Boomer gently cradles Bubbles in his arms while he swiftly covers the distance from the movie theater to her home. He opts to use her window so he could avoid the Professor and her sisters.
Yet, luck seems to be on his side once he realizes that she had left her window slightly ajar. It was probably because she was in a rush to meet him.
Boomer carefully shifts her over to his dominate arm before he reaches out for the metallic latch. He softly draws it back, glides in and shuts the window behind him.
The blonde gently laid her across her circular bed, which was decorated with random size pillows and a purple octopus with a top hat. He decides to wait until she recovers from being unconscious.
The teen boy then plops down in the spherical chair, leans his back against the cushion and mentally thinks, 'This is just crazy…'
'First it was Buttercup at Bell's pool party and now Bubbles…what's next? Can Blossom use that power too?'
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At the same time, Brick constantly shifts Blossom's body back on to his back. He trekked the distance back to her home by feet.
As he draws closer to the white cubic house, his ears unexpectedly pick up on the voices of Buttercup and the Professor. The orange haired teen assumes that they were presently in the living room.
'Well...going through the front is out of the question.' He ultimately concludes. He starts to inwardly weigh his options on how he would be able to sneak in her home.
The teen boy stealthily jogs to the back of the house where he then quietly floats off of the ground. Brick carefully checks out the three circular windows.
The orange haired male soon encountered a problem, the window to Blossom's room was locked. This prompts him to curse at his bad luck before he eventually proceeds to glide over to the other windows.
'Wait…is that Boomer?' He ruminates once he unexpectedly catches a glimpse of his blonde brother.
'Oh thank God,' Brick thanks the heavens for the turn in his misfortune.
The sound of knocks against the window catches Boomer's attention, he then directs his sights onto the clear glass only to spot his brother with Blossom on his back.
He quietly pushes the window out for him so that he could easily maneuver through the window.
"I owe you one, Boom!" Brick graciously thanks his brother for his help before he strides over to the door.
Boomer merely watches as his brother slightly cracks the door, sticks his head outside, and scurries over to Blossom's door.
'Wait…was Blossom unconscious?' He inwardly contemplates after he closes Bubbles' bedroom door.
Meanwhile,
Buttercup was currently downstairs when she unexpectedly hears the lab door open to reveal the Professor with goggles over his eyes.
"Ah Buttercup, how are you?" He politely greets her once his eyes land on his raven hair daughter.
She grabs an apple from the refrigerator, closes the door behind her with her foot, bites in to the fruit and replies, "Fine,"
"Where are your sisters?" The Professor inquires about his other two daughters' whereabouts as she continues to bite the apple.
Buttercup ponders over her answer before she leisurely responds, "Bubbles went to the movies with Boomer and Blossom went to the park to meet some dude."
'A boy…' The Professor repeats prior to his comment, "I guess everyone else is busy with their own plans today. What about you?"
Her dad's question reminded her of what Butch had asked her from last night, "I do. Matter of fact, I need to start getting ready now."
Buttercup quickly finishes up the apple, tosses it in the trash receptacle, kisses her dad on the checks, and thanks him, "Thanks for the reminder dad".
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Midori gently brushes her red hair in to a side ponytail before she curls her bangs and the ends of her ponytail.
As she swiped the stray strand of hair out of her face, she remembered what Drake had whispered to her at the award ceremony.
"A beautiful girl should never hold her head down."
A blush, that rivals her hair color, rapidly surfaces to her face while she slides a thin black headband across the top of her head.
She steps out of the bathroom when she abruptly hears noise in the direction of her window.
A bob of brunette and a flash of green eases her tension, so she ambles over to unlock the window. "I think you like being in the trees a little too much. Should I get the monkey a banana?"
Drake simply chuckles at the taunt before he retorts, "Well the princess wouldn't let her hair down for me to climb up."
"Are you ready?" The brunette follows up with a question.
He then receives a nod from her before she closes the window backand ventures down to her front door.
"Mom, I'm on my way out!" Midori shouts as she grabs her house key from the hook.
She overhears her mom yells from the living room "Have a nice time sweetie" right before she exits.
"There she is!" Drake happily proclaims after he rounds the side of her home with a wide smile on his face. He openly admires her in her outfit.
She wears an open dark blue denim shirt with a black t-shirt underneath, with red, white, and yellow stripe leggings with black mosaic symbols and dark brown ankle boots. A black cotton bookbag that has small purple tulips attach to green stems with leather brown straps.
His eyes linger longer than usual on Midori until she asks in a tone of confusion, "So where's your car?"
Her question caused a smirk to materialize on his face when she felt something being placed on top of her head.
Midori curiously reaches up to feel something plastic while Drake promptly secures the helmet on her head.
"We're taking something much funnier!" He cheerfully declares.
He then dramatically revealed a delivery motorcycle that is parked along the side of her parents' curb.
"Come on scaredy cat while the night is still young!" The brunette encouragingly teases her as he gently pushes her toward the two wheel vehicle.
