Forgotten

Part 6

A second ambush

Dawn came and first to rise was Bubbles, she was up just as the sun came over the horizon and she felt as rested as possible. When she came out of her room she could hear Blossom's alarm clock buzzing and the sound of a very sleepy girl waking up, followed by some muffled complaint from Buttercup about the alarm going off. Sharing a room had been perfect when they were five, but now it was causing more problems then it was worth. Bubbles could wake up on her own and Blossom was fine getting up early, but Buttercup liked to sleep in. This started nearly every morning with some sort of argument, and they usually escalated from there.

Bubbles was just heading to the bathroom when she noticed that Stephen De-joule was in the living room, drinking more cola and looking at what appeared to be plans for the day's ambush. He had completely taken over the living room with maps, diagrams and reports that made it look more like a military war room then the girl's living room. Bubbles thought about calling out to him but then remembered she was dressed in just her nightie. Quickly Bubbles ran into the bathroom to start getting ready for the day.

Not long after that she heard Blossom shriek as she came out of the bedroom, looks like she had spotted Stephen.

'What are you doing in here… how did you get in?' Blossom shouted after running back into the room and putting a dressing gown on.

'We need to start early; I let myself in to start planning.' Stephen's voice was just loud enough for Bubbles to hear in the bathroom.

'But the house has a security system, one of the best you can get.' Blossom's voice was perfectly clear as she was standing by the bathroom door waiting for her turn.

'Oh that reminds me, you need a new security system.' Stephen said. 'The one you have is woefully inadequate. I hardly had to try to slip past it, and then again I am trained for such missions.'

Bubbles did not bother to listen to anymore of their conversation as she went about getting herself ready for the day.

'How long is she going to take?' Stephen was tapping his foot impatiently while he waited for the three girls to be ready. Bubbles was nearly done, she had to simply brush her hair and she would be ready. Blossom had last been seen going into the bathroom and had not been seen since, and that was an hour ago. Buttercup was yet to even get out of bed.

'They need time is all Mr De-joule.' Professor Utonium was in need of a shave and a wash but otherwise he was up and ready. 'It's just something you get used to when you live with three pre-teen daughters; mornings are just a long chaotic affair.'

'But Buttercup has yet to even get out of bed!' Stephen said. 'It's been over an hour since sunrise surely she can get up in that time. Both of her sisters managed it, and you did as well so what's her excuse? Maybe I should go and yank her out of bed myself.' Stephen seemed to absolutely abhor the lax attitude the Power Puff Girls seemed to have in the morning. He was used to everyone been up on time, dressed and ready then briefed before the sun had finished rising.

'Don't worry there are ways of getting Buttercup to get out of bed, you just have to know them.' Professor Utonium said with a sly smile across his face. 'Oh my, what is this, it looks like a copy of "Death fighter extreme gore addition" has just arrived in the post!' Professor Utonium said this at the foot of the stairs at the second he had finished there was a green flash of light as a fully dressed and fully awake Buttercup appeared next to him.

'Gimmie, gimmie, gimmie!' Buttercup said like a petulant child as she jumped up and down with anticipation.

'Oh wait my mistake; it's just a copy of "scientist weekly" sorry about that.' Professor Utonium said. 'You're welcome to read it if you want to Buttercup.'

'I really have to stop falling for that.' Buttercup said as she crossed her arms and let out a loud yawn. 'Err why is he here?' Buttercup asked giving a quick glance at Stephen.

'You know I have a name and that I can hear you.' Stephen said. 'And as for why I am here, I thought we might try to stop William Angelo from starting the apocalypse today. What do you think, or would you like to go back to bed and hope it sorts it's self out?' Stephen's voice was so full of sarcasm even Buttercup could not match it, which made her hate him even more then before.

'I can't believe it but I think I preferred Blossom as leader, this guy is even worse then she was.' Buttercup said taking a seat just as Bubbles started to come down the stairs.

