Allies and Rivals
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Chapter 14
The Third Clash: The Powerpuff's Revenge
The City of Townsville, and four monsters were rampaging through the city!
"What do we do?" asked Boomer, who was overwhelmed by it all. 'I wish Brick was here. He always knew what to do.'
"Well, just kick their behinds to kingdom come!" shouted Butch, who then blindly charged towards the monster who had a body of a bull. Unfortunately for Butch, he didn't know that it had a hide as tough as diamonds, and soon, he was dizzy at having his head banged up. "That's one tough hide!"
Boomer charged for the Goo Monster. He plunged at it, then quickly retreated, screaming, most of his upper clothes gone. "It's acid!" he shouted. His skin has first degree burns, painful, but nothing that the blue ruff couldn't bear. Luckily, his face for some reason was unaffected.
"Are you alright?" asked Butch.
"Well, aside from me being half-naked getting my skin burned, plus the fact that I'm aching very much, I'm all right," Boomer sarcastically replied. "Of course I'm not!"
"But could you still fight?" asked a concerned Butch. He could be a jerk, but he did not want to fight all those monsters alone.
"Yeah, I could," Boomer replied. "And these burns will heal in three or four days if we continue fighting! But we can't touch that monster!"
"And the monster I collided with has one hell of a hide. I didn't make a dent!" Butch said. "Okay, what we've gotta do is attack the other two first. Brick's gotta be back by that time, or those sissies might be able to help us!"
"What? We need the help of those girls?" Boomer said unbelievingly at his brother.
"I said might, idiot!" Butch said. "I'm sure Brick might figure something out to destroy those two monsters, but if worst come to worst, we have no choice! Now, I'll handle the flying dragon, you handle the oversized T-rex!"
"Okay!"
Boomer charged the monster headlong. His fist connected to the head, sending it staggering back, but the monster recovered and used its tail to slam Boomer into a building, instantly demolishing it. He then used laser eyes, and it hit the monster quite badly, but it only seemed to annoy it more. Now it focused its attention entirely on the Rowdyruff. It soon charged, and used his head to ram Boomer through several buildings.
Boomer then got some long chains from a nearby factory, and a couple of twirls later, the monsters' feet were caught in the chains, and it was lying helpless on the ground, unable to get up, or so it seemed. Seconds later, it broke all the chains and attacked Boomer. The blue ruff was too fast however, and soon, all its attacks failed. But the blue ruff couldn't do anything to the monster, and it was a stalemate.
Butch was having better luck with the flying dragon.
Imitating a rocket, he charged himself into the belly of it, instantly flinging it higher into the sky. The monster got angry and started chasing after Butch.
'Good. Now to lure him out of the city,' the green ruff thought, and in a complex series of circles out of the dragon, flew higher and higher above the city. The monster just chased after him, trying to fry him with fire, but Butch just dodged them all nimbly. 'This is so much fun!'
Soon, he reached for his pocket a small device shaped like an inhaler, the one used by people with asthma. He put it into his mouth, and flew higher and higher. 'Good, now to lure that sucker so high that there wouldn't be any oxygen to fuel his fire—or for him to breath. Good thing Dad invented this inhaler to enable me to breathe where there's no air. And if he doesn't suffocate to death, the extreme temperatures will kill him.'
And Butch lured the Monster from the troposphere into the stratosphere, and higher into the ozone layer. Lucky for Butch, the chemical X in his body and his own powers kept his body at constant temperature and pressure, allowing him to live.
The monster, however, had no protection against the extremes of temperature, and it began to realize that. Quickly, it made one last fire blast at Butch. However, the lack of oxygen meant that no fire could come out. And all it did was further deplete the oxygen supply of the monster.
It began to dive back towards earth, but Butch was not to allow that. He knew he would have a very difficult time defeating the monster down in the ground. He grabbed its tail, and flung it higher in the atmosphere. The monster was able to stop its ascent, and began to fight Butch so he could come back to the troposphere and be able to breath. It was fighting desperately. It was literally running out of breath.
Butch punched the monster hard in the belly, further weakening it by knocking out most of the remaining reserves of air from its body. Butch then clutched its tail and held it tightly, not letting it go, not allowing it to breath.
