The next two weeks passed by in a blur for the girls. Every day they would wake up and go to school, just like normal. However, they would have to endure bullying by most of their classmates. While a few were nice - like Mitch, the brunet boy from their math class - it didn't make up for the others.

Their dad would bring them home from school, but then would go down to his lab to work on the cure. The girls, now free of supervision, would head for the volcano Jojo had chosen as the base for the machine.

"It will need huge amounts of power to even turn on. The geothermal energy provided by the volcano is exactly what we need." He had said when Buttercup questioned the wisdom of this decision. "The building we will build to house it will be heat and fire proof, of course, so it will be perfectly safe. No worries."

The genius monkey would give them a task they could do with their powers, or set them to training their powers while he worked. Occasionally, he would help them with their homework during breaks when a needed program was downloading.

Soon though, the dome was finished and the machine was built. The girls and monkey stood in the main lab area the machine was housed in. Jojo was comparing it to the blueprints while the girls finished up the last of their homework before the weekend.

"Girls," He started in a proud voice. "this is the greatest thing to have ever been built. Nothing else built has or will ever be greater!" He turned to them, a large, proud smile on his face. "Tomorrow, we will activate this machine, and the world shall become a better place!" He struck a pose and the girls clapped.

"We are gonna be so famous!" Buttercup said, leaping into the air to do loops.

"Finally, the other kids will stop destroying our stuff." Blossom muttered, not looking up from her worksheet as she scribbled down a few more answers.

"And everybody will love us! Right, Jojo?" Bubbles asked shyly. The monkey nodded, his proud smile replaced with an encouraging one.

"Yes, of course they will sweet little Bubbles. The four of us shall be known throughout the planet as the ones who changed the world for the better. All shall know us, and none shall forget us." He clapped his hands together eagerly, excited to get on with the project.

The girls were excited too. "What do you need us to do now, Jojo?" Bubbles asked.

"Nothing. You will be needed tomorrow, as that is when we will present the machine, but for today you must go home. Finish your studies, eat your dinner with your father, and get some rest. For tomorrow, is when the machine activates, and we will make the world a better place. Head to City Hall with your father in the morning, so that he may witness the glory of our machine."

The girls nodded and collected their things, waving to Jojo as they flew through one of the windows installed just for the girls to use. It was quicker than trying to navigate the maze of halls that made up the rest of the facility.

"Bye Jojo."

"See you tomorrow."

"Have a good night Jojo!"

Jojo waved back happily, though he grew serious after the girls were out of sight. He walked over to one of the lab tables and picked up a syringe. He stuck it into his arm and collected a blood sample. He placed the sample in a tube, then put the tube inside a machine by the computer.

While the sample was scanned, he walked around the lab and inspected each of the glass tubes carefully for any cracks or holes. Eventually the computer beeped that it was finished, and Jojo hurried back over to it to read the results. Among the list of chemicals making up his blood, there was only one at the end he was interested in. An alert that was slowly blinking red.

Unknown compound detected.

He pressed on the alert, bringing up a small menu.

Extract and replicate?

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Jojo selected 'Yes' then looked at the clock in the corner of the display.

"8:17 P.M. Perfect, the zoo will be empty by now, and everyone will have gone home." He rubbed his hands together, then opened up a drawer and pulled out a dart gun and some clips of special darts. He pulled on his brown overcoat and a tall hat, took a hidden elevator down to the base of the volcano. As soon as he'd exited it, he began to sneak his way through the city to the zoo.

Soon, he found himself standing outside the tall iron gates of the zoo. He scaled them quickly and headed straight for the monkey house. He approached the first cage, which held a giant silver back gorilla, aimed his dart gun, and fired.

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The next day dawned bright and sunny, and the three Utonium sisters woke with the sun. They got dressed with the speed that could only come from excitment then rushed down to their father's room to wake him.

"Dad! Dad!"

Wake up! Something important is happening today!"

"And we need to get to City Hall right away!"

Professor Utonium woke up and looked blearily at his three daughters staring down at him. "Wha...?"

He barely resisted as they pulled him out of bed, set him on his feet, and pushed him towards the closet. "Hurry up and get dressed. We'll make breakfast." And with that, they were gone.

The Professor stared at the closed bedroom door for a moment, the turned to his closet to get dressed. i'Might as well see what the girls have for me...'/i

He dressed and went downstairs to find a bowl of his favorite cereal sitting on the table. He looked to the sink to see three Bubbles putting three larger bowls in the dishwasher. Suddenly someone pushed him over to the table and shoved him in the chair.

