To Boldly Go Where No Puff Has Gone Before

Disclaimer: I do not own the Powerpuff girls and their related content, as they belong to Craig McCracken and Cartoon network. I also do not own anything that is related to the Star trek Universe, which are created by Paramount Pictures. However I do own the idea for the design of the Starship, the USS Dynamo, and several made up alien races scattered throughout the galaxy. Everything else, like the galaxy quadrants, warp drives…etc belong to startrek.

A/N:This is a slightly similar Powerpuff Girls version of the "Startrek Voyager" series. There is bound to be some violence, so this will be rated "R" in later chapters for graphic scenes and language.

And now on with the story!

Chapter 6: Liberation

Back onboard the Dynamo Butch analyzed the super weapon's schematics. "Hmmm…come here a minute, Boomer." He called as he noticed something on the schematics that was labeled 'central fire control.' Boomer came over and looked over at what Butch was suggesting. "Hmm… there seems to be a attachment to this orbital gun…It's already strong right now, but it looks like something could be upgraded to it…Wait! Didn't the Kounians say that one Lord Sturmnak fellow wanted them to find a certain crystal…I think it has something to do with this cannon…" Butch listened to his brother's ideas and shudders as he realizes that the megalomaniac who built this is bent on even more destructive power. "Well, let's figure a way to destroy it…" He spoke. Boomer then looked at the ventilation systems leading to the firing control. "Hmmm, if there's only a way to break in. Wait…Butch, check the hull schematics of that thing…and sensor locations. Perhaps I can figure a way to shut those off remotely while we break inside and rig that thing to blow." Butch nodded and looked over more of the schematics.

Meanwhile, Brick and Blossom were in Brick's quarters. Brick was lying on his bed, thinking about the mission that they will embark on. Blossom was laying her head on his chest, just breathing calmly as he stroked her hair at the same time. She looked up, smiled and gave him a kiss. "I know what you'll thinking…and we'll be able to blow that damn thing up." Brick smiled reluctantly as he can't shake the feeling that destroying the orbital cannon is not going to be easy. He shrugged slightly as he leaned forward to kiss her. The couple kissed briefly and embraced each other warmly. Suddenly, the door chimed and Blossom instantly let go and sat straight up, straightening her hair bow. Brick cleared his throat, sat up and said, "Come in." Buttercup and Bubbles hovered in and smiled as they caught an idea that their leaders were trying to be a little intimate. Brick knew what they were thinking by the look on their face and he countered. "Oh, save it, you 2…what is it?"

Buttercup spoke up and said, "Well, me and Bubbs…" She was cut off when Bubbles slapped her behind the head. "Don't call me Bubbs!" She snapped. "Owww! Geez Bubbles! Anyway, we thought about this some time ago… what if the Kounians are actually acting? What if they really were in league with the Krakians?" Brick sighed and replied. "I know your concern…but I can see it…the living fear of the Kounians… They're not acting…and besides…it's a weapon…it's for other races benefit too to destroy it…" Buttercup then nodded. Suddenly the intercom sounded with Butch's voice. "Ummm, guys, come into the briefing room, I think I have figured how to take out that cannon." Brick smiled in his trademark smile. "Well, Buttercup, your heard your boyfriend, move it!" The 4 kids laughed as they left Brick's quarters and headed for the briefing room.

Inside the briefing room, the 6 kids and Dranico discussed the plan of action. Butch was showing a projection of the schematics. He pointed to the central firing control. "There's at least a couple ways to blow this thing up. The entire cannon uses a lot of energy, which could be overloaded. We could fire our eyebeams here," Butch pointed to a long giant tube like object that looks like it could be five yards in diameter and almost half a mile high. "It's the quantamplasma connector assembly." Butch added. "It connects the main cannon's firing control to its power source. Thus this 'quantamplasma' connector assembly regulates and stabilizes the energy flow…" Before Butch could finish, Blossom stammered, "Thus we break it…causing some kind of meltdown?" Butch just nodded. Brick then smiled. "Ok, then…let's hear the main attack plan…step by step." Butch explained to them and they all agreed to begin the mission the next day. Brick contacted the Kounians to standby for liberating their planet and mopping up any enemies after the super weapon is destroyed.

