slowly along with the Earth, it has several small satellite dishes covering the top of it.
The camera zooms in on it, through one of the windows, and into the main control room.
Inside there was a tall man and a robot.
The man had sharp features with grass green eyes. His hair was dyed bright red and sticking straight upward into the air as if he had just stuck his finger into an electric socket. He was wearing a jet black shirt with a white unbuttoned lab coat over it. He had bright green gloves on his hands, and he wore black pants along with brown sneakers. He had a determined expression on his face as he typed into a keyboard, studying a monitor.
The robot was about as tall as the man. He was made from a shiny chrome metal and was reflecting the items in the room. He had a spherical head that was bolted up on the top. He had a long pointed nose, and a bored expression on his face. He had a long slim body. His arms were basically just like human's arms, each hand bearing four fingers and a thumb. His legs were segmented all the way down in order to enable him to extend them outward and take long strides at once. His feet were two rounded metal blocks, resembling shoes. He was sitting in a blue lounge chair, sipping on lemonade.
"HA HA!!" The man, which you've probably guessed to be Dr Brainstorm by now, screamed, whirling around. "Everything in place, Jack! Everything positioned! At long last! After all these years, I have finally built The Doom Satellite!!"
He threw his hands into the air and laughed, maniacally.
Jack heaved a sigh.
"You've had this thing built for over five years." He said. "You've spent the rest of this time trying to fix everything that was wrong with it."
"Well, who cares how I made it?!" Brainstorm demanded. "It's made! That's the important thing! AND NO ONE ASKED YOUR OPINION, ANYWAY!!"
And with that, Brainstorm whipped around, and began typing into a computer keyboard.
BZZZZZZT!!
"AAAUGH!!"
Brainstorm shielded his face as sparks of electricity flew from it.
Jack observed, quietly.
"I'd say it still needs another decade of work." he said, finally.
Brainstorm glared murderously at him.
"Nothing's perfect, Jack!" He growled. "And it doesn't matter. It's taken me long enough, and now I can set my Super Plan into motion!"
"Super plan," Jack repeated, raising an eye brow.
"Right, my Super plan!" Brainstorm spat. "Those other plans of mine were just supporting plans! Moving to Yellowstone, kidnaping the robotic transmitter and those other two people, teaming up with the aliens, stealing the Electronic Frisbee! They were all sub-pans! All eventually leading up to the greatest plan of them all! No one will know what I'm doing until it's too late!"
Jack stared at him.
"If I recall, everything you just mentioned were plans that you made up as you went." He said, finally.
"Oh, details," Brainstorm waved Jack off. "That's all water under the bridge, anyway! And now not even that spike haired freak and his robotic tigers can defeat me!!"
Jack rolled his eyes.
Brainstorm whipped back around to his keyboard.
"Now, dishes in position!" He grinned, evilly, pushing a button.
Outside, the dishes all turned, and pointed in different directions.
"Cutting off signal!" Brainstorm cackled, hitting another button.
Outside, several NASA satellites suddenly shut down.
"Right, like people aren't going to notice this." Jack sighed, picking up a National Geographic magazine.
Brainstorm ignored him, and continued.
"Repositioning satellites and...NOW COMMENCING SUPER PLAN!!" The mad scientist slamming his fist into another button.
ZZZZZZZZZZT!!
Brainstorm and Jack looked up.
Calvin, Hobbes, Socrates, Andy and Sherman had suddenly appeared in front of the space station in the cardboard box, glaring at Brainstorm.
The cardboard box had an air tight glass dome around the top.
Brainstorm stared at them.
Then he whipped around to Jack.
"How'd they get here?!" He demanded.
Jack took another sip from his lemonade and shrugged.
Brainstorm whipped around.
"How'd you get here?!" He demanded at them.
They stared at him.
"They can't hear you Frank," Jack sighed. "There are two layers of a glass and the vacuum of space in between you and them."
