THE BBQ
While the girls kept attacking the monster three very angry teenage boys were rushing across the city. Upon reaching the beast they took notice of the girls. "Of course this thing is still on the loose, Those three sissies are the one fighting it." Butch jeered.
"Well who else is gonna fight it? that new mayor?" Brick chided, "And what, get her nails broken? Yeah right." He finished with a scoff.
"Is that who I think it is?" Bubbles finally spoke as she saw the three teenage boys floating in the sky. The boys hadn't changed that much, but small things had changed.
Boomer now had a thin soul patch growing, was about 5'6" and was still probably growing. His blond hair now fell more in his face in a messy fashion, but they all looked dirty so she couldn't tell if that was intentional or the product of whatever accident they were in.
Butch appeared more muscular and still had his twitch. In his eyes was the furious insanity Buttercup knew all too well. Having seen it directed at her many times. His black hair was still spiked, although less extreme and more just to keep it out of his eyes. His green tank-top and black jeans were filthy like he was changing the oil in something.
Brick was still in his black jeans but his jacket was off, and had the most muscle definition of the three boys, but they still seemed slightly smaller than butches. His eyes had dark circles around them and his long hair was now tied behind his head through the opening in his ball-cap.
"No way. They should be locked up for good." Buttercup said observing the three boys.
"Apparently not," sighed Blossom, "Now what do you want."
"That thing," Yelled Brick, "Just destroyed our house with its stupid spine things, And were here to make it pay!"
"Yeah!" The other two boys cried out behind him.
The three girls laughed at their proclamation. "We got this boys why don't you go do something useful like change a dead bulb or something." Buttercup laughed.
"Yeah if we haven't beat it yet, what makes you think you can? Your filthy clothes." Giggled Bubbles.
Blossom took notice of the three boys face growing with anger, "Uh girls, maybe not the time to piss off the only help we've got."
"If we were fighting this monster it would already be dead!" Yelled Brick.
"Oh did we hurt your pride?" Buttercup stuck her tongue out as she heckled the boys.
"Yeah why don't you show us how it's done." Bubbles joined with her sister.
Blossom was about to speak up when the monster, who was a little miffed about being ignored for these three swatted the girls down with its tail leaving the girls in the crater created by it.
"Hey Butch you thinking what I'm thinking? It's plenty big enough." Brick smiled at his brother.
"Smoke bomb?" asked an over excited Butch.
"Those breakfast burritos we had earlier should do the trick." Laughed Boomer.
"Then it's agreed," Brick said inhaling for a loud war cry. "Smoke bomb!" The three boys started at top speed at the monster and all three struck its jaw in unison. The monster let out another yell, but the boys flew inside its mouth with red, green and blue smoke and stars following close behind.
"Did they just fly inside the monster?" Asked a confused buttercup.
"Great, now we gotta stop this thing and dig the boys out." whined Blossom.
"Why? Good riddance I say." Began buttercup but was soon interrupted by Bubbles.
"Look up at the monsters face." The beast seemed to be coughing then after a few seconds inhaled and let out a morbid scream of pain. Fire shooting out of its mouth.
"This thing breaths fire?" screamed a worried Buttercup.
"Something tells me that's not doing that by itself." Blossom replied backing up. The flames engulfed the monsters mouth, and soon fire was shooting out of its nose and soon enough the eyes. The screams of pain silenced but the grotesque sounds of burning flesh and smoke filled the air. Soon enough it fell to the ground ruining a few buildings and streets. The fires soon died down but the smell still lingered on in the air.
The muffled sound of someone screaming "Plasma cutter!" were soon followed by a line of heat vision blasting out the monsters chest until a hole big enough to fly through formed. The three boys covered in saliva and scorch marks soon emerged from the newly created cavity. They were all laughing and chuckling to themselves.
"Blossom what happened?" Asked buttercup.
"Well... from what I can gather the boys were releasing a cloud of methane gas inside the creatures lungs which when he inhaled created a high enough pressure that upon ignition of the gas cause the monster to burn inside out." She surmised.
"Ugh English please?" her annoyed sister demanded.
"They lit their super farts on fire inside the monster." She looked down and shook her head at how rediculous that sounded.
The three boys heard it and fell on their backs laughing even harder.
"They can do that?" A queasy Bubbles asked. Blossom just put her hand to the bridge of her nose and nodded her head, perplexed by the ludicrous vulgar, yet admittedly efficient way of dealing with the beast.
"Did the Rowdyruffs." Buttercup began, she didn't want to finish her sentence, "just save the day?" She looked like she was gonna upchuck just saying those words.
"You know it toots!" Butch laughed. Suddenly a group of citizens rushed the creature yelling praise for the Rowdyruffs. "The hell is going on here y'all should be scared." Butch protested to the sudden display of appreciation. He looked over and saw Boomer being flocked with what looked like a bunch of teenage girls. Brick was just floating never letting his eyes off blossom with his hateful glare.
"Come on guys lets get out of here, we got a shack to rebuild." Brick finally said. And the three boys flew off.