'Well that's two of them; I don't suppose you have a way of getting the third one to come down like the other.' Stephen said.

'The "Third one." Is called Blossom and my name is Buttercup.'

'Sure I know that, and when you have earned it I will call you by your name.' Stephen seemed to become more and more of a jerk as time went on. 'John is there anyway to hurry that other girl up, before William conquers the world.'

'Sorry but Blossom just takes her time, its how she looks so beautiful all the time.' Professor Utonium said without a hint of apology, but a little bit of pride that his daughter was such a beautiful girl even as young as she was.

'Vanity, time wasting… no wonder she was such a terrible leader.' As soon as Stephen said that Buttercup shot out of her chair and grabbed Stephen by the throat, pinning him to the wall and starting to choke him.

'You take that back right now or else I will…' Buttercup never got to finish her threat as Stephen's own hands worked off by pure instinct. His right hand went to her neck and his left went under her arm and drove the finger into her flesh. The reaction was instantaneous, Buttercup let go of Stephen and went as limp as a boneless fish. Stephen held on to her with his hands, crushing the nerves in such a way as to stop them sending their signals.

'You should learn to control yourself, even powerless I managed to defeat you because of your rage.' Stephen let Buttercup go, letting her drop to floor like an old rag doll. 'The effects of the nerve hold should ware off in a second, next time I might make the paralysis permanent.'

Buttercup found she could move once again, though pins and needles shot through out her entire body and her limbs felt stiff to move. For a second she thought about attacking him again, but decided it would gain her nothing but more aches and pains or a telling off for killing him. Buttercup relented for once, going back to her seat, but she made a note of this and pushed Stephen to the top of her revenge list.

Finally Blossom had finished getting ready and Stephen could start telling them the plan he had made up over night. They were all sitting round the room looking at the diagrams Stephen had drawn up along with a briefing report that was personalised for each member of the team.

'The plan is simple enough, another ambush set up to capture William.' Stephen said. 'I all ready acquired the device's main components, the four energy towers. I have put them into separate trucks and set up a security team to guard them as we move them in a convoy.'

'Where are we moving them to?' Blossom asked, she was not used to been the one to ask about plans. It felt wrong to her and sounded wrong to everyone but Stephen.

'We are going to take them to what remains of the great prison.' Stephen said. 'Though damaged it is still the most secure location in reach, if we power it back up, man the defences and lock the four towers up in the durainium evidence lock up then we win. William could never take that place in the time he has left, so he will have to attack the convoy. You three will be in a separate truck waiting for the moment William brakes cover to try and take the device and that when we nail him. A fifth truck will have a trap John here built; I think it should be enough to hold William.'

'So we wait in the truck, then when William shows we kick his butt so you can put him in the Professor's holding device.' Buttercup said.

'Almost, you distract William while I set the device off and capture him.' Stephen said. 'You are far too weak to stand a chance in a fight with William Angelo.'

'I will show you weak!' Buttercup shouted at Stephen as she threw down her copy of the plan.

'You were put down by me with a simple nerve hold, and I have no powers of which to speak… how do you think you would fair against something that makes even your most feared enemy feel fear?' Stephen never took his gaze of Buttercup. 'You are young; you have yet to gain experience and the toughness you need to stand up as true heroes. Now if you feel like hitting me go ahead, but if not then sit down and shut the hell up.' The two stared at each other, neither willing to back down and neither showing any sign of defeat. They could have been like that until doomsday if Bubbles and Blossom had not interfered.

'Buttercup don't do it, that meanie isn't worth it.' Bubbles said taking her sisters hand. Bubbles had a sort of calming effect on the people she met, and even Buttercup could not be completely immune to her charms. It was this that let Blossom get control of Buttercup before things could get any worse.

'Stop it Buttercup, this is not the time to be fighting amongst ourselves.' Buttercup took her eyes off Stephen and looked at Blossom. 'Please sit down again.'

