There were always a time when Phillip didn't have to get up to now that the morning was going to be a weird one. Or, at least, the waking up would be weird.

For example, when his senses came back from the endless void known as sleep, he felt himself off the bed he made on the couch and something in his hands. He opened his eyes to find a girl's head under his foot and her wrist in his hand. The girl was screaming bloody murder as he held her wrist in a wrist lock.

Phillip kept his eyes on the girl for a second. " I'm sorry, but you really shouldn't bother someone while they are asleep."

The girl kept struggling. " Get the heck off of me!" Phillip released her and she leaped on to her feet and pointed at him. " Why are you in our house anyway?! Planning to get rid of the Powerpuff Girls?!"

Phillip rose his eyebrow. " First off, who exactly? Second, I was invited to stay for a while by Professor Utonium."

" A likely story!" The girl said.

That was when said man walked down the stairs. " What is all this ruckus?"

The girl flew, literally, to Utonium. " Professor! This kid was sleeping on the couch and I tried waking him up but he attacked me and-" Utonium placed a hand up, signaling for the girl to stop before walking up to Phillip.

Once close, the professor kneeled down to him and asked, " How was your sleep?"

Phillip bowed. " It was comforting. Thank you for asking, Mr. Utonium."

The girl, however, looked at them as if they both grew a new head. " What?!"

Noticing the girl's confused face, Utonium explained. " Phillip will be staying with us for now. So I expect an apology between the two of you." He walked off and told them that he would make some breakfast. The girl gave a huff and Phillip looked her over.

She had black that reached the back of her neck and pointed out at both sides. Her outfit was green from the blouse to the skirt. There was white shirt under the blouse with a red bow at the top of it.

The girl walked up to him and held out a hand. " Buttercup."

" Pleasure," Phillip said as the two shook hands. He felt Buttercup squeeze his hand, as if trying to break it. He returned the " generous offer" with the same amount of force. When removing their hands, Buttercup looked at her's for a second before looking back at Phillip.

" Let's put this like this: don't expect an apology nor respect from me." Phillip sighed as Buttercup said this.

He straightened himself and responded. " Wasn't looking for it. However, don't expect any from me either." With that, he walked into the kitchen.

Utonium was slaving over the stove for some bacon and eggs. Phillip gave a sniff and smelled bread being toasted as well. The professor was definitely cooking up a storm.

Utonium looked away from the food for a second and spotted Phillip. " Could you go wash up so I can wash those clothes of yours? The bathroom should be across the living room " Phillip nodded and walked to the bathroom, which caused him some more unnecessary interaction with Buttercup. The interaction, however, could have been summed down to Buttercup blowing a raspberry at him and him just walked off. He knocked first, just in case someone had already entered.

" There's no one in there," Buttercup said, though Phillip didn't trusted her. After a few seconds without a response, only then did Phillip opened the door and entered.

The room was all white. Literally everything in the place was white: the toilet, the sink and the huge craw-foot tub. The only things that weren't white was the three towels that were blue, pink, and green hanging off the wall, and the plush purple rug under his feet.

Lucky for him, there was a white cabinet to his right that was full of white towels. He gave a single look into the tub and a silver shower head was found above the tub.

The first thing he did was turn the water on and let it run over his hand. After adjusting the knobs accordingly, he turned to the door and shut it.

" You didn't need to do that. I'm sure it was placed in the correct place." Gabriel told him.

Rather be careful than sorry. Phillip thought before locating the shampoo and body wash near in some indents in the wall. He pulled the switched the shower on, striped, and entered. He pulled the curtain that was held aloft on a bar

While in the shower, Phillip heard the door open and closed a few seconds after. Must have been the professor. A little later, the door followed the same pattern, though slightly quicker.

After a several more minutes, he turned off the cascading water and walked over to the cabinet. He wiped himself thoroughly. He found a white button-up shirt and a pair of black pants with a note on top of them on top of the toilet.

The note read: Your clothes will take a while before washed and dried completely. Until then, please use these clothes that I... shrunk accidentally for today. We'll go shopping for others later.

Sincerely

Professor Utonium.

Phillip pulled the clothes onto his naked skin and placed the towel onto a hook on the cabinet. They were snug, but were find for now. He opened the door. No one was in the living room this time, leaving him to think they had already went to grab breakfast from the kitchen, which had a booth table within it. He walked to the edge of the wall next to the kitchen and peered around the corner.

He saw the professor still hard at work over the breakfast, though intensely looking at his watch from time to time.

