Allies and Rivals
I have reread chapter ten and I noticed many grammatical errors and typos. I am very sorry if I have inconvenienced readers by these errors. I have edited it and have reposted it. Don't worry, you won't miss anything by my reposting chapter 10. I just eliminated most of the typos and corrected my grammatical mistakes.
Since my review thanks is pretty long, I placed it at the bottom of the chapter instead.
Chapter 11
The Irony of It All
The City of Townsville and it was August 29.
It was a pleasant afternoon in Dr. Edwards' office at the Edtech Corp. Townsville HQ. Dr. Edwards was reading some company papers, and was bored stiff.
"Sir," Mr. Clark the clerk suddenly said, "the Powerpuff Girls are here to see you."
'Oh, something to do at last,' he thought. "I'll be there in a minute. Tell them to wait in waiting room, Doug."
He got up from his chair, straightened his tie, wiped his glasses, wore his fedora hat, and walked towards the waiting room.
"Hi girls," he said as he saw the three little darlings.
"Hello Doctor," Bubbles and Blossom simultaneously greeted.
"Hi," said Buttercup simply.
"Now what could I do for you three wonderful girls?" he beamed.
"Well, nothing really," Blossom said. "You already did so much for us, and we're here only to thank you for patching us up after the fight—again."
"Well, no need for thanks girls," Dr. Edwards replied. "I really had no choice after seeing what happened to you."
"Well thanks anyway, Doctor," Blossom said.
"Yeah, Doctor, we owe you one again," Bubbles said, smiling at him.
"And we'll soon take care of those Rowdyruff Boys," Buttercup declared. "They will soon find out that they just can't beat us up, and scheme to take over Towsville and get away with it."
"Oh those Rowdyruff Boys aren't so bad," the businessman scientist said. "They're just good boys. Just looked at what they did this past week."
"Oh Doctor, not you too!?" Blossom exclaimed in surprise. "Please don't tell me that you've been deceived too?"
"What?" he replied. "Who's deceiving whom?" He had no idea what Blossom was talking about.
"The Rowdyruff Boys!" Blossom exclaimed. "They've been deceiving the entire town into thinking they're superheroes!"
"Nonsense!" he replied. "I'm quite sure they're not doing this for deception purposes."
"How are you so sure?" asked Buttercup.
"Because I know them very well," Dr. Edwards declared.
"You do?" Bubbles asked.
"Of course. They're my sons," he offhandedly remarked, as if he was saying something pretty obvious.
"WHAT?" the three exclaimed.
"Stop kidding around Doctor," Blossom said. "This is a serious matter. Those boys have to be stopped!"
"I'm not kidding," he said, his expression becoming serious. "I was the one who accidentally recreated them!"
"NO—" Blossom said shocked. "It can't be. They're evil, you're not—"
"They were evil when I recreated them, fortunately, they are not anymore," Dr. Edwards said, defending his sons. "They are just good little boys now!"
"LIAR!" Buttercup shouted. Tears were streaming out of the eyes of the girls. "How could you? We thought you were our friend, and all along you were raising our worst enemies? We trusted you, and you deceived us! Why?"
"I never told you about my boys because I knew you wouldn't give them the chance they deserve if you knew," Dr. Edwards said, his voice firm, loud, and determined. "Yes I kept that secret from you, and from everybody else. And yes—they were your worst enemies when I recreated them—but now they are just as good as little boys are. Back then, all they wanted was to destroy you, to defeat you, to wipe out the shame of their loss, but now, not anymore. Now, they do not consider you enemies to be destroyed—that I heard from their own mouths themselves. You may have a hard chance accepting this, but people change, girls, and those boys sure did. I just want you to give them a chance, that's all."
Bubbles was the least sad. 'I knew it!' she thought The boys weren't evil and could be brought over to the good side. I just wished Dr. Edwards could have told us sooner. Thanks Dr. Edwards for prying the boys from evil.' She looked at the doctor with admiration. 'Anyway, Blossom's gonna be more shocked when I'll hold her to keep her promise about doing everything to make them our friends and allies if they had a chance.' But outside, she didn't say anything aloud, nor did she act like she was feeling because she was afraid of her sister's reaction to her reaction if she jumped up and down with joy and hugged Dr. Edwards right there and then.
"NO! Buttercup was right! YOU'RE LYING!" Blossom declared, still crying. She looked at Dr. Edwards with a mixture of anger, disbelief, and sorrow. "Those boys are incorrigibly evil! And you pretended to be our friend! HOW COULD YOU? You could have at least the decency to tell us when we thanked you the other time, but you have to deceive us, to lie to us."
