Change Of Command
Disclaimer: I do not own the Powerpuff girls or anything that relates to them. They are the property of Cartoon Network and Craig McCracken. However, I do own the plot of this story.
A/N: Hi Everyone, James of Vale here. I've decided to take a little break from "To Boldly Go where no Puff has gone before", to bring you this nice and touching little story. So, without further delay, I bring you… Change of Command.
Chapter 3: Realizations
Later on that day at Pokey Oaks, Butch and Buttercup were playing basketball together. Buttercup was on the verge of losing when she caught eye of weakness in Butch's offensive. She quickly feigned her approach and tackled from the side, taking the ball away from him in the chaos. Butch blinked blankly as his girlfriend scored and tipped the scales towards her advantage. He gritted his teeth as he mumbled, "Tie game, next basket wins." With that, Buttercup tossed the ball to him for him to begin his assault. Butch quickly ran over at super speed, zigzagging to throw off Buttercup. His goal was the right side of the court by the rim.
Buttercup just smiled, as she somehow knew ahead of time where he was going to go. So she feigned not knowing where he'll be showing up. The next instant, she sidestepped at super speed just in time to receive the ball when Butch zipped into his planned destination. Buttercup just dashed past him and scored the final basket, winning the game. Buttercup shuffled to Butch, doing a brief victory dance. Buttercup danced in front of him with her eyes closed while he bowed his head down in frustration. A moment later, he leapt at her, pulling her in for a kiss. She was startled at the sudden outburst of affection.
"You beat me and although I'm furious, I'm still very in love with the tough girl with mad skills!" He kissed her once more and we could see the frustration fading on his face and replaced by a caring look. Buttercup just fought the urge to blush as she muttered a thank you into his ear and whispered, "Thanks for being a challenge too, I love you…" The couple went to take a break on the swing sets while Bubbles and Boomer watched them from a seesaw. "Look at those two…perfect back-up leaders. Don't you think?" Bubbles asked Boomer. He just nodded and held her hand. "If you're thinking about Blossom and Brick…I'll bet they'll be fine sooner or later…have faith." Bubbles just sighed and walked over to Boomer's side. She leaned her back into his chest and just sat in his embrace as they hope the day will go uneventful, as the near death experience against Mojo earlier was cutting too close.
Blossom woke up an hour later. She opened her eyes and closed them again as soon she saw light in the room. "What? Light? I can see!" Blossom thought as she blinked repeatedly. "My vision has returned…Professor!" She called for him after noticing her vision had been restored. She then looked to her right and she could see Brick lying in the bed next to her. She gasped as she realized that her mental image of how Brick looked while she was blind did not compare to what she was seeing now. She noticed that a lot of wires were running from Brick. Brick looked a bit pale but overall, still very much alive except being in a coma. She then noticed the astral-projection of Brick, standing next to her. She could see that his "hand" was actually on top of her forehead.
Brick looked exhausted as he muttered, "I knew it…my abilities are improving somewhat…I think I managed to help restore your vision faster…" He was cut off when the Professor ran into the room. He walked over and took a scope. He examined Blossom's eyes and smiled. "Your vision is 100 percent normal now…it's just the matter of whether your paralysis will fade soon." He said as he took a breath. Blossom took this chance and told the professor of Brick possibly using astral-projection. The professor looked at Brick with confusion as he listened to Blossom. "That's interesting honey, are you sure you're not hallucinating?" Blossom scoffed and shook her head. Suddenly, Brick groaned in bed. Blossom looked at him in concern as the professor tended to him as he checked the monitors. "That's odd…his brain waves are erratic…this is somewhat showing a non coma state…but the other monitors state that he is still in a coma. What is his brain doing?"
As the professor examined the phenomena with Brick, Blossom felt herself getting tired again. Suddenly, she noticed the astral-projection of Brick fading. He had a look of terror on his face. "Something's happening! I'm disappearing..." Within moments, Brick's projection disappeared. Blossom let out a cry of shock and then passed out. The professor turned around to look to see Blossom suddenly asleep again. He checked her brainwaves and they matched Brick's exactly. "Something strange is going on." He muttered as he examined both of them carefully.
Brick opened his eye, or at least feeling one eye open. He noticed his surroundings were different. It was a strange place, with purplish fog around him. He also realized that he couldn't seem to feel the rest of his body yet. Suddenly, he barely felt the other eye on his face open. He heard a voice coming out of his mouth that wasn't his. It was Blossom's. Blossom was saying, "Where am I?" Brick then realized he could talk and said, "I dunno, why are you in my head?"
Blossom was both shocked and relieved to hear his voice. "What are you talking about? I thought this is my body…" she squinted to get a better view out of her eye and noticed that her vision was blocked by some kind of visor. She felt a hand reach up to the side of the helmet they were wearing and proceeded to take it off. "It seems like I'm moving my arms." Brick muttered that he was feeling the same thing too. It was an interesting feeling and they felt…linked.
