"But why are they making robots of us?" asked Bubbles.
"Is it not obvious, woman?" Dexter remarked. "The League of Extraordinary Villains is creating a robot army to make war!"
"But war against who?" asked Bubbles.
"And for that matter... why us?" Blossom added.
"Don't call my sister 'woman', Dexter!" Buttercup warned with a death glare. "Her name is Bubbles!"
"Okay, any genius ideas would be nice right about now." Cherry then said.
"I've got it, Cherry," Ben reassured her as he spoke next. "We need to blow that robot factory to smithereens! No more robots of us? No problem! Right, Jack?" he then added.
"It won't be that easy, Ben," Jack advised the shape-shifting boy. "Simply creating robot versions of us is too obvious. Aku has a deeper plan."
"Our true problem is not the robots, but the villains who created them!" Dexter remarked.
"Easy for you to say!" Lu yelped as she took off running. "Make way for your princess to run for her life!"
"Mike, we should protect ourselves from these threats as we're not as powerful as our new friends." Og advised the tomboy city girl.
"I thought you took care of the robots!" Blossom told Ben.
"Well, obviously there were more of them!" Ben retorted.
"With bigger weapons!" Cherry added as she pointed over in concern.
"We must recover the prisoners!" One robot told the others as they left a portal-based entrance.
"Before our masters discover their escape!" Another robot added.
"No sweat!" Ben called out as he transformed. "Astrodactyl has Star Power!"
"Guess it's better than Atticus's friend Leo Stardust?" Cherry said with a small shrug, but would give Lionel exposition if needed.
"I guess so," shrugged Lionel. "But by all means, enlighten me."
"All right, I'll just try to make this quick." Cherry said.
Lionel nodded as he waited to hear more.
"Leo Stardust is a friend/ally of ours who lives in the desert with his sister and their new family," Cherry soon explained, showing some pictures and then added pictures of the siblings. "Leonidas is the oldest and he was home-schooled for his own protection, apparently he was born premature and his father Dr. George Stardust injected him with mutated dinosaur DNA which gave him incredible powers to transform into any dinosaur of his choice as well as gain their abilities accordingly. His younger sister, Lunesta, or Luna Stardust, was very intelligent and was able to finish school early and often read books like the giant nerd she was."
"Hey!" Luna glared from her picture along with her brother Leo.
"I said what I said," Cherry smirked before she continued and then showed the Stardust siblings' new family. "Unfortunately, their house caught on fire some time ago and their father went back to save their mother Cassandra and they both perished, leaving the siblings orphaned until they heard about an event involving monster trucks and dinosaurs and there, they met Spike the Triceratops who was called 'The Terror-Dactyl' for whatever reason and soon, the siblings met him and helped him reunite with the other Extreme Dinosaurs," she then added, showing Spike along with T-Bone the T-Rex, Stegz the Stegosaurus, Bullzeye the Pteradon, and eventually, Hard Rock the Armored Dinosaur. "We've met them a couple of times, such as that Talent Star adventure with Mystery Inc and there was also that time with the Phantosaur which you were unfortunately left out of because PerkyGoth14 didn't know what to do with you since this adventure was brought to her by Thunder Pony on a whim." she then concluded.
"It's okay, she's getting better," Lionel nodded. "And thanks!"
"So yeah, there you go, now where were we?" Cherry replied.
"Astrodactyl." Lionel prompted her.
"Ah, yes, off we go then." Cherry then nodded as the storyline continued.
Astrodactyl soon flew around to take on the robots while Jack and a lot of the others began to get to safety, helping each other out as needed because everyone needed help sometimes, especially Mike, Lu, and Og.
"Why did I grab you?" Buttercup complained as she had a hold of Dexter and Lu. "I could have grabbed Jack!"
"Because, Buttercup, you realized my superior intellect would be our salvation and this island princess wannabe is simply a damsel in distress like many princesses turn out being." Dexter retorted.
"HEY!" Lu glared. "I've fought pirates, I just don't know how to handle robots! Mike probably does, the big city girl clashing with MY island culture and making my life more difficult!" she then ranted.
"Well, then I suggest that you cease your incessant whining and DO SOMETHING USEFUL ALREADY!" shouted Dexter.
