Powerpuff Showdown! Ch.4

Back at Townsville, the three super-powered teens stood there completely dumbfounded by the event that just occurred.

Boomer rubbed his eyes and stared off into the distance. “Woah! What just happened? She just disappeared.”

“Oh shit,” Butch cussed. “I think I smoked too much…”

He reached in his pocket and took a blunt and a lighter, and his younger brother gave him an odd look.

“So you’re gonna fix that by smoking some more?”

Butch glared back at him. “Shut up…”

Then he focused his attention to his leader, who appeared to be thinking intensely with his finger under his chin.

“What? The genius can’t figure out what happened to the brat?” he mocked with a cocky smile.

“Shut the hell up, I’m trying to think.” Brick scolded without facing his brother.

Butch crossed his arms. “Well damn, sorry Mr. Smartass.”

Brick ignored him while Boomer swung his arms through the air where Princess once stood.

“This is cool and freaky at the same time.  It’s just like a movie I watched where they could travel through dimensions. Do you think that’s what happened with Princess?”

Butch let out an irritated groan. “Boomer, that’s the stupidest thing I ever-“

Brick snapped his fingers. “That’s it!”

“Wait, are you serious?”  Butch asked. “Do you really think the brat went to another freakin’ dimension?”

Brick turned around and faced him. “Well, do you have a better explanation? Princess literally fell into a vortex of some kind. I bet she’s not even on this planet anymore.”

Butch sniffed through the air, activating his canine like superpower. “Nah, she’s nowhere to be found. I can’t sense her.”

A smirk appeared on the redheaded leader’s face. “Oh, you would have her scent memorized. You hooked up with her more than once.”

Butch gave him a cocky grin of his own. “Is someone jealous that I get more girls than them?”

Brick rolled his eyes. “Yeah right, I wouldn’t hook up with any girl like you. I have standards…”

“Yeah, like Blossom…” Butch whispered to Boomer, resulting in a chuckle from the blond.

“I heard that!” Brick snapped. “I’m not going into that again! You know what I said!”

“He’s totally in denial.” Butch whispered again.

Brick still heard what he said but decided to ignore him this time around.

“Well, let’s go.” He said while flying off. “We have to be quick if we’re gonna catch up to Princess… wherever she is…”

“We’re going after her?” Boomer questioned. “But why?”

“Isn’t it obvious? That thing probably sent her back where it originated from; meaning that they could be more objects like it there. We go to that other world, steal them, and come back and rule the town with the power they contain. Or we can possibly rule the world.”

“Ooooh! Rule the world? That seems like fun! We could get an unlimited supply of gum!” Boomer exclaimed.

Brick was about to unleash a sigh, but Butch interrupted.

“Yeah, that sounds like a great plan and all, but there’s one problem. How the hell are we gonna get there? We can’t fly to another world.”

Brick grinned. “Just follow me, all will be explained in time.”

“You been watching those movies again, right?” Butch asked slightly annoyed.

“What?” Brick said with a shrug. “I really like those movies.”

“Let’s just this over with.” Butch sighed as he rolled his eyes. “I have weed to smoke and girls to bang.”

Brick nodded and with that, they three teens went on their way.

A few more moments later, and the three teens were now at their new located. It was a familiar one; a place they have been many times before.

“Daddy, we’re home!” Butch sang out.

“Yeah, where are you, Monkey Butt!” said Boomer with a chuckled.

They flew further inside the lab to try to find the green primate, but there was no sign of him.

Brick was the last to enter through the large whole in the wall. “Guys, would you cut that out. We’re gonna have to be nice to the guy, if he’s gonna help us…”

“But Mojo’s not here…” Boomer said.

“Oh, he’s not? Well, forget about what I said. Let’s just help ourselves to all his stuff.”

“Oh boy!” Boomer cheered, and then he flew off and began to play with all of Mojo’s inventions.

“So, what exactly are we looking for?” Butch asked his older brother.

Brick studied his surroundings until he spotted something large underneath a white sheet.

“I think this is it…” he said while pointing to the object.

He flew over to it and threw the sheet on the floor, revealing a machine that look similar to a television set.

Brick nodded in approval. “Yup, this is it…”

Butch leaned in and took a closer look. “Hey, isn’t this that thing the Girls used to go back in time? What’s  Mojo doing with it?”

“I have no idea… the monkey probably stole it from them or built himself a copy…” Brick replied.

“So what’s the plan? Are we gonna use this thing to find Princess?”

Brick nodded. “Yup…”

“But how do we know if this thing goes to different dimensions or not?”

