HIM sends Megan a crime note saying that he has kidnapped her father and locked him up in the Townsville Museum of Natural History. Bubbles goes to the museum with Megan to rescue Richard. But as it turns out, Richard isn't there and the whole thing was just a scam to get Megan to the museum so all the villains could take their anger out on her.

But Megan meets Mojo JoJo, who tells her he is willing to protect her from the other villains if she joins him. Also, things get even more complicated with Ace.

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Author's note: I DO NOT OWN THE POWER PUFF GIRLS! CRAIG MCCRACKEN AND WARNER BROTHERS DO!

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Revenge

Chapter 10

Richard and Ima had their honeymoon in Hawaii. They were gone for a while so it really didn't matter whether I hung out with the Power Puff Girls or not. In fact, I started hanging out with the girls more than ever since I had no parents to come home to. I moved in with the Utonium's for a while.

One day we got a letter in the mail. Bubbles and I walked over to the mailbox. I gasped when I read the letter. "It's from Richard," I said.

Bubbles read it aloud, "Dear Megan, I sent the letter to this address because I know you're probably with the Utonium's right now. The reason I wrote this letter is because I have been kidnapped. I've been kidnapped and taken to the museum. I know you can save me, Megan."

"This is really bad," I said.

"Is this written in his handwriting?" Bubbles asked.

"I think so," I said with a shrug.

"Wait there's a note at the bottom," Bubbles said. She read it aloud, "Megan, if you get this letter please come to the museum to retrieve your father. But you must come ALONE. Don't bring the Power Puff Girls with you. You need to rescue your father properly. Signed, Him."

I gulped. "Um, isn't that that cruelest of the cruel person?"

"Yep," Bubbles said nodding.

"And he wants me to go alone to the museum."

"I'll come with you," Bubbles said holding my hand. "I need to help you."

"So I'm guessing we need to go there as soon as possible."

"I guess so."

So she flew me over to the museum.

"The museum's locked at this hour," I pointed out. It was getting to be evening.

"We need to get inside anyway," Bubbles said. She used her laser eyes to open the door. Then we ran inside.

The museum was completely dark, except for the silhouette of the back a guy tied up in a chair that was hanging from the ceiling.

"Help me!" he cried in Richard's voice. "Help!"

"There he is," Bubbles told me.

She flew up to the chair and I stood on the ground below it, waiting for Bubbles to help him down. Then she did.

"Are you okay, Dad?" I asked.

But then it turned out that that guy was Grubber instead of Richard! He started spitting uncontrollably and spun in circles.

"AAAAGGGHHH!!!!" Bubbles and I screamed.

We jumped back in shock.

"Gotchesssss ya!" Snake exclaimed, coming up from behind me and grabbing me. Arturo came up from behind Bubbles and grabbed her.

"What's going on?" I asked.

Suddenly the lights went on, revealing a thousand criminals. They were all standing in a circle glaring at Bubbles and I.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, Megan," Him said in an extremely high pitched voice. He was sitting on top of a glass box. "I told you to come ALONE!" he shouted angrily. Then he lightened up again. "Clumsy me. I guess I wasn't clear enough."

"Where's my father?" I wanted to know.

"Your father's still in Hawaii, silly child," Him explained, jumping off the box thingy and standing on the ground. "You see, the only reason we tricked you into coming here was to have our revenge."

"You didn't make me a Power Puff Girl!" Princess whined.

"You beat the daylights out of me with my shotgun!" Fuzzy complained.

"You're a lame-o girl!" Brick shouted.

"You didn't take us seriously," Bossman pointed out.

"And so now you're gonna get it!" Him laughed evilly.

"Get what?" I asked.

Him thought for a moment. "Get it," he said.

"Yeah, I really know what that is," I scoffed rolling my eyes.

Then out of nowhere all these villains charged toward me. Snake screamed and let me go. I stood there for a moment, wondering what to do.

"Run, Megan! Run!" Bubbles told me.

"What?" I said.

"Run!" she repeated.

"Oh!" I said. Then I started running. Bubbles was still trying to break free from Arturo. She finally did and then flew toward all the villains that were chasing me so she could try to stop them.

