Here we are, with the first real chapter! Hope you like it! Oh yeah, I do not own anything from The Powerpuff Girls. If I did, I would've signed the paper to do more shows after Season Six. I do, however, own Cassidy. And big thanks to my first four reviewers: Jordalicious, 2PM Princess, Kibalover1998 and Unquestionably Unhinged.

Cassidy didn't mind going to the high school in Townsville. It was a whole lot better than the one she went to at her old home in Albany. She'd even made friends already!

By the time she got to school that Friday morning, her friends Tina and Louisa were already there.

"I had tons of work!" Louisa complained. "Does everyone get homework for every subject?"

"What can you expect, sophomore who takes senior and junior classes?" Tina teased. "Right, Cass?"

"Uh-huh." Cassidy muttered. She still couldn't get the teenage gang out of her head.

"What's up, Cass?" Louisa asked, distracted from her homework. "Are you finally getting how crime-infested this city is?" She'd listened to Cassidy's claims that Townsville wasn't as dangerous as everyone said.

"Crime-infested, maybe." Cassidy said. "I met some people yesterday evening that might have been monsters, I guess."

Tina's eyes lit up. "We've described them to you. Do you know who it was?"

"They didn't seem to match any of the descriptions. Five boys." Cassidy answered. "Teenagers. I think the oldest was about seventeen. One of them was really grotesque." She stopped. Tina and Louisa seemed to know who she was talking about.

"That's the Gangreen Gang." Tina said. "Spelt like Gang and then green, except they share a g. They're not too bad, just a bunch of stupid delinquents committing petty crimes. That's why we haven't mentioned them."

"Watch out for the leader, though." Louisa added.

"Ace?" Cassidy said, remembering the one she'd thought of as the leader. "He's the only one whose name I know."

"Yeah, that's him." Louisa confirmed. "Just so you know, the grotesque one is called Grubber, the big one is Big Billy, the tiny one is Li'l Arturo, and the one with the long hair is Snake. But while they're all bad news, Ace is the worst. That's why he's the leader."

"He's good at making girls fall in love with him." Tina explained. "He even did that to one of the Powerpuff Girls, once, and she nearly let her sisters die. You're pretty lucky, really. The whole gang together can get really vicious."

"But that's really only to little kids." Louisa pointed out. "They're just a bunch of bullies, mainly. If they're not picking on little kids, they're stealing from the candy store or hanging out in their home in the dump."

Cassidy listened to this. "I guess I've got a reason to stay away from the dump, then." she said. "Ace actually said that I should come hang out with them."

"He's just a flirt." Tina said. "Don't trust anything that boy says to you. The minute he senses a weak spot in a girl, he's on it. Apart from the Powerpuff thing, he just finds it fun to break hearts."

Cassidy did really mean to keep away from villains, especially the gang. She really did. But only days after she'd had that conversation with her friends, she had a fight with her parents and stormed out, wearing her most tough-girl clothes. She felt like being rebellious, and her irresponsibility got the better of her. She headed towards the dump, not thinking of the consequences hanging out with the gang could bring.

The shack in the middle was obviously the home of the Gangreen Gang. Cassidy could tell just by looking.

Finally, she hesitated outside the door. Should she knock or just open the door? Would she get laughed at if she was too courteous?

Fortunately, the situation was resolved by the door opening. "Hey, look who decided to hang out after all."

Cassidy tried her best to look confident. "Hey, Ace." she said calmly. "Can I come in?"

"Oh, sure you can." Ace answered carelessly. The rest of the gang was looking over his shoulder, Cassidy noticed. They were staring at her, as if to say "What's so special about this girl?"

Cassidy looked around the shack, scrunching up her face in distaste. "I guess you don't have girls over much." she said with an amused half-smile. "Everything about this place says 'teenage boys'." She paused. "What do you do for kicks around here?" she suddenly asked, remembering her friends' tales. "Go out to the candy store and steal stuff? Pick on little kids?"

"Oh, Cassidy, who's been telling you all these things?" Ace asked, with a look of hurt on his face. "We're not bad guys. We just like having fun sometimes."

Cassidy wanted to laugh at him, but the more she looked at the expression, the more she realized she just couldn't. The look was far too genuine. She knew that Tina and Louisa were just trying to make sure she didn't get hurt, but out loud she said "Not that I'm bothered, but how do you make sure the Powerpuff Girls don't get onto you for that stuff?"

"Them!" Ace waved a hand dismissively. "They have more important things to worry about then us guys having fun."

Cassidy smiled, her rebellious mood begging her for attention. "If that's so, would you let a girl be in your gang? Like, not all the time but sometimes?"

Ace paused. She couldn't see his eyes, but she could tell he was surveying her carefully. "Hm." he said finally. "A girl member of the Gangreen Gang." Then he shrugged. "Why not? But if you're going to be with us, you have to do what I say. Got it?" Cassidy nodded. On the inside, she was excited. This would be a perfect way to work off her need to rebel at times. She could be in or out at any point!

"OK, guys, come on!" Ace said, leaving the shack. Cassidy followed the boys out, and found herself walking beside Snake, the one with the longest hair.

She wasn't the one to start making conversation. She just walked along, staring up at the sky at intervals. So she jumped when she heard a voice ask "How old are yousss?"

She glanced at Snake, noticing for the first time how he got that name. "Fifteen." she answered carelessly. "You?"

"I'm fifteen too. Mosssst of ussss are." Snake answered. Cassidy wondered what this would be like.

She got a little worried when she followed the gang to...a playground? She couldn't be sure about this part.

Ace looked back at her and laughed at her anxious look. "It's called a test, Cassidy. You didn't seriously think you could just be one of us without proving you could be tough. It's not even hard. All you have to do is make one kid cry. You do that, you're in."

Cassidy felt nervous about doing that, but she nodded. She stepped forward, looking for a good target.

We'll see if she passes in the next chapter. Until then, review! (Sorry this took so long, I was in Melbourne for a week.)