Author's Notes: Okay, here's the next chapter. I want to thank Dearest performed by Ayumi Hamasaki and Tajiya Oku Sango (I don't know the artist) for helping me get a feeling for the fluffiness in this chapter.
Blast: Oh great, there's going to be small amounts of romance in this.
Blaze: YAY! Cool! Romance!
Blaze: Shut up!
Somewei: Don't worry, there will be action in it, Blast, okay?
Blast: -snorts- Fine, whatever
Somewei: Okay, on with the story…
Chapter 12: Trust
Somewei
Bubbles gasped out in pain. This fight was like last time, but worst. Boomer's strength had increased, as had the evil in him. The blonde knew that it was her clone that could make him act this way. Bubbles knew that she had to get Boomer back and then get rid of Dandy. If she did that, then there wouldn't be any problems. The thing that worried the puff was that she needed to get the 'everything nice' back into Boomer. She remembered seeing Ivy put the ingredient inside a safe container while talking to Blossom. Apparently the redheaded leader was thinking the same thing that Bubbles was thinking.
Dandy watched in amusement as Boomer charged toward the now spaced out Bubbles. The clone followed Bubbles' gaze and noticed that she was looking at the area where Ivy put the vials away. Dandy crossed her arms over her chest and gritted her teeth.
That stupid blonde isn't going to get that ingredient while I'm here, Dandy thought bitterly as she glared at Bubbles. Bubbles glanced up toward Dandy. Little did the clone know, Bubbles heard her every thought.
Buttercup punched the wall, never looking at Butch. If he was right, then she wouldn't stop fighting until one day she would not only harm her opponent, but herself. The thing was, she had no idea what he meant by it. Did he mean that she would harm herself by overwhelming herself with her powers? Or did he mean that she would regret it? No, she wouldn't regret it…would she? Buttercup looked up and into Butch's eyes. She never broke her stare into his matching eyes. Something told her if he did get rid of him, she would regret it. She didn't know how, nor did she understand, but she just knew.
Butch watched her every move. He knew she wouldn't attack him and that gave him the advantage to attack her, but instead of charging at her, he just stayed. He didn't know if it were his moral sense or just his instincts telling him not to attack, but as he watched her think, something tugging at his heart to just let her be. Butch looked down to the floor and that brief moment of something telling him not to attack disappeared and his rowdy, more violent side reappeared. He looked up again and his eyes narrowed.
Buttercup could sense a change in Butch. Instantly, her guard was up. She may regret getting rid of him, but she knew for a fact that she wouldn't regret hurting the guy. Actually, she would rather enjoy picking a fight with him. He may have seemed like an unworthy opponent before hand, but now, Buttercup enjoyed this side of him. He made her want to fight him, and that was what exactly what she was going to do.
"So," Butch began again. "Are you going to regret getting rid of me?"
Buttercup's eyes flashed with sarcasm as she regained her posture and crossed her arms over her chest. She smirked at him as the wind began to blow her short, soft black hair over her astute green eyes. Butch knew she knew he was ready to attack.
"Yes, I would regret getting rid of you," Buttercup admitted carefully as she watched her counterpart. "But, I wouldn't regret fighting you."
Blossom tried to wiggle free from Brick's grasp. His agility was quicker and his assaults were harder. The hotheaded leader craned her arm over Brick's wrist and with one, quick jab into his face, he released his iron grip on her. The red ruff stumbled back a bit, clutching his now bleeding nose. Blossom honestly didn't want to give the poor guy a broken nose or a bloody nose, but he was attacking her and as Buttercup would say, he provoked her to do it.
Brick turned his cold, deep red eyes onto Blossom and glared at the puff. He wiped his nose off with the sleeve of his black jacket and gritted his teeth. Blossom raised an eyebrow as she watched Brick. From the corner of her eye, she could see Daisy struggling to stand up. Blossom was actually pleased that she hit Daisy pretty hard, but the leader had a sickening feeling she wasn't going to like it when Daisy stood up.
