Bubbles was much easier to convince, but now they have a time limit. Butch had texted her saying that they will be leaving in a week.
She shared this piece of information with her sisters, much to Bubbles' dismay.
"A week? Buttercup we have got to make you nice like yesterday." Bubbles huffs.
"Hey, I'm not thrilled about this either." She says. "Focus." Blossom says.
"What if I just promise not to knock his lights out? That's nice, right?" Buttercup says, exasperated.
"No!" Bubbles and Blossom exclaim. Buttercup rolls her eyes. "So dramatic."
"You know what, you need a practice run and I know just the person." Blossom says. Buttercup eyes her suspiciously. "I don't like the sound of that."
Blossom calls for a meeting with the two ruffs and she makes them make sure that Brick is contained at home.
They had made sure he was asleep before leaving for this late night meeting. Blossom has a plan formed to go over with them in addition to getting Buttercup to get info from Ace.
Meeting at the abandoned construction site that they have met at before. Trying to keep things private.
"Alright Butch, you just need to do what you do best. Say things to annoy Buttercup, but how Ace would do it." Blossom says. Explaining his role.
"Annoy Buttercup? Easy." Butch says, with a mischievous tone. Cracking his knuckles.
Sitting across from her, they look at each other. Butch smirking and Buttercup already annoyed, glaring at him. "We haven't even started yet, Butterbaby." Butch says, imitating Ace. Buttercup glares daggers at him.
"This is going so well already," Boomer mumbles to himself. Bubbles giggles at this.
Butch continues to annoy Buttercup and Buttercup forces a smile or answers through gritted teeth.
"Oh my god Buttercup. You're making this a thousand times harder than it needs to be." Blossom says. "Do you even hear what he's saying?" Buttercup seethes. Motioning towards Butch who has the biggest smirk on his face.
"Yes, but you're giving him power by reacting." Blossom replies. "Whatever. I'm winging it. Because this is stupid."
Blossom is at her wits end and they don't have much time before the boys leave. "Fine. Just promise to be on your best behavior."
"I promise." Buttercup says, rolling her eyes.
"Maybe you can knock his lights out after you get answers." Boomer offers, trying to lighten the mood. "Already planned on it." Buttercup smirks.
Blossom rolls her eyes. Being the sole leader of both teams at the moment is taxing.
"So you said you have a plan?" Butch asks.
"Yes. It's simple." Blossom says. Explaining her plan and how everything will land into place. They also have to be prepared for the unexpected. It is still unclear what exactly they are dealing with. Brick never having mentioned who or what hurt him to the point of needing so much Chemical X.
Butch looks skeptical, but then again he has never been in charge of making plans. Clearly as the last one with Ace didn't play out the way he wanted it too. "Alright leader girl. I'll trust ya on this one."
"Me too." Boomer agrees. "Great. That settles it. Buttercup will start trying to get answers tomorrow and we will see what we can gather out of Ace." Blossom states. They all nod in agreement.
They all get ready to depart, but Butch stops Buttercup before she can fly off. "I'll catch up to you Boomer." He says and Boomer nods, taking off.
He faces Buttercup again with a serious expression. "Look. I just wanted to say I appreciate what you're doing. Ace is a creep and I know you would rather be doing something else than dealing with all this."
Buttercup is taken aback. A Rowdyruff thanking her? Not just any ruff but Butch specifically. She could expect it from Boomer for sure and Brick if the circumstances were right.
"I-you're welcome. It's important to Blossom so it's important to me." Buttercup says. Butch nods in understanding. "So, really. How do you plan on dealing with Ace?" Butch asks. Leaning against the wall.
She shrugs. "Never been the planning type. Probably have to make him think I want him or some stupid shit like that." She says with a hint of disgust.
Butch laughs and Buttercup punches him in the shoulder. "Well I'll definitely owe you one after all this."
"Just promise to bail me out of jail just in case I end up strangling Ace." Buttercup says with a laugh. "I'll probably end up in jail before you if he tries something stupid." Butch says.
Buttercup's heart skips a beat. Something which she can't explain. "Well I'll promise to bail you out if you bail me out." She says with a small smile on her lips.
"Alright deal." He says holding his pinky out. "Really? A pinky promise?" Buttercup laughs.
"Yup. C'mon don't leave me hanging." He says with a laugh, shaking his pinky.
Her smile doesn't falter as she hooks her pinky with his. Sealing their little promise. "Y'know Snails, I guess I can tolerate you." She says, letting their pinkies go. "Right back at ya, Spice."
Why had she agreed to this?
She knew Ace hung out at this club. Why? Because she would sometimes sneak out and go to said club.
They weren't strict at all, letting 18 year olds in and letting them drink. Blossom was less than pleased finding this bit of information out. Especially since Buttercup admitted to going there a time or two.
Definitely more than that, but she of course pointed out that Blossom couldn't be mad at her. Since she's helping her out here.
Ace liked this club because of the younger girls. They were of age and had less life experience. They were naive.
When Buttercup was there she would take up all his attention against her will or she would stop whatever it was Ace was trying to do.
So when she's sitting at the bar with a drink and a very sexy dress. She felt comfortable having dressed like this before, but feeling uneasy since she's trying to attract Ace.
She wasn't even sure if he was gonna show up. She has already had to shoo some guys off. Some time passes and he does arrive and of course his eyes find her.
She can feel his eyes scanning her up and down and now he's making his way towards her. Taking the empty seat next to her.
"Butterbabe! Looking as hot as ever. Now remind me again why you don't have a man?" Ace says. Still checking her out. "Because if you were mine I wouldn't let you out of my sight."
Buttercup has to grit her teeth to prevent her from spewing some insults to this pea brain.
