CHAPTER IX: ONE LAST MONKEY
A humongous wave swept around the corner of a wide road, a white Japanese macaque monkey and a grotesque human hunchback riding it. As the wave moved down the street, the Powerpuff Girls landed down in front of it. They rapidly punched away the pavement below them, leaving a hole. Unlike before, they flew up without falling down it first as the water congregated around the hollow, washing itself away.
Feeling a familiar sense of déjà vu, Hota Wata and Grubber grabbed onto a nearby lamppost just before the last of the water vanished down the void in the road. Their brief moment of relief was short-lived, however, as Buttercup and Blossom knocked them by the butts straight into the air, followed by two stomach kicks from Bubbles that made them eventually land in the park with the other unconscious villains. They rolled their eyes in dizziness before they lost consciousness, slumping against the cold hard pavement.
Wacko Smacko and Pappy Wappy had successfully taken refuge in a small alley. Ducking behind a dumpster, they grinned to themselves, Wacko playfully smacking his older-looking companion. Pappy slapped him back. Getting angry, they started repeatedly slapping each other –
The Powerpuff Girls hovered down in front of them, making the two face-whacking monkeys stop dead. Without hesitating, Bubbles and Blossom grabbed the two from either side, leaving Buttercup to repeatedly smack them, until they two were sent flying into the air, landing in the park beside Fuzzy Lumpkins. Just as they went out cold, Pappy weakly hit Wacko's cheek one last time.
The Go-Go Patrol were swinging their way to the forest outside Townsville, knowing they'd be safe there. Ace, at the front, was within grabbing distance of a fine oak tree –
Two small arms stopped him by his front hand. He looked up at Buttercup, glaring at him and all the other gibbons. Although he tried smiling at her, she paid it no heed as she pulled them forward, finally tossing them towards the town's volcano.
At the other end of the line, Blossom stretched Snake forward by a leg, the serpent-like hooligan too weak from this to even hiss. As they struggled, she finally let them go. Snapping backwards, Ace, Snake and the various gibbons found themselves in the possession of Bubbles. Swinging them into a lasso, she hooked them around a bus sign. They were finally slumped down, tangled up, in the park but quite a distance from any other monkeys there yet.
Hacha Chacha and Arturo were still blissfully chewing bananas and tacos, moving back and forth around each other in dance harmony, clearly having taken a liking above any usual bad guy bonding –
Buttercup slammed them from their side, sending them flying. Their silent groans were quickly stifled as Bubbles appeared from the other side, hitting Arturo into Hacha, also knocking them downward straight into their stock of bananas and tacos –
They lay there in all the splattered bananas and broken tacos, Arturo sticking out of Hacha's purple cape, both of them with a black eye. Beside them, Blossom smacked the long-nosed proboscis monkey and the Hispanic midget, sending them on a collision course through their produce and spicy shells that finished next to Cha-Ching, Cha-Ching, back near the volcano.
Blah-Blah Blah-Blah was running his way towards the suburbs to Townsville. Still spinning his sticky, swirly tormato with Junior gluing the stirrer down, he took a shortcut by veering right –
Bubbles and Buttercup appeared either side of them. Just as Junior and Blah-Blah realized this, they were picked up by the two Puffs. Blossom soared through and grabbed the tormato machine, sucking up the smallest amoeba and the black chimpanzee. Spinning it around, she tossed the machine way into the distance. Junior and Blah-Blah fell out as it soared overhead, the two drenched with tomato juice as they landed next to the Doot Da Doot Da Doo Doos and Bossman. The place had many defeated monkey and villains by now.
Rolo Ovo and Big Billy rolled through the dump towards the Gangreen Gang's shack. Their progress was cut short when Buttercup charged straight at them from the opposite direction. Her kick straight to their torsos sent them both flying, knocking aside garbage as they too went in the direction of Townsville's center.
Killa Drilla zoomed down an empty street, breaking through a mailbox with Slim's assistance. Seeing Blossom ahead, he headed straight for her, knowing the strategy that defeated him last time couldn't work –
Except Blossom simply stuck out an arm in front of the drill, and it flipped into the sky. The incompetent amoeba and the mandrill (coincidentally, the largest true monkey around) fell out of it, landing with a plump beside other Doot Da Doot Da Doo Doos.
