Chapter 2: The City of Townsville

DIB

"So this Professor Utonium created artificial superhumans?" I asked Dad as we rode in a car down the streets of the unfimiuar city.

He laughed and said, "Yes, he did. They are like daughters to him. Those 3 girls have save this city and the world countless times from gentic monstrosities."

I looked at him and said, "What about the aliens and the magic users?"

He laughed and said, "You and your para science."

Gaz grunted and said, "I don't really care as long as I get some batteries for my game slave 2."

Dad replied, "He has some brillant research and I hope this will bring you out of your insane para-scince, son."

I sighed. Paranormal investigators are real scientist! Even if no one belives me about Zim being and alien. No has freakin' believed me in six years.

I looked out the window of the car and saw a white house with three cirluar windows on the top floor, and a red door.

The car came to a stop and Dad open the doors. He said, "Here we are."

Gaz stepped out and continued to play her game.

I stepped out to see a flash of green and pink light land in front of the house.

The lights dimmed to reveal two of the famous Powerpuff Girls.

The first girl had long red hair with a big red bow tied in the back, light pink eyes.

The other girl had a hair cut simular to Gaz's, only black, and had bright green eyes.

Both wore a black skirt and stiped t-shirt, which the color matched the girls eyes.

The red head appoached my father and said, "Hello Professor Memebrane. Welcome to Townsville."

Dad stared at the two girls and said, "Utoinum created you two? Outstanding!"

The black haired girl said, "There are three of us, but Bubbles is inside."

The girls looked sadden when she said that. What wrong with the third member of their team?

The red door creaked open.

Standing in the doorway was the girl I assumed to be Bubbles. She had long blonde hair that layed in layers, with small locks that covered her eyes. The girl's eyes stood empty and gray, staring into nothing.

"Blossom? Buttercup? Who's here?"

Wait? How can she not reconize my dad? He on every channel sometimes.

The two girls flew up to her and said, "It the Professor's guest. Why don't you come out and say hello?"

She nodded and slowly walked out toward us.

She stopped and said, "Hello, Membrane family, welcome to our home."

My father looked at her and said, "It's very rude to not look at someone when you talk."

She sighed and said, "I'm sorry but, I don't know where you are at."

I gasped relizing what she was saying.

Apparently, Dad hadn't got it yet. "What do you mean you don't know where I'm at. I'm standing right in front of you! I mean..."

"Dad!" I yelled.

He looked at me a bit angry for interupting him.

I looked him dead in the eyes and said, "Dad, she can't see...she's blind."

Dad expression changed drasticly, relizing he had been yelling at a blind girl.

"I am so sorry! I didn't know!"

She let a little smile loose and said, "It's ok, it actually happends a lot."

She turned around and said, "The Professor is waiting for you in the lab. Blossom will show you the way."

The red head flew up and took Dad's hand. I guess that's Blossom.

Bubbles turned to hear the beeps coming from Gaz's game.

She said, "It sounds you like games. My sister, Buttercup, just got the new GS3 consol."

Gaz immediatly threw her Gameslave 2 into the car, grabbed Buttercup and said, "Let play a game."

Which left me alone with Bubbles. I said, "Hello my name is Dib."

She smiled and said, "I'm Bubbles."

She turned around and asked, "Could you guide me to the door?"

I replied, "Yes."

She grabbed my wrist and I began walking to the door.

"So you been blind for 3 months?" I asked her.

She ran her fingers across the books trying to figure out the letters in brail.

"Yeah, we were fighting Mojo Jojo and he pulled out this strange element called mirrotuoim. He blasted his laser pistol though it and it refracted into my eyes. I past out and when I woke up I was completely blind."

I looked at her and said, "Whoa..."

She nodded and turned her head back to the booklet in front of her.

"B. U. B. B. R. E. N. Thats not the word you spell out? Is it?"

I smiled and said, "No but you were close. The letter R does have the off bump like an L. Just remember the R is on top like a roof and the L is on bottom like lower. Now for the N well..."

I blushed and said, "It's flipped upside down, that was my bad."

I was actually glad she didn't see that.

She laughed and said, "You're really good at this. How do you know how to read brail?"

I smiled and said, "Well when I was little, I had a neighbor who had been blind since she was born. She taught me to read brail so she could give me her books when she moved away. She was the one who got me interested in the paranormal in the first place."

Bubbles looked up and said, "Like ghost, monsters, and aliens?"

I nodded and said, "Yeah, she told me never to belive in normal, nothing is ever as it seems."

She laughed. I frowned and said, "And this is the part where you call me crazy right?"

She smiled and said, "No, this is the part where I tell you I've said those exact same words to my sisters. Why would I call you crazy?"

I gave a nervous laugh and said, "Most people don't belive me when I say there are monsters and ghost. They really don't belive me about Zim."

She turned to me and said, "I've fought monsters, aliens, and ghost before. Heck, I have superpowers and most people don't belive that. I do belive you Dib, but I do have one question."

I looked up to her as she asked, "Who is Zim?"

I smiled and said, "He's an alien, pretending to be a human and no one even notices him."

She smiled and said, "Well the old saying runs true, people only see what they want to see." I laughed and said, "Isn't that the truth." I

looked at her and she ran her fingers over the bumps once again.

She smiled and said, "My name. Right?"

I nodded and then relized she couldn't see that, so I said, "Yes, that's right."

She picked up the letter pieces and began to spell out a word.

She smiled and said, "Okay, tell me if this is right."

I placed my hand on the pieces. She used three letters. D. I. B.

She spelled my name? Why?

I said, "You spelled my name. Right?"

She nodded and said, "Hopefully, I can get this before school starts."

I nodded and said, "Yeah, I be going with you and your sisters next week. By the way, what teacher will you have?"

She smiled and said, "Her name is Ms. Keen."

I looked at her and said, "What about me any ideas who I will get?"

She laughed and said, "We go to special school, we get one teacher for all our classes. We just switch rooms. More than likely if you were signed up with us you'll be in Ms. Keen's class as well."

I sighed and said, "So it's kind of like how japanese schools work."

She nodded. She ran her hand acrossed the table till she touched a box.

She ran her fingers on it feeling the brail label. She opened it and looked at me.

She smiled and asked, "Do you mind helping me pick the pieces up?"

I nodded and began placing bumps in the box.

Blossom, Dad and a man I assumed to be Professor Utionium walked into the room.

Blossom said, "Okay Bubbles, time for some brail practice reading."

Bubbles smiled and said, "Thanks Blossom but, I already finshed my practice."

Blossom rasied an eyebrow and said, "Alright, then whats this say?"

She pulled out the tiles and spelled out a four letter word.

Bubbles ran her fingers acrossed it and said, "Blossom, you misspelled book."

She looked at the pieces and said, "No, that's how you spell book."

I looked at it and said, "But you put a J at the end instead of a K."

She glared at me and said, "What makes you the expert at brail? Huh?"

Dad stepped up and said, "An old neighbor of ours taught him to read brail to help her move, right Son?"

I nodded and said, "I helped her with her practice and she really getting better."

The Professor walked up to me and said, "Well thank you young man. I'm Professor Utionum, and you are?"

I responded, "Dib. Dib Membrane."

He smiled and said, "Well Dib, feel free to make yourselve at home."

I nodded and said, "Thank you Mr. Utonium."

He laughed and said, "Please just call me Professor, everyone does."

Blossom walked over and said, "Sorry Dib, I'm the one who usally knows everything about reading."

I gave a small laugh, smiled, and said, "It's ok. I use to being told I'm wrong."