[PPGD Version] Feeling Neglected.
Summary: Returning User. *Written not for reviews, romance, fun; but for returning and writing a moral lesson of a story.* Nothing goes logical as it seems. All characters, Rated T.
SECTION TWO
Part Three
Professor Utonium sighed and waited again.
Blossom and Buttercup has returned from their walk for a drink.
"Here you go, Professor," Blossom handed her father a drink.
He took it and said his thanks.
"So Bubbles still hasn't come out yet?" Buttercup asked, folding her arms as she stands against the wall again. She will be tired of waiting again.
"If you girls think this will be boring and have stuff to do, then you can go," the Professor suggested.
Blossom looked at Buttercup, "You have anything planned?"
Buttercup rolled her eyes, "Not that I can remember, but I think I do. I have to go watch a soccer game."
"You're not in it?" the bow girl asked.
"Apparently, I am not," the tom-boy replied.
The leader just smiled and sighed, turning to stare at the door that will be open in a few minutes, few hours, or… few days?
What was she thinking, there would be no way it would go so long. The scanning would be running out by then.
Waiting for Bubbles to come out probably was wasting their time. So both of them walked out of the hospital without notifying the Professor. But that was what he suggested at first, so they did not have to tell him that both of them were going to leave.
The only difference is that the leader girl was going to a different direction from that of Buttercup's.
…
Where am I? The blonde haired teenage girl thought. She could not open her eyes because she was still in the scanning. And if she opens now, then the test will be dismissed or have to be restarted.
She was wondering what time it was right now. Mandy would be asking her tomorrow where she went. Bubbles never wanted to make anyone feel neglected or sad, or even left out.
She squeezes her hands as she went into a phase where she feels super hot from the temperature. Sweats were coming from her head and she had to be a good girl so that she could get the test in a completion. If this is what will satisfy Professor.
He took his time off for the day, just to bring her to the hospital. He did not want to hear that her test was a failure at all. His efforts in trying to make his daughters feel healthy would be at lost if she failed.
It is so black… I can't see anything… I want to open my opens, but if I do… then my test would be restarted… Bubbles squeezes her hands and the only thing she could do was talk to her mind.
But she had no idea if it would affect the test at all.
…
The bow girl actually made a phone call to her black haired sister, asking if she had time for a few questions she thought about.
"I forgot to ask, did the nurse say that our brains could be developing amnesia too? I remembered she said that our hippocampus was blocked in one section of the area for storing a ten year ago incidence." Blossom was explaining on the phone.
Buttercup said nothing as she was thinking.
As this, she sighed, "Buttercup, I think it's just Bubbles who actually has a more depth problem than us. But what exactly happened ten years ago? I want to know because I hate when I hear something curious and get no answer to it, I start asking serious questions."
"I would go investigating too," the tom-boy answered on the phone, thinking about what had happened.
"But how would we investigate? The nurse said that we were always in Megaville, and probably it was something daily or a flashbulb moment."
"Don't talk psychology on me," Buttercup said. But then she recalled that when she is in her Crime Arts class, psychology was one big course to understand about human behaviors.
Blossom just faked smirked, "It's no flashbulb moment, because those are vivid memories. So it's probably repressed—which I don't really believed that people can have repressed memories if they don't want to think about it. There is no way you have repressed memories if you know it so well. Probably it is really something we forgot."
"Only one problem," the tom-boy replied on the other end line, "why do we all have a connection in common? Both of us have the same hippocampus issue about a ten year ago incidence, so it should not be big. If yours is the same as mines, then it should be something that Bubbles is experiencing right now."
"Why do we even have this," Blossom talked to herself, looking at the ground. She thought she was just a normal human being, or not, but now that something she heard from the nurse today made her curious and even anxious to think about.
Buttercup cleared her throat, "So, I'm not going to be talking now, I have a game to watch right this instinct."
Blossom nodded and hanged the phone up and looked outside the window. She was currently sitting on a window seat of a small coffee shop. Though she is not here to buy anything.
…
Thirty minutes have passed and the nurse comes back in to check on Bubbles Utonium. The nurse heads back to the scan and made some notes on her clipboard. For a while, the nurse walks back to the door and head on out.
How long is it now… Bubbles thought.
She cannot even think of anything right now, and no dreams were performing on her mind. She squeezes her hands again and more sweat came out.
There is no way a test would make her go sweat and not feel comfortable. Something in her body may have made her do that.
Now five minutes have passed, and she sensed light in her eyes.
It was not black anymore, but her eyes were still closed. She could not bring her eyes to open because if she opens, the light would be the first thing she sees. It will get reflected back and her eyes can get hurt. The rays in the test would also do some damage.
"Bubbles Utonium, you are free to walk out now," the nurse informed the young sister.
Bubbles stood up and opened her eyes. She was glad she could see the floor, the tiles, and the color of it. She thought she would go blind.
There she steps onto the floor and walked out of the check-up room.
She saw Professor at the bench, sitting. He was burying his face with his hands, and it seemed like he has fallen asleep. Bubbles looked at the time, where it read 13:30, or 1:30 P.M.
The blonde girl had to sigh because she probably missed the timing to go to Mandy's house. She should have told her about it before she went to the hospital. But who knows she would be taking so long during a test.
She looked around to see her two sisters, but spots no signs of them, "Professor, where's Blossom and Buttercup?"
Professor removes his hands from burying his face, "Bubbles! You finished the test! And no, Blossom and Buttercup already left to run their errands."
"Oh," she only answered, and then she nodded to the question.
For a total of five minutes, the nurse came out with a handful of results.
She was smiling though, so it should not be something bad has happened to Bubbles. However, the nurse just put on a smile because this is one way to please their patients.
"Bubbles Utonium did succeed in her test, but her health is healthy in a way. Your daughter has concluded that she did develop amnesia for a certain pastime. If you ask me what it is, I won't be able to answer your question because we would not know what kind of memory. But this memory seems like it will be back in her mind, but I don't know when. However, I can tell you that this memory might be something that would change her or something she never wanted to see again."
