[FFML] [PPGZ][HPL]The End of The Powerpuff Girls - L

[Henry Cobb]

[PPGZ][HPL]The End of The Powerpuff Girls - L
By Henry J. Cobb

The Powerpuff Girls were created by Craig McCracken.  Demashita! Powerpuff
Girls Z was produced by Cartoon Network, Toei Animation, and Aniplex.  The
L part is from H. P. Lovecraft rather than say an Aegean island.

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At last it was Kaoru Matsubara's time to be the hero.  After the accident
at the Utonium Laboratory last year she'd had all those blackouts.  She
hated how people looked at her, especially her parents.  Treating her like
she was just a hopeless case, some sickly child.  But today she had saved
the day.  In the final seconds of the match she had scored the winning
goal.

She was the only girl on her school's soccer team, but you'd hardly know it
from the way she looked with short spiky purple hair and the way she
dressed and spoke almost like a boy, especially when she talked about
sports.

The after action pizza party had gone on a little longer than planned so it
was a little dark out as Kaoru skateboarded up to her house.  She frowned
as she noticed her house was dark.  Surely her family must be home by now?
Mom had said that she'd pick Dad up from the airport.  Had his flight been
delayed?  Had something happened?  She took out her key and opened the
door.  Inside she turned on the light and stopped stunned.

Her entire family, Mom, Dad and her two brothers were tied up in the living
room.  How could this have happened?  What kind of crook could beat her
Dad, the professional wrestler?  She noticed that her family wasn't looking
at her, but at something behind her.

She tried to turn, but somebody grabbed her and put a cloth over her
mouth.  She tried to struggle, but whoever it was had superhuman strength.
As she breathed in the vapors from the cloth she noticed that there was
something odd about the hand that held it to her face.  It wasn't human.
She faded out.

When Kaoru awoke she felt a little dizzy so she tried to raise her hand to
her head, but she couldn't.  She looked down and saw she was clamped down
to a metal slab with metal straps.  She glanced to the sides and saw that
Momoko Akazutsumi and Miyako Gotokuji, her classmates who had also been in
the accident, were strapped down beside her.  Looking around she saw they
were suspended over some sort of device that a strange figure was working
on, "Say what is this?"

The figure looked up at her.  It was that mad mutated monkey, Mojo Jojo.
He was even more disgusting looking in person than on the news.  "Ah
Buttercup, so nice of you to join us.  I so wanted you to see this before I
disposed of you.  So that you would see that it was I, Mojo Jojo, who saved
the world from the evil that is The Powerpuff Girls."

"Buttercup?  You crazy monkey.  She may look a little like me, but she
flies around in a skirt.  I don't do that skirt thing."

"I think you'd look cute in a skirt," Miyako tried to grab Kaoru's hand,
but couldn't reach.

"So you three intend to continue your denials until the very end?  So be
it.  Do not worry about your so called families for you have the word of
Mojo Jojo that I shall not harm them.  They have suffered enough to put up
with horrible monsters in place of their lost daughters.  And if you three
are not The Powerpuff Girls, then please explain to me why you were
wearing their belts?"  Mojo pointed at the device.

Kaoru looked and saw her special belt buckle, and the other girl's also,
attached to the device with wires,  "Hey give that back,"  She  knew it was
important that she always wore it.  What was the reason?  "That's our
epilepsy control belts!"  Epilepsy!  Kaoru had never been sick a day in her
life before she went on the field trip to that lab.

"You cannot fool Mojo Jojo, for I know that without these devices you are
stuck in those forms without your superpowers.  The signals from these
interesting devices led me right to you three, but the most unusual thing
about them is their use of L-Dimension technology.  With that I am able to
send you three back to where you belong.  And so goodbye,"  Mojo flipped a
switch.  A strange yet familiar black glow appeared above the device and
then the straps holding the girls snapped open and they fell towards it.

"Nooo!"  The girls attempted to keep screaming as they entered the
L-Dimension, but the geometry would not support it.  It wasn't just a
vacuum, it was a place where the space for molecules of air to exist was
poorly defined.  They struggled to retain their humanity then gave up and
assumed their true forms.

The being that had been briefly known as Buttercup, that had eaten the soul
of Kaoru Matsubara and taken her place, came to her senses and true mind.
She had been known by many names and many designations that could not be
truly called names, but the short concise definition she preferred was that
she was Green, The Enforcer.

Nearby, to the extent that term had meaning in the L-Dimension, she sensed
that Red, The Devourer, had discarded the form of Momoko/Blossom and that
Blue, The Merciless, had discarded the form of Miyako/Bubbles.

Seeing that all was in order, Green led the way.  If the L-Dimension, that
quantum foam that underlay all the universes, could be said to have a
center in space, time, or importance, it was Azathoth.  The palace of
Nyarlathotep was located just out of reach of the din of Azathoth's strange
orchestra.  The three landed on one of the balconies of this palace and
Green rushed forwards, "Father, forgive me."

