Chapter 53: Splintermind
[The Ghetto, Downtown Townsville, 9.30pm]
Him survey the city of Townsville from the rooftops of one of the rundown buildings in the Ghetto facing the more affluent part of Townsville. Him is confident that they will be able to bulldoze all resistance before them. Him had never used an army to take over Townsville, and he is surprised by how effective it is to bring down a city with an army backed with science and magic.
"Milord di preparations inna place wi cya start fi wi invasion at any moment."
An unnaturally tall-and lanky red-skinned man of African descent with several pairs of arms kneels down before Him. Ananse is Him's chief intelligence officer, and his web of information and misinformation is one of the three reasons why they were able to grow exponentially, the other two reasons being Fennec's charismatic command of both the Lunatics and her Candy production facilities, and the combined military might of Tigress, Murciélago and Medved. Now with the eldritch powers of Abracadaver on their side, there is nothing that will be able to stop them save for the Powerpuff Girls and perhaps Rowdyruff Boys.
"Good. Have you disposed of the Hornet?" Him asked.
"It ave been dun Milord, him taken care of." Ananse answered.
"What about the thing we had procured from the fort Ananse?"
"Fennec say dat it now operational an wi be waiting fi yuh ordas to activate it. Production of Candy now spiking up." Ananse reported, his eyes gazing down on the ground.
"Good, it was wise to let the Powerpuff Girls and Rowdyruff Boys be trapped in the dreamworld after all. Link me to everyone." Him commanded, and the many-limbed lieutenant produced a tablet for Him to communicate with the head of the Lunatics. The screen soon showed the braided brunette with a scar on her cheeks facing Him, and behind her is the sight of a large unidentifiable object. The screen soon splits apart and the other Lunatic lieutenants are now showing up one by one on the screen. The burly gray-haired Russian is now looking at the screen, his background showing a tanker ship unloading its cargo of armored vehicles and crates on an unidentified pier.
"Him, your timing is always bad." A slurred and damaged raspy female voice commented as her screen goes live. The screen shows a blonde Asian woman with a towel wrapped around her scar-filled body with a severely damaged upper jaw that caused her left cheek to be sunken and a drooping eyelid. Her rotten decaying upper gums is visible and all but a few teeth have melted away with the few remaining having been mutilated and deformed. The Asian crime lady takes a denture-like object with a partial jaw and slowly inserted it into her mouth, and a popping sound is heard causing her sunken face to assume a normal face with normal teeth once more.
"Sorry dear. I didn't know."
"Now you know." The Asian crime lady's voice is now back to her deep and commanding feminine voice.
The last screen to come online is that of the Hispanic crime lord, and it seems that he was in a midst of something dreadful, judging by the copious amount of blood on its clothes and bat-like mask. Several figures can be seen in the background, and what appear to be a man strapped to a chair is gagged and is now screaming through the gag. Murcielargo exits the room and closes the door before responding to the rest of the Lunatic command.
"Yes?" Murcielargo answered. Him decided to ignore the Hispanic gangster's unsavory activity and asked for Fennec's status report.
"How is the production of the Candy? Is it sufficient to power up the 'thing'?"
"Production is up by three hundred per cent, and we have more than enough to power up the 'thing'. Your plan works." Fennec informed, but Him can sense her unease and discomfort. Him knew precisely the source of Fennec's concerns.
"We had made a deal about it." Him's assurances calmed down the Frenchwoman a little, but only barely. Her silence is all Him needs to know that Fennec will enact its will. Him knew that Fennec's motivation are linked to those of the well-being of the Rowdyruff Boy's survival, and as long as Him did not kill them or made them lose their lives, she will remain loyal.
Indeed, all of Him's top lieutenants had something that Him held with an iron grip as part of their deals. Ananse for example is deeply indebted to his 'friends from the other side' and Him decided to buy over his debts from his debtors. Medved is on his death bed as he is in Stage Four cancer when Him arrived to offer him a warrior's death if he can find it himself. Murciélago desire to avenge his family from a police bust gone wrong is sufficient enough to turn the Hispanic over, while Tigress' abuse by sex traffickers called Him to give her the salvation she needs.