"Oh quit being a show offy jerk, Jack!" Brainstorm spat. "AND IT'S DOCTOR BRAINSTORM!! LOWER COMMUNICATION BARRIER!!"
The scientist grabbed a microphone, and began screaming into it.
"HOW DID YOU FIND ME, PUNK?! I DEMAND TO KNOW!!"
"You shut down the satellite that gives me DirectTV." Socrates said.
There was a pause.
Brainstorm blinked.
"YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO NOTICE THAT!" He screeched, hysterically.
Jack rolled his eyes.
"Look, we're missing Doctor Who!" Andy shouted. "Would you please turn the cable back on?"
Brainstorm glared at them.
"NEVER!!" He screeched. "My Super Plan must commence! I won't let you stop me!! YOU CAN'T STOP ME!!"
There was a short pause.
Calvin held the MTM up.
"MTM, turn the satellite back on." He sighed.
"Sure," MTM yawned in his British voice.
A red light shot out of the MTM, and entered the Time Machine.
The box turned, and pointed to one of the satellites.
The red light shot out of the box, and hit the satellite.
Suddenly, the solar panels began rotating, again, and it came back to life.
"Hey!" Brainstorm screamed. "DON'T DO THAT!!"
"There we go," Calvin grinned, turning back to Brainstorm. "I suppose we can be going, now."
"NO!!" Brainstorm screamed, dangerously, slamming his hands onto the console before him. "I'm not letting you stop me, this time!"
Calvin, Hobbes, Socrates, Andy, Sherman and Jack looked up at Brainstorm in shock.
They had never heard him be this serious.
"That almost sounded... mildly threatening." Hobbes said.
"Yeah, he has occasional bursts of that." Jack nodded.
Brainstorm glared at him.
"RAISE COMMUNICATIONS BARRIER!" He shouted at the machine.
The link between the station and box shut down, and Brainstorm whipped around to the keyboard.
He typed several things into it, and turned a menacing grin onto the box, outside.
"Take this!" He shouted, slamming his fist into a big red button.
Suddenly all the systems in the Time Machine shut down, leaving Calvin and the gang trapped.
"HEY!" Calvin shouted.
"Increase gravity field!" Brainstorm ordered. "Cut off satellite signal!"
The satellite went dead, again.
But that's not all that happened.
Suddenly, the box started shaking, violently, throwing Calvin, Hobbes, Socrates, Andy and Sherman tumbling wildly inside.
"Whoa!" Calvin yelled. "I don't have control!"
Suddenly, the box went tumbling backwards, making a wild orbit around the station.
Brainstorm turned a grin onto Jack.
"What do you say about that?!" He growled.
"How long did you spend taking glitches out of that feature?" Jack questioned, raising an eyebrow.
Brainstorm glared at him, and turned back to the console.
"Now cutting off all communications on planet Earth!" He cackled, pushing some buttons. "Earth will be thrown in full fledged panic in minutes!"
"Yeah, real original plan." Jack said, holding his magazine up.
Meanwhile, outside, the box was being flung all around the space station, occasionally slamming into it.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!" Hobbes, Socrates, Andy and Sherman screamed, covering their heads.
Calvin, meanwhile was trying to remain calm as he attempted to rewire the Time Machine.
He took two ripped wires, and jammed them together.
BZZZT!
Suddenly, the box froze, and straightened up.
Hobbes, Socrates, Andy and Sherman all fell back to the box's floor, and lay in a heap.
Calvin turned to them.
"Alright, we have temporary stability." He said.
There was a pause.
"Thanks," Sherman grumbled.
"Sure thing," Calvin said. "MTM, what's going on Earth? What's Brainstorm doing?"
"Hold on a second," MTM said.
The CD player began humming, loudly, as he scanned the Earth.
"Oh boy..." He sighed.
"What?" Hobbes asked.
"He's cutting off Earth's electrical sources," MTM said. "Transportation, communication, TV, radio, it's all being shut down!"
