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The room consisted of four concrete walls with no windows. She sat on a small single bed staring at a battered old wardrobe. She dropped her head in her hands. She was tempted to bang her head against the concrete. How could she have been so reckless, so irresponsible? Blossom had been having second thoughts since she had entered the professor's car but a voice in her head was screaming for her to go. Why, she had no idea but now she found herself sitting by herself in a room that was dirty and untidy. Blossom sighed. She knew why. She wanted to break out of her routine, to do something she wanted to do for a change. It wasn't that she wanted to leave with the professor it was more wanting to leave altogether. She wanted to go somewhere else, somewhere she could be better suited for. However the longer she sat in the professor's car the more she was having second thoughts and several times she was going to tell him to take her home or even leave her at the side of the road but the stupid voice kept her mouth shut. She almost turned and ran in the opposite direction when they got out the car and the professor tried his best to hide his car but nope her legs carried her through the woods with him. Blossom was about to hit him on the head with a rock when he pushed leaves away to reveal a strange looking hatch but no she watched him open it and obliged when he told her to climb down the ladder. After they had got to the bottom he had led her through a series of tunnels to a door and let her into this smelly room. This was how Blossom found herself here. She couldn't decide if she should laugh or cry at her temporary brain malfunction. Just as she was about to stand up to leave the door opened.
"Blossom?" The professor walked in. Something about her expression must have given away her thoughts because he looked worried and said, "Blossom I know this is all really strange but I need you to come to a different room with me so I can tell you everything and then if you still want to I will take you straight home." Blossom looked at him for a little while. She had come all this way and he had done nothing to suggest he wanted to hurt her so she decided she might as well hear what he had to say. The professor then began to lead her down a few more tunnels before coming to another door.
"Blossom I need you to keep an open mind." But before she could reply he opened the door.
Bubbles looked in the direction of a door opening. She saw another girl around the same age as her enter. She had met, Buttercup, who only stared at her as they were introduced. Bubbles was then introduced to the new girl, Blossom who muttered, "It's nice to meet you both." She had been so focused on Blossom she didn't see the man who entered with her till she heard him speak to Ms Keane.
"You!" All eyes flew to Bubbles who was pointing at the professor.
"Hello Bubbles."
"I-I know you but h-how?" Bubbles stuttered trying to make sense why the man she had dreamed about was standing in front of her smiling at her.
"First let me introduce myself, my name is Professor Utonium. This is Ms Bellum and Ms Keane. I want you girls to take a seat and I will clear everything up including why, Bubbles, you know me."
Buttercup stood with her arms crossed. She wasn't sure she liked where this was going but she promised her tribe chief she would behave and give them a chance to explain. So with that Buttercup was the second to sit after the red head one. Bubbles slowly made her way to the seat next to Blossom still a little afraid of what was going on.
"First I need to tell you three something before we get started, it might be hard to believe but..."
"We are sisters." All heads swung towards Blossom. She knew the minute they were being introduced. They might not have the same colouring of hair and eyes but they had very similar features, big expression filled eyes, small noses and full lips. She would have said something earlier but she was too busy staring and taking everything in before she was told to sit. She knew the other two might not believe it but she knew, somewhere deep down she knew that these two girls were her family.
The professor smiled with pride, "Yes. You three are sisters. I knew you were intelligent Blossom but I am starting to think that maybe I might of under estimated you." Blossom swelled with pride. No one had ever acknowledged her smartness before but here was a man she had only known two days who mentioned on a few occasions her intelligence and he was again impressed.
"Sisters?" Buttercup said unconvinced, "how the hell are we sisters?"
The professor's face dropped before he scrubbed his face with his hand. "Girls I didn't want this for you. I didn't want this to be your life but I couldn't do anything to stop it. I tried, god knows I tried but this was the only solution to keep you girls safe. To split you girls up. The memory loss was an unfortunate side effect."
"Professor please what are you talking about?" Bubbles pleaded.
"Okay girls I need you three to keep a very open mind, especially you Blossom. This is going to be very hard to accept I know but you just have to listen and not say anything till I finish okay?" All three girls slowly nodded their obviously afraid what he was about to say.
The professor took a deep breath and looked each girl in the eye before he began the tale, "I had just finished college and I didn't have a particularly good time there to say the least. Don't get me wrong I was top of my class but I had this idea in my head I could create living organisms. Everyone laughed at me, saying that it wasn't possible but I was determined to prove them wrong. I was only talking like an insect nothing too big or complicated but the mockery got to me. I wanted nothing more than to show them I could do it so I found myself in my lab staring at the possible ingredients around me. I had no idea where to start but I began throwing a few bits and pieces in. I even went as far as putting in sugar, spice and everything nice. It sounds so illogical out loud but at the time I felt like I was really on to something." The professor shook his head and then stared off into the distance. The girls watched as a small frown formed on the professor's face.
