Powerpuff Girls Z!
Chapter 9: A Reason to Go Back
Milky Way Galaxy
The Asteroid Belt
The Asteroid Belt; the region of the Milky Way Galaxy that was located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It was occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies of asteroids or even minor planets. Asteroids and minor planets that had yet to be closely explored by the eyes and hands of Man, and not just the satellites and probes that they send to it. But this time, it was much different as the new NASA crew of the Space Station Olympus was traversing the field of rock, metal, and ice.
In the deep section of the Asteroid belt, an advanced spaceship that was designed to house and home ten crew members, was resting peacefully in one of the crater of one of the bigger asteroids. It was a search and rescue ship that was designed for deep space travel, but now it was used as sort of a RV ship and exploration vessel. And not too far away, someone was floating around the large asteroid, taking a few mini samples from a few rocks that were floating around the surface.
It was one of the astronauts from the spaceship, and from the appearance, it was a female scientist. Her body was slim, but slender; that was proven by her spacesuit. Her space suit was white but was pink at the ankle, elbow, and knee sections of it, and a pink streak at the back of the helmet. The visor on her helmet was yellow, but difficult to make out her face as she continued to do what it was she was doing. She was studying the rocks of their age and mineral deposits as she placed them in a sample box.
She then radioed in to the station, "I've got the deposits, guys. I'm heading back to the shuttle and back home."
The radio then responded, "Rodger that, Debby…", but then the voice spoke back with a little uncertainty, "…But could you check out one of the asteroids nearby."
She asked, slightly puzzled, "Why's that?"
"Because we're picking up a strange signal…", they reported, "…and from the way it sounds, it doesn't make sense."
The astronaut, named Debby, asked, "Do you have a recording of it?"
They replied, "Yeah?"
She then ordered, "Play it then." They flipped a switch to it as she listened to the strange signal. From what it sounded like, it was a girl's voice…and it was sobbing; crying as it were. Debby looked at her Astro-charts to see where the sound was emanating from, and from the look of it…it wasn't too far.
Elsewhere
On one of the larger and more distant asteroids, a faint crying was heard. As the sound became louder and louder, it was evident that on the surface of the asteroid was not as barren as anyone would think of. The crying became closer and closer, and much more familiar as the crying was coming from a familiar site. It was none other than the girls; Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, and they weren't looking much happy at all. They were all wearing a special type of spacesuit that seemed to be designed to make their own oxygen. It was one of the many functions of their new outfits; they could redesign themselves to be fit to use in any environment…specifically space.
Blossom was huddled to herself as she sat down with her legs held close to her. Her spacesuit was white, but had a pink V that went from her chest to her bellybutton, with pink on her elbows, knees, toes, and fingers. Her visor was pink as well, but the thing that distinguished her suit was the metallic bow on the back of her helmet that sparked with pink electricity, and her hair was flowing out of the helmet. Her face wasn't visible due to the lack of light, but it was obvious that she was frowning.
Bubbles was on her knees, slumped on her elbows, and holding her hands to her face, crying herself silly as she couldn't help it. Her spacesuit was white, but had a light blue V that went from her chest to her bellybutton, with light blue on her elbows, knees, toes, and fingers. Her visor was blue, but the thing that distinguished her suit was her pigtails that seemed to be encased in light blue armor that was attached to her helmet. She was crying herself horribly, even though she was wearing a helmet and knew she couldn't wipe away her tears. It was pretty obvious that she was taking this situation the worst.
Buttercup, unlike her sisters, wasn't crying, sobbing, or even mope around, was working on something to keep herself busy as she used her heat vision and strength to start building something. Her spacesuit was white, but had a light green V that went from her chest to her bellybutton, with light green on her elbows, knees, toes, and fingers. Her visor was green, but the thing that distinguished her suit was two green antennas on the side of her helmet. Her face was visible as she was fuming like crazy, as she grumbled to her work, "That jerk! That big, fat-headed, stupid jerk of a chimp! He planned the whole thing all along, and duped us into helping him!"
