The Powerpuff Boy
Chapter 4
Bobby woke up the next morning when the Professor tapped on his door.
"Bobby, time to get up." said the Professor. Bobby got out of bed, put on his hat, and flew out of his room to use the bathroom. Along the way, he ran into Buttercup and Blossom dressed in their night gowns.
"Good morning, girls." said Bobby but Blossom and Buttercup didn't respond. They just gave Bobby the cold shoulder as they pasted him and they didn't respond to Bobby's greeting as if he was invisible. Bobby was surprised by the sudden cold behavior from his sisters and this worried him.
Buttercup's and Blossom's dislike for Bobby became more clear today than any other day. All day long, Buttercup and Blossom never spoke to him except for those times when they yelled at him. Buttercup and Blossom had an unusually high temper with Bobby. Whether he spilt something or was breathing too loudly, Blossom and Buttercup always lost their temper with Bobby. It got so bad that Bobby ended up avoiding his sisters while he was at school. Although Bubbles didn't share her sisters' fowl temper, Bobby, none the less, avoided her incase she was just as bad. Bubbles tried to play with Bobby but when Bobby continuously avoided her, Bubbles knew that there was something wrong.
After they came home from school, Bobby spent most of the day by himself or training in the simulations, all so he could keep away from his sisters. Bubbles was concerned about Bobby so at around six o' clock, she flew down into the training room. Through the viewing window, she could see Bobby fighting off a large monster that looked like a cross between an octopus, a cat, and a rhino. Bobby looked like he was having some difficulties fighting the monster because it kept slashing at Bobby with its long tentacles making it difficult for Bobby to get at the thing. Bubbles, worried about Bobby's safety, hit the emergency stop switch and automatically, the simulated monster and city vanished and a computer voice said, "Simulation terminated." Bobby was surprised that the simulation had ended but was relieved none the less. Bobby flew out of the simulation and sat down in a chair, exhausted from the fight.
"Bobby, what happened?" asked Bubbles in concern.
"I wanted to try something a little harder," said Bobby, "but I guess I'm not ready for something that hard yet."
"Bobby, you've been avoiding me and my sisters all day." said Bubbles. "What is going on." Bobby tried his best not to cry as he talked but tears were visible anyway.
"Because Blossom and Buttercup have been so cruel to me." said Bobby. "They've been so angry at me lately but I don't understand why. Don't they love me?"
"Of-course they do." said Bubbles softly.
"Then why have they been so mad at me all of a sudden?" demanded Bobby with a shaky voice. "So I failed to catch a robber but that doesn't mean that I should be picked on like this." Bubbles remembered that her sisters has been acting rather rude to Bobby lately. She knew she would not stand for this.
"Don't worry, Bobby." reassured Bubbles. "I'll talk to them."
"You will?" asked Bobby.
"Hey, what are sisters for." said Bubbles. Bobby hugged Bubbles.
"Thank you, Bubbles, I knew I can count on you." said Bobby.
From up stairs, they heard the Hotline ring. Blossom picked up the phone and said into it, "Yes Mayor, what is it?" Bobby, Buttercup, and Bubbles flew into the room to listen to the conversation. "Another monster? We're on our way." Blossom hung up the phone.
"Girls, there is a monster destroying the city." said Blossom but as usual, she was ignoring Bobby. The four of them, flew out the window and headed strait for the monster. The monster was like a huge human shaped fire ball with a large black mouth and two round black dots which marked the location of its eyes. People screamed and panicked as the monster rampaged through the city igniting everything it touched.
"Okay, throw him a punch to his mid-section." ordered Blossom. The four of them linked hands and at full speed, they plowed through the fire monster but they simply went right through it throwing sparks everywhere upon exiting the monster. The girls and Bobby were not harmed by the flames thanks to their damage reduction powers but the attack was fruitless because the hole they made in the monster vanished as quickly as they made it. Blossom then attempted to use her ice breath but the creature was so hot that the ice melted instantly before touching the monster.
"What are we going to do now?" asked Bubbles.
"Plan Tornado Spin." ordered Blossom. Bobby, however, didn't know all of the commands so as the girls flew into action, Bobby just hovered there unsure as to what "Plan Tornado Spin" was.
