Zim had been busy tinkering with an interdimensional portal on a base deep in space.

Zim said, "I'm going to save my Tallest from the Floorpus one way or another."

Zim wired the underside and then crawled out from the panel to close it. He went to the computer and began working on it. His middle rumbled in empty agony. He turned to a paper sack by the computer and found it to be empty.

Zim shouted, "GIR! DID YOU EAT MY LUNCH?!"

Gir came into the room empty-handed and said, "Uhm, No?"

Zim asked, "Then where is it?"

Gir chirped, "Hmm, I don't know. Maybe Dib stole it."

Dib said, coming from the shadows behind Zim, waving a plastic bag and said, "I did! I'm putting a stop to your plan to take over the multiverse right here and right now!"

Zim asked, insulted, "By stealing my chicken salad on rye?"

Dib asked, looking at the bag, "Is that what this is?"

Zim retorted, "What did you think it was? Some gross Irken cuisine or something?"

Dib said, "I mean, I guess I didn't expect you to have something so ordinary. But it doesn't matter. I won't give you this unless you promise never to use this portal to dominate the multiverse."

Zim said, "I mean, I can always make another sandwich. And I'm not going to use my portal to dominate other worlds. It's frustrating enough to try to take one world, let alone multiple."

Dib snapped, "Promise you won't use this thing for anything nefarious."

Zim sighed, "I promise I will only use my portal to help my people find their way back home."

Dib gave Zim the plastic bag.

Zim then asked, "How did you get on this particular Irken base anyway? We're approximately 15.7 million lightyears away from Earth."

Dib answered, "I still have a spaceship of my own, and I followed you here."

Zim said, "Ah, I see."

Zim opened the bag and bit into the sandwich.

Zim asked, "Do you require sustenance?"

Dib answered, "Nah, Gaz gave me a granola bar before I left."

Zim nodded and finished off his meal rather quickly.

Dib asked, "Why do you want to save those jerks anyway?"

Zim snapped, "Don't you disrespect my Tallest! Without them, Frankly, I don't have a purpose. The Irkens are my people, and I won't let anything hold them back for what's best."

Dib said, "Ah, I see."

Zim then tried to open the interdimensional portal, and it worked; the Tallest and their armada were restored to their route in space.

Zim cheered, "Excellent! The Age of the Irken Empire is back on track."

Dib said, "Woah, that is cool!"

Then he began thinking as Zim shut the portal down.

Dib asked, "Can you recreate this portal on a smaller scale?"

Zim thought for a moment and said, "Why Yes, I think I can, but first, let's go back to Earth."

The two spaceships returned to Earth in about two weeks.

Zim noted, "You seem rather eager to stay by my side lately, Dib."

Dib snapped, "I just want to make sure you're not going to pull any more evil plans."

Gir quipped, "Oooh, he's got you there, Zim!"

Zim snarled, "Oh shut up!"

They came into Zim's lab, and Zim made his deactivated time portal into an interdimensional portal with ease. Dib watched with curiosity.

Zim said, "There we go!"

Dib asked, "Where will it connect to?"

Zim shrugged, "I don't know, we'll just have to take a look-see with some drones."

Zim flew a small camera into the hole and stumbled across a cluster of four large islands. With smaller islands sprinkled between them, All four had natives that had adjusted to the island environments. First was a thick Jungle with a primitive human village settlement in the heart of it. Second was a Volcano island with giant crabs living on the beach. Third was populated by human scientists that where peacefully observing all the life around them on an iceberg. Fourth and last was an island where a group of humans and ghosts coexisted peacefully in an oakwood forest.

Zim was impressed, and he zoomed into the jungle. Dib spotted a tan little boy with short hair, wearing a loin cloth and a red feather in a headband.

Dib said, "Let's watch that guy!"

Zim said a bit weirded out, "Alright."

The boy knocked on the door, and out came a bald older man who was even tanner, wearing intricate body paint and a loin cloth, holding a staff with a purple crystal strapped to a stick.

The old man chirped to the boy, "Ah, there you are, Tak. I hope your journey went well."

Tak chuckled, "Don't worry about me, Master Jibolba; I didn't have any trouble at all."

Jibolba said, "Thank you for coming so quickly; please come in."

Tak went into the hut, with Zim's drone following shortly after. Jibolba didn't seem to notice.

