****Author's Note****

Himeko: I brought my lawyer with me. You're dead now, Len!

Himeko's lawyer: You have a lawsuit on your hands. Ms. Shirogane here says that you mistreated her in some way and you are being sued for $500 billion.

Me: *gives Himeko's 100,000,000,000,000,000-page contract to lawyer*

Himeko's lawyer: I'm afraid that I can't take this case. You signed a contract with him. It says here that Len can't be held liable for any situation.

Himeko: Damn it!

Shizuko: That's why you should've read your contract. By the way, where are the others?

Me: Still knocked out from last chapter. Just to be clear with the readers, a shinai is a bamboo sword used in kendo.

(Phone rings)

Me: Got it. Shizuko, can you take care of the intro for me while I take care of this?

Shizuko: Len-kun doesn't own Powerpuff Girls Z or any reference you may find. He just owns the plot and OC's of this fanfic. Please be kind and review.

All Bets Are Off Part II

Energized Bunny!

"W-What just happened?" Shizuko asked. However, she wasn't exactly Shizuko. She had become Bunny, the newest Powerpuff. "M-My glasses! They're gone! B-But why can I still see?" She looked down at the toy bunny she had. The shinai on the toy was gone, but there was a purple shinai in her left hand. She looked at her clothes. "W-Wow! I-I've become a Powerpuff!" She put the toy down and flew up to challenge Himeko. "Y-you will pay for hurting my friends!" Bunny shouted to Himeko.

"I SAID STAY OUT OF MY WAY!" Himeko shouted. She shot a laser at Bunny, who deflected the shot with her shinai. It was Bunny's turn to attack.

S-Shinai Shocker!

She struck the robot's chest with her shinai. The robot started to spark until it involuntarily shut down.

"What's going on? Get up! Get up!" Himeko shouted, struggling to gain control over the powerless robot. She managed to reboot the robot, but it took considerable damage from Bunny's attack. Bunny flew around the robot, striking joints. However, those strikes had little effect. In a drastic turn of luck, Himeko's robot managed to grab Bunny. "I shall finish you like the others!" she yelled. Bunny was then put in a death grip that was going to break her ribs. She screamed in pain and gripped the shinai tighter. She struck the robot's arm with the violet bamboo sword, but to no avail.

Shuriken Shinai!

She threw the bamboo sword at the cockpit and it glowed with purple energy, making a large gash in the robot's armor and breaking the cockpit glass. When the shinai returned to her, the robot's grip was loose enough for Bunny to escape. The damage caused by the flying shinai was enough to shut down the robot for good. Himeko struggled to get out of the robot's cockpit as Bunny prepared for her next attack. She struck Himeko on the head, knocking her out. At that moment, the other Powerpuffs began to regain consciousness.

"What just happened?" Blossom asked as she noticed the crippled robot and the purple Powerpuff. The purple Powerpuff had a bamboo sword in her hands and her black hair was tied in a short ponytail. Himeko was knocked out cold and mumbling gibberish.

"Mom, I don't wanna feed grandma gelatin while she's in the shower. Here, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty." Himeko said, still seeing stars and birds flying around her head.

"Who are you?" Blossom asked in wonderment.

"I-It's me you guys. I-I got hit by a white light!" Bunny answered, still keeping her shy stutter. Bubbles, Buttercup, and Bullet also heard this, but Bomber was still under the tree that he hit his head on. Bunny noticed this and ran to his side with Bullet in tow.

"Bomber, wake up, Please! Wake up!" Bunny yelled as she shed a few tears and tugged lightly on his jacket.

"Brother, snap out of it! The fight's over!" Bullet yelled as she crouched next to Bunny and her brother. The rest of the girls watched in silence as Bunny begged Bomber to wake up.

"N-No...H-he can't be! H-He can't be dead!" Bunny said as she started to cry on Bomber's lifeless chest. It seemed lifeless, until he started snoring very, very loudly.

"Wait, he's not dead!" Bullet said as a vein popped in her head. The other girls did an anime-style fall when they heard the snoring. Bullet decided to wake up her brother with a good old-fashioned right hook.

"OUCH! What was that for, sis?" Bomber asked his sister, who had her fists clenched tightly.

"We thought you were dead!"

"Sorry, sorry." Bunny's face lit up when she saw Bomber wake up, but then noticed she was still clutching his jacket and pulled away quickly.

"I'm glad you're okay." Bomber's only response was a warm smile. They then turned to Himeko, who was drooling in her sleep. The girls put her in the usual oversized coin purse and carried her off to the lab to be returned to normal. While they were at the lab, Professors Utonium and Tinaxo got a good analysis of Bunny.

