Chapter 10

Megan, Bella and Justin are sleeping in a cave in the middle of the desert; they lost the road they were on when they lost the enemy, now they have decided to hide out there. Megan tosses and turns in her sleep, the thoughts of something that happened to her 3 months ago flashes into her mind.

[Flashback to 3 months ago]

Megan screams out in fear as she is hung by her feet at the roof of butch's apartment building, 10 minutes ago she was practicing her kick boxing but as usual Jason came to mess with her. This resulted in her current upside down situation "JASON PLEASE, DON'T DROP ME PLEASE!"

"Now relax" Jason says smirking at her as he holds both of her ankles in one hand "you're a tough girl, this is nothing you can't handle. I'm just going to let you go, I love the way you scream, it's downright hilarious".

"NO" Megan starts crying "please, DADDY HELP ME, I'M SCARED".

Jason's amused look turns to a serious one "daddy? Every time we're together you fucking cry for your daddy. WHY? You're always crying for him, always scared of everything around you, why am I wasting my time training a weakling like you? It's not like you're going to use anything I teach you, all you are ever going to do is run and cry for your daddy".

"PLEASE" Megan cries even more "don't drop me, please, I can't help it, I'm scared, I don't want to die, I want my daddy back".

"Ugh" Jason groans "god why are little girls so weak? My little sister was weak also, always crying, always screaming for her mommy, IT DROVE ME CRAZY". He smirks down at Megan viciously "and do you know what I did to her?" Megan slowly shakes her head, and Jason smiles fully at her "I got rid of her" he lets go of Megan's ankles and she screams hysterically as she falls from the 20 floor building.

Megan falls to her doom, screaming at the top of her lungs, she starts to black out a little when suddenly a light green blur flashes before her, swooping her up and flying with her back to the roof top she fell from. Megan opens her eyes and looks around for a second noticing Jason is gone, her attention then moves to whoever caught her "M….Mom?"

Buttercup looks at her with a look of fear and extreme concern "Oh my god Megan, are you alright?" she holds the little girl close to her "what happened?"

"Um…..I…uh…" Megan's whole body shook uncontrollably and her hair stood out on all ends but she didn't want buttercup to know what really happened "I came up here for some fresh air".

"THEN OPEN UP A DAMN WINDOW MEGAN" Buttercup carries her to the staircase "being up here by yourself is dangerous, someone is supposed to be watching you, where is Butch?" Megan doesn't answer her which pisses her off "I see". She carries Megan downstairs and walks over to Butch's apartment, when she enters with Megan she sees butch sleeping on the couch, she puts Megan down and punches butch in the head "WAKE UP JACKASS".

Butch cursed and rubbed his head, he had no idea how he got from the supermarket to laying on the couch. All he knew was that he had a headache "what is it?" he looks over at Megan and smiles a little "Hello my queen", he then notices her pale face, quivering form and messed up hair "what happened to you?"

Buttercup glares at him while holding Megan protectively "her fathers an incompetent asshole, that's what's wrong with her".

"What the hell did I do?" Butch says outraged.

Buttercup pulls a blanket from under Butch and Megan sits down next to him, Buttercup wraps the blanket around Megan "she fell off the roof and nearly died, you're supposed to be watching her, not sitting on your ass while she tries to kill herself".

"I wasn't even asleep for that long, cut me some fucking slack" Butch glares back at her, Megan crawls over to him and cuddles close to him for comfort. He turns to her for a moment and frowns in concern at her "honey, what were you doing up on the roof? It's not like you to wander off like that". Megan wouldn't look at him, she couldn't even speak, all she wants is for him to hold her.

"DOES IT MATTER?" Buttercup says angrily "how could you not even know where your own daughter was? That's irresponsible".

"Ok geez" Butch says angrily back "you're just pissed that we pulled you from your busy schedule to do some damn parenting".

"EXCUSE ME?" Buttercup says "how dare you even imply that, I love her just as much as you do. It's not my fault that your brain is too fried from getting baked or drunk all the time to even know what the fuck is going on around you".

"First of all" Butch says "I haven't done drugs since college and second I'm not drunk all the time. I take better care of her then you ever could, SO GET OFF MY BACK BITCH".

While her parents argue Megan blocks them out, her mind drifts off to what Jason said earlier to her.

"God why are little girls so weak?"

