They all look around really confused.
"Where are we?" Heidi whispers
Beta looking out of the window looking at the tall trees with green leaves, and the clear blue sky.
"This doesn't appear to be any planet I've been on." Beta says
"This describes a bunch of planets though Beta" Jeffers says
"But none in our general area." Beta replies
"Victoria check the scanner," Jeffers demands.
"Ok Captain." she says as she is now beginning to calm down a bit. Her fear is now being replaced with confusion.
Victoria runs a scan in the area and the scanner comes back with an N/A
"That's never happened before." She says
"What is it?" Heidi asks
Victoria turns at Heidi and angrily hisses.
Heidi slowly backs away saying
"Ok, Ok."
"Victoria status report." Captain Jeffers says
"It comes back with nothing, nothing at all." Victoria answers
"Beta can you levitate the ship?" Jeffers asks
Beta walks over to the computer and it has a red light near the engine section.
"Engines were rattled in the blast. It will take some time to repair them Captain." Beta answers
"Dammit" Jeffers comments
Jeffers mashes the button telecom for the ship and says
"This is the bridge to engineering. We need you outside the ship immediately." Jeffers says with a hint of worry
"Engineering to bridge, ok Captain" The head engineer replies.
"Hey see if you can get any other ships on the com." Heidi suggests
"Alright Beta." Jeffers commands
"I'm on it." He replies
"There are no ships in the area where the com can connect to." Beta says
"This isn't right. This goes against all logic and common sense." Jeffers says as he starts to lose his mind.
"Lets just go out with engineering to get some fresh air." Heidi says
"Ok, evacuate the bridge," Jeffers says.
Jeffers, Heidi, Victoria and Beta walk out of the ship to see the entire crew on board the Dibits outside.
"I didn't say for everyone to come outside." Jeffers says
"Don't worry about it, Anton we have other things to worry about now." Heidi says.
The crowd of people sit around and converse with one another, as the main cast walks over to the back of the ship where the thrusters are.
Curipher who is in engineering jumps down from one of the thrusters and says
"Captain, the thrusters are damaged, but the engine appears to be ok."
"Thanks Curipher, so how are we going to fix the thrusters." Jeffers asks
"Well the head engineer says it will take a while to repair them, but it might just be impossible since one of them is so damaged it can't even operate." Curipher says
"Things just keep getting worse." Jeffers says
"Something tells me we can't get another thruster around here." Jeffers comments.
"Well even if we are stuck here it isn't that bad of a place to be stuck." Victoria says as she tries to lighten the mood.
"Yeah, it does feel kinda, whimsical around here." Heidi comments
"Kind of like a minor high, not that I would know about that kind of thing." Curipher adds
"Guys not helping!" Jeffers shouts
Everyone just goes quiet after that. And start looking at Captain Jeffers. While they are silent they can hear the faintest buzzing sound. Kind of like a helicopter. And it appears to be getting louder as if it is getting closer to them.
"What is that noise?" Heidi whispers as the noise gets louder meaning whatever it is is getting closer.
As it got closer Heidi, Jeffers and some of the others took out their lasers.
Victoria begins cowering directly behind Heidi
"So you're not hissing at me now."
"Shut up, just protect me."
Heidi takes out her laser.
"You're not going to shoot whatever it is, are you?" Victoria whispers
Heidi whispers back "if it's hostile."
The sound got to its peak as some of the engineers and Victoria cower behind someone or something.
As it flies over the treeline they see that it is some raggedy blimp like airship with one propeller at the back propelling it forward.
The airship appears to see the Dibits and her crew as it flies over and slowly turns back around.
"Should we worry about that?" Victoria asks
"Looking at their primitive technology, we have nothing to worry about." Beta says
"looks like you were right when you said you aren't getting another thruster here." Curipher says
"Maybe we could get a propeller." Jeffers says jokingly but still in an angry voice.
Sometime later a mysterious figure rides up on a horse covered from head to toe in knightly armor.
Slick and silver, with his face covered by the generic knight helmet.
"Halt, mysterious travelers, you have trespassed on the grounds of the sovereign nation of Wildowol." The mysterious figure says
Everyone looks at this mysterious figure.
"Look Sir, can you help us you see we are lost" Victoria says as she walks closer to the figure.
The figure pulls out a crossbow and says
"One more step and I'll shoot." The figure replies
Everybody stopped in their tracks as they looked at the mysterious figure and capitulated to their demands.
Heidi pipes up and says
"Look man, you seem a bit too confident. There's only one of you and around 130 of us. So could you just be cool?" Heidi asks
"I'm not here to be as you say cool. Madam. I appear before you to defend the sovereignty of the kingdom of Wildowol." The figure announces
The head engineer begins to walk forward and pleads
"Look sir, we really are lost can you please help us find a-" at that moment the knight shoots the head engineer with the crossbow killing him instantly.
