PowerPuff Girls A

by crisisvyper

For fifteen years, the city of Townsville has been protected by their lovely heroines and they have grown up to be fine young ladies. However Him has returned, and it had returned with a vengeance. And to make matters worse, Him had pulled some other bad company with it. How will the girls react, especially when other unforeseen but familiar faces also turned up in Townsville?

21. Chapter 21: Goddess Of The Storm

Chapter 21: Goddess of the Storm

"Hey asshole!"

The hornet mutant turned around to see an electric blue pillar slamming into his face and propels him into another section of the wall in the orphanage. In midst of this confusion, Buttercup saw a blur stepping on a small electric blue pole of some kind and launches itself towards the little girl and the grenade. The figure spins in the air and the electricblye object that the blur is holding hits the grenade . With a metallic cracking sound,the grenade is launched up towards the sky, and the little girl disappeared into the blur. The primed grenade immediately blew up, lighting up the dark moonless sky. The explosion jolted Buttercup from her limbo of consciousness and unconsciousness, causing her eyes to focus once more and looked at what caused this sudden turn of events. As her eyes readjusted itself, she saw a figure holding the little girl with one arm while the other arm is holding an electric blue baseball bat made out of electrical energy. Buttercup recognizes the person as her mind registered the black hoodie with blue flames and his sand-blonde hair and bright sapphire eyes.

"Boomer?" Buttercup's voice cracked with surprise and her eyes are now flowing with tears.

"I'm honored." Boomer puts the little girl down and he looks at the little girls blue eyes with his own blue eyes.

"Alright kiddo, I want you to hide okay? Don't come out until big sis calls you alright?" The little girl nods, and runs towards the bushes. He then walks towards the Powerpuff Girl and lifts her up with one of his hands. Despite her injuries, she managed to stand up.

"What the heck are you doing here Boomer?" Buttercup asked the Rowdyruff Boy, her perplexed look is obviously something the sand-blonde teenage boy expected to see.

"Saw the news and came by as soon as I could." He gives Buttercup a cheeky smile before he looks away to find where the bug-like opponent went off to.

As Boomer scanned his surroundings, he saw the devastation of the battle between Buttercup and the hornet-like monster and Boomer readied his two Battlers for any incoming attack. Suddenly both Buttercup and Boomer heard a very loud buzzing sound to see that the figure emerged from the rubble within the orphanage. Seeing that the aberration is still alive, Buttercup stares at the mutant with hateful eyes.

"Ah, a Rowdyruff Boy. How surprising." The figure's voice is slurry and shaky and it seems that the concussion from Boomer's Battlers had managed to stun the insect-like man to a certain degree.

"Well I am just full of surprises." Boomer said. The hornet-like man immediately fired upon the Rowdyruff Boy, causing him to dodge away and in response he threw his energy baseball bat at the monster. The aberration dodges the attack and the bat hits a section of the orphanage.

"Be careful, the hostages are still inside the building!" Buttercup yelled. Boomer did not even have the time to respond to the injured Powerpuff Girl as he dodged a few more beam bolts speeding past him. Boomer watches as the flying insect is moving in an erratic and unpredictable manner. However as with everything in life, Boomer knew that sooner or later the randomness will come back to a particular sequence that will make sense. Several more beams and grenades were thrown at Boomer, but Boomer dodges them skillfully while never averting his gaze away.

Boomer is now scanning the movements of the hornet and found what he was looking for. Boomer immediately threw his energy baseball at an empty spot in the courtyard with all his might. To Buttercup's surprise, Boomer managed to hit the face of the hornet-like being, causing one of his eyes to be blown out. Boomer gives an approving smile as he managed to nail his opponent in the eye. However, the injured monster managed to aim two of the beam machine pistols at the sand-blonde teenager and opened fire at full automatic at the same time Boomer destroyed his eye. Boomer's reactions are not fast enough for him to dodge the counterattack. All the beam bolts hits Boomer flat in the chest and he was propelled back towards Buttercup. Buttercup dodges the incoming Rowdyruff Boy and finds himself crashing on the concrete surface, causing the concrete to crack. Buttercup watched in horror as the chest of the Rowdyruff Boy is on fire, but the Rowdyruff Boy gets up as if it was just a flesh wound.

