One Day ...
by "Lord" Andy
chapter two

One day while the Powerpuff Girls were at school, the hotline started ringing.

"Bubbles, can you get that?" Buttercup asked as she continued to cut out shapes in a piece of paper she had.

A large smile spread over Bubbles face. She usually never got to answer the hotline. Putting down the crayons she was using for her drawing, she skipped on over to the ringing phone.

"Wait a minute, you can't do that!" Blossom suddenly shouted out from behind the book she was reading. "I'm the one who always answers the phone! Besides, since when did you have the authority to make such an order? You always forget that I'm the leader. Only I answer the phone!"

Jumping up, Blossom ran past Bubbles almost knocking her down. Then she picked up the phone and started talking to the Mayor. Bubbles sighed unhappily, looking down at the floor in sadness. Blossom never let her answer the hotline. It just wasn't fair!

Blossom hung up the phone. "Come on girls, looks like Mojo is at it again with some new weapon."

"You mean that evil monkey is at it again?" Bubbles asked.

"Well duh!" Buttercup moaned. "Do we know any other people named Mojo, stupid?"

"Don't call me stupid!" Bubbles shouted, stomping her foot in frustration. This made Blossom grumble to herself. Bubbles can be so childish.

Blossom was about to say something, when she thought about it. Of course Bubbles was childish, she's a child! Heck, Blossom herself is a child as well. Besides, there's no reason to start an argument over who gets to answer the phone.

But before she could say anything, Buttercup blurted out, "What's the matter, is the little baby going to cry because little miss bossy girl wouldn't let her answer the phone?"

"Look, no need to be mean here everyone." Blossom said in a calming voice, putting her arm on Bubbles' shoulder. "Let's just stop Mojo, then we can all talk about this."

Bubbles smiled, but Buttercup only rolled her eyes.

The three flew out off the roof of the school and quickly found Mojo outside of Townsville Park a few blocks inside the city. He was holding a sinister looking weapon, with a tube of blue liquid in the front and a large exhaust on the back. Just another one of Mojo's annoying little invention.

"You've met your match now annoying Powerpuff Girls!" Mojo shouted. He pulled a lever sticking out of the side of his newest edition to his ever-growing arsenal. The tube of thick blue liquid at the end of the large firearm started pulsating and humming and an increasing rate.

"Oh please Mojo!" Blossom groaned while rolling her eyes, almost getting embarrassed for having yet another spiel with their maniacal nemesis. "Why do you even keep trying. Not one of your plans have ever worked ever!"

"So why don't you just put the weapon done and walk your sorry little butt to the prison." Buttercup grumbled, waving Mojo away with her hand. "That way we won't have to break anything."

"We said it before, we'll say it again," Blossom declared. "The Powerpuff Girls never loose!"

"Duh!" Bubbles chimed in with the usual mocking of Mojo.

"Silence! Quiet! Speak no more!" Demanded a fist waving Mojo. "I've spent many weeks building the strongest and fastest laser that I have ever built. It will finally defeat you, it will finally stop you, and it will finally make you all a threat to me no longer. This is to say "

While Mojo continued his constant ramblings about the stuff he always says every time they fight, the girls sighed and looked at each other in boredom.

"Do you just want me to fly down there and kick his butt?" Buttercup asked, pointing to the babbling simian twenty stories below them.

"Oh just let her go get him." Bubbles said to Blossom. "I want to get back to my coloring drawing."

"You and your stupid colorings! Sometimes I think your brain is nothing but one big crayon." Buttercup shouted to a hurt Bubbles. "From now on, when Mojo attacks, let's just have one of us go."

"Now you know we can't do that." Blossom half-heartedly explained. "We're a team, and as a team we always do things together. And that means all three of us go to take out Mojo. Who knows, he might have a serious plan this time."

"What, you think that chattering monkey down there will actually come up with something smart one of these days?" Buttercup asked, pointing to their villain who was still talking to himself. "I think he does a better job then you do at least."

"Yeah, last time he came at us with nothing else but a great big stick!" Bubbles pointed out.

"It's called a bo, stupid!" Buttercup corrected.

"Don't call me stupid!" Bubbles cried.

"It doesn't matter!" Blossom yelled while waving her arms in desperation. "It's the same old thing - Mojo thinks up a lame idea and we stop him together. Now let's stop all this arguing and put an end to this monkey business. We can talk about this at a safer time."

"Girl we can float up here all we want." Buttercup defied Blossom, which only made her cross her arms in frustration. "It's not like Mojo's going ever going to come through with something. I tell you, your plans are just getting worse and worse all the time."

"My plans are getting worse?" Blossom gasped, in shock that such defiance had suddenly come up. "What's wrong with this plan? We go in, we stop Mojo, and we do it together! What's so wrong with that?"

"I don't see anything wrong with that." Bubbles quietly pointed out. "I think it's a good plan."

