The Primeval Devourer

Chapter 1: Origins

The city of Townsville. A city which is inhabited by all types of villains. From the evillest beings that had ever lived on the earth, to the smallest burglars who can't even open a window with a crowbar. Then, and only then, there are the Amoeba Boys.

It was late in the evening. At the moment, the Amoeba Boys were exiting from prison. Two months before they had been captured and shut in for their big orange theft. Even so, they were now free, as they were released for good behaviour.

"Idiots! How could we be released on PAROLE!?" shouted Bossman to his mates "We are criminals! Bad ones, who do bad things! And all you could do in one month was to WRITE ON THE CELL WALL!?". He was very angry.

"I'm sorry, boss" said Slim "But we believed that it was a good idea to use those chalks we found. Also, the other criminals were doing that, so we thought that...".

"Do not say another word, Slim, or I will get very angry" said Bossman, who was one meter from getting mad. He made a long breath to calm himself.

"Never mind..." he said finally. "Now we have to do another brilliant crime to show Townsville what we can do! Don't you see that they already forgotten us?"

"Yes! Let's steal all the lemons" said Junior. As an answer, Bossman smacked him on the head.

"And how about stealing the vegetables..." Slim became smaller as Bossman gave him a annoyed gaze.

"I don't want to hear about plants more! We need something different, something capable of terrorizing Townsville and his citizen. Something so big, so powerful that we will be remembered forever for that!" explained Bossman. Slim and Junior jumped, agreeing with their boss. Then, all the three of them started to think deeply. Nobody said a word for an entire minute.

Bossman raised his head with a sad face. Both Junior and Slim had the same expression. They watched themselves. After the orange theft, all their creativity had gone, and they couldn't think of any type of decent crime.

"Boss... I think that we won't be able to do anything if we can't think of it" said Slim. Junior nodded his head. Bossman watched his mates with an angered look, but he said "I'm afraid... I'm afraid that you are correct, Slim. But we mustn't surrender! We can do it, and..." but Bossman couldn't finish his speech, because he was interrupted by a fourth voice.

"Of course, you can do it!" said the voice "Amoeba Boys, I'm certain you can do one of the worst crimes that can even be imagined. All you need is some little help...by me."

Some crimson clouds started to grow around them. Then, some of them revealed a vision.


"Well, I think that Him is the worst of all our enemies, isn't him?" said Blossom.

"You might be right, Blossom... But Jojo! He invents a new plan to conquer the world almost every day!" replied Buttercup.

"And Fuzzy? He is so rude and dirty!" said Bubbles, without paying much attention to the conversation.

"Bubbles... We are talking about how much evil are our enemies, not how much ugly they are." said Blossom, annoyed.

The Professor was on the armchair in the living room while the girls were sitting on the floor in front of him. He decided to express his opinion: "Girls, it doesn't matter the next villain you will encounter is bad or very bad. All in all, what really matters is that you will be able to beat him and to defend Townsville from him."

"You are always right, Professor." said Blossom while smiling. Buttercup didn't completely agree with her father, but she decided to not complain more.

"Well, we can still talk about the less dangerous ones. How about the Amoeba Boys?" They are so cute!" said Bubbles.

"Oh, Bubbles, that was easy! You already won!" said Buttercup, and all four of them started to laugh in a strange, wicked way.


"Oh, so that's what do you think of us? Well, YOU WILL SEE WHAT WE ARE CAPABLE OF, YOU STUPID GIRLS!" bellowed a furious Bossman. Both Slim and Junior weren't happy.

A gust of wind cleared the red cloud where the vision of Utonium mansion had taken place. The same voice that had talked with them before, resumed to speak.

"You see... Nobody really believes that your are good criminals. But that's not my case. I know that you have great power inside you. Please let me help you, and everyone will fear of even your name!" said the voice in a tempting tone.

Slim and Junior were euphoric, but Bossman had still some doubts about their interlocutor.

"Wait a second... You may be trying to trick us. How can we be certain that you don't want to use our extraordinary criminal abilities, and then take all the credit?" Bossman was 100% sure he was a smart choice to ask this question.

The voice made a breath sound, like the speaker was annoyed. Then, it answered: "It is not my purpose to have people fear me... In fact, it is already happening. But you... When you will be unleashed, nobody will be able to stop you. The gift that is hidden inside you is so powerful that you will become unstoppable. I'm able to make this gift usable in all its strength. Let me operate on your body, and all this will happen."

Slim was begging Bossman: "Please, Boss, think about it!". "Yeah, think about it" said Junior.

Bossman was tempted. He hesitated before asking: "It is going to be worse than stealing oranges?".

"Yes, it is. And trust me, both me and you will have their revenge. Because you will be able to destroy once for all even the Powerpuff Girls!" the voice was now shouting.

"What? The Powerpuff Girls? This is an occasion we cannot refuse! You will see, girls, who is the best criminal in Townsville!" said Bossman.

Another group of crimson clouds grew, in front of them this time. The clouds were also lightening the place with a mild red light. Then, a demoniacal being we know revealed himself from the mist. He offered his hand (or, to be more accurate, his claw) to the Amoeba Boys.

They watched themselves for a second, then they used their pseudopodia to shake hands with the demon.

Him started to give a loud and long laugh. It was one of the evillest laugh that had ever been heard by human ears.

The Amoeba Boys were surrounded by the clouds. Then, they suddenly fainted while Him was still laughing.


Bubbles woke up with a jump. Her sisters were sleeping calmly, while she was sweating and breathing heavily. That dream wasn't going to be happy at all, but she was awoken by something else. She would have sworn that he had heard someone laughing. The laugh was so evil, so terrible that Bubbles was frightened.