Megan looks up at Butch and tugs on his shirt. Butch stops arguing and looks at Megan, so does buttercup. Megan looks back at them sadly "do you think I'm weak?"

Butch frowns and looks down at her gently resting his hand on her shoulder "where's that coming from?"

Buttercup frowns also, concerned "Megan is someone out there calling you weak? Cause if they are….."

"No…no it's nothing like that" Megan says in a slight panic, "I was just thinking that maybe if I was a bit stronger I…."

"Hey, hey, hey" Butch hugs her comfortingly "you don't have to do anything, my Queen".

Buttercup sits next to them, she then kisses Megan on the forehead "all you have to do is wake up in the morning and we will take care of the rest".

"And don't let us fighting get you down" Butch says smiling at Buttercup who smile back "your mom and me have been fighting each other since the day we were created. Nothings breaking this team up, right BC?"

Buttercup blushes at hearing her nickname "right"; she then remembers why she argued with him in the first place "even if he was being a forgetful dick".

"OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD" Butch yells "will you fucking drop it already".

"Well shit I'm sorry" Buttercup says sarcastically "The next time my kid falls off a 20 story building on your watch, I'll try to be a little more sympathetic to your needs".

"Thank guys" Megan purposely interrupts them "I'm feeling a little better".

Buttercup looks at her again "are you sure? Do you need anything?"

Megan shakes her head quickly "no thanks mom, I'm fine".

Butch also looks at her and smiles "hey, I'll make dinner tonight, I'll even make your favorite dessert, how does that sound?"

Megan tries her best to keep a smile on her face, but these two green eyed superpowers were the definition of smothering parents "I'm not really hungry, I think I'll just turn in early for the night". Butch smiles and is about to take her to bed, but Megan gently pushes away from him "I can walk daddy".

Butch chuckles "right sorry", He lets her go and she walks to her room, Megan walks into her room and is about to close her door when something they said caught her attention; she couldn't help but eavesdrop on their conversation.

Buttercup looks over at Butch as if she had just thought of something important "Butch, how are things going with Jason?"

"Can't tell" Butch says shrugging "I've been falling asleep a lot lately, but I always wake up in the same exact place I was before, so I thought he might have been asleep. Today was different though, when I went from picking up some stuff for dinner at the supermarket to sleeping on my couch".

Buttercup frowns "you think you transitioned".

"If that's the case then" Butch drifts off and suddenly turns pale, as the realization of something horrible came to his mind "oh my god, did…did Jason throw my daughter off the roof?" He looked extremely horrified by the thought that Megan's life was in danger, possibly because of him.

Buttercup tensed up, it wasn't Butch she was afraid of, it's what he plans to do to himself that scared her the most, his self mutilation habits never truly vanished, they just remained dormant because of Megan. Buttercup scans the room for sharp objects while talking to Butch "its ok, we don't know for sure if that's what really happened". When she is sure that there's nothing sharp and pointy within their reach she looks back at Butch, who seems to be on the verge of suicide. She grabs his chin and roughly snaps him out of it "HEY look at me, calm down".

"I'll cut him out of me if I have to" Butch says staring at her in desperation "I have to get him out, what if he hurts her again?"

"shhh" Buttercup plants soft kisses on his face "stop talking like that, do you want Megan to hear you?" she holds Butch's head close to her chest and hugs him "I'll be around you two more often ok? We'll get through this just like we got through everything else". She holds him close to her, and Megan continues to watch them through the door. Megan silently vows to never tell her father about how Jason has been treating her.

[Flashback end]

Megan opens her eyes and looks up at the ceiling of the cave, she remembered that day. It was the day she vowed to never let her father know Jason was hurting her. He would do anything to protect her, even kill himself, however she knew she couldn't just stay quiet and let Jason continue to pick on her. She turns on her side and sighs, thinking about what will become of her after all of this was done. She just couldn't figure out why Jason hated her so much, when she was a baby he would ignore her or pretend she wasn't in the room. Why the big interest in tormenting her now? She looks over at her metallic gloves and looks at them seriously." I can't continue on like this, I have to….I have to…." She thinks as she reaches for the gloves "I have to fight". She grabs the gloves and runs out of the cave to practice.

