Dexter sat on the picnic bench that came with the house with his head resting in one hand propped up on the table and drummed his fingers of the other on the table. The barbeque was a big success in his parents eyes, it seemed that word had traveled fast in this neighborhood and everyone within a three house radius had come to the event. Dexter and his family had spent the better part of an hour meeting them and to Dexter they were all like his parents, boring. The few of them that had children all had children that were seven or more years younger than Dexter himself so he didn't see any reason to even try and talk to them.
He wished that his parents hadn't insisted in him being outside for the event, he really wanted to finish his work on reprograming his phone.
"Oh there you are Dexter, I have some more of our new neighbors for you to meet." His mother says pulling him out of his day dream.
Dexter expected another middle aged man who would ask him if was going to try out for this sport or that sport at school, but who stood in front of him were the three girls he had seen the other night outside their window.
"Hi I'm Bubbles." The blond one says in a light blue t-shirt and jean shorts with a big happy smile on her face.
"Yo, I'm Buttercup." The black haired one in a long sleeved green shirt with black sleeves and baggy black pants says as she crosses her arms looking a little intimidating.
"Pleased to meet you, I'm Blossom." The redhead sister says dressed in a white collared t-shirt with a pink sweater vest, pink skirt and white stockings on.
The only thing Dexter could see that was any indication that the three girls in front of him were sister, apart from the obvious facial features and them being the exact same height (about two inches shorter then him) was the strong sense of authority he felt off them. They each had different colored eyes as well. Buttercup had strong green eyes, Bubbles were a soft blue and Blossom has pink eyes that Dexter wondered about but brushed off thinking they were just colored contacts.
"Dexter, boy genius." He says standing up as his mother walked away. He was unsure why he boosted like that to them.
"That's a bold statement." Buttercup says raising an eyebrow at him while Bubbles laughs.
"Boy genius huh?" Blossom says raising her eyebrow.
"Yeah." He says his face turning a light shade of red from embarrassment. Dexter is not use to talking to girls his own age and it showed.
"What like some kind of video game expert genius?" Buttercup asks.
"No videogames never interested me, I'm more of a man of science." He says trying to sound less like an idiot then he felt.
"Oh, like our dad." Bubbles says her smile never leaving her face.
"Your father works in the scientific fields?" He asks excited that there is a scientist in the neighborhood.
"Yeah The Professor works in chemical research." Blossom says sounding like it wasn't a big deal that she has a scientist for a father.
"You might have heard of him, Professor Utonium." Buttercup says uncrossing her arms.
His eyes go wide. "Your father is The Professor Utonium?" He asks amazed that he lives next to him.
Laughing again Bubbles says. "Yep, that's our dad."
"I would very much like to meet him some day." He says already thinking up questions to ask their father.
"You know he is here at YOUR family barbeque." Blossom says reminding him that his family invited them.
"Oh yeah, I forgot that this was going on." He says looking around at all the people in the back yard.
"You don't talk to people much, do you?" Buttercup asks as Bubbles starts laughing.
"No, not really." Says being honest with them and causing the other two sisters to start laughing.
Just as the girls finished laughing Dexter's father walks over to them with a man dressed a lot like Dexter dose. Dexter would have sworn that this was him from the future, if not for the fact that he had blue eyes black hair and that Dexter had once met his future self. Or at least one version of himself, time travel can be a real complex thing.
"Hey son I see you have met Mr. Utoniom's girls. I was just talking to him about your new schools football team, you know it's not too late to try out." His father says gesturing to The Professor.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Professor Utonium, I'm Dexter." Dexter says holding out his hand to The Professor.
"Pleasure to meet you Dexter, I was just telling your father that I unfortunately know very little of my girls schools football team." The Professor says shaking Dexter's hand.
"That's ok Professor, Dexter claims to be a man of science anyways." Buttercup says grinning at her own joke at Dexter.
"Buttercup." Blossom says giving her sister a scolding look.
"Are you now? Well what fields are you interested in young man?" The Professor asks curious about Dexter's interests.
"I like to dabble in them all, but engineering and computer programing are my preferred fields." Dexter says answering his question.
