The Powerpuff League
created by CrystalFenix
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Last time, on the Powerpuff League, we witnessed the horrific battle that Bane brought upon our heroes. Blossom, all powered up and strengthened, faced Bane one-on-one again. Planting a sneak attack on Bane, the battle starts. In the meantime, Bane's concentration was removed from the force fields holding up Buttercup and Bubbles. The two Powerpuff Girls managed to escape. They flew directly to Blossom and help her fight. They stepped in right before Bane got the upperhand. Bane then decided to unleash some more of his horrible power. Right then, Blossom figured that their best chance for winning the battle would letting Bubbles and Buttercup leave and go to Professor Utonium where they can use his formula and become much stronger. Blossom continued to fight with Bane but Bane got the upperhand and stabbed Blossom. Brick and the boys finally woke and assaulted Bane with all they had. Blossom was taken back due to her wound. The boys constantly attacked Bane. Even Mojo did as well! But Bane still had the upperhand and he wasn't going to change that. The boys were soon overpowered. But Blossom heals herself just in time! Meanwhile, Bubbles and Buttercup receive their new strength and are returning to help Blossom fight against Bane. What will happen next? Read on to find out!
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Episode Eight: The Darkness Continues
Princess was found in an area completely far away from the rest of the group. She woke up seeing the sun in front of her view. She blocks her eyes and slowly sits up. Princess looks around. The snow was beginning the melt. Princess suddenly noticed that she didn't feel so cold. She pulls out a control from her suit and presses a button. Princess checks her bullets left. There were only a few. Princess falls back onto her back. Her legs were aching in pain and she definitely didn't want to go face Bane again. "Those poo-poo puff girls always get all the fame! It's not fair!" Princess said to herself.
Princess messes with a few more gizmos on her suit while lying down. A computer voice was heard saying, "28 bullets left." Princess begins to think outloud. "Why am I always the one who doesn't help out? Why can't I ever do anything? Is it true what Blossom said that I cannot be a Powerpuff Girl?" Princess closes her eyes slowly. She begins to cry a bit. "I want to do something for this world!" Princess said while crying. She rubs away her tears and looks back up at the sun but not directly. She sighs and looks over to the side. She pushes herself to sit up and then stand up. Her legs are still feeling weak. "I'm just gonna fly," Princess said. She moved her controls around a bit and her suit brought her up floating.
As Princess flew up higher, she sees Bane and Blossom in a distance. They were waiting for each other to make the first move. Princess hesitates and then flies towards the battle zone.
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Bubbles and Buttercup are flying as fast as they could to return to the battle area. One the way there, they're blasting with their eye beams the skeletons that were left over on the ground. "Buttercup," Bubbles said trying to start a conversation as they traveled.
"What, Bubbles?" Buttercup said in a bit of an annoyed voice.
"Um... do you think we're able to beat Bane?" Bubbles asked.
Buttercup looked at Bubbles while they flew. Buttercup had on a face of uncertainty. "I'm not sure," Buttercup replied, "but I know we're gonna kick his butt around at least!"
Bubbles nodded and continued to fire at the skeletons. "I hope Blossom's okay," Bubbles said under her breath.
"I'm sure she is," Buttercup said hearing Bubbles.
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Blossom was in her guard position and so was Bane. Bane was holding his sword samurai style. Blossom was beginning to sweat from her nervousness. She also sees Bane sweating a bit. Does this mean he's nervous of losing? Blossom wasn't quite sure. Suddenly, without warning, Bane swings his sword at Blossom. A large beam of dark light crashed through the sky. Blossom flew out of the way barely. Blossom fired her eye beams at Bane who dodged them quickly. Blossom then flew in closer at Bane. Bane attempts to stab Blossom, but Blossom moves to the side and dodges. Bane throws a swing punch right into Bane's "neck." Bane is stunned for a second but counters with a swing towards Blossom's head. Blossom ducks and the swing goes over her head. Blossom punches Bane in the stomach but Bane kicks her in the face. The two are knocked backwards a bit. They suddenly regain themselves and charge at each other again.
