The World is a Stranger
So how has everybody been doing in the past week? I quickly finished this chapter before a week really came, so I hope I didn't put too much boredom in the text. Special thanks to those who reviewed the first chapter very much, I appreciated it. I guess I will answer some reviews;
First Guest and ROCuevas – Thanks very much for the kind reviews. I hope I didn't make it boring any further, so you will see if this chapter will come out great.
Story reader – I will answer questions from reviews as I have said before, but most of your questions will be explained in this chapter… so I hope it doesn't disappoint at all, hopefully.
Second Guest – Thanks for the review, and as said above with Story reader, I accept questions from reviews. Bubbles did have the hardest part because I really had a hard time writing it and no, Boomer didn't want to do that on purpose. I won't be explaining that part on the chapter, so I will answer you. The principal just had to meet the artistic mystery boy, so he called for him there when Boomer wanted to find Bubbles by himself. The two other puffs really got into a fight, but that doesn't mean Boomer and Bubbles don't get one though.
Long Summary: The Powerpuff Girls, now 10 years old, still fight crime for the sake of Townsville. And no, they do not get sick of it however, because that is their "job". The evil villains all had joined forces for the last three years and right now, the Powerpuff Girls will have to deal with the old counterparts once more, who knew better. All the girls need to do is trust their own feelings and actions, but could they really trust "trust"? But… they always win the villains… right?
Disclaimer: I do not own the Powerpuff Girls and everyone knows that. The plot is owned by me, however.
Why did the Rowdyruff Boys appear out of nowhere… and in different locations too? Blossom's got a major school problem she would need to solve after she finished her aftermath with Brick; Buttercup's careless of what happens anyway, only minding on a tough fight; and Bubbles has no idea whatsoever to face upon her counterpart in front of a PRINCIPAL?
The girls all held the same expressions as they met in contact with their counterparts, well except for Buttercup who took the situation as a piece of cake.
The leader girl had tried with several attempts to stand up carefully, rubbing her temples and blinking her eyes to see if this was really a dream. But to her surprise, this wasn't any dream, it was reality and she had to face it. She had crashed into two classrooms before exiting out the building and landing on the platform of the school. Fortunately, she had stopped the mess from the crash when she slammed her body to a concrete wall, making her drop and creating a figure on the front panel.
She effortlessly stood up, but her opponent could see stars flying around her head. She ventured out, "Is that all you-"
Slam. She was punched in the face by her opponent before she could finish her sentences. "-got…" Blossom was out from her Lala World right then and there; her whole body, having charged up energy, was ready to fight with this boy. A punch in the face got her fully awake, and now it must be her turn to return the punch.
The two redheads dashed at each other, each throwing out random powers to erase down their opponents. But the leader girl realized that this is a useless idea because she was supposed to plan first before attacking! Buttercup style, is it? The Pink puff flew away from him and stayed airborne, thinking hard for a plan. But rather than a plan, she was actually trying to solve why he was here.
Since the leader boy was full of ambition, a plan won't go his way if he hadn't crushed that enemy yet. He was a leader who liked to plan and fight at the same time, pretty reckless and straightforward. He knew that by attacking her, he just used one of his tactical plans inside his brains kept all along for any battle. "You do realize that you are about to be defeated." And with that said, he punched her in the stomach and she let out a gasp.
Even though the leader girl recovered for a few seconds, she shot up a glare and remained like a boss in control. "Well? You do know that my plans are going to work, just don't forget to look up," Blossom played along. With satisfaction from the pink puff, the leader boy did, unfortunately, look up to see if anything was amiss. What he didn't know was that Blossom switched her dialogue "don't forget to look ahead" to "don't forget to look up", resulting her to use her eye beams to fire him awake.
He grunted; his face boiling with anger, "You will get it this time!" He dashed at her, forgetting all the plans he wanted to use, and made several kicks only to have a few dodged from his opponent. His opponent held a serious face, in which he took the time to study her while still firing attacks. She hadn't changed much of course; red hair and bow, pink clothes and eyes. That was pretty much it, but she seemed to be more mature than the last time he had last seen her.
"Forget about the fight for now!" the red ruff retreated, flying backwards to keep their distance apart. He had held up one of his hands for defense while his whole body seemed to be slacking off already.
Blossom's stance faded away and she faced her counterpart with eye contact, "But you were the one who started the fight-"
"That is true, but I came here for another reason as well," he may have interrupted the leader girl but he still explained a bit to his arrival. The boy walked closer to Blossom, and you can tell that he was taking his time.
"Oh then that's everything now," Blossom blurted, raising her eyebrows and bringing her hands to a fold. "You will have to tell me why you are here, Brick. In what way did you think you had the right to sit on the seat next to me?" Blossom knew that this question was better off not asked because school is not important at this moment. What she wanted to figure out the most was why he suddenly appeared next to her, further taking her to a fight outside of school.
