Travis was sitting on a stool by the window looking through a powerful telescope, with Goliath standing by his side. At some intervals he started biting into a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, chewing on his bites for nothing more than a few mere seconds. But at one stage... he looked to his left... towards a picture of a happy cat family, with the town of Artesia in New Mexico in the background. He started to shred a few tears down his face slowly. Then, the sound of three gentle knocks came to his ears.
"Come in", the cat frowned.
The door opened, and Brio came in with a suspicious looking face.
"I have a question to ask you", he started speaking.
"Sure", he nodded. "Fire away."
"You know your last name's "Tortoiseshell", right?" Brio asked while reflecting upon the memory of Chad's introductions upon the time they met.
"Right", the cat nodded.
"I was one of those people who knew your father. What happened to him after his defeat?"
He gave out a few tears, heartbroken at how someone else previously knew about him. "You don't wanna know."
"Come on - I can take it!" he smiled at him.
"OK", he said while breaking down. "all I can tell you... was that... my parents got divorced... and..." he gave out a quivered sigh, "...my dad left the town... with me and my twin brother..." he continued speaking, struggling to hold back the tears, "...and then..." he frowned, lowering his head. "...you don't wanna know..."
There was silence in the room for a few seconds. Then there was a response.
"I understand", smiled Brio.
Goliath climbed onto the workbench and started stroking Travis on the head with one of his front paws, giving out a few moans.
"Thanks Golly", he said while hugging him. "I'm afraid nothing will make me overcome this problem."
"Don't panic though - a good movie always does it for me. Maybe after this crisis is over, your flatmates could take you out to see a film or something."
"Yeah, go see Tomb Raider!" came Snappy's voice from the hallway.
"What?!?!?" both Brio and Travis exclaimed in unison.
"Er, maybe I'm thinking a bit TOO far ahead", the alligator said with a deeper tone.
"I..." He turned towards Travis. "I guess it could work. Thanks."
Then they remained silent again... until some voices were heard in the distance. Immediately Travis looked through the telescope... and gasped. Right there were Tiko and his group, all looking at one another in a triangle formation.
"If we can't capture this town in THIS dimension, how about we do it in another!" he bossed towards the others.
"Good idea", smiled Deksta.
"But how are we supposed to travel by different dimensions?" Soup asked.
"Remember when we kidnapped Neo earlier this morning?" she recalled.
"Right..."
"Well I found a gadget hidden within the building's underground lab!" she said while revealing a remote-like device. "We just turn the dial... and there we go!"
"Prove it!" Tiko exclaimed to her.
"OK!" she said while turning the knob on the device.
And through their eyes, they saw them leave in a puff of smoke. That left Travis to scream at the sight of them.
"I FOUND THE OTHERS!!!" he said while running out of the room, almost running into Brio and Goliath as he did so.
"Whoa!" Brio exclaimed.

Several minutes later, the group minus Neo and Bubble were see around in a circle formed inside the main seating area, listening to Travis's comment.
"And now they've taken it into another dimension!" he screamed.
"Could you remember which way she pulled it?"
"I think it was a 90-degrees turn clockwise", he sighed.
"You seemed pretty good for a smart kid like yourself!" Chad grinned. "Luckily enough, we have another dimension travelling machine there."
There were some cheers among the people.
"Unfortunately it's still in progress right now, so who knows how it's gonna work out in the end", he frowned.
"Don't panic - I see a lot of good in it", nodded Corona.
"And I have even worse news", sighed Chad.
"What now?" Kiwi asked him.
He then pointed towards his right leg. "Ever wondered why I was limping on the way back? I think I twisted an ankle back at the warehouse. I'm afraid that I can't come with you."
"Same here - I'll try and heal it for you!" Gadget smiled with a reassuring expression.
"Ditto!" Misty shouted back. "If we let you go now then chances are that you'd die in battle!"
"Thanks", he smiled before turning to the others. "Good luck!"
The others quickly walked down towards the depths of the lab, where their method of transportation awaits. The dimension they're about to travel in is yet to be predictable, but who knows what it could be like! A new world is a cometh!

The Other Dimension seemed dark to start with, what with only the stars in the sky making any light whatsoever. Despite this, the steel floor showed some great reflections of these bright lumps of rock. But within the mostly darkness, a sinister laugh was heard. Further on ahead came a large shadow, looking on at something ahead of him.
"YES!!! Thank you Chad for giving me an easy getaway!"
He soon stepped out of the darkness, letting his armor glimmer with the metal floor, and revealed himself... as Sgt. Soup! The others soon came out from behind him, being Tiko and Deksta.
"Hey, I was responsible for the stealing work, not Chad!" she growled to him.
"I know, but knowing his age he would release his grip upon the device go too easily!" Tiko shrugged in return.
Soup looked down at the device, which was still within Deksta's grasp. "You got any ideas for what to do next?"
Deksta then started speaking in a higher-pitched English accent. "It's funny you should say that sir, for I have a cunning plan." She winked before speaking properly. "From here we can transport the rest of the city into this dimension and convince them all to join our side."
"This may seem a bit tough", started Tiko, "but it's worth a try."

