A/N: What on Earth happened to all of the good old Powerpuff Girls stories I used to read? Those had great plots and everything! The ones that I see now just don't have that same flare anymore. Come on, vampires, werewolves, really? What is this, are you people turning PPG into Twilight? To those who write PPG fanfiction nowadays, go back to the final page of the archive (also make sure to have all ratings selected) and start reading the fanfiction I grew up reading, maybe they'll inspire you. All these teen stories just don't catch my interest anymore either. Sure, there were some that were written back in the early 2000s, but they were well written and not just romance ones either.
I suggest reading the stories of Lord Andy and Parsec, but mostly Parsec since he was my favorite PPG writer (and still is) when I first started reading the fanfiction. He used to have a website where he posted all of his PPG stories, but he took it down some time ago.
Anyway... This story is going to be a cute BubblesXBoomer story and it is NOT a teen story. It's a fluffy little child romance story I had floating around in my mind since seeing all of these latest fanfics for this fandom. I'm going to try and relive my childhood by writing this story. Oh and this pairing has always been my favorite pairing of the show. Bubbles was always my favorite Powerpuff and I equally love Boomer as well. So, naturally, I love the pairing. Not too many fics about them sadly... Most people like ButchXButtercup and BrickXBlossom. While I like those pairings, I prefer the cute little fluffiness between Bubbles and Boomer.
Oh and don't expect to see any science mumbo jumbo in this story. I couldn't write it even if I tried. I could make stuff up, but that would be horrible methinks. Nah, I'll avoid all that. Most PPG writers do I notice.
None of the villains (other than the RRBs) are in this story either. Well, Mojo Jojo might be, but I haven't decided at this point in time. Mojo and Him are my favorite villains. Mojo because he makes me laugh and Him because he used to creep the f**k out of me when the show first started. We don't get too many true "evil" villains in cartoons, but Him is a true evil alright. They, sadly, made him rather dorky in the later seasons,
Summary: Bubbles has been sneaking out every few nights and doesn't return until the early morning hours. Things start falling into place when certain things are noticed. Where has Bubbles been going at night? That's what her friends and family plan on finding out.
Disclaimer: I don't own The Powerpuff Girls because if I did, I wouldn't have ended it after only 6 short seasons.
One more note then I'll let you start reading the story. More happens in the story than what the summary states, I just didn't want to give everything away. It doesn't just focus on Bubbles, but Boomer as well (later on). The whole story is in a third person point of view. Just like the series is actually.
*Clears throat* Now on to the story! Not sure if this will be a one shot or a two shot since I always write what comes to mind as I type, so we'll see. I might make it longer, who knows.
~*Under a Falling Star*~
The City of Townsville is a quiet, peaceful, and calm city at night with the twinkling stars in the night sky above gazing down on its sleeping citizens. Not even the most villainous of villains are stiring this evening. Even the resident superheroes of the city were tucked away and fast asleep in their bed, on board the dreamland express. Yep, no night time activites for this sleepy little city on this Sunday night. Well... Nearly.
A short, shadowy figure crept out of the Utonium residence and carefully closed the front door so as not to wake up the other occupants of the house. It cringed as the door squealed a bit as it closed shut. The figure looked up at the second story windows, frozen in place, waiting with bated breath to see if the noise woke up the sleeping people occupying the room. With a sigh of relief at the continuing silence, the figure tip toed down the short path that lead to the sidewalk and gazed back and forth down the street that ran in front of the house before turning and running north, towards the city.
A short run later and the figure stopped just outside the entrance to the city, panting and catching its breath. Regaining composure, the figure straightened up and looked at its surroundings before nodding to itself with a sigh of relief. It then carefully lifted off the ground and rose to hover a few feet in the air.
Looking back at the neighborhood one more time to make sure it wasn't being followed, the figure then took off, flying at a high speed towards the middle of the city, a trail of a light, pastel blue following behind it. A darker, navy colored blue trail is seen streaking from the opposite side of the city, meeting up with the lighter one. Two figures now floated next to one another, high above the city skyscrapers. They stared at each other before smiling, clasping hands, and flying west of Townsville where the forest presided. Both figures wouldn't be seen again until the following morning.
~*Break*~
"BUBBLES, WAKE UP!"
The blonde, blue-eyed Powerpuff blearily opened her eyes then instantly shut them against the blare of morning sunlight filtering in through the three circular windows. She groaned loudly, turned over in the bed, pulled the blanket up over her head and slammed her pillow over her head to further block out light and noise.
Blossom, Bubbles' red-headed and pink-eyed sister wasn't having any of this though. She floated to the Bubbles' side of the bed and crossed her arms over her chest.
"Bubbles, I am serious! Get up this instant - we have school today!" Blossom told her. Bubbles just mumbled something, though Blossom couldn't understand it through the blanket and pillow even with her super hearing. The leader of the Powerpuffs tilted her head a bit in confusion at her blonde sister. Normally Bubbles was wide awake in the mornings. Happy... Chipper... And an overall annoyance to their other sister - the green-eyed brunette Buttercup. Today however, she was pulling a Buttercup and refusing to get out of bed.