'No point in that, I said all I am going to… its time to get this show on the road.' Stephen said as he walked out of the living room. 'You three coming or not?'

The girls were sitting in the trailer for the truck and having a miserable time of it. There were no seats, no lights and nothing to do but wait for a signal of some kind. Every bump or turn came as a complete surprise and sent them skidding around the truck to hit the metal walls every few seconds or so. Stephen had ordered them not to use their powers in case it alerted William to where they were and so they just had to bear through the whole experience.

'I wish Stephen had left us a flash light, its way too dark in here.' Bubbles said as they hit a pothole in the road and the three were sent head first into the closest wall.

'That Jerk would give us one with a black bulb.' Buttercup said. 'When this mission is over he is so going to find out why you should not mess with the Power Puff Girls!'

'I can't believe how mean he seemed to become over night, I mean he was not Mr Personality when we met him but now…' Bubbles just left it at that, they all knew too well what Stephen De-joule had become.

'It started after that mission, when he was knocked down by William and I messed up so badly.' Blossom said. 'Either meeting his old adversary has set off some bad emotions in him or he is disappointed in us.'

'I say it was the hit to the head that did it, scrambled his brains and turned him into jerk of the year.' Buttercup said. 'Maybe a few blows to the head will bring him around again, and I will be more then happy to deliver them to him.'

'I think he still looks sad.' Bubbles said. 'When ever he acts mean to us there never seems to be any real meanness in his eyes just that same sadness.'

'Bubbles you are full of cra…' Buttercup was stopped when her head smashed into the doors of the truck as the driver made a sharp turn. She was not alone as both of her sisters followed right after he each hitting the steel doors with the same painful results.

'I wish William would just make his move and attack all ready, then we could get out of these trucks.' Bubbles said rubbing her head as she slid across the floor towards the centre of the truck. Her wish was fulfilled half an hour later.

'Power Puff Girls please come in!' The Mayors voice came out of the darkness, from the girl's communicator watches.

'Mayor this is Blossom, what's going on?' Blossom spoke into the watch, holding onto the door handle to stop herself moving about.

'Oh hello Blossom I was wandering if you could come round and open my pickle jar for me.' The Mayor said. 'After those nasty boys broke my jar opener it's been a real struggle to get my pickles I can tell you.'

'Mayor we are kind of busy right now, we really can't just come over and open your pickle jar for you…'

'Girls this is Ms Bellum, don't mind the mayor he's just having one of his bad days.' Ms Bellum's voice suddenly overrode the mayor's rant over how the jar was the spawn of Satan himself. 'The city is under attack and we really need your help.'

'We will be right there Ms Bellum!' Blossom said.

'No you will not.' Stephen De-joule suddenly blasted over the radio. 'I was listening in and there is no way your going. If you break cover this whole operation is put at risk.'

'But what about the people of Townsville, if we don't go then people might be killed.' Bubbles said.

'They will be necessary sacrifices then.' Stephen responded in a cold and dead voice. 'I order you to stay here.'

'We can save the city in a few seconds easy and be back here for the ambush without anyone knowing.' Buttercup protested, enjoying the fact she was rebelling against Stephen even if it was only in a very small way.

'Its way to risky, as your commander I order the three of you to stay in that truck, after we either capture William or reach the prison then you can go save your city but until then you will stay here.'

'I'm sorry Stephen but I can't do that.' Blossom said. 'Buttercup is right, we can save the city in no time at all and if William does show you can call for us to return to the convoy.'

'You will really risk it all for a few lives… fine go but if you can't handle it then you are to return immediately.'

The Power Puff Girls did not even wait for Stephen to finish speaking before they had blasted out of the truck and back into the light again. Stephen had enough time to see three streaks of coloured light in the mirror before they were gone leaving the convoy almost completely unprotected.

