In these silences, something may rise
Part 1
Home coming
(I do not own the Power Puff Girls and its associated characters.)
The city of Townsville, a city that has been through many dark times because of the acts of super villains and monsters alike. To some there seemed to be no hope left, that they were doomed to live in a city slowly delving deeper and deeper into darkness. But these days came to an end as the light of super heroes finally came, not Superman, Green Lantern, Spiderman or any of these other well known heroes but a team of three special little girls. The Power Puff Girls, created by accident when Professor Utonium mixed Chemical X with one of his experiments. These three have fought the evil of Townsville for over two years, taking down monsters and foiling even the greatest plots from some of the most evil forces in the world. However these times are over, the city has now finally been given some true protection by its government. Its pitiful excuse of a Mayor finally got around to signing proposition 24601, also known as 'do the crime do the time' proposition.
The proposition now passed meant that the ridiculously small sentences criminals were given have finally been replaced with more fitting punishments. A prison has been built by the world's greatest minds, one that no super villain can ever escape from. And the proposition allowed the building of a force field that was placed around Monster Island, thus ending the almost constant attacks.
All this occurred six months ago, since then even the incompetent police force has been able to keep up with the petty crime of the city. The heroes are no longer needed and have become normal(ish) girls. Moving on to Pokey Oaks Elementary school and enjoying the time of peace. But this is time could never last, for as long as there are heroes there are always rogues, for there is always a balance which comes with a heavy price.
Mayor J Mayor is a small man in many respects, but one with a good and kind heart. Unfortunately this is not enough to run a city so nearly everything relies on a single woman, Miss Bellum.
'Mayor please pay attention to me for just a moment...' Miss Bellum had been waiting patiently for nearly half an hour now, holding on to the days agenda while the Mayor played with his favourite gadget.
'One moment please Miss Bellum, this is very important work.' The Mayor did not even take his eyes away while he watched the pickle jar slowly twist round in the machine before the lid popped of letting out the strong smell of the Mayors much-loved food. 'Look at that, opened it all by its self Miss Bellum! Why I don't know what I did before I bought this jar opener.'
'Sir you have had it for over three months now, we all know perfectly well what it does. And before you bought it you called the Power Puff Girls to open the jars.'
'Power Puff girls... err... who are they?' The Mayor asked perplexed and confused as he always was, stuffing pickles into his mouth at an alarming rate.
'The Power Puff Girls sir, they were the cities heroes for over two years, they saved the day, and not to mention your life, countless times! How could you forget about them?'
'Oh the Power Puff Girls!' The mayor said as he wolfed down the last of his pickles. 'Nice Girls, used to save the day and open my pickle jars you know?'
'Yes sir I know about that, now if we could please...' Miss Bellum was cut off as the Mayor pulled out another fresh jar of pickles.
'But now I have this pickle jar opener, let me show you how it works!' Miss Bellum just slapped her face in frustration; this had been going on for so long she had all most given up hope on ever telling him what he was meant to do that day. Not that it mattered because in the end she would have to do it all anyway.
It was just as the pickle jar opener opened its last jar that the Mayor's office was stormed. Not a soul had noticed as three strangers had managed to walk right past the inept guards and inadequate security measures. They were not even challenged until they reach the Mayors office door, and even then it was only a lowly office worker.
'Excuse me sirs but the Mayor is in a meeting right now and can not be disturbed, if you wish to wait out here until he is available please.' The worker was a small man, not even as tall as the three who wanted to go and see the Mayor, yet he had confidence in the power of his authority. It was a shame authority meant nothing to these three, very little did matter to them in fact.
'We have an appointment to see him, one we made two years ago.' Said the one who stood at the front of the three without even looking at the man who tried to stop them.
'Two years ago! Well if you will just give me your names I can go and...' He never got to finish his sentence; his last thoughts on this earth were that it would be such a pain to go through the records for the last two years for the appointment these three had made. He never felt a thing as a red hot beam of blue light went right through his head turning his face in to black ash. His corpse stood still for only a few moments and then fell down to the floor where the head exploded into a pile of dust.
The three intruders now had nothing in their way as they opened the doors just in time to hear the chime of the pickle jar opener. The Mayor and Miss Bellum both looked up to see the three walking into the office, but could not see the smouldering remains of the office worker as the door closed behind the trespassers.
