Chapter 2 - Things Change and Will Change
Hello everyone, I hope you enjoyed my first chapter. So look, I will have already done the rest of the 4 chapters including this one and if you have already given your views or dislikes, chances are that I published them all at once, lol.
So this chapter is something of a flashback but will also lead to the crossover, I hope. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it; chances are that this also caused me stress to write as well.
O/N: Getting tired of Narrating, are we?
Me: Well hello to you to Mr. Narrator. And no I am not, just trying to make this work out
O/N: Well if that is so, then don't stop now, bring your amazing world on to this paper
Me: Well I do believe I am blushing….
O/N: Hey don't get a big head about this, it would be pathetic to quit and throw all this hard work away, lol
Me: *TICKED OFF* and here I thought I would ask for your help narrating the past but I see I will have to do it myself
O/N: Huh, wait what? I didn't mean it, let me-
Me: Oopsie, sorry too late, lol. Let's get right to it, shall we viewers ;)
Chapter 2 - Things Change and Will Change
"What do you mean you signed us up?" Blossom said
"And without our permission?!" Buttercup said next.
"We love Townsville and we want to stay!" Bubbles exclaimed.
"Girls, ENOUGH!" He shouted, causing the girls to go fearfully silent.
"I understand your angry but this is a once in a life time opportunity for you girls to make something of yourself and not rely on being superheroes." He calmly explained.
"That is a load of bullshit!" Buttercup exclaimed, causing an uneasy silence before.
"Buttercup." The 2 girls said in whisper, as if in disbelief.
"I will not have that kind of talk young lady. Show some respect!" Anger seeping in to his words.
"Like you are showing us respect and making us move to another CONTINENT WITHOUT OUR KNOWLEDGE?!" Buttercup didn't back down.
"Look Buttercup, I am your father and what I say goes. Besides it is for the best."
"Yeah righ.t" She sarcastically said.
"Then why are you leaving us Professor and why France?" Bubbles complained.
"I told you, I have to go for this conference/journey. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity that I cannot pass on and I read about their schooling system and I think it would greatly benefit your academic path." He said with unwavering conviction.
"But Professor, we have a duty here in Townsville. To protect the people and be heroes." Blossom interjected.
"Blossom, you must understand that things have changed. Things are not the same as they once were" he said looking to the side away from their eyes.
"Oh, you mean when we lost our powers?" Buttercup asked with a glare.
There was uneasy silence in the air, with everyone thinking back to when that journey of their life began.
Flashback- 8 years in the past
The city of Townsville and it is the middle of the night. While most people are fast asleep, some are working through the night on a life and death situation.
In the house of the Utonium's, Professor Utonium is tending to his 3 sick 7 year old girls, the Powerpuff Girls.
In the scientist's basement, there lay the girls on examination beds, hooked up to machines that took their readings. Each girl had wires connecting to heart monitors and a certain monitor that was used to read their powers.
The girl's sickness was brought about weeks ago when they started having trouble with their individual powers. It was small things where Blossom's Ice and Heat breath would fluctuate; when intended, she would hardly freeze a room, let alone warm it up but when she would just sigh, the room would turn in to an igloo. Bubble's ability to emit sonic screams, would become too destructive than she intended to; she used it against Fuzzy Lumpkins but was too strong and almost caused him and others to go deaf. When Buttercup would fight, her strength would also seemingly be cut off in worst time. If it wasn't for her sister's help, she might have not survived.
Things came to a head when 3 days ago, they were in their rooms when they started feeling funny; as if taken down with deadly virus. They were all experiencing sudden hot flashes, chills and shakes. They would feel aches and pains that radiated throughout their body, from their heads down to their feet. But what caught the Professor's eye was how their appearance changed. Their skin became pale, their skin became blotchy and they emitted coloured glows; in their respective colours.
The Professor had no idea what was going on upon seeing them. He took them to his lab so he can assess the situation.
After days of research and over a dozen tests performed on the girls, he drew out his conclusion.
Walking downstairs to the laboratory basement, he had a very serious look. His appearance was unkempt and looked to be that he had been very focused on his findings nonstop.