"What's he doing that, for?" Socrates asked.
"Well, if I'm not mistaken, he's aiming on taking control of the Earth's entire electrical supply," MTM said. "Throwing the Earth into total panic so he can rule them."
There was a moment of silence.
"Hasn't he already tried this?" Calvin asked.
Socrates shrugged.
"Well, you know Brainstorm." He said. "When in doubt, reuse ideas!"
"How do we stop him?" Andy asked. "He's never gone as far to build an entire space sation for this purpose!"
"Well come on, how long do you think he spent on this thing?" Hobbes asked. "Two... three minutes? Let's just invade the place and stop him."
"I'm afraid it's not going to be that easy." MTM said. "Brainstorm has a force field around the ship. Preventing anything from entering."
Calvin, Hobbes, Socrates, Andy and Sherman looked at MTM in shock.
"You...you mean he's actually thought this through?" Hobbes demanded.
Brainstorm cackled, insanely, watching the lights all around the planet go out.
"Finally!" He screamed. "After all this time! My hard work has paid off! THE WORLD IS MINE!! I HAVE TAKEN OVER THE PLANET!!"
"And everyone is totally unaware of it." Jack said, rolling his eyes.
Brainstorm ignored him, and continued typing into the keyboard.
"My broadcast to all of Earth's radios and TVs will be transmitted in less than five minutes. The human race will bow down before me, and I will restore their precious electricity!"
"Uh huh." Jack said.
Just then, the space station lurched sideways, unexpectantly.
Brainstorm was knocked off his feet.
"What the heck was that?!" He demanded, leaping to his feet.
"Calvin and Hobbes, I'd assume," Jack said, who had been completely unaffected by the lurch.
"Impossible!" The mad scientist declared. "I took care of them! They've been..."
Just then, the cardboard box flew up to the window.
Calvin grinned, evilly.
Brainstorm stared at them.
"Darn it..." He mumbled.
A little laser blaster, which had been drawn on the front of the box, began glowing bright red.
BLASST!!
The station lurched, again.
"WE'RE UNDER ATTACK, JACK!!" Brainstorm screeched, holding onto the console for support.
"That's nice." Jack replied.
"DO SOMETHING!!" Brainstorm shrieked.
Jack took another sip from his lemonade.
Brainstorm growled, and began typing into his console.
Suddenly, one of the satellites came back to life, and began turning back towards the box.
Sherman looked around at it.
"He's coming back at us," He said, whirling around to Calvin.
Calvin looked back around to the satellite.
"Taken care of." He said. "MTM?"
"Mmm-hmm," MTM replied.
A laser blast shot out of the satellite, heading straight for the box.
Suddenly a transparent green dome appeared around it.
The laser blast ricocheted off, and headed towards the Earth.
"Amazing what NASA adds to their satellites." Andy commented.
"Alright," Calvin grinned, turning back to the panel before him. "MTM, any chance of getting Brainstorm and Jack out of there and destroying the station?"
"Nope," MTM replied. "The field is too strong. I'm using up about half of my power just to make it lurch."
"OK, then in that case, let me try something else." Calvin said.
He set the MTM down, and reached into his hypercube, which he had nearby.
He pulled out a bright green megaphone.
"Open communications channel," Calvin ordered, grinning from ear to ear.
Inside the station, Brainstorm was typing furiously into his keyboard.
Suddenly, a flashing red light lit up on the console.
"Ah!" The mad scientist grinned. "That must be Earth's great leaders! Calling to surrender to me and make me the supreme ruler of the planet!! ME! DR BRAINSTORM!! I ROCK!!"
Jack, without even looking up, reached up and flipped a switch on his head, turning off his ear piece.
"Sure," He said.
Brainstorm hit the button.
"Hello? Earth leaders? This is Dr Brainstorm! I can see you've decide to cooperate and give me the planet! SMART MOVE!!"
There was a moment of silence.
Brainstorm blinked.
Then, a response came.
SSCCCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECCHHHH!!
"AUUGH!" Brainstorm screamed, holding his ears, and leaping backwards from the console.
The speaker vibrated violently, as a blood curdling scream emitted from them, filling the entire room.
Brainstorm curled up into a fetal position on the floor, and held his head.
BZZZZT!!
Suddenly, electrically burst out from the computer's hard drive, showering the floor with sparks.
Brainstorm looked up.
"NOOO!" He screamed, rushing over, and frantically typing into the keyboard. "CLOSE COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL!! OBEY ME!!"
All around, the ship began shutting down. Lights went out, computers went dead, and the control over the satellites was cut off.
The satellites all suddenly switched back on, and turned back to their original positions.
The lights all the Earth shifted back on, lighting the planet back up.
A siren went off through the space station.
Brainstorm frantically typed into the keyboard, running over to different parts of the console, flipping switches and pulling levers down.
And through it all, Jack didn't even blink.
Finally, Brainstorm gave up, and turned to Jack.
"JACK! IT'S TIME TO RETREAT!! GET IN THE ROCKET!!" He screamed.
Jack didn't respond.
"Jack? JACK!! I'M TALKING TO YOU!!" The insane scientist screeched.
Jack scratched his head, and turned the page to his magazine.
Brainstorm stared at him.
Then his expression darkened.
He marched over to the robot, and flipped the switch on his head.
The robot looked up.
"Oh, I'm sorry." He said. "Did you need something?"
Brainstorm glared at him.
Calvin, Hobbes, Socrates, Andy and Sherman watched as the space station shut down completely.
"Good old Scream Horn," Calvin chuckled, throwing the megaphone back into the hypercube. "Old Brainstorm should be leaving in about five... four... three... two... one..."
Suddenly, one part of the space station lit up.
There was a blast of fire, and the Brainstorm rocket burst from it.
Brainstorm screeched angrily at Calvin and Hobbes from the box, then flew off back towards Earth.
There was a moment of silence.
"Well, I'd say this was a success." Andy said, finally.
"Ditto," Socrates nodded. "Let's go finish that movie."
Calvin pushed a button on the Time Machine.
ZZZZZZT!!
There was a blast of electricity, and the Time Machine vanished.
Meanwhile, the laser blast that was shot at Calvin and Hobbes from the satellite was still rocketing downwards towards the Earth.
It blasted through the atmosphere, and kept going.
It shot a hole through the clouds and headed straight towards a freeway.
The camera pans out as the laser blasts straight into a black pavement.
But it didn't stop there.
Drilling a hole into the ground, the laser cuts through the dirt, going deeper and deeper into the Earth.
Suddenly, it struck something.
Something metal.
A chrome sphere.
The sphere absorbed the blast, and suddenly lit up.
Lines of red light ran all around it, and it began glowing bright red.
A loud humming rang out, and the ground began shaking.
The orb suddenly began collapsing into a shape.
The shape of a robot.
A man stepped out onto his front porch, holding a cup of coffee in his hands.
He looked around the sky.
"Well, the power's on, now," He said to himself.
He took a sip from his coffee, and prepared to turn back into his house.
Suddenly, the ground began shaking.
"Now, what?" The man demanded, looking around.
His eyes fell on the road.
Suddenly, a huge crack appeared in it.
K-K-K-K-K-K-K!!
The man's eyes popped open, and he began backing up.
Another large crack burst from the road.
KKKKK—CRACK!!
The man's mouth dropped open, and he dropped his coffee.
The mug landed on the sidewalk, and shattered, throwing coffee everywhere.
A chrome hand burst from the pavement.
It grabbed hold of the road, and began pushing itself up.
More large cracks appeared in the road as a robot emerged from the road.
The man screamed and ran into his house, slamming the door.
The robot looked like Jack. Sort of. He looked more like Jack during his "Evil" episode. He had metal claws, razor sharp teeth, and glowing white eyes.
