"I'll meet both of you at school so see you later!" Momoko then left the lab in the speed of light.
"Momoko-san is leaving for school much earlier than usual." Miyako said as she reads her fashion magazine.
"That's because she wants to wait for Ethan to show up, since she is the only boy in school who doesn't mind hanging out with her."
Kaoru turns to Professor Utonium. "By the way, did you figure out who Rider is?"
"No clue. There is no background or history about this individual. The footage of Rider that was sent in shows only very little of his powers so we don't know exactly what he can do." The Professor responded.
"I am sure he will show up once trouble shows again. See you later." Kaoru left with Miyako following behind.
At school, Ethan is about to come to the front entrance when he heard a familiar voice.
"Ethan-kun!" Momoko called out.
"Momoko-san?" Ethan becomes slightly confused.
"I was hoping I would see you today."
"I am guessing you are already going to do that everyday right?"
Momoko becomes worried. "Do you not like me talking to you everyday?"
"Quite the opposite Momoko-san. I just never expected to make a friend this quickly since I am still the newest student here."
"I guess that makes sense in most cases. I guess that would be why Kaoru and Miyako are my only friends in school."
"I am actually quite surprised that you don't have more. What is keeping you from making them?"
Momoko blushed a little, realizing that the reason she doesn't have any more friends, because they all thought of her as weird due to her flirty reaction towards good looking boys. This causes Momoko to remain silent for a while.
Not wanting to tease Momoko, Ethan changes the subject when he spots Kaoru and Miyako arriving.
"You friends are arriving now Momoko-san. I will see you in class."
"Okay. See you later." Momoko then turns back to Miyako and Kaoru.
"How are things going so far between you and Ethan?" Kaoru asked.
"Pretty good. He told me that he finds it weird that I talk to him everyday, because he never expects to make a friend so quickly as a new student."
"Really? I thought it is your personality that he finds weird since all guys rejected you because of it." Kaoru laughed.
Momoko pouts in response. "Hey, don't be so mean."
"Please don't tease Momoko-san too much Kaoru-san. I am just glad that there is at least one guy that understands her." Miyako intervenes.
"Whatever. Anyway, class is about to start so let's go."
Class ended early, but because they have another period, everyone in the class stays to relax although one of the girls in his class approach Ethan, apparently to ask him out on a date.
"Um, would you like to go see a movie with me?" The girl shyly asked, which earns her some ire from Momoko.
"Thank you for asking, but I am afraid I am not interested in dating anyone since I don't know many of you. I am sorry, but I am not ready yet."
The girl left with slight disappointment, much to Momoko's relief.
During this time, Ethan was able to get a head start on his homework and helped Momoko with some of the problems she has on it as well. Kaoru and Miyako decide to ask Ethan for help, but have forgotten they haven't introduced themselves yet.
"You girls must be Miyako-san and Kaoru-san right? Momoko told me a little bit about you two."
"We know a little about you from Momoko-san as well. I know is a little late, but it is nice to meet you." Miyako politely greeted him.
"It's nice to finally talk to the two of you as well, although Kaoru-san looks like she has something against me."
"Don't worry. Kaoru-san is like that to us also when we first met. It will be all right once we all know each other." Momoko responded.
"I didn't want to ask, but could you also help both me and Miyako with out homework?" Kaoru took out her textbook and shows Ethan where she is stuck on.
"Of course I can. Come on, let's get started." Miyako and Kaoru immediately took out their notebooks and gather around Momoko and Ethan to get started, much to the dismay of some of the other girls who wanted to hang out with him.
They were finished about 10 minutes before their next period started. Kaoru and Miyako left to get prepared for the period leaving Momoko and Ethan alone for the moment.
"Aren't you going with them as well?" Ethan asked.
"It's okay. I already had my stuff prepared before they did so I am not in a rush."
"I see."
Before the conversation continues further, Momoko heard a ring and the one who tried to call her was the mayor trying to warn her about an enemy coming to her school, but before the details can be explained, an explosion was heard in the hallway. Forcing itself in was none other than the same android whom the Powerpuff Z had trouble fighting the first time they encountered it. Transforming its arms into blades, it began to chase the two.
