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Achilles slowly sat up, holding his head and he attempted to shake off the proverbial cobwebs. The last thing he remembered was pinning the brat prince's shoulders down in a fit of anger to take home the trophy for Hero High, and then being hoisted onto the shoulders of his football teammates.

Then... there was a bright flash and he awoke here ... now.

"What is the meaning...?"

He blinked and saw that he was in the center of a dark, barren wasteland. It seemed a place that would make Hades itself look like the Elysian Fields. The trees themselves were all dead, and appeared as though they were growing inside out. Thorny bushes of dead vines grew everywhere and large pools of bubbling, festering sludge were all over.

He stood up and dusted himself off when he heard a cry from above...

"Eeeeeee!!!!...."

*WHOMP!*

And a green haired girl wearing black and gold crashed down on top of him, but barely budged him and she toppled to the ground and hit the terrain at his feet. He looked down and arched a brow.

"Are you alright?"

She answered shrilly, "Well I *might* have been if you deigned to catch me you big...big..." She looked up at him and a pink flush cast on her sheeks and she became all starry-eyed, clasping her hands together to her lips. "Oooooo!"

"Who...are you?" Achilles asked. "Do you go to Hero High as well?"

"Hero High?" She breaks out into a fit of giggles and fans her hand at him. "No you silly! I'm from Toonami Tech!"

She jumps to her feet and poses mightily.

"I am Martina Zoana Mel Navratilova!"

She zips up to him with hardly any space between their bodies and she coos, "And are you my mighty rescuer?"

Achilles rolled his eyes, "Sure, why not?"

Martina squeeled and wrapped her arms around his neck, squeezing him until his eyes almost bugged out. "Oh I KNEW you'd save me! I *won't* perish like that miserable Lina Inverse! She did this to me! But you'll save me and return me home so I can enact my revenge! There is no stopping Martina and her handsome Knight and of course... THE DEMON KING ZOAMELGUSTAR! **maniacall laughter** Hey...hey! Where are you going!? WAIT FOR ME!"

And Martina raced off after Achilles who was already halfway over the horizon!

The trio stood in the same spot on this dark world where they had first crossed paths, none of them making any headway to get out of their predicament.

Hey that's what happens when you have a bad a** little witch trying to kill a he-witch who gets saved by a doozy of a witch. Are you lost yet? Head hurt? Yeah, mine does too.

Evil-Lyn hissed through her teeth (she does that a lot these days).

"Listen to me ... for the *LAST* time! I do NOT have Nargles buzzing around my head!"

Billy frowned and looked at Luna, scratching his head. "What are Nargles anyhow?"

Luna answered matter-of-factly, "Oh they're mischievous little things. Known to breed in mistletoe. They like to steal things, mostly my socks and shoes, but they occasionally fly in and out of your ears to steal common sense."

"Uhhhh...huh!" Billy turned to Lyn and shrugged, "Maybe you do have them."

"I do NOT...." Lyn started to protest when they heard a squabble sounding off on the other side of the small cliff...

"Who are you!?"

"Stop it you lunatic!"

"How did we get here!?"

"How would I know!?"

"Do you have any food!? I'm HUNGRY!"

"You've already asked me that a dozen times!"

"GAH!!!"

Luna, Lyn and Billy looked at one another and started to creep up the small hill and they glanced over to the other side to see that same little redheaded boy (?) holding another boy with green skin and black hair in a headlock and squeezing his noggin for all its worth!

"You're keeping the food away!" Lina Inverse shrieked as she gave Monster High's Liir the Noogie from Hell. "Gimme the food!"

Liir struggled to get loose, but how the heck did suck a tony girl (?) have such a strong grip!?

He shouted back, "Don't you think we should be worried about more important things!?"

"LIKE WHAT!?"

"Like finding out where we are and how we get back!"

"Oh. ... Right."

Lina released him and scratched her head, and that's when she spotted the three spys atop the hill.

"FLARE ARROW!"

*BOOM!*

Hartley, Adam and Jackson made their way out of the frigid swamp, and found themselves climbing up a hilly area covered in dead grass. Soon, a great, gray flat plain presented itself before them.

Without the trees blocking the way, it was easier to see the terrain of where exactly they were. Even without a sun in the sky, they could see for miles. It was eerie.

"Hey...What's that?" Jackson squinted through his glasses and pointed some distance away from them. Hartley looked...somewhere ahead of them, flashes of purple were appearing and disappearing in a single spot.

"I don't think we should-"

"There's someone over there!" Adam shouted and took off running. Great, Hartley thought as he and Jackson had no choice but to follow or be separated. Adam didn't really seem to be a brilliant strategist.

As they came closer, though, it appeared Adam was right. There WAS someone on the plain, waving what looked like a purple shaft of light at long, black tendrils that were attacking him.

The kid looked familiar. He was-

"It's the kid from the concession stand!" Hartley realized. He'd gotten a hot dog from that kid less than an hour ago! At least by how he reckoned time...it didn't seem to run the same way, wherever they were.

"AAAH! I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF THESE ********' SNAKES ON THIS ********' PLAIN!" The kid shouted as his lightsaber took another slice at the four-eyed, shadow-like creatures attacking him.

Without hesitating, Adam jumped in and started slicing away too. Hartley stayed back and put an arm up to keep Jackson from jumping in.

"Maybe this is a job best left to the guys with the swords..."

"Hello. Are you alright?" A kind voice asked looking down at Dani, is a sea green haired, tall young woman with a kind smile on her face.

"I-Ugh..--I'm alright...." Dani gets up with her help, "Thank you. I'm Dani, by the way."

"Hello Dani. My name is Kaioh Michiru. But some of my American friends call me Michelle." Michelle looked perfect, with not a speck of anything on her, she was very feminine and her make up looked perfect.

