I don't own fusionfall. Part 3 of 4 of corrupted past arc

Chapter 42: Corrupted Past: Part 3: Holden

Ben and Nigel are hit by the electrical energy and fall to the ground unconscious. Blossom and Buttercup quickly turn around. The young female then steps out from the alley. She is the same age as Blossom and Buttercup. Her hair stops just below her shoulders and is cyan in color. Her eyes are a dark green, but they have pure hatred and malice in them.

She is about 5'7 tall which is the same height as Blossom. She is wearing a teal colored long sleeved shirt with a black stripe across it and she has on jeans shorts and sneakers along with knee high hosiery. Blossom did not like the feeling emanating from this girl. The young female opens her mouth and spits a huge ball of electrical energy at Buttercup and Blossom.

They both dodge and the girl finally speaks in a cold tone, "I always wanted to fight you losers. I should have just done away with my brother years ago and then gone for you." She laughs.

Buttercup has a sneer on her face and says, "Well, who are you moron. Introduction before a pounding is always nice."

The girl laughs again and then responds, "My name is Tessa Wren."

Blossom shoots a quick look at Buttercup, who has the same bewildered expression on her face.

Tessa laughs, smiles cruelly and says, "Wow, you both look so stupid with that expression on your face. Yeah, Holden is my brother, but I wasn't born like he was. I was created just like you were, except with rotten sugar, rotten spice and everything nasty, and a chemical known as Exvarn."

As Tessa says this, she closes her eyes and makes a gesture praising herself and then says, "I AM PERFECTION IN THE EYES OF OUR PARENTS!"

Buttercup scratches her head, looks over at Blossom and asks, "Blossom, do you any ideas what Exvarn is?"

Blossom shakes her head with her eyes closed and states, "I never heard of it before."

Tessa yawns as if she was bored and replies, "Well of course you morons would never have heard about it. There were only a few people in the world who know about Exvarn. My parents were the ones who created it. I was forced to kill them in September." She laughs, but then a sad look enters her eyes.

Buttercup clenches her fist and shouts, "YOU MURDERED YOUR PARENTS! YOU MONSTER!"

Buttercup charges at Tessa and punches. Tessa sidesteps, grabs Buttercup's arm and blasts her into the wall of a nearby building with a teal colored omega beam from her hand.

"BUTTERCUP!" Blossom shouts and she dashes over to her sister.

Buttercup shakes her head, stands up slowly and says, "Ow! That smarts. We need to use the Powerpuff mega blast or something. I just wish Bubbles was here with us, so we could do it."

Tessa smiles and says in an almost forgetful tone, "Oh! Before I forget. Don't expect to hear from Holden at all. I took care of him earlier in the week when I attacked his S.C.A.M.P.E.R."

Buttercup glowers at Tessa darkly.

Blossom is looking at the ground, but she is smiling and responds in a flat, shaky voice, "Holden isn't dead. I can't explain why I know this, but I think it's because he's been together with us for so long that we know if something is wrong with him. He can tell if something is wrong with us in an instant in the same way."

She then turns her face up to look at Tessa. She has tears in her eyes and her fist is shacking and shouts, "YOU HAD NO RIGHT TO ATTACK MY LOVED ONE!"

Tessa scowls and comments coldly, "Your loved ones and your friends are of little consequence to me. If you call yourselves Holden's family, you're pathetic. That stupid piece of trash doesn't deserve a family or love."

Buttercup grits her teeth and responds, "We're the only family he's ever really had or known. He's more of a brother to Bubbles and I than anything. We love him." With that, she blows a raspberry at Tessa.

Tessa's eyes narrow and she then says coolly, "There is also something else I'm going to tell you before I pound you both to dust. Holden was the first and only human trial for Exvarn. He was our parents' lab rat and was only born for the purpose of having Exvarn used on him when he was three years old to the day. Such a pity that the chemical had no effect when it was injected into him. It made him even more imperfect than he already was."

Tessa takes a breath and continues, "This imperfection is why my parents dumped him on your father. They could never love something so repugnant, vile, stupid, and imperfect like him. That is also why my parents wanted to die by my hand. It was so they could be rid of the imperfect taint they received from him. He was nothing more than a monster to them. That monster should have died the first time you rescued him. Him was supposed to kill him in front of you because my parents asked him too, but he deviated from the plan and was more interested in killing you two and your sister."

Blossom turns away from the sickening rant nearly throwing up. Holden is going to be hurt by this when he finds out. His parents had left him because of something that shouldn't have matter to anyone. Worse still, to have him killed for it. What kind of parents were they?

She looks back at Tessa with a few tears in her eyes and then responds, "You're just like your parents Tessa. They sound like they were cruel, abusive monsters, but you're worse."

Tessa scowls and then replies with venomous pleasure towards Blossom, "I'll enjoy putting you in your place Utonium. I've been waiting years for this. I'm going to relish every moment of your screaming until you beg me to stop."

