The next day Dexter and Blossom both act as if nothing had happened the night before.
"Morning Dexter." Blossom says as her and her sisters spot him walking over to their bus stop.
"Good morning ladies." Dexter says as he joins them at the stop.
"Did we miss anything yesterday?" Bubbles asks casually sounding like them missing school was a minor thing.
"Nothing really, Mr. Brown went on another political rand in Math but I stopped paying attention when he started." Dexter says as the bus comes into view.
"He does that far too often." Buttercup says shaking her head.
"Yeah he should have gone for teaching government instead of math." Blossom says as the bus pulled up to their stop.
"I think that would make that class even more boring." Dexter says as he followed the girls onto the bus.
When they sit down in their seats Dexter remembers the work he had done to his phone. "Oh so last night I added a way for your communicators to contact me through my phone." He says as the bus took off down the road.
"That could come in handy." Blossom says liking the new feature he's added to his phone.
"Damn man do you ever stop tinkering?" Buttercup asks from the seat across from Dexter and Blossom.
"I don't think I could even if I wanted too." He says back to her.
"I picture you years down the road like one of those super smart tech guys they have in all those cop drama shows, that is socially awkward and talks in ways most people can't understand." Buttercup says describing what she thinks Dexter's future will be like.
"You not that far off already Buttercup." Bubbles says leaning forward so Dexter and Blossom could see her from next to Buttercup. "Dexter is already super smart and he did make us our communicators and that data base, and he really didn't know how to to talk to normal people when we first met him."
"Hey." Dexter says thinking that she wasn't right. "Ok maybe I was a little socially awkward but I've gotten a lot better at talking to people." He says realizing that Bubbles was right.
"Barely, Blossom is the only one that can understand you sometimes." Buttercup says grinning at her sister and Dexter.
"It's not my fault you two just don't understand science." Blossom says leaning forward to look past Dexter throwing Buttercup's joke back at her.
"Rock stars don't need to understand science." Buttercup says trying to defend herself.
"If you want to be a rock star you need to actually be good at playing your guitar, not sounding like you're killing a cat." Blossom says grinning.
"I'm just inventing a new sound, you'll see in a few years everyone will be wishing they had thought of it." Buttercup says crossing her arms upset at what her sister had said.
"Aww don't be sad Buttercup, Blossom was just joking." Bubbles says patting Buttercup on the leg holding back her laughter.
"Yeah I was just kidding Buttercup." Blossom says seeing the sad look on Buttercup's face.
Buttercup doesn't say anything she just closes her eyes and raises her head as to look up at the roof of the bus.
"Aw don't be like that Buttercup." Bubbles says moving her hand from Buttercups leg to her shoulder.
"I'm sure Blossom only meant that you have to practice a lot to get to the level that the big stars are at." Dexter says also trying to get Buttercup to not be sad.
"I'm sorry Buttercup, I was only pulling your leg. I think your guitar playing sounds fine." Blossom says apologizing to Buttercup.
Buttercup opens her left eye and looks over at Blossom. "You mean it?" She asks.
"Yes I mean it." Blossom says smiling at her sister.
"Then you'd be up for hearing me practice tonight?" Buttercup asks opening her other eye.
"I would be happy to hear you practice Buttercup." Blossom says not really wanting to hear her sister practice her guitar but she knew it was the only way to get Buttercup out of this mood.
"I'm going to hold you to that." Buttercup says grinning.
"You were faking!?" Blossom says shocked by the grin on her sister's face.
"Maybe… But you already agreed to listen to me tonight so does it really matter?" Buttercup says her grin growing.
Bubbles starts to laugh as Blossom sits back in her seat a little mad that her sister tricked her.
"Damn she's good." Blossom says loud enough for just Dexter to hear.
Later that day while Dexter was ringing up a customer at work.
"Thank you come again." Dexter says holding the recipe and change to the group of three adults.
"Thanks kid." One of them says taking the change and recipe.
As the group turned to leave the restaurant Dexter also turned away to return to work.
"Oh, excuse me." He hears a familiar voice say as the bell over the door rang.
