Due to the long travel, everybody soon fell asleep until the next morning came and they heard something that began to wake them up.
"What's that?" Dorothy asked as she woke up.
"Oh, I was just tryin' to lay my egg, that's all." A voice replied.
"Who said that?" Charley asked as he woke up.
"Hello there." A certain hen replied as she was shown to be with them.
"Billina?" Dorothy gasped at the chicken.
"Who else?" Billina replied.
"What are you doing here?" Estelle asked her. "Have you been here all night too?"
"I've never been so wet in my whole life," Billina shivered from the water. "How big is this pond anyway?"
"I don't think it's a pond, Billina." Dorothy replied as she tried to stand up.
"I think we're in a river." Vincent said.
They soon took a look around.
"Or... Maybe it is a pond..." Vincent then said.
"Told you so." Billina remarked.
"Where did all the rest of the water go?" Dorothy wondered as she took a look around as they seemed to be in the middle of nowhere. "Where did Kansas go?"
"I guess we're not in Kansas anymore." Felicity replied.
"We must be in Oz now." Emily Elizabeth said.
"Yeah, but in which part of Oz?" Estelle asked.
"Hmm... I didn't know Oz had more than one part..." Max remarked. "Guess we better explore once we get to shore."
"This is some place for a chicken coop." Billina commented as she came to take a look with Dorothy.
"I'd like to run around out here." Toto said as he soon came out with Scruffy, Dot, Clifford, and Snow White.
"Same here." Scruffy nodded.
"When did you learn to talk anyway?" Dorothy soon asked Billina. "I thought hens could only cluck and cackle."
"Strange, ain't it?" Billina replied. "How's my grammar?"
"If we were in the Land of Oz, your talking wouldn't be strange at all." Dorothy smiled at her.
Suddenly, the water began to dry up.
"Huh... I wonder why that happened?" Estelle pondered.
"I'm not sure, but there goes the water," Billina replied. "High and dry."
Dorothy still looked lost on what was going on.
"Dorothy, don't you see?" Emily Elizabeth asked the girl. "This is Oz!"
"Oz..." Dorothy repeated as she took a look around.
"Now let's get out and take a look around." Mike said.
"Well, I think I'll have a look around and see if I can find myself some breakfast." Billina said as she was about to leave the crate.
"Wait!" Dorothy gasped as she grabbed Billina to keep the chicken from touching the ground. "If this is the Land of Oz, then this is the Deadly Desert." she then told the others.
"Deadly Desert?" The others repeated.
"It surrounds Oz," Dorothy nodded as she stepped out to hop around on the stones. "Last time I flew over it in the old house. Anything living that touches it turns to sand." she then explained.
"Then that explains what happened to the water." Estelle then concluded to herself.
"We better start moving." Max said.
"Remember not to touch the sand." Dorothy warned.
"We'll try." The group replied from that.
"Just my luck." Billina muttered.
"If we stay on these stones, we'll be all right." Dorothy assured the chicken as she carried her and they hopped along the stones.
"Should be easy." Felicity said.
An eye soon blinked from one stone as they hopped along.
"1, 2, 3!" Dorothy counted before they soon leaped onto the grass in front of them.
"Good, we made it," Max soon said. "Let's see about that breakfast."
"It's about time." Billina replied hungrily.
"You said it." Scruffy said.
"Then we can go on to the Emerald City and see my friend the Scarecrow." Dorothy then told the chicken.
"Scarecrow?" Billina asked as a pair of eyes watched them before disappearing from the rock they came from.
"He's the King of Oz, Billina." Toto replied.
"Toto, you can talk too!" Dorothy gasped.
"And I'm proud of that," Toto beamed. "I've always wanted to talk to ya."
"Wait, he didn't talk last time you were here, Dorothy?" Dot asked.
"Not that I remember," Dorothy shook her head. "I know the animals can talk in Oz, but I don't remember Toto talking to me from the last time we ended up here from the twister."
"Gosh... That's new." Clifford said.
"Come on, let's go." Dorothy told the others.
They soon walked for a while across the field before they passed a tree that had lunch pails in it.
"Look, guys," Dorothy pointed out. "It's a lunch pail tree."
"What happened to breakfast?" Billina muttered from that.
"Now I know we're in Oz." Dorothy said as she put Billina down in the ground.
"Let's eat." Scruffy smiled.
"Now, make sure you don't pick a green one." Billina advised Dorothy.
