Based on The Powerpuff Girls by Craig McCracken and The Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi by bleedman. There will be crossover with other cartoons from Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and Disney.
BRIGHTEST COLORS.
Story by Ozwald Riddle.
Chapter 01: Megaville.
The City of Townsville.
Great wonderful and colorful city in the middle of Nowhere.
Crime is a thing from the past. Thanks to the local superhero team, simply known as The Powerpuff Girls. A rather cartoony name, but they were little girls when they have begun crime fighting. It's been more than a decade since then.
Looking at the streets, everybody walked with a smile back to their homes, to a date, perhaps to an appointment. Choose the reason. The point is there is peace. And it was evident.
Or so they thought.
Despite cleaning the streets, crime is a global issue. And sometimes, like a germ... it refuses to die.
Faust Street Bank.
A black car parked outside, three men hopped down from it. There was a large hairy guy, wearing an open shirt with a white t-shirt beneath, jeans and shoes. There was another guy, who was more build than the first, he wore a green tank top with darker green sweat pants. The last one was a thin looking red haired guy wearing a black suit. They all took out large fake heads to hide their identities, which were round and resembling the heroes of Townsville. Then they pulled out some guns and they hurried into the bank, the one wearing Blossom's head shot a round of his shotgun up in the air making everyone inside to scream and jump in surprise while they were robbing the bank.
"On the ground! You keep your hands where I can see them!" The leader raised his voice while the others used their guns to to hit the guards on the faces, with the security being taken care of. Then they head towards the bankers, tossing them some bags.
"Put the money in the bag and do not try anything funny! Fast!" The leader said, he noticed a female banker and smirked. "Stop what you're doing sweetcheeks, how about you and me leave this stinking place when this is over, huh?"
The girl had a scared and disgust look on her face.
Without a warning something fast flew down from the sky and into the bank, those were the Powerpuff Girls. The robbers turned around when they heard the loud noise as they flew in, the blonde girl, Bubbles, punched one of them and send him flying across the room, while the short dark haired, Buttercup, kicked the larger thug in the torso and send him down to the floor.
The last guy nervously pointed his gun at them while trying to reach for the female banker to take her as hostage, but instead, grabbed a long orange haired girl's hand, Blossom, who punched him with her free hand, breaking the fake head parodying her.
The guy gasped in pain, covering his face with one of his hands.
"H-How did you...?!"
Buttercup then punched him in the stomach, sending him down to his knees while Blossom walked forward and responded.
"There are only three main banks in Townsville, genius. You were eventually going to come here after robbing the other two."
Buttercup then grabbed him by the tie to make him face her, she had a really pissed off look on her face. "That was for making us look bad with that disguise."
The police arrived soon enough after a banker had called them.
Everyone in the bank clapped and cheered the Powerpuff Girls as they left just the way they went in, by flying.
"Gonna miss that, I guess." Bubbles said as she chuckled softly, quite happy with herself for saving everyone in the bank.
"What? Punching the bad guys?" Buttercup asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Wha-? No! Helping, silly."
"Pff." Buttercup rolled her eyes and Blossom sighed softly at their discussion.
"It's been a while since we did any fighting anyway. It's been like what? Four years without crime?"
"We really cleaned this place up and down, huh?" Bubbles smiled.
"It's been really boring since then. When was the last time we fought Mojo?" Buttercup asked, not sure when did they heard about that chimpanzee.
"A long time ago." Blossom said.
"He's still in prison, right?" Bubbles said. "I wouldn't like to leave Townsville at the mercy of Mojo."
"Don't worry about it, he has a long sentence. The Mayor says that he hasn't been causing a problem at the prison either. It's like he has lost his edge." Blossom said.
"Let's go back home... we're leaving in the morning after all." Buttercup said as they flew back home, they landed on the entrance, walking into their home one last time.
As they walked in, they were greeted by their little sister, a short girl with short dark hair in pigtails, like Bubbles'. She wore a small dress with the three symbolic colors of her sisters, the dress resembled the ones they wore when they were younger. She hugged Bubbles, who hugged her back.
"Wow, that's a tight hug you're giving me. You're growing stronger, huh?" Bubbles laughed softly and the girl giggled softly.
"What happened? Where were you?"
"The bank." Buttercup said as she walked past them, but not before she rubbed her little sister's head with her hand, making her chuckle softly.
