Chapter 7

Bubbles walks into the living room of boomers apartment and sees Elizabeth sitting there worried on the couch. Bubbles sits next to her and wraps an arm around her to comfort her "don't worry; if we can deal with huge monsters, then I'm sure we can handle just about anything".

Elizabeth smiles a little "are you sure? I mean it's been a while since the last time boomer had used his powers".

Bubbles was about to answer when boomer walks into the room. He just came off the phone with someone "blossom and buttercup are meeting us here"; he looks over at his mother apologetically "would you mind watching Megan mom?"

"Of course Boomer" Elizabeth says "Have you heard anything from brick?"

Boomer shakes his head "I left a message on his phone, he's supposed to call me back". Suddenly his cell phone rings, after a short pause boomer answers his cell "Hello?"

[Boomer it's me.]

"Brick, are you ok? What's going on?" Boomer asks worried.

[I'm fine, I'm in Manhattan, We have a situation on our hands right now]

"What is it?" Boomer asks.

[Its butch, he's out of control, he's gone insane.]

"Butch? But I spoke to him yesterday he seemed fine", Boomer says "And where the hell have you been? Everyone's looking for you".

[Never mind that, I need some back up, meet me at 34th street and hurry, he's massacring everyone.] Brick hangs up.

"Brick? Brick" Boomer waits for a response then hangs up the phone. He then turns to the others "its butch he's gone mad, he's killing everyone, Bricks down in Manhattan trying to stop him."

"But why? And how did Brick know about it?" Bubbles asks "and where has he been for the past 2 days?"

"I don't know, but I'm going to find out" Boomer puts on his jeans jacket and heads for the door "let blossom and buttercup know where I am, I'm going on ahead".

"Ok" Bubbles says.

"Be careful honey" Elizabeth says concerned.

Boomer nods "I will, thanks", he fly's out through the window.

[Meanwhile]

Blossom and Buttercup are flying side by side trying to get to Boomers apartment and meet the others. Buttercup had to strap Megan to her front and they had gotten the call from bubbles to meet up at boomers place. Suddenly they were bombarded by a red cloud; Buttercup covered Megan's eyes "what the hell did we fly into?"

"I don't know" Blossom coughs and starts breathing roughly "but it's messing with my throat".

"Really?" Buttercup breaths regularly and Megan whimpers with concern "we both feel fine".

Blossom coughs some more and holds her throat wheezing "I…I can't breath, it's like someone's choking me". She begins to hover lower almost dropping from the sky.

Buttercup panics and notices the red cloud seems to have coiled around blossoms neck "blossom hold on". She could have spun around and do her tornado powers but she had Megan with her. So in that quick second she does the only thing she could think of. She rises above the red cloud and takes a huge deep breath, then she blows a powerful wind at the cloud, clearing it away from blossom. The cloud disperses and starts to break up, Buttercup grabs Blossoms arm and pulls her away from the disappearing cloud "you ok girl? What was that?"

Blossom gasps and coughs a little before letting her lungs take in the fresh air "I don't know but I'm starting to get tired of being the victim". She fly's ahead of them a little "come on, the sooner we get to boomers place the better".

[5 minutes later in Manhattan]

Boomer fly's over to the Manhattan area and lands on 34th street; he looks around and sees that the streets are extremely empty. It looked like a deserted ghost town, he didn't like this at all, this was New York, and the streets are usually never empty, especially at night. He walks down the empty sidewalks and looks all around him for any signs of life. After walking for a bit, he trips on something big on the ground, he stumbles a little and looks down at what he just tripped over. To his horror it's a dead body, boomer stares at it stunned and backs away from it, he hears something in the distance and turns around. He can see someone playing hack 'n' sack with something small and round.

Boomer moves forward towards the person ahead of him "hello? Excuse me". He moves closer and realizes the person is male "what are you doing over there?" Boomer moves even closer and sees that it's butch "hey what the hell are you doing?" He walks forward approaching Butch "why are you playing hack 'n' sack in the middle of the street?" Boomer suddenly slows his pace when he notices what butch is playing with, Butch was kicking around a human heart "Butch…..w… what have you done?"

Butch looks up at him and smiles "hi, I was just thinking about you, you want to play with me little bro?" He kicks the heart up into his hand and walks towards boomer.

Boomer backs away from him in fear "Butch stop right there".

Butch's smile disappears and stops in his tracks "don't run from me boomer, bad things happen to those who run from me".

