Powerpuff Girls and Boy
Chapter 12
Boogie Frights
Narrator: The city of Townsville. And like most cities, Townsville prepares its young for bed as evening approaches.In the windows of one building, we see parents dressing their children in pajamas, helping them brush their teeth, and tucking them into bed.
Narrator: The same is true in the home of the Powerpuff Girls and Boy.
At the Powerpuffs's house, inside the kids room, the kids are dressed for bed, but not quite ready for sleep. Blossom is sitting up in bed, Buttercup is jumping on it in anger, Bubbles is surveying a pile of stuffed animals worriedly, and Bolt is looking around the room.
Bolt: Has anyone seen Poke?
Blossom: I think the professor put her in the toy box.
Bolt walks to the toy box as Buttercup starts talking.
Buttercup: Man, I'm not ready for bed yet!
Blossom: Now, you know we need to get plenty of sleep. It's our responsibility as superheroines to be well-rested so that we'll be at peak crime-fighting performance whenever evil rears its ugly head.
As she continues, a large lump moves into view and makes its way up Bubbles' section of the bed, in the center. Bolt is still looking though the toy box, still looking for Bolt.
Blossom: And, like Ben Franklin always said "Early to bed, early to wake, makes a lady smart, pretty, and great."
A pile of stuffed animals appear out from the covers as Bubbles remains under the covers, only her arms in view.
Buttercup: Yeah, yeah, but all the fun stuff happens at night. Parties, dancing, nightclubs and stuff.
Buttercup then snapped her… fingers?
Buttercup: Guys, it'll be awesome once we're old enough to go out after dark. Right, Bubbles, Bolt?
Bubbles: Uh…no.
Bubbles was a little scared as Bolt popped his head out.
Bolt: What's a nightclub?
Buttercup: It's like a big party and Bubbles, what do you mean, "no"?
Bubbles: I don't know.
Buttercup: You're not afraid of the dark, are you?
Bubbles: No.
Bolt then crawls out of the toy box and flys over.
Bolt: Hey! Don't make fun of her because she's scared of the dark!
Buttercup: A baby is scared of the dark.
Bolt: I'm scared of roaches and you don't make fun of me.
Buttercup: That's because you're horribly traumatized. Bubbles here is a baby and scared of the dark.
Buttercup then looks back at Bubbles.
Buttercup: You ain't scared of monsters under the bed, are you?
Blossom looks nervously over the edge of the bed. Bubbles cries out and pulls the covers back up as she starts shaking.
Bubbles: No.
Buttercup: Well, then. I guess you wouldn't be afraid of the Boogie Man, either.
Blossom/Bubbles/Bolt: Who?
Buttercup leans over Bubbles menacingly as she speaks, her sister becomes increasingly fearful.
Buttercup: Boogie Man! The creepiest, scariest, nastiest, long-finger-and-pointy-teeth-havingest, little-kid-gettingest monster in the WORLD! But don't worry. He only comes out…
She turns off the light and leans forward again. Now, we see her only as a silhouette, with the pointy parts of her hair curling up like horns and her eyes shining in the darkness. She cuts a fearsome little figure.
Buttercup: …after dark!
Bubbles screams. The Professor bursts into the room, silhouetted in the light from the hall upon hearing Bubbles scream.
Professor: Wha—?!
Now Bubbles and Blossom both scream.
Professor: Whoa!
Blossom, Bubbles: IT'S THE BOOGIE MAN!!
Bolt: No, it's just the professor.
Bolt turns on the light.
Professor: What? Boogie Man? What's going on here?!
Back to the bed. Bubbles is crying hysterically, Blossom wears a look of righteous anger, Bolt just rolls his eyes, and Buttercup adopts the sort of caught-in-the-act expression that only a small child can get right, knowing she's in trouble for frightening her sisters, especially Bubbles.
Professor: Buttercup are you teasing your sisters again?!
Blossom: Yes.