He turns around and sees Blossom standing to the side to let the three adults pass and when she spots Dexter her face lights up with a smile.
"Hi Dexter." She says walking up to the counter the register sat on.
"Hello Blossom, here by yourself?" He asks happy to see her even though he had just seen her two hours ago on their walk home from school.
"The Professor is working late so he put in a takeout order for our dinner." She says explaining why she was in the pizzeria.
"Let me see if your order is ready then." He says before turning to walk into the kitchen.
Dexter came back out of the kitchen carrying a medium sized pizza box. "One medium pepperoni pizza with mushroom and pineapple on separate quarters." Dexter says opening the box to show Blossom the pizza.
"That's the one." Blossom says looking at the pizza. "Oh hey check this out." She says as she reached into her pocket to get her money.
"The Professor had shown us this picture yesterday and I thought it was a little funny how much you look like he did when he was younger." Blossom says as she pulled an old photo out of her pocket along with the money to pay for the pizza.
"This was taken at their lab just after they had gotten married." Blossom says setting the picture down on the counter.
The picture was of a young couple in a lab smiling with their arms around each other. The younger Professor was dressed in a white dress shirt with a black tie and sleeves rolled up with dark blue gloves and protective glasses on.
"He does kind of look like how I dress". Dexter says as he notices the similarities between himself and the younger Professor.
Blossom looked a lot more like her mother than Dexter looked like her father though. The young woman in the picture dressed in a white lab coat had long red hair just like Blossom's and the shape of their faces matched almost perfectly. Her mother had green eyes like Buttercups but they were soft carrying eyes unlike Buttercups.
There was a caption under the picture that read: "Rose T. & Thomas J. Utonium"
"You look a lot like your Mother." Dexter says looking up from the picture.
"Yeah she was pretty." Blossom says still looking at the picture of her mother and father. "So I should get going home, my sisters are going to start wondering where I am with the pizza." She says looking at the clock on the wall.
"Oh, ok." He says not wanting her to leave.
He rings her up for the pizza and then walks around the counter carrying the box for her. "Have a good night Blossom." He says holding the box out to her.
She takes the box with one hand and wraps the other around him and gives him a quick hug. The hug surprised him but after the initial shock went away he hugs her back and felt his stomach start to turn.
"Later Dexter." She says after letting go of him her face a faint shade of red.
"Bye Blossom." He says as she turns to leave the restaurant his face turning a light red as well.
'Why is talking to Blossom becoming so different, I seem to feel ill when I'm ever with just her.' He thinks as she walks out of the restaurant.
A few days later Dexter and the girls were walking home from school after a storm had blown through the area.
"I thought the rain would never stop." Buttercup says jumping over a puddle on the side of the road.
"Yeah it would have been no fun walking in it." Bubbles says agreeing with her sister.
"Speaking of no fun, did any of you guys see that Morbucks and her goonies were giving us looks today?" Buttercup asks remembering that she saw Morbucks, Brick, Boomer, and Butch staring at them at lunch with an evil looking glare.
"I have noticed they have been acting a bit different lately." Dexter says turning his head around to talk to Buttercup and Bubbles who were walking behind him and Blossom.
"They do strange things all the time in their quest to turn the world against us." Blossom says looking over her shoulder.
"Yeah but this time it was like she knew something, other than how to make three guys happy with one mouth." Buttercup says implying something very rude about Morbucks.
"Buttercup!" Blossom says turning around completely. "Don't say things like that, its rude and we don't stoop to their level." She says walking backwards.
"Sorry sis she just bugs me at a level no one else does." Buttercup says apologizing to her sister.
"It's ok, we just have to keep being the better persons, even when it comes to-" She started to say but is cut off when she slips on a pool of water and starts to fall into the street.
Without thinking Dexter grabs her hand and pulls her into his arms then turns his back to the road just as a eighteen wheeled truck went by that would have hit her if she had fallen into the road.
"Thanks Dexter, but I would have done more damage to the truck then it to me." Blossom says surprised by Dexter's quick reaction
"Sorry, it was just instinct to grab you." He says taking his arm from around her.
