A/N: All right...I have added this bit at the beginning of the chapter to inform you of some major changes that have happened in the production of this fic. As I have previously stated, my editor has had no time to edit due to his recent loss of the internet and his mum is refusing to get it fixed. I have waited for over three months for him to fix it and he never has and it is you the readers and myself who are paying for it...thus it was with a heavy heart that I was forced to let him go. This means that you will probably find a few spelling mistakes within this chapter and future ones. If you are interested in taking up his job then PM me, with this you will have a large say in what will happen in the future as well as the obvious advanced readings of chapters.

On lighter news, my computer has recently been eaten alive by a virus that has destroyed all my saved files (wait didn't I say lighter?) This has resulted in me having to re-write everything but to a better stranded then before, the fic is better than ever. Also I have now opened a YouTube account where I will post a new vid for each chapter to set the mood and the like, the link can be found on my accounts page if you want to see them (I'm new to video making so bare with me on their quality).

In short a new era has dawned for Coming Darkness FanFiction. I have lost the one who made all of this possible but will continue and have returned better then ever.


A/N: Well here is chapter 3, finally. First thing I would like to say is I am not happy with this chapter but I wanted to get it released due to messed up time tables back at 'Coming Darkness fiction central' (a.k.a: My house and my Editors lack of internet connection) , don't be surprised if it gets re-released at some point. This chapter marks the end of the Gigan battle and yet the start of everything else.

Nigel has come to play a bigger part then I intended as I've sort of come to use him to show the 'civilian side' of the battle. This allows me to show that the battles not just affect the girls. In the cartoons, buildings would get destroyed or the entire city would be obliterated. This allows me to show that the battles not just affect the girls. In the cartoons, buildings would get destroyed or the entire city would be obliterated and no one would pay it any thought, this always got on my nerves because I couldn't help but think about the people inside, how many people died in this show. So yer, I'm using Nigel to represent the common mans point of view in a battle that he is no longer really a part of. There will most likely always be someone to represent this in my fics so watch out to see if you can guess who it is.

Anyhow: I'm not happy with the aerial fight at the moment mostly but then I'm never 100% happy with my work...I'm my own worst critic.

Disclaimer: I still don't own anything but with every subscriber I get closer, come on people, and join me! HAHAHA….errrr…yer sorry about that I went a bit crazy. Still the point remains that I don't own any characters, just the story.

Also on another note, on the poll that I set up since last chapter I got a grand total of two people voting. Come on guys, I know more than that read my stories, I know how many of you are subscribed and how many message me and it a lot more than two. I want this story to able to appeal to as many people as possible, that's why I'm setting up poles such as that, to make it better for you. So can we get more people voting next time please?

As for the results it's a unanimous result of two of you wanting Bubbles and Boomer getting together while Buttercup and Butch maintain a sort of rivalry friendship, this shall be done. If you don't like that result then it's your own fault for not voting. Was that a little harsh? Sorry but I've made my point and hope you enjoy the story

Oh and major thanks to Tibby Kitty for your help and AnnoCat for voting, people like you are what keep me writing my stories. Remember I am always open to your advice or anyone who has ideas, just PM me and I'll reply ASAP.

Oh and again, the Halo quote my editor told you to find in the last chapter was said by Brick: "Finish this fight!" Did you find it? This time try to find the Pokémon quote, it's from Pearl and Diamond

Chapter 3

Kijui and Boys

"Sir? Sir stay with me"

Commander Nigel Uno groaned loudly as he suddenly heard the sound of someone screaming at him piercing the silence. He couldn't feel anything around him, like he was in a sort of dream. He vaguely registered the feeling of being shaken, what sounded like heavy rumbling and crackling fire, a massive booming sound that sent a long termer through the ground. He tried to open his eyes but sheering orange and red light pierced through his eye lids, preventing him from seeing anything more than pulsating orange light and shimmering black silhouettes leaning over him. What sounded like voices seemed to pass by him, seeming to whisper from a far distance despite their obvious proximity. He strained to hear what they said but was still only able to pick up odd bits of their conversation, bits that he did not like the sound of.

"We have to get out of here…I don't think the Powerpuff Girls can stop that thing"

"What about these new ones? Do you think there friendly's?"

"How the hell should I know? Just help me get the commander out of here before we find out, that machines looking rather angry"

Nigel grunted as he felt the men wrap their arms around him, roughly lifting him into the air. He could feel the heat getting worse; he could feel his skin burn and blister as he was carried through what seemed to be a burning doorway. Whenever he tried to open his eyes he was struck by the searing light of the fire and forced to close them again. He could only put his weakness down to his loss of blood and place his hope and trust in whomever it was that was carrying him. A hope that seemed futile as he heard the deafening screech of Gigan from somewhere above him, with no reply from the Powerpuff girls.

