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 8

Boomer's Dilemma


The City of Townsville…

Boomer was just staring at his brother, rolling on the floor laughing at him. Buttercup too was laughing, and so was Mitch. Even Blossom and Bubbles, who were supposed to be hostages, were laughing at him.

Boomer was humiliated and red, but he quickly thought of something. He dropped on the floor, and laughed and laughed. He was soon laughing as hard as anyone else.

"I can't believe it," Boomer said, laughing. "You fell for it. You actually believed that I fell for your trick!"

Soon, they stopped laughing and looked at Boomer.

"Don't give me that! You really didn't know about us!" Butch said.

"Nope, I knew all the time it was you, Butch, who was one of the kidnappers! Then I pretended to be fooled by you!" said Boomer.

"No you're not! You were fooled by us!" Buttercup shouted.

"I was not!"

"Was too!

"Am not!

"Was too!"

"Not!"

"Too!"

"Not!"

"Too!"

"Okay, okay, you fooled me pretty good!" Boomer finally admitted, while laughing. "But it was funny. I acted so stupid that I even laughed! But you can't blame me. After all, with you three acting like Hollywood actors, with your acting so natural, so good, I'd bet even Brick would be fooled by such magnificent acting. You should go to Hollywood. I bet you'd bag even more money than those so-called professional actors."

"Were we really that good?" said Butch. "I thought it was a sloppy acting job!"

"Yup, you were that good," Boomer flattered, though he mainly did it to escape further ridicule. "And with such good acting, and such talent, and with good masks too, how could I not be but deceived?"

"Yeah, nobody could see through this masks and acting," Buttercup asserted.

'Whew, that was close. They bought it. At least, they won't laugh at me for this,' Boomer thought.

"Um, so guys, what's this all about?" asked Boomer.

"Oh we were just fooling around," Butch said. "Buttercup said she wanted to get back at Brick and Blossom for forcing you and Bubbles on a date."

"So I decided to force those two on a date," Buttercup continued. "We tied Blossom up so she won't get away, and now, we're looking for Brick but we can't seem to find him anywhere."

"And you kidnapped Bubbles because?" asked Boomer.

"Well, we can't find Brick, and we're bored, so, we figured we try to make you find Brick for us," Butch explained.

"What? You could've at least just asked me!"

"Yeah, but it wouldn't be as much fun as kidnapping Bubbles," said the green ruff.

"But—"

"Don't worry Boomer," explained Buttercup. "I asked your girlfriend if she would want to play kidnap victim, and to our surprise, she did! Besides, it's fun for all of us!"

"Well, you could at least have told me you'd plan to kidnap her! So I wouldn't have worried that some kind of new supervillain kidnapped all of you guys!" Boomer shouted. "And Bubbles is not my girlfriend!"

"Aw, but it's more fun the way we did it! Come on, admit it, you had fun once you realized this was all pretend! And Blossom and Bubbles also had fun, you saw them laughing, didn't you? And you would have done the same as I did if you were in my shoes! Besides, we are the Rowdyruff Boys, and Buttercup here ain't no goody-two shoes either."

Boomer laughed. "Yeah you're right! But you still could have told me beforehand!"

"Yup! It's like role-playing," Buttercup explained. "We're the kidnappers, those two are the victims and you are the one who pays the ransom."

"So, would you untie Bubbles and Blossom now?" asked Boomer. "I did pay the ransom, didn't I?"

"Hm, well, ask Buttercup about that," Butch said.

"Well, do you have Brick?" asked the green puff.

"Well, no," said Boomer.

"Well, then, since you haven't turned over to us the all important Vice-President of the Galactic Corporation, then you won't have your fiancée and her sister back!" Buttercup then said in her best villain impersonation.

"Yes, choose! Your brother, or your faya, um, what is it again? Oh nevermind! Your girlfriend, or Brick!" Butch said.

"But what do you want with um, my brother, um, I mean, you'll never get my hands on him!"

"Well, we'll destroy Blossom and Bubbles," said Buttercup.

"Oh please, destroy Blossom, I'll give you more money just to do that," Boomer said, then laughed.

