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Jimmy's Lab

"I'm so bored." Jimmy Neutron, the young boy genius of Retroville, was sitting in his lab on his computer. It has been almost two weeks now since he and his team, the Nicktoons, defeated Professor Calamitous's Toybot army. It was him, Timmy Turner, Danny Phantom, SpongeBob Squarepants, the shaman Tak, the bald monk Avatar Aang, and the robot girl Jenny "X-J9" Wakeman, The seven of them were captured and Calamitous used their likeness to create an army of evil toys for him to use for world domination, but the team had united once more and defeated him, and also making Tak, Aang, and Jenny the newest members of the team.

And now he was just bored as heck with no one to hang with. Carl Wheezer was off on a trip to pet Llamas, and Sheen Estevez was preoccupied with a 10-hour Ultra Lord marathon. His mind went to a certain Cindy Vorte-GAH, what was he thinking?

But while he was bored, he was also going to look through other dimensions through his computer, there were many other different places to explore, and just the thought of the many scientific research it could come…it was endless!

Jimmy thought of something. "I wonder if I should call the others over and see if they want to hang out." Jimmy pondered as he reached into his coat pocket and grabbed his Neutronic Recaller, a device that allows him to call the other members of the Nicktoons and transport them here if he needs to. After their adventure he made sure everyone on the team grabbed one. He typed in some numbers, and the recaller started ringing. "Timmy, Danny, SpongeBob, Tak, Aang, and Jenny! I was wondering if you all wanted to come over and hang out in my lab. Carl and Sheen are busy, so I was wondering if you are all busy as well!" He said.

ZAP

Jimmy suddenly looked over to his left to see a beam of light and much to his shock and surprise, all of his teammates were right there before him."Well, that was pretty quick…"He said.

Timmy shrugged. "Well, I wasn't really a buddy anyway, anything to get me out of the house." He said as his Fairy Godparents, Cosmo and Wanda, were disguised as parts of his clothing.

Danny (who was in his civilian form, Danny Fenton) went over and sat down on a chair. "Ever since we fought Calamitous's Toybot Army, it's been a bit draining trying to round up any renaming ghost-empowered toys." He said. "But thankfully I haven't seen or heard anything so I think I'm in the clear."

SpongeBob smiled. "Its been too long guys. Thank goodness I didn't have to work today."

"Patrick didn't come along?" Danny asked him.

"No, Patrick's at a rock convention, and Sandy if off visiting relatives at Texas." SpongeBob said

Tak nodded and went to sit down as well. "Never in a million years would I have thought to fight an army of toys."

"Mom couldn't believe it either," Jenny said. "And she also said his plan was kinda dumb, I mean, using toys? It ain't even that good." And everyone else had to agree with her in that regard. Aang was the only one silent, but he wanted to go sit down.

After that, everybody started to mingle and chat for a while, with SpongeBob providing them some entertainment using his nose as a flute and everybody laughing and cheering at him a little bit, but Aang was still a bit quiet, something that a certain robo girl noticed. A feeling that grew to concern when she saw Aang got up and walk to a nearby corner to sit and meditate.

"I wonder what's wrong with Aang…" She thought as she got up and went to follow him. "Hey Aang." She said, startling the bald monk.

"Oh, Jenny." Aang gave her a small smile. "Sorry, did you need something?" He asked.

Jenny shook her head no. "Nope, I saw you come over by yourself and was worried…are you ok?" She asked.

Aang nodded. "Yea…It's just…I have been having these weird dreams lately. Not about the Fire Lord or anything…but something else." He said. "Like in my dream…we are all in these different places. With many different people." He said.

Jenny listened and was intrigued by what Aang was saying. "You mean we're in other worlds?" She asked. "Do we fight any bad guys?" She asked.

Aang shook his head. "As far as I can see…we aren't fighting anybody…at least not yet, but most of these places…we are all helping someone with a dilemma..while learning some things about ourselves along the way." He said. "It makes sense..because we just met and we just met these guys and we still don't really know much about each other." He said. Something that Jenny nodded. "And sometimes dreams can become reality."