Professor's eyes had widened, "Please tell me how to get rid of it."
The nurse seemed defeated, "I'm sorry, but I am afraid we cannot. The doctor made a note that it is possible someone tried to get rid of this memory from her. I don't know who, did you see a doctor ten years ago for an erase to her memory?"
"What?!" the Professor jumped, "I did not! I would never do that to my daughter!"
"Daughter?" the nurse was confused, "Three of your daughters have the same problem, but Bubbles Utonium is at her dangerous level."
The Professor was shocked, "What? How come the other nurses never told me about my other two daughters'?"
"We thought you already knew," the nurse said, "we thought this was the reason why you planned to check on them."
"But it was only for Bubbles," Professor replied, "but now that you have told me about my other two daughters, I am really worried. I don't even know what happened ten years ago."
The nurse shook her head, "It's best for them not to remember. As for her, you might need to check with the person who erased her memories."
Professor rolled his eyes, he had the least idea who would have done it. "I don't know who did it to my daughters."
"I am sure the person who did it knows what will happen to her, and so someday that person will come back to fix her memories," the nurse stated. "Though, it only could be a possibility."
"Girls, why did you not tell me about it?" Professor asked both of the older sisters.
Bubbles already went back into her own room. She had to sleep and rest from the test. She called Mandy that she was at the hospital and could not come. Mandy replied that she understood and hope she would be alright.
Blossom and Buttercup glanced back and forth at each other, wondering who would be the one answering the question. Then Blossom admit defeat and replied, "Professor, the nurse told me about it, but I forgot about it."
"How do you even know I was asking you about this?" Professor asked, folding his arms.
"So then what is wrong with it?" Blossom ignored his question and came up with another question for him to answer instead.
The Professor's face had worsen, "I don't know how to explain, but I am afraid that you girls will become like Bubbles. It was true that the phone call had informed me about this information. If he hadn't, then I wouldn't have known all this time until now. And now I also received information that you both had this problem too, I am so worried that I can't even help you girls."
He is the scientist here and he is worrying…
"Professor, it's alright," Blossom said.
"There's really nothing to be worried about, you're not the one with the problem," the black haired girl said, putting her arms at the back of her head while standing against a wall.
The Professor knows that he does not have the problem, but he does not want to see his girls disappear from him. "Bubbles is at her dangerous level, so we should look out on her."
"How though?" Blossom questioned, remembering that Bell was telling them about Bubbles. So this was probably what Bell was trying to say.
Maybe she should give credit in the project more than she thought about doing now.
"I don't know," the Professor honestly had no plan at all.
A week later, the project that was supposed to be due today for English in Mr. Handi's class has arrived.
Blossom and Bell worked on the project hard enough to earn a perfect grade. That would be the best grade for Bell right now because she was new to the school.
Bubbles and her partner did well on it too, and the same goes for Buttercup.
As Blossom walked in the hallway, she saw herself as the target of a person running down the hallway.
That person crashes onto her and apologized, "Hey, you're Blossom! Hey, help me?!"
Blossom showed a confused look on her face.
"Please, my senior Blossom," he said.
*To correct this, she was in her junior year this year, and she is being called a senior because she is older than him.
Blossom rolled her eyes and asked, "What is it?"
"This guy has been chasing after me ever since," the boy replied.
"Then run," Blossom said, pushing him to run away from the hallway.
But after she pushes the boy, she was grabbed by another boy's hand.
Blossom turns around to see who it was, and to her surprise, it was him. It was Dexter after all. She had no idea what was happening. She wanted to see if Olga was around so that she could get away from Dexter.
"Hey Blossom," he greeted her.
Thank goodness that Buttercup could not come here to save her. Finally she gets a talk with him. Until now, Dexter has been thinking about Blossom, deciding whether he should have a chance to be together with her other than being with Olga.
Olga claims that she still has not broken up with him because she did not believe in him. But she knew that he still has feelings for Blossom, so she let him think about it. And if Blossom rejects him, then she will go back with him.
Blossom just smiled, "Do you need help with something?"
"No, I just want to know if you wanted to maybe… think about…" he did not know what to reply.
Apparently someone interrupted them, but it was not Buttercup this time. It was the announcement made by the principal. So that certain little someone was the actual boss.
He was on the speaker, making his announcement, "In a few weeks, the semester ends, so prepare for your tests on all eight periods."
Why did he had to use the speaker for this announcement anyway? But this saved Blossom, because she would want to keep herself booked with homework and loads of practice in passing her tests.
Blossom waved to Dexter, "Hey Dexter, if you want to ask me anything, just talk to be sometime later. I need to go now."
At home each of the girls were studying for their upcoming huge tests for the semester. They still could not believe that it has already been January, the semester is ending very rapidly. It seemed to them that the year has gone by fast.
Bubbles was occupying herself on her studies while Buttercup was practicing on key terms. The older sister just looked at her textbook and her notes that she took. She does not need to really study on the lessons again, so looking over at it would still help her pass.
Meanwhile the Professor was unsure of what mess he was in right now. He was applying on chemicals on test tubes to make a brand new ingredient. That ingredient will be placed on an examination to see what happened ten years ago. But something like this would be rare for anyone to ever try looking back at ten years before.
Some of these memories might be outdated even.
However, he was confident in succeeding his ingredient. In fact, he was also positive that he will get to see who actually erased Bubbles' memories.
He has been working for hours, even on days and nights, without having much sleep. He was not there to eat breakfast, lunch, and or even dinner; just always staying in his laboratory to do his job. He has never felt like this anymore, ever since he moved into Megaville.
"Let's see now," the Professor said to himself, and making it steady to go through the test tube.
He sees the performance as it move around in the chemical liquid. It was dancing slowly at first, but then the pace went up. He did not have to wait as long.
After he had seen the dance inside the test tube, he used a metal stick to mix around with it. The ingredient would soon be born. He knew that the girls were studying on their semester exams for all eight periods, so he will not try to put the ingredient on Bubbles' mind and mess it up with the tests.
He has decided that he will do it after all the exams were finished.
