Chapter 6

“Guys when I said ‘Looks like I need a bodyguard.’ I was JOKING!” Buttercup states upset that she currently has 2 male and 2 female bodyguards all around her and they look like they belong to the CIA.

“Well it’s for your own safety. We can’t risk losing you too. This way you’re safe and secured.” The Professor says.

“Ms. Bellum! Please talk some sense into these guys!” Buttercup complains.

“I don’t see anything wrong though Buttercup.” Ms. Bellum says.

“Huh?! You of all people should’ve realized why this is a bad idea!” Buttercup announces shocked.

“What are we missing then Buttercup?” The Professor asks.

“Besides brains. If they thought I was there when they took the others then they must’ve been calmer than compared to when they found out I wasn’t. I’m gonna assume the one that took out Ms. Bellum was the one after me. So she’s gonna be the most upset. We all saw how Ms. Bellum ended up. Of that was when she was calm then imagine what she’s gonna do to these guys if she’s mad.” Buttercup informs.

“What!? That was calm!?” They say.

“Well I saw how the house was. It’s obvious she started w/ the rooms closest to Ms. Bellum’s since it’s obvious I would’ve been a bit uneasy too. Well when she couldn’t find me she started to get upset. You can tell because of how everything was thrown around. One was more of playing a game of hide and seek. The other was more frantic.” Buttercup points out.

“How come we never realized?” Ken asks everyone but Buttercup shocked they could miss something like that.

“Isn’t it obvious? Seeing that one as an assailant you assumed she was gonna be more chaotic when searching. Then w/ the others being seen as more level headed or calm you assumed they searched the closer rooms. Which would make sense. I mean they just got two out of three targets they were after. They don’t want them to escape. So they’re gonna stay close to them to make sure they stay put.” Buttercup starts.

“Yeah you’re right. But then how come it wasn’t that? How come we just can’t figure this out?” The Professor asks.

“Because you forgot something. The belts.” Buttercup states.

“Can you guys leave and secure the perimeter. We wish to have this conversation privately.” The mayor tells the bodyguards. They nod then leave.

“Thank you.” Buttercup thanks. She’s glad to finally have some breathing room again.

“Now what about the belts?” Ken asks.

“Simple. The Professor made it to where we can transform w/o Poochi’s call. It takes one of them to get free and transform. Then they can fly away and untie the other at the same time. But everytime we transform the others get alerted. So that means everybody would know something happened. And depending on the time they would assume it happened at Ms. Bellum’s. If that’s the case then w/ what’s going on and who Ms. Bellum is there was bound to be squads of officers and then all the powerpuff girls there in a flash. Now I have no doubt they can fight and they have to be able to fight well at the minimum. Then who knows they could fight better than us. But if they wanted a fight they wouldn’t have gone through the trouble of trying to get us sneakily like they did. So they would likely leave before we got there. But the thing is it was just one of them getting free that caused that to happen. W/ a risk like that would it really be wise to leave them alone?” Buttercup says.

“No it wouldn’t. That explains why we were in the dark till so late.” The Professor states.

“But why didn’t they just knock them out?” Ken asks.

“I think I have the answer to that one.” Ms. Bellum says. She then tells them what the girls told her.

“What!?” The guys exclaim.

“Anyways so now you know why those bodyguards were a bad idea.” Buttercup tries to change the topic.

“They might not be too bad of an idea if they said that!” The mayor bellows.

“Well you still can’t make me have them.” Buttercup says.

“Why not?” Ken asks.

“Because that would be breaking the rules.” Buttercup states.

“What do you mean?” The Professor queries.

“Simple. When we got our powers you made rules for us to follow and we made rules for you.” Buttercup reminds.

“We remember but how does you getting bodyguards break the rules?” The Professor asks.

“Because one rule stated that we must protect New Townsville at all times. I’m gonna assume you also meant the citizens. Well those bodyguards are citizens of New Townsville. Therefore as a powerpuff girl I must protect them.” Buttercup says.

“You managed to bend our own rules against us!” Ken gasps out shocked. Now Buttercup was always the more violent one. So they only really saw her out doing them in sports or something physical. The one they believed would give them the most problems when it came to book smarts was Blossom. So Buttercup pulling off what she just did took them for a loop.

“Yep!” She says popping the p.

“Haha! That made me feel ten times better!” Brute laughs.

“Yeah! Who would’ve thought blowing someone’s rule in their face would be so funny!” Brat agrees. Blossom and Bubbles are still shock at what they saw.

“Hey! You two good back there?” Berserk asks. She and Brat soon looked over at them. They snapped out of their gaze and looked away from them.

“Come on! We’re not that bad!” Berserk whines. The girls still didn’t respond.

“Hey. I think we should take her now. I’m not being impatient. It’s just think about it. These two went missing w/ her. She’s there and so are the others. We can make it seem like they’ve kidnapped them and wanted to play off as someone else.” Brute says.

“Sounds like a plan.” Berserk says after a minute of considering it.

*Achoo!*

“Blush you.” Ken says.

“Than-. We need to go now!” Buttercup says. They look at her concerned.

“Why-?” The Professor attempts to asks.

“No time to explain come on!” Buttercup yells then picks Poochi and Ken up and starts dragging the Professor till he and the rest start running. They had just made it to the door when something went flying past. It left a scorch mark on the door.

“Hello there! If you don’t mind we would like get what we came for and leave as fast as possible.” Berserk says. They turn around and see all the punks. Brute has a finger pointed at the door w/ smoke coming off of it.

“Sorry but we currently don’t have any packages for you. Please return in five to ten business days.” Buttercup states in her best customer service voice. Ken and Poochi are chuckling/ giggling behind Buttercup. While everyone else is looking at her dumbfounded.

“Well at least we know one of them will talk to us.” Brat says still stunned. Buttercup walked away not wanting to continue the stare off.

“Buttercup I doubt you’re gonna be able to open that door. The blast I used should’ve fried it circuits. I doubt that door’s gonna be usable at all for the next couple weeks.” Brute says. Buttercup paid her no mind and grabbed the door. She then yanked the door off it’s hinges. The punks are looking at her shocked and amazed.

“I’m not dragging you guys again. So either come on deal w/ them by yourselves.” Buttercup states as she runs away. Soon the others follow. The punks growl in frustration. They then rush back to the computer. They had used it as a portal this time. They hurried through then closed the portal.

“Well that could’ve been worse.” Berserk says as they turn around they see Bubbles and Blossom trying to control their laughter. They were laughing so hard that they actually had tears running down their faces.

“Hey what’s so funny?” Brat asks as her and Berserk continued to stare at them. They jumped when hearing her voice. Fear immediately taking back control and they stopped laughing and tried to dry their tears. But seeing as they still had their hands bound behind them it was proving to be a challenge. The two punks went up to them and dried their tears for them. When they were approach they girls started to visibly shake. And when they reached out the girls had flinched.

“Hey. We don’t want to harm you. If we did we would’ve already done so. Can you guys please just calm down?” Berserk states. Her and Brat pleading them w/ their eyes. The girls looked at each other but came to a silent agreement. They moved back trying to get away from the punks. The punks looked sad that they did that. But the girls couldn’t calm down around them they agreed that these girls were unpredictable and unstable. They saw Brute go from raging to laughing in a matter of seconds. The girls couldn’t trust them.

“We’re trying again tomorrow. But this time we’re making preparations.” Brute says. The other punks look at her waiting fir the rest of the plan.