A few minutes soon passed as Buttercup was jogging into the park. She then saw what was going on which was very interesting. "Huh?"

Hex and Blooming Diamond were still going at it.

"Buttercup!" Bubbles cried out from the tree.

Hex looked over to see the remaining Powerpuff Girl.

"Buttercup?!" Blooming Diamond gasped.

"He's beating us!" Bubbles told Buttercup, who began to untie her from the tree.

Hex soon glared and decided to get at Buttercup next. Suddenly, Blooming Diamond was shot down for not paying attention to the fight. And at that, suddenly, Steven and Blossom became separate entities in an instant.

"Look what they've made me too!" Hex glared sharply as he pointed while Bubbles and Buttercup looked in horror. "I had to use my powers to protect this world!"

"He had powers all along!" Blossom defended.

"He's lying!" Steven added.

"I am the only one who can give you what you desire!" Hex grinned sadistically and hopefully at Buttercup. "Just give me your gem!"

Buttercup looked over and she was in deep thought yet again. It was time for her to decide. "I'm not giving you the gem." she then finally said.

Hex gave her a firm and silent look at that.

"If you want it, take it from me!" Buttercup challenged.

"...Fair enough," Hex soon replied as he used his magic and swiped Amethyst away from Buttercup's pocket and grasped the purple gemstone in delight. "So easy."

Blossom and Steven looked horrified as Hex took the gemstone to add to his collection as he gained more power, much to his greedy delight.

"I FEEL THE POWER!" Hex laughed wickedly. He then looked at Steven as he was the only one left. "GIVE ME YOUR GEM!"

"Oh, dear..." Steven frowned as a rope tied over his ankle and began to drag him towards Hex's power. "NOOOO!"

Blossom soon took Steven's hand and tried to keep him from being dragged away into grave danger.

"Pathetic!" Hex scoffed before he soon shot at Blossom which made her jump back, away from Steven. "I'm not gonna lie. I'm really gonna enjoy this." he then grinned wickedly at the hybrid boy.

"What have I done...? I thought... We could forget..." Buttercup looked very distressed and put her hands to her face in dismay. "I was so selfish!"

"It's okay..." Bubbles said which made her look over. "This is not selfishness, you just wanted an average life. Sometimes, we all want to forget. There are bad memories, but all apart of me, are some good ones," she then smiled at her sister. "Every memory formed me to the person I am today, Buttercup. Without the bad ones, we wouldn't be able to talk," she then took her hands as they knelt in the grass together. "A person is nothing more than just a bunch of memories and I wouldn't give them away. Not even one."

Buttercup gave a small smile back as Bubbles did have a point. Blossom soon came up right behind Buttercup which made the tomboy drop her head.

"I can feel your delusion," Buttercup sulked. "I know I screwed up big time, I just wanted a better world, for everyone. I thought that this would be the right choice."

"You've just proven me that I was wrong about you," Blossom softly told her before they both smiled at each other. "One day, you might make a great leader."

Steven was shown to be lying in the middle of the ground in agony, thanks to Hex.

"But first, we have to save the world before bedtime!" Blossom then proclaimed.

Hex laughed wickedly as he began to drain the life out of Steven through his gemstone.

"I have an idea." Buttercup told her sisters.

Bubbles and Blossom both looked happy from that.

"Hey, Hex!" Blossom soon called out as she smirked at him bravely. "You've made a serious mistake."

"Haha! Like what?" Hex laughed from that.

"I'd like to know that too." Steven piped up.

"Honestly, I don't care about what your plan is," Blossom soon told Hex. "You are making the same mistake that every bad guy does: Hurting the people that I care about."

"She cares for me." Steven whispered happily.

"SHUT UP!" Hex snapped at him.

"So if you're determined to become a villain, then I have to be the one who stops the villain." Blossom kept her smirk.

Hex felt confused at first before suddenly, Buttercup ambushed him. Buttercup soon began to fight and brawl against Hex. Bubbles then found a magical book and began to stomp down on it once she took a hold of it and whammed it down onto the ground.

Blossom then zipped over and came to help her fallen, new friend. "Come on, Steven!" she then said as she helped him off of the ground.

Buttercup grinned as she soon pinned Hex down. Unfortunately for her though, Hex's eyes soon glowed. Buttercup moved Hex around before he smirked at her and he soon shot fire eyes right at her and soon got free and used his power to bring his book back to him and away from Bubbles. Bubbles felt both worried and confused from that.

Hex soon also got his staff back as he opened his book to cast a new spell. "Verborum Effusio!" he then chanted.

Steven and the girls soon gasped as some new magic came out.

Hex soon morphed into a bigger and scarier shape as he had his book back, along with the power of the Crystal Gems. "I was honestly sparing your life, but..." he began to tell Buttercup as he stood on top of her since she had betrayed him before he yelled out, causing more magic to come out as he created a vortex.

The wind blew stronger as the vortex soon came out. However, Bubbles took the book back and opened it to protect everyone from the almighty power. It was soon time for the ultimate showdown. Unfortunately for Hex, he wouldn't be able to enjoy the victory for much longer as Blossom helped Bubbles.

Buttercup soon grabbed Hex as she took a hold of the gemstones away from him. "Bon voyage!" she then told him.

Hex then yelled out as he was soon being sucked in through his own vortex and faced the worst defeat. "NOOOOOOO!" he was then turned into a spiritual form and was soon forced into his own book before it was slammed shut.

"Did we win?" Bubbles asked Blossom.

Blossom smiled with a nod as they were safe with the forbidden book.

"This is gonna be sore tomorrow." Buttercup groaned as she was still in the middle of the ground.

"Hex is... Gone?" Steven asked.

"He's trapped inside of his own book." Blossom replied as she held the book.

"And what about the Gems?" Steven then asked. "Are they gone too?"

"Luckily no," Buttercup said as she got up and gave Steven Hex's collar of power which had the gemstones linked onto it to give the villain all of his power. "Steven, they belong to you."

Steven smiled as he took the collar. However, there was soon a new magical beam of light as they were all surrounded by some pink smoke.

"Something's happening..." Steven whispered.

"I hope that you were right." Buttercup told Steven about what he said earlier.

"I hope that too," Steven nodded. "See you soon."

Suddenly, there was a bright light from the gemstones and they were all instantly engulfed inside of it.