Disclaimer: I don't own the powerpuff girls or the rowdyruff boys.
A/N: Listen guys, thank you for all these reviews I appreciate it. Why don't you guys let me know which pairing is your favourite.
This chapter will mainly focus on Blossom and Bricks relationship which is a little complicated. It's possibly the slowest as well.
The bell to the second lesson rang, indicating that the class was over. Bubbles walked in the school halls, tailed by Boomer. An ambiguous silence lingered between them and it had less to do with the fact that HIM had been seen and more to do with wether or not Bubbles would be reporting Boomers' assault.
In Boomers opinion there was no need because the kiss held no meaning, absolutely none. That was something Bubbles would gladly agree to, if it hadn't been her first kiss. She hadn't been on jolly terms with her sisters but she had always shared everything with them, what scared her was if she accidently slipped it out. That would have dire consequences. If she did report it, however, there would be a lot of high impact violence and she would probably be put on house arrest.
Bubbles walked towards her classroom, she had history just before lunch. Then she would tell her sister about their discovery. She wondered what that meant for all six of them.
'Euthanasia should clearly be illegal. You have to be demented to even think about ending someones life while there is still a chance of saving them.' Blossom stood from her seat, her face reddened in frustration. The whole class sat in complete and utter silence as they watched the boy from across the room raise a bored eyebrow.
'If the doctors have no way of saving someone who will eventually die and if that person is in great pain. I believe ending their life is acceptable, considering the wishes of the persons loved ones.' The boy contended.
Blossom shook her head violently, she glared at the few students who had slightly hummed in agreement. Never had anyone dared to argue against her and now Brick was doing just that. She wouldn't be surprised if his argument was contrary to his beliefs, he would keep this up for days just to get under her skin.
'You don't get to decide when someone's time is up. There have been cases where the doctors have given up on a patient and they get back up on their feet at the last moment.' Blossom sat back down, she would not give Brick the satisfaction of seeing her on the edge, it clearly made him think that he was winning here. Blossom heard a few yawns from the back of the class. Blossom and Brick had kept this class discussion between the two of them and this was the first time she had looked at the teacher. Miss Thomas was just as bored as any student in that class, blossom saw bricks' satisfied face as her face fell. She gritted her teeth. He was too much, but she had an idea. She could end this and bring it to her advantage.
'But I guess we can agree to disagree. I respect your opinion and I believe you can respect mine.' She could physically imagine herself presenting him a plate of burnt toast. She gave herself a pat on her back, mentally of course. She saw him frown before his trademark smirk came back up.
Brick took his hat off, running a hand through his hair. Quite a few girls in the class took this to their notice, shifting in their seats. Blossom rolled her eyes, as if they needed to feed his arrogance.
'Well, I'm glad you both decided to uh, relax a little. You do realize that most students just take this class because it's easy, right.' The teacher clearly wasn't impressed with her extensive knowledge. Blossom sighed, sometimes she didn't know when to stop.
'Hey for what it's worth, I think you're right.' It was ski of course. She smiled at him. Blossom didn't know what she should do. Brick was seemingly intellectual, he wasn't stupid at least. If she stepped down, he would think he's superior to her, if she tried matching him, she would drag these lessons on.
'Do you think I over did it, Ski?' she felt so bound to the rowdy ruff that she didn't get time to talk to a lot of people, considering how Bubbles had been acting and how Buttercup had spent quality time in detention.
'No, I think you were perfect.' Of course he did, he was smitten with her. She smiled at the boy, wondering if her smile had been as fake as it felt. She sighed as the bell rang, looking through the crowd at Brick. Brick had been standing in the middle of a group of cheerleaders, all of them containing their giggles and swooning over whatever it was that he had been talking about. She crossed her arms, not appreciating how he was feeling quiet entertained.
She decided that she did not want cheerleaders breathing down her neck so she stood outside the class, leaning against the door, trying to wait for Brick to leave his fan girls alone.
'I'm sorry red, I guess I got a little carried away.' Even his apologies were sarcastic. Blossom opened her mouth to retort to that but her better judgment took over and she decided not to say anything. They walked together towards the lunch hall. Blossom had started to look forward to this part of the day, where there was less rowdy ruff involved.
