Geez, sorry about the delay, everyone. I've had a horrible case of writer's block.

Powerpuff Girls: Shattered Reality

Chapter 10

February 2003

The Red Chinese counterattack came fast and hard. Brand-new cold-weather tanks roared through the ice and snow of The Winter and beat the Allies back. Germany/Nationalist China fell back to a small strip of land along the coastline near the ruins of Shanghai. Russian lines compressed back into Siberia, and the US was forced into inactivity. The sheer vastness of the Pacific protected Red China and its vassal in Japan.

February 23, 2003

Area 51, United States of America

The sounds emitted from behind the thick steel door were positively blistering. "Hey, Paul, how long to you think she can keep it up?" grinned one of the security guards as he passed another on patrol. "Dunno, Bill. How long has she been in there?"

Bill smirked widely. "About 20 minutes. You'd think she'd at least move to another room. There must not be any paint at all left on the walls in there."

Just then, the steel door slid open and there stood a thoroughly pissed-off Powerpuff. Both security guards immediately shut up and started walking a little faster away. Blossom just gave then an annoyed look and floated into the situation room.

"General!" she barked as she floated in. "How in any level of Hell did the Chinese pull off a counter-attack?!"

"Reports are scattered", the General said, unnerved by the Powerpuff's anger. "But apparently, the Chinks had several divisions of tanks specially adapted for Siberian conditions, which with The Winter still on, is perfect for operations in mainland China now."

Blossom rammed her hand down into a nearby desk, shattering the wooden object into firewood. "God, damn them! We were on the fing edge of victory!"

The General nodded. "I know. It gets worse, though. The Reds are building fortifications around the German and Russian lines. By the time this weather gets back to normal, mainland China will be practically unassailable without the use of nuclear weapons. And every scientist I've talked to says the next winter will be even worse if any nukes go off."

Blossom's eyes burned, actually glowing red in the medium darkness of the room. "So, if we don't force a surrender by about April, we won't be able to win."

"Correct."

"And, our one other ace-in-the-hole, the Shiva guns, are too big and heavy to be loaded onto any ship that can be built by then, or any ship that can be built before next year. And even the Shivas can't fire across the Pacific. The few ACS we have are tough, but even they can't take the entire Red Chinese Army by themselves. We can still take Japan out, but that won't do much except make the Chinks increase their fort-building."

"That's the gist of it, yes."

Blossom's anger seemed almost to flare around her, like her entire body was on fire. "What about WM-1?"

"They completed it this morning. The only problem is the power source. Our fission reactor is off-line, and will be so for months. Right now, we don't have anything that can power it."

Blossom growled under her breath. "Keep them working on it, General. As soon as WM-1 is ready, we're going to use it. I may not get to see Red China ground into the dirt like it deserves to be, but I'll be damned if I'll let them get off that easy."

The General shook his head as Blossom floated out of the room. "Damn, she needs a vacation . . ."

March 7, 2003

Tokyo, Japan

Buttercup landed in the middle of a street, black cloak fluttering behind her. Tanks marked with a blood red star rumbled down the street towards her. "So, you want some of this? Bring it on, you bastards!" Buttercup yelled as a green sphere of energy flashed into being around her.

With a roar of anger, the sphere expanded, ripping the road apart, shattering buildings, and lifting the tanks into the air as they melted. Buttercup smiled as the soldiers caught in the blast disintegrated. She had absorbed more than heat from that thermonuclear bomb. Its radiation had mixed with the Chemical X in her blood, producing some very pleasing results.

The green Puff laughed as she flipped over the wreckage towards another group of tanks. "Greetings from America, ya jackasses!" she shouted as blindingly bright radiation blasted from her hands, melting the tanks and instantly killing the soldiers. Laughing maniacally, Buttercup continued her path of destruction through Tokyo.

The next day, the Communist government of Japan dissolved and the newly reformed Republic of Japan signed a peace treaty with the United States.

March 23, 2003

Area 51, United States of America

"THAT'S IT!" Blossom yelled, breaking the silence of Area 51 at dawn.

Bursting through the door of the situation room, Blossom grabbed the General by the front of his uniform. "I know how to power the WM-1!"

"I heard, Blossom", the General said, shaking his head to try to get some hearing back in his left ear. "What idea do you have?"

"We use my energy. The Chemical X in my body is naturally radioactive, I can release enough energy to power the WM-1!"

The General was shocked. "But, at the level the WM-1 needs, it could kill you!"

Blossom's eyes glowed again. "I don't care. Those bastards killed my father, I'm going to cause them as much pain and suffering as I can, even if I have to die to do it."

Two Hours Later

Blossom was hooked into the power core of the WM-1, a massive structure standing 200 feet tall, with five towers rising another 50 feet above that. A spherical construction topped each of the towers, with the largest sphere on top of the central tower.

"Blossom, are you sure about this?"

"Yes, General, now stop asking. Once the Chinks get a cityful of this, they'll be crawling to us, begging for mercy."

The General sighed. "Alright. You outrank me, so I can't stop you. Godspeed, Blossom" He saluted as the lead door was shut, trapping the Puff inside the power core.

Blossom smiled. "Thank you, General." Blossom then stretched out to her full length and made sure the chamber was sealed. No matter how much she wanted revenge, she didn't want to kill anybody on this side of the Pacific. When her inspection was complete, Blossom closed her eyes. "NOW!" she yelled.

Outside, the General flipped a switch and the WM-1 began to drain Blossom's energy to power itself.

Blossom smiled as the temperature rose inside the chamber to unbelievable heights. " 'From Hell's heart, I stab at thee. For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee . . ." Then, laughing, she released all of her body's energy in one mighty burst.

The resulting electro-magnetic pulse set off alarms in every early-warning system on Earth. But, once they realized no missiles were launching, the nations wrote it off as a fluke.

How wrong they were.

25,000 miles above the Earth's surface, an American satellite intercepted a powerful beam from Area 51, following its design, the satellite amplified the beam and fired it off again, this time towards China. The energy impacted Earth's atmosphere just above Beijing.

March 24, 2003

Beijing, Red China

The Premier of the Chinese Communist party, the master of China, sighed. This war had boomeranged, and though China was holding its own now, too much had happened. Soon he would have to ask for peace, and time to rebuild his country.

Outside, the sky was growing dark, and the Premier sighed again. This Winter was quickly becoming a vast pain in the ass. More snowstorms were likely, and he'd have to divert even more power to the northern regions.

He never saw the lighting blast that tore his office to shreds and flattened the 'White House' of China. Terawatt lighting blasts were hammering the Forbidden City.

By the time the storm cleared, the capital of Communist China was smoking rubble and dead bodies.