The Professor has his every right to believe that it will work. He shows so much confidence that he does not know he might make a mistake one day.
When the mixtures was complete, he went to the tiny scope that he created five years ago, to see what is happening to the ingredient right now. All day he has been staring and watching the unnecessary things that is to be done on the test.
Two weeks later, the girls are ready for their semester exams.
The professor waved good-bye to them as he waits for the week to end so he could give the Ingredient for Bubbles to try out.
He also hoped for them to earn at least above average on their tests. For Blossom, he did not have to worry or hope for her to pass. She will always make it anyway.
"Today's Word of the Day," Buttercup had told Blossom, "is from four-eyes."
Blossom finished her test as quickly as possible. The materials she studied for really helped her far more than she thought. She was able to remember the book but not the material that was taught in the very first quarter.
She turned in her test and sat back at her seat, waiting for another hour to end.
First period was boring, absolutely boring.
…
Bubbles flipped her pencil every time she thinks about the question. The test made her flip the pages too, to check back on the passage to the story.
She sighed and bubbled an answer and looked at the time. There was still an hour left, so she hurried faster since she was on question 21, and there were 180 questions.
The last fifty questions are not based on passages, yet they are simply part of the study guide she got. The answers are all multiple choice, so she would not have a hard time guessing.
Day One went well. Most test days are usually boring and will always continue to be boring if they think it is boring themselves.
Tests are boring, but they are important. More important than anything else.
The last day to take their exam has officially ended, and all three girls heads back to home.
But on the way back home, Blossom got pulled to a conversation with Dexter. Blossom told both sisters to go home first while she catches up later.
…
The green and blue uniformed sisters just head back home not talking to each other.
Once they got home, the Professor puts down his newspapers and walks to welcome the girls home.
"Hello girls, how was the test?" he asked, specifically questioning about one test that they took.
Buttercup threw her backpack down and sat on the couch, "As usual."
Bubbles nodded and sat next to her to the right and grabbed the controller up from the table. "Let's watch some television."
"I don't have time to watch anything right now, I just want to have a rest," the green tom-boy girl said as she stretched all of her arms out.
"Girls, I mean, Bubbles, I have something for you," the Professor said.
The blonde head started to look up at him and nodded without asking him what he needed to show to her. She expected to be a test or something that had to do with her.
He brought her to the laboratory and opened the lights.
"Bubbles, this is my newest creation, called the Ingredient," he described, "and it is used to detect brain waves and movements."
She nodded and hold onto the Ingredient.
Professor cautioned her, "Hold on Bubbles, that thing is fragile. If you break it, you won't be able to find out what your brain is doing."
"So how do I use it?" she asked, surveying the Ingredient.
"I need to open all my equipment first," he said, unpacking everything so he could start on the test with Bubbles. "Now, be careful."
She nodded.
"Every once in a while, the Ingredient needs to be refilled when it has been used up."
The young blonde hair girl stood there waiting for Professor to finish all of his unpacking. She knew he always care about family, but he also cares about work. She guesses this was probably why she had called him a prodigy when she was a child.
He is a genius, a genius who can make anything come true to his creations. Ever since the accident of dropping Chemical X, and the girls came out, he begins to do more testing and experimenting. But not all of his inventions and creations are known as accidents.
"Alright," the father spoke and stretched out his hand, "now give me the fragile thing to me so I can put it on your head."
"How do you put it on my head?" she asked, confused.
He shook his head and instructed Bubbles to sit on a chair. After she has sat on the destined chair, the Professor clicked on a button and all the invisible inventions he made appeared in front of Bubbles. They all started to move towards Bubbles like they were going to be solved as a puzzle.
The inventions all flew to cover Bubbles up, where everything was finally going to start.
He turned the lights off and switched the scanned light on.
"Bubbles, can you hear me inside?" he asked, loud enough for her to hear.
"Yeah," she replied, but he could barely make out the word she said, as long as he could hear her voice.
The Professor nodded and took out Ingredient and place it on the top of the headgear, "Bubbles, it might hurt, but right now I am going to insert it onto your head."
He inserts in Ingredient on the headgear and it dropped down to her brain. He watched the computer doing the scanning and saw her brain waves as well as cells and functions.
He clicked on a place where the Ingredient should land and enter. He clicked the Hippocampus area and the Ingredient flew to the function in her brain.
Everything is reflected out on the computer as he watches what was happening.
When it entered the hippocampus, it alerts him what he should do as the following step: To continue, you must not damage her current memory. Proceed?
He clicked on 'Proceed' and another alert came up again: It has successfully pass through the current memory storage. Choose a range of years.
The Professor was glad he added a label into Ingredient that it can go as far as ten years. He found ten years and it was taking time to fly to see the memory of Bubbles'.
"Professor?" outside came a voice.
It was no doubt to be Blossom, who has just come back from her walk after school.
He turned to see the laboratory door opened.
Blossom rolled her eyes as she saw the room black. "Oh, sorry, you're busy right now."
Professor folded his arms, "I am searching on Bubbles' memories right now."
She wondered around and noticed, "Come to think of it, where did Bubbles go?"
He gave a look at Blossom and said, "She is with me right now."
The leader girl nodded and went out of the door so she would not bother or interrupt his work.
The father returned to look at the computerized screen and noticed something more suspicious. He concluded he has seen this before, but he had no such idea that it was ten years ago. But safety gets the head out of it first because Bubbles starts screaming.
Professor quickly removed the parts and there he saw Bubbles holding onto her head.
"Bubbles, you will be alright," he calmed her down.
"Professor, what's happening, my mind is blank right now…" she keeps holding onto her head, pouting and panicking.
He pats on Bubbles' head and canceled the process for today. "We will continue this next time."
It was obvious that she did not hear what he had said. She was either too focused on the pain of her head right now or that all she hears was choppy disks.
Professor got a last chance to survey the whole screen and before he closed it, he yelled, "Girls, bring Bubbles to something nice outside."
Both sisters barged into the room and stared at the youngest sister of theirs.
