As he neared the light source, Sportacus began to get the feeling that he should turn around and go to the other way. Something was giving off very negative emotions.

After a few more steps, the light source came into view. It was a full length mirror.

Sportacus laughed.

"What a strange place for a mirror." he thought as he approached it.

Sportacus nodded in approval as he stood before it. This was the first time he had seen himself since he had arrived in the future.

"The mayor was right, I haven't aged a day!" he said, flexing his muscles.

When he had finished, he turned around to go in the other direction, but felt a surge of anger, sadness, and pain as soon as he looked away from the mirror.

Sportacus quickly turned back to face the mirror, but his reflection was gone.

"Where did it go?" he wondered, starting to get quite concerned.

Suddenly, another reflection began to form.

Sportacus looked intently into the mirror, and when the image became clear, he couldn't believe his eyes.

It was him, but different. Instead of his blue and white clothing, this image wore red and black. His mustache was jagged, and his blue eyes were deep red, almost as though they were on fire.

Sportacus knew that this could only turn out badly, so he began to back away. The mirror image however, stayed exactly where it was.

"Where do you think you're going?" it asked him.

"I think I took a wrong turn, sorry about that." Sportacus quickly told it.

"No no, I think you're exactly where you should be." it grinned as it stepped out of the mirror, cracking it's knuckles.

"What are you, some kind of copy of me?" Sportacus asked, still backing up.

"Something like that." it laughed, and started walking towards him. "I'm a completely opposite version of you, and since you exist to help people, I only exist to destroy them!"

The evil double jumped forward, sailed through the air, and crashed right into Sportacus, knocking him into a solid brick wall.

Sportacus pulled himself from the ground, arching his back in pain.

His evil double again jumped towards him, but Sportacus flipped to the side, avoiding it and landing into the water below.

"This is too easy!" the double exclaimed, jumping in after him.

Sportacus was still under the raging water, and through the murky liquid, could see his double coming after him.

"This is crazy!" Sportacus thought. "I can't fight myself."

The evil Sportacus swam at him relentlessly, fighting the pull of the rapids.

"I've got to get some air!" thought Sportacus, and began to swim upwards.

Unfortunately the double grabbed his leg, preventing him from doing so.

Sportacus kicked at it's hand, but the density of the water made it ineffective.

"Must.. get out of here.. or I'll drown." he told himself, and reached for the crystal on his chest.

With the push of a button, the crystal ejected and began to shake in the water. In an instant it blew apart, emitting an incredible blinding flash of light that lit up the entire tunnel.

The evil double let go of Sportacus and covered his eyes in pain, allowing Sportacus to swim to the surface and get back onto land.

He knelt down on the concrete ground, and gasped at the air trying to get his breath back.

Within seconds the evil double shot ten feet out of the water, and landed right beside Sportacus. Sportacus winced in pain as he was kicked in the side.

"That wasn't very nice of you!" the evil Sportacus growled angrily.

Sportacus started to stand up but his double grabbed hold of him and threw him back into the water.

"He's got to be twice as strong as me, I can't keep up." Sportacus said to himself, as he landed in the water once more.

The evil Sportacus dove in, and grabbed hold of Sportacus, pushing him down to the very bottom.

Sportacus struggled to get free, but this version of him was too strong. All of a sudden a strong force began to pull them both backwards. Both Sportacuses turned around and saw that an opening had appeared in the wall, draining the water out.

"I don't know where that goes to, but I don't plan on finding out!" Sportacus said as they were pulled closer and closer towards it.

The evil Sportacus was pulled off of Sportacus and they were both thrown around mercilessly as the water started to drain faster.

Sportacus could barely see where he was, but caught sight of an indent in the wall, and quickly grabbed the edge of of it. Unfortunately the evil Sportacus had grabbed onto his leg, and wasn't letting go. It clenched it's teeth in determination, and Sportacus could make out what looked like fangs.

This thing was definitely nothing like him, and he had to make sure it never got near any of his friends. With a couple of kicks, he loosened it's grip on his leg, and watched as it disappeared into the dark opening.

Sportacus continued to hold on for what felt like an eternity, until the water had finally drained away.

"I'm glad that's over." Sportacus gasped as he climbed out. "Now to find Stephanie and Ziggy."

- - - - - - - - -

Up above, Stephanie was still making her way up the ladder at a fast, steady pace.

Looking ahead, she couldn't make out a point where the ladder stopped. It seemed to go on forever.

"That's strange." she thought. "I wonder if this goes all the way to the top."

