"This is bananas!" Luz shouted in disbelief. "How could you have been stranded in the Human Realm without the portal door?! You're sitting right here!"

"Calm down, ya goob." Eda laughed. "You're getting right into this, huh?"

"I'm calling you out on your bologna!" Luz retorted.

"Luz, maybe there's a clue in this story about how to create a new portal that Eda hadn't thought of." Amity said.

The girls had moved around during the story telling, with Amity now stretched out with her head cradled in Luz's lap and the collection of palismen and King snuggled up around them.

"Are you getting to the part with me?!" Hooty asked, stretching into the living room from the window.

Luz's look of conviction soured. "What? Hooty knows this story too?" she asked as the house demon wrapped himself around the pair to listen as well.

"Of course I know it! I was there!" he squeaked.

"I'm confused."

"Well let me continue and it'll make sense. Trust me." Eda smiled, giving a wink at Luz's skeptical expression.

Eda began drawing a spell circle with her staff, but was surprised when Kim became little more than a red and purple blur, rushing into the crowd of henchmen with abandon. "Ugh… why do the fighter types always have to rush in before the spells go off? I could have handled these guys with one fireball."

"You got this, Kim!" Ron cheered. "I'm just gonna hang back. Save my energy for the bbeg."

Eda allowed the spell circle to fade, conking a large henchman on the head with Owlbert when they strayed too close to her while trying to get around the martial artist teen. "Hey, blondie." she said, approaching Ron.

"Wah!" he cried in surprise, flailing his arms as he backed away, letting out a series of shouts and yells. Eda continued to stand there, unfazed until he was done. "What made you two come for me?"

"Oh, uh, your little owl buddy figured you needed some help." he explained, reaching into his pants pocket and pulling the tiny pink rodent out again, who stretched and yawned. "Turns out Rufus can speak owl, apparently."

Eda laughed. "Nah. All palismen can talk to each other. I'm kinda surprised a human can understand one though."

"A palisman?" Ron asked, confused.

Eda drew a circle in the air, moving all of them to the side to avoid an incoming henchman that Kim had tossed. "Sorry!" she called from the crowd.

"Rufus is a naked mole rat. See? Naked." Ron said, holding up his little rodent buddy.

Eda pushed his hand away and grimaced. "Yeah, I can see that. A palisman is a witch's life long companion that they carve from palistrom wood. Have you really never heard of the Boiling Isles?"

Ron shook his head. They watched Kim for a moment as she casually swung her head back into the nose of one henchman twice her size that had managed to grapple her from behind, pinning her arms to her sides. He grimaced against the tears that welled up in his eyes, moving her head to the side where Kim's boot was already travelling to catch him in the cheek. He reflexively let her go and she dropped as another henchman threw a punch, catching his already suffering companion in the chest.

Kim found herself sitting now, her legs stretched forward beneath the henchman that had just inadvertently assisted her and she twisted, kicking out in either direction and forcing him into a split he was not prepared for. Kim rolled back and sprang to her feet, placing her hands on the shoulders of the man in front of her and leaping over him to move full force into the chest of another henchman before landing on her feet, searching the groaning pile of men on the floor around her for any more threats.

"Dang, blondie. That girl's got some moves." Eda said, looking impressed.

"Heh. Yep. That's my girlfriend." Ron replied, puffing up his chest.

Eda eyed the boy suspiciously for a moment. "Well look at you! I honestly wouldn't have guessed."

Ron frowned. "Yeah, I get that alot."

Kim approached them, having hardly broke a sweat, though with a look of determination. "Okay, so what just happened, and who are you, really?"

Eda groaned. "I'll be happy to tell you everything, but first I really need to get home for some… medicine, and without my portal, I'm not sure how to do that."

Kim crossed her arms and narrowed her eyes skeptically.

"Ugh! Fine, just stop looking at me with those goody-goody eyes, you're freaking me out!" Eda said, walking over unconscious henchmen to take a seat in one of the high backed chairs. "I come from a world that's really different from yours. There's magic everywhere, and while it can be gross, it's also beautiful. I've been on my own for awhile now…" she said, brushing a hand over her cheek as she ran through the events of the last time she had spoken to Raine. "I found this portal as a kid, and I come here once in awhile to collect stuff. Human junk is kind of a big deal there, so I make enough to get by. I'm not usually here this long though, and I don't know how to get back without the portal."

