Notes: Reread ch 1 before you read this chapter, I've edited the fight scene at the school. In this chapter Buttercup gets a bit more involved in Nerima and some actions are explained.
Ranma's normal actions are going to take a turn for the odd in the next couple of chapters, so try not to be to surprised. Heh. The girls are also teenagers in this fic, not superdeformed munchkins from the cartoon. If needed, you might want to check out the PPG's section to get a better idea of the girls if you've never seen the show. :P
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Puff Puff Puff
Chapter 02
Cory D. Rose
( c ) 2005
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The wallexploded outward, sending a storm of wood chips and stone flying everywhere. The body of a man, wearing an old Gi, landed on the ground among the rubble and groaned. Light streamed from the hole as someone else stepped in front of it and stared down at the man with a smirk.
One could just make out, among the shadows, a pair of combat boots, loose dark grey pants, a black t-shirt, and a pair of sunglasses reflecting some light. The man flexed his muscles a little before he moved through the hole. "You okay old man?"
The downed fighter groaned.
"I'll take that as a yes." The man said as he picked the guy up and took him back into the dojo and lay him down on one of the padded mats. "You really need to practice more. I expected more from a Master with your reputation."
The fighter groaned again.
"Tsk Tsk, you get some rest and I'll move on." The man said as he took off his sunglasses and ran a hand through his short black hair and removed a headband. "Didn't even break a sweat. Sheesh."
Walking across the dojo, he picked up a large pack and shouldered it as he headed for the front door. "I'll expect better from you if I ever come back this way." He called just as he stepped outside, put his sunglasses back on, and headed down the street whistling a happy tune.
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Ranma wandered into Dr. Tofu's clinic. "Yo Doc!"
"Ranma, come on back. Akane is almost ready to be taken home!"
Ranma moved down the hallway, enters Akane's room, and spotted Akane sitting on the bed. She's still dressed in her school uniform and has a large bruise forming on her forehead. "Yo, tomboy!" Ranma says with a grin.
"Ranma!" Akane yells, her hair standing up as she started to get angry.
"Ready to head home?" He asks, ignoring her rising temper.
"Yeah sure." Akane muttered, calming down. "Dr. Tofu was nearly finished anyway."
The doctor nodded. "Now you understand what I've been telling you Akane?"
"Yes sir, I'll have dad help out with it when I get home. It'll give him something to do." Akane explained as she slipped off the bed.
"Good luck Akane, remember the dangers I explained to you." The Doc said.
"Akane's in danger?" Ranma asked, glancing at the short haired girl.
"Only if she ignores my advice." Tofu said.
"Oh? Anything I can help out with?"
"I'm fine Baka." Akane snapped as she grabbed him by the elbow and dragged him out of the room.
"But…"
"Never mind, let's just go." Akane said as she let go and they headed back for the Dojo.
They walked along for a few minutes before Ranma couldn't keep his questions to himself anymore. "What are you in danger from?"
"Nothing to worry about." Akane snaps. "Now let's get home."
"Come on Tomboy, I just want to make sure…"
Akane growled at him and started walking faster.
"Akane!" Ranma said. "Wait up."
"Go away! I just want to get home."
Ranma sighed. "Fine, but I'll make sure you're safe."
"I'm not in danger!"
"I heard the doc, he said you were in danger." Ranma said. "I'll protect you."
Akane screamed.
"Yeah, just like that! Where's the danger?" He said, hopping around and looking for anyone that might be attacking.
Akane ran the last half block to the dojo and into the house before Ranma could catch up. He sighed and figured he'd messed up again. Not matter what he did he just couldn't understand what he was supposed to do around Akane. If he was nice, she would get mad at him.
If he was protective, she got mad. No matter what he did she seemed to just blow her top over every little thing. Sighing, he decided that if someone showed up to hurt her, he would beat the crap out of them. The decision, he put it out of his mind and started thinking about the fight with Taro.
Even now he wasn't sure what the guy had in mind. Normally he would spend most of the fight mouthing off and then pull out something super dangerous. Then he'd screw up, everyone would gang up on him, and he'd turn into his cursed form and beat on them for a while. Then fly off when everything fell apart.
Something about this fight was a little different and it bothered him. He started going through the fight step by step and remembered that Taro had fired that blast of water. At the time he hadn't thought much of it. What with dodging it and the like.
But now that he pictured it in his mind he couldn't recall how Taro got the water. It was as if he had just grabbed it out of the air and thrown it over fifteen feet with enough pressure to dig a hole in the ground. No matter how many times he went over it he couldn't figure out how he did it.
"Hey Kasumi." Ranma said as he entered the house.
"Good afternoon Ranma." She said. "Is Akane with you?"
