Chapter 4 - Breakfast is served
Brick and Butch had never seen so much food in front of them in their lives. Professor Utonium had whipped up pancakes, toast, eggs, oatmeal, French toast, bacon, waffles, fresh strawberries, cantaloupe, bananas, and cereal. He poured milk into cups for all four children and set them out.
"Eat up, kids, you have a long trip ahead of you!" he exclaimed.
Brick and Butch dug in. Blossom and Buttercup helped themselves to pancakes, toast, oatmeal and fruit.
As Professor Utonium sat at the table with them, Butch reached for the peppershaker. He tried to dump some on his eggs, but when it wouldn't come out, he began bashing the shaker on its end. When that didn't work, he closed one eye and peered into the shaker. Satisfied it was clear, he tried again, bashing on the end of the shaker while munching on a strawberry.
Brick chewed on a piece of bacon, looked at his brother, and said, "Little eggs with that pepper, Butch?"
Butch continued to pound on the end of the shaker. "Well, it won't come out! I like..."
At that moment, the top of the shaker fell off, spilling the pepper onto Butch's plate in a powdery cloud that drifted towards Brick. Brick held his nose and fought back the sneeze that was about to overcome him as his eyes watered.
"Well, not THAT much pepper." Butch said.
Brick put both hands on his nose in an attempt to keep the vicious sneeze he knew was on its way from coming. He drifted up and away from the table, his eyes still watering from the pepper cloud. Finally, he could no longer hold the sneeze back. He took a deep breath and gave in.
"AAAAAHHH-CHOOOO!"
A wall of flames shot from his mouth, searing the table and setting it on fire. With wide eyes, Butch, Blossom, and Buttercup shot up from the table as Professor Utonium ducked under it.
Blossom took a deep breath of her own, and extinguished the fire with her ice breath. Everyone came from their hiding places to stare at Brick who was still floating above the table, eyes wide, hands over his mouth in shock.
"God bless you!" said Professor Utonium.
"Where'd THAT come from?!" Butch asked, a shocked look on his face.
Brick shook his head. "I don't know!"
"I guess you didn't know you could do that before." Blossom guessed.
"No, I KNOW I couldn't do that before!" Brick answered. "What the heck is wrong with me??"
Blossom shrugged. "Probably nothing. We each have our own special power. I guess you just found yours."
"Interesting how yours is ice breath and his is fire breath, isn't it?" Professor said, dusting ashes from his shirt.
Butch let out a ferocious burp, then grinned. "Well, it was good anyway!"