Zshizshibaby-Is...Blossom asleep again?
Brick *spots Blossom asleep*-Must have had to stay on coffee to keep herself up...
Zshizshibaby *annoyed* slaps her paws hard in front of Blossom's nose
Blossom *jolts up*-Sweet Dear Einstein Kool-Aid!! *pant pant*
Brick-I have no idea what she just said and I don't want to know, but Zshizshibaby doesn't own much except for the plot...
Chapter four: Arrival
A broken vase. Brick had thrown another one of his priceless porcelain vases due to anger. Blossom had gotten away again. "How could she have gotten away AGAIN!?" Brick shouted. The officers and scouts were on his monitors. "You," He pointed at the scouts, "You had Bubbles right in front of you and you let her slip away! And you," He pointed at the officers, "You had all three of them in the same train car with you!! You even spoke to them! 'Why do you talk like that?' Why did I let my brothers hire such boneheads!!!?" you could hear him through the door to his den and it was sound proof. They had nothing to say. "…You are put on suspension until further notice, understand me?! If you even touch a squad car, I will have your heads!! Got that? Or did I go to fast?" He sneered before shutting off the monitor. He turned to another monitor and dialed up the airport security. "Find out the passengers that left early this morning. I want a thorough search for these names," He took out a pen and pad, "At least someone can be a bit useful. I want you to look for Blossom U-T-O-N-I-U-M, Bubbles Utonium, and Buttercup Utonium. And I want to be the first one to know where they're going and if it's round trip or not."
"Yes, Sire." The officer hung up.
"Where the heck are you going, Blossom?" Suzie came into the den. "What?"
"Are you okay? I could hear you all the way in my room." She said with her hands on her hips. Brick looked at her. Beautiful, yes. A pain? Also yes. Brick rolled his eyes and looked at her with full attention. "Wanna kiss? That makes you feel better." Brick sighed and motioned her over. She went over to him, sat on his lap, and gave him a big kiss. Brick moaned in reply and smirked when she was done. Then she left to find something to do. Brick wiped his mouth and returned to what he was doing, trying to figure out what Blossom is doing and where she's going.
Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup landed in Tianjin, China about fifteen hours after that. Buttercup stretched and looked over at her sisters. "Where to?"
"The currency exchange?" Bubbles said.
"Where is it?" All the signs looked the same to Buttercup, but to Bubbles, they were just plain confusing. They turned to Blossom, who looked at each sign.
"Over there." She pointed to one store that looked sort of like their currency exchange back in America. They walked over and waited in line for their turn. Buttercup and Bubbles whispered about how much money they had. They pulled it together to get about five hundred dollars, adding to the money they had stashed away. Soon, Blossom came up to the booth. There was a man at the booth and he looked like he was in his thirties or so. "Excuse me, can we exchange this?" She asked. He looked, nodded and exchanged all the money for a lot of yen. "Thank you." They walked out.
"Where next?" Bubbles asked.
"We find somewhere to stay, somewhere cheap so we don't throw all our money away. Until we get settled, only shop for essentials. And don't worry, in a matter of weeks, you'll be speaking Chinese." Blossom said as she walked.
Back in America, about a month after or so, Brick found some fantastic news. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE'S NOT ON THERE!? THE TRAIN LISTING FOR THAT DAY SAID SHE WAS HEADED STRAIGHT FOR THERE!!!!!"…Okay, it wasn't all that great. Apparently, Blossom's name had been erased, along with her sisters', showing no sign of where she went and if she was coming back. The security guard jolted and pressed a button, showing the listing results for 'Blossom Utonium', then, 'Bubbles Utonium', and lastly, 'Buttercup Utonium'. There were no results. "YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF CRAP!!! THAT GIRL IS OUT THERE, I'M SEARCHING FOR HER, AND YOU'RE TELLING ME HER NAME 'MYSTERIOUSLY' DISAPPEARED FROM YOUR DANG RECORDS!?" Brick was so loud, everyone froze, even Butch and he gets madder than that. "FIND HER NOW!! I WANT EVERY DANG AIRPORT FEEDING ME RECORDS OF ALL THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE ARRIVED THERE!! EVERYONE!! YOU GOT THAT!?" Brick shouted so loud, his face was red. They all said 'yes, sire' and all that and began to feed him records. Brick sat back in his seat and messaged everyone not to bother him.