He sits down next to Bubbles and puts an arm around her as she stops crying
Professor: Okay, Bubbles, calm down. Everything's all right now.
Blossom: Professor, I was trying to sleep, but Bubbles was afraid of the dark, Bolt was trying to find Poke
Bolt pokes his head out of the stuffed toys, now holding Poke.
Bolt: Found her!
Blossom: And Buttercup was telling scary stories, and then—
Professor: Yes, Blossom, I know. Buttercup likes to be an instigator.
Bubbles/Bolt: A what?
Blossom: That means she was trying to get your goat.
Bubbles: No!
Bolt blinked twice.
Bolt: I still don't get it.
Buttercup: Well, it's not my fault she's a baby scared of the dark.
Bubbles: I'm sorry. I wish I were brave.
Professor: Now, kids, being scared doesn't make you a baby. I was scared when I heard my kids screaming. But did I hide under the covers?
Blossom: No. You ran in to check on us very brave-like.
Professor: Thank you, Blossom. You see, bravery doesn't mean you're not scared.Bravery is doing what you're afraid to do.
He patting her head
Professor If you can just face your fears, then I know you can find the courage to beat 'em.
Bubbles sniffles and smiles, and he tucks Buttercup and Bolt into bed next to her.
Professor: Now, then, everyone, into bed. It's time for sleeping.
He kisses Blossom , Bubbles, and Bolt, Bolt on the forehead, and they close their eyes, but pauses over Buttercup.
Professor: And no more monkey business!
He kisses her and she closes her eyes. Now he walks off and the lights snap off.
Bubbles: But-
Professor: Don't worry, Bubbles, the hall light will take care of any Boogie Men that might show up.
Bubbles: But, but-
Bolt: Hey it's ok Bubbles. We all have our fears of something, we just have to find a way to get through to them even if we're shaking in our shoes.
Bubbles sighs contentedly and settles down, but she grabs onto Bolt as she goes to sleep as the light from the hall narrows to a shaft that falls across her. Bolt chuckles before snuggling into Bubbles also holding Poke.
Narrator: Ahh, that's better.
Buttercup swipes an alligator from Bubbles' pile and snuggles with it without her noticing the theft.
Bolt rolled over as he closed his eyes, snuggled up to Poke.
Bolt: Hehe, Boogie man, smoogie man.
Narrator:Now that things have quieted down—
There was a thump at the foot of the bed.starts
Narrator: —we can all get some… Say, do you hear something?Some kind of crazy beat?Under the bed
Only darkness became the sound of tools being used and saw part of a large spherical structure come into view.
Narrator: Who could still be awake at this time of night?
At ground level, a figure is bent over behind the structure. It wears white platform shoes with spikes on the soles, making them look like a pair of beasts' heads. When it speaks, it sounds a little like Barry White.
Boogie Man: …just slip in the last piece, and… Jerome.
Pan over to a door. A short creature with two stubby horns, wearing sunglasses and a leisure suit, stands next to it. Now we see the shadow of the speaker—very tall and imposing, with two long horns growing to the sides. The short one, Jerome, snaps a salute after hearing his name spoken.
Boogie Man: Let's get this party started.
Creatures and monstrosities of all sorts are sitting at the bar, arm-wrestling, drinking, and joking as disco music plays in the background. Stop at the other end of the lounge, with a door at the back wall. Jerome walks into view and stands in front of this to address the crowd. The music stops for him.
Jerome: Listen up, all you freaks and disasters, and chill the frag out! 'Cause here comes the master! So give it up for the beast with the plan! The one, the only, B-B-B-Boogie Man!
From the shadows, the figure in the white platform shoes emerges. The Boogie Man is a huge, muscular humanoid creature with lumpy blue flesh. He wears shades with flames painted on them, and a black muscle shirt and tights.
Boogie Man: Creatures of darkness…DIG IT! Too long have we been at the mercy of light. Night lights, streetlights, hall lights with the door cracked. And deeper still…the sun. I know, I know. But I, your Boogie Man, have just completed Step One of my grand master plan that will ensure an end to this problem once and for all. So prepare to hit the streets—'cause we are gonna party ALL NIGHT LONG!
