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I don't own the Powerpuff Girls. They belong to the brilliant Craig McCraken
It was a bright, sunny day. The streets were busy, people enjoying the wonderful day – some less than others. And it was quiet in the crime world…until…
"Stop right there!"
A dark green streak flashed past the busy traffic with a huge blast of wind. Three other colorful streaks followed and created a gush of wind startling people on the streets. The tranquility of the day was ruined and some knew that once the Powerpuffs got in a chase with the rowdy guys there will be damages and evacuations.
"Butch, I'm not in the mood for this." The green puff glowered and picked up her speed upon noticing that the green ruff paid no attention to her.
For the green ruff it had been a great day for stealing and general leering at girls around the town. He didn't do anything else he didn't do on a daily basis. Why was today so different? All he did was take some candy and stuff it in his pockets. A five year old could do that.
Okay, maybe he did do some property damage after that as well and maybe he did strip some girl from her clothes. But it's no reason for the Puffs to be on his case. It's the middle of a school day none the less.
In some way he felt special that the girls got out of class just for him.
Butch took a sharp turn in an alley in an attempt to shake the three girls off.
Blossom and Bubbles weren't as quick as him and missed the turn, but the quick witted Buttercup didn't and used the chance to corner him. She fired her lasers at his back in an attempt to throw him off balance.
Butch did almost crash into a wall, but stopped himself before that could happen. He growled at the puffs antics and turned around to face her. "Why did'ya have to do that? This was my favorite shirt." He took the hem of the shirt and lifted it up to inspect it as if to prove to her that the piece of fabric really was special to him.
Buttercup rolled her eyes and charged right at him. She used the opportunity with him being occupied with his shirt and slammed her fist right in his stomach, finishing the move with a right uppercut in the face.
The action took the green ruff by surprise and caused him to fly up in the air above the buildings and nearly crash into the ground. He stopped his heavy fall before he could interrupt the traffic on the street.
The puff wasted no time and was back on his tail again.
This time Butch was prepared and kneed her in the gut before she could lay a hand on him. He eyed her in satisfaction as she crashed into an office building, sending workers screaming all around. He grinned wider once he saw that an ample piece of debris was about to fall on her form. As much as he wanted to see and hear her scream in pain he knew that her sisters would have heard the collision and will be here in a second.
He took course back to Mojo's volcano, where he knew that his ungrateful brothers were leisurely laying around while he was out here getting nearly punched in the face all because Brick wanted a piece of gum. Next time he should get that junk on his own and then Butch will watch in evil glee as he will get his ass handed to him by the Powerpuff Girls.
"Give back what you stole!" The blue puff in a flash blocked his way and gave him one of her rare glares.
Butch wanted to yell in exasperation. It's just a piece of fucking gum. It's not that big of a deal. But for some reason the blue puff thought that he had stolen the freaking Mona Lisa or something.
Still this didn't stop him from making this a game. "If you want it so much you have to catch me first, pigtails." He grinned, mocking her hairstyle, knowing that it will rile up the blonde girl. He darted away the opposite direction before he could see her expression. He was snickering to himself. He knew quite well that the blue puff wasn't as quick as him.
In his haste to fly away from Bubbles and Buttercup, Butch had forgotten about the third puff.
Blossom had quietly watched the whole scene and was waiting for him to drop his guard and ground him. She wanted to give him a stern talking to and maybe a few kicks for making her miss class. Oh, yeah, and take back his stolen goods as well.
Butch had taken the long way around the city to get back to the volcano and it had proven to be successful as there was no powerpuff in sight.
"Finally, some space to breathe again," he muttered.
He was practically at the doorstep of the lair when a pink energy bolt flew right past his head. Butch barely had time to dodge the next four bolts that all seemed to be aimed at his head. He was starting to grow irritated with the rain of energy bolts and decided to throw one back himself when the pink puff appeared right in front of him.
"This has gone on long enough. Give back the jewels!" She death glared at him, her voice cold. She was hovering just a few meters away from his safe sanctuary where he knew that his brothers would help him if they knew the pinch he was in right now.
Maybe.
"I don't have any jewels. I just took a packet of gum. If you want it so much take it." He enjoyed the momentary look of bewilderment as he threw her the small packet.
She caught it and inspected it before composing herself and glared at him. "Are you mocking me?"
Butch chuckled. Looking at her windswept look really did make him feel somewhat better. Her hair tousled and her hair accessories all over the place.
"Wish I was." He smirked. "But seriously, don't you have anything better to do than chase after me? You know that you can't put me in jail because of the property damage or charge me for it." He smiled upon noticing that Blossom's eye twitched in annoyance. "So why did you just waste your time?" He was really curious as to know her answer. It was not every day that the girls were called upon to catch a candy thief.
