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Chapter 8: Return to Sender

Instantly, Blossom runs through the tree house at the sound of the alarm, passing the hamster powered generators and runs outside to see the massive hoards of Sneaky Fusion Spawn and Caterplugs approaching.

Hoagie runs over to Blossom, franticly replies, "Blossom, we need to defend the anti-gravity generator so the fusion spawn can't get into the tree house, and steal my 2X4 tech."

Blossom frowns, closes her eyes, but responds in worried voice, "We just have to do our best and make sure they can't get close to the generator."

The first wave of fusions moves towards the tree house like a small swell of waves. Blossom, along with five KND operatives, stand around the generator at the base of the tree house, to protect it. Blossom uses her omega beam and Ice Breath to thin the ranks of the on coming fusions, but more and more appear as the first wave is routed.

Soon a larger second wave approaches. At that moment, Hoagie and Blossom see a weird light emanating from Hero Square that lasts only for a few seconds, before fading away completely. Hoagie, who is up in front the tree house using his mustard gun to sniper Caterplugs from above, hears his sensors going off inside. Hoagie rushes back into the tree house to turn them off and finds that Chronometric particles had been released by that weird light.

Meanwhile at Dexlabs, an alarm sounds loudly and Dexter nearly falls out of his chair.

Dexter stands back up and shouts loudly, "Computress, give me a report!"

Computress appears on the monitor and to Dexter's request, saying, "New Nancom signal detected in Sector V."

"Give me the information from it." Dexter replies quickly.

As soon as he says this, all the information pops up on the screen in front of him. Nancom 0's information has been received, and that could mean only one thing. Dexter's eyes widen as the information sinks in.

He runs out of his lab quickly, "Computress! I need a transport ready for me so I can travel to Sector V." The door closes behind him.

Back in Sector V, Holden has arrived in front of the Five Point Monument in Hero Square. A few of the spawn suddenly notice him and head back to attack him. Holden takes the Custer Buster from his waist and starts firing on the Caterplug in front of him. Holden then throws a few Grape Grenades at the Terrafusers that are close by to make sure that the possibility of enforcements would be minimal. A few Caterplugs and Ultramango Beetles start to surround him, so they could overwhelmed Holden from all sides. Holden fires at a few of the fusion, destroying a handful before he is then yanked by the collar of his shirt into the air. He looks up to see Blossom. Her hair is longer than it was before and there was something else different about her. Blossom though didn't even seem to notice it was Holden.

"BLOSSOM! LET ME DOWN SO I CAN DO MY JOB!" Blossom is startled by his voice and looks at Holden speechless, almost nearly dropping him.

She then stammers in disbelief, "H-Holden you're here, but how did you…" Holden gives her a frown and a serious look appears in his eyes.

He then says in a very serious tone, "After this battle Blossom. Just protect the tree house and the generator. I'll take care of everything else."

The last time Blossom saw that serious look in his eyes is when she last seen him. Blossom smiles and knew that all she could do is trust him.

"Alright, just don't get killed out there."

Blossom flies to the backside of the tree house and sets Holden down just outside a Mor-Mart. Blossom flies back towards the tree house using her eye beams on some Caterplugs as she goes. Holden fires several shots at Caterplugs that are blocking his path and after several minutes he finally reaches the KND training facility.

Holden climbs the boxes and peaks over the wall and spots eight Ultramango Beetles along with one Gooby bomb on the ground below. He takes out his com and scans the bomb and to discover that he only has five minutes to disarm it.

"Blossom! Tell Hoagie that there is a Gooby bomb at the training facility. I'm gonna disarm it," Holden shouts to her in a loud voice.

Meanwhile back at the tree house, Blossom has just frozen a Sneaky Spawn, when Holden had shouted the news over the com to her. A stunned look appears on her face.

Hoagie looks over at her and says quizzically, "Who is that you're taking to on your com, Blossom?"

"Its Holden! He's deactivating a gooby bomb. I can't believe he's back." Blossom says, her voice cracking as tears appear in her eyes.

Hoagie cocks an eyebrow in surprise and then replies, "We can celebrate his return later, Blossom. Just focus on these Sneaky Spawns so they don't take out the generator."

Blossom shakes her head so she can concentrate and Hoagie shots three fusion spawns that were trying to climb up the chains that kept the tree house anchored to the ground.

Back at the KND training facility, Holden takes one last shot and the Ultramango Beatle falls to the ground with a hole in its head.

Holden runs over to the gooby bomb and deactivates it as Buttercup had shown him. The timer reads fifteen seconds and Holden lets out a sigh of relief. Hoagie and Blossom watch as much of the spawn retreats away from the tree house.

