Quantum Hopscotch

[rcblazer]

Narrator: The last time, in "Anti-Reality Anarchy", the Powerpuff Girls battled the shape shifting maniacal monster Anarchy and stopped it from causing massive damage to reality as we know it. Unfortunately, they were transported to an alternate reality where the girls continued their battle with Anarchy alongside this version of Townsville's heroes, only to be separated when the Anti-Reality Bomb exploded. Anarchy returned to our version of reality and froze solid in the Antarctic continent, but as for the Powerpuff Girls...

(Scene: Unknown. Blossom appears in a burst of white and yellow light, finding herself floating high in the sky over what appears to be a forested area. What catches her eye however is in the sky with her; a large cloud carrying what appears to be a palace!)

Blossom: What the? Where are we now girls?

(Blossom looks around her and gasps.)

Blossom: Oh no... Buttercup? Bubbles? They're not here! Wait, where is Anarchy? Something has seriously gone wrong here!

(Blossom suddenly sees a beam of golden light fire from the cloud carrying the palace into the forest. Inside the light is a glowing golden winged man wearing white armor and holding a sword descending toward the forest.)

Blossom: Who is that? Maybe he can shed some light as to where I am.

(The figure vanishes into the forest, but Blossom doesn't pursue him. Instead she chooses to go into the palace to wait for him. Looking around the gleaming walls of the palace, Blossom smiles and sits down, finding a bowl of fruit sitting conveniently next to what appears to be a large chair.)

Blossom: While I wait, I may as well have something to eat!

(Blossom picks up one of the apples out of the bowl and takes a bite out of it, when an arrow suddenly zooms past her, hitting the apple and swiping it from her hands before sticking into the nearby wall! Blossom gasps and turns to see who fired the arrow at her, seeing what appears to be a cherub readying another arrow onto a bow to shoot at her! The cherub appears to be nude, but Blossom cannot tell if it is male or female.)

Cherub: How did you get here? Who are you?

Blossom: My name's Blossom. I have no idea how I got here to be honest. I was supposed to return to my reality.

Cherub: Stay where you are! My master will be back shortly and he will decide what to do with you!

(Blossom shrugs and goes to pick the apple off the wall, pulling the arrow from it and taking another bite.)

Blossom: Your master wouldn't happen to be a tall guy with golden wings wearing white armor would he?

Cherub: You know the master? Could it be?!?

Blossom: Could what be?

(The cherub doesn't answer Blossom. Instead it flies right up to Blossom and stares at her face. The look of content melts from the cherubs face and becomes a smile as it suddenly starts to hug Blossom!)

Cherub: It IS you! The master will be so happy to see you again!

Blossom: Hey! What are you talking about?

Cherub: The master told me the tale of his daughter. It was quite a sad story.

Blossom: Daughter?!? Look, I don't know who you think I am, but I'm not even from this plane of existence!

Cherub: You are, you just have no memory of that. Master told me all about your battle with the demon responsible for spreading his evil through the lands he was assigned to guard. The terrible things that happened to you that caused you to lose your memory. How long my master searched for someone who could help you to recover your lost memories, and found someone in the form of a sad, lonely girl who lives in another reality.

Blossom: You must have me mistaken for somebody else. My sisters and I were battling a monster named Anarchy when-

Cherub: The master! He has returned!

(The cherub removes a trumpet from seemingly nowhere and plays a triumphant tune on it as the armored man with the golden wings Blossom saw earlier arrives, removing his helmet to reveal a young looking man with golden hair. The man looks at Blossom and appears to be quite surprised.)

Master: My daughter is that you? Have you finally remembered me? *Squints, looking closer at Blossom. His face saddens.* No, it's not her.

Blossom: I need some answers right now! Where am I and how do I get back to my own reality? Where are Bubbles and Buttercup?

Master: Please allow me to explain. The place you currently find yourself is the Sky Temple. It is where I have watched over and safeguarded this world as its guardian for many centuries. In my time serving as a guardian, I have lent my aid to other worlds as well, as did my daughter before she lost her memory.

Blossom: You know how to travel to other worlds? I seriously need your help to get back to my own reality. Something went wrong with the Anti-Reality bomb and now I'm here instead of in the City of Townsville.

Master: I see. You would not return to your own reality without your sisters would you?

Blossom: You know where they are?

Master: I know who you are now. You are Blossom of the Powerpuff Girls. You and your sisters Buttercup and Bubbles serve as the guardians of your world, just as I do this one.

Blossom: You know about the Powerpuff Girls?

Master: Yes, I recognize you now. I have watched over my daughter on the world I left her on to get help recovering her memory, and your fate has crossed paths with hers before!

Blossom: What?!? I know someone related to you? That's impossible!

Master: Nothing is impossible.

Cherub: Master, are we going to help Blossom find her sisters and get home now?

Master: Yes. Set our course for New Ironside.

Blossom: Where?

Master: From the Sky Temple, I can watch many different worlds as well as any anomalies beforehand. The same anomaly that brought you here has been detected in another reality. I believe that is where your sister Bubbles has gone.

Blossom: I don't mean to question your castle in the sky and its abilities, but we can't exactly just fly to other worlds and realities can we?

Master: Of course we can. I have done it countless times in the past, so why should it be different now?

(Blossom is suddenly blinded by a flash of white light. When her vision recovers, she notices that the clouds around the sky palace have darkened to look like smog.)

Blossom: What happened?

Master: *Points to the lookout* Go and see for yourself.

(Blossom looks over the side of the Sky Temple expecting to see a forest, but instead she sees a high tech city far below her!)
To be continued.

[blossomgb]

Go on....

Cheers,

Blossomgb

[rcblazer]

Narrator: The City of New Ironside. Years of scientific breakthroughs in the field of technology has resulted in a world of machines. Robots, androids and cyborgs live alongside humans in relative peace and are recognized as citizens of New Ironside after the fall of the Wheaver Citadel.