'What should we do sir?' The driver sitting next to Stephen asked as the Power Puff Girls light trails vanished into the air. Stephen glanced at the driver and noticed he had a name label, "Hello my name is: Byron Ames."

'We drive on Byron… and pray.'

It was not hard to find the problem, not hard at all really. A small army of robots were attacking the east side of town, causing a relatively small path of destruction. The robots were humanoid in design, looking like suits of futuristic armour with a vast array of weapons attached to them.

'Robots, I bet MoJo JoJo is behind this one.' Bubbles said.

'I don't think so; these robots are designed very differently from MoJo's work.' Blossom said.

'Who cares who built them; it's our job to smash them!' Buttercup gave a small battle cry as she charged into the midst of the robot army and began to destroy them.

The robots seemed to be all bark and no real bite, they fired laser beams that missed nearly every time, they punched at nothing but air and their armour seemed to be made of basic metals. The three Power Puff Girls were more then a match for these robots, they had finished most of them in the time it had taken most people to blink.

'Girls come in this is Stephen.' Stephen's voice came out of Blossom communicator watch as she torn the head of another robot.

'Stephen this is Blossom, no need to worry about us.' Blossom fired a few eye beams and took down three more of the robots. 'An army of robots were attacking but at the rate we are going they will be all scrap metal in a few seconds.'

'Robot army… Blossom do these robots look like rejects from an anime, red and black metal?' Stephen asked.

'Yeah they do look like that, how did you know?'

'Blossom listen to me!' Stephen shouted. 'Whatever you do you must not destroy all of these robots.'

'Well that's the last of them!' Buttercup said as she kicked the head off the very last of the robots letting its body hit the floor with a loud clank.

'Stephen we just destroyed them all…' Blossom said.

'Damn it!' Stephen shouted so loud Blossom had to put her hand over the watch to cut down the feed back. 'Ok those things were scouts, they test the power of whoever they fight and when they are all deactivated the real threat activates. William used these things a few times on me, when I destroyed all the droids the main robot activated and would attack me. This thing is big and it's near by girls, it will know all your strengths and I have a feeling it will know all your attacks.'

'If it's so big then why can't we see it?' Buttercup asked looking around and only seeing the remains of the robot army. 'Can anyone see a giant robot?'

The Power Puff Girls started to search around for any sign of the giant robot that Stephen had been talking about and found none. Buttercup was about to open her mouth to make some kind of comment when the ground started to shake so violently the girls were forced to become air born to stop from falling over.

'An earthquake?' Bubbles asked when they had gotten up high enough to avoid the shock.

'No this is way to strong.' Blossom said.

The quake went on for an only a few seconds before its source was revealed. One of the giant sky scrapers in the city suddenly exploded like a firecracker, brick and mortar sent flying out in a deadly shrapnel. The Power Puff Girls did their best to avoid the flying debris, and when they had finished they could see something else standing where a building had been before. Standing in the middle of the wreckage was a robot that looked exactly like the small ones the girls had destroyed, only this one was the same height as the Dynamo was.

'Ok I can see the giant robot now.' Buttercup said. 'Now let's smash it!' Buttercup charged off before Blossom could even think of ordering her to stay where she was.

'Prepare for devastation.' The giant Angelo-bot said in a deeply mechanical voice that boomed across the whole city.

'Yeah I'm prepared for it you walking heap of scrap metal.' Buttercup flew into its body with all the force she could muster expecting to go right trough it and come out the other end. Instead she simply bounced off its hard metal body not even denting the thing.

'It's not even dented!' Blossom said when she saw the lack of damage.

'Aw crap what am I going to do now?' Buttercup said as the robots giant fist moved with a speed that was near impossible fro something so huge. The hand grabbed Buttercup out of the air and held her up to its face.

'Subject Buttercup, danger level three.' The robot said just before it smashed Buttercup down into the ground and started twisting its hand round to rub her into the concrete. 'Target must be eliminated.'

