Yo guyz, about time i wrote about another puff right? Hope you enjoy!
Chapter 4 - The Street
I was walking down the street with my hood up so no one could see me. Not that many people were in the streets anymore, but it was best to take a precaution.
Ever since Blossom "lost" the fight, the city went crazy; criminals went loose, people started spending a whole lot of time in home, no one took care of the town anymore. I just got here, but the news told exactly what I saw. Townsville was the worst, but the whole world was in this crisis.
The Mayor?
The Mayor was hidden in his house with his wife. He's not Mayor anymore.
Mayors don't exist in these times. Rulers exist.
Brick, Boomer, Butch and Mojo. They are rulers. Just like other criminals.
Mojo rules The City of Townsville and the Rodyruffs rule some other big cities not far from here.
At the second Blossom fainted in the battle ground, me and Buttercup went to catch her. But instead, Buttercup attacked Brick and I couldn't stop her.
"Buttercup STOP!" I yelled that day. "You're going to get us all killed!"
But she didn't, and that was enough for Butch to butt in and send Buttercup right next to me and Blossom on the ground.
"The rest of you better run away now or you will never see your sister and your professor dead or alive again." Butch shouted.
I didn't even know how they found the Professor, but all was lost. It just snapped before my eyes. We actually lost that fight.
"Let's go Bubbles, we can't do anything anymore" Buttercup said.
That was when Brick floated down and pulled Blossom to himself.
"What are you doing?" I tried to grab the fainted Blossom back.
"Don't you remember? If you guys lose, we win all, if you win we will never be seen again ever. We won." He looked at Blossom. "…So, you guys gonna wait for them to catch you or are you just going to give in?"
"No! Let's make things more interesting, let them run and we'll catch them like a hunt!" Boomer said floating down excited.
"Whatever" Butch said crossed arms. I looked up at him. He looked indifferent but the way he looked at Buttercup made him seem like he had a dirty plan in his head.
We had the fight in a rocky place above sea level. I turned to Buttercup and she looked at me then to the Forest, again me then the forest.
Gotcha sister.
"Okay, so one…" Boomer was jumping. "Two…" He prepared himself just as me, Buttercup and Butch did in one second. "Three!"
I zapped away to the forest with all my might, I ran until I was flying almost reaching the tree tops, but I didn't pass that height or else I could be seen.
After one minute or two of extreme flying –the forest was that big– I saw an elevation, meaning that a mountain was up ahead and if Boomer was still on my track, I could easily dodge him here because the trees were getting thicker.
I could only hear the leaves of the tress passing me by, and then suddenly, I turned left and didn't stop until I got to a rocky part of the mountain where I found a little pond.
I landed at the edge of the pond and kneeled grabbing the humid earth on my hands. I breathed heavily and drank some water.
Oh my gosh, what about Buttercup and Blossom? Should I really have gone this way? Shouldn't I go back and see if Buttercup is okay?
I stood up and sat behind a bolder waiting for a sign of Boomer.
No sign of him. But I wanted to make sure. I thought a bit and the idea came to me like a splash.
"I hope this works!" I whispered to myself.
"Chirp, chirp chirp chiiirp!" I called for my old friend.
Nothing happened. Actually I heard nothing, nothing as in quiet.
Until some birds chirped. Then they began to chirp equally and the sound of the birds became louder and passed to other birds. The bird's song was getting fainter and fainter as I heard the song enter the forest.
"Those animals! Getting smarter each day!" I smiled to myself and waited for some minutes.
After what seemed like ten minutes, a bush waved and I heard a sound:
"Chip? Chirp Chip!" A squirrel hopped out of the forest, and slowly came closer to my hiding place.
"Chirp chirp chiiir! It's me Bullet, Bubbles!" I whispered.
"Chip chip!" He hopped on my head playing with my hair.
I played with him happily. I missed him, it had been a year since the last time we fought together.
"Hey Bullet, can you do me a favor? Chir chir chirrp?" I asked as he floated to my front.
"There's a mean blue bad boy coming after me and he's evil, so if you can locate him for me I'll be reeeally greatful!" I translated that for him so he could understand.
"Chirp chirp chiiirp!" He raised his paw to his forehead and zapped away. After that I heard a great noise from the forest for two seconds then all returned to normal. That was Bullet telling his friends what was happening.
After 20 minutes I became a little uncomfortable, but then again, I got this far in the forest in 2 minutes, so Bullet must be watching carefully the forest.
I was still behind a boulder when I heard a ruffling in the trees. I stayed quiet.
"Chiirp." Bullet called out. But I waited until he was near me.
I heard a sound of something waving. And I saw Bullet walking on front of me. I silently stood up. Bullet wasn't looking at me at all. He sniffed the ground meters away from me then looked back from where he came.