Brick had their distance from 2 feet to 5 inches apart now. He only held a blank expression, "What do you think, Bossy? I came here to take you to hell, of course." Blossom wouldn't have noticed his evil smirk because she didn't even have the time to recognize that he was actually tricking her. They were of course still in battle mode! Brick had shoved her to another building, making the same process of having her crash into two houses.
"Is that what you came here for? How foolish!" Blossom recovered from the attack and flew straight at him, blowing ice breath. However, he managed to dodge the attack when he suddenly used howling to break her ears off. Well, not like her ears really broke off.
The two had continued to fight endlessly, each trying to accomplish their best to win the opposite opponents. That is until Brick broke it once more, "Alright, I will tell you the other reason-"
Smashed in the face by his opponent's hands… "You should answer me why you disappeared first!" She wiped blood that was plastered around her face, and you could tell that she was panting from the fight.
And of course, her opponent wouldn't just hand out the answer to her, "Fighting the Powerpuff Girls is better than anything, so that's why we came back." He smirked again, and Blossom just knew that he was in a loss of words. That can't be the only reason why they were gone, right? Or did he even answer that at all?
"Okay, Brick, let's just compromise," Blossom held out her hands for defense as she slowly reached her counterpart. "I know that you guys disappeared because you kept losing, right? Alright, I won't make you guys win, but I better make everything right for people too. Just a little taste of victory and you can-"
The leader girl was not interrupted or cut off, but instead she stood there realizing what she just said while looking at the dark and gloomy aura of her counterpart. 'Well… okay… maybe I said the opposite I meant to say. I only want to help make a good day for whomever, even if they were my enemies, for what they tried to attain for more than 4 years.' The thoughts circled violently around her, whipping her to a who knows what world.
Brick flew straight at the leader girl, grasping her long hair and swirling her to the wall, leaving her falling to the ground. Before she got the chance to react to the attack, he stepped on her left hand but she didn't let out a cry. He found it less entertaining if she didn't cry, so he bent down to pick her up from the collars which left her legs airborne. She tried to let go of his grasp, but who knows what he will do in the next second.
He made one last punch to Blossom in the eye and released his grasp.
The two raven heads weren't even playing soccer anyway. The rest of the players and teammates got changed and left hurriedly when they heard an explosion from the soccer field, boy it must have been some magical power. Being the two toughest fighters of their siblings, these greens just didn't even know how to make a plan before their fighting. They will ignore the instructions and hit straight on without even listening through the whole thing.
Okay… no talk at all either. Each of them tried to back away whenever the opposite opponent caught the other one, allowing them to make few little plans on trying not to reveal their locations. This time Buttercup went after the tough green ruff after he released smoke to cover up his destination, not ever selecting giving up on a fight they hadn't had for years. She smirked when that little cowlick of Butch was easily sighted, giving her the highest chance of winning. She hid behind one of those fences across the fake crowds. 'Glad that his own smoke did the work to hide me from letting him come any closer.'
Buttercup was a fan of watching detective and cop shows. She's been calculating those moves of the guards and the tactic ways the police force move their feet to hide from being seen behind boxes and loads of stuff. Too bad she didn't have a weapon, not that she needed one, but it would be so much fun if she were to be one of those detectives she depended on being. While this battle must have the same reasoning as hiding behind loads of cargo or various, Buttercup took this location as the place for hiding herself from the smoke. She grinned when she found a soccer ball lying flat on the ground, but that grin of hers faded away as she thought about some possibilities.
Butch might have seen where the ball was, wherever he was hiding. Or Butch could have effortlessly placed the ball to lure her to reveal her location. Whatever it was, she didn't intend to grab the ball to use as a weapon or this time, maybe luring him instead. She searched through the whole fence with the best locations of hiding and finally came close to that cowlick of Butch's. 'Okay… so he still hasn't moved? Hide and seek alright.'
She jumped in front of her opponent, ready to attack. She smashed him all the way to the concrete wall with an evil grin in her face. Oh yes, that face was the best. She never really calculated right though, even if she had pinned him to the wall before reaching the ground, he couldn't have struggled to get out of the grasp for air, right? So then why did he not even make a sound? 'Damn that smoke, still can't really see things correctly.'
Before she could jump into a conclusion, she noticed that the figure in front of her wasn't particularly Butch… was it one of her teammates? No way. That just couldn't be right, they all disappeared! And even if they were still in the field, they could have cried for help in the smoke…
She took a few seconds to examine the person, and as soon as that had happened, her high chance of winning is a failure. Serves Buttercup right for not planning first. That was just a replica of Butch, oh how dare he had decoyed her. She smashed the replica into tiny pieces and murmured 'If that was the real Butch, then my day would have ended great?'
