One Star in the Heavens
Part Two
written by "Lord" Andy
Bubbles shook her head. It couldn't be! There was no way that her very own sister could be in charge of a cyborg army! Her own sister would never have control of some evil machines built for massive damage! Someone who loves life and joy would never want to destroy it! Never!
She looked again. Maybe something was playing tricks on her eyes. Maybe it was a mistake. Maybe she was hallucinating. But no, there she was, sitting in that control chair looking just as menacing as before. She couldn't deny it.
"Blossom? What are you doing here !?!" Bubbles shouted.
Blossom looked at her sister with a smirk on her face. Besides the unnatural look on her face, she looked like she always did. Except for the fact that her left arm was a mechanical one, almost like the other cyborgs. The three claws on the end that fashioned a crude hand was slowly opening and closing, adding to the eeriness. The only difference with her arm was that her's wasn't as thick, probably because it had less purposes. She didn't say anything, but just stared.
"It can't be you!" Bubbles cried. "You would never try to take over the world with cyborgs or monsters or anything ... or anything bad!" Then she looked up at her sister, tears in her eyes. "Would you?"
Blossom looked down at her. Still smirking, she just continued to look like she was laughing up a storm inside. But suddenly, it slowly opened up into a sweet, yet somehow evil smile. "Well, well, if it isn't Bubbles!" She said in her normal voice, which was rather deceiving due to the fact that the rest of her gave the impression of pure evil. "It took you forever to get here!"
Bubbles shook her head, still not understanding anything ... of the current situation, that is. "What are you talking about? What is going on?"
"Isn't all of this obvious?" Blossom said calmly in a voice that resembled her own, but evilly. "I'm fulfilling my greatest dream of them all! A dream that many people imagine from time to time. But I am the only one brave enough to finally achieve the goal once thought unimaginable to all those before me."
Bubbles choked back her tears so she could hear what was being said to her. "I have no idea what you're talking about, Blossom!"
Blossom chuckled to herself, then gracefully flew out from her control chair. She was breathing rapidly when she spoke of things that apparently brought her pure excitement. She slowly floated through the air around Bubbles as she talked. "Well, dear sister, tell me; what is one of your dreams in your life?"
Frowning, Bubbles grumbled, "First of all, to find out what is going on here!"
Blossom suddenly flew straight up to her sister, surprising her. "What do you think, this is some joke?"
Bubbles shuddered from this sudden outburst. "I'm sorry, it's ... it's just-"
Ignoring her, Blossom continued. "I have a dream. A small evil pleasure that many people experience from time to time. A little dark sin that they figure out in their head, everything from carrying it out to getting away with that. Everyone's guilty of it, but nobody ever dares carry it out. And do you know why?"
"Uh ...." Bubbles thought. The computers in the background beeped and processed information, much like what was going on in Bubbles's head.
Without waiting for an answer, Blossom continued her speech as she flew around her sister. "It's because they'll get in trouble, that's why. There's always someone bigger and stronger who will carry out the law against the person, and subdue them with punishment."
Smiling, she added, "Much like we do when we fight crime in our precious city of Townsville."
As Bubbles tried to follow Blossom's logic, the Powerpuff leader turn cyborg leader continued from a different angle. "And now I'd like to point something out to you. Have you ever noticed who a great majority of the most famous people are? It's the people with power! The people who have gone down in history is those who have conquered, ruled, or did something so huge that everyone wants to look upon it forever, so that all may know their power."
Blossom looked at her sister who looked extremely confused. Blossom smiled. "I know you're wondering how all of this ties in together, but I'm getting to that." Then she started floating around Bubbles again in her silent eerie way. "Now I ask you this. What are we know as in this world?"
Bubbles though for a minute. She knew what the answer was, but under extreme circumstances, even the right answer seams wrong. "Um .... that we're the Powerpuff Girls?"
"Yes, that we're the Powerpuff Girls!" Blossom shouted, as if she was proclaiming it to the whole world of its importance. "In the city of Townsville lives those three adorable little Powerpuff Girls who protect it from evil!"
Bubbles wasn't sure to say to such sarcasm. "Is, isn't that what you want?" She timidly asked.
"No, it is NOT what I want!" Blossom shouted, making Bubbles cower a few steps back. "I am just not some average speck in the heavens! I am not an average Joe Smoe who comes and goes, year after year, generation after generation, era after era! I am different, more different than anyone could ever imagine!!"
Bubbles cowered back as far as she could in fear of her sister's shouting. She back up into the cyborgs standing behind her, who were just standing there in attention.
But before she could say anything, Blossom did. "All I do is save Townsville day in and day out. And why is that? It's because some people listen to the evil side of themselves. The evil side that figures out how to rob banks. The evil side that contemplates ways to get rich by another's expense. The evil side that never wants to do anything good. Everybody has it! You, me, it's a fact of the human life!"
Blossom lowered her voice that had been rising over the past subject. She suddenly calmed down, and smiled in her little smirk again. "Now, everybody deals with these problems. Good versus evil at the smallest level, inside the human heart. It asks itself, "should I do what I want to do, or what everyone else deems as good and organized?". And the highest majority of people do the good for various reasons. The way they were raised, what their religion says, what their community is, all different kinds of reasons. But what does it boil down to? Do good, because the bad is punished!"