"So you think we might end up in these worlds eventually?" Jenny asked him.

Aang nodded. "I believe so." He said. "I don't know how or why, but something tells me it might happen."

Jenny thought it over. The thought of them going into different worlds from Aang's dreams seems to be very interesting…but what sort of worlds would they be? "Well, let's worry about them later and just go back and hang out with everybody else." Jenny said with a smile. Aang looked at her and was smiling, this was something that can be figured out later on.

30 minutes later…

The gang was now on the ground with smiles on their faces, today being a good day to just sit back, relax, and not have to worry about anything dangerous going on. "Hey, guys." SpongeBob said. "Thanks for being the bestest friends in the world." He said. "I mean, Patrick is still my best friend, but you guys share the role with him."

The others laughed a bit. "You to Sponge, you to." Timmy said as all of a sudden, they all began to get a bit sleepy, and as much as they tried to fight it, they all fell asleep and were out like that. Unknown to them, a mysterious fog began to develop in the entire area and covered them all in a good few minutes…the mist vanished, and the Nicktoons vanished along with it.

Abandoned Theme Park

Timmy groaned a bit as he stirred. "Wh-what?" He asked as he rubbed his throbbing head. "What happened?" He asked as he looked to see his teammates all lying down and sleeping. He wouldn't think of the ordinary, but when he looked up, he got confused. "Wait a minute…" He said. "Hey guys, get up!" He said as the others also groggily got up.

"What time is it?" SpongeBob asked with a big yawn on his face, and he looked around. "Huh?" And he was not the only one as everybody looked at their surroundings and got confused. "Uh…guys? I don't think we're in Retroville anymore." He said.

"No, we're not." Jimmy said. "Goddard, show me-" But when he turned, he saw his beloved dog not at his side. "Goddard?" He called as he looked around. "GODDARD!" He shouted, but there was no answer at all. "W-where are we?" He asked.

"Hey, you kids!" The group all turned to see three people nearby walking over to them, two adults and one child. One was an adult man with lightly tanned skin, short brown hair, and small dark-colored eyes. He had a bulky figure and was wearing a blue polo shirt with white stripes and blue jeans. Another was a woman who was a bit shorter than the man, with the same skin complexion as the man and the younger girl. She had short, brown hair that was neatly styled, thin eyebrows, and small, dark colored eyes. Compared to her husband, she was fairly thin, and she was wearing a pink sweatshirt with white capri shorts as well as gold earrings and a matching gold necklace, and red lipstick.

But the one that got the team most intrigued is the little girl, who looked to be around Jimmy and Timmy's age. She had the same complexion as her partners, but she had brown hair tied in a ponytail, brown eyes, and rosy cheeks. And her attire consisted of a white medium-sleeved T-shirt with bright green stripes, bright red shorts, white socks, and yellow velcro sneakers.

The older man approached the group with some confusion. "What are you kids doing in an abandoned amusement park?" He asked. This took the team by surprise. They were in an amusement park? But it didn't make any sense because they were just in the lab!

Jimmy, after getting over his initial shock, cleared his throat. "Well..uh…we."

"Wait at the amusement park?" SpongeBob asked with a big smile on his face. "Oh boy! I'm going to go on a lot of rides!" He said as he ran off from the group, with the little girl shrieking a bit and hiding behind her mom.

Danny sighed. "Sorry…I'm Danny, and these are my friends, Jimmy, Timmy, Tak, Jenny, and Aang. The one who ran off is SpongeBob." He said.

The older man tilted his head at the sight of Jenny. "Huh, nice robot costume you got there kid." He said with a laugh. "I'm Aiko Ogino, this is my wife, Yuko, and our daughter, Chihiro." He then looked at his daughter. "Chihiro, come say hi.

The girl, however, shook her head. "No, they're weirdos!" She said hiding further behind her mom. That statement didn't really offend the team, but they shrugged a bit.