If Utonium isn't down with breakfast, where is-

In an instant, Phillip twirled around to find Buttercup about to yell. She let out a raspberry instead.

" How did you know I was there?" She asked.

Phillip responded with, " I'm psychic." and continued to look from the corner.

" Whatcha looking at?" Phillip looked back once more to see Buttercup leaning over him.

" Just wondering." He said before turning back to the kitchen. He then added, " How many sisters do you have exactly?" She was hesitant for a second.

She then said, " Two. Why?"

" To know who I'm looking for." She grunted at this and moved away from the corner to walk over to one of the chairs in the living room and sat down in it. Phillip rolled his eyes at this.

Suddenly, there was a creak at the stairs and Phillip pulled himself into his shadow so no one could notice him.

The first to come into view was a girl with red hair that was held back by a red bow with a cap at the back of it; there was a heart on the back of the cap. She wore the same outfit like Buttercup but pink where the green was.

The second had blond hair that was tied into two pigtails at either side of her head. Another contrast to her sisters was that she wore a light blue uniform.

The red-head spoke first. " Buttercup, you're up early? That's a first." Buttercup snarl at this. " I'm just teasing you know."

Buttercup just said, " Riiight." and turned her attention to the TV, which has yet to be turned on. However, along the way, her sights landed on the place Phillip had use to be and grew a gaping mouth. She yelled, " Where did he go?!"

The other two turned like lightning to where Buttercup was listening but found no one there. The red-head looked back at her sister with concern. " Who are you talking about?"

Buttercup rushed over to the place and looked around. " He was right here, I swear!" She looked down, right into Phillip's eyes and began patting the ground. " What the heck is this?"

Phillip noticed the green eyes that the girl above him had. That's a new color.

The red-head walked over and placed her hands on her hips. " Well, who ever you're looking for is gone now." She then looked where Buttercup was patting and knelt as well. " A shadow? With no one is here?"

That was another thing that contrast between the sisters: their eye colors. The red-head had pink irises while Buttercup had green ones. Phillip turned his sights to blonde and her eyes had blue around the pupil. Interesting. The only thing that makes them sisters visually would be the shape of their faces.

The blonde joined them. " Who are you guys looking for?"

The red-head reached in front of herself and grabbed. Nothing. " A shadow is here, but no one is here to cast it, invisible or not." Buttercup just continued to checking the ground.

Phillip was going to regret this, but this was the best chance to get even a slight revenge for Buttercup's sneaking-and-bothering-him-in-his-sleep thing.

However, he consulted with his inner voices. Should I... He gained a resounding " Yes/Yes." as a response.

Then send me the Moby Morpher.

The two halves of a shield appeared on his arms. It had a golden rim and was colored black. Halves of a ruby sat in the inner part of them sides.

Phillip brought the two halves together, thought its name, and pulled them away from each other. He looked back at hand, which was now a rotten gray color and had chunks of it missing. He effectively turned himself into a zombie, though with mind intact.

Thanks. I'll call upon them later. The Morpher disappeared. Phillip returned his attention to the girls above him. Buttercup's hand slid passed and Phillip reached up to grab her wrist.

The three girls gave a scream and jumped back. Now that Buttercup's hand was off, Phillip called upon the Morpher once more and turn back to normal. He then willed himself from shadow.

At first, his body was just a formless blob of darkness, causing the girls to jump into a defensive stance. Phillip just continued to pull himself out,causing the dark blob to gain arms and a humanoid form. Just when the girls looked ready to attack, his head popped out.

Phillip held a smile. " Hello."

Two of the three looked slightly confused while Buttercup looked at him with rage. " What the heck was that about?!"

Phillip turned to Buttercup. " I just wanted to get back at you waking me like before."

" You pinned me to the floor!"

" I did that instinctively. And while sleeping. I can't consider that true revenge."

The red-head stopped the conversation there. " Wait. You defeated Buttercup while asleep?" Phillip nodded. She turned to Buttercup with laughter written in her face.

Buttercup growled. " Don't-" The word fell on deaf ears as the red-head began giggling uncontrollably.

Buttercup turned back to Phillip with the same glare. " You're dead."

Phillip continued to smile. " I wouldn't try."

Buttercup walked up to him and would have threw a punch had Utonium came in and said, " Breakfast is-Did something happen?"

Phillip looked at the professor. " No, sir. Nothing has happened as of yet." He stretched and looked back at kitchen entrance. " Thank you for making breakfast."

Utonium scratched the back of his sheepishly. " Oh, it's nothing." He then clapped his hands together and said, " Now, let's get something to eat, shall we?" The four followed the professor into the room without much of a word.

