Episode 31: Highway Fortune Telling
In Townsville Park, the four PowerPuffs are relaxing the sunshine, and many citizens of Townsville are doing the same. Today, Berry is enjoy a present the professor has given to her just yesterday, a fortune teller deck of cards. She decides to read the girls' fortune.
Bubbles happily asks, "Really?! I'll be famous!"
"According to the cards, it saids that you will be famous in the world someday," Berry says.
"I wonder what I'll be famous for?" Bubbles wonders.
"But we're already famous for being super heroes," Buttercup bluntly replarks.
"True, but she could be famous for something else. I don't fully believe in fortune telling, but I like to think of it as positive thinking," Blossom replies.
"Yeah. Fortune telling is a bunch of quack," Buttercup says.
Berry giggles, "Come on Buttercup, fortune telling can be fun."
"Maybe you can do Buttercup's fortune," Blossom says.
"Sure," Berry answers.
Berry shuffles the card, and take out three card. Then she flip them over to see what they are. There is a joker card, a 4 of spade, and a the 10 of hearts.
Berry looks at the card, "Hmm, according to your fortune, you're going to end up doing something careless that will end up getting you into trouble, but you end up getting lucky with it."
"Lame," Buttercup says, rolling her eyes with an annoyed look.
"Come on Buttercup, fortune telling is fun," Bubbles says.
"And there are other ways to tell fortune and predict things," Berry says.
"Like what?" Buttercup questions.
"Well, in Japan, kids uses their shoes to predict the weather," Blossom answers.
"How does that work?" Buttercup asks.
"If the shoe lands right side up after tossing it then it will be a sunny day. If it's upside down, then it will be a gloomy weather," Berry explains.
Buttercup thinks, "Hmm, you don't say?"
Buttercup then lets her shoe off her feet a little that makes the girls look confused.
"What are you doing?" Bubbles asks.
"Trying to see if this silly fortune telling is true or not," Buttercup answers.
"How is using the shoe is going to prove whether or not fortune telling is real?" Blossom sternly asks.
"Beside, fortune telling is suppose to be fun," Berry adds.
But Buttercup is not listening to the others. She throws her foot in the air sending her shoe flying in the air, but it ends up going far from here.
"Well Buttercup, it looks like you end up doing something without thinking. You end up losing your shoe," Blossom bluntly replies.
"Yeah. But this proves that Berry's fortune about me getting in trouble is a bunch of baloney," Buttercup remarks with a grin.
Suddenly, someone poofs right behind Buttercup wearing black boots. Berry, Blossom, and Bubbles, yelp and flinch in fear.
Confused, Buttercup asks, "What's wrong?"
"Uh Buttercup… behind you," Bubbles nervously answers.
Buttercup becomes more confused, and turns around to see what Bubbles is talking about. Buttercup becomes stunned to see who is behind her… Him. He's holding Buttercup's shoe in his claw and firmly glaring at the four sisters.
"Oops," Buttercup replies with a sheepish smile.
"This is yours I believe," Him replies, and drops Buttercup's shoe on the ground.
The he simply disappears in a flash, leaving the confused and yet scared girls at the same place.
"Well, that was… A little weird… And a little unexpected," Blossom says.
Berry sighs in relief, "I'm just glad he didn't do anything to us."
After their little incident at the park, the girls are at home having dinner with the professor. There, they kind of explain to him what happened at the park.
"Sounds like you almost got yourself in trouble, Buttercup," the Professor says.
"I didn't get in that much trouble. I can take on Him with on hand tied behind my back," Buttercup says.
"Buttercup. You almost got us all in trouble," Blossom scolds.
"How am I supposed to know that my shoe ends up hitting Him on the head or something?!" Buttercup complains.
"Well Buttercup, Berry did predict that you will do something careless, and got yourself into trouble, but you ended up getting lucky. You careless throw your shoe and it ended up hitting Him on the head. But he didn't do anything to get even with you," Bubbles explains.
"You have to admit, that is a little strange. I'm surprised Him didn't do anything to us, so maybe he decided to let us off with a warning or something," Berry replies.
"I don't buy it. For all we know, Him could be planning something at any moment right now," Buttercup denies.
The Professor suggests, "How about we just ignore what happen and just enou the rest of the evening?"
"Okay," The girls answer.
The girls and the professor continue to have their dinner.
Sometime later, Berry is practicing fortune telling with her deck of cards. Of course, Berry make sure she has finish her homework for school tomorrow. Just then, Buttercup walks into her room. She floats to Berry's head with a scared look on her face.
