interLUDE

By THE Xenomorph

Disclaimer: I own only Perfection and Wraith.

DigitalMan and K2 are © My close friend.

Everything else is copyrighted to their correct owner.

Universe: Spliced-Verse (Misfit-Verse, Evil Dead, Mask TMNT Planeteers, Beast Wars, Jurassic Park)

AN: As an author I like to think my creative rights are limitless, however; I let my emotions rule me when I wrote the last draft of this chapter. I will have a special story commemorating Steve Irwin though, however this chapter is now more appropriate.

Princess returns

Pandora, in her beast form, looked lazily around the halls of the Misfit Manor while Rattrap and Dinobot concentrated on a game of poker not to far away. The three Maximals had been asked to keep and eye on the triplets while a new version of the Mass Device was being tested. The Joes didn't want to risk the three maniacs possibly causing any more inter-dimensional havoc than their world already experienced, and no one argued except the triplets. Of course Optimus also took this chance to help Pandora get used to the Misfits.

"Those three are awfully quiet up there…" Rattrap didn't look away from his hand.

"I'm not going." Dinobot sneered at his hand angrily. "You're cheating aren't you?"

"Who, moi?" Rattrap took a faux offense and gave a smile. "Maybe a little."

"Pandora, please check on the triplets…" Dinobot grinned evilly. "And feel free to take your time." Dinobot pulled out one of his wakizashis and jumped from his chair.

"Oh man!" Rattrap yelped as he took off out the back door with Dinobot hot on his trail.

"Those two…" Pandora sighed as she made her way up the stairs. Her beast form was the only way she could move around in the house because her robot form would tear the walls and floor apart, and that was something that was an obvious pain to her as she climbed the steps and arrived at the door to the triplets room and pawed at the door lightly, which almost broke it off it's hinges.

"Whoa!" Brittany jumped back as she opened the door. "Sorry Pandora, we forgot you have to stay in beast form."

"Heh, that's okay, I'm just checking up on you three." Pandora gave the best smile she could. She had an obvious affinity for the three small terrors, but she tried to not let it show. "What are doing anyway?"

"We want Princess Fluffietta Tinkerbell back!" Quinn pouted.

"Huh?" Pandora was obviously confused.

"Our pet." Brittany beamed happily.

"Ok…" Pandora winced at the response. "As long as you don't spawn an army of zombie gerbils or something, I don't care. Now, I'm going back down to get Rat-face and Captain Extinction back inside, so just behave for the next few minutes, ok?"

"Ok!" Daria smiled as she passed the door with a welder's torch.

"I'm serious, no zombies." Pandora glared at Daria.

"Don't worry there won't be any zombies." Daria kept on smiling.

"Ok…" Pandora turned and wobbled down the stairs.

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Five minutes later Daria was putting the finishing touches on a giant metal ring in the middle of the room. The ring itself was uninspiring and bland, but the many glowing crystals around it were flashing brilliantly at an accelerated pace.

"It looks like something out of Stargate." Quinn yawned, "But if gets Princess back, I'll be happy."

"Didn't we promise we wouldn't try and bring her back though?" Brittany asked with a worried look on her face.

"Desperate times call for desperate measures." Daria said. "We need something that even the Heartless will be afraid of and since everyone else was afraid of Princess, she should do fine."

"Well it would be nice to have her back, but what if she tries to eat Ralph?" Quinn asked, concerned for the health of the bases' baby triceratops.

"She won't." Daria said assuredly. "Now let's start this thing up."

"Ok…" The other two sisters agreed, as their devilish smiles returned.

"Quinn, divert the power!" Daria shouted as he sister flipped a switch down. "Brittany; open up the conductor gel tubes!"

"Done and done!" Brittany said as she flipped several tubes. "What is this stuff anyway?"

"Congealed Chaos Energy." Daria smiled. "You don't want to know what it took to get it."

"Trust us, we don't." Quinn said flatly.

"And now…" Daria watched a small power bar rise. "We engage the interdimensional coordinates and hit that red button."

"When?" Brittany asked.