'Excuse me but children are not allowed back here, if you are with the tour please go back to the group, I will show you the way if you're lost.' Miss Bellum at first got up to show the three young ones the way out but stopped in her tracks when the leader spoke.
'We are here to talk to the Mayor, sit down and shut up' The voice was one she remembered, one that came from the darkest hour of Townsville.
'Mayor we have to call...' These three were making a habit of stopping people in mid sentence, this time the attack came from the one on the left. A quick hit to the back of the head was enough to send Miss Bellum down to the floor with a nerve shattering thud, blood slowly seeping into the carpet from a broken nose.
'I told her to sit down and shut up.' The leader said as he made a ruthless kick to the un-conscious woman's ribs. The Mayor as I said was an idiot but he did have a good heart, he instantly raced over to Miss Bellum and tried to protect her with his small body.
'Monster, attacking Miss Bellum like that, when I talk to your parents you will be in for such a spanking.' The mayor was red with rage; he had not been like this since some one told him he was an idiot.
'Old man if you speak again without my permission I will rip out her neck with my bare hands.' The leader spoke with no emotion in his voice, the one on his left put on an evil smirk at the idea.
'Lets do it any way; we don't need her to control the old fool.' He said as he started towards the Mayor in a threatening manner. The little man cringed with fear as a hand reached out for Miss Bellum's neck, but it was stopped by the leaders' hand.
'Later we can have fun with the idiots; right now we have bigger fish to fry.' The leader held his subordinate's hand for a moment more then let him take a step back away from Miss Bellum. 'Call the Power Puff Girls; tell them to come here right away and nothing else.'
'No way, I would never lead the Girls into a trap!' Mayor Mayor shook his fist angrily at the three but went back to cowering when the one on the left stepped forward again.
'If you do not obey me then I will let these two play with you and the woman, then to lure those girls out we will start slaughtering the morons who live in this wretched excuse for a city.'
'Who are you monsters!?' The mayor asked as he stopped cowering and seemed to resign to his fate.
'Instruments of destruction' The leader said.
'Tools of foul play.' The one who wanted to kill Miss Bellum said.
'The final interruption.' The one who killed the office worker outside finally said.
'Now make the call old man.' The leader pointed at the hotline phone, now covered in dust and cobwebs from the lack of use over the months. The Mayor gave one last look at Miss Bellum and then started to slowly and sadly walk towards his hotline phone.
The Utonium home has now become a place close to sane, the Professor having time to not only invent but to play with his girls. But today the Girls were hard at work with their homework. Before the great peace the girls had been top of their classes able to get away with missing classes and homework but now all excuses were gone, some were coping better then others.
'Maths is so stupid.' Buttercup sat on the floor cross-legged staring at a blank bit of paper; she had been doing this for twenty minutes just unable to put pen down and get to work. She was not bad at maths, she just hated working on it was all and now was struggling to start work. Looking round she saw Blossom lying on her stomach and working so fast her hand was nearly a blur, she would finish in no time at that rate. Buttercup decided to try and see if she could somehow get out of this math work, either get Blossom to do it or copy from her. She floated gently over her sister putting on her most friendly voice.
'Oh Blossom my favourite sister in the whole wild world.' Without even taking her eyes off the page Blossom responded to Buttercup.
'I am not going to do your homework for you Buttercup.' Buttercup slumped and then stuck her tongue out at Blossom making sure to curl it as much as she could, knowing it was something Blossom could not do. With her first choice denied Buttercup tried to talk to Bubbles instead.
'Oh Bubbles...' Bubbles was sitting on the couch giggling as she played around with the calculator. When Buttercup got close enough she showed her the upside down calculator.
'Look I spelt "hello" on my calculator!' Buttercup just shakes her head as she sees Bubbles has forgotten that it needs to be put in backwards and has spelt OLLEH instead.
'On second thought forget it; I am better off doing this on my own.' She sat back down and went back to just looking at her blank page. 'Maybe if I am lucky the Mayor will call and I can get out of this. I could do with a good fight.'
'Oh come on Buttercup the hotline has not rung since the Mayor bought that pickle jar opener.' Blossom finally looked up from her homework which was very nearly done. There is absolutely no chance what so ever that phone will ring now...' The second she said that they could hear the hotline ringing from upstairs. The girls all looked in the direction of their room with faces of disbelief. The phone had not rung in months, and even then it had been the mayor been stupid, since his jar opener arrived Miss Bellum had made him promise only to use the hotline in a real emergency.
