FlameX: Inferno

Secret7

Chapter 4

Blossom screamed, waking up from a nightmare. She was strapped to a table in the lab. Only the Professor was there.

"It's alright, honey. Everything will be alright." he said calmly.

Blossom smiled weakly. The Professor could make things seem like all was right with the world.

"Wh-Where are Bubbles and Buttercup?" Blossom managed to say.

"They're both alright. They were very worried, though. I persuaded them to lighten up and play video games."

"Will I be OK? Will THEY be OK?"

"Blossom, we'll get through this. And I'm sure that Bubbles and Buttercup will be just fine."

Buttercup blew Bubbles's head off.

"HA! At last! I win!"

"No fair! I didn't know about Fatalitoos! How come I didn't get to use them?" she whined.

They were playing Mortal Kombat.

"They're Fatalities! Not Fatalatoos! And you didn't get to use them because you were too close to death!" Buttercup sneered, blowing a raspberry.

"Oh yeah? Well if I was Scorpion I'd--"

The doorbell rang.

"I'll get it!" Buttercup yelled, zooming towards the door. It was dark out, being 9:00. They had extra privileges due to the recent crisis, not that they overused them.

Buttercup opened the door. "Utonium...Res...i......dence." She stared at the figure's red eyes. It was a familiar creature to her. A creature of cruelness, evil, and madness. Blaze.

"Can I come in now? What's up?"

"You..." Buttercup began. Her voice was enraged. "You monster."

Blaze stepped back. "Look, I didn't actually...I was--"

WHAM

The kick in the face shot Blaze far out of the doorway, into the house across the street.

"You caused all of this. You started this ALL!" Buttercup said in ferocity. Bubbles floated out of the doorway, a look of inexplicable anger on her face. She was in "hardcore mode".

"Look..." Blaze said. "I really don't want to hurt you." He thought about this, and then rephrased it. "Well, you kicked me in the face, so I do KIND of want to hurt you, but still, I--"

"Shut up and fight!" Bubbles shouted, nearly punching Blaze in the face.

Blaze's eyes lit up. "I was kind of hoping you'd say that," he said, smirking. He leapt through the air, and time seemed to slow down. He slammed a kick into a pressure point in Bubbles, and Bubbles immediately crumpled onto the street.

"YOU KILLED BUBBLES!" screamed Buttercup.

Blaze shrugged. "She'll be OK. I just--"

Buttercup's uppercut connected with Blaze's chin. Blaze flew into the air, and stopped himself before he flew too high. He smacked his forehead. "Look chick, I'd really like to fight. In fact, I am FULL of blood lust right now. But I have a warning for you. I've come to...You're about to interrupt me, aren't you?" asked Blaze, smiling weakly.

"Yes."

Buttercup rocketed through the air, aiming a kick at Blaze's head. He dodged, grabbing the leg and incapacitating it with a karate chop.

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Buttercup screamed.

"Look, I really didn't come here to fight. So could you just--"

Bubbles bulleted towards Blaze. "You aren't going to hurt Blossom!" she said.

"God, do we have to do this?" murmured Blaze.

Before Blaze could continue, he found a sharp pain as he was punched all the way through the Utonium Household, into the living room.

"How did Blaze come back?" Bubbles whimpered.

"I don't know, but he's gotta be dead again!" Buttercup said smugly. "Let's check!"

They flew back in their house, towards the living room, and saw Blaze lying in there.

"Told ya he'd--"

A faint moan came from the large hole in the floor.

"What was that?" asked Bubbles.

Buttercup was silent.

SLAM!

Faster than Buttercup could see, Blaze grabbed them both by the collar of their shirts and threw them down the basement stairs, into the laboratory.

"What the blazes is going on here?" cried the Professor. Then he saw him. He stood, frozen in terror.

"Professor Isaac Utonium?" asked Blaze suspiciously.

The Professor nodded slowly.

"Good. We need to have a talk..."

TO BE CONTINUED...