Just then, a mysterious giant arm popped out of the portal and stole the machine's main power source – Snotrium 357. The power of the sneeze broke the machine, opening a portal. After activating the machine, Ragsdale inhaled a cloud of pepper through his nose, causing him to let out a mighty sneeze. He was not too sure about the machine's purpose. That same evening, eccentric millionaire Snotty Ragsdale paid a visit to the lab to investigate this project and find out how such a thing was possible.
One dark and stormy evening, the civic-minded Professor Stinkbaum was working in his lab above Takey Dump where he was secretly building a machine called Zap-o-Matic that would save the world from pollution by transporting it to a place he called Dimension X-Crement.