"Hurry up and eat so we can get going!" That was Buttercup's voice. He felt a gust of air as she zoomed off to finish getting ready. The Professor just smiled and stated eating, pleased to see his daughters excited about something. The last time they'd been like this had been about two months before the move, when they were going to the fair in town. That had been a day.

The second he'd finished his last spoonful of cereal and drunk the last of his milk, Bubbles had snatched up the dirty dishes and placed them in the dishwasher. Then she grabbed his hand and pulled him to the front door.

"Oh Daddy, you're gonna love what we've done." She told him, pulling him to the car and the zooming around to the back.

"Yeah!" Buttercup whooped as they all climbed in. "See, we met this monkey in the junkyard, and he said that he designed a machine to make the world a better place."

"But he couldn't actually build it on his own." Blossom interjected as they drove down the road. "So after thinking it over a bit, we decided to help him."

"And he helped us, too." Bubbles spoke up. "He's why we have better control over our powers now. And why our grades are up, because he is really good at math and science."

"W-wow girls. T-that's um..." The Professor peered out the windshield, unsure of what to say. He hadn't notice them leaving the house, nor anyone coming over, especially not a monkey. But then again, he had been spending a lot of time down in the lab recently.

As they continued on, though, the family began to notice something weird. For one, nobody was out. Normally by this time, even on a Saturday, there would be people heading to work, either in cars or on foot. And for another, the closer they got to City Hall, the more destruction they noticed.

Empty vehicles and giant cracks covered the road while dropped belongings littered the sidewalks. As they drove closer to City Hall, the girls found they could hear screaming. Soon, the Professor could hear it too as they came up to a mob of people.

The "mob", as it were, was full of screaming, panicking people and surrounded on all sides by what seemed to be various species of primates. The Professor stopped the car and the family got out, having to continue on foot. When the monkeys saw the girls, they forced the crowd to split so the family could get to the front. Once they'd made it through the crowd, they saw Jojo waiting next to a tied up Mayor and wearing a strange outfit.

Jojo grinned when he saw them and motioned the girls up. With a last, confused look back at their father, they joined the monkey super-genius on the steps of City Hall.

"Jojo, what IS all this?" Blossom asked quietly as the other monkeys made the people quiet down. But Jojo just waved her off and picked up a microphone, tapping it and facing his audience with a smile.

"Hello good citizens of Townsville!" He greeted, voice echoing back from the speakers placed around the plaza. "You may be wondering exactly what is happening in the city. What is happening is greatness!" He began to pace while the girls stepped back.

"You, great people, shun anyone who is different. I know this from the way you have treated me, and these three precious girls. We have been attacked! Shunned! Made fun of! Well no more!" He stopped in the center of the stage like area and spread his arms wide. "Today that all changes! For I have created an army, and with it, we shall take over the world!"

All the other monkeys screeched their approval while the girls backed up further.

"This can't be happening." Bubbles muttered, sounding on the verge of tears. "It has to be a nightmare. Today hasn't happened yet, r-right Blossom?"

"Y-yeah, just a bad dream. It has to be! This can't be real!" Buttercup looked out at the people. Most were screaming or panicking again, but a few were glaring at the girls and monkey on the stage.

"Jojo, what are you doing?!" Blossom asked the monkey in desperation.

"It is simple Blossom; I am making the world a better place, just like I said I would." He watched almost with pride as his army started to round people up, forcing them into a tightly packed group.

Blossom opened her mouth to reply, when she saw the Professor climbing the steps. "Dad!" She ran over to him, her sisters following.

"Girls, what have you done?" He asked, looking back at the people.

"W-we didn't want this! He never said it would be this!" Blossom tried to defend themselves. "He just said it would make the world a better place."

"Please, you have to believe us!" Buttercup plead with him. "We didn't know!"

There was a pause while Professor Utonium stared at the crowd.

"Y-you do believe us, right?" Bubbles asked timidly, having ducked behind her sisters.

The Professor sighed and hung his head, looking lost. "I don't know what to believe, anymore."

The girls took several steps back, staring in shock. Bubbles let out a few choked sobs and Buttercup started shaking. Only Blossom stood absolutely still and silent, until a high pitched whine started. As it climbed in volume, the Professor, Jojo, and several others backed away from the girls as they started to glow. Utonium hesitantly reached out a hand to them.

"G-girls...?"

Without warning, the girls shot into the air, leaving a shock wave behind that blew out the windows of every building on the block and knocked everyone down. The Professor scrambled to his feet and shouted after them as they flew out of sight.

"Girls!"


And now for chapter seven, where things are starting to get super serious.
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