Tak asked, "So, what do you want to talk about?"

Jibolba answered, "My time on this plane of existence is coming to an end. I've seen you come so far in your training as a shaman."

Tak worriedly asked, "What are you saying?"

Jibolba said, "I think it's time you take my place."

Tak was surprised and asked, "Do you really think I'm ready?"

Jibolba gave Tak the staff and said, "I do."

Tak took the staff and bowed, "I humbly accept this duty."

Jibolba then turned to Zim's drone and said, "Don't think I didn't notice you, little Juju. You are here on behalf of your master, The Alien Bug, as foretold by the ancient prophecy of the slimes."

Tak asked, "The prophecy of the Slimes? Isn't it a bit soon for the Mawgu to immerge?"

Jibolba chuckled, "If you think the Mawgu emerging is too soon, just wait until you learn about the rest of the prophecy."

Tak asked, "There's more to the prophecy than the Mawgu and Globus Maximas?"

Jibolba said, "But of course, young Shaman, the old crab Shelly has more wisdom than myself in this matter. As I prepare to pass on to be one with the Juju, you must go to him with our guest and learn more."

Tak said sorrowfully, "Very well, Master Jibolba."

Jibolba gently lifted Tak's chin and reassured them, "You will be here for the ritual when I leave this plane for the next. I know you want to be here for me at this time, but the will of the Juju has changed our fates."

Jibolba tenderly hugged Tak and then quickly let go. Tak took a deep breath and turned to the drone.

Tak gestured with his staff, "Come, we have far to travel."

Zim followed Tak with the drone.

Dib piped up and said, "All this Juju talk makes me think he's a few bolts short of a whole ship."

Zim snapped, "Don't be so ignorant, Dib. It's clear from the context that this Juju business is his people's religion. You don't have to believe it, but I highly suspect that they might think it's disrespectful!"

Dib argued back, "Hey, don't give me that respect first nonsense. You plan to take my world! There is no honor among thieves!"

They were both clueless that Tak could hear their bickering. He came upon the beach.

Tak said, "Hey, guys!"

Zim and Dib stopped arguing and turned back to Tak.

Tak lifted his staff and said, "Check this out!"

The jewel glowed a bit, and from the forest came a dozen little bunny-like goblin creatures holding sticks. They got to work building a raft with the sticks and set it on the water. Tak tossed them a handful of berries, and they scurried away, vanishing into the jungle.

Tak said, "Tada!"

The two observers were amazed.

Blandin was sitting on a rock at sunset in the desert. He was disguised as a pioneer, trying desperately to stay hidden in the crowd. He was setting up his little bundle of a bed, weary from the day. As the nighttime came, he got ready to sleep under the stars. The other pioneers were already fast asleep, but Blandin was stuck staring at the stars above as he lay on the hard ground. He heard something in the distance. The sound of machines, gears on gears, turning, clicking, grinding, and then tearing. The horrible sound of something tearing fabric.

He turned toward the sound and sat up in shock to see a glowing yellow-orange portal opened wide with something metallic on the left, the right, and the bottom. The strings of reality are loosely hanging from the top. It was like someone used a claw machine to open up a t-shirt, but like for spacetime. And from the portal came a robot. It was a tube on wheels with arms and a bulky screen for a head. The screen very subtly glowed blue and there on the display was a face. Red circles made the eyes, and a red line made the mouth. He approached Bladin like he was rolling over a smooth surface.

It spoke, "Blandin Blendin, stand forth and receive your gift from me."

Blandin stood up and asked, "Who are you, metal man?"

It replied, "I go by the Desktop of Destiny. You have suffered enough, I am here to aid you in what you want out of your story now."

Blandin suspiciously asked, "How do I know you're not secretly Bill Cipher?"

The Desktop of Destiny said, "You know what? Fair enough. I'll restore Time Baby on my will. And you can stay here in pioneer cowboy days if that's what you want."

The machine turned around and started heading back to the hole.

Bandin said, "Wait, no!"

The Desktop of Destiny stopped in its tracks and turned to Blandin with a smug smile.

Blandin sighed, "What do I need to do?"

The Desktop of Destiny came back and took out the time tape from Blandin's belt. He then stuck a sticker of a baby bottle on the case.

