"Butch is serious." Brick determines after Blossom releases her hold from the trunk of the tree. She then runs her fingers to her hair and discovers that it randomly sticks up on her head.
"I mean I've only seen Buttercup fight someone serious once but never at full strength before." She claims while she brushes her ponytail back to its normal state.
Once the strong gusts of winds cease, Boomer peers over at a shaky Bubbles removes her hands from around the thick tree trunk.
"Are you alright, Bubbles?" Boomer inquires out of concern about the blonde's safety.
"Yes, I'm alright. I just don't like when Buttercup powers up...that's all. It's like there's a sinister feel to her aura." Bubbles explains as she places her hands on top of her lap to prevent the shakes.
"I know how you feel sometimes...I fear that Butch would lose himself in a match and hurt innoncent people." He admitted to her with a petrified expression on his face.
"...but I think this time there's something different about it…it feels as if he's getting a kick out of the match." Boomer conveys after he notes the difference in his brother's aura.
'So they're getting serious now.' Serena concluded. She grew anxious from the exchange of blows as she wonders who the winner of the match will be.
Buttercup blocks Butch's punch with the back of her forearm, which creates room to grow in between them.
She reveals herself above him and lands a kick on top of his shoulder as it forces him to the ground. He adjusts his timing and floor sweeping her feet from underneath her as she was on a crash course to the ground.
Buttercup grumbles from the sudden impact of her head against the ground. She senses hin over her as he tries to punch her in the head to render her unconscious. She was dodging by rolling away from his fist.
Butch's fist was then trapped within the Earth's ground. Once Buttercup realizes that he was stuck, she kicks him square in his face. The force of her kick releases him from the ground's clutches.
He was temporarily blinded by dirt in his eyes when he feels a fist connected with his jaw. Buttercup hooks him with her right hand, reaches for his left arm, secures his shoulders, and rams her right knee in to his stomach that forces him forward.
She clasps her hands together and connects with his spine to drive him further in to the ground.
Buttercup slowly steps forward and cautiously watches for Butch's reaction until she stands over him. He shots his right foot directly upward, which connects with her chin as she flies upward from the impact.
He emerges from behind her, flips her upside down, wraps his legs around her small frame and locks her in the tombstone position.
Buttercup's eyes flutter open when she continuously feels the wind against her face and observes her fastly advances toward the ground. She attempts to break the hold but he tightly squeezes his hold on her, which forces her to stop squiriming.
'Got to do something quick or this will end nasty for me.' Buttercup thinks to herself. She repeatedly glances from the ground to Butch's face.
A idea suddenly surfaces from her thoughts, 'I could use my flight to slow us down. I just have to time it right.'
Blossom and Bubbles unknowingly flinched at the sight of their sister being potentially piledrived in to the ground. They briefly glance away from the scene. The sisters returned their sights to the fight only to discover that their sister managed to break the tombstone manuever.
"Good but not great..." He compliments her.
Butch steps in her direction, vanishes, materalizes in front of her and starts to rapidly punch her.
Buttercup nimbly dodges most of his attacks, spots an opening and tackles Butch to the ground. This creates another larger crater from their impact against the ground.
"You jackass!" Buttercup loudly shouts as she drags him along the ground.
Eventually, the two of them were dragging each other along the ground as they were wrestling to gain the upperhand on the other person. Butch won the match since he pinned Buttercup down with his hands.
She brings her knees together, aims for his abdoment region, shoves him in the stomach and forces him off of her. Buttercup then stands to her feet and gasps for oxygen.
"Breathless already?" He poses as he raises his arms up and outstretches them.
"We haven't even got to the best part!" Butch bellows before he clasps his hands together and produces a shockwave, which knocks Buttercup backwards on her butt.
'What was that?' Buttercup, Blossom and Bubbles wondered after they witnessed Butch's new move.
Buttercup stumbles a bit to her feet and manages to catch her breath. She advances forward and steps to the side, which creates afterimages of herself in a zigzag pattern.
It catches Butch completely off guard. She rams her elbow on the left side of his jaw, reaches out for his left arm, hoists him over her head, and chucks him into the ground.
