Chapter 6 ruff time fitting in.
The girls and Boomer were exhausted from their battle. They barely defeated the two ruffs and it was time for a much needed rest on their way back to the Power Puffs house the girls were amazed with Boomer's glowing eye ability and decided to ask him what it was. "I don't know what it is" Boomer says with a blank expression. "But your eyes were glowing and you were moving so fast I couldn't even keep up!" Praised blossom.
"Yeah Boomie!" Bubbles jumps in. "Even I never knew you could do that." Boomer makes a smug smile "hehe! Well during my training my brothers and I discovered this power. But it doesn't last to long and it takes a good amount of energy to use. I'm pretty lucky that I took down Butch before he could use his." Boomer explained. "Well Do you have a cool name for it?" Asked buttercup. Boomer thought for a second and then answers. "Now thats a good question. We never really gave it a name. But if I were to name it I would name it...i haven't the slightest clue.." The girls sigh. "How about power up!? Its a cool power where you...you know... Power up." Boomer shakes his head. "That's a little original don't you think?" Bubbles pitches in "oh oh oh! I know! The super duper ultra short lasting level up!"
Boomer shakes his head again. "I don't know bubs, it doesn't really roll off the tongue, you know?" Bubbles points her head down "yeaaaaah ok" Blossom rubs her chin and something clicks in her head. "I got it! How about Haste! You get faster right? So it's perfect!" Boomer's eyebrow raises "that's not bad at all, come to think of it I kinda like it...haste huh?" The 4 kids finally reach the power puffs house. The girls go in first and bubbles tells boomer to wait outside while they get the professor. Boomer takes a seat on the door step and waits for the girls to get back.
The girls go down to the basement to see the professor working on a experiment. The professor looks over at the badly bruised girls and his face shows horror and relief. "Girls! What happened to you? Are you all right? Hold on ill get you girls fixed up in a jiffy." The professor says concerned. The professor hugs them then runs to create some healing gel the contains chemical X. "Take a seat on the table girls. This will only take a second." He politely said as he mixed chemicals. The three girls look at each other with a concerned look. "Actually professor we have one more with us who'll need that stuff." Bubbles uttered. "Oh, who might that be?" The professor wondered. They make their way up to the front door and open it to see boomer sitting at the doorstep. Boomer looks over his shoulder and sees the professor looking at him. "H-hiya mr. Professor man..." Boomer stuttered. Professor examined him and hit him. "Your the RowdyRuff boy we captured a long time ago aren't you?" Boomer shocked that he remembered him starts to open his mouth but the professor cuts him off. "Did you hurt my little girls?" The girls get in between the professor. Bubbles starts first "of course he didn't professor he protected us" buttercup chimes in second "he fought of his other brothers for us!" Blossom ends it "he stood up to his brothers for us, he's not a villain. Not anymore" the professor smiles "well. A friend of the girls is a friend of mine. Come on in Boomer." Boomer's eyes light up. "Really? You'll let me in...after all the bad things I've done" boomer begins to tear up with joy. Bubbles gives boomer a soft hug and the professor join the group hug, blossom and buttercup follow suit. Professor breaks up the hug "now let's get you kids cleaned up." The professor walks them all to the lab. "By the way I wasn't captured by you guys, I just didn't feel like fighting" boomer grunted. "Haha! We beat the snot out of ya!" Buttercup chuckled. "Sorry boomie, I can't take your side this one tee hee!" Bubbles giggled. "Yeah boomer, the girls are right on this one. You shoulda put down the candy when we said to." Blossom said holding in her laughter. Boomer mumbles to himself "no fair it was 3 on 1..." The kids sit on the lab table. "Now now girls and Boomer. That's enough. Just stay still while I put this gel on you guys. So what happened to you guys?" Boomer and the girls explain everything and bubbles confesses that boomer and her have been friends for a long time. The professor was shocked but he wasn't angry in the slightest. "I'm surprised you kept this secret for so long bubbles, but I'm proud of you for helping Boomer with his own problems." The professor smiles and stands up. "It's time to get some rest girls...and Boomer you can sleep on the couch for a while. I have to get a room set up for you still" the girls fly upstairs and say goodnight. "Boomer hold on. We still need to discuss a something." The professor states. Boomer looks back. "Yes? And again... Thanks for taking me in. I'm not really use to people being nice to me." Boomer takes a seat on the staircase. The professor takes a seat next to him. "Boomer, I can't thank you enough for taking care of my precious girls. They're always fighting monsters and protecting the town. I want to to make sure that they don't get this hurt again. I want you to protect them but I'm not sure that I can trust you yet. The girls may see you as a friend and a savior and I appreciate you saving them. But please, don't ever betray their trust." The professor clears his throat and gets up. "Well boomer. Can I trust you?" Boomer gets up to eye level of the professor. "Professor, I promise to protect them with everything I have. Also you're right... I did a lot of bad things before. But I want to make it better! I won't be like my brothers... Even if i have to keep fighting them." The professor smiles and pats boomer's head. "Nicely put boomer, now let's get you ready for bed" the two go upstairs and get boomers couch set up to sleep in.