"Anyway, where did you kids come from?" Yuko asked. "None of you look Japanese…are you tourists?" She asked. Japanese? Wait..does this mean that they were all in Japan? But…how though? Jimmy was even thinking about why, as he didn't push anything that transported them to Japan at all…so why were they there?

"Uh… yeah, we are!" Jimmy said, coming up with a little lie. "We all came here with family..and I guess we kinda got ourselves a bit lost." He said with a nervous chuckle.

Aiko looked at them all and raised an eyebrow. "Well…ok then, but I don't feel comfortable with you all being by yourselves, so you bring us till your family comes to get you." He said and the Nicktoons all nodded.

"Anyway, what are you doing here?" Aang asked.

"Well, we were on our way to our new house." Yuko said. "But we got into a traffic jam so we ended up taking a shortcut, and it led to this amusement park." She said,

"I still think we should leave!" Chichiro said urgently. "We might get in trouble!"

"I have to agree with the scaredy cat there." Timmy said, with the girl glaring at him with a blush. "I mean it is abandoned, who knows if someone is in charge."

Aiko chuckled. "Don't worry kids, we're here, and if anyone comes along, we can explain that we got c'mon, let's take a look around." He said as he began to lead his family, leaving the nicktons behind. And good thing too, because now they had to figure out what was going on.

"Ok, Jimmy, what's going on?" Timmy asked.

"I don't know!" The boy genius said. "I swear I didn't do anything, I didn't even activate the Universe Portal Machine! But the thing is, if what they say is true, then we must be in Japan…but where, though? He asked. "Because I don't recognize any of this at all."

Jenny looked around. "I'm assuming that if you don't know…then we must be in another world's version of Japan!" She said, this made everyone gasp a bit, but it didn't make some sense as they weren't too familiar, and plus they DID just wake up in this place.

Danny, Aang, and Tak were silent during this as they looked around with looks ranging from caution and suspiciousness, and this was unnoticed by Jenny. "Guys?" She asked. "What's wrong?"

Aang looked around. "Soemthing feels off about this place." He said. "I can sense a lot of spiritual energy coming from here."

"I agree with him." Tak said. "I feel spiritual essence going on, my Juju is letting me feel it."

Danny nodded in agreement. "Look, let's just find SpongeBob and figure a way out of here…this place is giving me a bit of the creeps." He said as he and the rest of the Nicktoons all followed suit.

5 minutes later…

SpongeBob was looking all around, since this was an amusement park, he wanted to do anything more to go on many of the rides! But much to his disappointment, everything seemed closed. "Well, this blows whale bubbles." He pointed. "No rides..no no nothing… just boring." He sighed. "Well, I guess I'd better go-"but then his nose caught something, he took a few niffs, and his mouth began to water. "Mmm, something smells yummy!"

Following Hinoise, he came across a small alley, where he noticed steam coming from one of the stalls. He followed and found a lot of food standing up on the stands, his mouth watering with delight. "Mmm, yummy!" He said as he ran over and looked at all the food, the sight of it all making his mouth water more than ever. "Hello?" He called. "Anyone here?" He looked around. "I was wondering if I may take a small bite of this delicious food?" He asked, but to no answer. He looked at the food and his mind turned to hunger. "Well," he said as he took a small piece of chicken from the stall. "Maybe a bite won't hurt me."He said as he was about to put the food into his mouth, but then..

YOINK

SpongeBob was yanked out of his seat by a certain robot girl, giving him a stern look. "What do you think you're doing, SpongeBob?" She asked

SpongeBob was not put off by her frown and smiled. "Jenny, take a look! A lot of yummy food to eat!" He said. Around this time, the rest of the Nicktoons, as well as the Ogino family, found the spot and the others.

"There you are, Sponge!" Danny said. "I swear we can't keep you alone for a minute." He said with a sigh.

"Oooh, look at this food!" Aiko said as he and his wife went over to the stall, the smell got in their noses. "Hey, anybody here?" He asked around.

"Sorry Sir," SpongeBob said. "I tried calling as well, but nobody answered." He said as he looked aorund for the owners. "I wonder where they are."

