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Loyalty
0 ReviewsIt all started as a normal day for Powerpuff Girls fighting monsters and saving the day but unknown to them Him has a plan to turn Buttercup against them.
The sound of their phone indicating an incoming call from the mayor made the girls snap into action. "Finally!" Buttercup said. She was rather bored watching her sisters go about their silly activities. Blossom was brushing her hair as if it was an obsession and Bubbles was playing with her plushie toys.
The black haired Powerpuff girl listened as her red haired sister spoke on the phone ending the call saying "we're on our way!" That was the signal to take off.
The three girls flew out the widows of their room towards the main area of the city where there was yet another monster attack. "The city of Townsville" a reporter said pausing after the phrase. "Today our city is being attacked by a random monster that has apparently randomly come out of nowhere." The camera moved to show the strange beast then returned to the reported who continued speaking. "We are currently waiting for the Powerpuff Girls to arrive and" before he could continue a green blur flew past two pink and blue blurs and collided with the monster. "They're here!" The camera then focused on the battle.
Buttercup levitated over the beast. It was quite a strange looking monster indeed. It was a green creature with large black shades and black hair. She wasn't sure what to call it but it didn't matter, it was a monster. The creature dared to get up angered at Buttercup. It roared loudly causing the entire city to tremble. "Bring it!" Buttercup said showing no fear. A few meters behind her floated Blossom and Bubbles.
Bubbles was in her usual cheerful mood as she witnessed the fight. She was sometimes amazed by her sister's strength. She wasn't called the toughest fighter for nothing and now she was reminded why. Blossom didn't look pleased. They were a team, a team of which she was the leader and there she floated being left out.
It didn't take too long for Buttercup to finish the fight. "Buttercup! Buttercup! Buttercup!" The grateful crowd cheered.
"They should be cheering for the Powerpuff Girls not for Buttercup alone" Blossom said looking upset.
Just as Buttercup was savoring her victory flying above the crowd something unexpected happened. The green monster began to shrink taking a more familiar form as it got smaller. Buttercup stared in disbelief. "Ace? But how?"
Ace was quite weak from the battle, his injuries looked serious. His broken sun glasses lay beside him as he opened his eyes half way. "Him" he whispered before passing out again.
If Him was involved then this could be trouble. The girls decided to take Ace to the professor and try to find out more. "How is he professor?" Bubbles asked.
"Ace will recover but he doesn't remember too much about what happened" Professor Utonium answered.
"Or he doesn't want to tell" Buttercup suspiciously said. "Maybe we can make him tell us."
"Now Buttercup, I really don't think that will be necessary" Utonium stood at the door to the guest room. "I don't think he participated in Him's plan, whatever that may be, willingly. If that's the case then he might want you to stop Him. We just need to give Ace a little time to recover."
The girls save for Buttercup nodded in agreement. "I know let's make him some soup" Bubbles suggested.
"How is soup going to help us defeat Him?" Buttercup asked. Sometimes her sisters came up with the strangest ideas, especially Bubbles.
"The soup isn't for Him-him it's for him as in Ace so he gets well faster" Bubbles explain.
"Well he is our guest, we might as well show some hospitality" Blossom agreed.
"You're too nice for your own good. I refuse to participate" with that said Buttercup flew to her room.
"Forget her, let's make the soup ourselves" Blossom said as she and Bubbles headed for the kitchen.
It was late at night when Buttercup woke up. Her sisters were still fast asleep but she had an uneasy feeling about their guest. She quietly got out of bed and made her way to the guestroom. Ace was sleeping, he looked like he was having a nightmare. Determined to get the necessary information out of him Buttercup woke him up. Ace nearly jumped out of bed when he was suddenly brought back to reality the dream was still clear in his mind. He looked around as if trying to figure out where he was and remembered what happened. "I was having a nightmare."
Buttercup glared. "Stop pretending you don't know what's going on. Tell me what Him's plan is."
"I don't know" Ace said. He looked away with a serious expression.
"Tell me" Buttercup said a little louder but making sure she didn't speak too loud and wake her sisters or Professor Utonium.
"I really don't know! Do you think I wanted to get turned into a monster?" Ace said. "The others are... I don't know if they survived."
"Survived what? What is Him planning to do? You must have some sort of clue. This is my city to protect" Buttercup said.