The next day Boomer is sleeping on the couch tucked in his blanket sleeping peacefully. On the stairs bubbles is peaking on boomer sitting and waiting for him to wake up. "Wow it's 11:00 am and he's still sleeping." She whispers to herself. Buttercup flies down the stairs and to the kitchen and starts making a lunch. Blossom walks in through the front door. "I'm back!" She looks at the couch to see boomer still sleeping. "This guy sleeps forever..." She flies towards boomer. Bubbles sees blossom fly towards him. "What are you doing?" Snapped bubbles still whispering. Blossom looks up at bubbles. "It's time for him to start his day! Wait. why are you just sitting on the stairs?" Blossom loudly whispers. Bubbles gets flustered and flies towards the kitchen. Blossom playfully rolls her eyes and looks back at Boomer to see his eyes wide open staring at her. "Boo!" He yells. Blossom jumps out of fear and falls on her back. "Pfffft hahahaha! You know how long I was waiting for somebody to come by? A pretty long time." Buttercups laughs from the kitchen and bubbles gets in a running stance facing boomer. Blossom gets up "don't do that! Hold on... You were fake sleeping all this time? Waiting for someone to get close enough?" Boomer stands up off the couch. "Yep. I have to say. It was kinda worth it." Boomer's eyes trail towards bubbles in her running stance. "What are you-" all of the sudden bubbles sprints towards boomer with her arms open. Boomer knows what's coming. "Bring it! I'll stop you here and now!
Boomer declares. He puts his arms to each side of him to attempt to hold off bubbles' hug. The two clash. Boomer giving his all to keep her arms from wrapping around him. "Give it up boomie! You won't escape this one!" Boomer's arms starts to give in. "N-no way. Not yet!" Bubbles' arms start to overpower boomer. He caves and bubbles successfully uses her crushing hug. "Tee hee! You lose!" She giggles as her grip tightens. Bursts of laughter comes from the kitchen, buttercup is on the floor laughing. "O-ok I g-get it y-you win." Boomer barely gets the words out of his mouth. Blossom stands next to him with a pout of her face. "Ok guys that's enough!" She breaks up the hug. Boomer gasps for air, while holding his Hand to his chest. Bubbles angrily looks at blossom "whatcha do that for!?" Bubbles screams. "I had to do something! You were smothering the poor guy!" Blossom retorted. Bubbles crosses her arms and walks closer to blossom. "You wouldn't understand, boomie and I do this all the time" bubbles smirks. Buttercup yells from the kitchen "can you keep it down! Trying to eat in peace!" While the argument rages on boomer casually walks in to the kitchen and makes himself a lunch. The girls to engaged in each-other doesn't even notice him leaving the room. Boomer sits down and starts eating lunch. "Hey buttercup, are they already fighting?" Buttercup swallows her meal to speak. "Nope. Not until you came along" she said getting out of her chair. A puzzled appears on boomer's face and he shrugs off the comment. The hot line suddenly rings. Blossom flies to the phone.
"Yep, uh huh, we're on it mayor. Trouble girls. There's a monster rampaging the city" the girls take off in a flash. Boomer still sitting at the table looking around. "Wait what?" Bubbles comes in through the front door. "cmon boomie there's a monster on the loose!" Boomer look over at bubbles "oh! Right! Ok I'm coming!" The blues fly off and catch up to the two sisters.
