A/N: and so we come to Megaville and see the state of affairs with the unsteady alliance between the Powerpuff Girls and the Rowdyruff Boys. We are currently about a month or so after the end of chapter three of Deal with the Devil and the Ruffs and chosen to help the girls defend the city until they finally agree to fight them, claiming that it is because they want to make sure that no one gets to destroy the girls before they do. Nothing major in this chapter except some scene setting information about what stories are happening in my fic universe so you can get a bit of an idea with what state of affairs the world is in. I'm also just showing you what the main characters are up to now, also remember that they are all a lot older now so just remember I'm not writing about kids here.
Oh and if you're wondering what happened to the Justice League when i say it was destroyed, that is going to be explained soon.
There is also a couple of hints as to what is to come and another quote hunt, this time from ?. Can you find it? PM me if you do.
Chapter 1
"And thus yet another bank robber was stopped thanks to the Powerpuff Girls and their new allies. This marks yet another week in the rise of crime that has spread across the world which started since the destruction of the Justice League. Experts have claimed that this crime spree will slow once the, and I Quote, "Adrenaline fuelled crime surge" has worn out. Until then it seems that the few Heroes left have inherited more trouble than anyone could have predicted. Entire cities have fallen to this spree and the mass shortage of heroes to battle the super powered villains and the local police have completely succumbed. Major crime lords such as the Joker and the King Pin have taken control of all gang operations and are battling it out for supreme control of the crime underworld. We can only hope that some new….
Dexter sighed heavily as he turned the TV off. He tossed the remote away as he pulled himself up from his chair and made his way into the kitchen, his glasses instinctively being pulled off and rubbed against his long white coat. He almost automatically threw some bread into the toaster and made himself a cup of coffee, his mind wondering to other things as his body acted on its own. He failed to requester the pop of the toaster as it announced the completion of its job as he simply starred out of the window, his gaze directed at the sky towards the Megaville skyline.
The world's first Supercity spanned far further then he could ever hope to see. The city was nothing short of a thriving metropolis, some had even come to call it a country in itself. Untold Millions of people lived here and they were all under the protection of a group of six super heroes. They seemed to take for granted the work that these heroes did for them and carried on their normal life in a city that was nothing more than an experiment for the rest of the world. It was almost ironing that they took for granted the very thing that they would miss most of all should it disappear, and Dexter had the strange feeling that it one day would.
Dexter raised an eyebrow slightly as he saw the sky fill with six streaks of bright light, all flying across the sky in two perfect arrow head formations.
Where once the Powerpuff Girls had been the only ones who had a major part in defending Megaville; now they were joined by three boys who were practically their clones. For a man of science such as Dexter the six super powered people were of incredible interest. The very nature of their birth, perfectly formed people born from an explosion of three seemingly stupid ingredients and an extremely unstable chemical, was a wonder to all of science. Despite all of his experimentations and investigations, the odds against such an event occurring were phenomenal, and the odds of the beings created not being severely handicapped were practically none existent. Yet, despite all this, the three Powerpuff Girls were born to perfection and then the Rowdyruff Boys had followed. There had been other attempts to copy such experiments but all had ended with sever deformities and an unstable existence for those that were born. Dexter himself had no intentions of attempting such an experiment, preferring to work on his machinery rather than chemicals, most of his chemical based experiments resulted in some sort of giant monster being born.
Slowly, the streaks of colour begun fly around in a gentle circle in the sky, scanning the area before beginning to lower towards him. They landed with a series of gentle thuds as their feet landed on the grass or wooden porch that made up Dexter's garden. First the three girls landed near the door, grinning and laughing amongst themselves about their victory as they repositioned whatever part of their clothing had been blown by the wind turbulence from their flight. Then the three boys landed behind them further towards the street, flecking their muscles and grinning in confidence as they laughed about how terrified whatever criminals they had just beat up had been.
Dexter raised his eyebrow slightly as the girls entered, his glasses reflecting the long cut that ran across the side of Buttercup's face, fixing her with a questioning gaze.
"What?" the green Powerpuff asked, folding her arms in annoyance at his gaze and stopping her walk in the middle of the doorway, forcing her sisters to squeeze their way past her as they entered. "I missed one of their cars a bit, ok. Don't look at me like that every time I get injured…it really annoys me off you know"
"Everything annoys you of Cuppy" Blossom, the red head, grinned at her, deliberately calling her by the nickname that Buttercup hated most. She exchanged a knowing grin with Bubbles before turning to Dexter. "Butch made a bet with her that she couldn't fly under one of the bank robber's cars whilst it was moving and lift it from beneath" she explained "She lost the bet"
"Yer and I got fifty quid out of it!"
Buttercup growled and turned round, raising her middle figure to the three boys who were struggling to stay on their feet as they laughed. She grumbled to herself as she entered the building, slamming the door behind her with an almighty crash, prompting another raised eyebrow from Dexter and another fit of giggles from her sisters.
