A/N: Sorry for the late update. I was getting a bit upset since I wasn't getting any reviews. Now please review this, even if you want criticize, I don't care. After this I won't update again until I get at least three more reviews. And I promise that the future episodes will be much better.

Jerry sat in front of a computer screen and was typing rapidly on the console.

He suddenly said, “I’ve found him.”

Dr. Fox and the robots, who were standing nearby, turned around. “You’ve found Slash? Where is he?” Fox asked.

“Well, he appears to be in a forest near a neighborhood and… and he’s not alone.”

“What?”

“Look at this!”

Everybody crowded around him and stared at the screen. On it was one blinking, red dot which was Slash and near it were two yellow dots.

“Who the heck are they?” Game Freak asked.

“Jerry, bring Slash on-screen,” Dr. Fox ordered.

“He is on-screen.”

“No, I mean bring him on the screen in a way in which we can see him.”

“You can see him.”

“Meaning in a way we can actually see him!”

“But you are actually seeing him.”

“I MEAN IN SUCH A WAY THAT WE CAN SEE HIS REAL SELF AND NOT THAT STUPID DOT!”

There was a pause as Jerry stared at Fox.

“Oh, then why didn’t you say so,” he said simply.

Dr. Fox glared at him. “Just bring him up.”

“Right away, Doc,” Jerry grinned and started pressing a few buttons.

“Voila!” he said and a new screen came up.

Everybody gasped, their eyes wide. On the screen was Slash and standing in front of him were-

“Oh my god,” Dr. Fox said, his mouth ajar. “It’s Calvin and Hobbes!”

"Run Hobbes!" Calvin shouted.

ZOOM!

Hobbes had disappeared in a cloud of dust.

"You could have at least waited for me you rotten pile of flea bait!" Calvin growled angrily.

"Maybe you should do the same thing as your tiger buddy did," Slash snarled. He leveled his blaster and fired.

"YEEP!" Calvin cried out and dodged the blast of energy.

"You know," he said. "That's not a bad idea."

ZOOM!

Calvin was gone too.

There was a pause.

" I wish he had not listened to me," Slash sighed.

Calvin rushed through the forest at top speed. He glanced behind to see if Slash was following him. When he looked back in front he gasped and screeched to a stop in front of- Hobbes.

"Oh hi Calvin," Hobbes said. "Did you defeat that evil, fox-robot thingy?"

"WHERE WERE YOU?!" Calvin bellowed.

The force of his shout blew all of Hobbes fur back.

"Um... here," Hobbes answered.

Calvin glared at him.

"Normally, I would've wrung your throat for that insult," he growled. "But right now, we have to get out of here before that Slash guy finds us."

"You mean you didn't defeat him?"

"Come on! I bet he's way behind us, anyways."

They turned around and came face-to-face with none other than Slash.

"You mean right in front of us," Hobbes said.

There was a pause.

"RUN!" Calvin screamed and the duo took of in opposite directions.

Slash sighed. He raised his arms and his paws suddenly flew off, connected to their wrist only by an extending chain. The left paw went for Calvin and the other paw went for Hobbes. Both wrapped themselves around their victim's legs. Slash flicked his wrists and the chains pulled the duo towards each other; they crashed and landed on the ground in front of Slash.

"Ow," Calvin groaned, rubbing his head. "That hurt."

"Oh, I'm sorry," Slash said, grinning evilly.

He surveyed him, then looked at Hobbes and a strange expression was on his face (all the more strange since his face was made out of metal). He gazed at Hobbes for a long time.

"Well," he said finally. "I think I can dispose of you, Calvin, but I'll keep the tiger."

Both boy and tiger stared at Slash.

"What do you mean?" Calvin asked.

"I mean I'm going to take your tiger buddy as hostage."

"What are you going to do to him?!" Calvin growled. "I won't let you!"

"There's no way you can stop me," Slash said. "So good-bye Calvin."

Slash flicked his wrist upward and the chain holding Calvin suddenly bolted and threw him into the air.

"Calvin!" Hobbes shouted.

"Hey! That is not fair!" Calvin shouted as he flew up. "You just hurt my pride, my dignity, my- uh- my sense of self-humility, whatever that means!"

Calvin suddenly noticed that he was now falling.

"Uh-oh," he said.

Calvin saw the branches of a tree rushing up to him- then all was black.