"Shit look out!"

A sudden explosion of sound made Nigel scream as his weakened senses were suddenly bathed in heat and the terrible screeching sound of something falling. He managed to open his eyes enough to make out a massive dark shape plummeting towards him before the man who was carrying him threw him to the side. Nigel grunted as he smashed against a burning car skeleton with a thud. The force of the blow however seemed to allow him to regain some of his senses as he finally managed to open his eyes, his still blurry gaze falling upon the man who had saved him.

In the centre of the road stood the form of a soldier, one arm hanging loosely against his side and his other raised into an informal salute towards him before he looked up.

Nigel's eyes widened in horror as the burning wreckage of a helicopter smashed into the roof in the far side of the road, the rotor blades cutting through walls in an explosion of dust and flying shrapnel. There was a deafening groan of protest from the building before it gave way and it fell to the ground, straight on top of the lone man. The army commander screamed out as he saw one of the people he had been in charge of protecting being crushed beneath the rubble, and began trying to claw his way over towards him.

"Sir no!" Nigel gasped as he felt the second solder grip him and pull him away from the fire. "I'm sorry sir but he's gone…"

BOOM

The two men were suddenly thrown to the side as a streak of green light plummeted from the sky and collided into the already ruined road. Everything was still for a second before a second, slightly darker, streak crashed into the hole and pulled the first one back into the air.

"Sir we have to go now! This place is getting worse by the second" The solder shouted and cursed as he pulled the now un-responding commander away. Around them explosions erupted, as Gigan continued its onslaught and Beams of light shoot across the sky as the Powerpuff girls fought their new foes. What was left of the Downtown area was fast becoming a wasteland, the fighting superheroes and alien war machines combining to make an incredibly affective tool of destruction. They couldn't see any sign of their men other then the charred corpses that littered the burning streets. There was no movement in-between the flames; it was as if the entire city was dead except for them and the fierce fighters above. His city was being destroyed around him…

"No…"

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"Damn it!"

Buttercup snarled as she received a heavy kick to the face. She flew beneath a bridge as her eyes lit up a deep red and beam of red light flew out of each, much like Gigan had been doing all this time she thought. She smirked with satisfaction as her 'eye-blast' struck her pursuer in the back, sending him crashing into the ground. She shot down and slammed her foot into the dazed boys face before he could recover his senses before gasping as recognition flashed across her face.

"Butch?"

"Hey" the boy grinned at her, using his sleeve to wipe away the blood that had ran from his mouth "Long time no see. Miss me?" his grin was cruel as he stood and dusted himself off. He looked up at her and raised an eyebrow. Anyone else would have been intimidated as hell to see the green Powerpuff leaning over him, her good hand clenched into a fist, whilst her broken hand was cradled against her breast, her green eyes narrowed in anger. But Butch simple grinned and placed his hands on his hips "I'll take that as a yes then shall I?"

"You can take that as a go to hell"

"Ha ha, that's more like it. Now let's get this done, go on I'll let you have the first punch. Come on and show me what you got hun"

"What did you call me?" Buttercup suddenly screamed as she launched herself at the green Ruff, who shot into the air and over her, causing the girl to fall forward and crash into the floor where he had just been stood.

"Hey Butch get over here!"

Butch frowned as he looked up to see Brick looking down at him, hovering in mid air near the top of one of the ruined sky-scrapers.

"Sorry love, but I guess we're going to have to finish this another time, you've just been saved by the bell so to speak"

Buttercup snarled as she turned to see Butch take flight and head towards his brother, before she felt the soft thud of Blossom landing next to her.

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"Yo, Boomer! What the hell do you think you're doing?"

Butch sighed and shook his head as Brick shouted down at their brother. While they had been fighting their female counterparts, it seemed like Boomer and Bubbles had just been starring at each other and talking. Boomer had started to fight but Bubbles had simply refused and thus they had started talking about god only knows what. Now they were just stood there, starring at each other in silence and completely ignoring their siblings.

"Boomer get here now!"

Finally, Boomer glanced up, said something to Bubbles and shot into the air to join them. Below him they saw Bubbles give what seemed to be a wave before vanishing into the air to join her sisters who had gathered on the ground in one of the ruined streets.

"What the hell was that Bro?" Butch asked as Boomer nodded at them in greeting. "We came here to fight those girls not to have a nice chat with them. What were you even talking about?"

"Nothing. She asked me why I was back, I said that I'd come for her and I think she took that the wrong way. I spent the rest of that time trying to explain that I'd come to fight and defeat her, not to…errrr…be with her as she put it"

"…Jesus Christ Dude"

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"Ok leader girl" Buttercup shouted, her green eyes narrowed in anger at the fact that her fight with Butch had been stopped "Want to explain what's going on here?"