'Blossom.' She saw Bubbles wave at her from their usual table. Normally Blossom would have smiled back but under the circumstances she decided to glare at the boy sitting opposite to her. What was boomer doing sitting with her sister? She would be damned if they had to spend lunch together too. Blossom was going to walk up to her sister and ask her what she had been thinking but it seems that buttercup had beat her to it.
'Bubbles, are you fucked in the head?' not exactly Blossoms choice of words, but it conveyed the message. Bubbles bit her lip and stayed quiet, looking at Blossom with pleading eyes.
'Buttercup, language.' She scolded her sister before taking her seat besides Bubbles.
'Look we have to tell you guys something.' Boomer broke in, getting his brothers' attention, both of whom sat down at the table.
'I swear if this is about you knocking up the blue chick then I'm out.' Butch grumbled, not bothering to wait for the announcement and digging into the schools cuisine. Buttercup rolled her eyes, suppressing a violent urge to kick the green ruff.
'Blossom will you sit down, please?' bubbles pleaded her sister who was less than enthusiastic about the idea of sitting with the boys.
Boomer wasn't one to wait, he decided to bring on the news to everyone on the table, settled or not.
'We saw HIM.' He blurted, catching everyone's attention. Both the girls had sit down, their mouths agape much like the boys. All four of them had their eyes travel from the blue puff to the blue ruff.
'Tell us what happened from the beginning.' Blossom spoke firmly, being the first one to recover from the shock. HIM has disappeared a while ago and now he was returning. What was happening? She took in everyone's expressions, the boys had been just as shocked as the girls.
'Well after I left the house I decided to umm, come to school early.' Bubbles began, subtly passing Boomer a glance. 'So I asked Boomer to come early because I had to get something to eat. I skipped breakfast because well…' she began fidgeting and playing with her fingers.
'While we were walking back Boomer sort of pulled me in an alleyway because he had spotted HIM and we didn't want HIM seeing us. He was disguised as a man with a long braid which was whooshing at the end.' Bubbles had gladly left out what had happened while the both of them were in the alleyway, deciding that she didn't need to go in details.
'Are you positive that HE didn't see you?' Brick asked the both of them, his voice erect and stern.
'I hid my power level completely and we were out of sight. You can never be completely positive when it comes to HIM though.' He began, taking a bite out of his hotdog.
'Whatever, what do we have to do with this anyways? The power puff girls can handle a little monster by themselves.' Butch commented, who had kept quiet about the whole situation like Buttercup.
'Of all the things that have happened this week, this has to be the worst.' Buttercup sighed, pushing away her food tray.
'What are we supposed to do?' bubbles asked, looking at everyone on the table.
'Yeah, no thanks babe, we'll stay out of this one.' Butch stood up, walking towards another table where Mitch and Buttercups other friends sat.
'When did Butch become friends with those guys?' Bubbles asked, getting an epic eye roll from Buttercup.
'It's no coincidence that he came just as soon as you three did.' Blossom accused, putting two and two together. Brick glared at her.
'You can't blame us for this. If we had something to do with it my brother wouldn't have been reporting to everyone on this table.' Brick hissed, crossing his arms.
Blossom had begun looking elsewhere. What were they going to do about it? If HE had come back, he should have just confronted them already. Why would he disappear as soon as the boys left and come back when they did?
'I don't trust any of you three. You might have the court fooled but I'm not that easy.' She retorted, clearly suspecting Brick for any involvement in his return.
Brick held his head in his hands, thinking of a reason for his return. Why would he come back after that? They had an agreement.
'I think we should confront HIM.' It was buttercups turn to speak. She glanced over to the table where Butch sat, the boys around him laughing at some coined story of his.
'Look whatever you decide, I'll be good with it. I've got to go.' Buttercup joined Butch and her group. She took her seat next to Mitch who had shot her a cheesy smile and an inappropriate comment before she smacked him on his head, marking the start of their usual sessions.