Bubbles finally took her hands away from her visor, revealing her teary eyes as she cried, "And now…everybody hates us even more.", and began to sob once again. However, her sobbing stopped for a moment as she looked to Buttercup, and asked, "Sniff…what are you doing?"
Buttercup was constructing something out of the rubble as she grunted back, answering, "What does…it look like…I'm doing? I'm building a house. So now…we have to live…HERE!" And stood back a little, showing that she had been constructing what appeared to be a bed.
Bubbles looked at her confused a little, and still had a little tear-age going there, but asked, "Live here?"
Buttercup turned to Bubbles and replied as she pointed around, "Yeah, don't you see? This can be the bedroom…", and then pointed to the strange object she had been working on, "…and this is my bed." She then jumped on the structure, and proceeded to lie down. She then pointed to the end of her bed, with her back turned, to another rock and replied, "That can be your bed over there."
A little silence went on for a few seconds, until the realization that they wouldn't be going back, hit Bubbles. And she cried out again, "I DON'T WANT TO SLEEP ON A ROCK! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
The echoing of Bubbles' crying filled the area once again, even when her sisters tried their best to ignore it. Although she knew it wasn't the best thing to do, Blossom's bitterness at the moment, got the better of her as she spoke up with venom, as she turned towards Buttercup, "Maybe…we wouldn't be here if someone hadn't lost their temper…"
Hearing that, Buttercup shot up and glared at Blossom, "Oh, look…she speaks." She then jumped off her 'bed', and walked towards her. She then shot back at her with a little venom of her own, "Well…if we didn't listen to you and flown towards the police that night, and get ourselves lost, we wouldn't have run into the biggest liar in the world!"
Blossom shot up as she pointed to Buttercup, with her face still in the shadows, and shouted, "It was our mess to clean to clean up, Buttercup."
Buttercup mocked her a little as she said, "Oh, so now all of a sudden, you're Miss Goody-Goody."
Blossom growled as she shot out, "We had to take responsibility for our actions; we wouldn't have gotten anywhere if we stayed breaking the rules!"
Buttercup crossed her arms and mockingly stated, "Oh, and I suppose using our powers to build a Help-To-Make-The-Town-A-Better-Place-Machine…WAS FOLLOWING THE RULES?"
It was then that Blossom's anger was getting imminent as she pointed to Buttercup and shouted angrily, "WELL I DIDN'T SEE YOU PUTTING UP A FIGHT!"
Buttercup just snarled as she got ready to pounce, "Well…you're gonna now!", and lunged at Blossom at high speed, hitting her against the wall. Blossom retaliated as she double kicked Buttercup into another crater wall. This went on for what felt like thirty minutes; the two sisters beating each other up senselessly as they nearly destroyed the asteroid they were staying on.
Bubbles was watching the whole thing, and just slumped back to her crying as she did so. When the crying started back up, the fight had finished, with Blossom sitting on top of Buttercup, who was struggling to get her sister off of her. Buttercup struggled to break free of her sister as she cried, "NARGH! KNOW IT ALL! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH", she screamed out loud as she kicked and threw a hissy-fit, until she calmed down a little.
Blossom, whose face was still hidden in shadows, replied, "I'm not fighting with you, Buttercup!"
Buttercup growled as she looked at her sister with a death glare, "Yeah right, 'cause you know I'd beat you."
Blossom got off her sister as she stated, "No, because I…", but then she shook her head as she stated to walk back to her spot, "Oh, never mind! I'm not fighting with you again…and I'm not talking to you…", and shouted, "…EVER!"
Buttercup just huffed as she got back to her 'bed', "Well, prepare yourself for a long day of silence, because we're gonna be here for a long time." She saw her sister set herself back down at her spot, which was pointed towards the way to Earth. Buttercup turned towards Bubbles, who was still crying, and just huffed, "At least I've got me a bed." And jumped back on it, only for a few minutes to have it crumble down with her.
Blossom just huffed, but then looked towards the direction towards Earth. It was then that the shadows were taken from her face, to show that she too, like Bubbles, had tears streaming down her face. The pain of guilt, knowing that they had somehow played a hand in the Ape Uprising in Townsville was one thing, but hurting the Professor like that was something else. But that wasn't what made her eyes tear up like that; what made her feel hurt inside, was when she saw Davis' face and knew that he too must hate her.
