Bubbles avoided eye contact with her sisters as they walked together towards the bus that would take them home after a long exhausting day in school. She didn't know how Blossom and Buttercup felt since they did not have to deal with the stress of planning what the next part of a very delicate plan should be.
Placing posters around parts all over the city had turned out better than she had hoped, and it was good to see that others did agree with her after all. But it was only a start. More needed to happen before any drastic action would be taken.
She had thought and thought the entire day about what to do next, even as she sat silently in class managing to scribble down everything on the board despite her mind having to be in two places at once. She needed more than just a few insignificant pieces of paper with writing on them to really make the city start taking her ideas more seriously, but it wasn't time to out herself just yet.
If anything, this would be the worst time to be discovered as the culprit spreading rebellious sentiment among the city folk, since not even her sisters would support her cause if she revealed herself now.
She needed something more to raise awareness of her cause, and how much good it would do everyone.
The idea of creating a website took a long, silent bus trip home and then some hours spent sat silently in front of the compute the professor had in his private office after making sure that he was sat glued to the television downstairs and her sisters had decided to turn into their room for an early nap before supper.
The blonde girl thought and thought for a while, as she clicked a few buttons switching from this website to the next, not really knowing what to do next. Either way she thought she had enough posters for a while, and besides if she used up anymore paper the Professor would get suspicious.
It was then that she saw that at at the top of the webpage she had just looked up to see some adorable kittens, had a number displaying the number of views it had gotten since it was up. 2 hundred million, it read. And it had only been up for 2 weeks at most, from what Bubbles was told.
"Sometimes Blossom underestimates me." she sighed, as she logged herself into a well-known web design engine she had heard about from one of the more technology loving children at school, who had shown an interested Bubbles the basics of how to create games, documentaries and even a simple communication device using this system. Bubbles had really enjoyed the conversation, but had never really had time to make use of her newly learned skills, since saving the day always interfered with how much free time she really had.
Bubbles realized that trying her best to stay on good relationships with every boy and girl in her school and class as eccentric and different as they were to her, was about to pay off as she quickly began to tap at the keys, keeping a close eye on the door behind her lest she was spotted.
"Website upload" she announced eventually, after what seemed like hours but was in reality only 25 minutes with how quickly she hit the keys on the keyboard.
The website was nothing special, but it would do in a pinch for a small online billboard of sorts where those who opposed the mayor could freely post their thoughts anonymously, calling themselves whatever they wanted and writing down what they wanted for all to see.
Bubbles had added a few of her own thoughts in, as a way of kick starting the debate of what should be done next if Townsville's government was to be improved in any way.
Then she quickly walked downstairs and sat down to read a book, to while away the time that still divided her and dinner time, where she would need to keep her cool once more in front of her sisters who still needed to be oblivious to her plan for it to work later
The family event passed peacefully enough, Bubbles becoming bubblier and more talkative once more now that she was a bit more relieved that her plan had at least a fighting chance of success.
They talked mostly about the surprisingly long period of peace that had ensued since the last major attack on the city and how it would most likely not last, and that the monsters were probably planning something very nasty with this time and that the next attack would probably be far worse than anything they had encountered for a while.
"It won't if I can help it." Bubbles let out, clenching her finger-less hand and slamming it on to the table in a sudden fit of passion.
"Really now..." remarked a slightly surprised Buttercup "then you should have nothing to worry about when they get here."
"I'm not a scaredy cat" protested Bubbles, arms crossed. She had gotten over her fear of the darkness some time ago, though Buttercup still often teased her for it much to her chagrin.
"Well its good to see you still take your job seriously Bubbles and that you're feeling better now" Blossom chimed in. "It's difficult, but there really isn't any other way for Townsville."
Bubbles nodded grimly, but knew deep in her heart that her sister was wrong in every sense of the word wrong.
Blossom was a smart leader and good at devising clever strategies, but it was impossible to admit that she like Buttercup, was a tad short sighted and narrow minded.
Not to mention somewhat vindictive and antisocial around people she wasn't familiar with, as of the Princess incident.
Sometimes this saved the group from life threatening situations, but Bubbles really was beginning to wonder if Blossom was being a bit too paranoid for her own good, since the only way to find new friends was to be open and ready to hear them out.
But these were thoughts for later, Bubbles whispered to herself as she joined back into the discussion her sisters were having of what kind of terrible catastrophe might be awaiting them when the monsters did come back as they no doubt eventually would, briefly lapsing into their opinions of this unknown rebellion fighter who was planting all kinds of dirt against the mayor.
Whoever was doing that was either delusional, or simply very determined since no one had challenged mayor's rule for at least decades now. So far no one had been caught, revealed Blossom, but authorities claimed that it was only a matter of time.
