"Now that's just great!" Buttercup screamed. "Why the fruit am I a freakin' mermaid?" Her tale was slapping from side to side uncontrollably. "Buh!" she burped.

"My child," the suspicious man said suspiciously, "I will now cure thy gastroenteritis, if and ONLY if thou giveth me thy voice for the duration-eth of three days!"

"Argh!" Buttercup cried. "I oughta pound you to butter!"

"Do we have a deal?"

"Buh! But you've gotta make me human again!"

"ME? My dear, sweet child, it was not I who did this to you."

Buttercup narrowed her eyes and farted. How in the world mermaids fart when they have no butts is beyond me. "What are you planning? Buh!"

"Thou art too suspicious, young one," the suspicious character said. He pulled a deathly pale and emaciated hand from within his cloak, and slowly waved it before Buttercup's face. She squeaked. Her voice was GONE!

"Buh!"

"And now… the CURE," the suspicious character laughed suspiciously. Walah! Out came a delicious frothy can of Ginger-Ale! No… the can itself wasn't frothy… the stuff inside was… cus the can was open… and out came the frothiness… making the can frothy…

Yes folks! When you've got gastroenteritis, drink Ginger-Ale!

"I always wished I could be Robo-Cop," Buttercup said.

The suspicious man just eyed her suspiciously… "Hey kid, you've got a rainbow sproutin' from your tummy. Be glad." And the suspicious character felt a deep sympathy towards Buttercup, and hugged her. Buttercup began weeping in his arms, as the can of Ginger-Ale slowly slithered down her powerpuff throat. "It's OK darling," said the suspicious character suspiciously as he suspiciously ran his suspicious hands through Buttercup's bowl-shaped head. Yes, THROUGH her head, you heard me. And that's how the love affair started!

And now we go back to the Powerpuff household!

"Gee Bubbles, I wonder where Buttercup is," said Blossom once again in her kiss-my-butt-cus-everyone-loves-the-powerpuff-leader voice.

"Maybe she's on the toilet going poopoo," said Bubbles smiling her sweet smile, her eyes aglow like two ginormous, oversized, supersized, large and altogether BIG jawbreakers colored in blue.

"No, she's a quick one at that," Blossom said, rubbing her chin… I just realized powerpuffs have no chin- their faces are all round or ovalesque… So Blossom rubbed her nose instead, yeah, that's it- she rubbed her nose. "When Buttercup poops, she shoots 'em out like a couple o' heat-seekin' missiles yah."

"Aight dawg!" Bubbles said in her characteristically manly and 50-cent-esque voice.

And then someone knocked on the door!

"Could it be Buttercup?" Blossom wondered.

OH BUT THEIR LIVES WERE ABOUT TO BE TERRIBLY SHAKEN!