While eating, Phillip came across some thing new: Utonium, while not the worst of cooks, wasn't the best to rely on when needing something to eat. Most of the food was overcooked, or smelled or tasted weird. Luckily, the milk could still be drunk and the orange juice was still to date.

Once done, Utonium looked over to Phillip for approval. " So, how was it?" There was a hopeful tone to it that made Phillip slightly sympathetic to the man.

However, only slightly. " It wasn't the best, it wasn't the worst." Seeing the professor downtrodden face, he explained. " It was just overcooked. You just need to focus on one thing at a time, not all at once." The face didn't gain any joy.

Phillip just sighed and said, " I learned a small piece in cooking. I can give what I know and we'll see how it affects your cooking skills." That's when Utonium looked more hopeful.

The professor cleared his throat and said, " Alright, I believe some introductions are in order."

He gestured to the blond. " Her name is Bubbles." The girl gave a wave to him with the more joyous expressions Phillip had seen.

" She's Blossom." Her smile was less than that of Bubble's, but still gave off a happy feel to it.

" And, well, I think you've already met Buttercup." Buttercup wasn't as friendly as her sister, though gave a smile to him. Though, it was more of a smirk-smile mix.

Utonium looked at Phillip. " Now, what would your name be?"

" Phillip, sir," he said.

Utonium nodded and looked back at his daughters. " Phillip here will be staying with us for the time being. I would like you to treat him like family." He turned to Phillip. " I would like you to do the same." Phillip nodded.

Blossom was the first to speak. " Why is he staying with us?"

Utonium leaned back into his chair. " A friend of mine asked for a favor and I accepted. However, I don't know for what reason. Would you be willing to tell us, Phillip?"

Phillip blushed as he returned to the spotlight. " Um, I, uh-"

" Speak!" Buttercup said.

Phillip wanted to disappear. He never was good at speaking with a group unless the group was just him and one other person. " I-I, uh..." Phillip tried to steady his breathing, but there wasn't any affect. His shyness just continued to bubble to the surface.

Utonium pulled back. " It's fine. You don't have to speak if you don't want to." Phillip sighed with relief.

Buttercup stood up. " Whatever. I just want to know what you did back there."

Utonium looked confused and Blossom explained about what Phillip did in the living room. His brow furrowed. " I see." He looked back at Phillip. " I too want to know."

Phillip sighed, but seemed to be able to talk about this. " It's better show than explained." Utonium just smiled and led the group into the basement.

A white lab was found there with thousands of chemicals alined on tables and cabinets that were pushed fittingly on the walls. But none of these were what the professor was looking for.

They walked farther into the lab and found a place that had a table with many nods and switches. Above it was a window that showed a room that had white tiles covering everything.

Utonium pointed to the door next to the machine. " Please get it and I'll activate the room."

Buttercup intervened. " I was thinking about more of a spar."

Utonium looked at her and shook his head. " Buttercup, you know that you're stronger, faster, and more enduring than humans. I can't let him do that."

Phillip turned to the professor. " Let me try. I'm sure you'll find I'm not just some other human."

Buttercup smirked. " See? He's willing to go." Utonium grew a face. " Don't worry, professor. I'll go easy on him." She shot into the white room.

You're going to regret that, Phillip thought as he followed. The two stood a couple feet from each other and the room transformed into a city that was on fire.

Buttercup moved first. She flashed in front of him and threw a jab to his face. However, to Phillip, it was like she was moving in slow motion. He slipped passed her and stood behind her the small duration. Buttercup blinked a couple times when her attack missed. She looked behind and found Phillip before throwing another punch. The pattern continued, with Phillip sliding away from each attack, until Buttercup tried a different tactic.

" Stand still, will ya?!" She jumped into the air as she said this. When she landed, she clapped her hands together and slammed them into the ground. This caused a good amount of the ground to obliterate and forced Phillip to jump back.

A shadow formed under him and found Buttercup above him with a smirk. " Got ya!" Phillip faded from view as her kick drew near. Now a couple feet away, Phillip heard Buttercup mumble some curses.

I think I should attack now. What about you guys? Phillip thought.

" Do what they wanted to see, then go ahead."

" Do whatever. I'm not really interested."

" I believe that it would be best to follow Gabriel."

Phillip sighed and thought, Fine. I'll go shadow again. Phillip opened his eyes with a punch right in front of him. Thinking fast, he slipped back into his shadow.

Buttercup skidded to a stop after her attack failed and began looking around. When she couldn't find anyone, she turned back to where he was a second before. She saw the shadow again and smirked she jumped back into the air and aimed her heel at the shadow.

