Chapter 28: Boot Camp
[Utonium Residence, Townsville Suburbs: 1.30pm]
It has been three days since they were discharged from the Utonium residence after their three week special intensive care unit stay. Brick, Butch and Boomer rang the doorbell to the Utonium Residence. Their visit is a simple one for they wanted to inform the girls that they would be out of town for a few days, and if there are any matters they would be on their own. Since the girls are not answering the call to their home, the boys figured that they might as well drop by and tell the Powerpuff Girls themselves. The door opens up and to their surprise they are face to face with a very sweaty and half-naked Professor Utonium with ruffled hair and holding a wrench. Butch immediately turned away and vomited on the yard, while Boomer is stunned beyond all means. Brick raised his eyebrow and gives the professor a very awkward smile.
"Ah boys! How can I help you today?" Professor Utonium asked. Brick noticed that several large tubes of something is being suspended by some complicated machinery and several measurement machines are occupying the living room.
"Um...where's the Powerpuff Girls?" Brick asked.
"Well, the girls said that they would be out of town for a few days since I am kinda making a particle collider in the home and I need all the space I can use." Professor Utonium answered with a smile on his face. Brick covered his nose, for the odor of the sweating professor is a little overwhelming. However, he turned towards his brothers and they all looked at him after they had gotten back their bearings. They are all surprised that the Powerpuff Girls are also out.
Brick, Butch and Boomer all though of the same question; where did the Powerpuff Girls go?
[Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio: 1.30pm]
"So tell me why are we here again Buttercup?" Blossom asked the raven-haired girl wearing her black aviator sunglasses as she leans back on the front seat of the Humvee. Somehow, Buttercup managed to get them into the airbase and the military base personnel are nice enough to assign someone to give them a ride.
"You wanted to improve, and I brought you to a place that will help us improve." Buttercup answered her sister. The raven-haired girl with the green highlights in her hait is wearing halterback sleeveless black shirt and beige and bone-colored camouflaged military pants with black sneakers. Blossom thought that if it were not for the fact that Buttercup have breasts and is much smaller,she would almost believed that it was Butch sitting at the front seat.
The three girls are now inside the confines of an US air force base, in the Midwest state of Ohio as a result of a discussion about what they need to do to improve themselves for their future engagement with the Lunatics. Ever since the attacks of Townsville over one month ago, the city is slowly turning into a true battlefield, with the entire Downtown area essentially a battle zone. Seeing that Professor Utonium had informed the girls that their home is essentially 'going back to basics' in order for Professor Utonium to craft the new gear needed to face off against the Lunatics and it would be good for the girls to go somewhere else for a few days as he needs to turn the entire house into a particle collider to synthesize their new equipment. With that, Buttercup had asked permission for them to pack for a ten-day trip, and here they are in Patterson Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio. As several angular fighter aircraft with clipped delta wings with a reverse sweep on the rear and four empennage surfaces flew over them and climbed up in the air with their roaring twin turbofan engines, Blossom and Bubbles knew that they are out of their league. Bubbles in particular is still having some bad memories from the last time she is in a military base and she is visibly uncomfortable.
"Miss Utonium, we've arrived." The driver of the vehicle informed Buttercup.
"Thanks." Buttercup answerred as she watched the tarmac.
She noticed a taxiing aircraft heading towards the row of other similar aircraft with the design of an ace of hearts with the heart cleaved by a dagger at the tail fins of the angular fighter jet. The Humvee stopped, and soon the military personnel exits from the vehicle. Buttercup opened the vehicle door and soon trailed behind the officer. Not wanting to stay in the vehicle,both Blossom and Bubbles exit the vehicle and walks quickly to catch up with Buttercup. After a while, the military personnel and Buttercup stopped in their tracks, and soon the other Powerpuff Girls finally catches up. As the aircraft is being directed towards its designated parking area, Buttercup smiles as she saw the aircraft with the markings of the ace of hearts stops a few feet away from her. As the cockpit of the aircraft opens, a man fully clad in a flight suit gets up from his flight seat and takes out his helmet. The pilot is a man with a very chiseled jaw and a permanent expression of a bad mood on his face,which is further aggravated by the lack of an eyebrow. His most recognizable feature however is his particularly tall blonde flattop haircut.