Brick gasped in shock, as his hands controlled by both him and Blossom lifted the helmet's visor that covered their vision, revealing the image in a mirror that suddenly appeared in front of them. The image they saw behind the helmet took their breaths away. It was their face, but split down the center. One side was Brick's, the other Blossom's. On the right side, they could see Brick's dark red eyes and ruffled bangs. On the left, they saw not Brick's eyes, but Blossom's and her neatly arranged bangs. They gasped even louder when they both felt the same lip move as they muttered. "It's you and me…we're one!" Both of them felt themselves say. They also noticed that their outfit was the exact same thing as the figure they saw earlier. "That figure…it was us, what was that about?" The combined couple just looked at their reflection in awe and confusion.
Back at pokey oaks, the hotline rang. Buttercup picked it up and heard the mayor babbling about mojo's escape from prison. "We're on it, mayor!" Buttercup shouted into the receiver and hung up. "Guys, mojoke broke free again and he's starting a rampage in the city!" Butch nodded and proceeded to inform Ms. Keane about the situation. Before he could say anything, she nodded and said, "Go ahead. Just make sure you don't smash through the roof." Butch nodded back at his teacher and went flying out the front door with his companions. The 4 of them flew towards where the mayor said the villain was attacking.
Back in the dream world, Brick and Blossom suddenly saw their surroundings fade again. They suddenly reappeared in the middle of Townsville, just in time to see Mojo going on a rampage. The villainous monkey stared at them in shock as he could not believe that the figure that appeared out of thin air had the face of Blossom and Brick. He stood there stammering as they beat him senseless again and tossed him into a police truck. They then noticed their siblings hovering beside them, their jaws open in shock. It suddenly dawned to them that in their combined form, they had forgotten to put their helmet back on before appearing, thus revealing the double face.
Butch stammered as he hovered over to the tall figure with the faces of his brother and friend. "How…how can this be?" The others joined him in bewilderment as they see their combined sibling tried to explain. "Butch…I don't know how to explain this…but we're somehow in this form…" Suddenly Brick felt something happen and he thought they were disappearing again. The 4 kids watched at the spot in the sky where their combined sibling had been. "What the heck was that? Are we seeing things? Let's go see the professor."
Back in the medical bay, Blossom woke up again. The professor looked at her with a sigh of relief. "I don't know what was going on…but you and Brick's brainwaves were linked some how." The Professor was cut off suddenly when the 4 other siblings rushed inside. "Professor, I think there's something wrong with us…we just saw some kind of figure with the faces of Blossom and Brick." Blossom heard them say to him. She looked at them and realized that it did happen. "Guys, you weren't seeing things…it was true…it felt like me and Brick was connected…like two computers over the internet…but now…I can't feel him."
Buttercup looked over at her sister and realized that Blossom was climbing out of the bed. The professor watched as he let out a cry of amazement. Blossom looked at herself and realized she could move. "You…you can see! And you're moving!" Buttercup screamed in joy as she flew over to her. As they embraced, Buttercup took the hair bow off her head and replaced it on Blossom's head. "Here you go sis, I realized that I rather have you lead again."
For a brief moment, the family embraced each other over the miracle of Blossom's super fast recovery. Blossom then told them completely about what she had experienced and about Brick. It then dawned to her, since they faded and she woke up, she had not seen his astral projection anywhere. The professor went over to Brick and noticed that the monitors showed his brain waves were no longer erratic. "What…something is really wrong…Brick's brain waves were showing great activity earlier while Blossom said she saw him in astral projection. Now he is almost completely brain dead!"
Brick opened his eyes to see once again he is in a dark, foggy world. He also realized that Blossom is no longer "connected" to him. He was in his own "body" walking around in that world. "Where am I?" He also felt weak. Brick then realized it was pointless to keep walking as the fog keeps going on and on. "It seems like a void that I can't seem to get out." He muttered to himself. He sat down Indian style and just looked around, trying to think of what to do.
Blossom walked over to Brick and held his hand. She almost felt like her quick recovery has something to do with his current condition. "Whatever you did…I'll be eternally grateful. Please get well…" She kissed him softly on the cheek as a tear rolled down her eyes. "Please wake up, or at least get back into astral projection…I really miss you voice each and every minute!" She thought as she wiped a tear from her face. Blossom then sat there for a little while, hearing the beeping of his heart monitor and the life support machine breathing for him.
A/N: Well, that's the end of Chapter 3. Sorry it was a tad short, but this story had to go through a lot of thinking. I want to make sure I don't stray away from the dramatic scenes in the story. For those of you confused with this chapter, Brick has just spent all his "spiritual" energies subconsciously to restore Blossom to a clean bill of health. Thus resulting in him being trapped in a strange dream world and his condition a tad worse. Stay tuned for the next and final chapter of this overall short and little story to see if Brick will make it! Chapter 4: "Miracle" will be published soon! Thanks for reading and please review! No Flames please! Have a nice day.