Disclaimer: Powerpuff Girls are not mine. 

A/N This is officially the first Powerpuff Girl story I ever wrote.  I wrote it in 2000 shortly after I started watching the show.  I found it recently and now I am sharing it with you fantabulous readers.  I don't know if this is considered funny, because writing humor is not my forte, but I hope you get a chuckle or two out of this.  Anyway, please R&R!

Part One

The city of Townsville was the home to a host of loveable characters, like the Powerpuff Girls… and some that were not so lovable.  You know who I mean.  The villains, the monsters, those annoying people who just love to call you during dinner and talk you into buying a vacuum that you don't need and costs a fortune and doesn't work properly but instead work in reverse so you have to buy another one and… oh sorry, back to the story… and teachers who like to give their students detention.  Like a certain Miss Keane for example…

Miss Keane sat at her desk reading a harlequin romance as her class sat at their desks with pained looks on their faces.  Miss Keane looked at them, "Now children, if you would just pay attention in class, you could be out playing right now.  It's only a few more minutes."

All eyes were aimed at the clock on the wall. (although most of them didn't know how to tell time, so they had no clue as to what time it was anyway)  Miss Keane heaved a huge sigh, shaking her head.  All of a sudden… Beep! Beep! Beep! The Powerpuff Girl hotline went off.  Miss Keane raised her finger, motioning them to remain seated.

I always wanted to do this!  She thought, picking up the hotline, "Hello?"

"Hello!  Blossom?"

"No, this is her teacher, Miss Keane," she replied, "The girls are busy right now."

"Well, this is the mayor, and there's an emergency!  Er… what are they doing?"

Miss Keane glanced at the girls who looked anxious, like they needed to go to the bathroom, "Detention.  They will be there in a few minutes, OK?  Only two more minutes left."

"But there's no time!" the Mayor gasped.

Miss Keane sighed, "Oh all right girls, you may go."

"Whoo hoo!" Buttercup cheered in a Homer Simpson type fashion as she, Blossom and Bubbles flew off through the ceiling, making a big hole.  All the other kids watched them go with admiration.

"Note to self: Remind girls that we do in fact have a door," Miss Keane rolled her eyes, looking at the damage. 

She looked over at her class, "You guys may go too I guess," Miss Keane shrugged.  The kids cheered and ran off in a flash.  "Have a good evening kids!" she waved after them, knowing no one heard her.  As the last kid slammed the door behind him, Miss Keane put her head on her desk with a sigh.  She wiped a tear from her eye.  "Why do I even bother?  None of them listen to me.  The only thing they pay attention to is the latest Powerpuff Girl adventure.  It's Powerpuff Girls this, and Powerpuff girls that! Not that I have anything against them.

 "They're such sweet girls, and good students.  I don't blame everyone for adoring them, I do too.  Everyone thinks they're so cool.  They do cool stuff, they have their own hotline linked directly to mayor, the save Townsville almost everyday…twice on Saturdays.  And let's face it, they have really cool powers.  But their coolness distracts the other students and no one pays any attention to me!" Miss Keane wailed the last five words, starting to cry.  "If I can't reach out to them, and inspire them, and help their development, I will lose my job.  I love my job!  I love my kids!  Oh if only they'd care and listen to me!"

Meanwhile the Powerpuff Girls flew back to school.  "We've got to remind the mayor that a spider on the wall is not an emergency," Blossom sighed.

"Meh, at least it got us out of detention early," Buttercup shrugged.  They arrived at the school and looked through the window and saw Miss Keane in tears.  "Hey!  What's up with Miss K?"

"I don't know," Blossom replied with some concern, "But it isn't any of our business."

Bubbles sighed and gazed at the saddened Miss Keane, "I wish I knew what was wrong so we could help her feel better."

"Well, let's just grab our books and go," Blossom said.  "It must be embarrassing for a teacher when a student sees her cry, so let's spare her the embarrassment and ignore her, so I don't think she'll notice."

"I don't know if I can do that.  She looks so sad," Bubbles sighed.

"Aww, you're sweet Bubbles, but try, OK?" Blossom smiled.

They went through the door this time and grabbed their books.  Miss Keane wiped her eyes and waited for them to say "hi".  When they didn't she sighed, "Hello girls, forgot your books I see."

"Oh Miss Keane!" Blossom exclaimed, "I didn't see you!"

"Figures," she muttered under her breath, sadly.

