Authors Notes: To Pathwarden, that line is on the game over screen of
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. To all who had reviewed thank you for
taking the time to comment, I greatly appreciate it. P.S. Can you guess
the newscaster Buttercup has a crush on, those answer correctly shall
receive mad propz. But enough of this, enjoy.
PART TWO
Visions of sunshine, lollipops and rainbows were disturbed by a loud voice. "Time to wake up leader girl." Bubbles wearily opened her eyes and begun to focus on the sea of pink, black and white that were Blossom's. "You've got a big day ahead you."
"Ugh, what time is it?"
"It's 7 o'clock and you've got a lot to do today."
"Uhh, like what?"
"Well you have to come with plans for fighting monsters, for starters."
"Aww, can't I just use yours?" Bubbles asked in a whiny, tired voice.
"Now Bubbles, as leader it's your responsibility to come up with your own plans. I didn't use anybody else's plans, so you can't use mine." The condescending tone Blossom used really irritated Bubbles. She hadn't been this tempted to strangle someone since Buttercup pulled the exploding toilet gag on her.
"But I'm still sleepy."
"Giving up already?" That woke Bubbles up.
"No way!"
"Good, now if you don't mind I'm going back to sleep." Blossom felt a little guilty putting her sister through this, but she went through the same thing when they started out as Townsville's official protectors, and besides nobody called her ugly and got away with it. Bubbles just glared at her now sleeping sister. She was half tempted to force Blossom into going on a morning jog except that would mean dragging Buttercup along, which meant waking Buttercup, which meant getting the snot beaten out of her. That is, if Buttercup was in bed in the first place.
"BLOSSOM, WAKE UP!!!!!!"
"What? What's wrong?" Blossom looked up to see Bubbles panicked and about ready to cry.
"It's Buttercup she's missing!"
"Oh brother, Buttercup always takes off somewhere in the morning. You didn't know that?"
"Nuh-uh. Where does she go?"
"Another part of your duties is to know where your sisters are at all times." Blossom saw that Bubbles was still ready to turn on the waterworks. "Trust me Bubbles, Buttercup is safe and she'll be back sooner or later, so quit worrying, get to work and let me sleep."
"(sigh) Okay."
A few hours later, Buttercup came home safe and sound. When asked about where she had been, Buttercup simply responded she was 'out.' Since Buttercup was both safe and unusually relaxed, Bubbles decided not to press her sister any further and get back to drawing up her battle plans. When she was satisfied with her work, the new leader had called a war meeting.
".and after that, we go in and strike the final blow and ta-dahhh, end of monster." Bubbles was careful to explain her plans in detail. She pointed out key points, bringing order the triple colored chaos of lines and curves, explaining the meaning of each and every twist and turn and what each puff was expected to do.
"Those are some good plans, Bubbles." Blossom had to admit she was impressed with Bubbles's planning abilities. Bubbles only beamed at Blossom's compliment. "Except one thing."
"What?" Bubbles was sure she hadn't left anything out while she made her plans.
"You forgot to tell Buttercup!" Sure enough, Buttercup was absent from the meeting.
"Oh, no I didn't. Buttercup hates these meetings so I didn't make her come."
"Now Bubbles, I'm well aware of Buttercup's attitude towards these meetings but." Blossom's lecture had been cut of by the buzz of the hotline. Townsville was once again in peril. Bubbles was more than happy to answer it, seeing how it was a chance see how well her plans would work and to test a theory she had.
"Hel-lo" Bubbles answered in her sweetest voice. What sounded like confused squawking came out of the earpiece. "(giggle) No Mayor, you didn't dial the wrong number." Even Bubbles knew that would be a little difficult due to the fact that the hotline was a direct line. "This is Bubbles. I'm fine, thank you. How are you?" Bubbles was answered by the Mayor casually conversing followed by Ms. Bellum screaming angrily yet again at the simple man. After a minute Bubbles announced "A monster is attacking Townsville, again."
"Where at?"
"Umm. He didn't say."
"It's a monster Blossom. I'm sure even Bubbles wouldn't have a problem with finding one of those wrecking the city." Bubbles and Blossom swung around to find Buttercup standing in the doorway. "What? I heard the hotline so I came up."
"Well girls, let's get that bad ol' monster." Bubbles ordered and promptly flew out the window and towards downtown Townsville, with her sisters following suit.
Sure enough Buttercup was right, the green monstrosity that had decided to do some impromptu demolition work in Townsville was extremely hard to miss. The creature was a mass of tentacles supporting a "flower" of green tubes and shorter tentacles surrounding a large mouth with lots of sharp teeth. "Looks a lot like a malboro." Buttercup commented to her sisters.
