[FFML] Powerpuff Girls - L

[Henry Cobb]

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 the name of an American author rather than say an Aegean
island.

Momoko Akazutsumi tuned out Ms. Keane's lecture and turned her head to look
out the window of the classroom.  She felt unsatisfied with her life.  All
she did was attend class then go home to do homework and live with her
mother and sister.  She felt that she ought to have a boyfriend but she
somehow never managed to approach the boys she liked.  Where did her time go?

Her train of thought slammed to a stop as she heard a buzzing.  She looked
down at her belt buckle, which had a thick disk attached to it.  Why was
she wearing such a thing?

A flood of alien memories washed through her mind.  Flying through space
far from any star.  Worlds and places of strange geometries.  She clutched
at her desk and screamed at the top of her lungs as she struggled to put
words to concepts about things that no human had ever seen and survived to
report.

A moment later she stopped as a cold calm crystallized in her mind.  She
was Blossom, champion of justice, and she had a job to do.

Blossom raised her hand, "Ms. Keane!"

"Yes," the teacher looked up from the chalk she had dropped, "You three
girls had best report to the nurse's office."

Blossom looked to her side.  Her teammates, still in their civilian garb,
had also raised their hands.  The rest of the class quickly turned away
from the three girls then stared down at their textbooks.

Why did they need to make such a fuss, Blossom wondered, surely they could
simply ask to be excused, but this way they at least could leave without
question.

The three girls walked from the classroom and turned to the stairs.
Instead of going down to the nurse's office they climbed up to the top of
the stairs and exited out onto the roof then moved to a spot out of line of
sight of the other buildings

They faced away from each other, closed their eyes and said something in a
language far older than mankind.  A moment later they reopened their eyes,
but now these eyes looked more like cuttlefish eyes than human and third
eyes of the same kind opened in their foreheads.  Their forms expanded,
consuming their clothing and assumed trifold symmetry in strange winged
alien forms then collapsed back to their human forms, but now clothed in
leotards, skirts, boots, gloves and vests.

Blossom removed the disk from her belt and opened it like a compact as her
two teammates watched over her shoulders.  She recognized the face shown on
the display, "Yes Mayor, what is it?"

"There you are girls.  The Second Townsville Bank on the corner of Vegas
and Riverboat streets is being robbed!"

"We're on it!"  Blossom folded up and replaced the transformation control
disk on her belt then leapt high above the school, with Bubbles and
Buttercup at her side.

The three girls flew through the air with no obvious exertion.  It was as
if the law of universal gravitation took no notice of their presence.

Blossom felt a strange unease about the rectangular plan of the city below
her.  Something about the cubical shapes of the buildings hinted at a
hidden danger.

"Is something the matter Blossom?"

Blossom turned to Bubbles and replied back in the same way, without
vocalization or other sound.  After all they were flying too fast for sound
to be a practical means of communication.  "No, it's just been a while
hasn't it?"

"I wish we could go flying more often.  School is boring," Buttercup looked
down at their destination and inside it.  It wasn't as if she looked in the
window or through the material of the roof but that somehow she looked
around the side of the building in some direction she could not name.
X-ray vision is neat, she thought, "There's the problem!"

Blossom rushed past her and threw the door of the bank open.  With a single
glance she focused on the man with a gun in his hand and a ski mask over
his head, "Not so fast, bank robber man!"

Startled the robber shot three times, striking Blossom in the chest.

"Why you!" Buttercup flew up and punched the man so hard in the gut that he
stumbled backwards, hit his head against a pillar and dropped his gun.

"Blossom!"  Bubbles turned to examine her friend.  The bullets had torn
through Blossom's vest and leotard and sunk into her flesh.  But instead of
blood there was just a white pulpy material pushed out around the wounds.
Bubbles' gaze went blank for a moment and when she looked back at Blossom
the wounds and costume damage was gone, as if it never happened, "Blossom
are you alright?"

"Of course I am.  Bullets can't harm the Powerpuff Girls,"  Blossom turned
to the police officers gathered outside, "It's all yours men."

The girls exited the bank to the cheers of the onlookers and flew back up
into the sky.

A tall curvaceous woman traced the path of the three girls from the side of
her eyes.  Even from a distance she could not stand to look directly at
them.

Satisfied that the girls were returning to their school she turned to the
man behind the desk, "Mayor!  How could you activate THEM for a simple bank
robbery?"

"But Ms. Bellum, they saved the day didn't they?"

"Yes, this time.  But you heard the Professor, they're unstable.  The girls
are our only line of defense against the monsters, but if we keep pushing
them then at some point they will revert to their true natures and we'll
all be doomed."

-HJC
An example of just how bad things could be, in response to the critical
panning of the reenvisioning of the series as a magical girls anime.