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 M for graphic violence, horror and Gore, and mild language.
Chapter 5: The Worst Fears
Blossom woke up to the sound of several people around here and the sounds of a train moving through a tunnel. She shook her head as she tried to reassess her surroundings. She looked blankly at Butch and Buttercup sitting in the seat opposite of her and suddenly the memory came flooding back to her. "Where's the professor?" She asked her companions. She looked around; Brick was nowhere to be found. "What has happened? Where's Brick and the Professor?" Butch just looked up sadly. "Glad you're awake…Professor…he didn't make it in the crash…" Butch suddenly stopped as he began to tear up. "Worst…Brick is dead…no…not dead…but one of them!" Butch stammered after he had collected himself a bit.
Blossom could not believe her ears. To hear that her father had passed away while she was out cold and to hear that her love is now among the walking dead was a painful reality. "Why are we on this train? Where are we going?" She asked between sobs. "Away from the zombies, to a safe and secure subway station." Boomer said as he produced the last vial of chemical X. "Brick was looking for these vials of chemical X to get us out. And that thing took his life away from us!" Boomer continued before breaking down and crying about his brother's loss. Blossom took the vial and drank the concoction. She just looked out the window as her strength returned to her in the next moment. "Brick…why have you left me?"
Brick hovered out of the subway station and looked around with his dead and dark eyes. He saw a zombie shuffle past him, almost ignoring him. Without thinking, the effect of being undead made Brick say these words. "You are weak, you will be fodder to my wrath." Brick then zipped at the zombie in a flash and knocked the zombie down, as he gnawed violently at the zombie's arms, tearing ligaments as he fulfilled his hunger for flesh. As soon as the attack began, Brick stopped almost immediately as soon as the zombie became motionless and completely void of undead life. Brick just hovered down an intersection, as though he has completely forgotten the zombie that he had slaughtered.
The kids now had an incentive and the ability to flee since their powers were restored. They knew things were horrible and it would only get worse if they continued to stay in town. Butch on the other hand, was not feeling easy about leaving the bunker with the rest of the survivors and get to the quarantine right away. Especially with an undead Brick lurking about. Blossom argued that Brick is just a zombie and that they could outrun their former friend and brother. But Butch argued that Brick had ingested Chemical X prior to his death. "He's got all his powers back, and then some! He blew up the shop we were in with just a single blast of his eyebeams. I fear he would be very difficult to avoid!" "Well, we can't just sit around and rot!" Blossom said with teary eyes as she thought about Brick. "I want to get out there and leave this place, while putting him out of his misery!" She screamed as she softly pounded Butch, then stopped and started sobbing in his shoulders. "I want to leave…" She said in between sobs as Buttercup and Butch tried to comfort her.
"Maintain position here, pilot!" Commander Quinn said as he caught a glimpse of the wreck of armored truck 2B. The truck was a complete mess and it looked like the survivors didn't even have a chance. Nearby, several zombies roamed around, especially around the entrance of a subway station. They looked like they were waiting outside for something. "Give me that rifle." Quinn told a sniper on the chopper and slung the sniper rifle on his shoulder. Looking into the sight, he looked among the undead. None of them were his brother. "Could he still be alive down there?" Quinn asked himself as he looked around through the sight. "Sir, I'm picking up his comm. device inside the wreck. It's still attached to his body…vitals have be flat lining for a half hour it seems. No zombie activity…he was probably killed in the wreck, sir." A technician said as he checked his readouts of the wreck.
Quinn sighed. "Sir? Shall we return to base?" The pilot said. "No…wait…yes…we'll be outnumbered if we land here anyways…whomever is inside that subway…they're holding out pretty well." Commander Quinn said reluctantly as the pilot changed course and flew the chopper back towards the quarantine line.