"How's Abracadaver doing? I would assume that his walk in the park is eventful?" Him inquired.
"He's...a monster." Fennec answered, seeing that it is the only way she can described the lich.
"Abracadaver is the distraction what we need in order for us to move with the other elements of the plan. Inform everyone to proceed to the second phase of Operation Pantheon." Him said coldly, knowing well that the undead magician is a maelstrom of vengeance made manifest.
"Noted." Fennec's feed is cut, and Him moved on towards Medved.
"For everyone else, is everything ready on your side?"
"Da, all good and quiet on Western front. All MJ-05s mounted on every pick-up truck we can find. New batch of weapons now docking in, This latest shipment distribute to our forces in Townsville. All other forces in United States armed already." Medved reported as the loading crew behind him are hard at work.
"Los Noches ready to strike across the nation along with all the other gangs that we had submitted under our control. Mara Salvatrucha , Bario Dieciocho, Latin Kings, you name it, they will move out."
"My forces are ready to infiltrate behind enemy lines and cause further distraction and sabotage." Tigress reported as she slowly braid her hair.
"Good, good. Operation Pantheon will now proceed to its second phase. Please see to it that it is implemented." Him informed its lieutenants. All the lieutenants nodded or acknowledged Him's command before turning off their screens. Him passed the tablet back to the many-limbed Lunatic, and one of his arms took the tablet from Him's pincers. Him crossed its arm before giving out its command to the Lunatic before Him.
"Keep me abreast of all developments."
"Yes Milord." The tall, lanky grotesque man acknowledges the command before being swallowed up by a reddish-pink cloud.
Him turned its attention towards the city once more, and a smile crept up on the crimson demon's face. As Him hops a little from the roof before levitating in mid-air, it decided that it will also be joining in the dream world of the Rowdyruff Boys and play around while awaiting the response from all its lieutenants. The demon crossed its leg in a lotus position and closed its eyes and rests its pincers on its knees before closing its eyes. Him entered into trance-like meditative state, excited by what it will experience within the dream world.
It's good to use my powers, Boomer thought as he hopped over the buildings and into the night skies of Aleppo.
After his stupid brother is knocked out by his sudden berserking impulses, Boomer had been assigned the duty of scouting behind enemy lines and is now returning to camp. It is something of Boomer's forte, as his hypersenses are leagues above his brothers and the same can be said about his mobility. Last but not least, he has an invaluable ability that even his brothers are not aware of; thermo-optic camouflage. The ability to become invisible by bending light using electromagnetic powers is something he found thanks to their French commander, and since then Boomer had been assigned with countless intelligence missions. There is nothing like moving his body naturally without any restrictions, and his brothers are nowhere around him to reprimand him for it. Alas, he was reminded that he was not allowed to use his superpowers to kill, but instead to immobilize or impend enemy forces by the CIA and also Renee herself. Or else. Still, Boomer will admit that it would be easier to just kill the men than to let them survive. Figuratively of course, but he can always do it literally if he had to.
Huh, what's that?
Boomer noticed a figure on the rooftop of the building that they had made their base in, and upon closer observation he saw the redheaded girl known as Blair lurching over the edges of the roof puking. He decided to land a little closer to the young teenager. As Boomer decelerated, he touched down upon the roof of the building with the grace of a cat. The teenage girl turned around, surprised by his appearance. Boomer sensed the uneasiness of the situation as he looked at the slender red-headed girl. There is a bit of what Boomer called a 'darkness' surrounding her and it appeared that she had just saw something shocking.
Looks like she just saw death, Boomer posits. Boomer remembered his first time seeing death and it is not a pleasant experience, and he is a guy at that. But Boomer tend to be a little more simple-minded than his brothers, and maybe his conclusion is a little hasty. Boomer decided that he will ask her instead.
"Boomer?" The rose-eyed teenager said his name, and Boomer is forced to look around to see if anyone else is on the roof. No one is supposed to know the true name of Porthos the superhuman. Seeing that there is not a soul in sight, Boomer breathes out once more, and he can see the teenager's slender body trembling and the paleness of her already fair skin marred her rather pleasing features.
