AN: Holy crap has it been forever since I posted something on the site. I decided to restart this story, since I've changed so much since I started. I've got a little more motivation this time around, so expect monthly updates. R&R, all feedback is appreciated, etc.

Chapter 1

"MWAHAHAHA! Soon my creation, will be complete!" Bright light flashed outside the windows in the form of lightning, intermediately lighting the dim room, casting long shadows upon the walls. Skeleton King stood by some form of large circular device, looking menacing as ever.

Suddenly, Chiro slammed open the large, ornate doors to the room, the monkey team not far behind. "It's over Skeleton King! Whatever it is you're up too!"

"What is it you ask?! Why it's simple! A portal! To another world! Ahahaha!"

A particularly bright flash of light lit the room well, revealing its contents, a girl standing by her dresser in a small bedroom, not, in fact, by anything that would resemble a portal or a gateway for one.

The girl placed down two small figures on the dresser, a Skeleton King, and a Chiro. Both looked rather worn, although there were a few nearby in far better condition. She made her way back to her bed and flopped down on her back.

Laleh stared up at the dark ceiling, the only noise at the moment being the May rain pattering against the windows, as she wondered idly when the storm would pass. She supposed she could go check the weather on the TV or her phone, but right now she felt so completely… bleh. A glance to her left and you could see her dresser, stacked with various figures and pictures, most of the latter being of her own creation.

Lately she had been on a bit of a kick with an old favorite of hers, Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go. She really loved that show, and was still bummed out about how it ended so suddenly. Hell, the only thing better it coming back that would be if she somehow managed to be part of the- *DING DONG*

She sat up quickly, wondering who it could possibly be, considering the weather; a delivery maybe? Her mom did order an awful lot of shoes online, after all. She was the only one home, so she figured she might as well slip on her shoes and get it.

As she made her way to the door, she remembered that usually, the deliveries were just drop offs; that she didn't need to sign for. She figured it must be something out of the ordinary, hopefully nothing too big.

The teenage girl opened the door, surprised to see that not only was it not a deliveryman, it was in fact, two people. Specifically, two kids from her school; although, she couldn't remember their names. One was a lanky black kid, about 6 inches taller than her, which wasn't hard, admittedly. The other was a white girl about her height, with platinum blond hair. Both of them looked pretty soaked.

"Uh, hi." She said, not sure what the proper etiquette was when you had two people who you barely knew show up at your door. Especially when they didn't look very happy to be there; in particular, the blonde girl looked pretty annoyed, while the black kid looked kind of embarrassed.

He was the first to speak up, doing his best not to look uncomfortable, "Uh, hey, Lelah, right?"

"Laleh. Um…" She trailed off, trying her best to signal she didn't know his name without saying so outright.

"Stella and Zach." The blonde snippily said, before turning to Zach, still looking irritated "How do you not know each other's names? Aren't you guys' neighbors?"

"We are?" Laleh asked, not sure if this was true or not, she didn't really know any of her neighbors…

Zach nodded, water dripping from his hair. "Uh, yeah, I mean, your mom and mine are kinda friends. I live only like two houses down." The look on his face suggested he barely knew the girl either, but at least knew she existed.

"Oh…" Laleh wasn't sure what to day next, before she realized something, "What are you doing here?"

Stella snorted, looking up at Zach, "Dumbass here forgot his keys, and his family's out for the day, so we're locked out of his house. Which would be okay, if it wasn't for the fact that right now it's coming down like nothing else right now." She brushed some strands of wet, dripping hair out of her eye.

"Oh… uh..." Well this was great, was she going to have to invite them in? She didn't know them! "What about your place?" She asked Stella, trying to avoid her fate.

"I live like five miles away. I'm not walking there in this weather!" Stella motioned to back behind her, where the rain was still pouring down by the bucket.

"Could you just let us in?" Zach asked, looking behind Laleh to the temptingly dry foyer. "I already called my parents, and they'll be home in like an hour; but I really rather not wait outside, soaked, on the porch."

The two of them stared at a very uncomfortable Laleh, who finally caved. "Okay…" She moved aside and welcomed them inside meekly, only doing so out of obligation to a social contract she barely abided by.

Stella looked around, noting that the foyer was about what one could expect from a family living around this area, nothing really stood out aside from a few family pictures and a small pile of shoes by the door. "So, should we take our shoes off?" She knew that some people preferred that, might as well ask.

"Huh?" Laleh looked down at the shoes by the door, "Oh, no, it's okay. It's not like you'll be staying a long time." Or she hoped so at least, this was really uncomfortable.

"You wouldn't happen to have some towels we could use, would you?" Zach was doing his best to stay on the welcome mat, and not drip all over the floor. He might not care much about Laleh, but no reason to give her parents trouble. "Your parents out, I guess?"