As he approached the girls, they hardly had much sleep due to the pain and ate very little over the course, but it seems that the sickness was also causing malnutrition.
"Pr-professor, w-what's going on with us?" a weakened Blossom asked
He sighed,"Well girls, after thorough research, I have come up with a theory" he said, while opening up his monitor display a presentation.
"Your sudden turn in health is brought up due instability to the Mutation strand in your DNA."
"What does that *cough* mean Professor" Bubbles asked in between her cough
"Well girls. When I was creating the perfect little girls and accidently added Chemical X to the batter, it caused a chemical reaction with the main ingredients: sugar, spice and everything nice. That chemical reaction resulted in my experiment shifting to the point that made you three but it caused you all to have your superpowers.""
"Yes Professor we understand how we were made, but what does it got to do with our situation?" Buttercup impatiently asked
"I was getting to that Buttercup" he sighed, "Your powers are quite, if I may say unique, to put it simply. You girls have special abilities and gifts that no ordinary person can hope to obtain. You have noticed that you have a greater array of various powers and you keep discovering more and more from the past 2 years. Now it is due to the Chemical X in your system that is giving you your powers and unique appearances that are different from the others. But it is due to the now growing instability of the Chemical X strand in your body"
"What, unstable?!" all 3 girls exclaimed
"Yes girls, your powers and bodies are becoming unstable. It was not a problem before but due to your growing usage of your powers, and its evolution to get stronger; it seems that it is getting too much to handle which will end in your disintegration" he said sadly
"But Professor *cough* I still don't understand. I thought we were fine, being that we were made to be the perfect little girls" Bubbles said, now with a look of worry
"Well it was intended to be that way but due to the addition of Chemical X, it changed the whole equation, adding your powers but as well as the change in your appearance from the outside, different from other kids your age" he said
"Okay okay, Professor, is there a cure?" Buttercup asked, though she acted tough but was scared
"Yes I came up with a stabilizing agent that will fix your genetic codes. It is a parallel of Antidote X" Professor said
"You want to take away our powers?" Bubbles quivered
"No not exactly. Unlike the ones I manage to reverse engineer, that will take away powers for good, your Chemical X is very complex and truly attached to your DNA that it won't be dissolved away by it. This Antidote will track down the mutated strands and stabilize it but in doing so, it will cause an endothermic reaction that might remove your more incompatible power strands" he said reassuredly
The Professor prepared to administer the cure in to each girl through injection. He only hoped that this will work and save his daughters before it was too late.
After an hour had passed, there were bright lights of 3 distinct colours coming from the girls. Their bodies, now enveloped by said light, sudden screams were being let out from them; all came to a head when a large blast was given out and knocked the professor to the floor.
"AHHHHHHH!"
Professor was awoken by the screams from the girls. As he opened his eyes, he was shocked to see what was standing before him. The cure worked, in more ways than one. The girls no longer had pale skin, no blotches but looked normal and healthy. The most striking features were how the girls now had hands with fingers, feet with toes, a nose, ears and normal eyes (Not as wide but bigger than normal kids) and head proportions. They looked like normal girls (as in regular looking ones).
After an hour and a half of calming the girls and researching this new predicament. He finally found out from the girls DNA that due to the stabilizing agent aka Antidote X 2.5, the mutant gene did react. It caused the strand to further mutate, somewhat transforming them in to normal looking girls.
The agent did do as it was supposed to. It neutralized their other seemingly incompatible powers, balancing their states. They looked like regular little girls but far from ordinary; for they still had powers. And from his readings, those powers are just as strong if not stronger; he also noticed some strange readings that he kept hidden.
The problem was that aside from the appearance, there were changes to their power flux and something's were inevitably gone. They were not the same as before. But whether they still have their powers is up in the air.
That's how the years have followed, adjusting to the sudden change.
End of Flashback- The Present
"What happened to us was bad, but we still came out stronger Professor so why are you doing this?!" Now Buttercup was annoyed.
