Yo, I'm back! And I've got a new Sword!

Alex: You just had to mention that, didn't you?

Alex Ultra: Yes, I did. [Evil Smirk]

Alex: Fine, but why don't you describe your new 'toy' to your readers? [She's in one of her 'smart' moods right now... hehehe]

Alex Ultra: Okay! Well, it's like a Broad Sword, but better 'cause the middle is hollow making light like a ninja sword!

Alex: And it's electrified...

Alex Ultra: Yeah! Well, technically it's not electric, it's magic. Well, part magic. It's got a lot of design in it (one of my friends designed it, hehehe, he loves swords!) and it's REALLY powerful! The perfect match up for the (strange echoes) FRYING PAN OF DOOM, DEATH, AND TERROR!! Don't you think?

Alex: Uh, yeah. Except it's got light energy, rather than a dark aura.

Alex Ultra: [Smiles stupidly] Yeah, and its name is Titan! It's the sword my original fic [Snaps to an almost commercial quality stare] 'DragonSword, only on FictionPress.net, from the same author that brings you this and many other fics. DragonSword is great!' (Sorry, I couldn't help it...) revolves around. I basically made a copy for me! Eat your heart out Samurai Jack!

Alex: Yeah. Okay.

Alex Ultra: [Swings the sword as his huge eyes watch the thing intently] Oh, man. I love this thing. IT'S PERFECT!!

Well, sword aside, I've finally gotten around to writing the next chapter. Man, summer classes suck! Anyway, this chapter will hopefully get a few more things done, HOPEFULLY! If it doesn't then that means that I'm too tired and should be in bed by now. (Heh, it's midnight already. Hehehe.)

