The next morning, last night was calm, at least the calmest they had for a while, but this time Buttercup had her nightmare, there she was in the null space, holding her broken arm, bloody and beaten as the corpse of her sisters and the rowdy ruff boys laid before her, she looked around her, frantically trying to find the assailant. But much like her sister, she couldn't use her powers. She soon couldn't breathe, the force around her neck taking the life from her tears fell from her face as a snap was heard.
"Buttercup, wake up," Blossom said, shaking her bed. "Wake up!" Buttercup awoke with a gasp, a cold sweat falling from her as she looked around, holding her neck trying to catch her breath.
"Buttercup?" Blossom asked resting a hand on her shoulder. "Are you…"
"I'm fine, just a bad dream." She said swatting her hand away.
"If you want we can…"
Beep Beep Beep went the hotline, Blossom hesitantly answered it still worried about the green sister.
"Yes Mayor, alright we're on our way." She soon hangs up. "The town needs us let's go girl!" Blossom ordered.
"But Blossom, it's a Saturday," Bunny mumbled.
"There's trouble in Townsville! We can't just ignore it!" She said.
Buttercup then sat straight up. "What is it a monster? Bank robbery? Just give me five minutes!" She said jumping out of bed to get changed.
"I don't know Blossom I just don't feel like fighting crime today" Bubbles muttered, looking very unsure and nervous. Buttercup walked up to Bubbles and dropped her arm around her shoulders.
"C'mon Bubbles, we have to go, we need to get out out of the house." She said.
"A-Alright." She said.
"Good!" Buttercup said slapping her arm in encouragement.
"Ow! That hurt!" Bubbles whined.
"Enought pep talk, we got to go!" Blossom said as the four flew to the town. While flying Buttercup went up to Blossom.
"Did the Mayor say what the trouble was?" Buttercup asked
"No, he just wants us to meet him at the office." Blossom replied. "Something about what happened in Townsville while we were asleep."
"Like what?" Bubbles asked in concern.
"I'm not sure, that's why the Mayor wants to see us." The group soon flew into town.
Last Night
In the nightmare dimension the master of evil the sinister villain that puts others to shame and looks good while doing it, Is exercising in front of a TV, getting a good workout in before going to bed as he finishes up, He hears a knock on the door.
"Hmmm now who could that be this late?" She said going to the door, as he was about to open the door, it broke off its hinges and someone dressed in black stepped in.
"So you're the one they call Him, aren't you?"
"Yes, I would be, but the real question is, who are you?" He questioned as his voice deepened in rage
"I don't think it's necessary to tell you my name," the figure in black held out its arm, revealing his bony arm for Him to take. "But I do have a proposition for you if you are willing." The figure added.
"So you break my front door because you want me to help you?" He asked. "What in for me?"
"The utter destrution, of the PowerPuff Girls." This piqued Him's interest.
"What makes you think I wanted them, more less need your help?" This being voice sounded so grave and low that it seemed almost inhuman.
"I just want them to rightly suffer, don't you feel the same?" He smiled before cackling
"Alright I'll help you he said, taking his hand, but soon Him-started feel pain corrected and twisted his wrist to the left. He felt a huge pain in his heart, if he had one and he placed his claws over his chest.
"What's going on? What did you do!" He said as he started coughing.
"I'm just cleaning the filth from the world," he said curtly. "It's my duty to take away life, you see? And because your life is so meaningless, I'm taking yours!"
"I don't understand," he gasped, "Why even go after the me if it's just the girls your want?"
"Because you'd just get in the way." The figure said walking up to the struggling Him, in fear Him wanted to back away, but the pain was too much.
"Don't worry, you won't be going alone." the figure said as got closer, He let out a blood-curdling scream and he distinguished into black smoke.
The black smoke moved to the figure in black and he absorbed it.
"One down, seveal to go." The Figure said as he left, throughout the night this being, hunted down and did the same to Mojo Jo-Jo, The Gangrene Gang, Princess even the Amoeba Boys weren't safe soon any evildoers left in Townsville were gone without a trace.
"What, you mean," Buttercup mumbled, "All the bad guys are gone? We can't fight crime anymore?"
"Someone stole our job, Again!" Bubbles whined.
"Mayor, do you have any idea who did this or why?" Blossom questioned.
"I don't know I just got this note on my desk." he answered handing her the note.
