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They had already agreed-quickly drop Buttercup off, and go back to finish the job. However, when they got there, they were met with an unwelcome surprise. As Bubbles laid an unconscious Buttercup on the couch and placed a nearby towel under her, Blossom hurriedly went down to the lab to get some bandages, expecting Voda and the Professor to still be there. She saw the exact opposite: nobody.

"Professor?" Blossom called out. "Professor? Where are you?" No response. "Maybe he took him somewhere…" attempting to calm herself so she wouldn't panic for no reason, she managed to find some long bandages, the kind that people wrap broken ribs and such in, and then she noticed the operating table. Unfortunately, what she saw made a cold feeling of dread come over her.

The legs and arms restraints were cut clean.

Not a second later, she raced out of the lab. "The Professor and Voda are missing!" Flamera immediately snapped to attention. "What? Okay, you two go search around the area. I'll patch up Buttercup. I'll tell you now though, I don't think she'll be in any condition to fight for a while." Blossom nodded, and tossed the bandages to her, and they were gone in the blink of an eye, and Flamera turned her attention to the green-clothed girl, who was still out and leaking blood at a bad rate. "Ok, this should hold the blood in, but you really need better care…"

A few minutes later, the girls regrouped in the living room. "Anyone find him yet?" Blossom shook her head, and Flamera sighed at that. "Well in that case, I think I know where he is." "Where?" asked Bubbles.

Flamera stepped out of the house, and looked into the sky. "My guess is somewhere out there, in space…probably a nice distance past your atmosphere." Bubbles got a forlorn look on her face. "No…he kidnapped him? But why?" Flamera shrugged. "Either to impress Neon, or for 'insurance' that you won't come after him. Maybe both."

The name Neon brought Blossom back to the recent fight. "Neon! We stayed here longer than we were supposed to!" She instantly took off to Townsville, and the others followed suit.

When they got back to the crater she had last been seen in, she was nowhere to be found. "Great. Just great. Why did we let her get away? You should've finished her when you had the chance!" Obviously, Flamera was more than miffed about this.

Blossom shot right back at her. "Well, excuse me, but my sister was really hurt! Was I supposed to leave her there and let her die of blood loss?"

"Blood loss? There'll be a lot more than some blood loss if Neon gets her way! There'll be planet loss! Galaxy loss! Need I go on?" "Well, sorry, but in cases like this I go with my instinct, and that said Buttercup comes first! Besides, we'll beat her! We've beaten everything else thrown at us!" "So you'd risk this and possibly hundreds of other galaxies for just one person?" "YES, WHEN THAT PERSON HAPPENS TO BE MY SISTER!" Now it was a shouting contest.

"YOU'RE INSANE! I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M EVEN HEARING THIS!"

"BELIEVE IT, BIRDIE!"

"BIRDIE? WHY I OUGHTA…!" Flamera was completely enraged by now, and while Blossom still hadn't noticed, flames were starting to come from her mouth, and two elf-like, feathery ears had sown themselves on either side of her head. "YOU'RE LUCKY THERE'S A MEGLOMANIAC OUT THERE I HAVE TO GET TO NOW, OR ELSE I'D FRY YOU HERE AND NOW!" They continued staring angrily into each other's eyes, until finally Flamera backed up a little, and let out a long breath, smoke included. "I…think it's better now if we go our separate ways." Not waiting for a response, Flamera spread her six wings and flew off, towards Townsville Forest.

Blossom huffed, and turned to her sister, who had watched the whole argument with widened eyes. "Come on Bubbles, let's get home. We need to figure out how to get the Professor back, since we'll be without Buttercup's help for a while." Blossom flew off, but Bubbles took one last look at Flamera's disappearing form, and then somewhat reluctantly followed her angry sister.

It was the biggest flagship in the known universe-no other planet's ships could match it for size and weaponry. It was impossibly long, about the length of Mount Rushmore, and had firepower that could rival even the Death Star's. Behind it, five enormous thrusters finished it off. Shaped like a lengthy, built-up arrowhead, the bridge was on the top near the center, of course.

However, unless you had certain special equipment, you could pass right by it, and you wouldn't even sense the absolutely enormous ship that kept a nice spot behind the moon. This was the Ja' laian 'Master' ship, the Turukada.

And it currently housed a very annoyed Neon.

As she walked through one of the very numerous hallways, the anger and seriousness was clearly evident on her face. Because of this, all the random soldiers who were unlucky enough to be walking along the same path went well out of their way to avoid her.

This continued until she reached the bridge, which was actually a fairly open area, surrounded by aliens of all shape and size, working busily at various stations. Her chair was in an elevated position above everybody so that she could see anything and everything that was going on, and she quickly took seat in it, and turned it to the nearest grunt she could see.

"You! I assume you know of what happened on the surface recently?"

The unfortunate lackey, a meek looking yellow…rat-thing quivered under her gaze.

"Uh…y-y-you mean the, uh, I mean your…defeat?" He quickly shielded his head with his small hands.