"S-Sire, I think I may have something…" One guard in Tianjin Airport said nervously. Brick eyed him with an intensly furious red eye. "T-the records were erased here too."
"HOW IS…" Before he could finish, Brick began to think. Her records are erased here…and they are…that's it! Hah, she thought she could slip out, close, but not close enough. For the first time since Blossom had escaped, Brick smiled. "You just made my day." He snickered. "Of course, she's smart enough not to stay in one place…You all can go now…" They all hung up and Brick picked up the phone and called Butch and Boomer.
"Hey, bro, any good news?"-Butch
"They flew to Tianjin, China."
"Knew you'd figure it out."-Boomer
"Yeah, I'm smart aren't I? Listen, I want everyone you've got in China on the lookout for these girls. Catch one, make me happy."
"Heh, if they even sneeze, we'll find them."-Boomer
"Just wait, we'll find them."-Butch. Buttercup walked to get the groceries again. They had gotten jobs. Blossom was a newspaper reporter, Buttercup was a coach, and Bubbles was a hairstylist. She spotted a woman with a big stomach (she's pregnant) walking past an alleyway when two hands grabbed her.
"HELP!" Buttercup rushed over and peered inside with a gang surrounding the woman, demanding money. "P-please, I'm a tired mother-to-be, just take my purse and leave me alone!" She begged. They took her purse, took out the money, and said she had more. "I-I-I don't!!" They began to gang up on her. "HELP!!!" Buttercup couldn't stand it.
"She said to leave her alone!" Buttercup snapped angrily, standing in the alleyway. They turned to her and smirked at the pretty girl standing there.
"Such a cute girl. Why don't you come with us?" Buttercup walked towards them. They thought she was very obedient. Then she kicked one of the guys, punched another in the face, and helicopter kicked another away from her. They kept running at her with the woman staring, amazed. It looked like she had wings on her. Soon, after a long rumble, they were all down except uttercup.
"Are you okay, Ma'am?" Buttercup asked, helping her up. "I hope you and the baby aren't hurt."
"…Y-you must be an angel…" Buttercup looked confused. "Y-you saved me! M-me and my unborn child!! Oh, thank you, China is finally blessed!!" She was crying.
"Whoa, whoa! I'm no angel! I just helped!!" People were starting to crowd, saying she was an angel and wanting to shake her hand or take her picture or give her a hug. I can't get too much attention… "Okay, okay, maybe I am an angel, but I have to leave now and please don't give my description. Goodbye!" Buttercup flew out of there and headed straight for her new home with Blossom and Bubbles.
"You did what!?" Blossom shouted.
"What was I supposed to do!? The lady was scared, they were gonna beat her up, and she's pregnant! What if she had a miscarriage or something!? What if they killed her!? You want to just stand there and watch like all those other people when we actually have the power to stop it?!"
"S-she's got a point. It was nice of her to help that poor lady out. And she took nothing in return anyway."
"Thank you, Bubbles."
"Don't team up against me! I'm not saying that it was wrong, if I were in your shoes, I would have done the same thing…but don't forget, Butch and Boomer have scouts and officers around the globe. And they all have a direct line to Brick and he could be over here in less than an hour. All I'm saying is we need to be careful when we use our powers. We could get caught, then what do we do?"
"Escape?" Buttercup replied like she was stating an obvious fact.
"Don't get smart with me…I'm tired…I'm going to bed."
"Wan an (Good night)." Bubbles said. She took another noodle and stuck it in her mouth. "Do you think she's a bit too stressed?"
"Yeah…"
"We should tone it down for her…"
"…Well, while you think of that, I'm gonna take a shower and go to bed." Buttercup said. Bubbles nodded and she heard the shower turn on. Well, she thought of taking a walk, but now that every scout and officer could be Utonium hunting, she should probably stay indoors. She remembered when she thought Brick really cared about Blossom. They seemed so into each other and she thought…maybe he'd turned around. And if there's one bad thought that always follows after thinking of Brick, this is Bubbles' bad thought…Boomer. She liked Boomer. She always had liked Boomer, maybe like isn't the right word, but she was comfortable with like right now. And right now, she wasn't supposed to 'like' any Rowdyruff. In fact, Buttercup crammed in her head that she should hate them all, especially Brick for what he did. But, Bubbles couldn't hate Boomer. Boomer was really sweet to her. She remembered trying to tell them this after it had happened.
