*sneaks in quietly*

Uhhhhh, eheheheh... I cannot tell you guys how sorry I am for not updating a hell of a lot sooner than this. College, work, social activities, and overall ineptitude have greatly contributed to the hiatus of this story. I haven't updated for more than two years, so I finally present to all of my fans the ninth chapter of the JTPH 4. 16 1/2 pages in Microsoft Word - more than double than what I usually put out for a regular chapter. Hopefully, this will satiate my fans' need for a new chapter until I can get the next one out. Until then, enjoy the ninth installment of this story! =)

*sneaks out quietly before the fans come after him with torches and pitchforks*

The slide down to Earth from Fairy World would have been much more exhilarating if everyone's lives weren't at stake and Cosmo and Wanda were not in such danger. It wasn't long before everyone touched ground and Sheen let out a whoop of excitement.

"Man, that was awesome! Let's do that again!"

"How about let's not and say we did," replied Timmy. "As much fun as that slide is, we don't have the time to mess around. Calamitous, Crocker, and Vicky are gonna show up at any second! Cosmo, Wanda, I wish that everything was fixed and that those three don't remember anything that happened!"

Cosmo and Wanda smiled and raised their wands to grant the wish, but a farting sound was heard and the wands went limp.

"Aaaahh! What happened?"

"Something must be interfering with our magic!" explained Wanda. "And there doesn't appear to be a signal coming from the Big Wand!"

Timmy's eyes widened. "WHAT?!"

Indeed, up in Fairy World, Crocker took it upon himself to change the Big Wand into a giant statue of himself even though the fairies were all under his control anyway.

"Ahhh, that's better," he replied as a fairy brought him a strawberry milkshake and he glanced up at the statue. "This place needs more me, and what better way to liven things up around here than a towering statue glorifying all that is Denzel Q. Crocker!"

Back in Dimmsdale, Timmy was about to have a nervous breakdown from the situation until Jimmy slapped him across the face.

"Thanks, dude," replied Timmy as he rubbed his cheek.

"Anytime."

"So, what do we do now that Cosmo and Wanda can't help us?" asked Cindy.

"We're gonna have to go back to Fairy World and fix everything from there, unfortunately," replied Timmy. "Once the Big Wand is operational again, then Cosmo and Wanda can fix everything. However, Tootie has the orb to get back there and until we find her, we're stuck."

"Where would she most likely be?"

"The last time I saw her was in my room before I entered the portal to Fairy World. With any luck, she'll still be there."

"Wait, she was at the house?" asked Cindy. "Where was she?"

"I think she had been standing outside the door the whole time that we were talking. She claimed she heard a good deal of our conversation."

Cindy's eyes widened.

"…Did she say anything about me?"

Timmy sighed. "Yeah, she did. She started talking about her love for me and how all the girls that I've met would never truly love me the way that she does and that they would just be using me. I think that she's just talking crazy."

Cindy bit her lip and lowered her gaze to the ground.

"Umm, Timmy, about that…"

"Right now, she's our only hope to get back to Fairy World and as much as I don't want to face her, I'm gonna have to, but at least I'll have you guys to back me up. C'mon, there's no time to lose!"

Timmy then ran off in the direction of his house with Jimmy, Sheen, Cosmo, and Wanda close behind. Carl was about to follow them when he noticed that Cindy looked upset about something.

"Something wrong, Cindy?"

"No…I'm fine. C'mon, Timmy's probably waiting for us."

She then ran after the rest of the group with Carl right behind her. Something told him that she wasn't telling the truth, but he didn't press the matter any further.

Meanwhile, Calamitous and Vicky appeared in the center of Dimmsdale along with Jorgen and the wands amongst the towering skyscrapers.

"Hmm, this looks like the perfect place…" noted Calamitous as he glanced around the area.

"Man, I don't think I'll ever get used to being shifted from one place to another like that," muttered Vicky as she massaged her forehead. "Ugh, why are we here?"

"Because the center of a city is always the best place to start taking it over. If we were to take over Dimmsdale from anywhere other than the center, we wouldn't have the maximum effect of enslaving its inhabitants."

Vicky raised an eyebrow. "…Wouldn't we still be able to do it no matter where we were? As long as you have that wand thing and say something like, 'I wish I could take over Dimmsdale and enslave all its inhabitants', it would still work."