Bubbles studied the monster for a few seconds before decided a course of action. "Okay girls, let's try Plan Kitty-Tangelo-Sunshine-Marshmallow."
Buttercup gave her sister a confused look. "What?"
"You get to beat up the monster." Bubbles happily answered.
"Now that's my kind of plan." Buttercup shot off towards the monster who had stopped chewing a car in a vain attempt to find a tasty pink center inside and turned its attention towards the three young super heroes. Blossom silently groaned in disgust. The particular plan required a lot of fancy maneuvering on everyone's part and Buttercup, when left her own devices, never used fancy maneuvers. Blossom could only hope Buttercup had enough sense to recognize this level of incompetent leadership on Bubbles's part before it was too late.
"QUICK, BUTTERCUP FLY UP!!!"
Blossom's thoughts were interrupted by Bubbles's high-pitched shriek. The flaxen haired puff began screaming directions at Buttercup, each order corresponding with the green line on the plan that Bubbles had made earlier. What had really amazed Blossom was that Buttercup was actually following the commands that Bubbles was continually shrieking out.
'I don't believe this. Buttercup hardly ever follows orders. It's if they were.' Blossom's train of thought was rudely interrupted by one of the monster's tentacles ramming her and sending her sailing towards an apartment building.
Tom Goodman had set a box down on his counter across from his window. It was a newly purchased box of sixty eggs. Tom had opened his refrigerator and begun to make space for his new box of eggs, wondering why on earth he would need that many, considering he was a bachelor. As Tom was clearing an empty spot on a refrigerator shelf for his latest acquisition when the shattering of his window had grabbed his attention. When Tom turned around to investigate the commotion, he discovered he had lost his five dozen of eggs but at least he had an interesting story to tell the guys at work tomorrow.
Bubbles gave quick glance towards the location where her former lead was once at and sighed unhappily. 'Sometimes Blossom can be a little too rigid and uncreative for her own good.' she thought while turning her attention back to fighting the beast. Buttercup was busy raining blow after blow on the malboro, as Buttercup had called it, when Bubbles noticed it was taking a deep breath. "BUTTERCUP, WATCH OUT!!!" Buttercup had narrowly avoided a cloud of noxious gas that the monster had spewed from its maw. The gas shot past the brunette and dissolved a building that was intended to be the future site of Townsville's largest arcade. "Wow, that's some bad breath." Bubbles joked. Buttercup wasn't laughing though, she was really looking forward to arcade opening, and thanks to the lethal cloud that wasn't going to happen anytime soon. Her green eyes burning with intense rage, the toughest fighter grabbed a nearby spire and threw it into the malboro's head, bringing an end to the beast's rampage and saving the day.
Covered head to toe in egg whites and broken yolks, Blossom glumly flew back to where the battle had taken place. When she arrived on scene, the egg-covered puff discovered that the creature had been defeated, impaled by a long gray spire. Bubbles flew up to her sister and discovered the redhead's new look.
"Tee-hee, Gee Blossom it looks like you got."
"Don't say it!" Blossom shouted.
"You see, Buttercup followed my plan exactly." Bubbles told her sister.
"But how?"
"It's just like playing video games."
After the trio received their usual accolades and gone home, Blossom immediately hit the shower and spent a good forty-five minutes cleaning the egg gunk off her body and out of her hair. Exhausted by depression and the intense cleaning process, the red haired puff decided her underwear and a bathrobe were good enough clothes for the rest of the day. Resting in the bean bag chair next to Buttercup, who had been inspired by today's monster du jour to play an old favorite, Blossom glumly sorted through her thoughts. 'I can't believe how well Bubbles is doing. Oh man, I'm gonna lose our bet. What if Bubbles is so good she becomes the leader permanently. This is awful. What am I gonna do?' Blossom sadly slumped further and fought back tears. Blossom's vision of a dire future for herself was suddenly interrupted by her sister.
"Ugh, I can never figure out this dumb code!"
Blossom watched the television screen for a minute, studying the advice that one character had been giving about the code that had stymied Buttercup. "Try Circle, Square, X, X." Blossom told Buttercup. Sure enough, Blossom was right.
"Huh, how did you know what it was."
"Simple, I just followed the clues. and solved. the mystery." A smile grew on Blossom's face. She may have found a way out of her predicament. "Oh Buttercup, you know that one secret, special power that you think nobody knows you have?"
Buttercup had dropped the controller in shock. She couldn't possibly know about that, could she? "W-What secret power?" Buttercup looked as if she had been caught stealing from the cookie jar.