Sedusa swung her way through a road on lamppost via her snake-like hair, with Cruncha Muncha on her shoulder –
Bubbles appeared right in front of them. Before they could even react at all, she had them by a strand of black hair and a red tail. Swinging the seductress and the red chipmunk around, they fell dizzy within seconds, their eyes losing all focus.
Punch after punch – chimp after chimp – kick after kick – monkey after monkey – ramming after ramming – toss after toss – ape after ape – smack after smack, all of them the same. The girls had beaten every single one of them before, and while they all happened to be working together, it barely made the job any more difficult. All it took was numerous twisted capes, smashed head helmets, socked jaws, injured simians, and too much to name every single defeat of an enemy. Reading themselves, the girls charged up one final punch, and dealt it with such force that no monkey stood a chance –
The last final monkeys fell down onto the cold, hard unforgiving pavement, too dizzy in the head to even do anything other than lie there very still.
All the humans cheered in delight as they saw the last primates defeated, despite still being trapped in cages. Even Professor Utonium let out a happy woot, while the Mayor yelled happily with such enthusiasm he might have been offered 100 pickle jars.
The three girls soared down in front of Townsville Hall. They whizzed past the cages, singing the locks with a quick twin-shot laser eyes. As the people opened the unlocked doors and ran out, the girls floated down behind Professor, Mayor and Sara. They quickly untied the ropes keeping them tied to the stakes surrounded by gasoline-dunked furniture.
'Oh girls!' said Professor tearfully, yanking them out of the air into a meaningful embrace. 'I'm so proud of you!'
'Yeah, good job!' shouted Mitch Mitchelson up to them from outside the cage, standing beside his aging granny. 'Guess beating me so much at Space Hyperdrive came in handy!' Buttercup giggled at Mitch's statement a little, slapping both of her sisters on the back.
'It wasn't just that, though,' admitted Buttercup.
'We thought we were just creations,' said Blossom, glancing at the ground. 'Products, experiments, inventions. And we would have been trapped in the Andromeda Galaxy forever, but then we were saved by something. Something even Him, though he deflected our powers, couldn't have predicted.'
'It was just like that story you told us, Professor!" said Bubbles cutely and cheerfully. Professor thought at this statement a little, stroking his square chin again.
'Let's hear it for the Powerpuff Girls!' yelled out Talking Dog from nowhere. From this, loads of other people began cheering for the girls. Despite the rubble lying everywhere, and the defeated villains, and the wreckage back near Mojo's wreaked observatory. Just when the girls thought they couldn't get any happier – a thunder-like sound rang heavily in the distance.
'Huh?' said the Mayor, looking up curiously. The laughter, cheering and yelling of the crowd died away. As everyone looked around curiously, including Bubbles and Buttercup scanning left and right with their X-Ray vision, Blossom looked over what was left of Townsville Hall.
Loads of tiny objects were falling from the sky, drawing closer like a moving rain cloud. As they impacted the ground, a small poof was heard, but it was only as they were about 50 feet away that Blossom realized what they were. Widening her pupils in shock, she whipped around to everyone else.
'Grenades!' Even though the crowd turned to run, just as they did, the grenades landed on the ground, imploding afterwards.
People were running everywhere as the grenades came down hard. They hit the edges of buildings, lampposts, and all other manner of debris. The girls were zooming about as fast as they could, whisking everyone out of the path of explosions in the nick of time. After putting them down, the people ran away, looking for potential safety.
Although many of them decided to duck into side streets, that proved fruitless too as the grenades hit the pavement in front of them. They reversed just in time to avoid the potentially fatal explosion it could cause. The exploding grenade blew away the bottom part of the two buildings. They slowly started to fall onto the street.
Way down the street, Him's spaceship was hiding behind a particularly tall building. In the cockpit, Mojo laughed evilly. Smirking, he leaned around the side, watching the carnage.
The girls rushed under the falling buildings just in time. Buttercup held one off of Talking Dog, while Blossom and Bubbles kept the other one off of Professor. Mojo's focus zoomed in on Blossom though, and as it did, he growled fiercely. She would pay for this!
