Princess Morbucks opened her eyes. She had arrived home the night before and gone to bed, ready for all three wishes to come true in the morning. But she didn't recognize the place she awoke in as her bedroom. She wasn't dressed in her nightgown, either.
She was dressed in her yellow Powerpuff suit. It worked! She was surrounded by piles of money. It worked! All around her were buildings and skyscrapers and deeds to property, all hers. It worked!
She didn't care that Townsville looked oddly strange, and not quite the way she remembered it. All she cared about was that the three Powerpuff Girls stood stupidly next to her, frozen, as if they were about to take flight, ready to battle something. Their expressions were half-angry, half open-mouthed, as if they were frozen in shock at finding themselves with a new leader. One named Princess Morbucks. As they should be shocked!
"What's the matter, Blossom?" Princess sneered. "Cat got your tongue?"
Blossom said nothing, and neither did her sisters. They just stood there, motionless.
Just then, a large shadow loomed overhead. Princess looked up. It was a giant monster, attacking her city! About to demolish her buildings! To scatter the money in her bank to the four winds! A giant hand swooped down, reaching for her. It blocked out the monster's face as it started to pick her up.
"Don't just stand there, you twits, help me!" shrieked the new leader of the Powerpuff Girls. But her underlings stood, frozen in shock.
"Professor!" screamed the Powerpuff Girls. He came running, and saw them sitting on the living room floor with their new board game spread out in front of them.
"Sorry, Girls, can't play right now, too busy," he said hurriedly.
"No, Professor!" Blossom protested. She was holding a game piece in her hand.
"Professor, there's something wrong with this game!" Bubbles cried.
"Yeah, you have to take it back and get us a good one!" Buttercup chimed in.
"Why?" he asked. "Looks OK to me."
Princess fired her lasers at the huge monster. Nothing happened. She tried punching her way out of its grip. She had no strength. And the stupid Powerpuffs were still doing nothing to help her!
It was then that she realized her terrible mistake. She shouldn't have wasted one of her wishes on money or property. She was a Powerpuff Girl, but she hadn't asked for superpowers! Stupid genie!
It was also then that she remembered what the shopkeeper had told her, that she was buying nothing but trouble with her three wishes. She screamed at the top of her lungs, to no avail.
"Professor!" Blossom said. "They made the Princess Morbucks piece all wrong! She looks like us!"
"Huh?" Professor Utonium said. "The Powerpuff Girls Monopoly game doesn't have a Princess piece! Let me see that, Blossom!"
Blossom handed it over, and he studied it. "By golly, they sure did!"
"Take it back, Professor!" Buttercup demanded.
"Take it back? Are you kidding? Girls, I'll get you a new game, but this one's not going back to the store. Why, it'll be a collector's item someday. This baby's going in my closet!"
Princess covered her ears at the horrible roaring of the pink monster. She could see it was pink now, because it had handed her over to an even bigger, white and black creature. Its roaring was even worse. But at least it put her back down on the ground. The stupid Powerpuffs were still standing there, looking just as stupid, and she shouted at them for not helping her.
But then, something even more terrible happened! An earthquake struck Townsville! All of her buildings, her money, her property, the very ground itself, was lifted and dropped. She and the Powerpuffs were tossed roughly, where they landed next to Professor Utonium, the Mayor, even Mojo Jojo!
She yelled at all of them, to get up and do something! Townsville, her Townsville, was being destroyed! Then, without warning, the white and black monster was lowering something flat, down upon all of them, blocking out the sun, forever…
On the other side of the world, the old shopkeeper walked over to his display of lamps. Carefully choosing one, he picked it up and smiled.
"Ah, very good! I will be less cramped."
The old man turned and looked to where the voice was coming from. Floating there before him was the genie. They looked at each other for a moment, then burst into laughter and slapped their hands together in a 'high five'.
The ringing of a telephone interrupted them. The old man went behind his counter and removed the receiver from the wall. He listened to the voice at the other end, then thanked the caller and hung up. The genie was looking at him, the bushy blue eyebrows raised in a question.
The shopkeeper smiled and said, "Well, old friend, another fool with more wealth than brains is on the way."
The genie smiled, and without another word, disappeared into the lamp that was still in the crook of the old man's arm. The shopkeeper disappeared into his back room for a moment, then came back out without the lamp. He began to casually dust off the wares in his neat little shop, readying it for the next customer, whistling to himself a carefree tune.
End