(Scene: The New Ironside Skyway. Cars flying through the air the way regular cars travel down the freeway zoom about. One of the cars belongs to Doctor Jules Phoenix, who is currently on his way to work, when suddenly a bright flash of white and yellow light appears in front of his car. Doctor Phoenix shields his eyes with one hand to avoid being blinded, before gasping as his car unexpectedly slams into a small girl with blond pigtails! The car stalls and spins out of control, forcing the doctor to perform an emergency landing. Doctor Phoenix steps out of his car to survey the damage, quite surprised to see that his car is far more heavily damaged than expected.)

Phoenix: My goodness, how hard did I hit that poor little girl to do this to my car? I hope she's all right. Where is she?

(As Doctor Phoenix looks around in search of the girl he crashed into, Bubbles descends from the clouds above him.)

Bubbles: Hi mister! Sorry about your car. Are you okay?

Phoenix: Yes, I'm all right, but are you? Do you require maintenance?

Bubbles: I'm okay. What do you mean by "maintenance" though?

Phoenix: You know, maintenance as in repairs. You don't appear damaged on the outside, but I may have damaged one of your internal mechanisms when I hit you with my car.

Bubbles: Mechanawhat? I'm not a machine!

Phoenix: You're not an android? Are you a cyborg?

Bubbles: I'm a little girl. My name's Bubbles.

(Doctor Phoenix examines Bubbles more closely.)

Phoenix: You don't look like any little girl I have met before Bubbles. How did you end up on the skyway if you're not an android?

Bubbles: I'm a Powerpuff Girl! I have superpowers and can fly and stuff.

Phoenix: Powerpuff Girl? Are you sure you're not an android? I might have damaged your memory database when I struck you. My name is Jules Phoenix. I'm a doctor who specializes in the health of mechanical citizens. I could repair you if you want.

(Doctor Phoenix shows his doctor's card to Bubbles, but the blond Powerpuff Girl looks at him as though he were crazy.)

Bubbles: Did you see a big orange monster come through here? Me and the girls were fighting it when... uh oh!

Phoenix: Monster? I haven't seen anything like that.

Bubbles: Where are Blossom and Buttercup? *Looks around at the city* Wh... where am I?

(Bubbles sniffles and starts to cry.)

Phoenix: What's wrong Bubbles?

Bubbles: I'm lost! I was with my sisters fighting Anarchy, but now I'm in an unfamiliar city all alone! I don't even know if I am even back in the right reality!

Phoenix: Reality? You're not a machine at all are you? I had heard of trans-dimensional travel in my college studies but it was rumored to be nothing more than science fiction.

Bubbles: Now I'll never get home! Blossom and Buttercup will never find me and I'll never see the Professor or Townsville ever again!

(Bubbles cries louder. Doctor Phoenix tries to comfort Bubbles by placing a hand on her head.)

Phoenix: Please don't cry. Maybe I can help you. I do not know anything about trans-dimensional travel, but I have winged much harder experiments in the past. I'd give you a ride back to my lab, but my car won't fly with the damage it's taken.

Bubbles: *Sniffles* You really wanna help me?

Phoenix: Of course! I'd do anything to help children, especially little girls.

Bubbles: *Smiles* Thanks doctor! Here, get in your car.

Phoenix: Well all right, but it will not start until I can get it fixed.

Bubbles: Don't worry, I'll get you back to your lab!

(Bubbles lands on top of the car and lifts it up with Doctor Phoenix inside effortlessly. While the sight of this is normal for a citizen of Townsville, Doctor Phoenix is astonished by Bubbles' super strength!)

Phoenix: Incredible! You have the strength of ten androids!

Bubbles: Which way to your lab?

(Doctor Phoenix points Bubbles in the direction of his laboratory. A robot dressed as a lumberjack holding one of its arms and a young girl with brown hair, glasses, shoes with wings on the sides, and a lab coat are waiting when they see the car arrive.)

Phoenix: Sally, you'll never believe what happened to me!

Sally: What happened to your car Doc? I've been out here waiting for you to arrive so we can make repairs on this robot who got its arm sawed off in a logging accident.

Robot: You can reattach it can't you Doctor?

Phoenix: Of course of course. Sally, I'll be inside helping our robot friend here. Go to the car and meet Bubbles.

Sally: Who's Bubbles?

Phoenix: The girl I wrecked my car on when I crashed into her.

(Doctor Phoenix leads the logging robot into his lab to begin repairing it, while Sally approaches the wreckage of his car.)

Sally: Who did he hit, a demolition bot? Forget repairs, Doctor Phoenix is gonna need a new car! Hello?

Bubbles: Hi!

(Sally looks up to see Bubbles floating in the air above the car.)

Sally: Oh, you must be Bubbles! Doctor Phoenix wrecked his car hitting you?

Bubbles: Yeah, but luckily neither one of us got hurt.

Sally: How are you floating like that? Did your builder install a hovering system?

Bubbles: I'm not a machine, I'm a Powerpuff Girl! I'm from another plane of reality.

Sally: My name's Sally; I'm Doctor Phoenix's assistant. I've never met anyone from an alternate reality before. Are you hungry? I could fix you something to eat.

Bubbles: Thanks, I actually am kinda hungry!

(Sally and Bubbles go into the lab. Bubbles can hear what sounds like a car being tuned up coming from the room where Doctor Phoenix is repairing the logging robot as Sally makes a sandwich and a mug of hot chocolate that she gives to Bubbles.)

Sally: So tell me about yourself Bubbles. What are things like in your reality?

Bubbles: Well, me and Blossom and Buttercup protect the City of Townsville from crime and evil monsters and supervillains. We live with Professor Utonium, who created us by accident in his lab with a chemical substance that I think came from some planet that exploded some twenty-something years ago. Currently on Earth there is an alien warrior named Patriarch who claims to be from that planet and says he's our real dad.

Sally: You're an alien?

Bubbles: No, me and my sisters were born on Earth. Patriarch says Professor's dad created him using the same chemical used to create us, but on the planet it first came from.

Sally: Aha I see. There aren't any robots or androids in your reality?

Bubbles: There are, but they aren't nearly as cool as the ones you have!