Calamitous glared at her and raised Jorgen's wand-staff threateningly. "Do not question my ways, Vicky!"

The redhead rolled her eyes and buffed her fingernails on her shirt. "Pffft, whatever…"

"It will never work, Calamitous!" Jorgen shouted from his unit. "Even though you do have all of my magic at your disposal, Turner and his friends will show up and defeat you! They did it last time and they can do it again!"

"My dear Jorgen, if Buck-Toothed Boy and his cohorts happen to show up I'll just blast them to kingdom come with your device. Besides, they don't even know where we are."

"Hey, destroying the twerp is my job!" shouted Vicky as she grabbed the wand-staff out of Calamitous' grasp. "Plus, this is my city so I'll be the one enslaving its inhabitants!"

She then tapped the wand-staff on the ground and waited for a blast of energy or a flash of light or something to let her know that the city was now under her control. One minute went by. Then two. Nothing.

"What the heck is wrong with this thing?" she shouted angrily.

"Maybe you need to let me do it," replied Calamitous. "After all, I am the one who got us down here in the first place."

"What makes you so qualified to make it work? Anyone can do teleportation, but it takes skill to make it do other things. Let's not forget who got us to that Fairy World place or whatever it's called with that Game Buddy. If I didn't step in and do something, we would still have been in the twerp's bedroom pressing buttons until our thumbs fell off!"

"Maybe you just need to shut up!" fired back Calamitous.

"Make me!"

"Or maybe the Big Wand is not operational, Einstein!" yelled Jorgen, butting into the heated conversation between the two. "You ever think of that? That crazy teacher with the ear on his neck, which I might add is quite creepy, probably did something stupid to it. If the Big Wand is not working, then my wand won't work so your plan has failed before it even began!"

Calamitous turned to glare at Jorgen before angrily shouting skyward.

"CROCCCCKERRRRR!"

Up in Fairy World, Crocker perked up in his pool chair and raised his sunglasses.

"Hmm, I thought I just heard someone angrily shout my surname… Oh well, it was probably just the wind. More fanning me with palm fronds, fairy slaves!"

He then lay back in his chair and took another slurp of his smoothie. Meanwhile, Calamitous was pacing back and forth in the middle of the street while cars and trucks were piling up around him. Vicky stood off to the side with Jorgen and was just about to shout something vulgar at the bald genius until he abruptly stopped his pacing.

"Alright, if Crocker wants to be like that and ruin everything I've planned from the beginning, then so be it. I knew I shouldn't have trusted him from the start, or at least kept better watch over him…"

"So, now what do we do?" asked Vicky. "We obviously can't continue your plan if none of those things work anymore." She jerked a thumb at the containment unit filled with wands. "Any other bright ideas?"

Calamitous put a finger to his chin and grinned evilly.

"As a matter of fact, yes."

Timmy and Company finally made it to the Turner house and ran upstairs to the ten-year-old's bedroom hoping that Tootie would still be there. Timmy's face fell when he didn't see any sign of her and he started panicking.

"Hey, don't worry, Timmy," reassured Sheen as he slapped him on the back. "Maybe she went to the grocery store or the doctor's office or something."

Timmy glared back at him. "And how would that make me not worry? Do you have any idea how many grocery stores and doctor's offices there are in this city? Not to mention how big Wall-to-Wall-Mart is. She could be anywhere and she is the only one who has the device to get us back to Fairy World!"

He starting panicking again and it was Cosmo this time who slapped him across the face.

"Heh, thanks, Cosmo."

"Anytime, Timmy! Whenever you need a good slap across the face, don't hesitate to ask!"

"Um…yeah, I'll remember that next time…"

Timmy rubbed his head while he tried to assess the situation.

"Okay, Cosmo and Wanda's wands don't work because the Big Wand is not operational so I can't fix this mess and Tootie is nowhere to be found so we can't get back to Fairy World anyway. Yep, we're doomed."

"Maybe she's somewhere else in your house like in your basement or the attic?" suggested Carl. "She might not know that we're here."

"No, I know Tootie and if she was around she would be in this room right now staring me in the face. Watch, I'll prove it to you." Timmy then cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted out his bedroom door. "Hey Tootie, I want to be your boyfriend and have you smother me with kisses right now!" Silence. A cricket chirped a few times until it fell through a hole in the floor to its death right after Cosmo named it Bolbi. "See? If she was anywhere in this house, and I mean anywhere, one second would not have passed before she would have tackled me."