Phillip smirked. Not the easy. Once she was close enough, Phillip pulled his shadow into hers, causing her to slam into nothing. She stood up again and scanned the area.

After a while, she looked down at her own shadow. " No way."

" Way." Phillip said as he grasped Buttercup's leg. With a yank, she was pulled off her feet and landed on her back. Phillip pulled his shadow free and climbed out. " Now, I believe it is my turn."

" Wha-" Buttercup wasn't able to finish as Phillip landed a kick to her face. She flew and landed several feet away.

She looked back him with a fierce glare. " You. Are. Dead!" Buttercup shot at him as fast as she could.

Monsoon Sandals. Phillip thought before throwing a kick, even though Buttercup was still nowhere near him. His legs began to grow and grow until his foot was right next to Buttercup. She was sent reeling from the kick and landed on her side another couple feet down the line.

While Buttercup stumbled to her feet, Phillip ran over to her. Mikado Arms. His arms pulsed as his muscles grew to enormous sizes, shredding the sleeves of his shirt.

Buttercup must have felt something was wrong as she turned around to meet Phillip's fist. She was launched back once more, but this time, Phillip wasn't going to let her escape.

Lotus Twister, but keep the Mikado Arms up. He pushed his arms forward and, like his legs from before, his arms stretched to Buttercup, who has yet to hit the earth below. His two fists slammed into her flying form and carried her all the way to limit of the room. A crack formed in the air to indicate the edge of the room.

" Stop!" Utonium's voice echoed through out the room and the scene dropped. The white room returned and the three others rushed into the room. Bubbles and Blossom went over to help their sister to her feet while Utonium walked over Phillip.

" That was very irresponsible of you. You could have severely hurt not only yourself but Buttercup as well." Utonium was starting to act like a father to him already, which was more of a relief than anything else.

Phillip hung his head. " I promise that nothing similar will happen again."

Utonium then bent down to him. " Still, what you said before does come to light. Some many powers in one young man. It's a wonder on its own. Where did you get them?"

Phillip shrugged. " They just came by." This wasn't a total lie. The Shen Gong Wu that he could call upon by will was created by Gabriel, who thought it was best to have the arsenal for Phillip to call upon. Gabriel copied the Wu down to the last detail, though some improvements. For example, the Monsoon Sandals were suppose to affect both legs, but now will only affect the leg that the users wants to.

Utonium returned his attention to Phillip's sleeves and said, " Let's try and find a replace the shirt of yours and get Buttercup back onto her feet." Utonium then walked over to Buttercup and picked her up in his arms. With that, the group walked out of the lab and into the living room.

While the professor told Buttercup comforting words as she was laid down on the couch, Blossom pulled Phillip to the side and said, " What was that?!"

Phillip knew where this was going. " Trust me, when I heard ' more enduring than most humans,' I thought she could have took the attacks. I didn't know and I'm sorry for what happened." He shifted his eyes on Buttercup. " Look, let keep this off the discussion list for now. I'm sure none of us new what that was going to happen."

Blossom looked like she wasn't ready to drop the subject, but said instead, " Do you have a healing power that could help her?"

Phillip didn't even have to smirk at this. " Yes. Hold one second." Phillip walked past the professor and placed one of his hands on Buttercup's arm. He pulled on Gabriel's energy and everything felt calm and peaceful, while feeling that any pain he had ever felt disappeared from his being.

He pushed the energy into Buttercup's body and watched as she blinked several times before jumping from couch and began stretching.

Utonium was surprised. " You were seriously hurt just a second ago and now... you're..." Utonium looked over to Phillip. " This is your doing, isn't it?"

" Guilty as charged." Phillip said with a grin.

Utonium just let out a sigh before walking up the stairs, saying, " I'll find another shirt for you before we go to school."

Phillip then turned to Blossom. " Maybe you can tell me what he meant by accidentally shrinking clothes?"

Blossom thought for a second before snapping her fingers. " You must mean the professor's shrink ray."

Phillip tilted his head. " Shrink ray?"

" Yup," Blossom told him. " The professor was trying to make an new invention that could shrink anything."

Buttercup took it from there. " Instead, he made something that could only shrink clothes. Wanna guess what he aimed at first?"

Phillip placed a palm over his face. " No, I think I got the picture." Utonium came back down the stairs with another white button-up shirt. Phillip slipped on the shirt and Utonium herded the three into the car. He received the front seat and the girls sat in the back.

Phillip heard something that made him chuckle: " This sucks."

That's a wrap!

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