The monster struggled to get its tail free, but with it holding its breath, and most of its oxygen depleted, it did not make much of a struggle. Soon, its lungs can't take more of it, and he involuntarily breathed the poisonous oxygen of the ozone. It first breathe a sigh of relief, as nothing happened, but seconds later, it began to have violent convulsions, as it began to vomit bubbles spasms. He made one last violent move, and a second later, it was dead of ozone poisoning. 'Thank Dad for those daily science lessons. It really paid off this time. That monster died just like that sucker did in the gas chamber.'
He soon began his descent to the ground, still clutching the dead monster by its tail. 'I wonder how Boomer and Brick are doing?'
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Meanwhile…
Buttercup and Blossom attacked Brick, and Brick backed off as long as possible, trying avoid them. 'Damn it! I don't have a chance!' he thought, though of course he didn't outwardly express it.
"At least wait till my brothers arrive so we'll have a fair fight," Brick shouted in desperation, trying in a vain attempt to appeal to their sense of fairness.
"What, and risk you winning again? No, we've gotta win this time for Townsville, fair or not!" Blossom stated, shocking Bubbles. "We've got to stop you evil doers once and for all, and besides, we're never fair in our fights with villains. And since you're villains—"
"We'll gonna kick you butt!" Buttercup shouted.
Soon, Buttercup and Blossom attacked Brick. Blossom punched him in the face, throwing him back. Brick quickly retreated, and Buttercup charged him. Brick retaliated by using laser-eyes, hitting her squarely. Blossom was about to attack him in the side when she noticed Bubbles was just watching disapprovingly. 'Why isn't she helping us?' Blossom wondered. She then gave Brick one powerful kick just after he laser-eyed Buttercup.
"Take care of Brick," Blossom shouted. "Bubbles isn't helping us, and I've got to find out why!"
"Got it, Red," an angry Buttercup shouted. She was not hurt that much, but it got her peeved that Brick was able to hit her even with their numerical advantage. She then flung herself at Brick with blind rage.
Brick was on the ground, just recovering from the blow Blossom gave him, when he saw Buttercup flying towards him. 'Oh just great!' he thought as he prepared himself for Buttercup's onslaught.
He waited until Buttercup was nearer to him. He then charged her. At the last minute, he swerved a little to the left, and tripped her in the air. Soon, Buttercup was rolling on the ground, getting her even angrier. She then again charged at Brick, furiously giving all that she's got. But Brick, who had a much cooler head, was able to dodge almost all of the green puff's punches and kicks. Soon getting tired, he made a feint to the left that completely fooled his raven haired adversary. She swerved to the left, and punched and kicked very hard, only to find out she's been kicking and punching air.
"Boo!" Brick said from the right. He then punched her from her side, followed by freezing her with an ice breath. She soon fell to the ground.
A minute later, an even angrier Buttercup emerged from below.
"You should cool down," Brick advised. "You can't win if you just blindly charge at me."
Buttercup didn't say anything, but attempted to laser eye him. He just dodged it. Frustrated, she again attacked him.
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"Bubbles, why don't you help us?" Blossom asked, angry at her sister.
"Because it's unfair! He doesn't have a chance at all!" Bubbles replied.
"They're villains!" Blossom replied. "If you don't remember, most of the villains we fought didn't stand a chance against us, and you had no objections of beating them up!"
"That's because those villains hurt other people," Bubbles replied. "Brick and his brothers hadn't hurt a single innocent person since they have returned, and they are not villains."
"They are too!" Blossom retorted. "I already gave you a complex and simple reason why they are so! And besides, they attacked us! Or did you forget the fight?"
"Hello, Blossom, if you were listening to Dr. Edwards, we attacked them first, and they just fought back!" Bubbles retorted. "And your reasoning doesn't matter, since those two facts that you based it on is not true!"
"Bubbles, you yourself saw Brick tell Mojo that they will take over Townsville and try to destroy us!"
"Yes, and they did nothing of the sort!" Bubbles retorted. "Ever since they arrived, they sorta behaved, and we're the one who made sure their lives miserable!"
"But you saw it, and it's indisputable!" Blossom told her sister exasperatedly. "And they admitted it to us before the second fight!"
"That's true, but Brick's got a point," Bubbles retorted. "The more I think about it the more I think you're wrong and they're right. Think about it. They said they were just being sarcastic. Brick also said that I wasn't there long enough, and he's right. I didn't stay long enough."
