The Howdyhunk Boys

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"A long time ago, before Zen appeared to stop Burn from causing Armageddon to the world, before Angel arrived in Viletown with no memory of her past to serve as a guardian, before Penny Less first came to me, Jomo Momo for help, even before the portal to the opposite world first opened in the mirror, I have fought my hardest to protect the City of Viletown from the evil Oppressor Plutonium and his manifestations of horror known as the Powerpunk Girls."

The City of Viletown is under attack! The Powerpunk Girls, Berzerk, Brat, and Brute are seen flying over the city, firing eyebeams and energy blasts at buildings below them. Jomo Momo arrives in a flying armored suit to fight them, aiming a blaster in their direction and firing an orange beam of energy from it. The girls see it coming and sneer viciously, dodging the shot and surrounding the hero, pummeling him on all sides!

Brute kicks the blaster out of his hand midway through the beating as the Powerpunk Girls eventually destroy Jomo's armor and the hoverpack keeping him aloft.

"You won't get away with this, Powerpunk Girls!" Jomo Momo shouts as he falls, landing on he ground with a crash! The girls laugh and fly off as an ambulance arrives, picks up the injured simian hero and drives to the hospital.

Once at the hospital, a montage of rapid flashing scenes of Jomo being signed into the hospital, doctors examining the hero's injuries, bandaging him up, injecting painkillers into his arm, wrapping his body in casts, and finally a shot of Jomo wrapped up like a mummy laying out in a hospital bed with a "Get Well Soon!" poster hanging on the wall next to him.

The scene fades back to the City of Viletown, which is under attack by the Powerpunk Girls again! This time, the Powerpunks are smashing up the market district, stealing money and merchandise from shopkeepers that either give in to their demands immediately or resist and get beaten up!

Jomo arrives to try and save the day again, this time in a bipedal tank. Jomo aims a large gun built into the face of the mech and fires a beam of energy at the Powerpunk Girls that takes the form of a net, but the Powerpunk Girls fly up and avoid the shot! Jomo adjusts his aim for a second shot, but Brat flies right in front of the protective dome around the pilot's seat, removing a marker and swiftly drawing a crude picture of Jomo with a sad face and the words "YOU STINK" right on the dome, then scribbles rapidly over the picture, blocking the hero's view of the action!

While Jomo Momo is unable to see what's going on, Berzerk and Brute each grab onto the mech's legs and tear them off, using them as clubs to smash open the protective dome! Jomo raises his arms to shield himself from the shards of reinforced glass raining down on him!

"You won't get away with-!" Jomo starts to say when the Powerpunk Girls swoop in and grab the hero, lifting him up into the air and beating him senseless before dropping him unceremoniously back into the street, intentionally making him crash into the wreckage of his defense mech!

The Powerpunk Girls laugh at Jomo and take off into the sky as the ambulance appears, queuing a montage of doctors examining Jomo, pulling shards of glass out of his body, injecting him with painkillers, wrapping him up, and ending on Jomo Momo in a full body cast with a "Get Well Soon!" poster on the wall.

The scene fades into the City of Viletown, which is again being attacked by the Powerpunk Girls! This time, the girls are grabbing cars right out of a traffic jam they caused and throw them through the windows of buildings! The Powerpunk Girls laugh wickedly at the destruction they're causing, then frown as Jomo arrives on the scene, driving a U.F.O. style battleship!

Jomo Momo aims each of the guns on the ship at the Powerpunk Girls and fires all barrels, taking care to avoid hitting any of the cars, innocent people, or buildings. Unfortunately, the Powerpunk Girls anticipated this, easily dodging the lasers and landing a punch each on the ship, causing it to wobble each time. Jomo shakes off the disorientation as he wheels around in search of the girls, but can't see them anymore! Below him, Berzerk wraps her snakelike hair ribbons around the gun barrels and spins the ship around in rapid circles for about ten to fifteen seconds!

When the ship stops spinning, Jomo Momo's face is showing signs of dizziness and sickness as the Powerpunk Girls smash up the ship. Jomo recovers in time to activate the ejector's seat and take off into the air, a parachute opening as he descends slowly toward Viletown's street, but Brute grabs the parachute to stop his descent as Brat cuts the rope with a pair of scissors!

