When Dexter gets up to his room he finds a small white box sitting on his bed.
"The Heck?" Dexter says looking at the box puzzled. He carefully opens the box and finds a fruit cake and a card.
He opens the card and sees "OOH OOH AAH." Written in very sloppy handwriting with a gold M at the bottom.
"I miss you too Monkey." Dexter says guessing what Monkey had written ignoring the fact that his old pet had somehow gotten into his room.
The next day as Dexter rode the bus to school with Blossom and her sisters he asks her; "So if you want to be a teacher then why do you fight crime so much?"
"Those who have the power to stand up and defend those that don't have a duty to protect people." She says answering his question.
"With great power comes great responsibility?" He asks quoting a line he had heard from a super hero movie his family had watched once.
"Just like Uncle Ben said." Blossom says knowing the quote he just used.
"Who?" Dexter asks not knowing as much as Blossom dose about the quote he used.
"That's who said that in the Spider-man movies." She says explaining who Uncle Ben is.
"Oh, yeah I half paid attention when I saw that movie." He says which caused Blossom to let out a little laugh.
With Mandark in police custody and Mojo Jojo locked up things had gotten quite peaceful in Townsville. Sure those random monsters would keep popping up, but Blossom and her sisters would beat them all and like every one they came up against it would disappear when they fell.
After the first time Dexter saw Blossom fight one of these monsters he had gone to work building a GPS tracker for the girls to put on one of them to try and track it when it disappeared. It was about the size of a quarter and connected to a program he'd written for his phone. He had to tear apart a cell phone for parts but he figured helping Blossom get to the bottom of where these monsters are coming was worth the costly price of a brand new cell phone.
"I haven't seen you work this hard in a while Dexter." COMPUTER says as Dexter worked on the tracking system.
"This is an important problem, knowing where these monsters are coming from." Dexter says looking up from his work.
"I understand this Dexter, but it's approaching four in the morning and you have school in a few hours." COMPUTER says pulling up an analog clock on the laptop screen.
"I know it's late, but I need to get this done to help keep the city safe." Dexter says looking back at his work.
"It also wouldn't be to impress a suntan red headed hero you are involved with?" COMPUTER asks as she put up a picture of Blossom and Dexter sitting together under the tree in his backyard kissing.
"How did you get that picture?" Dexter asks wanting to know how COMPUTER got a picture of Blossom and him.
"Dee Dee took and showed it to me." COMPUTER says as Dexter felt a little embarrassed that Dee Dee took a picture of them.
"Ok, what do you want?" He asks knowing she had a reason for showing him the picture.
"Go to bed." COMPUTER says telling him what she wanted him to do.
"Ok, I'll go to bed." He says as he turned off his soldering pen.
"Good, I'm sure Blossom would appreciate you getting some rest." Computer says as Dexter got up from his desk.
He goes over to his dresser and pulls out a pair of pajama pants and a pajama shirt, and as he changed he realized how tired he really was.
"Good night COMPUTER." He says as he let out a long yawn.
"Good night Dexter." She says before putting the laptop into sleep mode.
The next time Blossom and her sisters came up against another monster Blossom stuck Dexters tracker to the monster when it fell, but when the monster vanished the tracker didn't go with the monster. It just fell to the ground.
"Well so much for that idea." Buttercup says picking up the tracker off the ground.
"It was still a good idea regardless." Blossom says walking over to her sister.
"Here, probably best to give this back to Dexter." Buttercup says holding the device out to her.
Days later Blossom was over at Dexter's house to work on homework with him. They were up in his bedroom and for reasons untold to them his mother had made him leave his door open, so COMPUTER had to stay quiet as to not be heard by Dexter's mother.
Dexter was sitting on the floor with his back against his bed and his book on his knees while Blossom was lying on her stomach on his bed with her book by his head.
They have been working diligently on their homework for over an hour and were nearing the end. Feeling a little bold Blossom sets her pen down on her book and leans over the side of the bed.
"Hi." Dexter says turning to looking at Blossom who was inches away from him.
Blossom leans further down and kisses him.
"Should I ask what I did to earn that?" He asks when they broke the kiss.
"You being you." She says smiling at him.
"I'm glad being my self gets me affection from you." He says smiling back at her.
"The real question is, does it work the other way?" She asks with a hint of flirtation in her voice.
"What, if you being yourself gains you signs of affection as well?" He asks flirting back at her.
"Yeah." She says enjoying the flirting they are doing.
Dexter leans over to her and kisses her. "That answer your question?" He asks when they break the kiss.
"Yes, yes it does." She says as she leans over to kiss him again. But right as their lips were going to touch her communicator goes off.
*de de dede dee de* they hear come from the device on her wrist.
Blossom lets out a sigh and rolls over onto her back. "Blossom here." She says into the device.
"Blossom this is terrible." The Mayor says sounding hysterical.
"What happened Mayor?" Blossom asks sitting up on the bed.
"There was a break out at the prison! Mojo Jojo, that boy named Mandark and those other three that were brought in with him are gone."
This was the biggest prison break out in Townsville history and Blossom knew this needed to be looked into. "We'll be right there Mayor." She says into the communicator.
"Hurry Blossom." The Mayor says still sounding hysterical.
"Sorry Dexter." Blossom says sad that she had to leave.
"It's fine Blossom. You go and make sure the city will be safe." Dexter says as he stood up from the floor.
Blossom quickly shoves her book and notebook into her backpack. "Bye Dexter." She says kissing him on the cheek before she ran out his room door and down the stairs.
After Blossom had left Dexter went to work on preparations for if and when Mandark attacks again, he is not going to be caught unprepared again. He took the laser gun he had broken at the theater and using the power supply from the first laser he had built when he moved to Townsville he modified it into a taser to give to Dee Dee for her own protection. After that was done he went to working on the electromagnetic handcuffs he had stopped working on when Blossom and him became a couple.
"It's not much, but at least Dee Dee will be able to keep herself safe." He says as looked over the modified laser.
The girls unfortunately had no leads on who would have broken Mojo Jojo, Mandark, Brick, Boomer and Butch out of the prison. It did seem that the breakout was just intended for Mandark and the other three boys and that Mojo Jojo just escaped in the chaos.
"The whole outside wall was just gone." Buttercup says as they eat their lunches.
The breakout had bothered the girls, no one has ever pulled a stunt this big and they were worried that something bigger was coming.