"Why not green?" Snow White asked.
"They aren't ripe." Billina explained.
Dorothy took a look around before she came towards the red lunch pails and picked a couple. "There's some ripe ones," she then said, though Clifford turned his head as he felt someone watching him, so he turned to see a stone with a couple of eyes on it which startled him. "This one for now, and this other one for later." she then said as she picked the lunch pails she wanted.
Everybody else soon went to get some lunch for themselves and maybe some food for their pets too.
"Now we're going to have something to eat." Akito smiled.
"Come share some lunch with us, Billina." Emily Elizabeth told the chicken who pecked at the ground.
"Just a minute," Billina replied as she was busy with her own thing. "Nice couple of worms here."
"I wonder what's inside?" Vaz asked as he checked his. "Hopefully something good."
Dorothy checked her lunch pail before taking out some wrapping paper before opening it up to see what was inside. "And a ham sandwich?" she then smiled.
"I'm glad it's not fried chicken." Billina remarked.
"Let's eat." Vincent smiled.
And so, the kids took a break for lunch from the lunch pails that they picked that had plenty of food for all of them. Akito, Estelle, and Vincent shared some of the food with their pets as they were also hungry. Clifford whimpered and pouted a bit.
"Clifford?" Emily Elizabeth asked her dog. "What's wrong, boy?"
"Someone was watching us." Clifford pouted.
"Really?" Mike asked.
"It looked like a rock was watching us." Clifford pouted.
"That doesn't surprise me." Emily Elizabeth said as she, of course believed him.
Charley, Vaz, and Jetta looked surprised of Emily Elizabeth talking to Clifford.
"Maybe Mike and the others could help you talk with Mac," Emily Elizabeth smiled at Jetta. "I'm sure he'd love to talk to you."
"Yeah... I guess that would be nice." Jetta nodded with a smile back.
"Oh, Billina, we're back in Oz!" Dorothy beamed, unaware that they were being watched. "Now I can show you all the people and things that nobody would believe in."
"So, what are we waiting for?" Charley asked.
"Lunch." Dorothy reminded him.
"Oh, that's right." Charley then said.
Felicity giggled a bit from that. They soon continued to eat their lunch before they went back on the trail through Oz.
"I wonder when we'll find the yellow brick road?" Emily Elizabeth said.
"I'm sure it'll come up soon," Felicity said hopefully. "This is Oz after all."
"Though it seems like we haven't met the tinman, scarecrow, or cowardly lion." Max remarked.
"He's right," Billina agreed. "Where are all your friends? Where is everybody?" she then asked Dorothy.
"I don't know, guys," Dorothy replied as they walked along. "Oz is pretty big."
"Maybe if we keep walking, we'll find them." Mike said.
"I don't like it," Billina remarked. "Makes me nervous."
"I'm not sure I like it here either." Jetta groaned slightly.
"Well, sometimes in adventures, you gotta do stuff and go places you might not like," Felicity replied. "Especially with the times that mes cousins and I were in Acmetropolis... Like when Akito and Canard took care of The Royal Tweetums."
"Oh, boy... That guy was a challenge." Akito said.
"You as a babysitter," Estelle giggled to Akito. "I'm sure that was interesting."
Akito rolled his eyes as he shook from the memories he had about babysitting Tweetums with Duck.
"Hey, guys!" Dot barked as she was up front. "There's some kinda house here!"
"A house?" Snow White asked.
They soon saw the house that Dot saw.
"Dorothy, does this house mean anything to you and Toto?" Dot soon asked the two.
"It can't be..." Toto whispered out of shock.
"What?" Clifford asked the small black dog. "What's wrong?"
"The tornado blew this house away a long time ago," Toto explained. "This is how me and Dorothy ended up in Oz in the first place."
"That's right." Dorothy added.
"Looks like it was a rough trip." Billina remarked.
"But this doesn't make sense, shouldn't this be back in Kansas?" Jetta asked.
"I'm not sure if I could explain that myself." Emily Elizabeth remarked.
"It's a mystery." Mike added as he came up right beside Emily Elizabeth to make sure Max wouldn't get close to her.
"Well, it's a sight to behold indeed," Max commented. "Even if it somehow got here instead of back in Kansas."
"What do we do now?" Vaz asked. "Go inside?"
"I'd like to explore." Dorothy smiled.
"Uh... Okay, looks like we're going inside then." Vaz replied.