She stopped flying and landed next to her sister. "Now, everyone is different, that's another fact of life. As it turns out, my fantasies to do bad instead of good are stronger than the average person. The mayor calls, someone's robbing the museum, and we stop them. While they do that, I see how they fail and what I would have done to gotten away. It's takes much work to ignore those urges. A select few people of this world think that way. I am one of those people. Except I don't want to do these evil things, and do you know why?"
Now it was Bubbles's turn to get angry. "How should I know! I wish you would stop asking me questions to stuff you already know! I just want to know what you are doing here!!"
"I'm telling you why I am doing this before I tell you how I am doing this!" Blossom shouted into her sisters face, which made her cower and tears fall down her eyes again.
"Don't you understand what is going on in this world?" Blossom yelled out loud like a person in a room full of noisy people. "We are supposed to deny the evil going on inside of our hearts and minds because good is supposed to be stronger for evil!"
Blossom turned straight to her sister again. "Well, as hard as I try I can't do that! I am different, and will not fall into the simplest of life like everyone else. I am going to do what I want to do!"
"What are you going to do?" Bubbles asked, hoping that she would finally get an answer.
Blossom sighed, and finally explained. "As you know, Mojo-Jojo has created all of this. See that tower over there?" She asked, pointing to the gigantic structure surging outside. Bubbles nodded, silently.
"Well, that's the same one he was finishing up yesterday when we came in to stop him. It powers this whole factory that turns innocent people into those powerful cyborg soldiers. In the end, I have the greatest power ever assembled in the history of time!"
"So you stole it from Mojo to do ..... whatever you want to do?" Bubbles guessed.
"No," a voice said from a figure who had just entered the room, "she helped me finish it!!"
Bubbles gasped as Mojo-Jojo walked in the main control room.
Blossom saw Bubbles's exspresion, and exsplained. "Mojo has created the powerfullest force to ever be on the planet. In a few days, he will be the new world order. He will be the deciding force in the new stage of life. And I need to be a part of it!!"
Bubbles was aghast, which means she gasped again but with more passion and fear. Blossom had teamed up with Mojo-Jojo? It couldn't be! "This is some kind of a trick!" She shouted. "The Blossom I knew would never do anything like this! She is a kind, loving, and caring person!"
"Blossom is also a troubled and neurotic person!" She yelled. "She had a force building up inside of her full of evil just waiting to be released. And thanks to the efforts to you and Buttercup, you helped push my evil desires over the edge."
This news hit Bubbles like forty Sunday news papers. She shook her head in disbelief she had just heard; she and Buttercup's little tricks had indeed pushed Blossom over the edge she had been teetering on her whole life. "That can't possibly be true!" Bubbles cried.
"But it is! You have no idea how hard it is to fight evil urges. They've been bugging me all my life. I had to calm myself every once in a while so I wouldn't flip or something."
Then she scowled at her. "But you and Buttercup just couldn't leave me alone. No, you two had to be mean ... too mean, and helped push me over the edge! You called me week, bossy, a tattle tale. Sister, you have no idea on the torment inside of me you two stirred up!!"
Bubbles started crying again as Blossom continued. "All this time I have been waiting for the perfect opportunity to give in, a time when I could finally obey to my evil wishes." She exclaimed with glee. "Everyone gets tired of doing good, and I'll be the first to unleash those wishes on a global scale!"
Bubbles was taken back, which means she was aghast, but didn't gasp. "You mean ..."
"Yes!" Mojo interrupted. "We'll be releasing out our gigantic army, and will destroy everything that doesn't become part of our little group, untill everything had been added to our little group or everything has been destroyed." Then he started laughing maniacally, the sound echoing through the whole complex.
Blossom smiled at the laughing monkey. "Yes yes, now Mojo, could you leave use for a moment?"
Mojo stopped laughing. "Why?"
"Oh, I just have a few things to clear up with my sister."
Mojo scowled at her. Then he whipped around and exited the room. "Whatever!" He called out.
As soon as he left, Bubbles was the first to talk. "So, this is it, huh? You betray the world and join up with Mojo to become famous?"
"No no no no no, dear Bubbles!" Blossom said, holding her sister's hand. Bubbles cringed over the coldness of Blossom's new mechanical arm. "Think of what I am doing more as a game! I'm changing the tides of fate and doing what I've always wanted to do. I'm finally going to have fun by being different, and doing exciting evil things for once!"
Bubbles sighed in shame. "So this is how it ends?" She sadly asked her sister. "You turn evil for some philosophical reasons, then destroy everything?"
Blossom smiled as smile that reminded Bubbles of the loving smiles she used to give that had meaning. "Well, I wouldn't say everything!"
Bubbles was confused. "Well, what don't you want to destroy."
Blossom's smile grew larger. "You." She said.
"Me!?!" Bubbles asked in shock. "Why me?"
"Because I want you to join me!" Blossom happily said.
"What!!" Bubbles hollered, not believing what she had just heard. "Why?"
"Well, a typical answer would be power, riches, or control over my cyborg army. But those answers never work. People going for greed never succeed. Instead, let me tell you the reason why I'm even asking you in the first place- I love you!"
"What?" Bubbles gasped again.