In the darkened area of the underground laboratory, white energy beams could be seen glowing down everywhere, and the sound of clanging with metal can be heard in the corner.
At this stage we see Bubble putting the finishing touches to a golden metal box of some sort, with a handheld polishing machine in operation. As soon as he turned it off he picked up an old scrapbook from the floor, looked inside it, and then at his creation. Having seen the result, he gave out a proud smile. But the silence was interrupted by a wolf whistle in another area. Immediately he turned in that direction... and saw Neo near the front door, admiring it from a distance. With the raise of an eyebrow and a shine from his teeth, Bubble gave a wink back.
"That's a nice machine you've got there!" complimented Neo.
"Thankie", smiled the starfish.
Neo then brought his eyes down onto the scrapbook, seeing the blueprints for what seemed like a dimension-travelling machine. "You don't mind if I... take a peek inside?"
"Here you go!" Bubble responded with picking it up and throwing it in his direction.
He caught it quickly, but when he opened it in the middle... he saw that the writing looked like spider tracks. It was totally unreadable...
"I have another question to ask", Neo frowned. "How can you understand what to do when you can't read the awkward handwriting?"
"Ah, I've gained experience by handling quite a lot of Airfix models in my time", Bubble said in return. "They don't call me the Technical Starfish for nothin'!"

Meanwhile, back at the Other Dimension, Tiko and the others were looking on as Deksta was about to teleport the whole of the town from one dimension to another.
"Are you sure this is gonna work?" Tiko asked her.
"Positive. I may have botched some missions a few times, but this baby's not gonna fail me." She then turned the dial. "Come on Miami - come to me!"
But within the next few seconds all sorts of things came in, including flying pigs, white elephants and the Titanic!!!
"This wasn't quite what I had in mind", she panicked.
She turned the dial again and sent them all back. As that happened a glowing vortex could be seen in the distance.
"Did you send Hurricane Kevin in here?" Tiko asked.
The others shrugged.