The other two kept a small distance, as always amused by Green's devotion
yet annoyed by the attention bestowed on her.

"Fear not, for I knew you were not yourself,"  Nyarlathotep wore the form
of the Egyptian the three had called Him.  He reached out a hand and patted
Green on her equivalent of a head.

"Please, let me make this up to you,"  She wrapped one of her tentacles
around his hand.

"Very well," He ticked her tentacle with his fingers, "Go and destroy their
remaining hero in front of them.  Let them drink deeply of despair."

"At once, my lord", Green turned and the other two followed her.  They took
the quickest and easiest path back to Earth and reappeared a moment after
they had left and in the same space.

Once again Green spoke in Kaoru's voice, "Not so fast, Mojo Jojo."

"Impossible!"  Mojo looked up at the three.

"I've always wanted to play with a monkey,"  Blue spoke with Miyako's voice
as she wrapped a tentacle around Mojo.

Green gave the equivalent of a shrug, so Blue extended her two other
tentacles and reached inside Mojo's body to touch at his heart.  It wasn't
beating.  She had forgotten how fragile these Earth creatures were.  In
frustration she tossed the corpse aside.

Red grabbed it from midair and ate in one gulp.

"Come, we have a mission,"  Green flew into the night and the other two
followed.

Professor Kitazawa awoke to the sound of his bedroom window opening.  He
looked up and saw the three bizarre familiar forms.  He reached into his
nightstand and pulled out a revolver, but Green snatched it away before he
could point it at his head.

"Not so fast, Professor Kitazawa,"  Green had stopped time in order to beat
his reflexes and took a moment to communicate with her sisters.  It's a
pity that we have to destroy this world.

Do we?  Blue asked.

Master will be angry if we don't, Red pointed out.

Let him, Green reassumed the form of Buttercup, put the gun back in the
drawer, retrieved her disk, made some changes in it and restarted time.
She saw that her sisters had done the same, "We know our true selves now so
these things cannot control us, but we'll keep them anyway.  When the world
needs the Powerpuff Girls call us, but now we must go face Nyarlathotep."

"Nyarlathotep?"

"The being we called Him, our former master."

"Can we win?"  Bubbles asked.

"Nothing can stop the Powerpuff Girls!"  Buttercup replaced the disk in her
belt then flew out the window and the other two followed.

They climbed and accelerated and within a few minutes were outside the
atmosphere.  There was a flash of darkness and they were gone.

Nyarlathotep was not pleased, "Again with this foolishness?"  He assumed a
form of hundreds of tentacles.

"I guess we're just fools then,"  Buttercup blasted him with heat vision
and climbed away as he reached for her.

Blossom spit out soccer ball sized chunks of ice that Buttercup kicked at
Nyarlathotep then used her heat vision to explode just before they hit him.

"You three are planning something.  What is it?"  Nyarlathotep reached out
for Buttercup's mind, but it was filled with a jumble of sport scores.  He
tried Blossom's mind, but found only memories of the delicious foods of
Earth and the men she drooled over.  He searched for Bubbles and found her
approaching him at the local speed of sound.  Her mind was filled with
fashion designs and beauty tips, but she was screaming at the top of her
lungs.  He wrapped his tentacles around himself and rolled with the
shockwave, but by the time he recovered his senses the girls were gone,
"Hit and run all you like, but I know the world you are defending,"  He
reached out with his mind to the coordinates of Earth's Universe.

It wasn't there.

"How very clever of them.  Let them have their fun for a while then.  It
will make it all the sweeter when I bring them to heel."

All over the Earth people of unusual sensibilities stopped for a moment as
they felt that something was a little off, then with a shrug they went back
to their pursuits.

The three girls lay on the grass of a Townsville park and watched the sun
rise.  Momoko turned her head towards the other two, "Let's not move the
world again."

Kaoru crossed her legs.  She had the confidence to do so for unlike the
other two she wore shorts, "It probably wouldn't work a second time
anyway."

"I feel bad about Mojo," Miyako sighed.

"Don't worry Bubbles, we can get you another monkey to play with.  I bet
Blossom is hungry again anyway."

Her two teammates gave Kaoru looks that could have melted lead, if they had
been willing to broach her prerogative of heat vision.

She stood, "Speaking of food.  Let's all go to our families and have
breakfast.  I bet they're really worried about us now."

"I don't think Nyarlathotep is our father,"  Miyako got up and dusted off
her skirt, "I think he may have messed with our memories."

"I've had enough of that,"  Momoko stood, "See you two in school."

And so the three horrible monsters cosplayed happily ever after.

The End.

-HJC
Buttercup Utonium and Louie Duck wear the same color and share the same
attitude and voice actress, so how come nobody writes the crossover?