"Well we can pretty much assume that whoever Mandark has been working with has some strong powers." Dexter says after he'd listen to the girls tell him about what they had found at the prison.
"But we still don't know who." Blossom says feeling like she's let the whole city down.
"Hey." Dexter says as he put his hand on top of Blossoms hand that was on the table and gives it a gentle squeeze. "I'm sure you guys will get to the bottom of this."
"You mean we will, you're basically part of our team too Dexter." Bubbles says smiling with her cheerful smile.
"Yeah, you're our guy on the ground providing support." Buttercup adds.
"Thanks, there is no initiation ritual I hope. I don't think I could survive any hazing you three would put me through." He says trying to get the girls to laugh wanting to brighten their moods.
It worked and the girls all laughed at him. "Boyfriends get a free pass." Blossom says kissing him on the cheek.
Blossom good mood was not meant to last for the day it seemed, as Dexter and her sit down in their AP science class the teacher stood up from his desk at the front of the classroom. "Class starting today we are going to have college student with us as a learning teacher assistance. Let me introduce you to Ms. Smith." He says as a tall figure with short black hair in a white long sleeve dress shirt with a brown sweater vest over it and brown dress pants walked into the room.
"No…" Dexter says as he watched Agent Honeydew walk into the classroom.
"Hello class my name is Jane Smith, but you can call me Jane. Ms. Smith is my mother." Honeydew says smiling at the class getting a few laughs from the kids in the class.
"What is she doing here?" Dexter asks under his breath just loud enough for Blossom to hear.
"What do you mean Dexter?" Blossom asks back just as quiet.
"That's Agent Honeydew from Global Security." He says back to her.
"You don't think that she's here for you do you?" Blossom says looking Honeydew over as she continued to introduce herself to the class. Blossom has only what Dexter had told her about Honeydew to go off of, but she doesn't like Global Security and Honeydew was one of them so she didn't like her right off the bat.
"I don't know, but I'm not going to wait for her to come to me this time." He says as Honeydew stepped aside to let the teacher start the lesson for the day.
After class ended Dexter and Blossom hung back taking their time getting their things together waiting for the rest of the class to leave. Once all the other kids were out of the room Dexter and Blossom approached Honeydew.
"Hello, Dexter and Blossom I believe." Honeydew says pretending she didn't know them.
"Don't pretend you don't know who we are, Agent Honeydew." Dexter says crossing his arms and giving her a blank stare.
"I guess the tweed vest wasn't a good enough disguise?" Honeydew says smiling at them.
"No it wasn't, what are you doing here?" Dexter asks wanting to know what she was doing working as a TA for the school.
"I can't tell you everything, but I can tell you that I'm not here for you Dexter, or you and your sisters Blossom. Global Security sent me here under cover and I will appreciate if you don't blow my cover." Honeydew says telling them what she was doing at the school.
"But why this class? There isn't a lot of kids that take AP science." Blossom asks curious as to why she chose the one class Dexter and her are in together.
"We have our reasons, but I can tell you that you and the other kids are safe and my work here will be very low key." Honeydew says as she opened the door of the class. "Now get going you two, you don't want to be late for your next class." She says as she ushered them out the room. "Oh I know, lets meet up at that Starbucks by your house. I know someone who'd love to see you." She adds as they walked out the door.
After school Dexter and Blossom told Bubbles and Buttercup about Honeydew and her inviting them to meet her at the Starbucks in their neighborhood as they walked home.
"Wonder who would like to see us?" Bubbles says as they approach the coffee shop.
"No idea." Dexter says as they spot Honeydew sitting at one of the outside tables in front of the shop with five cup sitting on the table in front of her. "But we're about to find out."
"I was a little worried that you wouldn't come and I'd have to drink all this coffee by myself." Honeydew says as Dexter, Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup reach her.
"You bought us coffee?" Bubbles asks as Honeydew smiled up at them.
"It is the friendly thing to do for friends." Honeydew says as Dexter and the girls sit down at the table.
Dexter didn't think of Agent Honeydew as a friend, but didn't care to correct her. "So who wanted to see us?" He asks as he picked up one of the cups and looked into it. It looked like she had gotten the four of them mocha coffees.
"He should be here any minute now." Honeydew says looking at the watch on her wrist.
As she said that a golden light flashed in the sky and a short figure lands on the ground next to Honeydew.
Dexter almost dropped his cup as the short figure jumped at him hugging him. "Monkey?!" He says recognizing who it was that was hugging him. Dexter hugs Monkey back really happy to see his old pet again. Monkey was dressed in a royal blue suit and red tie.
"OOH OOH AAH EEE." Monkey says as Dexter let go of him.
"Yes thank you for the fruit cake." Dexter says with a big smile on his face.
As Dexter hugged and then talked to Monkey Blossom saw Dexter's inner chilled coming out.
"Oh my god! He looks so cute!" Bubbles says as her eyes grow wide looking at Monkey.
"You can understand him?" Buttercup asks as she took a drink from her own cup of coffee.
"Kind of, it's more of a we've know each over for so long that we don't need to talk the same language to communicate." Dexter says as he scratched Monkey on the head.
"Ca- can I hug you?" Bubbles asks Monkey her eyes still wide.
Monkey looked over at Bubbles and walks over to her on the table stepping around the cups and then nods at her.
Bubbles picks him up carefully and hugs him. "You are so cute Monkey!" She says squeezing him feeling happier than she has ever felt.
"I guess I should get down to the other reason I asked you to come." Honeydew says setting her empty cup down.
"I knew you had some alternative motive." Dexter says looking away from Monkey playing with Bubbles over to Honeydew.
"Well first off I'm here investigating how Mandark escaped prison and as to why those three boys were working with him. If you know anything that could help I would greatly appreciate it." Honeydew says getting right to the point.
Dexter looked over at Blossom who's stayed oddly quiet the whole time they have been at the shop.
Blossom looks back at him and nods, she's been staying quiet because she doesn't trust Honeydew or anyone from Global security. "Brick, Butch and Boomer are friends with this girl named Morbucks who has had a big grudge against my sisters and me. My guess is that after Mandark escaped us the first time we ran into him he got ahold of her and those three guys and with the help of whoever helped him in the first place, and probably some financial backing from Morbucks, Mandark built them those suites they used to attack me and Dexter at the movies." Blossom says telling Honeydew everything about Mandark and the others.
"And you have no idea who has been helping him?" Honeydew asks making a mental note of everything Blossom has told her.
