FINAL WISHES
By Gary Curtis
Powerpuff Girls created by Craig McCracken and all related characters owned by Cartoon Network
TWO
The girls looked at the mess of icons on the professor's desktop.
"What's all that stuff, Buttercup?"
"That's all the different things Professor downloaded and other stuff that makes the computer work, Blossom. I ain't even gonna try figuring it out. I know what I'm looking for."
"What's that pretty flower?" Bubbles pointed at the icon.
"That's ICQ, just like it says. You can talk to people on it."
That gave Blossom a thought she didn't like. "Buttercup, you better not try to get on the internet. Professor said we can't!"
"Relax. I ain't going anywhere near that place!" She opened up the 'My Documents' folder.
Blossom didn't notice at first. "I thought you were gonna show us some more neat tricks with my journal pages. Go back...Hey! That says 'My Documents'! That's the professor's private stuff!"
Bubbles got nervous. "Maybe you shouldn't, Buttercup..."
"Will you guys cut it out and trust me for once? Look! Where do you think that journal of yours is, Blossom? Right here in the 'Blossom' folder!"
Her sisters could see a whole group of little yellow folders with all kinds of names. There must have been more than fifty, all alphabetized. Right away they saw theirs.
"Oh. Sorry." Blossom said, not too forcefully. "Open mine up again."
"No. I can't show you anything 'cause you got hardly anything to work with. I need a good, big file to show you much."
"No! I don't think you should be messing with any of Professor's things!"
Buttercup smiled to herself. "OK, just a couple more steps, and I got 'em!" She turned viciously on Blossom. "All right! Here! You can have it back!" She got up and floated for the stairs. "You two can have it. I'm gonna watch TV."
"No, wait, Buttercup!" Bubbles called out. "I wanna see how to draw!"
"Get Miss Know-it-all there to show you."
Blossom lowered her eyes. "I'm sorry. I won't say nothing more, I promise."
Buttercup resumed her place, looking up at her sister. "Look, Blossom, I'll show you that I can't mess something up." She reopened the 'Blossom' folder and the journal page. Blossom saw what she had saved earlier, up to January 11. Buttercup smiled and began to type.
'Blossom wears the same underwear two days in a row.'
Bubbles broke into a giggling fit. Blossom yelled, "I do not! That only happened once, and that's because you forgot to do the laundry when it was your turn! Now get that offa there!"
"It's not on there. I'd have to save it first." She closed the file and the little warning window appeared, saying the file had been changed and did the user want to save the changes? "See? I say no and it's gone." She tapped more keys and the file was back. "See? No underwear. I can do anything I want with another file as long as I don't save what I do to it."
"All right."
"Thank you. Now, you guys help me find something interesting here."
"That one!" Bubbles pointed to a folder named 'Rowdyruff Boys'.
Buttercup looked askance at her. "Whaddayou want with that one?"
"Maybe he's thinking about making boys too and that's how!"
Blossom shook her head while looking over the folders. "Nah. More likely his theories on why they blew up. How 'bout that one?"
It was labeled 'My Girls'. "I bet it's what he really thinks about us but would never say!"
"Blossom! I'm shocked! What about his privacy?" Buttercup said with mock horror. Blossom's curiosity had won out, just like she knew it would. That was the folder she was thinking of herself. "But, OK!"
To her dismay, she got the prompt for a password. "Aw, nuts. It's password protected! I bet all these folders are."
Blossom suddenly had second thoughts about what they were doing. "That's smart. It'll keep evil villains from getting anything sensitive. Maybe we shouldn't..."
"Aw, don't give up so easy. I saw how Miss Bellum looked up a password she forgot." But she couldn't remember where the password manager was located. "Darn!" She went back to the folders and tried opening a few more at random with the same result. "Rats!"
"Hey, Buttercup?" Bubbles asked. "Try that one."
The folder's name was 'letmein'. Blossom and Buttercup looked at each other and blinked.
"Worth a try."
To their surprise, it opened. Inside was a list of some very odd names and combinations of numbers and letters...and next to them were the names of the folders they gained access to.
Buttercup slapped her forehead. "Geesh! He goes to all the trouble of passwording everything and then he goes and does this!"
Blossom shrugged. "That's the professor. Now, let's go see what he says about us!"