By Kevin Larry Ivy
I don't own the Powerpuff girls or any related characters. I do own Leviathan, Sezu, Kisu, Delu, Glyja, Beelzebub, and the six dark puffs.
Battle yawns mightily and sits up in bed. She looks around, seeing the world only in a mass of blurs, then puts her glasses on and climbs out of bed. She walks off the edge of her room and appears in a bathroom. She stands in front of the sink and begins her morning ritual of brushing her teeth and hair, leaving it out of its ponytail. She takes her glasses off and washes her face. After drying her face off she puts her glasses back on and walks out of the bathroom back to her room. When Bomb woke up she'd ask her to help her get her hair in its ponytail, like every morning. She continues her usual morning, changing out of her nightgown and into a blue jean skirt and a light green tank top. She yawns and walks off the edge of her room.
She appears in a living room. There is a TV on one end, a couch in front of the TV, a recliner off to the left of the couch, a lamp, and that's pretty much it. Battle sits down on the couch and begins cycling through the channels on the TV. She feels someone sit down beside her and assumes what anyone would assume.
"Morning Bomby, can you help me with my hair?" She continues to stare at the TV, but begins getting scared when she notices the lack of response from Bomb. She feels an arm go around her shoulders, and calms down a little. She smiles and looks beside her…then shrieks and begins trembling when she realizes who exactly has their arm around her.
"Morning Nerdo, what's the matter?" Belial tightens her grip around Battle and grins. Battle gulps and begins trying to get her voice to work.
"B-B-B-B-Be-Be-Be-Belial, b-b-b-but you sh-sh-shouldn't be up this early!" She looks at the clock in the room, and her jaw drops open in terror. The clock says that it's about half-past noon.
"Looks like you slept in Nerd, and Bomb ain't here to help you fix your hair. Dad sent her to take care of something while you were still asleep. So guess what? You and I are gonna have some quality time together and play a little game," There is a slight pop sound. The room around them just pops out of sight and in its place is a park. It isn't Townsville Park, that much Battle can tell. She really doesn't care where it is. She's away from home and with Belial to boot. They are sitting on a bench and Belial still has her arm around Battle. There are other kids, their age and younger, running around and playing. Their parents are probably off talking to one another somewhere. Belial's arm slides off Battle's shoulders and around her waist. Battle begins shaking, gulping down the lump that has formed in her throat.
"Hmmm, I wonder what game we can play…Oh I know!" Belial begins scratching and squeezing Battle's side. Battle shrieks and begins laughing and squealing. She tries to get away from Belial, but only manages falling off the bench. Her glass, thankfully, aren't harmed when she hits the ground face first. She rolls over onto her back and tries to scoot back away from Belial, but her sister has already locked her ankles between her knees. So now Battle is lying on the ground with her legs pointed at an angle and her ankles locked between Belial's knees. Battle almost begins crying then and there, but the crying is put off for a while when she begins screaming and howling with laughter. Belial lightly tickles up and down Battle's soft, defenseless feet. Battle's arms become locked above her head, thanks to Belial's powers. In fact, her entire body has locked up, leaving her unable to do anything but lie there and laugh. Belial lightens up slightly, now just using two fingers to tickle the base of Battle's toes.
Some of the kids that had been playing have wandered closer to the two. The fact that Battle is just lying there and not doing anything to defend herself gives the kids the false impression that she is enjoying Belial's tickling attack. One of the kids finally walks up to Belial and asks her what's going on.
"Oh nothing, I'm just playing a game with my sister. You can feel free to play with us if you want. And don't worry about her asking you to stop, she loves being tickled and that's just part of the game," The kids just stand around and watch a few more minutes, before one little boy sits down and begins tickling Battle's left armpit. Battle screams and begins laughing harder, her face now beginning to turn bright red. The little boy continues to tickle her, now getting into the "game". After a few moments a little girl sits down and begins tickling Battle's other armpit. One by one more and more of the kids join in. One boy and girl begin tickling her ribs, two boys and a girl tickle her belly, one girl tickles her hips, another couple of girls tickle her thighs, a girl and a boy tickle her knees, one girl even tickles her neck. Battle is now screaming and laughing harder than she can ever remember laughing before in her life. Belial is now going all out on her feet, tickling up and down, down and up with all ten fingers.