"Hmm, I see your point…"

"Sooo, any idea what we can do now, Timmy?" asked Jimmy. "We can't just walk around town trying to find her. It would take hours even if we split up and I'm assuming that we don't have that kind of time."

Cindy smirked at Jimmy and ruffled his hair.

"What's the matter? Can't use that big head of yours for a brain blast that can help us out?"

Jimmy readjusted his hair and glared at her.

"Watch it, Vortex. Just because I'm at a slight impasse on what to do next doesn't mean that I can't use a brain blast. I think that Timmy should be the one to lead us here judging by how this is his city and dimension after all."

Cindy just shrugged and cast Timmy a knowing look that told him she agreed with Jimmy. If anyone knew this place and its secret locations the most out of all of them, it was Timmy.

Timmy sighed and glanced at his friends and fairies. "Okay, just give me a minute to think."

Sheen glanced at the digital clock on Timmy's nightstand and slapped him on the back. "You have exactly sixty seconds. GO!"

"Sheen, that's usually considered an expression," admonished Jimmy. "Just give him some time; he'll think of something."

"Alright, but if he takes longer than a minute to come up with something, then he should have told us he needed more time."

A mix of sighs and groans followed.

"…What?"

Timmy ignored Sheen's comments and his friends' annoyed responses as he started to pace the floor. They were all in a tight spot; without Tootie, they didn't have the orb and without the orb, there was no way to get back to Fairy World. He could call on Mark Chang for assistance, but he really didn't want to explain to everyone how he knew a tentacled alien. It would only bring up more questions that couldn't be answered quickly, but the more Timmy thought about it, the more Mark might be their only option. Searching Dimmsdale or worse, Vicky's house, for Tootie would probably waste time and Timmy already tried bringing her to him. It was now or never. The pacing abruptly stopped and he turned to his anxiously awaiting friends.

"Guys, I have a plan."

"I'm telling you, it's not going to work!"

"And I'm telling you that it will!"

Vicky massaged the bridge of her nose and glared at Calamitous. "Your memory must already be going. Did you not see what happened when we tried to use that wand thing earlier?"

"Yes I did, and my theory suggests that Jorgen's wand will be operational once more if the smaller wands from the containment unit are combined with its power. Maybe your memory is the one that's going."

Vicky narrowed her eyes at the pint-sized genius and rolled up her sleeves for a fight.

"Listen here ya little twerp. I've just about had it with you and your insults. That crazy teacher is one thing; I can handle him because I see him on a nearly daily basis as creepy as that sounds, but you, you're from a different universe and you're crossing a very thin line. From now on, I'm going to be making the decisions."

Calamitous opened his mouth to speak, but then shut it. He quickly glanced over at Jorgen in his unit and noticed the fairy hastily putting away a bag of popcorn, as if he had found the previous conversation to be entertaining. How he had managed to obtain the bag of popcorn was a mystery that even Calamitous didn't want to investigate. He was really in a quandary. Vicky was running the show now and he didn't get the chance to test his theory about the wands. It had to work; he knew it. However, with Vicky barking orders at him, he wasn't going to get some alone time to test anything and she wasn't going to listen to reasoning. He was stumped on what to do now until an idea hit him. It was so utterly simple that he was surprised he didn't think of it sooner. Maybe it was because he couldn't concentrate with Vicky yelling at him, but now he knew she had to listen to him. The plan depended on it and he was still in charge.

"Oh, Vicky."

The redhead spun around and glared at him.

"What is it?"

"Since you declared that you'll be making the decisions from now on, what is our first course of action?"

Vicky opened her mouth to shout at him, but then closed it. She opened it again, but then closed it again. Calamitous thought she looked like a fish doing that and mentally chuckled.

"Well?"

"Give me a minute here, okay?"

Vicky continued to give him an icy glare, but it wasn't long before realization set in. She didn't have a plan and Calamitous was really the only one who did. She didn't want to admit it, either to him or to herself, but she was stuck and had absolutely no idea what to do next. She bowed her head in defeat and mumbled a statement that Calamitous had been waiting to hear.

"Can you speak up a little? I couldn't quite catch that."

Vicky slowly tilted her head up and gave him a defeated glare.

"I don't have a plan."

Calamitous grinned and mentally high-fived himself.