'Girls is that the hotline?' The professor asked as he walked into the room from his downstairs laboratory He had no sooner asked when three beams of coloured light shot past him and into the Power Puff's room. Professor Utonium span round from the force and fell back down the stairs to his lab, fortunately not hurt by some flukeish luck he seemed to have.
Upstairs Blossom as usual was the first to grab the hotline phone, causing a small cloud of dust to come up in her face. After a few light coughs she put the receiver to her ear and spoke into to phone.
'Power Puff Girls, what's the problem Mayor?' Blossom was then bombarded by the Mayors frantic voice.
'Blossomyouhavegottogethererealquickiaminbigtroubleandstuff!' He just spat it all out like one word and in a single breath.
'Mayor please slow down, I can't understand what you are saying when you talk like that.' Blossom had held the phone at arms length after the Mayor had screamed so loudly into it, but now risked putting it close again.
'Blossom, you have to get here really quick. There's no time to explain, just be at my office as soon as you can!' The mayor said more slowly and calmly, but the panic and fear still resonated in every word he said.
'We will be right there Mayor!' Blossom placed the phone back on its cradle before she turned to her sisters.
'What's up Blossom?' Bubbles asked.
'Did the Mayor want to show us his pickle jar opener again?' Buttercup said with a look of distaste on her face.
'No Buttercup, this sounded really serious this time.' Buttercup just shrugged at the idea that Mayor J. Mayor could be serious. 'He said we had to go to his office right away, come on girls lets go!' And without another word Blossom shot out of her window in a flash of pink light.
'Wait for me Blossom!' Bubbles yelled just before she vanished in a beam of blue light.
'I still say it going to turn out to be nothing.' Buttercup said, as she stood alone in the room before she went after her sisters.
The three who had assaulted the Mayors office now stood on one of Townsville's many skyscrapers, looking down on the streets which lead to the City hall.
'I can seem them coming.' Said the one who wore a blue denim vest with a black stripe round it.
'They will finally get what they deserve.' This was from the one in a baggy green sweatshirt also with a black stripe around it.
'All the training comes down to this, one my signal we attack.' This was from the red headed leader who wore a red baseball cap and a red leather jacket that also had a black stripe around it.
The Power Puff Girls had been flying at top speed for the Mayors office and had been too focused to see their attackers until it was too late. There were six red beams like the girls eye beams, each hitting a Power Puff Girl in the back. The Girls hit the ground skidding along the hard tarmac. When they finally came to a stop they were smouldering, both figuratively and literary.
'Hey who did that!?' Bubbles asked as she rubbed her sore back.
'Come out and show yourselves so I can kick your butts!' Buttercup shouted as she span round looking all over for who had dared use a sneaky move on her.
'Over here toots.' The voice came from behind the three girls, who span round as one to see who had ambushed them. Standing there were three young boys the same age as the Power Puff Girls, thee boys who had battled the girls once before and nearly ended their lives. They were the Rowdy Ruff Boys, sworn enemies of the Power Puff Girls and long thought as dead. They are a little older; in new clothes and they have longer hair then before but there is no doubt that it's them.
'No way, you guys are dead!' Blossom said in disbelief as she looked at her counterpart, the leader of the Rowdy Ruff's, Brick.
'We got better.' Butch, the green Ruff, said with a sly smirk crossing his face and his arms been crossed.
'Well I feel a relapse coming on!' Buttercup yelled out as she blindly charged Butch with the intent to rub the smirk off his face permanently. Butch has a second to move out the way or at least put up some sort of block, instead he just stands there with out even flinching. The full force of Buttercup's punch hits Butch right in the chin making a loud smack echo round the streets. Butch's head snaps back and he is sent back a few steps by the force of the blow. For a moment he holds there with his head bent back as far as it could go while Buttercup smiled thinking she had finished him. Then effortlessly Butch moves back into his same position, the smirk now even bigger and with no signs of damage.
'No way...' Buttercup could not understand how Butch had managed to take her hit like it was almost nothing; she had put everything she had into that single charge.
'Got anything else to show us, or are you going to run home like sissies?' Boomer asked the girls as Buttercup jumped back away from Butch and to regroup with her sisters.
'Girls!' The three girls gathered together in a huddle as Blossom tried to make some sort of strategy. 'We have to work together on this one, remember these guys are as strong as we are.'
'We are stronger then you girls could ever dream of.' Brick said as he listened into the girls. 'Go on and try anything you like, we can take it.'
