Chapter 10: Giant Robot, Giant Monkey, and a Giant Battle
At a downtown construction site mojo was rampaging in a jojo-bot. His robot had broad shoulders, a thinning and squared off torso. Each of the limbs were long arms and legs attached to hands and feet. The hands and feet of the robot were black metal, the torso was a mixed design of purple and white and at the head of the mech was mojo sitting under a glass dome. On his back was a giant drum that held metal that was stolen from the construction site. As he reached for another handful of metal girders the powerpuff girls arrived on the scene.
All three of the girls were floating right behind Mojo and instead of waiting for him to turn around Buttercup began to tap on the glass. He whipped around to see all three of the girls staring at him with their eyebrows cocked and piercing eyes. "Alright Mojo! Enough is enough!" Blossom yelled and pointed her finger at Mojo.
"You're not being very nice to the other people who live here!" Bubbles said while holding her fists close to her chest.
"Powerpuff Girls? Are you here to join my quest in taking over the world?" Mojo asked with a hopeful look in his eyes.
"World domination? I think it's a lot better with different leaders working together, don't you?" Bubbles asked innocently, trying to give Mojo the benefit of the doubt.
Mojo let out a deep and hearty laugh. "No! The world would be so much better if Mojo was the ultimate leader!" He said behind an evil grin.
"You couldn't be more wrong Mojo!" Blossom yelled.
"Well if you are not with Mojo, then you are against Mojo! No matter, you will all be my slaves soon enough! Now get out of my way!" He yelled and raised the mech's arms to prepare for a fight.
"That's enough talking! I'm done monkeying around!" Buttercup said reaching for her boomerang. She was getting ready to throw it at Mojo when Bubbles interrupted.
"Actually Buttercup, I think this guy is a chimpanzee, which is an ape not a monkey." Bubbles corrected Buttercup. "I learnt that on all of the animal channel shows my parents made me watch to bring up my biology mark."
"The blue one is right! Your intelligence will make you a good slave for Mojo. The Green one is strong, you'll make a good slave too!" Mojo cheered with enthusiasm.
After hearing that, Blossom floated over to Bubbles and hugged her. "What!? You can't make her your slave!" Blossom argued.
Buttercup shot an angry look at Blossom. "Really? Only her?" Buttercup muttered to herself. Blossom and Bubbles looked over to Buttercup with their ears extended. "I uhh, didn't say anything. Can we just get this show on the road? I have homework to do." Buttercup asked.
"Agreed! I think thats a great id-…" Bubbles began to say before being interrupted by Mojo's robot. The arm flew right by Bubbles' face and slammed into Buttercup. She was punched hard and sent flying through the brick wall of the office building that sat across the street. Buttercup launched herself out of the office building with a trail of paperwork following behind her with a vengeance. She flew straight at Mojo while grabbing her boomerang. She loaded up her arm and was about to release her weapon when a beam of light flew past her head and narrowly missed the glass dome surrounding Mojo.
"Hey watch it! You almost hit me!" Buttercup growled at Blossom.
"Well maybe if you weren't in my way then I wouldn't have missed!" Blossom shot back.
"Come on you guys, don't fight!" Bubbles pleaded with the other two. While her guard was let down, Mojo extended his arm once again and struck Bubbles down sending her into the pavement leaving a crater in the street. Out of anger, Blossom shot a beam of light back at Mojo barely grazing the shoulder. Buttercup then flew to the side and launched her boomerang at full force at Mojo's robot. Instead of colliding with the robot, Blossom flew in the path of the boomerang and got hit in the back. The collision launched Blossom into the jojo bot's chest knocking it over. Blossom turned and yelled at Buttercup. The two started bickering again about being in each other's way and Mojo laughed at the ease of the fight.
Bubbles then walked out of the crater she was sitting in with her head in a daze. She struggled to walk straight. "Oww my head…" she complained with her head spinning.
"See! Bubbles got hurt because of you!" Blossom accused Buttercup.
"Bubbles? What about me!?" Buttercup yelled back at Blossom.
"You know, it's a lot easier to fight you when you're too busy fighting each other. " Mojo teased the girls while laughing.