Of course, due to going through a tornado, the house was a bit messed up with furniture knocked all around and some items were shattered, there was also what looked like a cracked photograph of Dorothy with Aunt Em and Uncle Henry together, but there was also some sort of slip of paper sticking out from it.
"Guys, this used to be my bedroom," Dorothy pointed out. "And in there was the kitchen. That's where we landed on the Wicked Witch of the East."
"Did it crush her in the middle of nowhere in Oz?" Charley asked.
"We met the Munchkins after we found out we crushed the Wicked Witch," Dorothy replied. "Hmm... I wonder where the Munchkins are?" she then pondered thoughtfully.
Toto looked inside the house and saw something that seemed important that was inside the framed photograph of Dorothy with her guardians.
"Toto, be careful in there," Dorothy warned. "A lot of stuff is broken inside," she then looked around. "Also, the yellow brick road should be right here."
"I think everything's changed since the last time you and Toto were here." Estelle said.
"I guess it looks like it." Dorothy replied.
Toto soon came back out with a folded piece of paper in his mouth as he came out of the house before they would keep exploring.
"Dorothy, I think Toto found something." Estelle said.
"What's that, Toto?" Dorothy asked before they went further.
"I dunno," Toto muffled as she bent down to pick it up out of his mouth. "But it was in that picture that Auntie Em and Uncle Henry took from when Uncle Henry first brought me home to you."
"My birthday," Dorothy smiled softly before opening up the paper to see that it was a very old photograph with a different couple of adults in it, though it was in black and white due to the time period they were in. "...Who are they?"
"You don't know?" The others asked.
"I don't know... I feel like I do... But I'm not sure." Dorothy said softly.
"Weird..." Akito said.
Dorothy decided to keep the photograph in her dress pocket before they soon came to the yellow brick road. However, as they came to the road, it seemed to be broken up and shattered as much as a lot of things in Dorothy's old house.
"Oh, no!" Dorothy pouted.
"It's just a yellow brick." Billina said to her.
"No, Billina, you don't understand," Dorothy frowned sadly as this was a sad sight. "This was the Yellow Brick Road. It leads to the Emerald City!" she then cried out before she began to run down the former road path.
"Okay, something is definitely wrong." Scruffy said as he and the others joined Dorothy.
"It's like Oz is destroyed or something." Felicity remarked.
"Dorothy!" Billina cried out as she tried to catch up with the girl. "Wait for me!"
"Emily Elizabeth, are we going to like what we see where this leads?" Jetta asked.
"I'm hoping to anyway!" Emily Elizabeth replied. "I feel bad for Dorothy, this has to feel so strange and sad for her."
"So, who else do we meet on this adventure?" Vaz asked.
"Tik-Tok, Princess Mombi, The Gump, Jack Pumpkinhead, and if we're lucky enough around him, the Nome King." Emily Elizabeth replied.
"Well, let's hope it's one of the good ones." Charley said.
They continued to run through the forest as they went past the remains of the yellow brick road.
They soon made it to where the Emerald City used to be as it also seemed to be in ruins.
"Well, Billina, that was the Emerald City." Dorothy frowned softly as she bent down to pick up her chicken.
Toto came up to some people who had been turned into stone statues as they came to explore the once great city in the Land of Oz.
"Okay, something definitely happened while you were gone." Mike told Dorothy.
"I guess it did." Dorothy replied.
"Not moving very fast, are they?" Billina asked.
"They've all been turned to stone." Emily Elizabeth told the chicken.
"All this way to see a bunch of stiffs." Billina pouted.
"Someone must have turned them to stone." Akito said.
"I'd suspect one of the Wicked Witches, but they are both deceased." Felicity remarked.
"Good try though." Estelle nodded her head.
Jetta looked over to a wall to see some sort of graffiti on it before she read it aloud. "'Beware of the Wheelers'."
"Who are the Wheelers?" Scruffy asked.
"That's what I'd like to know." Billina added from that.
"I don't remember them." Dorothy shook her head.
"Hmm... Well, let's hope we don't get to meet them." Jetta said.
They soon heard a creaking sound.
"...That couldn't be... Could it?" Felicity asked as the sound made her flinch.
Everyone looked around and didn't see anyone else yet, except for the stone statues of course, but it was a bit of an eerie sight.
"Look, these ones have lost their heads." Dorothy remarked, seeing certain stone statues.
"That's what I call just plain carelessness." Billina commented.
