Link woke up the next morning in his bed on the floor at Bubbles house, he wondered if it had all just been a dream the night before when he turned into a wolf. Bubbles knocked on the door and opened it, "Wakey, wakey it's time to…" She stopped mid sentence and gasped. Link jumped up and looked at the ground where huge muddy paw prints stained the floor from the window right into Link's bed.
"What happened here?" Bubbles asked in a worried tone.
"I don't know." Link said confused, "I don't remember anything after the dinner with Gran-gran." He lied
"Maybe we should close the window in case the animal comes back, I mean I don't know if Gran-gran would like all that mud in the house." Link looked at the mess, it was quite a mess. "I'll clean it up before I come down." He said
"OK just bring the bed down too and Gran-gran can wash it while we're at school." Bubbles stated with a smile and turned and headed down the stairs.
Link went to the window and saw that the muddy prints just seemed to appear about halfway across the roof and down below the only prints in the mud were near the far outer wall. Link grabbed a towel and wiped up all the mud and then brought the towel and bedding down to be washed. He bowed and apologized for the mess.
"Oh, it's no bother. It's nice to have a young man around the house again I guess we will just need to get used to a little mess now and again." Gran-gran stated ushering Link into the kitchen.
The table was set with a small bowl of rice, an orange and some milk for both himself and Bubbles. He ate quickly and both he and Bubbles left for school. Link had donned a new outfit for class that day, he wore a plain green shirt with a red overshirt that had the sleeves rolled up to the center. His pants were khaki colored cargos that had huge pockets and he put on a pair of black sneakers. He followed behind Bubbles a little trying to memorize the city but for some reason everywhere he went it felt like he knew where he was going.
Bubbles was going on about something that she had seen the night before in the back yard but Link wasn't paying much attention until the other two showed up. Bubbles had chosen a nice blue uniform that included a one-piece shirt and skirt and her belt fit around nicely and evenly into the loops. Blossom showed up in her typical pink heart shirt and jean skirt with a large red bow in her hair. When Blossom arrived, however, she waived hi to Link and went and whispered something to Bubbles and pointed down the road a bit.
Link looked down the road and there was Buttercup. Her hair was straightened and her outfit was a good fit for her, she wore a nice green sleeveless top and a green plaid skirt that ended just above her knees. Her hair was tucked just behind her ears giving a nice accent that brought out her eyes. Link thought she looked amazing but then became aware that Blossom and Bubbles were there looking at them and smiling.
As she approached Link stretched out his hand, "Those books look kind of heavy I can take them if you want?" This sent Bubbles and Blossom into a whirl of giggles rubbing their chins across the palms of their hands.
"Shut up you two!" Buttercup yelled at them, "My brother's told me there was a dance today so I just got ready a little early that's all!"
Blossom whispered something to Bubbles that made her giggle and stare at them. On the way to school there was a lot of boys that were staring at Buttercup, one was staring so hard he crashed his bike into a fruit stand. Link felt kind of awkward carrying her books but not as awkward as Buttercup who was slowly starting to regret having dressed up.
In class she sat at her desk and Princess Morbucks went over to her, "You might want to move before the troglodyte get's here, she'll beat you up if she catches you there."
Buttercup got up and in her face, "TROGLODYTE, HUH!? How'd you like me to rearrange that smug little face of yours you…" Blossom and Bubbles held back the screaming Buttercup.
"Is that you Buttercup?" Princess asked taking a closer look, "It is you! Why are you all dressed up? Is it some sort of new fashion that my maids neglected to inform me about? Something so cool that even you need to where it…" Princess went off into her own world thinking of this new fashion phase that everyone is getting into while Buttercup gave the same excuse she had given that morning.
"I didn't know you could dance." Princess stated looking slightly confused
"Sure I do dancing is like a sport and I'm good at all sports!" She said trying to cover up the real reason for her makeover.
During the day almost every guy in the school offered to help her with whatever it was that came up. More often than not she denied any assistance but was unable to get away from the guys that surrounded her. Soon Link started to feel a little discouraged.
"She can have any guy she wants around here and I can't even remember where I'm from." He said to himself yet he was having opposite gender problems himself as many girls flocked around him and got more and more underfoot than anything. Soon they were all but separated by the masses and all they could do was catch a fleeting glimpse of each other through the horde.
Suddenly the three girls heard the familiar beeping of their communicators. Blossom and Bubbles were the first to make it to the roof and Buttercup followed suit needing to shut the door tight on the newly formed fan club that was following close behind.
" Boy someone's sure popular today." Blossom said smiling at Buttercup
"Shut up! I wish I'd never decided to wear this stupid thing. Let's go before they manage to get through the door." Buttercup stated quickly
The three raised their arms to reveal power rings which made each of them transform into the Powerpuff Girls Z. After striking their poses they opened the communicators where the fuzzy voice of the Mayor could be heard, "Girls a bunch of monsters are destroying downtown we need you here in a hurry."
The three took off and Link saw the colored trails left behind by their flight. He started running in the same direction that the lights went off to.
Meanwhile, the girls approached the ruins of downtown. Buildings were toppled and whole parts of the road were shred to pieces. The first thing they noticed was a familiar Jet flying over head and dropping bombs on the street below.
"Don't you guys ever get tired?" Blossom asked holding out her yoyo.
