Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi: Boomer's Story

Chapter Sixteen: "A Challenge On My Life"

"Ladies and gentlemen!" Blaine said. "The moment you've all been waiting for is close at hand! You've got front row seats! Now witness…the death of Boomer!"

Boomer took a deep breath and prepared himself. He looked up at his nemesis, who was hovering high above him like a bird of prey, stalking a small rodent, like a rat or a vole.

Ok…I can't avoid this anymore, thought Boomer. I don't like fighting…but…if I don't, this psycho is going to hurt people…

"Boomer!"

Boomer looked up at Bubbles, calling from behind the static dome Blaine had encased her in.

"Be careful!" she shouted, clearly worried.

Boomer, trying to reassure her, gave a weak smile.

I hope I can do this, thought Boomer.

From behind the static domes, his other friends were calling to him.

"Get him, Boomer! You can take him!" yelled Brick.

"Yeah, just use your head!" yelled Blossom.

"Yeah, he's nothing!" yelled Otto.

"Don't be afraid! You're more than enough to get this coward!" yelled Dexter.

"Take Bubble's idea! Go for the nads again!" yelled Coop.

"Coop…" muttered Dexter, shaking his head.

"Hey, dude, that's good advice."

From her separate dome, Buttercup yelled out.

"You better not lose to that jerk!" she yelled, with her usual attitude.

She was silent for a moment, then added, without her usual spice, "Be careful…"

Weasel and the Professor, who had been silent for some time, also spoke.

"Remember, Blaine is made out of the same stuff as you and he's weakened! Don't let him deceive you!" yelled Weasel.

"Yes," agreed the Professor. "Biologically, you're almost exactly like him. Same muscle structure, same bone strength, and both of you have Chemical X loaded in every cell of your body! Since he's weakened, this should be a cakewalk!"

These comments actually gave Boomer more confidence, but the Professor comment about them being alike sickened Boomer; Boomer hated the fact that Blaine were alike in anyway, since Blaine was such a cruel, insane person. The thought made Boomer want to vomit, but he resisted the urge.

Blaine looked down at him, with his arms folded, with a smile on his face.

"If you're done with your pep talk with these sissies, I've got some ass-kicking I need to do!" he said.

Boomer looked up and glared at his adversary.

"Don't you insult my friends, you monster," he said, with malice.

Blaine's smile widened.

"Well well…what do you say we just skip the formalities and get right to the point?" he said.

Boomer straightened up. All the fear began to fade away into anger. He shifted into a fighting stance, placing his left hand and left foot in front of the rest of his body. He held out his left hand.

"I couldn't agree more. You're beyond forgiveness. Let's settle this now."

Blaine uncrossed his arms and held them up to the sky.

"Very well, Brother! Let this be our final battle!"

His outstretched hands reached to the black sky above. His hands began to glow with radiant blue energy. In between his hands, a large ball of blue light formed. Blue sparks began to crackle from the ball as it grew larger and brighter.

"Suck on this!" said Blaine, as he threw down his hands, and the ball of light sped down to the ground, like a falling star from the depths of deep space.

As the light descended downward, Boomer quickly charged energy in his left hand. He swung his hand outward, shooting a blue beam from his palm, which shot upward to meet Blaine's blast. The blue energy collided with each other, in a blue burst of energy that resembled a star about to go supernova. The energy merged together, each refusing to blink into non-existence. Instead, the fragile blue supernova remained suspended in the air, shooting sparks around it like a bug-zapper powered by a nuclear reactor, but never quite exploding.

Seeing the energy would not explode, each brother took the opportunity to close in on the other. Blaine zoomed downward as Boomer jumped up and flew towards him. The closed in on each other, each knowing they were about to meet dangerously close to the blue nova.

They each had their hands outward as they met in the air, grappling each others hands as they met. Boomer used all the strength he could muster to not allow Blaine to regain freedom of his hands. However, suddenly his palms became smolderingly hot. He looked up at Blaine, smiling. Suddenly, from Blaine's palms shot a flash of blue pain. Boomer was blown off into the air, and fell downward.

