"Phoebe, wake up," Phoebe heard Cole saying.
Phoebe opened her eyes and looked around. She seemed to be lying on the floor. Everyone else was gathered around her. She sat up.
"Are you okay?" Piper asked. "We just found you unconscious on the floor."
"Yeah, I think I'm all right," said Phoebe. "Are you okay, Piper?"
"I'm fine," said Piper. "Then again, I'm not the one unconscious on the living room floor."
"What the heck am I wearing?" Paige asked looking at the black dress she had on. "The last thing I remember was heading for work. Then suddenly we're finding Phoebe lying on the floor and I'm dressed like Elvira."
"Leo, Cole," said Phoebe. "How do you guys feel?"
"I feel okay," said Cole.
"I feel fine," Leo said. "But something isn't right. I'm not sensing any of my other charges."
"The spell must have worked," said Phoebe.
"What spell?" Piper asked, picking up the ruby slippers. "And what are these doing down here."
"Everyone sit down," said Phoebe. "I need to fill you in on what's been going on."
"Well, it certainly is green," said Paige looking out the front window.
"It's the Emerald City," said Piper. She turned back to Phoebe. "This warlock didn't tell you anything that might suggest how this happened?"
"Nothing," said Phoebe. "Just that I was doing it. I figured it was because I brought the slippers out of the movie with me."
"That would make sense," said Cole. "The slippers are supposed to be pretty powerful magic. By bringing them out of the movie you must have released that magic."
"But why now?" Paige asked. "I wasn't even here when you were sucked into that movie. I wasn't even a witch yet. Why is it doing this now?"
"That's a good question," said Cole. "Whatever was holding the magic in check must have been weakened somehow. That's why it's happening now. But nothing has changed recently."
"Yes it has," said Phoebe. "We all know that a witches spells are negated when she dies. We used a Power of Three spell to get out of the movie. Only Prue was part of that spell. When she died her part of the spell was negated weakening it some."
"I don't understand what that has to do with it," said Leo.
"She's making sense," said Piper. "The spell that brought us out of the move was meant to bring us back home. To the San Francisco we know. So the power of the spell kept the magic of the slippers in check."
"Right," said Phoebe. "With Prue no longer here the magic of the slippers began to bleed through, so to speak. When enough of it seeped out it started changing things. And now the magic has grown to where it's strong than ever, changing everything in this reality to the reality it came from."
"Can it do that?" Paige asked. "Change one reality for another?"
"Yes, it can," said Cole. "This is fantasy magic we're dealing with. Fantasy magic is the most powerful kind of magic there is."
"Well," said Piper, "we have to find a way to stop it and put everything back the way it's supposed to be."
"I figure if we destroy the slippers it should stop the magic and reverse everything that's been changed," said Phoebe. "Only I need your explosive power to do that. We don't have anything else strong enough to destroy a ruby."
"You can't do that," said Cole.
"Why not?" Phoebe asked.
"As powerful as the slippers appear to be," Leo said, "if you destroy them it will release their magic all at one time."
"If it doesn't destroy everything first," continued Cole, "it will permanently change everything almost instantly. There will be no way to every change things back."
"It may all ready be too late," said Leo. "It's overcome the spell the girls used to get out of the move. That means it's all ready overcome the Power of Three. And from what the warlock told Phoebe, it's only going to get stronger."