"She's the one who is going to have to turn the crime if she keeps making these bets with Butch" Blossom sighed as she watched Buttercup storm up the stairs to the bathroom in order to clean the blood from her face. The two remaining sisters exchanged a knowing glance with one another before Blossom shrugged and slipped into the kitchen. There was silence for a second before the sound of her humming could be heard drifting out and the faint sound of the kettle clicking on.
"Hey, make some for me!" The blue Powerpuff shouted as she ran to join her sister, hopping gracefully to the side to avoid colliding into Dexter.
Alone in the hall again, Dexter slowly turned to face the three grinning boys that remained at the end of the garden path, sitting on the nearest car. As they made eye contact with each other, the Rowdyruffs stood up and grinned at him, the red one, Brick, taking a step forward and folding his arms. There the two young men simply stood and starred. Since the Rowdyruff Boys had returned four months ago, they had reluctantly joined forces with the girls as sort of defenders of Megaville. To start off they had only been helping out of boredom whilst they were waiting for Bubbles to finally agree to join in the final battle that they had waited so long for. Slowly however, this had formed it to a sort of alliance that neither the girls nor the boys had really commented on or opposed. Still, Dexter never trusted them and Brick simply seemed to hate Dexter for reasons that he wouldn't state, even to his brothers.
Now the two young men simply stared at each other, their eyes daring each other to make a move. Dexter, waiting for a sign to know that the Rowdyruff boys were not to be trusted and Brick waiting for something that only he knew. Behind Brick, his brothers' simply sighed and shared annoyed looks as they waited, noticing that Brick was showing no signs of actually saying anything. A strange tension seemed to rise from Brick, one different than a simple dislike of someone.
"See ya" Butch suddenly shouted as his legs exploded into a rich green light and he vanished into the air, followed swiftly by a sympathetic looking Boomer. Brick growled as he watched them going, his eyes narrowing in an attempt to block out the bright sun that filled the sky in the direction that his brothers were flying. Slowly, his shot Dexter an almost disgusted look before exploding into a unusually large burst of deep red light and following his brothers, leaving the confused Dexter alone outside his house, slowly pulling his glasses off and rubbing them on his coat.
"The boys gone?" Bubbles asked as he re-entered the living room, sub concisely locking the door behind him. She sighed slightly at the nod of a head she got in reply.
"You know, I say we follow them one day and see whatever they have for a house" Blossom mumbled as she entered from the kitchen, handing Bubbles a cup of tea and placing some on the table for whenever Buttercup returned before retrieving some for Dexter and herself "All they've ever said is that they have a warm place…have to say I'm curious"
"Hope they haven't stolen anything…" Bubbles sighed to no one in particular before turning the T.V on and settling down into the chair.
"I've not see them do anything bad since we had that chat" Blossom mumbled to herself as she sat, thinking back to the day after they had returned from the dead. The boys had broken into a fast food restaurant and begun to help themselves with whatever they could find, claiming that it was the only way they could think of to finally get the girls to fight them. However the girls had simply ignored them and returned what they had stolen telling them that they were in no mood to fight. Finally Brick had declared that they would wait for them to be ready, that no matter how long it took they would be ready for the final battle. Of course the girls themselves had no real intention of ever fighting the Rowdyruff boys and eventually all talk of the two sets of three fighting had faded. Even Brick hadn't mentioned it for a couple of weeks.
"Still...I don't trust them" Dexter mumbled to himself as he sipped from his coffee. "Wait hold on...how did you make this so quickly? The kettle takes longer then this to boil"
"Heat vision" Blossom grinned, he voice taking a matter-of-fact tone as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "Heats it up in one second flat and really brings out the flavour"
"Interesting" Dexter mumbled again before taking another sip and glancing at the T.V. that Bubbles had turned back on. The news was still on but the story had switched to international news.
"The rise of sudden deaths in the Japanese Tokyo area has now been official declared as a homicide investigation by the world renowned detective L. The fact that every one of the recent deaths has been caused by a sudden and unexplainable heart-attack has caused theory's that a new cult is responsible but much blame has been placed upon the Black Knight terrorist organisation and their new leader the masked Zero. Zero himself has made no public announcements on the subject and his Black Knights have fallen silent in their attacks upon the occupant Britannia forces. Many others have claimed that it is the work of the vengeful god Kira who..."
"Japan seems to be getting worse and worse lately" Bubbles mumbled as she watched the camera switch to an image of a pair of Nightmare frames (Large machines of war piloted by a single man which stood two times as big as even the tallest human) gathered around a Britannia ambassador as he fell to the ground clutching his chest in pain. The crowd around them screamed as another high ranking business man fell beside him and the Nightmares were forced to open fire upon some of the more violent members with their giant weapons. The camera shook as some of the crowd desperately tried to break free from the mass of bodies as more and more people began to take up a chant of 'Kira! Kira!' and begun trying to attack the ambassadors, their bodies being ripped to shreds by the heavy weaponry from the Nightmare frames.
