Chapter 7: Million Dollar Questions
Butch's POV
We sat around the kitchen table eating everything from waffles to White Castle microwavable burgers. This was a case of the munchies like no other. Buttercup was obviously the hungriest, and you could tell because she didn't even heat up half of the stuff that she grabbed from the freezer.
"I don't think that's healthy at all. Don't you?" I asked her.
"I'm not quite sure, but I'm willing to take the risk," she told me intently. Boomer's eye twitched in disgust as he watched her. "Aaaah..." she acted relieved after polishing off some frozen drumsticks, waited a couple of seconds, and then flew into the bathroom and started vomiting. After she finished, she floated back to us and drank some soda to rid herself of the disgusting taste. "Frozen stuff definitely tastes just as bad going down as it does coming up." She spat in the sink.
"That sounds delicious," Blossom sarcastically remarked while cringing.
"I don't think I'm hungry, anymore," Boomer said, putting the Popsicle in his hands into the trash. "Let's do something else. My mind is swimming laps in my stomach!"
"I don't know what that even means, but he's right," Bubbles added, "we gotta do something that allows us to all do the same thing. We get too bored too fast if we do our own separate things." She was right. We're all in this together, and it's either we all be with each other, or we remain separate and desperately bored.
"Hey, Bubbles?" I suddenly asked from out of the blue (heheh, get it? 'Cause she's the blue Powerpuff... whatever). She looked up from her cramping stomach at me.
"Yuh-huh?" Her tongue was hanging out. She'd definitely over eaten.
"What would you do *Burp!*... for a million dollars?" Everyone looked up from their bellyaches and awaited an answer from her (God, what's wrong with this food?).
"What am I supposed to say?"
"The idea behind me asking you is for you to think of the most outrageous thing possible that you would do for a million dollars. Find your breaking point. For instance, would you climb Mt. Everest without your powers? Would you steal the money?"
"No, of course not. You know me!" She laughed.
Suddenly, I leaned in closer to her. "Would you eat another cockroach?" Her eyes drooped and became bloodshot at the mere mention of the time she was dressed as Boomer. I'm pretty sure that she was just moments away from blowing chunks.
"I think I'd rather walk across the country!" Everybody else either stood there motionless and watched, or nodded in agreement.
"Hmm, what else is there?" I scratched my chin.
"I know what I would do," Buttercup joined in. "I'd fly to school... naked!" She began laughing at her own submission. We all just sort of stared at her, and I finally broke her verbal spell.
"Oh really?" I was very intrigued. "How naked would you be willing to go? There's plenty of subcategories that fall under the main subject of nudity." Brick was staring at me as though I were some freak, and looking back on it, there was a rather freaky approach as to how I was asking.
"Birthday suit nude," she blushed and continued laughing. "Would I have to go inside through the front or back door?"
"Either way, there's tons of people at both," I reminded her. This was a really weird game of million dollar dares if you ask me.
"Oh please," Blossom added, "that's no sweat, Buttercup! I think I'd fly over Townsville naked, just to top you off! You know, streak the city!" Brick's eyes widened when she said those words.
"I think I'd do the same, alongside Blossom!" Bubbles joined. Boomer just stood there, staring out into space with a giant smile (pervert).
What's going on with these people? I thought to myself.
"I'd swim across the Arctic Ocean!" He added.
"Oh yeah, well I think that I would run out onto the field during the homecoming game wearing nothing but body paint covered in enemy colors!" Boomer gleefully entered the game.
"Um, you do know that we're on the football team, right?" I asked my brainless brother.
"That's why it would be worth the million dollars!" He happily jumped.
"Has anyone wondered why most dares involve either partial or full nudity?" Blossom asked, knowing how we had all expressed our boundaries.
"I'm pretty sure it's due to the embarrassment," Brick replied. "This whole thing is pretty fun!"
"Hey Butch," Boomer asked me. I looked up and raised an eyebrow at him to let him know he had my attention. "What would you do for a million bucks?"
"Oh that's easy! I'd walk up to and kick HIM right in his... whatever he has." We all burst out in laughter, then Bubbles ran into the bathroom to spew. This night was already getting better.