AN: Sorry for taking so long to update, I had writers' block for a while. Without further rambling from me, here's the chapter!

Chapter 7: The Return

BC's POV

I found an abandoned hotel to go back to, I couldn't just go home like any normal day! I broke into a room and made sure the bed had no bed bugs. Turns out, I'm good. I sat down and thought of all the ways I could come back. I was deciding between making it dramatic, casual, or just showing up one day and act like nothing happened. Well, I can cross that last one off, that was just dumb. It seems too anti-climatic to make it a casual return so I'm gonna pass on that too. Now I had to be careful with dramatic returns, I couldn't make it too cliché! I thought about it all night and came up with a few ideas. LIKE I'M GONNA TELL YOU YET! I decided to sleep on the options and maybe I could decide in the morning. Knowing myself, I'll probably go off the plan anyways.

I woke up the next morning, it's a great day to have everyone think you're dead! Suddenly I heard an explosion and a bunch of fire trucks. Townsville started carrying their weight a little more when we got into high school to take some of the stress off. I used my supervision and saw a little girl stuck on the top floor, the same one that asked me a question that day. It seemed like nobody could hear her and something started to fall. Without thinking, I teleported to the scene and teleported her back to the hotel with me.

She looked up at me with wide, scared hazel eyes. Her blonde pigtails were sloppy and covered in ash. "Bu-Buttercup?" She asked me, I was honestly surprised she remembered me since she was 4 at most.

"That's me sweetheart, what's your name?"

She looked shocked, but seemed happy to see me, I was surprised she wasn't scared. "My name is Holly!"

I laughed a little at her cheery mood. "Well, Holly, I'm gonna clean you up a little and then I'm gonna take you back to your parents, ok?"

"Ok! You're my favorite super hero, Buttercup! I knew they couldn't kill you that easily!"

I didn't know why, but it really did feel good to hear that, I never knew I was someone's favorite. With that, I brought her to the bath and washed her hair and put it back in its pigtails. I took a towel and wiped all the soot and ash from her face until she was all clean. "There you go sweetheart, all better?"

"Yup! Thank you Buttercup!" She ran over and hugged me. I couldn't help but hug her back, she reminded me so much of Bubbles.

"Ok Holly, it's really important that you keep me a secret ok?"

She looked a little sad. "You aren't coming back?"

"No, no, no! I'll come back, I just need to make it look really cool, ok?" I have her one of my rare genuine smiles.

She looked overjoyed. "Ok Buttercup, I'll keep your secret! Thank you for saving me!"

"It's no problem at all sweetheart." With that I teleported to an alley near the fire and saw the parents freaking out over her. "Ok Holly, just walk out and let them you're ok, see you later!"

"Bye Buttercup!" She ran out of the alley and I watched happily as her parents hugged and kissed her, glad that she escaped the fire. I turned and teleported back to my hotel room, and turned on the still working television. I was watching my favorite cartoon when I saw breaking news about a girl's Mysterious rescue. I smiled knowing she kept my secret. I went back to watching the cartoon when I felt a huge shaking through the building. The building started to crumble and the ceiling started to fall. I teleported to the top of the next building over to see a wrecking ball go through the building. Of course they would demolish the place I was staying in. Well I wanted to stay in Townsville, but I didn't want to stay in the streets so I teleported back to my old house in Countysville. One look at my family picture that was still there and I decided I would return tomorrow.

The Next Day

I was walking into Townsville. I sported a black baseball cap with my still brown hair in a ponytail going through the back, a pair of short, ripped jean shorts, a purple crop top that showed my silver belly button ring,and a pair of black and white adidas shoes. My baseball cap was enough to hide my face for now, it did surprisingly well shadowing my face. Hopefully showing all my piercings would keep suspicion away since nobody knew I had them. I somehow made it to the lower budget part of Townsville and put my plan into action.

I set down a miniature homemade bomb, it does pay off to listen in chemistry sometimes. The bomb was really only enough to scare people, if it went according to the plan, start a large fight. I stayed hidden in an alley near the bomb site until it went off. It made a loud sound, but caused very little damage as expected. Many of the residents came out of their houses and started arguing and fighting. I couldn't help but smile at how well my plan was going. That was until I picked up the sound of someone cocking a gun with my super hearing.

I looked over to see a man pull the trigger and without thinking I teleported in front of the target, the bullet bouncing off of my impenetrable skin. Everyone stopped. Ah shit, this wasn't what I wanted to happen. Everyone stopped their fighting and just stared in my direction, and I just teleported before they could get too good of a look. So that plan's out… I looked at the TV store's TVs and saw the news, New Vigilante Stops Potentially Fatal Riot. Well, guess I'm a vigilante.