Boomer stands there unsure of what to do next "I'm not going to run from you. I'm here to help you; you're not yourself right now".

"You don't know what the fuck you're talking about" Butch gets agitated "I'm back to my old self again, this is normal".

"This is not normal Butch" Boomer resists the urge to step back "this isn't you, you were never this crazy".

"Sure I was" Butch grins, he circles around boomer surveying the other male "you see as we get older we lose our true selves" he walks over to the dead body laying behind boomer and steps on it's head "fearless and brave 5 year olds grow up to be work oriented stressed out cowards". He crushes the head under his foot, forcing the brains and blood to spew out from every direction "And evil, wicked little shit heads like us, grow up to be pussy whipped members of normal society". He walks over to boomer smiling "tonight we have a chance to reclaim ourselves back into the ranks of true old school super villainy and all you have to do is join us".

Boomer becomes confused "us? What do you mean by us?" suddenly Brick zooms up behind him and puts a necklace around the blonde's neck. Before boomer had a chance to react, the blue jewel on the necklace glows and an electrical shock penetrates his body. Boomer cries out in pain before dropping to the floor "w…what are…y..?"

Brick hovers into his line of vision and smirks cruelly down at him "welcome back to the team shit head". Another electrical shock takes over boomers senses as he undergoes his transformation.

[10 minutes later]

Bubbles, Blossom and Buttercup fly through the air towards Manhattan and land right on 34th street; they couldn't help but look around. The 3 sisters had met up as planned and Elizabeth and Megan are at boomers place. Blossom walks along the street and notices a dead body; she immediately holds her stomach about ready to heave "oh my god, looks like someone stepped on his head".

Buttercup puts her hand to her mouth "geez, where is everyone?"

Bubbles floats looking all about her "BOOMER? WHERE ARE YOU?" When she didn't get a response, she starts to worry "guys something's very wrong".

Buttercup frowns also starting to get worried "we shouldn't have let him go alone". Suddenly something came straight at them; a flash of dark blue energy knocks them off their feet. All 3 girls fall to the floor in a cloud of dust and gravel. They could hear laughter as they try to focus their attention on what just hit them. To their amazement it was boomer but his hair was wild and messed up, His normally neat pressed shirt was open and dirty and so were his pants.

He fly's upward into the air and then zooms back down at them charging up another energy ball "HAHAHAHA DIVE, DIVE, DIVE". He blasts them again and the girls scream out and scatter in all directions as the energy balls land on the ground exploding. He lands in front of them and grins maniacally "you ladies looking for me?"

Bubbles was the first to her feet and stares at him, there was definitely something different about him "boomer, wha…?" That's all she had time to say before boomer zooms at her knocking her 10 feet away from her sisters.

"BUBBLES!" Blossom is about to fly over to her sisters aid when a strong pair of arms wrap around her body.

Brick picks Blossom up and flings her head first into the building ahead of them. Blossom is catapulted through a shop window and doesn't stop until she hits the back of the room. Brick grins evilly as she struggles to get up "hey, you girls are just in time for the big party".

A huge green fireball comes hurtling at buttercup slamming into her and exploding, throwing her half way across the area they were standing "we've been waiting for you ladies". The three men laugh cruelly as the girls try to collect themselves.

Blossom emerged from the rubble she landed in and glares at them "have you gone crazy? What's the matter with you three?"

Buttercup instantly zooms ahead of blossom and slams her fist directly into butches face sending him flying off his feet and straight into another building "snap out of it, you idiot".

Bubbles hovers over to blossom looking at her stomach fearfully "are you ok?"

"Yeah" blossom says "I took it in the face", she looks ahead of her in time to dodge a powerful thunderbolt sent her way "BRICK STOP".

"Awww, am I hurting your feelings?" Brick chuckles and picks up a large piece of concrete road, flinging it at her "well isn't that too fucking bad".

Bubbles grabs blossom and zooms out of the way of the large piece of road "Brick stop, she's having your baby remember?" She floats up in the air and flies away with blossom.

Boomer chuckles "yeah brick, which means she's getting her ass kicked for 2 now" he snaps his fingers and the vibration knocks the 2 girls out of the air, forcing them to take refuge on a roof top.

Butch spin kicks buttercup and hits her in the face, "you telling me to snap out of it? Bitch, I'm finally the sick fuck I was made to be". He grabs the back of her head and tries to knee her in the face.