Brick was hovering down an intersection as he caught eye of the helicopter flying over him. He detected movement and several warm living bodies inside. Without a moment's delay, Brick launched to the air and started firing his much darker eyebeams at the target's rotors. Inside the chopper, Quinn grabbed a bulkhead, as he demanded a status report. "What the freaking hell is attacking us?" He demanded sternly as another blast hits the rotor system. "I don't believe it…it looks like some kind of flying boy…he's pale!" The pilot said as he caught sight of Brick flying towards him. "I'm activating defensive systems, hang on!" The co-pilot said as he pressed a switch in front of him. The rotors were covered with a duranium alloy armor shell as the pilots maneuvered into an evasive maneuver. As the snipers opened fire on Brick, Brick's eyebeams were taking a little longer to penetrate the defenses. It was tough, but Brick was breaking through. Bullets from the sniper rifles kept being deflected off Brick's flesh as the chopper kept flying faster to escape Brick's attacks.
Quinn watched with horror as the bullets kept bouncing off the flying enemy. "What the hell is he!" One of the technicians ran a file on the face and opened his mouth in shock. "Sir…it's one of the city's superhero guardians…or should I say, a former superhero…" He stammered but was cut short when Brick suddenly flew at top speed and collided with the outer shell of the chopper, cracking the duranium plating. "He's damaging our armor! Structural integrity is failing!" The pilots said as Brick punched a hand through the plating and gripped the neck of one of the pilots. In a split second, Brick ripped the head off the shoulders of his victim and pulled it through the hole he made. Taking a quick lap of the blood flowing down the severed head and a quick bite, Brick then threw the head into the city as the chopper began to spiral towards the ground.
Quinn took no chances and grabbed a parachute and an assault rifle as he opened the rear hatch and jumped out of the crashing aircraft. Luckily the monster that attacked them didn't see the trooper jumped out the aft side of the aircraft. Quinn pulled the cord and after a minute, he landed safely on the ground. Seeing his chance to flee, he ran for a sewer opening and jumped into the manhole, ducking out of sight of the menacing undead Rowdyruff as he went on a rampage, killing and feasting on the victims like game.
Boomer stopped the train in their fortified bunker and helped the exhausted troopers off the train. He then helped Bubbles as they helped Butch and Buttercup carry the sleeping Blossom who had cried herself so heavily, that she fainted from exhaustion and frustration. Blossom was suddenly awoken when they heard the sound of something big crashing on the surface. "What was that?" Blossom asked, temporily forgetting her discomfort about Brick. Sergeant Woods, the ZVES squad leader that the boys had met said, "It sounded like a crashing chopper. What in the world can bring down a chopper? Zern zombies are not capable of doing that." Boomer shuddered quickly as he knew, as well as the other kids, that it was probably Brick's doing. "What? What could do such a thing?" Sergeant Woods asked, still oblivious to the danger that the now undead Brick could pose. After all, Woods never got a chance to see what Brick did since he and his men were ushered into the subway entrance in a hurry.
Quinn made his way through the sewer tunnels and ran into a zombie pounding on a duranium sealed door. Taking his pistol out of his holster and attaching the silencer, Quinn shot the zombie in the back of the head. "Can't risk having that beast up there to hear my gunshots." As he checked to make sure the zombie was dead. He then looked over the sealed door. It had "Station 5B" marked on it with red. There was a keypad next to it that said, 'override controls.' Commander Quinn had a knack for hacking into computers and he began to decode the override code from the keypad while using a handheld device. He pressed the correct code and the duranium hatch opened with a mechanical hiss. He stepped in quickly and sealed the door behind him and checked his surroundings. He was in a subway station.
"You hear that? Sounds like one of the hatches opening." Boomer said as his super hearing picked it up. "I hear it too and I can hear breathing coming from that location." Butch said as he looked at where the noise came from. Suddenly, a bullet bounced off Butch as the intruder came rushing out, firing his silenced pistol in sheer madness. "Commander Quinn!" Woods shouted as he saluted and urged his commander that Butch and the other children are friendly. "Bullshit! One of them just killed my pilot! And the rest of the crew! And you tell me they are on our side?" The commander said as he aimed the gun at each one of the kids. "Easy there, sir. We're alright. Whatever our dead brother did to you, I assure you that we won't do the same." Blossom said as she tried to calm the furious officer. The commander just reluctantly put his gun back in his holster as he sat down and let out a long breath. "Can you tell me what's going on? How did one of you end up like that?" He asked a moment later.