Kim and Ron looked at each other and shrugged. "Why side with Drakken back at the school then?"

Eda hesitated, taking a ragged breath. She could feel her skin begin to prickle as the stress of being vulnerable to these strangers began to well up. "Because… because it's a lonely existence being on your own. Plus, have you seen that green lady? I mean, who wouldn't want a piece…"

Kim held up a hand. "Okay, I get the picture."

"Anyway, I offered to take blue back to the Demon Realm, thinking he'd be scared off and maybe green would at least be brave enough to join me. At least for a little while. But when I mentioned that there was an Emperor that was ruling over the place, he started ranting!"

"Yeah, Drakken is known for his mad rant skills." Ron pointed out.

"When he found out the seas were already boiling, he said something about a Condensation Array that would make it rain forever!"

Both teens frowned, but showed little concern. "I mean, that sounds a little dreary, but…"

Eda stood, fear showing on her face. "You don't get it! The Demon Realm doesn't get cool showers like you do here! The rain boils! Gorenadoes twist through the landscape! Painbows turn you inside out! He is going to destroy everything! I know you have no reason to care, but I do still have… people there."

"We'll help." Kim said, matter-of-factly.

"We will?!" Ron exclaimed. "Painbows, Kim?! Painbows!"

"But how do we get there?" Kim asked.

Eda shrugged. "I've only ever used my portal door. I do know that magical water could have something to do with it. My sister and I looked into it as kids…"

"There's only one place I know of with evil water…" Ron scowled. "Camp Wannaweep." he said, his voice growing dark. "The tick infestation, bubbling sludge runoff from the Science Camp, and the most evil monkey as my bunkmate. I always knew there was a connection to pure evil there."

"That does sound like a good place to start looking." Eda said, surprised to hear of this place that sounded like a piece of home.

Kim activated the large watch on her wrist, and Wade showed up instantly. "Wade? We're going to need a big favor…"

Drakken watched as Kim Possible struggled through his henchmen to reach the portal door before it closed, and he grinned as it folded up, transforming back into an ornate briefcase. "Yes! Finally!" he cheered, pumping his arms and stomping his feet. "Kim Possible is gone and I can finally take over a world in peace!"

Shego watched him with a look of annoyance, as though waiting for him to realize the irony in his statement. When he failed to, she turned to survey their surroundings. They had sent a dozen synthodrones through the portal first to take care of any threats before she had taken Eda's portal key and escaped with Drakken through the door themselves. It was dusk here, with a massive, skull-faced moon hanging in the sky. A rancid smell was on the breeze that wrinkled her nose, and unfamiliar wildlife growled just beyond the treeline. "I know I'm going to regret asking this, but are you sure you know what you're doing, Dr. D?"

Drakken strode up to stand beside her, looking up the hill at the tall tower and dilapidated house that stood below it. "Of course, Shego. These superstitious lot still believe in magic. My scientific mind will be able to dominate this world by the weekend! Ha!"

"Assuming there're no teen heroes here."

"Don't even joke." Drakken replied, walking forward and up to a cliff-side overlooking the ocean. A heavy mist was wafting up from the rocks below, giving off an unexpectedly hot, salty taste. "As soon as I find the ideal location for activating my Condensation Array, the ambient moisture in the air will rain down wherever I desire!" he exclaimed, holding his electronic cube up to revel in its brilliance. "With the oceans already boiling, I've been able to skip the first step of my latest scheme."

"And then…" Shego added, her voice and expression bored.

"And then, I'll hold the world hostage until this Belos character surrenders to me, the Supreme Ruler!"

"No way this could go wrong." Shego added, looking out to the horizon. She reached up to grab Drakken by the chin, aiming his face to where she was looking. "What was that about superstitious folk?"

Surrounding the nearby town below them were towering, curved spikes that were jutting up from the landscape. Their placement pattern and the joints between each segment were unmistakable. They were skeletal fingers. Their gaze traced up the wrist to a long path of thick forest that occupied the surface of the dead creature's arm until a long dead, horned skull loomed miles away in the distance.