'I swear to God brick, if I hear anything about you guys being involved with him. I will have you thrown in the deep-'blossom was beginning to shoot her threats at her but she was cut off.
'Yeah you do that. You clearly have no idea what this means do you?' he looked at her as if she was he dumbest person on the planter right now.
'He probably just wants to ask us to destroy you guys again.' He looked her straight in the eyes, not wanting to explain himself any further.
'I've got to go, umm, vie got cheerleading practice after this.' Bubbles got up from the table and joined the cheerleading table, which had been chiming with giggles and laughter. It was funny how bubbles put up a façade and blended right in.
'I can't stand this either.' Boomer got up, joining the football jocks, on the other side of the cheerleaders. It was funny how things had a way of working out, bubbles had cheerleading while boomer had football, simultaneously.
'We came here for a fresh start. We have nothing to do with HIM returning.' Brick eyed the empty table.
'And why should I believe you?' she spat at him, anger clouding her judgment.
'Because I'm actually bothering to explain myself. The reason I'm sitting here and offering any justification to you is because I care for my brothers futures and I will not let those get ruined.' He looked Blossom in the eyes, seeing that she could empathize with him.
'Look if this helps then I'll tell you what happened with us and HIM. I'm not asking you to trust me, I'm asking you to leave us out of this.' He stood up, moving towards an empty table. Blossom sighed, she wanted to believe that these boys were evil, maybe her judgment was being clouded.
She got up from her table, gathering her things. She had decided to join her literary society friends. She passed Bricks table, deciding that she would hear him out at least.
'We'll do this after school and then I'll decide what to do.' He just shrugged his eyebrows, going back to his book.
'Why did you bring me here?' blossom asked, her arms crossed, eye brows knitted together in confusion and throat parched dry. Both of them stood in a red brick cabin deep inside a volcano on an island a little further away from Townsville. Blossom had been reluctant to come that far out, should the red ruff turn on her and attack, she wouldn't be able to call out for help. Even super heroes had limits and this was out of her sister's sound range.
She walked in, an eerie feeling crawling up her feet. Blossom looked around inside the empty building, there was an odd red lighting which gave the impression of a red lighting filter. There was no furniture, no carpeting. There was no sign of the place ever being in use but a feeling at the back of her head said that it had been used.
The aura surrounding that place gave her shivers.
'Blossom, come here.' Her head snapped towards Brick, his voice crisper than usual. She stared at the boy who looked like he was in his element in the red filter. His eyes stood out, his hair looked brighter and he looked like a true spawn of HIMs. It reminded Blossom of her nightmares she used to have as a child, back when she couldn't defeat these boys. Those recurring dreams had made Brick out to be a true demon, even worse than he originally was.
'Are you retarded or something?' he smirked. Blossom felt her heart beat faster than normal and she suddenly realized.
'Brick what are we doing in his lair?' her voice sounded panicked, if she was in her senses she would have gotten out of that place as soon as possible but her body moved on her own and she started following the boy who had started advancing towards a dark room.
'This used to be our room.' He said in a little voice. Blossom followed him into a circular room, which was probably the only thing which wasn't red in that place. The walls were probably white once but they had drawings all over them. Some of them were just scribbles, others were badly written threats and cussing.
The room had no windows, no vents, and no fans. There were three beds with white sheets on them and three sets of drawers. That room had been very different compared to the room blossom and her sisters grew up in. there was no color in that room if you don't count the writing on the walls.
Brick walked and sat on the bed in the middle, looking up at blossom.
'Why are we here?' she asked again, this time she had squeezed a little intimidation in her voice.
'You wanted to know everything, right?' he stated, putting his feet up on the bed and sitting with his legs crossed. Blossom couldn't believe him. How could he be so comfortable?
'You don't have to worry, he can't come in this room without our permission. That's probably why were still here.' Blossom shifted on her feet. She hated how he could read her expressions, she hated that about herself, and she was just so readable.
'We lived here after him recreated us. As you can see it was pretty cozy.' He snickered, blossom frowned at the sarcasm in his voice.
'He told us that our purpose in life was to destroy you girls and we both know that he didn't take no for an answer.' Brick averted his eyes to the floor.