"No, we have had a few ideas, but they are just educated guesses." Blossom says as Monkey sat down on the table in front of Bubbles listening to Blossom.
"Who do you think it could be?" Honeydew asks wanting to know who they guessed could help Mandark.
"Well we thought it might have been Mojo Jojo, but he was locked up with them. And then there is HI-" Blossom says but was cut off by all three of the girls communicators playing *de de dede dee de*
"Yes Mayor?" Blossom says into her communicator.
"Powerpuff Girls! This is horrible! It's terrible!" The Mayor says freaking out.
"What happen Mayor?" Blossom says into the device on her wrist worried as to what was freaking The Mayor out.
"It's the vault Blossom! Almost everything was taken out of it!" The Mayor says.
"Your vault was breached?!" Honeydew says standing up from her chair.
"How do you about our vault?" Buttercup asks.
"Who do you think gave The Mayor it in the first place?" Honeydew says revealing that Global Security where the ones that built the vault.
Hearing that Global Security was connected to the vault bugged Blossom. "We'll be right there Mayor." She says into her communicator. "Girls we need to go, thank you for the coffee Agent Honeydew." She says standing up.
"Sorry Dexter." Blossom says she picked up her backpack.
"I'll go and check on line, see if anything strange is popping up on black market websites." Dexter says as he stood up.
Blossom gives him a kiss on the cheek. "You two be careful." She says wanting him and COMPUTER to be safe when looking around on back alley websites.
"Let me go with you, this is a serious breach of the security of the vault." Honeydew says as Bubbles and Buttercup stand up.
"This is our city so WE'LL take care of this. "Blossom say to Honeydew not wanting her help.
"Blossom I must insist." Honeydew says wanting Blossom to reconsider.
But it was no use, Blossom and her sisters took off into the sky.
"She's not a big fan of you Agent Honeydew." Dexter says as he picked up his bag off the floor.
"I'm not sure what I've done to scorn her." Honeydew says as Monkey climbed up onto her shoulder.
"It's more of Global Security as a whole she doesn't like." He says shouldering his bag.
"We're not bad people Dexter, we keep the world a safe place." She says as she scratched Monkey behind the ear.
"You guys have yet to show her that you do. All she knows of you guys is the times you tried to recruit her and her sisters and everything you guys did to me. Yes my life has gotten a lot better since I moved here, but Blossom is very protective of the people she cares about." He says pointing out why Blossom might not like her.
"Well I guess I will just have to prove to her that I am a good person." She says with a determined look on her face.
"You can start by not giving people business cards with trackers in them." He says as he starts to walk away.
"AAH OOH OOH EEE." Monkey says waving at Dexter.
"It was nice seeing you too Monkey, but I have work to do to help my friends." He says stopping and turning around to smile at Monkey.
"There is nothing on this one either." Dexter says as he reached the end of a list of shady looking parts for sale.
"We have yet to try E Bay Dexter." COMPUTER says as he closed the web page.
"I highly doubt who ever robbed the vault wouldn't be that stupid." He says as his phone vibrates.
He picks up the phone and sees an email from Blossom, it reads: "Open your window." Curious as to what she needs he sets his phone down and walks over to his window and opens it.
Outside Blossom was floating by the window. "Hey." She says sounding sad.
Wanting to know why Blossom was sad he says; "Come in and tell me what's wrong." Holding a hand out to her.
He helps her into his room and when she gets in he sees that Blossom has a look of shame on her face.
"This is really bad Dexter." Blossom says as they sit down on his bed. "They took almost everything."
"I'm sorry Blossom, my searching came up empty as well." Dexter says as he puts his arm around her to comfort her.
"It's all my fault this happened, I should have done a better job." She says burying her face into his chest.
Dexter rubs her back. "Hey you did everything and more than anyone else could have done. You and your sisters have been amazing at keeping the city safe." He says holding her close to himself.
"But now all that dangerous stuff is back out there. Who knows what mad man has it and what they could do with it." She says as she started to sniffle trying her best to not cry.
"I don't know who would or could do this Blossom, but I know you and your sisters will keep everyone safe." He says resting his head against hers. "And you have a genius to help you, how many other beautiful superheroes can say that?" He adds trying to lift her spirit's with a joke.
Blossom snorts a laugh at his joke. "Not a lot of them, but I'm not a member of their club so I couldn't say for sure." She says feeling a little better about the whole situation.
"Ok, so tell me what you found and I will do my best to channel Sherlock Holmes." Dexter says as Blossom lifted her head up off his chest her eyes a little red from fighting back the tears.
Blossom sniffles again. "The doors were still intact and none of the guard saw anything." She says telling him what they found.
"So it was teleportation again." He says guessing how everything was taken.
"Bubbles said she thinks it was Mandark and whoever he was working with. I guess she took a power supplies from one of the suites Brick and them were wearing and put it in the vault. When she told us she started to cry, we told her it wasn't her fault and she did what she should have but she didn't stop crying until she fell asleep just a while ago." Blossom says looking down at the floor.
"She did what you or Buttercup would have done." Dexter says as he continued to rub her back.
"That's what we told her, but she couldn't calm herself down. I really hope this doesn't affect her too much, she's the kindest out of us but she keeps her feelings on her sleeves." She says enjoying Dexter's gentle rubbing of her back.
"How about this, tomorrow all four of us go out for ice cream? We can try and have some fun to forget about all this, for a little while anyways." He says thinking of something that might cheer up Bubbles.
"Thank you for being concerned for Bubbles." Blossom says leaning against Dexter feeling relaxed from his touch.
"They are your sisters and my friends, that practically makes them family." He says as Blossom rested her head against him.
"And I know how far you are willing to go to protect your family." She says letting out a long sigh.
"To the end of this universe and the next." He says as she closed her eyes.
The trip out for ice cream did help to cheer Bubbles up but the girls were constantly worrying about the break in. They had no leads and nothing but a suspicion that Morbucks knew something based off the look of triumph she had on her face whenever they saw her. So once again they could do nothing other than prepare for whatever came next.
Dexter had worked hard to finish the handcuffs and had told Dee Dee about Mandark and the boys escaping when he gave her the teaser he made for her.
"This is to defend yourself if Mandark comes after you, and do not let Mother or Father see it." Dexter says handing Dee Dee the teaser. They were in his room so they could talk in private and so Dexter could do the other thing he thought of to give his sister another level of protection.