'Oh no it's got Buttercup!' Bubbles shouted in horror. 'Blossom what should we do?'

'Bubbles fire everything you have at its hands.' Blossom ordered as she dove in at the robots hand.

'But you're in the way!' Bubbles shouted back.

'Just do what I say Bubbles!'

Bubbles took a moment more to decide but then followed her leaders' orders and attacked with everything she had. Her eye beams fired out alone with quick hand blasts and a full powered sonic scream all aimed at the robots giant hand. For one dreadful moment it looked like all of her attacks were going to his Blossom, but at the last second the pink Puff strafed to the right and let the attacks bass by her. When they hit they seemed to do as much damage as Buttercup's last attack had done.

'Attack eye beam, attack hand beam, attack sonic scream. All attacks known and countered for.' The robots voice said as the attacks hit its hand and did nothing to even make it move. Blossom however did not seem even a little worried, she instead flew in as low as she could and drove into the ground spinning round like a drill. Her body tunnelled under the robots hand and gave Buttercup an escape route. The two of them flew out of the tunnel in a blast of pink and green light, Buttercup coughing and spluttering the whole time.

'Damn thing was choking me under there.' Buttercup was not looking to badly hurt, her clothes were torn and her hair messed up but that seemed to be the worst of it.

'We can't just blindly charge this thing, we have to plan our attack or else we will get creamed.' Blossom said to Buttercup and then talked into her communicator watch. 'Stephen we are fighting the giant robot, is there anything you can tell us that might help.'

'Hmm… last time I faced one of these I found there was a weak point between the neck and the head, right in the joint.' Stephen's voice crackled over the com line. 'I used a high explosive there to blow the head clean off the body, maybe you can do the same.'

'Ok you heard the man, aim for that weak joint on the neck!' Blossom shouted.

'Ok robot payback time!' Buttercup and Bubbles attacked the robot at the same time trying to keep its attention while Blossom flew round the back to attack the weak point. Bubbles and Buttercup flew as fast as they could, firing pointless blasts from their hands that did nothing to the robot. Blossom went round the back and flew right up to the neck joint ready to attack with her most powerful blast. But when she got there she found the neck joint hand been heavily reinforced with duraniam alloy. The weak point was completely protected now.

'Stephen I am at the neck and it's been armoured, there is no way I could destroy it alone.' Blossom said.

'Then I want you to leave the area and come back to the convoy.' Stephen said. 'You can do nothing more there, let it destroy some of the town and then when we are done here we can deal with the robot.'

'But innocent people will get hurt, maybe even killed if we don't stop this thing right now.' Blossom shouted at her watch.

'I don't care, you orders are to come back here and get back into ambush position.' Stephen's cold voice came back across the com as clear as if he had been standing right next to her.

'… Sorry Stephen I did not get that… Bzzzt… breaking up… Bzzzzzt… losing….bzzzt… Ste…bzzzt!" Blossom faked static for a little while longer while Stephen shouted some curse words before she turned her communicator watch off.

'All right leader girl is back and the jerk is out!' Buttercup shouted when she heard what Blossom had done.

'That's right so you better do what I tell you Buttercup.' Blossom said. 'We are going to have to pull something special out if we want to stop this thing… I think we should try Razzle-Dazzle.'

'Flower petals of doom… remember what happened the last time we used that thing?' Buttercup said.

'I sure do, it was so pretty but I was almost sick after.' Bubbles felt her stomach turn just thinking of the last time they had tried that attack.

'Yes I know that, but don't forget the last time we used that attack it stopped a giant robot not to much different from this one.' Blossom said.

'Oh yeah the Dynamo… wish we still had that thing it might be useful now.' Buttercup said.

'Well we had it destroyed so we cant use it, now lets just get this done so we can head back.' Blossom held out both of her hands and waited for her sisters to take them so they could start to move.

When the three of them were in a circle holding hand they all said 'Razzle-Dazzle' at the same time and then began to spin as fast as they could move.

