Bubbles and Boomer had fled from the fight scene, both defeated. They were back at the mechanics workshop for the moment. The metal shutter slammed shut loudly behind them. Bubbles looked to her boyfriend. He looked angry, a new amount of anger than she ever had seen from him, but she understood it.
"I'm sorry…" the blonde girl apologized. She had forced him to run away when he wanted to keep fighting. He took in a breath before huffing. He just couldn't calm down.
"We didn't stand a chance, did we?" Boomer rhetorically responded. They had let their guard down. That robot had taken advantage of it, and it was well prepared to engage with the super powered children. Bubbles was hoping her new boyfriend wasn't resenting her for trying to protect him. Then again, she was aware that abandoning his brothers was a horribly hard thing to do.
"I know how you feel right now, but don't worry. We'll save Brick and Butch," the blue girl tried to reassure her boyfriend. He couldn't deny that he felt exactly how she felt at first, completely weak and pathetic. He knew it was just the depression taking him over, and he didn't want to let it happen.
"I knew relationships always ran into troubles. But this is not what I had in mind," Boomer joked. His girlfriend's efforts had begun to calm him down. She hugged him from behind, able to feel his heartbeat. Boomer wrapped one of his arms around her in return.
"What do we do now?" the messy haired boy requested some kind of idea, anything that could make a resemblance for a plan. Normally the rowdyruffs plans were to improvise as they went along, which kind of was counterproductive, because that was literally having no plan as an excuse to not waste time. Bubbles, however, had an idea quickly in her head.
"…you welcomed me into your family. I think it's time I welcome you into mine," Bubbles exclaimed. It took him a moment, but Boomer processed what she meant.
"Your sisters? But they'll kill me the second I walk through the door," Boomer responded. His girlfriend giggled, brushing his comment aside.
"No, no, they'd just… probably tie you up after subduing you," Bubbles corrected him. Either outcome sounded bad, but he really did not see any options, unless they wanted to go storming Mojo Jojo's lair and trying to fight both the evil monkey and his newest invention together, but they both knew it would be a lost fight in that case.
"Fine. Let's go," Boomer agreed to go to the Utonium household. The two didn't have much time to waste. Neither wanted to remotely consider what Mojo had in mind for the other rowdyruffs. The two made their way out of the mechanics workshop. Boomer though was not looking forward to how this would go.
Meanwhile at Mojo Jojo's lair, the monkey was walking through another doorway into his evil chamber. A huge telescope was lying nearby aimed upward, covered in layers of dust from lack of use. His inventions, that were either being worked on or completed, were lying around in various positions. However, in one part of the room, there stood his best creation in a long time. The robot standing in front of a cage. The bars on the cage all had some odd electric barrier going in between it. The two rowdyruffs were now captive.
"Good work! You did quite well for your first task," Mojo claimed. The robot had no response. It was programmed initially to take orders. Voice boxes were a pain to make, after all, just for the fact that it took most of the effort to get a voice that the maker liked.
"Ugh…" Brick moaned while lying on the cold tiled floor, still lost in his own dreams. Butch wasn't much better. Both of them were bruised and battered, but still unconscious.
"As for what to do with them… well, perhaps the best thing we can do is exterminate them once we have all three gathered," Mojo Jojo continued talking to the robot. He really was starting to notice his own bad habit himself now. He had no idea on how he was going to kill the rowdyruff boys, though he had created them a different type of Chemical X altogether. He walked off to begin thinking up what to do, the robot staying behind to guard the captive children.
At the Utonium household, Bubbles had led Boomer to her home. She never thought she would be doing this, taking a nemesis turned boyfriend to her home. The blonde girl didn't ever expect to wind up in this position.
"What do you want me to do?" Boomer asked while seeing the nice two story home. He wondered if his girlfriend even had any method in mind to try and convince her sisters into helping. Bubbles tilted her head, thinking on it.
"We go in and be honest," Bubbles declared. Honesty didn't have any downsides. Boomer was leaving it to her.
"You mean you go inside first and make sure it's calm, and I come in when you call me in," Boomer corrected. The blonde boy didn't want to get tackled and beaten into submission, or waste any energy fighting. He was spending a lot of his mental processing trying to psych himself up.
"Well… that's fair," Bubbles agreed. She was now nervous, since she had no idea what her family would be like upon her return, let alone when she introduced her boyfriend, but they needed to get this plan moving. The more time they burnt, the more Brick and Butch were in danger. The blue girl headed toward the front door, her counterpart going over to the tree that was nicely in the front yard, going to rest under it to hide.
Bubbles turned the doorknob and slowly entered inside, looking around. Everything looked very normal, but no one seemed to be in the living room at the moment.
"Hello? Professor? Is anyone home?" Bubbles called out, her soft voice containing some of her nervousness. Did the robot go after her family too? There wasn't any massive damage to the house, so she doubted it. Just then, the young girl began to hear footsteps coming from the basement stairwell. She recognized them easily.
"Bubbles! Oh, thank goodness you're home," the professor said. He had rushed right out of his lab the second he heard that familiar cheerful voice. His daughter didn't get a chance to say anything before he picked her up and gave her a tight hug. She giggled, appreciating the warm welcome home.
"Hi, professor! Where's Blossom and Buttercup?" Bubbles asked while being put down, but she could tell that he had too many questions at the moment. She wanted to try and balance out answering them if she could.
"They're upstairs. Girls! Come down here!" her father called upstairs. It didn't take long to hear her sisters making their way downstairs.
"What is it professor…! Bubbles!" Blossom exclaimed happily. She and Buttercup flew down the stairs fast. Bubbles groaned, getting another sudden hug. She was really beginning to know how others felt when she surprised them in the same way.
"You had us worried," Buttercup said, grateful to have her back. It was an odd change to the blue girl, but she assumed she would go back to her normal mindset in a short time.
"Where have you been?" Blossom brought the most important question up. Bubbles knew she was going to be explaining quite a lot for a while. She decided to get the surprise out of the way first.
"Uh… I've been on a more personal journey… kind of. I was staying with great people," Bubbles responded, not having any plans on informing them what caused that personal quest of hers. She had the matter resolved.
"One of them is outside," she added. The professor didn't have the best feeling about this. Blossom seemed just happy to have their sister back. Buttercup seemed to be holding back her own tongue, aware that she blamed herself for the longest time, thinking that her words had caused the blue powerpuff to run away. It was immense relief to know that it wasn't the raven haired girl's fault.
"Come on in!" Bubbles called from outside the door. Boomer gulped, thinking it was time to get this over with. He approached the front door slowly, stepping inside. They saw the exact reactions they expected on their faces.
"Hey, there…" Boomer awkwardly greeted. He didn't have a good past with the powerpuff girls. None of the rowdyruffs did. They kidnapped Professor Utonium quite a few times in the past, so that did not help matters, but that was under Mojo's desperate strategies.
"Sorry, you said you were staying with great people?!" Buttercup reiterated, wondering if she had heard correctly. Why her sister saw the blue ruff as a good person is beyond her. They knew this was going to take some effort and a lot of time.