'Ok let's try attack pattern Omega five!' Blossom ordered, trusting her sisters to follow her without question. The attack started as a quick rush at the three boys who did not even flinch as they saw the Power Puff Girls coming. Then just before they hit them the girls pulled up sharply going high into the sky, this move surprised the three boys as they had expected a head on attack. They looked up in time to see the girls were combining their attack power, holding hands while building up all their energy.
'Mega-blast!' The girls shouted out as one before firing a huge beam of energy at the three Rowdy Ruffs. The energy hit the ground dead on and exploded in a huge dome of light which destroyed half the street with it. When the smoke had blown away all that could be seen was a huge crater where the three boys had been standing.
'Hah yes we did it!' Buttercup yelled as she punched the air with one hand, and then started to do a little victory dance.
'Yeah we beat them.' Bubbles said as happy as she ever was, but when she turned to Blossom her smiles faulted a little. Blossom was not celebrating but seemed to be searching from something on the ground.
'That was almost too easy.' Buttercup stopped dancing around and just floated there with her hands back behind her head. 'Well now they're dead we can go home.' She was about to fly off when Blossom spoke up for the first time since the attack.
'I wouldn't be so sure Buttercup. They have taken much more then this before and come back from it, heck they somehow survived been blown up!' She was now looking for any remains of the three boys but could find nothing, no clothes remains and no snips, snails and puppy dog tails.
'Looking for us girls?' A voice came from above them, they all looked to see it was Boomer hovering high in the air with his three brothers. They are completely unharmed and still in their cocky positions staring down at the girls.
'They must have dodged the Mega-blast at the last possible moment!' Blossom was astounded by the thought they could have moved so quickly, the blast had moved at the speed of light after all.
'You girls gave us a better fight the first time round, you've gotten soft over the years.' Butch sneered from on high, the insult only really affecting Buttercup who was close to making another idiotic charge at them. Blossom saved her from another humiliation by grabbing her leg as she started to fly up at the boys.
'We can't beat them like this, they are stronger then we are.' Blossom said keeping a tight grip on her sister's leg.
'What do you suggest oh fearless leader?' Buttercup said with a voice filled with venom. 'That we go home and hide under our beds?'
'That sounds like a good plan to me...' Bubbles said quietly, half joking and half serious.
'Buttercup, don't you remember how we beat them last time?' Blossom finally let go of Buttercup's leg and let her land once more.
'Oh you better not be thinking what I think you are.' Buttercup felt her stomach churn as she remembered how she had beaten Butch the first time the rowdy's had shown up.
'Oh I want the blond, he's cute!' Bubbles said cheerily looking up at Boomer who reacted like he had been punched in the mouth.
'Hey! I am now cute!' Boomer yelled down shaking his fist at the girls, the first to break the cool exterior the boys had shown since arriving. Brick made a quick elbow to his side and Boomer remembered himself, returning to his place and pose.
'It's our only chance, let's go!' Blossoms said as she put on her cutest face, the same one she had used the first time the boys had been defeated. Bubbles followed after her putting on the same expression. Buttercup stayed where she was looking angry as she muttered curse under her breath before she went after her two sisters.
As the girls got closer Butch and Boomer became more and more agitated, trying to keep up the cool look been more of a struggle the closer the three girls got to them. Brick looked at them with mild contempt and disgust; he hated to see weakness in his siblings especially after all they had been through.
'Steady boys, this is the moment we have been training for so don't wuss out on me now.' Brick said out of the corner of his mouth just before the girls came up to them. Bubbles planted a kiss on Boomer's cheek, Buttercup forced herself to put a kiss on Butch's cheek and then Blossom kissed Brick. She held there for a second waiting for the explosive reaction but nothing happened. She opened her eyes and looked up to see Brick with a smile on his face. He had to force the smile as he could feel his skin crawl just like the first kiss he had been given, but this time he was in no danger of exploding.
'Sorry but I don't kiss on a first date, you never know what cooties you might catch.' Brick then kicked the astonished Blossom in the gut with all his force sending the Power Puff away from him in a hurry. This was followed by Boomer punching Bubbles in the face and then Butch doing the same to Buttercup.
'I don't get it, it worked last time.' Blossom said holding her aching stomach which was already starting to heal thanks to her powers.
'What do you think we have been doing all this time?' Brick said as he used the back of his hand to slowly wipe off where Blossom had kissed him. He was honestly revolted at Blossom, she was meant to be his equal and she could not figure this out.