More and more kids, and even some teenagers and adults watch this amusing little game. None of them is aware of how much torture this actually is for Battle. A half hour, maybe even an hour passes before Belial releases her powers on Battle. Battle immediately teleports away, crying hysterically and giggling continuously. Belial grins and lies back on the bench. To the rest of the people in the park, Battle had gotten free and just run off. The participants and spectators slowly leave and go back to doing whatever they had been doing. Belial stares up at the clouds and grins, before also teleporting home.
Battle's RoomBattle appears in her room and falls on her bed, her glasses falling off and landing on the floor. She is still crying hysterically, humiliated more than any other time in her life. Ever since they were little kids, Belial had treated her like crap. She and Bomb had made a tiny mistake and pissed Belial off. It was something stupid and pointless, and Belial had held a grudge against them their entire lives. Specifically Battle. Belial had always hated Battle, and that little incident just made everything worse.
Belial had done cruel things to her before. Hell, Battle had never had a moment of pride and happiness last very long thanks to Belial. But this was probably the worst thing Belial had ever done, embarrassing her in public. And all of those humans just thought it was a game, and there was nothing Battle could do to change anything. Battle's mind is working faster than she can actually comprehend. She doesn't even know what she's thinking when she feels herself stand up and walk off her room and into the bathroom. There is a soft blue glow floating behind her when she enters. A blue glow that looks like two eyes. The glow is only there for a split second before it's gone. Mysteriously…there is a small razor lying on the sink, just carelessly left out. Something about the metal seems...almost supernatural.
She can hear a soft melody playing. But there's nothing around her to produce music. Something tells her that this razor is her key to ending Belial's reign of humiliation and pain over Battle. Battle shivers, fear building up in her…threatening to choke her to death. She almost reaches out for the razor, but pulls her hand back quickly. The music she can hear becomes more demanding, more powerful. She has to obey it, as she reaches out and picks up the razor. The music is becoming more and more demanding with every passing second, and Battle is losing this subconscious war to resist it. She stares at the razor, her eyes watering and her body falling more and more out of her control. She holds the razor over her wrist, still subconsciously fighting with the strange power trying to take control of her.
That's when something decides to deny Battle's game over. Bomb enters the bathroom and screams when she sees what Battle is about to do. She grabs Battle's arms and pulls them apart, which snaps Battle out of her hypnotized state. Battle looks into Bomb's watery, worried eyes and lets the walls break down. She grabs Bomb tightly and begins wailing. Bomb hugs her tightly, also crying. Bomb manages to get them both to her room, and sits down on her bed with Battle still wailing in her arms.
"Battly what were you thinking!" Battle hugs Bomb tightly and barely manages to choke out a response.
"I hate her so much Bomby, I'm tired of her picking on me all the time," Battle chokes on a sob and goes back to crying into Bomb's shoulder. Bomb rubs her back and holds her tightly. After a while Battle finally cries herself to sleep. Bomb tucks her into her bed and lies beside her for a few minutes, just stroking her hair and thinking. There had been several times in her life when Bomb had wanted to say out loud how much she hated Belial. But this, this was just way too far. Because of Belial, Bomb had almost lost the most important person in her life. The person she loved more than anything in the universe. Belial had gone WAY too far this time, and Bomb wasn't going to let her get away with this. Bomb makes sure Battle is tucked in and comfy, then she gets up and leaves her room.
Bomb appears in Belial's room, angrier than she'd ever been in her entire life. Belial is lying on her bed, watching something on her TV (most likely Blossom). She looks up and grins at Bomb when she sees her. Bomb stays on the edge of the rock, just glaring at Belial and trying to keep some kind of control over herself. Belial walks up to Bomb, one arm dangling at her side and her other hand on her hip, and smirks condescendingly at her.
