The Powerpuff League
created by CrystalFenix
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Last time on the Powerpuff League, we saw that Princess was killed by sacrificing herself to save Blossom. Just then, Buttercup and Bubbles arrive and see what has happened. They give their honor to Princess and then turn to face Bane. Having the upperhand, the Powerpuff Girls manage to thrash Bane around a bit. Buttercup then discovers some new powers which enable her to create a more powerful tornado! The same went for Bubbles as she finds out she can dish an ice beam out of her mouth. Blossom also gets a new ability and uses it against Bane. Bane is shot by Blossom's new fire beam and is thought to be taken out. As the girls cheer on, Bane sneaks out and drains Mike of his power and lifeforce. The tides began to turn. However, the Rowdyruff Boys acquire more strength due to the Chemical Y, but Bane also becomes more powerful. The upcoming battle is seen with horror.
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Episode Nine: The Eye of the Storm
The snow begins to melt from the sunshine which was brought upon it. The grass was visible once again. The ground, however, was soaking wet due to the melting snow. The flowers, however, were dying. The squirrels, birds, and lizards have all hidden away in their homes. They knew that it wasn't safe to come out. Even the mindless ants didn't come out of their mounds. The bees no longer buzzed and flew around their hive. The world at the moment felt it was unsafe to leave their homes.
The souls of the dead continue to escape through the portal. People began rising out of their graves with the remains of their bodies. Nobody dared to come out and see the horrific landscape the world had to show. The deceased was no longer dead but very much alive now. The souls continued to travel slowly out of the broken barrier which Death had preserved for only so long. The balance of the world began to fade...
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Bane had on a harsh expression. His face showed he was furious. The black aura hovering about him simply gives him a more frightening image. The black cape he possesses flaps with the wind. His Trunks-like hair continues to blow around. The black bandana and sash flapped and waved. His somewhat baggy pants also blew a bit. Bane's image would bring fear to any set of eyes that gaze upon him.
Bane stares at the Rowdyruff Boys who have gained their new strength. The Rowdyruff Boys looked determined. Bane then looks at the Powerpuff Girls. They also looked very determined. Bane lifts his sword up and the black ball of energy surroudning him expands. The clouds in the sky dissolve. The trees are brushed back by his menacing force. "It is time that we know who is the true conquerer!" Bane said to the Powerpuff Girls and Rowdyruff Boys. "And you better recognize it!"
"I will make sure you don't succeed!" Blossom threathens.
"We aren't afraid of you!" Brick yells.
"We'll make you pay, you mean bully!" Bubbles calls.
"Your butt will be kicked so hard you'll never sit down again!" Boomer taunts.
"We're not scared of your sissy powers!" Buttercup insults.
"And you're gonna go down to the ground!" Butch shouts.
Bane laughs a bit. "We'll see about that," Bane said. "This world will have to be gone one day so why not just give it to me right now?" Bane swings his sword, and the ground beneath the Powerpuff Girls and Rowdyruff Boys begin to shake. Each of the groups fly up into the air to see what's going to happen. Suddenly, a dark vortex of light appears and shoots out an incredibly large beam of black light. The Powerpuff Girls and Rowdyruff Boys are hit straight on and are sent into various directions. After the beam disappears, Bane pulls back his sword. "A good strategy is to take out the leader first!" Bane said to himself. He cracks his knuckles and teleports away.
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Princess' dead body suddenly begins to twitch a bit. Princess slowly opens her eyes and blinks a few times. "I'm, I'm not dead yet?" Princess said outloud to herself. She looks at her hands and then at her body. "I guess so..." Princess said. Something suddenly caught her attention. She turned her head around and sees Mike's dead and pierced body lying on the ground. Princess quickly crawls over and begins to shake him. "Come on, you poo-poo brain, get up!" Princess yells.
There is no response from Mike.
Princess gives up on trying to wake Mike up. Princess plops down onto her bottom and looks up into the air. Bane wasn't there and neither were the Powerpuff Girls and Rowdyruff Boys. She turns her head to see Mojo gritting his teeth and looking around. "What's he looking for?" Princess mutters. Suddenly, Princess hears a light moan. She turns her head and sees Mike beginning to shake a bit. "Huh?"
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Blossom was sent into one direction away from her sisters and the Rowdyruff Boys. Blossom catches herself and stops her constant flying. "Geez, that sucked!" Blossom said rubbering her arm. Suddenly, Bane teleports behind her. Blossom receives and eerie feeling and turns around. She sees Bane who punches her right in the stomach sending her backwards a few hundred feet. Bane teleports and reappears over Blossom and pounds her into the ground. He points his sword down at Blossom. "SHADOW STITCH!" Bane calls out. Blossom's image suddenly freezes and her shadow becomes a circle around Blossom. Blossom didn't move a bit. Bane turns his head and teleports away.