Finally at her wits end, Blossom surged foward and grabbed the pillow and blanket and roughly pulled them off of Bubbles. She ignored the annoyed "Hey!" her sister yelled and tossed both items across the room so that she couldn't reach for them.
"Now, get up, get dressed and ready and be downstairs in ten minutes for a late breakfast. School starts in half an hour!" With that command and statement, Blossom flew out of the room, leaving a pink trail behind her.
Grumbling and sitting up in the bed, Bubbles glared at the open door before yawning loudly and stretching a bit. The little blonde girl finally floated off the bed and into the connecting bathroom to get ready for school, slamming the bathroom door behind her so hard it rattled the windows and room.
Downstairs in the kitchen, the other two thirds of the trio and their "father", Professor Utonium, were sitting at the table already eating their breakfast. When the slam sounded and the house rattled a little bit, all three of them nearly jumped out of their skins. Buttercup looked up at their open bedroom door and glared.
"Yeesh, what is her problem?" The toughest Puff grouched before turning her attention back to her breakfast. Blossom just shrugged and said, "I don't know. I had to yell at her three times to wake up before she responded. I've never seen her like this in the mornings before. What do you suppose is wrong?" Buttercup just gave a small shrug of her own, but wasn't forthcoming with a verbal answer.
Blossom wasn't expecting an answer, but she just smirked at her brunette sister and smartly said, "She was even more of a grouch this morning than you normally are Buttercup. It looks like you have some competition." Buttercup quickly looked up from her plate, glared at Blossom and was about to open her mouth to start an argument, but the Professor cut in before she could. "Girls, do not fight right now! You're running late as it is and I don't want you to be tardy. Do you understand me?" Blossom gave an apology and Buttercup just gave a "Hmph" and went back to eating her food.
Exactly ten minutes later Bubbles came floating down the stairs and into the kitchen. She looked a little better bit more refreshed after a quick shower, but she still had bags under her baby blue eyes and her movements were slow. The rest of her family gave her concerned looks and the Professor asked, "Honey, are you feeling alright?" He reached over to feel her forehead after she sat down with her breakfast, but it wasn't warm. "Hmmmm, you're not running a fever."
"I'm fine, Professor, really. I just had some trouble getting to sleep last night is all." Well, it wasn't a total lie, but Bubbles wasn't about to spill her secret totally.
The Professor just hummed in acknowledgment, but he kept an eye on her throughout the rest of breakfast.
Five minutes later and the family finished their breakfast. By this time, Bubbles was was feeling more awake, but not by much. As the Professor cleaned up and started washing the dishes, he addressed his daughters, "You have fifteen minutes to spare before school starts, so why don't you three gather your school supplies and leave a little bit early?"
Buttercup just groaned and shouted "Early?" in complaint while Blossom squealed at the thought of being early to school for once. Bubbles just looked indifferent since she wasn't paying any attention to anything other than the white wall above the television. The blonde Puff snapped back to attention when Blossom grabbed her arm and flew off with her up into their room. "Wait, Blossom! Slow DOWN!" Her red-headed sister ignore her plea though, and zipped around the room getting hers and her sister's school supplies ready. In a matter of seconds she was finished. She handed Bubbles' her bookbag and handed Buttercup's hers when she floated slowly into the room with a glower on her face and her arms crossed.
"Geez Red, if you're this excited about getting to school early, I'd hate to see how you would react to being late," Buttercup exclaimed rather snidely. Blossom just glared right back at her sister before taking off out of the middle window of their room. Bubbles turned to Buttercup and just shrugged before flying out the left window. The brunette Puff just floated in the middle of their bedroom for a few seconds glaring out the windows. She finally sighed and decided to follow her sisters and flew out of the right window.
~*Break*~
Ms. Keane, the kindergarten teacher of Pokey Oaks Kindergarten, was just finishing up setting and cleaning up the classroom (and throwing out the trash full of the latest rotten apples) for her students when the door to the classroom slammed open and three streaks of colored lights flew in, taking residence up in the middle table and nearly had all the other tables flying across the classroom.
Ms. Keane was so startled by the Powerpuff Girls sudden appearance in the classroom that she dropped the trash bag containing the rotten apples and dived under her desk for cover. The trash bag split open and the apples went flying everywhere.
Finally calming her heart rate, the teacher slowly kneeled and looked over her desk. She sighed in relief at seeing it was just the girls that came bursting in through the door. She stood up and dusted herself off and gave a stern look at the three children.
"Gir-" She started, but got interrupted by two cheerful greetings and one dull one (you can guess who gave the dull one).
"Good morning Ms. Keane!" All three Powerpuffs proclaimed to their teacher. Ms. Keane crossed her arms and continued gazing sternly at the girls.
