Allies and Rivals
To Hairy Gregory, I was planning to include the fight, but I decided to take your advice and shorten my chapters. This chapter was much shorter than the others. If you want longer chapters, just tell me so. And thanks for the review. And the girls will find out, the only question is when and how. To TJ Rose and Uncle Sam, thanks. To Teesa, well, we've got different opinions about the RRB. Thanks for the review anyway. To DL23400, I'm flattered, but I'm not good at writing. I have seen lots of grammatical and spelling errors that I didn't see and correct when I was editing my work. And no, I haven't published anything. Anyway, thanks.
To all reviewers, thanks. It really is a treat to see that some people like to read my stories. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this new chapter.
Chapter 6
Mistaken Perceptions
The City of Townsville, and Mojo Jojo was attacking the city!
"I Mojo Jojo, the evilest genius alive, and the master of terror whose name is none other than Mojo Jojo, will finally destroy Townsville with this new and improved Robo Jojo, and with this new and improved device will I destroy the city. And in destroying the city with my new and improved Robo Jojo, I will prove I am the most evil genius of a monkey alive, and the name of the master of terror is Mojo Jojo to the people of Townsville!"
"But first, I must destroy the Powerpuff Girls if I am to prove I am the most evil genius, and that the name of the master of terror is Mojo Jojo. Good thing this Robo Jojo, which I will use to prove I am the most evil genius, is new and improved so it could take on the Powerpuff Girls! Those Powerpuff Girls will attack thinking it is the old and unimproved Robo Jojo, but when they will attack, they will find out that it is not the old and unimproved Robo Jojo, but the new and improved Robo Jojo, but when they do, they will be destroyed!" He then began laughing evilly. "And now in attacking the city of Townsville, I am luring the girls to their graves!"
"Are you done yapping your long-winded speech?" a tiny, high, yet boyish voice said from below.
"Who? Where? What? Who dares interrupt my speech? And whoever said that, you are wrong, mistaken, false, deceived, erroneous, misguided and very incorrect. My speech is concise, succinct, brief, terse, laconic and short. It does not go around the bush, I repeat, I repeat and I reiterate, it does not go around the bush. My speech is to the point and it is incorrect to say that it is long, wordy, lengthy, boring, long-winded, verbose, garrulous, and effusive. I also do not, I repeat and reiterate, do not repeat over and over what I said. So it would be correct if you said it is concise, succinct, brief, terse, laconic and short and not long, wordy, lengthy, boring, long-winded, verbose, garrulous, effusive."
"And whoever you are, you will pay, you will suffer, you will bear the consequences for your insolence, your impertinence, your rudeness—"
"Oh SHUT UP!" a lower, though still boyish voice shouted.
"Do not tell me what to…Boys!" Mojo Jojo said as he saw the Rowdyruff Boys floating in front of him. "How did you?" He then hugged the boys using the robotic arms. "That is not the point. You are just in time to help me destroy the City of Townsville and defeat the Powerpuff Girls."
"We can't do that, Pops," Brick said.
"Why not?" asked an incredulous Mojo.
"You'll see," Butch said as he broke the glass in front of the robot and grabbed Mojo. Soon, he was dangling by his cape with the boys carrying him towards his volcano-top observatory.
"My Robo Jojo, it's new and improved. You can't just leave it there," he shouted. "I am going to use that to defeat the Powerpuff Girls!"
"When we're done talking to you, you'll realize you won't need that piece of trash," Boomer said.
They soon arrived at Mojo's lair, and they sat Mojo in a chair.
"Boys, now that we're together, we can take over Townsville and destroy the Powerpuff Girls," Mojo Jojo said, as if he forgot one little detail of their previous conversation.
"Of course, we'll go back to you and together, we can rule all of Townsville and destroy the Powerpuff Girls," Brick said with all the sarcasm he can muster.
"That's good!" Mojo said in delight.
"Of course we won't! We don't want to destroy the Powerpuff Girls and we certainly don't need you to defeat the Powerpuff Girls! And we won't destroy Townsville, or take over it!" Brick replied.