Brick flew around calling his brothers' names. "Yo, Boomer! Hey, Butch! You there?" Brick yells. Boomer and Butch hear Brick from a distance and go flying towards Brick. "Bro, I'm here!" Boomer yells waving his hand as he flies towards Brick. Butch is silent as he approaches Brick. "Hey, man, where's old Bane boy?" Butch asks looking around. The Rowdyruff Boys begin to look around also. "Above you," a dark voice said. They look up and see Bane charging at them with his sword. The Rowdyruff Boys split up into three directions. Bane follows Brick. Brick sees so and flies up a bit faster. Bane teleports in front of Brick and kicks Brick straight up into the air.
Brick pulls himself together and sees Bane below him. Brick, with a bit of rage, raises his hands and gathers together a ball of energy. Brick uncontrollingly throws the ball of energy at Bane. As the ball of energy flies through the air, it transforms into an electrical ball. Bane is hit and sent back a few inches. Bane looks at Brick and sees him throwing a volley of electrical balls at Bane. Brick calls and screams war cries as he throws the electrical balls. Bane teleports behind Brick and back fists him down straight into the ground. "SHADOW STITCH!" Bane yells. He swings his sword and Brick stops moving. His shadow on the ground becomes a big circle around Brick. Bane looks behind him and sees Boomer and Butch flying at him each pissed for what Bane had done to Brick.
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Mike soon opens his eyes. He looks back to normal with the exception of the cut on his body. "The sword! The sword is the center of darkness!" Mike yells. Princess quickly crawls over. Mike turns to see Princess.
"What are you talking about, little boy?" Princess asks.
"That sword of his!" Mike said. "That sword is the center of his resource gathering!" Mike looks down at the ground. "We must destroy the sword!"
"Whose sword?" Princess asks. She looks a bit annoyed.
"Bane's sword! We must destroy Bane's sword!" Mike yells at Princess. "It is how he gets his powers!"
"Whoa! How do you know this?" Princess asks.
Mike takes in a deep breath. "When he stabbed me," Mike started, "he took my lifeforce away from my body. My lifeforce traveled through his sword. There, inside, I felt the power being transfered to and from his body. He can use the sword to bring in power to his body, or he can use the sword to bring out power from his body. As my soul traveled through, I saw everything. I then went into the underworld and came back here. I knew I had to!" Mike then sighs.
Princess turns and looks around but sees nobody but a furious Mojo. "I guess we'll have to break that toy of his!" Princess said. "But how?"
"We'll need to make him let go of it," Mike said. "After he does, the sword is no stronger than a regular sword. We can easily smash it."
"Why does he have to let go of it?" Princess asked with a bit of curiosity.
"Because the energy he sends through from his body is giving it protection. If he can't send any energy through the sword, then it's unprotected and vulnerable," Mike explains.
"Gotcha!" Princess said. "But how are we going to tell the Powerpuff Girls or Rowdyruff Boys?"
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Boomer and Butch fly up and punch Bane in the stomach. Bane is sent back a few feet. Boomer and Butch circle around Bane release a barrage of punches and kicks. Bane is stunned for a second of this surprise but quickly repels them with his dark energetic force field. Boomer and Butch regain their fighting positions. Bane quickly follows. Withing noticing, Bane is hit from behind by Bubbles and Buttercup.
"You! There you are!" Buttercup yells.
"I'm gonna kick your rump!" Bubbles yells.
Bubbles and Buttercup fly in at Bane. Bane swings his sword at the two super charged girls. Dark light beams hit them but they continue to fly at Bane while suffering a little pain. Boomer and Butch then decide to go in as well. As the four kids make contact with Bane, punches and kicks are seen flying through the air. Bane produces his energetic force field again and repels them. Butch and Buttercup are sent into one direction while Boomer and Bubbles into another. Bane stops right where he is and breathes a bit. He's taken a lot of hits, and they were no doubt strong hits.
Butch lands onto the ground. His clothes are soaked from the melted snow. Butch, however, ignores this and looks straight at Bane. A furious look appears over his face. "This is FOR BRICK!!!" His green aura begins to glow brighter. Suddenly, the ground around him trembles and boulders fly up into the air. The boulders surprising stay in once place in the air while Butch's aura begins to grow. Butch points at Bane and the boulders began smashing themselves at Bane. Bane is knocked backwards but still stays afloat in the air. Butch then sees what he's done. "Killer! That rocked!"
Boomer sees Bane stunned a bit and decides to take it towards his advantage. Boomer charges his energy up and his bluish aura thickens just like Butch's. Boomer also posses a furious look at his face. "Brick, I'm gonna avenge YOU!" Boomer yells. Without suspecting, mysterious spinning discs fly out of the air. Bane is cut horribly on the arms and legs. His clothes are cut revealing parts of his back. As the blades hit the ground, they splash and appear as water. Boomer suddenly realizes his new power. "Whoa! That was way cool!" he said to himself.
Bubbles flies up in front of Bane's face and unleashes an incredibly loud Sonic Scream. Bane is instantly paralyzed by the Sonic Scream and tries to cover his "ears." As he does so, Bubbles plants a cheap attack onto Bane's head and throws a round kick. Buttercup flies in front the opposite direction Bubbles flew in from and uppercuts Bane right in the stomach. Bane throws up immediately. Buttercup flies behind Bane's back and back fists Bane straight into the ground. Buttercup suddenly spins into her tornado and the increased winds from her new powers brings Bane circling up into the air.
