FusionFall

Chapter 1

"Huh," I said groggily, sitting up from the grassy ground. "How did I get here?" I looked up at the sky. It had a greenish tint as stars were falling. I stared at it for a while. It didn't seem to stop. Endless meteors tumbling left and right to who knows where. One in particular caught my eye. The light seemed to grow. Soon, however, I came to the horrible realization that it was charging straight for me! I yelled and quickly ran for it before it smashed on the earth I once laid upon.

An eerie green pod rested in the crater that could have easily been my remains.

"Holy…" I started but was interrupted by a disturbing sight; green ooze seeped from the pod like sweat. The ooze took forms as green blobs with a single antenna on the back of their heads. "What the heck?"

The blobs coughed up more ooze, which streamed into the ground and caused green veins within the ground. They attacked trees, plants, grass, anything to spread their infectious goo.

The pod produced more. Now there was an army of the green blobs. I got scared and ran away, planning on telling someone, but the monsters were now chasing me. They were even faster than me. I tried my hardest to lose them; jumping over fallen trees, zigzagging my path, but nothing stopped the creatures' onslaught.

Focusing more on my escape than my route, I tripped over a large root that had broken through the ground. I was surely doomed for the creatures weren't even three feet away.

"Hey, hold on!" I heard a girl's voice say from above me. In a blue stream of light, the owner of that voice stood between me and my assailants. She took a deep breath in, and then wailed at a loud, high pitch. Though my hearing was temporarily impaired, the green blobs exploded from the scream. "That takes care of that." The blonde haired girl in a bright blue dress with a black stripe around the middle turned to me. Her eyes matched perfectly with her outfit, the most amazing sky blue I ever remember seeing. And I don't remember much except my name.

"Thanks, I thought I was dead for sure." I said getting up and brushing my green jacket off.

"It's what I do. Are you okay?" she asked me.

"Yeah, just this ringing in my ears." I tried to get out by sticking my pink in my ear.

"Oops, hehe, sorry about that. It'll go away soon. I'm Bubbles."

"My name's Alex. Could you possibly tell me where I am?"

"You're in Pokey Oaks Park." Bubbles said excitedly.

"Pokey Oaks Park? I don't remember going out of my house before…" I tried to think back at what before was supposed to be, but my mind only drew blanks.

"You've probably hit your head. Come on, I'll take you to the Professor, he might have a way to jog your memory back." She put an arm around my waist as she held my arm over her shoulder. "Hang on," she laughed and shot us into the sky, her blue light trailing behind her.

[We're flying? We're flying!]

"Aaaaaaah! How is this possible?" I cried.

"It's one of my powers, silly. I'm Bubbles remember? How can you forget about the Powerpuff Girls?" she giggled.

"The who?"

"Man, you must be from a different world."

Minutes later we landed in the yard of a white house with three circular windows on the second story. The house was oddly cubic.

"Come on in," Bubbles insisted as she opened the front door. She led me inside and told me to sit on the couch. "Professor, you home?"

"Yes I am, what do you need, sweetie." A tall man with short black hair and dressed in a lab coat and black pants stepped into the room, pipe in hand. "You never fail to make a new friend every day, huh?"

"This is Alex; he can't remember anything except his name. Can you use your smarts to help him?" Bubbles pleaded while floating over to him.

"Bubbles, I'm afraid I can't do much about amnesia." The Professor said sticking his pipe in his mouth to take a puff.

"But…" she looked at me sorrowfully. "I'm sorry, Alex, but when I hold someone's hand I can look into that person's memories, even if they have amnesia. Professor, his mind is a blank slate. I couldn't find anything except his name and the moment Planet Fusion took his world."

"What?" both the Professor and I asked at the same time.

"Hmmm, Bubbles, I'm sure your sisters need your help. Will you please assist them?" The man had a stern look on his face.

"Oh right," Bubbles looked at sorrowfully again, then flew off to aid her sisters.

"Alex, you can make yourself comfortable, turn on the TV if you'd like." He gestured to the remote on the table in front of me. "I have some important business to attend to." He walked back into the kitchen. I heard his shoes connect with the tile floor, a door open and then shut.

I looked at the remote, picked up, and pressed the power button, but only for background noise. Instead of watching the television, I stepped into the kitchen. I counted my feet until it matched the Professors. It led me to the door he must have entered through. I opened it ever so slightly, just enough for me to peek through, but not a noticeable amount.

Inside the Professor was talking to someone, but I couldn't see who, just a large computer.

"Do you think it's possible, Dexter? Could people from other worlds latch onto the terrafusers and crash here too?" he asked his computer screen.

"I believe most things are possible. The boy doesn't remember anything except his name and the last moments on his world. Perhaps he might have been encased in a terrafusers. That would explain why he didn't burn up in the atmosphere." Dexter theorized in an odd accent. "It seems the fusion matter might also affect memories. Professor, you might be right. This boy is from another world."

I couldn't get a clear look at Dexter, but I didn't care. I had run out the front door. My head was about to burst with questions, I didn't know what else to do. I stopped once I got a few feet away from the house. I was still exhausted from my first run.

I looked up into the green sky and saw something I didn't expect to see; a meld of several planets covered in the same green ooze that made those monsters.

"What the heck is going on?" the question was meant to no one, but that Professor still answered.

"That is Planet Fusion. It intends to invade and swallow our world, the same as it did to yours." He explained as I turned to him. "Alex, I believe you can help us."