The girls awoke that morning more exhausted than they'd gone to sleep. It was one thing to be on alert to protect the city, and quite another to be actively hunting down a villain. Especially when you're doing the best you can to avoid the most likely place he'll be.

And so as they ate their breakfast, the girls made the decision to finally go to Jojo's volcano lab and talk things over with him. Even though, none of them really believed that he had killed those guards, it wouldn't hurt to go talk to him about it.

School itself was another matter. Their grades had dropped again, as hunting for Jojo was taking up most of their study time. Blossom hated it, as she'd never dropped below a B+ before, but knew that there was no helping it. All the memory retention in the world couldn't save them now, and they knew it. Only Blossom was still trying, as Buttercup having given it up as a lost cause and Bubbles spending most of her time trying to socialize.

At the moment though all three were in the school's library, hidden in the back where Blossom was trying to get them to study.

"Girls, come on! This is important stuff that we need to know if you want to pass!" Blossom whispered loudly, trying to hand Buttercup a book.

"Blossom, chill out. It's just English class. We aren't gonna need that to fight bad guys." Buttercup retorted, voice muffled from having her head on her arms.

"You don't know that, Buttercup. What if we get a grammar based villain? You'd look pretty dumb then." Bubbles said, not glancing up from what she was writing. Buttercup glared back, then snatched her paper from her. "Hey! Give that back!"

"You're not doing any studying either! This is a freaking love letter!" Buttercup near yelled, waving the paper in her sister's face.

Bubbles opened her mouth to reply, but was interrupted by Blossom.

"Would both of you be quiet! We're going to get kicked out again, and then we'll have to go to the public library to study." She whispered harshly at them, glaring. "Now get your books out and let's actually study, instead of just pretend, Bubbles."

Bubbles opened her mouth to retort, but a shrill ringing cut her off, echoing through the room.

"What the hell is that?!" Buttercup yelled over the noise as they left the library, flying over the heads of the panicked students in the hall.

"It's the monster alarm!" Blossom answered as they made it out of the building. "It means there's some sort of monster in the area! The only problem is that they're all on Monster Island, and none of them have left it in years!"

"But if they're all on Monster Island, how could one get to our school without anyone noticing?" Bubbles questioned as the alarm was suddenly shut off and a voice boomed out instead.

"Because it is not a monster! It is I, Mojo Jojo!"

Something fell from the sky to land in front of them, crushing most of the cars on the school parking lot. As the dust cleared they saw a large metal orb, supported by two tall, thick legs. All around the middle of the orb were multiple arms of different lengths, each ending with a sharp blade. Coming off the back was a long purple cape. Jojo's voice blared excitedly from a hidden speaker.

"Do you girls like it? It is my new Battle Bot, designed specifically to fight you three. I spent all week working on it! It is made out of adamantium, and the blades are the sharpest in the world. And it all cost billions of specially stolen dollars to buy all the parts!"

Buttercup grabbed Blossom's arm, looking like a kid that had just found the worlds largest toy store. "He. Has. A. BATTLE BOT! Blossom, can we-"

"No! We don't need a Battle Bot!" Blossom told her sister hotly, yanking her arm out of her sister's grasp and turning to point at Jojo's Bot. "And where did you even get adamantium? It's supposed to be the rarest metal on Earth!"

"You would be surprised what you can find for sale on the internet, young Blossom. Sometimes, it is something very useful."

"I once found a corpse for sale!" Bubbles piped up. Her sisters turned to stare at her in disbelief. "What? I was just looking! It's not like I bought it or anything."

"Why were even looking at corpses, anyways?" Buttercup asked.

"Ugh, never mind! Enough small talk! We have gotten too far off topic, so I will now bring the topic back! And the topic is me, here to beat you!" The monkey genius gave a laugh and swung an arm towards the girls, inadvertently over balancing in the process. "Oh, crap!"

The girls zoomed out of the way and into the air, staring as he righted himself again. "Uh, I am... okay! That was completely according to plan. Yes."

Blossom face palmed and let out a sigh of annoyance. "Let's just get this over with." She moved into a battle pose that her sisters copied. "Delta Formation with Beta Attack Grid! Go!"

They shot off and approached Jojo's Battle Bot from three sides, intent on using their eye-beams to melt the robot down. The monkey just cackled and spun the arms around the body, nicking the girls before they could back away.

"Ow! That... h-hurt...?" Buttercup stared at her arm, where small droplets of blood were weeping from a thin cut. She turned to her sister, a sudden fear building in her stomach. "B-Blossom!"

"I know Buttercup!" She flew above the Battle Bot and aimed her eye-beams right on to the top. "Stay out of reach girls, and use long range attacks only!"

Bubbles and Buttercup nodded and backed up more before firing their own eye-beams.

"HothothothotHOT! Why must you heat up my Battle Bot! I spent all week on it!" Jojo gave a yelp as the controls heated up and quickly pressed a button, making the robot fly up and hit Blossom out of the air.

"Blossom!" Bubbles rushed to catch her sister while Jojo escaped into the air. Buttercup stared after him, then turned back to her sisters rather than give chase. It wasn't like they didn't already know where he was hiding anyways. And even if they hadn't, the existence of the Battle Bot had erased any doubts about him using his old lab.

So the brunette flew down to where her sisters were already dealing with a crowd made up of teachers and students. Most of them had gathered around the girls, although a few teachers were inspecting the damage to the parking lot.

"We're okay, really." Blossom assured the crowd as she stood up. "It was just some overzealous rookie who thought he could take out a couple of kids. Nothing to worry about."

"Yeah, we kicked his butt ALL the way back to his house!" Buttercup spoke up from beside the redhead. "It was too easy!"

"Be that as it may." Principal Kane said as he made his way through the crowd to the girls. He was followed closely by Vice Principal Martin, who did not look happy. "We will, unfortunately, have to dismiss everyone for the rest of the day." He pretended not to hear the cheers from the students as he leaned closer to the girls. "You three, however, will be staying a little while longer, and I will be calling your father. I am afraid that there are things that need to be discussed in light of this attack."

The girls exchanged glances, feeling uneasy. Whatever he had to say, they had a feeling it wouldn't be good.

Hi everyone! Sorry this is kinda late. I got distracted with other things, and welll... Yeah. I'm a real big procrastinator. Buuuuut what else is new? XD

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