She brought her face down to her knees as her face was hidden again. She thought with much sadness back to what she saw, 'The way that Davis looked at me…he wanted to say something to us…', then when trying to remember that moment, just made the tears start coming out again, '…but I was too scared to hear what it was…'
"Hey! What are you girls doing out here?"
The girls stopped what they were doing, nearly jumped out of their suits, and saw who it was that called out to them. It was a female astronaut, and behind her was a small vessel that got her here that led back to her bigger vessel. The girls were a little startled at first, not sure if they should run away or not. But that stopped as the astronaut spoke up, "How'd you girls get all the way out here?"
The girls were a little too frightened about her; they thought that the City of Townsville had sent an outer space police force after them. Though the way the woman acted didn't indicate that she was a police officer. They were about to bail out of there right away, until the lady asked, "Were you in a crash? Are you all alright?"
The girls were about to bail out of there, but Bubbles, being the naïve one, answered, "Oh no, we flew here." After hearing her say that, her sisters slapped their faces on their visors, grumbling.
The woman floated near them, and sounded a little confused as she asked, "Flew? Out here?" She shrugged from that as she extended a friendly hand to them, "Look, I don't know the whole story about you girls." She looked at the girls, and knew right away that they needed a little female help at the moment, "But if you girls want to, you can come to my ship, the Lewis and Clark, for a little girl chat."
The girls were a little uncertain as Blossom stated, "Well, I'm not sure…"
Then Debby gave it her best, "I've got some space candy…"
Then suddenly, the girls shouted, "Alright!", and to Debby's surprise, grabbed her, and in a huge motion of speed, flew towards her ship. Debby was as equally surprised by anyone by this, but this all ended when she remembered on how gaga these girls got when she mentioned she had candy.
Back on Earth
Townsville
The whole city was in complete panic and utter chaos as the Monkey and Ape Onslaught continued. People were running around, screaming their heads off in a panicky stupor. The mutant monkeys and apes were running rampant, either fighting the citizens or each other, over complete dominance of the city and its people. However, there was one chimp that wasn't looking pretty happy as he looked back at the chaos that ensued.
Mojo Jojo was fuming at the ears as he looked at his 'loyal army' with much distaste. His first, greatest, and most brilliant plan was falling apart, all because his minions wouldn't listen to him. This angered him immensely as he looked around to find something to pin the blame on. Finally, his eyes looked at the still stunned Professor Utonium, who was still in shock at this whole realization. And then his eyes turned towards Davis Utonium, who was fuming at him; it was pretty obvious that he believed the girls and hated the chimp more than ever now.
Then suddenly, Mojo Jojo smirked at this, 'MUHAHAHAHAHAHA…A plan is forming, which is my most second, second greatest, and second most brilliant plan ever…'
Back in Space
Aboard the Lewis and Clark
Aboard Debby's ship, the Lewis and Clark, the girls had settled down and had some candy with Debby. Debby, who had told the girls her name was Deborah, had removed her helmet to reveal she had short brown hair that came at her shoulder, stunning blue eyes, and great skin. The girls looked at her with blushing faces; secretly admiring this woman's beauty and brains. Even learning about the girls having super powers didn't seem to freak her out; in fact, she thought it was pretty fun and handy. After they had settled down, Deborah asked why a couple of incredibly pretty and super powered girls flew up into space.
After a heavy sigh, the girls explained why they were up in space. They had told her the whole story: destroying half of their hometown by mistake, Jojo, the Make-The-Town-A-Better-Place-Machine, and the army of mutated Monkeys and Apes, and everyone hating them even more than before. You would guess it wasn't everyday that this would happen to someone. Even though the girls dreaded that their newest friend would shun and hate them like everyone in Townsville did, she calmly sipped her Green Tea as she seemed unfazed by all this.
She sat her tea down as she looked to the girls with an understanding look on her face, "Well, assuming you don't want to run away, why don't you girls do something about it?" asked Deborah.