"Blossom are we really going to let them go?" Buttercup asked.
"Yeah they still are the Rowdyruff boys." Bubbles joined in.
Blossom stood for a second and seemed to consider going after them. She thought she better not. If what Brick said earlier was true, they had yet to do anything illegal, and didn't want to do anything antagonistic if they were innocent. "Nah, let's let them have this. We know their here, we'll keep an eye out for them if they pull anything, but so far all they did was finish off this." She motioned to the burned corpse that lied across the city block.
"Girls!" Cried Mayor Bellum.
"Hi mayor!" All three greeted.
"Thank the stars you were nearby when it attacked, I bet more lives were saved than if you hadn't been." She sighed. A few years ago The mayor of Townesville had a heart attack, and while he still lived, he felt it waa a sign to hang up his hat, not literally he still wore it even to bed. Upon the next election Sarah Bellum won by a landslide. Having three super heroine idols endorse her probably didn't hurt her chances either.
She noticed the burns and smoke emanating from the creature. "Feeling a little more brutal today girls?" She asked nearly gagging on the scent.
"Actually we didn't do this?" Bubbles interjected. "It was the Rowdyruffs."
"Oh lord, they escaped?" she asked worry flooding her face.
"No, apparently they were released and are still on probation." Blossom informed.
"That's odd." she said with a slight pause between the words."Why wasn't I informed?"
"It was around two years ago probably the Mayor agreed to it while you were campaigning." Blossom added.
"Makes sense, he was signing anything put in front of him." she then turned back to the body, "But if they have been behaving for these two years, maybe they've earned it. Certainly did this town a favor by killing... whatever this thing is." she then turned to blossom, "Promise me you'll keep an eye on them?"
"I give you my word." the Powerpuffs leader vowed.
Meanwhile back at the ruins of the boys were just landing back at their destroyed home. "Man this bites." Complained Boomer, "We didn't even get the fun of destroying it ourselves."
"Yes it is a shame isn't it." Came the familiar voice behind the boys. Dr. Langston was sitting on the ruined porch. "Good to see your back."
"Hey we didn't violate our probation, this thing just destroyed our home." Began Brick, but he was cut off by Dr. Langston raising his hand to silence the youth.
"I'm aware I was only getting out of my car when, whatever that thing was, destroyed this place. I heard your conversation, and judging by the way things look, you destroyed the monster?" He said sipping more coffee from his gas station cup.
"Yeah we used our powers, but we didn't violate our probation." Butch called out.
"I know, you did the city a service." He sat his coffee down and walked up and put his hands on Butches left should and Boomers right. He looked down at the three boys and smiled with pride in his eyes, "I'm proud of you three."
"For what all we did was kill something?" Brick asked.
"You did something good, and didn't even try to fight the Powerpuffs, I bet you three could be great heroes one day yourselves. Should you want that." Langston had become something as close to a positive father figure as the boys could get. He took on the case voluntarily, hoping he could reach the boys. He earned his PhD in Child psychology for something like this, but never guessed he would ever be counseling three super powered little boys.
"Great, but now we gotta clean up. So where does this visit leave us?" Brick asked.
"Well, once I report that you did something good for the city we will see, but I think you three may have earned your freedom back with this today. I wont make any promises, but just maybe." He winked and walked to his car. He said his farewells and soon was driving off.
"You think he means it?" Butch asked getting excited.
"Goodbye shock collars!" Boomer danced around.
"Well nothing is happening if we don't start fixing up our home." Brick scolded them. And soon enough they went off to create lumber from the many trees around them. It took them a week to try and figure out how to make it into a livable home again. Thankfully it was a warm clear spring night every week, though they still had to make a fire for the middle of the night. By the end of it what they had was vaguely resembled a home.
"Well it ain't pretty, but it has four walls and a roof." Brick proudly proclaimed.
"Dude lets just go to sleep, between this and school I'm wiped." Butch yawned. It was the middle of the afternoon on a Saturday, but Brick felt the same fatigue. Looking over he saw Boomer was already passed out on a log by their fire pit. He was about to wake him when the noise of a car horn did the job for him.
Boomer, not expecting the noise just rolled over and fell off his makeshift bed, "Wha- What's goin on." He mumbled still waking up. Dr. Langston had dropped by for his weekly visit.
"Good news boys!" He yelled as he got out of the car.
"Were off probation?" Butch asked expectantly.
"Well, no not yet, but the mayor wants to speak with you three."
"Why?" Brick raised a brow.
"When she heard me make my case to let you all off early she said she wanted to meet you." He smiled and ushered the boys in his car. He saw the dirt and grime that covered the three. "I wish you had time to wash up first, but whatever." He got into the driver seat and pulled out some towelettes he kept there. He tossed them to the boys, "Clean yourselves up as much as possible, we want to make a good impression after all." he saw them in the rear view mirror and noticing they were following his instructions shifted his car into gear and took the boy to meet the mayor.
A.N. Makes ya wonder why she wants so see them. Leave a review would ya kindly.