Chapter Six: Not much like old times
As Bubbles and Him slept together, Blossom was flying home. She had had enough of her 2 sisters bickering and went to a coffee shop/book store to relax. She had picked up some psychology books and other favorites from her teenhood that she enjoyed. She really didn't agree wtih Bubbles' and Him's relationship, not in the juvenile/ignorant sense that she thought it was "gross" like Buttercup did, she could care less who her sister was sexually attracted to, but in the sense that she didn't want Townsville or Bubbles to be in danger, and she didn't want her and her sisters to lose their duties as superheroes. It was what they were born to do. True, they all had their own hobbies, interests, and talents that could get them far in other areas of life, but Blossom didn't want to live a "normal" life. She wanted crime fighting to define her, and for her scientific abilities to assist her in her career as one of Townsville's heroes. She wanted to protect the Townspeople and dedicate her life to helping others. She almost felt hurt because in her mind, it seemed Bubbles didn't want to do the same anymore.
As Blossom flew through the hole that hadn't yet been patched up (she would surely do it before the Professor woke up, with or without Buttercup's help), she saw a sight that sent shock waves through her entire body...HIM was lying in their bed, snuggling with their sister. Their bodies were intertwined, their arms and legs wrapped around each other, Bubbles laying her head on Him's chest and Him resting his head on Bubbles's shoulder. The blankets were wrapped tightly around them both, and it would have been romantic and sweet if it wasn't who it was in Bubbles's arms. She smiled, and caught herself. "Cute as this may be," she thought to herself, "Him is capable of terrible, deadly things. He could kill Bubbles, and any of us in an instant." She was sure that he still had plans to destroy Townsville, despite his new...infatuation with her sister. She dare not think love, she didn't think Him was capable of that. After all his acts over the years, forgiveness was not in the cards. Regardless, Blossom watched closely as Bubbles slept in the arms of the villian, looking ignorantly peaceful, she definitely looked in love, and Blossom couldn't help but pity her. She quietly flew downstairs to get the supplies to patch up the hole in the wall, and did so in lightning speed. If the girls didn't have superpowers, there would be so many accidents and disasters that the Professor would have caught them in over the years that Blossom didn't even want to think about it.
It was inevitable that Blossom would not be sleeping in her bed tonight...she wouldn't even do so if Bubbles just had a normal boyfriend or girlfriend stay the night. And anyway, the Professor didn't want boyfriends staying the night at all. (Whenever Bubbles would have a girlfriend in the past, she would just fake in front of the Professor that they were only friends even though he had no problem with her dating the same sex. He just didn't want anyone she was sexually involved with staying the night, especially when she had been a minor.) Blossom sighed and grabbed a spare pillow and comforter and made her way to the couch, wondering when Buttercup would be home.
Meanwhile, Buttercup was hanging with the Gangreen Gang, as she usually was when she had downtime. Blossom thought it was ridiculous, but the boys were (usually) harmless nowadays and their crimes were very petty. The worst thing they had done recently was try to hotwire a car, and Big Billy fucked that up by accidentally sitting on the horn. Idiots. The gang were sitting around playing video games as they smoked weed and drank. Buttercup was sitting on Ace's lap as he was getting blue balls while they played an arcade style game. Buttercup kept trying to jump onto a barrel that was in a river and avoid the alligators, but Ace was making that really difficult. He kept running his hand up her leg and kissing her neck. "heh stop it." Buttercup said as she failed to jump onto the barrel and get eaten by the alligators for a 7th or 8th time. "You're just so sexy I can't keep my hands off you." Ace whispered into her ear as he started sucking on her neck. Buttercup began to moan as he reached up her shirt and began to rub her breasts. "Hey guys," Snake said, "Can you's go fuck somewhere else? Me and the rest of the guys are gonna go rob the Mayor while he's not looking...he's got a big shipment of pies and he's training for a pie eating contest, so he won't see a thing!" "Sweet." Ace said, taking his hands off Buttercup for a moment, "Wanna come, Buttercup?" "umm..." Buttercup hesitated. She may have enjoyed hanging out with Ace and the gang, but she really didn't want to help them with their crimes. However, she was in the mood for pie, so she complied. "Sure." she said as she followed the delinquents out the door. When they reached the Mayor's house, Ace said, "Lil Arturo, try to jimmy the lock open in the back door." "Sure thing," Arturo said, getting a twisted paperclip out of his pocket, sure enough getting the lock open in a few seconds. The rest of the gang followed suit, and Ace went to go check out the Mayor's golf clubs that were of extreme value, bringing Buttercup with him. "Babe look," he said, pointing at the clubs, "These could easily go for about $1300." "Don't call me that," Buttercup said, looking away, "We're not even together." "Sweetheart," Ace said, moving in closer to her, sensually running his hand up her arm to her shoulder, and began stroking her neck with his fingertips, "I told you, I gotta maintain that single status." His breath reeked of alcohol and she pushed him off. "If you need to maintain that 'single status', why is it always me that you call when you need some pussy? Last I heard, there weren't any other girls on the perimiter." "Not that you know of." Ace said, and began laughing to himself. "You disgust me." Buttercup said, flying out of the room, "I'm going to see if Big Billy found any extra pie anywhere."