(The door to the operating room opens and the logging robot steps out, its arm having been reattached and repaired.)

Robot: I cannot thank you enough doctor.

Phoenix: Think nothing of it my friend. Sally will give you the repair bill on your way out. Have a good day sir, and try to be more careful in the future.

Robot: I will. Thank you!

(The robot collects its bill and leaves with a noticeable spring in its step, which makes Bubbles giggle and smile.)

Bubbles: We don't have robots like that yet. At least, not very many.

Sally: Would you like to watch some television?

Bubbles: Okay. I'm interested to see what kind of programming exists for a reality where robots and androids are the same as people!

(Sally turns on the television and an episode of "The Cyberpals" begins. Two mechanized versions of the Puppet Pals appear on screen.)

Cyberpal Mitch: Hey, Cyberpal Clem?

Cyberpal Clem: Yes, Cyberpal Mitch?

Cyberpal Mitch: You look sick. Did you catch a computer virus?

Cyberpal Clem: I have been feelin' under the weather Cyberpal Mitch. What do you suggest?

(Cyberpal Mitch lifts its arm, revealing it to be a bonk stick!)

Cyberpal Mitch: A bonk on the head.

(Cyberpal Mitch bonks Cyberpal Clem. Bubbles giggles.)

Bubbles: We have a show similar to this one back home.

Reporter: We interrupt this show to bring you a special news bulletin. A strange pink creature has been sighted attacking androids in downtown New Ironside. Eyewitness reports state the creature looks to be wearing a large red bow on its head.

Bubbles: *Gasps* Oh no, that's Blossom!

Reporter: The creature was first spotted at the New Ironside Mechazoo attacking cyborg chimpanzees. Police have called in ADAM-2 to subdue and capture the creature before it can cause any further harm.

Sally: ADAM-2? Bubbles, you have to hurry and get to the Mechazoo before either your sister or ADAM-2 get hurt fighting each other over a misunderstanding!

Bubbles: Right! I'm on my way!

(Bubbles zooms out of the Phoenix laboratories, but then floats back in.)

Bubbles: Uhh, which way is the Mechazoo?

Sally: Oh right how silly of me. Follow the road west and make a left at the fire department. It should be directly ahead of you then.

Bubbles: Okay!

(Bubbles takes off at top speed, headed for the Mechazoo.)

Narrator: Hurry Bubbles! I don't know what an ADAM-2 is, but if the police of New Ironside think it can take Blossom, she may be in terrible danger!
To be continued.

[thegoldenknight]

This "Master" reminds me of my own persona. Could you be winking at it?

[rcblazer]

The "Master" is a character who appeared in a chapter of an old fantasy story I wrote in high school called "The Chronicles of Wonder" which I have borrowed characters from for other stories, including PPG fanfictions. The Master is originally based on the deity you play as in the SNES game ActRaiser. Think of the Master as the Viletown version of "Him" and you'll understand his position better.

[rcblazer]

(Scene: Downtown New Ironside, moments earlier. Blossom descends into the city in search of Bubbles, receiving odd stares from not only people, but robots walking around as well. One blue robot with a golden star on its frame approaches Blossom and points at her with a baton arm.)

Robot Officer: Android, you are flying dangerously close to the ground. Please land now to avoid endangering anyone.

(Blossom looks confused at the robot.)

Blossom: Android? Me?

Robot Officer: You have fifteen seconds to comply android. Please land now.

Blossom: Okay okay!

(Blossom lands, looking up at the mechanical police officer.)

Robot Officer: Thank you. Enjoy your stay in New Ironside.

(The robot rolls away on its treads, leaving Blossom to ponder what her encounter with it meant. Blossom looks at the other robots and androids going about their daily routines alongside humans, who don't seem to notice them at all.)

Blossom: Is there something about this place I don't know about yet? This is right out of one of those novels about dystopian futures where machines have enslaved mankind!

(Blossom suddenly spots a familiar looking structure in the distance. It appears to be Mojo Jojo's observatory, but on the ground and surrounded by other buildings and robots! Blossom zooms right toward the building at top speed, her pink streak of light zipping past a sign that says "New Ironside Mechazoo" and a human family looking at the observatory. Blossom looks into the windows and gasps in horror at what she sees; a group of chimpanzees wearing glass brain caps swinging around on metallic arms and legs!)

Blossom: This explains everything! Mojo Jojo exists in this world, and he's created cybernetic clones of himself and taken over the world! I have to put an end to this!

(Blossom smashes into the observatory, frightening the monkeys! One of them throws a banana it was eating at Blossom, but the Powerpuff dodges the half eaten piece of fruit and lands a hard right, followed by a spin kick. Blossom dodges another monkey and split kicks, hitting two more, then fires her eye beams at another one! Blossom flies around, landing a combination of punches and kicks until all of the monkeys are down and out! Blossom smiles, thinking she has defeated all of Mojo's minions, when she hears a little girl outside the observatory.)

Girl: Mommy look, a monster is attacking the cyborg monkeys!

Blossom: Monster?

(Blossom suddenly realizes she may have made a huge mistake as several robotic guards surround her, aiming their arm blasters at her.)

Robot Guard: Don't move! You are under arrest!

Blossom: *Blushing and smiling* Uhh, heh heh. *Rubs her head* I guess those monkeys aren't Mojo Jojo's minions after all. Sorry everybody, but I gotta go now!

(Blossom takes off into the air in a flash of pink light. The robot guards fire their blasters at her, but are unable to shoot her down.)

Robot Guard: Stop! You can't get away!

(Blossom escapes the Mechazoo, but she suddenly is attacked by androids piloting jets! One of the jets fires missiles at Blossom, who catches them and throws them back at the jet. The jet's wings are blown off and the jet crashes into a building. The android pilot ejects from the jet before it crashes and parachutes down to the street, where several human and robot officers are.)

Human Officer: What is that thing?

Android Pilot: I have no idea. She doesn't look like any kind of human or android I have ever seen before! This may be out of our jurisdiction.

Human Officer: I'll try to contact ADAM-2. He should be able to handle this!

