Chapter 10: Fair Fight

Brick and Blossom were standing in the blazing forest fire, just glaring at each other, waiting for one to make their next move. "You don't have to do this, Brick. You got your memory back. Now you can just leave with your brothers," Blossom claimed, knowing he was probably not going to accept the offer, but she did feel bad being seen as a practical bad guy for trying to change someone when they were vulnerable. She was not proud of it, but she swore that he was a lot better when she got to know his nice side. The only side she ever saw before was an aggressive side that wanted nothing but violence, and fun criminal activities.

"My brothers are off dealing with your sisters. This time we're going to have a fair fight. I owe you for the last time," Brick responded with a laugh before he fired a blast of his heat vision, cutting down a burning tree behind her, watching it collapse toward them. "Please… you have to get a lot craftier than that. I'm not sick this time," Blossom joked, reminding him of how she was only weak the last time they battled was because of her past illness. She caught the tree with her bare hands, and while it did burn a little, she threw it aside, not caring where it crashed. Blossom charged at him, flying off the ground. Brick watched her circle around him. All he could see was a bright pink light trail circling around him, and occasionally he was punched in the back of the head.

"Ow!" Brick repeated in between each blow to the head before he reached out to his left and caught Blossom by her hair. Her eyes watered in upon pain by having some of her hair almost torn off. "This butterfly just lost her wings," Brick mocked before slamming her to the ground. The burning ash from the forest was floating around, getting heavier and heavier each moment. He grinned, while having her pinned to the ground by her wrists. Blossom just glared at him, ready to vaporize his head with her heat vision before noticing two figures coming through the fire. Her eyes widened when she realized that it was Butch and Boomer, dragging along the unconscious Buttercup and Bubbles respectively. "Well, looks like the puffs can't play ruff," Boomer joked. "Yep. You have to be heartless to win," Butch smirked, with no care about the unconscious duo that were heavily beaten and battered.

"B-brick… you don't have to do this. I don't care if you have your mind back or not. You were a great friend. I don't see why anything has to change now that you are back to your old self," Blossom told him, while noticing his brothers too busy keeping an eye on her sisters to even listen to her rambling. "As far as I care, we won, and I got my payback," Brick rolled his eyes beginning to lighten his grip. "Come on man, finish her!" the blonde haired boy cheered for their leaders win. "Yeah, do it!" Butch repeated like a chant.

Blossom just looked at him confusedly, starting to notice a lack of resistance before she received a wink. "This is for keeping me alive at least when I was out of it. Now make it look convincing," he whispered. He couldn't help but keep remembering all they had done when he had lost his mind, and he couldn't shake the memories, even though he had a raging force in his body to just brutalize her. He had already won the fight as far as he cared. "Got it. Thanks, Brick…" Blossom gave a light hearted smile. "Any time, babe…" Brick let Blossom kick him in the stomach, knocking him onto his feet. She got up and darted at him a pink trail behind her before she grabbed him and tossed him into a tree on his back, like if it was the fight that had caused all of this the first time around.

"Whoa dude! Don't worry, we'll help you!" Butch called, the duo ready to help their sibling, but Brick stopped them. "No! This is between me and carrot hair here!" he shouted before getting punched in the stomach. Blossom didn't want to risk hitting him in the head again. Butch and Boomer didn't understand the forceful feeling behind each other why they wanted to assault their gender-wise counterparts, but it was the kind of thing that really wanted them to do so in the back of their minds.

They watched as their brother was brutally beaten by a hail of punches and kicks to the chest and stomach, until he began to slide down the tree, groaning like he couldn't stand. "Thanks… babe…" Brick mumbled, coughing up blood, clearly having taken a bit of heavy damage, much more than the act should have implied. "We lost guys! Let's just… forget about 'em and head back to Citiesville," Brick groaned while getting up. Butch and Boomer could hardly believe that just because he lost, they were all going to lose, especially when they had two of them already beaten. Blossom just watched the three trails of light fly through the air. The dark red, blue and green trails all vanished. She could only describe it as a strange few days. "Huh… maybe it wasn't a waste of time after all," Blossom thought, believing her efforts weren't all for not after all.

After an hour, Blossom watched her two sisters waken up. The fire was mostly extinguished, and Blossom was putting out one of the last small blazes. "Ow… what happened?" Bubbles mumbled, rubbing her head sorely. "Y-yeah, the last thing I remember was Boomer bashing my skull…" Buttercup commented, just as confused as Bubbles was. "Oh! Glad you're awake, girls. Nothing really happened. Brick saved us, that's all," Blossom explained. Silence took over, but a loud uproar of laughter followed. Blossom just listened to it for a minute and watched Buttercup wipe a tear out of her eye from laughing too hard. "Ah, that's a good one…" she snickered, trying to keep from laughing again. "Thanks for saving us, Blossom. We owe you," Bubbles thanked her, a strong belief that she was the one who saved them. "Hehe… Yeah, no problem… now let's go home," Blossom told her sisters just going along with it, flying off with them to get the terrible few days they had behind them. However, Blossom had a feeling in the back of her mind, which made her wonder if she would see Brick again.

The End...