"What's up? You looked like you just saw a dead person." Boomer saw the red-haired girl jerked at his words before turning around and puking once more, and Boomer sensed that he is right on the mark. Before he can asked her what happened, Blair pointed towards a ledge and Boomer took a few steps towards the opposite ledge and looked down to see a man with a smashed head and broken limbs lying still on the ground. Boomer wondered what happened before the copper-haired woman answered the thoughts in his mind.
"Renee pushed him down. A few men...they said he killed a family in cold blood...and Renee...she said he had to take responsibility." The slender woman's words are weak, and there is a lingering shock in her voice.
"Ah...he did that huh?" Boomer said softly, and that seemed to cause a reaction of disbelief from the red-haired teenager. Boomer looked at her, and he is now aware that his expression is a little more muted than it was supposed to be. What may be common sense for a person may be madness for another.
The copper-haired woman before Boomer appeared to be shocked and Boomer knew that the teenager came from another world. A convenient world, where morality are black and white. As the rose-colored eyes looked at him, he became particularly annoyed at her. Something about her pissed him off more than he should. It occurred to him that the reason he became annoyed at her is because of the way she looked at him. It is not the eyes of someone who was shocked of a death before her, but instead eyes that are looking at him as if he is a monster that had taken the form of a human. Then something else flashed in her eyes, and Boomer soon understood the reason for the change in the young woman's expression.
The deafening sound of a shell exploding boomed in his ear, and the earth shook beneath her. Another whistling sound soon pierced his ears and caused Boomer a great amount of discomfort. Several sharp whistling sounds resonated in the air and the percussive chorus of loud booming explosions rumbled deeply throughout Boomer's body. Boomer can feel the aftershock of the vibrations all the way to the bone and the sand-blonde teenager knew that they will have to get out from the roof. Boomer grabbed Blossom's arm and pulled her with him.
"COVER NOW!" Boomer barked.
Blossom's body immediately reacted and her body moved with Boomer. As they entered into the stairwell, Blossom covered her head as the dust from the ceiling rained down upon her, forcing her to close her eyes and coloring her reddish-brown hair with a coating of grey dust and dirt. Blossom opened her eyes and the uneasiness within her pulsing heart and she struggled to take a breath of air.
"Move! Move! Move!" A gruff man's call to arms is heard as several militiamen are scrambling to action. Blossom struggled to move around as the deafening percussion of explosions and the crescendo of mobilizing men reached a feverish pitch. The staccato of small arms fire joined the cacophony as the militiamen retaliated against the enemy.
"Evacuate the civilians and the injured, now!" The frantic sound of militiamen evacuating the civilians wounded is accompanied by the sound of panicking people and crying children.
"Hold them back! Hold them back at all cost!"
The disorienting chaos of stimuli bombarding Blossom's senses is overwhelming and the teenage girl's weakened state soon gave in as her fatigue got the better of her. Blossom's blurry vision is not helping her balance, and she soon leans on a wall for support. Blossom had no idea where they are, and her depowered body is much more fragile than she thought it would be. As her panting becomes louder, the surrounding sounds are now nothing more than background noises that her senses are now ignoring.
I really need to get my act together,Blossom try with all her might to recompose herself. However,something else distracted her from getting her act together.
"MISSILE!"
BOOOOMMMM!
An explosion soon engulf the area and the wall of flame is engulfing the hallway like an encroaching wave. Blossom watched as the burning inferno slowly engulfed everything in its path,catching several individuals in its path and immolating the unfortunate souks. Their skin melted under the immense heat and their body fat further fueled the flame, charring the flesh underneath. The ground below the flame rippled from the shockwave and started to crack open to reveal even more flames trying to rush through the gaps of the broken floor. The fragments from the explosion are now flying in the air, ricocheting as it made contact with the solid surfaces lining the hallway.
Crap, Blossom's reactions finally met up with her brain. A shattering sound rang through Blossom's ears. Blossom covered her face with her forearms as the fragments gashed her arms and the wall of flame is just a mere inches away from her.
