Chapter 5.
May 5th.
I remember waking up to the sound of ticking, I thought it was just one of the clocks around the house, but it didn't seem to be in sync with the others. I kept hearing it, even when I left the house, eventually Blossom asked Bubbles and I if we could hear it. "I thought it was just me!" Bubbles said shocked and I agreed, "what do you think it is?" Bubbles asked.
"I don't know, but I think we should try and find it," Blossom told us.
"It could just be a clock that's broken." I told her.
She shook her head, "we should make sure, better safe than sorry, right?" She laughed. We managed to get out of school easily. We mentally split the town into three different sections and went our separate ways, looking for the loudest spot and soon, we all met in the center of Townsville.
I could hear the ticking more loudly, it made me twitch, annoying me so much for some reason. We landed and asked permission to search the place and were allowed to. We searched until we finally ended up in the basement, "fuck," I muttered. A giant bomb was hidden behind all the crap.
Blossom analyzed the object and yelled in a very well masked panicked voice, "This can wipe out the whole city and it's too complicated for even a bomb expert to undo this." She tried to lift the object, "help me out." We did, but it was much too heavy for all three of us combined. Why isn't Buttercup here? We looked at the time, 2 hours left. Blossom then began giving us orders, "Bubbles, use your sonic scream to warn everyone, tell Citysville about our situation and then comeback and help with the traffic. Brooke, you're the fastest and stronger than the both of us, you can carry everyone in the hospitals out. I'll go get the police to help us out." Bubbles left and before I could leave, Blossom grabbed my arm, "go to Buttercup's hospital first, please." I nodded and bolted out the door. Warning people I passed by, when I reached the hospital I told them to get the ones who couldn't be as easily moved out first. I then carried some of the patients in their beds and dropped them off to the nearest hospital in CitysVille, telling them about the bomb. I then flashed back to the Townsville hospital, grabbing another patient and back to Citysville hospital, repeating that. After the fifth patient, I finally took Buttercup, making sure it didn't look too obvious that she was more important than others, at least to us.
We all rushed to get everyone out as I counted the minutes in my head, until it turned into seconds. I was at the border handing everyone gas masks, and after everyone had one. My sisters and I didn't get one because there might not be enough. There were thirty seconds, we went back to check if there were anyone else left. I found one and took him to the border, tossing him a mask and putting on one myself. Fifteen seconds, not enough time to get someone and come back, so I waited for my sisters, looking out into the horizon one last time before it becomes destroyed. Ten seconds, I'm still waiting. Five, I spot two shadows with a pink and blue streak coming towards us, they were so far away. Tick, I could see them flying as fast as they could. Tick, but they were exhausted. Tick, I should've went to get them. Tick, but now it's too late. The last tick, a bright white light formed and soon I heard the boom. The light made a dome starting small but growing in size. "Come on, come on." I repeated quietly to myself, rooting for my sisters as I fought back tears. I watched as the light absorbed Townsville and soon outrunning my sisters. The tears escaped me, but no one was there to see.
The bright light ended a kilometer away from me, slowly vanishing. There was smoke and debris everywhere, if you were in it, you wouldn't be able to see anything half a meter in front of you. Soon the debris and smoke started to clear but not fully, but you could see pretty decent. Buildings collapsed or were damaged badly, cars were thrown here and there, lamp posts were on the ground, paper was burnt and scattered, some flying with the wind. I flew into the area of where I last saw my sisters. I spotted Bubbles quicker than I found Blossom. My blue unconscious sister was under an upside down car, she was in a pool of her own black blood. I lifted the car up and flew her to the hospital quickly coming back to look for Blossom. It was difficult to find her, but somehow I did. I recognized her charm bracelet jingle and I followed it, it lured me to a building that had collapsed on top of her, her hand sticking out. I pulled her out and flashed her to the same hospital as Bubbles. They were both treated quickly and stayed there for a month as I helped clean up Townsville, but got us settled in a decent size apartment in Citysville. Townsville wasn't ready to be inhabited again for a year because of the radiation.
Blossom and Bubbles were checked into the hospital again, later that year, and they found tumor that was large enough to be called cancer in Blossom's brain and in Bubbles' lung.