"I don't know what going on Buttercup but we have to make the most of it. The boys have agreed to stop attacking and help us fight Gigan for now, and then were going to have to deal with them"

"You're kidding right? Three of our greatest foes just returned from the grave after god knows had many years, and they just decide to help us!? That makes no sense!"

"Like I said, make the most of it…errr…are you ok Bubbles?"

"Huh?" Bubbles blinked suddenly as she seemed to realise that Blossom was looking at her, her eyes quickly flicking back to life after the glazed over look that they got whenever the blue Powerpuff went into one of her infamous daydreams.

"Come on Bubbles, this is no time to zone out on us"

"Sorry…don't know what I was thinking about…"

"God you're such a…"

"Girls can you hear me!?"

All three girls suddenly jumped as an explosion of static and Dexter's voice broke free from the damaged head pieces that they somehow still had in their ears. Worry flashed across Blossom's eyes as she heard the strained tone in his voice, she didn't know how long it had been since she had lost contact with him but it was obviously long enough to get him on the verge of panic.

The red Powerpuff often had trouble remembering that, even though he knew she had superpowers, Dexter always feared losing her whenever she was of fighting monsters or the like. He was still scared from the image of having his sister die in his arms and thus relied on her far more then even he ever realised. Back when they were kids, the Professor had shown the same worry; he had built them a giant robot to protect them, he would even throw himself into a fight that he didn't stand a chance of winning for them. Dexter showed the same amount of willingness to fight, but Blossom had made him promise to stay in his laboratory. She had said that it was because her sisters and her needed him to be their eyes and ears whilst they were fighting, but in reality it had been because of the fact that she couldn't bear to see him in danger herself. The professor had threatened her with being grounded back when she was a kid so she couldn't do anything to stop him, but with Dexter she could stop him. In a battle she had too many things to think about at once, she couldn't afford to have Dexter in the battlefield as well for fear that something should happen whilst she was busy.

"Girls…Blossom? Answer me!" Blossom blinked as Dexter's shouting brought her out of her train of thought.

"Yer we're here Dex" she said, her hand pressing rather unnecessarily hard on the earpiece "Sorry about that we had a…unexpected reunion"

"I take it you found out what those incoming anomalies were then? Are they hostile? Do you need any help? Because I have a couple of bots fuelled up and ready to go"

"No Dex we're fine. We had a little bit of trouble but I think we've reached an agreement and are moving back to stop Gigan. We need you there more than ever; you have to keep us posted on the machines energy levels and the like."

"But we can sense the static that its gun gives…ouch! " Buttercup cursed as Blossom hit her across the head, stopping her mid-sentence.

"As I was saying, we need you to give us advanced warning of attacks. We have the help we need now so don't worry about it, we're going for that decapitation plan that you came up with…"

"Hey who are you talking to?"

The three girls looked up as they saw a burst of green light shoot towards them, zigzagging in-between them before shooting back up to join the other two boys. Buttercup and Bubbles exchanged confused glances as they tried to work out what had been the motive of such random flight before Blossom gasped behind them. Turning they saw the red Powerpuff looking up with anger, her ear a dull pink where the ear-piece had been yanked cleanly from her. Checking themselves, both girls found that their own ear pieces had vanished and were now being handed out between the chuckling boys who had landed on a nearby building.

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"Girls, what's going on?"

"Who the hell is this?"

Dexter froze in confusion as he heard the voice of a young man break through the constant stream of static. He blinked before reaching out to his keyboard and directing the satellite camera he had hacked into to zone in on the homing beacon he had installed into the headpiece.

"I am Dexte…"

"Oh you know what I don't care" The voice cut in. It sounded filled with nothing but arrogance and anger. "Look we're kind of busy here. So will you kindly sod off?"

There was the sound of movement before the line was completely taken by static. Dexter growled as he flicked the satellite camera onto the labs main screen and saw three figures stood atop one of the roofs of downtown Megaville, the floating forms of the Powerpuff Girls landing gently next to them. The boys were laughing as they threw the headpieces onto the ground and smashed them with their feet, completely smashing them with a couple of over exaggerated jumps. With the headpieces gone Dexter could only watch the mute images of the girls and boys who looked like clones of each other talking before shooting into the air in an explosion of multicoloured light. His fingers shooting across the keyboard, Dexter once again redirected the satellite to follow them as they flew across the burning ruin of Downtown Megaville and surrounded Gigan, who had yet to stop from his attacks on the city for long enough to actually notice them. They hovered staring for a minute before suddenly shooting forward in complete unison and smashing into ever side of Gigan at once, crushing it with more strength then even Dexter dared to try to calculate.