"God damn it, and this is my favorite hoodie!" Boomer cried out loud, and he pats the flames until they disappeared. Despite his outwardly jovial appearance, Buttercup noticed that something is wrong with the sand-blonde teenager. He is particularly pale, and the teenager is drenched in cold sweat. His bleeding lips are quivering as he smiled, and immediately Buttercup pulls his arm away and looks at his chest. What greeted her eyes is the particularly raw chest wounds, the new scars on his chest are overlapping with the pinkish scars of his previous injuries. Realizing that Buttercup is looking at his chest, the blue-eyed teenager smiled with a guilty smile on his face.

"My chest must be that hot if you are looking at them like that." Boomer tried to joke it off, but Buttercup is not falling for it.

"Boomer, you're not healed yet!" Buttercup cried out. The breathing of the Rowdyruff Boy is much more labored than before, and Buttercup knew that it must have hurt the Rowdyruff Boy bad.

"Hell yes, I'm not healed. But what can I say? I'm an idiot." Boomer tried to laugh it off, but he soon hissed in pain as he grits his teeth. No point lying to the Powerpuff Girl, he thought. This is the exact reason why Brick had told him not to get out and fight. Right now, based on a percentage system on how alright he is, he scored at a solid seventy percent. His arm may be healed, but the scars on his chest are something else entirely. The beams from the Candyman that he fought the other day has a particular property that prevented his regeneration from healing quickly, and now with this new blasts on his chest, it would take him even longer to heal. Suddenly Boomer heard several incoming projectiles that are unlike the beams nor the hornets that he had used so far. Without any hesitation, Boomer jumped at Buttercup and pushed the Powerpuff Girl aside. Boomer felt a sharp pain in his shoulder as he lands down on the floor with his body.

"BOOMER!" Buttercup cried as she noticed three large black needles impaled itself in Boomer's shoulders. Buttercup was about to grab on the needles before Boomer grabbed her arm in turn.

"DON'T PULL THEM OUT!" The Rowdyruff yelled in pain. Boomer knew that the wounds in his shoulders are large wounds, and pulling them out would cause severe blood loss.

"You will pay...I will sting you all to death!" Both superpowered teenager turned their attention towards their opponent's voice and are now faced with a particularly intimidating sight. The hornet-like being looked at them with his mangled face, and one can sense the unbridled anger and fury that the being has towards the Powerpuff Girl and the Rowdyruff Boy. The insect-like mutant is now holding an orb in each arm, and several dozen large black needles are floating around the orbs like a flower. Suddenly the arms of the aberration splits apart and the aberration now has two pairs of arms, and the other two arms reached for the machine pistols around its waist. A loud buzzing can be heard, and a swarm of hornets are now surrounding the hornet aberration in an elliptical orbit around the being.

"Where the hell did those weapons came from?!" Buttercup exclaimed her disbelief, but the corner of her eye noticed that the needles embedded Boomer's shoulder detached themselves and floats back to take its place among the dozens of black needles floating around the orbs. Boomer yelled out in pain as the blood sprayed out from his shoulder like a geyser.

"Ah shit...I am bleeding." Boomer's weakened reaction surprised even himself. The teenager's face is now paler than before, making him ghost-like in appearance.

"You ruined my face...Everything dies in seven minutes." A wheezing, gravelly voice informed them, its voice filled with anger and malice as the beeping countdown sound of timers suddenly ringed in the ears of the superhumans. Buttercup's mind is now shocked beyond compare at the monster's declaration and knew that he had just primed the bombs to explode. Boomer's heightened super senses noticed that the orbs are generating a particular kind of energy that he is familiar with surrounding the orb and the black needles.

Electromagnetism, Boomer said in his mind as he realized what the energy is. Before he could even warn her about the properties of the black needles, the figure puts the two orbs near each other, and the needles propelled themselves with great speed towards the two teenagers. As Buttercup and Boomer dodged the attack, the figure opened fire with each laser machine pistol and sprayed the areas where they are dodging to. Buttercup rolls away from the incoming fire while Boomer is deflecting the laser bolts with his energy baseball bats back at the insect-like monstrosity. The being shot back at the bolts causing several mid-air explosions, before the swarm of hornets penetrates the smoke from the explosion to seek and destroy his opponents.

