Chapter 37

Buttercup's POV

'Where am I?' I thought to myself as I am surrounded by black vortex.

"This sure feels like I am in space," I comment as I slowly walk around each black vortex since I don't want to fall down.

'I wonder where are the others?' I continue to think to myself as I walk alone, trying to find my friends, 'They shouldn't be too far away… I found them.'

In no time, I found everyone as they all are gather around talking about something.

"Hey, guys." I waved for them to see me which, they all looks at me with a sigh of relief.

"Hmmm? I think we are missing one person." Blossom comments as she continues to count.

"Wait… where is Boomer?" Bubble question as she looks around.

"I guess Boomer must have been able to dodge the trap that MoJo has set up with Principal HIM." Blaine answers.

"Well, that solve one question, so how are we going to get out of here?" Bandit asked and we all remain silent.

"I think we should all explore around the place first," Brick suggest which made everyone hesitate since black vortexes do not look friendly. Eventually, everyone starts looking around since they don't have much of a choice.

"But really, where do all of these black vortexes leads to?" I question which my partner is no other than… Butch.

"Maybe we should jump in to find out." Butch answers while seems to be drawn into the black vortex.

"Are you crazy!" I comment and Butch just gave me a smirk.

"Well, we never know if we don't try. Anyway, I still have this feeling that I need to jump into a black vortex or something." Butch said and continue to walk toward the vortex that drawn him.

"What are you even saying? How do you feel like you need to go into a vortex?" I continue to ask but Butch didn't answer until Butch stops at one vortex and jump into it. I quickly try to grab hold of Butch but he was faster.

"BUTCH YOU IDIOT!" I scream into the black vortex, later on, I called everyone to come and try to figure out a way to get Butch back before going home.

'Butch just has to cause more trouble.' I groan and I can tell that everyone is thinking the same as me.

Butch's POV

'… Is this really Earth? But something is different… I don't remember coming to this kind of place before.' I look up to see the black vortex is still above me, 'I guess it won't disappear anytime soon. Maybe exploring around wouldn't hurt.'

I wonder around seeing many different objects that look really familiar but at the same time weird.

"That tree… hmm…" I walk closer toward the tree to see that I used to play here before I was kidnap to school.

'I am outside school!' I start to have a sense of freedom and couldn't believe it. My heart starts to race faster as the excitement starts to overcome my body.

"I'm outside!" I start jumping around, I stop myself because I saw a little girl looking at me.

"Weirdo." The child comment as she looks at my odd behavior.

For some reason, that child looks oddly familiar, she is holding a football. She has green eyes and black hair, she looks like she's ten years old. Her hair is very short and could have been mistaken for a boy, but due to her voice, I can figure out that she is a girl.

"What's your name? Let's play football together!" I smiled brightly.

The girl's green eyes look down onto the ground.

"This is not mine, and I can't play football." The girl didn't look at me as she just holds the football.

"Then I will teach you and make you enjoy football even more!" I said proudly and take the ball, "Now let's start with the basic first then."

I toss her the ball and we both starts to kick the ball around. As we continue to play for a while the girl starts to significantly improve. I felt really proud but there was something familiar about this place and her as well. I just couldn't pinpoint it. I wonder what is it…

Buttercup's POV

"ARRGGG!" I scream as I fall down to my knee.

"What's wrong Buttercup?" Blossom quickly asked in concern as she is the closest.

"My head… it-it HURTS!" I start grabbing my head tightly as the pain starts to increase.

"Did you hit your head on something?" Blaine questions.

"No! It's just I am seeing something. It is like I am remembering something… something about playing football for the first time." I groan as the pain and the memory starts to become very clear.

In no time, I start seeing myself playing with some guy who looks around eight years older than me while playing with my seven years old me. The image starts to become clearer as I start to see who the guy is. Black hair, dark forest green eyes, and… BUTCH?

Butch's POV

"Hey! You cheated!" The little girl complains.

"No, I didn't, I just happen to be better than you," I said while sticking out my tongue at her.

The only response she does is stomp her feet and turn her back on me.

"Aw… is the little girl mad?" I said in a childish tone which she is even more irritated since she only let out an 'hmp'

Then I decide to have a little bit fun. I slowly walk toward her and the grab her little waist. Then I lift her up and letting her sit on my shoulder.

"What!" She sounds really surprised as she didn't expect that I would do something like this.

"Let's FLY!" I shout and I start running around the field while carrying the little girl.

The girl starts to giggle and spread her arms out as she continues to enjoy the breeze that is blowing her black hair.

"YAY!" The girl screams out in joy as I start spinning around a little bit, then later sprint faster, until I found myself in a familiar building.

I stood frozen for a minute as I saw a little boy running back home, and then slam the door of the familiar building.

Buttercup's POV

"I think I know where is Butch!" I look up at the same time, I still couldn't believe that Butch was the one who made me play football from the start.

"What?" Brick looks at me strangely.

"I have a memory of Butch who used to play football with me when I was seven. And Butch is like nine years older than me which he is around fifteen." I spoke up and for some reason, Bunny starts to understand my theory.

