A/N: I finally know what I'm going to do with this! At last!!! I have a villain and I know exactly where this is going from here on!!!

Disclaimer: don't own anything…


Dropping In

"Gwen!" came a strangled call from a clearly recognizable voice.

Her emerald eyes looked around fiercely for any sign of the sound's owner. "Where are you?" she hollered all around, looking for the one who had called her name. "Why did you bring me here?"

"Because they brought me here!" he sneered.

"Who?!" she called into the blackness. "Where are we and why are we here and who was dumb enough to leave Kevin's car in here?!" Gwen's eyes were lit with a fierce blaze of green fire that drove her to keep asking more and more questions until each and every one of them was answered.

There was a dark shape that leapt down from above her. The glint of silver moonlight washed over the masked face of her captor as he landed on metal clad boots and in a crouching position before returning to his feet once more, tall and lithe figure alight in the illumination. "Gwendolyn, you must help me. You simply must. This may be the worst dimension I could've landed in on accident because of the moon bathing the ground in that exact spot with light to open a vortex to this retched world!"

That explained so much. "And what do you want me to do?" she asked, suddenly finding that she had an advantage over this villain they had faced so many times before. "I could always open the weaponry of Kev's car on you. Swiss cheese may be a better look on you than being clad in black and metal."

"Being consumed by death would be better than living here!" he moaned loudly. "Please call your cousin and boyfriend and tell them to rescue us."

Gwen got up on shaky legs, her feet feeling like they were dead-asleep. "Where are we exactly?" she asked him, trying to put on a brave face in the time of terror. "The Null Void?"

"Even the Null Void is better than this, lovely Gwen."

From what she'd been told by Kevin, the Null Void was not a pretty place to live for more than a few seconds. If you were even able to last that long. The red sky was endless. Portals in and out were the rarest occurance since Bigfoot. The Null Guardians were merciless and utterly annoying, drooling on anything they flew over, sending green goop everywhere. And the ever present issues such as falling through the air because of one misstep. Or other criminals and prisoners. They're always problems.

She put her hand on the wall. It came off again an instant later covered in moss-like green stuff that she assumed was mold. And the Null Void was worse than this mangy dungeon place too.

"Alright, let me have a look before I go do anything irrational. Calling them may be a trap that you've plotted or something stupid like that." She didn't quite believe it, but she wasn't about to doubt or underestimate the enemy.

Placing her palm on the car's still warm hood for balance, she worked her way to that door. The wooden door with the massive black bolted hinges and ominous knob thing and some sign of what seemed to be a peep hole and possibly what was a knocker for the inside of the door.

...WHO PUTS A KNOCKER ON THE INSIDE OF A DOOR?!

She pressed her hand gently to the wood to feel it crumbling against her softest touch. Even the slightest of motions turned the brown mahogany tree bark into dust and ash. "Where are we?"

Instead of answering, Darkstar cringed in a corner, hiding his face from what was so close to the other side of he door. "Find out for yourself. I'm not leaving here again. It's safe here." He shifted so that his knees were hugged to his chest and he rocked back and forth slowly. Then he repeated, "It's safe here."

Wow. It must've been intense out there. Gwen found herself freaking out on the inside, but totally calm on the outside.

Her fingers found the door's handle. It wasn't crumbling as the rest of the door was. She was glad that the black metal material didn't just disinegrate in her hand. If it had, she wouldn't have found another way out to see what had spooked Darkstar. And she wanted to see now.

With one hard tug, the door budged. But only a bit. Only an inch or so. Gwen was embarassed to be such a weakling. It was just a door! How hard could it be to open?

Another hard tug got it to budge another inch. She found her biceps aching with that bit of effort put into just opening a door. She gave the door a swift kick and it slammed fully shut again. A curse escaped the redhead. Look at where kicking things had gotten her already. In a dungeon, which was located somewhere worse than the Null Void, which was in a portal, which wasn't on Earth, which had Kevin on it. She missed Kevin. He would just smash through the door...

Why didn't she think of that?! Gwen smacked her forehead, consequently getting the green fuzzy stuff all over her pallid skin. Another curse passed her lips.

Her hands glowing fiercely with pink and violet mana, one blow shattered the wood door into little splinters that faded to dust as it hit the ground. Outside... was...


A/N: yeah, I know what you're thinking. Don't hate me. Just be glad I figured out what the heck I was going to do with this! leave a review please!

~Sky