"Maybe someone is helping us, it wouldn't be the first time," Blossom said reading over the note for any more clues
"You think it was the Rowdy Ruff Boys?" Bubbles asked.
Blossom shook her head, "I doubt it, they barely do anything nowadays."
"Well I don't like this," Buttercup grunted, "isn't it weird that all this stuff is happening?"
"What are you on about?" Blossom asked.
"Oh come on, stop acting like the brave leader, you know what i'm talking about the weird nightmares we have been having, our powers aren't as strong as they used to be and now all our enemies, just gone don't you think it's a really weird!"
"What was that about nightmares, Buttercup?" Miss Belum asked.
"Uh-nothing, just overreacting." She said trying to retract her statement. But before she could press the question forward, Something huge walked by the window. It looked kind of like a robot.
"Oh look, see it's mojo!" Buttercup shouted and she flew out the window followed by her sisters.
"Good Luck Girls!" The Mayor called out as they flew out the closed window. "Miss. Belum call the windowers, please." He said and the assistant sighed. As the girls flew after the robot, they couldn't help that they were kinda slow.
"Hey, stop!" Blossom yelled at the large robot.
The robot turned around. "Well if it isn't the Powerpuff Girls?" Said the person controlling it.
"Come on girls, time to show that we're not out of the game yet." Blossom said
"Yeah if you think a robot is going to stop us, you got another thing coming!" Buttercup finished, "let's scrap that thing!" She then flew to the robot and the pilot grabbed Buttercup. She grimaced in its grip trying to break herself free but was struggling.
"Let! me! Go!" She yelled trying to open the hand. Blossom flew to the robot,
"Let go of my sister!" Blossom yelled flying to its hand to try and help her get free
"Blossom put this thing on ice!" Buttercup shouted. Blossom was hesitant, but she went down to its legs, took a deep breath, and exhaled her free breath at the ground under its feet and it slipped a little but stepped back. Seconds later, the ice melted.
"Uh-oh," Blossom whispered she looked around to find Bubble and Bunny trying to help Buttercup. "Bubbles, use your sonic scream on the cockpit!" Blossom ordered.
"Got it!" she yelled, taking a deep breath she let out a high-pitched scream. It made the glass crack, blocking its view releasing Buttercup but did not break it apart, as she attended it to do. "It's not as strong as it used to be!"
"You're so pathetic!" the pilot shouted swatting the blonde into a building.
"We need help!" Bubbles said, "We should contact the boys!" She said out loud.
"Well, get on with it!" Buttercup exclaimed, flying around the robot to confuse its pilot. It wasn't helping as she was smacked like a fly. Bubble closed her eyes and concentrated.
"Oh hey Bubbles, what's…"
"Boomer, we need your help!" She interrupted.
'What? Bubbles, what's wrong?'
'We're trying to stop a robot but it's way to strong for us, we can't beat it!' She cried trying to avoid the robot's attack.
'Where are you?' He said with much urgency.
'Uhm' she looked around to find out where she was, 'Downtown, near the Mayor's office, please hurry, Boomer!' She said
'Don't worry, Bubbles, we're on our way' Boomer cuts the link and goes to his brothers.
"Dude we need to get to Downtown!" He said he sent quickly and turned to his brothers.
"Why?" Brick asked.
"The girls are in trouble, they need help." He said with urgency and panic.
"What they can't handle some to bit villain?" He asked.
"Uh guys." The two looked over at Butch who was watching the news seeing the girls struggling to fight this robot, Boomer saw Bubble struggling and groaned, heading out, Brick sighed as he grabbed his cap.
"Come on let's go!" The Green and Red brothers followed after him to save the girls.
Back in the city, The girls were being slammed into buildings and shops. This would be normal, but something was off, they felt themselves tire out more quickly.
"I want to go home." Bubbles moaned in pain.
"We can't quit now!" Blossom shouted, "Townsville needs us! Come on Girls! Let's give it all we've got!"
Buttercup took in a raspy breath, "Ugh fine, I'll try." She said
The three girls gathered whatever strength they had and zoomed toward the robot, but they soon found themselves stopping and could not move anymore except straight down.
"What happened?" Buttercup asked, "I feel so weak." She said trying to float but couldn't get an inch off the ground.
"Oh no no no no no, please let's this just be a nightmare." Bubbles said freaking out. The recurring nightmare became a reality the girls lost everything their super strength, speed, eye rays, unique abilities everything, and at a time when they needed them at this time the giant robot stood over them in their craters.