"I don't know what you did," Brick began slowly. Blossom snapped back in reality and concentrated on Brick, listening to his every word. "But I don't know how the hell you're able to stand up to both me and Daisy over there, but I tell you, Pinky, I'm going to make sure as hell we win this fight."
Blossom clenched her fists and glared at Brick. If there was one thing she hated about her counterpart, it was the fact that he got cocky very often – especially when he's determined or won something. Daisy finally stood all the way up and turned her gaze toward Blossom. Her hot pink eyes burned with hatred for the original puff.
Boomer repeatedly punched and kicked Bubbles with little strength. It was easy for him to beat her up, especially since the pain she felt was like the Titanic being swung into you. He punched her in the face and sent her flying back into the cold, stone wall. He charged at her again and punched her in the chest. Bubbles gasped for air as she felt the wind get knocked out of her. Boomer backed up and smirked. Bubbles tumbled to the ground and began to cough nonstop as she struggled to get a breath of air.
Hiding behind the huge black door that lead into the control room, Aaron watched in horror as Boomer began his assault on Bubbles again. He looked away and began to walk back to his quarters. Bubbles looked so fragile and bruised as she tried to keep herself from being beaten horribly by Boomer's attacks. What confused him was that Aaron could see the look of determination and care on her face. The last time he saw that look on someone's face was by his mother. Aaron brushed the thoughts away and winced when he heard Bubbles scream.
Buttercup blocked Butch's incoming punch and tried punching him back. He quickly stepped to the side jabbed his knee into Buttercup's stomach. Buttercup panted heavily as she tried to regain her balance from almost falling. Her green eyes glared at Butch. She knew this fight would take everything she had, but this was too much. Buttercup honestly couldn't feel her hands from all the punches she gave Dawn earlier and now it was worst because her hands were about ready to fall off from fighting Butch.
Speaking of Dawn, Buttercup glanced over her shoulder and smiled once she saw Dawn was still unconscious. As long as her clone was out, Buttercup was okay. The green puff looked toward her left and saw Blossom struggling against Brick. She made a mental note to herself saying that she would have to help Blossom once she was done.
"Hello?" Butch snapped when he noticed that Buttercup wasn't even paying attention to their fight anymore. Butch slapped his hand on his forehead and ran toward Buttercup at an amazing speed. He threw his fist back and delivered a severe punch into Buttercup stomach. Buttercup let out a scream as she was sent flying back. The green puff collided with Dawn's unconscious body and rolled down the pile of rubble that surrounded Dawn.
Buttercup jumped to her feet and cursed herself for not keeping her guard up. Buttercup got into full fight mode again and charged straight at Butch. He smiled in glee as he waited for Buttercup to get closer. Once she was in arms length reach, Butch tried to punch her. Buttercup read his every move and flipped downward. Her hands touched the ground as she flipped over and in the process kicked him in the face.
Buttercup landed on the floor, turned around and punched him the stomach. Buttercup continued her aggression on Butch with a kick to the head. Butch crashed into the wall that was next to him. As he tried to regain his posture, he felt hard punches to his stomach from Buttercup. Buttercup was pleased with herself that she had the upper hand. Butch grabbed her right fist as she tried to punch him and jabbed his knee into her stomach.
Buttercup blocked the kick with her fist and the grasped onto his wrist that was clutching Buttercup's hand. She stepped back and spun him around. Once he was spinning fast, Buttercup let him go and flew after him as he was flung into the dark skies of Townsville. Buttercup caught up to Butch and punched him down toward the ground. Butch made a huge crater on the hard ground once he landed. The green puff floated down to the ground with a proud smirk on her face.
"You know Butch," Buttercup paused as she eyed her counterpart. "You're pathetic."
Butch growled angrily as he slowly stood up. He hated it when a girl in a fight beat him, but he hated it more when a girl mocked him. He glared at Buttercup and was determined to get rid of the smirk on her face. "Shut up Buttercup. You're going to regret saying that."