Brick wakes up finding himself lying in the snow. He sees Boomer and Butch close by. He quickly flies over them and shakes both of them. Boomer and Butch both come to. "Hey, man, what's up?" Boomer asked massaging his bruised arm. Butch looked at Blossom and Bane fighting in the sky. He gives a little "hmph!" and stands up. Brick looks at the fight also. "I don't think we can help out a bit, at least, with this cheesy strength we have," Brick said. Boomer and Butch look at Brick.
"What do you mean?" Boomer asked holding his hand over his mouth.
"Just look at Blossom compared to us. What do you see different?" Brick asked.
"Uh... she's a girl! Duh!" Boomer yells. Butch slaps Boomer behind the head.
"No, doofus, she's much stronger!" Butch scolds Boomer. Boomer rubs the back of his head. Boomer then turns to look at Blossom and Bane fight.
Blossom throws several punches into Bane. Bane is knocked back a bit by the punches but retaliates with several slashes on Blossom. Blossom receives a few cuts, but she continues to attack Bane. Finally, Blossom kicks Bane in the stomach, flies over him, and smashes him down to the ground.
Bane gets up with a raging expression on his face. He looks mad and really mad. He points his sword at Blossom. A black ball of energy appears at its tip. "I'm gonna gather up all the dark energy in this world!" Bane yells. Suddenly, Bane's body grows an incredibly large black aura. The aura begins to move into the sword. Suddenly, the ground began to rumble. The dark hole where the souls are constantly entering the world begins to grow a dark aura also. The aura begins to travel to Bane and then through his sword.
Bubbles and Buttercup, who were still flying to reach Blossom see the skeletons glowing in dark auras. The auras all travel into one direction. "This doesn't look good," Buttercup says. Bubbles nods. They continue flying at top speed. They charged up their energy and zinged into the air leaving behind streaks of light blue and light green.
Blossom watches the energy ball forming in a bit of terror. Blossom can feel the evilness focused in the center of the energy ball that's being made by Bane. Bane still has the furious look on his face. Blossom decides to try anything. She fires an eye beam at Bane's direction. The ball of energy hits the eye beams and sends them into oblivion. Blossom gasps at the power of the energy ball. Bane continues to hold out the energy ball. The darkness entering the energy ball makes it continue to grow and grow.
"Dude, that's really gonna suck!" Brick said looking at the energy ball.
"You said it," Boomer adds.
"That's really powerful stuff he's got there," Butch also comments.
The Rowdyruff Boys watch in a distance the dark energy ball growing. Suddenly, the energy ball's diameter triples in size and is pointed directly at Blossom. The darkness continues to flow into it. "It's all over," the Rowdyruff Boys say at the same time. Mojo steps up next to them. "Not quite," Mojo said. He looked serious.
In a distance, Mike holds onto Tiger while watching Bane charge up the enormous energy ball. Mike sits down and starts to cry a bit. Tiger licks his face to cheers him up. "We're going to lose," Mike said to Tiger. Tiger jumps out of Mike's hold and walks in front a bit. It lets out a small bark.
Princess reaches the battlefield and sees the dark energy ball being formed. "Oh no! That dork's gonna kill us all!" Princess yells. "I'm not gonna let that happen!" Princess flies in closer and points her guns towards Bane. She fires with the remaining bullets. The bullets are instantly removed from sight. "What? What happened?" Princess yells. "That's cheating!" Bane ignores Princess and continues to charge up the energy ball with the darkness coming in from all directions.
Suddenly, the darkness stops entering the ball of energy. "All the darkness in the world is contained for now," Bane said, "but they will soon be released once it hits you, Powerpuff!" Bane lifts the sword up at Blossom. The energy ball is aimed straight at Blossom. "Nobody can live from the intense darkness this holds," Bane explained, "and definitely not you!" Buttercup and Bubbles fly in to see Blossom being aimed at. Bubbles looks down at Bane with the huge dark ball in front of him pointed at Blossom.
"Don't do it!" Bubbles yells.
"Blossom! Get out of the way!" Buttercup yells.
Blossom couldn't respond. She was too frightened. Bane lifts up the energy ball and fires it at an alarming rate.