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A/N: for the rest of this chapter there was quite a lot I wanted to put into it and not enough time so I apologize if its seems to be rushed, I will probably re-write it at some point and replace it

Gigan screeched as it swung its body around in a vicious ark, its giant scythe like arms slicing through air and building alike without even the slightest sign of resistance. The machine swung them around again in a giant X shape in front of it before blasting with its heat-ray in one swift movement. Around it, the forms of the Powerpuff Girls and Rowdyruff Boys shot in every direction, dodging every attack from the giant machine and blasting with eyebeam, powered punch and any other attack they could come up with at every inch of the machine they could reach only to draw the same affect. The two superhero groups eventually broke off from the attack and flew into the air, meeting up in a large circle above the war-titans head.

"Shit this thing is tough" Brick snarled as he rubbed the feeling back into his hand after trying to hit Gigan in the neck, ignoring the look of disapproval of his language from Blossom and Bubbles. His red eyes flicked towards Buttercup and he had to be grateful that it hadn't been broken like hers.

"I did warn you" Blossom sighed as she instinctively rose her hand to her ear, attempting to reach Dexter before remembering that it was gone and lowering it with a sigh looking up into the sky in thought, her eyes closing with what looked like worry.

Brick frowned as he watched her. Who was that guy on the head-piece to make her look so lost without him? Wasn't she one of the great Powerpuff Girls? Back when they had fought the girls so many years ago in Townsville they had fought alone. They had always stood tall against whatever villain had tried to attack and won with just the three of them. So why did they need this new guy who didn't even seem to see them worthy enough to come and fight with them?

"Hey…errrr, guys? What the hell is that thing doing?"

All six looked down to see Gigan snarling at them. Its entire body was slowly beginning to shake as the huge fin like appliances on its back groaned and extended. They snapped into place with a clang, causing the flesh like substance in-between them to stretch against them. The giant machine let lose a giant snarl before bending its legs and, with a great thud, leaped into the air. The fins shook in the wind and bent into a more erect position before they completely extended, shaping perfectly to match the direction that the wind was blowing before the machine landed again with a thud. Gigan growled again as it looked back up, its beak snapping shut. Again it jumped but this time the fins did their job and Gigan did not land, instead seeming to hover on the spot a couple of feet above the air.

"That doesn't look good…"

Suddenly, with a burst of almost impossible speed, Gigan threw its arms to its side and shot into the air, flying with the speed of a missile straight towards the circle of heroes. They cursed and scattered as it shot in-between them, the wind that it disputed causing them to lose their balance in the air, throwing them into irregular flight patterns. Gigan screeched again as it did a perfect U-turn in the air and shot back towards them, this time releasing a stream of fiery death from its Heat-ray which ripped the city below apart, wiping out entire streets with a single massive explosion.

A/N: Hey Gigans flying...

The Powerpuff Girls flew around the explosion as they desperately tried to regroup with their sisters whilst the Rowdyruff Boys simply split up and begun another offensive against the machine, which now easily dodged them in its flight. It was impossible agile in the air for something of its size. It spun in perfect barrel rolls and U turns the attacking boys had trouble imitating, everything it did seemed calculated and yet at the same time random. It would one second be in front of them, then make a sudden stop in mid air and appear behind them, just in time to release another blast of its Heat-ray.

"Butch, get behind it!" Brick yelled as he swung underneath Gigan arm and shot his eye-blast into its armpit, with once again made no affect. "Boomer, head underneath and I'll take the front. This thing has to have a weakness, whichever side it protects more must be the side that's the most vulnerable, that's where we will have to attack."

The two other Rowdyruffs nodded before disappearing to their designated positions and begun attacking. Gigan snarled in annoyance as it flew back up, its red eye searching out the location of each boy before it begun its attack.

Brick frowned as there was a deep mechanical whirl and two small compartments slowly opened on its chest. Something could be seen shaking and spinning from within before a huge metallic disk was released from each. The disks spun at terrible speed as it shot towards them in a strange imitation of a pair of ninja stars.

"Scatter!"

Once more the Rowdyruff boys split up in their desperate attempt to avoid the lethal disks. They shot across or beneath the disk, their supervision barely being able to catch a glimpse of the teeth like carvings that had been etched into the disks rim before the spinning metal smashed into a ruined building, slicing cleanly through it without even slowing down. The disks flew on for a second before seeming to curve in the air and shoot back towards Gigan, where they landed back into the holes in its chest with a loud thud and the scratch of metal.

"M'kay, that's a nice trick"

"Any ideas Bro?"

