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Part Two: Chemical X Transformation
"Hmm," the Professor thought out loud. He was with the Rowdyruff Boys in his lab, studying a bit of DNA under a powerful microscope. "I think that the reason you aren't as evil as you were is because when Mojo used--er, you said it was toilet water--to create you, the cells of all the inmates who used that particular toilet were included in the mix, including Mojo, who was
originally infused with Chemical X, enhancing your desire to cause mayhem, and enlarging your medulla oblongatas. This, in turn, caused you to become very angry--much like the prisoners--in such a way that you had to lash out at whoever was around... namely the Powerpuff Girls."
"Ohh...."A few beats of silence passed, and all three boys said, "What?"
The Professor sighed. "I mean that when you were created, he used an incomplete mix, and you were evil, but would have exploded anyway. Besides, being kissed wasn't that bad, was it?"
Chuckling, Boomer said, "Oh, it was grea--"
Butch whipped his hand up and covered Boomer's mouth. "Yeah, they were nasty! We hated them. RIGHT, Boomer?" Butch removed his hand.
"Uh, yeah, disgusting. Breath was too sweet." Boomer looked away.
The other two boys rolled their eyes.
"Well, they did cause you to explode," The Professor reasoned. "That means that Mojo used an unstable mix."
Brick smirked and said, "Just like him to do a half-assed job." He sobered himself. "So, now what, um, Dad?"
The Professor chuckled and tried to think of a good answer. "Well, I guess that you can stay with us in the guest room until we can get you a room of your own. However, if you do plan on staying with us, you'll have to agree to the house rules, which I will explain later. But right now, let's see what the girls think of this idea."
The Rowdyruff Boys, filled with hope, followed the Professor into the living room to join the girls.
"Live with US?" the girls repeated, shocked. They all knew that this is what they wanted, to be able to get to know the boys better, but this was better than any of them expected.
"Well," Blossom said cautiously, making sure not to seem the least bit anxious about letting any of the three Ruffs enter their household. "I think it would be okay with us. What do you think girls?" She didn't even turn around to look at them. She just kept her eyes on the red Ruff's, and waited for the Professor to say something.
"Yeah," Buttercup said. "Just as long as we don't have to share a room. Yuck!" But her outward appearance gave away her true feelings as she blushed, and looked at the ceiling.
Bubbles didn't say anything, but smiled sweetly and dragged her foot on the floor, which nobody seemed to notice.
The Professor said, "Then it's settled. I'll call the Mayor's office and tell him to prepare the paperwork." Then, as a second thought, he added, "Brick, maybe you should speak with Miss
Bellum. She's the Mayor's assistant."
"Why should I speak wit--" Brick cut himself off, remembering what happened the last time they were in Townsville. He and his brothers nearly destroyed the town, along with their sissies... er, saviors. How better to convince the bigwigs that they weren't evil anymore than to send one of their own to say a few sweet words? He finally said, "Okay... Dad." He smiled at his new father.
Miss Bellum walked into the room in time to see the Mayor asleep at his desk, next to an empty glass. She was about to leave when the phone rang. This in turn caused the Mayor to jolt awake.
"No! I'll be a good boy!" Mayor looked around and found that he was still in his office. "Whew," he said, putting a hand to his head. "I'll never mix carrot juice and mushroom juice again!" The phone rang again, and he reached over and pulled it off the hook, pressing it to his ear. "Mayor's office. Mayor speaking.... Oh, hello, 'Prof.' Utonium. What can I do for you?"
On the other end of the phone, the Professor was standing next to the phone with Brick right next to him.
"'Prof?'" The Professor looked blankly into the receiver for a moment before realizing that it was the abbreviation for ' Professor.' "Oh, right," he said as soon as he understood. "Well, Mayor, the reason I'm calling is that Mojo has recreated the Rowdyruff Boys."
"Oh, that's lovely," the Mayor said densely. "But why would Mojo recreate--" Suddenly, his mind received the message. "THE ROWDYRUFF BOYS?! MISS BELLUM, CALL THE
MILITIA!!"
"No, no, Mayor! It's fine! They aren't evil anymore!"
"They aren't? Blah, but if they aren't evil... then..."
The Mayor heard an unfamiliar voice over the phone. "Hey, Mayor!"
"What the?" he asked. "Who is this?"
"This is Brick, one of the Rowdyruff Boys. It's okay now! We have no intention of destroying Townsville or them Powerpuffs anymore. Do you think I can talk to Miss Bellum?"
"Blah, sure! She's right here!" He handed the phone over to Miss Bellum. "Here, Miss Bellum! It's Brick of the Rowdyruff Boys."
"Uh, okay," she said. "What does he want?" asked she.
The Mayor smiled. "To talk with you, of course! He wouldn't be calling if he didn't want to
talk!"
"Well... that... DOES make sense, mayor." She took the phone from the mayor and said,
"Hello? Is this Brick?"
"Yeah, this is me. Is this Miss Bellum?"
"Yes, this is Miss Bellum. What did you want to talk to me about?"
"Well, Miss Bellum, My brothers and I wanted to tell you that we aren't evil anymore. We
were recreated by Mojo, but this time we turned out not being evil. Isn't that great? Now we can
help the girls in fighting crime."
"Yes," Miss bellum said, relieved. "And is the Professor going to be keeping you as his sons?"
"Yeah, I think so. Would that be all right with the Mayor?"
"Uh..." Taking a look down at the Mayor, who was bored with the phone call and was playing with the pencils on his desk. She said into the phone, "Yes, I think that would be acceptable."
"Kickin'! Well, thank you Miss Bellum. How long till it's official?"
"Oh, I'd say in about..." Suddenly, the wall was ripped off and Miss Bellum screamed at the sight of a fifty-foot tall gorilla.
"AHHHHHHHHH!"
"Miss Bellum?" Brick called into the phone, but got no answer. "Miss Bellum?! Are you
there?!"
Brick put the phone on the receiver and flashed upstairs. The burst into the door to their new bedroom where his brothers were bouncing on the bed.