"Nnnnnnooooooooooooooooo!!!" Blossom yells.
Just as the energy ball was about to hit Blossom, a yellow streak pushes her aside. Blossom is sent soaring into one direction. Bubbles and Buttercup immediately fly down to catch Blossom. Just behind them, a loud explosion was heard. Car alarms went off and the windows shattered. A few buildings began to rock. A dark light filled the area.
Princess, who pushed Blossom away, have taken the hit. She was inside the explosion. Her body felt like it was being torn apart by the intense darkness. Princess screams as the darkness fills her body. She continues to scream for a while as the armor around her disappears leaving her typical yellow Powerpuff dress. Suddenly, Princess smiles. "Powerpuff Girls, you guys can do it," Princess said softly.
As the dark light disappeared, Princess' body was seen flying out of the sky and made a big "plunk" on the ground. Bane's eyes widened as he saw that he missed. "NNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!" Bane yells. Bane yells every single cuss word in the dictionary and not in the dictionary. The Powerpuff Girls quickly fly over to look at Princess' dead body.
"P-P-Princess?" Blossom said. She becomes teary eyed. After holding in a bit, she breaks out in tears. "You saved my life!" Blossom cries.
Bubbles looks at Buttercup with a sad expression. Buttercup looks at Bubbles and then looks towards the floor. Bubbles bends over and places Princess' hands together on her chest. Bubbles then stands up and pats the crying Blossom. Blossom stops crying but begins to sob a bit. Blossom looks at Princess. "You've used to be real nasty, but you've definitely changed," Blossom said. "You've saved my life and I owe it all to you." Blossom takes in a breath. "Princess, I'll take care of Bane for you, no doubt! You have what it takes to be a Powerpuff Girl." With that Blossom wipes away her tears. Bubbles then walks over to Princess with tears in her eyes. "Princess," Bubbles said, "we've fought a lot in school. We even fought outside of school. But we are good friends now. I'll never forget what you did for Blossom." Bubbles lets out a sigh and looks at Buttercup. Buttercup lets out a small tear. Buttercup then walks over to Princess. Buttercup takes in a deep breath and says, "Princess, you were always a tough cookie. However, I didn't know you'd be so tough to sacrifice your own life. I'll always admire you for that." Buttercup hesitates and turns to her sisters. The Powerpuff Girls then turn to face Bane who was smiling evilly.
"What a fool! What a pathetic mortal! Risking her own life!" Bane said laughing. "She has no idea what it means to live!" Bane stops laughing. "I guess now, I'll have to take all three of you on while I wait for the darkness to return," Bane said. He lifted his sword and ready to fight.
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Mojo was right next to his three boys. He takes out a watch from his pocket and looks at it. "It's almost about time," Mojo said out loud.
Brick, Boomer, and Butch all turn to look at Mojo. "About time for what?" they all say in unison.
Mojo turns to face the Rowdyruff Boys. "Boys," Mojo starts, "I have recreated you with Chemical Y, a more enhanced version of Chemical X which the Powerpuff Girls were created with. Being created with Chemical Y, your powers are capable of growing over time. That means, over time, your powers will make you stronger. However, Chemical X doesn't do this. Since Chemical X doesn't do this, the Powerpuff Girls won't grow any stronger. However, the Powerpuff Girls did grow stronger so that must mean that they contain some kind of new Chemical X! I think only the Professor would have made such a thing!"
"But I don't get it," Brick said. "If the girls get their powers instantly, why don't we?"
Mojo holds up his hand to stop Brick from furthur asking. "The Powerpuff Girls were alive for a much longer time than you," Mojo starts again. "And since they received the new enhancement, they would become more powerful instantly. You, however, were just created not too long ago. After a while, your bodies will adapt to the new Chemical Y which will make you more powerful. Once you become more powerful, you can fight the one named Bane, which is a major problem to this planet!"
Brick, Boomer, and Butch all looked surprise. "So you mean we'll become as strong as they are?" Boomer asks. "And how much longer do we have to wait?" Brick asks. "Will we be able to kick butt like they're doing?" Butch asks.