I started walking home, needing the time to think. How will people react to me coming back? Would they be mad that I took so long? Would they be annoyingly happy that I was back? Would they wish I wasn't back? How would Butch react? I don't know why I loved the ass so much, but for some reason, I did, and I hated every second of it. Especially the fact that I let him know I did. He did say that he loved me too, but did he really mean it, or did he just say it because he thought I was dead and he felt bad. I didn't want to be a pity case.

I growled under my breath, frustrated with my conflicting thoughts and I think I scared a few people. I walked a few miles and realized that I only got through half of the city. My legs and feet were tired and I just wanted to lay in bed, but I couldn't risk being found out right now, I wasn't ready to face everyone. I walked another block until I found a bus stop. Thank god! I happily sat on the bench, eager to give my legs a rest. I sat there for around 15 minutes, thankful that nobody tried to sit next to me, I wasn't in the mood for conversation.

I got on the bus and sat in the least crowded spot on the bus. It was surprisingly crowded and loud for the time of day, people usually were home at dark. With each complaint I heard, my temper grew.

"Move over, you're touching me!"

I could feel the blood pumping to my head.

"Ugh! Don't you have a shower?!"

My nose started to twitch in annoyance.

"Can't you drive this bus any faster?"

My eyes narrowed. We were at a red light!

"Agh! I need to invest in a car!"

I clenched my fists, my nails digging into my palms. Maybe it was a bad plan to take the bus…

A baby started crying and everyone voiced their complaints to the mother.

That was it! "SHUT UP! JUST SHUT UP, YOU GUYS ARE SO ANNOYING! CAN'T YOU JUST HOP OFF EACHOTHER'S BACKS FOR A SECOND?!" I just blew up at everyone on the bus, and it seemed to work too because nobody spoke for the rest of the ride outside of the occasional whispers trying to find out who I was. They would never guess. It was a quiet and peaceful 30 minutes later when they got to my stop. I got off about 5 minutes from my house. I was lucky enough to avoid any criminals on my walk. I belly flopped onto my bed as soon as I got in my apartment and rolled on my back. I laid there for a while before I regained the energy to take a shower, brush my teeth and wash my face. I was a little too eager to curl up in bed and fall asleep.

The Next Day

Blossom's POV

I woke up to the sound of my alarm clock, which read 6:00. Another day of school… Don't get me wrong, I love school, but it just felt wrong knowing I only had one sister now. Because of that, I grew very protective of Bubbles, which didn't bother her too much since she didn't want to lose me either. I woke up Bubbles and went to Buttercup's room after. I saw her green blanket poking out from under her pillow, memories of our childhood flashed through my head.

Her saving Bubbles and me in tough fights, her going against orders, me yelling at her, her yelling back, me talking down to her, her screaming at me, me getting her in trouble, repeat. It felt awful thinking that was how I treated her. She really was a brilliant fighter, the very best out of the three of us, but I always found a way to knock her confidence. She never showed any doubt in herself, but I always wondered if it secretly hurt her thinking I didn't like her.

I saw the time and quickly finished getting ready for school. When I got downstairs, I saw Bubbles all but dragging herself towards the door. She took Buttercup's death the worst, but the Professor was a close second. It wasn't like I didn't care, it's just that I knew she wouldn't want me to mope around. Bubbles barely smiled anymore, she cried more often than laughed and didn't really put in the effort to look cute either. The professor stayed locked in his lab with her old keepsakes. I saw him looking through pictures of her, cards she made for Father's Day, and watching funny home videos.

I had to admit, she was one of the funniest people I'd ever met, she was the funny part of every video. My personal favorite was one from when we were 11. We were all looking for Easter eggs on Easter and it seemed like a normal Easter egg hunt for most of it, but she sat off to the side acting like she was too cool to look for Easter eggs because it was for 'babies'. She was sitting by the camera announcing the hunt like it was a sporting event. The part that really made me laugh though was when I found the golden egg and she shot it with her laser vision before it could land in my basket yelling "the shot was blocked by Buttercup Utonium!" That part was followed by a bunch of yelling directed towards her, but she didn't really care. I always admired that she never got flustered when she was scolded.

With that thought, Bubbles and I got into the car and I drove us to school, getting there 10 minutes before the bell rang. The school seemed dead ever since Buttercup died, I was surprised to see the teachers that always seemed to hate her were the most upset. I guess they felt bad that they always compared her to Bubbles and I.

The day was overall uneventful until 6th period when we were called from class to fight a monster, which was strange since we hadn't seen a real villain since mojo. Bubbles met with me near the site of the attack, I just hoped we weren't too rusty. I watched the monster, he was bigger than every building, standing on two legs with cannons for arms. His back was covered in deadly looking spikes and if possible, his four rows of teeth looked sharper. This would be a tough one, especially with us being out of practice.