Startled, Butch said, "Hey, what's all the--"
"Can it," Brick interrupted. "We have to get down to Townsville! The Mayor and Miss Bellum are in trouble! Follow me!" With that, he flew swiftly down the hall and to the door, waiting for his brothers. They soon appeared at his side and he opened the door. As they flew out, they knocked over a few Mormons selling bibles.
"Sorry," the three Ruffs said at once, but didn't stop flying.
"AHHHHHHHHH!!" Miss Bellum screamed as the massive gorilla hefted her body out of the Mayor's office and into the air with its palm, which was just about the size of Miss Bellum. The monster opened its hand and looked at Miss Bellum. However, this gorilla had hardly the kindness of King Kong, and roared directly into her face, causing her bushy head of hair to flap to and fro, is if she were in a hurricane. It closed his hand around her then began running towards the tallest building it saw. When it got there, it wrapped its humongous arms around the building, causing panicked screams from every single office inside. It reached the top and spotted three beams of light coming toward it. It stood up on the top and started swatting at these beams of light as they circled and wove in patterns, each time avoiding the large hand. Finally, the three beams of light came in close and pried Miss Bellum from the monster's mitts. The ape swung its hand down to try to smack them away, but it only touched air as the beams of light carried the pretty young lady down to the street, then back up to face the gigantic gorilla one last time.
This time, with two free hands, the ape was a much more formidable foe than when it was carrying Miss Bellum. It was swinging its arms as fast as its body's recoil would allow, and almost hit them a couple of times, but finally, they came in and delivered three very strong blows, which sent it flying to Easter Island.
"And don't come back," Brick said triumphantly as they watched it disappear into the distance.
All three of them flew down to meet Miss Bellum.
"Are you all right, Miss Bellum?" Brick asked, voice full of concern.
"Yes," she breathed. "I'm fine."
"How long did you say that the adoption process would take to complete?" Brick asked, smiling.
Miss Bellum smiled as well and said, "A couple of hours."
Bubbles was flying quickly and happily through the air of her bedroom, causing most of her stuffed animals and much lint to swirl in a small dust devil on the floor.
"I can't believe that the Rowdyruff boys are going to be living with us. This is SOOO COOL!"
Bubbles giggled to herself.
"Ah, pipe down," Buttercup snarled. "So they're moving in with us. Big whoop."
Bubbles stopped flying in the air. She sat on the bed and looked out the window.
"Buttercup," Blossom yelled. "That is no way to talk to your sister! Apologize!"
But before Buttercup could reply, Bubbles said, "Hey, aren't those the Rowdyruff Boys?" and pointed to the window.
Her sisters turned to look, and they saw that the Rowdyruff Boys were indeed flying home with huge smiles on their faces.
The girls raced downstairs to meet them.
As the three came in, they didn't wait for anyone to say anything, and said, "Miss Bellum is going to rush our adoption because we just saved her life!"
Right away, Blossom and Bubbles leapt forward and gave their counterparts great, big hugs.
"That's wonderful," they said in unison as the boys returned the hugs.
Buttercup, however showed a different version of affection, albeit subtle. She wound up and landed a 'gentle' punch to Butch's shoulder. "Way to go."
Butch smiled and returned the punch. "You too, babe."
Buttercup giggled a little. "What did I do to get that?"
"You smiled at me."
At this, Buttercup blushed, turning a deep shade of orange. "Well, you know, I..." She just
stopped talking and scratched the back of her head.
Butch laughed and led his brothers towards the kitchen. "Hey, Pops! Can we get something to eat?"
After they ate, the boys took the girls to the park to play on the playground equipment.
Buttercup and Butch spotted a tetherball pole. They grinned, then looked at each other, then in a
flash they were at the pole. Buttercup grabbed the ball first. She tossed it up into the air a little
then slammed it up into the air. Butch jumped up and backhanded the ball the other way.
Buttercup stopped the ball in mid-air by absorbing the momentum with her arm, swinging it back,
then slamming it with all her might. The ball went too fast even for Butch to see and swung all the
way around, touching the pole.
"Hah!" Buttercup shouted. "I beat you down, suckahfoo! Ah-hah! Who's yo mama? That's
right! I'm yo mama! Ha ha ha ha!"
Butch couldn't help but laugh at Buttercup's antics as she celebrated with a victory dance.
"Save that for your prom. Play me again."
She looked back at him. "All right. Prepare to get your big butt kicked once more!"
"Bring it on!"
"Hey, Bubbles," Boomer called over from a long stretch of paved sidewalk.
"Yeah, Boomer," Bubbles said as she hovered over to him.
"I bet you I can beat you running on this stretch of sidewalk without our powers!"
"You're on. Get ready to lose, big boy!"
"Heh. You might as well prepare yourself. You'll be tasting the asphault as I kick it up."
"I thought you said no powers!"
He laughed. "It was a figure of speech."
"Oh. Right."
Boomer squatted down into a sprinting position. "On your mark..."
"Get set," Bubbles said, matching the pose.
"GO!" They both raced off.
Bubbles got an early lead, but since she wasn't using her powers and hadn't a lot of experience running without them, she began to tire, giving Boomer a chance to catch up. But just then, Bubbles slipped on a rock, making her lose her balance and become panicked. Boomer noticed this and instantly used his super speed to catch her, but while he did so, he closed his eyes out of fear. When he opened them again, he saw that he had caught Bubbles in his arms and she had wrapped her arms around him. She also had her eyes closed.
She looked so cute just lying there in his arms, but he had to say, "Hey, cuteness, y'all right?"
She opened one eye, then the other and smiled. "That was kind of fun!"
Boomer just smiled.
Brick and Blossom were over at the swings.
"Hey, Blossom," Brick said. "Let's see how high we can swing without falling off or going all the way around."
"Yeah, let's go!"
