Chapter 10: The truth.
For the next week, Townsville had fallen under the protection of Bubbles and Boomer alone. None of the citizens knew who had been saving them at all, but they were thankful for it nonetheless. At this point, the city of Townsville had never been safer than it was now. Today seemed to show it even more by being barren of any form of hostile threat to the town.
At the Utonium household, the Powerpuff Girls were all in the living room with the professor, watching a news report that was just starting on television. A picture of the disguised Boomer and Bubbles showed on screen, and a news reporter was fixing his papers and making sure his voice was clear. "Today, we have an odd report. For the past week, Townsville has been saved, not by the Powerpuff Girls but by to the town's newest heroes..." the man started while squinting his eyes at the paper like he couldn't read it right. "Baize and Bapp, I believe. No one knows much of these two, but they have been through multiple reports claimed to be just average citizens," the reporter continued. Bubbles knew that she and boomer had not been commenting much about being related to the Utonium family tree since she didn't want to spark anything odd.
And just like that, it seemed like Buttercup had gotten to angry from the report, and she flipped the remote, hitting the off switch to turn off the television. The professor gave a lighthearted laugh. "Well, girls, look at the bright side. You can actually take a rest," their father insisted, since the duo were saving the town too often. Bubbles was the only one that seemed happy, glad that her and her boyfriend's hard effort was paying off. "It isn't good at all, Professor! There are two people in town with powers like ours!" Buttercup exclaimed in anger. Blossom could only nod in slight agreement. "Yeah... whoever made them... they could be making more... someone else could have discovered how to make Chemical X," she described the worst scenario in this situation. Their practical father had a bit of a stunned expression upon the thought of another person making super powered children, which was slightly scary.
"Can't we just be happy that they're helping us for now?" Bubbles asked. The look she received from her sisters gave her a well enough answer to go back to being silent from there on. The conversation just continued onto suspects that might have created Bapp and Baize, and at that point, Bubbles had left the living room to go up to her room. It was worrying to her to think that the plan that she and Boomer had made and been sticking to for the longest time was getting more tough by the day.
At the Rowdyruff Boys' hideout, the past few days had been annoying for Brick and Butch. They had been unable to commit any crimes due to the fear that all five of the protectors of Townsville would gang up on them and attack them. It was driving Butch near madness from being stuck inside most of the day, unable to go create random rampage and destruction. While Brick was reading a book in the kitchen, Boomer was long asleep in his room. He had finally returned home without much care from his brothers, but one thing was on their leader's mind. He had noticed their blonde brother asleep for well over most of the day.
While Brick was reading, he suddenly saw his book get grabbed and thrown away. Butch stood in front of him. "What is it, Butch?" he sighed. Butch threw a wallet onto the table. "I needed five bucks, so I went to get it from boomer, and look what I found," Butch explained. Brick curiously opened the wallet, his eyes then going wide upon seeing a police badge. "What the... why does he have this?" Brick scratched his head while wondering aloud. Butch slammed his fists on the table, causing imprints to be left in it from his brutal strength. "Don't you get it?! He isn't a ruff anymore! He's become a wussy puff for the law!" Butch shouted, enraged. His leader just fixed his red cap and sighed. "Well... let's go talk to him," he insisted, and he followed the boy in green down the hall to the last room.
Boomer's room was probably the cleanest out of the whole house, but there wasn't much to clean anyway. It was such a small room, where there was only a dresser and a bed, and on that bed laid the blue ruff himself, who had various bruises on him from the past week of heroism and police duties. "You can wake him," Brick let Butch walk over to Boomer. Butch grabbed the side of the bed, flipping it over, and having Boomer plop onto the floor, making him groan and open his eyes, holding his head in pain. "Oww... what was that for?" he moaned while sitting there. Butch tossed his wallet in his lap, the badge being viewable in the open area. "Where'd you get the badge, bro?" Brick raised an eyebrow with his arms crossed. Boomer stood up. "What're you doing with my wallet?!" he gave back an angry glare. His siblings looked to each other, trying to think of who to take the blame on that one.