Sooner enough, the vortex stopped and this caused a golden metallic box to come in. As soon as it stopped the door opened... and the good alliance came out.
"So, this must be the Other Dimension, huh?" Snappy asked.
"I hope this is the one that Tiko and that were in", nodded Bubble. "If not, we're mincemeat."
"Speaking of which..." Neo panicked, "YOUR ENGINE'S ON FIRE!!!!"
Bubble then turned back towards the machine. "Wha...?"
Quickly he dashed back and opened up the boot, and out came a whole batch of smoke! Soon it cleared up and he looked into the problem.
"I don't understand", he frowned. "Somehow the fuel cells have gone dry."
"In other words?" Corona asked.
"We've taken too little diesel with us!!!"
"ACK!" squealed Kiwi.
Brio then looked out into the distance with a nervous expression. "What's worse, we've got company... and they're coming right towards us!!!"
Everyone else stood near him, and looked on... at a metallic tarantula-like machine coming towards them. They took a step back... and looked on at this peril. Time was closing in too soon, as it came walking slowly. As it stepped further and further into the light... we saw it more of a robot. Finally... it stopped about 10 metres in front of our heroes. A hatch soon opened, and out came Deksta! Tiko and Sgt. Soup soon followed her shortly after, and both gave out evil smirks directly at them.
"They're up to something", Kiwi pondered. "I just KNEW that they're up to something."
"They always are!" Corona growled.
"Well well well, if it isn't the big-headed brat and his clown circus", Deksta said while leering over at her youngest brother.
"Big-headed?!?!?" Neo responded with a shout, "I'll show you who's the big headed one..."
"Yeah, it's Albert Einstein!" Snappy shouted happily, with everyone else leering in his direction.
"I never realized that you would come and cause the roadblock on our highway to our dream", Deksta sighed while folding her arms.
Bubble gave out an angry sigh. "Oh for Pete's sake, it's more of a nightmare to us."
"But from this distance, I've seen you guys suffer", she sneered back.
"Hoo boy", Corona blinked. "She's gonna be nice for a change."
"I hope not - she'll betray us too easily", Brio frowned.
"Which is why..." Deksta then raised her voice. "I'm pitting you in an ultimate challenge!"
Neo stepped forward with a smirk. "OK, what is it?"
"You guys and us guys... are gonna be in a battle together."
"Hey look - we have a party three times bigger than yours!!!" Snappy cracked up. "Piece - of - cake!" he said with his tongue sticking out.
"Having seen that you're unarmed", Deksta started, "things are gonna go... MY WAY!!!"
She got out a remote that was different to the dimension-travelling device and pushed a few buttons. The "tarantula" moved its legs to the left, then to the right, and then its front legs moved up into the sky. Most of the group looked on at its actions with widened eyes.
"Is that it?" Neo frowned.
Sweat drops appeared on everyone else's faces as they fell over.
"What, that doesn't impress you, eh?" scowled Deksta. "Well this thing has a lot more than meets the eye", she continued with a wink. "We will all fight to the finish. If you win, you can do whatever you want with us, depending on the outcome."
After hearing that, Snappy started whispering in Corona's ear, who passed it on to the others carefully. Once it got to Neo, he raised both eyebrows twice and made an agreeable smile.
"And if we lose?"
"To put things simply, you won't be seeing the light of day for a long time, as well as being without a funeral", she smirked back.
Tiko nodded from the sidelines. "Yeah, that's using the old doodle."
"Perfect!" brawled Soup. "Mind you, it doesn't matter if she loses or not - we have more danger than you can think of."
Deksta picked up her dimension-travelling device and fired it onto Tiko and Sgt. Soup... and they were transported out of the area! That left her to switch devices to the spider-mech's remote.
"Come on - bring it to me!"
She grabbed onto a pulley on the remote... and that told it to fire an energy beam that was a metre in diameter!
"LOOK OUT!!" Brio exclaimed.
The beam was shot... and they were all sent on the run! Neo, Brio, Boron and Goliath went in one direction, while the others took another.
"Remember the plan", Neo started shouting. "Snappy and Kiwi, go for Deksta! Bubble, Corona and Travis, you guys try and keep the metal beast busy! We'll go for the cockpit!"
"YES SIR!!!" they saluted over at him.
The energy beam continued shooting rapidly, as Neo and his crew were out of its sight, alongside Snappy and Kiwi. This left the others suffering the effects of a chase by the largest energy beam they could find! Eventually... the beam struck Corona, sending her down to the floor unconscious.
"CORONA!!!!" Bubble exclaimed towards her.
"Hang on!" shouted Travis with a scream.
Round the back of the machine, Neo and his crew were struggling to break into the engine area, due to the wolverines unable to break the tough armour, Bubble and Travis were also suffering in getting Corona back... but Snappy and Kiwi had something geared up in mind on the way to the top of the machine. Both hiding in an unused gun arm, they waited in ambush for their attack.
"So you're sure that the only way to stop the gunfire is to steal that remote thing from Deksta?" Kiwi asked.
Snappy gave out a nod. "Uh-huh, and when we get it, we'll be able to destroy it, and we'll get the invention she stole from us."
"Like you said before, this is gonna be a piece of cake", she smiled while seeing Snappy stick his tongue out with cheekiness. "Well then, it's time for action!"
"Kiwi, wait!"
It was already too late - Kiwi made a high fly towards Deksta... and landed carefully on top of her head!
She giggled with a sinister tone, oblivious to Kiwi's actions. "Soon you will somehow face the dangers of..."
Kiwi then hung upside down from the top of her head, bringing her eyes towards Deksta. "PEEKABOO!"
Deksta screamed at her, before she brought out her buzzer again. "Time to make you a lump of Miami - as proposed to Southern - Fried Chicken!"
"But I'm a parrot!"
Deksta didn't take notice. She immediately struck her buzzer down towards her hair...
"Power surge at 10 o' clock!" Kiwi exclaimed as she flew off her head.
The electrodes touched her hair... and within the next few seconds we saw her getting fried to a crisp, with her skeleton showing through the light! A bad aroma also filled the area, with Bubble and Travis holding their noses as they ran... while the others were seen wearing gas masks, communicating with muffled voices.
"Are you sure that these would come in handy?" Neo said with a painful expression. "They feel a bit cramp..."
"Don't blame me", shrugged Brio. "It's the only thing that Golly here has, right?"
Goliath responded with a bark through his own mask. While that happened, Deksta started to lose control of herself, causing the beam from the spider machine to move out of the way!
"We're free!!" Travis exclaimed happily.
Bubble brought his attention back onto Corona. "Quick - we gotta take her back inside!"
And finally they grabbed onto her arms as firm as they could and dragged her into the golden box. Finally, the thunderbolt stopped. That left Deksta's face to show her hair sticking up, smoke covering her face, and her walking and speech to act dizzy.
"Now to... destroy my colleagues and help the town...!" she said faintly before falling inside the machine.
That caused the tarantula to glow red, and as soon as Travis and Bubble stepped out of the machine, they both gasped with shock.
"QUICK, BACK THERE!!" Bubble shouted while pointing at the machine.
While that happened, Boron screamed while leading his side of the team towards the golden box. By then, steam was now hissing out of the machine, and some of the nuts and bolts were coming out. As the machine started to swell, Snappy started panicking and jumped down from his spot, while Boron and Goliath came out from round the back, grabbing hold of Neo and Brio as they ran on all fours - threes rather. Kiwi squawked madly as a rush of steam went in her face, and she too started making her journey back.
And then, the machine finally exploded into millions of pieces... and luckily enough, they managed to escape it alive. Finally, when it faded out, they all looked into each other's eyes and headed back to the wrecks. They started digging in for Deksta's body... but after clearing the heart of the wrecks, nothing was found.
"Strange", Neo sighed. "I thought she didn't stand a chance of escaping this event alive."
"Yeah, wonder where she went", Brio shrugged.
"GUYS!!" Travis shouted. "Come over here - I've found something!"
Everyone quickly dashed over to see Travis in possession... of a broken dimension-travelling device, and Deksta's buzzer.
"I hate to say this, but I have a bad feeling that she has escaped this event... alive."
"Yeah, but where to?" Bubble frowned.
"I hate to say this", sighed Neo, "but this is a question that will remain unanswered for a long time."

