Put up your picture in the stratosphere

I had a weird Oz-related dream last night, which actually relates somewhat to the name of my blog and livejournal. To provide background to those of you who aren't familiar with the Oz books, Ruth Plumly Thompson's Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz had several characters visiting Stratovania, a kingdom in the stratosphere above Oz. The Tin Woodman claimed the country for Oz, and its ruler King Strutoovious VII (or "Strut of the Strat" for short) took offense at this, and tried to conquer the Emerald City. In my dream, I was reading a book where the Wizard of Oz returned to Stratovania in the company of a boy (possibly his assistant Number Nine), a woman with a short name beginning with the letter A (maybe Ana?), two small animals (one, I believe, being Dorothy's cat Eureka, but I'm not sure about the other one), and some other Ozites. They somehow got into a fight with Strut, and he had his blowmen apparently kill the two animals, although they were later revived. Number Nine then used the Magic Belt to banish Strut and his assistant Ice (who did not appear in Ozoplaning) to the inside of a fiery mountain, and Ana revealed that she was the twin sister of Strut's wife, Queen Kabebe. I believe the story changed as I read it. Strut's soldiers had initially attacked the animals with ordinary bullets, but then I remembered they actually used horns that blew things away (although I apparently didn't remember how the horns actually worked, or the fact that Ozma had removed all power from them at the end of Ozoplaning). I also think that, when I realized that there was nothing in the story about what happened to the government of Stratovania after Strut was banished, something about that appeared. It was pretty interesting, although maybe not that much like a traditional Oz story. I might want to incorporate some of it into something I write, though. I remember dreaming many years ago about seeing the book title The Royal Crab of Oz, and wanting to do something with that, but so far I haven't. If I ever do, I might change the Royal Crab to a Crab Emperor, as a play on Crab Imperial.