Butch had told the story to the commander and after a bit, everybody sighed and were silent for a few minutes. They were thinking about a way out. And of course, they were also thinking about how futile that escape looked. Suddenly Boomer thought of an idea. "If the Commander navigated in here through the sewer systems, we can find a way out the city! Past the quarantine line!" "Yeah! The subway only takes us to outlying stations that may only reduce our distance to the quarantine line, but the sewers could take us past it and out to freedom and safety!" "We can avoid Brick completely!" Bubbles squealed. Blossom cleared her throat angrily as she spoke up, "Have you completely lost your minds? Brick is at the moment unstoppable. If we leave without disabling him, eventually he'll get past the quarantine line anyways and start spreading this plague worldwide with his power! We won't be able to avoid him much longer either way!" After what Blossom had said, everyone nodded in agreement. It was true. They have to stop Brick.
20 minutes later, the survivors grabbed their weapons and vials of antidote X. They were going to continue with their escape plan, but taking a detour to stop Brick. While the humans were to make their way past the quarantine line, the kids will engage Brick and then return to the sewers to join them. The survivors said good luck to each other and proceeded to their objectives.
Somewhere in the city, a manhole was blown open as the surviving kids flew out into the sky and looked over the ruined city that they sworn to protect. "Now we must protect the rest of the world from the mess that we brought upon ourselves." Blossom said as she flew beside her companions. She doesn't know if they were going to make it, but they know for sure that they must stop Brick at all costs. They caught sight of the horror in front of them as they watched Brick diving on a cutoff group of ZVES reinforcements fleeing a recently crashed armored truck. They were shocked as Brick flew zigzagging by each of the troopers, taking a menacing bite while tearing heads and limbs off each of his victims. Bubbles could not watched any further as she buried her face in Boomer's arms. "Look out, he spotted us!" Butch yelled as he took out a vial of antidote X.
Brick flew blindly at his former siblings and friends. He saw Blossom and stopped for a moment. "Blossom…Blossom…Blossom…" Were the words that spoke in his mind. But Brick suddenly stopped the thoughts as the mind of the undead continued its control. Brick resumed his attack flight, charging straight for Blossom. He stopped in his tracks again as he was splashed in the face by Butch and the vial of antidote-X. He heard Butch say, "Sorry brother" as he was drenched with the chemical. However, Brick did not respond. Brick just flew straight at Blossom again, only to be pushed down by Butch and Boomer, while punching him with a fury of blows.
"Why isn't the antidote-X working?" Bubbles asked with worry as the girls watched the boys fight Brick. They suddenly let out a horror pitched scream as they watched the horror unfolding. During the fight, Brick caught both his brothers' arms and twisted them with power that he was not capable of. With a loud snap, he broke both of their arms and then gripped their necks. While the girls watched with horror, he snapped their necks right there on the spot. He let the two boys' lifeless bodies fall to the ground as he flew once again at the girls, eager to keep on killing.
The girls now knew that their daring plan had gone terribly wrong. Butch and Boomer didn't even have a chance. The girls flew as quickly as possible, to escape the reach of the menacing Brick. Blossom took out a vial of Antidote X and threw it at Brick, shattering it and splattering its contents on his face. Brick showed no sign of weakness and kept on going. The girls split to throw him off as each of them took to a different direction. They jumped to max speed and left Brick hovering in place. He was basically not going to chase after each of them individually as the quarantine line suddenly caught his attention. Brick flew towards the quarantine, while the girls regrouped over Townsville to reassess. Brick was unstoppable and he is headed straight for the quarantine.
A/N: And that's the end of chapter 5. This is getting really serious. Another 2 Rowdyruffs have been killed and now the fate of the world now rests in the girls' hands. Will they stop Brick before his wrath will help unleash the virus to the rest of the world? Stay tuned for the next chapter, "Bricks Crumble" as the girls do what they have to do to put Brick out of his misery and flee the city before the ZVES ultimatum!