The robot cut his eyes from side to side.
He stood up straight, and brushed some dirt off him.
Then, he looked back up.
"The Shadow lives!" It growled, dangerously.
And with that, it rushed off down the road.
Oops.
VROOOOM!!
Calvin flew his box through Socrates' open window into the house.
There, he landed it on the floor in Socrates' room.
"Excellent!" Socrates said, leaping out of the box. "Let's catch up on the movie, shall we?"
"Agreed," Hobbes and Andy nodded.
"Do what you want," Calvin said, "I'll be off reading a comic book,"
Sherman rolled his eyes, and walked off to himself with a tiny novel.
Socrates, Hobbes and Andy shrugged, and sat down on Socrates' bed in front of the giant TV in the room.
They finished the show, and then started browsing for something else.
"Well, let's see what's on the news," Andy suggested. "Chances are they'll have something about that worldwide power outage,"
"Sure, let's see," Socrates grinned.
He changed it to NBC.
Immediately, the TV switched over to a news reporter interviewing some man.
Calvin, Hobbes, Socrates, Andy and Sherman looked up and stared at the TV.
"So, you think the worldwide power failure may have something to do with solar flares?" The reporter asked.
The other man nodded.
"Yes, it's a rare occurrence, but it may be possible for a solar flare to actually cause a power failure of that nature," He said.
"Do you also think that any of it might have something to do with global warming or the thinning of the ozone?" The reporter asked.
The man stared at him.
"Why would that have anything to do with it?" He asked.
The reporter rolled his eyes.
Calvin, Hobbes, Socrates, Andy and Sherman stared at the TV, blankly.
"Well, I've seen enough," Calvin said. "What else is on?"
Socrates nodded, and changed the channel.
The TV switched over to the exact same news cast.
Socrates blinked, and changed the channel, again.
The channel switched, again, and came to the same news reporter talking about the power failure.
Socrates' brow furrowed, and he started flipping through the channels.
"Hmm, this seems serious," He commented. "This is all they have on all channels!"
The tiger browsed through the other channels in the guide.
"Well, I assume that something as big as that would deserve some publicity," Hobbes said.
"Oh come on," Calvin said, waving it off. "People will get over it. The power was only out for... what? Two minutes? Pretty soon, these news reporters will find some other occurrence to obsess about, and then everyone will forget about this."
There was a moment of silence.
"Three minutes," MTM said.
Calvin, Hobbes, Socrates, Andy and Sherman turned and stared at him.
"What?" Calvin asked.
"The power was off for three minutes," MTM said.
There was a long moment of silence.
"You're just desperate to make it so I can't be right, aren't you?" Calvin growled.
MTM sighed.
A terrible blizzard roared across a white, snowy, mountainous landscape.
The camera pans past the snow capped mountains, and up to a ridge to another large mountain.
Shadow was trudging through the snow, apparently immune to the extreme cold.
He was muttering to himself and staring straight ahead with an expressionless face.
He climbed up the ridge before reaching a flat piece of ground.
In a sort of The Grudge manner, Shadow crawled up onto the ledge, and stood up.
Right before him was an opening in the rock, leading to a large cavern.
Shadow grinned evilly, and crept through the heavy snow into the cave.
His glowing white eyes lit up the darkness as he went, until he came to a dead end in the rocks.
Shadow then held his hand up over the wall, before him.
He leaned over, and hissed something into it.
Then, he stood back.
Suddenly, an electronic voice rang out through the cave.
"PASSWORD ACCEPTED."
K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K-K!!
Shadow watched as the rocks suddenly collapsed, revealing a large room.
The robot grinned, evilly, and walked into the room.
The room was only lit by a couple of flickering lamps. There were cobwebs everywhere, and several rats scurried away upon Shadow's arrival. It was so dark, it was nearly impossible to make out anything inside.
The robot stalked across the floor, his footsteps making echos as he went.