"Guile! Some girls from Townsville are here to see you!" The military personnel called the pilot. The pilot turns his head towards the military personnel calling him.
"For me, here?" The baritone voice of the pilot is heard as he looked down with his light blue eyes, his eyes soon spotted the three teenage girls. The man suddenly turned his frown upside down as Buttercup waved at him.
"Heya Guile!" Buttercup said cheerfully in her raspy voice as she rest her hands on her hips.
"Blaze, you little rascal!" The man exclaimed and soon jumps down from his fighter aircraft and lands feet first on the ground, surprising Blossom,Bubbles and the military personnel. As he walks up toward Buttercup, Blossom realized that he is a very well-build pilot and easily towers over them. Blossom wanted to guess that he is around six feet and five inches, but his hair makes him much more taller than he is.
"Yeap, nice to see you too, Guile." Buttercup extends her hand, and soon enough the tall brush-haired man shakes her hand before it slowly turned into an arm wrestling match. To Blossom and Bubbles' surprise, the man appears to be holding out quite well.
"Are these your sisters, Blaze?" The man said as his arm shakes.
"Yeap, the redhead is Blossom and the blonde one's Bubbles. Bloss, Bubbs, this is Major Charlie Nash Bradshaw, my combat instructor. He taught me fighting stuff." Buttercup said without any strain in her voice, but her hands are also shaking as she continued on with the arm wrestle.
"Nice to meet you Major Bradshaw." Blossom said politely.
"Hello Mr-oops I mean Major Bradshaw!" Bubbles blushed as she realized she forgot to call him by his name.
"Nice to meet you girls, heard a lot about you from Blaze here." The man's flightsuit appears to be bulging a little from the arm-wrestle exchange.
"Guile, you know these girls?" One of the other air force pilot asked the brush-haired man.
"Yeah Lapdog, I know them." Blossom and Bubbles are now even more confused, as they do not understand why are they calling each other by a different name. Noticing the confusion on the redhead's face, the air force major explained himself.
"Guile's my callsign as a pilot. Got it because I tricked my flight instructor a long time ago. Buttercup got her nickname because she always blaze through everything without thinking and causing collateral damage on the way in." Blossom and Buttercup immediately burst out in laughter, as they knew how brash their sister is when it comes to any conflict. Buttercup blushes before she decided to use a little more of her her strength into her arm wrestle.
"Anyway, is there anywhere we could have a nice chat or something?" Buttercup said and her sister noticed that she is now having the edge in this handshake turned arm wrestle as Buttercup decided to bulge her biceps and triceps. This contest of strength continued until the air force major's passive face turned into a smile.
"Yes, let's go to the Humvee. I'll guide." The air force captain finally let go of Buttercups arm and smiled . The other pilots and base personnel around the tarmac and also the fighter aircrafts are now watching the three girls and the brush-headed man. Suddenly the man opened up and his booming voice is loud enough that it even cuts through the purring engine noises of the jet engines.
"What are you looking at?" The other spectators soon returned back to their activities. The brush-headed blonde man, the military personnel that drove them and the Powerpuff Girls soon walked towards the Humvee once more, and as they do so Buttercup and the pilot started talking.
"So do you know why your cute little ass got kicked, Blaze?" The man asked cheekily as he puts on his aviator sunglasses.
"Bite me Guile." Buttercup said, knowing well that the pilot knew what happened. The man laughed before he continued on talking.
"Fine, looks like I need to hammer into your head on why your ass got kicked hard. Your Jetstream is not complete." Buttercup looked down on the ground as she walked with the air force major as if she was being reprimanded for doing something bad. Seeing Buttercup in such a way surprised both Blossom and Bubbles.
"Jetstream?" Blossom and Bubbles asked in unison. The man looked at them with a surprised expression.
"That's the name of the martial art I've taught your sister. Blaze never told you the name of the art?" Both girls shook their heads, causing the man to look back at Buttercup. Buttercup shrugged while rolling her eyes.
"Well, they never asked." Buttercup said as they finally reached the Humvee.
The brush-haired air force major opens the back passenger ddoor to the Humvee, and he gestured for the girls to enter in. The Powerpuff Girls entered into the back seat before Major Guile closed the door with a thud. The pilot and the military driver soon entered into the vehicle and closed the door. As the driver turns the key to ignite the Humvee, Major Bradshaw turned his head to speak to the girls.