"You left it in the kitchen," Butch quickly lied to get around the topic. "Now spill it. You've been gone for a week, and suddenly there are no criminals robberies or anything! We're not as stupid as you! So tell us the truth!" Brick ordered. The rage in the room for the triplets was rising by the second. Boomer pocketed his badge. "Fine... you want to know?" he asked while going over to the dresser and digging around in it, pulling out the wig, the vest and his magenta contacts. After putting on his disguise he turned to face his siblings. They were surprised, their rage lost for a short second. Boomer pulled out his badge, showing it to them. "I am police officer, Bapp!" he announced. Silence encased the room. He was sick of being insulted and picked on and being taken for granted, and now he had snapped. He wanted none of it.
"...And I am putting you under arrest!" Boomer added. Brick and Butch both looked to each other before breaking out into laughter. They were still upset that he was to them a claimed traitor to the group, but the thought of him attempting to even apprehend them was hilarious. Boomer went ahead and punched some sense into Butch, right in the jaw, knocking him through the wall into the hallway. "Ow! That actually hurt!" Butch cried. The punch was indeed really strong, especially in comparison to their past fights they have had. "What happened to you?! You're as worthless as those Powerpuff Girls!" Brick shouted, darting at his sibling with a red trail of light behind him. Boomer just stood there, waiting for Brick to get close enough, and then he ducked underneath him, making him fly over. The young boy laughed while grabbing his leader's legs and throwing him over his shoulder, whapping him onto the ground and stomping on his back.
"Don't you ever insult my girlfriend!" Boomer exclaimed. Brick was in agony. Suddenly, he got tackled by Butch, both tearing through the window, having taken the fight outside now. Brick forced himself off the ground and flew outside to help his brother. "Dad won't be happy when he hears we killed you, Boomer," the raven haired boy stated. "You jerks wouldn't care if I died a ruff, or a puff," Boomer hissed back. Brick and Butch's eyes glowed red, and they fired heat vision at him. Boomer used his powers of energy projection to make dark blue aura to encase his arms. He put up his guard, letting the heat vision hit his arms. He grit his teeth and growled while holding his own defense as long as he could, the heat vision beams getting smaller each moment.
Inevitably, Boomer's energy projection shattered, and he was forced to the ground by the combined heat visions that stopped shortly after. Both Brick and Butch panted, having wasted so much energy from trying to break his defenses. Boomer forced himself to his feet. "My turn," he smiled, flying at them and kicking Brick back with force, sending him a few feet away. He focused his attention on Butch next, grabbing his shirt and punching him in the stomach before head butting him, stunning him for a split moment. "Who's stupid now?" he rhetorically asked while punching his green brother in the chest. "IT. IS. NOT. ME!" Boomer said in between hits while punching his brothers face. Before long, the unconscious Butch was let go, and he fell into the ground, his face covered in scratches and bruises, having some blood coming out of his mouth.
Boomer just stayed floating there, panting and enjoying his half victory so far. "Incoming!" he heard, raising an eyebrow. He looked over his shoulder to see an eighteen wheeler truck flying at him with the driver still inside. The young boy caught it, groaning before lowering himself to the ground, landing and putting it down gently. Normally he wouldn't care for the vehicle if it was empty. He then saw three more cars flying in the air, each one with people in them. Brick was laughing while doing this as a distraction. Boomer just glared, flying back in the air and quickly grabbing each car and landing it quickly as possible.
Soon, Boomer noticed Brick's eyes glow red again and fire another ray of heat vision. Boomer fired his own ray of heat vision to counter it. Both red beams collided, but Brick's energy quickly ran dry from the heavy abuse of it earlier on in the fight. His heat vision died out as he got struck by Boomer's heat vision. He let out a scream of pain, the beam searing him. The young blonde soon stopped and panted, and he found his leader on the ground, unconscious, his clothing charred and his hair scorched. And his hat in a pile of ashes.
"I did it... I'm the toughest ruff now... and you two... get to face justice..." Boomer muttered while approaching them, grabbing Butch by his shirt collar and grabbing Brick by one of his legs. He began to fly off with a smirk to take them straight to prison, where he thought there was a cozy cell or two waiting for them. He had no guilt or anger over it. In fact, he felt great, though only one thought was standing in the back of his mind that Bubbles will perhaps be extremely happy to hear the news.
End of Chapter 10