"You said it." Dot said.
"I guess there's no sense in losing our heads over it." Vaz grinned sheepishly.
Everybody gave him a bit of a look from that.
"I'm... Sorry..." Vaz said nervously. "I wish I could take that back."
Billina then suddenly clucked nervously and scaredly as something startled her.
"What's wrong, Billina?" Max asked.
"Someone! Help!" Billina cried out.
The others went to catch up with the chicken as she looked scared at a stone statue that had an ax with it, looking like it was about to chop her, but of course, it wouldn't.
"Dorothy, look out!" Billina warned the girl.
"It's the Tin Woodsman," Dorothy remarked as she came up to the statue. "Oh, Tin Woodsman, what happened to you?"
The statue did not answer her.
"What's happened to everybody?" Dorothy asked before she saw another one of her Oz friends, also as a stone statue. "Oh, Cowardly Lion! Oh, Cowardly Lion, what's happened to you?"
"This is bad." Mike said.
"Ya think?" Max replied.
They soon heard creaking again as someone, who looked a bit scary rolled over. "Come here, chicken!" they then threatened Billina.
"A WHEELER!" Billina clucked scaredly and soon began to run away.
"What do we do?" Jetta asked.
"Don't let them get you!" Emily Elizabeth warned.
"Don't gotta tell us twice." Vincent said.
Dorothy screamed as the Wheeler laughed at her and the kids soon began to run off after Billina, Clifford, Toto, Scruffy, and Dot.
"I ain't scared of you," Max glared as he tightened his red cap. "Maybe I oughta deal with this sucker while protecting Emily Elizabeth and her friends."
"All of us are running!" Vincent told him as he grabbed Max and ran off with Dorothy and the others.
"Hey!" Max yelped.
Mike chuckled a bit from that as they ran.
"Over here, kids!" Billina clucked out.
Dorothy tried to go that way, but screamed as they saw more and more Wheelers coming. They ran off to another direction, only to see more Wheelers.
"How many of these things are there?" Akito asked.
"I don't think I wanna find out." Felicity replied as they were surrounded.
"Quick! That way!" Billina pointed out.
They soon ran one way with Dorothy before a Wheeler came in front of them before they went inside the temple.
"I think the only Wheeler I'll ever like is Mom's old friend from Hope Island!" Estelle told Akito, Vincent, and Felicity.
And when they ran inside, they reached a dead end.
"Not good..." Charley said nervously.
"Not good at all." Vaz added.
"We've got you," A Wheeler grinned darkly as he spotted them. "You're trapped!"
More Wheelers began to roll on inside as Dorothy looked even more scared than her first time in Oz. Dorothy and the others began to feel around the wall behind them, in case there was a secret door.
"Chicken!" The Wheelers grinned as they were coming closer and closer.
"There's a door here, but it won't open." Akito said in fear.
"The key!" Billina memorized.
"Right!" Emily Elizabeth added. "Dorothy, use the key!"
Dorothy took the key out of her pocket and unlocked the secret door and opened it as she began to rush inside with the others to get away from the Wheelers. And where luckily, they made inside without any of the Wheelers making it inside.
"Man, that was crazy." Toto muttered to himself.
Dorothy took a look at the key as she locked the door behind them.
"You have to come out sooner or later," One Wheeler grinned from the other side, glaring through the keyhole. "And when you do, we'll tear you into little pieces and throw you in the Deadly Desert!"
"But we haven't done anything to you!" Akito told the Wheeler.
"Yeah, just leave us alone!" Estelle added.
"Aren't those a stolen lunch pail in your hands?" The Wheeler soon asked crossly. "Isn't that a chicken in there with you? Chicken!"
"What's wrong with the chicken?" Felicity glared.
"The Nome King doesn't allow chickens anywhere in Oz!" The Wheeler replied.
"Who's the Nome King?" Dorothy asked.
"And what do you mean stolen lunch pail? Dorothy picked it off a Lunch Pail tree!" Mike told the Wheeler.
"'Who's the Nome King'?" A Wheeler repeated in mockery before laughing with the others.
"The lunch pail thing must be like those apple trees from the first movie." Felicity guessed.
The Wheelers soon rode away while laughing as they mocked Dorothy for not knowing who the Nome King was.
"What do we do now? There's no other way out and once we get out there, those Wheelers will be waiting for us." Jetta said.
Dorothy looked around before she cupped her mouth as she saw something, or rather, someone with them.