Planet Earth.
One of a million planets teeming with life, by no means significant. I mean, they didn't even have space travel yet! However, it was unique because of the balance of magic and science it was fostering, but that is completely irrelevant to the story. Now, let's zoom in to a neighborhood in Whoknowswhereville, USA.
Now let's watch a certain house, through the window. There is a boy, with blonde, spiky, hair, about six years old. He is still sleeping. Wait. Prepare for a dramatic change of view in 3… 2… 1…
"CAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLVIIIIIIIIIN!"
The blonde boy yelped and fell out of his bed. His companion, an ochre tiger (do not call him orange, or else he will find you, and send you on one of the boy's "fun" wagon rides) stuck it's his tongue at Calvin.
Who is the boy.
Not the tiger.
The tiger is Hobbes.
Just so you know.
Muttering… things underneath his breath, he got dressed and headed to his tormento- sorry, mother.
Breakfast was pretty uneventful, besides the ferret in his dad's briefcase, and- scratch that, Breakfast was pretty interesting when Calvin got his mother to try the new kind of frosted sugar bombs: Über-Frosted Sugar Bombs ( Now with more sugar! ). Normally, Calvin's mom, who shall remain unnamed, as with his father, wouldn't even think of buying it. However, being the Author, I… Ahem, influenced her (Temporarily overriding the rational part of her brain) because it would make the story more interesting. I regret nothing. Calvin ate breakfast, got a sugar rush, the sugar rush wore off, and the inevitable "Calvin! You're going to be late for school!"
And so he was booted onto the sidewalk, threw a pinecone at his nemesis, Susie Derkins, (notice the capitals, italics, and bolded words) and unwillingly marched into the brainwashing facility known as "School".
Log file XD34f-4435363:
Planet: "Sku'll"
"Zounds! Spaceman Spiff is shot down by the evil Sku'll enforcer ships, WILL HE SURVIVE?" (Spoiler Alert: Yes he will, he always does.) "BOOOOOM!" A small figure crawled out of the wreckage of the once beautiful, cherry red ship he polished yesterday. "Always the day after the warranty expires!" the severely peeved… no, how about… hmm… well, just really angry intrepid spacefaring hero… shouted doesn't do it justice, how about… screamed with the force of a thousand megaphones. Yeah, that sounds right. I'll stop interrupting now.
Our intrepid hero makes his way through the labyrinthine tunnels of Sku'll. Labyrinthine, labyrinthine, labyrin- sorry, back to story. Let's time skip about an hour ahead, after many attempts on his life, torture methods, and tyrants tried to thwart his heroic deeds.
"Spiff Escapes!" our "hero" exclaims as he makes a dash to the entrance of the caverns. Suddenly, a mighty tentacle clamps down on his shoulder and spins him around. "N'gratad mis'rakistw dg'rwer!" the creature exclaimed in a foreign and fell language. Our hero is marched back to the torture chamber and… We interrupt this program to tell you that you need to snap back to reality right now!
What Calvin saw dramatically shifted from boiling pits of lava and skeletons of past space heroes changed to an ordinary classroom filled with students staring weirdly at him.
This happened two more time, but those times were with his other "alter egos", Stupendous Man and Tracer Bullet, a super hero and a private eye respectively.
After what seemed like an endless eternity (aren't those same thing?) school ended. Calvin felt like leaping for joy and getting out pronto. He did both. It was very weird. I know. I saw it.
Calvin didn't notice the two shadowy figures hiding in the trees opposite the school. He didn't notice them moving along with him, as if following him. He didn't notice the tear in space and time he was walking towards as he got off the bus. He wasn't supposed to. They were all invisible. Nobody noticed me, the person whose hands where perpetually on fire. Why? Because I said so. The two figures were tense as Calvin walked closer and closer to the rift; they saw it trying to sap his energy, to consume it, to consume him, to gain enough strength to let horrors into this universe. He got through only looking a bit winded. The shadowy people relaxed. That was before the poor kid got pounced by a tiger, placing him right under that evil portal.
One of the figures leaped out of it's his hiding place with unnatural speed and snatched Calvin and Hobbes up before the portal consumed them both. It didn't wreck any lasting damage, but the boy was knocked out.
Now that we have a better look at the figure… there's not much to describe. Only that it was wearing a full-body, black, extremely cool, and futuristic suit of robotic armor. That covered its face.
However, the vile rip in space-time had absorbed enough energy to bring something through. The rift, just a small tear 30 seconds ago, expanded to be about 10 feet in width, and 20 feet high. It convulsed and it spit out a wormlike monster that had a vicious set of teeth at each end. And spikes. Lots of spikes. For some reason it was purplely-black.
The other shadow leapt out of hiding, and… wait, where that epic energy sword came from? Almost as if it had created it from discarded matter and energy all across the universe and bound it into a temporary form using its mind. Nah. Anyway, it plunged the sword right through the nether worm's body, pinning it to the ground, but sadly, not killing it. The other made sure Calvin and Hobbes was safe before joining the fray.
Calvin slowly opened his eyes and- "FOR THE LOVE OF SUGAR BOMBS THAT GUY TURNED INTO A GIANT ROBOT AND IS BEATING THAT MONSTROSITY UP OH MY SUGAR BOMBS!" He screamed at his companion, who was none too pleased that his daily routine of pouncing Calvin turned into this.
Calvin saw how quickly the monster turned the tables.
He saw the monster slam them into the walls of a nearby building.
He saw the monster heading for him.
He also saw a giant ethereal sword slice it in half.
He was confused when a boy about 7 years older than him, with flames dancing along his hands shouts "THE FOURTH WALL HAS BEEN SHATTERED!" and disappeared into thin air.
He saw the monster disintegrate into black smoke and all of it being sucked into in infinitely small point
He saw the shadows wake up.
He saw the confusion of the shadows when they saw that the beast was gone.
He saw that when they took off the headpiece of their armor, one was a girl, about 17, and a boy, about 16.
He saw them pointing at him.
He saw the girl come over and point a weird metal stick at him.
6 years later, He still can't remember what happened that day.