"God damn it!" Boomer said as he flips in midair while the hornets crashed to the ground before flying upwards to trace the Rowdyruff Boy. He spins in mid-air to dodge a few of the black needles which passes him barely. Buttercup herself is not faring very well either as she was deflecting the needles with her arms, barely avoiding them from impaling her arms or other parts of her body. She threw several more of her energy crescents at the incoming hornets, causing some of the hornets to disperse while the others are incinerated.

"Any bright ideas Boomer?" Buttercup yelled at the Rowdyruff Boy.

"Just one, but I would suggest you get out from here. Go and get Father Maxwell and the kids out!" Boomer shouted back.

Buttercup nods and speeds into the orphanage. Seeing that they are splitting up, the monster aims its needles at Buttercup. Buttercup saw the needles and the beam machine pistol aiming at her, and as the needles and the bolts of beam fire speeds up towards her, she realize that she could not dodge it time. However a large number pillars of lightning strikes down in the space between Buttercup and the hornet-like being causing the beam to dissipate and the needles to be struck down. Buttercup looks up to see where the lightning is coming from and realizes that there is a large dome of lightning forming above the courtyard and covering where Boomer and the fiend are standing. The figure turns his attention towards the blue-eyed teenager, whose eyes are now glowing with an electric blue.

"Nope, you're playing with me." Boomer said weakly and winks at the direction of the Powerpuff Girl. Despite his paling complexion, the boy gives Buttercup a thumbs up. Knowing that he is essentially buying time for her to do her thing, Buttercup nods and puts her trust at the blue-eyed teenager.

Buttercup speeds towards the dining hall where the hostages are being held and she stop short of entering into the dining area which is now lighting up with the emergency lights. She scans the area and with her array of super sight, she spots several sensors and also plastic explosive being planted on the ceiling and also the foundation pillars within the dining hall. Any wrong move and the ceiling would explode and bury the children and the staff under several tons of rubble. To make it worse, the sensors are planted on the walls and also the entrance, thereby eliminating the two easiest means of rescuing the hostage. The sound of sobbing children echoed throughout the dining room, and Buttercup tried to put on a smile to assure the children that everything will be fine.

"Alright guys, I'm here to save you. Everything will be alright." Buttercup said with a soft and reassuring voice. However her wounds are such that the children are now crying even harder. Seeing their beloved friend being hurt to such an extent is unbearable for the children, and the cryibg only grew louder and more anguished.

"My child...What happened to you?" A bespectacled man stands up and speaks to the Powerpuff Girl, and Buttercup recognize him as the priest that takes care of this orphanage.

"Father Maxwell, thank god you're alright!" Buttercup's voice choked a little as she exclaimed her relief.

"God always watches us all. Where is the bandaged man?"

"You mean hornet monster. Boomer is holding hin at bay, but I got only...six minutes before this place blows up."

"My child, what can I do to help?" The father asked, hoping that whatever he could do would alleviate the situation that they are facing and also giving Buttercup the help that she needs to save them children of the orphanage. Buttercup takes another deep breath before she speaks once more with Father Maxwell, knowing that the priest's observation will make or break her plans.

"I need you to tell me where the wires to the bombs are so that I can use my eye beams to cut the wires. My vision can only detect the heat from the bombs and also generally large items. I can't see the wires since they are mixed up with the rest of the wiring in this room. I will then make a hole in the wall to get you guys out. It is the only way that I can get you guys out." Buttercup asked with a great amount of urgency in her voice, but she is trying to keep a calm tone as to not panic the children even more than necessary.

"Alright child, I will see what I can do." The father looks at the sensor wires and noticed that the wires are of different thickness and of the same color. The man of the church also noticed several items that looked out of place and his face froze in horror as he realized where the vials are located.

"What's wrong Father Maxwell?" Buttercup realized the priest is very silent and some color faded from his skin.

"They have several vials of silver liquid in here on the bombs attached to some wires. I think they are mercury." The father's voice is filled with a sense of dread that immediately pierced through the green-eyed Powerpuff Girl's heart. Her heart dropped as she realized that the situation have gone from bad to worse. Buttercup would want to scream out loud and thrash the place, but right now that is neither productive nor necessary. Buttercup cursed under he breath, making sure that the children did not hear her.