"You're my sister!" Blossom said, expecting Bubbles would have figured out the obvious. "And I love you as the best of sisters could possible love each other. You forget that I am still the same old Blossom you knew and loved as well."
"Except you're evil!" Added Bubbles.
"No, don't think of it that way! I am combining my bad with my good to make them equal! Then I can do good and bad stuff together, having fun anyway that I want! I won't bother explaining it all, nobody could possible understand!" She said. "And I want you to be with me!"
"I could never do anything bad!" Bubbles said in shock, turning away from her sister.
"You don't have to do anything bad!" Blossom assured her, as she put her real arm on her sister's shoulder. "I just want you to be with me. I'm proud to have you as my sister. You've always acted like the little sister of the group, and I as the older sister. I don't want that special relationship to end! You're to important for me to loose!"
Bubbles slowly looked upon Blossom's face. The words sounded like Blossom, but the whole situation was complicating that. What once was a warm face full of love and caring now was a cold and unforgiving face to her. Blossom expected Bubbles to cry or something sad, this would make a huge impact on anyone.
But then, anger grew from deep down inside of Bubbles. She turned around, after whipping off Blossom's hand from her shoulder. Blossom backed up in surprise as she looked on her sister's angry face.
"No!" Bubbles angrily said. "No, I will not be tricked into falling for other people's so called good intentions! I don't care how you call it or how you justify it, I don't care! What it all boils down to is that you are being bad, period! You're not having fun, you're going against what is carved in the making of this world as good!"
She glared at her sister who was just standing there in silence. "And I don't care what you think, the universe does not revolve around you! Just because you have fantasies to be bad, be the best sister, and be the greatest person in history, it doesn't mean you have the right to!!"
Then, crossing her arms, Bubbles finished by adding, "You're just being very naughty."
Blossom looked sadly at her refusing sister. Then her gaze turned to the floor and she sighed. But then she coldly replied, "Then that shall be your epitaph!"
Suddenly, they heard a gigantic crash. Something came smashing through one of the huge windows that light up the upper area of the complex. Then that thing quickly burst in and jumped upon Blossom from behind. Blossom gasped in surprise as the figure tried to choke her again.
"Take that you evil cyborg traitor!" Buttercup shouted, grabbing on to Blossom's neck from behind her.
"You!" She shouted. "I thought I had gotten you off my back .... (and more then one way)?"
Buttercup laughed. "Yah right! And I only disarmed you!"
Blossom growled in anger. "I have no time for this!" Blossom yelled, and in one swift move, she turned around and faced Buttercup. Then, aiming her robotic arm at her defensive sister, she shot a powerful beam that hit dead center. Buttercup flew back across the room in pain, but got up slowly. Buttercup had been hit by the cyborg's lasers a few hours earlier, but Blossom's was impressively more powerful.
"You - you - you're gonna have to do better than that to stop me sis!" She said, hiding her pain.
"Very well, if you insist!" Blossom sneered.
And so they both took off to the air. Buttercup flew around in circles to confuse her sister. Blossom merely floated in the air, silently watching the maneuvering. Then, Buttercup surprisingly shot off several blasts of her eye laser. Blossom didn't make a single twitch in the mere millisecond the lasers approached her position. Just as the beams blasts were upon her, she quickly swiped her robotic arm in front of them. The eye laser shots were slapped away, crashing into another area of the fortress.
"Resistance is futile!" Blossom shouted, and hit Buttercup again with her laser. As Buttercup hollared and cringed from the blow, Blossom laughed. "I've always wanted to say that!"
"Bah! I can beat you!" Buttercup said. "You were just lucky your cyborgs came to help you the first time! I'm still the strongest Powerpuff!"
Before she could say anything else, Blossom flew at her with enormous speeds. Then she proceeded to hit Buttercup at an even faster speed. Her arms, the mechanical one and original, were going to fast to be seen. After a second which seamed like an eternity, she stopped and let her battered sister fall to the ground, barely conscious.
"If you haven't noticed, I am not your average Powerpuff Girl, now am I?" Blossom asked evilly. Then, smiling, she fired her arm gun once again in one quick blast on her defenseless sister.
"And I was always the strongest!" She concluded.
Bubbles was too shocked to move. In less than a minute, she had seen herself saved by Buttercup, only to see her destroyed again, all right before her own eyes.
"You killed your own sister!" Bubbles cried.
"You know I could never do that." Blossom calmly said. "But she deserved it. If she didn't want anymore, she would have stayed away."
What she was talking about suddenly dawned on Bubbles. "Wait a minute, you're the one who almost killed her earlier, didn't you!?"
Blossom frowned. "I said she deserved it! She has given me nothing but a living hell ever since I've known her! Now it's finally settled once and for all!"
Bubbles was in shock. "I don't believe this! First you beat up Buttercup, then you beat her up even more with your cyborg army when you were done, and finaly just left her there to die?"
Blossom cringed. "I didn't need my cyborg army to defeat Buttercup the first time!" She growled through her clenched teeth. "They just had to help me out afterwards."
"With what, repairing your arm perhaps?" Bubbles said sarcastically.
With that, Blossom grew furious. Bubbles had just not only stepped on a nerve, but danced all over it too. "No .... I need this arm because of Buttercup!"
"You mean ..." Bubbles stuttered.