"I thought so. My plan with those wand things is the only one we've got and unless you've thought of something better in the past ten seconds, we're going with my idea. Any objections?"

Vicky slowly shook her head and massaged the bridge of her nose. She hated when others were right. Jorgen had been listening to the conversation the entire time and when talk returned to the wands he sneered at Calamitous.

"You're wasting your time, Calamitous. What makes you so sure that your plan will work, huh?"

Calamitous grinned at him and tapped the side of his head, indicating his brain.

"This, my good man. It has never failed me in the past before."

"Ha! What about Turner and his little friends? They had no trouble defeating you last time."

"Yes, but that was interference caused by some buck-toothed friend of Neutron's and the rest of their simple-minded friends. My brain has never failed me in the planning department."

Calamitous then grabbed Jorgen's wand staff and walked over to the containment unit with all of the fairy's wands. There was a very small amount of magic left in the wand, but it was enough to unlock the unit and the smaller wands spilled out onto the pavement. Calamitous inspected the star on top of the wand staff and found it to be hinged there, like there was an opening beneath it. Sure enough, after prying the star back, Calamitous found a hollow opening in the staff and grinned triumphantly. He then grabbed a handful of the wands on the pavement and began stuffing them into the staff. Immediately, he felt magical power coursing through the staff and knew he needed more to make it fully operational. Jorgen was dumbstruck that his wand staff was glowing and that the puny fairies' wands were actually giving it power.

"No, it cannot possibly be true! Why didn't I think of that?"

Calamitous whirled on him with a sneer.

"Because I beat you to it, that's why. And now if you'll excuse me, I have two universes to combine and take over."

The last of the wands were stuffed into the staff and the star on top of it glowed brightly, almost as bright as the sun. Calamitous held it over his head and knew he had tremendous power at his disposal once again. Vicky was actually impressed and clapped a few times.

"With Jorgen's wand staff in my possession with all of its magical power, I can combine Dimmsdale and Retroville together and take over the latter. I assume you still want to be ruler of the former, Vicky?"

"Heck yeah, I do!"

Calamitous grinned and suddenly slammed the wand staff on the ground, creating a massive shockwave and a space/time rift of violet-colored energy in the process. The shockwave radiated out in all directions and buildings everywhere shook from the intensity. Calamitous threw back his head and laughed while Vicky watched on smirking and Jorgen assessed the situation with a frantic look on his face.

"That's your plan? The dump? We're going to the dump?"

Jimmy ran alongside Timmy as the group ran towards Dimmsdale Dump.

"Listen, I know someone there who can help us get back to Fairy World. He has a, uh, spaceship that can get us there."

Jimmy raised an eyebrow at Timmy.

"A spaceship? What is he? Some kind of alien?"

"Eheheheheh… yeah."

Jimmy stopped dead in his tracks and stared hard at Timmy. Timmy stopped running too and started to sweat. Carl, Sheen, and Cindy stopped too and Cosmo and Wanda started whistling innocently. Maybe this wasn't such a great plan after all. No one had time to reply though as a massive shockwave threw them all off their feet and into the dump where they crashed into thin air. The area warped and rippled as if an invisible force field was in effect and soon the shield was lifted as a large spacecraft came into view. A metallic door opened and a long ramp extended out into the dump while a thick white fog obscured a familiar tentacled figure, at least to Timmy, Cosmo, and Wanda. Sheen and Carl hid behind Jimmy while Cindy watched on with a look of mild intrigue. Once the fog had cleared and the figure came into full view, he let out of whoop of excitement.

"TIMMY TURNER! …'Sup? I haven't seen you, in like, so long annnnnnd…you've brought some friends with you. Wassup friends of Timmy Turner? I'm sure you are fairly familiar with the greatest warrior in the universe?"

Jimmy raised an eyebrow and turned to Timmy.

"The greatest warrior in the universe?"

"Well, yeeaah! He defeated the dreaded chocolate which is, like, the ultimate evil!"

"…The dreaded chocolate?"

"Dude, that echo of yours is, like, sooo three years ago. Yes, the dreaded chocolate! The most hated and vilest thing in the entire universe!"

All eyes were on Timmy and he could only chuckle nervously.

"Ehhhhhh, long story. Best suited for another time when the fates of our lives and universes are not at stake. And I think you mean it's the most hated and vilest thing on your planet, Mark, not the entire universe because people here love the stuff, especially me!"

