Chapter 4 Black had finished absorbing Fuzzy, but when the earring exploded, he stopped

and the lapse in concentration made him let go of the fields holding the girls captive.

They got up and started to attack him, pummeling him with blows all over his body. He

couldn't react, because his power was halved after the earring exploded. All three girls

hit him at once, sending him into a patch of trees. Black got up, but the girls were right

on him again, hitting him with everything they had. They kept attacking until they nailed

him back to Townsville. Black got up again and started to fly back to his ship. Black

thought, "I have to get back and heal myself. They won't get through the defenses, and I

can regain my power back to full." He flew into the ship and closed it off. The girls got

there and just punched a hole in the side. Bubbles looked around and said, "Where could

he be?" Blossom said, "I'm guessing the central control room." Buttercup said, "Um,

guys? I think we have a problem." Blossom and Bubbles looked over where Buttercup

was pointing. Armies of strange robots were coming out of one of the halls. They had

large, rectangular heads, very thin cylinders for bodies, and four spider- like legs.

Blossom said, "They look like.viruses." One rushed at them and jumped into the air,

landing on top of bubbles. She looked at the spot where the four legs met, and saw a

stinger come out. She rolled out of the way when it pierced the floor, and she saw that it

left acid on the ground. Buttercup hit the robot in the head, cracking the glass casing and

letting the acid come out. The acid started to melt the robot itself, turning it into a puddle

on the ground. The girls started to fight them, but after most of them were destroyed,

even more would come out to replace them. Blossom looked up and saw a tube of black

liquid right above them all. She blew her ice breath at the tube and said, "Bubbles,

scream at the ice!" Bubbles turned and screamed as loudly as she could at the tube, and

the force of the sonic waves blew the tube apart. The black fluid flooded the ground,

burning a hole and destroying the entire room. Blossom said, "Let's get out of here and

try to find Black."

In the core of the ship, Black was floating in the center, and tubes were "plugged"

into his back and the back and top of his head. He looked and saw one of the tubes had

stopped pumping and was now clear instead of black. He growled and said, "We can't

believe they have gotten this far. Oh well, let them come. They will regret the day they

stumbled in here." He laughed as another tube went down.

As the girls closed in on Black's location, it started to get more and more quiet.

When they finally got to the core of the ship, they saw Black hooked into it by wires and

tubes pumping more of the black liquid they saw before. Black opened his eyes and

laughed at them. "You came all this way, just to die. How very interesting, yet how very

cliché. I hope you die slowly and painfully." As he laughed, the three girls flew right at

him.