At the Kounian home world, the huge orbital cannon station orbited the planet. Some distance away, a semi-large fleet dropped out of warp behind a small asteroid field. The ships were the Kounian warships waiting on standby. The station had not detected their presence as Boomer had remotely disabled the long-range sensors. As all the Kounian ships got into place, the Dynamo dropped out of warp and pulled up on the Kounian flagship. Inside the Dynamo's bridge, Brick had sent his message to the commanding officer of the Kounian liberation fleet and said they will begin momentarily. Inside the shuttle bay, the kids suited up into their combat suits. They told Dranico to supervise onboard and monitor the station's security systems as Boomer hacked into earlier. "Dranico, let me know on the Comm. if something in their system changes…" Boomer told Dranico as he attached his helmet. His companions did the same. Dranico just gave thumbs up and stood behind the observation controls as he depressurized the shuttle bay.

Outside, a panel in the ship's hull opened up and the 6 kids flew through. As they flew, Boomer was constantly tapping a panel on the arm of his suit. He did a hand signal to Brick and the 6 of them flew in a zigzag pattern to avoid detection from the sensors. They flew into an open docking bay and quickly knocked out the few guards posted there. After they knocked them out, they tried lifting the unconscious guards into a hiding spot, but realized that the guards were too heavy. "What the hell?" Butch suddenly said as he realized that he could not fly. Buttercup was noticing the same thing and realized that all of her powers are inactive. "What the hell is going on here?" She asked. Blossom just looked nervous as Boomer checked the readouts. "No, they're not expecting us…but it's the radiation or something coming from their energy source…it's kind of nullifying our chemical X signature…thus making us powerless on board this station…I guess we have to go to plan B…try and use these charges I replicated from some of their weapon technologies…" Boomer said as he tapped something rectangular on his belt. It was like a dark blue colored C4 explosive charge. The kids nodded and made sure that their charges were on them as well. Brick then spoke up, "Shit, all right then. Stick close…since we have no powers…we are at risk of getting killed more easily…grab those rifles…we'll need them now."

Somewhere onboard the station, a Krakian guard walked down a corridor. He heard a noise, like feet shuffling behind him. He turned around but saw no one. He shrugged and continued on. Moments later, his head blew to pieces as an energy rifle bolt struck him in the back of the head. Moments later, the kids stepped out of the shadows, brandishing the rifles they took from the guards. Buttercup blew a whistle as she inspected the damage she did. "Wow, I could get used to this!" Butch kissed her briefly and said, "That's my girl!" Brick just slapped his brother playfully on the face, yelling, "Quit it…we haven't got time to fool around. Boomer, where now?" Boomer reads the panel on his arm as he checks the schematics. He points to a door to their left. "That way should take us into the main hub." With that, Brick took point and went through the door, creeping around in the shadows to avoid being seen. His comrades followed behind him.

Lord Sturmnak was inspecting the troops somewhere in the main hub, where a platoon of Krakian troops were lined up. He yelled words of propaganda to his men. They just roared back in a sound of obedience and fury. "Power to the Krakian forces! Death to all who get in our way!" The troops chanted repeatedly. Brick was creeping on a platform above them as he peered out from the shadows on the troops and Lord Sturmnak talking. He noticed the guards were very fanatical. He figured the big figure talking to them was Lord Sturmnak. He was wearing some kind of a black trench coat, and on his head he wore some kind of gas mask, which was bronze in color. Behind the coat, on his back was a giant tank of some kind of gas. "Maybe a life support system." Brick heard Blossom whisper. He looked to his left to see Blossom watching the scene. Just then, Boomer said that they have to creep past the guards and enter the door down the hall from where they stood. Brick nodded and sneaked carefully across the platform. It was dark, so the troops below could not see him.

As Brick approached the door with the others, they suddenly saw the door ahead of them slide open. They quickly pressed themselves to the wall, hiding in the shadows from the guards that came out. The two guards stopped and faced the railing of the platform, watching their leader speaking words of motivation to their fellow comrades. Brick smiled and looked at Butch. They both nodded and crept behind the guards with their rifles. With a swift motion, they both sent the butt of their rifles into the back of the guards' heads. They both crumpled to the floor as Brick and Butch subdued them quietly. Boomer walked up to them and checked the guards. "Bingo! They have access keys to the central firing chamber…nice work Bro." Brick nodded at Boomer's comment and pocketed the access keys. The comrades then slipped into the door and continued on their mission.

Suddenly, the station's alarms rang as one of the patrolling guards found the headless guard that Buttercup had killed. A Krakian officer ran up to Lord Sturmnak and informed him of a possible intruder alert. "What? Go, seek and destroy them! And get me my weapons…I'm joining this hunt!" The officer saluted the villain and ran down the ranks of the troops that stood before them and ordered them to find the intruders and kill them.