A white warp appeared in the middle of a cute looking road, with lollipop trees and unrealistic scenery. Finally the warp faded out, and Deksta was seen looking fried.
"Thank goodness I'm outta that peril but..." she sighed, before looking around her. "Where am I?"
"CAN WE FIX IT?" shouted a distant male voice.
"YES WE CAN!!" exclaimed several others.
Along the horizon, she saw a man in shadow on top of a scoop truck, with four other construction vehicles coming down the road with it. As soon as they came into the light... they came into view as Bob The Builder and his crew.
Deksta gave out a panicked squeal, before she started running down the path, away from the talking vehicles. "Bloomin' heck - not here!!!"

Meanwhile, back at the Other Dimension, the group managed to make their walk away from the ruins of the spider mech, looking on at their dimension-traveling machine.
"Well no matter what, the main thing now is to try and find a way back", sighed Snappy.
"Unfortunately we have two problems people", blinked Kiwi. "Problem A - the transportation box ran out of fuel on arrival. Problem 2 - the dimension- traveling remote is busted."
Everyone sighed and looked down as they now thought that a way out will never be possible.
But as Bubble looked down... he then looked up and smiled! Quickly he dashed over to Corona's body, stole her guitar and took her flamethrower out. But he wasn't the only one aware of this.
"Bubble, what are you doing?" Neo asked him.
"Just hang on!"
He opened a fuel hatch, emptied most of the contents in there... and used the rest to start the machine!
"YES!!" the starfish shouted before turning to the others. "Quick guys - inside!"
Within a split moment, everyone came inside, with the wolverines carrying Corona's body in there, and placed her on a small (but wide enough) shelf.
"Well done, Starfish!!!" Brio cheered on for him.
"You did it!!!" Neo chuckled. "Next stop - Miami!"
"Wait a minute - we just lit a big pile of flamethrower fuel..." Kiwi's face dropped. "What if it'll explode-"
A boom soon occurred in the machine. Quickly the transportation box went up into the sky at light speed, with everyone inside grabbing on for dear life. Finally it broke the sound barrier, caused a sonic boom and started to glow white. Then it faded out.
Back inside, the speed suddenly decreased.
"May I have your attention please", smiled Kiwi. "You can now remove your seatbelts and let go of the handrails. We should arrive back in Miami in the next 10 minutes. Thank you."
Everyone released their grip of whatever they were holding and sighed.
"By the way, do you think that's enough fuel for the return journey?" the parrot asked Bubble.
"Course it is. That's double the amount that I put in, so whatever's left will go back in the flamethrower."
"Problem is, it'll be hard to put out the fire on burning oil", sighed Brio.
"Not necessarily", Neo smiled. "Maybe we should go for a fire extinguisher filled with carbon dioxide. That would restore the rest of the oil back to normal, as well as blocking the fire's oxygen supply."
"Yeah, that seems good!" Snappy widely grinned back. "But... how are we gonna get the oxygen supply back?"
Neo resorted to punching Snappy across the jaw. "Get some sense into yourself - that question you asked was a stupid one. And besides, when the fire goes out, the gas spreads out along the room."
"Oh yeah", the alligator blushed. "How come I didn't think of that? Oh... because I never graduated at elementary school, that's why!"
Everyone else rolled their eyes, and as this happened, Corona started to regain consciousness. As she looked around the room, she saw herself... with a team celebrating victory. Finally she looked up again.
Several seconds passed before she looked to the others again, and they were sharing champagne among themselves - except for Travis, who had a glass of cream soda in his hand.
She finally looked up again, and did a last smile before closing her eyes again. It won't be long before they arrive back in Miami, where Tiko and Sgt. Soup will be in wait. But the question is... how are they going to find them?

-end of part 5-