As stated many times before, I do not own any characters here in except for Holden, Tessa and Fear. Well everyone chapter 2 here is so I hope you enjoy.
Chapter 2: AWSM Interrupted
The sound of the doorbell echoes through the halls of the Utonium abode and a blue streak speeds from the laundry room to front door, opening it instantaneously.
"ACE! BUTTERCUP! Are you two here to watch the AWSM charity fight? I can't wait to see Monkey in action. He's such a cute animal superhero! I hope Super Cow doesn't hurt him too badly." Bubbles gushes happily.
Buttercup just rolls her eyes at her younger sister and pushes passed her into the house, commenting nastily, "I don't really care about that lame fight Bubbles. I really want to see Krunk squash that poser guitar player, Val Hallen."
Buttercup looks over her shoulder and sticks her tongue out at the blond haired girl, before chuckling and stepping into the living room.
Ace walks into the house, gives Bubbles a big grin and a hug, "I apologize about Buttercup. She's been moody since Val Hallen tried to upstage us at our concert two weeks ago. She nearly ripped his hair out that night."
Bubbles shakes her head with a frown pursing her lips as she walks to the living while tutting in disappointment, "She should know better than to assault another person."
Ace shakes his head and defensively states, "She didn't really assault him. It was more like kicked him off stage. Val Hallen was rather drunk when he crashed onto the stage with his axe."
Ace moves passed Bubbles and into the living room, sitting next to Buttercup on the couch, who is flipping through the channels to find the fight. A large thudding sound from the landing above causes Bubbles to jerk her head towards the stairs, only to discover, Holden slowly descending from the second floor, lugging the destroyed bed frame.
"Holdie what happened to your bed?" Bubbles worriedly asks her younger brother upon notices how red his eyes are.
Holden looks away from her quickly and with a gulp, lies, "I accidentally crushed the frame when I was trying to lift my bed off the floor."
Without letting Bubbles make a further fuss, Holden shoves past her towards the front door. Knowing something is off, the young blond promptly and silently floats up the stairs to Blossom's room. The sound of the front door opening reaches Bubbles' ears, as well as several loud clangs against its wooden frame.
Bubbles raps softly on her sister's door and after a moments wait, the door knob turns and the door opens with Blossom standing in the door way.
"Hey Bubbles, is the AWSM charity event about to start?"
Shaking her head, Bubbles squeaks sharply, "Blossy, I think something is wrong with Holdie! His bed frame is broken and He didn't make eye contact with me when he said what happened!"
Blossom gingerly rubs her forehead, before heading into her room and sitting on her bed spread. The red head had known for a month about her boyfriend's nightmares and had even been trying to help him overcome them. She had even bought a white noise machine that played soft lapping waves to him sleep, but it didn't seem to work at all.
The young woman knew that the lack of future prospects was gnawing away at Holden and was causing even more issues.
Blossom looks at her younger sister, then down at the floor, before questions softly, "Bubbles did you get a good look at the frame when he was going down the stairs?"
Shutting her eyes and placing her index finger on her lip, Bubbles thinks for a few moments before unequivocally pronouncing, "The sides of the frame where the supports are located were crushed. It didn't even look like the crush marks were from the correct angel to have been created if Holdie was lifting it."
"Bubbles, I'll go talk to Holden to find out what is going on. He won't lie to me at all."
Blossom rises from the bed, gives Bubbles a small hug and proceeds out of her bedroom to find Holden.
Once outside the house, Holden unceremoniously pitches the remains of his bed onto the side of the curb. The young man stares at it for several minutes, mentally kicking himself for having destroyed it the previous night. A sigh issues from Holden's lips as the dream floods back into his mind.
A handful of tears form in his eyes as he tries to forgot the horrible dream, but is unable to. He fails to notice the front door creaking open slightly and a pink blur of incandescence heading towards him.
As Holden moves away from the trash on the side road, a set of arms with pink nails embrace him, preventing him from being able to budge.
Blossom smiles sweetly as she pokes her head over her boyfriend's left shoulder and whispers softly in his hear, "You shouldn't have lied like that to Bubbles. She's now really worried about you sweetheart. What happened to your bed that would make you lie?"
Blossom loosens her grip around the young man and Holden turns around, only to look at the ground, ashamed of himself, "I had that nightmare again with Tessa killing the Professor and then attacking me. I woke up scared out of my mind and I gripped the sides out of sheer terror."
Blossom leans her body into Holden's, places her head on his chest and listening to his heartbeat.
She closes her eyes to listen for a few moments, before candidly replying, "You should have told me right away when this happened. I want to be able to help you thought this, but I can't if you shut me out all the time!"
Knowing Blossom is right, Holden wraps his arms around her shoulders, responding apologetically, "I know I should have informed you Blossom and I'm sorry I didn't tell you at all. I just didn't want to burden you with how angst ridden I am feeling."
The red head stares at him with her bright pink eyes, then afterward bossily snaps, "You are not a burned to me or anyone else! Stop thinking that way! Even if you have a large amount of anxiety, I still love you and I will always be here to support you."