They did not say anything because it would cause more trouble, so they nodded as Professor instructed them to bring her to somewhere she could calmed down.
When the girls left, the Professor quickly looked at the screen and suspicions still paved the way up.
"Where have I seen these faces before?" he asked to himself, zooming in to see the blonde head boy's face, and later to both of the same uniform boys the blonde was standing next to.
He replayed the whole ten year scene images and wondered, "I invited them to our house? Wait a second, only the blonde one did."
Professor shook his head and closed the video screen and saved it on a flash drive.
This memory only explained the first boy, but how come it was one day that they saw this boy? In addition, this boy only appeared one time and all of her other memories starts as a repressing memory. Maybe this was one reason why she lost some of her awareness in remembering this boy from ten years ago.
He was wondering, how could he bring a stranger to a house?
…
"So, when the Ingredient has used up, you need to refill a new one?" Blossom asked, just to be sure.
Bubbles nodded and just walked in circles at their backyard.
Buttercup shrugged and was glad that she did not have to experience this. Chances are one time they might because who knows if their memory will be worsen or become dangerous like Bubbles?
"It hurts to even think about what I just saw, I only recall seeing myself crying," she said.
Blossom laughed for the first time, "Isn't that you, Bubbles? You were once a crybaby."
The tom-boy shook her head and whistled.
"I really don't know what's blocking my head, but I seriously am having trouble getting awake."
"Your Reticular Formation allows you to be alert and awake, and you can't possibly be telling the truth that you are not even fully awake right now," Blossom explained, "As it would have seem, things would get pretty much blocked from your mind or you might be blown away. If you turn down every emotions off, then you have no way back."
"I don't even know what you're talking about," Buttercup said, "it's as if you're just tormenting on her so that she could stop thinking foolish of herself. She's not as selfish like you, just thinking you could get all the genius knowledge to explain stuff to us that might feel like you were just making it up."
Blossom rolled her eyes at Buttercup specifically, "You have no knowledge as well, what you just said is totally like a run-on sentence. Have you lost your breath at all yet?"
"Girls, stop it," Bubbles broke their progressing argument, "Just at least give me some time to think this over through."
"There is no way you could recall everything as you retrieve the information unless the person comes back to you and treats your brain," Blossom clarified. "Either way, you could possibly get it if we find out what memory you have lost that we did not lose. Apparently, it appears that we three might share the same memory loss for this particular event."
"If you insist on explaining everything then you must, however," Buttercup worded her sentence in a random way.
"You're much less predictable than Bubbles, being the useless one," Blossom shot back at Buttercup, glaring daggers at her.
"Who are you calling useless?" the middle sister retorted, "I think you are trying not to be useless when you think you are useless. But you're not useful at all."
The red head folded her arms, "I'm trying to explain here, and all this has to tie up with common sense. And just who are you calling useless? Me? I don't think so, besides only the both of you."
"Yeah yeah, you go demanding that you are excluded from being labeled as useless, and me and Bubbles would have the title called useless in some things," the green uniformed sister boasted.
Bubbles screamed using her sonic voice for the first time in ten years, "GIRLS! JUST STOP ARGUING WHO IS USELESS! Both of you are useless right now."
The two halted, but just when Bubbles concluded her very last sentence, both sisters go staring at each other again.
"Can't you see? Sisters aren't supposed to be fighting like this," Bubbles encouraged, "you all should be nice to each other and not think of each other as enemy or strangers."
"I'm leaving," Blossom demanded and turned a 180 degree angle. There she slowly trailed off.
"Me too, I'm leaving, you're such an annoying sister," Buttercup conceded.
So the last sister was standing in the backyard with nobody now. Well, wasn't their task supposed to make Bubbles relaxed? As a result, when Bubbles tried coaxing them both, it failed too?
Part Four
Three months have passed and now it was April.
School has been normal as always, and Bubbles' Ingredient has made some progress in finding what may have happened ten year ago.
If only Professor could detect down who had erased their memories, but why did the person not erase the girls' whole memories, but just that one time?
As a result, Dexter and Blossom had become friends again. She actually rejected him on that day, saying that he should not think of hurting Olga. If he really did hurt Olga, then Blossom would not become his friend.
Nobody knows what got into her mind, was she ever fond of Olga or supported her? Nobody knows what may have happened, but it was definitely a sign that Blossom had moved on.
Bubbles played it safe when Ingredient was in her brain, being very careful of her class. The memory she forms every single day will allow her to sometime explode. Not in public though.
She had to lie about her condition with her brain. Some students convinced her to go to the nurse and take a look at what was wrong with her. Bubbles decided to hide it that it may have been a flu.
…
"I think it's time to really talk with you guys," the white hair girl folded her arms as she chimed in.
Three PPGs had to understand what she was trying to say.
Bell sighed and shook her head, still folding her arms, she walked next to Blossom, who, despite being the oldest, was the most suspicious one. "You guys should give up."
"Give up on what?" Buttercup complained, slamming on the table, pouting.
"Your enemies are near," she said, "enemies from Townsville, or so I should say."
The red head leader demanded, "I want to hear what you want to get this conversation to, now."
Bell rolled her eyes and played with her hair, "You don't know if you will ever beat them, but chances are that you won't be able to defeat them."
Bubbles stood away from this conversation, thinking.
"Hold on, how would you know this? And, how did you know we lived in Townsville, or I mean, you know our enemies so well?" Blossom burst out.
"Trust me, I know who they are," she confirmed.
Buttercup slammed on the table again, on the same spot, and beamed in, "That's it! You work for them!"
The bow girl put her index finger to her chin, thinking as well. "Hmm… And who exactly are they?"
"You might want to rethink this through, because if you insist on attacking what you got, you are losing your mind," Bell advised, "If you want to defeat them, you might need to find their new weaknesses, such as befriending them. I also encourage you guys not to hate them like they hate you guys."
"Hating won't do anything good, correct?" Buttercup finished, which she already knew that hating won't do any good. It's just a feeling, but also it is a word.
"Attack them the second time you meet them again," she said.