"So Butch just happens to travel back in time around eight years ago in this black vortex. And he met you, so currently he is just playing the role as part of your memory. So he should be able to come sooner or later." Bunny continues to explain which it may sound weird but everyone was quiet for a moment.

"So… Butch is having playing football while we were so worried about him?" Bell asked and Buttercup nodded.

"THAT IS SO NO FAIR!" Bandit shouts out a little bit frustrated.

"I am so going to strangle him for scaring us like that," Brick said as dark aura starts to surround him.

'Tears…?' I touch my face, as I can feel sometimes wet dripping down my face, 'Why would I be crying?'

"Buttercup?" Bubble notice and looks at me in concern, which grabs everyone's attention.

"Why are you crying?" Bell questions politely.

"Butch is crying…" I look up to see everyone is surprised at my words.

Butch's POV

'I do not cry. I do not cry!' I continue screaming the same thought in my head, 'I know that woman and I know that boy. I miss my old life…'

I couldn't help but a drop of tears to flow out of my eyes.

"Are you all right?" The little girl asked me in concern.

"Yeah, I'm fine, kid." I wipe my tears and turn back, then I let her down.

"No! You're not! It's that boy fault!" The girl said in a very annoyed tone.

She then stomps away from me and suddenly my memory starts to trigger. I closed my eyes and remember being challenged by a girl. The same girl that I just played with, I can see it clearly that I won her in the end, and I remember that I thought she would cry but she didn't. She looks at me and said… I quickly open my eyes to see that a girl and a boy have almost finished the game.

I look at the two as my memory starts to unfold the events more clearly.

"THE NEXT TIME WE MEET I WILL WIN!" The girl screams into the boy's face and starts running toward me.

"Sorry that I didn't win…" The girl said a little bit disappointed.

"It's all right." I said while patting her head, "At least I can see that you have improved."

"So… are you going to leave now?" The girl questions.

"Yep! Well, kiddo! You will see me in the future anyway so don't worry, so you don't have to miss me. Also, I think you will win that boy in ping pong." I got up and quickly run back toward where the black vortex remains.

Buttercup's POV

'I am so stupid. My idol is Butch…' I am having a mixed feeling of anger and happy at the same time for some reason but I couldn't pinpoint it.

"HELLO!"

I look down the black vortex to hear Butch's faith sound.

"BUTCH?" I shout back and everyone starts forming a plan to get Butch out.

"I NEED HELP!" Butch shout back which it was really obvious to everyone.

Everyone starts to form a human ladder by grabbing onto each other's legs, Bandit grabs onto my legs tightly and we all starts to slowly move down, as each person slowly grabs onto another one's leg.

"A little more!" I shout as I am closer to seeing Butch's black hair, "Butch! JUMP!"

Butch looks up and I can clearly see his dark green eyes, and I can tell that he smirks at me. Butch took a step back and then jump really high which is very surprising. I stretch my arms and then I finally was able to grab hold onto Butch's hands.

"I hope you have some fun with me Buttercup," Butch said and my eyes wide.

"You knew that it was me, but… why didn't you just called my name?" I question.

"I don't want to 'disrupt' the time period," Butch said while looking at me straight in the eye.

"Thank…" I whisper a little.

"What was that?" Butch pretend to sound very surprise.

"Idiot!" I sound at Butch which Butch just pouts at me.

"Hmp." Butch mimic my old habits.

"That is so childish," I said and stick my tongue out at him.

"Tell that to yourself." Butch then laugh and we were able to finally pulled him out.

"Thanks to Butch, we waste some time but we also know where do all these black vortexes would lead to," Brick said.

"And since these black vortex will be the key to bringing us home," Blossom said.

"Wait… Are we going to check all the black vortex?" Bunny sounds surprised.

"We don't have a choice." Blaine shrugs.

"Then are we going to keep on doing the human ladder to slowly check out each black vortex?" Bell asked.

"Yes." Brick nodded and everyone groan.

"Let's quickly start," Blossom suggest and we all starts forming a ladder.

Boomer's POV

"From what MoJo may have talked about, all of the students should be set to where time and space are distort." Blaze said and I just looks at him confuse.

Currently, I am behind the school with my seniors as for some reason they have come back to help me finding my friends.

"Blaze, I think you should talk using human language." Blade comments and everyone chuckles.

"If only Berserk is here, she would be able to translate for us what Blaze is talking about." Brat sighs.

"I am not bringing my woman and my soon to be born baby into this weird school." Blaze said cautiously.

"You are overprotective as always." Bear couldn't help but smiles.

"I will explain again in your human language." Blaze just sighs, "Those nine people, somewhere in space, with many black holes."

"Oh! Why didn't you just say that!" Blaster said as he finally gets it.

"So… How are we going to find those people in space." Brute asked.

"Simple, we just have to wait until one of the holes open up somewhere in the school. Luckily, I just happen to invent a black hole finding the machine. So let's go." Blaze got up and take out his device.

"Do you really have that many free time?" Blake questions.

"Remember? I used to work for NASA." Blaze said which Blake immediately nodded in understanding, "Come on, let's head toward this way."

Everyone follows Blaze lead quietly since Principal HIM and MoJo still doesn't know that they are back here.