"However whilst mixing everything together and working out my last few ingredients my lab monkey Jojo, who I had had the whole time I was in college, knocked me. I ended up accidentally smashing the beaker that had chemical X in it. This very powerful substance. Anyway it fell into the container with all my other ingredients and all I could do was stare in disbelief. All that hard work was about to go down the drain, I was about to be a laughing stock again. And then all of a sudden an explosion happened and whilst I got pushed back with the impact Jojo ended up somehow getting caught up in it. Anyway I was knocked out cold for a few minutes but when I opened my eyes. I saw three girls hovering over my work place with these gorgeous smiles. They landed next to me and all I could do was stare. I had done it, I had created three beautiful girls. But I soon learned they were not ordinary girls, no as strange as this is going to sound they had superpowers. The ability to fly, run at incredible speeds and have super human strength I couldn't believe it." The professor had tears forming in his eyes, "but as I sat gob smacked at everything, one of them approached me asking if I was okay and that I could have been badly hurt I should have been more careful." The professor chuckled and stared at Blossom, "this little girl had come up to me not holding back so I said I am going to call you Blossom, the way she opened up to me was amazing." He then looked towards Bubbles, "then I heard a little giggle and peered round to see this shy blonde girl with the biggest smile on her face, so naturally I called her Bubbles." The professor then turned to Buttercup, "and as I sat and looked over at the last of them she had such wide eyes so, keeping with the B names, I called her Buttercup but she instantly looked annoyed, humphed and crossed her arms." All three girls was staring wide eyed and their mouths were hanging open.
"But but that isn't even possible!" Blossom said jumping up from her seat. She began pacing in front of the girls, "I can get the sisters aspect of things but super powers?! That isn't even logical. You are trying to tell me you threw in any old ingredients into a pot going by a nursery rhyme at one point and out popped me and my sisters." Blossom was so confused she didn't even realise she had addressed her connection with the girls.
"I agree with Blossom over here. I mean if we did really have super powers how come we don't know about them."
"I don't know. I have to say I find that a little concerning. I expected to hear back from the people you were staying with about how you were with them but nothing came."
"So our whole lives were a lie?" Bubbles interjected. She couldn't wrap her head around the fact that her family weren't really who she thought they were. She couldn't decide what upset her most to know her life was lie or the fact that the woman who she thought was her mother had been lying this whole time.
"You have to understand I had to separate you girls. There was a very big threat coming for you and I would not allow them to touch a hair on your head. You were my little girls and I would not let them take you." The professor practically shouted.
He sighed, "I know this is a lot to take in and this isn't even all of it. I will explain in time in more detail why the lies and the false identities but I was hoping you could all get to know each other first. I don't want to keep talking about all the bad stuff."
"Why don't we remember any of our life before?" Blossom queried.
"I had decided to hide you girls away from the world. When I first created you, you three were five years old and desperate to spread your wings. You were all so full of life. But when a certain someone got wind of you guys he wanted you for himself and I wouldn't allow it. He was very powerful at the time and I wasn't sure if you could defeat him at such a young age. So one night when you girls were busy watching television I gave you a quite high dosage of a drug meant to put you to sleep. Ms Bellum, Ms Keane and myself dropped you off at your decided locations, keeping it from each other. However when you girls woke your memories had been wiped. You had no idea who you were and where you were. This of course meant it was easier to keep you girls there and to believe you had always belonged there, regardless of everything it broke my heart. To know you girls had no idea about your life before, about me." The professor said with a melancholy smile. Bubbles stared at this man and found herself believing everything he said even though she had never had used her super powers he had just explained her dream to her, filling in on all the blanks. Her dream was of when they were first created. Bubbles jumped at the sound of Blossom's voice.
"I'm going. This whole thing sounds ridiculous. Between being created in a lab to having super powers. I should have just got out of the car. Come on girls." Blossom starts to walk towards the door but as she turns round she noticed neither girl has moved.
"You are seriously not suggesting you believe any of this."
Buttercup shrugged her shoulders, "Why shouldn't I?"
"Really?" Blossom raising her voice. "Let's just go, leave here, get to know each other and stick by each other."
"Who made you the one in charge?" Buttercup countered.
"Me. If you are stupid enough to believe what is being said without any proof then you can't be in charge." Blossom shouted at her sister.
"Stop it!" Bubbles shouted, "I don't want us fighting."