Alex and Sam were taking a walk through the woods.

"That's funny," Sam said, looking around. "I expected to run into Calvin and Hobbes. But I don't see them anywhere."

"Well maybe it's for the better," Alex said. "You might easily get into a fight with Calvin if you meet him."

"True, so true," Sam grinned. He was lost in thought for a while. Then he said, "Say, Alex, have you ever heard of suprorphobia?"

"What?" Alex asked, bewildered.

"Suprorphobia," he repeated. "It stands for 'superior phobia'. It's when you keep on hearing, or at least think you're hearing, the voice of the person you fear most. In other words, your superior."

"You made that up."

"I have not."

"Prove it."

"Fine," Sam said. "I read on the internet that those with even a mild case of suprorphobia hear the voices of the person or people they fear most. I have strong reasons to believe that I am suffering from it. Now, they also said that if you think a lot about your most feared person than you'll hear his voice."

They stopped under a tree and Sam closed his eyes and started thinking hard. Then he said, "I should hear his voice in about five seconds. Five, four, three, two, one!"

"Move out of the way, Sam," said a voice that Alex and Sam recognized as Calvin's.

"You're scared of Calvin?" Alex said disbelievingly.

"I am not!" Sam retorted indignantly.

"Then what was that?"

"I said move out of the way!" Calvin's voice repeated.

"There it is again!" Alex said.

"I'm telling you I'm not scared of that little spike butt!"

"Who're you calling a spike butt? Now move out of the way before you want to get hurt badly!"

"Sam, I could never ever believe that..." Alex voice trailed off as he shook his head with a mocking smile.

"Hey! if I am scared of him then how can you hear him? Are you scared of him too?"

Alex stared, trying to think of an answer.

"That's because Calvin is hanging on a branch right above you and the branch is about to break."

Sam and Alex looked up. "Hey that's right," Sam said. "Calvin is hanging on a branch above which is about to break- and- fall."

There was a pause in which Alex stepped away from Sam.

Then-

Crack!

"AUGH!"

"OOF!"

A branch, along with Calvin, fell right on Sam's head.

"Thank you for cushioning my fall," Calvin said, getting up and dusting himself.

"You're not welcome," Sam muttered angrily, glowering.

"Hey Calvin, where's Hobbes?" Alex asked.

Calvin gasped. "Oh my god! I forgot!" he exclaimed. "Hobbes has been kidnapped!"

"WHAT?!" Alex and Sam cried out.

Sam jumped to his feet. "Who kidnapped my brother?" he snarled. "I'm gonna tear him to pieces!"

"It was a robot," Calvin said.

Alex and Sam stared at him.

"Huh?" they said.

Calvin sighed and was about to tell them what happened when he heard a strange, buzzing noise.

"Do you hear that?" he said. He then looked up and gasped. Alex and Sam also looked up and saw a spaceship big enough for at least nine people. They gaped as the landing gear extended and the spaceship slowly lowered itself until it landed right in front of them. A sort of a door opened and out walked-

"Dr. Fox!" Calvin exclaimed.

"Jerry?" Alex asked.

"Phil, Ned, Couch Potato, Game Freak?" Sam gasped.

"Quick!" Dr. Fox said, striding up to them. "What happened with you and Slash? Tell me now because I don't have much time okay. I'm a very busy man and have a lot of things to do!"

"Slash, he- waaaiiiit a minute," Calvin said, his eyes narrowing. "You know that Slash guy?"

"Yes I created him," Dr. Fox answered.

"You what?! What do you mean you created him?"

"It's none of your business what I create and invent so just tell me what happened."

"Doc, you might as well tell him," Jerry said, leaning on the hull of the ship. "He has a right to know. Besides, it's in the script."

Dr. Fox shut his eyes, then roared, "CURSE CYBERTIGER3000 FOR WRITING SUCH A HORRIBLE SCRIPT!"

An acorn suddenly dropped from a tree and bounced of his head.

"OW! I didn't mean it," he said. Then he reluctantly told them the story of Slash.

"So this is all your fault?" Calvin demanded.

"Hey, how is it my fault?" Dr. Fox asked angrily.

"That mechanical wacko kidnapped my best friend!"

"Well Game Freak was the one who put the power back on!"

"Well he didn't know about Slash and you're the one who turned off the lights without knowing that those robots of yours would get angry!"

"He has a point," Jerry said in a monotone.

