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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 12

"Hello, you worthless boys and girls!" Princess Morebucks, in her gold outfit and rocket fitted boots, trilled out to the roaring crowds below her. "I'm calling out the Rowdyruff Boys and the Freyet sisters! If you don't want to come out, here's some incentive for you!" She threw something to the gymnasium floor, making the cheerleaders scatter. It was wrapped in a white cape, and rolled a few feet before the cape fell off to reveal a green monkey in a purple tunic.

It was Mojo Jojo, and he was dead.

"BITCH!" came Boomer's voice from in front of the stands where he had been watching Bubbles and the others perform. He shot up into the air as a blue streak and hovered in front of Princess.

"Boomer!" Brick and Butch quickly joined their brother in the sky, ignoring their classmates' gasps at witnessing the three flying. "Princess, who do you think you are?"

"What do you want?" Butch snarled, his hackles rising.

"I want one final showdown with you boys and those sluts you hang around with," she exclaimed. Boomer shook with rage.
"Bubbles isn't a slut," he ground out, moving forward to hit her. Each of his arms were suddenly restrained by Butch and Brick.

"Neither is Blossom," Brick continued. After a few minutes of silence, the redhead and blonde looked toward their dark haired brother. He shrugged.

"What? Buttercup's kinda skanky!"

Buttercup, on the ground with her group, heard his comment and her eyes narrowed as she cracked her knuckles. "Oh, I'll show you skanky. Right after I beat the living shit out of that redhead for calling me a slut!" she growled under her breath. She moved to join them in the air when Sam grabbed her waist. Buttercup looked behind her to see Danny shaking his head.

"Let them deal with it. You can clean up afterward. With our help, of course, should you need it," he told her. Tucker was still watching the exchange carefully, reading the lips of everyone involved.

"Guys," he said suddenly, his eyes never leaving the brewing battle in the sky. "The chick just spat on the dead dude on the ground. She's gone, and so are the Rowdyruffs." Buttercup cracked her neck from turning her head so quickly.

"Buttercup!" Sam let go of her friend as Blossom and Bubbles ran up to their sister.

"Let's go, girls!" the redhead exclaimed as she kept shooting nervous looks at the hole Princess had made in the ceiling. "The boys are raring to kill, and Princess knows how to hide. They'll tear the city apart to find her!"

"Then let's go!" Buttercup took to the sky, eliciting more gasps from the crowd of students who were still petrified in their seats. More gasps followed when Blossom and Bubbles followed, Danny, Sam, and Tucker not too far behind.

Once off of school property, it wasn't too hard to find the three grieving boys. Buttercup followed her sister as Blossom led them along the line of carnage that destroyed most of the city. Danny, Sam, and Tucker flew a few hundred feet behind them, reverting to their ghost forms and turning intangible almost as soon as they exited the school. The dark haired girl had her eyes scanning the city, and suddenly spotted a flash of blonde hair down below.

"Blossom! Boomer, at six o'clock!" Buttercup yelled. Blossom immediately readjusted their position to intercept the male blonde, but then Bubbles added her discovery.

"Brick's at 3 o'clock! And Butch got behind us! They've surrounded us!" Buttercup turned in midair, to face her three friends trailing behind them.

"Danny, Sam, Tucker! Get away! They're putting up a shiel—" her words were cut off when an unknown force from below uppercutted her, sending her back a few feet. When she turned her attention back to where they had flown, she saw the three ghosts through what looked to be a green, blue, and red translucent barrier, the colors swirling together as if alive with the boys' anger. Cracking her jaw back into place, Buttercup left them to their own devices when Bubbles cried out below her. Her attention was drawn there to find Boomer had driven Bubbles into the ground, his feet on her back as he yanked on her hair, her blonde locks wrapped tightly around his fist. "Bubbles!" Buttercup exclaimed. Another fist to her jaw brought her back to her own fight, and when she adjusted her flight pattern to match her opponent's, she saw that it was Butch who had hit her. A column of hot air suddenly shot past her back, and she flew a foot forward just in time to miss the column of flames Blossom and Boomer created.

"Hey, pay attention!" Butch's growl was the only warning she got before she got a leg in the gut. Her breath knocked out of her, she blocked a barrage of punches before lashing out with one of her own.

"What the hell?" Buttercup screamed in his face. He smirked at her in a way that, had she been wearing any, she would have soaked her panties.

"You were going to stop us, weren't you?" he growled as his hand streaked toward her face. She block it and the leg attack before aiming for his face with the palm of her hand. She heard something crack, and when Butch brought his face up, his nose was streaming blood. Whoops.

"We have to stop you. Sure, Princess needs to die." She ducked under his laser beam and speared him in the gut, tackling him to the ground. Bubbles and Boomer flashed past them in a streak of blue light, a breeze of cold air following them. "But you can't destroy the town to do so!"

