Part five written by Swing123
BRAZAP!!
Calvin, Hobbes, Socrates, Andy and Sherman all looked around.
They had teleported into a dark enclosed room in Brainstorm's space station.
Calvin grinned.
"Good job, MTM, you just teleported us into space!" He chuckled, patting the CD player. "I didn't think you were going to be able to do it!"
"Uh huh," MTM said. "Just keep in mind that I don't have unlimited battery power,"
Calvin rolled his eyes, and turned to Brainstorm.
"Alright, Frank," He hissed. "Where exactly are we in the station?"
"Dr Brainstorm!" Brainstorm hissed back. "And I think we're in the storage compartment just right next to the main control room."
There was a pause.
"Wait, you mean we're in a closet?" Socrates asked.
Brainstorm nodded.
"How do you know?" Andy whispered.
Suddenly, the door in front of the seven swung wide open.
Calvin, Hobbes, Socrates, Andy, Sherman, Brainstorm and Jack all turned, and stared.
Dr Thunderstorm was standing in the main control room, staring blankly at the seven people who had suddenly appeared in the closet.
There was a small pause.
"Uh, why are you in the closet?" He asked, calmly.
There was another pause.
Then, Calvin whipped out his Transmogrifier Gun.
"EAT LASER, YOU... Thunder...freak!" He said, beginning to run out of names.
He fired the Transmogrifier Gun.
Thunderstorm leapt from the way, and the laser struck the console beneath the large window.
Thunderstorm rolled across the ground, and into the wall.
"OOF!" He grunted, hitting his head.
Hobbes, Socrates, Andy, Sherman, Brainstorm and Jack all stared at Calvin.
Calvin glared at them.
"What?" He demanded.
"Thunderfreak?" Hobbes inquired.
"Well, you come up with a clever name on such short notice!" Calvin said, defensively.
"How about Greasestorm?" Jack suggested.
Calvin glared at them.
"Whatever, just go attack him."
Calvin tucked the Transmogrifier away, and held the MTM at the ready as he raced out of the closet.
"SCREEEECH!!" Shadow screamed, wildly, throwing a handful of claws at Calvin.
"EEK!" Calvin shouted, jumping back at Shadow's sudden appearance.
Thunderstorm was standing over Shadow, grinning insanely.
"Shadow! Kill them!!" He ordered, jabbing a finger at Calvin and Hobbes.
The lights in Shadow's eyes flickered, slightly, then he held his hands up.
The laser cannons installed in his palms began glowing bright red, then, two blasts of fire exploded out of each of them.
"AAAUGH!" Calvin screamed, pushing a button on the MTM.
A green transparent dome appeared around he and Hobbes, and the fire went around it.
Brainstorm leaped up just then, and held his Servant Ray up.
"SERVANT RAY, DON'T DEFEAT SHADOW!!" He ordered, finally remembering how to work the thing.
BRAZAP!
An explosion of red shot from the Servant Ray and headed straight for Shadow.
Shadow's head whipped around.
He opened his mouth up wide, and took a breath in.
"SCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!" He screeched, mimicking the Scream Horn.
"YEEEEUGH!!" Brainstorm yelled, the shockwaves throwing him back, and short-circuiting the Servant Ray.
Shadow then whipped back around to Calvin and Hobbes, who were now joined by Socrates, Andy and Sherman.
"KILL!" He screeched, leaping through the air towards them.
"Not in the mood, I'm afraid!" Calvin growled, pushing another button on the MTM.
BOOM!!
Electricity blasted out of the tip of the MTM, engulfing Shadow.
The robot went tumbling backwards into the wall.
Not missing a beat, he leaped to his feet, again, and held his claws out in front of him, which began glowing with electricity.
He slowly clutched his fists, and twisted his claws around in a circle.
A loud grinding sound from inside the wall was accompanied with Shadow's hand movements.
Suddenly, multicolored wires exploded from the wall, and grabbed Socrates, Andy and Sherman.
"HEY!!" Socrates screamed, as the wires confined them to the wall. "THAT'S NO FAIR!!"
An evil grin spread across Shadow's face, and he leaped forward to Calvin and Hobbes, again.
Suddenly, Jack stepped into Shadow's way.
Shadow came screeching to a stop in front of his fellow robot.
His eyes narrowed, and his razor sharp teeth gritted.
"Move!" He ordered.
Jack crossed his arms.
"MOVE!!" Shadow repeated, angrily.
He shot off towards the right, attempting to get around Jack.
Jack stepped off to the right, and blocked him.
Shadow bolted over to left, and continued to try and get to Calvin and Hobbes.
Jack stepped into the way.