Laleh nodded dimly, "Yeah, dad's out getting the car fixed or something, and mom's on a trip. And I'll go grab some." She quickly went to the end of the hall and grabbed two towels from the closet; their musty smell wafted out a bit as she did so, probably from being stored so long. She came back and handed them over, "Here."

Zach immediately began drying off, whereas Stella took a whiff first; making a slightly grossed out face, before gently rubbing her hair dry.

Laleh stood there, twiddling her fingers as they dried off, not sure what to say, but knew some amount of small talk would be appropriate. "So… what were you two planning on doing? At Zach's house, I mean." Maybe they were a couple?

"Group project." Stella quickly answered as she continued wiping herself down, she would need to change out of these clothes as soon as she got the chance…

Zach nodded, "Yeah, we're both in World History together, we have to do a presentation together; you know, fun stuff." His face said that it was, indeed, very much not his idea of fun stuff.

"Oh…" Laleh wasn't in world history this year; that would be next year for her, she guessed the two were a year older than her, she hadn't bothered to ask.

"What about you?" Zach asked, as he finished drying off, his clothes still wet but nothing much could be done about that. "What were you up to?"

"Nothing really. Not much to do on a day like today." Truth was, even on nice days she wasn't up to much, but there wasn't any need to say that, right?

"Yeah, this weather sucks. If you don't have someone to drive you somewhere, you're screwed." Stella glared a bit at Zach as she said this. She finished her own drying, holding the wet towel in hand as she looked around, "So… mind if we watch sit down in your living room or something?" She didn't want to stand here for an hour after all.

"Oh, uh, my parents just had the couch steam cleaned, so they probably wouldn't like that." Her dad in particular got really anal about that kinda thing, she didn't need to be scolded.

"Well what about your room then?" Zach asked, getting a bit impatient himself. Most people would be way more inviting in this kind of situation.

Well, her parents didn't really care about her room, otherwise they probably wouldn't have let her decorate it the way she wanted too. "Yeah, that'll be fine, it's upstairs." She led them up the stairs, past the bathroom and too her door, which she swung open. It was only as they walked in that she realized they might be a bit wierded out by her… décor. …Oh well.

Stella stared at the walls for a second, before glancing at the bed and then the dresser. It looked more like a boy's room than that of a girl's. The bed was covered by just a drab blue comforter, nothing exciting there; but the walls, the dresser, the bookcase; everything was covered in some sort of memorabilia for something nerdy, most of which she was unfamiliar with; be they posters, figures or boxes of some sorts…

Zach seemed mostly unfazed, and seemed to be stuck on the dresser. "I recognize those…" He pointed at the Skeleton King and Chiro figures she had out, squinting at them as if he were having a hard time remembering them. "They were on a show back a few years ago…"

"Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go." Said Laleh, sitting on her bed, "I remembered it a couple days ago, so I dug those out." Well not really dug out, she had a monkey team phase at least once a month, usually more, they were one of her go to fandoms when nothing new was catching her eye.

Stella shook her head as she took her phone out to check Facebook, "Whatever." It was all stupid shit to her.

A particularly bright flash of lightning hit close by at that moment, momentarily blinding and deafening the three. "Ah!" Stella yelped and dropped her phone as both Zach and Laleh covered their ears.

By the time the ringing had subsided and their vision was clear, there was something quite new in the room.

"What the fuck?!" Zach exclaimed as he stared at the whirling vortex of purple that was now set in Laleh's wall.

Before any of them could properly react, the vortex began to pull them in. Were one to observe the room closely, they would notice it only seemed to be pulling them in, not any of the posters, or figures, even the sheets on Laleh's bed remained still. However, the three were in no position to appreciate this fact, as they were ripped off their feet by what seemed to be a strong wind, and flung into the vortex.

"-we gotta shut it down before!"

"Ahhhhhhh!"

Chiro whirled around to look at the vortex, which seemed to flash a dim light for a moment before spewing out three figures unceremoniously onto the floor, and then fading away into nothing.

Skeleton King snarled as the monkeys defeated the last of the formless, noting what had happened with the vortex. "Curses! It's useless now!" He glared at the monkeys, who were approaching him. "This isn't over you fools!" He suddenly flickered, and then disappeared.

Otto looked up and saw a small projector in the ceiling; it had been a hologram. "Aw man." He sighed, the team having thought they might have finally caught up to the Skeleton King. The green monkey looked over to see the rest of the team now staring at something else.

"Uh…" Chiro looked down at the three figures on the floor, who slowly began to pick themselves up, looking awfully disheveled.

Stella felt very sore, having just been thrown what felt like a great distance before slamming down on the floor. She'd probably have a fair share of bruises later, but what was important first was to figure out what the hell just happened. She quickly noticed that not only were they not in the same room; they were now in what looked like a room made out of rocks and bones, with a kid in a weird costume and several small monkey looking creatures covered in armor. "…the fuck?"