(Blossom manages to escape from the jets and ground officers and finds a hiding spot inside an old factory. Catching her breath, Blossom thinks about her next move.)

Blossom: What was I thinking? I gotta find Bubbles and get out of this place fast! I sure hope she hasn't done something foolish like I did when I attacked those monkeys.

(Blossom hears a loud noise coming from outside her hiding place that sounds like a rocket landing. It is followed by a loud metallic voice calling out to her!)

Android: I know you are here. Come out now and give yourself up!

(Blossom looks out the window to see what appears to be a large muscular android wearing a light blue tank top and green camouflage pants. It stares at the building she is hiding in with glowing red eyes. In the view of the android, it can see Blossom through the wall using infrared vision.)

Android: Your heat pattern is more akin to that of a human than an android. You also appear to be a child. Give up now and no harm shall come to you.

Blossom: He can see me? Looks like I have no choice but to fight him!

(Blossom bursts through the wall of the abandoned building and tackles the android, but her opponent rolls with the hit and grabs her by the arm, flinging her over its shoulder to the ground with an arm drag. Blossom shrugs off the slam and takes off into the air, but the android jumps up and catches her out of the sky! Before she can even cry out in surprise, the android dives toward the ground, slamming Blossom down even harder using a power bomb! Blossom flies out of the crater and kicks the android in the chest three times, then punches it twice before grabbing her arm in pain!)

Blossom: Ow! What are you made out of, adamantium?

(The android doesn't answer, instead grabbing Blossom and lifting her up over its head in a military press, before body slamming her down hard into the ground, creating a massive crater!)

Narrator: Oh no, this must be the ADAM-2, and it's tossing Blossom around like she were a rag doll!

(Blossom again tries to fly away, but ADAM-2 again easily grabs her out of the sky despite her speed and slams her back down! Winded, Blossom tries to fly directly away from ADAM-2, but the android catches her foot, lifts her up, and slams her headfirst into the ground! Instead of letting go, ADAM-2 holds onto Blossom's leg and swings her over its head again, slamming her into the ground again and again, when a blue streak of light hits ADAM-2, shoving him through the air and giving Blossom the opportunity to free her leg and kick him in the face. ADAM-2 crashes into a nearby wall, but is already starting to stand up.)

Bubbles: Are you okay Blossom?

Blossom: *Rubbing the cuts and bruises on her head* Yeah I think so. That robot guy nearly knocked me out! Thanks Bubbles.

Bubbles: He's coming back!

ADAM-2: Do not try to interfere with my mission. I must apprehend the target that attacked the New Ironside Mechazoo.

Bubbles: Blossom, you attacked the zoo?

Blossom: I thought the mechanized monkeys worked for Mojo!

Bubbles: I thought the news reporter just said that because he misunderstood. Blossom, you gotta turn yourself in right now!

Blossom: What?!? Bubbles, are you crazy? You gotta help me fight this guy before he starts pulling me apart or something!

Girl: ADAM-2 would never do that.

Blossom/Bubbles: Huh?

(The Powerpuffs turn to see a little girl with green eyes and blond hair in a ponytail wearing a blue dress and red shoes standing next to ADAM-2)

ADAM-2: Be careful Emily, that creature is very powerful and dangerous.

Emily: She doesn't look dangerous, she looks scared and confused to me. Let me talk to her okay?

ADAM-2: All right, but I will remain ready in case you are attacked.

(The girl smiles and approaches Blossom and Bubbles.)

Emily: You'll have to excuse ADAM-2. He's very kind and gentle when he isn't fighting, but he was originally designed as a war robot. I'm Emily. What are your names?

Bubbles: I'm Bubbles and this is my sister Blossom.

Blossom: If I may ask, how are you friends with a war machine?

Emily: To make a long story short, we need each other to survive.

(Emily taps herself on the shoulder and leg. Blossom and Bubbles hear a clanking noise when she does this!)

Bubbles: You're an android too?

Emily: I used to have a disease that was threatening to end my life, but ADAM-2 found me and brought me to Doctor Phoenix. He saved me by replacing the infected parts of my body with mechanical parts from the ADAM and automated me as a cyborg.

Blossom: You mean he can think?

Emily: He has feelings too. The Advanced Design Android Marine was originally a group of androids built by the military to replace human soldiers on the battlefields, but a flaw in their programming allowed this one to gain a sense of identity and become a real person! I helped to repair him after he was destroyed by Doctor Wheaver and we've been together ever since.

Bubbles: Who's Doctor Wheaver?

Emily: He was a bad man who wanted to use the ADAM to take over the world. He had a big citadel built and used an orbital laser to destroy the ADAM that saved my life. Doctor Phoenix helped rebuild him into ADAM-2, but he couldn't remember me or that he was his own person now. Doctor Phoenix told me the advanced schematic used to create ADAM would need to be recovered from Wheaver Citadel to complete the repairs and make ADAM-2 whole again, so I turned him loose, he wrecked the citadel and saved the day!

Blossom: I see. If I had just given myself up when he said to, he wouldn't have tried to slam me into the center of the Earth?

Emily: That's right! ADAM-2 was just trying to stop you before you hurt anymore people, be they human, robot, android, or cyborg.

Blossom: I didn't mean to hurt anybody. I attacked those monkeys because I thought they were evil. I'm really sorry. I can only imagine the carnage Buttercup must be causing right now, wherever she is around here.

Emily: You have another sister? Besides your attack on the Mechazoo, things have been pretty calm. Where do you come from?

Bubbles: Another reality. We were battling a monster called Anarchy with Buttercup and ended up here when it exploded.

Blossom: Wait a minute. I didn't end up here when Anarchy exploded. Only you did Bubbles.

Bubbles: That means Buttercup must be in yet another reality!

Blossom: Exactly! I'm with someone who can get us to this other reality so we can find Buttercup, so let's hurry up and go!

ADAM-2: Halt! You still must be made to atone for your attack on the Mechazoo.

Emily: Blossom seems really sorry about what she did. Let her go okay?