The Desktop of Destiny handed it back and instructed, "Go to the Time Police headquarters, and your leader will be restored when you put this on his chair."

Blandin gave a nod, and The Desktop of Destiny disappeared into the portal. Blandin made sure to set it to 'forward,' then yanked on his time tape, wrapping it around his arm, pulling it as much as he could. Then let it go when he reached the end.

He vanished from where he stood, and his clothes dropped to the sand.

Tak and Zim's drone came upon the island of giant crabs. He came to one that held a gangly wooden stick and a beard.

Tak greeted him, "Shelly, you old crustacean."

Shelly chirped, "Tak, you spry young shaman!"

The drone floated next to Tak, and Shelly gasped, "The servant of the Alien Bug! The prophecy of the slimes is coming true!"

Tak said, "I know, but I was told there was more to the prophecy than the Mawgu and Gloobius Maximus."

Shelly stroked his beard thoughtfully and said, "Ah, yes, let's review, shall we?"

Shelly scuttled into a cave with Tak and the drone shortly behind. There was a big circle surrounding a hole in the cave. The circle seemed to be painted in ten equal parts, and in each section was an icon.

Shelly said, "Behold! The Great Prophecy of the Slimes! Also known as the Zodiac of the great Calamity!"

Shelly gestured to the symbol that eerily matched the Irken symbol for invaders.

Shelly explained, "The first sign is the Alien Spider has sent forth his robotic observer servant Juju to find the others!"

Shelly gestured to the one next to it, which was a T in a rectangle.

Shelly said, "After I finish telling you the whole prophecy, you will find the Spicy Tiger! You two will play in the same place for a spell before they return to his home."

Dib quipped, "I don't know why, but I find that offensive."

Shelly gestured at the next symbol, a circle with two bent triangles. It resembled the head of a girl with short pigtails.

Shelly said, "Next, you will battle the Robot Girl! And then the Mawgu will emerge upon the second fusion of Ghost energy and fairy magic. The first part, Prophecy of the Slimes, will be fulfilled!"

Zim asked, "How many parts are there to this prophecy?"

Shelly replied, "Only three! How unusual, right? It's like how the center of this Zodiac is supposed to depict the Great Calamity that kicked start the creation of all the universe. Yet, the Slime of Earth and Sea has taken it! Rumor has it that it just depicts a three-sided being with one eye! It's like the slimes have a strange affinity to triangles!"

Tak said, "Yeah, that is strange. Anyways, what is the second part of the prophecy of the Slimes state?"

Shelly explained, "Well, the second part outlines how the emergence of the Mawgu attracts Gloobius Maximus. A world destroyer that is the Slime of Space and Sky's shadow."

Dib asked, "Wait, there's more than one slime now?"

Shelley smacked the drone, scolding, "There was always more than one slime, silly observer Juju! Now, pay attention!"

Dib felt the back of his head get a smack from seemingly nowhere and snapped, "Alright, that's it, I'm out of here, Zim. You can fulfill this wacko three-part prophecy on your own!"

Zim said, "Excuse us just a moment, will you?"

Shelly chirped, "Of course, chosen ones."

Zim turned off the microphone so he could scold Dib, "This portal was your idea, Dib. You can't honestly expect me to want to go along with some crazy old crab's ramblings? "

Dib asked, "What is with you? First, you want me to respect their culture, and now you're talking bad about them behind their back?"

Zim rubbed his head and replied, "I'm not entirely sure myself. All I know is that the only reason we're neck-deep in exposition is because of you. Now you can either sit this one with me,"

Zim's metal limbs sprang out from his PAK as he threatened, "Or I will drag you into my lab and dissect you like the frog you are!"

Dib pulled out a wrench from his trench coat and shouted, "Bring It!"

Meanwhile, the drone was floating there, yet worry had spread across Tak's face.

Tak said, "I sense they may be arguing again, Shelly. Those two can't seem to stand each other. It makes me wonder why they stay together."

Shelly chuckled, "Much like how me and my wife were before she left into that great sand settlement in the sky. But I suspect their relationship is one born of circumstance rather than choice. I highly suspect that our chosen one, and the one he calls Dib, was chosen by fate to be rivals. We should leave them to their bickering. It will fizzle out soon enough."

