My story for the FusionFall April 2025 Fanfic Exchange, inspired by Scroogeyturtle's Nickelodeon Animated Universe - Globulous Invasion story! You can find it on Ao3! Credit to Ray01 and NicDraws for the FF Jenny art, and credit to Virt for the FF Spongebob art used in the cover. This is "canon" to my Roxieverse series, but can be read standalone.
August 2044
A shrill shriek boomed between the towering buildings of downtown Townsville, a distinct sizzling popping afterwards. Flying bullets soon filled the air, causing the shriek of a Fusion monster to grow louder and seize longer. The creature's crying out snuffed, melting into a puddle of Fusion Matter at the feet of its attackers.
Now only heavy breathing softly echoed in the streets between Roxie Leeblossom and Alan Albright, two teenage volunteers in the war effort against Planet Fusion's invasion. The armored Oil Ogre Fusion they just defeated proved to be quite the competitor given the several cuts and burns on Roxie's skin and pink sleeves; even the tip of one of her spiderlegs protruding from her back was singed.
Alan, fired up in his full Pyronite form, didn't show much visible damage, but his tough Pyronite skin also doubled as armor better than Roxie's clothes. Joining Roxie at her side, Alan's flame flickered, dying to reveal the dark-skinned boy he usually looked like. He rested a hand on Roxie's shoulder, giving her a squeeze.
"You alright, Roxs?" he asked. The blonde girl nodded, but leaned over as if out of breath.
"Yeah, yeah." Roxie sighed. "I just didn't think it'd take so many hits to melt."
"It's cool, we've got this!" Alan smiled, causing Roxie to roll her eyes as she shared the grin.
"We are a pretty good team." Roxie replied with a chuckle. "Should we go let Mandark know we took care of the Oil Ogres?"
"Well," Alan nodded, but had turned his attention down a nearby alley. "We got rid of the Fusions for now, but more of them will just spawn after we leave. There has to be a Terrafuser nearby."
"Our mission was only to clear the street…" Roxie shifted her eyes towards the alley Alan watched.
He wasn't wrong, unfortunately. Any nearby Terrafuser would just produce another wave of Fusions to roam the streets in a few hours. It might've already stuck out to them if they were in the suburbs, but deep in the city the Fusions seemed to plant their Terrafusers among the buildings. If there was one preparing to spawn Fusions, it could've been hidden anywhere amongst the metropolis.
"I'll fly up top and search the rooftops." Alan said, his hands igniting into flame again.
"We don't really need to go above and beyond for Mandark." Roxie groaned, but Alan continued to erupt into his Pyronite form. "I'll check down here, I guess." She relented with a lazy wave.
Her dual pistols, shaped like milk jugs, stayed clenched in Roxie's hands as she begun walking down the alley. A faint crack from Alan's flames popped through the alley, his bright light soon disappearing over the buildings. She walked past a large dumpster, which she used a spiderleg to nudge open. Her face revolted with a gag, finding only the expected trash inside.
"Yuck…!" she spat, her spiderleg pulling back and letting the dumpster's lid slam shut.
A distant giggle from a Fusion drifted down the alley, but Roxie saw no threat approaching. Regardless, she pointed her guns in front of her in preparation. She used another spiderleg to ruffle through her pockets, digging out her NanoCom. She swiveled around to point her guns behind her, using her extra appendages to dial Alan and place an earbud in.
"Any luck?" she asked, tucking the Com away.
"Clear so far." Alan's voice buzzed in her earpiece. "You?"
"Just trash." Roxie replied, crinkling her nose. "I'll check the next alley though. Meet me on the corner of the block?"
"Yeah, I'll meet you there!"
Roxie continued on, exiting the alley from the opposite end. She walked along the sidewalk to the next gap in the buildings. It might as well have been the same alley, except for the dumpster sitting in this one had already been flipped open, and green spray paint had dried on the side of one of the buildings. Despite the crude imagery, she could tell the tag was most likely made by one of the Gangreen Gang members.
Her face soured as she approached the open dumpster. The smell had already smacked her, but it would be smart to take a peek. She leaned forward, starting to glance inside before her ear buzzed.
"Roxs, I found it up here!" Alan's voice cheered. Roxie jumped back in shock.
"Agh!" she squeaked, immediately growing frustrated. "Jeez, Alan! You scared me!"
"Ah, sorry! Are you alright?"
Roxie shook her head, calming down. "Yeah, it's ok. Need some help?"
"It's a small one, I'll take care of it. I'll be down there in just a minute."
"Roger." Roxie nodded to herself.
She brought her hands together, her dual pistols connecting into a double barreled Milk Magnum gun. Equipping it to her belt, Roxie pulled the earbud out and pocketed it as well. Her work here was done! She began to walk off, passing the open dumpster as she heard an attack from Alan from above.
Unfortunately, that distracting burst of flame meant Roxie didn't hear the rustling from the opened dumpster. Just as the girl turned her back, cans and plastics clattered. The heap of trash inside the dumpster erupted, another gooey Oil Ogre hiding underneath. One can flew forward past Roxie, causing her to shake her head and whip around.
But the Oli Ogre had already begun to attack, heaving a pile of trash right at Roxie as she turned. She took the projectile right in the face, spitting and gagging again as she stumbled back. Just a moment later, the aggressive Oil Ogre pushed forward, bashing her hard with a gooey fist. In an instant, Roxie was out cold…
August 2044…?
Well… That's kind of embarrassing, isn't it? It's not exactly the first time Roxie has lost a fight with a Fusion, but to be so swiftly taken out like that? This girl is lucky she isn't dead! Though, right now she probably wished she just outright died, as she immediately felt the soreness covering her body as she started to come to.
"Oh, she's waking up!" An unfamiliar robotic voice buzzed. "Hooray!"
"Wha…?" Roxie groaned, shifting on the medical table she laid on.
Her eyes slowly blinked open slowly, blinded by the white walls of the room she sat in. She assumed Alan had taken her to the hospital, but this room was far too large to be a single hospital room. In fact, this actually appeared to be a lot like one of Dexter;s labs. A boy with high, swirly hair stood at a nearby computer outfitted in a labcoat, but Roxie would have no time to call out to him before noticing the green dog plush hugging her leg.
"Yay, my best friend is alive!" the plush toy squealed with an unmoving mouth.
Roxie blinked… then immediately screamed. She kicked her legs, causing the plush to fly off and smack into the ceiling. The girl quickly sat up on the table, pulling her legs towards herself and wrapping her arms and spiderlegs around them. The boy in the labcoat turned to see the commotion, revealing a casual red hoodie with a yellow logo underneath.
"Who are you!?" Roxie barked at the boy. He couldn't have been more than a year or two younger than her.
"Roxie?" The boy raised a brow, approaching the table. Roxie's upper two spiderlegs pointed at him, ready to strike. "It's me? Jimmy?"