"So, this is how it ends?" Blossom whispered pathetically as she fell to her knees, she looked over at Buttercup who was still willing to fight but could see tears falling down her cheeks
"We're supposed to be going up, not down!" Buttercup shouted. "I refused to go down like this!" She shouted. She then looked at Bubbles who was just crying
"I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming! I'll wake up soon!" Blossom looked up, as a giant foot came down at them, she let out a defeated sigh and closed her eyes awaiting her end. But it never came, she opened her eyes and saw three bright stars holding back the foot.
"What are you doing move!" Brick yelled struggling to push the foot back.
"B-Brick?" she was then scooped up by Bunny as Bubbles and Buttercup was taken by Boomer. The two brothers then pushed the thing back making it fall back and got to a safe distance away from it
"Bubbles, speak to me!" Boomer urged, "Open your eyes!"
"I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming!" Bubbles chanted, her eyes still closed. Boomer then slapped her back to reality, she looked over and saw him "am.. am I still dreaming?" She asked
"No, I'm here. What happened why didn't you fly away?" He asked, then it came back to her, their powers were gone
"We fell," she whispered, "it really did happen."
"This is not good," Buttercup hissed, sitting up. "We lost our powers!" Then she put a hand to her head. "No No No No, this isn't real this isn't…" She soon felt faint as she laid back down "ow, my head." She fell back into his arms and he patted her forehead.
"We have to stop this somehow, we can't let Mojo run amok" Blossom grunted.
"Mojo, don't make me laugh" The group looked back and saw the robot coming towards them "You think that primeape could do this, I feel insulted, I expected to fight some real enemies! Not some useless little girls."
"Hey!" Brick shouted, "You know you're really pissing me off!"
"Ah, the Rowdyruff Boys, the poorman Powerpuffs," the pilot said, "they coudn't even beat me what makes you think you're enough to challenge me?" the pilot asked.
"Why don't you come out of that bucket of bolts and find out!" Butch shouted.
The boys soon took off and headed toward the robot,
"come out and fight!" Boomer commanded as he started punching the cracked glass
"Yeah, you coward!" Butch added tackling it, causing it to stumble back.
"All right, I will," the plot said wistfully, and his voice changed into a bold one, "and we'll see who's the coward!" At the top of the robot's head, a hole opened making a whirring noise as a platform was raised, where the pilot was standing.
He wore a tight armor-like leather body suit and he wore sunglasses. His hair was long; sleek and black, tied back in a ponytail. On his outer thighs were two rather long guns. He grinned and pulled them out of the holsters, "now, what were you saying? Do I really look like a coward?"
"Nope you look more like a punching bag!" Brick yelled and flew to him, just as he was about to punch him-
BLAM!
"Brick!" Butch shouted.
A red aura was glowing around Brick as he fell to his knees and there was an even redder blotch on his white T-shirt with red hems.
"Hmm, I see why red looks so good on you," Brick's assailant said.
Butch let out a furious scream and tackled the gunman down, his gun falling from his hand, he soon started wailing at him.
"if you've killed my brother…" Butch then picked him up by his collar and punched him in the face hard enough to send him flying, but it just broke his glasses and left him with a black eye.
"Huh?" Butch noticed his arm turning green and a dark green aura around him. The same was happening to Boomer in dark blue.
The mysterious man laughed and pushed Butch away from him, "What the matter? I thought I was a punching bag?" He then punched Butch knocking him back.
"Who the hell are you!" Boomer demanded, "You're obviously not Mojo?"
"And here I thought you were the dumb one." the man then looked at the girls who looked in fear.
"Slilco." Bubble said
Butch smirked, "Slilco? That rich nerd?"
Silico picked up his gun, "I have the opportunity to kill you all right now but I'm not so barbaic unlike you."
"This can't be." Bubbles whispered. "I made sure to put you in that loop."
"Ah you did, but you seem to forget I'm everywhere." He said as several Silico came out one came behind Butch and smacks him, sending him flying while that was happening Blossom was tending to the tended Brick
"Brick, are you all right?" Blossom asked.
He winced, holding his hand on the right side of his chest.
"Fuck I guess those movies were right, Bullets do hurt." He joked
"You're lucky he didn't get you in the heart," she said, helping him back to his feet. Boomer then took Brick's arm and put it around his shoulders and Blossom got to the other side.
