Robin seemed thrilled as she approached the table monday morning a smile a big as the sun etching her features.
"They Rob you ok?" Buttercup couldn't help but asked when the girl basically bounced over to the table. "Get something cool for Christmas?" Bubbles asked she seemed just as concerned as Buttercup.
"I saw them," she told the group smiling widely.
"You saw who?" Blossom asked looking between her sister with a bit of hope.
"The Powerpuff girls i saw them" she whispered looking at each of them as she sat down.
"I'm sorry what?" Buttercup deadpanned with a frown. "How do you even know about them?" Blink sighed so much for fever dreams.
"Robin there just a story I thought I told you that" Bubbles tried reassuring her as her sister glared at her. "No no don't glare there real" From her voice she sounded unpleasantly convinced.
"There made up Robin a fairytale" Blossom told there long time friend sternly her voice as icy as her power.
"Just hear me out ok" Robin pleaded it she seemed to know a battle was coming and came prepared for that answer.
"Last Saturday I was kidnapped" she started putting her hand up to let her keep speaking when Bubbles tried to interject. "A women had disguised herself as my mom but she wasn't. I was knocked out the entire kidnapping but I woke up somewhere Bubbles you were there right next to me. I think they had targeted us I don't know why but they did" her explanation seemed far from over but Blossom had to interject.
"Bubbles came home that night and you went home with your mom." That was the story they were working with Blink had a lot of people of the Snider family to hypnotize that night.
"That's what they want us to believe, but one of them the grey one tried it on me my vision was so blurry it didn't work" unknowist to Robin Buttercup elbowed her lazy ass grey sister.
"What do you mean?" Blossom asked her voice a little forced but she sounded genuinely surprised they all where.
"She put me in my bed and swung this circle thing in front of my face. She told me that I wouldn't remember a thing and that I would go to sleep. When I pretended to sleep she left." Robin explained causing there grey sister to slam her head on the table in defeat. She thought she had went to sleep because she was hypnotized not acting like she was. She was gonna get the rant of a lifetime she could hear it now.
"Your parents never reported a kidnapping, your mother took you home" Blossom questioned sounding like she was trying to understand Robins view rather then sway her the other way.
"Mom says that to but she cant remember going to the mall she also thought it was still Saturday I think she was hypnotized to sleep and believe the story like you guys" Robin explained when did she become a detective?
"But Robin I was never kidnapped." Bubbles tried to reason.
"Ya just think you weren't Bubbles when i saw them i tried to wake you up but they said you were sick and that why you where passed out" she pushed not even a little close to giving up.
"That's another thing i was sick the doctor said it was bein out in the cold but I was never in the cold even if we go with the story that my mother took me home because I called sayini was sick. I was never exposed to the cold long enough to get as sick as I was" her voice was confident as she explained her story the worst part.
"You've really been thinking of this for awhile, haven't you?" Blossom asked raising a brow.
"Blossom I was stuck in bed for a week and a half it gives you time to think." She explained a pang of guilt ran through each girl.
"Robin are you sure you didn't just dream all of this up?" Blossom asked though the answer was obvious.
"Of course I'm sure I've been festorin over it all winter break. At first I knew it what i saw was real then i talked to my mom who said I was sick and that it was just a dream. But I couldn't let it go I know it's real we have superheroes in Townsville it just makes since" she exclaimed eyes growing wide.
Silence fell over them not one of them wanted to ask finally with her head still on the table the third eldest of the group asked the question.
"How's that?"
"Think about it there's never one act of crime in this town. The one time there is another crime is committed right after it. I think that the Powerpuff girls stop them before the crime can actually be committed. Don't you see?" She exclaimed with a smile.
"No" the girl answered together bluntly.
"I think that they don't want people to know about them, they want to be hidden from society."
"Then why are we talking about them?" Bubbles asked in a whisper.
"Cause it's not right," she exclaimed burst from her seat.
"I did some research did you know this town used to be riddled with crime not just everyday but every hour there was something at least four 4 crimes committed." She told them though they knew better than she did. "Then it all stopped 11 years ago just like that no one knows why and some website that said they do where completely shut down," she explained.
"This whole town?" Buttercup asked looking baffled.
"Yeah I bet it was them they cleaned the streets and didn't take any credit for it," she exclaimed.
"Robin your thinking to hard on a bed time story" Bubbles was stressing it by now Blink wasn't the only one who was gonna get a rant.
"You said that the Professor worked here before you moved here right?" They mentally groaned.
"Yeah."
"Well what if he witnessed the Powerpuff girls but was made to think of it as a story that he ended up telling you" Blossom had her nose between her fingers at this point she always knew her friend was bright but this was dangerously thought out.
"Listen" she started sucking in a breath she could feel the icy air fill her mouth clenching her teeth she kept the ice at bay. "We thought they were real once and it wrecked us don't be foolish and let it wreck you to" she was seething at this point how much information was she able to gather from them alone she had hoped the gap of distance would be enough but she got this far just by knowing them better than anyone else.
"I thought you would be the most enthusiastic about this Blossom you've always loved a good mystery" Robins whimpered out she had never seen Blossom mad before she was always so calm and collected so aloof. The bell rang and Blossom was the first to step away from the table.
"Sorry about that Robin" Bubbles apologized. "It may not seem like it but she was affected just as much as the rest of us she just hasn't addressed it not yet" Bubbles sighed touching Robins shoulder in reassurance.
Blossom breathed heavily as she draped herself over the bathroom sink with each breath a thin coat of ice would coat the insides of the sink. She didn't know why she reacted the way she did she was so cold but she never had to deal with her past before it was always something that was talked about amongst her sisters or the people who knew. It had been so long since 'the Powerpuff girls' had been said so many times in front of her. The first time Robin said it she was sick and she had assumed hoped it would go away after that.
All it did was remind her of her failure of that day that month that year. She failed as their leader as a heroine as a sister. She could hear the tardy bell ring before she finally stepped away from the sink. Be walking out she left the water running to thaw the ice.
Walking towards her class she could hear quick steps coming in the same direction turning she saw Mrs. Keane running up to the class.
"Mrs. Keane what are you doing here?" She asked gaining her a look of confusion.
"Im sorry do I know you?" She asked attempting to scan her over to remind herself who the pink eyed girl was.
Blossom frowned with all the thoughts of the past she forgot. "No but i've heard alot about you, you where a lot of my friends kindergarten teacher," she told the woman her familiar blue eyes lighting up.
"They still talk about me even in highschool thats wonderful" her nasally voice came out warmly.
"Well who are you dear?" She asked her eyes staring deeply into her pink eyes.
"Blossom" she told her remembering the first time she meet this women.
"It suits you its like your parents knew" she said with a fond smile.
"So what are you doing here?" She repeated dodging the parents conversation.
"Well im substituting for Mr. Green for a while" she answered jestering to the class room.
"Did he go somewhere for the holidays?" She asked he never said anything about leaving.
"No the poor things in the hospital they think he was jumped and put into a meat locker he was thawed out he's just recovering now" She answered with sympathetic look.
"Really they thawed him out?" She asked.
"Well no he said a gang jumped him and the leader stuffed him in a meat locker he said he was found thawed out and carried to the hospital" the story didn't seem right.
"What gang?" She asked a chill running down her spine.
"I'm not sure dear but there was said to be five members and each one was incredibly different" he wasn't stuffed in a meat locker he was frozen but who thawed him out?
She stood there frozen for a minute the Gangreen gang where still out there that much was obvious but what did they want with Green sure he was a monster but he was nice. And who thawed him out who had fire hot enough to melt Ace's ice powers?
