Heroes From Above: Black Storm
Disclaimer: I do not own the Powerpuff girls or anything that relates to them. They are the property of Cartoon Network and Craig McCracken. However, I do own the main plot of this story.
A/N: Hi again everyone. I hoped you are ready, because Chapter 5 is a new twist of events!Chapter 5: Cured to Some Extent
Blossom smiled a little as she and her sisters neared Townsville. Feeling a little dizzy, she gritted her teeth as she held out a little longer to prevent the tome from corrupting her. The will power training that Brick had taught her paid off. She was probably the best candidate for carrying the tome back among her sisters. Arriving quickly at the house, Blossom flew into the lab as her sisters followed her. "Professor! Move out of the way!" She cried as she flew past the professor and stood in front of the protective glass in front of the boys. Looking at them once, she took a deep breath and opened the book, looking through thousands of vivid memories as hundreds of its previous owners' memory and fates purged through her mind. For sure, Blossom would never been the same that day.
"Blossom, what are you doing?" Brick screamed at her as he watched her become more and more disturbed. Suddenly, Brick couldn't respond as he felt a surge of energy flow through his brain as he saw Blossom started reading out a passage. For a brief second, he noticed a strange dark wisp leaving his body as well as his brothers and through the protective glass and into the book that Blossom was holding. In the next instant, Blossom dropped the book and passed out. It took Brick a while to get back his control when he noticed that the voices in his head stopped. He got up and was then clear about what Blossom had done. He told the professor to open the door. "We're alright now. I can't hear those voices. Blossom cured us!"
The professor looked uneasy as he looked towards the other girls. They nodded and he opened the door, allowing the boys to rush out and embrace the girls. Brick quickly rushed to Blossom and held her as she slowly regained consciousness. She looked at his eyes as she smiled with relief. They kissed briefly as the two held each other carefully. Blossom was shaken with what she had seen and experienced, but she wasn't scarred for life. From what she has read, she knew the tome will only get worse if it is allowed to exist. Taking Brick's sword, she handed it to him. "Careful, you're still a little weak, but you'll recover. Why not banish Blarina's dark seduction and some other forms of evil by destroying that book." She said as he took the sword with a smile. His grip shaky, he raised the sword above his head and prepared to swing.
The tip of the sword glowed with a bright light that was not present before. He swung, unleashing holy energy that effectively disintegrated the book to ashes. With that done, he felt a rush of a hundred trapped souls leave the area as the tome ceased to exist. Putting down his sword, Brick then carried Blossom in his arms and he carried her to their room. His brothers followed them, holding on to their girlfriends' hands as they hovered after their brother.
Brick laid Blossom on the bed and then laid down next to her. Covering them with the covers, he then held her waist as he fell asleep. After several sleepless hours trying to fight back the voices, it was good to get some sleep at last. Their siblings went to their own rooms and went to bed with their respective lovers. Blossom just smiled at how peaceful and comfortable Brick is feeling after the ordeal was over. She knew however, things are just getting started, but at least they can afford to sleep for the night.
Brick was the first to wake the next morning as he slowly slid himself out of bed and making sure not to wake Blossom. He walked into the hall and went in the bathroom. As he was splashing water on his face, he stopped to look at his face. It still had the black rings under his eyelid that symbolized his sleepless ordeal the night before. But they were fading. Besides that, he felt refreshed. But deep down, he knew his will power was still recovering. It was far from returning to normal, at least the major problem was removed.
He stepped out of the bathroom and took a look in the bedroom. Blossom was still asleep. He saw how beautiful she looked in the bed. Some dirty thoughts entered his mind, but that was about all that came to mind. He didn't feel the urge to carry forth his lusty desires. "At least I have some will power again. I guess this is just the after effect of having such an experience. Well, it's perfectly natural to think of something sexy about my girlfriend once in a while anyway." He then sighed and walked back into the hall and hovered down into the lab. "Need to go train, catch up on what I lost during that…breach of my defenses."