"And they apologized! If he really is evil, would he apologize? Tell me Blossom, what other villain ever apologized for anything that they ever did?"
Blossom fell back to her old defense. "Don't you see Bubbles? They're just deceiving us! It's all an act! Now get over yourself and help Buttercup and me fight Brick."
"Sorry Blossom, I just can't," Bubbles said. "I might have helped you if Boomer and Butch were here helping Brick, but I can't now. It's just not fair."
"We'll talk about this later," Blossom said as she joined Buttercup.
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The fight between Buttercup and Brick has not been favorable to the green puff. In fact, Buttercup was getting beaten by Brick, even though they were roughly equal in strength and speed.
'This is too easy. Buttercup is all strength, fury and speed, and nothing else. Her moves were too predictable. She doesn't use her head for fighting.' Indeed, Brick seemed to know beforehand where Buttercup would punch and kick and when and where she would use laser eyes.
Blossom made the same observation. 'Ha, that'll teach Buttercup that brains beat brawn anytime! Well, time for me to help her.'
Brick backed off a little, and as expected, Buttercup followed and laser-eyed him. He swerved upward, and Buttercup also followed. He laser-eyed Buttercup, but she dodged it. Buttercup then attacked Brick from the side, but Brick suddenly was not where she thought he was. Before she could figure out what happened, she was frozen again by Brick from behind and seconds later was kicked to the ground by the leader of the Rowdyruff Boys.
Seconds later, Brick was himself frozen by Blossom's ice breath. Before he could recover, Blossom made a headlong attack at Brick, kicking him in the head, grabbing him by the hand and flinging him into a suburban house.
The house was demolished and Brick emerged and confronted his counterpart. He still wore the smirk on his face that irritated Blossom no end. "It's good that you finally decided to appear, Little Miss Utonium! I was beginning to think that you chickened out and hid behind your sister Buttercup!"
Blossom was irked, not because the remark of her chickening out, but because Brick had called her 'Little Miss Utonium.' For some reason, that irritated her more than his smirk.' "That'll be that day! I never chicken out of anything, especially not from the likes of you, Little Mr. Edwards."
To Blossom's consternation, Brick seemed to take pleasure in hearing the world 'Little Mr. Edwards.'
"Thanks for the compliment. Nobody had ever called me a smaller version of my great father, Dr. William Edwards," he said.
"Defend yourself, Brick," Blossom shouted as she assaulted the red ruff. It seemed that Brick always had a way to get on her nerves.
Soon, the two leaders engaged in hand to hand combat.
Brick blocked Blossom's fist, but Blossom swerved and kicked Brick in the back of the head. That caused Brick to be dizzy for a few seconds, but he recovered just in time to dodge Blossom's follow up kick. Brick the turned and froze Blossom. He was about to kick her to the ground when Buttercup suddenly and unexpectedly zapped him with laser. Blossom took advantage of this by punching Brick repeatedly in the stomach. Soon after, Buttercup went up and punched him in the jaw. Blossom then froze him using ice breath. After which Buttercup balled both of her fists and slammed it against the back of Brick's shoulder, sending him to the ground.
Brick could take on Buttercup one on one, and could fight to a stalemate Blossom one on one, but he was no much against the two puffs. Brick stood up after the beating and looked at the two figures in the sky watching him. 'Damn it! There's no way I can win like this!' Brick thought. 'Not after this. This damned beating has weakened me so much that I probably couldn't go one on one anymore and not lose, not to mention two at the same time. One hits me and when I try hitting back, the other hits me. I dodge one and when I do, the other hit me. It's like one of them has double the speed and strength. There's only one solution. My pride might be dented but its better than it being ripped to shreds or being at their mercy!'
Both girls were staring at Brick. "So what does it feel to be in a fight where you're sure you'll lose?" mocked Blossom. "And don't give me that false confidence of yours. We both know you don't stand a chance as it currently stands."
"Yeah, give up now or be beaten to a bloody pulp!" Buttercup added.
"Surrender, that's the only choice you have! And accept our conditions!" Blossom shouted. "And we promise not to hurt you more than we have to."
Brick knew that Blossom was right. But he wouldn't admit it out loud of course. He was too proud to. It was the same pride would not let him surrender or accept Blossom's conditions.