"It's ok." Blossom says smiling. "You can let go of my hand now." She says noticing that he is still holding her hand.
Dexter's face turns a little red. "Oh, sorry." He says letting go of Blossoms hand his face turning a little red as well.
As Dexter and Blossom turn away from each other feeling a little embarrassed Buttercup and Bubbles start giggling at them.
"And what are you two laughing at?" Blossom asks as the four of them start walking again.
"Nothing." Bubbles says between giggles.
The following Sunday afternoon Dexter was walking down the sidewalk carrying a small box in his hands.
"Hey Dexter." He hears from above him.
He looks up into the sky just as Blossom lands next to him. "Hello Blossom, been keeping the city safe?" He asks as she throws a lock of her hair behind her shoulder that had fallen out of place.
"That I was, so who's the cake for?" She says recognizing that the box was from the grocery store down the street from their house.
Dexter looks at the box that did contain a small cake then looks at Blossom. "Promise you can keep a secret?" He asks thinking that it should be fine for Blossom to know who he had bought the cake for.
"Sure I can." She says as they start walking down the street.
"Then come with me and I'll show you." He says glad that his parents are both out of the house.
"Here we are." Dexter says as the sets the cake box down on his desk.
"But no one else is home Dexter." Blossom says confused as to why they are in his room.
"The cake is for her." Dexter says gesturing to the laptop sitting on top of a briefcase with a couple of wires coming out of it.
"Your computer?" she asks raising any eyebrow. She knows Dexter is a little strange when it comes to computers and technology, but didn't think he was so strange that he would go so far to buy a cake for his laptop.
"Not exactly, wake up COMPUTER." He says as he shakes the mouse taking the laptop out of sleep mode.
"Yes Dexter." A voice says coming from the laptop.
"Blossom this is COMPUTER, COMPUTER this is my friend Blossom." Dexter says introducing Blossom to COMPUTER as he opened the box.
"Hello Blossom it is nice to meet you." COMPUTER says greeting Blossom.
"Hello." Blossom says surprised that she's talking to a computer. "Dexter who am I talking to?" She says leaning over to Dexter.
"This is COMPUTER, she was the AI that used to monitor my old lab." Dexter days as he lifts a small white cake out of the box.
"You built an AI?" She asks her eyes growing wide amazed that Dexter had done something no one else has ever been able to do before.
"It's more like she created herself, all I did was write some code when I was younger." He says tossing the box off to the side of his desk.
"That is amazing, but why the cake?" She asks still unsure why he got the cake.
"She asked for one." He says as he attaches a web camera to the top of the laptop screen and then plugs the cord of it into the side of the laptop.
"She asked for one?" Blossom asks her confusion growing
"Today is my birthday." COMPUTER says answering her question.
"Today is the day years ago that she first came online and she had asked for a birthday cake." He says as hits a few keys on the keyboard. "Is the camera working COMPUTER?" he asks stepping back.
"Yes Dexter and thank you for the cake, it looks lovely." COMPUTER says.
"Happy birthday then COMPUTER." Blossom says smiling at Dexter's laptop.
"Thank you Blossom, Would you care for a slice of cake?" COMPUTER asks offering to share the cake with Blossom.
"Yes thank you." Blossom says accepting COMPUTER's offer.
"I'll go get some plates and forks then." Dexter says walking over to his room door.
"Ok Dexter." Blossom says pulling out his chair then sitting down in it.
When the door closes Blossom turns back to the laptop. "So what's it been like being the right hand woman to Dexter?" She asks wanting to know more about COMPUTER.
"It has been good, we have been through a lot together and he has grown a lot too. But not as much as he has since meeting you and your sisters." COMPUTER says as Blossom rests her elbows on the desk.
"What do you mean COMPUTER?" Blossom asks again confused by what is being talked about.
"You know that you and your sisters are the first friends he's ever had right?"
"Yeah, he's told us that, he's also the first friend we've made in a while thanks to Morbucks." Blossom says leaning back in the chair.
"And I may just be a computer program in a box, but I can tell that Dexter likes you Blossom."
"What do you mean by that COMPUTER?" Blossom asks raising an eyebrow.
