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"Professor Aurum, after lengthy research, I have discovered that while nuclear material has entered your operation, only nuclear weapons comprising of three quarters of the material had come out. Additionally, these creatures exiting your facility are now assaulting the city of Townsville. Can you atone for these"
Professor closed his eyes in anger. The Imperator should have known better than to use them in broad daylight. She was going to be the death of him yet. Again he fingered the small device. It had been according to the plan anyway. Should he enact it now, where he can get a lot of publicity, or is it too dangerous. He looked up at Utoniums smug face. He wouldn't be like that if he knew that I would be the one to destroy the entire world.
Buttercup slammed angrily into the glowing force-field. How could she get knocked into this place again. She looked around the alcove, then fired her lasers at the ceiling, melting it slightly before raining blow after blow on it until the wiring was damaged and the forcefield began the flicker. She then intermittedly fired her lasers out, timing them exactly with the times the force-field went off.
The Imperator quickly acted, switching over power to Buttercup and Bubbles alcoves and releasing Blossom. She could take one at a time.
Aurum slowly stepped up in front of the judge looking at the jury. He was fabulously rich but he had no power. He had to be content to watch the fools run around committing crimes while he, the master of the world's armament could do nothing but watch. Others failed to recognise the uselessness of mortals, but not he. In that respect, he and the Imperator were alike. He knew the imperator would not approve of him acting on his own. She preferred secrecy, but, his life didn't revolve around her. He didn't need to abide by her rules. The humans. They did not deserve to remain on this planet.
Blossom was taken by surprise as the force-field went off. After a brief moments consideration she flew out, lasers blazing. She grabbed the Imperators arm, but she was expecting her assault, and quickly twisted her arm away before ramming her head Blossoms stomach. Blossoms fist simply glanced off the slick metallic armour, as frustrated blow after frustrated blow simply fell to no effect. She flew over the Imperators head, giving her a sharp kick which, like every blow struck against her so far, came to no avail. She charged her lasers up again, firing them into the imperators face. For a brief moment of time, the light glinted of her helmet5, reflecting the scene before them. Her, Blossom, floating, stony-faced staring into futility. The great Powerpuff girls locked in an ill conceived cage. Priceless works of oriental art and old turbans alike, strewn across the floor in a mess of pain and finality. She remembered this place well, some memories quite fond. The times when they had come here to retrieve a ball and destroyed Mojo's priceless vase. The time the Professor flew in using wildly inaccurate depictions of bravado. And now this, the Imperator floating above this wanton destruction like imperial hate and Blossom hardened herself for battle. She was going to pay. Then, the Imperator kicked her between the eyes, making her grip her face in agony before sheer will exerted itself to push her into motion.
Aurum smiled contemptuously up at the judge, then he drew his arm back and smashed his fist into the judge's face. With a viscous kick he knocked the elderly man of his seat and then sat down himself. Policemen instantly ran into the room holding pistols ready. Aurum drew out his device.
"You don't want to shoot me"
"And why ever not" barked the captain.
"As Utonium her kindly pointed out, a quarter of America's weapons are missing. That would be enough to destroy the world a couple of times over. So now, I'm holding the world hostage"
Aurum laughed as he watched everyone's faces go slack with amazement. This was power!
Buttercup was extremely frustrated. There, Blossom was risking her life, fighting great evil, ad all she could do here was wait. She couldn't bear to watch the ensuing battle, and instead focused herself into escaping. She had already tried the forcefield and the ceiling, so there were the walls left. She gave a few tentative pounds, then feeling it shift slightly, gave it all her prodigious strength. She ripped the wall out and flung it away. Below her, she could see a vast army of creatures terrorizing the city and she felt a feral, protective hero instinct rise in her. She was going to beat these guys up. Then she heard a fearsome roar above her head.
An enormous fiery shape possessing the features of a dragon circled the air and swooped down, bearing its lethal talons at Buttercups head. She dodged the blow, leaping out of the way as the fire slammed beside her. She threw a last frustrated laser striking towards the force field, ducking as it rebounded at her head, before leaving Blossom to her fate and leaping into the fray.
The Professor glared into Aurums eyes. The light of madness danced in his unseeing orbs. He though he had total dominion, he would show hi that he was not so easily intimidated.
"You're mad"
His voice came out in a rasp laced with contempt.
Aurum simply laughed again.
"Yes, I am mad. But you are the one who will die."
The Professor suddenly leaped at him as from around the room bullets whistled towards him. The Professor brought his bullet riddled body down to the floor. He opened his eyes and stared into Aurums cold eyes, just starting to glaze over. He felt a wave of relief. They were safe. Then he heard a click. Aurums mouth slowly separated, face contorted with the force exerted. He whispered a single word.
