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! This is the Finale of this story.
Chapter 10: Wormhole's inconvenience
Brick was the first to come to as he picked himself up from when he had fallen after the ship impacted the surface. He checked the consoles through the visor of helmet and noticed that repairs were already under way. He was also surprised to see that the ship's condition was also in relatively good shape. "We crashed on a planet, and it seems we only got a couple cuts and scrapes!" He yelled to himself as he checked his motion sensor in his helmet's heads-up display. The sensor was a radar field filled with a few dozen red dots converging on the area, while 2 yellow dots were in close proximity to him. He noticed they were Buttercup and Boomer. He went over and shook them awake.
Blossom was chained and locked in a cell somewhere on the planet. She woke up after a brief nightmare. She wasn't able to gain very much rest in such conditions. She could not even tell how she fell asleep in the first place. She then remembered what had happened. She and the others were moved while they were still in their cells as they felt their surroundings began to morph. They could not tell what happened at the time, but later it became apparent that the alien ships had merged to form a biological planet that works somewhat like an insectoid hive. Blossom looked outside the cell doors to see dozens of those insect creatures moving around, doing their duties. "They're like ants…almost…wonder if I can do anything about it…wait…if the whole structure around us is also biological…then fighting now will raise the alarm too quickly…probably kill us while we're still chained here…I wonder…gotta think up a plan to free myself and the others quickly."
Brick managed to wake Buttercup and Boomer up just in time to see a few of the insectoid creatures have broken into the Bridge. They were just pouring in one by one through one of the small hull breeches made during the crash. Brick powered up his eyebeams and amplified it as he shot through the visors. Efficiently, the first insectoid warrior was killed when the eye beams scorched a baseball-sized hole in his chest. Greenish blood squirted everywhere as it clutched its wound as it died. The linked pain they felt from their deceased comrade momentarily stunned the others. "Boomer…I think they're connected through a central hive mind or something…weaken one badly, it might give us the advantage to stop the others!" Brick said as he power punched a stunned insectoid warrior. "You will not defeat the Bizinti!" One of the aliens spoke as he shook off the stunning pain. He was then stunned again when the warrior that Brick fought was killed. "Our translators much have finally caught up…let's kick their ass!" Buttercup said as she dashed at super speed to punch a huge hole in the next 4 warriors that entered the Bridge.
Boomer saw a huge battalion of the Bizinti warriors marching towards the Dynamo through the main view screen. "Whoa…gotta even the odds." He said as he ran over to tactical. He worked the console and recalled what Butch had said about making quick repairs on damaged systems. He opened the panel and began to fix the wiring and circuitry. Just then a Bizinti warrior tried to attack by pouncing at Boomer. Without looking backwards, Boomer swung his right arm around and the fist of his suit collided with the warrior's skull. The insectoid exoskeleton cracked immediately from the force and the warrior's brains were splattered all over the area Boomer was. "Ugh…I need to wash this off later…" He said as he continued to work the systems. "Thanks Bro!" He said after Brick had complemented him on the sweet disposal of the warrior he had killed.
Bubbles opened her eyes groggily as she looked around. The prison cell was like a strange green colored cocoon. Or at least, the walls looked like dried goo, or like a hardened honeycomb. She also noticed that she was chained to the walls. The bonds were made from some organic substance, but it didn't feel disgusting. "Maybe because its dry…" She thought. She then shuddered when she imagined how it might feel if it was just applied, being all slimy and gooey. Bubbles would normally shriek and whimper at such a predicament of being captured and placed in a bug type environment. After all, insects are her greatest fear. But now she has developed a stronger sense of courage as she eventually told herself that any bug would not be able to scare her as she can easily kick their ass. She looked to the right wall and noticed the walls are slightly transparent and she could see Blossom looking around in her cell, chained as well. Blossom's gaze turned towards her and Blossom called out.
