Powerpuff Showdown! Ch.2

Princess was cruising through the sky at a more reasonable speed now. Flying at the speed sound quickly drained her crystal’s energy, and if it ever went completely empty she would transform back into her un-super powered state. She was making good time, and concluded that she would be at the Puff’s house in the matter of seconds, then she could brag to her heart’s content, but that was until she spotted three rays of different colors from the corner of her eye.

“Oh, these boys are so obsessed with me…” she sighed, already knowing who it was.

She turned to face them and began to fly backwards. “Well, if it isn’t the Rowdyruffs… what brings you boys here?”

“What’s up, Princess. Whatcha got there?” Butch asked with a flirty tone is his voice while he pointed the golden claws in her hand.

Princess put the claws behind her back, and batted her eyelashes. “Oh, it’s nothing.”

“Cut the crap, Princess.” Brick sneered. “We came for that thing, and we’re prepared to capture you in order to get it.”

Princess pouted. She was hoping to continue on this little game with the boys, but it appeared that Brickie didn’t want to play today. He always was the party pooper.

Princess glared back at Brick. “If you want a piece of this ass, you’re gonna have to catch it first!”

And with that note, she quickly flew off the opposite direction, leaving the boys in her dust.

Butch, being somewhat turned on with Princess’ statement, began to charge himself up. “Oh, you already know, babygirl. Catching ass is my specialty.”

He was about to go after her, but Brick grabbed on to his shoulder.

“Fall back.” He ordered. “I told you, we have to go with the strategy.”

“Ugh, you and your damn battle strategies are gonna drive me crazy! Man, I had a chance to grab her!”

Brick disregarded Butch, and turned his attention to the youngest brother. “You know what to do next, right Boomer?”

Boomer nodded his head vigorously. “Yeah, yeah, yeah, I just fly really really fast!”

Brick patted his head like a pet  dog. “Good boy…” Then he pointed to the direction of Princess’ glowing pink trail. “Now go get her!”

Boomer nodded one last time before dashing off toward Princess.

Brick grinned in satisfaction. His little plan was going along quite nicely. He then looked over to Butch, who angrily had his arms crossed.

“Let’s go… we have to stand by and wait for the signal before we start the second part of my plan.”

Butch rolled his eyes. “Yeah, yeah whatever you say, Commander Brick…”

Brick placed a finger under his chin and nodded. “Hmmm, I actually like the sound of that…”

“Shut the hell up…”  Butch mumbled.

Princess thought she has successfully evaded those pesky Ruffs, but she was soon proven wrong when she discovered Boomer catching up to her.

She groaned loudly. “Oh great, why did it have to be the blue one!”

She dreaded this only because out of all the Ruffs, Boomer was the only one who had her matched in the speed department. And his air acrobatics wasn’t too shabby either; they both could maneuver in the skies with ease.

But Princess knew Boomer’s little secret. After numerous times of fighting him, she knew that he was virtually blind in thick cloud cover, and luckily for her it looked like it was gonna rain today. She headed up toward the clouds and Boomer immediately followed after. She laughed at Boomer’s blatant stupidity. He fell right for her trap.

“Time to crash and burn, blue boy!” She chucked loudly.

She flew in the clouds for a while, and once again thought she lost him, since the area around her was dead quiet, but then Boomer quickly flew pasted her. Princess turned her head, but it was too late, she had already missed him. Then he dashed by her again, again, and again. There was so many Boomer’s surrounding her that she was literally getting dizzy.  When she finally got a clear head, she had lost all sense of direction, so when Boomer headed right toward her, she had no choice but to fly in the opposite way, not knowing where she was going.

Princess groaned again.

This is not going as planned, she thought.

It was only a matter of time before he caught up with her, and there was only one way to get out of this.

I guess it’s supersonic time!

She felt her crystal’s power lowering down to around 50%, and she figured she could only go supersonic for about five seconds, before she transformed back. But she wouldn’t need the whole five seconds if her plan worked properly.