When the Nicktoons saw the food on the stands, they got even more suspicious of this place. An abandoned amusement park..but yet there was cooked, prepared food on the stands? This didn't seem right at all.

"Guys, what are you doing?" Chihiro asked as she saw her parents grab platefuls of food and begin to eat.

"Don't worry," Aiko said as he grabbed two large dumplings. "I got credit cards and cash, I'll pay once the vendor shows up." He said.

Yuko took a bite of the chicken, and she smiled. "Mmmm, everyone, you all have to try this chicken, it's so moist and tender." Chihiro shook her head no, but Timmy's mouth watered a bit.

"It does look delicious…" Timmy said as he was about to go close.

"Timmy, don't!" Wanda said to him. "You don't know what food that is." She said,

Aang, Danny, and Tak were now more suspicious as they saw the food and nobody around. "Something's not right here…" they thought in unison, spiritual energy, and now food being left open? This wasn't right, not right at all.

Chihiro still wasn't so sure. "C'mon guys, you can't!" She said, and her parents didn't listen to her one bit, and continued to stuff their faces, and if one could hear closely…it almost sounded as if they were snorting like pigs.

"Why don't we explore the park a bit more while they are there," Danny said as he glanced at Aiko and Yuko, still stuffing their faces. "Eat some more…." He said the other Nicktoons agreed and began to leave, but not before Danny turned back. "Chihiro, you want to accompany us?"Chihiro looked at the odd group, and a part of her didn't want to go with them…but she didn't want to argue with her parents anymore, so she sighed and began to follow them reluctantly.

As they walked, Chichiro looked at the group and gulped. "So…uh…what are you all doing here?" She asked. The team got a bit nervous, were they supposed to tell this girl that they came from other worlds? How would she respond? "And where are your families?"

"Uh..well…uh…" Timmy stammered, now knowing what to say.

"Our families just moved!" Danny said. "Yeah, and they let us go ahead and walk around to explore..so yea." He said. Chihiro looked at him as if she didn't believe him.

"Liar." She said, "But whatever, I don't want to be in this place anyway." She said as she began to walk ahead of them.

"Friendly…"Timmy muttered as the others followed her. They followed her to where she was stunning on a bridge and they saw that she was looking at a large building that was colored ruby red and emerald green, that had a funnel puffing out black smoke and banners.

"Wow, what is that place?" SpongeBob asked.

"A bathhouse." Chichrio said to him. "A palace where Japanese people go for public baths." She said as she then looked at him. "Can you please take off that costume already? It's creepy!"

SpongeBob gave a hearty laugh. "Oh, this isn't my costume, silly it's-"

"Sorry, but he has a bit of a skin condition that he is embarrassed of." Jimmy said, covering the sponge's mouth with his left hand.

"Guys, there's a train!" Jenny said as the others followed her to the bridge and looked down to see that a train did, in fact go right under them.

"Follow it!" Chihiro said as she ran after it, with the Nicktoons following close behind, they all jumped on another railing until they saw a boy ahead of right before them. The boy looked to be around Danny's age with dark green hair in a bob cut, and his attire was a white one that resembled a kariginu as well as a lavender sash around his waist. He also had on a short indigo colored Sashinuki, and beige sandals.

The boy heard them and turned to see, and gasped in surprise as soon as he saw them all, and they were surprised to see him as well.

SpongeBob smiled. "Hello, new friend, my name is SpongeBob, and these guys are-"

"You all have to leave now!" The boy said urgently.

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Abandoned Theme Park

Chichiro and the Nicktoons looked at the boy with confusion on their faces. They had to leave? But why? And who was this kid anyway?

"Now hold on," Jimmy said. "Why do we have to le-"

"No time," The boy said to them. "It's almost night!" And as he said that, the sky was beginning to turn dark, which was weird because it looked to be a nice afternoon just a few minutes ago. "You all have to leave now, before they catch you!"

Chichiro was still baffled. "Wait, wha-"

"Uh..guys?" SpongeBob said as everyone looked at him. "Is it just me, or did it become dark all of a sudden?" He asked, and much to the Nicktoons and the girls' shock, it did in fact begin to turn into night. The bow-haired boy turned to the bathhouse to see that lights were coming on.