"And that is why you, Timmy Turner, are the greatest warrior in the universe!" shouted Mark as he raised his tentacles in the air.

Timmy rolled his eyes and pointed at his friends and fairies.

"Listen, the reason that my friends and I are here is that we need you to take us to Fairy World so that we can repair the Big Wand and I can fix the mess that's been created."

Mark just stared at him and rubbed his domed head with a tentacle.

"Uhhhh, what's Fairy World…?"

"It's the, uh, place where my fairy programs are from. I'll tell you exactly where it is, but we need to go there, like now."

"Sure, no prob. It's not like it's underground or anything, right?"

"Nope. It's up in space right above Earth."

"Perfect! Well, just step inside and I'll have you at Fairy World in no time."

Before anyone could move though, a bright purple curtain of magic swept across the area and Jimmy, Cindy, Carl, and Sheen found themselves back in their three-dimensional forms.

"HUH?"

"We're back to our other forms?" asked Cindy, looking down at herself. "But how?"

"Awwww. I'm bulgy again…" moaned Sheen. "Which is not necessarily a bad thing…" he added, grinning.

"Hey, wait a minute…I'm bulgy again too…" said Timmy. Indeed, he looked exactly like how he did the last time he visited Retroville, which was just that morning.

"Uhhhh, Turner…? Why am I all large and fat like you and your friends…?" asked Mark, inspecting himself. If the tentacled alien had anything really freaky happen to him in his lifetime before, this would surely rank high on the list.

"Hey, we're not fat!" retorted Cindy. "At least I don't think so…" she added, looking down at herself.

"You look fine to me, Cindy," smiled Jimmy.

Cindy returned the smile with a slight blush.

"Uhhhh, I have to get back to you on that one, Mark," replied Timmy. "Right now, we need to get up to Fairy World before anything else happens."

"Uh, about that, Turner… I uh, just remembered something really important…"

"What's that?"

"…I'm outta fuel…"

"WHAT? Why didn't you tell us this before?"

Mark looked uneasy and rubbed his domed head with a tentacle.

"Welllll…I didn't think it was that important at the time… Plus, I kinda wanted to use my new teleportation module that would allow me to instantly pilot the ship to your Fairy World place, but that requires fuel too."

"Oh, great…"

"Can anything else possibly go wrong?" shouted Sheen as he collapsed to his knees.

Cosmo scratched the back of his head with his now three-dimensional wand, as he and Wanda had changed again too.

"Ehh, when somebody says that, doesn't that usually mean that something will possibly go wrong?"

Wanda smacked her forehead.

"Thank you for that enlightening observation, Mr. Points-Out-The -Obvious-A-Lot. And I usually reserve that title for Timmy."

"Hey!"

Just at that moment, another large earthquake shook the dump, but unbeknownst to them, it also shook the entire city along with Retroville. The force was so violent that everyone was thrown into the air and crashed onto the ground, but things looked radically different now. Dimmsdale now looked 3-D and everyone was back to their 2-D forms.

"Alright, I'm flat again!" cheered Mark as he happily raised his tentacles into the air.

"I know! Ain't it great?" shouted Sheen as he whooped with joy.

The group ignored their antics and instead focused on the two earthquakes, why they had radically changed forms, and why Dimmsdale now looked so bulgy. There had to be some explanation, right?

Meanwhile, Tootie and Libby had been strolling down the sidewalk in Retroville after giving the former pigtail-haired girl a brand new makeover consisting of new outfits to go with her new look. They too noticed the strange earthquakes and bright purple curtain of magic that changed their forms from 3-D to 2-D and then back again.

"What the heck just happened?" asked Tootie. She was wearing her new ruby red sundress and matching clips to keep the hair out of her eyes. A few more new clothes were safely tucked away in the shopping bags clutched in her hands. Libby scratched her head through her new sunhat and shifted her shopping bags to her other hand.

"Maybe Jimmy had something to do with it or even Timmy, for that matter," she replied.

"Heh, at this point, I guess anything's possible."

Libby massaged her forehead and both girls jumped in surprise as they surveyed their surroundings. Even though they had returned to their 3-D forms, Retroville had not. Everything was now in 2-D, save for its citizens.

"Now that's just weird…" muttered Libby.

"It kinda looks like…Dimmsdale."

Tootie really didn't know what to think. She was still trying to adjust to this new bulgy look and this sudden switch wasn't helping much.

