Horrors appear!

And they scream!

(They don't look very horrifying, but it's dark.)

They are in a very dark room, lit only by the faint glow from a few buttons and LEDs! The two of them appear to be standing on a flat surface with an extremely faintly glowing (and flickering) circle on it, and partway across the room, standing next to the object that most of the buttons are on, is a fellow distinguished by a lab coat, Kevlar vest, Einstein wig (wig? Probably wig) and a pair of dramatic goggles that cover a great deal more of his face than is really necessary! The extremely shadowy shadows are making him look very dramatic. And is that a gun in his hand? Hard to see, considering just how dark it is!

"WELCOME, emissaries from beyond this dimension! I have called you here to DESTROY this meddling interloper!"

"Hi!"

(The voice is clearly a young woman's, but she's hard to see in the darkness.)

"- Bella can you see," whispers Xander.

"- can now." Where is the gun pointing.

Down, at present! Funny-looking gun, too. His left hand is making dramatic gestures; his right is holding the gun.

(Also, if she can see in the dark, she can see the very large room in very bad shape, the shimmering force-sphere surrounding the gun-wielding lunatic, and the grinning woman in blue-and-white who doesn't really look like a magical girl - no skirt - but looks more like one than like anything else from a non-fictional universe.)

Not all magical girls get with the skirt program.

That gun is going to continue to point down. It will not move.

"Where are we?" Bella asks.

"Chicago, Illinois, the United States of America, Earth, and also some guy's warehouse that he converted into an evil dimensional-travel laboratory!"

"THE HALL OF TRANS-DIMENSIONAL -" (he tries to slightly move his hand, the gun does not want to move) "- WHAT DID YOU JUST DO?"

Seems a question best left unanswered. "Is there perhaps a naming convention for various Earths."

"Actually, if you're Earthlings you're the first Earthlings not from our Earth we've run into? So nobody's worked one out."

"RELEASE MY WEAPON, TREACHEROUS MINIONS, OR YOU WILL FEEL MY WRATH!"

"Dimensional travel doesn't work, y'see, what with there not being any alternate dimensions."

(She's going to take advantage of this to hurl herself up to the rim of the force-bubble, put her hand on it, and then put two equal and opposite forces, one concentrated in the air right on the other side of the force-screen and one in the air behind her, for style's sake. To the outside eye, he gets punched in the chest hard enough to knock him off his feet - and make him let go of the gun - by absolutely nothing, and there is a slight breeze.)

"Yesterday, at least."

"I must confess I have never before considered the possibility that I was created ex nihilo by a mad scientist from an alternate Earth."

"Sorry! It's also possible your alternate universe totally exists! In fact I'm pretty sure there's some ACTUAL scientists who would say that if it's self-consistent, it exists somewhere? But mad scientists creating people is old hat and mad scientists actually finding alternate dimensions that are accessible through science science isn't."

"Does that mean we have no reasonable prospects of going home?"

"You..." *cough* "Have not..." *cough* "seen..." *cough* "the last of me!" The good Doctor (wheezing but still conscious!) attempts to throw a dramatic switch! Does the dramatic switch move?

- Bella doesn't know what happens if she drops the Mad Science Gun! The switch is going to move unless the local girl can do something about it.

Local Girl does not have the range! She can and will hit the good doctor again in the hopes of knocking him out, but since she's trying harder to not break his neck, this does not go great!

The platform the good Doctor is standing on descends into the earth (or, more likely, a basement) The bank of controls and lights descends. The Doctor descends. The shield descends. The gun does *not* descend, and when a shield nigh-impenetrable to physical forces hits a gun that does not want to move, extremely horrible noises happen.

Oh shit. She doesn't really know what to do about that and, uh, panics and drops the gun. - can she stop the whole platform field generator and all -

She can! The platform stops descending, halfway down into the basement!

There's no walls to this concealed elevator, though, so 'Doctor Dimensional''s grand escape attempt is going to turn into very nobly fall off the platform, then limp away as best he can.

"Be right back!" Mirror says, and then she's heading for the emergency stairs.

Does this place have... exits.