"Search me Boomer, this thing isn't gonna give in any time soon"

The boys shouted at each other, unable to keep together long enough to actually talk as Gigan continued to fly between them, keeping them apart. In the distance they could make out the forms of the Powerpuff Girls hovering in the sky. Why weren't they helping them?

BOOM

Gigan screeched in annoyance as it suddenly shot to a standstill in the air, the boys shooting past it in their slow reaction time. It snarled as its giant head turned to look back down at the street snarling as a single tank rolled through the devastated district, its gun releasing another shot.

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"Come on!" Nigel screamed as he released another round into the giant alien war machine. His face was almost completely covered in blood and he was forced to lean against whatever he could for support as he desperately tried to keep conscious, yet his face was one of pure determination. He roared in rage as Gigan slowly lowered back to the ground, its giant metallic feet crushing cars and tank alike under its sheer weight and its scythe like arms swinging in a vicious ark to clear room for itself amongst the burning skeletons of buildings.

"Come on! You've destroyed everything…killed my men…do you think I'd let you get away with it! I'm going to finish this right now!"

Nigel gritted his teeth as the tanks gun spoke again, sending a terrible shudder through the strained metal and bringing another fit of dizziness over his weak grip on reality. He could see the flashes of fire that erupted across the Kijui's body as the shells erupted around it, leaving no mark or blemish on its perfect shine. Gigan stood still, examining the tank with apparent interest as it rammed cars out of the way in its headlong drive towards it.

"What are you afraid of? Give me your best shot!"

BISHAAAAAANNNNN!!!

Buildings rocked as Gigan screeched out, the sound of its cry ripping across the air in a deafening wave of sound. As it cried it raised its head to the air, the ant like pincers on each side of its mouth bending and its tail raising up and slamming into the ground with an almighty crash. It was as if Gigan was answering Nigel's shouts as a sort of shout off. It screeched for what felt like an age before falling silence and looking back at the solitary tank, the small compartments on its chest opening again as the two saws within began to regain their speed.

"Let me see what you've got…"

BISHAANN!

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"Watch out mate!" Boomer shouted as Gigan released its quarry towards him. The tank didn't even try to avoid as it drove on, smashing another car onto its side. The three boys simply hovered as they watched the blades spin across the sky towards it at the perfect angle to slice the heroic driver straight into nothingness.

Closer…closer…

Suddenly a shot of red and blue shot above them, slamming into the top of the blades and sending them into an irregular spin, flying of their intended course and crashing into the nearby buildings in an explosion of rubble. Then the streaks shot into the buildings and climbed beneath the blades, slowly lifting them into the air and taking flight again, shooting directly towards Gigan. The Rowdyruff boys watched in complete shock as beneath them the Powerpuff girls began spinning on the spot before launching the disks back at Gigan.

Suddenly realising the threat Gigan screeched as its Heat-ray activated and engulfed the disks, which passed through the fire un-scratched and continued to fly towards it.

"Dex said that Gigan's metal can withstand nearly any heat, and this is the first time that's worked against it" Blossom beamed as she flew to join the boys with her sisters, ignoring Bricks expression of confusion at the mention of 'Dex' and instead addressed his brothers. "He also said that those disks can cut through any metal so we thought we would test that bit out"

"Test out?"

BISHAAA….

Gigan's screech was cut short as the blades suddenly struck into its throat; they cut through it inch by inch on each side before giving a terrible groan and shattering under the strain. Blood and oil alike sprayed from the machines wounds as it begun to swing its scythes around in a mad dance of pain, its tail curling up to its body.

"And now we finish the job, come on" Buttercup suddenly declared as the girls shot towards Gigan, leaving the boys to glance at each other before pursuing.

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Gigan screeched in pain and rage as it saw the humans fly up to it and hover around its bleeding throat. It could feel its systems shutting down one by one and knew it was now in no position to stop them as they stuck their hands into the tears in its armour and wrapped them around the top layer of amour.

"Heave" it heard one of them shout as the six super powered humans began to lift its head up from the cracks in its neck. It screeched and tried to swing its head around but it felt its nerve system break and its arms fell limp at its sides. Sparks and sprays of blood erupted from its neck, covering the humans as they put all their strength into lifting the war machines head, lifting impossible weight. The machines beak slammed open and shut again and again before falling still as another explosion of sparks signalled the shattering of another system and the giant war machine finally fell into silence. Its brain gave a final register of the humans as they gave a last great push and its head was ripped cleanly off, falling from its shoulders and smashing into the ground below.

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Nigel cheered as tears fell from his checks as he saw the machines head smash into the ground. He watched with grim satisfaction as the beak gave a final twitch before the red light of its eye faded and died. Above him he could Gigan's body sway on the spot before slowly falling to its knees, the crashing to the side, crushing buildings into dust in a massive explosion of rubble.