"YOU SHUT UP!" Dr. Fox spat.

"Gladly," Jerry said, wiping the spit off his face.

"ARE YOU MOCKING ME?!"

"Would you be happy if I said yes?"

NO!"

"Then I'm not!"

"GOOD!"

Dr. Fox turned back to Calvin. "Okay forget about who's fault this is. First, how do we find out where Slash is?

Calvin thought for a moment, then snapped his fingers. "I have an idea."

"Can you please walk on your own?" Slash asked irritatedly.

"No," Hobbes said firmly, sitting on the ground. A rope was tide around his waist and Slash was holding the end of it. He had been pulling Hobbes for about an hour.

You may wonder why Slash didn't threaten to shoot Hobbes with his blaster. That's because Slash's weaponry batteries were down and were being recharged. Yeah his weapons ran on batteries. Trust Dr. Fox to make something like that.

"Well we're near our destination so can't you walk the last few steps?" Slash growled, now really irritated.

"Where is your so called destination?" Hobbes asked defiantly, looking around. "I don't see anything."

Slash placed a paw on the boulder and it sparked with electricity. The boulder suddenly moved aside to reveal a gaping hole.

"Oh," Hobbes said. "My mistake."

"Now get in there," Slash ordered.

"There's no way you're gonna make me go in there!" Hobbes protested, edging away as far as he could from the hole.

"That's it!" Slash snarled. "You've disobeyed me for the last time!"

He extended his arm and the paw again came off, attached by a chain.

"Oh not that agai- Aaah!" Hobbes cried as the chain-paw wrapped around him so that only his head could be seen.

Slash flicked his wrist and the chain-paw unwrapped with such speed that Hobbes spun around and became a blur.

"AAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGHHH!" Hobbes shouted as he spiraled into the sky. Slash watched indifferently as he fell down and landed straight into the gaping hole.

"MOOOOMMMMMMMYYYY!" Hobbes screamed as he slid down a steep, metal tube. He flew out of the end of the tube, only to crash into an open cupboard full of mops and buckets.

He raised his head with a groan. "I declare!" he shouted before collapsing.

Slash shot out of the tube and landed gracefully on all four metal paws.

"Why did you have to do that?" Hobbes groaned.

"That's what you get for disobeying me," the robotic fox grinned.

"What is this place anyways?" Hobbes asked, looking around.

"It used to be Dr. Fox's lab," Slash answered.

"Fox?" Hobbes exclaimed. "Then how did you find this place?"

"Because Dr. Fox made me," Slash said simply.

"He made you find the lab?"

"No, made as in built me."

"What?" Hobbes gasped, aghast.

"Yes, now get over here." Slash picked up Hobbes with surprising strength and threw him against against a wall. He went to the cupboard and picked up a rope. Within a minute, Hobbes's wrists and ankles were lashed to the wall. He was lashed so tightly that the only part of his body he could move was his head.

"But I don't get it," Hobbes said. "If Dr. Fox made you, then why are you here?"

Slash paused, then said, "Something went wrong when he was building me and my programming malfunctioned. That turned me into what I am right now."

"An evil barbarian who looks like he landed in a pot of silver dye," Hobbes muttered.

"What did you say?!"

"Oh, nothing."

Slash glared at him, then continued, "But Fox didn't know that the malfunction somehow caused a leak in his data files and some of it was transported to my brain. That's how I got to know about this abandoned lab. Now, let's get the power on here."

He walked around and started doing some unimportant things to get the power back. But let's focus on Hobbes here.

Hobbes was watching what Slash was doing with little interest. Suddenly, a small voice hissed out of nowhere, "Hobbes?"

Hobbes almost let out a cry of surprise. The voice belonged to Calvin. But how could he be here?

"Hobbes, are you there? This is Calvin. I'm talking on the walkie-talkie."

The walkie-talkie, Hobbes remembered. He had been carrying it around with him. He quickly glanced at Slash. The robotic fox was busy doing something else and didn't seem to have noticed Calvin's voice. Hobbes answered in a low voice, "Calvin, it's me Hobbes."

"Hobbes, where are you?"

"That Slash guy took me to some old lab."

"Old lab?"

"Yeah, he said it used to belong to Dr. Fox."

Then Hobbes heard another voice hiss angrily, "What? He's using my old lab?"

