The Powerpuff League
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Last time on the Powerpuff League, we saw that the Powerpuff Girls and Rowdyruff Boys were unsuccessful in their attempt to stop Bane in the underworld. Instead, Bane has re-broken the barrier and gained control of the mortal world as well as the underworld. Bane demonstrates his powers to the Powerpuff Girls and Rowdyruff Boys by almost all of Townsville including the Powerpuff Girls' beloved Professor Utonium. Bane, being as evil as ever, decides to take away a majority of the entire planet's population and leave the rest for torture as his entertainment. As Death revives the Powerpuff Girls and Rowdyruff Boys, he leaves them the protection of having their souls being stolen. Giving his farewell, Death leaves the group of youngsters not knowing what to do. But what is it that they CAN do? Find out this episode on the Powerpuff League...
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Episode Twelve: Real Nightmares
Blossom looks around. They sky was beginning to fade from sky blue to pitch black. They city of Townsville is heading towards night as it is in ruins. The dark beam which Bane had unleashed onto this city had destroyed it. Bubbles looks around and sees many dead reporters and police officers lying on the ground. They were, too, victims of the dark beams. Buttercup takes a glance and notices that the ground lacked both the grass and the snow that temporarily covered it during their battle with the IceWolf. The Powerpuff Girls began to worry. Soon, the Rowdyruff Boys begin to observe the city. Brick sees that the trees are left leafless and lifeless. Only the semi-living trunk of the trees remained. Boomer looked out towards the sea and found that the waters are strangely calm and not moving. The sight provided an eerie feeling to whomever that saw it. Butch turns his head only to see a few dead squirrels lying on the ground. This was an odd city since the city of Townsville was so full of life and color. The Rowdyruff Boys also began to worry. Mike then looks around. The cars, the trucks, and the buses were nowhere seen in sight. Only a few wheels are seen scattered around. Princess turns her head to receive a view of blackened buildings and broken windows. It gave a feeling that would make anybody lose hope. Mojo looks around to see that the clouds were covering every bit of the sky. The clouds are dark and low. The sight was a horrific scene to see.
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Bane watches from the center of the underworld globe. He watches through the scene he made earlier. With a smile on his face, Bane teleported out of the underworld as the souls continued to swim around the endless capacity of the undead realm.
Bane reappears in the center of Townsville. He looks around with an evil smile. His body is still transparent as he STILL is a soul. Bane lifts both of his hands upward and the center of Townsville cleared itself of buildings, broken cars, dead corpses, and even rocks. "Now that I have control of this world, let me make a memorial for me," Bane said. Bane's eyes glowed black, and a rough, yet large, tower began rising out of the ground. At the top of the tower, a huge blade of a sword stuck out. At the base of the blade, several dark horns surrounded and pointed away in a circular formation. Below the horns were a dark and gloomy set of chains hanging from the horns. The tower then continued down like any other tower until the mid-section. At the middle, the tower contained five gargoyle heads sticking out in five directions. Each one has its mouth open. From the mouth, there was a bridge and it lead to five other different towers. The main tower continued to the ground like any other normal tower.
However, for the other five towers that surrounded the tower in a circle, each one has a large gargoyle statue on top. Each of the gargoyles faced away from the central tower. They each have their wings spread out as if they are ready to fly. The five towers then continued down below normally with windows and such here and there.
"Perfect," Bane said while laughing evilly. He turns and looks at the direction of the Powerpuff Girls, Rowdyruff Boys, Mike, Princess, and Mojo. "I'll have a little fun with them first." Bane lifts up his hands and two swords appear above. Bane grabs both swords, one in each hand. "Nobody can kill a soul so I will fool around with them a bit..." Bane suddenly disappears in a flash of light...
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The nine heroes are sitting on the ground around a small fire which Blossom made with her Fire Breath. The Powerpuff Girls aren't saying a word. Sad expressions were ironed upon their faces. Meanwhile, the Rowdyruff Boys keep holding their stomachs. "I'm hungry," the three boys complained. Mike, however, just sat there at the small fire dance around. Princess was sleeping with her face down on her arms and knees. Mojo was in some position which would give you the impression that he is meditating.
"Blossom?" Bubbles said breaking the silence among the Powerpuff Girls. Bubbles is still looking at the campfire.
"Yes, Bubbles?" Blossom replies.
"Do you think the Professor will be okay?" Bubbles asks. Buttercup suddenly looks towards Bubbles' direction.
"He better be okay or else Bane'll be in a fix!" Buttercup said angrily pounding her fists together.
"Yeah, Buttercup's right," Blossom says but a bit more calmly. "We'll save the Professor once we get the chance!"
Bubbles slowly nods. She turns her head slowly to face Blossom and Buttercup. "But what if we don't get the chance?" Bubbles asks.
Blossom and Buttercup are silent. They look at each other and then look down at their feet.
"I don't know," Blossom says.
"I don't care as long as we pound that jerk and save the Professor!" Buttercup yells as she stands up.
The Rowdyruff Boys stop their complaints about hunger and look up at the angered Buttercup.
"Gee, the Professor must be really important to you," Boomer says to Bubbles.