Blossom folded her arms, "And why should we listen to you, if you are speaking of the truth?"
Bell just smirked, "I know I am not a leader or guidance to you Powerpuffs, but, I just want to say that don't underestimate your enemies' skills and strengths. They may look easy to defeat, but they sure aren't. If only you remembered the true meaning behind this ten year gap."
Before they could say anything, she went away.
"Wait…" Blossom said, "What was she saying?"
"Townsville enemies, here we go," Bubbles talked to herself.
Only the tom-boy and the leader girl heard the right words from Bell, something about ten years ago. And what exactly happened ten years ago, and how would she know?
At the headquarters, he was expecting them to arrive back soon. He was awaiting for them for approximately four hours now. He stares down at his watch from his left hand, wondering when their ship will arrive.
Just as he stopped looking into his watch, they were back from their mission.
He walked to get them as they opened their doors.
"How was it, boys?" I.M. Weasel questions, especially towards Boomer.
Brick carefully took out his helmet that was used in the mission off of his head, "Boomer performed great."
As for the other brother, he took the helmet off with force. He did not care what happens to the helmet, after all he completed the mission.
"Oh? I am glad to hear that, Brick," I.M. Weasel said, bringing them back into the headquarters. But he has not expected any reply from Boomer yet.
Boomer just walked in without saying anything. There he goes again with his thoughts and memories. He will never stop thinking about them if he sees them, will it?
Brick glares at him most of the time, and he turned to face the front while walking freely in the headquarters. "Boomer, I know what you are thinking about, those stupid girls again, am I correct?"
His brother said nothing, just as he expected. He was always so quiet. He probably would not be quiet if he meets them.
"…" was Boomer's reply every time.
Brick shook his head and watch what Butch was doing. He spot him kicking a vending machine very hardly.
"Sheesh, if he's getting a drink, why would he be so stupid to kick it?" one of the headquarters people started commenting on Butch's behavior.
Brick walks over to Butch and put in a coin. He clicked for an energy drink and waited for the vending machine to push it out. When the drink was dropped, Brick went to grab it and handed it to Butch.
Butch just stares at him, "What are you? Good? You're supposed to kick it, and how did you even GET money!?"
The older brother was annoyed, "I.M. Weasel always give us headquarter coins or laboratory coins right after we finish a mission. That is only if we did not fail it."
Butch folded his arms, "I have completed as much mission as you did, and how come I don't have ANY at all!" he yelled at his brother, and then he went searching all over his uniform. "You see, I got nothing!"
Brick rolled his eyes, "When you finish a mission, he gives you something in return, it's because you said you don't want it, he stopped giving it to you."
The pony tail boy popped his eyes out on Brick, "WHAT! THAT THING HE GIVE US WAS MONEY!?"
The red head nodded, "It's because you're stupid not to look inside. I never thought of using it because I don't intend to, but I often buy drinks with these." After that, he got out a few more coins so that Butch could see it. It was obvious he was making fun of him.
"GIVE ME THAT!" Butch grabbed onto Brick's hand to catch a glimpse of the coins.
Brick threw it right on Butch's palms, "If you like it, take it."
The pony tail boy rolled his eyes, "Hmph, I'm using it to buy something else."
"They are only HQ and Lab coins, not real money," the leader boy reminded him.
"I don't care; besides, we don't really go out to the cities," Butch stated.
...
"Boys, this will be your mission," he points at the targeted area.
Boomer just stood there looking at the board, wondering what the mission will be like.
I.M. Weasel looks over at Boomer and shook his head, "I don't want to give you the mission, Boomer. You're not ready to face them yet."
Brick and Butch put on their gloves.
"The Powerpuff girls?..." Boomer asked.
"Finally he talked," Butch said, "AND OF COURSE IT'S THE POWERPORK GIRLS, and I'M TALKING POWERPORK GIRLS BEING DEFEATED BY ME!"
Brick pushed him off the side and said, "Watch your mouth, and the person who will be defeating them will also be ME, not YOU."
I.M. Weasel cleared his throat, "Ahem… Boomer, I will send you in as reinforcements. Just watch your brothers' performance from the screen here."
"We don't need Boomer as reinforcements, he's weak," Butch stated the fact.
The leader boy rolled his eyes, "He's not weak."
Boomer stepped up to I.M. Weasel and finally said something after a long time, "I won't do anything, and please let me fight."
"You're not even going to fight," both his older brothers spoke in unison. Then the both just stared at each other.
I.M. Weasel studied Boomer for a while, "What will you be doing there? Are you going to be the one to defeat them? Answer me, Boomer."
He only stopped speaking, and this time he was thinking if he actually should kill them or not.
I.M. Weasel looked to the board, "Ahem, your mission is not to kill them, and Butch, I know you want them to be dead, but I want them to be alive. If you killed one of them, then the mission is going to be a failure."
"WHY AREN'T WE KILLING THEM?!" Butch demanded, banging on the table with his right hand.
Brick was unsure as well, but he knows I.M. Weasel has a reason to do this. However, he cannot listen to him all the time because Brick was created for evil and to defeat the PPGs. It's his destiny for life. It's his brothers' destiny as well.
So the cap boy walked over to Butch and caught his right hand, "Hold it."
I.M. Weasel nodded, to which he was going to continue to explain the rules of the mission, "You are free to do anything to bring back their strength and their status. First, that is what we need. Do not kill them or befriend them." As he says that, he was eyeing on Boomer.
Butch spat, "LIKE HELL I WOULD BECOME FRIENDS WITH THE POWERPOOF GIRLS."
He just happened to forget what they were called. He only knows they began with the Power word. Sometimes Brick thinks he was doing it on purpose, which he was, but often in times he will get used to the name he made up and thinks that those are what the PPGs are called.
"…" was Boomer's response.
I.M. Weasel walked to a door and opens it, "Here boys, put on these."
As he gave out to each and every one of the RRBs, Butch immediately puts it on his clothing. Brick waits for Weasel to instruct first before putting it on.
Boomer just looks at the thing he gave to them.
