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Why Do You Have A Time Machine, Anyways?
It was a fairly normal day in New Townsville. There was scarcely a cloud in the sky, and the citizens were peacefully enjoying their sunny Saturday afternoon, eating in restaurants and shopping. And, of course, Professor Utonium's laboratory was up and running on the outskirts of town.
Inside the lab were the owner of the lab himself, his son Ken, and three girls named Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup. They appeared to be your average middle school girls, and the town treated them that way. But unbeknownst to the city, these were the exact same Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup that made up Powerpuff Girls Z; a trio of superheroes who have saved the city from the clutches of evil countless times. With them in the lab was Poochie, a robotic talking dog who called the girls to battle evildoers if they weren't near the action themselves.
"Hey, Poochie; can you get me a snack, please?" Ken asked as he continued working on a small experiment.
"Okay!" the dog said excitedly, scurrying out of the room to get a snack for Ken.
"I'm bored!" Buttercup whined "What did you even call us in here for?"
"What? We never called you in here," Professor Utonium said.
"But Blossom said you—"
"Actually, Bubbles and I just invited you to come here so we could all do our homework together." Blossom stated, picking up a piece of candy and putting it in her mouth,
"Yeah! So we don't get left behind in school!" Bubbles added.
"Oh…well, I'm finished with all of mine, so I'm going to the skate park! See you later!" Buttercup said as she stood up from the couch. The girl picked up her skateboard from the wall, planted it on the ground, and skated out of the room with a push of her foot.
"Hey, Buttercup!" a couple of boys at the skate park said, stopping what they were doing to greet her.
"Hey, guys!" Buttercup greeted with a smirk as she forced her skateboard into a stop "So, who wants to race? How about we do first one across the park, while doing as many tricks as they can?"
"Yeah, sure!"
"Okay! On your mark…get set…go!" at that, everyone jumped onto their skateboards and began to race across the park, performing all kinds of ricks and grinds as the rode up half-pipes and rails.
Buttercup won, per the usual. All the boys were panting and bent over, trying to catch their breath, while the black-haired girl didn't even break a sweat. She was standing straight with her chin tilted, one foot on her skateboard should anyone wish to race her again.
"So, who's up for another—" right then, her belt began to flash and make a noise. Everyone stared at it, but Buttercup smacked the boy nearest her. "Don't stare! Geez, you need some manners! Anyways, I've gotta go! Later!"
"What?! But you just got here!" one of the boys exclaimed with a half-whine, half-groan kind of voice.
"Sorry! I'll see you guys tomorrow, how about that?" before the boys had a chance to answer, she was skating out of the park. Nearby was a secluded forest-like area, so she turned towards it until she thought it was safe to stop and take out the green communicator-charm from her belt. Once her board skidded to a stop, she opened up the charm to a tiny screen implanted in it. The screen crackled a bit before flashing on, revealing a large black and green monkey in a cake with an odd white and purple striped helmet on its head, and it was attacking Professor Utonium's laboratory. The giant ape went by the name Mojo Jojo, and even though he was just an image on the screen at the moment, Buttercup could clearly see the dark aura around him, signaling that he was a victim of the Black Z-rays. She herself, along with her friends Blossom and Bubbles, had been hit with the White Z-rays, which had given them their superpowers.
Speaking of Blossom and Bubbles, they were attacking Mojo and trying to protect the lab from the large octopus-like robot the monkey had brought with him.
Power Yo Attack!" Blossom exclaimed, swinging her pink and red Yo-Yo at the robot, which hit the glass dome Mojo Jojo was in before returning to her by its string.
"Bursting Bubbles!" Bubbles exclaimed, swinging her large bubble wand. The bubbles that emerged slammed into the metallic fiend with a pop, and the impact damaged the robot's metal hull.
"You stinky humans!" the monkey shouted before sending some missiles into the lab.
"Bubble Catcher!" the blond-haired girl swung her bubble wand before a tentacle from Mojo's robot grabbed her by the waist, catching her by surprise and making her drop the wand while immobilizing her from the waist-down.
"Bubbles!" Blossom shouted before aiming her Yo-Yo at the tentacle "Yo-Yo—"
"Snippity-snip!" Mojo crooned with pleasure as one of the claws on a different tentacle turned into a giant pair of scissors before cutting the string to Blossom's Yo-Yo.
"—Slicer?! Hey, no fair! Eek!" the red-headed girl exclaimed in a pout before she too was grabbed by a tentacle.
"Hey, Mojo!" a voice exclaimed.
"Huh?!" Mojo said, turning the robot to see who had spoken.
"Hammer Slam!" Buttercup shouted as she slammed her magically-appearing-out-pf-seemingly-nowhere hammer into the glass dome on the robot, shattering it completely.
"Aah!" Mojo Jojo exclaimed as he shielded himself from the glass, unintentionally letting go of the controls to the robot, and setting the rest of the PPGZ team fre.
"Thanks, Buttercup!" Blossom said.
"No prob—aah!" everyone turned around to see Buttercup slam into a machine near the back wall of the lab. There was a flash of white light as the machine was activated.
"Our time machine! It works!" Ken exclaimed with glee.
"Why do you guys have a time machine, anyways?" Bubbles asked, casting some more bubbles at Mojo before leaping away from a tentacle trying to grab her again.
"It was Dad's idea!"
"I was inspired!" Professor Utonium admitted.
"Well, turn it off before one of us falls inside!" Blossom said.
"No! Mojo Jojo will send you back in time so you will never bother me again!" Mojo Jojo exclaimed, sending a missile at Buttercup. The green-eyed teen had to jump into the air to avoid it, and the mini-rocket slammed into the side of the time machine, causing serious damage. The white light that was radiating from it changed to a sort of multi-color rainbow-pattern, and seemed to expand and consume everything in its path.
"W-what's goin' on?!" Poochie stammered, backing away from the light coming towards him.
"I think Mojo's missile altered the Time Machine!" the professor said in shock.
"So what's it gonna do now?" Blossom asked warily.
"Aah!" Buttercup exclaimed as the light touched her, before she disappeared as the spot where she was standing was swallowed up by the pulsing brightness.
"Buttercup!" Everyone exclaimed—everyone save for Mojo, who was laughing giddily.
"I think it's got me too!" Blossom exclaimed before she and Bubbles vanished with a scream. The black-and-green monkey cackled evilly at their disappearance.
"The Powerpuff Girls are gone forever! Now I can rule the world with no rebelli—aah!" Mojo Jojo taunted before the light swallowed him up.
"Where'd they all go?" Poochie asked before he also faded away.
"Poochie!" Ken exclaimed, turning around to face his father "Dad, what're we gonna—Dad!"
"Ken, run! Get help!" Professor Utonium ordered before he disappeared. Ken was frozen in fear as the light began to blind him, and he had to cover his eyes. Suddenly, everything went black.