"Serena, we're going to take your car to school, okay?" Butch says to his older sister while he pokes his head within her bedroom.
She had stumbled back home around four o'clock in the morning clad in her new military uniform. The orange head discover Butch was wide awake in the kitchen drinking some juice.
Even though their conversation was brief, it sounded as if Serena had a wealth of new knowledge that dealt with them, Buttercup, her sisters and Bell.
"So how is she?" Boomer poses after he watches Butch shoves her bedroom door back.
He peers up to see that he stands in the hallway.
"Tired. She came home around four, but she said we can use the car today." Butch discloses to Boomer of his plan to drive them to school. Brick then emerges from the bathroom.
"Are we leaving?" was the first thing he asked once he exited from the bathroom.
"Yep. Right now actually." Butch remarks while he heads toward the living room, where his jacket and the car keys were.
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"Thanks for the ride Buttercup, I owe you." Midori thanks her raven-hair friend once she settles herself in her green Camaro.
"It's no problem. When you said your dad's car broke down I had to lend a helping hand." She assures her after she reverses out of Midori's driveway and drives toward the red light.
"So Midori, are you ready to go and get Sports Fest over with?" Bubbles poses to her red haired friend in the front seat.
"I guess you can say something like that, but it will be fun not to have schoolwork for the whole week." She retorts while she rolls down the window to get some fresh air.
"You hear that Bloss, no school work for the week." Buttercup repeats a part of Midori's sentence while she peeps at her rear view mirror.
Blossom shakes her head before she responds, "I'm just glad, we finally got a break but don't we have to go to that meeting?"
"That's where we are going. Midori when we get there, can you look after the car for a while?" Buttercup asks her friend while she executes a left turn and passes by the gas station.
"Sure, I can do that." Midori agreed with a small smile on her face while she stared out of her rolled down window.
"You two, we are going to park the car a block away from the meeting so no one would notice us. Midori, you get to pretend that this is your car." Buttercup humors with her friend, which earns a laugh from her.
"I understand." Midori confirms after she laughs at her previous statement.
"Good because we're here." She proclaims to everyone in the car after she veers in a convenience store that seems slightly busy than normal.
"Alright you two, lets go!" Buttercup declares to her sisters' as everyone, except Midori, exits the vehicle.
Midori scoots over to the driver's side and discovers the keys were still in the ignition.
"Are you sure about this Buttercup?" Bubbles questions as they wait at a traffic light to cross the street.
"Trust me…if anything goes down I won't hesitate to protect you two. We are just going to go in and have a nice quick talk about the tournament format. After that, we will be heading back to school to enjoy Sports Fest." Buttercup outlines the flow of the meeting to her two sisters.
The light glows red when a white person flashes across the street, which signals that they could cross over to their next destination.
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"Do you want breakfast?" Butch asks his brothers' as they wait on a light when he spots a fast food restaurant that serves breakfast.
"Yeah, I didn't eat anything since last night. My stomach's growling at me." Brick agrees before the traffic light changes to green.
"Boomer?" He directs to his blonde brother, who is fast asleep in the back seat.
"That's a yes!" Brick confirms for Boomer instead as Butch speeds in the drive-thru of the fast food place.
"You know they say, we're going to do a week long festival thingy." Brick brought up after Butch ordered the three of them something to eat.
He searches for the total amount before he responds to Brick, "Sports Fest, I think that's what they call it."
"Well whatever it is…we aren't going to do school work the entire week." Brick expresses as Butch leans out of the driver's window to pay the cashier for their food.
"Then you don't have anything to worry about then Brick." He teases his brother, who only shakes his head in agreement.
"Hey Brick," Butch's voice hardens after he snags the bag of food and hands it to Brick, "Yeah, what is it Butch?"
"When we were talking about the Three Bandits, you said that you and Blossom ran in to two of them?" He probes as Brick digs his sandwich out the bag and bites in to it.
"Yeah, I think she said their names were Lucas and Argos, but when she saw them it was as if she saw a ghost." He divulges after he chews and swallows his food.
"Same with Buttercup, she was completely irritated when she saw that their leader had joined us for pizza." Butch asserts while he dives in the bag for his biscuit and sausage sandwich.
"I recall you said something about that, this Prince dude job was to eliminate the top of Pokey Oaks and whoever else was going to take the title?" Brick mentions after he bites his sandwich.
"Yeah, the dude didn't come off as ruthless. But you never know with people like him when you first met them." He alleges while he burns rubber through three green lights.
"Good point! We'll just have to see during this week." Brick claims when he hears Boomer wake up from his slumber in the backseat.
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"Alright ladies and gentlemen! We're going to make this meeting as fast as possible, so take your designated seats." A random individual laments as Buttercup along with her sisters in tow searches for their respective seat.
"Why if it isn't Buttercup and her sisters' Blossom and Bubbles? I'm surprised that you three made it back with all of your limbs intact." A male with silver hair that was styled in a low ponytail with two males poise behind him with a blank expression on their face remarks.
"Same here, Mitzuki, I thought people like you would've been ran over by an eighteen wheeler by now." Buttercup snapped back since she knew that her sarcasm was sharp enough to cut anyone even Mitzuki.
'It seems as if no one lost their position to anyone…wait a minute is that Prince!' She wonders as she rubs her eyes to make sure she sees correctly.
"Hey Blossom, don't tell me that that's Prince, along with Argos and Lucas, behind him." Buttercup muttered to her orange haired sister, who leaned over to hear what she just said.