"Hi Buttercup, how are you doing?" Berry asks.
"Fine. I guess," Buttercup replies.
Noticing the skeptic look on Buttercup's face, Berry asks, "Is there something wrong?"
"Okay. I'm going to give it to you straight, I need you to give me my fortune," Buttercup answers.
"Why?" Berry asks.
"Because well, you maybe be kind of right about what was going to happen today, and uh, I need to know what happen so I'll be prepared," Buttercup explains.
Confused, Berry asks, "You're not worry that Him might try to use his powers on you?"
"Maybe a little… But that's not the point. Can you please tell me what my fortune is?" Buttercup says, with a little begging.
"Okay?" Berry replies.
Berry puts her card together, and begins to shuffle. She then puts a few cards down on her bed.
Seeing the cards, Berry says, "Hmm. According to the cards, you will have some kind of misfortune. However, the problem won't be as bad as you think. All I know is that you're in for a little trouble tomorrow."
"Urh! Well that stink. I'm going to be in for it tomorrow," Buttercup whines.
"But Buttercup… For all you know, Him might not be involved at all," Berry worriedly says.
"Well, I'm not going to take any chances. Not if I have anything to say about it," Buttercup replies in a serious tone.
The next day, Blossom, bubbles, and Buttercup are at Pokey Oaks Kindergarten playground for recess. The girls are now playing a game of dodgeball with their classmates. As usual Buttercup and her team are ahead of the game by knocking out half of the other team.
"Aw yeah! I rule!" Buttercup shouts in excitement and confidence.
"Come on Buttercup, let's win this game," Blossom says.
"Don't worry, I'm the best dodgeball player at this school. Watch this," Buttercup says with confidence.
She the throws the rubber ball fast and hard. The ball misses Elmer. It bounces at the jungle gym. It bounces at the fence. It bounces off the wall of the school. Even the wooden wall. And then the unexpected thing happen, the ball is heading right towards Buttercup's face. And…
Wham!
Buttercup slowly opens her eyes to see Ms. Keane, and her sisters look over her.
Butter groans, and asks, "Wha… what happen?"
"You got a very hard hit on the head by one of your fast balls," Blossom answers.
"Yeah. And you have a nasty bump on your head," Bubbles adds.
"What?" Buttercup questions as she manages to sit up.
She rubs her head to find a bandage has been wrapped around her head.
Ms. Keane says, "Your bump doesn't hurt that bad. It will be fine in a few days. But I think you should stay inside for a little while."
"Yes. Ms. Keane," Buttercup groans with a tired look on her face.
For the rest of recess, Buttercup has to stay inside the classroom with Ms. Keane while the rest of the class play outside. Buttercup sighs, and is feeling very simply sits on the table, doing nothing.
She looks to see awesome crafting stuff on one of the tables. With a sigh, Buttercup stis at the table with the crafting supplies, and begin to do something with it. She grabs a green piece of paper and scissors, and begin to cut it.
She then grabs a tube of glue, but it ends up getting stuck on her hand.
"Huh?" Buttercup replies, looking confused.
Buttercup tries to shake it off, but it won't come off. She tries to pull it off, and manages to do it. However, the glue bottle stuck on her other hand. Buttercup puts her feet on it, and begin to pull her arm away from the bottle of glow. She is able to pull the bottle, off, but now it's on her feet.
Buttercup shakes her legs as she shouts, "What's going on?! Get it off! Get it off! Get it off!"
Buttercup swings the glue bottle off of her feet.
Buttercup turns her head around, and says, "There."
Then it bounces on the wall. Then smacks Buttercup on the back of her head, causing her to fall to the ground.
Buttercup lifts her head with a groan, and says, "This is not my day."
After school, the girls are able to reach their house. Blossom and Bubbles look to see Buttercup has her hair covered in leaves and twigs. She has scratches on her arms and face.
Blossom looks at Buttercup, "I guess you had a bad idea."
"Not another word," Buttercup bluntly glares at her sisters.
Buttercup then flies upstairs with anger in her eyes.
Bubbles asks, "What's up with her?"
"I have no idea," Blossom answers.
Blossom and Buttercup convince Buttercup to take a bath sothey can help clean off the mess she is in. At first, Buttercup continuously answer 'no', 'forget it,' or anything that involves refusing to take a bath. Suddenly, Buttercup ends up getting herself sprayed with a soda can she has bring into her room. That is enough to convince her to take a bath, despite how much she hates it.
Later in the evening, Berry has arrived home with a bag full of groceries.
