The Consequences

Last Updated: 4-11-05

Updated: 5-09-05

Hairy Gregory: I guess I can understand you still applying their original personas from the show with the dress that Bubbles wore being red. I honestly didn't even think about that. I just wanted to put Bubbles in a dress that would WOW readers and red seemed to be the best seductive colour to go along with such a seductive dress in my personal opinion. Plus remember that red is also Brick's colour. I'm glad you liked the dress by the way. Yes, Brick is a git for pushing Titch away. But understand that he truly loves Bubbles. His true problem however lies in his selfishness. He wants Bubbles but on his terms and those who know romance (or anything about it at least), know that kind of behaviour and thinking is most likely to lead to disaster. I love your reviews! You often mention something that I didn't even think of (I'm 'talking' about your mentioning of Brick treating Bubbles like a fashion accessory). Yes it's true when you check out the story that he does treat her like a fashion accessory, even though I was aiming for him treating her more like the single woman he wanted than the divorced wife with a child that she truly is (along with his selfishness). But what you mentioned is also correct and will go along with Brick's selfish attitude. Yes it was nice seeing Princess being nice but she was kind more because she likes Brick and Bubbles being a couple than just because Bubbles was with Brick (remember in 'Repercussions' when Bubbles discovered who Brick's secret trainer was? Brick and Princess were friends and she was happy about Brick being happy with Bubbles. Get the picture Hairy Gregory?). So guess how she feels about Blossom? Let's just leave it at that for now. Will Bubbles leave Brick? You just gotta wait and see on that one. Yes Blossom is being civil and I'm glad that you understand why she's distanced herself from her family. Yes she has better control of her feelings towards them and that did help with her bucking into Brick and Bubbles at the Gala. Butch was cool about everything and yeah he's glad about seeing his brother Brick again (wonder what will happen when he meets Boomer?). Would it be good or bad if he knew about that little Bubbles, Blossom, Brick triangle? You have to stay tuned to find out, but it could go either way. Yeah poor Bubbles (trust me, you're gonna pity her MORE when you read this chapter) and Brick being Brick didn't help. Yes he tried to ditch Titch again but it didn't happen like he planned it to. Titch does feel left out and misses his mommy. Titch already hates Brick, don't worry 'bout that. Well I wasn't attempting for stereotypical but if he seems like a stereotypical bad stepparent that's all right. It goes with the story's plot so I'm fine. Well you've made your opinion clear on the whole Blossom and Him thing (I used to see a good amount of stories with Him pairings. But I never read beyond the summaries because they were mostly Professor and HIM pairings. I just can't read that. Not apologizing either). I'm glad that you liked my OC Susan; she'll appear more trust me. Tell me what you think of my other OC Fern in this story please (she was in 'Repercussions'). The longer the better! I LOVE your reviews. Well I still love "The Last Stand". I felt kinda rushed with my Teen Titans fic "A Red flame blown out" too. I just did it at first just to do something different but people just jumped at it. I thought the whole "ex-human pizza" thing was interestingly unique. Guess I'm just weird like that. Anyway, thanks for your review and I can't wait for your next review.

Chapter 8

(Following day at Noon at the Utonium Residence)

Professor Utonium sat reading the newspaper as Sasha slept in a nearby crib. He was reading about the Morebucks Gala and knew that it was likely that Bubbles would be there since Brick was known to attend all of the classiest functions in and beyond Townsville. He looked at several photos and noticed little comments under them. But what caught his eye was a picture of a blonde haired woman with a little brown haired boy who looked rather surprised while the blonde looked embarrassed for some reason. Professor soon recognized the blonde woman to be his own blue eyed angel daughter Bubbles and after he got over the shock of her very unangelic red dress, he read the comment made under her picture.