"Girls the world doesn't need you anymore and you have a chance to be normal and make more out of your life than fighting villains. All major villains are gone like Mojo Jojo who left with the Rowdyruff Boys. The gang green gang have disbanded and living their reformed lives and Fuzzy Lumpkins territory has been closed off so no one can get hurt. And you all know how Princess is." Listing all major villains off.
"What about HIM huh? He is still out there and he is the embodiment of evil?" She pointed out.
"You know as well as I do that he has not been around for years, he must have given up." He said.
"I highly doubt that Professor. HIM could be buying his time and-" Blossom was cut off.
"And nothing Blossom! I have never wanted you to be superheroes in the first place! None of you! There are other superheroes who can handle the city when you're gone and you have to focus on your futures instead of th-this nonsense anymore!" Standing he loudly gave his points.
There was an eerie silence until sounds of whimpers were heard, it was Bubbles as she got up "No, this is not fair!" yelling out as she ran to her room followed by Blossom to try and comfort her.
Professor was sitting down when Buttercup stood to her feet and spoke up.
"We are the Powerpuff girls, no matter what you say or do, we will not give up that title. We have these powers for a reason and we will be superheroes, whether in this City or not here. And I can tell you are keeping a secret from us Professor; whatever real reason for this is, I hope it is a good one." She said then went off to her room too.
The Professor didn't even get a chance to reply before she left. Honestly he knew that this was the right call and they would thank him one day but it was exhausting to say the least. If only he could tell them the true reason for this.
Buttercup opened the door to her shared bedroom. She was presented with the sight of Bubbles sobbing, faced down in to Blossom's chest on the bed. It was clear that the elder sister was trying her hardest to calm the frantic blonde, though she could see that the elder sister was trying to fight back her own stubborn tears.
She walked over to try to comfort her sad sister, placing her hand on the back; slowly rubbing circles to motion that she was here too. Buttercup was not one to shed tears so easily, most times she would have an angry look on her face to mask her pain; much easier than being seen as weak. All of a sudden, two foreign hands were placed on one of her hands and shoulders. She realized her sisters were also comforting through sad smiles on their faces.
Yes she was not one to cry so easily but when she does, it was around those that saw her as stronger than she needed to be.
That night they all slept without supper, being either too sad/angry to eat after the bombshell news.
The days that followed leading up to the big change was met with much resistance. Sometimes they would try to talk to the Professor to change his mind and other times they would argue with him; all were shut down by him. Bubbles thought of running away but were met with a karate chop to the head by Blossom, inciting it was a bad idea and not thought through.
All hope was gone when the following day came.
They were busy packing their bags when*RING* it was the mobile hotline.
"Ms. Bellum, what's wrong?" Blossom said with urgency.
"It's terrible Girls, there is trouble down in Townville and it's urgent!" She said with an unhidden fear.
"If this is another lame bank robbery than-" Buttercup was cut off.
"No girls, it's HIM, and he is in the center of Town. Please hurry girls!" She exclaimed.
That was enough to make the girls look shaken. They couldn't believe that HIM is back but why was he here, NOW of all times.
"Okay Ms. Bellum we're on our way." Cutting off the call.
"Girls we will have to put packing on hold till we take down HIM." putting the phone back in to her pocket.
"I knew that we still had HIM to worry about. At least we have a solid reason to stay now." Buttercup said, somewhat happy with the outcome.
"It may not be all that simple, since we haven't dealt with HIM for a while now. It might be pretty difficult to handle." Bubbles said.
"I know Bubs but we are superheroes and we got to do something or else people are going to suffer." Buttercup said.
Taking a moment to let that statement sink in before "Yeah you're right Buttercup. Let's go save the day girls." Bubbles exclaimed with resolve.
So they leapt in to action, rushing out of the house, for Buttercup to have enough room, to be able to fly in to direction given with her sisters in each arm.