Buttercup snorted, "Yeah right. We'll see about that."
Bubbles had to get the vials. She looked out the huge glass windows and saw her sisters fighting their counterparts. She had to fight back. If her sisters could do it, then she could. Bubbles stood up and waited for Boomer to come at her again. If anything, he would expect Bubbles to not fight back. As if she read his thoughts (which she probably did), Bubbles stepped to the side, dodging his punch toward her. With a devastating kick into Boomer, she flung him toward the huge glass window she was looking out of only a mere few seconds ago.
Boomer crashed out the window and collided with Butch, whom was fighting with Buttercup. As Butch yelled at Boomer, and Buttercup broke out in laughter, Bubbles ran toward the computer. Dandy watched horrified and shocked with Bubbles' sudden movement. The clone didn't even noticed Bubbles running toward the computers, but Ivy, who was in her room, did.
Dandy! Ivy snapped mentally. Dandy snapped out of her state of shock as she listened carefully to what her leader was saying. Pay attention to the puff! Looking where she is going!
Ivy snapped mentally. Dandy snapped out of her state of shock as she listened carefully to what her leader was saying.Dandy glanced toward Bubbles and saw the blue puff looking at the computers, trying to figure out which buttons to push. Dandy gasped out in fear when Bubbles pushed the right button that sent out the tubes of 'Everything Nice' from their safe. The clone immediately sprung into action. Bubbles grabbed the tubes that were fill with the pink substance and from the corner of her eye she could see Dandy flying towards her, ready to attack.
Bubbles was too slow to turn around quickly enough to dodge Dandy's attack. Dandy punched Bubbles and in the process the vials slipped out of Bubbles' hands. The blonde puff gasped as the tubes shattered onto the marble floors of the palace. Dandy smirked happily as she watched Bubbles. The Doom Girl was waiting for Bubbles to begin crying any moment, but Bubbles shocked the blue DG. Instead of crying, Bubbles turned toward Dandy, glaring at her angrily.
"You," Bubbles growled. "You ruined our only chance."
Dandy shrugged carelessly as she watched Bubbles, "Oh well. There's one thing for sure now…Boomer's mine."
"Not if I can help it," snarled Bubbles angrily as she charged straight at Dandy. With a huge punch into the face, Bubbles caught Dandy off guard and made her crash into the computers. Dandy tumbled down the huge slanted computer controls and collapsed to the floor. Bubbles picked up Dandy and kicked her hard in the stomach. Bubbles punched Dandy again and then flung into the huge computer screen that was behind Dandy. The glass shattered as Dandy fell to the ground.
Bubbles examined Dandy and saw her clone was unconscious. Suddenly, the pain from Boomer's attacks came back and Bubbles broke out in tears. The 'Everything Nice' was shattered and Bubbles feared that they may never get back the Rowdyruff boys back and that Blossom would be furious with her. Everything came into realization all at once. A faint clapping could be heard from the window and Bubbles slowly turned her head in that direction to find Boomer clapping.
She stared at him briefly, then slowly shifted her gaze toward the ground. She sighed heavily and closed her eyes as she waited for Boomer to continue their small fight. The blonde was about ready to give up.
Buttercup squeezed her eyes shut as she felt the pain. During the fight, Butch continuously punched her and kicked her. It hurt her like hell, but she was okay. To be truthful she was more worried about Bubbles and Blossom. Blossom was getting the beating of a lifetime and Bubbles was nowhere in sight. Buttercup could tell that Blossom could handle the pain, but she couldn't see her blond sister's expression.
Calm down BC, Buttercup thought as she blocked Butch's incoming punch. You're being delusional. She would've sent a distress call if she couldn't handle herself…Bubbles, I hope you're alright.