"Uhm…" Roxie raised her brow as well. "I only know one Jimmy, and he lives in Burbank."
"No, it's me. Jimmy Neutron. Ugh, he must've hit you really hard…" The kid named Jimmy pondered to himself. "Roxie, what do you last remember?"
The girl blinked again, eyeing this so-called "Jimmy" up and down. He did really know her, or is this some sort of trap?
"I was looking for a Terrafuser, and Alan found it, but a Fusion attacked me." Roxie hesitantly described. Her posture had relaxed some, but her upper spiderlegs still aimed at Jimmy. "Then I woke up here… Which is…?"
"Fusion…?" Jimmy started to seem equally as confused as Roxie. "We're in AJ's lab. He's letting us convene here while we deal with the current threat in Dimmsdale, remember? The others are upstairs waiting after you blacked out."
"Dimmsdale?" Roxie questioned. "Where the heck is that? Where's Townsville?"
"Roxie, I think you might have some amnesia after that blow to the head." Jimmy said with a slight frown. "This will be a setback…"
Silence hung between the two as they both struggled to find words. The plush dog that had been kicked to the ceiling just now fell back down, crashing to the floor with way more weight than it should've. Roxie's spiderlegs moved to aim at the toy, but Jimmy simply sighed.
"GIR, go brief the others," he instructed. "I'll, uhm… I'll figure out a new plan of attack."
"We're all going to die!" the plush toy squealed as it ran out of the room. Roxie watched for a moment, shooting a glance to Jimmy before jumping off the table.
"Alan!" she cried out, rushing after the toy and up a flight of stairs.
Roxie exited the lab to find herself in a typical suburban home, the lab just a basement below. Despite the familiarity of a casual home, Roxie was smacked in the face by the sight of a living room full of kids and creatures she had never seen before. Except each of them looked to her without confusion.
"She's alive!" the plush toy announced the group as Roxie and Jimmy followed behind. "But we're dead, believe it!"
The cast of characters in the living room all turned their attention directly at Roxie, the sudden spotlight making her sweat. There was a boy in a pink shirt and matching hat standing next to a bald kid with a labcoat. Above them were two, tiny floating people with crowns and wands. A boy with black hair that looked to be Roxie's age stood near speaking with a blue robotic girl. Another boy wore a lab coat, and had stylized, pointed hair. Next to him were the strangest sights, a boy with sickly green skin, a tall anthropomorphic turtle with a purple mask tied over his eyes, and a square sponge laughing with the group.
"Oh, Roxie!" the black haired teenager said with a smile.
"You're up!" the robot next to him shared his cheer.
"Wait, everyone-" Jimmy tried to butt in, but Roxie cut him off.
"What is happening here?" she asked. "Where's Alan?"
"... Who's Alan?" the sponge asked the turtle to his side. Roxie's face flushed white hearing this.
"It seems she's experiencing some effects of amnesia after the fight." Jimmy spoke up. "Please, let's not smother her."
"Wh- Who are you people…?" Roxie asked, fear now firmly rooted in her words.
"Hey, hey, it's ok." the teen boy said as he approached Roxie. "It's me, Danny. We're your friends, Roxie."
"... You are…?"
"We've all been friends for years." the robot girl said, joining the two. "But it's ok. We can always become friends again!" She held out a hand. "If we're starting over, I'm Jenny."
Roxie hesitated, but the warm words from these two seemed genuine. She reached out and took Jenny's metallic hand to shake it.
"Roxie Leeblossom."
Danny and Jenny immediately pulled Roxie into a hug, making her body tense up for a moment. No, of course she didn't know these people, but something about their aura felt comfortable. Maybe they really were friends? At least, this boy and robot felt genuine. She swung her arms around the two to return the hug… Though, she'd suddenly feel the familiar squeeze of the plushie on her leg.
"Group hug!" it cheered. "Friendship is the strongest bond!"
"GIR!" the young green skinned boy yelled. "Unhand the girl!"
The plushie sighed, but did as instructed as Danny and Jenny pulled away from the hug. Despite the tender moment, an awkwardness still hung over the room.
"Can I… go home?" Roxie asked the silent faces.
"Home?" the boy next to the sickly green boy scoffed. "At a time like this?"
"Dib, please." Jimmy said sternly.
"Ugh…" the green kid groaned. "Send the girl home! She already failed us once today!"
"Oh, shut up, Zim." Jenny scowled as she glared at the green boy. "She got hurt! That's not her fault!"
"Let's all just stay calm." the tall turtle spoke up. "Going home and getting some rest isn't a bad idea after that fight."
"AJ, Dib, Donnie, we need to formulate a new plan." Jimmy called out. The kids in the lab coats, as well as the turtle, began to move towards the basement. "Danny, if she needs to go home, please take her."
"Right." Danny nodded, seemingly disappointed.
"How far away is Dimmsdale from Townsville?" Roxie asked, answered only by confused looks.
"Townsville?" Danny shook his head. "I guess Amity Park is kind of a town-village..."
Roxie stared at Danny in silence. What does that even mean? She quickly reached into her pockets to pull her NanoCom out, but instead revealed a slim, orange, pear shaped phone. She looked down at it in confusion, the screen brightening to a lock screen depicting Roxie, Danny, and Jenny taking a selfie with a man in a yellow catsuit. The background of the image showed a large poster reading; "Starring TV's Adam West as Catman!"
"My NanoCom?" Roxie muttered to herself, then tapped on the pear-shaped screen. Her contacts list was nearly devoid of any familiar names. Blossom, Bubbles, Alan, all missing. A soft smile hit her as her brother Jasper's contact remained, as well as contact info for her friends Amp and Heather. She tapped on Jasper's name to call him.
"Hello!?" she said into the phone, but a busy signal rang from the other end. She let the phone drop with her hand in defeat.
"The phone lines have been down all day." Jenny said, noticing the dejection from Roxie. "That's actually why we're all here."
"Crazy Fusion attack?" Roxie asked.
"Fusion?" Danny shook his head. "No, Roxs, it's the Morphoid."
"I wish I could forget those pathetic creatures!" the green boy called Zim cackled.
"Ah, to live in bliss!" the plush referred to as GIR added.
"Ok, I'll bite." Roxie sighed, pocketing the PearPhone. "What are Morphoids? Worse Fusions?"
"They're the aliens that invaded Earth a couple months ago." Danny explained. "Orange goop under the control of Globulous Maximus that can infect and control things, even people. They've been trying to destroy the planet, but we've been holding them back."
"Ok…?" Roxie thought about the description. Aside from the name and colors, this depiction was nearly the same as how Roxie would describe Planet Fusion.
"Jimmy's dog, Goddard, got infected and left Retroville to cause havoc." Danny continued.