"That's correct," Mojo said getting out of his meditating state. "The Professor is important to them because it is the Professor who made them which means the Professor is their father!"
"So that's why..." Brick said looking towards Blossom's direction. Blossom still has her head down.
"Gee, now I understand why Buttercup wants to pound Bane so badly," Butch said scratch the back of his head as the cowlick (the hair thing on his head) bounced around a bit.
"I guess it's better to lose the Professor than dying," Princess said waking up a bit.
"YOU'RE WRONG!!!" Blossom yells as she stands up. "I'm... I'm..." Blossom begins to cry a bit. "I'm willing to give my life to SAVE THE PROFESSOR!!!"
"ME, TOO!!!" Bubbles said also standing up.
Buttercup, who was already standing up, makes a fist and holds it in front of her face. "You bet I will, too," Buttercup says.
"Gee, I didn't know he's that important..." Mike said softly.
"Well, why don't you think so?" Brick asks.
"Well, I bet they know that the Professor's not their real father... Biologically, I mean," Mike said shyly.
"That doesn't matter. He still treats us like we're his daughters!" Blossom says. "And he's always going to treat us with love and care!"
"Yeah!" Bubbles adds.
"And that's never gonna change no matter what kind of bad stuff we do!" Buttercup adds. Blossom and Bubbles look at Buttercup. "Well, so far, I did bad stuff," Buttercup answers.
"I see..." Princess says.
Suddenly, Bane appears above the group with swords in both hands. Unlike the nine, Bane is transparent while they are solid. The group is caught off guard and immediately jump into guard position (even Mojo). They all glare at Bane as he laughs evilly. "I take it that you're all mourning for the loss of your Professor," Bane says sarcastically, "and that I see you're will to give up your lives for him. Well, why not give them up now?"
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HIM watches the view that Bane had created earlier. He watches with a frown on his face. His lobster claws are tense and so are his shoulders. HIM turns his head to see the Professor lying in the encaged cube. "Not even I, so evil, would do such a thing to a soul," HIM said outloud in his masculine voice. He tries to fire a beam of energy from his lobster claws but fails to do so. "If only my powers can work again," HIM says. He suddenly sees the souls exiting the underworld globe into the mortal realm. "They can escape?" HIM says in curiosity. "Did Bane really make this underworld merge with the mortal world?" He suddenly gets an idea. He flies up to the cube containing the soul of the Professor which is in stasis. HIM begins to push the cube upwards to the limits of the underworld globe.
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Buttercup flies head in at Bane who is flying backwards and smiling evilly at Buttercup. His swords are crossed on his chest. Buttercup is flying with an angry look, and her fists are clenched tightly ready to fight. Bane stops flying so Buttercup can catch up. As Buttercup nears, Bane swings his right sword at Buttercup. Buttercup dodges and throws a punch towards Bane's midsection. Bane dodges and swings with his left sword. Buttercup flies up a little bit so the sword will pass underneath. Buttercup throws a back round house and kicks Bane in the face. Bane is knocked back a bit. He soon pulls himself together and smiles. Buttercup spins into her tornado and sends whirlwinds carrying Bane into the air. Bane flies around a bit but with his eyes open and his mouth smiling evilly. "That the best you can do, Powerpuff?" Bane taunts. He suddenly stops going with the whirling winds. He swings one of his swords at Buttercup and a large razor wind flies out from behind Bane and smashes into Buttercup sending her backwards.
As Buttercup flies backwards, Butch is seen from the sky diving down at Bane with a powerful surge of green energy at his fist. He grabs Bane's neck with his energy-powered hand takes him into the ground. Bane, still transparent, falls with Butch. Butch pushes Bane's face into the ground and starts sliding off smearing his face against the concrete ground. A large and long drag mark is shown on the trail which Butch pressed Bane's face into the ground. Butch lifts up Bane's neck and side kicks him in the stomach. Bane is sent flying backward to Buttercup who is behind Bane at the moment. Buttercup grabs Bane's cape and tosses him into the air. Butch and Buttercup then charge at Bane with green energy powered fists all pointed at Bane. Bane suddenly opens his eyes and sees Butch and Buttercup raging towards them. As the two reach Bane, they suddenly fly pass him as if Bane was air. Bane turns around and laughs. "Do you seriously think I'd let you have the best of me?" Bane says as he laughs. He pulls out his swords and swings both at the same time. Dark lightning bolts dart down from the sky and strike both of them. The two begin to scream as Bane laughs. He suddenly stops laughing and the lightning stops. Bane turns his head to see Bubbles and Boomer charging at him.
