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RATE: Rated M for language and content.

CHAPTER 18: REMINISCING

Brick floated downstairs and over to where the blood sample with the antidote was. He examined it and there were still no signs of Chemical X. This might actually work. he thought. But should we really try to take their powers away? They tried to do the same to us, and who knows what they planned once they had us at our weakest. He divided up the antidote solution and put it into six vials.

Bubbles floated downstairs and noticed Brick. "Hey, did it work?"

Brick jumped and almost dropped on of the vials. "Geez, at least make some sort of noise before you talk and scare the shit out of me!"

"Sorry," she said quietly.

"As for your question, yes it worked as far as I can tell. I'm dividing the antidote up into six vials so that each of us has one and whoever gets the chance to inject them can do it."

"But what if somehow they manage to get us with our own weapon?" Bubbles asked. "We'll be the ones who are powerless."

"I've thought of that and look." He took the blood sample and added a few drops of Chemical X to it and the antidote instantly disinegrated.

"And if the Punks figure out you can do that?" Bubbles questioned.

Brick gave her a "really?" look. "My brothers and I have been around those idiots before. They only thing that ever crosses their mind is thoughts of having sex with us, which isn't ever happening. They'll be too concerned about that to think that there might possibly be a way to reverse the antidote."

Bubbles made a disgusted face. "Did any of you ever give into them?"

"No, not that I know of. Actually, I don't think we ever really kissed them or anything either even though we were suppose to be in somewhat relationships," Brick said and shuddered at the thought. "What the hell were we thinking?"

"Maybe it was the similar resemblance to us?" Bubbles suggested.

Brick thought for a moment. "You might be on to something there. I think that might have been why we even dated those whores in the first place."

"Brick, this was like two years ago. Shouldn't you be able to remember something?"

"I try not to think about back then," he said and made a face. "I'm happy thinking about more recent things, like us finally getting to be with the girls we've wanted for so long."

"Aww, so you finally got your happy ending?"

"Not quite. It's slowly coming though." Brick smiled at her.

Bubbles smiled back but then sighed. "When I saw Boomer and that bitch kissing I thought he didn't care about me at all. The only thing that kept going through my head was Avril Lavinge's song, My Happy Ending, especially the line, All this time you were pretending; so much for my happy ending."

Brick pulled her into a hug. "Bubbles, you're like a sister to me. If he would have been stupid enough to throw you away, the thing he's been trying to get for years, and be with that whore, I would have kicked his ass every day for the rest of his life." He pulled back and looked her in the eyes. "But he loves you. I could always tell he did. Ever since the day we met you, everytime he got to see even a little glimpse of you, no matter what his mood was he instantly became really happy. And with recent events, he was glad you didn't actually hate him like your sisters did."

"I never hated him, or you or Butch for that matter," she said.

Brick gave her a surprised look. "I'd understand you not hating Boomer because he's always been the more gentle one, but me? Or more importantly Butch?"

Bubbles giggled. "Boomer, for the obvious reasons, I didn't hate. We even snuck behind your backs sometimes to talk."

"I knew he was lying about going out to rob people..." Brick muttered. "Oh, sorry. Go on."

"Okay, for Butch I noticed he was a lot like Buttercup. She acts all tough but really has a sensitive and more caring side and being that he's he counterpart, I figured he was about the same. Actually, I accidentally watched you three before," she said and laughed nervously.

"Wait, when?" Brick asked, surprised again.

"A few years back, I was out looking for trouble makers and I heard something coming from an old building. I peeked inside and saw you three messing around and being, well, you. I think you were teasing Boomer about liking me and Butch said, 'Hey leave him alone. It's not his fault he likes a sissy.' You both started laughing but when you weren't paying attention Butch whispered, 'I got your back. Like who you want to.' That's how I figured out he can actually be caring."

"Damn, you're observant. Okay, then what's your reason for not hating me?"

"You're Blossom's counterpart, and that would make you like her: a cocky, know-it-all leader."

"Hey!" Brick yelled.

"You didn't let me finish," she said. "Even though you are those things, you mean well and are just trying to lead your team to victory while still looking out for your siblings. Back to the being observant thing, remember the one time you beat Blossom pretty bad?"

"Yeah, what about it?" he asked.

"I noticed the concerned look on your face and even heard you ask her if she was okay. I knew you weren't as bad as my sisters said you were. None of you were. Unlike them, I wasn't blinded by the hate they felt for you and I understood that you were created to hate us and be bad, and that it wasn't exactly your fault you were that way."

"Wow, I never knew you saw us that way," Brick said.

Blossom floated down the stairs and over to Bubbles and Brick. She yawned and said, "What are you two going on and on about?"

"Things of the past," Bubbles said nonchalantly.

"How long have you been down here?" Blossom asked.

"About twenty minutes or so, maybe," Brick said and wrapped his arms around Blossom's waist from behind. He rested his head on her shoulder and gazed out the window. He saw colors streaks outside. "Wait, Butch and Boomer are still asleep, right?"

"As far as I know, yeah," Blossom said. "Why?"

"Wake them up, because it looks like we've got trouble."

A/N: Two chapters up in a day! Woo! I hope they were okay. I wasn't sure of how to waste a little time in between the previous battle and the one upcoming so they weren't one right after the other, but I think this was okay. Please review, and I will be back as soon as possible after the next week and a half. I won't be able to get to a computer to write anything, but during that time I shall brainstorm and come up with the best way I can to write the next chapters. Have a good Fourth of July, and I shall be back soon! Thanks for reading thus far!