She watches as Drake casually mounts the motorcycle when he comments, "Do exactly what I just did. Make sure you avoid the pipes."
The red head mimics the brunette's action, remains cautious of the pipes and catiously slides on to the back of the bike.
"Hold on tight." He sternly instructs her and waits until he feels her arms around his waist.
Drake quickly glances over his right shoulder, silently notes that she was ready, and kicks up the stand.
Midori feels the vibrations from the engine and the wind against her face.
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"Are you on your way out?" Serena probes once she notices that Butch reaches for his set of keys to his motorcycle.
He simply nodded his head as the auburn haired woman swiftly approaches him with a curt smile present on her face.
"Do show her a good time Butch." Serena advises with a heavy smack against the middle of his shoulder blade, which causes him to cringe.
Butch sorely flexes his muscles to ease the sharp pain, straighten his posture and claims, "I hate when you do that! Besides, that was the plan anyway."
His guardian maintains the same smile on her face as she watches him exit out of the apartment.
The sound of her cell phone starts to vibrate against the table.
'Now I wonder who that could be at this hour.' Serena ponders to herself. She maneuvers closer to the phone, checks the callerID, smiles and answers the phone.
Thirty minutes later...
The sound of a motorcycle's engine caught Buttercup's ears, which signaled that her date has finally arrived.
'The house really has been quiet today.' She notes since her sisters have yet to come back to the house from their respective activities.
The raven haired girl merely shrugs off, secures her house keys, and a small backpack that secretly doubles as a purse.
The light green eyed teen then slides down the bannister, lands on her feet, heads outside, locks the door and ventures down her walkway.
"So where are we going?" Buttercup questions after Butch ceases the loud engine of his motorcycle.
A smirk materializes on his face as he examines her outfit, which surprisingly reveals some of her hidden curves due to her usual typical baggy clothes.
"It's a surprise." He merely declares after he unhooks the spare helmet from the side peg and hands it to her.
She rolls her light green eyes at his childish response, grabs the helmet and secures it with the strap underneath her chin.
"You're not slick either. You purposely took the bike so I would have to touch you." The raven haired teen girl assumes while she straddles the bike.
The same smirk remains on his face after he listens to her accusation. He cheerfully confirms, "Well then, you know me all too well."
Buttercup soon feels the vibration from the motorcycle. Butch then cranks the engine up and motors away from the curb.
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Blossom was awoken by a pungent odor that instantly aroused her from her unconscious state only to wearily observe her surroundings.
"I knew keeping this would come in handy one day." A masculine voice stated as movement was felt off to the side.
An "ugh" emits from her mouth as her head begins to throb from the intense scent a few minutes ago. Her pink eyes slowly check to her left, right, up and down to realize that she is now in her room with another person.
"Wake up, pinkie." The same voice gently urges once he notices the smallest movement from the girl in front of him.
"Brick…" She softly calls his name while she clutches her head with one of her hands before she finishes, "What happened?"
The orange haired male slightly hesitated with his answer until he responded, "Well first you kicked ass and unlocked a new ability."
"A new ability…" Blossom repeats with an expression of confusion present on her face.
He scratches the back of his head, releases a sigh, and explains, "Remember how Buttercup was at Bell's party?"
"You did the exact same thing. But I don't think you transformed because of anger, I think it was because of what you said to me right before you fought."
Her cheeks suddenly burned pinkish once she recalled exactly what she told Brick right before she fought with Sedusa.
"I see…" Blossom comments with her eyes toward the wall that was nearest to her bed when she speaks to him.
She then feels his eyes stare in the back of her head until she rotates her head back in his direction only to find him near her face.
"You still can't be nervous after you already confessed to me." The red eyed teen says as he stares her in her eyes.
As she opens her lips to answer, her cell phone starts to ring a distinctive ringtone. 'Why is he calling me?'
Brick reaches for the phone, hands it to her, and mysteriously claims, "Welp, you might as well tell him how you truly feel."
Blossom briefly stares at her phone before she slides the green phone inward and places it against the side of her face.
"Hello…" "I don't know what you are talking about. I haven't been around Flash all day today." "He's in the hospital?" "Alright, I will talk to him."
"Brick…" The orange haired teen speaks up only to be cut off with, "I'm going too."
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"…an arcade?" Midori questioningly muttered once Drake declared that they have finally arrived at their intended destination.
"Is there a problem with my choice?" The brunette nervously inquires after he listens to the tone that his date uses once she realizes the location of their date.
She releases a deep sigh, glances up at the teen, and admits, "I mean...I haven't been here in ages! I hardly have any free time between practices and school to be a kid."
A wide smile stretches across Drake's face once his date admits her honest feelings about the arcade being a good choice.
He then extended one of his hands out to her, which she graciously accepted and led them inside of the brightly illuminated building.
A couple of minutes later, a random couple motors inside of the parking lot unaware that Midori and Drake were at the same place.
Buttercup silently read the sign on the building as "THE VILLE ARCADE" and was slightly excited that this was where their date is.
