Chapter 9: Operation Dam Stopper
Flying through the city of Crown Rose City, Bubbles can see a lot of people are leaving town in their cars. She is wondering what is happening. She then see the elderly man, and woman leaving Town Hall. By the description that blossom and Buttercup have given to her, the two people is Mr. Tanizaki and Ms. Roberts.
Bubbles floats down to the ground, and walk to the two people, and asks, "EXcuse me, are you Mr. Tanizaki and Ms. Roberts."
"Why yes. That will be us. You wouldn't happen to be Blossom and Buttercup's sister, am I right?" Mr. Roberts questions with a smile.
"That will be me, but you all need to call an evacuation right away," Bubbles says.
"Actually, we're already call an evacuation a few hours ago," Mr. Tanizaki says.
"Huh?" Bubbles questions.
"We got a call from Simon Harris that there are bombs found at the dam and someone is trying to blow it up. So we called an evacuation, and many of the townspeople have already headed of to other cities. He suspects that it must be Toby Samson who is doing it" Ms. Roberts explains.
"Mr. Harris called you about it?! But… he might be the one who is setting the bombs on the dam," Bubbles shouts.
"What?!" The two adults exclaim in shock.
"It's true. Blossom and Buttercup figure out that Mr. Harris rob a jewelry store and murdered Mr. Chang," Bubbles explains.
"It can't be," Ms. Roberts says in shock.
"It's true, Blossom and Buttercup are heading to the dam right now. Where is Mr. Samson, he needs to know about this," Bubbles says.
"In his house close to here. I'll take you there," Mr. Tanizaki says.
Ms. Roberts says, "I'll go too."
The three make their way to Mr. Samson's house. Driving to town in the white car, the professor is looking for his daughters. After what the Derby Tantes explain to him, he knows that he needs to find them. He then see Bubbles with Mr. Tanizaki, and Ms. Roberts running to an apartment building.
At the dam, Blossom dives into the water to find the missing jewels. She uses her x ray vision to find the jewels in the underwater city. Reading the map, she knows exactly where she needs to look. There she finds a house, that has white walls and a blue roof. This is Mr. Harris' old house. Blossom then uses her x-ray vision to see the house. Buried under the dirt at the backyard of the house, is a large briefcase, and inside of it is the missing jewels that has been stolen.
Buttercup is able to reach the dam too, and is going to see if Mr. Harris is nearby. She is still pretty upset with him, he is practically the reason why Bubbles was in a coma to begin with. But know that stopping him from hurting innocent people comes before personal feelings.
Buttercup groans with annoyance, "Where can one man go? If the jewels he is going to come after and blowing the dam he needs to do, then he should be close by."
Buttercup looks to see the dam is in tack, but has no clue to where the bombs are at. She notices a building at the far right side of the dam. That is where the control room for the dam is. Buttercup flies inside to see if Mr. Harris is in there. When she goes inside, she gasps to see three unconscious bodies here. She check the three to see they're alive, but passed out.
"What happened?" Buttercup asks herself.
Just then, Buttercup hears ringing sounds, and can tell it's her phone. She looks on the screen to see it's Bubbles calling her.
She picks up the phone, and says, "Hey Bubbles, what's going on?"
"Buttercup, I was able to reach the mayor and Ms. Roberts, but they said that Mr. Harris called to evacuate, and claimed that Mr. Samson did it," Buttercup answers over the line.
"What do you mean?!" Buttercup asks in shock.
"I think Mr. Harris was trying to frame Mr. Samson. When we got to his apartment we found him unconscious," Bubbles explains.
"What?!" Buttercup exclaims.
Talking in the appartement, Bubbles, says, "Buttercup, I don't know what's going on right now, but you need to stop the dam before the city is destroyed. I don't know how long it will be until the city if evacuated…"
Suddenly, Bubbles hears a long beep sound. She becomes confused to hear the phone has hang up all of the sudden. In the control room, Buttercup has been pushed down, but is still sitting up to see Mr. Harris with a raffle in his hand, and a grin on his face. Buttercup tries to get her phone, but Mr. Harris shots it out of her reach.
In the apartment, Bubbles becomes very worried. She tries to call Buttercup, but she's not picking up.
Bubbles worriedly suspects, "Buttercup must be in trouble."
Buttercup runs out of the room to find out what happened to her sister. Suddenly, she ends up bumping into someone and falls to the ground. Bubbles looks up to see the professor, what's more Carmon, the detective her sister have told her about is with him.
"Professor? What are you doing?" Bubbles asks.
"May Lin and the others told me that you and your sisters are here to fix a major situation. So I came by because I was worried about three, especially you Bubbles," The professor explain.