The blue Powerpuff gave a slight whimper before changing the channels, unable to see anymore as she looked up at the ceiling.
A/N: That News report contained Death Note and Code Geass references. These are two of my favourite animes and I toughly suggest them anyone. The idea that they are both happening at the same time would be interesting
"They have their own heroes" Buttercup announced as she stepped into the room, her face now clean of blood but still bearing a long streak of red surrounded by black and blue across her forehead. "We have enough trouble here so don't even think about taking us over to Japan to fight against some supposed god...I've had enough of them"
Birds burst in to flight as the three streaks of light landed upon the cliff top. A couple of low chuckles could be heard as the three boys emerged from the light and made their way towards a large caravan that stood silhouetted against the now slowly setting sun. The giggled and jeered at each other as they entered and threw themselves into the first chairs they came across.
They had brought the caravan up their cliff when they had first arrived in Megaville after the fight with Gigan, when it had become apparent that they were not going to get the fight that they wanted straight away. They had wanted to stay somewhere where they would not be disturbed by anyone but where they would be accessible by the Powerpuff Girls should they finally get the courage to fight them again as they said they would. They couldn't exactly carry a full house up to the top of the cliff so they had settled with a caravan that they had found being transported across the road. It didn't look like anyone needed it so they helped themselves. It was of good quality. There were never any leaks whenever it rained and it was large enough for all of the boys to have their own places and personal space which their brothers couldn't touch. Thou they kept telling themselves it was only a temporary home, the three boys had grown to quite like it there, finding it rather cosy and peaceful.
"And thus that's another victory for the ruffs!" Butch grinned as he pulled out a beer from the small fridge that they had set up next to the chairs. He was met by a series of cheers from his brothers as they opened their own beers in complete unison with each other and took rather exaggerated gulps from their beers and cheering again in a well rehearsed victory tradition. The Girls made each other coffee; they had a loud party with beer...simple.
"Loved it when you threw that guy into the sea with a bus Butch" Brick grinned, finishing his beer and simply chucking it behind him into a pile that he had gathered behind his chair. None of the boys had ever really seen a need to tidy up except for Boomer, but even he had only done it recently.
"You should have seen his face Bro. It was a classic, I'm gonna try a truck next time"
"The girls wont like that..."
"Oh who cares what the girls like Boomer? I'm gonna do it just to see the looks on their faces" Butch laughed before raising his hand next to his head and forming a comedy mouth impression with it, raising his voice slightly in a terrible impression of Blossom "We need to use our powers to save people and hurting them is unacceptable. I will not tolerate any insubordination from you or my sisters so no unnecessary risks"
The caravan seemed to shake as the three boys erupted into laughter. They clutched their chests and screamed in joy as they each tried their own versions of one of Blossom's rants about duty and responsibility.
Suddenly Brick gave a cry as he looked out of the window, his blood red eyes narrowing as he scanned the landscape.
"What's up Bro?" Boomer asked as the blue and green ruffs joined him, searching for whatever danger their brother had seen.
"I don't know...I was sure I saw someone out there...someone in a suit watching us"
"In a suit? Come on mate how could anyone even get here? The only way up is flying; we made sure of that when we came. You're seeing things"
"Yer you're probably right"
Ignoring the jeers that his brothers giggled at him, Brick retreated to his bed. Thinking about the man he had seen. It had seemed so real...a man in a grey suit straitening his tie as he watched them from across the cliff.
Ice blue eyes scanned the misty horizon.
The silhouette of a tall man straightened as it made its way through the unnatural fog that surrounded it, ignoring the creaking of wood which seemed to pierce the damp air from every direction. Around him, the fog took hand like shapes as it reached out to him, trying to pull into the never-ending whiteness. But the man kept walking, his only other motion was his thin, bony hand raising and straitening the tie that had already hung perfectly across his chest. His brow creased into a frown as he sensed the appearance of another figure behind him but he ignored it, always walking forward in utter silence.
"Does the plan go well?" A voice questioned him from behind. It echoed through the air in an impossible high pitch but at the same time faded into nothingness, as if the speaker were not a part of the same reality.
"Yes" The man finally replied, his own face rasping slightly as if he were not used to speaking with the voice he had used for as long as he cared to remember "Everything is going as you planned"
"Perfect" The voice laughed "Soon it will be time for my return and then...the world as they know it shall fall around them. But first..."
As the voice paused, the fog before the two figures broke apart and vanished, revealing the forms of two other figures working hard upon a machine within a large laboratory. The white and purple helmert and purple cloak of the first and the gold armour of the second figure were easily recognisable to the speaker, who simply laughed as it spoke in that impossible voice
"But first...It's time for a little show"
