"Rowdyruff Return"
Chapter Three: Capture
A/n: Thanks to everyone who reviewed! I'm not going to respond personally, though, not this chapter. I will next chapter! Anyway, let's get on with the story.
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Robin and Blossom hunted up and down the hallways of Pokey Oaks High School for Mike, without much success. Since he was searching for them as well, they kept on missing each other. Finally, the first bell rang and they had to go to homeroom.
"Oh damn it!" Robin said. "I'm sorry, Bloss. I guess it'll have to wait." Blossom didn't respond. She just stood there looking dazed. "Blossom?"
Blossom suddenly jumped and shivered. "We may not have that long to wait," she said quietly.
"What are you talking about?" came a voice from behind them. Both girls jumped and turned around, but it was only Buttercup's boyfriend, Mitch Mitchelson. Blossom grimaced. She had never liked Mitch that much. What Buttercup saw in him lay beyond her comprehension. Suddenly Blossom found herself giggling a little. The fact that she could think about something like her sister's taste in men at that moment seemed funny to her.
"What's so fuckin' funny?" he demanded.
Robin glared, but her expression brightened when she saw Mike running up behind Mitch. "Hey there, you! We were lookin' for you!" she called.
Mike stopped next to Mitch and gasped out "Blossom . . . downstairs . . . big problem . . . need girls . . . boiler room flooded!"
"Boiler room flooded!!" Blossom yelped. "I'm going downstairs! Mitch, could you go get Buttercup and Bubbles for me?"
"I'm on it!" he said, and he dashed down the hall in one direction while Blossom flew at top speed in the other.
She reached a staircase and saw people who were looking half-drowned climbing up the stairs that weren't already covered in water.
"How could the basement have flooded like this?" Blossom thought. She took a deep breath and dove down. She saw that there were people still trying to get out, grabbed them, and brought them upstairs.
Buttercup and Bubbles got there just then. "Is everyone alright?" Buttercup asked.
"I think so," Blossom gasped. "Need to fix the problem though." Taking another deep breath, Blossom dove back down, Bubbles and Buttercup right behind her. It took a few times resurfacing to take a breath, but the girls were finally able to locate the source of the water; the water main and several other pipes had burst. They sealed off the pipes and began to drain the water using buckets. It took them all of homeroom and first period to solve the crisis, and by that time, the girls were drenched and exhausted.
"You girls okay?" a custodian asked.
"We're fine," Bubbles said. "We've been through a lot worse than this." She pulled herself up. "Aw man! This shirt is dry-clean only!"
"Get over it, Bubbles," Blossom grumbled. "Let's go to class. We haven't got time to go change just yet. We'll just have to live with wet clothes."
"Wet clothes may be good right now!!" Robin said, coming down the hall.
"What?" Bubbles asked.
"The mayor just called! There's a humongous fire in the warehouse district, and the fire department can't get it under control! They need your ice powers, Bloss!" Robin said.
"Okay." Blossom turned to her sisters. "There's no need for all of us to get exhausted. You two stay here. I'll be right back."
She was off in a flash of bright pink light. The fire has already engulfed about half of the warehouses, and it was still burning strong. Flying back and forth over the flames (and drying her clothes in the process), Blossom blew out the fire using her ice breath. Once the fire was out, Blossom landed on her knees, completely wiper out. Two big disasters in a row was more than a little tiring, but she was about to be drained further when she saw the Powerpuff signal on a cloud bank. Trying to catch her breath, Blossom flew to the mayor's office, joining her sisters on the way.
"This is a big problem," Ms. Bellum, now the mayor of Townsville, told them. "There are buildings just falling apart downtown! We need you to try to stop it, or at least get the people out of there!" Without hesitation, the girls flew off.
"This is getting weird," Bubbles said. "Three huge problems in a row?"
"What's going' on?" Buttercup asked.
"I don't know, but we haven't got time to figure it out right now!" Blossom panted. She'd barely had time to catch her breath yet, but she forced herself on.
When they reached downtown, they saw the panicked people hurrying out of the way of collapsing buildings. The girls zigzagged the streets, getting the people out of harm's way, then clearing up the debris of the buildings, which had stopped crumbling when the girls had gotten the people out of the way.
