Life With the RowdyRuff Boys

Darknessxxx

"Now, I know I asked you to help me with Princess" Mitch said. "But did you have to tell the PowerPuff Girls?!"

"What do you want from me?" Brick responded. "The way I see it, the best advice you can get about girls would be from girls!"

"I still would have preferred to keep my personal feelings secret." Mitch declared.

"Well sorry" Brick rolled his eyes. ""If you want, we can fight about it."

Mitch seriously considered fighting the redheaded RowdyRuff Boy leader standing in front of him. Standing in a costume shop being forced to try on Halloween costumes, Brick didn't really seem very intimidating. It was actually the memory of Butch and Boomer's recent skirmish that caused him to think otherwise.

"Nah!" Mitch shook his head. "Fighting won't change anything."

Brick sighed. "No-one ever wants to fight" he muttered. Just as Robin ran over to them.

Upon hearing about Mitch's secret affection for Princess from Bubbles, Robin volunteered to help connect them as a couple. To Mitch's discomfort, this meant that she followed them to the costume shop and added her opinion on costumes he should wear.

"Brick" she almost shouted. "Blossom found something, which she thinks you would look great in. And Mitch, Bubbles and I found you something that is guaranteed to help you win Princess's heart!" she squealed in excitement and led the way to where everyone else was.

"Sure you don't want to fight?" Brick asked under his breath. "I swear, I'll go super easy on you?"

"Yeah I'm sure" Mitch quickly answered.

"There you are!" Blossom exclaimed as they reached them. "Here, try this on!" she threw Brick a red and white superhero costume, then pushed him into a dressing room, before he could protest.*

"And Mitch" Bubbles said. "You have to try this on. It'll go perfect with what Princess is going to wear!"

"B-but you don't even know what Princess is going to wear to this dance" Mitch pointed out as he resisted, in vain, being pushed into another dressing room. "Or if she's even going!"

"It's Princess" Bubbles reminded him. "She'll dress up in some fancy dress and remind everyone that she is a 'princess' and demand everyone to treat her as such! Plus, Butch and Boomer did some reconnaissance, she'll definitely be there!"

"Not only will she be there!" Butch said as he emerged from the dressing room he was in, a cape wrapped around him. "She thinks she'll win the best costume award!"

"There's going to be an award?" Brick shouted from inside his dressing room.

"Yeah, but don't worry about it" Butch answered. "'Cause that prize is going to..." he threw his cape over his shoulders. "'The Flying-Squirrel!"

"'The Flying-Squirrel'?" Buttercup echoed, dressed in a black and orange skin tight outfit complete with cat claw gloves. "That has got to be the dumbest costume idea I've ever heard of!"

"Once just a normal scientist..." The Professor's voice could be heard. "While seeking a cure for cat allergies, a terrible accident occurred. The accident transformed square old Professor U. Into..." he stepped into view, a giant pink cat mask with large green eyes on his head. "'Professor-Cat-Man!'"

The five kids in front of him just stared. Every one of them holding back their laughs.

"Okay Blossom" Brick emerged from the dressing room. "There is no way I'm..." he spotted The Professor, and his large cat head, then burst out laughing. His laughter caused Butch Bubbles Buttercup and Robin to start chuckling, Blossom managed to hold back.

"You look ridiculous Prof!" **Brick managed to get out.

"Easily the funniest thing I've seen all day!" Butch added.

"No, Mr. Fern's eyebrows was the funniest thing I've seen all day" Buttercup said, recalling her teacher's lack of eyebrows***. "But really Professor, that cat thing does make you look funny!"

"Yeah, funny" The Professor uttered from inside the cat helmet. "That's what I was going for. Excuse me" he stepped back into the aisle he found the helmet and out of sight.

"Anyway, like I was saying" Brick said. "Blossom, there is no way I'm going dressed up as... Major Glory!" he resentfully flourished his cape to showcase his costume.

"But you and the narcissistic and perverted Major Glory have so much in common" Buttercup sarcastically mentioned.

"Yeah!" Robin agreed. "Plus you have all those super-cool superpowers!"

"You'd make a great Major Glory!" Bubbles cried out.

"And with me going as Freedom Gal" Blossom said. "We can definitely win the 'Best costume Award'!"

Brick considered the prospect of winning. "Not worth it" he concluded. "If I'm to win, it won't be because I'm an accessory to your costume! No, I'm going to win because I'll be dressed as someone cool. Someone like..." he looked around for costume ideas. He located a prop guitar and picked it up. He took out the hair band that was keeping his hair out of his eyes, and struck a rocker pose. "Val Halen: The Viking God of ROCK!"