Over their coms, Holden appears and he says with a smile on his face, "The gooby bomb has been disabled. I'm coming back to the tree house now."

Holden finds one of the jump pads and lands in the driveway to Nigel's house. Hoagie has a shocked look on his face and replies in a nervous tone. "I heard rumors that something was being sent back to turn the tide of the war. We just never thought it would be…well, a person."

Holden shrugs his shoulder, smile and says, "Well, I did have to do everything and learn everything on the fly, Hoagie. That's the only reason I'm here."

He turns to Blossom and gives her a warm smile. Blossom immediately hugs him and a few tears run down her face.

"Holden what happened to you? I know you were lost in Dex's time experiment, but I never imagined I would see you again!" She says through her happy sobbing.

Holden closes his eye and responds in a tone of sadness, "I saw the end result of this war. There was no hope of winning. I appeared in the middle of the battle for Tech Square I came too late at that point to change anything. Dexlabs was already destroyed and only a handful of people made it out alive."

Hoagie interjects in a curious voice, "Do you know if anyone died?"

Holden looks away with his fist clenched. "Yeah Hoagie, a few people did. I decided at that point I would put a stop to that future."

Holden reaches into his pocket and hands teary-eyed Blossom the letter from Buttercup.

Blossom looks in to Holden's eyes and replies with some reluctance, "What's with this letter? If it's from me, then I probably don't want to read it."

Holden chuckles softly and replies in an assuring voice, "It's actually from Buttercup…"

Before he can even say anything else, Blossom covers his mouth and she says quickly, "Do you know where she is right now?" She takes her hand off his mouth just as quickly as she had put it on to let him answer.

"I was going to say she didn't tell me where she was. She said I was to find her the hard way." Blossom opens the letter carefully.

"Dear Blossom…and Bubbles, if you're with her. I'm alive so don't worry about me for the moment. I won't say where I am because that's a task for Holden to undertake. Now go out there and smash a few fusion creeps for me!"

Blossom laughs a little bit and smiles. Then, they see a blue light moving towards them at high speeds.

It slows down and Bubbles lands next to Blossom and hugs her and says excitedly, "You won the battle! I knew you could do it!"

Blossom hugs Bubbles and responds in a happy voice, "I didn't do it Bubbles. Holden was the one who did all the work. He's the one who saved the day."

Bubbles looks behind Blossom, double takes, squeals and hugs Holden tightly with some tears in her eyes. "You're alright! Blossom was so worried about you! Well, we all were, but Blossom was worried the most! Wait until we tell the Professor you're back! He will be so happy to see you too!"

Before Holden can respond to Bubbles, Hoagie interrupts in a nervous tone, "Um, sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I need Holden to help me repair the communications dish on the west side of Sector V. There seems to be a few problems with it now."

Holden groans a little bit, but he nods and follows Hoagie to where the dish is.

Bubbles then looks over at Blossom happily and says with an inquisitive tone, "Have you told Holden yet how you feel about him?"

Blossom's face turns pinker then her dress that she is wearing and she then responds, "No I haven't. Bubbles, there is more good news. Buttercup is alive! Holden has seen her recently."

Bubbles eyes widen and she shouts for joy and replies quickly, "Where is she? Can we go to her right now? I can't wait to hug her."

Blossom shakes her head, making her ponytail swing from right to left and replies in a defeated voice, "She didn't say in her letter and she didn't tell Holden when he saw her."

Bubbles frowns and is crestfallen. She then perks up and replies in a serious tone, "Then we just have to have Holden look for her."

This is all Bubbles has to say on the matter before she lifts off the ground and flies back to City Hall to keep an eye on the Mayor and Ms. Bellum as per her assignment. Blossom takes a pink Nancom out of her pocket and places a call.

Meanwhile, Holden and Hoagie arrive at the dish to try and fix it.

"This is gonna need a new circuit board. At least I have one on me, but it's gonna take a few minutes to install. Just keep those Caterplugs off me." Holden summons his nano Numbuh 2 to help Hoagie speed up the process of his repairs.

Hoagie looks at it for a quick moment, laughs and says excitedly, "Wow, it looks like me when I was eight years old." Hoagie goes back to concentrating on his installation.

The Caterplugs slowly start to advance on the two boys. Holden draws his pistol and fires a few shots at each one, littering the ground with their bodies, but more and more appear with each wave. Holden takes out one of his grenades and throws one in the back ranks of the fusion monsters, thinning their numbers considerably. Eventually, after several minutes, the Caterplugs give up and disappear.