Stepping into the lab, the Rowdyruff boy took his sword off the weapon rack, which recognized his palm and voice as it unlocked the security bar. Drawing the sword and equipping the shield, the boy hovered into the danger grid and spoke. "Computer, run training program: Brick 5, mental and physical training." Within a few seconds, the computer complied and ran the program, and a prompt appeared inquiring Brick about the type of setting he would like to train around. "Forest by desert, with a river through it." Brick said as the program created the arena for him.
A monster appeared before him and began to attack him with a hypnotic attack. Striking quickly, he killed the monster before it can strike. "Computer, add this monster into the monster queue for the next 10 regenerations, and increase his hypnotic attack's effectiveness to level 9." Brick commanded as he saw the next monster respawn and attack him. Feeling the force of the increased difficulty, Brick resisted the mental disability and charged forward, swinging and slicing through it. "Computer, increase the hypnotic ability by one level after each consecutive kill I make."
Brick killed the next monster and faced the new foe that was to come. With each one, he felt a slight increase of the monster's psychic ability. "Increase monster queue by 25 more now. Increasing monster's skin toughness by 2 levels every consecutive kill." Brick said again, as he was now able to get a good mental workout as well as being able to swing and slash harder, to penetrate the ever thickening hides.
About an hour later, after killing the last monster in the queue, Brick stumbled out of the danger grid, feeling satisfied with his training. The last monster's attack felt almost as strong as the distractions that Blarina could muster. He was able to resist it quite well to some extent. And it now seemed, that Brick can slice a rock in half with the sword, yet so lightly that it seemed that he is only swinging the sword with two fingers. Putting the sword back into its holder, he hovered out of the lab and went to the couch to take a nap.
Blossom hovered out of the bedroom some time later, yawning as she smelt the fresh morning air. Stumbling on Brick in the living room, she found him sleeping there peacefully. She also noticed at a sudden bulge in his biceps. "He's been training. Aww, he must be exhausted." She muttered as she got close to him and snuggled up to him as she felt his soft breathing on her face. Just then, he began to stir and saw her eyes right infront of him. He was a little surprised but then he looked at the clock. It was 9 AM, about 3 hours since he completed his training. "Good morning, how was training?" She asked him. He was surprised at how observant she was. "Great." He said as he leaned in and kissed her. Holding her close to him, the two of them kissed for a while. Blossom got up to cook breakfast for the family as Brick sat straight up on the couch and planned about what will they do about Blarina.
Butch and Buttercup walked down the stairs hand in hand and into the dining room. They had a wide grin on their faces that made their older siblings look at them with bewilderment. "Why are you guys so happy this morning?" Brick asked as the two of them got into their seats at the dining table. "We had some 'fun' last night." Butch said with a smirk. Buttercup clobbered him playfully as she tried to punish him for telling the truth. "Well, I got kinda turned on." Buttercup said in defense. The two older siblings just dropped their jaws in surprise as they shook their heads. "Man." "Remember what Boomer said some years ago when we thought we beat the girls? 'Running like little chicken'?" Brick stated. "If he found out, he would probably say, 'Doing it like little rabbits' to you!" He finished a moment later, just in time as Bubbles and Boomer hovered down the stairs, holding each other's hands. They were happy, but not as much as the raven haired duo. "Don't tell me, you too?" Blossom asked as she sighed. "What?" Boomer asked innocently, as he and Bubbles had no idea what they meant.
"At least those two are not out of control." Brick whispered into Blossom's ear as he helped her serve breakfast. The heroes had breakfast and then proceeded to the conference room to plan out their attack. Tracking down Blarina's whereabouts from satellite surveillance photographs, based on the kind of damage expected that Blarina would do, they tracked her amassing a force of undead warriors near the border of Germany. "Germany, that place is constantly assailed by undead now." Blossom said with a sigh. "Well, let's hit her hard before she can figure out what's wrong." Butch and buttercup said simultaneously. With that, they grabbed their equipment and said goodbye to the professor. He wished them luck and told them to be careful.