The green puff turned around and caught the surprise out of her. There she was abruptly interrupted by the face of her counterpart, the real Butch now. He was just standing in front of her, watching what she had done to fighting a replica. That was a bitter fool. Buttercup grunted and flew straight at him, but unfortunately he reacted instinctually and sent her flying to the wall.
"Like I would let you smash me into pieces like that!" Butch shouted loud enough for the green puff to hear. Her stage of having so many bruises wasn't over yet; she recovered with her super durability and charged up. She threw her hands at the ground and it sent shockwaves to Butch's feet. The next thing he knew, he was the one flying without control to the other side of the wall.
Buttercup's job was easy; all she had to do was react differently to the compulsive attacks Butch fires. Battle after battle, she kept that plan for a long time until Butch finally copied her previous attack. She had sent a few fist generations to her counterpart with the next of releasing Green Solar. Well, now that her plan was a little ruined, Butch copied the previous attack and now she needs to find another way to get out of the mess. If she used Green Solar, the ability to absorb some of her opponent's powers and release down with ultra-radiation, she could lose balance and invulnerability. That was her only chance since Butch couldn't copy that.
The green puff still backed up her plan of using Green Solar because it would hurt her as much as it hurt her opponent. The components of using the Green Solar will mess up her thinking and she needs to wait 30 seconds to recover, much slower than her usual time of recovering in two seconds. The first usual sign of Green Solar was used when Blossom and Bubbles were training for fighting (opponents of Buttercup who worked by herself). The two other puffs combined powers and blast them at Buttercup, thinking that she couldn't win all by herself if it wasn't for leader girl. Buttercup used her way of dodging the attacks like always; keeping her invulnerability at hand… until she let them all hit her. She stood airborne and agreed to the fact that she wasn't scared of any bombs, weapons, lasers, etc. that hit her directly. A few destructions to her body organs wouldn't hurt much since she was superhuman; besides Professor could easily fix that!
Buttercup's reaction to the powers went negative; she was absorbing their powers without even knowing it. And when she does, she could feel a weight in her powers. The capacity of powers the Green Solar could absorb is approximately four different combined powers and about ten different individual powers. And at that time, she absorbed her sister's powers and thinking that they had no more attacks to reveal, she attempted to fire a laser beam at her sisters only to realize that her laser beam was a combination of all the powers her sisters used at her. And oh boy did her sisters fell into the march of death… No pun intended. Buttercup was quite shocked to see what she did, but was also proud until she incautiously relapsed. Her sisters had several seconds to recover before Buttercup could fist punch them since she realized 30 seconds did the work. And that was pretty much the first appearance of her new power that Professr called "Green Solar". Not a bad name anyway.
'I'm not going to use it, he might recover faster even though he will receive too many-,' her thoughts were interrupted when Butch generated a storm to swallow her whole. 'Damn, I wasn't even paying any attention!'
"Gave up?" the green ruff looked at his own storm that contained Buttercup, grinning evilly. "I do hope so!" He charged a green ball at her with a perfect aimed shot, and through the storm to the find the location for the magnetic forces with Buttercup, which is.
After getting the aimed shot from Butch, she grunted to get out of the storm. 'My tornado generation only lasts a few seconds, but he isn't even controlling it!' The green puff would do anything to win and crash down giving up, so she turned herself into a puddle of water. Being the water, she accomplished of reaching the ground and escaping the storm, returning back to her original self. Just think of how easy she escaped the storm generation compared to normal human beings?
"I'm sorry to say, but it's NOT over yet!" Buttercup grinned, pinning him down to the ground.
The blue puff ran out of words, even greeting the principal wasn't going to work. She stood there without any movement, staring at the blue ruff's eyes and canceling all gazes and contacts with other people. Well, there were just the three of them, but she only ran her eyes to meet with Boomer's.
The principal thought that it might have been hours they stood there, ignoring his presence. He fake coughed and cleared his throat, squeaking out "ahem". He motioned them to come closer to his desk and start eye contact with his eyes instead. The two students did as they were being asked, except that there was no talk at all.
They haven't moved a muscle and the principal didn't like how his meeting of importance had turned out to be, without even looking further into the situation like a case. Bubbles stood there, thinking of how her sisters could have reacted when seeing the Rowdyruff Boys. Bubbles vowed that maybe all of them ended up in the same situation, but differently. Were they fighting? Were they arguing? Were they going to compromise? Make amends? Talk like friends? Or talk like bullies?
Bubbles found the opportunity to take a quick side look of her neighbor, simply staring at him with those eyes. He noticed but didn't say anything. Just be glad that the principal was writing something at that time. But it was who she was though; she always found that people ignoring her or not saying anything – even if she wasn't supposed to butt in, yet not to the principal too! – isn't respecting society. She doesn't want to ruin her chance of meeting the principal like this, not like she never had met him though. But there should still be some more chances of having the principal sign his signature for her, right? She cleared her throat this time;
"Uh… oh, good morning, Mister Park, sorry for our impoliteness, I was just wondering why you called us?" Bubbles smiled nervously. Her expression that her principal saw was different, it was as if Bubbles just ate something sour and could not even speak. Or plus she was too focused on how artistic two people inside the room could be.