"And he came here!" the pink hatted boy piped in. "He immediately destroyed the school, but now he's ruining the rest of the city."
"That's Timmy Turner, he lives here in Dimmsdale." Jenny pointed out. "The bald kid who left is AJ, this is his house."
"What about those two?" Roxie asked, pointing to the Nano-sized people floating above Timmy's head. "His Nanos?"
"Eh, they're Timmy's holograms, Cosmo and Wanda." Danny said. "They help him fight the Morphoids."
"You've met Zim and his assistant, GIR." Jenny gestured to the sickly green kid and the plush. "His friend who left is Dib Membran-"
"NOT MY FRIEND!" Zim corrected very loudly.
"Uhhuh…" Jenny's eyes robotically rolled in her metal skull. "AJ and Dib are, like, super smart like Jimmy, so they're kind of the de facto leaders. The turtle, Donatello, has been helping them plan out a counterattack."
"And I'm Spongebob!" the sponge waved to Roxie with a large goofy smile.
Roxie took a moment to take in all this new information. Wherever she was, it definitely wasn't her home. But this cast of wacky characters isn't necessarily out of place for her either, and these Morphoids might as well just be Fusions. If she was, evidently, already helping them, maybe playing along could net her some more answers.
"Ok." Roxie said after a beat. "Cool, let's go kick some Fu- Morphoid butt then!"
"Wait, are you sure?" Jenny asked. "It's totally ok if you want to rest."
"I can still fight." Roxie nodded. "If there's a threat, we should deal with it…"
"That's the Roxie I know." Danny smiled at her. He pulled her into another sudden hug.
"If you're 100% sure, we'll go tell Jimmy." Jenny said.
Danny and Jenny took their leave, retreating to the basement and leaving Roxie with some of the strangest characters she met so far. Timmy's green haired hologram grinned widely at Roxie before the pink-haired one made him stop.
"I get being friends with those two, they're my age." Roxie spoke up. "Even Jimmy looks like Amp's age… How did I become friends with you guys?" She gestured to Zim and Timmy, pointing out the age difference without saying it.
"We met through Jimmy." Timmy said. "He's got a lot of connections, I guess. Last year, this wacko from Retroville, Professor Calamitous, made an army of Toybots that almost took over the world."
"Yeeah, I wanna see Roxie stab those bots again!" Cosmo, the green haired hologram smiled.
"Everyone got roped into that mess, but Jimmy also called some of his friends from Amity Park to help, including you." Timmy smiled.
"I wish this reunion was under better circumstances." the pink-haired hologram, Wanda, said.
"That's also when we met!" Spongebob grinned as he inserted himself into the conversation. Roxie smiled down at him, not as freaked out to see a talking sponge like she probably should be. Though, glancing at Zim warranted a sour reaction.
"I am not your friend." Zim replied snarkily.
"Well, at least it seems like most of you are good people." Roxie said, paying Zim no mind. "These holograms of yours look very… real." Her eyes squinted as she looked at Cosmo and Wanda.
"Uhh, yup!" Timmy forcibly laughed. "Pretty cool, right?"
"You sure you shouldn't be wearing a labcoat too, kid?" Roxie snickered. "An invention like this could give Dexter a run for his money."
"Who?"
Their talk was interrupted as the anthropomorphic turtle, Donatello, appeared in the doorway leading to the basement. Roxie eyed him up and down, noting a bo-staff equipped to his shell and pads fashioned to his joints that shared the purple color of his mask. A gap toothed, crooked smile formed, clearing his throat to draw attention.
"We might have a new plan." he said, gesturing downstairs. "As long as Roxie is up for it."
"We'll see, I guess." the girl shrugged, turning to follow Donnie downstairs. Timmy, Spongebob, and the other stragglers followed.
The subterranean lab was much more crowded down with the entire group filing into the pale white walls. Jimmy and Dib stood in front of a large screen depicting a map of Dimmsdale, while AJ monitored a second screen streaming a video of a decimated building covered in orange goop. As Roxie watched herself, she realized it must be live footage.
Dib typed something into the panel of buttons before him, pulling a second window up over the Dimmsdale map on their screen. As the group settled in, Jimmy looked to the group with determination.
"I know Roxie getting knocked out was a setback, but we believe the original plan is still a good option."
"And for those of us with amnesia, what's the plan?" Roxie asked. Donatello moved past her, joining the young scientists at the screens.
"Your webs are still are best bet to subdue Goddard without tearing him apart." Donnie said. "The plan was to have you tie his feet to the ground, but we didn't account for how the infection mutated him."
"Wait, wait." Roxie shook her head. "His dog is in the Fusion?"
"The Morphoid." Donnie corrected. "Contact with the goo can lead to an infection that leaves you in Globulous' control."
Of course, Danny did mention this aspect of the Morphoids to her earlier, and Fusions do infect some wild animals… But they just make copies of Earth's heroes, they don't possess them! No wonder Donatello was speaking of a non-lethal takedown.
"He's leaving the Dimmadome." AJ spoke up. "What's left of it, at least. En route to the mall."
The group's attention diverged to AJ's screen, the live feed showing a large mecha-monster stomping away from the rubble. Metallic spikes lined its back down to the tip of its large, thrashing tail. Orange goop too similar to the consistency of Fusion Matter dripped from the monster. The tension started to return to Roxie's shoulders.
"That's your dog!?" Roxie gasped. Jimmy shook his head.
"Goddard's in there, but that's not Goddard." Jimmy sighed.
"He's even worse than Decimator Goddard!" Timmy added, though this wasn't a reference Roxie knew. She squinted at the video of this Goddard.
"Looks more like a kaiju." she offered. "Mecha Goddardzilla…"
As if on cue, the video feed showed Goddard turn towards the camera, revealing a robotic dog's head fashioned on top the mecha-lizard's tough body. His jaw creaked open, a guttural, yet distorted bark rang out before a blast of orange goo rocketed from his gullet. In just a few seconds, the video feed cut to black with an error message.
"I, uhm, appreciate the confidence, but I don't think my webs can keep that down." Roxie shrugged.
"We know." Zim snarked. "You couldn't even avoid that tail long enough!"
"Which is why the plan is going to have some minor adjustments." Dib barked back a bit more furiously than the situation called for.
"We need to distract him long enough for Danny to get inside." Jimmy continued on. "I think we should still use Roxie's webs on Goddard's feet, but it would be best if we could also subdue the tail."
"That'd be a lot of webbing." Roxie groaned, holding her stomach as it churned. She's never run out of her webs before, but spinning too much too fast can leave her winded. "I'm not even sure if they would all hold long enough if I did manage to web it all down."
"We should neutralize the tail first." Jimmy nodded. "It'll be easier to ground him if we remove it. I should be able to do any necessary repairs on Goddard, but let's not hurt him too much."