Blossom contemplated whether to answer to him or just leave because she had a feeling that he wasn't lying about the pack of gum. The puff ran a hand trough her red hair messing it up even more. "Mayor called, saying that a thief has robbed the jewelry store. Upon seeing you near the store busting up the asphalt and the bus stop we automatically assumed that it was you." She grudgingly looked up at his grinning face.
He laughed. "Congratulations! You just let a robber run of with really expensive goods. Better hope that the cops catch him."
The pink puff crossed her arms across her chest and stared at his laughing form in annoyance. Oh how much she wanted to grab on to his spiky hair and pull it all out.
Before Blossom could utter a line of curses she was planning to throw at the ruff her raven haired sister had beaten her to the punch. Literally. Buttercup with a bright green flash came from down below and sucker punched the still laughing ruff across the city.
This caused Blossom to stifle a laugh. "Nice timing."
"Blossom, what was going on over here?" Bubbles inquired. She had lost the green ruff in a chase and had decided to help her sister out of the debris instead. Finding Butch again talking with her leader made questions arise. Whenever the puffs were called to stop the ruffs fighting always ensued. It was an odd sight seeing Butch actually engage in a conversation with them.
"Nothing worth mentioning." She glanced at the direction Butch got thrown to. "Let's just get back to class and hope that the cops catch the jewel thief," she added the last part quietly to herself.
"What! We're gonna let him get away with this? Blossom?" Buttercup stared at her sister like she had just announced that she won't be able to use her powers anymore.
"Yes," was her curt response.
At the other side of the town. Butch had landed in an old abandoned warehouse.
The sucker punch had really come from nowhere. She really did bust his nose. Not to mention that he landed in a pile of old wooden boxes and something sharp was digging into his back.
"Gwad, that bitch."
With a groan he sat up and tended to his bleeding nose. With a painful snap he put the bone back into its place and let the chemical x do the healing. He tenderly patted his nose to check if everything is right. Once satisfied he groaned even louder and fell back in the pile of boxes in defeat.
"What's wrong with me today?" Usually he could avoid such instances where he gets blown away by a sucker punch, but today he felt like his reflexes are delayed or something. Not to mention that he lost to them. Plus Brick is going to be angry that he also lost his pack of gum, but the bastard can go suck on an ice stick. Butch doesn't care anymore.
The ruff sighed. "I probably should stop following every order from Brick." He ruffled his messy hair and internally cursed the puffs.
Butch was about to get up from the rubble when something sharp scraped across his skin again. He stopped his movement and carefully hovered up from the pile of rubble. What is that thing that keeps impaling his skin like paper? He had trouble seeing anything in the pile besides wood, but something glinted in the sunlight and blinded him momentarily. He put up his hand to shield his eyes from the light and reached for the object. Upon contact it cut his skin. Butch nearly dropped it.
"Yeowch!" He put the small object in his pants pocket and put his cut fingers in his mouth, tasting blood. Whatever that thing is it's not normal. Such objects can't simply cut his skin. He decided to closely inspect it back home. If it's any use to him he'll keep it as a last resort weapon.
"Okay. What the hell is this?"
Butch had taken out the sharp object from his pocket, nearly cutting himself again, and put it on his messy table. The object was star shaped and it was as small as a ring. It was colored gold and obviously had sharp edges. Still it baffled the green ruff that such a small thing can make him bleed.
He took a chair and flipped it to sit on it backwards, resting his hands on the top of the chair. Is this star thing really worth anything? He decided to poke it to see if it will cut him if he touches the top part of it. Nothing happened. But he did notice that there was a black dot in the middle of the star and it appeared to be swirling around, like it had liquid inside.
Butch stared at it a little bit more before getting up and dropping down on his bed. The thing was useless.
When the ruff had gotten back Brick was up his ass immediately, asking for his pack of gum. He had to promptly tell him to fuck off and get lost. Of course, this ensued in a fight. Brick kept calling him an idiot and saying that he can't even finish a simple task, which, of course, made Butch retort back that he isn't his delivery guy that he can push around. At this point they had started to hit each other. Only then Boomer decided to intertwine and stop them before they wake Mojo from his beauty sleep.
Butch stared at the ceiling, his hands cushioning his head. He felt like a mindless idiot. It had been fun to wreck some havoc in the city, but the reason why he even headed out today was because of that simple request. He could have spent that time playing some video games with Boomer or something.
"God, I'm just as mindless as Boomer." He threw his arm over his eyes. He laid there like that for a moment, letting his mind drift off. After some time he felt someone watching him. The ruff was in no mood to throw a fit or fight someone, so he just removed his hand from his face.
A guy dressed up as a cowboy greeted him with a cheeky grin. "Hi, Butch."
The ruff started at the floating being before it clicked. "Who the fuck are you?" He sat up in his bed, tousling his sheets.