Shadow was near frantic as he looked back and forth between Jack and Calvin and Hobbes.
"Uh, Jack, what are you doing?" Hobbes hissed.
"His orders are to kill us," Jack yawned. "He can't kill me because I'm not alive. I'm not involved in his orders."
Calvin and Hobbes exchanged glances.
"Man, talk about loopholes." Calvin said.
Shadow's eyes cut back and forth.
"Organic life form, detected. Robot, boy, tiger." He said, to himself. "All potential targets. "
"Of course, I've forgotten that Shadow is totally insane," Jack sighed.
Shadow slashed his claws forward, cutting Jack right in half.
"Ooh, that's gonna leave a mark," Jack groaned.
The robot collapsed, and Shadow turned a grin onto Calvin and Hobbes.
However, Jack's distraction was enough for Calvin to get the MTM at the ready.
BOOM!!
Shadow went soaring back in the other direction, and into the wall, he then collapsed on the ground, and lay motionless.
While Jack began initiating his auto-repair feature, Calvin ran forward with the MTM.
"MTM, activate hypercube!" Calvin ordered.
"Whatever," MTM sighed.
Calvin rushed up, and prepared to absorb Shadow into the CD player.
Suddenly, right at the last second, the robot's head shot up.
Calvin froze.
"All current tactics failed." Shadow said, silently. "Initiating last resort robo-launcher."
Calvin blinked.
"Oops," He said.
Suddenly, Shadow's mouth burst open, and over a hundred small insect-like robots exploded from his mouth.
"AAAUGH!!" Calvin screamed, pushing a button on the MTM.
A force field appeared around he and the robots simply bounced right off.
"HOBBES!! HELP!!" Calvin screamed, whipping around.
Hobbes had vanished.
Of course.
The locust-robots surrounded the green dome, and began attacking it nonstop.
"Force field failing," MTM said. "Decreased power by 91 percent."
Calvin looked around in horror.
"Use the energy from the station!" He ordered. "Don't let those things...!!"
Suddenly, the force field vanished.
"Oops, sorry," MTM said.
Calvin's eyes slammed shut.
The robots attacked Calvin, driving him to the ground.
"AAAAUGH!!" Calvin screamed, sending wild bolts of lightning left and right trying to avert them.
Thunderstorm, who had been watching quietly in corner, suddenly began chuckling.
"Well, well," He laughed. "Looks like you've failed yet again. I guess I can just classify this as the 'mildly annoying save the Earth attempt'. Shadow confine him. And get the tiger."
Shadow stood up, and the locust / robots all flew back into his mouth.
He marched over to Calvin, and grabbed him by the shirt collar.
He then drug him over to the closet, and ripped the door off.
Hobbes was cowering in the corner, shivering.
Shadow grabbed Hobbes by the scruff of the neck, and carried them over to Brainstorm and Jack, who were sitting tied up on the floor next to Socrates, Andy and Sherman, still being held against the wall by the wires.
"Well," Thunderstorm said, cracking his knuckles. "That's done. Let's get down to business."
He turned to the console before him.
He began typing furiously.
"Interdimensional energy stored." A cool robotic voice said, suddenly. "World domination in thirty seconds."
Sherman's eyes popped open.
"WHAT?!" He gasped.
Thunderstorm grinned, madly, and pulled a lever down.
"Thunderstorm, wait!" Sherman pleaded. "Don't do it!"
The mad scientist ignored Sherman, and pulled another lever down.
The engines around the station began humming.
"Thunderstorm, the world will be destroyed! You can't do this!!" Sherman screamed, struggling against the wires.
"Shut up," Thunderstorm ordered. "I know what I'm doing."
"World domination in fifteen seconds." The computer said.
Sherman was near panicking.
"Thunderstorm! PLEASE! Cancel the order! You can't stabilize a portal that big! PLEASE!!"
"World domination in five... four... three... two... one..."
Sherman's eyes squeezed shut, and his head fell to his chest.
Calvin, Hobbes, Socrates, Andy, Brainstorm, Jack, Thunderstorm and Shadow all stared out at the planet.
There was a pause, in which nothing happened.
Then, suddenly, the entire Earth began glowing bright purple, and large streaks of electricity bolted across it.
A wide, evil, insane grin spread across Thunderstorm's face.
"Observe, gentlemen," He said, turning to his prisoners. "You're witnessing history!"
Calvin and Hobbes gulped, and turned to the window.
Mom was pacing the house, nervously.
"I can't believe this," She groaned. "There's been another blackout, and Calvin is nowhere in sight!"
Dad, who was sitting on the couch, holding a candle, rolled his eyes around.