Just as he did this, a nearby grenade went off, sending another one flying. Seeing this, Mojo jerked the controls, making the spaceship do a dive roll, crouching in front of a fountain. The grenade landed in the water, and exploded.
The spaceship was launched straight down the street. Mojo activated the thrusters in mid-shot and opened a small glass sphere on the underside of it. As he approached, the girls looked up, and only had enough time to put on a look of total terror before –
Sending the two buildings flying, Mojo moved the machine upwards, having captured Blossom in the now-closed glass sphere. She screamed in horror as Mojo brought her further away.
'Blossom!' cried out the Professor, reaching out with a hand in lost hope.
'Quick, after them!' cried Buttercup. She shot upwards straight after them. Yelling in fury, Bubbles took off from the ground, following her sibling.
As Mojo looped around the volcano, the other two girls mimicked his movements, trailing him fast. The spaceship was speedy, but could only go so fast within a planet's atmosphere. Blossom yelled in panic, just as the alien vehicle moved higher. Buttercup and Bubbles followed close behind, gritting their teeth in anger.
'Blossom, try breaking out!' yelled Bubbles over the speed that they were flying at. Blossom whacked her arms and legs against the sides of the cramped sphere, but nothing happened. She even tried her ice breath, but it melted again.
'Him must have made this Power-Proof too!' Blossom began shaking frantically. Even though she wasn't claustrophobic, she was afraid of what Mojo could do with her, even though they had just regained their powers.
Mojo steered it even higher, for they had almost reached the clouds by now. Buttercup and Bubbles drew even closer to it.
'Girls!' cried out Blossom, her voice only partly audible through the glass sphere. 'Get me outta here! Get me outta here!'
'Take that side!' commanded Buttercup, pointing right as she veered left. Bubbles nodded in approval, following her sister's orders as they both moved alongside the spaceship.
At the front, Mojo concentrated. He was almost there –
'Take this!' yelled out two young voices, quite different in pitch. Out of nowhere, Buttercup and Bubbles latched themselves onto the cockpit window.
'Let our sisters go!' They pounded the windshield repeatedly, cracking it in many places. Yelling back, Mojo steered the spaceship left, then right, trying to shake them off. In this, he unknowingly flipped the thing around completely, going back the way he had come.
Fretting when Buttercup made a tiny hole in the glass, Mojo blasted the spaceship downward at rocket speed, straight towards the ground. He flipped it sideways, getting dangerously close to a fancy apartment building –
The spaceship whizzed straight by, the cockpit scraping off the side of said structure. The heavy vibration from this knocked Bubbles and Buttercup clean off the cockpit, sending them spiraling downwards. The impact with the tarmac left a huge crater where they landed.
'No!' cried Blossom from her prison as Mojo's spaceship drew away from them, the darkness of the night consuming them from her sight.
Down in the crater, trickles of water from a busted pipe made Buttercup quickly come to. She pulled Bubbles into an upright position, both of them groaning from what had just happened.
'Come on, Bubbles,' moaned Buttercup, fighting back the bruises and minor cuts. 'If Mojo gets away for good, Blossom will probably die!'
'You're right, Buttercup!' agreed Bubbles, standing up properly. 'If we don't save her, we've failed as sisters; as family.'
Drawing closer to Townsville Central Park, or what was left of it anyway, Mojo laughed again, Blossom fully trapped in the sphere connected to the spaceship's underside. The spaceship was still mostly intact, probably due to Him's magic
'How do you like that, my dear Blossom?' he said into the control's comlink, as he activated the spare window, a second windshield closing over the first. 'After everything, you still lose –'
Mojo yelped like a dog when he saw that they were heading straight for his former volcano. He flicked the controls as far right as he could. The spaceship just about avoided hitting it, but the glass sphere still cleanly knocked against the starboard of the volcanic mountain, breaking it.
Blossom fell out of it, straight down onto the ground. She bounced off of Rocko Socko, then Fuzzy Lumpkins, before she landed in the middle of the barren park. The battle had truly taken quite a toll on her. Her face was rather bruised, her hair had ash, dust & rubble strewn in it, and her dress was stained with blood, only some of it her own.
