The Date

By Tonifranz


Summary: Bubbles wants to go to the amusement park, but her sisters are too "busy" to go. To help Bubbles, Blossom made a deal with Brick. But the boys have something up their sleeve.


Long Summary:Brick and Blossom arranged for Bubbles and Boomer to go on an amusement park one day. Buttercup was annoyed by the two leaders' arrogant attitude and tried, with Butch, to teach the redheads a lesson, but it slipped away. Will Boomer enjoy his date? Will Brick and Blossom get what they want out of the deal? Will Buttercup succeed in teaching the two readheads a lesson? And what is Mitch Mitchelson doing here?


Disclaimer: I don't own the Powerpuff Girls or their characters. The Powerpuff Girls are owned by Craig McCracken and Cartoon Network. I only own my own characters, the most prominent of which is Dr Edwards.


Chapter 2

"Convincing" Boomer


The City of Townsville…

Brick was playing some Real Time Strategy games in the computer when Boomer entered the room where he was playing.

"Hi Brick," greeted blond. "Hey, did you win yet?"

"Nah! The stupid AI keeps killing my army! Next time, I'll nuke those cities!" complained Brick. Brick then saved the game. "Anyway, do you have any plans this Saturday?"

"Well, we do have our weekly swimming session in the lake."

"Well, you won't get wet this Saturday!" declared the rowdyruff leader. "You'll be doing something else."

"Is there something I don't know about?" asked a curious Boomer. "Cause I don't remember making any plans for that day. I just want to spend the entire day relaxing by the lake, and nothing is going to stop me, unless someone attacks this city again!"

"Well, you're going to take Bubbles this Saturday to the amusement park," Brick said.

"Huh? I never made any plans to take her out this weekend?" wondered Boomer. "Who told you that?"

"Well, I did. You will take her this Saturday," Brick declared.

"Hey, don't get me wrong. I like Bubbles, but not that way. Besides, you know that I don't want to be alone with her. She's scary, she's too nice, she doesn't fight fair! She might kiss me or hug me or say sweet things, and I can't do anything about it 'cause I don't want to hurt her feelings," Boomer shuddered. "So I can't take Bubbles alone to the park."

"You can and you will," Brick simply said.

"No I will not!" Boomer replied, shouting, angry that his brother could say such a thing. "I will not take her to the amusement park this Saturday! I will not! I will not! I'm too young to go on a date! Besides, all girls are icky and have cooties, and I won't enjoy it! I won't go! I won't! I won't! I won't!"

"Yes you will, and that's the end of the argument! Bubbles is going to ask you tomorrow, and you'd better say yes if you know what's good for you!" he then glared at his brother.

Boomer, like many countless times before, withered under his brother's glare. "I won't unless it's a direct order," Boomer finally stammered.

"Then it's an order," Brick said in a low tone.

Boomer then fell to his knees. "Oh please, don't let me! Please! Don't get me wrong, she's a friend, but I just don't want to go! Maybe if I bring along Butch or you—"

"No, you and Bubbles will go alone," Brick said.

"Please, I'll do anything! Just don't let me date Bubbles! Just invite her to play with all of us, just don't leave me alone with her!" Boomer pleaded.

"Anything?"

"Anything!"

"Well, if you hold your nose with one hand, your foot with the other then hop around this table using your free foot forty-four times while singing 'I'm a Little Teapot,' repeatedly, after which, you sing 'Happy Birthday' three times while doing jumping jacks, without your shirt, and maybe I'll let you off the hook," Brick suggested while grinning.

"I won't do such a thing!" Boomer shouted.

"Oh well, enjoy your date with Bubbles!" Brick said, and walked towards the door.

"Wait, wait, Brick, okay, I'll do it! But I won't have to date Bubbles if I did," Boomer asked.

"If you did it exactly as I said," Brick replied.

"Okay," Boomer then removed his shirt so his upper body was bare, then held his nose with his right hand, grabbed his right foot using his left, then used his left foot to hop around the table. "I'm a little teapot, short and stout, this is my handle, this is my snout," Boomer sang while hopping around the table. "When the water's boiling, hear me shout, lift me up and pour me down. I'm a little teapot…" And so he sang while he hopped around the table, with Brick watching.

Brick mustered all his strength and will to prevent him from laughing, counting the times he went around the table. 'Oh boy, Boomer is such a sucker!'


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After a few minutes…

'Now, for the last hop,' Boomer said. 'Whew, that was tiring. "Lift me up and pour me down." Boomer then finished his hop, then began doing the jumpin' jacks. "Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday to you!"

"Now, I've done it!" Boomer. "Now I won't have to date Bubbles."

"Wait a minute. You only did the hop forty-three times, not forty-four, and since you didn't do exactly like I told you, you have to take Bubbles on that date!"

"No, I did forty-four!" Boomer defended.

"Let's find out, shall we?" Brick said while grinning. He then took out a cloth cover from a stand, which turned out to be a video camera. He took the tape, and played it on the VCR.