"Would you believe me that your sister ran away because she couldn't take my discipline?"
"We believe you." Both Blossom and Bubbles said at the same time. Buttercup of course rolled her eyes.
"Anyway, welcome back to Patterson Air Force Base Blaze."
"Good to be back, Guile." Buttercup said as the Humvee begin to move.
As the vehicle drives on, everyone in the vehicle are quiet. The major is now taking a rest, while Buttercup is just looking outside the window to see the sights of the military base. Blossom is unsure what she could talk about in this situation given her unfamiliarity with this situation, while Bubbles is just playing with her phone. But Blossom understands that sometimes people need to step out of their comfort zone to improve and she grudgingly understand why her sister brought her here. Along among the sisters, Buttercup is the only one that managed to defeat someone and whatever she is doing must be effective enough. Of course everyone received some assistance from the Rowdyruff Boys but that still does not change the fact that she is the most effective fighter among all of the Powerpuff Girls.
After a while, the copper-haired girl noticed that they are now entering into a hangar, where a fighter aircraft being repaired by a maintenance crew. As the vehicle stops, the passengers of the Humvee disembarked. The pilot begins to take out his harness and all his flight equipment and drops it on the ground. Slowly but surely, as the man finally pulls takes off his pilot suit, revealing a rather ripped and buffed body in a dark olive green tanktop. Most prominently are the images of the American flag on each shoulder, with the stars are on the left hand side to give the illusion that the flag is flying towards battle. He ties the sleeves of the Nomex flight suit around his waist and leaving the rest of the upper body section of the suit draped down behind him like a tail coat.
The other maintenance crew are now looking at the commotion and also at the very attractive young women. Buttercup walks towards the side of the man while never taking her eyes off him, away from the Humvee. As both the brush-haired man and Buttercup walked away from the vehicle, and their eyes are locked.
"Let's see what you got." The man said to Buttercup.
Suddenly the major throws his arm in an inward clothesline and a blueish white energy crescent launches from the man's arm motion and flies towards Buttercup. The sound of the energy projectile cutting through the air boomed throughout the hangar and Buttercup immediately threw both her arms in an inwards clothesline and launches her own energy crescent towards the incoming projectile. The energy projectiles met and the two projectiles exploded in mid-air.
"Blossom...he just threw an energy ball!" Bubbles said out loud to her sister,not believing that she did not even noticed that unimaginable feat from the air force major. But Blossom understood the significance of what he did, and she chose to instead observe his martial prowess instead to better understand this man's martial arts.
Major Bradshaw dashes in towards Buttercup as she is pulling her hands back, and with a lunging uppercut the man tries to punch her solar plexus. Instead she brings down her crossed arm down towards the fist and intercepting it. Another fist speeds towards Buttercup's temple but with a backhand, she deflects the fist explosively. However to Bubbles' surprise, the major is not even hurt by the defensive backhand and he breaks away from Buttercup in a back dash.
"Why isn't he hurt by her backhand?" Bubbles asked her redheaded sister.
"It seems that he managed to reduce the impact of the blow by dashing backwards." Blossom said, understanding the great control of the major's body. As the major regained his footing and brought his fist up close to his head while keeping his legs narrowed, Blossom realized that his stance is very familiar to those of Buttercup's present fighting stance. As she watched the major and his body movements, Blossom finally realized why Buttercup's fighting style improved suddenly a few years ago. The man pulses with every move, and his movements are agile and light-footed despite his size. Buttercup also adopts a similar stance, and both of them are now looking at each other, ready to spring into action at any moment.
The major jockeyed for his footing moments before he dashed forward once more with two fists hooking upwards towards Buttercup's jaw. With a backward flip, Buttercup swung her leg towards the man's jaw. However the Major Guile turns his fist downwards and opens his fingers in a cupping shape and push down towards her knee. The sudden movement caused the blow and aim of Buttercup's kick to be veered off from its target, and allow the man to take a step back before the kick grazes the man's eyebrow.