The principal straightened up his posture and set his pen down, sitting on his wheelchair with two of his hands balled together. "Why you say? I was in the middle of meeting with our new student Boomer. He actually asked if I could bring you in as well, to my dismay. And when you did come, the whole atmosphere turned freezing cold and it seems that the ozone layer just got the hang of you, hasn't it?" He had spoken with a softer emotion when he first started, but now Bubbles could see how disappointed the principal looked.
Bubbles cleared her throat in anxiety, 'Well, a whole different story than what I heard from the teacher… she said she didn't get anything more from the principal, but in the middle of a conversation? Okay… not to make anything rude, okay… Bubbles, you can do it!' The blue puff exhaled before continuing, "Mister Park, I am very sorry to have interrupted your conversation, but Ms. Moore told me to go immediately to your office, and I was wondering if I got into trouble or a ransom this time." She used a wrong word…
Bubbles caught Boomer rolling his eyes and she gritted her teeth. "No, actually, I was going to congratulate your effort on winning second place either way. Here is your prize-" Bubbles' eyes went wide as soon as she heard the word "prize". Still she sighed, knowing that the principal does not want to meet her again at the end of the day. "-and I will have to hear what our new student has to say about you, Bubbles Utonium. A competition between two artists, how likely." After that, he faked coughed again.
The blue puff picked up her prize and thanked the principal. Now she wanted to get out of the office as much as the principal wanted to get her out of his office. Boomer was taking a while, too much time; did he even know how to talk at all? Bubbles haven't heard a single thing peeped out of his mouth yet.
The boy finally made a decision, turning his head to face Bubbles, "I finally found you here." Whether or not did he want to reveal the fact that he came here to defeat her, Bubbles found the statement annoying.
"Finally? Found me? To compete with me?" Bubbles couldn't control talking nice to her enemy, she wanted to grab a knife and bring it near his throat. But if that doesn't work out, then she will have to force him to say things kept right at his throat.
The principal glanced at the two students, confused. And being that he didn't want to get left out, he slammed the desk. "Bubbles Utonium, it isn't rare to hear that at all. It shouldn't be because artists come here to compete with the whole school. Is something bothering you?"
Bubbles sighed, that wasn't what she was saying at all. The principal of course did not understand her; he didn't even know who Boomer really was. It's not the competition that Bubbles is bothered about, it was the tone of his voice; so menacing and threatening, and each second that he wasted is each second Bubbles fall into despair deeply into his trap for luring her out to the principal's office. She had to protect the principal right now!
"Mister Park, behold the danger!" she grabbed Boomer by the hand and clutched at his collars. "He is a villain!" If the principal isn't going to react to that, she would torture the boy in her hands. But if the principal is going against her, then she would have to make everything messy.
The principal shouted, "Bubbles Utonium! Put down your hands, he hasn't done anything dangerous yet! Competitors are not your villains-" Mister Park was already halfway from standing up when Boomer shoved Bubbles not too hard out of his way and held out his hands in defense.
He was still strong alright.
The blue puff gawped at what he did. 'So he used that against me, huh?' She kept her balance and glared at Boomer, her hands clutching with wrath. "Principal!" She turned her head to Mister Park before pointing at Boomer. "You don't know who he is! You shouldn't get involved! I don't know if he came here to destroy the Art Academy, but I will protect you guys!"
Boomer cut off the principal from arguing, "Bubbles, I did not do anything yet, and here you are, all naïve and trying to protect them without any proof."
Bubbles' eyes went wide and she was left with her mouth opened, "What? You call that naïve? Oh hoho, so I guess you still don't even know how to use words!"
"Same to you, my dear." Why was he so calm when he was actually being yelled at?
"Your dear? Oh please, give me a break, Boomer! I know what you want to do, you monster! Try to make the principal follow your intuitions and make him your pet, right? Well, as long as I'm here, nothing goes wrong!"
Boomer made a small laugh, "And don't forget that I asked you here too. Why would I ask you here if I was supposed to destroy the school and take over the principal?"
Bubbles' shoulders sunk all the way down like the Titanic, more like she was defeated. 'Bubbles, think before you say anything!' Her voice was suddenly reminded of Buttercup's message. 'Oh yeah, Buttercup? Blossom plans before saying anything!' she heard her voice; that was what she retorted after Buttercup. 'Don't mind Buttercup, Bubbles. She fights before thinking or saying anything.' Blossom's message got her the most of it anyhow.