I found a fork in the hallway, and went in one direction. The villains all went in the other. I stood by the wall and took a moment to catch my breath.

Then something slammed into the wall!

I screamed and started running again. It was Fuzzy's banjo.

"There she goes!" Fuzzy told the other villains.

They started chasing after me again.

I noticed Bubbles was fighting Princess.

Then I quickly ran into a small little room with keys dangling from the door. I slammed the door shut and locked the door with the keys. All the villains were banging on the door, trying to get inside.

I sighed of relief. I was safe for the moment.

Then I turned around and gasped.

There was lightning and thunder outside the window. When the lightning went off I could actually see who else was in the room.

It was Ace. He was wearing some thick brown coat and was leaning against the wall. He looked really angry. He started walking toward me.

"What's going on?" I demanded to know.

"Maybe nothing and maybe something," he replied with a shrug. "It doesn't matter now. All that matters is that you're here and I'm here."

"Are… are… are you gonna do anything?" I asked timidly when he stood really close to me.

"Maybe," he said. "And maybe not."

When he got too close I backed up. I backed up so far that now my back was against the door. He had me trapped up against the door now.

"Well, can you sorta tell me now?" I asked.

"Why would I wanna do that?" he chuckled.

I pushed him by his shoulder. It was pitiful. He only moved an inch. He started laughing.

"Because you don't want me to hurt you," was my answer to his question.

"Oh, yeah?" he asked. "I don't think you can do it."

He just stared at me for a long while.

I stared back at him.

He just waited for me to do something.

I just groaned and sank down to the ground.

Ace lifted his foot over my head like he was gonna kick me or something. "Let's finish this," he said. But before he could do anything somebody punched him really hard in the back so he fell.

I looked up and saw a monkey standing in front of me. A monkey! But he was wearing clothes! He was wearing gloves, a long purple cape, and a helmet that covered his strangely enormous head.

"What the heck?" I said.

Then the monkey started speaking.

"I am MoJo Jo Jo," he explained. "I have rescued you, which means that I have saved your life from that amateurish adolescent criminal right there on the hard tile floor. He is not dead, as you can see, but he is certainly down and out, and will take a very long time to get back up and feel strong again. You should be eternally grateful to me forever for my bold, heroic, valiant act."

"You're a monkey!" I pointed out.

He slapped himself in the face. "You're kinda missing the basic point here," he said.

"You're MoJo Jo Jo!" I said. "You're that terrible bad guy everyone was talking about. And you're a monkey!"

"Well, technically speaking, I'm a chimp. There is a difference," he corrected.

I started laughing. "And all this time I thought you were actually going to be scary."

"I am scary!" he argued in an angry voice. "I can be very frightening at times, and, also very terrifying! All the pathetic little citizens of this town are afraid of me! I can bring this city to ruins! Mua ha ha ha!"

I blinked once or twice. "Uh, yeah, and, um, you were the one that brought the power plant building down?"

"Yes, I created that destruction all by myself with help from my RoboJoJo! That is my latest creation (in other words, it is the ingenious invention I have most recently invented)," he explained.

"So I'm guessing I should stay away from you," I said, inching away from him.

"No! No!" MoJo snapped. "Don't go away! You see, I may be a terrifying villain, but I, MoJo Jo Jo, would never dream of harming Megan Brody."

I looked down at the ground.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Look at you!" MoJo pointed at me. "Look at him!" He pointed at Ace, who was busy moaning that he had a headache. "He almost destroyed you in front of my very own eyes."

I turned red. "Well, uh…"

"And what about all those other villains that were just banging on the door but are now gone?" MoJo asked. "They obviously wanted to destroy you just as much as this one here did."

"What's your point?" I wanted to know.

I turned around and noticed that the villains who had been banging on the door a few minutes earlier weren't there anymore. MoJo was right.

"My point is that even though you are supposed to be a heroine, none of them are scared of you," he explained. "They are just angry and want to defeat you. And you've just proven to them that you aren't the tough super hero you seemed to be. Am I right?"

