Deep into the darkness peering

Long I've stood there

Wondering, fearing, doubting

Dreaming dreams that no mortal ever dared to dream before.

oOoOoOo

Slowly, Blossom began to open her eyes. She couldn't remember anything that happened. As she got up, and looked around.

She was surrounded by a nightmarish landscape. The ground was dark red, the trees were pitch black, the sky was also red, and filled with eyes. They stared down at everything. Never blinked, and never looking away.

However the world was even more confusing as it was terrifying. The only ambient sounds that were heard, sounded like evil whispers.

Something was very wrong. That's when the memories of what happened rushed back to her.

Blossom frantically tried waking up the others. She was able to wake almost everyone, But as she attempted to wake Buttercup, she was being very stubborn. "Ugh, five more minutes professor..." She groaned with her face against the black grass.

Pucca picked her up and shook her awake. "Alright, Alright I'm up!" She said in frustration.

"What is this place?" Abyo said as he looked around at all the bizarre and spooky anomalies that filled this dark landscape.

Bubbles grabbed onto Blossoms arm. "Blossom, I'm scared." She said nervously.

Blossom had to explain to everyone where they were. When she was finished, the next question would be, how to escape.

As everyone was trying to figure out how they could possibly escape this horrible dimension. They were suddenly interrupted by a slight scream, which kept getting louder and louder until. BOOM. Someone, or something had fallen not to far from them.

When the dust cleared, lying there in a crater, was a big, pink, fuzzy, foe.

"Fuzzy Lumpkins?!" They all said in sync, very surprised and confused. But it didn't stop there.

Shortly after, even more of their worst enemies had fallen.

Mojo Jojo, Tobe, and Muji have each came down from above. Hitting the ground hard as they landed.

Ring Ring stopped herself from falling by hovering just before hitting the ground.

Princess Morbucks was quickly falling not far from her, she was too panicked to try and use her jet pack to stop herself from her fast decent.

Ring Ring quickly used her hair to catch her before she hit the ground.

"Phew, thanks Ring Ring." She said, both relieved and grateful.

"No problem." Ring Ring replied.

"What is going on? Why are you guys here?" Blossom asked sternly.

Just then, Doga made her appearance, falling right on top of Tobe.

Her eyes glowed purple in anger. "I'll tell you why we're here." She said through her teeth. "Him betrayed us."

"He what?" Ching asked, not sure if she heard her correctly.

"It's true." Fuzzy butted in. "For once I felt as if I had finally accomplished somthin in my life. Than that mean ol lobster just threw us all right down with ya." Fuzzy's eyes began to water, thinking about how good he felt, only to be tossed out like trash. He began to sob.

"There, there." Muji said as he put his hand on Fuzzy's back.

"It's ok. Let it out." Bubbles added as she flew over to try and comfort him.

But as expected, everyone else was very angry with their sudden betrayal.

"How DARE HE!" Ring Ring yelled. Her hair now waving in anger.

"We were a Team!" Mojo angrily said. "This was going to be our chance to rule the world! And by that, This would be the perfect opportunity to take total control of the earth! And by that, this was going to be the best way to rule over all of man kind!"

Mojo then proceeded to angrily wonder, repeatedly mumbling "curses, curses" to himself.

"That sadistic crab clawed traitor!" Tobe began. "How I loathe him now." Tobe looked around, his eyes locked onto Garu. "Sorry Garu." Tobe said. "My vengeance on you will have to wait for another time. As of right now, it is HIM who I need Vengeance upon!"

"And how exactly do you chumps think you're gonna do that?" Buttercup rudely blurted at the outraged villains.

"Hey! Don't call us chumps! We beat you all!" Morbucks shot back.

"Excuse me!" Mojo angrily butted in. "But I believe that it was me, Mojo Jojo, who brought all of them down!"

"Yeah, when you surprise attacked us from behind like a wimp!" Abyo shouted.

At that point, everyone was in a heated argument with one another. By the intensity of the argument, you could tell it could be one of those arguments that can last for hours.

While the group all yelled at each other over who did what. Doga was taking a look around the area.

This dreadful, nightmarish world looked so familiar. That's when it hit her, this was the dimension that she built a portal to, she wanted to release the evil anomalies from this dimension to go out and destroy Christmas that one year, but her portal ran out of batteries. She suddenly came up with a solution.

"I've got it!" She said out loud. "I can build another portal back to our dimension... But I'll need the proper tools and materials to do so. It would take an eternity to do it all myself."

She looked over at the arguing mob. "HEY!" She yelled, trying to get their attention. They didn't notice her.

Afterward she just screeched while blasting blue lightning beams from her hands. This really got everyone's attention.

"Alright listen up!" She said in a commanding tone. "I know how to get us out of this place, but to do so, I could use a bit of help."

"And I suppose you want us to be your helpers, huh?" Abyo said in an unamused voice.

Doga narrowed her eyes. "Or I could do it myself and leave you all here." She replied.

"Very well." Said Muji. "We shall help you with this, escape plan." Everyone else nodded in agreement.

"Ok then" Doga began listing everything she needs. "I'm gonna need 2 tons of iron, reinforced steel, copper, paranormal essence, some form of electricity, and MOST importantly... 2 double A batteries."

"Where the heck do you except us to find all that in a place like this?!" Complained Princess Morbucks.

"You're gonna have to go look for all that." Doga shot back. "And if you all refuse to fetch me everything, I'll show you just how evil I really am!" She growled as her eyes sparked white.