Oh my gosh he's so smart.
"Chirp…" He walked over to the bushes.
"Waddya mean she's not there? I heard you talking to that bird, she was here." Boomer walked to where Bullet had sniffed some meters away, his back faced to me. My heart skipped a beat, he would turn around.
He was beginning to turn around, I prepared myself to jump on him, but before that could happen, Bullet jumped on his face.
"What da?" He fell to the ground. "Get off me I have heat vision" he warned.
"Chirrp chirp!" Bullet looked at me, at the same second I started to run away, but before I exited that pond area I heard Boomer shoot his heat vision directly on Bullet.
"Why won't you die? Ouch! You have powers?" I ran as fast as I could but I didn't go far when I saw Bullet zoon by me. Boomer had shot him this far!
"Bullet!" I shouted.
"Chhi..rrrpp… Chirp" He looked weak and burned. I held him in my hands and was choosing between running away or revenging my friend. "Chirp!" He weakly demanded me to run away, he would be safe, he said.
"Hey idiot! Come back here, let me finish you!" I heard Boomer yelling. I grabbed Bullet tightly and ran towards the other side of the mountain making sure Boomer was after me. If he could beat Bullet, imagine what he could do to the entire forest!
I started to fly and I passed the big mountains, the vegetation started to get less thick.
I had passed twenty minutes flying, when we reached the desert. As I expected, we were miles from Townsville and I reached the desert so I could fight Boomer without harming much creatures. I stopped around a little rock to place Bullet gently under its shade. He looked much better; he was just burned and needed rest. If he was a normal squirrel he had been dead a long time ago.
I turned to face Boomer meters away coming towards me in high speed as he landed some feet away.
"Ah, giving up already? But the fun was just starting!" he pouted looking at me directly with his deep blue orbs.
"You're going to pay Boomer." I whispered and I knew he could listen.
"Just because of your squirrel? Is he dead yet? I thought he was super." He smirked at me.
"You know what I'm talking about" I shouted trying my best angry face ever.
"Aaaw you look so cute when you're-" I started my sonic scream, I was tired to be called cute even when I don't want to, he was playing with me and I didn't like it. At all.
He pressed his hands on his ears and waited. I don't know why, but the Rowdy's were stronger. They got stronger from day to night. Something was wrong about them. They cheated big time.
"Done yet?" He asked and walked calmly to me as I catch my breath and floated up.
No way am I done mister!
I shot to him burying him in the sand and punched his face as hard as I could and zapping him with my heat vision. That lasted 10 seconds until he began to scream angrily. I shot out of the sand, grabbed Bullet and escaped to the south.
Since then, I didn't look back. I stopped several times, one of those times I placed Bullet back in the forest and told him to be extremely careful and if anything happened to the forest it was my fault and he should call me right away.
When I ran away I was really confused, I didn't know what to do, Boomer looked reeeeally angry and I just knew he wouldn't leave the forest alone. I hoped that he at least wouldn't set fire to it.
I stopped a few times per day to take a bath and eat fruits I collected from the trees, but that was it. I only travelled through forest waiting for a call from Bullet, hiding myself and eating what I could. I was miserable, I just could think about the idiot thing I did back in the desert. I risked every ones life at the forest. I was really scared of what Boomer could do. Maybe he could tell what happened to him to his brothers and make them kill my family too. And worst: I just fled every time; I never stayed to see how things ended.
The only "fun" thing was that when I had a bath, I used some of the fruits I collected as a shampoo and conditioner. I thought it was funny because I used a mixture that actually made it bubble and passed it on my hair and it smelled nice and made my hair feel soft.
Once I entered a national park, which made me even more careful. If anyone saw me they would think it was rather strange, because my clothes were in bits and I didn't have anything that proved I was just visiting.
"Mommy?" I heard a little girl call from afar. I couldn't help but get closer. "Mommy I'm lost!" She yelled.
I stood behind a tree right next to the little girl.
"Mooommyy!" She screamed. "Sniffle, snif".
"Pssst!" she stopped making noise. "Hey, little girl" I called out.
"Hu?" she asked. "Who's there?" she started to come closer to the tree.
"Hi, my name is Katy. Are you lost?" I finally walked out "introducing" myself. It was better if she didn't know who I really was.
"Wow, what happened to you lady?" she asked looking up and down at me. She looked like she had 6.
"Umm, I fell." I smiled weirdly.
"Oh... Have you seen mom?" she asked wiping her tears.
"No, but I can help. Can you wait just a second?" She nodded. I sat down, closed my eyes and heard a bit of yelling:
"How could you lose your daughter Monica? I never lost you when you were little." An old voice shouted.
"Mother I didn't lose her, she was right here then she wandered off. I didn't see. Will you quit yelling and look for her with me please?" Must be the mom.
