Chapter 2:

Before they knew it, they were in a drab room, each having their own little bed. Bubbles did not remember much about the procedures, but she remembered them washing out their singed hair, and they put the girls in fresh clothing as they put on a cool, sticky substance to clean their scorched skin. At first, the Professor had to feed the girls like a baby, put on their clothes, etc. since the girls were almost parylzed by the lasers. Buttercup hated being treated like a baby,

"Professor, I can do this, look!" she would say as she would try to feed herself, but for the first few days her arms would give up and go limp. Bubbles would have nightmares about the pain, screaming,

"STOP IT! IT HURTS SO MUCH!" The Professor would always hug her and calm her down enough for her to fall back asleep.

"Think about all the things you love," he told her once.

"Like... animals, or cupcakes, and my sisters?"

"Exactly," her father yawned, kissing her forehead and returning to the couch beside her bed. Blossom was the first on to recover, she soon could feed herself, dress herself, and she managed to fly slowly around the room for a solid minute. The leader of the PPGs and the Professor helped Bubbles and Buttercup out of bed and they quickly learned to walk and run freely. The heroes practiced flying around outside, helping each other back up whenever one would fall.

They practiced fighting by gently battling each other, they soon were able to use their ice breath, create energy beams, run at sonic speed and much more. By the end of the month the girls' powers had returned and they were almost completely normal. The doctors finally approved for them to go back home. On the day they were set to leave, the Professor, the Mayor, and Ms. Bellum gathered in the room to ask the Powerpuff Girls about what happened that day.

Blossom explained about how HIM and Mojo had apparently joined forces and somehow created Black. Bubbles expained about the Rowdyruff Boys and how much stronger their powers were combined with Black, and Buttercup told the adults about the RRBs collapsing and how HIM took the others back to his place. The adult were most interested in Black.

"So you say this child is LITERALLY a mixture of Mojo and HIM?" Ms. Bellum questioned.

"Probably, he seems to have the smarts of Mojo and HIM's powers, I don't think we've even seen what he can do!" Blossom confirmed.

"Maybe the Boys got tired and they were taking a nap!" the Mayor cheerfully suggested.

"Honestly, I'm glad, if they didn't pass out WE would have been a pile of dust!" Buttercup grumbled. Prof. Utonium paced around the room, his eyes having a black stare in them, he was thinking deeply about something.

"Perhaps the Rowdyruff Boys are not perfectly made, perhaps an ingredient is missing, or the Chemical X that came from Mojo is not enough to give them powers for a long period of time," he theorized.

"We won't find out about any of this unless we investigate, and Black might end up like the others if he was created with the same ingredients," Blossom realized. The adults in the room looked uncomfortable, especially the Professor.

"I can't allow you to just go headfirst into a place where you're easily outnumbered, I'm sure you can take care of HIM and Mojo, but two times Black has overpowered you!" their father said worriedly.

"Yeah girls, you just got all fixed up, and you don't want to come straight back here, do you?" the mayor asked in a teasing tone. The trio had to agree to this.

"We're all worried about you, you three are best thing that's ever happened to Townsville, and we just won't allow your heroic acts to end so soon," Ms. Bellum reassured the girls.

The Professor and his daughters were escorted to the Prof.'s car, and the four passengers didn't speak much on the way home. Blossom, Buttercup, and Bubbles were overjoyed to return home, and they leaped onto their bed, enjoying their warm sort-of-safe house.

"How can we stop those guys if we don't know what to do" Bubbles wondered out loud after a while.

"Easy. We do a stealth mission, the three of us can sneak into HIM's place and we get the stuff we need to defeat them and we fly away before they catch us!" Buttercup proposed.

"I like your idea Buttercup, but what are we gonna do if Black catches us?" Blossom pointed out. The tough sister folded her arms and scowled. A few moments later Blossom added, "But I think if all of our questions are solved, then we'll have a good idea of how to stop them." There was a bit of silence, and then Bubbles said timidly,

"Since Mojo and HIM are friends again, what if they get Fuzzy and Princess to reunite the Beat-Alls?" The other two shuddered at the thought.

"You know something? All the times we were beaten by the Beat-Alls were nothing compared to what happened last month!" Buttercup chuckled.

"If the Beat-Alls reunite, then there might be no way for us to win! We have to go to HIM's place and get the answers to our questions!" Blossom exclaimed.

"BUT BLOSSOM!" Bubbles cried. Blossom let out a breath and asked in a serious voice,

"Bubbles. Do you want the situation to get worse than it is now?" her sister shook her head slowly and Blossom continued solemly,

"The Professor may not want us to leave, but the Rowdyruff Boys and the possibility of the Beat-Alls reuniting will mean we can't stop them. But as heroes it's our duty to try! We might fail, but at least we tried." Buttercup clapped her hands and cheered,

"Yay! You go Blossom!" They decided not to tell the Professor, since there was no way he would let them risk their lives again. But this time they wrote a note on a piece of paper and left it on their bed. Once the note was placed, the Girls few silently away. The note wasn't well written, but it said:

Dear Professor,

We had to leave again, we can't let this get any worse. We just need some answers and maybe we can beat them. We probably won't come back home, and we know you'll be sad, but we are the citizens' heroes and we're not gonna sit and wait for the bad guys to win. Love, Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup.

A crescent moon was over the girls' heads as the three flew across the night sky. The city lights were almost all out as the citizens prepared for bed. Bubbles stopped flying and she looked down at the city below her. Her sisters noticed this and they gathered around her.

"Do you think we'll see Townsville again?" Bubbles asked. Blossom and Buttercup shrugged, and without a word the Powerpuff Girls began flying once more.