'Unlike you Girls who were braiding each others hair and putting on makeup we have been preparing for this fight every single day.' Butch said while he was madly cleaning his face with both hands.
'We put ourselves into training, ever since you defeated us, with our single goal of becoming invisible.' Boomer said as he to madly cleaned himself with his hands, unable to get the wretched feeling of the kiss of his skin.
'Not only are we now stronger and faster then you, we are immune to your deadly kisses. That training was the worst but now we are stronger for it.' Brick finished trying to clean the lingering kiss of his face, and finally moved out of his relaxed position and into an attacking one. 'Now it's our turn to play, this time it will be my game and my rules. The only rule been the Power Puff Girls can't win!' As he said this his two brothers also moved into an attacking stance, never taking their eyes off the Power Puff Girls.
'Tare them apart!' The three boys yelled out together before they charged the girls with a downward punch. Each boy hit their female counterpart with the devastating punches sending their bodies hurtling back to earth. The force of the blows caused the Girls to dig huge trenches in the road before they each crashed head first into large buildings which collapsed on top of them. The boys gave them no time and no mercy, they were not held back by weakness such as guilt and fair play. Brick attacked the building where Blossom had crashed; he took a deep breath in then sent out a huge fire ball from his mouth. The flaming ball rolled across the ground before it exploded on contact with the remains of the skyscraper Blossom was in.
Boomer slammed his hands together like he was clapping for a show; each time he did a large wave of sound flew out from him in sonic booms. The waves barraged the rubble Bubbles was somewhere in, each one causing the rocks to be pulverised even further. To finish it off he smashed his hands in to the ground sending a shock wave across the ground which pulverised everything in its way until it hit what little remained of the debris covering Bubbles.
Butch like Buttercup had no particular skill apart from his own physical strength and toughness. He settled to use his eye beams to blast where he ad seen Buttercup land, holding the twin red beams up as he charged up another attack. After a few seconds of the intense beam he added his hand blast of green light which blew up into a thousand balls of light when it hit.
'Toasty.' Brick said as he looked at the flaming wreckage he had created with his attack.
'I thought they would put up a batter fight then this Brick.' Butch walked over to his brother looking at the watch on his wrist. 'Come on that was only five seconds worth of fighting.'
'Don't worry Butch, I think they still have plenty left to give.' As he speaks he notices a little movement from where Blossom had ended up. 'We still have more to play with.' The three girls then stood up moving the heavy concrete and steel that had covered them. They now looked the worse for ware, Blossom was badly burned from Brick's fireball attack, Bubbles seemed to have broken her left arm and was covered in small cuts while Buttercup seemed to have gotten off the best of the three with only bruises and small cuts.
'Split them up and finish them off.' Brick ordered as he charged Blossom hitting her with a huge kick to the jaw that sent her up into the sky like a rocket. Boomer and Butch moved at the same time, Boomer tackling Bubbles on her left side to cause the most pain before they flew off away from the others. Butch made a spinning back kick against Buttercup to move her to the sky where they could fight alone.
Buttercup floated up in the sky looking at Butch, her wounds forgotten and now she had enough time to recover a little she was ready to give him a beating. Butch just smirked as he looked at her, him with out even a scrape on his clothes and Buttercup wearing mostly tatters covered in her own blood. Butch then decided to add insult to injury by placing his right hand behind his back. Buttercup was infuriated by the open act of mocking, as she usually did in such situations she charged without thinking and this time there was no Blossom to stop her. Butch slaps Buttercup across the face as hard as he can; the force of the hit with Buttercup's own momentum causes her to be left completely stunned.
'Come on sissy, I am only using one hand here! 'While his opponent is dazed Butch attacked again this time with a backhanded slap, followed by another front slap then he just repeated himself over and over just hitting harder and faster each time. This is a mistake because as Buttercup regains her control she can easily time his attacks to make a quick dodge of them. Now Butch is left wide open for an attack, Buttercup tried first to kick him but Butch puts up both hands and block this high kick. Butch had never been a tactician and now saw his second mistake too late; he had no way to block the second attack from Buttercup which was a powerful haymaker punch. Butch was hit right in the jaw and span round on the spot three times from the sheer might of the punch. When he stopped he felt his head still ringing and could see a trickle of blood coming down from the corner of his mouth.