"Isn't obvious to you? He-." COMPUTER started to say but stopped just as Dexter opened his door.
"I have plates and forks, shall we enjoy this cake?" Dexter says walking into his room with a few plates and forks.
As they sat eating the cake, Blossom still in his desk chair and Dexter leaning against the window sill. "So did you two talk about anything?" Dexter asks looking at Blossom.
"I told Blossom about the one time you tried to remove the negative parts of peoples personality's." COMPUTER says lying about what she had talked to Blossom about.
"Oh my, that was such a horrible idea." Dexter says putting his head into his one free hand, the other was holding his plate.
"Yeah, what were you thinking Dexter?" Blossom asks going along with the lye.
That night Dexter was lying in bed thinking. He had overheard COMPUTER say that she could tell he like Blossom and he was racking his brain over it.
'How could she know something about me that I don't fully understand myself?' He thinks staring at the ceiling. He is unsure about what he thinks or even feels about Blossom past her just being his best friend.
'She's smarter than anyone else I've met that's our age.' He thinks naming one thing about her he is fond of. 'She's also a superhero so that's really cool, she's strong and toughed willed but caring at the same time. I do enjoy talking to her and she can be funny when she wants to be.' He thinks as a smile crosses his face.
'She does have a nice smile and her eyes are a beautiful shade of- what am I thinking? Blossom is my friend and friends don't talk, let alone think about their friend's that way. Regardless of how beautiful they look, especially when the wind catches her hair. Damn it brain stop this.' He thinks shaking his head trying to get thoughts of Blossom out of his mind.
He starts going over complex math equations in his head to try and force thoughts of Blossom out of his mind and he eventually falls asleep half way through an equation.
But he still ended up dreaming about her. His dream was of them in Paris together sitting outside of a café that was by a river. They were drinking coffee while watching the sun rise together, Blossom was resting her head on his shoulder and he had his arm around her holding her close.
"Ah." He says forcing himself awake as sitting up in bed. He had woken up just as dream him and Blossom were about to kiss.
He shakes his head and gives the sides of his head a gentle slaps trying to get the dream out of his head.
"Damn it brain." He says picking up his glasses from the nightstand and puts them on.
He looks over at his alarm clock and see that he still has three hours till he needed to get up for school. Not wanting to try to go back to sleep for fear of the dream about his best friend starting again he got out of bed and walked over to his desk. He turns the lamp on the desk on and opens his graph paper notebook and starts working on some of the designs he has been working on.
Dexter lets out a long yawn as he sat down next to Blossom on the city bus. He had ended up staying up for the rest of the night and was now paying for the lack of sleep.
"Bit tired?" Blossom asks as he covers his mouth blocking a second yawn.
"Yeah, I had this dream that kept me from sleeping." He says not fully thinking.
"Scary dream?' She asks concerned that he had a nightmare.
"More shocking than scary." He says missing the fact that he is talking to Blossom about a dream he had that was about her.
"Well they says our subconscious shows us what we really want when we sleep." She says smiling.
"I don't know about that." He says denying what the dream might have meant.
"You never know." She says smiling as she thought back to her own dream and the conversation she had had with her sister.
Blossom oddly enough had a similar dream to Dexter's. Her dream jumped from Dexter and her eating at a sandwich shop, to watching a movie at a theater and then them buying coffee from a late night shop. The dream ended with them walking around downtown Townsville and then them watching the sun set at a park and kissing as the sun went down.
The dream made her think about how she feels about Dexter herself. Before the afternoon where she had told him about her mother she only thought of him as her friend, but after they almost kissed she had started thinking about him in other ways.
She likes how smart he is, his silly social awkwardness that comes out when new social situations come up always bring a smile to her face and of course she thinks he cute.
So after she had taken her daily morning shower she decided to talk to her sisters about the whole thing.
"Hey, what do you guys think of Dexter?" She asks sitting on her bed tying her shoes.
