Bolt picked himself up and looked around at the strange landscape. Where was he now? Just then, he spotted Gus sitting nearby and growled. The wolfdog smiled evilly at him.

"You're pretty tough super dog but I bet even you can't make it through the Badlands without getting singed." Bolt growled at his statement.

"You're on, wolfdog! In fact, I'll race you!" Gus huffed.

"You'll never make me race you, Bolt. Not in this dusk."

"Scaredy cat!" Bolt taunted.

"What did you call me?!" Gus leapt to his feet, the back of his throat glowing orange.

"A scaredy cat that's too afraid to fire that fire blast you're charging up." Bolt half grinned half growled. Gus' eyes flashed and he let go of the fire. Bolt dodged and huffed out a smoke ring. He charged up his own flame and shot at Gus. But the wolfdog already had a second blast charging and let it go, causing a massive explosion in the air. Both super dogs were flung back. "Ok. Now we fight for real!" Bolt snarled, charging at Gus as he was getting up and slamming him into the mountain behind him. The sheer force of Bolt ramming head first into his stomach winded the wolfdog and his recently inhaled air came rocketing back out of his lungs as smoke. Bolt stepped back to let Gus fall to the floor, his own breath coming out as ragged smoke from the exhilaration. Gus was panting hard as he lay there, totally at Bolt's mercy. "What a pathetic excuse for a super dog." Bolt snorted as he turned away. Gus' eyes snapped open and the wolfdog leapt up, sending Bolt rocketing head over heels with a plasma blast. Gus leant down and growled in Bolt's ear.

"We can have your ridiculous race. But don't you EVER call me pathetic again!" Bolt got to his feet.

"Well, in that case… go!" the two canines took off. Under normal circumstances, they would've been as fast as each other. But Bolt was full of energy and Gus was very tired. He might've had a better chance if he had any super speed. But he didn't. And on top of that, Bolt wasn't interested in playing fair. The super dog ran all over the place instead of in a straight line. Gus was managing to keep up but he was pushing himself hard. At that moment, Bolt slammed into his side, knocking him off his feet and sending him rolling along the ground. Gus huffed out a smoke ring and looked up.

"Look into some balance games dog." Bolt taunted from a few metres away. He started to walk again. Gus, using his anger as fuel, heaved himself up and ran after the super dog, kicking him off the track and into an upside down rib cage nearby. Bolt lifted up his head and shot out a cloud of gas. Gus jumped back so it wouldn't hit him when it exploded. Bolt began to get up but Gus knocked him down with a plasma blast. Bolt came back with a shot of viscous fluid and they began to have another fire fight. Eventually Bolt knocked Gus off the edge of the cliff. Bolt started to laugh, head down, eyes closed, just an evil, echoing laugh. Bolt opened his eyes; his pupils were now a green, yellow colour. Bolt looked towards a massive skull nearby. He didn't know why he liked the look of it, it just looked… mad. Bolt jumped up into the skull's jawbone and walked down through the skeleton's throat to the rib cage. Suddenly he heard something explode near him and turned sharply to one side. One of the bones on the left side of the rib cage had been removed and he could see someone outside. …wait was that… himself? It looked like a copy of him… save the pupil colour. The Bolt outside laughed evilly.

"Have fun in the tunnel of madness!" he called. Bolt growled.

"What are you talking about?"

