Ace's Hell Nightmare/Ace Almost Runs Away in Fear and Comforted

*(Later that same night, as the group was asleep, Ace, still asleep, began to calmly toss and turn in concern. Suddenly, his Watch of Life opened by itself and began ticking, as if ready to explode. As it ticked, Tink's voice was heard)*

Tink: (Voice-over) Remember, Ace. If you fail, you will never go back. You will never go....

*(Suddenly, Ace's Watch of Life exploded, sending him flying through the air into an abyss and passing by black clouds with green illuminating lights. Then, after the clouds vanished, he landed right on the ground in another Great Hall of Judgement, except it's a more menacing cavern instead, surrounded by green electricity. After the electricity vanished, Ace felt an earthquake hit and quickly got up and started to run towards the exit in the form of a white light. But the earthquake exploded out in the center of the cavern, forming a smoky fiery tornado, and began pulling Ace towards it. Despite struggling to get away by grabbing onto a stalactite, Ace finally slipped from its grip when the stalactite broke, and he was tossed and turned in the air inside the tornado until he dropped down towards another realm filled with a huge sea of lava. Down in the lava, a boat made of skeletons emerged, and sitting on the rear of the boat is a skeletal dog version of Charon, wearing a purple tattered hooded cloak. Then Ace landed in the boat, and upon recovering and noticing Charon, the skeletal creature slowly looked at Ace, gave a creepy slasher grin, and hissed at him, making Ace gasp and run towards the front of the boat. Then he heard an unearthly growl coming from within the sea of lava up ahead. Then the source of the growling revealed itself to be, to Ace's calm horror as the boat slowly moved towards it, an entity emerging from within the sea of lava within a cocoon of fiery brimstone of energy. Then the energy exploded, and the entity was revealed to be a very large and slender male brown dragon/dog-like creature with dark red brown fur, a tan underbelly, triangular ears with tan ear innards, glowing yellow devilish eyes, a gray snout, a pale purple dragon/serpentine-like tongue, and sharp white teeth. That is the Hellhound himself. Then the Hellhound, with a scary wicked grin, slowly lowered his head towards the boat in front of Ace, who stumbled backwards on the boat's floor, his lower jaw submerged in lava)*

Hellhound: Now you are mine!

*(The Hellhound then made the lava bubble around the boat and slowly rocked the boat violently as Ace tried to crawl backwards in fear to get away from the monster. Then Ace tumbled near the edge of the boat, only to grab on to stop himself from falling into the lava. Then another huge bubble from the sea of lava emerged in front of Ace, forming into a demonic head shape and it then exploded, making Ace jump back in fear, avoiding getting hit by lava residue. The Hellhound then lets out a god-awful evil, demonic laugh and then fired his fire breath at the boat. Ace saw the blast strike near Charon, revealing, to his horror, little black dog-like demon imps, dancing with evil delight, ready to attack him. Ace ran to the front of the boat to escape upon noticing a nearby cliffside, only for another fire blast to strike in front of him, conjuring more demon imps. Then the demon imps jumped on Ace and began to take pleasure in clawing, biting, and attacking the poor green-skinned sunglasses-wearing boy. Then Ace, upon noticing the Hellhound and Charon slowly sinking the boat from rear down into the sea of lava, with the Hellhound disappearing into the lava, immediately screamed and ran to the skullhead at the front of the boat towards the cliffside, but the boat started to sink faster)*

Hellhound: (Voice-over) You can never go back!

*(Helpless due to failing to grab the cliffside and the boat sinking fast, Ace screamed a bit in pain as the demon imps continued to bite and claw at him while he hung onto the skullhead for dear life. Then finally, the Hellhound menacingly calls out to him)*

Hellhound: (Voice-over) Ace…!

*(Then Ace lets out one last scream, and then* *it was immediately crossfaded back in the church,* *now daytime,* *and the* *"Demon imps" and "Skeleton boat's skullhead" were actually,* *and respectively, the Powerpuff Girls and Rowdyruff Boys, shaking him awake like mad* *in concern, trying to snap him out of his nightmare,* *and a broomstick he was hanging on* *for dear life, for he was, apparently, having a nightmare. Even Utonium and Ms. Keane are watching this in concern. But Snake, Arturo, Billy, Grubber, and even Satsuki and Mei are not in the church now for some reason)*

Blossom: Ace!

Buttercup: Wake up!

Butch: Snap out of it!

Brick: Ace, wake up!

Bubbles: Ace!

*(Finally snapping awake, Ace then loses his balance on the broomstick he held onto and collapsed on the floor, much to his friends' concern)*

Bubbles: Are you alright?