'Attack… Razzle-Dazzle… danger level eight… counter measure known… activating counter measure.' The robots blue eyes glowed for a second and then a greenish light seemed to surround it like a second skin. Just as the girls attack hit the robot the light seemed to become a thousand times brighter and seemed to act like a force-field. The bright lights danced around and the energy spiked through but nothing could touch the robot inside the energy field.

When the attack stopped the girls fell around like drunks as their heads kept spinning making them all feel sick as dogs.

'Way to go leader-girl, not only did we not even scratch its paint we are now close to vomiting.' Buttercup said as she stumbled into a wall and leaned against it for support.

'I don't understand… we never used Razzle-Dazzle against the scout robots so how did the giant robot know how to stop us?' Bubbles was lying on the floor holding her head and trying her best not to vomit.

'It must be programmed with all our data from our previous fights, William could get that as easily as ordering a pizza.' Blossom said. 'It must know every single attack we have ever used in a fight before.'

'Ok then lets use a new one then.' Buttercup said, finally feeling strong enough to stand under her own power.

'I don't have any new moves, we used them all up.' Blossom said.

'Then make up a new one.' Buttercup said putting both hands on her hips. 'How hard can that be? Just think of some stupid name for us to shout then let's get to it.'

'It's much harder to come up with new attack then that Buttercup.' Blossom yelled. 'It takes time to plan out moves and check if they work, at that's if they're are solo ones because team moves take training. It's not like I can pull a new attack out of thin air with out some planning on how to actually do it…' Blossom face froze as an idea streaked across her mind like a shooting star.

'I know that face, leader girl just came up with a plan.' Buttercup said. 'So what is the plan oh glorious leader, and if you say wait for it to make the next move I will hit you.'

'You two keep the robot busy, I need some time to do something.' Blossom shot up into the air without saying another word, hiding in cloud cover.

'Well that was informative… well you heard her Bubbles we got to keep the tin man busy for a while.' Buttercup said.

'Umm… where is the giant robot?' Bubbles asked when she noticed that the towering metal monstrosity was no where to be seen. 'It was here just a second ago I could swear it…' Bubbles did not finish as the ground started to shake below her feet followed by a blast of light shooting from the ground. The blue Power Puff Girl seemed to vanish in the deadly light as the robot jumped through the ground firing its arm lasers.

'Tactic alpha successful.' The robot said as it landed on the ground. 'Locating second target.'

'I'm right here!' Buttercup shouted as she fired her twin eye beams keeping her eyelids silted so as to concentrate them as much a possible. The red beams hit the robots metal armour and started to sizzle as the metal began to melt under the intense heat of the attack. If Buttercup could hold it for a little longer then the robots armour would open up and she could do some real damage to it.

'Optic eye beam attack… danger level five…counter measure known… activating counter measure.' The robots armour glowed green for a brief moment and then the red eyebeams turned green as well. Suddenly it was not Buttercup attacking the robot but the other way round as her own attack came crashing back at her. There was brilliant pain shooting through Buttercup's head before she feel back and the attack stopped.

'That's it, robot must pay!' Buttercup tried to open her eyes but found it to painful; she was at the very least temporally blind. 'That's just great… Blossom hurry the hell up!' Buttercup yelled in what she thought was the direction Blossom had gone.

'Subject Buttercup weakened proceeding to terminate.' The robot started to walk in the direction that Buttercup was stumbling around it when it was hit in the back of the head. A large blot of lightning seemed to come out of nowhere shocking its whole body and causing smoke to rise out of its joints.

'That was not very nice MR Robot!' Bubbles had come back from wherever the robot had blasted her to… and from the snow melting on her shoulders it was likely that had been quite some distance. Now looking like someone had tried to barbeque her, Bubbles normal carefree demeanour was gone and she looked more like a vengeful wraith then herself.