She heard about these kinds of bombs from the cops before, those bombs that are made to be sensitive to any motion. With any movement on the bomb, it will blow up sky high, and Buttercup knows that she is not the most delicate among her sisters. She can never pull off what Bubbles or even Blossom do when it comes to fine motor movement actions, and she cursed in her mind once more. She is now uncertain about how she could get them all out in one piece. Anything she could do would trigger something. Her mind is now in a fritz, as her mind literally stopped thinking for a moment and the pressure of the situation dawned upon her. And to make it worse, the cops and the bomb disposal square are now being held hostage by the fiend's ally. She can hear the battle between Boomer and the hornet monstrosity is becoming more and more intense, and she knew that she does not have a lot of time left. She can hear Boomer is running short on his breath and he got only approximately three minutes before he collapses from blood loss.

Her thought is holding on to the concept of time. Why is she holding on the concept of time? Surely she does not have the time to hold on to a thought if it does not help her save these people. Her mind is caging her thoughts about time as if it is holding it in a box, and as she cursed her mind for being square, something in her mind clicked once more. Time and square. Time and square. Her mind then clicked once more and she remembered Professor Utonium. Why is she thinking of these three concepts at once? It does not make any sense, as this had nothing to do with the children. Her mind clings on another element, and now she has to content with four things in her mind; time, square, Professor Utonium and children. She wished that she would not hold on these thoughts like how Mojo Jojo would keep on rambling on the same thing over and over again. She needs to move her thoughts out from there, and not hold on to past concepts. Suddenly it all clicked in Buttercup's mind. Buttercup frantically checks if her communication link in her helmet is still operational. After making sure that it is operational, she immediatelh opened the communications channel with the only person that can help: Professor Utonium.

"Professor, Professor, can you hear me?" Buttercup called Professor Utonium, hoping that Professor Utonium had what she hoped he did not throw away. As she waited for the professor to call back, she hoped that the fates would not abandon her and the people in the orphanage at their time of greatest need.

"Buttercup! Thank god! Your vitals are getting worse! And your communications array is rather hazy!" The professor speaks to her with a tone bordering on mania, relief and fear.

"No time to lose Professor! Do you still have that time portal from when we were kids during Parent Career Day where Mojo Jojo jumped into the time portal and tried to change the past?" Buttercup asked frantically, knowing that she does not have the time to converse with him about the tiny unimportant things. Professor Utonium instinctively answered the Powerpuff Girl, but his voice is utterly dumbfounded by the request of the Powerpuff Girl.

"Yes, I do Buttercup, but why?" Buttercup turns on the life video feed from her intact eyepiece shows the professor the room with sensors, explosives and hostages in it. The professor gasped as he saw the bombs strapped to the ceiling of the room.

"Open the portal to this particular time when I am talking to you and aim it at the orphanage's dining hall! And get that big pincer thing to grab these people out in five minutes! NOW!" Buttercup basically roared and the Professor's line is now silent and several scrounging sounds could be heard. Within seconds, the professor is now speaking to Buttercup once more.

"Buttercup, I would need you to distract whatever it is that can disrupt me from getting these people out. Do you understand me?" The professor's voice is calm, but there is a sense of urgency and importance in his voice. Buttercup nods her head and stand guard over the entrance as her ears picked on the familiar wavy sound of the time portal being prepared and tuned to the intended time period. Suddenly Buttercup sees a glowing swirling ripple in the room, and the children in the room screamed out in terror. A pincer-like object comes out from the portal, and the children are trying to stay back from the object. Realizing that the children are afraid, Buttercup turns around and tries to assure the little children with a calm and reassuring voice, but they are far too scared to even take notice.

"Guys, it's alright. Its the professor with his Time Portal. He's come to take you out from this place."

"I'm scared!" One of the little children cried out, and the rest are now sniffing, sobbing or crying out loud. It was then that Father Maxwell decided to speak to the children. The priest hugs one of the children, a little boy with red hair and freckles on his cheek and pats his head.

"Boys, girls. I know you are scared, as we all are. Buttercup has never hurt or lie to you before, right?" The little boys and little girls nod in agreement, though the sniffing sound and sobbing sounds are still being heard.

"So please children, trust Buttercup as you had always trust her. Especially in this time of darkness." The bespectacled man said with a nurturing voice, and seeing that the children are a little more calmer, he carries the redheaded child and hooks him on the pincer. He hugs the little child and gives the little child a kiss on his forehead before the pincer pulls the little child into the portal.

