(I...I don't know what to tell you. Sorry this took me SO so very long to put up the next chapter. I ran out of juice. But I WILL finish this this summer. You will have your ending. Once again...SO sorry. -.- Oh and last chapter, in case you forget, Bubbles flew in after saying a teary farewell to her mother and the world began to fall apart. ^.^;; )

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The burning grew greater near Blossom's chest. iWhat the-/iShe thought as the heat became almost unbearable. The locket around her neck glowed brighter flaming Blossom's eyes. She screamed loudly and broke the chain from her neck and it twirled and spun violently.

Buttercup's own necklace two had taken on a similar glow and flown through the air, almost choking the girl. Red clutched her close to protect her as the two necklaces spun viciously, dancing in the air. As the two parts collided, their blinding light threw itself across the room so they all shielded their eyes from it.

"What's goin' ooonnnnnnnnn?" Bubbles wailed burying her face in the Professor's lab coat.

"I'm not sure…" The Professor held both the children in as the light grew brighter and brighter. The room was shaking and the ceiling was beginning to crumble.

The two necklaces merged into one and suddenly the light surrounded it and molded it into…

"The pebble!" Blossom yelled pointing a mitt at the shinning ball of light. "But…but how?" She questioned barely able to see as the Professor clutched her close to him.

"The wishing!" The Professor realized, "It's all the wishing. Girls, when I wished to be here with you, the pebble reacted violently, remember?" He called over the noise of the house crumbling.

"But why's it doing this now?" Bubbles asked him as the light intensified.

"It's that wish you made, Bubbles! You said you wished you hadn't wished that and it-" Buttercup started but the light grew blinding and hot and the ground split further tables and equipment shorting out and falling. The world was shaking and trembling.

"But I wasn't even holding the pebble!" Bubbles complained.

"It doesn't matter!" Red called. A light beam shot out of the tiny ball of energy. It streamed through the air almost beautifully shinning all colors. It engulfed a metal table in its glow and the table vanished from sight. As if it had never existed. "What's happening?" Red looked in surprise, her red hair flying over her face.

"I don't know, but I think it's…it's trying to destroy the world it has created!" The Professor cried in shock. A light beam flashed towards him and the girls. Bubbles and Blossom gasped simultaneously. They quickly snatched the Professor and moved him before the beam could hit. A beaker vanished before their eyes.

"Okay girls, we gotta get Red and the Professor outta here!" Blossom stood up quickly grabbing the Professor by the coat; Bubbles grabbed on automatically too.

"But where do we take him, Leader Girl?" Buttercup called barley missing a shocking light beam. It zapped a piece of rubble into clear non-existence. Buttercup's comment was valid. If the pebble was destroying its world, there was nowhere to go. How can someone escape the Apocalypse?

"The only way we might be able to get through this is if I can get the Transdimensional Time Reverser to work. Then, I can switch us back to our own dimension." The Professor yelled over the destruction of the house.

The three super-powered five-year-olds looked at each other and nodded.

"Okay girls!" Blossom called over the thunderous noise, "surround the Professor and Red, don't let those beams touch 'em!" The girls lifted the Professor carefully and began toward the machine. Buttercup scooped up her surrogate mother as well and joined her sisters as an almost human shield carrying the adults toward the machine.

The sounds of destruction grew increasingly worse as metal was crushed beneath hunks of wreckage. The girl's hid their fear with determination. A little further, toward the Professor's creation, they weights of two lives literally in their hands.

"Girls, move left!" Blossom cried as a light beam chased after them. Buttercup and Bubbles complied moving with Blossom left. The destruction laser whipped harmlessly past the quintet. "Down!" Blossom barked as another light beam followed even faster than the other one had, its color shinning even more brilliantly. The pebble seemed as though it was firing directly at them.

Bubbles breathed heavily as the light beam flew directly overhead; she noted the swirling melodic colors that had enticed her before. Staring directly into the beam, Bubbles could see one million things, colors and vision and sounds. Her eyes blanked out as she view one thousand cities and saw the music of the universe in a flying flash of beauty.

"BUBBLES!" Buttercup and Blossom chorused. Bubbles shook her head and moved to the right subconsciously as another shot missed her, literally by hairs. Bubbles snapped from her vision and almost started to cry at the near death experience.

"Were almost there, girls!" Red cried feeling the mitts grip harder into her shoulders. She felt one set of mitts get even tighter.

"Another one's comin' from behind!" Butterup called. The girls began to move up when the Professor interrupted.

"No! It'll hit the Time Reverser!" He cried in a panic. Buttercup's hands suddenly left his shoulder as she flew off.

"Buttercup!" Bubbles and Blossom called after her.

"Keep going!" Buttercup yelled back grabbing a thick hunk of the ceiling crashing from above. The other two puffs flew the parents faster as Buttercup aliened the hunk of wreckage between herself and the beam. She held it tight closing her eyes as the beam hit the chuck dead center.

The piece of wreckage burned in her hands shaking viciously. Buttercup grit her teeth tightly clutching the shaking piece of ceiling as it disappeared from their world. As the beam burned, the sounds of everything she'd ever heard led a cacophony of noise blaring to her. She wanted to scream and drop the piece but held on tighter almost in pain. Buttercup's eyes snapped open as the ceiling piece vanished, her hands clapping together suddenly, as she was no longer holding anything.

"Okay, girls," the Professor began, "right here, I'll get this thing to work yet." Blossom and Bubbles let the Professor down to the floor and placed Red down as well. The Professor began immediately to set the machine as Buttercup rejoined the group.