"How was your day?" Blossom asked with a smile as she leads Bubbles and Brandy to the living room.
"Good... I hung out with my friends. It was fun." Brandy said, Bubbles could tell that she had a soft, sad tone in her voice, she didn't want to leave.
Like them. But then again, they had to. The Professor got a new job at a new location called Megaville. It was a city not far away from there, it was like a 5 hour trip, but still, they were moving out of Townsville.
Everything has changed.
They had become a family, right when The Professor married their Kinder Garden teacher, Miss Keane.
Their little sister, Brandy was the result of their marriage. She was a human being. And since then, things changed, they no longer called Utonium, Professor, but rather refer to him as a parental figure, just like their new mom.
Well, at least, Bubbles and Buttercup did.
They comforted Brandy, she tried really hard not to break down, they were leaving the place they grew up after all.
They could hear a car parking, Brandy cleaned her face and they looked at Miss Keane who had just arrived.
"Hey girls, is your dad home?"
"Upstairs!" They heard the voice from the Professor, he was packing their bags.
Sighing softly, Keane walked towards them and took a seat on the couch, noticing that Brandy was somewhat upset.
"Something wrong, hun?"
"Going upstairs, mom." Blossom said as she left them have some privacy.
She walked up the stairs to the second floor before she then walked up to the roof, she saw Buttercup there, she was drinking a beer, Blossom raised her eyebrow and then approached her.
"Where did you get that?"
"I bought it."
"It's illegal."
"Geez Blossom! Let me drink a beer in peace! It's just one beer. So calm the fuck down." Buttercup said in a very upset tone.
She took a seat on the edge of the roof, watching the sunset as she drank. Blossom then took a seat next to her.
"Look... I'm upset too. Just... don't take it on me, ok? Or anybody else."
"Whatever."
They heard some steps from behind, they turned around to see Bubbles walking in.
"Where did you get that?" Bubbles asked as she took a seat next to Blossom.
"You too?" Buttercup glared.
There was silence afterwards, they continued to stare into the sunset, they were starting to remember all those wonderful things they experienced in this place. When they were little, beginning their careers as crime fighting super heroines. Doing jobs for The Mayor, witnessing the relationship that built up between The Professor and Miss Keane.
Putting Mojo in jail for the last time. The time they went into space. And so many more things that happened.
"You think Megaville is going to be a good place to live in?" Bubbles asked.
"Who knows... its a metropolis, way bigger than this dump." Buttercup said before giving another sip of her beer.
"Did some digging about it... have been thinking. What would you guys think... if we actually not... crime fight anymore? Live a normal life. When we go to Megaville... we will become... nobodies. Normal. We could experience that. To be normal." Blossom suggested.
"Do what you want to do. We can't pretend to be normal, when there's plenty wrong with us. We are who we are, and the best thing we could do with what we have it's putting it into good use. Instead, we would be ignoring what's going on around us while we have the power to do something about it." Buttercup said and took a sip, then continued her speech. "When I get to Megaville City, I'm going to do the same thing I did in Townsville. Clean the streets."
"You say noble things, Buttercup. But I don't think you understand the meaning of doing some good, when you're punching bad guys in the face to relieve your anger." Blossom said, staring at Buttercup.
"So what? Whether I understand what the concept of good is or not, I do some changes."
"Then what stops you from making those changes you desire instead of doing what's right?"
"You know... you're self righteous morale is starting to get old, Blossom. You criticize everything that I do. But you're no better than me. You feel just as angry as I am, yet you do nothing about it. I know, what keeps you awake at night..."
"Girls..." Bubbles tried to interrupt, but Buttercup continued.
"Sugar, spice and everything nice. The recipe for the perfect little girl." Buttercup chuckled softly, perhaps the alcohol had something to do with her current behavior.
Blossom stared, but she wasn't mad.
"Buttercup, please." Bubbles tried again.
"It's the lie, he told us. Dad. The only parental figure we have, yet you can't call him that way because you have daddy issues, which can't be resolved because he won't tell you the truth. The truth is simple, Blossom. We're no mere fantasy, created by a silly cooking recipe gone wrong. Have you ever thought that the reason he won't tell us, might be that we're not ready or won't ever be ready to handle? You wanna know what we are Blossom? We're monsters."
Blossom stared but still said nothing.
"Stop it, Buttercup." Bubbles said, glaring.