"Sounds like our best shot." Dib nodded.
"I'll have my brothers intercept Goddard at the mall." Donatello began to press on a pear-shaped smartpad of his own. "I'll join up with them and provide as best of a distraction as we can."
"Roxie and Danny are vital to this plan working." Jimmy looked at them. "Timmy, Spongebob, Jenny, you should back them up and make sure nobody gets hit by Goddard's tail again. Zim, yo-"
"I will be taking down the monstrosity on my own!" Zim cackled. "GIR, to the Voot Cruiser!"
"Wait, Zim-!" Dib called out.
"SILENCE!" the green boy sneered. "It is clear you humans can't do anything right. I will destroy the monster, and take over the world for myself!"
"Are you for real?" Roxie asked, but both Zim and GIR had swiftly escaped the premises.
"It's alright…" Dib sighed. "He's always like this. If anything he'll be another distraction."
"True…" Jimmy rubbed his chin. "I'm not a fan of how unpredictable he might make this though."
He stood for a moment, tilting his head towards the screen showing Dimmsdale's map. He tapped on the surface of the screen, zooming in on a city block with the Dimmsdale Mall circled on the corner. AJ approached Roxie holding a small case in his hands. He peeled the top open, revealing several sets of earbuds inside.
"Everyone take one of these." AJ instructed, Spongebob and Danny already reaching for the earpieces. "They'll connect to your PearPhones."
"Oh cool!" Spongebob took the earpiece and shoved it into one of the open pores on the side of his head. Roxie equipped one as well.
"You'll have just enough time to get to the mall before Goddard arrives." Jimmy called out. "AJ, Dib, and I will stay here to provide support."
"Follow me." Donatello instructed.
The turtle led the pack out of the basement and out onto the suburban Dimmsdale streets. The architecture of the buildings was different, and yet walking the streets put Roxie right back in Townsville. Life was moving along just like Roxie knew back home, coupled with orange goop splattered on the pavement guarded by similarly colored creatures.
At least here in Dimmsdale the sky wasn't green. A familiar blue color strangely comforted Roxie, but any safety was lost at the sight of the bulbous, orange amalgamation of Globulous looming in the sky; exactly as Planet Fusion. This glob even had a giant eye that seemed to be watching her…
Her shoulders shivered as her averted her gaze, keeping on course with the group. In place of K.N.D. guards in the suburbs, several adults stood stationed with weapons and tactical gear sprinkled with the label "M.E.R.F." One of these guards looked to Roxie, a brow raising from behind his sunglasses, but neither have any time to think further as the group ushered on.
"You sure you're up for this?" Jenny asked, her hand ice cold as it rested on Roxie's shoulder. The blonde shrugged.
"I just want to go home…" Roxie muttered. "B- But I'm not a monster, I should help out first…"
"It'll be alright!" Spongebob grinned. "Just stick with your good pals here and everything will be alright!"
"Yeah…" Roxie chuckled at the sponge, patting his squishy head/body. "My good pals."
She sulked a bit as they walked on. Remembering her contacts on her PearPhone, her friends Heather and Amp exist, but nobody around her now seems to actually have an idea of who Alan is. The thought showed on her face as the apparent lack of Alan spiraled into questioning who else could be missing from this… world? Dream? Alternate timeline…?
"We're all friends here, so…" Roxie spoke up. "Guys, I know you already think I'm crazy, but we're all friends here then I need you to listen to me."
Her stride slowed, the girl pausing as the group looked at her with intrigue. Donatello continued leading them on, only stopping a few feet forward and turning.
"We can't dela-" Donnie tried to grab their attention, but Roxie continued.
"I know you guys seem super cool and, like, you seem to really care about me… But I've never heard of Amityville or Dimmsdale Park or whatever any of these places are. I was born in Townsville, Delmarva, and I live next door to the Powerpuff Girls! And in whatever realm of existence Townsville is in, we're being invaded by aliens called Fusions… And they're a lot like your Glob-u-loids!"
"Morphoids." Wanda corrected quietly.
"What?" Danny nervously chuckled. "C'mon, Roxs, we've gone to school together since, like, third grade. I mean, you even know about my powers."
"I really don't." Roxie sighed. "I was just fighting an alien with my friend, and I must've gotten knocked out by one by surprise. I know this happened! They've been here for months!"
"Well…" Jenny frowned, but gave Roxie another reassuring squeeze. "I believe you."
"You do?" Timmy blinked.
"You do?" Roxie parroted this, a bit more wavering than the ten year old.
"I mean," XJ9 shrugged her shoulders. "In my memory, we've been besties since I visited Amity Park with Brad a couple years ago. Then we fought Toybots together, and now the Morphoids… But my memory of you also tells me you wouldn't lie to us."
"Really?" Roxie asked in disbelief before clearing her throat. "Well, yes!"
"But, like…" Danny stuttered. "What about your brother?"
"What about him?" Roxie shrugged. "I don't know! It doesn't make any sense. And now you're all gonna think I'm such a nutjob and-"
"Roxie." Donnatello's voice calmly called to her, the turtle moving directly in front of her and lightly grabbing her shoulders. "A lot of things that do not make sense have been happening lately. If you truly believe you don't belong here, I would love to help explore that with you. As would your friends here."
Roxie's cheeks flushed with blush as the turtle soothed her. An awkward giggle escaped her as her spiderlegs drooped. "I wo- would appreciate that."
"First, we must help Dimmsdale." Donnie nodded. "Then we can discuss your situation."
"T- Thank you." Roxie blinked. Donnie's hand gave her shoulders a light squeeze before he released, immediately setting off in the lead again.
"We'll figure this out, whatever it is." Jenny smiled.
"Maybe you're just experiencing side effects from the amnesia?" Danny offered a different solution in disbelief.
The ground beneath the group quaked in reply, lightly at first. Though the intensity grew with each consecutive quake. Despite the conflicting opinions of Roxie's tale, everyone grimaced at the booming steps shaking the ground. Donnie flicked his wrist, silently calling the group forward.
The Dimmsdale Mall was just a block away, and now visible as the group turned a corner. Though, threatening peaking over the mall from the other side creeped the robotic canine head of Jimmy Neutron's pet dog, Goddard. Just seeing the dog's head wasn't so scary, but knowing it was attached to a possessed mecha lizard body that evidently knocked Roxie out in this canon was frightening.
Each of Roxie's otherworld friends readied their battle stances. Jenny's robotic form shifted, buffing up and deploying missiles from the tops of her forearms. Spongebob pulled a bottle of bubbles and a bubble-wand out of seemingly nowhere, and stoically dipped the wand inside with a scowl. The air swished ahead as Donatello equipped his bo-staff and dramatically twirled it, but Roxie would be most shocked by Danny blinking in a flash of light next to her.