"Hey sis, anything I can help you with?" Bomb grinds her teeth together, clenching and unclenching her fists. She stands up on her tiptoes so she is eyelevel with Belial and looks at her with fire in her eyes.
"I can't believe you would make her want to do that to herself!" Belial looks confused, but figures it has something to do with Battle so she just snorts and shrugs.
"It's not my fault if the nerd overreacted. We just played a little game with the humans," Bomb stops standing on her tiptoes and clenches her fists tighter, wincing slightly when her fingernails penetrate the skin.
"She tried to kill herself because of you! Why can't you just let that stupid thing go and get over it?" Belial glares at her and clenches her own fists.
"I don't have to! I'm never going to forgive you for that!" Bomb clenches her eyes shut.
"We just tickled you! It's not like we did anything serious!" Belial shoves Bomb back, now grinding her own teeth together.
"There's no way you could understand!" Bomb screams and does something she's wanted to do for years. She punches Belial in the face, and together they vanish from their home.
The Same Park From BeforeBelial takes a couple steps back, holding her nose. She is breathing heavily, almost snarling. Bomb lunges at her. Belial punches Bomb, sending her spiraling backward. Bomb flips and lands on her feet, instantly flying at Belial and punching her in the stomach. Belial doubles over on reflex, and is kneed in the face by Bomb. Bomb then gathers explosive energy and prepares to slam it down on the back of Belial's head. Belial blasts her with her eyebeams and knocks her away. This time when Bomb catches herself, she is punched in the stomach, kneed in the chest, and hit in the back of her neck. She drops to the ground, but catches herself and swings around, kicking Belial's legs out from under her. Belial spins and kicks at Bomb's face. Bomb rolls out of the way and tosses a couple of explosion balls at Belial. Belial twists her body around so she dodges them, then fires a colossal beam of violet energy at Bomb. Bomb jumps over it and begins glowing. She thrusts her arms outward and releases a devastating explosion that sends Belial flying through a jungle gym.
Belial tears free from the crumbled metal and fires her eyebeams at Bomb again. This time they are massive, about the size of a train and coming at Bomb ten times harder. Bomb quickly falls out of the sky and uses gravity to avoid Belial's attack. Before she can begin flying again, Belial kicks her hard in the back. Bomb is sent back up into the air, spinning wildly out of control. Belial jumps up and grabs her by the hair. She flies out of the air with Bomb and drives her head into the ground. The ground explodes and Belial begins feeling a tingly sensation moving up her arm. She throws Bomb away and fires an energy beam at her. Bomb releases another wave of explosive energy, canceling out Belial's attack. When she opens her eyes Belial uppercuts her hard in the chin, then kicks her across the face and sending her into the ground.
Bomb stands up dizzily then begins gathering explosive energy in her hands. She slams the two newly formed explosion balls together and creates a giant one, which she throws at Belial. Belial tries to stop her charge at Bomb and move out of the way, but the explosion the ball creates sends her spiraling out of the air and into Bomb's waiting assault. Bomb punches Belial in the stomach, followed by blows to the head, throat, shoulders, chest, and finally a roundhouse kick that knocks her away. Belial stands up, her hair out of its ponytail, her clothes battered and torn, and her eyes blazing. Bomb is in almost the same condition, only slightly worse due to Belial's attacks hitting harder.
Belial suddenly pops out of sight, leaving Bomb looking around nervously. She knew very well that Belial was controlling her senses with her psychic powers, but she didn't know how to fight it. She is suddenly punched in the stomach and knocked into the air. Belial appears and blasts her with her eyebeams and sending her flying. Bomb crashes into the ground like a rag doll, and then slowly stands up. This time she makes a big mistake in her next attack. When Belial is almost about to drill her in the face, Bomb reaches out and attempts to grab Belial to throw her. However…that's not how Belial sees this maneuver. Bomb's hands catch her waist and Belial instantly freaks out, screaming and blasting Bomb far away with her eyebeams. Belial has tears in her eyes, and is shaking all over. She rubs her sides and almost seems to go through a transformation. When she looks up, Bomb suddenly realizes just how deep the shit is that she'd gotten herself into. Belial's eyes are hard and emotionless, her expression set in stone. Belial vanishes from sight and suddenly appears standing over Bomb.