"I think we should go investigate. If it really is Jimmy and possibly Timmy causing all of this, we should definitely check on them." Tootie paused suddenly and looked down at herself. "I just hope that my new look will grab Timmy's attention. Do you really think I look great, Libby?"

"Girl, if Timmy doesn't trip over his own tongue trying to get to you, I don't know what will grab his attention."

She flashed Tootie a smile and the girl returned it.

"Thanks."

"Anytime."

Without waiting another moment, both girls sprinted to the source of the disturbance hoping to get to Jimmy and Timmy before anything else happened. Meanwhile, Timmy and Company along with Mark had left the dump and headed towards the source of the earthquakes. They feared that Calamitous was behind them somehow and vowed to put a stop to his plans before things got really out of control.

"Nice disguise, uh, Mark, right?" said Jimmy. "You'll probably blend in a lot better looking like that."

Mark had used his fake-i-fier to turn himself into his elementary school persona so passerby didn't start asking too many questions.

"Yeah, I've used this disguise many times before when I attended Turner's school. The main reason is so that I can hide from this hideous creature named Princess Man-DIE. She wants to, like, MARRY me and make me her husband and stuff, but I only have eyes for the bodacious Vic-kay. Oh, and your name's Fudgehead, right?"

Cosmo smiled and high-fived him while Cindy giggled. Jimmy looked annoyed and glared at Mark.

"My name's Jimmy. Jim-my. Not Fudgehead."

"I dunno, bro. You kinda look like a Fudgehead to me."

Jimmy rolled his eyes, obviously fed up with the nickname. Cindy smiled and put her arm around his shoulder.

"Don't worry, Jimmy. You'll still be known as Nerdtron to me."

"Heh, thanks, Cindy…I think."

"I think the commotion came from this direction, guys," said Timmy.

He rounded a corner and was met with a very frightening sight. Calamitous was standing in the middle of a four-way intersection laughing manically while Jorgen's wand staff was wedged deep in the pavement. Bright purple streams of magic were radiating from the star on top and criss-crossing the sky above everyone. Vicky was standing off to the side rubbing her hands together and grinning evilly while Jorgen watched on in horror.

"Aw, crud…"

When the ceremony was complete, Calamitous removed the wand staff from the pavement and created a second one before handing it to Vicky.

"Here you go, Vicky. I'm confident, although not too fairly, that you'll be able to handle things from here on out."

"Heh, thanks…I think."

Vicky took the wand with some uncertainty before testing its weight in her hands. It didn't weigh any different than when she held Calamitous' earlier and she was happy about the convenience. Rather than holding it above her head in some dramatic pose, she opted to just give one of her trademark evil grins while firmly grasping it.

"Claiming this city as my own will be a piece of cake."

Throughout these turn of events, Timmy and Company were hiding behind a conveniently-placed mailbox, trashcan, and sidewalk tree. Every so often, Timmy and Jimmy would poke their heads out to see if they were being watched, which, thank goodness, they weren't. Both of Vicky and Calamitous' wands were pulsing with light and a large trans-dimensional rift of purple-colored magic separated Dimmsdale from Retroville. Everyone could clearly see the buildings of Retroville on the other side of the rift, but they looked to be more flat and colorful, like how Dimmsdale used to look.

"As if things weren't crazy enough…" muttered Timmy.

"Oh, trust me, they could be a heck of a lot crazier!" exclaimed Cosmo. "All we'll need is a few dozen beach balls, some bubble wrap, and another giant, flying, rocket-powered hotdog!"

Sheen laughed and high-fived him while everyone frantically told him to quiet down.

"Do you want us to get found out, Cosmo?" whispered Wanda. "And I don't think I need to ask how all those things would make things crazier. Knowing you, it really wouldn't take much, despite all those things you said."

"Heh, ya got that right! And does anyone sense some really powerful magic close by? Like really powerful?"

Wanda perked up and looked around.

"What do you mean, Cosmo? In case you've forgotten, which you probably have, none of our wands work except for Jorgen's, which I'm still puzzled by."

"That's precisely what Timmy and I are trying to find out," replied Jimmy. "If your Big Wand is indeed non-functioning, and I know for a fact that Jorgen's wand also runs on the same power, then how are Calamitous and Vicky able to use it? Hmm, there's gotta be some explanation…"

"Uh, remind us again how Jorgen's wand-thingy runs on the same power?" asked Carl.

