A/N: Hey guys! Here's the double update I promised. It's kind of short and I'm sorry, but I wasn't sure how to write this particular chapter out, so I wasn't really able to write too much without it sounding too weird and incoherent. By the way, it's April 30th, so Happy 10 Year Anniversary to one of my favorite movies, Mean Girls! Anyways, enjoy!
Hours seemed to pass as my brothers and I processed this. It made sense.
She fought him better than any of us. She lasted longer. She was acting weird… her shaking, her eyes, how she was able to convince Brick and Boomer to calm down and shut up without batting an eye or raising her voice.
"What?" Brick managed to asked, his eyes wide and intrigued. "You're the source? How?"
Bubbles licked her lips. "Well I'm not the exact source but somehow my DNA and chemical composition reacts well with certain drug and enhancers. The enhancers usually don't effect Chemical X, but it did with my DNA."
"So you're telling me by getting high you managed to create a new chemical?" Brick furrowed his brows.
"No you idiot!" Buttercup snapped. "The Professor was testing out how drugs would effect us like steroids or pot and he tested it on Blossom's DNA sample. There was nothing. He tried my sample, there was nothing. But on Bubbles' sample, there was some crazy shit going on and he tested different things out and he managed to create the ECX."
I looked at Bubbles, my suspicions finally confirmed. But more questions seemed to form as I tried to figure her out. I read people like books, but she wasn't too easy to read. She was more than the little blonde girl who enjoyed skipping around and tended to giggle and smile all the time. She wasn't the innocent girl clouded by naivety.
Bubbles had hardened and grown, her blue eyes darker and her body movements tenser and hesitant. Her voice still sounded silky but with a certain edge and command that showed she wasn't shitting around.
Blossom looked at Bubbles, a wide eyed look still on her face as her two sisters revealed everything.
Bubbles caught her stare and glared. "They're right. How are we supposed to work together if they don't even know all of what they're getting into? No matter how much we don't want to, we have to trust them. You know it."
Blossom sighed, defeated and she nodded.
"Wait," I found myself saying. "If you're the source but you haven't tried any of those drugs, then why do you seem like you have some kind of ECX?"
Bubbles stiffened and looked away, a bitter look in her eyes.
"I do have ECX in me." Her voice was quiet but just as intense as the look in her eyes.
That was all she said, and I knew that was her way of shutting the subject down. Blossom cleared her throat and all attention was on the pink eyed girl.
I watched Bubbles from the corner of my eye, noticing her stealing glances my way, an unreadable expression on her face.
"Now that we've established that Bubbles is the main source of the Enhanced Chemical X and that she indeed has been infused with it, we can move forward. I guess now…" She sighed. "We have to be able to trust each other. We have to make sure everyone is on the same page."
"Let's make this clear." Buttercup started, leaning back into the chair. "We're not friends. Just because we're working together doesn't mean we won't kick your asses if there's any funny business. One false move and you'll all be wishing Mojo didn't create you."
"In other words, we're working together but if you make one move to destroy us or create mayhem, the deal is off and we personally escort you to your life sentence in prison." Blossom said with a small devilish smile. "So we do what we have to do and as soon as the deal is off, everything goes back in place."
"Good." Brick said. "The last thing I want is to become permanent associates with you, Pinky."
Blossom nodded. "The Professor and I have been conducting experiments that we haven't been able to try that'll help Bubbles control the ECX and that'll help us defend ourselves against it. However, we need more research in terms of some more trials. That's where you come in. You will help train with her and perform the trials, as well as help us take him down by any means necessary."
"So… fighting?" Boomer asked.
"Honestly, we won't really need you at that point, but if it'll help your egos, by all means."
I smirked at this. "Now that's what I'm talking about."
"That kind of reviews what we have to do, but there are other factors to this deal. We promise to provide you with shelter, food, and all of those things for as long as the deal stands. Of course, we can't have you live here. You will be expected to meet here for certain things, but for the most part you'll need to stay somewhere else. Somewhere safe."
"Safe?" I scoffed. "We can handle ourselves."
"Not against him." Bubbles shook her head. "He's too strong and you barely know what he's capable of. Plus, we can't risk you three being captured or killed or anything."
"Then where else is safer than here?" Boomer asked.
Bubbles bit her lip and for the first time today, she giggled.
"With me, of course."
A/N: There it is! So the story is progressing and hopefully we'll get to more fluff soon agh! Don't forget to leave a review because I live and breathe for feedback. Follow to know when I update and/or favorite to keep it bookmarked. Thanks for reading and I hope you thought this chapter was fetch!
Blossom: Oh my God Erica, stop trying to make fetch happen, it's never going to happen!
Ok I'm so sorry if that was really cheesy and really bad I just had to put that in there I couldn't resist!
Anyways catch you later!