"Fool!" The man shouted and used both of his hands to grab her leg. The major lifts his right leg up and with a forward fluid motion, the man kicks Buttercup square in her back, causing her to fall down on the ground face first. Before the rest of her body followed down on the ground, the air force major jumped forward and moved downwards to the ground with her leg. As Guile and Buttercup falls down on the ground, the air force major proceed to wedge his elbow into her Achilles tendon and leverage her foot and leg over his forearm while lying down. Buttercup is now screaming while the man presses his elbow in her tendon, before she taps on his legs. Major Guile lets go of her legs and rolls away before standing up, all in one fluid motion. Buttercup is now breathing quite heavily, and she is now rubbing her leg to soothe the uncomfortable feeling.
"Wow...Buttercup losing to a normie. Never though I would see that." Blossom marveled at the Major Bradshaw's ability to bring her down and based on how Buttercup fought, she did not hold back on anything. If anything, she was being outfought by this very interesting individual. A human with the ability to throw out energy fireball and also bringing down the toughest fighter of the Powerpuff Girls down within a minute warrants more research on the matter.
"Damn...you're still a badass." Buttercup said to the air force major as she lies down on the ground sprawling. The maintenance crew could not help but to gawk at the young woman on the ground, as she arch her back and stretches. However the blonde brush-haired man is indifferent to the young woman's action, and he finally walks up to the young short-haired woman with the green highlights in her raven hair and offers a hand.
"Always has been and always will be. Anyway, if you want to learn the four final Jetstream moves, I'm expecting you here by five o'clock tomorrow morning." Buttercup groaned before she grabs on his arm and gets up. Her sisters are now walking up towards Major Bradshaw and they looked at him with newfound respect.
"That's amazing! How'd you do that? I thought only supers can do that!" Bubbles said with amazement and curiosity in her voice. Even though Blossom did not say anything but she is definitely curious as to how this military man could bring down a Powerpuff Girl so easily.
"If you girls want to know and learn, come along with your sister. You can stay over at my place, and my wife would be happy to accommodate you girls " The man wears his sunglasses back once more and puts his arm on his hips before walking towards the Humvee. The girls followed the man shortly.
[Patterson Air Force Base Family Housing Unit, Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio: 3.00pm]
"Honey, I'm home! I've brought some guests!"
The man enters into his home, and to the surprise of Blossom and Bubbles, the home broke their stereotype of a military home. It is not as spartan as they thought it would be, and instead it is very homely and warm. Several paintings, pictures and also tribal souvenirs from around the world adorn his home. As Blossom and Bubbles looked at the pictures, they saw many pictures of Major Bradshaw with his fellow airmen and other military units in combat theaters around the world and pictures of him receiving medals from many generals and politicians for his service to his country. At the same time there are a lot of much more gentler and warm family pictures of the major with what appears to be friends and family doing generally normal family activities like camping, yard barbecue and fishing. As they entered into the living room, the girls were greeted by a beautiful mature woman with auburn hair and dark brown eyes in a white t-shirt and jeans walking out from the kitchen.
"Oh my goodness! Buttercup , you've grown into such a beautiful lady!" The chirpy and cheerful woman immediately went up to the raven-haired girl and give her a big hug.
"Heya Julia...can't...breathe..." Buttercup struggled before the woman realized that she is essentially bear-hugging the girl. The woman's eyes immediately turned towards the other two Powerpuff Girls and she squealed as she saw them. Blossom and Bubbles could not react in time before she hugs them both in a bear-like embrace.
"And you must be Blossom and Bubbles! Little Blaze here always talked about you girls! You are indeed the perfect little girls!" Julia immediately started rubbing her cheeks at the two Powerpuff Girls' cheeks.
"Honey, they had a long journey. Get them something to drink while I carry their bags to their rooms." Blossom wanted to protest about the bags being carried by the major, but then her ears received a whisper from the auburn woman.
"Let my hunk carry your stuff, you are our guests!" Julia whispered mischievously before she lets go of both of them. As Major Bradshaw carries their bags up the stairs, the woman known as Julia happily hops into the kitchen. Seeing how close they are to Buttercup, both Blossom and Bubbles are now looking at Buttercup expecting some explanation about the matter. Buttercup knew that she would have to explain herself, and she started talking as she took a seat on one of the couches.
"Well, remember the time where I kinda came back with bruises on the weekends? Patterson Air Force Base is where I got my bruises. They sure have a lot of mean fighters and also their mock air-to-air combats...those were some good times. As to how I came to know them, I was just flying around and I saw a truck almost ramming their car. So I saved them. In return, they treated me like a daughter they never had." Buttercup's eyes gleamed with good memories.
