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Summary: After their creation, Professor Utonium decided he didn't want kids. Out in the street and on their own, what will they do when a helping hand leads them to darkness?

Chapter 05

The sun shone brightly. A little too brightly, thought Buttercup as she raised an arm to shield her eyes from the light. "Wait a minute. . ." She looked around to see where she was. "Yup, definitely in Dreamland. Why can't I just have a normal Dream for once?" the blackette exclaimed exasperatedly. She looked down to examine her body to find herself wearing her single color dress with the black stripe and the mary-janes of her childhood. Looking up a bit, she also saw that her hair was duller and a little browner than it was when she was awake. She must have been only seven years old.

Well, this is something new. I normally never have memories in Dreams. It's usually premonitions. . . She thought as she looked around once more. The sun kept blinding her. "Wait a minute. . .hm. . .I seem to do that a lot. . .but, something's not right here." She turned and the sun warmed her face. Buttercup closed her eyes, savoring the feeling of the light. "Wait, the light! Father would never let us be alone when we were younger, and whenever we went outside, it was night! Father couldn't stand the sunlight! In fact, until Klarissa came to be our babysitter when we were ten, we hadn't even seen sunlight before! Then why-" she broke off when a streak of green light hit the ground in front of her.

Buttercup covered her face once more and squinted, trying to see through the dust. A slight wind started to blow, and the dust cloud soon dispersed to reveal Butch in the middle of the crater, just starting to stand as he wiped the blood from his mouth. He flew out of the indent in the earth to collide head on with a black shape in the sky. Butch landed on the ground again, creating another crater. This time, he didn't get up.

"Butch!" Buttercup flew to where the Rowdyruff had landed, only to stop short when the black shape he'd been fighting landed next to the crater, directly in Buttercup's path. The blackette froze. The figure, whom she couldn't even make out any features of even at this close of a range, seemed to smile. A ball of energy appeared in the figure's hands, and then it flew into the crater to crash with the male blackette's limp body.

Buttercup emitted a small scream. The darkened figure took to the sky and seemed to disappear almost instantly. Buttercup still couldn't move.

Why am I so worried about what happened in a memory? It was the only thing she could think of as she concentrated to see if she could hear any indication from him that he was still alive. Why should I care if he lives or dies? He's a boy! He sent me flying into a brick wall! And he must have survived. "He must have survived!" She let loose a scream. "Why aren't you getting up? Get up, you worthless piece of shit! Get up! You can't die! You have to live so when you're a senior in high school you annoy the shit out of me! Don't. . . .don't die. . ." she despaired. She hung her head.

Buttercup watched as a teardrop hit the parched ground below. She looked up, startled, bringing a hand up to her face. "Why. . .why am I crying?" she asked herself.

The sky suddenly darkened and a swirl of red and pink clouds appeared above head. Fear settled into her stomach as the Powerpuff watched as the clouds swirled into a thin funnel reaching the ground. No one would come in and harm the Rowdyruff! Buttercup slowly got to her feet. I won't let them! The ferocity of her thoughts startled her enough to realize, "Whose emotions are these? These aren't mine. . .are they?" She held all males in contempt, especially if she wasn't using them for sex. Her father was the only male that she allowed near her and her sisters. . .so why should she be feeling anything for this boy?

Her thoughts turned sour. "You probably deserved this, Butch," she spat. "This would put you in your place." She didn't notice the clawed man behind her. She stared at Butch as he laid in the crater, unmoving, unbreathing. But if this is your memory, then how- Her thoughts were cut off when the man behind her made himself known by stepping forward and stepping through her! She gasped when she realized who this creature was.

Him! "You can save him, can't you?" she asked the devilish creature, as if He could hear her. Him paused at the edge of the crater and looked behind him. He seemed to look at Buttercup, or rather through her, as if He couldn't see her. "Save him! He has a future!" Butttercup exclaimed. The entity of all evil nodded, as if He had heard her, and turned back to the Rowdyruff. He lifted one claw and a red energy surrounded Butch and lifted his limp body to hover in front of Him. With a faint 'pop,' two more red energy balls appeared between Him and Buttercup, each containing a different color within.

Buttercup took her attention off of Butch to look at the two new balls of light. She gasped, her eyes widening as pink and blue hovered in the light. Blossom's faded ginger hair was damp with sweat and stuck to her forehead and face, her red hair ribbon long gone. Bubbles' sun yellow hair was burned in several places, her left pigtail missing entirely. Buttercup swiftly looked to where the male Rowdyruff had been, her face going white as she spotted her ten year old self in the orb of light where Butch had previously been. She looked down to herself and saw that her body had changed to that of a 10 year old's, to match the age of her past self. The scenery around her changed from the desolate field to a busy city's road, three craters littering the ground. Several of the holes were still smoking, and a crowd formed as citizens of Citysville gathered to watch what would happen to their three protectors. The sky started to cry.

Him disappeared with the three girls in tow, leaving the city to mourn the loss of their heroes.

The real Buttercup would have fallen to her knees, had she been standing. She and her sisters were unconscious when this had happened, but they were told of this story almost every single time the red devil chose to visit. The story's basics always stayed the same: Buttercup and her sisters died while trying to save the city from a new evil. Then, Him, the root of all evil, always appeared to revive them, the doers of justice. He struck a bargain with Boogie, their father. There were several conditions, of course, and Boogie had agreed to them immediately. One of them was that the girls were to stop being the Mayor of Citysville's guarddogs. It was explained to them, each time in the story, that since Him brought them back to life, he was considered a second father to them. Him, each time he retold this story, would make sure He would include his reasoning for it; He didn't want any daughters of his doing other people's dirty work. Boogie had agreed to it before the whole of the condition had been stated. There were several other conditions to this exchange, but no matter how much the girls tried to pry, they were never told.

The story continued with Boogie relocating the whole family to Townsville, the town he had first found them five years earlier, upon the advice of Him, before the girls had even woken up. After that, Boogie opened up an establishment in the Underground to bring in revenue. Him continued to visit them, and grew close enough to the girls to be considered an uncle, aunt, or even like a mother to the girls.

The story ended there. However, the family soon found out that the Mayor of Townsville had no clue of what he was doing. Monsters continued to attack the city, just like they had in Citysville. Boogie quickly decided to relocate them once more, this time to Fullviewville, just in time for the girls to start middle school. Buying the property above a hole to the Underground, the girls live in peace until High School started.

Buttercup paused in her reminiscing to realize that the scenery changed once more to a blank, inky expanse, light appearing out of nowhere to flood her in a pool of light. She knew this time was left to her to ponder on what this Dream meant.

Before coming to a realization, Buttercup started to sob, and she didn't know why. Rain started to fall on her as the pool of light narrowed on her before it winked out of existence to let the darkness envelop her completely.

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