"Are you alright Bubbles!" Blossom said as she noticed that Bubbles was in the cell next to hers. "Yea, I'm fine! Where's Boomie?" "I dunno! I don't think he was captured with us!" "Girls! Is that you? Where are we!" Butch's voice was heard from across the hall. Blossom turned her head to the front to see Butch chained in a transparent cell across from her. He was looking somewhat bloody with gashes here and there. "You're in bad shape!" Blossom cried as she saw just how bad looking he was. "I'm fine…I think! Damn Bastards, I'll rip their vertebrae's out!" Just then the entire hive screeched with pain as the prisoners felt the entire region shake. Blossom's bonds opened up willingly and she jumped off it. The next instant, the bonds tried to close back up. She picked up a bone that was in the cell with her and jammed it into the slot. The bonds sealed itself against the bone and Blossom laid down. "At least I'm free to move my body…now…what was that anyways?" The other prisoners just looked at her and said that they didn't know.
"Woohoo! Direct hit! And wow…look at that bloody hole in the planet's surface…it looks like an overgrown bullet wound!" Boomer said after he fired a torpedo. He had restored the torpedo firing systems and quickly blew up a large group of Bizinti outside. Green blood like matter began to gush out from the crater he had made. The entire planet was taking serious damage from it. "It's like a major wound…if we shoot the planet surface over and over…we might be able to destroy this group of Bizinti more easily!" "That might kill off our friends before we get to them!" Brick said as he ripped the head off of a Bizinti warrior.
Brick then thought of an idea and went over to the engineering systems to see that the force field array was still online. "Sealing off decks 4-7, cutting off access route into the ship, erecting primary shields around the ship!" Meanwhile, outside a Bizinti warrior used his wings to dive for the hole in the hull he was going to enter. He wanted to skip the crowd of his comrades going in on foot. As he dived, the Dynamo's shields came on. As the shields' came into place, it happened to appear just where the Bizinti warrior was diving. The extremely powerful shielding system tore the Bizinti into pieces, his body exploding like a rocket in the sky, spraying his guts all over the comrades that were on the hull. The other Bizinti then began to disintegrate as they madly touched the shields every once in a while.
The heroes killed off the last intruder inside the ship and took a minute to rest and reassess the surroundings. The shields was holding well as the shields were at 50 percent power and the Bizinti's concentrated attacks could only make the shielding go down by 1 percent, and then it would restore that percent. The Bizinti were ultimately draining their resources and forces while the Dynamo was holding out very well. Brick operated the scan and detected the others being held somewhere on the planet's surface. "This planet itself is not that big, we can transport ourselves in and out without trouble!" Brick said as he checked his readings. "Let's grab a couple rifles we have in the armory and transport ourselves to their holding cells." Boomer said as he tuned the transporter machinery to do remote transport locks. "Alright, energy rifles would give us enough distance from them while we work." Buttercup said as she flew towards the armory. She came back a moment later, with 3 plasma pistols, and 3 energy rifles. The kids have picked up these firearms from their adventure aboard the super weapon orbital space station.
Blossom watched as the guards around her began to run like crazy towards a particular location. "What is going on?" She then shrieked when the nearest guard suddenly had its head blown to pieces, splattering its greenish brains all over the corridor. More orange energy beams suddenly shot out from the left side of the corridor as Blossom heard more of the guards being killed off. She then noticed the familiar sight of a Powerpuff eyebeam shooting pass her cell. "They're here!" "Who!" Bubbles asked as she looked towards Blossom's cell. "We, of course!" Came the answer as the rescue team charged into view. Buttercup flew to a strange panel on the wall. It looked like a biological version of a computer security panel. She didn't really give a care as she shot it with her eyebeams. The goo chains around the prisoners suddenly released as the cell doors slid open.
Bubbles flew into Boomer's arms as he shot like crazy with his rifle at all the approaching Bizinti. He hugged her briefly and gave her his plasma pistol. Buttercup helped Butch out and carried him on her back, as he was very weak. "His condition is getting worse! We have to get him back to sickbay!" She said as she became very concerned for Butch. "We're not leaving until we get Dranico!" Brick said as he checked to make sure Blossom was ok. "In here! My legs, they're broken!" Dranico cried out from the cell down the hall. Boomer rushed into the cell and carried Dranico out and at the same time, he worked the controls on the remote transport lock mechanism. "Hang on guys, we'll be back aboard in an instant!" In the next instant, the united crew dematerialized from the holding cells inside the hive catacombs and rematerialized in the Dynamo's transporter room. Buttercup and Boomer rushed the injured to sickbay while Brick, Blossom and Bubbles returned to the bridge to get the ship off the surface.