"Ok Dexter I will keep it in my purse and have that with me all the time." Dee Dee says looking the device over.
"There is one more thing, let me see your IPhone." He says holding his hand out to her
Dee Dee takes her phone out of her back pocket and sets it in his hand. "What are you going to do to it?" She asks.
"I'm going to install a program I wrote for you." He says holding back a laugh from seeing the cartoon pink horse and rainbow background she had on her phone. He plugs the phone into his laptop and clicks a button on the screen and a download bar pops up.
"This program can do two things: one it will let you contact Blossom and her sisters communicators, but only do that if it's a real emergency and the other is one I hope you never have to use." He says as the download finished. He takes the phone and holds it out to her. "This button is the communicator one and this one will send my phone your location via the GPS inside your phone. If Mandark ever comes for you again you push this button and I will find you."
"Don't you think this is a bit too much?" Dee Dee asks taking her phone back from him.
"It might be all for nothing. But I'd rather have all this to keep you safe and never need it, than a repeat of the last time Mandark showed his ugly face." He says thinking that the odds of Mandark going after her was about fifty fifty.
"But what if he goes after you?" She asks worried that he could be in danger himself.
"If he does come after then me he's going to have to deal with the mistake of underestimating me again, and Blossom who is just as protective of me as I am about her." He says smiling at his sister.
But nothing happened, Mandark didn't go after Dee Dee or Dexter and Brick, Butch and Boomer were not seen by anyone. Even the monsters attacking the city stopped. Blossom felt that this was the calm before the storm but only told Dexter as to not upset Bubbles who has gotten over her guilt she had felt.
A week after the break out Dexter had finished the handcuffs and brought them to school to show the girls.
"They use electric magnetics on a closed circuit and have a battery power of about five hours." Dexter says holding the hand cuffs out onto lunch table him and the girls were sitting at.
The handcuffs were hexagon shaped and were about six inches in diameter with a four inch rod between the cuffs that had the keyhole and power supply.
"This is awesome Dexter." Buttercup says excited that he used her idea.
"I only have the one and I don't really know how much of a beating they can take." He says as he wraps them up in the scrap of cloth he had used to keep the cuffs hidden.
"This is great either way Dexter." Blossom says liking the hand cuffs as well.
"If you sold them to the police or someone you could make a lot of money and help them a great deal." Bubbles says pointing out something he could do with his latest invention.
"I want to make sure these work before I even think of selling them." Dexter says putting the handcuffs away in his backpack.
"If you sell those I get a cut, it was my idea." Buttercup says pointing at him.
"Buttercup." Blossom says scolding her sister.
"No she is right, it was her idea, and a good one at that. Ok Buttercup I'll give you fifteen percent of whatever I make off of these." Dexter says offering Buttercup a part of what he would make if he sold the design.
"Fifty percent." Buttercup says wanting a lot more of the profits.
"Twenty five." Dexter says offering her less than she wanted.
"Forty." She says not wanting to go that low.
"Thirty." He offers getting a kick out of haggling with Buttercup.
"Deal." She says holding her hand out to him happy with the percent.
Dexter takes her hand and shakes it. "You drive a hard bargain." He says as Bubbles laughs at the whole ordeal.
"Hey it got me double what you were going to give me." She says grinning at him.
"But it's only fifteen more over the thirty five that you originally wanted." He says grinning back at her.
"Crud... you outwitted me." Buttercup says realizing that Dexter did get the better deal out of their haggling.
"That's my brilliant boyfriend." Blossom says kissing him on the cheek as Bubbles continued to laugh.
The end of the school year was fast approaching and Dexter and the girls were enjoying the lack of attacks on the city, but they were still ready for anything. Dexter still kept the hand cuffs with him and didn't let Dee Dee give him back the teaser in case something did happen.
There was a pep rally going on for one of the school's sports teams in the gym of the school that all the kids were meant attend, but that did stop Dexter, Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup from not paying attention to the whole thing. They were sitting up at the top of the bleachers in a corner. Buttercup was leaning against the wall listening to her music, eyes closed nodding her head to the beat and Bubbles was sitting a row below her reading one of her manga books. Blossom and Dexter were sitting on the row above Buttercup, Blossom was laying on the bench using Dexter's lap as a pillow.
"So I was thinking, maybe we could go to that coffee shop we went to on our first date today." Dexter says looking down at Blossom.
"That would be fun." Blossom says smiling up at him liking the idea of going to the coffee shop. Blossom was finally starting to enjoy the peace that has fallen over the city and going out on a coffee date with Dexter sounded like a good way to spend the afternoon.
While Dexter and Blossom talked, Buttercup listened to her musing and Bubbles reads they didn't see the commotion going on down on the floor of the gym.
Morbucks had walked out on the floor pushed the coach that was talking to the students down and took the mic away from him. "Powerpuff Girls! Your day of judgment is here! You will pay for what you did to me!" Morbucks yells into the mic.
Blossom snaps up from Dexter's lap, Buttercup pulls one of her ear buds out of her ear and Bubbles looks up from her manga at the sound of Morbucks yelling.
"What the heck are you talking about?" Buttercup yells back at her as people looked at them.
"You know exactly what you did!" Morbucks yells back at them pushing away the coach.
"We didn't do anything to you." Buttercup says getting annoyed at Morbucks.
"You've humiliated me and you took my boys from me!" Morbucks yells as a thump is heard from the roof.
"They brought their punishment onto their selves." Blossom says standing up.
"No you freaks are the ones to blame, and this time you won't be so lucky." Morbucks says as the roof is ripped open and Brick, Butch and Boomer land on the floor around her. The boys were just in in their normal muscle shirts and basketball shorts which made Blossom wonder what tricks they had up their sleeves.
"Thanks to our mutual friend my boys will beat you for certain." Morbucks says as she jumped into Bricks arms. "Up and away Brick." She says and Brick jumps into the air flying just like the girls.
"What the hell?" Buttercup says as her and her sisters eyes grow wide at the sight of Brick flying.
Dexter was just as shocked as the girls and just stood dumbed founded as Boomer and Butch few at the bleachers causing the students and teachers to run.
"That's right, you simple humans run away, the new and improved Rowdyruff Boys rule this school and soon the town." Butch says as he smashed into another set of bleacher.
Dexter and the girls snapped back from their shock and the girls fly up at the boys. Using his quick thinking Dexter pulls the tracker he had made to track the monsters out of his lab coat pocket. When Boomer flew past him Dexter throws the tracker at him and by luck or divine intervention it stuck to the side of Boomers shoe.