Mike, Princess, and Mojo catch Buttercup and Butch as they fall. Mike catches Butch as Princess and Mojo catch Buttercup. They gently place the two unconscious fighters on the ground. They look back up to see Bubbles and Boomer assaulting Bane. Bubbles jumps in front of Bane and unleashes a loud Sonic Scream. Bane, distracted, covers his ears and fails to notice Boomer flying front of him. Boomer gives a few one-two combinations into Bane's stomach and uppercuts Bane into the air. Bubbles inhales and charges up her frosty ice beam. Boomer also readies his whirling water blades. The two unleash their new powers at once. Suddenly, the ice beam and whirling blades hit each other and form a gigantic whirling razor disc of ice! Bane opens his eyes and sees the disc. He quickly uses his left sword to block. However, upon contact, the sword is repelled out and into the air. Bane is then hit directly by the spinning disc of ice. Once the disc has passed through Bane, he looks at Bubbles and Boomer. His transparent body begins to reform itself again. "You see, it's impossible to defeat me," Bane says. The sword that was repelled into the air begins to fall again. Bane catches it with his left hand and smirks at Bubbles and Boomer. He suddenly chucks the left sword at them. The sword spins and becomes a dark whirling disc similar to Bubbles and Boomer's. The two blondes suddenly split apart dodging the disc barely. The two suddenly hit the ground hard.
Blossom and Brick charge in at Bane from opposing directions. Blossom charges towards Bane's front while Brick at Bane's back. Blossom lands a direct hit in Bane's stomach as Brick scores a hit onto Bane's spine. After a second of pain, Bane teleports behind Brick and smashes him off into a direction. Blossom zooms in to attack Bane. Bane strikes with his sword and Blossom dodges. Blossom fires her eye beams at Bane who is hit and flies backward a bit. Brick suddenly come in from behind and back fists Bane into the ground. Bane quickly gets up and flies into the air. Brick unleashes a lightning bolt from his hand at Bane. Bane quickly swings his sword and cancels the lightning bolt that was tossed at him. Swinging his sword again, a dark beam of light bursts through the skies and towards Blossom and Brick. The two split off into separate directions. Bane then swings his sword from left to right. A dark beam of light is shot horizontally from the ground and hits both of them. Blossom and Brick fall towards the ground. "Didn't expect that, did you?" Bane says taunting the two.
Suddenly, HIM's soul is seen coming through the ground. HIM is pushing the bluish cube containing the Professor's frozen soul inside. "Powerpuff Girls!" HIM yells in his feminine voice. "Oh Powerpuff Girls, look what I have here." Buttercup opens her eyes to see the Professor's soul. Bubbles also opens hers to see the Professor. Blossom opens her eyes to see the Professor, also. "HIM, you've got the Professor back!" the Powerpuff Girls all say at once. The Rowdyruff Boys suddenly hear the Powerpuff Girls talk and open their eyes to see the Professor in the stasis cube. Mike, Princess, and Mojo also look at the cube with a bit of shock. "What happened to him?" they all said at different times.
Bane looks down at HIM with a bit of disgust. "Don't interfer with my battle, you wimp!" Bane yells. He swings his sword down at HIM. A purple cube similar to Professor's cube suddenly surrounds HIM. HIM's soul is then frozen in position. HIM's face is in surprise and his lobster claw hands are stopped. Bane teleports next to HIM's cube and slashes it in half. HIM's soul is then split in half. The Powerpuff Girls, Rowdyruff Boys, Mike, Princess, and Mojo all gasp. Bane suddenly takes his free hand and picks up a half of HIM's soul. Bane throws it into the air and then swings his sword. A blackish hole appears and takes the half soul inside. Bane then throws the other half in. The purple cube that was cut in half disappears as well as the blackish hole. Bane then turns to the shocked group. "Amazing, isn't it? That pesk is gone not only in life but also in death! His soul is no more!" Bane laughs. "His soul... has... entered... the VOID!"
"The VOID?" the nine ask in unison.
"That's right, the VOID. The VOID is something which is beyond my control. Nothing can ever survive in it, not even souls... All I can do about it is simply open it up," Bane explains. He lifts up his hand and the Professor's cube suddenly floats into the air. Bane turns around and points in the direction where the tower he created earlier was. The cube flies at extreme speeds towards the tower. Bane turns around to and faces the nine again. "If you ever want to see him back, face me there! In that TOWER! IN... THE... TREPIDATION... TOWER!!!" Bane says as he teleports and vanishes.
The Powerpuff Girls' faces become really angry. "No doubt, Bane! We'll have to kick your sorry butt there if we have to!" Buttercup yells out. She becomes hardcore and the green aura around her lightens up greatly!
"Yeah! I'm gonna show that doo-doo brain what I'm made of!" Bubbles yells. She, too, becomes hardcore. Her blue aura also lightens up!
"And we'll save that Professor of ours even if it means we'll have to KILL BANE!!!" Blossom yells. She also becomes hardcore. The pink aura circling her begins to light up.
The Rowdyruff Boys, Mike, Princess, and Mojo all look at the Powerpuff Girls in surprise. "I have a feeling Bane won't like what's gonna happen to him," Mike said timidly. Princess and Mojo nodded. "This is gonna be a living nightmare," Princess remarks.
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With HIM completely removed from existence, Bane retakes the Professor's soul and continues to torture the Powerpuff Girls. The Powerpuff Girls power up and become really enraged at Bane's action. They all decide to face Bane at the Trepidation Tower which Bane created earlier. What will be the results? Find out... next time... on the Powerpuff League!
TO BE CONTINUED...
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