Mange
By
Mastermind (mind@eot.com)
Disclaimer:
Spawn and Related Indicia are copyright by Todd McFarlene and his army of Lawyers, I'm simply paying
homage to him.
PowerPuff Girls and Related Indicia are copyright of Cartoon Network and Craig McCraken I simply
think they have more potential then they are using now.
Some might remember this character from the episode " Super Zeroes", I've taken the idea and elaborated
on it, please enjoy.
The city of Townsville was enveloped in a rainstorm the likes of which it hadn't seen in a
while. Needless to say, crime doesn't stop for the rain, and neither did the law enforcement..
Blossom sat in her squad car, waiting for her partner to come back with the stereotypical
donuts and coffee.
She stared out the front of the car, listening to the rain bead off the windshield, and sighed deeply.
This just wasn't the same as her youth.
" 2-David-Charlie, this is central, respond to a possible 10-70 at the 2nd National Bank of
Townsville, over." The radio suddenly chirped.
Blossom perked, and grabbed the mic, " 2-David-Charlie copies, on the way, over and out."
A tall slender gentleman arrived on the passenger side, and opened the door, a police
uniform present, albeit wet, and an assortment of munchies and coffee. He slid into his seat and smiled.
" Miss me?" Blossom asked, putting on her seat belt and popping the car into "D", " Belt in,
we gotta call."
" Where 'bouts?" he asked, biting into a sprinkled donut.
" 2nd National, so belt in and let's go, Sparky!" She commanded as the squad car squealed
off towards the destination.
A slender female figure walked slowly up the steps of a mid-town apartment building,
rattling a set of keys along her side among other things. Arriving at the main door she walked in
and unlocked the secondary door, and ascended the stairs, all the while trying to balance her bag
of items.
As she walked along a narrow hallway, sounds of various people chattering could be
heard as she finally came to a stop at a brown colored door with a variety of stickers on it, one
of which read " PPG", and another distinct one read " PowerPuff Team". She pulled out a set of keys,
fumbled with them a moment and unlocked the door. Stepping into the dark room, she pushed the door
shut and locked the deadbolt. She then threw the keys somewhere on what looked like a coffee table
nearby and searched blindly for a moment along the wall, finding a light switch and turning it on.
The lights flickered on slowly, and the female's characteristics shone brighter then before, her
blond hair hung about shoulder length, her baby blue eyes ever present in the semi darkness.
Bubbles set her groceries down and sighed, pulling off her jacket, the ever present " Powerpuff
Team" logo seen earlier present on the back of it, and set it on the back of a chair. She began unloading
the sack and placing various goods on shelves and into the small tattered refrigerator that came with the
apartment, a drawing she had made in crayon as a child hanging ever so slightly crooked on it, held back
a magnet set of her old Powerpuff self.
Bubbles smiled to herself and folded the now empty bag and set it with a stack of similar ones she
kept for trash use, seeing as it saved her from having to buy garbage bags. She walked from her kitchen
area into a carpeted living room, where a small couch and television sat, in the distant corner, a architect
table sat, various drawing utensils scattered about.
She sat down on the green couch, a poof of stuffing sticking out near the back sighed when she
did, letting out more stuffing that landed in a pile below, leading one to believe it had been damaged for a
while.
Flipping on the TV with a remote, she searched through the channels, finding nothing of
interest, she landed on an A&E Biography, just beginning apparently. She twitched slightly as the title
came up, it read, "POWERPUFF GIRLS: The History of Townsville's Greatest Trio"
She sighed and got up, leaving the program to run, slipping off her shirt as she walked into the
bedroom, she stepped into the bathroom and turned on the shower, letting it run for a moment as she
finished undressing, her underwear matching her top, which in favor matched the color of her eyes, she
shut the door to the living room as the program came out of commercial.
" The PowerPuff Girls, the worlds greatest trio of super heroines, protecting Townsville and most
often, the entire WORLD from villainy, before bedtime no doubt" the commentator said as pictures of the
three girls, Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup flashed across the screen, various news clips showed their
fights with their various arch villains, Mojo Jojo, Fuzzy Lumpkins, Princess Morebucks, and the ever
omnipotent HIM. " But what lay deeper in the girls? What exactly brought their greatness to an end?