"Nope, she came home a few minutes ago."
Kasumi just nodded. "I didn't hear her come in. Dinner will be ready in an hour or so."
"Cool, I'll be out in the dojo."
"Okay."
Ranma headed for the backyard when Nabiki arrived home a little earlier than usual. "Ranma, I heard you had a fight in the park a little while ago."
He nodded. "Just Taro."
"And that girl that hurt Akane."
"Yeah, her too, but she was fighting Taro for some reason."
"I haven't been able to find anything on the girl, only that she's staying at a local motel. She registered at Buttercup Utonium. Ring any bells?" Nabiki asked.
Kasumi gasped and dropped her tea on the table. Blushing, she quickly wiped up the mess and pretended that nothing had happened. Nabiki turned to look at her and raised an eyebrow.
"Sis? You know the girl."
"Why would I know her?" Kasumi said, blushing slightly. She started cleaning the table again, nervously.
"Kasumi?" Nabiki asked, slightly surprised at her older sister.
Kasumi pouted. "Well, I know the name, yes."
"Who is this girl? She hurt Akane you know."
"Oh I doubt that it was on purpose. Buttercup is one of the Pow…"
"Powerpuff Girls." Ranma said, snapping her fingers.
Both girls turned to look at Ranma.
"What?"
"Powerpuff Girls."
Nabiki arched and eyebrow.
"I heard her say she was a member of a group called the Powerpuff Girls as she fought Taro." Ranma explained and shrugged. "Must be a band or something."
That just made Kasumi start giggling. "The Powerpuff Girl's are superhero's Ranma. They have superpowers and have been using them to help and defend people since they were children." Kasumi said, smiling happily.
"I've never heard of them." Nabiki said, giving Kasumi an odd look.
"They were really famous about twelve years ago, but over time they just stopped being news worthy outside their home town. These days they should all be teenagers. I wonder if they are all still as cute as they were when they were little." Kasumi explained, and then appeared next to Ranma.
He'd never seen Kasumi move like that. Ranma nearly jumped across the room as she leaned in close. "What did She look like?"
Ranma could hear the capital 'S' Kasumi used and the tone of her voice frightened him a little. "Um…, well…"
The oldest Tendo girl leaned forward, her eyes wide and sparkling. "Yes, Ranma-kun?"
This even caused Nabiki to back up a couple of steps as an old memory resurfaced. A memory of Kasumi running around the house pretending she could fly, wearing a red dress with a black band around her stomach and a large red bow in her hair. She could recall a feeling of irritation attached to the old memory.
'Uh oh.' She thought to herself. 'I'd better look into this a little more before I do anything. Kasumi's interest changes everything.'
Ranma was sweating as he tried to edge away from Kasumi as she rubbed up against him. "The girl was wearing black stockings, a green skirt, a white t-shirt that didn't cover her stomach…"
Kasumi was nodding, her eyes shining as she pictured Buttercup I her head. "Go on."
"Then a leather jacket with…Powerpuff Girls on the back, now that I think about it. Her hair is similar to Nabiki's hair, just more of a green black, and…green eyes. They glowed." Ranma finished.
Now Kasumi looked like Christmas had come. She was wiggling around with excitement. Ranma found her incredibly hard to ignore as she wiggled around and was wishing that he hadn't come home. "Ranma-chan, did you see her…fly?"
"Um…yeah."
Kasumi squealed.
Ranma jumped for the ceiling and tried to make his escape.
Nabiki dropped her note book in shock.
"TELL ME MORE!" Kasumi yelled as she tackled Ranma and dragged him back to the table. "Tell me every detail!"
"Help!" Ranma said as Nabiki made a break for her room.
Kasumi was right in his face, eyes wide and pleading. "Can you…get me an…autograph?"
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Several blocks away at the motel, Buttercup was laying on her bed wrapped in a towel. Her head still hurt a little from crashing into all those trees and she couldn't believe she was knocked out like that. In front of that guy no less. She sighed.
Taro's attack hadn't been that damaging, but it had been unexpected enough to catch her by surprise. After years of fighting monsters and other nasties, she kind of figured that catching her off guard like that would be hard to do. Instead she gets taken down and Ranma drives the monster off before she can take the thing down.
Then after waking up, what does she do? She flies off and leaves Ranma there and didn't even check to see if he was injured or anything. Of course they did have that little argument. She sighs again and wonders what she should do. For that matter she wasn't even sure why that other guy had attacked her in the first place.
Back home it would've been obvious, either Mojo JoJo, Him, or one of the other morons that always popped up. Here in Japan it was a completely different story. Then she thought of something, groaned, and realized why the moron had taken her down so easily.
