A blue portal opened and Jade, Zoey, Anne-Maria, Cameron and Jo landed on the ground hard.

"Oww," Cameron moaned. "I can taste my spine..."

Jo looked around "Where are we?"

"Man, this place is weirder than my Grandma Betty on the Fourth of July." Jade commented.

Jo, Cameron, Zoey, and Anne-Maria looked at her. "Huh?"

"I'll explain later." Jade declared.

"Wow, this is so weird." Zoey felt lost.

Anne-Maria screamed.

"Anne-Maria, what's wrong?" Zoey asked, panicked for her.

"What's wrong?" Anne-Maria looked at her. "What's wrong!? I'LL TELL YOU WHAT'S WRONG! I LOOK LIKE THAT I'M 12-YEARS-OLD AGAIN!"

"That's because we are 12-years-old," Cameron clarified. "B's machine not only took us to another dimension, but it changed our ages too."

"Look, Plank, new kids, the more the merrier, huh, buddy?" a boy's voice was heard.

The group turned and saw a dark-skinned boy with a white short-sleeved shirt, dark blue jeans, black and white sandals, fuzzy black hair, and he had a piece of wood with him he seemed to be talking to.

"Is that kid talking to a piece of wood?" Jo thought out loud.

"Dang, that kid is crazier than a scarecrow on Halloween." Jade commented.

"Hi, I'm Jonny," the boy walked over. "And this is my buddy, Plank."

"..." Plank 'said'.

"I'm Zoey, and this is Cameron." the red-haired girl started to introduce herself and her friends.

"Hi." Cameron greeted.

"Jo..." Zoey continued.

Jo grunted in response.

"Anne-Maria..."

Anne-Maria instantly sprayed her hair. "Sup?"

"And Jade." Zoey finished.

"Howdy!" Jade smiled.

"What's that, Plank?" Jonny looked down to his wooden friend, then looked back to the new kids with a smile. "Oh, Plank asked if you're from Texas." He referred to Jade due to the way she was dressed and acted.

"Umm, yeah." Jade smiled a little.

"What, Plank?" Jonny heard from his friend again and smiled meanly. "Oh, yeah, who cares about dumb old Texas?"

Jade grew instantly angry. "What did you say?"

"Texas is dumb." Jonny answered simply.

"Don't you ever talk bad about Texas again!" Jade hated him now.

"Jade, please, now let's calm down..." Zoey didn't want this to get ugly with their first day in a new world.

"But Plank says Texas is home for dumb old hillbillys and rednecks." Jonny refused to stop.

"THAT'S IT!" Jade couldn't take it anymore. She jumped onto Jonny and started to hurt him into a fight cloud like in cartoons.

"Jade, come on, please?" Zoey was very scared and worried.

"I got it." Jo said as she grabbed Jade.

"Hey, what'd ya do that for!?" Jade glared at her, despite Jo being one of her best friends. "He was talkin' bad 'bout Texas!"

"Umm, let's just split up and explore this place," Cameron changed the subject to ease Jade's powerful rage. "I'll go with Anne-Maria."

"I'll go with Jade, do you wanna come, Jo?" Zoey suggested.

"Nah, I'll go by myself." Jo shrugged and left.

And with that, the groups split up to search around this cul-de-sac.