"I have proof." All three girls turn to the professor who was walking over to a laptop that was hooked up to a projector. "I managed to take one home video of you girls before you left." Professor pressed a few keys and the girl watched as the projector shot images on to the big white board that had been behind them.
"Hold the camera still professor." A young Blossom said.
"Okay you ready?"
"Ready!" a cheery Bubbles squealed.
The picture in front them, was of a young girl's bedroom filled with stuffed animals and books. Blossom stared at the younger version of herself. Her hair which once sat below her bum was now sitting just above her hips but the bright orange colour was very much the same. It was once held into place with a big beautiful red bow at the top of her head. She was wearing a pink dress that had a block of black around the middle, white tights and black Mary Jane's. She noticed that her sisters wore the same as her but Buttercup was in lime green and Bubbles in light blue. Buttercup's hair in the video was shorter than her shoulder length she had now but she still held the tough girl image. Bubbles on the other hand was a lot more bubbly for a better word and her blonde hair was held in two pigtails rather than the messy ponytail she had now but her bright blue eyes were still full of emotions. Blossom watched as her and her sisters played a game of dress up and pretended to be monsters. Each and every girl was laughing and smiling something Blossom suspected the girls now had not done in a while.
"So what do you call yourself girls?" A younger professor behind the camera pretending to be a reporter after the girls watched themselves take down a few 'bad' stuffed animals. Blossom watched herself drag her sisters into a huddle and whisper to them, Bubbles giggled during it. She watched as the three girls turned around and soar into the air and float whilst they spoke
"We are the Powerpuff Girls." Blossom stated.
"We have dedicated our lives to fighting crime…" Buttercup said.
"And the forces of evil!" Bubbles shouted before all three girls giggled and hugged. The screen then went black.
8, 9...9 cracks in the ceiling. Funnily enough it hasn't changed since the last few times I counted she thought. There was no point of her trying to sleep. It was the furthest thing from her mind. She had just had her world tipped upside down and even though she should be panicking, upset over the lies and deceit she was actually a little relieved. To find out that she was one of triplets who had at one point had a whole other life which strangely included superpowers and crime fighting she felt almost giddy. Bubbles didn't need any more convincing after the video because only a few seconds of it playing her own memories flashed in her mind's eye of that day and many others. She just stared at the images playing out in front of her as she watched the ones in her head. It was her idea to film that day, it was raining and the girls were bored out there minds. They had somehow roped the professor into playing even though he complained he was extremely busy and needed to get back to his research he humoured them that day. When she finally looked at the video in front of her the one thing that surprised her was her smile. Bubbles, when growing up, wasn't a particularly unhappy child but she never found a reason to smile. A full on carefree smile that she was witnessing on the big screen. The next big thing she noticed was how close the sisters were. You could see the love and respect each girl had for each other shining in each of their bright eyes and strangely enough Bubbles craved that. She wanted the close bond that she had with her sisters to be back but who knew how long that would take or if they would ever be that close again, that's what brought a tear to Bubbles eye. She had purposely made herself an outcast in her old life feeling different and to find out she was and had others around her should of made her happy but it only put the final nail in the coffin that she was always going to be truly alone. After that Bubbles couldn't stop the flow of tears running down her face. All she wanted was to connect with other people. She thought that something was wrong with her to not make an effort especially with her family but it made sense now. Somehow deep down she knew, she always knew. It wasn't nothing to do with genetics but a horrible sickly feeling in the pit of her stomach. But as the tears fell she realised that there wasn't anything particularly wrong with her it was just that they weren't her family. She had made herself an outcast in the village, within her own family by her own hand. She sat up and looked at the small alarm clock, it was only 2am. They were getting up at 7.30am, much to Buttercup's dismay, to begin. Bubbles swung her legs off her bed and stood, a decision made. She didn't want to be alone anymore. She tiptoed out her bedroom and went straight to Blossom's door. But as her hand was about to make contact she hesitated. Blossom might be sleeping, she might think Bubbles was strange wanting to creep into her bedroom late at night. Bubbles held back at a sob before turning to go back to her room.
"Come in." Bubbles froze. Blossom? Bubbles slowly opened the door to find Blossom sitting up with a book on her lap.
"I'm sorry Blossom I just didn't want to be by myself and I-I didn't know if you w-would be up."
Blossom patted her bed as she whispered, "I don't want to be alone right now either." And she smiled softly at Bubbles. She slowly approached the bed and sat down neither sister taking their eyes off each other.
"What you reading?" Bubbles asked pointing to the book.
"Hmm?" Blossom said as she looked down. She closed the book to reveal a medical book of some sort. "To be fair I was trying to read but I couldn't concentrate long enough." Blossom said sadly.