With that, Blossom and Buttercup flew away, crashing to the roof, with emotions still high, crying and comforting each other. Bubbles looked at the hole.
"Dr. Edwards, I knew they couldn't be that evil! At least not as Blossom makes us to believe they are. And I know you're not lying. Thanks for making those boys good!" After saying those words, she dashed off after her sisters, leaving a confused and agitated Dr. Edwards behind.
"And the Pandora's box was just opened," he said to himself. "It's time."
He then went back to the office and dialled Ms. Sandra Keane's number.
"Hello, Sandy, it's me."
"Hello William, You haven't called for a long time. How are you?"
"Fine Sandy. Just fine. I just want you to call John and Miss Bellum and tell me to meet me at the Mayor's office at six o'clock. Tell them that this is urgent. If John doesn't believe me, tell them that this is about the Rowdyruff Boys and the Powerpuff Girls!"
"Oh my! Is it that important?"
"It is!"
Dr. Edwards then hung up the phone and dialled another number.
"Hello. Are you Miss Jennifer Gates?"
"Yes sir," a girl about 5'3", about fifteen years old, answered.
"And you are interested in babysitting?"
"Yes sir," the teen-ager eagerly replied.
"Okay. Would you mind baby-sitting three of my sons tonight? They're all six years old."
"Triplets?"
"You could say that. So, would you?"
"Of course," Jennifer replied. "I'm sure the boys and I would have so much fun!"
"How's $100 an hour?" the richest man in Townsville and Citisville offered. "Will that be enough?"
There was a long silence, then there was a scream, and sounds of jumping, then she answered.
"Of course, sir," she replied, her tone betraying her excitement at receiving $100 or more easy. "I'd be happy to."
"Okay, now at six today, go to…" Dr. Edwards then told her the address, and hung up.
He then pushed a button at his communicator. "Brick?"
"Yeah Dad?"
"Yes. I won't be home early, so I just called a babysitter to take care of you," Dr. Edwards said.
"But Dad, we don't need a babysitter, we can take care of ourselves!"
"Yeah, we're not babies anymore," said Butch's voice.
"I know that boys, but she's just there to look after you. Now, she'll arrive at about six. She is about 5'3", has long brown hair, and her name is Jennifer Gates."
"But Dad…" Brick, Butch and Boomer whined.
"No buts. You're getting a babysitter and that's that!" he said, slightly raising his voice.
"Yes Dad," the boys said.
"Now be good," Dr. Edwards warned as he turned off the communicator.
Brick looked at his brothers with a frown on his face. "Darn it, we're gonna have a babysitter."
Meanwhile, about five in the afternoon…
Blossom and Buttercup were lying on the clouds, thinking about what just transpired. Buttercup was too angry to think clearly, and Blossom's heart doesn't want to believe that Dr. Edwards was what her brain was saying to her. She had grown to like Dr. Edwards too much, and even the revelation didn't completely rupture her respect and regard for the businessman-scientist. Her harsh words were just a product of her emotions that time, and a couple of hours cooled her head just enough for her to be able to think and to analyse the situation.
"Imagine that, and all this time, Dr. Edwards was one of the bad guys!" Buttercup said to Blossom, still sniffling.
"Yeah Buttercup! It's hard to believe that one of your friends is really—no Buttercup, I still don't believe that Dr. Edwards is evil. I mean, why would he patch us up even after those boys beat us? Come to think of it, I don't know what to believe."
"I don't get it!" Buttercup replied. "I mean he is the father of those Boys, and the boys are evil. How he could he not be evil if that is the case?!"
"Because he's not!" Bubbles suddenly said as she popped out of nowhere. "I told you Blossom, those boys have a chance to be good, and Dr. Edwards made them so. I don't know how, but he did it!"
"And why so?" Blossom asked sceptically.
"Because I believe that Dr. Edwards was not lying!" Bubbles defended.
"Yeah, I don't too! I mean he was so sincere when he was saying it, and it seems to me that he believes everything that he said to us," Blossom replied.
"I told you—" Bubbles began.
"But that doesn't mean that those boys are not evil. I know it's weird, them having a good father, and being evil at the same time. I mean, Dr. Edwards told us that those boys are good, but we all know you heard those boys plotting with Mojo in the Volcano top observatory and admitting it to us before the last battle!"
"Yeah, I guess you're right!" Bubbles said dejectedly.
"So what's going on?" asked Buttercup. "If you believe that Dr. Edwards was totally honest with what he said to us a while ago, how can you resolve it with the fact that the boys were evil?"