"Boom"
Bubbles floated around her cell, watching as Blossom duelled desperately with the Imperator. She couldn't do anything. She needed Blossoms cool, rational thinking, Buttercups strength, fearlessness, brashness to support her. She stared at the sizzling lasers that Blossom and the Imperator threw at each other, making heat waves shimmer in the air. She could almost feel the heat from the battle, the useless burn of overworked muscles offset by the fiery course of adrenaline, but here, she was, sitting on the floor feeling the listless breeze from the air conditioner float lazily into her face. Wait, air-con meant there was a shaft leading to this place. That means there is a way out. She looked up seeing a poorly disguised ventilation shaft. She followed the expanse of the network to the point where the Imperator was duelling. The shaft finished off above her head. She slowly slipped out the small vial of Antidote X. She could do this!
Blossom quickly fired her lasers at the impending mass before, without pausing to see whether she made a hit, wheedling out of the line of fire and ducking behind some wreckage. She ducked out from behind it and fired again, viciously batting away the lasers aimed at her head. She flew over the Imperators head, blowing down icy oblivion upon her head, then, taking advantage of this brief respite, kicked her back, sending the Imperator flying into the steel wall. She fired again and again while helplessly dodging the punishing retaliations. She could not keep this up forever. If something did not change the playing field soon, she was ashamed to admit, she was finished.
Buttercup flew up staring into the Dragon's glowing eyes. She readied herself as the Dragon charged, roaring into the ungiving sky, and deftly spun out of its way. It spun around to regain itself and to find Buttercup, then charged again as Buttercup dodged yet again. This time Buttercup followed up with a quick punch that sent it flying into the air but barely shifted a flarey scale. Swearing under her breath she quickly lopped a large stone at its head and distanced herself from the dragon. She prepared herself for its return and return it did, but this time, it brought with it the rest of the Imperator's army. She flew at one of them, bringing her fist cracking down on its head, she grabbed its head and with a sudden twist, ripped it off, sending it spasming into oblivion. She was quickly surrounded by more of them. Roaring with pain as a particularly sharp pair of claws ripped her back, she spun around knocking all of them askew. She couldn't fight more of them. She could take them one on one, even the dragon, but together, her strength faded. She had to use her cunning. She swooped down and grabbed one of Mojo's old decadent "Ultimate robot to destroy the Powerpuffs and thus allow me to take over Townsville as the Powerpuffs will have been destroyed by me in order to allow me to take over Townsville, number 6605" and sent it flying into the crowd before ducking back into Mojo's lair.
Blossom had stopped attacking. It took everything she had just to escape the relentless volley of the Imperators shots. Gathering the vestiges of her ailing strength and mustering her resolve to hold out against the barrage she knew was about to catch her, she ripped the massive titanium wall complete with the steel girders and iron beams from its setting and slammed it bodily into the Imperator, then she gave the Imperator a vicious kick to the head, the first of which smashed the glass sending it flying around them. She quickly followed that up with a massive punch which roughly mutilated the helmet sending sparks burning through the air. She quickly back flipped back to her dodging stance to see the Imperator snarl viciously and rip off her helmet.
Buttercup found herself in a massive room filled with weird contraptions and piles of blueprints. She had found herself into Mojo Jojo's armoury/study. She peered at the top plan called "My greatest ever plan to destroy the Powerpuffs and thus allow me to take over Townsville as the Powerpuffs will have been destroyed by me in order to allow me to take over Townsville as the Townsville needs the Powerpuffs to protect it and the Powerpuffs will have been destroyed by me thus leaving the city unguarded for me to conquer"
Buttercup quickly peered through the long list of plans and smiled to herself. This was brilliant. She could beat them now.
The Dragon ripped off the wall and roared into the sky, surrounded by the Imperators other minions. Buttercup flew up to it smiling, she had nothing to fear now, she had Mojo's plans. With a quick lunge, she threw all of Mojo's hard conceived plans at the Dragon, they all burst into flames feeding the Dragons roaring flames, making it into a huge monolith, thus encompassing all the Imperators other minions, thus killing them. She flew up into the air taunting it.
"Come here you great ugly brute, aren't I the one you want to kill"
The others had been dispatched, now only the Dragon was left.
Bubbles slowly inched forward through the cramped space. She could have literally torn her way out but that would be useless as the Imperator would dispatch her immediately. All she could do was refrain herself, control every single on of her movements to avoid ripping the thin steel, to get to that one pin point of light at the end of the tunnel. Her keen eyes could see every facet of it. The glistening metal, vibrating slightly with the wind. As she paused over the grille, drops of sweat dripped agonizingly down her brow, she, unable to wipe it for fear of bursting out of the space as it slowly dripped down, inching its way steadily towards her doom. Cursing to herself, she struggled to uncork the vial, making as little movement as possible.