Buttercup and Butch also laughed.

"Oh come on, you're supposed to save the President of the Galactic Corp., Blossom," Buttercup said after laughing. "And her sister, who is suppose to be your fiancée!"

"Oh sorry," Boomer said, "but what's a fiancée?"

"It meant that you're not yet married, but you plan to!" Buttercup explained.

"Yuck! I ain't gonna marry her anytime soon! It's yucky! Don't get me wrong, she's my friend, and I like her, and the date ain't too bad, in fact, I enjoyed the last part of it, but I'm not marrying any icky girls soon, nor ever!"

"Calm down Boomer! It's just pretend," Buttercup said.

"Oh, okay," said Boomer. "Um, you're not going to do away with them anytime soon!"

"Well, find your brother and maybe we'll reconsider," said Mitch, pitching in after just watching all this time.

"But I don't know where he is! And I've tried looking for him all afternoon!" Boomer protested.

"That's your problem! Find him and surrender them to us, or they will all suffer from tickle torture!" Buttercup then laughed evilly.

Blossom and Bubbles all squirmed against their bonds, and groaned behind their gags as they both were very ticklish.

"Hey, I know. Why don't we just wait for Brick to call us? I mean, he'll have to wonder where we are after all that hiding."

"Um, okay," said Buttercup.


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So for the next hour and a half, Butch and Boomer just talked about anything, and ignored the girls.

Buttercup couldn't wait to inflict torture to her sisters, so she tickled them. After that, she relentlessly and playfully teased them, while refusing to untie them on the grounds that they would escape and it wouldn't be realistic. However, she did remove their gags once to let them drink from a glass and feed them snacks before regagging them. Amazingly, none of the two, even Blossom, were that upset, though they teased and annoyed Buttercup when their mouths were free.

After several minutes, Buttercup and Butch talked behind Boomer's back, snickering. Boomer thought something was afoot, but dismissed it.

"Butch, Boomer, yo, where are you guys? You seemed to just disappear!" Brick's voice suddenly said from Butch's and Boomer's watch.

"Ha, we kidnapped the President of the Galactic Corp., Blossom Utonium, and in exchange for her freedom and her sister, Bubbles," said Buttercup, "you, Brick, the Vice-President of the Corp., must surrender yourself to us!"

Brick was silent for a few seconds. "Um, okay, could you please kill Blossom, so I, the Vice-President, could be President?" said Brick, barely able to contain his laughter, but playing along with Buttercup.

"That is mighty unchivalrous of you, but we also kidnapped your brother, Boomer," said Buttercup.

"Hey, I wasn't kidnapped," said Boomer.

"Oh yes, you are now!" Butch suddenly said, grabbing his surprised brother from behind.

"That's not fair!" whined Boomer.

"Hey, kidnapping's not supposed to be fair. Besides, you are the brother of the VP, so consider yourself one addition to the hostages," Butch said as both of them rolled across the floor, trying to get an advantage over the other.

"Hear that? If you want your brother to be spared the tickle torture, surrender yourself to us so we can negotiate his release!" Buttercup said.

"You fiends! Employing the most horrible torture! You will pay for that if you do! I'm coming over there and we'll talk!" Brick said.

"Okay, go to Mojo's lab in twenty minutes, and not before, or all of them would be tortured!" threatened Buttercup, after that, she tuned off the connection. She then joined Butch in subduing Boomer.

Soon, he was tied-up and gagged like Bubbles and Blossom, and Buttercup tied Boomer and Bubbles back to back together. "Just like two love-birds," Buttercup teased. "Now, you could spend more time together. Aw, aren't you two close? Too bad you can't kiss each other because of the gags. Well, Butch, three down, one to go. Aren't I sneaky?"

"Yeah, pretty sneaky," Butch said, guffawing at Buttercup's teasing. "Hey, you haven't told me what's your plan to get Blossom and Brick to date," Butch said.

"Well, we'll get Brick first to join them when he arrives, then the fun really begins!"

"But what's your plan?" asked Butch.

"I'll tell you when we get Brick," said Buttercup.


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.