The cowboy had short bright purple hair, red skin and haunting red eyes. And it was staring at Butch like he was dinner. The fact that he looked quite cartoonish made the ruff think that the cowboy might just be a part of a dream. Once the creature smiled a toothy grin and its bad breath hit his nose, he knew that this was real. Or he might just have fallen on the ground while sleeping his sock in his face, but that seemed unlikely as he had cleaned up his room recently.
"I'm Jack and I'm here to grant you seventeen wishes as thanks for freeing me from my vessel." He sat down on the ruff's bed in a lotus position and grinned like a jester at him.
"Yea, I don't think so." Unfazed by the creature's announcement Butch got up from the bed, his feet got caught up in his messy sheets making him animatedly fall on the ground with a thud and nearly bite off his tongue.
Jack fell on the bed laughing like a maniac. "You're hilarious. I'm going to love you as a master."
Butch mumbled incoherently and got up from the ground. He rubbed his jaw and glared at the laughing creature. "I'm going to get a drink." Maybe that will clear his mind.
"Sure, sure, pffft…just remember to come back I need you to tell the rules."
Grumbling about bad dreams and stupid jokes Butch slammed shut the door to his bedroom, leaving Jack all alone in his room.
The green ruff landed on the roof top of Pokey Oaks High school. He sat on a nearby picnic table, taking out the star shaped object from his black hoodie in a napkin. He learned his lesion – this thing is sharp. With a finger he flicked on the black part of the star. Jack came out with a swirl of lavender smoke.
"How may I help you, master?" With a mocking grin he bowed to him and snickered at the raven haired boys expression.
"Just so you know, I still think that you are a fake." Jack faked a dramatic hurt expression. Butch ignored it. "But that's why we're here to test it out."
"Lay it on me!"
The green ruff grumbled. Oh, how much he wanted to strangle the weird thing. Still curiosity was stronger and he really wanted to find out if he actually had gotten no limit seventeen wishes. It sounded too good to be true and judging from Jack's demeanor this might as well be a prank from his brothers. If the test wish fails then he will know for sure that he's a fake.
"Well, I-" Before Butch could finish his wish he heard someone throw open the door to the rooftop. Upon instinct he flew up in the sky and hid behind a huge flower pot. Apparently Pokey Oaks have a sky garden and it was an impressive one at that. It nearly covered the whole rooftop, only leaving a small free space for students to come up and study or eat their lunch at the two picnic tables.
Butch peered over the plant's foliage trying to see who his intruders are. Fortunately for him it was the Powerpuff Girls and two other unknown girls that had decided to lunch on the rooftop.
For a moment Butch remembered that Jack was with him as well and he didn't see him with him. Where did that little freak go?
As if on cue Jack appeared before him in a poof of smoke again dressed up like a hobo from the slums. "You called?" He asked, with a toothy grin, showing obvious cavities in his teeth. Butch had to refrain from plugging his nose 'cause this guy reeked. And he thought that yesterday his breath was horrible. The ruff used to handle bad smells so well until this guy showed up and created a new meaning to bad odor.
Before doing anything he peered at the five girls again, making sure that they didn't notice him. The girls were getting out their lunch from their bags while talking animatedly and loudly giggling. Yep, they were in their own giggly world. Nothing to worry about here.
Butch looked at the red creature again. "Now how did this work again?"
Jack wiped off his grin and poofed up a sharpie in his hand to draw angry eyebrows on himself. He rubbed his hands together and exhaled loudly. "You just say "I wish…" and then the wish you want to fulfill." The red creature whipped out a comb and combed back his greasy hair.
The ruff watched all this. This had been just the weirdest thing he had seen and this is coming from a super powered teenager that lives in a city where monsters are a normal occurrence.
Jack stretched out his brown sweat pants and dropped the comb in them. "But be warned that there will be exceptions."
Butch did not understand what he meant by that, but by this point he didn't care enough to ask. He just came here to test him. As long as it works he doesn't care about exceptions or any other stupid rule Jack came up with.
Gathering up his thoughts, he tried to find the best punishment for the puffs. Once he settled up on one, he chuckled. It did seem like something that the girls would never do. "Okay, star guy, ("It's Jack, numbskull.") I wish for the Powerpuff girls to become my personal servants."
Jack rubbed his palms together in mirthful anticipation. "Oh, goodie! This might be a good one." He clapped his hands and a pink line of smoke went towards the five girls. With a purple smoke Jack warped back in the golden star, his maniacal laughter echoing around the place.
Butch followed the trail of the smoke and watched as it enveloped around the three puffs. The smoke appeared to be invisible to their eyes as they easily inhaled it.
The five girls kept chatting aimlessly when with a thump Bubbles' fork fell from her hand. She appeared to be in a daze along with Buttercup. The other girls, starting to worry, waved a hand in front of the blonde girls face. When they received no response they started to shake her. Blossom had been doing something similar to Buttercup, who was as unresponsive as Bubbles.