"NOW!" Daria shouted as all three sisters slammed their hands down onto the button. A few seconds later the room filled with a bright light that soon faded to reveal the familiar form of Princess Fluffietta Tinkerbell. The creature immediately recognized the triplets and in a panic stricken fear it jumped out the nearest window.

"Uh-oh…" Daria said as she and her sisters crept closer to the window. "I forgot about containment."

"We are in so much trouble…" Quinn groaned.

"Well at least it knows who to avoid now." Brittany smiled. Seconds later Princess came diving back through the window with a red imp attached to her tail.

"CHYBEE!" Daria took a rolled up newspaper and bashed the imp on the face. "No!"

"Ushta, usht E!" Chybee snapped as he let go of the tail and vanished into a puff of smoke.

"What did he say?" Daria asked as she turned to her sisters to see that Perfection was standing over them with a smiling Chybee on his right shoulder.

"That roughly translates to 'I'm telling on you!'." Perfection frowned as he watched the cowering interdimensional raptor shake in fear under a near by set of sheets and then leapt out the window again. "I think you three should be waiting downstairs now."

The triplets said nothing as they marched single file down to the living room and sat on the couch pouting in contempt. While they sat there they winced as several green shirts ran across the lawn screaming for their lives with Princess Fluffietta Tinkerbell hot on their trail in her own form of panic as Perfection chased her with a giant bug net and a serious scowl on his face.

"Oh we are in so much trouble." Brittany groaned.

"I said that already." Quinn reminded her sister.

"Yeah, but that was before Perfection got involved…" Brittany said. "Remember what he made Forge do when he fooled around with his Chaos Energy WITH permission."

"Yeah, he made him fix the mistake himself." Daria said. "Oh wait…"

"Yeah…" Brittany mock smiled. "Why'd I listen to you in the first place?"

"Because I'm the smartest!" Daria nodded.

"Are not!" Quinn said angrily

"I am too." Daria smiled.

"You are not!" Brittany sneered.

It wasn't soon after this conversation branched off into the triplets shouting and tossing furniture at each other, this happened just as Pandora came in from outside.

"Will you guys quiet down in there?" Pandora shouted while in her bear form, then she noticed the furniture and and the fact that Daria had Quinn in a half nelson. "What in Primus is going on here?"

"We made a machine to bring back Princess Fluffieta Tinkerbell, and now everythings gone wrong and Daria's taking all the credit and… and…" Brittany started shouting all at once with tears flooding her eyes.

"Whoa, short stuff, calm down…" Pandora sat down and pulled the young mutant girl to her. "Start slowly and then work your way up." And so Brittany did just that, although she had to stop to blow her nose a few times and afterwards the three of them were surprised to see Pandora smiling. "Oh man, you guys are too much." Pandora was now on her back with the triplets setting on her stomach.

"Everybody says that…" Brittany sniffled.

"Ever thought about toning the energy level down a bit?" Pandora half suggested.

"We just wanted to help." Daria sniffled too. "I'm sorry I made you cry Brittany."

"Me too." Quinn wiped a tear from her eyes.

"All right you little terrors, time for bed." Pandora rolled back to her feet as the three trouble magnets crawled off her. "Come on."

"But Princess…" Daria started.

"Don't worry, I'll handle that." Pandora said.

"But Perfection's mad at us." Quinn said.

"Well, you'll have to deal with that, but I'll get the dinosaur and see if we can't have that lunatic X-Man send it back." Pandora grumbled. "I hear he's a real hoot."

"Forge is nice." The triplets said in unison, Daria continues however; "When he isn't trying to lock us out of his lab that is." The others nodded in agreement.

"Bed. Now." Pandora chuckled as she nudged the three towards the stairs.

When she was sure they were upstairs the panda-bot decided to curl up near the couch and catch a few hours of sleep, but there was a problem in the form of a green floating ghost. Wraith was hovering close to the couch and his eyes gave life to an amused smile. He simply nodded and then vanished.

"Man that guy is bizarre." Pandora snorted as she harrumphhed and collapsed near the spot where the Scion had previously been floating.