Blossom swirled nimbly around the Imperator, now that Buttercup wasn't here, she had to be extra careful. The key to winning was to make this battle last. Sooner or later, either Buttercup and Bubbles will get back or, she runs out of Imperium which will weaken her and her command. She flew into the air, dropping a few random laser shots which descended on empty air. The Imperator slowly watched her gyrations as Blossom continued her seemingly random itinerary. Then, with a frightening speed the Imperator rose up into the air and knocked her into the war. Unfazed by this latest development, Blossom flew out of the wall and counter attacked by cannoning into the Imperators unshielded face, ramming into her cruel eyes, then, agilely flipped back before administering a final kick. Blossom looked up as the Imperator bellowed, eyes glistening with despair, until she saw something that looked like a mirage from the heat waves. Bubbles huddled up in the ventilation shaft holding a bottle of antidote X. She winked at her and Bubbles responded likewise, as Blossom threw herself into battle with renewed hope.
The dragon swooped down towards her. Buttercup dodged the gargantuan flame, grunting as she felt the immense heat singe her skin. She had to find a way of finishing the fight soon. With a moment of hesitation, she rammed backwards through the wall, sliding back into Mojo's hideout. The dragon quickly followed, smashing through the wall. Buttercup smiled at it, then fired at the roof, causing it to collapse on the dragon, smothering its fire. She smelled the satisfying acrid smoke, then fired again just to make sure.
Blossom was shocked into stopping momentarily at the sight of first Buttercup then a massive dragon smashing through the wall. Then she recovered and rammed into the Imperator, just as she was preparing to deliver a massive kick to Buttercup who was now lying on the floor.
Bubbles slowly slid the ventilation shaft off, then she uncorked the vial, looking down at the Imperator's head. Soon, she could just pour the contents on her unsuspecting head and then they would be home free. Then her drop of sweat dripped down and fell on the Imperators head.
The imperator felt for a moment a single drop of water fall on her head. She quickly looked up then saw a small vial descending upon her. Rapidly, she dropped to the floor, firing here lasers twice.
Blossom watched in shock as the vial exploded, sending the contents splattering all around the room. Then she felt her own power seep away. Next she felt her soul seep away as well, as the second laser caught Bubbles in the head, sending her falling down from the shaft and sprawling onto the floor with a perfect circle seared into her head.
"Noooooo…"
Screaming in agony, and disbelief, she ran to her fallen sister. She felt as if the laser had gone through her, ripping her soul out, sending her, an empty vessel, plodding forward in an empty existence. She reached the body and cradled Bubbles head in her arms, hugging her soft blonde hair to her chest like they always did. She remembered acutely all the bad things she had done to her. All the times she hadn't trusted her. She sobbed silently to herself, trying to fill the void inside her with grief. Then the Imperator kicked her, sending her backwards. She just lay there sobbing numbly until the next kick mustered her resolve and she ran to the edges of the room.
Buttercup couldn't believe what had just happened. Events had moved too swiftly. One moment her mind was filed with triumphant elation, the next, she felt a cool spray on her face, then her power seep away. She heard Blossom scream then jumped to her feet and saw Bubbles. But this wasn't Bubbles as she remembered her. This Bubbles wasn't cheerful, she was ghastly white. This Bubbles was dead. Her eyes glazed over in mock death , then she ran at the Imperator screaming vengeance, mind blanketed by rage.
Blossom calmed down sufficiently, then saw Buttercup charge blindly at the imperator. She grabbed one of the antique swords off the shelf and threw it at Buttercup.
"Buttercup catch"
Buttercup stopped to grab the sword, then resumed the charge.
The imperator grabbed another sword from the wall, then returned Buttercups blows as Blossom started throwing vases at her. She parried one of Buttercups stroked then crossed swords.
"My Creators instilled in me all the skills necessary for fencing"
Buttercup leaped back and gave a quick lunge forward.
"A bunch of bespectacled scientists taught you how to fight. Really shows doesn't it. Snarling the Imperator gave a quick succession of advances. Then spun around and pressed a button by the wall. The floor separated, showing the gaping lava. Just above the molten rock, on a little ledge, were two cabinets. Each had two vials. One held chemical x. The other held Imperium. Also were complements of nuclear missiles attached with various scientific equipment. She threw her sword at Buttercup which she duly blocked. The Imperator then jumped down to the ledge and grabbed a bottle of chemical X. She imbibed it then smiled up at them.
"Oh look, chemical X for all of us. Oops."
She casually tossed it away, sending it in a wide arc towards the lava. Then Blossom leapt off the floor, streamlining her body to make herself go faster. She hurtled with the vial towards the lava. She grabbed it in midair and struggled to open it. She fumbled with the vial as she felt the searing heat of the impending lava, then she splashed some upon herself. She threw the rest at Buttercup then positioned herself between the Imperator and the Imperium. Outside the burnt creatures began to revive, shaking their singed bodies and began approaching the compound. Without Imperium, the Imperator had no control over them.