Serena snatches the remote from the coffee table, crashes on the couch, and powers on the television.
'I can't believe that Brick let Blossom slip through the cracks of his fingers! What could that idiot be waiting on?' She deliberates to herself about Brick's mindset toward Blossom.
Serena knew that he had taken a particular likening to the orange head girl since she proved to have just as much smarts as he does.
'Red and Pink huh?' She ponders before she realizes that all of them had a color correlation with one another.
'Butch and Buttercup, Brick and Blossom, and Boomer and Bubbles…the military's Beta soldiers forced to undergo life changing and traumatize events. The six teens that survived…six.'
Serena scopes out the living room in search for her cell phone while she notes, 'I think I have to look in to one more thing before I can solidify all of the connections.'
She lifted one of the sofa seats since she slept there last night and could be the last time she had her cell phone.
'I'm so close to the truth! I just have to find out some more information and then I can tell them what I know.' Serena declares when she feels cold metal against her warm fleshy hand.
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Midori slightly eases up once she spots the Pokey Oaks High archway within her sights and feels the car come to a stop.
"I told you I would get you here safe and sound, Ms. Midori the defender of the weak puppy." He asserts to her after he points out her school's sign to her.
Midori remains on guard about him because she did not even know his name so she decides to ask, "I would like to at least know the name of the person, who saved my life and graciously offered me a ride to school. I can understand if you want to keep quiet about it."
He erupted in a bout of chuckles after he listened to how she words her question from the one he asked her from earlier.
"Here I was being polite and had already asked for your name yet you're just now wanting to know mine. What took you so long?" He revels after he ceases his laughter.
'You got to be kidding me…' She thinks with an expression of shock on her face once she listens to his statement.
"My name's Drake Pierce. I attend a nearby high school, so just incase you run in to me again I don't want you to think that I'm really a psycho stalker." The boy introduces himself as Drake claims.
For some reason, Midori could not help but to find a tad bit of comfort at the brunette's easygoing nature.
"Well then I got to go…" She mentions to him before she exits from the car and waits until he drives off.
'I wonder what the 4-3-6 on his neck stands for?' Midori thinks before she overhears the late bell rings from inside of the school.
'Crap, I'm late for class…' She regards while she launches in a full out sprint at top speed toward the entrance of the school.
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Midori slides the door open while she sharply exhales and proclaims, "Mr. Matura, I'm here!"
She was watching him about to scribble an absent mark near her name.
"Well then...Ms. Roberts is here on time." Mr. Matura utters to himself when he marks the symbol for present.
Midori closes the door behind her and treads over to her seat until she observes expression of distress from both Buttercup and Bubbles. However, there was something vacant from this picture or rather it was someone.
"Where have you been?! I was so worried about you when you didn't call us this morning?!" Bubbles nervously poses to her once she spots her.
"Whoa, can I catch my breath first, mom?" Midori expresses in a jokingly manner.
Buttercup laughs at her sister's action before she chimes in, "She does that to everyone she knows."
Butch overhears the trio's conversation from where he sits with Boomer and a couple of other boys in their class.
"So I decided to walk to school today because it was great weather and bought me something to eat from the store. Along the way, I saw this abandoned puppy starving and I fed it a piece of my bread. I then looked up to see a group of boys in green uniforms in the alleyway. So I was frozen in place, I tried to think of a way out but I got lucky this time and someone helped me out." Midori ran down the events that just happened to her.
Bubbles eyes grew wide at what Midori just told her and voiced, "Look, you don't have to walk to school anymore! I'll make sure that Buttercup pick you up."
"Did you even get the person's name that saved you?" Buttercup inquiries to her friend while Bubbles was off in her own world in order to calm herself down.
She nods her head in an up and down manner and discloses, "His name is Drake Pierce…"
Butch quickly snapped his head in the direction of the girls when he heard his name emerge from Midori's lips.
'It's about time that he showed up.' He says to himself before Mr. Matura slams his yardstick against his desk.
"Alright, I just received the event for today! It's an outdoor sport. How many of you have played hockey before?"
"Wait…it's spring! There's no where in the school we can play hockey at Mr. Matura?" A random student responses to him.
He raise both of his hands up in an innocent fashion and defends, "Now look here...don't go ripping my head off just because I asked how many of you all have played hockey before?!"
His homeroom remains quiet before he speaks up, "From the silence, I will assume that none of you have played hockey before."
"How about inline or roller skating?" Mr. Matura poses when he watches a couple of hands rise in the air.
"Well then that's good not too many of you all know how to skate since we can easily change that rule."
"So what are we exactly playing, Mr. Matura?" A student questions about their activity for today.
"You all will be participating in a five on five field hockey tournament. There will be the girls and of course the boys on two seperate teams. Principal Alma suggested that we don't do the skates because he considered that as a risk factor. So instead, we will play in our shoes."
"Field Hockey? It sounds like it could be funny. As long as we get to hit our opponents like in regular hockey! Sign me up." Buttercup expresses with excitement in her tone.
"Sign me up too." Midori declares her participation in the event.
"I'll play too." Bubbles confirms after she surfaces from her thoughts of what happen to Midori this morning.
Two other girls volunteered while the boys already established, who was going to participate in today's event.
"We will be playing in the afternoon since we played in the morning yesterday. I'll need the non-participants to run the concession stand and operate the scoring table." Mr. Matura broadcasts the message off on his paper.
"I guess we're stuck in here for a little while." Midori utters before her sights land on Blossom's desk and realizes she was not there.
"Where's Blossom?" She needles to Bubbles and Buttercup.
Her question captures Brick's attention since he recall not seeing his counterpart at all this morning.