'He kept reminding us that we weren't humans so we shouldn't try and be human. We were kids back then, we would get into all sorts of trouble. We would go after you girls, mess around, steal candy but we didn't know that his plans went deeper than just some ass whooping. He really wanted you guys dead.' Blossom rolled her eyes.
'Jeez, really?' brick ignored her remark and continued speaking.
'I noticed something in my brothers then, they were losing their minds. Boomer would call HIM dad and he wouldn't stop crying when he punished us for not being able to destroy you guys. Butch would take his frustration out by yelling at boomer. Then Boomer just stopped, he stopped eating, fighting, causing trouble. He just laid there on his bed and stared at the ceiling.'
Brick stopped to look at blossom. She was standing as stiff as ever, staring at the boy's face as if it were the first time she saw it as human and not some hideous beast.
'One day he snapped, he went up to him and started fighting, of course that meant that he was about to die.' Blossom noticed how his voice cracked at the end as he sighed.
'We begged HIM to stop and that's when we realized that he really was a monster. He said that we had been too weak and pitiful and that if we saved Boomer, he would abandon us. Of course we saved our brother.' Brick was lying flat on his back now.
'We went to another town, got a doctor for him. We decided to start fresh. We almost died alone. I promised them that I wouldn't let them die. We never saw HIM after that. We had decided that he was your problem now and we decided to live on with our lives.' He finished his tale, looking straight at blossom with pleading eyes.
She didn't know what to say, a small but logical part of her mind kept telling her that she shouldn't feel sorry for them but she knew the rejection blossom and her sisters had to face.
'Fine I'm convinced that you didn't have anything to do with his return. What now?' she asked brick, her eyes never leaving his.
'Now we confront HIM. You can come out now?'
Blossom gasped as the all too familiar laugh echoed around the walls and black shadows emerged just outside the door.
'Haven't you gotten handsome Brick?' He laughed calmly.
Blossom decided to move away from the door, looking at brick with a curious expression.
'I see you have brought me the leader. Hand her over to me so I can decide your reward, child.' He growled. Blossoms snapped her head towards a bored looking brick.
She didn't know whether she really had been tricked or not.
'I didn't bring you anything. Now tell me why you are here?' he asked, ignoring Blossoms looks.
'I wanted to meet you boys, brick. Disappointed to see that you boys are fraternizing with the enemy. Why don't you tell me what brought you to our cozy home?' HIM and reverted into his original form, sitting on a cloud of pink smoke.
'I came here to make sure your ass stays away from my brothers. You made it clear that you were done with us and now were done with you, leave us alone.' He stood up, making his way towards the door where HE stood.
HE's face twisted into a smile as he tapped his chin with his claws.
'That still doesn't answer what the power puff is doing here.' He mused, hovering around the entrance but never stepping in. blossom wondered what kept HIM out of the room.
'Brick and I happen to share the same interest when it came to you.' Blossom finally snapped out of her trance and broke her silence.
'Brick and his brothers are now a part of the town and the state will fight for their protection just like any other citizen.' She concluded.
HE's face twisted into a scowl and he stopped hovering.
'So you're saying that the power puff girls will protect the rowdy ruff boys? That's adorable. When were you going to introduce your papa to your girlfriend Brick?'
Brick who was now standing right in front of HIMs face smirked slightly.
'I hope wave made our points clear?' he cleared his throat, crossing his arms.
HE merely laughed in a menacing way, throwing his head back to emphasize on the crazy.
'Let's get out of here.' He whispered to blossom and shot through the roof.
'Blossom honey I didn't think you were this naïve.' Blossoms ears caught this bit of warning before she followed brick out of the building. What had he meant by that?
'Listen Blossom. if he comes back, you have to help us fight him off.' He looked at her seriously.
'We can compete with each other like bitches but I can't let him get my brothers and I know you feel the same about your sisters.' He stared into her eyes.
Blossom who was breathing deeply just nodded.
'Are we calling a temporary truce?' she questioned, raising her eyebrows.
'Call it whatever Red.'
I've been getting requests to make bubbles more positive. Does everyone feel that way?