I didn't answer. He continued, "But they're gone now that they've seen me! That immature juvenile delinquent down there is out of the race because I came and kicked his butt! Know what I mean?"

"That you're superior to me?" I said.

"Well, kinda," MoJo said. "It means they respect me and are so scared of me that they run for their pathetic little lives! Mua ha ha ha! They're all afraid of me (except for Him, who scares everybody)."

"And why are you telling me this?" I wanted to know.

"Wait! Wait! Wait!" he insisted. "I'm getting there! I'm getting there! So what do you think is going to happen if you are all by yourself and are attacked by a villain or criminal?"

"The Power Puff Girls protect me," I replied proudly.

He laughed hysterically. "Wrong! The Power Puff Girls protect you? Rubbish! Haven't you seen them diminished in the past?"

I remembered when Fuzzy had knocked them out with his shotgun. Then I remembered when Grubber had terrified them in this museum and that Arturo still probably had Bubbles trapped.

"Yes," I sighed honestly.

"Exactly," MoJo said. "That's why you shouldn't look to them to protect you. You need someone who can actually overcome fear and pain to and protect you. Like me!"

"I don't know," I said shaking my head.

"No one would bother you," MoJo pointed out.

"I don't know," I repeated. "I gotta go. I gotta try to figure out a way how to rescue Bubbles."

"That isn't going to be very easy for you," he said when I turned the doorknob.

His remark angered me. He didn't have to tell me something I already knew. I turned around to give him a look. I saw that he had a sly smile on his face.

I frowned and entered the hallway.

The museum was mostly empty, except for the scattered criminals.

I gasped at every sound and thing that moved. After all, I was basically a dead girl walking in this place. Everybody was after me. I needed to be very quiet so nobody would find me.

"Bubbles?" I asked timidly. "Bubbles, where are you? Are you anywhere?"

I heard the sound of Fuzzy's shotgun go off.

I screamed and ran in the opposite direction.

"Help!" Bubbles' voice pleaded.

"Bubbles!" I gasped. I followed her voice to the front door of the museum. I looked out the glass window and saw the members of the Gangreen Gang (minus Ace) carrying Bubbles back to the dump.

Furious, I turned the doorknob to go run after them. But it was locked! I groaned out of frustration and banged on the glass door. I kicked at it, hoping that all the glass would shatter so I could get out.

"No use, huh?" Him's voice asked. "Pity."

"You let me out of here at once!" I demanded.

He appeared out of a swirly red tornado next to me. "You want me to do that?" he chuckled. "Why do you think I would do that for you?"

"Because I need to help Bubbles," I snapped.

"But I don't want you to help Bubbles," he yawned.

"I don't care what you want!" I shouted. "I only care what I want, and I want to get out of here! I'm not scared of you. You're just a weirdo in a dress that looks like they came out of The Rocky Horror Picture Show or something!"

"Why you little!" he said in a deep, menacing voice. His eyes turned completely white. I thought he was gonna zap me or something.

"Not so fast, Him," MoJo said, walking right up to Him. "You do not want to do what you were just thinking about doing."

"Who says I don't want to?" Him bellowed.

"Me," MoJo replied, raising his hand. "I did."

"And why should I listen to you?" Him laughed. "You've never been half the villain I am."

"Are you kidding me?" MoJo asked. "I'm twice the villain you are and you know it! You aren't the one who's had Townsville up in arms because of your mysterious lack of crime committing over the past few weeks. It's me!"

"You do have a point," Him sighed.

"And if you mess with Megan's wishes or plans ever again I will kidnap your Rowdy Ruff Boys, and tear up your home. Understood?"

"Understood," Him moaned.

MoJo gave me a thumbs up. "You might want to take a step back," he said. He kicked the glass door down.

"Wow, thanks," I told him.

"Oh no, the pleasure's all mine," MoJo said.

I jumped over the glass and ran toward the dump.

"This isn't over, Megan!" Him called after me. "I'm still going to defeat you once you're alone!"

"You might not want to do that," I heard MoJo argued.