They hopped on two swings that were next to each other and started pumping their legs back and forth to work up a momentum. It seemed like Blossom was going the highest, but then Brick swung up to a level slightly higher than the bar. Blossom kept pumping her legs but could not get that high. However, Brick started to go too high and flew off the swings. The momentum took him higher than the trees, which gave him a full view of Towsnville. Suddenly, in mid-air, he began to flail his arms in panic and shout incomprehensible things. He fell to the ground, landing flat on his back, which knocked the wind out of him. He kept moving his mouth, mostly in attempt to breathe, but it seemed like he was trying to say something else. As soon as she could,
Blossom jumped off the swing and ran to his side.
"Brick," she cried. "Brick, all you all right?"
Brick slowly got up and said, "Trouble."
"What?" Blossom asked, confused.
"I'll be right back!" He flew off toward Butch.
Butch wacked the tether ball back at Buttercup, and she returned the serve.
"BUTCH!"
Butch heard his name being called and turned to look to the place from which it came.
Consequently, he got thwacked with the ball, hurtling him away from the court. Brick came up behind him, caught him in mid air, and set him on the ground.
"Butch, serious trouble in Townsville. It's a giant snake. Go distract it while I get Boomer.
We'll be there ASAP."
Butch frowned, then nodded. "I'm on it." With that, he blasted off.
Boomer was still racing Bubbles. Pretty soon, Brick got in his way and stopped him... the hard way. But Brick didn't feel as much of the force because he braced himself.
"Hey, man!" Boomer said as he saw Bubbles keep going, obviously oblivious to what was going on. "Why did you stop me?"
"There's a giant snake attacking Townsville! We have to go now!"
Boomer went wide-eyed for a second, then smiled. "Ok, then. Let's beat down on this toad!"
Boomer and Brick rocketed off the ground and into the air towards Townsville.
"Where's Butch?" Boomer asked.
"I sent him ahead of us to distract the beast. Look, there he-- OH, MY GOD!"
They stopped dead in their tracks at the sight of Butch impaled on the viper's long fang. Butch had turned a pale blue, and he looked to be extremely pained with having a large spike through his chest. His eyes were bulging out, and blue blood was leaking out his mouth. The red and blue
Ruffs stared in horror as the snake shook Butch from its fang and let him drop to the ground.
Brick couldn't believe his eyes. His green brother had been taken down by a snake. He thought to himself, "This must not be any ordinary snake."
"Whuahahahaha!! I was expecting the Powerpuff Girls, but you'll do nicely, too."
The two remaining brothers looked around, but they couldn't find the origin of the voice.
"Who the hell said that?" Brick demanded.
Suddenly the snake charged, and they were just barely able to dodge it in time. Suddenly, a tall man with a red complexion and who was wearing what looked like a Santa Claus outfit, except for the trim being black instead of white, appeared. He spoke in a high-pitched voice.
The strange man began laughing. "Do you like my pet snake? He likes the taste of blood over his fangs." As he spoke, his snake began to flick his tongue over his bloody fangs as proof of what this man was saying.
"Who are you," Boomer asked. "And what do you want?!"
"Well, since you've never met me before, my name is HIM. I wanted to kill the Powerpuff Girls, but as long as you're here, I figure that when I kill you, they will be so inconsolable that I will be able to kill them and take over Townsville much easier."
"Well, if you plan to kill all of us..." Brick began,
"You'll die trying!" Boomer finished.
They heard a hiss and dived out of the way as the giant snake lunged again. Boomer heard the sound of cloth ripping followed by Brick crying out in pain. He turned and saw that the viper's fang had just barely grazed Brick's skin across his chest.
HIM said, "Interesting choice of words." He then pointed towards the snake. "I hope you have fun playing with my little pet. I call him 'Sniper' because he goes..." His voice suddenly became demonic. "...STRAIGHT FOR THE HEART!!"
Brick's wound was already starting to turn blue. He started doubling over in the pain, and
Boomer realized that it was only a matter of time before the poisonous venom overtook his red brother like it had taken Butch. He turned and scowled at HIM. "You'll pay for this."
"WHAT! Butch and the others left to take on this monster themselves? What jerks!" Buttercup frowned.
"Well, there's no time to waste," Blossom said, taking charge. "We have to get down there right away! Let's go!"
The three of them blasted off the ground. As the three began to get close, there seemed to be some snake or another slinking through Townsville. They spotted HIM, who was raising his arms in the air, seeming to be commanding something, and flew over.
"All right, HIM," Blossom said. "What are you up--" Blossom stopped in her tracks as she and her sisters looked down and spotted the boys laying lifelessly on the ground, dead eyes, blue skin, and huge holes through their bodies. Everything about them led to one obvious fact... that they had been murdered.
"Brick, no!" Blossom cried out.
"Boomer... this can't be," Bubbles squeaked, tears coming to her eyes. She covered her mouth with her hands.
"Butch..." Buttercup could only float in mid-air and stare at the boys' cadavers.
A few beats of eerie silence passed, and HIM said, "Ohhh... Powerpuff Girls... are you sad?" HIM was smiling maliciously at the trio. "I would be, too. They screamed so loudly when they died. It almost seems a shame! Almost! Ahahahaha!!"
Blossom growled. "You... you...."
Bubbles glared at HIM. "You didn't have to... to..."
Buttercup's eyes went ablaze. "KILL THEM!!"
Simultaneously, the girls screamed and burst into white flames of intense energy, startling HIM and Sniper. Sniper began to fear for his own life, and began to slither away. HIM, however,
quickly regained his composure.
"Oh," He said. "I hope you're not mad." He began laughing demonically again. He turned to the snake and willed it to come back, to which it obliged. As HIM turned back to face back at the girls, he got slammed in the face by one of them. This punch actually hurt, and he was launched through the wall of a large building. He pulled himself out of the rubble, rubbed a trace of blood off his face, and floated back over to where the girls were.
HIM growled demonically. "You pantywaists. I'll--" He stopped when he saw only one
Powerpuff. It looked like the other three except the now crimson red hair was standing on end, the eyes were emerald green, and the clothing was a sapphire blue. She was also burning with a bright rainbow-colored flame. With apprehension, he realized that the originals had melded together into one.
