Blossom had changed. Since enrolling in Dr. Thorndike's summer school, she was no longer the wide-eyed leader her sisters once knew. Under Thorndike's guidance, she had blossomed into the professor's most devoted student, absorbing every lesson, every lecture, and every command with a fervor that seemed to consume her. Thorndike saw Blossom as her most promising disciple, a girl filled with the energy and determination needed to bring her vision to life.
They spent countless hours together outside class, diving deep into the works of Andrea Dworkin and Valerie Solanas, discussing plans and theories for an ideal society. A society where the biological accident, known as the male doesn't exist. One evening, as they sat on cozy foot massagers, reading their favorite parts of the SCUM Manifesto, Thorndike leaned in close.
"Blossom," she whispered, her eyes gleaming. "Imagine a world free from the brutes of the patriarchy. They are incomplete females. Walking abortions aborted at the gene stage. Those hairy, uncivilized beasts only purpose is to ruin progress. An ideal world can only exist without men."
Blossom's eyes sparkled. "It sounds… perfect. But is that even possible?"
Dr. Thorndike smiled slyly. "Come with me, dear." She led Blossom down a narrow hallway in her old, creaky house, toward a room that no one but Thorndike herself had ever entered.
When the door opened, Blossom gasped. The room was filled with strange, humming machinery, and at the center stood a towering device that looked like something from a sci-fi novel. It was a sleek, polished metallic machine with a name engraved on its side: KAREN.
"KAREN is my masterpiece," Thorndike declared. "This machine has the potential to wipe out every single XY being on the planet with a single activation. A clean slate for us to build a better world. The Ultimate Solution."
Blossom's heart raced. "But… why haven't you used it yet?"
Thorndike sighed. "I've lacked the power source. This machine requires a ridiculous amount of energy that I simply don't have access to. But with you…" She looked at Blossom with a knowing gaze. "Your powers might be enough to make it work. The energy in you could fuel KAREN and change the world forever."
Blossom hesitated for a moment. Giving up her powers would mean becoming an ordinary girl, losing everything that made her super. But the thought of building a sisterhood utopia was too enticing to ignore.
"For the sisterhood," she said, stepping into the machine's glass cylinder.
Thorndike activated the machine, and the extraction process began. Within seconds, Blossom's energy was drained, leaving her weak and mortal. As the machine powered down, Thorndike checked the energy meter and frowned.
"It's… not enough," she muttered. "This will only affect our continent, not the entire world."
Exhausted, Blossom pushed herself to her feet. "Don't worry," she said, determined. "I know where we can get more power."
Back at the Powerpuff Girls' house, Buttercup and Bubbles were in their room. They'd been handling the crime-fighting on their own and had been wondering what was happening to Blossom. She hadn't been home in weeks, and her absence was starting to worry them. Both hoped Blossom would get over this phase and they even bought her a new smartphone at Wallmart in hopes for an eventual apology.
Suddenly, the phone rang. Buttercup grabbed it. "Hello? Mayor?"
"No," came a weak voice. "It's… it's me, Blossom. I need your help."
Bubbles and Buttercup didn't waste a second, flying straight to Dr. Thorndike's house. They crashed through the roof, ready for action, and were shocked to see Blossom lying on the ground, looking injured.
"Blossom!" Bubbles cried, rushing to her sister.
As they knelt beside her, large glass cylinders suddenly dropped from the ceiling, trapping both of them. Blossom got to her feet, her weakness vanishing as she smirked at her sisters' shocked faces.
"Oh, don't worry," she said, brushing dust off her clothes. "You're going to be part of something amazing soon."
From the shadows, Dr. Thorndike stepped forward. "Meet KAREN, girls," she said, gesturing to the machine.
Buttercup thrashed against the glass, furious. "What's the meaning of this? Blossom, what are you doing?"
Blossom's expression was cold. "Betraying the sisterhood has consequences."
Dr. Thorndike flipped a switch, and the machine roared to life, beginning the energy extraction process. She turned to Blossom, eyes filled with malicious pride. "If we stop it now, they'll only lose their powers. But if we let it continue…"
Blossom walked to the control panel and, without a second thought, switched the machine to full extraction. "This is for the sisterhood," she whispered as her sisters' pleas echoed around her. In moments, Bubbles and Buttercup were gone, their energy absorbed entirely into KAREN and their bodies vaporized.
Thorndike's eyes sparkled with triumph. "Finally, the day has come! Soon, all men will be wiped from existence!"
But just then, her excitement took a dark turn. The sudden rush caused her heart to seize. She stumbled, clutching her chest, her breath shallow and labored.
"Blossom…" she gasped, collapsing to the ground. "The patriarchy got me. Promise me… you'll activate the solution…"
Blossom stared in shock as her mentor lay dying on the floor. With her last breath, Thorndike whispered, "Stay strong… make it happen…" and then she was gone.
Determined, Blossom straightened. For her close friend's Agatha's sake she needs to exact revenge. She activated the communicator and notified the other members of the feminist course, who hurried over, saddened by Thorndike's death, but thrilled at the news. They arrived just in time to witness history in the making.
Blossom turned to the machine, her face steeled with purpose. She pressed the big button, and in a single instant, KAREN released its ultimate power, wiping out every man on Earth.
With the world remade, Blossom addressed her fellow sisters for the first time as the new leader. "Today," she declared, "we have cleansed the earth of the lesser sex and good riddance to them. From now on, we move forward in unity, without opposition, without the patriarchy. A brighter future awaits!"
The crowd cheered, their excitement uncontainable. Then Blossom, beaming with pride, introduced her next plan for securing their future. "They only had one purpose and we advanced. Human reproduction. Thankfully we advanced, so the male species became obsolete. And for our future reproductive needs," she said, lifting her hand holding the most important thing now in the world "we have all we'll ever need in this unbreakable, unmeltable, and completely impenetrable jar."
She held up a jar containing brand new information for cloning, as well sexual female only reproduction. She placed it on the podium and grabbed the lid to open it. But as she twisted, the lid wouldn't budge. She tried again, harder this time, but it wouldn't give. The cheerful crowd turned silent when it dawned upon them what is happening.
"Come on," she muttered, straining her now ordinary body to the max. She tried using her whole body weight, tugging and twisting. She even tried using her teeth, but it stayed firmly sealed.
"Damn it!"