I listened to the two of them banter back and forth as I continued to run toward the dump. I wasn't gonna let the Gangreen Gang have Bubbles. She was the best friend I ever had.

Out of breath, I made my way closer to it. It felt good to be out of that museum, but now I had a whole other task ahead of me.

I knew my father wouldn't approve of me going back to the dump (or at least he wouldn't have in the past; now he didn't seem to care either way), but I had a friend in need. I wasn't gonna let her down.

I got an eerie feeling when I reached the front of the dump. I hadn't been there since the night I figured out that Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup Utonium were the super Power Puff Girls.

The chain linked fence was closed and locked again, which meant I would need to climb over it… AGAIN. I whimpered a moment before I began climbing. I took my shoes off. It would be easier to just wear my socks on my feet as I climbed.

"Why do I always have to do this?" I moaned. "Why me?"

It was still stormy out; the way it had been the last time I came here. The dark didn't help me to see where I was going the least bit. Then I reached the top of the fence and was about to climb over to the other side of it, to complete this big move.

But then suddenly the fence swung open!

I held tight to it so I wouldn't fall off.

I looked down and saw Ace enter the dump. He was holding a pair of keys. He probably used those to unlock the fence to the dump.

My heart skipped a beat. Now I was going to have to deal with Ace, as well as Snake, Grubber, Big Billy, and Little Arturo. I held tight to the fence until it was completely closed again. I wasn't gonna let myself fall from this high of a height. Then I finally got down to the ground and ran on the solid ground.

I didn't really know where I was running to, but I knew that I was gonna run further into the dump area so I could find Bubbles and rescue her. I was also planning on proving myself to the Gangreen Gang. I wasn't gonna listen to what MoJo said about me. I really was gonna be strong and brave.

Then was when I heard them laughing evilly.

I peeked at them from behind the corner of the shed. I saw that Snake was holding a small, crying Bubbles and was about to put her inside a machine. I was about to do something about it until-

"Decided to start the party without me, huh?" Ace snapped at his gang.

"Ace!" they all gasped. "Where were you?"

"At the museum finishing off what was left of Megan Brody," Ace chuckled. "It was difficult, but I think I finally got her."

Bubbles started crying even louder.

"He's lying!" I shouted, stepping in front of all of them. Lightning flashed. I saw the look on all their faces. Ace looked mortified. Bubbles looked grateful. The rest of the Gangreen Gang looked confused.

"Uh, bossss, I thought you said you finissssshed her," Snake pointed out.

"Yeah, I thought I did too," Ace chuckled nervously.

"You're a liar," I told him. "I saw MoJo kick your butt. You're just trying to sound macho, aren't you? That's what you always try to do."

He looked dumbfounded. He didn't know what to say.

"Pbbt!" Grubber exclaimed.

"Oh, right, Grubber!" Ace said. He glared at me. "We need to continue what we was doing. We gotta defeat this Power Puff Girl."

He glanced back at Bubbles.

"I don't think you can do that," I challenged him.

He walked up really close to me. He stared into my eyes and breathed angrily. "What makes you think that?" he wanted to know.

"I've gotten you before, Ace," I said with a smile. "You know I still got you."

I could tell that was a very awkward moment for him. He didn't say anything. His gang all stared at him, waiting to see what he would do about it.

I felt good. I finally had the power.

"So, you may as well just hand Bubbles over," I said. "You obviously aren't the tough guy you seem to be."

"Never!" Ace snapped. "Snake, carry on."

Snake was about to do whatever he had been planning on doing to Bubbles but I said, "What makes ya'all think I'm gonna give up?"

"Megan, cut it out!" Bubbles demanded.

"Wait," I told her. "I need to clear things up."

"Ugh!" Ace groaned, slapping his hands to his head. "You really are a pain in the butt, aren't ya?"

"What's it gonna be, boy?" I asked.

Then he grinned. "Snake, let the Power Puff Girl go. I'm just about tired of Megan now."

"Really?" Snake asked. He bent down and let Bubbles go. Bubbles stayed put. She wasn't going anywhere without me.

"Yeah," Ace said. "I think we should help Megan put an end to her sad, pathetic little life."