Buttercup shoulders start to heave up and down due to her lack of oxygen and exhaustion from this battle with Butch.
The spectators predicts that fatigue finally settles among the two because they were possibly well in to a hour of a instense brawl.
Butch was personally tired of playing with Buttercup since he was finally serious about a fight.
"Come on Buttercup! Is that it? You're only showing me your incredible speed! Why don't you use your actual powers on me?" He challenges after he slightly leans back and hops to his feet.
"Why? You don't want to play with me anymore?" She counters prior to her sights behold his fist that appears to gather green energy.
"Finally, we're getting somewhere..." Butch happily mentions as his fists glow a forest green hue. He was focusing in on acquiring as much energy as possible.
The spectators continue to observe the pair as they assume that this was their final attack in the battle.
They observe both of their shoulders heave up and down from exhausting most of their physical strength against each other.
"This isn't going to end pretty. We have to get away from here." Brick loudly declares as he watches them draw more energy from within their bodies.
Boomer overhears what Brick declares, rushes over to his sisters and warns her, "Serena, we have to go...it's too dangerous!"
She pointed out that Butch and Buttercup had already dashed toward each other after Boomer approached her.
The two fists bypass each other and connect with the other's face, which produces a bright white light from contact. Brick scoops up Blossom while Boomer grabs Serena and Bubbles within his grasp.
Once the light dissipates, Serena finds herself in the air with Boomer before she casts her sights over to check on Bubbles. To her surprise, the blonde girl was flying as well and aiding Boomer in holding her up.
Brick had unknowingly picked Blossom up bridal style. She tightly clutched his neck from what he assumed was out of fear.
"You know, you can let go now." He quips with a coyish smirk present on his face.
Blossom slowly releases her grip from around his neck and recognizes the position that she was in. A blush materializes on her face as she leaps from within his arms and flies on her own free will.
She casts her gaze elsewhere with her arms tuck underneath her chest when she defends, "I could have easily flown on my own, you know."
Brick mentally processed the fact that he acted on sheer impulse in order to protect the girl, who was more than capable of defending herself from danger.
The four of them float back down until their feet return to the surface of the solid ground.
They inspected the damage that the two raven hair fighters created during their brawl.
They saw Buttercup and Butch were seperated a good distance away from each other as they both lie in their respective large craters. A stream of smoke radiates from both of their bodies as they start to move about.
Both of them were slow to raise to their feet before they eventually stand on their own freewill. A couple of seconds passes when Buttercup falls to her knees first, which declares Butch as the winner.
"Buttercup," Bubbles and Blossom rush over to their sister, who fell first, and abandon the other three spectators.
The pair examine their sister's body as bruises were apparent on her face after Buttercup inclines her head with a smile on her face and utters, "I tried."
Butch graudally trudged over to where the two sisters carefully tend to their injuried sister.
"You're one tough chick, Butter!" He asserts while he peers at her right before his knees buckle underneath him.
"I never had that much fun in a while now." Buttercup admitted as she coughed a little from being completely exhausted.
"Same here." Butch agrees with the girl and confesses, "I never had to use up my energy all at once in a fight or versus someone."
"That is until I fought you." He added while he laid stretched out on the grass.
Buttercup tried to focus in straight ahead but was completely tuckered out. She briefly succeeded and spotted him with a satisfied smile on his face
"I guess...I owe...you three." She mutters loud enough for him to hear her while she slowly closes her eyes.
Blossom and Bubbles watch Buttercup's back rise and falls as a signal that she was fast asleep.
Butch's party race over to him, check his injuries, and collect their haggard brother.
Their respective siblings loop each one of their arms around their neck while they even out the weight between the two.
"It was really nice to meet you Serena." Bubbles reveals with a genuine smile on her face.
"I hope we can meet again on a lesser means of violence." Blossom included right before the girls made their exit. The sisters take flight while Serena waves them off with a good-bye.
"Guys...I so definitely approve of those three!" She discloses as she continues to wave at Blossom, Buttercup, and Bubbles.
Brick quirks an eyebrow at Serena's comment. He did not like where Serena's mindset was taking her about the three sisters' who were flying away.