This prompts Heidi to shoot the knight with her laser throwing him off the horse which instantly ends his life. Curipher runs towards the engineers body on the ground to check his pulse.
"Nothing he's dead." He says
Victoria slowly walks over to the knight and removes his helmet. To her surprise he isn't a human but Elven.
"Ah!" She screams as she sees the face of their assailant.
She checks his pulse and says
"No pulse."
"Who was that guy!" Heidi yells as she's now stressed with her hair becoming incredibly unkempt as her hair bun begins to come loose.
"I think he's an elf. A race normally in fantasy worlds. Which means we must be in Elda." Victoria replies.
Heidi and the rest of the crew with the exception of Beta are confused.
"What?"
Heidi asks, still visibly stressed because of what has just taken place.
"Elda, Elda the place that Admiral Flera told me about." Victoria responds
"When was this?" Heidi asks aggressively. Sensing Heidi's tone Victoria nervously says
"This was um. When you and Jeffers were down in the cargo bay."
"And why didn't you tell us?" Heidi says getting increasingly more angry.
"We didn't think it was important."
"You didn't think that our boss calling was important!" She shouts.
Victoria then says
"You're right, we should have told you. I promise it won't happen again."
This not only takes Heidi off guard but the rest of the crew.
They start murmuring and saying things like.
"What the hell?"
"The new girl apologized"
"I think I need to go to medical bay"
Heidi is especially blown back by this and calms down saying.
"Well I didn't expect that response. Especially not from you of all people."
"Well, you have to grow up sometime." Victoria says
"That's nice and all but we gotta find a way outta here." Jeffers says
"Admiral Flera says that I'm special," Victoria says as she's interrupted by laughter from the crew and Heidi.
"What, not in that way!" Victoria says. She then says
"No, she says that I have this special ability that only a few people have. Where I can teleport from show to show universe to universe, media to media."
"Well that's nice Victoria but, what does that have to do with anything?" Heidi asks
"I can teleport us out of here." Victoria announces
"I don't doubt you Victoria but, I mean that's the only explanation I can think of to why we are here now. But you clearly have no idea how to do it on demand." Jeffers says
"You're right but Admiral Flera says that there is someone here who can teach me."
"Really who?" asks Jeffers
"Someone called the White Witch I. Think I've heard that name before." Victoria says
"Well let's go find her." Jeffers says
Heidi Is surprised by this and says
"What? Anton, who's going to watch the ship?" Heidi asks
"Beta can play Captain while we're gone." Jeffers answers
Beta got excited and shouts
"Yes!"
"You're planning to leave them alone on the ship?" Heidi stresses
"Yeah, the engines are dead. They can't do anything." Jeffers says
"I guess you're right. So where to next?" Heidi asks
Victoria points in the direction the airship come from and says
"That way. That dead knight mentioned a place called Wildowol. So we go to Wildowol." Victoria espouses
"Ok, let's go" Heidi says
While everyone goes back into the ship Victoria, Jeffers, and Heidi walk off into the apparently magic forest.
As they're walking Victoria asks
"You guys got your lasers?"
"Yeah why?" Heidi responds
"Just in case, there's something sinister here."
As they walk the path towards Wildowol they are surrounded by trees and thick brush.
"The forest I love the forest. I never got to see too much of it." Victoria says
"Yeah, maybe we can camp out here and look up at the stars." Heidi jokes
"Really?" Victoria asks in excitement
"No! We're crewmembers of a Starship we can see the stars up close." Heidi says.
"Hey, when we get the Dibits back working we can explore the galaxy in this fantasy world. Sounds cool doesn't it?" Victoria suggests
"Yeah, sounds pretty cool." Jeffers adds
As they are conversing they don't realize they are being watched from a distance by a few black and scaly creatures who stand at the height of man but have the heads of lizards, Wolves or bears respectively. These are the evil Trolls that inhabit this forest and they live for their master D'vron the ancient Dark Lord who terrorizes this world.
The trio gets closer to their destination and they hear another airship flying over.
"Another one." Heidi whispers
"Get down." Jeffers says
They all crouched down behind trees and didn't make a sound.
Even though it takes a while the airship passes over. Though headed in the direction of the Dibits.
Jeffers grabs his radio and says over it
"Beta, another airship headed your way. Heads up."
"Thanks Captain." Beta responds
They continue trudging forward none the wiser that they are being watched from beyond the treeline.
Eventually they make it to some cliff and over the cliff there is this grassland spanning for miles and dead in the center is this huge city surrounded by this thick marble wall.
"We made it." Victoria says.
"We sure did." Heidi adds
They just take a moment to overlook the city.
But they are also being watched by someone other than the Trolls. High on Mount Heill watching them from a magic cauldron. The Dark Lord D'vron says in his deep voice.
"They will be mine."