"Drakken…" Shego hissed. "Did you seriously bring us to a world made up of a giant rotting monster?!" she shouted, pulling his face down to her eye level.

He cowered in her grip and reflexively held up his hands in surrender. "It can't all be a giant rotting monster, can it? This is just an island after all!"

Shego squeezed his chin a little more before reluctantly letting go. "Fine! Let's get this new stupid failed weather control plan over with so I can get out of here."

Drakken stood to his full height again, rubbing his jaw and straightening his lab coat. "New failed weather…" he grumbled under his breath. He checked the readings on his electronic cube; Condensation Array, and smiled. "The humidity here is perfect! I just need to get some height…" he said, spotting several points of light in the nearby forest that were following him, and he cringed. "Uh, Shego? I suggest we use the buddy system!" he called, backing away from several giant spiders that creeped out from the treeline. "SHEGO!"

Blasts of green fire struck the overgrown walking trail at the spider's many feet, causing them to pause. "C'mon, Dr. D! In here!" Shego ordered, grabbing him by the collar and dragging him toward the old house that was nearby. She tossed him through the rickety door, entered, and slammed it behind her.

Drakken crawled along the filthy floor to a window that was hanging open and peeked out at the swarm of giant spiders that were congregating on the path outside. Soon, another creature exited the forest dressed in overalls, tall boots, and a brown shirt. They had three sets of red eyes, large fangs that nibbled on a thread of hay, and purple skin with horns that jut out from their enlarged skull from under a cap. They were shouting at the spider swarm and waving their arms as though herding them down the path. "What are they doing?!"

Shego joined him at the window to look as well. "It looks like they're moving them like cattle."

"They're spiders, Shego. Not cows!"

"I think it's safe to say that some things aren't lining up with our expectations here, Doc."

Drakken let out a shiver and crawled away from the window before standing. "It appears I'm going to have to make some changes once I take over. To do that, I need some height to set up my Condensation Array."

"There's a tower out back! I could take you there!" came a high pitched voice full of excitement.

"Excellent! I…" Drakken began before realizing that it wasn't Shego replying back to him. He turned slowly, spotting Shego backing away from the window, surprisingly speechless. He continued to turn until spotting a pair of glowing yellow eyes that were attached to a round face on the end of a brown feathered tube that stretched through the window from outside. "What is that?" he murmured.

The tube charged toward him, stopping mere inches from his face. "I'm Hooty! Is this your house? I hope you don't mind but I made myself at home! It's been awfully lonely. The only ones I've had to talk to are rats but I always wind up eating them. I won't eat you though! You two look like friends!" Hooty said, his voice high and particularly grating as he pressed his face up against Drakken's.

"Ah!" Drakken yelled, pushing himself away from the owl-like face. "Shego!"

"What do you want me to do?! It's a tube!"

"Do what I pay you for!"

Shego heaved a sigh and ignited her hands in green fire, slashing her clawed gauntlets across the long neck-like structure that tied Hooty's face to the outside of the house, leaving deep gashes that continued to emanate wisps of neon green smoke.

"Ow!" Hooty hissed. He bat Drakken away with his coiled up body, tossing him through another window before rearing up and glaring down at Shego.

"Synthodrones, attack!" Drakken ordered, causing the dozen hulking synthetic zombies that had taken up defensive positions around the rundown house. Without a word, the first synthodrone opened the front door, causing Hooty to be dragged away from Shego in surprise.

He retracted himself back through the front window and into the door, his eyes glowing brightly as he stared doen the crowd of synthodrones. "Oh boy! I've never tasted abominations before!" he squealed, opening his mouth impossibly wide to swallow the first one whole. Yellow-green ooze squirt out of his mouth like a jelly filled pastry and he stretched out again to puncture the chest of the next one before it could react.

Drakken's face dropped as his minions exploded one by one in showers of syntho-goo. The creature laughed like a child as though the show of synthetic gore was nothing more than a frolic through a sprinkler.

"Abominations? I thought this Dragon guy didn't do magic?" Amity noted, still very attentive to the story that Eda was telling. The question roused Luz from her dozy state. Hooty had wound himself around them like a beanbag chair and was surprisingly comfortable.

