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Life never happens by itself. A single tree is a host to several critters, squirres, birds, bugs. But underground the tree, deep with in it's roots more life, more bugs of course but also other plants.
That tree gives shade, food, and oxygen to all those creatures who live above ground.
The dimensions can be seen the same way. A single stream of space and time flows into a dimensional sistem and it branches like a tree. A single tree that feeds time, space and life into a system of roots that are the dimensions.
Unkown to the inhabitants of this dimensions ideas, concenpts, life forms, physics are shared.
The law of gravity, the passage of time, the english language exist across this dimensions. A set of dimensions will have the same kind of bipedal humanoid beings inhabiting it.
This is unknown to most beings who cannot even see beyond dimensions. On the other hands, I, The eternal mirror can see how the dimensions extend like reflections of each other.
One of the most poiniant expamples is the dimension where SheZow and Dudepow inhabit.
Both of them were handed down the mantle to become a hero that defended their cities. Both of them had been given a mantle that was contrary to their gender at birth.
Both had a twin, a best friend named Maz, a galery of villians and a city to protect called Megadale.
A distorted mirror image if I ever saw one. When they first meet they fought for a while as both their personalities were dominant; a mistake that the villians took advantage and capture them both.
They've managed to work together and come out victorious. In a way if Guy had never meet Gal he would have never learned to fight with a person to his own level.
From there they treated each other as distant cousins. Some said that they had an attraction for each other but their personalities were to similar to each other; similar to magnets love proves that oposites attracts but similars repel.
Guy and Gal clashed when they first meet each other, but the exact contrary happen with Marco Diaz.
Guy felt very conftable around Marco, it was easy to talk to him.
So much so that while Shelia and Dudley worked tiredlessly to find an awnser to how to travel back to their dimentions, the group consisting of Maz, Jackie Lynn, Janna, Marco and Guy wanted to see a movie to pass the time;both Marco and Guy wanted to see the same prison break movie "Scape from the Iron Fortress"
It had the same name on both of their dimensions and both were happily discussing out about the differences, they were so wrapped in their discussion didn't even noticed when Janna, Maz and Jackie went out to get snacks.
Both just kept happily talking, forgetting about their friends, the snacks but also forgetting about the mission.
Guy then interrupted the discussion by asking "So, Would it be that bad to be trapped here? You and your friends could live here on the Shelair" said Guy as he looked at Marco.
Marco shook his head "No, I don't thinkso; I never told my parents where I am, and I can't imagine living so closely to Janna or Jackie…At least not now" Guy streched and sitted back down "You are really close with them, You were ready to save them at a moment's notice" said Guy.
Marco leaned back on the couch "Janna kinda just took a liking to me one day and has been teasing me ever since, But Jackie Lynn is…" Marco shrugeed "Well, You know. I kinda like her, Really like her"
Guy figured out as much but hearing it out loud still bothered him a little."Does she know?" asked Guy
"Well, No, Not yet" replied Marco. Guy sighted in relief, He caught himself mid sight to make sure Marco did not heard him, Marco was to distracted on his own toughs to notice.
"I haven't really told her anything and I might have lost her for ever" tough Marco. Guy curved his mouth an wanted to say something to discourage Marco but he placed his hand on his shoulder "She is lucky to have you as a friend" said Guy.
Marco smiled
"And my parents would get really sad if I never showed at home again" said Marco changing the subject
Soon an alarm was heard. "Eureka! We got a way in" said Shelia.
Both Marco and Guy got up inmediatly. She showed her work on the screen.
"The problem lied in that each time they tried to use dimensional scissors snow or fire would come out. Even if they tried to use the dimensional bridge between DudePow and Shezow's home dimension it would not let them go trough and shoot more ice and fire." said Shelia
"But between me and Shelia, we were able to pin point the dimension where the snow was comming from and where it was going to appear next. Right above the old ice cream factory downtown" said Dudeley
Guy streched and said "Perfect, We are leaving soon. Tell Gal and Star…"
"Sadly Dudepow and their team won't be able to join us" interrupted Dudeley
"Why not?" Asked Guy somewhat dissapointed.
"Two reasons, One is that those dimensional dumpings will get bigger and bigger and we need to protect our city, and two you only got snow and ice while we get active flames, even the small ones are causing trouble all over the city" Replied Dudeley
Then he showed images of Dudepow rescuing people while flying, Saving them from a burning building. Another flame appeared from a dimensional rift almost hitting Dudepow. Star appeared from nowhere with a garbage can lid and stopped the flames before they could hit Dudepow. She smiles gladly , right before dropping the imprivised shield due to the flames heating it up and forcing her to drop it.
DudePow grabbed Star hands and looked at them, She didn't had any serious burns but her hands were hurt. He torn part of his cape and slowly placed bandages on her hands.