She climbed for a few more minutes, but stopped when she suddenly got a strange feeling.

"Something isn't right here." whispered Stephanie as she looked around.

She could barely make out the sound of electricity buzzing below her, and it seemed to be getting louder.

Stephanie looked down, and squinted her eyes, trying to see if there was anything there.

Suddenly the ladder shaft lit up bright red, as a laser grid appeared below her.

"Uh oh Stephanie, this is not good!" she told herself.

There was no going back now. The laser grid took up the entire width of the shaft, and it was moving upwards. She turned and began to climb for her life.

"Okay, I can do this! Just don't look down!"

- - - - - - - - -

At the same time across the hall, Ziggy was enjoying a pleasant elevator ride upwards.

"I wonder how Stephanie's doing." he managed to mumble through a mouth full of candy.

"This isn't so bad, I'm probably close to the top by now!"

As soon as he spoke, the elevator came to a screeching halt, knocking him over as it stopped.

Ziggy struggled to stand up, and picked up the candy he had dropped.

"Ouch." he muttered, rubbing his back. "They need to get this thing fixed." he said, as he walked toward the elevator door.

It flung open and Ziggy couldn't believe what he saw standing in the room before him. There stood the largest, most menacing looking robotic creature he had ever seen.

"D-d-dinosaur!" was all he could bring himself to say, as his heart raced with fear.

He struggled to find the switch to shut the door, but was too scared to locate the right button. The creature began walking towards him, shaking the ground with every step. Ziggy panicked, and pressed every button he could.

Just as it was about to reach the elevator, Ziggy hit the right button and finally got the door shut.

"Whew!" Ziggy sighed in relief, and slid slowly to the floor.

"If there's one thing that scares me even more than dinosaurs, its robot dinosaurs!" Ziggy yelled, his heart still racing.

Suddenly, there was a loud metal crash against the elevator door, knocking Ziggy forward.

"It's trying to get in!" Ziggy screamed, and scrambled to the far back wall of the elevator.

The crashing continued, as the robot dinosaur rammed its head into the door, making huge dents protruding on Ziggy's side.

"Don't eat me! I'm sorry, I won't eat another candy again! Please!" Ziggy begged.

The door finally burst open after the last attack, and the dinosaur peered inside. Ziggy could see that it was almost like a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton made of metal. It had the longest, sharpest teeth he had ever seen, and bright yellow eyes.

Ziggy swallowed hard, pulled together all of the courage he could, and ran out of the door, under it's legs.

"I can't stay in there, I've got to find a better place to hide!" Ziggy told himself as he ran across the large empty room followed closely by the dinosaur.

Suddenly a voice sounded over the speakers.

"Hahah!" laughed Robbie. "It looks like you've found my newest pet. I don't think you've been introduced. Ziggy, this is Bessie-o-saurus. Bessie, this is Ziggy, and he's very scared of dinosaurs." Robbie teased.

"Bessie?" Ziggy asked, looking back at the dinosaur.

He couldn't believe his eyes. There was Bessie Busybody, sitting in the head of the dinosaur robot, controlling it.

"Mrs. Busybody! Why are you trying to eat me?" Ziggy yelled to her.

"She can't hear you." Robbie told him. "She's under MY control. Unlike some of you pests, there are people who do the bidding of King Robbie."

Ziggy suddenly noticed a small crevice in the wall, and headed towards it.

"There's no escape, you're finished!" Robbie taunted over the speaker.

Ziggy reached the wall and tried to get into the crevice, but his mass was getting in the way.

"Oh no! I knew I ate too much candy!" he moaned, as he struggled to fit.

The Bessiosaur made a menacing roar, and prepared to take a lunge for Ziggy.

He took a deep breath and sucked in his stomach as much as he could, just allowing him enough room to squeeze in. The Bessiosaur came down, just missing Ziggy, and hitting it's face on the wall.

"Lucky..." Robbie muttered.

- - - - - - - - -

Meanwhile, Stephanie was quickly losing ground to the laser field below her.

"This has got to be the longest ladder I've ever seen!" she groaned, climbing up a few more rungs.

"I'm not going to make it to the top, and this laser is coming up to fast... I've got to do something now!" she decided.

Stephanie looked around frantically for some means of escape, but couldn't see a thing. However, she felt a gust of air hit her face. She stopped, and looked for where it was coming from. There was a vent of some type, and she could see small holes for air to get through.

"This is it, my only chance to get out." Stephanie said, bringing her leg back and thrusting her foot at the vent.

It dented slightly, but not as much as she had hoped.

