This is one of my own prompts again. It's potential Greens. It's also kinda dark. Enjoy at your own discretion.
BLOOD
Buttercup allowed herself to growl at the sky in misfortune. With a heavy sigh and more effort than it normally would've taken she pushed herself up onto her hands and knees.
She peeked over at the crater next to her own, where a still body lay in the middle of the rubble.
When the body didn't get up or even move for several moments Buttercup stood shakily, climbing out of the small valley her impact into the street had made. She let herself slide down into wide circular dip that surrounded the unconscious boy, then stumbled over to him.
Closer now, she could see that he wasn't actually unconscious. On the contrary; he was very much awake and seemed content to hold up a single tanned hand and stare at it with morbid fascination.
She dropped to her knees at his side to see what was so interesting about the appendage, and frowned when she saw the red liquid heavily flowing from the deep cut and traveling down his arm in rivulets.
''...Cut my hand on a rock,'' he explained unnecessarily when he noticed her staring. He went back to blankly gazing at the wound, muttering offhandedly, ''I've never bled this much before. Not from a cut on my hand, anyway.''
Buttercup huffed, straightening up. ''We were hit with Antidote X. Humans don't have super healing; when you had your powers your body probably healed the cut before it had the chance to bleed this much.''
''Cool.'' She stared at him in disbelief while he gave her a feral grin, jumping up to his feet as if the injuries littering his body were merely superficial. he offered her a hand, and she took it warily, letting herself be pulled up.
''What's so cool about bleeding? Alot?''
He smirked at her. ''What's cool about it is that I could die.'' Buttercup's eyebrows dipped low, indicating that she didn't understand. ''What I'm saying is, we're nearly invincible when we've got our powers, right?''
She nodded; she often felt invincible when she flew, kicked a monsters ass, or the like.
''We don't have to worry about the stupid shit other people do, like getting shot or being hit by a car. But being invincible is sorta boring sometimes.''
He paused, gazing off to the sky where their siblings were battling another of Mojo's giant robots and dodging the Antidote X he was try to spray them with. It was a mystery in itself how the monkey had somehow manged to hit the two of them.
''There's no excitement,'' he continued, ''No rush from knowing we're on the brink of death. But this,'' he raised his slit palm for her to see.
She stared uncomfortably as the blood continued to flow freely from it, then glanced back to Butch, whose eyes were beginning to glaze over.
''I could die from this. The cut is so deep and bleeding so much I may die of blood loss, or it could get infected and I'd die from that. The fact that I could die from just cutting my hand on a rock is...cool...''
He fell over at that moment, and Buttercup caught him in her arms, lowering the both of them to the ground and letting the upper half of his body lean on her. She frowned.
Buttercup could say she understood, but she wouldn't say she agreed.
Three things today. I've decided I'm only going to update on weekdays (Monday-Friday). I'm not being lazy or anything, I just think updating every day might be a bit much, don't you think?
Also to Dreams, there will be other combinations of RrB/PpG besides the classic ones. There just haven't been any requests yet and I haven't gotten around to making any of my own. I hope that won't turn you off of this series.
And to redjack7, was your request reds and greens, or reds or greens?