Buttercup holds onto his knee keeping him from kicking her. He gets frustrated and brings his elbow down repeatedly on her head. Buttercups teeth clench together as she tries to keep herself from passing out, she then does the only thing she can do and straight punches him in the crotch. Butch cries out and falls over backwards holding his crotch. Buttercup zooms away from him and joins her sisters on the rooftop; she collapses next to them holding her head. The 3 girls try to get their bearings together, Blossom and Bubbles help Buttercup up and the 3 head to the staircase at the far end before the boys could see them. They fly down to an empty apartment in the abandoned building and catch their breaths. The boys definitely had the upper hand being stronger and faster then the girls who hadn't been in action for years.

Blossom looks to her sisters "are you girls ok?"

"Yeah" Bubbles says laying Buttercup's head in her lap.

"As soon…..as my head….stops throbbing, I am totally going to kick butch's ass", Buttercup growls angrily. "That fuck up, how can he do this to me and Megan?"

Bubbles caresses her head "easy Buttercup something's wrong with them, boomer would never harm me".

Blossom holds her stomach "it was like Brick didn't even care I was pregnant, that's not him at all". She begins to tear up "it's like they are back to their old selves, like everything we've gone through never existed", she then stops herself and blinks as her tears stopped.

Bubbles looks her way and stares at her "blossom?"

Buttercup slowly raises her head from off of bubbles lap "what is it?"

Blossom thinks for a moment before speaking "that necklace, ever since he started wearing it he's been acting differently". She then looks over at her sisters "did any of you notice the necklaces over the others necks?"

Buttercup rubs her head "what? You mean those girly looking things around their necks?" Just as she spoke, a huge garbage truck came bursting through the wall in front of them. All 3 girls leapt back to avoid getting hit.

Brick casually walks through the hole "remember us?" boomer comes crashing through the ceiling above them and lands on top of the truck, butch comes charging in head first through the wall on the side of them " there's nowhere for you to run, so prepare to die power puffs".

"WE'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE" Blossom shouts at them causing her sisters to look her way in shock.

Bubbles stands in front of her protecting her "blossom no, you're pregnant, w…what if he…?"

"I'll be fine" blossom says "no matter what, I will protect this baby, even if I have to get rid of him to do it".

"Brave last words" Bricks sneers at her as he lifts the garbage truck forcing Boomer to float off of it and out of the way "I'll carve it into you tombstone", he brings it down directly on blossom.

Blossom grabs it and fly's up, she then pushes him and the truck back out of the building, "GIRLS SCATTER". They follow her lead and zoom off in various directions and the other 2 brothers zoom after them. Blossom goes over to the edge of the hole she created and looks down at brick trying to get the garbage truck off of himself. She then notices a strange glow coming from the jewel at the end of his necklace. As he got angry and charged his power the necklace glowed bright red, Brick fly's up and zooms at her. She in turn blocks him and shoots a laser beam at him. Brick dodges the lasers and fires off a ball of electricity at her. Blossom puts up a shield and the electrical ball blasts the shield forcing her backwards but not causing her any harm. She opens her eyes focusing on the jewel on bricks necklace which starts to glow again, Brick glares at her "quit staring at me red". He punches her across the face sending her through a window and down 6 stories to the pavement below. She instantly floats avoiding impact on the streets below. Brick jumps out and tries to smash her to the ground but blossom fly's out from under him and away to gain some distance.

Buttercup spins around rapidly and creates a tornado sucking butch in, he gets spun uncontrollably inside the tornado while buttercup randomly punches and kicks him all over his body. Butch gets tired of being thrown around and throttled, Butch's jewel glows a dark green color as he sets himself on fire and swirls around within Buttercups tornado. Buttercup finds herself unable to keep track on butches movements but before she knew it, butch collides with her catapulting her out of her own tornado causing her body to light on fire. She hits the ground and explodes, Butch hovers over her as the smoke and flames start to clear revealing her semi conscious form buried in the ground. She slowly crawls out of the ground coughing.

Buttercup's shirt and jeans were burnt and the flames burned off some of her hair. She feels the back of her head and looks at the ends of her hair noticing he had burned off most of it, it was now shoulder length "shit and just when I was getting use to having long hair". She zooms after him readying herself for another attack.

Bubbles zooms in and out of buildings with boomer hot on her trail. He then sends another vibration wave at her to try and knock her out of the air, but she kept swerving and weaving through buildings so he kept missing every shot. Boomer finally shoots an energy ball at her and it hits her in the back. She teeters through the air and falls to the ground, she quickly moves to her feet as boomer brings his feet down on her shoulder blade. She cries out in pain and fly's away from him leaning against a wall.