"Don't worry, I'll keep you safe!" Bubbles and Jack told each other.
"Well, that went well." Blossom scoffed at the alien shape-shifting boy.
"Hey, the weapon missed us, didn't it?" Astrodactyl retorted.
"And the ceiling collapsed and separated us from the others!" Mike reminded him.
"What a mess!" Bubbles frowned.
"Is everyone okay out there?" Og called out as loud as he could which was hard since he was often soft-spoken.
"Dexter, Lu, and I are fine!" Buttercup answered.
"But blocked by the debris." Dexter added.
"And as the royal princess, I command that one of you peasants let me out of here at once." Lu demanded.
"No prob! Molestache will DIG THROUGH!" Ben reassured as he transformed again and began to help out until a bad smell was emitted.
"Dexter, what is that smell?" Blossom asked out of concern.
"This unstable mass is now leaking a toxic gas, RUN!" Dexter replied urgently.
"Anyone see where those other people went?" Mike wondered, seeing that Cherry, Lionel, and the Eds were missing.
MEANWHILE...
"Do you guys smell that?" Double D asked out of concern.
"Keep running!" Eddy suggested.
"There you guys are," Cherry said as she approached the Eds. "I guess we all got separated from each other."
"Wherever they are, I hope they're okay." said Blossom.
"Come on, let's get going." Double D suggested.
They all soon ran off together before stopping again.
"Can't... *puff, puff* we rest for a second, Double D?" Eddy asked breathlessly.
"If we head this way, we'll find the others!" Double D insisted.
"Hang on a second, guys," Cherry said as she had special senses tingling. "We're not alone."
"How do you figure?" asked Lionel.
"I hear someone, be quiet real quick." Cherry said in a hushed tone of voice.
Lionel then took out a zipper and zipped his mouth shut almost like Genie. They soon hid away quietly and peeked out to see that villains were close by.
"We will use the master weapon, Vilgax, only as a last resort!" Aku was heard saying as he, Vilgax, Mojo, and Mandark were regrouping. "The destruction of our captives' worlds would be pointless!"
"Pointless, Aku?!" Vilgax scoffed. "I have destroyed five worlds already. Destruction instills fear!"
"And makes you hunted throughout the universe!" Aku retorted.
"These heroes can be stubborn!" snapped Vilgax. "As an example-"
"Our robot army will be sufficient!" Aku insisted.
"And if it isn't?!" retorted Vilgax as he zapped the shape-shifting demon with his laser eyes.
"THE MERE THREAT OF THE WEAPON WILL FORCE COMPLIANCE!" Aku countered as he transformed into a giant beast and began to shoot down at Vilgax with blasts from his eyes in a brutal wrath.
"I want to conquer my world; I do not want Vilgax to destroy it." Mojo remarked.
"Aku and Vilgax and their giant superweapon are total cliches!" Mandark scoffed. "And don't get me started on their ridiculous robot minions! They would let the weapon overheat and blow us up instead!"
"I just want my world in my power so I can rule and tell everyone what to do and-" Mojo spoke up again.
"Probably they've let our prisoners escape already!" Mandark interrupted and scoffed again. "Worth looking into."
Soon, the villains began to walk away, allowing Cherry, Lionel, and the Eds to have a moment to talk.
"The monkey looks worried, Double D." Eddy noted.
"He should be, Eddy, that Vilgax guy is nuts!" Double D replied. "He's just looking for a reason to blow up somebody's world!"
"I guess it's better than King Sombra trying to kill me for the millionth time all because I befriended Atticus when we were kids and he viewed me as a distraction in his plans to turn him into an ultimate superweapon." Cherry scoffed and rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, at least." shrugged Lionel.
"Anyways, we'd better find the others and warn them fast!" said Eddy.
"A camera is watching us?" The squirrel asked, seeing some weird technology before licking its lens. "Not anymore~"
"I just wonder if Lionel and I should split up." Cherry began to say.
"Oh, Cherry! I thought we were so happy especially after the big issues when we first started!" Lionel cried out before bawling rather emotionally.