"Whatever, I'm going to bed, we're going to go early in the morning, so you should do the same." She said and walked back, she threw the empty beer can away and she then said. "Farewell, Townsville. I won't miss you!"
"Don't listen to her... she's just... drunk... and angry."
"I know." Blossom said, staring back into the sunset.
"What did you investigate about Megaville?" Bubbles asked, she was curious about it.
"Well, Megaville is a large city which was founded after the fusion of several major cities around the area. It's divided into three larger districts. Aron District, O-Town District and Endsville District."
"While there are several other smaller districts around the area. Those are the ones with the larger territory. Megaville is also known as The City Without Heroes. Since most of the super heroes that once lived in it, either left... or died."
"Huh? Sounds... dark." Bubbles said.
"I read that there were a team of superheroes operating in Megaville, they worked separately until they decided to join forces. These were their leader Samurai Jack, Danny Phantom, The American Dragon Jake Long, Shego, The Avatar, Agent P, The Chrome Witch Bianca and The Red Hood."
"So... what happened to them?"
"Well, according to the research I did, there was once a fight where they fought against a mysterious foreign entity, the result of the struggle caused some problems within the team. Agent P disappeared afterwards and The Red Hood disappeared too when the news spread. The Avatar and Bianca were killed, and the ones who were blamed for their deaths were Danny Phantom and Shego, the media labeled them as criminals and fugitives. Since then, no one has seen them. Jake Long and Jack soon followed, there was no more team."
"After that happened, Megaville started to become corrupted in crime. Other super heroes came to Megaville to fill the void left by their predecessors. The most notable of these heroes were The Crystal Gems, Norrisville's Ninja, White Pantera and Ben Tennyson. But after they started to help the city, something worse came to Megaville. Bodies started to appear, they labeled this... monster The Bleach Killer or Ink Man. A serial killer who used bleach to wipe out the colors of his victims after stabbing them to death."
Clearing her throat, Blossom noticed Bubbles had a lightly scared look in her eyes as she narrated what she found out about the place they were moving in.
"Did... they caught the killer?"
"No. He killed 12 super heroes, among them, Rose Quartz of the Crystal Gems, The Ninja, White Pantera. And many... many civilians who represented everything that was good in Megaville City."
"There were suspects, yeah. But there was no arrest, the police found Ben Tennyson's body, in the last crime scene left by Black White The Bleach Killer. There they found his grandfather Max Tennyson dead by the hands of Black White. They found signs of a fight between him and Ben, but Ben lost the fight, because he was lying unconscious and with a missing hand. The one hand where his main weapon was, the Omnitrix. Sometime after, the CIA and the FBI were involved in the investigation due to the missing alien device. But not even them, found a clue. It's been ten years since the last Black White kill. Whoever he is... is still out there. Of course... did some more diggings about theories and such, but most of them were creepypastas surrounding the mysterious crime scenes of Black White and who or what was... some say is a monster or a force of nature."
"Sounds... scary, we've never faced anything like that before." Bubbles said.
"He killed super heroes. A lot of them had super powers. He was patient and very intelligent in order to come up with a way to kill his victims."
"What do you think we should do...? What if he's still there... and we make him mad, by trying to clean the streets. Clearly he had problems with figures of authority if he was killing everything good in Megaville."
"Hopefully... we will never face it. I honestly... don't know if I still have it in me... to fight." Blossom said with a sigh.
They stared into the sunset until it turned dark, the bright lights of Townsville barely visible.
"I will miss this place." Bubbles broke the silence.
"Me too..." Blossom responded and stood up along with her sister, ready to go back downstairs.
The next day, they woke up and the girls had put their bags into the car, while a truck was used to load all the furniture in the house. They looked at their home one last time before they went in. As they drove down the streets, the citizens of Townsville waved, some sad, some happy. Their heroes were leaving, but they no longer needed them. The city was safe.
Nothing really happened on the way to Megaville, they were silent the whole trip.
Buttercup was staring into the window, Blossom was doing some light reading, and Bubbles listened to her favorite bands in her ipod while caressing Brandy's head as she fell asleep on her lap, The Professor and Miss Keane chat with one another while they took turns driving.