"I thought the Powerpuff Girls protected it, all of them not just" he stopped, angering her was definitely a bad idea. "I mean it's not that you couldn't do it yourself it's just that your sisters probably want to help and all."
"My sisters are expected to help and I'm expected to win" Buttercup said.
"I take it you've been watching the news" Ace remembered what he had seen on TV. It was also constantly being said on the radios and written on the papers. Buttercup, the toughest fighter, the protector of Townsville. She was the strongest Powerpuff girl, the one who could never be defeated. All eyes were on her paying much closer attention than to Blossom and Bubbles and she was starting to feel the pressure. She couldn't let them down and she couldn't let herself down. "If I knew anything I'd tell you. Like I said I didn't want Him to turn me into a monster and I don't know how the others are doing if they even survived but right now I remember too little to give you good clue."
"Then start thinking because I expect an answer by tomorrow morning" Buttercup said she turned to leave but Ace called after her.
"You really need to learn to chill out" he said. She glared. "You've been having a worse temper than usual. I'm the one who should be stressing out because my gang's missing and I'm an injured prisoner in the house of the Powerpuff Girls" He picked up the stuffed animal Bubble had left to keep him company and hugged it. "Sometimes I wish I you were a little more understanding."
"Stop trying to look innocent. A fluffy white rabbit doesn't cover up your past" Buttercup said.
"Fine, be that way" he tossed the plushie rabbit and caught it as if it were a ball.
"Don't forget, I expect an answer by tomorrow" Buttercup reminded him before leaving. Ace missed catching the rabbit and it fell on his head, good thing it was soft. He decided not to worry, if he didn't know what to say by tomorrow he would make something up. As unpredictable as Him was he could just say he must have changed his mind.
When morning came Buttercup was the last to get out of bed. She followed her morning routine as she usually did and flew downstairs but she heard some voices coming from the guest room. She headed in that direction instead and found Ace had somehow completely recovered. Hiding behind the half closed door she listened to the professor. "I knew that healing concoction of mine was a success and to think I discovered it by accident."
"Well now that I'm all better I guess I should be leaving" Ace said as he headed towards the door.
Buttercup had no intentions of letting him leave so easily and he was surprised to find it was Bubbles who stopped him first. "Wait you can't leave!" It was evident by the surprised look in Ace's face that he didn't expect Bubbles of all people to stop him. Then her action fell into character with her next words. "You have to stay and have breakfast with us!"
Buttercup shook her head in disapproval. Leave it to Bubbles to lower her guard more often than healthy. Knowing it was no use to argue with her sister and the professor Buttercup headed towards the kitchen to wait for them as if she hadn't heard anything. Breakfast was uneventful save for the presence of their guest. While the professor tried to make friendly conversation and Bubbles was the only one who participated, Blossom kept a close watch on the war of glares going on between Ace and Buttercup. Soon after breakfast he left.
"Don't forget to call us if you remember anything that might be useful, anything at all" Professor Utonium said.
"Sure no problem I'll call" He glanced at Buttercup looking victorious as if he had gotten away. How wrong he was.
"Do you promise?" Bubbles asked.
"I promise" Ace agreed before leaving confident that he wouldn't be followed and he wouldn’t be, yet.
"I don't understand why we let him go" Buttercup protested. She didn't mention it sooner because she knew it would be impossible to change the professor and her sisters minds.
"The attack wasn't his fault, Him forced him into it. Besides with the beating you gave him yesterday don't you think he's been punished enough? You're over doing it again buttercup" Blossom said.
"You don't understand" Buttercup argued. "Besides he's a villain we're supposed to beat them up."
"Not that badly" Blossom replied. "I thought you had gotten a little more control after that training you did and for some time it showed but now you're going back to the way you were before."
"Shut up Blossom! If it weren't for me you two would have gotten beaten to nothing" Buttercup yelled.
"Girls please stop arguing!" Utonium tried to stop them but they didn't listen. Distressed by her sisters arguing Bubbles started crying. The professor continued trying to get them to stop while consoling Bubble but it wasn't working.
"You know what? I think you're still mad at him because he dumped you before" Blossom went too far. Bubbles stopped her crying, the professor went quiet and a deadly silence overcame them.
There was a pause. Buttercup was staring at her feet while Blossom's mind quickly processed what she said. Before she would take it back Buttercup tackled her pushing her to the ground with such a force she made a hole. "Buttercup stop that!" The professor place a hand on her shoulder but she pushed him away a little harder than necessary.
