Chapter Ten

Downfall

Calvin, Walter, Charlie and Yutz were standing in a large throne room being lead by X's guards. The red carpet on the floor that covered the length of the room was so bright that it might have been considered reflective. Mr. X was sitting on the throne with a stare of complete disbelief and utter confusion.

Calvin's plan was simple and genius at the same time, using the power of confusion by use of ridiculousness and insanity in hopes of getting X to submit and turn himself in to Hobbes. To accomplish this Calvin had a large boom box, the boom box didn't necessarily work but that was beside the point. In addition to the boom box, Calvin was wearing a leper mink with gator shoes. He smelled like piss, but he didn't really care. Yutz was carrying a broken keyboard and wearing Velcro shoes that didn't fit. Charlie was wearing a John Wayne outfit; he also had a twenty dollar bill strapped to his heart as if it was the most important thing in the world. Walter was draped in a small American flag and also dressed in a mink. All of them had sunglasses for the sole reason of being douche bags.

"Your Lord All High Mightiness" Yutz began, making sure to put on extra bullshits even though he had none to give for Mr. X or anyone in his company," We come bearing gifts to honor your name, your ever growing, ever annoying and ever powerful name."

Mr. X raised his eyebrows, "Did he just call me annoying?" he asked to no one in particular, he would get no answer.

Calvin stepped forward and pretended to turn on the boom box, he then randomly began dancing to a song that only he could hear.

"Can you feel it?" Calvin asked, turning to Mr. X, "Do you hear it?"

Mr. X laughed, he couldn't believe that this was happening, "Hear what?" he asked in turn.

"The music" Calvin answered, "It's pretty awesome."

Yutz, Walter and Charlie immediately began dancing, matching Calvin's mannerisms; so far the plan was working.

It was at that moment that Hobbes came in, his paws were handcuffed behind his back. He was led by two guards. Behind him, Tamilia, who was also handcuffed, was dragged into the room. Tamilia's fur was almost completely shaved off, revealing several bruises and a large cut across her abdomen.

"They took it from me" Tamilia said sadly, she was past the point of the tears, her voice barely audible.

Hobbes, who guessed what it was, only hung his head in sadness, "Don't worry" he replied reassuringly, "We can always make another one."

Calvin, upon Hobbes' entry, stopped what he was doing and looked on, the plan having taken a sudden and sharp detour off a steep and unforgiving cliff. Hobbes turned towards Calvin and smiled.

"Remember kid" he exclaimed, "This is your world...Yours...not X's and not mine...whatever your reasons for creating me, for creating us, I can tell us this we don't care. The only thing we want is what is best. So what is it going to be?"

Calvin smiled in return and gave a subtle laugh, "Time to take our home back."

Hobbes let out a sigh of relief at Calvin's answer. Charlie replied with the loudest roar that he could produce, scattering the guards in various directions. Charlie immediately took chase as Yutz and Walter freed Hobbes and Tamilia from their bonds. Calvin shrugged and proceeded with his plan, moving ever so closer to Mr. X, who throughout all of this, looked on in confusion, trying to process what was happening to him.

"Can you feel it now?" Calvin asked once again

"I'm feeling something" X answered, "But I don't think it's what you want me to feel, is it boy?"

Calvin stopped and closed his eyes. In an instant a handgun appeared in Calvin's hands, Calvin laughed as he tossed it to Hobbes, who aimed it back at Calvin, shooting him in the foot, bringing him to the ground.

"What the hell Hobbes!" Calvin screamed, "You were supposed to shoot X!"

Hobbes said nothing and turned towards Tamilia, who took the cue and dragged Calvin out of the hall.

"Stop it!" Calvin pleaded, "Let me go...Hobbes!"

Hobbes shook his head, "Sorry kid" he replied, "I had to get you out of the way, didn't want you to get hurt."

"Bullshit" Calvin exclaimed, "I had a plan Hobbes, a plan that was going to get everyone out okay."

"This is your world Calvin" Hobbes answered simply, "Time to make it your own."

Calvin had no idea on what Hobbes was referring to, then he looked outside the castle window.

