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The Tale of Buttercup

"Well… That was weird."

"Yeah, but you'll get used to it."

"So… Where to now?"

"Up there." Laina pointed up to the Sector V tree house. In the distance she could see a pink figure flying towards it.

"How are we supposed to get up there?" Brydon asked, shielding his eyes from the sun.

Laina shook her head. "Man, you really don't know that much, do you? There are jump pads on each of the corners of the tree house. You jump on them and gravity will do the rest. Come on. Let's go before Blossom flies off somewhere else."

The blue haired girl started running and Brydon had no choice but to follow her. She jumped onto the nearest jump pad and after a matter of seconds she was up onto the platform. She looked down and gestured for him to do the same she had.

"Well, here I go." Brydon jumped on the jump pad and closed his eyes tightly as he felt himself being raised up by the springs. He only opened them again when his feet had finally made contact with the ground.

"Took you long enough!" Laina started running towards where Blossom was talking to some younger warriors helping fight Fuse's minions. When the lead Powerpuff saw her blue haired friend, she let the youngsters go and flew to her.

"Hey Laina." Blossom smiled as she noticed Brydon. "Who's your friend?"

"Oh, you mean him? Well he's Dexter's friend and Dexter wanted me to show him around. I wanted to feed him to the Destroyusalls Downtown but Dexter read my mind. But now that I think about it, the Destroyusalls are too small to feed a huge guy like him. He has got a lot of hot air in that head of his..."

"Hey, I'm right here!" Brydon exclaimed.

"Right..."

Blossom laughed. "That sounds like something Buttercup would do." She sighed as she thought of her sister. "Anyway, what brings you up here?"

"I came up here to see if there's any news on Buttercup. Obviously by your tone there isn't, I'm sorry." Laina put a hand on her friend's shoulder.

"Uh, what happened?" Brydon asked. The two girls looked at him.

"Well..." Laina began. "You see..."

"No, Laina. I'll explain this time. Approximately a year ago, my sister Buttercup had a fight with our nemesis Mojo Jojo. During the battle she fell into the ocean and we haven't seen or heard from her since. The police have tried to help us find her, but they gave up. They gave up a bit too early for my liking. However, my family, friends and I still have not given up and we know she'll come back to us. She has to! In the meantime we keep searching for her, but we never seem to find anything. The best we've ever done to prove she's still alive is find a torn off part of her skirt. There is a fusion copy of her though, which is extremely suspicious," Blossom explained.

"Yeah, and Ace's new backup singer looks a lot like her. What was her name again?" Laina asked.

"Belladonna," Blossom answered.

"Oh yeah... I've heard of her. She's a really good singer," Brydon mentioned.

"Yeah, but there's no chance that she's Buttercup," mused Blossom. "If it was, then she would've come back to us by now."

"Unless she had amnesia or something like that..." Laina added.

"Oh well... Maybe you could look around? See if you could find any clues to where she might be? Oh, and go say hi to Bubbles and the Mayor for me. Maybe ask them if they have any clues? Could you do that?" Blossom asked. "It would mean a lot to me."

Laina smiled. "Sure. Let's go Brydon."

"Ummm... How do we get down?" Brydon asked.

Laina rolled her eyes. "By using the zip lines you dummy." She pointed to four different lines that lead down to the ground.

"Oh... right..."

"Ugh, boys!" Laina exclaimed as she dragged Brydon towards the nearest zip line, much to his annoyance.

When Laina had gotten to the bottom, she began to make her way towards the scamper. She was about to give her taros to the KND operative when she heard the scream.

"AGH!"

Laina burst out laughing as she saw Brydon lying on the ground with a shocked expression on his face. As the surprised boy stood up and faced her, he let out a slight grumbling sound. Laina, of course, took no notice.

After Laina had been laughed out she dried the tears and paid for the SCAMPER. She noticed that the KND operative was trying to hold in his laughter as well. As Laina and Brydon were about to be warped away, Laina heard the KND operative burst into laughter. Laina couldn't help herself and she laughed again, even harder than the time before.

"Oh my gosh! Why in the world are you still laughing about that?" Brydon asked, waving his arms in the air.

"Because it's so funny!" Laina answered as they arrived at City Hall. She was still laughing her head off.

"Oh come on, let's go." Brydon began walking until he stopped and turned around. "Which direction do we go in again?"

Laina had finally stopped laughing and walked up to the confused boy so that they were side by side. She looked around at her surroundings and finally pointed in a northerly direction.

"It's this way."

The two began walking in the direction Laina had pointed towards. For a little while, they were silent as they listened to the other people around them. There were KND operatives shouting orders all around the place. When they had gone past a group of operatives huddled together in a circle, Brydon turned his head to look at Laina.

"Do you think Buttercup will be found?"

Laina looked at him strangely. "Of course I do. Think about it. There's a fusion copy of her, so she has to be close by. Besides, Fuse's minions couldn't have taken Buttercup's old stuff. We already checked. They must have seen her."

When Laina and Brydon arrived at City Hall, they heard the sound of someone crying. They stepped inside and followed the sound of the upset person, hoping they could help. Their investigation finally led them to the two large doors heading into the Mayor's Office.

"Should we go in?" Brydon asked.

"Well duh. We have to see if we can help," Laina replied.

They slowly walked inside and where surprised when they saw who it was. The two looked at each other in alarm and then turned back to where Bubbles was crying. The Mayor was trying to comfort the poor girl.

Laina stepped forward. "What's wrong Bubbles?"

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