After getting the tracker on Boomer Dexter grabs his backpack ran down the bleacher to help get people out of the building.
Agent Honeydew was holding one of the doors open for people to run out of. Figuring it was the best way to help Dexter grabs the other door next to the one Honeydew was holding and pulled it open to get people out of the gym faster.
"Dexter you get out of here too." Honeydew says to him not wanting him to stay in the unsafe room.
"Not happening Ms. Smith." Dexter says using her undercover name.
Butch and Boomer knew they couldn't handle Blossom and her sisters on their own, so they picked up part of the bleachers and threw it at them before they took off out the hole in the roof.
Blossom and her sisters had to look away from them as to not get hit in the face by the wreckage thrown at them.
"Crud they got away." Buttercup says looking out the hole in the ceiling.
"Blossom." Dexter yells up at them.
The girls look down and see him waving them to come down to them.
"What's up Dexter? We need to get going and hunt them down." Blossom says when her and her sisters land next to him and Honeydew.
"That what I need to show you." He says as he pulled out his phone. "I stuck Boomer with my tracker."
Dexter brings up the tracking program and they see a green dot moving fast across the map of the city.
"Let's go guys." Blossom says to her sisters and Dexter.
"Wait girls, someone gave those boys powers and you shouldn't go after them alone." Honeydew says as she put her hand on Dexter's shoulder. What Dexter and the girls didn't notice is that Honeydew slipped something under the collar of Dexter's lab coat when she put her hand on his shoulder.
"We don't need Global Security's help." Blossom says before her, her sisters and Dexter ran out of the gym.
When they were out of earshot Honeydew pulls a phone out of her pocket "Oh to be young again." She says with a smile on her face.
She pushes a few buttons and then holds the phone up to her ear. "This is Agent Honeydew, I am in pursuit of know fugitives. Monkey will be with me soon and The Powerpuff Girls have already gone ahead."
When they get out of the school Blossom turns to Dexter. "Do you trust me?" She asks him.
"Of course I do, why?" He asks unsure of what she is about to do.
"Hang on tight then." She says and grabs him in a tight hug and takes off into the air.
Dexter was shocked by the flying, it wasn't at all like when she had helped him off the roof of the theater.
"You ok Dexter?" Blossom asks raising her voice against the wind rushing past their heads.
"I think I left my stomach back on the ground, but I'm ok." He says also raising his voice and holding Blossom for dear life.
As they flew over the city they would stop every so often to check the tracker on Dexter's phone and eventually they follow it to the old industrial park on the outskirts of the city. The tracker stopped at an old rundown building and the girls land in front of the building and Blossom lets go do Dexter.
Putting his hand on his knees Dexter lets out a long breath and says; "How do you guys handle flying?"
"You get used to it." Buttercup says as the girls walk over to the door of the building.
"Be on your guard guys." Blossom says as she puts her hand on the door and pushes.
The inside of the building was nothing but some old boxes and a desk with a typewriter on it. They start looking around the building but there was nothing in the boxes and the desk was empty as well.
Looking at the typewrite Dexter notices that it wasn't as dusty as everything else in the building and on a closer inspection he notices the D key was worn more than the others. He pushes the D key down and a clicking noise is head and they all step away from the desk as it rose up into the air on a set of pistons.
The desk lifting up revealed a set of stairs. "Hold on." Buttercup says walking over to the door. She rips it off and carries it over to the desk and shoves it up under it to keep it open. "Now we can get back out."
The stairs lead to an old elevator that went deep underground. "This looks dangerous, maybe you should wait up here Dexter." Blossom says looking over at her boyfriend.
"I'm going with you Blossom." Dexter says as he put on his purple gloves.
"But-" Blossom says worried about him.
"But nothing Blossom, Dexter is part of the team and you know it." Buttercup says interrupting her sister.
"Ok, just promise me you will be careful." Blossom says accepting the fact that Dexter is coming with them.
"I promise." He says looking over at Blossom.
Blossom picks up Dexter and they floated down the elevator shaft like they did at the theater to avoid making any noise as they went down. The shaft went down for at least two miles and when they reached the bottom they find a large cave painted pink.
"This is a little terrifying." Bubbles says looking around the cave. As they looked around the cave they spot piles of various things from the vault that has been torn apart as if someone was scraping them for parts for something.
"Looks like we know who the robbers are." Buttercup says spotting peace of stuff she's personally put into the vault.
"Then it was my fault…" Bubbles says her guilt over the break in coming back.
"Oh don't go taking our credit, we were planning that well before our first encounter." Morbucks says stepping into the dim light of the room. "And now you foolish little heroes have fallen right into my trap."
Crossing her arms Morbucks continues to taunt Dexter and the girls. "Everything that has happen has been part of our plan. We knew you idiots had a stash of such fun toys and that stupid green monkey was just the start with our gift of that robot. We knew you fools would take its computer and we made sure to leave a way to find it. And now here you are in the lair of the dragon, alone and it is here you will fall like the freaks of nature that you are." She says finishing her well-rehearsed monologue.
"You are going to pay for that." Buttercup says as she started to run at Morbucks.
But Blossom stops her after only two steps by grabbing the back of her shirt. "Don't let her get to you Buttercup, we need to keep our cool." She says pulling her sister back.
"That right, listen to your big freak of a sister. You're both just lap dogs to her and that loser of a boyfriend anyways. It's no wonder why you don't a mom, she'd hate you too if she saw what freaks you all are." Morbucks says gloating over Blossom stopping her sister.
When Morbucks made a jab at the girl's mother something snapped inside of Blossom. She looks at Morbucks with fire in her eyes. Blossom moves so fast that all that was seen was everyone's hair moving from the wind of Blossom flying at Morbucks and then her fist connected to Morbucks face.
The impact physics of the punch took a second for to catch up, and when it did all that was heard was the sound of Morbucks nose breaking before she flew several feet away from Blossom.
Dexter, Buttercup and Bubbles were shocked by Blossom's attack against Morbucks, but Blossom was officially done with Morbucks. Calling her and her sisters names was one thing, but attacking Dexter let alone their mother, that was too much.
Blossom turns away and starts walking back the Dexter and her sisters. "Remember who we are, you bitch." She says looking over her shoulder at Morbucks on the ground.