"Come on Stephanie!" she urged herself, as she looked down at the laser that was getting too close for comfort.

She kicked it again, making little progress.

Stephanie began to feel extremely hot, due to the advancing laser, and knew she had very little time left.

Suddenly she lost it under the pressure, and began kicking the vent frantically.

"Come on... you.. stupid.. vent! OPEN!" she growled through clenched teeth.

She wound up for one last thrust as the laser was about to hit her. She smashed the vent open, and leaped inside, as the laser grid passed, just missing her by mere centimeters.

Stephanie sat there breathing rapidly, her heart racing.

She cracked a smile of relief, and wiped the drops of sweat off of her forehead.

"There's no way I'm going back in there again! I'll just have to take my chances with these ventilation shafts." she decided, as she began to crawl through them.

- - - - - - - - -

Not too far away, Ziggy was still hiding out of reach of the Bessiosaur.

"Mrs. Busybody, snap out of it!" Ziggy urged her.

Bessie just stared into space, and activated the controls to try and reach Ziggy again.

"You can't hide forever." Robbie told him. "You'll have to come out to eat."

"Eat?" Ziggy repeated, licking his lips. "I am pretty hungry-."

"Why don't you just come on out of there?" Robbie suggested. "We can have a nice meal and discuss your new job."

"What are you talking about?" Ziggy asked.

"Well you see, my last two employees decided to run off on me, so I'm a little short-staffed."

"I'm not working for you Robbie! We're going to stop you!" Ziggy warned him.

"We? Last I saw, Sporta-wuss vanished into the floor, and the pink girl was about to get zapped by my trusty laser trap. You're all alone now." Robbie informed him.

"Stephanie?" Ziggy said, deeply concerned.

"Yea that's right. It's too bad really, she was quite the looker." Robbie snickered.

Ziggy felt his eyes begin to fill with water, and his lips started to tremble.

Robbie just laughed.

Ziggy sat there stuffed between the walls, tears streaming down his face. For the first time, all of the hope he had was gone.

However, in between Robbie's laughing and the roaring of Bessiosaur, Ziggy suddenly heard a sound. He peered out of the crevice he was in and saw a floor grating begin to move. As soon as he saw the bright pink hair, his spirits lifted. Stephanie wasn't zapped by a laser, she was alive! He should have known better than to believe Robbie.

Although before Ziggy could realize, the Bessiosaur had noticed Stephanie as well, and was on it's way over to her.

Stephanie had stood up and dusted herself off, when she noticed a large shadow looming over her. She slowly lifted her head up and looked into the air, noticing Bessie.

"Stephanie, look out!" she heard Ziggy yell from somewhere in the room, but it was too late. The Bessiosaur grabbed Stephanie's shirt with its teeth and lifted her into the air.

"No!" Ziggy screamed as he came out from his hiding space, and ran towards them, instantly forgetting his fear. "Put her down!"

The Bessiosaur swung it's strong metal tail, knocking Ziggy away. He slid across the floor and was stopped by the wall.

"Well it looks like you made it out of my trap." grumbled Robbie in disappointment. "What a waste, since you just walked right into another one! Hahaha!"

Stephanie closed her eyes as the Bessiosaur flung its head to the side, letting go of her shirt. She sailed across the room, and knew she was going to hit the floor hard... but it didn't happen. She hit something much softer, and was confused until she opened her eyes.

"Sportacus!" she screamed in delight, after realizing who had just caught her.

He smiled, and put her down.

"Oh great." Robbie moaned over the speaker.

"Go help Ziggy. I'll stop Bessie." Sportacus told Stephanie.

She nodded and rushed over to him.

Sportacus ran around the other side of the Bessiosaur, distracting it from Stephanie and Ziggy.

It roared in anger, and headed after him, lunging at him with it's mouth, but he leapt out of the way, causing it to crash into the wall.

The Bessiosaur pulled itself back up, and took a swing at Sportacus with it's tail. It missed again as Sportacus backflipped out of the way.

It stomped over to him furious with rage, but Sportacus didn't run this time. He stood his ground with his hands on his hips.

With the loudest roar yet, Bessiosaur lunged at Sportacus with all of it's might.

Sportacus bounded into the air, and seemed to defy all laws of gravity as he landed right on it's head.

It tried to shake him free, but he had gotten a firm enough grip to avoid being thrown off.

He pulled himself across its giant metal head to where Bessie was sitting.

"Bessie, stop this robot!" Sportacus yelled to her through the glass.