I gasped and turned around to start running away. My leg wasn't completely healed so it was still kinda hard to run. Bubbles flew after me.

"Megan! I'm gonna save you!" she told me.

She lowered down and came toward me. She was about to lift me up into the air when the Gangreen Gang got closer. I sped up, leaving Bubbles flying quickly above me. Then the gang began throwing stuff at me; like old garbage and junk.

I made it to the chain linked fence. It was locked. So I tried to climb over it. Snake caught up. He grabbed me around my waist and threw me down onto the ground. I screamed when my head hit the hard floor.

Then all five gang members stood over me, laughing at me. I could barely see Bubbles above their heads anymore.

"Ha ha ha ha ha!" Billy laughed. "Uh, Ace, what are we supposed to be doing?"

Ace groaned and shook his head. "Why don't you just watch and learn, my boy?" He pat his dumb friend on the shoulder.

"Uh, sure," Billy said.

Ace bent down beside me and ran his fingers through my hair. "So you really thought you were gonna beat us, huh?" he whispered in my ear.

But then Buttercup came along and punched him! Blossom punched Billy and Grubber. Bubbles punched Snake and Arturo.

The three girls lifted me into the air to fly me back to the Utonium's house.

"Not this time!" Ace shouted. While we were still close to the ground he grabbed onto my foot and hung on. I gasped. The girls gasped as well.

"Ace, you better let go!" Blossom demanded.

"I don't think so!" Ace argued.

Then we were up really high in the air.

"Is this too high for you, Ace?" Buttercup asked when she saw how scared he looked. She started laughing. "Might wanna just let go now."

"Never!" Ace held onto my leg even tighter.

"Megan, just kick him off!" Blossom told me.

"I'm not sure if I can do that," I admitted.

"Why not?" Buttercup wanted to know.

Well, first of all, I'd never done anything like that to anyone before. Second of all, I wasn't sure if I really wanted to hurt Ace or not. I bit my lip.

"I just can't do it," I declared.

"Ace, you're gonna have to let go!" Blossom demanded.

"I don't think so!" Ace scoffed.

"Buttercup, can you take him away or something?" Blossom asked in an annoyed tone of voice.

"Gladly," Buttercup replied. She let go of me, so Blossom and Bubbles could carry me home.

"Ah, you gotta be kidding me," Ace groaned.

Buttercup carried him back to the dump by his coat collar.

"You really need to stop going places, Megan," Blossom said.

"It's not my fault," I pointed out.

"Yeah, Him wrote her a fake letter from her father telling her to go to the museum," Bubbles explained.

"Oh." Blossom glanced down at me.

I didn't say anything when we got back to the Utonium's house.

"All we need to focus on right now is that the Gangreen Gang never finds out where Megan lives," Blossom whispered to both of her sisters when Buttercup got home from the dump.

I sat down in front of the TV, wondering when Richard was ever gonna come home; if he was ever gonna come home.

I thought about how the Gangreen Gang had made it so Bubbles was unable to get to me, and about what MoJo had said. Maybe the Power Puff Girls really weren't as strong as I thought. Maybe I did need someone like MoJo to protect me. I remembered how he got Him to shut up back at the museum, and how he punched Ace out.

Sure, it would be embarrassing hanging out with him since he was a monkey, but I honestly needed to have the extra protection. I wasn't too liked lately, and so it didn't hurt to have a bodyguard around.

"Megan hasn't spoken in a while," Bubbles whispered.

"Ugh, don't tell me she's upset about Ace," Buttercup groaned.

"No, that's only you who's upset about Ace, Buttercup," Blossom pointed out.

"That's a lie!" Buttercup snapped.

"No, it really isn't a lie, Buttercup," Blossom said. "We all know how much you still like Ace."

"I never did!" she snapped.

"Sure," Blossom said.

"Girls! Girls! Girls!" Bubbles screamed. "Girls, it doesn't matter anymore whether Buttercup was interested in the Gangreen Gang or not! All that matters is that we help Megan!"

Her sisters agreed and they went up to bed.