Tak was unsure, so he sat on the ground, his legs crossed, closed his eyes, and focused his mind. His staff's jewel glowed again, and pretty soon, Tak could see the playful but still violent fight Dib and Zim were having. Tak looked around the house and found GIR watching Television.

Tak spoke to Gir, "You, little Juju, what is your purpose?"

Gir replied in a severe voice with his eyes turning red, "To aid the Irken Empire in Operation: Impending Doom 2!"

Gir's eyes then turned back to turquoise as he chirped, "By serving my master Zim to the best of my abilities! Yay! My name is GIR!"

Tak said, "Gir, that Dib guy is messing with your master again. Is there any way you can get rid of him?"

Gir gave it some thought.

Zim's and Dib's fight had ended up back in the lab, Zim shielding himself with an energy dome from Dib throwing random viles of chemicals at him.

Then, a long vacuum-like tube hoovered up Dib, leaving behind the glass bottles. They broke upon landing. Dib screamed all the way outside into the twilight air.

Tak cheered, "Good job, GIR Juju!"

Tak then returned to Shelly.

Shelly scolded, "Tak, you shouldn't use your Juju so willy-nilly!"

"Jibolba says," Tak said, then recited as if by memory, "One's fire can only burn so bright for so long, so it is better to boil herbs when one is at the peak of their flame rather than setting the pot on too soon and snuff out the fire or too late and not even heat the water by the dying embers."

Shelly sighed, "Of course he would."

Zim turned the microphone back on and said, "I'm back; please resume explaining the Prophecy of the Slimes."

Shelly cleared his throat and said, "The third and final part of the prophecy states that the Great Calamity will return after the defeat of the ToyBots Of Doom!"

Zim snapped a photo of the Zodiac.

Tak said, "Speaking of Jibolba, I need to go back home to see him off during the ceremony. You should return to your home as well, observer Juju."

Zim made the drone nod and then flew it back into the lab through the portal. He then changed the coordinates. Zim had to repair the dent Shelly made with his stick.

Zim then sent his drone into the portal again. He was viewing a town in the middle of a harsh desert that was right next to a volcano.

On the volcano were the words; "Miracle City."

The town buildings seemed to be made of reddish clay and wood. There were brightly colored signs hanging off a few. Right in the center looked to be an older man in a strange, sizeable brimmed hat and a little boy with a scar across an eye having a standoff. They glared at each other.

The boy made his move, spinning his belt buckle—a green fire sprung from it and a tiger costume alongside it. The suit instantly bound itself to the boy.

The boy let out a playful yet mighty roar!

The old man laughed, "Excellento, El Tigre. But now it's my turn!"

The older man pushed a button on his hat, and it transformed into a mech suit.

Tigre then charged at the old man, saying, "Here I come, Abuelo!"

Zim watched as The long claws of Tiger's suit clashed against the metal of Abuelo's arms. Then Abuelo swung his metal arm at Tigre, and the boy dodged with ease. With the playful roughhousing between the two, they seem to be able to predict each other's movements right down to how they tried several times to get a cheap shot at the other. Then Tigre was able to bounce off a building, land onto the mech suit, and tear into Abuelo's suit to shut it down from the inside, which was apparently the winning moving in this scrap as Abuelo collapsed onto the ground in defeat willingly.

Abuelo said with a chuckle, "That was a great fight, Manny! You've really come a long way since we started your training."

Tigre whined, "Abuelo, I know you were holding back."

Abuelo got out of his suit and chuckled, "Ah, I really can't hide anything from you."

Tigre asked, on guard, "Do you think I can't handle your strongest moves?"

Abuelo sighed as he dusted himself off, "No, I fear time has not been good for my body. I have to be careful for my own sake, pequeño gatõ."

Tigere smiled, "I understand, Abuelo."

Abuelo ruffled the fur on Tigre's head affectionately. He then gathered his broken mech parts and carried them away.

Tigre's ear twitched, and he spotted Zim's drone floating nearby. He got ready to pounce, and Zim, sensing danger, flew the drone away. Tigre gave chase on all fours, moving faster than any being Zim had ever seen.

Zim had to dodge Tigre a couple of times. The boy seemed to be having fun trying to take the drone down.

He managed to fly the drone out of reach long enough to get it back through his portal. But he couldn't close the portal before Tigre pounced into his lab. Then it shut, the tip of Tigre's tail just barely missing being stuck inside it.