Blossom takes a deep breath and looks over at Buttercup and replies, "I know we're both tired, but this can't be avoided. Buttercup, let's go!" Buttercup frowns and replies, "She's got crazy psychopathic and sadistic written all…" Tessa chose then to attack with a kick.

Buttercup ducks and somersault kicks Tessa up into the air. Blossom flies up and punches Tessa and then uses her Ice Breath to cool her off. Tessa breaks out of the ice almost instantly and spits her electrical energy attack at Blossom. Blossom dodges too late and is hit in the leg.

Blossom screams in pain and Tessa takes advantage of the situation and punches Blossom in the eye and in the stomach four times and then hammer throws her to the ground. Buttercup flies up behind Tessa and tries to kidney punch her. Tessa dodges and jabs at Buttercup's throat.

Buttercup dodges barely and kicks Tessa into a hardware store. A set of eye beams comes out of the smoke and hits Buttercup in the shoulder and she falls to the ground next to Blossom. Both girls stand up, bloodied and panting with beads of sweat running down their foreheads.

"Damn it! We need Bubbles. Any bright ideas Leader Girl?"

Blossom frowns, closes her eyes to think for a moment and then opens them again and replies, "I don't have any right now. I could try to make her chase me, while you hide someplace and surprise attack her after I pass by." Tessa steps out of the store and charges at them and Blossom zooms into the air and down the street, and then back close to the ground.

Tessa follows after her for a few blocks and then shouts venomously, "What makes you think you can survive an air chase against me, Blossom? Holden sure as hell didn't and he was flying something!"

Tessa spits more electrical energy. Blossom crashes through the wall of a gym to avoid the attack. She picks up a few of the weights and throws them back at Tessa to slower her down. Tessa melts them with her eye beams and continues unimpeded. Blossom leaves the gym and flies past a big finical building.

Blossom punches a support column as she passes. The front collapses on Tessa, but she uses her version of the girl's tornado and throws it towards Blossom. Blossom freezes it and the debris falls to the ground. Buttercup comes from above with both feet pointed at Tessa and kicks her deep into the building.

Buttercup lets out a breath, wipes some blood from her mouth and then replies, "If this keeps up, Bellwood is gonna be worse off than Townsville on a good day."

Tessa bursts out of the building and there is blood dripping from her forehead and scraps all over her arms.

Tessa sticks out her hand in challenge and replies excitedly, "Come on Bittercup! One on one right now or are you too chicken to even face me on your own?"

Tessa charges right at Buttercup, who then grabs her arm and throws her to Blossom. Blossom grabs Tessa's head with her lower legs and with all the force she can muster, flips in midair and throws Tessa to the ground. Tessa slams into the pavement. The girls land a few feet away looking exhausted.

"I'm running out of gas Red! If she's gets back up we don't stand a chance." Blossom right eye is swollen shut from the punch to the face.

Panting from exhaustion, Blossom replies, "Same Buttercup. This is worse then fighting the Rowdys that first time."

Tessa bursts through the concrete and lands on the opposite side of the hole.

She spits out some blood and replies, "Is that really all you two losers got? I got enough energy to go four more rounds. You barely got…"

Three low clicks are heard and Tessa eyes roll into the back of her head and she falls to the ground. She has three small needles sticking out of her back. Behind Tessa, is a woman in a white lab coat wearing a gray skirt and a mustard colored shirt.

The woman walks forward and replies "Are you girls alright?"

Blossom nods in thanks and replies, "Two of our friends are hurt back near the extraction zone. Who are you by the way?"

The woman smiles and says, "I'm Dr. Holiday and I'm the head scientist of Providence. We just got here a few minutes ago. Ben and Nigel are on one of the transports now being given medical attention. They informed Dexter about the attack already. He wants us to bring Tessa to a special facility, but right now we can't."

Buttercup frowns and replies in a harsh tone, "Why can't they just take her away now and what did you use on Tessa?"

Holiday smiles and replies, "I used something that your father developed incase you somehow lost control over your powers. It knocks you out for a few minutes and suppresses your powers for a few days. As to the reason why we can't transport her right now is, on the way here, one of our people noticed a downed S.C.A.M.P.E.R. in a canyon. Whoever was in it survived and left a trail. They have been on the move, headed in this direction for the past few days. That transport went off to find that person."

Buttercup heaves Tessa over her shoulder and replies, "Come on Red, let's go to the extraction area."

Holiday's ear piece buzzes and she replies in a low voice.

She looks over at the girls, smiles and then replies, "They found the person."

Blossom then says in an excited voice, "Is it…?" Holiday smiles at Blossom and interrupts, "Yes Blossom, it's your boyfriend. He's a bit beat up from the ordeal, but he's fine."

Blossom breaths a sigh of relief and says, "How long until they land back at the infected zone entrance?"