Mandark, Brick, Butch and Boomer had planned on making a dramatic entrance. Mandark was to ride a zip line in and the others to where to fly in showboating about having powers, but when they landed and saw Morbucks sprawled out on the floor and her nose bleeding they ran over to her.
Brick picks her up and says; "Morbucks, what happened to you?"
"Mandy…" Morbucks says as she starts to lose consciousness.
"Yo Mandork! Get over here." Brick yells behind him.
Mandark ran over to them. "Yes?" He asks wanting to know what they wanted.
When Morbucks sees Mandark she reaches up to him. "Mandy." She says trying to keep her thoughts focused.
Mandark had thought that the nickname of Mandy was her way of insulting him just like how Brick, Butch and Boomer call him Mandork, but as he looked down at Morbucks he saw tears forming in her eyes.
Bending down to her she says; "Don't let them take you away from me again." As she grabbed his arm before she fell unconscious.
What Morbucks had told no one was that she had developed a crush on Mandark as Mandark, her, Brick, Butch, Boomer and the other member of their team of Powerpuff Girls and Dexter heaters worked. All Morbucks ever did was give them money and sit around doing nothing.
There was just something about Mandark's darker soul and troubled past that she liked. He didn't obey her every command like Brick and the boys did, and she would find herself watching him. He was just like Dexter as to her sex appeal had no effect on him. But she couldn't help it, she was drawn to him and when the attack at the movie theater had failed it was the loss of him that hurt her the most. Sure she likes Brick and the others, but they were more of play things to her and she never felt anything past friends with benefits for them.
Mandark takes her hand off of his arm and gently sets it down on her stomach. While he was locked up in prison he was surprised that it was Morbucks he would find himself missing and wanting to see more and more that Dee Dee like he had been for years. Her command over Brick and the others intrigued Mandark and she became someone he wanted to learn more about. "Who did this to her?" He yells standing up and looking over at Dexter, Blossom and her sister.
While the boys were dealing with Morbucks, Dexter and her sisters were dealing with Blossom.
When Blossom had got back to them she was shaking with rage. "Blossom, are you ok?" Dexter asks as Blossom breathes heavily.
"I just, she… Mom…Urgh." Blossom says her frustration at Morbucks making it hard to forum proper sentences.
"Take a deep breath Blossom." Bubbles says placing her hand on Blossoms left shoulder.
"Yeah sis, in… and out." Buttercup says putting her hand on Blossoms other shoulder getting her to take a deep breath.
Blossom takes another deep breath. "I'm sorry, it's just when she attacked Mom and you Dexter I just saw red and couldn't help it." She says as she started to calm down.
"It's ok Blossom, if you hadn't put her in her place I would have." Buttercup says as they heard Brick yell.
They four of them look over and sees Mandark bend down to Morbucks in Bricks arms. They couldn't hear what she had said to him and when Mandark yelled at them Blossom responded.
"She got what she deserved." Blossom yells back at him.
Mandark looks behind him at Brick, Butch and Boomer. "End this. Now" He says ordering them.
Brick gently sets Morbucks down on the ground and then him and the other two fly at Blossom and the others.
"We'll handle them." Blossom say to Dexter as the boys come at them.
"I'll get Mandark." Dexter says knowing what he needs to do.
The girls fly at them and when they hit each other it was like a seen from a superhero comic. Blossom fought Brick, Boomer faced off against Bubbles and Buttercup was dealing with Butch. Without the armor they had the first time they fought the girls were getting the upper hand, the boys are just not as though skinned as the girls and they were quickly losing the fight.
While they fought Dexter went to deal with Mandark. When the boys flew off to fight Blossom and her sisters Mandark had picked Morbucks up and carried her over to the sofa she'd spend most of her time on when she was in the cave base.
He turns around to watch the fight curious to see how well the boys would face against Blossom and her sisters only to be blindsided by Dexter punching him in the side of the head.
"What the hell is your deal? Do you seriously have that big of a problem with me that you would risk the lives of innocents just for revenge?" Dexter asks as Mandark fell to the floor.
"You think this has all just been for revenge? Did you ever think that my hate came from being jealous of you?" Mandark says rubbing the side of his head where Dexter had hit him.
"What is there in my life to be jealous of?" Dexter asks thinking that nothing in his life, other than Blossom being his girlfriend, was worth being jealous of.
"Oh please are you that dense? Your family loves and understands you. You think my parents ever knew a thing about me?" Mandark says glaring at him.
"My parents don't understand me, they hardly know anything about me. But I still love them and I will do anything to keep them and my sister safe. That's why I will always, always stop you from hurting the people I care about." Dexter says as he pushed Mandark down to the floor with his booted foot and held him in place as he pulled the magnetic handcuffs from his backpack.
As Dexter put the cuff on Mandark a deep voiced laugh echoes through the cave. "Ha Ha Ha Ha."
At the sound of the laugh Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup freeze from fear
"Hello girls, it's been a long time." A high pitched voice says as a red skinned man with short black hair and a goatee appears out of thin air. The man has what looks like lobster claws for hands and was dressed in a sleeveless women's jacket with thigh length black heeled boots.
"Oh no… it's HIM." Blossom says as Brick, Butch and Boomer fall back behind HIM.
Blossom and her sisters also fall back and land next to Dexter who was dragging Mandark towards the elevator shaft.
"Dexter you need to get out of here now." Blossom says to him fearful for her boyfriend.
"That's him isn't it? The guy that pushed you over the edge years ago." Dexter says looking at HIM, who clearly looked like a demon.
"Why yes Dexter it was me, and I have biding my time ever since the last time me and the girls played. I've been watching you three, sending my lovely monsters to the city so I could learn all there is about you." HIM says answering Dexter's question.
"At first I thought little Mandark here was the key, his mechanical toys provided much entertainment for me and all it took was me promising to give him your sister Dexter. Though in the end the girls stopped Mojo's robot and those travesty's of fashion that my boys wore to the movies." He says as he put his claws behind his back and paced in front of Brick, Butch and Boomer.
"It was then that I learned that you are to not be underestimated Dexter, your quick thinking was something I never planned for. Then one day a thought came to me: "If you can't beat them, copy them". So I had little Mandy use all those lovely devices you had to copy your powers and give them to my boys." He continues stopping to face Dexter and the girls again.
