Bell decides to initiate the first move. She aimed her blue padded lance at Buttercup's feet, who hopped over the lance and landed on the red stool.
"Is that all you got?" Buttercup badgered her since she knew that there was one thing her Bell had in common...they hated being irritated.
Yet with Bell, you could easily get under her skin and fester.
The platinum blonde makes an effort to target the raven hair face only to be block by her lance, which leaves an opening in her defense. Buttercup capitalizes on the opportunity and tags Bell in the stomach before she stumbles back a little.
The crowd was tense and anxious to see who would be the first to fall from their pedestal from a knockout by their opponent. The end result of the match would show in a few seconds.
Buttercup connects with Bell's side after she does her best to block her last attack and leaves her wide open for a final move.
A plunk noise was heard right before the crowd erupted in cheers for Buttercup, who happily accepted the cheers from her student body. She whirled to face them and bowed at the waist.
'What does Bell think she's doing?' Bubbles wonders as the platinum blonde girl's head bobbles back up to the surface with only her visible.
She steathily sneaks up behind Buttercup, swiftly ensnares her ankle, and suddenly thrusts her face first in to the pool's water. It was a shocking display of strength from the meek girl.
'Oh, that's not good!' Bubbles inwardly shouts because she could not believe that Bell would pull such a trick on someone…let only Buttercup of all people.
Bell swims to one side of the pool and glances up to see that the crowd stand around the edge of the pool. She was not able to place her hands on the edge of the pool to lift herself out.
Bell repeats the same action for the opposite side, except this time she swims right up to Bubbles.
She squats down as if she was going to help her. "I am so sorry Bell but that little move you just did to my sister was so selfish and conniving. I can't let you out of the water."
Bell defiantly stares her down as if she was lower than her and promptly hisses "You know what...I don't need you because first of all I have my Barbies."
Since she could not exit the pool, she floated in the middle of the water. The platinum blonde swore she saw a green mist emitted from where Buttercup fell in to the water.
"What in the world is that?" Bubbles, Boomer and Butch overhear a random student says out loud as they point to pool, which starts to produce lime green color smoke.
'Something's not right here...' Bubbles assumes while she observes the mist increases in its volume.
Meanwhile...
Brick was making an effort to figure out what sound Blossom was hearing at the moment.
"Are you sure you can't hear that voice?" She asks again.
The voice rings loud and clear in her ears when she adds, "It sounds as if it's a...little girl."
Blossom presses her ear against the metal wall to see if she could hear the voice. A little girl voice begs her, 'Someone help me.'
A breeze blows in from the opposite direction that they travel in, it carries a whisper along with a little girl's voice that calls out to him.
He abruptly grabs hold of her arm and forces her to stop from shock. Blossom reverses to see Brick's face contorts from astonishment when he voices, "I just heard it too!"
She relaxes her shoulders a bit because she was happy that she was not going crazy. Brick confirms that he hears the little girl's voice as well.
"Good, now let's try to help her." Blossom asserts. She faces the direction that they head in when something catches her sights.
"Hey, Brick," The orange head girl was uttering his name. He arouse from his state of awe at the voice in the hallway
Brick studied the calm and placid expression on Blossom's face ever since he found her in the corridor and realized that it started to rub off on him.
"I think there's a door down there but I'm not to sure. Let's see what it is." Blossom suggests to the orange head boy, who nods his head when he feels her grab his hand.
'I swear one minute she's having a panic attack and the next minute she's curious about this little girl.' He mulls to himself before he decides to go with the flow and tails behind her.
"I wonder why is there a hall like this under Bell's house." Brick unknowingly projects his thought outward. Blossom peered at the perplexed expression on his face.
"When you are as loaded as Bell's dad is and only have one child to take care of than you don't have to worry about anything, now do you?" Blossom presents the possible reason why Bell have this underground hallway.
"Come on Blossom, this could be a tornado shelter or something. Did you ever consider that?" He offers his explanation right before they arrive at a huge metallic door with a silver lock and a keypad.
'Someone help me…' The little girl's voice sounds louder from the inside of what is in front of them, which they assume is a vault.
"Hey, it's coming from in here! Do you think we should open it?" She asks him after she settles her ear against the vault and listens to the feminine voice call out to her.
Brick scans their new surroundings and assumes that he was in the middle of a dream.
He feels the entire hallway begins to shake around them.
Up above on the surface...
Bubbles, Boomer and Butch could not possibly fathom what occurred before their very own eyes. Six geysers surface from underneath the pool's water, which hurls Bell's body in the direction of the stage.
Multiple earthquakes repeatedly shake their area as cracks materialize around each side of the pool. It had completely altered the landscape around them from gentle rolling hills to a range of mountains with deep valleys and canyons.
The snack table was flipped over, windows shattered, and miscellaneous decorations from the party were scattered everywhere.
The trio observe a whirlpool develop in the middle of the pool but no Buttercup, which place Bubbles on high alert for the safety of those around her.
"If you want to live to see tomorrow, I suggest you all leave this area now!" Bubbles bellows at the crowd of students, who departs from the current location. After all, they did value their own lives.
"Are you alright?" Boomer poses to Bubbles after she delivers the warning to the innocent civilians. She wanted to prevent innocent people from being injured or worse…killed.
"Do you see Buttercup in the water?" Bubbles ignores Boomer's first question since her mind works in overdrive. She concludes two things: 1) Buttercup was nowhere in the water and 2) Blossom was no longer around in the area.
Butch envisions that he is currently in an apocalyptic theme movie, except this was reality. He was really living the moment with no director to shout cut.
A slight twinge of fear from the unknown climbs up his spine after he witnesses Bell's body being hurled through the air. He did not detect Buttercup emerge from the pool.