"We need to regroup, maybe the Professor can help us." Blossom said.
"Fine! But i'm coming back to kick his ass." Buttercup grunted as they started to run away.
Silico started to laugh, watching them turn tail, he then left, leaving the town awaiting their return.
-At the Powerpuff Home-
The heroes, headed in tired, Brick wasn't looking too good, so Blossom took him to the couch so he could rest
"Professor, we need help!" Blossom called out as he rushed out of the lab, seeing his daughters and The Rowdy Ruff Boys in terrible condition.
"What happened, are you girls all right?" He asked looking over them
"No," Bubbles said. Prof the went to Brick and checked his wounds.
"What happened to him? He looks liked he got shot" he questioned, nodding to Brick.
"He did." Blossom explained, shocking the professor.
"How, you should be bulletproof!" He said as Bubbles handed him a first aid kit.
"We've lost our powers, Professor," Buttercup said
"What!? How is that possible, they are a part of you" he said. "When did this happened was it some new weapon Mojo used?" He asked
"No we been losing powers slowly for awhle now." Bubbles admitted. "We wanted to tell you before, Professor, but we didn't want to worry you."
"But why I could've helped you, is this what those nightmares about?" The Professor questioned, "Girls, what if there was-"
"It happened to us too," Boomer admitted, shocking everyone, butch looked away and Brick just looked annoyed.
"Geez blab everything why don't ya." Brick said.
"I'm sorry, but we can't just ignore this anymore." He said the two then started arguing.
"Enough!" Blossom shouted. "Look, can we talk about this later?" Blossom demanded angrily. "Brick got shot! Professor, please tell me that you can do something?"
"I don't know, I never fixed a gunshot wound before." he admitted.
"Can't you do something?" She asked, Prof looked him over and took a deep breath "I'll try something." He said
"Uh, you know maybe I should go to a hospital," Brick mumbled.
"But what will you tell them?" Blossom questioned.
"Hey, I got shot." Brick said, which annoyed the Blossom.
"We can't take you to the hospital, they don't your body the way I do, and they might make things worse." The Professor noted Blossom and The Professor then took Brick to the lab and laid him down." as he started to work on Buttercup was looking around the lab.
"What are you doing Buttercup?" Professor asked
"Chemical X, maybe if we take some we can get our powers back?" Buttercup asked as he examined Brick.
"No, unfortunately, I don't have anymore," he said sadly, Buttercup got more frustrated.
"Buttercup calm down, we'll figure things out." Bubble said holding her sister from breaking something.
"It's okay, Professor," Brick winced, "We might be able to find some at the dump we were born at."
"Yeah, that prison," Boomer said.
"Well let's worry about that after I take care of your gunshot wound, all right?" Professor Utonium asked. "Who shot you anyway?"
"Some guy nerd named Silico" he replied,
"What but isn't he locked up?" Professor asked as he got ready to pull the bullet out.
"We thought that too, but his clones are acting on their own."
"He demolished us, made fools of us, I bet he was the reason why we lost our powers, fuck I just want to kick his ass!" Buttercup said pacing around.
"I know how you feel, but without our powers against a giant robot how can wee without our powers?" Bubbles asked. Buttercup just left the room and headed back upstairs.
"He got us good, i'll admit we did stuggle against him." Boomer admitted.
"I could take him, if he didn't have that dumb robot." Butch said.
"Well until we figure something out, we don't do anything ok." Blossom said, everyone reluctantly agreed.
"Alright, you kids might want to leave so I can work on Brick." He said. Everyone shuffled out just as Brick let out a scream. After about ten minutes, they went back down when Professor removed the bullet from Brick's chest.
"You were really lucky, any higher and it was over" he muttered.
"Thanks, come on boys let's go get some chemical x," Brick said immediately, pulling his shirt back on.
"Are you crazy?" Blossom demanded, getting in his path, "you were shot in the chest! You need to rest a while."
"Look If we want a chance to beat this guy then we will have to get our powers back and the only way we do that is if we get our hands on some Chemical X and since your old is out of it, this is the only chance we got." Blossom was hesitant, but he was right as they are now they stood no chance against some man with a petty grudge.
"Fine, but if there is trouble get out of there." She said.
"Ah you worry to much." Brick said putting on his cap. "You idiots coming?" He asked, He and his brothers walked out of the lab.