Outside the castle window Calvin could see the other Wackadoo Lands; they were easily in the hundreds, if not millions. They were all heading towards a large ominous black hole. One by one he could see them being destroyed, disappearing before the black hole could reach them.

"What's happening?" Calvin asked, looking to Tamilia for an answer as she continued to drag him through the hallway, finally reaching the front door.

"The creators are destroying their worlds Calvin" Tamilia answered, "X has corrupted too many of them to allow them to exist. So we're starting over."

Calvin shook his head in confusion, "So what does that mean for the creations, the imaginary friends?"

Tamilia gave no answer to this and simply pulled Calvin to his feet as they slowly made their way to Jessop dock.

Walter, Charlie and Yutz, after dealing with the guards, made their way to Hobbes' house. It is here that they accepted their fate, for as soon as Calvin's world was destroyed they would no other exist, having lost their ties to Calvin to the point where they were tied to Wackadoo.

Walter laughed as he thought about his situation. Charlie and Yutz looked at the worm; confused looks on their faces as they wondered what it was that could be so funny.

"The book" Walter cried through his tears," Five years of writing, plus finding a publisher and doing all that fundraising...only for it to sit on a shelf and do nothing!"

Charlie and Yutz rolled their eyes, "Why is that funny?" they asked in unison.

"Because if people would have read it then none of this would have happened" Walter continued, laughing as he did so, "It's so ironic is almost painful."

Charlie and Yutz were beginning to question if Walter knew the definition of irony, they decided that he didn't and as a result, Walter only made sense to himself.

Charlie shrugged and closed his eyes, in an instant three wine glasses, full of wine, appeared in his hands. He distributed them and then gave a toast to the End of the World.

"If I'm dying today" Charlie began, "I'm dying with all the dignity I got left."

Yutz nodded and picked up where Charlie left off, "As Mayor of this town it gives me great pleasure to say that it has been an honor gentlemen. Clearly we are more than what we appear to be."

Walter raised his glass, "To death" he declared, "May it greet us kindly and with open arms as we did with life."

Tamilia and Calvin reached Hobbes' house, upon seeing the three drinking companions slowly resign themselves to doom, they could only sigh out of pity and disappointment.

"Come on you idiots" Calvin replied, "Let's go while we still can."

They remained motionless, only giving soft smiles in response. Tamilia forcefully led Calvin away as Jessop approached the black hole. Two minutes later the duo reached the boat.

"Listen to me Calvin" Tamilia began sternly as she pulled out a zipper and opened it, pushing Calvin back into his bedroom at the same time, "You have to destroy this place. If you don't..."

Calvin shook his head, "I can't leave Hobbes" he declared, "He's all I've got."

Tamilia sighed and hung her head, "I know he is. But believe me when I tell you, everything is going to be okay. The only way to stop X is to destroy what he's done, and you do that by destroying Jessop, by destroying Wackadoo."

"You'll all die" Calvin protested, "There has to be another way!"

Tamilia huffed, for she was done playing games. "There is no other way Calvin, that hole is going to suck us in, and once that happens you can't imagine us back. We'll be gone forever...our only chance is for you to wipe the stale clean. to start over."

Walter slowly came to Tamilia, he peered up at Calvin, a glimmer of hope was in his eyes.

"Promise you won't forgive me Calvin" Walter pleaded, "I...I know that I can be a little pushy and egotistical and annoying and a long list of things that I don't have time to get through right now...and I understand completely if you don't want to bring me back, I mean who would want to bring back the guy who wakes people up at 2 am for no reason. But if you do promise me this one thing-"

Calvin stopped him at this, for Walter had already said too much about things that didn't need to be said.

"You're first on my list Walter" Calvin answered, "You deserve that much."

To say that Walter was taken by the news would be an understatement.

"But what about Hobbes?" Walter continued, "Isn't he-?"

Calvin stopped him again, "Everyone's coming back Walter, I'll make sure of that, you just worry about you and I'll take care of everything else."

Calvin closed the portal before Walter could respond. In that moment, Calvin's Wackadoo Land was destroyed.