"So Michelle, any ideas. on how we got here and how we get back out?"
Dani questioned after wiping the muck off herself, trying to look a little more presentable in front of Miss Perfect Michelle.

"Oiy! Loves! Give a fella a hand 'ere, won'tcha?" A voice called from behind a rock, and a hand was failing about. A red-headed boy was trapped in some mud from the waist down.

It took both girls to pull him out, then he ended up popping out and slamming them to the ground as he landed on them.

"Thank ya! I coun't have dun it with out ya. Name's Fred. Fred Weasly. At your service Ma'am's." He gave a bow, twirrling his wond around and shooting fire works in the air as he did so.

Dani just rols her eyes, while Michelle giggles at him lightly. He was too much like James Jessie. A totaly clown. She just shook her head and walked away.

"Oiy, Love! Your going the wring way!" Fred called after her. "Don't you ever head your story books.?" He pointed over yonder at a bright light shining form above.

"Ya always follow the light at the end of the tunnel."

"RRRrrrrrruuuuu!!" Chewbacca hollered at the sudden disapearence of HH, and grunted at the fallen Karen.

"What the hell are you looking at?! You steroid induced monkey spawn of Cousin It!" Karen's happy deminior had long passed since, Aching all over she was not all that pleasant to the Wookie who was just trying to help.

"HEY! Will you two shut up already?! You're giving me a head-ach!"
A young girl, with out shoes stomps her feet, like she's having a childish temper tantrum, but is anything but that.

Suddenly two boulders shoot up from the ground and encase both Chewie and Karen inside!

"There. Peace and quite. Just how I like it..." Toph The Earth Bender form TH, walks along the path, finally realizing something is a miss.

"Hey wait a minuet... this isn't..."

*WHAM!* Karen breaks free of her encasement!

"Alright you little--! OUFF!"

Once again A giant rock forms from the ground quickly shitting up Karen.

"Do you feel that? The Earth It's not normal." Toph explanes.

"Of course it's not normal! We're in a freaken hell dimension! What are you blind?!" Karen Screamed infuriated and burning away the rock with her heat vision.

Toph glares at the direction of Karen, Then stomps her foot once again.
"Actually Yes I am."
Just like that another rock from around her head shutting her up once more.

"RRRrruuuuwww!!" Chewie calls out of her wanting to be let out.

Hesitated, Toph listened... He reminded her of an old animal companion.

"Alright. Now you I like. Maybe." And just like that He's freed from his entrapment.

Toph and Chewie continue on.

Cassie grumbled. She couldn't believe she was stuck with some jedi and an over enthusiastic kid and his pets... this sucked.

' We're going around in circles?"
" Well what do you suggest or are you just going to play one of your stupid jedi mind tricks on me.?"

Anakin sighs.

" Look I don't wanna be here any more then you do. Can we please just focus on getting a way outta here?"

Ash interupts..

" I know... I can have Charizard fly up and give us a better view of things..."

Ash took out his poke ball and called out Charizard and he and Anakin got on. Ash looked at Cassie.


' Aren't you going to climb on board."

Cassie floated up.

' I got my own way of flying thank you very much."

Anakin and Ash just looked at each other and shrugged. It was then they heard screeching as flying black demons started to attack them.

"Protego!" Luna called out, drawing up a protective enchantment between the three of them and Lina's Flare Arrow attack spell. She did this at the same time that Billy called up a spell of his own to deflect the attack, and Lyn held her staff aloft to summon her own barrier.

"EEP!" Lina gasped as her spell struck the triple barrier and ricocheted back towards her and Liir.

Liir tackled her and the spell struck the ground where they were standing and caused the rock and debris to shatter beneath their feet, throwing the further against the ground at the base of the hill.

Billy started down the hill, a look of concern on his face, "Hey are you all right!?"

"Are you nuts!?" Lyn shouted after him. "THEY attacked US! They're lucky I didn't..."

"Boy the Nargles really have gotten to you, haven't they?"

Evil-Lyn turned and glared at Luna who seemed oblivious to her glare. Billy shouted back up at her, "What IS it with you!? Always shoot first, ask questions later!"

Lyn answered back, "Easier to keep from being hit first!"

"Oh never mind us!" Liir coughed amidst the dust and debris, fanning the air with his hands. "We'll be just fine!"

Lyn dropped down to the hill's base, her staff glowing and at the ready as Luna scrambled down after them. Billy helped Lina up, turning toward Lyn.

"If you'd have looked first, you would have seen they're here just like us. This is Lina Inverse and Liir Thropp! Students like us!"

Lina coughed and frowned, "What? You mean its not just us?"

Luna fiddled with her wand, "As large as the light was, it could have sent everyone here."

"Wherever here is." Liir said as he brushed his clothes off, looking around. "Place looks like Hell."

"Literally." Lina grumbled. "And I've seen some bad places before, lemme tell you. I wonder if Gourry and Amelia..."

Lina looked away and Lyn rolled her eyes.

"Sentimental drivel." She said. "The only way we're going to get out of here..."

Billy interrupted, "The *ONLY* way we'll get out of here is working together!"

"You have GOT to be joking!" Lyn retorted. "You think that I would actually...?"

"Have you got a better idea?" Liir asked, reaching into the folds of his jacket and pulling out, curiously enough, a yo-yo.

Lyn narrowed her eyes dangerously and gritted her teeth. "Alright. Fine! A truce, but ONLY until we figure out where we are and get back home!"

"Deal!" Billy said and he offered her his hand when a loud screech from up in the black sky alerted all five of them. They eyes probed the darkness, each in fretful concern.

"What was that?"