What caused them to fall from the news, and for that matter what caused their enemies to seminally fade
out of the headlines? Tonight, that and more will be exposed to you at home, on A&E biography..."
The squad car slowed to a halt near the side street near the 2nd National Bank, and Blossom and
Sparky got out, guns drawn. She motioned as she took the front, and he made a similar motion back at
her, as he took steps towards the back of the bank.
Blossom took one look at the doors and smiled, they had been broken into alright, and no doubt
the ones responsible for it were still in there, as she was picking up small sounds from the back with her
still perceptive hearing from her crime fighting days of old. She crept in, taking care not to step on the
glass, being silent as possible.
The lobby was a mess, and the drawers all broken into, not the brightest of robbers whoever they
were. She continued stealthily along the floor, her footsteps inaudible as she made her way towards the
sounds, voices becoming clearer.
" Hurry up already, we're running out of time.." a male voice said..
" Art cannot be rushed, Pillage..." a female voice responded.
" Art can't be appreciated in jail either, kick it into gear!" the same male voice said.
Blossom took mental notes as she eased towards the back, the vault having been broken into as
well, she hide behind the door and watched as the voices she heard gained faces.
A large male, about 6 foot stood watching a slender female figure as she worked on a door lock
that separated them from the main stacks of money. Both wore black clothing, the female wearing
spandex and the male wearing a trench coat covering most of his features, both were armed as she soon
took note.
" Almost got it..." the female said, her lock picking nearly complete.
A small click was heard.
" Got it!" she smiled and stood.
" Freeze, Townsville Police!" Blossom yelled out, pulling her gun sights on the male, who
seemed to have the larger of the two guns. " Throw down your weapons and put your hands behind your
heads!"
" Dammit, Pilfer, now look what your lack of skill has done." the male said to the female,
apparently named Pilfer.
" I might actually have to agree with you on that...how do you suppose we're gunna get out of this
one?" the female smiled, standing and flexing her legs.
" Throw down your weapons NOW!" Blossom reasserted herself.
Pillage threw down his gun, it clattered to the floor, and raised his hands again, but not before
pressing a button on his watch.
"FREEZE!" Blossom heard the sound and retrained her gun on them.
" Too late, girly..." Pilfer smiled and pointed to something behind Blossom.
Blossom looked out of the corner of her eye and saw a huge stockpile of Explosives and a timer
starting to tick down from 5 minutes.
"NOW!" Pillage yelled as Pilfer pulled two guns and opened fire, spraying blossom's position
with bullets.
" Shit!" Blossom yelled and dove behind a desk, firing back warning shots. " Sparky!" she called
out he radio on her side, " I'm under fire! call backup, and get Bomb Squad down here!"
Sparky blinked as he ran around the front of the building, pulling out his radio and diving for
cover at the entrance, bullets sounding. " Did you say Bomb?"
" Yes, and a rather large one...less then 5 minutes left till it goes!" Blossom answered, firing her
clip at Pillage as he provided cover fire, will his partner Pilfer ran inside the inner vault.
" Time is important here..." Pillage shouted back at her, changing his clip.
" I know! " she shouted back, a series of clicks and claks later, she ran out, a duffel bag over her
shoulder. " Let's go!"
Blossom leaped up and opened fire, hitting the inside of the vault, ricocheting the bullet around
several times before it hit the timer on the explosives.
" Great..let's go NOW!" Pilfer yelled as the timer ticked away even faster.
Pilfer and Pillage pulled out two guns that fired two balls, one landing next to blossom and
cracking open, filling the area around her with gas.
Blossom coughed, trying to make out the figures running towards her, firing randomly through
the smoke filled room.
" Take a chill pill, toots..." Pillage sneered, slapping a set of handcuffs on Blossom's arm and
connecting the other half to a statue.
" FRE--" Pilfer smacked Sparky aside, gun and all as they ran out the front.
" Shit!" Blossom looked for her gun, which had been dropped during the cuffing.