"GET DOWN!" A sudden pull made Blossom fall face down on the ground and as the flames burned past above her, the hellish screams of dying people joined the cacophony of sounds in the maelstrom of battle.
Blossom is stunned by the theater of war as it overwhelmed all her senses. Never once in her life is she exposed to mortality, and being human is terrifying. Injuries that she would have shrugged off usually are now fatal in every way for Blossom in her current state. The fear coursing through her body is latching her down on the ground like burdensome chains, making her a prisoner of her sense of mortality. The monotonous and continuous ringing sound resonating in her ear is compounded by her sense of vertigo as she was pulled up. She saw a man severely burned with oozing fat and melting skin picking up his blown arm casually,and as her eyes pulled away from the sight, another sight of a mass of bodies molten together writhing in pain made Blossom froze.
"Come on, we need to go underground now!" Boomer cried out.
It is not in Blossom's nature to act according to her instincts but the situation calls for her to make the quickest decision she can make. Blossom let her inertia move her body as her mind numbed itself to the horrors of war. Each detail on this macabre tapestry is finely etched on the fabrics of this dream, each colors of war bright and vivid in its most artistic interpretations. The smells of charred flesh and burnt gunpower intruded into Blossom's nose like the most pungent and piercing spices, and as the world around her burned to hell her eyes had stopped processing the sights around her and decided to just let it flow inside her mind.
This is the madness of war, Blossom's mind woke her up from her stupor, and she finds herself staring at a pair of blue eyes looking back at her.
"Blair!" Boomer called her before his head was hit by a bullet. Blossom wanted to scream, but there is nothing in her that allowed her to respond. It was then that Boomer got up again and rubbing his head. Boomer's annoyance soon showed itself in his glowing cobalt sapphire eyes before he turned towards the direction where the bullet came from and fired a bolt of blue beam. A chorus of screams are heard and Boomer clicked his tongue.
"Damn it! I missed!"
Blossom turned towards the direction where the sand-blonde Rowdyruff Boy just fired his bolt and she saw several men running away from them, back from the hole in the wall they just came from. A ominous green flashes from the hole in the wall, and even more screams are heard. Blossom is unable to comprehend the significance of the green glow until a lone dark figure appear from the hole in the wall. The darkened figure is a charred mess, and the walking mess soon make its way towards Blossom and Boomer, causing Boomer to shield Blossom behind him.
"God damn it...woke up to find this happening...man my head hurts." Butch voiced out his displeasure in a hoarse voice as he rubbed his head. Blossom reached towards Butch, but Butch turned around and walked away as more strands of muscle regenerated.
"They're gonna pay for this." Butch's cold anger is barely contained in his voice. As Butch turned around, Blossom's eyes widen once more;she had found what she is looking for. Butch's face started to crack and fall down like pieces of a shattered glass. From the broken piece of Butch's face, another face is revealed; a tortured and sullen, and the sunken jadeite eye from the hole spotted Blossom in Boomer's care.
"BUTCH!" Blossom cried out.
Butch is feeling all the pain in the world as the atmosphere around him appeared to contort wrongly. If there is a way to describe the wrongness of the scene, it will be like looking at a straw in a cup of water. It feels like he is a frame off from the world around him. Butch realized that this is not supposed to happen, and as he moved his hand away from his face, Blossom immediately darted towards Butch. The pulsing of his headache became stronger as he tried to figure out what is going on with him. He sensed that something is very, very wrong as he looked around him. His world is flashing between normal colors and shades of green with every pulsing of his aching head. Another flash happened and in the flashes of green, he saw a view of a hospital ward and him being in a containment tank of some kind. The two conflicting views of the world flashes with every pulsating pain in his head, and the reality-rending experience caused him to grit his teeth.
Lub-Dub.
In both his views, he saw people rushing towards him as he experienced his pain. In the normal world view, he saw the red-haired girl holding him as he knelt down on one knee, while on the other green-tinted world two mysterious figures are now in his view. The two figure consist of a square-jawed man with a labcoat and the other figure is a short-haired woman with glasses and in a female office attire. Butch had seen those two figures somewhere before, but he is unable to remember where he had seen them.