Butch skimmed around the room with his eyes and spots Boomer looking at the small plaque, "Ooooh, someone is obsessed with the plaque!"
It was good that the older brother was next to Butch so he could slap his head. Brick slapped his brother's head and said two words, "Be quiet."
I.M. Weasel then explained, "These plaques are your promotions. You have succeeded in passing our missions, so I need you to complete a PROJECT-POWER test for me."
Project-POWER? Brick thought, Hmph, maybe I cannot defeat them this time, but next time I will. And it won't be like the first time and the second time. Just watch it, Powerpuff girls.
Butch nodded, "Well, as long as I get to punch them in the face from these ten years of waiting, I will complete the mission for you, Weasel."
Boomer nodded in agreement.
Because a few months have passed, the girls were living on their normal lives.
Every day going to school and coming home from school. Sure they do not really enjoy this kind of schedule, but they cannot complain anything about it until summer.
As they were walking back home, they stopped right at a playground.
"What's wrong, Bubbles?" Blossom asked, watching her go to the playground.
"It's too small for us to play," the tom-boy said, "I would prefer something like the Olympics."
Bubbles walks to put down her backpack. After she has put her backpack down, she sat directly on the playground.
Blossom joined her and thought about the old times; leaving the middle sister standing.
The blonde started having a headache, which Blossom found a few seconds later when Bubbles was not feeling right.
"Bubbles? Is there something wrong?" Blossom asked.
"My head… It hurts…" she replied.
Buttercup and Blossom looked back at each other, "It's happening. The ingredient does not even work right now. We probably should refill it."
"YOU DON'T NEED TO REFILL IT BECAUSE YOU WILL HAVE TO FIGHT WITH US FIRST!" a dark masculine voice yelled from the above.
After the voice disappeared, a second later he attacked Bubbles right in the stomach, punching her all the way to a nearby wall.
"Bubbles!" Blossom yelled out and headed towards her sister.
Buttercup stayed where she was and begin to turn around. "What the…" was her reply.
"Butch, you get your butt back here," Brick ordered the boy.
There Buttercup saw the three of them in a group together, standing next to each other.
Blossom held Bubbles to sit against the wall and looked up with an angry face, "The Rowdyruff Boys!?" When she finished, she flew to stand next to Buttercup.
"You guys are back!" both of them yelled, horrified.
"Yeah, and we're back for our third time!" Butch pointed.
Brick slapped Butch's head, "What do you think you're saying, they won't know that it's their third time."
Butch nodded, "Oops, sorry. Let's START over!"
Brick slapped his head again, "What are you talking about starting over, there's nothing to start over right now. They know we're here."
The two sisters rolled their eyes.
Boomer was there to watch them argue all the way. This makes him feel very bored. In fact, it was his brother who attacked Bubbles first, but this time he did not get a feeling about it.
Brick noticed that Boomer was staring at Bubbles, "Boomer… don't even go thinking about her, she only sees you as an enemy, and you already know that."
"Are you guys going to fight or what?!" Blossom asked, and then turned to face Buttercup, to which she nodded. "Then I guess we should just finish you guys first with—"
Brick cuts them from doing so, "It won't affect us anymore, so prepare to fight with us in whatever you've got besides that!"
Blossom rolled her eyes, "How do you know if we will believe in that!? You guys are probably scared!"
Butch threw an energy ball at Blossom, "WATCH YOU POTATO HEAD, WHY ELSE WOULD WE BE HERE? WE AREN'T AFRAID; BESIDES, WE'RE HERE TO FIGHT!"
Blossom turned to her young sister, "Bubbles, get up! Fight with the blonde one, and I will take care of this one." Just as she was ordering, she pulled up her sleeves and prepared an energy ball too.
Brick smirked as she picked him for being her opponent, so he just blast a fire energy ball on the ground.
"HEY, YOUR OPPONENT IS ME!" Butch pointed towards himself, "YOU POTATO HEAD!"
Brick raised his eyebrow and glared at Butch, "Butch, this battle is between me and her. I still haven't settle down the score with her."
Butch rolled his eyes and nodded, facing towards the green one and pointed down at her, "THEN YOU RIGHT THERE, I AM YOU OPPONENT."
The tom-boy readied an energy ball as well.
The four of them were prepared to fight, and Boomer walked over to Bubbles. He starts raising his hand to the direction of the sky, and a blue light starts coming out. "You, I won't let this chance go to a waste."
"Who… who are you?" Bubbles had to ask, she was the only one who did not understand what was happening and why she should be fighting.
Boomer raised his eyebrow up, "What?"
Buttercup and Blossom all stopped when they heard Bubbles' question. At first they were unsure what she had just said, so they flew to get Bubbles up.
"What are you talking about, Bubbles? They are the Rowdyruff boys, and they're our enemies."
Bubbles nodded but still did not understand, "But why… I never knew we had such enemies…"
Boomer raised his eyebrow up again, thinking she was lying. She should not be forgetting who they were. Butch and Brick was wondering how though, only the other two recalls them, but her?
Is she even Bubbles at all?
"It's the hippocampus… Her memory is blocked, so probably she cannot remember anything back from Townsville." Blossom said.
Both older brothers of Boomer looked at each other, thinking of the same thing. Probably this was the effect of erasing her memories from ten years ago.
Boomer became very raged and shot lightning bolts at the ground and at Bubbles too, "Why… Why can't you remember US! You're supposed to hate us, especially ME! You should be able to remember at least ME because I am your enemy, the enemy who wants you dead!"
Brick and Butch rolled their eyes as they observed the quiet brother who was at his crazy and insane stage right now. They have never seen the current Boomer before in such a terrified condition. If they let him do this mission, it will possibly increase a higher chance of winning and return the real Boomer back to I.M. Weasel.
Bubbles gulped, "Maybe I did but I don't really remember who you are," Bubbles said.
"My name is Boomer, and I fight for evil…" when he said evil, his voice trailed down.
"Boomer…" Bubbles repeated the name, thinking if she will recall the name or something else.
"Alright, enough of this nonsense," Brick broke the awkwardness between the people.
