The Powerpuff Girls: Ch.12- Feast of Burden
The holidays were always a happy time in Townsville. During the holiday season, people always found themselves to be more peaceful and joyful. Many people were out of town, including the Powerpuff Girls' neighbors. Actually, the Powerpuff Girls were the only ones on their block that were home today, which was the day of their annual holiday dinner.
"Okay," said the Professor as he opened the front door, carrying a bag of groceries. "Now, that we have everything we need, I can get started."
The Powerpuff Girls and their super-powered cousin, Jessie, followed him in, carrying groceries.
"Finally, we get to have our holiday feast!" said Blossom.
"Yeah," agreed Buttercup. "I've been looking forward to this all month!"
"And this time, you're joining us, Jessie," said Bubbles happily.
"I know," agreed Jessie. "I can't wait!"
They quickly unloaded all the groceries, including a huge turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, gravy, and yams, and the Professor started to prepare and cook the feast.
Elsewhere in Townsville, there was chaos brewing. In a dark corner of the observatory on top of the volcano in Central Park, Mojo Jojo was bitterly pacing the floor, thinking about his last defeat with the Powerpuff Girls.
"Those Powerpuff girls!" He shouted. "How am I supposed to take over Townville if those curs-ed girls are always foiling my plans?" He stopped to think and he then paced the floor again. "That's it! I can't take it anymore! I must defeat those girls at once! I will go to their home and I will force them to fight when they least expect it!" He cackled loudly.
In other parts of the city, several Townville villains had the same idea! Still bitter from THEIR last defeat with the Powerpuff Girls, Fuzzy Lumpkins, Princess Morbucks, and the Gangreen Gang were all on their way to the Powerpuff Girls at their home.
Meanwhile, at the Utonium house, the Professor had just started to make the yams and a huge turkey was roasting in the oven. There was a lot of spirited conversation as the Powerpuff Girls and Jessie began to set the table.
"Do you all like the centerpiece I made?" asked Bubbles. She held up a holiday garland with tinsel, candy canes, and red and gold ornaments around it. On the front of the garland were shiny, gold bells.
"Oh, that's so pretty!" said Jessie.
"And yummy," said Buttercup as she pulled out a candy cane and popped it into her mouth."
"Yeah, you did a great job on it," said Blossom as she looked out of the window. It was just starting to snow and the wind was beginning to gust strongly through the trees.
"It's a good thing we went to the store when we did," she said. "The snow is really starting to come down out there."
Just then, there was a knock at the door.
"Who could that be?" asked Bubbles.
The Powerpuff Girls floated up with confusion. They heard a knock again. They headed toward the front door when suddenly the door flung open and Mojo blasted into the living room!
"Mojo!" shouted the Powerpuff Girls in unison.
"What are you doing here?" asked Blossom.
Mojo cackled. "I have come to eliminate you! I have decided that I, Mojo Jojo, will eliminate you once and for all. So, I have come over to your home to destroy you!" He laughed evilly.
"Not so fast!" said a familiar voice in a southern accent. Suddenly, Fuzzy Lumpkins appeared. "I will destroy the Powerpuff Girls!"
"No, not you…" argued Mojo. "It is I who will destroy them."
"You're both wrong," shouted a familiar voice. Suddenly, Princess came through the door with her fists clenched and an angry snarl. "I will destroy them! My daddy even got me a new, very expensive deluxe Powerpuff Girls' suit just for the occasion," she added.
All at once, the villains started to argue. Then, unbelievably, another voice was heard by everyone.
"WE were gonna get 'em!"
Everyone turned at once and saw Ace as he appeared on the doorstep with the Gangreen Gang.
The girls just stared at them all as the villains continued to argue.
"What are they all doing here?" asked Bubbles.
"Making it easy and convenient for them to get THIS…" said Buttercup.
In a flash, the girls flew towards the villains and beat them. Within seconds, they had them all in a pile on top of each other.
"What a great way to get rid of the villains all at once," said Blossom.