After the building situation was over, the girls flew back to the school, utterly exhausted. Blossom was barely able to stand up. She was so burnt out that she had to lean on Bubbles when they landed to keep herself from tripping.
"Are you okay Bloss?" Robin called. She, Mike, and Mitch were hurrying outside.
"What period is it?" Buttercup asked.
"Study hall," Mitch said. "You girls were gone so long that we were about ready to go looking for you."
Blossom stood up, getting off of Bubbles, and said, "Hey, no worries. The Powerpuff Girls can handle anything!" She walked back into the school, trying to keep up the impression of a normal day's crime fighting, but they weren't fooled. She repeatedly stumbled over things, a sure mark of her weariness.
"I'm worried about her," Mike said. "If what you told me and Mitch is true, Robin, then Blossom may be in some serious danger, especially if she's right and it involves the Rowdyruff Boys."
"ROWDYRUFF BOYS!!!" Buttercup yelled. She grabbed Mike by the collar and growled, "Tell me everything you know! NOW!!!"
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Boomer was doubled over in laughter. Brick's plan was sheer genius! Boomer had caused the flood in the boiler room by slicing the pipes, Brick had caused the fire with his flame breath, and Butch's special "Decay Beam" had been what was causing the buildings to crumble. Striking one at a time, in direct succession, had been a touch of brilliance. Now Blossom was so tired that she couldn't walk straight. Boomer found that to be hilarious.
"Now there's only one thing left for us to do!" he said to himself. With that, he dashed back to his brothers and said, "It's time! You were right, bro! She can't even see right!"
"I still can't believe that it worked!" Butch said.
"Well, let's go!" Brick said.
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Blossom stumbled through the hallway, trying to get to the library. She continuously had to lean against the lockers, though; she was extremely dizzy, and that sense of danger was back in triple. After a few moments, Blossom stopped and sat down on the floor.
"Too much," she whispered. "All that trouble. Wouldn't be a problem if this feeling wasn't already draining my energy away."
Suddenly, Blossom knew she wasn't alone. Pulling herself onto her feet, she yelled, "Alright! I know you're there!!! Show yourself!!"
Three seconds later, Blossom regretted making that challenge. The Rowdyruffs were surrounding her, in plain sight, no longer invisible to the human eye.
The red-clad boy said, "Hello there, Blossom. It's been a while. Ten years."
"Ten years of being trapped in a dimension that isn't ours!" said the blonde.
The green-clad boy came right up to Blossom's face. "You know, I'd punch you right in the face if we didn't need you."
"Need me? For what?"
"To come back of course," Brick said, as if it were totally obvious.
Blossom came forward, facing him. "How do you think you can make me? You're not even here!" She swung her hand at him, and it went right through. "You see? You couldn't do anything to me!"
"Not true," Boomer said smugly. He fired a laser beam at her, and it blasted her into a wall.
"Boomer!" Brick yelled. "We can't kill her yet!!"
Blossom stood up and came back over to the boys. "Then what are you here for, if not to kill me?"
"To catch you!" Brick said. "We need your powers, Blossom. It's the only way to bring ourselves back!"
The boys floated around Blossom until they were in a perfect triangle around her. "And with you so exhausted from all the trouble we caused, there's nothing you can do about it!" Butch boasted.
The others chose that moment to show up. They froze when they saw what was happening before them. They looked older, but there was no mistaking the Rowdyruff Boys. They began to glow with some sort of a power, and suddenly Buttercup let out a piercing shriek.
"That power," she whimpered. "I can feel it! The darkness of that power!" She stood up. "Whatever you're trying to do to my sister, STOP IT!!!!" Buttercup charged forward, followed closely by Bubbles.
Boomer looked at them both. "Sorry, babe, but you're not stopping us. Not after we've waited for so long!"
Buttercup suddenly slammed into something that felt like a wall. She and Bubbles looked up to see a wall of blue energy in front of them. Boomer smirked at them, and turned back to Blossom and his brothers. The boys began to glow brighter, and Blossom seemed to be in a trance.
"Now, you will come with us!" Butch said.
And in an instant, they were all gone.
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A/n: (insert evil laugh here) CLIFFHANGER!!! HAHAHA!! I love cliffhangers!! Sorry I took so long with the update, but I've had a minor writer's block. Anyway, review, and NO FLAMES!!!!!!