"Hey Dexter what cha doing?" Dee Dee asks walking over to the group.
"Talking with our new neighbors. Dee Dee this Blossom, Bubbles, Buttercup and their father Professor Utonium." Dexter says introducing his sister to the Utonium's.
"Hi, so what is there to do around here?" Dee Dee asks leaning on Dexter's head with her arms.
"Oh girls, why don't you show Dexter and his sister around our neighborhood? But stay grounded and no showing off, that goes double for you Buttercup." The Professor says pointing at Buttercup.
"Ok Professor." The girls say in sync.
Dexter was unsure of what The Professor meant but followed the girls out of the back yard with his sister in tow happy to be leaving his parents social gathering.
The girls showed Dexter and Dee Dee that at one end of the neighborhood is a decent sized park with a duck pond in it and past that there is a small group of shops.
"You can see we have a nice little setup here." Blossom says as the group walked along the sidewalk.
"We have a Starbucks that was just built." Bubbles says pointing across the road at the coffee shop.
"This Pizzeria has the best pizza in town." Buttercup says as they walked past the pizza restaurant.
"We also have a convenes store gas station and a little ma and pa grocery store around the corner." Blossom says as they reach the corner of the street.
"There really isn't much to do around here is there?" Dee Dee asks sounding board.
"Outside of going into the city? No there isn't. But it's nice having a quiet neighborhood compared to the rest of Townsville." Blossom says looking around smiling enjoying the quietness of where they live.
As she looked around she spotted someone she didn't want to see. "Uh oh, girls we might have trouble." She says looking in the direction of the grocery store.
"What's up Blossom?" Buttercup asks following her sisters gaze.
"I think I saw Fuzzy Lumpkins head into the grocery store." Blossom says narrowing her eyes and clenching her fists.
"Who is Fuzzy Lumpkins?" Dee Dee asks looking from Blossom to Buttercup confused as to what is going on.
"He's a really bad guy, but he's really not that big of a problem." Bubbles says reassuring Dee Dee.
Just then the sound of a shotgun goes off then glass breaking and someone yelling: "What do you mean you don't have any meat!"
"That is unless he's on a rampage." Buttercup says as a large, husky, furry, pink, bear-like creature jumps out onto the street.
"What is that?!" Dee Dee asks jumping behind Dexter.
"That's Fuzzy Lumpkins, let's go girls." Blossom says before her and her sister's jump into the air and flew at Fuzzy Lumpkins with streaks of light that matched their eye colors followed them as they flew.
Dexter was shocked by the seen in front of him, it wasn't the first time he seen someone fly, but the girls didn't look anything like the people he's met that could fly.
When the girls had taken off Dee Dee had run away screaming, but Dexter stood there watching the girls flying and punching Fuzzy Lumpkins with more force than they looked like they had.
By the time the police had arrived the girls had already beaten Fuzzy Lumpkins into submission.
"That was great timing girls." One of the police officers says as they cuffed Fuzzy Lumpkins.
"We just happened to be in the area, you guys got it from here?" Blossom asks as she and her sister land on the ground.
"Yeah we got him, thank you Powerpuff Girls." A different police officer says as him and the other put Fuzzy Lumpkins into the back of a squad car.
When the squad car took off Blossom saw that Dexter was still standing where they left him.
"Sorry about that Dexter, duty calls at all times." She says running back over to him.
"That was amazing." Is all Dexter could say as his brain still worked to process everything he had seen.
"That was nothing, Fuzzy Lumpkins is a level two baddy, three if he's REALLY in a bad mood." Buttercup says dusting off her shirt.
"You make it sound like you do this all the time." He says looking from one girl to the other.
"Since we were little." Bubbles says adjusting the ties in her hair.
"Are you from a different planet?" He asks wondering how the girls got their powers.
"No, we're human." Buttercup says.
"Then how did you get your powers?" He asks forgetting his manners.
"We were born with them." Bubbles says patting her hair checking to see if it's all in place.