Bubbles quickly gets up, and says, "Don't worry, I'm doing much better. I'm able to fly now, but still a bit wobbly with it."
"That's good. But I also called Detective Carmon to come along with me to be on the safe side," The professor says.
"And it's a good thing he did. Something's up," Carmon says.
Bubbles then begin to explain to the professor and Carmon what is going on. At the same time M.s Samson has awaken from his uncounciness and is being helped by Me. Tanizaki and Ms. Roberts.
Back in the control room, Mr. Harris has Buttercup corner, and is going to use his raffle to shoot her. Buttercup knows she needs to get the people out of her. Mr. Harris fires his gun, but Buttercup dodge as she grab the people who are unconscious. Then she flies out of the window and take the people to the other building on the other side. After putting them down, Buttercup flies back to see Mr. Harris outside.
Mr. Harris has his raffle out, and is trying to shoot the, but Buttercup manages to dodge them. Sadly, she ends up getting scraped close to her stomach, and falls to the water in the dam. Buttercup manages to get up, and feel the pain on the left side of her stomach. Just then, Blossom reaches the surface with the briefcase in her arms.
Confused, Blossom asks, "Buttercup? What are you doing here? And why are you in the water?"
"Ask him!" Buttercup shouts, pointing to her target.
Blossom turns to see Mr. Harris with the raffle in his hands..
Seeing the case, Mr. Harris remarks, "Well, it looks like you got the jewels for me."
"But I still have the advantage," Mr. Harris says, holding the remote.
Blossom and Buttercup gasp to see Mr. Harris has the remote in his hand.
"Now, how about you two nice girls give me the jewels you can wish Crown Rose City goodbye," Mr. Harris says, in a threatening tone.
"What?!" Blossom exclaims.
Buttercup furiously shouts, "You wouldn't dare?!"
"Oh wouldn't," Mr. Harris remarks.
Blossom and Buttercup grit their teeth in anger. Mr. Harris threatens to destroy the city if they don't' hand over the jewels. The safety of the citizens and the city come first, so they have no choice by to give him the jewels.
Just then, a loud band appears, and Mr. Harris ends up being shot on the shoulder. There is a hole on his right shoulder, and blood begins to come out. The man falls to the ground, dropping the raffle and remote for the bombs. Mr. Harris tries to grab the raffle, but someone shots teh raffle back. Blossom and Buttercup look, and are surprised to see Zoey King to have a raffle of her own.
"Ms. King?!" Buttercup exclaim.
"What are you doing here?! Blossom adds.
"Well, I say Simon went up here with his raffle, and I wanted to see what is going on. But growing suspicious, I grabbed my raffle incase he tries something," Ms. King explains.
"Blossom and Buttercup flies out of the water, and lands next to Ms. King.
"When did you use a raffle?" Buttercup asks.
"Well, I sometimes go to shooting galleries once in a while. I'm a pretty experienced shooter. I also do good with shooting games," Ms. King explains.
"You don't say," Blossom says.
She then notices the dust Ms. King is covered in. She is starting to wonder about something.
Driving on the road, and reach the dam. Bubbles, the professor and the adults of Crown Rose City exit the car and run to where Blossom and Buttercup are now.
Suddenly, she remembers, "We need to get the remote from Me. Harris and find the others."
"Right," Ms. King says.
Ms. King runs over to see Mr. Harris has fallen. Then he grabs the remote. Unknown to her, Mr. Harris is starting to move.
Blossom cries out, "Look out!"
"Behind you!" Buttercup adds.
Ms. King looks behind her to see Mr. Harris jump at her. Mr. Harris tries to grab the remote while he is on her, but Ms. King refuses to let go. Then she begins to hit him with her raffle. Blossom and Buttercup know they need to do something. . Harris grabs the remote. Blossom and Buttercup give him good punches in the face, until he passed out on the ground and the remote is out of his hand. Ms. King gets up, and has her raffle ready in case he tries to attack her again.
Blossom calmly says, "Don't worry, we to him this time."
"Yeah. He'll think twice before trying that again," Buttercup adds.
"I sure hope so," Ms. King replies, having her raffle downward and her hand away from the trigger.
Suddenly, there is a gasp in shock. Blossom, Buttercup, and Zoey turn to see Bubbles, Professor Utonium and Carmon. Bubbles begins to step back, and her face is like she has seen a ghost.
Noticing this fear in his daughter's eyes, the professor asks in concern, "Bubbles, what's wrong?"
Not paying attention to the professor and still scared, Bubbles says, "You're… you're that woman I saw on the mountain! You had longer hair, but I it was you! You were the one who pushed that other woman on the road!"