Blondes are not all dumb. That little claim as disproved last night when this blonde lady later identified as Bubbles Utonium who used to be a member of the PPG's which had become obsolete a little before they turned eighteen when advancements made by her father Professor Utonium along with other great scientific minds created special prisons, robots, methods and equipment which could capture criminals without use of the super powered girls. Anyway back to the scoop. This Bubbles Utonium entered the ballroom in the middle of Princess Morebucks speech, which is something you DEFINITELY don't do, especially after being late. Here are her exact words readers, read and weep for the drop in the level of human intelligence despite all our advancement. "Umm Good Evening," the blonde Bubbles-the new village (or should I say town) idiot-says in this timid angelic voice (like that can excuse being born without a working brain), "sorry for being late?" she asks in this sweet voice and puts on this innocent smile that made me wonder if she thought she was Jessica Simpson and could smile and talk sweetly to make people forgive or simply dismiss her stupidity. And lets be honest, this girl's behaviour makes Jessica Simpson the singer seem like the next nano technician. Well the Bubbles we've dug up dirt upon used to be married to the hoodlum Mitch Mitchelson and that poor brown haired boy in the picture is the son that they had together Titch Mitchelson (don't ask me how a child gets named Titch, besides this is a child of the same 'intelligent' woman I'm currently taking to the cleaners and killing all her dignity). Seems that trouble must've entered paradise to cause that marriage to disintegrate and they divorced. But certain unnamed sources revealed that Bubbles left Mitch because he abused her while they were married in Citysville. Only GOD knows why a gentle girl from a town as wonderful as Townsville would move to a DUMP like Citysville; but at the same time she hasn't proved to be very smart (as mentioned earlier). But she isn't so innocent herself. The ex-teacher of kindergarten at Citysville Primary (who received numerous awards for her teaching skill and love for her there could only be rivalled by the love that we have for our beloved Miss Keane who still teaches even today in our wonderful Townsville) has already found a new man for her arm who's none other than top Townsville bachelor Brick Him. But maybe we should say recycled since if we recall they had made headlines years ago when it was thought Brick Him was going to marry Bubbles Utonium. But after what seemed to be an angry spat about something upsetting, Bubbles broke the engagement and it seemed that during this time of separation Mitch 'somehow' got Bubbles to be his wife. Hmmm, is there some competition going on between these two who until recent times and increased revelations of Mitch's character were the best of friends. Oh and can you believe that this same Blonde is the sister of Blossom Utonium, one of the greatest scientific minds in the world. Worse yet she was also there. The poor thing must've been so embarrassed. Oh I PITY her. But that's all the space I've got. Read the full paper articles for more details, info, gossip and DIRT.

Professor Utonium could feel himself crushing the paper in his hands. How DARE they humiliate his daughter like this! He could just imagine the LOOK on Bubbles face if she saw this. She'd be absolutely devastated.

The Professor was eventually able to calm himself and he sighed. He took his wallet out of his pocket and took out his most prized picture of his first three girls. They had taken this picture a week after Townsville had finally accepted the girls and they had started to regularly go around saving the day. He had paid someone to take their photo in front of City Hall. They were all wearing their usual clothes except for Bubbles and Buttercup who decided to also wear a straw hat with a blue ribbon and a dark red cap turned backwards on their heads respectively along with their regular clothing of their colour coded dresses. They all had smiles on their faces and smiled at the camera. They were half way up the steps of City Hall and Professor stood smiling as the girls floated, Blossom and Bubbles smiling and floating by his left and right side and Buttercup grinned as she floated just above his shoulder. It was a beautiful picture immortalized in time. But as beautiful as it was, it didn't prepare them for their future problems and later breakdown of the perfect or at least very happy Utonium family. The Blossom who was smiling by his left side now seemed to be avoiding him, Bubbles and even Townsville. His darling Bubbles who in the photograph was smiling with that beautiful straw hat was now a divorced grown up with a child who now lived with a bachelor who had betrayed her years ago and the Professor saw no reason why he wouldn't do so again if given the opportunity or the slightest chance. And Buttercup. His little Buttercup, who in the picture was grinning instead of smiling like 'pretty babies'. That's what he recalled her describing her sister's sweet and angelic smiles after they had gotten the photograph to look at for the first time. While Blossom's eyes shined with happiness and Bubbles with cute naivety. Buttercup's own eyes shined with delightful glee and mischief. The Professor never saw it as a bad sign before because he knew Buttercup wasn't as angelic and sweet as her other siblings. But he never knew that today her difference from her sister's would have him not knowing if she were alive or dead. Buttercup had run away from home in her teens after Professor Utonium re-instated Blossom into the PPG's without Bubbles consent. At first the Professor was so angry at her for running off. Wanting to find her mainly to tell her off for doing something like that. But over time and especially after a device he created that at first was able to help him track Buttercup a bit failed, he truly began to miss her like any Father would miss a daughter. By the time the girl's were nearly twenty, he fully gave up the search. The police had given up nearly two years ago to focus on more important matters. This at first infuriated the Professor but over time he realized that Buttercup wouldn't be found unless she willingly presented herself. Now years later, he had pretty much given up on ever again.