The boy seemed different when he came over; his body was a lot longer, his head was just a little smaller, and Zim could see just how big his claws were.

Zim scolded, a bit unsure of himself, "H-how dare you chase after my drone!"

Tigre was surprised and in awe.

Tigre asked, "Dónde estoy?"

Zim replied, "You're in my laboratory!"

Tigre asked, "You understand Español?"

Zim said, "Of course, I study the subject extensively at my School."

Tigre looked around, his eyes were wide looking at it all.

Zim then reopened the portal and said, "Now, to get you back home."

Tigre pouted and asked, "Do I really have to? I'm so aburrido!"

Zim said, "There isn't anything exciting happening here either, other than me going around fulfilling some prophecy, apparently."

Tigre said, "That sounds mucho mas emocionante then going home!"

Tigre got on his knees, opening his eyes wide, a sparkling in them. He looked rather pitiful.

Tigre pleaded, "Can I stay, pequeño verde hombre? Ple-e-ea-a-ase?"

Zim sighed, "Fine, but stay out of trouble."

Tigre bounced up, "Yay!"

Zim said, "My name Is Zim, by the way."

Tigre posed in a taunting way, "Soy El Tigre!"

Zim chuckled and started making a few modifications to the drone. He was taking a break from exploring for a while.

Tigre wandered around Laboratorytory, climbing the shelves and squeezing around the machines; he snuck his way up into the house where Gir was. The little robot was cleaning up the mess from Dib and Zim's fight. Tigre pounced on him playfully for a hug.

Gir cooed, "Aw, big kitty."

They went to the living room to cuddle for a while. Zim prepared his drone to fly it when he heard a loud CRASH from upstairs.

Zim sighed and went upstairs to see what had broken. There was Gir in battle mode, and Tigre was playfully roughhousing with him. Luckily, the only thing that broke was a vase.

Zim scolded, "Take it outside, will you? This house is a mess enough!"

Meanwhile, White Panthera had come home. GrandPapi was in the living room, drinking something from a can and watching the Television. He passed the room into the hallway nearby into Manny's room, except, Manny wasn't there.

White Panthera was perplexed and checked the clock. It was well past six o'clock! Alarm bells rang in White Pathera's mind. He immediately stormed back to the living room.

White Panthera asked, "Where is Manny?"

GrandPapi replied rather exhaustedly, "Probably with his little friend or his mother. Or just on a nightly patrol. Let the kid be, he's almost 14, and you're still treating him like he's ten."

White Panthera's anger evaporated as he took a big sigh, "You're right; I need to trust that my son will make good choices."

Suddenly, Maria and Frieda burst into the house. They both glared at GrandPapi.

Frieda demanded, getting GrandPapi by the collar. "Where's Manny?"

GrandPapi, said, "Aye, niña enojada! I don't know where our pequeño tigre is!"

She let him go if only to give Maria room to get his face next.

"You were the last one with him," Maria explained worriedly, "And He didn't come to dinner at my place, and Frieda hasn't seen him since this morning."

GrandPapi sighed, standing up. "Well, I guess I have to go find him."

White Panthera asked, now very worried, "You don't know where he could be?"

GrandPapi said, "I might have a few ideas, but I have a hunch we won't be able to find him. If he's in hiding for whatever reason, he won't be coming out anytime soon."

White Panthera sighed, pulled out his phone, and quickly rang up Manny.

El Tigre and Gir were in the backyard of the house, still play-fighting. Manny's phone began to buzz.

Gir asked, "What's that sound?"

Tigre replied, "Oh, my cell phone! I'm getting a call!"

Tigre took it out and answered the call.

Tigre chirped, "Hola!"

Roldolfo's voice practically exploded out of the phone, "Manuel Pablo Gutierrez O'Brain Equihua Rivera! Where did you disappear to?"

Tigre squeaked, "Papa, calm down! I'm just visiting a new friend's house."

Rodolfo snarled, "Where?! You know leaving Miracle City is dangerous!"

Tigre muttered, "Not as dangerous as living there."

Rodolfo snapped, "What was that?"

Tigre sighed and reluctantly said, "Don't worry anymore. I'm coming home."