Cherry gave him a deadpan look before elaborating on what she meant about splitting up. "I mean maybe one of us should stay here with the Eds and maybe another one of us should see what's going on with the others in the meantime unless Mike, Lu, and Og should handle that." she then explained.
"Ahhh... I guess that's a good idea." said Lionel.
"I guess the question is, who should go where?" Cherry pondered for a moment.
"You wanna go with the Islanders?" asked Lionel.
"Well, only if you don't mind," Cherry shrugged. "Maybe you can keep Toad, Toadd, and Toaddy at bay."
"HEY!" Eddy glared.
"Hey yourself!" Cherry retorted.
"Both of you, cool off!" Lionel snapped. "It's bad enough the villains are giving us enough trouble. We don't need infighting on our end!"
"Fine..." Eddy and Cherry replied as they shared glares at each other.
"Anyway, I'm out for now," Cherry then said as she took out a certain necklace. "Hopefully the magic of friendship is still alive in this universe whether people like it or not."
"Pfft... Magic of Friendship..." Eddy scoffed and rolled his eyes. "I thought that girl was supposed to be an emo."
"Watch it, pal... I'm a perky goth." Cherry glowered at him and soon suddenly transported herself away with a rainbow-striped glimmer, sending her over to where everyone else was while Lionel would stay behind with the Eds.
"That looked like something out of a cartoon that my sister watches." Ed commented.
"Okay, guys, let's make tracks." said Lionel.
The Eds then came to go with Lionel.
ELSEWHERE...
"Why do they want an army who looks like us?" Bubbles asked.
"I'm not sure, Bubbles," Jack replied. "Aku's plans can be very mysterious."
Suddenly, Cherry appeared in rainbow stripes again as her necklace glowed for a moment and then faded for now.
"Cherry!" Og gasped in surprise.
"The one and only," Cherry replied as she adjusted her glasses. "I see there's been a case of separation anxiety around here."
"Yeah," Bubbles pouted. "We don't know why and I'm worried about what that Aku guy has planned. You always beat him, right?" she then asked Jack cautiously.
Jack was about to say something, until...
"Hey, wait a second," Og suddenly said as he found something. "There are computers over there, Mike's told me about them and I even once tried to make her a laptop computer out of bamboo." he then added.
"I bet we could find out stuff there!" Bubbles exclaimed. "Like where we are, and—oh, no! They spotted the others!"
"I have located the escapees!" said one robot.
"Send retrieval squads!" chirped another.
"The screen with Dexter went all staticky!" Bubbles noted.
"Shh, watch carefully and listen." Og shushed and warned so they wouldn't diver unnecessary attention.
"Bolts and gears, we've lost one!" One robot noted.
"And found others there!" The second added.
"Uh-oh." Bubbles and Og muttered once they were discovered.
One of the robots soon shot laser eyes at the group before Cherry waved her hands and made a protective bubble shield to protect them and the blast bounced off her bubble and bounced back to the robots, making them jump. Other robots came in and shot more lasers while Jack tried to deflect with his sword and Bubbles used her laser eyes.
"All right, we need a plan." Cherry suggested as she used her magic to help herself out.
"I'm not great with computers," Jack soon told the others. "See if you can get a map, find out where the others are while I deal with the robots." he then suggested as he used his sword against the robots.
"Right." nodded Bubbles as she and Og went to the computer and tried to hack into the database.
"Hmm... this might be too advanced for me..." Og remarked.
"Don't worry, I got it." Cherry said as she helped after cracking her knuckles and pushing up her glasses.
Bubbles and Og both looked concerned about Jack as Cherry went to work for a few moments.
"Aha!" Cherry then said before she called out to the samurai who dealt with the robots for them. "Well, I found the map."
"That sentence sounds like it has a but in it." Bubbles noted.
"It does," Cherry admitted. "It doesn't look like we're actually in space."
"What did you find?" asked Jack.
"I think Ben and Blossom and Mike are that way," said Cherry.
"And maybe... we're in another dimension." Bubbles added.
Jack pondered. "Another dimension... that sounds like Aku," he replied. "Come on. Let's go find the others!"
"We did it, guys!" Bubbles suddenly exclaimed.
"Uh, what did we do?" Og wondered.
"We kept each other safe!" Bubbles replied.