"I got something!" Professor Utonium cried out in Buttercup's headset, and Buttercup and the rest of the hostages endured a tense moment before the communication link in Buttercup's head comes back online once more.

"I got the little child! It's okay little boy, everything's gonna be alright..." Buttercup is relieved that Professor Utonium had gotten one of the children. Buttercup decides to take out her cell phone and called the professor's number. The phone call was picked up, and the Professor's voice can be heard.

"Buttercup, what's going on? Did your communications link broke down?" The concerned voice of the professor can be heard over the live voicefeed. Buttercup takes in a deep breath. Her heart is glad that her random memories and her quick thinking had succeed, and she thanked the heavens above for allowing these people to experience the mercy that they so deserve on this earth. She then breathe out and then started to speak with the professor.

"Professor, right now I need you to talk to Father Maxwell. He is the priest managing the orphanage, and you two would need to coordinate the efforts to evacuate everyone. Boomer needs my help." Buttercup said to her father figure, and several moments of silence between father and daughter were observed before the Professor speaks again.

"Alright Buttercup. Please come back home." Professor Utonium said, his voice heavy with concern and his love for Buttercup.

"I will Professor. Father Maxwell, I will leave the phone here at the entrance with the loudspeaker on for you to coordinate with the Professor alright?" Buttercup turned around and watches the gray-eyed man looking at her with a smile.

Knowing that the evacuation is in safe hands, Buttercup turns around to engage back in the fight. Suddenly a voice called her, and she turned around to see Father Maxwell looking at her with determined eyes.

"Kick that asshole's butt for me." The priest grinned as he said his request to the Powerpuff Girl. The other staff and the children gasped, for they had never heard the priest ever cursed before.

Buttercup's initial surprise at the priest swearing soon turned to a wide grin, and she gives him a thumbs up before speeding off to the courtyard once more. As the portal returned once more, Father Maxwell gives her a thumbs up and proceed to coordinate with the professor.

"Professorn Utonium? This is Father Maxwell, I need to know how many people can your portal carry?"

"I can pull everyone out if everyone holds on tightly in one chain." Professor Utonium answered the priest.

"Alright people, we will be evacuating the children first, followed by the rest of us. Is that clear?" Father Maxwell's voice boomed as he commanded the staff to help with the evacuations.

Buttercup smiled for once throughout this night, as she heard the voice of Father Maxwell coordinating the evacuation. As she enter into the courtyard, she noticed that it is now raining at the courtyard alone, and she saw that the hornet is now gaining an upper hand against the blue-eyed Rowdyruff Boy. He looks really messed up as she saw that he got several grazes, stings and burned clothing. As compared to Boomer, the being appears to not be severely affected, and she realized that she would need to enter into the fray once more to turn the tide of battle.

"Boomer, tag out!" Buttercup cries out as she dashes towards the pillars of lightning.

Boomer heard Buttercup's voice and knowing what to do, he flies towards her. As both of them reached the pillar of lightning, their arms reached out for each other . The pillar of lightning opened up for a brief moment before Buttercup grabbed the hand of the Rowdyruff Boy and threw him out while she entered into the cage of lightning. As she stopped in her tracks and the lightning pillar closes once more, she looked at the aberration once more.

"Well, keeping this lightning cage while fighting and dodging sure is tiring." Boomer said to her weakly as her back faces him.

"Keep this cage up no matter what. I am going to end this now." Buttercup said as she clenched her fist.

"What do you think you can do, green one?" The man-hornet boasts as he aims his weapons at the raven-haired Powerpuff Girl.

"Kick your ass." The Powerpuff Girl is now looking at him with enraged eyes, and as her eyes glowed the gale of wind slowly builds up within the lightning cage. Boomer could even feel the gust of wind slowly sucking into the cage and the fragments from the battle at the courtyard are now being pulled into the lightning cage. As the Powerpuff Girl walks towards the hornet aberration, several pillars lime-green gust of wind appeared from the center of the lightning cage and the gales are sl strong that some of the lightning from the cage is being pulled into the vortex. The man-hornet fires his beam bolts and needles at Buttercup, but to his surprise the beams and projectiles are sucked into the vortex. As the gale pillars slowly combines together, the hornets are also sucked into the vortex and the hornet wrangler realized that he needs to stay way from the vortex. His wings are now beating frantically to resist the pull of the vortex ,but suddenly the man-hornet's wings are ripped out from his body and he was also pulled into the vortex.