In a mass of chaos and red tainted sky, the girls arrived to see a scene that seemed to be straight out of a horror movie. They looked up to see the devilish fiend waving his claws, twisting the dark clouds in the sky to his bidding. The creature was the same as they last saw him. A red-skinned, demonic creature with puffy black hair, sinister light green eyes. Wearing makeup, including three long eyelashes, black lipstick, a woman's red jacket with pink tulle at the collar and hemline, tight-fitting red trousers, and black thigh-high spike-heeled boots. The creature appears to not have aged at all.
An echoing effeminate voice, "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, I am back and I have come to play." At that moment he was pushed back by an ear splitting sound that he instantly recognized. Quickly recovering from the shock, he looked down to see his favorite little playmates. They were dressed in their iconic hero dresses that were way bigger to suit their sizes. They each wore their individual colours of pink, green and blue, with a black strap on the waist. They had on white socks and adorned black maryjanes.
"Ah ha ha ha ha ha, ah the Powerpuff Girls or should I say Teens? Long time no see. My, how fast you girls have grown over the years." Flashing his sinister grin at the girls.
"Honestly we would have preferred not to have seen you at all." Blossom confidently said.
"Awww don't be like that Blossom, I really missed you 3." With a fake pout.
"Enough of your crap HIM, what do you want now?" Buttercup demanded.
"Always the most straight forward of the bunch, aye Buttercup." All Buttercup did was give a fiery glare, "Very well. I just came to finally get rid you brats and turn Townsville in to my own kingdom. Isn't that ambitious?" He smiled manically at his plan.
"Think again you creep. We won't let you do anything to this Town while we're here." It was now Bubbles who confidently spoke.
"You're right little Bubbles." He was putting on a thoughtful demeanor "You know girls, you won't believe this but I have lived on this planet for millions of years and it has been boring to say the least. I have met individuals who have tried to stop me but ultimately have perished by my claw, ha ha ha ha ha." Lying down in the air while telling his story.
"Stop dancing around your point and get to it!" Buttercup was ready to jump up and attack.
"You know it's rude to interrupt while others ARE TALKING!" HIM shot a laser beam from his eyes straight at where the girls were standing. Luckily they blocked the attack with no damage inflicted.
"Is everyone okay?" Bubbles asked in concern.
"Yeah." They both said in unison under the barrier.
"I guess the years did not teach you any manners, huh girls?" In a low menacing tone before going back to his high pitched one, "What I was going to say is the blonde baby is right. I will never be able to rule this world with you brats here."
The girls were giving a quick look at each other, wondering what HIM was playing at.
"You see girls, for reasons I cannot get in to at the moment, you 3 are poison to my very being and I cannot let you stick around and continue being a nuisance to my life." He said.
"Like Bubbles said, we are not going anywhere freak!" Buttercup shouted.
"Yeah! So you better get used to dealing with us -" Blossom said until they all said together in unison "The Powerpuff Girls!"
He only smirked. "Very well then Girls, have it your way." In merciless tone.
HIM raised both of his claws in to the air and broke open a vortex in the sky. The view was like something out of a Sci-Fi horror comic, with cracks spread out from the portal, the colour was a combination of red, black and pink.
The girls were keeping guard but were shocked by the situation above them. Right then, black humanoid bat-like creatures emerged from the vortex, straight down towards the citizens.
"Oh no, we have stop those things!" Bubbles cried out, before bolting towards some people in danger. She made it just in time to cover the bystanders in her sound bubble field. The creatures were flying around, clawing at the shield to get in. Bubbles was trying her hardest to hold it together but there were around a dozen bats clawing at the field, shaking its structure. She was about to drop it and try screaming them away, until they were all encased in blocks of ice; then surrounded with a pink glow before they were shattered.
"Blossom!" Managing to collapse the field to see her eldest sister running over to her with a worried look on her face. "Honestly Bubbles, you have to be careful, I know you were only helping but we must think logically." She reprimanded the youngest sister.
"Who cares about logic right now? There are humanoid bats on the loose and in case we have forgotten. THERE IS A DARK VORTEX IN THE SKY! I don't think logic has anything to do with this situation, do you?" Buttercup loudly proclaimed.
Buttercup was right about the current state, this was a whole lot crazier than what they faced in the past against HIM and that was saying something.