"Why do I have the feeling he's behind this?" He mumbled.
"Where could Calvin have gone at this time of night?!" Mom demanded. "And why are we just sitting here, when we could be out looking for him!"
"Dear, the police said they'd take care of it," Dad said, reassuringly. "Just try to relax for a while."
"How can I relax when Calvin is out there, totally alone, in the dead of night?!" Mom demanded, frantically.
Suddenly, beams of light began shining through the window.
Mom and Dad looked around.
The sun had suddenly appeared over the horizon, and was bringing daylight.
There was a small pause.
"Dear, what time is it?" Mom asked.
Dad checked his watch.
"Uh, it's midnight," He said, quietly.
There was a moment of silence.
BRAZAP!!
Mom and Dad spun around.
A tall, silver robot had just appeared in the middle of the livingroom.
He had claws, glowing white eyes, and razor sharp teeth.
"AAUGH!" Mom and Dad yelled, reeling back.
The Shadow duplicate whipped around, as if just noticing Mom and Dad.
"Sensors confirm DNA match." It said, blandly. "You are affiliated with Calvin and Hobbes."
Mom and Dad exchanged glances.
"Uhhh... Well.." Dad began.
Shadow advanced over Mom and Dad.
"You will follow me," He growled, dangerously.
Mom and Dad gulped and nodded.
Meanwhile, on another part of America, Sheila and Jacqueline were in Sheila's lab.
Both of them were totally unaware of Thunderstorm and Shadow's return, but they still had suffered the blackout.
"Okay," Jacqueline sighed, walking back into the main lab with a wrench. "I think I got the backup power on, now."
"GOOD!!" Sheila screeched. "NOW ENGAGE IT!!"
Jacqueline rolled her eyes, and flipped a switch on the console.
KA-COOM!!
The lights in the lab came on, revealing several inventions littering the floor.
"EXCELLENT!!" Sheila screamed. "NOW I CAN CONTINUE TRYING TO FIND OUT HOW I'M GOING TO KILL THE ALIEN BOY!!"
"Okay, Sheila," Jacqueline said, checking her watch. "I'll be in the gym if you need me."
"Yeah, yeah, whatever," Sheila said, waving the robot off.
Jacqueline jogged off, leaving Sheila alone in the lab.
Sheila began typing into her computer.
"Now, if I can trap the alien boy in his room by boarding up the windows and doors when he's asleep, then all I'd have to do is sit back and wait for him to perish!!"
Totally not seeing any flaws in this idea, Sheila, printed the idea out, and began hopping around, insanely.
"YES! I'M A GENIUS!! THE ALIEN BOY WILL BE DEFEATED YET!!" She cheered.
BRAZAP!! BRAZAP! BRAZAP!
Sheila whipped around.
Three Shadows had suddenly appeared in the lab, glaring dangerously at her.
Sheila stared at them.
"Uuh... Jacqueline?" She called.
"Yes?" Jacqueline called from another room.
"We have some visitors!" Sheila called back.
There was a pause.
"They're duplicates of Dr Thunderstorm's robot, Shadow, right?" Jacqueline asked.
Sheila glared at the other room.
"JACQUELINE! I DEMAND THAT YOU TAKE THAT BACK!! AND HOW DARE YOU FIGURE OUT WHAT THESE THINGS WERE BEFORE I DID?!" She shouted.
Jacqueline sighed.
Susie was walking down the sidewalk towards Calvin's house, to try and figure out why there was twelve o'clock noon sunlight shining down at twelve o'clock midnight.
BRAZAP!!
Suddenly, a duplicate of Shadow appeared right in front of her.
"AAUGH!!" She screamed, jumping back.
The robot growled, and made a dive for her.
Moe was in his bed. His shades were drawn, and he was attempting to ignore the sunlight streaming in and sleep.
BRAZAP!! BRAZAP!!
Moe's eyes popped open.
There were a pair of Shadows standing above him, growling dangerously.
"HEY!!" Moe shouted, in surprise, as the robots made a grab for him.
Holographic Retro was observing the odd change in daylight from a forest off from Calvin's town.
"This is really strange," He said, his golden "H" reflecting some of the sunlight. "Here I am trying to recharge for the night, and my light bee just activates for no reason whatsoever. This isn't daytime!"
He walked through the forest, looking around, silently.
Just then...
BRAZAP!!
Retro whipped around.
There was a Shadow humped over in front of one of the trees, glaring ahead with his claws held out in front of him.
"WHOA!" Retro yelled, backing up. "Who are you?!"
The robot whipped around.
"SCREEEEEEEEEEEEE!!" It shouted holding its claws up.