"All right, all right!" Blossom confessed in a loud voice, flying around the room. "What I did was have Mojo call the hotline pretending to be the Mayor. I was to lead you two into the woods and destroy you. Me and Buttercup fought for hours until I thought her beat. But then near the end she grabbed my arm, we flew around a bit, and eventually -"
Bubbles covered her ears with her arms. "No ... please, no details!" She pleaded.
Blossom's grim mood improved at this. She grinned, "What's the matter Bubbles? Don't you like the fact that your sister tore your other sister's arm off trying to stop her evil scheme? How do you think her shirt got covered with so much blood?"
At this, Bubbles just collapsed under the strain of it all. Blossom and Mojo-Jojo were taking over the world, and Buttercup might be dead. She simply lay their on the floar and started bawling under such extreme circumstances.
Blossom looked at her sister with no emotion. At least, not at first. Then her mood dropped. She sighed unhappily, and floated down to her sister. She placed her arm on her shoulder to comfort her like she always did.
Bubbles stopped crying and looked at her sister. Blossom smiled, and slowly Bubbles smiled back. For a second, Bubbles didn't see an evil being bent on destroying the world. She didn't see hate, confusion, or someone who didn't realize what she was really doing. She saw her sister. A face that loved her and cared about her. A face that wanted everything that was best for her.
After a second, Bubbles reached up and hugged Blossom. Then she started crying again. Blossom wasn't sure if it was because of joy or sadness, but at the moment she didn't care. She just sat their, holding Bubbles as tears poured out of her sisters face. For a moment, it looked like the perfect picture of what everyone though the Powerpuff Girls were. For a moment, the past was forgotten and everything was normal. For a moment, the fact that there was a huge destructive army and a half dead person around them didn't exist.
After a bit of a pause, Bubbles regained herself enough to talk. "Please!" She whispered to Blossom. "Please don't go through with this!"
Blossom closed her eyes. A single tear ran down her own face. "I'm sorry, it's something I have to do."
Bubbles sniffed back some tears. "Why? Why would you want to do this to yourself and everyone else?"
"Because I'm different." Blossom answered. "I'm not the stars you see in the sky every night. I'm that supernova everyone rarely sees."
"But a supernova is nothing but a violent destruction of a star!"
Blossom looked down at the floor sadly. "I know."
Bubbles tore herself away from the moment. Biting her lip, she rubbed the tears out her eyes. "Please Blossom! I don't want you to be a part of this! Look at yourself, you've already been permanently damaged physically! What more does it have to take?"
Blossom stood up. "Until I can quell this burning desire inside of me to do something evil once and for all!"
"But why give into evil?" Bubbles begged.
"Because there is no other way!"
"Yes there is!" Bubbles shouted. "You wanted me to join you, now I ask you to join me! We can help you Blossom; your family, your friends!"
"None of them will ever understand!" Blossom cried in frustration.
"You though I would understand!" Bubbles yelled. Blossom stopped flying away and sadly listened. "That's why you didn't bring me along when Mojo made that fake call, isn't it? Because you don't want any harm done to me?"
Blossom turned to face her sister. "Yes, I did want you to join me, but you yourself said you didn't want to join!"
Bubbles crossed her arms as Blossom landed down next to her again. "I don't! I just want to help you!"
"Just come along with me!" Blossom beseeched her sister. "Don't make me force you to join me!"
"You wouldn't!"
"Don't make me have to!"
"You couldn't if you really did love me!"
At this, Blossom exploded in a wave a fury. Then she aimed her robotic arm at her and opened fire, but not with her laser. Instead she unleashed her taser like weapon that knocked Bubbles out cold. Blossom stared at her for a second before calling in some of her cyborg troops. "Take away my sisters and program them like everyone else, but put Bubbles on hold!" She ordered the cyborgs. She watched them take them away without any emotion. "Since you will not join me," she said to nobody in particular, "then I will eventually make you join me!"
Meanwhile, the Professor was still tinkering around in his lab, unaware of the conflicts occurring elsewhere. Just as he was adjusting some final adjustments on one of his machines, he heard a buzzing sound.
Wondering what the noise was, the Professor walked out of his laboratory. Then he heard it again, the hotline was buzzing upstairs. Wondering where his girls were, he ran upstairs and answered it.
"Powerpuff Girls?" The Mayor said on the other end. "You sound different!"
"It's not the girls Mayor! It's me, Professor Utonium."
"Oh my oh my, were are the girls?" Asked the Mayor.
"I don't know! Blossom and Buttercup were missing this morning, and so Bubbles went off to find them. And I haven't seen her since. I've been wondering where they've been all day."
"So, Bubbles is now missing too, Hmmm..." The Mayor said out loud to himself. "Well, I guesss I'll just have to add her to the list."
The Professor raised an eyebrow. "Uh, what list, Mayor?"
"A list of all the people who are currently missing in Townsville. The police have been getting calls about it all day!"
"Oh my!" The Professor gasped. "What do they think it is? A massive kidnapping? One of the super villains?"
"...... Miss Bellum?" The Mayor confessed, not knowing the answer as always.
The Professor sat there holding the phone for a minute as he barely heard the Mayor and his secretary talking. Eventually, the Mayor came back on.