Lub-Dub.
"Something's wrong with Butch, I need to stabilize him immediately! J.E.E.V.E.S , I need you to provide the following doses to his body now!" The square-jawed man shouted out loud.
Lub-Dub!
"Butch, are you alright?" The rose-eyed girl is now asking him as her eyes are filled with tears. Butch moved his hand away from his head and Blossom's face immediately turned pale. Suddenly the teenage girl rushed towards him and he started screaming out loud from the sudden increase in the pain in his head.
Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub!
"What's happening to Butch...what's happening to my boy?!" The woman with glasses is now asking the labcoated man. The pixie-haired woman is now teary-eyed as she looked at the labcoated man.
Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub!
"Butch,Butch! Someone help!" The pink-eyed girl started calling out for aid. Her eyes are now filled with fear as she hold him close to her body. Boomer is now frantically looking around, his blue eyes filled with fear.
Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub!
"He is experiencing a temporal lobe epilepsy due to his hallucinatory dream episode! J.E.E.V.E.S, I need you to hold him down!" The labcoated man yelled and several robotic arms from the ceiling descended upon Butch.
Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub!Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub!
"GET AWAY FROM ME!" Butch screamed out as he tried to push back the mechanical arms. However in his blinking view,he saw that he pushed the redhaired girl hard enough that she slammed her to the wall.
Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub!Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub!
"Blair,Boomer there you ar- BUTCH!" Butch saw his red-haired brother looking at him and noticed his crimson eyes are now wide open in fear.
Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub!Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub!
"Whoa!" The labcoated man just barely avoided Butch's fist and a mechanical arm clamped on Butch's wrist. Butch felt a sensation of something being inserted into his mouth by the labcoated man. The man covered his mouth as another mechanical arm latched on to Butch's other arm.
Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub!Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub! Lub-Dub!
"Boomer, tend to Blair! I'll take care of Butch here!" Brick commanded his sand-blonde brother before lunging towards Butch. Butch watched with great confusion as his brother made contact with his body. Butch watched in horror as more and more mechanical arms are now holding on his limbs and body, while his brother is wrestling him down on the ground.
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Butch can sense that in the green-tinted world, his body is quickly weakening and soon another mechanical with a sryinge appear,poised to insert the pointed part into his body.
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"She's unconsscious, but so far nothing's broken!" Boomer cried out loud. Butch can see more men coming up towards his brothers and they attempted to hold Butch back with the assistance of hia redhaired brother.
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"Jab the cocktail into his body, now!"The lab-coated man cries out and with a decisive plunge,the syringe plunged itself into Butch's neck.
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"He's too damn- Whoa!" One of the men was launched up in the air for a moment as Butch swing him upwards in the air. Thanks to Brick's quick reaction in grabbing the man,the man was not blown upwards towards the sky and was tossed aside as to not bother with Brick. The others are essentially holding on for dear life on Butch's legs and arms.
"You give me no choice Butch!" Brick clenched his fist and slammed it to the temple of the raven-haired Rowdyruff Boy.
Lub-Dub.
Butch's vision for both worlds immediately started to blur out and soon all he can see is black as both the syringe's contents and his brother's punch take effect.
Blossom regained consciousness once more and she was greeted by the sight of a heavily injured Butch mounted by a red-haired child and several other men. Blossom is bewildered by the scene unfolding before wanting of a better description as Blossom looked around and noticed that her surroundings is slowing down to a halt. As she slowly rise up and made her way towards Butch, her eyes picked up on the detail that the gaping hole from Butch's face before is now a small crack on Butch's face, the crack glowing malicious luminescent nephrite light. Blossom reached out to touch the crack and to her surprise, she found that it is solid. Several fine hair-like fractures soon appear where Blossom pressed with her fingers.
Something's is definitely wrong.