"Going ghost!"
His black hair now pure white and the color of his pupils turning green, Danny was now outfitted in a black suit. Roxie squinted to get a glimpse of the emblem printed on his chest, only to realize the boy had suddenly become semi-transparent.
"Remember to neutralize the tail." Donnie instructed. "Then Roxie can ground him long enough for Danny to get inside."
"Uhm…" Roxie blinked. "R- Right!" She too readied for battle, though noticeably missing her Milk Magnum gun.
Despite still stomping toward the mall from the opposite direction, the head of Goddardzilla appeared to be looking directly at Roxie's encroaching group. Similar to what they saw from the lab's video feed, Goddardzilla's jaw swung open. A low growl hummed from him as the spikes on his back individually spark with orange energy, building up until the spike on the back of his neck is lit. The growl crescendoed into a massive roar as a beam of orange goop shot from Goddardzilla's mouth, crashing through the roof of the mall and rocketing straight for the group.
"I wish we had a giant shield!" Timmy squeaked, cowering with his arms held up covering his face.
Roxie winced as she expected to be blasted, but after Cosmo and Wanda tapped their mini wands together, the giant shield Timmy wished for had been constructed in front of them to take the blow. A squelching sound unnerved Roxie as Goddardzilla's attack bounced off the shield.
"That might not hold for long, sport!" Wanda warned.
"What the…?" Roxie blinked at the newly erected shield, Goddardzilla's blast already causing it to wither.
"Just watch your back." Danny nodded, then his semi-transparent body sunk down, disappearing into the pavement.
Timmy's shield finally vanished in a puff of pink smoke, revealing Goddardzilla thrashing right through the large mall. The building bent and crumbled under his claws, though it didn't seem like he was advancing on Roxie's space. Instead, she saw three more anthropomorphic turtles leap around the large metal monster, expertly pouncing from fallen rubble and off his metal hull while striking with unique weapons.
Donatello bounced forward towards the fight, and Jenny launched a missile past Roxie towards Goddardzilla's feet. As the teenage robot flew off into the air, Roxie took the cue to jump to battle as well, shooting webs at the crumbled building to pull herself forward. The booming footsteps of Goddardzilla nearly sent Roxie flying a few inches as she crouched by a stone wall. Timmy dashed to join her, his holograms floating close by.
From this angle, she could now notice each of the other turtles had their own colored masks, red, blue, and orange. Donatello lept right into the fray, wordlessly blending into their impressive attack pattern and narrowly avoiding the aforementioned tail that apparently Roxie already fell victim to. A flurry of bubbles drifted up to Goddard's head, popping in his face and causing him to snarl.
Roxie clocked Jenny jetting past the bubbles to strike Goddardzilla's snout, then trailed down to see Spongebob blowing into his bubble wand to send another flurry of impressively sized bubbles in. Several of those M.E.R.F. labeled guards fired their weapons at the robot, but Danny was nowhere to be seen.
"Seems like Jenny and those… ninja turtles… have this handled." Roxie shrugged to Timmy.
"Well, for now." Timmy's face scrunched up. "But we were doing good before you got hit too."
"What do I even do?" Roxie asked, looking to him and his holograms. "Should I have, like, a gun? I'm capable of more than just…" Her spiderlegs mimicked the act of stabbing.
"Uhh, I wish Roxie had a weapon." Timmy said with a glance to his holograms.
Wanda held up her wand, the star tip glowing brightly. Though, her wand faltered and drooped like a wilted flower as Cosmo tapped his own wand on his wife's head. She disappeared in a pink puff of smoke, and suddenly Roxie had a bright pink artillery gun in her hands. She looked it over, then blinked after noticing Wanda's face grimacing on the side of the gun.
"Cosmo!" she barked.
"Whhhaat?" Cosmo shrugged, seemingly staring off into the void. "You're a beautiful piece of machinery, my dear!"
"How do they even… do that?" Roxie asked, glancing over the Wanda weapon in her hands.
"It's, uhm, real complicated science stuff." Timmy nodded. "It's hard to explain."
"It's alright, dear." Wanda sighed from Roxie's hands. "Probably better for me to be in your hands than Cosmo."
"She's probably right." Cosmo chuckled with a shrug.
"Roxie, Timmy!" Jimmy's voice buzzed. Both of them reached up to the earpod they were given. "Are you two alright?"
"Yeah, yeah." Timmy replied. "We're fine."
"Donnie and his brothers are about to focus the tail." Jimmy's voice said. "Can you help?"
"We'll try."
"Alright, sport, let's do this!" Wanda cried from Roxie's hands.
Timmy immediately tucked out of cover, Cosmo and Roxie trailing behind him. Above, the blue-masked turtle was running down the length of Goddardzilla's back, holding two katanas in either hand to scrap along the metal. Before he reached the base of Goddardzilla's tail, he lept off the beast, then jabbed his katanas into the hull.
The tail lifted high before thumping onto the ground, kicking up dust and debris, but luckily the giant dog-lizard was still preoccupied with Spongebob's bubbles. Roxie looked down to his large metallic paws, each stumbling about as Goddardzilla swatted away at the bubbles and flying Jenny. Roxie took the opportunity to aim her spiderlegs at his feet, shooting webs across.
"Just hold on." Roxie whispered to her Wanda weapon, then retracted two of her webs to rocket her under Goddardzilla to the otherside, leaving two trails of webs in her wake. She did this again, crossing between his legs as she weaved the web to the metal.
"Uh, Roxie?" Wanda asked as she spun her web. "What about the tail?"
"He's distracted." Roxie huffed. "This is what I'm supposed to do!"
"Wha- Dude!" an unfamiliar voice yelled before the loud clank of metal echoed down to Roxie, followed by the orange-masked turtle to hurdle down next to Roxie. She gasped at the sight, watching him teeter back and forth on his shell before standing up. "Not cool…" he groaned.
"Are you alright?" Roxie called out. The turtle stuck out his pinkie and thumb, shaking his hand.
"Tubular." he laughed, limping over to her. Donatello leapt down next to them, landing much more gracefully. Though, the webs around Goddardzilla's feet were already tearing and providing no real use.
"Mikey, did you hit your head?" Donnie asked, holding onto the other turtle.
"Just a few times." the orange-masked one, Mikey, shrugged, knocking his fist on his skull. "When don't I?"
"Leo is going to help Spongebob, you should go help him." Donnie instructed. "Raph is still working on the tail. Roxie, maybe we can pry it off."
"I don't know if I've got that much unmpf." Roxie shrugged.
"Just follow my lead." Donnie nodded. Roxie returned the nod, blushing slightly again.
"Heh…" Mikey smirked, then saluted to his brother. "Good luck, bro."