The girls looked to her and Bubbles asked innocently and depressed, "What can we do? We've already made a mess of everything."
"Why not go back and fix the problem you were dumped in starting by this Mojo Jojo?" asked Deborah as she sipped a cup of Space Green Tea.
After hearing that, Buttercup flung her arms in exasperation, "Oh, well, of course … just make her stop! Excuse me? Evil Monkey army? Could you please stop destroying our home? Thank you!"
Deborah shot her a look as she stated, "Mind your tongue, young lady."
Blossom nodded in agreement, "That's right, Buttercup. Mind your manners.", however, when Blossom looked at Deborah, she stopped as she saw Deborah was giving her a 'Nobody likes a Brown Nose' look.
Burning with anger and forgetting about the scary glare that the older woman gave her, Buttercup roughly shot up and shouted, "Look, Miss Know-It-All, this is different." Even though she was talking back to an adult, she had to make her point, "Everyone knows we helped this guy start the whole thing! Everyone hates us back at home; even the Professor doesn't like us anymore! How in the world are we supposed to fix things?"
"How will you know unless you try?" asked Deborah with a half-smile shot at them. She then crossed her arms and gave them a cocky smile. "Or are you not afraid that you're going to fix things? Are you afraid that you're going to fix things?"
That stunned the girls for a moment. Then Bubbles, who was a little confused by that, asked, "What the … that's the craziest thing I've ever heard!"
"Oh, no it's not … and you know it.", Deborah stated as she sat down, and she leaned in near them as she smiled even more, "You see, girls, I think you're afraid that you actually do have the power to beat Mojo Jojo and this Monkey/Ape army. Ever since you've discovered, trained, and harnessed your powers, you've realized that your powers are something unique. Something special. Something capable of doing amazing things. And that just terrifies you. Because if it's true, then it means that you don't have any more excuses… for being completely afraid of not being accepted for who you girls are."
It was at that moment, Buttercup was grinding her teeth in rage, Bubbles seemed a little confused considering it felt so confusing to understand what she just said, but Blossom seemed to understand a little about this. Deborah then got up, and walked over to the girls as she sat down between them, and wrapped her arms around them as she pulled them in close. The girls felt a little embarrassed about this, but felt a little warm; they had seen some of the kids going home with their mothers. Sure they had the Professor as a father, and Davis as the only male friend they had, but never had they had a mother figure in their lives before.
Debby then looked at the girls warmingly as she started acting like a mother to them and gave them some motherly advice, "Look girls, life is tough enough as it is; you can't expect a city not accepting you on top of everything else, right? That's okay, as long as the people you care about accept you and love you, no matter what you feel makes you alienated from everyone else. But this I know girls: a dream, yearning, or something you want so bad that you don't fight for, it can haunt you for the rest of your life like a bad dream."
The girls looked at each other, but knew that Deborah was right about this. However, Blossom's slender shoulders started to shake, and a tear ran down her cheek, "It's just…it's just I don't think we can do this," she whimpered as she continued to speak her mind, "This should have happened to somebody else… somebody better than us."
Buttercup nodded at that as she said, "We've already messed up the first time; the second time we've screwed up even worse. I'm afraid what's gonna happen the third time."
Bubbles began to cry a little as she held on to Deborah's hand, "Blossom's right though, this should have happened to someone better than us."
"Maybe so, but it didn't.", Deborah stated as she pulled them in closer for a bigger and warmer hug, and looked them in the eyes with a pained, sympathetic face, "I'm pretty sure that you girls have had a few nights when you have the weight of the world on your shoulders seem to drag you girls down. Just thinking of the amazing future that had been stolen from you because of a few mistakes you made. Well maybe… just maybe… here's where you can get it back."
The whole conversation about them going back to fix the problem was getting pretty hard to keep up. Bubbles looked back at her sisters, and then back at Deborah as she asked, "Wh-wh-what can we even do?"
"Fight back!" shouted Deborah, punching the air with a fist in an excited yet silly manor. She then turned towards the girls, with an excited expression that seemed to remind them of the Professor, "Girls! From what you told me about your powers, it seems that you can do some pretty freaky, amazing things with those amazing super powers of yours. Use your imagination!"