"What do you mean by that?" Brick questions with a solemn expression on her face.
"If a girl can kick you three butts any day...then I so definitely approve of them!" She answers with a laugh as they make their way back home.
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Buttercup awake from her temporary slumber during the midst of the flight. She was scoping out her surroundings before peering up at her two sisters.
"I'm sorry if I disappointed you as a fighter. I could have beaten Butch." Buttercup mumbles, which snags her sisters' awareness.
"You didn't disappoint us at all." Bubbles replies once she hears her speaks.
"We know you held back slightly but something told me he held back as well." Blossom reasons as she recalls the fight from her point of view.
"You two were fighting with kiddy gloves on the whole time. I think you two were having too much fun in order for that to be a real fight." Bubbles honestly opines about the brawl.
"You're right...we did." She utters right before she dozes off to sleep again.
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Morning rolls around as the girls wake up in a groggy state of mind. The loud barking of the neighbor's dog was thoroughly pissing her off, anc prompting Buttercup to search for a random object.
She hurls it out of the window, listens to the dog yelp in pain and grins at her acomplishment.
"I did say that I was going to get that dog one of these days." Buttercup mutters to herself as she stretches her tense muscles and yawns.
'What the hell is this?' She wonders as she critically inspects the contents that lay in front of her eyes.
Instead of her usual loose fitting athletic T-shirt and baggy or skinny jeans, there was a a razorback tank top, long sleeve shawl blazer, a skirt, a pair of leggings, a necklace and her beloved pair of black combat boots.
Bubbles treks inside of the room and notes Buttercup's confuse expression on her face as she stares at the clothes.
"Don't tell me you forgot about the bet with Bell?" Bubbles questions with her toothbrush in her mouth while Blossom fastens the buttons to her cardigan.
Buttercup directs her gaze in the direction of Bubbles prior to realization hit her, "Oh yeah..."
"…remind me to kill Butch." She says underneath her breath to herself in case she might forget.
"What did you just say?" Midori asked since she did not quite hear what Buttercup had mumbled under her breath.
"It's nothing. I said remember to get me...my composition books." She lies with a straight face.
Once the girls' awareness was off of her, Buttercup released a sigh of relief that no one heard except for herself.
Midori packs her night clothes in her overnight duffle bag that she brought with her.
She casts it over her shoulder, faces Buttercup and comes out with, "For a minute there...I thought you said something about Butch."
"Now why would I even say something about?" She counters while she palms her face with her hand.
Her comment causes the three of them to peer over at her, when Bubbles giggles out, "We knew you like him!"
"That's why you wanted to fight him…besides what did you mean when you said you owe him three?" Blossom inquired when she recounted what her sister muttered to Butch yesterday.
A blushes surface on her face and reflects back on the details of the wager. 'I really need to stop randomly betting with people.'
'I'm losing every freaking time.' She inwardly surmises and forgets that Midori looks at her.
"Oh my god you two! She's blushing!" The red head shrieks out loud after she notices the blush on her face.
Midori suddenly founc herself being engaged in a chase around the room by a irate Buttercup from her observation.
"Buttercup, stop chasing Midori this instantly!" Blossom motherly voice interjects as Buttercup clenches her fingers as if she physically caught the girl. "You're the only one who isn't dressed!"
"You better be lucky! She saved your life!" Buttercup mouthed out her threat to the elated red head.
"We have only five minutes to be at the bus stop." Blossom informs her of the time that they have left.
"Don't worry about the bus, Bloss." Buttercup abruptly mentions before she adds, "I'm driving today."
Blossom and Bubbles patiently wait downstairs for Buttercup and Midori to finish getting dress for school.
"Taking the car today." Buttercup exclaims once she sticks her head within the Professor's laboratory.
Her response came in the form of beakers collided together, an "ouch" from a stubbed toe, and a "Be safe when you drive".
She merely shakes her head at how clumsy her father could be whenever there was a interruption during his precious lab time.
"Alright, ladies let's be off!" Buttercup broadcasts as she collects the keys from the counter.
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Butch drives within the school's parking lot and scans the area out for an empty spot.