"Yeah, now we can enjoy our holiday dinner," agreed Bubbles. "You would think by now they would learn."
"Now we just gotta…" started Blossom as she opened the front door. "…take them to jail."
She along with Bubbles, Buttercup, and Jessie carried the villains out the door. A few seconds later, the four girls came back in with the villains in tow, covered head-to-toe in snow and slush!
Just then, the Professor came in the living room.
"Girls!" he said as he was wiping a plate with a dish rag. "What happened?"
"The villains all came here to defeat us!" said Buttercup.
"We tried to take them to jail, but it was too windy and snowy and cold!" added Bubbles.
"We couldn't even make it to the sidewalk," said Jessie with a frown.
"How are we gonna get the villains out of here, Professor?" asked Blossom.
"Oh, I don't know," he said. He wiped the living room window with his hand and peered out of it. "It's coming down really hard out there. I heard on the news that this is going to be the biggest blizzard that Townsville has seen in over ten years!" He turned to the girls. "It looks like the villains are stuck here until it clears up."
Both the girls and the villains looked at the Professor with stunned looks on their faces. None of them wanted to spend today "together."
A few moments later, everyone sat in the living room in silence with their arms crossed in anger. The Powerpuff Girls and Jessie were sitting on one side of the room while the villains sat on the other side.
Suddenly, Princess couldn't take it.
"Ugh!" she yelled. "I don't want to just sit here! This is boring!" She then left the room.
The other villains started to get the same idea and then they all left the room.
"Where do you think you're going?!" yelled Buttercup at the villains.
"Should we be worried?" asked Bubbles.
"Are you kidding?" said Buttercup. "They'll wreck everything in the house!"
"Right," agreed Blossom. "That's why we have to follow them and make sure they don't cause any trouble." She turned to her sisters and Jessie. "We better split up. Buttercup, you follow Mojo. Bubbles, you follow Princess. And Jessie, you follow the Gangreen Gang. I'll follow Fuzzy. Everyone got it?"
"Yeah," said Bubbles, Buttercup, and Jessie together. They bolted in different directions to find the villains.
Blossom went to find Fuzzy.
"Let's see," she said to herself. "Where did he go?" She eventually found him sneaking into the garage. "What could he be doing in there?" She opened the door a little and peaked in.
"My, such purrty stuff," said Fuzzy as he looked around at all of the dusty cleaning supplies. He spotted a broom. "Ooh, I can use this…" he said cunningly. He grabbed the broom and held it above his head.
"He's going to use the broom as a weapon!" yelled Blossom alarmed.
She rushed over to Fuzzy, but before she could take the broom, she saw him playing the broom as if it were a banjo!
"Wahoo!" he shouted. "That's good music, right there!" He continued to play the broom, as Blossom just floated in confusion.
Meanwhile, Bubbles followed Princess to the dining room. She was looking at how the table was set.
"You call this a festive holiday table setting?" she scoffed. "My daddy has his table decorated nicer than this for our daily breakfast!"
"Hmph," reacted Bubbles.
Mojo went into the Powerpuff Girls' bedroom. Buttercup watched from a distance as Mojo sneaked around and looked through their things.
"Now that I'm in the Powerpuff Girls' bedroom, nothing will stop me!" He cackled. He opened their closet door.
"I knew it!" yelled Buttercup. "He's gonna take our stuff!" She flew over to stop him, but stopped in her tracks when Mojo started to play with a toy monkey holding a basket of bananas.
"I've always wanted one of these," he said. "Now nothing will stop me from fulfilling my childhood dream!" He continued to play with the monkey while Buttercup floated there with her arms folded.
Jessie followed the Gangreen Gang to the upstairs hallway. They were opening all the cabinets and drawers.
"You find anything, Snake?" asked Ace.
"Nothing yet, bosss," Snake hissed.
"How about you, Billy?" Ace asked again as he chuckled.
"Duh, No," said Billy.
"Well, keep looking," Ace replied. "There's gotta be something here."