She didn't respond, and Sportacus realized that she must have been hypnotized. She shook its' head again, as Sportacus held on for his life. He made a fist, and with all of his might, punched the glass that she was encased in. It shattered into a million pieces, and he pulled himself inside.

"Bessie, snap out of it!" Sportacus ordered, shaking her frantically. Still nothing.

"Sportacus! Get out of my robot!" Robbie demanded.

Sportacus ignored him, and kicked the cover off of the control panels that Bessie was using. Without hesitating he reached in and grabbed a handful of wire, yanking them with all of his might.

The wires tore apart, sending electricity everywhere, as the robot dinosaur crashed to the ground.

Stephanie and Ziggy ran over to the smoking heap of metal.

"Sportacus! Are you alright?" Stephanie yelled to him.

There was no answer.

"Mrs. Busybody?" Ziggy asked, as they began to rummage through the metal.

Stephanie pulled a metal arm out of the way, and spotted a hint of blue.

"Ziggy, come here, help me! Hurry!" Stephanie begged him.

They reached in and grabbed hold of him, pulling with all of their might. When they had him clear of the wreckage, Stephanie noticed that he didn't seem to be breathing.

"Well well, looks like Sporta-moron took care of himself for me!" laughed Robbie. "What a shame. If you still want to come after me, I'll be waiting on top floor." he informed them, and turned off the speaker.

"Sportacus, no!" Stephanie cried.

She held his head up on her lap and hugged him. "Sportacus please be alive." she begged, and softly kissed him on the lips.

The warmth of her lips against his, caused Sportacus to suddenly start breathing again.

"Stephanie look, you did it! He's alive!" Ziggy said, pointing excitedly to him.

Sportacus slowly sat up and shook his head.

"What happened?" he asked in a daze.

"You stopped the robot, but you must have gotten electrocuted!" Ziggy told him.

"Bessie! Is she alright?" Sportacus asked, suddenly remembering what had happened.

"I'm fine, thank you very much." an irritated voice stated from under the wreckage.

"Oops!" said Stephanie, realizing she had forgotten about her.

Ziggy ran over and helped Mrs. Busybody climb out of the pile.

"I'm just a little dizzy." Bessie told them. "What am I doing here?"

"Robbie had you controlling his robot dinosaur!" Ziggy explained.

"I certainly don't remember agreeing to that!" Bessie declared angrily. "In fact, I don't remember a whole lot of anything come to think of it."

"Then you're lucky." Ziggy sighed. "I wish I didn't have any memory of all of this."

Stephanie nodded in agreement, and then turned to Sportacus.

"Sportacus, how did you get out of that trap you fell into?" she asked him, still holding him in her lap.

"Let's just say with a lot of luck." Sportacus smiled.

"Aw Sportacus, you're not even going to tell us?" Ziggy moaned. "I bet it's really exciting and full of adventure!"

"I'll tell you all about it later, but there's something much more important to do right now." Sportacus said, as he looked towards the stairway across the room.

"Is Robbie up those stairs?" Stephanie asked uneasily.

Sportacus nodded as he pulled himself to his feet.

"Ziggy, Stephanie, get Bessie out of here. I'm going to go deal with him right now." Sportacus instructed, and headed towards the stairs.

"No way, I'm coming with you!" stated Stephanie, as she stood up.

"I don't want you getting hurt Stephanie." indicated Sportacus. "Please, just stay here."

Stephanie frowned as he headed up the stairs without her.

"What are you doing dear? Bessie asked her. "Go with him!"

"But he said-." countered Stephanie.

"Who cares what he said. You want to be with him, so go be with him!" Bessie told her sternly.

"Yeah, go on Stephanie!" Ziggy encouraged.

"You're right! Thanks guys." Stephanie said as she ran up the stairs after him.

"Sportacus, wait!" she yelled as she neared him.

"Stephanie what are you doing?" Sportacus asked her, crossing his arms in disapproval.

"I know you don't want me to get hurt, but I can't let you go alone. I don't care if it's dangerous, I want to be with you. I love you." she cried, tears streaming down her face.

Sportacus smiled. "I guess I can't argue with that." he admitted, and wiped her tears away with his thumb. "Alright, let's go."

"Wait" Stephanie said, reaching for his arm. "Will you tell me now? Did you mean it when you said you loved me?"

"I do love you Stephanie.." he began to say.

"Oh Sportacus!" she happily shouted, not letting him finish his sentence.

She hugged him tightly and then the two of them walked up the remaining stairs, arriving at a large doorway.

"Are you ready?" Sportacus asked, his hand reaching for the large doors.

Stephanie nodded and they both pushed the door open.