Slowly, but also as fast as she could, she pressed upwards on her two hands, surveying the damage around her. Just as she saw all the unconscious monkeys and Townsville villains strewn around her –
Two green lasers hit the ground where Blossom was, knocking her backwards. Slamming off of a brick wall, she plopped down on the ground. She raised her neck as Him's demonic spaceship hovered above, Mojo still expertly piloting it.
'Say goodbye, Blossom,' said Mojo happily. He clicked his thumb on a button located on one of the joysticks. Two more lasers shot out of the spaceship.
Somehow, perhaps through the galactic willpower Blossom had amassed throughout this physical and spiritual journey, she rolled to the side, letting the brick wall behind her absorb the brunt of the lasers. She then breathed in and blew forward a steady shot of ice breath. Although briefly surprised, Mojo expertly countered this with a flamethrower, coming from a pipe that opened below the cockpit.
The flamethrower melted the ice on contact. It then engulfed Blossom, making her scream out in pain as the fire pierced her skin. By the time the fire had vanished, Blossom was left defeated on the ground, with fighting out of the question.
Mojo moved the spaceship closer to Blossom. Just as he was almost at her –
Buttercup rammed the spaceship again, knocking it away from Mojo towards the other side of the huge square.
'Don't – touch – my – sister!' She yelled over every dent she dealt to its framework. Bubbles joined her, using her sonic scream to soften it so her sister's blows had more of an impact.
But just as they almost had Mojo beat, he used the flamethrower again. The shot of red-hot fire sent the two of them down onto the ground again. Before either of them could move, Mojo slammed the spaceship directly on top of them. He rotated it on the ground before he leaped it off, landing a good distance away.
Buttercup and Bubbles were left totally beaten in a small crater, right in the middle, to the side of the volcano and with all the vanquished monkeys and villains left to the sides. Standing inside the spaceship, Mojo breathed heavily.
'Very well. You're going down first.' Flicking and pulling levers and buttons he had not even touched yet, Mojo brought up the spaceship's biggest weapon. Below the cockpit, a bulky gun stuck out of the side, aiming itself directly at the two Powerpuffs in its line of sight. It looked evil as it started to charge up a deadly looking green ray at its tip. The side of it read "Yar Gnihsiuqnav-Efil." Bubbles strained to read it from where she lay.
'Life-Vanquishing Ray...' She collapsed on the pavement beside Buttercup.
Over near the damaged brick wall, Blossom finally pushed herself upwards, surveying all the damaged life forms around the place.
Blah-Blah Blah-Blah and Junior, stained with tomato juice. Bonzo Bango, missing two teeth. Hota Wata and Grubber, badly beaten. All the Doot Daa Doot Daa Doo Doos and Bossman, injured from their fall. Hacha Chacha and Li'l Arturo, still bearing remains of their favorite foods. Even Princess and Cha-Ching, Cha-Ching, whom she had badly hurt herself. It all brought horror to Blossom's face. All this... from the desire to defeat them for good.
Buttercup strained to press herself up from the ground, Bubbles not moving at all, but they were too slow. Mojo was almost ready.
Blossom stood up and ran as fast as she could towards her sisters.
'Mojo, you've got to stop all this!' Just as she spoke, Mojo finally let off the deadly ray, straight at Buttercup and Bubbles. They jerked upon seeing what was headed in their direction.
'Stop!' yelled Blossom finally. Launching herself upon her sisters, she rapidly shoved them out of the ray's path. Turning around, she saw it coming straight for her –
Approximate Chapter Running Time: 67:34-72:55 (NTSC); 64:52-70:00 (PAL)
Sorry about the cliffhanger, it'll get resolved within no time.
Even though this movie's not over yet, I want to thank all my reviewers. It would have taken me much longer to do the story without all you guys (and girls)! Special credit goes to Chaotic9, for providing in-depth reviews, and The Magic Pocket Turtle, who advised me on making the actual writing that tiny bit better. Also, even though they haven't seen this story, I want to throw out big thank you's to sbj, Somewei and Yay Ninja Bob, my biggest inspirations in this fandom. Go read their amazing stories if you haven't. If any of you three are reading this, along with anyone else who's stories I have reviewed and acclaimed, I'm very grateful!
Interesting side note: this is the shortest chapter on my computer (previously Chapter 6), but not here, because of the long author's note. Funny how these things happen!