She charged herself up, and in a flash, she started to fly faster than the speed of sound, which caused an earth-rattling sonic boom. Boomer followed her lead and produced a sonic boom of his own.

So far, so good, Princess thought.

Boomer was aimlessly copying her like she knew he would, and now it was time to take advantage of another one of Boomer’s little secrets. Yes, both of them could fly at the speed of sound, but only one of them could stop on a dime. Princess flew a little further, and then she stopped automatically. Boomer flew right past her, and she knew it would take him a good ten to twenty seconds for him to make a complete stop, so this was perfect time for her to escape.

She checked her power, and she had a pitiful 2% left, but that should be enough to bring her home if she flew slowly. She grinned proudly at her victory over the stupid Rowdyruffs, and was about to make her way back, but then someone grabbed her from behind.

“Ahhh!” she shrieked, and then the mystery person covered her mouth and began to bring her back down toward Earth.

Princess kicked and screamed until they finally reached the ground, and her eyes widen when she finally saw the person standing before her.

“Well, hey there, Princess…” The red Ruff said with a cocky grin. “It seems like we captured you, just like I thought we would…”

Boomer flew down and stood next to his older brother. Princess then concluded that Butch was the one who currently had his hand around her mouth and his other arm wrapped tightly around her waist.

“So, did I do good, bro?” Boomer asked eagerly.

Brick nodded. “That was excellent, Boomer. I think you deserve this…” he pulled out a stick of gum from his pocket and continued to hand it to his brother.

Boomer held the piece of gum like it was treasured gold. “Oh my god, and its blue raspberry too!”

He shoved it into his mouth, and chewed on it joyfully. Brick smiled and then returned his focus back to Princess, who was apparently screaming at him, but he couldn’t understand because of Butch’s hand over her mouth.

With a swift gesture of his hand, Brick ordered Butch to release the freckled girl. Butch did what he was told and lessen his grip, which cause Princess to land on her bottom.

“Owie!” She whined as she rubbed her behind. “Can you be a bit gentler with me?! I am a lady!”

“Yeah right, more like a bitchy tramp.” Butch chuckled.

“Shut up!” she yelled at Butch, she then glared over to Brick.

“A little bit too trusting, aye?” Princess questioned. “Why’d you set me free? I could escape at any moment…”

“With what power? We all know you’re drained…” Brick stated.

Princess slouched her shoulders in defeat. He had a point there; she was completely out of juice. And then, as if her crystal was reading her mind, it’s bright glow dulled and Princess transformed back into her loungewear. She was now weak and vulnerable.

“H-how did you beat me?…” Princess she asked with a sadden tone in her voice. It was like battling the Powerpuff Girls all over again, she just felt like a complete failure.

Brick grinned evilly. “I’m actually glad you asked that, Princess… let me tell you how I did it.”

Butch and Boomer groaned deeply in the background.

“Hey, shut up you two! It’s story time with Brick…”

He leaned down to the ground and looked into Princess’ depressed face. The look of her anguish and sorrow brought a smile to his face. He has always hated the curly headed rich girl, and she somehow managed to outsmart him and his brothers before. It was nice to finally get some revenge.

“So, being the stubborn little brat you are, I knew you wouldn’t give the object easily.” Brick began. “So I came up with this kickass plan. First, I sent Boomer out after you, because I knew you thought you could outsmart him by bringing him up into the clouds. Which was a lie by the way, we just tricked into believing Boomer was blinded by thick cloud cover.

 Once in the dark clouds, Boomer confused you, so you couldn’t tell which direction you were going. Then Boomer continued to guide you back toward were me and Butch where hiding. And I also knew you were gonna do that sonic boom crap too. So when you finally stopped in your tracks, Butch just went up grabbed you… it was really easy actually…”

Princess remained quiet. It all made sense to her. All those times were she thought she was tricking them; Brick was tricking her twice as hard. He was always one step ahead of her.

Brick grabbed her by the hair and forced her to stand up.