ADAM-2: Are you sure Emily? I would not want any other mechanical monkeys to incur her wrath over a misunderstanding.

Blossom: It won't happen again, I promise! I'm pretty sure one more body slam from you and I would have been a goner! Please accept my apology.

ADAM-2: You do sound genuinely apologetic for what you have done. Very well, you and your sister are free to go.

Emily: I'll tell everyone in New Ironside that the threat is over. Take care girls, and I hope you find your other sister!

Blossom: Thanks. Let's go Bubbles! Follow me!

(Blossom and Bubbles take off into the sky to wards the Sky Temple, where the Master and the cherub are waiting for them.)

Cherub: Master, should we not have told Blossom beforehand that the cyborgs and androids of New Ironside would not be a threat to her? She would not have made a scene and gotten herself injured.

Master: That is true, but at the same time Blossom learned a valuable lesson about her own ability to judge others. She should no longer view something as a threat based on what they appear to be. This will help her where she must go to find Buttercup.

(The Master smiles as he and the cherub watch the pink and blue streaks of light approaching the sky temple.)
To be continued.

[rcblazer]

(Scene: The Sky Temple. As the cherub makes the preparations for travel to their next destination, the Master briefs the Powerpuff Girls on where they are going next.)

Master: In a few moments we will have arrived in the reality where Buttercup has been this whole time, but it will not be as easy as before. Mutants and savage beasts roam this plane of existence. There will be cyborgs just like in New Ironside, but they will not be as kind or as nonviolent as Emily was.

Blossom: We'll be all right. There's nothing we can't handle!

Master: Be that as it may, remember that without Buttercup, the Powerpuff Girls consist of merely yourself and Bubbles. Formidable as you both are alone, you are far greater when you work together.

Cherub: What the Master is trying to say is, don't split up to cover more ground. It's far too dangerous for that! Stick together and you'll stand a better chance of surviving long enough to find Buttercup.

Blossom: We'll be careful. C'mon Bubbles!

(Blossom and Bubbles look over the side of the Sky Temple and see a ruined city below. The two Powerpuff Girls dive down to wards the city in search of Buttercup.)

Bubbles: Blossom, I'm a little scared. Is this place really as dangerous as they said it would be?

Blossom: Don't worry Bubbles, I'm going to stay right beside you the whole time.

Bubbles: I'm not scared for myself, I'm scared for Buttercup! She has been here all by herself since Anarchy exploded. What if she's in trouble?

Blossom: Buttercup can take care of herself. I'm sure she's-whoa!

(Blossom ducks as a large bat creature swoops at her, slashing with its talons! Bubbles fires her eye beams, hitting the beast in the back, but the monster bat turns and swipes at Bubbles with a hooked wing, seemingly unaffected by the laser! Bubbles dodges the wing slash and she and Blossom both kick the monster in the head from both sides, which knocks the bat out and sends it spiraling toward the street below.)

Bubbles: What was that thing?

Blossom: Well, we were warned there would be mutants and savage beasts. I see now why we were told not to split up. There could be an entire city full of things like this, or even much worse monsters!

Bubbles: Now I'm really scared! What if we're too late to save Buttercup? What if she...?

Blossom: That was just a warm-up Bubbles. I need you to stay focused if we're going to find Buttercup and get out of here.

Bubbles: I'll try.

(Blossom and Bubbles descend until they are close enough to see the city streets.)

Blossom: What could have happened to this city?

Bubbles: Maybe the monsters did this.

Blossom: It's likely, but something else doesn't seem right.

(Blossom spots a flier on the wall of a ruined building and pulls it off.)

Bubbles: What does it say?

Blossom: *Reading the filer* Repent, for the end has come. Our own government has unleashed these nightmare creatures upon us; criminals who have been "reformed" and turned into horrible mutants, spreading their plague to innocent people and devouring our children. Armageddon has come, brothers and sisters. Save yourselves, if you can.

Bubbles: How awful!

Blossom: It's gonna take more than a message of doom and gloom to stop us from finding Buttercup!

(Something leaps past Blossom and Bubbles in a shadow. Bubbles jumps in fright and hugs Blossom tightly.)

Bubbles: What was that?

Blossom: I don't know, but I'm sure it isn't Buttercup! Whatever's there, come out now!

(The shadow comes into the light, revealed to be a green skinned hunchback with a metal plate over part of its face.)

Bubbles: It's another monster!

Blossom: No wait, if it were a monster, why would it come out when I told it to? Can you understand me sir? We're looking for our sister.

Hunchback: You must help me please! The cyborgs are after me!

Blossom: Aren't you a cyborg?

Bubbles: What makes you think we can even help you?

Hunchback: I saw you fend off the Zolbat. You are strong for children, please defeat the cyborgs. They are corrupt government agents!

Cyborg: Target spotted. Beginning apprehension.

(A cyborg who appears to be a human wearing a metallic suit and a gas mask aims its empty hand in a gun gesture at the hunchback creature, who ducks behind Bubbles. The cyborg fires a bullet from its fingertip, which bounces off Bubbles' chest and clambers to the floor.)

Cyborg: *Scanning Bubbles* New target acquired. May require backup.

(Bubbles picks up the broken bullet and flicks it back at the cyborg with such force that the bullet hits it in the forehead as though it was fired at him! A metallic "Aargh!" erupts from the gas mask, followed by a robotic female voice saying something neither Bubbles nor Blossom are able to understand. Blossom removes the gas mask to see some kind of mutated beast underneath wearing a headset and a hunk of metal where its jaw should have been.)

Blossom: This thing is a government agent?

Hunchback: Yes, and there are many more of them. Another little girl who looked like you two fought off a few of them, but they captured her and took her with some other children to a place they refer to as an orphanage.

Bubbles: Orphanage? That doesn't sound so bad. We'll just tell them Buttercup is with us and they'll let her out right?

Hunchback: Oh it is nothing like the McCormick Orphanage that was torn down. It is less a home for unfortunate children and more a cafeteria where they serve them as food!

Blossom: Oh no! Quick, you gotta tell us right now where this place is!

