Title: The Dark Side of Powerpuff

Author: D. L. SchizoAuthoress

Rating: R

Warnings: Extreme violence, language, death

Dedication: Red and Hairy Gregory, who were the first to read my fic and reviewed so kindly!

Summary: The Powerpuffs worry, Sourpuffs heal, the evil Professor 'Unium remembers and plots more evil to come.

A/N: Thank you to my great reviewers! Sorry it took so long, and apologies for the shortness of chapter. I'm a very prolific writer...click on the link to my profile if you need proof. I have so many stories, I had to re-read this one to get back into the spirit of it. If anyone wants to help me finish this fic, email me with ideas at schizoauthoress@hotmail.com

"The Dark Side of Powerpuff: Clean-up Crew"

Blossom and Bubbles watched as the paramedics carefully loaded the critically injured Mojo Jojo into the ambulance. Buttercup stared at her hands, thinking about what the genius-monkey had said as the Girls pulled him out of the wreck of the Observatory...

"Totally destroyed...everything will be...totally destroyed. You can't stop them...no one can..."

It was strange, the way the Girls were feeling. Once, they would have been glad to be rid of Mojo Jojo, but they had never seriously entertained the notion that 'to be rid of' him might mean that he would die. But now, more mature and with four years of working *with* Mojo instead of against him, they had come to like him...perhaps even think of him more in the terms of an older brother, which he was, in a way.

A medic came to the Powerpuffs and asked if the Girls felt the need for medical assistance. They declined, and flew away.

As they made their way back to school and fourth period, Blossom explained, "It's not the powers I'm worried about, really. Obviously, we're evenly matched, except for that weird thing where they got really weak all of a sudden. It's more that...these girls are willing to *kill* their enemies. Are we?"

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Professor Miranda Unununium made a few notations on her clipboard as she observed the Sourpuff Girls in their recovery tanks. The teens floated, suspended in a clear solution and hooked up to various monitering machines. They were clad in black bodysuits with wires coming out of them. Only Saffron had her eyes open.

"X-59 has the same shortcomings as the other prototypes...for all the help Jojo gave me, I still am no closer to making the perfect evil girls..." Miranda growled. It had taken her fifty-seven attempts to create a formula that would even give her Girls the basic powers of flight, strength, and speed. X-58 had spurred the development of each Girl's signature powers, but the effectiveness wore off after a year, causing Miranda to make X-59.

It was a diluted solution of X-59 in which the Sourpuffs were submerged. The chemical would be absorbed into their bodies and utilized in the exertion of their strengths. Saffron, through her studies in various forms of meditation and the martial arts, had figured out a way to create a reserve of energy for her signature power, but neither of her sister's seemed to possess a similar faculty.

"Dammit!" Dr. 'Unium screamed, flinging the clipboard to the ground. Sheets of paper flew everywhere in a miniature snowstorm-like flurry. Saffron jumped nervously, and Sierra's eyes snapped open. "Damn you, Ellis! Why did you have to be so selfish??"

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[Flashback, two years before the Powerpuff Girls were created...]

"Jojo, Jojo," a pretty young woman crooned in a playful sing-song voice as she signed words with the lab monkey. She had an angular look to her, but her high cheekbones and sharp chin were softened by the wisps of stray jet black hair that had worked loose from her ponytail and fell into her brown eyes. "Who's a good monkey?" She asked, her hands moving to ask the question as Jojo could understand it--sign language.

"Miranda? Are you playing with Jojo *again*?"

Miranda called back, "We agreed to train Jojo as a lab assistant. I'm working with him."

"When I make the proper modifications to his voicebox, he won't need to know sign language. You're wasting your time, Miranda."

Jojo signed, "Ellis is mean, but Miranda is nice. Jojo likes to play with Miranda."

"Silly Jojo," Miranda signed silently, "You always like to play. But Ellis wants to work now."

"Mean Ellis," Jojo insisted. "Mean Ellis Utonium."

****

"You were right, Jojo...God, were you ever right..." Miranda whispered, gathering her papers with shaking hands. There were tears in her eyes, but she stubbornly denied to herself that she was going to cry. She had done all her crying over Ellis Utonium over fifteen years ago.

When Professor Utonium's 'Project Superpower' (as they had called it at the time), was notified that they were eligible to recieve a huge federal grant--on the condition that the United States Army alone could use it, to breed super-soldiers--Miranda was all for it. Ellis disagreed, being of the opinion that science for science's sake was the only reason to do research. A terrible row resulted, ending with Ellis telling Miranda to leave--that everything between them was over and done with.

Miranda had packed her bags in a rush, exchanged a few final bitter words with her former lover, and silently vowed a revenge in some distant 'someday'. But now, it seemed as though that 'someday' had finally come. She was a little upset that her memory suppression programming had failed, that Jojo had begun to remember his assistance to her, because it forced her to eliminate him and show her hand a little earlier than she had planned.

But even that tiny detour from her strategy had its benefits. Now she understood the extent of the enemy's power. That her Girls would have to transfer from South Townsville High was a given. Miranda smiled and pressed her left hand to Sybil's recovery tank. Purple eyes, huge and disoriented, stared back at her.

"Girls," she said, loud enough to be heard through the bulletproofed glass, her cold eyes fixing upon each daughter in turn before she continued, "how does education from a private academy sound to you?"

END

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More Notes: Each 'puff has a special power, as I'm sure you noticed. But I decided to make it easy for you guys and put a little chart up. (Okay, I'm lying, I just like to make charts and tables about fic info. But it helps, you know.)

Blossom--Ice Breath

Bubbles--Sonic Scream, talking to animals

Buttercup--Those energy blasts and her whirlwind attack (also seen in the '03 Powerpuff Christmas special.)

Sybil--Power over Lighting/Electricity

Saffron--The ability to control sound waves (unsure of what to call it, exactly)

Sierra--Firepower (literally)