"No, Blossom. I won't surrender nor accept your conditions. Why should I admit to the people of Towsville or to my father something that isn't even true just because you think it's true? Sorry to burst your bubble, but I ain't gonna sing your tune," Brick declared. Then with a lot of bravado, shouted, "Prepare to be defeated!" And charged towards Blossom and Buttercup.
'What a stupid fool,' Blossom thought as Brick charged them.
'What an idiot,' Buttercup thought, as both she and her sister prepared to defend themselves.
Brick charged, and a nanosecond before he reached the sisters, he swerved upwards, turned, and flew like hell towards the city. "Catch me if you can, suckers!" 'I may look like a coward but I'm no foolish heroic martyr either. I've still got my common sense.'
"You can run, but you can't hide, you fraidy cat!" Blossom retorted. "You tail him, I'll head him off," she said to Buttercup.
"Got it Red," she said before she started chasing him. Since Brick was slightly weaker at that point, Buttercup was slowly catching up to him. Brick made some turns and twists which threw Buttercup off some degree, but her superior speed meant that she always was not too far behind Brick and was always rapidly catching up. 'Butch and Boomer should have finished off the monster by now.'
Before he could reach the city, Blossom suddenly appeared in his way. She brought her arms forward, and shot a laser beam towards him. Brick reflexively swerved towards the ground barely avoiding the blast, but it hit Buttercup who happened to just behind him.
"Watch it!" Buttercup shouted, annoyed. It was a very powerful blast that hit her, but tough Powerpuff that she was, just shrugged off the pain and annoyance after a few minutes.
"Sorry, Buttercup," Blossom said, laughing weakly and scratching the back of her head. "Hey, where'd that ruff go?"
Brick had disappeared.
"How'd he get by us?" asked a puzzled Buttercup.
"Well, one thing's for sure, he's still here," Blossom asserted.
Buttercup looked at Blossom curious. "How'd you know?"
"We didn't see any red beam go in any direction away from us," Blossom deducted. "So he must be hiding in the forest below. Our eyes weren't off him long enough for him to make a dash to the city or any place away from here without us noticing, and there's only one place he could've gone—in the forest down below us."
"Let's go find him," Buttercup said, eager to find the ruff.
"Let's be careful," Blossom cautioned, remembering an earlier unpleasant memory of her and Boomer in another forest. "He's a tricky one. If you find him, signal the others at once. Believe me, you do not want to fight him in a forest alone. Buttercup, go over that section, I'll go over that part. Bubbles, if you don't want to fight, you can at least help us find Brick."
Bubbles, who had followed her sisters to keep herself updated on events, just nodded.
"Okay, you check over there," Blossom directed. "Now if you see him, immediately signal the others. Do not, I repeat, do not engage him alone. Now go," she shouted, and all three went to find the red ruff.
Brick was staring at the girls talk and separate from each other. He was in one of the tree branches and he was hidden by the leaves. 'You're wrong Blossom, I can run, and I can hide. Now to wait them out.'
He then sat back on the tree to wait out the girls.
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Five minutes later…
Brick turned to see if any puff was near his vicinity when who should turn up beside him but Bubbles!
Brick nearly fell off the tree when he saw Bubbles. 'How could she get so near me without me knowing?' He then debated with himself whether or not to attack her, fully knowing that his cover was blown.
Bubbles, however, didn't shout to her sisters or attack him like he expected her to.
"Don't worry. I won't attack you or call my sisters," Bubbles whispered.
"Why?" Brick whispered, puzzled. "You should be out there shouting to everyone that you found me, because that's what you're supposed to do."
"Because what Blossom and Buttercup are doing is unfair, and I don't think you and your brothers are evil at all," Bubbles whispered back.
"But, what about—" Brick whispered back, but before he could finish, Bubbles put her hand to his mouth.
"Shhh, not so loud, or my sisters would hear you. Well, I've got to leave and keep 'searching', or my sisters will get suspicious. And please don't hate my sisters. They're just mistaken." With that, Bubbles left a puzzled and confused Brick.
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Meanwhile…
Butch had just landed near Townsville Beach, and before the helicopter camera crews of the media, with great fanfare, threw the body of the winged monster towards the ocean. He then looked at what Boomer was up to.