"I'm so sorry Buttercup," Professor Utonium whispered as he stared at his grinning black haired daughter in the photograph, "I'm so sorry."

(Meanwhile at the Him's Mansion)

Him sat watching television. He had arrived that the Gala the night before fashionably late. But he knew Mr. Morebucks and Princess would forgive since he was such a great Fitness Guru along with the fact he told them in advance.

Him sighed as he thought of the great night he had at the Gala. The usual and not so usual crowd was there but he got the surprise of the night seeing Blossom and Butch together. He knew Blossom had been to events like this before and she came whether she had a guy on her arm or not. But Butch took the cake. Usually Blossom was with someone with a form of prestige or high morality that would be quickly noticed and applauded. Butch was neither. Unlike Brick and Boomer, Butch had in NO way truly proved to the Townsville community that he had changed. Sure he behaved well at the Gala. But as word spread that a former PPG was with a former RRB, he doubt the words spread after that would be good.

"Penny for your thoughts dear?" Mrs. Fern Him asked as she came and sat beside her husband.

"Oh, hi Fern," Him said after a moment of surprise, "I see that you're wearing the bathrobe I gave you last week," he remarked and Mrs. Him giggled and paraded around him for a short time in her purple bathrobe that ended half way above her knees, "and you still look great in it," he added and she laughed and sat this time in his lap.