"Yeah, Bubs, we kept each other safe." Cherry said with a small smile.
LATER...
"Vilgax will look for a reason to destroy my world," mused Mojo as he walked down the hall. "But I will find a way to stop him! I will check the computers and see—" But when he got to the computer room, he saw a pile of destroyed robots and static-filled screens. "What is this destruction? This annihilation?!"
Things looked very grave (at least for the villains) with what the crazy chimp had discovered.
"A Powerpuff Girls has been here! Using heat vision! And those robots, sliced to ribbons! By Samurai Jack's sword!" Mojo continued as he examined the wreck up close. "Mandark was right, you did let the prisoners escape!"
"Don't tell Master Aku!" One disembodied robot head cried out.
"Vilgax will melt us into slab!" The second added.
"If I capture them, maybe Aku and Vilgax will listen to me and not blow up the world and... there!" Mojo paused to think before he saw a monitor of Lionel with the Eds. "The monitor is smeary, but I see human figures just a few corridors over! IT IS TIME TO RETAKE THE PRISONERS!"
ELSEWHERE...
"They have robots of us, so why bring them here... wherever here is?" Buttercup thought out loud to herself. "It doesn't make any sense!"
"Oh, it's all just so hopeless and pointless," Lu sulked until she saw Dexter at work with some sort of device. "What are you doing with that thing anyway?"
"Women, can you not be silent?" Dexter complained as he did his boy genius work on the device.
"Maybe if you stop picking up alien toys and playing with them!" Buttercup snapped.
"Do not be a STOOPID-head!" Dexter retorted. "Have you not wondered why no robots have attacked us? It is because they cannot find us, for I have created a jammer that blocks transmissions from their ceiling cameras!"
"What the heck does that even mean?" Lu asked. "Are we invisible?"
"Something like that, but moving on, this will also jam-" Dexter replied and began to explain until...
Suddenly, Dexter, Buttercup, and Lu were all zapped and frozen in place.
"Hey! What?!" Buttercup cried out.
"I had but to track your string of out-of-order cameras like a trail of high-tech breadcrumbs!" Mandark smirked as he had done that with his own invention.
"You can't do this to me!" Lu complained. "I'm the princess!"
"Yeah, ask me if I care." scoffed Mandark.
"Mandark?! What are you doing here?!" Dexter demanded.
"I'd think your imprisonment in that force field would make it obvious!" Mandark sniffed.
"And I guess that... that... whatever it is is yours?" Lu guessed.
"Affirmative," Mandark nodded. "My own invention, thanks for asking."
"I guess there are more inventors in the world besides my cousin." Lu commented.
"Uh, yeah, HELLO?!" Dexter glared at her.
"Aku's scrying revealed my potential," Mandark continued. "He chose me to recruit me as his apprentice. I agreed," he then turned around to face a certain brainiac teenage girl. "Scram! Aku chose me and not you, so beat it!"
"Hmph." A redheaded teenage girl with her hair in a bun, wearing glasses with green eyes, a yellow sweater, a teal-colored skirt, white socks, and black shoes glared as her eyes briefly flashed red before she disappeared within the shadows.
"Where was I? Oh, yes, being Aku's apprentice... or so he thinks, but I am obviously his intellectual superior!" Mandark then continued his villainous monologue to the island princess, green Powerpuff Girl, and boy genius who was his rival. "In time, all this will be mine! Your escape is just ONE predictable example of Aku's overconfidence and incompetence!"
"Speaking of overconfidence...!" Buttercup smirked as she fired laser eyes at the energy field, busting it open.
"Eediot!" Dexter snapped as he zapped Mandark, knocking him out cold.
"Yeah, take that, Lightbulb Head!" Lu glared.
"You know an awful lot for an island girl." Dexter noted.
"I blame Canada!" Lu defended. "...or wherever Mike said she came from, I never really bothered to pay attention."
"You stunned him! Good!" Buttercup said to Dexter. "Let's get out of here!"
"Not quite!" Mandark's voice retorted as he had a back-up plan. "As stunned as you gullible fools seem to think!" He immediately activated an alarm system.
"You should have jammed him HARDER!" Buttercup snapped at Dexter.