Hunchback: It's a few blocks east of here, but I would forget about her and get out of here! Save yourself!

Bubbles: Nobody's having Buttercup for a meal if I have anything to say about it!

(Bubbles takes off for the "orphanage" in a flash of blue light, closely followed by Blossom. Scene cuts to: a run down cafeteria building referred to as "The Orphanage". Several mutants of different shapes and sizes are sitting at tables banging forks and knives against the table.)

Hungry Mutants: *Chanting* We want to eat! We want to eat! We want to eat!

(A mutant in a chef's hat goes flying headfirst out the door of the cafeteria, landing with a thud on the floor near the hungry patrons. A blue skinned mutant with green claws picks up the chef.)

Blue Mutant: What's taking so long in there? We're starving!

Chef: One of the children is an even bigger monster than we are! She singlehandedly beat up all our butchers and chefs! On top of that, a ninja is freeing the other children and leading them out the back door!

Blue Mutant: A ninja? It's probably the same guy me and my buds beat down at that other orphanage that wasn't serving! C'mon boys, let's go get ourselves a meal!

(The mutant gang gets up to go into the kitchen, the scene cuts to the inside of the kitchen, where Buttercup is surrounded by the bodies of several mutants wearing cooking hats and aprons.)

Buttercup: You freaks full from eating knuckle sandwiches yet?

Blue Mutant: You think you're tough, little girl? Beating on a bunch of cooks, let's see you handle yourself in a real fight!

Buttercup: *Smirks* I'm guessing "real fight" to you means a seven on one? Well bring it on! Hope you already ate, 'cause you won't have any teeth left to chew when I'm done with ya!

(The blue mutant and his six friends advance on Buttercup, when a knife suddenly smashes out the light above them. Everything goes dark save for Buttercup's green streak of light zipping around hitting the bad guys. The door to the cafeteria opens and Buttercup steps out by herself, dusting off her hands.)

Buttercup: Pfft, that was easy! *looks around at the room at the seated mutants eying her hungrily* Okay then, who's next?

(All of the mutants leap out of their seats to rush at Buttercup, when Blossom and Bubbles come smashing in through the wall.)

Bubbles: Buttercup, you're okay!

Buttercup: I'm better now that you're here! Let's clean up this kitchen!

(What happens next is far too violent to describe. Let's just say that by the time the smoke and multicolored light streaks clear, the Powerpuff Girls are standing triumphantly over a pile of bruised, bloody, and beaten mutant creatures.)

Blossom: Good work girls! These guys will think twice before feeding on innocent children ever again!

Buttercup: That's if they have any more thoughts after the pounding we just gave them!

Bubbles: Can we go home now?

Blossom: Yeah, let's get back to the Sky Temple and-

Unknown Male Voice: You aren't leaving already are you?

(The Powerpuff Girls turn to see a young man with blond hair wearing an orange parka and holding a knife.)

Buttercup: Hey, that's the knife that smashed out the light in the kitchen! Who the heck are you?

Kaisei: My name is Kaisei. I used to run the McCormick Orphanage on the other side of this city, but these mutants attacked and took my children away from me. I was trying to raise them rather than feed them to monsters. Now I want to avenge them!

Buttercup: Well, good luck with that pal. We're gettin' outta here and going home.

Bubbles: We can't leave! This man needs our help!

Buttercup: Bubbles, this place is full of weirdos who think we're on the menu! It isn't safe for us to stay here!

Blossom: No, Bubbles is right. I say we stay and help deal with this threat before we go. First, there's something I have to go and get from the Sky Temple. Stay here with Kaisei and wait for me!

(Blossom takes off in a flash of pink light for the Sky Temple.)

Buttercup: Well if we're staying to help you out, you may as well tell us what we'll be doing here.

Kaisei: The government is headed by a mutant who declares that humans are inferior to mutants and are to be raised and kept as a source of food. I'm going to topple this new world order by assassinating the mutants' leader!
To be continued.

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Narrator: Mutation D.C., currently the capitol of the United States in Kaisei's reality. Thanks to a declaration of a new world order by the mutated scientist in charge of the country, mutants have taken over America with the aid of fanatic cyborgs and forced the humans into hiding! The only ones who have opposed this new America directly are a clan of chivalrous ninjas from Japan led by a young man known as Kooriya by those not of the clan.

Kaisei: It was Kooriya who trained me and gave me my clan name. He also snapped me out of the depression I sank into when the orphanage I opened to help the children who had lost their parents to the mutant attacks was attacked, the children all killed and eaten right in front of me!

Bubbles: How horrible!

Kaisei: I have already grieved for them, but Kooriya is right. Now is the time to prove how much I cared for those children by taking my revenge for them! Thank you for staying to help me.

Buttercup: Hey, it was Blossom's idea, and she isn't even here! What the heck did she leave behind in this so called Sky Temple? We didn't bring anything with us!

(Just then, shots ring out as a large squadron of cyborg soldiers take aim at Kaisei and the girls. Buttercup and Bubbles shrug off the shots being bulletproof and all, while Kaisei deflects the bullets with his combat knife.)

Kaisei: More of the Mutant Order Cyborgs!

Buttercup: Hey, those are the same goons who ganged up on me and took me to that kitchen nightmare!

Bubbles: The government must have an entire army of these guys. Blossom and I took out one when we got here and saved a nice green man.

Kaisei: A mutant who was not hostile to you? So they have been converting humans to mutants, but how? Why?

MOCs: You in the orange parka! You are in direct violation of the Mutant Order! Surrender your children to the nearest orphanage and no harm will come to you.

Buttercup: We aren't his children, and the only ones around here who should be worrying about harm coming to them is you guys!

(Buttercup and Bubbles charge past Kaisei and slam into two of the MOC agents, sending them flying backward into three more and knocking out five of them effortlessly! Kaisei somersaults over one of the cyborgs and jams his knife into its back, lifting it and the cyborg up and tossing it into a group of four more soldiers who shove the body away and fire at him, but the ninja throws his knife at the lead MOC, striking it in the chest and sending it flying head over heels into the others. Many more MOCs emerge from the government buildings and take aim at their attackers, leaving Buttercup to smile widely at something.)