"What about the rest of the base? They didn't even bat an eye once you started fighting with Major Bradshaw?" Blossom asked.
"As for the base, saved a few people from crashing when I am here visiting the Bradshaws and stuff and the whole base decided to adopt me more or less. Even the base commander is in on this, and that's how I became like the open secret of this air base. So they taught me stuff. But I haven't come back in like three years..." Buttercup started counting with her fingers as she tried to recall how long has it been since she returned to the base.
"Ah...I thought you went and punched a few of the monsters on Monster Island." Bubbles said, finally connecting the dots in her mind as she sits down on the sofa. Blossom took her place next to Bubbles, and continued on looking around the very heavily decorated home. Julia returned with several glasses of iced lemon tea and the woman sits down on the remaining space on the sofa, looking at all the three Powerpuff Girls with a smile. Soon after, the major entered into the living room and takes a seat at the remaining couch in the living room. He had changed into something more comfortable, with a t-shirt and some track pants.
"Thanks honey." The man with the flattop sits down on the couch and sinks into the couch.
"So how's your day?" The auburn lady asked with a cheery tone in her voice.
"Well, just flying around in the Raptor and teaching the nuggets on how to dogfight properly. The FNGs are freaking stupid. They would have died if the Soviets would ever come and invade us..." The air force major groaned, and the auburn lady could only shake her head. The three Powerpuff Girls looked on as the two of them updated each other of their day.
"For me, the kids are well-behaved today in the kindergarten. Makes for such a nice day, and with little Blaze here with her sister, it just sweeten the day a little more." The woman's smiled sweetly as she crosses her leg.
"Anyway honey, I need you to prepare the first aid kits and also if you can just stock up for at least two weeks." Major Bradshaw told his wife.
"Are you going to put these girls into your boot camp?" Julia's voice is filled with disapproval over what they are talking about. The man looked at the woman and back towards the teenager girls before answering his partner's question.
"They are here because they need it." The man takes a sip from his iced lemon tea. The woman is now silent, and the Powerpuff Girls are feeling rather awkward with this situation.
"Well girls, please kick my husband's ass for me." The woman requested, causing the Powerpuff Girls to raise their eyebrows.
"Julia!" The man jumped out from his seat, surpried that his wife is asking three superhuman girls to kick his ass. The woman blows a raspberry at him, amd the girls finally laughed.
"Anyway, do you girls want to help me prepare dinner?" The girls nodded, and soon enough thhe woman gets up from her seat and walks towards the man with the chiseled jaw and kiss him on the cheek. The woman then gives him a flirty smile before moving towards the kitchen.
"That woman..." The man smiled and shakes his head. He turns his attention to the girls and with a reassuring smile he beckons them to go and help his wife.
And thus begin the first day of the Powerpuff Girl's stay in the Bradshaw residence.
The very next morning, Major Bradshaw notice that the girls are clearly sleep-deprived, as they all have bags under their eyes and they do look rather horrible. The Powerpuff Girls are all in their tracksuit, with Blossom and Bubbles tying up their hair in a bun. The sun is not even up ,and clearly the girls are not used to such activity in the morning. But this is a necessary evil for they do not have time.
"Alright Ladies,we are going to do three laps running march around the base which I think you can do it just fine! But I want you to drink a small dose of Antidote X!"
"Wait...what?" Bubbles said. Suddenly Buttercup takes out three small vials of black liquid and passes her sisters a vial. Buttercup took hers and start to drink it.
"Buttercup are you crazy?!" Blossom cried out loud.
"We need to get our superpowers out and be normal when we do our helps with stamina building." Buttercup responded.
"But!" Blossom protested, but Buttercup instead pours another vial of Antidote X into the copper-haired woman's mouth,forcing her to swallow it. Bubbles realized that this is just going to go down from here on out and decided to just go with the flow and take a drink from the vial. Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup's complexion soon turned much paler than before and they felt the strength from their body leaving them."Don't worry Bloss. It will only last for an hour." Buttercup assured her rose-eyed sister.
"Now watch what Blaze is doing,and you'll get the idea." As the other two girls watched, Buttercup closes her eyes and the vapor from the morning coldness when she breathed in and out are now visible.