Boomer was still having the stalemate with the T-rex-like monster. The blond rowydruff seemed not to make any decisive moves against it, for every attack seemed to only weaken the monster slightly. Luckily, the monster itself was not able to land a single blow against the blue and blond ruff because the faster Boomer would merely dodge its attacks. And it couldn't fly too. The other two monsters were wreaking havoc on the rest of Townsville unimpeded.
'Pathetic,' Butch thought. 'He couldn't even take care of one measly monster.' He was about to join his brother when Brick's voice was suddenly heard over their communicator watches.
"This is Brick. Have you taken care of the monster yet?"
"Well, one of them at least," Butch replied.
"What, there are more than one?" the redhead ruff asked in disbelief.
"Yeah Brick," the blue ruff replied. "Four of them in total. Butch took care of the flying dragon, but the other three are almost impossible. One is a T-rex monster that seemed to be impervious to my attacks, one is made of acid making it impossible to touch—"
"And Boomer learned it the hard way," Butch added.
Boomer was annoyed but continued anyway. "And a bull-like monster with a hammerhead, and a hide that is impossible to crack. It's slow but its' tail took out a major portion of the city."
"Hey, did you say acid?" Brick asked. "As in a monster completely made of gooey acid?"
"You got it!" Boomer said.
"Boomer, what is the chemical opposite of acid?"
"A base," Boomer replied.
"A what?" Butch asked.
"A base. It's the opposite of acid. An acid is a compound with an extra hydrogen atom…" Boomer began explaining.
"Alright already!" said Butch impatiently. "But what has it to do with beating that monster?"
"I'm coming to that. A base is made up of hydroxide atoms…" Boomer continued.
"I don't care! Speak in practical terms," Butch practically shouted.
"Okay, okay. If you mix a base with acid, it neutralizes it, turning it into a salt," Boomer explained, "making it safer to pound to pieces!"
"That's great, but won't it be dead already if it's salt?" asked Butch.
"Have you ever listened to Dad's daily science lessons?" shouted Boomer. "A salt in scientific terms is anything that is a mixture of acids and bases, while table salt is just Sodium Chloride!"
"Of course I listened, but I'm not a science wiz like you," Butch defended. "Math is much better than science."
"Will you two shut up!" Brick nearly shouted over the communicator. "We have to fight three monsters plus those Powerpuff Girls without you fighting each other. Boomer, where can we find these bases?"
"Well, baking powder has baking soda which is base," Boomer said.
"Okay. Go to Mr. Morebuck's factory and take all the baking powder that you can carry. Then dump it into the acid monster. That should take care of it as well as ruin Dad's competitor!" Brick ordered. 'Dad should be very proud of us.'
"Okay," Butch said as he and his blond brother raced to get to Mr. Morebucks factory. When they arrived, they proceeded to break in the most destructive manner, as to cause maximum damage and proceeded to get all the baking powder they could lay their hands on.
"Oops, sorry," Butch said after "accidentally" destroying Mr. Morebucks' conveyor belt and several other things. They also "accidentally" manage to raze most of the finished products in the factory. 'Oh well, all in the line of duty!'
Anyway, they went over to the acid monster and dumped the baking powder on it.
The baking powder immediately dissolved into the monster, and the monster started to lose its acidity. Soon, it turned into a harmless liquid sludge, the monster dying in the process.
"Ha, two down, and two to go!" Boomer and Butch shouted high-fiving each other.
"How about you Brick?" Boomer asked.
"What about me," the ruff leader replied.
"I mean, how's it going, especially the apology?" Butch said. "Aren't you going to join us?"
"Well I can't. You see Blossom and Buttercup didn't believe me when I made that apology, and they decided to beat me up until she forces a bogus confession from me. I was beaten badly so I tried running. They were too fast for me to outrun especially after such an extensive beating! Right now I'm in some forest hiding hoping that those girls don't find me or I'm dead meat!"
"Why didn't you earlier tell us?" Butch said.
"Yeah, we would've have joined you and kicked the butt of those girls!" Boomer added.
"Because you have a mission to do, and that is to destroy those monsters before it completely destroys Townsville," Brick lectured.
"But you'll get killed!" Boomer protested.
"It's irrelevant! My safety has nothing to do with defeating those damned monsters!" Brick coldly replied. "You may only come here to where I am if you defeated the monster, am I clear?"