"But Mojo's smarter than us. He was smart enough to get us to help him, and then frame us,.", Blossom protested.
"I doubt it, seeing as how when instead of framing you. That was his biggest mistake!", said Deborah, making the girls a little confused by that as she explained, "Come on, you've got amazing super powers and all he's got is brain power. You can beat him and his monkey/ape army!"
"But what if we mess up and everyone hate's us even more than before?", Blossom asked, even more worried about the outcome.
"You girls won't; you're all too good to do that." said Debby, reassuring the girls from their doubt. But it didn't seem to be working, seeing as how they were still down in the dumps. "I guess you really won't do anything to stand up for yourself," she sighed, her face showing disappointment. "Typical. And slightly selfish. Because there's one little thing you girls are forgetting."
She looked at the three sisters in the eyes, as the tension was filling in the air, waiting for her to finish. "You're forgetting that somebody else might need you to stand up for them.", Deborah finished.
"Somebody else?", Blossom asked, as she and her sisters had their undivided attention drawn back to her, as she asked, "What are you talking about?"
Deborah merely shrugged as she simply said, "Well what about those guys? The Professor and Davis, right?"
The girls' heads snapped up in Debby's direction as they asked in unison, "The Professor and Davis? What about them?"
Deborah looked at them lovingly, as though they were her own daughters as she explained, "They're back in that whole Monkey/Ape ordeal. I know you girls think they don't like you anymore, but I can tell you from here on out, they care about you girls deeply." She then walked back to them and sat down as she told them, "No matter what, you're family to those two, and I know they don't hold any grudges against you at all." She then frowned, knowing the girls wouldn't want to hear this, "But if you don't do something soon, pretty soon all of Townsville, and those two people most dearly to you, might not be hurting."
The girls took this whole thing in, not liking anything about this, 'Townsville? The Professor? Davis? All hurting because we didn't do the right thing?'
'No!', Blossom shook her head, her resolve hardening as she shot straight up. Her sisters and even Deborah looked a little surprised by that. She turned around and looked to her sisters as she stated, "Girls! We're going back to Townsville!"
Buttercup looked at Blossom, and shared her hardened resolve as she got up, "Yeah, we're not about to go and give up on the Professor and Davis like that.", she then mumbled, "Even though I still think boys are gross."
Bubbles shot up and shouted like a maniac, "LET'S GO KICK THAT EVIL MONKEY'S BUTT!"
Deborah jumped up too as she looked at the girls all excited as she shouted with excitement, "That's the spirit, Girls! YOU'RE POWER GIRLS! You'll show those people and those evil monkeys in Townsville. You REMIND them, who YOU girls are! You know where to go….GO! CONFRONT THE PROBLEM! FIGHT! AND WIN!"
The girls looked at her completely confused and freaked at her attitude, but then Deborah returned to normal as she quipped, "And come back again at the Space Station, Olympus, whenever you girls need to. I enjoy our visits."
The girls smiled in unison as they replied, "Okay." And were about to fly out of there, they were stopped by Deborah.
She smiled at them as she said, "And when you get back, could you tell my husband, Robert, that I'm really grateful that he created three beautiful and perfect daughters for me. And three beautiful girls for my son to be friends with."
The girls were a little surprised by that as Blossom asked, "Uh, Robert? Son?"
Deborah nodded as she smiled, "Yeah, I didn't tell you girls. My full name is Deborah Utonium, the wife of Professor Robert Utonium, and mother to one Davis E. Utonium." The girls calmly looked at each other, seeing as how that little bit of information had yet to register in their minds yet. All they did was calmly nod at that and let out an 'Oh!' and went into the airlock as their helmets switched back.
It was only for a few seconds before they were out in space, that the realization sunk in as in the deep of space, someone her them scream, "WWWWHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA?"
After hearing that, all Deborah did was giggle at this as she smiled at the girls' retreating forms, "Honey, thank you…thank you so much for these little girls."
Next Chapter: Power's True Purpose