'I'll get you for that!' Butch yelled out as he spat the blood out his mouth, his hate and anger boiling over and clouding his mind.
'What's the matter, did the baby get a booboo?' Buttercup said in a baby talk voice, pushing Butch over the edge so he attacked like a berserker. He closed his eyes as he made a mad dash at Buttercup, but the attack was sloppy and Buttercup managed to avoid it just in time.
'Oh come on cant you even land on punch?' Buttercup had found an opening and planned on exploiting it to the full, Butch just seemed to get angrier and angrier as he was taunted. Butch made another charge at Buttercup and again missed, but this time Buttercup made a light slap across his buttocks which hurt his pride far more then it hurt his body. Butch screamed out with frustration and rage before he attacked again, this time Buttercup mistimed her dodge and Butch hit her full on. Buttercup went into an unstoppable spin as pain flared through her whole body. Butch capitalised on her weakness and came down on her with a stomp kick with enough force to send her back to earth with a teeth rattling crash. Buttercup lay in a small crater below him, moving very slightly as she tried to get up to go on fighting.
'Stupid girl.' Butch said as he started rubbing his hands together as quickly as he could to build up a static charge. When he had built up enough to power a small city he fired the bolt of electricity down on Buttercup like an angry god smiting someone who had displeased him. Buttercup was just coming around when the pain smacked her back sending her tumbling into a world of darkness, her fight was over.
Meanwhile, high above the city Bubbles and Boomer were about to begin their fight. Boomer's hair now swept around his head in the high winds, this would never have been a problem if he had kept it short but like the other two Ruff's he had grown it long, now he struggled to see Bubbles properly. It was this distraction that stopped him from attacking her strait away, he was to busy trying to think of an answer to do anything else.
'I don't suppose I can convince you to stop been mean?' Bubbles asked with little hope in her voice. She would rather not fight him, and not because he was stronger, she just did not enjoy fighting at all and since the time of peace that had just grown.
'Nope, it's good to be bad... or is it bad to be good... but good is bad and I like bad which is good... ah never mind, I am staying bad!' Boomer stumbled over his own words partly because of nerves and partly because his attempt to sound cool was thwarted by his hair.
'I have no idea what you just said...' Bubbles just looked at Boomer confused, she had gotten lost after the first sentence, nearly as much as Boomer had. The Rowdy Ruff Boy finally realised that he could keep his hair out of his eyes if he looked into the wind, now he had nothing to hold him back he could respond the way he knew best.
'Then maybe this will make it clear!' Boomer fired his eye laser beams at Bubbles, the twin red beams missing her head by only a few millimetres. Bubbles quickly span to one side before she started to fly around Boomer in a wild pattern as fast as she could. Boomer tried to follow her with his eye beam, zigzagging all over the sky but was always a little behind his target.
'Stay still so I can hit you!' Boomer was used to people doing what he told them to do, well apart from his brothers, and really thought if he told Bubbles to stop she would.
'No way.' Bubbles said while weaving round the sky in a ray of blue light, Boomer's attacks still getting nowhere with her.
'Blonds are so dumb.' Boomer said as he tried to intensify his laser assault, the red light doubled in size and Bubbles could feel the heat even when the beams were nowhere near her.
'You do know you're a blond as well right?' Bubbles asked just as she did a loop de loop to avoid the eye beams. Boomer suddenly realised he had just picked an insult he heard his brothers use nearly everyday and that it insulted him as well.
'Shut up girlie!' Boomer stopped firing his eye lasers, seeing that they were getting him nowhere, and now tried to attack head on. Bubbles saw him coming and instantly stopped flying wildly and tried to get away and buy herself some time. Boomer was hot on her trail no matter what Bubbles tried to lose him; she flew high and low, in the city and deep in cloud cover. But her trail was a baby blue light which followed her everywhere and let Boomer do the same. Bubbles could not shake him, and what was worse was that Boomer was much faster then she was, every second he seemed to gain more and more ground on her. She pushed as hard as she could to move faster but could not do it. The hunter in this chase just felt more and more exhilarated as he got closer and closer to his prey.
'Oh no he's going to catch me.' Bubbles said as she tried another fly up through the clouds, but the cover was so small it was not nearly enough to help. Boomer was now only a few feet behind her and was moving so fast that with in a few seconds he was flying side by side with his female counter part.