"You think so? You could have just hid your innocence up to your sleeve, but as soon as I saw you, I know your true ideas! You bastard just wants me to fall for your tricks, but tell you what? I won't because I know better!"
"Then spoil it out, girl."
The blonde immediately seized her mouth, but she didn't want to give up. "What else could you have done to lure me out? You found out that I attend in this school, so that's why you are trying to join the contest and submit your beautiful entries! I don't think you even drew it-"
"Well, I did draw it."
"Why are you answering that instead of all the others I said?" Bubbles was already enraged with this encounter. "Your competition is something I don't understand, Jojo boy. Nobody ever competed with me, and I immediately understood why when I saw you, thug! So instead of saying competition-"
"Well? What is it? What do you think I mean by competition?" Damn that bastard for interrupting her.
Bubbles locked her contact with the blue boy, "That was what I was getting to. Afraid of me really spoiling it in front of the teacher? Well, I will tell you what! Competition was a word you used to cover up the true word – the word for defeating and causing havoc and destruction – FIGHT!"
He made a "tch" sound while the principal stayed being confused. How long does it take to get the principal to understand? And why does the principal not trust Bubbles, the Powerpuff Girl? "So what?"
"So what? Is that all you could say? Art competitions just meant to say fighting the Powerpuff Girls and end them, right!? Answer me-"
"Well then," Boomer sighed, turning his head to the principal. Not quite proper… not a good idea anymore… He should have looked away from Bubbles and the principal. Mister Park might have been confused a few moments ago, but now he might be in the same side as Bubbles… or is he? But it wouldn't hurt Boomer if he was.
"Bubbles and Boomer! You both don't dare to start a fight in my office! If you move, you will be doomed!" the principal yelled. Boomer only rolled his eyes while the blue puff seemed surprised.
Bubbles didn't move, but she knew she couldn't stand there any longer. She took a quick glance at Boomer; he was inadequately standing. "You think it was some childish game?" she heard her counterpart say from the opposite end. He was already floating in the air, crossing his arms.
'Oh no, this could only mean bad news.' Bubbles thought. 'And how dare he talk to the principal like that?' The blue puff instinctually flew and grabbed Boomer by the collar. The principal, stunned of what's happening, made a call to the guards. Yes, another sentry battle, isn't it?
"Section 2, please send out the guards to my office, NOW!" he yelled over the speaker. The two of them promptly landed on the ground. "Catch those two brats! They are not going to escape my office until I make a speech about fighting in the academy!" Halfway through his announcement in the speaker, a couple of guards arrived at the entrance. The two students simply stared at them and found it easy to take and escape, individually. As soon as the principal had finished with his sufficient speech, the room was surrounded with over 30 guards.
Boomer was left to look at his counterpart before spotting the principal getting out of his seat and making his way towards the two. Boomer stepped a few steps to the principal quickly and reached to take out Mister Park's pen. He played tricks with it, testing balance, and rolled himself over the desk to the other end. He was messing the head of Mister Park.
Bubbles only stared at the guards when she realized what Boomer was trying to attain. 'Oh my goodness, what is he doing at this hour? Isn't that a bit useless for now?' One of the guards behind Bubbles tried to tie her hands without her noticing, but she punched him in the nose with the back of her hand.
The blue ruff messed with the principal's desk drawers and grabbed out a gun unexpectedly. Well, it wouldn't be rare for the principal to hide a gun in his drawers… for self-protection. The guards focused their own guns on the boy while the two students widened their eyes at the gun and glanced at the principal. Boomer easily captured the principal who stood still ever since Boomer sneaked out the gun. The ruff didn't fly away though; he placed the gun on the top of the principal's head while he placed his other hand on the neck. "Drop your guns down or I will shoot-"
"Boomer! Do not harm the principal!" Bubbles ordered even though she knew her enemy would not listen. At least, not to an enemy. Bubbles defeated the guards near her freely before running into more guards. She flew up, making the sentry think that she was going to escape. However, she was planning on an attack. After flying up, she landed again only to have two of her legs kicking in two guard heads. She swirled while she was still mid in air, using her legs to easily kick the guards into a pile. More guards kept coming, not focusing on the attention of Boomer and the principal.
Boomer sped out with the principal still resting in his hands, kicking some of the guards to help Bubbles. But Bubbles didn't think of it like that, she vaporized the nearest guards in an instant and hurried after Boomer. 'I'm not going to let him escape with the principal!' She dashed through the hallway and tried to find the escapers.
She lost track of where they went; there were just so many left and right turns! She flew to look at each opening of another hallway until she found the principal lying on the floor. With speed, she leaned into the principal and asked him where Boomer had fled.
"He… went that… way…" the principal was almost in his state of collapsing to unconsciousness. He had his index finger pointed to the opposite hallway and Bubbles departed instantaneously.
