Burnout: Summer Rush
By RichieD.
(A/N and disclaimer: Here we are second chapter, should be a little more action in this one though were still setting up the plot. Nevertheless, enjoy and keep reading and reviewing. Also the characters of Binks/Stealth XL belong to MedaHamtraoZoid a.k.a MHZ. Shorty belongs to me, and any other character belongs to Cartoon Network and their rightful owners.)
"The city of Townsville…" The Narrator says, "…is looking at a major problem. Seems a slimy contractor by the name of Blair has somehow got his hands on the rights to the Townsville lake and plans to tear it down just so he can sell it the highest bidder and gain more money. Hmm, I wonder how he manage to get his hands on something that big anyway?"
The camera cuts to the mayor of Townsville who sitting in his office. "Ten thousand dollars. No way I said! Twenty million dollars, forget it! A room full of Turkish delights, BAH! But a room full of Turkish delights AND a jar full of pickles! How could I resist!"
The mayor then proceeds to alternate between scarfing down the delights and pickles "Mmm, oh so yummy!" Nearby Ms. Bellum has her hand to her temples (well considering if you could see her face).
"Oh, somehow am not surprised." Said the narrator, "But anyway, Blair's plans were discovered by the visiting J-Pop band Puffy AmiYumi as well a new friend, a caricature artist named Shorty. However upon finding out the scheme, the three now find themselves in a bit of a pickle as they face down two of his new security. What going to happen now? Well that what you've come back for, right? Come along and find out. And hopefully maybe a day will be saved this time out or something."
-Opening sequence, see first page-
"Now, now fellas." Ami says nervously backing up, her other two friends doing the same. "No need to introduces yourself all at once, how will we remember your names if you don't come one at a time?"
"Besides don't you guys have a empire state building to climb or something?" Yumi adds, though this doesn't help as indicted by the two thugs increased growling.
"Great choice of words." Shorty tells her sarcastically "Let me guess, you're the band's motivator right?"
"Bite me, shortstuff." Yumi shoots back.
Chapter 2: Lake Aid"I suppose you can do better?"
Shorty quirks an eyebrow then points to the side "Look, It's Monty Python's Flying Circus!" The brutes turn and look in the direction she pointing "Ohh I hope I get John Cleeses's autograph, I love the dead parrot sketch!" one of them says.
"Viola!" Shorty beams "Also…RUN!" On that signal the three girls make tracks through the woods.
"Ugh, this is what happens when I work with a temp agency. GET THEM!" Blair yells. This snaps Iggy and Axel out of their star daze and they set off after the girls who have a very good head start on them. The two rushed through the wood seeing the forms of the girls in the distance but after going through a bush after them they found they've suddenly disappeared! The two quickly stopped and looked around.
"Hey, wheres they go?" Iggy asked…then got his answer when a branch full of leaves swatted from out of nowhere and knocked him to the ground in a daze. His partner turns around, seeing him hurt and went to go help him when a second branch swung at him. However Axel sensed it coming and ducked. "Heh, nice try. But I don't fall for such childish tricks!"
He hears a click sound above him and turns his head upward just in time to see a net made of leaves falling his way, curtosty of Ami and Shorty "Wow, I've never seen a net sewn so fast." Shorty notes to which Ami blushes "Was in the Panda Scouts when I was little. You be surprised what you learn in the wilderness."
"Fascinating and may I add, WHO CARES! We gotta keep moving!" Yumi tells the two from a nearby tree. They all jump down and continue running just as the thugs recover.
Noting this, Shorty points to some nearby bushes and yells "Quick in there!" The three jump into them just as Iggy and Axel catch up. They check two of the bushes but find no one there only for the three to pop up in another bush. The two quickly rush to that bush but find it empty and the three in the one the thugs were checking before. A run to that one reveals more emptiness as the three taunt them from a nearby bush. The two again split up and try to catch them in the different bushes they appear in but the girls are like whack-a-mole on overdrive, their much to quick for them, appearing in another bush before they can reach them.
Eventually one of the thugs get frustrated and start tearing the bushes apart in a reckless frenzy until theres none left. "HUH!" Both thugs say as the same time when they see no sign of the girls they're trying to catch. At least until a whistle from Shorty catches their attention and they the find the three not too far from them, standing in a clearing.
"Looking for us, pea for brains? Were right here!"
