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"Oh someone gag me..." Jen sighed. "I am not holding hands in a circle and singing Kum Ba Yah!"

"So it's ki...hmm I see well if I take what I know about the power reader from the scanner...hmm yeah... that might work." Bulma was still busy fiddling with her devices and had a small work table brought out.

"Oh man, what I wouldn't give to have some sort of music." Jen was totally lost from Bulma's babble and she just sat down out the way. Fight she could do but she didn't see the point in holding hands and wishing something to happen. 'Was this how magic really worked?'

"So wait...we have to all tap out heels together three times and say 'There's no place like home?'" Jen really couldn't get her head round it. It was just too illogical.

"I guess no-one wants to hear my opinion." Orco sighed in his little bubble prison. Not that they could hear him anyway. He hated being made the buttmonkey. He was a powerful wizard... if only he hadn't lost his main source of power. 'Maybe I can help..if only I can find it in my hat...' Orco thought and his hat popped opening and hundreds of objects started to fill the bubble as he tried to find what he really needed.

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"Hey. Hey. Heeeeeeeeeey."

Hartley unlaced himself from Wallace enough to turn his head to see Holt poking him in the elbow. Holt himself had a girl on his arm, the stitched-up "Fearleader" from Monster High.

"What?"

"My high-powered hottie here is wondering if you've seen some guy."

"Huh?"

"Jackson." Frankie Stein answered, looking worried. "Jackson Jekyll? I heard that foul-mouthed boy from Jedi Academy say he was with you guys at one point. Then he launched into a diatribe about snakes. I won't repeat it."

Oh, jeez. She didn't know that Jekyll and Hyde were the same kid either?! Didn't any of these kids read the books written about their ancestors?

Hartley looked at Holt and Frankie. He opened his mouth to say something....and then shut it again.

Thinking about how he'd 'met' Holt, inspiration had hit him. He pulled Wallace into their conversation, an arm around his shoulders.

"Oh, man! I just thought of something. The cellphones!"

"Huh?" Frankie gave him a confused glare.

"We need everyone to focus on something, right? Get everyone hyped up? So that there's enough mental energy or force of will or whatever to get us back home, right?"

"Heeeey, yeahhhh, I'm creepin' on the same track!" Holt caught on and grinned at Hartley. "Firecracker, get out your iCoffin!"

Confession time to Wallace. Hartley hoped he wouldn't be too pissed.

"You see, I've been working on an app that can take over anyone's phone and make it play music that I want it to. And my music...well, let's just say that I'm VERY good at getting the emotions out of people that I want to get." Hartley glanced sidelong at Wallace. He'd just admitted to a scheme that wasn't exactly on the up-and-up.

"Since we're on a closed network here, thanks to that Ed girl, I'll just transmit the app to all of the phones here..." His fingers flew on the surface of his iPhone, and Frankie gasped.

"There it is! It just popped up on my iCoffin!"

"Excellent." Hartley smiled as he looked through the crowd and saw dozens and dozens of kids suddenly picking up their phones and seeing a strange new app installing itself.

"Now, to pick the right song..."

"Hey, man, I think you KNOW what tune is going to make the emotions flow." Holt reached one blue finger out to Hartley's iPhone and scrolled down his playlist, coming to a stop on one particular tune.

"Ohhhhh, yeah. Riiight!" Hartley broke into a smile. Once everyone's phone was done downloading, this was going to be great.

"Well I could help you..." Orco said to Billy as he finally found his wand. His bubble was now weighed down and floating just above the ground. He tried waving it and some spluttering sparks seemed to come out, it only managed to unwrap a little of Cleo's leg bandage.

Jen sat down on the ground and looked at her phone. It was doing something weird again.

'Darn it and I just got this thing.' She slipped it back into her cleavage and watched as more and more of the High School kids arrived confused and tired. Some looked really excited to see each other...there seemed to be some guy in a tuxedo with a rose in his mouth. He was being pounced on by some blond. Karen also seemed to be exhausted and wasn't her usual bouncy self. Jen seemed to be more amused at one of the Monster High girls picking a fight with one of the kids that had sealed up Orco.

"I'm almost there...okay I got it..an energy gauge reader." Bulma propped it up and it seemed to be almost like some sort of clap meter from a game show. It was currently sitting at a low ebb. "At the moment everyone seems to be not generating that much power. I tried to make it visible to everyone, but why isn't anyone seeing my wonderous talent?

'Great the whining is back.' Jen thought.

"Um.. it's great Bulma... you're a genius!"

"Why thanks for noticing Ms Namek girl." She said laughing and brought out of her sudden bad mood.

"That's She-Hulk to you." Jen said as she looked closer at the contraption. She wondered if it really worked, this girl obviously had some sort of mental condition.

Linda was yanking Kid Flash so hard that she didn't even hear Lois referring to him by his real name. Wally gave out a yelp as the two girls started pulling him in different directions.

"AWP! Ladies! Ladies, please...I'll, uh...I'll grant you BOTH interviews. We-"

"Hold on. One sec." Linda Park held up a finger and pulled out her Blackberry. Something was installing itself on there. She glanced sidelong at Lois to see if she was noticing this odd phenomenon, but Lois seemed too busy trying to pull Kid Flash away. Linda smiled furtively.

"Oh, well that's okay, I guess. As long as we both get an interview, you can go ahead and give it to Lois first. I'll just head over here and give you two some room..." And Linda ran off, tapping at her phone furiously. One of the kids here had to be the source of this. Maybe that weird red-headed boy...girl? Who was climbing all over Darkhawk? No...s/he didn't have a phone right now. Linda Park glanced over at a small group of kids who were all bent over a phone. She recognized the skinny redhead and the dark-haired boy hanging off him as Hero High students.

"Bingo." Linda Park beelined over to them. So Lois would hear Kid Flash's story...Linda Park was going to get the scoop on a phone hacking scandal!

Dani takes out her phone looking own at the app. Glancing around everyone else looked like their were in the same boat.

She was worried they'd been there too long. Who know how time worked in this Place, If time moved faster or slower, they could be here for 2 hours while back home two week could have gone by!

It was imparitive they get home. Fast!
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Karen noticed this too, and flew over to Hartley. He seemed like the man with the plan. Her powers were weakening very quickly since there was no sun to replenish her powers with, so it was really more like a big leap then actual flight.

"Excuse me Hartley, But what are you planning to do with these apps you've got us all on? I mean the last time I saw you I was lip-locking Achilles so bad, I nearly suffocated him. " She was referring to Cassie's Thanksgiving celebration form a few month ago.

"I don't care how we get home. But if that's what your planning just make sure I'm standing really close to Anakin." She winked at him.

"Why the heck would I want to go there?" Jack asked, scratching his head as the two boys followed after Myrtle.

She giggled, and Jack found that particularly infuriating. He had never thought himself above porking any babe, but this dead broad was going to be the first on his "Do not boink" list. He'd even underline her name.

"It's how we're going to go back hoooome," she said, and she swirled off towards the red light, leaving Jack and Duo to follow.