"We're doomed." Lu sulked suddenly.
ELSEWHERE...
"This ship is bigger than we thought," Double D observed as he traveled with his friends and new friend. "At this rate, we'll never find the others."
"No need to worry, Double D; I'm finding tons of valuable alien artifacts!" Eddy replied.
"Seriously, dude?" Ed asked Eddy.
"We can sell 'em for millions back on Earth!" Eddy defended before shrugging. "Plus if there's any leftover, I guess we can use them for future BattleToads missions."
"If you say so." shrugged Lionel.
"Look, here's another—" began Eddy, before they heard the alarm.
"Now see what you've done!" exclaimed Double D.
"Me? I didn't do nothin'!" Eddy protested. "Just shut up and run, alright?!"
"HALT! You are my prisoners!" Mojo demanded as he held out a laser gun.
Suddenly, the Eds' hands went up as they felt like they had no other choice... for now anyway.
"March, captives! Lead me to the others, for I am extremely villainous and even though the Powerpuff Girls have defeated me many times, it has taken all three of them!" Mojo continued to rant to his hostages as they went along with it for now. "You do not have powers, so you must fear me and do as I say!"
"That alarm sounds our doom!" One robot cried out during the evacuation.
"We will be melted into slag, but perhaps if we ask The Masters to send their doppelganger army?" The second robot noted nervously before offering a compromise.
"Nothing to lose!" The first robot then reassured. "Contact the robot factory!"
"So, why are you guys giving up so easily?" Lionel asked the Eds quietly.
"We're just waiting for a bigger challenge so we can show Mojo Jojo what we can really do and how we're the greatest warriors in the galaxy." Eddy replied smugly.
"Ohhhh." nodded Lionel.
"Just like in the Battlesaurs Super Special #1!" Ed gushed.
"Right, Ed," Eddy rolled his eyes and smirked. "Except way cooler."
"Suit yourself." Ed scoffed and shrugged at that.
MEANWHILE IN THE ROBOT FACTORY...
"They have escaped, as we knew they would," Vilgax noted nonchalantly. "I am shocked it took them this long!"
"Robots, prepare for action!" Aku announced to his army. "And someone shut off that infernal alarm!"
In the meantime, Mike, Blossom, and Astrodactyl were at work on their end like everyone else.
"Those are Aku's colors!" Blossom pointed out to a nearby door, showing the symbol of the shape-shifting villain.
"Blossom would know this since she's shipped with Aku in fanfiction~" A white and silver Powerpuff Girl randomly appeared and smirked.
"...who are you?" Ben asked.
"Don't you remember me? The silver Powerpuff Girl asked innocently before waving her hands around Blossom somehow with black and white spirals in the Powerpuff Girls' leader's eyes. "I'm your sister Bell and I'm the second-in-command of the Powerpuff Girls whenever it goes to Hell and Blossom is hopeless because of Buttercup's teasing and her crush on the hero known as Action Girl."
"Action who now?" Mike asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Oh, Bell, of course I remember you!" Blossom suddenly said and smiled. "You can help us get out of here since I suddenly lost my motivation for Buttercup teasing me about my crush on Action Girl!"
"Don't worry about that now, Blossom, you guys should definitely go right out that door." Bell reassured her sister and pointed to the Aku painted door behind them.
"Oh, Bell, what would I do without you?" Blossom sighed in relief. "I knew it could probably be Aku's mind control room."
Ben shrugged. "...destroy that and our problems are solved," he rationalized. "Somebody set off an alarm, so no point in subtlety."
"So then what?" Bell asked suddenly.
"Isn't it obvious?" Ben replied before explaining more. "Let's just blast in and find a way out."
"Girl Power!" Bell then said with a cheer.
"...since when do The Powerpuff Girls say 'Girl Power'?" Ben deadpanned to himself before he took a deep breath in... and let out a very big breath, blasting the door with his special alien abilities.
Once the door was destroyed, they were able to look in and could see what was previously hidden from them which quite literally put most of them behind themselves.
"The robot factory!" Blossom realized.
"Not quite what I was hoping for!" Ben replied. "We must have circled around the other side!"
"At least somebody finally shut off that alarm." Mike remarked.