"You know what I'm talking about." Blossom replied slyly giving her sister an evil grin.
TO BE CONTINUED
PART TWO
Visions of sunshine, lollipops and rainbows were disturbed by a loud voice. "Time to wake up leader girl." Bubbles wearily opened her eyes and begun to focus on the sea of pink, black and white that were Blossom's. "You've got a big day ahead you."
"Ugh, what time is it?"
"It's 7 o'clock and you've got a lot to do today."
"Uhh, like what?"
"Well you have to come with plans for fighting monsters, for starters."
"Aww, can't I just use yours?" Bubbles asked in a whiny, tired voice.
"Now Bubbles, as leader it's your responsibility to come up with your own plans. I didn't use anybody else's plans, so you can't use mine." The condescending tone Blossom used really irritated Bubbles. She hadn't been this tempted to strangle someone since Buttercup pulled the exploding toilet gag on her.
"But I'm still sleepy."
"Giving up already?" That woke Bubbles up.
"No way!"
"Good, now if you don't mind I'm going back to sleep." Blossom felt a little guilty putting her sister through this, but she went through the same thing when they started out as Townsville's official protectors, and besides nobody called her ugly and got away with it. Bubbles just glared at her now sleeping sister. She was half tempted to force Blossom into going on a morning jog except that would mean dragging Buttercup along, which meant waking Buttercup, which meant getting the snot beaten out of her. That is, if Buttercup was in bed in the first place.
"BLOSSOM, WAKE UP!!!!!!"
"What? What's wrong?" Blossom looked up to see Bubbles panicked and about ready to cry.
"It's Buttercup she's missing!"
"Oh brother, Buttercup always takes off somewhere in the morning. You didn't know that?"
"Nuh-uh. Where does she go?"
"Another part of your duties is to know where your sisters are at all times." Blossom saw that Bubbles was still ready to turn on the waterworks. "Trust me Bubbles, Buttercup is safe and she'll be back sooner or later, so quit worrying, get to work and let me sleep."
"(sigh) Okay."
A few hours later, Buttercup came home safe and sound. When asked about where she had been, Buttercup simply responded she was 'out.' Since Buttercup was both safe and unusually relaxed, Bubbles decided not to press her sister any further and get back to drawing up her battle plans. When she was satisfied with her work, the new leader had called a war meeting.
".and after that, we go in and strike the final blow and ta-dahhh, end of monster." Bubbles was careful to explain her plans in detail. She pointed out key points, bringing order the triple colored chaos of lines and curves, explaining the meaning of each and every twist and turn and what each puff was expected to do.
"Those are some good plans, Bubbles." Blossom had to admit she was impressed with Bubbles's planning abilities. Bubbles only beamed at Blossom's compliment. "Except one thing."
"What?" Bubbles was sure she hadn't left anything out while she made her plans.
"You forgot to tell Buttercup!" Sure enough, Buttercup was absent from the meeting.
"Oh, no I didn't. Buttercup hates these meetings so I didn't make her come."
"Now Bubbles, I'm well aware of Buttercup's attitude towards these meetings but." Blossom's lecture had been cut of by the buzz of the hotline. Townsville was once again in peril. Bubbles was more than happy to answer it, seeing how it was a chance see how well her plans would work and to test a theory she had.
"Hel-lo" Bubbles answered in her sweetest voice. What sounded like confused squawking came out of the earpiece. "(giggle) No Mayor, you didn't dial the wrong number." Even Bubbles knew that would be a little difficult due to the fact that the hotline was a direct line. "This is Bubbles. I'm fine, thank you. How are you?" Bubbles was answered by the Mayor casually conversing followed by Ms. Bellum screaming angrily yet again at the simple man. After a minute Bubbles announced "A monster is attacking Townsville, again."
"Where at?"
"Umm. He didn't say."
"It's a monster Blossom. I'm sure even Bubbles wouldn't have a problem with finding one of those wrecking the city." Bubbles and Blossom swung around to find Buttercup standing in the doorway. "What? I heard the hotline so I came up."
"Well girls, let's get that bad ol' monster." Bubbles ordered and promptly flew out the window and towards downtown Townsville, with her sisters following suit.
Sure enough Buttercup was right, the green monstrosity that had decided to do some impromptu demolition work in Townsville was extremely hard to miss. The creature was a mass of tentacles supporting a "flower" of green tubes and shorter tentacles surrounding a large mouth with lots of sharp teeth. "Looks a lot like a malboro." Buttercup commented to her sisters.