"You're not with the Justice Friends are you? Because I'm not on the best of terms with them at the moment." He asks think that the last thing he needs is to have members of the Justice Friends living next door to him.
"No, The Professor doesn't want us to get involved with full time superheroes." Blossom says as they start walking back to their houses.
"So what did you do to get on the Justice Friends bad list?" Buttercup asks turning the questioning onto him.
"It's kind of a long story." Dexter says not wanting to talk about what he did.
"It's a long walk back and your sister already bailed on you." Buttercup says pushing the topic.
Thinking it wasn't a good idea to argue with Buttercup he tells them a short version of the story of Mandark, the monster and of Major Glory falling into his lab leaving out COMPUTER and the fact he still has her.
They reached their homes just as Dexter finished telling them about Global Security taking all of his stuff.
"That sucks, sorry you got shafted by the G-man." Buttercup says kicking a pine cone that was on the ground.
"Yeah The Professor has to deal with them all the time." Bubbles says patting him on the back.
It felt good talking to the girls about what had happened to him. 'Maybe I shouldn't have been so reclusive around the other kids.' He thinks as he spots the girl's father running up to them.
"Girls what happened? I got a call from The Mayor that you were needed but I didn't know where you were. Them he called again saying everything was fine, we need to find a way to keep you from breaking your cell phones." The Professor says pulling the girls into a hug.
"It was just Fuzzy Lumpkins throwing a fit at the grocery store down the street." Blossom says as The Professor lets go of the girls.
"Yeah we kicked his butt no problem." Buttercup says smirking.
"Um, did my sister happen to come back?" Dexter asks looking around for Dee Dee.
"She ran into your house screaming, your mother went in after her." The Professor says looking over at him.
"Thank you, it was nice meeting you but I think I need to help go calm Dee Dee down." Dexter says nodding at the family before turning to walk into his house.
When Dexter enters his house he yells for his sister. "Dee Dee, where are you?"
"She's up in her room and won't come out." Mom says coming out of the kitchen.
"Did she say what happened?" He asks looking up the stairs.
"No she just ran up there and locked her door."
"Let me see if I can get through to her." He says climbing the stairs.
*Knock knock* "Dee Dee, are you there?" He asks knocking on her door.
But she didn't answer. "Dee Dee, I know you are in there. I just want to make sure you're ok."
"Did you see that thing?" He hears her say through the door.
"Yeah, that Lumpkins guy was scary looking." He says happy that she's talking to him.
"And the neighbors can fly." She says.
"Yeah I guess they are super heroes, they call themselves The Powerpuff Girls." He says leaning against her door.
"I was really scared Dexter."
"You have nothing to worry about Dee Dee. I'm sure that they keep this town safe, and you have me to keep you safe." He says hearing her unlock her door.
"You mean it?" She asks opening the door.
"I'll always have your back." He says turning to face her.
"The neighbors seem nice though." She says leaning against her door frame still a little shaken up. Dee Dee has never been a fan of monsters of any kind and she had hoped that them moving had meant the end of the strangeness of her life.
"They do, I think this is going to be a good place to live." Dexter says reassuring his sister.
Along with everything they owned the moves had also brought Dad's car, so after he left to start his new job Dexter and Mom left in the green station wagon to his new school. His parents hadn't asked what happened that made Dee Dee run home the day before which Dexter took as a win thinking his parents would over react to the idea of living next to super powered teens.
It was only about a half hour drive in the mid-September morning to the school. It was getting cold, but it was still too warm to wear a jacket or a sweater which Dexter and his mother were both glad about as the walk up the front steps of the two story brick building because they had yet to unpack any. Dexter was not looking forward to the potential hate he will get for blowing the curve for the kids in his classes as they walked down the empty hallway.
After the paperwork to enroll into the school as a Junior Dexter was given a list of the classes he could take and just as he had thought, it was mostly basic classes except for an advanced placement science and a PC maintenance class.
He made his selections and handed the list over to the school office worker to input it into the school computer system.
"Here's your class schedule." The office worker says a minute later handing him his list of classes. "And give this to your first period teacher." The worker says handing him another piece of paper.