Mojo holds up his hand again to stop furhtur questions. "You will all become stronger in a little while. Let's just hope the Powerpuff Girls can stall for so long," Mojo said.
Brick, Boomer, and Butch all turn to watch the Powerpuff Girls and Bane. The Rowdyruff Boys had big grins on their faces knowing that they are going to become stronger.
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Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup all looked down at Bane. The Powerpuff Girls were surrounded in auras colored respectively. Bane was looking back at the Powerpuff Girls with a black aura around him. Bane has his sword readied in samurai style.
"You're gonna pay," Blossom said, "for taking a person's life!"
"Yeah, you mean bully!" Bubbles said.
"And we're gonna take you out for that!" Buttercup concludes.
Suddenly, the three Powerpuff Girls fire their eye beams at Bane. Bane flies straight up into the air at an incredible velocity. The eye beams miss him slightly. The Powerpuff Girls see Bane flying upwards. Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup fly up to him spiraling up. Bane rolls back his eyes and sees this. He immediately teleports behind them and swings his sword. Much to his amazement, he was struck by three punches right in his face before he could swing. Bane begins to fall down to the ground. The Powerpuff Girls then dive down straight at Bane. They hit him hard in the stomach making his fall go even faster. As Bane makes contact with the ground, the ground splits. Bane quickly teleports up into the air as soon as he recovered.
"Very interesting, Powerpuff Girls," Bane said while breathing harder than he ever had done before. "This is why I've wanted to keep you girls apart..."
Buttercup floats up towards him. "Oh yeah? Well, that's too late now 'cause your kissers gonna be kicked!" she taunts.
Bane suddenly teleports in front of Buttercup and attempts to stab her. Buttercup reacts faster than Bane could imagine. She steps out of the side dodging the sword. Bane is then hit in the face by Buttercup's kick. Buttercup fires her eye beams at Bane sending him backwards. "It's no use, Bane boy! I've seen all your moves!" Buttercup said. Bane turns his head to face Buttercup as he flies backwards. He fires some dark optic blasts. Buttercup spins in her tornado to reflect the blasts. Interestingly enough, Buttercup's tornado produces the wind the carry Bane flying and circling into the air. Buttercup suddenly stops to see what's happening. "Whoa! What's going on?"
Blossom suddenly understands. She remembers that Professor Utonium explained to them about the new formula boosting the speed to learn new powers. "Buttercup! It's the formula! It's given you new powers!" Blossom yells.
"Cool!" Bubbles comments. "Man, when's it my turn?"
Suddenly, out of nowhere, Bane teleports in front of Bubbles and attempts to stab Bubbles. Bubbles flies up slightly to dodge the stab. She grabs onto Bane's hair, does a flip, and throws him downward. As Bane falls downward, Bubbles quickly flies beneath him and uppercuts him straight up into the air. After traveling a few hundred meters up at an incredible rate, Bane pulls himself together and stops himself from going furthur up. Before he knew it, Bubbles appeared in front of him and unleashes a Sonic Scream. Bane is instantly paralyzed from the Sonic Scream. Also to add with that, Bubbles began shooting out ice beams from her mouth. Bane was frozen and fell down into the ground. Bubbles stops her screaming and opens her eyes. "Wow! I have ice powers!" Bubbles yells. "Yay!"
Bane falls into the ground. Once the ice touched the ground, it broke off freeing Bane. Bane slowly got up and shook his head. He picked up the sword he dropped right next to his foot. As he looked up, he sees Blossom charging top speed at him. Bane attempts to block but little good did that do for him. Bane is sent rolling on the floor several meters. Blossom intakes a deep breath and unleashes her Fire Breath. However, the Fire Breath didn't come out. Instead, it was a long fiery beam that shot straight and fast at Bane. As soon as the beam scored a direct hit, a loud explosion was heard and a mushroom cloud formed immediately after. "Now that's what I call a Fire Breath," Blossom said gloating.
Bubbles and Buttercup landed right next to Blossom, and they began exchanging high-fives. "Yeah! Way to go!" Blossom calls out to her sisters. They all began laughing.
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"Pops," Boomer said to Mojo, "did they really beat up Bane?"
Mojo looked down at Boomer. "What is it?"