"They're turning on the lights!" He said as he turned back to the group. "All of you need to get out of here!" He said, pushing Chihiro. "I'll distract them!" He said as he turned his back on them.

Aang, Danny, and Tak were now starting to feel the spiritual energy getting much stronger, and it made them uneasy. "Guys, we need to get out of here, now!" Aang said as he grabbed Chihrio's hand and began to run, with the team following close behind, leaving the boy.

"Wait, can someone explain what's going on?" Timmy asked. "And why did that weird guy tell us to leave?"

"That energy we felt before," Tak said. "It's getting stronger! I don't know about you, but I don't want to deal with any evil spirits right now!"

"Let's just find Chihiro's parents and get out of here!" Danny said urgently. As they continued to run through the now dark amusement park. All of them began to notice that the nay light had started to come on, and many shadowy figures began to emerge from the buildings, making the group all wide-eyed.

"What the heck are those?" Timmy asked,

"I don't know, but I'm not sticking around to find out!" Chihiro cried as she and the others began to run.

"There has to be some sort of logical explanation for this!" Jimmy exclaimed.

Timmy groaned. "No time for your nerd talk! Let's just get out of here before these creeps grab us!" Timmy said as he passed by a shadow, making him freak a bit.

After a good few minutes, they finally found the spot where Yuko and Aiko were eating, but much to the group's confusion, they seemed to have gotten bigger and…fatter? Chichiro went over to grab her father's sleeve. "Guys, we need to leave right now!"

Jenny then ran over to Yuko. "Ma'am, please stop eating, we need to leave before-" But when Jenny started to tug, Yuoko turned to face the robot girl and much to the metal girl's shock, Yuko was no longer a human…she was now a big, fat, PIG!

"HOLY CRAP!" Timmy, SpongeBob, Jimmy, and Danny said in unison when they saw the transformed parents. Chichiro gasped and backed up a bit…her parents…no…this couldn't be them…it couldn't be! The human-turned-pigs turned back to their food, seemingly not knowing or remembering the group. "W-what happened to them?" SpongeBob asked, now a bit scared.

Timmy scootched back to make sure no one was watching him, and he turned to his Godparents. "Cosmo, Wanda, I wish Chichiro's parents were back to normal, and that we were all out of here!"

Wanda and Cosmo, however. "Uh… Timmy…our magic isn't working here!" Wanda said.

"WHAT?" Timmy exclaimed. "Why?"

SLAP

But his worries were interrupted, and he turned to see Aiko being slapped by a shadow with a fly swatter. He got slapped so many times he fell off his stool onto his side and squealed like a pig. This made the entire group back up a bit in fright.

"Ok, I don't like it here anymore!" SpongeBob exclaimed in fright.

"We gotta get out of here!" Danny said as he and the group began to run off Chichiro looked back at the large pigs and fearfully shook her head as she ran with the group. She shook her head and hoped that this was all one big dream. They continued to run past many spirits. Their run soon came to a stop when they approached the steps that lead to a large ocean, making them all stop in their tracks.

"Great, a dead end!" Timmy said, agitatedly.

"Wait.." Chihiro said. "These stairs led back to the entrance!" She said, "But where is it?" she asked as they all looked out to see the faraway town all lit up. Chichir then began to shake her head furiously. "Just a dream, gotta wake up, gotta wake up!" she said as she placed her left hand over her right arm to pinch herself, and she yelped in pain, but when she saw that the water didn't disappear, she then crouched down and shook in fear. "Wake up, please wake up!"

The Nicktoons looked at her with worry and sympathy. They had to figure out a way to get her out of here! Danny then looked determined. "I got this! Going Ghost!" He said as two white rings appeared and he transformed into his superhero/ghost form, Danny Phantom. The sight made Chichiro scream in fright. He then leaned down and grabbed the girl, making her scream even more.