Without a moment of hesitation, the two exploded from the spot they were standing and rushed the three yelling all the way. The girls however stay perfectly rooted in their spot, something that didn't go unnoticed by Axel. About an inch from reaching the three, the ground suddenly caved in from underneath.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" –THUD! -
"Two knuckleheads in the corner pocket. HAHA!" Yumi cheered.
"Uh Yumi?"
"Not now Ami am revealing in the sweet scent of victory."
"Yumi?"
"I said not now! Your really harshing my buzz you know. "
"But I think you should see this?"
"Oh, WHAT!"
She looks forward to notice that she caught only one knucklehead in her trap hole. And the remaining one wasn't looking at all amused.
"Eh huh, did I say knucklehead?" Yumi chuckles nervously "I mean a big strong and handsome guy who probably doesn't get paid enough for this job."
"Oh I don't know. Money isn't everything and this job comes with its own rewards." Axel grins then crouches and proceeds to jump over the pit to reach the girls. Both Ami and Yumi give their windpipes some exercise as they scream holding onto each other.
-WHAP-
"GAH!" Axel yells then drops out of the air and into the hole with his partner. The two pop stars, unaware of whats happened, continue screaming until a hand taps Yumi on the shoulder. "OH PLEASE DON'T HURT US, DID I MENTION HOW HANDSOME YOU WERE?"
She opens her eyes and finds Shorty standing there with her hands on her hips. "We'll that's a nice compliment and all. But am afraid handsome isn't something that fits well into my category. Now bootylicious…"
"Err right." Yumi interrupts "What happened to twiddle dumber?"
Shorty shrugs "I hit him with a rock and knocked him out of mid air over the trap hole."
"Oh, well I could've done that. In fact I was getting ready to spring my amazing jiujutsu on there." Yumi does a couple of karate movements to prove her point.
"Right and I suppose these rip marks on my dress are proof of your cunning strategy?" Ami asks her stonely showing the rips "But at least we ditched those creeps, so now let get back to Blair and…"
Before she could finish the ground under them started to shake before four arms shot up from the ground. Two arms grabbing Yumi's legs, the other two getting hold of one of Shorty and Ami's legs. Pretty soon the bodies that belong to those arms slowly rose out of the ground as Iggy and Axel reappeared with triumphant (and very disturbing) looks on their face.
"Might wanna put a rain check on that if we manage to get out of the Evil Dead scene first!" Shorty cries out before she and the other girls are flipped upside down by their legs, screaming all the way.
(-Eyecatch-: Yumi wearing baseball gear up to bat, with Ami as the catcher and Kaz as the umpire. Yumi takes a couple of practice swings then frowns at the bat before she tosses it away. From out of nowhere, she pulls out her trusty guitar and nods with an evil grin while Ami and Kaz nervously look on and sweatdrop.)
We now find ourselves out on the sidewalk near the Townsville Park where the forest and the lake aren't too far away. Traveling alongside this path was a Rowdyruff Boy. He wasn't evil like Brick, Boomer, and Butch however. In fact he didn't even dress like them wearing a blue t-shirt with green jeans and sneakers not to mention brown hair that was able to cover his puff eyes. As this 'Ruff continued to minding his business, something caught his attention and he looked around till he faced toward the wood. "Huh, what that sound?"
Indeed there seemed to be bit of commotion coming from that area but he couldn't make out what it was. The 'Ruff proceeded toward the fence to climb and go check out what is was until…
-BAM! -
That sound was heard all over the woods; even the remaining birds were now flocking away from it. In the midst of the feathered frenzy, three shadows were seen sailing out of the trees. "WHOA!" the 'Ruff cried out and quickly jumped the fence, racing toward the spot where they were falling. Seeing he wasn't going to make it to the spot in time. He jumped into the air and flew toward them, arms outstretched. Ami fell into one arm, Yumi the other. "Gotch-OOF!"
The 'Ruff unfortunately didn't see the third falling girl, Shorty, in time (not that it mattered, both his arms were full) and she walloped right into him, sending all three hurdling toward the ground. Luckily though, they weren't high up thus the impact wasn't very painful when they landed.
"Ooooh, what…what happened?" Ami groaned, opening her eyes after the crash. Then noticed that she was on top of a pile with Shorty underneath her followed by Yumi and finally….
"Did someone get the number of that big Mac? Its sesames seeds were overdue." A voice underneath all of them said in a dazed and extremely hurtful tone. The girls quickly piled off of him to find that he had been grounded into the dirt, his eye twirling spirals.
"I think this guy…caught us." Yumi states looking over him along with the other two, Shorty's eyes widen however when she got a good look at the boy. "BINKS! Are you okay!"