"You won't get away with this, Powerpunk Girls!" Jomo shouts as his chair plummets at full speed toward the street, landing with a crash! Jomo rolls out of the chair onto his back and is about to stand up, when Berzerk presses her foot down on his chest, pinning him down!

"Every time we kick your stupid simian butt, you shout that stupid line!" Berzerk says to Jomo, then sneers. "Yet every single time, we DO get away with it, don't we?"

"Your evil ways will only prevail if good people lose hope and do nothing, and I, Jomo Momo, will never give up until peace has been brought to Viletown!" Jomo remarks, still as defiant as ever.

"Oh yeah? What about all the damage you cause whenever you fight us? Do you think that brings peace to these morons?" Brute asks as she descends toward Jomo and Berzerk, her arms folded and grinning widely. "Your 'heroics' cause more harm than good, you big mouthed hypocrite!"

"I have gone out of my way to prevent unnecessary collateral damage to Viletown and its citizens, who are not morons as you call them, but decent people who do not deserve to live in fear and oppression, but peace and prosperity!" Jomo answers her.

"Yeah, and that's why you lost again, Jomo Lame-O!" Brat replies, landing at Berzerk's right side. "Haven't you learned your lesson yet? You can't beat us!"

"We're the Powerpunk Girls, and so far we've got a nice undefeated streak going, and we're going to keep it that way!" Berzerk shouts in Jomo's ears.

"Have fun in the hospital, monkey-boy!" Brute says as the girls attack the hero, cutting to the montage of Jomo being given painkillers and getting wrapped in bandages.

Laying in the hospital bed with the "Get Well Soon" poster on the wall once again, Jomo's exposed orange eye twitches and he shrieks in a mix of pain and frustration underneath his body cast!

Jomo walks about the hospital with a crutch, his left leg still bound in a cast as he mutters to himself.

"Nothing I do seems to work. Every time the Powerpunk Girls attack Viletown, I try to stop them, yet they always defeat me. Is there no hope for Viletown? Are the good people truly doomed to be brought to their knees by Oppressor Plutonium and his diabolical creations? Is there no way to even the odds?"

Jomo stops looking sad and lifts his head, a look of determination on his face. "No! I, Jomo Momo, will never give up, never surrender, never abandon my resolve! I will-!"

A sharp pain in his leg causes him to wince and interrupt his speech. "Ouch! I will go and rest until I am in a better condition to move around!"

Jomo returns to his hospital bed and lays down, eventually falling into a deep sleep. Jomo begins to toss and turn in his sleep, his large brain glowing a dim orange light...

[glow=orange,2,300]Momo the monkey struggles in his cage, the device on his arm causing him immense pain as Oppressor Plutonium approaches him with a needle. "Hold still, monkey! This will only hurt for a moment." He says, stabbing him with the needle! "If this works, it will mean the world bowing down to my genius, and acknowledging me as the greatest evil mind in the world, and then afterwords, their undisputed ruler!"

Oppressor laughs as he turns away from Momo, who begins to feel lightheaded. Momo rubs his simple simian head, shrieking in confusion when he feels something growing out of his scalp and panicking upon the realization that it is his own brain! Almost immediately, Momo's panic fades as the monkey devises a plan for his escape from the evil scientist.

Oppressor Plutonium removes a vial of black liquid from the shelves of his laboratory and holds it up high. "THIS is the key to my domination of the world! If this sample of Chemical X works on Momo, then I will be able to create an army of superpowered soldiers loyal to me, who will march upon the world's capitols, overthrow their pathetic government bodies, and crown ME the ruler of the entire planet!" Oppressor laughs diabolically as he approaches Momo in his cage, unaware that while his back was turned, Momo grabbed a bobby pin off one of the desks close to his cage and picked the lock!

The evil scientist looks at Momo's exposed brain and grins widely. "Yes, it works! Now Momo, prepare yourself to become the first soldier in my new army!" Oppressor says as he raises the vial of Chemical X in his hand, but Momo suddenly kicks the door to the cage open, hitting Oppressor's arm and sending the vial of Chemical X flying through the air!