The ruff stared in bewilderment. Did it actually work? The girls did seem affected by something. Now all he had to do is come out and see if the wish actually came true. Honestly saying he was a bit reluctant to do it since they were the Powerpuff Girls. Three against one is tough to deal with, not that he couldn't handle it, but the injuries after that would be most unwelcome.
"Ah, to the hell with this," he exclaimed and flew out from his hiding spot, capturing the girls' attention immediately.
Once his feet touched the ground the two unfazed girls snapped out from their daze and ran towards him.
In reflex he took a step back, thinking that they'll pounce on him like angry dogs, but instead they both hugged his legs like scared children. Both of the puffs purred and rubbed their cheeks against his jean clad legs.
The ruff stared at them and could not believe that it had actually worked. Well, somewhat.
"You!" There was a loud thud and the picnic table went flying past his head, crashing in a flower garden. "What are you doing to my sisters?" Blossom was enraged. She still hadn't forgotten the humiliation she had to face when he explained that she had just let a robber get away. The red head balled her fists and motioned for her two friends to leave before chaos struck.
Butch felt disappointed that the pink smoke hadn't worked on the pink puff. It would have felt amazing if she was rubbing up on his leg. He guessed that this is what Jack meant with exceptions.
"Nothing. They just love me it seems." He shrugged his shoulders and watched as the puff's face changed color from anger.
"Don't lie to me! I know you used some kind of trickery on them, I saw the smoke." She shook her finger in anger at him as if threatening to shoot an energy bolt at him.
Though all Butch heard from that was the fact that she had seen the smoke as well. Well, he's been caught. Now what?
Buttercup ceased hugging his leg and gleefully wrapped her arms around his neck.
Oh, yea, that. He'll just continue to irritate Blossom till she explodes or gives in and hugs him too. Either choice works.
Blossom stared at him like he was the dirtiest thing on the planet. She didn't dare to step closer to him in case he brings out that smoke again and brainwashes her, but the safety for her sisters spoke stronger. Who knows what kind of dirty things he has planned to do to them. She got into a fighting stance ready to pound the ruff in the ground. "If you don't stop this nuisance right now I'm going to kick your ass to Saturn."
Butch smirked at her threat as Bubbles made her way up and hugged his torso inhaling his scent in glee. "How about you stop resisting me and kiss me already."
At the request the pink puff's eyes nearly bulged out of her skull. Is he serious? Who would want to touch him like that? Not that he's bad looking or anything. Just the things he does makes him repulsive enough for Blossom.
The ruff basked in the anger the puff threw at him. He was enjoying this so much. Why not push it a bit further and piss her off so much that she explodes. Brick would be so happy about his achievement. "Well, if you won't then I'll just do this."
He untangled Buttercup's arms from his neck and brought her face closer to his. He couldn't stop the chuckle when he saw the green girls excitement at the soon to happen action. Butch knew that Blossom won't stop him if she doesn't want to hurt her sisters.
Blossom saw what he was about to do and nearly lost her control. "You. Wouldn't Dare," she spoke slowly, stressing each word.
He muttered a "watch me" and planted one right on the green puff's lips. Now Butch never imagined that there would be a day the he would kiss Buttercup or any of the puffs, but the feeling was amazing. Not to mention that the puff was really responsive as well. He opened one eye to see Blossom's reaction and was not disappointed. If she was living in a cartoon her jaw would be on the ground. The ruff chuckled and continued to play tonsil hockey with the dazed Buttercup.
"B-b-buttercup…" Blossom couldn't make out any other words. She couldn't believe that her sister would someday stoop so low as to actually kiss back a rowdyruff. In her defense she was brainwashed, but Blossom thought better of her than that. She hung her head low in defeat.
Bubbles, who was hugging Butch from behind all this time, felt the fog lifting. She let go of the ruff and fell on the ground, rubbing her head in confusion.
Butch was having the time of his life, when the moment abruptly ended and he received a smack in the face. "Wha?"
"What the fuck are you doing?" The angry eyes of Buttercup stared back at him. She stepped a few steps away from him and took a fighting position.
Butch feigned ignorance and shrugged. "Beats me. You just suddenly jumped on me and started ravishing me like I'm your dinner or somethin'" Still he couldn't stop the grin that stretched across his lips.
Buttercup growled and charged at him. Butch quickly put up his defense to block her furious punches and kicks.
It turned out to be a fun day indeed. He didn't manage to get a fight out of the girl he wanted, but got a fight none the less.
Still he is going to have a little chat with Jack about the wish. It didn't turn out to be anything like he wished for, he's not complaining though, and it lasted for about ten minutes, and didn't work on all of the puffs. Yes, he's going to squish the answers out of the red colored monstrosity.