"What do you mean?" Mojo asked perplexed.
"As we were saying, we can't and won't help you defeat the Powerpuff Girls because we already defeated those girls, and if you can't beat them by yourself, then it's your problem, not ours," Boomer replied.
"And Dad pretty much owns much of Townsville, so we don't need to take over it," Butch added with pride.
"Dad? What are you talking about?" the confused monkey asked.
"So Mojo, we don't care if you attack Townsville, and we certainly won't stop you like we would other villains, but if you hurt one hair of our Dad, or place even one scratch at any of his properties, you will suffer a fate worst than what you suffer when beaten by those pathetic girls!" Brick asserted.
"You forget I'm your father, your Dad. And I certainly don't know what you're talking about!" Mojo asserted.
"You're certainly our original creator, Pops, but we don't consider you our father. Dr. William Edwards recreated us, and he certainly is more of a father to us than you were and will ever be. So Mojo, we don't want to hurt you, inasmuch as you created us, but touch one hair of Dad or his properties, and we will not hesitate to thrash you," Brick warned.
"William Edwards, hm, isn't he the pathetic man who—" but he wasn't able to finish his sentence.
Butch suddenly punched him in the face which caused him to be embedded on the opposite wall of his observatory. He soon fell to the ground, leaving his silhouette in the wall.
"And don't ever badmouth our Dad, Mojo!" Boomer said.
Mojo was dizzy, but he was able to stand and walk over to a chair and sit. None of the boys helped him.
"But what if I attack Townsville without causing any damage to his property? Will you leave me alone?"
"Pretty much," said Brick.
"Okay. HEY, I can't attack any part of Townsville without damaging any of his properties!" Mojo protested when he realized the implications of his boys' condition.
"Well, that's your problem," Butch said.
With that, they left the building and went home.
"Curse you boys!" Mojo shouted shaking his fist at the retreating figures of the boys. "I disown you, I refuse to acknowledge you as my sons, I deny you were created by me! Traitors! Betrayers! Judases! Yes, join the good guys and be sissies, you morons!"
Meanwhile…
The Powerpuff Girls arrived downtown to stop Mojo Jojo. However, all they saw was the empty Robo Jojo, still looking impressive despite the broken window, but without an operator, quite useless.
"Where's Mojo?" asked Blossom.
"I don't know," Buttercup said.
"Mister, did you know what happened?" asked Bubbles.
"Oh yes, it was those Rowdyruffs I think. Mojo's making a boring speech and them boys just broke through and took Mojo away to God knows where," he said.
"Now why would those jerks do a thing like that?" asked Blossom. "Anyway, Bubbles, you check the volcano top observatory for clues, Buttercup, you help the people here and I'll go to the police station to find out if a certain monkey was turned in. We'll meet back here afterwards."
Although Buttercup grumbled a bit, they all did as Blossom ordered.
Bubbles soon reached the volcano-top observatory. She decided to be extra careful so she quickly landed on the outside and peered at the windows. There she saw Mojo Jojo in a chair talking to the Rowdyruff Boys.
"Boys, now that we're together, we can take over Townsville and destroy the Powerpuff Girls," Bubbles heard Mojo Jojo say.
"Of course, we'll go back to you and together, we can rule all of Townsville and destroy the Powerpuff Girls," she heard Brick say.
"Oh no! Townsville is in big trouble," she said to herself as soon as she heard those words. She then quickly flew to warn her sisters, in fact so quickly that she didn't hear the rest of the conversation.
When she returned, she saw Buttercup tearing the 'new and improved' Robo Jojo apart.
"Buttercup, where's Blossom?" asked a panicky Bubbles. She was started shaking Buttercup.
"What's gotten into you, Bubbles?" she said as she removed herself from Bubbles' grip. "How should I know?"
"I'm here, Bubbles, and Mojo isn't in jail," Blossom said as she arrived.