"When I was in Fairy World during my very first visit, I witnessed Crocker knocking over the Big Wand and all of the little wands and his wand staff stopped working. Of course, when he tried attacking Crocker using just his muscles, he got turned into a Schnauzer and the rest is history, so to speak."

"Yeah, well, I don't want history repeating itself as much as you guys want it to, which I can probably safely say is next to nothing," replied Timmy. "We're trying to decide if another diversion is a good idea so we can get those wand-staffs. No magic means we'll have to improvise."

During this exchange in conversation, Cosmo was scratching the back of his head with his wand, trying to figure out how he was sensing some really powerful magic nearby. He casually glanced at Wanda and gauged her reaction. She didn't seem to be showing any signs that something was off and he inwardly smiled. Could this be one of the few times he noticed something before she did? The current events must have been really messing with his thought process. Before any more time passed, he knew he had to voice his opinions.

"Uh, Wanda… Is it possible that since the Big Wand is no longer working that Calamitous used all of the fairy's wands to power Jorgen's wand-staff with what little power they had left?"

Wanda's eyes suddenly widened and she slowly turned to face her husband.

"…What did you say?"

"All I'm saying is that it might be possible that the reason why Jorgen's wand-staff has magical power is because all of the fairy's wands are giving it that power."

Wanda continued to stare at him and Timmy and Company joined in once they paid closer attention to the conversation.

"…What? Why are you all staring at me like that? Is there something on my face?"

He frantically began to swipe at his face, the notion that he had said something incredibly smart vanishing instantly. Wanda was the first to break the silence and she suddenly seized his shoulders.

"Cosmo, that's it! That's the answer! You're a genius!"

Cosmo stopped his swiping and looked at her quizzically.

"I am? Uh, I mean, of course I am!"

He tried poofing up a supersuit with a large capital "G" for 'Genius' on the front, but frowned when he couldn't and angrily waved his wand.

"Nnngh! Gaaah! Why…won't…this…thing…work?"

Wanda grabbed his wand and refocused his attention.

"Because the Big Wand is still down and Calamitous and Vicky both have magic at their disposal all because they're using the remaining magic stored in everyone's wands!"

"Sooooo, I was right?"

"Of course you were!"

"Awesome!"

He pumped his fist into the air and proceeded to high-five everyone until Timmy stopped him.

"So, we're basically majorly doomed, right?" replied the pink-hatted boy.

Cosmo nodded enthusiastically until he realized what he was doing.

"Oh, wait, that's not good at all…"

"…Double crud…"

Things were just going from bad to worse for everyone. On top of Timmy almost having his third nervous breakdown of the day, Vicky didn't waste any time using her new magic to mind-control Dimmsdale's citizens. The fact that they were so curious about what was going on in the middle of the city was drawing them right into her clutches like moths to a flame. It was a pretty hectic situation. Meanwhile, on the other side of the rift, Libby and Tootie were rapidly approaching Dimmsdale when Libby thrust out her arm in front of Tootie and told her to hide. The two of them ducked behind a two-dimensional mailbox just as Calamitous with Jorgen walked past them carrying the muscular fairy's wand-staff. He had a clearly sinister look on his face that practically screamed he was up to no good. Libby watched him head into the middle of town and start blasting people with the wand, also putting them under mind-control.

"Calamitous… And he has Jorgen's wand thingamajig. Definitely not good…"

"Is he an enemy of yours or something?" whispered Tootie. She obviously had never met the guy before, but she noticed how concerned Libby looked.

"Yeah, he is. Probably the biggest enemy we've ever faced as a group, my friends and I. He's just so persistent in his schemes and he's come so close multiple times at eliminating us. He's bad news, Tootie."

Tootie gulped and silently watched as Retroville's citizens were enslaved by mind-control. She desperately wanted to help them, but she couldn't bring herself to face someone that would even rival her sister - alone. Granted, she had Libby with her, but they were both unprepared to fight such a formidable enemy. They had to reach Timmy first. When the coast was clear, they made a break for the rift, praying that help would be close by on the other side.

We've pretty much reached the climax of this story and Chapter 10 will be the regroup of all the characters, plus the big showdown between the heroes and villains. Oh, and I thought that Mark would be a great addition to this story. =) He needs more appearances than what he's usually given, although his appearance in Wishology was awesome. Stay tuned for the next chapter and don't forget to review!