*(Ace groaned a bit, rubbing his rear in pain from falling on the floor after letting go of the broomstick he formally held onto)*

Boomer: Did you have a bad dream?

Brick: Were there monsters?

Buttercup: Did they bite?

*(Ace, finally recovered, sighed in relief upon hearing their questions and even looking at his Watch of Life, which, to his relief, is still working and ticking away)*

Ace: (Sighs in relief) It was only a dream.

*(But then he got calmly concerned after staring at his Watch of Life. Then immediately, after he tucked his Watch of Life in his shirt's neck collar, he then, with a calm panicked, concerned look, immediately raced out of the church, much to Utonium's group's concern and confusion)*

Utonium's group: (Confused) Ace?

*(But no response, for Ace had already left in concern. Outside by the port near the church at the river, the rest of the Gangreen Gang were sitting around in a jetboat, waiting for Ace when they heard footsteps approaching quickly. They looked, and saw, to their relief, it's Ace, yet they are completely unaware of his concerned reaction at first)*

Snake: Hey, Accccce.

Billy: About time.

*(Then Ace scrambled into the boat as Arturo was untying the boat's rope anchor from the dock)*

Arturo: Okay, now.

*(As soon as the rope is untied, Ace quickly seated at the boat's wheel and began to drive off from the docks in a fast pace, much to the rest of the Gangreen Gang's shock, surprise, and confusion)*

Gangreen Gang except Ace: Whoooooaaaa!

Arturo: *Ay*, *dios*! What's going on?!

Ace: Don't talk!

*(Grubber blew a brief raspberry in confusion. Then they went up to Ace carefully as the latter continued to drive away on the river in a concerned panic)*

Billy: You mind to tell us what is going on?

*(Ace ignored them at first)*

Snake: Accccce?

*(But Ace continued to ignore them at first, looking scared and concerned still, scrambling his thoughts over his nightmare the night before. Finally, the rest of the Gangreen Gang shouted to get his attention)*

Gangreen Gang except Ace: Ace?! (Acccccce?!)

*(Ace finally spoke, still feeling scared and concerned)*

Ace: I forgot, there I said it!

Billy: You forgot what?

Snake: The cassssino, Team Rocket, and the Fearsssssome Four?

*(Ace finally belted out in emotion and fear in frustration)*

Ace: No! I forgot what it's like to have loving family and friends, and how wonderful life is! Ever since we became orphans, I forgot what it's like to have said family and true friends since becoming a gambler! Let alone forgetting what it's like to spend quality time, having pizza parties, charity runs, going shopping, et cetera, or maybe even a "Hey, let's go visit your place!"

*(The rest of the Gangreen Gang, somewhat getting what Ace is saying, tried to calm him)*

Snake: We undersssstand, but we agreed to do thissss vengeancccce mission, remember?!

Ace: But what if it doesn't work?!

Snake: Of coursssse it'll work!

Ace: Why?! What makes you say that?!

Snake: Becausssse you sssaid ssso yoursssself!

Arturo: We even said that in agreement!

*(Getting freaked out, Ace lets go of the wheel and begins to have a panic attack, ranting and raving about the nightmare he had. Seeing the wheel being let go, Snake immediately rushed over to it and grabbed it to steer the boat in place. During all of this, Ace is freaking out as he said this next line)*

Ace: But what if our Watches of Life stops working, let alone explode?! We might go to Hell if we die again! And then we might land in a boat made of skeletons and then a cloaked skeletal dog will greet us and take us to that Hellhound who will say "Now you are mine!" and then blast demon imps on us to claw and bite us!

Snake: (During Ace's breakdown above line) Hey, the wheel! You letsss go of the wheel!

Arturo: (During Ace's breakdown above line) Aye, aye, aye, get a hold of yourself!

*(Grubber and Billy suddenly noticed something ahead of them and Grubber blew a brief raspberry while pointing it out quickly with Billy in a panic)*

Billy: (At the same time as Grubber's brief panicked raspberry) Boyee!

*(Then noticing a nearby buoy coming up while Ace finished his breakdown raving, Snake immediately turned the wheel, jerking the boat away from the buoy, but he and the rest of the Gangreen Gang didn't notice Ace falling overboard from the turn. Then Snake began to shout at Ace, still unaware at first)*

Snake: None of ussss think that you hijacking a boat and running away will ssssolve our problemssss, esssspecially yourssss!

*(No response, then the rest of the Gangreen Gang, except Snake at first, finally noticed Ace in the water, struggling to stay afloat at the surface in a panic)*

Snake: (Unaware at first) Oh, now you're gonna bessss quiet, A...?