"Then how do you propose we do that, little girl?" he taunted, "Ask her nicely to come out? Don't think so." Buttercup's eyes flashed. Without giving him a warning, she tackled him into the air, all words lost in her snarls. Back in the air, she pushed him away from her and she held her hand out to the side, as if holding something. All of a sudden, electricity erupted in the palm of her hand and formed into a giant mallet. Butch ignited his own ball of lightning, the crackling from the spinning orb sounding like chirping birds. The two charged towards each other, not even noticing that their siblings were all doing the same thing at the same time. When they collided, there was a mini-explosion and dust clouds kicked up. When they cleared, there was a clear winner.

Butch held the semi-conscious Buttercup up by the collar of her hoodie, his arm quickly wrapping around her waist to keep her upright. His breaths came in pants, that last move had taken a lot out of him. It was only by a sheer miracle that his attack was slightly more powerful than his female counterpart's. A low moan from her roused him from his dazed mindset. He started flying toward the ground and placed the slightly more cognizant Buttercup on the ground.

A shrill laughter echoed through the air, and as Buttercup's eyes snapped open, Butch silenced her with a finder on her lips. His expression softened slightly. "We'll take care of her. You conserve your energy and heal up in case she defeats us," he told her. He took off, her parting words barely reaching his ears.

"Make her wish she was dead."

To Buttercup, it might have been minutes, it might have been hours, but some time had passed the next time someone brought her to her senses. Blossom landed heavily on her knees next to her dark haired sister as Bubbles floated over to the two. When she reached her two older sisters, she collapsed to her butt, her ponytail holders long gone as he hair streamed across her back. The blonde and redhead each took one of Buttercup's hands and the blackette suddenly felt a surge of energy. Within seconds she was able to sit up.

"How are they doing?" she asked, wincing as a particularly nasty scrape scabbed over and then disappeared entirely right before her eyes.

"Boomer got sent flying into the ground a few minutes after they engaged her. He didn't get up. Butch followed him twenty minutes ago. Brick's the only one left, and he can't stand much more," Blossom replied as her head drooped to Buttercup's shoulder.

"What?" She helped Bubbles stand by locking her elbow and letting her blonde sister use it as a crutch. She then allowed herself to be pulled up. The both of them then pulled Blossom to her feet.

A sudden rumble through the ground a few minutes later shook their feet and the cloud of dust that followed Brick's last breath blew over them smoggily. He was in his own crater in between his brothers.

"No!" Blossom shrieked. She flashed over to the crater and fell to her knees. "You will pay!" Those few minutes Brick was able to hold Princess off, however, were worth it. The girls had regained enough strength to stay standing up. Granted, they could, at most, stoop at their current energy levels, but when the villainous redhead landed before them in her gold plated suit, the three's backs went straight, refusing to show weakness in front of her.

"Well? Show me what you can do," Princess laughed haughtily. "At least give me some sort of challenge before I kill you!" she then declared. Buttercup shared a look with blossom, and she then looked over to Bubbles, who had caught Blossom's eye as well. Their plan was agreed upon. They didn't have enough energy to pull it off, but if they drew off of their life energy. . .

"Fuck this. As long as we take her down, I'll do anything!" Buttercup suddenly screamed. She took to the air, Bubbles and Blossom quickly following. The blackette charged electricity to her fists while her sisters incorporated their own elements into their clenched hands. Princess stood on the ruptured ground, sneering at the trio.

"Go ahead, make my day!" she screeched. The sisters started to circle in the air, getting closer and closer to each other until they were almost touching. And then they grabbed each others hands, lacing their fingers together as they spun faster and faster and faster until they became a blur of color.

"By Jupiter's Lightning!" Buttercup suddenly screamed.

"And Mars' bright Fire!" Blossom continued.

"And Neptune's freezing Ice!" Bubbles then added.

"Powerpuff Planet Destroyer!" they screamed all together. A gold light surrounded them and they, as a single spinning entity of green, blue, red, and gold, shot towards Princess, who suddenly had panic crossing her features. They collided with her before she could move out of the way and Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup crash landed into one of the downed buildings halfway across town. They laid in their own craters in the asphalt, their breaths nonexistent. They weren't conscious to see Princess take her last bloodied breath as the evil teen's eyes took in the lower half of her body, which was several feet away in the top of the crater, while her upper half laid several feet below it. They didn't witness the townsfolk gathering around the edges of the holes made by girls and boys, and they weren't conscious to feel the foreboding wind as it started to blow through the city.

They certainly did not see the dark shadow that was suddenly cast over everything, nor did they see the citizens scurrying to find holes they could hide in as a low growl reverberated through the streets.

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