"You're SO going to pay you little bitch. I'm going to make you pay!" Bomb shivers, all of the fight and rage burning out almost instantly and giving way to fear. Belial stomps on Bomb's chest, making her shriek silently as the air is forced out of her. Belial drops to her knees, pinning Bomb to the ground with her psychic powers. Bomb's arms are stretched far above her head and the rest of her is immobilized. Bomb's eyes water and her instinctive fear of Belial comes crashing back to earth. Belial doesn't even waste time messing with her. She grabs Bomb's sides and begins tickling fast and hard. Bomb tries to hold it in but caves and begins screaming with laughter.
"You like that huh? You like it? I'm just getting started!" Belial's hands move up Bomb's shirt so she is now tickling Bomb's bare sides. Bomb begins crying and screaming under Belial's hard, merciless assault. Her face turns bright red, her cheeks streaked with tears, and her entire body aching from the laughing and the fight. Belial continues tickling Bomb with all she's got, leaving her sister a wreck of laughter and hysterical crying. Almost two hours later, Belial finally decides she'll let Bomb rest. She stands up and releases her hold on Bomb. Bomb curls up into a fetal position and continues giggling and crying. Belial kicks her hard in the side, making her shriek in pain.
"Get out of my sight, or I swear I'll make you wish you were dead. You'll be as fucking suicidal as the little nerd." Bomb quickly manages to teleport home, leaving Belial alone. "…There's no way I'm going home for a while. I don't want to see either of them for a good long time…I need to cool off. Let's see if I can find some older girls to play with!" Belial grins and walks off, still steaming but already cooling down at the thought of playing her little game.
She wanders through the city aimlessly, trying to carefully choose her target. She stops in front of a shop mirror and quickly fixes her hair before continuing on. She passes by a church, which makes her nearly hurl, and is suddenly struck from behind by something. She turns around and sees Blitz behind her, grinning evilly. Belial grins back, her usual condescending attitude ready to take control. Something nails her in the side and sends her crashing into the steps of the church. She looks up and sees Blood, who is snarling. She stands up and looks back and forth between the two, actually enjoying the idea of two victims at once. Something slams into her back, burning away part of her shirt and leaving her lying on the ground in pain. She pushes herself up and turns around to see Blaze standing there, with a sad expression on her face.
"So they're all here to beat me? This should be fun!" She pops out of sight to Blood and Blaze, but is nailed in the stomach by Blitz. When she goes to counterattack, Blood punches her in the face. Belial stands up and charges up her eyebeams. Before she can fire, Blaze blasts her with another wave of hellfire, knocking her back. While she is stumbling Blitz punches her in the stomach. Blood appears and kicks her in the side of the head. Blitz grabs her arm and spins her around before throwing her into a wave of fire provided by Blaze. Belial weakly stands up, then screams in pain when Blitz blasts her with a wave of black lightning. She drops to the ground, barely conscious. Blood kicks her in the side, making her reflexively curl up into a fetal position. Blitz grabs her by her hair, and then slams her head into the ground, knocking her out. Blood tosses her over her shoulder and grins at Blitz. Blaze joins her sisters, staring at the ground and apparently not at all happy with the outcome. Blitz grins and for the first time in her life shows some kindness to Blaze. She claps Blaze on the shoulder, getting a startled response from her "little" sister. Blitz nods at Blaze. Blaze looks at Blood, who smirks slightly. Blaze stares at the ground blushing.
"Come on, let's get the bitch back home and wait for her to wake up so we can have some good old fashioned revenge." Says Blitz. Blood grins and nods, and together the three vanish with Belial.