Princess fixed her hair, did her makeup and left the bathroom to await her girlfriend, Buttercup.
"I'm ready," Princess said as she exited the bathroom. She was dressed in a fancy high-cut gold outfit with light makeup on and her long hair was pulled into a bun.
Buttercup, who being the tomboy she was just straightened her hair and put on a clean suit, whistled. She linked her arm her arm in Princess' and headed downstairs.
Tonight was Townsville's formal ball. Anybody who was anybody in Townsville was going to be there. Buttercup didn't want to go, but somehow Princess talked her into it.
The others had already left early for the party and the house was empty. Buttercup had that mischievous look in her eye, but Princess shot her a 'this-dress-took-two-hours-to-squeeze-into-so-no-way' look.
Buttercup opened the door for Princess and allowed her to go out first.
Things had changed since Blossom and Mitch destroyed the Morbucks manor. Princess had been on the verge of a second breakdown then, but everyone around her had kept her intact. Since then they had strengthened as a family.
Mitch had to leave town once in a while for the organization's work, but he always came back.
Blossom was more powerful than before as she had become something that Mitch called a 'ten kitsune', or heaven fox. She had long fox ears that were white and a tail that seemed to be made of white flame when it moved around.
The Professor was still the Professor.
Townsville was still the same, just with more advanced computers here and there.
Citiesville, on the other hand, was like something out of Akira or Bladerunner. After the destruction caused by an unknown creature (it was never released to the media that it was Bubbles' mutated state that went on a rampage), the city was rebuilt with the most advanced technological equipment and law enforcement was given special power suits (kind of like the girls' old suits, only upgraded), weapons and dosages of Chemical X.
But even that wasn't enough to keep Citiesville safe, because since law enforcement had become something like Robocop (1 & 2, not 3), the criminals had become something like the Terminator.
Stealing and modifying power suits, cybernetics and mutations were the norm among criminals.
Criminals like Dr. Zeighger, who was trying to outrun the Citiesville police.
And it wasn't easy if you had a few hundred gallons of Chemical X and cybernetics in the back of the getaway truck. Add in a shit for brains partner trying to shoot out Citiesville police tires with an assault rifle and you understood why Dr. Zeighger's face was red.
"Hold it straight!" she shouted, firing off about ten rounds and taking out only two of the sixty squad cars after them.
"I bet that's what you told him," Dr. Zeighger muttered under his breath. "I am holding the truck straight, you twit!" he said out loud before he took a sharp turn.
"Not one word, woman!" he snapped at the girl. In the rear view and side mirrors he saw three more squad cars join the chase.
Reaching below the seat Dr. Zeighger tapped a button. On top of the truck were stacks of plastic items strapped down. They were as thin as paper and were in shape close to a butterfly or a bowtie, and either blue or yellow.
After Dr. Zeighger flipped the switch they flew off the truck and onto the street. The police cars rolled over them and nothing seemed to happen.
"Pretty confetti," the girl quipped in a sarcastic tone as the first squad cars was about to go over the last of those things, but was abruptly amazed to see almost all the cars behind them go flipping over as the items blew up into large balloons.
"Pretty balloons," Dr. Zeighger said as he looked into the side mirrors. It was his favorite trick of his.
Now they had successfully gotten away from the Citiesville police, and headed back to the hideout.
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Barbara Fatal smiled; Edna Keane had stopped by to say hello.
The boys knew there was something going on between them but said nothing; they just went about their business as Edna and Barbara went into the house and then the kitchen.
"Gods I hope they can keep their clothes on," Butch said. "I eat on that table."
The other two grinned but said nothing. Brick was working on his motorcycle and Boomer was raking leaves. As for Butch, he was hosing off the birdbath (don't ask.)
The "relationship" began about two years ago after Barbara went down to the park. That was where she met Miss Keane and they hit it off.
Nether one would admit their attraction to one another, but it was best to let things run their course.
Or drive them nuts.
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There wasn't much to do, except sit and wait.
Susan "Mandark" astronomicon leaned back on the hotel bed, looked over to his laptop and typed in a few commands. A strange list appeared on the razor thin holographic screen.
The second command Susan put in created a "grind" on the screen and narrowed the list down to a few strange things, namely all stolen items over the past month.
Cybernetics, Chemical X, genealogy and fustology equipment were the main targets.
'I see you've been busy since we last met,' Susan thought, 'and this time you're not going to pull something like Geese Howard.'
Sitting up he went to the window and looked out. It was a cheap hotel so there wasn't much to look at except for a parking lot half full of beat up cars. Across the parking lot and behind the chain link fence was a empty street and a dilapidated building that looked as if it was once a department store that went bankrupt a while ago.
'Being a good guy is hard work,' Susan thought.
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Usagiko laughed at Jack as she landed on the flag pole, reached into her hidden pocket, pulled out a few shakan blades and threw them.
Jack dodged them and deflected the others; he leapt forward with an attack ready.
As Jack's blade sliced through the air Usagiko jumped over him. Turning and performing the crimson sparrow technect Jack stood on the flag pole that was outside the window.
Usagiko was outnumbered and kind of out-skilled, too.
"Why are you here?" Mitch asked, pointing his reiken at her.
Usagiko shook her head; it would be so simple to tell him about Bubbles but she decided not to. Instead she surveyed the room carefully.
Mitch guarded the doors to her escape. Jack was in the window blocking that escape and some well-dressed kid with the British flag on his shirt and hippy glasses was there to back them up.
Usagiko smiled at Mitch as she reached for more shakan blades. Jack lunged forward to grab her arm. In mere seconds she leaned forward and then arched herself back to launch herself over Jack and into the window.
Jack twisted himself around; he may not have grabbed Usagiko but he did snag one of her shakan blades, a shakan that was now heading straight for Usagiko.
Hitting her in the shoulder made her lose her balance on the flag pole and forced her to fall about 17 stories into a loaded dumpster.
'Thank deus ex machina,' she thought as she slid out of the trash. Looking up, she saw Jack jumping down after her.
Moving fast she went around the corner and pulled out a strange doll. She rubbed her wound a little to get some blood on her fingers, placed it onto the doll and tossed it into the shadows.
Jack saw Usagiko make a break for it to the parking lot; he dashed to cut the kunoichi off.
While Jack was chasing Usagiko, Usagiko was in the shadows grinning at the scene.
One thing was for sure; Usagiko had learned a few new spells such as the 'twin doll'.
'Now to make my way out of here,' she thought. She was just about to take a step out of the shadows when a reiken blade hovered before her throat.
"Hello there," Mitch said.
"Aw, kuso!" Usagiko snapped.
()()()()()()()() Author's Corner. ()()()()()()()()()
Sorry about the ending of Deer Dance, I was.... I can't remember what I was doing at the time but I think it was lack of sleep or something.
^\./^.
Anyhoo, I hope this story will make sense of the ending.
But there's one thing that doesn't make sense, Edna and Barbara?!
I don't know why I slipped that in but it happened, and I think it's kind of cute in a strange A/R way.
I'm dead.