Everyone started to be back at their normal stance and readied their fight, except for Bubbles and Boomer.
Butch nodded and held out his hand far enough for him to blast a lightning bolt at the ground, "I JUST WANT TO FIGHT! SO YOU POWERPOOF GIRLS WILL BE ACCOMPLISHING MY MISSION RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW!"
As he was saying this, Brick flew to punch Blossom in the stomach. Blossom lost her control and was cornered to a wall by Brick. He was stronger this time, and he hated the fact that he had to be exploded by one such act by the PPGs. He needed his revenge, but I.M. Weasel needed them to be alive.
What good will he do when they are dead? Their lives would just be as boring as they could be. All they would be doing are missions or live a normal live. Yet, they do not actually even know how to live as a normal human being.
The bow girl coughed as he kept punching her in the stomach. She tried pushing him away from her so she could attack as well. There was no way she should be the one who was weak. Then why did she came to Megaville? She came here to be weak?
Blossom used her eye beams to shoot at him. She was able to when the beam hit directly onto his shoulder, making his arm lose control and let loose.
"You shouldn't think that is all you got, because I still haven't had my turn yet," Blossom stated, pressing on her shoulder blade while coughing.
"Of course punching you isn't the only thing I can do," he said, "I can do more than that. Especially for YOU! Everything you did! I need to get revenge for what you did!"
The red head shook her head, trying to stand up straight, "Even if you did lose the very first time, it doesn't mean you will win this time!"
Brick then recalled the second time they met in Megaville, that time was when he first helped the PPGs. It was a mistake, but he only used it to get back Boomer. If it was not for Butch's help, he would have been stuck with them dead forever in the dome.
As well as listening orders to Dr. Brisbaine. He used them as tools, which was supposed to be correct in the first place, but tricked Boomer and got him into a situation where he would have to find the PPGs for help. Therefore that made both brothers angry, in which they got tricked to go on a mission out space.
"I don't care what you will do to me, but I won't let you approach me within one inch of my time!" Brick notified her, before she could start punching him in the face.
Blossom blew out blood and wiped off some from her face, "Enemies like you is the purpose for our existence! We will defeat you guys no matter what it takes, even our life!"
"You're not responsible for ending our lives, I thought you were responsible for taking out crime for justice," he spats as he put both of his hands together in a stance, letting a streak of electricity out.
The red head girl's eyes suddenly grew larger and made her way out of the area in which Brick was about to blast his electricity.
She was running low in breath. She was able to find a spot for herself to keep up with the pace so she could fight Brick in using her powers.
"What now? Running away?" Brick asked as he walked slowly to the sitting Blossom. When he stopped, he knelt down with one leg and stared right at Blossom. The next thing he did, he used his index finger to tilt her chin up. "Look at you, it seems you guys have become weaker, what a waste of time to come here. But at least, I now know your status."
Blossom glared at Brick, whose finger was still under her chin. She was unable to move, but her eyes made Brick smirk evilly. The red head girl started saying something, "I'm not weak, and you're the one who's asking to be weak!" As she gradually yelled, Brick's finger was chained with ice.
He shot back at her with glaring eyes, "You!—"
"You asked for it," she replied, but she was still unable to move.
Brick smirked again, "Hmph, what good will that make? It's just only my finger that is frozen."
Blossom shook her head and said, "You don't want to ever underestimate ice powers." When she finished saying, some ice began to form on Brick's feet and reaching up.
His eyes grew larger and tried to move, but the ice was building faster. The more he tried to get rid of the ice, it keeps adding more to his body… until it can freeze his entire body up.
Thus, he turned to face Blossom, "Hmph, you're one hard person to deal with."
Blossom watches his eyes lower as he stared right into her eyes, it is as if he was trying to communicate with her eyes. After for a few seconds of staring, she noticed that he was using a vision change to her eyes.
"BRICK!" Butch yelled from the sky, and then blasted an energy bolt at Brick and broke the ice, "Geez, what have you done? How did you end up getting ice over your body?"
Brick stood up and kicked Blossom to the ground. He turns around, facing back, and smirked evilly, speaking, "You lost, Powerpuff."
Blossom tried moving back up to sit straight and only was able to half way, "I miscalculated… Your brother was not focused in fighting with my sister and helped you out of the ice."
"If he wasn't here, I will have my way out of the ice either way," he states, eyeing on her.
"Brick, you won't have a second time!" Blossom stood up with force and uncontrollably swung her arms at Brick, in which he caught it just in time.
He holds Blossom's arms tight and turned it with a 90 degree angle, making Blossom's arm unable to motivate. He notices Blossom bringing her other hand out to hit him and did the same to both of her hands.
He yanked Blossom's arms away and starts wiping on his uniform, patting.
Blossom starts building anger up, and as she was in her insane stage, she started to bring her right foot to kick him.
"If you want all of your movable parts gone, then I am free to do so," Brick requested.
"You will be the one who will be breaking your bones!" the red head kicked Brick's legs, but he flew up afterwards.
"Hmph, try to fly and fight me," he said, knowing that she won't be able to fly without the help of her hands. Her legs would just be jumping everywhere then.
…
The greens has been fighting their intense battle. Butch was enjoying the fight because he has gotten a lot stronger from the missions he completed during these ten years. He was able to beat Buttercup in a couple of one hits.
The pony tail green uniformed boy punched Buttercup in the stomach as she made her fourth challenge at Butch, and when he was done punching, he kicked her right in the stomach, forcing her to land on a nearby tree.
He flew to the tree and stood on top of a branch. He began to fold his arms and walked inner to the tree. As he landed next to the stem of the tree, he kicked it with force, making the tree shake and dropping the green girl onto the ground.
He shook his head, "You're no fun to fight with. You can't even beat me."
"I will beat you!" Buttercup shot back as she got up afterwards, holding onto her stomach.
"Look at all of the blood all over you!" he roared and smirked evilly, "WHICH IS WHY I LIKE IT SO MUCH WHEN BLOOD IS ALL OVER THE PLACE!"