The officer then ran into an armory station and brought out a giant 5-barrel energy weapon of some sort. Lord Sturmnak threw back his coat, revealing a biomechanical body on him. His right hand was not present as it showed a stump of mechanical parts. With his left hand, he took the weapon from the officer. He then inserted his right arm into the cannon and the rifle lit up with power as his systems linked up with the cannon. Sturmnak aimed the cannon at a wall and blew out an energy blast, blowing the wall to pieces. "Perfect…now, go join your men." The officer saluted and ran off to join the hunt. Lord Sturmnak watches him run some ways a bit and then fired the cannon at him. The officer screamed in agony as his body was blown to many pieces and his blood spattered the floor. "You do not get to go see the glorious salvation as you were a failure in detecting the intruders. If your defense systems were fool proof like you said, we would have detected them a while ago. Good riddance!" Sturmnak then walked past the bloody corpse and went to hunt the kids. Apparently, the Lord Sturmnak was a very cruel person.

The heroes hurried as the alarms began wailing. Every once in a while they will get into a firefight with a squad of Krakians. Brick saw a blast headed straight for Blossom and jumped right in the way. He almost felt nothing at all as his suit absorbed the blast. Blossom ducked behind a wall with him and asked him if he was all right. He nodded and pointed to his suit as it quickly recharged to full power after absorbing the energy blast. Blossom let out a quick sigh of relief and embraced him quickly. They then poked their heads out of their cover and opened fire on the guards, leaving many splatter marks all over the corridor. The kids then continued past the bloody corpses, some had their body parts fried and showing. "Ouch…hate to be on the opposing team." Buttercup joked as she walked past.

For some reason, Sturmnak knew where they were going. He boarded a lift towards the central firing chamber. When he stepped off the lift, he went to the firing controls. He operated it and began charging the weapon. "If they are here to destroy the cannon, then I will destroy the sole object motivating them to do so!" The super weapon's controls showed up a countdown screen of 25 minutes. Lord Sturmnak then stood somewhere in hiding as he waited to ambush his prey. The structure behind him glowed in a bright green as energy flowed more quickly as the orbital gun was preparing to fire. Outside, the giant energy barrel appeared out of the main structure. The station rotated until the barrel was lined with its target. Small bolts of energy began to develop around the tip of the barrel.

Back onboard the Dynamo, Dranico watched the station power up in nervousness. He tapped the Comm. and contacted the children. "The cannon is powering up! You guys have to hurry! I'm reading it to be fire in about less than 18 minutes!" On the comm. Brick's voice could be heard, "Understood, contact the Kounian commander, tell him to launch his fleet, we'll be almost done here." Dranico then contacted the Kounians and a moment later, all the warships begun an intercept course.

Back onboard the station, the kids ran with top speed towards a lift that will take them to the central firing chamber. Brick boarded with his companions and operated the lift. As they rode the elevator up, they checked their weapons to make sure they have enough to engage any more foes they would probably meet. As the elevator door slid open, they stood in awe as they see gigantic warp core looking tube ahead them, glowing in a bright green. "That's the energy tube, we need to plant our charges there to cause a overload." Boomer spoke. "But how do we get there? Its suspended in a pit…we can't fly." Bubbles asked. She was interrupted as a blast wheezed over her head. The kids gasped in shock as they all shouted, "Its Lord Sturmnak!" They quickly ducked to the side as the villain fired blast after blast at them.

Brick rolled to one side and fired his rifle at the villain's chest. The bolts just struck harmlessly as the villain aimed his weapon at Brick and fired. The blast struck Brick dead center and knocked him back a few feet. Luckily for the suit's energy shielding, Brick would have been completely blown to pieces. Brick groaned in pain as his suit began to sound with an alarm as its shields read as 0 percent. The suit then began to flicker as his shields began to charge up. He watched helplessly as the villain fired another shot at him. He closed his eyes and waited for the inevitable blast to hit him but he felt nothing.

A moment later, he felt someone being knocked into him. He opened his eyes to see the person who took the blow for him was Blossom. She was still alive, but in some pain. Her suit's shields had done its work, but she was still somewhat weaker than Brick, making it a really painful experience. By now, Brick had caught a new whiff of breath and rolled to the side with Blossom, dodging another blast. He laid her down somewhere behind some cover and checked over her. Her shields began to flicker as it recharged. She managed to whisper "I'm okay…" as Brick pulled her close in an embrace. Inside his helmet, his eyes were streaming with hot tears, as he could not believe his girlfriend would risk her own life to protect his.