Gigan was finally dead.

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"Oh hell yer!" Buttercup shouted as she punched the air with her good hand watching the rubble fall from the machines now ruined body. All around her, the Powerpuff Girls and Rowdyruff Boys cheered together exchanging a few congratulations and thanks.

Together they gently descended and landed next to the tank that had made its heroic stand and pulled the hatch open. Inside they found a young man of approximately their age, leaning against the fall in unconsciousness. Gently the girls pulled him free of the tank and carried him to the hospital where they left him before returning to the Rowdyruff boys who had gathered at Gigan's decapitated head, sitting on its beak or leaning on the fin that still emitted from the top.

"So what now?" Blossom asked as they landed next to them, earning a series of raised eyebrows.

"Now, we finish our business" was all Brick replied before hoping down from his place and landing in front of her, flexing his fists. Behind him, his brothers simply rolled their eyes before Boomer tossed Butch a chocolate bar and the two settled down to watch.

"Oh come on Brick" Blossom sighed "I don't know about you three but my sisters and I just fought one hell of a big robot bird and would really like to have a rest before we have to fight our rogue clones"

"Who the hell said we were your clones!"

"Whatever, what I'm trying to say is why don't we call a truce for a bit longer and go have a rest, get back to full strength…and then beat the crap out of each other?"

Brick opened his mouth to argue but stopped when he felt a sharp throb of pain from his arm where he had hit Gigan, it wasn't cut but it was badly bruised. He had to admit, he wasn't in the top shape and nether we any of them, it wouldn't be the victory he had been dreaming of all these years if Blossom was at a handicap, even if he was too.

"Fine" he sighed as he threw his hands down in defeat "We'll play your game for now but as soon as we are all back to full health, your mine"

"I look forward to it" Blossom grinned before shooting into the air.

"Great, now I've got to go see Doctor Four-eyes. Lucky me" Buttercup could be heard mumbling as she followed, getting a laugh from Bubbles in reply.

"So what now boss?" Butch called over from behind, using the nickname he had for Brick whenever he felt like taunting him. It wasn't the name that was bad; it was the way that he said it, full of sarcasm and amusement.

"Guess we're gonna keep an eye on those three, I don't want them running away while our backs are turned"

"Oh I'm sure that's what they want to do" Butch laughed as he flew into the air, followed by a sniggering Boomer.

Brick sighed before slowly turning a stopping in his tracks. He narrowed his eyes as he glanced around the street, scanning for movement. He was sure he had seen something moving in-between the rubble…something that now even his more powerful eye vision could not make out. Finally shrugging it off, he took flight and followed his brothers.

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As the streak of red disappeared from sight, a tall slender figure emerged from the smoke. Giant lobster like claws wrapped around the left side pincer that stuck out from Gigan's ruined head as a hollow laughter echoed across the street.

"So it begins" A high pitched voice giggled as the claw tightened its grip.

The tighter the claw clutched, the greater the low red glow grew across the jaw. As it spread, alien metal that was able to withstand entering into orbit or a nuclear explosion began to bubble and collapse. Huge drips of molten metal splashed against the ground and ran across the figures arm, causing it to give an irritated tut and flick it wrist sending impossible hot liquid flying away as if it were nothing.

Slowly the figure raised its head to see a man step out of what seemed to be thin air. Red lips curled into a sinister, pointy toothed grin.

"Keep an eye on them…nothing more. I want to be sure that they continue down the…correct path" The claw clanked shut as the figure spoke, its voice low and commanding enough to terrify even the bravest of men. His companion however, merely raised an eyebrow and straightened his tie before turning and fading into the very air.

For a time it was still and then, with the faint sound of wind blowing, the figure vanished back into the smoke.

"A/N: Yes I haven't forgotten that Him is the villain of this story and not Gigan. But who is his mysterious companion?

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A/N: and now for a lot of dialogue

Dexter jumped from his seat and ran to the elevator of his lab as his computer finally registered the return of the Powerpuff Girls. Roughly he pulled his glasses of and cleaned them on his lab coat in his usual nervous tick whilst waiting for the lift to reach the right floor.

"I've really got to change this music" He groaned as the traditional elevator music began to play across the speakers. Why had he chosen it to play? Must have been back when he got slightly drunk that day when he….

