Quarantine Zone: Townsville
Disclaimer: I do not own Powerpuff girls or anything that relates to them. They are the property of Cartoon Network and Craig McCracken. I do own the ideas for this story however. I would like to thank certain authors and movies for inspiring me in doing this kind of fanfic.
A/N: This story is almost of a Resident Evil/dawn of the dead spin off for the PPG and RRB. This would relate to something horrible happening in Townsville, and the main characters will have to rely on what they know in order to survive. NOTE: Deaths of some main characters will result. Don't continue if you're squeamish about this. Besides that, please enjoy the story. This story is rated R for graphic violence, horror and Gore, and mild language.
Chapter 1: The XY FormulaThe professor stayed in his lab at 4 am in the morning. He had just completed his experiments on a new formula that he has generated out of a sample of Chemical X. He took out a tape recorder and began to record his discoveries…
Great mother of Science! I think I have perfected the ultimate formula that might just solve our world's medical problems. Recently, Bubbles had gotten the flu and remarkably, she recovered completely the next day. I'm beginning to wonder if Chemical X has any sort of healing properties. Apparently, I have found something! It appears that when Chemical X is mixed with those 3 ingredients, Sugar, Spice and Everything nice, the end result is a being with super abilities and as I have observed, advanced immune systems. So far, this new formula, which I'm going to dub, Formula XY, appears to be like a healing salve. In one of the tests, it completely healed a cut on one of the lab mice I have tested it on. I made a small incision on the animal and squeezed a drop of the formula, and presto! The wound magically healed itself within seconds. But after the wound itself was completely healed, all traces of the formula vanished on the mouse. I wonder…it almost has cell regenerative effects…I wonder if there's a way to control it. I will continue my research further, but right now…sleep awaits.
The Professor pressed the stop button on his tape recorder and went up the stairs to the living room. The lights of the Utonium household in the professor's room then went out as the professor retired for the night. A black van parked outside the house opened it's sliding door as 4 large men in black suits stepped out. Each of them was wearing a wire connected to a communicator in their ears. "Yes sir, it's confirmed…a new formula has been discovered by this…amateur scientist." The lead man spoke to his superior on the other line. "Yes, sir. You shall have that formula."
The four men went over to the side of the house, looking through the window that allows the moonlight into the Professor's basement lab. One of them took out an apparatus and quietly pried the window open. They then slipped into the lab and rummaged through the equipment. After they had found what they were seeking, they climbed out of the window and returned to the van and drove off. The formula to how the Powerpuff girls was created was sitting completely exposed on a desk, but the thieves still decided to ignore it. Apparently, whoever was their employer was only interested in the formula that the professor had discovered recently.
As the four men rode in their vehicle, one of them appeared to have a runny nose. In his hand, he was holding the rack containing the test tubes holding the XY formula. Unknown to him, a drip from his nose fell into one of the test tubes. The formula itself began to change, yet the thieves were oblivious to its slow mutation. They carried the mutating formula back to the employer, whose faction operates many underground activities unknown to the general public.
A man paces back and forth impatiently as he waited for his goons to return with the stolen formula. "As I have heard…that formula could be used…and mass produced to produce profits…oooh I really like the sound of that!" The man was going to be meeting his subordinates inside an abandoned warehouse near the docks. He was going to receive the formula then ship it to a location where his own criminal chemists could analyze the formula He then hears the screech and sound of a vehicle driving towards the area. "That must be them now…late as usual!" He went outside to see the van approaching him at an alarming fast rate. He waved at the van to stop but it just kept going. At the last moment, he ducked out of the way as the van slammed into the tin shingle walls of the warehouse. He approached the van on its left side as he peered into the vehicle. Out of the 4 men that was supposed to inside, he only saw three, looking very pale and covered in multiple bite marks. The bite wounds were torn in a very gruesome way. Some areas of the faces were also torn, as though the flesh was feasted upon.
The man continued to peer into the wrecked van, oblivious to the vicious creature looking at him from the roof of the van. The creature was the thug that was not in the van, obviously the one that was carrying the rack of the formula. The thug was looking very pale and had lifeless eyes. Blood drooled out of his mouth as he prepared to pounce on the unsuspecting victim. The huge zombie pounced on his prey and bit him in the neck, causing waves of horrible pain to go rocking through the man's body, as blood began gushing like a fountain from his neck. The zombie then began to feast on the dead man's flesh as the three thugs that were inside the van began to climb out, looking for victims to bite into.
Blossom woke up a couple hours later to the sound of the hotline ringing. "7 am in the morning? Why is crime getting to an early start today?" She thought as she groggily trudged to the hotline. She was about to pick it up when she almost tripped on a stuff toy. She closed her eyes and anticipated the fall, but felt someone's gentle arms holding her. "You're alright, honey?" Brick asked as he groggily laid her down and picked up the hotline for her. "Brick here, PPG and RRB residence…" He spoke into the receiver.
Brick half expected to hear the mayor's panicky voice rambling about some crime spree or monster attack. But instead, it was the very frightened voice of Miss Bellum. "Kids! There's something very wrong…the mayor…he's dead! I don't know…please help…No…no! stay back! Stay back!Ahhhhhhh!" A dreaded silence and the sound of faint moaning, groaning, and sounds of teeth chewing flesh replaced the screaming on the other line. Brick put down the receiver in disbelief on what he has heard. "Maybe I'm still groggy…yea, that's right, I'm still sleepy." He said as Blossom inquired about what he has heard. Brick just shook his head as he suddenly heard a loud crash rock the house's foundations.
A sports utility vehicle had crashed into the right wall of their house. Brick watched in shock as the passengers crawled themselves out of the wrecked vehicle and picked themselves back up. Brick had a feeling they are not human anymore as they were very pale and looked violent. A next door neighbor came out to investigate and was attacked by the SUV passengers the instant they noticed him outside on his yard. Brick just watched in horror as the passengers began to bite into the neighbor's flesh, tearing chunks and pieces of skin off the poor victim's body.
Brick tried to use his eyebeams but he was distracted when he smelt a foul chemical odor. It was an odor he knew quite well before and it made him weak. Brick felt himself collapse to the ground as the chemical did its effect. Blossom coughed and wretched as she braced the effects of the chemical. The other girls and boys that were sleeping in their beds sat up coughing as the chemical began to affect them as well. "Its antidote X! The SUV must have broke the storage container…great…I have a feeling I'm not dreaming…those things…we can't combat them without our powers!" And it was exactly so. Apparently, the SUV had crashed through the walls of the lab, destroying the excess vials of Chemical X and cracking open the giant glass container holding the antidote X in its gas form.
The professor by now had fled into the kids' room and closed the door behind him. "Monsters! Monsters! Cannibals!" He began to shout as he barricaded the door with all the furniture he could find in the kids' room. Brick groaned. "They're overrunning our house! We must get out!" Brick said. He noticed that the antidote X hasn't had its full effect yet. "We can still fly…let's get the professor and fly out of here as soon as possible! Before our powers run out! Or else we'll be helpless!" Boomer said as he hovered weakly in the air. The family nodded and grabbed the professor and held on to each other. They then flew out of the ruined house, as they watched the horror unfolding below them.
A/N: And this is all I will unveil in chapter 1. Will the Heroes survive the undead onslaught? Please review and let me know on some information. This story's plot is still under thought, and some insight or ideas from you readers would be greatly appreciated. Stayed tuned for chapter 2: "The Chaos spreads."