The Professor arrives at the house and realizes that the girls had yet to return from their outing. He shuffles over to the home phone while he shrugs off his suit jacket.
"You have one new message…Hey Dad, we will be home soon." "At eleven thirty" The Professor released a sigh of relief that they had remembered to call him and told him exactly what time they were going to be back.
He plops down on the sofa when he suddenly overhears the roar of a car's engine die down. The sound of happy chattering young women was reverberating throughout the house.
The gargae door flies open to reveal his daughters' and their best friend.
"You looked as if you have been put through the wringer." Buttercup teased after Blossom flipped on the kitchen light and spotted the tired Professor slouched on the couch.
"The Mayor, Ms. Bellums, Mr. Stanley, Ms. Keane, Mr. Alma, Ms. Valetta and a couple of other people were at the party. I had to talk to them all. I feel so exhausted." He explains as he massages his temples to get rid of a impending headache.
"How about I warm up some cookies and fix everyone a glass of milk?" Bubbles suggests before she pads inside of the kitchen.
"So you said everyone was there?" Blossom curiously inquires as she sits on the opposite end of the sofa.
"...just about everyone in Townsville." He clarified when the aroma of chocolate chips being warmed in the oven waft in the living room.
"I bet you were in the corner for most of the party." Buttercup alleges with a confident smirk present on her face.
"You never were too much of a social butterfly." She adds along with a shrug of his shoulders.
"For once my dear Buttercup...you are wrong. Mr. Zeal made me introduce myself to a group of young ladies." Prof. counters with a wide grin on his face.
"So you are telling us that our principal made you talk to some women?" Blossom expresses astonishment after she heard made and principal in the same sentence.
He studies the girls' expression of doubt and admits that Buttercup was right yet again.
"Yes, he did help me out. You three know that I don't know much about talking to females." He sounds defeated.
"Trust me...we know. That's why we wanted you to go out instead of being cramped in that suffocating lab." Buttercup explains in a serious tone.
"Cookies for all those who are hungry!" Bubbles suddenly shouts before they soon snack on warm cookies and icy cold milk.
After they appreicated the late snack, those individuals in the Utonium's residence sleepingly retired to rest.
4444
The morning was not so pleasant for the Rowdyruff Boys because someone continously knocked on the front door of their apartment.
"Will someone get that door?" Serena hollers to no one in particular.
Boomer, who slept walk to the couch last night, rolls off of the couch and treks over to the door.
He did not even bother to peep through the peephole and swings the door inward. He was met with a bouquet of flowers to his face.
Boomer registers that it was a simple deliveryman, who hands him a clipboard in order for him to sign. He promptly forged Serena's signature on the dotted line as the man exchanged the flowers for his clipboard.
"Who was that?" Butch groggily asks once he pops his head out of his door. He catches a glimpse of Serena, who emerges from her room.
"Those are so beautiful." She declares after she beholds a dozen golden sunflowers within Boomer's grasp.
Serena cautiously extracts the glass vase from Boomer's hand. He nimbly captured a folded white stationary card that fell from the vase.
"It has your name on it, sis." Boomer reveals as he hands her the card. Brick surfaces from within his room while he rubs the sleep out of his eyes.
"What is all the fuss about?" He annoyingly grills before Boomer answers the question.
"Some flowers came for Serena," The blonde explains and points at the vase of flowers that occupies the kitchen island while she hovers over them.
"Who sent them?" Butch questions as his protective side emanates once he learns that someone brings his older sister's flowers.
"It has my name on it…and that is thar." Serena informs them as she closes the card and places it on the island of the bar.
Brick removes the stationary card from the bar, walks over to Butch, and flashes it to him.
"Don't like them already." Brick expresses his dislike for the person.
He was about to crumple the card but Serena quickly swipes it from him before he could execute the action.
"Ah come on, I'm older than all three of you. You three aren't my father." Serena haughty poses when she could feel their protectiveness tightly encloses around her.
"Either that or we could severely hurt them." Butch suggests while he cracks his knuckles until he hears them pop.
"You do that and I will make all three of your lives a living hell." Serena hisses her threat with a solemn expression on her face. The boys instantly knew then to leave the subject alone.
"You're so touchy about it. We were just joking." Brick admits after they observe her reaction to their playful accusation of who sent the flowers to her.
"That's why I said it anyway…" She huffed out with a irritated expression on her face.
"Hold up, I have to do some grocery shopping today at the usual time." Serena abruptly reminds herself when she recalls the nearly empty refrigerator.
"Well I can't go," Butch interjects before their sights focus in on him.
"And why is that?" Serena questions why he was not going to be able to make what was considered family time.
"I have a date…" He half lies but the real reason was that he had a fight with a particular raven hair girl.