Suddenly, Retro's hologram began flickering.
"Hey! What are you doing?" He demanded. "Don't do that! I need that! HELP!!"
Suddenly, Retro's light bee absorbed his hologram, and bolted forward into Shadow's claws.
Shadow gripped the marble-like object, and ran off with it.
All across the Earth duplicates of Shadow were appearing out of thin air.
Africa, England, America, Canada, Japan, China, everywhere you went there was an army of killer robots.
Several Shadows appeared in front of the Eiffel Tower, and lined up perfectly.
They began marching down the down the streets, with people panicking, and trying to get away from them.
The camera pans out of the Earth, as several million Shadows appeared on every corner of the globe.
Thunderstorm stood in the space station, cackling insanely.
"The world is mine!" He laughed. "I am the ultimate ruler of the planet!!"
"That's great, Thunderstorm, now close the portal!" Sherman said, trying to remain calm.
Thunderstorm whipped around.
"Why would I do that?" He grinned, raising his eyebrows. "There's an infinite number of Shadows in that dimension! Just think of the possibilities if I could get even more out onto the Earth!"
"Thunderstorm, look at the Earth!" Sherman ordered.
Thunderstorm turned to the window.
The planet was still glowing purple, only now, it was spinning a lot faster that usual.
"The world is already starting to collapse!" The hamster said. "The day and night have been cut totally in half! A day on that planet lasts only twelve hours, right now! The planet is going to spin faster and faster, until it explodes! Until both worlds explode! YOU HAVE TO CLOSE THE PORTAL, NOW!!"
"Uh, Thunderstorm, I don't know if this helps, but I've grown quite fond of the Earth, and it would be nice to be able to keep it," Socrates said.
Thunderstorm glared at them.
"I am not closing the portal," He announced. "And the Earth is not going to explode."
"THUNDERSTORM!! LISTEN TO ME!!" Sherman shouted.
"Enough!" Thunderstorm ordered. "The portal is going to be stabilized. Right now, I'd like to see how I'm doing back on Earth. Shadow, come here."
Shadow dropped Calvin and Hobbes on the ground, and walked over to Thunderstorm.
Calvin looked back and forth between Hobbes and Shadow, and hissed, "Don't worry, I have an idea,"
Hobbes looked at him unsurely.
Calvin took the Transmogrifier Gun, and stuck it inside his spiky, yellow hair, concealing it.
Thunderstorm turned back to Calvin, Hobbes and the gang. He was holding a small black device with a red button.
"Let's see if I'm ultimate ruler of the planet, yet." He said, holding the device up.
BRAZAP!!
There was a blast of electricity, and everyone vanished from the space station.
BRAZAP!!
Thunderstorm and Shadow reappeared back down on Earth.
Calvin, Hobbes, Socrates, Andy, Sherman, Brainstorm and Jack had all been teleported into a large cage.
In front of Thunderstorm, Shadow, and Calvin and the gang was a huge glass chamber with a control panel attached to it.
Calvin and Hobbes gasped.
Everyone Calvin knew was trapped inside it.
Mom, Dad, Susie, Moe, Miss Wormwood, Rosalyn, Holographic Retro, Candace, everyone.
"What are you doing?!" Calvin demanded.
"I'm kidnapping everyone you've ever met!" Thunderstorm cackled. "I'm going to make you pay for what you did to me, by imprisoning everyone you've ever come in contact with!"
There was a pause.
"Okay, exactly what did I do to you?" Calvin asked.
Thunderstorm paused.
"Well, it's the principle of the matter," He said, finally. "You almost did something bad to me!"
"Ah," Calvin said.
Two more Shadows walked up just then, leading Sheila and Jacqueline into the glass chamber.
"YOU!!" Sheila screeched, jabbing a finger at Brainstorm, who was in the cage. "I KNEW YOU HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THIS!! YOU JUST WAIT UNTIL I HAVE MY SHEILA SPACE STATION BUILT!!"
Jack groaned.
The two Shadows lead Sheila and Jacqueline into the chamber, and slammed the door, locking it.
There was a pause.
"Well, might as well make the best of it," Jacqueline said.
Sheila glared at her.
"Now that that's done, I can get to work on ordering the Earth leaders to make me ruler!" Thunderstorm said, turning to Calvin and Hobbes.
"Wait a minute!" Candace suddenly interrupted from inside the chamber. "Who are you! And what are you doing with us?!"
"And furthermore, what's going on?" Miss Wormwood demanded.
Thunderstorm turned an evil grin onto the group before him.
"Oh, I'm sorry, have I been leaving you in the dark?" He chuckled.
