The four rowdyruffs had been discussing as to do amongst themselves. Mojo was sitting in the same corner he had been forced into. He had been informed if he did anything shady, he will lose a lot of teeth. So far there had been many ideas, but there was no good idea that they all could agree on.
"I still say we just beat him up," Butch restated one of the original ideas. He had nothing surprising coming from him.
"My hands hurt and that monkey's been beaten up plenty of times in the last few months by the puffs. I doubt it would do much," Brick retorted while rubbing his sore knuckles. The idea was all too tempting. Bubbles was trying her best to think of an idea that they all would like.
"What if we destroy his lair?" Boomer asked. His brothers did not seem against it initially, but they knew there would be some drawbacks to that. Mojo was homeless at one point years ago and he always had some plan up his sleeve.
"He probably has a backup one made and hidden away like our hideouts," the red ruff shot down that idea. The children thought it was just like their father in a sense to preparing for the worst, but none of them wished it would ever come. Suddenly, Bubbles had an idea.
"Hey guys! I have an idea. What do you do if your kid does something bad?" the blonde girl questioned, hoping they would pick up on her idea, but then again, she expected more simple answers.
"Hit'em," the green ruff got smacked in the back of the head by Brick.
"Ground them?" the orange haired boy muttered.
"Take away their favourite toy?" Boomer answered.
"Yeah! So why don't we just destroy every tool in this entire place," Bubbles explained in reply. The base could be replaced, but the most valuable hard to acquire tools and every last advanced robot part in here would be next to impossible to replace without the tools. The triplets looked to one another, slowly gaining big grins on their face.
"No!" Mojo shouted before seeing the three streaks of light scatter around his lab. Bubbles didn't even know if they agreed with her, but she hoped those smiles were a yes. She watched the three boys begin the rampage.
"Haha! I've been wanting to do this for a long time!" Butch laughed, standing before the super computer that was in the lab, jumping up and slamming his fists on the complicated keyboard before he fired his heat vision, melting all three of the big monitors, before he continued on destroying the keyboard. Bubbles looked to where Brick went, which was a storage room for failed robot parts to be recycled, with stacks of wooden boxes filling it.
"I think this room might be a fire hazard," Brick stated. The blue girl gulped nervously, seeing him pick up one of the wooden containers, momentarily hitting it with his heat vision and lighting it ablaze, and then he chucked it at the far end of the storage room, the box broke into pieces, spreading the fire around fast.
"Uhh… I was thinking this wouldn't involve arson…" Bubbles didn't get her sentence finished before seeing the ruff leader dart off to go find another thing to destroy. Now she was feeling guilty about this decision, but she was aware that they all agreed to it. There was no going back now, either. Mojo covered his eyes in horror. He looked ready to have a heart attack. Bubbles made her way downstairs where she saw her boyfriend go.
"Ow!" Bubbles groaned, having been hit in the head by something. She heard a clunk on the floor, and her eyes looked downward to see a robot head lying before her. She picked it up, before she entered the workshop. The tools inside were either broken, melted or now missing. Half of the robots now were in the same exact state.
"Uhh… Boomy?" Bubbles called to her boyfriend, seeing the blonde boy ripping out the chest plate of one of the machines, dropping it on the floor.
"Hey, Bubbles! Join in the fun," Boomer chuckled before stomping on the machine part, breaking it in half before he continued, so it would be crushed into small pieces. Bubbles rolled her eyes, tossing the robot head to him. He caught it, slamming it on the ground like a football and watching it shatter into small parts.
"I just wanted to make sure you guys didn't do anything you would regret," Bubbles reminded. She wasn't going to have a hand in them destroying everything. Mojo was going to be alright and get out without a scratch. She couldn't imagine how the ruffs would handle a decision like that. The blue boy finished dismantling the robot before he approached his girlfriend.
"Thanks. You've done a lot for us lately," Boomer smiled, hugging her, grandly appreciating all she had done. But now, the blue puff had to break some news to both him and his siblings.
"Alright! Everything upstairs is trashed," they heard, seeing Brick and Butch coming down. They were looking for more things to smash, but to their disappointment, the blue ruff had already destroyed everything in the workshop.
"Good. I need to talk to you guys before we go," the blonde girl started, since their job here was done.
"You see… I no longer can be a rowdyruff," Bubbles cut to the point. Boomer looked saddened by this. He didn't mind the idea of living with his girlfriend, but superpowers made distance not an issue, so he would be fine.