The crowd cheers wildly as he reaches for his shades, now raised to show his eyes.
Boogie Man: So tell me. When things get creepy…
Crowd: Blame it on the boogie!
Boogie Man: When things get spooky…
Crowd: Blame it on the boogie!
Boogie Man: And when things get freaky, funky, and nasty…
He encourages the crowd and soaks up the fame from his fellow night creatures, grinning proudly.
Crowd: BLAME IT ON THE BOOGIE!
Boogie then had a serious face on and threw up a hand to get everyone quiet.
Boogie: Now let's get serious here. I'm the most feared monster around and the most known one, but I feel that someone doesn't believe in me.
The crowd gasps and starts murmuring as Boogie settles them down.
Boogie: I know, I know, a travesty. Me of all monsters, the Boogie Man, but we do know who he is.
A curtain then blows down on stage as he pulls on a rope revealing… Jon Mendez!
Boogie looked this over and screamed.
Boogie: OH Sorry, wrong one. I have another type of beef with that one.
He pulls that picture down and reveals Bolt. Everyone gasped seeing the Powerpuff Boy on the wall.
Boogie: Yes, Townsville's very own Powerpuff Boy! Doesn't believe in the true monstrosity I am.
Everyone started booing Bolt, someone even tossed a tomato at the picture.
Bolt: But tonight, I have a plan to fix that and show him true fear.
He started cackling with the others before turning to Jerome.
Boogie: Get Scissors on the horn.
Jerome reaches into his jacket and pulls out a cell phone. He dials a number and hands off to the Boogie Man, who puts it to his ear. We hear the phone ringing on the other end. Dissolve to a building with a sign in front of it: "Townsville Power Plant." A phone is heard ringing.
Narrator: Uh-oh! What's he got cooking at the Townsville Power Plant?
Inside, a vulture-like beast stands by a thick cable labeled "Main Power." It has a serrated beak and wears a dark shirt and cap. A phone is in its hand. This is Scissors, Boogie Man's agent assigned to carry out the next step of his master plan.
Scissors: Yeah, Boss?
Boogie Man: Proceed with Step Two.
Scissors looks down at the main power cable, opens wide, and bites down on the cable, snapping it in two. Cut to the exterior of the plant and pan across town as the Narrator speaks. Lights flicker out everywhere thanks to Scissors' sabotage of the power plant.
Narrator: Oh, my gosh! They've cut off all power to Townsville! That means no more streetlights, no more hall lights with the door cracked, and definitely no more nightlights!
Stop in the room of a sleeping boy, a night light glowing by his bed. It goes out thanks to the power being cut by Scissors; a moment later, a section of his blanket rises from the floor and a monster's eyes peek out.
Monster #1: (laughing softly) Heh, heh, heh! The coast is clear. Come on!
A host of creatures emerges from under the bed. They walk right as the boy screams, having been awoken upon hearing the first monster speak. The last one to leave, appearing some moments after the others, is an oversized sweat sock. In another house, a father holds his crying baby in one hand while fumbling sleepily for the refrigerator door handle with the other. He opens the door, revealing a large monster stuffed inside and staring back out at him. He screams in fear, but the child smiles.
While a girl sleeps, her bed is lifted out of view on the head of a huge beast rising from the floor. A crash is heard; pull back to show the monster now protruding through the roof, the bed still on top of him, and laughing. On a street corner, a woman has a dog on a leash. Her eyes go wide, and she looks left to see a small monster with a huge dog-like beast on a leash. A car is parked next to it, and the dog lifts its leg to relieve itself. Back to the woman and her dog; both start in surprise.