"Well, I have disgusted ... er, discussed it thoroughly with Miss Bellum who has been talking to the chief of police - and nobody has a clue as to what is going on."
The Professor sighed. "Well, thank you for telling me this Mayor. You'll let me know when you find the girls and everyone else?"
"Of course!" The Mayor chuckled. "Then I can send them home to answer the hotline and solve the mystery of the missing people!"
Groaning, the Professor hung up the phone. Sometimes he wondered how the girls could stand him. The girls ....
The Professor got worried. What is to happen when not only a large number of people are missing, but the people who could stop it are missing as well? And what greater evil could be behind this?
At that very moment, that great evil was preparing a greater evil at hand. Blossom watched several monitors inside her and Mojo's hidden fortress. She was monitoring all the large cities of the United States. "Where to strike first?" She asked herself. "There's so many places and so many people. This is going to take me forever to capture or destroy everybody. That is, unless someone defeats me ...."
Blossom floated out of her chair and started wandering through the upper level of the compound. She sighed in her depressed state. It was hard to be cheerful in situations like this, no matter how you truly felt about it.
Suddenly, Mojo-Jojo pranced into the room. He was as happy as can be. "Oh joy! Oh happiness! Oh, what a great fealing this is, to finaly be able to take over the world! I'm so happy, why, I could sing, sing, SING!"
Blossom rolled her eyes and turned away from Mojo. He saw this, and his joyous proclamation ended in confusion. He walked up to the ex-Powerpuff Girl and placed his hand on her shoulder.
"What's the matter?" He asked, in a voice that was more annoyed than concerned. "Why aren't you happy? We're talking over the world! I thought that's what you wanted?"
Before Blossom could answer, a cyborg soldier approached the two. "You wanted to know when your sisters were being prepared." It told its master.
"Ah, very good, this should be interesting!" Blossom said, perking up a bit. She brushed Mojo's hand away and headed off to the designed area.
Mojo quickly followed and caught up to her. "There's something you're not telling me, is there?" He asked. Blossom floated on in silence.
The evil genius frowned. He was, in fact, not one-hundred percent trustworthy on Blossom joining him and all. She had, in fact, rather forced it upon him Mojo thought to himself. Instead of sending him to jail like Blossom always did, she made him spill the beans on his newest and truly greatest plan. Apparently, she liked what she heard, and joined him. But, Mojo thought, there has to be more to this than just wanting to rule the world. He was, after all, a super genius with a superior mind.
"You know, this is becoming too easy." Blossom said out loud, derailing and causing an overturn of Mojo's train of thought. "We have a huge army of powerful warriors. Bubbles and Buttercup are under our control. The world is practically being put into the palm of my hand. But what fun is it if you don't have a challenge?"
"A challenge!" Mojo said, confused over what she had just said. "This is not a challenge, this is a conquest of Earth. A conquest of Earth is what we have. We don't have any opposition anymore, now that you've already taken care of your sisters."
"But that's just the point!" Shouted out Blossom, as the two of them entered the elevator to bring them down to the next level. "We go in, and come out victors. And after we have done that, then what?"
Mojo scratched his head. "We rule the world obviously!"
"As what? As someone who just came into power by a simple unchallenged takeover?"
Mojo snapped around to face Blossom, finger pointing. "That's easy for you to say! I've been trying to take over the world many many different times! And now I will finally be recognized as a true evil genius. Because that is what I am, a true evil genius who has been trying to take over the world many many different times!"
"But that's you! This is my one and only chance to quell by urges. My only time I will let myself give into evil. After that, I will have engraved my personality into the tablets of time." Now it was her turn to challenge Mojo. "And I don't want to be known as a simple 'come in and take it all like it was no problem' person!"
Neither of them said anything for a few seconds as they exited the elevator platform. Blossom was actually disappointed for two reasons. One, she thought for sure that Bubbles would join her by her own free will. And secondly, Buttercup was not as challenging as she thought she would be. Mojo was to himself as well. He had never looked at taking over the world as something to do as fun. It was work.
Blossom eventually broke the speechless yet industrial filled noise. "All the greatest victors in history went up against the impossible odds and won. But now the odds are in our favor so much, there's no challenge what-so-ever."
They had finally entered the room where they turned average people into cyborgs when Mojo got mad again. "I hope you're not planning on letting your sisters go so they will provide us a challenge and give yourself a better name!"
"But I don't want it to be easy! I want a challenge! People will worship you more if you conquer great goals instead of a simple takeover!"
"Your highness!" A cyborg instructed in production of the people yelled out to Blossom when they had approached. "The one you call Buttercup has escaped after a small power shortage in her holdings! She ran away before she could find her sister after we called in reinforcements."
Without any emotion, Blossom gazed around the room while Mojo gawked at it in shock. There were a few burn marks here and their from eye lasers, and a hole in the wall where someone had flown out of. All the other cyborgs working on the assembly lines turned to face Blossom. They were expecting her to lash out and destroy this incompetent fool. But she didn't, instead she smiled. Then she started laughing. Everyone, including Mojo, were wondering what she was up to.
"Quickly," she shouted to everyone, "now to that the tides of fate have been tipped we need to push them to the extreme!"