"Alright, I'm good." Buttercup answered as she gotten used to the normal human strength of her present state.
"Lets get to work ladies! This is the first activity for the Bradshaw Boot Camp! If you can't sing the lyrics right while doing all of this, you'll get additional laps around the base until you get it right!" Immediately the man and Buttercup started in a long and speedy jogging marching pace and Blossom and Bubbles followed after. Blossom and Bubbles followed suit,and they realized how hard it is to fast jog march in formation and started with their cadence.
"Let's get down to business, to defeat the Huns!" The major started with what appears to be a line or a song of something. As he looked backed, Blossom and Bubbles noticed his very devilish eyes. Blossom and Bubbles realized that he was serious about his punishment, and uncertain about what to reply with they watched Buttercup and see what she would do.
"Did they send me daughters, when I asked for sons!" Buttercup answered and looked at her sisters, waiting for them to complete the song. Blossom and Bubbles immediately sang the song, just barely synchronized their lyrics with their sister's own.
"You're the saddest bunch I ever met!" The major continued with his cadence as he quickly jogs on the main street of the military homes.
"But you can bet before we're through!" Buttercup replied again, and so did her sisters who are still struggling with the military cadence's beat and also the song.
"Mister, I'll make a man out of you!" Major Bradshaw finished. The major then increased his jogging marching speed and the Powerpuff Girls are forced to keep up, as their fast jog soon turning into a run.
"Tranquil as a forest!" The man called out once more, expecting the Powerpuff Girls to answer back.
"But on fire within!" The Powerpuff Girls answered. Blossom and Bubbles are now struggling to try and coordinate the running march and also the call-and-response marching song.
"Once you find your center!" The major called as he turns around the corner of the housing units and out into the airfield.
"You are sure to win!" Buttercup called back promptly, but the other two girls lags behind a little. Buttercup looks back at them,and the other two Powerpuff Girls knew that this is seriously difficult. As they ran on the tarmac, Buttercup coukd see her sisters looking at her with much hatred as she is barely even sweating or even panting.
"You're a spineless, pale pathetic lot!"The air force major calles out once more as he decided to increase his speed further and including hops in the marching routine.
"And you haven't got a clue!" Buttercup is keeping her pace and hops along with the major, but Bubbles is struggling to keep her speed as consistent as Buttercup's own speed and she almost overstep and take a lead.
"Somehow I'll make a man,out of you!" Major Bradshaw sang out loud, shile the Powerpuff Girls called out in a hurrah as they run along the hangar area.
I'm never gonna catch my breath, Bubbles said to herself as she realized that despite her basic athleticism for the dance and also cheerleading club, she is struggling to coordinate her speed, balance, breathing and timing with this ridiculously fast run.
Was I a fool for cutting gym, Blossom said to herself as she struggled to keep up. As she watched both Bubbles and Buttercup being in a better state than herself,she utterly hated her sisters for being active members of their club activities. Among the three girls,she is now suffering the most from her shortened breath and straining legs. She cursed to herself as she realized that without superpowers, she is essentially a weak bookworm.
"BE A MAN!" The brush-haired major called out once more as they run in front of the hangars.
"We must be swift as a coursing river!" Buttercup called out, waitinh for her sisters to follow suit.
"We must be...switft...as..a cours-ing river." Buttercup immediately realized that her sisters are now struggling to even keep up with the cadence.
"BE A MAN!" Guile called once more, and he too is realizing that his marching group's response is now weaker.
"With all the force of a great typhoon!" Buttercup answered confidently and with strength.
"With all-th...force of a ...great...tai...fun..." Buttercup noticed that one of her sisters did not answer in sync with her. As she turned around to see who it is, Buttercup is not surprised that Blossom would be the first to crack.
"BE A MAN!" The air force major called, amd as he looked back he realized that one of the girls is now short on breath.
"With all the strength of a raging fire!" Buttercup answered once more.
"With...w-with stren-g...ht...of..." Both Blossom and Bubbles are already out of breath and their answer is but a dying gasp of air.
"Mysterious as the dark side of the moon!" Guile and Buttercup called out at the same time, and the sound of two falling teenagers are just a soft whimpering cadence.