"I've always fought with my sisters, as a team." She muttered out loud. "No wonder, I'm strong, but I don't have much experience fighting bad guys on my own do I?"
Now she felt even worse. It was a beginners mistake and she knew it. The Professor spent weeks preparing them to fight different kinds of monsters in their training room. Holograms made of light, monsters of every type and size, anything they could think of. Always as a team and rarely individually. It was for their safety.
"That's just so typical." She muttered to herself as she lay in bed and crossed her legs. She placed her arms behind her head and stared at the ceiling for several minutes.
She thought back to what she could recall of the fight and easily found her mistakes and thought of different ways she could have responded better. At the same time she thought of Ranma, picturing his attack on the monster, his form, the way his muscles moved under his shirt…
Buttercup drooled for a second, then shook her head and blushed. She was attracted to him, but with all those other girls after him it would be an uphill battle. Sitting up, she hugged her knees and sighed again. Forcing herself to think of something else, so she wondered if that Akane girl was really okay.
She had hit the girl pretty hard, more than she normally would've hit anyone any one else. She wondered if she could find the Tendo Dojo, where she lived, and apologize to the girl. Maybe they could work out their differences and find out why she had attacked in the first place. Then she realized that the dojo was also where Ranma said that she would find Genma as well.
From the way Ranma yelled about being engaged, she wondered if he was some kind of player or something. He is cute though, and had a body to die for. She giggled to herself. There weren't many guys her age that had a body like this Ranma did. Bubbles would be all over the guy if she ever saw him.
She blinked as an idea started to form. Perhaps that was why those girls had attacked her? They thought she was a new fiancée or something along those lines? Or at least they jumped to that conclusion. Heck, even Ranma had mentioned that new fiancées turned up every few weeks to hassle him.
To Buttercup, a guy proposed to the girl and they were then engaged till the wedding. Ranma and all these girl's seemed to be implying something else though, as if they didn't have a choice in the matter. It just didn't make sense to her. Maybe should could talk to the Professor and see what he had to say about the situation.
She climbed off the bed and decided that the Dojo would be a good place to start, but first she had to get dressed. After putting on everything but her leather jacket, she grabbed the dark green lace gloves and a pair of sun glasses.
Then she thought of the professor and paused for a second, just before nodding to herself. Going over to the phone, she pulled out her phone card and dialed about forty numbers. Then stood there waiting for the signal to bounce off three different satellites before arriving at home on the other side of the planet.
"Hello?"
"Hi Blossom!" Buttercup yelled.
"BUTTERCUP!"
Yanking the phone from her ear, she giggled a little. "How's everyone doing?"
"Pretty good, though Bubbles is grounded, again."
"Another boy?"
"Yep, this time right on the porch!"
'Blossom! How dare you tell her that over the phone!' Bubbles yelled in the background. Buttercup could almost see Blossom sticking her tongue out at her sister. 'AGHAAAAA!'
"No way! She should know better than that!"
"I know, I know…umph!"
Buttercup heard them fighting over the phone for a few seconds, then Bubbles managed to get a hold of it. "Hi Buttercup!"
"Hi Ditz."
"DON'T CALL ME THAT!"
"You know you like it."
"You're so mean!"
"…give that back…"
"Hey! I was talking there!"
"Girls!" Professor Untonium yelled.
"Sorry Professor." Blossom and Bubbles said.
Buttercup just grinned, things never changed around the house.
"Hello Buttercup. How's the trip going?" The Professor asked.
"So so." She said.
"What happened?"
"I lost a fight."
"Are you alright?" he asked, sounding worried.
"Yeah, but I messed up and got knocked out for a few minutes and this guy drove off the monster. I just feel like I failed."
"Did you do all you could?"
"Sorta…" Buttercup reluctantly said.
"Not in hindsight, but at the time you were fighting?" He asked.
"Yes, but now I realize I could have done a whole lot better."
"Well, if you fight again you know you can do much better."
"Yes Professor."
"Do you want the girls to come help?" He asked.
Buttercup thought about Taro and nearly told him yes, but she controlled herself and shook her head. "No sir, I can handle it."
"Alright then, you just be more careful." He said, sounding relieved and worried at the same time. "Now Blossom just threatened to toss me out the nearest window if I hang up on you before she can say anything to you, so hold on a second." He said with a laugh.
Buttercup laughed. "Bye Professor."
"Buttercup, what's Japan like!" Blossom asked.
"Well, it's really neat…" Buttercup said. "I even met this guy named Ranma, he's soooo cute."
Bubbles, listening in with Blossom, squealed. "Tell us more."
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"Townsville, City of Love and Peace." He remarked as he stood on top of a building and looked out over the vast city. The light was reflecting off his sun glasses, but as he turned his head, it shone off a small grey earring he was wearing as well. He lifted a hand into the air, formed a ball of Ki, and hurled it into the ground below.
