Shadow and Bella continued traversing subspace, closing in on the signal of the next bomb.

"So….a whole other dimension?"

"Yup."

"In your head."

"Mm – hm."

"Where potentially thousands of different toons live that you can communicate with and transform into at anytime?"

"Yup-arooni!"

"And you can only bring a toon into your 'Hyna Dimension' if they sign some kind of contract with you?"

"Pretty much."

"…..This is still pretty confusing to me."

"Oh come on, it's simple! It makes more sense than how you can be half Saiyan and half Transformer!"

"….touché."

The PKE meter began to beep rapidly, as they approached the next universe.

"Remember Bella, we have to look for the bomb for where we would least expect it. Think outside the box, y'know?" Shadow stated.

"Yeah yeah, I got it. Let's just go already!" Bella said, stretching her arms.

The two then teleported into the universe.

UNIVERSE ENTERED: POWERPUFF GIRLS (1999)

The City of Townsville! A sprawling city of wealth and prosperity, where the citizens can live without fear, knowing that their heroes the Powerpuff Girls will be there to save the day. Especially now, where there seems to be a large purple orb in Townsville Square...

"Oh dear, oh dear...what are going to do about this, Miss Bellum?" said the Mayor, who watched the situation from window.

"I'm not sure, Mayor. This giant orb is blocking all the major roads in Townsville. I'll call the girls and see if they can do anything about it." Miss Bellum said, dialing the hotline.

"Please hurry! There's no way I can reach the new pickle store with this kind of traffic!" the Mayor said frantically, pacing in circles.

At the Powerpuff's home in Pokey Oaks, the hotline rang in urgency as Blossom flew over and picked it up. "Hello? A giant orb of energy in Townsville Square? We're on it, Miss Bellum!" Blossom hung up the phone and called to her sisters. "We've got a massive traffic situation downtown girls! Let's go!"

As the super-powered trio flew out of their house and to the city at lightning speed, Shadow and Bella appeared on a nearby roof, and saw them go by.

"Whoa. Was that a 5-second rainbow?" Shadow said in curiosity.

Bella looked around, taking in the scenery. "Bright colors...slightly lineless art style...omigosh, I think we're in Powerpuff Girls!"

"Ah, that explains the rainbow." The PKE meter then beeped, picking up a bomb signal. "Getting a signal from the city. C'mon!"

Shadow flew, while Bella transformed into Stinkfly and flew along with him. They soon reached Townsville Square, where they saw the Powerpuff trio trying to move the giant magic orb.

"Urgh...why won't this thing budge?" Buttercup said, relentlessly trying to push the orb. "I've punched and kicked this thing a million times over, and nothing's working!"

"Why don't we just ASK it to move nicely?" Bubbles suggested. She cleared her throat, then started speaking to the orb. "Excuse me, Mister Giant Orb? Could you please move so that all these people can get where they need to go?"

Nothing happened.

"Nice job, Bubbles. I bet that orb will move ANY minute now." Buttercup said sarcastically.

"C'mon girls, we have to do something!" Blossom said. "It's not like someone's going to come help us!"

Shadow and Bella then suddenly appeared, landing next to the girls.

"Oh hey, here it is!" Bella exclaimed upon seeing the giant orb. "C'mon, let's get rid of this thing!"

"Hold up," Shadow said, examining the readings on the PKE meter. "This orb is giving off the signal but it's not the source." He tapped the orb with his finger. "This thing is solid, not energy-based. The bomb must be inside."

"Hey!"

The Guardian and the Author turned to face the three super-powered little girls.

"Who are you guys? And did you just say something about a bomb?" Blossom asked.

"Er...look, we're kind of trying to save the multiverse at the moment, long story short, there's a bomb that's going to blow up your universe," Shadow quickly explained.

"Who would do something so horrible?" Bubbles asked, with a sad look.

"An evil magician with dating issues," Bella said. "So Shadow, you said the actual bomb is inside this giant orb. How do we get in it?"

"Easy." Shadow then punched a hole right through the orb. "After you, madam."

"But of course, good sir." Bella said, jumping in through the hole.

"Hey, wait for us!" Buttercup said. "If our universe is going to get blown up, then we have every right to help."

"All right, come on." Shadow hopped in and the Powerpuff Girls followed behind.

The group found themselves in what appeared to be a dark red space, with random images of Townsville floating through it.

"Huh. Time-Lord logic. Makes sense to me." Shadow said, as he observed his surroundings.

"Wait...this place..." Blossom said. "I think we're in the domain of-"

"Meeeee." Everyone turned to see the horrible entity that was Him, holding the magic bomb in his claw while sitting in his chair.

"Him!" everyone shouted.

"That's another jinx!" Bella quickly stated.

"I discovered this strange energy source earlier today," Him said "I quickly created this force-field around my lair, so that no one could stop me from discovering it's secrets." Him then gave everyone an angry look. "But then YOU busted right in!"

"You do realize that putting up a force field made your hideout visible, right?" Shadow said.

"Also, it's in another dimension. No one was gonna find you like, ever." Bella said.

"Well, I...um.." Him tried to say something, but couldn't. "Shut up! Townsville will fall before my new power!" Him then grew to enormous size, and proceeded to begin stomping on everyone.

"Great..now what?" Buttercup said, dodging stomp after stomp.

"We get the bomb and disarm it, that's what!" Bella then transformed into Flash, ran up Him's body, and ran back down to everyone. "Easy peasy."

Him immediately shrank back down to normal size.

"Er...you're not going to hurt me, are you?" Him asked Shadow and Bella.

"No. But they are." The two stepped aside to make room for the girls as they proceeded to pound Him into pulp.

LATER

"Thanks for the help," Blossom said to Shadow and Bella. "Feel free to come visit Townsville soon!"

"We will," Shadow said with a grin. "Maybe when the entire multiverse isn't in jeopardy..."

The two then teleported back into subspace, off to find the next bomb.

TIME REMAINING: 1 HOUR