He smiles broadly at her words, then leans forward to kiss her forehead, "I'm grateful to have you by my side when I require moral support the most."
A faint pinkness flushes over Blossom's cheeks as she beams happily at his promise, then interlinks her arm around his and beings tugging him towards the house, "The AWSM charity fight should beginning any moment now and you know Buttercup, she will start an argument over someone interrupting one of the matches, which will exacerbate into a yelling match between the two of us."
Knowing what Blossom said to be true, Holden just nods, while they slowly walk back to the house, whispering to one another. Upon reentering the homestead, the blaring of a commercial for the product, Ali-me is heard in the background and the couple quickly walks to a small sofa to sit down.
Buttercup scowls at them, "Just be glad the show hasn't come on yet. These commercials are boring, especially the ones for Exervent and Mandork Industry products."
The commercials end with a slow fade out to black, before a plethora of brass instruments plays in the background and the logo for the charity event spins onto the screen.
The screen changes and two teens appear and the one in an orange jacket speaks, "Welcome sports fans, to the AWSM Charity Fight in Townsville arena. Today, we will be witnessing history in the making as some of the world's biggest heroes duke it out with each other to raise money for needy kids."
"Right you are Nick. History will be witnessed today when we see Monkey face off against Super Cow. We've seen these two team up against crime before, but for this exhibition, these two wanted to test their mettle against each other to see what they were each made of."
"I couldn't have said it better myself Chip. Super Cow has the tenacity and power of a four Mexican wrestlers. Monkey, on the other hand, can fly; use sonic screeches and has moderate strength. This match could very well go to either of these two heroes."
The screen shifts to a display of the two heroes, along with their potential power.
The boy with the green jacket and glasses looks off camera nods and announces, "We'll be right back folks. It seems we are going to a quick commercial break."
The screen fades to black and using this time, Buttercup stands up to start making popcorn.
Just outside the Townsville Arena, Fear runs through the parking lot with a small, dark red backpack on her back, heading for the main gate. Tessa is close behind her pet, weaving in between cars and leaving not even a hint of her flying trail.
Spotting a lone security guard by the front gate, Fear takes out a foam stick from the backpack and stealthily sneaks up on the poor soul, jumps into the air, and bonks him on the top of the head. The guard collapses to the ground with his tongue hanging out and his eyes closed.
Tessa chortles at the funny sight and coos, "You've been watching too much Puppet Pals haven't you?"
Fear nods happily.
Tessa bends down on one knee to take the keys from the fallen guard and begins laughing, "Oh, this is just too easy. These stupid super zeros won't even know what hit them when I take over their little show."
The teal clad woman saunters to the control box next to the gate, unlocks it and flips the three switches inside. The gate grinds open slowly and once there is enough room, Fear enters the building first, scampering down a side corridor towards the television broadcasting room.
The little fox's job is to disable all personal inside, so Tessa's message couldn't be interrupted. Once the grinding sounds subside, the young woman walks into the building and down the main corridor to the main arena floor.
Halfway to the event floor, Tessa encounters Agent Honeydew, who is watching a monitor that presents the bout between Monkey and Super Cow. Tessa folds her arm, quickly formulating a plan to dispose of Honeydew without causing a ruckus.
Smirking Tessa thinks, I got the perfect idea and no one will be the wiser about this.
Taking a small breath, Tessa opens her maw, emitting a low level sonic screech in the other woman's direction. Agent Honeydew's complexion turns from white to a sickly green and she skidoos to the nearest bathroom to upchuck.
Shadowing Honeydew, Tessa waits until the agent enters thought a door and the sound of retching reaches the villainess ears, making her grin. Concentrating on the metal frame, Tessa's heat vision leaps forth from her eyes, welding the metal frame to the door.
Sparks jettison from the molten metal out into the air like small fire works as Tessa slowly seals the door. Once she is finish, the evil cooperate mogul rips a pipe from the ceiling and threads it through the door hand and punches the ends of pipe into the wall. Dusting her hands off, Tessa proceeds on her merry way.
Fear in the meantime, reaches the broadcasting room, cracking open the door. The little fox spies ten people sitting in chairs, talking and waiting to be notified about the next commercial break. Fear slides the bag off her back onto the floor and she begins to rummage around inside.
A pack of gum flies as out, as does a small Taser, a can of beans and a wallet belonging to Eustace Bagge. Fear's tail begins to wag wildly as the little creature pulls out a can of sleeping gas and a fox sized gas mask from her knapsack.
Fear slips the gas mask over her head, making sure it's secured tightly and then tiptoes to the door, opening the canister and rolling it to the far side of the room. One of the people closest to the canister ambles by with a cup of coffee in hand, heading back to their seat, when all of a sudden, their eyes droop and they slowly fall to the floor, spilling the beverage all over the floor.
Two of the workers rise from their chairs to check on their fallen comrade, but soon they fall to the floor with dull thuds as the gas spreads around them. Within minutes, the remaining seven people have their eyes grow heavy and they slip into a deep sleep.