Brick points one out to him as he turns in and recognizes the white hair girl and her loyal followers, who stands on the sidewalk directly in front of the space.
"Just great." Butch huffed once he saw the girl. He then shifted the car from drive to park.
Brick ducks down pass the dashboard to pluck his bag from in front of him and poses, "She's your stalker?"
A "ugh" confirms his suspensions right before he thrusts the door outward and they exit the vehicle.
"I still didn't get your name?" Bell asks once Butch emerges from inside of the vehicle. He could tell that this girl was openly flirting with him.
"Why would…" The raven hair teen speaks up when she cuts him off and reveals her name as "Bell".
"Well then Bell, why do you want to know?" Butch poses before he slightly twists his head, briefly watches a familiar green Sports car coasts through the lot, and slowly inches down to find a parking spot.
"I would at least like to know the name of the boy of whom I'm pursuing." She explains as the brothers sense stalker vibes radiate from the girl in front of up him.
"Shaw is my name," He simply discloses his last name instead of his first name as a means of safety.
Bell's face scrunches up before she voices her opinion, "Hm, that name doesn't suit you at all. It doesn't sound dangerous enough."
"I guess you have to take that up with my parents." Butch utters as he shrugs his shoulders up and down.
The boys observed the green Camero pull up right next to where Butch parked. It continues to run for a while.
"Hey, isn't that Bell and her Barbies?" Bubbles wonders once the white hair girl, her minions and Butch enter their line of vision.
Midori and Blossom cut there eyes over to the driver only to see Buttercup, whose face was stoic.
"Besides, I hate when people tell me no." Bell warns him as he feels slightly nervous that the car still runs next to him.
Bright signs, bells, and whistles ring stalker with a giant arrow directly at the crown of her head as she continues to chat with him
"Listen, are you free anytime this week?" She curiously poses while she advance forward unknowingly invading his personal space.
"Nope! I'm busy with other things." Butch replies after he separates away from the white hair young lady, name Bell.
"Ah man, that's too bad!" Bell expressed false disappointment at being rejected by Butch.
"...because I was throwing a pool party at my mansion at the end of the week and everyone is invited...even the new people." She offers.
A preverted image surfaced in his mind after he heard two words: pool party.
"I'll see whether or not I'm avaliable. If not you won't see me and if you do then we will have a good time."
An eerily wide grin stretches across her face at his response to his invite and claims, "I will accept that as a maybe. See you later then Shaw."
The girl and her gang strut away from Butch as he had to tread carefully whenever he was around her.
Butch mentally pictures her as the sweet, innocent girl next door who if you date and break her heart she instantly transforms to her true nature...a derange psychopathic killer.
His nerves ease once the car's engine cranks off and observes familiar bobs of orange and blonde hair but no black.
The sound of the driver's door clicks open, which reveals a bob of black and Buttercup's face.
She bends down, leans the driver's seat forward and helps another bob of red emerges from the vehicle.
Buttercup tails behind Midori as they round the hood of the car and reveals a very feminine dress.
Butch clasps his hand over his mouth to hold back the laughter that threatens to emit from his mouth. His consciousness quickly reminded him of their contracted deal.
"Yo," He greets her with a wave after he gathers his composure and exudes his bad boy persona.
She advises Midori to go on ahead with her sisters' while she deals with Butch.
Buttercup gently leans against the hood of her car, crosses her feet at the ankles, tucks her arms underneath her chest, glares at him with an amuse expression on her face and catechizes, "Whatcha want now, Butch?"
A coyish smirk surfaces to his face as she tries to exert aloofness and callousness. He sensed that she already knew the topic of their conversation and wanted to avoid it by any means necessary.
He holds up three fingers and implies, "Remember you owe me three."
Butch could have sworn he detected a small blush on her face as she withdrawed her butt from against the surface of her hood.
She closes the space that separate her from Butch, covers his three fingers, draws his fingers down, and asserts, "I'm not a bimbo, you know."
Butch gazes follow the raven haired girl as she casually treads over to her sisters and Midori.
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Author's Note:
07.15.16 Major editing revision