Mikey dashed off, and Donnie leapt back up onto Goddardzilla's back. Roxie used her webs to pull herself up and follow him, finally getting a good look at the scene. Saving the mall was a mute point now, as Goddardzilla stood amidst where the building should be. At least it looked like the mall was evacuated already. The bubbles stopped crowding the robot's face, but Jenny was now up close and personal with her fists.
"Where is Danny!?" Roxie asked, pursing her lips.
"The tail." Donnie nodded.
Looking over, the blue turtle's katanas were still lodged into the base of the tail, splitting through the metal. Donnie rushed over, taking his bo-staff and jabbing it down next to his brother's katanas. He pulled down on the opposite end, using it to pry the metal up. Roxie rushed over, using her spiderlegs to tuck under the metal opened by the other katana and pull up.
The two heaved and pulled, Goddardzilla's metal hull creaking and it awkwardly bent. Just as Roxie felt the pull give way and get easier, Goddardzilla thrashed his tail upward, whipping his body around. Both Roxie and Donnie fell off balance, but Roxie used her spiderwebs to attach to one of the spikes protruding off his back. She reached out to grab Donatello's hand, holding him firm until Goddardzilla remained stable enough to stand atop.
The metal pane they ripped up was the only thing to detach from the monster, falling to the debris and revealing a glob of orange goo stuck inside of him. Donatello shook his head, but Roxie aimed her Wanda Weapon down at the goo and fired! Wanda shot down, but her bullets were more so tiny little stars rather than actual bullets. Goddardzilla's body rumbled as a hellish screech echoed from his maw.
Roxie grabbed hold of Donnie again, this time using her webs to swing them off the monster's back. They tumbled down next to Timmy and Cosmo, and Wanda poofed back into her tiny Nano-sized body. As they turned, Goddardzilla's tail finally snapped off… Or perhaps melted off was more applicable. Whatever Roxie and Wanda did must've caused a reaction, severing the goo attaching the tail and causing it to crash into the ground.
"Alright!" Timmy cheered as they watched. Spongebob and Mikey joined them, along with the blue-masked turtle, Leonardo.
"Ok, Roxie, now it's all you." Donnie nodded.
"We'll watch your back!" Spongebob smiled.
Just as before, Roxie aimed her spiderlegs at Goddardzilla's feet, pulling herself between them to coat them with her webs. Though, trying to tie down a creature of this size would take a lot of webbing… And a decent amount of time. She sure hoped that talking sponge was right about watching her back.
On Goddardzilla's head, the last of the four turtles, outfitted in a red mask, climbed atop the large screen making up Goddard's right eye. He twirled his twin sais in his three-fingered hands, then jabbed them down into the screen. A much more dejected yelp whimpered out of Goddardzilla as the glass shattered down his snout. The beast slowly started to sway his head back and forth, building up to an intense thrashing that sent the red-masked turtle flying.
"Raph!" Mikey called out. The orange-masked turtle gripped his own weapon, a pair of nunchucks, and started to rush at Goddard, but the turtle in peril would pause floating in the air.
The turtle, Raph, gently floated down to safety, revealing a white-haired Danny depositing him onto the ground. He scowled at Goddardzilla, disappearing from view again. His torso suddenly lurched to the side, and then violently back to the other as an unseen force smashed into him. Jenny joined this thrashing, smacking the mecha lizard-dog from the opposite side of the unseen force, and giving Roxie plenty of time to root his feet to the remains of the tiled mall floor.
"Guys!" Roxie called out, regrouping with her new friends. "Is this good?"
Despite the massive hits from above, Goddardzilla remained in place, his clawed paws staying planted in place. It was clear he strained against them, but it appeared to be proving a fruitless effort for him.
"Danny!" Jimmy's voice buzzed through everyone's communicators. "He's grounded!"
"Roger that!" Danny's voice replied through the comm, but when Roxie looked up she still only saw Jenny whaling on the possessed Goddard.
Then, for a split second, she noticed Danny blinking into sight again hovering at Goddardzilla's chest. He rushed forward, turning transparent before disappearing, seemingly phasing through the robot's chest. Though, just as he did, the pointed spikes on Goddardzilla's back began to glow orange again. A clicking echoed in the remains of the mall, and Roxie heard an audible gulp from Spongebob.
"Danny, fall back!" Jimmy's voice buzzed again.
"Cosmo, Wanda!" Timmy cried. "I wish we had another one of those safety shields!"
"Yeah, me too!" Cosmo said with wide eyes, his wand glowing with his wife's to conjure another large shield to protect everyone on the ground.
They watched Danny briefly shoot out of Goddardzilla's back, then the beast released his signature attack again, blasting a stream of orange gunk from his unhinged jaw down at the shield. The same squelching sound beat against the shield, but then slowly grew quiet as the sound of destruction to the side of them exploded. Goddardzilla swiveled in place, directing his orange goop beam around himself in a circle.
As if that wasn't enough, it now seemed like Roxie's webs didn't work at all! As the beast swiveled, the strains of her webs started to snap, a few individual ones at first, but all snapping and wilting in mass as he directed the beam around.
"Not good…" Roxie murmured.
"It's ok, we can fix it!" Spongebob remained as optimistic as ever.
Now free of the restraints, Goddardzilla stomped his feet, continuing to blast his beam around himself until he completed the circle at the shield. Just as the previous shield Timmy's holograms conjured, this one was beginning to wear fast as well. Was the shield also a hologram?
"I wish we had a better shield!" Timmy called out, causing Cosmo and Wanda to clink their wands together again, but this time they both flatlined and wilt.
"I think this might be the best we got, sport…" Wanda frowned.
"Agh, we gotta move!" Leo cried out, tucking and rolling to the side.
Seeing this, and the shield whittle away fast, the rest of the group did the same. Donnie and Mikey tucked away with Leo, while Roxie jumped to the opposite side with Timmy and Spongebob. Just in time too, as Goddardzilla's beam ate through the shield and crashed into the ground they once stood. Finally, his attack tampered out, but Jenny nor Danny were up in the sky continuing the assault.
"Hey, guys." Dib Membrane's voice buzzed into their ears, much sterner than Jimmy. "We have an issue."
"SILENCE!" the shrill voice of the small green child from AJ's house boomed into their communicators, and then all around them.
"He's back…" Dib's voice sighed dejectedly.
Hanging in the sky above Goddardzilla floated a bulbous purple spaceship. It's pink tinted glass clearly revealed the alien Zim, and his now fully robotic and grey assistant, GIR, seated inside. Speakers equipped on the side of the ship must be carrying his annoying voice as the mastermind started to plot.
"You FOOLISH humans are no match for such a despicable creature!" Zim cackled. "Only a being MUCH MUCH MUCH SMARTER than you could even fathom stopping such a beast! That's why I will SAVE your pathetic lives from this monster. THEN DESTROY THEM MYSELF!"
