four years ago
When she opened her eyes she couldn't remember falling or hitting the ground.
Rather numbly she just lay there in the snow, eyes fixed unseeingly onto the gray sky. Where was she? What had just happened? She had been on Andros, they had all been on Andros. The vortex...she had...this must be the other side of the portal—
then she registered the cold.
It was so cold! She scrambled up, not wanting to lay in the snow any longer. Now she realized it had invaded every inch of her being. Even her blood felt cold. The wind blew faintly and it stung with frigidity. She had never been so cold. She wondered if she had ever been so completely anything as she was cold now.
She glanced down and realized with a start that she was no longer in Enchantix form. It must have happened when she hit the ground—how long had she been lying there?
She quickly transformed again, an Enchantix fairy for the second time ever. It was a strange feeling. It was as though she was related to the world differently, as though all the energies around her had shifted. She had imagined getting it, imagined being powerful, but it didn't feel like she thought it would. Different, not better or worse.
Hovering above the snow slightly, she felt warmer in fairy form. That was good. Wherever she was, it was cold, but not supernaturally cold. But where was she?
She ignored the fear rising in the back of her throat. This wasn't the time to be scared. This was the time to be rational. She could feel things later. For now, she had to act. She had to focus on the positive: she had thought she was going to die. Here she was, not dead. That was good. That was a win.
Now that she was observing her surroundings she could see that she had not just fallen onto an open plain, but she was in a sort of canyon or valley, all riddled with small caves, passageways, and cliffs. She had an excellent memory, and this looked familiar.
This wasn't—
No, it would make sense. It made perfect sense that the Omega Dimension would be on the other side of the vortex. They had thought the negative energy was coming from Valtor but it might've been warped by this notoriously glitchy planet, because that was where he was when he cast it. The connection the two planets had must have caused the vortex. She had read up on Omega after the escape had happened. Her surroundings looked uncannily similar to what she had seen.
Alright, so she was in the Omega Dimension. She took a deep breath and continued to not panic or feel anything in particular. She was not going to analyze. Feeling would do nothing for her right now. She was going to act and think rationally.
How was she going to get out of here?