An old flame sparks back into her troubled life.
I still don't own a damn thing!

"Buttercup is getting to be way out of control." Blossom told Brick as they sat n the kitchen.

"You're telling me. What's going on with this girl? She's acting more like a villain than a hero." Brick said before bighting into a sandwich and chomping loudly.

"Your right, but I don't know what to do. If she keeps up like this, we will have to kick her off the team." She said wrapping her arms around Brick.

Unbeknownst to her, Buttercup woke up, just in time to here her sister say "Kick her off the team". That broke her heart, and she chose to leave, since Blossom seemed to have already decided for her. Buttercup packed a back and streaked to the other side of the city.

"I don't need them. I don't need anyone! Not the girls, not the professor, not Butch…" She stopped her rant and landed on top of a building. Why had she mentioned Butch? She hadn't even seen him since graduation. She shook her head before flying off again.

She reached a diner, but had no money. Luckily for her, the owner remembered that that the girls had saved his diner from Fuzzy Lumpcins a few months ago, so he offered her a free meal. While she ate an all too familiar group came in. The Gangreen Gang, with their fearless leader Ace at the front of them all. About a year ago, Mojo Jojo had a plan to turn all of the adults into babies, and tricked Gangreen Gang into helping him. But they didn't know that he planned to test the ray on them. Ace had been about 30 at the time, but the ray took ten years off of their lives. Every girl in the city had to admit, 20 year olds with the muscle tone of a 30 year old was hot. Even Grubber looked good, and that was saying something. In the end, Mojo didn't have to attack the city. Every woman over 30 came and practically buried him in cash to have years taken off their bodies. Even Ms. Bellum couldn't resist, and she had always stood for natural beauty (easy for her to say) but since then, Mojo has kept a pretty low profile. The younger Ace made women all over the place swoon including Buttercup, again. And this time they were close enough to actually do something about it. But they were still villains and she would never let herself be wooed by his charm and looks... or would she?

"Buttercup is dat yous?" He asked peaking over his shades. She couldn't help but blush and giggle a little to herself.

"What are you guys doing here Ace? Come to start up trouble? She said cracking her knuckles.

"Whoa, whoa easy. We're just here to see Pops an get some grub. Ain't that right boys?" He asked with his head up high and his hands on his hips. The pose made him look quite manly, especially with the neon lights behind him. Buttercup caught herself swooning over him, but smacked her self out of it before he noticed.

"Wait? That's your dad?" She asked looking to the owner.

"Nah, he just helped us out a couple times ya know. We would probably be a lot worst off if not fa him." Ace said in a grateful tone.

"But… you guys are still villains. Blossom and Brick had to beat you up last week for trying to rob a bank." She said sarcastically.

"Yea, don't remind me. Dat guy pack one hell of a punch. Almost as strong as your's Cupcake." He said with a wink and a smile.

When she heard the pet name, she became putty in his hands. She blushed and wobbled and almost fell over. But to her delightful surprise, he caught her by the hand and pulled her close. She blushed brighter than Blossom's bow while staring into his shades. He snickered a little, snapping her back to reality. She pulled away from him quickly and clenched her eyes shut, but he caught her hand. She looked to him to see him place a gentle kiss on the back of her hand. She felt like she was going to explode in ecstasy at that moment. When he pulled his lips away she was slightly saddened because she didn't want that moment to end. She was also anxious at what could happen next.

"Hey what do ya say to us catching up sometime huh? I would love to take you out, show you a good time an all dat." He said smoothly. Buttercup felt herself nod, but had no control over her body.

"Great, great. Hows about tomorra night. We can go see dat new action flick wit Vin walker and Paul Diesle." He said in a more excided tone. Buttercup simply nodded again as he started to walk back over to the gang.

"Great, I'll come pick you up at eight." He said kissing her on the cheek, and then turned away. Buttercup's eyes snapped open.

"Wait, I…" She couldn't tell him that she wasn't going back home. And she couldn't have him show up looking for her. At the moment, the professor cut her the most slack because she was the only one with out a boyfriend. Whenever he saw Bubbles and Boomer kiss or saw Brick and Blossom cuddle, he would practically flip the house and kick the boys out.

"I'll just meet you at the theater." She said shakily. "After we can just hang out, if that's cool with you I mean." She was blushing again and resisting the urge to fly through the roof.

"That works fa me Cupcake. It's a date, see ya at eight." He said smoothly and turned away. The word date had the green power puff on cloud nine. She couldn't stand up straight anymore, so she floated a few inches off the ground and out the door.

"Thanks for the food Pops, I owe ya." She said lightly as she floated into the summer night sky.

"What was all that about boss?" Lil Arturo asked?

"Oh nothing boys, just getting us a little entertainment for tomorra night, capiche?" he said glancing over his shades with a devilish smirk.

"A power puff tho bossssss?" Snake hissed hesitantly. "That sssoundss more like ssssuicide to me." He finished. The other members of the gang nodded with Snake.

"Oh don't yous guys worry about dat. I gotta plan see, to handle her powers." He said with an evil snicker. The gang smiled.

"Yous guys remember how Ol' Monkey face created thos rowdy rough jerks that the other two puffs is datin right? Well I figure he must have some more chemical-X somewhere, AND some antidote-X incase they eva turned on him." He said with a crooked grin.

"So the plan is first we…." He explained his deviant plan to the gang as the waitress brought a couple plates of food over. After a few minutes of whispering, they were all laughing manically and high fiving one another.