As this new Powerpuff Girl spoke, it echoed a mix of all three of the original Powerpuffs.
"HIM... you want to see ANGER?! HOW'S THIS FOR ANGER?!" The girl dived down at the snake and mercilessly and literally started beating it to a pulp. The snake was snapping at them, but each time, the girl would evade his attacks. Finally the girl had enough, and with a swipe of her hand, broke the snake's spine. She tore open the snake's back, tearing the organs out with
every stroke.
It seemed like forever for her to finish with the snake. As if ripping out its spine wasn't enough; she had to completely destroy it. She stood over what was left of the snake, then she looked over her shoulder at HIM and said, "You're next."
HIM looked at the corpse of the snake, all of his hard work at capturing the black mamba,
finding the right spell to make it obey him, then enlarging it to 15 times its normal size . . . all his hard work shattered. Then he realized that the new girl was coming straight at him. He quickly opened a portal and jumped through right before the new Powerpuff could get him. THIS
Powerpuff, however, was not about to let him get away unscathed, and put her hands together for an energy blast and fired it straight into the portal.
Inside HIM's lair, HIM had just emerged and was regretting his loss when out of the corner of his eye, he saw a bright light coming through from the other side. His eyes went wide and he put up his arms in defense. "AHHHHHHHH!" The energy blast tore into him.
The Powerpuff girl floated to the ground. By this time, the rainbow flame had disappeared, and she seemed a bit calmer. In a flash of light, Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup returned in the one girl's place, and knelt down beside their counterparts.
Bubbles, voice cracking, said, "Blossom... we have to take them back to the Professor. He'll know what to do."
Blossom looked at Bubbles, then back at Brick, and said, in a weak-sounding voice, "I don't think he can save them... but I'm willing to give it a try. Let's go."
They carefully picked the boys' bodies off the ground and flew off.
Buttercup remained silent all the way home.
The girls were waiting upstairs in their room to wait for any news concerning the boys. As they sat there, they began to wonder whether the boys would pull through.
Bubbles looked up at the ceiling. "Do you think the boys will be all right?"
Blossom looked down at the floor. "Maybe it just wasn't mean to be."
Buttercup glared at her red sister. "Stop being so cynical. You gotta think positive in times like these." She turned to Bubbles. "Of course the Professor will get the boys back up. Those boys are too rugged to bite the bullet."
"But if they bit a bullet," Bubbles reasoned, "it would go BOOM and hit someone, and that would hurt!"
Once again, Bubbles' innocence had made the situation brighter. Blossom and Buttercup
chuckled a bit to themselves.
The Professor, standing, peered at the dead bodies of the RowdyRuff boys. He rubbed his forehead with his fingertips and thought about what he could do. What venom does is it removes the hemoglobin and oxygen from the blood, turning it blue. This accounted for the blue skin, but he didn't have a clue how to revive them. Even if he were able to patch up the huge hole in each of their bodies, he didn't think he could perform miracles. He sat down and began to think. There had to be a scientific way to approach the matter. Perhaps if he added a small amount of Chemical X to antivenin. He thought about that one, and decided against it due to the fact that Chemical X was very unstable. His thoughts drifted to Frankenstein, but using electricity to revive the boys was a little late at this point. Then, he began to reason with himself that a chemical composition of properties contrasting to the poison could counteract it, but this thought led back to using Chemical X and antivenin. Well, since he always kept a log of all his experiments, it seemed that the only way to find out was to try. He wiped the sweat from his brow and got to work.
An hour later, the girls were still on their bed, though they were asleep. A shadowy form drifted into the room. Some foreboding music began to play, and the shadowy form soon got annoyed with it. He opened a secret panel in the wall and removed an LP from the record player, promptly throwing it into the wall.
The shattering of the big black disk woke up Blossom. "Ahh! What was that?" Looking around, she saw Brick standing there with his brothers. She couldn't believe it! The boys were alive! "BRICK!! Are you okay?"
Brick rose his arms in the air in the manner of a zombie "We have dispatched the Professor! Now we will deal with you three!" He dropped his arms to the side and started laughing.
Blossom laughed as well.
Bubbles and Buttercup began to wake up as well. Buttercup's eyes went wide. "BUTCH!! Are you alright?"
Bubbles didn't let Butch have any time to reply. "BOOMER!! You're not hurt, are you? I was so worried about you! You were all dead and stuff, and I thought the three of you were dead for good, just like that time when we kissed you, and you exploded, and were revived by Mojo, and we met you again yesterday, and--"
Boomer silenced her by placing his hand on her lips. "It's all right, doll. I'm okay. We're all
right."
The six looked into their counterparts' eyes. Simultaneously, all three Powerpuffs slapped the boy of their respective color.
"OW," they all shouted. "What was that for?"
"For going off and fighting without us!" Blossom cried.
"You could have been dead for good!" Bubbles seemed very angry.
"Then none of us would have people to spar with!" Buttercup shouted.
The Professor was standing at the door. Hearing this idea, he thought to himself, "Hey! That gives me an idea!" He ran back towards his lab.
The three boys lifted their right hands into the air.
"We're sorry, girls," Brick said.
"From now on..." Boomer started;
"...All our actions will be sent through you before we make them." Butch finished.
"Well, that's better," Blossom said.
Brick smiled. "Permission to put our hands down?"
Blossom frowned. "You don't have to do it that much. Just let us know if there's a fight that needs to be faught."
The boys put their hands down and began to hover from the room. Just then, the hotline began buzzing like crazy.
Blossom answered it. "Yes Mayor?!"
Babbling could be heard on the other end.
"What!?" Blossom nearly shrieked. "Don't worry, Mayor! We'll be right over!" She hung up the phone. Girls--and boys--lets go!!" Blossom blasted through the ceiling. The others followed, preparing for another glorious battle.
THE END
disclaimer saying that I own nothing on every fanfic. This one is only... oh. Nevermind. Craig
McCracken owns the PPGs and all characters he conceived.