Flying at near light speeds, the kids arrived the far side of Poland and prepared to assault Blarina from the rear. "Bitch is going to die…bitch is going to die…" Butch kept muttering in a sing-song manner as they drew closer. As they flew in the sky, the leaders caught sight of the army and Blarina below. The undead and the succubus was lying low as they waited for the perfect time to attack Germany. Brick held up his hand, letting it drop in a hand signal as he shouted the commands. "Fireteam, fire upon their position, suppress those undead, me and the assault team will finish them off and engage Blarina!" Apparently, the boys have developed modern military squad based combat techniques to their plans. The boys dove for the enemies as the girls rained fire at the enemies below.
Zombies and undead warriors of all sorts alike suffered from the energy blows from the girls' bows. The ones who can shoot back were too distracted with taking cover that they couldn't fire upon the girls and the boys. The boys quickly landed and decimated the undead that attacked them as they stumbled and charged at them in all fashions. Brick caught sight of Blarina and charged. She looked at him in surprise to see him not reeling back in torture. However, she did notice him gritting his teeth and trying to focus as he was charging.
"He's building an resistance. How nice…well it's going to fail." She muttered as she concentrated harder as she prepared for the attack. She noticed the other two boys charging as well, but they seemed to be having a little bit more trouble focusing than their older brother. The two boys were two distracted to notice when Blarina commanded two zombie warriors to stand in their way. The zombies were able to smack the boys upside the head as they ran into them. "There leaves only one…" She could not finish as she suddenly lost sight of Brick. "Where'd he go?" She pondered as she turned around, only to receive a hard slash across her chest. She doubled over and held her bleeding chest as her spell weakened a little.
Brick grinned as the mental trouble lessened a bit. "Time to die, you vile bitch." Brick said as he swung his sword again. Blarina unsheathed her sword and parried his weapon. Using some mental distractions, Blarina and Brick dueled with their weapons as the others continued to keep the zombies busy. "Take this, and this! This is for the pain you caused me!" Brick said as he feigned a vertical slash to her head and just as she was about to parry, he changed his attack and slashed her abdomen horizontally. "Well, I had no choice, you were meddling in my plans!" She growled as she struck back, clipping a 2 inch long cut on Brick's shoulder. The wound burned with dark energy. Gritting his teeth, Brick struck again. "Well, too bad. You'll never see your plans come true!" He scoffed.
Blossom noticed what Brick was doing and decided to help a little. Taking her bow and asking her sisters to cover her in pouring attacks on the zombies, she took aim at Blarina and shot a high charged energy bolt at her. The bolt struck Blarina hard, just hard enough to stun her long enough for Brick to do a roundhouse slash with his sword, and then completed with a thrust into her abdomen. The demon stumbled backwards as she tried to comprehend what Brick had done.
Holding his sword at her neck, Brick prepared to decapitate her head. The succubus used her last urge of strength and stabbed Brick in the foot hard with her sword and rolled away as Brick was distracted by the pain. Holding her stomach, the demon limped away, summoning some of her zombies and undead minions to cover her escape. She threw on her cloak and then vanished from sight. Brick held his bleeding foot and waited for it to regenerate slowly. He watched Blarina escape and gritted his teeth in annoyance. The vile demon had managed to escape his grasp. "Well, we'll track her down. She's mortally wounded, we'll track her down."
The kids finished off the last of the undead and flew back to Townsville. "At least we prevented a possible invasion of Germany." Blossom said as she watched Brick worriedly as she noticed that the cut on his arm was taking a while to heal. She sighed a relief when it suddenly healed up completely as a glow of bright light engulfed the wound. "He was poisoned by Blarina's dark blade, even though he wasn't aware." The kids heard the Lord's voice as they flew. "Good work on thwarting Blarina's plans today, but I'm afraid she might be forced to turn to a last resort. A solution that she might take may be the most dangerous thing of all. When you return home, you will be briefed on what we think she might do."
The kids nodded and returned home, wondering in their minds just what Blarina may be forced to turn to as a last resort. They hope whatever she decides, they will be able to stop her.
A/N: And that's the end of the chapter. What will Blarina do? How will the boys and girls react to it? Find out in the next chapter, Chapter 6: "The Stones." In the mean time, please review and have a nice day.