"Amazing. Your powers are just like the rest, except for one thing." Professor Tinaxo said to Bunny, who was lying on the lab table. "Apparently, your powers are connected with your emotions."

"Professor Tinaxo is right. Since you're normally a shy girl like the others tells me, that means your physical strength is only a fraction of the others. Since you were also crying when the white light hit you, your powers will be limited based on your mood. To compensate, your weapon adds a little shock to the hit." Professor Utonium explained to the rookie member. Bunny looked a little disappointed at the fact, but she took it in stride and smiled, since she knew she was still a Powerpuff. "The bright side is that when you transform, your powers also give you 20-20 vision. That's why your glasses went missing when you transform." Himeko was on the other lab table, still knocked out cold and mumbling utter gibberish, but the other Powerpuffs changed her back and was getting her ready to drop off at school. As the group took off with their new member and Himeko inside burlap sack slung over Bomber's shoulder, Bunny flew closely beside Bomber, trying to hide a blush.

At school later that day…

Himeko woke up. The robot she was piloting had been cleaned up and the damage to the area repaired. Himeko looked around and found her surroundings at the side of the school. To be precise, Bomber thought she was too stuck-up so he left her in the dumpster.

"Why am I in a dumpster? What happened? I don't remember anything!" Himeko yelled. The twins heard this and walked over to help her out and make up a story about what happened. As Daniel helped Himeko out of the dumpster, Danielle "explained" what happened.

"We're glad you're okay. You ignored the sign, slipped on the wet floor and fell out an open window." Danielle lied. Her twin tried to keep a straight face, but burst out laughing until Danielle elbowed him in the chest.

"Well, now that that's taken care of, it's time to go back to the table games. Shizuko's bringing in a lot of customers. We wouldn't want to disappoint any high rollers, would we?" Daniel said, straightening his khaki bow tie. The twins walked back to the building and sat Himeko down in the nurse's office. Shizuko was in Himeko's waitress outfit leading in the customers to their tables cheerfully.

After school...

"That was pretty successful, wasn't it?" Danielle asked the others. All of them were walking to the lab, where they will relax after a hard day's work.

"Pretty successful? The ratings were off the charts! I don't know whether it's the food or the casino. Either way, I'm glad we were a part of it." Momoko said to Danielle. Kaoru and Miyako nodded in agreement as they walked into the lab door. All of them sat down at one of the tables to just talk story. Shizuko was seated next to Daniel, who took out his laptop and began surfing the net. While Danielle was talking to Miyako about fashion, Shizuko peeked over Daniel's shoulder to take a look at the YouTube video Daniel was looking at.

"Daniel-kun, I'm wondering, since I only see your father around, what happened to your mother?" Shizuko asked him. Daniel slowly closed his laptop and bowed his head. Danielle did the same when Shizuko asked this.

"Well, you four have a right to know these things. Our mom died in a car crash three months before we came here. She was driving home from the store one night and then she got hit by a car running from police. There were no survivors of that crash." Daniel explained to them as tears began to form in Danielle's eyes.

"That's awful!" Momoko and Miyako said at the same time.

"I'm so sorry." Kaoru said, bowing her head a little and covering her eyes with her baseball cap.

"Daniel-kun, I didn't know. I'm sorry for asking."Shizuko bowed a little and closed her eyes, trying to apologize for bringing up the subject. She clutched the toy bunny she had with her tightly.

"Ah, don't sweat it, Shizuko-chan. The truth had to come out sooner or later. Professor Utonium also heard of this, so he might've told you anyway." Danielle said, trying to cheer up her violet friend. Daniel opened up his laptop again and resumed looking at the site. Shizuko opened up her notebook and began drawing. Danielle then turned to Kaoru to talk about sports. Momoko started to eat some sweets from her bag and Miyako started to read a fashion magazine. It was all peace and quiet until Ken and Peach burst into the room.

"Girls! Daniel! We've got trouble downtown!"

"It's Himeko again!"

"Let's go!" Kaoru yelled.

Hyper Blossom!

Rolling Bubbles!

Powered Buttercup!

Speeding Bullet!

Dive Bomber!

Energized Bunny!

Powerpuff Squadron Z!

The six flew off downtown, where they found Himeko on top of a building. The building she was on had a stage on it that appeared out of nowhere with speakers as big as a bus. Himeko had a microphone in her hand and started singing. When the sound of her voice reached the people below, they fell to the ground. Normally, it would be because the song she was singing was a beautiful lullaby. However, that wasn't the case. The music she was singing wasn't something found in an opera house or by a famous pop idol. Instead, the lyrics were unintelligible, the tempo was awkward, and the pitch was very off. In fact, she sounds like two cats fighting a turf war. The people that fell to the ground were covering their ears and writhing in pain while others were out cold from the out-of-tune singing. The Puffs flew onto the scene, but not without experiencing some major side effects.