"A medical journal?" Bubbles queried.
Blossom blushed slightly, "I love reading and the more difficult the better. I like a challenge."
Bubbles smiled. They both turned has they watched Buttercup wandering in with her arms crossed.
"Can anyone join the slumber party or is it restricted?" Buttercup asked with a little hostility in her voice but before Bubbles could say anything Blossom patted her bed once more. Buttercup closed the door behind her but instead of taking the bed she sat on the floor with her back against the wall facing the bed. Blossom chucked her a pillow which Buttercup caught and sat on.
"What did I miss?"
"Bubbles and I were saying that we didn't fancy sitting by ourselves whilst we couldn't sleep." Buttercup grunted in response.
"So? What do you guys make of this whole thing?"
"I just can't get my head wrapped around it. To think that our lives were lies and I had two other sisters I had no idea about and to top it all off we have superpowers?" Blossom said the last part like she was crazy. That the proof wasn't played right in front of their eyes only hours ago.
"What were your lives like?" Bubbles asked quietly.
"I stayed with my mother in a small village and I was a head maid at the local inn. My mother passed away a few years ago so it was just me."
"I lived with a tribe but no one claimed me so it was just me." Bubbles looked between her sisters. She realised that compared to them her life was easy. Blossom asked Bubbles of hers.
"Oh I lived with my mum, dad and a couple of siblings. They owned a shop so I helped out there, it was just a quiet place." Bubbles cringed. She would hate to think that they might hold it against her.
Blossom just nodded and said, "They obviously wanted to keep us far apart but for what reason?" This was another reason Blossom had stayed up. She tried her hardest to figure what was so bad that everyone risked their lives to hide them. It wasn't even hiding, they split them up and fed them lies. She couldn't wait to get up later and grill the professor but whatever it was Blossom knew that they would facing something that should not be underestimated.
Buttercup stared at her two sisters. That was something she was going to have to start getting used to but even if the word felt foreign on her tongue she knew deep down that she would protect these two girls with everything she could. But something else was also bugging Buttercup…
"Have you guys ever experienced your powers?"
Blossom shook her head but Bubbles said, "But I suppose we have never tried to." Both Buttercup and Blossom looked at their blonde hair sibling, could it really be that easy they all thought. All of a sudden all three girls jumped to their feet forming a small circle.
Blossom breathed out slowly and closed her eyes and imagined that she could fly. That it was as natural as taking her next breath and slowly opened her eyes to find all girls floating still their feet on the ground. She watched as her sisters slowly opened their eyes to witness their failure.
"Fuck." Buttercup grumbled.
"Something isn't right. The professor even said himself that he finds it strange that we haven't experienced our powers." Blossom thought out loud.
Bubbles huffed and sat back on the bed, strangely she thought that was all to it. She had never tried to fly before because 24 hours previous she had no idea of her second life.
The other two girls all sat on Blossoms bed and for the rest of the morning they spoke about their lives and other unrelated topics. The girls refused to speak of their failure and got to know each other again. Bubbles couldn't help the big grin form on her face when they teased and joked with each other. Buttercup even cracked a smile now again knowing she had family and Blossom, even though enjoyed the atmosphere that surrounded the three of them she couldn't help but think why the powers had seemed to fade. Blossom did have a few theories that were floating around her head but she decided to keep them to herself. And even though there was a darkness beginning to surround the girls they knew that they had each other which was enough to silence the voices warning of dangers to come. For now.
He stood in Blossom's bedroom doorway watching the three girls' chest rise and fall. He couldn't help but smile to think his little girls where back with him. He had heard them in the early hours of the morning talking and laughing. It actually brought a small tear to his eye to think that they were bonding. He felt like the worst parent in the world to split them up but he knew they would be a lot safer than staying with him. They would have been at a greater risk of getting caught if they stayed with him. He knew it at the time but it still broke his heart. He didn't know at that time if he would ever see them again or if they would ever find out who he was. But regardless he would rather see his girls live full and happy lives than be in the clutches of that monster. He sighed. He had them back but with a cost. He looked once more at the sleeping form of his girls, his creations hell his world and shut the door.
Bubbles felt warm, too warm in fact but protected. She couldn't understand why but her right calf was slightly wet and she couldn't feel her right arm. She slowly opened her eyes to see bright orange. It took Bubbles a second to realise she obviously had fallen asleep in Blossom's room with her sisters. She saw her arm trapped under Blossom's body with Blossom's arm around her lower waist. She was on her stomach so she tried to peer down at her leg to see Buttercup tangled between the sisters' pair of legs but using Bubbles right one as a pillow which explained the wetness. Drool. She giggled softly, she probably should find it gross but she was too happy to freak out. They had stayed up for a few hours getting to know each other and it felt great. They had heaps in common with a few areas they didn't agree on but despite everything she felt like a normal teenager for once in her life. Blossoms alarm started going off and she watched as her red headed sister started stirring. The raven haired one had not budged.