"Guys, I'm going to try to get her out of here!" He said as he looked at her. "Hold on tight." Chihiro was still scared but she wrapped her arms around Danny's neck super tight, almost choking the ghost boy, but he didn't care, all that matters was getting her and his team out of thai place! He then flew into the sky and tried to make it on the other side..but then.

BONK

Danny slammed right into the wall, causing him to go skidding back with Chihiro screaming in fright. "Ow!" Danny said as he shook his head He looked at the wall, he then flew a bit closer, and he poked his finger at it and could feel the solid nature in the air. "The heck?" He asked.

"Wh-whats going on?" Chiro asked. "Why aren't we leaving?" She asked. Danny didn't have a good explanation, but he was also very nervous about this. He then flew back to the others and landed back on the stone.

"There's some kind of force field that is not letting us go!" Danny said.

Aang then narrowed his eyes and used his Avatar abilities to see what was going on, his eyes widened a bit. "A barrier!" He said, getting everyone's attention. "There's a spiritual barrier blocking the way!" He said.

Timmy gulped a bit. "What does that mean?" He asked nervously.

Aang shook his head. "Wherever we are...we're trapped here!" He said, making the others widen their eyes in shock.

"WHAT?" they all shouted in worry. This was bad, this was very, very bad. How were they going to get out of here?

Chihrio shook her head. "No! This is a dream, a dream!" She said,

"Uh…guys?" SpongeBob said. "I'm disappearing!" He said as everyone looked to see that his body was now a little transparent, freaking them out even more.

"WHERE THE HECK ARE WE!" Timmy screamed.

Aang and Tak both analyzed the situation. Enchanted food, weird creatures appearing from the darkness, a spiritual barrier…there was no doubting it anymore! "Whatever dimension this is." Tak said. "I think we're in this dimension's Spirit World!" He said.

Jimmy scoffed. "Spirit World? Please,"he said. "There must be a logical explanation for-" But he was interrupted by Timmy grabbing his hands and showing them to him.

"Can your science explain why we're all transparent, genius?" He asked with annoyance.

Chihiro looked at the group with confusion. Dimensions? Who were these people? But she was still nervous about what was going on.

"You!" They all turned to see the boy from earlier come up to them all. And the Nicktoons got in defensive mode, with Danny's fists glowing, Aang with his staff, Timmy with his StarBlaster, SpongeBob with his karate gear, Tak with his staff, and Jenny turning her hands into laser guns, all fo thi made Chihior looka t them with a mix of fear and awe. The boy raised his hands. "Wait, I'm not here to fight." He said.

"Then you'd better tell us what is happening!" Danny said. "And why are we transparent?" He asked.

The boy then raised his hands. "I promise, I'm here to help you." He then took notice of Chihiro, who was curled up into a ball and shaking.

"Just a dream…just a dream."She muttered in a terrified tone. The boy then walked over to the group, not really scared of their weapons, and walked past them over to Chichiro. He went over and touched her, causing her to yelp in fright. He then tried to calm her down, telling her that he won't hurt her, but she was still scared. He then reached into his pocket and got out a bunch of berries.

"Here," he said, presenting Chihiro with a red berry. "Open and eat this, you and your friend will have to eat food from this world or you'll all disappear!"

"NO!" Chihiro exclaimed, trying to push him away, but her arms went right through his face, as if he was a ghost, making her eyes go wide with fear and worry.

"I promise none of you will turn into pigs." He said as he offered Chihiro the berry again, the girl was a bit hesitant, but she then accepted and she took the berry and put it in her mouth. "Now chew and swallow." She did just that, and he looked to the others. "You all better take one as well." He said. The Nicktoons (sans Jenny) grabbed the berries and put them in their mouths, and began to chew.

"Hmm, a bit tart." Danny said.

"But still sweet and yummy." SpongeBob said with a smile as he swallowed it down.

"Guys," Jenny said. "You do remember I'm a robot, right? I can't eat human food." She said now with a bit of worry.

"But Jenny, look." Tak said as everyone looked at her and saw that, unlike the others, she was not transparent at all. "You aren't see-through."