Rodolfo said, his whole demeanor turning cheerful, "That's good to hear. See you soon!"

Tigre hung up and went back inside.

Tigre went back down to Laboratorytory, where Zim had the portal.

Zim turned to Tigre in curiosity and asked, "Everything okay, Manny?"

Tigre sighed, "I need to go home, my father is furious I'm not at home."

Zim said, "Oh, alright."

Zim reopened the portal, and Tigre pounced through. Zim then closed it again. Zim had prepped his drone for quite the scuffle, as he didn't want whoever this Robo Girl was to destroy his technology. So far, this Prophecy of Slime was being fulfilled accurately. Zim was now in it to see it to the end. However, the Toy Bots of Doom sounded suspiciously familiar. But anyway, the portal opened to a new location.

It was a quiet, sunny day in Tremorton. Jenny Was flying through the air on patrol. She whizzed through the air, and she was bored. She wasn't sure whether her Mom saw it on her radar, but whatever she detected, it was not in the area anymore.

That's when she heard it, a low, buzzing sound. She looked to the ground, and sure enough, there was a strange-looking camera flying through the air. Her internal alarm blared, and a little screen popped out of her chest. It turned on, and there was her Mom, Nora Wakeman, looking a bit worse for wear as she was working in her lab.

Nora barked, "XJ9! The extra-dimensional terrestrial is nearby; destroy it immediately!"

The screen tucked itself away as Jenny sighed. She held out her hand, and it transformed into a cannon on her arm. She gave that weird semi-bug-like drone a nice blast of her blue plasma cannon arm!

PEW!

It hit a weird purple-lime dome around it that was invisible until she blasted it. She transformed her other arm into a cannon, hovered around it, and gave it a full-on barrage of beams.

PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW! PEW!

None of the shots hit it; the purple-lime dome was impenetrable with her blasts.

Suddenly, A squeaky voice chirped from the drone, "Wow, you're an incredible battle droid!"

A high-pitched yet scratchy voice scolded from the drone, "Gir, get away from the microphone!"

Gir mumbled, "Sorry, Zim."

Jenny felt a mixture of flattery and amusement. Then, from the drone came a dozen different guns from its sides.

Jenny quipped, rather exhaustedly, "Oh right, we're fighting."

The guns opened fire on her. With one quick motion, Jenny changed her cannons back to hands and put up her arms, and from one extending out like an aperture was a shield. The blast barrage bounced off her, and she quickly lost energy before it could cause any more damage. Jenny scoffed, opened her belly, and inside that particular compartment was a lasso that she quickly took up and spun around in the air before tossing over the drone. The shield didn't account for being hogtied. And she was able to crush its wings and guns! She quickly tucked her shield away.

Jenny then pulled it closer to her to say, "Got you now, you little varmint!"

Zim was incoherent, but it was clear he was not happy with the drone getting so thoroughly damaged.

She chuckled a little and then said, "Now, to send you back from where you came from!"

Jenny held it with her right hand, and her left transformed into a giant tennis racket; she then threw the drone into the air and whacked it as hard as she could with her racket. It was sent flying!

Jenny shouted after it, "So long, dweeb!"

She then remembered just how frazzled her Mom was and flew over to a coffee shop. Jenny very gently landed in front of it. She then went inside.

Jenny addressed the barista politely, "Hello, may I please have a tall dark roast with triple espresso?"

The barista, who looked half asleep, said, "Can I have a name?"

Jenny replied, "Nora!"

The barista said, "Got it!"

A few minutes passed, and the barista finished the cup.

The barista announced loudly, "Coffee for Nora!"

Jenny said, "Thanks!"

She took the cup and opened her chest; inside was a cupholder on a gyroscope. She carefully placed the cup on it, making sure it was secure before leaving the shop and blasting off.

Jenny came to her house and gently landed on her front porch. She went inside and came to her mother's lab. She took out the cup from the cupholder in her chest. Then she knocked on the door.

Nora came to the door, her eyes barely open. Jenny gave her mother the cup, not saying anything, but worry was obviously etched on her face.

Nora swiped the cup and chugged it.

She instantly perked up and said, "Ah, nothing like a nice hot cup of coffee after an all-nighter. Thanks, sweetie!"

Jenny sighed in relief.