Part Two: Chemical X Transformation
"Hmm," the Professor thought out loud. He was with the Rowdyruff Boys in his lab, studying a bit of DNA under a powerful microscope. "I think that the reason you aren't as evil as you were is because when Mojo used--er, you said it was toilet water--to create you, the cells of all the inmates who used that particular toilet were included in the mix, including Mojo, who was
originally infused with Chemical X, enhancing your desire to cause mayhem, and enlarging your medulla oblongatas. This, in turn, caused you to become very angry--much like the prisoners--in such a way that you had to lash out at whoever was around... namely the Powerpuff Girls."
"Ohh...."A few beats of silence passed, and all three boys said, "What?"
The Professor sighed. "I mean that when you were created, he used an incomplete mix, and you were evil, but would have exploded anyway. Besides, being kissed wasn't that bad, was it?"
Chuckling, Boomer said, "Oh, it was grea--"
Butch whipped his hand up and covered Boomer's mouth. "Yeah, they were nasty! We hated them. RIGHT, Boomer?" Butch removed his hand.
"Uh, yeah, disgusting. Breath was too sweet." Boomer looked away.
The other two boys rolled their eyes.
"Well, they did cause you to explode," The Professor reasoned. "That means that Mojo used an unstable mix."
Brick smirked and said, "Just like him to do a half-assed job." He sobered himself. "So, now what, um, Dad?"
The Professor chuckled and tried to think of a good answer. "Well, I guess that you can stay with us in the guest room until we can get you a room of your own. However, if you do plan on staying with us, you'll have to agree to the house rules, which I will explain later. But right now, let's see what the girls think of this idea."
The Rowdyruff Boys, filled with hope, followed the Professor into the living room to join the girls.
"Live with US?" the girls repeated, shocked. They all knew that this is what they wanted, to be able to get to know the boys better, but this was better than any of them expected.
"Well," Blossom said cautiously, making sure not to seem the least bit anxious about letting any of the three Ruffs enter their household. "I think it would be okay with us. What do you think girls?" She didn't even turn around to look at them. She just kept her eyes on the red Ruff's, and waited for the Professor to say something.
"Yeah," Buttercup said. "Just as long as we don't have to share a room. Yuck!" But her outward appearance gave away her true feelings as she blushed, and looked at the ceiling.
Bubbles didn't say anything, but smiled sweetly and dragged her foot on the floor, which nobody seemed to notice.
The Professor said, "Then it's settled. I'll call the Mayor's office and tell him to prepare the paperwork." Then, as a second thought, he added, "Brick, maybe you should speak with Miss
Bellum. She's the Mayor's assistant."
"Why should I speak wit--" Brick cut himself off, remembering what happened the last time they were in Townsville. He and his brothers nearly destroyed the town, along with their sissies... er, saviors. How better to convince the bigwigs that they weren't evil anymore than to send one of their own to say a few sweet words? He finally said, "Okay... Dad." He smiled at his new father.
Miss Bellum walked into the room in time to see the Mayor asleep at his desk, next to an empty glass. She was about to leave when the phone rang. This in turn caused the Mayor to jolt awake.
"No! I'll be a good boy!" Mayor looked around and found that he was still in his office. "Whew," he said, putting a hand to his head. "I'll never mix carrot juice and mushroom juice again!" The phone rang again, and he reached over and pulled it off the hook, pressing it to his ear. "Mayor's office. Mayor speaking.... Oh, hello, 'Prof.' Utonium. What can I do for you?"
On the other end of the phone, the Professor was standing next to the phone with Brick right next to him.
"'Prof?'" The Professor looked blankly into the receiver for a moment before realizing that it was the abbreviation for ' Professor.' "Oh, right," he said as soon as he understood. "Well, Mayor, the reason I'm calling is that Mojo has recreated the Rowdyruff Boys."
"Oh, that's lovely," the Mayor said densely. "But why would Mojo recreate--" Suddenly, his mind received the message. "THE ROWDYRUFF BOYS?! MISS BELLUM, CALL THE
MILITIA!!"
"No, no, Mayor! It's fine! They aren't evil anymore!"
"They aren't? Blah, but if they aren't evil... then..."
The Mayor heard an unfamiliar voice over the phone. "Hey, Mayor!"
"What the?" he asked. "Who is this?"
"This is Brick, one of the Rowdyruff Boys. It's okay now! We have no intention of destroying Townsville or them Powerpuffs anymore. Do you think I can talk to Miss Bellum?"
"Blah, sure! She's right here!" He handed the phone over to Miss Bellum. "Here, Miss Bellum! It's Brick of the Rowdyruff Boys."
"Uh, okay," she said. "What does he want?" asked she.
The Mayor smiled. "To talk with you, of course! He wouldn't be calling if he didn't want to
talk!"
"Well... that... DOES make sense, mayor." She took the phone from the mayor and said,
"Hello? Is this Brick?"
"Yeah, this is me. Is this Miss Bellum?"
"Yes, this is Miss Bellum. What did you want to talk to me about?"
"Well, Miss Bellum, My brothers and I wanted to tell you that we aren't evil anymore. We
were recreated by Mojo, but this time we turned out not being evil. Isn't that great? Now we can
help the girls in fighting crime."
"Yes," Miss bellum said, relieved. "And is the Professor going to be keeping you as his sons?"
"Yeah, I think so. Would that be all right with the Mayor?"
"Uh..." Taking a look down at the Mayor, who was bored with the phone call and was playing with the pencils on his desk. She said into the phone, "Yes, I think that would be acceptable."
"Kickin'! Well, thank you Miss Bellum. How long till it's official?"
"Oh, I'd say in about..." Suddenly, the wall was ripped off and Miss Bellum screamed at the sight of a fifty-foot tall gorilla.
"AHHHHHHHHH!"
"Miss Bellum?" Brick called into the phone, but got no answer. "Miss Bellum?! Are you
there?!"