Buttercup thought as she blocked Butch's incoming punch. .Bubbles looked at Boomer. Her blue eyes were moist from tears and her cheeks were soaked. Her body was weak and the bruises and cuts from their previous fights didn't help. Boomer continued to stare at her with a cold expression. Bubbles knew that Boomer was rough, but she also knew that deep down, he wasn't as violent as he was at the moment. She knew that Boomer wasn't bad. Her heart pounded as he took a step closer to her. Her throat went dry as she struggled to stand up.
The Powerpuff blonde wasn't going to give up on Boomer, not yet. Not ever. Not until he was back with her, back to the Boomer she enjoyed spending time with. Bubbles never knew how much she took things for granted until this moment. Her old boyfriend, Bobby, was nothing to her anymore. Her eyes were on Boomer. The blue puff stood and stumbled toward Boomer. The Rowdyruff took a step back as Bubbles collapsed into his arms. He was taken by surprise.
"Boomer…" Bubbles cried faintly as she hugged her counterpart tightly. She feared that she may loose him forever if she let go of him. The puff choked on her tears as she continued wit her whispers, "Please Boomer, come back. I want you back. I need you back."
As Bubbles pleaded, Boomer stood still, shocked with her sudden actions. He came back to his senses and tried to pry Bubbles off of him, but his counterpart held on tightly, never breaking her grasp. He growled as he yet again attempted to get Bubbles off of him.
"Get off of me," He snapped. Bubbles knew it was pointless to try and talk him back to their side. She remembered that Blossom said that she needed to show the kindness she gave him when he was reborn. She never really paid attention to him when he was reborn.
"Boomer, stop this nonsense. This isn't you," Bubbles pleaded.
"Of course it's me!" Boomer roared. Bubbles winced as she felt her injury on her side reopen. Her blue shirt began to get stained with her blood. Even with Boomer's protests, his attempts to let her go and Bubbles' reopened injury, she wasn't going to give up.
"Do you really believe that?" Bubbles questioned. Boomer stopped struggling. "Do you really believe what Ivy has told you? Do you believe that you are meant to hurt and destroy?"
Boomer's grasp on her shoulders tightened, and Bubbles whimpered in pain, but kept on interrogating him. She could feel the Boomer that Ivy created and the real Boomer fighting for control. She took a deep breath and looked up at him.
"You know what I believe, Boomer? I believe you're a talented person with a lot of potential to do great things. Don't throw that away Boomer!" Bubbles said. "I know that you can be anything you want, and if you join Ivy, she'll tear that away from you!"
"Shut up!" Boomer screamed as threw Bubbles toward the wall. She crashed into the stone and fell to the ground. Her blonde bangs fell over her eyes and tears immediately poured down her face. She stood up, nearly collapsing. Boomer flew straight toward her and grasped her neck. Bubbles gasped and put her hands on Boomer's wrists, trying to get them off of her neck. The blue eyes pleaded to Boomer. He stared straight into them and slightly loosened his grip on her. For some odd reason, he couldn't get rid of her the way Ivy wanted him to.
Finally, he completely took his hand off of her neck and looked down to the ground, ashamed. Ashamed for not being like his brothers, ashamed for trying to kill someone and ashamed for trying to get rid of Bubbles. Bubbles walked up to them and lifted his head, looking straight into his deep navy blue eyes. Slowly, she inched towards him until her lips met his. Boomer was shocked at first, but gradually he kissed her back.
It was heaven for the two blondes. With each passing second, Bubbles' heart raced. Bubbles finally knew in her heart that he was the only boy she could trust her heart to.
Ivy gritted her teeth as she watched Boomer and Bubbles' public display of affection from the monitor screen in her quarters. She could see everything from there and at this moment she saw Bubbles and Boomer kissing. The evil villain switched the screens to Brick's fight and Butch's fight and saw everything was going fine. Ivy knew one thing was for sure, she was going to get the blue puff back greatly, and no one, not even her redheaded sister or Boomer are going to stand in her way.