Upon dashing into the room, Fear locks the door, jumps onto nearly a table, picking up the control manual and flips through a few pages. After several minutes of study, Fear lays the book down, jumps into an empty chair and places a set of headphones onto her head to listen to the floor crew's chatter and waiting for her master to enact her plan.
Finally arriving at the entry door to the arena, Tessa watches as Val Hallen enters the ring via his mighty axe to perform a guitar solo for the crowd before the next match.
Tessa laughs silently to herself, "Can't believe I used to have a crush on this moron when I was seven. He's lamer than the Ameba Boys."
The Norse god of rock begins to the play a powerful cord and the crowd cheers loudly. Levitating off the ground, Tessa shoots into the arena and slams Val Hallen in the face with her elbow. His mighty axe flies into the air, spinning several times, before falling in a slow arc.
Tessa manages to catch it and grins broadly, shouting, "FORE!" She swings at the stunned hero's jaw with all her might, sending him flying into the back wall and out in the parking lot.
Tessa drops the guitar onto mat like it is a rag doll and smashes the neck of the magical instrument with the heel of her foot. The pink instrument loses its luster and turns stone gray.
"Stop right there fiend. I, the American hammers of Justice will stop you!" Comes a shout from the back and Major Glory flies out and lands in front of Tessa in the ring.
Tessa rolls her eyes and places her hands on her hips, "Oh, it's just you Major Dufus. Where is that purple moron of yours? In the back playing with those stupid Puppet Pal figures of his?"
In answer to the question, Krunk stampedes like a wildebeest for the opposite side of the arena, jumps high into the air, cupping his hands together, ready to hammer Tessa into the mat.
The purple skinned man smashes into the ring, causing the center of it to bucket and fall apart and the hero smiles, "Krunk beat bad lady. Krunk happy that he beat her."
A malicious laugh echoes from behind Krunk and he turns around looking confused, "I'm up here! You didn't even come close to hitting me. I moved at the last second you dolt."
Tessa swoops down and grabs Krunk around the middle, hoisting him high into the air. Giving Krunk a small push with her other hand, Tessa spins the hero like a top on the point of her finger and as she pulls her hand away; she kicks Krunk like a soccer ball through the hole Van Hallen went thought.
Major Glory's jaw drops, and he begins to sputter, "B-B-By Uncle Sam's beard, I need to call in help! Members of AWSM, assemble!"
Big Ben, Tiki Torch and SAM-R-I walk from the back, while Phan Tone and Living Bullet fly in from the front of the arena, where they had been serving as guest commentators.
Tessa yawns and lazily spouts, "What a bunch of lame losers. I'll finish this quickly, so I can conduct my business."
With that said, the evil girl twirls like a graceful ballerina, rotating faster and faster until she forms her Teal Tornado, sucking up the heroes into the unyielding vortex. The hapless sucks unable to fight back, scream in terror until Tessa stops revolving, causing them to fire off like bullets into the walls.
Making sure there are no more distractions, Tessa lands in front of the announcers table and grabs the microphone away from Nick.
"Hey! Give that back!"
"If you value your life, you will shut up now before I decide to make you Fear's new chew toy!" Tessa hisses.
Nick's face pales and shrinks back into his chair. Tessa rises aloft once more and all the television cameras focus on her.
The young woman clears her throat and upon finishing, proceeds with her message, "I have an important announcement to make! I, Tessa Wren, am formally issuing a challenge to that stupid imperfection, Holden Wren, to a no hold bar fight in three months time. It has no choice, but to accept this fight, since it's already been legalized! If it has help training for this event from any of those Loser puff girls, there will be serious consequences! You had better be ready for this you stupid thing, because I know I will be ready to end your miserable life on that day. I suggest you get whatever affairs you have in order before then!"
She tosses the microphone down onto Chip's head and flies over to the control room window. She flicks the glass with her index finger, breaking it instantly and Fear jumps into her arms. The two fly off through one of the many holes in the arena walls, leaving the crowd murmuring.
"You've heard it for yourself sports fans. Tessa Wren has called out her brother to a no hold bar fight. This sports announcer has never seen anything like this in all his days." Nick commentates as Buttercup turns the TV off.
"When I get my hands on Tessa, I'm going to smack her so hard, that pet fox of hers will feel it!"
Wide eyed at what happened, Blossom shakes her head sadly, "There isn't any way we can stop this. It's legal."
She glances over at Holden, who is wide eyed as well, but he is shaking badly and soon he beings to hyperventilate.
Blossom embraces him tightly and in a soft whisper, coos, "Holden, just calm down, we will get you through this! I promise you that we will find some way for you to survive this!"
Holden's breathing normalizes at Blossom's calming touch. Bubbles and Buttercup encircle the young adult and hug him tightly, scared at what is to become of him. Hot tears seep from Holden's eyes as he tries to deal with the emotional turmoil deep inside.
I hope you all enjoyed that. If you are wondering who Chip and Nick are, they are the sports announcers from KND. I have yet to see them in any fics for FF so I figured why not allow them to show up. Tell me what you guys think of how I'm doing so far on this.