The bow-cut boy looked at her with intrigue. "Hmm..it might have something to do with you being a machine, we have many machines here in the Spirit World." He said.

"Wait!" Chihrio said. "Where's my mom and dad? They didn't really turn into pigs, did they?" She asked.

The boy grabbed her hand. "I promise you'll see them eventually, but…get down and hide!" He said to the others and they all ran over to a nearby shrub and got down.

CAW

They all looked up to see a large black bird flying around them,

"A bird?" Jimmy asked ridiculously. "What's so scary about-"

"Shh!" the boy said to them as they continued to be quiet and saw the bird lying away. "That was a Harpy, and it's looking for you all. You need to get out of here." He said.

"Wait, my legs, I can't get up!" Chihiro said to him, making some of them look at her with confusion, could she really not get up? Or was her fear making her not move her body?

"I can carry her again." Danny said.

"No need," The boy said as he held his hands over her legs. "In the name of the wind and water within me, unbind her. Get up!" And with that, Chihiro did just that, much to everyone's astonishment. "Everyone grab on." He said as he grabbed Chihiro's hand, and Danny grabbed her, followed by Aang, Jenny, Timmy, Jimmy, Tak, and SpongeBob. And they all took off with the boy running through the park. They then turned a different direction with the boy magically opening a door in a narrow alleyway. Through the door, they all ran through a storage room that was filled with giant vases, giant fish, and finally a pig pen.

After a few more minutes of running, they all managed to land right back at the bathhouse. This time, the bridge was now teeming with spirits, all crossing the bridge and into the bathhouse.

"Wow…real spirits!" Timmy said with awe and shock, SpongeBob was shocked to see such spirits. Of course, he dealt with the Flying Dutchman, but these spirits seem brother… different

"This can't be real! This has to be some sort of hallucination!" Jimmy was always a kid of science, so his belief in magic and supernatural stuff was flawed, even after dealing with Timmy and his Godparents.

Aang and Tak, having dealt with spirits many times before in their worlds, were flabbergasted as the sight was totally different from the spirits they saw. Aang was a bit nervous, but at the same time, he was actually kind of excited to meet new spirits, as he was the bridge between the mortal world and the spirit world in his dimension. Tak himself was intrigued, wondering how these spirits differed from the Juju's from his dimension.

"Listen, all of you." The boy said. "You'll have to hold your breath when we cross the bridge." He said as he then led the group to a nearby garden door and opened it up." Even the tiniest breath will break the spell, and everyone will see you all." He warned.

"I'm scared!" Chihiro said, with the Nicktoons still mesmerized by the sight of the many different spirits surrounding them all. The boy told her and the clothes to remain calm and to stick close to him.

The group then began to walk to the bridge, getting past many of the spirits to get to their destination. As they continued to walk, they came upon a mysterious spirit, who was tall and looked as if he was covered in a black cloak, but the most disturbing thing was that his face was actually an expressionless mask that had grey-violet highlights painted on its head, and no eyes at all.

The others saw this figure and were a bit terrified, but when Aang and Tak saw him, there was something off about it, Aang, in particular, looked at this spirit with some curiosity, almost as if he felt something about it. But the thing Aang noticed was that the spirit was looking at the group, particularly at Chihiro and his team.

"Master Haku!" They all turned to see a small frog spirit come up to them. "Where have you been?"

The sight of the frog made Chihiro gasp a bit, ultimately making her open her mouth and lose her breath. And doing that made the Nicktoons make them take breath as well, ultimately exposing them.

The frog looked at the anthem all with shock. "Humans!" But the boy now called Haku trapped him in a bubble and grabbed onto Chihiro.

"Let's go!" Everyone, stay together!" He said as he took off running with everybody holding each other as they all ran underneath some ladies skirts and made their way to a nearby sliding door, making them all go through it. The ladies giggled as they pressed their skirts down.

Afterwards, everyone was now in a garden, trying to catch their breath and hiding in a big bush. They can hear the panicking of the spirits claiming the appearance of humans in the spirit world. "Well, great, now we're totally exposed." Timmy groaned.