" Blossom...are you ok?" Sparky yelled from a distance..
" I'm fine. just go follow them!" Blossom gritted her teeth, " Get out before the bomb blows!"
A dark figure appeared in the far corner of the room, unknown to either of the police officers,
and moved closer to Blossom.
" What about you!?" Sparky yelled back.
" I'll be fine, I'm right behind you!"
Sparky hesitated for a moment and followed orders, running out of the bank, sirens in the
distance.
Blossom sighed and gave up looking for her gun, the timer ticking away in the distance. "
Funny.....never thought it would be like this.."
" Ever the Glory hog, huh, Leader-girl?" a mysteriously alien but familiar voice asked.
" Huh?" Blossom looked towards the source, seeing a large black figure moving towards her, and
two green glowing eyes staring her down." Wh-Who's here?"
" No time for that, gotta get you out.." the figure said, it's voice distinctly female, however so
dark.
" What?" Blossom could only manage as she watched the blackness envelope the chain of the
cuffs for a moment, leaving nothing left of the chain, freeing Blossom.
" Now Go!" The figure spoke harshly.
" But...wh-" Blossom was pushed towards the entrance, but not before grabbing hold of
something from the figure, tearing fabric.
" Never could take orders could you. Always gave them..." the voice said, fading to the corner, the
green fierce eyes staring her down still, and they disappeared as well.
Blossom turned and ran for her life, as the timer counted down the final minute, she dove out the
doors in time to hear the explosion behind her, the building going up in shards. Blossom was sent to the
ground hard via shockwaves, knocking the wind out of her.
The police cars screeched before her, medical and bomb specialists running around, some
rushing towards Blossoms location.
Blossom sat up and looked at what she had taken from the figure, and nearly went wide-eyed.
In here hand was a piece of green fabric, with a small mark of black across the center of it,
exactly like the ones she had worn with her sisters in their childhood crime fighting.
"Buttercup.....?" she whispered, looking towards the building, now engulfed in flames.
To Be Continued after feedback is given.
By
Mastermind (mind@eot.com)
Disclaimer:
Spawn and Related Indicia are copyright by Todd McFarlene and his army of Lawyers, I'm simply paying
homage to him.
PowerPuff Girls and Related Indicia are copyright of Cartoon Network and Craig McCraken I simply
think they have more potential then they are using now.
Some might remember this character from the episode " Super Zeroes", I've taken the idea and elaborated
on it, please enjoy.
The city of Townsville was enveloped in a rainstorm the likes of which it hadn't seen in a
while. Needless to say, crime doesn't stop for the rain, and neither did the law enforcement..
Blossom sat in her squad car, waiting for her partner to come back with the stereotypical
donuts and coffee.
She stared out the front of the car, listening to the rain bead off the windshield, and sighed deeply.
This just wasn't the same as her youth.
" 2-David-Charlie, this is central, respond to a possible 10-70 at the 2nd National Bank of
Townsville, over." The radio suddenly chirped.
Blossom perked, and grabbed the mic, " 2-David-Charlie copies, on the way, over and out."
A tall slender gentleman arrived on the passenger side, and opened the door, a police
uniform present, albeit wet, and an assortment of munchies and coffee. He slid into his seat and smiled.
" Miss me?" Blossom asked, putting on her seat belt and popping the car into "D", " Belt in,
we gotta call."
" Where 'bouts?" he asked, biting into a sprinkled donut.
" 2nd National, so belt in and let's go, Sparky!" She commanded as the squad car squealed
off towards the destination.
A slender female figure walked slowly up the steps of a mid-town apartment building,
rattling a set of keys along her side among other things. Arriving at the main door she walked in
and unlocked the secondary door, and ascended the stairs, all the while trying to balance her bag
of items.
As she walked along a narrow hallway, sounds of various people chattering could be
heard as she finally came to a stop at a brown colored door with a variety of stickers on it, one
of which read " PPG", and another distinct one read " PowerPuff Team". She pulled out a set of keys,
fumbled with them a moment and unlocked the door. Stepping into the dark room, she pushed the door
shut and locked the deadbolt. She then threw the keys somewhere on what looked like a coffee table
nearby and searched blindly for a moment along the wall, finding a light switch and turning it on.