"Oh crap, it's a tornado!" Boomer cried out as Boomer struggled to keep his footing and he jams one of his Battlers into the concrete pavement. Due to his lightning cage field, the damage to the surrounding buildings are not as deeply affected, though the glass in the surrounding windows slowly cracked due to the wind pressure. Several explosions could be seen and heard within the vortex, and as Boomer watched, the flashes of the silhouette of Buttercup fighting the man-hornet can be seen with every flash of lightning and explosion. It was then that Boomer noticed that the winds are blowing so strongly that his face is being cut by the pressurized winds. As his droplets of blood entered into the vortex that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

Buttercup pummels her fist at the hornet-like being with all her might as the storm rages on, each punch cracking his carapace armor like cracks in a porcelain plate. Soon enough she could see the blood of the being slipping out from the cracks and his mandibles, but Buttercup did not stop her onslaughts of blows. With each punch, she caused further injuries to the man-hornet but at the same time her gauntlets are also cracking under the pressure of the blows. With each blow, the cracks on both the carapace and her gauntlets grew and grew until at last both are broken into fragments. But Buttercup kept on pummeling on with her fists, and the bone-crunching sound of her blows are now audible even amidst the roaring blows of the wind. Her fists started to bleed and as she went on, her eyes are now filled with tears of rage. The energy within her fists builds up to such an extent that her fist are now glowing with a radiant lime green before finally with a chopping right, she punched the man-hornet with all her remaining might.

Suddenly the lightning barrier is broken by a pillar or whirling winds and it slams upon the ground like a strike from an enraged god. The storm continued to burrow downwards and the winds slowly funnel out from within the cage to the particular focal point on the ground. Before long the storm slowly dissipates, and the fragments that were sucked by the storm dropped down on the concrete floor. Boomer barely dodged several of the larger debris sucked by the swirling vortex, and as he turned towards the slowly dissipating lightning cage and swirling tornado, he sees a figure coming out from the eye of the storm. Buttercup's armor is now mostly ripped out, leaving only some parts of her body covered and her bleeding fists, revealing her Olympian-like physique for the world to see. As Boomer watches her take her steps towards the hole created by the tornado, she leans forward and looks down into the hole. Boomer decided to trail behind her and as he took a peek, he saw the limbs of the fiend twisted beyond comprehension and the figure bludgeoned to such an extent that he is almost unrecognizable, lying stiffly on the ground.

Truly she is a goddess of the storm, Boomer thought to himself as he saw her damaged but still amazingly elegant face looking down with teary eyes filled with vengeance. Her femininity, tenacity and ferocity are visible, and somehow Boomer thought that this image of a warrior goddess fits Buttercup the most.

"Buttercup? Buttercup? Can you hear me?! I've managed to get almost everyone out with only a minute to spare but they told me that one of the children is missing!"

"Annabelle! Where are you?"

Buttercup immediately remembered about Annabelle, and she cried out her name. As the time slowly reaches the detonation time, Buttercup's voice is becoming more frantic as she called out for the little girl. Suddenly Buttercup heard the crying sound of the little girl and burst towards the source of the sound. Behind the bushes, she saw the little blue-eyed girl squatting and shivering from fear. Knowing that there isn't much time left, she grabbed her with her arms and started running toward the gates.

"We need to get out from here now!" Buttercup cried out and Boomer remembered that the place is rigged to explode. Both teenagers struggled to move as fast as they could with their feet, before they realized that they could just jump out with a single leap. As they both jumped over the gate, the whole building detonated with a large explosion, sending masonry and other debris upwards towards the sky before it rained down on the streets, buildings and vehicles around the orphanage.

"Shit...that was close!" Boomer said as he feebly tries to get up.

"Too close." Buttercup said, her strength finally leaving her body. Before ahe coukd even breathe a sight of relief, a figure rises from the flames and Buttercup's heart immediately started beating frantically. The man-hornet is now floating over the flames.