The group all left, mumbling to each other about how in the world they would find all this stuff.

Doga stayed behind. Reflecting on everything.

"Why didn't I see this coming?" She thought. "Everything was going so well, until he snatched it away."

"I thought we were a perfect team... Back in Townsville, we had so much in common... It almost felt like, for once in my life, I had someone that I could consider... A friend." Doga closed her eyes. When she opened them they started glowing baby blue. The glow was much more calming than her usual lightning sparks. "Is that what it's like, to have a friend?" She asked herself. She then looked up to the red, eye ball filled sky. "That back stabber." She said through her teeth. "I don't know what you're doing up there. But I promise you, whatever horrors you're creating right now. I'll make sure I do ten times worse to you, when I get out of here." Doga said while closing her eyes once more, waiting for the others.

Meanwhile

The group was off wandering through a field of black grass.

"This is dumb." Buttercup complained "we're in the middle of nowhere. How does Doga except us to find all this junk around here?"

"I actually don't know what we're looking for... I wasn't paying attention" Abyo admitted. The whole group made distasteful faces at him.

"First item we need, is lots of iron."Mojo Jojo said. "But Mojo does not know where to find any of the materials. and by that, I do not know where to look for such items. and by that. I, Mojo Jojo doesn't know how to seek out the ore known as iron. and by that-"

"Alright We get it!!" Everyone said in annoyance.

"I highly doubt we are going to find any iron in this field. I don't even see a single rock!" Said Ring Ring.

Blossom started thinking. "But what about under the field?" She asked.

"That's it!" Ching exclaimed "we gotta dig for it!"

And just like that, Pucca sped off for a split second, only to return with a pic axe, shovel, and mining outfit. After she got herself prepared, she sped at speeds faster than the eye could keep up with, and dressed everyone else in mining clothes and gave them tools as she zoomed by them.

They were all surprised and confused on how they were suddenly wearing mining clothes.

Morbucks and Ring Ring were very dissatisfied with their sudden change in attire.

"EWW!" Morbucks yelled. "These clothes are HIDEOUS!!"

"I can't wear these dreaded rags!" Ring Ring added "I look awful in a hard hat!"

But before anyone could do anything, they were all surprised by a sudden burst of noises that sounded like intense construction work. Followed by a massive mountain of dirt, sitting right beside a huge hole.

Pucca has already dug and built an entire mineshaft. She came riding out in a mine cart filled with iron.

"I'm so glad we got Pucca here." Abyo said with a sigh, relieved he didn't have to start digging anymore.

"But that leaves us with a second problem." Tobe groaned. "Where are we going to get reinforced steel?"

"He's got a point." Blossom admitted. "Reinforced steel is something you make. I don't think any of us have the proper tools to make some... Let alone 2 tons of it."

Princess Morbucks flew up to get a better view of the demented world. That's when she saw what looked like a building of some sort. She quickly informed the others. They all made their way to the strange structure. When they finally arrived it seemed to be just one shack, made of concrete.

"I sure do wonder who built this lil thang." Fuzzy said as they approached the small structure. "I don't suppose we'd find anything useful inside."

"Can't hurt to look, I suppose." Ring Ring said.

"Although considering where we are it could possibly hurt very much." Muji said.

Garu bravely stepped up and opened the door cautiously. To everybody's relief, there was no one inside. But what was inside was a stairwell.

When they entered, Mojo stopped and sniffed the air. He for some reason got a little excited. "Can it be?!" He asked himself aloud. "It is! It really is!!" Mojo Jojo started laughing happily. Everyone stared in confusion as they watched him hug the walls of the staircase.

"I-I think he's lost it." Ring Ring whispered to the others.

"Do you not get it!?" Mojo shot back. "These stairwell walls, that are built around the staircase, that we are stationed in. Are constructed out of Reinforced steel!"

Everyone then became really happy for a second. But then came the question, how will they get the steel off the walls. Thankfully, Mojo still had his laser gun, this thing could cut straight through diamond.

"You three!" Mojo said as he pointed to the Powerpuffs. "Help Mojo slice this steel off the walls!" The girls didn't like being commanded in such rude ways, but they willing began using their laser vision to help Mojo strip the walls of steel.

Meanwhile the others were keeping a look out for any creatures that my want to approach the building. Tobe then had a feeling of exploration, he wanted to take a look around, maybe there was more to the building at the bottom of the stairs. He peered over the winding stairwell and looked down. He couldn't see the bottom. "Huh." He said to himself "If I didn't know any better I'd think this staircase was endless."

The Powerpuff Girls and Mojo Jojo continued down, stripping the walls of every bit of reinforced steel as they descended.

The team thought they could hear breathing from right behind them every once in a while, they just shook it off as an effect of the dimension.

When they were sure they had enough, they were eager to get on with their next task.

Meanwhile

Doga was thinking hard to herself.

"Should I really rely on this dimension to have all the things needed to make that portal?" She thought.

Eventually she sighed and got up. "Meh. I guess I could give them a helping hand."

Doga then started aggressively dancing while chanting more evil gibberish. Once she was done with the ritual, a strange being was summoned, the creature could only be described as a one eyed ghost.

"Go help my... Acquaintances, Assist them with anything they need." Doga commanded the phantom.

And like that, the thing vanished.

"There is only one thing to do now. Prepare myself." Doga then began to meditate.

To be continued