Based on The Powerpuff Girls by Craig McCracken, The Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi by bleedman and several cartoons from Nickelodeon, Disney and Cartoon Network.
THE CITY WITHOUT HEROES.
Story and original character Black White by Riddle Glitch. CHAPTER UPDATED AND EDITED.
Chapter 13: The Red Hare.
While Bubbles went back to her house, Buttercup and Blossom were still at the hospital in which Dexter was brought after their confrontation with Mandark.
The doctor finally came out, Blossom immediatly stood up and he then told them. "Everything went alright, the stabs Dexter received were not lethal therefore we were able to sew him up and contain the bleeding. He'll be a bit drugged but other than that, he's fine."
Sighing softly, Blossom nodded and smiled. "Thank you doctor. So he can come back home?"
Suddenly, the parents of Dexter arrived, Blossom immediatly recognized them.
The doctor began explaining what happened again and suddenly they finally calmed down, Dexter's mother, who strangely wore rubber gloves smiled towards Blossom and hugged her, catching her by surprise.
Hugging back, Blossom then whispered. "Sorry, for everything…"
"Why would you apologize? You saved Dexter didn't you? Thank you." Dexter's mother said, smiling, Blossom sighed and smiled back, feeling guilty since the reason Dexter was hurt was because she was kidnapped by a nuthead.
After a while, Dexter's parents took Dexter back home, who was too tired and drugged to even carry himself back up.
"You wanna talk about it now?" Buttercup teased.
"A person died today, Buttercup. I'm in no mood for your jokes." Blossom said, the guilt still eating her.
"Geez, calm down girl. The guy was insane."
"You didn't…heard his reasons…"
"Whatever, now, what I'm curious about is…why didn't you beat the crap out of the guy? How did he even managed to capture you?"
"There was…another one…like us. Like…a Powerpuff. She looked a bit younger than us. White haired, and using a black and White dress. Still unsure what happened but…she was too powerful, and also that guy Mandark…throwed me this weird black liquid in the face, guess my skin absorbed it's properties and it kinda drained my powers."
"You serious? Do you think…the guy knew how to defeat us?"
Out of a sudden, before Blossom could even respond she found Buttercup staring at her. "What?"
"Your pupils are dilated. Are you on drugs?" Buttercup asked with a angered tone.
"What?! Of course not I'm not on drugs, why would you even ask that?!"
"You're behaving pretty weird lately. And you're seeing this psychologist, Doctor Csupo or whatever! You then let yourself kidnapped by a weird guy. Mean what the fuck is wrong with you?! Why are you being distant out of a sudden!? Instead of talking your mind out with that head shrink why don't you just talk with me or Bubbles!?"
There was an akward silence for a while as they flew away.
"Because I wanna know…how the Professor created us. It still haunts me…the fact I always wake up to that image of myself on the mirror. Always deformed." Blossom spoke.
"So what?" Buttercup said. "Sugar, spice and everything nice. That's what DAD always told us. That should be enough explanation for all of us. You're the smart one, you should know that. Stop drowning yourself in a glass of water." Remarking the Word dad, since Blossom even at this point in their life, she can't call Professor Utonium, dad.
"It's more complicated than that, Buttercup. Listen to yourself. The cooking recipe for baking cookies won't create little girls the same way Professor Utonium says, not even with this…famous Chemical X!"
"I don't understand why would you like to know that anyway." Buttercup rolled her eyes.
"Why aren't you curious?" Blossom asked.
"Because I'm simply not interested. I exist, you exist, Bubbles exist. Simple. I don't care about anything else."
Then they remain silent on the whole trip back.
Back at their home, Bubbles and Professor Utonium arrived, the house was a mess, gladly nothing was destroyed.
Hugging Utonium, Brandy said. "Glad you're alright daddy!"
"Thanks honey, I'm so glad you're alright. Was worried about you and mommy." Utonium said, looking at Miss Keane who had a cold glare on her face, gladly neither did Brandy or Bubbles noticed.
"How about we go and have some rest, Brandy?" Bubbles said.
"But I'm not sleepy! And I'm scared!" Brandy said as Bubbles chuckled and grabbed her hand leading the way upstairs so they could take some rest at their room.