"What is he looking for?" Jessie whispered to herself.
Ace looked in the cabinet next to the Professor's bedroom and suddenly stopped.
"Boys, I've hit the jackpot!"
"They're gonna rob the Professor!" Jessie said to herself with a gasp. She used her powers to turn invisible and quickly bolted over to the cabinet to stop them. But, before she could do anything, she saw the "jackpot" that Ace was referring to.
"Bubble wrap!" he said holding it up in the air. He started to pop it and the other four Gangreen Gang members grabbed their own bubble wrap sheet and joined him in a popping frenzy.
Jessie just stood there with a blank look, still invisible.
A little while later, the Powerpuff Girls were back in the living room.
"I don't think they want to cause trouble," said Blossom.
"Yeah," agreed Bubbles. "They seem to just want to play and have fun."
"Maybe they want a…truce," added Blossom.
"A truce?" asked Buttercup sarcastically. "They are villains; they're always up to no good! I still don't trust them. They're up to something."
Meanwhile in the kitchen, the Professor was still preparing the dinner and Jessie was helping.
"Okay, the stuffing is done," said the Professor proudly. "Now, time to start the yams."
As he and Jessie started laying the yams on the table, the Gangreen Gang peered through the door. They snuck in and hid behind the kitchen counter.
"Okay, boys," whispered Ace. "You got all that bubble wrap?"
"Right here, Accce," hissed Snake.
"Excellent," he replied.
Snake laid the bubble wrap down flat on the floor. They watched the Professor and Jessie who were still unaware that the members of the Gangreen Gang were in the kitchen.
"Okay…NOW!" commanded Ace.
On cue, Billy jumped in the air plopped on ten sheets of bubble wrap, releasing a series of pops and bangs right into the Professor's ear.
"Aahh!" shrieked the Professor. He was so startled that he slipped and accidentally knocked the yams and the bowl of turkey gravy all over the floor. The gravy splattered everywhere!
The Gangreen Gang stood up and started laughing.
"We got ya good!" said Ace.
At that moment, the Powerpuff Girls rushed in.
"What happened?" they asked strongly, in unison.
Jessie helped the Professor up and looked at the mess on the floor. Then, she looked down at her clothes and saw that she was covered in gravy.
"Yuck!" said Jessie. "I have gravy all over me! I'll just be upstairs…washing off all this…this…gravy!"
"See?" said Buttercup. "I told you they were up to no good."
"Hmmm," thought Blossom. "Okay, girls. Let's keep an eye on the villains to make sure they don't cause any MORE trouble."
The girls went off in different directions, searching for the villains.
After the Powerpuff Girls left, Mojo quietly peered into the living room. He grinned evilly.
"Yes," he said. "Since no one is here to see me, it will give me a chance to grab some Chemical X!" He laughed evilly.
He ran over to the lab and tried to open the door.
"Huh?" he asked trying to open it. "Why won't it open?" He looked to the side of the door and saw a sign that read, "Security System Installed: Secured with Password."
"Curses," said Mojo. "I will just have to find a different way to take over the world. That is a way that doesn't involve Chemical X, which I cannot get." He thought for a second. "I got it!"
He tip-toed up the stairs and went back into the Powerpuff Girls' bedroom. He got out the toy monkey he was playing with before.
"I can reprogram this monkey and all these other toys to make them do what I say!" he yelled. "They can grab the Chemical X for me. And with them under my control, I will be unstoppable!"
"I don't think so," said Blossom as she floated behind Mojo with her hands on her hips.
"Uh-Oh," he turned around and saw Bubbles and Buttercup also floating in the doorway.
"We were supposed to have a truce, Mojo!" said Blossom.
"Truce?" he questioned. "Why would I want a truce? I came here to destroy you!"
"Really, Mojo?" scoffed Princess now standing in the doorway. "You would've NEVER defeated them. I was the one who was finally going to defeat them."
"I was finally gonna get you Powerpuffs Girls!" said Fuzzy as he arrived at their room.