"Fox? Is that you?" Hobbes's voice came through the walkie-talkie in Calvin's hands.

Dr. Fox didn't seem to notice. He went on muttering angrily, his voice growing louder and louder.

"Why that insolent, rotten scrap of metal!" he snarled. "He's going to use my old lab.

"May I add that it was you who made that insolent, rotten scrap of metal?" Jerry asked monotonously.

"Oh shut up!" Dr. Fox growled. "That lame excuse for a robot is gonna pay!"

"Alright Doc, calm down," Jerry said, walking over to Dr. Fox.

"HE'S GONNA PAY!" Fox bellowed to the sky and punched the air- accidentally knocking Jerry to the ground.

Everybody gasped as a harsh voice, not Hobbes's, issued from the walkie-talkie. "What are you doing?" it asked sharply.

"Oh nothing," Hobbes's voice answered nervously. "Just talking to myself.

There was a pause. Then-

"I see," Slash said.

There was another pause, then they heard Hobbes sigh in relief.

"Okay he's gone."

"Nice going Dr. Fox," Sam muttered. "You almost got us caught!"

Fox was about to retort when Calvin intervened, "Just don't say anything. Fox, do you know where your old lab is?"

Fox nodded, the anger still apparent on his face.

"Good. Okay Hobbes, we're coming to get you."

"Well get here fast. I'm hungry and I think it's almost lunch time."

"Right," Calvin said, rolling his eyes. "We're coming. Over and out, buddy."

"Can't this thing go any faster?" Calvin whined.

"No! Now be quiet!" Dr. Fox shouted. He and Jerry were piloting the ship. Everybody, besides the four robots who were sitting in chairs behind them, was standing.

"Hey! That's my buddy out there!" Calvin said. "What if when we get there it'll be too late?- all because this dumb piece of junk went slower then a slug."

"Hey, don't call my ship a dumb piece of junk!" Dr. Fox growled.

Jerry suddenly said, "You know, there might be something to make this ship go faster. A lot faster."

"Really, what?" Calvin asked.

"Uh-oh," Dr. Fox said when Jerry grinned. "Jerry, you're not going to use that, are you?"

He groaned when Jerry opened a small compartment beneath the dashboard and pulled out a white cylinder. "He is."

"Fellas," Jerry grinned, holding up the cylinder. "Let me introduce you to the NitroBooster!"

"Fasten your seatbelts everybody!" Dr. Fox said.

Game Freak and the other robots quickly strapped themselves. Calvin, Alex and Sam were left standing.

"We don't have any seats," Alex said.

Jerry opened a hatch in the dashboard and put the cylinder in it, which fit perfectly. He closed the hatch and pressed a button.

"Then I suggest you find something to hold on," Jerry said simply.

A sign appeared on the dashboard screen: NitroBooster Loaded

The exhaust tails on the back of the ship started glowing and ship zoomed off with a tail of blue fire following it.

"AAAUGGH!" Calvin, Alex and Sam screamed when they were thrown back by the acceleration and slammed into the wall.

"I told you!" Jerry shouted, his voice barely audible over the roar of the engines.

A man walked out of a hospital followed by a doctor.

"Well ," the doctor said, "after four years of being here you have been finally cured of hallucinations. Now you won't see anything strange at all."

"Thank you doctor," the man said, shaking the doctor's hand, who nodded and went back in.

The man was about to cross the street when he heard a roaring noise. He looked up and saw a ship zoom through the sky. He stared at it until it disappeared.

There was a pause.

"Oh doctor!" the man said and hurried back inside the hospital.

"Okay, I'm really hungry," Hobbes said.

"Well there's nothing I can do about it!" Slash replied harshly. He had got the power back on and was now working on some big machine in the middle of the lab which he said was the furnace. Hobbes had no idea what he was doing and had given up asking.

"But I haven't eaten since morning," he whined.

Slash groaned. "Here take this," he said and threw a bolt at Hobbes.

"Ow!" Hobbes said when the bolt hit him on the head. "I can't eat that! It's metal!"

"Well it's the only thing I have," Slash said. "So be quiet and let me work, pumpkin-face!"

"Why you..." Hobbes growled. "If I wasn't tied up right now then I would've slashed you to strips of metal!"

"Oh, I'm so scared," Slash grinned derisively. He closed the hatch of the furnace and leaned against it. "Whew, finished. Now listen up, kitty, there's no point in whining and moaning because you're trapped and there's nobody who can save you so- BOOM!