"Remember Miss Grey gave you Bill, remember he will watch you on your sleep so there isn't anything you need to worry about…" Bubbles said and finally their voices disappeared upstairs.
Whispering, Miss Keane said as she approached Utonium. "You have to give an explanation to the girls."
"I can't do that…" Utonium said, a scared look on his face.
Sighing softly, then Keane responded.
"I've been playing along for far too long now. You've been telling the girls the same crap over and over. Blossom is now the only that keeps asking you. And now there comes a guy knocking at our door threatening us, our lives! Our daughter, our daughters' lives in order to get the formula from you!"
"Then you say that it's on some place called Gravity Falls! So I honestly don't care about it James, I seriously don't! But the next time Blossom asks, you're going to give her an explanation!"
"Can't do that! I can't do that!" Professor Utonium said, by now they sound a bit loud, hopefully Bubbles or Brandy didn't heard anything.
"Why not?!"
"Because the people I made that formula for…are dangerous…to this point I still don't know why they let me live…they let me keep…the girls…but the team…that work for us. They all…were butchered."
"What is it…James? What kind of monstruosity did you made?"
"They hired me…Professor John Membrane, who was the lead scientist in the lab…and we used technology developed by Doctor Nora Wakeman. We three created a way to do artificial human beings…and we were the only ones that this…secret society left alive."
"Shut up…I don't want to hear any more of this…" Miss Keane said, by now even she had to admit that she was scared. "Who was that guy anyway?"
There was a unsure look on Professor Utonium's face.
"Who is him James?"
"What I think…is that he's Professor Gerard Xian. His research about Chemical X was the first step towards the Artificial Human Beings formula's creation, but he's…supposed to be dead…those guys told us they killed him…this guy in a wheelchair…with a mask with an eye, called himself Bill. He told us they killed him because he wouldn't give the formula to them…"
Finally, Buttercup and Blossom arrived and Professor Utonium and Miss Keane decided to keep everything to themselves, for now.
"Blossom!" Professor Utonium and Miss Keane said.
"Hi…sorry to worry you guys…it's being a long night…explain to you everything in the morning, kay?"
"Don't worry about it, hon. So glad that you came back home safely. You too Buttercup." Miss Keane said, hugging both of them.
"Thanks, see ya in the morning. Sleep well..." Buttercup said as she went upstairs with Blossom, who went to the bathroom.
Then in the hallway, she met up with Bubbles who just walked out of Brandy's room, who fell asleep really fast.
"Hey." Buttercup said.
Out of a sudden, Bubbles brought Buttercup to their room and asked. "Don't 'hey' me, where were you? You called me on my phone! You knew everything that was going in here! And you ran away?!"
"What're you talking about?" Buttercup asked, raising an eyebrow. "I never called you. What happened here anyway? Downstairs is a mess."
"You didn't called me?" Bubbles asked, surprised.
"No." Buttercup responded.
Then Bubbles began looking at her phone, looking for the calls in the memory.
"What happened here Bubbles?" Buttercup asked again.
Not listening, Bubbles finally found the number.
Then called and listened to the other end.
"The number you were trying to reach is out of the zone or is non-existant, for help press 1."
"Buttercup…I had a call from this number…and your voice was on the other end…you told me that our dad was being kidnapped…" Bubbles said, a bit scared.
Raising an eyebrow then Buttercup responded. "You're crazy."
"No! It was your voice!"
"Did you said…that dad was kidnapped?"
Coming into the room, Blossom asked. "You guys alright?"
Sighing softly, Bubbles then began to explain what happened.
"Did they arrest that weird orange guy then?" Blossom asked.
"No, he escaped. But a lot of his monster henchmen were arrested."
For a bit, there was silence.
"It's being a long night. I vote for some rest, what do you guys say?" Blossom asked.
"Sounds good." Buttercup said.
"Still…creeped out about that weird call tho…"
"Probably someone who wants to remain anonymous. Or you just imagined it, you're fine Bubbles, don't worry."
After a bit, they all went to sleep.
But back at the Megaville Police Department, the night was young.
"Evidence at the scene we found that weird black goo over a body. The one that had the head burned." Nigel told Coulson.
[Nigel Uno. KND: Kids Next Door show.]