Buttercup had quickly flown out of the fortress and was now flying back through Townsville. She was mad, very mad. Blossom had betrayed them and had defeated her. And the fact that she had defeated the great and mighty Buttercup ticked her off the most.
As she flew home as fast as she could, she had to slow down to catch her breath every now and then. She was still in allot of pain over all the affliction she had been dealt with this fine day. But then she would promptly fly off; burnt, cut, torn, bleeding, and defeated. As she flew over the outskirts of Townsville near the woods, she noticed something odd. There wasn't any people out in the streets. It was as if a large section of town had just vanished.
"Blossom must be behind this!" She thought to herself after thinking it over. "She's turning everyone into her cyborg army!"
Eventually, she had finally made it back home. Home. That word calmed Buttercup's wounded pride and body. She slowly slumped through the door and promptly collapsed upon the floor from exhaustion. Apparently she was more injured then she thought she was. After she had taken a few good breaths, she called out for the Professor. She lay on the floor in silence for a second till she heard someone running up the stairs. In shock, Professor Utonium dashed out of his lab and upstairs to see one of his girls beaten and lying in the doorway.
"Buttercup!" She shouted as he ran over to her. "Oh, Buttercup, you're OK!" He picked up Buttercup who cringed in pain. He placed her on the couch then quickly ran into the bathroom for some medical supplies.
"Where were you? I was so worried!" He asked as he started cleaning Buttercup's wounds then bandaged them up. "Where are your sisters? Does it have anything to do with all the other disappearances?"
Buttercup took a deep breath, this was going to be hard for anyone to understand. "Yes, an evil being has been capturing everyone and turning them into mutant cyborgs of some sort. She captured me and Bubbles, but I just escaped."
"But where's Blossom?" The Professor asked.
"Well," Buttercup wasn't sure how to drop this on the Professor. "Blossom is the evil being that is capturing everybody!!"
"WHAT!!" Professor Utonium flew over the back of the couch in shock and crashed onto the floor. A minute later he woke up from his sudden slumber with a headache. "What ... what happened !?!" He asked.
"You fainted when I told you that Blossom is really an evil cyborg and is turning everyone into cyborgs!"
The Professor was out cold again ... pathetic.
Buttercup groaned in disgust and pain. She sat up and started floating around the room, angry. "This is great! Nobody is going to believe me now!"
Before she could start thinking of anything to do, the doorbell rang. Grumbling, she went over and answered the door. It was the Mayor! "Mayor!? What are you doing here? Why didn't you call?"
"Well, it's the strangest thing!" He said as he let himself in. "I've been getting a huge amount of calls on disappearances for quiet some time. It seams that dozens of people have just up and vanished. Even our heros, the Powerpuff Girls, have also disappeared."
A moan escaped Buttercup's lips. "Mayor, I'm right here."
The mayor did a double take then gave Buttercup a big hug. "Oh Buttercup, I have found you! Thank goodness you're safe!"
"Ow!" Buttercup yelled as the Mayor squeezed her, putting pressure on her wounds. "Watch what you're doing!"
As she pushed him away, she added, "And you didn't find me, I just got back from the kidnappers."
The Mayor's face fell towards the floor. "Awww .... now I'll never be a hero."
Suddenly, the doorbell rang, sending the Mayor jumping into the air in suddenly surprise. Wondering who it could be this time, Buttercup answered the door again. And once again, she was in shock who was at the door. Except this time, the shock was from surprise, it was a shock full of the deepest horror that made you stomach churn as if you've had nothing to eat all day but bean burritos (or something like that).
"Hello again Buttercup." Blossom coldly stated at the doorway.
Buttercups expressions and feelings fell. Then she growled and prepared to charge her sister.
"Before you attack," Blossom warned the predictable attack, "you better stop and remember what happened last time, especially since I didn't even break a sweat! Not bad for a bossy wimpy tattle tale!"
Buttercup stop coming at her with force, then dropped her face in anger. Then she looked up to face her enemy. "What do you want?" She scorned.
Blossom let herself in, gazing around the room without answering. She didn't see the Professor, because he was still koncked out behind the couch. "Mayor!" She said in surprise and normal voice. "What are you doing here?"
The cowardly little man peeked from his hiding spot behind the lamp. "Well, I wanted to see what the Professor had to say about the Powerpuff Girls missing."
Blossom gasped in shock. "You don't say!" She said so sarcastically, that anyone but the Mayor could have figured it out. "Have you tried calling the hotline?"
He nodded. "Yes, but the Professor said that you girls were missing!"
Blossom scratched her chin in thought. "Maybe you should call again, and see if they're home again!" She suggested.
"Why Blossom, that's a great idea!" He shouted, and ran out of the house to call it.
After he had left, Blossom started chuckling. "Oh that Mayor! He should be the Mayor of stupid gullible town or something!"
Buttercup started to ask Blossom what she was doing here again, but she was interrupted. "Now, I'll let you know that Mojo, nor anyone else, knows that I'm here. He thinks I'm just checking up on what's going on in town."
"So what are you doing here? To capture me?"
Blossom laughed. "Not at all dear sister! What would make you think of such a thing?"
"The fact you tried to kill me twice in the same day!"
Ignoring that comment, Blossom continued. "At midnight tonight, we're starting the conquest of Earth. There are hundreds of soldiers being made faster than you can ever imagine! Soon, everyone will become one of the one, or be destroyed! But I don't want it to easy, and only you can stop me!"