Buttercup wiped off the blood on her lips, "Hmph, when all of the blood becomes rot, you will leave the place."
Butch shook his head as well as using his index finger to wave sideways slowly, "No no no, I like when blood is around with action going on, When everyone is dead, I LEAVE of course!"
"You cannot expect every fight you battle with will result in a blood scene."
He just could not stand her talking of nonsense, so he flew straightly down towards her and punched her in the face. When he lands on the ground, he used his energy ball to shoot at her.
Everywhere he shoots, he was enjoying it. But it really was no fun when he was the only one beating her up and not having to have any hits returned.
Buttercup kicked Butch in the stomach and screamed, "GET AWAY FROM ME!"
He stood up immediately because he never landed on the ground, but was only went flying to hit on a wall. In fact, he did not even touch the wall a single bit. He smirked and jumped up.
She watched him jumping up and jumping back down on the ground with force. The ground began to shake, and it was as if there was an earthquake.
"What's happening…" Blossom choked when she could not stand anymore, without her hands holding onto herself.
Buttercup turned to see Blossom unable to move quickly. "Blossom, watch out!"
Blossom looked from above as a huge shadow had cast on the ground. There was a huge rock coming down right at her, well, her area she was standing at. She gulped and tried to freeze the entire rock, but she was only able to do one third of it.
However, one third of it started to melt away, and two thirds of the rock still went down the same direction. She gasped for air so she could try running away with unmotivated arms.
As the rock was going to hit her five seconds later, Buttercup's eyes grew larger while Butch was evilly laughing. The ground was shaking and moving as well, and Blossom was running away with two awkward hands.
Brick flew into the area before the rock could hit her.
Nobody knew what happened in an instant later because the rock had dropped all the way to the ground the next moment they saw it.
"Blossom!" Buttercup cried out, but was not bawling her eyes out.
"Blossom?" Bubbles wondered.
Boomer stopped his lightning bolt and turned to see the rock on the ground.
There was still smoke that none of them were able to see what had happened on the other side of the rock.
…
She starts coughing when she was saved by the enemy of hers.
He let go of her and said, "You're stupid." If only I.M. Weasel had said to kill her, I wouldn't have saved her. Brick turns around and sees Blossom coughing so hard.
Blossom was unable to control her cough because her hands have already turned to a 90 degree angle from Brick. Seeing her with awkward useless hands, he went to her and pulled out her hand.
"What… what do you think you are doing?" she asked, still coughing and choking.
"Shut up, if you're trying to live at least one bit, then quit using all of your breaths," he explained.
He stretches her entire arm out and used both of his index and middle finger. He settles down both of his fingers together and tapped on the right spot of her arm.
As he was doing this, Blossom was so weak she could not handle the pain. He had to turn back to her normal useful hand by a rotation backwards for a 90 degree angle.
Brick snatched her other hand and did the same. "Use your arms to cough all you want."
Blossom glared at him one last time before she could do that.
…
"So, do you still remember me?" he asked, forming a brighter blue of light in a ball.
Bubbles gulped, dropping down to the floor. She tried to back up from him for a bit, "No, I'm sorry, but is that what you should be doing? Why do you want me to remember you?"
Boomer stopped forming his ball, but the ball still exists on his hands, "So you could hate me."
"I don't know what there is to hate you."
If you don't hate me… but you don't hate me because you lost your memory. If you remembered me and not hate me… He stopped thinking and builds his ball up.
There really is nothing for him to be frustrated and confused right now, but all he wanted to know was that if she ever remembered who he even was. He expected her to remember the word, counterpart.
"Hey," Boomer hummed, his bangs covering his face.
Bubbles looked at him perplexedly, "Yes…?"
"Who are you?" he inquired.
"What do you mean…?"
"What exactly are you?" he repeated in a different way of saying, still facing towards the ground.
Bubbles scratched her head, "First of all, I thank you for not continue to attack me, but what kind of question is that? Don't you think it's weird to ask someone who they are like that?"
The blonde young boy smirked, "Then what am I!? Do you know? Of course not, you won't ever know. I am the opposite of you, and everything about us should be non-equivalent."
"Um… so?"
Boomer smirked again, "That's what we are, but I disagree on the behalf."
Bubbles began to step back because he starts approaching to her.
When she landed against a wall, she fell down to her knees.
He stopped and punched the wall, "Damn it, why did you have to be the one!? Brick was right, he should have erased my memories too. When I see you, I think of so much possibilities that I should hate you. I do hate you, but not in a way. I hate you because you killed me, nothing else."
Bubbles rolled her eyes, "But you're not dead."
Boomer pulled her neck and choked her, "Yeah, easy for you to say. But we were revived into a different kind of body! You don't ever UNDERSTAND how many years I have been waiting to just see your face!"
The four of them stopped fighting and looked towards the two young siblings.
"Bubbles!" Blossom screeched.
"Let go of her!" Buttercup demanded.
"I object to that," Butch folded his arms, "And keep doing it, Boomer. This is what I want to see more than you standing."
Brick flew over to Boomer and slapped the blonde boy's hand from choking her.
Blossom's eyes grew larger.
"Stop it," Brick said, "don't kill her."
Butch groaned and flew towards Brick with force. Once he reached to his elder brother, he punched Brick in the face. "What are you doing?! Let him do the fighting."
The redhead leader touched his punched face and flashed at Butch, "Have you forgotten, we're not here to kill them."
"But you want them to be dead as much as we wanted them to be dead!" Butch reminded him.
Boomer stepped away and walked backwards away from them, "Please… please… don't talk to me, get away from me!" After he went a little senseless, he vanished out of the blue.
Butch and Brick ran over to where Boomer just vanished.
"Where did he go?!" Butch growled.
"He was saying something, like someone was trying to talk to him and telling him to get away," Brick remembered what Boomer said.
Bubbles slowly slid down the wall and sat on the ground. "What… just happened…?"
Blossom and Buttercup walked over to her and pats on her.
"What… did I just saw Boomer?" she asked herself, her eyes staring out into space.