Hearing the statement cause Zoey to become stunned and grits her teeth.
Bubbles then begins to fully remember what really happen all these years ago. After losing her powers, and finds herself on the mountain. She has no choice but to walk. As she walks. She looks up to see two women on the mountain. One of them is Zoey King, the other must be her, Tomo King. It looks like they are getting into a fight.
"You don't get it at all! You don't get my dreams at all, Zoey!" Tomo shouts in anger.
Just then, Zoey pushes her down, causing her to fall on the road.
Tomo gets up, and shouts, "What did you do that for?!"
Just then, a car that is Mr. Harris' sees Tomo on the road and tries to stop. Tomo becomes stunned that she can't move. Zoey becomes shocked to see the car coming towards her sister.
Bubbles decides to run towards the event as she shouts, "Run!"
Sadly, it's too late. The har has hit Tomo, and the poor woman died instantly.
The professor is holding on to Bubbles who is crying in her arms.
Bubbles cries as she says, "I… I couldn't stop it from happening."
Blossom turns to Zoey, "So the other person that Bubbles saw on the mountain was you Zoey. I saw that your jacket is covered in dust. Probably when the Derby Tantes covered you in that cloudy dust you made."
Zoey lowers the raffle she has in her hand. Mr. Samson, Mr. Tanizaki, and Ms. Roberts run over to the scene.
"Zoey! Zoey! What is going on?! What happened?!" Mr. Samson asks as he screams.
"Blossom, you mention about being covered in dust by the Derby Tantes?" Bubbles questions.
Buttercup gasps, "You don't mean?!"
"I'm afraid so, the one who was trying to kill Bubbles was Ms. King," Blossom concludes.
Everyone gasp in shock.
"Zoey King was afraid that Bubbles, who had witnessed the whole incident would wake up from her coma. That is why she moved to the house across the street weeks after the incident, so she can secretly watch Bubbles. When Bubbles regain consciousness, she altered her hair style, and wear sunglasses as to hoping Bubbles can't recognize her. She feared it will cause Bubbles to cause a trigger in her memories," Blossom explains.
Buttercup shockley says, "But her memories started to come back when we made the ice crystal ball!"
Blossom nods her head, and continues her explanation, "That's right. She must have been there when Bubbles started to remember. Fearing that bubbles will fully remember what happened, Zoey feels that she has no choice but to silence Bubbles, permanently."
"Well, what you did was so uncool. You caused your sister to get hit by a car," Buttercup firmly replies.
Zoey drops the raffel, and screams, "I never wanted to kill her!"
"I… I just wanted her to fall down, make her hurt a little! I had no idea that Simon would be driving where she was standing!" Zoey says, as tears begin to emerge from her face.
Mr. Samson becomes saden, and mumbles, "Zoey."
"If anyone find out what happened, I'll… I'll never hear the end of it! I just want Bubbles to stay away from me! I became so scared that I couldn't think straight, so by the time I grabbed my raffle, I just started trying to shoot here! The truth is, I… I never want to hurt her! I just don't want her near me! I never want to hurt anyone!" Zoey explains, as she screams and tears come down her face.
Bubbles can see that Zoey has broken down, and admit everything to her.
Bubbles comes over, and calmly says, "It… it's okay. I know you never wanted all this to happen."
"How-how could you say that?! I nearly killed you!" Zoey demands in shock.
"Well, you were scared… and um… I can tell that you never meant to get your sister killed. But what you're doing… you're running away from your problem. I faced problems like this, but I still manage to get through it. I know you can too. I never believe you want to hurt anyone," Bubbles says.
Blossom comes over, "Even I know you never wanted to hurt Bubbles. You're just scared, and confused, but trying to get rid of Bubbles is just a way to run away from your problem. If you really are sorry, you need to tell someone. I remember doing something bad, and had guilt. You can make this right. You don't have to live with this burden anymore," Blossom says.
Ms. Samson kneels down Ms. King with a reassuring smile, "She's right. The eight years of living in fear and burden is gone now. We can live your lives together now. I don't care how long I'll have to wait, but I'll be waiting for you. And then, you'll finally be free from the burden you endured."
Ms. King begins to cry, and hug Mr. Samson with her strong grip. The girls are glad to see that everything has worked out. Plus, Ms. King will be able to let go of the fear she has to put up with for a long time. And Mr. Harris has been captured and is going to pay for his crime. Yep, everything will finally be turned back to normal.
Suddenly, a loud bang sound appears, and the dam begins to shake. Everyone gasp, and scream to hear the noise. They are wondering what is going on.