"WE were the ones who were gonna defeat you," said Ace pointing to his gang.
"Yesss," agreed Snake. "You and Jesssie."
"Oh, you were, huh?" said Jessie as she came to the doorway, now clean.
Everyone in the room started arguing. The arguing was so loud that the Professor heard it all the way in the kitchen downstairs. The arguing got louder and louder with the Powerpuff Girls, Jessie, and the villains all arguing their point.
Suddenly, a loud, strong voice echoed through the room.
"That's enough!" the Professor said sternly. They all stopped arguing and looked at him shockingly. "Here's how we're going to handle this..."
Back in the living room, the Powerpuff Girls and Jessie were once again on one side of the living room, while the villains were on the other side.
"Now, just stay on your own sides of the room until dinner is ready," he said.
They all sat in silence refusing to look each other in the eye. Tension filled the room and it was too much for Bubbles.
"Hey, I have an idea. Why can't we put away our differences tonight?" she asked.
No one answered her at first.
"We tried to give them a chance, Bubbles," said Blossom.
"Yeah," agreed Buttercup. "They can't be trusted."
"Well, why don't we try again?" she asked. "For the sake of the holiday."
Blossom thought for a second. "Well, maybe we could…" she turned to the villains. "…if they could, too."
"No way!" said Mojo.
"Uh-uh," said Fuzzy.
"Not happening," said Ace.
"Forget it," said Princess.
"Would you rather just sit here with no dinner and not do anything?" asked Jessie.
"Well…" started Ace. "Maybe we can...for the dinner, that is."
"Yeah, I am starting to get hungry," said Fuzzy.
"I definitely don't want to sit here all night," said Princess.
"I, Mojo Jojo, think dinner is good and yummy," said Mojo.
The Professor listened happily to the spirited conversation, as the villains agreed to put aside their differences for the night. He couldn't wait to go in the living room and join in the conversation.
"See?" he said to everyone as he came in the room. "Was that so hard? All you needed to do was to get past your differences. That's what tonight is about."
Buttercup started to smell something burning. "Uh…Professor…" she said.
"Hold on a second, Buttercup," continued the Professor. "This is important. Now, if more people were to look for the good more often in others, I feel everyone would be much happier and more productivity could be accomplished."
As the Professor went on with a lengthy speech, smoke started to come out of kitchen.
"Professor?" asked Blossom trying to get his attention.
"I'm almost done, Blossom," said the Professor. "One second. Just think of our forefathers when they were treading through rough seas just to find this place we call home…"
"PROFESSOR!" everyone yelled.
"What is…Ahhhh!" he exclaimed as he saw the smoke.
He ran into the kitchen with the girls and the villains following him. He grabbed the turkey out of the oven and tried to fan the smoke off, but it was no use. The turkey was burnt to a crisp.
The Professor sighed. "Well, there goes our holiday dinner."
"Now, what are we gonna do?" asked Bubbles.
"Nothing now," said Buttercup angrily.
Blossom thought for a second. "Not so fast, Buttercup. I think I have an idea."
30 Minutes Later
"I'll have two more slices," said Fuzzy while holding his plate.
The Powerpuff Girls, Jessie, the Professor, and the villains were all sitting at a large table, enjoying the frozen pizzas they cooked.
"Two slices coming up," said the Professor.
"This pizza is great," said Bubbles.
"Yeah, you never would know that it was frozen," said Jessie.
"Definitely," said Blossom.
"Bon Appetite!," said the Professor smiling.
"Duh, What's that mean?" said Fuzzy.
The Professor stood up with a glass of sparkling cider in his hand. "It means 'Good Appetite,' Fuzzy. Enjoy your holiday meal!"
The Powerpuff Girls, Jessie and the villains looked at each other and raised their glasses of cider high in the air.
"Bon Appetit everyone!" There was great pizza and great conversation.
'A truce?' the Professor thought. Then, he smiled. 'Hey I'll take it as long as it lasts…' He looked down at his plate. "Oh girls, could you pass the pizza!"