A boy sleeps in a race-car bed. Next, to him, a mummy's head pokes out from under the covers, which are thrown off after a moment to reveal a steering wheel. The kid screams and the mummy laughs at him and guns the engine. The bed roars off down the street through a monster party in full swing. A low-riding stretch limousine rolls up; the passenger door opens and out steps the Boogie Man. He now wears a white leisure suit with a pink shirt, along with non-spiked platform shoes, and carries a cane. The crowd greets and cheers him as he makes his way to the scene. He stops by a giant slug wearing a broad-brimmed pimp hat with a huge feather. This is Slug.
Slug: Fashionably late again, I see! So fashionable you missed the party!
It looks up at the sky as the sun starts to come up beyond the buildings. So much for their little night rave.
Slug: Baby, the sun's already rising! We're gonna have to blow this joint!
One monster sits in front of it, holding a drink; another one stands behind it, with a storage tank in its hand for a cocktail shaker—a bartender.
Bartender: LAST CALL!
Jerome: Let's wrap it up, people. The sun's coming up!
Boogie Man: Oh, now, hold up. Did you-all forget about my grand master plan? The sun will no longer be an issue once I initiate the 3rd and final step.
Slug: Is Step 3 really all that?
Boogie Man: Shee! It ain't no step for a stepper.
At the head of his cane, shaped like a skull. He flips it open to expose a red button, which he presses. Sparks fly from it; cut to the Starlight Rollerway, where more sparks crackle from the roof.
Narrator: Uh-oh! What's happening at the old abandoned roller rink?
The roof flips open, and a huge sphere rises into view and flies off.
Narrator: He's launched some kind of missile!
From outer space, we see the projectile rise up from Earth and sail across the cosmos.
Narrator: It's a giant disco ball!
This, then, is what the Boogie Man was constructing earlier. It flies toward the sun as it cuts back to Townsville. The ball positions itself in front of the sun, blocking the light and throwing sparkles everywhere, turning the sky a sinister dark red thanks to the unnatural solar eclipse.
Narrator: And it's eclipsing the sun! Oh, no! Now morning will never come to Townsville...
On a monster-infested street, the Boogie Man and Jerome are at the center of the crowd.
Narrator: ...and these nocturnal nightmares will be free to haunt the darkness forever!
Crowd: BLAME IT ON THE BOOGIE!
Two boys asleep in bunk beds are seized and used as maracas by a fat, green, one-eyed creature in a Carmen Miranda getup as it laughs wildly. A dude with a lot of fluffy hair and wearing a leisure suit jumps onto a girl's bed as another girl finds three spirits dancing next to hers. We see an invisible pimp walking an equally invisible dog down the street. At an automobile dealership, two feet smash down through the roofs of a couple of cars. A freak dressed for Roller Derby as it skates down the street.
At the nuclear power plant, where a monster is drinking the radioactive waste. It belches out a blast of fire. Then at a nearby apartment building as it is torched as the residents scream. A go-go dancer swings her hips back and forth, knocking away buildings on either side of her. At the Mayor's house the Mayor slept at home. His blankets are thrown off by a snake with a great deal of curly red hair, and he screams in terror. Jumping out of bed, he turns and finds himself facing a seedy-looking creature with a small derby hat and a cigarette in a long holder. He screams again. Now he runs down the hall and stops in front of his wife, her hair in curlers and a beauty-mask treatment on her face.
Mayor's wife: what is it?
The Mayor turns toward the camera and screams. We are in the kids' bedroom again, and she too is screaming.
Blossom: I CAN'T GET ANY SLEEP with all that racket out there!
Bolt was screaming in his pillow, sleep deprived.
Bolt: WHY DOESN'T ANYBODY JUST LET ME SLEEP!!! LIKE EVERY SINGLE TIME!!!
Blossom then flew to the window.
Blossom: Something funny's going on downtown.
Buttercup: I'll say! We better check it out!
Blossom: Yeah. It might be troublesome.
Bolt then stops screaming as he raises his head still feeling tired as he groans.
Bolt: Let's just get this over with.
He then takes off with his sisters before coming back seeing Bubbles still under the cover.
Bolt: Come on Bubbles! The faster we get this done the faster we can get back to sleep.