However, Neon didn't do a thing. "Yes, that. You know I customarily have some workers record my first landing, to study just what the inhabitants are like, so that I may discover their weaknesses and crush them all the easier. However, this did not go quite according to plan…those three will be a serious threat if I let them live. The recording team recorded the entire fight, I assume?"

"Uh, y-yes, I believe so." "Good then. You are excused back to your post." The rat-thing ran back to where it was, and Neon turned forward again.

"Hmm…now, first things first, how am I supposed to kill them?" She hadn't been thinking for over a minute when a voice rang out all over the room.

"High Mistress!" Neon was rarely surprised, but in this case she heard the familiar voice, and at least raised a non-existent eyebrow.

"Voda? Voda, is that you? How did you escape?" "I assure you, I will tell all, but I request that you let me into the bridge."

"Don't be lazy! You know full well you have access to the bridge!" "Believe me, I would come in myself, but my appendages are somewhat…busy." Neon sighed and pressed the button on the side of her chair for automatic open, and turned a full 180. "Now, what this you wanted to show me so…" she stopped mid-sentence as she saw just what was led into the room. The rest of the bridge crew turned as well, and silence reigned for a few moments. Voda picked up the slack.

"This, I believe, is the guardian of those girls that so wrongly stood in your way, milady."

Neon was still somewhat stunned, but she finally cleared her head. "Tell me…where did they keep you went they knocked you out?" "From the looks of it when I escaped, their actual living domicile." "I see…"

Then, slowly, a wicked grin spread on her face.

"Perhaps I don't have to actually destroy them now…yet. As a matter of fact…" She hit another button, and a deep, gruff voice came out. "Yes, High Mistress? You need me?" "Yes, I do. Report to the bridge.
I have an assignment for you. I want you to deliver a message to the coordinates Voda will give you on the planet nearby. I do NOT want you to engage in battle. Understood?" "Yes," the voice replied, "but who should I give the message to?" "Three small females, shorter than me, and they look near identical, save for difference in colors. I'll show you what they look like once you get up here, so hurry." "At once, High Mistress."

Bubbles and Blossom were at home, thinking about all possible strategies to get the Professor back. Bubbles had found the phone book, and called the hospital, and fortunately, it had been spared Voda's slaughtering, as he apperantly didn't bother going into buildings yet, and it was taking in all people still alive from the alien's wrath. Of course once they heard Buttercup was injured, they immediately managed to clear an emergency room, and Buttercup was being treated in no time.

Now, with one crisis averted, they focused on the task at hand, getting back the Professor.

"We could just take our space suits and get him by force, but that's too expected…" Blossom thought. "We need something sneaky, something that'll catch them off guard."

They were deep in thought, when a knocking startled them. "What the…who would want to visit us now? Bubbles went up to the door, and looked through the peephole.

That proved to be a bad idea as the door crashed down with her under it, and what stood where it once was looked outright scary.

It was a large green beast that seemed to be all muscle. It had two rows of pitch black spikes coming out of its back. Both its chest and arms were massive, and at the end of each immense arm were three equally immense claws, the same pitch black color. Its legs had odd colored wires snaking around them, leading to a small, triangle shaped device on its chest. Its head was slightly reminiscent of a bear's, and had two fangs, one on either side.

The sudden arrival of this intimidating alien quickly got Blossom to attention, and she got into a battle stance. Bubbles was climbing out of the rubble, and she saw the thing, and got into a stance as well.

"Okay, what are you here for?" The thing smiled, and his voice rumbled as he spoke. "I am merely here to issue an ultimatum, courtesy of the great and generous High Mistress Neon." Blossom scoffed. "Whatever. What is it?"

He quickly tapped a few buttons on a silver, watch-like device, and an image of Neon sprang up. Resisting the urge to growl, she allowed the transmission to play as the hologram began to speak.

"As you may have noticed…a certain loved being's presence is missing from your domicile. You may have already figure out that he is in my custody, you may not have. Regardless, I have him, and if you want him to return to you alive, you'll cease getting in my way of the takeover of this planet!" The girls were angry and shocked at hearing this. "I assure you, I have no qualms about killing. I do it all the time, as I'm sure you figured out." She was referring to the Mayor, they could see that. "Hmm…no that I think of it, there IS another deal you could agree to…" They perked up their heads, which they didn't realize had been hung.

"I suppose you COULD save the planet…if you were to actually fight against me and my army, perhaps you'd win, and save this planet…oh! But then your friend would die, wouldn't he?" She said with evil sarcasm. "You'd never make it in time to save both, you know. Where he's being held is much too far away for you to even think about it." She sighed. "Well, it's your choice. I'll give you one of your planet's rotations to think about it." She smiled cruelly.

"Choose quickly!" …the transmission ended. The beast pulled off the device, and left it on the floor at their stunned feet. "Press this button to respond." He pointed at a blue button, and left.

They were still in shocked silence when he was gone.