"Shit..." Buttercup's body had finally refused to heed her instructions and she cursed at her weakness. However, Boomer noticed something bizarre about the way the man-hornet is hvering over the flames and how lifeless the figure is.

"Wait...he's unconscious." Boomer noticed that the figure is floating limply over the flames.

"If he is unconscious, how is he able to float?" Buttercup asked in disbelief.

Suddenly the villain's body is shrouded by a reddish pink fog, and to both Buttercup's and Boomer's surprise, a waist-length braided brunette woman with a khaki beret and a sleeveless dark blue sweater top appeared beside the monster's limp body. As the woman looks down upon them, Boomer noticed the cross-shaped scar on her cheek, and her sky-blue eyes and his cobalt-blue eyes met.

"Petit Bleu..." The braided brunette said to him as she hovers above the flames.

"You!" Boomer said with shock at seeing the woman before him. The woman smiled at him and waved before carrying the unconscious monster on her back. Both figures disappeared in a fog of reddish pink and as the fog dissipates, Buttercup stared at Boomer.

"Who the heck is that?" Buttercup asked before she collapsed on her knees from the fatigue with Annabelle in her arms. This particular interaction is something she did not expect at all, and despite her tired and injured body, she needs to know what is going on.

"Trouble." Boomer joined her and sits down on the floor beside her. Boomer is glad that the lady did nt pick a fight with them. knowing that they were fortunate enough to not have to fight the scarred woman right after their hard-won victory. Suddenlt he felt a weight lying on his shoukd and as he turned around, he saw that the raven-haired girl with the green eyes is lying her head down on his shoulder.

"Don't get any funny ideas, pretty boy. I am just tired and you're the only thing i can lean on." Buttercup warns the Rowdyruff Boy.

"Whatever you say Ma'am." Knowing that they are all losing their strength, Boomer also leans his head on Buttercup's head. Honestly Boomer thought that if it were not for their stupidly severe injuries, this would be a rather nice thing to experience. It is not everyday that you get a girl to rest her heads on your shoulders. It does not matter that she is leaning on his injured shoulder,for the pain is worth it. However their struggles are not over yet as the reporters and news crew soon surrounded the two two very exhausted and injured teenagers. As they are about to aim their cameras at them, Buttercup roared at them with her last ounce of strength,lifting her head off his shoulders for a moment.

"For fuck's sake, get us medical attention first will you!?" The reporters and the news crew immediately stayed a good fifteen feet away from them at all directions. Buttercup leans back on Boomer's shoulders, too tired to even bother readjusting her body angle. Before long, to the relief of the superpowered teenagers, their hearing picks up on the voices of the medical personnel rushing towards them to provide the necessary medical attention that they need.

"Sweet mother of mercy...Put these two supers into the ambulance and bring them to Professor Utonium's lab!" The paramedics called out as the two teenagers and the little girl are put onto stretchers. Boomer looks at Buttercup before she answered weakly.

"We're special...only Professor Utonium know how to treat our injuries. So Townsville paramedics are always trained to stabilize us girls as they bring us back home." Boomer's mouth opened with a silent 'Ah' before he lied down and look up. As the stretchers are being lifted into the ambulance, both superhuman beings are silent for a while before Buttercup broke the silence.

"Seriously, what kind of knight in shining armor are you? Asking the damsel in distress to beat the crap out of the dragon..." Buttercup asked the Rowdyruff Boy, her voice as soft and gentle as a night's gentle breeze.

"The knight in shining armor that became the distraction for the damsel to kick the dragon's ass." Boomer answered weakly but cheekily. There was a silence between the two before both of them chuckled weakly.

"You suck Boomer." Buttercup said with a jest.

"Well laughter's the best medicine." Bommer answered before he chuckled.

Suddenly both teenagers are now relieving themselves from the stress and trauma of their injuries and harrowing experience by laughing out loud, knowing that their body are finally succumbing to the injuries and the least they could do to distract themselves from the pain and suffering by laughing it all away. The medical staff entered into the vehicle and closed the hatch doors to the ambulance and immediately started treating the laughing and severely injured teenagers. The ambulance immediately left the scene with blaring sirens.

Unknown by the people below them, a malicious red-dressed figure with pincers for arms watches in glee with its emerald-green eyes as it sits in the skies above with crossed legs and arms. Him cackles diabolically before fading away in a reddish-pink fog.