"Thank you." He says taking the list from her and looking it over.
His class schedule was simple, he has Math, English and then American Government before lunch. After lunch was AP Science, the PC Maintenance class, Study Hall and them Gym.
"Here's a map of the school to help you find your classes, and welcome to Townsville High." The office worker says handing him a map of the school.
"Thank you." He says taking the map of the school.
"Ok Dexter dear here's your lunch." Mom says handing him a brown paper bag. "You call me if you need anything and I will see you this afternoon." She says pulling him into a hug.
"Thank you Mother, but I'm sure I will be fine." He says as she lets go of him.
"Have a good first day." She says kissing him on the cheek before she left the office.
"Bye Mother." He says rubbing her lipstick off his face.
With the help of the map he was able to find his first class with ease.
"Hello. I'm Dexter McPherson, I'm a new student." He says walking into the classroom and handing the slip of paper the office worker had given him to the teacher.
The teacher, and older looking man turns to Dexter. "Hello Dexter, Welcome to Townsville High. Feel free to sit where ever you like." He says talking the paper and looking it over.
"Thank you." Dexter says as he looked around the classroom. There were only a few open seats in the class but his eyes are drawn right to a failure face waving at him.
"Dexter, come sit with us." Bubbles says pointed at an empty desk.
"Good morning ladies." He says taking the empty desk in front of Bubbles and next to Blossom.
"Small world isn't it." Buttercup says from her seat behind Blossom.
"Good to see you again Dexter." Blossom says smiling at him.
For the rest of the class Dexter lessened to the teacher talk about mathematical equations already knowing everything he was saying.
English and American Government was uneventful and soon he was following a large group of kids to the lunch room.
In the lunch room he looks around for a place to sit. Most of the tables were already full of kids sitting and eating or talking to each other.
"Hey Dexter, care to sit with us?" Blossom asks walking up to him with a lunch tray of food.
"Yes thank you." He says following her over to a table in the corner occupied only by Bubbles and Buttercup.
"Hi Dexter." Bubbles says smiling as him and Blossom sit down at the table.
"Hello again." He says opening his lunch bag.
"How's your first day going?" Blossom asks as she starts eating her lunch.
"It's been as I had expected it to be." He says unwarping his sandwich.
"Made any friends?" Bubbles asks.
"Apart from the three of you, the only people that have talked to me have been teachers. So no friends." He says taking a bite from the sandwich.
"Were your friends Dexter." Blossom says.
"Thanks." He says as a smile crosses his face happy that they think of themselves as his friends. "So do you always sit alone at lunch?" He asks noticing that the other kids were actively avoiding the table the four of them are sitting at.
"The other kids are a little afraid of us, partly my fault, and Morbucks attempts at ruining our reputation." Buttercups says taking a drink from her can of soda.
"Who is that?" Dexter asks curious.
"Just some snobby rich girl that's hated us since we were in elementary school." Buttercup says crushing her can in her hand.
"She was jealous that we have powers and even tried buying a power suite to try and be one of us." Blossom say explaining more.
"Who does she think she is? Batman?" He asks forgetting that he had once tried to build his own power suite.
"But after she trashed our elementary school she switched from trying to have powers to buying off kids to like her over us." Bubbles says finishing explaining who Morbucks is.
"Speaking of the devil, there she is." Buttercup says pointing at a girl walking towards them.
Dexter looks at the girl Buttercup was pointing at, she was shorter then him by almost a foot and has ginger red curly hair. She was dressed in a purple mini skirt and a purple t-shirt that looked like it was a size too small with a V cut into the collar.
"Hello girls." She says in the snobbiest voice Dexter has ever heard when she reached the table.
"What do you want?" Buttercup asks glaring at her and crossing her arms.
"I had heard there was a new boy at school, but no one said he was cute." Morbucks says putting one hand on the table leaning forward and tickling Dexter's chin.
Dexter grabs her finger with his index finger and thumb. "Please don't touch me." He says as he moves her hand away from his face.
She puts the hand next to the other one and leans forward pushing out her chest at him. "Aww what's the matter cutie, don't cha like me?" She says trying to sound seductive.