Nora then explained, "Me and James have been working on this two-way portal for a while. Ever since he found our world, it's like I found a fellow scientist. Although, I do wonder about him. He told me the most unusual story about how he defeated his rival."

Jenny asked, "What was so unusual about it?"

Nora replied, "He mentioned something about a friend called Phantom."

Deep inside Nora's lab, her prototype portal opened, glowing a lime green as if in recognition. This portal leads directly to Amity Park.

Amity Park Penitenary on Thursday at 3:00 pm in Block GH: Cell 057. Inmate Vlad Plasmious sat in his cell, glowing green cuffs on his wrists. He was unable to transform as long as those cuffs were touching his skin. So, he was in human form. Vlad was staring at the ground, the gears in his head turning as he tried to formulate a plan of escape, but at the same time, most plans required his ghost powers.

Then he heard something in the vents. He looked up to the little vent in his cell, bracing himself to be greeted by a rat or some other disgusting pest but instead, there it was a robot. It cut open the vent with a little laser sword.

Finbar's voice sneered smugly, "Hop up, loser. We're breaking you out!"

Vlad jumped up and crawled after the drone. It led him outside of the prison, and Finbar was waiting for him with Denzel Crocker already there. They were in a van, and Vlad hopped inside. Finbar then lockpicked the cuffs, and Vlad transformed into his ghost form. Then the door closed, and the Van sped off, being driven by a robot.

Vlad looked around and asked, "Where's Sheldon?"

Croker scoffed, "That small, silly sweetie isn't serious about villainy, so we decided not to include him in our new plan."

"Alright," Vlad said, and then asked, "What's the plan?"

Crocker reached behind himself and trapped in his butterfly net was none other than Wandisemo!

Wandisemo scolded the group, "I'll never give in to you awful Evil Syndicate!"

A twisted grin spread across Vlad's face.

Then he looked around and asked, "Hey, Isn't there meant to be four of you guys?"

Finbar smiled devilishly and said, "Oh, I wouldn't worry about that if I were you. Our team being a member short is the least of your problems."

Vlad then slipped into Wandesimo's body and quickly overshadowed the fairy. The clouds rumbled overhead with thunder and lightning, the pink Fairy Magic slowly being corrupted by the lime green Ghost Energy. The storm got more and more violent.

The volcano on Volcano Island started to rumble and grumble, and the crabs on the island shook with it. The Earth itself shuddered and shivered as a deep, imposing laugh reverberated from the core of the Earth. The volcano itself seemed to fight back, trying to hold down the monster emerging. The rocks seemed to clench, and the lava beginning to spew seemed to be trying to slow its descent and hold the creature down.

Shelly watched this in a mix of horror and amazement. He called out, "Mawgu, the Juju of the Volcano disapprove of your ascent! Yield to their wills!"

The Mawgu's laugh only grew louder, and he growled, "GEOANA, VULCANA HEED MY ROAR! YOU PATHETIC ELEMENT IMMORTALS CANNOT OVERCOME THE VOID; WHAT HOPE DO YOU OR YOUR CRUSTY OLD MAN FRIEND HAVE AGAINST ME, THE WORLD BREAKER, SON OF THE GREAT CALAMITY?!"

The Rocks rumbled, "YOU ARE ONLY AS STRONG AS THE MAGIC YOU ARE FED!"

The Lava Bubbled, "DON'T LET CONFUSIOUS HEAR THAT BLANTANT BLASFAMY!"

Shelly then shouted, "Evacuate the village! The time has come! The Mawgu rises!"

The Crabs were in a scramble as they tried to rush away from the eruption as the Juju of the Volcano failed to pull him back down.

The Mawgu then roared, "CHOSEN ONES WILL KNEEL BEFORE ME!"

The Rocks rolled into the sea, and a bat-winged crystal began weeping. Geoana was beside herself in sadness and fear. She was approached by a heart with tattered butterfly wings. It was her brother, Aquarius, the Element Immortal of Water. He comforted her with hardly a word spoken between them, his water cuddling her stone. The Mawgu's laugh reverberated across the universe.

Finbar turned to the only window in the van and asked, "Did anyone else hear that?"

Crocker and Vlad, overshadowing Wandesimo, retorted and replied, "Hear what?"

They drove off into the night, the fate of the universe looming in darkness.

To Be Continued...