Sure enough, Big Billy was in the kitchen, and there was a whole shipment of extra pie right at the counter, and he was chowing down on 5. "Mind if I join?" Buttercup said, and grabbed a pie for herself. She majorly had the munchies. She grabbed herself a chocolate peanut butter pie and dug in. It was delicious. Meanwhile, the Mayor was in his office, chowing down. He had an apple pie, a cherry pie, a blueberry pie, a strawberry rhubarb pie, and a lemon meringue pie all to himself. He was currently chowing down on the cherry one, his face buried in it. "Oh boy," he said with a mouthful of fruit and crust, "You know what would go great with this? A pickle!" The tiny, spastic old man went under his desk to retrieve his trusty jar. "Oh, salty, vinegary crunchies, how I love you." He said, happily hugging his jar as he tried to get it open, failing as always. "MS. BELLUM!" he shouted frantically, "I NEED HELP WITH THE PICKLE JAR!" Ms. Bellum was giving herself a facial in the bathroom, as she was beginning to get fine lines. The Mayor looked at the ground, discouraged, and said "I guess this is a job for the Powerpuff girls..but it's so late. Oh well, any time is pickle time, as I always say." He reached for his telephone and dialed the Powerpuff girls straight away.
As Bubbles was peacefully asleep, hugging Him as tight as she normally hugged Octie, unknowingly drooling onto his chest, she was suddenly awoken by the sound of the phone. She groaned, her eyes squinted, not wanting to roll out of bed. Him awoke as well, his heart pounding rapidly. "It must be the Mayor." He growled angrily, "Old fucker's always out to get me...fucking idiot." Bubbles didn't like at all that Him was insulting the Mayor. He was a happy, sweet old man, like a grandfather to her. "Stop honey," she said, "Just stay silent. I'll handle this, it's probably nothing." She watched as her disgruntled lover got back under the covers. "Hello?" she answered the phone, sounding alert though she was exhausted, "Bubbles!" the Mayor shouted, "Get here quick! I can't open my pickle jar! Also I don't feel so good and I'm being robbed and the thieves are in my bathroom!" "Robbed? Oh my!" She shouted, "I'll be there straight away!" It was both hilarious and really frightening how the Mayor was always panicking over the opposite things he should be panicking over. She looked at Him, who was under the blankets, tossing and turning as he tried to fall back and sleep. "Sweetheart..." she began nervously, "I have to go help the Mayor fight off some robbers and...help him open his pickle jar...and find a bathroom..." "Just go!" Him shouted angrily, and Bubbles was shocked. She wanted to cry, but there was no time. She had to go alert Blossom that she had to get over to the Mayor straight away.
"Blossom!" Bubbles shouted, shaking her sister as she slept on the couch, "The Mayor's being robbed! Hurry!" Blossom woke up at once, ready for action. "It's probably just the Gang Green Gang." She said, annoyed, but followed Bubbles out the window regardless. "Where's Buttercup?" Bubbles said as they flew towards the Mayor's house. Blossom had a sickening thought. "Probably...with the Gang Green Gang, Bubbles." "God, why does she always do this?" Bubbles shouted, "She's going to get us all in trouble one day!" "Well I could say the same for you!" Blossom shouted, no longer holding back her anger about her sister dating the town's most hated and feared villain, "Him could very well kill us all, and you don't even care because you're blindly and hopelessly in love!" Blossom said, "But..." "Let's just go, Bubbles." Blossom said as she made a nosedive for the Mayor's house, "Since Buttercup isn't here, we're going to have to work extra hard to stop whatever's happening in there, so I don't want to argue about this with you." Bubbles, feeling hurt once again, followed her sister into the Mayor's house. They went straight for the office, and sure enough, the Mayor was cowering under his desk as he always did." "Blossom! Bubbles!" The Mayor shouted, "Help me! I can't open my pickle jar, and I REALLY have to go number 2, and the bathroom is shut because the robbers are using it!" "Okay first of all," Blossom grabbed the pickle jar and open it, "Here's your pickle jar. And second," she said, noticing all the pies around the office, "I don't even want to know why you're eating all these pies, but I don't think it's a good idea that you're eating them plus the pickles if you have to go to the bathroom that much. Third, robbers are a much worse problem than your bathroom being used. Bubbles, help the Mayor to the bathroom while I go stop the "crime" downstairs, even though it's probably just those green imbeciles again." "Come on Mayor," Bubbles said, taking the old man's hand, snickering a bit at his predicament, "Let's go get you to a toilet." The Mayor held on tight to Bubbles's hand as she flew as fast as she could around the house to try to find a working bathroom, but alas they were both taken, as Ms. Bellum was still doing her beauty treatments and when she reached the Mayor's private bathroom, she knocked on it and said "GET OUT OF THERE! THE MAYOR HAS TO SHIT AND HE WON'T STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT IT SO MOVE YOUR ASS!" "I don't feel so good." The Mayor said, clutching his abdomen as his eyes scrunched in pain. "Well if you didn't eat all those damn pies, that wouldn't be happening right now, would it?" She snapped at the Mayor. "Sorry Bubbles..." he said sadly as he curled up into a ball. "Billy in here." Big Billy said from the other side of the door. "GET OUT OF THERE NOW BILLY!" Bubbles said, knocking down the door. It stank to high heaven. Sure enough, the fat tub of lard had gotten into the Mayor's pie stash. "Pull up your pants, flush the toilet, spray some air freshener in here, and move move move!" Big Billy pulled his pants halfway up, didn't bother to flush, and ran out of the bathroom crying. Bubbles rushed over to the toilet and flushed it, spraying the vanilla air freshener all over. "P.U.!" she shouted. "All yours, Mayor." she said as she left the bathroom, leaving him to do his business and to go help her sister shoo the rest of the gang out of the house.
When Blossom and Bubbles got downstairs, they found Ace saying "Let's go guys, it's a bust." And the discouraged gang began to walk out the back door with none other than Buttercup trailing behind them. "Really?" Blossom said to her dark haired sister who reeked of cannabis and booze, "Are you ever going to realize that these losers are a waste of your time?" Buttercup just rolled her eyes and said, "Guess that's my cue to come home, huh?" Blossom and Bubbles just went the direction of their house without saying a word, and Buttercup followed suit. Not much was said on the way home.