"I am not a fan of girls who do not have a proper grasp on the English language and smell as if they had taken a bath in Geranyl acetate compounds." (Chemical name for rose sent) He says leaning and looking away from her obvious attempt to get him to look at her chest.
"What the hell is that?" She asks standing back up and putting her hands on her hips with a puzzled look on her face.
"He's talking about your perfume." Blossom says understanding what Dexter had said.
"Yeah, you reek of it." Buttercup says waving her hand in front of her face to fan away the smell of the perfume.
"What the hell do you know anyways?" Morbucks says getting mad that her attempt at wooing Dexter isn't working.
"That you are a rude, annoying and selfish child who thinks only of herself. And probability wishes she could be half the person that any of these three girls are, who I was enjoying my lunch with until you arrived." Dexter says keeping a cool calm straight face.
"Well fuck you too, you... you four eyed freak! Have fun with your new boyfriend Blowsom." She says as she stormed away.
Buttercup starts laughing "Bye Bye Morbucks, it was fun talking to you too." She says waving.
"Think I made her mad?" Dexter asks watching her walk away.
"She's not just mad at you, she full blown pissed." Buttercup says still laughing.
"I think you're the first guy in the school that didn't fall for her tricks." Bubbles says snickering.
"And the first person, other Buttercup, to say something mean to her." Blossom says holding back her own laughter.
"I was only telling the truth, I can't help it if I was able to figure her out so quickly. If anything it's her fault for being so see through." He says smiling and shrugging.
After finishing their lunches Blossom turns to Dexter and asks; "So it didn't surprise you that we have powers?"
"It did at first only because you don't look like any of the powered people I've met." Dexter says as he folds up his empty paper bag.
"Who else have you met that's a super hero?" Buttercup asks.
"Well obviously I've met Major Glory, but I've also ran into Valhallen When Dee Dee made me go with her to an autograph signing and I used to know Monkey." He says naming off the superheroes he's met.
"You've met Monkey? I think He is so cute." Bubbles says getting excited at the sound Monkey's name.
"Yeah we were, close I guess is the best way to describe it." He says not sure how to describe how he knows Monkey.
"What do you mean by that?" Blossom asks.
"He was kind of my pet." He says scratching his neck.
"What? Really?" Bubbles asks her eyes going wide amazed by what he just said.
"No way, I don't believe Monkey was your pet." Buttercup says thinking Dexter is lying.
"It's true, I was trying to make him special but I thought all my experiments didn't work. Turned out he was gifted from the beginning and kept it hidden, until this Agent Honeydew of Global Security showed up in my room to tell me what Monkey was and that he couldn't keep living with me." He says explaining what happened to lead to him losing his pet.
"Aww that's not good, sorry you lost your pet Dexter." Bubbles says frowning for the first time that Dexter has ever seen.
"It was almost seven years ago, and I hear he's saved countless of innocent people since then." He says not as sad as he once was over Monkey.
"Man, those Global Security guys like to screw with your life it seems." Buttercups says as she pulled a MP3 player and ear buds from her backpack to listen to some music.
"I actually think it helped that I knew Monkey when they took my lab, knowing people in high places and all. Kept them from throwing the book fully at me." He says as the bell rings and all the kids in the lunch room start getting up and leaving.
"You wouldn't happen to know where the AP Science class room is." Dexter asks as he shoulders his backpack.
"I can show you Dexter, I'm in in that class next period too." Blossom says picking up her own bag.
"Bye Dexter, bye Blossom we'll see you in English." Bubbles says as her and Buttercup walk away from them.
"It will be nice to have someone to talk to in science class." Blossom says as her and Dexter walk along the hallway.
"Do all of the kids really avoid you because of Morbucks?" Dexter asks as he follows her.
"They are either afraid of us cause we have powers, afraid of her and what she will do or she bought them off to not like us." She says listing off the reasons her and her sisters have no friends at the school.
"That's horrible, should I be worried about repercussions from making her mad?" He asks as they start climbing a set of stairs.