He regained his balance in mid-air, as Blaine closed in fast. Blaine his leg back and kicked towards Boomer's face.

What are you, stupid? thought Boomer towards himself. Are you gonna let him walk all over you? You're stronger now. Fight back!

Boomer felt a surge of adrenaline and felt his blood pump through him rapidly. He moved his hand quickly to grab a hold of Blaine's foot as it was about to connect with his jaw.

"What the-" exclaimed Blaine.

Boomer grabbed Blaine's leg with his other hand, swung it through the air, sending Blaine's body hurtling towards the blue nova.

I've got him now, thought Boomer.

But, unfortunately, Blaine rolled upright in the air and stopped himself just before he hit the blue nova. The sparks from the blue ball of light crackled centimeters from Blaine's head, causing the hair on the back of his neck to stand up.

Damn…so close, thought Boomer.

Blaine regained his composure and gritted his teeth in anger at Boomer.

"So, you like using cheap moves!" yelled Blaine.

Quickly, Blaine flew forward so fast he was a blur. He suddenly appeared in front of Boomer, who could not believe he could move that fast all of a sudden. Without warning, Blaine clung his hands to Boomer's shoulders. Blaine maneuvered above Boomer's head and shifted his energy to his feet, to force them downward. Boomer, unable to get free, plummeted downward, landing on the hard, rocky ground with a loud WHAM!

Boomer lied on the ground on his back, which felt like it had just been run over by rush hour traffic. Luckily, since Boomer had a higher constitution than normal people, the fall did not actually injure him; but that did not mean it still did not hurt a great amount.

Boomer looked up at Blaine's face right above his, holding him down in the ground, smiling.

"How's that for a cheap shot?" he said.

Boomer narrowed his eyes at him, then shot his knee upwards into Blaine's body, shoot him up in the air and forcing him to relinquish his grip. Boomer rolled onto his feet as Blaine fell back to the ground, rolling to break his fall.

Boomer, trying to get in a strike before he could get up, ran up to him with his fist back. Blaine was still on his knees getting up when Boomer rushed up and drove his fist downward at him. Blaine quickly moved out the way, making Boomer's fist hit the ground.

However, Boomer's eyes followed Blaine as he moved. Boomer's eyes glowed red as he shot two thin beams of red light into Blaine's chest. Blaine yelled in pain as smoke began to fumigate from his burn clothes and skin. Blaine crouched back down after Boomer's laser beams subsided.

He looked up, furious.

"Damn you!" yelled Blaine as he rushed forward, with his fist back. He closed in on Boomer and threw a punch, connecting with Boomer's face, spewing blood from his mouth.

Boomer looked back at Blaine and returned another punch towards his chest. For that moment, they began assaulting each other with only physical attacks as they both stood on the ground. Their fighting styles were almost exactly alike; they each knew the others tricks, since they were almost the same person, save for mental condition. They exchanged attack after attack, neither ever gaining the upper hand, neither ever submitted under the other.

Above, the blue nova continued to crackle with large, unstable blue sparks, illuminating the fight down below.

"Hey, doc…what's with that thing in the sky?" asked Brick, to Weasel. "They blasted each other…but it hasn't blow up or faded out or anything? What's with that, doc?"

Weasel, paying attention to the fight, turned towards Brick.

"It's difficult to tell from sight alone," said Weasel, rubbing his chin. "But if I had to guess, I'd say that both Boomer and Blaine used an equal amount of energy in their blasts. Since Blaine was weaker at the start of the fight, he had to use more effort, but Boomer only needed a short time to charge energy. Regardless, the equal energy seems to have collided and negated each other, so it's just staying suspended in space instead of exploding. My guess is it will stay like that until some outside stimulus causes the stability to finally collapse."

Brick did not reply. He looked back up at the blue nova one more time.

I've got a bad feeling about that thing, he thought.