"What's wrong?" Bubbles asked, "Oops."

"Nothing, nothing," Miss Keane said quickly, wiping a tear from the corner of her eye.

"OK then, let's go!" Buttercup said quickly, uncomfortable because of the awkward moment.  "Um, bye!" she waved before quickly flying off.

"See you tomorrow Miss Keane," Blossom said, flying after her.

Bubbles lingered a moment and then gave Miss Keane's hand a reassuring pat, giving an 'everything-will-be-OK' look, "Bye!" she said, flying off.

Miss Keane smiled after them, cheered up a little.  She sighed, "They are so sweet, I just wish they weren't so… distracting."

****

The next day, while Miss Keane still felt depressed and ignored, everyone else was anxious to find out about the big Powerpuff Girls' adventure that allowed them to leave early. 

"It was the biggest, and hairiest and, and ugliest spider you've ever seen!" Buttercup exclaimed excitedly, while everyone gathered around them, watching Buttercup's big gestures and reenactments.  "And you should've seen the web!  It was huge!  And sticky!  Blossom got stuck but I saved her and and…"

"Buttercup, it was just a little spider, not even the size of a quarter.  And I wouldn't have even touched the puny web if you didn't push me!" Blossom replied, rolling her eyes.

"Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it!  Or you are at least!" Buttercup laughed, "Get it?  Stick to it?  And you got caught in the web, and the web was sticky!" she rolled over laughing at her own lame joke.

"We get it," Blossom muttered dryly.

"Cooool!" Mitch said, "Then what happened?"

"And then we told the mayor that it was safe to come out, because the spider was gone," Bubbles concluded the story.

"Coooooool!" everyone chorused in awe.

Miss Keane stepped in with a sigh, "Thank you girls for your wonderful story.  Who who's ready for some arithmetic?"

The class blinked, staring at her blankly for a moment before shrugging, "Nah!"

"Hey!  Tell us about the time you fought the Boogie Man!  I love that one!" Jeff begged.

"Yeah!" everyone agreed.

"I'm sure that's a wonderful story too but…" Miss Keane started.

"OK!" Buttercup exclaimed, interrupting her, "Well, Bubbles was really scared and…"

"I was not!" Bubbles protested.

"But I was there to protect her and…"

"Oh yeah?" Bubbles frowned, "Well, you were the one who jumped into my arms because you were 'fraid!" she blew a raspberry.

"I was dancing!" Buttercup waved her arms in the air, "Remember?  There was all that cool music?  Hello!  I wasn't scared at all!  So anyway, there was this giant disco ball blocking the sun…"

"And we blowed it up!" Bubbles chimed in.

"But that was after we were chased by the Boogie Man who was shooting these lasers!" Buttercup then went on to mimic the sounds of the lasers attempting to reenact the scene.

"Um guys?" Blossom cut in pointing at Miss Keane who was at her desk with her head resting on her folded arms; she was looking away, but her posture screamed defeat.  "Maybe we should…"

"But…" Buttercup protested.  She looked at Miss Keane, then the rest of the class, who were staring at her with anticipation, "He was shooting these lasers and… and…" she looked back at Miss Keane and sighed, "To be continued."

"Awww!" everyone moaned.

"We'll tell you more at recess," Blossom reassured them, "So Miss Keane!  How about that math?"

Miss Keane sniffed, she wiped her eyes and looked at the class, a tired smile on her face, "OK, today class we're going to learn how to add double digits." She stood up and headed towards the blackboard.

"Awww!" everyone groaned.

Miss Keane sighed, hanging her head she headed back to her desk, defeated.

"Miss Keane!" Blossom raised her hand, "We want to learn about it!  Don't we guys?" she turned to her classmates who stared at her blankly.

"Yeah!" Bubbles piped up, "I've always wondered how to do that!"

Buttercup looked around at Blossom and Bubbles who were encouraging her to join in.  Reluctantly she nodded and with fake enthusiasm said, "Yeah, math is cool!" she shot her sister's an 'I-can't-believe-I-just-said-that' look.

Miss Keane smiled as everyone began to show slight interest.  "OK!  Now if Bobby has 12 candies, and Suzie has 7, how many do they have altogether?  That's right! They have 19 candies!" she wrote the problem on the blackboard.  She felt better now that the class was finally starting to pay attention.  She just wished that she didn't need the Powerpuff girls to initiate that interest.  At least there was a chance the kids were learning.