"Time is racing toward us!" The air force major answered as he slowed down and lines himself at the same row as Buttercup. He gestured to Buttercup to see if her sisters could take any more of the run, and Buttercup shakes her head.
" 'til the Huns arrive!" Buttercup called out and she looked back at her sisters, and realized that they are now literally running and dragging themselves, their voice more like just a cacophonous breathing sound. Blossom and Bubbles are essentially trying to just focus on not collapsing on the tarmac. Major Bradshaw decided to slow down his run and gestured to Buttercup to also slow down in order for them to take care of her sisters.
"Heed my every order!" Guile called out loud while looking at Buttercup and the other girls.
"And you might survive!" Buttercup answered,and the two girls are looking at the major and their raven-haired sister with pained expressions as the air from their lungs are being squeezed out of them.
"You're unsuited for the rage of war!" The Major called out as he looked at the two girls, and Blossom and Bubbles are looking at him with rather pale, oxygen-deprived faces.
"So pack up, go home you're through!" Buttercup called, and immediately both teenage women fell down on the ground,causing the major and the lime green-eyed Powerpuff Girl to slow down and turn around while having a slow jog towards the fallen Powerpuff Girls. As Blossom and Bubbles looked up,both the brush-haired major and the lime green-eyed girl are now looking at them while jogging on the same spot.
"How could I make a man, out of you?" Both Guile and Buttercup called out at once, both of them shaking their heads.
[An hour later, Patterson Military Air Base Grounds]
"Alright Blaze, since your sisters are still suffering from the aftermath of the run, we will be spending more time with your particular training." Major Bradshaw said as he prepared four basketballs on the ground.
The training is being held on the empty tarmac, and the two individuals that are still standing are now looking at each other. Buttercup and Major Bradshaw are as fit as a fiddle, not even fazed by their run around the the other hand, Blossom and Bubbles are now literally leaning on the hangar walls looking more dead than alive. The fatigue from the running is still coursing through their body despite their superpowers returning. In fact, Blossom and Bubbles are now feeling more dreadful precisely because the effects of their fatigue is amplified by their own superhuman senses. However they had enough energy to watch what Buttercup is about to do with the major with the most unusual haircut.
"Right." Buttercup answered.
"Remember your circular breathing exercise?" The air force major asked.
"Can't forget it even if I wanted to, and it is second nature now. So what do you have for me, Guile?" Buttercup smirked.
"I will show the four forms of Jetstream only once." Before Major Bradshaw could even start, his arm is grabbed by the raven-haired Powerpuff Girl with the green highlights in her hair.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Guile, you seriously expect me to copy exactly what you are about to do?" Buttercup asked with eyes reflecting her insecurities. However,the man gently holds her arm and stoically answered her.
"You only got the basics and you combined it with your own innate powers, but you never got the gist of 'Jetstream'. With this, you will have the complete art. Of course, your will have a much more drastic increase of power due to your superpowers." The air force major explained.
"But-"
"I would need you to step back a little." The major gently cuts into Buttercup's protest and asked Buttercup to let go of her grip of his arm. Buttercup was surprised that she allowed herself to comply and gave him some room for him to demonstrate his moves. As he breathes in and out, Buttercup takes a few more steps back just in case, and all she could do is watch.
"Bubbles, is it me or the hangar is much more windier than before?" Blossom asked her pigtailed sister.
"It's not you...and I think the winds are rather hot and dry." Bubbles answered back.
True to the zircon-eyed Powerpuff Girl's observation, Blossom realized that the air blowing towards the air force major is hot and dry like those of a desert wind. As Buttercup watches, the dust and pebbles from the ground starts to lift themselves up from the ground and rotate around the man's arms like handcuffs around Major Bradshaw's wrist. Buttercup noticed that the moisture in the air is rapidly dissapearing as the wind flow became stronger and slowly enveloping his entire arm.
"Bomber." Major Bradshaw muttered, loud enough for Buttercup to hear it.