"I also started to watch you and young Blossom together, you are an adorable couple by the way, and as the boys learned their new powers I finally learned how to destroy you. Together you are an unstoppable force but even without just one of you, you will fall. And it just so happens that the best of you is now the weakest." HIM says as he starts to move his claws around in a strange pattern in front of himself.
"You have let someone new into your heart Blossom. I see that he fills you with joy, but with that joy there are also doubts." He says as he put a spell over Blossom.
When the spell hit Blossom she dropped to the ground on her knees tears forming in her eyes as visions of Dexter dumping her for someone else, of him yelling at her and of him just being all around horrible to her filled her head.
"No…" Blossom whimpers as the visions take ahold of her.
Buttercup and Bubbles both knew that they had to engage HIM and stop him from casting any more spells even if he was right and that the two of them couldn't stop him. As they flew at HIM Buttercup held her fist out to Bubbles. They tap fist knowing that this has become a win or fall battle.
"Love you Bubbles." Buttercup says to her sister knowing that there was a chance she'd never get to again.
"Love you too Buttercup." Bubbles says back knowing the exact same as her sister.
As Bubble and Buttercup flew at HIM and the boys Dexter dropped down next to Blossom. "Blossom." He says shaking her. "Listen to me Blossom whatever he is trying to get you to believe it isn't true."
He kept trying to shake her out of the day-mare she was having but he couldn't reach her, her eyes just kept shedding streams of tears from what HIM is making her see.
He could only think of one thing that might snap her out of it, picking up her head he kisses her putting all his emotions and affections for her into the kiss.
When his lips touched hers the spell breaks, the power of love is a powerful thing, and she kissed him back letting all of her affection for him wash over herself.
"I-I'm sorry." Blossom says shaking her head trying to get the tears out of her eyes when they break the kiss.
"Don't apologies Blossom." Dexter says wiping a tear away from her eye.
"He made me think of you leaving me." She says as he helps her up telling him of the vision that hurt her the most.
"Why would I ever want to do that?" He asks, the idea of not having her in his life had never even crossed his mind.
"I don't know, but it's a thought that scares me sometimes." She says admitting to having that fear before this day.
"I don't think I could ever be without you Blossom." He says putting his hand on her cheek.
"I know I don't ever want to be without you too Dexter." She says smiling at him.
"I, I love you Blossom." Dexter was a little scared of what she would say, he didn't intend to tell her that, it just came out on its own.
Her face lights up. "I love you too Dexter." She says as tears of happiness form in her eyes.
They may have only been dating for a few months, but Dexter and Blossom were both one hundred percent certain of their feelings for each other and they kiss again.
"Now go and help your sisters." Dexter says telling her that she needs to help them.
Even with Blossom's help, HIM and the boys were too much for the girls to handle on their own. HIM would teleport around making it impossible for the girls to get him and Brick, Butch and Boomer would take advantage of this and would take cheap shots at them.
When hope started to not look good a streak of golden light fly's out of the elevator shaft and hits HIM sending him flying into the wall of the cave.
"Monkey!" Bubbles says happy to see the super hero monkey dressed in his black and gold super hero costume.
"I hope we are not too late." Dexter hears a voice say and he turns to see Agent Honeydew in her black jumpsuit fall down the elevator shaft making a flawless landing.
"How did you know where to find us?" Dexter asks glad to see some help for the girls even if it was Global Security.
She walks over to him. "You think I'M that stupid?" She asks as she pulled the tracking disk off of his lab coat.
"Took you long enough." Dexter says recognizing the disk to be just like the ones he had found in the cards him and Blossom had both received.
"Monkey is fast, but he can't fly from Nowheresville to here in a blink of an eye." She says as she put the disk into her utility belt.
"You are all fools, nothing can stop a demon like HIM." Mandark says from the spot on the floor Dexter had left him a few feet away.
"Shut up." Dexter says back to him with a glare.
"He is right though, there is little we can do against a demon from another plane of existence." Honeydew says looking up at Monkey barely keeping up with HIM and the girls who are starting to win against the boys.
Dexter looks up at the battle going on in the air, it was almost at a battle of the gods level of a fight, but HIM was still winning even with his plans failing.
Dexter then looks down at Mandark. "You've been around him, you must know of a weakness" He says walking over to Mandark.
"Why should I help you?" Mandark asks glaring.
Dexter picks him up off the floor. "Think of other people for once in your damn life, that monster is going to get people killed and their blood will be on your hands. You claim to love my sister yet you never think of what you are doing would put her in harm's way." He says looking Mandark in the eyes.
Mandark looks away from Dexter and over to Morbucks who was still on the couch he had left her on, which was dangerously close to where all the fighting was going on.
"I know how to stop him" Mandark says after he thought everything over.
"How?" Dexter asks glad that Mandark might have a way to end this.
"Get these infernal things off of me and get Morbucks away from the fighting and I will show you." Mandark says looking from Dexter to Honeydew.
Dexter was hesitant at first but eventually pulls Mandark up onto his feet and takes his cuffs off. "Ok, what do you think will work?"
"I need a book from my room." Mandark says as he turns to walk away.
"Get Morbucks away and keep an eye on the girls for me." Dexter says to Honeydew who was talking into her phone.
She looks at him and gives him a nod before she ran over to the couch Morbucks was on.
Dexter follows Mandark into a tunnel that lead to another part of the cave that acted as Mandark's bedroom, all that was in his room was a cot and table with books piled on it.
Dexter felt a little bad for Mandark for having to live like this. Even if he was the person Dexter couldn't stand the most, he was still a fellow man of science and deserved better to let his intellect grow.
Mandark walks over to the table. "I've had this for years and I almost didn't bring it." He says picking up and old orange book from the table.
Dexter catches the title of the book as Mandark walked towards the exit of the cave room. 'The Magic of Science? What are you planning Mandark.' He thinks as he follows Mandark out of his room.
Back out in the main room Honeydew had moved Morbucks over by the elevator shaft and was still talking into her phone still.
"I don't care that they are not part of Global Security or the Justice Friends, these girls need backup and they needed it twenty minutes ago." Honeydew yells into her phone. "No you listen to me. Monkey is already here and he is barely holding his own. If he falls because of you spouting pointless rules to me I will make sure you spend the rest of your life working as a high school janitor. I want every agent we have in the area to get here now." She says into her phone before she ended the call.
"I hope this plan of yours works because we might be on our own." She says looking over at Mandark.
Mandark didn't respond back to her, he just starts to flip through the pages of the book looking for a spell he had once seen in it.
