The tiny door slowly creaked open, revealing a small tunnel that went straight down into a dark hole. "What is this?" Buttercup asked, her eyebrow arching.
"It's the passage way to our hide out. I know it my look like a straight drop, it isn't. It's like a slide, what you do, is you go down feet first through the door, it goes straight down, like, a meter or so, then it turns into a hallway that you could walk in. Then it turns into a slide." Avalon explained.
"oh, okay…" Buttercup responded awkwardly. "Well, who's gonna go first?" Avalon smiled.
The group stared at each other, wondering who would be brave enough to go down.
The pink haired girl's smile faded.
"I'll do it." A firm yet slightly squeaky voice called out of the crowd. Everyone turned to the small blonde girl. "Bubbles? Really?" Blossom was shocked. She never knew her little sister could be so brave. She was always the one who was "afraid of her on shadow".
Avalon's sly grin reappeared as Bubbles stepped up. "Wait," Brick interrupted. "Why do we have to go before you?" Avalon turned to him.
"Well, I have a feeling that one of you, or more, will freak out and run away because you think this is some sort of scam that will get you killed. And I want to make sure that that doesn't happen. I told you information that nobody is allowed to know and if you escape with it, our team would have to kill you ourselves. And besides, you wouldn't even make it out there with all those guns shooting at you. You'd all be dead within a few hour anyway. And that's why you're going in first."
Avalon explained with a smile. Everyone looked traumatized.
Bubbles took a deep breath and got down on her bottom. She slid her tiny body halfway down the passage, but stopped and look at the others. They were staring anxiously at her, waiting to see what would happen when she went down. Blossom and Butch tensed up a little, while the others clenched their fists. Bubbles rolled her eyes and continued.
Slowly she disappeared into the darkness of the tunnel.
a slight two second long squeal could be heard before a thump sound echoed through the tunnel. It was the sound of her shrieking from the short drop and her feet coming in contact with the ground below.
"I'm okay, in case you all were wondering." Her squeaky voice called out from the shadows. Blossom let out a heavy sigh of relief.
"I'll go next." Butch said as he shoved him self through the crowd. "Alright, be my guest." Avalon chirped and gestured to the open door.
Butch flashed her a look. "Whatever." He muttered, and sat on his butt.
Soon, everyone crawled into the opening and Avalon followed suit. They all walked through the dimly lit hallway before they came across big steal doors.
"You wait here, I'm gonna go punch in the code." She exclaimed as she dialled some numbers and the security alarm and the door opened to reveal a huge staircase leading down. There were no railings, at all.
"So," Buttercup started. "When do we learn the code?" Blossom nudged her. "Buttercup?" her green sister lightly tapped her arm. Unfortunately, it was her left arm. Blossom gasped in pain and smacked her sister on the shoulder. "I didn't mean to hit your…arm like that. You don't have to flip out!" Buttercup complained.
"It still hurt!" A teardrop slid down her cheek. "What ever, let's just go." She sniffled, trying to change the subject and stop people from staring at her.
But Brick stared at her with remorse, even though he wasn't the cause of her pain.
Mainly because he's never seen Blossom crying before.
"Don't worry, Blossom. I'll fix your arm up once we go downstairs. And to answer your question, Buttercup, you'll get the pass code when you earn enough trust from the team." Avalon gestured to the staircase.
"Let's get a move on, shall we?" She rushed the group. "Wait," Boomer started. "We have to go down that!" Boomer panicked. The stairs looked old and rusty, and it was very, high up. They would definitely die, or at least break a bunch of bones, falling off of it. And to make it worse, there were NO RAILINGS!
"Yep. Just be careful. The best advice I could give to you is to go in a straight line, not standing side-by-side, and staying in the middle of the stairway. If someone's coming up or down when you're on it, step aside but don't stop walking until they pass you."
Boomer swallowed hard, and sighed. "I'm gonna die…" He whispered.
The teens slowly made it down the stairs. Luckily no one got hurt. Once they landed on solid ground, they each took in their surroundings. (You can go to my profile for the links. It'll show you what different sections of the hideout look like. Read the things in the brackets beside the links, it's really important.)
"Whoa, this place is so cool…" Butch muttered, as a smile slowly expanded on his face. "'Cool'? This place isn't 'cool', it's….old and dusty and dark." Bubbles explained as she leaned closer to her middle sister. "It's alright Bubbles," Buttercup sighed.
"It's not that bad. It's just a bit, dirty and rubble-ish." Buttercup mentally kicked herself for that dumb statement.
"We can get used to it. Buttercup was right, it isn't that bad." Brick agreed, which was a little bit strange.