Blossom grunted as she went to whack the alarm off but instead came in to contact with something a lot softer and a little groan. Blossom's eyes sprung open and looked over to see her blonde hair sister holding her head and looking at her with disbelief.
"It's only a small alarm."
"I know but it was annoying," Blossom smiled sheepishly. Bubbles rolled her eyes and chuckled a little. Blossom looked to see the third sister knocked out for the count. Bubbles watched as a small mischievous smile grew on Blossoms face. She pulled her foot back as far as she could and pushed Buttercup off the bed. The two girls watched as Buttercup rolled off the bottom of the bed and disappeared. Next thing Buttercup popped her head up from the bottom of the bed looking really confused which made the two sisters clutch their stomachs. Buttercup finally caught on and replied with a smirk of her own.
"Oh it's on." Both sisters squealed and jumped out of bed. Just as Buttercup was about to pounce but a knock came at the door. Blossom slowly approached the door keeping an eye on Buttercup who stood with her arms crossed silently laughing at her sister's careful movements. Blossom opened the door to reveal the Professor.
"Morning girls. I was hoping you could come join me for breakfast so we can continue discussing the events from last night." The professor hated the almost distant approach of everything including his girls but he knew it was always going to be like this at the start.
"Of course Professor let us shower and change before we head down." Blossom answered. Professor nodded his head once before turning and walking down the corridor.
The girls walked into the room they were in the night before, freshly showered wearing clothes they found lying on their bed, simple white tank tops with grey cotton joggers. They found the professor sitting reading a newspaper with a few slices of buttered toast in front of him. The girls slowly made their way up to the table. As the each grabbed a chair they also each started taking food that took their fancy. There was small selection of meat and bakery goods.
"I didn't know what you girls like so I just grabbed a few different things." The professor said keeping his eyes on the paper. Each girl tucked into their breakfast feeling the effects of a long journey. Blossom raised her head a few times looking in the professor's direction desperate for answers but she didn't want to appear too forward.
"Ask me." All girls raised their eyes to look at the professor who was in the middle of folding the newspaper.
"Ask me Blossom. I can see you are eager for information." He placed the paper to his side and looked at Blossom expectantly.
"Okay. Well I have a few questions." Blossom cleared her throat before jumping into the heart of it, "Why, exactly, were we split up? What made you make such a decision? Also where are we and why?"
"We are in underground mines and bases created for the Second World War but at this moment I can't say exactly where and as for the why I will get to that in a moment, for that explanation you need to hear the start of the story. We used to live in a small town called Townsville. Everyone at the start was a little scared of you three. You were super beings with these incredible powers no one knew if you guys would use them for good or evil. Of course you girls answered their unspoken question when you beat up the Gangreen Gang when they attempted a robbery. You only stayed in Townsville for a few more weeks and you took on any bad guy threatening the quiet town. You were loved and adored but most of all you took it in your stride as though it was no big deal. That's what you girls were there for and didn't deserve the admiration thrown your way well that's how you three saw it. However one day everything changed." The professor looked pale, "We don't know what the creature is called but we refer to it as Him." Professor watched as the girls seemed to recognise the name.
"Well in simple terms he came from another dimension of some sorts like hell. He looked like the devil himself and he had great power. He had been watching our world for years and he decided that he wanted you girls. He wanted you girls to join him in his quest to take over the world by his side. But you girls refused and tried to fight him and you barely succeeded. You had knocked him through the portal he came in and it closed up. As soon as it was done I grabbed you girls and ran home. It took you almost a whole week to heal. The chemical X that is in your bloodstream should have had the cuts and bruises healed with hours. It really scared me. Sure I was frightened at the start when you began your crime fighting careers but after watching you heal quickly and show that the hits did not hurt I stepped out of your way. I left you girls in the lab to heal whilst I helped tidy Townsville after the attack however he returned. But by taking over the mayor. He proved that his power was a lot stronger when he was in his own realm. For the whole week he proved his powers by destroying buildings and controlling certain influential people. He tried his hardest to find you girls but no one would say anything denying everything to who created them to where they resided. You had protected their lives and homes for weeks they felt like this simple act could repay for your acts of kindness. However he began searching for you girls so we Ms Keane, Ms Bellum and myself decided to hide you girls. You were still developing your powers and we had no idea if he could control you girls either but we couldn't take the risk so we hid you. Away from Him after a few years he seemed to leave us in peace. A few times I was tempted to reach out and get back in touch with you girls but I had a feeling that it wasn't over and I was right. Him has returned, even more powerful than before and even more determined to find you girls."
