Happy New Year, guys and gals! A new story from me, just in time to start off 2015 with!

Some of you must be wondering what possessed me to put these two in a story as the main characters. I've done it before, but this is the first multi-chapter fic I have featuring them and I still don't know...

Special shout out to rogue-scholar07, who Beta-ed this first chapter for me. Thanks so much!

Anyway, let's get to the story, shall we?

Cold.

It was the first thing she felt as she awoke.

As her eyes fluttered and she began to rouse from her unconscious state, she also felt weighted; as if gravity itself didn't want her to move from where she was.

Her head throbbed as she finally managed to pull herself up into a sitting position.

Eyesight blurred, Tecna shook her head, trying to clear it.

Ice, rocks everywhere... She herself was lying near the edge of what looked like a rather steep cliff with no discernable end to the drop.

It was only rocks and ice she could see in the landscape around her, no matter where she looked.

No matter where she looked, all she only saw rocks and ice in the landscape around her.

She stood up slowly, slightly unsteady on her feet.

"Where am I?" she wondered aloud.

Then she remembered.

Being at Alfea and learning that the physical portal to the Omega Dimension located on Aisha's home planet of Andros was severely unstable.

All the chaos as she and the other Winx fought the monsters spewing from it, she and Bloom rescuing Taboc the Wise after his ship was destroyed by said monsters...

Being at the portal, trying to close it with the aid of his scrolls...

Scrolls were lost...

Her friends tried to close it together...

Oh dear Dragon...

She shook, not just from cold as she remembered the rest.

They couldn't.

She did. On her own.

Stepping into the portal to close the portal from the inside.

Gaining her Enchantix in the process.

Fighting against the portal...

Waking up here...

"No. No, no, no..." Tecna quavered.

"I can't be there. No. No way. Perhaps I am dead and in some sort of Limbo. Or this is just a dream. It has to be." she whispered.

"That's it. It has to be a dream. I must still be sleeping in my dorm at Alfea. That's why I feel so sluggish..."

She shivered again, feeling the cold right down to her bones.

"But you don't feel physical discomfort in a dream..." she said. "This is completely... This doesn't make any sense at all..."

She pinched herself.

"I felt that. So... I'm not dreaming then? I'm actually here in the Omega Dimension?" she shivered even more.

"Come on, men! I heard a voice around here. Let's go check it out." the gruff voice of a male she heard in the distance said.

Her eyes widened.

"I need to move. Come on, come on..." the technology fairy thought.

Tecna forced her legs to move, but they felt heavy.

She tried transforming, but her Enchantix form faded in and out because she lacked the energy to hold it.

"I'm in trouble..." she thought. "I have next to no magical energy left, I can't fight without magic and I am in completely unfamiliar terrain..."

She ran and ran, through twists and turns, up slopes until she could no longer run.

Finding an empty cave, she dashed inside and let herself slide down onto the cold, hard, rocky floor.

"Those guys sounded like bad news. I'm glad they couldn't find me..." her teeth began to chatter as she shook violently, her body protesting against the extreme cold it was forced to endure.

As the adrenaline wore off, she began to feel even more exhausted, cold and in pain, to the point of tears.

"What the hell happened? Why did I end up here in this horrible place? I'm tired, hungry, cold, scared, alone... I... I just can't!" she cried, the air around her so cold that even her tears began to frost over.

"No, no... Pull yourself together, Tecna. This isn't the end of world... Though it seems like it... You need to get it together or you'll never live to see outside this place again!"

It took a great effort, but eventually, she managed to get herself calmed down.

"First priority; find somewhere safe to bide my time. This place is crawling with dangerous criminals, free of their iceblock prisons, thanks to Valtor's interference..." she scowled for a brief moment.

She stood up and brushed herself off.

"But can I transform yet?" the technology fairy wondered.

She tried summoning up all her energy and for a brief second, felt the familiar energy flowing through her, except more powerful...

And then it stopped abruptly.

"No... My powers aren't back fully yet..." she moaned, almost ready to cry again.

"No, Tecna. No more crying. You won't last long if you cry a lot around here..." she got up and willed herself to be stronger.

She felt the cold around her go right down her spine and shivered violently.

"But first, I must obtain more... practical garments for such extreme temperatures..." she scowled at her lilac miniskirt.

Tecna adjusted the hood of her jacket, making it fit more snugly around her face. It and the rest of her outfit was much like she remembered when she, Musa, Flora and Stella had accompanied Bloom to Domino back in Freshman year in an effort to help Bloom recover her powers after the Trix tried stealing them...

She'd rather be back on that frozen planet with her friends than on this frozen planet, all alone, with dangerous criminals roaming around...

She'd made herself a small, time-tracking device with scraps of old technology she'd found lying around the same day she was unwillingly thrown into this world.

Checking it, Tecna sighed. She had been down here for a week. and still, her magic wasn't fully healed, despite her achieving Enchantix.

It took a lot out of her for the most basic of spells. Making this outfit and the device had truly taxed her magic reserves and they would have been extremely simple tasks otherwise...

Both were worth it in her opinion though.

She still needed to work on a way to defend herself properly without her magic, until it came back.

If it came back.

