The City of Townsville, Home to all, super and otherwise, even with the high unemployment rates everyone is resting well almost everyone, as we can see here at the home of the Powerpuff girls, inside the brightly pink room where the three local heroes of Townsville, Blossom, the righteous leader, the sweet to the bone Bubbles and the heavy hitter Buttercup, but what's this they don't look to be all there, Blossom was reading books, Bubbles was tossing and turning and Buttercup was scrolling on her phone. This has become a recurring problem for the girls, dealing with insomnia for most days, and oversleeping on others that's mainly due to them having excessive nightmares and night terrors, it had gotten to the point that some days they would gorge themselves to the point they felt like throwing up and other times where they would not eat a morsel for one day, which worries their father. They assumed school and other teen issues were to blame, and hoped they would get past this, but soon their powers began to suffer too. It started with small things like Blossom's ice breath losing its potency and Bubble's sonic scream getting weaker. You would think the Professor would be on top of this, but he knew nothing about this. At least not the major stuff. The girls didn't want to tell him because they knew it would worry him, but he did know, that since the girls weren't the only ones having these problems. Elsewhere in the south side of Townsville in a rundown apartment.
One of the RowdyRuff Boys, the blue bomber of the trio, Boomer was having his nightmare where he was lost in Null Space.
Tossing and turning in bed as in his mind he kept flying to nowhere, alone and scared trying to find something to find someone, his heart was beating fast as he began to panic, and fear raked over his being as he kept running. When it set in it wasn't doing him any good, he jumped and flew fast as the same scenery flashed by him. He didn't stay in the air very long and crash-landed, his eyes soon began to water.
"Brick, Butch where are you?" He asked no one, he soon heard a peal of evil laughter, he got up and looked around as the laughter got louder and louder, he wanted to fight back but the enemy would not show its face or that manic laughter could be heard. Boomer had never felt so different, weak, and lonely. He soon lets out a furious scream shooting his eye beams in a random direction, trying to hit the voice laughing at him, but it wasn't working either. It was almost like he was just a simple human being.
"Shut up! Shut up!" He yelled, he soon stepped back and tripped over something. He groaned and looked back at what or rather "whom" he tripped over. The expression of anger soon turned to disbelief as he got a better look, at the feminine figure, that gentle face her short blonde pigtails, there was no mistaking it was Bubbles' corpse, Boomer took some deep breaths before freaking out. He shot up from bed screaming when he felt something splash him awake, he looked over and saw a pissed-off Brick.
"What the hell, man that the fifth time this week." Brick complained.
"S-Sorry, it's just.." Boomer just looked away, and Brick soon sighed.
"Look, if you have a problem i'll try and listen to you." He said. Boomer soon told him everything, the nightmares the sleepless nights, and of course, the null space he keeps ending up there. Brick just listened till the morning sun shone and Butch awoke, asking what are they are doing, Boomer then retold a shorter version of what he told Brick. Mainly about his nightmare, Butch soon admitted that he's been having the same dreams, but they were infuriating and then scary.
"Now that you mention it, I've think I been there before but I would forget about the next morning, Boomer felt relieved to know he wasn't alone in having these nightmares as well.
"But it felt weird, this space the fact that they feel that they lost their powers.
"I wonder if the girls had this same feeling." Brick thought
Meanwhile at the Utonium Chateau
Bubbles were crying her eyes out and her sisters, Blossom, Buttercup, and Bunny came to comfort her
It appears Bubbles had nightmares about traversing Null Space, finding Boomer dead, and losing her powers, to which the others had very similar nightmares.
"Seriously what's is going on, is it hormones or something?" Buttercup asked, in frustration.
"I don't think people have the same dream buttercup." Bunny insisted.
"Then how do you explain our powers? I can't be the only one to noticed they aren't as strong as they used to be." She added making the girls give a worried expression.
"Well maybe it's.."
"Oh come off is Bloss, you don't even know what going on." Buttercup said.
"Girls please, not now." Bunny said holding the saddened bubbles, everyone calmed down.
"We're all scared Buttercup but getting angry at each other isn't the right way to deal with this," Bunny added, Buttercup soon gave an apology and went back to comforting bubbles. After the girls discuss what could happen to their superpowers, Bubbles feels okay enough to head to the bathroom to clean herself up, she takes off her nightgown letting it pool around her feet, reaching back to unclasp her bra and pulling down her panties naked and takes her shower, the warm water cascading down her body, it relaxed her as her slender body was getting cleanse she started to focus and soon Boomer's voice could be heard in her head, she and Bubbles share mind-link and would talk to each either every once in a while.
"Hey Bubbles." Boomer said
"Hey, just wanted to check in on you seeing if your doing ok." She said
"Honestly I haven't, i've been having these dreams lately and it's been very stressful actually." He admitted
"So have I, I've been dreaming about losing my power and…" She stops herself before bringing it up.
"Really i've been having the same dream." He admitted.
"What! You too?" She asked
"Yeah, it's been very stressful, but talking to made my day better at least." He said, making her smile.
"I feel the same way." Bubble said just then there was banging on the door.
"Come on Bubbles other people need to used the bathroom too."
"Oop got to go, talk to you soon Boomer." Bubbles then cut the link, She then got out of the shower dried herself up quickly, and opened the door and Buttercup went in.
"About time." She said. Bubbles then headed back to her room, grabbed a fresh pair of panties and a bra, put on a long-sleeve dress that reached her knees, and ankle-high socks, and headed back to be with her sisters.
-Later That Night-
After a relaxing and slow day, the girls were getting ready for bed, Blossom was finishing up getting ready for bed when she flew past Bubble's room, she looked worried, she was staring down at Octi, who had seen much better days, messing with his arms, Blossom then came up to her.
"You going to be okay?" Blossom asked sitting next to her.
"I don't know, i'm scared I really don't want to go back to that place." She said. Blossom then pulled her sister in for a hug.
"Hye don't worry you're not the only one scared, as long as were together we can handle this. Whatever is going on with us." Blossom reassured, Bubbles hugged back feeling relaxed.
"Want me to stay till you fall asleep?" She asked to which she nodded it was situations like this she was grateful and felt that tonight was going to be okay, but unknown to them when they woke up the next morning everything would change and not in a good way that they hoped for.