"You had told us that we were going to leave for a while." Blossom said earning the professors wide eyed stare. "But we wanted to stay and fight. We weren't prepared to have a monster like that try and take over the world."
"But you said it was for the best we left and you couldn't come because eventually he would find out who created us and come looking so it was better we were far apart." Bubbles continued. "But we didn't want to leave you."
"We weren't scared of Him at all. Hell Leader Girl had some sort of plan working around in that intelligent brain of hers. We could have taken him but no you dropped us in some god forsaken place." Buttercup at that point was standing with her fists clenched. "All I wanted was to be with my sisters but you took it all away. My memories and my life." Everyone stared at the professor who looked shocked.
"I didn't think you girls remembered."
"Yeah well after you mentioning our life I think I can speak for all of us when I say that parts are starting to come back to us." Blossom stated. It was true, images of the gang he mentioned flashed in their heads with a small old man with a full grey moustache. They remembered the argument they had with the professor that night saying they would stay and fight. They were the only ones capable of even making an attempt. The professor had sent them to bed saying that they would talk more about it in the morning. However unknown to the girls he had drugged them and had them sent away.
"Did you doubt our abilities that much?" Bubbles half whispered.
"No! You girls have to understand that week where you slept the entire time he had turned Townsville upside down showing his strength and power. He even fought the villians saying that he didn't need their help. They were all weaklings which angered Mojo the most of course." The professor muttered the last part.
"Mojo Jojo." The girls said in unison. The professor looked at his girls with tears in his eyes.
"I don't know what I can say or do that will ever make this better but I need you girls to know that I was desperate. I wanted you girls away living some sort of life I didn't want Him to get his nasty claws on you girls. I would not take that chance. You girls were ARE everything to me. You girls were not strong enough to take him on then but I believe you are now. That's why you are here. He has come back and starting to form an army taking over Townsville then the world. I never wanted this for you girls."
"What? Us to be different?!" Buttercup shouted.
"What? No of course not. I wanted you girls to have a choice. You had so much responsibility for young girls I wasn't happy it was thrown at you like that. I wanted you girls to have the choice to lead either the normal life or your superhero one. But after years of sitting by myself I realised I made a mistake. You girls may have been thrown into it but you loved it. I suppose that was the only world you girls knew about it and you couldn't wait till the white phone rung. I am sorry girls. I am sorry I took the choice away from you but I sit here asking you now, what do you want?" The professor thought the girls might think it about it but before he had finished his question they were had thrown their answers at him which only made him smile.
"To save Townsville." Bubbles squeaked.
"To kick Him's butt." Buttercup growled.
"To become the Powerpuff girls again." Blossom said proudly eyeing her other two sisters.
"Okay girls I was thinking that you should start looking at the villains who you used to fight against. I know Him said he doesn't need their help but it might all change and you need to be ready for anything. In the mean time I was hoping you all wouldn't mind giving me a small blood sample so I can figure out why your powers are no longer here."
"Sure. Were there a few villains like?" Blossom asked already looking deep in thought.
"There was definitely a handful that could prove to be a bit of a problem. Nothing you girls can't handle," The professor said with a proud smile. After that the professor pricked a finger on each the girls and had them press against a glass slide. He pointed out where they could information on his laptop and excused himself.
Blossom looked from the professor to her two sisters. She could feel herself stepping into back into her old role as leader and she loved it. This is what she wanted. This was the difference she had been craving. Blossom did wish things were slightly different, that she had grown up with her siblings that she was aware that she had powers so she could be helping people more however the bigger one was that she hoped that someone wasn't looking to use her as a puppet to take over the world. They would have to be careful from now on. Their next few moves would have to be planned well because one wrong step could see the three powerful sisters in the grip of the devil.
"Okay girls let's get started. I think we should put images up first with no names see what we can remember of them. This might help to recover lost memories." Both girls nodded so Blossom stood and approached the laptop. The first villain popped up on the screen.
"Fuzzy Lumpkins." The girls all said in unison. On the screen showed a strange bear like animal with bright pink fur wearing dirty torn dungarees. He was holding a shotgun and was aiming at something in the air.
"So girls what do you remember?" Blossom asked.
"He wasn't one that gave us really big problems. He would have his moments of course. And when he went into 'Rage Mode' and had his fits thats when we had the biggest problems with him." Bubbles said thoughtfully.