'Wait a minute…did I just say mine?' He reflects back on his statement.
"Bloss had a high fever on the way back home. The Professor told her to stay in bed but she should be back tomorrow." Bubbles answers her question.
"Now that you mention it, I wonder when the blonde twit will show his face?" Buttercup mutters while she casts her sights at the door.
"Best to believe that the word spreads around her like wildfire. So, I give it an hour or so." Midori predicts as she leans back in her chair.
"This is going to be a long day today." Buttercup surmises before she withdraws a notebook and a pencil from within her desk and proceeds to doodle.
Midori shifts her sights to the left until she spots Butch make his way over toward them and warns her, "Buttercup...you have a boy alert: code orange."
She was finishing her drawing a lighting bolt, sticking her mechanical pencil in the middle of her notebook and shutting it.
"Are you're going to bother me since you have nothing else to talk to the boys about?" Buttercup assumed with both of her eyes closed and her jaw against her open palm.
"No, not really. I just decided to come visit a dear friend of mine, ladies if you don't mind." Butch politely speaks before Midori and Bubbles excuses themselves from the two.
"First off, good morning Butter, how are you doing?" He asks her first which was their normal greeting.
"What is you want Butch?! I'm not in the mood to try and play this bait game with you today." She threatens before she opens her eyes.
"Do you remember anything from Bell's party?" Butch needles since he had to be cautious to not revive certain memories.
"I mean I just remember seeing Blossom running away, fighting against Bell on the platform, and knocking her off it. Then she grabbed my ankle and pushed me face forward in the water. After that, it's just a blur to me." Buttercup recounts before she brings both of her hands to her head in pain.
He reaches out for her arm, bends to her level, and summarizes her story with, "Good! After that you resurfaced and enjoyed the rest of the party."
"So it seems as if you're one Powerpuff Girl down…you know I'm going to have Brick worry me to death about her." He diverts the conversation to Blossom.
"I'm sure you can handle Brick all on your own. Why did you ask me about Bell's party? Did something else happen?" She poses to him.
"Oh nothing, I was just getting everybody's feedback on the party that's all. Anyway, Princess told me about a girl who attended school here a year ago." Butch diverts her attention away from Bell's pool party again.
He mentally reminds himself that he had to very careful about that issue as well.
Buttercup peeks up at Butch and envisions the gears in his head rotate when he continues, "They said she held your previous position and was one of the best female fighters to ever emerge from Pokey Oaks High."
"You're beating around the bush, Butch." She asserts with a placid expression on her face.
"What do you want to know about Tia?" Buttercup demands after she deduces from Butch's clues that links to Tia.
Before he could reply, their homeroom door slides open to reveal: Bell, her gang of Barbies, and Flash.
"Hello there Mr. Matura! We're hear to request to see one of your students for a couple of minutes." Bell states her demand upon her arrival.
"...and which one of my students might have the misfortune to be?" He needles in a polite tone since he has to maintain his role as an educator.
She did not even bother to check if the person she requests for was present before she identifies who it is, "Blossom Utonuim."
"I'm sorry Bell but she didn't come to school today. You should try tomorrow." Mr. Matura discloses to the group in a calm tone.
Buttercup glances up and watches the reaction on Flash's face, "What! You've got to be kidding me!"
It was at the moment did she realizes that Flash glares at her, pushes pass Bell and storms toward her desk.
"Where is she?!" He bellows with venom evident in his tone.
Buttercup breaks in a grin that progresses to a smile, which results in to a full out hysterical laughter at Flash's false exhibition of his so call affection for her sister.
It downright made her sick to her stomach.
Butch was on high alert incase Flash's attempts a dirty trick but was sure that Buttercup could handle herself.
"It's good to see you this morning too Flash! If you want to know where she is why don't you just call her?" Buttercup challenges him.
He was instantly muted before she refuted his claim.
"Besides you're the one, who so rudely interrupted our homeroom just because you assumed that I would forbid my sister from coming to school just so she wouldn't be seen with you. That's low... even for me."
Flash clenches his fists out of anger and hesitates as if he deliberates should he hit her.
"If you so call like my sister then you shouldn't be here wasting my time trying to start a fight with me! I mean...it would only end up bad on your part. Instead, you should be trying to figure out what happened to her."
"Flash, that's enough." Bell's voice calmly shouts to him once she sees right through Buttercup's little charade.
She adds, "We need to report back to homeroom. After all...this isn't our area of play."
Buttercup knew all to well that Flash was still stupid enough to even consider hitting her, "Give me a reason not to?"
"There never was one…Flash." Buttercup contends as she has the final say in the conversation.
Flash merely huffs, releases his fists and whirls away.
Butch overhears Buttercup exhales a sigh of frustration and mutters to Bubbles, "If you need me, you know where to find me."
"Hey Mr. Matura, I'm going to my favorite spot. I'll be back in thirty minutes or so." She mentions after she marches over to their teacher's desk.
"Oh please take me with you! That was very impressive how you handled that situation! You're starting to grow up on me, kiddo." He extends a compliment about the progession in Buttercup's behavior.
She wears a smile on her face and discloses, "I had no other choice! You have to watch out for the class. We don't want another incident such as what just happen occur again."
Mr. Matura releases a breath before he warns her, "Yeah, you're right. Just be safe when you're up there. People tend to get a little crazy around this time."
"Yeah, you're right. I will keep that in mind. Send Bubbles before it is time or I might not come down at all." Buttercup reminds her homeroom teacher.
"Sure, kiddo. It's no problem at all…" He dismisses her before she ambles out of his classroom.
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Author's Note:
07.26.16 Major editing revision