Hey dudes! I have enjoyed Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey. At the same time, I have devoured L. Frank Baum's original fourteen Oz books (not Ruth Plumy Thomson's, I hear they're bad) so I thought it would be fun to mix the two franchises together. I'm only extracting from Baum's text, not any of the movies or other books, official or unofficial. The Oz material used is all Baum's.

I hope you enjoy this story! I like it very much so far myself.

One morning, Bill S. Preston, Esquire, and Ted Theodore Logan, were out on a great day in San Dimas, California. They had just escaped from the afterlife, played rock music in front of the whole world, and stopped the evil villain De Nomolos. I between, they had gotten an intensive sixteen months of guitar training by time travel. Not only that, but their music was slated to bring world peace by the 27th century. Their lives were now MOST BODACIOUS!

So about a week after playing for Battle of the Bands and becoming globally famous, the Wyld Stallyns, decided to relax with their formerly medieval girlfriends (who they had rescued from the bogus fate of marrying a couple of royal ugly dudes), and play air guitar.

The were going to the mini mart for some soda when a time-traveling phone booth descended out of the sky! And Rufus stepped out.

"Rufus!" said Bill and Ted together. They played some air guitar. "Hello, my excellent friends," said Rufus. "I am here to tell you to help another dimension. You realize that the phone booths can access other dimensions?"

"No way!"

"Yes wayyy," replied Rufus. "Get into your phone booth, and dial this number: 843-526-363-69. Do not forget it! 843-526-363-69. If you do not, this dimension will suffer a most heinous fate."

"What do we do once we get there?"

"The dangers befalling the dimension's inhabitants are not known to them. You must locate the dangers yourself, and stop them. Make sure to be excellent."

Then another phone booth dropped out of the sky. Rufus looked over at it. "I'll let them take it from here," he said, and so he got into his phone booth and time-traveled away.

Bill and Ted 2 stepped out of their phone booth to greet Bill and Ted 1. "Hey, Bill and Ted!" they said to their twins. "Whoa," they said, "Wait one sec."

Bill and Ted 1 went aside to talk. "Ted," said Bill, "How do we know it's not evil robot doubles of us, like it was before? It would be most bogus of us to fall for that again." Ted thought about it, then said, "Remember how our metal twins made a clang when you punched them? We'll attack ourselves and see if they react the same way. Then ask them how many times we're saying 'bodacious' in our head over and over. If they pass both tests, we trust them." Bill grinned. "Sounds excellent."

They played air guitar.

After a moment, they went out and said, "Hold still, Bill and Ted 1," then... POW! They punched their future selves and knocked them to the ground. Their twins got up. "Bogus!" said the Bill and Ted 2 together. They got up and dusted themselves off. "Why did you attack us, dudes?" asked future Ted. "Remember?" said the first Ted. "We had to make sure you weren't robot doubles again!"

"Oh yeah," said Bill 2, "I forgot about that." Bill and Ted 1 grinned. "How many times are we saying 'bodacious' in our heads?" asked Bill 1. Their twins grinned. "Thirteen, dude!" they said at the same time. "Whoa," the others said. "Okay, any advice?"

"Beware the evil, fat, bogus dude," said Ted 2. "Yeah," added Bill 2, "and you'll need these!" He tossed them a pair of sneakers. "These?" said Ted 1. "They're just a pair of shoes!" Bill 2 smiled. "You'll see. They're important. Don't lose them, or you won't be able to give them to yourselves now and this will never happen, and you'll fail to save the dimension. And don't forget, be EXCELLLENT!"

Bill and Ted 1 looked from their twins to the sneakers, then to the phone booth. Then all four people played air guitar at once.

Bill and Ted 1 got into the phone booth. "Catch ya later, Bill and Ted!" shouted Bill and Ted 2.

Bill 1 picked up the phone. "Okay, what was the number Rufus gave us again?" Ted thought for a second, then replied, "8... 44-526-363... 69!" Bill was about to dial when Ted said, "Wait, no! Not 844, 843-526-363-69!" Bill dialed the number and the fellow dudes were hurtled through the Circuits of Time.

Meanwhile in Oz...

The Soldier with the Green Whiskers was on duty guarding the gates at the Emerald City. No one had recently visited the gates, so he had been busy passing his time by trimming his whiskers, and hoped that he would find another visitor to admit before he trimmed his whiskers down to nothing.

Then the clouds moved, and this caught the Soldier's eyes. He looked up to see the clouds move into a circle to make room for a faraway flying object. The Soldier readied his gun then lowered it after remembering it would not do him any good, for it was not loaded. Then it occured to him that whoever or whatever was coming probably did not know that, so he readied it again, but then remembered the strangers may mean no harm, and considered that if the first thing they saw was him pointing his gun at them, they would probably think bad of the Emerald City and any good they might have done would be spoiled.

Before he could resolve this dilemma, the strange object landed in front of him, and he became frightened before two people emerged from it.

"What's up, green suit dude?" said Bill and Ted together as they exited the booth. The Soldier with the Green Whiskers stared before composing himself and replying, "Who are you, and what is your business in the Emerald City?"

"I'm Bill S. Preston, Esquire!"

"And I'm Ted Theodore Logan!"

"And we are...

"WYLD STALLYNS!" The duo played air guitar, surprising the Soldier again. "We are here to help," said Bill. "Yeah," said Ted, "We come from another world, and hear there is some sort of most bogus problem. We are here to stop the problem and make everything EXCELLENT!"

The Soldier stared again, before remembering that it is rude to stare (although Bill and Ted did not seem to mind). Then he said, "Well, you are certainly queer, but you seem harmless. You claim to be here for our good and carry no apparent weapons. If your intention was to conquer The Emerald City of Oz or cause us any other trouble, I am sure Ozma or Glinda would have seen you coming and warned me not to admit you. So I shall take you to see Princess Ozma of Oz, our ruler, so that you may discuss your business and try to find the dangers threatening us."

So he admitted Bill and Ted to the Emerald City and granted them an audience with Princess Ozma.

I'll be continuing this in the next part. I expect it to have about three or four parts. Stay tuned!