The resulting explosion ripped a hole in the street big enough to hold several cars. He started laughing as the witnesses ran for their lives. He grinned even more at their slightly irritated expressions, as if they were tired of things like this happening. He stepped off the edge of the building and dropped to the ground several stories below.
His dark grey pants and shirt fluttered as the air rushed by, only to slow down right before he hit the ground. Two disks of light formed below his feet, absorbing the impact and shattering the sidewalk as he landed. He didn't move for several seconds, and then slowly walked out of the small dust cloud he just created.
A nearby woman screamed as he turned to look at her. He smirked and winked at before turning and walking towards the center of town. He would have to cause quite a bit of damage to get them to show up, but it was only a matter of time. His new found strength needed to be tested and the girls were the only challenge around.
This town depended on them to show up every time something weird happened. A little trip to the town library told him most of what he needed to know about the Powerpuff Girls. He couldn't wait till they showed up, Ryo Kumon was in town and wanted to beat them up.
"Boo!" He yelled at a kid.
The kid yelled and ran away leaving a trail of dust. Just to spook the kid more, Ryo threw a vacuum blade at a nearby parked car, along with a spark of Ki. The car was ripped in half and exploded nicely. This sent even more people fleeing from the scene. Laughing, he continued his walk for a couple of blocks, blowing up random cars, destroying store fronts, and smacking random people around for fun.
He was having a ball.
Then he heard the screech of tires and turned to see three police cars heading towards him. Smirking, he threw another vacuum blade across the road and bisected all three cars. Their front ends slammed to the ground, throwing up a shower of sparks. They continued on as the back half of each car crashed and flipped several times.
The trunks of the cars came open, spilling out all kinds of debris as they rolled several times and crashed into buildings. He just laughed loudly as all three front ends continued on, the officers trying to control the cars. By now people knew that something bad was going on and were evacuating the whole area. Ryo noted that it was a very controlled and orderly evacuation, as if done hundreds of times. This just cracked him up even more.
What a city.
"Bring it on assholes!" Ryo yelled. "No one here can stop me!"
Now Ryo knew that what he was saying was corny, but this city just brought out the weird in him. Kind of like Nerima did when he was there. He grabbed a piece of nearby rubble and started breaking it into smaller pieces. Then launching the pieces at the cops just as they were climbing out of the cars. It amused him to bounce the rocks off their heads, and knocking them out. Within a couple of minutes most of them were unconscious.
Then the very feel of the city seemed to change as he stood there. He looked down the street and spotted two flying girls heading his way. One was surrounded in a corona of red energy, her hair flaring out behind her. He knew them of course, Blossom and Bubbles. Just the girls he was waiting for, well two out of three anyway.
Blossom was wearing a red skirt, white leggings, black shoes, a loose red blouse, and glowing red eyes. Glancing at Blossom, he noted that she has the same glowing eyes, only they are blue. She's wearing a form fitting blue dress, blue shoes, and ankle socks. Quite different from what he was expecting from all those new articles.
For a second Ryo wonders if Fem Boy would wear something like that, and then started to laugh. The girl's are only a few seconds away when he realizes that one of them really is missing. When he first spotted them he thought they were just split up, to attack him from three different sides, but he didn't sense her anywhere nearby.
Where the hell was that girl?
"Hold right there jerk!" Blossom yells as she comes to a stop about fifteen feet above him, hovering in mid air. Her long red hair is hanging nearly to her ankles. Bubbles flew over them and comes to a stop about ten feet behind Ryo and takes up a similar position.
Ryo glances around for Buttercup. "Where's the third one. This won't be much of a challenge if it's just the two of you."
"Buttercup is…out of town." Blossom admits.
"We can stop you easily, monster." Blossom adds.
Glancing at the girl with wild blond hair, Ryo almost laughs at them as he flares his own Ki aura. "Bring it on then. I wanted all three of you at once, but two of you will do for now."
Eyes flaring, the girls both fired beams of red and blue colored energy into the ground, creating a fair sized hole. Ryo, who just flipped out of the way just held his sunglasses in place until he landed about fifteen feet away on top of a car. "I know all your powers girls. You can't win."
Then he focuses for a second and exploded into motion. Hundreds of vacuum blades fired out at both girls. Blossom and Bubbles started firing lasers from their eyes, making sure the blades didn't come near them. After several seconds, they stopped and smirked.
"That was to easy, monster, now give up!" Blossom yelled.
"Girl, you don't stand a chance." Ryo says as the engine hoods on all the cars below them suddenly lift up and rip themselves from the cars. The watch in amazement as they start folding and twisting. "Let me show you what I can do."