"Yeah he didn't like anyone on his property, he had a weird obsession for his banjo and had a weird crush on Ms Bellum."
"I remember that day," Blossom said with a slight shudder. "Eww. Regardless of him not being like one of the typical villains he was high on our list of most dangerous though. It was that Rage Mode Bubbles mentioned. He could be a handful and difficult to defeat when he got into one of his fits." Blossom looked over at her two sisters.
"I can't believe I remember all that well not completely but it just all came to me." The others nodded in agreement. It was a strange feeling Buttercup thought. She had seen the picture of the weird looking thing on the screen and the next thing her mouth opened. Buttercup watched as Blossom flicked the picture off and replace it with a new one.
"Gangreen Gang." Buttercup said aloud. The group of five delinquent teenagers showed up on the screen raging from different sizes and heights that formed the gang. They all had putrid green skin which was a strange thought for Buttercup who loved the colour green but the shade that all members had Buttercup hated. Ace, Snake, Grubber, Big Billy and Lil' Arturo stood getting their mug shots for one of the many times they had been put in jail by the sisters.
"I don't think they are going to be a huge problem. If I remember rightly they were teenage hoodlums who weren't really into taking over the world just causing mayhem in Townsville."
"I know but we can't rule them out completely. They may not want to take over the world but chances are they would be interested in running Townsville. Like the professor said Him had said they were useless but that doesn't mean he won't use them to slow us down. It just means he doesn't want them in the big picture. I think we should focus on these two for just now, find out what they have been up to and where they are now." The girls nodded and started grabbing laptops and newspapers. Blossom lowered her head to her own machine. She smiled. It felt good to be back.
After half an hour of work, the girls had learned that Fuzzy had not been in any trouble in the last few months which either meant he had given up or he was working on his own plan to join Him's schemes either way they would have to be ready for a possible Lumpkins attack. The boys however had been in jail before Him's second appearance. They had been up to their old ways of graffiti and causing trouble on the streets but had been caught when they were robbing a store. The Townsville jail had not been touched and no one had broken out but again the girls weren't going to completely cross them off their list, anything could happen. The professor approached the desk with a few papers in his hand.
"What have you got? Did you find out what is happening?" Blossom queried.
"Yes and no. You still have Chemical X flowing in your blood but with it not being used it has kind of 'blended' into the background. The other cells such as your red and white blood cells have taken centre stage if you like. However after running a few tests the Chemical X is starting to get stronger. I am not still sure why but I have a funny feeling it's because you girls are together again. The chemical X can sense there is more nearby and reacting. I still don't understand how it is doing this and why it faded. Jojo was never like that." The professor said the last bit more to himself than the girls but they heard. "I'm researching into it more, seeing if I can speed up the process. We need you girls to start training as soon as. I am not even positive all your powers will return this way. Although you might start to feel different."
"Different how?" Bubbles asked.
"Your body might start to feel lighter as you can obviously fly. The muscles in your body will feel like they are weightless and you might start to notice objects becoming lighter. I am not a hundred percent sure of everything. I just wanted you aware." With that the professor dipped his head slightly and went on his way to continue his research.
"Did you hear that? Our powers are coming back. That's freaking awesome!" Buttercup with excitement.
Bubbles laughed, "Yeah that would be awesome." Blossom just sat appeared deep in thought whilst the other girls got a little excited over the news.
"Okay girls we have a few more opponents to research so we will do that hopefully we will see a difference by the end of that." Blossom said a little more serious than she intended. It wasn't that she wasn't excited she was just thinking. Why did their powers disappear? Would it happen again? Would they always have to be around each other? Why had Mojo Jojo managed to keep his transformation? Blossom sighed. There was no point getting her head wrapped up in another task until she was the one looking in the microscope. And she was hoping she would, very soon.
The girls had looked at Sedusa, a very pretty woman who used her 'assets' to get what she wanted but that didn't mean she was weak. She was far from that. Her hair was a freaky thing with having a mind of its own whipping out to attack her opponents but she could fight. She was quite strong and knew a few high powered moves. She had seemed to have disappeared though just after Him's second appearance and this made the girls a little uneasy. They wanted to be up-to-date with their opponent's movements but it was like she had vanished from the face of the earth. This could only mean one thing. She had somehow managed to slip into Him's good books. The next they looked at was Princess Morbucks. The girls had remembered the snobby brat from kindergarten before they were forced to leave. She had had her heart set on being a Powerpuff girl but a few things had the girls saying no Bubbles remembered. One being the girl was very selfish, she would have probably looked for things like payment in response for saving the quiet town. Another being she had no powers or knowledge on how to keep the town safe so the girls refused keeping the spoiled girl safe. But that was not how she saw it and decided to be a big pain in the girls' side by trying to team up with villains or foil their plans to save the town. She was still at her manor on the outskirts of Townsville however Daddy had been getting richer somehow. The girls had looked into it and the money had been transferred from a few places before making it to King Morbucks which meant he was into money laundering or he was hoping Him was looking for a sponsor.