When the girls were younger they had shared a big bed between the three of them, but now as teenagers they each had their own bed. Bubbles and Buttercup shared a set of bunk beds that sat against one wall of their room, Buttercup had the top bunk with a green bedspread and Bubbles bottom bunk was full of stuffed animals on top of her blue bedding and Blossom being the oldest of the three had gotten her own bed that was against the wall next to the one her sisters beds are against.
"What do you mean?" Bubbles asks looking at Blossom in the vanity mirror as she put her hair into ponytails.
"You know, what do you think of about him." Blossom says her face turning red.
"You mean like do we think he's an ok guy and all?" Buttercup asks putting on her own shoes.
"Yeah." Blossom says thinking that maybe she shouldn't have brought up this topic when she herself is unsure about Dexter and what she thinks of him.
"Well he is our friend you know, so we have to think he's at least ok if we have him as a friend." Bubbles says turning around on the vanity stool.
"I I mean other than that." Blossom says looking down at the floor.
"Other than him being our friend?" Buttercup asks raising an eyebrow at her sister.
"Yeah..." Blossom says her face turning redder.
Bubbles and Buttercup look at each other with puzzled looks on their facieses then look at her.
"You like him don't you." Buttercup asks jumping right to the point.
"I, I don't know. He's my best friend, apart from you two that is." Blossom says being honest with her sisters.
"Don't lie Blossom, admit it you like him." Buttercup says grinning at her sister happy that she is finally seeing what her and Bubbles have seen about Dexter and her.
Blossom's face turns as red as her bow because she got called out by Buttercup. "But what if he doesn't like me? What if I'm reading the whole situation wrong?" She says accepting the fact that she does like Dexter as more than just a friend.
"You just need to find out how he feels about you sis, and I'm willing to bet he does like you." Buttercup says.
"What I just walk up to him and say; Hey Dexter I think you're cute and even though I'm a super powered teenage girl that's saved the world but I can't figure out of you like me too." She says falling backwards onto her pink bedspread.
Bubbles starts giggling. "Well maybe not like that, you just got to get him into a situation where he can express how he feels about you in a distraction free environment." She says sitting down next to Blossom.
"You've been reading Cosmos again haven't you?" She asks lifting her head up off her bed looking at Bubbles amazed that her plan was too good for her usual mindset.
"I get bored you know." Bubbles says smiling.
"Ok, then how should I pull this plan of yours off?" Blossom asks sitting back up.
"Hum." Buttercup and Bubbles say as Buttercup sits down on the other side of Blossom.
"I got it." Buttercup says snapping her fingers. "You tell him that the three of us are going to catch a movie and offer for him to come along, were all friends so he'll just think it's just a friendly friends outing. Then after you two meet up you let him know that Bubbles and I had to bail for some believable reason, school work or something, and that it will just be the two of you."
"Also make it that theater down on 9th, it's never crowded and they always have good classic movies playing. Make sure to pick out something that he would like but not too much that it pulls all his attention away from you." Bubbles adds to the plan Buttercup came up with.
"And split the costs with him, he buys tickets and you buy snacks. Don't let him think it's a date until it's too late." Buttercup says finishing the plan.
"Wow, I really really hope you two never go evil. That is the most diabolical plan I have ever heard, and it's a brilliant one too." Blossom says admiring her sisters plan.
"She's not the only one that gets bored and reads girly magazines." Buttercup says pointing at Bubbles with her thumb.
"Hey you said those were all full of garbage." Bubbles says joking with her sister.
"Garbage can still be worth a good read." Buttercup says grinning.
"But what about if he's working? I know he won't blow it off to go to the movies." Blossom asks pointing out a flaw in their plan.
"Leave that to me." Buttercup says standing up from the bed.
"So how's work been going?" Buttercup asks Dexter leaning over the back of the chair snapping Blossom out of her daydream about her conversation with her sisters.
"It's not as bad as when I started, though I'm not as big of a pizza fan as I once was." Dexter says looking backwards at Buttercup.
"Are they at least keeping your schedule consistent?" Buttercup asks putting her plan on finding out what his days off are into action.
"Yeah they usually have me working Friday through Monday but they are closed this Saturday for some renovations." He says answering her question.