Boomer grins at her maliciously "quit running away and fight me you sissy".

Bubbles holds her shoulder and looks away from him, she knew she was running but she couldn't help herself. She didn't want to fight him, when she finally looks up the first thing she notices is the dark blue jewel at the end of his necklace. It glows as he formed an energy bat and came at her with it. The first swing hit her side throwing her off to the far side of town. She's bouncing off the pavement and slides across it trying to regain her balance. Boomer comes at her again and takes another swing at her, but this time she grabs the energy bat and connects her fist with the front of his face. She didn't want to hurt him but enough was enough, the energy bat disappears and she uppercuts him in the face before flying over him and zooming away. She finds herself back at the center of town where blossom is fighting brick. She turns to see butch flinging buttercup down to the ground below her, she suddenly notices boomer heading her way and braces herself. Boomer tries to land another punch, bubbles ducks out of the way and spins, smashing her foot against the side of his head.

Boomer is thrown head first into a building, bouncing off and landing head first onto the floor. After a while on the floor boomer slowly gets up and holds his head glaring at the floor "OW MY HEAD".

The other 2 brothers stop in their tracks and staring in the blond's direction. After a while butch and brick start chuckling, it was like someone just shut off the serious button. Brick then glares at boomer suddenly as the blond tries to float out of the hole in the wall he created "PAY ATTENTION STUPID".

"WHATEVER" Boomer shouts and zooms after bubbles again but this time bubbles zooms out of the way past him. She then latches onto the elastic band of boomers underwear; she pulls hard on it and zooms towards a lamp post. She then swings him by the underwear strap into the lamp post hitting his head against it. She lets go of him and zooms out of the way to watch the others reaction. Both Butch and Brick start cracking up uncontrollably as blossom and buttercup watch in confusion. Boomer glares up at his brothers and tries to get the wedge out of his butt "IT'S NOT FUNNY YOU JERKS". Bubbles grins and looks over at blossom hoping she got the jest of what the blond was trying to do. Blossom blinks at her as it dawns on the red head what was happening. Bubbles stifles a chuckle as she laser beams the lamp post cutting it in half causing the top part to fall, it falls right on top of boomers head. The injured blond teeters from side to side holding his head.

Boomer growls and holds his head "SHIT MY FUCKING HEAD". That did it, butch and brick collapse on the floor rolling around and laughing. Blossom was the first to move; she zooms over and zaps the red jewel on his necklace shattering it to pieces. The action sent a jolt through bricks body as if he were being electrocuted; afterwards he lays there looking like someone had just tried to fry him alive. Buttercup moves next to butch who was laughing uncontrollably hunched over holding his stomach. She frowns and rips his necklace off of his neck. A jolt runs through his body quickly and he keels over backwards laying there.

Boomer grabs the discarded lamp post and zooms towards bubbles "you think you're sooo funny, well laugh at this" he brings the lamp post down on bubbles who dodges it. Blossom zooms towards him but he laser beams her blasting her clear away from him. She lands on the floor and slides to a halt until she is able to stand again. Buttercup is about to take her shot at the menacing blond but Bubbles grabs her shoulder keeping from acting.

Bubbles looks over at boomer who glares back at her, she then slowly approaches him "no girls, he's mine".

Boomer chuckles and drops the lamp post deciding to handle this with his bare hands "finally I get to deal with you myself, you ready for the beat down of your life". He takes his shirt off and his necklace glows as his eyes also glows. The aura around him turns dark and malevolent as he readies himself to unleash a vibration wave.

Bubbles readies herself also while still approaching him "boomer, you have to be stopped, even if I have to destroy you to do it. I just have one more thing to say to you".

Boomer's powers increase and he puts out a hand in front of him to blast her "say it to Satan when I send you to hell".

Bubbles glares at him then looks upward "hey boomer, what's that above your head?"

Boomer stops and puts his hand down turning off his power, he then looks up "WHERE?" bubbles doesn't move expecting him to catch on to the joke and attack her again. But he doesn't "I don't see anything". Bubbles rolls her eyes and walks up to him, she then rips his necklace off, after a split second he notices and curses "GODDAMIT".

Bubbles crushes it immediately and an electrical jolt runs through his body, he falls limply to the ground unconscious. Bubbles sighs and crosses her arms "lamest…..battle….. ever".