I quickly came up with our strategy, which I soon found out was hard to come up with without being able to incorporate Buttercup. The plan was that I freeze his back while Bubbles used her sonic scream to shatter all the spikes, then we would find the weak point on the cannons and destroy them. I could only really hope it would work. When the monster turned away from us, I jumped into action, freezing his back, but his spikes heated up, melting all the ice around them. He shot three spikes at me from his back, but I narrowly evaded all of them. I looked over to Bubbles who looked distracted, not even looking like she had the intent of fighting.

"Bubbles! I need your help!" I yelled to her, effectively getting her attention. She seemed to get back into it as we regrouped for a plan B. We decided to go for its vision and then she could use her sonic scream so he had no idea what was going on around him. Bubbles flew around, distracting him while I floated above his line of vision and used my ice breath to freeze his eyes, then I smashed them with my fists, blinding him. So far my plan was working, but when Bubbles used her sonic scream, he sent spikes everywhere. I looked to see one going directly at Bubbles, but before I could scream out to her, it disappeared, moving to the location of another spike before they both disappeared. Before they could cause any damage, all the spikes were secured and I was so confused that I forgot there was a monster problem at hand. The monster was about to shoot at me, but a spike found its way into the cannon, clogging it and exploding the monster's right side. The same thing happened with the monster's left side and the monster was defeated just like that, but when I looked down to the pile of spikes, nobody was there. This was just like the fire with the little girl.

Buttercup's POV

I was able to sleep in, but when my extra sensitive hearing heard screaming, I turned in the news to see my sisters struggling with a dangerous monster. I wasn't about to let them get hurt so I flew to the scene and took care of it like any badass would, I used his own weapons against him. I felt like that was too cliché of a way to come back though so I left before anyone could get a good look.

I teleported home and got dressed for the day. I put on the same baseball cap from the day before, using makeup to cover my freckles and putting in brown eye contacts that made my eyes look more hazel than brown since they couldn't completely hide my natural eye color. I wore a pair of white jean shorts, a pair of brown gladiator sandals, and a short green tank top showing my belly button ring. I left my hair down today and turned my cap backwards, my bangs hanging out in my face. I filled my ear piercings with 3 crystal studs, the bottom one the biggest , getting smaller to the top. While most kids were finishing up their school days, I was going to Townsville. I wanted to see my sisters, I didn't want to hide any longer.

I grabbed my skateboard and teleported to the Townsville skatepark, not really caring if anybody saw me, to wait for them to get out of school. I jumped on my board, only two other people I didn't recognize were there. I started off with just simple jumps on the half-pipe, slowly getting to my more advanced tricks like flips and spins. I soon drew the attention of the two other people in the park. I couldn't help but to show off for the audience even if it was a small one. I pulled off a couple tricks that very few people have mastered. One was a flip and landing in a handstand on the board while doing a 360 in the jump on the other side of the half pipe landing back on my feet. The other was to jump and throw the board into a spin and land on the top of it vertically and riding back into the half pipe after flipping it back in its wheels and landing on it.

I finished after about an hour since my sisters would be coming home soon, I wanted to meet them outside of the school. Before I could leave though, the two guys complimented me on my skating skills and although I thanked them, I couldn't help but to feel smug knowing I still had it. I skated to the school jumping and riding the edges of every bench and handrail. I got to their school before the bell rang, and suddenly I got an idea. I used my laser vision to spell 'I'm Back Bitches' in the pavement of the school parking lot. I sat on the back of our car and waited for all the students to come out and see this. I looked at my phone and saw that it was one minute from the bell ringing, when I realized I looked completely different, but I couldn't care less, hopefully Blossom or Bubbles were smart enough to figure it out because I wasn't about to back out now that I kinda ruined the school parking lot.

The bell finally rang and I started to feel nervous, every negative thought possible running through my mind, but I wasn't a coward and I wasn't about to back out now. Everyone who came out the door froze and stared at the parking lot, then at me, looking shocked. They took pictures and I let them, first I looked fresh as hell and second, it was about time the world learned I wasn't dead. I just hoped they put the pieces together and figured out it was me. I saw the crowd of students part and my sisters stared at me and the burnt pavement in front of me. Took out my contacts and floated off the car giving my signature smirk. "I'm back bitches."

AN: When I started this chapter I thought it would be my last one, but I was wrong, this is NOT my last chapter. I realized halfway through that it was so unlike Buttercup to have an elaborate plan so I ended up with her revealing herself on impulse. I'll try to hurry with the next chapter, I apologize for the wait on this one, I had pretty bad writers' block. Hope you enjoyed the chapter and please review and tell me how you liked it!