"Look at the other people! Finally, more life on Earth!" Bubbles exaggerated. "Okay, let me introduce you to your new home." Avalon chirped.
"Alright, so the place that we are currently in is the common room. This is where we'll always meet up if anything happens." Avalon continued down the rocky hall. "This is the main hall. This hall leads to every room in the building." Avalon continued down the path.
"And this, is the weapon room. We like to call it, "The Blue Room". She explained. Everyone stared at it in awe. It was more high tech than all the other rooms. "And that's all for now." She led the group back to the common room. "Wait here." She said as she left the group of teens on the couch in the common room.
Avalon walked over to a table in the middle of the room and grabbed a megaphone from who knows where.
"Alright everyone! Listen up!" She shouted into the megaphone. Everyone turned and averted their gazes to her. The noisy room fell silent.
"We have found and recruited some new people. I would like to introduce them all to you." She gestured to the couch of teens. She quickly approached them. "This is Brick, Buttercup, Butch, Blossom, Boomer, and Bubbles." She announced.
Everyone waved and said hi. "I ask that all of you take time, right now, to properly introduce yourselves to everyone." As if on cue, everybody stood up and sat on the chairs that were across from the PPG and RRB.
"Hello," started a girl on the right. She was the beginning of the line. "I'm Nestle. My real name's Nicole."
"I'm Jocelyn, but you can call me Star!" Another girl called out. "I'm Ryan, but my superhuman name is Tyler."
"Hello, I'm Meredith, but you can call me Lola, it's my superhuman name." "'Sup, my name's Brian, my superhuman name is Blaine." he had a slight attitude.
"I'm Keith, and my superhuman name is Beck."
Avalon turned on the megaphone once more. "You have to tell them your basic information!"
"And you," she began, pointing her megaphone at the PowerPuffs and RowdyRuffs "have to tell us your real names and basic information."
The group of people winced as she spoke, because she had used the megaphone, on full blast, right beside them.
"Okay," Keith started, averting his gaze to the group. Although he focused more on Boomer, causing the young blonde to blush a little.
"Hi! Okay, you always address me as Star, and I'm one of the guards who protect this hideout. I always check the code on the entrance door at certain times to make sure that it's never been tampered with, and I reset the pass code every night before I go to bed, and when I wake up in the morning."
Blossom smiled inwardly at Star's girlish demeanour.
I'm only to be addressed as Blaine, got it.
"So, you guys probably understand that we must call each other by our superhuman names, so get used to calling me Beck." The PPG and RRB nodded.
"I'm 19 years old, I'm the one who drives team X Minus' car, always. My weapon of choice is my machine gun." Bubbles shuddered at the thought of him shooting someone with his weapon. Then she remembered Avalon saying that there was a chance that one of them might shoot you if you got on their nerves. And she was, by her sisters at least, for having a very annoying voice and talking way too much.
"Uh, I have a question for you, Beck…" he averted his eyes away from Boomer and at the other blonde in the group.
"Yes, what is it?" He replied nonchalantly, clearly showing no interest in anything Bubbles had to say.
"Um, how much would it hurt to be shot by a machine gun?"
Brick snorted, trying very hard to contain his laughter. Butch didn't even bother to hold it in, he let it all out. Both Blossom and Buttercup shook their heads and sighed and Beck glared at her, then turned right back to Boomer.
Boomer seemed really annoyed. Not by Beck, but by Bubbles. "Why is she so stupid?" He whispered to himself. "All she's doing is putting herself into the perfect position to get made fun of."
"You know what, Boomer?" She said, standing up and placing her hands on her hips. The action silenced everyone. "I heard that! You are so mean! I was only curious." She exclaimed quite loudly.
"Well, it's not my fault that you were an idiot. Who the hell doesn't know if there's pain involved in getting shot!" Boomer fought back, standing up to show that he was just as tough.
Beck seemed intrigued. He stared at Boomer, admiring him. A smirk grew on his slender face. His dirty blonde hair, similar to Boomer's, covered his eyes as he leaned forward, admiring his body.
All while the two blondes argued away.
Suddenly he felt a stern tap on his shoulder. Just as soon as he turned around, a hand grabbed a fist full of his shirt and pulled him. He came face-to-face with the men of the group.
Brick and Butch.
I know, I haven't updated for a while. I'm sorry! This chapter was a little more, work, than all the rest. Also, remember their names (Jocelyn is 'Star', Keith is 'Beck', Nicole is 'Nestle', Meredith is 'Lola', Brian is 'Blaine' and Ryan is Tyler. Avalon, Beck and Nestle are going to be the main characters of Team X Minus. The real main characters are, of course, Bubbles and Boomer.
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~Samantha James13303