Mrs. Fern Him was now Forty-Two years old. She was five foot six inches tall, Black haired, grey eyed, and had a model thin figure, which she maintained through exercise and fitness, being a strict and blatant vegan, and having the best fitness gurus on her beck and call. Now she only had one fitness guru and she was wearing his ring. Before she married Him, she was Miss Fern Potts (she was mentioned twice in the fic 'Repercussions') a young widow left with a vast fortune from her dead husband Mr. Alexander Greenwood who was a technological genius who she was married to for three years before he died. She was from a middle class family whose only lack was the vast wealth of the rich and famous. Mr. Greenwood met her when she came to model for a background for personal computers. She was awestruck that Mr. Greenwood would talk to her but soon found out that he had noticed that she certified in computer repair as well acting and modelling. Talks turned to dates, dates turned to relationship and a year after meeting they got engaged. Six months later like the engagement, Mr. Greenwood arranged and paid for the marriage. Everything seemed perfect until it was found out seven months later that she was unable to ever have children because of all of the radiation that she had to take during her teens when she bizarrely got both leukaemia and cervix cancer within a two year span, somehow destroyed the eggs and made them pretty much dead. This caused a break out of arguments from her husband's side of the family since he was the eldest of two sons and was expected to marry a wife who could bear children and continue the family name. His younger brother Abraham had a two-year old daughter already and his wife was pregnant again with another child. This didn't make things better. But Mr. Greenwood refused to leave his wife's side and cut almost all ties with his family when they wouldn't shut up and leave his decision alone. But three years after their marriage, an unknown assassin in Ohio assassinated her husband while he was giving a speech. It was then rumoured that he had agreed to help the Pentagon with a super code for nuclear weaponry and other deadly weapons and machinery of the military. But Fern knew this was untrue because a month ago she overheard an argument over the phone in which her husband cussed off a military official for even thinking of asking him to do such a thing. And Fern could tell from the conversation that it wasn't the first time that he was asked to do it. Fern went public with her findings and cleared her husband's name from being marred as a man who helped protect deadly weapons used to bomb other people's nations. Fern always hated war and so did her husband. Though the Pentagon denies it to this very day, Fern still believed that they murdered her husband for refusal to co-operate with them. Maybe it was because they feared he'd help an enemy country? Maybe they were just pissed? Maybe they thought no one would come out about it? Maybe they just didn't care about what they did just how they got things done? There were thousands of reasons but only ONE definite. Her husband of three years was dead and the killer was never caught. She had pledged to remain by herself for life but that all was destined to change when Him became one of her gurus six months after she adopted Boomer when he was twelve years old. Slowly it developed into a friendship with the help of Boomer's brother being Him's adopted son. Then by a year and a half later, they had already discovered each other's romantic feelings and decided to try dating. By three years after Boomer's adoption, they were sure of their love of each other but continued to date secretly because of Fern's fear of the social implications of dating a demon. They didn't come public until after Boomer was nineteen. But they didn't marry until four months after Boomer became twenty. Boomer never approved of the marriage. He didn't even approve of them dating. This was because he never liked him and even as a teen (Boomer) neither of them got along (Him and Boomer- read 'Repercussions' for more details). Boomer never attended the wedding and refused to change his last name from Potts to Him. Despite this Fern and Him were able to live happily as a married couple and soon most of the criticism of their union disappeared.

"Just thinking about the Gala," Him told her, "it was fabulous like all of the Morebucks based events," he added and Fern nodded.

"I was surprised to see Butch there," Fern said with open disapproval, "more so there with Blossom."

"Well there must've been a change in Butch if Blossom decided to bring him to the Gala," Him stated frankly.

"So you're defending her," Fern said darkly.

"What's there to defend?" Him asked carefully, "she dated Butch not a serial killer," he added.

"Do you think about her?" Fern asked.

"As a friend, yes," Him said in a controlled tone.

"That's not what I …." Fern started to say.

"I know what you mean," Him interrupted, "and personally, I'm offended," he told her seriously.

Fern looked into Him's eyes. She knew that she had hurt him yet again. Bringing up Blossom this way. But she couldn't help it. Anytime she saw that girl, she remembered how she and Professor Utonium caught them (Him and Blossom) in bed together. Both were sleeping but it was obvious what had happened the night before. It had been two weeks after Fern had decided to give their relationship a time out, but had insinuated that it was over. Him had never dated anyone else like she did before they had gotten married (while they were together). And as pathetic as it might've been, that had made her happy. But that morning would forever be etched in her mind. The girl (Blossom) was nineteen then and from what Him had told her (Fern) afterwards, Blossom had been interviewing and questioning Him on demonic powers and abilities for research in university. Blossom had wanted to do a unique project on varying demonic powers combined with the power of science and chose Him as her main participant because he was a demon along with the fact that he was a demon that wouldn't try to harm her. That night of the two sleeping together was a depressing night for both of them, Him had been dwelling on Fern's time out and Blossom was having some sort of private fall out with her last sister and depressed about her loss of Boomer. Blossom had been asking Him questions when Blossom excused herself and came back with a glass of scotch. Him decided to also have a drink despite Blossom's protests and soon both were drinking and the rest was a blank to him. After the event Fern was upset but she also felt guilty. She had called the girl a lot of horrible things that day and had never apologized about it. She had apologized to Him a month later and agreed to marry him and come public with their relationship soon if they could both start dating again. But this time neither of them had the option of dating anyone else. Him had agreed and later on they came public with their relationship and they got married.