Time passed by and they arrived in Megaville City. Blossom and the others looked at the window, looking at the new setting. It looked... big, massive even. Lots of people walking down the streets and cars driving around. With big signs and buildings, despite looking bigger and just as normal as Townsville looked, they could tell that the city had a rather depressive look, they could tell that the city had suffered, in that decade of misfortunes that bleached away the city's hope and happiness.
Soon enough, they arrived in Aron District, where they would settle in.
Parking just outside of their new home, it strangely had some similarities with their old home, Blossom and her sisters were unable to tell if it was a coincidence or did Professor Utonium found a place that looked like their home in Townsville.
It looked similar, but yet... different. It wasn't their home. At least not for now.
They went in and unpacked, the truck arrived later in the day and they moved in every furniture in the house.
When they were over, they had dinner and soon enough, it was time to sleep. The girls couldn't sleep well that night.
It was a long week, they felt rather stressed since by the end of the week their last year of High School would commence. The High School they would attend was located on the borders of Aron and Endsville's districts.
Nothing really relevant happened during that time.
They went to school, and the place looked exactly like the rest of the city. Somewhat devoid of emotion. As they walked down the halls, they thought they would be stared as the new girls on school, but they were ignored.
There was no introduction, nothing.
They took a seat on their desks and listened to the class. Their classmates barely even made eye contact. They did speak to them, but there was no interest or hostility towards them.
When it was over, they felt tired and just as stressed as they felt the week before, walking down the hallway and out of the school along their sisters. Blossom got a call from Miss Keane.
"Hi, mom? What's up?"
"Hey, Blossom. Would do me a favor? I'm still at Third Street School, taking care of a class. Would you mind picking up Brandy? I know it's just around the corner, but I really can't leave the class alone on my first day, so...?"
"Oh! Sure, don't worry about it. I'll pick her up."
"Is everything ok?" Bubbles asked with a worried look on her face.
"Everything is ok, just mom told me that she can't pick up Brandy."
"I'm going home, you pick her up." Buttercup said as she walked past them.
"I'll go with you." Bubbles said.
"Ok then. Just... let's take the bus... no flying." Blossom said, she didn't want to catch anyone's attention.
Soon enough, they arrived by Third Street School, it was rather large and so they picked up their little sister by the end of the street and walked over to the other side of the street where the Kindergarten was located, they walked in, Bubbles holding Brandy's hand as they saw Miss Keane walking out of the nearest classroom, she sighed in relief and went to greet them.
"Thank you. How was your day?"
"It was good, I guess." Blossom said.
"Kinda... boring." Brandy said, she didn't want to say that she was unable to speak to other classmates due to nervousness.
"It's ok, come with me, I just need to hand over this paper to my boss." Miss Keane said as she leads the way to the office of the principal.
When Keane walked in, she saw her boss, a tall long blonde haired woman with pale skin, wearing a colorful t-shirt along green pants and pink flip flops.
She was holding a knife when they came in, and she looked at Keane when she walked into the room with Blossom, Bubbles and Brandy behind.
"Miss Grey, sorry to interrupt, here it is the list you've asked me earlier in the day." Keane smiled and Miss Grey smiled, she used the knife in her hand which was a letter opener to use it on a letter she had found in the mail.
"Thank you. How was your day? Everything fine?"
"Don't worry, everything went fine, it was a lovely class, everybody behaved so well."
"Hmm, can I help you?" Miss Grey asked as she placed down the knife and the letter before grabbing Miss Keane's list.
"Oh... we're with her." Blossom responded.
"Had to call them over so they would pick their sister up, they're my daughters. Blossom, Bubbles and the little one is Brandy." Keane smiled nervously.
"Nice to meet you." Miss Grey said as she walked towards Blossom and shook hands with her. "Call me Barbara. We'll see each other often I guess."
Blossom nervously smiled and nodded. "I guess so, my mom works here now, sorry if we interrupted anything."
"No, no, was just checking a few things. Miss Keane, please do go home and rest, it's been a long day. See you tomorrow."
Keane nodded. "Thank you, good night!"
"She seems nice." Bubbles said and grabbed Brandy's hand as they left.
"Was there... any problem? Like... super hero related problems?" Keane asked, rather worried as she leads the way out and towards the parking lot nearby were she had her car.
"Nope, it was... ok." Blossom said.
"For the moment, we want to take a rest. I guess." Bubbles said and Keane nodded while hopping into the car with them and driving back home.
"Just... be careful if you do. We don't know what kind of criminals this place has."
And she was right.