"No! Curse you!" Oppressor Plutonium shouts as he dives for the vial and misses. Momo escapes his cage and runs upstairs out of the laboratory and out the secret entrance to the villain's lair, hearing an explosion below him. Momo dares not to look back, even as the evil laughter of Oppressor Plutonium is strangely combined with the laughter of little girls...[/glow]
Jomo Momo wakes up, gasping for air. "A nightmare? No, a vision of the past. Could it be? In my haste to escape from Oppressor Plutonium's vile experiments, could I, Jomo Momo, the protector of the world, have accidentally had a hand in creating the Powerpunk Girls, the monsters that terrorize the City of Viletown to this day?"

Jomo takes a few deep breaths to calm himself down, then analyzes his vision. "If Chemical X could be used to create life forms like the Powerpunk Girls, perhaps the process could be repeated. I could perhaps recreate the moment that occurred that night and produce a similar result, but instead of creating superpowered children who are evil, the result could be superpowered children that are good, and will fight to save Viletown from the Powerpunk Girls!"

With a goal in mind, Jomo Momo steps into the waiting room of the hospital after visiting hours are over and begins rearranging the furniture in a way that resembles what he remembers from his vision of Oppressor's lab. Jomo goes into the hospital lab and uses his memory to recreate the formula Oppressor Plutonium himself used to create Chemical X. He then brings the vial of freshly made Chemical X back out to the waiting room, placing a bowl on the table.

"If my calculations are correct, the vial of Chemical X would have landed in the bowl in Oppressor Plutonium's lab, resulting in a chain reaction with whatever happened to be in the bowl at the time to create the Powerpunk Girls. Unfortunately, I do not know what was in the bowl that combined with Chemical X to create Berzerk, Brat, and Brute. Irrelevant, as I do not wish to create more Powerpunk Girls anyway; I will come up with my own ingredients with the intention of having good children emerge from the bowl instead of evil ones!"

Looking around the hospital waiting room, Jomo takes a snow-globe of a happy father and son building a snowman off the reception desk and puts it in the bowl. He then grabs a set of magazines and reads their titles aloud.

"Guns and Ammo. No." Jomo throws the magazine aside. "Skid-mark Motorcycles. No!" Jomo tosses the magazine over his shoulder, picking up another one. "Better Health and Diet for Men. Hmm..." Jomo smiles and places the magazine in the bowl, then looks at another. "Programmer's Digest. Yes!" Jomo places the magazine in the bowl, along with "Tales of Chivalry", and "Meeting People and Making Friends" along with some other miscellaneous items laying around, including a football, a pair of glasses, and a music sheet book.

With all of the items in the bowl, Jomo holds the vial of Chemical X close to the "J" emblem on the chest of his suit and closes his eyes, saying something silently to himself before dropping the vial into the bowl. The Chemical X engulfs the contents of the bowl and explodes in a flash of bright light, knocking Jomo off his unbroken leg and causing him to drop the crutch, hitting his head on the wall on the opposite side of the waiting room.

Before blacking out, Jomo hears an unfamiliar boy's voice ask him. "Are you all right?"
To be continued.

[blossomgb]

So this is in Viletown's past, huh? Well, do carry on good sir...

Cheers,

Blossomgb

[rcblazer]

Jomo Momo wakes up in his room at the hospital, rubbing his cheek with his hand. "Ohh, what? Was that a dream within a dream? I felt the explosion knock me off my feet and my head hit the wall, but I thought dreams could not-"

"Howdy!" A boy's voice calls out, startling Jomo and causing him to jump up out of the bed and crash onto the ground.

"You must have startled him. Poor guy." Another male voice is heard. Jomo looks up to see three boys similar in size and shape to the Powerpunk Girls, each one wearing black pants and sneakers. The boy in the middle is wearing a pink T-shirt with red sleeves and a red baseball cap. His eyes are pink and his hair is the same red-orange color as Berzerk, but it is too short to be styled into spikes or a ponytail.

"We didn't mean to scare you." The second boy with blond hair styled in a flick with sky blue eyes covered by a pair of glasses says to Jomo. He is dressed in a shirt that matches his eye color and an unbuttoned white jacket.

"Relax, you look like you should be resting instead of moving around." The third boy with black hair done up in short, flat spikes on the top says. He is wearing a green muscle shirt that matches his eyes.

"Who... who are you?" Jomo asks nervously. The boys look at each other and shrug.