“Now you have you have no choice but to give us that thing…” Brick stated darkly. “And you better cooperate with us, Princess… or we will hurt you…”

Princess felt like she had no choice but to give in to Brick’s commands, but then she glanced down at the golden claws; the only thing that brought her accomplishment in her life. She wasn’t going to let anyone else have them.

Rage and anger began to swell up inside of her,  she and felt a power that she hasn’t felt since she was a little girl. A super tantrum; and it was gonna be a big one.

“NO, NO, NO!” she yelled, causing the three boys to take a step back. “Every time something good happens to me someone takes it away from me! First, it was my Mom and that already brought me down, then those stupid Powerpuff Girls took the remainder of my self-confidence and stomped it to the ground, and now YOU three! Now you want to take this away from me! “

She waved the golden claws in front of her.

“Well, let me tell you something, you Rowdyruff Assholes, there is no way in bloody hell that you’re taking my-my-“

She stuttered loudly, having trouble coming up the correct term to describe her precious item. She stared at them until something magically popped up inside her head.

“M-my- my GOLDEN TIGER CLAWS!!”

The claws shined brightly with a holy unnatural glow. Princess gasped loudly and swung her arm in response, which caused a giant purple tear to form in mid-air. The sound of wind being sucked into a vacuum surrounded her, and she tried to take a step back to get away from the frightful sight, but tripped over her own feet, sending her head first into the violet vortex of terror.

In another world far away, resided a teenage boy. But not just any boy; he was a self-proclaimed evil genius. The boy with the vibrant red hair, with eyes of the vivid same color, walked around his basement woefully. He stood in front of large hole in the wall, and the sun from outside reflected off his pale skin, which made it appear like it was glowing.

“Jack Spicer, Evil Boy Genius is not having a very good day…” he uttered under his breath.

He glanced around his now destroyed evil lair, and tapped his foot un-patiently.

“Jackbots! What’s taking you so long to fix this freakin’ hole in the wall! It’s getting drafty!”

A second later, a large amount of bronze colored robots entered the room and proceeded to fix up the hole like they were ordered.

“Geez, about time!” he yelled. “Now make it quick! I have evil things to do and I can’t do them with a destroyed lab!”

A bot quickly flew pasted him, and Jack quickly grabbed it and brought it aside.

“How much Wu do I have left?” he asked it directly.

“According to my scans of the compound, I have concluded that you currently have no Shen Gon Wu, Master.”

“Wait, none! A-are you sure?! Go check again!” he ordered with a slight hint of whininess in his voice.

“Master, I have no need to re-check myself, since I was created by a superior human being, I make no mistakes.”

“This is no time to play suck-up, this is serious!” he yelled as he gripped the bot tightly.

“Suck-up? I’m afraid I do not understand that term, Master.” The robot coldly replied.

Jack pushed the robot away in frustration. “God, you’re so useless!”

He walked around the room with his hand covering his face. “Is that all I can do? Make stupid useless bots that can’t do anything?!”

Jack continued to think about the recent events as he paced the area. Just a few hours ago, he was living his normally pathetic life. His parents were gone for the second month straight, he was getting his ass handed to him by the Xiaolin monks every other day, he had evil ghost witch haunting him, yup, it was pretty normal.

But that all changed when he decided to help the evil ghost witch, Wuya regained her human form by using the Reversing Mirror and Serpent’s Tail Shen Gon Wu, which were HIS, by the way. And now she stole and his other Wu and left him here to rot here all alone.

“Stupid Wuya… I’m the one who got you out of the damn puzzle box… you wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for me…” he whispered angrily.

Once he started thinking about the situation again, he began to get slightly depressed. He always had someone with him, he was all alone now.

“What I’m gonna do?!” he groaned as he buried his head into his hands. “I can’t beat a Heylin witch, I-I can’t even beat those Xiaolin losers…”

“I-I’m such a failure…” he whispered. “I just really need some kind of a sign right now…”

Soon after he said that, a purple tear appeared above him and something extremely large fell on top of him. He laid on the ground utterly dazed and confused about what happened. He sat up and slowly opened his eyes and that’s when saw the redheaded freckled girl for the first time.