Slash whirled around and saw that a big hole had been blasted through the wall. A second later, Calvin jumped out of it, followed by Alex, then Sam, then Dr. Fox, Jerry and the robot gang.

"Release my buddy or fear my fury!" Calvin snarled, pointing the Transmogrifier Gun at Slash.

"And if you're able to face his fury then fine, because you won't be able to face mine!" Sam added, baring his fangs.

"Dude, do you have speak rhyming dialogues?" Alex asked

Everybody rolled their eyes.

" It's over, Slash," Dr. Fox said, pointing his his electro-gun at Slash.

Jerry was doing the same thing with his blaster while the robots- they were just standing there idly, looking around. "So this is your old lab, huh boss?" Game Freak said. "It doesn't even have enough room for all my games."

Slash stared at them all. "I don't know how you got here and I'm not even gonna ask," he sighed, shaking his head. "And you're just in time for I am about to reveal my plan."

"What plan?" Alex asked.

Slash chuckled evilly and pointed at the furnace. "The lab's furnace is no longer a furnace. Now, it's a brainwashing machine."

"What?!" everybody said.

"Yes," he continued. "For years the despicable, scummy so-called human beings have been torturing mother earth. They cut down trees, destroy natural habitats and worse, put animals in cages so that they can goggle at them all day long!"

"He has a point," Hobbes said thoughtfully.

Slash seemed to be speaking more to himself than anybody else. "They think that they are the masters of the planet. They think that all the other animals are just unintelligent low-lives! But they are wrong! They do not have power nor the right to enslave animals and disfigure Earth! AND TODAY I WILL PROVE IT!"

There was no mistaking the anger and rage in Slash's voice. As he spoke, he walked to the furnace. "With this machine I shall send out ultrasonic waves that will brainwash animals everywhere in a fifty mile radius. They will all come here where I shall assemble an army to launch an assault on mankind, eliminate them, and take back the land which is rightfully ours!"

"You can't do that," Calvin gasped. "We won't let you!"

"Yeah, dude, we know that humanity has no right to do such things but neither do you have the right to destroy them," Alex said.

"I'd like to see you stop me," Slash sneered. He spun around to face the furnace-turned-brain-washing machine and pressed a few buttons on a panel near it. The huge machine's whirring grew louder.

"It has begun," Slash whispered evilly.

Outside the lab, animals for miles around suddenly stopped what they're doing. Their eyes turned pure red and they started walking slowly in the same direction in a zombie-like manner. More animals joined the other ones until there was a whole procession of rabbits and deer and foxes and birds walking together. They were walking in the direction of the lab.

"How do you know that the brain-washing machine even works?" Dr. Fox asked.

Slash merely pointed at Hobbes.

Everybody turned to look at him and gasped. Hobbes eyes were shut and he seemed to be having a sort of a seizure.

"I brought your tiger buddy here so I could use him as a test subject," Slash grinned. "To see if my machine worked. And here's the proof that it does."

Hobbes's eyes shot open. They were glowing red. With new strength, he broke free from the ropes holding him in place.

Sam suddenly collapsed and closed his eyes in pain as if he, too, were having a seizure.

"Sam!" Alex cried out worriedly, kneeling beside him. He jumped back when Sam's eyes burst open and they were also red. Both tigers walked eerily and stood side-by-side in front of Slash and bowed their heads.

"Destroy them!" Slash hissed.

The brain-washed duo turned around and faced Calvin and the others, growling.

"This can't be good," Jerry muttered.

The two tigers rushed at the gang, their claws raised. Everybody separated and jumped out of the way, barely avoiding the glinting claws. Hobbes and Sam looked at each of their targets, as if wondering who to attack first. Then they turned and snarled at Calvin and Alex, who were nearest.

"You wouldn't hurt your best friend," Calvin said, grinning nervously. "Would you?"

Hobbes and Sam roared and bounded towards them.

"I guess he would. RUN!" Alex shouted.

They took of with the brainwashed duo on their tails.

"Jerry!" Dr. Fox shouted. "We have to destroy the the brain-washing machine!"

Jerry nodded and aimed his blaster at the brain-washing machine.

"Oh no you don't!" Slash snarled. He jumped at Jerry and knocked the gun from his hand. Then he delivered a kick so hard that Jerry went flying back into the wall.