"Are you with your mom and…"
"Granny, yes!" She smiled.
"Oh, I can lead you to them, just follow me!" I walked in front of her.
"But mom told me not to go with strangers anywhere" she stood there.
"Your mom is right" I laughed. "They aren't far. Just turn around that tree and walk until you see them okay?" I pointed the way. And she followed my instructions. I waited on that spot hearing carefully to see if she found her mom and grandmother. She did. Also she told them that a girl named Katy helped her. Her grandmother said there was no one here but her mom wanted to see for herself.
I had nothing to lose. Might try a shot of luck to see if I get a job. So a straightened my clothes and sat by a tree.
"Hello, are you Katy?" Her mom asked.
"Yes, I am. I'm glad to see she found you!" I stood up smiling.
"Yes, Francine told me about you. Are you okay?" She frowned a bit and looked me up and down just as Francine had when she first saw me.
"Yes, I just fell from a hill. But I'm okay." I smiled.
"What can I do to thank you helping my child?" She asked with warm eyes.
"Well I'm looking for a job. Can you help me out?" I asked.
I told her a made up story of how I got there and she made me Francine's nanny. She bought me new clothes and let me sleep at a small room in her house. It was a coincidence since they just had fired her last nanny.
I worked for them for about two months and got better looking than before. Tried to fit in with the people and be normal. I watched the news every night, always paying attention for the Townsville news. Little by little the rowdyruffs were taking over the USA. The mayors were being traded for evil rulers and crimes were getting really common lately. I could do nothing or I would destroy my disguise. I saved the money I had because I knew that one day I would go back to Townsville and save my family and the citizens.
One day I got home from school with Francine and saw the news:
"The president of the United States is leaving for the safety of our country. His last orders are: Don't go out to the streets even if you're about to die.
Looks like with the awakening of Blossom Utonium, the criminals are getting scared and tougher for what's coming. Will this mean that a war is about to start? Or will Brick kill her for good? Stay tuned."
After that I saw the first video shoots of Townsville since a left. It looked terrifying, with almost no one in the streets, almost every store with the glass broken and stuff robbed. I had to do something. I had seen lots of crimes in the city I was living, right before my eyes. I tried to protect the family I had in hands the most normal way I could. But now I had to say good-bye and save Townsville.
"Oh my goodness! Even the president!" Francine's grandmother said.
"Katy, I think I must let you go now. You have a family don't you? You should be with them." She told me.
"Ma'am, I've been lying to you." I walked fast to my room packing my stuff before she could kicked me out her house.
"What do you mean? Are you telling me you're a criminal too?" she slammed my door opened.
"I'm sorry. I needed to find shelter and you were the only people who could get me that." I didn't look in her eyes.
"Mommy, what's going on?" Francine was in her pajamas.
"Katy lied to us Francine. Stay away from her!" she picked her child up. "Katy explain yourself or I'll call the pol-" She was going to say police but they weren't any good anymore.
"Katy! Where are you going?" I stopped at the front door everyone looking at me.
"My name isn't Katy. I'm Bubbles and I must stop this." I grabbed my suitcase but before I could leave someone grabbed my hand.
"You really think you could fool me?" Mrs. Hangoove looked at me.
"Hu?" I looked confused.
"Just as I was leaving Townsville with Monica, you were the little heroes, the Powerpuff Girls. You guys saved me once, that's why I'm here with Monica today. I never forgot those blue, pink and green eyes ever." She said pulling me inside.
"So… You knew all along?" I asked.
"Yep. If it weren't for me you wouldn't be a nanny. I made up Monica's mind."
"You're Bubbles?" Monica's eyes were wide opened. "You saved mom that time at the building" She smiled. Unfortunately I couldn't remember because I saved several people before.
"Mommy, she's Bubbles from the stories!" Francine hopped from her mother's lap and hugged me.
"I guess so." Monica smiled. "I'm so sorry I shouted at you"
"That's okay, you've been so nice to me!" I smiled. "But I have to go. I've got to find my sisters!"
"Wait. You need a disguise. If anyone sees you like this, they will know it's you" Mrs. Hangoove said.
After that, Francine went to bed and the two nice ladies made me have a makeover. They died my hair brown, got some old clothes that were all black and hid my face well. They packed some food for my trip to Townsville and made me go to sleep.
By the time the sun was rising. I was already leaving. But I didn't leave before I gave a kiss good-bye on Francine. She cried and all but I promised her I would come back one day to visit.
The family stood by the door watching me head to the woods in full speed. No one would see me.
And that's how I ended up walking down this desert street in Townsville looking for a sign of shelter or my family. I think I should go to my old house. Just to see what's happened to it.
I know I know, this chapter was sooooooooooooooooooooo lame! I promise next chapter will be much more fun :)