Chapter Six



Blossom crawled over to her brunette sister who was mercifully nearby. They'd flown at the ship from different directions and had been simultaneously hit by force beams that drove them into the ground. Nothing seemed to be working.

"Are you all right?" asked Blossom.

Buttercup made a quite sound of pain. A short distance away, Bubbles was slowly rising to her feet. They'd been hit as badly as Blossom had.

"What are we going to do?" asked Bubbles.

"Good question," said Blossom. "Wish I had a good answer."

Buttercup rubbed the side of her head. She longed to say, "Let's just go smash that ship!" So far, however, the only thing that was being smashed was them. For the first time, Buttercup was ready to admit she was afraid they were beaten.

"Powerpuff Girls!" came a voice. The trio of sisters looked up and saw a man they didn't recognize running toward them.

"You need to get out of here Sir," said Blossom. "It's not safe."

"It's me Powerpuffs. I'm Booby Frett."

The Powerpuffs flew into the air, winching as their bodies weren't ready for such action yet.

"You're Booby Frett?" asked Bubbles.

"So that's what you look like without your helment," said Buttercup.

"We don't have time for you Booby Frett," said Blossom. "Just leave so we can take care of Mojo."

"I want to help," said Frett. "I didn't mean for this happen. All I wanted was the bounty on you. I admit that I wanted to hurt you, but not all this damage."

"Just get out of here," said Blossom.

"And stop lying," said Bubbles.

"I'm not. Listen, I know you don't believe me, but I really want to help. I know my ship. Every power. Every weakness. I can tell you all that."

"Why should we believe you?" asked Buttercup.

Frett gestured at the destruction around them.

"What other choice is there?"

"That's a good reason," said Bubbles quietly.

Buttercup grumbled a moment, then said, "O.K. Booby, but no trick or we'll pound you worse than last time. Got it?"

"Got it."

"Let's go home to the Professor," said Blossom. "Maybe he can help think of an idea."

The Powerpuffs reluctantly picked up Frett and flew home with him.



"Well from what Frett tells us," said the Professor later at the Uptonium residence, "the best way to stop the ship is to get inside. I think you have force it to land to that."

"How do we do that?" asked Bubbles. "It's so powerful."

"That's it," said Frett. "It's been using a lot power so he'll have to land and give it a chance to recharge. Problem is some of the weapons will still work during the recharging."

"But if some won't there's a chance," said the Professor. "Which weapons are out?"

"Mostly the offensive weapons, but you can switch them back on at the expensive of the defensive ones."

"If I know Mojo, he'll switch on the offensive ones," said Blossom.

"If not immediately, in response to an attack," said the Professor.

"If he did that," said Frett, "someone could sneak inside. But a distraction would help."

At that moment the hotline buzzed. Buttercup flew over to it and answer. After a moment she said, "We're on it Mayor," and hung up.

"The Mayor says that the spaceship has landed outside City Hall," said Buttercup as she flew back to her family and Frett.

"This could be our chance," said Blossom.

"Our last chance," said Buttercup. "Mojo says he'll destroy City Hall in twenty minutes if the Mayor doesn't surrender."

The five of them formulated a plan.



"Do you think Booby Frett will double cross us or botch it up?" asked Bubbles.

"He'd better not," said Buttercup. "Maybe he'll try to double cross us and then botch that up."





The two sister flew down and hovered directly in front of the spacecraft. They turned on their eye beams full force.

Inside the craft Mojo laughed at their foolishness. He charged up the blaster and fired. Bubbles and Buttercup were knocked several feet away.

"Hmmm," thought Mojo. "I wonder where Blossom is."

He powered down the weapons somewhat and began scanning. Blossom had just gotten out range in time. While she circled around to check on her sisters, Frett crept through the ship. Blossom had looked back over her shoulder with her supervision. She had to give credit for quickly he'd gotten in.

"I don't believe they put their safety on the line like that,"thought Frett. "I've got to do this right after that. Fortunately I know this ship to well to set off any of the alarms. I just hope he doesn't think to look at the camera screens."

In the command room, Mojo was doing just that.

"Well, Mr. Booby Frett," thought Mojo, "I figured I needed to get you out the way sooner or later. I guess it'll be now."



TO BE CONTINUED