"Here they come, guys!" Blossom warned as their doubles soon spotted them.
Blossom's clones soon shot laser eyes at her and Ben was cornered by several other Astrodactyls.
"Sheesh! Even those robots can mimic your abilities!" Mike remarked. "Why bother capture any of us anyway?"
"WE ARE NOW ASTRODACTYL!" exclaimed the Ben clones as they turned into Astrodactyl clones. Astrodactyl then shifted into Feedback. "I could use more fry power!" he grinned as he electrocuted the robot duplicates.
"I was just thinking that!" Blossom agreed before she took a deep breath and let out her ice breath which was only used on special occasions.
The doubles were soon electrocuted and frozen solid due to Ben and Blossom's combined powers. However, their victory was short-lived when they saw that they had more company.
"Dang! No matter how many you destroy, others keep on coming back!" Mike remarked.
"She's right, we'll never stop them all." Blossom added.
"Just show them because they don't know what you can do." Bell randomly stated.
"Why do I feel like that's going to get really annoying later?" Feedback muttered.
"Then it's a good thing you don't have to fight alone!" called Bubbles as she and the others arrived to offer back-up.
"And I'm here to help too!" Cherry added. "Because I'm a lot braver than most people think I am."
"Then how come you chicken out sometimes?" Buttercup asked her.
"Let's not talk about that right now, okay?" Cherry advised. "This isn't about me, this is about saving you guys and your worlds from your villains."
"She's right," Mike nodded. "Come on, guys, I know we're not much since we're just a foreign exchange student and a couple of kids from a desert island in the middle of nowhere, but with the three of together, we can all be great."
"Even me, Mike?" Lu asked with a hopefully wide smile.
"Sure, Lu, even you, if we can find something useful for you to do since I play baseball and Og is the inventor and you're the... well... Lu." Mike nodded and added with a shrug.
"Well, I'll take that as a compliment since I'm my own best friend." Lu said smugly.
"Maybe they can copy our powers, but they aren't as strong or fast or smart or tough as we are!" Buttercup proclaimed, using her laser vision for starters.
"I get that," said Feedback. "But there are still an awful lot of them!"
"Doesn't mean we can't give 'em heck," said Cherry. "Any way we can!"
"Cherry's right, let's get going!" Mike suggested. "That means you too." she then added to Lu and Og.
Lu and Og glanced at each other, but they decided to help their friend in any way that they could.
"At last!" Aku grinned from where he was. "Our chance to test the readiness of our robot army!"
"The prisoners escaped!" Mandark warned as he barged in suddenly.
"Of course they did, my boy!" Aku replied like it was obvious. "It was understood they would! Let me guess; YOU set off the alarm?" he then guessed. "Good for you, but as you see, we have things under control."
"Under control?!" Mandark scoffed in annoyance. "The heroes are going to win!"
"Yes, that is the likely outcome of this little skirmish!" Aku retorted.
"In the unlikely event that our robots actually are victorious, we won't need to transfer the consciousnesses of the heroes into the robot bodies!" explained Vilgax.
"Not that there would be any consciousnesses left to transfer, anyway," Aku added.
"But, if and when the heroes win, we have another way to force their compliance!" Vilgax concluded.
Aku held up a visual of a massive, skull-shaped spaceship with glowing yellow eyes. "Behold, THE DEATHSTARE!" he exclaimed. "With this weapon, no matter what happens, Vilgax, the League of Extraordinary Villains will be the true victors!"
"Just this once, I personally am rooting for the heroes." Mandark muttered to himself.
"Lemme guess; we're gonna cut to someone else for a while?" Cherry asked the narrator in a deadpan voice as everything began to freeze around her and Lionel.
You got it and it's time to see another side story!
"Figures..." Cherry shrugged and rolled her eyes. "Where are we going this time? Charles Darwin Middle School, Orchid Bay, the year 100,000,000 AD?" she then wondered.
Nope! We're going to Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends this time!
"Huh... okay," shrugged Lionel. "That seems pretty low-key, so alright."
"Okay, let's see what happens at that house," Cherry shrugged before glancing over. "...is that Adam Lyon?" she then wondered.
"What's he doing there?" Lionel wondered.