"I suppose that could work" Blossom said. "But you have to do something about that red hair of yours!"

"I'm not doing anything with my hair!" Brick adamantly declared. "I'd just look stupid!"

"You'd look ridiculous?" Mitch finally emerged from the dressing room, dressed up Princes attire. "What about me!"

"That makes you look so elegant!" Bubbles gushed.

Mitch grunted in frustration.

"You need to lighten up" Butch told him. "You too Brick! Where'd Boomer get to? He'd agree with me."

"Now that you mention it" Brick said realizing that his blonde brother was nowhere in sight. "Where is Boomer?"

"The one you seek" Boomer's voice rang came from above them. "Is here!"

Brick looked up to see Boomer jump down from the ceiling. Brick managed to step out of the way, narrowly avoiding being pieced by the electric sword in Boomer's hands. "Are you crazy!" he shouted.

"Sorry" Boomer apologized. "I was just getting into character, I'm also going as a ninja!" Boomer then noticed how Mitch was dressed and asked "What's with the fancy get up?"

"It's supposed to be my costume" Mitch, rather angrily, answered.

"Doesn't suit you at all!" Boomer said. "Here, let me find you something." Boomer then began searching for something Mitch could wear.

The Professor sighed as he looked into the eyes of the oversized cat mask he had on. "I thought I looked cool in this" he said to himself.

As he placed the mask back where he found it, a woman entered the store. She looked around the store for someone to assist her. Seeing no store attendants in the immediate area, she walked up to The Professor.

"I'm looking for something that I can wear to that upcoming town dance, but still look sexy" she said to him.

The Professor looked the woman over. She was slightly shorter then he was, with dark hair, with a slight red hue, tied in tight bun. She was wearing a black business suit, with a knee length skirt and stockings.

"I don't actually work here" he told her.

"I figured as much" the woman quickly replied. "But since you were the first one I saw, you get to be the one who assists me!"

"Okay" The Professor slowly said. "Um, what exactly are you looking for?"

"As I said before" she started. "I'm looking for something that I can wear to a costume dance, but still look sexy in."

Upon further examination, The Professor realized that she was indeed, rather sexy. "So" he started, trying to sound cool. "You're going to the town's costume dance?"

"Yes" she answered. "My daughter said that she was going, and since I hardly get to see her, I thought it would be a great bonding opportunity."

"Oh" The Professor said. "You have a daughter?"

"You sound disappointed" she said. "Is it because, I'm a mother?" she narrowed her eyes. "Or is it because you think I'm still married?" she brandished her bare fingers.

"I'd be lying if I said you aren't very se—'Ahem' very beautiful" he admitted. "I actually find it hard to believe that you have a kid."

"Oh, but I do!" she said. "What about you? Do you have any kids?"

"I do!" The Professor told her. "If you want, I can introduce you."

The woman smiled. "I think I'd..." she was cut off by Butch's intervention.

"Hey Professor Dude" Butch said to The Professor. "Settle something for us, should Mitch dress up as a somewhat scary skeleton? Or a not scary at all and somewhat stupid looking Prince?"

"It's not stupid looking!" Bubbles insisted. "Tell 'em Robin!"

"Yeah!" Robin agreed. "It's almost guaranteed to catch any girl's heart!"

"I don't know about catching my heart" Blossom said. "But it's better than a stupid squirrel!"

"What do have against 'The Flying Squirrel'? Butch demanded.

"It makes you look even dumber than usual!" Brick answered.

"and you being a redheaded Val Halen isn't at all stupid?" Boomer asked.

"It looks fine!" Brick told him. "Aint that right Mitch?"

"I don't even know why I'm here anymore" Mitch sighed.

"So you can dance with Princess at the dance" Robin needlessly reminded him. "And in order to do that, you'll need an elegant costume!

"...It looks like you got your hands full with them" The Woman commented. "I'll find someone else to help me."

The Professor watched as the woman turn and walk away. As he watched her go, he saw her turn her head and wink in his direction.

AUTHOR'S NOTES: I'm not really happy with this, but whatever. I need to advance the plot.

*I'm going to admit this, I've never been to a costume shop. I'm not sure if they normally have dressing rooms or not, but this one does. If only for plot convenience.

**Brick's not saying Professor, but 'prof'.

*** Earth metals tend to react violently with water