On the first viewing, Brick wasn't able to count because this time, he wasn't able to restrain himself and laughed and laughed and laughed. Boomer was embarrassed. 'I never knew I looked so stupid!'

On the second try, they made the count. "Forty-three, see?" Brick said triumphantly said to Boomer.

"Yeah, I did only forty-three," Boomer admitted. "But I did most of those things right, and I humiliated myself in the process, so I say that's good enough!"

"No it's not. You didn't do it exactly as I said, so you'll still have to go to that date with Bubbles!" Brick retorted.

"No, I did this so I won't go, period!" Boomer said with finality. "And nothing you could say will convince me otherwise!"

"Well, if you won't go, copies of this tape might find their way to Butch, or maybe to Mitch or Mike, or maybe to Blossom or Buttercup too? Imagine, they would find out what the Rowdyruff Boy named Boomer do in his free time," Brick threatened. "And forget about destroying the tape. I have other recorders automatically record what was recorded in this camera."

"No you wouldn't?" Boomer said. "I'll be humiliated! My reputation would be destroyed!"

"Well, you could date Bubbles, and I might not show this to anyone else," Brick said.

"Okay, okay, I'll date Bubbles on Saturday," Boomer caved. "But I won't enjoy it!"

"Fine. Just pretend to enjoy it so Bubbles wouldn't suspect anything," Brick said.

"Okay, okay, I'll smile and grin in that date till I stretch my face thin," Boomer conceded, "and I'll laugh till I ran out of breathe."

"Just don't overdo it. She wouldn't enjoy it if her date was dead," Brick joked. "Anyway, you have to treat Bubbles with your money—"

"Heck, why should I—"

"Well, I wonder what Mitch would say if he saw that tape—"

"Okay, I'll pay for it."

"And it's up to you two where in the amusement park you want to go," Brick added. "Now, Bubbles will call you tomorrow afternoon. You better sound thrilled about it!"

Boomer just grunted.

"I've a question for you. Do you hate Bubbles?" asked Brick.

"No," Boomer replied.

"Do you like her," asked Brick.

"As a friend, but as I told you, I don't like to be alone with her for cry—"

"Then you should be alright," Brick said. "Besides, it is all good for the Rowdyruff Boys as a whole!"

"How is that?"

"It's too complicated to explain. But you'll see. I didn't agree to this date for nothing you know." 'What it actually means is that it's good for the leader, and what's good for the leader is good for the team,' Brick thought.


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The next day…

"Hey Bubbles, did you get someone to go with you to the park?" asked Blossom.

"No, they're all busy. I mean, Mike, Mitch, Robyn, and all the other kids? How could they be busy at the same day?" Bubbles wondered.

"Well, isn't that a coincidence!" Blossom remarked.

'Coincidence my foot!' Buttercup thought. 'This is definitely Blossom's work.'

"Hey, have you called the boys?" suggested Blossom.

"Of course, I haven't asked them. But they'll probably be busy, just like all of the others," Bubbles said with a long face.

"Well, just try, you never know, and if they said yes, tell them it was my idea!" Blossom suggested.

"Okay," said Bubbles as she made a phone call.

"Hello?" Brick answered.

"Hello Brick. I was wondering, could you go with me this Saturday this weekend?"

"Sorry Bubbles, I'm busy. But I'm sure Boomer can," Brick said. "Wait for me while I call him."

Brick then found Boomer playing with some of his toys.

"Boomer, Bubbles is on the phone," Brick said. "Remember what you must do."

"I know, I know," replied Boomer. He then picked up the phone. "Hello?"

"Hi Boomer, I was wondering, I wanted to go to the amusement park this Saturday, and all of the others are kind of busy, so I was wondering, could you go with me this Saturday to the park?"

"Sure, I'd love to," Boomer replied.

"Oh Boomer, thank you, thank you, thank you! And it's Blossom's idea that I call you," Bubbles said as she hang-up the phone.

'So it's Blossom's fault!' Boomer thought.

And so, both of the blues agreed to the date that was largely the work of the manipulation of their leaders.


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Later that night…

"You really think that Boomer will respect you more because of this?" Buttercup asked. "You know, if your goal is to make it so that you could give orders to Boomer even if Brick told him not to, then it won't work."

"Of course it will," Blossom said. "You know how boys are."

"Not the Rowdyruffs," Buttercup shot back. "They're not like other boys. But I hope for your sake and Bubbles, you're right."


Author Notes

This is a spin-off from my fic, Allies and Rivals and its sequel. As readers of that fic might note, they would find details in this fic that I mentioned in my other fic, as well as the characterizations.

This story happens between Chapter 21 (The Triumph of the Ruff Puff Alliance), and Chapter 22 (Brick's Challenge) of the story, Allies and Rivals II: Commander and the Leader. The kids already had rescued Prof Utonium and Dr Edwards from Ckracknow's first island. Ckracknow himself escaped, got some financing from Mr Morebucks, and unknown to the kids, was creating the five clones that will attack Citiesville. Blossom's still the undisputed leader of the Ruff Puff Alliance, but Brick was plotting to grab it from the pink puff leader.