"Got it." Mandark says finding the page he was looking for as Brick, Butch and Boomer fell out of the air having lost their fights against Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup.
"The monkey needs to get out of the way." Mandark says as he moves the fingers of the hand not holding the book around starting the spell.
Honeydew puts her fingertips to her head focusing on her telekinetic link to Monkey. 'Monkey fall back, we might have something.' She thinks to him.
Hearing this Monkey swings his tail at HIM's face slapping him in the eyes causing HIM to close them.
"You stupid little rodent!" HIM says as he swung at Monkey. But he hit nothing and when he opened his eyes he see the girls and Monkey flying around him. He then looks down at Brick, Butch and Boomer lying on the ground beaten and then to Mandark and sees the book in his hand.
"Now Mandark." Dexter yells at him telling him to cast the spell.
'This is for you De-, no, it is not for her. She's never liked me and never will, this is for you Morbucks. My life was already ruined and now because of me yours is too, I'm sorry.' Mandark thinks for once doing something not for himself, but for someone else.
"Mandark!" Dexter yells as HIM starts flying at them with the intent to kill Mandark.
Mandark looks HIM in the eye. "Chim chimney cher-oo." He says casting the spell.
"NOOOoooo." HIM screams as the spell goes off.
The spell caused an explosion to go off as HIM was banished back to the demotion he originated from.
The explosion sent smoke flying everywhere filling the cave making it impossible to see.
"Blossom where are you?" Dexter yells needing to know where she was.
"Were over here Dexter, just keep talking and we will follow the sound of your voice." Blossom says as her and her sisters start floating to where it sounded like Dexter's voice came from.
"Ok, do you think it worked? Do you think he is really gone?" Dexter says relieved to hear Blossoms voice.
"I think so, did Mandark cast a spell on him?" She asks as her and her sisters' land on the ground.
"He did he- wait where the heck is he? Honeydew do you have Mandark?" Dexter says realizing that Mandark isn't standing next to him.
"No I just have the unconscious girl that is going to need some major plastic surgery to fix what was her nose." Honeydew yells back as the smoke starts to thin.
"Shoot the little creep got away." Buttercup says as her and her sisters spot Dexter.
When Blossom sees Dexter she runs over to him and jumps at him hugging him. "That was so scary Dexter, I never thought we'd face HIM again." She says holding him tight. Fighting HIM reminded her of all the other times they had fought him and after the last fight she had even thought of giving up fighting crime it scared her that much.
"I know, I was worried about and your sisters. But it's over now." Dexter says holding her just as close as she was him.
The sound of metal grinding fills the cave and everyone looks at the elevator shaft preparing for the worst. But it was just the old elevator coming down full of men and women in black suits with black ties.
"Really the elevator? Did you want them to know you were coming?" Honeydew asks turning to the look at the group of Global Security agents coming out of the elevator.
"How else were we to get down?" Agent Five asks speaking for the whole group.
"Repel down a rope? Honestly they just don't train you people like they used too. I want the names of every one of your CO's when the cleanup is done." Honeydew says as the last of the smoke fades.
"Cleanup? I thought you were dealing with a class ten threat." Agent Six says stepping out of the group.
"We were, it appears to have been sent back to where it came from. Now we have three teenage boys with artificially made power unconscious on the ground over there." Honeydew says taking charge of the group of agents. "We need containment and transportation to The Icebox for them and this one might need a doctor before she is taken to HQ for questioning. Tell the Major that I will handle the questioning myself." She says telling them what to do.
"What about those four? They are unregistered powers and he is already on the blacklist." Agent Five says pointing over at Dexter and Blossom who had been joined by Buttercup and Bubbles, who was hugging all three of them happy that they won.
"Those three stopped the threat and I will be talking to the Major about that list and who needs to be on it, so they go untouched. Now get to work people we are supposed to be the professionals, I want to see this done before dinner." Honeydew says pointing at Dexter and the girls.
"Yes ma'am." The group of agents says before they run all over the cave getting to work.
Monkey lands on Honeydews shoulder as she walks over to Dexter and the girls. "I want to tell you that all four of you performed better than anyone would have expected. You may not care for us Blossom, but you and your sisters have the thanks of all of Global Security. And Dexter you really are more than just a normal human boy, when you turn of age there will be a job waiting for you at Global Security. You can help us keep this world a safe place like you've wanted too." Honeydew says proud of him and the girls.
"Sorry but that was the old me. When I was younger I wanted to be a hero and fight evil defending the earth, but I like my mostly normal life. Now I just want to be Dexter a teenage genius and a good boyfriend to Blossom." Dexter says turning down Honeydews offer.
Blossom takes his hand in hers happy that he is happy with how his life is.
"If that is your choice, but the offer will stand if you ever change your mind." Honeydew says half expecting him to turn her offer down. "I am sorry about all of this. Global Security should have done better, no I should have done better. Would you girls be willing to give not Global Security but just me a second chance?" She says surveying the cave as the agents worked.
"Get Dexter off that list and we'll think about." Blossom says as she started to walk over to the elevator still holding Dexters hand and her sisters follow them already thinking that Honeydew isn't so bad.
"OOH AAH" Monkey says to Honeydew.
"Oh right, Dexter one more thing." She says remembering something she meant to tell him. "You can tell COMPUTER that she can go back to watching her British science fiction shows."
Hearing Honeydew says COMPUTER's name made Dexter freeze and start to panic. "How do you know of her?" He demands turning to look at Honeydew.
"I am the Global Security commanding officer that was assigned to you case, not to mention I have Monkey living with me. But you have nothing to worry about her being discovered, she sentient in her own way and a far as I am concerned she is protected under The Nonhuman Resident laws we have for the aliens that are living here on earth. Not to mention we wouldn't know what to do with her if we did take her away." Honeydew says as she scratched Monkey behind the ear.
"I knew we were not alone." Buttercup says shocked at hearing Honeydew admit to aliens living on the planet.
"Thank you Honeydew." Dexter says glad that COMPUTER is no longer at risk of being taken away.
"You're welcome Dexter and Buttercup, don't go around telling everyone." Honeydew says smiling at them as Blossom put her arm around Dexter to fly him up the elevator shaft.
AN; This chapter was a lot longer that I thought it was going to be (and ate up a lot of time to write this quick), but I didn't want to spit it in half because I want this story done by next week. there is only one more chapter left so I think if I work hard I can get the last chapter done by my gole date.