Buttercup slumped against her chair. "Can we take a break now please? We have looked at these screens all day and I'm exhausted."
Blossom sighed, they only had one more villain to look up their arch enemy, Mojo Jojo. She could remember the monkey being the main reason they fought. She knew there would be a lot information regarding himself and what he had been up to but his file would probably be as big as the previous four they had just researched so Blossom begrudgingly said fine. As Buttercup smiled slightly and let her eyes closed the professor walked through the door.
"How are you girls getting on?"
"Fine. We have looked up four out of five. The fifth being Mojo but we are having a break." Bubbles answered.
"Maybe you girls should stop for the day. Jojo can wait till tomorrow. I think I might have found a way to bring your powers back and stronger than ever." All girls shot out of their chair.
"How?"
"I had built a machine, one of my first actually, that was used to separate molecules and pull out a specific atom. It was for a science fair, won me first prize. I pulled apart water and proved that I managed to return it to its original state of oxygen and hydrogen. Very difficult stuff. However I think I could program it to grab the chemical x cells roaming in your body and pull them to the surface."
"Are you not worried it will completely rip the substance right out?" Blossom asked.
"I just have to be careful with equations and timing. It should be no problem and it shouldn't hurt a bit."
Buttercup started walking towards the door, "What are we waiting for?"
The lab turned out to be even further underground, they followed down the few steps and walked through a door to see a familiar sight. The room had been set up just like the one they had been created in although instead of white walls or floors it was all dark stone. The room had old worn counters running along two of the walls which had numerous amounts of beakers, test tubes and chemicals. The wall across from the girls had a another which made Bubbles all the more curious to see what was behind that door whereas one of her sisters peered at all the colourful beakers and liquid trying to establish what it could be whilst the other was leaning over the professor's shoulder trying to have a look at the device.
"Okay girls if you could step into this container over here." The professor pointed in the direction Bubbles still had to inspect and to her surprise there was a weird glass dome sitting there.
"I'm going to attach the device to the computer which is plugged into the dome. The computer will assist in getting the maths side exactly right. Just step in." The professor was too busy getting everything set up to see the girls looking at each other with slight apprehension. Blossom knew she had to mask her feelings and step up as 'older' sister. So she did just that. She wiped her face of any worries and stepped up to the door and getting in. Buttercup followed quickly behind obviously trying to prove her own point. Bubbles hesitated again before stepping through and shutting the door.
"Okay girls just relax. I would not be doing this if I didn't think it wouldn't work or if it would harm you." The professor said raising his head to see the girls fidgeting a little. He knew that they must be nervous but if the last 24 hours had proved he was out to protect them before anyone else or anything. He put in a few more commands into the computer before fully turning to the girls.
"Ready?" All the girls nodded. He switched on the machine he had built when he was 10. It had taken him almost two weeks to build it and get it absolutely perfect for the fair. He had been bullied for years by the bigger kids which had never really bothered him but the kids he could fit in with, nerds if you like didn't believe he could invent anything like this. They had doubted him just like his fellow student body years later in college. So he worked hard and late into the night to get it right and when he won he was even more determined to prove to the world this time that he was this amazing inventor. However when the girls came along he dropped that dream forming a new one. To be the best parent. He wanted nothing more than to bring his girls up to see them succeed in whatever they wanted to do. He still did bits and pieces and worked for the science department in at the university and he was perfectly happy doing that just as long as he was near his girls. After they left even though he spent most his time in his lab or at the university he knew when he woke up in the morning or came home at night his three beautiful daughters would be at home waiting for him. But the house was empty and alone which was exactly how he felt. Maybe it was strange to consider his creations his own blood and flesh but he did, why? Because he put blood, sweat and tears into creating them and when they appeared before them how could he not class them as his? He was proud of them for everything they had achieved in their crime fighting days to what they had each overcome when they were growing up. And he couldn't help feel proud now as he looked upon their faces, Blossom a face of calm, Buttercup looking bored and Bubbles looking at her feet trying to hide her face. Regardless what was on their face their eyes said it all, they were terrified. But whilst he watched a bright light start to grow and shine from the dome he knew that even if they had powers they could rely on him to protect them from everything and anything that, in his own power, he could.