Brick tried to put his mind on something else besides the blue nova. He looked back at the fight. Boomer just missed dodging another of Blaine's kicks, causing his foot to be planted firmly in his chest. However, it didn't phase Boomer very long, because he threw a flurry of punches at Blaine moments after.

Brick felt his stomach tighten. Watching the felt built up too much tension. Neither one seemed to be at any advantage over the other. Suddenly, Brick remembered Brisbaine's plan; the idea that two groups of equal strength fighting would fight for eternity, neither side able to win.

Jesus, it's exactly what's happening now, thought Brick. If one of them doesn't do something different, they'll just fight forever.

Brick surveyed the field and looked over at Bubbles, who was watching the fight unblinking, clearly nervous.

Brick turned towards Blossom, who was clinging to Dexter watching the fight.

"Your sister seems nervous," said Brick.

Blossom glanced over at him, with an eyebrow raised.

"Since when do you care about any of us?" she asked.

"I don't," he said. "But I figured you might. I'm just saying…"

Blossom turned towards him, curious. Dexter looked over too.

"Is that really the only reason you mentioned it?" she asked.

Brick sat down on the ground, twirling his finger in the dirt, thinking.

"No," he said after a moment of silence. "But…I figure if my brother is worried about her…maybe I should too. I mean, if he can forgive her…and…feel for her…what am I supposed to do? Try to go after you guys anyway? Nobody is that low."

"What about your other brother? Butch? The one that ran off?" she said.

Brick didn't reply for a moment. Then, he finally spoke again.

"Nobody is that low…" he repeated.

Blossom looked at him for a moment, both confused and relieved at the fact he seemed to have accept them.

"Wonders never cease…" she whispered to herself.

Blaine grabbed Boomer's punch and squeezed hard on it, hurting his hand.

For the first time in a long couple of minutes, Blaine finally spoke again.

"What do you hope to gain by fighting like this?" said Blaine, squeezing harder.

Boomer looked up at him confused.

"I could ask you…the same…thing!" he said, pulling his fist back from Blaine's grip and charging energy in it. He shot a small blast from his palm at Blaine. Blaine jumped in the air and arched his back to narrowly avoid the blast. He flipped back farther away from Boomer, creating some distance between them.

"Honestly…what do you have to live for?" said Blaine.

Boomer looked at him, confused.

"W-what?" he said.

A distance away, Bubbles yelled out.

"Don't listen to him!"

Blaine did not acknowledge her.

"Come on, Boomer…" Blaine continued. "You and I both know your life is a waste. Look at yourself. You're nothing like the original Boomer. But I…I am. I crave the freedom to do whatever I want, destroy whatever I want, change whatever I want. I am the perfect clone of Boomer in everyway."

Boomer remained silent as he spoke.

"You idiot…I should have been the first one. I should be called Boomer. You're the one who should be the reject. You should have been in that tube all that time. I deserve this! Why don't you just submit! I can grant you the greatest gift one brother can give another…the chance to never have to worry about anything again. The chance to never question your identity again. I can grant you oblivion!"

Boomer looked down silently for a moment.

Then, unexpectedly, he smiled.

"Is that the best you can do?" said Boomer.

Blaine appeared shocked.

"What!" he said.

Boomer looked up.

"A couple hours ago, that might have worked. But not anymore. I don't care if you, Brisbaine, or any of the guys he works for thinks of what I am or what I'm not. I am who I choose to be…"

While Blaine was shocked, Boomer quickly flew towards him, with blue light flying behind him. As he approached Blaine, he swung his foot as hard as he could into his head. Blaine, caught off-guard, was knocked off his feet. He flew a few feet and landed on the ground on his back.

Boomer walked towards him slowly.

"I am who I choose to be," said Boomer. "No matter what you think, I am Boomer."

Blaine slowly got up, and held his head. He turned towards Boomer, with hate in his eyes.

"Grr…looks like I underestimated you…you son of a bitch…" he said, slowly getting to his feet. He looked up at the blue nova, which was almost directly above them in the air. Blaine looked at if for a moment then smiled.