Suddenly the air is full of metal spikes, made from the car hoods. Bubbles and Blossom are instantly on the defensive as the spikes come at them. Down below Ryo just smirks as the girls bat the spikes away. He lets them, only to hurl the spikes back at them from above, a rain of death.
Blossom's aura flares and she seems to blur for a split second, just as the spikes start to explode. The noise rolls over the street and nearly makes Ryo go deaf. His danger sense goes off and he jumps to the side as several dozen spikes rain down, impaling the car he was standing on.
He was forced to do several more flips down the street as the spikes continued to fall. Then skidded to a stop and slapped the rest of them out of the way as they were about the land. He growled just as the two girls streaked towards him in burst of colored light.
They came in swinging, but unlike the girl's usual opponents Ryo was a very skilled martial artist. He called on the Yamasenken as he blocked, tossing the girls away from him just by flicking his wrist. Blossom flew across the road and slammed through the wall of a building.
Bubbles could only grunt as Ryo kicked her right in the stomach, then slapped her into the ground. She hit so hard that it shattered around her. She groaned and slowly pulled herself up, her dress was slightly ripped and covered in dirt. Then Ryo proved he was truly an asshole by stepping forward and kicking her in the face, sending her flying several feet.
"You're pathetic! I thought this would be a challenge." Ryo yelled as he walked towards Bubbles. "Maybe I should take advantage of this situation to alleviate my boredom."
Bubbles shook her head as she stood up and gave him a rather odd looking smile, her wild blond hair swirled around her head. "Oh really?"
"That's better. Now give me a challenge." Ryo snarled, ripping his shirt off and flexing his muscles. He had a pair of gray bracers on his arms, slight larger than they needed to be.
This wasn't what Bubbles was expecting and her hormones seemed to rev up at the sight. She started to drool. "Yummy." She breathed out, but Ryo didn't seem to notice.
"Now come on!" He yelled.
"Gladly!" Blossom screamed as she came at him from above, smashing her fists into his head. Her trip through the wall of the store hadn't slowed her down one bit. Instead she looked even angrier than before.
He yelled out as he was pounded into the ground. Then something around his arm seemed to shift as he pointed it at her and suddenly the air was filled with thousands of little metal slivers. Blossom brought her arms around to protect her face as the slivers start to rip large pieces of her dress from her body.
"Blossom!" Bubbles yelled.
The sliver storm seemed to change direction and headed right for Bubbles next, but she shot into the air in a streak of blue light, then she spun and circled around the metal and started heading for the ground. This took less than a second, so Blossom was just hitting landing several yards from Ryo.
Blossom let the slivers follow her and dove right for Ryo, who didn't see to see her coming. Instead he was starting to pull himself out of the ground. Then his head snapped around just as Bubbles flew around him, letting the metal slivers rain on him.
Instead of hitting him, they all seemed to just stop, then swirl around as they formed into a metal bracer around his arm. He smirked as the bracers formed. Off to the side Blossom held an arm over her breasts to hide them. Her blouse was a complete loss and the only thing left was pieces of her skirt and even that had several holes through it. Her white panties were quite easy to see with all the rips and tears in her skirt.
"You'll pay or this." Blossom growled.
"Looks like you have quite a bit to handle there." Ryo mocked and started to laugh.
Blossom blushed as red as her hair.
In all their years of fighting, this was the first time that Bubbles could recall one of them actually losing their clothes in a fight. Considering there were now over a dozen video cameras pointed at them, Blossom wasn't sure what to do.
Then Ryo pointed his arm at Blossom and a long tendril of metal shot out, wrapped around her foot, and yanked. Blossom screamed, still clutching her breasts as she sailed into the air and slammed into the ground. She gritted her teeth and absorbed the impact.
She gasped as Ryo gave another yank and lifted her into the air again, slamming her down into a nearby car. Bubbles fired a blue beam from her eyes and tried to cut the tendril, but missed completely. Ryo held out his other arm and shot a tendril form it as well.
This time it grabbed Bubbles wrist and lifted her off the ground. She gave a savage yank with her super strength, but the tendril just covered her hand, shot a smaller tendril to her other hand, and pulled them together. She was a bit mortified seconds later as she slammed into the car beside Blossom.
"Hi sis." She said, smiling weakly.
"This guy is pissing me off." Blossom said just as both girls were suddenly catapulted across the area. They screamed as the tendrils seemed to add to the throw and let go. Bubbles grabbed Blossom in a hug and used her powers to change where they were going to land.
They crashed through a department store window head first instead of going through the brick wall above it. This was good and bad. Since Bubbles hadn't considered just how much force was used in the throw. So as they entered the window, they went through several racks of clothing, through the floor, and crashed into the basement of the building.