Before Momoko could react, Ethan instinctively picked her up and put her in a princess hold running from the android. They were able to avoid the android by turning left in the hallway and hide in a nearby janitor's closet before the android could catch them sneaking in.
"Stay here. I will distract the android for the others to retreat." Ethan whispers to Momoko.
"Are you crazy? That thing could have you killed in a matter of seconds."
"Don't worry, I can handle my own. I'll just hold on long enough until everybody can retreat."
"It is too dangerous. There is no way I will let you go through with…" Before Momoko could finish her sentence, Ethan muffles her with his hand.
"The thing is outside."
Once the android is directly in front of the door, Ethan releases Momoko and violently slams the door on the android to prevent it from taking sight of him. Ethan uses all of his body strength and pushes the android outside. With everyone focusing on the android, Ethan hides behind a bush and quickly transforms into the Rider, immediately coming out into battle.
Momoko, on the other hand, received a call from Kaoru, who tells her that she and Miyako are fighting two of the androids that suddenly attack the town.
"I can't leave, because the school is also being attacked by the same being."
Not knowing what to do, Kaoru and Miyako accept Momoko's decision to stay. Once the call ended, Momoko leaves the closet to find that a battle is going on outside on the yard between Rider and the android.
"Rider? What is he doing here?"
As the battle continues, Ethan and the android had a brief stare down before the mechanical being turns his arms into blades.
"So that's how you like to play it huh? That's fine by me." Rider then summons his sword from his armor.
It turns out that the android isn't just looking for a simple sword fight as multiple blades appear on each arm and begins shooting them towards Rider. Rider simply waves them of with his own blade and begins charging at the being at full speed. Clash after clash, both the android and Rider are not able to get the upper hand on each other though it appears the android is now on the defensive. Despite the android's high speed and stealth, Ethan's powers as Rider allows him to keep up.
Momoko realizes that watching the battle won't help Rider so she decides to get involved with the battle as well. After Momoko finishes transforming into Hyper Blossom, she takes out her yo-yo and launches it towards the android.
"Caramel Apple Shoot!" The yo-yo made direct contact to the head of the android as it was distracted with Rider, knocking it hard to the ground.
Rider took a look at Blossom and sees a worried look on her face.
"Thanks for the save, but is something wrong? You seemed a little down on something."
"Have you seen a boy who suddenly dashed out to the yard against the android? I saw him coming out when I was able to get to the school."
"He is safe so don't worry. I was able to get to him before the android could make his move. The last time I saw him was when he was helping the students evacuate."
Knowing that Ethan is alive, Blossom becomes relieved and smiled at Rider before turning her attention to the android.
"Rider-san, this thing is still alive!"
Rider immediately turns his attention to the android, but as he examines him, he notices a cut in its arm from making slight contact from Rider's blade. Seeing no blood coming out, along with electricity coming out from the wires, Rider finally realized that this being is not living, but a machine. With that information, Rider immediately charges towards the android with his blade.
"This is the end for you!"
Rider strikes the android with his blade, slicing off the head from the rest of its body, causing it to break down permanently. Blossom heads towards Rider's position and stands beside him after the battle looking at the damaged android.
"So that thing was not a person, but an android?" Blossom asked.
"It appears so. Whoever the enemies are must have access to high-level technology. With that knowledge, we must be more prepared in case they strike back.
In another area of Tokyo City, Blossom and Buttercup were able to destroy the other two androids that attacked, but apparently not without much difficulty as they are seen currently out of breath from the battle.
"Who knew that the thing we were fighting were robots instead of people?" Buttercup said still out of breath.
Miyako is still also out of breath, but speaks anyway. "I didn't. I just hope Momoko-san was able to beat that thing."
"Then we better head to school and find out before it's too late." Kaoru and Miyako then flew back to school.
When they arrive back to school, they were appalled by the damage that was done to it, even though the damage was only minor, but became saddened to see that the ambulance was called carrying a few of the students away. The cause of their injury was caused by structural damage when some debris fell on them. Despite injuries, there were no casualties in the school.
They then saw Blossom transformed back into Momoko and they do the same.
"Momoko-san, are you alright?"
"I am fine Miyako. I am glad that you two were able to come out okay from your fight."