"Well, since you're the one who created us, maybe you should be the one to give us names." The boy in the red cap says to the hero. He then turns and looks at something sitting against the wall next to Jomo's bed. "Cool, what's that?" He says, floating over to the object and picking it up, revealing it to be a bass guitar.

"Oh yes, well some of the citizens came to visit me during my frequent stays in the hospital. One of them used that to sing me a song to make me feel better and even left it here for me as a gift when he left."

The boy strums one of the strings on the guitar and smiles brightly. "I like this! Could I please have it?"

Jomo smiles at the boy and nods. "Well, if you really want it, then it's yours. It is called a bass..." Jomo thinks for a moment and smiles. "...and now so are you. Your name shall be Bass."

"The blond boy wearing glasses examines the monitors and machines designed to measure Jomo Momo's condition. "Judging by these, you must have fallen a long distance, followed by someone striking you repeatedly with their bare hands before you were brought in. Who would do such a thing?"

"Very observant of you. Yes, that is why I am here in the hospital." Jomo replies. "A smart boy like you deserves a smart name. Your name will be Brian."

Jomo looks over the dark haired boy in the green muscle shirt. "What to name you I wonder..."

"I want to named Biff!" The boy in green exclaims. "I think it sounds like a good tough guy name, right?"

"If that is your wish, than your name is Biff." Jomo replies. "Know that being compassionate as well as tough will make you many friends who will look up to you." Biff smiles upon hearing this.

Jomo attempts to climb out of bed, but Bass and Brian try to keep him laying down. "You shouldn't be up and about in your condition... um, what was your name again?"

"Oh that's right, in my haste to learn who you are, I completely forgot to introduce myself! I am Jomo Momo, superhero and protector of the City of Viletown!"

"You're a superhero? That's so cool!" Biff replies. "Can I be your sidekick?"

"I'll do you boys one better." Jomo answers. "How would the three of you like to become the greatest heroes the city-no, the whole world, has ever known?"

The boys look at each other, then back to Jomo. "What do you mean?" They ask together.

"Think about it. If you three became superheroes like myself, the people of Viletown would love you and cheer for you the way they do for me!"

"Does that mean people would like us?" Bass asks. "Even girls?"

"Girls would love you! Not just girls, but everyone! You have the power to put an end to one of the greatest evils there has ever been! If you do that, I promise you there is not one good person in the entirety of the City of Viletown who would not love you forever for saving their lives and protecting them from injustice!" Jomo takes a second to think. "I've got it! The three of you working together shall be the champions of good known as the Howdyhunk Boys!"

"Sounds good to me." Bass says with a bright smile. "What do you guys think?"

"I'm in." Brian replies.

"Me too!" Biff says. "So who are the bad guys and when do we get to beat 'em up?"

I will show you; once I get out of the hospital, we will go to my headquarters in Central Park, where I can give yooOOOOU!" Jomo cries out as the Howdyhunk Boys suddenly lift him up and fly out of the hospital toward Central Park!

Scene cuts to Viletown in the daytime. A parade is underway that comes under attack by the Powerpunk Girls! Brute flies over and gathers up all the balloons before firing her eyebeams through them, igniting the helium and causing them to explode! People scatter in all directions from the chaos and explosions as Berzerk lifts and throws several of the floats, destroying them! Berzerk tosses one of the floats too hard, and it starts to fly in Brat's direction. "Hey, move it!" She shouts.

Brat ignores Berzerk as she loots as many dolls and candies from an abandoned concession stand as her super strength will allow her to carry, when the float crashes down right on top of her! Berzerk and Brute both laugh as they fly over the wreckage. Brat bursts out of the rubble a second later in a streak of blue, a sour look on her face.

"I told you to get out of the way, didn't I?" Berzerk says with a sneer.

"Gee Brat, are you okay? I did just DROP A WHOLE PARADE FLOAT ON YOUR HEAD!" Brat whines at Berzerk in response.

"Hey, why don't you try picking on somebody your own size?" Bass shouts. The Powerpunk Girls look around, a look of annoyance on their faces.

"Whoever just said that, you just cashed a check for the worst beating of your life!" Brute responds. Spotting a helpless girl cowering behind some of the ruined parade float remains, Brute flies over to her, eying her closely. "It was you, wasn't it?"