'Bingo.' Buttercup thinks getting the information she wanted. "Not too bad, leaves you plenty of time for mad sciencing." She says joking with him.
"I wouldn't call it mad sciencing myself." He says as Bubbles starts giggling from the seat behind him that Buttercup was sitting in.
As Bubbles giggles Blossom looks out the window of the bus. 'I can't believe this is happening. Just last week Dexter was nothing more than my friend, and now Buttercup is finding out when he's not working so we can trick him into a secret date.' She thinks as Buttercup joins in on the laughter.
For the rest of the day Blossom kept thinking about her sister's plan and kept jumping between thinking it was a bad idea to looking forward to what could come out of this plan. But as she walked to lunch with her sisters she was back to thinking it was a bad idea.
"Ok, so this Wednesday would probably be the best day to ask him to the movies." Bubbles says as they enter the lunch room.
"I don't know about this guys. Isn't this a little wrong tricking him like this, what if he gets mad and stops talking to us?" Blossom asks unsure of the plan.
"He's not going to stop talking to us, and I doubt he'll get mad about spending some more alone time with you." Buttercup says elbowing her sister in the side as they joined the lunch line.
"But what if were wrong and he doesn't like me?" Blossom says pointing out one of her biggest concern about the plan her sisters have come up with.
"You'll never find out if you don't act." Bubbles says reassuring her sister.
"But what if he does like me but then something happens and he ends up hating me?" Blossom asks worrying more.
"You can't live in the what if's. What if The Professor had never met mom? What if she never agreed to go on a date with him? We might not be here if he had worried about the what if's, so you shouldn't worry about them" Buttercup says placing her hand on Blossoms shoulder and giving it a gentle squeeze.
"Plus you did already almost kiss him, even if it was just in the heat of the moment." Bubbles says putting her arm around Blossoms shoulders giving her a one arm hug her usual cheerful smile appearing on her face.
Her sisters words of reassurance helped quell Blossoms uncertainties. "Thanks guys, I don't know why I'm so uneasy about all of this." She says smiling at her sisters.
"Just because you're a superhero doesn't mean you're not susceptible to the normal anxieties of being a girl." Buttercup says putting her arm around the opposite side of Blossom from Bubbles.
"I'd rather take on a monster all on my own then deal anxieties." Blossom says pouting as her sisters hugged her.
"So do you have any plans for Wednesday after school?" Blossom asks as Dexter and her walked down the hall together after lunch.
"No why?" Dexter asks curious as to why she wanted to know about his plans for later in the week.
"Well my sisters and I are going to see a movie Wednesday, a-and w-we were wondering if you wanted to come with." She says stuttering a few words out of being nervous.
"Sure sounds like it would be fun." He says accepting her invitation unaware of the plan Blossom and her sisters have made.
"Cool, we are going to the theater on 9th." She says happy that he wants to go to the movies.
"Were you planning on going straight there after school?" He asks wanting to know more details about the movie outing.
"Oh no well probably stop by our house beforehand." She says as they start climbing up the stairs to the second floor.
"So should I go to ur house with you?" He asks.
"No you can go back to your house, we are going to eat before the movie." Blossom says making up a reason for her and her sister needing to stop at their house before going to the movies.
"Ok, should I just meet you guys at the theater then?"
"Yeah, we'll let you know what time when Wednesday gets here." She says as they walk into the classroom.
"Where are you off to Dexter?" Dee Dee asks coming out of the kitchen with a glass of water spotting Dexter opening the front door.
"I am going to catch a movie with Blossom and her sisters." Dexter says the door half opened.
"A movie with Blossom huh?" Dee Dee asks smiling at him.
"And her sisters." He says stopping any comments she could make about him being alone with Blossom.
"It's so nice to see you socializing like a normal teenager Dexter. But a word of advice, leave the gloves behind." She says thinking that it might be better for him if he didn't have anything on his hands when he is in the dark movie theater with Blossom.
"Why?" He asks looking down at his gloved hand and then at her.
"Trust me Dexter." She says holding her free hand out to him.
He looks down at his hands then slowly takes off his purple protective gloves.
"See that wasn't so hard." She says as he hesitantly places his gloves in her hand.