Buttercup: C'mon Bubbles, I got an idea.

(Buttercup and Bubbles take to the sky, drawing the fire from the MOCs away from Kaisei. The cyborgs fire repeatedly at the two Powerpuffs to no effect, but their stray shots hit a barrel of toxic waste sitting on a monument under construction. The barrel explodes, sending a steel girder swinging down wards on a pair of steel cables and slamming into the entire first row of MOCs!)

Kaisei: Nicely done Buttercup using the environment to your advantage; you would make a good ninja.

Buttercup: Thanks, but we aren't done yet! Here come a lot more!

(Sure enough, many more MOC agents appear and surround the area, all of them aiming their gun hands at Kaisei and the girls.)

Bubbles: There's just no end to these guys!

Kaisei: This must be every MOC in the country!

Buttercup: We can take 'em! I say we keep fighting!

Kaisei: We're heavily outnumbered, but I won't give up! I'll take as many of these beasts into the shadows of death with me as I can!

(Before anyone can begin the final assault, a wave of freezing mist surrounds the area, causing the MOCs to freeze up into blocks of ice.)

Bubbles: They're all getting frozen. It must be Blossom using her ice breath on them!

Kaisei: No, it's not. It's Kooriya!

(Once all of the cyborgs have been frozen, the icy mist disappears, revealing a young man with black hair wearing a black and dark blue ninja uniform with a dark blue face mask.)

Kooriya: Have you forgotten your training already Kaisei? No longer do you walk in the shadow of death as you did in your childhood, for now you know that it will not accept you. Your name is the Japanese word for Resurrection, for no matter how many times your life ends, you come back to the world of the living.

Kaisei: Then why did you help me?

Kooriya: I do not believe your unique talents are the same as these young girls with you. I did not wish to see your recklessness result in what would likely be their permanent demise, as opposed to your temporary one.

Buttercup: Heh, you didn't have to worry about us. Me and Bubbles can take these chumps!

Kooriya: Maybe, but the leader of the Mutant Order will not be as easy as this was. Cyborgs will be the least of your worries within the walls of the capital building.

Kaisei: Come with us then Yagyu. Your powers over the cold stopped them. It could-

Kooriya: My powers are of no use within those walls. I have done all I can to help you Kaisei. The fate of your country rests in your hands alone.

(The icy mist surrounds the area again, but only for a moment. When the mist clears, the ninja leader is gone. Bubbles looks up to see a pink streak of light headed in their direction.)

Bubbles: Look, there's Blossom! It looks like she brought... could it be?

(Blossom lands next to Bubbles and Buttercup, while ADAM-2 slams down into the ground feet first, Emily sitting on his shoulder.)

Blossom: Hey girls? What I miss so far?

Buttercup: Nothing much, 'cept for a guy who could make your ice breath power look lame in comparison to what he can do. Wanna tell me who or what THAT is? *Points at ADAM-2*

Bubbles: It's ADAM-2! Blossom must have gone back to New Ironside and convinced him to come help us!

Emily: Hello again! Blossom tells me the government is run by monsters in this world, so I convinced ADAM-2 to come and help out!

ADAM-2: The thought of a world where monsters feed on children... I would throw up if I could. Who is in charge of this government?

Kaisei: We were just about to go in and confront him. You're more than welcome to come along.

ADAM-2: I insist on it.

Emily: *Hops off ADAM-2's shoulder* I'll go in and check if it's safe.

Buttercup: You sure? For all we know, right inside is a bunch of hungry monsters who will see you as dinner!

Emily: Trust me.

(Emily walks into the Mutant Order capital all by herself, where several more MOC guards aim their weapons at her.)

Cyborgs: Little girl, stay where you are!

Emily: Hello mister guard. I got lost and was hoping you could tell me how to find-WHAT'S THAT ON THE CEILING?!?

Cyborgs: What?!?

(The cyborgs all look straight up, seeing nothing on the ceiling. Emily giggles and holds out her hands, her fingers shooting out and becoming large metallic coils! By the time the guards realize they've been tricked, it's too late as they are now wrapped in Emily's coils and unable to break free!)

Emily: It's all clear everyone! C'mon in!

(The wall around the entrance and the ceiling are smashed through, leaving giant holes as ADAM-2 and the Powerpuff Girls make their seperate entrances. Suddenly, a shrill voice on a loudspeaker addresses the intruders.)

Grellp: I am Grellp, president of the Mutant Order of America! I demand to know who you people are!

ADAM-2: I am ADAM-2. I have come to destroy your cannibalistic order of monsters!

Blossom: We're the Powerpuff Girls! We're here for that same reason!

Grellp: Is that so? You may have gotten past my cyborgs, but I've got all the best monsters to serve as my personal guards! Good luck getting to me before you're butchered! Get them! Destroy the metal man and the red haired girl! Do what you want with the one in green, but bring me the two blonds!

(The huge elevator doors in the lobby open as a massive yellow blob of a creature, a red skinned lizardman, a purple skinned giant wearing a yellow smiley face mask, and a blue skinned mutant with spikey white hair emerge and attack!)

Grellp: Meet Blob, Cobra, Smiley, and Spike, my elite guards!

Spike: *Staring at Buttercup* You're the little brat that beat down my bro's gang! Now it's payback time!

Buttercup: *Enraged* Nobody calls me a brat and gets away with it!

(Buttercup charges at the blue mutant and nails him in the face with an uppercut, sending him flying into the wall with a loud crash! Spike climbs out of the wall and growls.)

Spike: Careful guys, those girls are stronger than they look!

Smiley: I don't care. I call dibs on the robot.

Cobra: Blob, let's help Spike deal with the flying girls. The other one doesn't look dangerous to me.

Blossom: You guys gonna talk strategy all day?

Bubbles: What's your plan Blossom?

Blossom: We'll take them out one at a time. They're big, but they're slow, so we should be able to fly circles around them!

Emily: ADAM-2 and I will deal with the purple one.