'Static bolt attack… protecting all higher systems… countering attack… earthing… attack countered.' The robot stopped smoking and the electricity that bounced around its body now seemed like a harmless light show as it turned its full attention on Bubbles.

'Oh-oh.' Bubbles said as she saw at least five guns charging up their energy ready to fire on her. She had only a moment to try and make a move; she could flee and avoid the attack or try attacking herself. If she had been Buttercup she may well have stood her ground and ended up been turned into atomic dust by the robots attack, fortunately she was not Buttercup. A voice deep in her mind told her to move, to get out of the way and so she did. Bubbles flew as fast as she could; avoid the fatal attacks the robot sent against her.

Bubbles was zipping around the robot so quickly she had become a blue streak that seemed to be nearly everywhere at once. The robot seemed to be paralysed as all it did was watch as the blue light beam flew round in a seemingly random pattern. When Bubbles was sure she was out manoeuvring the robot she tried to use her sonic scream against it. The waves of super sonic sound smashed into the robot as Bubbles flew round it, trying to shake it apart.

'Attack sonic scream… danger level one… Counter measures not necessary… focus on target… Bubbles database open… movements predicated… acting on data.' The robot seemed totally unfazed by Bubbles sonic scream, even as the ground around it was been turned to dust by its power. Instead it tracked her movements and used its previous knowledge to predict where he would go next. When the prediction was complete the robots hand shot out at mind boggling speed and grabbed hold of Bubbles with its giant fingers.

'Can't... Breathe… he…' Bubbles tried to call for help but the metal hand grew tighter and tighter as it started to crush even her body. She could hear her bones creaking as they began to buckle under the pressure. It would have taken only a little more pressure and then Bubbles would have been crushed like a piece of fruit, but Buttercup and finally recovered her sight and was back in the fray.

'Buttercup's cosmic hammer!' Buttercup came out of the sky like a rocket with both hand clasped above her head where all her energy seemed to be gathering in a green flame.

'Buttercup's cosmic hammer… attack unknown… taking evasive action.' The robot let go of Bubbles and put up both hand to try and sop Buttercup, but the green Puff instantly strafed away and went around its hands and went after Bubbles.

'I never knew you had a cosmic hammer attack.' Bubbles said when Buttercup caught her in midair.

'I don't, I told you we just need a stupid name to shout when we attack and it usual does something.' Buttercup said putting Bubbles down on her own feet.

'I am out of energy Buttercup, I used it all when that robot tried to crush me… what have you got left?' Bubbles asked.

'Not a lot… maybe enough for a few blasts and such but nothing good enough to even slow then thing down.' Buttercup admitted. 'I used a lot of energy healing my eyes so quickly… and here it comes.' Buttercup watched as the robot moved on to where Buttercup and Bubbles were standing.

'Prepare for devastation.' The robot said.

'You all ready said that, can't you think of something more original?' The robot seemed to take no notice of Buttercup's taunt. 'Well that's it I am out of ideas… Bubbles you got anything?' Bubbles just shook her head as she started to take a few steps back. The robot was getting closer to them and they did not have the energy to fly away fast enough, all they could do was slowly walk back as it moved forward.

The robots weapons banks all opened and every single one started to ready its self to attack the two girls. There was enough fire power there to wipe out the whole of Townsville and it was all aimed right for Buttercup and Bubbles.

'Blossom anytime now!' Buttercup shouted as her back hit a wall and she could see they were in a dead-end. 'Seriously any time you would like to step in would be good… Blossom… now would be good!' Bubbles seemed to be making some whimpering noises as the robot finished moving and was about to fire on them, Buttercup just stood there looking at her destroyer waiting to go down.

'It's ready!' Blossom's voice came from the sky as she flew down to face the robot. 'Let's see you adapt to this!' Blossom put out her hand just shy of touching the giant machines head. Her hand suddenly glowed with a bright white light that looked like a second sun had appeared. The robots sensors all focused on it trying to match it to anything in its database and failing.