The fracturing reality in front of Blossom is slowly spreading like a glass cracking from the pressure applied to the surface of the glass. Blossom is unable to find a reason for the surreal situation happening before her eyes. The fates decided to not give Blossom enough time to reason and the cracks pieced themselves back together.
"Whoa, I didn't see you there!" Brick voiced his surprise at the sudden appearance of the Powerpuff Girl.
"How'd you-?" Boomer is surprised that somehow the red-haired girl had somehow disappeared from his embrace and is now in front of Brick and Butch.
"It's okay...I'm fine I guess." Blossom replied while rubbing her ribs. It seemed that time had moved once more.
Blossom bruised her ribs from being hit by the struggling Rowdyruff Boy, but the pain is nothing compared to her realization that she had found the Rowdyruff Boy that was trapped in this dream. Butch, the ticking time bomb of this world, a dream is just as unstable and deranged as its owner. The world around her has turned a little more sinister and a sickeningly green tint had descended upon the world.
Crack!
Several more points in reality are now cracking once more and based upon her observation, Blossom had pieced together events that would be key for their escape from this living hell.
I understand now, Blossom thought. The world fractures whenever Butch is experiencing a stressful event. The green tint and the way in which the dream is fixated on this harrowing period in his life, all are telltale signs of Butch's trauma One way or another, Butch is reliving this memory again and Him is doing this to Butch for no apparent reason other than to make Butch suffer.
"Let's get out of here quick while there's a lull in the assault!" One of the militiamen pointed out.
"Alright let's- Blair? Blair!" Brick called out to her as Blossom's vision slowly become blurry. As her world started to tilt over, a thought flashed into her mind. A thought that Blossom finds that she will need to say before she lost any sense of consciousness, before her body gave out on her.
This is messed up, and I need to break Butch free from this tormenting dream.
And Blossom's world turned black.
[Utonium Residence, Suburban Townsville.]
Butch is finally subdued and it took fourty-eight mechanical arm and an unique formula meant to put Butch into a comatose stage to stop his epileptic condition. Twenty of those mechanical arms were broken in the struggle and it was only due to a dose of Antidote X pill that Professor Utonium manages to subdue the Rowdyrff Boy.
"Darn...was not expecting that reaction in the containment unit." Professor Utonium knew the risk of opening up the containment chamber that inhibit Butch's superpowers, but he clearly did not expect Butch to lapse into a temporal-lobe seizure in the containment unit. The situation stabilized only through some improvised actions and also the potent cocktail of drugs to prevent the situation from escalating.
"What...what happens now?" Lilith asked the professor.
"I'll have to put Butch into a chemically-induced coma. The state of 'wakeful dreaming' as I would call these hallucinations proved to be too much for his brain to cope."
Professor Utonium is now checking on Butch's pulse, Butch's pulse appears to be feeling thready and soft, barely perceptible to the sensation on Professor Utonium's fingertips. The extreme exhaustion of the Rowdyruff Boy is obvious to Professor Utonium, and the square-jawed man can empathize with the young man. When Butch's neuronal activity spiked to an unprecedented level and his heart rate raced to a near feverish pitch, Professor Utonium was forced to enter in to provide the necessary precaution to stabilize the Rowdyruff Boy. The struggle was unprecedented, for Butch appeared to be trying to get out from something, and the neuronal action caused Butch to bleed from his nose, eyes and ears. If Professor Utonium did not do what he did, Butch's brain might enter into a hypertensile brain hemorrhage and Butch will be a goner.
Professor Utonium had also noticed a rather peculiar and disturbing pattern in the neuronal readings of the Rowdyruff Boys and the Powerpuff Girls; the neuronal activity in Blossom's brain is the highest when this incident happened, followed by Brick and Boomer's. The coincidental link between the minds of these few individuals are disturbing, implying that the dreams are linked to a certain degree. Leaving J.E.E.V.E.S and Lilith to tend to the unconscious Rowdyruff Boy, Professor Utonium exited the room and opened up a holographic white board.
"What on earth is going on in their little heads..." Professor Utonium voice his thoughts out loud as he drew on the holographic platform, determined to find out the events happening in all their dreams.