Buttercup blinked in surprise. Was this some kind of a trick?
Blossom continued again. "I don't want so wimpy takeover, I want people to see that I went up against impossible odds to achieve this victory to get the highest praise, and highest confidence. And so, I'm giving you the knowledge of my time, giving you an epoch to figure out a way to quell my conniving of calamity!!"
Buttercup was confused. "I'm confused." She said.
Blossom looked angry. "Fight me, or I'll destroy the Earth !!!!" After this short angry fit, she regained her senses. "Anyway, I still have Bubbles, and you even have six hours to find some help if you want to save the world."
Then she turned around to leave. Buttercup just sat their watching her slowly exit. No, this was not the same Blossom they all knew. This was the Blossom that was never to be unleashed.
Just as Blossom was out of the door, she turned to her sister and said with a smirk, "Let's see if you can save the world, while bedtime still exists!"
The Professor was still out cold on the floor behind the couch. Buttercup looked at him for a second before hitting him to wake him up. He jumped up with a start, calling out for his blankie till he saw Buttercup floating over him.
"Oh, uh ... what's happening sweetheart?" He nervously asked, blushing at his little outbust.
Buttercup shook her head. "I told you, we need to stop Blossom. Apparently she has teemed up with Mojo-Jojo and is unleashing an army of cyborgs on the world tonight at midnight. It seems she's evil and playing some sort of game. But she doesn't want it to be easy. She wants me to try to stop her so she can make a sport of it."
"Well why don't you stop her then?" The Professor asked as he sat back down on the couch.
"She's too strong!" Buttercup eventually and hesitantly yelled out. "I tried to take her already, but I wasn't even a challenge. I never knew she had it in her. Besides that, the cyborg army is just as tuff!"
The Professor thought for a minute. Buttercup frowned. She had forgotten on how much of a blow this would be on the Professor. Blossom was like a daughter to him. And now he had to accept the fact that she had turned on them all. Oh how she wished he could understand, that she could understand.
Eventually, he spoke up again, softly. "Did she give any reasons for her wanting to do something like this?"
"From what I gathered, only Bubbles really knows for sure. But I think it has to do something with fulfilling her evil desires or something. I think she has a bad case of the philosophizes."
The Professor sighed unhappily again. He sniffed his nose and turned away from Buttercup for a second. After a minute, he turned to her again. "Well, I guess I better continue cleaning you up and stuff so you can be ready for tonight."
Buttercup silently agreed, nodding her head in silence.
They both went up the stairs for further bandaging. "To be honest with you Buttercup," the Professor eventually said. "I'm surprised you're still alive! One would think you wouldn't be doing very well after loosing so much blood."
Buttercup asked what he meant by this. Did she really look that bad, or was she missing something completely? Sure, she had lost two major battles, but why would the Professor doubt her so much?
"Well, just look at your shirt!" He said, rubbing his fingers on a tear in her dress that was falling off the rest of it. "It looks like it was practically drenched in blood!"
"Oh ..." Buttercup happily understood. "Well, to be honest with you, most of this blood on my shirt isn't mine, it's Blossom's." She was about to tell him how it happened, but she didn't think he would be able to take it well. Heck, the sight of you pulling your sisters arm off would be squeamish to anyone.
"Blossom's blood?" The Professor thought in wonder. "You know, I think I have an idea!"
The he unexpectedly turned around and started running downstairs. Dumbfounded at what he could be up to, Buttercup quickly followed.
"What do you mean? What have you thought of?" She asked as she caught up to him.
The Professor opened the door to his lab and started walking down the stairs. "Well, Buttercup, I've been studying lots of things lately. Mainly you girls, chemical-X, and changing the course of nature."
He turned on all the lights and started opening a bunch of closets. He proceeded to pull a bunch of equipment from them. "And the way I see it, the best way to defeat your sister is morally, not physically!"
"What is it? I can do it!"
"Oh don't worry Buttercup, it won't be anything terrible." He said, as he pulled out his log and past notes. "But we'll need to build fast. Buttercup, for starters, I'll need to see your shirt."
Several hours later, Blossom stood on the top of the fortress that held the world's immanent doom. She stared off onto the gigantic unsuspecting Townsville. It's lighted lights were silently glimmering in the darkening hours of night. The entire thing looked more like a picture than anything real. The whole area asleep, all sound and secure, all unaware that someone was contemplating it's very existence.
But soon, everything would be destroyed, and then her conquest will finally begin, and possible end. She sighed, looking into the starry night.
"I've created the strongest army ever assembled." She said to herself. "I have so much power, nobody could possibly stand in my way. Buttercup and the Professor are bound to think up something grand. I'm about to have the fight of my life, and the inhabitance of Earth will respect me for it. And best of all, I'll finally satisfy these urges in my head to do something wrong for a change. Almost everything is going according to plan!""
She stopped talking and looked back at the stars. "So why am I not happy?"
Then she frowned. She had already answered her question. "But nobody respects my views. Not even Bubbles who I thought would instantly join me to be with her sister and have a taste of victory for once."
She paced back and forth across the roof in discerning thought. "Nobody knows the pain I have inside me! Nobody wants to do evil more than I. And since I can't deal with it, then I shall rid it once and for all!"
