"Status report, Cadet!" Dodgers demanded.
"I've installed the new core," Cadet reported. "I've vaporized Spicer's tracking device and sent the coordinates of our last location to the plumbers so they can capture Malware and Jack Spicer. Otherwise, all systems go... Except the WiFi."
"What!?" Dodgers flipped out. "How do you expect me to catch up on the latest kitty videos on the internet!"
"So, we're back on course... Aren't we?" Blossom asked.
"This core is less efficient than ours," Cadet sadly explained. "It takes more time. Meaning, no more delays or detours."
"I don't feel so good..." Bubbles whimpered, before falling flat in the middle of the floor.
"Come on, Bubbles," Buttercup scoffed at how 'babyish' Bubbles was being. "It's just a little space traveling."
Bubbles didn't even get up from the floor.
"Bubbles...?" Buttercup got concerned.
"She should do more cardio." Dodgers suggested to the fallen Bubbles.
"Bubbles," Buttercup lifted her younger sister's face. "What's the matter?"
Cadet took out a stethoscope to take a look at the poor girl. "We must take her to the sickbay ri-ri-ri... Immediately."
30 Minutes Later...
Blossom sat on the floor while Buttercup floated by the doors as they waited for the results of little Bubbles and her health. Cadet finally came out, opening the doors.
"How is she!?" Buttercup and Blossom asked, really worried and frightened.
"She has lunar disease." Cadet diagnosed.
"Is it fatal or what?" Blossom then asked.
"No, but it is very rare now," Cadet explained. "We haven't got the proper instruments on the ship."
"What are you trying to say?"
"The closet planet where she can be cured is Tamaran, in that case, we won't make it to Galvan and back to Earth in time."
"What!" Buttercup got angry. "I don't get it!"
"We must choose," Blossom frowned in despair. "Save Bubbles or save the Earth."
"That's no argument," Buttercup narrowed her eyes. "No doubt it's Bubbles!"
"No." Blossom said then, which shocked everyone.
"EXCUSE ME!?" Buttercup was even disgusted by that choice.
"We're not turning back." Blossom looked firm.
"But then she dies!"
"You think I don't know that!?" Blossom got angry. "This is the hardest decision I've ever made, but her life isn't worth more than seven billion others. This is a smaller bad, this is the only acceptable decision."
"Acceptable!?" Buttercup couldn't believe what she was hearing. "I don't believe my ears! You are letting her die!"
"We must hope that Galvan can cure her," Blossom tried to reason with her. "It's everything or nothing."
"I won't let you do this!"
"Make me!"
"It isn't even certain if Galvan is there! Just because you said it based on some strange logic, she is our sister, the most important-"
"I am aware of that, but I mustn't let myself get distracted by my emotions like you," Blossom sounded cold. "You are just a hot-headed tomboy, that's why you can't be the leader! This is a decision I have to live with for the rest of my life."
Buttercup aggressively snarled and zoomed off. Blossom looked angry as Cadet was worried. However, they both turned worried, then Blossom turned to sadness.
"Did I miss anything?" Dodgers asked as he ate from a bag of chips.
Meanwhile on Earth...
Double D took a look at the countdown at it was now zero days, twelve hours, 32 minutes, and 22 seconds. "They're running out of time." he alerted the others.
"We must trust they succeed." Dexter informed.
"They make it very sharp." Raimundo added.
"People of Megaville, listen!" the deep voice of the Bean Scout known as Edward T. Platypus was heard as he had a crowd surrounding him. "On whose behalf do they decide on our lives? Who gave them the right to represent us? Think about it! Who pays for all the damage they cause while 'saving the city'? They don't pay taxes. You do!" he then grinned like an aspiring dictator. "Think it through! All the havoc and devastation, who is responsible for that? They! Robots, monsters, everything is coming for them. Who is their supreme authority? Look at them now! They left the planet like rats on the sinkin' ship!"
"Stop it, you perfidious platypus!" Raimundo took a stand against Edward's shades of doubt in the Powerpuff Girls. "Don't trust this bird! They are here to help us. To help you! Who would stop Mandark or the Rowdyruff Boys or Dr. Amino? The police, the government? They are no matches for these super villains. The Girls protect the peace! Us! Go home, people!" he then grabbed Edward by his uniform. "What's your gain on this?"