The girls began to spin around the fire creature and a tornado began to form around it causing the edges of the creature to flicker and move with the force of the wind. It would have worked but the monster shot a burst of flames from its mouth. The force of the flames shot the girls into a wall.
"Girls!" shouted Bobby in alarm. As Bobby watched the fire monster continue its rampage, inspiration struck him as he remembered how the creature's flames actually moved with the force of wind caused by the girls spinning around him. Bobby breathed in heavily and blow as hard as he could at the monster. The force of the wind forced the monster back and out of shape. As Bobby suspected, the creature was made out of flame and the wind was pushing it bit by bit like a sand castle being blown over. Bobby took in another deep breath and blew as hard as he could causing the monster, as well as every light weight object within the wind, to fly away. At this point, the girls had managed to snap out of unconsciousness and saw Bobby fighting the monster. The monster finally could not hold itself together anymore and thus it spread out everywhere. But there was a flaw to Bobby's plan. The force of the wind destroyed the monster but the force of Bobby's lungs has spread out the fire that the monster was made out of causing an entire block to catch on fire. People everywhere was screaming in a panic as the entire neighborhood was an inferno. Bobby was horrified at what he had done. Blossom, thinking fast, noticed the rain clouds in the sky and flew into them. She rubbed her hands together producing static electricity. The electricity charged up the cloud and immediately, it began to rain. It was a huge down poor, large enough to put out much of the fire while the remaining girls and Bobby put out what the rain could not touch.
Once the fire was out, Blossom and Buttercup immediately rounded up on Bobby, angry faces plastered on their faces.
"Bobby, do you realize that you nearly got innocent people killed?" yelled Blossom.
"Ya, what's wrong with you?" demanded Buttercup.
"I didn't know this was going to happen." pleaded Bobby. "I was just trying to help."
"And did it help?" yelled Buttercup threateningly.
"No." said Bobby feebly.
"Stop it you guys." pleaded Bubbles as she flew in. "Bobby didn't mean for this to happen. Any of us would have done the same thing." But her sisters gave no response that they had heard her.
"Bobby, you're the worst thing to have happened to us." said Buttercup.
"And you have no business fighting crime with us." yelled Blossom. Bobby's chin vibrated as tears pored down his face. Blossom and Buttercup's angry faces melted away as they realized that perhaps they had gone too far.
"Bobby, we didn't mean...." began Buttercup but Bobby already took off crying loudly as he flew away.
"Bobby, wait, come back." said Bubbles but Bobby had already got away. Bubbles immediately rounded on her sisters.
"How could you have done that to your own brother?" said Bubbles angrily. The piercing stare Bubbles gave to Blossom and Buttercup actually made them intimidated by Bubbles. "What happened here was entirely an accident and you know it." Blossom and Buttercup felt ashamed of what they had done so the three of them flew home to talk to the Professor.
Upon coming home, they found the Professor in his lab. Bubble explained to the Professor about how the girls had been mistreating Bobby and she also told him about what happened today.
"And now Bobby has run off and we don't know where he is." said Bubbles. The Professor looked at his other two daughters and glared at them.
"Now see here, I demand an explanation for why you two have been so mean to your brother." said the Professor. "Buttercup, you first." Buttercup flew forwards.
"Well, I hated having him around." said Buttercup. "Now that he is around, you probably don't want us anymore. Not to mention that he gets to have his own room and his own toys while I have to share my room and my toys with my sisters. That is so not fare." The Professor gently grabbed Buttercup and placed her on his lap.
"But Buttercup, your worries of me liking Bobby more than you three is not true." said the Professor. "I love you and your sisters with all my heart and that is never going to change no matter how many kids I get. And as for Bobby getting his own room and his own toys, I feel that it should be Bobby who should be jealous of you, not the other way around."
"What do you mean, Professor?" asked Buttercup.
"Well, your room is very large, about twice the size of my room." pointed out the Professor. "You even have a wonderful view of the outside world from your windows and you even have your own bathroom. The only down side is you have to share it with two other people. And as for Bobby's room, his room is about the size of a large closet. He has only one window and a small closet with no bathroom of his own." Buttercup comprehended all this silently.