"What creates or runs two wheels?" Blossom asked herself while flying. She had just lost Brick when he made his last punch. Before he had left, he started to play some riddles on her by asking the same exact question Blossom is currently trying to answer. But Blossom, engrossed to the riddle subject, forgot all about his "other reason" of his incoming appearances.
The redhead was still thinking, mostly about how he worded the sentence. "Bicycles do… but there are so many of them! A wheelchair could he have possibly meant? But where would that give me?" She came up with tons of possible answers until she found the answer of circles. "According to my theory, circles are the potential shape of the wheels and it is used to run many things with a possibility of two. Okay, but where does circles give me? Where… circ… a circus? Yes! That's correct!" She flew to the only circus found in Townsville and searched for the red ruff, wherever he was.
"Come out, I know you are here," Blossom rolled her eyes when she spotted the red cap of the boy. The red ruff only crossed his arms and gave her the next riddle;
"Find the location that didn't get wet. I will rain the whole town." He broke through the entrance of the circus and started to make water pour from the sky, leaving the puff up to solving another riddle.
"What now? Is he following what HIM did?" her eyes are rolling again. "The location that didn't get wet? Okay… kind of like…" She tried many times to find the right location of the only place that shouldn't be wet. "The desert of Townsville? No… the Greenhouse? No… yes! I got it… the waterproof building." She streaked the sky, only to realize that the rain vanished and the sun came out so suddenly. "Oh no… most of the places are going to dry up pretty quick…"
The red ruff abruptly appeared in front of the leader girl, "You didn't really guess it right."
"How?" the girl was surprised, did he just appear right in front of her? 'Find the location that didn't get wet… It must have been… woah, I got it! After the rain, oh my goodness, I didn't catch the phrase. But… then what is the correct answer? After the rain, several buildings would still be in the stage of drying up…'
"It is right here," Brick touched the air, with his expressions all blank.
"For a second I thought you gave up because the rain stopped!" Blossom yelled at him, not realizing the hint he gave her. "Wait… what did you just say?"
"The air, stupid! After the rain stopped, the air is the place that didn't get wet, sissy!" he smacked his fist on the puff's head. Blossom thought that his talking tone had just changed from being calm to arrogant.
The pink puff gasped and instantly caught the boy from flying away, "Oh, no you don't! You are not going anywhere! You can spit one of your riddles out right here and then. I will solve it without finding you!"
"Alright then, Bossy. A person built a house and it fell. The person did not get hurt and he knew it was going to fall anyway. What is your answer? You have 10 seconds to answer."
'He built a house and he knew it was going to fall anyway… what kind of things would fall when knowing it? What kind of materials of building a house would fall easily? And what if it wasn't a "house"?' the pink puff questioned to herself; thinking even harder. She was not going to lose to this boy for his stupid riddles; she needed to find a way to fight him way better than solving riddles. "Aha!" She snapped and she only got 6 seconds to answer.
The redheaded boy was surprised at her sudden reaction, but he was not going to let her answer that easily… right?
"The person was building a house of cards, correct? I've heard of that one before, delinquent! The person knew the cards would fall because it is easy to achieve that!" Brick was only amazed at her for answering it correct.
"So?" was all he managed to say.
"Yeah and I won't let you test me anymore riddles, Brick. I want to hear out your explanation right now," she ordered him, not like he will obey them though. "Alright, we will fight first before declaring any answers-"
Brick went straight on with that idea and punched her in the stomach. He flew across several buildings before making his attempt to wait for an attack from the puff leader. However, the girl was too focused on the imaginary line Brick had formed while he was flying.
'He was flying at a constant speed of c, forming a polygonal path that revolves in a cycle like a circuit. Nothing changed his speed, no wind, nothing, and the direction was constant as well. This will increase the time required… I will give that equation as k c, now to just solve this equation right from Ms. Keane's complicated, complex, and challenging math problems!' Being the leader girl that she was, she flew a dozen times at the polygonal path Brick originally created and tried to solve the problem, ignoring the fight that they had promised to do.
'All set, the variables for the wind, the velocity, and the sides of the polygonal path and the ground will give me the equation. Wait; let me change that to a quadratic equation with the formula. I will ignore all the negative points and figure it out!' Her hands were writing on imaginary paper from the air, effortlessly trying to solve the equation. Her counterpart only rolled his eyes at what the girl was doing.
"There I got it! K is greater than 0!" Blossom shrieked, flying to Brick and giving him a thrust to the ground. Brick eventually recovered and pinned the girl down who was still proud of her work, waking her up for real.
"What did you think you were doing? Trying to make me stand there in the air and waiting for you to spit out some mathematical and numerical solutions?" He punched her several times to the ground, not letting go or giving her a chance to fight him. Wasn't that a little selfish.