Edward was nervous at first, but then grinned darkly. "You can't stop it now."
"Get lost!" Raimundo growled.
Edward jumped down and ran off from him.
"We stopped him, but I have a feeling we'll meet him soon." Raimundo said to the others.
"Yes, but once doubt emerges, it spreads like a disease," the Professor studied. "The crowd, especially when it's frightened, is really easy to manipulate and the Girls will grow up eventually. Their enemies can use laws against them as a weapon."
"Let's hope the public won't realize that." Dexter responded.
"Stop pillaging!" Ben called.
Back on the Ship...
Bubbles was knocked out with an oxygen tank and was lying down in a hospital bed. She was likely in a coma, but no one could tell for right now.
"I'm so sorry, Bubbles," Buttercup got by her bed side. "I don't agree with Blossom. I think she made a huge mistake, but I won't let you die. Do you hear me? I won't let you die!" she was first sad, then suddenly angry and protective of poor little Bubbles.
Meanwhile...
"We are here." Cadet told everyone.
"I'm not sure what you mean by 'here', but I don't see anything," Dodgers looked out the windshield. "Or maybe I should really wear my lenses."
"That's... That's impossible!" Blossom couldn't see anything either. "Cadet!?"
"I'm searching with all systems," Cadet told them. "Nothing... No gravitational anomaly, no planet matter nearby, even the spectroscope says nothing. No measurable astronomy, Doppler imaging and straight polarization: negative. Sorry Blossom... Nothing's here."
Later...
Buttercup bowed her head in her arms as she stayed with Bubbles. She looked back however when Blossom came through the door. Buttercup glared at Blossom, still angry with her for letting Bubbles die for the sake of the planet.
Blossom decided to go to her ill sister to explain everything. "Bubbles, I hope you understand what I did... I swear, you won't die. I know I'm right and Galvan is here and they will cure you. I'll make them... I love you."
"This game requires the complex coordination of eyes, ears, nose, and throat." Dodgers said as he was playing a game of Pong with Cadet to pass the time with the score -12 and 6,654, do you even have to guess who's winning? This took some hours that lasted longer than anticipation would expect.
Meanwhile, Blossom was struggling to think of what she was told and it was racking her brain to the bitter core.
'To find the Galvan, you must look through the past.'
Blossom did everything she could to help her think through this. She played with a pen, she lay down in the bed, she played with a Yo-Yo and even tossed a deck of cards around. She thought of time which made her take out a pocket watch and she clicked it open to see it was acting funny.
"This is broken," Blossom noticed. "It goes anti-clockwise... Or maybe, is that what I should do?" she tried to think about it until it finally hit her like a ton of bricks, owch.
"DODGERS, CADET!" Blossom rushed to the two, startling them instantly, but rushed to them with a victorious smile. "I was right! Galvan is here!"
Cadet looked perplexed. "I'm not following you..."
"If you try to hide something the best way that's possible, how would you do that?" Blossom quizzed them.
"Oh, I love riddles!" Dodgers smiled while Cadet was still puzzled. "Let me guess! Is it kittens?"
"We didn't find them because they're not here," Blossom took out her watch. "At least, not in this timeline."
"What are you suggesting?" Cadet asked.
"Maybe sandwiches!" Dodgers then guessed.
"This isn't so impossible, think about it," Blossom challenged. "How did you get here in the first place?"
"Vortex manipulator," Cadet then smiled, thinking fourth-dimensionaly. "But, that's only working because Vilgax opened a paradox."
"This is tricky..." Dodgers was still trying to solve the imaginary riddle. "Jack Nicholson?"
"Cadet, can you create a time hook around the ship and move us backwards in time?" Blossom requested.
"Umm... Theoretically I can." Cadet was nervous about that.
"What are you talking about, Blossom?" Buttercup looked at her. "Hiding in time?"
"Trust me, Buttercup, I'm right."
"Vortex Manipulator ready," Cadet set to work. "Initiate time traveling."
The ship was floating in space, then suddenly went through the vortex to go back in time and now they were right next to a planet. Buttercup was shocked and Blossom was delighted.
"Well, look at that... A planet," Dodgers observed. "How come we didn't notice that earlier?"