"Okay you're right Buttercup. Now we have to destroy these creatures before they hurt anymore people." With that, they all left to do as much damage control as possible.
Blossom was bringing in the chill on to those creeps. She would freeze any of the creatures in sight, turning them in to ice sculptures; shattering them with telekinetic strike. She gathered as much broken shards and any street items, tossing them at the bats, necessarily knocking them down and out.
Buttercup was releasing a stronger glow of green plasma, preparing for the swarms of bats above her head. As one charged at her, she leapt forward, delivering a sucker punch that knocked it to the ground; and it was as so with the rest. She threw punch after punch, knocking out each creature she could find, she at times needed to heal off the scratches and cuts left on her body. She took a breath seeing that her share were lying down unconscious, only to reengage once she looked up to see more of them coming.
Bubbles was doing the best she could. She let out a controlled portion of her sonic screams at every group of 7 bats she targeted. She did not want to cause any unwanted injuries to befall upon the people. She remembered how bats have sensitive hearing and used that to her advantage but beating down and scaring off the rest of them.
Bubbles heard something weird but was too busy with the bats that she didn't pay attention to it until she was wrapped up in black wraps, restraining any movement from her. She could not understand what was happening until her mouth was closed shut by said wraps. She squirmed, trying desperately to get out but it was no use, she looked around to see HIM.
"Oh sweet little Bubbles, I won't hurt you…yet. I just need your sisters to follow me too and then I can FINISH YOU ALL OFF." Taking the now scared girl with him, he flew up heading to the vortex.
The girls below were busy fighting off the creatures until they heard a whistling sound and all of them stopped, and the next minute they disappeared as if they were never there, both girls were confused till they looked up and realized what happened.
"BUBBLES!" They shouted in unison.
"Well girls, you certainly handled the creatures but the first act is done and Bubbles is going to be my leading lady. But if you want to see they next act, you better follow us." Flying in to the vortex, with a flailing Bubbles in claw, trying her best to say it's a trap.
"Buttercup let's go and get Bubbles before-" She squealed as she was pulled by her waist and held tightly by Buttercup.
"No duh Sherlock! Hold on tight Bloss and I will give everything I got if we are to catch up!" Buttercup proclaimed, building up her energy to jump up to the heavens and save their sister. She was covered in a stronger glowing light than what she made before. Squatting down to prepare a stance and jumped up; leaving a crater in the ground.
They were blasting through the air, like a rocket that took off for launch. The vortex was not so far up but it began to close, at then she gave Blossom a squeeze to her arms to signal for a little help. Blossom, who was ready, she was preparing her mind to attempt a trick; making sure to not strain her mind or lose control. She raised her 2 hands, which were glowing a radiant pink. She concentrated on the vortex to hold it from closing any faster, she was feeling the strain, thinking she was not going to do it until, her eyes glowed too and the force she expelled was stronger now to stop the vortex from closing; leading them to enter in successfully.
They were in a swirling vortex; its appearance was that of a static screen. Giving of an eerie aura as it swirled with added doses of red with it. Buttercup's green energy was decreasing but their speed was still going on strong. And speaking of the Devil (hehe).
"Look Blossom, there he is!" She motioned to the sister napper. "I can see them. I can also see the end of this vortex, over there!" Blossom said as she pointed at a small opening straight ahead.
Much to the obliviousness of the target, HIM was awfully happy at the outcome. "It seems that we are almost there Bubbles, and your sisters are not much far behind us. Ahahaha." HIM said to the still flailing captive who was shedding a few tears at the horror that may befall upon her sisters and her.
"Whatever his plans was, we have fallen in to it now." She said feeling stupid for falling in to it.
"Maybe not! Hold on tight because we're about to cause a close collision." Buttercup said. With some energy she could muster, she blasted forth one more time, heading straight for HIM and Bubbles.
"What is that noi-Argh!" HIM said too late when Buttercup a gave a striking punch against his back. Bubbles were released from HIM's grasp and caught in her older sister's arms.
"Got you Bubs." With that, Bubbles looked with a grateful face to see her sister with her.