[30 minutes later]

Bella and Justin wake up to the sound of something pounding into hard rock. Bella opens her eyes and stares at the cave entrance before deciding to get up "Justin can't you train some other time?"

Justin sits up and looks at her confused "what?"

Bella sees Justin and blinks at him "if you're here then whose?"

Megan throws a couple of roundhouse kicks, then swoops around and punches the wall shattering the rock completely, Megan looks at the big metal gloves on her hands and grins "cool".

"What are you doing?" Bella walks up to her cranky, Justin follows behind her.

Megan shadow boxes for a bit, doing uppercuts and jabs "these gloves are amazing, they look like they could weigh a ton but in reality their extremely light".

"You didn't answer my question" Bella demands still really sleepy "why are you acting like rocky balboa all of a sudden?"

"I'm training" Megan says "watch this; it's a new move I have been working on". She bends backwards and does a back flip, then another, on the second one she punches the ground, the vibration propels her higher off the ground and into the air. When she comes back down, she punches the floor again and a huge shock wave shakes the ground causing an earthquake. The mountains around them crumble, Bella loses her balance and falls on her bottom and Justin floats up to avoid also falling. After a while the earthquake stops and Megan pants a little but looks at them excitedly "well, what do you think?"

"THAT WAS AWESOME" Justin zooms up to her and hovers around her happily "wow Megan, that was so cool, I can do that too but it's really awesome that you can do it, you're amazing Megan".

Megan looks down blushing from the attention he was giving her. She then looks over at Bella and chuckles at the other redheads shocked expression "well? How was it Bella?"

Bella scowls at her "oh wow, so you can make the ground shake, so what?" she turns her back on Megan like a spoiled brat and goes to get her weapon "I'm going to train too and I bet I'll be ten times better then you, just watch me".

Justin laughs "that's her way of saying you're move was awesome".

"DON'T PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH" Bella comes back with her huge ray gun "that's not what I said at all".

"Nope" Justin says teasing her "that's what you meant though".

"Is not" Bella yells at him.

"Is so" Justin hovers around her teasingly.

While the two argue Megan smiles and looks out at the horizon with determination, she then looks back at the bickering siblings "Justin?"

Justin stops teasing his sister and looks at Megan "yeah?"

"Didn't you carry a watch with you" Megan says "it's also a homing beacon isn't it?"

"Oh yeah" Justin says reaching into his pocket and pulling it out "why didn't I think of this before?" The watch was simple looking, it was white with a bright red button on it, he presses it and it starts to beep "ROWDY RUFFS, POWERPUFFS IT'S TIME FOR ACTION".

[Bubbles Hospital room]

Bubbles and Buttercup are still in the force field dome, surrounded by the thugs, and criminals trying to break in. Suddenly they both perk their ears up hearing a beeping noise. Bubbles clutches her baby in her arms "do you hear that?"

Buttercup looks over at bubbles "yeah, but the hotline signal? All the way out here?"

[Jason's old house]

Boomer zaps an entire row of soldiers, but stops and looks around a bit "what's that?"

Butch blasts away more soldiers with his fire power "I hear it too, where's it coming from?"

[Inside the Princesses fortress]

Brick sneaks his way down the halls trying to track down blossoms whereabouts, he sensed she was nearby. Suddenly his senses are bombarded with a high pitch beeping sound "what the hell?" he looks around to try to find where the beeping is coming from.

[In a dark room within the fortress]

Blossom slowly opens her eyes, her tear stained face peers through the darkness, searching for the source of that beeping sound "the hotline, but how?" Suddenly the image of her children emerged in her thoughts "Justin…B…Bella, I….I'm coming". With renewed hope that her children are still alive, she struggles against the chains holding her.

[Back at the desert]

Justin makes dramatic hand gestures as if he were a power ranger "SUPER POWER FIGHTING TEAM ASSEMBLE". He holds an action pose for a while as if expecting everyone to miraculously show up.

Bella rolls her eyes "You're an embarrassment Justin".

Megan chuckles "well at least the signals out, it should lead everyone to where they are keeping uncle brick and aunt blossom. By the time we get there, we'll have back up too". She looks out at the desert around her "Mom, Dad, watch me, I'll show you how strong I can be". She then turns back to her cousins who are both already fired up "let's go face our destiny", the two red heads cheered. Bella and Megan board their hover crafts and zoom along with Justin to the enemy's battle ground.