"But…" Boomer began to protest.
"No buts! And if both of you come here without those two monsters destroyed, if I somehow survive this, you're both going to get it!"
"But how about you?"
"I'll try to get to where you are and help you as soon as I can," Brick replied.
"But Dad…"
"Dad gave us missions to do. I don't want to disappoint him this time. I don't want him to be angry at us again."
"Okay, but your nuts!" Butch said.
"And I'm a leader too," Brick replied. "Now kick's that monster's butt and make Dad proud!"
Butch was frustrated. "That Brick has gone screwy! But I've got to hand it to him, he's one tough ruff and one hell of a leader!"
"But Brick's right though, the town goes first!" Boomer said, his admiration for his brother going up in notches.
"Let's do it then, not for the town and the morons who live here, but for Dad! Let's finish these suckers and help Brick"
Butch attacked the slow heavily plated monster (the bull monster with a hammer head) while Boomer assaulted the T-rex. Boomer decided to use different tactics than he usually did.
"Sonic Boom," he shouted, and directed it at the monster. It threw the monster off, and forced it to cover its ears, but that's about it. After a minute or so, Boomer ran out of breathe, and the monster renewed its assault. Boomer was able to avoid each and every attempt of the monster due to his superior agility.
He then decided to use laser eyes. He was able to zap the monster a couple of times. It seemed to him that it had no effect, but Boomer just continued zapping. Unknown to him, however, each and every attack weakened it slightly. And add it all up, it was much weaker than it was originally. Unfortunately for the blue ruff, he doesn't know it and still thought it was a desperate fight. He continued his hit and run and zap tactics, even if he thought it was useless, in the process weakening the monster each time.
Butch was having worst luck with the armor plated monster. He shifted his strategy. He began zapping it with laser eyes, but it did no good. His armor was too tough. He decided on one last strategy.
"I hope this works," Butch said to himself, as he began focusing his laser-eyes on the armor of the monster. A few minutes later, it was red hot. Butch then went under the ocean, got a large rock, and threw it at the hide of the monster!
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Brick just gave the last message to his brothers in his communicator.
Five second later…
"So there you are, Brick Edwards," Blossom's voice suddenly said from above the tree where Brick was hiding.
'Things couldn't possibly get any worst,' Brick thought. "Damn it! I shouldn't have said that! Now I've jinx it!"
Brick looked up and saw Blossom and Buttercup, smiling sadistically at him. Bubbles was just behind them, looking worried.
"So Brick, are you giving in to our conditions?" Blossom asked.
"You must be deaf or something," Brick stated. "For I clearly stated a while ago that I wouldn't surrender myself to the police, nor would I give any bogus confessions! You remind me of Stalin and his show trials during the Great Purge."
"Don't compare me with that man," Blossom promptly replied. "He made up fake charges and false confessions to kill whoever opposed him, while you are really evil and needed to be exposed."
"Enough talk already," the lime clad puff shouted. "Hey leader boy, you going to give up or not?"
"Not on your lifetime," the leader of the rowdyruffs answered, as he braced himself for another beating.
He then made a dash through the forest to try to escape the twosome. The chase went on as before, with Buttercup closely tailing him and Blossom heading him off. But the chase was barely on when Brick was hit from a laser beam from above. It distracted him long enough for Buttercup to catch up. In less than ten seconds, Buttercup laser-eyed brick then kicked him towards Blossom. Before Brick could recover, Blossom grabbed him from behind. She wrapped her arms under his shoulder, full nelson style, so that his arms were dangling in the sides. She finished it by wrapping her legs around her waist.
"Don't bother to try to escape," Blossom said. "Now, are you or are you not going to agree to our terms?"
Brick didn't even dignify the question with an answer.
"Well, can't say I didn't warn you," Blossom said.
Brick struggled for all he was worth, but found out that it was futile. 'Might as well be chained by duranium,' Brick thought.
Blossom first froze Brick in ice.
"Buttercup, would you do the honors?"
"With pleasure," Buttercup said as she began slowly punching and kicking the red ruff. The black haired puff seemed to take her time, savoring each strike. "Take that, you evil minion of Mojo Jojo," she shouted as she made blow after blow. "Next time, think twice before messing with the Powerpuff Girls," and it went on like this for the next ten minutes.
