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Chapter 21: Power Plant
That afternoon, the Professor receives some odd radioactive readings from the power plant in Endsville. He quickly pulls out his com and makes a call to the only people he can trust on this matter…
"Holden I need you, Blossom, and Bubbles to check something over at the Endsville nuclear plant. I'm finding some strange readings."
Holden appears on the com and answers, "Blossom decided to take a nap, Professor so it will just be me and Bubbles checking it out."
Bubbles nods, also showing up on her com, "We'll make sure everything is fine, Professor." Then they hang up.
Over at the tree house, Blossom lays in Holden's bed, soundlessly sleeping. They had been talking for awhile that afternoon and neither of them had really slept the night before. She had been sitting on the bed before she slipped into unconsciousness. Holden kisses her forehead quietly and closes the door as not to wake her before leaving the tree house.
Bubbles and Holden meet near Billy's house which doesn't happen to be that far from the power plant. As they enter the plant, they find that the inside appears horribly infected.
"I'm going to scout around to see how many fusion lairs are around here, Holden. I'll be back soon." Bubbles says before taking off.
She flies around the infected zone and spots at least three gooby bombs, and with that, has to make a choice either to call Holden to deactivate them or do it herself. After minutes of thinking, Bubbles decides to just suck it up and do the job by herself. While it took her some time to figure out the first one near one of the cooling towers, she still manages to disarm it. The second one is closer to Holden on top of the administration building, but it also turns out to be close to a fusion lair.
"Holden, can you please get to the top of the building that's beside you? There's a gooby bomb on the roof." She asks in a sweet innocent voice.
Holden tries not to laugh knowing that she really didn't need to use it on him. Never the less, Holden enters the building and tries to find the path of least resistance on his way to the roof to turn off the bomb. The building turns out to not have that much in the way of fusion monsters. He opens the door and finds the bomb close by.
As he turns it off, he takes out his com and comments, "Bubbles, that last one, have you found it?"
Bubbles floats above the other building near what looks to be a pipe that now serves as a slide.
"Yes, I found it. Give me a few moments. I'm rather new at this disarming thing."
A few moments later Holden hears a yip of joy from across the zone and then sees a tiny blue figure sliding down the pipe with a large grin stretched across her face. Holden laughs seeing Bubbles having fun. In fact, she was having so much fun with the slide pipe, that she took four more turns down it.
"Holden, come on you need to try this! It's so fun!" She giddily says laughing from the simple pleasure.
Holden laughs again at her whimsicalness but then replies, "Bubbles, we need to find what's causing those weird readings. It might be coming from one of the monster groups around here."
Bubbles sighs as she realizes her fun has come to an end. To her, Holden is being a stick in the mud because they are on an important mission. If they weren't, he probably would be right there having some fun. Bubbles figures that Blossom might be willing to join, providing that they finished the job first.
Holden then leaves the building and finds in a side alley a group of Gear Goons. They are strangely glowing and after defeating them, finds that the fusion matter is radioactive. As for Bubbles, she finds a group of Weird Welders in an open area and attacks with her sonic scream and her eye beams. They also drop the weird radioactive matter.
Bubbles, feeling nervous, and calls the Professor, "Professor, there is this weird fusion matter here. Is this the cause of your strange readings?"
"Yes Bubbles, I'm afraid it is. It seems my fusion is at work here. Please be careful, there's no telling what it will do to you and Holden. Good luck sweet heart." He hangs up.
Bubbles flies over to Holden and asks, "What fusion lair do you want to try first? There's this one here, a second on the cooling tower, and another one on the coolant facility building."
Holden thinks for a moment, taking out a taro and then responds, "Heads: this building, Tails: the cooling tower. Does that seem fair to you, Bubbles?"
Bubbles smiles and responds, "That's fair, but at least let me flip. The last time you did this, you fumbled the coin."
She sticks her tongue out at him in her usual playful way that was reserved for him and her sisters. She takes the taro and flips it. The coin goes up fifty feet and comes back down and landing in Bubbles' quick hand. It comes up tails. Bubbles grabs Holden's wrist as they fly up to the tower and enter the lair.
When they enter they hear strange snorts coming from someplace deep inside. Holden notices Bubbles starting to panic and starts to hyperventilate.
"Bubbles don't freak out. We'll be fine."
Bubbles takes a deep breath and responds, "I don't like damp yucky places. It's disgusting."
As they go deeper, the sounds get louder until they see a fusion with a set overalls and a fuzzy pompom antenna. Bubbles' mouth drops as she recognizes it as fusion of Fuzzy Lumpkins.