"But why did he get his own room in the first place?" asked Buttercup.
"Tell me, would you have enjoyed sharing a room with a boy everyday?" asked the Professor.
"Uh, no." said Buttercup. "I wouldn't."
"Exactly." said the Professor. Buttercup fell silent again as she realized that her father's words were true. She didn't know what to say.
"What about you, Blossom?" asked the Professor as he looked at Blossom. "What do you have against Bobby?"
"Well, how do we know Bobby is even trust worthy at all?" asked Blossom. "He was made by the same ingredients that made the Rowdyruff Boys. How do we know he is not as bad as them?"
"That is a good question." said the Professor. "Remember how I mentioned that our intentions behind the creation process affects the end result?"
"Yeah." said Blossom.
"Well, the ingredients for the perfect girl is inherently good in nature." said the Professor. "When I created you three, I created you because I wanted children of my own and I wanted to give Townsville something that would benefit it. I had loving intentions behind the creation of you three which is why you three came out perfect. Now, remember when Professor Dick made all those Powerpuff knock offs? All those knock offs were imperfect and dysfunctional because Professor Dick had created them with greedy intentions disrupting the good nature of the formula."
"So since the ingredients for the perfect girl is good in nature, the ingredients for the perfect boy must be evil in nature, right?" said Blossom.
"That is where you're wrong, Blossom." said the Professor.
"Huh?" said Blossom.
"I used to think that myself but recently, I had discovered that the ingredients for the perfect boy is not evil but neutral." said the Professor. "On the night before I made Bobby, I discovered that the ingredients to creating the perfect little boy actually takes on the alignment of the intentions behind the creation of the boy. Unlike the perfect girls formula that rejects evil intentions, the perfect boy formula actually adepts to the alignment of the intentions behind the creation. That means that the boy will be only as good or as bad as the intentions behind the creation of the boy. For example, when Mojo created the Rowdyruff Boys, he made them so he could take over the world and cause much destruction. The perfect boy ingredients had adopted those evil intentions causing the boys to be evil. But when I made Bobby, I did it not just to see if my theory would work but I did it so I could have a son, so you girls could have a brother, and have some extra help fighting crime. Because I made him with love and good intentions, it has made him as good as you girls." Blossom fell silent as this information sunk in.
"Why didn't you tell us this?" asked Blossom.
"Because there shouldn't have been a need to." said the Professor in a matter-of-fact tone. It was then that Blossom did something unexpected, she cried. Guilt ridden, she sobbed on the floor of the Professor's lab startling everyone with this sudden burst of tears. The Professor leaned over and picked up Blossom and put her in his lap along side Buttercup.
"I was so awful to Bobby." said Blossom through her sobs. "I never gave him a chance."
"Me neither." said Buttercup, also in tears herself. "How could we have been so stupid?"
"There there, girls, you can still apologize and make up for what you did." said the Professor.
"But Bobby's gone." said Buttercup.
"Then we should find him." said Blossom. Buttercup flew off of the Professor's lap.
"You're right, we should go out there and find him." said the Buttercup. The girls flew out of the lab leaving their colorful streaks of light.
"My little angles." said the Professor watching them go.
Deep inside the Townsville forest, Bobby could be seen crying. He had gone deep into the forest and reached some mountains miles away from Townsville. He sat on a rock located at the foot of the mountain where he had been crying for the past thirty minutes. He just couldn't believe that his sisters could have been so cruel to him. He no longer knew what to do or who to turn to so he just sat there on that rock crying. He then heard the sound of a twig snapping. Bobby lifted his tear stained face from his hands and looked around.
"Who's there?" called out Bobby to the forest. Because the sun was setting in the distance, it was a little dark in the forest making it hard to spot the person nearby. He was about to activate his night vision when he saw someone in the trees. From the little bit of light left, Bobby could see a short hairy figure walking towards him. The figure was covered in black fur but Bobby could still see its green skin. The figure wore a lavender suit with white gloves, boots, and a cape. He also wore a long helmet with an unusual line pattern on it.
"Don't be afraid, I'm not going to hurt you." said the hairy creature.
"Who are you?" asked Bobby.
"My name is Mojo Jojo and I wish to speak with you." said the hairy creature.