Bubbles quickly caught him. "Buttercup that was mean!"
"Stay out of this" She raised her fist to hit Blossom but the leader of the Powerpuff Girls managed to slip away just in time.
Blossom flew up into the skies taking the fight way from the professor and Bubbles not to mention the house. "I'm sorry about what I said. I shouldn't have!"
"It's too late for apologies" Buttercup kicked her sending her towards the ground.
Blossom regained control before reaching the ground and flew out of her angry sister's path in the sky. Buttercup turned and flew at Blossom again. The red head had enough. She took a deep breath and blew as hard as she could successfully trapping Buttercup in a block of ice. However that didn't last long. Buttercup easily broke free of the ice before she even hit the ground and once again prepared for the attack.
"Girls stop! Townsville is in danger!" Bubble rushed to tell them. "Another monster is attacking but this one had a lot of heads!" She heard the phone ringing in their room but it was obvious what it was about since they could see the monster tearing the city apart.
"Alright let's go" Blossom said.
"We're not one yet" Buttercup yelled.
"Buttercup! Townsville is in danger we have to go" Blossom said.
"Fine" Butter agreed but not entirely. As Blossom and Bubbles flew towards the city she stayed behind and watched them disappear in the distance. "Let's see them handle this without me" She then flew towards to dump to find Ace.
Ace had been watching TV when Buttercup arrived. She didn't even bother to knock and simply knocked down the door. Ace turned his head in her direction. Somehow he wasn't surprise, he should have known she wasn't one to back down on her word. However what he had been watching on TV worried him more than what was happening. Watching the battle in the news he remembered a little more of what had happened while he and the other Gangreen Gang members were at Him's realm. Before Buttercup could ask Ace spoke. "I remember one very important thing, Him was looking for a monster to keep a servant or more like a pet. We were hanging out outside the museum planning to, I mean we were just hanging out. Him came out of the museum and captured us. We were all supposed to be fused together into one powerful monster but I somehow managed to resist the spell. Instead he turned me into one monster and fused Snake, Arturo, Billy and Grubber into another. Your sisters are fighting it. To be defeated by the Powerpuff Girls is the only way to change back. It's part of Him's spell. If that thing is going to change back into the guys you or your sisters have to beat it."
Buttercup watched the battle her sisters were fighting on the TV. Being a combination of four Gangreen members instead of one that monster was a lot more powerful not to mention strange. "Let them try and when they lose then I'll save Townsville."
Ace gave her an odd look. He didn't expect her to go that far with her sibling rivalry. "They might get hurt you know. Snake, Arturo, Billy and Grubber aren't themselves. I had no consciousness or control when I was like that."
"Let them" Butter angrily said. She took a seat next to Ace on the couch and simply watched.
“Well then, see ya” He got up and started to leave.
“Where are you going?” Buttercup asked.
“I’m off to give them a hand or most likely get in the way but either way I’m going because my gang is there” Ace said.
“Don’t they annoy you sometimes?” She asked.
“You have no idea how much” Ace said as he headed out.
Buttercup followed. “I figured it out... All the stress, the voice in my dreams telling me what I should do. I listened and it made me famous but I see now it was all a trap.”
“Him?” Ace asked.
“Yeah” Buttercup said.
As if on cue Him appeared. “You figured it all out that it was me trying to influence what you did. How disappointing that you realized what was going on, very disappointing indeed. How did you know?”
“Because Ace was about to leave to try to help the others from the Gangreen Gang. I guess they’re like brothers, it reminded me that I wouldn’t abandon my sister and that’s when I realized something was wrong” Buttercup said.
Him looked displease, he hated it when his plans were discovered. “It doesn’t matter, you’ll never get there on time and even if you do the monster is too strong.”
“No for me... Not for the Powerpuff Girls!” Buttercup flew off to join her sisters in the battle.
In the end it was their team work that brought them victory. The Gangreen Gang was freed from Him’s spell and healed, it was another victory as Him retreated frustrated that he was unable to turn Buttercup against her sisters.
“Buttercup, you have once again saved the city of Townsville is there something you would like to say about your latest victory?” The same reporter from before asked.
“It wasn’t just me, we did it together, all of the Powerpuff Girls” Buttercup said, it was something that her sisters were happy to hear.
The reporter then continued “today once again the day was saved thanks to the Powerpuff Girls!”
The End