It's the first day of high school for the Powerpuff girls, and Dexter too.
Dexter wants to know the Powerpuffs' superpowers without going anywhere near them, so he unleashes a dark force everyone knows as "HIM".
The boy genius sighed as he ran a hand through his bright ginger hair. He had to be sure about this, about unleashing what could bring the destruction of Townsville.
He had to release Him.
Dexter wanted answers, he wanted to find out who the Powerpuff girls were, who were the ones destroying his robots.
"Deedee, what would you do?" He asked himself as he glanced over to a picture of her, and slammed it down gentley onto the countertop.
This was it. Now or never.
He slowly opened the box tightly shut, sweat running down his forehead. This was for research. This was for research. The greater good of science.
Before he could open the box himself, the lid shot open and a green light emitted from its velvet lining.
He shrieked in fear and backed away as fast as he could, but his foot cramped and he fell to the floor.
Dexter feared for his life, for his mothers and fathers life, for everyone he knew could possibly die from this one mistake.
The figure enclosed in dark smoke grinned at him, and held a hand up to help him.
Then he woke up.
He jolted in his bed, covered in sweat and other bodily fluids that he'd never be caught dead in. His body shook as he whimpered even though he never would in any other case. But the images he saw in his nightmare, the monsters grin, his mistake... Oh god, what had he done?!
Dexter lept out of bed and ran over to his safe where he kept the box in his bedroom. The box was still tightly shut, a tinge of green smoke that looked like dry ice emerging from its case.
His body shook as he held onto the cursed box.
"Damn, I wish I never even sought after this acursed thing!" He swore and slammed the safe after he threw it back in.
The sixteen year old sighed and went back to the safety of his cover, waiting for the first day of high school to begin.