"I mean, we didn't get a chance to participate in beating that guy!" Boomer said looking a bit sad.
Butch shook his head furiously. "Dang it! Why couldn't our powers come out before that happened! I wanted to be the one who murdered that idiot instead of those sissies!" Butch yells.
"Calm down, dudes!" Brick said hoping to soothe his brothers.
Mojo looked back at the area of explosion. He squinted his eyes at the smoke leaving the area of contact. "He's not dead yet," Mojo said. "If he's not dead yet, then the Powerpuff Girls must not have destroyed him."
"What?" the Rowdyruff Boys said in unison.
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Mike, who was watching over Princess' corpse with Tiger, saw the explosion. "They've done it," Mike timidly said. Suddenly, a figure appeared in front of him. The figure has on dark clothes, a black cape, and black pants. The figure stabs Mike right in the chest. Mike screams, "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
The three Powerpuff Girls immediately look towards Mike direction. They are surprised to see Bane stabbing Mike. Mike continues to scream as Bane drains out his power and energy. The orange light that is emitted around Mike begins to flow straight into Bane. Mike's hands suddenly begin to change. His rounded hands and arms begin forming back into regular human arms. His rounded legs also begin to morph. And Mike's head begins to shift shape away from the roundness of a Powerpuff/Rowdyruff head and returns back to his normal shaped head. Mike continues to scream as all of the orange light is taken away from him. Slowly, Mike's scream fades away. Bane takes out the swallow from Mike's chest, and Mike falls to the ground. Tiger was also nowhere to be seen either.
"Nnnnnnooooooo!!!" Bubbles yells as she holds her hands out.
"Mmmmiiiiiiiiiiiiikkkkkeeeee!!!" Blossom yells having both of her hands in fists.
"Bbbbbaaaaaaannnnnneeeeeeee!!!" Buttercup yells while holding her head.
Bane turns around and looks at the Powerpuff Girls. "He was a pathetic one," Bane said. "He should be put away for a use... and that use is for ME!!!" Bane raises his sword up into the air. The black aura around Bane begins to thicken again. "I've taken his soul away. He is now gone!"
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"MIKE!!!" Brick yells. He was in deep shock.
"NO!!! Bane's taken another!" Boomer also yells.
"Oh shoot!!! Bane's stronger, too!" Butch adds.
Mojo watches in disbelief. His mouth is hung open. Suddenly, something inside his pocket begins to beep. Mojo snaps out of his trance and takes out what is a beeping watch. Mojo turns to the boys. "It's time!"
Brick, Boomer, and Butch turn their attention away from Mike, who is now dead. They look at Mojo in surprise. Suddenly, their bodies begin to glow their respective colors. An aura begins to form around them just like the Powerpuff Girls'. "Whoa!" they all said while looking down at their hands.
"We're becoming stronger!" Butch yells.
"Alright!" Boomer cheers.
"Let's kick this guy's butt!" Brick yells.
The Rowdyruff Boys power up and fly straight at Bane. Bane looks in their direction and teleports away into the air. The Rowdyruff Boys missed and almost tripped over. They lift their heads and see Bane hovering over them.
Bane's body begins to flash a gray color. Bane holds out his arms and his sword in the right hand. The flashing continues and Bane begins to glow a dark gray. Beams of darkness shoot out of the skies and all center in at Bane. Bane begins to absorb in all of the darkness that was shot all him. The black aura thickens its shade of color. Pretty soon, all of the darkness beams disappear from the sky and Bane is seen inside a dark transparent energy ball. He holds up his fists while his sword is held in his right hand. "Who would have guessed that pathetic little child would give me so much power," Bane said outloud. He turns to look at the Powerpuff Girls and then the Rowdyruff Boys. "This time, you can't save the world..."
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With Mike and Princess out of the scene, Bane is closer to finishing off the Powerpuff Girls and Rowdyruff Boys. But with their new powers, can the Powerpuff Girls and the Rowdyruff Boys be able to hold him off? Or will Bane be simply too tough to handle this time? How will the balance of the world be affected now? Find out, next time... on the Powerpuff League!
TO BE CONTINUED...
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