Brick put the phone on the receiver and flashed upstairs. The burst into the door to their new bedroom where his brothers were bouncing on the bed.
Startled, Butch said, "Hey, what's all the--"
"Can it," Brick interrupted. "We have to get down to Townsville! The Mayor and Miss Bellum are in trouble! Follow me!" With that, he flew swiftly down the hall and to the door, waiting for his brothers. They soon appeared at his side and he opened the door. As they flew out, they knocked over a few Mormons selling bibles.
"Sorry," the three Ruffs said at once, but didn't stop flying.
"AHHHHHHHHH!!" Miss Bellum screamed as the massive gorilla hefted her body out of the Mayor's office and into the air with its palm, which was just about the size of Miss Bellum. The monster opened its hand and looked at Miss Bellum. However, this gorilla had hardly the kindness of King Kong, and roared directly into her face, causing her bushy head of hair to flap to and fro, is if she were in a hurricane. It closed his hand around her then began running towards the tallest building it saw. When it got there, it wrapped its humongous arms around the building, causing panicked screams from every single office inside. It reached the top and spotted three beams of light coming toward it. It stood up on the top and started swatting at these beams of light as they circled and wove in patterns, each time avoiding the large hand. Finally, the three beams of light came in close and pried Miss Bellum from the monster's mitts. The ape swung its hand down to try to smack them away, but it only touched air as the beams of light carried the pretty young lady down to the street, then back up to face the gigantic gorilla one last time.
This time, with two free hands, the ape was a much more formidable foe than when it was carrying Miss Bellum. It was swinging its arms as fast as its body's recoil would allow, and almost hit them a couple of times, but finally, they came in and delivered three very strong blows, which sent it flying to Easter Island.
"And don't come back," Brick said triumphantly as they watched it disappear into the distance.
All three of them flew down to meet Miss Bellum.
"Are you all right, Miss Bellum?" Brick asked, voice full of concern.
"Yes," she breathed. "I'm fine."
"How long did you say that the adoption process would take to complete?" Brick asked, smiling.
Miss Bellum smiled as well and said, "A couple of hours."
Bubbles was flying quickly and happily through the air of her bedroom, causing most of her stuffed animals and much lint to swirl in a small dust devil on the floor.
"I can't believe that the Rowdyruff boys are going to be living with us. This is SOOO COOL!"
Bubbles giggled to herself.
"Ah, pipe down," Buttercup snarled. "So they're moving in with us. Big whoop."
Bubbles stopped flying in the air. She sat on the bed and looked out the window.
"Buttercup," Blossom yelled. "That is no way to talk to your sister! Apologize!"
But before Buttercup could reply, Bubbles said, "Hey, aren't those the Rowdyruff Boys?" and pointed to the window.
Her sisters turned to look, and they saw that the Rowdyruff Boys were indeed flying home with huge smiles on their faces.
The girls raced downstairs to meet them.
As the three came in, they didn't wait for anyone to say anything, and said, "Miss Bellum is going to rush our adoption because we just saved her life!"
Right away, Blossom and Bubbles leapt forward and gave their counterparts great, big hugs.
"That's wonderful," they said in unison as the boys returned the hugs.
Buttercup, however showed a different version of affection, albeit subtle. She wound up and landed a 'gentle' punch to Butch's shoulder. "Way to go."
Butch smiled and returned the punch. "You too, babe."
Buttercup giggled a little. "What did I do to get that?"
"You smiled at me."
At this, Buttercup blushed, turning a deep shade of orange. "Well, you know, I..." She just
stopped talking and scratched the back of her head.
Butch laughed and led his brothers towards the kitchen. "Hey, Pops! Can we get something to eat?"
After they ate, the boys took the girls to the park to play on the playground equipment.
Buttercup and Butch spotted a tetherball pole. They grinned, then looked at each other, then in a
flash they were at the pole. Buttercup grabbed the ball first. She tossed it up into the air a little
then slammed it up into the air. Butch jumped up and backhanded the ball the other way.
Buttercup stopped the ball in mid-air by absorbing the momentum with her arm, swinging it back,
then slamming it with all her might. The ball went too fast even for Butch to see and swung all the
way around, touching the pole.
"Hah!" Buttercup shouted. "I beat you down, suckahfoo! Ah-hah! Who's yo mama? That's
right! I'm yo mama! Ha ha ha ha!"
Butch couldn't help but laugh at Buttercup's antics as she celebrated with a victory dance.
"Save that for your prom. Play me again."
She looked back at him. "All right. Prepare to get your big butt kicked once more!"
"Bring it on!"
"Hey, Bubbles," Boomer called over from a long stretch of paved sidewalk.
"Yeah, Boomer," Bubbles said as she hovered over to him.
"I bet you I can beat you running on this stretch of sidewalk without our powers!"
"You're on. Get ready to lose, big boy!"
"Heh. You might as well prepare yourself. You'll be tasting the asphault as I kick it up."
"I thought you said no powers!"
He laughed. "It was a figure of speech."
"Oh. Right."
Boomer squatted down into a sprinting position. "On your mark..."
"Get set," Bubbles said, matching the pose.
"GO!" They both raced off.
Bubbles got an early lead, but since she wasn't using her powers and hadn't a lot of experience running without them, she began to tire, giving Boomer a chance to catch up. But just then, Bubbles slipped on a rock, making her lose her balance and become panicked. Boomer noticed this and instantly used his super speed to catch her, but while he did so, he closed his eyes out of fear. When he opened them again, he saw that he had caught Bubbles in his arms and she had wrapped her arms around him. She also had her eyes closed.
She looked so cute just lying there in his arms, but he had to say, "Hey, cuteness, y'all right?"
She opened one eye, then the other and smiled. "That was kind of fun!"
Boomer just smiled.
Brick and Blossom were over at the swings.
"Hey, Blossom," Brick said. "Let's see how high we can swing without falling off or going all the way around."
"Yeah, let's go!"