"Pure CHAOS!" GIR's bubbly voice boomed just as loud, and the purple Voot Cruiser began raining down missile upon Goddardzilla.
"Well, maybe he will kill it for us." Roxie shrugged, but triggered a frown from Timmy, Cosmo, and Spongebob. Her ear buzzed loudly.
"No, we can't kill Goddard!" Jimmy's voice cried.
"Right." Roxie snapped her fingers to the unseen scientist. These orange Fusions possess. "So what do you propose, then? I'd be willing to knock that little green kid around."
"No, actually." Dib's voice buzzed. "This could be the perfect distraction, like I said!"
"Brain blast!" Jimmy's voice cheered. "Of course! Danny, do you read us? We're gonna use this intrusion to our advantage!"
"I read ya'." Danny's voice also buzzed through the comms, but Roxie still didn't see him flying around. "It's gonna be tight. Not sure I can get close enough with Zim's attacks covering him."
"Uhm…" Roxie thought for a moment. "Le- Leave that to us. We'll get you an opening."
"We will?" Timmy asked.
"Yeah, I think I have an idea." Roxie smirked. "Hey, Spongebob, how strong are those bubbles?"
"Well, they are bubbles." Spongebob chuckled, then comedically blew a small one.
"Are they, like… Bouncy?" Roxie asked.
"Oh no, they'd just pop!" Spongebob nodded. "If we were back under the sea in Bikini Bottom, these babies would last for a lifetime!"
"Dang…" Roxie pouted. "Uhm, that's ok, we can figur-" She started to ramble before blinking, then looking Spongebob up and down. "Are… you bouncy?"
"Haha!" Spongebob laughed, but then rose a brow in confusion. "Uh? Yes?"
Zim's missiles continued to rain down on Goddardzilla, and impressively started doing a lot of damage to him. More metal plates snapped off, causing orange goo to drip out. If this was a Fusion, surely the barrage of attacks would've caused it to melt into a gooey green puddle, but this Morphoid was resilient. Maybe it had to do with the possession element of them, with something trapped inside. Danny made him visible, floating to watch the scene.
"Danny, your opening is coming!" Roxie's voice buzzed through his comm.
He blinked glancing down to where the group should be, but only saw another giant conjured shield propped up towards Goddardzilla. What Danny couldn't see was underneath the shield, Spongebob was stretched along the bottom and tied to the sides with webs. Jenny now joined their side, while the turtles retreated to check on their brother.
"Is this even going to work!?" Wanda cried out.
"Uh, maybe?" Roxie shrugged, finishing tying off Spongebob's leg to the shield. "As long as you and your hologram husband are able to make him bounce high. You can do that, right?"
"I'm starting to think this isn't a great idea." Spongebob awkwardly laughed from the shield. Despite his body being stretched along the mass of the shield, his face remained tiny and centered. Talking sponge guys, amiright?
"I wish Spongebob bounced like a dodgeball." Timmy exclaimed. "A super bouncy bouncy-ball!"
"Uh, dodgeball or bouncy-ball?" Cosmo asked with his wand glowing.
"Yes, and!" Timmy replied. His holograms clinked their wands together and pink puff of smoke surrounded Spongebob, but no visual difference occurred.
"Ok, haha, I think I'm ready to get out now!" Spongebob's tone grew with increasing worry.
"It's now or never." Roxie nodded to Jenny, who nodded back to her.
"I'm really sorry!" Jenny said to Spongebob. "I'll catch you!"
Her robotic arms extended to either side of the shield, gripping onto it tightly before her feet emitted flame to rocket herself into the air. She strained for a moment against the weight of the shield, then fully kicked into the sky with it. Spongebob wailed as he was flown into the sky, only seeing Roxie and company shrinking beneath him and Jenny drove the shield against the missile rain.
The shield creaked against the missiles, but Jenny continued her ascent. Danny flew up next to her, his body fading from view as he followed under the shield.
"Please work…!" Roxie hoped as she watched Danny fade from below.
Jenny eventually shifted her weight, heaving the shield towards Goddardzilla, and giving Danny the opening he needed to phase back inside Goddardzilla's chest. The mecha lizard screeched, notably with more pain than from just the missiles rained upon him. Jenny gave into the stress of the now withering shield, loosening her grip and letting it, and a screaming Spongebob, fall down to Goddardzilla's feet.
Goddardzilla's jaw unhinged again, erupting a blast of… green goop! Though, instead of an acidic Fusion Matter Roxie was used to, this green goop was more of a nasty slime, one that coated the attacking Voot Cruiser before the slime sputtered out. Zim continued fired his missiles, but the Voot Cruiser rocked off kilter. A strangely excited squeal from GIR echoed from the ship's speakers.
Below, the shield Spongebob came to faceplant onto the pavement. Timmy and Wanda winced at the sight, but instead of a gnarly splat, Spongebob nearly immediately bounced back upwards. Cosmo cheered at him, but Spongebob was still just as terrified, if not even more than before. Roxie aimed her spiderlegs, shooting her webs at the shield. None of her four shoots came close to freeing Spongebob.
"Agh!" Roxie grunted. "J- Jenny!" She held her hand to her earpiece, beginning to speak into the communicator. "Can you catch Spongebob?"
"I'm already on it!" her voice replied, just in time for the conjured shield to reach its limit and poof out of existence.
"Oh Neptune!" Spongebob panicked, his body snapping back to his small size. From his position, he noticed Goddardzilla now completely still.
XJ9 shot through the side, snatching up Spongebob as he began his fall. At the same time, Goddardzilla's body jolted. His arms curled unnaturally, then broke apart, leaving masses of orange goo spilling from the body. A flash of light beamed from the mecha's chest, Danny phasing through the hull now holding a small, grey metal box in his arms.
As soon as Danny exited, the rest of Goddardzilla's body snapped and burst apart, crumbling down to join the mess of the mall it created itself. Akin to Fusion Matter, the orange goop making up the interior of the monster leaked into a puddle in the rubble, clumping together as if it was still attempting to take form.
Jenny safely dropped Spongebob on the group with the group, finally letting the little guy gasp a massive sigh of relief. The turtle brothers approached as well, the injured Raph being escorted by his brothers. Danny finally reconvened with the group as well, setting his loot on the ground as his body shifted back to his normal appearance. The grey box he collected sprouted four legs from beneath it, and then Goddardzilla's head.
"Arf, arf!" the robot dog barked, triggering a joyous reaction from the group.
"Jimmy, Goddard is safe!" Danny smiled as he spoke into his communicator.
"Arf!" Goddard barked again as if to affirm Danny's words.
"I can't believe that worked." Roxie sighed with a smile.
"You can't?" Spongebob questioned. "What did I have to be on that shield for?"
"Hey, it worked though!" Timmy said.