"Shut it mojo! I'm going to kick you into next week!" Buttercup said while reaching for her boomerang. The three girls swarmed mojo flying around him in circles. Mojo began to swing his arms at the girls trying to swat them like flies. Bubbles blew into her bubble blower and fired small and steady streams of bubbles at Mojo. The stream of bubbles went up the arm and towards the head doing very minimal damage. Some of the bubbles strayed and narrowly hit Buttercup. Buttercup was throwing her boomerang and was missing mojo's head and coming very close to hitting the other two girls. Blossom was trying to dodge Mojo's attacks while firing her beams of light, her erratic flying caused her to bump in to Bubbles halting both of their flying. With two of three girls immobile, Mojo seized the opportunity and caused the torso of the mech to spin around and swing the arms. He connected with Blossom and Bubbles knocking them into the base of the building. In a last stitch effort Buttercup flew straight at Mojo and launched her boomerang harder than she had before. Before getting hit by Mojo's attack and sent into the pile of the other two girls, the boomerang connected with the mech's side leaving a sizeable hole under the arm exposing some of the wiring.
The three girls were laying in a pile just staring up at Mojo as he walked over to them. "Now 's my chance… What? Coolant is leaking… hull is breached posterior to the jojo bot arm… I'm so close to finishing these brats off! No matter, I have enough metals to build my mojo-hypno ray and take over the world!" Mojo laughed before stomping off and heading off through the city to hide back at his warehouse hideout.
The Professor and Keith promptly rolled up in the Lab's utility vehicle. Keith jumped out and helped the girls into the vehicle and the Professor sped off down the city streets back to the lab.
Back at the lab the girls sat at the table in the main atrium. Keith was standing next to Buttercup and helping patch her wounds while the Professor was helping Bubbles. As each of the wounds were treated the girls winced in pain.
"I didn't think being a superhero would hurt this much!" Bubbles groaned and flinched as the Professor was dressing one of the wounds on her arms and started to lightly cry.
"It's okay Bubbles. It isn't normally like that, especially if some people would've just followed my direction!" Blossom sharply responded before turning and glaring at Buttercup.
"What are you saying!?" Buttercup shot back.
"You feel guilty? Well if the prop fits!" Blossom argued back.
"That doesn't even make sense! Are you trying to accuse me of something?" Buttercup growled.
"I'm the lead here! You're supposed to listen to me when we're saving the day!" Blossom stated while standing up.
"Watch it pony tail!" Buttercup yelled back while standing up and leaning on the table.
"Guys we're supposed to be a team here!" Bubbles tried to interject while waiving her hands.
"But out!" Buttercup turned to Bubbles and yelled causing Bubbles to start crying again. Blossom then called Buttercup out for making Bubbles cry and the two continued their bickering. This raged on until the Professor interjected.
"That's enough girls! Bubbles is right, you three are supposed to be a team. Today would have gone a lot differently if you three worked together." He suggested trying to find a way to calm down the angry superheroes.
"Yeah! It would have gone a lot differently if someone would've stayed out of my way!" Blossom continued the argument.
"Out of your way? You were always in my way! If you haven't noticed I'm pretty strong I didn't really need you there anyways!" Buttercup shot back.
Keith stood up from the table and stood in between the two. "The professor is right. The longer you three spend fighting and arguing the harder this is going to get," he cut in.
"Fine, maybe you could start by apologizing for not following orders?" Blossom said behind a conniving smirk.
"Maybe you could start by apologizing for being a controlling freak desperate for the spotlight!" Buttercup yelled. The whole room froze. They couldn't believe what they had just heard. Even Buttercup herself recoiled realizing that what she said was incredibly hurtful.
"Buttercup…" Bubbles began to say before not having the power to continue.
"You know what? I've had it. You two can be the powerpuff girls all you want! I'm not interested." Buttercup said before storming out of the atrium and heading towards the door.
Keith followed behind Buttercup and tried to stop her. "Buttercup don't make a rash decision. Tensions are high, I know you didn't mean what you said." he tried to plead with her.
"Keith I'm not dealing with this anymore I'm out." She responded before walking out of the front door. When she walked outside she took off her power watch and threw it down on the ground. As she continued down the walkway and off of the Professor's lot, Bubbles and the Professor ran to the front door and watched as Buttercup walked away, abandoning the individuals who cared for her and her obligations and promises she made to the people of New Townsville.