“Hmmm… I think one of these levers allows us to do that… we just have to figure out which ones…”

“Okay, but when we do figure it out, how are we gonna track Prin-“

“Could you stop asking all these damn questions?!” Brick snapped. “I can’t even hear myself think!”

Butch crossed his arms and groaned. “Whatever man… “He mumbled under his breath.

Brick stayed quiet and continued studying the machine for a while. Then he started to pull different levers and push different buttons until the machine was brought to life. It made loud noises and the blank screen now had a swirling black and white vortex.

“Woah!” Butch exclaimed. “You did it, bro!”

“Yeah, I guess I did.” He stated with a cocky smile. “Well, I am the genius of the group after all…”

“Okay okay, alright… you’re not that smart.” Butch said as he rolled his eyes.

“Boomer!” Brick called out. “Get over here, we’re leaving!”

Boomer turned his attention to Brick. “Aww, already? But I was having fun…”

“You’ll have more fun when we beat the Powerpuff Girls and take over the town.”

“Oh, that does sound like more fun!”

Boomer stopped destroying Mojo’s stuff and flew over to his two older brothers.

“Alright, it’s very important that we hold hands while we go through the vortex-“

“Hold hands?!” Butch yelled. “Man, I ain’t doing that, I ain’t gay.”

Brick sighed deeply. “Can you stop being immature for one day? One single day?”

“Yeah, Butch! Holding hands isn’t that bad. Do you want us to get separated in the swirly hole?” Boomer added.

“That’s exactly what might happen to us…” Brick said. “Man Butch, Boomer is getting smarter than you…”

“Aw shut the hell up and let’s just go in the damn hole.”

“Alright then. Now as I was saying, we have to hold hands while we’re traveling through the vortex, and we can’t let go until we reach the other side… no matter how gay you think it is.” He said, directing that last part to Butch.

Boomer nodded and was the one to grab Butch’s hand first. Butch gave a disgusted look, but then continued to grab Brick’s.

“Okay, on the count of three. We are gonna jump in…”

“One…”

“Two…”

“Three…”

And on that last count, the three brothers jumped into the television like machine and were now traveling to the world where hopefully Princess was located.

Screams filled the air as a portal opened itself somewhere nearby. The first to arrive was, Jack, his screams being the loudest. Then Princess followed closely behind. The two landed on the ground with a loud thud, with Princess falling on top of Jack.

Jack rubbed his forehead. “Oh wow, I don’t think the Golden Tiger Claws can handle two people…”

He looked down and saw Princess’ head buried in his chest. She lifted her head up and grinned at him seductively.

“You know, I can get use to us being in this position…”

Jack blushed and pushed Princess off him. “G-get off of me!”

“Wait, what’s wrong?” she asked. “Oh, I get it… you like to be on top…”

Jack raised an eyebrow in confusion. “What?”

It took him a while to figure out that she just said a dirty joke.

He blushed a deeper shade of red. “Hey, stop that! No dirty talk!”

“Oh, there’s nothing to be ashamed of, Jackie… I like a man who can control me…” she purred as she placed a hand on his chest.

“Okay stop, you’re breaking the three rules!”

“What three rules? I thought there were only two?”

“I just added the third rule. No dirty talk allowed! Especially if it’s toward me!”

Princess crossed her arms and pouted. “That’s no fair. You just can’t add new rules like that.”

“Life’s not fair, cupcake.” He replied.

“But-“Princess began to whine, but Jack suddenly covered her mouth with his hand.

“Shhhhh! Be quiet!” he whispered loudly.

Princess took his hand off her mouth and glared at him. “What?!” she whispered loudly back at him.

He pointed to a dark figure that was walking back and forth in front of a round building.

“It’s one of the Xiaolin Has-beens, and they’re guarding the Shen Gon Wu vault.”

Jack was glad that they landed behind some large bushes, so the mystery person couldn’t see them.

“Who? What?” Princess asked with a puzzled look on her face.

Jack sighed. “You remember what I told you about the Shen Gon Wu, right?”

She nodded. “Yeah, the Shen Gon Whatevers. They have magic powers and stuff.”

“Right, and the Xiaolin Dragons are the people who are supposed to be protecting them from bad guys like me.”

“Oh, so they’re your enemies…”

“Yup, that’s right.” He replied with a nod. “They are four of them. Kimiko, the only chick in the group. Raimundo, the good-looking hotshot. Clay, the western cowboy, and Omi, the short guy with the huge head.”