"I- I wanted to make sure Danny had a chance to get close," Roxie started to explain. "Even if Jenny got taken out… I mean, I got knocked out earlier."
"You could've just said so." Spongebob shrugged.
"I'm sorry-" Roxie spoke, but Spongebob stopped her with a small hug.
"We can let the M.E.R.F. agents start working on cleaning up the mess." Donatello nodded. "We should return to the lab."
"Uhm…" Jenny glanced up to the slimed Voot Cruiser, no longer shooting missiles, but spinning around wildly still. "Should we deal with him?"
"Is that twerp really a threat?" Roxie asked, triggering a quick look of confusion from Timmy.
"More of a thorn in your side." Danny shrugged.
"Come on back to AJ's." Jimmy said through their comms. "We can convene with a plan for Zim if he's actually an issue."
Before anyone replied, another series of robotic barks emitted from Goddard's open mouth. The little dog jumped into the air, his ears whirling into small fans that carried him along in the air. The rest of the group began to follow suit with Roxie trailing behind.
"Ok, but…" she murmured quietly. "But after we get Jimmy his dog back, I want to start talking about going home."
"I'm sure Jimmy can help!" Jenny nodded, lagging back to walk alongside her and Danny.
"I dunno…" Roxie shifted. "When I told him the same spheal when I woke up, he also acted like I've always been here."
"To us, you have been." Danny pointed out. "Listen, I don't want to say you're wrong, but you can understand why we'd have trouble getting it."
"Oh Glob…" Roxie sighed. "What if I'm dead?"
"Whoa…" Spongebob called out. "Not cool!"
"Even if she is wrong, we should take this seriously." Jenny said. "Hey, I'll ask my mom if maybe she knows about alternate worlds or universes dream stuff."
"I'm not even sure Dexter would know about something like this." Roxie frowned.
"I mean…" Danny shifted, rolling his shoulders back. "Would it really be a bad thing if you were wrong, Roxs?"
The girl stalled walking, blinking as she looked at Danny. Both him and Jenny paused as well, looking to Roxie as she collected her thoughts. While the rest of the group continued, Donatello turned to watch the three teenagers.
"We're not bad people." Danny said. "There is plenty of bad guys here, don't get me wrong, but nothing we can't handle. I've stopped them before, heck, you've stopped them before. We just defeated a giant Morphoid, together!"
"Glob…" Roxie choked back her emotions. "No, no. Of course, you're good people. I know you all are my friends, even if I can't remember it… I'm sorry, I don't want to offend you a-"
"RUNNING AWAY!?"
The growing moment between Roxie and her elseworld friends screeched to a stop, Zim's voice slicing the stagnant air as the slimed Voot Cruiser now hovered closer to the retreating heroes. Windshield wipers on the ship cleaned a small portion of Zim's windshield, revealing the green boy glaring through the glass with giant red eyes.
"How pathetic!" he sneered through his ship's speakers. "You LOSER Earthlings almost make it too easy! I will destroy you all!"
More missiles deployed from Zim's ship, aimed directly at the trio of teens below it. Roxie and Danny jumped back, narrowly avoiding attacks, while Jenny aimed her own missile at the Voot Cruiser and fired. The approaching footsteps of the rest of the group clattered behind them.
Jenny's attack smacked right into the glass protecting Zim, cracking it over his face as he raged within. He smashed on buttons in his ship, triggering missiles to fly out willy-nilly, firing off to destroy streetlights and causing the mall rubble to kick up. Unsure of how to counter a full on missile, Roxie continued to jump back.
Before Zim could readjust his aim to destroy these pesky Earthlings, the flying Goddard wizzed back into the fray. He barked viciously, ramming like a bull into Zim's windshield and fully shattering it under the pressure. Now instead of Zim's booming threats, only the muffled screams of him and GIR filled the air as Goddard burrowed into the cockpit and attacked them.
"Oof…!" Roxie winced, watching Goddard's metal mouth chomp onto Zim's arm. "That dog wants payback."
"See, I told you he's barely a threat." Danny laughed. "Learned your lesson, Zim?" he called out, hands cupped around his mouth to project his voice.
"GIR!" Zim screamed, trying to shake Goddard off of himself as the Voot Cruiser clumsily made a rough landing. "Go! Do your worst!"
"Yippie!" the robot assistant squealed, beginning to crawl somewhere inside the ship.
Roxie watched as Donatello leapt forward with his bo-staff, and Danny's appearance shifted to the white haired form he battled with. Jenny aimed her arm at the Voot Cruiser again, but before anyone could make a move on Zim, the cannon of the ship fired!
"Kamikaze!" GIR's shrill voice cheered, barely revealing that the missile launched was GIR himself!
Jenny's attack rocketed from her arm, but missed the incoming GIR. A flury of bubbles flew from behind Roxie, but each popped on impact with GIR, giving him a straight shot right towards Roxie! Time slowed as she watched wide eyed at the tiny maniacal robot launched at her. For a split second, she saw the fantastically large grin on his face, then the robot smacked into Roxie's face!
The girl fell back, instinctively shooting stray webs as she crashed onto the ground. The last thing she'd hear is the murmured clambering of her elseworlds friends around her before her consciousness faded to black…
August 2044
The faint beeping of a hospital monitor stirred Roxie from her stupor, the familiar full body soreness coating her being again. Her head was throbbing, and she reached up to rub her forehead before even opening her eyes. The white tiled floor and walls were kind of expected, but Roxie found herself in an honest hospital room rather than AJ's lab.
She groaned as she rubbed her eyes, pulling herself up to sit in the hospital bed. Her clothes were replaced by a hospital gown, and now folded neatly on the nearby counter. She glanced to the analog clock on the wall… Weird. It's still the middle of the afternoon?
"Danny?" Roxie called out. "Jenny?"
A shuffle knocked from the otherside of the door, opening to reveal Roxie's brother, Jasper, rushing inside.
"Oh my Glob, Roxs, are you alright?" he asked, stepping to the side of her bed. She smiled, reaching out to take his hand.
"I'm not dead." She shrugged. "My head really hurts though… What happened to everyone else? Did they stop Zim and get Goddard back?"
"Zim?" Jasper blinked. "Who is that?"
Roxie's face scrunched up. What gives!? Her mouth flew open, about to rant to her older brother, but she paused as the door opened again, Alan Albright peaking inside. A wave of confusion washed over Roxie, and then relief.
"Alan!" she excitedly yelled, jumping from her bed to stand and hug him in the middle of the room.
"I'm sorry, Roxie!" he sighed into the hug. "I should've watched your back!"
"Oh, shut up." Roxie laughed. "I'm just glad you're here…"
They pulled away from the hug, smiling to each other… And triggering Jasper to smirk at the two of them.
"You guys…" Roxie sighed, looking between the two. "I just had the craziest dream…"