WARNING! I HAD POSTED A CHAPTER BEFORE THIS ONE. IF YOU HAVE NOT READ CHAPTER 13 GO BACK ONE CHAPTER!

It seems like I have found myself with a lot of free time, even though it is still a good week before spring break for myself. So if I am right, I should be able to write a chapter within two days. Well, that's a good thing right? Thanks again for the reviews and what not.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Powerpuff Girls or its characters.

"Well thanks again Master Mori," Brick bowed to his teacher. The small little family of three smiled at him, with Yumi giving him a hug. Mori, holding Jin, gave him a small smack on the head causing the boy to chuckle.

"You're always welcome here got that?" Yumi told him.

"Yeah."

"Don't forget to practice Brick," Mori told him, "if you don't you'll never be able to beat me and your other teachers."

"I know that." Brick smiled at them again and gave the family one last hug before walking away.

"Do you think he'll be okay?" Yumi asked her husband. Mori stared at the back of the boy he trained when he was younger and the man who now took his place. The many burdens Brick had made the teacher feel sorry for his student, the student he considered a younger brother.

"He'll be fine," he replied with a smile.

"Because you and the other taught him how to use magic?"

"No," Mori smiled, "he will be fine because it is who he is. He won't fall to something like this. He'll just keep standing up, no matter how hard the opposition is."

"Sounds just like someone I know." Yumi turned and kissed her husband on the cheek. "He's just like you, except you didn't have girl problems like him."

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"Clean up faster!" Brat shouted as they moved around the house. "He'll be here soon!" While it was true that the girls didn't party while the house owner was away, they did leave behind a mess of food wrappers, pizza boxes and a few other things. The girls were rather lazy in buying groceries and opted for carry out instead.

"Put all the pizza boxes in the recycling bin outside!" Berserk shouted. Bubbles was sweeping the floor and buttercup was dusting the several things. Brute was rearranging the furniture due to them all sleeping in the living room at few times. Bubbles suddenly stopped and looked around.

"Um…girls," she stated.

"What now Bubbles?" Buttercup asked.

"I can feel Brick's energy close by."

"How close?" Brute asked.

"As in, inside the house close." The girls looked around and found nothing.

"Where in the house is he?" Berserk asked. Bubbles focused and frowned.

"He's in the room."

"Got that right Bubs," Brick's voice filtered into the room. Suddenly a bright red circle appeared in midair within the middle of the room. There seemed to be various runes and sigils written upon the circle. Suddenly a foot stepped out from the circle and Brick materialized within the living room. He had his duffel bag over his shoulder and had a bandage on his cheek. "Sup," the boy greeted. "I brought food." Brick said as he headed into the kitchen with what looked like take out.

The girls followed him dumbly into the kitchen. "Um Brick?" Brat asked as he placed several cartons on the table. He opened each of them so the girls could get a look at the food. There were vegetables, chicken, noodles and some soup.

"Hm?"

"How did you do that?"

"Do what?"

"That weird circle thing!" Buttercup shouted. "Is that a special ability of yours?" Brick stopped preparing the table and got a contemplative look before snorting.

"Hah!" He then smirked at Buttercup. "That was one of the simplest moves I learned in the course of a week, takes a lot of energy to use it on living things, but still one of the simplest. Here's a demonstration. I'm going to grab that apple over there," the red head pointed at the fruit stand a few feet away. Brick raised up his right arm and a red circle appeared in front of him. The boy then reached forward and the girls saw his arm disappear into the circle. Over by the fruit stand, another red circle appeared and his arm appeared at that side. The arm then grabbed an apple and Brick brought back his arm from the circle. Both glowing things disappeared afterwards.

"So you can make connection between two different places at the same time?" Berserk asked. She was intrigued by it.

"Yup. The drawback is the bigger and more complex the items being sent through are, the more energy it requires from me. A full body transportation of a human being takes about five times the amount of just and arm and few nonliving objects. It's fucking draining for me to go Japan, to China, back to Korea then finally back here." He then rubbed his neck. "To be completely fucking honest, I'm going to bed. Don't wake me up." Brick then left the room to go take a much-deserved nap. The girls were still standing in the middle of the kitchen at a loss for words.

"Did…Brick get stronger again?" Buttercup asked.

"I think so," Brute replied. "Why?" Buttercup seemed to snap out of it and screamed.

"GAHH! Now it's going to take forever to beat him!" The brunette Puff then started to stomp out of the room.

"Where are you going?" Bubbles called out after her.

"To train! I need to make sure I can at least keep up with that jackass!" As she left the room, Brute left the room too.

"I forgot that I need to clean his bike," she muttered as she left the door.

"I think I'll go freshen up," Brat said as she left the room. This left Berserk and Bubbles as the only two occupants of the kitchen.

"I'll be off to watch some TV," Berserk said. She then turned to the blond Puff and had an inquisitive look. "What are you going to do?"

"I think I will just stay here and eat some food," Bubbles replied. "Don't worry I'll save some for you guys."

"I know that. Besides, it's not Brick's cooking. You only eat a lot when it comes down to the food he cooks the food." Bubbles looked away and sighed. Berserk took note of this, since she knew Bubbles would usually just giggle the statement away and be done with it. Berserk then left the room and Bubbles sat down on a dining chair, left to think of what she had to say to her friend.