"You on a date? That girl must be a bimbo." Serena alleges since she assumes that any girl that date Butch was either dumb or just a spoiled rich girl, who wanted a challenge in men.
"Oh no…trust me on this one sis, chick can fight and can even beat Butch." Brick correctes her false assumption about the girl name, Buttercup.
"Is that true?" She pries further about the personality of this girl when Butch responds with a nod of his head.
"She sounds very interesting. Care if we watch?" Serena requests because she really wants to see who this girl is.
It was not often that she hears one of them genuinely compliment a girl, especially when it comes down to fighting.
"Sure but you can't blame me if you end up hurt by this fight." Butch warns her with his signature cocky smirk.
"So you plan on going all out on this fight huh?" Serena wonders out loud while she crashes on the sofa.
"It's been a long time since I faced a good adversary." Butch happily states as he travels back in his room for some peace and quietness.
"I know what we are going to do today!" Serena shouts her announcement as she faces Brick and Boomer.
"The groceries can wait till tomorrow when you three are at school."
4444
"When were you going to tell us that you were going to fight Butch?" Blossom questions.
She watches Buttercup step in a pair of long black sweatpants and rolls down a tight green middriff shirt.
"An hour before the match..." The raven hair teen admits as she shuffles about the room and adds, "...it is an hour before the match, so yeah I was going to tell you all.".
"When was this even arranged?" Blossom inquries since she wonders when and where did Butch pitch the idea of a fight to Buttercup.
"You remember when I took that jerk, Stan Bland, down because he called Bubbles a bitch?" Buttercup starts off and pauses until Blossom responses with "Yeah, how can I forget that pompous imbecile?"
"That was when the bet that was made." Buttercup explains as she opts to travel to the park by flight since it was a good distance away from their house.
"So are you going all out for the fight?" She badgers whether or not she plans to go unleash her full power.
Buttercup simply shrugs her shoulder up and down as she replies with, "I don't know yet. It depends on my opponent's movement and their intentions for me."
Blossom casts her sights away from her sister to the three ovaluar windows that reminds her of the times when it serve as their entrance/exit for crime fighting.
"We're going with you." She demands in a firm tone once her gaze lands on Buttercup again.
"Well whose going to stay here with Midori?" Buttercup asserts while she jabs her index finger toward Midori.
She watches Blossom searches around the room, seizes a sticky note and a pen, and scribbles something down on the brightly colored paper.
"Alright then let's go," Blossom verbalizes as they quietly amble over to the window, unlock the latch, thrust it open, and fly off to the park.
Bubbles saunters inside of the room to discover Midori fast asleep and a note attach to a nearby the wall.
"Headed to the park. Buttercup has an Area 51." She reads the writing from the note.
She critically inspected the room and realized that two of the three windows were unlocked before she chose to head over to the park.
"Sorry Midori, but I have to see this," she mutters as the girl simply tosses over in her sleep.
Bubbles proceeds to unlock the last window, floats outward, locks all but one window back, and jets over to the park.
4444
Butch and his siblings arrive first in the moderately empty park. Serena sits underneath a large oak tree and leans back against its thick broad trunk. Boomer rests face forward in her lap while Brick relaxes his head on one of her shoulder.
Butch patiently waits for Buttercup, which was not too long after they arrive at the park.
"Hey you two," Serena speaks up as her sudden movement jolts the two boys to attention.
"There are two of them, which one is it?" She grills the pair.
The two detect Blossom and Buttercup's presence before they recognize Bubbles, who drops in soon after them.
"It's the one with the green shirt on. Her name is Buttercup." Brick makes known, who Serena adamantly searches for.
She silently ponders who would in their right frame of mind name their daughter Buttercup. Then again she recalls that her brothers' names were no better: Butch, Boomer, and Brick.
"Bubbles, what are you freaking doing here?! Whose watching Midori?" Buttercup poses to their youngest sister.
Bubbles was aghast at the furious expression on her sisters' faces, "She's practically safe at the house with the Professor!"
Buttercup shakes her head at Bubbles excuse while Blossom clears her throat, "Anyway...we can't send her home since she's already here."
She sticks her tongue out at Buttercup, who was about to storm up to the blonde.
Blossom inserts herself in front of Buttercup, "Bubbles...now isn't the time to upset Buttercup."
A "okay" mutters from her lips with a understanding expression on her face.
"Buttercup...we are nearby just in case there are some interruptions." Blossom informs her sister.
"Good to know." Buttercup confesses as she releases a sigh of relief and relaxes her tense muscles.
"Let's go Bubbles!" Blossom instructs Bubbles as the pair wander over to the large oak tree and left Buttercup to herself.
The girls identify Boomer and Brick but there was an unknown woman, who appears to be around her mid to late twenties.