'Hah I win the race!' Boomer shouted as he started to fire some pot shots with his energy blasts, Bubbles was now so close each shot was near impossible to dodge. The first three missed but after that Boomer could not fire a single shot wrong, his blue energy waves smashed into Bubbles body with brutal effect. The blue Puff could no longer keep at the high speed and control went spinning round the air madly, her whole body hurting from the attacks and crying out from exhaustion. Boomer seeing his chance leapt on it with out a single bit of mercy, he quickly launched a flying kick into Bubbles head to send her hurtling down to earth. Boomer did not let her hit the ground however; he flew down after her and just in time managed to get ahead so he could make a volleyball spike up. Bubbles helpless body went up into the air like a rocket, the force of the attack almost taking her consciousness away from her. Boomer smiled as he saw her going up, he had been waiting a long time for this and he also still felt burned about the kiss he had endured earlier. This time he flew up after her he could hear no scream of pain as he had heard when she had been going down and was almost disappointed at that.
'Going down?' Boomer asked as he past Bubbles one last time, Bubbles could just about hear him and tried her best to regain control but her body refused to obey her commands. Boomer went past her by a half mile then came down on Bubbles as fast as he could do so, his hand closed together to hit her with a double hand strike. The blow smashed home right on her chest and for the last time Bubbles went back to the earth, smashing through three buildings on her way before hitting the ground. Boomer slowly floated down after her and landed next to a pile of rocks under which he could just about make out Bubbles shape.
'Winner, Boomer!' His smile was so big now it was staring to hurt him, but he did not care anymore, he had won. Boomer kicked the rubble away and then dragged the nearly dead Power Puff Girl out, holding her like some unloved rag doll he flew over to where Butch was waiting. He dropped the limp body which bounced near where Buttercup lay, two down and one left to go.
On the same Skyscraper the boys had been waiting in ambush, Brick and Blossom prepare for a final fight. Brick tightened his grey fingerless leather gloves, straitened his hat and made sure his long red hair was tied back. Blossom spent the time trying to figure out some strategy to use against Brick, she was coming up with nothing more then blanks.
'I have been waiting a long time for this, at least try to give me a decent fight.' Brick said as he straitened his red jacket, he needed not to think of strategy for he had thought of them years ago; all he needed to think of was how sweet victory would be in a matter on minutes.
'I am going to do better then that Brick.' Blossom moved her self in to a ready pose, readying herself for whatever Brick might throw at her and thinking of all she knew about beating a stronger opponent. 'I am going to defeat you, just like I did before.'
'Words mean nothing, only actions... have at you Blossom!' Brick moved out of his relaxed stance so quickly and attacked so swiftly it almost caught Blossom off guard. He tried to hit her with a stamping kick to the shin, thinking it would slow her down enough for him to tare her apart at his leisure, but he hit nothing but the floor. His foot went deep into the solid concrete as he saw Blossoms jumping just in time to avoid his kick. Blossoms attacked with a kick of her own, an axe kick aimed for Bricks head that was strong enough to unnerve even the powerful Rowdy Ruff. Brick had enough time to make a block but had to use both hands and could not stop the momentum entirely. The kick diverted past his right side and made a small hole next to the one he had made with his own missed kick.
'Nice try but you're going to have to do better then that.' Brick spins as fast as he could with a leg sweep that Blossom jumps over again, but Brick expected her to dodge and tries to hit back with an overwhelming uppercut punch. Blossom uses all her agility to flip backwards just avoiding the deadly punch, but doing this means she has to take her eyes off Brick even if it was only for a second. Brick saw her eyes brake off him and used the small amount of time he had to make his attack. Taking in a deep breath he turned his mouth into a flame thrower, a ball of fire the size of a small car flew out to where he could see Blossom was about to land. Blossom landed on the ground and without even thinking rolled as fast as she could to one side. The flaming ball just rolled past her, but when she looked to where it came from she could not see Brick. What Blossoms had not seen was Brick had used the fireball as cover to hide behind to get behind his rival. Blossom heard a sharp intake of breath too late, from where the fireball had been Brick fired another ball this time Blossom could not get out the way. The ball hit her full on and exploded instantly, the entire roof was encased in orange flames that Brick seemed immune to. Walking through the fire he tried to find the charred remains of Blossoms, and was astonished to find nothing.
'Up here bonehead!' Blossom yelled from the sky, her clothes smoking and her flesh more badly burned then before, but she had used the explosion flash to fly unnoticed. Brick just looked up in disbelief as Blossoms fired her pink energy wave at him, using both hands and all the power she could muster to try and kill him.
