-By: Blue O'Daniel.
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Discliamer: I do NOT own or posess any rights to Craig McCracken's The Powerpuff Girls.
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Summary:
It's been long, too long... The Rowdy Ruff Boys have returned to Townsville after they turned 18, that is, ecxept Butch.
Two years have passed since their return, and in that time, the constant competition between Blossom and Brick have been revealed to be a cry for attention from the other, and all though Boomer has tried time and time again to gain the trust of Bubbles, she still won't openly admit her feelings for him. All the constant aggitation, agervation, and feelings for one another that's been given off by her sisters, Buttercup has still to find someone, even though dep down, Buttercup's desire is to be loved by soneone, she still puts her devotion to her job. As Buttercup grew older, her powers became stronger. She's able to disappear in the shadows, teleport in the wink of an eye, and give off a dark aurora that she can control. Yes, Buttercup has developed the powers she most desired as a little girl when she dressed up as Mange from her Spore comics. Our tomboy is always fighting crime and the monsters that still haunt the city of Townsville.
One night, Buttercup was home alone while her sisters were on a double-date with the RowdyRuff boys, enough to make her sick, but she quickly rebound herself in her black-and-green room, surrounded by her books and the radio playing as her emerald green eyes scanned the pages of the book that she suspended in the air with her aurora as she knitted herself a beanie hat, a hobby she kept hidden from everyone in fear it would give away that she didn't really are to keep up the tom-boy act any longer.
As she read and knitted the light-green yarn, her dark room flashed a too-familiar-red as the phone rang. as she sent her aurora over to retrieve the phone, she doggie-eared her page and set her book ontop of the pile already on the side of her bed.
"What's wrong Mayor?" I asked, why dose eerything have to happen when I finally get time to myself?
"Oh Buttercup, you hve to hurry! A Dark figure has appeared ontop of Townsville Tower, ever since he's been spotted, Lightning has been striking the roof top and Townsville is in the dark, there's no power!" The Mayor said, he isn't sounding too good, I thing he should retire after this term in office...
"Allright..." I sighed as I put ny needles down and floated off of my bed. "...I'll be right there."
As I hung the phone up, I threw a light hoodie on and put on one of my beanies over the bob of my hair and rested it in the middle of my head, exposing still my ravel locks and my long bangsI had at the side of my eyes. as soon as I put my gloves on, I teloeprted to City Hall and walked into the Mayor's office. It's so much easier than flying.
"Okay Mayor, let's go over this one more time. Man on roof, lightning strikes, and no ppower, right?" I said, re-confirming the situtation, a trait I've addopted from Blossom.
"That's correct, you better hurry." He said, sounding out of breath.
"Alright.." I said as I walked outside, It weally was dark, there was almost no light at all if it wasnt for the moon shining throught the clouds, atleast it's not- Actually, never mind, it is raining... great.
Wow, it's really starting to be a bad storm, I hate to do this, but I don't want to get too close to that building by myself, I hope Bubbles and Blossom pick up.
"...Hello? Buttercup, what's wrong?" Blossom said as she answered her phone.
"H-hey, I don't know if you know what's going on in townsville at the moment, ut I think I might need some back up, there's a-"
"A man ontop of Townsville tower continueously striking it with lightning?" She said as she interrupted me.
"Y-yeah..."
"Fine, we'll be there in a bit, but only because we're close. Seriously Buttercup, you need to get over your fear of Lightning storms, you're 20 years old!" Blossom said.
"I-I'm not scared of them damnit now come help me!" I yelled as I hung up. Okay, so maybe I am afraid of them, but that's because lightning's my weakness, after getting struck by lightning when I was 12, I lost my powers for a month, even though having time off reading Spore comics was fun, I was so scared I wasn't going to get any of my powers back, I have a reason gosh darnit!
Not waiting for them, I floated up in flight, and flew to the outskirts of the tower. Ontop, was a man, a new villian? He's strong, I can actually sense his strength, it's heavy, it's actually dense, I've never felt this way before, It's hard to fly, it's choking me, it's hard to breathe...I can't fly around him all day. Where are they!
As I flew around, my clothes were getting soaked, my hair was sticking to my face, and to my horror, I got a good look at the guy on the looks like his body is made completely out of shadows, it looks exactly like my aurora, only his are more...concentrated. He was using them as clothes, you could see the shape of long, baggy pants, a form-fitting shirt, and what look like a long overcoat that drooped out over the ground, the aurora looking like ripped cloth as it blew in the winds of the storm. The so-called overcoat was completely open, long, black, spiky hair covered his head, I stopped flying to get a good look at him, but all I could see was his eyes, his deep, deep green eyes, they looked lonely, and confused, but filled with determination. Then it dawned on me. Could it really be? No, Why would he be? Brick said he stayed with HIM, Boomer think's he's either dead or hiding in the Middle East, why in the world would he be here?
"Everything Okay?" I heard Blossom say as she floated down to me.