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"Hey, look!" Mike said pointing at Bane who's spiraling in the air. Mike tries to fly but falls flat on his face.
"It's Bane! Then that must be those poo-poo puff girls over there!" Princess said. She turns and looks at Mojo who is still searching. "Hey, MOJO!!! THEY'RE OVER THERE!!!" she yells.
Mojo's attention is caught and he looks at the direction of Bane. Mojo pulls out his trusty laser gun and starts heading into the direction. "I, Mojo Jojo, will destroy that creature for having destroyed the Mojo Express which is my newest creation. That creature is also hurting the Rowdyruff Boys which I created to destroy the Powerpuff Girls but the Powerpuff Girls are helping fight Bane which is trying to destroy the Rowdyruff Boys, too." Princess sees Mojo running towards the direction. She figured it would be best to tell the Powerpuff Girls and Rowdyruff Boys about Bane's sword right there. She looks down at Mike who still has his face on the ground. She picks up his collar and starts to drag him.
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Bane is spun up a few hundred meters by Buttercup's tornado. Buttercup stops spinning after she felt a slight dizziness. However, it was Bubbles' turn. Bubbles intakes a deep breath and launches an ice beam at Bane. Bane is instantly frozen into a block of ice. The block of ice containing Bane starts to fall. Boomer suddenly uses his new attack. Discs flew out of the air and cuts through the ice blocks as well as cutting Bane up a bit. The ice blocks fall apart and Bane is seen unconsciously falling to the ground. As he hits the ground hard, Butch uses his new abilities and produces a falling avalance from the sky. Bane opens his eyes but only to see hundreds of boulders and rocks pegging him head on. The avalanche stops and buries Bane underneath them. Bubbles, Boomer, Buttercup, and Butch all look at each other. "YAHOO!!!" they yell. They give each other high fives.
Mojo, Princess, and Mike suddenly run over to see what had just happened. "I guess they didn't need to know, after all," Mike said outloud.
"Know what?" Boomer asked.
"It's about the sword. The best way to have defeated Bane would be to destroy his sword," Mike said. He looked down to his feet. "But I guess it doesn't matter now."
"Yeah, that's right, you idiot. We've finally won!" Princess cheers.
Mojo doesn't look so happy. He keeps looking at the pile of rocks. He readies his laser gun. "It is not over yet," Mojo said, "because Bane is not yet defeated. If he is not yet defeated, then it is not over yet which means you'll still have to destroy him."
Boomer, Butch, Bubbles, Buttercup, Mike, and Princess all look at Mojo. "What are you saying?" Boomer asked. "We sliced up that jerk right there!"
"That's right! I basically stoned him to death!" Butch adds.
"Not to mention we threw him around!" Buttercup says.
"And I've given him a nasty ice beam!" Bubbles comments.
Unexpectedly, Bane crashes out of the boulder pile and is hovering high up in the air. He is wounded greatly and scars are seen all over his injured body. His left hand holds onto his right arm as he holds his sword. Bane has a look of pain and anger in his face. His hair is a bit messed up. His cape is torn off although a small portion still sticks onto his back. The bandana around his neck is for some reason untouched by his clothes and pants are definitely cut up. "It's... IT'S NOT OVER YET!!!" Bane screams. Bane's aura thickens and he goes into a homicidal rage. He flies and charges at the group. The group quickly split up.
"To destroy his sword, he must release it first!" Mike yells as he runs.
"That's because he's giving it protection from being broken!" Princess also yells while running.
Mojo stops running and turns around. He fires his laser gun at Bane whose back is facing him. Mojo scores a few hits on the back forcing Bane to release his sword. Bubbles, Boomer, Buttercup, and Butch immediately see this. They fire their eye beams and optic blasts at the sword in unison. The sword is hit from four directions. A white light appears from the sword and begins to widen. The sword explodes sending bright but harmless flames into the air. Bane looks at what happened in shock. His jaw hangs open widely.
Blossom and Brick's shadows change back to normal. They are no longer "shadow stitched" and can move again. Blossom and Brick immediately fly up into the air and scan around for Bane. They see him and fly towards his direction. Blossom and Brick surround Bane from opposite ends. Bubbles and Boomer then fly in and also surround Bane. Finally, Buttercup and Butch also approaches and surrounds the demon of darkness. Bane looks around with a bit of fright. Suddenly, he remembers something. "I can still take you all on! I still have powers of my own!" Bane yells. "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
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Having destroyed Bane's sword, Blossom and Brick are freed to fight again. Princess and Mike are also back to life. Brick, Boomer, and Butch all learn newer abilities. But Bane is still up to the fight. Will our heroes be able to finish him off once and for all? What will be the grueling fate of this unbalanced planet? Find out... next time, on the Powerpuff League!
TO BE CONTINUED...
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