"But I still have a few tricks up my sleeve!" he proclaimed as he jumped and flew upwards towards the blue nova. He stopped ascending just several feet below it. He raised his hand upward and began to focus his energy.

Boomer looked up and saw that he was obviously trying to throw the blue nova at him.

Wow…that's the best he can come up with now? Throwing a big ball of energy at me? That's just sad, thought Boomer.

Boomer held his hands in front of him and began to create a smaller ball of blue energy in between his palms. The sparks from both his hands came together in between both hands to form the ball of light. Boomer prepared to throw it.

He looked up. Blaine was smiling, clearly indicated he had used his energy to grab a hold of the blue nova.

Boomer prepared to throw his ball of light to counter-act the blue nova. He yelled out to Blaine.

"If you think you're gonna kill me by just throwing a big blue ball at me, you've got another thing coming."

Blaine looked down, raising his eyebrow. After a moment, his threw his head back and laughed.

"What's so funny?" yelled Boomer.

"You are!" said Blaine. And with that, he threw down his hand, sending the blue nova to descend at a fast pace towards the ground below. But as it began to descend, Blaine spoke something that sent a jolt through Boomer's body.

"I never said I was aiming for you!"

Boomer's heart skipped a beat. He looked up at the blue nova and tried to see where it looked like it would land. To his terror, he looked over to his right and saw it would land on the field Bubble's was in.

Boomer remembered what Brisbaine said about the fields a while ago.

" A blast from outside the field strong enough could cause the electric energy to overload and cave in, detonating everything inside," he had said.

Oh, God, thought Boomer, visualizing the blue nova landing on Bubbles, engulfing her in blue light, all while she's screaming…

Without second thought, Boomer flew towards the blue nova, but he was afraid he would not be able to intercept it in time. He looked at Bubbles, who finally realized that she was the target.

While Boomer flew fast to stop the blue nova, Blaine continued to ramble and gloat.

"Sorry, Brother, but you can't win!" he said. "I allow myself to use the freedom given to me to kill all that gets in my way. You do not. If you cannot kill me, you cannot win."

Boomer didn't take his eyes of the blue nova, which was almost at the ground, inching ever closer.

"I thought you said no dirty tricks!" yelled Boomer, without taking his eyes off the blue nova while speeding towards it.

"I had my fingers crossed! Besides it'll serve that bitch right!" replied Blaine, joyfully.

Boomer was almost at the blue nova, but it was dangerously close to Bubbles' dome. He could see clearly that she was terrified.

I gotta make it! If that thing blows up…no! I won't let that happen!

Boomer pushed himself to the limit of speed and finally flew in the path of the blue nova, which was only a few feet from Bubbles.

Boomer, staring into the crackling blue mass that was the blue nova, held up his left hand out and tried to quickly charge energy.

Come on…come on! thought Boomer.

But he saw that he didn't have the time. The blue nova descended on his hand.

"NOOOOOO!"

The blue nova blinked, and then erupted into a bright blue flash that looked like a highbred of fireworks and a 60-megaton bomb.

After a few moments, the flash subsided. Bright blue specks of light flickered in Bubble's vision for a few seconds, but then subsided. Bubbles felt dizzy, because it all happened so fast. She looked around, tried to recall what had just happened. She saw she was still encased in the blue dome.

Let's see, she thought. Blaine launched that thing…and it was coming at me…and I thought I was about to faint when…

Bubbles gasped.

Boomer!

She looked around, past the static field, but couldn't see him. All she could see was a large, deep crater that had formed several feet from her dome. From where she stood, she couldn't even clearly see the bottom of it.

Oh God…oh God…please be okay! Please don't leave me now!

She looked around everywhere she could see, then noticed something on the ground, only a few inches past her field. It took a moment of staring at it for her to register what it was. When she did, she screamed.

A few inches from her dome, there was a severed arm, in a small puddle of blood.

Everything was not okay.