Buttercup had seen what Sturmnak had done to Brick and her sister and screamed in a rage. For some reason, her anger managed to block out some of the energy signatures. Her suit glowed with a bright green as her dormant power returned to her. Buttercup has the ability to go into a super powered rage no matter if her powers were available or not. It was like somewhat of a "hardcore Bubbles" thing. The rage gave her a new bout of strength, even though it wasn't super strength, it was still slightly stronger than an ordinary human's ability. As Sturmnak was busy keeping Bubbles and Boomer pinned down on the opposite side of the room, she roared loudly as she charged forward, firing her weapon repeatedly.

Lord Sturmnak felt the weapon hits and turned and fired a blast at Buttercup. She was only merely pushed back a few inches as she kept on running, with her shields blaring in alarm to tell her to take cover. Sturmnak proceeded to fire another blast at her but she jumped to the right, the blast wheezing past her harmlessly. She then dropped the rifle and began to pound the villain with her fists. The villain was stunned as he braced the onslaught.

The countdown had reached 8 minutes and Brick yelled to his brothers. "Don't let her get killed, her shields are down! Let's go!" The boys then proceeded to go into a powerless ballistic barrage. As they charged forward in rage, they fired their weapons repeatedly at Sturmnak's weapon. The weapon soon glowed with a dark blue. With that, Butch pushed his girlfriend out of the way when the weapon exploded, sending all 3 boys into the wall in the far back. They sat up and groaned in pain as they clutched their chests. There before them, Lord Sturmnak lay dead, blown to pieces by his own weapon going into an overload. His bloody and decapitated head could be seen short circuiting every once in a while. Brick limped up to the head and said, "Good Riddance." The countdown reached 5 minutes and Brick thought of a way to plant the charges. The others went up to him and handed him their charges when he asked for them. He set the charges to detonate in 1 minute and 30 seconds. He then pressed the on switch on the charges and threw them at the tube. They managed to stick and Brick began to limp-run back towards the lift. Blossom was feeling much better and supported him as they all ran for their lives.

While the kids ran half way through the station, they could hear the loud explosion of their charges. Suddenly the station shookwith chaosas the station' firing control was disabled. Boomer looked on his panel. "The cannon is offline. But the overload of the station will result in a 14 minutes…C'mon! We have to get to an escape pod! We can't fly yet!" They ran into a panicking guard and shot him in his legs. Butch ran up to him and clutched him by the throat. "Where are the escape pods!" Butch exclaimed. The guard stammered the location and Butch said thank you. He then shot the guard in the head, letting him crumple to the floor. The kids ran for the lift down the hall and they were glad to see it was still operating. As they rode the elevator to the nearest deck that had escape pods, the deck they were on began exploding as panels blew open hear and there. The station is going into complete disarray.

Brick got off the lift with his companions and found one of the escape pods. 2 guards were just boarding it when they were suddenly gunned down by the kids. The kids went inside the pod and threw the guard corpses back into the station. Brick then proceeded to take the pilot controls and Butch sealed the hatch behind the pod. Soon, the pod shot out of the station as Brick piloted it to safety. On the comm. Blossom tried contacting the attacking Kounian fleet to let them know that they were onboard this particular pod. The Kounian commander was pleased that they had accomplished the mission and ordered two ships to escort the pod back to the Dynamo.

As the pod got into range with the escort ships, the station behind them suddenly exploded in a big bright white flash, sending many metallic debris and charred corpses everywhere. The Krakian orbital station was no more and the Kounians were free to retake their world without much trouble. Just then, the kids felt their powers return to them. "What a relief! It's over!" Bubbles squealed, overjoyed.

Some time later, on board the Kounian space station, The Dynamo crew, the Kounians and the Ungians gathered in the conference room. Both the races thanked the kids for their services and the aliens exchanged apologies and forgiveness for the crimes they caused among each other. They were all pleased that a tyrannical race was completely driven into ruin. As a reward, the Kounians gave even better upgrades to the Dynamo's weapons and gave the kids an even better map of the quadrant. "May your journey home be swift and uneventful." The commander told Brick through the Comm. as Brick pulled the ship out of the docking port. The Dynamo crew said their good byes and the ship jumped to warp, continuing their journey home.

A/N: Well, that was an exciting chapter. A tyrant had been defeated and now the kids are on their way home again. Stay tuned for chapter 7: "A way home." I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Now please review and no flames please! Have a nice day! James of Vale.