"I don't see why you want me to leave them behind." Dexter says rubbing his hands feeling like he is missing part of himself without his gloves.
"You'll thank me later, now go enjoy your day with your friends." Dee Dee says climbing up the stairs.
"See you later Dee Dee." He says walking out the door.
"Later Dexter." She says before he closes the door.
"I should put his gloves in his room so he doesn't freak out looking for them later." Dee Dee says when she reached the top of the stairs.
She walks past her own bedroom door to Dexter's door. Dexter used to kept his door locked when he is younger in a constantly failing attempt to keep his sister out of his room. But after the accident the resulted in the scar on the back of his hand and Dee Dee staying out of his lab he hasn't needed to lock his door all the time.
When she opens his door his room was dark so she felt around the wall for the light switch. When she flips the lights on his open laptop screen came on as well.
"Did you forget something Dexter?" She hears a failure voice come from the laptop.
"Oh my god." Dee Dee says her eyes growing wide as she runs to his desk "COMPUTER is that you!?" She asks looking at the screen.
"Hello Dee Dee, yes it is me." COMPUTER says knowing that she has been found out.
"Dexter said you were gone, I'm so happy to see you again." Dee Dee says hugging the laptop screen.
"He wanted to keep me a secret so that Global Security would not find me."
"That makes sense, the last thing we would want is for our sister to get taken away." Dee Dee says sitting down in his desk chair.
"Sister? What do you mean?"
"Well you're not really our sister, but you are part of our family even though mom and dad don't know about you." Dee Dee says tossing Dexter's gloves onto the desk.
"You and Dexter both think of me as more than just a program."
"Well why wouldn't we think of you as family? You've been with us for years watched Dexter and me grow up and we've even saved him from that alien prison together once. If that doesn't make us family then I don't know what dose." Dee Dee says explaining her reasoning for calling COMPUTER her sister.
"Thank you Dee Dee, it nice of both you and Dexter to see me as more than just code."
"You welcome COMPUTER, I'm sure were not the only people in the world that would think that." Dee Dee says smiling happy that she can talk to COMPUTER again.
"Dexter's friend Blossom was nice to me the other day."
"Oh you met his girlfriend?" Dee Dee says raising an eyebrow.
"Dexter claims that she is nothing more than a friend, but I suspect otherwise based on how he talks about her."
"Yeah it's obvious that he likes her, he's just too stubborn to admit it." Dee Dee says laughing.
"That is our Dexter. So how is Townsville been for you Dee Dee? Dexter has only told me about his school and work."
"It's been fine, Mom and Dad are happy. Though I am a little mad that I missed out on getting into the drama program at my new school." Dee Dee says leaning back in the chair.
"We are sorry about you having to go to a different college Dee Dee."
"It's ok COMPUTER, Dexter is finally making friends and his eventual relationship with Blossom is all worth the small sacrifice of one more year of school, and I have met some new friends myself. Not nearly as cool as Dexter's, but still some cool people." Dee Dee says fully expecting her brother to come back from the movies with more than uneaten popcorn.
"You're a good sister Dee Dee."
"Thanks COMPUTER." Dee Dee says as she hears a knock at the front door.
"Someone is at the door, I'll be back so we can keep catching up." She says standing up from the chair before walking out of the room.
"Hello." Dee Dee says as she opened the door, but when she saw who was at the door she added. "What the hell do you want?" glaring and tightening her grip on the door knob.
"I'm looking for Dexter." Mandark says an evil smirk on his face.
"Get lost you creep and leave my brother alone." Dee Dee says holding back her fear.
"Tell me where he is Dee Dee, I don't want to hurt you, but I will if you resist." He says his expression not changing.
*smack* "I will hurt you if you don't leave. You've ruined our lives once already." She says slapping him across the face.
He moves his head back from the slap. "You shouldn't have done that." He says his face red from where her hand made contact.
"I'm not afraid of you." She says lying about how scared she is of him being at her home while she is there alone.
"It's not me you should be afraid of." He says then takes a step back and the three boys she saw at Dexter's school step in front of him from the side of the house they were hiding.