"Yeah, I was just anylizing the situtation before you got here." I told her, but I couldn't keep my eyes off of him.
"So, what's the situtation?" Brick butt in as he crossed his arms and pulled his hood over his head.
"Well, it's exactly as it looks like, there's a dark man on the roof with lightning striking all around him from time to time."
"Not to sound like an idiot, Buttercup, but he kinda looks like you." Boomer said as he put his coat around Bubbles.
"Boomer, you are an idiot, and I know, I noticed that too, but his is different..." I said, still looking at him. Then, to my horror, he looked up at me.
"Buttercup, you don't think that it's...it cant be, could it? Brick?" Blossom said, her voice started to studder, I can tell she was just as afraid as I was.
"...I think it is, I'll handle this, Buttercup, stay here, I'll-" Brick said, but was caught off guard by a strike of lightning, throwing him into the ground below.
"Brick-" Blossom yelled before she too was struck down.
"BLOSSOM!" Bubbles and Boomer yelled, they too were struck down. As I turned around to face him, my eyes watering, my hands trembling, fear running through my body, I felt the need to disappear, I need to run far, far away. Then as I opened my eyes, I saw him right in front of me. His face was black, there was almost no features, except for those deep-green eyes. It can't be...
"Butch! Don't! Leave her alone!" I heard Brick scream from the ground.
"Shut it Brick, I don't take orders from you any more, I don't take orders from any body!" He yelled, his voice was deep but stil Rhaspy, it sounded like there were two of them. I couldn't believe it, he was so... so... powerful. I could feel my aurora going wild, like it was trying to leave my body, I felt like dying, I felt like doing anything to get away.
"Butch you have to stop she's not a threat, she's a-" Brick yelled but was once again cut off by a flash, not by lightning, but by him punching Brick in the throat into the ground. He's faster than me. he didn't even leave any traces of his aurora behind as he teleported down.
"I told you Brick, don't give me orders. I'm not your slave, and I'm not here to fight. That is, of course, you want to start one. And fair warning says that you should ask HIM what happens when you attack me, but HE's currently... not talking." He said as the storm slowly began to stop.
"W-what did you do to HIM?" Brick said as he started gasping for air. Blossom ran to his side and put her hands on his throat to heal any damage done.
"I killed him. Obliterated him. It needed to be done, and I was the only one capable of doing so." He said as his balck aurora started disappearing.
"What? H-how? We tried so many times, even with Mojo's help, we couldn't do it!" Boomer struggled to say as he helped Bubbles up.
"Simple, throw the infernal bastard into a Black hole and obliterate the black hole from existance." He said as his aurora compleyely faded away. I could see him now. He looked exactly like Brick. Stern in the face, tall, slightly defined muscles, long spiky hair, and...those eyes.
"How do you obliterate a black hole?" Blossom asked, still shaking at the sheer power of him, just like I was.
"Worm hole. Bend the fabric of Space to loop around and poke a tiny hole through it, on one end, said black hole. on the other end. the quasar in the middle of the galaxy."
"As much as I'd like to believe that you's have the ability to do that, it's impossible." Blossom said as I began to float down to meet them, my eyes still fixated on his.
"Hmph, I'm more powerful than you think, once your powers become something, devine, then you have reached the edge of perfection..." he started. "Once you have the ability to shape the world around you you can become invincible." He said as he clenched his fist infront of his face.
"Proof." Brick said as he got on his hands and knees. "I wan't proof. Show me. Show me that he's dead. SHOW ME! Brick said as his red eyes became Blood-Red. I knew that look, Brick was about to turn into that beast again, his hair stood back, his teeth became sharp, his hands became claws, but in the blink of an eye, Butch was covered in his black aurora again and before Brick ould pounce at him, Butch grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and held him up at the sky.
"Take a look for yourself. See that Bright light in the sky? That's not the moon." He began saying in that double-toned voice again. "To tell you a fact or two, there's a New Moon tonight, you wouldn't see it anyways. And even if it were a Full Moon, you still wouldn't be able to see it through this storm." He said as he threw Brick to the ground. "Do you want a try too, Boomer?" He asked before his aurora disappeared again.
"Butch, dont start." Boomer said as he stood in front of Bubbles. "...infact, why are you even here? You left us for shit in the Middle East, you betrayed your brothers, and your Company to go with HIM, now you're back, and HIM's dead. What in the world are you doing?" Boomer said as his eyes began to glow and his fist trembled.
"Hmph, You're still upset about that? I told you, I left to take care of HIM, that's what the mission was, wasn't it? Even you were relieved when Bad Company was broken up and OPS discharded you all. If you didn't know then that was a shame. I didn't betrey you, it was part of the mission, just incase you didn't here me the first time." Butch said coldly, but sternly.
"Why didn't you tell us?" Brick said as he stood up on his knees.
"Tell you? I thought you KNEW!" Butch said. "It was your idea to look for Eden to begin with. HIM was the key, I found the lock, now I'm here to unlock it and restore the world to the state it was supposed to be in!"