Bubbles studied the monster for a few seconds before decided a course of action. "Okay girls, let's try Plan Kitty-Tangelo-Sunshine-Marshmallow."
Buttercup gave her sister a confused look. "What?"
"You get to beat up the monster." Bubbles happily answered.
"Now that's my kind of plan." Buttercup shot off towards the monster who had stopped chewing a car in a vain attempt to find a tasty pink center inside and turned its attention towards the three young super heroes. Blossom silently groaned in disgust. The particular plan required a lot of fancy maneuvering on everyone's part and Buttercup, when left her own devices, never used fancy maneuvers. Blossom could only hope Buttercup had enough sense to recognize this level of incompetent leadership on Bubbles's part before it was too late.
"QUICK, BUTTERCUP FLY UP!!!"
Blossom's thoughts were interrupted by Bubbles's high-pitched shriek. The flaxen haired puff began screaming directions at Buttercup, each order corresponding with the green line on the plan that Bubbles had made earlier. What had really amazed Blossom was that Buttercup was actually following the commands that Bubbles was continually shrieking out.
'I don't believe this. Buttercup hardly ever follows orders. It's if they were.' Blossom's train of thought was rudely interrupted by one of the monster's tentacles ramming her and sending her sailing towards an apartment building.
Tom Goodman had set a box down on his counter across from his window. It was a newly purchased box of sixty eggs. Tom had opened his refrigerator and begun to make space for his new box of eggs, wondering why on earth he would need that many, considering he was a bachelor. As Tom was clearing an empty spot on a refrigerator shelf for his latest acquisition when the shattering of his window had grabbed his attention. When Tom turned around to investigate the commotion, he discovered he had lost his five dozen of eggs but at least he had an interesting story to tell the guys at work tomorrow.
Bubbles gave quick glance towards the location where her former lead was once at and sighed unhappily. 'Sometimes Blossom can be a little too rigid and uncreative for her own good.' she thought while turning her attention back to fighting the beast. Buttercup was busy raining blow after blow on the malboro, as Buttercup had called it, when Bubbles noticed it was taking a deep breath. "BUTTERCUP, WATCH OUT!!!" Buttercup had narrowly avoided a cloud of noxious gas that the monster had spewed from its maw. The gas shot past the brunette and dissolved a building that was intended to be the future site of Townsville's largest arcade. "Wow, that's some bad breath." Bubbles joked. Buttercup wasn't laughing though, she was really looking forward to arcade opening, and thanks to the lethal cloud that wasn't going to happen anytime soon. Her green eyes burning with intense rage, the toughest fighter grabbed a nearby spire and threw it into the malboro's head, bringing an end to the beast's rampage and saving the day.
Covered head to toe in egg whites and broken yolks, Blossom glumly flew back to where the battle had taken place. When she arrived on scene, the egg-covered puff discovered that the creature had been defeated, impaled by a long gray spire. Bubbles flew up to her sister and discovered the redhead's new look.
"Tee-hee, Gee Blossom it looks like you got."
"Don't say it!" Blossom shouted.
"You see, Buttercup followed my plan exactly." Bubbles told her sister.
"But how?"
"It's just like playing video games."
After the trio received their usual accolades and gone home, Blossom immediately hit the shower and spent a good forty-five minutes cleaning the egg gunk off her body and out of her hair. Exhausted by depression and the intense cleaning process, the red haired puff decided her underwear and a bathrobe were good enough clothes for the rest of the day. Resting in the bean bag chair next to Buttercup, who had been inspired by today's monster du jour to play an old favorite, Blossom glumly sorted through her thoughts. 'I can't believe how well Bubbles is doing. Oh man, I'm gonna lose our bet. What if Bubbles is so good she becomes the leader permanently. This is awful. What am I gonna do?' Blossom sadly slumped further and fought back tears. Blossom's vision of a dire future for herself was suddenly interrupted by her sister.
"Ugh, I can never figure out this dumb code!"
Blossom watched the television screen for a minute, studying the advice that one character had been giving about the code that had stymied Buttercup. "Try Circle, Square, X, X." Blossom told Buttercup. Sure enough, Blossom was right.
"Huh, how did you know what it was."
"Simple, I just followed the clues. and solved. the mystery." A smile grew on Blossom's face. She may have found a way out of her predicament. "Oh Buttercup, you know that one secret, special power that you think nobody knows you have?"
Buttercup had dropped the controller in shock. She couldn't possibly know about that, could she? "W-What secret power?" Buttercup looked as if she had been caught stealing from the cookie jar.
"You know what I'm talking about." Blossom replied slyly giving her sister an evil grin.
TO BE CONTINUED