Life with The RowdyRuff Boys

Darknessxxx

"The Pythagorean theorem: the theorem that states the square adjacent to the hypotenuse of a right angle triangle, the hypotenuse being the longest side of the triangle, has an area equal to the sum of the squares that would be adjacent to the other two sides." The Professor explained to his daughters. "Which means that, if you know the length of the other two sides of a triangle, you would be able find the length of the hypotenuse as the square root of the sum of the other two sides squared. This is represented in the equations:

A squared + B squared = C squared.

Or

C = the square root of A squared +B squared."

Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup merely stared at The Professor.

Oblivious to their confusion, The Professor continued. "It is also possible to find the length of an unknown side, if you know the length of the other side and the hypotenuse. The equation for this being

A =the square root of C squared – B squared

Or

B = the square root of C squared –A squared."

"So" The Professor continued, "if side A is 3 units, and side B is 4 units then side C would be...?" He looked to the girls for an answer. "Bubbles?"

"Oh, um" Bubbles stammered, before guessing "five?"

"That's right!" The Professor congratulated her. "Side A squared would equal 9, and side B squared would equal 16, summing up to 25, the square root of which is 5!"

-Ding Dong-

"Oh, the doorbell" The Professor proclaimed. He went to go answer it, and as soon as he was out of earshot, Buttercup turned to Bubbles.

"Okay Bubbles" Buttercup said, "You're going to have to explain this, 'cause that made no sense at all."

"What makes you think that I understand it?" Bubbles asked.

"You answered his question!" Buttercup argued.

"I guessed!" Bubbles shot back.

"Well then," Buttercup turned to Blossom.

"Don't look at me!" Blossom said defensively.

"I thought you already understood this!" Buttercup stated.

"I thought I did" Blossom said. "Until The Professor started explaining it."

"Hey girls!" the girl's next door neighbour, Robin Snyder, entered the room.

"Hey Robin" the girls greeted her.

"Doing math?" Robin asked, examining the papers in front of the girls.

"Yup!" Bubbles answered.

"Great!" Robin said, taking a seat." You can explain it then."

"Yeah, no!" Buttercup said flatly.

"You three don't get it either?" Robin asked. The girls shook their heads no. "then let's ask your dad. He's smart."

"Tried that!" Bubbles stated. "Somehow he made it even more confusing."

"I see" Robin said hanging her head in defeat.

"Hey!" Brick called from the dining room door. "What are you all up to?"

"We're doing our math homework" Blossom answered. "Something you'd be doing if you went to school."

"Good thing I don't go to school then" Brick said back.

"Excuse me for asking" Robin said, "but um, who are you?"

Brick stared at her.

"Let me introduce you two" Bubbles suddenly said quickly. "Robin, this is Brick. He's from 'The RowdyRuff Boys', actually he's their leader. Brick and his brothers are staying with us now, their around somewhere. They were created by Mojo Jojo; you know that evil monkey that's always trying to destroy my sisters and I. Anyway, the RowdyRuff Boys and us used to try to destroy each other all the time, 'cause they're evil and we're good, but then we all realized that we have a lot in common, so we stopped trying to destroy each other. We still fight though, 'cause they have super powers and we have super powers, and it's really fun to use super powers, especially against someone else with super powers, so we, occasionally, put our super powers against their super powers, just for fun."

Bubbles inhaled deeply. "Brick, this is Robin, her favourite colour is 'elephant'. Her family moved next door, after the Smith's moved out, 'cause they were crazy! You know Mr. Smith tried to blow The Professor's head off, with a blow dryer! And then Mrs. Smith got angry, because when we stopped him we ruined her dinner party, so she became evil, and then the whole family was evil and wanted to destroy us! But they couldn't, so they moved out, and Robin moved in, and we became best friends, and now we can all be friends!"

Bubbles smiled deeply, while everyone else stared at her blankly. It was Brick who broke the silence.

"Your favourite colour is 'elephant'?" he asked Robin.

Robin shook her head fiercely. "Wait, go back" she said to Bubbles. "The RowdyRuff Boys are staying with you?"

"Yup!" Bubbles proclaimed.

"The RowdyRuff Boys that you'd always fighting with?" Robin asked in disbelief.

"I see you're still a little confused" Bubbles said. "Allow me to explain..."

Bubbles inhaled even deeper, but before she could say anything, Buttercup covered her mouth with her hand.

"Allow me to explain" Buttercup offered. "-Ahem- we got over that" she said simply.

"You got over it?" Robin said bewildered.

