The girls soon woke up in another realm. Something was very wrong and different. The girls appeared to have noses, ears, and even... Fingers! They were also dressed differently from what they looked like before which was shocking for them all once they saw where they had ended up.

"What happened to you girls?!" Bubbles gasped at her sisters.

"What happened to us?" Buttercup retorted. "Look at yourself, Bubbles!"

"Me...? This is..." Bubbles muttered as she took a look at herself. "What's going on?"

Blossom looked around before she looked at her reflection in a car window which startled her then. "This is something very serious, girls," she then told her sisters as they checked themselves out. "Look around! Not just us, but the whole world around us has changed! Just a blink ago, we were at the Con and now..."

"What are we gonna do now?" Bubbles wondered.

"What we always do," Buttercup suggested as she pounded her fist into her hand. "Find the one who did this and kick the stuff out of their butt!"

"Good plan, Buttercup," Blossom replied. "I just haven't the faintest clue of where to start."

"What about the guy who jumped right at us before 'this' happened?" Buttercup suggested.

"Maybe... He sure knows something..." Blossom said thoughtfully. "But where is he anyway?"

"I think he's there!" Bubbles pointed out a tree that had a paper on it as a possible clue. "Could this be for us?"

"A letter?" Blossom wondered.

"Weird." Buttercup remarked.

The girls then took a look at the letter as it seemed to be for them.

Dear Powerpuff Girls,

I know you have a lot of questions now. I can answer some of them. Come and meet me at my place. Follow the map on the back of the letter.

Love, a friend

"Can we trust this letter?" Buttercup asked.

"You have a better idea?" Blossom deadpanned.

"Let's just get this over with." Buttercup quipped.

"Let's fly!" Blossom then proclaimed.

The girls all looked ready to fly, but they seemed to be stuck on the ground as this was the real world.

"...Is it just me or are we still on the ground?" Bubbles asked her sisters.

"Our powers... They're gone!" Blossom gasped.

"This just keeps getting better and better." Buttercup groused.

"Then, I guess we better walk," Blossom said before checking the map on the back of the letter. "That way!" she then pointed out.

A few minutes later, the girls began to walk which proved to be a lot slower to them than flying, especially in their original forms.

"We must go that way, over the bridge." Blossom then told her sisters as they kept on walking.

The walked along the bridge before they soon seemed to end up in the park. Buttercup soon gave up after a while and stayed frozen in place.

"Aren't you coming, Buttercup?" Bubbles called.

"Hmm... What's the point?" Buttercup scoffed.

"I beg your pardon?" Blossom gave her a look.

"We keep on saving the day, but why can't the day be saved just for once by someone else?" Buttercup complained. "Why do we have to do it every time?"

"Because we know the truth, we know this is not normal," Blossom explained. "We are the heroes we were born to be and evil will always try to defeat good."

"This doesn't seem evil!" Buttercup defended.

"Evil is always easier... Tempting... Promising... Good is hard," Blossom replied. "Good requires loyalty, self-sacrifice, and love," she then smiled as she took Bubbles's hand. "This is what we stand for. Together. What we see here, around us, is not good and we're gonna fix it."

"This is us. This is what we do," Bubbles added as she took Buttercup's hand. "We cannot change that."

"Yeah... I wish I could..." Buttercup softly groaned.

Bubbles and Buttercup soon joined hands as they followed Blossom who had the map to tell them where to go. They made it into the outskirts of town and after about nearly half an hour of walking around, they found someplace. Blossom found the map as this seemed to be the right place, so they came forward to the residence. They soon came inside and looked around before they came in the kitchen as they found a chubby boy with curly black hair, eating a bowl of cereal by himself.

"Hi, Blossom. Hi, Bubbles. Hi, Buttercup," The boy greeted casually as he walked by them before he did a double-take which made him drop the bowl before he rushed back towards the girls. "You're here! You really are here!" he then beamed as he hugged Blossom.

Bad move. Buttercup then grabbed him and forced him to the floor in aggression and protection. "Don't touch my sister!"

"You've misunderstood the situation," The boy grunted from the brute force. "I am a good guy."

"Let him speak, Buttercup." Blossom patiently told her tomboy sister as she sensed trust in this boy.

Buttercup then let go with a low growl under her breath.

"You know what happened to us?" Bubbles asked softly.

"Yeah, the same thing happened to me... Also, I brought you here." The boy replied.

"WHAT?!" The girls yelped from that.

"Yes... But I actually saved you..." The boy tried to explain. "My name is Steven and this is how it all started. Ya know, I'm apart of a superhero team: The Crystal Gems."