"Huh? What? But you were actually fun to hang out with!" Butch exclaimed. He didn't even make an effort to put on the usual aggressive tough guy act.
"Why don't ya wanna be a ruff anymore?" Brick requested to know. He remembered she had begged him to let her become a member in the first place. He even dropped the 'boys' part out of the rowdyruff title, and sadly never could find a better word to fill in for it.
"Well… you guys already fixed my problem. I don't feel weak anymore, and really, my family needs me," Bubbles explained, though sort of lied since her boyfriend had been the one that cleansed her of the self-doubt that was looming in her mind. She just had to add Brick and Butch into her speech.
"I owe you a lot, of course. You're all really great people. I was happy to be a part of your family," she added. Though she understood why they were a little upset, she did not expect the boys to actually show their emotions.
"I love her. We got together the other day before the whole crazy robot came along," Boomer admitted, thinking it was best to say it now while they were talking.
"Seriously?! …wait, that's not really surprising," Butch stated. The startle of it initially wore off fast. The blue couple was more surprised by the response.
"Honestly, I figured you two were dating already when we brought you to our hideout," Brick admitted, snickering. The two blue children were beginning to feel embarrassed, but his brothers were congratulating them for it. Bubbles reached down and began to remove the rowdyruff ring, holding it up to Brick. But he pushed it back to her.
"You keep it. Even if you don't have the name, you'll always be a ruff to us," Brick told her. That was the most heartfelt words she had heard from him. It was quite the odd persona difference.
"Thank you… I guess it's time we go?" she suggested they leave, now that they had defeated Mojo Jojo and all of his important gadgets and tools.
"Yeah, let's get outta here! As of today, the Jojo name no longer is ours," Butch declared. Brick and Boomer looked confusedly at him. They didn't have Jojo as the last name anymore when they got disowned. The group of four super powered children made their way outside of the evil lair. When they flew out, they found Buttercup and Blossom who were waiting, just as they said they would.
"We heard a lot of noise. Is everything alright?" Blossom inquired. She and the green puff had been hearing nothing but the sounds of smashing and crashing from out here that it was worrying.
"Mojo's alive, if that's what you're worried about. He just won't be building any robots anytime soon," Brick gave a thumbs up. He was only being friendly because of the great mood he was in from doing that to all of the machines.
"So… I guess this means you're gonna go?" Buttercup asked, looking to her blue sister. Bubbles giggled, thankful to have such caring siblings. She hugged both of her sisters at once.
"I'm staying with you two. Don't worry," Bubbles reassured. That alone brought a smile to both of her siblings' faces. Boomer also found it a heart-warming scene.
"So what are you guys going to do now?" Blossom questioned to the three boys once they had broken the hug. None of the rowdyruffs had any clue. They had hideouts everywhere that were a lot better than the mechanics workshop.
"It'll be best if me and my bros stayed low for a while. The city knows we're back in action now after the robot fights," Brick answered. It did seem best to go into hiding once again like they had been for the last few months. Revealing themselves did nothing but worry the townsfolk.
"Yeah. You girls don't have to worry about losing a fight today," Butch sneered. Buttercup just wanted to punch him right now, but everyone was injured and drained of energy. That super bot took a lot of their effort to defeat alone.
"Glad to see you boys haven't changed much," Blossom sarcastically retorted. Bubbles giggled, glad to see things sort of back to normal. Boomer thought it was about time to go.
"Well, you take care…" Boomer said, giving his blue counterpart a quick kiss on the cheek, a blush forming on that cheek and the other in reply.
"Let's get outta here," Brick ordered. So the three rowdyruffs flew off, leaving behind their dark red blue and green streaks of light behind them as they left the scene. Bubbles hoped she would see her boyfriend again soon, despite them laying low.
"Alright girls! Let's go home," Blossom said. Bubbles nodded, ready to go. Buttercup herself was happy to have the family back together. The three of them flew the opposite direction to head home. Bubbles thought this was a good experience in the end. She turned enemies into friends and helped brighten their spirits, and in trade, they had helped her get over her own problems. Everyone seemed happy in the end of it all, other than Mojo. Bubbles had to return back to normal life now. She just hoped the next time they encountered the ruffs, it would not be all violence and maybe just have a nice talk. The blue puff was aware of how she was hoping for far too much. The new experience was a good one, nonetheless. All she had to do now was go home and get some well-deserved rest.
The End...
Authors Note: Hello everybody, I hope you enjoyed my first fanfiction ever! Please let me know what you think, and I hope you enjoyed it. Take care all.