Blossom smirked and used her free legs to kick his stomach, "Hey, thanks for everything today! I mean, it's not over yet but I will have to keep using you to help me solve some math problems." She had her fists balled, ready to enter another battle. Brick, on the other hand, is not in the mood of playing mind games with this girl.
After so many battles, Blossom solved all of Ms. Keane's leftover math problems with Brick's help without him even knowing it. "Seems like Ms. Keane's problems have to do with flight and-"
"Then you better get back to school, I don't have all day."
Blossom studied him, 'He doesn't know what he's talking about. Didn't we say that he was to answer my questions about his comeback? And he's not supposed to let me go and not defeat me.'
"Well then, thank you," Blossom smiled, replacing the smirk she was going to display.
Thankfully, the red ruff was not looking, his back was on her. What she didn't realize in those five seconds was that he had formed an evil grin. 'Things are going to be much fun. All are according to plan.' And with that, he took off. Blossom stared at the red streak he made in the sky with a big sigh. It has been years since she had seen a red streak in the sky, flying freely.
The battle with Buttercup and Butch really wasn't even just an hour or more over. They succeeded in fighting each other and bruising their opponents. Buttercup used a lot of energy compared to her counterpart since she was the person who gives an aftershock back at Butch. The green ruff only took it easy on her, without time or quickness, and even copied some of her powers.
The soccer field was almost ripped from their fighting. Just be glad that nobody was watching them, even the coach had gone home. If nobody is going to come and declare anything, then these two will fight from day to night. These two are not even selecting giving up, each proving their strengths. Someone should just say oh wow.
"You better not take a fight on the soccer field the next time!" Buttercup shouted, blasting a power ball at her opponent. Neither of them knew that when she started this question, it will be most of the ending for their battle.
"Too bad, that's where I found you, and it's a place that I would like to kick some butt," answered the tough green brother. He had dodged the attack from Buttercup and was about to form the same thing when someone interrupted;
"OMG, the soccer field!" its sound came from a ten year old boy. He had brown hair and held a scared expression due to what he saw.
Buttercup took her time to look at who it was that shouted in the middle of their fight, yet she ignored it when finished studying the boy's face. "Mitch, just go home already, I have a meeting with this guy!" Speaking of home, what time is it exactly? Is school over?
Over the fence, the two tough fighters could sense that Mitch ran away from the field in shock. Buttercup only sighed, dropping her stance to come in contact with her counterpart.
"You know what? I don't think I would like to fight you right after I had soccer," Buttercup affirmed, her teeth gritting once said.
"Yeah, I think it's so boring without my brothers!" Butch said it in mere sarcasm; he didn't need his brothers' help just like Buttercup. He walked closer with both hands placed on the back of his neck, "So… why were you playing soccer in the first place?"
"Oh wow, I thought you knew," Buttercup rolled her eyes. "That isn't why you came to fight with me? Oh yikes, then I just really took it on for the soccer field." She made a shrug and snugged the soccer ball back to the case.
"Yes, you absolutely did because you were just so excited to see me!" out came a burst of laughter from the green ruff; of course he didn't mean to say such stupid things.
"Butch, if you won't shut up for a second, I will kill," Buttercup glared. "And why don't you just learn it the simple way? Wait for me to finish soccer and fight in the air?" She appointed out a good reason still and all.
The green ruff made no reply.
"Alright, why are you here? I reckon Blossom could have asked that to your brother already, if he hadn't even made his move to fight her yet." Buttercup finally asked this question that was supposed to be placed on top priority.
"I came here to fight, of course," Butch blankly stared at Buttercup for asking a dumb question.
The raven head rolled her eyes, "As if that would answer anything? I am actually happy that you took one on one because I absolutely do not want to fight alongside my sisters with your brothers." She continued to ignore his silence and focused on the messed up soccer field from all their doing.
Butch did not answer; he honestly discounted her question and asked something else, "I was querying you earlier, why you were playing soccer in the morning?" Querying… what fancy word.
"Because I do," she spit. "You were planning to fight me at school, huh? Only to find that Brick has to drop himself alone there, ha! Well, tell you what, I go to soccer and play a game before I go to school. I know… late right? But it's not like I play soccer every morning!" And don't forget in the evening as well…
Butch found her behavior strange, "Hey, I helped you today for wasting more time to go to school, why do you even bother-"
"Let's see, it is 12 o'clock. Geez, I was still playing soccer from 8 to 10, so… yeah, you came somewhere at 10 and now it's 12." Buttercup stared at her clock, neglecting his sentences. However, she looked back at him with a glare, "I don't understand what this conversation is."
"Neither do I, but I say that you girlie would be off next time," he grinned, flying off. Okay, invisible mission for him is complete while Buttercup was left to deal with all the mess on the field.
Blue streaks. They were flying everywhere; first here, second there, and next and finally to a stop. Bubbles went after him for only a few 30 minutes and he still doesn't intend on stopping his flying and speed. It only made the blue puff want to kill him more.