He jabbed a finger at Dr Brainstorm.
"That man right there is an insane evil genius," Thunderstorm said.
"Ah, I wouldn't go as far as to call him that." Jack said.
Thunderstorm ignored him, and continued.
"I am, too," He said, turning back to them. "However, I'm a little more careful when planning to take over the planet than he is!"
"Wait, you want to take over the Earth?" Susie asked.
"Yes," Thunderstorm said, crossing his arms.
"Do you know how incredibly unoriginal that is?" She asked, her brow furrowing.
Holographic Retro, Sheila, and Brainstorm all rolled their eyes around, trying to act innocent, while Hobbes and Socrates snickered.
Thunderstorm glared at her.
"Well, no one asked your opinion on the subject, so I'm leaving it at that," He said, turning around.
There was a pause.
Susie turned, and looked over at Jacqueline.
She was jogging in place, and didn't seem to care that she was trapped in a glass prison cell.
She smiled, sweetly at Susie.
"Hi!" She said, cheerfully.
Susie blinked.
"Uhh.. Hi." She said, a little unsurely.
"Now on to you," Thunderstorm said, turning to Calvin and the gang. "You will escorted to the local jail where you will..."
Thunderstorm stopped.
Calvin was standing on his head, holding the MTM with his feet, glaring at Thunderstorm.
Everyone stared at him in shock.
"Is something amiss?" He asked, calmly.
"Ah-amiss?" Thunderstorm started. "Why no, why would there be anything amiss?"
"I'm standing upside down," Calvin said, his expression remaining dark. "holding my inventions with my bare feet and you don't think anything is amiss?"
Thunderstorm blinked.
"Uh... yes, but I thought you had just gone nuts... I was trying to humor you."
"I was just doing a little test," Calvin said. "A test to see if you've gone crazy. Because if there's one thing I can't stand... it's crazy people!"
Socrates rolled his eyes.
Thunderstorm cut his eyes from side to side.
"Well... I passed your test, you can stop... staring at me like that, now..."
"I can't stop," Calvin growled, standing back up.
"Why not?" Thunderstorm said, starting to get impatient.
"Because the king of the potato people won't let me," Calvin said.
There was a long moment of silence.
"I begged him. I got onto my knees, and wept! He wants me to keep doing it. Keep doing it for ten years!"
Thunderstorm stared at Calvin, uneasily.
"Uh, can I see him?" He asked.
"See who?" Calvin asked, his voice starting to go back to normal.
"The king," Thunderstorm said.
"Do you have a magic carpet?" Calvin asked.
"Yeah, sure," Thunderstorm said. "A little two-seater."
"So let me get this straight," Calvin said, his voice totally back to normal, now. "You want to fly on a magic carpet to see the king of the potato people, and beg for your freedom... and you're telling me your completely sane?"
There was another lengthy pause.
"Uuuh..." Thunderstorm began.
"I'd say that warrants a punishment. MTM?"
BRAZAP!!
Suddenly, Calvin disappeared out of the cage and reappeared right outside it.
Before Thunderstorm could react, Calvin aimed the MTM, and fired.
ZZAAP!
"AAAAUGH!!" The mad scientists screamed, flying backwards into the glass prison.
"There!" Calvin said. "That will teach you to be a bread basket."
Calvin paused.
"You really went through a lot of trouble just to do that," MTM commented. "Was it all really necessary?"
"Yes, it was," Calvin insisted. "NOW ATTACK!!"
Calvin leaped forward to attack Thunderstorm again, when suddenly two Shadows leaped up and grabbed Calvin from behind.
"HEY!" Calvin screamed, dropping the MTM on the ground.
"Ouch!" MTM grunted, as he hit the floor. "That was quite uncomfortable. Let's not do it, again."
The two Shadows pulled Calvin back.
He began struggling against them.
"LET GO OF ME AT ONCE!! GIVE ME THAT CD PLAYER!! I PAID MONEY FOR THAT THING!!" He shouted, angrily.
"Good to know he cares about me," MTM said.
Thunderstorm stood up.
"I am sick and tired of you doing that!" He shrieked at Calvin, as the two Shadows shoved him back into the cage. "I am done being zapped around by that thing!"
The mad scientist whipped out his black Servant Ray, and aimed it at the MTM.
"Emergency, emergency. There's an emergency going on," MTM said, calmly.
Suddenly, a blast of red exploded out of the tip of the Servant Ray, heading for the MTM.
"It's still going on, and it's an emergency." MTM said.
KAABOOOM!!
Calvin's eyes burst open in terror.
Dr Thunderstorm had just destroyed the MTM.