"WIMPS!" Ryo yelled as he stood there listening to all the glass raining down on the ground, then a silence washed over the area. Over a minute passed without any sign of the girls and Ryo started to grin in victory.
Then a beam of red light shot into the sky, exploding out the roof of the building. Blossom hovered there for five seconds looking like a pissed off god. She was also wearing a red leather bra she found in the basement, much to the camera men's delight. They took a second to focus in on her as her hair seemed to crackle with red energy.
In the blink of an eye Blossom was right in front of Ryo. She belted him at nearly full at full strength. A tooth flew from his mouth as his body was sent flying down the street. Bubbles appeared next and kicked Ryo into the sky, where Blossom used a street light, ripped out of the pavement, like a bat, and sent him flying out of the city with a snarl.
Well a cute snarl.
This is Blossom after all. The two girls just hovered there for several seconds and watched Ryo fly towards the horizon. When they were sure he was gone they hugged each other and sighed in relief. They looked down at the devastation below them and didn't know what to do.
Blossom also seemed to have forgotten that her skirt was ripped to shreds, much to the camera men's delight as well. The nightly news was going to have high ratings this night. And at home, Professor Utonium didn't have a clue what was going on. On the other hand, several men's magazine were about to call him about Blossom and her white panties.
His little girls were growing up.
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She got a few looks as she walked down the street, but she ignored them. Boys did like to look at good looking girls after all. Laughing to herself, she started asking people where she could find the Tendo Dojo. That of course seemed to scare a few people away.
Most would blink, nod to themselves as if confirming something, and then point her down the road from the school. A little while later she found herself standing in front of a large wooden gate. Glancing at the name plate beside the door told her it was the Tendo Dojo. Nothing about new students though, which she found odd.
Shrugging it off she pounded on the door a couple of times. A minute or so later a slightly familiar girl opened the gate. They had the same hair style except for a couple of differences. She was also wearing a Furinkan school uniform. "Hello."
"Hi, I'm Buttercup Utonium, I was wondering if I could talk to an Akane Tendo or Genma Saotome?"
Nabiki bowed her head. "I'm Nabiki Tendo and they are both here. Come on in."
Nodding her thanks, Buttercup walked in and looked around the yard inside the gate. She hadn't seen a home quite like this one before. Everything seemed to be well taken care of and quite old. Even the plants along the inside of the fence seemed to be as old as the house and very healthy. "If I can I'd like to talk to Akane first."
"May I ask what you want to ask her?" Nabiki asked, her mind working to find a way to profit from this.
"We got into a fight yesterday."
"You want to continue it?" Nabiki suddenly asked. "We have a back gate for that kind of thing."
Buttercup laughed and shook her head. "Naw, I wanted to apologize and find out why she attacked in the first place."
"Ah, well sis can be a bit dense at times, so be careful or you might have to fight her again."
Buttercup blinked a few times and just nodded as they entered the house. She took her shoes off as stepped into the main room and looked around. It didn't take her long to spot Ranma sitting at the table with an older girl sitting next to him as they talked.
She saw Nabiki smirk a little out of the corner of her eye. "I'll let sis know you're here, okay?"
"Thank you."
Nabiki quickly headed up the stairs, but not before she waved something at Ranma. He looked, nodded, and then noticed Buttercup standing there. He gave Nabiki a dirty look which made her laugh for some reason. Ranma looked back at Buttercup and nodded. "Hello Buttercup."
This had an odd effect on the girl beside him. Her head snapped to the side so fast her hair had trouble keeping up, and then just stopped as she saw Buttercup standing there. Buttercup would swear that the girl's eyes tripled in size. Then she stood up and glided over to her.
"I'm Kasumi Tendo, It's a pleasure to meet one of the Powerpuff Girls." She gushed.
This was something Buttercup could deal with. Grinning, she shook the girl's hand. "How you doing? I don't find many people that know of the Powerpuff Girls outside America these days."
"I've been following the Powerpuff Girl's for years."
"Really?" Buttercup said and laughed as Kasumi pulled a book from nowhere.
"Can I have an autograph?"
"Of course!" She said, quickly signing the book. Which made the girl even happier as she sighed, proceeded to float around the room, and upstairs to her room. Buttercup blinked a few times, and then shrugged as she glanced at Ranma. "Hey there, sorry about earlier. I should have been a lot more helpful against that thing."
Ranma waved it off. "No problem, you're only a girl after all."
Buttercup couldn't believe he would even say anything like that. She ignored it though as she saw the other two sisters come down stairs. Akane looked a little tired and had a large bruise on her forehead. It was hard to tell what she was thinking as she came down the stairs tough.
"What do you want?"