"It's Drakken, and he used the most terrifying magic of all: Science!" Eda said, raising her arms and wriggling her bony fingers in an attempt to be scary.

"Do you forget who my dad is?" Amity asked, unimpressed. "He mixes magic and science all the time."

Eda let out a snort. "I'm well aware. I've seen his abomitons all over town. Makes me wonder what would happen if him and Drakken has ever met."

"Maybe you should ask your dad to corroborate Eda's story when you get home, Amity." Luz snickered.

"Still skeptical, huh?" Eda asked with a smile. "Maybe some portal science would regain your interest…"

Eda, Kim, Ron, and Rufus arrived at the entryway to Camp Wannaweep in record time. It's short time as the renovated and renamed Camp Gottagrin had completely been lost to time over the last few years since the teens were there last, and once again the place had an eerie dark atmosphere despite being the middle of the day. Kim seemed unaffected by the permeable sense of unnatural presence, standing behind Ron with her arms folded and waiting impatiently. Ron had a mix of confidence and intense fear, like someone facing their ultimate fear for the third time. He had clearly suffered intense trauma here before, but had conquered it.

Eda on the other hand took in a breath and let the familiar feeling of home waft over her. It smelled like the Boiling Isles with its warm, acrid scent blowing off of the discolored lake and the sense of rot in the structures. It looked like the Boiling Isles, with the orange tinge to the trees, the dark clouds giving it a gloomy appearance, and puffs of smoke lingering above the water. It even just felt like home. She nodded to herself at the feeling of magic coming from somewhere.

"Okay, Ron. We're back. Now what?" Kim asked, clearly unfamiliar with having her boyfriend taking a lead role in their adventures.

Ron pointed a finger out across the lake, his limbs shaking slightly. "Band camp, Telecommunications camp, Clown camp, and finally Science camp, whose toxic run off turned the lake into a mutant creating pool of evil!" he said, pointing each camp out. He looked down at his feet before crossing the threshold into Camp Wannaweep. "This is the worst place in the world. My nemesis. My… Mordor, if you will."

"I won't." Kim replied, walking past him and surveying the campground. "Let's figure this out so that we can get Ms. Clawthorne home, stop Drakken, and get back for the Math class we missed."

Eda stepped up next to her. "There's definitely magic here. I can feel it."

"We've had some, uh, problems here before. Mutant frog people and beavers, and evil animated snowmen. It's a whole thing." Kim agreed. "Any idea where your portal would be?"

Eda drew a spell circle that collapsed into tiny shards of light that seemed to drift off on the wind. The cloud of light blew across the direction of the wind and to the lake, causing a small wake as it passed over and toward the docks. "This way." Eda said, feeling her magic wane. She turned away from Kim and looked down at the gold crystal that she wore on her chest. There was a black sheen bubbling inside it, signalling that she had been taxing herself lately. The stress of losing her portal and being stranded here had begun to cut her time short before her curse would inevitably rear its feathery head. "We'd better hurry."

"Ron!" Kim called, running after Eda. "Didn't you say Gill found a grotto over here somewhere?"

Ron swallowed hard. "Y-yeah. He called it his magic mukka, but I don't think it was connected to the Science Camp. The docs weren't sure what caused it." he said, reluctantly following behind.

Kim activated her wrist Kimmunicator, pulling up Wade's visage on her screen. "Hey Wade, any luck with GJ?"

"They're on their way, Kim, package and all. They weren't too keen on delivering it though. It's really dangerous!"

"Did you remind them just how familiar we are with how dangerous it is?"

"Which is why they're hand delivering it to you." he replied. "Are you sure about this, Kim?"

She frowned, diverting her attention to Eda for a moment before looking back. "No. But if what Ms. Clawthorne said is true, we can't let Drakken take over the world. Even if it's not ours this time."

Wade smiled. "Roger that. Global Justice should be arriving right about…"

The sound of a turbine roared overhead as a sleek, blue jet came to an abrupt stop above them, hanging in the air for a moment before slowly descending straight down. Eda twirled her staff, aiming the owl end up at the jet before Kim held up a hand. "Thanks Wade. Wish us luck!" Wade nodded and Kim stepped away with Eda and Ron to make room for the VTOL jet to land. "Don't worry, Ms. Clawthorne. They're delivering our key."