Blossom didn't answer and was silent for a minute. Suddenly, her eyes brightened and she smirked. "Of course, I've got it! It's very very simple actually!"
And so Blossom told her sisters how Dr. Edwards could be good and honest and how could his sons be evil.
"Oh those boys will pay for that!" Buttercup remarked after Blossom explained.
"Are you sure about that?" asked Bubbles.
"Of course! When was I ever wrong on matters that mattered most?" Blossom confidently said.
"Then, I guess you're right—again. That was terrible—I mean those things that they did to Dr. Edwards, and—" and she began to cry in her sister's shoulder. She realized she was wrong about the boys, but her heart somehow kept telling her that Blossom was wrong.
"Come now Bubbles," Blossom said. "It's terrible, but now, we've got to teach those boys a lesson."
"So we're proceeding with our plan to expose them as phonies to the citizens of Townsville and at the same time, beat them up to a bloody pulp for what they did?" Buttercup asked.
"Of course," Blossom confidently said. "Now, let's find Dr. Edwards and tell him what we know."
It was five minutes to six when they flew to find the Doctor.
Meanwhile…
"John, William just called. Please come to the Mayor's office. He's got something to say about the Powerpuff Girls and the Rowdyruff Boys!" Ms. Keane said on the phone.
John Utonium was silent for a moment. "Okay, I'll come," he finally said, then hung up.
The creator of the Powerpuff Girls then went for his coat and drove towards the Mayor's office.
'I wonder what that he wants? He better not be doing anything which might have caused harm to my girls or God knows what I might do!'
Meanwhile, Dr. Edwards just stepped out of his car. He straightened his tie, buttoned his vest, fixed his hat, and wiped his glasses at the front of the Mayor's office.
He looked at it with solemnity.
'And now, here goes nothing,' he thought. 'My performance in the next few hours would decide the future of my sons in Townsville. I'd better not screw this up for my boys!'
And so, he went into the Mayor's office, feeling like a lawyer going into a courthouse of hostile jurors.
Author thanks.
To Ud the Imp, thanks. Whether or not it would led to Blossom's downfall would be seen in the next chapters. To TJ Rose, thanks for reading. I didn't know it was funny, nor did I intend it to be. But I'm glad it turned out that way. Anyway, the Mayor, we all know how stupid he was, and the police, we also know how incompetent they were. Yup, Blossom and Buttercup is really stubborn, but as you said, they have a good reason to be. You're right Bubbles' heart always seem to indicate what is right, and her sisters would eventually realize it. Well, I'm glad you think I got the Boys characters right. And I hope you like this updates. I hope you don't kill me for such a cliffhanger. To Uncle Sam,the Mayor's an idiot, I totally agree. I'm glad you like chapter 10, and I hope you like chapter 11. As for the PPG finding out what the RRB's secret is, this chapter answers you're question, although you'd find out more in chapter 12. As for Blossom screwing up, you'll have to wait for the next two or three chapters to find out. Blossom too is my favorite PPG, and I agree she could be so arrogant. To Hairy Gregory,ha I was right about it being you're review. Brick was indeed SO wrong. He was so proud to apologize even if he knows it was wrong, though he did a brilliant excuse and made a thoughtful analysis on the implications of his and his brothers saving the day, as you said, but because the presumption was wrong from the start, it didn't hold. He hadn't considered the PPG's stubborn will and pride, especially Blossom and Buttercup's, and the wrong evidence that they had so carelessly confirmed and given away. Well, I was basing this on the assumption on the show where almost 99% of the time, it's the Mayor's office's call that showed the Powerpuff Girls' emergency. And since most of the people in the field are police officers, it's logic that they call the Mayor first, who then calls the PPG, because I assumed it was always that way in the show. Yup, it would be easier if there was a direct hotline, but we all know the general stupidity of the police and the Mayor. Yup I agree, they should all be fired, but since most of the people of Townsville are as stupid as the police, it would be extremely hard to find evenslightlycompetent replacements. Thanks for the reviews Hairy Gregory, I really enjoyed it. To lia,yup, that's it, though I don't really know what it was that you're ashamed of. You should tell state it clearly so I can address it. Anyway, thanks for reading and reviewing my fic. To DL23400,I'm surprised you've reviewed. You usually review on every other chapter, but I'm glad you reviewed this one. Anyway, Butch and Brick blew it, since they admitted to the PPG they're in alliance with Mojo before the commencement of their second fight, even if it was false. And this is chapter 11, and I'm proud I've gotten this far. Anyway, thanks for reading and reviewing. Expect chapter 12 next week.