Bubbles: Wait for me!
They both take off, scattering stuffed animals and the cover everywhere.
Cut to Blossom and Buttercup in flight. The first is spoiling for a fight, while the second wears a look of anticipation. Bubbles and Bolt fly into view to join them, covering her mouth nervously and looking pretty heated. They land in front of the crowd of monsters, the disco ball shimmering overhead.
Blossom: Oh, my gosh! Townsville's been turned into a nightmare nightclub!
Buttercup: Right on! Right, Bubbles, Bolt?
Bubbles: Well, it's got a good beat, and I can dance to it.
Bolt: I'm more of kicking their butts so I can get to sleep.
The girls didn't listen as they started dancing.
Buttercup: Hey!
A cat creature with long claws and wearing leopard-skin tights snarls at the two girls. They scream, and Buttercup ends up in Bubbles' arms.
Bubbles: Hey, you got scared!
Cat: Yeah, little girl. I thought you liked to party.
Buttercup jumps out of Bubbles' arms and braces for a scrap.
Buttercup: Let's get down!
She and the cat jump toward each other. She dodges a few swings of the claws and catches it with an uppercut that knocks it away over the buildings. A huge green beast slams its jaws shut around her.
Blossom/Bubbles/Bolt: Buttercup!
They have no time to react, though as two huge bruisers jump into view and pin them to the pavement. These are quickly knocked away, and Buttercup smashes her way out through the green beast's teeth. Now all four go to work on the partygoers, but the tide soon turns against them and they find themselves on the receiving end of the beatdown, severely outnumbered by all the nightmare creatures that were attending the Boogie Man's rave.
Narrator: Oh, no! The kids are getting swamped!
One by one, they break free and land in the middle of the crowd.
Blossom: There's too many of them.
Bubbles: We can't take them all.
Buttercup: We need a plan, leader girl.
Bolt: This is starting to get on my nerves.
Electricity started to flow around Bolt before the crowd parted for the Boogie Man.
Boogie Man: Well, well, well. It's the Powerpuff Girls and Boy crashing my party.
He clenches his fist, it and the arm attached shaking with rage, deeply upset at the Girls trying to ruin his moment of glory for him and his fellow night creatures.
Boogie Man: Especially you!
He points at Bolt as he looks at him confused.
Bolt: Huh, me? What did I do?
The Boogie Man slithers an arm around him.
Boogie Man: You're the only kid that didn't believe me, the only person that wasn't afraid of me.
Bolt pushes his arm off him and glares.
Bolt: There is a lot of stuff that scares me, you on the other hand don't.
Buttercup then gave him low five as the Boogie Man glared with absolute fury.
Bolt: Now can you please leave so we can all get some sleep because I will very much like it.
The Boogie Man chuckled at his responses as the kids narrowed their eyes.
Boogie Man: Aww, I'm sorry, did I wake you? (Hee, hee! Don't expect to sleep anytime soon, because now that I've blocked out the accursed sun, We're gonna make this night last forever.
Blossom: Block out the sun? That's it. Come on, guys. We've gotta take out that disco ball!
Before they could leave the Boogie Man activated something from his can as the skull started emitting a mist and Bolt got caught in it.
Bolt: What is this stuff?
He started coughing as everything turned black for him. He looked around not seeing anyone around as Boogie Man's voice came in.
Boogie Man: It's time to live your greatest fears.
Bolt turns around seeing the girls back in front of him with their backs facing him.
Bolt: Girls! We gotta get out of here!
Blossom: Oh Bolt!
The girls turned around seeing that roaches were coming out of their eyes.
Bubbles: You can never leave.
Bolt's eyes widened as the roaches crawled over to him as he backed away.
Bolt: Nononononononononononono!
Bolt Then backed away in something before slowly turning around seeing a giant roach. He backs away from it, his fear rising as tries to think.
Bolt: (This is not real, this is not real, this is not real!)