'NO!' Brick moved quickly to counter as he fired his own red wave of energy at Blossom, the two clashing just a few feet in front of him. The shock wave was enough to cause Brick to be pushed back to the very edge of the building and almost lose his footing, but he managed to dig his feet in and hold on.
'Oh come on, you have been watching way too much anime.' Blossom said as she looked at the power struggle, the two waves pushing against each other to see who was stronger. Brick just grinned as he pushed his energy out with all his might, he was stronger then Blossom and knew it all to well. The red side of the beam instantly started to push up crossing the halfway line in seconds and getting closer to Blossom. The Power Puff Girl tried to push back but found she had no where near the energy Brick had at his disposal, the wave would not hold against him much longer. Rather then been hit by this attack Blossom decided to cut her losses and get out the way. In one fluid movement Blossom strafed to one side as she cut her own energy wave off, the red energy of Brick passing by her harmlessly.
'That was a close one.' Blossom said before she saw Brick suddenly standing right next to her.
'You have no idea.' Brick lunged with a powerful punch which hit Blossom right in the cheek leaving her dazed. The red Ruff grabbed Blossom by the hand and then flew up as fast as he could after the energy wave which was now heading for space. He decided it would be a shame to waste such a powerful attack like that, so span Blossom round his head to build up some centrifugal force then threw Blossom with all the strength his arms had. The aim was perfect and Blossom was to dizzy from the spin to stop herself, she moved right into the path of the energy wave at the exact time it was to hit. The red blast went into her and then continued on, leaving behind a beaten Power Puff girl. She floated there for a moment then plummeted, passing Brick before landing on the still burning roof.
'Puny Power Puff.' Brick looked down on Blossom thinking for a moment how easy this had been; maybe he should have attacked months earlier. 'We all must die someday; today is your day to die.' He knew she could not hear him but he cared not a bit, his brothers had not noticed or ignored the fact he had gone mad after their defeat. But in this moment he was as sane as he ever was, defeating the Girls seemed to be filling the hole that was in his mind. There was no time for reflection now, counting chickens before they hatched was tactical mistake and Brick did not make tactical mistakes. Without a shred of pity Brick started to spin as fast as he could before coming down on Blossom with a spinning drill kick. The two went through the entire sky scraper until they had reached the basement, all the time all Brick could hear was Blossoms cries of agony.
When the two had finally reached the lowest floor Brick stopped spinning and looked down on the defeated girl.
'Girls are pathetic fighters.' He spat on Blossoms face, and to his genuine surprise her eye opened a little and looked up at him. Brick looked at her for a moment then smiled as he saw the misery and pain in that single open eye. He bent down and picked Blossom up by the throat holding tightly, feeling her last breath escape and then desperately tries to refill her lungs. Blossoms made some squirming motions so small they were almost unnoticeable, Brick lets her try to escape for a moment more then ends the fight. He pulls his head back and then hit her dead on with a head butt, one second Blossom was in his hands the next she had flown through the skyscraper and had landed face down next to Bubbles and Buttercup.
Brick walked slowly out of the building striating his jacket as he did, dusting himself off a little and then floating up into the air. Both Butch and Boomer hovered directly over the Power Puff Girls waiting for him.
'This was too easy Brick.' Boomer said as he looked down at the Girls, Buttercup having woken up but unable to move more then a few inches while the other two lay motionless.
'Yeah, all sort of anticlimactic.' Brick said as he noticed Blossom had opened one eye again but could do nothing more, just watch.
'Almost makes all those years of training seem not worth it.' Butch also looks at the defeated Power Puff girls, humbled by them and now lived or died by their whims. 'Almost.'
'This is the end.' Brick started to move higher up and is closely followed by his brothers. 'This time no amount of crying will bring them back.' The three were now so high up that Townsville looked like a small dot to them, but they knew exactly where the girls lay helpless. Brick gave a silent command and the Rowdy Ruff Boys made their last attack, coming down with everything they had. From this height, with this speed, with their strength and the girls weakened position the attack was guaranteed to be fatal. The three streams of colour came down from the heavens and the two girls who where still awake could see them coming. Buttercup tried desperately to move but her body was just too badly injured to move much more then a few inches. Blossom just watched the sky and waited for the end; she was even more hurt then Buttercup and knew it was too late. The Power Puff Girls were about to meet their final end, at the hands of the Rowdy Ruff Boys.