"That's because the boys are in Mojo's lair and I heard them say that they are planning to rule Townsville and destroy us!" Bubbles said hysterically.
Blossom suddenly smirked. "So that's what they were planning all along. We should have earlier realized that it was Mojo Jojo who's behind all this! Dang it, it was so obvious!" Blossom asserted.
"Yeah, we forgot that it was Mojo who created those boys in the first place, and it is certainly him who recreated them," Buttercup asserted.
"And those act of heroism were just to throw us and the public off," Blossom concluded. "This day's attack of Mojo was just a charade to fool us. Clever monkey! Evil, but clever! But not as clever as me!"
"So what do we do now?" asked Bubbles.
"We complete the last part of our training today, and tomorrow, we attack," Blossom said.
"All right," Buttercup said, swinging her fists in the air. "They'll be so surprised when we kick their butts! They won't even know what hit 'em!"
It was August 17…
The girls were flying towards the volcano top observatory.
"I was just thinking, why are we going to turn Mojo in? They're just planning it. You can't arrest a person for something that they are only planning. Shouldn't we wait for them to make the first move?" Bubbles asked.
"We can't risk it Bubbles. We have to nip it in the bud. Besides, we'll just turn Mojo in for attacking Townsville yesterday, after we give him a severe beating for seeking those boys after us," Blossom said. "Besides, we'll get a full confession from the boys and Mojo by 'persuading' them to come to terms with us. And all of this would justify what we'll be doing today."
"Who cares about formalities? All I want is to thrash them, especially those boys," Buttercup asserted.
Soon, they reached the volcano top observatory and saw Mojo asleep in his chair with a newspaper covering his face.
Buttercup immediately lunged for Mojo Jojo. She kicked him in the head, breaking his head cover. It woke Mojo.
"What is the meaning of this?" he ranted as Bubbles made an angry barrage of punches and kicks to genius of a monkey. Soon, Blossom joined her and Buttercup and all three thrashed Mojo. Not content with that, they repeatedly laser-eyed him.
"Take that, and this, and that, you monkey you, take that! Think you can take over Townsville, ha?" Buttercup said as she kicked him in the stomach.
They beat Mojo up to a bloody pulp. It seemed that all their frustrations for the past weeks they took out on poor Mojo. Mojo was not even given a chance to explain. Not that he could after a couple of punches to his jaw rendered him temporarily incapable of coherent speech.
Soon after, they brought Mojo to the police station, where he was booked.
"He won't make any trouble now that he's all locked up," Blossom said. "Now, to search for the rest of the Jojo Family."
"What if we just wait around for the boys in the observatory? Surely, they must come back there, because that's their home?" suggested Bubbles.
"For once you're using your head Bubbles," Buttercup said. "Come on!"
Soon, the three arrived at Mojo's place. Since they only thrashed Mojo and not his place, they amused themselves with Mojo's various things.
Several hours later…
"What time are those boys coming?" Bubbles complained. "It's getting boring."
"Yeah. Why don't we just look for them?" Buttercup suggested as she continued her video game with Bubbles.
"Let's go home and eat lunch. I'm kinda hungry. We'll look for them after lunch," Blossom suggested. Since the three are all hungry, they agreed.
After lunch…
"Where could those boys be?" wondered Blossom.
"We've been searching for two hours, and still no Rowdyruff Boys!" Buttercup complained.
"Hey what's that?" Bubbles pointed to the west, over the Forest at the edge of Townsville. She saw faint streaks of red, blue and green.
Blossom and Buttercup took a look, and grinned.
"Girls, I think we just found our quarry!" Blossom announced.
In the meantime…
The Rowdyruff Boys were playing over the forest of their adoptive father. It was quiet in the city, surprisingly, with no crime being committed, and with Dr. Edwards at work, they were left alone to play. Since they were forbidden to go to their father's lab, they decided to play outside.
They were playing volleyball in the air, using a 100 pound iron ball with an imaginary net.
Soon, they saw three streaks, one pink, blue and green, quickly heading towards them.
The second fight had begun…