As she walks in the kitchen, Berry says, "Sorry I'm late girls, but I had to stay after school to work on a project with my classmates, and the line was very long at the grocery store. The professor will be getting home late today, so I'll start making dinner."
"Okay," Bubble's cheers from the living room.
Blossom flies into the kitchen, "Can I help with dinner Berry?"
"Sure," Berry answers with a nod.
Then she asks, "Where's Buttercup?"
"She locked herself in our room. Buttercup, kind of had a bad day today. She mention something about fortune telling, and about what happened yesterday?" Blossom answers.
"Yesterday?" Berry questions, washing the vegetables.
Then Berry realizes, "Oh geez, I think Buttercup because a little paranoid after what happen yesterday."
"What do you mean?" Blossom asks.
"Buttercup came to my room yesterday, and asked to give her a fortune for today. She was a little worried on how her day is going to go. I told her that she will end up with a bad day because that what my cards say," Berry explains.
Blossom chuckles, and remarks, "So much for not believing in fortune telling."
"I guess so. Still, Buttercup have been worried about what happen. I'll see if I can talk to her during dinner," Berry says.
"Sounds good to me," Blossom agrees.
Blossom and Berry begin to start preparations for dinner.
Sometime later, Berry and her sisters are having dinner at the table. Berry, Blossom, and Bubbles are having their dinner, and it taste great. The only one who is not eating is Buttercup. With the day she has, she doesn't feel hungry at all.
Berry look to Buttercup, and asks, "Buttercup, are you feeling alright?"
"Yeah. Yeah. I'm fine," Buttercup mutters.
"Well, Blossom told me that you had a bad day today, and you said part of it is because of the fortune I told you," Berry replies.
Buttercup sighs, "Yes. I did had a bad day like what your cards said. And I think Him had something to do with it too."
"Somehow I doubt it," Blossom bluntly replies.
Berry sighs, and explains, "Buttercup, I think you just got a little carried away with my fortune telling. Fortune telling is kind of like predicting the future. There is no guaranteed the fortunes are going to come true, but you never know. The point is, you should worry because one of my fortunes said you were going to get in trouble. Just don't' think too hard on it. I think you just had a bad day."
"Just don't let it bother her, and just enjoy the rest of the day and forget about these fortune tellings, okay," Berry adds with a calm smile.
"Okay," Buttercup answers.
"Now that is all settle, let's finish dinner," Bubbles happily says.
"Yeah. I'm starving," Buttercup says, feeling cheered up.
The four sisters continue to have their dinner, and it taste good. After having dinner, Blossom and Berry does the dishes while, Buttercup and Bubbles do a little cleaning in the living room. After the cleaning, the four sisters are doing their homework on in the living room.
"This homework is too hard!" Bubbles complains.
"Do you need some help?" Berry asks.
Bubbles nods her head, "Thank you."
Berry sits next to Bubbles and help her with her assignment.
Suddenly, they hear the doorbell ringing.
"I wonder who that could be?" Berry wonders.
Berry walks over to the door, and opens it to see who is here. Berry looks outside to see that no one is around. She looks down to see a boxed package wrapped in green wrapping paper with white polka dots, and tied with a black ribbon with a bow on top.
Berry picks up the package, and brings it in the house.
The young triplets look to see Berry walking in the living room with a package in her hand.
"What's that?" Bubbles asks.
"I don't know. I just found it on the doorstep," Berry answers.
Berry then notices the label on the ribbon. She reads the label that says 'To Buttercup.'
Berry says, "It seems to be addressed to Buttercup."
"For me?" Buttercup questions.
Berry then puts the package down in front of Buttercup.
"I wonder what it is?" Buttercup questions.
She takes off the ribbon, and then rips off the wrapping paper. But as Buttercup then begins to open the box… the lid suddenly burst open, and cream pie spatters on Buttercup's face. Then the rest of the pie has fallen off of the face, leaving Buttercup covered in cream.
"What was that?" The girls ask looking confused.
Berry then noticed a piece of paper on the ground.
Berry look at the paper, and reads, "Jokes on you Buttercup. Fom Him."
"Well Buttercup, it looks like Him got back at you," Blossom says.
"Yeah. And it had to be pie," Buttercup says.
She then begins to whip the creamy custard off of her face. Then takes a taste of it.
She then sticks her tongue going, "Blech! Coconut!"
Berry picks up Buttercup, and says, "Come on Buttercup, let's give you a bath."
"Do I have to?" Buttercup whines.
"Yes you do," Berry answers.
Buttercup lets out a huff and has her arms crossed. But Buttercup does learn a lesson from all this, never get carried away with fortune telling.