"Rolling Bubbles!", " Sonic Hammer!" both Bubbles and Buttercup said respectively and fired at the yoyo which started to glow with a brilliant intensity. "Strawberry yoyo Kick!" Blossom shouted firing her charged up weapon at the jet. It was about to make a direct hit when it bounced off what looked like a ray shield.
The Amoeba Boys laughed, "Yes thanks to Mojo Jojo now your attacks can't touch us and there is nothing to stop us from becoming infamous jewel thieves."
"Oh yeah!" Buttercup said flying just above the jet and slamming down with her hammer. The attack was deflected again.
"What it surrounds the whole ship!?" the girls said in unison
"It is wonderful is it not?" The sound of Mojo's voice fell like a lead weight on the ears of the girls. They turned to see the purple robed monkey in Robo Jojo.
"Piercing Bubbles!" Bubbles yelled swinging her staff. A volley of high speed bubbles shot towards Robo Jojo but were deflected by the same field that had deflected their volley on the Amoeba Boys Jet.
"You see Mojo is so smart. When you defeated me with your yoyo last time it gave me just the idea I needed to perfect this shield and allow me to attain World Domination hahaha!" Mojo laughed
"What do you mean?" Blossom asked worriedly
"Hah it was you that helped me the most stinky Powerpuff, my ray shield only works in half a circle but when your yoyo crashed through the controls of my saucer I got a brilliant idea." Mojo said holding up one finger to the side of his face, "Why not take two shields and put them on top of each other?"
Blossoms eyes narrowed in utter disbelief, "Actually that is pretty smart!" She said letting her face hang in shame.
"Girls you don't stand a chance you might as well give up and leave!" came a familiar voice from on top of a nearby roof. The girls spun to see the mayor standing there.
"But Mr. Mayor…" Bubbles started.
"No girls it seems like this is too much for you or us to handle so just give in your powerbelts and be on your way." The girls sighed and started to float downwards sadly towards the Mayor.
"Yes listen to the mayor Powerpuffs, Mojo thinks it is impossible for you to face us now."
Suddenly from behind the girls a dark shadow flew straight up into the sky and right down on top of the Mayor, knocking him back. The girls gasped and ran between the fallen mayor and the newcomer. Before them stood Link back in his green garb.
"LINK!?" They all said in unison, "Why are you attacking the Mayor?" Blossom asked confused yet ready to fight.
"He's not the Mayor!" Link said not wanting to hurt the girls.
"Don't listen to him he's obviously not your friend attack." Said the Mayor pointing menacingly at Link
The girls looked at him and then back at the Mayor, he looked and sounded very much like the Mayor.
"Wait a minute!" Buttercup said noticing something not right, "Mr. Mayor where's Ms. Bellum?"
"What? Who's Miss Bellum?" Asked the Mayor, instantly realizing his mistake. The girls turned to each other and nodded and turned around to face the Mayor. Suddenly the Mayors tongue stuck out and he reached to the top of his head and turned his hair revealing the green shapeshifter of the gangreen gang.
"If you're here that means."
"Yup we're here too." Came the voice of Ace down below. "Pretty clever friend you got there." He said looking at Link.
"Shut up you Imbeciles now's our chance to rid ourselves of the Powerpuff girls once and for all." Mojo interrupted.
"Right you are my man!" Ace said to Mojo and readied his deck of cards.
Ace threw a card straight and fast aiming at Link. Bubbles jumped in front of him, "Shielding Bubble!" She shouted waiving her staff and forming a large bubble right in front of her. The group heard a shattering BOOM as the bubble popped and waited to see what happened.
Bubbles just stood there with her arms outstretched not moving. Link came around to the side to see a large black card sticking right out of the middle of her chest. Bubbles fell back Dead!
Everyone of the villains jumped back in pure surprise, "You… You killed her!" Mojo stated turning hesitantly towards Ace whose mouth was about on the floor. "You weren't supposed to kill her, you were supposed to pop the bubble so that I could capture them and put them in a Zoo just like they did to Mojo."
"Shut up! I didn't mean to do it!" Ace said panic stricken and he turned his bike and sped off along with the rest of the gangreen gang. The Amoeba Boys dissembled and surrounded the now lifeless Bubbles. Mojo bent his robot down and opened the glass dome. He went down beside Blossom who was crying harder than she'd ever cried before.
"Bubbles, I'm sorry I said all those mean things about your girliness." Buttercup bawled with her face in her hands.
"Of all the stinky Powerpuffs she was the one Mojo liked the best." Mojo stated crying himself in great tears
The Professor and Mayor called on the belts communicators, Buttercup composed herself enough to answer, "So girls how'd it… What happened" They asked simultaneously. Buttercup turned the thing to face towards Bubbles. The Mayor and the group at the Lab stopped and stared in shock.
"She's (*sob*) gone!" Buttercup said and the Mayor and the Professor and Ken and Poochie all hung their heads in sorrow.
"Wait," Blossom said turning to Link, "that red stuff that you had, you know the one that healed Buttercup do you still have some?" She said full of hope
Link reached behind his back and pulled out another red vial which Blossom snagged and started dumping it into the motionless Bubble's mouth. They waited and waited but nothing happened. At this Blossom broke down even worse and even Mojo and the Amoeba Boys were bawling their eyes out.
"Something about this seems familiar." Link said and reached behind his back and pulled out what looked to be a small blue flute of sorts with a gold band around the mouthpiece and three triangles etched in the gold. He put it to his mouth and began to play.
Thanks for reading today's addition I hope you all enjoyed it, Ultima S. Next, Resurrected! Bubbles come back to us.