She quickly dismounts from the motorcycle after Butch was eventually able to locate an empty spot to park in.
"I knew you would like the arcade." Butch proudly boasts after he secures the helmets inside of his vehicle.
A "yeah right" slips from her mouth prior to her utterance, "Yeah, just like you think you can read me like an open book."
"What did you say?" The raven haired male inquired once he approached his date, who merely shook her head in order to dismiss his question.
The duo was then casually strolling inside of the lively arcade, which was filling up with teens that had nothing else better to do on a Saturday night.
Buttercup's eyes caught sight of the go-kart track that was surprisingly empty on such a busy night before an idea popped up in her mind.
"Wanna hit the track?" She suddenly inquires with a confident smirk on her face as her eyes hone in on Butch.
Butch's face was like a mirror image of hers at her suggestion, "I was just about to ask you the same thing."
Meanwhile…
Upon their arrival at the rather quite busy arcade, Drake closely observed Midori for the past fifteen minutes.
"What's on your mind?" The brunette curiously asks as his sights promptly veer from the hustle and bustle of gamers throughout the building toward his date.
The red head teen merely shakes her head and claims, "Oh nothing…just daydreaming,"
"Uh huh and I'm a monkey's uncle. Nope, there's something on your mind so spill it." The male firmly comments while he directly stares in her
"How would you know?" Midori immediately challenges as she narrows her vision on the young man in front of her.
A confident smile materializes on his face before he discloses, "Your eyebrows start to pinch inwardly whenever you are thinking about something and their relaxed when you are daydreaming. So once again I ask you Midori, what's on your mind?"
"Go-karts!" She simply responds, which earns the similar phrase from the young man, "Go-karts?"
"My dad never let me drive one." The red head sadly confesses as she rotates her head in the direction of the track.
"Oh…now I see." He revels with the same smile on his face before he grabs her hand and shouts, "Let's go!"
While Drake happily drags her in the direction of the track, she could not help but to reflect, 'So he really does watch me like I thought he does.'
"Wait…isn't that…" His voice breaks the silence between the two as well as arouses her from her thoughts.
A familiar sight of a shadow prompts Midori to shout the name of the individual, "Buttercup!"
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"So did you have fun?" Bell uninterestedly probes before she loudly pops a piece of gum and casually flips through a rather boring teen magazine.
A slightly irritated Lucas stormed back inside of her family's mansion, dusted his hands off, and responded to her question. "Nah…more like annoyed."
"He's a musclehead." She simply explains with her eyes on the book before she adds, "Surprisingly, he had some usefulness to him."
He rudely cuts the platinum blonde off with a 'tsk' of his teeth and a shrug of his shoulders.
"The arrogant twit needed to learn his place."
A coy smirk stretches across the girl's face from the comment, which earns a retort, "So you decided to become Blossom's knight in shining armor again?"
"You would've done the same thing for Bubbles, huh Argos? The same goes for you too Prince." Lucas firmly asserts after he hears Prince's voice.
"…except you sent him to the hospital. That was completely unjustified." Argos reprimands his partner of their actions in the situation.
The teen merely rolls his eyes and adamantly defends himself, "He talked trash but couldn't back it up. Plain and simple."
Prince uttered a "humph" before he turned his attention to the platinum blonde teen, who surprisingly summoned them for their expertise.
"So what is it that you want us to do?"
"Domination."
"Simple, easy, and straight to the point. When?"
"Preferably now,"
"You have really bad timing. The council strictly forbids any hits on Tops, Seconds and Thirds within the time period of the first DFMT gathering."
"Ugh…I hate these stupid pointless rules. I'll just make my own."
"I wouldn't advise you to do that Bells…not unless you want to mysteriously disappear off the face of the earth."
"You definitely don't want to play with the Discipline Committee. A real tedious bitch serves as the head and you don't want to be on that list."
"So what do you think we should do?"
A smirk stretches to a smile on her face once Prince begins to elaborate on a plan to accomplish Bell's goals.
Meanwhile…
"Flash…" He faintly listens to the sound of his mother's voice as he slowly blinks his eyes to signal for her to continue. "Blossom is here."
The teenage girl nervously enters inside of the hospital room only to be left in complete shock at Flash's current condition.
"Oh my god! What happened to you?!" Blossom worringly poses after she maneuvers closer to his bedside.
An "ahem" from his mother captures her attention before she offers an explanation, "He was beaten badly until he was rendered unconscious. The medics found him at the edge of some rich person's driveway."
At that moment, an image of the individual that was responsible immediately pops in her mind. A wave of rage rapidly rushes throughout her body at the gaul of the person behind the attack.
Her pink eyes return to the blonde's face, draws near him in order to whisper in his ear, "Don't worry Flash, I'll handle her."
She places a chaste kiss on his forehead, wishes his mother well, and emerges out of the room only to meet Brick at the door.
"I'm going to kill that bitch." Blossom angrily hisses along with a dangerous glint in her eyes.
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Author's Note: This is the second to last chapter for this story.
04.05.17 Major editing revisions