They hopped on two swings that were next to each other and started pumping their legs back and forth to work up a momentum. It seemed like Blossom was going the highest, but then Brick swung up to a level slightly higher than the bar. Blossom kept pumping her legs but could not get that high. However, Brick started to go too high and flew off the swings. The momentum took him higher than the trees, which gave him a full view of Towsnville. Suddenly, in mid-air, he began to flail his arms in panic and shout incomprehensible things. He fell to the ground, landing flat on his back, which knocked the wind out of him. He kept moving his mouth, mostly in attempt to breathe, but it seemed like he was trying to say something else. As soon as she could,
Blossom jumped off the swing and ran to his side.
"Brick," she cried. "Brick, all you all right?"
Brick slowly got up and said, "Trouble."
"What?" Blossom asked, confused.
"I'll be right back!" He flew off toward Butch.
Butch wacked the tether ball back at Buttercup, and she returned the serve.
"BUTCH!"
Butch heard his name being called and turned to look to the place from which it came.
Consequently, he got thwacked with the ball, hurtling him away from the court. Brick came up behind him, caught him in mid air, and set him on the ground.
"Butch, serious trouble in Townsville. It's a giant snake. Go distract it while I get Boomer.
We'll be there ASAP."
Butch frowned, then nodded. "I'm on it." With that, he blasted off.
Boomer was still racing Bubbles. Pretty soon, Brick got in his way and stopped him... the hard way. But Brick didn't feel as much of the force because he braced himself.
"Hey, man!" Boomer said as he saw Bubbles keep going, obviously oblivious to what was going on. "Why did you stop me?"
"There's a giant snake attacking Townsville! We have to go now!"
Boomer went wide-eyed for a second, then smiled. "Ok, then. Let's beat down on this toad!"
Boomer and Brick rocketed off the ground and into the air towards Townsville.
"Where's Butch?" Boomer asked.
"I sent him ahead of us to distract the beast. Look, there he-- OH, MY GOD!"
They stopped dead in their tracks at the sight of Butch impaled on the viper's long fang. Butch had turned a pale blue, and he looked to be extremely pained with having a large spike through his chest. His eyes were bulging out, and blue blood was leaking out his mouth. The red and blue
Ruffs stared in horror as the snake shook Butch from its fang and let him drop to the ground.
Brick couldn't believe his eyes. His green brother had been taken down by a snake. He thought to himself, "This must not be any ordinary snake."
"Whuahahahaha!! I was expecting the Powerpuff Girls, but you'll do nicely, too."
The two remaining brothers looked around, but they couldn't find the origin of the voice.
"Who the hell said that?" Brick demanded.
Suddenly the snake charged, and they were just barely able to dodge it in time. Suddenly, a tall man with a red complexion and who was wearing what looked like a Santa Claus outfit, except for the trim being black instead of white, appeared. He spoke in a high-pitched voice.
The strange man began laughing. "Do you like my pet snake? He likes the taste of blood over his fangs." As he spoke, his snake began to flick his tongue over his bloody fangs as proof of what this man was saying.
"Who are you," Boomer asked. "And what do you want?!"
"Well, since you've never met me before, my name is HIM. I wanted to kill the Powerpuff Girls, but as long as you're here, I figure that when I kill you, they will be so inconsolable that I will be able to kill them and take over Townsville much easier."
"Well, if you plan to kill all of us..." Brick began,
"You'll die trying!" Boomer finished.
They heard a hiss and dived out of the way as the giant snake lunged again. Boomer heard the sound of cloth ripping followed by Brick crying out in pain. He turned and saw that the viper's fang had just barely grazed Brick's skin across his chest.
HIM said, "Interesting choice of words." He then pointed towards the snake. "I hope you have fun playing with my little pet. I call him 'Sniper' because he goes..." His voice suddenly became demonic. "...STRAIGHT FOR THE HEART!!"
Brick's wound was already starting to turn blue. He started doubling over in the pain, and
Boomer realized that it was only a matter of time before the poisonous venom overtook his red brother like it had taken Butch. He turned and scowled at HIM. "You'll pay for this."
"WHAT! Butch and the others left to take on this monster themselves? What jerks!" Buttercup frowned.
"Well, there's no time to waste," Blossom said, taking charge. "We have to get down there right away! Let's go!"
The three of them blasted off the ground. As the three began to get close, there seemed to be some snake or another slinking through Townsville. They spotted HIM, who was raising his arms in the air, seeming to be commanding something, and flew over.
"All right, HIM," Blossom said. "What are you up--" Blossom stopped in her tracks as she and her sisters looked down and spotted the boys laying lifelessly on the ground, dead eyes, blue skin, and huge holes through their bodies. Everything about them led to one obvious fact... that they had been murdered.
"Brick, no!" Blossom cried out.
"Boomer... this can't be," Bubbles squeaked, tears coming to her eyes. She covered her mouth with her hands.
"Butch..." Buttercup could only float in mid-air and stare at the boys' cadavers.
A few beats of eerie silence passed, and HIM said, "Ohhh... Powerpuff Girls... are you sad?" HIM was smiling maliciously at the trio. "I would be, too. They screamed so loudly when they died. It almost seems a shame! Almost! Ahahahaha!!"
Blossom growled. "You... you...."
Bubbles glared at HIM. "You didn't have to... to..."
Buttercup's eyes went ablaze. "KILL THEM!!"
Simultaneously, the girls screamed and burst into white flames of intense energy, startling HIM and Sniper. Sniper began to fear for his own life, and began to slither away. HIM, however,
quickly regained his composure.
"Oh," He said. "I hope you're not mad." He began laughing demonically again. He turned to the snake and willed it to come back, to which it obliged. As HIM turned back to face back at the girls, he got slammed in the face by one of them. This punch actually hurt, and he was launched through the wall of a large building. He pulled himself out of the rubble, rubbed a trace of blood off his face, and floated back over to where the girls were.