(Claps hands together cheerfully.) Okay! Let's get this thing started. (Spaces out and starts mumbling, readers start questioning author's sanity.) [Eyes still spacey] Uhm, yes, I am crazy. But I'm also tired so I have an excuse for now.

~~~~~~*** THE LAST FEW DAYS ***~~~~~~

Okay, well here's the deal. Now all three girls know about Bubbles' little 'condition' and the other two have requested matching suits, all this while Alex moved Bubbles up to Gravity training. The mobile version, of course, with a belt that serves her purposes.

{Wow. This is even harder. Are you sure this is working?}

Alex smiled to Bubbles (secretly). {Yes, Bubbles, I'm sure. You know, I'm going to have to teach you to find and see your ki, you know that?}

{Okay! But you gotta promise to teach the others too!}

{Deal.} Right now Bubbles' body was so heavy that every step Alex took left a little hole in the sidewalk, so she refrained from walking. Instead, she flew with ki (at this point, even the power of Chemical X was not enough to keep her in the air, or take her there in the first place), she was now under 100 times Earth gravity, and handling it marvelously.

"Bubbles, are you sure about this? What if someone attacks?"

"Even better! And I'm surprised you're still calling me Bubbles!"

"Well, as far as anyone else is concerned, you're Bubbles. So that's what I'm gonna call you!" Buttercup was trying to cover the fact that she had simply forgotten that little concept of Bubbles not being Bubbles.

"Ngh, well [grunt] if you say we need to do this, then I'll trust you. But I still [heave] say we've done pretty well so far." Blossom was struggling with the suit as she tried to talk to Bubbles. "But what if, rrgh, we can't get these things off fast enough?"

"Oh, don't worry. Those are pretty light, you should be able to fly around and give you time to get them off. Besides, with this Chemical X, Bubbles' gotten to a level it took me quite a while to get to, so I don't really think you have much to worry about..."

"Well, I still don't think I can reach this button very fast." Alex smiled as the other girls struggled with every step.

She turned up the gravity a bit, so that it was as hard for her as it was for them, she looked back to them. "Okay girls. Come on!" She went into a weak defensive position.

Buttercup only looked up at her. "What are you talking about?"

"What? Have you never sparred before?"

"Spar?" Buttercup was royally confused.

Blossom also looked confused. "Sorry, but the only spar I've ever heard of were what Cowboys wore on their boots."

"That's a spur! Now look, sparring is when friends fight each other in order to, uhm, get loosened up, I guess. It helps to both keep someone sharp and to help polish your skills!"

"Are you sure?" Buttercup wasn't so sure about fighting her sister.

"Yes I'm sure! Now I want both of you to attack me, the harder it is the better I'll get!"

"Okay." Blossom floated up into the air, but struggled just to throw one punch.

Alex easily dodged it. "Okay, that was sloppy." Even under this stress, and in Bubbles' body, Alex was far too experienced to be caught by such a slow punch.

"Aaahh!!" Buttercup's punch was a little faster, but still not fast enough. She missed and ended up running into her sister.

"Buttercup! Get off me!"

"I would, but I can barely move!"

"Hey, why don't you guys take those things off first?"

"Fine by me!" The both took their suits off, in neat little piles. Buttercup started doing little stretches. "Okay, I'm ready!"

"Good." Alex started dodging Buttercup's punches, which came much more quickly now. But it didn't take long for one to make contact. "Hah! Got you!"

"Yeah, Buttercup, but I'M under 115 times Earth gravity! And you're under nothing! Now do you see what I've been doing all this time?" Alex said this as she rotated the control on the belt to it went back down to 100. "Okay, I'm ready for you!" Then the three went into a volley of punches and kicks and blocks.

Alex didn't throw anything but blocks.

{Wow! You must have been doing something!}

{Yeah, well. If it was you doing this right now, you'd be losing badly.}

{Yeah, you're probably right...}

{I know I'm right. Ow!} Distracted by talking to Bubbles, Alex cringed as she was hit in the gut.

"Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry! I didn't hurt you did I?"

"Buttercup."

"What? I'm sorry!"

"Look, the only reason I'm still cringing is because of the gravity." She immediately went into a defensive position. "Look, the number one thing that sparring is supposed to teach you," she smiled a little, "is how to take pain and blows. Now come on! I'm not finished!"

And so it went for a good hour.

Then Blossom heard something, uh, I think it's called the hotline? Well, the smiley-face phone rang and they went to answer it.

Well, the other two did anyway, Alex decided to wait for the word where she was.

"Oh, no! Another monster? That's the third one today!" Some mumbling came out of the phone. "Okay mayor. We're on our way. What? Bubbles? Okay." Apparently, Bubbles had already kicked that monster's butt and was back to her training. Well, Alex was anyway.

Blossom went back to where they were last with 'Bubbles' and picked up her suit. "You know the strangest thing about this?" She was referring to Alex, who was floating a few feet above the ground. The dial on the belt read '125' and she was calmly meditating.

But she still responded, without opening her eyes. "What's that?"

"Well, you're getting stronger and all, but your muscles aren't getting any bigger!"

Alex opened her eyes, and turned the belt back to 50, in order to stand on the ground. Calmly of course. "Well, I've learned how to do that. It's really not that hard, you just basically pull your muscles. Rather than pushing them! Oh, and flexing exercises help too."

Buttercup was just about to ask the million-dollar question when they were interrupted but a loud crash.

The trio looked toward the sound and gasped as they saw a big machine with Mojo at the helm. And at the top was three blasters, each one trained on a different Powerpuff.

"BLAST EM!!! HAHAHA!" Princess was flying above the machine with her standard jetpack.

"Okay! HahahahahaHAHAHHA!!!" Mojo started firing the blasters at all three of the girls at the same time.

Buttercup was the first to go down; when the ray hit her she lost all consciousness and just fell right over. Blossom was reading that they were 'Antidote X' blasters when she was hit, also losing consciousness.

"One left." Mojo smiled maniacally as he pushed the big red button, training all three blasters on Bubbles.

"Oh great!" She didn't even have the chance to turn down the belt before she was blasted, going down hard.

'Ow, that hurt. But not too much.' Slowly, she got back up; concealed by the smoke of her landing she took off the belt and stood back up. But something was missing.

Bubbles wasn't there, and neither was the X powers. Alex could already tell that things were getting worse.

"Oh, great!" She looked angrily at the laughing Mojo.

"YEAH!! YOU GOT EM GOOD!!"

"Yes, now they are at my mercy! Hey, what? The blue one is back up?"

Alex was breathing hard and smiling angrily. "Yes, I am. Now pay!" She launched herself at the machine, breaking off all three blasters and looked at Mojo.

"B-but I drained all your Chemical X! How can you still fly?"

"Because, monkey, I'm not using Chemical X!" She yelled a little as she kicked away Mojo's protective dome and punched him out, gently of course.

"HEY!! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD!! GET BACK ON THE GROUND!!" Princess continued her incessant screaming.

"Would you just stop screaming?" Alex looked up at her, then she punched her jetpack away, leaving her to fall to the ground.

"Ow! HEY! THAT HURT!!" She pulled out her own blaster and fired straight at Alex, getting a direct hit.

But Alex wasn't even fazed. "WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS THING?! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE HELPLESS!!"

Alex smiled a little. "Bubbles is, but I'm not Bubbles."

"What?" Princess just barely got this out before she was gently knocked unconscious by a blow to the side of the head.

Alex smiled at her achievements and went to the other girls, immediately collapsing in pain.

Blossom was the first to wake back up, and she noticed Bubbles in pain. 'No, wait, it's Alex.' "Hey, what's wrong?"

Alex's response was slow, and pained. "It's... Bubbles. Without Chemical X, I think she's becoming unstable. I can move her around, but she needs Chemical X before she just..." she stopped there, figuring they could get the hint.

They did, and Alex took all three of them back to the Professor's lab.

"Professor! Bubbles is in really bad shape!! She needs some Chemical X, now!" Buttercup was on the verge of crying, something that was almost totally against her character.

"What? Why?"

Blossom pitched in. "Mojo blasted her with Chemical X. He hit all of us, but he hit her a few too many times! If she doesn't get some Chemical X in her... well, she might..." The Professor got that look in his eye as he went right to work.

Alex piped up, though quietly. "Blossom. I can't hold her together much longer. She's falling apart." Blossom got a tear in her eye as the Professor came back over.

"Come on, give her to me." He took her and put her on some kind of table. Alex barely remembered being swallowed by some kind of machine.

"Professor, is she going to be okay?" Buttercup's tone was full of worry as she looked at her sister, just barely hanging.

"Only time will tell, but this will hopefully give her what she needs to make a full recovery." Sure enough, the color came back to Bubbles' features and she opened her eyes.

Bubbles only saw some kind of machine over her; she was surrounded by some kind of green light and could tell something was wrong. "Huh?"

"Bubbles!" Blossom's relieved voice came through the glass beside her.

Bubbles looked to the side, with some effort. For some reason she felt weak. "What happened?" She was feeling better and better.

"Mojo blasted you with Antidote X. He got all of us, but you got too much and you nearly fell apart!"

"Oh." Bubbles was feeling much better now, but there was something wrong. Alex wasn't there, she couldn't tell where she was, as if she was asleep.

"Okay, how do you feel honey?"

"Huh? Oh, I feel as good as new! Thanks Professor!" The hood rose back up and Bubbles hopped out as Buttercup took her place.

Blossom took Bubbles to the side. "Bubbles, what's wrong?"

Bubbles looked at Blossom. "I can't find her. What happened?"

"I don't know exactly, but she's the one who saved you. She tried to keep you together as she flew us home. If you can't find her she's probably just really tired or something." Bubbles nodded.

"Blossom honey. Your turn!" Buttercup hopped down as Blossom hopped up, or jumped high enough to grab on to the side and pull herself up.

'Maybe Blossom's right. Maybe she's just resting. She'll wake up soon, I hope.'