"We got into a fight yesterday and I wanted to see if you were alright and to apologize if you would let me."
Akane glared at her. "Ranma has enough girls chasing after him. He doesn't need anymore." She snapped.
Shrugging, Buttercup nodded. "Fair enough. I have no idea what you're talking about though. I came to find Genma Saotome actually. Not Ranma."
"Mr. Saotome? Why?" Akane asked, calming down considerably.
"He's the head of a school that teaches mid air combat. I wanted to see if I could learn the style to compliment my ability to fly."
"YOU CAN FLY!" Akane yelled in shock.
"I did hover above the school yesterday."
"But that's hovering, I didn't know you could actually fly." Akane muttered.
"That's right, you were almost unconscious when she flew off." Nabiki said from behind her, making Akane jump. She glared at her sister.
"Fat lot of good getting the panda to teach you." Ranma said. "He's never taught a girl and thinks they're useless."
"Ranma, you take that back!" Akane yelled. "Or do you want me to pound you?"
"Calm down Tomboy." Ranma said, eying the girl.
"I can't believe you just said that."
"Um, I'm willing to pay for the lessons." Buttercup said, interrupting them.
"Even then, pops is a bit stubborn…"
"Well, let me ask him anyway. Where is he?"
Nabiki looked around and realized that the front room was missing it's usual two occupants. "That's odd, I thought he was around here somewhere."
Ranma laughed. "I bet he heard someone was looking for him and he made a run for it."
Even Akane nodded at that.
"You're kidding."
"Nope."
"Ranma, she's wiling to pay for the lessons. Can't you teach her?" Nabiki asked, greed written on her face.
"Well, I don't see why not. I am supposed to take over the school after all."
Buttercup grinned. "When do we start?"
"Right now I guess, let's head out to the Dojo and I'll show you the first couple of moves. I saw you fly earlier so I think these shouldn't be as hard for you as they were for me when I was six. When pops was throwing me off three story buildings." Ranma said as he got up.
Akane snorted. "Yeah right."
Ranma ignored her as they headed out to the Dojo. "Just how limber are you?"
"I think she should pay right now, in case you drive her off." Nabiki said. "I know how you train people."
"You pervert!" Akane snarled as Ranma's comment registered.
"Sis calm down, he's going to be training her so it's a valid question." Nabiki said. "Anyway, hit him after she pays."
Buttercup sweatdropped as she eyed the middle Tendo girl. Off to the side Kasumi came back down and smiled at Buttercup. She patted Akane on the head and headed into the kitchen. Akane finally lost it, formed her Ki Mallet, and went after Ranma with a scream of rage.
"You Pervert!"
He just jumped to the side, flipped out the back door, and landed in the yard. Buttercup watched for a couple of minutes as Akane chased Ranma around the yard cursing at him and calling him names, her language growing worse with every passing second. Of course Ranma kept right out of reach. That is until Akane threw her mallet at him, it exploded, and left Ranma twitching in a small crater.
"How cute, Ranma and Akane just love playing with each other." Kasumi said as she held a plate of cookies out to Buttercup. "Would you like a cookie?"
Just a little off balance, the girl took one and slowly ate it as Ranma crawled out to the hole. Within a couple of minutes, he was back on his feet and acting like nothing happened. After he ate the rest of the cookies and earned a glare from Kasumi, he motioned for Buttercup to follow him to the Dojo.
Where they found Genma and Soun plying their usual game of Go. "Pops, what the hell are you doing out here."
"Be quiet boy, I'm in a delicate situation." Genma yelled, not looking up from his game.
"Yeah right, more like sitting on your ass." Ranma muttered.
"Boy…"
"This girl has asked us to train her, pops."
"Girl's are useless boy! Now…"
Buttercup walked over to Genma, who still hadn't looked up from his game, and bent down to look at the board. "You're losing."
Genma's head whipped around. "Ah…"
"Girls are useless you said."
Sweat started to drip down Genma's face. "Um, well…"
"Useless. What an interesting outlook." Buttercup said mildly. She glanced at Soun, who wouldn't look her in the eye.
"Now see here girl..." Genma growled as he found his back bone again.
The outer wall of the dojo exploded at Genma's body flew through it, propelled by Buttercup's foot. He screamed as he crashed into the outer wall of the compound and slumped to the ground. Groaning, he turned to look just as Buttercup flew out of the hole in the dojo and rose into the air.
"Useless." She said, smirking a little. "That just pisses me right off."
Genma dove for the pond, but a green beam of energy hit the ground in front of him and blew him off his feet. He rolled with the force of the explosion and came up on his feet a few yards away. He turned to look at Buttercup.
"And to think I would've been willing to pay you for the training, but you had to go and insult me. Calling me useless." Buttercup muttered.