Star looked in awe at Dudepow. And blushed
Back at the Shelair, Shelia and dudepley couldn't help but to laugh a little.
"A princess and her knight in blue, How dreamy" mention Shelia.
Marco nodded "Yeah" He stared a while at the image of the two. He was of two minds, on one had he liked this traditional fairy tale about a valiant princess and her knight; on the other hand he also felt not like he wanted to be on the shoes of the knight of the story, but of the valiant princess defending her knight.
Just like Star and Dudepow.
He glanced at Guy and smiled.
When Guy turned around Marco looked away quickly. This scaped Guy's notice but not Shelia's. Who kept quiet.
"It's up to us then" Said Guy not tearing his eyes from the screen.
"And us!" said Maz with a loud and confident voice.Maz, Jackie Lynn and Janna had just arrived to the SheLair with a very realistic fishmask, each one of them had white gloves, a dinner jacket and well polished shoes.
Guy bursted our laughing at their new personas while Marco looked confused and concenred "Who are you guys supposed to be?" asked Marco
Maz replied happily "Why, We are the so-fish-ticated society, my good man" Guy laughed even more, to the point he was wheezing.
Marco smiled and gave a thumbs up. He didn't quite enjoyed the joke but respected the craft and the lenghs that they all went just to do the joke.
Once again they all boarded the She-C-Ten plane and took their place. Marco of course was on the front with Guy while all the others were seated on the back. Tensions were high and the five of them were on high alert.
More and more snow was piling up of the city. Down bellow the temperature was freezing rapidly. The streets were covered in snow, people were slipping on ice that was not there a second ago, there was no pattern to what froze over, confusion and chaos spread as an malignant winter took over a sunny city.
Guy pressed on, If they wanted to help the city they needed to get to the biggest portal soon. Shelia was still showing the feed of the people getting in danger. Guy gritted his teeth, frustated over not being able to help them at all.
Soon the biggest portal Manifested. It was a big portal, big enough to fit a plane three times of the She-C-Ten inside of it. The idea was to enter trough the portal and use the She-C-Ten speed to evade all the upcomming snow and hail.
What they didn't expect was for a creature to appear roaring from the portal. Witha roar that could rival a lion the creature made it's presence known. His scales were made of ice, his wings twice as big as his body, sharp teeth that looked like spears, and two talons at the end of his feet that ended up with big claws.
It's mere precenses froze the air around it and gust of wind arose flickering he air plane from the air. Guy grabbed on to the controlers as the plane spinned out of control. Everyone braced themselves, the plane shook and trembled.
Soon it managed to stabalised itself; not for Guy's pilot skills but Shelia managing to control the place and control it.
Guy's head was spinning. "Uhh…I don't wanna do that again"
Marco took off his belt and cheecked on the other passengers, all of semmed to be fine, their fish mask were still on so it was hard to know if they were ok. But they look consious under the masks.
The creatured exited the vortex and flew away.
Marco then said "We gotta stop that thing from reaching the city" As he walked towards the door he was stopped by Guy yelling "If we do, We might lose our chance to enter the vortex and we don't have much time"
Marco snapped "B-But the city.."
Guy shook his head "We need to take care of this from the root"
"Who ever or whatever is opening the dimensional rifts can send monsters trough it, We need to stop it now"
Marco bit his lip and closed his eyes. He couldn't let all those people alone, he couldn't let them down.
Jackie Lynn undid her belt and stood up. She placed her hand on Marco's shoulder "It's ok Marco, Guy is right. We need to find the source of this first" Marco opened his eyes and nodded. Guy smiled and nodded to Jackie Lynn as well.
With no further delay they entered the rift. Upon entering piloting the ship didn't got any easier. The riff kept sending ice shards and creatures at them, damaging the She-C-Ten even further.
By the time they made it to their destination they had to get ready for a crash landing.
Before they did they saw a strange world reveal to their eyes.
The ground was barely visible. From one side monsters made of ice, towering titants of snow and many more other creatures with swords and shields made of ice advance agaist an army of girls, all of them with white skin, red hair, and flames on their heads armed with several weapons. Most of them were scissor shaped. Like a Javelin with scissors stuck to them, or a twin swords that were made in the form of a scissor blade.
Both armies clashed. Most turning into smoke right away, giving a whole new meaning to the term fog of war.
Fireballs and Ice shards were flung everywhere. One Ice Shard the size of a truck was flung at the She-C-Ten "Shelia! Take over controls!" but there was not responce "Shelia!" screamed Guy once again. He pulled the yoke to try and get some control back of the plane.
The plane was still going down but at least he could choose where to crash, Guy manged to steer the plane somewhere were there was no war , a set of land near a lake.