The lights flickered on slowly, and the female's characteristics shone brighter then before, her
blond hair hung about shoulder length, her baby blue eyes ever present in the semi darkness.
Bubbles set her groceries down and sighed, pulling off her jacket, the ever present " Powerpuff
Team" logo seen earlier present on the back of it, and set it on the back of a chair. She began unloading
the sack and placing various goods on shelves and into the small tattered refrigerator that came with the
apartment, a drawing she had made in crayon as a child hanging ever so slightly crooked on it, held back
a magnet set of her old Powerpuff self.
Bubbles smiled to herself and folded the now empty bag and set it with a stack of similar ones she
kept for trash use, seeing as it saved her from having to buy garbage bags. She walked from her kitchen
area into a carpeted living room, where a small couch and television sat, in the distant corner, a architect
table sat, various drawing utensils scattered about.
She sat down on the green couch, a poof of stuffing sticking out near the back sighed when she
did, letting out more stuffing that landed in a pile below, leading one to believe it had been damaged for a
while.
Flipping on the TV with a remote, she searched through the channels, finding nothing of
interest, she landed on an A&E Biography, just beginning apparently. She twitched slightly as the title
came up, it read, "POWERPUFF GIRLS: The History of Townsville's Greatest Trio"
She sighed and got up, leaving the program to run, slipping off her shirt as she walked into the
bedroom, she stepped into the bathroom and turned on the shower, letting it run for a moment as she
finished undressing, her underwear matching her top, which in favor matched the color of her eyes, she
shut the door to the living room as the program came out of commercial.
" The PowerPuff Girls, the worlds greatest trio of super heroines, protecting Townsville and most
often, the entire WORLD from villainy, before bedtime no doubt" the commentator said as pictures of the
three girls, Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup flashed across the screen, various news clips showed their
fights with their various arch villains, Mojo Jojo, Fuzzy Lumpkins, Princess Morebucks, and the ever
omnipotent HIM. " But what lay deeper in the girls? What exactly brought their greatness to an end?
What caused them to fall from the news, and for that matter what caused their enemies to seminally fade
out of the headlines? Tonight, that and more will be exposed to you at home, on A&E biography..."
The squad car slowed to a halt near the side street near the 2nd National Bank, and Blossom and
Sparky got out, guns drawn. She motioned as she took the front, and he made a similar motion back at
her, as he took steps towards the back of the bank.
Blossom took one look at the doors and smiled, they had been broken into alright, and no doubt
the ones responsible for it were still in there, as she was picking up small sounds from the back with her
still perceptive hearing from her crime fighting days of old. She crept in, taking care not to step on the
glass, being silent as possible.
The lobby was a mess, and the drawers all broken into, not the brightest of robbers whoever they
were. She continued stealthily along the floor, her footsteps inaudible as she made her way towards the
sounds, voices becoming clearer.
" Hurry up already, we're running out of time.." a male voice said..
" Art cannot be rushed, Pillage..." a female voice responded.
" Art can't be appreciated in jail either, kick it into gear!" the same male voice said.
Blossom took mental notes as she eased towards the back, the vault having been broken into as
well, she hide behind the door and watched as the voices she heard gained faces.
A large male, about 6 foot stood watching a slender female figure as she worked on a door lock
that separated them from the main stacks of money. Both wore black clothing, the female wearing
spandex and the male wearing a trench coat covering most of his features, both were armed as she soon
took note.
" Almost got it..." the female said, her lock picking nearly complete.
A small click was heard.
" Got it!" she smiled and stood.
" Freeze, Townsville Police!" Blossom yelled out, pulling her gun sights on the male, who
seemed to have the larger of the two guns. " Throw down your weapons and put your hands behind your
heads!"
" Dammit, Pilfer, now look what your lack of skill has done." the male said to the female,
apparently named Pilfer.