"Meaning, Professor X might be connected to the Black White case."
Coming back with the hand of Ben Tennyson in the jar, Velma told Agent Coulson. "There were no finger prints on the jar, meaning that it was probably planted at the scene to pretend that Black White is dead."
[Phil Coulson. Marvel's Cinematic Universe.]
Chuckling softly, Coulson asked. "Why do you need Ickis not to be Black White."
[Gabor Ickis, loosely based on Ickis. Ahhhh! Real Monsters.]
"Because he's not. This is too easy, it's like when Jake Reddington was arrested dragging Ben's uncounscious and handless body out at the streets. Like if someone just threw him right in the plate."
"Do you think Director Fury might want to keep that Omnitrix?" Nigel asked.
Then Coulson said.
"Called him, there was a vote and the decision was that the Omnitrix must be attached to the very owner of that hand which is Ben Tennyson."
"But he's uncounscious." Velma said.
Gently, Coulson took the jar.
"The surgery will take place in the morning."
"Do you even have the technology to do such a procedure?" Velma asked.
Then Coulson chuckled.
"Don't worry about it."
"Sir, we have Doctor Csupo here. She brought the file case for Gabor Ickis." A agent said.
"Send her in." Coulson said.
"Greetings, nice to see you again Detective Dinkley." Oblina said softly, carrying a box full with the files of Gabor Ickis since she treated him.
"Thanks."
"What can you tell us about Gabor Ickis, Doctor Csupo?" Coulson asked.
"Wasn't he a childhood friend of yours? Oblina?" Velma asked, an odd look on her face.
"It's been a long time since we talked as friends, but yeah he was a close friend of mine in my childhood."
"So is it true, that you name the Red monster on your books after Gabor Ickis?"
"Of course. He was obssesed with The Red Hare legend and so I created a character loosely based on him, what's your point?"
"This is the second time I hear about The Red Hare. Care to share?" Coulson asked.
"The Red Hare is a legend, an old wives' tale that mothers used to tell to their children to not come out at night. Or The Red Hare would scare you. The legend began when in a neighborhood, the trashcans were all messed up and bite marks were all over the thrash, so the legend says that The Red Hare was eating the food." Oblina told.
"So Ickis was obssesed with the legend."
"Well, Gabor was rather submissive, always scared of things. His father was intimidating, turned out to be a hired hitman for The Beavers. Charges that were dismissed of course."
Then Oblina continued. "Ickis said that he was friends with The Red Hare, even tho the creature would only come to his home to scare him in his sleep."
"Could that guy fit in the Black White profile?" Velma asked, a defying tone on her voice.
"Problem? Is there one, Velma?" Oblina asked.
"Just answer the question."
"Stop it Detective." Coulson said.
"No, it's alright. I can answer." Oblina said.
"Treated Gabor Ickis for a while. He suffered from stress disorders, Bi-polarity and Paranoia. The treament never went well. He was a ticking bomb."
"What this file says is that he was incarcerated in Foster's, just after Jake Reddington's arrest for the Black White murders?" Coulson asked.
Then Oblina responded.
"Was put on trial for the murder of his father and labeled criminally insane."
"Personally, I always thought that Ickis submissive personality didn't matched that of a murderer's profile."
"You know…you're right." Velma said. "Murderers sometimes got involved in their cases to be close to the authorities."
"Are you…suggesting? That I'm Black White?" Oblina chuckled.
Then Velma responded. "Are you?"
"That's enough Detective." Coulson said.
"No." Oblina said.
"Black White's murders begun when I was 10. Do you think I would be able to murder super héroes at that age?"
"Sorry…I…" Velma said nervously.
"Take a walk." Agent Coulson said.
Then Velma sighed and stepped out of the police department to smoke a cigarette.
After a bit, Velma gasped and dropped the cigarette as she heard a weird noise nearby the trashcans.
"No…" Velma chuckled to herself, thinking that maybe she should head back home to take a nap, the night had been long.
Then Velma throwed the cigarette down to the floor and stepped on it to pull it off. She then walked back into the police department, unaware of some eyes in the dark near the trashcans that watched her until she walked back in. The eyes glowed until they closed and the lights of a car park nearby, which iluminated that exact area, but whatever that watched Velma disappeared.