"My master," He hissed into the darkness. "I have returned,"
He looked down, and his flashlight eyes revealed a large, dusty computer console.
Then, he lifted his head, and the light his eyes were emitting revealed something else; A man.
A man was standing motionless in a large glass cylinder. His eyes were closed and he showed no apparent signs of life.
The man had a strange resemblance to the Brainstorm family. He had a tall hairdo ending in spikes as if he had been electrocuted. This man's hair, however, was dyed jet black. He was wearing a matching black lab coat with a white shirt underneath. His gloves, shoes, and pants were also black.
"Trapped in stasis, my master," Shadow hissed, lowering his claws over the computer console. "You will now be freed!"
The robot flipped a switch on the console and pushed a bright green button.
VRROOOOOOOOMMM!!
Suddenly, engines around Shadow roared to life and began humming.
At first, this was the only outcome, then, something else occurred.
Slowly, inside the stasis cylinder, the man's fingers began twitching ever so slightly. Then, they grasped into a fist.
The man's electric blue eyes burst open.
He scanned the room around him, then his eyes fell onto Shadow.
He grinned, evilly.
Suddenly, air shot out of the bottom of the glass chamber, as it began lifting upward.
Shadow took a step back.
The glass chamber lifted from the platform, and the man came stumbling out.
He looked around, dazed for a moment.
"What... happened?" He asked in a deep voice.
"Post-stasis trauma," Shadow hissed.
"Post-stasis what?" The man demanded, rubbing his head. "Oh. How convenient. Lister didn't go through that. What's going on?"
"We have been freed, master," Shadow said. "I have emerged from my underground imprisonment, and I have released you."
The man looked himself up and down.
"Do I still have everything? Arms... Legs... Fingers... my head... Good, good," He said.
Then, his head came up.
"Shadow, switch the main power on," He ordered.
"I obey," Shadow said, bowing his head.
He turned to the computer console, and pushed some buttons.
KA-COOM! KA-COOOM!! KA-COOOM! KA-COOOOM!!
One by one, lights on the ceiling came to life, lighting up the entire room. Which, actually was a laboratory.
The man looked around.
Several inventions littered the black tiles on the ground, there was dust and cobwebs everywhere, and there were giant machines surrounding them.
The man blinked.
"That's quite a mess for a few days in stasis," He commented.
There was a pause.
"Shadow?" The man said, suddenly.
"Yes, master?" Shadow replied.
"How long was I in stasis?" The man asked, his left eye twitching.
"Gathering appropriate data, master. Please wait," Shadow said.
The robot began humming loudly, and the lights in his eyes flickered, slightly.
The man turned and stared at him.
"Data retrieved," Shadow said. "Last recorded date, five years, three months, two weeks, five days, seven hours ago."
The man's eyes burst open.
"FIVE YEARS?!" He screamed, frantically. "I've been in stasis for five years?!"
"Affirmative," Shadow replied.
The man looked around the lab.
"How did I get in stasis to begin with?" He wondered, rubbing his chin.
He paused for a moment.
Then, a light came on in his eyes.
"Brainstorm," He growled, dangerously.
He whipped around to Shadow.
"Brainstorm!!" He repeated, angrily. "Doctor Brainstorm! And his little robot associate, Jack,"
Shadow looked up at the man.
"Brainstorm and Jack?" He asked. "They are our competitors."
"Yes, until Brainfreak did this to us!" He hissed. "They've caused us so much pain!"
"Pain," Shadow repeated.
The man rushed over to the computer console, and frantically began typing.
"And, now, five years later, he thinks he is rid of us. He probably hasn't thought of us for years!"
He looked up, and turned to Shadow.
"And now we're back! We are back!" He shouted. "And Shadow, rest assured that revenge will be ours!"
Shadow grinned, evilly.
"Because now, Shadow, now," The man advanced over the robot, grinning maniacally. "I am back! DR THUNDERSTORM HAS RETURNED!"
And with that, both of them burst out with insane laughter.
Ho boy...