"GET AWAY FROM ME YOU BRAT!" "Aaahh!" Buttercup was whacked off HIM and she flew in to her sister's grasps as well.
"Buttercup are you okay?" Blossom asked, as did Bubbles attempt to say too but was muffled by the gag.
"Yeah I'm fine." Saying that while rubbing the side of her head she got hit.
At that instant, HIM was growing in size and looking pissed.
"Oh well girls. I was going to be a sport and destroy you all pretty quickly but…I THINK YOU ALL ARE TOO GOOD TO BE GIVEN MERCY." Saying that, he formed a dark orb between his claws. Looking towards his enemies with red deadly eyes.
The girls were huddled together, awaiting what would befall upon them. They were trapped in portal type realm, without knowledge of how to get out, and practically exhausted. Blossom was standing in front, basically trying to shield her sister's and Buttercup was holding on to Bubbles, doing her best to show no fear at that; as well as break the restraints.
Bubbles was just praying that they will all be safe from this nightmare. With Buttercup's effort, she manages to get her arms and hands free, which she used to hold both her elder sisters hands. She wanted to at the very least in their suppose last moments, be with them forever, for which the elder sisters happily obliged. They all held hands, gathering in to an embrace, in that moment even Buttercup welcomed.
HIM seeing this, could only at how pathetic they were, "How sweet, enjoying your final MOMENTS," Before blasting a dark beam at the girls, only to be deflected by a barrier of colourful light.
"HUH?!" Was all that HIM could say as he lay his eyes upon a scene that made him do a double take.
The girls were giving off a pure glow of energy, consisting of pink, green, and blue sparkles that morphed to white light. The light was set off and shot at HIM, who was still trying to blast them but was being pushed back. The light flew forth, hitting all the corners of the dimensional plane. In that moment, HIM let out an angry growl, before attempting a last ditch effort.
In an unidentified alley, rats were scurrying all over the place. It was well within the mid-afternoon when a static cling was heard around alley wall. It built up until a vortex opened from it, ejecting 3 girls from its dimension.
They warily collapsed on the dirty floor, puzzled on what just happened.
"Girls…is everyone okay? What happened?!" Bubbles, regaining the shred of consciousness asked to her two groaning sisters
"Argh, I think I am Bubbles but I don't know what happened." Blossom groaned.
"All I know is that psychotic, poor excuse of a clown was about to destroy us until some light stopped it all." Buttercup exclaimed as she stood to her feet. She recalled the whole ordeal. All of a sudden, it dawned on the 3 super girls.
"WAIT A MINUTE, WHERE IS HIM?!"
Before they could discuss further, a crash was heard on a nearby street corner.
"Maybe that's HIM" Buttercup said, ready for a rematch.
"There is only one way to find out. Let's go girls!" Blossom called out to her sister, making their way out of the alleyway and on to the street, but it was not Townsville's street, that's for sure.
"Girls…where are we?" Bubbles asked, seeing things differently.
The girls stopped in place to take a gander at their new environment and yup, it was nothing like their home dwelling.
"Stop villain!" A woman's voice carried towards the girls ears, bringing their minds to a peculiar scene.
It seemed like a woman was battling a monster like man. As the scene was going on, the girls all had different thoughts.
'We are definitely not in Townville' Blossom thought.
'We have to help her' Bubbles thought.
'What is she wearing?' Buttercup thought.
Authors Note:
Honestly I was having trouble figuring how to start off this chapter and paint a clear picture of how the girls would be teleported to the MHA universe. I think I got it down.
So I got the idea of their powers from the same creator of the drawing but I wanted to give my own spin as well. The girl's powers will be revealed and analyzed more as we go along.
Also HIM will also be in this fic, as he will supply my crazy mind and help with my own theories from here on out. He really wants to finally get rid of the girls but never underestimate girl power, lol.
Some of you may not like how I painted the Professor to be the bad guy, but don't worry, it will all make sense in the long run. You will just have to read and find out.
Now we are in the MHA universe, wish me luck.
Like always, review and let me know what you think.