Holiday checks her watch, and responds, "In about ten minutes or so. We shouldn't keep them waiting for us. Once we leave, a S.C.A.M.P.E.R. will arrive for the three of you."

They walk back in silence.

Fifteen minutes later, the Providence ship arrives and Holden steps off of it. Tessa is fully awake now and she is standing at a distance, surrounded by Providence agents. A look of shock and anger spreads across her face at the sight of Holden. Blossom and Buttercup both float over to him and hug him tightly.

Blossom kisses him on the cheek then asks with concern in her voice, "Holden, how did you survive that crash?"

Holden looks at her with tired eyes and replies, "I was headed towards two boulders and I guess I managed to scrap the tops of them and that caused the S.C.A.M.P.E.R. to roll on its side and skid across the ground. Then, it hit the cliff wall and I got out of is before it exploded. What happened to you two?"

Buttercup frowns slightly and replies, "Your psycho sister Tessa tried to kill us and tried to kill you. Your parents made her in the same manner as the Professor did with us, expect with rotten stuff." Shock spreads across his face, "My sister? The only sisters I have are you, Bubbles and Blossom. Why would this person want to kill me?"

Blossom frowns and then replies after several moments in an uneven voice, "It's going to take sometime to explain."

When Blossom and Buttercup get to the part about Holden being injected with Exvarn and Tessa killing their parents and blaming Holden, he stops them and states, "I'm going to talk to her."

"Holden, wait! Let us finish."

Providence members are walking Tessa to the transport in handcuffs when Holden stops them.

Holden walks up to Tessa, but before he can speak, she spits in his face and shouts, "DIRTY, VILE, STUPID IMPERFECTION! OUR PARENTS NEVER WANTED SOMETHING LIKE YOU! THEY KEPT YOU AWAY AT ARMS LENGTH, ALWAYS COLD, HEARTLESS AND CRUEL BECAUSE SOMETHING LIKE YOU DOESN'T DESERVE A PERFECT FAMILY LIKE THE ONE THEY HAD! I WAS CREATED TO BE PERFECT AND REPLACE YOU! THEY DUMPED YOU ONTO THE ONE PERSON THAT COULDN'T SAY NO TO THEM, JUST TO GET RID OF YOU, FOREVER! HIM FAILED TO KILL YOU WHEN HE SHOULD HAVE THAT FIRST TIME HE TOOK YOU HOSTAGE! I HAD TO KILL OUR PARENTS AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT, BECAUSE OF YOUR STUPID IMPERFECT TAINT. YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE EVER BEEN BORN YOU STUPID MISTAKE!"

Holden has quick flashes of before he moved in with the Utoniums. Painful repressed memories resurface that Holden thought he had buried of his parents. Ones of them ignoring him, not giving him affection of any kind, and ones of them giving him looks of pure cold disdain, while calling him a mistake and imperfection, all the while spanking him for no reason and psychologically torturing him.

Then, the cruel painful experiment with the injection of the Exvarn flashes through his mind. The pain of it comes back to him as he sees his parents cruelly watching with hungry eyes as the needles inject the liquid into him. His unbearable haunting screams echo through his mind.

Holden stares down at the ground, his body shaking, while Tessa continues her tirade; taking the abusive words from her while the words imperfection and mistake rings in his ears.

Why? Why did they do it to me? Is that the only reason I'm alive? To be a human genuine pig? Did they not once love me? Is this the reason I was sent to live with the Utoniums? To…to…to DIE?, thinks Holden, as he watches Tessa being loaded onto one of the Providence transports.

It takes off and is flown away to a special Dexlabs facility. Then a S.C.A.M.P.E.R. lands where the Providence transport had been. Holden slowly gets onto the S.C.A.M.P.E.R. and sits down looking out a window, trying to fight his emotions.

Blossom and Buttercup follow after Holden and sit near him. Both of them have tears in their eyes from listening to Tessa's rant. Nothing is said the entire ride home. When they arrive in Sector V, two hours later, Blossom watches with a worried expression on her face as Holden gets off the S.C.A.M.P.E.R. slowly and heads towards home in Pokey Oaks South.

As Holden walks away, more memories resurface of the abuse he had suffer at his parent's hands. This causes his emotions to finally break and tears of anguish, sorrow and pain trickle down his face from his blue eyes and fall to the ground, as he questions everything he knows.

A/N: So everything about Holden's past is out. It was rather hard to write but sometimes you just have to go with it. The type abuse i used in this chapter is emotional abuse and the sub section that Holden suffered from is called Rejection and is considered very insidious. Tessa in some ways is the physical embodiment of what Holden's parents did to him. Holden being sent to live with the Professor to die can be seen as an emotional abuse too because his parents expelled him from their family. A lot of psychology in this chapter. (I researched it the subject). Please comment on what you think of this chapter or at least PM me.