Chapter Ten: Unearthing A Temple To Be Reckoned With
Despite the very loud music that played throughout the night in the Powerpuff household, Mojo Jojo slept very soundly, having recovered from his brain shock. But because of him being extremely tired after the 36-hour marathon of dark web surfing, he slept for a good twelve hours, having stirred awake from his sleep at 7:00 am the next day. He didn't have his alarm set, and he sat on the edge of the bed and stretched and yawned.
As he was trying to shake off the cobwebs from his sleep, his usual ringtone of Nas's "If I Ruled The World (Imagine That)" went off. He reached for his smartphone and looked at the caller ID briefly, which showed a number he didn't have on his contacts list, but he went ahead and answered it anyway.
"Mojo Jojo speaking." He said in a very sleepy voice.
A song started playing in the background after he finished speaking. It was the type of song that would be associated with adult movies. Mojo kept the phone held to his ear as Avenue D's "You Love This Ass", the Pete Loves Acid Mix, played in the background as a female started to speak in an erotic, wanton voice.
"Mmmmm….Welcome to the hottest, sultriest, most arousal-inducing adult sex chat line in all of Townsville, where you will just never stop playing pocket pool. You KNOW you want to do the naked tango for many, many hours today, so let's not waste any time, handsome." The voice said preceding an erotic giggle as Mojo listened, almost dumbfounded.
"What in the fuck is this?" Mojo said to himself.
"To have your biiiig tool wrapped around the softest, biggest pair of all-natural tetas, press one. To have a white hot GILF slob on your knob like corn on the cob, press two." The voice continued.
"What?!" Mojo shouted.
"To have a barely legal teen ride up and down your pole, press three. To have a gorgeous, ghetto booty ebony lavish her love on your baby factory, press four. To taste the sweet nectar in between the thighs of a gorgeous MILF, press five. To have an SSBBW park her 75 inches of badonkadonk right square on your face, press six. To toss the salad of a PAWG while she…." The voice continued before Mojo simply hung up.
"Enough of that shit!" Mojo shouted angrily. "Taking over the world feels better than pussy, for the pussy fails to arouse me!" Mojo added before he went to begin his daily routine.
The scene shifted over to the evil lair in Capitol City. Simon Bar Sinister, at the same hour of 7:00 am, had already climbed out of bed, stretching and yawning on the edge of it. He too got a good twelve hours of sleep despite the loud music from the block party the previous night.
Cad Lackey, however, was still very sound asleep, very faint snores still evident as he slept. Simon walked over to Cad's bed and shook his body in an attempt to wake him up.
"Get your ass up, Cad, we got fucking work to do!" Simon ordered as he spoke at a normal volume, Cad slowly opening his eyes.
"Hey, boss, what time is it?" Cad asked sleepily.
"Time for you to get your ass out of bed! We gotta look at that thing!" Simon answered.
However, Cad was so sleepy that he drifted back off to sleep. Simon scoffed a bit before he grabbed his smartphone and browsed through a music collection he had, eventually finding a song. He put his phone on max volume and put his phone to Cad's ear when Blink-182's "Built This Pool" played, instantly jolting Cad awake and out of bed.
"Okay, boss, I'm up, damnit!" Cad said, the jolt startling him. "I can't stand that fucking song! I don't wanna see any naked dudes!"
"Yeah, neither do I, Cad. Now go get the fucking coffee ready and let's get to work!" Simon ordered.
"Yes, boss, right away." Cad obeyed as he and Simon started their usual morning routine.
The scene was equally at Mojo's observatory in Townsville and at Simon and Cad's lair in Capitol City. The three villains had finished their morning routines of shower and breakfast and were all at their computers. Mojo had sloppy-but-legible-to-him instructions by his side to go back on the dark web to retrieve the document he was interested in. Simon, on the other hand, was shouted instructions by Cad to go retrieve the document they both were interested in.
All three villains hit a snafu for a moment as the path they all took was not the same. It was actually quite a normal thing on the ever-changing dark web in an attempt to keep the highly illegal things there highly clandestine.
"Shit!" Mojo exclaimed, pounding his fist on the desk very hard.
Mojo got a sight that he really couldn't unsee, getting a view of numerous, highly explicit advertisements on penile enlargement.
"Cad, just what in the fuck is this shit?" Simon asked Cad angrily.
"I have no fucking clue, boss, but get it off!" Cad answered, just as dumbfounded as Simon was.
Just like with Mojo, Simon and Cad both got a sight that would be burned in their retinas for a long time, getting a view of numerous, highly explicit advertisements on erectile dysfunction.
Mojo and Simon eventually clicked off the pages angrily and Mojo, Simon, and Cad all had to deviate from the path that they initially took to find the document. Fortunately for them, they were able to easily find alternate routes and were able to get their eyeballs on the document of interest, all three of them nodding with evil grins on their faces as they knew that they found the correct one based on their photographic memory. They blasted the document full screen and began to read.
The document was about a dozen pages long, and it was all about a highly classified but centuries-old myth that involved four pieces of jewelry with unlimited power. Much of the very juicy details were redacted, but Mojo, Simon, and Cad all had an easy solution already on their computers to reverse the redaction with only a few clicks. They all kept reading along, and they got the names of the jewelry – the three Bracelets of Despair and the single Forbidden Necklace.
"Interesting!" Mojo said as he rubbed his chin.
"Intriguing!" Simon said as he also rubbed his chin.
As the villains read along, they saw the mention of an unknown utopia very high up in the clouds that was turned into a dystopia when a single male with the Forbidden Necklace and three females with the three Bracelets of Despair took over that world. In only seven days, they claimed that world as theirs and ruled that world with an iron fist.