HIM growled demonically. "You pantywaists. I'll--" He stopped when he saw only one
Powerpuff. It looked like the other three except the now crimson red hair was standing on end, the eyes were emerald green, and the clothing was a sapphire blue. She was also burning with a bright rainbow-colored flame. With apprehension, he realized that the originals had melded together into one.
As this new Powerpuff Girl spoke, it echoed a mix of all three of the original Powerpuffs.
"HIM... you want to see ANGER?! HOW'S THIS FOR ANGER?!" The girl dived down at the snake and mercilessly and literally started beating it to a pulp. The snake was snapping at them, but each time, the girl would evade his attacks. Finally the girl had enough, and with a swipe of her hand, broke the snake's spine. She tore open the snake's back, tearing the organs out with
every stroke.
It seemed like forever for her to finish with the snake. As if ripping out its spine wasn't enough; she had to completely destroy it. She stood over what was left of the snake, then she looked over her shoulder at HIM and said, "You're next."
HIM looked at the corpse of the snake, all of his hard work at capturing the black mamba,
finding the right spell to make it obey him, then enlarging it to 15 times its normal size . . . all his hard work shattered. Then he realized that the new girl was coming straight at him. He quickly opened a portal and jumped through right before the new Powerpuff could get him. THIS
Powerpuff, however, was not about to let him get away unscathed, and put her hands together for an energy blast and fired it straight into the portal.
Inside HIM's lair, HIM had just emerged and was regretting his loss when out of the corner of his eye, he saw a bright light coming through from the other side. His eyes went wide and he put up his arms in defense. "AHHHHHHHH!" The energy blast tore into him.
The Powerpuff girl floated to the ground. By this time, the rainbow flame had disappeared, and she seemed a bit calmer. In a flash of light, Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup returned in the one girl's place, and knelt down beside their counterparts.
Bubbles, voice cracking, said, "Blossom... we have to take them back to the Professor. He'll know what to do."
Blossom looked at Bubbles, then back at Brick, and said, in a weak-sounding voice, "I don't think he can save them... but I'm willing to give it a try. Let's go."
They carefully picked the boys' bodies off the ground and flew off.
Buttercup remained silent all the way home.
The girls were waiting upstairs in their room to wait for any news concerning the boys. As they sat there, they began to wonder whether the boys would pull through.
Bubbles looked up at the ceiling. "Do you think the boys will be all right?"
Blossom looked down at the floor. "Maybe it just wasn't mean to be."
Buttercup glared at her red sister. "Stop being so cynical. You gotta think positive in times like these." She turned to Bubbles. "Of course the Professor will get the boys back up. Those boys are too rugged to bite the bullet."
"But if they bit a bullet," Bubbles reasoned, "it would go BOOM and hit someone, and that would hurt!"
Once again, Bubbles' innocence had made the situation brighter. Blossom and Buttercup
chuckled a bit to themselves.
The Professor, standing, peered at the dead bodies of the RowdyRuff boys. He rubbed his forehead with his fingertips and thought about what he could do. What venom does is it removes the hemoglobin and oxygen from the blood, turning it blue. This accounted for the blue skin, but he didn't have a clue how to revive them. Even if he were able to patch up the huge hole in each of their bodies, he didn't think he could perform miracles. He sat down and began to think. There had to be a scientific way to approach the matter. Perhaps if he added a small amount of Chemical X to antivenin. He thought about that one, and decided against it due to the fact that Chemical X was very unstable. His thoughts drifted to Frankenstein, but using electricity to revive the boys was a little late at this point. Then, he began to reason with himself that a chemical composition of properties contrasting to the poison could counteract it, but this thought led back to using Chemical X and antivenin. Well, since he always kept a log of all his experiments, it seemed that the only way to find out was to try. He wiped the sweat from his brow and got to work.
An hour later, the girls were still on their bed, though they were asleep. A shadowy form drifted into the room. Some foreboding music began to play, and the shadowy form soon got annoyed with it. He opened a secret panel in the wall and removed an LP from the record player, promptly throwing it into the wall.
The shattering of the big black disk woke up Blossom. "Ahh! What was that?" Looking around, she saw Brick standing there with his brothers. She couldn't believe it! The boys were alive! "BRICK!! Are you okay?"
Brick rose his arms in the air in the manner of a zombie "We have dispatched the Professor! Now we will deal with you three!" He dropped his arms to the side and started laughing.
Blossom laughed as well.
Bubbles and Buttercup began to wake up as well. Buttercup's eyes went wide. "BUTCH!! Are you alright?"
Bubbles didn't let Butch have any time to reply. "BOOMER!! You're not hurt, are you? I was so worried about you! You were all dead and stuff, and I thought the three of you were dead for good, just like that time when we kissed you, and you exploded, and were revived by Mojo, and we met you again yesterday, and--"
Boomer silenced her by placing his hand on her lips. "It's all right, doll. I'm okay. We're all
right."
The six looked into their counterparts' eyes. Simultaneously, all three Powerpuffs slapped the boy of their respective color.
"OW," they all shouted. "What was that for?"
"For going off and fighting without us!" Blossom cried.
"You could have been dead for good!" Bubbles seemed very angry.
"Then none of us would have people to spar with!" Buttercup shouted.
The Professor was standing at the door. Hearing this idea, he thought to himself, "Hey! That gives me an idea!" He ran back towards his lab.
The three boys lifted their right hands into the air.
"We're sorry, girls," Brick said.
"From now on..." Boomer started;
"...All our actions will be sent through you before we make them." Butch finished.
"Well, that's better," Blossom said.
Brick smiled. "Permission to put our hands down?"
Blossom frowned. "You don't have to do it that much. Just let us know if there's a fight that needs to be faught."
The boys put their hands down and began to hover from the room. Just then, the hotline began buzzing like crazy.
Blossom answered it. "Yes Mayor?!"
Babbling could be heard on the other end.
"What!?" Blossom nearly shrieked. "Don't worry, Mayor! We'll be right over!" She hung up the phone. Girls--and boys--lets go!!" Blossom blasted through the ceiling. The others followed, preparing for another glorious battle.
THE END