No, no... No use for pessimistic thinking down here...

"I say we scour the lower quadrant. See if any of the more pathetic inmates of this wasteland have any good stuff for us..." Tecna heard voices from below her, on another cliff.

Curious, she stepped nearer to the ledge to look.

She really shouldn't have.

The ice and rock cracked beneath her feet, causing her to fall before she could even let out an exclamation of shock.

"Oh look. We didn't even have to go far. This one practically fell right into our laps too..." one big, burly, monster of a man, wearing a full face mask with goggles and worn-looking winter gear spoke with a tone that gave her the creeps.

"What do we have here, Kaldur?" another similarly dressed man asked him.

"I don't know, Zaros. Never seen this little lady around these parts. A newbie? Perhaps we should show her the way things work around here..." Kaldur drew a long, slightly rusted sword at the same time several of the other men, Zaros included, drew their own weapons.

"Oh no you don't!" Tecna managed to raise a digital dome shield between herself and the men.

"This one has magic too! Feels similar to the red-haired menace's own, but different... More powerful somehow. Yet, still weak..." Kaldur mused as the men around him began attacking the digital barrier.

It crumbled quicker than Tecna had anticipated, so she did the only thing she could do.

She ran.

Ran like she never had before.

Tecna was trapped.

A cliff behind her with a deep drop and her unable to fly and Kaldur, Zaros and their gang behind her...

"Nowhere to run, little girl..." Zaros held up his sword.

"Nowhere to hide..." Kaldur added.

"Get away from me!" Tecna sent a few blasts of energy off that knocked around some of the gang, but the rest stood firm.

"You'll have to do better than that, girlie." Kaldur sneered.

"How about this? Is this better?" another male voice said from the back of the gang.

With that, about three men were sent soaring over Tecna's head and down into the abyss below.

Almost as one, the rest of the gang turned to look at the new arrival, allowing Tecna a glimpse of him.

A tall, muscled- but not overly so- man stood there, smirking and giving off no sign of fear whatsoever.

His hair, a darker shade of magenta than her own, was in a Mohawk style and his facial features sharp. His eyes- an usual shade of yellow- seemed to dance with... amusement?

"You... Stay out of this!" Kaldur growled.

"Ganging up on a defenceless fairy? Not even I did that. It took the fun out of it all. And just when I thought you couldn't sink any lower, Kaldur..." the Mohawked man remarked casually.

"We're warning you..." Zaros raised his gun.

"Go ahead. Make my day. Haven't had a good fight since I got out that ice block and I could do with the exercise." Mohawk smirked.

Tecna put up as strong a barrier around herself as she could manage.

Zaros pulled the trigger and all hell broke loose.

The strange man revealed himself to be pretty adept in hand to hand combat and he was a shape shifter as well.

And he was a pretty powerful shape shifter, it seemed...

After kicking one man and sending him over the cliff, he shifted into what looked like a giant vulture and dropped another man over the cliff with his talons.

He then shifted into a strange sort of liquid, slipping beneath some men's feet and causing them to skid around whenever they tried to move, sending some over the edge of the cliff.

The liquid quickly rose up into a tall pile in the middle of the crowd of criminals, reshaping into the form of an even larger monster, roaring down at the remaining men, rather large, curved fangs bared, before the man resumed his human form.

"Would you like to test me further? I've been itching for a good fight since I got out my ice block, like I said before..." the wizard cracked his knuckles, a dark aura engulfing him.

Kaldur and Zaros looked at one another.

"Let's go, men. We'll be back for you another day..." Kaldur issued the order for his gang to retreat.

Tecna and the strange man looked at one another, then at the forms of the retreating men.

"Well, that's that..." the man said, casually, before returning his attention to the still in shock fairy.

"And why is such a pretty little thing like you doing down here in the Omega Dimension anyway?" The unfamiliar wizard sauntered over to her.

"Stay... the hell away from me..." Tecna growled.

"Ah... How about no. You don't want me to stay away from you, fairy. We could do with each other's help if we're going to survive in this place..."

"Why should I help you and why would I want your help?" Tecna scoffed.

"I can sense great power coming from you and the fact that you've survived down here for so long is a testament to that... much stronger than most fairies I've met in the past... As for how I can help you... I think I just demonstrated that..." He gestured to the cliff that some of her attackers had just been thrown over.

Tecna muttered to herself. "Fine. I suppose it would be logical to pursue an alliance with you. For the time being, at least."

"Good. My name is Duman..." He offered his hand for a handshake.

Tecna looked at it sceptically for a few seconds, hesitant. She relented after a few seconds.

"And my name is Tecna." She shook his hand firmly.

"Well then Tecna, it's best that we get moving from this area. Those guys' friends are sure to come looking for them soon. I know that gang and that wasn't all of them..." Duman picked up some of their dropped weapons and motioned for Tecna to follow him.

Tecna moved, but suddenly felt unsteady on her feet as the world around her began to spin.

"Whoa there..." Duman moved forward and caught the fairy as she passed out, before she could hit the ground.

"Come on then. Gotta get you somewhere where you can recover your strength..." he picked her up easily and walked away from the scene, making the weapons he was carrying before float behind them.

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