Buttercup: Let's get 'em!

(Smiley raises its arms and runs at ADAM-2, but Emily swings her arm into the purple mutant's leg, a metallic CLANG is heard as the masked mutant stumbles forward, right into the waiting hands of ADAM-2, who body slams Smiley into the floor! Blossom leads the charge, the Powerpuff Girls flying circles around Cobra, who flicks his lizard tongue around in a state of confusion.)

Blob: What are you doing Cobra? Hit them!

Cobra: I can't keep up with them! They're too fast!

(The red lizardman is suddenly bombarded from seemingly every side at once by a barrage of punches and kicks from the Powerpuff Girls! Cobra throws out one half hearted punch, only to have Bubbles grab his arm and throw him into Blob. The huge fat yellow mutant catches Cobra with his belly and bounces the red lizard into the air, only to send Cobra's now unconscious body flying out a window, coming to a crash landing on the outside! Meanwhile, Smiley has climbed out of the hole he made in the floor after being body slammed, only for ADAM-2 to strike him with a double axehandle smash! Smiley reels backward before getting tripped off his feet by Emily, coming to a crash landing on the floor. At the top floor of the building, Grellp screams into his microphone in anger as his elites are losing the fight.)

Grellp: You morons! Can't you take out one robot and four little girls without having me tell you to? If I have to come down there myself, I'm going to get really angry!

Kaisei: You'll have to get past me first.

(Grellp, a small grey mutant creature in an office chair, turns to see Kaisei is in his office, knife at the ready.)

Grellp: *Grins* Mister McCormick! Funny seeing you here, as I thought you were dead! My men reported back that they had killed you back at your orphanage!

Kaisei: *Narrows his eyes* They did. Unfortunately for you, death is nothing more than a minor inconvenience to me. No matter how many times I die, no matter what way I die, I just keep coming back. When your men destroyed my orphanage and slaughtered the children I cared for, another part of me died that day! That part can never come back, and that is YOUR fault!

Grellp: What are you gonna do about it?

(Grellp hears Blob and Spike scream followed by a loud crash that knocks out his surveillance moniter watching the fight in the lobby.)

Kaisei: When I die, I just come back to life a couple of days later. When YOU die, they'll never find your corpse!

(Kaisei throws his knife at Grellp, but the evil mutant president tilts his head back, the knife embedding itself into his chair dangerously close to his head!)

Grellp: I don't think so. When I get done with you, whatever powers that be that keep bringing you back to life will be too scared to revive you again when I get through with you!

(Scene cuts to: The Lobby of the Mutant Order capital. ADAM-2 is being cheered by Emily as he grabs Smiley and slams him down headfirst with a standing piledriver! Blob has been pummelled senseless by the Powerpuff Girls, who are approaching an already badly injured Spike, who is cowering before them.)

Spike: N-n-no! Stay back you monsters!

Bubbles: You and your fellow mutants attack people and eat children, and you call US the monsters?!?

Buttercup: Why don't you do the honors Bubbles?

Bubbles: Okay!

Spike: NOOOOO!

(Bubbles grabs Spike by his leg and swings him around, slamming the white haired mutant into the floor and walls of the building multiple times, before tossing what's left of him out the same window Cobra went through moments ago. Cobra stands up and rubs his sore head, when Spike falls on top of him, knocking him out again!)

Blossom: Good job everybody! That takes care of these guys, now let's go get Grellp!

(A loud crash is heard coming from upstairs, followed by Grellp in an armored walker slamming through the ceiling and crashing to the floor below!)

Grellp: I have a better idea, why don't I get you first!

(Grellp's walker fires a missile at the Powerpuff Girls, but ADAM-2 punches the missile off course, which blows a large chunk in the wall. Grellp's walker kicks the android, sending him skyward out the hole in the wall created by the missile!)

Emily: Oh no, ADAM-2!

Blossom: Get him girls!

(The Powerpuff Girls charge at Grellp's walker, but a trio of arms shoot out of the front and grab them out of the air and holds them down!)

Buttercup: *Struggling* I can't break free!

Bubbles: Neither can I!

Grellp: *Cackles* You may have defeated my men, but they are nothing compared to the power of my armored walker! You failed Powerpuff Girls. The United States shall remain the Mutant Order forever, NOW DIE!

(Grellp has his armored walker's grip on the Powerpuff Girls tighten in an attempt to crush them, when Kaisei's knife suddenly drives itself into the back of the mutant's head! Grellp screams in pain and falls out of the seat of the armored walker.)

Blossom: He's down! Now's our chance girls!

(The Powerpuff Girls manage to free themselves from the grip of the armored walker as it tips over, about to fall on top of Grellp!)

Grellp: Aaagh! I want my mommy!

(Grellp's cries are silenced by a loud crash as the armored walker smashes down on top of him, sending dust clouds in every direction. When the dust settles, Kaisei smiles and pulls his knife out from the wreckage.)

Kaisei: That was for all the lives you destroyed with your new world order.

Blossom: It's going to take some time for this reality to pick up the pieces, but we've finished our part.

Bubbles: I hope ADAM-2 is okay. Grellp knocked him out of the building through that hole in the wall.

ADAM-2: I am all right. It will take much more than a kick to stop me.

(ADAM-2 picks up Emily, who hugs him happily.)

Kaisei: Thank you everyone. The Mutant Order will crumble without Grellp leading them, and the people lost to their brutality can finally rest in piece.

Blossom: We've got to get home now, but first we're going to take ADAM-2 and Emily home as well.

(The Powerpuff Girls take off towards the Sky Temple in their tricolored streak of light, while ADAM-2 activates a jet thrust in his boots and takes off, carrying Emily on his shoulder. Scene cuts to: The Sky Temple. The Master and the cherub watch as they arrive.)

Cherub: They did very well didn't they?

Master: Indeed. The day is saved thanks to the Powerpuff Girls.

Narrator: Hey, that's supposed to be my line! So once again, the day is saved, thanks to the Powerpuff Girls! Yeah, that's how it's done.
THE END