Dr. Fox quickly aimed his electro-gun but Slash was quicker. His left paw flipped over to reveal a laser gun and he fired it at Fox. The gun in Fox's hand was vaporized. He stared at it and gulped. Game Freak tried to pass Slash and rush at the brainwashing machine but Slash used his chain-paw trick and pulled him back.

"You three!" Fox shouted at Phil, Ned and Couch Potato. "Help Game Freak!"

"But I feel tired," Couch Potato moaned.

"We must not do it hastily, for slow and steady wins the race," Phil said in his saintly voice.

"Can't I finish this chapter?" asked Ned, who was reading a history book.

Fox whacked his forehead. "I am never going to build another robot!" he growled to himself.

Meanwhile, Calvin and Alex backed into a corner as their brainwashed friends advanced on them, claws raised. Calvin felt in his pockets for any weapon. None were in his right pocket. He searched his left and his eyes brightened when he drew out-

"The Transmogrifier Gun!" he exclaimed.

"We're safe!" Alex said in relief, seeing the water pistol.

Calvin sighed and pointed the Transmogrifier at the two tigers who were still advancing on them.

"Hobbes, I'm sorry, but I have to," he said regretfully.

ZAP!

Standing in Hobbes's place was a little bunny rabbit. It's red eyes showed that it was still brain-washed.

Calvin's face grew more firm as he pointed the Transmogrifier Gun at Sam.

"Sam, I'm not sorry, and I want to."

ZAP!

He ,too, became a bunny rabbit. The brainwashed-animals stared at themselves, then started hopping up and down frantically. Calvin couldn't help but chuckle at the sight of Sam hopping in circles.

"I've always wanted to do that," he said gleefully.

"Come on," Alex said. "We'll transmogrify them back to their normal selves later."

"AAAARRRRRGGHH!"

They whipped around and saw Dr. Fox, Jerry and the robots being blasted into the wall. Slash stood in front of them and suddenly grinned.

"Aah," he said. "My army has arrived."

Everybody looked at the hole in the wall. Animals upon animals were marching through it. They marched until all of them were standing in front of Slash. Then they turned and bowed. The birds saluted with their wings.

"It shall begin now," Slash said, his face triumphant. "The destruction of mankind. The day when nature shall once again be put into balance!"

"I'm afraid not, Slash," Dr. Fox said. "You see, I think this is going to end before it begins."

"Oh, really," he sneered. "How's that?"

Dr. Fox held up what looked like a metal stick with a red button on top.

"There's one thing you don't know Slash," Fox continued in a dramatic voice. "I inserted a self-destruction chip in your positronic brain! And here's the trigger! YOU'RE DOOMED, SLASH! DOOMED! HAHAHAHA!"

Slash's eyes widened and he jumped for the trigger.

"Hey!" Fox said when Slash tackled him and the trigger flew out of his hand. "You just interrupted a dramatic moment!"

Everybody rolled their eyes.

Jerry ran across the lab and jumped. He caught the trigger in mid-air.

"Soldiers!" Slash roared. "Get the trigger!"

"Oh no," Jerry mumbled when the heads of every brainwashed animal turned towards him.

The phalanx of animals charged at him.

"Calvin!" Jerry shouted and threw the trigger. It landed on the ground a few meters from Calvin. Both he and the animal army made for it. He reached it first.

"Gotchya!" he said, holding up the trigger. "AAAAHH!" he screamed when the animals started chasing him. He threw it to Alex, who then passed it to Game Freak, who passed it to Phil, who passed it to Fox, who passed it to Ned, who passed it to Jerry, who passed to Calvin again, who passed it to Couch Potato, who fumbled for it and dropped it.

Slash snatched it away from him.

"So much for your trigger!" he snarled, threw the trigger on the floor and crushed it with his foot.

There was silence.

"Oh great," Alex groaned. "Now we're doomed."

"You're right," Slash agreed and laughed menacingly.

"No, he's wrong."

Everybody turned around and saw Fox standing near a control panel.

"What are you talking about, Fox?" Slash asked.

"Every scientists has secrets in his labs," Fox chuckled darkly. "Including abandoned ones. All mad scientists have one certain thing in common with all their labs. One certain thing!"

'Which is?" Calvin asked.