Well, finally Boomer had landed on precious ground. The blue puff saw him stop and followed him as well, except that she was of course meters away. Are they going to stare at each other and play the no talking game again?
All because of such silence, Bubbles intended to break it, "Alright, Jojo boy, you can't escape anymore!" She seems to have dropped her stance, trying to follow reasoning out with her enemy. Maybe because she thought that this was what Blossom would have done. "With me here, you can't even throw a-"
The blue ruff had pinned her down to the cold ground like a sneaking shadow. He didn't move though… what's going to happen after he had pinned her down? The blonde stared at the ruff's eyes; it was a deep blue representing the ocean, so much that she could have just forgotten all about fighting him. She looked at his expression; it was gentle and harmless alright. Wait, harmless? Is that what it was?
They have been on the ground for several seconds or minutes right now, and none of them moved a muscle. Bubbles broke it again, "What do you think you were doing?" She grabbed his forearms and tried to push him away from her.
He reacted instantly and shot her a glare before standing up, dusting off anything that might have been dirt or something. "Weren't you so focused on that, too?"
The blue puff's cheeks got red. Well, you would call that a blush. "Don't tend to think things that way, Boomer. After what's happened, I'm only going to fight you." She made it to his path and gripped his wrist with her right hand while her left land created a power ball.
With only one hand out and about, Boomer still had his other hand, so he would just come up with the same solution of hitting balls at her. "Don't you think that I actually had two hands?" He strangled her neck with his free hand to the wall, causing her powered ball to slowly relapse from her palms.
"Yeah, I knew you had two hands, but I thought you might be too dumb to notice that!" Bubbles tried to make out her words perfectly, even laughing bitterly when he had her neck strangled. His grip on her neck got stronger and she felt pain, but she wasn't going to cry that easily.
She continued, "I won't forgive you for what you did to the principal and to my school!" She closed her eyes, fearing the worse coming.
"Sorry, but that wasn't really a meeting with the principal, I should say," Boomer smirked as he disengaged on suffocating her. "But you are a girl with your own words, so I won't end it without a fight." He took his time smashing her face while she tried to breathe to survive.
'In any case, if I don't be too nice or something… the mission won't be accomplished. But I can't bring myself to be nice to this girl.' Those words appeared through Boomer's mind, leading him to widen his eyes. He stared at the girl; she was coughing from choking, always touching her neck when she felt something was bothering. She had her face gazed to the ground, also moaning from the punches and kicks Boomer sent her. She was rather weak to let him fight all he wanted.
The boy sighed. He would just do anything to get his mission done, right? He bent down next to her, this time touching her face and turning her head to face him. Of course as expected, the girl would be confused. "It's okay, you've choked before." Good start, but bad thing to say. Boomer smiled, bringing her to rest on his chest, but he still had no idea if this was even trying to be nice.
Bubbles was surprised, she knew she's going to be killed immediately if she didn't retreat and fly away from this guy. She ignored it though because she couldn't stop her choking. "W-what are you doing?" She didn't push him this time, for she was too weak to attack. A few punches and strangling… and she was already feeling sick. Weak and pathetic.
"Oh, nothing," Bubbles would have apprehended that he was going to push her away, but he still kept the distance. When he had just replied why, shouldn't he be the one embarrassed and trying to back away from her? She didn't reply and neither did he mention anything. Bubbles was sick of being close to him, gulping right after her coughs ended.
The constant rolling of his eyes got the best of him. He gently pushed Bubbles to the wall and stood up… she thought that she was going to die now; if he was standing up so straight, doesn't that mean he was going to attack her with all his might? He had smiled with his eyes closed.
'Oh no, I shouldn't be feeling comfortable with having him here. Why is he smiling? Is that actually a smirk?' blonde heads think a lot, but she needs to know what happened to him after he punched her. He just automatically switched to another person!
"Well, I guess for now, it's the end. Just prepare to take what's going to eventuate next." He warned, hiding his initial purpose to that smile.
It seems to me that I can't come up with anything else better than just having easy fights. So what's going to happen next? And what was all those "missions" about? Well, Mojo was actually trying to make the boys do them, so it would be considered a mission if they successfully completed it during their encounters with the girls.
Anyway, it might change a lot for the next chapter though. It's actually about a few days later that the boys met up with them. The boys have to start their mission number two, and that is to gain their trust. Well, all well go well. To Buttercup, not so much. Blossom and Bubbles will definitely find it weird for them to just turn up to be trusting to the boys, but which of them gets the worst?
So… if you want, slip a review for the story and tell me if you enjoyed it or something. I would appreciate anything from critique, feedback, commentary, or just a positive review. Questions and or concerns regarding the story are also welcomed too.
See you guys next week, hopefully…