Both Eda and Ron looked at her in confusion as the jet landed and a stoic man in a blue uniform stepped out holding a grey cylinder with a strip of lights on either end. "One Pandimensional Vortex Inducer." he said, reluctantly placing it in Kim's outstretched hand. "Be very careful with this. It can create a contained disruption in the very fabric of reality, the size of…"

"The state of Nevada. We know." Kim replied. "It can also create dimensions when crossed with a cable network."

The GJ Agent looked confused as he let go of the item. "They didn't tell me that."

"It's need to know, secret agent man, now get away while you still can." Ron said, putting himself between Kim and the agent. He took the cylinder from Kim, tossing it up, bouncing it off his elbow and catching it in his other hand, much to the panic of everyone around him. "There's no reason for you to be lost here too."

The agent swallowed hard, sweat beginning to drip from beneath his helmet as Ron casually twirled the weapon of mass destruction around himself. Giving a crisp salute, the agent ran back onto his craft and flew off. "Uh, Ron…" Kim said carefully.

"Yeah, KP?" he asked, twirling the cylinder on a finger.

"Mind if I…?" Kim asked, pointing gingerly at the device.

Ron's face dropped when he realized what he had been doing and suddenly fumbling with it. Before the Pandimensional Vortex Inducer struck the ground, it glowed gold and hovered in place before being pulled to Eda's hand. "Y'know what? Why don't I hang on to this?" she asked. "Since it is my ticket home, after all."

Kim and Ron looked at each other and shared a smile. "Fair." they replied in unison.

"Now, where's this grotto I've heard so much about?" she grinned.

"It's a good thing you've got Ron Stoppable with you, Ms. Clawthorne." Ron said, puffing up his chest and stepping forward to lead. "As much as we may loathe each other, Camp Wannaweep and I have a connection. We know each other. Our fears. Our nightmares."

Eda rolled her eyes. "Alright, alright. Just get on with it, already." she said before turning to Kim. "So how's the Perrenial Vorpahl Insect doohickie supposed to get me home?"

"It's a Pandimensional Vortex Inducer." Kim corrected her, earning an annoyed glance from Eda.

"Boy, my sister would have liked you." Eda replied.

"I'm not a hundred percent on the science, but Wade is pretty sure, if activated at the bottom of the grotto, that it should induce a portal to wherever the water is getting its magic from."

"We're trusting science boy with instructions on how to build a magical portal?"

"Wade is like, a super genius, and we've seen a lot of weird stuff. Even Ron has Mystical Monkey Power. Just a couple weeks ago we faced a super monkey being called the Yono."

"Oh, Yono! I wondered what happened to them. How's that little guy doing?"

"Banished after taking Monkey Fist back to wherever he came from." Kim shrugged, resigning herself to whatever surprises Eda still had. She activated her wrist Kimmunicator again, bringing Wade back on screen. "We've got the Pandimensional Cortex Inducer, Wade. Now what?"

The rotund boy remained at his desk, surrounded by old leather bound books with occultic symbols written in what Kim hoped was red ink. "I don't understand why more of these texts aren't digitized by now. I've searched all over the internet and I think I've narrowed it down using books confiscated from Monkey Fist's family estate, Ray's Occult Books in New York, and some old journals from a small town in Connecticut. I figure we've got an eighty percent chance of opening a portal to wherever is feeding the grotto."

"And the other twenty?" Kim asked as Ron and Eda gathered around the wrist phone.

Wade rubbed his neck nervously. "We pull the other dimension through the vortex to here instead?"

"What did you say your world was again?" Kim asked, looking up at Eda.

"It's a series of islands made up of the corpse of a Titan and surrounded by boiling water."

"So we turn our entire world into Camp Wannaweep." Ron said sarcastically. "Awesome."

"So not the drama, Ron. I trust you, Wade." Kim nodded.

"You should just have to activate the Pandimensional Vortex Inducer at the source of the magic. In the pond where Gill found his mukka that turned him back into a mutant."

"And turned me into a beaver!" Ron cried.

Eda let out a snort of a laugh. "You kids and your adventures!"

"Okay, Ron. Lead the way." Kim said, shutting off her Kimmunicator.