"Fuck yes! This could be the answer to our prayers, boss!" Cad said excitedly with Simon nodding and smiling.
"Ruled with an iron fist! That is the mother fucking dream!" Simon added just as excitedly.
"Holy shit! With those four pieces of jewelry, no one will be able to stop me!" Mojo said excitedly.
The three villains continued to read along and saw that one day, a rebel wife and husband duo named Celestial and Hernando, respectively, stopped the male and three females' tyrannical rule and turned the dystopian world back into a utopia and took the jewelry for themselves, Celestial proclaiming herself as the guardian of the Bracelets of Despair and Hernando proclaiming himself as the guardian of the Forbidden Necklace.
For many centuries, Celestial and Hernando guarded the jewelry until one day, the male and three females hatched a plot to get the jewelry back, and the plot was going to be successful. On a last desperation attempt, Celestial sacrificed herself as well as killing her husband and the four villains to keep the villains from getting the jewelry. The jewelry was subsequently sent to an unknown place in the solar system that had the atmosphere necessary to keep the jewelry safe. The place was said to revolve in the habitable zone around a large white star and had the conditions that were necessary for life.
"Well, there's only one place I know of with such an atmosphere, and we're all sitting in it!" Mojo said.
"Boss, we're fucking sitting in that place!" Cad said to Simon.
Mojo, Simon, and Cad continued to read the document. They saw mention of a highly rumored place that the jewelry could be located at. There were several renderings of a massive temple on an island completely surrounded by water. The name was the Temple of Reckoning. The three villains all read that the Temple of Reckoning was meticulously built by ancestors and descendants of Celestial and Hernando for many more centuries, and they housed the jewelry inside. Also, the ancestors and descendants heavily fortified the temple with a total of eleven impenetrable and transparent layers.
"Heh, we shall see about that." Simon said, just getting out a small laugh upon reading that sentence.
"Impenetrable my ass." Mojo said with a grin on his face. "I'll bet my ass if I see that place up close I could easily get in!"
Going towards the end of the document, they all read that it was highly unknown how Celestial and Hernando stopped the evil male and three females, so there was no known counter, or Kryptonite per se, to the jewelry. The very last sentence read that if someone were to ever get a hold of the jewelry and activate it, they would have unlimited power and would be unstoppable.
"Yes!" Mojo excitedly said with a fist pump. "That is music to my fucking ears! Now let me find out where this temple is so I can plan my trip there!"
"Boss, did you read that?" Cad asked Simon as he had a look of disbelief on his face.
"Yes, Cad, that jewelry will be the answer to our world domination dreams!" Simon answered. "Help me find it! It has to be somewhere on this fucking planet!"
For the next several hours, Mojo, Simon, and Cad browsed all around the dark web for much more information on the Temple of Reckoning. Many places had the many answers they were looking for in one place, but they all wanted exorbitant demands of many different types of payment, whether it be cryptocurrency or more normal types of payment. They had to weed through the nonsense and the dead ends (including memes and more highly explicit advertisements), but they all got free bits and pieces of information that they had to document very quickly.
A massive juicy piece of information confirmed that the Temple of Reckoning was indeed on Earth, and that it was the centerpiece of an island simply named Temple Island, but that piece of information did not say where it was. So Mojo, Simon, and Cad browsed around chat rooms, forums, and dark web "social media" to gather the info they sought.
Using the many, many pieces of info the three villains gathered for several hours, and after going through a lot of trial and error, they were able to surgically pinpoint coordinates of where the Temple of Reckoning likely was. They all arrived to several different coordinates but they were all within close range of one another.
"I think that's gonna do it!" Mojo said as he looked at the time, seeing it was 3:00 pm. "I will begin preparations tonight. I will first rest up until, hmmm, 11:00 pm. Then I will fire up my Mojo chopper and depart for the Temple of Reckoning at the midnight hour, not a second later. Powerpuff Girls, soon you will be defeated and I will FINALLY rule this world with an iron fist!" Mojo added with an evil laugh as he moved to shut down his computer, setting his alarm on his smartphone to 11:00 pm.
Simon and Cad also had 3:00 pm on their dial, the two Capitol City villains having finished their research.
"So boss, when do we leave, now?" Cad asked Simon.
"No, let us both rest up, Cad. Set your alarm to 11:00 pm. We make preparations to leave for the Temple of Reckoning at the stroke of midnight." Simon answered. "Underdog, One Day. It is tomorrow. I will at last fulfill my lifelong dream of dictating the world, and no one will be able to stop me!" Simon added with an evil laugh just as he and Cad too set their smartphone alarms to 11:00 pm, Cad shutting down the computer.
Mojo, Simon, and Cad all jumped into their beds to rest up, all with evil grins on their faces, slowly drifting off to sleep to get their bodies in tip top shape for their overnight journey.
END OF CHAPTER TEN
Music Credits
Song Artist/Source: Nas
Song Title/Source: If I Ruled The World (Imagine That)
Year Song Released: 1996
When Played: Mojo Jojo's ringtone.
Song Artist/Source: Avenue D
Song Title/Source: You Love This Ass (Pete Loves Acid Mix)
Year Song Released: 2005
When Played: In the background of the adult sex chat hotline that Mojo Jojo answered.
Song Artist/Source: Blink-182
Song Title/Source: Built This Pool
Year Song Released: 2016
When Played: When Simon Bar Sinister puts his phone to Cad Lackey's ear to wake him up.
Song Artist/Source: Paper Mario
Song Title/Source: Peach's Castle (Bowser)
Year Song Released: 2000
When Played: While Mojo Jojo, Simon Bar Sinister, and Cad Lackey are searching on the dark web.