"Yes, good morning girls, but may I ask why you are here early?" The girls' teacher asked. Blossom went to explain, but Buttercup butted in before her sister could even utter a single word.
"We're early because Miss Smartypants over here got excited at the idea of getting to school early," Buttercup explained in her usual way. Blossom turned to, again, glare at her sister. "Do you always have to interrupt when I am about to say something?" The leader asked her sister.
Buttercup simply rolled her green eyes. "Of course I do, otherwise you'll give a long winded explaination to explain something that should only take one sentence!" She told Blossom while throwing her arms in the air. Blossom was going to argue back, but decided against it for once. She ended the "discussion" with a simple "We'll talk about this later" and turned to look at Ms. Keane, ignoring Buttercup's opened mouth expression of shock.
"As Buttercup kindly put it, we indeed are here because I wanted to leave a little early. We had fifteen minutes to spare this morning and I thought it would be a good idea to arrive here a little early rather than wait at the last second and zip out of the house with a minute or two to spare," Blossom explained.
Buttercup rolled her eyes again and said under her breath, "I knew it would be long winded..."
Ms. Keane looked at Blossom and blinked then said, "Well, that's all well and good, but you really have no need to come to class early. If this were Pokey Oaks High School or Townsville Community College, perhaps it would be prudent to arrive early, but you are in kindergarten."
Buttercup gave a short laugh at this and Blossom turned away, blushing at being reprimanded like that. Ms. Keane just sighed, unfolded her arms and looked around the classroom, finally noticing all of the rotten apples laying around. "Uh, girls? Would you mind helping me clean up all these apples?" She asked. Blossom and Buttercup, got up, and started zooming around the room at top speed.
Shaking her head, Ms. Keane was glad they weren't asking questions about them. She had a lie ready about the apples, but it wasn't needed. When the teacher glanced at the two streaks of light zipping around, she quickly looked back at the Puff's table and noticed that Bubbles had fallen asleep some time during the argument between her sisters. 'Well,' she thought, 'school hasn't officially started yet, so I guess she can have her little snooze. I just hope she sleeps when it's nap time.'
When the girls finished with the apples, Ms. Keane went outside and sat the trash bag holding them in the dumpster. She went back inside and asked the girls, bar Bubbles, if they would help her finish setting up and cleaning the classroom for the day. Buttercup grumbled about having to clean and about Bubbles getting to sleep instead, but did it without further complaint.
By the time they were finished, the classroom was sparkling clean and smelling of Pine Sol and bleach cleaner. Ms. Keane looked around the room with her hands on her hips and a smile on her face. "Well girls, I must say you really did-" This time she was interrupted by the sound of the school bell ringing and a herd of children running into the classroom after the door, once again, was slammed open.
Bubbles was jerked out of her sleep by the sound of the bell and she sat up in her seat quickly, looking around wildly at all the kids running around trying to get to their seats. She let out a near silent "Phew" when she realized that it was only the bell ringing, signaling the start of school. She gave a promise to herself that she would stay awake for school at least.
That promise was broken two hours later at the start of the math lesson. She wasn't bad at mathmatics by any means, but she found it more boring than watching paint dry on a fence. Leaning on her arm, Bubbles chanted a mantra in her head. 'I will stay awake. I will stay awake. I will stay awake.' Seven minutes of this later, she nodded off despite her promise to herself. Her sisters were too wrapped up in either the lesson or themselves to notice.
The blonde Puff was suddenly jolted out of her nap by loud, obnoxious knocking on the classroom door. "Oh, who in the world could that be?" Ms. Keane asked to herself as she sat down her piece of chalk and walked over to the door, opening it a crack in caution. When the teacher saw who it was, she gave a groan and turned back to the class to address them. "Class, I will be back in a few minutes. Go ahead and start on your math worksheets while I am out." With that, she opened the door wider so she could fit through it, then closed it behind her.
Some of the students did as she requested, but others decided to do as they pleased. Bubbles decided that she would work on her worksheet to try and stay awake. Although, after a few minutes of just staring at the offending piece of paper in front of her on the table, she changed her mind. Flipping the paper over and setting it aside, she adopted a bored look and once again rested her head on her arm. She nearly dozed off again before the classroom door opened and Ms. Keane stepped in, three boys floating behind her with menacing looks on their faces. Ms. Keane wasn't looking too happy either.
Through gritted teeth, Ms. Keane managed to spit out in a false cheery tone, "Class, I'd like to introduce you to three new students. Brick, Butch, and Boomer." She pointed to each of the boys as she said their names.
The entire classroom gasped when they saw who was at the front of the room. The Powerpuff Girls' gasp was the loudest one of them all, though one of their gasps was for a different reason.
Blossom suddenly shouted out, "You have GOT to be kidding me!"
~*Under a Falling Star*~
Well, there's the end of chapter one. The story starts getting better next chapter and the fluffy romance starts. I can't wait to type it!