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Knock! Knock!

Brick sat up from his bed after spending an hour thinking about miscellaneous things and petting Rocky on the head. Standing up, Brick went to the door and opened it with the little dog following him. He found Bubbles on the other side of the door and she seemed a serious. This made the red head frown. "What's wrong?" he asked. As he did the little dog ran off into the house. He looked after it, but stopped. The girl seemed to really need to talk to him.

"Can we speak in private Brick?" she said to him. Those words really caught him off guard. She rarely had this kind of tone, unless he did something really stupid.

"Did I do anything stupid recently?' he thought to himself. 'I only slept so far and that's it. So what happened?'

Brick nodded. "Where do you want to talk?"

"Can we do this at your thinking spot?" Brick sighed and nodded his head. The two of them left the house and flew off. The entire time Brick kept thinking what could he have done wrong. As the two landed Bubbles was the first one to sit down and he landed next to her. Brick then looked at her and she seemed like she had something important to say to him.

"Again, what's wrong?"

"I changed your password on the files within your computer," Bubbles admitted. That made Brick's heart stopped. He looked at her and she seemed ashamed.

"I take it you guys saw my journal then?" Bubbles slowly nodded her head. "How many entries did you girls read?"

"One, we only read one." Bubbles looked at him and she saw that his eyes were glazed over. When they came back to focus, she saw the surprise in his eyes. "You know which one we read already huh?"

"Yeah." Brick and Bubbles stayed quiet for a few moments.

"I'm sorry," Bubbles apologized. Brick barely looked at her. He knew what she meant, but he wouldn't accept it unless she said what she really meant.

"Sorry for what?"

"I-I don't like you in that way Brick." The blond saw the boy set his jaw and his fists were clenching. "I sort of figured out that you like me or Buttercup from that one entry. I just had to piece together a few things to figure out which one."

"What makes you think I like you?"

"Even before this summer, you were far kinder to me than any of my other sisters. You didn't tease me as much, you didn't ridicule me, you even share your thoughts we me in our art class. I sort of just figured it out like that." Bubbles watched as Brick closed his eyes. "Brick?"

"I knew you would say that," the red head said as he had his eyes closed. "That you didn't like me in that way. You wouldn't betray Boomer like that, and hell I wouldn't betray m brother like that either." Brick opened his eyes and Bubbles flinched. She couldn't see any emotions in them. His fists were also clenching so hard that his knuckles were turning white.

"Brick…" she reached out to him, but he stood up and floated a few feet away from her.

"I can accept that you don't like me in that way Bubbles, I really can." He didn't turn to look at her when he spoke. "But I think I need to be alone for a while." Again Bubbles flinched, she really didn't like doing this. She was used to rejecting boys, but it felt different this time. Brick was, a now, close friend. "By the way, what is the new password to my laptop?"

"It's sorry." Brick made a noise of acknowledgment. "Really Brick, if you need to talk about it you can speak to me right."

"I don't think you're the right person to talk to this time." Brick opened a portal beneath his feet and disappeared as he fell through it. Bubbles looked at the spot he was previously in and sighed. She felt bad.

"It was the right thing to do, but why do I feel like such a bitch about it?" she asked no on in particular as she buried her head in her knees.

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An hour passed since Brick's and Bubbles little talk, and Brick found himself in an empty part of the forest. Actually, it was Fuzzy Lumpkin's old land. After the boys had taken it over all those years ago, Fuzzy never came back. He lived in another place now, quietly enjoying life with no interruptions. The red head looked at the sight before him. Several holes were made in the ground and there were some smoldering rocks just a few feet away.

Brick, while a calm person, did not take that rejection too well. He cried a bit, in the safety of an empty cabin and let his anger out onto the surrounding rocks. The super hero knew that letting loose in a heavy populated area would have been bad so he went here. Now, he was spent and was willing to just go home and take a long nap again.

"Even after getting rejected by her, I still like her," sighed Brick as he leaned against a boulder. Standing up, he stared at his wristband and frowned. He was low on Chemical X. "That fucking sucks, I might as well start walking home." As he made his way out of the clearing, Brick felt something coming towards him. Dodging to the left, Brick saw one of the mechanical spiders that belonged to Predator standing in front of him. "What the fuck?"

A cord came out of one of its ends and projected a holographic screen to Brick. The figure was showed on the other end of this call, but Brick could see one red eye and one blue eye. They seemed to be focused on him. "Brick Bellum," the figure growled.

"Predator, what have I done to get a visit from you?"

"Silence you impudent cub! You have shamed me! Not only did you best me in battle, you did so effortlessly!" Brick noticed that Predator's voice seemed odd. It sounded…metallic. "I shall fix that soon. Within a week, I will return. When I do, I pummel you to within an inch of your life. Then I will make you watch as I gut your mates in front of your very eyes. Then when all is done, I shall kill you very slowly."

"Why are you telling me this? You lose the element of surprise."

"Last time, it did not work so well with that strategy. The fact that you got the drop on me, was proof that I was too naïve against you. You who seem to have seen battle far more than most people." Predator then shifted. "Remember within a week, I shall return to gut you like a fish. Train your mates well."

"They aren't my mates," Brick replied before the image was cut off and the spider denoted from its spot. Brick frowned again. Why was it that when something bad happens, the shit seemed to just pile up on top of it?

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