"Yes" Buttercup said, while Bubbles nodded her head, mouth still covered by Buttercup's hand.

"It's like Bubbles said" Blossom chipped in, "we have a lot in common."

"Okay, okay" Robin said. "So you all became friends."

The girls nodded.

"And naturally, you invited them to live with you?" Robin asked.

The girls were silent; Brick snickered at the sight, but said nothing. Blossom opened her mouth, as if to say something, but closed it.

Bubbles broke away from Buttercup and spoke up. "it's easier to understand, if you just don't think about it."

"But it..." Robin started.

"Just don't think about it!" Bubbles cut her off.*

"Alright!" Robin submitted."Well, hi Brick, I'm Robin."

"Right, I think I got that" Brick responded. "In any case, what's there to do for fun around here?"

"Well, were doing our math homework" Blossom said. "It's probably not something you'd be good at so..."

"I'm good at everything!" Brick cut her off. "I'm sure I can figure this out!"

He grabbed one of the exercise sheets, which were on the table, and looked over it. Before long he looked to Blossom, "You know, some of these are letters" he stated.

Blossom stared at him condescending. "Thank you, captain obvious" she said.

"Captain Obvious" Robin saluted. The act of which earned her blank stares. "I've been watching 'How I Met Your Mother'" she admitted. **

"Uh huh" Blossom muttered, still confused. "Anyway, these letters are called 'variables' when used in math. They take the place of, otherwise, unknown numbers. Our task is to figure out what number the variables are."

"Right" Brick said. "And how find out just what numbers these variables are?"

"For these, we have to use this thing called 'The Pytho-grass theorem'" Buttercup said.

"Pythagorean theorem" Blossom corrected her.

"Yes, that" Buttercup said. "We use that to find C."

"The only problem is" Bubbles started," None of us get it!"

Brick pondered the problem. "I'll say this again" he said. "Good thing I don't go to school." He got up, "well, I'm off to find something fun to do."

"Hey Brick!" Boomer suddenly burst into the room. "Guess what." Before Brick could respond, he said, "Butch and I were talking with that Professor guy, and he told us that the girls usually spend their time at this place called school. So I was like 'why would anyone want to go to school?' and he said 'Because school is fun', but then I said 'that's not what I heard' and he said 'well have you gone to school before?' I was like 'no, I haven't' and then Butch said..."

"Damn it Boomer cut to the chase!" Brick demanded.

"Long story short, we're going to school with the girls tomorrow" Boomer said.

Not knowing how to respond to that particular piece of news, Brick palmed his face.

"Boomer" he said to his brother. "You are a major pain in the butt"

"Major Pain in the Butt" Robin saluted.

"Who's that chick" Boomer asked, upon noticing Robin.

Bubbles took a deep breath and floated her way out Buttercup's reach.

"That's the girl next door, Robin" Brick answered before bubbles could.

"Hey, I'm Boomer" Boomer said to her.

"Yes you are" Brick said. "But back to the topic at hand, how did we end up having to go to school?"

"Okay, I'll explain it again" Boomer said. "Butch and I were talking with that Professor guy..."

"Stop" Brick yelled. "I don't want to hear it. And where is Butch anyway?"

"I'm above you!" Butch called

Brick looked up to see a bucket of water being emptied on his face. Butch laughed at his drenched brother, while floating a few feet above him.

Outraged, Brick jumped up, grabbed Butch, slammed him on the table, and then punched him in the gut. The force from the punch crushing the table beneath him.

Butch picked himself up, still chuckling.

"Was that necessary?"Buttercup asked.

"Aw, you do care about me" Butch said dramatically.

Brick smacked him on the back of his head. "Seeing has he may have had a hand in putting us into school, yes that was necessary" Brick answered.

"School's not that bad" Blossom said

"But now, I need to understand that math thing you were talking to about earlier" Brick said.

"I see your point" Blossom said.

"Uh, excuse me" Robin said. "But is anyone going to introduce me to the guy who was just punched into the table?"

"The name's Butch" Butch said."Lifelong RowdyRuff Boy, not a total pig, and all around general badass."

Blossom, Bubbles, Brick, Buttercup, Boomer and Robin all exchanged a look.

"General Badass!" they all saluted.

Author's Notes: okay not the greatest of endings, but I wanted to wrap this up, 'cause I recently thought up something that, I think, would be great. Anyway, hoped you enjoyed.

*this story works best if you don't think about it either.

**this is a joke that Ted and Robin shared, in HIMYM