"If they can't even stop a carjacker whose stealing a car right in front of them, I highly doubt that they'll be finding anything any time soon" thought Bubbles sarcastically.
"Well whoever this idiot is, and whatever he wants, he's stupid if he thinks he can accomplish anything" snorted Buttercup. "And he should know that if we find him, the only thing he'll be getting is a fist in his face. I'm sure it'd be one entertaining fight"
Bubbles twitched slightly at the thought of being smashed in the face by her own sister and teammate. Especially since she had seen Buttercup in action more times than she could care to remember, and how dangerous Buttercup could be when provoked.
"Let's not jump to conclusions Buttercup" Blossom suggested "It might not be a criminal trying to plot revenge or put the city in danger. You never know. He just might be thinking that he's trying to do a good thing and maybe he just doesn't like Mr Mayor and that's all there is to it. I'm sure he's not as dangerous as they make him out to be."
Aside from the fact that the guy you're after isn't even a he, Blossom would be very close to the truth, Bubbles thought silently.
"Probably. But it's too early to say for sure" she noted, trying to appear not very interested.
"We should probably wait a bit more for more facts to surface before we go about pointing the finger at innocent Townsfolk" Blossom concluded, stifling a yawn as the hour was late and the food on the table was still left mostly untasted and beginning to cool.
"Let's just eat our dinner and get a early night before tomorrow. You never know what might be waiting for us then."
Bubbles sincerely hoped it was a angry group of protesters lined up at the mayor's office, demanding that things be changed around the city to make it a more fair and secure place than it was now.
But then, that was a very distant dream now, wasn't it.
She glumly bit at her dinner, and handed the plates the professor to be washed before heading upstairs with her sisters but not to sleep.
She couldn't afford to waste time sleeping for a while since night was unfortunately the time she could get away with the most without being spotted and called out.
She played quietly with her toy train for a while, as her sisters sat down with their own toys in hand to wait a while before lights out came.
Then when the brief playtime was up, she waited a while for her sisters to finish their turn in the bathroom before going in herself to brush her teeth.
"Nighty night" Bubbles told her sisters as she took her spot once more on the large bed they shared in their room, as they followed her example and responded in kind before the professor came and turned the lights off after giving each of them a brief hug.
But Bubbles did not go to sleep.
She lay still with her eyes closed, biting her lip slightly so that she did not drift off. She waited until she was certain she could hear the loud, content snores of her sisters before creeping out of bed cautiously once again, and tiptoeing into the room the professor kept the computer in. The very room she had been in this afternoon.
She glanced back to check that no one had noticed or followed her here before quietly turning the device back on, and backtracking to the website she had designed.
She did not expect such drastic change in such little time as a few hours.
"Finally someone who has the guts to stand up to the f****r, props to whoever made this. Xoxo. By the way sorry for my language." read one comment posted by one certain "Che 1337".
"This page is so informative, we should make everyone in Townsville come and read this. Glad I'm not the only one who thinks so" said another comment, this time posted by a so called "Striker 60"
"Mr Mayor is a bad man and we agree with you that he needs to be put down" another unknown stranger known as "Papyru 95" had put further down the page.
"I'm with Papyru 95 on this one. Kudos for whoever put this page up. I completely support this." yet another anon had written, this one calling themselves "Alphy 17".
And those were just a few of the many posts, which Bubbles didn't have the time or energy to check every one of since there were so many already.
Bubbles was happy that she had created this webpage. A simple chat room where people who opposed the mayor could come together to share their opinions on what they thought should be done, and to celebrate the power of unity while seeing they were not alone in their concerns.
Now the people who were united in their opinion, were no longer alone and by allowing each person to pick a name for themselves, they could remain anonymous and at the same time Bubbles could tell how many potential followers she had gained who were ready to support her cause."
She had put her own name simply as "Rebel strika 91" so as to make it difficult to trace her identity, yet simultaneously so that she could be known by some kind of title by her newly gained followers who she could tell would soon be growing in number as the site got more and more popular.
She had made yet another important step, but still more needed to be done.
Thank you once more ppg fans for reading. I found that this chapter was harder still than the previous ones to type up because of how difficult it was to come up with new ideas on what should happen next.
These stories take a huge chunk of my time to write up and check, so um you know thanks so much for reading and liking. And a nice comment down in the comment section could be good for support. And trust me when I say I read and appreciate every single comment you guys make for me. And it's really good for me to hear your thoughts.
For instance, what do you think needs to be done next for Bubbles to finally succeed in her endevours? Will Bubbles be able to bring the city back to a better condition if she does succeed in stripping Mr Mayor of all his power. And what do you think the new Townsville will look like? I would like to hear your thoughts in the comments down below. So thank you and I will see you in the next chapter.