Maybe pissing Brick and Daisy off wasn't such a good idea. Hell, I didn't even do it on purpose, Blossom thought as she crashed into the stone wall behind her. Her eyes widened as Daisy's fist slammed in her stomach. Blossom coughed and jumped to her feet. Daisy charged at her, but was abruptly stopped by Brick. Both girls looked at the male both shock and confused (and relieved in Blossom's case).
"Why are you stopping me!" Daisy shouted aggravated. She wanted to get Blossom so bad, she was about ready to get anyone who stood in her way. Brick could tell that Daisy was mad and willing to hurt anyone, but the teenage boy wasn't afraid. He was more dangerous than Daisy when he was mad.
"Ivy gave us strict orders to only harm her really bad, and we did that. Until Ivy tells us to get rid of her, then we're not going to get rid of her," Brick snapped. Daisy eyed the red ruff and gave a menacing low growl. She hated when someone beside her was right. The pink DG snapped her arm from Brick's grasp and completely ignored Brick's statement by charging at Blossom again.
Blossom bit her bottom lip. Her body wouldn't move, and Blossom feared what Daisy would do to her. Squeezing her eyes shut, the Powerpuff leader waited for her clone's attack, but what surprised her was that it never came. Blossom cracked one eye open and gasped. She was stunned to see Boomer clutching Daisy's wrist. Two hands clasped around her shoulders protectively and comfortingly. Blossom glanced at the owner of the hands and saw that it was Bubbles hugging her.
Blossom leaned her head back and sighed in relief, but remembered Boomer and the pink fighter glanced back at the blue ruff, watching his and his brother's every move. Brick eyed Boomer confused. He had no idea what his brother was planning, but by the look in his eye, he didn't like it. Boomer flung Daisy back and then joined Bubbles by Blossom's side.
"Boomer, what the hell do you think you're doing?" Brick snarled. Boomer sighed and hung his head as if he was ashamed and truth be told, he was with his actions.
"Brick," Boomer began. "I hate to turn on you, but what we're doing is wrong. I've joined Bubbles and her sisters to stop anyone who is hurting the innocent people that live here."
"What!" Brick shouted, flabbergasted. "Why are you turning on us? Why the hell are you turning all 'nice' on us?"
"Because it's the right thing to do!" Boomer said as he tried to reason with his brother, but Brick refused to listen.
"For who! For the Powerpuff Girls! For the citizens of this pitiful town!" Brick shouted. "Some of these citizens aren't so innocent and nice as you four claim them to be! Don't you remember Mia and her little escapade on trying to get rid of Bubbles to somehow get revenge on red here. Do you think that what innocent? Boomer, come to your senses! These people are stupid! Mia couldn't even think things well enough. Tell me, how do you get revenge on someone by doing it on someone else?"
"No, Brick! You come to your senses! You've always said that you hated it when someone tried to control you! Don't you see that Ivy is controlling you right now!" Boomer shouted, finally loosing his control. "What's she going to do when she's done conquering this planet? Do you honestly think that she'll give us a place to stay or rule? NO! All she'll do is throw you and Butch to the side by getting rid of you permanently."
Boomer was about to continue when Blossom placed her hand on his shoulder. Boomer gazed at the pink puff and saw her shaking her head, telling him that was enough.
"Boomer, that's not going to help. Arguing with him is just pushing him farther away from us," Blossom whispered. She then sighed and looked at Brick. "Come on guys, let's go get Buttercup."
"What about Brick and Daisy? Won't they come after us?" Bubbles asked a bit worried. Blossom just shook her head.
"No, Brick won't come after us. He has orders from Ivy not to, and Daisy wouldn't go after us because she's outnumbered and weak from the thrashing I gave her earlier. Let's just go get Buttercup and go home." Blossom explained weakly as she let go of Boomer's shoulder and began to walk off. Bubbles and Boomer glanced at each other briefly before taking off after Blossom.