"Up here!" Bass calls out, diving down and kicking Brute in the back of the head, knocking her away from her would-be victim into a wall! Bass turns to the frightened girl and gives her a friendly smile. "You okay?" He asks her, offering her a helping hand.

The girl nods nervously in response. "Those terrible girls... will you help us?"

"Of course I will. You find somewhere safe and let me handle it." Bass replies. The girl smiles and takes Bass' hand as he helps her up, then turns and runs away.

While his back is turned, Berzerk charges at Bass and tries to kick him in the back of the head, but Brian and Biff intercept her and knock her down! Brat stares in disbelief and waves for her sisters to regroup with her.

"Something's not right here! Who the heck are these guys?" Brat asks, pointing at the three boys that now stand before them in defiance.

"Who cares! They're dead meat if they wanna mess with us!" Brute replies and charges, but Biff stops her advance with a hard right cross, sending her sprawling to the floor! Brute rubs her face where she was hit, looking angrier than before. "That's not fair! They're as strong as us!"

"How is that not fair?" Brian questions Brute. "You use your powers to terrorize innocent people who stand no chance against you in a straight fight, but when someone who can match your abilities stands up to you, you call foul?"

"We didn't ask for your opinion, Four-Eyes!" Brat shouts at Brian in response. Brian shakes his head sadly as both sides regroup.

"We're only going to ask you one time. Stop this senseless violence against innocent people and surrender now; we don't want to have to hurt you!" Bass calls out. The Powerpunk Girls only laugh in response.

"If you boys came looking for trouble, then congratulations; you found it!" Berzerk calls out. "Get them!"

The Powerpunk Girls charge at the Howdyhunk Boys in their respective streaks of red, green, and blue, delivering a rapid fire flurry of brutal punches, but the boys easily dodge or block the majority of their attacks!

Biff finally throws a punch of his own, striking Brute in the ribs and knocking the wind out of her! Biff follows with a series of punches to Brute's face, ending on a spinning kick that knocks her into the street below!

"I don't wanna have to do this, but-!" Bass catches Berzerk's fist with one arm and clocks her in the face with the other! Berzerk staggers back, but growls in anger as she lashes out at Bass with her hair ribbons! Bass' reaction is to grab the guitar on his back and hold it out in front of him, resulting in Berzerk's ribbons getting caught in the strings! Bass reels Berzerk close using the guitar and punches her in the chest, bouncing her away, only to reel her back in and punch her again!

"I'm going to break your glasses and then force feed the lenses to you, nerd!" Brat shouts as she charges at Brian, flailing her arms wildly, but the blond boy catches her by the forehead and counters with a kick to her midsection. Brat floats away from Brian, clutching her stomach and crying. "How could you? I'm a girl!"

Brian immediately feels bad and flies over to Brat to check on her. "I'm sorry, I don't really want to hurt you, you see-"

Brat suddenly sneers and kicks Brian in the head with a roundhouse, knocking him to the ground. "As I was saying, I'm a girl, and someone you should never let your guard down around!" Brat says, dusting her hands and kicking Brian a few more times while he's down.

Berzerk finally frees her hair ribbons from Bass' guitar and hits him with a double axe handle, knocking him to the ground. Brute blocks a straight punch from Biff and swings him over her shoulder, slamming him through the wall of a building!

"Had enough yet?" Berzerk taunts, but all three of the girls are stunned to see the Howdyhunk Boys get back up, dust themselves off, and jump right back into the fight! Bass delivers a series of punches and kicks to Berzerk, Brian grabs Brat by one of her legs and swings her around in a circle, while Biff tackles Brute and lands several punches to her face before being kicked off!

The Powerpunk Girls retaliate with Berzerk blasting Bass away from her with her eyebeams, Brat freeing her leg and kicking Brian in the chin, and Brute slamming into Biff and shooting into the clouds in a streak of green!

"So you want to play rough, do you?" Berzerk asks through gritted teeth as she stares hatefully as Bass. "Let's see you handle this one!" She shouts as she tears a fire hydrant out of the ground with the pipe still attached and swings it like a hammer! Bass ducks her first swing, landing a punch to her midsection, which only seems to anger her further.