After a rough landing Guy slumped into his seat. He took a deep breath and took off his seatbelt. "Is everyone ok?" he asked while walking to the seats on the back. Everyone had taken their fish mask, Maz had used one of the top hats to hurl in. Despite his face looking green he gave Guy a thumbs up.
"Did someone took the license plate of the dragon that almost hit us?" said Janna as she untied her seatbelt and got out of her seat. Jackie Lynn was way ahead of her and got out
"Where are we?" asked Jackie Lynn
Guy poked at his wrist communicator "I am not sure, Aparently Shelia can't reach us on other dimensions" He sighted "At least we know where all the snow and flames where comming from"
Janna crossed her arms "That's nice, But without the computer lady there is no way to know how they are making the portals of where the source of it is"
Marco's eyes brighten "I know who can help us! The mirror!"
"The Infinite Mirror?" asked Guy "I don't think he knows we are here"
"He knew we were comming to Saint Olga's and was able to see us there, He can also see trough dimensions, We just need another mirror to be able to talk to him"
Guy snapped his figners "Like the one in my room!Where to get a Mirror in here tough?" The land was barren, other than the contant fighting on the distance there was not much on the way of civilisation. That was until Marco looked up.
There were several floating islands around the battlefield. Two island standed out in particular since each had a castle on them, one made of ice and one made of steel with flames shooting out of them.
"What about one of those castles?" asked Marco while pointing up at the isles. Guy placed his hands on his hips "I can get us there no problem, I might need to carry you all tough"
Janna stepped up "No need, Do you guys have your skateboards?"
Everyone but Marco awnsered "Yes" at the same time
Marco was the last one to awnser "No" he then turned around somehat anoyed" What do you mean everyone has them?"
He looked back to see everyone was taking out their skateboards from the plane, Even Guy.
Janna opened the book and chanted some words, her eyes glowed, then the skateboards started to glow, they shook for a moment and then each skateboard grew wings. Everyone looks amazed and hopped on to the skateboards
They were able to fly, but it wasn't an easy task,Guy, Janna and Maz fell from their board almost as soon as they got up. But Jackie Lynn was able to master it no problem.
"Where is yours dude?" Asked Maz. Marco looked away "Back home…In our dimension"
"Don't worry, You can use mine" said Guy given the winged skatedboard to Marco.
Jackie Lynn raised an eyebrow "Oh? You don't wanna carry him" Guy bit his lip. That was a better idea and a way to spend more time with Marco.
"I…Uh.." He didn't really had an awnser. He shrugged
Marco had some trouble gettin on, Jackie hovered down and helped Marco get up to the board, even placing her hands near on his body and bending his arms and legs to be on the perfect position. Marco blushed a bit as Jackie was close to him. Guy looked away.
Once Marco got the hang of the flying skateboard they all flew towards the metal and fire castle.
Jackie and Marco flew closely together, Guy flew by himself using his own power, Maz was having a lot of trouble keeping his own board on track and spinned around the group, Janna was the slowest one since she was just seated on her board and munched on a bag of chip-a-dillas that she took from SheZow's dimension.
From the two castles, the one made of Iron was the scariest looking castle but if the creatures were anything to go by Coldfinger was on the ice castle and whoever lived on this scary castle was fighting him, and hopefully was easier to talk to than ColdFinger.
Flying up high until they reached the island where the castle was. As soon as their feet touched the floor they were sorrounded by several girls. They appeared as if out of nowhere.
Only Guy and Marco were able to see where they had come from thanks to their enhanced reflexes, they had movilesed at a supersonic speed from the castle.
All had weapons drawn, spears head pointed at all of them.
Guy and Marco instinctively got back to back, While Maz, Jackie stood still paying atention waiting for an opening to move. Janna stood in place and just said "Cool" as she finished the bag of chip-a-dillas
"Halt!" said one of the clones "Who are you and how did you got here?"
Another one of the clones said "Hey! I know those two. The ones in the dresses. They are the girls who destroyed St. Olgas"
Guy and Marco looked at each other "Destroyed is such a harsh word" said Marco "It's more like, we fought the crazy headmistress and the battle destroyed the school"
The clone girls murmed and talked between each other
"Princess SheZow and Princess Turdina"
Guy blushed "P-princess? I am not a Princess" Marco protested as well "Turdina is not my name!"
"We might need your help in defeating the ice gobling king known as ColdFinger"
"King? King Coldfinger? When did that happened?" asked Guy anoyed
"Ten years ago" said one of the clone girls "We have been at war with the Ice Gobling King for ten years"
"And Heckapoo prime cannot keep the fight for much longer" said one of the girls. "Follow us"
The group followed after the girl. Puzzled as of what had happened in there.
To many questions lingered, but they needed to get to the bottom of this.