November 10, 2005
11:30 PM
Ivy's forest green boots clicked with each step she turned toward the Main Control Room. That's what she loved about her palace. It had a reason for everything. There was her quarters, the Throne Room, the Main Control Room, the Laboratory, the Prisons, the Slave Quarters and the Servants Quarters. It was nice to Ivy. The evil villainess stepped into the control room and found Princess and Aaron standing there along with a scientist named Roberta Sanchez. Her glasses gleamed as the light reflected off of them. Her bouncy dark brown hair was tied back and her dark brown eyes concentrated on Ivy as she entered.
"Why'd you call me here? This better be important," Ivy growled. Princess pursed her lips together, trying to keep herself under control. You know, she may have been a spoiled brat when she was younger, but unlike Ivy she never complained when it came to trying to defeat the Powerpuff Girls…okay maybe once or twice she had.
"Dr. Sanchez found something very important that we hadn't discovered before. Using a new device that the doctor created, she was able to locate six underwater facilities in the Townsville Harbor," Aaron answered, noticing that Princess was too upset to answer. Ivy raised an eyebrow, interested.
"Show me," She said smoothly. Roberta nodded and walked to a computer. The scientist immediately began punching some codes into the computer and on a holographic projector; an image of Townsville Harbor appeared on the screen. On the screen were red dots and yellow dots. "What are those dots for?"
"The red dots indicate that those are the facilities we discovered. The yellow dots are motion detectors that we planted to see if the facilities are still active and have people there. The range of all eight detectors are about 20 miles each. Altogether those detectors are covering 160 miles of the Harbor," Roberta paused as a smile crept up on her face. "The first person that steps out of the facilities sets off a detector and an alarm sounds off here."
"Excellent. Can you scan everywhere for hidden facilities?" Ivy asked. Roberta gave a disappointed sigh as she looked at her leader. Ivy noticed this and narrowed her eyes as she waited for her reply.
"Unfortunately, by no means does it scan the surrounding division," Ivy scowled at Roberta's reply. She didn't want to hear that, so the scientist carried on, "But, I am figuring a way out for the scanner to scrutinize sky, land and water. A few adjustments and she should be ready."
"It better be, otherwise something precious of yours won't be seeing you anymore," Ivy snarled. Roberta frowned and nodded. Turning on her heel, Ivy left the Main Control Room with Princess and Aaron leaving soon after. Roberta sank into the computer chair and ran her fingers through her hair.
Mia…She thought. Amelia Sanchez was her daughter and since Mia was in prison for trying to get rid of Bubbles, Ivy granted Mia to roam around the city carelessly. But one day when Ivy found out of Roberta's previous occupation as a government scientist, she took her daughter into capture and force Roberta to work. There were only two things everyone had in common, they despised Ivy and something dear to them is being held hostage. That was the way Ivy worked.
Roberta's thoughts were interrupted when a loud, shrill alarm went off. Roberta looked at the hologram and found a blue dot coming out of one red dot. Roberta stood up and as if on cue, Ivy rushed in. The evil villainess looked at Roberta and the scientist nodded. Ivy smirked.
"Order the best fighters we have to go down there. Once the Powerpuff Girls hear of this, they'll come running to save their precious civilians," Ivy commanded and chuckled lightly.
"What if they don't?" Roberta questioned with a hint of challenge in her voice. Ivy snapped her head toward the scientist and glowered at her. Ivy walked right up to Roberta and stared straight in her eyes. Green stared straight into Brown.
"Make it known to them," She growled lowly. Roberta nodded in response and began to send orders to their best fighters. Ivy once again looked at the hologram and smirked. She put her hands behind her back and snickered.
Author's Notes:
Done with chapter 12. For all you BB/Boomer fans, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I know it wasn't romantic, but in reality I'm not a Blue romantic. It's all about the reds. Anywho, now you know whom Amelia's mom is. Exciting isn't it?
Blaze: Yuppies, it is
Blast: Whatever.
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