"Not really, she's more bark than bite." She says as they climb. "But you saw past her and her ways so there is proof that not everyone is like the kids in this school."
"Hey, you've got to stick with your friend's right?" he says making the first joke he's made in a long time, which causes Blossom to smile at him.
"Thanks for being OUR friend Dexter." She says as they walked down the second floor hallway.
In gym Dexter was given a pass for the day because he didn't have any gym clothes, so he sat on the bleachers while the other kids ran around the track.
He was reading a book and didn't notices the three big guys walk up to him.
"Hey what's your deal?" one of them says.
"I beg your pardon?" He asks looking up from his book at the three of them. They were all taller than him and well-built and dressed in different colored muscle shirts and basketball shorts.
"Your deal, we hear you were mean to Morbucks." The blond boy in blue says.
"I wouldn't have called it mean, more like I made an observational statement of her." Dexter says closing the book.
"I heard you called her rude." The one in green with black hair says glaring at him.
"And annoying." The third one in red with red hair says crossing his arms.
"And she thinks only of herself." The blond one says crossing his arms.
"And we don't like that you said those things about her." The black haired one says.
"Yeah, Morbucks is our girl, and no one talk bad about our girl." The one in red says clearly the leader of the three of them.
"Well gentlemen, I hate to be the one to inform you. But your girl isn't the nieces' person I have met since I joined your school." Dexter says setting the book down.
"That's cause you're friends with those freaks." The one in green says.
"Yeah those Pounder Puff chicks are not right." The blond boy says agreeing with his friend.
"I believe they call themselves The Powerpuff Girls. And from what I've gathered they have saved this city and by extension, you several times before they were even ten. All your "girl" has ever done is try to smear their good name." Dexter says getting annoyed at the three of them.
"Well guess what, now were going to smear you all over the football field." The leader says as he grabs Dexter by his lab coat.
Dexter goes for the strap on his backpack that would activate his backpack battle armor, but he had forgotten that he didn't have it. 'Crap, maybe I shouldn't have egged them on.' He thinks as he is lifted up off the ground.
"There a problem boys?" Blossom asks as her and her sister's land on the ground behind them.
The faces of all three boys go white. "No problem here, Right?" The blond one says looking scared of the girls but shoots Dexter a glare.
"You could have ripped my lab coat." Dexter says pushing their hands off him.
"We were just welcoming him to the school." The black haired one says.
"I see, well you said hi now why don't you three leave our friend alone." Blossom says crossing her arms.
The three boys quickly walk then break out into a run to get away.
"Thanks, I guess I bit off more than I could chew." Dexter says straightening his lab coat.
"Why were you egging the on? They could have beaten you to a pulp. You're a genius, but you're not that smart." Buttercup says poking him in the chest.
"Buttercup." Blossom says scolding her sister.
"No she is right, I use to have some Tech that worked great against bullies back at my old school, but it's gone now and I had forgotten." He says admitting he was at fault.
"Well good think you have superhero friends then." Bubbles says smiling like she always does.
"Who were those guys?" Dexter asks curious as to who the three boys were.
"That's Brick, Boomer, and Butch. Morbucks boyfriends and personal mussel." Blossom says as the final bell of the day rings.
"She has hired muscle? She really wants to be a cartoon villain." He says as they walk off the field.
That night Dexter talked to COMPUTER about his new friends and enemies he's made in the past two days.
-The girls seem like nice people Dexter- COMPUTER types out after Dexter finished his recap of his encounters with them.
-I made friends and enemies all within forty-eight hours, that has to be a record.- He types back to her.
-I'm not sure if it is Dexter, but these Brick, Boomer, and Butch boys sound like they could be trouble.-
-I felt more powerless than I ever had before when they grabbed me.-
-What are you going to do Dexter? I doubt they will leave you alone after what happened.-
-I need to get some gear going again.-
-If you are going to start building again then you need to find a source of income.-
-I'm going to have to do something I've never done before.-
-What is that Dexter?-
-Get a job.-
AN:So this is where the character rewrites come in, I hope people like what I have come up with and get as excited as I am about reading this story as I am over writing it.