The girls just stared blankly from that.

"I guess you haven't heard of them," Steven said bashfully. "Long story short: they are kind of a group of alien, sentient gems. Well... Not like that and not at all, but... Anyway, an evil magician named Hex appeared a while ago and he started to collect them. He captured them and harvested their energy and created this world!" he then tried to explain, but they just stared at him. "But... No one remembers... No one knows... And now you..."

The girls blinked in silence a bit.

"I've lost track of the story." Bubbles spoke up.

"Why should we trust you?" Blossom asked.

"I ain't buyin' it." Buttercup scoffed.

"Well, actually, I'm a Crystal Gem too." Steven said before he lifted up his shirt to show his Rose Quartz gem on his belly.

"Aww... Beautiful~" Bubbles cooed.

"Gross!" Buttercup grimaced.

"Do you know how we can undo this?" Blossom asked Steven.

"Actually, I do have a theory!" Steven smiled wistfully as he took out a drawing board. "Here, I'm gonna need this! It's better if I show it to you!" he then took out some paper and drawings to show to the Powerpuff Girls. "The Gems are connected to each other on a subatomic level, the Gems are from our original realm, like us! We carry the remembrance of our realm. If we can channel this, I know, I could use it to trace the Gems to here! Then I could collect them and use them to go back to our realm where we belong. So, how do you like it?" he then asked them.

"He's gone crazy," Buttercup smirked at her sisters. "Let's leave while we still can."

"Excellent drawings, Steven!" Bubbles applauded cheerfully.

"So far, it's the only explanation we have." Blossom defended to Buttercup.

"I trust him," Bubbles smiled. "He seems honest."

"For you, who doesn't?" Buttercup retorted.

"What do we got to lose?" Blossom shrugged. "Give him a chance."

"All right, but don't blame me when he steals our kidneys." Buttercup rolled her eyes.

"Okay, Steven, we're in!" Blossom then smiled. "How can we help?"

Steven was crossing his fingers, hoping that the girls would help him before he realized that they had accepted. "Really? Okay, but may sound crazy, but... You have to touch me." he then said.

"Keep on dreamin', Curly!" Buttercup glared as she shook her fist.

"No, no, no! My Gem!" Steven told them sheepishly. "Touch my Gem!"

"Ooookay?" Blossom blinked before Steven lifted up his shirt so that she could touch the gem.

Bubbles then came beside Steven and also touched it. Steven then looked over at Buttercup hopefully as it was now her turn.

"Aww, fine!" Buttercup groaned as she soon came over and took her turn.

As the girls each touched Steven's gem, they all got shocked a bit by the energy and magic of the gemstone. There was then suddenly a shot of pink lightning that came from Steven's gem.

Blossom groaned as she woke up on a couch and looked around. "Did it work, Steven?" she then asked softly.

"I can't believe it, it worked..." Steven said in amazement. "After all these years, I can finally go back home!"

"Years?!" Bubbles gasped from that.

"How long have you been here?" Blossom asked out fo shock.

Steven let out a shallow sigh. "Seven years... I've been spending all this time trying to find a way home," he then told the girls, much to their shock. "I came earlier in a different bubble. That was enough for this time distortion."

Blossom grabbed his shoulder with a small smile. "We'll help you," she then told him which made him look so happy. "I promise. Now lead us."

"Uh-oh! Oh, yeah! Right away!" Steven beamed before he pointed at a map that was behind him. "The energy that blasted out revealed the locations of the Gems here. Hopefully, it's not just random dots," he then said. "Anyway, we collect the Gems, free them, and then we probably go home... I sure hope so though."

"Is it me, or are there too many 'ifs' in his plan?" Buttercup snorted.

"All right!" Blossom soon agreed with Steven as she marked places on the map. "Buttercup, you go here, Bubbles, you go there, Steven's here, and this is mine. Rendevous?" she then asked Steven.

"Here! In the middle of the city!" Steven replied.

"Girls, let's stop this Wayward Wizard!" Blossom then proclaimed to her sisters.

Meanwhile...

Someone had felt what was going on somehow. 'Something has happened with the Gems...' he thought to himself as he was shown to be in a chair and appeared to be large and in charge. "Ms. Bellum, please cancel my appointments for today. I have some unfinished business I have to take care of."

Downstairs, the person soon came downstairs and summoned a familiar-looking staff which proved that he wasn't who he appeared to be, but was a certain antagonist. "These Gems were responding to something..."