~~~ The next day ~~~

Alex opened Bubbles' eyes as she remembered the happenings of the previous day. 'Well, she obviously made through it.'

{Alex?}

{Bubbles?}

{Yes.} They both said simultaneously.

{Bubbles. I think I have a good feeling.}

{About what?}

{You'll see.} And she left it at that.

~~~ After they were done with school ~~~

"Hey girls. Come here."

"What is it Bubbles? Or, uh, Alex?" Blossom was still having trouble telling the difference.

"I have something to show you." Ki was already radiating off of Bubbles' body as Alex gathered the power. "See, I've gathered enough power. And I've got something to show you." A small smile crossed Bubbles' face just before she went into full power-up.

"AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!" Alex gathered all sorts of power, mixing Bubbles' ki with her Chemical X power and gathering just enough energy to, well, read on and find out.

"What is she doing?"

"I think she's coming out?"

That was just what was happening. A ghost-image of Alex pulsed off of Bubbles' face as another image of her appeared in front of her.

Both of them were in the throes of powering up, and it was obvious that it was Alex; complete with that little backpack she always carries around (sorry I didn't mention it till now, but she always carries around a backpack that carries all her capsules and stuff). As power radiated off of Bubbles, it seemed to flow around Alex's image and flow into it.

The light coming from the image was dim at first, then grew in intensity as the ghost-like form started to take a bit more solid of a form. The scream from Bubbles' body seemed to move and intensify as the extra form also started screaming.

One more burst and Alex was there, with a flash greater than that of the Solar Flare it was all over. And Alex had finally done it.

In bringing Bubbles, a person of pure-heart, to a power-level of ten thousand, she was able to bring her body here, and she had a few things to teach the girls.

But they only stared, all three of them. Bubbles shocked to finally see that person that had shared her mind for so long.

'So she really was real. And I really wasn't crazy!'

'Cool.' Buttercup was thinking this and this only.

Blossom was a bit more distinct. "Hello, Alex. It's good to finally see you."

"It's good to finally be here, as myself anyway." She smiled stupidly as she calmed back down.

It was done. She was there. And she had a few things to do before leaving.

~~~~~~*** End of Chapter 8 ***~~~~~~

Ooh! That was a cliffy wasn't it? Well, the next chapter looks like it's going to be the last one in Townsville, but that doesn't mean that she's done with those three! She still has to teach them ki, along with a few other tricks!

Alex: Hey, want some popcorn?

Alex Ultra: [Sheaths his new weapon, which somehow mysteriously fits into a rather small sheathe] No, actually I'm ready for bed. Good night, Miss hero!

Alex: I thought I asked you not to call me that!

Alex Ultra: You did, but since when do we actually listen to each other?

Alex: Good point.

Alex Ultra: Hehe, good night.

Alex: G'night!

Well, I'm tired (it's almost 2:00 now, so I'm ready for bed). But why don't you review me? What do you think of my new 'toy'? What do you think of this chapter? And all those other things I should be asking but can't remember what they are right now.

Man I'm tired.

Well,

LATER [Snore]