Suddenly his wrists and arm lights up and are enveloped in burning conflagaration of swirling whitish blue flames. The Powerpuff Girls were taken by surprise, especially Blossom. The column of fiery vortex compressed itself around the man's fist, forming itself like boxing gloves. The swirling winds and flames are visible, but to Buttercup's surprise the flames and the wins are not touching his he threw a blueish white energy crescent with his arm, and the entire energy crescent is engulfed with the swirling flames and travelled the entirety of the runway before exploding with a large realized that the energy crescent left a fiery burning mark on the ground. The focus of the swirling flames soon dissipates from his arms, only to reappear on his ankles. The major picks up one of the basketball and throws it up in the air before he throws his body backward up into the air, making a shearing movement with the lower limbs to get one leg in front of the other in order to strike the airborne ballrearwards above head level, without resting on the ground. The ball was shredded by the swirling flaming winds, and the fragments were ignited into blueish white flames. The Powerpuff Girls looked at the man in disbelief as he touched down with both his legs.
"What the...how did you?" Buttercup asked, but realized that he would not answer her. It was then that she noticed the air around them is slowly turning cooler and moist, and the heat slowly dissipating. She noticed that her skin is slowly forming droplets of water and the the area around her started to drizzle. The flaming vortex enveloping Major Bradshaw's slowly fizzles and vapor soon started to form around the vortices surrounding the man's wrists and ankles before turning into swirling stormy liquid.
"Blaze, shoot me with your eye beams."
"Are you crazy? You could die!" Buttercup warned him.
"Just do it." Seeing that he is not backing off, Buttercup heeded the man's instruction and shoots out a lime-green beam bolt from her eyes. The man swings his both his arms, creating a spinning stationary energy projectile. He then throws an energy projectile into the stationary spinning projectile and the two projectiles merged into a cross shaped spinning projectile that launches with exponential speed towards the beam bolt, neutralizing the beam as it made contact. The man then picks up one of the basktballs and tosses it towards Buttercup. Buttercup grabs the ball with her hands, and looked at her mentor.
"Throw it at me as hard as you can." Buttercup grabs the ball, and she shift her weight by turning her right foot, followed by her waist. As she rotated her waist,she directed all the energy towards her right arm and threw the ball. The ball launched with such speed that Blossom and Bubbles heard a sonic boom. However the ball was deflected upwards towards the sky by a new stationary rotating spinning projectile just inches from his own body like a shield before dissipating. As the pieces of the basktball falls down to the ground, Buttercup noticed that it is now essentially raining a the particular section where they are training, leaving Blossom and Bubbles dry.
"That's Interceptor."
Suddenly the surface of the wet floor immediately started to frost over, and the rain soon turned to hail as it falls down on the ground. The spinning vortices around the major's limbs are now spinning in greater rotations than before, and the major throws a projectile upwards to the falling ball in the sky, slicing it cleanly in half. As the two pierces of the ball touches the ground, Buttercup noticed that the surface of the basketball is filled with frost.
"Striker. Now to complete the lesson. Interdictor." Suddenly the man disappeared from sight, and a gust of wind blew outward. Buttercup and her sisters were caught offguard by a human moving in such speeds, and suddenly she felt an arm gently grabbing her neck. Buttercup broke into cold sweat and as she turned around, she noticed the stoic man's back is filled with a swirling vortex of some kind and as it fades away, he let go of her throat.
"Damn...that's some kickass moves you got there." Buttercup said as she touches her throat. Her forehead is still dripping with cold sweat as she wipes it away from her head.
"With these four forms, you would had taken that idiot down in seconds without the help of your blonde boyfriend."
"W-wha-?"Buttercup stuttered as she turned around to see Major Bradshaw face to face.
"Sure looks like it to me, though he is kinda too feminine for you somehow. I was expecting someone tougher Blaze." The brush-haired man combs his hair with a comb produced from his pockets.
"HE'S NOT MY BOYFRIEND!" Buttercup cried out as she pushed her mentor away, her faced red with embarrassment. Her sisters could not help but to burst out in laughter.
"Anyway, I expect you to show me these forms within a week. Welcome to Guile's Jetstream Boot Camp, Blaze." The sun rises in the horizon and creeps up on the airbase, and the man turns around towards the other two girls. As Blossom and Buttercup looked up, the stoic brush-haired blonde man helped them up before putting his palms on the two Powerpuff Girls' shoulders. Blossom and Bubbles watched the major with very uncomfortable smiles as he gives his own crooked smile.
"As for you two, we are not done yet. Let's march." Major Bradshaw said with a devilish tone,the long-haired girl and the pigtailed girl looked at him with horrified expressions.