She then whispers, "It's just a Fuzzy fusion. What can be so tough about him?" She giggles, and unfortunately gives them away.
The fusion starts to open fire forcing both Holden and Bubbles to hide behind the outcropping.
"I'll deal with this Holden, you stay here."
Bubbles then breaks cover and attacks. The beam from the defensive fusion's weapon misses her body, but lightly skims her pigtail, turning it into a drumstick. Holden had remembered Blossom telling him of the time Fuzzy had made the meat gun which was their first battle with him and that Bubbles' hair was turned into meat.
Unexpected, a fire lights in Bubbles' eyes as soon as her hair is tampered with, "NO! YOU WON'T MESS WITH MY HAIR AGAIN!"
This automatically reminded Holden of the last time he had seen Bubbles in such a rage. It was when he was downtown with her and Blossom on a day off from school when a giant monster had attacked. It was only a month after Buttercup had disappeared when this happened. He was doing his home work, as well as part of Blossom's and Bubbles', since he was familiar with the way they responded to homework questions, as the girls attacked the monster. Mojo was an innocent bystander at the time when Bubbles heard him talking to Holden and also attacked him because of what happened to Buttercup…
Bubbles angrily smashes the Fusion Fuzzy into the wall and hurls a rock on him.
"Holden just finish this thing off so I can get my hair back to normal." Holden does as instructed and soon enough, a Fuzzy nano appears from the leftover meat gun which Bubbles destroys and returns her hair to normal.
She smiles and says with her usual happy attitude, "That's better. Now everything's as it should be, so let's deal with those other fusions." Bubbles giggles and they exit the lair.
Outside on the cooling tower, they are looking down onto the other fusion lairs. Outside of one of them, stands a red coated man with a square jaw.
"There's a Fusion of the Professor. What do we call it? Professor Fusion?" Bubbles says with quizzical enthusiasm.
Somehow the fusion hears Bubbles and shouts, "That's Professor Plutonium to you, Powerpuff reject!" It cackles and disappears.
Bubbles grabs Holden's collar and flies full force into the lair.
The lair looks like a high tech lab that beeps and hisses every few seconds. On the wall near them are long rows of vials of chemical, including Chemical X and other unknown ones. As they traverse deeper into the lab they hear not one, but two voices. Each turns out to be a Professor Plutonium, but one of them has a stripe on his red lab coat. They both turn around when they see Holden and Bubbles.
"I see this lame human's daughter is here. Shall we teach her some manners?"
The other one nods and then says, "I'll teach manners to the godson. You take the blue puffball."
The Professor with the stripe attacks Holden. He throws a few punches which Holden manages to dodge and then counters with a sword strike. Bubbles punches the other fusion a few times and then screams at it. Its form starts to liquefy but it still stands and opposes Bubbles and then counter attacks.
The counter slams Bubbles into the wall and singes her clothing. The fusion walks forward towards Bubbles. She screams in pain as Plutonium strikes her face. Her cheek starts to bleed while the assault continues. This is when Holden counter attacks the second Plutonium with his sword, chopping its arm off.
Bubbles quickly pulls herself out of the wall and uses her eye beams to finish it off. The other Professor then attacks Holden with a corruption attack. Holden barely puts up his Him nano and deflects the attack back. The Him nano floats over to Bubbles and starts to heal her. Holden in the meantime takes out his rifle, pulls the trigger once and turns the other Plutonium into a pool of matter. In the center, of the goo are the remains of a calculator that then produces a nano Professor.
"Father of the Nano-Puff Girls is here to help." Bubbles giggles at what is said then winces.
"Bubbles are you alright?"
Bubbles then says in response to Holden, "I will be, Holden. Thanks for saving me. "
Holden breathes easier as he says, "If anything happened to you, the Professor would kill me."
Bubbles stands up and then replies, "No he wouldn't, Holden, but Buttercup might though. Now let's go tell him what we found." They find the exit and notice they area on the other side of the infected zone.
They arrive at Genius Grove and find Blossom waiting for them with the Professor.
"Bubbles! What happened? Did everything go well at the power plant?" Asked the Professor.
Blossom checks Bubbles injuries and then says, "Why does your hair smell like fried chicken?"
Bubbles rolls her eyes and states, "We had a run in with the Meat gun. My hair was turned into a drum stick…AGAIN!"
She sits down on the steps to Dexter's house.
"Bubbles only got injured because we had to deal with two Professor Plutoniums. We each fought one, but I had to help her when she was in danger." Holden says warily.
Blossom smiles as she sits next to her sister, being glad that both of them are safe. She then grabs Holden's and Bubbles' arms and drag them into Dexter's house…