"Good work, Buttercup." Blossom nodded her head toward her sister, "Now we've gotta make sure those rays don't hit the Professor, or Red. Got it?" The girls nodded. "All right girls, let's bust some beams!"

As Blossom spoke, a barrage of light headed toward them, each one containing everything that all universes had to offer in visions and sounds all wrapped up in the light. The girls grabbed large blocks of ruins and science equipment placing it between them and the beams. They closed their eyes tightly as the beams would hit, each one of them shaking and distracting them.

Red was at a loss as she watched the Professor frantically set coordinates and re-wire the inside panels again and again. Beads of sweat dripped down his face as his quaking hands worked. Red turned her eyes toward the brave girls as they grabbed anything and everything they could, holding it in the path of destruction.

As Bubbles's lab table slowly disappeared from her hands she heard a voice call out.

"BUBBLES, LOOK OUT!"

Bubbles saw a light heading straight for her. Her pupils constricted.

"UH!" Buttercup grabbed Bubbles and pushed her out of the way just in time before the light overcame her. The two moved just in time as the beam passed through a large, sleek machine. "Well this seems familiar." Buttercup commented referring to the previous rescue of her sister back with the dragon.

"Thanks Buttercup! I woulda been a goner."

"Well…we can't lose you now that we found you." Buttercup commented. Just then a burst of light dissipated in front of them after connecting with a graduated cylinder. Blossom frowned at the two as she lowered her arm.

"We gotta keep focused. Come on!" Blossom cried as the light beams became more plentiful, and they were running out of things to put in the way. "Professor, is the machine almost ready?"

"Almost, Blossom. I need a few more minutes!" He cried, a wire sparking in his hand.

"Well you'd better hurry!" Bubbles shrieked almost being hit. Professor Utonium nodded and quickened his all ready frantic pace. Red fidgeted next to him uncomfortably.

"Errrrrrrrah!" Buttercup threw a large machine toward a beam. But, as the beam hit it, a chuck of the machine flew off and hit the pebble dead on. The girls widened their eyes as the rays stopped suddenly. There was a moment of silence. Then a thick large beam burst forth, toward the group.

It was thicker and bigger than before so wide and huge it nearly blinded them and they shielded their eyes from it. It sped toward them, dissolving everything in its path. No piece of wreckage would stop this light.

"Oops." Buttercup said.

"Let's try our own laser beams. Maybe it'll transport the energy." Blossom cried, the walls fully crumbled but the ground rumbling. It seemed only a shadow beneath the massive light ray. The girls squinted tightly and fired their beams, concentrating. It wasn't working. The ray burned right through it, heading for them.

"It's no use!" Bubbles shouted. The girls bolted up quickly as the light nearly engulfed them. It raced toward the Professor.

"PROFESSOR!" The three shouted at once diving toward him.

The ray hit.

There was a brilliant light that filled everything around them. The pure white ate everything. Nothing could be seen; it even engulfed sound.

When the light cleared, all was silent for a moment. The pebble hummed, seeming satisfied. After a pause they heard a loud cry.

"MOMMA!" Buttercup screeched. Blossom and Bubbles stared for a moment in shock at the place where Red Robins moved in front of the ray, protecting the Professor. The light abducted her, took her. All that was left was the dark spots in the Powerpuff's eyes from the blinding light that overtook her. She was gone.

"RED!" Blossom and Bubbles cried out. Tears sprung to their eyes and Professor Utonium blinked rapidly at how close he came and the sacrifice of the life who barely knew him. To think, the woman would give her life for him when he was all too willing to leave her in the universe that he knew would collapse once the girls left.

"MOMMA! MOMMA! MOMMA!" Buttercup screamed in hysterics. She gasped heavily crying without care who saw. The girls all began to cry when the pebble whirred again. It began to shoot out more beams, more rays, as if it were eager to capture more.

Blossom closed her eyes in sorrow for a moment before snapping them open, true to her duties.

"Come on girls, we have to protect the Professor. He…he's almost done with the machine. Bubbles, take the beam on the left; I got the one from above; Buttercup, take the low one, NOW!" Blossom began racing upward.

Bubbles, numbed for a moment whipped to the left fumbling for something to but in the way. Buttercup sat still for a moment, touching the ground where her surrogate mother had stood. Tears streamed down her cheeks as she had destroyed the person she'd wished into life.

"BUTTERCUP! HURRY!" Blossom yelled, shaking with the destruction of the cabinet she held. The rays were getting more powerful as the stung when she held the objects now.

Buttercup shut her eyes harshly and screamed loudly and ripped up a piece of the floor letting in disappear, not caring about the pain. Bubbles and Blossom closed their eyes for a moment, agreeing with the sound of Buttercup's cry.

"GOT IT!" The Professor shouted. The trio turned their heads back to look at him. "It's untested but we'll just have to trust-" A thin light beam slipped through hitting the Professor in the chest.

"ibPROFESSOR/i/b!" The PPG screamed as loud as they could. They watched in horror as the Professor's face scrunched up in pain and light submerged his body. It raced over his form and he vanished. The girls blinked, traumatized. He was gone. They had failed to protect him too.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! PROFESSOR!" The girls screeched in pain. The loss of a second adult out of the blue. The pebble grew brighter, its humming tone now sounding more like a swarm of angry bees. The girls had a choice now. Figure out the Transdimensional Time Reverser or lose themselves to the angry mystical orb. With the Red and the Professor now gone, would going back to home even be the same? Would it even be the same?

A light beam shot towards them.