"Rufus, tracker mode!" Ron ordered, and the tiny pink naked molerat scurried out of his pocket and to his wrist, pointing the boy's hand in the direction of the grotto. They passed through the various cabins in disrepair and into the surrounding forest that became more and more haunting as they travelled until finally coming across the horrid, moss covered entrance to the cave.

Glowing water of a teal color trickled out, cutting a groove in the stone that led toward the lake. Brushing the moss aside, Kim shined a light from her Kimmunicator inside to see the winding path that descended further into the Earth. There was a low howl on the breeze that swept passed them that sent a foreboding chill through her spine, but Kim continued forward.

Knocking knees and chattering teeth were echoing through the chamber from Ron. "Maybe we should think about this, Kim. I mean, do we really want to risk turning the mid west into a giant…" he swallowed, "Corpse?"

Eda pushed passed them both, her breathing growing labored and a sheen of sweat appearing on her alabaster skin. "We need to get this done. Now!" She began fiddling with the metal cylinder she was holding, trying to activate it.

"Wait!" Kim called. "We need to do this right, or…"

Eda turned to Kim, desperate. "We need to do this now!" she replied in what sounded like two different voices. One side of her face had begun growing pale red feathers, and yellowed fangs were stretching her lips into a horrifying maw. While one eye remained her unusual golden iris, the other was now an inky black. One arm was beginning to grow feathers as well, merging with her brown blazer, and she was gripping the cylinder tightly enough that the long fingernails that had hardened into claws were beginning to carve lines in the metal.

"Ms. Clawthorne?! What's going on?" Kim shouted, backing away against the wall to keep herself out of the woman's reach. "Ron, go find the pool!"

He whimpered for a moment before steeling himself. "Got it, KP!" he replied, diving passed Eda and running further into the cave.

"I need… my… elixir…" Eda struggled to force out before the feathers rippled across her back and she fell to her hands and knees. Wings grew out from under her shoulder-blades and the rest of her suit merged with her body, giving the growing feathers a brown coloring as she grew to fill the natural tunnel and letting out a terrifying screech. She focused on the nearest moving target; Ron, and gave chase.

"Waaahhh-ah-ha!" he cried out as Ms. Clawthorne's mutated form cast a moving shadow on the walls of the grotto from Kim's wrist light. "Why am I still the distraction?!"

Kim scooped up the cylinder dropped by Ms. Clawthorne and began following. The creature was unbelievably fast, slowed only by the confines of the cave, and Kim had to dodge falling debris as it forced its way through. "Ron! Make sure this gets into the pond!" she called, activating the Pandimensional Vortex Inducer and launching it down the tunnel in a perfect spiral that found its way over the creature's shoulder.

Ron looked back, continuing to wail at the pursuing beast. With a practiced running back catch, the cylinder practically fell into his arms and he rounded the corner to see the glowing pool of coagulated ooze. Despite his best efforts to remain ahead of the creature, it swiped at him with its talons, knocking him forward and sending the cylinder rolling into the pool.

The Owl Beast reared up, raising a claw to finish Ron off when its wrist became entangled in the high tensile cable from Kim's Kimmunicator, and it found itself knocked forward from a double legged kick to the back. "C'mon, Ms. Clawthorne! Snap out of it!" Kim shouted, gripping the feathers of Eda's plumage in her hands in order to direct her toward the pool.

"Nothing's happening, Kim!" Ron shouted, crawling on his hands and knees to the edge of the grotto. Suddenly, the sludge began to roil and bubble and a golden light shot out and into the ceiling, sending fissures through the stonework, causing it to begin to crumble. "Nevermind!"

Eda recoiled from the burst of light, shrieking in surprise and pain before stumbling backward and banging her head on the collapsing ceiling. Kim pulled on her feathers to steer her forward again despite her protest.

The pool of teal mutating sludge flashed again, turning black with an oily starfield pattern before flashing again to show an orange tinted sky. "Kim?! Something real funky is going on here!"

Kim looked back to see that the entrance to the grotto had already collapsed and was coming down around them now. She performed a backflip off of Ms. Clawthorne's back, pushing her forward and head-first into the pool. Springing off the wall, Kim leapt forward again, grabbing Ron by the belt on her way by and into the pool herself.