"Buttercup, don't." Blossom says through the small earpiece. Being at a nearby spot with the boys and Bubbles. "I'm not drunk enough for this." She says ordering another drink. Ace smirks and orders something for himself.
Buttercup learned a long time ago that it takes a lot to get her drunk. An insane amount of alcohol because of her powers keeping her sharp and focused.
Naturally, she keeps ordering and so does Ace. Trying to keep up with her. He would flirt and she would encourage it so he would keep on drinking. So when he is drunk, but still able to comprehend words and sentences she knew she had him right where she wanted him.
She grabs his hand and drags him to the dance floor. "I knew you wanted meeee!" He says, dragging out his words. She doesn't respond, instead she starts dancing and he drunkenly starts as well.
His hands are on her and she has to remain calm and unbothered by it.
When she notices that he has completely loosened up after a few songs up she starts. "I need a break, let's go sit down." She yells over the music. Dragging him once more towards an empty table.
He sits down nearly falling over, but is able to find his balance on the chair. She sits across from him giving him what she hopes is a sexy smile.
In his drunken state he doesn't seem to notice the difference as he gives her a smirk. "So what was going on the other day with the Rowdyruff Boys? Crazy stuff, huh?" She says.
He nods in agreement. "Yeahhh Brick is really fuckeddd nowww." He drawls out.
Blossom tenses. Is she finally going to get answers? She hopes so. She looks over at Butch and Boomer as they hold their breath. Waiting for the conversation to continue. Bubbles looks scared, not knowing what he's gonna say next.
"Why's that?" Buttercup asks. Grabbing his hand on the table. Hoping to make this believable.
He shrugs. Looking at their hands. "Got the shiiit end of the dealll." He laughs. "I thouggght he wasss the smart one. Supposed to take afterrr pink puffff. Apparently looking out for herr."
All eyes are on Blossom as Ace muttered the words out. She feels her heart pounding in her chest.
"Does she have something to do with this deal?" Buttercup continues. All he can do is nod.
Buttercup can feel like she's losing his attention as his eyes wander at girls walking by. So she leans in closer, having him focus on her again.
"Do you know who he is dealing with?" She asks. Whispering in his ear. Hoping to get back on track.
No response is given. Instead, Ace smashes his mouth on hers and Buttercup gives a surprised, "Hmph!" Groping her, too drunk to care.
"What the fuck is happening?" Butch says. Having only audio and no video footage to show. "I don't know!" Blossom exclaims.
Butch is out the door before anyone can say anything. The rest of them quickly follow.
Butch is there in a flash. Walking into the club, spotting them quickly.
Buttercup had already slapped Ace. Yelling at him. Butch decides that that's not enough for whatever he did, still not knowing what happened.
Butch punches Ace square in the face. Sunglasses flying off. Boomer and the other puffs arrive as Ace looks up from the punch.
They're greeted with nearly black eyes. Overtaking the usual green.
Butch and Boomer recognize this immediately. Having seen the look in Brick.
Butch really set Ace off as he attacks him. A full on rage taking over Ace.
Butch was caught off guard as he gets taken down to the ground. Club security comes running and Blossom demands Bubbles to talk to them as she's trying to get Ace off from Butch with the help of Buttercup and Boomer.
"It's okay! We got it!" Bubbles says to the staff. Who immediately recognizes her and backs off a bit.
Boomer has to hold Ace down. Having finally gotten him off Butch.
Acting like a wild animal as his eyes go darker. Buttercup has had enough of it and punches him square in the face where Butch had and knocks him out.
The club goers cheer along with the staff and Butch and Boomer start dragging Ace out of there. Buttercup and Bubbles follow.
Blossom goes up to the staff who are thanking her for dealing with the problem. She nods and gives her practiced smile. "It was no problem at all! But please, if we can keep this quiet that would be great." She says.
A short man comes up appearing to be the owner of the club. "Oh yes. Don't worry about that. Don't want to get a bad reputation at my club!" He exclaims.
Blossom has to bite her tongue from saying anything about allowing 18 year olds in and serving them. It's not worth it at the moment.
Instead she nods and leaves. Following the blue and green streaks.
She finds them at the abandoned construction site. Seems to be their place of meeting. "What do we do, what do we do, what do we do?!" Boomer exclaims. Looking at an unconscious Ace.
Buttercup scoffs at this. "I thought you guys were criminals and you're acting like it's your first day on the job."
Butch laughs. "Criminals perhaps, but we don't kidnap people."
"Yeah! Like that one time you guys did to me!" Boomer exclaims. The three girls laugh. Thinking about how Bubbles had to pretend to be Boomer. Boomer isn't amused by their laughter. Butch sighs. "Calm down, Boomer."
Bubbles watches Boomer pacing back and forth. "It's okay! Blossom surely has a plan." She says and all eyes are on the red head.
She sighs. "I think it's too risky to try to wake him up to get more answers. He's out cold. I think we need to turn him in and he'll be put behind bars for a while." Nobody questions it.
"Alright. Up you go." Butch says. Throwing Ace over his shoulder. They all fly out and drop him off at the police station. The girls go in with Ace while Butch and Boomer wait outside. All Blossom says to them is that he caused a disturbance.
They join the boys back outside in an alley where hopefully no one will see them.
"Alright. All we gotta do now is start preparing for when you guys leave." Blossom says. "Let us know if Brick gives any more details." She directs the boys.
"You got it." Boomer says.
"Alright we'll be in touch. Let's go girls." Blossom says. They fly off leaving the ruffs behind.
"So, how do you think this whole thing will play out?" Boomer asks Butch as they watch the colored streaks fade into nothing. "I don't know Boom, but I'm hoping we get to the bottom of this shit."
A/N: Had to add some greens in this chapter hehe. Let me know what you think!