"Stand still so I can smash you!" Berzerk shouts angrily, performing an overhead strike, but Bass catches the hydrant midswing and pushes the weapon so that the back of the pipe wrenches on Berzerk's shoulder, forcing her to drop it! Bass then retaliates with a flurry of punches to her face and belly, ending with a diving kick that sends the evil redhead crashing to the street!

Brat meanwhile is swinging a pair of broken cars at Brian, chasing him through the sky! Brian ducks and dodges the heavy vehicles and lands a couple of kicks on Brat, but the evil blond girl sneers at him in response.

"Now I got you!" Brat shouts as she slams the cars together with Brian between them! Brat drops the two cars and laughs as they fall to the ground below, but her laughter is cut off when Brian's blue streak of light bursts free and slams right into her headfirst, knocking her through the sky and landing with a crash into the ocean water off the pier of Viletown Harbor!

Biff comes flying down from the clouds, reeling from a kick delivered to him by Brute, but he rolls in midair and stops his fall. Brute fires her eyebeams at Biff using the clouds as cover, but her intended target shoots a blast of green energy into the air from his hands that absorbs the laser and gets larger as it flies into the cloud! A loud crash is heard, followed by a "Lucky Shot!" called down at Biff by Brute.

The Howdyhunk Boys regroup closer to a large crowd of people that have stopped their daily activities to stare in awe at the battle taking place above them. "Go find cover! We can't fight the Powerpunk Girls and keep an eye on you at the same time!" Biff shouts at the crowd. The crowd responds by screaming and pointing at the sky, where the Powerpunk Girls are flying back, carrying large objects in their hands! Berzerk is holding a transit bus full of people over her head, Brat is carrying a manned fishing ship, and Brute is carrying a full airline plane whose wings she already broke off!

All at once, the Powerpunk Girls throw these things right at the Howdyhunk Boys and the crowd! The boys take off into the air, Bass catching the bus, Brian catching the ship, and Biff catching the plane. The boys each set the transports and their passengers safely on the ground and immediately take off after the Powerpunk Girls.

"We need to lead them somewhere where we can fight them without innocent people getting in the way." Bass says. "Try to get them to chase us!"

The Howdyhunk Boys take off toward the ocean, high above Viletown Harbor with the Powerpunk Girls in hot, angry pursuit of them.

"You think you can just hit and run do you?" Berzerk shouts, her voice filled with rage. "We're going to teach you not to start what you can't FINISH!"

"Now?" Brian asks Bass. The boys nod to each other as the Powerpunk Girls catch up, flying dangerously close to them.

"You're dead!" The Powerpunk Girls shout, reaching out to hit the Howdyhunk Boys...

"NOW!" Bass shouts. The Howdyhunk Boys suddenly turn around and raise their arms over their heads, producing a brilliant flash of red, blue, and green light right into the eyes of the Powerpunk Girls, which shines white when combined!

"What the-?" Berzerk starts when she suddenly can't see anything!

"I've been blinded!" Brat shouts, covering her eyes with one arm and flailing the other!

"Where are they?!" Brute says angrily, struggling in her now blinded state to even see in front of her own face, let alone find the Howdyhunk Boys.

The boys look at the Powerpunk Girls and nod to each other. "Guess we showed them the white light we're made of!" Biff says with a smile. "A shame they don't wanna give up."

"I agree. Still, we've gotta do it! Let's end this!" Bass replies. The Howdyhunk Boys charge up until each one is glowing their respective color and charge like three colorful rockets right at the Powerpunk Girls! Biff slams into Brute's chest with both fists, Brian slams into Brat's midsection with both feet, and Bass strikes Berzerk in the head with his guitar!

The strikes send the Powerpunk Girls plummeting toward Viletown at a forty-five degree angle, their tricolored streak of light causing the people in Viletown to speculate what's happened in a panic.

"What is that?"
"Is it a Death Ray?"
"Some kind of lightning bolt?"
"No! It's the Powerpunk Girls! They're headed this way!"
"What do we do?"
"Wait! Look!"

The Powerpunk Girls crash into the street as everything goes silent. A brilliant flash of white light engulfs nearly the entire city of Viletown as the Howdyhunk Boys power down, looking forlorn at the spectacle before them.

"Am I the only one that feels kind of bad for what we just did?" Bass asks. "I know we had to do it, but still..."

"No, I feel the same way." Brian replies. "It's a shame to have it come to this."