Princess giggled his descriptions of his archrivals.

“Hey, don’t underestimate them… they kicked my butt a couple of times…”

He hated to admit it, but it was true. It was only a few times that he managed to get the upper hand over the Dragons, but most of time they wiped the floor with him.

“Kicked your butt?” she questioned. “But you’re the evil genius; you should be kicking their butts with your brain.”

“Yeah, I wish…” he mumbled under his breath. “But they always managed to destroy my bots…”

“What was that?”

Jack shook his head. “It’s nothing…”

“Oh, it’s okay, Jackie…” she said as she touched his shoulder. “Where I come from, I have enemies too. Three ugly girls who think they’re all that with their fancy superpowers… but I could never beat them either…”

He took her hand off his shoulder. “But the only difference between you and me is that I WILL beat them. Just wait until I get my hands on some Wu. They are going down!”

“So when are we gonna steal the Shen Gon Whatevers?” she asked.

“Well, we can’t right now… they’re guarding them… we have to wait until they leave…”

Princess looked down at the Golden Tiger Claws that Jack was still holding, and she thought to herself for a second.

“Couldn’t we just use the Claws and transport inside the vault?”

Jack opened his mouth to begin to explain to her on how that plan wouldn’t work, but then he thought about it for a moment. That was a brilliant idea; he wondered why he didn’t think of it before.

He looked over to the redheaded freckled girl. “You know… you’re smarter than you look…”

“Or maybe you’re not as smart as you thought you were…” Princess suggested with a shrug.

Jack glared at her. “Shut up… and I was just beginning to like you too…”

“No wait! I’m sorry!” Princess pleaded.

“No, it’s too late…” he said as he lifted the Tiger Claws up. “Anyway, I’m off to get the Wu. I’ll be back in a second. Stay right here.”

Princess reached out and tried to grab at the Claws. “I wanna try!”

“Umm, hell no! You barely know how to use this!”

“Give it to me, I want it!” she whined.

“No!” Jack yelled.

Princess grabbed a hold of the Claws and attempted to take them away from Jack. But Jack didn’t let go, and the two began to fight over them, pulling them back and forth between them.

“I swear, Princess, if you don’t let go of these damn claw, I’ll do something bad to you!”

“Like what?!” she asked, still trying to pull the Claws away from him.

“I will leave you here by yourself!”

Princess gulped. Just the thought of being left alone in this new world frighten her greatly, so she had to choice but to listen to the gray-skinned teen.

“Fine! Have your stupid claws!”

She let go and the force sent Jack flying backwards. The Tiger Claws were no longer in his hand and were now soaring through the air. They eventually landed on the other side of the bush.

Jack was about to go retrieve them, but then the dark figure from before came closer to where he and Princess where hiding. They stepped into the light and Jack recognized the person as Raimundo, the Dragon of Wind.

Raimundo saw the Claws lying on the ground and picked them up.

“Yo, what are these doing here?” he asked himself. “I thought Omi sent them to the Earth’s core.”

He shrugged his shoulders. “Oh well, they’re going back in the vault now…”

Jack stared at him through the bushes as he began to walk away with the Golden Tiger Claws. He couldn’t believe what just happened. In matter of seconds, the only Wu in his possession was now gone. He literally had nothing left. He was once again a loser.

“Ooohh!” exclaimed Princess. “Was that one the guys you were talking about? He is the good looking one!”

Jack slowly turned to her and gave her one of the angriest glares imaginable. Princess gasped and tried to hide herself behind her hands.

“O-oh, I’m sorry about that, Jackie. You’re not gonna leave me, are you? Please don’t leave me.”

Jack sighed and buried his head in his hands. “I give up…”

“G-give up? But why?” Princess asked.

“Because there’s no point anymore… I can’t possibly beat the Dragons now…” Jack answered. “My lab’s gone, my bots are destroyed, and I don’t have any Wu… all I have left is you… the annoying spoiled brat that fell from the sky…”

Princess began to feel nervous. All this was technically her fault and now Jack might actually abandon her for real this time. And she didn’t want that to happen.

“B-but, Jackie- I mean, Jack. You said yourself that you can beat the Dragons if you have the Shen Gon Whatevers.”

“Didn’t you just see what happened? I don’t have anymore…” he replied.

“But I can get you some! I’ll get back the Claws and plus all the other Whatevers you need.”

Jack took his head out of his hands and looked up at her. “And how are you gonna do that?” he asked.

Princess grabbed him by the shoulders and grinned at him deviously.

“I, Princess Morbucks, have a plan…”