She stopped pacing and floated for a second. "But nobody understands this. No one possible can! They all think I'm just evil!"
Blossom looked back up to the stars which surprisingly seemed to calm her down. Her eyes gazed at the marvelous heavens. Tiny special of light reflected in her eyes. She slowly and heavily breathed a large sigh of calmed relief. "I can always count on the vastness of space to relax me." She smiled and looked at Townsville. "The stars are just like people. From the broad sense, they all look the same. But each one has their own specialities, and their own story to tell."
Suddenly, her mood changed sour and evil again. Standing up straight she hollered, "And soon everyone in the would world will know that Blossom Utonium is no mere speck in the heavens, no average superhero, but a giant supernova to be feared and respected!"
She started pacing across the roof faster than before, thinking out loud. "I am changing the tides now. A new era where good can be bad, and those who have the power can do whatever they please! A time where we can do what we have to live the normal life we want! We are now reaching the next hour!!"
Just then, she heard the sound of the elevator coming up. She turned around to see Mojo-Jojo in a frolicsome mood. He practically sang as he merrily skipped about the roof. "Everything is ready! Soon, we will be burning the midnight oil, and our conquest will begin!"
Blossom gaze withdrew to the stars once more. "And hopefully, someone will try to blow out that lamp."
Mojo raised his eyebrow. "You say something?"
Blossom snapped out of her hypnotizing gaze at the starry sky. "Nothing. Nothing at all."
Mojo shook his head. He still wasn't sure why Blossom was doing this anyway. "Shall we begin transformation of your sister, Bubbles?" He asked.
"No! Wait till the enemy has laid down their best card before playing yours." She answered. She looked around the surrounding area for anyone approaching. "Any sign of Buttercup or any opposition yet?"
After looking at his new watch that gave him a total readout of the complex's activities, Mojo answered. "Nobody has been seen near the compound. That is to say ..."
Blossom sighed, interupting Mojo's rambling. She didn't want to do this without proving it could withstand a great force like Buttercup! This was unlike her sister, who normaly didn't want to cut it this close. She was the rush in full of action type of a gal.
Mojo went to work, and pressed a few buttons on his watch. He was about to press the all systems go button when he turned to Blossom. "Everything is ready!" He said in a super cheerful voice. "Shall we begin!?"
Blossom kept thinking about what could happen instead of what was happening for a second. "Unless," Blossom said out loud, "unless she has something planed!"
After some thought, and before Mojo could react, she shouted "Deploy the troops!" She smiled to herself. "This evening might go well after all!"
Mojo smiled a different kind of smile, and pressed the last button.
The factory hummed to life as all the machines that had been created over the last few hours were brought to life. Hundreds of cyborgs were activated, as their red optical right eyes glowed to prove it. They all stood up as one massive force, then all turned to the main exit.
Then, the whole side of the front fortress opened up as one gigantic doorway, allowing the passage of such a large number of destructive troops. Gears and motors groaned as the entrance rose, giving the image of a giant beast unleashing demons from its mouth. They all trudged through the miles of woods that had sheltered them from view of the city. All in perfect formation, they slid around trees that blocked their paths. None strayed, and none fell out of line. It was the most perfect and most powerful army ever constructed.
Soon they grew ever more nearer Townsville, their prior home. It was now their target for mass destruction, and there was no stopping them. There they all marched, still in a perfect formation. All going straight, all going menacing, all going to consume and destroy.
"The soldiers shall arrive into the city in less than five minutes." One of the higher soldiers reported via communications of Mojo's watch.
"Yessssss!" Mojo said in his usual evil voice. Then he turned to Blossom. "I'm going to watch this from the main control room. Care to join me?"
"No thanks, I'll just watch it up from here."
"All right!" Mojo said in his happy happy voice. But then in quickly turned sour and stern. "But if you dare even think about betraying me to stop my sinister plot, remember that the cyborgs also obey me! So you cannot defeat me if you would betray we, because they would protect me."
Blossom rolled her eyes. "Don't worry your silly big head about this! I'm not going to betraying you. I'm finaly and really going with you this time!"
Mojo smiled once again. "Great! See you when we're ready for the next target." Then he left down the elevator platform humming a jolly tune.
Blossom looked at the city of Townsville. At first, she showed no emotion. But then, something in the back of her mind started laughing. Not loud at fist, but soon it consumed her like the evil it was. And it felt good!
"Excellent!" Blossom laughed with glee. "So far, everything is going how I want it to be! Now all I have to wait for is some-"
"Not so fast Powerpuff Fraud!" Buttercup shouted as she flew up to the top of the fortress.
"-opposition!" Blossom smiled. "Your timing is perfect dear sister! What marvelous battle plan have you constructed to defeat me?"
Buttercup smiled as well. She had been waiting for this moment all day long. Facing evil straight into the face, she boldly said, "I'm not going to do a thing to try and stop you!"
Blossom's expressions fell to joy to extreme anger. "And why not !?!"
"Because she is!" Buttercup said.
As she said that, someone else flew up next to Buttercup. It was the result of what the Professor had been working on for the past few hours. It was a warrior to help defeat the evil cyborg threat.
It was Blossom.
End of Part Two