"Which can be the ruin of your devious plan to destroy human beings. Which will make sure that you will not win! Get ready Slash, for you are going to go DOWN!"

"Go on," Slash said.

"Get ready to meet your maker, which is me! I am going to foil your plans with a great, amazing-"

"JUST GET TO THE POINT!" everybody shouted.

Dr. Fox glared at them. "SSHH! You're ruining the drama!"

Everybody groaned in exasperation.

"Oh fine," Fox muttered angrily. "This lab has its own self-destruct mode. And it's working."

There was a pause. Then Fox typed a few things on the panel.

"SELF-DESTRUCT MODE ACTIVATED!" a metallic voice screeched. Red alarms suddenly went off and a huge computer screen lit up. A countdown started on it from sixty.

Slash gaped.

"NOOO!" he roared. "I won't let you get away with this!"

Fox backed away as Slash advanced on him, blaster-hand raised.

Calvin glanced at his Transmogrifier Gun and an idea came to him.

Slash kept on advancing on Fox.

"Hey Slashy!"

"Huh?"

Slashed turned around and saw Calvin.

"This lab's end has come," he said and held up up something. "And now so has yours."

Slash recognized the thing in his hand. "The trigger!" he exclaimed. "Where did you get that?"

"Say goodbye," Calvin grinned and pressed the trigger.

Slash let out a cry and fell to his knees. "No! No! No!" he screamed. The seams on his skin started glowing.

BOOOM!

Everybody shielded their eyes. When they opened them they saw Slash's head fall at Fox's feet. The red eyes glowed dully for a moment, then turned off.

"Well," Fox said and let out a sigh. "He's gone for good."

"We may be too!" Alex cried out an pointed at the screen. Everybody looked and saw that there were only thirty-six seconds left!

"Let's go!" Calvin shouted.

"Wait!" Fox said and started typing frantically.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then all the brainwashed animals started to rush out of the lab, including Hobbes and Sam.

"We can't let them die," Fox said simply.

"And we can't let ourselves die," Jerry added. "Move!"

They rushed through the hole.

Twenty seconds...

Fox took out a hand control from his pocket and pressed a few buttons. Ropes automatically shot down the hole from the ship which was stationed outside it.

Sixteen seconds...

They held on to the ropes which then shot up, pulled automatically by the ship's gears.

Ten seconds...

They were pulled out of the hole. They rushed to the ship.

Nine seconds...

They got inside and strapped themselves.

Six seconds...

The ship propelled itself forward on its wheels.

Five...

Four...

Three...

Two...

KA-BOOOOMM!

The lab exploded and the ground above it caved in. Sheesh, you would've thought somebody would have heard that?

Everybody looked back at the wreck.

"Another enemy down the drain," Calvin said, leaning back in his seat and letting out a sigh.

"Yup, and the brainwashing machine must have also been destroyed," Jerry said.

"It is," Alex replied and pointed outside the window. "Cause there's Sam and Hobbes. And they don't look brainwashed to me."

Sure enough, the two tigers were outside, waving at the ship. And their eyes were normal.

Fox opened the ship doors ad let the ramp slide out. Everybody got out to greet the brothers.

"Calvin!" Hobbes exclaimed, rushing forwards. "What happened? All I remember was watching you guys and Slash in the lab then everything went all- weird and..."

"It's a looooonng story," Calvin answered. "First let's go home."

"And if you think that I'm going to give you a lift, then you're wrong," Dr. Fox growled angrily.

"Actually, I think you'll have to," Jerry said.

"Why's that?"

He answered with one word, "Script."

Dr. Fox's eyes rolled into the back of his head and he collapsed out of exasperation.

"Carry him in," Jerry grinned. "I'll pilot the ship. Oh and Calvin, how did you get the trigger again. Slash crushed it, right?"

Calvin grinned and blew imaginary smoke of the tip of the Transmogrifier Gun. "These things do come in handy," he said.

As they went back into the ship, Calvin looked back at the wreckage of the lab.

"What's wrong, Calvin?" Hobbes asked.

"I just hope Slash won't come back."

"Don't worry," Hobbes said. "Nobody could have survived that."

They got into the ship and the the doors closed behind them. Moments later, the ship rose in the air, and blasted off.

Meanwhile in the lab...

The camera zooms through the debris and destruction, moving faster and faster until it comes to Slash's detached head. At first, nothing happens. Then we see his eyes flicker red- and come to life.