Bolt backed into the girls as they started hugging him with roaches pouring out of their eyes. They were all crawling up his back, on his hoodie, and on his face before he was paralyzed in his fear... But then he heard a voice.
Bubbles: Don't give up Bolt!
He then looks over to see the real Bubbles as she gets him out of the roaches. She quickly picks him up as the roaches surround them.
Bubbles: Don't be scared Bolt, just like you said, we all have to face our fears we just have to find a way to face them.
Bolt looked at Bubbles and the roaches that were getting closer to them. Electricity then started to flow around him as he still had fear, but it also flowed out of Bolt and into Bolt who felt a tinge.
Boogie Man: What's going on?
Bolt: GET ME OUT OF HERE!
Bolt's hair and eyes then turned an electric yellow…. but then he didn't notice Bubbles also surging with the same power, but I was blue and more flowy just like water. As her pigtail turned curly and blue as her eyes turned a bubbly blue.
Boogie Man: Where is he going?!
Bolt then flew out of the mist with Bubbles right beside him into the night sky. The Boogie Man and the rest of the girls looked up as they saw yellow and blue streaks.
Boogie: They're going for my Disco Ball!
Enraged at the twos' intent to destroy his disco ball and end the unnatural solar eclipse it is causing, he leaps back into his limousine through the sunroof. The car flips up on its rear end to point straight into the sky, then blasts off. Bolt looks behind him seeing that Boogie was firing lasers at them, which they dodged.
Bolt: We gotta shake 'em!
Bubbles nodded as he had two targets locked on them.
Boogie: Good bye! Power Brats!
He pushed the button as two torpedoes came out from the roof and fired at the two. They both split apart as the two missiles followed. They went flying around before meeting together as Boogie cackled before realizing where they were headed.
Boogie: WAIT, STOP!
The Boogie Man then called in
As they both got closer to the Disco Ball they grabbed on each other and spun around as electricity and water surrounded them both and they went right through the Disco Ball making a giant hole through it as the torpedoes entered and it exploded through the inside out.
Boogie: NOOOOOO!!!
He slammed onto the wheeler before looking up seeing both Bolt and Bubbles in front of him.
Boogie: Kids we can talk about this, right?
Bolt then grabbed the hood of the limo.
Bolt: Let me tell you something. I will never be scared of you and neither will the rest of the people of Townsville because what you're about to be is far worse. A pitiful memory.
They both move out the way as the sunrise hits him as he screams being disintegrated before turning to ash. They both sigh before flying back to the ground as the sun shone down onto Townsville causing the monsters to turn to ash as well. They power down feeling exhausted when they get tackled by Blossom and Buttercup.
Buttercup: You guys were awesome! I didn't think you had it in you.
They both chuckled before Blossom chimes in.
Blossom: But how did Bubbles get the same power as Bolt?
Bolt: That is true, how did Bubbles get my power. And furthermore, mine was all about electricity while hers were about water.
Bubbles: We should tell the professor about this.
They all then yawn out of exhaustion.
Blossom: And some sleep.
Buttercup: I think those two are already ahead of you.
They see that Bolt and Bubbles were leaning on each other, sleeping. They both laugh before taking the two sleepers home.
Narrator: And once again, the day is saved.
The girls' kids appear asleep in bed.
Narrator: Get it? The day is saved? You don't get it. Because it was gonna be a perpetual night! You know, the daylight. They saved the day, literally! Ha, ha, ha!
He laughs loudly and after a moment, Blossom opens her eyes and Buttercup glares at the camera out of one eye.
Blossom: Shh!
Both girls go back to sleep. Through all this, Bubbles and Bolt stay out like a light.
Narrator: Oh, sorry. Thanks to the Powerpuff Girls and Boy. Good night, everybody.
The End!
Speed: Well looks like the Boogie was left in the dust!
Everyone just stared silently at me before I sighed.
Speed: Just let me do the preview. Blossom and Bolt or gonna have a magical time for this one as they pull a extravagant scene in
Abracadaver!
Later Speedsters!