"My ears! They hurt!" Bubbles screamed as she stopped in midair and covered her ears, along with the rest of the girls. Bunny and the twins, on the other hand, wasn't doing so well.

"Mayday! Mayday! We're going down!" Bomber yelled as the other three fell to the sidewalk below. Before they hit the cement, Bubbles launched three bubbles that cushioned their fall. The moment they all hit the bubbles, it popped because of Himeko's screeching. The other girls were also incapacitated by the music and were covering their ears as well, unable to attack.

"Bunny, Bomber, I need your weapons." Bullet said over the sound. Bomber's flight helmet muted some of the sound, but it still was enough to cripple him and bring him to his knees. Bunny was holding on, but was doing a little worse than Bomber. The two gave their weapons to Bullet, who promptly threw two marbles into the air and hit them with Bunny's shinai. She then took her paper swords and morphed them into two shuriken and threw them at the marbles she threw earlier before collapsing from the singing.

"Her singing is terrible! Simon Cowell would have a field day with this!" Bullet yelled as she fell to her knees holding her ears. The shuriken she threw became bathed in a purple and yellow light before hitting two of the ten speakers Himeko had on the roof of the building. The moment they hit, the machine short-circuited and gave out, cancelling out the loud noise.

"Thanks a lot, Bullet." Bubbles said to her yellow friend.

"We'll take it from here." Buttercup said, taking her hammer out and knocking Himeko off the building and again into the usual comically oversized coin purse. Before that, Buttercup slapped some duct tape over her mouth just to keep her from singing again. After the usual procedure of changing her back to normal, the six changed back themselves and sat down at one of the tables.

"that was...eventful." Danielle said to Momoko as thew two of them took a bite out of a Kit-Kat bar.

"Well, that's Himeko for you. As it turns out, there is one thing that bothers her."

"What is that?" Shizuko asked.

"Her older sister." The three original Powerpuffs told the other three.

"Himeko has a sister?"

"Yep. Himeko wants to be just like her."

"Girls! Daniel!" Ken called.

"Himeko again?" Momoko asked.

"Himeko again." Peach said.

Meanwhile, on top of another building...

"You love me because I'm beautiful!" Himeko yelled as she threw a giant stack of money.

Paper Cut!

Himeko fell into the usually oversized coin purse.

"Bullet, do you think it was necessary to use those swords? You could have cut something off." Bunny asked as she carried the purse.

"Don't worry. I used the blunt end." Bullet replied. "Brother? Where are you?" Bullet looked around before spotting her brother by the building they knocked Himeko off.

"Money! Money! Money! Money! Money! Money!" Bomber was flying all over the place trying to catch all the bills in a burlap sack. The rest of the Puffs did an anime-style crash before Bullet slammed her fist on the back of Bomber's head.

"Remember! While we're like this, we can't accept rewards like that! Drop the bag!"

"sorry, sis." Bomber said as he emptied the sack. After a while, Himeko was turned back to normal and returned to her home. The Puffs then spent the rest of the day watching some YouTube videos Daniel put up on his laptop.

Me: No...No...maybe...Not at the moment...why now?...Not yet. Maybe after a few more chapters. Bye! *hangs up phone*

Shizuko: Who was that?

Me: Some jerks that want to be on the show.

Momoko: Why don't you let them?

Me: I want to bring them in a little later.

Shizuko: I filled out the paperwork already. It looks a lot simpler than Himeko's contract. *hands over signed 5-page contract*

Me: That's because Himeko is a pain, even in the original series. Besides, if I have her do something, I need something to make her lawyers stay away.

Momoko: Welcome to the team!

Daniel: Why am I still the only guy on the team?

Me: There's going to be more. I plan to balance out the boys to girls ratio later on.

Himeko: *shoots machine gun at author*

Kaoru: Duck and cover! *everyone hides in next room*

Me: The Force ain't strong with this one! *dodges every bullet*

Himeko: *points shotgun at author's face*

Me: *plugs barrel with fingers before trigger is pulled*

(Shotgun fires, barrel explodes in a banana peel fashion; Himeko is burnt black; author is unharmed)

Himeko: Dammit!

Me: Next time, the Rowdyruffs are terrorizing the city. Worse part is, it looks like Bomber has joined them! What will the Puffs do now? Stay tuned and please review.