"That's because it's simple enough for a baby like you to understand." Buttercup mocked.

"I am not a baby!" Bubbles screamed, startling everyone below.

" and furthermore, this weapon is powerful. It is much more powerful then you! I have calculated it to be much more powerful then anything! It is fast, it is strong, it is ingenious, it is oh what the heck, I'll just show you."

Himself getting tired of his own ramblings to a deaf crowd, Mojo picked up his loudly humming weapon and took careful aim through the ray's sophisticated scope. Picking out a target between the three Powerpuffs who were in the middle of their argument, he checked the aim once more, then pulled the trigger.

The instant the blast went out, all the windows in the surrounding blocks blew out due to the deafening shock wave. The recoil of the device was a bit more powerful then Mojo had anticipated. The impact knocked him half a mile down the road till he came to a skidding stop. The simian's ears were ringing and his arms were shaking due to the immense blast that came from the ray. In fact, the echo of the shot was still chiming between the streets of Townsville.

But all of this happened after the initial projectile of the laser.

It all happened so fast, it took her a few seconds to figure out what happened. The three Powerpuffs were just floating when they felt a huge rush of air. The air around them grew much hotter then before, but then died down instantly. And yet a split second before any of that even happened, Bubbles saw a blinding stream of light right in front of her face. But in a second, it was gone. But in its place was a headache so strong, all she could do was let out a few simple whimpers.

"Woah, what was that?" Buttercup shouted, looking all around for the source of the power.

"I must've been Mojo's weapon!" Blossom said. "We completely forgot about him! Bubbles, are you "

Buttercup watched Blossom stop in mid sentence and her whole face turn white. Swallowing hard, Buttercup slowly turned around and looked at Bubbles. But when she did, she almost wished she hadn't.

Her hands violently shaking, Bubbles slowly reached up and felt her forehead. As soon as she felt a small hole that had been made near the top, her body started shaking as violently as her hands had been. Then she tipped back and plummeted to the ground.

"Bubbles!" Blossom and Buttercup shouted out in horrifying fear, then swooped down to catch her before she hit the sidewalk. The slowly laid her out on the pavement, tears filling their eyes.

"H - hold on Bubbles!" Blossom stuttered. "Y - y - you're going to be all right!"

Bubbles didn't reply, but instead let out a few more whimpers before falling completely limp in her two sister's hands. It was then the two of them learned the horrible, horrible truth - Bubbles was gone.

"No no Bubbles no " Blossom stammered, holding her sister's lifeless hand close to herself. "You can't be gone not you!"

Buttercup just stood there shaking her head in disbelief. She couldn't fathom it, she would never be able to talk to her sister again. But more importantly, she would never be able to apologize to her for any of the mean things she had said. Why, why couldn't have anyone done anything to prevent this?

"Why Blossom?" Buttercup sadly asked. "Why didn't you do anything to stop this?"

Blossom looked up to her green-eyed sister in shock. "Me? Are you trying to place the blame of all of this on me? You were the one fighting with her, making her so wound up and everything!"

"Well, you are the leader!" Buttercup nervously said, trying to shift the blame that was eating away at her heart. "You're responsible for all of us!"

Blossom looked at her fallen sister, fear filling her tear filled eyes. "No no, none of this would've happened if it wasn't for you! It's your fault, not mine!"

"Stop saying that!" Buttercup cried, trying to drown out the noise in her head. "It's your fault, your fault, your fault she'd dead!"

"No!" Blossom said, getting her tear-stained face right up in Buttercup's own tear filled face. "You were arguing with her, so it's your fault that she was emotionally distracted, so it's your fault she got hit by that laser!"

"Stop saying that!!" Buttercup screamed before throwing herself at Blossom. The two of the rolled around in the street emotionally blind, yelling at each other and pulling on whatever they could grab onto. This was bad news for Blossom, because Buttercup kept yanking on her red/orange hair, causing her to yell out. Eventually, Buttercup got the upper hand and slammed Blossom into the ground and sat on her. Then she started throwing punches into her sister's face.

"It's not my fault! Say it's not my fault!" Buttercup cried in desperation. It couldn't be her fault, she just couldn't be to blame for her sister's death. Blinded by her guilt, Buttercup didn't realize what she was doing until she noticed that Blossom wasn't struggling anymore.

Letting out a gasp of shock, Buttercup looked at her red stained hands. The horrifying truth set in when she realized that Bubbles never got her hands messy like this. And once she looked down at Blossom, Buttercup let out a cry and flew out of the city.

"I am a murderer! It is all my fault!" She wailed. She didn't care where she was going, and she didn't care if she ever stopped.

Blossom, meanwhile, coughed out whatever was in her mouth and tried to open her eyes. She could only get one of them halfway open, and when she did, she saw Mojo slowly walking up the street.

"Looks like today is my day!" Mojo laughed.