"We should go back to Jomo and tell him they won't be a threat any longer." Biff suggests. The Howdyhunk Boys take off toward Central Park.
To be continued.

[rcblazer]

Citizens of Viletown gather around the crater in the middle of the street where the Powerpunk Girls crashed after their defeat at the hands of the Howdyhunk Boys. They each take turns looking at each other in a mix of amazement and disbelief.

"Did that really just happen?"
"Are they gone? For good?"
"Whoever those boys were, they just defeated the Powerpunk Girls! The Powerpunk Girls!"
"I saw it, but I still can't believe it!"
"It's really over!"

The people of Viletown are suddenly filled with joy! Citizens hug and raise their arms high, cheering for the heroes who beat the Powerpunk Girls! At his headquarters, Jomo Momo saw the explosion of light and smiles to himself.

"At long last, the Powerpunk Girls have fallen. With their defeat, the dark days of Viletown are finally behind us, and we are now one step closer to a bright new age of peace and harmony." Jomo says to himself, turning to look at the Howdyhunk Boys as they float into the room.

Jomo immediately notices the sad looks on their faces. "What's wrong, boys? You should be proud of yourselves! Your victory today is the greatest act of heroism Viletown has ever seen! You are the greatest heroes this city will ever know, and no one can ever take that away from you!"

"Yeah, we're happy to know we saved the day, but..." The Howdyhunk Boys look at each other for a moment, then back to Jomo. Brian steps forward and continues.

"We've been talking about it on the way here, but ever since we beat the Powerpunk Girls, this lingering thought has been stuck in our heads."

Jomo nods and sits in a chair. "I see. Please, go on; I am listening."

"Well, you told us all about how the Powerpunk Girls were created by Oppressor Plutonium, an evil scientist bent on world domination. We were just unsure if the Powerpunk Girls were ever truly evil, or were just the victims of circumstance. Is it possible that if the person who raised them was not evil, that the Powerpunk Girls themselves wouldn't be bad?"

Bass speaks up. "What we're trying to ask is; do you think there was another way we could have stopped the Powerpunk Girls without having to fight them?" Jomo nods and smiles at the boys, opening his arms. The boys float close to Jomo and join him in a group hug.

"I understand completely. I myself have often wondered how different things could have turned out if I, Jomo Momo, and not Oppressor Plutonium, were responsible for teaching the Powerpunk Girls their morals and ethics. From my own past experiences, I must regretfully admit that even I believe the Powerpunk Girls were long past redemption."

"You know more about them than we do, but we still can't shake the feeling there was some other way to stop them from being bad." Bass replies. "Maybe we could have reasoned with them. Show them the error of their ways and maybe turn them around and make them good."

Jomo hugs the boys even closer, tears of joy in his eyes. "I must admit that even I had all but given up on showing mercy toward the Powerpunk Girls. Your heroics not only surpass my own, but your compassion does as well. The three of you will make excellent superheroes."

Back at the crater, the people of Viletown have joined hands in a circle around the hole in the street and are singing a happy song! Their joyous singing can be heard echoing through the deep hole in the street, which begins to rumble...

"What are all of you cheering about?" Berzerk's voice hisses as the Powerpunk Girls float up out of the hole, the look of murderous rage on each of their faces saying more than words ever could! The citizens of Viletown scream in fright and run away all in different directions as the Powerpunk Girls scream as loud as they can, sending out a shockwave that ripples through Viletown, shattering every building window, car window, and traffic light at once!

Their screams of rage are heard all the way at Jomo's base by the heroes! The Howdyhunk Boys float into the air, their sad faces changing back to looks of determination.

"The Powerpunk Girls are still alive!" Biff remarks. "We must have held back on them without even realizing it!"

"Hurry boys, you must finish them off before they can recover to full power again!" Jomo shouts, but the Howdyhunk Boys do not fly off. Bass, Brian, and Biff look at each other, than at Jomo.

"Umm, me and the boys are thinking we should try something else." Bass says to Jomo. "We're going to go find the Powerpunk Girls, but this time, we're not going to fight them."

"You won't?" Jomo looks confused. "If you will not fight them, then what will you do?"

"We've got an idea. Trust us!" Bass says as the Howdyhunk Boys take off into the air, landing in central park.