"Your death!" the Bolt replied, laughing insanely. Then he just vanished. Bolt cautiously walked out of the rib cage he looked to his right and it surprised him to see another dog just like the other one, only this one had blue eyebrows too. He also quickly vanished after Bolt looked away. Bolt was confused. He turned and began to walk back down the rib cage. The rib cage wound its way into a cave and Bolt spotted some glass cut into one section between two of the bones. Bolt didn't know why he wanted to smash it but he did, by staring at it and cutting a hole in it with his laser vision. As he looked back down the rib cage, he saw two more dogs, one with a blue neck and one with a blue tail. Their blue markings looked kind of like fire to him. Then, the dog with the blue tail swung his tail around and a fireball came from it, striking Bolt in the chest and knocking him to the floor. Bolt climbed to his feet and, with an evil laugh, banged into the fire tailed dog, shoving him into the wall. He turned to face the fire necked dog but he was nowhere to be seen. Bolt's eyebrows began to turn blue. He continued down the rib cage and jumped over a stream of lava, only to have to scramble to avoid another. Bolt found himself on an island surrounded by lava and other islands. On each island, there were two different versions of him. On an island to his left, there was a dog that looked like him, only with slitted pupils. His companion also had pink eyebrows. All of a sudden the two dogs vanished. Deciding he was supposed to go that way, Bolt leapt over to the island. Suddenly a plasma blast hit him in the side. Bolt looked up and saw another dog, this one with a flaming pink neck. Bolt snarled and super jumped over to the island. Before he landed, the dog jumped onto a ledge not far off. It fired a plasma blast into the lava and laughed evilly as a lava tidal wave erupted from it. Bolt super jumped to one of the bigger islands, leaving the wave of lava to crash down, engulfing the island he'd been standing on. Bolt turned away and looked across to another dog with a pink tail. He was sitting precariously on the edge of the lava pit. Bolt smiled evilly and head butted into him, knocking the dog into the lava. Bolt laughed his evil, insane laugh and his neck turned blue. Bolt began to make his way up an upturned rib cage. All of a sudden he slipped. Bolt clung desperately to the rib cage. A bubble of lava popped underneath him and hit one of his paws. Ouch that stung! Bolt managed to save himself with a super jump. He flopped onto the rib cage but then heard a crack. Suddenly the whole bridge fell away. Bolt grabbed one of the bones and tried to pull himself up. His back legs hit the lava. As much as it hurt him, he pushed off from it, managing to perform a super jump and ran along the rest of the rib cage back to the island. Bolt panted fast and hard. One of his back paws ached beyond belief but he pressed on, heading up a nearby hill. Upon cresting the hill he saw other dogs, one with abnormally long teeth, one with abnormally long claws, one with red eyes and one with brown eyebrows. But as soon as he saw them, they disappeared. Bolt turned and padded back the way he came. All the lava had drained off the engulfed island so he super jumped onto it and headed to the ledge the pink necked dog had jumped to. Another skull. Bolt headed down into the cave behind it. There was a purple dog in the cave, being thrown up and down by a blowhole.

"That looks like fun." Thought Bolt. He shot a plasma blast at the dog knocking it off the blowhole and jumped into the stream instead.

"Wahoo!" Bolt howled as the blowhole bounced him through the air, onto a ledge on the other side of the cave. "That was fun." He said, his tail turning blue. Bolt made his way back to the top of the cave and leapt onto a rib cage segment that was floating in lava. The segment buckled under the sudden weight and a splash of lava hit on of Bolt's paws. Bolt yelped and jumped for the next segment of rib cage, hoping to the next one quickly after that and then to the bank. Bolt collided with a purple dog with a white neck and slammed him into the wall. "Oops." Bolt said, though he didn't really care. Bolt's pupils became slits. This cave was a dead end. Bolt made his way back out. Then he ran into Gus again… but the wolfdog looked just like him! Slitted green, yellow pupils, blue brows, neck and tail… Bolt snarled. "You again?"

"Just look at yourself." Gus growled, stepping aside and revealing a mirror. Bolt stared, stunned at what he saw. The reflection rippled into his usual self. He was asleep. Suddenly something appeared behind the normal Bolt. A dog with long canines, brown claws, green cat like eyes and blood red pupils. He'd seen that dog before.

"Wake up!" Bolt yelled at himself, slamming his paws against the mirror. The dog behind the real Bolt turned to look at him.

"Oh but I AM awake." He said in a low, teasing tone, pointing a paw at the sleeping Bolt and trapping him in a cage.

"No!" yelled Bolt.

"Until next time dog, only those travelling with me can visit the dark dimension." A portal appeared behind them and he kicked Bolt's cage through it, jumping in behind him.

"No!" Bolt charged at the mirror, smashing it with all his super strength and jumped after them just before the portal could close.