Hoagie closes the bottom of the dish, stands up, wipes the sweat off his brow, and gives a sigh of relief before responding. "Now we have communications with Numbuh 3 and 4 out near Camp Kidney at Mount Blackhead. I doubt we will have that much trouble now."

The two teens walk back to the tree house.

When Holden and Hoagie arrive back at the tree house, they find Blossom isn't the only one waiting for them. Professor Utonium is talking to Blossom and behind them stood Dexter, Deedee and Numbuh 5. As soon as Holden walks into view, Professor Utonium runs over to Holden and hugs him tightly. Tears of happiness appear in the Professor's eyes at the sight of having one of his lost children returned to him.

After several minutes of silence, Dexter, who has a dumbfounded look on is face, replies in an amazed tone of voice, "I can't believe my eyes. Mandark sent you back of all the people."

Deedee starts to cry loudly and hiccups a few times before she replies, "Holden, It's my fault that I sent you so far ahead. Please don't be mad at!" She hip cheeks the Professor out of the way and hugs Holden.

Holden pats her back gently and replies in a soft soothing voice, "Its fine Deedee. No harm, no foul. I'm still in one piece. I know you didn't mean for that to happen."

Dexter then interjects in a serious tone, "Let me see these nanos of yours. I have created a device that is in Downtown Townsville at City Hall called the Great Machine. I shall start linking it to your Nancom, so they can rest and restore their energy faster. You have to go there to establish and finish the link though."

Holden takes out his com, presses a small button, and the nanos pop out.

The Professor gives a quick study of them and eventually says in an excited voice, "Fascinating…seem to be created by the use of reverse polarity on fusion matter…Holden, is it true what Blossom tells me. Buttercup is…"

Holden nods before the Professor can finish and adds quickly, "That's one reason I have a nano of her, because she is alive. As I told Blossom I don't know where in our time she is. This time talk is starting to confusion me."

Holden puts his hand on his forehead and then rubs his eyes.

Numbuh 5 then interrupts with a smile on her face, "Numbuh 5 thinks we should celebrate the turn of this war." Holden tries to object, but to no avail.

That night only a few people show up to the party. Ben, Edd and Mojo arrive early, because it has something to do about the package.

"Where is this package so that we may use the package to fight Fuse?" Mojo is looking around curiously for it after he speaks.

Edd smiles and interjects very quickly, "Statistically it has to be something that can deal a lot of damage to Fuse."

Holden rounds the corner of the tree house and says in a tired voice, "Double D, how about someone who's been in the future and was sent back, because they don't belong there. Does that count as being a weapon?"

Ben's jaw drops and he eventually replies, "This is interesting. I never thought you would be what was sent back."

"I'm getting that a lot today. So, does anyone know where Fuse is operating at right now? I wasn't told."

Dexter then gives a serious look and replies in scolding manner, "The Darklands up north. Don't be stupid and go off there. It's dangerous right now."

Holden sits down, nods and replies, "I agree with you Dex. I'll see what I can do around here to quell the fusions and help any other way I can. Oh yeah, before I forget. Dexter, no one told me how Fuse makes his fusions of everyone."

Dexter rubs his eyes and replies seriously, "He steals personal items of ours that have our life energy in them. They are brought to the Darklands, where Fuse uses his power to create the fusions. That's all we know."

Holden closes his eyes and replies, "Thanks for the info Dex. I should really go talk to the Professor for awhile. He's been wanting to talk to me all evening."

Holden walks away towards the Professor, who is taking small puffs on his pipe.

An hour or so later, the party breaks up and everyone leaves to go back to their homes. Holden is sitting in a chair enjoying the breeze on his face and looking at the moon. Blossom just happens to be above him in the tree mulling over a few things.

"Blossom I'm sorry about that fight. I should have been less of a jerk." Holden replies in a guilty voice.

Startled, Blossom then almost falls out of the tree.

"How did you know I was up here?" Blossom replies, as she peers down from her spot to find him looking up at her. "I just had a feeling 'was all."

She turns a bright red, but at this time of night no one would notice.

"You were right, Holden. I should be the one apologizing. After I left school that day I just kept thinking how angry I was, at Mojo for causing her to disappear, at you for being angry over a project that we did so much work on and I was mad at myself because I know Buttercup wouldn't want me to act this way."

After she says this, she stands up and floats down and slowly walks into the tree house and to her room to get some sleep. Holden closes his eyes and decides to sleep in the chair.

Well i did massive updating on this chapters details and such. I hope you all like the stuff that was added.