"Can we talk about this?"
"No, I'm going to kick your ass. Then pay your son to train me instead since your going to be busy in the hospital." For the next ten minutes the back yard was filled with the sounds of a bug zapper, flashing green light, and Genma's screaming.
In the dojo, Soun moved five pieces onto the board and nodded knowingly. "I win."
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Professor Utonium sat in the living room looking at the TV. No he wasn't seeing his daughters panties being flashed all over the world, instead he was watching news footage of Buttercup's fight with Taro over in Japan. Someone had managed to fill the entire fight and sold it to the local news stations.
The camcorder wasn't balanced at all and shook all over the place, but he was able to see Buttercup in action. He would wince as she was thrown into the trees, gape a little as the boy fought the monster, and wondered just why they were fighting.
He knew this was the fight that his little girl said she lost when she called as well. That was all it could be. As the footage was being run over an over, he had time to get a recording of it. It wasn't often he got a chance to see his girls in action either.
"Girls!" He yelled.
Blossom and Bubbles flew down stairs. "Professor?"
He held up the remote and let them watch the fight. The two girls squealed when they saw that it was Buttercup fighting a monster all the way over in Japan. "Look at her go!" Blossom yelled, bouncing around as she ran over to the couch.
Bubbles on the other hand was gazing at the screen in a daze. "Who is that HUNK?"
"Huh?" The professor asked and looked at the screen.
"That boy that's helping fight the monster with Buttercup." Blossom answered. "Wow, look at those muscles flex."
The blond haired powerpuff girl started to drool as she watched the screen. "Is that the boy she said she met?"
"I think so."
Bubbles squealed again, wiggling around with excitement. "He's so cute!"
"Um, that isn't why I wanted you to see the film…" The professor said.
"Look at those abs! He's god among men!"
Blossom nodded, but didn't get as excited as her sister. "She seems to have forgotten that we weren't there to help her fight. Notice she keeps leaving her back open?"
"She needs our help." Bubbles declared.
"Well, she did say that she didn't really…" Blossom started.
"Look at that butt and tell me that again!"
"Girls…" The professor started, but they continued to ignore him.
"Buttercup does need our help." Blossom mused. She really didn't mind the idea of going, but she was still embarrassed about her little display for the cameras earlier. They were already making posters of it. It didn't help matters that Bubbles said she was so jealous of all the attention she was getting.
"Then let's go!" Bubbles yelled.
"What about Townsville?"
"They can do without us now and we always come home if something bad happens. That Taro character has already left the area and won't be returning any time soon either." Bubbles said, remembering the jerk flying into the stratosphere.
"Well, alright, I do want to see Buttercup again." Blossom conceded.
Blossom cheered and both girls flew out of the room with bright bursts of energy. Blinking, the professor blinked his eyes a few times before he sat down in a chair. He was about to get up and talk to them when they both flew down stairs carrying a suitcase, and launched out of the doorway.
"Bye Professor!" Filled the house once they were gone.
He sighed and waved after their retreating tails of energy. Once they were out of sight, he turned off the video and stepped into his lab. They would find their sister easily enough, but the residents of Townsville wouldn't like the fact that they were out of town.
On the other hand, if the tree of them were fighting monsters in Japan, they wouldn't be chasing after all the boys. At least Bubbles wouldn't be doing any of that. For some reason Blossom hadn't reached that point yet, but it would happen soon.
Once that happened he would be in for quite a ride. A decade of them chasing every man in the city and teenage rebellion wasn't a good thing. But they would be occupied. He thought about it for a little while longer and decided that he would deal with things as they happened.
The perfect parenting solution.
oooooooooo
"Dam it Bubbles! I told you to take a left at that mountain!" Blossom yelled.
"How the hell did we end up at Pismo Beach?" Bubbles complained, then she looked a little closer as the word beach echoed around her skull for a few seconds. "Maybe we should, stick around for a few minutes."
"Why?" Blossom asked.
"Him."
Blossom looked down to see that a body builder's show was going on. She blushed and looked away. That was when she noticed that Bubbles wasn't there. Looking down again, she spotted her sister shoving her way through a large group of hormonal girls.
"Well, I guess we can stay for a little while." She muttered as she floated down to land next to her sister.
oooooooooo
To Be Continued…
Notes: The chapter is a little shorter than the first one, but I think it came out pretty good. Sorry for the wait though, I've had this pretty much finished for a couple of months now, I've just been working on everything else instead.
The girl's are heading for Japan in a round about way, but they will eventually get there. As you can tell from what's been shown so far, things are really taking a turn for the strange. With Ryu gone for the time being, I'll been looking towards Japan again and Buttercup. Things aren't going to go as she wants them too.