Arturo and Billy: (With Grubber blowing a brief raspberry) Snake!

*(Snake finally looked and saw in shock and concern Ace panicking and flailing in the water and even holding up his Watch of Life to keep it from getting wet and/or falling into the river water)*

Ace: (Coughing a bit, panicking) Guys! Help!

*(The rest of the Gangreen Gang immediately turned the boat to the buoy and Snake shouted out while pointing at the said buoy)*

Snake: Acccce! The buoy!

Ace: (Coughs a bit, hearing him) What?!

Gangreen Gang except Ace: The buoy!

Arturo: Head for the buoy!

*(Seeing the buoy, Ace immediately swam over to it with his Watch of Life held safely away from the water and grabbed onto the buoy. The rest of the Gangreen Gang parked the boat near Ace and the buoy and Billy reached his hand out)*

Billy: Ace, come on!

Snake: Takessss Billy'sss hand!

Arturo: *Arriba*!

*(Calming down a bit while panting a bit, Ace then took Billy's hand and he, with his Watch of Life in tow, was pulled on board, all soaking wet. After shivering a bit, Snake pulled a nearby towel out of the boat's cushion seat and blanketed Ace to dry him off)*

Snake: Accccce, calm down.

Ace: (Shivering a bit) I can't believe you made me fall overboard.

Arturo: Well, you let go the wheel, Ahab.

*(Grubber blew some raspberries in agreement)*

Ace: (Getting what Grubber's saying) Sorry, Grubber.

*(He exhaled and shivered one last time. Later, back at the church, Ace and his clothes are all dried off and he is now sipping some tea Ms. Keane made for him to calm him down. And he also confessed to Utonium's group about his and the rest of the Gangreen Gang's trip to Heaven and how they were given their Watches of Life by permission from Heaven)*

Ms. Keane: I see.

Utonium: So, basically, you need to perform a good deed to become completely alive again.

Blossom: Which, in other words, is somewhat considered a near-death experience for you.

Ace: (Shrugs) Yeah, well....

Buttercup: But are you sure getting revenge against Negaduck is a good deed?

Bubbles: I mean, you could do other bigger good deeds than that.

Ace: I don't know any other bigger good deeds to do at all.

Utonium: I'm pretty sure you will eventually.

Brick: And you did a minimal good deed before.

Ms. Keane: Like how you helped Satsuki and Mei escape from Negaduck's casino on the night you temporally died.

*(Hearing them say that, the Gangreen Gang contemplated a bit. And then Ace gently puts his teacup down and got up)*

Ace: You're right. I'll figure it out somehow.

Utonium's group: That's the spirit. (Yes!)

*(Then remembering Satsuki and Mei, Ace got curious and confused)*

Ace: And speaking of those girls, where are they?

Snake: You meanssss you don't know?

Ace: Don't know what?

Snake: They left ahead of usssss.

Arturo: Agreeing with us to meet up with them there.

Ace: "There?"

Gangreen Gang: Yeah.

Ace: But where's "There?"

Bubbles: The girls went to return the wallet to their aunt and uncle at their house on 402 Maple Street.

Ace: They're what?

Utonium: Returning the wallet.

Ms. Keane: And rest assured, that wallet was only full of pictures and Satsuki and Mei found out the address from that note they wrote to them.

*(After thinking over what they said, the Gangreen Gang realized and remembered)*

Billy: Oh, yeah, that's right.

Ace: They gave the girls their address on that note.

Utonium: And at least you didn't completely do a bad deed by stealing that wallet.

*(Feeling a twinge of guilt over that deed, Ace then spoke up)*

Ace: Well, we're gonna go to that 402 Maple Street house and visit.

Utonium's group: Yes, go on. (Have fun.)

Gangreen Gang: Yeah. (Yessss.)

*(Then with that, the Gangreen Gang, after Ace puts his Watch of Life back on and tucking it under his shirt's neck collar, left for this 402 Maple Street to meet up with Satsuki, Mei, and even Tatsuo and Yasuko, the two latters who live at that address)*

***Coming up: Upon visiting 402 Maple Street and reuniting with Satsuki and Mei, the Gangreen Gang were forgiven of the wallet theft by Tatsuo and Yasuko and were allowed to take Satsuki and Mei out on the town while Tatsuo and Yasuko go to a nearby social services office to adopt Satsuki and Mei. Then while out on the town's marketplace, the Gangreen Gang, Satsuki, and Mei were almost ambushed by Negaduck and his goons with Puppetmon's new gun.***