~flashback (WOOT!)~
"B-but I can't hate them. Boomer's my friend." Bubbles said feebly as she fidgeted. Buttercup had been on the war path since five days ago, when the girls had gone into hiding, their friends and family had been imprisoned, and Brick had taken over with a full force…and broke Blossom's heart. Blossom sat on the box in the old, abandoned building. Her face was hollow and pale, her eyes were half opened, the spark in them was gone. Her hair was drooping on the floor because she hadn't bothered to tie it up and it was messy and undone. She just sat there, slowly rocking back and forth…on the other side of the room.
"H-he loves me…he's just…confused…he'll come to his senses…and he'll look for me…and say he's sorry because he loves me…and take me back…he loves me…like that…" She kept mumbling, hitting her head against the wall, harder and harder until both her sisters were sure she had a headache.
"You call that 'friendship'?! Look at what that red jerk-off did to our sister? Our leader?" Buttercup said, pointing at the depressed (and slightly mental for the moment, but don't worry. She'll come back to us…hopefully…) girl who wouldn't stop rocking back and forth.
"W-well, Boomer probably doesn't like it. He'll make his brothers see what they've done…"
"Bubbles, Brick tricked Blossom into thinking he loved her, Butch tricked me into thinking he changed…" As she said this, Buttercup gathered stick and began making a fire with her powers, "And Boomer tricked you into thinking he was your friend." That was the sad horrible truth and sometimes you don't want to hear the truth, just lies. Bubbles walked over to Blossom.
"T-that's not true right? T-things will get better, right? Townsville…the boys…they're all just joking right?" Blossom looked blankly ahead.
"Don't be naïve…" Blossom said flatly. "Do…you really think that? They tricked us…Bubbles…they lied to us…Brick…lied to me…" Blossom's eyes looked flat, pale, like they were someone else's. She used Bubbles' shoulder to help herself up and slowly went over to the fire, sitting next to Buttercup while Bubbles sat in the cold, not wanting to be near the warmth if it meant a cruel and horrid truth. No, she'd rather stay in the cold with the sweet lies.
~End flashback (man, that was a bit depressing)~
Bubbles did try to forget those nights where half the time, she was cold and they all huddled together. If it weren't for Blossom coming up with the idea to just leave, one of them would have caught pneumonia. Boomer came up to Brick with news from Tianjin. He didn't know if it would cheer him up or not, but it's something. "Hey, Brick, how ya feeling?" Brick glared at him intensely. "Not good…okay…well, it's not the news you're looking for, but it's…interesting…some people reported seeing an angel…but said that the angel said not to give a description of her and are respecting her wishes. One woman said that she is with child and was almost mugged until said 'angel' saved her before flying off." Boomer said.
"I don't care about that crap, I want…where was that reported?" Brick asked, suddenly interested.
"Oh, uh…Tianjin, China."
"I know where Tianjin is…that is exactly where the girls arrived in their plane. Funny that happened at the same place only a month later." Blossom was thinking something similar.
"Bubbles…Buttercup…remember when we sang in California?"
"Yeah, it's the whole reason we left for here." Buttercup replied as she brought the laundry in.
"Well, do you remember how happy it made people?" Blossom said.
"Yep, everybody was smiling and clapping." Bubbles chirped from the apartment kitchen.
"I think we've been underground a little too long."
Boomer-Zshizshibaby does not...
Butch-No, Boomer, we already did that. It's at the top of the page.
Boomer-Seriously!?
Brick-Yeah I said it.
Boomer-Aw...*starts to cry* B-but I-I w-w-wanted to do it, Zshi...*starts crying*
Zshizshibaby-Don't cry! Please, stop crying (oh, so cute). Y-You can do it at the next chapter...
Boomer-I-I wanted to do it now...
Brick-Ya know what? Just do it.
Boomer-YEA! Zshizshibaby doesn't own anything except the plot!
Zshizshibaby-Happy now?
Boomer-YEP!