The girls and boomer get to the city and see a four armed monster with a humanoid body type. It has blue scales all around its body. It has three yellow frog like eyes with one being on its forehead. It's as big as a two story house. "Grahhhhhhhhhh" the monster is in the middle of punching a building. "All right team! Let's let em have it!" Streaks of colors begin flying around the monster with lasers shooting at the monster. The monster swats his arms around in attempt to knock the puffs and ruff out of the sky but to no avail. Bubbles flies face to face at the monster and lets out a sonic scream. The monster puts two of the four hands up to its ears. With the other to hands the monster claps with bubbles being squashed between its palms. The monster parts its hands away and bubbles is seen falling towards the street. "Bubs!" Boomer flies as fast as he can towards bubbles and catches her in midair. "Are you ok bubs" he asked concerned. Bubbles "y-yeah. I just need a second." Boomer gently places her on the ground. "Rest a bit, I'll go help out your sisters" boomer flies towards the action. Blossom looks at boomer and buttercup "okay guys we need a plan to take this guy out." Buttercups gets a smile across her face. "Let's punch it really hard!" Boomer looks at buttercup "you sound like Butch." Buttercup annoyed at the statement "shut up! Let's just beat this thing." Boomer thinks for a second. "Hey bloss, try use your ice breath on its feet. And buttercup, can you punch him as hard as you can. I'll charge up my bat." Blossom looks at boomer and her face turns red "y-you called me bloss...? I mean, s-sure I can do that." Buttercup grins at the fact that she gets to punch something. Blossom flies to the monsters feet and freezes them. The monster starts to lose balance and buttercup comes in with a strong punch to its face. Boomer puts a large amount of energy into his bat to make it larger. The monster topples over towards boomer and he swings his bat as hard as he can and cracks the creature square in the face. It goes flying towards the sea and lands in the water. "Yeah! That was awesome!" Buttercup cheers. Blossom pats boomer on the back "you did good back there... Booms." Blossom shyly says trying out his new nickname. Boomer smiles "thanks, I'm just happy to do some good in this world..." Bubbles looks at the 3 heroes celebrate and sighs to herself. Boomer notices that bubbles is still where he left her. He flies towards bubbles "hey bubs you alright?" Bubbles sourly looks at boomer angrily suggest "I don't know BOOMS, why don't you go celebrate with my sisters..." Bubbles looks down mad at herself that she just snapped at boomer. "Cmon bubs. That thing just got a lucky shot. Next time you and I can do a cool tag team move!" Boomer says trying to lift her spirit "that's not why I'm upse- oh never mind boomie. Sure. next time we'll put on the beating together!" Boomer and bubbles make their way to blossom and buttercup. "Good job guys, bubbles you okay?" Blossom asks. "Y-yeah just caught by surprise" bubbles responded. They fly back to the house.
At the rowdy ruffs shack. Brick and Butch are angry as ever. "They got lucky! I should've finished them off! And that traitor, if it wasn't for him we would have beat them!" Brick slams his fist on the table. "That brat is just lucky I didn't use my power. He would have been beat right there and then." Butch added. The two boys sit in silence. "With them having an extra wuss on their team, We can't win. We need to split them up somehow..." Brick ponders to himself. Butch walks back and forth furiously cursing to himself "grrrr I just wanna rip em apart!" Brick gets an idea. "Butch, let's follow boomer and those puffs around. Maybe we can find a weakness." Butch looks back at brick. "Can we pound them while we're at it?!" Butch eagerly twitches. Brick looks at him with his eyebrow raised. "You know what. I'll do some recon by myself. You stay here." Brick orders. "Aw you can't be serious! What the heck brick!" Butch barks. Brick looks at Butch. "Deal with it! Right boom-..." Brick stop and makes a sad look. "Why did he leave us for those wimps." Butch looks at brick and says "cause he's a wimp himself!"
A day later boomer has settled into the powerpuff house. He has his own room because the professor moved all of his belongings to the basement. Just like any other morning boomer gets up out of bed and sluggishly makes his way to the door. Boomer opens his door and walks toward the stairs. He yawns as he takes his first step downstairs. The girls were all already up getting ready for school and the professor was packing their lunch. "Where ya guys going?" Boomer asked. Bubbles turned around as boomer entered the kitchen. She tackles boomer and gives him a hug. "I should see these coming by now..." Bubbles gets up and twirls around "we're going to school silly!" Blossom walks over "here booms I'll help you up." She helps boomer up and he gets up. "Thanks bloss. And school? Pfffft I'm glad I don't have to go." Boomer chuckles. Blossom gives him a warm smile and bubbles joins. He hears buttercup snickering in the background "what?...you guys are creeping me out" he says all concerned. Professor walks up and hands boomer a backpack. Boomer looks at the bag and back at the professor a few times and it finally clicks. "No...no way! I don't want to!" He drops the backpack and flies as fast as he can upstairs. Bubbles catches him by the feet. "You have to boomie! The professor said so!" She says struggles to pull him. Professor yells from down stairs "remember who's letting you stay here boomer!" He's sarcastically states. Boomer grunts to himself. "Darn it..."
*a nice bonding moment for the characters don't ya think? If you don't know already. Boomers pretty dense. But I like to see him as such. Whatcha guys think of this one? Let me know in a review. The next chapter may come out later because finals week. Trust me id rather make this story than to college stuff. Enjoy people!*