"Blossom, Brick, Bubbles, Boomer," The two orange heads and two blondes naturally greet each other in an odd fashion.
Serena repeatedly glanced from the seated boys to the girls, who stood and sense tension underlined irritation.
She suddenly developed the sense that she was excluded from the loop, specifically her brothers tightly netted circle of friends.
Serena clears her throat until she ensnares their attention from her fake coughs. "Hello there...my name is Serena. I guess you already met my knucklehead brothers."
"Are you their sister?" Bubbles probed with a surprised expression on both of the sisters' face before they glance at each other.
"Yes I am. I know they don't talk about me much to anyone. But any hoo one thing I do know is that they do talk about you three..." Serena divulges with a placid expression on her face.
A blush materialized on both of the girls' faces as the boys' immediately straightened up after they heard what their sister accused them of.
"Uhm that's interesting." The orange head mutters before she introduces herself and Bubbles to Serena.
"I guess we will sit in the tree if you don't mind." Blossom mentioned prior to them about to fly up on their own when Serena suddenly suggested a proposition.
"Brick, how about you help Ms. Blossom up in the tree? Ms. Bubbles, you can have my seat with Boomer. I will just take the bench over there."
Blossom and Bubbles forgot the fact that Serena did not know about their powers but decide to keep quiet about it.
"Alright, Brick get to it." She orders after she stands to her feet and waits for Brick to execute her command.
The orange hair woman knew that Blossom would remain in the same position if she did not monitor him.
"Hold on," Brick instructs before he secures both of his hands on her petite hips. He suddenly feels his sister whacks him upside the head with her hand.
"Get going." She declares and with that he elevates them from the ground with relative ease.
Blossom's stomach was instantly filled with butterflies before she thought, 'I should be use to this! I fly all the time.'
She glances at Brick whose gaze was upward towards the tree so they would not collide with any stray branches.
"You know I could have flown up here myself?" Blossom challanged after she watched Serena leave. He then hoists her up to a spot on a nearby sturdy branch.
"Yeah, but then I didn't want you to reveal your secret to my sister…at least not yet." He counters with a stern expression on his face as he responds to her question.
Blossom was touched that Brick held her best interest at heart and critically combed his face for any signs of a fraud. Yet, there were none.
'So he does care about something,' She deems while she casts her gaze over to Buttercup and Butch.
They watch as her sister and Butch try to physically overpower one another with their sheer strength.
Buttercup and Butch try to force the other one to their knees but it was too evenly match until he attempts to kick her in the ribs.
She breaks the lock, secures his leg, spins around in a circle and tosses him on his back.
'Oh, it seems as if she put Butch on his back first.' Serena mentally announced after she witnessed Butch stood up with the same cocky smile on his face.
"Not bad Butch but I have seen better though." Buttercup claims before Butch dashes toward her and vanishes right in front of her.
'Aerial time,' Buttercup deems while she slighty hovers over the ground when she suddenly feels a kick to her back.
The force of the blow sends her forward as she sticks her arms out and braces herself for the impact. Her hand, specifically her fingers, dug lines along a strip of ground.
"Good one," Buttercup utters with a smirk on her face since she starts to enjoy the fight.
She buries her hand within the ground, seizes a broad strip of land, raises it, snaps it and creates a shockwave.
Butch was observing the fast rolling hill of grass toward him and leaping in the air. He peers over the crest of the wave and notes that Buttercup was gone. He slowly scopes out his surroundings right before he senses something.
Buttercup clasps her hands around one of his feet, steps forward with her right foot, guides his body to the ground, drags him in a circle, and chucks him off somewhere.
"Ouch...that look like it hurt." Brick mutters after he checks out the damage Buttercup did to Butch's face.
Buttercup simply observes Butch as he raise to his feet. He crosses his arms in a "X" fashion and slowly drops them in front of his stomach. His fists ignite with a green flame and creates a dent in the ground.
He produces a strong gust of wind that wildly whips her raven hair with a wide smile evident on her face.
"Hold on…I think Buttercup is about to power up too." Blossom warns them once she catches a glimpse of Buttercup's face.
Bubbles and Boomer brace themselves against the lower tree trunk while Brick and Blossom clutch on to the higher portion of the tree.
On the other hand, Serena calmly spectates the brawl as if weird glowing body parts were the norm for her.
Buttercup mimics Butch's action and emits lime green instead of his forest green light yet it radiates a similar pressure.
"Wouldn't you agree to take off the kiddy gloves now?" Butch bellowed after he completed powering up.
"After all, we both have something important staked on this bet." She agrees with Butch's idea.
They simultaneously launch at each other.
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Author's Note:
07.14.16 Major editing revision