"Where is the brain boy?" Brick asks looking as intimidating as he could.
Dee Dee slams the door shut and runs up the stairs and runs down the hall.
She pushes Dexter's door open and sticks her head in. "COMPUTER Mandark and those three mean boys from Dexter's school are here." She says panicking.
"Hide Dee Dee." COMPUTER says back to her.
Dee Dee hears the front door open. "They are coming inside, warn Dexter somehow." She says pushing in the lock on the inside door knob in knowing she needed to keep them from finding COMPUTER before pulling the door shut.
She also knew there was nowhere to hide in the upstairs all she could do was delay them, so she runs into the bathroom and closes the door. They must have seen her go into the bathroom because just as she stepped away from the door it was thrown open by Boomer.
"Go away and leave me alone." Dee Dee says walking backwards and presses her back against the glass door of the shower.
"Mandork wants you, and he gets what he wants." He says stepping towards her.
The color runs from her face as the other two boys enter the room. "Come along girly." Butch says as they surround her.
"Get away." Dee Dee says throwing a punch at Boomer her fight or flight instincts kick in.
But Dee Dee wasn't very strong so the punch did nothing to the boy and he grabs her by the wrist. "That wasn't very nice of you." He says squeezing her wrist.
"Ow that hurts! Stop it." She says her knees buckling from the pain in her wrist. She try's clawing at his hand with the nails of her free hand but he just grabs that hand and forces her to turn around and then forced both of her arms behind her back.
"No please stop." She begs as tears form in her eyes. Never has she ever been this afraid. 'Dexter I need you. Please whatever god's there are please help my brother get to me.' she thinks as the three boys tie her hands together.
Brick grabs her and throws her over his shoulder and carries her out of the bathroom.
"Put me down." She says kicking her legs against his chest as he carried her down the hallway.
"We got her Mandork." Brick says as they walk down the stairs.
"It's Mandark, how many times do I have to tell you?" Mandark says annoyed at Brick.
"As many times as it takes for you to not be a dork Mandork." Butch says slapping Mandark on the back.
"Remember you need me just as much as I need you if you want revenge for your friend." Mandark says as the three boys exit the house.
As they left Mandark caught a glimpse of Dee Dee's face. She was looking right at him with tears in her eyes "Why?" She asks looking Mandark right in the eyes.
"Enough out of you." Butch says as he puts a piece of duct tape over her mouth.
Mandark turned away from her gaze not able to look her in the eyes, the look on her face hurt too much, but he was sure that she would change her mind in due time.
To kill any suspicion of them Mandark sets the lock and pulls the door shut before he got into the back of the van that the four boys had driven in.
As the van drove off COMPUTER takes the laptop out of sleep mode. "I'm sorry Dexter but there is only one way I can help you help your sister." COMPUTER says talking to herself. She activates the program Dexter had been working on that would let her connect to the communication system.
When Dexter had finished the program he had told her that it was still too dangerous for her to use it. "I have to do what I can, for my family." She says as she activates the Wi-Fi of the laptop.
While Boomer drove the van Mandark, stat in the front seat next to him with Brick and Butch sitting in the back.
"So are you going to tell us where your brother is?" Butch asks as he ripped the tape off of Dee Dee's mouth.
"When my brother gets back from his date he is going to kick your ass for this Mandark!" She yells at the front seat where Mandark is sitting.
"Ha! No one could like a moron like Dexter." Mandark says looking over his shoulder at her.
"Blossom isn't like everyone else." Dee Dee says mad at him for calling Dexter a moron. 'Shoot, now they know he's with Blossom.' She thinks realizing she said something she shouldn't have.
"He's with Blossom? This will make things easier." Brick says grinning at Butch.
"Yeah Morbucks said she overheard the other two freaks talking about that old theater that only plays crappy old movies, I bet that's where they went." Butch says grinning back.
"Good, head for the base and we'll get our things before we go get Dexter." Mandark says rubbing his hands together.
"Got it your dorkiness." Boomer says taking a sharp turn.
AN: Sorry for the cliffhanger but the next part of the story needs its own chapter.