Back in Viletown, the Powerpunk Girls have finally stopped screaming, but do not look any less angry than they were before. Brute punches a nearby wall, leaving a massive hole where her fist connected! "That's just the start of what I'm going to do to those guys when we get our hands on them!" She shouts.

"Then let's stop talking about it and go do it!" Berzerk says, pointing in the direction of Central Park. "Those goody goods went that way, towards Jomo's place!"

"We should have known from the start that stupid Jomo Momo was behind this!" Brat spits. "After we rip his new friends apart, let's beat him up so bad that no hospital can help him!"

The Powerpunk Girls take off toward Central Park at speeds they've never flown before, their tricolored light streaks looking like flashes of lightning in the sky! They arrive in Central Park in a matter of seconds, looking down at Jomo's base.

"Let's nuke his little place from up here!" Brute suggests. "That'll get 'em!"

"No, I want to see the looks on their faces before we kill them!" Berzerk responds. "I want to see the fear in their eyes!"

Brat points at a clearing near a pond. "Look, there they are!"

Sure enough, the Howdyhunk Boys are in the clearing looking up at the Powerpunk Girls. The girls descend quickly, taking up fighting positions before realizing something is wrong. The Howdyhunk Boys are smiling peacefully at them!

"What kind of trick is this?" The Powerpunk Girls ask in unison.

Bass is sitting under a tree, strumming a soothing ballad on his guitar. He smiles at Berzerk, whose face was red with anger before now appears to be blushing! She shakes her head and tries not to listen to the music Bass is playing. "Hey, cut it out! What are you doing?" She asks, not even noticing she is floating toward Bass.

Brian has removed his glasses and is holding a box of candy and a bouquet of flowers to Brat, smiling at her. Brat is also blushing, having a hard time resisting this sudden, unexpected gesture. "You... you can't fool me nerd." She says, her voice and her actions betraying her as she slowly floats over to the blond boy.

Biff is sitting on a rock, flexing his arm and smiling at Brute. Brute tries to resist, forcing herself to look away, only to keep turning her head back. "You can't get out of the beating I'm gonna give you by... by..." Brute starts to blush as well, backing away from him in desperation. Brute's anger fades completely and she giggles as she starts floating toward Biff!

Once the Powerpunk Girls are close enough to the Howdyhunk Boys, the boys make their move. Bass lifts his head and kisses Berzerk on the cheek! Brian gives Brat the gifts in his hands and kisses her on the cheek as well! Biff waits for Brute to get close before dipping her and kissing her right on the mouth!

The Powerpunk Girls' reaction to being kissed by the Howdyhunk Boys is one that Jomo Momo never saw coming. The Powerpunk Girls stare at the Howdyhunk Boys in complete bewilderment, each of their cheeks blushing a bright red as they back away from them.

"What's happening to us?" Brute is the first to ask.

"I don't know, but I'm scared!" Brat replies.

"Let's get out of here!" Berzerk says as the Powerpunk Girls take flight, flying away as fast as they can! They don't stop until they arrive at Oppressor Plutonium's laboratory.

"What the heck happened back there?" Brat asks.

"We completely lost our nerve is what happened!" Brute answers.

"Those guys kissed us, and... and..." Berzerk struggles to speak, as even she can't believe it herself. "...and we liked it!"

"We can't tell Oppressor." Brat says as she opens the door, seeing Oppressor Plutonium is right on the other side!

"Tell me what?" He says, scaring Brat out of her wits. As the Powerpunk Girls cower before Oppressor Plutonium, the scene changes to Jomo Momo standing before a memorial to the Howdyhunk Boys built in their honor.

Jomo looks at the statues of Bass, Brian, and Biff with a smile, tears forming in your eyes. "Thank you for everything boys. I have always been proud of you. As I said before, you are the greatest heroes Viletown has ever known. Burn may have taken you from us, but he could never take that away from you. You will never be forgotten, as everyone in Viletown loves you and still misses you to this day, especially me."

Jomo Momo removes a guitar, a pair of glasses, and a football, all three of which have been given a glittering gold finish, and places the objects next to the memorial before turning and walking away.
THE END

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A 'reverse' take on 'The Rowdyruff Boys'. What next.... do the Powerpunks come back and get beaten again...

Cheers,

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