"You don't even have a scratch on you compared to us. How were you able to get out of this fight like nothing happened?" Kaoru becomes a little irritated.
"Rider-san came to the rescue just in time to allow everyone to evacuate. Both me and Rider-san took down the machine together." Momoko responded.
"Why did Rider save the school instead of the town?"
"Calm down Kaoru-san. Maybe Rider-san happens to be closer to the school by this time so it couldn't be helped." Kaoru mellows down after hearing Miyako's explanation.
"By the way, where is Ethan? Did he run away scared?"
"Helping the school closed the part of the hallway broken down in the attack. Please don't be so rude to Ethan-kun if you think he abandoned me Kaoru-san. He is a lot braver than you think. He hid me in the closet and ambushed the robot to buy time for students to evacuate."
"You saw him doing that right? Ethan-san is brave isn't he?" Miyako starts showing slight admiration towards Ethan.
"Nobody would have done what he did so yeah he is brave." Momoko giggled a little.
"We better go help the school since this is the first time something like this has happened here." Kaoru suggested.
With the three finally settled with the situation, they all left to help.
School didn't happen the next day, as they were all still recovering from yesterday's attack.
Professor Utonium and his son, Ken, decided to take the time in analyzing the android given to them by the girls to have it studied.
"So these are the things that attacked the town nearly a week ago and it happened again just yesterday correct?"
"Yes Professor, but Rider-san came just in time to save the school so me and him were able to defeat the android there while Miyako-san and Kaoru-san were forced to face them on their own." Momoko responded.
"We already know that Rider-san came sense Peach sensed him coming. The real problem is we don't know who keeps sending the androids. Do you know anything Professor?" Ken asked.
"I don't believe that such technology would make itself public if it did exist. I am going to see if this android has anything that could lead us to whoever built this. You girls better stay alert. Even with the new hero helping us, even he could be overwhelmed."
"You got it Professor. Since it is our day off, let's go have some fun for a bit." Kaoru immediately grabs her skateboard and rides herself out of the lab.
"Hey! Wait for us Kaoru-san!" Both Momoko and Miyako yelled.
Ken hits his head out of disappointment. "I got a bad feeling about this."
Both Peach and Professor Utonium agreed as both are also disappointed with the girl's behavior in the situation.
In the meantime, Ethan is at home watching the news after reporting the attack to base. The attack on Tokyo City reports that more than 20 casualties were spotted among the general public and about 40 injured. The news report also gave credit to the Powerpuff Z who were there fighting, but Momoko and Ethan weren't given the same credit since they weren't there, although the media is soon going to follow the reports to the school since it was also attacked during the same day.
Feeling restless, Ethan decides to talk a walk around the neighborhood to get some groceries. After getting his needed supplies, his phone started ringing.
"Hello? Who is it?"
"Hey Ethan, do you recognize me?"
"You're that informant."
The informant becomes irritated. "My name is Edward you know."
"That is because you haven't told me your name since we first met. Anyway, I'll just call you Ed for short. It's easier to call you by that name."
"Whatever. I just wanted to tell you great job for stopping the attack with Powerpuff Z. Normally when three androids attack, we often have to send quite a few of our own troops to deal with them, butI guess that is not the case with the four of you working together."
"I can only thank the Powerpuff Z for making both of our jobs easier since they don't know about us yet."
"Neither do we know about them, but it wouldn't matter as long as they can help."
Their conversation is halted when Ethan saw a slightly damaged truck in a deserted warehouse, which indicated that a struggle took place.
"Ethan, you suddenly became quiet. Is everything all right? Are you still there?"
"Yes sir, I just found something a little out of the ordinary and I am going to check it out." Ethan approaches the truck.
"Be careful Ethan. Do you need us to send assistance to your area?"
"Not at this time."
When Ethan opens the back of the truck, the first thing he sees was a restrained creature that he never saw before and was appalled by his appearance.
"Ethan, what is wrong? What do you see?"
"Ed, I am afraid I will have to call you back. This is something I want to deal with own my own for now."
"Wait!" Ethan hangs up the phone as he continues to stare at the tied up creature, which in return stares back at him.
"Are you an Invader?" Ethan asked with extreme caution.