"The Girls have now entered the base Dexter"

"Thank you computer, order the medical droid to head to their position immediately. We will wait for it there"

"Affirmative"

Dexter groaned as he heard Buttercup's voice drift through the corridor from the main landing bay that lead to a large sort of door that he had built into the roof of his house that lead straight down into his laboratory below. Since he had moved into his own house he had been able to build his laboratory into far greater levels then he ever dared back when he lived with his parents or the lab he had built within the school. Blossom and her sisters had helped him to move heavier and heavier machinery into his lab and eventually expand it so that it spread across the underneath of nearly the entire neighbourhood, spanning several miles in total. It had eventually gotten to the point where even some of his robots had needed to be given maps in order to navigate the labyrinth of corridors, a problem that had quickly been solved by Buttercup smashing a hole through the walls in a straight line to the exit when she was in a bad mood. The same mood she seemed to be in now…

"I just don't get why it has to be Four-eyes who looks at my hand. It will fix itself eventually so why do I have to have that nerd looking at it?"

"Because he's the only person in this city who has any idea how Chemical X infused blood reacts to injuries."

"Blossoms right Buttercup, Dexter can make you feel better a lot faster and…"

Dexter opened the door to find Buttercup scowling at her sisters, her green eyes narrowed in annoyance as she argued to defend herself. At sight of him the green Powerpuff folded her arms before wincing in pain as she banged her broken hand and hanging them at her side.

"Come near me and I'll freaking kill you Four-eyes"

"Tough fight Buttercup?" Dexter sighed as he walked into the room. He hated it when a strong monster or villain attacked Megaville because it always meant that Buttercup would be in a very bad mood whenever the Girls got home.

"You have no idea Dex" Blossom cut in, deciding to spare her boyfriend the obvious stream of swear words that Buttercup had been about to shout back at him. They exchanged a brief hug before the medical droid made its way into the room, it tilted its head across each of them, scanning their heart beats and breath speed among other things as it determined which of the four needed the most immediate medical attention. It gave a sort series of beeps before spinning forward upon its tank tread like base and moving up to an appalled looking Buttercup.

"Get away from me clanker" she shouted at it but to no avail. The droid made no obvious reply as hands that looked like they belonged upon a lego model clamped around her arm and pulled her hand in front of its blank face. It made a couple more beeps as it examined her hand before pulling a spray can out from the belt that hung around its waist and sprayed it around her hand. Buttercup frowned as the clear liquid began to crack and turn into a deep white. She winched in pain as the foam began to expand before forming a hard cast around her hand.

"Please refrain from hitting anything or putting your hand under any pressure for the duration of one week" The droid finally spoke in a deep, robotic voice "The cast will dissolve in approximately eight days, one hour, twenty-two minutes and two seconds. By then your hand should be operating at one hundred percent"

"errrr…thanks" Buttercup actually seemed to blush in embarrassment as she pulled her hand free from the droid, examining the cast that was still bubbling slightly. The droid gave a last beep before turning around and heading out of the door, leaving the green Powerpuff alone. She stood there for a second, examining her hand before her green eyes narrowed as she looked up at Dexter.

"Stop laughing" she snarled

"Errr…sorry Buttercup but I'm not the one laughing"

"Huh?" Buttercup, frowned as she slowly looked up at the still open hatch that came from the roof, straight into the faces of the laughing Rowdyruff Boys.

At sight of the boys the Powerpuff girls jumped into the air, hovering a couple of feet above the ground whilst Dexter pulled out the laser gun that he had concealed in his coat., the red cone shape that formed its head beginning to glow as it charged ready to fire.

A/N: if you're curious it's the laser gun that he used in the flash back from Bleedmans PPGD when he was having the battle with Mandark

"Who are you?" Dexter shouted as the boys slowly flew to the ground and landed in front of them, brief sniggers escaping them.

"I could ask you the same thing Four-eyes" Brick sneered, his fist clenching for an unknown reason as he saw Blossom move closer to him.

"Hey, I'm the only one who gets to call him four eyes!" Buttercup suddenly snapped in a rare moment of actual being on Dexter's defensive, prompting raised eyebrows from everyone in the room, including herself.

"Whatever" Brick shrugged before lowering his fist and sitting down on the plane that lay docked behind them, his brothers following suit "nice place you got here. So you gonna tell us who you are or do I have to beat it out of you?"

"My name is Dexter"

"Ok and how do you know the girls here?"

"I take the role of adviser and assistant to them whilst they are in dangerous situations and require assistance"

"Yer and he's also Blossom's boyfriend" Bubbles interrupted cheering out the statement as if it was the news that they had won the lottery.

Brick nearly gagged on the air he was breathing…

"Errrr….dude…are you ok"

"Yer Butch….I just….didn't expect him to be her boyfriend" Brick mumbled, looking away as he regained his composure.

"And what's wrong with him?" Blossom shouted, gently landing next to Dexter and wrapping her arm around his none gun wielding arm in a protective manner. Her red eyes narrowed in annoyance but she never relaxed as she waited for them to attack.