The ship had regained propulsion and all weapons. The shielding was down to 46 percent after all that that time. Without any delay, Brick engaged the take off sequences and fired the thrusters. The thrusters scorched the Bizinti that was unfortunate enough to be standing behind the ship as it slowly rose from the ground. As Brick guided the ship, Bubbles scanned around the surface. "The planet…it's completely organic!" "Yea, we figured that out already!" Boomer and Buttercup flew in and manned their stations, after Brick had commented on the planet being organic. Buttercup took aim with the torpedoes at the hole that Boomer had made. "All torpedoes are locked, Brick…" She said as she trained the manual controls to maintain the target over the giant crater.
Brick pulled the ship into a high enough altitude and gave the command to fire. Buttercup depressed the firing controls and ten torpedoes were launched at the huge hole. The Bizinti planet began to rupture all over as the torpedoes done their work inside the planet core, killing the main hive mind in that colony planet. The Dynamo then turned around as quickly as possible and jumped to warp, to escape the explosion as the planet's explosion enveloped the nebula.
Some minutes later and the Dynamo stopped somewhere to fully finish its repairs. The crewmembers that were admitted into sickbay turned out to be fine and would fully recover in the next day. Just then, Brick was in the astrometrics station scanning the region. He was looking for the source of the Bizinti, as he had noticed that they weren't really from this quadrant. On the map, he noticed that something new had appeared in view that the Nebula was blocking. "What's this? It looks like a vortex type anomaly…holy shit…that's the wormhole!" It was in the massive nebula that they had fled from the entire time! The planet's destruction had eliminated the massive nebula in the region, revealing the wormhole for everyone to see.
The next day, the ship was at top condition to continue its journey and Brick set a course for the wormhole. The ship jumped to warp and the crew went to conference room to discuss what they would do once they got into range. "Let's try and stay at a good distance and do a long range scan…perhaps we need to do some kind of…" Blossom suggested as suddenly the computer's voice interrupted her with the warning of the proximity of the wormhole's power. "It reaches out to here? Wow! Computer, disable warp drive at my command!" Brick said. The ship dropped out of warp as it did an auto shut down of the engine core. "Can't waste precious seconds getting to the controls to stop the ship, we might get into a very strong pull and its too late."
The Dynamo hovered on the outer area of the wormhole. The crew watched in absolute horror and amazement as they noticed all the dead and destroyed ships that had tried to travel through. "It's the mother of all wormholes…apparently it had torn all those ships to bits!" Butch said as he watched the sight. "But…those ships…they are at least a few centuries old…our hull might be different!" Bubbles objected. "It's mainly Earth technology! We are far less advanced then those unfortunate guys out there!" Buttercup snapped sternly at her sister. The others began arguing on what they could do to make themselves strong enough to enter the wormhole. The argument was getting quite heated when Brick suddenly spoke up. "Enough! There is one way…multiphasic shielding." Dranico opened his mouth when he heard that. "But that is very hard to acquire with your ship's system…in fact, such an shielding system is very rare and hard to come by!"
Brick had thought of an idea already and knew it would work. "Everyone, follow me to engineering." He went over the plans with everyone and they then nodded. "It might work…but…" Blossom said. "But what? It will work, sweetie! I know it will! I will not turn away from a solution that can surely bring us out of this damned place and back home!" "But how are we going to maintain those shielding projections?" Butch asked as he studied his older brother's plans. "There is one way…it's risky…but it's the only way." "What is it?" Boomer asked. Brick tapped the console in engineering and showed a method to help maintain the multiphasic shielding to the Dynamo to maintain and stabilize the shields. Blossom looked at the solution and stammered. "That's…that's suicide!"