'This is the end.' Blossom pulled back her fist and as it moved back it looked like space and time was snagged on the light as they bent with it, pulling back to reveal the very fabric of the universe beneath it. 'FIST OF OBLIVION!' Blossom threw her hand forward with all the strength in her body and as she did the light exploded out like an atomic flash covering all most the whole town in its light. Her fist crashed into the metal monstrosities head causing its armour to buckle like it was made of nothing more substantial then tin foil. Then all the energy blasted out of her hand in a devastating blast of pure white light. The whole of the robot was completely engulfed in the power of the attack, sending it up into the air. The robots armour was torn off its body and the vaporised with in seconds.

'Attack unknown… danger level ten…. No known counter measures… mission terminating… time of failure… twenty minutes into mission… primary mission… successful.' The robot managed to say before its ability to speak was torn out of it along with its mind. It took but three seconds under the intense power of Blossom's attack before the robot was reduced to ash and molten metal.

'Now that was intense!' Buttercup said when the deafening roar of the "fist of oblivion" attack ended along with the blast of light that had come with it. It was at that very second Blossom plummeted out of the sky and crashed onto the ground.

'Blossom!' Bubbles forgot all about her own pain and dashed over to where Blossom had crashed.

'I'm ok Bubbles, just totally drained.' Blossom said as she sat up. 'That attack uses all your energy up; I don't have enough left to fly at the moment.'

'Speaking of that attack… where the hell did it come from?' Buttercup asked. 'I mean it was awesome, why didn't you tell use you had an attack like that sooner?'

'The attack is so slow to build up its almost useless in a fight even if it is so powerful.' Blossom said. 'And I didn't come up with it; it was one of Brick's ideas…' Blossom stopped there as the victorious expression on Buttercup's face disappeared.

'We ought to get back to the convoy before Stephen gets to mad at us.' Bubbles once again knew just the right thing to say, both girls completely forgot about Brick and the others and turned their attention back to the present.

'I say screw how angry he gets, we should just wait here for a few more hours to get him really angry.' Buttercup suggested with an evil smirk across her face.

'No we should get back; they need us for the plan to work… but one of you is going to have to carry me there.' Blossom said and noticed how Buttercup glared at Bubbles who simply sighed.

'Oh no…' Blossom said when she saw where the convoy had been. 'Bubbles set us down quickly.'

From high above they all could see what had happened, the trucks where gone and laying at the side of the roads where bodies. Every single person who had been part of the convoy lay at the roadside not moving. The Power Puff Girls landed on the road and started to check everyone of the security team for a pulse. To the girls relief every single person was alive and unharmed if for some reason they were all unconscious.

'Hey I found captain jerk-face' Buttercup said when she found Stephen De-joule lying on his back next to one of the drivers. 'Sleeping like a baby… someone get a bucket of warm water to dip his hand in.'

'Ugh...' Stephen's eyes started to open slowly as he came round. 'What on earth?' He asked as he sat up feeling his head spin when he did.

'Well sleeping beauty is up, shame he's almost bearable when he's asleep.' Buttercup said.

'Stephen what happened here?' Blossom asked.

'I don't remember… we were driving along then I heard something… there was a light and I remember feeling very sick and then it's all a blank.' Stephen got to his feet with visible effort and stumbled over to the road where he could see something very familiar to him. 'William's rose… and what's this?' Stephen bent down and picked some greenish metal.

'What did you find?' Bubbles asked.

'The remains of a concussion grenade… William must have set them off to KO all of us then simply took off with the trucks leaving us on the side of the road.' Stephen got up and marched over to Blossom. 'William Angelo has all he needs to bring the world in to a perpetual nightmare and its all you fault Blossom… you damned the world with your pathetic leadership skills.' Stephens words hit Blossom harder then any attack ever could have done, in that way he did more then any villain Townsville had ever had could have done. He destroyed Blossom.