"Well…look at him. I mean he's all scrawny and…"

"Dude shut up…" Boomer muttered to him as he begun to step back alongside Butch. Brick frowned before noticing the murders looks that had filled Blossom as she slowly let go of Dexter and took a step forward, ignoring her sisters calls for her to calm down.

"So what…do you think your any better?"

"What? Hell no, like I'd want to go out with you!"

"Of course. All you ever think about is being number one and showing off your power. You have changed on bit since we beat you in Townsville!"

"I didn't come here to have you shout at me!" Brick shouted back, his eyes narrowing in anger "I came here to fight you and I would have done by now if it weren't for that god damned robot!"

"Well then I guess you should be grateful to Gigan for allowing you to still be in good health right now, because I'd beat you anytime"

"Errr…can someone please tell me what the hell is going on?"

"Shut up Dex, I'm busy"

Dexter blinked in shock at Blossoms anger. He opened his mouth to reply but was cut short by the sound of Brick shooting forward in a burst of light and smashing into Blossom, sending her flying into the far wall. In a matter of seconds Buttercup had attacked her own counterpart whilst Bubbles just blinked at hers in her typical confusion.

The blue superheroes seemed to stare at each other for a few moments before Bubbles walked over to him and began talking to him in an almost causal nature, seemingly oblivious to her siblings as they fought above them.

"Did you…did you mean what you said before?" She managed to ask, her normally quiet voice almost silent under the sound of fighting.

"Huh? Yer I did" Boomer said as took a fighting stance. There was another second of staring before Bubbles smiled and looked up at her sisters, raising her hands to form a sort of tunnel in front of her mouth. Boomer frowned in confusion before realising that she still didn't understand what he had meant when he had said that. "No wait I didn't mean…"

"STOP!!"

Bubbles' sonic scream echoed across the room, echoing from the metallic walls and sending powerful tremors through the air. Machinery groaned as the waves of sonic power struck them, toppling them over or smashing them against the walls. The four fighting Powerpuff Girls and Rowdyruff Boys alike we thrown apart, caught off guard by the power of Bubbles' attack. Finally she stopped as the rooms occupancies looked down at her in confusion, Boomer and Dexter pulling themselves off the ground while Blossom, Buttercup, Butch and Brick slowly flew to the ground, annoyed at the fact their fight had been interrupted once again.

"Why are we fighting?" Bubbles finally asked, slightly out of breath. She sighed as she looked each of them in the eye, ignoring the looks of anger "We've just meet each other after such a long time and all we're doing is fighting each other. That makes no sense! So no, Boomer said that he was here for me and not to fight so nether am I"

"Err Bubbles I…" Boomer mumbled, trying desperately to get her to listen to his explanation but was forced to settle for hiding his face in his hand as he caught the confused, amused and angered looks that were coming from his brothers.

"Bubbles is right" Blossom sighed, placing a hand on her sister's shoulder. "There is no point in fighting now. Besides we made a good team against Gigan…we should team up"

"What?" Brick snarled "Why would we seem you with you? All I want is to a last fight with you! Three on three! Is that so much to ask for?"

"Works for me..."

"Shut up Buttercup. You're not helping"

"Well sorry leader girl..."

"I still don't know what's going on..."

"I'll explain later Dex"

"Stop interrupting everyone Blossom..."

"I'm busy!"

The Rowdyruff Boys exchanged a series of confused glances as they watched the three girls in front of them break into some pointless argument amongst themselves. They seemed to forget completely about their rivals as they tried to calm Blossom down whilst Dexter merely wiped his glasses on his lab coat again. Slowly Boomer tapped Brick and the shoulder and gestured towards the sky, whispering that he was getting out of there, Butch merely shrugging his shoulders in agreement before they both exploded into light and shot through the hole they had flown in through.

An awkward silence fell across the room as the girls turned to look at him, expecting some explanation for the sudden disappearance. The red Ruff simply sighed before turning and mumbling "When you're ready to make sense and fight, let us know" before shooting into the air in an explosion of red light, never glancing back at the confused Powerpuff Girls.

A/N: YAY! I've finally finished this chapter…and I'm really not happy with it. I really just wanted to get it done after all of the things that have been happening and thus have not really done my best but whatever hope you enjoyed it all the same...is it bad that I felt sad when Gigan died?

Anyway, there will now be a year in-between the next chapter and this, not in updates but in time. The story based in-between these chapters 'Blues and Greens' will begin tomorrow so head over there to find out what happens next with the arrival of two more of their past foes and a new one. There will also be a Christmas special released on Christmas day called 'Christmas with the Utoniums' so look out for that and a special chapter called 'Burning pasts' which tells of the final battle with Him back in Townsville so stay tuned for more action and drama then you can handle :P

Oh and "prepare for unforeseen consequences..."