Two bobs of blonde people registers in his mind as none other than his brother, Boomer, and Buttercup's sister, Bubbles. She leans over the edge of the pool and searches for her older sister's body.
'Who could blame her? I wouldn't want to lose a family member to someone's jealousy streak.' He weighs before he cuts his sights over to Bell, who appears to be unconscious after being toss in to the concert stage.
A vertical column of lime green light beams from the center of the whirlpool that snares the trio awareness. They silently hope it was Buttercup.
What their eyes laid on next would forever be etched in their memory banks.
Buttercup idlely floats up from the bottom of the pool and slightly hovers over the surface. The water simply cascades right off of her body. However, it was her drastically altered appearance that earned gapes from the spectators.
Her skin was pitch black instead of its normal tan skin color. Her green swimsuit no longer held its color instead it matched her altered skin tone. Her hair was no longer shoulder length but was rather long, reaches to the middle of her back and remains spiky. Her eyes and temples glow with numerous circular spots that reminds Butch of a cheetah. The spots stretch down the nape of her neck, her forearms, her hands, and the side of her thighs. She no longer had any visible pupils as her eyes emanated a light green hue.
'Is that…Buttercup?' The question passes through the three spectators' mind. Sudden movement from the broken stage captures their awareness.
'That's impossible! No mere human could survive being through…unless.' The thought of disbelief swiftly passes through their minds as Bell arises from the rummage with barely a scratch on her body.
The platinum blonde felt a crick in her neck and tried to mend the problem. She then lifts her hands to the side of her face. The trio witness Bell removes her head from her neck, flips her head in the right direction, and settles it back on her neck.
"Did you just see Bell turn her head completely around?" Her acute hearing was picking up what Bubbles was whispering to the boy name Boomer. They scruntize her current action.
She popped her shoulders in order to inspect whether or not her head was secured. She scans the now mountainous layout of her backyard.
The trio could only watch from astonishment as the platinum blonde girl studies all of the sudden changes in scenery.
A buzz travels throughout her body as her mind registers a coded message. She examines a rather wide gap situated between two precipes before she faces Buttercup.
Her eyes land on her body while her power gauge calculates her powers. It deemed her as unpredictable and a potential threat that needed to be terminated immediately.
Bell launches in to a sprint toward the pool and leaps toward Buttercup only to be repel by a spherical light green shield that instantly materalizes around her body.
The platinum blonde girl gathers herself, stands to her feet, and dusts herself off as if she did not feel the impact of her collision with the shield or her fall.
'Is she a super solider like us?' Butch inwardly wonders.
He periodically glances at the two girls since he did not know which one to watch during the fight.
Buttercup elevates her entire right arm, amasses light green energy in her hand, fires it towards Bell's location.
The ball rapidly slices through the air as she avoids it with sidestep. It zips right pass her ear and crashes into the apex of one of the mountains
The after shock of the collision causes Bell's body to fly in the air where she adjusts her body midflight. Buttrrcup forces her body to the ground on one of her knees while her other leg extends outward.
Butch conceals the top portion of his face with his left forearm to withstand the extreme gusts of winds. It was produced after Buttercup fired a tiny but deadly blast at Bell.
'Is this a new transformation?' 'Can anyone of us transform into that?' 'What's up with Bell?' Butch's mind volleys a million different questions through his thoughts as what he was watching was something truly unbelievable.
Boomer safeguards Bubbles until the winds from the ball that Buttercup launches at Bell cease. Bell continously assaulted Buttercup, who blocked her barrage of punches with a force field that grew stronger with every hit.
"Boomer," Bubbles speaks up as she glances up at the male blonde boy.
"I think I hear Blossom's voice." She mentions as she leaps to her feet.
"Are you sure?" He hopefully poses to her about what she was able to hear since he could not pick up on anything.
"Yeah, just follow me." Bubbles reassures him as they manage to sneak away from the battlefield between Buttercup and Bell, who concentrates on penetrating the shield around Buttercup.
Back in the underground tunnel...
"Are you alright Blossom?" Brick's voice rung in her head, which aroused her from her dazed state.
She registers that she was in a seated position and observes Brick hoist a large boulder in between his shoulders.
Blossom inspected the hallway and realized that it must have caved in because of the earthquakes. The vault door was no longer in her field of vision.
'And we are so close to opening it too!' She thinks to herself. She then redirects her attention on what was important: her situation and her safety as well as Brick.
"Are you going to respond or are you dead?" His tone was laced with concern.
He was enduring through the heavy weight of the boulder on his shoulders to prevent it from crushing the life out of the both of them.
"Thanks to your quick thinking, I'm not sandwiched to death between a rock and a hard place. Good job there Brick." She compliments him. Brick was relieved that she could not see his red face.
"I got a plan but its only going to work if, we have perfect time and accuracy…" Blossom discloses to him after she plots out a route for their escape.
"I'm listening." He grunts as he adjusts the weight to a new part of his body.
"Alright then. When you use your heat vision to spilt this boulder in half more than liking there will be some more debris. So I'll use my icy breath to freeze them and you blast them?" She outlines the details of her plan to him. Brick gives her his verbal approval on the strategy.
"On the count of three…one…two…three!"
Blossom watches as Brick's eyes ignite red, which motions to her to inhale as much air as she could possibly acquire from her kneel position. She listens to the boulder crack in half.
The plan seems to work like a charm as the pair manage to clear through majority of the debris from their line of vision. They then hear Bubbles' voice yell down the hole, "Blossom, are you okay?"
She glances at him, who wears a smirk on his face, because they survived the worst of what they thought. They ascended to the surface on guard in case a random object might fall on them.
"Blossom," Bubbles nearly tackles her sister once she lands on the soft grass.
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Author's Note:
07.17.16 Major editing revision