There was no way they could change Brick's decision. He was determined to make it happen. His plan to maintain the projectors were to fly outside the ship and follow it as it approached the wormhole, while carrying the equipment. At the instant the ship was about to enter the wormhole, the volunteers would fly into the ship and ride the wave. The scans had shown that the initial area around the mouth of the wormhole is rough enough to completely destroy the multiphasic shielding before going through the mouth. If they were outside to stabilize, by the time they got to the mouth, the multiphasic shielding would last enough to ride out the wave. The boys volunteered and grabbed each of the projector devices as they strapped on their suits. The girls and Dranico were to stay aboard and maintain the systems. The girls kissed their boyfriends as they stood by the airlock. "We'll be ok…" Brick said as his brothers depressurized the airlock and went outside.
The boys got into position around the Dynamo and aimed their device at the ship. "We're ready to begin…engage the shielding, Blossom!" Brick spoke into the radio as suddenly a green beam was released from each of the devices. A large glow covered the ship and the boys as they increased speed towards the wormhole. As Brick entered the threshold of the wormhole's pull with the Dynamo, he could fell the sheer power of the wormhole trying to tear his suit to pieces. The shields on his suit, boosted by the multiphasic shielding of the Dynamo held on. "So far so good…change the trajectory, Blossom, 35-26." He said as he made the appropriate direction change to make sure they run into the weakest part of the wormhole's pull.
"We are doing ok! Regular shields are at standby, multiphasic shielding is at 200 percent and dropping slowly!" Buttercup said as she manned the engineering station. Dranico sat in the communication's controls as Bubbles continued to monitor the wormhole's situation. Suddenly the ship rocked violently and Buttercup reported the multiphasic shielding was fluctuating at 150 to 170 percent. "Boys! Are you alright!" Blossom asked with concern. "Yea, keep going! The sooner we enter, the better!"
Boomer saw his own shielding went down to 50 percent after he felt the brunt of the wormhole's strength. He struggled to hold on as he improved his flying speed along with the others. Butch was also having similar trouble as he flew under the ship, maintaining shield stability for the hull on the bottom of the ship. "A little closer!" Brick yelled into the comm. as he flew a little faster and his shielding flickered as it took more damage. "You'll be killed! Slow down!" The others yelled at him. "I'll be fine!" As he continued to push on.
The ship was now rocking very violently as Buttercup saw in horror as the shields began to reach 90 percent and dropping. "Hang on guys! Boomer, Butch! Engage the second phase of the plan now!" Brick commanded as he pressed a button on the device. His brothers followed suit and the device went into full blast, tripling the current shielding percentage. "Saving the final bit for the last journey!" He said as the ship drew to the very point of no return. "When the light on your console hits green, we'll come in!" Brick yelled into the comm. to instruct Buttercup. "It's green!" She yelled back when she noticed that the shielding is now at a 350 percent, with a green light saying shields are maintained for wormhole flight. With that, the boys flew towards the ship, using the parts they carried with them and attached the devices to the outer hull of the ship and flew for the nearest airlock.
Brick and Boomer flew into their airlock and sealed the hatch as soon as they got to the controls. The Dynamo lurched forward into the vortex when Butch was still flying for his airlock. He felt the pain of the vortex's pull as he was also pulled along. "That's it…I'm going to die!" He thought. He opened his eyes an second later and noticed that during the sudden pull, he had been propelled straight into the airlock. Sparks and conduits exploded in a hail of sparks as he used all his strength to reach the controls and seal off the airlock. When it sealed and pressurized, the force was not as unbearable as it was outside. Butch then passed out from exhaustion.
The Dynamo entered the wormhole and the instant it did, the devices attached on its hull released phase 3 of Brick's plan. The devices released an energy pulse that matched the wormhole's energy signature…effectively shutting it down for good so others would not have to suffer at its massive and dangerous power. It also changed the wormhole's trajectory one last time to send them back to the Alpha Quadrant. Not only that, but the energy pulse has the ability to store all the information gathered and it's range would allow even the elders aboard Betak Prime trading station to pick up the information they sought. Brick had out done his own mind's ability, coming up with a brilliant plan that would even complete his end of the bargain for the elders.