"Why of course that is Prince, Buttercup! He assumed Jing's position since he graduated last year, surely you would have known that." Mitzuki's voice chimes in on her conversation with Blossom.
"Was I talking to you?" She rhetorically asks as she swivels her head in Mitzuki's direction.
"No, I don't think so! Why don't you keep your ears out of my conversation with my sister or you won't have anything to hear from." Buttercup keeps her voice at an even tone when the seat next to her was filled.
"Meiko?" Buttercup posed to the girl, who sat next to her with her orange hair brushed in two pigtails that were held by yellow ribbons.
The girl responds to her name when she whirls her sights to a raven hair girl and registers the identity of the girl.
They share a brief hug and greet each other with a warm smile on their face after the duo exchange pleasantries with each other.
"Everyone, I would you for you all to direct your focus on to the screen." The individual from earlier broadcasts to the group.
"I guess it's time to start." Buttercup mumbles to herself as she heeds the order.
"This year is going to be slightly different from the other year." A woman with long bone straight purple hair addresses the large group of students.
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"It seems quieter at school today, doesn't it?" Boomer questions when they speed in the parking lot of the school.
"Yeah, that's because we didn't have to race to school today, unlike the last time we were in this car." Brick revels to his brother as he parks into an empty spot.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever just get out of the car." Butch counters.
She cuts the engine, drops the keys in his coat pocket and pushes the driver's door open.
"Seems like I hit a nerve there, didn't I?" Brick comments as Boomer steps out of the car before Butch engages the alarm on the car.
For some reason, Butch scopes out the parking lot and hope at any moment a green Camaro zooms in with no regards to anyone in its path, and the owner of the car would greet him with a scowl on her face.
However, his wish did not come as fast as he wanted it to. In fact it came in the form of his classmate better known as Princess, who approaches him.
"It seems as if you were waiting for someone, is it...Buttercup?" She challenges before she glances among the brothers, who stands around the orange Mustang GTO.
"Why are you even here in the first place Princess?" Butch demands as to why of all people would she talk to him at the moment.
"...because I was just a fellow classmate, who was trying to help another classmate out…that's all. My intents are pure." Princess relates with no signs of hesitation.
"Well then quit wasting our time with playing your little mind games and tell us what do you want?" Brick snapped since he was already fustrated with the presence of the red haired girl.
"Last I check, Brick, I wasn't talking to you, clearly I was talking to the your brother Butch." Princess counters.
"So do you want to know or not?" Princess repeats her question toward Butch, who leans his forearms on the top of the roof of the car.
"Why not? We have time to kill before the beginning of class." Butch agrees to her question since he shares similar feelings as his brother.
"Buttercup is currently in a meeting where the chain of command convenes each and every year to discuss the DFMT Tournament format." Princess discloses before she produces a pack of gum and pops it in her mouth.
'So it has begun yet again.' The trio shared similar thoughts after they heard the answer to Butch's question from Princess, who blew a large bubble of pink bubble gum.
"You're actually useful for something." Brick states when he folds his arms across his chest with his eyes close.
Princess huffs, which causes her gum to burst all over her mouth, "Just know that when the time comes, I want to have something in return for telling you that information."
"That little wench can't be serious! She just willingly told you that." Brick counters after he listens to what Princess just told Butch.
"I'm not surprised that she didn't say that earlier. I mean that's how she makes her living by supplying certain people with a need for information." Butch asserts while he cools down Brick's protest.
"At least she was nice enough to tell you, Butch. I think she might like you." Boomer alleges after he processes and beholds what just happen between Butch and Princess.
"I think Boomer is right. From what I heard of her, she only tells certain people information she knows without charging a fee." Brick adds in after Boomer clears the fog of confusion.
The sight of a green Camaro captures his focus, as it veers in and inches down the lot for a parking spot, "Well if its anything bad that she has in mind then it's not going to happen."
"If you say so, she looks like the desperate stalker chick. The same type as Bell." Brick alleges when he circles toward the truck of the Mustang GTO to get his bag.
"Now that you mention it, I wonder if they held her funeral or are they going to announce it?" Butch expresses after he pops the truck.
He overhears a car pass right by him and parks in the vacant spot next to his sister's car.
"We won't know till we get into school but until then I wouldn't mention anything else about it. It may be a sensitive topic for some people." Butch implies.
He peers upward and watches Buttercup, Blossom, Bubbles and a red haired girl emerge from the green Camaro park to the left of them.
"Good morning!" Butch and Brick hears Boomer greets the group of girls once they exit out of Buttercup's car.
"I wonder will they even answer him." Brick mutters to Butch after he snatches his bag from the trunk.
"Good morning, Boomer." The three sisters and Midori response before they close and lock the car doors with their respective bags in tow.
"No freaking way!" The two brothers' howl in unison as they view the quad enter through the school's entrance.
Butch and Brick round the corner back to Boomer's side before they both slap him upside the head. Brick then hands him his bag "Ouch!" "Ouch!" "What was that for?"
"Just come on…we don't want to be late for class. Now do we?" Butch asks his brother after he chucks his bag over his shoulder with Brick in synch with him.
Boomer rushes to catch up with his older siblings. He overhears the school's bell rings while the other students dash within the school's entrance so they would not be late.
"Hey Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup." A familiar voice greets them once they enter their homeroom.
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Author's Note:
07.18.16 Major editing revision