Chapter Three: Capture
A/n: Thanks to everyone who reviewed! I'm not going to respond personally, though, not this chapter. I will next chapter! Anyway, let's get on with the story.
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Robin and Blossom hunted up and down the hallways of Pokey Oaks High School for Mike, without much success. Since he was searching for them as well, they kept on missing each other. Finally, the first bell rang and they had to go to homeroom.
"Oh damn it!" Robin said. "I'm sorry, Bloss. I guess it'll have to wait." Blossom didn't respond. She just stood there looking dazed. "Blossom?"
Blossom suddenly jumped and shivered. "We may not have that long to wait," she said quietly.
"What are you talking about?" came a voice from behind them. Both girls jumped and turned around, but it was only Buttercup's boyfriend, Mitch Mitchelson. Blossom grimaced. She had never liked Mitch that much. What Buttercup saw in him lay beyond her comprehension. Suddenly Blossom found herself giggling a little. The fact that she could think about something like her sister's taste in men at that moment seemed funny to her.
"What's so fuckin' funny?" he demanded.
Robin glared, but her expression brightened when she saw Mike running up behind Mitch. "Hey there, you! We were lookin' for you!" she called.
Mike stopped next to Mitch and gasped out "Blossom . . . downstairs . . . big problem . . . need girls . . . boiler room flooded!"
"Boiler room flooded!!" Blossom yelped. "I'm going downstairs! Mitch, could you go get Buttercup and Bubbles for me?"
"I'm on it!" he said, and he dashed down the hall in one direction while Blossom flew at top speed in the other.
She reached a staircase and saw people who were looking half-drowned climbing up the stairs that weren't already covered in water.
"How could the basement have flooded like this?" Blossom thought. She took a deep breath and dove down. She saw that there were people still trying to get out, grabbed them, and brought them upstairs.
Buttercup and Bubbles got there just then. "Is everyone alright?" Buttercup asked.
"I think so," Blossom gasped. "Need to fix the problem though." Taking another deep breath, Blossom dove back down, Bubbles and Buttercup right behind her. It took a few times resurfacing to take a breath, but the girls were finally able to locate the source of the water; the water main and several other pipes had burst. They sealed off the pipes and began to drain the water using buckets. It took them all of homeroom and first period to solve the crisis, and by that time, the girls were drenched and exhausted.
"You girls okay?" a custodian asked.
"We're fine," Bubbles said. "We've been through a lot worse than this." She pulled herself up. "Aw man! This shirt is dry-clean only!"
"Get over it, Bubbles," Blossom grumbled. "Let's go to class. We haven't got time to go change just yet. We'll just have to live with wet clothes."
"Wet clothes may be good right now!!" Robin said, coming down the hall.
"What?" Bubbles asked.
"The mayor just called! There's a humongous fire in the warehouse district, and the fire department can't get it under control! They need your ice powers, Bloss!" Robin said.
"Okay." Blossom turned to her sisters. "There's no need for all of us to get exhausted. You two stay here. I'll be right back."
She was off in a flash of bright pink light. The fire has already engulfed about half of the warehouses, and it was still burning strong. Flying back and forth over the flames (and drying her clothes in the process), Blossom blew out the fire using her ice breath. Once the fire was out, Blossom landed on her knees, completely wiper out. Two big disasters in a row was more than a little tiring, but she was about to be drained further when she saw the Powerpuff signal on a cloud bank. Trying to catch her breath, Blossom flew to the mayor's office, joining her sisters on the way.
"This is a big problem," Ms. Bellum, now the mayor of Townsville, told them. "There are buildings just falling apart downtown! We need you to try to stop it, or at least get the people out of there!" Without hesitation, the girls flew off.
"This is getting weird," Bubbles said. "Three huge problems in a row?"
"What's going' on?" Buttercup asked.
"I don't know, but we haven't got time to figure it out right now!" Blossom panted. She'd barely had time to catch her breath yet, but she forced herself on.
When they reached downtown, they saw the panicked people hurrying out of the way of collapsing buildings. The girls zigzagged the streets, getting the people out of harm's way, then clearing up the debris of the buildings, which had stopped crumbling when the girls had gotten the people out of the way.