"Binks?" Both Ami and Yumi asked as Shorty helped him up. "You know him?"
"Yeah and we would be road waffles if he hadn't rescued us. Ami, Yumi, this is my friend Binks, a Rowdyruff Boy."
"ROWDYRUFF BOY!" The two exclaimed and jumped back. "B-b-but aren't they the enemies of the Powerpuff Girls and like, you know, DANGEROUS?" Ami asked, frighten. But Shorty quickly shook her head "No, its alright. Binks, unlike those idiots, turned out good, powers and all. Though he rarely uses them, preferring a to live a normal life. Albeit a lazy one, the bum."
"Who you calling lazy, Shorty?" Binks said as he finally snapped out of his daze and got to his feet. "I prefer the term, energy challenged." Both then chuckled and clasped each other hands. "Hey girl, don't see you around much anymore."
"Yeah, well you know. Business and all." She says, "Oh and these are my friends I just met recently, Ami and Yumi. Better know Puffy AmiYumi, the rock stars from Japan!"
"Hi Hi!" Both of the girls greeted at the same time.
"Wow really? Coolness." Binks says.
"Hey the power of rock can do that to you." Yumi smirks
"I've never really heard much of your music." Binks admits "But I heard you were pretty good." This statement however quickly deflates Yumi's grandstand though "Oh well thanks for the save anyway."
"Domo for the rescue from me as well." Ami thanks "We really got thrown high by those two thugs that caught us."
"Thugs?" Binks ask. Shorty and Puffy then proceeded to explain about their run in with Blair, his plans to destroy the lake for his own selfish profit, and of course how they briefly knew the joy and terror of flight and gravity.
"What!" Binks said in disbelief. "Dang that tanks. I like that place, the trees gave me the greatest shade for me to nap. I would spend hours on end there if I had could, in fact that was my plans for summer. Not to mention the scenery."
"I know." Ami agreed. "That lake looked beautiful and pretty. We can't let Blair tear down such a pretty thing like that. What do we do, Yumi?"
"Hmm." Yumi ponders then quickly reached into her pocket, pulling her guitar from out of "who-knows-where." "It may be a sacrifice, but I'm sure my "axe" here could persuade those goons." She said smiling evilly.
"Gee, I'm not sure if violence is the answer, Yumi." Ami said. "Maybe we could find some creative, non-violent way to assert the problem."
"Am with Ami. Besides I think we've got our butts kicked enough for today." Shorty added "But how do we go about doing this?" The four went into thought, concentrating hard (straining in Binks' case) for a few minutes until a light bulb appeared over Yumi's head.
"Ami that's it, our next gig here in Townsville! We could do a concert and try to raise money for Blair to not destroy the swimming hole."
Ami's eyes widen at the idea before she exclaimed with happy agreement in Japanese. Shorty also seemed to agree as indicated by her slowly increasing smile. "Really? That would be awesome!" Binks also nodded in agreement "Would be a perfect chance to see you guys in action."
"Money!" a voice was heard from a far off distance, which was soon followed by the sound of someone burning rubber. A dust cloud was then seen by the four zooming toward them until it stop about an inch from reaching them, blowing dust in their faces. When the dust cleared, what was standing there was a short balding gray haired man wearing a simple black shirt and blue jeans.
"Did someone just say my favorite word? Cause if money involved then I'd be more then happy to assist." Kaz grinned
The words T.B.C flash across the screen before they spread out to form "To Be Continued".
"Aww again?" The narrator complains "But the lake wasn't saved! Well the girls were at least and theres a plan TO save the lake. But seriously this is really getting uncomfortable. Oh where are the Powerpuff Girls when you need them?"
Cut to their house with a note attached to the door reading "Out for summer vacation. Call AWSM if city needs saving. See you in a month. Love PPG."
"Peachy." The narrator moans "Just peachy. –Long sigh-"
-Outro sequence, see first page-
Next Chapter:
Yumi: Well thats typical of Kaz, to come running when money involved. But I guess we need all the help we can get if were gonna pull this off and stop Blair. But whats up the sun? It's flashing in and out lately and there looks like some kinda weird rocket shaped light dodging in and out of it. Weird, but eh it not my problem, this annoying blue blob however seems to want to pick a fight with Ami and me though. Heh, cute, like he can even compete with us.
Next Chapter: Starlight, Star-Fight!
Yumi: Will somebody get the sun a fresh light bulb already? That flashing is really interfering with our rehearsal. Sheesh!