She left the bed, without waking up her sisters. He walked towards the window and watched outside. No explosions, no fires, no screams for help. Townsville was just like every city at that hour, deep in the night: quiet.

Bubbles was still fearing that was something going to happen. That laugh was just terrorizing her, she couldn't just think that she had imagined or perhaps dreamed it. She whirled and watched her sisters. They were sleeping heavily. They were all three very tired because they had had a hard day.

Bubbles finally made a decision. She went to the wardrobe and changed her night suit with her daylight clothes. He gave a last glimpse to her sisters before leaving their room through the window quietly. She didn't want to wake up them for what may have been an error, but she could not ignore that laugh. It was a... very naughty one.

When she realized that she had put enough distance between her and the house, Bubbles began to fly at an higher speed. Her purpose was to make a quick reconnaissance tour of the city, just to see if there was something suspect going on there. She was frightened, but she was still a Powerpuff Girl.


The Amoeba Boys recovered, and when they opened their eyes they were no longer near the prison. Instead, they were now in a very big cavern. The cave's ceiling was not visible as it was very far from them. Still, the floor where they were standing on was visible thanks to a hot light coming from the lower part of the cave, that was below them.

Junior moved towards the limit and watched down. He made a jump of surprise: "Boss!" he said "We are above a enormous lake of hot water!"

Bossman watched down himself, and he jumped too. "I'm afraid that it is not water, but it is still very hot" he said, fearing for their situation.

The Amoeba Boys were standing on a big platform, which was the only solid surface of the floor as the lower part was occupied by a lake of lava.

"Ahem... Mr Him?" said Bossman "Was that necessary to go down here? It is very hot, and, I don't know, but that liquid thing down here seems to be dangerous".

"Don't be worried, my friends". Him had appeared and was now floating upon them "It was necessary because I needed a huge place were I could prepare you, which had to be at the same time hidden from indiscreet eyes and good to perform my abilities. Well, this was perfect. I have all under my control, so just relax, don't move and wait".

The Amoeba Boys moved at the centre of the platform and stopped there. They were all a bit frightened and were wondering what they were thinking of when they accepted his offer.

The clouds which showed the presence of Him started to grow near the Amoeba Boys and in the cave. Him had disappeared, but his voice was still able to be heard. He was singing a unknown song in a language of a forgotten time. It was quite frightening.

Then, Him stopped to sing and bellowed, in his demoniacal timbre "Yes! I'm feeling you! I can feel your presence! Come out, my friend. Come out and unleash your power! I call you!"

He began to sing once more. Meanwhile, the Amoeba Boys were trembling. Even them could feel it. Something was growing inside them. Something that they never know had lived inside them.

"Boss, what's going on?" said a terrorized Slim "I feel something inside me..."

"So do I... I fear that something bad is going to..." Bossman could not finish his speech.

The eyes and mouths of all the three Amoeba Boys disappeared. Their amoeba corpses fell down on the ground hard, and mixed between themselves. Immediately, the liquid started to tremble and to become bigger and bigger. There was a strong wind which was moving the crimson clouds at high speed in the cave.

Him had appeared and was floating in front of the platform where the liquid was growing. He was still using his arms to control the ritual. A black aura was trembling around his body. He said again in his demoniacal manner: "Yes! I feel your enormous power! Grow, become bigger, become powerful! That is what I order to you!". He was in complete delirium and dark forces were operating inside the cave.

A new being was arising. It was enlarging very fast, and within seconds the slimy thing occupied all the space on the platform. Its physical behaviour was similar to sand, but it was in fact an enormous version of a cell, to be more precise the cells of the unicellular beings. It was different in them not only for his size. It had a specific manner, as the thing could think and had awareness of himself. This was confirmed by the fact that the creature, in a unknown way, made a terrible, loud roar.

Him had recovered and was watching his opera. "And now...The grand final!" he said while laughing. He moved his claws and suddenly streams of lava were extracted from the lake. The lava was then routed directly into the creature's body.

The being roared for pain, but the lava did not damaged it much. Instead, the lava was disappearing into his body. It was like the creature was able to absorb things, even very hot ones such as the lava. The result of the last action of Him was a further growth of the monster. In addition, the lava was reducing his level and now the huge body of the amoeba thing was now able to exit the platform and touch the cave's floor.

At the end, not a single drop of lava was left in the cave. Him decided to stop the ritual, and the noise of the wind stopped. The cavern was now very dark, and the only sounds were the organic ones that were coming from the creature's body. Besides, the only light was the red one from Him, who had still the dark power inside him.

He was floating and observing (his demonic eyes didn't need much light) his last creation.

"I did it!" he exulted. "Now, my adorable little anim..." The creature stopped him with a furious roar, and something like pseudopodia was thrown from his body to catch the demon. Him disappeared in a bunch of clouds which were hit by the monster. The being whirled his body, as he owned an head, gave another roar and slammed itself into the cave's wall. Then, it started to emit a digging sound, and in a few seconds the monster disappeared into the wall. There was a enormous hole in the cave now.

The red light revealed that Him had returned. He was watching the hole, but despite the creature's refuse he was not angry. He was instead smiling evilly. "You are more intelligent that I expected" said Him "But this doesn't matter. On the contrary, if you are so intelligent, you will be able to think that there is only one obstacle for your life: the Powerpuff Girls. Whatever you will want to do, they will try to stop you. We will discuss about our relationship later... So, go, my friend, and..." he changed his tone "...eradicate the Powerpuff Girls from the Earth!". He started another time to give a demonic laugh.