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Butch threw the large rock at the monster and its extremely heated hide. It cracked at impact into a million pieces.
"Bummer!" Butch said.
However, the small pieces of rock soon was absorbed into the heated hide, then suddenly out of nowhere, a cold wind blew. It cooled the hide of the monster, and to Butch and Boomer's horror, it revealed a shiny and metallic surface.
"What happened?" asked Butch.
"The rock particles fused with the super heated hide to form a metallic compound. The cold wind cooled it. Now it is even stronger," Boomer explained with dread.
"This sucks!" Butch said. "Damn it, it'll take forever for us to finish those monsters. One of us should go help Brick!"
"Yeah, but Brick ordered…'" Boomer began.
"That we both shouldn't go to him at the same time," Butch finished. "However, he didn't say anything about not going alone, now did he? What if one of us would go help Brick, while the other would deal with the monsters?"
"That's a good idea, but who should go to Brick and who should fight the monsters?" asked Boomer.
"I'll fight the monster, you'll help Brick!" Butch said.
"No way! I want to fight those monsters!" Boomer protested. "You go to Brick."
"I want to fight those monsters," Butch countered.
"No I want to!"
"No me!"
"Me!"
"Look, this is going nowhere!" Butch finally said. "Let's do rock paper scissors. Whoever wins gets to decide who goes where, okay?"
"Seems fair to me."
Butch got paper, Boomer got scissors.
"Of all the rotten luck!" Butch ranted. "Okay, but you better be careful!"
"I will," Boomer said. "And don't worry. I'll join you as soon as I take care of these two."
Butch then raced to where he thought Brick was.
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Meanwhile…
The jail warden was busy watching the fights on TV when suddenly the phone rang.
"Hello," he greeted.
"Warden, this is Professor Utonium. Could you arrange for Mojo Jojo to be escorted to my home? I have a few questions that I need to ask him."
"Well, sure. I mean we've got to release him in a day or two seeing that we've got nothing to charge him with currently."
"Thanks warden."
Author Thanks:
To Ud the Imp,thanks. And its even getting more intense in chapter 15. To Uncle Sam, I agree completely, Poor Brick. And I'll assure you no one would die, except maybe the monsters. To DL23400, I hope you don't fall off this cliffhanger! To Hairy Gregory,I also felt they could have told it to their Dad in a better manner. And as for Brick, read the next chapter to find out how badly hurt he'll really be when this is all over. As for the PPG's reputation, most of you probably know what would happen to it. But there'll be more surprises coming! Plus more twist and turns on this issue. And I agree. What would the people of Townsville think after this? Well, he wasn't really silly. He was in effect ordered by his father to go alone and try to apologize. Dr. Edwards didn't anticipate that the girls would do such a thing to his son alone. As for Brick, he really had no choice. He either had to face the PPG alone, or face his father's wrath once more. To sum-jackass, well Brick won't die, that at least I assure you of. However, you must read the next chapter to find out how badly hurt he really is. To Dooly,Dr. Edwards really needed to be that tough, or the boys would be uncontrollable. As for now, he's doing a great job raising them. As for crank calls, what could I say? They're typical mischievous boys only with superpowers just like the PPG are typical sweet little girls with superheroes. I agree with you on pride. The leaders of both teams have so much of it. As for Townsville not needing another set of superheroes, I think it is the citizens of Townsville that determines that. Just look at the Major Man incident, where the phony superhero nearly got hold of the psyche of Townsville and nearly forgot the PPG. And in "forced kin" the people of Townsville where literally bowing and worshipping Mojo after he defeated the alien. Tonightglider-star,thanks. Correct me if I'm wrong, isn't KAWAI a Japanese term for cute (you learn a lot of Japanese words when reading DBZ fics)? Wow, thanks for the cool compliment. To TJ Rose,yup, a pretty big mistake on the part of the girls. They should have been more trusting, like Bubbles. As for Brick not fighting back, this chapter answers that question. As for Butch and Boomer, this chapter pretty much answers it. As for the babysitter, I really would like to point out that the babysitter just pretended to believe them just. Maybe I'll write a future chapter or story where she would have her revenge? And the $100 doesn't hurt too. To Akum, I hope this update pleases you. To FireStarter10388,yup, another fight. Anyway thanks for reading and reviewing.