"I'm sorry everyone." Chihiro said to them sadly. "I took a breath." She said.

"Eh, it ain't your fault." Danny said. "That frog thing spooked all of us." He said.

"Exactly." Haku said. "You all did very well." He and the others looked to see that some spirits were still scrambling, trying to find them. "All of you listen carefully, you can't stay here, for they'll find you and you won't be able to rescue your parents or escape this world. I'll create a diversion for you all."

He was about to get up until Chihiro grabbed his hand."No wait, don't leave! I don't want to be alone!"

Haku looked at her. "You're not alone, you have friends right beside you." He said as he motioned to the Nicktoons. "And besides, you have to save your family."

Chihiro looked at him and then down as he trembled a bit. "So this isn't a dream…they really did turn into pigs." She said, shaking a bit as a tear was going down her face. This made the Nicktoons look at her with sympathy.

"Hey, don't worry." Danny said as he put a reassuring hand on her shoulder. "We'll get them back somehow." He said as he looked at Haku. "Do you have a plan?"

Haku nodded. "When things calm down, go to the back gate, and go all the way down the stairs until you reach the boiler room where they stoke the fires. There ,all of you will find Kamaji, the boiler man."

"Got it!" Timmy said.

"Then tell him you all want to work here, even if he refuses, you must insist. If you don't, the Yubaba will turn every one of you into animals."

"But I'm too young to be an animal!" SpongeBob said nervously and shook a bit. "And who is this Yubaba woman?"

Haku frowned. "The witch who runs the bathhouse. Now everyone is listening, especially Chihiro. Kamaji will try to turn you away or trick you into leaving, but keep asking for work. It will be hard work, but you'll all be able to stay here, and Yubaba won't be able to hurt you guys." Chihiro and the Nicktoons all nodded their heads in agreement, understanding what they needed to do.

"Master Haku!" Everyone turned to the sliding doors to see shadows running frantically and calling Haku's name.

Haku turned his attention back to the others. "I need to go, but remember Chihiro, Jimmy, Timmy, Danny, SpongeBob, Tak, Aang, and Jenny. I'm your friend." As he got up he was stopped by Chihiro.

"Wait, how do you know my name?" She asked.

"And ours as well?" Jenny asked.

"I've known Chirio since she was very small. And we spirits know a lot about the Avatar and the ones who saved the universe many times." He said as he then continued to walk away into the sliding doors.

While they remained calm till the noise stopped, they all stood quietly and pondered over what Haku said.

"He knows who I am!" Aang said with shock, but his eyes grew even wider. "This place…this is one of them!"

Danny looked at him. "What do you mean?" He asked.

"Back at the lab, I told Jenny that I have been having dreams of us going to different worlds…and this place….this is one of them!" Aang said as he looked down. "But how do these spirits know about me?" He asked.

Chihiro looked at them all with a shocked expression. "Who are you people…WHAT are you people?" She asked. The Nicktoons looked at each other and sighed.

"Ok, let me explain." Jimmy said to her. "My friends and I…we come from different worlds, different from this one." He said.

Chihiro looked at him as if he were crazy. "You mean…your spirits as well?" She asked.

Danny shook his head. "Well, not really, most of us are human…well, SpongeBob is a taking sea sponge from an underwater city, Jenny right there is a crime-fighting robot, Aang is the Avatar, and me..well..I'm sort of a spirit..I'm half-ghost." He said.

Chihiro now looked as if she were about to go crazy. First, her parents turned into pigs; she is stuck in a world surrounded by spirits, and now she is dealing with a group of people who claim to be from other worlds! This was NOT her plan at all.

Jenny took her hands. "Listen. We know it's a lot to take in, but trust us. We're the good guys; we don't know how or why we're here. But I promise, we're going to help you get your parents back and figure out a way to get out of here." She said.

Chhiro looked at the robot girl's hands and at the other heroes. "You promise?" She asked worriedly.

SpongeBob nodded. "Of course, because helping others is what we heroes do." He said with a smile, and Chihiro looked at his smile, and she smiled back a bit.