Chapter 8 Unexpected Help
Blossom watched as Leon dodged the tyrant's claw and drove his combat knife into the leg of the monster. It roared and swung at him again, but he leaped out of the way. They had been fighting the tyrant for 45 minutes, and they had managed to survive. But Blossom knew they couldn't last much longer, Leon, Luis, and Ada had a few gashes were the tyrant had gotten him, and Dexter and she had more then their share of wounds. The tyrant had more wounds then Blossom would care to count; yet it didn't seem to show any signs of stopping. Suddenly the tyrant flung a piece of rubble through the air and the rubble pinned Blossom to the ground, it put its foot on the rubble to keep her there. Dexter tried to save her, but the tyrant smacked him away and he hit a wall and fell unconscious. The tyrant advanced on Blossom and raised its claw, suddenly there was a sound like a tsunami hitting the shore, and a red energy blast shot through the wall and knocked the tyrant flying, the creature lay on the floor smoking. Blossom turned and saw her rescuers, it was three boys she knew well, and had reason to remember. "You three!" she snarled. It was the Rowdyruff boys! They wore identical black jump suits with RR stitched into one corner, the only difference was different colored stripes on the sleeves depending on the Rowdyruff, red for Brick, blue for Boomer, and green for Butch. They looked exactly the same as before except Brick had a ponytail, what looked like a combat knife on his belt, and he was wearing sunglasses. Brick walked over to Blossom, pulled off the rubble and held out his hand to help her up. Blossom shoved his hand away and said, "I don't need help from you." "Well, that's not very nice. You could at least manage a thank you." Brick said with a smart aleck grin. "How are you alive? What are you doing here? And why did you help me?" Blossom snapped, "In order my brothers and I were resurrected by a guy called John Brisbane, some guy who works for the government to be a national defense team. We're here because Brisbane found out what was happening and told us to take care of it. And I saved you because if anyone's going to destroy you someday, it's going to be me." Brick said his face suddenly becoming somber. "How did you generate a blast powerful enough to blast through the wall and take down the tyrant?" Blossom asked. Brick took of his sunglasses, but kept his eyes closed "Well let's just say I've been in for an upgrade." And opened his eyes. Blossom gasped slightly, his eyes now looked like fire, bright red with orange and yellow mixed in, he also had slits were pupils might be. The red ruff put his sunglasses back on and turned to see Butch, Leon, Luis, Ada, and Boomer holding up the stunned Dexter. "Blossom, do you know these guys?" asked Leon, Blossom and the Rowdyruffs gave a brief introduction. Then Leon said to the boys "Care to join us? We both have the same objective here and we could use the help." Blossom was shocked, didn't Leon hear what they had tried to do Blossom and her sisters!? Brick thought a minute then asked "Are you sure we're welcome to do so?" and as he said that he gestured to Blossom. Leon turned and gestured for everyone to huddle up. "Leon what are you thinking!? Those guys tried to destroy my sisters and me! Did you hear me?" Blossom snapped "Come on Blossom. We need all the help we can get! If they were still evil they would have left you to be destroyed by the tyrant." Leon said "Only so he could destroy me himself! He told me!" Blossom said. "You may want to decide quick. We are about to have some unwanted company." Came Bricks voice. Indeed through the air came moans and shuffling. They debated a minute more, and at last Blossom caved, and they hurried away from the room, with their new temporary allies.
Bubbles had faced many monsters during her life as a super hero, but never anything like the tyrant. It seemed almost invincible, they had hit with attacks that would have taken down a normal monster by now, but it just kept coming. She and Buttercup had numerous gashes were the tyrant had gotten them, Chris, Claire and Steve had fewer wounds, but they were probably trained for things like this. The tyrant was not showing any signs of letting up, it was as if it had not been attacked at all except for the numerous bullet holes in its body, courtesy of Chris, Claire and Steve. Suddenly it pinned Bubbles to the wall with one arm, and raised the other one to strike her a final blow. Buttercup tried to knock it away, but it bashed her away and raised its hand again. Suddenly a white streak of light smashed through the wall and bashed the tyrant flying, this time it didn't get up. Bubbles looked up and was shocked by her rescuer. "Bell!?" The white powerpuff floated in the air staring down at Bubbles, two other girls entered through the opening, "You two!?" Buttercup snarled. "Jeez Buttercup watch the tone." Samantha said sarcastically "Yeah we might get the impression you don't like us." Said Princess. "What are you guys doing here!?" Bubbles asked "Well, daddy couldn't have the T-virus escaping and destroying the world before he could conquer it." Bell said "So why did you save my sister?" Buttercup snarled. "I'm not going to let some freaky whatever that is destroy you before I can." Bell said simply "Ummmmmmm, could someone tell me who these guys are?" Chris said. The puffs and the Darkstar council girls gave a brief explanation. When they were done Bell said, "I was actually thinking we could work together. We both have the same goal." "You must be insane to think we would trust you guys." Buttercup snarled. Then Chris gestured for everyone to huddle, the two puffs were shocked, could Chris actually be considering to accept their offer? "Chris, please tell me you are not considering accepting their offer." Buttercup said as soon as they got in the huddle. "We could use any help we can get Buttercup." Claire said, "But we can't trust them! They want to destroy the planet! "Bubbles said. "Come on girls, we need all the help we can get, we can't do this alone. Look Chris I've always trusted your descions, whatever you say I'll go with it." Steve said. "I say we accept their help. That tyrant only proved we need help." Chris said. "You might want to think quick, we're about to have unwanted company." Samantha said. Suddenly there came the chittering that they all recognized as the approach of hunters and other mutants. They debated some more and finally the Powerpuffs agreed to accept the help of their worst enemies. They quickly ran down the hall with the three young villainesses, hoping that they would not regret making this alliance.