"What's he talking about?" I heard Blossom ask Brick in terror.
"...Okay, look..." Brick began to say as I landed.
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FLASHBACK _
The Middle East: Three years ago.
After their 16th birthday, the boys joined (or in their case, was forced to) a military group called OPS. After the formation of Bad Company, a team that included the three brothers and 5 others, they were given the mission to search, locate, invade, and take over a building believed to be headquarters of a International Criminal mastermind, later found to be HIM, causing chaos, war, famine, death, and an onslaught of the human race around the world. after one specific mission, the boys found HIM's motives for world domination, he was looking for a place properly named Eden, it was the only place where he couldn't control, and the only way in, was through the powers of three little girls that he was so fond of. Knowing that after countless attempts, he resurected the boys in hopes of them being subsitiutes, after that plan had failed, he tried to get them to kill the Powerpuff girls for him, after the custody battle with Mojo nded in failure, He fled to the Middle East in hopes of finding a way in by himself.
On their final mission, Bad Company was sent in, and upon discovery of HIM's stronghold, Him created a vortex, and after Brick and Boomer were wounded, Butch had charged HIM into the vortex before it closed.
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"...so there you have it." Brick said as I walked over to Bubbles to help her stand up.
"...But I don't understand, If you're here to find Eden, then why were you in the Middle East three years ago?" Bubbles said, looking at Butch before walking to Boomer's side. I followed her incase she fell.
"Because, upon HIM's demise, I learned a few things, I don't know how, but I can't find these things to be false. A paradox if you will." He said as he began to cough.
"What?" Brick and Blossom said as they looked back up at him.
*Cough* "Well..." He said before having a coughing fit. "...For one, we, as in me, you, and Boomer, are uncapable of producing children, unless it's with you three, Blossom, Bubbles...and Buttercup" He said as he looked at me before having a coughing fit. "Two...The wormhole also stretched time, that bright Quasar in the middle of the galaxy has been there since the galaxy was formed billions of years ago, ut in factual time, it's only an hour old." He said before falling to his knees in another coughing fit, Birck and Boomer rushed over to pick him up. "...three, we all have a specific element that can give us unlimited power if ever needed, mine's lightning, and I was recharging." Butch started another coughing fit as Brick and Boomer looked at each other, Blossom and Bubbles stared at me. Is that my power too? It can't be, it completely disabled me... Then I have to be the opposite of Lightning, What's the opposite of Lightning? "And four..." He said as we all looked back at him. "Eden isn't a place, it's-"
He stopped. He stopped talking, stopped coughing, stopped moving, stopped breathing. Everything happened in slow-motion, Boomer and Brick layed him down, Bubbles held his head up, and Blossom tried healing him. He stopped. I stopped, I couldn't move, I couldn't breathe, the next thing I knew, I was out.
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As Buttercup collapsed, Bubbles rushed over, Boomer took her place holding Butch's head, Bubbles shook her, called her name, did anything to gain her attention, then her eyes opened, and Bubbles was thrown back by an invisible force. Buttercup's eyes became completely enveloped in green, and as she floated up, her head shot back, and she let out a scream, a roar, louder than ant scream Bubbles could produce. every window in Townsville shattered, lights flickered beore exploding, cars around them were being forced back, and as she screamed, her black aurora enveloped her, the teeth in her mouth became sharp, her hands became black claws, each finger sharp enough to cut through a diamond, her hair became wild, breading out of her beanie and falling to her shoulders, a mass of her aurora manifested as a tail, and up the back of her legs and the side of her arms looked as if ther were enveloped in a pitch-black flame. As Buttercup stopped screaming, she looked at the boys and her sisters, and a strand of black aurora wrapped around each one of them, pulling them behind her as she walked over to Butch, who layed lifeless on the ground. She held out her hand and a ball of light began to form in it, being held up by each of the five claws. As Buttercup lifted her hand into the air, her other hand came up her side, causing the earth underneath Butch to rise up so he was facing her, and with one quick movement, Buttercup thrusted the light into Butch's chesh causing him to wake up and gasp for air, and as he did so, Buttercup's eyes went back to normal, Her sisters and the boys fell as her aurora disappeared, and there on the ground, layed an unconsious Buttercup. Brick and Boomer grabbed a hold of Butch as Blossom and Bubbles picked up Buttercup.
"Brick, Boomer, bring Butch, we're taking Buttercup to the lab's healing chamber, we'll put him in there with her." Blossom said in a panic.
"Roger." the boys said in unison.
And in the blink of an eye, they were off in flight, to find the professor, and hopefully get some answers as to what just happened.
Well, that's the end of this chapter. I've had this for a while now, Thought it needed to be brought to attention too.
A/N: So, what does everyone think? completely different from my current story, Opposites, huh? thats because this puppy's a few years old. I might pick up from where I left off, I might not, depends on the responses I get. What do you think? keep it going?
R+R!
You dashingly handsome fireside poet, Blue.