" I might actually have to agree with you on that...how do you suppose we're gunna get out of this
one?" the female smiled, standing and flexing her legs.
" Throw down your weapons NOW!" Blossom reasserted herself.
Pillage threw down his gun, it clattered to the floor, and raised his hands again, but not before
pressing a button on his watch.
"FREEZE!" Blossom heard the sound and retrained her gun on them.
" Too late, girly..." Pilfer smiled and pointed to something behind Blossom.
Blossom looked out of the corner of her eye and saw a huge stockpile of Explosives and a timer
starting to tick down from 5 minutes.
"NOW!" Pillage yelled as Pilfer pulled two guns and opened fire, spraying blossom's position
with bullets.
" Shit!" Blossom yelled and dove behind a desk, firing back warning shots. " Sparky!" she called
out he radio on her side, " I'm under fire! call backup, and get Bomb Squad down here!"
Sparky blinked as he ran around the front of the building, pulling out his radio and diving for
cover at the entrance, bullets sounding. " Did you say Bomb?"
" Yes, and a rather large one...less then 5 minutes left till it goes!" Blossom answered, firing her
clip at Pillage as he provided cover fire, will his partner Pilfer ran inside the inner vault.
" Time is important here..." Pillage shouted back at her, changing his clip.
" I know! " she shouted back, a series of clicks and claks later, she ran out, a duffel bag over her
shoulder. " Let's go!"
Blossom leaped up and opened fire, hitting the inside of the vault, ricocheting the bullet around
several times before it hit the timer on the explosives.
" Great..let's go NOW!" Pilfer yelled as the timer ticked away even faster.
Pilfer and Pillage pulled out two guns that fired two balls, one landing next to blossom and
cracking open, filling the area around her with gas.
Blossom coughed, trying to make out the figures running towards her, firing randomly through
the smoke filled room.
" Take a chill pill, toots..." Pillage sneered, slapping a set of handcuffs on Blossom's arm and
connecting the other half to a statue.
" FRE--" Pilfer smacked Sparky aside, gun and all as they ran out the front.
" Shit!" Blossom looked for her gun, which had been dropped during the cuffing.
" Blossom...are you ok?" Sparky yelled from a distance..
" I'm fine. just go follow them!" Blossom gritted her teeth, " Get out before the bomb blows!"
A dark figure appeared in the far corner of the room, unknown to either of the police officers,
and moved closer to Blossom.
" What about you!?" Sparky yelled back.
" I'll be fine, I'm right behind you!"
Sparky hesitated for a moment and followed orders, running out of the bank, sirens in the
distance.
Blossom sighed and gave up looking for her gun, the timer ticking away in the distance. "
Funny.....never thought it would be like this.."
" Ever the Glory hog, huh, Leader-girl?" a mysteriously alien but familiar voice asked.
" Huh?" Blossom looked towards the source, seeing a large black figure moving towards her, and
two green glowing eyes staring her down." Wh-Who's here?"
" No time for that, gotta get you out.." the figure said, it's voice distinctly female, however so
dark.
" What?" Blossom could only manage as she watched the blackness envelope the chain of the
cuffs for a moment, leaving nothing left of the chain, freeing Blossom.
" Now Go!" The figure spoke harshly.
" But...wh-" Blossom was pushed towards the entrance, but not before grabbing hold of
something from the figure, tearing fabric.
" Never could take orders could you. Always gave them..." the voice said, fading to the corner, the
green fierce eyes staring her down still, and they disappeared as well.
Blossom turned and ran for her life, as the timer counted down the final minute, she dove out the
doors in time to hear the explosion behind her, the building going up in shards. Blossom was sent to the
ground hard via shockwaves, knocking the wind out of her.
The police cars screeched before her, medical and bomb specialists running around, some
rushing towards Blossoms location.
Blossom sat up and looked at what she had taken from the figure, and nearly went wide-eyed.
In here hand was a piece of green fabric, with a small mark of black across the center of it,
exactly like the ones she had worn with her sisters in their childhood crime fighting.
"Buttercup.....?" she whispered, looking towards the building, now engulfed in flames.
To Be Continued after feedback is given.