WEEKEND AT BUBBLES'


A 'black comedy' by Gary Curtis (Icekings2000)



Powerpuff Girls created by Craig McCracken and all related characters owned by Cartoon Network





CHAPTER TEN


Professor's idea had done the trick. Seeing proof that Bubbles could really go right through solid objects along with seeing her plastic-entombed body made everyone who saw it believers. Seeing it on television erased the fear and panic that would have resulted from a sudden revelation in a public setting like at Townsville Hall. Now, everyone was pumped to see their new ghost superhero.

Well, not everyone. Some of Townsville's criminal element who weren't incarcerated at the moment had been watching TV when the news hit. The problem was, they only stuck around long enough to hear that one of the Powerpuffs had met with a spell of extreme bad luck. It was their lucky day, though, and they intended to make the most of it. They would have a much better chance of escaping justice against only two Powerpuffs, who were probably grieving and in no condition to fight. So, they hit the streets to begin their crime spree without knowing 'the rest of the story'. They would be in for some extreme fun very soon. Only, just not for them.

After they all said goodbye to Whitfield and the film crew, Professor told the Girls to just take it easy while he tried calling Egon Spengler again. They went to their room and lounged around, talking about what the party might be like. Bubbles had an idea and her sisters both liked it a lot. Blossom picked up the phone and called the mayor's office and asked for Ms. Bellum. A minute later, she told her sisters that their friend would come through for them and get what they needed. They were still giggling about it when Professor burst into the room.

"Girls!"

They all sat up, but Bubbles got a very strange look on her face and floated off the bed.

"Bubbles, what is it?!" her sisters shouted.

"They're baaaaaaaack!"

"Who's back?! Poltergeists?!" Their heads whipped around as they fearfully looked for whatever spirits Bubbles was seeing. Professor leaned against the doorway, a small grin on his face.

"No, you dummies!" Bubbles laughed. "Them guys that are gonna help me, right Professor?"

"Yes, Bubbles. Egon just got back to New York and he was watching the news when I called. He thinks he's got just the thing, only it'll take him a few days to build it. All the things he needs are there."

All of them were ecstatic but Bubbles most of all. She flew happily into his arms.

"If you can put up with being a ghost for another week, this'll all be over."

"Yay!" they shouted. Buttercup added, "Professor, you comin' downtown with us?"

He looked at his watch and saw it was already after four.

"I'd better not, Girls; there's some things I need to do here. You three just go and have a good ti-."

"Bzzzt! Bzzzt! Bzzzt!"


* * * * * * *

Forty-five minutes later, the streets of Townsville were clean once more. Blossom stayed in constant communication with the mayor's office with the wrist Hotline phone she hadn't bothered to wear the night before, when she went out to pick up their dinner. She and Buttercup distracted the surprised criminals who figured they woudn't show, and Bubbles did the rest. All she had to do was just fly past and scoop them up. When her arms were full, they made a quick trip to jail, where the warden and guards had been alerted. Stunned prisoners mumbled to themselves as they were locked up and were teased and insulted by those in the adjoining cells who already knew the story from watching it on TV.

"Ha ha, you dorks! Imagine, bein' put in jail by a stiff!"

Several passes through the city was all it took, leaving the thugs dazed and confused and the rescued citizens shouting out "Thanks, Bubbles!"

Bubbles was having the time of her life...er...well, you know. But there was a very good chance that that would last a lot longer than just another week.


* * * * * * *

The girls flew back home with little time to get ready for the party. They went to see Professor in the lab. He had let the Channel Five folks take his camera with them so they could do the hooking up needed for the crowd to see Bubbles, but now he gave the Girls the other pairs of glasses to give to Sara, Mayor and others who would need them. Bubbles picked her body up and they said goodbye.

"Hey, where are you going with that?" he said.

"That?" Blossom and Buttercup inquired, eyebrows raised.

"Sorry! Bubbles, I don't think it's a good idea to take yourself downtown. We can't have anything happen to you before Egon gets here. You'll be safer here."

"Oh, Professor! Nothin's gonna happen!" Buttercup grouched.

"Yeah! We're the Powerpuff Girls!" said Bubbles. "'Sides, everybody wants to see me an' everybody can't 'cause we don't have enough glasses so not everybody'll be able to see me so this way everybody'll be able to see even though they can't an'-"

"All right, all right! Just be careful! I want the three...er, four of you coming home safe and sound!"

He told them one more time to have fun. They went to their room and got a few things together so they could carry out Bubbles' idea, and they flew off to Townsville Hall.


* * * * * * *

It was nearly six P.M. at Townsville Jail and the TV room was so packed with those who wanted to watch the televised party that was about to start that another room had to be set up. Extra guards with shotguns stood around. This put a drain on security elsewhere in the jail, but many of the cells were empty, their occupants all in the two rooms. Two inmates were conspicuously absent but everyone understood why Mojo Jojo wouldn't want to be there. Nobody could understand what was wrong all of a sudden with Lenny, who was in his cell, mumbling to himself, wearing the strait jacket that Mojo had worn earlier.

"I touched dead people!"

In Block B, a guard walked through the quiet corridor between cells. As he neared Mojo Jojo's cell, he saw the monkey's shadow on the wall and teased him about coming down to watch the show. As he stepped in front of the cell he froze. He grabbed for his radio.

"Get me some help down here in 'B', NOW! Mojo's hung himself!"


* * * * * * *

All guards carry knives just for this reason, and Mojo was quickly cut down. The guard felt a pulse and the medics that came got the evil monkey out of there in a hurry. The warden stood outside the cell and took what might be a clue from one of the five guards who had checked out the cell. It was a crumpled piece of paper.

"Could be a suicide note." the guard said.

The warden unfolded it and started reading while the guard looked over his shoulder.

"I, Mojo Jojo, no longer wish to exist in this place if I can be defeated by a Powerpuff Girl even AFTER she has been destroyed. Therefore, I will exist OUTSIDE of this place! Muahahahahaha!!!!"

The guard looked at the warden. "Hey, you don't think by 'outside of this place' he means-"

Alarms going off all over answered THAT question.


End of Chapter Ten