After the building situation was over, the girls flew back to the school, utterly exhausted. Blossom was barely able to stand up. She was so burnt out that she had to lean on Bubbles when they landed to keep herself from tripping.
"Are you okay Bloss?" Robin called. She, Mike, and Mitch were hurrying outside.
"What period is it?" Buttercup asked.
"Study hall," Mitch said. "You girls were gone so long that we were about ready to go looking for you."
Blossom stood up, getting off of Bubbles, and said, "Hey, no worries. The Powerpuff Girls can handle anything!" She walked back into the school, trying to keep up the impression of a normal day's crime fighting, but they weren't fooled. She repeatedly stumbled over things, a sure mark of her weariness.
"I'm worried about her," Mike said. "If what you told me and Mitch is true, Robin, then Blossom may be in some serious danger, especially if she's right and it involves the Rowdyruff Boys."
"ROWDYRUFF BOYS!!!" Buttercup yelled. She grabbed Mike by the collar and growled, "Tell me everything you know! NOW!!!"
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Boomer was doubled over in laughter. Brick's plan was sheer genius! Boomer had caused the flood in the boiler room by slicing the pipes, Brick had caused the fire with his flame breath, and Butch's special "Decay Beam" had been what was causing the buildings to crumble. Striking one at a time, in direct succession, had been a touch of brilliance. Now Blossom was so tired that she couldn't walk straight. Boomer found that to be hilarious.
"Now there's only one thing left for us to do!" he said to himself. With that, he dashed back to his brothers and said, "It's time! You were right, bro! She can't even see right!"
"I still can't believe that it worked!" Butch said.
"Well, let's go!" Brick said.
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Blossom stumbled through the hallway, trying to get to the library. She continuously had to lean against the lockers, though; she was extremely dizzy, and that sense of danger was back in triple. After a few moments, Blossom stopped and sat down on the floor.
"Too much," she whispered. "All that trouble. Wouldn't be a problem if this feeling wasn't already draining my energy away."
Suddenly, Blossom knew she wasn't alone. Pulling herself onto her feet, she yelled, "Alright! I know you're there!!! Show yourself!!"
Three seconds later, Blossom regretted making that challenge. The Rowdyruffs were surrounding her, in plain sight, no longer invisible to the human eye.
The red-clad boy said, "Hello there, Blossom. It's been a while. Ten years."
"Ten years of being trapped in a dimension that isn't ours!" said the blonde.
The green-clad boy came right up to Blossom's face. "You know, I'd punch you right in the face if we didn't need you."
"Need me? For what?"
"To come back of course," Brick said, as if it were totally obvious.
Blossom came forward, facing him. "How do you think you can make me? You're not even here!" She swung her hand at him, and it went right through. "You see? You couldn't do anything to me!"
"Not true," Boomer said smugly. He fired a laser beam at her, and it blasted her into a wall.
"Boomer!" Brick yelled. "We can't kill her yet!!"
Blossom stood up and came back over to the boys. "Then what are you here for, if not to kill me?"
"To catch you!" Brick said. "We need your powers, Blossom. It's the only way to bring ourselves back!"
The boys floated around Blossom until they were in a perfect triangle around her. "And with you so exhausted from all the trouble we caused, there's nothing you can do about it!" Butch boasted.
The others chose that moment to show up. They froze when they saw what was happening before them. They looked older, but there was no mistaking the Rowdyruff Boys. They began to glow with some sort of a power, and suddenly Buttercup let out a piercing shriek.
"That power," she whimpered. "I can feel it! The darkness of that power!" She stood up. "Whatever you're trying to do to my sister, STOP IT!!!!" Buttercup charged forward, followed closely by Bubbles.
Boomer looked at them both. "Sorry, babe, but you're not stopping us. Not after we've waited for so long!"
Buttercup suddenly slammed into something that felt like a wall. She and Bubbles looked up to see a wall of blue energy in front of them. Boomer smirked at them, and turned back to Blossom and his brothers. The boys began to glow brighter, and Blossom seemed to be in a trance.
"Now, you will come with us!" Butch said.
And in an instant, they were all gone.
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A/n: (insert evil laugh here) CLIFFHANGER!!! HAHAHA!! I love cliffhangers!! Sorry I took so long with the update, but I've had a minor writer's block. Anyway, review, and NO FLAMES!!!!!!