The Dynamo was hurled through the wormhole as it collapsed its tunnel in the ship's wake. The Dynamo's shields began to diminish rapidly as they traveled about half way through the wormhole. "Multiphasic shielding integrity at 100 percent and dropping!" Buttercup reported just as the Rowdyruff boys made it back to the bridge. Dranico got off his seat, gave it back to Blossom as she also vacated the main helm controls for Brick to man. She was overjoyed to see him ok. "We're almost through! Hold on!" Brick said as he took control. "Shielding at 60 percent!" Butch said as he relieved Buttercup of the engineering station. "Hold on…" Brick said. "40 percent! 30 percent!" "Hang on! We'll make it!" Brick said again as the view screen in front of him showed the end of the tunnel. "15 percent, multiphasic shielding failing!" Butch said as the ship was about to exit the wormhole. Suddenly the shields failed and sparks exploded on all of the consoles. Remarkably though, the Dynamo made it through on the other side, and it's normal shielding came on just in time to prevent any other forms of damage as the ship came to a stop.
"Warning…multiphasic shielding offline, hull integrity at 60 percent. Weapons offline. Warning…multiphasic shielding offline, hull integrity at 60 percent…" The computer wailed as the ship drifted through a system in the Alpha quadrant. Brick was the first to come to and he looked around. He checked for the astrometrics system and noticed that the ship was once again in the Alpha Quadrant, some 4 light-years away from Earth. "Yes!" Brick screamed in relief as he sat back in his chair, taking a much needed breath. He checked the others and was glad they were also okay. In a matter of hours, the ship would be repaired to travel condition and be able to complete the last and most easy leg of their journey.
It had been five months since the disappearance of the kids. The professor had kept their absence a secret very well until now. Mojo Jojo found out eventually at the end of the long five months and unleashed a super Robo-Jojo to take over the world in their absence. He had just deployed his weapon from his observatory when he saw something glimmer in the sky. He ignored it a moment later and began to rain destruction on Townsville. He laughed in maniacal laughter as he went around, crushing the national guard and marines stationed around to combat him.
In orbit, the Dynamo prepared to make their entry into the Earth's atmosphere. "Wow…your planet is more beautiful than I imagined…" Dranico said as he watched the kids prepare for a landing. "Yes, but with crazy lunatics as villains, this world can sometimes be threatened to destruction." Butch commented as he told Boomer to magnify the view screen of the surface of Earth, where Townsville is located. Indeed, Mojo's contraption can be seen causing havoc on the planet. "We're heroes on our world mainly, and the villains are left unchecked during our absence I bet!" Blossom said. "Well, let's teach old mojo a lesson with our new toys!" Buttercup said as she pointed to her Tactical Station. The others just grinned and laughed in a sinister way. Dranico however sat by and did not understood what was so funny.
Mojo suddenly heard the sound of something loud entering the sky from behind him. He swiveled around in his robo-jojo to see a large flying vessel flying straight for him, firing huge energy weapons at him. "WHAT THE HELL IS THA…" Mojo screamed at the top of his lungs while the Dynamo's phasers and torpedoes collided with the outer hull of his robo-jojo. He was forced to auto eject and he was thrown far away from his location by the explosion of the torpedoes. His trajectory was also an interesting one, as he fell straight into Townsville jail. While the robo-jojo was in flaming ruins, the Dynamo put out its landing gear and landed in the middle of Townsville park. The airlocks opened and the heroes flew out victorious and finally home after 5 long months.
There was a great homecoming party for the kids and a greeting ceremony for Dranico, who became the first Palaxian ambassador to Earth. During the party, as the Professor and the kids discussed their adventures, the Professor could not contain his joy as his precious loved ones were finally home, safe in one piece. They spent the rest of the night, enjoying the good food and lively music. The Dynamo now sits in the Utonium hangar, ready to be analyzed first thing tomorrow morning. Maybe later, it will be used again for another expedition, but now they rather have it sit at home.
A/N: And that was the lovely and exciting ending of this story. Thank you for reading this story. I hope you enjoyed it. Now I must return to other matters. Please review and I hope you have a nice day!
This had been a James Tseng production. Directed by James Tseng, produced by James Tseng, Written by James Tseng, reviewed and ideas submitted by Hairy Gregory and Kezzer, and special thanks to the creators of Star Trek Voyager for giving the main plot of this story. Thank you…