-One Long Walk Later-
"Man walking sucks, I can't wait to fly again," Brick said.
"Are you sure this will work, I don't just want to be drinking toilet wine again," Boomer said
"I think we got more problems than that" Butch siad.
"What makes you say that?" Boomer asked.
"Look." Buthc pointed at the prison and saw it destroyed nothing was left not even any prisoners.
"No no no!" Brick yelled holding his wound.
"What do we do now?" He asked, Brick started to think, he looked around and saw something that could help. Mojo's volcano lair. "Guys I think I know were there might be more." The other two looked over at the volcano and Butch complained.
"Come on, first walking now climbing!" The trio then started walking towards Mojo's lair.
One grueling walk and climb later the brother made it to Mojo's Liar or really what was left of it. They entered, revealing turned-over tables and never the less a huge mess.
"Shit, this please is a mess." Butch said.
"Well, maybe it will make things easier, just look for Chemical X.
"Yeah about that how would we know what to look for? I don't remember what Chemical X looks like."
"Look just look for a bottle that has an X on it, it's that simple." Brick said.
"Look let's just get that stuff that's not broken and get out of here," Brick ordered.
As they searched the whole lab, they found some clothes, questionable magazines, and some helmet polish but other than that they didn't find much or anything useful. As they searched his lab they found mostly broken beakers and shattered glass. However, they found some intact chemicals with no labels.
"Hey guys," Boomer said, lifting a beaker containing green liquid. "Could this be it?"
"I remember it looking green," Butch said.
"Well it's better then nothing." Brick said. "Not going to find anything else here." He said
"Well, let's take it back to Professor Utonium," Brick said, "he'll know."
As they made it back to the PowerPuff home they headed down to the Professor who looked relieved to see them.
"Did you find anything?" The Professor asked.
"Yeah, we think" Boomer nodded to the green stuff in the jar. "But we're not exactly sure if it's really chemical X or not."
"Let's put it in my analyzer," Professor commanded. "That should give us a concrete answer." He said. Opening a door on a machine, Boomer then puts it in and the Professor begins to analyze it, after about a few minutes a piece of paper comes out
"Well?" Boomer asked
"Good job Boys, it is Chemical X," The Professor said, they cheered the called the girls down as they told them the news which made the girls excited.
"Well, what are we waiting for, hand it over I want my revenge professor." Buttercup said, but he had a worried look on him. "What wrong?"
"While we can give your powers back, we only have enough for only three of you to have them back." Professor informed. The room fell silent as they looked at each other, they didn't know what to say, they all knew how important their powers were to them. Boomer soon spoke up.
"Let the girls have it," He said, shocking everyone.
"Hey, what are you saying." Butch said "We need our powers too, Brick almost died without them.
"Guys let's face it, we don't need them anymore we don't even do anything with them until today." He said, Butch was about to say something until Blossom stepped in
"No, it's not fair, your powers are just apart of you as much as us, we're in this together, with our without the chemical X so if you guys can't get your powers back, then we won't get our powers back." Bubbles nodded in agreement, Buttercup wanted to call her sister crazy, but she was right, unfair but she wouldn't wish this on them at all.
"Blossom, we appreciate it, but you need your powers to stop this guy, and Boomer is right we don't need them" Brick siad.
"Look it's unfair for you guys to do all this work and get nothing out of it, we can find another way to beat him, and if we can't then this can be a last resort" Blossom reassured.
"Well, is there any other way to stop this guy without our powers?" Buttercup asked.
"I'm sure there is," The Professor replied, "I'll need to do something new and play at this own guy's game."
"How this dude is packing some serious power," Butch said. "And he found some way to zap our powers away.
"All right then I'll give you something to even the playing field." The Professor said
"Oh, I like the sound of that," Brick said with excitement. "Where do we begin, Professor?"
"Right here," The Professor smiled as he pressed a button and a closet-like structure opened up in the middle of the lab, revealing 6 different colored and sized outfits with guns, goggles, grenades, and other kinds of paraphernalia.
"Oooh," Brick moaned, "I don't even miss that Chemical X stuff anymore!"
"Did you know he had something like this?" Bubbles asked
"We have a giant robot in a sub-basement, something like this isn't really surprising." Bunny said.
"Well suit up guys, we got a nerd to beat up." Boomer said grabbing a gun.