"I'm sorry Him," Fern apologized, "it's not fair to you that I keep bringing it up," I said guiltily and looked at my feet.

Fern suddenly felt a kiss on her cheek and looked up as Him moved away and smiled at her.

"Let's just relax and talk about something else," Him suggested and Fern agreed, "you know that you don't look a day over Twenty-Four years old (that's true readers, she really looks that young)?" he asked her and Fern blushed and laughed.

"I know," Fern said almost flirtatiously as she brushed back her curly raven black hair, "I look fabulous."

(Meanwhile at Townsville City Hall)

Iaman Angel (pronounced I AM AN Angel) sat at the computer typing a new speech for the Mayor. She was hired two years ago as Mrs. Utonium's (formerly Miss Bellum) assistant. No one knew her true identity as Sedusa besides Francis Hate, Him, Buttercup, and unfortunately know Mitch as well. When Francis had told her about Mitch's threat, she was livid. She had no intention of having that Mitch low life ruining the life she had made for herself. She was also secretly Francis's assistant with his job. Though mostly Francis worked alone. Iaman Angel helped him process some of his research and was also his only friend. Though Francis now could parade around as a human, years of rejection and hiding made him into a sort of recluse. He'd laugh and have fun with clients but after the job he cut contact immediately. He only kept important connections and those persons were rarely contacted unless he needed help or they wanted a favour. She felt sorry for him sometimes but Francis refused to be pitied.

"Are you finished with my speech Miss Angel?" the Mayor asked as he tried to peek over her shoulder to look at it.

"Not yet Mayor," Miss Angel said sweetly as she kept her green eyes glued to the computer screen, "but when it's done it will be excellent," she added and the Mayor cheered.

"You definitely prove that not all blondes are dumb," the Mayor declared as he stared at her light blonde hair, which was in a bun, "carry on while I grab myself a pickle," he said then practically skipped out of her office happily.

"Yes Mayor," Miss Angel said cheerily after him then continued typing.

Idiot. (Miss Angel's thoughts)

Chapter 8 Done.

Reggae: Well I hope this chapter was interesting. Looks like Kim and SithKnight-Galen decided to take a reviewing vacation. Oh well. What did you think of the article written on Bubbles? How did you feel with the Professor being the one who was reading it in this chapter? What do you think of the Professor on a whole? Do you feel sorry for him now that he has regrets about how he had treated Buttercup? What did you think of the description of the photograph? Did you read 'Repercussions'? If the answer is yes, what did you think of the Professor then compared to now? Has your opinion changed at all? Why or why not? What first came to your mind the moment you reached the part of the story where Him made his first live appearance in this fic? What did you think of Him's feelings towards Blossom and Butch being together? What about Fern's feelings? Is Fern justified with her feelings about what happened between Blossom and Him? What does this make you think of Blossom? What do you think of Fern? How do you feel about Fern and Him's marriage? What did you think of Fern's past before she married Him? What did you think of Sedusa who's now known as Iaman Angel a.k.a. Miss Angel? What do you think of how she felt about Francis Hate? What did you think of her job at City Hall? What did you think of the entire chapter? Please review and remember to Vote.

Surprise Vote 8: Who do you want to have first perspective in the next chapter: Bubbles, Blossom, Snake or Butch? Chose only one.

Surprise Vote 9: Who do you NEED to see in the next chapter? Snake, Butch, Francis Hate or Mrs. Sarah (Bellum) Utonium? Chose only one. You can't choose someone from Vote 8 and chose the same person in vote 9. Remember that.

P.S.: The Him's mansion is actually Fern's mansion. Let's just say that she decided to live at Him's mansion. You can guess why. It's called Him's mansion because it used to be called Potts Mansion while she was a widow. Get it? Good.